It's a video of me petting my cat. The fact that the game occupies 99% of the video and the audio is directly fed from the tv is totally not the point.
If the salary isn't enough to get you interested it's very likely the very last job that will be taken over by AI. It would also be a great opportunity to be a part of the next major transformation in human civilization.
The best developer on my team is a girl from Vietnam. My experience has been that diversity is a good thing, but I'm not convinced that there is a "diversity problem". We're so desperate to find competent developers that we couldn't be discriminatory if we wanted to be.
I'm a big fan of Community Colleges for one reason, they're inexpensive. I think we can all agree that you don't need a degree to be a good software engineer, although a degree can increase the salary you can demand and the return on investment is worth it.
Given that, it makes sense to start in a Community College and then finish up at a local in-state university. If I look at Salt Lake Community College and Weber State University in Utah you could do this for under $20k with room to spare.
In the end, it's how well you can program, not what school you went to.
There is a similar scheme involving whole life insurance. If I understand it correctly (and I don't promise that I do) you can put your money into the whole life policy. As it grows you would have to pay taxes on it if you pull it out. Instead of pulling it out you get "loans" against the policy which is tax free. Then, when you die, the policy passes to your heirs tax free as part of the policy pay-out. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blo...
It looks good on paper but I actually question how well it really works. For example: if your investment only grew at a meager 4% in the life insurance policy after fees while an index mutual fund grew at 8% then you'd better off just paying taxes on the growth of the index fund. (The actual numbers depend on your tax level but you get the idea)
I have no intention of getting a whole life insurance policy to do this.
They've been doing this since seriously Windows 95. Maybe not the "telemetry" thing but installing crap software the user doesn't need. I should give them some credit, I cut my IT teeth fixing these issues so with all sincerity, HP can still kiss my ass. Comcast is the only company I hate more.
On a side note, I've had great luck with my Cannon Laser printer; still on the original toner cartridge, doesn't require any special software to print, prints over wifi, and doesn't stop my print to warn me that it can't print my black and white document because it's out of magenta ink.
Any IoT device that is connected to the internet will almost always start with no, they cannot be taken over. But when (not if) an exploit is discovered then it will be possible. It's like Moore's law.
I'm more mad that the public's complaints were so blatantly ignored. I honestly think Vladimir Putin is listening to his public more then the FCC is listening to us.
If the IPS's take it too far I have faith in those of us in IT to be able to work around the problem. Imagine if Netflix changed their browser player to pull their data from other media players much like now bittorrents work?
They can pass any law they want, I can still setup a VPN network to somewhere that it's filtered/throttled. They can't throttle VPN's because there's too many people who use them for work. Will it hurt my ability to steam movies? Maybe. I don't bother to pirate music or movies but if they take things too far.... No government agency is as powerful as a bunch of motivated nerds.
"ultra-high definition picture quality and more interactive programming, like new educational content for children and multiple angles of live sporting events."
There are some benefits. Besides, I watch so little network TV that it really won't affect me. Plus, I'm pretty sure my TV is going to have a really hard time connecting to the internet for some unknown reasons.
So you stopped gaming because you had shit buying decisions? You've missed some pretty good games then like Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2, The Witcher series then. None of those games were purposely crippled, and in The Witcher series the developers gave content away free.
You forgot Factorio. If you rank all games in Steam by ratings Factorio is like #5. Seriously think about that? I think The Witcher was like #12.
I can think of a good example of DLC done right: Rocksmith 2014. If you haven't heard of Rocksmith it's basically Rock Band or Guitar Hero with a real guitar and you're actually playing the song. Every week they release a song pack, 3-5 songs. They're up to about 1100 songs total. I've shelled out several grand over the years on this and am happy to do so, it's worth every penny to me. I get to cherry pick the songs I like and they all fit in a single game. I can start a random list and play till my fingers bleed (feels so good)
$300 per phone per year is a horrible rate considering the amount of capital involved. That doesn't even account for all expenses. Compare that to vending machines. I wouldn't be surprised to see the profit from all vending machines over the US or Canada to be well over a billion dollars per year.
Most gaming laptops have a button that will allow you to turn off the trackpad. Upgrade to Windows Pro, you can turn off most the suggestions, notifications, and ads that are now embedded in Windows. You should be able to get a pretty decent machine for about $1000 that will play all games. Don't get a 4k screen, 1080p is plenty. More will only require more, hotter, hardware.
Actually, much of the money that was given out has been paid back and most of that that wasn't the Government is earning money on. To date, they've earned more from it they've lost. https://projects.propublica.or...
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It's a video of me petting my cat. The fact that the game occupies 99% of the video and the audio is directly fed from the tv is totally not the point.
The title was way too accurate and factual with not enough click-bait-y-ness-es.
If the salary isn't enough to get you interested it's very likely the very last job that will be taken over by AI. It would also be a great opportunity to be a part of the next major transformation in human civilization.
The best developer on my team is a girl from Vietnam. My experience has been that diversity is a good thing, but I'm not convinced that there is a "diversity problem". We're so desperate to find competent developers that we couldn't be discriminatory if we wanted to be.
