It is already illegal to eat while driving in the majority of states. Some falls under different specifics, but it is there. Yes, we can all agree that ANY impairment should be banned. Talking, eating, etc. If you're behind the wheel, keep your mouth shut and drive.
They are addressing the human problem. By talking on a cell phone, you're making yourself impaired at driving. It is no different than slamming beers all night at a bar. It's not the beers or the phones that are the issue. It's the person.
Yes, talking to someone in the car IS distracting, which is why I rarely do it. When I am the passenger, I talk with everyone BUT the driver. It's like you're trying to excuse being impaired while driving. There is no excuse for it. People are dying because people are BAD DRIVERS.
Someone isn't paying attention. Accident rates did increase dramatically. 16% of car crash fatalities are now because of cell phones. They have no decreased dramatically because it is not being enforced, and when it is, the penalty is ridiculous. If they make the penalty the same as drunk driving (Of which talking on the phone is actually WORSE), you will see an attitude change in how people drive and use phones. Spending months in jail for endangering the lives of people around you? Who wants that? Leave the phone off unless it is an emergency.
They are banning the USE of them while driving. It's no different than alcohol. You can store it in your car, you just can drink it while you're driving. Ironically, both do the exact same thing when you use them in the car. They cause people to crash. It should be banned, and the fines should be no different than the state DUIs.
CNBC had a story that cell phones during driving is worse than drunk driving, the surveys were done with Car & Driver and other various organizations. I have yet to see a study that shows otherwise. Talking on the phone, and texting is just plain dangerous. It requires too much attention to do, and peoples lives are worth more than someone chatting away about their day at work. Look, when I am driving, I rarely speak to my passengers. There are too many times that someone has slammed on their brakes, or pulled out in front of me that had I been blabbing away, my car and health would have been in jeopardy. That is my personal experience on the matter.
It is becoming ridiculous on some stations. Nearly 1/4 of the screen is covering many of the shows. I believe it was Amazing Race they had a really tough challenge and it was loud or something and so they had to subtitle what the people were saying and this huge ad covered up almost all the words. It totally sucked because what they were saying was really important and they don't reair the Amazing Race.
I've basically decided any AD that gets in my way of TV will be something I don't watch or use. It immediately goes on my blacklist.
If you look at countries that have everything legalized, less than 14% actually "use". That includes even the most casual of drugs like Marijuana. Putting money into rehabilitation has proven to be far more cost effective than enforcement. You don't have government taking away your rights, and you gain some freedoms.
Off the top of my head, renting out video games, and adding adult movies into their lineup with them being optional for $1 more a month.
Not only would it bring in more revenue, it would grow their subscription count ten fold. 1 million subscribers today, 10 million tomorrow. Half the people on the internet use it for two things: Games and porn. There might be someone out there reading news sites, but who cares about that nerd.
It depends what you want to use them for. For laptops, cheap ones work fine for browsing, email, and watching videos. Thankfully, 99.999% of the use of tablets is this very thing. It doesn't matter how crap the hardware is so long as you can browse, check email, and view media. There is no reason to get an iPad at this point.
Both screens are almost the exact same resolution, so they show just as much information. Size only matters if your eyesight is poor. Tablets only do very few things. Email, media consumption, and browsing. Those are the three main things that are done the most across all tablets. The cheaper ones like the Fire do this perfectly fine for a LOT cheaper. The IPad has the iTunes store, but for a $400 premium, most people will not bother going forward.
For all we know they've already been here before we even crawled out of the muck. Remember, "our" timeline in history is a speck of sand in miles and miles and miles of distance. By the time we get to their planet, hundreds of civilizations could have existed and had been wiped out already. Makes it kind of depressing, really.
This is exactly right. The use of models seems to always look so much better. I have gone back to watch the original Star Wars before they got touched, Alien, Aliens, and they are absolutely mind blowingly awesome looking. You look at the touched up Star Wars movies and they look absolutely TERRIBLE in comparison. You can spot every CGI bit they worked into them. It pulls you out of the movie instantly. I can understand it cuts costs, and for television series it is a boon. But if a director wants to go the absolutely best possibly route for realism, you're going to have a hard time convincing me that dumping money into CGI instead of models is better. I would take models over CGI any day of the week. Green screens have gotten so good (Because of technology!) that you don't have the frame issues you had in the past.
