Reading TFA on the indianna contractor who sued the basis of his suit is that 1) Uber requires him to bring and maintain his own tools 2) expects him to work a certain number of contracted hours.
As far as I know that's exactly the dividing line between contractor and employee. According to the IRS If you hire a maid, then it's an employee if the employer supplies the tools and otherwise its could be claimed to be a contractor.
Now the part about Tips is intriguing. I wonder why drivers don't tell their passengers that. Thus I'm skeptical.
The hell with capitalism it only brings greater and greater misery to the people! The hell with the bosses and their governments and their wars! Long live Lenin and Trotsky!
Yes commrade, after Ubergate the mechanisms of the state will melt aways and we will all become Uber comrades. Everyone will be required to drive and to be a passenger.
So one can imagine a case where a program crashes and sends telemetry to microsoft from inside a secure computing enviornment or otherwise exports secret bussiness data. This could invalidate MS from all government computing.
The thing about performance appraisals is that they are a process. What is good about process is that while in many cases it's not required its good at rounding up the edge cases. It assures fairness in opportunity. Otherwise the squeaky wheels get 90% of management's attention. it is also a chain. It's a time when middle and upper management communicate about employees. it's a time when every employee gets time with the boss. All of these things of course should happen all the time but they can't. there isn't enough demand or time so instead we have to reserve time for it. Thus even though for most employees the process is perfunctory it's not perfunctory for everyone. Also you get surpises. You hear things you wouldn't have heard about aspirations and frustrations in these 1 on 1s because the framework of telling what you did the last year brings it out. It's a time when a manager can tell you that if you want a certain new job what you need to change to get it.
the thing about programable thermostats are that they are as freindly as a vintage VCR or Clock radio to program. But before the word went digital there were the old Homeywell thermostats with a twist timer. Just like an egg timer in your kitcher, you twist the dial and it counts down the hours. while it's ticking it stays off. so when you leave or it is night time you just give it a twist. No need to be hyper accurate.
I just started a new service called Romney Ride. Rather than having a hipster conversation with some slightly sketchy driver, You get to ride on top of the car in a dog crate. Look for the App.
Many people know that Perl is spelled "perl" and not pearl, but a lot of people don't know it's pronounced "Gob gipple fish waddle". So if you have been wondering while real perl monks ignore you when you ask a question about perl now you know.
Seriously, if you want a shell with magic powers just use perl. it's exactly what it was originally built for. It is wood chipper to pythons battery powered hedge trimmer when it comes to sysadmin tasks. It's the ideal sys admin and glue language.
I wonder how they get a rip before the DVD comes out? I'm going to guess that the theaters now get digital copies and those get rippped. I wonder why they can't control that effectively. E.g. watermark every theater's version differently.
It seems like a thin line between what MS is doing and what ransom wear does. Both force you to comply with some demand or lose access to your computer.
Microsoft get's a lot of money from other people's phones.
I think this deal is about finding a way to squeeze every other chinese vendor even harder. Microsoft can't sue from the outside because the Chinese gov't knows how to tilt the tables. But if a chinese company sues another one, that's a whole different ball game. MS gives Xiaomi some exclusives and now they all of a sudden want to keep them exclusive. Xiaomi is an ambitious hungry company that is competing at the low end the market. Not just for phones but for all the components of the integrated electronic living space. Microsoft is offering them a way to not only glue all that together in a way that is an instant standard-- equivalent to say, compaq running MS dos that runs IBM lotus 123 out of the box with no changes. Now they can compete not just on price but on being better. And they will want to protect that advantage for themselves.
So now MS has a club to beat up all the other non-paying patent violators that's a chinese company
So are voter registrations but the government isn't supposed to use them to decide if you get your Social Security Check this month. Just because the Gov't can track you doesn't me they are allowed to.
TracFone is the company behind many of the cell phone carriers: TracFone, NET10 Wireless, Total Wireless, Straight Talk, SafeLink Wireless, Telcel América, Simple Mobile, and Page Plus Cellular. As has been said, a cellphone is a tracking device that also makes phone calls.
Why do you think Apple bought the electronic device rights to Liquid Metal Technology then never built a phone out of it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Clearly, they saw how google had become a tracking company and they needed to keep this out of the hands of hands before they made the Android model T-1000 human tracker.
I only use a Commander Adama phone, or none at all just like Sarah Conner taught me.
For a digitial material what is the difference between renting and owning? You rent the book, read it. Now you have read it. Now consider instead buying a book. Ideally this costs more than renting it. Now you have read it. It's not like you are going to put a digital book on a bookshelf. You could sell it but that's a hassle. Indeed the cost of renting it ought to be about the same as buying it minus what you could re-sell it for. SO really in an ideal world renting is what you really want for a digital book.
