10% isn't enough to pay the electric bill let alone employee wages, rent, taxes etc. In fact 10% would likely be much worse than 0 because falling behind on bills carries penalties.
There is a minimum stores need to survive, anything less and they go under. Hint: 10% is about 85% too little during the best of times. I personally know store owners and have seen how narrow the margins are. For many of them it's a month to month decision whether or not to close the doors. Reducing their margins this drastically is insanity.
I bought the first Kindle ages ago. Still works like a charm. I then bought the first Kindle Touch, works flawlessly still. I recently bought the new Kindle Paperwhite and honestly can't see myself ever getting rid of it. I actually replaced my Nexus 7 with the Kindle Paperwhite because I'm going Google free and frankly, I hate reading on LCD's. E-Ink is perfect for me.
You can have your socialism after you've taken my guns. To do that you'll have to man up and take my guns though and from the tone of your post you're just a whiny little bitch with a big fucking mouth. I suspect you'll kick and scream like all the other whiny socialist bitches about not being able to tell me and everyone else what to do because we're armed and unwilling to let you steal from us.
- We don't fire people for the Fast & Furious illegal gun running op. - We don't fire people for the IRS scandal. - We don't fire for the lies to the public regarding Benghazi - We don't fire for the absolute disaster that is the Obamacare implementation
It's nice to see that our priorities are in order. It's also obvious that this administration is extremely thin skinned and cannot take any amount of criticism. They view their political enemies as a first priority and everything else be dammed.
Those are called resume enhancers to Democrats. The more they fuck up the higher up the chain they go. Liberals protect their own at all costs with the help of their liberal media cronies.
Let's say you want to create an IT track at a college. Maybe it takes a few years to create an appropriate track of classes and plan out various concepts to be taught. By that time, whatever software you were using is outdated and/or replaced.
Which is why you learn concepts instead of the software. Your point is ridiculous. By the way, IT doesn't move fast at all, most of the fortune 500 companies out there are still using XP and ridiculously old hardware/software that need legacy support. The matter is even worse with small companies who often can't even afford IT.
IT moves at a snails pace. This idea that it moves quickly is a notion perpetuated by kids living at home with mom and dad and constantly building new Linux kernels thinking that is what IT is and that they have to update everything every other week. The truth on the other hand is that IT is under funded everywhere you go, that technology isnt replaced until it absolutely has to be and new technology is frowned upon by virtually everyone for its cost and the headaches it inevitably causes end users who need to be trained to use it. Change in IT happens when it has to, not when the IT department wants it to.
If I had a stem degree, and was working as a computer support specialist, I'd probably wonder what the purpose of my degree really was.
This. I'm saddened every time I see a CS degree as a requirement for what amounts to systems admin or support desk work. That's like getting your medical degree and going to work as a nurse. Nurses get what are the equivalent of certifications just like admins and support should have. A CS degree should be for, you know, Computer Science........ There should be a whole new category of degrees specifically for programming also as that can be and often is completely separate from computer science.
I strongly believe they still champion CS degrees for all computer type positions as a way of pumping up the H1B workers. It's just a scheme, they know damn well a CS degree is worthless for what amounts to desktop troubleshooting or database administration or mail server configuration and support.
I'm self taught and far better for it, institutional learning is too rigid and doesn't foster creative individuality.
How would you know if you never went? Most self taught people I run into think they know everything because they taught themselves. Never realizing there was a huge field of knowledge out there they'd never even heard about. Education is also collaboration, no one person can know it all and learn it all.
The self taught crowd likes to think they have it all figured out but I dare them to spend time with a Ph.D. to find out just how little they actually know. Besides that, there is a humbling factor in formal education which trains you to work with peers instead of trying to run solo as a 'leet haxorz' and rubbing your ego in the face of everyone you see.
FYI, I'm self taught and I learned a lot of this the hard way. If I had it to do over again I'd have gone to school for it instead of what I actually went to school for.
The problem with that argument is that nothing convinces me the GOP is packed with nuts faster than watching Fox News.
And yet I bet you're perfectly fine with the fucking retards on MSNBC. Your brand of douche baggery is beyond pathetic.
As to the rest of your ignorant statement I really have nothing to give other than my middle finger. That was the dumbest fucking post I have ever seen on Slashdot.
NSA? all that data they have in no way impacts democracy.
Really? Ever heard of someone named J. Edgar Hoover who had files on everyone and manipulated politicians with it? Do you really think Obama and whoever replaces him are not/will not use this data to pressure opponents? Have you been living in a cave and not noticed the abuse the IRS has inflicted upon conservative groups at the will of this administration? Do really believe the administration will not use the NSA data to the same ends?
