Here's a smarter solution for lower-cost door-to-door delivery:
1) Use non-union labor to deliver the mail - just like newspaper carriers. Pull a Ronald Reagan and say GTFO - you're all fired. Let the expensive but obsolete union carriers fight it out in court while the system and public get used to mail delivery at 1/3 the cost.
2) Deliver TWO days only. Not "no Saturdays", not "ever other day" - pick two days of the week and stagger them around the six days of delivery so you can get by with 1/3 the delivery workforce (which now costs only 1/3 for wages/benefits) and 15% of today's cost.
3) Buy lightweight body armor and cameras for carriers. In addition to dog bites, enough mail gets delivered in crappy neighborhoods where some gunshot protection would be nice too. The cameras could also be used to cut down on other crime by live-feeding to the cops or reviewing whatever the carrier saw if he/she got jumped.
4) Fuck the flying drones. Especially in Canada and other places where it snows/blows/rains. Non-unionized labor is a hell of a lot cheaper.
I wasn't entirely serious, but I'd suspect anyone on Slashdot would feel confident enough in their tech abilities to snip out a mic they didn't want if they really felt strongly about it.
Hey editors. Exactly how many stories a day are we going to get in this format:
Is your (competing product) too (bad attribute)? Do you want more (good attribute)? Check out the (product), which just added (feature) and is now selling for (price) (link to store). Also, there's a (alternative product model) that gives you (good attribute) for just another (price difference). Hey all you tech folks: buy now - limited quantities available!
When I was young, people would talk about the horrors of totalitarianism in Soviet Russia. I guess we only have Apple and North Korea to show us what it looks like now. But as for Apple customers, I have no sympathy: YOU decided to enter the walled garden. Enjoy your toilet paper ration.
>> NBA for deliberately prolonging the series with the game 5 suspension of Draymond Green
He was back for games 6 and 7...and they still lost. We haven't seen that kind of choke since the Republicans nominated their 2016 presidential candidate.
>> see? don't have to worry about hacked passwords
Rush Limbaugh told me to buy it because it was safe, so I did. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2012/08/03/carbonite-ceo-concedes-dropping-rush-limbaugh-put-bigger-hole-in-our-revenue-than-previously-expected/
I have Netflix to address my guilt over pirate streaming all kinds of other stuff, like movies, GoT, etc. (With Netflix at least I'm paying for SOMETHING.) But since I stream mainly to avoid commercials, if Netflix went there too I'd probably fall back into 90%+ streaming again. (I almost went there already when they pulled Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica in the same year - what's a geek to watch legally?)
In terms of ship-board computing, personal communication and handheld devices, I think we're already at or past Star Trek standards. If we could just wear pajamas at all times I'd be 100% happy.
When I was in Beijing my favorite thing was seeing all the people wandering around with their "Nikee" or "Hilfinger" branded clothing. It might even have come out of the same sweatshop. So if someone can find a "iFrone 6" that's a clone of the iPhone 6, I'd happily pay $50 for it.
Heh - I remember "the weather channel". My grandparents used to watch that.
Why aren't you just bookmarking "weather underground" or leaving that as your homepage on your box? e.g., https://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:75201.1.99999
VW, you're full of it. I still have a diesel Golf collecting dust in my garage and I love it. I'd buy another car from you if:
1) It's electric and hooks up to the standard charging stations 2) It can run 150 miles after eight years in the cold (the wimpy 80-100 mile range in perfect conditions on your eGolf is shit) 3) You get some "self driving" features in there (this is my commuter car and I want to be napping, not driving)
However, this "30 models" boast looks like bullshit tossed up to distract the regulators who are (rightfully) about to smack you around some. Come out with a realistic plan that former VW buyers like me can support, though, and yeah, I can look past the "clean diesel" scandal - not too many of us looking at the engines in the 2006+ models really believed you pulled it off anyway.
In related news, Ms. Petterline retired from teaching the third grade at Chesterfield Elementary this year. The cultural vandalism she is about to commit by never again providing a free 3rd grade education to 20-30 students once a year is truly shocking.
Huawei. I bought my kid one of these recently and he loves it. (Well, actually he loves it as much as he loves a free phone from a Dad too cheap to buy a kid an Apple or name-brand Android product)
>> These OEMs are, in order of their market capture
FWIW, the phrase you wanted to use was "market share"
>> New research from the Pew Research Center shows that cyberattacks are the second most-feared entity among Americans after ISIS.
#3 on the most feared list, slighly above manbearpig, is dihydrogen oxide. We MUST ban this dangerous compound now. Think of the children! http://www.dhmo.org/
>> "Snaps aren't the only new package manager for Linux distributions that aims to simplify installation of applications. There's also AppImage and OrbitalApps."
15 System Tools You Don’t Have To Install on Windows Anymore http://www.howtogeek.com/165522/15-system-tools-you-dont-have-to-install-on-windows-anymore/ The Windows 8 (now 10) list includes AntiVirus, Firewall, Disc Burning, PDF Viewer, etc.
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Here's a smarter solution for lower-cost door-to-door delivery:
1) Use non-union labor to deliver the mail - just like newspaper carriers. Pull a Ronald Reagan and say GTFO - you're all fired. Let the expensive but obsolete union carriers fight it out in court while the system and public get used to mail delivery at 1/3 the cost.
2) Deliver TWO days only. Not "no Saturdays", not "ever other day" - pick two days of the week and stagger them around the six days of delivery so you can get by with 1/3 the delivery workforce (which now costs only 1/3 for wages/benefits) and 15% of today's cost.
