I got a laugh this morning watching NBC's morning show. Some reporter was talking about how some of these devices were embedded in USB cables. "Like these," he said, as he held up a RJ-45 ethernet cable.:-)
When I was in college in the early 90's, a lot of us would cut tobacco for local farmers during the summer. It was hard work, but it paid damn well for the time ($7/hr. in cash at a time when minimum wage was still $4.25). A few years later I went back and was talking to some old friends from the area and I asked them if they still cut during the summers. They told me that the farmers had started bringing in illegals for $4-$5 an hour, basically the same as minimum wage (by then up to over $5 an hour) and so the locals no longer bothered (it paid just as well to work much easier jobs).
Now, I'm sure those farmers, if asked, would have been happy to tell the government "We just can't find Americans willing to do the work." But what they really MEANT was "We just can't find Americans to do the work AT THIS WAGE." There were plenty of Americans willing to do the work when the farmers paid a decent wage (I was one of them). But when the illegals came in, it artificially drove down the wages to the point where Americans were simply driven out. No legal citizen was going to do such tough, nasty work for the same wage they could get working anywhere else.
Citizens have all these pesky rights to quit, ask for raises, etc. that you don't have to worry about when you're employing someone who knows they're going to get booted out of the country if they don't do exactly what you tell them to do.
Training them to get government cheese would probably be more useful than teaching them programming. At least then it wouldn't get their hopes up that there are actual jobs awaiting them at the end. It's my experience that most advertised IT jobs these days are just mirage jobs. They're posted for legal reasons and so that tech companies can run to Congress and say "Look at all these jobs we can't fill! We need more H1-B visas!" But if you actually waste your time trying to GET one of those jobs, you'll find that they're as fake and inaccessible as a closed movie set.
And even the jobs that ARE real have their wages kept artificially low by all the H1B's. And god help you trying to get anything these days in programming if you're over 35 (only hip kids can code, I guess).
"We must keep American wages artificially low!" Bill Gates told the kids. "Yes, by bringing back indentured servitude we will pave the way for a bright future!" said Tim Cook. "Jobs for everyone (from India and China)!!" said Melissa Mayer
No, they'll just gouge Netflix for a lot of money that could have been spent on content for us subscribers. The result is that the content cuts we've already started to see at Netflix will likely continue and get even worse.
I have exactly two options. AT&T (whose fastest speed in my area, last time I checked, was 6mbps) and Comcast, which is my only option for anything over 6mpbs.
One of the many things that impressed me about Wargames (aside from showing social engineering and the actual hard work and research going into a serious hack) was that David could type fast, as you would expect from someone who spends all his time on a command-line computer. It's just one of those many little details that made that movie so impressive, and still makes it fun to watch even 30 years later.
My favorite is when cracking/hacking is shown to be ridiculously easy. As in: leet hacker guy types a few characters and clicks this one thing...and.....WE'RE IN!
I haven't actually tried one, and so fair enough. Maybe it's a perception problem more than anything else. People see the controller (especially parents looking to buy it for their kids) and are intimidated by it--kind of the exact opposite of the Wii controller, which was so simple.
Creating a unfalsifiable hypotheses and then denigrating anyone who questions you for it isn't science. You're nothing more than a obfuscated religious zealot, hiding behind pseudo-science.
Presumably, people who don't believe that weather events should be used as evidence of climate change (and especially not picking and choosing said events) or that unfalsifiable hypotheses should have any role in real science.
It just looks unwieldy to me. I mean, I have big hands and generally like a bigger controller (I like the 360 controller over the PS3 controller, for example), but even I have to balk at the Wii U controller. To me it looks even more uncomfortable than the old Dreamcast controller.
Sometimes you just have to wonder wtf they're thinking in Redmond. They make decisions so bone-headed sometimes that you wonder what world they're living in and if they even have any contact with the one the rest of us are in. You design an OS clearly intended exclusively for touchscreens, long before desktop touchscreen monitors are even common or it's even clear that they will EVER catch on for the desktop PC, and then you wonder why people don't like it?? Seriously??
