Not any worse than all the other approaches. Around here they do not even make one sign anything. You go to the polling place, tell them your name and address, they look it up in the list, and if it is on the list you get to vote...and just maybe they cross off the right name. Just be faster to the poll station than the folks across town that you can look up in the phone book.
Just think how much money states spent on these machines that were built by companies that are far too close to the Republican party. Send all these electronic machines back to the vendors for a full refund and user paper ballots and a pen. Keep it simple, verifiable, and quite secure. Sure, it will take longer to count the votes, but I rather wait a day and get results anyone can trust than get results in an hour and question for years if they were accurate.
Good idea...but highlights the biggest issue with cord cutting: need to rely on OTA for local programming, which means often switching sources, installing an antenna. Maybe these is an Internet TV device that has a tuner in it for OTA programming so that it all gets packaged up nicely.
Working at IBM is not a bad thing. IBM will be around for another 15 years....unlike the gazillion startups that may offer good pay if you work 80 hours a week without a day off ever.
It is much harder to get a raise by resume than a raise by effort. Job hopping only shows that those folks are not interested in putting any effort in and only want to take without giving. Rather craptastic attitude! As far as businesses are concerned, hiring new people to replace others is a major expense and a huge risk. There is a lot of value in business continuity.
Yep..the fallout from Reagonomics. True American fashion is hire & fire, but now reversed by joining & quitting. Put it together and you have modern day gig economy where nobody commits to anything for any time and generally does not care what happens long term.
The grass is not always greener on the other side and this constant job hopping is a clear sign that folks lack commitment and stamina. As soon as there is a sign of trouble they just give up, quit, and run away. Of course there are reasons to quit, I have done it, but in my professional career spanning 20 years I worked for three companies.The first one I was at for over 6 years and only left after significant restructuring took place essentially eliminating all projects and the entire location soon after I left. The second job was short-lived with half a year but only because it was a research project and federal funding was cut after half a year (Bush needed money for wars). Since then I am for 10 years in my current job despite being offered opportunities elsewhere including management positions. I do not regret at all sticking with the company for this long. If I'd leave I had to rebuild my professional reputation at the new place, forgo most likely 5 weeks of paid time off, and hope to be successful at the new place. Sticking with my current job (and its short commute and work at home option and flexible work time and kick ass benefits) is also less risk having family and house. I am still one of the newer employees, many at my current work are with the company 15, 20, 30 years or longer, for many it is the first job out of college. Maybe they could have went somewhere else for a few bucks more or a mildly more exciting project, but recognizing a good thing is also a skill.
Actually, it is Reagan's fault. His economic policies were so massively destructive that the US lost the lead in many areas. Trump employing the same approach makes it only worse.
Where? The coal miners in PA who elected Trump are still waiting on getting their jobs back that Reagonomics eliminated. Maybe they stay naive and vote Trump again.
....that he is holding it wrong? US factories? That would cut into the piggish profit margin! Aside from that, Trump should make his clothing stuff in US factories first rather than rely on Chinese sweat shops....yes, yes, I know, he has no longer a say in Trump Enterprises *cough*
I guess it comes down to what one is used to, but I find the GIMP UI kinda awkward. There are some conventions in place where users expect items and commands to be located and there is really no good reason to break with such conventions.
Easy to use....not as easy as crusty old MS Paint. Even for more advanced stuff such as working with layers paint.net leaves a lot to be desired. The work can be done, but it is needlessly convoluted and complicated. I gave it a try and went back to the dino PSP6.
What is it with you guys and the Win key. Do I really need to buy a new keyboard so that I can circumvent the dysfunctional UI in Windows? And yes, I still have my Cherry keyboard from 30 years ago. Has a few scratch marks, but works as well as it did on the day I first used it. So why would I throw a perfectly good keyboard away? Same applies for my scanner, my inkjet, my SCSI controller, and a few other peripherals that Win 10 outright refuses to support. Apparently, we do not have enough e-waste. Win 10 is a croc.
Me, too. It is such a plain simple tool that works quite well for cropping a screen shot and doodling an arrow or box on it....although lately I use more and more Lightshot for that purpose.
Such boneheaded decisions will only cause the already insane pile of e-waste to grow even faster. If a Linux distro can run snappy on a 35$ Pi 3 then Windows should have no problem on an Intel Atom or older CPU. What the heck, now consumers have to spend extra just because Microsoft has thousands of utterly inept developers? Where are the lawmakers when we need them?
I think it is a dumb idea to punish folks for buying environmentally means of transportation that also improve personal health, but as long as it really is spent Dollar for Dollar on bike projects it is acceptable. We will see, if the money ends up in the general fund it is more likely to be spent on golf courses for rich people driving around in BMW cabrios.
To this day the recommendation is to dispose drugs by flushing them down the toilet. That is the dumbest idea ever! A lot of that stuff is difficult to get out of the water.
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If "government fix" means municipal fiber then definitely yes.
Not any worse than all the other approaches. Around here they do not even make one sign anything. You go to the polling place, tell them your name and address, they look it up in the list, and if it is on the list you get to vote...and just maybe they cross off the right name. Just be faster to the poll station than the folks across town that you can look up in the phone book.
