It also doesn't help that everyone seems to post an idealized Brady Bunch version of their family on Facebook. The pictures of the kids are always clean and happy, and the adults are always promotions and shiny new cars. When the reader's lives can't live up to these unrealistic expectations, it just makes their depression worse.
NPR has something like 10 of the top 50 podcasts at the moment, most of which are ad sponsored. I think that they probably doing better than the public radio stations are which buy NPR programming, which still have to resort to those annoying fundraising drives every few months.
True, but it also means that you are carrying around a phone that's a missing a year of Android security patches after the vendor no longer decides to sell or support it. Not cool.
My old first gen iPad is turning into a doorstop because most new applications and application updates require iOS 7 or higher. Some of the older apps like the Youtube app no longer function as well, and it's also painfully slow compared to a newer model.
I'd imagine that they'll discontinue support for the iPad 2 in the next major iOS release, so more people will have to start upgrading those tablets then.
We already have a Lightning connector Micro USB replacement in the form of the USB Type C connection. It's just taking awhile to gain mainstream adoption. Until then, we get to keep replacing broken Micro USB cables and chargers every year or so.
Most of the big tech companies who are funding these efforts have no interest in hiring more US based coders, when they can get foreign developers for 1/5th the price.
This "teach your kids to code!" initiatives are just a smoke screen. They are meant to keep the various media outlets busy posting feel good stories about tech companies like Microsoft and IBM while they are busy outsourcing as many workers as possible.
After all of these high profile failures of various Bitcoin trading platforms, I'm thinking that Bitcoin really needs some sort of equivalent of FDIC or NCUA bank account insurance for deposits. The mainstream is really going to have trouble accepting Bitcoin as a currency when their account balances can magically disappear overnight with no legal recourse.
More storage with their free tier! Seriously, guys, 2GB doesn't cut it anymore. Your competitors like Google Drive and Microsoft Onedrive are offering five times more storage for their free tier customers.
They probably would have marked the answer on her homework as wrong because she didn't use the Common Core government approved method of solving the problem.
It seems that they can't be bothered with QA testing their client releases as well. For a few weeks, I recently had a Netflix client on my XBox One that didn't work with my remote control. I had to power on the XBox game controller and use it to navigate the menu! They eventually offered an application patch for that, but what the hell, guys?
Instead of investing millions on automated tests, maybe they should invest $50 in a Harmony remote that works with an XBox One and have someone test with it before signing off on a new release.
Software developers invested this much effort in finding legitimate uses for Bitcoin? Crapware like this only helps to reinforce the notion that Bitcoin is only used by the criminal underground.
The big difference between him and most politicians is that he's willing to admit when he's lying. Someone like a Trump or a Clinton would just say that they were just being "misunderstood", or that the media "took them out of context".
The Donald got caught with a "hot mic" on a commercial break of the Morning Joe talk show on MSNBC, where Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were VERY friendly with him. Hell, it almost like it seemed like they were giving him campaign advice during the chat.
I'd imagine that CNN loves him as well, simply for the ratings boost he's given to the Republican debates.
There are a lot of people out there with laptops, All In Ones, and small form factor desktops out there who are stuck with crummy integrated graphics. They have no way to add a bigger power supply or a giant two slot PCI-E graphics card, so a solution like this would be a godsend to them! Plug it in when you want to play PC games, and leave it disconnected when you want to be portable.
IBM never had a real union... just a handful of angry employees who posted flyers in the lunchroom. They made for amusing reading, but they never got any paying members. Most of the younger employees (like myself) were just there for a few years of experience before getting a REAL job, and the older employees were just trying to hang on long enough to reach retirement age before being RA'ed (Resource Actioned, AKA replaced by someone overseas who makes 1/5th of your salary).
I've heard that the remaining members who haven't already been laid off (Because bitching about your employer is a GREAT way to get a good PBC rating, guys!) now have a Facebook page. I wonder if their HR manager gets an e-mail if they're dumb enough to visit it while in the office...
Yeah... If it's going to be like PC gaming, you're going to get new games that only work well on the upgraded "XBox Extreme Edition" that has the upgraded hardware.
That kinda sucks if you box an XBox One when it came out and you expected it to be fully supported for five plus years like the older platforms were.
Microsoft upgraded the software on the XBox One with a Windows 10 kernel a few months ago.
