You imagine a false disparity - there's either being in the top 1%, or failing miserably. The top 1% of US salary is $428,713. I am very happy living off of less money than that - I would even say I wouldn't know what to do with that much. You can earn much less than that and still have kids go to top schools, have regular vacations, retire comfortably, live a luxurious lifestyle.
There's hundreds of movies that come out each year, maybe 10% of which are prequels or re-makes. If I go to AV Club and look up their reviews of recent movies, I see:
After The Storm, Taipei Story, Frantz, The Sense Of An Ending, Raw, Personal Shopper, My Scientology Movie, Actor Martinez, Kong: Skull Island, The Last Word, The Shack, Table 19, Catfight, Before I Fall, Wolves, Donald Cried, Logan, I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore, Collide, Rock Dog, Ash Brannon
20 movies, only two of which are big re-makes/sequels of well-known action movies. So what's the problem? If you don't like franchise movies, the large majority of movies being created aren't re-makes/sequels.
It's like saying all music today is terrible because you hate country...just listen to something else!
Why, ten years ago they bought a company that put rootkits on its CDs! Theoretically that could have allowed computers to get hacked, although it seems that never actually happened, and anyway nobody played CDs on their computer anyway, and also nobody in Sony was involved in BMG putting rootkits on their CDs, and also isn't this getting a little old when nobody buys CDs anymore? It's like complaining that Sony released an 8-Track with gain levels set WAY too high.
Under her, Yahoo nearly tripled in value, from about $16 billion to $44 billion. She won't win a prize for innovation, but financially she played it smart with Yahoo and made her investors a lot of money, and it makes sense that she would get paid handsomely for the job.
Walk into any Best Buy or Walmart and there will be a usable $200 Windows netbook I actually had a $200 HP stream 12 for a year and a half. It bundled with a year of Office (which I need, and think is much better than Libre), so that's like $80 off the $200. Worked perfectly for work and browsing web and online grad school. Tiny computer, no moving parts, I would just bring it along on trips without thinking about it. I could play Civ 5 on lowest settings, ha.
The two issues were the 32 Gigs of hard drive, with maybe 20 Gigs free after installing the OS and Office and basic apps. The 32gb drive ensured you would only want the computer if you used it as a 2nd computer or just for the most basic uses, although I guess you could use a USB 3.0 key drive, or an SD card. And the 2 GB of RAM was kind of a limiter, but really not a big deal. I know the latest rendition of the Stream has 4GB of RAM, which I imagine is fine.
I really liked the computer, but when it broke due to much abuse I went for a Macbook. If Windows 10 didn't suck so much I'd probably get another one.
Wow - so they proved in court that Carmack was involved in stealing trade secrets worth $500 million, and he still expects to be promptly paid?
If I was convicted in court of stealing from a company, I wouldn't expect a paycheck. I guess that's one more way the rich executives are different from the rest of us.
I suppose they could really help the working man by getting rid of environmental controls altogether. It's a balance, and personally I'm glad the US didn't go the way of Europe and encourage cheap, high-polluting diesel cars.
Wouldn't it make more sense to dominate the battery market? Are you one of those people who think Chevron is sitting on the technology to make 300mpg cars?
And likewise, Slackware isn't really the most popular Linux . There's just a concerned minority who leave product reviews to make some kind of statement, while 99.45% of users don't bother.
And what percent of GTX 1080 users need their Blender to render faster? Because I would guess it's somewhere below 1%. These are first and foremost for games, and they happen to have a few other use cases.
Oh come on. Slashdot has been predicting the oncoming death of Facebook since just about the beginning. Teens don't e-mail either, but Facebook and e-mail have values beyond trendiness, and as teens get older the fact that everybody (including their parents) has a Facebook account is surely going to be some kind of a draw.
Not to mention, Facebook owns Instagram and presumably the future trendy sites as well. Teens are effectively using a sub-section of Facebook, one that integrates pretty seamlessly into the parent site.
Cell phones are ridiculously cheap, even the flasgships. People use them for hours a day, at an amortized price of maybe $1-$1.50/day.
$40 phones do exist, just why save a dollar a day on something you use all the time? If you're able to afford the internet service that allows you to post on Slashdot, the only real reason not to get a quality phone is philosophical - you think having a powerful device that gives you access to everything easily actually distracts from quality of life.
This is about as far from the truth as one can be. Technology company after technology company is losing money. Amazon lost money for more than a decade before it started profiting. Long-term potential over short-term profits are endemic to Silicon Valley investments - even with the prospect of a long-shot potential profit and overwhelming chances of never earning.