Just think how much money states spent on these machines that were built by companies that are far too close to the Republican party. Send all these electronic machines back to the vendors for a full refund and user paper ballots and a pen. Keep it simple, verifiable, and quite secure. Sure, it will take longer to count the votes, but I rather wait a day and get results anyone can trust than get results in an hour and question for years if they were accurate.
Good idea...but highlights the biggest issue with cord cutting: need to rely on OTA for local programming, which means often switching sources, installing an antenna. Maybe these is an Internet TV device that has a tuner in it for OTA programming so that it all gets packaged up nicely.
Working at IBM is not a bad thing. IBM will be around for another 15 years....unlike the gazillion startups that may offer good pay if you work 80 hours a week without a day off ever.
It is much harder to get a raise by resume than a raise by effort. Job hopping only shows that those folks are not interested in putting any effort in and only want to take without giving. Rather craptastic attitude! As far as businesses are concerned, hiring new people to replace others is a major expense and a huge risk. There is a lot of value in business continuity.
Yep..the fallout from Reagonomics. True American fashion is hire & fire, but now reversed by joining & quitting. Put it together and you have modern day gig economy where nobody commits to anything for any time and generally does not care what happens long term.
The grass is not always greener on the other side and this constant job hopping is a clear sign that folks lack commitment and stamina. As soon as there is a sign of trouble they just give up, quit, and run away. Of course there are reasons to quit, I have done it, but in my professional career spanning 20 years I worked for three companies.The first one I was at for over 6 years and only left after significant restructuring took place essentially eliminating all projects and the entire location soon after I left. The second job was short-lived with half a year but only because it was a research project and federal funding was cut after half a year (Bush needed money for wars). Since then I am for 10 years in my current job despite being offered opportunities elsewhere including management positions. I do not regret at all sticking with the company for this long. If I'd leave I had to rebuild my professional reputation at the new place, forgo most likely 5 weeks of paid time off, and hope to be successful at the new place. Sticking with my current job (and its short commute and work at home option and flexible work time and kick ass benefits) is also less risk having family and house. I am still one of the newer employees, many at my current work are with the company 15, 20, 30 years or longer, for many it is the first job out of college. Maybe they could have went somewhere else for a few bucks more or a mildly more exciting project, but recognizing a good thing is also a skill.
Actually, it is Reagan's fault. His economic policies were so massively destructive that the US lost the lead in many areas. Trump employing the same approach makes it only worse.
The uneducated get added to the White House science staff or get a cushy job as Republican Senator. Having inherited rich like Trump does help.
Where? The coal miners in PA who elected Trump are still waiting on getting their jobs back that Reagonomics eliminated. Maybe they stay naive and vote Trump again.
That will be 799$ with a three year contract.
....that he is holding it wrong? US factories? That would cut into the piggish profit margin! Aside from that, Trump should make his clothing stuff in US factories first rather than rely on Chinese sweat shops....yes, yes, I know, he has no longer a say in Trump Enterprises *cough*
I guess it comes down to what one is used to, but I find the GIMP UI kinda awkward. There are some conventions in place where users expect items and commands to be located and there is really no good reason to break with such conventions.
Easy to use....not as easy as crusty old MS Paint. Even for more advanced stuff such as working with layers paint.net leaves a lot to be desired. The work can be done, but it is needlessly convoluted and complicated. I gave it a try and went back to the dino PSP6.
I've been suggesting to the Mozilla folks for years to make Thunderbird talk to an Exchange server. Instead, they canned Thunderbird.
What is it with you guys and the Win key. Do I really need to buy a new keyboard so that I can circumvent the dysfunctional UI in Windows? And yes, I still have my Cherry keyboard from 30 years ago. Has a few scratch marks, but works as well as it did on the day I first used it. So why would I throw a perfectly good keyboard away? Same applies for my scanner, my inkjet, my SCSI controller, and a few other peripherals that Win 10 outright refuses to support. Apparently, we do not have enough e-waste. Win 10 is a croc.
Plenty of people like primitive if it does the job. Look at craigslist!
Better...but also more complicated to use. The benefit of MS Paint or PaintShop Pro 6 is that they are drop dead easy to use.
Me, too. It is such a plain simple tool that works quite well for cropping a screen shot and doodling an arrow or box on it....although lately I use more and more Lightshot for that purpose.
....are leaving the sinking ship.
Such boneheaded decisions will only cause the already insane pile of e-waste to grow even faster. If a Linux distro can run snappy on a 35$ Pi 3 then Windows should have no problem on an Intel Atom or older CPU. What the heck, now consumers have to spend extra just because Microsoft has thousands of utterly inept developers? Where are the lawmakers when we need them?
Who else is working for the lowest of the lowest wages at his resorts, hotels, and vineyards?
I think it is a dumb idea to punish folks for buying environmentally means of transportation that also improve personal health, but as long as it really is spent Dollar for Dollar on bike projects it is acceptable. We will see, if the money ends up in the general fund it is more likely to be spent on golf courses for rich people driving around in BMW cabrios.
To this day the recommendation is to dispose drugs by flushing them down the toilet. That is the dumbest idea ever! A lot of that stuff is difficult to get out of the water.