Almost all of the actors cannot afford to live in Beverly Hills.
Greedy landlords think x% of someone's salary belongs to them as rent.
Obviously - did you want x=0? Who pays for taxes and maintenance -
communists or Santa Claus?
If programmers can't live in Silicon Valley, what's the point of Silicon Valley?
Why are programmers special? Why not custodians, oil change mechanics, security guards and the people who work at In & Out?
Of course programmers should grow a pair and demand as high a salary as they can get. But really high salaries are usually not possible in tiny startups with minimal revenue, so if you want universally high salaries, you want only megalo-corporations running things.
If you can't run a startup in Silicon Valley, what's the point of Silicon Valley?
Why can't employees leave a bad company and go to a good one?
Regulations on health insurance? Court enforcement of non-compete agreements? Regulatory barriers to starting new businesses, especially co-ops and employee-owned corps?
For skilled workers with marketable talents, the desire for a union is usually a symptom of problems, not solutions.
Looks for impediments to the free flow of labor and you'll find the mechanisms that need fixing. But don't expect unions to work against their own interests by working to fix these problems.
"But Apple is a private company and can cens^H^H^H^H do what they want herp derp."
It's all well and good until something you think isn't hate speech becomes Apple hate speech.
Or the altcoin you like to use suddenly becomes "against the terms of service". Then so much for your phone investment.
Really, Apple is so filthy rich and they keep getting richer by selling average people a bland comfort bubble, that they should just offer to buy back phones from people who complain about the apps they pull. It would be a trivial slice of their userbase and they could resell the phones as refurbs anyway.
I do think they are doing security right, but I can't even consider using an Apple phone, because I can't have one that may have features I depend on be taken away retroactively. So far, Android is a safe choice for predictability, even if the security is kind of iffy for the non-diligent user.
it's surprising for the strategy of a huge enterprise like Google to be so dependent on a single SVP
Another possibility is that nobody thought this was a good idea except Andy, but people appreciate Andy and Google could afford to let Andy play with it.
If more people were willing to pay a little bit extra and go to companies that treated their employees fairly and bought their goods from firms that did the same the world would be a better place.
They mostly don't exist.
I started driving 1.5 hrs to a HD after the local hardware store* would not sell me a replacement entry door for less than $459 and I found one at HD for $129, based on a co-worker's recommendation (HD did not have any websites then).
What excites the USAF brass is SpaceX turnaround. Musk is targeting 24 hrs for a Falcon 9b5 turnaround; with any extra capacity he could put another X37B into orbit with a few days' notice. That is tremendously advantageous for space soldiers and spies.
How many people will protest this by cutting out trips by plane?
I haven't flown out of the US since they put in body scanners. Yeah, it's cost me opportunities, but just because the country is full of unprincipled cowards doesn't mean we all have to be.
If people stop flying because of laptops, it's not going to be from courage, it's going to be out of inconvenience.
Anyway, wasn't TSA supposedly justified because "airplanes aren't blown up anymore, they're used as missiles?" Are we back to airplanes not being taken for missiles? Because TSA can fold up and go home then, returning airplane security to airlines.
Ironic that while Apple is battling illegal FBI warrants on one front, it's working to enrich Best Buy which the FBI use[s,d] illegally to avoid warrants.
I'm sure Facebook's highly efficient data centers make more sense for them to host their own apps, but I've never heard of people complaining that WhatsApp is down. If you had asked me yesterday, I would have guessed that they were on FB's infrastructure already.
This is a pretty good ad for IBM's offering - are they cheap? I can't imagine WhatsApp picking an expensive provider, but almost everything IBM is four times as expensive as it ought to be.
The iPhone 5c is 32-bit and was only discontinued in September of 2015. iOS 11 will not work on it, and presumably there will be no security updates for the 5c as of the iOS 11 release date.
So what happens to people with Macs more than a few years old? Are they SOL for new software?
A year from now Apple will block them from getting security updates, so they should switch to a better operating system if they want to keep that hardware.
I have NetBSD on an old iMac which works OK if you don't need graphics acceleration.:(
Posting as AC because the last time I went against the Conspiracy Theories someone decided to call my boss and claim I was destroying America.
Did you boss pat you on the back for engaging in political debate? A good boss would have. A better boss would have hashed out some of the issues with you. A boss who gives you a hard time for doing so should be your "old boss".
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Does this mean that Amazon was planning to fight back with some kind of "Amazon Docs" solution?
That seems to be the implicit disclosure in the legal action.
It probably gives Microsoft and Google more valuable intel than Amazon loses to "Smartsheet".
SJW virtue signalling.
I'm sure it's getting them some action in bed. Right? Right?
Is there no standard python module to fix this? I mean, just preprocess and feed the stupid space stuff to the tokenizer.
Perl has all kinds of alternate formatting modules, but its users tend to he less devotional from what I've seen.
That's surprising - Pyxis machines are frequently used to dispense Schedule II drugs.
Maybe they changed out the stock screws ... one can hope.
Where can I find out which of the local hospitals and surgical suites uses up-to-date secure stuff and which ones don't give a damn?
Because I will vote with my wallet.
Could you explain "salt?" It's new to me but from your context I should know it. (A link would be fine).
Hey, did you try googling 'salt'? ;)
I kid ... try salt devops though - you'll get what you need.
