A living wage is not the same as minimum wage, it is an idea that has been around in the UK for some time. What is the living wage depends on all sorts of things, one of which is where you live. London is the most expensive place in England at £10.20 (== $13.30), so Amazon's $15 is OK (which I found surprising).
next to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, will Trump have any of the concern of the effect of mercury on Barron ? Maybe he will pronounce the reported effects of mercury on children as fake news.
I wish Barron no harm at all. But what is good enough for the rest of us should also be good enough for him.
as it could then point to more competitors and try to avoid some of the anti-trust actions that it will soon face. OK: Bing, Yahoo do compete but they are big players as well. Having a small competitor will let them claim to not be an oligopoly that squeeze out the small guys.
This is exactly why I will not use a cloud service for something vital like this. Yes: it might be cheaper, more convenient, need less administration,... but if it suddenly goes away and you cannot access your documents -- how much of a business do you have left ? Most of the large vendors seem to be pushing cloud solutions... I fear a meltdown sometime, not all of it, but enough to badly damage some companies.
So: run your own core IT servers, do your own backups, etc. Be safe.
I am coming from the perspective of abuse of collection/collation (they know things about us that we do not know that they know) and then how they use that data (often to someone else's advantage). These are aspects of privacy, but more than is generally understood by the term 'privacy'.
The audit would need to be carried out by people who are: trusted, independent and not bribeable (I wish). Their audits should be made public. The audit could mean one or more of:
* the database schemas. This will tell us what kind of things that they hold and how they link/relate the data items. (I am aware that much of it is not in SQL type databases)
* the data itself. Have a look at some sample of the data about some people; maybe some statistics (eg how many people, how many items/person, how much financial info,...)
* how they get this data; maybe from their own servers, maybe from other organisations.
* how this data is used internally by Google/Facebook/...
* how this data is shared with other organisations, how often,...
Once we know this we might be in a position to decide what we do with these Internet giants.
I do care what things are called. Names should clearly convey meaning, which is the case of master/slave means that one gives the commands that the other obeys. Many of the alternatives suggested here can be ambiguous, eg: primary/secondary -- which, to me, suggests that the secondary takes over if the primary fails. We should also use words that can be looked up in a dictionary (and have clear/unambiguous translation) by someone who's first language is not English.
as Agricultural Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major and I thought "good, those are the people who are good for humanity, those who help to feed us and can help those in the third world." Then I realised that it was Actuarial, which I'm surprised is even called a science. Yes: it helps understand risk, but that is not as useful as helping to grow crops.
Also valuable meant high earning for the graduate, not really useful for humanity. But I have to accept that those who are of most benefit to society are not those who are most rewarded: look at the difference in pay of a scientist and a stockbroker - only one really does much good for most of us.
The mandatory acceptance of trade unions at these companies is one way of stopping this. As long as workers act as individuals they can be picked off one by one; if they can organise collectively they you can have equal forces. I know that many do not like this, but without unions you have the large forcing the small.
Giving percentage numbers without saying what fraction of the American population were using it in the first place gives misleading numbers. One estimate is 68%, so about 1/3 did not use Facebook anyway.
50 years ago most of my peers borrowed records (12" vinyl) and copied them to cassette tapes. The music industry complained but did not go bust. Youtube ripping is just today's copying to cassette. I agree that it is breaking copyright but it won't kill them, indeed it may be that Piracy Can Help Music Sales of Many Artists, Research Shows.
If these things succeed in being sold in volume - then yes, Crysis other games & programs will be ported to it. Corporations do things for the money, not the ideology. A port to Chromebook would make a port to other Linux easy, so we might see a flourishing of new stuff available on Linux. A Chromebook is ideal for many users, they 'consume' the web, generate little other than email/facebook/twitter/... posts -- thus they don't need something where typing is good.
Microsoft will try to kill it; offer incentives, eg: reduced/zero app store fee if they don't sell the Chromebook port.
many years ago South Africa was boycotted by many sports teams due to apartheid. There was a huge row: some said that this would punish South Africa; others said that sending Sports people would make more people aware of the issues and so help bring about change. Similar things have happened with other countries.
So the debate here is: should we punish China by keeping Google out or does Google being there help the Chinese people's political awareness/... by letting them see more from the outside world (even if it is filtered) ? I am not qualified to answer that question.
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A living wage is not the same as minimum wage, it is an idea that has been around in the UK for some time. What is the living wage depends on all sorts of things, one of which is where you live. London is the most expensive place in England at £10.20 (== $13.30), so Amazon's $15 is OK (which I found surprising).
