As a result of these norms, it's easier to fire 10% of your workforce then lower all pay by 10%.
I know this may be the exception that proves the rule, but my former company did just that; across the board 10% pay cut to the entire organization, including management. Every one of us hated it, but the smarter of us did realize that it probably saved some peoples' jobs. It had the unintended side effect of taking top performers and encouraging them to perform at 90% (or less), however...
I believe you, but I have a hard time believing the headlights on a $75,000 car truly cost $5,000. That's 6% of the purchase price just for lights. I'm sure standard obscene OEM part mark-ups apply, but I wonder how much they truly cost.
I'll second this. Duckduckgo has added many features that I missed from google like image searches and predictive search results. I still use google when duckduckgo doesn't give me what I want, but those instances are getting fewer and further between. I'm probably 95% duckduckgo and 5% google right now.
I'd be more or less ok with that in that I was a Charter customer and liked them slightly better than Time Warner (who I have now). They still were overpriced with mediocre customer service, but at least their service was faster and than Time Warner and more reliable.
Of course if they merged, I'm sure it would end up screwing consumers in some way or other...
Maybe I'm just grumpy and old but the whole "Curated" thing is bugging me and seemingly came out of nowhere recently. It's a marketing move intended to lend an air of sophistication to stuff by making them think of museums or wine collections, but it's really all just "stuff that other people kinda like".
I just downloaded the app. It lets you listen in on various different college campuses in case your area is boring (it is). I did a brief, extremely unscientific survey of a few colleges, and I didn't see anything specifically racist, homophobic or whatever. What I saw was college kids being college kids.
Sure you're going to see a little bit of everything because there's a little bit of everything in society. I didn't see anything too bad, but I'm sure it's there. Political correctness and people trying to censor stuff like this are the problem. This is no different than a local (physical) bulletin board.
Hardly billions. The technology that goes into fibre lasers is very cheap and efficient. My guess is that this was made form mostly off the shelf components.
Maybe it *could* be made from off the shelf components - I have no idea. But I bet the government spent 100x that to develop their own customized (expensive) stuff...
Maybe it's me, but I thought light behaving as both a particle and a wave was a quantum state. And that quantum state exists until the system is observed and then it collapses into one of two possibilities. Looking that the picture in the link, and...I guess that's not what I was expecting. What am I missing here, physicists? Is the light particle/wave thing not a quantum thing? If it is, that picture doesn't seem like it describes both at once. It almost seems too...cartoony.
In understand why he did it. If he made it accurate looking, a large percentage of the non-geek public wouldn't understand they went to a different part of the universe.
Keyboard mashing can produce word patterns. If someone is mashing a keyboard and accidentally mashes "t" and "h", there is no magical force in the universe which quickly checks an English dictionary and stops the masher from mashing any button which would create a word ("the", for example). That's the thing about infinity - it makes the massively unlikely infinitely more likely. As long as something is not impossible, if attempted an infinite number of times, it is possible that it will happen.
If the universe is truly infinte, not only if something's possible will it happen, but it will happen an infinte number of times. Infinity gets...weird...when you start thinking about it.
Yes, we all know there's a difference between the internet and the world wide web, but sometimes for the sake of convenient reference, the world wide web is just "the internet"...
Yeah, sure, they slip some other results in there, but there is a pretty bright line between having the capacity to index the web and not, and neither duckduckgo nor yahoo has that capacity. Only bing, baidu, yandex, google.
but by all means go on being a brand-monkey.
I'll go with the brand that does not track me, thanks.
I've become increasingly impressed with Duck Duck Go. At first I rarely used them because they didn't have predictive results, image search, etc. But now they do have all that stuff and I used them as my default. The only things I still need to jump back to Google for is the latest news and most recent articles. If something's happening on the web RIGHT NOW, Google is still the better search engine for it. But for most of the searching I do, stuff happening RIGHT NOW isn't that important. However if your job depends on top efficiency internet searches, I'm sure Google is still king.
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As a result of these norms, it's easier to fire 10% of your workforce then lower all pay by 10%.
I know this may be the exception that proves the rule, but my former company did just that; across the board 10% pay cut to the entire organization, including management. Every one of us hated it, but the smarter of us did realize that it probably saved some peoples' jobs. It had the unintended side effect of taking top performers and encouraging them to perform at 90% (or less), however...
Nice guy?
Oh but we can't! We have to Bring You Democracy! Now with more Around Corner Shots!