You are the "low information" voter everyone is pissed off at. You're a disgrace to democracy and precisely why we're losing it out from under us.
How many people voted for Obama believing that he wouldn't use the executive powers expanded by the previous administration? How many were dumb enough to believe he'd actually try to roll them back?
Worse yet, how many are OK with their guy abusing his new authority?
According to the latest gallup poll 37% are just dandy with what Obama is doing. You can thank the Liberal press for being his lapdog while he bends them over without a reach-around.
The sad part is, if Obama ran for a 3rd term he would still win because he gets 98% of the Black vote, 99% of the Democrat vote and 85% of the women's vote. Once amnesty passes he'll also get 90% of the Hispanic vote. Nevermind that black unemployment is higher than its ever been, that the real war on women is being waged by Democrats via abortion (look up how man girls get aborted versus boys) and Obamacare (just wait for the premiums on 'women's issues' medical care and the fact spouses are being dropped like crazy from healthcare plans).
It's bizarro world right now, everything is backwards, upside down and inside out. Yet the press, like the drooling lapdogs they are keep towing the party line and not holding this disgusting pig of a president accountable. Liberals who so hated George Bush love Obama, who hasn't canceled or otherwise stopped a single one of Bush's policies and in fact has greatly expanded the surveillance state. In bizarro world it doesn't matter that Obama is exponetially worse than any president we have ever had. All that matters is that he has a D next to his name. Why else would this man get a Peace Prize?
Michelle Obama said that for the first time in her life she was proud of her country when Obama was elected. Well, ma'am, for the first time in my life I am ashamed of my country.
The guy is entitled to his opinion and to run the company as he wishes. If you don't like it don't buy it. Enough with the stupid fucking boycotts that are nothing but attempts at silencing free speech.
And wtf does a pasta makers stance on gays have to do with slashdot anyway? Can we stop pushing an agenda yet?
people would be singing its praises and talking about how totally amazing it is, but since it's MS... well, we can't do that now, can we:)
What makes you think that? I'm platform agnostic and even I think waving your hands around in front of a screen is more a kin to what crazy people do than what productive technology does.
I think talking to my gadgets is lame too (Apple, Google). Everyone seems to be trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Keyboards and mice work very well.
Funny. The IPCC puts its certainty at 95%, which is somewhat confusing as it's unable to show any accounting for that figure. According to Professor Judith Curry, the figure is arrived at by getting a load of climate scientists into a room and asking them what their certainty is!
What did my physics professor always say? If you don't know how accurate your measurement is, you haven't made a measurement.
It gets worse. The discrepancy between models and actual reality continues to grow. Surely this makes the science more uncertain, not less. Yet somehow the IPCC find themselves increasingly confident that they're right, even as everybody else becomes increasingly confident that the models they use are wrong. The whole thing is an absolute farce.
I stopped reading or listening to the bastards years ago. It's a religion to people at this point. I've never seen a Christian or Muslim fundamentalist get as foaming at the mouth rabid as some of the climate fundamentalists do. It's shocking to see how the discussion as devolved into what it is now.
I literally have friends that think the world is going to end within the next 5-10 years thanks to Al Gore and Prince Charles running around the world screaming that the sky is falling.
Climate science right now is nothing more than the worlds newest fucking death cult. These fuckers are praying for the end of the world to happen to justify their "models" (or prophecies if you will). Makes me sick.
the new Gnome (Gnome 3, which you have with Centos 6, unfortunately)
Centos 6 is using gnome 2 still. Not sure wtf you are on about.
Their motto is "just get used to it".
That's GNOME's position. Red Hat will direct you to other DE's if GNOME 3 isnt your cup of tea.
But there is one hugely positive development: Mint decided to fork the old Gnome, Gnome 2.
Again, wtf are you on about? Mint didn't fork GNOME 2. They forked GNOME 3 and created a new DE based on GTK3. The GNOME 2 fork is called Mate and is independent of Linux Mint.
Seriously, no one is going to take you seriously if you can't even get the basics straight.
iCloud does go down a little more often than it should but Google's service have been down nearly as often this year. Just two days ago gmail was down. You really can't compare the cloud service to their software.
Whats wrong with Apple Maps exactly? The app is solid. The complaints come from the data on the backend which simply needs time to mature. Google Maps was even worse when it started out.
Getting money from a different source that leads to a more open development process=excessive greed?
Sometimes you should explain your opinions.