/Paris/ is an accord of the UNFCCC. The USA can withdraw from the UNFCCC one year after giving its notice.
They talked about this recently on Science Friday, but here's an article with quite a bit of detail:
http://www.heritage.org/enviro...
That's very interesting, actually. They've created a micro-level of scarcity that does not exist on the macro scale.
People respond to scarcity, and they've just proven it again.
This is related to chocolate because it sold seven million units of sugar paste, with a touch of nuts and chocolate, in record time.
Imagine if actors couldn't live in Beverly Hills
Almost all of the actors cannot afford to live in Beverly Hills.
Greedy landlords think x% of someone's salary belongs to them as rent.
Obviously - did you want x=0? Who pays for taxes and maintenance -
communists or Santa Claus?
If programmers can't live in Silicon Valley, what's the point of Silicon Valley?
Why are programmers special? Why not custodians, oil change mechanics, security guards and the people who work at In & Out?
Of course programmers should grow a pair and demand as high a salary as they can get. But really high salaries are usually not possible in tiny startups with minimal revenue, so if you want universally high salaries, you want only megalo-corporations running things.
If you can't run a startup in Silicon Valley, what's the point of Silicon Valley?
Why can't employees leave a bad company and go to a good one?
Regulations on health insurance? Court enforcement of non-compete agreements? Regulatory barriers to starting new businesses, especially co-ops and employee-owned corps?
For skilled workers with marketable talents, the desire for a union is usually a symptom of problems, not solutions.
Looks for impediments to the free flow of labor and you'll find the mechanisms that need fixing. But don't expect unions to work against their own interests by working to fix these problems.
"But Apple is a private company and can cens^H^H^H^H do what they want herp derp."
It's all well and good until something you think isn't hate speech becomes Apple hate speech.
Or the altcoin you like to use suddenly becomes "against the terms of service". Then so much for your phone investment.
Really, Apple is so filthy rich and they keep getting richer by selling average people a bland comfort bubble, that they should just offer to buy back phones from people who complain about the apps they pull. It would be a trivial slice of their userbase and they could resell the phones as refurbs anyway.
I do think they are doing security right, but I can't even consider using an Apple phone, because I can't have one that may have features I depend on be taken away retroactively. So far, Android is a safe choice for predictability, even if the security is kind of iffy for the non-diligent user.
it's surprising for the strategy of a huge enterprise like Google to be so dependent on a single SVP
Another possibility is that nobody thought this was a good idea except Andy, but people appreciate Andy and Google could afford to let Andy play with it.
I don't know what really happened, of course.
If more people were willing to pay a little bit extra and go to companies that treated their employees fairly and bought their goods from firms that did the same the world would be a better place.
They mostly don't exist.
I started driving 1.5 hrs to a HD after the local hardware store* would not sell me a replacement entry door for less than $459 and I found one at HD for $129, based on a co-worker's recommendation (HD did not have any websites then).
* the one of three that actually had doors
Orange is the new Red. Blue, that's covered.
It's the US Military - cost is not a factor.
What excites the USAF brass is SpaceX turnaround. Musk is targeting 24 hrs for a Falcon 9b5 turnaround; with any extra capacity he could put another X37B into orbit with a few days' notice. That is tremendously advantageous for space soldiers and spies.
How many people will protest this by cutting out trips by plane?
I haven't flown out of the US since they put in body scanners. Yeah, it's cost me opportunities, but just because the country is full of unprincipled cowards doesn't mean we all have to be.
If people stop flying because of laptops, it's not going to be from courage, it's going to be out of inconvenience.
Anyway, wasn't TSA supposedly justified because "airplanes aren't blown up anymore, they're used as missiles?" Are we back to airplanes not being taken for missiles? Because TSA can fold up and go home then, returning airplane security to airlines.
Ironic that while Apple is battling illegal FBI warrants on one front, it's working to enrich Best Buy which the FBI use[s,d] illegally to avoid warrants.
I'm sure Facebook's highly efficient data centers make more sense for them to host their own apps, but I've never heard of people complaining that WhatsApp is down. If you had asked me yesterday, I would have guessed that they were on FB's infrastructure already.
This is a pretty good ad for IBM's offering - are they cheap? I can't imagine WhatsApp picking an expensive provider, but almost everything IBM is four times as expensive as it ought to be.
Economies of scale ... it was a fascinating week you missed because you weren't interested in taking Economics in high school.
Government Regulation, or even the threat of it, works.
It's only because of patent law that these third party repair machines haven't been able to exist already.
The iPhone 5c is 32-bit and was only discontinued in September of 2015. iOS 11 will not work on it, and presumably there will be no security updates for the 5c as of the iOS 11 release date.
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
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So what happens to people with Macs more than a few years old? Are they SOL for new software?
A year from now Apple will block them from getting security updates, so they should switch to a better operating system if they want to keep that hardware.
I have NetBSD on an old iMac which works OK if you don't need graphics acceleration. :(
To "won't fix" when it's pointed out as a regression.... maybe breaking x support ahead of a shift to wayland?
Oh, well that's a much better accusation of nefarious motivation than being paid off by Microsoft.
Posting as AC because the last time I went against the Conspiracy Theories someone decided to call my boss and claim I was destroying America.
Did you boss pat you on the back for engaging in political debate? A good boss would have. A better boss would have hashed out some of the issues with you. A boss who gives you a hard time for doing so should be your "old boss".