On the contrary, a 42 year old is typically a much more efficient worker. He knows what works and what doesn't and how to get things done and the skills he must use daily are highly practiced. What he lacks is the seemingly boundless energy and often stubbornness of youth. That's also of value, because it helps the young spend the time to develop skills that take years to master.
It's probably true that 42 year olds don't learn as fast as the young, but they typically have less to learn having learned a lot already.
Indeed, I was motivated to switch to CM when Samsung and AT&T stopped supporting my older phone and a security bug was announced but the fix wasn't provided for my phone from either Samsung or AT&T. CM had it out very quickly.
Was this problem on a Stable, Milestone, RC or on a Nightly? Nightlies are by definition experimental and have not been tested. Just compile and post. If you're not willing to have an occasionally nonworking phone, don't run nightlies. It's also possible that you were running the wrong version for you phone. In some cases it's possible to load and boot a version designed for a slightly different phone model with almost but not the same hardware and various kinds of chaos can ensue.
Yeah, I suppose; I'm only an occasional iOS user. I pick up my wife's iPad maybe once a week. She has an iPhone but I only touch that to answer phone calls when she's in th shower. I was basing my (over)estimate on the number of devices that run ANY version of iOS. Though I think they call the system that runs on an AppleTV by that name too even though it's not perceptibly similar.
Correction. This is a milestone release, not what they call a stable release, which is their highest level. It pretty much means beta release, as opposed to what the call a stable release. It's supported on 70 devices, including my 3 year old phone.
Apple compiles their software before release because they can. iOS only supports 8 models of phone (aside from carrier versions), 5 iPod models, 5 iPad models and 2 iPad Minis. Compiling them all is a day's work.
Android is supported on hundreds of devices. Each needs a kernel compatible with the hardware, just like on iOS. Any one model of Android phone is the same amount of work to support as any one model of iPhone.
Despite that, Android initially gained ground on iPhone ever since release and at some stages has been significantly ahead of iPhones on features. Right now, I'd say they are very close to par, with Android having some things a little better than iOS and iOS having some things a little better.
I'm sure all 12 users with all 3 supported devices will be very happy.:)
Actual stats, 4.8 million official installs, est. 3.9 million unofficial installs (ports to devices not officially supported, or mods to the Cyanogenmod base), 235 supported devices. Not all devices are supported at the latest version.
What's the coffee cup for? Are six year olds supposed to make the leap from countable items like pennies to bulk items like coffee? What relationship is being suggested? Does coffee cost six cents a cup? Not at Starbucks!
I will agree dragging some low life insignificant code writer into them is probably a waste of everyone's time. It is more often done to try and prevent them from whining about how something was decided on later. "Who's the idiot that came up with this?" - harder to say that when you were involved. The point being if you are dragged into a meeting, it is probably because you are a 'leader' or a 'whiner'. At least that has been my experience.
A meeting is a multi-direction, rapid fire communication medium. It can be way more productive than media that are inherently unidirectional (like email or texts) or one-on-one like chat. They're not media-limited. You can use speech, draw diagrams in real time, use computer displays, paper and physical demonstration.
As a manager and an occasional project leader, I know that it's more efficient use of my time to make all my people show up in the same room so I only have to tell them something once and make sure that all the members of the team are communicating and in agreement (or at least know) how things are going to happen. From their perspective, they're getting pulled away from their tasks an hour or so a week. But that hour often saves several hours of wasted effort or frustration due to misconceptions that are easily corrected but less easily discovered unless you have the right people talking to you about what you're doing.
There's another reason we bring those "low life" insignificant code writers into meetings: education. They'll learn from much more experienced people about how problems get solved, what the big picture looks like, how their code (or whatever) will be used, what the customer wants, etc. Sometimes they'll have good ideas of their own that are worth hearing. And if they have any initiative and ambition to work at a higher level, their managers will find out and be able to give them assignments that help them develop the skills to do so.
It may seem that way when you are a low-level contributor and are simply expected to execute your assignments, which are detailed to you and handed down from the people who actually go to the meetings.
What's actually decided at the meetings is how the overall system will work, what the interfaces are going to be, when work is expected to be complete, what the budget is, who will work on the project and all that stuff that determines what you do.
