Nobody should be exempt from time and a half except the owners of a business. Anyone who works for pay should get paid overtime, if only to punish companies and businesses that insist on overworking their employees instead of hiring more staff to handle the load.
I take it the one medical provider who had the major screwup of providing such personal and private data has had their license revoked and is now out of business?
We're managing to beat you in the "dumb shit for goobernmint time wasting" in Canada today. Some psycho nutbars from the "truther" movement managed to get their petition submitted to Parliament's schedule by Elizabeth May (leader of the Green Party.)
Yeah.
I want a few hundred highly paid politicians debating the paranoid lunatic's fringe perverse fantasies instead of dealing with *real* issues.:(
Even though I'm a medical cannabis user (migraines), I do believe that people shouln't be driving under the influence -- of anything, and that includes the doctor's and pharmacorp's favourte: opiates.
Here in Saskatchewan, the law is intentionally vague and refers to "Driving Under the Influence" without that being restricted to alcohol. If you're obviously impaired, the police don't have to run a bunch of tests to determine what you're impaired by -- it's your driving that is the deciding factor, and your inability to pass basic roadside sobriety tests.
Why do some people insist on gaming in the living room instead of in an office? What is so all-fired important about the living room?
Did it ever occur to you the rest of the household doesn't want to listen to you grunting and screaming at your gaming partners for hours and hours on end?
Before I retired due to disability, I found that travel was critical to stay employed. The odds of finding suitable employment locally became slimmer and slimmer as I became more experience, so I found myself moving from job to job or spending a lot of time on the road travelling to work sites for 10 days on/4 days off contracts.
You can't really blame the industry; the best money and most interesting jobs have always been short-term "drop kick" contracts to address specific needs with specialized skills. Had I stuck with "regular" programming jobs, I'd have been bored out of my skull.
The EU and the US need to clue in to the fact that their local laws don't apply globally, no matter how much it pisses them off that other nations do things differently.
My concern is not your domain experience, but your business experience. It sounds like you're approaching things from a largely technical viewpoint, and that's going to get you in trouble with running a business. Your focus, first and foremost, should be on revenue, a product portfolio, and a plan for growing the customer base.
Sure you'll need an accountant and should outsource your payroll and get a corporate lawyer on board and all the other things people have advised you to do, but first and foremost, you need to get your head around the idea that you're no longer going to be an engineer and will have to focus on business needs and decisions that would apply to any industry.
We will never have "real" AI because every time we approach it, someone moves the bar as to what is required. It's been happening since the mid-late '80s. We *have* what would have qualified as AI according to the rules of '86-'87.
I have no spare money to spend on the overpriced piffle they keep advertising, so why should I waste my time letting them download and putting up with their annoying animations and bullshit?
Personally I find it to be useless for my needs. Most of my searching is for tech documentation, example code, how-tos, and such. For whatever reason, Google just finds a lot more relevant material than Bing, and usually what I need is within the first 3-4 links on the results page. With Bing, I find that one often has to go through a page or two of results, skipping the obvious chaff in order to find anything relevant.
I've no idea how the two compare on non-technical searches, though.
Don't forget these were the "family friendly" seventies. It really limited just how "edgy" a show could be in it's writing, and technology *seriously* limited the effectiveness of F/X.
But you know what? I enjoyed what "SciFi" there was at the time. It sure beat the heck out of crap like "Dallas" or "Hee-Haw".:P
On the contrary, modern supercomputers are designed for energy and thermal efficiency that rivals and exceeds that of smartphones. Granted, you wouldn't want to put one of these NVidia chipsets in a smart phone, but in terms of compute power per watt, they're far more efficient than general purpose computers.
That said, they do consume a lot of power. But that's precisely why they're engineered for efficiency -- when you're getting the bill for such a monster, that extra 10W/core adds up big time.
That's a little misleading. It's not like they would have locked down the design to use components in 1984. That's just when they started talking about the project. The design likely wasn't locked down until 5 years before launch or so.
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Then adjust the schedule or pay through the nose.
Nobody should be exempt from time and a half except the owners of a business. Anyone who works for pay should get paid overtime, if only to punish companies and businesses that insist on overworking their employees instead of hiring more staff to handle the load.
I take it the one medical provider who had the major screwup of providing such personal and private data has had their license revoked and is now out of business?
We're managing to beat you in the "dumb shit for goobernmint time wasting" in Canada today. Some psycho nutbars from the "truther" movement managed to get their petition submitted to Parliament's schedule by Elizabeth May (leader of the Green Party.)
Yeah.
