If they want to cheat, they could have a hidden microphone with a friend listening in on the interview; Googling the questions, and displaying the answers on their computer monitor while they're skyping and appearing to just be watching the video chat.
You can tell by people's eyes whether they're reading or not.
I have this really neat old-skool tech that solves that problem. Earpiece.
To be sure, the market for many of these kinds of workers is still small, growing from a pool that was basically nonexistent just a year ago. For example, there are just over 2,500 freelancers on Upwork’s site now who list VR as one of their skills, compared with 106 individuals at this point last year.
What counts is how many of them are actually working at any time. Basically, the stat says that there are 2,500 unemployed freelancers who list VR skills, because if they had full-time vr jobs, they wouldn't be looking for (and their employment contract wouldn't allow) freelance work.
Of course, anything that starts from almost zero can experience what looks like a huge growth in terms of percentages, but in actual numbers still be insignificant. Same as VR is still insignificant. Sae as 3d TV is still insignificant.
This is like closing the barn door after the horses have run away. We've already been impacted by plenty of fragments from Mars, comets, etc. If there's life elsewhere, it's possible it started via panspermia Then again, that's a pretty big "if" - there's no evidence one way or the other that there's life elsewhere - just WAGs made by wags (definition # 11 - someone not to be taken seriously)..
If you're not prepared for the repercussions of your speech, then you don't believe in it all that much to suffer the consequences. It's the same as people who take part in a protest and then get all upset when they're arrested because they don't want to go to jail - useless cowards. They lack the courage of their convictions.
And I never said you were older than me - if you were my age, you'd probably be wiser. But you'll die before I will, so I don't give a fuck. All you guys who are living the movie "40 Year Old Virgin" have already demonstrated your total lack of social skills.
Restaurants don't want to be known as the place where everyone is busy taking pictures. Especially since the vast majority of those pictures don't get looked at because people are too busy posting to social media to bother reading it. Same as people are sharing stories that are so bullshit, and when you ask them why, it turns out they never even read them.
It's worse - the workers actually paid (through taxes) for the robots that will replace them. Same as Uber drivers are paying for the development of self-driving cars that will replace the drivers. The only difference is that Carrier managed to get the public to subsidize its' switch to a more automated facility, thanks to then-governor Pence.
In case you haven't noticed, the larger corporations are finally taking on their corporate responsibilities and pushing back. They want the Paris Accord, they want non-discrimination against transgenders (as does the military), they want an end to coal. They want Obamacare.
As for the Supreme Court, you mean the current one that told Trump to shove his executive order up his arse?
Trump is doing exactly what I expected and predicted - forcing a swing to the left. Even the Republicans are coming on board, or they would have repealed the ACA by now. They know that if they do, they will not be re-elected, and if you don't get re-elected, you don't get all the perks and status and lobbyists sucking up to you any more.
No, that's what Facebook's users do. Post Amber Alerts from years ago, conspiracy theories from decades ago, flat earth propaganda from centuries ago... it's because Facebook users are devolving.
That'd be great, if this was 1997. But given the digital diaspora of small screens and the websites, games and apps created to accommodate these, families don't gravitate to the living room anymore. That's where my dogs go, because it has the cushiest chairs...
Your dogs go on the chairs in the living room? Lazy bastard, maybe you should walk them for a change:-)
Seriously, you're absolutely right. The only people who will want this are bosses so that they can "supervise" you by making sure you're logged in and running when you're working from home. After all, most of the justification for their jobs is the ability to count warm butts in seats.
People have been trying to sell videophones for decades. They all failed for one reason - they're damn inconvenient. A videophone for the home - great - now I have to get dressed before I answer a call. No thanks. Also, do you really want your phone spying on you even more than it does now?
What next - companies demanding that you have a Facebook account and leave Facebook video chat open when you're working from home? Even though studies show that people working from home tend to work more hours than they do in the office? And are generally more efficient because they aren't interrupted by office bs, and when they need a break to think or plan, they don't have to "look busy"?
Both would be an improvement over India. Mexico has flush toilets. Nunavut has public health care that works for all - and you can always leave for any other part of the country.
You mean like those jobs at Carrier that ended up not going to Mexico because the government provided millions in tax incentives so they can open an automated plant in the US? The jobs are still gone. Mission failed, same as every other Trump claim.
Let's not forget lack of student debt. Free university education means grads start out without a boat anchor around their neck that can follow them around even after they collect social security.
Hey, one of my goals is to be really old. Or better yet, ancient. It's far better than the alternative. And if you took a survey, how many people do you think would say that they would rather die young and be eulogized for pictures of their meals taken with their phone?
How many of their 1,500 "friends" will even see the death notice? They're all too busy posting pictures of sh*t to actually read much of anything else.
Isn't post processing something better left to a desktop with a really big screen so you don't screw up the original with your phone's post-processing software? After all, if you really care but insist on using a phone camera, you want the best original to work from.
Let's face it - stories like this give opportunities to debunk corporate bs, so anyone doing any research might find it and come away better informed. Now that snopes.com is having problems getting its' domain back, we're going to need a whole slew of sites debunking corporate shills talking sh*t.
