I'm not making that assumption at all. Indeed 20% of families have someone with pre-existing conditions and until Obamacare moving in hopes of a better job wasn't an option. On the otherhand, that's also a perk employers are paying and the cost of that perk was rising as much as 20% a year, in some years so people were getting raises even if it was not in their pay envelope.
I'm just saying it's not neccessarily the employers job to watch out for employees. Unions are needed for those industries that have a race to the bottom. For some industries employers do compete to attract employees by looking out for them over their careers. it varies.
I have no problem with employers who seek to pay the least they can. Employees who feel valued or need the job will stay. Some employers seek to make sure people feel fairly compensated others don't. It's their call.
People who feel like that employers have an obligation to look out for their employees should join a union if their employer isn't meeting that standard. That's what unions are for.
in the US the average inflation rate was 2.1% last year. and probably higher next year but CPI raises are backward looking. I believe Social security got a 2.9% CPI based increase this year.
So fo the average person, any raise under 2.1 to 2.9% wasn't a raise, it was a cost of living adjustment for inflation.
However that's the average person. Many people's incomes include things like benefits and the cost of those went up for employers. There's all sorts of other ways that high income earners dont' feel inflation the same way that lower income earners do. For example, if you have a big fat mortgage without and ARM then inflation is actually cutting the amount you are paying (effectively!) so it's actually helping.
So if you are a lower paid person and you did not get a raise nore than 2% then you got a cut due to inflation.
His crew went to Xerox Parc. The actual realization of desktop computing for the masses was carried out by apple. Englebart was living in the future for a long time before we finally had a macintosh on our own desktop.
People also don't appreciate the question Englebart posed. It's in the summary above. No one even knew what productivity enhancement was possible from an interactive computer. There wasn't even a visi-calc back then. He didn't just live in a world with a text editor or visicalc. He immersed himself and his team in a world not just where streaming video, and tactile control of the computer (mice and buttons), and hyper links existed, but they were available on your desktop. No one had any idea what that would be like. How useful might that be?
in short, desktop computing. Seems mundane when you boil it down to that. But we didn't get there for decades and he had been there and had come back to planet earth to tell us about it.
I'm amazed to see articles in the Register and such saying this wasn't so great or that other people deserve credit. Sure he had a supportive govt program manager. But the way you get one of those is to deliver on a vision. and Delivering is harder than it sounds. Sure telefunken might have had a wheeled mouse. Yes V. Bush once imagined some thing called a "memex", as did a few sci fi writers. Really if you want the true vision that foreshadowed this have a look at the reading tablets and terminals of Kubrick's 2001
I think what people really can't fathom today is what things were like at the time. at that time the vast majority of people with big projects to run were still submitting jobs on punch cards. interactivity wasn't anyones daily experience, Teletype 110 baud terminals were starting to get common for dial-up time sharing. But you didn't have these on your desk.There was one down on the 3rd floor and people took turns using it. In a few very wealthy places There were some dumb character terminals and some vector graphics storage scopes but windows? Hyperlinks? on screen picture-in-a-picture video conferencing? Simultaneous text editing by many people. What he was showing was Arthur C Clark's definition of magic.
Now imagine pulling a stunt like that live!
For context, Most professional people even as late as the year 2000 still would not trust a laptop to give a presentation-- viewgraphs were the only way to be sure your presentation didn't crash or fail to project.
It was an event that's never been equaled in technology integration and showmanship using stuff 30 years in advance
Your face, age weight, aren't tens of thousands of people already have your bank account number since you paid your bills with a check. It's in data bases anyone can purchase.
When I worked for the Govt, all salary information was a public record. Earth did not stop spinning. Depending on how they obfuscate whatever the identity credentials are in their (in the US, that would be social security numbers) there might be some issue, but there's no enough information in the article tell
It is hard to sort out who in every case but in aggregate it's safe to say china, N. Korea, and Russia appear to abuse the internet. So affected countries should cut off all access from IPs in those countries on certain days of the week. Say Friday for Russia, thurdsay for china and wednesday for N. Korea. While some people in those countries will manage to use proxies to evade the block it's going to be a grand annoyance and reminder. It will tie bussiness productivity to state policies on both state sponsored hacking and winking acceptance of pirate hacking. If Aliexpress or Some Semiconductor company can't transact bussiness with a US or european market 1 day a week it's going to hurt.
And by one day a week it gives room to increase or decrease the weekly timeout.
Generally bloomberg is pretty reliable so one wants to give them the benefit of the doubt. And they must think their sources reliable enough to make them worth protecting. But at this point is seems like they do need to defend their certainty more.