No it is not. Read the link to the California overtime rules.
Here is what "Professional" means in California. They are exempt from over time. Period. End of story. Done. Finished. Over and Out. 10-4.
professional exemption A person employed in a professional capacity means any employee who meets all of the following requirements:
Who is licensed or certified by the State of California and is primarily engaged in the practice of one of the following recognized professions: law, medicine, dentistry, optometry, architecture, engineering, teaching, or accounting, or Who is primarily engaged in an occupation commonly recognized as a learned or artistic profession. "Learned or artistic profession" means an employee who is primarily engaged in the performance of: Work requiring knowledge of an advance type in a field or science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study, as distinguished from a general academic education and from an apprenticeship, and from training in the performance of routine mental, manual, or physical processes, or work that is an essential part of or necessarily incident to any of the above work; or Work that is original and creative in character in a recognized field of artistic endeavor (as opposed to work which can be produced by a person endowed with general manual or intellectual ability and training), and the result of which depends primarily on the invention, imagination, or talent of the employee or work that is an essential part of or necessarily incident to any of the above work; and Whose work is predominantly intellectual and varied in character (as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work) and is of such character that the output produced or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in relation to a given period of time. Who customarily and regularly exercised discretion an independent judgment in the performance of duties set forth above. Who earns a monthly salary equivalent to no less than two times the state minimum wage for full-time employment. Full-time employment means 40 hours per week as defined in Labor Code Section 515(c).
Technically, Unions are a product of a free market. A union begins when two or more people offer their services together as a package. Why? Because they are FREE to do so. They are selling their services freely. With no government restrictions. Now, if they grow to 10,000 people this is no different. Yes, they can extort companies. Is this their fault, or the fault of the company or government agency that hired them in the first place? Easy answer, the companies fault. Remember, Unions are a product of a free market. Trying to curtail unions, forcing them to redo their negotiations that were already contracted mutually, is NOT free market Capitalism. Unions will have never "served" their purpose, they will exist so long as a free market exists. So long as people are able to sell their goods and services FREELY, they will always form unions (either workers, or companies merging) to better their interests.
I agree with this. Likewise that should also apply to private individuals that decide to sell their services as a group (Ie. UNION). We saw WI break contracts that were already signed by the state and unions from decades ago because they didn't want to pay up. The issue was that these deals were already made, and government is interfering with what the free market decided.
Yes, IT workers are classified as "Professional" employees in every state that I know of. Likewise, "Professional" positions are exempt from any over time rules and regulations in every state that I know of.
So yes, 99.99999999999999% of IT workers cannot get over time pay in 99.99999999999% states. Hourly, salaried, or otherwise.
No one would pay for it directly, but if they add it to the service, it would probably gain them millions of subscribers because that extra incentive. I would also suspect the Adult Film industry would probably be a lot easier to work with over licensing considering as you said, everything is already virtually free. They will always take something over nothing.
Did you not pay attention to the 2010 elections? Many were kicked out because they wanted something new. Now we have even WORSE people in office. Change for the sake of change rarely works. Quit saying this. Vote for people that back your views, or at the very least vote for the least evil if that doesn't exist.
The "app store" shenanigans? Why do you want the "Android Market" over the "Amazon App Store" or the other way around? Does one only carry stuff like "Angry Birds" and the other doesn't? Is the selection that much better on one side vs the other?
How did we even get here? Why not just let people click on links from a software developers web site like we do on our PCs today? Centralization is fantastic for some things, but as iTunes has shown, great for music but no so great for applications. I don't know anyone who actually uses iTunes to browse apps. It's either word of mouth or nothing. Usually nothing.
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It is already illegal to eat while driving in the majority of states. Some falls under different specifics, but it is there. Yes, we can all agree that ANY impairment should be banned. Talking, eating, etc. If you're behind the wheel, keep your mouth shut and drive.