Yes, his reason is basically: iPhone camera is good because its proprietary, and a Samsung with better features is not as good because to use those features the camera app is proprietary. Huh? That makes about as much sense as fashion rules like "can't wear black after labor day". Actually fashion is a damn good metaphor for anything iphone, so I shouldn't be surprised.
Note: I'm not saying the Samsung is better...i neither seen it nor the latest iphone...I'm just going with the claims he was responding to
You spelled "white" wrong, but aside from that, I agree completely. They can have my white runners when they pry them off my cold (because it will probably be winter - it's been said that we have 10 months of winter and 2 months of construction here) dead feet.
If you truly care about great photography, you own a proper CAMERA.
FTFY...Born-again iFan
If you really care about great photography, you're not taking pictures of your meals in restaurants. That's for self-absorbed narcissistic assholes who are so busy trying to impress their 1,500 "friends" (all of who are so busy posting the same shit that nobody actually has time to look at what anyone else posts) that they ruin the dining experience for everyone around them.
Restaurants should put up a sign saying "for the privacy and courtesy of our customers, no pictures are allowed." And cities should pass bylaws allowing for confiscation of the phone and a fine in such cases.
Gundotra said: "The end of the DSLR for most people has already arrived.
Total idiot, for most people, the DLSR never arrived in the first place. Most people don't care about getting the highest quality pics - what they have is more than good enough for taking way too many pictures of cats and restaurant meals.
I can't stand Rocky Horror Picture Show - it was crap when I first saw 15 minutes of it trying to see what the big deal was, and I'm sure it hasn't improved with age, so I neither know nor give a shit about Frankenturter.
There are plenty who only go on cross-sex hormones because of one or more of the following:
Unable to access surgery where they live
Cost
Medical conditions that make surgery inadvisable.
You seem to intentionally not want understand what gender dysphoria is, from your comments. Both your sexual preference (gy, lesbian, bi, straight, whatever) and the sex you identify as are solely controlled by the brain. And there are already trans couples where the man has had the baby - you're a bit behind the times.
As for "The world according to Garp", I only read the book, and from your question, it was better than the movie. Nobody wakes up screaming. If you ever had any sort of surgery you'd know better.
Slashdot Mirror
If they want to cheat, they could have a hidden microphone with a friend listening in on the interview; Googling the questions, and displaying the answers on their computer monitor while they're skyping and appearing to just be watching the video chat.
You can tell by people's eyes whether they're reading or not.
I have this really neat old-skool tech that solves that problem. Earpiece.
"You know, like numchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!"
"Girls" should be in quotes. Blow-up dolls don't really count.
That has nothing to do with actual demand.
To be sure, the market for many of these kinds of workers is still small, growing from a pool that was basically nonexistent just a year ago. For example, there are just over 2,500 freelancers on Upwork’s site now who list VR as one of their skills, compared with 106 individuals at this point last year.
What counts is how many of them are actually working at any time. Basically, the stat says that there are 2,500 unemployed freelancers who list VR skills, because if they had full-time vr jobs, they wouldn't be looking for (and their employment contract wouldn't allow) freelance work.
So basically this is an ad for a jobs board.
With Facebook, it's never anything personal. It's always business. Same as the mafia.
Of course, anything that starts from almost zero can experience what looks like a huge growth in terms of percentages, but in actual numbers still be insignificant. Same as VR is still insignificant. Sae as 3d TV is still insignificant.
This is like closing the barn door after the horses have run away. We've already been impacted by plenty of fragments from Mars, comets, etc. If there's life elsewhere, it's possible it started via panspermia Then again, that's a pretty big "if" - there's no evidence one way or the other that there's life elsewhere - just WAGs made by wags (definition # 11 - someone not to be taken seriously)..
If you're not prepared for the repercussions of your speech, then you don't believe in it all that much to suffer the consequences. It's the same as people who take part in a protest and then get all upset when they're arrested because they don't want to go to jail - useless cowards. They lack the courage of their convictions.
And I never said you were older than me - if you were my age, you'd probably be wiser. But you'll die before I will, so I don't give a fuck. All you guys who are living the movie "40 Year Old Virgin" have already demonstrated your total lack of social skills.
Restaurants don't want to be known as the place where everyone is busy taking pictures. Especially since the vast majority of those pictures don't get looked at because people are too busy posting to social media to bother reading it. Same as people are sharing stories that are so bullshit, and when you ask them why, it turns out they never even read them.
It's worse - the workers actually paid (through taxes) for the robots that will replace them. Same as Uber drivers are paying for the development of self-driving cars that will replace the drivers. The only difference is that Carrier managed to get the public to subsidize its' switch to a more automated facility, thanks to then-governor Pence.
If the rule is no pictures, why not confiscate the phone if you use it to violate the rule?
In case you haven't noticed, the larger corporations are finally taking on their corporate responsibilities and pushing back. They want the Paris Accord, they want non-discrimination against transgenders (as does the military), they want an end to coal. They want Obamacare.