It's even worse on the Xbox front, IMHO. I was a pretty diehard Xbox fanboy for the Xbox1 and 360. But in the last few years they've managed to drive even me away to the point where I bought a PS4 this time out. I often wonder if they're actively TRYING to drive fans like me away, because it sure seems like it. That whole E3 press conference last year couldn't have been a bigger "Fuck you!" to fans of the 360. It's a pretty impressive feat to make Sony seem like the more consumer-friendly option, but damned if they didn't find a way!
Since you seem to think that these weather extremes are evidence for global warming, is mild weather contradictory evidence (if we have a mild winter or summer, for example)? And if not, then can *any* weather evidence *possibly* ever exist to contradict your argument? If the answer is "No," then that's not science. It's religion.
If you're referring to the polar vortex, it actually does "jibe with the narrative"
See the second paragraph. If you're going to claim that *every* extreme weather events supports your warming narrative, you're already on shaky ground. If you combine that with the fact that you refuse to accept mild weather as contradictory evidence, now you're moving into a faith-based, rather than scientific, realm. You've set up a scenario where there is no possible evidence that can ever contradict your hypothesis.
If you're going to cite weather as evidence of global warming, then you have to be willing to accept contradictory weather evidence as well (or at least accept that such evidence COULD exist). Personally, I agree with the GP that citing individual weather events for evidence of global warming is VERY ill-advised and scientifically suspect. But if you *must*, then you can't have it both ways.
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I got a laugh this morning watching NBC's morning show. Some reporter was talking about how some of these devices were embedded in USB cables. "Like these," he said, as he held up a RJ-45 ethernet cable. :-)
When I was in college in the early 90's, a lot of us would cut tobacco for local farmers during the summer. It was hard work, but it paid damn well for the time ($7/hr. in cash at a time when minimum wage was still $4.25). A few years later I went back and was talking to some old friends from the area and I asked them if they still cut during the summers. They told me that the farmers had started bringing in illegals for $4-$5 an hour, basically the same as minimum wage (by then up to over $5 an hour) and so the locals no longer bothered (it paid just as well to work much easier jobs).
Now, I'm sure those farmers, if asked, would have been happy to tell the government "We just can't find Americans willing to do the work." But what they really MEANT was "We just can't find Americans to do the work AT THIS WAGE." There were plenty of Americans willing to do the work when the farmers paid a decent wage (I was one of them). But when the illegals came in, it artificially drove down the wages to the point where Americans were simply driven out. No legal citizen was going to do such tough, nasty work for the same wage they could get working anywhere else.
If movies are any indication, there is always some clue or connection that will hit you just as you are right on the verge of giving up.
Looks great from the ad, but the closer you get, the more you see it's not real.
Citizens have all these pesky rights to quit, ask for raises, etc. that you don't have to worry about when you're employing someone who knows they're going to get booted out of the country if they don't do exactly what you tell them to do.
Visas have nothing what so ever to do with the academic success of American kids. Nothing.
No, but they DO have something very much to do with your chances of getting a job when you leave academia, and the wages you're going to make.
Training them to get government cheese would probably be more useful than teaching them programming. At least then it wouldn't get their hopes up that there are actual jobs awaiting them at the end. It's my experience that most advertised IT jobs these days are just mirage jobs. They're posted for legal reasons and so that tech companies can run to Congress and say "Look at all these jobs we can't fill! We need more H1-B visas!" But if you actually waste your time trying to GET one of those jobs, you'll find that they're as fake and inaccessible as a closed movie set.
And even the jobs that ARE real have their wages kept artificially low by all the H1B's. And god help you trying to get anything these days in programming if you're over 35 (only hip kids can code, I guess).
