If Jim Murren is let go and replaced by a robot, that's another $14 million each year which can be saved, and that's in salary alone. Add in all the other perks he gets and that number could be near $20 million.
In one fell swoop, and additional 6.66% could be saved of the total amount. And it could be done immediately.
For the vast majority of cases, using cash to pay is no faster/slower than using a debit or credit card. Any perceived difference in time is insignificant.
Just today I used cash to buy lettuce and bananas. Granted, I had my cash ready when I got to the counter (including coins), and I know that the time I spent handing over a few coins and bills was the same amount of time it would have taken to insert my card, tap through the extra money question, input my code, wait for confirmation, then stow my card before walking out with my food.
People who think cashless transactions are faster are fooling themselves. It makes them feel special that they're not degrading themselves by using cash and are instead pushing boundaries because they're digital.
Because oddly enough, there are other things which radiate heat at night. In places where it's warm to hot all day, the road itself would radiate large amounts of heat at night. The same with car engines and car exhausts, both of which move.
Manhole covers also give off heat so the system would see this big spot and come to a stop in the middle of the road unless it had been specifically programmed to ignore such things, which then presents a whole new set of problems.
Considering the number of people I hear every day, who are born in this country, who can't speak English in something approaching a comprehensible manner, Google might want to start at home first.
Jesus fucking Christ! Why the hell does one need to have an "improved" experience when using a calculator? It is just about the simplest piece of software one uses. The only thing it needs to do is perform mathematical calculations.
Does everything need to be an "experience"? How about just working?
Is there a reason NASA chose to use hammer blows to dig down rather than a drill or borer? Did it have to do with the amount of energy required to drill compared to hammering?
It would seem a long, slow drilling process would be more beneficial to making a hole than continually pounding into the ground.
White males built civilization and fund the lives of those minorities we don't understand.
When you're not enslaving them, defending your enslaving them, fighting to keep enslaving them, preventing them from attending the same schools as you, preventing them from getting an education, hanging them, burning them alive, not to mention committing genocide against them and taking their land.
But hey, you're white. It comes with the territory.
The guy's complaining about "giving back", but I'm 100% certain there are people working on MariaDB who haven't "given back" to the artists who produced the music and movies they listen to and watch.
The old saying about leading by example holds true. If you want someone to abide by your licensing agreements and "give back" to the community, you have to start with yourself and your employees (or the equivalent version). If you think it's acceptable to ignore all the copyright laws and licensing which comes with music and videos, then it's acceptable for everyone else to ignore any licensing requirements on your software.
Apple will make a PC (not laptop) which has hardware which isn't five years old, which the user is able to swap out parts as needed, AND doesn't cost a kidney to buy.
No need to consider a Tesla. If I can't feel how it drives, how the seat feels, feedback from steering, wind and road noise, and everything else which can make or break such a purchase, I'll cross this off my list.
For those that don't mind this, more power, but some of us like to know what we're getting before we put down cash.
the perfect symbol of Microsoft's condescension to its customers and its prioritizing showing off fancy UI features over user productivity.
That would be Windows 10. Windows 10 is nothing but an evolved version of Clippy. The OS serves no useful purpose other than to get in the way of what you want to do by offering hints, suggestions, and irrelevant pieces of software, not to mention hiding the things you do need to use from you.
I mean, looking at the bloated spyware we have to deal with today, that web browser is still light-years ahead of what we have now. Sleek, a clear, easy to use menu system, BORDERS so you know where one part ends and another begins, no interference by the browser when trying to type, the list goes on.
What this world needs is a good web browser. This was it. It's been all downhill from there.
While to some extent I agree with your sentiments, the real issue is this guy and his wife went through the steps to document the crime and get the FBI involved early on. They didn't complain they were scammed months later when the criminal was long gone.
That they just happened to be well connected is only slightly tangential.
Of course if people wouldn't be gullible and hand over their money to anyone who calls them, this wouldn't be an issue.
Unlike all those U.S. citizens supporting the con artist who, the moment the last government shutdown happened, went into Joshua Tree National Park and started cutting down the Joshua Trees, or who drove their ATVs and pickup trucks where they would normally not be allowed and dug large paths, or even created new roads by destroying the environment.
White people built the first university and then WENT TO IT.
No, they didn't. The first university was in India starting around 600 B.C. The world's oldest continually operating university is in Fes, Morrocco. It was founded by a woman.
Now go crawl back into your hole and try to think of another lie because your pathetic snowflake ass can't stand the truth.
