Wages are not the entire cost of doing business at a fast food restaurant. You have your fixed overhead (building, capital equipment, maintenance, utilities, etc.). Then you have your cost of materials, not just the raw food, but the cooking oil (which is generally more time based than use based), cleaning supplies, etc... So the cost to the consumer isn't as sensitive to the hourly wage as you state.
You miss the point entirely. The issue isn't what they can and can't afford. Why invest your own money when you can make someone else pay and you still reap the rewards (subscribers)? If there is money on the table, why would they leave it there? I don't blame ATT for this. Unless you are a holder of significant quantities of ATT stock, their job isn't to look out for your best interest. I blame the politicians for being corrupt and/or stupid enough to fall for it.
So you are saying that the CEO of a company really puts in 800x the effort? Where does he get time for that 32,000 hour work week and still find time to perfect his golf swing?
Why do people keep bringing this up? It isn't about effort. It is about how little they can pay to get someone who is perceived to have the capability they need. Do you think that the person who answers the level 1 help desk line and reads off a script should make as much as the network architect? What if they both work the same number of hours? Do you think that the person who images the new PCs that come in should make as much as the person who runs the data center? Once you concede that point, it is just a matter of degree.
Mission critical is a much lower burden than safety critical and even safety critical isn't developed with formal methods. Safety critical is developed with a more stringent process but nothing like that. The F-35 has something like 8 or 9 million SLOC. If it were required to develop everything on the F-35 with mathematical proof of correctness you wouldn't have 10% of the capability it has today.
Spending a bunch of money and making it look like we are making great progress in missile defense so that NK bankrupts itself trying to counter the counter measures? Aren't they already basically bankrupt?
My employer already has a notice on the lock screen about monitoring, but even if they didn't, anyone who has a device managed by their employer should assume it is being monitored unless proven otherwise.
Hrm.. Nobody asked you. You didn't actually agree to anything. You don't like the business model and you have a way to opt out of it. Sounds kind of like tipping.
Just the fact that we are having this conversation means that no, it isn't clear. To me the intent is that the contact information is only required if the organizers want to contact the complainant for clarification on some point, not if the organizers are to take any action whatsoever.
Discovery used to be pretty good, maybe 15 years ago. Now it is all reality TV with fake drama to disguise the fact that the same things happen over and over. It went from being one of the best channels to one of the worst, or maybe it's just in the middle because most of the rest suck just as bad. I know I'm going to get backlash for being one of those guys, but I'll say it anyway: ditch your TV subscription and get your shows over the air and online. Yes, yes, I'll concede you may want satellite if you live out in the boonies because OTA is out of range and you can't get decent internet speeds.
I think you misunderstand when you say "vegetate" through life. I can see a whole culture forming around living in minimalist style. I know I would sign up for it. I can see the surfer, skier, mountain biker, camper, etc... cultures exploding. If I knew that no matter what, I could put food on the table and a roof over my head, and knowing I already have decent nest-egg, I'd likely quit the day after my first check. Or quit before, if that's what it takes to get it started. The question is whether we hit the tipping point where those still working can sustain those not working.
How is that right? Either it is everybody or nobody. You can't prohibit individuals from doing this if you allow mainstream media. BTW, I don't think you should legislate this anyway, freedom of speech and such.
Or you could just not let it connect to the internet by not giving it WiFi pass codes or plugging it in. I have found that has solved the bulk of the problems with my Samsung. I have a PC connected anyway as a DVR so I can get the Netflix/Hulu/Amazon stuff anyway.
So why not do what competent alarm companies do an create a third state called "fault" which indicates that there is a problem but not necessarily a break in? This is just a side effect of Comcast not being a security company but trying to be all things to all people and doing none of it well.
As bad as it is, I would take spreadsheets over word processing any day of the week. You could even teach Macros and VBA. I would think that there are some useful things that could come out of it.
I can't tell if you are a troll. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and explain it to you in a way you can hopefully understand. You see, the idea is that people who are going to commit a major crime like murder don't care how many laws they break. More legislation to deter crimes that are already illegal doesn't impact anyone except those that aren't a threat anyway. You see, the law suggested by the other poster would make something illegal that, in and of itself isn't a problem. The behavior they want to deter is already illegal, so additional laws aren't going to help solve the problem that they want to solve.
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he is thinking like a developer... wanting to get paid.
Wages are not the entire cost of doing business at a fast food restaurant. You have your fixed overhead (building, capital equipment, maintenance, utilities, etc.). Then you have your cost of materials, not just the raw food, but the cooking oil (which is generally more time based than use based), cleaning supplies, etc... So the cost to the consumer isn't as sensitive to the hourly wage as you state.
