Agile is perfect for those who cannot decide and won't commit. They can push decisions to the next iteration, call it agile and iterative, and never have to decide anything...and never get anything done. Other bad aspect of Agile is that many misread the manifesto and determined that it means "no documentation". I work in a supposedly agile dev team and I haven't seen a written requirement or any acceptance criteria in years. Devs just start building a ton of disjointed stuff that they have to rework later with great effort. It is baffling that we are still successful with this utter chaos.
Next best option is "thermal recycling" for power generation. That way it doesn't totally go to waste, but filthier coal is preferred. Luckily for the US, the recycling quotas are dismally low compared to Europe.
One of the biggest contributors to suicide is the easy access to guns, which are the prime tool for this purpose. Countries who have far stricter gun control also have a significantly lower suicide rate. OK, they also tend to have far better medical care for mental illness, but neither is a fact folks in the US want to hear. So stop being upset about high suicide rates and mass shootings.Most apparently do not want it any other way.
Even if it is encrypted, I bet in cloud data centers around the world folks are pulling drives and copy the content down, then have all the time they need to decrypt it. If you do not want others to get their paws on your data then don't put it in the cloud.
Well yea, but by the time they take a look it is gone. Maybe they put a battery backed up GPS and a pressure sensor in the can. That will tell them immediately if the can moves more than expected.
Invest into businesses in Mexico and other countries so that the folks there get decent jobs that secure their outcome and generate a decent standard of living. That will be far cheaper than any border wall or facial recognition or other high tech toys.None of those who risk their lives coming to the US do that just for fun. If they no longer see a need to leave their home country the issue will mostly be resolved. It will also make it less likely that people see a career in the narcos as a viable path. I bet anyone would rather glue cars together than be constantly on the run.
The president gets elected. If anyone is to blame then it is those who voted for him and especially those who still think he does a good job. With extent also those who voted the current majority into Congress that consists only of yesmen, inepts, and spineless lap dogs that fold like cheap tents. Congress currently fails miserably at being a counterbalance and a place of control. Worse even that they wave through clearly unqualified secretaries and judges that will damage the nation for decades to come.
Have you seen the votes in Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Russia (hard to call that even a vote). Those who won are all acting directly against the interest of most in their country. Only very few are happy to gain unrestricted power and cash flows.
Laws are in place, but enforcing them is close to impossible. There are so many robocallers who operate VoIP calls from outside the US. With nationwide unlimited plans common making 10,000 calls a day is no extra cost. Phone number spoofing makes things even more difficult, because folks think it is a local call and the robocallers can easily disguise their origin. This has nothing to do with free speech. It all has to do with the fact that it is dirt cheap to annoy thousand people and have a a few dozen of them fall for the scam. Rinse and repeat. The fix for this is rather unpopular: start charging for each connection made. Once it will cost 5 cents or so for making the phone on the other end ring (no charge for reaching a busy line) the issue of robocalls goes away.
Another aspect is that people like asynchronous communications. That is why email is still widely popular and messaging services retain messages until they are read. We typically have other things to do than jump on a conversation that someone else wants to have right now. Being more and more in less than private environments can also play a role. Does anyone really want to discuss medical issues or financial plans in an open office setting?
Hmmm...iPhone....not much better than Android phones, but significantly more expensive and backed by a company that intentionally obsoletes perfectly working devices. In the end it matters only which kind of poison your prefer. I use a few Nexus tablets and even when they came out they were not better or worse than then non-Google branded devices. Best Android tablet so far that I used is the nVidia Shield...except that they should have spent a few cents more on build quality. I work with iPads and iPhones as well. While they have a few benefits, the UI is clunky and everything about it is grossly overpriced.
The "right" agrees with many provisions in Obamacare when asked. Still, they oppose Obamacare because in their mind not invented here = bad. Trump is the poster boy for unrestricted capitalism. This implies that bothering with the welfare of minions is not on their mind. For Trump things are great when it makes him money, if he is in the center of it all, and when he is made to look good....and of course, when it does not interfere with his weekly multimillion Dollar golf trips to Florida. How's that for good use of tax Dollars? Send the bill to those morons who voted him into office, but don't put your hopes up too high, they are still waiting to get their jobs back that Reaganomics took away from them in the 80s.
We can blast and bash Trump as much as we want, but it is OUR FAILURE that he is still in office and has a Congress that just does anything to please him. Quoting Adenauer: "Every nation gets the government it deserves." I'm not suggesting that you write to your representatives in Congress, start talking to those people who still think Trump is doing a great job. These people are the real danger.
There are plenty of German EV companies that offer their models in this price range or below. Examples are the Smart ED, VW e-UP, e.GO Life, Sono Sion.... Their problem is that they do not have a CEO that has the capability to get stocks red hot based on promises and vapor....or shooting a car past Mars.
"rediculously"???