3) Buy lightweight body armor and cameras for carriers. In addition to dog bites, enough mail gets delivered in crappy neighborhoods where some gunshot protection would be nice too. The cameras could also be used to cut down on other crime by live-feeding to the cops or reviewing whatever the carrier saw if he/she got jumped.
4) Fuck the flying drones. Especially in Canada and other places where it snows/blows/rains. Non-unionized labor is a hell of a lot cheaper.
>> Putting sand down the mic hole
I wasn't entirely serious, but I'd suspect anyone on Slashdot would feel confident enough in their tech abilities to snip out a mic they didn't want if they really felt strongly about it.
Hey editors. Exactly how many stories a day are we going to get in this format:
Is your (competing product) too (bad attribute)? Do you want more (good attribute)? Check out the (product), which just added (feature) and is now selling for (price) (link to store). Also, there's a (alternative product model) that gives you (good attribute) for just another (price difference). Hey all you tech folks: buy now - limited quantities available!
???
When I was young, people would talk about the horrors of totalitarianism in Soviet Russia. I guess we only have Apple and North Korea to show us what it looks like now. But as for Apple customers, I have no sympathy: YOU decided to enter the walled garden. Enjoy your toilet paper ration.
The first time someone picks a browser based on power usage...lemme know.
I put tape over all my vents so no one can hear me on the built-in microphone either. That works, right?
>> I figure that seeing me naked would be punishment enough
On second thought, I'm pretty much in this guy's camp...except why are you naked in front of your computer? Are you really in that much of a hurry?
>> NBA for deliberately prolonging the series with the game 5 suspension of Draymond Green
He was back for games 6 and 7...and they still lost. We haven't seen that kind of choke since the Republicans nominated their 2016 presidential candidate.
>> see? don't have to worry about hacked passwords
Rush Limbaugh told me to buy it because it was safe, so I did.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2012/08/03/carbonite-ceo-concedes-dropping-rush-limbaugh-put-bigger-hole-in-our-revenue-than-previously-expected/
I have Netflix to address my guilt over pirate streaming all kinds of other stuff, like movies, GoT, etc. (With Netflix at least I'm paying for SOMETHING.) But since I stream mainly to avoid commercials, if Netflix went there too I'd probably fall back into 90%+ streaming again. (I almost went there already when they pulled Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica in the same year - what's a geek to watch legally?)
This is the year of the Microsoft Linux desktop
>> the Star Trek future won't EVER be happening
In terms of ship-board computing, personal communication and handheld devices, I think we're already at or past Star Trek standards. If we could just wear pajamas at all times I'd be 100% happy.
>> New GNOME (in Fedora 24) will also let you easily upgrade to Fedora 25
Ummm...that's one of your "tons of improvements"?
I usually use a ripper to grab tracks from various free streams and store them as mp3s.
>> (for crypto) there's no one else for people to turn to (mofos)
Well, it's a good thing that all mathematicians have always been and will always be American then.
>> when life hands you lemons. make lemonaide
I think the correct phrase here is "when life hands you an unintentional hot plate, make fajitas"
"You may have been a good smuggler, but now you're Bantha fodder. "
-- Jabba the Hutt, Star Trek V ("Jedi Reloaded"), in her throne room on Arrakis
When I was in Beijing my favorite thing was seeing all the people wandering around with their "Nikee" or "Hilfinger" branded clothing. It might even have come out of the same sweatshop. So if someone can find a "iFrone 6" that's a clone of the iPhone 6, I'd happily pay $50 for it.
Heh - I remember "the weather channel". My grandparents used to watch that.
Why aren't you just bookmarking "weather underground" or leaving that as your homepage on your box?
e.g., https://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:75201.1.99999
VW, you're full of it. I still have a diesel Golf collecting dust in my garage and I love it. I'd buy another car from you if:
1) It's electric and hooks up to the standard charging stations
2) It can run 150 miles after eight years in the cold (the wimpy 80-100 mile range in perfect conditions on your eGolf is shit)
3) You get some "self driving" features in there (this is my commuter car and I want to be napping, not driving)
However, this "30 models" boast looks like bullshit tossed up to distract the regulators who are (rightfully) about to smack you around some. Come out with a realistic plan that former VW buyers like me can support, though, and yeah, I can look past the "clean diesel" scandal - not too many of us looking at the engines in the 2006+ models really believed you pulled it off anyway.
In related news, Ms. Petterline retired from teaching the third grade at Chesterfield Elementary this year. The cultural vandalism she is about to commit by never again providing a free 3rd grade education to 20-30 students once a year is truly shocking.
You can already disable video over mobile data on Facebook. VERY useful feature.
>> Way?
Huawei. I bought my kid one of these recently and he loves it. (Well, actually he loves it as much as he loves a free phone from a Dad too cheap to buy a kid an Apple or name-brand Android product)
>> These OEMs are, in order of their market capture
FWIW, the phrase you wanted to use was "market share"
>> New research from the Pew Research Center shows that cyberattacks are the second most-feared entity among Americans after ISIS.
#3 on the most feared list, slighly above manbearpig, is dihydrogen oxide. We MUST ban this dangerous compound now. Think of the children!
http://www.dhmo.org/
>> "Snaps aren't the only new package manager for Linux distributions that aims to simplify installation of applications. There's also AppImage and OrbitalApps."
Said without irony.
Microsoft still does that too. For example:
15 System Tools You Don’t Have To Install on Windows Anymore
http://www.howtogeek.com/165522/15-system-tools-you-dont-have-to-install-on-windows-anymore/
The Windows 8 (now 10) list includes AntiVirus, Firewall, Disc Burning, PDF Viewer, etc.