I think his point, and I don't know if I agree or disagree, is that more and more wealthy people are using kickstarter as a way of starting projects. These are people unwilling to risk their own fortunes and instead wish to use yours and mine. If they believed in their project so much they would use their own money to back it, but they don't.
I don't know if this is one of those situations but if these people are "gaming legends" as the article implies then one would assume, rightly or wrongly, that they are wealthy but unwilling to back their own project.
I believe kickstarter should be used for the up and comers, the idealists who are just getting started. When I see a wealthy person using kickstarter I just see greed and a complete lack of dedication to their own ideas and abilities.
Nice tech but the user experience is very low for a company that prides itself on the quality of its engineers.
I know... it's such a shame that the engineers are busy building the cool tech, so they aren't helping out the design and sales team with their brilliance.
What does the sales team have to do with it? Oh yeah, nothing, you're just being a douche. And yes, the engineers should be working with the design people. It's called team work and it's why Apple is able to delivery remarkably less buggy software with a good user experience while Google tosses shit at the wall hoping something sticks.
I'm often amazed by how buggy Google software is. They have more money than they know what to do with and yet they put out some of the buggiest software. Google Drive is a disaster. I love Google Earth and use it daily but it crashed about 3 times yesterday. Maybe they should invest some of that money in quality control.
I was saying this same thing a couple weeks ago to a friend. Google software is notoriously bad in quality. They have what seems to be zero QA and just release everything as beta. That was great when they were solely a tech company targeting the tech savy but they are mainstream now and targeting everyone.
I honestly can't think of anything of theirs that isn't buggy as hell. Nice tech but the user experience is very low for a company that prides itself on the quality of its engineers.
Because people would cry with petitions like "Give me my Ctrl + Alt + Delete back!, don't change things that works!" and everything your hear when someone try to do something different
So instead they created metro which made everyone cry with petitions................ Your logic doesn't hold. MS could have easily done away with ctrl+alt+del but didn't.
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10% isn't enough to pay the electric bill let alone employee wages, rent, taxes etc. In fact 10% would likely be much worse than 0 because falling behind on bills carries penalties.
There is a minimum stores need to survive, anything less and they go under. Hint: 10% is about 85% too little during the best of times. I personally know store owners and have seen how narrow the margins are. For many of them it's a month to month decision whether or not to close the doors. Reducing their margins this drastically is insanity.
I bought the first Kindle ages ago. Still works like a charm. I then bought the first Kindle Touch, works flawlessly still. I recently bought the new Kindle Paperwhite and honestly can't see myself ever getting rid of it. I actually replaced my Nexus 7 with the Kindle Paperwhite because I'm going Google free and frankly, I hate reading on LCD's. E-Ink is perfect for me.
At what point did it become ok in the scientific community to keep on with a theory that evidence contradicts?
Where has it been contradicted here? The failure to observe WIMPs by this experiment doesn't mean that they don't exist
So basically you're using the same logic people use to justify the existence of God? How very..... scientific of you
You can have your socialism after you've taken my guns. To do that you'll have to man up and take my guns though and from the tone of your post you're just a whiny little bitch with a big fucking mouth. I suspect you'll kick and scream like all the other whiny socialist bitches about not being able to tell me and everyone else what to do because we're armed and unwilling to let you steal from us.
Fuck you very much.
We fire a guy for insulting tweets, but....
- We don't fire people for the Fast & Furious illegal gun running op.
- We don't fire people for the IRS scandal.
- We don't fire for the lies to the public regarding Benghazi
- We don't fire for the absolute disaster that is the Obamacare implementation
It's nice to see that our priorities are in order. It's also obvious that this administration is extremely thin skinned and cannot take any amount of criticism. They view their political enemies as a first priority and everything else be dammed.
Those are called resume enhancers to Democrats. The more they fuck up the higher up the chain they go. Liberals protect their own at all costs with the help of their liberal media cronies.
Gene Fondren was a Democrat. Nice try blaming Republicans though.
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So sick of partisan fuckwads like you.
Let's say you want to create an IT track at a college. Maybe it takes a few years to create an appropriate track of classes and plan out various concepts to be taught. By that time, whatever software you were using is outdated and/or replaced.
Which is why you learn concepts instead of the software. Your point is ridiculous. By the way, IT doesn't move fast at all, most of the fortune 500 companies out there are still using XP and ridiculously old hardware/software that need legacy support. The matter is even worse with small companies who often can't even afford IT.