Racism exists because black people commit basically all the crime. If they stopped then people would complain about mexicans instead.
Right. THAT'S the reason racism exists. It never existed before blacks committed crimes. There was no trying to prevent blacks from getting an education, no attempts to prevent them voting, no attempts at letting them live wherever they wanted. There wasn't even any slavery. All those black people volunteered to work on the plantations with little to no pay.
Here's a question: which group commits the largest amount of mass shootings, by far, than any other group? How about child molestation?
What's going to happen in a few years when there's 100 times as many programmers as there are jobs?
That will never happen. Unlike RAM or HD space, if you believe companies, there will never be enough programmers to fill positions.
Remember back in the early 2010's (is that a word?) when companies were saying they couldn't find enough people to fill positions even though unemployment was twice what it is now? Guess what. We are at, essentially, full employment and the same companies are still bitching they can't find people to fill positions.
If we're at full employment, that means positions were filled, yet somehow these companies still can't fill positions. It's as if they have a Bag of Positions.
Macs are still overpriced and underpowered, and now you get the added bonus of never being able to upgrade a single component. In three years you throw the whole thing out and start over.
However, one thing hasn't changed. You still need to buy accessories to get them to work since Apple doesn't believe in multiple USB ports or anything similar.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to have the treble on the drums turned up and blasting every second should be strapped to a chair in an anechoic chamber, fitted with headphones, and forced to listen to that music continuously for 24 hours.
That was shit music. If you're going to use drums for something like this, you use bass. On low.
P.S. the quote at the bottom: I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth. -- Neil Armstrong
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Before you start downmodding or name calling, get the facts. By January 17 of this year, New York State had 182 confirmed cases of measles, almost exclusively among the Ultra-Orthodox community. New Jersey had 33 cases, mostly in Orange County, for the same reason.
Recently, one Ultra-Orthodox Jewish kid infected twenty-one others at a Yeshiva.
Since last year, over 300 cases (which include the above), most of which come from the Ultra-Orthodox community, have been tabulated in New York City and Rockland County.
Why? Because like those in Washington State, many Ultra-Orthodox oppose vaccination.
So you're saying it's easy to use, doesn't require daily maintenance, and isn't expensive to update?
Sounds like a good product.
Shoot him now! Shoot him now!
If Jim Murren is let go and replaced by a robot, that's another $14 million each year which can be saved, and that's in salary alone. Add in all the other perks he gets and that number could be near $20 million.
In one fell swoop, and additional 6.66% could be saved of the total amount. And it could be done immediately.
But it also frustrated customers who ended up paying high prices for copies of movies that were widely unavailable during their vault stints/
Apparently these people never heard of yard sales or places like the Salvation Army or Goodwill Stores.
For the vast majority of cases, using cash to pay is no faster/slower than using a debit or credit card. Any perceived difference in time is insignificant.
Just today I used cash to buy lettuce and bananas. Granted, I had my cash ready when I got to the counter (including coins), and I know that the time I spent handing over a few coins and bills was the same amount of time it would have taken to insert my card, tap through the extra money question, input my code, wait for confirmation, then stow my card before walking out with my food.
People who think cashless transactions are faster are fooling themselves. It makes them feel special that they're not degrading themselves by using cash and are instead pushing boundaries because they're digital.
of a recent meme I saw. Supposedly from someone working in tech support and one of the things they've endured from those they support:
Yes, I need wireless comm and no, I won't be leaving my seat.
Is there some reason Samsung believes there is a need for wireless power other than aesthetics?
Because oddly enough, there are other things which radiate heat at night. In places where it's warm to hot all day, the road itself would radiate large amounts of heat at night. The same with car engines and car exhausts, both of which move.
Manhole covers also give off heat so the system would see this big spot and come to a stop in the middle of the road unless it had been specifically programmed to ignore such things, which then presents a whole new set of problems.
Considering the number of people I hear every day, who are born in this country, who can't speak English in something approaching a comprehensible manner, Google might want to start at home first.
Jesus fucking Christ! Why the hell does one need to have an "improved" experience when using a calculator? It is just about the simplest piece of software one uses. The only thing it needs to do is perform mathematical calculations.
Does everything need to be an "experience"? How about just working?
Is there a reason NASA chose to use hammer blows to dig down rather than a drill or borer? Did it have to do with the amount of energy required to drill compared to hammering?