The real problem here is two fold. First, things are not ideal. the price of a digital book these days isn't a lot less than the paper version. Amazon says I own it but I can't resell it or read it on something not on a kindle so I don't really have possession of it. I have basically leased it.
If I really owned it I could re-sell it.
A virtue of digital materials is that they don't degrade and their market is global not local like most physical objects. Thus their may be a very large lifespan limiting the total sales of the book to a smaller number than if the book was physical or otherwise not transferable. It's not correct to say that if they charged less for the book that one would sell more as there are a finite number of readers for any given book
The trouble with that is that it potentially means book prices will rise for books that are re-sellable. A lot of people would therefore prefer to rent a book than own it in a transferable sense, if renting cost less.
Thus I'm all for a model where books are rented.
The problem here is we have neither. We have purchases of expensive digital books that cannot be re-sold.
As for the force of law enforcing this I don't see a problem. That's not the core of the problem.
I'm totally in favor of metered service. Caps are a form of that that are convenient. Basically one can plan a budget of so much for month that's correct nearly all the time but if you want more than that then you can pay incrementally. It's a fine idea that ties charges to usage.
The problem with this model is if there are certain services that escape the cap. If T-mobile can let me binge-on Hulu or if Facebook will let me watch certain parts of the internet they get payola from for free then this is just bending net neutrality over and reaming it hard.
So metered service = good but it has this slippery slope to evil.
therefore I oppose caps until all ISPs divest of content services and are regulated by public utilities. The risk of losing net neutrality is too great. it's directly analogous to the free press.
running else into walls is really fun and you can get kids to spend hours learning stuff with a pay off like that. It's about setting the hook. Later on programming becomes fun for other reasons like the feeling of a flow state or the accomplishment of a product or the edorphin release of grocking a new algorithm that does something you thought was impossible. But you can't get to those in one step. We let kids read captain underpants before we expect them to find reading Arthur C Clark any fun. It's about progression and self motivation at an appropriate level. Not all kids will be coders but letting the ones that are find out they are is fine.
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The answer is Quills.
Reading TFA on the indianna contractor who sued the basis of his suit is that
1) Uber requires him to bring and maintain his own tools
2) expects him to work a certain number of contracted hours.
As far as I know that's exactly the dividing line between contractor and employee. According to the IRS If you hire a maid, then it's an employee if the employer supplies the tools and otherwise its could be claimed to be a contractor.
Now the part about Tips is intriguing. I wonder why drivers don't tell their passengers that. Thus I'm skeptical.
The hell with capitalism it only brings greater and greater misery to the people! The hell with the bosses and their governments and their wars! Long live Lenin and Trotsky!
Yes commrade, after Ubergate the mechanisms of the state will melt aways and we will all become Uber comrades. Everyone will be required to drive and to be a passenger.
So one can imagine a case where a program crashes and sends telemetry to microsoft from inside a secure computing enviornment or otherwise exports secret bussiness data. This could invalidate MS from all government computing.
Boy this is at the scale of the Ken Thompson attack. Compilers that insert backdoors
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenT...
a flying monkey. And the physics is less stack against that too.
The thing about performance appraisals is that they are a process. What is good about process is that while in many cases it's not required its good at rounding up the edge cases. It assures fairness in opportunity. Otherwise the squeaky wheels get 90% of management's attention. it is also a chain. It's a time when middle and upper management communicate about employees. it's a time when every employee gets time with the boss. All of these things of course should happen all the time but they can't. there isn't enough demand or time so instead we have to reserve time for it. Thus even though for most employees the process is perfunctory it's not perfunctory for everyone. Also you get surpises. You hear things you wouldn't have heard about aspirations and frustrations in these 1 on 1s because the framework of telling what you did the last year brings it out. It's a time when a manager can tell you that if you want a certain new job what you need to change to get it.
Baghead has some great ideas at Hooli.
the thing about programable thermostats are that they are as freindly as a vintage VCR or Clock radio to program. But before the word went digital there were the old Homeywell thermostats with a twist timer. Just like an egg timer in your kitcher, you twist the dial and it counts down the hours. while it's ticking it stays off. so when you leave or it is night time you just give it a twist. No need to be hyper accurate.
I just started a new service called Romney Ride. Rather than having a hipster conversation with some slightly sketchy driver, You get to ride on top of the car in a dog crate. Look for the App.
perl can look rather odd if you are not used to it.
Yes but in this instance it looks like Bash! and Awk and Sed and Grep. So for a shell, the syntax is just like what you are replacing.
Is a self referential acronym Hipster?
Many people know that Perl is spelled "perl" and not pearl, but a lot of people don't know it's pronounced "Gob gipple fish waddle". So if you have been wondering while real perl monks ignore you when you ask a question about perl now you know.