If you are very good at what you do and show an interest in something that isn't sitting on your desk, you may be asked to play a larger role by the time you're 40. But with that attitude, it's not likely. Some people spend their whole careers just working out the little details like you do now.
But you're not free to do what you want with your person when you need very specific and urgent medical care. If I'm sick with a raging infection that could kill me, I don't have the time or possibly even the ability to shop around. I could die before I find a price I could pay. Do you think in a free market, you would get urgent care at a reasonable price? Fuck no. The first place you go knows they have you by the balls.
Medical care isn't a free market and it can't be made into a free market. ACA takes steps that make medical INSURANCE easier to shop for (or it will after they fix the fucked up site) and that will in one respect make that market more free, but it will make it less free because there's a penalty for not buying anything. But it will be more free to the customers because the insurers won't be able to practice the same deceptive and discriminatory pricing and advertising they've always done. But it will be less free because of the employer mandate...
Bottom line, it's not about freedom. It's about getting the public covered.
In all, I want a system of insurance that's a LOT less free. I want everybody to be covered, whether they like it or not and for everybody to pay whether they like it or not. I don't want a thousand middlemen between me and my doctor vying for a cut of my money or his profits. I don't want my doctor to deal with a hundred different insurers with a hundred different sets of rules so he has to hire two extra people to do billing. I don't want medical prices artificially inflated to fuck the uninsured and I don't want to pay a higher price because somebody decided I'm at their mercy.
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I wouldn't mind what the the tech bubble popping might do to San Francisco rental prices.
It would also reduce commute times on Hwy 101. When the dotcom bubble popped back in 2001, it took 20 minutes off my morning commute.
Because you could collect your unemployment check from home?
Hey, it's not like there are hundreds of millions of Indian kids who don't have access to clean water ...
No problem. There's water on Mars.
On the contrary, a 42 year old is typically a much more efficient worker. He knows what works and what doesn't and how to get things done and the skills he must use daily are highly practiced. What he lacks is the seemingly boundless energy and often stubbornness of youth. That's also of value, because it helps the young spend the time to develop skills that take years to master.
It's probably true that 42 year olds don't learn as fast as the young, but they typically have less to learn having learned a lot already.
Uranium mines aren't any better.
You could get pretty rich selling the equipment.
Hasn't that always been the goal?
The average home could heat and insulate itself on packing materials from Amazon alone.
Some of the necessary wetware already exists in the mechanism that manufactures fake sensory input and intercepts motor nerve outputs while dreaming.
The logical place to intercept that for VR, telepresence, operation of sensory/motor systems including cyborg systems might be right there.
Indeed, I was motivated to switch to CM when Samsung and AT&T stopped supporting my older phone and a security bug was announced but the fix wasn't provided for my phone from either Samsung or AT&T. CM had it out very quickly.
Was this problem on a Stable, Milestone, RC or on a Nightly? Nightlies are by definition experimental and have not been tested. Just compile and post. If you're not willing to have an occasionally nonworking phone, don't run nightlies. It's also possible that you were running the wrong version for you phone. In some cases it's possible to load and boot a version designed for a slightly different phone model with almost but not the same hardware and various kinds of chaos can ensue.
Yeah, I suppose; I'm only an occasional iOS user. I pick up my wife's iPad maybe once a week. She has an iPhone but I only touch that to answer phone calls when she's in th shower. I was basing my (over)estimate on the number of devices that run ANY version of iOS. Though I think they call the system that runs on an AppleTV by that name too even though it's not perceptibly similar.
And release a version 4.4 as a successor to 7, 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2? I don't think that will happen.
Correction. This is a milestone release, not what they call a stable release, which is their highest level. It pretty much means beta release, as opposed to what the call a stable release. It's supported on 70 devices, including my 3 year old phone.
Apple compiles their software before release because they can. iOS only supports 8 models of phone (aside from carrier versions), 5 iPod models, 5 iPad models and 2 iPad Minis. Compiling them all is a day's work.
Android is supported on hundreds of devices. Each needs a kernel compatible with the hardware, just like on iOS. Any one model of Android phone is the same amount of work to support as any one model of iPhone.