I want a few hundred highly paid politicians debating the paranoid lunatic's fringe perverse fantasies instead of dealing with *real* issues. :(
Even though I'm a medical cannabis user (migraines), I do believe that people shouln't be driving under the influence -- of anything, and that includes the doctor's and pharmacorp's favourte: opiates.
Here in Saskatchewan, the law is intentionally vague and refers to "Driving Under the Influence" without that being restricted to alcohol. If you're obviously impaired, the police don't have to run a bunch of tests to determine what you're impaired by -- it's your driving that is the deciding factor, and your inability to pass basic roadside sobriety tests.
You can't do that because then all the legislators would get busted for bribery, which is what "campaign donations" obviously are.
Why do some people insist on gaming in the living room instead of in an office? What is so all-fired important about the living room?
Did it ever occur to you the rest of the household doesn't want to listen to you grunting and screaming at your gaming partners for hours and hours on end?
Before I retired due to disability, I found that travel was critical to stay employed. The odds of finding suitable employment locally became slimmer and slimmer as I became more experience, so I found myself moving from job to job or spending a lot of time on the road travelling to work sites for 10 days on/4 days off contracts.
You can't really blame the industry; the best money and most interesting jobs have always been short-term "drop kick" contracts to address specific needs with specialized skills. Had I stuck with "regular" programming jobs, I'd have been bored out of my skull.
A threat is a threat, no matter how "nicely" you try to wrap it up.
How many times are the slashbots going to post this same stupid question?
Please buy our crap. Pretty please?
We just want to make our money off your app store purchases.
Look, we'll give you the thing for cost if you'll just buy our crap.
*LOL*
The EU and the US need to clue in to the fact that their local laws don't apply globally, no matter how much it pisses them off that other nations do things differently.
So punching someone is grounds for murder now, is it?
Sad. Sad, sad, sad, sad, SAD state of affairs in this world nowadays.
At least in the "Wild Wild West", both men had guns.
It's ok to be a murdering thug if you wear a badge, right?
Disgusting.
My concern is not your domain experience, but your business experience. It sounds like you're approaching things from a largely technical viewpoint, and that's going to get you in trouble with running a business. Your focus, first and foremost, should be on revenue, a product portfolio, and a plan for growing the customer base.
Sure you'll need an accountant and should outsource your payroll and get a corporate lawyer on board and all the other things people have advised you to do, but first and foremost, you need to get your head around the idea that you're no longer going to be an engineer and will have to focus on business needs and decisions that would apply to any industry.
We will never have "real" AI because every time we approach it, someone moves the bar as to what is required. It's been happening since the mid-late '80s. We *have* what would have qualified as AI according to the rules of '86-'87.
Then clearly we're dealing with a "Berlin clock sucker". :P :P :P
If I can afford something and want it, don't worry -- I'll find it. Advertising only works because the average grunt has more money than brains.
I have no spare money to spend on the overpriced piffle they keep advertising, so why should I waste my time letting them download and putting up with their annoying animations and bullshit?
I insist on the right to refuse any tickets from the moron in sales who never makes a fresh pot of coffee when it's out.
Don't mess with my programming fuel!
You're still first for billions of dollars spent on warfare.
You're still first in number of people incarcerated per capita.
You still lead in the number of gun-related murders per capita.
And you still lead the world in thousands of dollars per capita spent on healthcare.
Personally I find it to be useless for my needs. Most of my searching is for tech documentation, example code, how-tos, and such. For whatever reason, Google just finds a lot more relevant material than Bing, and usually what I need is within the first 3-4 links on the results page. With Bing, I find that one often has to go through a page or two of results, skipping the obvious chaff in order to find anything relevant.
I've no idea how the two compare on non-technical searches, though.
Don't forget these were the "family friendly" seventies. It really limited just how "edgy" a show could be in it's writing, and technology *seriously* limited the effectiveness of F/X.
But you know what? I enjoyed what "SciFi" there was at the time. It sure beat the heck out of crap like "Dallas" or "Hee-Haw". :P
On the contrary, modern supercomputers are designed for energy and thermal efficiency that rivals and exceeds that of smartphones. Granted, you wouldn't want to put one of these NVidia chipsets in a smart phone, but in terms of compute power per watt, they're far more efficient than general purpose computers.
That said, they do consume a lot of power. But that's precisely why they're engineered for efficiency -- when you're getting the bill for such a monster, that extra 10W/core adds up big time.
That's a little misleading. It's not like they would have locked down the design to use components in 1984. That's just when they started talking about the project. The design likely wasn't locked down until 5 years before launch or so.