And NO, it's not simply a matter of waiting for "regulatory hoops." To my mind the regulations have been bending backwards for self-driving cars. It's funny how that works with large, profitable companies that will bring a lot of high-paying jobs to the area. Self-driving cars simply do not exist yet, and while it may be years, it's also easy to imagine it will be decades before something fully, 100% autonomous exists.
A decade or two ago I was a hard core EBay re-seller, as a sort of side hobby I had Chinese movies (generally VCDs!) shipped in-mass and re-sold them in the normal mail, I used USPS and often the cheaper media mail rate. I sent hundreds (thousands?) of packages and not once, ever, did I have a problem with packages being sent in the post office getting lost or damaged. A couple times it took a week or two longer than it should.
It's been theorized the metallic Hydrogen would be a superconductor.
Superconductors allows perfect compression of electric forces with no loss. So, we could pump 3.8 billion mega-watts through a wire no thicker than a human hair. Eliminating the loss from electric transmission would give a savings of about 80% of our electricity output. We could effectively close all coal power plants the next day. It would also allow power plants to be built in places where industry is under-developed and land prices low, like Texas, and from there power all the United States.
It's a little far out there, but the way superconductors work is by essentially pushing the electron next to them to the side. If you have a long enough array of them, all pushing electrons to the side of them, you could effectively have faster-than-light communication, even without violating the laws of physics. This would allow for enormous efficiency increases amongst the stock trading algorithms that drive the modern economy.
And who knows. Basic research often leads in places people don't expect. Lasers were once thought to be a useless, pure-science-wonky invention, but they're now used to power satellites into orbit.
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"There is no discrimination against women in this industry."
So, we live in a society and all...
Anyway, the author doesn't say "we."
Are editors asleep at the wheel? Google fired the employees, so the employees should be addressed in the objective case. Whom it later fired, not who.
You imagine a false disparity - there's either being in the top 1%, or failing miserably. The top 1% of US salary is $428,713. I am very happy living off of less money than that - I would even say I wouldn't know what to do with that much. You can earn much less than that and still have kids go to top schools, have regular vacations, retire comfortably, live a luxurious lifestyle.
There's hundreds of movies that come out each year, maybe 10% of which are prequels or re-makes. If I go to AV Club and look up their reviews of recent movies, I see:
After The Storm, Taipei Story, Frantz, The Sense Of An Ending, Raw, Personal Shopper, My Scientology Movie, Actor Martinez, Kong: Skull Island, The Last Word, The Shack, Table 19, Catfight, Before I Fall, Wolves, Donald Cried, Logan, I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore, Collide, Rock Dog, Ash Brannon
20 movies, only two of which are big re-makes/sequels of well-known action movies. So what's the problem? If you don't like franchise movies, the large majority of movies being created aren't re-makes/sequels.
It's like saying all music today is terrible because you hate country...just listen to something else!
Why, ten years ago they bought a company that put rootkits on its CDs! Theoretically that could have allowed computers to get hacked, although it seems that never actually happened, and anyway nobody played CDs on their computer anyway, and also nobody in Sony was involved in BMG putting rootkits on their CDs, and also isn't this getting a little old when nobody buys CDs anymore? It's like complaining that Sony released an 8-Track with gain levels set WAY too high.
Under her, Yahoo nearly tripled in value, from about $16 billion to $44 billion. She won't win a prize for innovation, but financially she played it smart with Yahoo and made her investors a lot of money, and it makes sense that she would get paid handsomely for the job.
Walk into any Best Buy or Walmart and there will be a usable $200 Windows netbook I actually had a $200 HP stream 12 for a year and a half. It bundled with a year of Office (which I need, and think is much better than Libre), so that's like $80 off the $200. Worked perfectly for work and browsing web and online grad school. Tiny computer, no moving parts, I would just bring it along on trips without thinking about it. I could play Civ 5 on lowest settings, ha.
The two issues were the 32 Gigs of hard drive, with maybe 20 Gigs free after installing the OS and Office and basic apps. The 32gb drive ensured you would only want the computer if you used it as a 2nd computer or just for the most basic uses, although I guess you could use a USB 3.0 key drive, or an SD card. And the 2 GB of RAM was kind of a limiter, but really not a big deal. I know the latest rendition of the Stream has 4GB of RAM, which I imagine is fine.
I really liked the computer, but when it broke due to much abuse I went for a Macbook. If Windows 10 didn't suck so much I'd probably get another one.