Despite that, Android initially gained ground on iPhone ever since release and at some stages has been significantly ahead of iPhones on features. Right now, I'd say they are very close to par, with Android having some things a little better than iOS and iOS having some things a little better.
I'm sure all 12 users with all 3 supported devices will be very happy. :)
Actual stats, 4.8 million official installs, est. 3.9 million unofficial installs (ports to devices not officially supported, or mods to the Cyanogenmod base), 235 supported devices. Not all devices are supported at the latest version.
The unprotected propeller being the most obvious reason. And the sheer chaos induced if you tried to take off or land in traffic.
What's the coffee cup for? Are six year olds supposed to make the leap from countable items like pennies to bulk items like coffee? What relationship is being suggested? Does coffee cost six cents a cup? Not at Starbucks!
I will agree dragging some low life insignificant code writer into them is probably a waste of everyone's time. It is more often done to try and prevent them from whining about how something was decided on later. "Who's the idiot that came up with this?" - harder to say that when you were involved. The point being if you are dragged into a meeting, it is probably because you are a 'leader' or a 'whiner'. At least that has been my experience.
A meeting is a multi-direction, rapid fire communication medium. It can be way more productive than media that are inherently unidirectional (like email or texts) or one-on-one like chat. They're not media-limited. You can use speech, draw diagrams in real time, use computer displays, paper and physical demonstration.
As a manager and an occasional project leader, I know that it's more efficient use of my time to make all my people show up in the same room so I only have to tell them something once and make sure that all the members of the team are communicating and in agreement (or at least know) how things are going to happen. From their perspective, they're getting pulled away from their tasks an hour or so a week. But that hour often saves several hours of wasted effort or frustration due to misconceptions that are easily corrected but less easily discovered unless you have the right people talking to you about what you're doing.
There's another reason we bring those "low life" insignificant code writers into meetings: education. They'll learn from much more experienced people about how problems get solved, what the big picture looks like, how their code (or whatever) will be used, what the customer wants, etc. Sometimes they'll have good ideas of their own that are worth hearing. And if they have any initiative and ambition to work at a higher level, their managers will find out and be able to give them assignments that help them develop the skills to do so.
It may seem that way when you are a low-level contributor and are simply expected to execute your assignments, which are detailed to you and handed down from the people who actually go to the meetings.
What's actually decided at the meetings is how the overall system will work, what the interfaces are going to be, when work is expected to be complete, what the budget is, who will work on the project and all that stuff that determines what you do.
If you are very good at what you do and show an interest in something that isn't sitting on your desk, you may be asked to play a larger role by the time you're 40. But with that attitude, it's not likely. Some people spend their whole careers just working out the little details like you do now.
You think your time is too important for that "useless" meeting but you have the gall to call the guy who organized the meeting "self-important."
You're the very definition of self-important, buddy.
But you're not free to do what you want with your person when you need very specific and urgent medical care. If I'm sick with a raging infection that could kill me, I don't have the time or possibly even the ability to shop around. I could die before I find a price I could pay. Do you think in a free market, you would get urgent care at a reasonable price? Fuck no. The first place you go knows they have you by the balls.
Medical care isn't a free market and it can't be made into a free market. ACA takes steps that make medical INSURANCE easier to shop for (or it will after they fix the fucked up site) and that will in one respect make that market more free, but it will make it less free because there's a penalty for not buying anything. But it will be more free to the customers because the insurers won't be able to practice the same deceptive and discriminatory pricing and advertising they've always done. But it will be less free because of the employer mandate...
Bottom line, it's not about freedom. It's about getting the public covered.
In all, I want a system of insurance that's a LOT less free. I want everybody to be covered, whether they like it or not and for everybody to pay whether they like it or not. I don't want a thousand middlemen between me and my doctor vying for a cut of my money or his profits. I don't want my doctor to deal with a hundred different insurers with a hundred different sets of rules so he has to hire two extra people to do billing. I don't want medical prices artificially inflated to fuck the uninsured and I don't want to pay a higher price because somebody decided I'm at their mercy.
I want what the UK has. Or what Canada has.
This.
How do free market solutions address your bleeding chest wound?
How do they address the young couple with no money and a kid on the way?
How do they address the situation where you need a drug and only one company makes it?
What do you think the Affordable Care Act does?
Blu-Ray is still under patent.