I find it odd that Tesla bought an already equipped factory that is capable of cranking out 50,000 vehicles a month. The previous operator built 40,000 vehicles each month. How come that Tesla cannot get anywhere near that number? The demand is there and more sales will stop Tesla from bleeding cash. Leaves only one cause: utter ineptitude. Tesla is like Apple, great in hype and design, totally clueless on execution.
Did this, doesn't help. I had some success using sconfig to get and install updates, but there is 0 feedback and it still takes hours to complete, but at least it works. Using the GUI constantly ends up in some cryptic error and a Retry button. Reboots don't do much either. What works at times is to wait four to five days with the Retry screen up. I had it complete the updates on its own. Still, this should not take longer than 10 minutes and no matter what the update is have be applied without requiring a reboot. Linux can do it.
McD in Germany has reusable utensils for dine in. Works fine there. I guess in the US it will be a problem because folks are too dumb or lazy to separate it properly and then throw it all in the trash.
They can still provide forks, but what is wrong with providing metal forks for dine in? For take home bring/have your own fork. I have a cheap set at work and in my car. Comes in handy and far less wasteful and trashy than this plastic crap than snaps in half on first use anyway.
Sensodyne? I guess you tried it. Still, while I feel for you, it is no reason to continue with generating absolutely unnecessary plastic waste. Worst are these foam cups from the coffee and donut chains. Or soda cups with plastic lids that then require the use of a plastic straw....why? The EU commission's proposal is the right way to go and long overdue.
Air conditioning is not a luxury, crappy insulation is! Look at most of the buildings in the US and they are badly insulated if at all. Also does not help that even new construction is using popsicle sticks and office supplies. Brick fares much better to keep buildings cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
While there is something to this argument, the issue is far older than the current regime. Core problem is the lack of competition. In most places you are lucky if there is more than one provider. I do not know of places where there are more than three. Real competition starts when there are five or more providers who have to work hard for customers to stick with them. If the choice is at best the other guys who do far worse then there is no improvement and due to lack of choice no customer loss. The US has freakishly expensive and rather craptastically slow and unreliable Internet service compared to other industrialized countries. Also does not help that the infrastructure of the last mile is very susceptible to environmental impacts. Nailing the lines to poles like Edison did is not the way to go.
What would help is for the clothing industry to stick to proper clothing sizes. I have shirts ranging from medium to extra large...and they are all the same size!
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Agile is perfect for those who cannot decide and won't commit. They can push decisions to the next iteration, call it agile and iterative, and never have to decide anything...and never get anything done. Other bad aspect of Agile is that many misread the manifesto and determined that it means "no documentation". I work in a supposedly agile dev team and I haven't seen a written requirement or any acceptance criteria in years. Devs just start building a ton of disjointed stuff that they have to rework later with great effort. It is baffling that we are still successful with this utter chaos.
Next best option is "thermal recycling" for power generation. That way it doesn't totally go to waste, but filthier coal is preferred. Luckily for the US, the recycling quotas are dismally low compared to Europe.
One of the biggest contributors to suicide is the easy access to guns, which are the prime tool for this purpose. Countries who have far stricter gun control also have a significantly lower suicide rate. OK, they also tend to have far better medical care for mental illness, but neither is a fact folks in the US want to hear. So stop being upset about high suicide rates and mass shootings.Most apparently do not want it any other way.
Sugarmountain has apparently not learned a thing from the CA blowup. No wonder, peddling personal data is the core business model of FB.
Even if it is encrypted, I bet in cloud data centers around the world folks are pulling drives and copy the content down, then have all the time they need to decrypt it. If you do not want others to get their paws on your data then don't put it in the cloud.
That is too European of an idea for a US company.
Well yea, but by the time they take a look it is gone. Maybe they put a battery backed up GPS and a pressure sensor in the can. That will tell them immediately if the can moves more than expected.
All it needs is an anchor dragged across the cable. I hope this flops, the oceans are already heating up enough, no need to accelerate this.
Invest into businesses in Mexico and other countries so that the folks there get decent jobs that secure their outcome and generate a decent standard of living. That will be far cheaper than any border wall or facial recognition or other high tech toys.None of those who risk their lives coming to the US do that just for fun. If they no longer see a need to leave their home country the issue will mostly be resolved. It will also make it less likely that people see a career in the narcos as a viable path. I bet anyone would rather glue cars together than be constantly on the run.
The president gets elected. If anyone is to blame then it is those who voted for him and especially those who still think he does a good job. With extent also those who voted the current majority into Congress that consists only of yesmen, inepts, and spineless lap dogs that fold like cheap tents. Congress currently fails miserably at being a counterbalance and a place of control. Worse even that they wave through clearly unqualified secretaries and judges that will damage the nation for decades to come.
Have you seen the votes in Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Russia (hard to call that even a vote). Those who won are all acting directly against the interest of most in their country. Only very few are happy to gain unrestricted power and cash flows.
