She knew what the job would pay when she took it. She knew what the rent was. Really? Sorry but she may need to get a roommate or more. Instead of her own apartment she may need to rent a room. The lifestyle choice is wanting to live in SF. Guess what? It is stupid expensive to live in SF. I really hope some of the tech scene decided that it is just to expensive and hard to stay in SF am start moving to other cities. You are already seeing it happen in Austin and Portland.
She made a lot of bad choices. She wanted to live in SF. Well guess what folks it is expensive to live in SF. She has a degree in English literature. Not exactly a high paying field. She did not want to be a teacher so she went to work at Yelp in customer support hoping to transfer to a different department and she is shocked that it would take at least a year. The fact that she thought that she could move out of customer support in less than a year shows she is clueless. She got the job and then rented an apartment that she could not afford betting on getting a different job at the same company that pays more? Really? Sorry but this in no way violates any social contract. She was not tricked or manipulated into taking that job. She did not have to move to the most expensive city in the US to live. She did not have to get a degree that does not pay all that well. She could have tired to get a job that paid better but she did not want it. She does not seem to have a roommate again that is her choice. Over all my advice to her is move to someplace cheaper and get a job that uses your degree that pays better than customer support.
Has it? I do not really see that. Maybe in the area of operating systems since we are pretty much "stuck" with Unix and Windows but the truth is those Operating Systems are just absorbing new features.
Yes and no. AT&T before the break up designed every to last for decades. Take a look at an old phone from the early 70s and plug it in. Odds are good it will still work today. The downside is they where slow to change. AT&T really did not trust packet based communications. Cost were high for long distance or any special service. You had to rent your phone from AT&T. The breaking up of AT&T did cause competition and innovation that drove down costs. Could the same have happened without the breakup? Maybe but it is an example of very few things in life are all good or all bad.
"I've used it to rip my legally purchased copies of DVDs and Blurays to my media server. I'm not doing anything wrong by using the content I bought and paid for how I wish." Actually it is illegal in the US at least. "I'm sure they'd likely disagree" They do. ", but they can piss off." And they really should.
Bell Labs created the transistor, Unix, c, comsats, and goodness knows what else. As Jerry Pournelle used to say. Bell Labs was the closest thing to an R&D department for the human race we have ever seen.
Autonomous weapons have been around for about 70 years probably starting with the German T-4 torpedo that they could fire in the general direction of a convoy and it would seek out a ship to sink. If you count landmines it is at least 100 years. This is just a chance to make news and get attention.
The Hindenburg was not a blimp and the Hydrogen was not the problem. it was the Nitrate Dope and Aluminum powder they used on the fabric covering... Which is shows that your input can be ignored.
"That space of land could feed over 6,000 people [farmlandlp.com] if properly arable, or house 2.8 million people. " But it is not arable and no one lives on it. I personally am pro nuclear and I am even getting optimistic about fusion thanks to the Lockheed High Beta reactor and the Pollywell. BTW this is a thermal solar plant and not photovoltaic.
Maybe the price of land. Maybe Morocco gets fewer cloudy days. being that close to one another does not mean they have the same conditions, Maybe the cost of labor to keep the mirrors clean. And just maybe Morocco had the will to build it while Spain did not. I am very sceptical of the claims of solar but this is interesting. I hope it works out well.
I see the Zero a bit different. It is a full linux machine which the ESP8266 is not. It has HDMI out which the ESP8266 does not. Put a USB wifi adaptor on it and you have a linux box that you can put on the back of a monitor have it work well for signage or other displays. Very different devices for different uses. the ESP8266 is great for say a weather station, maybe a simple robot. The Zero is for projects that need full Linux and maybe a display. Even combining an ESP8266 with a zero is an option as well using the ESP for IO and Wifi and the Zero for processing.
Yea he is just paying all of those people to work on the project. Paying for lab space, equipment, paying for netting in 3rd world nations. Making sure that those researchers feed their families and pay for housing.... And of course he saw a massive problem and put resources in place to try and solve it. Next you will be saying MLK, and Gandhi did nothing but set up marches and give speeches.
I disagree that it is pointless, it would stop the a lot of the trolling ACs but not the hard core Trolls. Personally I would like to see no ACs and no profanity on Slashdot. The problem is that many users don't agree with me. They for some reason think that not allowing ACs to post would prevent some profound comment from being made. Same thing with limiting profanity. I have never seen a single post where profanity increased the informational value of the post. However a large number of users think that would be a terrible idea.
Probably best to keep the ACs and profanity vs the potential loss of community members based on principal.