IT moves at a snails pace. This idea that it moves quickly is a notion perpetuated by kids living at home with mom and dad and constantly building new Linux kernels thinking that is what IT is and that they have to update everything every other week. The truth on the other hand is that IT is under funded everywhere you go, that technology isnt replaced until it absolutely has to be and new technology is frowned upon by virtually everyone for its cost and the headaches it inevitably causes end users who need to be trained to use it. Change in IT happens when it has to, not when the IT department wants it to.
If I had a stem degree, and was working as a computer support specialist, I'd probably wonder what the purpose of my degree really was.
This. I'm saddened every time I see a CS degree as a requirement for what amounts to systems admin or support desk work. That's like getting your medical degree and going to work as a nurse. Nurses get what are the equivalent of certifications just like admins and support should have. A CS degree should be for, you know, Computer Science........ There should be a whole new category of degrees specifically for programming also as that can be and often is completely separate from computer science.
I strongly believe they still champion CS degrees for all computer type positions as a way of pumping up the H1B workers. It's just a scheme, they know damn well a CS degree is worthless for what amounts to desktop troubleshooting or database administration or mail server configuration and support.
I'm self taught and far better for it, institutional learning is too rigid and doesn't foster creative individuality.
How would you know if you never went? Most self taught people I run into think they know everything because they taught themselves. Never realizing there was a huge field of knowledge out there they'd never even heard about. Education is also collaboration, no one person can know it all and learn it all.
The self taught crowd likes to think they have it all figured out but I dare them to spend time with a Ph.D. to find out just how little they actually know. Besides that, there is a humbling factor in formal education which trains you to work with peers instead of trying to run solo as a 'leet haxorz' and rubbing your ego in the face of everyone you see.
FYI, I'm self taught and I learned a lot of this the hard way. If I had it to do over again I'd have gone to school for it instead of what I actually went to school for.
The problem with that argument is that nothing convinces me the GOP is packed with nuts faster than watching Fox News.
And yet I bet you're perfectly fine with the fucking retards on MSNBC. Your brand of douche baggery is beyond pathetic.
As to the rest of your ignorant statement I really have nothing to give other than my middle finger. That was the dumbest fucking post I have ever seen on Slashdot.
NSA? all that data they have in no way impacts democracy.
Really? Ever heard of someone named J. Edgar Hoover who had files on everyone and manipulated politicians with it? Do you really think Obama and whoever replaces him are not/will not use this data to pressure opponents? Have you been living in a cave and not noticed the abuse the IRS has inflicted upon conservative groups at the will of this administration? Do really believe the administration will not use the NSA data to the same ends?
You are the "low information" voter everyone is pissed off at. You're a disgrace to democracy and precisely why we're losing it out from under us.
How many people voted for Obama believing that he wouldn't use the executive powers expanded by the previous administration? How many were dumb enough to believe he'd actually try to roll them back?
Worse yet, how many are OK with their guy abusing his new authority?
According to the latest gallup poll 37% are just dandy with what Obama is doing. You can thank the Liberal press for being his lapdog while he bends them over without a reach-around.
The sad part is, if Obama ran for a 3rd term he would still win because he gets 98% of the Black vote, 99% of the Democrat vote and 85% of the women's vote. Once amnesty passes he'll also get 90% of the Hispanic vote. Nevermind that black unemployment is higher than its ever been, that the real war on women is being waged by Democrats via abortion (look up how man girls get aborted versus boys) and Obamacare (just wait for the premiums on 'women's issues' medical care and the fact spouses are being dropped like crazy from healthcare plans).
It's bizarro world right now, everything is backwards, upside down and inside out. Yet the press, like the drooling lapdogs they are keep towing the party line and not holding this disgusting pig of a president accountable. Liberals who so hated George Bush love Obama, who hasn't canceled or otherwise stopped a single one of Bush's policies and in fact has greatly expanded the surveillance state. In bizarro world it doesn't matter that Obama is exponetially worse than any president we have ever had. All that matters is that he has a D next to his name. Why else would this man get a Peace Prize?
Michelle Obama said that for the first time in her life she was proud of her country when Obama was elected. Well, ma'am, for the first time in my life I am ashamed of my country.
The guy is entitled to his opinion and to run the company as he wishes. If you don't like it don't buy it. Enough with the stupid fucking boycotts that are nothing but attempts at silencing free speech.
And wtf does a pasta makers stance on gays have to do with slashdot anyway? Can we stop pushing an agenda yet?
people would be singing its praises and talking about how totally amazing it is, but since it's MS... well, we can't do that now, can we :)
What makes you think that? I'm platform agnostic and even I think waving your hands around in front of a screen is more a kin to what crazy people do than what productive technology does.