As for the Supreme Court, you mean the current one that told Trump to shove his executive order up his arse?
Trump is doing exactly what I expected and predicted - forcing a swing to the left. Even the Republicans are coming on board, or they would have repealed the ACA by now. They know that if they do, they will not be re-elected, and if you don't get re-elected, you don't get all the perks and status and lobbyists sucking up to you any more.
But you know your boss is going to demand you use it 24/7 at some point "because email is too hard."
is it posting stories from 1999?
No, that's what Facebook's users do. Post Amber Alerts from years ago, conspiracy theories from decades ago, flat earth propaganda from centuries ago ... it's because Facebook users are devolving.
That'd be great, if this was 1997. But given the digital diaspora of small screens and the websites, games and apps created to accommodate these, families don't gravitate to the living room anymore. That's where my dogs go, because it has the cushiest chairs...
Your dogs go on the chairs in the living room? Lazy bastard, maybe you should walk them for a change :-)
Seriously, you're absolutely right. The only people who will want this are bosses so that they can "supervise" you by making sure you're logged in and running when you're working from home. After all, most of the justification for their jobs is the ability to count warm butts in seats.
People have been trying to sell videophones for decades. They all failed for one reason - they're damn inconvenient. A videophone for the home - great - now I have to get dressed before I answer a call. No thanks. Also, do you really want your phone spying on you even more than it does now?
What next - companies demanding that you have a Facebook account and leave Facebook video chat open when you're working from home? Even though studies show that people working from home tend to work more hours than they do in the office? And are generally more efficient because they aren't interrupted by office bs, and when they need a break to think or plan, they don't have to "look busy"?
Both would be an improvement over India. Mexico has flush toilets. Nunavut has public health care that works for all - and you can always leave for any other part of the country.
You mean like those jobs at Carrier that ended up not going to Mexico because the government provided millions in tax incentives so they can open an automated plant in the US? The jobs are still gone. Mission failed, same as every other Trump claim.
Let's not forget lack of student debt. Free university education means grads start out without a boat anchor around their neck that can follow them around even after they collect social security.
Wow. You sound really old.
Hey, one of my goals is to be really old. Or better yet, ancient. It's far better than the alternative. And if you took a survey, how many people do you think would say that they would rather die young and be eulogized for pictures of their meals taken with their phone?
How many of their 1,500 "friends" will even see the death notice? They're all too busy posting pictures of sh*t to actually read much of anything else.
Isn't post processing something better left to a desktop with a really big screen so you don't screw up the original with your phone's post-processing software? After all, if you really care but insist on using a phone camera, you want the best original to work from.
Let's face it - stories like this give opportunities to debunk corporate bs, so anyone doing any research might find it and come away better informed. Now that snopes.com is having problems getting its' domain back, we're going to need a whole slew of sites debunking corporate shills talking sh*t.
Yes, his reason is basically: iPhone camera is good because its proprietary, and a Samsung with better features is not as good because to use those features the camera app is proprietary. Huh? That makes about as much sense as fashion rules like "can't wear black after labor day". Actually fashion is a damn good metaphor for anything iphone, so I shouldn't be surprised.
Note: I'm not saying the Samsung is better...i neither seen it nor the latest iphone...I'm just going with the claims he was responding to
You spelled "white" wrong, but aside from that, I agree completely. They can have my white runners when they pry them off my cold (because it will probably be winter - it's been said that we have 10 months of winter and 2 months of construction here) dead feet.
If you truly care about great photography, you own a proper CAMERA.
FTFY...Born-again iFan
If you really care about great photography, you're not taking pictures of your meals in restaurants. That's for self-absorbed narcissistic assholes who are so busy trying to impress their 1,500 "friends" (all of who are so busy posting the same shit that nobody actually has time to look at what anyone else posts) that they ruin the dining experience for everyone around them.
Restaurants should put up a sign saying "for the privacy and courtesy of our customers, no pictures are allowed." And cities should pass bylaws allowing for confiscation of the phone and a fine in such cases.
Gundotra said: "The end of the DSLR for most people has already arrived.
Total idiot, for most people, the DLSR never arrived in the first place. Most people don't care about getting the highest quality pics - what they have is more than good enough for taking way too many pictures of cats and restaurant meals.
I can't stand Rocky Horror Picture Show - it was crap when I first saw 15 minutes of it trying to see what the big deal was, and I'm sure it hasn't improved with age, so I neither know nor give a shit about Frankenturter.
There are plenty who only go on cross-sex hormones because of one or more of the following:
Unable to access surgery where they live
Cost
Medical conditions that make surgery inadvisable.
You seem to intentionally not want understand what gender dysphoria is, from your comments. Both your sexual preference (gy, lesbian, bi, straight, whatever) and the sex you identify as are solely controlled by the brain. And there are already trans couples where the man has had the baby - you're a bit behind the times.
As for "The world according to Garp", I only read the book, and from your question, it was better than the movie. Nobody wakes up screaming. If you ever had any sort of surgery you'd know better.