There are some rip-off gigs out there, but by and large as a "company driver" you are going to do pretty well if you apply yourself. I drove for a mid sized OTR outfit and routinely made $1300 week after taxes by simply caring and doing my job. Yet, you always run into guys at the terminal who claim they can't get freight and make $50 bucks a week. It's one of those things where you get out what you put into it.
I doubt it was really a 40% increase in payroll.. They may have grown the amount of people drawing payroll, but I bet the per capita went down. That is just a hunch, I have no numbers..
I drove freight for a year while I was burned out from IT. It was a liberating experience. I actually made pretty good coin during that "vacation" as well. Now I am in Broadcast Engineering. We still do heavy IT... But we aren't an "IT department". And robots are not going to replace us anytime soon; broadcast engineering is still a "black art".
The answer there, AC, is calm down. And buy a used phone. It's all good, bro. See, you and I are a lot alike. We have the same (basic) needs. But don't cut off your nose to spite your face... Let the Fat, Lazy, Drooling Sacks of Shit who can afford to drop $1000 iPhones in their champagne do so!! It makes the cheaper phones better. You can't tell me there aren't $250 new AND used options that don't fit your basic needs.
I won't claim it's a direct analogy, but take halo cars for example. Just because I can't afford a Ford GT doesn't mean they should stop making them. The GT's mere existence makes Fiestas and Fusions better in the long run.
They detect the unique embedded signatures (audio watermarks, etc.)
Which is all poppycock. Neilsen's "psychoacoustic" chirp tones do not work reliably. I am a broadcast engineer. I am blacklisted from being a Neilsen Home. But my mate a few blocks away is not. He signed up, and we played with the device. I won't go into specifics, but you can tell when it hears a tone because it goes about phoning home the telemetry. If it does not catch them, it is basically reporting that you aren't watching the tube. We observed the unit and found it was only catching our station's chirps 25% of the time, but that major national spots (commercials) were recognized much more often. Still not great, though. On the FM radio side, some of my colleagues have hipped me to the black-art of pre-processing your audio so that Nielsen tones "stand out" better in your transmitted signal. Anyway, the reason I thought this was relevant is that if the Silverpush apps work reliably, you can bet its because they are RECORDING! That's the only sure-fire method.
we don't need gun control, we need bullet-control. If a bullet cost five thousand dollars...
I doubt the market would bear $5k/bullet, but you might be on to something. Perhaps by swapping lotteries for a bullet tax we could kill two birds with one stone, pardon the pun. The religious zealots get their anti-gamblings measure and their bullets--crazy as it sounds--, and the schools still get the money.
Slashdot Mirror
Says the guy who used a hyphen to do the job of a semi-colon.
Wake me up when Windows 10 Ultimate Final Gold Infinity comes out
..when it was The Internet v.s. POTS. Will there ever be a truly decentralized global network?
This dumb-ass "attack" or the fact that these clowns have jobs as researchers?
Right. Give your replacement just enough of the technical info to hang themselves with it.
There are some rip-off gigs out there, but by and large as a "company driver" you are going to do pretty well if you apply yourself. I drove for a mid sized OTR outfit and routinely made $1300 week after taxes by simply caring and doing my job. Yet, you always run into guys at the terminal who claim they can't get freight and make $50 bucks a week. It's one of those things where you get out what you put into it.
I doubt it was really a 40% increase in payroll.. They may have grown the amount of people drawing payroll, but I bet the per capita went down. That is just a hunch, I have no numbers..
I drove freight for a year while I was burned out from IT. It was a liberating experience. I actually made pretty good coin during that "vacation" as well. Now I am in Broadcast Engineering. We still do heavy IT... But we aren't an "IT department". And robots are not going to replace us anytime soon; broadcast engineering is still a "black art".
..Is that the company's sales are up 15% from 2015, and "represents the 10th consecutive year of record results".
Greedy bastards, plain and simple.
I assure you, my friend, if you tell 7 billion people they get "nothing", you will have 7 billion pitch forks aimed at you.
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound rude. I have read them all. Note, those three books are called "The Bridge Series".
I was kind of hoping that it would turn into its own autonomous trade zone, like in "All Tomorrow's Parties."
FTFY:
I was kind of hoping that it would turn into its own autonomous trade zone, like in "Virtual Light."
Damn, Ray Kurzweil and William Gibson make front page on the same day? What is this, 1996?!?
..That didn't get one single comment above 2
I equals V over R. If your battery cannot supply the amps you are asking it for, it may pop.
All ready to make first post.... but my Mac Book Pro froze!
Well, shit. There goes my dream of walking into a Tesla store and buying a $35,000 electric car next year.
Let me guess, the Rust Code really drives the ladies crazy. You're overrun with dates. Please! Share some of that code with me!
The answer there, AC, is calm down. And buy a used phone. It's all good, bro. See, you and I are a lot alike. We have the same (basic) needs. But don't cut off your nose to spite your face... Let the Fat, Lazy, Drooling Sacks of Shit who can afford to drop $1000 iPhones in their champagne do so!! It makes the cheaper phones better. You can't tell me there aren't $250 new AND used options that don't fit your basic needs.
I won't claim it's a direct analogy, but take halo cars for example. Just because I can't afford a Ford GT doesn't mean they should stop making them. The GT's mere existence makes Fiestas and Fusions better in the long run.
They detect the unique embedded signatures (audio watermarks, etc.)
Which is all poppycock. Neilsen's "psychoacoustic" chirp tones do not work reliably. I am a broadcast engineer. I am blacklisted from being a Neilsen Home. But my mate a few blocks away is not. He signed up, and we played with the device. I won't go into specifics, but you can tell when it hears a tone because it goes about phoning home the telemetry. If it does not catch them, it is basically reporting that you aren't watching the tube. We observed the unit and found it was only catching our station's chirps 25% of the time, but that major national spots (commercials) were recognized much more often. Still not great, though. On the FM radio side, some of my colleagues have hipped me to the black-art of pre-processing your audio so that Nielsen tones "stand out" better in your transmitted signal. Anyway, the reason I thought this was relevant is that if the Silverpush apps work reliably, you can bet its because they are RECORDING! That's the only sure-fire method.
A list of apps using Silverpush is available at: https://public.addonsdetector.... I'm in no way affiliated with this site.
Slashdotted! It's been a while since I've seen that!
Troll much? ACPI has worked fine on all the laptops I've had in the last decade. Some have needed hands-on configuration, but that's the worst-case.
we don't need gun control, we need bullet-control. If a bullet cost five thousand dollars...
I doubt the market would bear $5k/bullet, but you might be on to something. Perhaps by swapping lotteries for a bullet tax we could kill two birds with one stone, pardon the pun. The religious zealots get their anti-gamblings measure and their bullets--crazy as it sounds--, and the schools still get the money.
..Can I run Enlightenment or XFCE (for example) or am I bound to KDE?
that this ends up on a user's phone? I'm assuming it's not through the Play Store and the user was visiting Russian donkey porn sites?