I think talking to my gadgets is lame too (Apple, Google). Everyone seems to be trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Keyboards and mice work very well.
All the people will die - The planet will get better and keep on going. Problem over.
Why wait when you can take the first step and off yourself. We'll all follow your lead, I promise. Go ahead, we're right behind you.
Funny. The IPCC puts its certainty at 95%, which is somewhat confusing as it's unable to show any accounting for that figure. According to Professor Judith Curry, the figure is arrived at by getting a load of climate scientists into a room and asking them what their certainty is!
What did my physics professor always say? If you don't know how accurate your measurement is, you haven't made a measurement.
It gets worse. The discrepancy between models and actual reality continues to grow. Surely this makes the science more uncertain, not less. Yet somehow the IPCC find themselves increasingly confident that they're right, even as everybody else becomes increasingly confident that the models they use are wrong. The whole thing is an absolute farce.
I stopped reading or listening to the bastards years ago. It's a religion to people at this point. I've never seen a Christian or Muslim fundamentalist get as foaming at the mouth rabid as some of the climate fundamentalists do. It's shocking to see how the discussion as devolved into what it is now.
I literally have friends that think the world is going to end within the next 5-10 years thanks to Al Gore and Prince Charles running around the world screaming that the sky is falling.
Climate science right now is nothing more than the worlds newest fucking death cult. These fuckers are praying for the end of the world to happen to justify their "models" (or prophecies if you will). Makes me sick.
the new Gnome (Gnome 3, which you have with Centos 6, unfortunately)
Centos 6 is using gnome 2 still. Not sure wtf you are on about.
Their motto is "just get used to it".
That's GNOME's position. Red Hat will direct you to other DE's if GNOME 3 isnt your cup of tea.
But there is one hugely positive development: Mint decided to fork the old Gnome, Gnome 2.
Again, wtf are you on about? Mint didn't fork GNOME 2. They forked GNOME 3 and created a new DE based on GTK3. The GNOME 2 fork is called Mate and is independent of Linux Mint.
Seriously, no one is going to take you seriously if you can't even get the basics straight.
"GNOME now also includes an application for searching, browsing and installing applications called Software"
I had to read that like 4 or 5 times before it clicked that the name of the application is "Software"
Thank you for proving my point
iCloud does go down a little more often than it should but Google's service have been down nearly as often this year. Just two days ago gmail was down. You really can't compare the cloud service to their software.
Whats wrong with Apple Maps exactly? The app is solid. The complaints come from the data on the backend which simply needs time to mature. Google Maps was even worse when it started out.
Getting money from a different source that leads to a more open development process=excessive greed?
Sometimes you should explain your opinions.
I think his point, and I don't know if I agree or disagree, is that more and more wealthy people are using kickstarter as a way of starting projects. These are people unwilling to risk their own fortunes and instead wish to use yours and mine. If they believed in their project so much they would use their own money to back it, but they don't.
I don't know if this is one of those situations but if these people are "gaming legends" as the article implies then one would assume, rightly or wrongly, that they are wealthy but unwilling to back their own project.
I believe kickstarter should be used for the up and comers, the idealists who are just getting started. When I see a wealthy person using kickstarter I just see greed and a complete lack of dedication to their own ideas and abilities.
Nice tech but the user experience is very low for a company that prides itself on the quality of its engineers.
I know... it's such a shame that the engineers are busy building the cool tech, so they aren't helping out the design and sales team with their brilliance.
What does the sales team have to do with it? Oh yeah, nothing, you're just being a douche. And yes, the engineers should be working with the design people. It's called team work and it's why Apple is able to delivery remarkably less buggy software with a good user experience while Google tosses shit at the wall hoping something sticks.
I'm often amazed by how buggy Google software is. They have more money than they know what to do with and yet they put out some of the buggiest software. Google Drive is a disaster. I love Google Earth and use it daily but it crashed about 3 times yesterday. Maybe they should invest some of that money in quality control.
I was saying this same thing a couple weeks ago to a friend. Google software is notoriously bad in quality. They have what seems to be zero QA and just release everything as beta. That was great when they were solely a tech company targeting the tech savy but they are mainstream now and targeting everyone.
I honestly can't think of anything of theirs that isn't buggy as hell. Nice tech but the user experience is very low for a company that prides itself on the quality of its engineers.
Because people would cry with petitions like "Give me my Ctrl + Alt + Delete back!, don't change things that works!" and everything your hear when someone try to do something different
So instead they created metro which made everyone cry with petitions................ Your logic doesn't hold. MS could have easily done away with ctrl+alt+del but didn't.