I'm a big fan of Community Colleges for one reason, they're inexpensive. I think we can all agree that you don't need a degree to be a good software engineer, although a degree can increase the salary you can demand and the return on investment is worth it.
Given that, it makes sense to start in a Community College and then finish up at a local in-state university. If I look at Salt Lake Community College and Weber State University in Utah you could do this for under $20k with room to spare.
In the end, it's how well you can program, not what school you went to.
There is a similar scheme involving whole life insurance. If I understand it correctly (and I don't promise that I do) you can put your money into the whole life policy. As it grows you would have to pay taxes on it if you pull it out. Instead of pulling it out you get "loans" against the policy which is tax free. Then, when you die, the policy passes to your heirs tax free as part of the policy pay-out. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blo...
It looks good on paper but I actually question how well it really works. For example: if your investment only grew at a meager 4% in the life insurance policy after fees while an index mutual fund grew at 8% then you'd better off just paying taxes on the growth of the index fund. (The actual numbers depend on your tax level but you get the idea)
I have no intention of getting a whole life insurance policy to do this.
Even if you don't live in NY I think it will still be useful information for their case.
I too was pleased to see that it found my comment. At least we know it works.
That's why I wear the hat people... to keep the government from tracking my thoughts.
It looking like a pirate hat is just me expressing my sense of fashion.
"it appears HP is on to the same route already"
They've been doing this since seriously Windows 95. Maybe not the "telemetry" thing but installing crap software the user doesn't need. I should give them some credit, I cut my IT teeth fixing these issues so with all sincerity, HP can still kiss my ass. Comcast is the only company I hate more.
On a side note, I've had great luck with my Cannon Laser printer; still on the original toner cartridge, doesn't require any special software to print, prints over wifi, and doesn't stop my print to warn me that it can't print my black and white document because it's out of magenta ink.
I'll rent a movie from RedBox ($2 for bluray) If I want to see the movie a second time, then I'll buy it.
Any IoT device that is connected to the internet will almost always start with no, they cannot be taken over. But when (not if) an exploit is discovered then it will be possible. It's like Moore's law.
We will have a very pro corporate supreme court but that does not mean most companies want to encourage patent trolls.
I'm more mad that the public's complaints were so blatantly ignored. I honestly think Vladimir Putin is listening to his public more then the FCC is listening to us.
If the IPS's take it too far I have faith in those of us in IT to be able to work around the problem. Imagine if Netflix changed their browser player to pull their data from other media players much like now bittorrents work?
They can pass any law they want, I can still setup a VPN network to somewhere that it's filtered/throttled. They can't throttle VPN's because there's too many people who use them for work. Will it hurt my ability to steam movies? Maybe. I don't bother to pirate music or movies but if they take things too far.... No government agency is as powerful as a bunch of motivated nerds.
Ridiculous yes, but Happy Birthday was eventually opened to the public domain: https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
"ultra-high definition picture quality and more interactive programming, like new educational content for children and multiple angles of live sporting events."
There are some benefits. Besides, I watch so little network TV that it really won't affect me. Plus, I'm pretty sure my TV is going to have a really hard time connecting to the internet for some unknown reasons.
I'm shocked I tell you, shocked.
So, what you're saying is they any person who disagrees with me is a Russian agent. Got it.
Maybe this coming out will help the general population adapt actual critical thinking skills.
That's just what they want us to think.
So you stopped gaming because you had shit buying decisions? You've missed some pretty good games then like Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2, The Witcher series then. None of those games were purposely crippled, and in The Witcher series the developers gave content away free.
You forgot Factorio. If you rank all games in Steam by ratings Factorio is like #5. Seriously think about that? I think The Witcher was like #12.
I can think of a good example of DLC done right: Rocksmith 2014. If you haven't heard of Rocksmith it's basically Rock Band or Guitar Hero with a real guitar and you're actually playing the song. Every week they release a song pack, 3-5 songs. They're up to about 1100 songs total. I've shelled out several grand over the years on this and am happy to do so, it's worth every penny to me. I get to cherry pick the songs I like and they all fit in a single game. I can start a random list and play till my fingers bleed (feels so good)
$300 per phone per year is a horrible rate considering the amount of capital involved. That doesn't even account for all expenses. Compare that to vending machines. I wouldn't be surprised to see the profit from all vending machines over the US or Canada to be well over a billion dollars per year.
This is great, I only have a few things to add:
Most gaming laptops have a button that will allow you to turn off the trackpad.
Upgrade to Windows Pro, you can turn off most the suggestions, notifications, and ads that are now embedded in Windows.
You should be able to get a pretty decent machine for about $1000 that will play all games.
Don't get a 4k screen, 1080p is plenty. More will only require more, hotter, hardware.
I see how it is, as soon as Trump leaves the country they go and try to do something that is in the best interest of the public.
Actually, much of the money that was given out has been paid back and most of that that wasn't the Government is earning money on. To date, they've earned more from it they've lost. https://projects.propublica.or...