"We must keep American wages artificially low!" Bill Gates told the kids. "Yes, by bringing back indentured servitude we will pave the way for a bright future!" said Tim Cook. "Jobs for everyone (from India and China)!!" said Melissa Mayer
Rapid delivery of lots of money into giant contracting company's pockets.
No, they'll just gouge Netflix for a lot of money that could have been spent on content for us subscribers. The result is that the content cuts we've already started to see at Netflix will likely continue and get even worse.
I have exactly two options. AT&T (whose fastest speed in my area, last time I checked, was 6mbps) and Comcast, which is my only option for anything over 6mpbs.
So yeah, whole lotta competition to choose from.
Hello AOL days again.
One of the many things that impressed me about Wargames (aside from showing social engineering and the actual hard work and research going into a serious hack) was that David could type fast, as you would expect from someone who spends all his time on a command-line computer. It's just one of those many little details that made that movie so impressive, and still makes it fun to watch even 30 years later.
My favorite is when cracking/hacking is shown to be ridiculously easy. As in: leet hacker guy types a few characters and clicks this one thing...and.....WE'RE IN!
I haven't actually tried one, and so fair enough. Maybe it's a perception problem more than anything else. People see the controller (especially parents looking to buy it for their kids) and are intimidated by it--kind of the exact opposite of the Wii controller, which was so simple.
Creating a unfalsifiable hypotheses and then denigrating anyone who questions you for it isn't science. You're nothing more than a obfuscated religious zealot, hiding behind pseudo-science.
Who modded this insightful????
Presumably, people who don't believe that weather events should be used as evidence of climate change (and especially not picking and choosing said events) or that unfalsifiable hypotheses should have any role in real science.
Apparently there is money to be made at doing it, or presumably they wouldn't.
It just looks unwieldy to me. I mean, I have big hands and generally like a bigger controller (I like the 360 controller over the PS3 controller, for example), but even I have to balk at the Wii U controller. To me it looks even more uncomfortable than the old Dreamcast controller.
Based on EA's comments earlier last year, I'm surprised they even still HAVE third-party developers.
Yeah, but upgrading the system costs money, which cuts into executive bonuses. And the CEO was REALLY wanting that mansion in the Alps this year.
Sometimes you just have to wonder wtf they're thinking in Redmond. They make decisions so bone-headed sometimes that you wonder what world they're living in and if they even have any contact with the one the rest of us are in. You design an OS clearly intended exclusively for touchscreens, long before desktop touchscreen monitors are even common or it's even clear that they will EVER catch on for the desktop PC, and then you wonder why people don't like it?? Seriously??
It's even worse on the Xbox front, IMHO. I was a pretty diehard Xbox fanboy for the Xbox1 and 360. But in the last few years they've managed to drive even me away to the point where I bought a PS4 this time out. I often wonder if they're actively TRYING to drive fans like me away, because it sure seems like it. That whole E3 press conference last year couldn't have been a bigger "Fuck you!" to fans of the 360. It's a pretty impressive feat to make Sony seem like the more consumer-friendly option, but damned if they didn't find a way!
A pimp doesn't pay his bitches.
Since you seem to think that these weather extremes are evidence for global warming, is mild weather contradictory evidence (if we have a mild winter or summer, for example)? And if not, then can *any* weather evidence *possibly* ever exist to contradict your argument? If the answer is "No," then that's not science. It's religion.
If you're referring to the polar vortex, it actually does "jibe with the narrative"
See the second paragraph. If you're going to claim that *every* extreme weather events supports your warming narrative, you're already on shaky ground. If you combine that with the fact that you refuse to accept mild weather as contradictory evidence, now you're moving into a faith-based, rather than scientific, realm. You've set up a scenario where there is no possible evidence that can ever contradict your hypothesis.
If you're going to cite weather as evidence of global warming, then you have to be willing to accept contradictory weather evidence as well (or at least accept that such evidence COULD exist). Personally, I agree with the GP that citing individual weather events for evidence of global warming is VERY ill-advised and scientifically suspect. But if you *must*, then you can't have it both ways.