I believe you, but I have a hard time believing the headlights on a $75,000 car truly cost $5,000. That's 6% of the purchase price just for lights. I'm sure standard obscene OEM part mark-ups apply, but I wonder how much they truly cost.
I'll second this. Duckduckgo has added many features that I missed from google like image searches and predictive search results. I still use google when duckduckgo doesn't give me what I want, but those instances are getting fewer and further between. I'm probably 95% duckduckgo and 5% google right now.
I'd be more or less ok with that in that I was a Charter customer and liked them slightly better than Time Warner (who I have now). They still were overpriced with mediocre customer service, but at least their service was faster and than Time Warner and more reliable.
Of course if they merged, I'm sure it would end up screwing consumers in some way or other...
Yes, and Google Earth Pro is free now. The extra tools in the Pro version, while not earthshaking, are nice. Especially for the price.
"attempted scheduled for 4:33 PM ET"
Only a few minutes from right now.
Agreed. GP is incorrect - it's not illegal to record police. Yet, anyway...
I WAS IN THE POOL!
Maybe I'm just grumpy and old but the whole "Curated" thing is bugging me and seemingly came out of nowhere recently. It's a marketing move intended to lend an air of sophistication to stuff by making them think of museums or wine collections, but it's really all just "stuff that other people kinda like".
Now get off my lawn.
It does. But if he was interested in euthanasia tribunals he was probably considering it for himself. So maybe it's for the best.
I just downloaded the app. It lets you listen in on various different college campuses in case your area is boring (it is). I did a brief, extremely unscientific survey of a few colleges, and I didn't see anything specifically racist, homophobic or whatever. What I saw was college kids being college kids.
Sure you're going to see a little bit of everything because there's a little bit of everything in society. I didn't see anything too bad, but I'm sure it's there. Political correctness and people trying to censor stuff like this are the problem. This is no different than a local (physical) bulletin board.
Hardly billions. The technology that goes into fibre lasers is very cheap and efficient. My guess is that this was made form mostly off the shelf components.
Maybe it *could* be made from off the shelf components - I have no idea. But I bet the government spent 100x that to develop their own customized (expensive) stuff...
So I don't know what the VR headset manufacturers can do about it.
Include a half ounce of weed in every box?
RD: 'But you've 20+ years experience with computers...' Me: 'Yes' RD: 'Why you no Linkedin?, Why you no Facebook?, why ? just why?' Me: 'Because.'
...Because you have 20+ years experience with computers...
Maybe it's me, but I thought light behaving as both a particle and a wave was a quantum state. And that quantum state exists until the system is observed and then it collapses into one of two possibilities. Looking that the picture in the link, and...I guess that's not what I was expecting. What am I missing here, physicists? Is the light particle/wave thing not a quantum thing? If it is, that picture doesn't seem like it describes both at once. It almost seems too...cartoony.
In understand why he did it. If he made it accurate looking, a large percentage of the non-geek public wouldn't understand they went to a different part of the universe.
Keyboard mashing can produce word patterns. If someone is mashing a keyboard and accidentally mashes "t" and "h", there is no magical force in the universe which quickly checks an English dictionary and stops the masher from mashing any button which would create a word ("the", for example). That's the thing about infinity - it makes the massively unlikely infinitely more likely. As long as something is not impossible, if attempted an infinite number of times, it is possible that it will happen.
If the universe is truly infinte, not only if something's possible will it happen, but it will happen an infinte number of times. Infinity gets...weird...when you start thinking about it.
Lighten up, Francis...
Yes, we all know there's a difference between the internet and the world wide web, but sometimes for the sake of convenient reference, the world wide web is just "the internet"...
...while pulling on braid and muttering something under breath about sheepherders...
Duck Duck Go is just Bing, dude. So is Yahoo.
Yeah, sure, they slip some other results in there, but there is a pretty bright line between having the capacity to index the web and not, and neither duckduckgo nor yahoo has that capacity. Only bing, baidu, yandex, google.
but by all means go on being a brand-monkey.
I'll go with the brand that does not track me, thanks.
I've become increasingly impressed with Duck Duck Go. At first I rarely used them because they didn't have predictive results, image search, etc. But now they do have all that stuff and I used them as my default. The only things I still need to jump back to Google for is the latest news and most recent articles. If something's happening on the web RIGHT NOW, Google is still the better search engine for it. But for most of the searching I do, stuff happening RIGHT NOW isn't that important. However if your job depends on top efficiency internet searches, I'm sure Google is still king.
A space bear once bit my sister. No realli!
That's what I got out of it too.