They are addressing the human problem. By talking on a cell phone, you're making yourself impaired at driving. It is no different than slamming beers all night at a bar. It's not the beers or the phones that are the issue. It's the person.
Yes, talking to someone in the car IS distracting, which is why I rarely do it. When I am the passenger, I talk with everyone BUT the driver. It's like you're trying to excuse being impaired while driving. There is no excuse for it. People are dying because people are BAD DRIVERS.
Someone isn't paying attention. Accident rates did increase dramatically. 16% of car crash fatalities are now because of cell phones. They have no decreased dramatically because it is not being enforced, and when it is, the penalty is ridiculous. If they make the penalty the same as drunk driving (Of which talking on the phone is actually WORSE), you will see an attitude change in how people drive and use phones. Spending months in jail for endangering the lives of people around you? Who wants that? Leave the phone off unless it is an emergency.
They are banning the USE of them while driving. It's no different than alcohol. You can store it in your car, you just can drink it while you're driving. Ironically, both do the exact same thing when you use them in the car. They cause people to crash. It should be banned, and the fines should be no different than the state DUIs.
Unfortunately, that doesn't happen in real life. You may think it does, but it doesn't. These accident statistics back that up.
CNBC had a story that cell phones during driving is worse than drunk driving, the surveys were done with Car & Driver and other various organizations. I have yet to see a study that shows otherwise. Talking on the phone, and texting is just plain dangerous. It requires too much attention to do, and peoples lives are worth more than someone chatting away about their day at work. Look, when I am driving, I rarely speak to my passengers. There are too many times that someone has slammed on their brakes, or pulled out in front of me that had I been blabbing away, my car and health would have been in jeopardy. That is my personal experience on the matter.
It is becoming ridiculous on some stations. Nearly 1/4 of the screen is covering many of the shows. I believe it was Amazing Race they had a really tough challenge and it was loud or something and so they had to subtitle what the people were saying and this huge ad covered up almost all the words. It totally sucked because what they were saying was really important and they don't reair the Amazing Race.
I've basically decided any AD that gets in my way of TV will be something I don't watch or use. It immediately goes on my blacklist.
If you look at countries that have everything legalized, less than 14% actually "use". That includes even the most casual of drugs like Marijuana. Putting money into rehabilitation has proven to be far more cost effective than enforcement. You don't have government taking away your rights, and you gain some freedoms.
Correct, which is why various DUI type laws are in effect. Those wont magically disappear.
Off the top of my head, renting out video games, and adding adult movies into their lineup with them being optional for $1 more a month.
Not only would it bring in more revenue, it would grow their subscription count ten fold. 1 million subscribers today, 10 million tomorrow. Half the people on the internet use it for two things: Games and porn. There might be someone out there reading news sites, but who cares about that nerd.
For those outside of IT, probably not.
It depends what you want to use them for. For laptops, cheap ones work fine for browsing, email, and watching videos. Thankfully, 99.999% of the use of tablets is this very thing. It doesn't matter how crap the hardware is so long as you can browse, check email, and view media. There is no reason to get an iPad at this point.
Both screens are almost the exact same resolution, so they show just as much information. Size only matters if your eyesight is poor. Tablets only do very few things. Email, media consumption, and browsing. Those are the three main things that are done the most across all tablets. The cheaper ones like the Fire do this perfectly fine for a LOT cheaper. The IPad has the iTunes store, but for a $400 premium, most people will not bother going forward.
For all we know they've already been here before we even crawled out of the muck. Remember, "our" timeline in history is a speck of sand in miles and miles and miles of distance. By the time we get to their planet, hundreds of civilizations could have existed and had been wiped out already. Makes it kind of depressing, really.
Is there any way we can see this? This is what protects us from becoming flesh flavored Hot Pockets(tm).