You miss the point entirely. The issue isn't what they can and can't afford. Why invest your own money when you can make someone else pay and you still reap the rewards (subscribers)? If there is money on the table, why would they leave it there? I don't blame ATT for this. Unless you are a holder of significant quantities of ATT stock, their job isn't to look out for your best interest. I blame the politicians for being corrupt and/or stupid enough to fall for it.
So you are saying that the CEO of a company really puts in 800x the effort? Where does he get time for that 32,000 hour work week and still find time to perfect his golf swing?
Why do people keep bringing this up? It isn't about effort. It is about how little they can pay to get someone who is perceived to have the capability they need. Do you think that the person who answers the level 1 help desk line and reads off a script should make as much as the network architect? What if they both work the same number of hours? Do you think that the person who images the new PCs that come in should make as much as the person who runs the data center? Once you concede that point, it is just a matter of degree.
Mission critical is a much lower burden than safety critical and even safety critical isn't developed with formal methods. Safety critical is developed with a more stringent process but nothing like that. The F-35 has something like 8 or 9 million SLOC. If it were required to develop everything on the F-35 with mathematical proof of correctness you wouldn't have 10% of the capability it has today.
Spending a bunch of money and making it look like we are making great progress in missile defense so that NK bankrupts itself trying to counter the counter measures? Aren't they already basically bankrupt?
My employer already has a notice on the lock screen about monitoring, but even if they didn't, anyone who has a device managed by their employer should assume it is being monitored unless proven otherwise.
Hrm.. Nobody asked you. You didn't actually agree to anything. You don't like the business model and you have a way to opt out of it. Sounds kind of like tipping.
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So it means they have better lawyers?
Just the fact that we are having this conversation means that no, it isn't clear. To me the intent is that the contact information is only required if the organizers want to contact the complainant for clarification on some point, not if the organizers are to take any action whatsoever.
Wouldn't we all be illegal aliens on Mars? I wouldn't even know where to get a visa if I wanted one.
Discovery used to be pretty good, maybe 15 years ago. Now it is all reality TV with fake drama to disguise the fact that the same things happen over and over. It went from being one of the best channels to one of the worst, or maybe it's just in the middle because most of the rest suck just as bad. I know I'm going to get backlash for being one of those guys, but I'll say it anyway: ditch your TV subscription and get your shows over the air and online. Yes, yes, I'll concede you may want satellite if you live out in the boonies because OTA is out of range and you can't get decent internet speeds.
And yet I still can't import a skyline and register it for the road.
Rothenburg characterized the Adblock Plus team as "operating a business model predicated on censorship of content."
As a consumer of content, I am allowed to pick the content I consume however I want. That isn't censorship.
I think you misunderstand when you say "vegetate" through life. I can see a whole culture forming around living in minimalist style. I know I would sign up for it. I can see the surfer, skier, mountain biker, camper, etc... cultures exploding. If I knew that no matter what, I could put food on the table and a roof over my head, and knowing I already have decent nest-egg, I'd likely quit the day after my first check. Or quit before, if that's what it takes to get it started. The question is whether we hit the tipping point where those still working can sustain those not working.
More people are bringing guns or the TSA is getting better at finding them?
And the Robots will be built in Korea and China
It doesn't matter what it costs. The people that buy Apple stuff will buy it anyway.
How is that right? Either it is everybody or nobody. You can't prohibit individuals from doing this if you allow mainstream media. BTW, I don't think you should legislate this anyway, freedom of speech and such.
Once you decide you don't need the "smart" features you disconnect it from the internet. That has solved my issues. I have a PC connected anyway.
Or you could just not let it connect to the internet by not giving it WiFi pass codes or plugging it in. I have found that has solved the bulk of the problems with my Samsung. I have a PC connected anyway as a DVR so I can get the Netflix/Hulu/Amazon stuff anyway.
Maybe they aren't the "sufficiently competent" ones he's talking about.
So why not do what competent alarm companies do an create a third state called "fault" which indicates that there is a problem but not necessarily a break in? This is just a side effect of Comcast not being a security company but trying to be all things to all people and doing none of it well.
As bad as it is, I would take spreadsheets over word processing any day of the week. You could even teach Macros and VBA. I would think that there are some useful things that could come out of it.
I can't tell if you are a troll. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and explain it to you in a way you can hopefully understand. You see, the idea is that people who are going to commit a major crime like murder don't care how many laws they break. More legislation to deter crimes that are already illegal doesn't impact anyone except those that aren't a threat anyway. You see, the law suggested by the other poster would make something illegal that, in and of itself isn't a problem. The behavior they want to deter is already illegal, so additional laws aren't going to help solve the problem that they want to solve.