Laws are in place, but enforcing them is close to impossible. There are so many robocallers who operate VoIP calls from outside the US. With nationwide unlimited plans common making 10,000 calls a day is no extra cost. Phone number spoofing makes things even more difficult, because folks think it is a local call and the robocallers can easily disguise their origin. This has nothing to do with free speech. It all has to do with the fact that it is dirt cheap to annoy thousand people and have a a few dozen of them fall for the scam. Rinse and repeat. The fix for this is rather unpopular: start charging for each connection made. Once it will cost 5 cents or so for making the phone on the other end ring (no charge for reaching a busy line) the issue of robocalls goes away.
Another aspect is that people like asynchronous communications. That is why email is still widely popular and messaging services retain messages until they are read. We typically have other things to do than jump on a conversation that someone else wants to have right now. Being more and more in less than private environments can also play a role. Does anyone really want to discuss medical issues or financial plans in an open office setting?
Hmmm...iPhone....not much better than Android phones, but significantly more expensive and backed by a company that intentionally obsoletes perfectly working devices. In the end it matters only which kind of poison your prefer. I use a few Nexus tablets and even when they came out they were not better or worse than then non-Google branded devices. Best Android tablet so far that I used is the nVidia Shield...except that they should have spent a few cents more on build quality. I work with iPads and iPhones as well. While they have a few benefits, the UI is clunky and everything about it is grossly overpriced.
The "right" agrees with many provisions in Obamacare when asked. Still, they oppose Obamacare because in their mind not invented here = bad. Trump is the poster boy for unrestricted capitalism. This implies that bothering with the welfare of minions is not on their mind. For Trump things are great when it makes him money, if he is in the center of it all, and when he is made to look good....and of course, when it does not interfere with his weekly multimillion Dollar golf trips to Florida. How's that for good use of tax Dollars? Send the bill to those morons who voted him into office, but don't put your hopes up too high, they are still waiting to get their jobs back that Reaganomics took away from them in the 80s.
We can blast and bash Trump as much as we want, but it is OUR FAILURE that he is still in office and has a Congress that just does anything to please him. Quoting Adenauer: "Every nation gets the government it deserves." I'm not suggesting that you write to your representatives in Congress, start talking to those people who still think Trump is doing a great job. These people are the real danger.
There are plenty of German EV companies that offer their models in this price range or below. Examples are the Smart ED, VW e-UP, e.GO Life, Sono Sion.... Their problem is that they do not have a CEO that has the capability to get stocks red hot based on promises and vapor....or shooting a car past Mars.
That was eons ago. Time to move on and focus on the gazillion Trump failures.
"rediculously"??? I find it odd that Tesla bought an already equipped factory that is capable of cranking out 50,000 vehicles a month. The previous operator built 40,000 vehicles each month. How come that Tesla cannot get anywhere near that number? The demand is there and more sales will stop Tesla from bleeding cash. Leaves only one cause: utter ineptitude. Tesla is like Apple, great in hype and design, totally clueless on execution.
Did this, doesn't help. I had some success using sconfig to get and install updates, but there is 0 feedback and it still takes hours to complete, but at least it works. Using the GUI constantly ends up in some cryptic error and a Retry button. Reboots don't do much either. What works at times is to wait four to five days with the Retry screen up. I had it complete the updates on its own. Still, this should not take longer than 10 minutes and no matter what the update is have be applied without requiring a reboot. Linux can do it.
McD in Germany has reusable utensils for dine in. Works fine there. I guess in the US it will be a problem because folks are too dumb or lazy to separate it properly and then throw it all in the trash.
They can still provide forks, but what is wrong with providing metal forks for dine in? For take home bring/have your own fork. I have a cheap set at work and in my car. Comes in handy and far less wasteful and trashy than this plastic crap than snaps in half on first use anyway.
Sensodyne? I guess you tried it. Still, while I feel for you, it is no reason to continue with generating absolutely unnecessary plastic waste. Worst are these foam cups from the coffee and donut chains. Or soda cups with plastic lids that then require the use of a plastic straw....why? The EU commission's proposal is the right way to go and long overdue.
Air conditioning is not a luxury, crappy insulation is! Look at most of the buildings in the US and they are badly insulated if at all. Also does not help that even new construction is using popsicle sticks and office supplies. Brick fares much better to keep buildings cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
While there is something to this argument, the issue is far older than the current regime. Core problem is the lack of competition. In most places you are lucky if there is more than one provider. I do not know of places where there are more than three. Real competition starts when there are five or more providers who have to work hard for customers to stick with them. If the choice is at best the other guys who do far worse then there is no improvement and due to lack of choice no customer loss. The US has freakishly expensive and rather craptastically slow and unreliable Internet service compared to other industrialized countries. Also does not help that the infrastructure of the last mile is very susceptible to environmental impacts. Nailing the lines to poles like Edison did is not the way to go.
What would help is for the clothing industry to stick to proper clothing sizes. I have shirts ranging from medium to extra large...and they are all the same size!