Well then I guess it will be adblockers or I will be gone. I miss the old slashdot and the community is still one of the better ones but life is too short to put up with crap much longer.
A matter of opinion of bloatware. Manufacture apps are not what I consider bloatware and I use several of the moto apps. BTW you can not remove all the apple apps from the iphone.
As a Macbook owning, long time Android using, Linux programmer let me say this. Windows Phone really did not suck. I was changing carriers and got a cheap Lumia phone to hold me over for a while. The Windows Phone OS was actually very good. It was so good and easy to use that we replaced my MILs android phone with one and she had no trouble using it. The problem was one of apps. I just could not find all the apps I wanted. That along with the lack of official Google apps really made it a less than ideal long term phone for me. If it had all the apps I wanted including the gmail I would have been a happy user. Yes I am a big Google users so YMMV.
WindowsPhone should survive IMHO because it is actually pretty good and offers a third choice.
Why are you posting this in the middle of a spacex story? Talk about offtopic. I suggest you do a this is who you are story ASAP and ask for suggestions in the comments.
My number on suggestion is that all political stores are posted under the politics section and allow people to hide it. For the most part Slashdot sucks at politics IMHO.
I would really like to see the end of AC posts but I know that I am in the minority on that one.
Good please make sure that all political posts are kept in the political section and allow me to hide them. Slashdot IMHO is not good at anything political.
Actually Slashdot is a tough nut to crack. On the plus side. 1. It still has a good community probably one of the best. 2. The moderation system works better than most other systems I have seen. Far from perfect but it seems to keep the manure level down. 3. Really valuable demographics.
The problem is. 1. They hate ads. 2. They are using adblockers. 3. They really don't want to pay.
So how do you make money? You need money to pay for servers and developers but people really want free. I hate the paid posts and the ads used to be too in your face. It is a shame because I do not mind seeing ads as long as they do not take up too much space, are about things I care about, and ARE NOT ANIMATED AND ARE SILENT!
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She knew what the job would pay when she took it.
She knew what the rent was.
Really?
Sorry but she may need to get a roommate or more. Instead of her own apartment she may need to rent a room.
The lifestyle choice is wanting to live in SF. Guess what? It is stupid expensive to live in SF. I really hope some of the tech scene decided that it is just to expensive and hard to stay in SF am start moving to other cities. You are already seeing it happen in Austin and Portland.
She made a lot of bad choices. She wanted to live in SF. Well guess what folks it is expensive to live in SF. She has a degree in English literature. Not exactly a high paying field. She did not want to be a teacher so she went to work at Yelp in customer support hoping to transfer to a different department and she is shocked that it would take at least a year.
The fact that she thought that she could move out of customer support in less than a year shows she is clueless. She got the job and then rented an apartment that she could not afford betting on getting a different job at the same company that pays more?
Really?
Sorry but this in no way violates any social contract. She was not tricked or manipulated into taking that job. She did not have to move to the most expensive city in the US to live. She did not have to get a degree that does not pay all that well. She could have tired to get a job that paid better but she did not want it. She does not seem to have a roommate again that is her choice.
Over all my advice to her is move to someplace cheaper and get a job that uses your degree that pays better than customer support.
Yea because knowing the servers location at the resolution of a timezone will help a lot...
Has it? I do not really see that. Maybe in the area of operating systems since we are pretty much "stuck" with Unix and Windows but the truth is those Operating Systems are just absorbing new features.
Yes and no. AT&T before the break up designed every to last for decades. Take a look at an old phone from the early 70s and plug it in. Odds are good it will still work today. The downside is they where slow to change. AT&T really did not trust packet based communications. Cost were high for long distance or any special service. You had to rent your phone from AT&T.
The breaking up of AT&T did cause competition and innovation that drove down costs. Could the same have happened without the breakup? Maybe but it is an example of very few things in life are all good or all bad.
"I've used it to rip my legally purchased copies of DVDs and Blurays to my media server. I'm not doing anything wrong by using the content I bought and paid for how I wish."
Actually it is illegal in the US at least.
"I'm sure they'd likely disagree"
They do.
", but they can piss off."
And they really should.
Bell Labs created the transistor, Unix, c, comsats, and goodness knows what else.
As Jerry Pournelle used to say. Bell Labs was the closest thing to an R&D department for the human race we have ever seen.
Autonomous weapons have been around for about 70 years probably starting with the German T-4 torpedo that they could fire in the general direction of a convoy and it would seek out a ship to sink. If you count landmines it is at least 100 years.
This is just a chance to make news and get attention.