Wow - so they proved in court that Carmack was involved in stealing trade secrets worth $500 million, and he still expects to be promptly paid?
If I was convicted in court of stealing from a company, I wouldn't expect a paycheck. I guess that's one more way the rich executives are different from the rest of us.
I suppose they could really help the working man by getting rid of environmental controls altogether. It's a balance, and personally I'm glad the US didn't go the way of Europe and encourage cheap, high-polluting diesel cars.
It's better for the environment when they don't have to fly so long.
Wouldn't it make more sense to dominate the battery market? Are you one of those people who think Chevron is sitting on the technology to make 300mpg cars?
This is Canada. Are they sure it's pisswater, or is it just that somebody spilled Canadian Beer?
Bonuses aren't really bonuses if they're incentives for doing more work.
And $2-$5 above minimum wage is pretty much nothing, which is why only teenagers, illegal immigrants,and total fuck-ups work for such a rate.
And likewise, Slackware isn't really the most popular Linux . There's just a concerned minority who leave product reviews to make some kind of statement, while 99.45% of users don't bother.
And what percent of GTX 1080 users need their Blender to render faster? Because I would guess it's somewhere below 1%. These are first and foremost for games, and they happen to have a few other use cases.
Oh come on. Slashdot has been predicting the oncoming death of Facebook since just about the beginning. Teens don't e-mail either, but Facebook and e-mail have values beyond trendiness, and as teens get older the fact that everybody (including their parents) has a Facebook account is surely going to be some kind of a draw.
Not to mention, Facebook owns Instagram and presumably the future trendy sites as well. Teens are effectively using a sub-section of Facebook, one that integrates pretty seamlessly into the parent site.
Cell phones are ridiculously cheap, even the flasgships. People use them for hours a day, at an amortized price of maybe $1-$1.50/day.
$40 phones do exist, just why save a dollar a day on something you use all the time? If you're able to afford the internet service that allows you to post on Slashdot, the only real reason not to get a quality phone is philosophical - you think having a powerful device that gives you access to everything easily actually distracts from quality of life.
This is about as far from the truth as one can be. Technology company after technology company is losing money. Amazon lost money for more than a decade before it started profiting. Long-term potential over short-term profits are endemic to Silicon Valley investments - even with the prospect of a long-shot potential profit and overwhelming chances of never earning.
And NO, it's not simply a matter of waiting for "regulatory hoops." To my mind the regulations have been bending backwards for self-driving cars. It's funny how that works with large, profitable companies that will bring a lot of high-paying jobs to the area. Self-driving cars simply do not exist yet, and while it may be years, it's also easy to imagine it will be decades before something fully, 100% autonomous exists.
A decade or two ago I was a hard core EBay re-seller, as a sort of side hobby I had Chinese movies (generally VCDs!) shipped in-mass and re-sold them in the normal mail, I used USPS and often the cheaper media mail rate. I sent hundreds (thousands?) of packages and not once, ever, did I have a problem with packages being sent in the post office getting lost or damaged. A couple times it took a week or two longer than it should.
Fuck you Google Cardboard is my favorite thing in the entire world.
I used to go to a dentist who offered patients those stupid Sony TV glasses where you could watch a movie.
Actually, I really liked it.
Googled that. They're DOA half the time, constant connection issues, and "Battery life when connected to Bluetooth is approximately Four Hours."
Yeah, thanks but no thanks. That's like saying the iphone is too expensive because you can get a shitty $35 android phone made in Brazil.
So, are you going to go Windows or Linux?
Because while having to use a dongle to access your SD card is a slight nuisance, I guess, the alternatives are for shit.
It's been theorized the metallic Hydrogen would be a superconductor.
Superconductors allows perfect compression of electric forces with no loss. So, we could pump 3.8 billion mega-watts through a wire no thicker than a human hair. Eliminating the loss from electric transmission would give a savings of about 80% of our electricity output. We could effectively close all coal power plants the next day. It would also allow power plants to be built in places where industry is under-developed and land prices low, like Texas, and from there power all the United States.
It's a little far out there, but the way superconductors work is by essentially pushing the electron next to them to the side. If you have a long enough array of them, all pushing electrons to the side of them, you could effectively have faster-than-light communication, even without violating the laws of physics. This would allow for enormous efficiency increases amongst the stock trading algorithms that drive the modern economy.
And who knows. Basic research often leads in places people don't expect. Lasers were once thought to be a useless, pure-science-wonky invention, but they're now used to power satellites into orbit.