In an ideal world ... maybe. In our world: "what would the shareholders think of us paying someone who did us some good for free ?"
a patent troll magics up some patent relating to AV1 ?
next to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, will Trump have any of the concern of the effect of mercury on Barron ? Maybe he will pronounce the reported effects of mercury on children as fake news.
I wish Barron no harm at all. But what is good enough for the rest of us should also be good enough for him.
as it could then point to more competitors and try to avoid some of the anti-trust actions that it will soon face. OK: Bing, Yahoo do compete but they are big players as well. Having a small competitor will let them claim to not be an oligopoly that squeeze out the small guys.
This is exactly why I will not use a cloud service for something vital like this. Yes: it might be cheaper, more convenient, need less administration, ... but if it suddenly goes away and you cannot access your documents -- how much of a business do you have left ? Most of the large vendors seem to be pushing cloud solutions ... I fear a meltdown sometime, not all of it, but enough to badly damage some companies.
So: run your own core IT servers, do your own backups, etc. Be safe.
I am coming from the perspective of abuse of collection/collation (they know things about us that we do not know that they know) and then how they use that data (often to someone else's advantage). These are aspects of privacy, but more than is generally understood by the term 'privacy'.
The audit would need to be carried out by people who are: trusted, independent and not bribeable (I wish). Their audits should be made public. The audit could mean one or more of:
Once we know this we might be in a position to decide what we do with these Internet giants.
I do care what things are called. Names should clearly convey meaning, which is the case of master/slave means that one gives the commands that the other obeys. Many of the alternatives suggested here can be ambiguous, eg: primary/secondary -- which, to me, suggests that the secondary takes over if the primary fails. We should also use words that can be looked up in a dictionary (and have clear/unambiguous translation) by someone who's first language is not English.
It is more the researcher/developer of new irrigation-systems/crop types/fertilisers/... that I had in mind than the farmer when I read college major
as Agricultural Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major and I thought "good, those are the people who are good for humanity, those who help to feed us and can help those in the third world." Then I realised that it was Actuarial, which I'm surprised is even called a science. Yes: it helps understand risk, but that is not as useful as helping to grow crops.
Also valuable meant high earning for the graduate, not really useful for humanity. But I have to accept that those who are of most benefit to society are not those who are most rewarded: look at the difference in pay of a scientist and a stockbroker - only one really does much good for most of us.
a cool project :-)
other than allow you to buy stuff at one of these stores. Does is: track your location; upload your contacts; ... ie generally abuse your privacy ?
It seems that we don't know if he will be dead or alive when we learn if quantum computing will or will not work! :-)
Where do I claim my prize ?
Here is a real time G.B. National Grid Status, shows that wind is 15% (as I type).
is he still with his partner who's dress he trod on ?
The mandatory acceptance of trade unions at these companies is one way of stopping this. As long as workers act as individuals they can be picked off one by one; if they can organise collectively they you can have equal forces. I know that many do not like this, but without unions you have the large forcing the small.
Giving percentage numbers without saying what fraction of the American population were using it in the first place gives misleading numbers. One estimate is 68%, so about 1/3 did not use Facebook anyway.
Consider atmospheric absorption, ...
If you have one of these trying to look at you: set of a few smoke bombs, the drone's cameras won't be able to see and it will soon power down.
50 years ago most of my peers borrowed records (12" vinyl) and copied them to cassette tapes. The music industry complained but did not go bust. Youtube ripping is just today's copying to cassette. I agree that it is breaking copyright but it won't kill them, indeed it may be that Piracy Can Help Music Sales of Many Artists, Research Shows.
If these things succeed in being sold in volume - then yes, Crysis other games & programs will be ported to it. Corporations do things for the money, not the ideology. A port to Chromebook would make a port to other Linux easy, so we might see a flourishing of new stuff available on Linux. A Chromebook is ideal for many users, they 'consume' the web, generate little other than email/facebook/twitter/... posts -- thus they don't need something where typing is good.
Microsoft will try to kill it; offer incentives, eg: reduced/zero app store fee if they don't sell the Chromebook port.
Why can't the authorities just ask Facebook for all private communications as part of the investigation?
They are, it just takes a lot of time. The BBC article says:
Now I get adverts almost everywhere, and they're trying to sell me... you guessed it... a dress.
and I am sure that you would look very pretty in it :-)
Especially so in Europe where the GDPR clearly forbids opt-out.
many years ago South Africa was boycotted by many sports teams due to apartheid. There was a huge row: some said that this would punish South Africa; others said that sending Sports people would make more people aware of the issues and so help bring about change. Similar things have happened with other countries.
So the debate here is: should we punish China by keeping Google out or does Google being there help the Chinese people's political awareness/... by letting them see more from the outside world (even if it is filtered) ? I am not qualified to answer that question.