That is the beauty of true evil: if you can rationalise it, maybe not for yourself, but for your staff and customers, that is half the battle of getting away with being evil.
Has it ever occurred to you that Facebook may care about connecting users, and still be evil?
Many places do it better. In the UK, it is quite common that you have to pay for your training if you leave immediately, and I have heard the same from Malaysia. Yes, training comes at a cost (both for the trainer and the trainee), and it needs to be worthwhile for the employer to pay that cost.
I always read these as "two years worth" of experience in C. If you learned in 6 months as much as a normal person would learn in 2 years, then you qualify.
And you need to be careful how you phrase it on the CV. You do not want to lie, at least not any more than you are forced to, but you also want to pass the weeding out stage.
That is the genius of Amazon. Everybody thought that internet shopping would undercut brick and mortar retailers, and that's what most companies tried. However, Amazon competes on service, not on price, because it turn out that the often cited "brick and mortar" service is not actually that great. And yes, Amazon is expensive, but for many people it is worth it just for the convenience and peace of mind.
Whether it works, we will see. But you have to compare the prices to corner stores, not to supermarkets.
Well, that was exactly the innovation. You do not need to clicks, you do not need no shopping basket. Just press the button [Buy] - and next morning you get a parcel.
You have to judge this from a mindset in 1995, when every e-commerce shop would have a complicated "basket" system, and involve many many clicks to order even a single item. The amazon approach was truly novel and truly revolutionary.
Was it a significant invention? Maybe not, but then again it was narrow enough to not impede progress. Competitors requiring two clicks - once to buy and once to confirm - has not killed anybody. Even that was a massive improvement over earlier systems.
The whole idea of mobile apps is that they are self contained. Using shared libraries (unless they are included in the OS) is the exact opposite of what people want. And if you think about Windows, it did start with shared DLLs, but nowadays it keeps a different version of the very same DLL available for each program, to prevent DLL hell.
Shared libraries only work if you have a single source, such as a Linux distribution. Otherwise they are more hassle than it is worth.
> 1) Plan your route using good quality maps - for that, you could even use google maps.
And that is the problem right there: good maps cost quite a bit, and compared to Google, they are all crap (for navigation): outdated, not detailed enough, and no idea of traffic. Google Maps easily beats the best map in the world. Does that mean Google Maps is the best map in the world? Not even close, but it is very good at what it is trying to do.
Which is very nice, but a compass does not work well in a car made from ferrous metal.
A sense of direction is an instinct, you either have it, or you don't. I have used a smartphone for 10 years now to navigate, and I still use the map on the screen as a mental model to be applied to reality. That means you need to figure out where North is, what the map is showing you, and how it applies to the streets in front of you. Nothing has really changed from a paper map, except that you can zoom now.
And there is the blue arrow for your position. Somehow my paper map never had that.
To me it seems like a good idea. Memory really should not be the issue for a mid range smartphone anymore. And having two partitions means you can go back after a failed update. That alone should be worth sacrificing the storage.
Of course Windows achieves pretty much the same effect without permanently wasting the extra storage.
Yes, but I guess this case is different. Do you really think that a judge will award you compensation if you drive into a speed bum at full speed? It sounds stupid, and it is stupid.
In fact all alkaline batteries are rechargeable at least a few times, although it may not be entirely safe to do so.
There are two problems with these batteries: they deteriorate faster than other rechargeable batteries, and the energy density is lower than the current Li-Ion batteries.
Indeed. The whole mantra that "you should run AV" is BS, because they offer preciously little protection anyway. But at least MSE does not get in the way.
And of course every proper American will accept this responsibility and have their glasses tested scientifically (instead of the government just testing a sample). Seems reasonable to me.
Let people arrive 30 minutes before the flight, and get them out within 15 minutes within landing. Nothing more than snail pace speed require, no supersonic NASA stuff.
Yes, I remember running Slackware in late 1993. It was a great start to the Linux universe, excellent for geeks, and it did work quite well from floppy disks (the install medium of choice back then). Maybe it was not the most user friendly distribution, but I will always remember it fondly.
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That is the beauty of true evil: if you can rationalise it, maybe not for yourself, but for your staff and customers, that is half the battle of getting away with being evil.
Has it ever occurred to you that Facebook may care about connecting users, and still be evil?