The Hindenburg was not a blimp and the Hydrogen was not the problem. it was the Nitrate Dope and Aluminum powder they used on the fabric covering...
Which is shows that your input can be ignored.
Trotting out Chernobyl as a reason for not building modern nuclear plants is as dumb as using the Hindenburg as a reason to not build 787s.
"That space of land could feed over 6,000 people [farmlandlp.com] if properly arable, or house 2.8 million people. "
But it is not arable and no one lives on it.
I personally am pro nuclear and I am even getting optimistic about fusion thanks to the Lockheed High Beta reactor and the Pollywell.
BTW this is a thermal solar plant and not photovoltaic.
Maybe the price of land. Maybe Morocco gets fewer cloudy days. being that close to one another does not mean they have the same conditions, Maybe the cost of labor to keep the mirrors clean. And just maybe Morocco had the will to build it while Spain did not.
I am very sceptical of the claims of solar but this is interesting. I hope it works out well.
I see the Zero a bit different. It is a full linux machine which the ESP8266 is not. It has HDMI out which the ESP8266 does not.
Put a USB wifi adaptor on it and you have a linux box that you can put on the back of a monitor have it work well for signage or other displays.
Very different devices for different uses. the ESP8266 is great for say a weather station, maybe a simple robot. The Zero is for projects that need full Linux and maybe a display.
Even combining an ESP8266 with a zero is an option as well using the ESP for IO and Wifi and the Zero for processing.
Yea he is just paying all of those people to work on the project. Paying for lab space, equipment, paying for netting in 3rd world nations.
Making sure that those researchers feed their families and pay for housing....
And of course he saw a massive problem and put resources in place to try and solve it.
Next you will be saying MLK, and Gandhi did nothing but set up marches and give speeches.
Frankly I think his work with Malaria will probably be the thing that people remember him for.
I disagree that it is pointless, it would stop the a lot of the trolling ACs but not the hard core Trolls.
Personally I would like to see no ACs and no profanity on Slashdot. The problem is that many users don't agree with me. They for some reason think that not allowing ACs to post would prevent some profound comment from being made. Same thing with limiting profanity. I have never seen a single post where profanity increased the informational value of the post. However a large number of users think that would be a terrible idea.
Probably best to keep the ACs and profanity vs the potential loss of community members based on principal.
The problem with that is you have an almost infinite amount of noise and a very limited amount of signal.
Frankly Slashdot's moderation system works as well as anything I have seen. If you do not like you can always view at -5 and do all the work yourself.
Well then I guess it will be adblockers or I will be gone. I miss the old slashdot and the community is still one of the better ones but life is too short to put up with crap much longer.
A matter of opinion of bloatware.
Manufacture apps are not what I consider bloatware and I use several of the moto apps.
BTW you can not remove all the apple apps from the iphone.
Because freedom is bad...
I have no bloatware on my MotoX.
As a Macbook owning, long time Android using, Linux programmer let me say this.
Windows Phone really did not suck. I was changing carriers and got a cheap Lumia phone to hold me over for a while. The Windows Phone OS was actually very good. It was so good and easy to use that we replaced my MILs android phone with one and she had no trouble using it.
The problem was one of apps. I just could not find all the apps I wanted. That along with the lack of official Google apps really made it a less than ideal long term phone for me.
If it had all the apps I wanted including the gmail I would have been a happy user. Yes I am a big Google users so YMMV.
WindowsPhone should survive IMHO because it is actually pretty good and offers a third choice.
I have not seen any pop-over ads on slashdot.
Why are you posting this in the middle of a spacex story? Talk about offtopic.
I suggest you do a this is who you are story ASAP and ask for suggestions in the comments.
My number on suggestion is that all political stores are posted under the politics section and allow people to hide it. For the most part Slashdot sucks at politics IMHO.
I would really like to see the end of AC posts but I know that I am in the minority on that one.
Good please make sure that all political posts are kept in the political section and allow me to hide them.
Slashdot IMHO is not good at anything political.
They used the term synergy!
Where boned.
Actually Slashdot is a tough nut to crack.
On the plus side.
1. It still has a good community probably one of the best.
2. The moderation system works better than most other systems I have seen. Far from perfect but it seems to keep the manure level down.
3. Really valuable demographics.
The problem is.
1. They hate ads.
2. They are using adblockers.
3. They really don't want to pay.
So how do you make money?
You need money to pay for servers and developers but people really want free. I hate the paid posts and the ads used to be too in your face. It is a shame because I do not mind seeing ads as long as they do not take up too much space, are about things I care about, and ARE NOT ANIMATED AND ARE SILENT!