Super micro presumably can only inspect the boards it has now not the boards it shipped. It could try recalling some of those but if the infiltration was selective and rare that might not be possible. For example if a few of the boards shipped to say, the NSA, where modified, a sampling might not find them, and the NSA would never let a board leave their facility once it goes into use. So that could be the discrepancy here. The china-modified boards might very well have been shaped to mainly go to orders for targeted customers.
It seems like getting to the bottom of this would be useful.
A good place to start would be those photos accompanying the Bloomberg article. They showed a specific chip on a specific board. So where did that photo come from and is the circled chip really what they claim. That presumably is answerable.
see, steve bannon was right, there is a deep staph, it surrounds us. it penetrates us. It binds the universe together. Race Bannon and Johnny quest found this a long time ago when they journeyed to the center of the earth and brought back Yoda and Hitler.
Just because you can compete doesn't make it athletic. Until chess is an Olympic sport no way should video games be a sport.
Video gaming is not esports, it's video competition.
This is like how so many fields seem to add the word "science" to their name.
Data science, social science, bioscience....
It's literally a participation medal for the esteem impaired.
You don't need to call it esports to be worthy of respect in its own field.
Personally I have been waging an effort to use the word engineering. Like bioengineering . Yes same crutch to dress up the very worthy field of biology in the garb of engineering . But my feeling is I'm elevating the word engineering back to where it belongs. Engineering is not science for lightweights.
As a halophile american I'm insulted that people think my way of life is imperiling. Hey if you hate salt in the water supply then you should stop peeing mr high and mighty Halo-phobe. Can't we just leave salt people alone! this all started with the bible, and the denigration of people turned into pillars of salt. I think it must all be a mis translation of the word Salt. Who ever heard of a pillar of salt?
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So they work 12.5% less and have better social services. Sounds like a great plan
the average german works fewer days and has better social programs, health care, food security, and infrastructure.
just turn it all into limestone and bury it in the ground. Oh wait...
Well no that's not what I said. I said "Employees who need the job will stay". Exactly for the reasons you listed.
I'm not making that assumption at all. Indeed 20% of families have someone with pre-existing conditions and until Obamacare moving in hopes of a better job wasn't an option. On the otherhand, that's also a perk employers are paying and the cost of that perk was rising as much as 20% a year, in some years so people were getting raises even if it was not in their pay envelope.
I'm just saying it's not neccessarily the employers job to watch out for employees. Unions are needed for those industries that have a race to the bottom. For some industries employers do compete to attract employees by looking out for them over their careers. it varies.
I have no problem with employers who seek to pay the least they can. Employees who feel valued or need the job will stay. Some employers seek to make sure people feel fairly compensated others don't. It's their call.
People who feel like that employers have an obligation to look out for their employees should join a union if their employer isn't meeting that standard. That's what unions are for.
in the US the average inflation rate was 2.1% last year. and probably higher next year but CPI raises are backward looking. I believe Social security got a 2.9% CPI based increase this year.
So fo the average person, any raise under 2.1 to 2.9% wasn't a raise, it was a cost of living adjustment for inflation.
However that's the average person. Many people's incomes include things like benefits and the cost of those went up for employers. There's all sorts of other ways that high income earners dont' feel inflation the same way that lower income earners do. For example, if you have a big fat mortgage without and ARM then inflation is actually cutting the amount you are paying (effectively!) so it's actually helping.
So if you are a lower paid person and you did not get a raise nore than 2% then you got a cut due to inflation.
His crew went to Xerox Parc. The actual realization of desktop computing for the masses was carried out by apple. Englebart was living in the future for a long time before we finally had a macintosh on our own desktop.
People also don't appreciate the question Englebart posed. It's in the summary above. No one even knew what productivity enhancement was possible from an interactive computer. There wasn't even a visi-calc back then. He didn't just live in a world with a text editor or visicalc. He immersed himself and his team in a world not just where streaming video, and tactile control of the computer (mice and buttons), and hyper links existed, but they were available on your desktop. No one had any idea what that would be like. How useful might that be?
in short, desktop computing. Seems mundane when you boil it down to that. But we didn't get there for decades and he had been there and had come back to planet earth to tell us about it.