Many places do it better. In the UK, it is quite common that you have to pay for your training if you leave immediately, and I have heard the same from Malaysia. Yes, training comes at a cost (both for the trainer and the trainee), and it needs to be worthwhile for the employer to pay that cost.
I always read these as "two years worth" of experience in C. If you learned in 6 months as much as a normal person would learn in 2 years, then you qualify.
And you need to be careful how you phrase it on the CV. You do not want to lie, at least not any more than you are forced to, but you also want to pass the weeding out stage.
"Do the right thing" (for Google).
That is the genius of Amazon. Everybody thought that internet shopping would undercut brick and mortar retailers, and that's what most companies tried. However, Amazon competes on service, not on price, because it turn out that the often cited "brick and mortar" service is not actually that great. And yes, Amazon is expensive, but for many people it is worth it just for the convenience and peace of mind.
Whether it works, we will see. But you have to compare the prices to corner stores, not to supermarkets.
Midlife crisis, anyone?
Well, that was exactly the innovation. You do not need to clicks, you do not need no shopping basket. Just press the button [Buy] - and next morning you get a parcel.
You have to judge this from a mindset in 1995, when every e-commerce shop would have a complicated "basket" system, and involve many many clicks to order even a single item. The amazon approach was truly novel and truly revolutionary.
Was it a significant invention? Maybe not, but then again it was narrow enough to not impede progress. Competitors requiring two clicks - once to buy and once to confirm - has not killed anybody. Even that was a massive improvement over earlier systems.
Yes, and this is why Slashdot is even worse than best of lists.
The whole idea of mobile apps is that they are self contained. Using shared libraries (unless they are included in the OS) is the exact opposite of what people want. And if you think about Windows, it did start with shared DLLs, but nowadays it keeps a different version of the very same DLL available for each program, to prevent DLL hell.
Shared libraries only work if you have a single source, such as a Linux distribution. Otherwise they are more hassle than it is worth.
They did get caught for it, so why should we trust them not to do it in the future?
> 1) Plan your route using good quality maps - for that, you could even use google maps.
And that is the problem right there: good maps cost quite a bit, and compared to Google, they are all crap (for navigation): outdated, not detailed enough, and no idea of traffic. Google Maps easily beats the best map in the world. Does that mean Google Maps is the best map in the world? Not even close, but it is very good at what it is trying to do.
Which is very nice, but a compass does not work well in a car made from ferrous metal.
A sense of direction is an instinct, you either have it, or you don't. I have used a smartphone for 10 years now to navigate, and I still use the map on the screen as a mental model to be applied to reality. That means you need to figure out where North is, what the map is showing you, and how it applies to the streets in front of you. Nothing has really changed from a paper map, except that you can zoom now.
And there is the blue arrow for your position. Somehow my paper map never had that.
To me it seems like a good idea. Memory really should not be the issue for a mid range smartphone anymore. And having two partitions means you can go back after a failed update. That alone should be worth sacrificing the storage.
Of course Windows achieves pretty much the same effect without permanently wasting the extra storage.
Yes, but I guess this case is different. Do you really think that a judge will award you compensation if you drive into a speed bum at full speed? It sounds stupid, and it is stupid.
Rechargeable alkaline batteries are pretty well established. You can even by them in a shop:
https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/map...
In fact all alkaline batteries are rechargeable at least a few times, although it may not be entirely safe to do so.
There are two problems with these batteries: they deteriorate faster than other rechargeable batteries, and the energy density is lower than the current Li-Ion batteries.
Now the key question is: is the Home Secretary a Real Person?
Does that include such classics as "loitering" and "walking while black"?
Indeed. The whole mantra that "you should run AV" is BS, because they offer preciously little protection anyway. But at least MSE does not get in the way.
And of course every proper American will accept this responsibility and have their glasses tested scientifically (instead of the government just testing a sample). Seems reasonable to me.
You can always work at Walmart...
Let people arrive 30 minutes before the flight, and get them out within 15 minutes within landing. Nothing more than snail pace speed require, no supersonic NASA stuff.
Proper journalism is less profitable than click bait, and therefore not well represented on Slashdot.
Yes, I remember running Slackware in late 1993. It was a great start to the Linux universe, excellent for geeks, and it did work quite well from floppy disks (the install medium of choice back then). Maybe it was not the most user friendly distribution, but I will always remember it fondly.
And they will get fined again, because they keep pushing IE beyond what is acceptable.