It would seem a long, slow drilling process would be more beneficial to making a hole than continually pounding into the ground.
White males built civilization and fund the lives of those minorities we don't understand.
When you're not enslaving them, defending your enslaving them, fighting to keep enslaving them, preventing them from attending the same schools as you, preventing them from getting an education, hanging them, burning them alive, not to mention committing genocide against them and taking their land.
But hey, you're white. It comes with the territory.
You told us three days ago.
What next? Is Apple working on future products which will blow us away?
The guy's complaining about "giving back", but I'm 100% certain there are people working on MariaDB who haven't "given back" to the artists who produced the music and movies they listen to and watch.
The old saying about leading by example holds true. If you want someone to abide by your licensing agreements and "give back" to the community, you have to start with yourself and your employees (or the equivalent version). If you think it's acceptable to ignore all the copyright laws and licensing which comes with music and videos, then it's acceptable for everyone else to ignore any licensing requirements on your software.
Apple will make a PC (not laptop) which has hardware which isn't five years old, which the user is able to swap out parts as needed, AND doesn't cost a kidney to buy.
That would be mind blowing.
No need to consider a Tesla. If I can't feel how it drives, how the seat feels, feedback from steering, wind and road noise, and everything else which can make or break such a purchase, I'll cross this off my list.
For those that don't mind this, more power, but some of us like to know what we're getting before we put down cash.
the perfect symbol of Microsoft's condescension to its customers and its prioritizing showing off fancy UI features over user productivity.
That would be Windows 10. Windows 10 is nothing but an evolved version of Clippy. The OS serves no useful purpose other than to get in the way of what you want to do by offering hints, suggestions, and irrelevant pieces of software, not to mention hiding the things you do need to use from you.
I mean, looking at the bloated spyware we have to deal with today, that web browser is still light-years ahead of what we have now. Sleek, a clear, easy to use menu system, BORDERS so you know where one part ends and another begins, no interference by the browser when trying to type, the list goes on.
What this world needs is a good web browser. This was it. It's been all downhill from there.
While to some extent I agree with your sentiments, the real issue is this guy and his wife went through the steps to document the crime and get the FBI involved early on. They didn't complain they were scammed months later when the criminal was long gone.
That they just happened to be well connected is only slightly tangential.
Of course if people wouldn't be gullible and hand over their money to anyone who calls them, this wouldn't be an issue.
Unlike all those U.S. citizens supporting the con artist who, the moment the last government shutdown happened, went into Joshua Tree National Park and started cutting down the Joshua Trees, or who drove their ATVs and pickup trucks where they would normally not be allowed and dug large paths, or even created new roads by destroying the environment.
White people built the first university and then WENT TO IT.
No, they didn't. The first university was in India starting around 600 B.C. The world's oldest continually operating university is in Fes, Morrocco. It was founded by a woman.
Now go crawl back into your hole and try to think of another lie because your pathetic snowflake ass can't stand the truth.
Racism exists because black people commit basically all the crime. If they stopped then people would complain about mexicans instead.
Right. THAT'S the reason racism exists. It never existed before blacks committed crimes. There was no trying to prevent blacks from getting an education, no attempts to prevent them voting, no attempts at letting them live wherever they wanted. There wasn't even any slavery. All those black people volunteered to work on the plantations with little to no pay.
Here's a question: which group commits the largest amount of mass shootings, by far, than any other group? How about child molestation?
What's going to happen in a few years when there's 100 times as many programmers as there are jobs?
That will never happen. Unlike RAM or HD space, if you believe companies, there will never be enough programmers to fill positions.
Remember back in the early 2010's (is that a word?) when companies were saying they couldn't find enough people to fill positions even though unemployment was twice what it is now? Guess what. We are at, essentially, full employment and the same companies are still bitching they can't find people to fill positions.
If we're at full employment, that means positions were filled, yet somehow these companies still can't fill positions. It's as if they have a Bag of Positions.
Macs are still overpriced and underpowered, and now you get the added bonus of never being able to upgrade a single component. In three years you throw the whole thing out and start over.
However, one thing hasn't changed. You still need to buy accessories to get them to work since Apple doesn't believe in multiple USB ports or anything similar.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to have the treble on the drums turned up and blasting every second should be strapped to a chair in an anechoic chamber, fitted with headphones, and forced to listen to that music continuously for 24 hours.
That was shit music. If you're going to use drums for something like this, you use bass. On low.
P.S. the quote at the bottom: I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth. -- Neil Armstrong