I'm amazed to see articles in the Register and such saying this wasn't so great or that other people deserve credit. Sure he had a supportive govt program manager. But the way you get one of those is to deliver on a vision. and Delivering is harder than it sounds. Sure telefunken might have had a wheeled mouse. Yes V. Bush once imagined some thing called a "memex", as did a few sci fi writers. Really if you want the true vision that foreshadowed this have a look at the reading tablets and terminals of Kubrick's 2001
I think what people really can't fathom today is what things were like at the time. at that time the vast majority of people with big projects to run were still submitting jobs on punch cards. interactivity wasn't anyones daily experience, Teletype 110 baud terminals were starting to get common for dial-up time sharing. But you didn't have these on your desk.There was one down on the 3rd floor and people took turns using it. In a few very wealthy places There were some dumb character terminals and some vector graphics storage scopes but windows? Hyperlinks? on screen picture-in-a-picture video conferencing? Simultaneous text editing by many people. What he was showing was Arthur C Clark's definition of magic.
Now imagine pulling a stunt like that live!
For context, Most professional people even as late as the year 2000 still would not trust a laptop to give a presentation-- viewgraphs were the only way to be sure your presentation didn't crash or fail to project.
It was an event that's never been equaled in technology integration and showmanship using stuff 30 years in advance
The network is the computer. Java Ubiquitous computing. Smart toasters.
https://www.javaworld.com/arti...
http://i.imgur.com/7umOJ.gif
Gaaaaahhhhhhh! I was going to say something here but the black hole of stupidity sucked my brain in. Is this a contest for the stupidest lawsuit ever?
Your face, age weight, aren't tens of thousands of people already have your bank account number since you paid your bills with a check. It's in data bases anyone can purchase.
here's a portal providng lists of ACH numbers
http://hcacaring.org/util/docu...
Charity drives, funeral collections, and alike broadcast account numbers in the open for people to deposit to.
888173401
Have fun!
Interesting how you completely glossed over the bank account numbers part in the list of data.
every time you write a check or pay by ACH or deposit a check or use your debit card you tell someone your bank account number. This is not a problem
When I worked for the Govt, all salary information was a public record. Earth did not stop spinning. Depending on how they obfuscate whatever the identity credentials are in their (in the US, that would be social security numbers) there might be some issue, but there's no enough information in the article tell
It is hard to sort out who in every case but in aggregate it's safe to say china, N. Korea, and Russia appear to abuse the internet. So affected countries should cut off all access from IPs in those countries on certain days of the week. Say Friday for Russia, thurdsay for china and wednesday for N. Korea. While some people in those countries will manage to use proxies to evade the block it's going to be a grand annoyance and reminder. It will tie bussiness productivity to state policies on both state sponsored hacking and winking acceptance of pirate hacking. If Aliexpress or Some Semiconductor company can't transact bussiness with a US or european market 1 day a week it's going to hurt.
And by one day a week it gives room to increase or decrease the weekly timeout.
Generally bloomberg is pretty reliable so one wants to give them the benefit of the doubt. And they must think their sources reliable enough to make them worth protecting. But at this point is seems like they do need to defend their certainty more.
Super micro presumably can only inspect the boards it has now not the boards it shipped. It could try recalling some of those but if the infiltration was selective and rare that might not be possible. For example if a few of the boards shipped to say, the NSA, where modified, a sampling might not find them, and the NSA would never let a board leave their facility once it goes into use. So that could be the discrepancy here. The china-modified boards might very well have been shaped to mainly go to orders for targeted customers.
It seems like getting to the bottom of this would be useful.
A good place to start would be those photos accompanying the Bloomberg article. They showed a specific chip on a specific board. So where did that photo come from and is the circled chip really what they claim. That presumably is answerable.
see, steve bannon was right, there is a deep staph, it surrounds us. it penetrates us. It binds the universe together. Race Bannon and Johnny quest found this a long time ago when they journeyed to the center of the earth and brought back Yoda and Hitler.
Burger king has always used robots.
Everyone gets their news from the news sources.
Demonstration events not really part of the olymics anymore than the artwork and music venues and hot dog stands
Just because you can compete doesn't make it athletic. Until chess is an Olympic sport no way should video games be a sport.
Video gaming is not esports, it's video competition.
This is like how so many fields seem to add the word "science" to their name.
Data science, social science, bioscience ....
It's literally a participation medal for the esteem impaired.
You don't need to call it esports to be worthy of respect in its own field.
Personally I have been waging an effort to use the word engineering. Like bioengineering . Yes same crutch to dress up the very worthy field of biology in the garb of engineering . But my feeling is I'm elevating the word engineering back to where it belongs. Engineering is not science for lightweights.
As a halophile american I'm insulted that people think my way of life is imperiling. Hey if you hate salt in the water supply then you should stop peeing mr high and mighty Halo-phobe. Can't we just leave salt people alone! this all started with the bible, and the denigration of people turned into pillars of salt. I think it must all be a mis translation of the word Salt. Who ever heard of a pillar of salt?