Personally, I thought that the older software with a Windows 8 based kernel was less problematic. I've had some odd Wi-Fi connectivity issues since the upgrade occurred.
Either that, or Apple should create a help desk procedure for these phone hacking requests that looks like this:
1) Receive iPhone to be hacked 2) Take 10 guesses at the password 3) Let the iPhone get completely erased 4) Return the phone to FBI/CIA/NSA/DOJ/etc agency with a "Sorry, we tried to help!" type apology letter.
After "accidentally" destroying a few phones, let's see how many times the government comes back for help.
Exactly. It used to be Apple who dictated what was taught in high school computer science courses, but it looks like they let Microsoft take over.
If you don't like it, get your big tech company to throw some money at lobbyists and fix the problem. Facebook is already working on the younger generation of future coders.
Yeah, I'd like to think that most women are too smart to get into IT at this point.
For an example, my wife is a pre-school teacher. In that job, she gets:
1) A pension that pays 80% of her salary for the rest of her life when she retires. 2) 12 weeks of vacation (mostly summer break) a year 3) A 35 hour (8 to 3:30) workday 4) Government health benefits that beat almost anything that you can get in the private sector. 5) Tenured status after 5 years that basically guarantees that she has a job for life
Meanwhile, my IT job looks more like this:
1) A lousy 20% 401k match on 4% of my income. I'll never be able to retire on that. 2) 3 hours of vacation a year (that you almost don't want to take, since you know that everything will go to shit while you're out) 3) A 45+ hour workday, plus on-call hours. 4) Lousy health benefits with huge deductibles and co-pays 5) The constant threat that my job will be outsourced to some third-world country.
And we both get to deal with spoiled brats all day:)
That said, I bet that security hole would have been fixed a hell of a lot quicker if it was publically announced to the world instead of trying to report it through Trane's security inept support channels.
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It also doesn't help that everyone seems to post an idealized Brady Bunch version of their family on Facebook. The pictures of the kids are always clean and happy, and the adults are always promotions and shiny new cars. When the reader's lives can't live up to these unrealistic expectations, it just makes their depression worse.
NPR has something like 10 of the top 50 podcasts at the moment, most of which are ad sponsored. I think that they probably doing better than the public radio stations are which buy NPR programming, which still have to resort to those annoying fundraising drives every few months.
True, but it also means that you are carrying around a phone that's a missing a year of Android security patches after the vendor no longer decides to sell or support it. Not cool.
My old first gen iPad is turning into a doorstop because most new applications and application updates require iOS 7 or higher. Some of the older apps like the Youtube app no longer function as well, and it's also painfully slow compared to a newer model.
I'd imagine that they'll discontinue support for the iPad 2 in the next major iOS release, so more people will have to start upgrading those tablets then.
Yeah, I'm sure that there will be an iOS 10 "upgrade" coming by the end of the year that will run like dogshit on the older iPhone 5 models.
That should be enough to get users to upgrade to a shiny new iPhone 7, or an iPhone SE if want something cheaper with a smaller screen.
We already have a Lightning connector Micro USB replacement in the form of the USB Type C connection. It's just taking awhile to gain mainstream adoption. Until then, we get to keep replacing broken Micro USB cables and chargers every year or so.
Most of the big tech companies who are funding these efforts have no interest in hiring more US based coders, when they can get foreign developers for 1/5th the price.
This "teach your kids to code!" initiatives are just a smoke screen. They are meant to keep the various media outlets busy posting feel good stories about tech companies like Microsoft and IBM while they are busy outsourcing as many workers as possible.
After all of these high profile failures of various Bitcoin trading platforms, I'm thinking that Bitcoin really needs some sort of equivalent of FDIC or NCUA bank account insurance for deposits. The mainstream is really going to have trouble accepting Bitcoin as a currency when their account balances can magically disappear overnight with no legal recourse.
If he's smart, he'd wait until the price of oil to recover so he can sell those drilling rights for a higher price.
I think that both Democrats and Republicans alike would agree that drilling for more oil now in the middle of a supply glut is a bad idea.
More storage with their free tier! Seriously, guys, 2GB doesn't cut it anymore. Your competitors like Google Drive and Microsoft Onedrive are offering five times more storage for their free tier customers.
They probably would have marked the answer on her homework as wrong because she didn't use the Common Core government approved method of solving the problem.