Seriously, if you want a shell with magic powers just use perl. it's exactly what it was originally built for. It is wood chipper to pythons battery powered hedge trimmer when it comes to sysadmin tasks. It's the ideal sys admin and glue language.
as you spin out, pulling a 365.
I wonder how they get a rip before the DVD comes out? I'm going to guess that the theaters now get digital copies and those get rippped. I wonder why they can't control that effectively. E.g. watermark every theater's version differently.
It seems like a thin line between what MS is doing and what ransom wear does. Both force you to comply with some demand or lose access to your computer.
Microsoft get's a lot of money from other people's phones.
I think this deal is about finding a way to squeeze every other chinese vendor even harder. Microsoft can't sue from the outside because the Chinese gov't knows how to tilt the tables. But if a chinese company sues another one, that's a whole different ball game. MS gives Xiaomi some exclusives and now they all of a sudden want to keep them exclusive. Xiaomi is an ambitious hungry company that is competing at the low end the market. Not just for phones but for all the components of the integrated electronic living space. Microsoft is offering them a way to not only glue all that together in a way that is an instant standard-- equivalent to say, compaq running MS dos that runs IBM lotus 123 out of the box with no changes. Now they can compete not just on price but on being better. And they will want to protect that advantage for themselves.
So now MS has a club to beat up all the other non-paying patent violators that's a chinese company
So are voter registrations but the government isn't supposed to use them to decide if you get your Social Security Check this month. Just because the Gov't can track you doesn't me they are allowed to.
TracFone is the company behind many of the cell phone carriers: TracFone, NET10 Wireless, Total Wireless, Straight Talk, SafeLink Wireless, Telcel América, Simple Mobile, and Page Plus Cellular. As has been said, a cellphone is a tracking device that also makes phone calls.
Why do you think Apple bought the electronic device rights to Liquid Metal Technology then never built a phone out of it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Clearly, they saw how google had become a tracking company and they needed to keep this out of the hands of hands before they made the Android model T-1000 human tracker.
I only use a Commander Adama phone, or none at all just like Sarah Conner taught me.
For a digitial material what is the difference between renting and owning? You rent the book, read it. Now you have read it. Now consider instead buying a book. Ideally this costs more than renting it. Now you have read it. It's not like you are going to put a digital book on a bookshelf. You could sell it but that's a hassle. Indeed the cost of renting it ought to be about the same as buying it minus what you could re-sell it for. SO really in an ideal world renting is what you really want for a digital book.
The real problem here is two fold. First, things are not ideal. the price of a digital book these days isn't a lot less than the paper version. Amazon says I own it but I can't resell it or read it on something not on a kindle so I don't really have possession of it. I have basically leased it.
If I really owned it I could re-sell it.
A virtue of digital materials is that they don't degrade and their market is global not local like most physical objects. Thus their may be a very large lifespan limiting the total sales of the book to a smaller number than if the book was physical or otherwise not transferable. It's not correct to say that if they charged less for the book that one would sell more as there are a finite number of readers for any given book
The trouble with that is that it potentially means book prices will rise for books that are re-sellable. A lot of people would therefore prefer to rent a book than own it in a transferable sense, if renting cost less.
Thus I'm all for a model where books are rented.
The problem here is we have neither. We have purchases of expensive digital books that cannot be re-sold.
As for the force of law enforcing this I don't see a problem. That's not the core of the problem.
I'm totally in favor of metered service. Caps are a form of that that are convenient. Basically one can plan a budget of so much for month that's correct nearly all the time but if you want more than that then you can pay incrementally. It's a fine idea that ties charges to usage.
The problem with this model is if there are certain services that escape the cap. If T-mobile can let me binge-on Hulu or if Facebook will let me watch certain parts of the internet they get payola from for free then this is just bending net neutrality over and reaming it hard.
So metered service = good but it has this slippery slope to evil.
therefore I oppose caps until all ISPs divest of content services and are regulated by public utilities. The risk of losing net neutrality is too great. it's directly analogous to the free press.
running else into walls is really fun and you can get kids to spend hours learning stuff with a pay off like that. It's about setting the hook. Later on programming becomes fun for other reasons like the feeling of a flow state or the accomplishment of a product or the edorphin release of grocking a new algorithm that does something you thought was impossible. But you can't get to those in one step. We let kids read captain underpants before we expect them to find reading Arthur C Clark any fun. It's about progression and self motivation at an appropriate level. Not all kids will be coders but letting the ones that are find out they are is fine.
These devices were designed by Nathan Myhrvold. They are accurate but you have the wrong pulse.
Yes, privacy is more expensive. Do you value privacy?
If Apple maintains its privacy oriented stance I might actually consider one of these.