It seems that they can't be bothered with QA testing their client releases as well. For a few weeks, I recently had a Netflix client on my XBox One that didn't work with my remote control. I had to power on the XBox game controller and use it to navigate the menu! They eventually offered an application patch for that, but what the hell, guys?
Instead of investing millions on automated tests, maybe they should invest $50 in a Harmony remote that works with an XBox One and have someone test with it before signing off on a new release.
Software developers invested this much effort in finding legitimate uses for Bitcoin? Crapware like this only helps to reinforce the notion that Bitcoin is only used by the criminal underground.
The big difference between him and most politicians is that he's willing to admit when he's lying. Someone like a Trump or a Clinton would just say that they were just being "misunderstood", or that the media "took them out of context".
The Donald got caught with a "hot mic" on a commercial break of the Morning Joe talk show on MSNBC, where Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were VERY friendly with him. Hell, it almost like it seemed like they were giving him campaign advice during the chat.
I'd imagine that CNN loves him as well, simply for the ratings boost he's given to the Republican debates.
There are a lot of people out there with laptops, All In Ones, and small form factor desktops out there who are stuck with crummy integrated graphics. They have no way to add a bigger power supply or a giant two slot PCI-E graphics card, so a solution like this would be a godsend to them! Plug it in when you want to play PC games, and leave it disconnected when you want to be portable.
So, where do I buy one?
IBM never had a real union... just a handful of angry employees who posted flyers in the lunchroom. They made for amusing reading, but they never got any paying members. Most of the younger employees (like myself) were just there for a few years of experience before getting a REAL job, and the older employees were just trying to hang on long enough to reach retirement age before being RA'ed (Resource Actioned, AKA replaced by someone overseas who makes 1/5th of your salary).
I've heard that the remaining members who haven't already been laid off (Because bitching about your employer is a GREAT way to get a good PBC rating, guys!) now have a Facebook page. I wonder if their HR manager gets an e-mail if they're dumb enough to visit it while in the office...
Yeah... If it's going to be like PC gaming, you're going to get new games that only work well on the upgraded "XBox Extreme Edition" that has the upgraded hardware.
That kinda sucks if you box an XBox One when it came out and you expected it to be fully supported for five plus years like the older platforms were.
Microsoft upgraded the software on the XBox One with a Windows 10 kernel a few months ago.
Personally, I thought that the older software with a Windows 8 based kernel was less problematic. I've had some odd Wi-Fi connectivity issues since the upgrade occurred.
Either that, or Apple should create a help desk procedure for these phone hacking requests that looks like this:
1) Receive iPhone to be hacked
2) Take 10 guesses at the password
3) Let the iPhone get completely erased
4) Return the phone to FBI/CIA/NSA/DOJ/etc agency with a "Sorry, we tried to help!" type apology letter.
After "accidentally" destroying a few phones, let's see how many times the government comes back for help.
Exactly. It used to be Apple who dictated what was taught in high school computer science courses, but it looks like they let Microsoft take over.
If you don't like it, get your big tech company to throw some money at lobbyists and fix the problem. Facebook is already working on the younger generation of future coders.
I get paid about 25% more than her, but when you look at it as an hourly rate we're paid about the same.
She also gets practically guaranteed raises yearly. I don't.
Yeah, I'd like to think that most women are too smart to get into IT at this point.
For an example, my wife is a pre-school teacher. In that job, she gets:
1) A pension that pays 80% of her salary for the rest of her life when she retires.
2) 12 weeks of vacation (mostly summer break) a year
3) A 35 hour (8 to 3:30) workday
4) Government health benefits that beat almost anything that you can get in the private sector.
5) Tenured status after 5 years that basically guarantees that she has a job for life
Meanwhile, my IT job looks more like this:
1) A lousy 20% 401k match on 4% of my income. I'll never be able to retire on that.
2) 3 hours of vacation a year (that you almost don't want to take, since you know that everything will go to shit while you're out)
3) A 45+ hour workday, plus on-call hours.
4) Lousy health benefits with huge deductibles and co-pays
5) The constant threat that my job will be outsourced to some third-world country.
And we both get to deal with spoiled brats all day :)
So... who made the smarter career choice?
That said, I bet that security hole would have been fixed a hell of a lot quicker if it was publically announced to the world instead of trying to report it through Trane's security inept support channels.
Well, it's about time the lawyers started taking the Zombie threat seriously!