This is exactly right. The use of models seems to always look so much better. I have gone back to watch the original Star Wars before they got touched, Alien, Aliens, and they are absolutely mind blowingly awesome looking. You look at the touched up Star Wars movies and they look absolutely TERRIBLE in comparison. You can spot every CGI bit they worked into them. It pulls you out of the movie instantly. I can understand it cuts costs, and for television series it is a boon. But if a director wants to go the absolutely best possibly route for realism, you're going to have a hard time convincing me that dumping money into CGI instead of models is better. I would take models over CGI any day of the week. Green screens have gotten so good (Because of technology!) that you don't have the frame issues you had in the past.
No it is not. Read the link to the California overtime rules.
Here is what "Professional" means in California. They are exempt from over time. Period. End of story. Done. Finished. Over and Out. 10-4.
professional exemption
A person employed in a professional capacity means any employee who meets all of the following requirements:
Who is licensed or certified by the State of California and is primarily engaged in the practice of one of the following recognized professions: law, medicine, dentistry, optometry, architecture, engineering, teaching, or accounting, or
Who is primarily engaged in an occupation commonly recognized as a learned or artistic profession. "Learned or artistic profession" means an employee who is primarily engaged in the performance of:
Work requiring knowledge of an advance type in a field or science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study, as distinguished from a general academic education and from an apprenticeship, and from training in the performance of routine mental, manual, or physical processes, or work that is an essential part of or necessarily incident to any of the above work; or
Work that is original and creative in character in a recognized field of artistic endeavor (as opposed to work which can be produced by a person endowed with general manual or intellectual ability and training), and the result of which depends primarily on the invention, imagination, or talent of the employee or work that is an essential part of or necessarily incident to any of the above work; and
Whose work is predominantly intellectual and varied in character (as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work) and is of such character that the output produced or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in relation to a given period of time.
Who customarily and regularly exercised discretion an independent judgment in the performance of duties set forth above.
Who earns a monthly salary equivalent to no less than two times the state minimum wage for full-time employment. Full-time employment means 40 hours per week as defined in Labor Code Section 515(c).
Technically, Unions are a product of a free market. A union begins when two or more people offer their services together as a package. Why? Because they are FREE to do so. They are selling their services freely. With no government restrictions. Now, if they grow to 10,000 people this is no different. Yes, they can extort companies. Is this their fault, or the fault of the company or government agency that hired them in the first place? Easy answer, the companies fault. Remember, Unions are a product of a free market. Trying to curtail unions, forcing them to redo their negotiations that were already contracted mutually, is NOT free market Capitalism. Unions will have never "served" their purpose, they will exist so long as a free market exists. So long as people are able to sell their goods and services FREELY, they will always form unions (either workers, or companies merging) to better their interests.
I agree with this. Likewise that should also apply to private individuals that decide to sell their services as a group (Ie. UNION). We saw WI break contracts that were already signed by the state and unions from decades ago because they didn't want to pay up. The issue was that these deals were already made, and government is interfering with what the free market decided.
Yes, IT workers are classified as "Professional" employees in every state that I know of. Likewise, "Professional" positions are exempt from any over time rules and regulations in every state that I know of.
So yes, 99.99999999999999% of IT workers cannot get over time pay in 99.99999999999% states. Hourly, salaried, or otherwise.
It says professional workers are exempt. Which IT workers are classified as.
No one would pay for it directly, but if they add it to the service, it would probably gain them millions of subscribers because that extra incentive. I would also suspect the Adult Film industry would probably be a lot easier to work with over licensing considering as you said, everything is already virtually free. They will always take something over nothing.
Netflix has yet to offer video games or adult movies. Both those avenues will bring in tons of cash.
Did you not pay attention to the 2010 elections? Many were kicked out because they wanted something new. Now we have even WORSE people in office. Change for the sake of change rarely works. Quit saying this. Vote for people that back your views, or at the very least vote for the least evil if that doesn't exist.
The "app store" shenanigans? Why do you want the "Android Market" over the "Amazon App Store" or the other way around? Does one only carry stuff like "Angry Birds" and the other doesn't? Is the selection that much better on one side vs the other?
How did we even get here? Why not just let people click on links from a software developers web site like we do on our PCs today? Centralization is fantastic for some things, but as iTunes has shown, great for music but no so great for applications. I don't know anyone who actually uses iTunes to browse apps. It's either word of mouth or nothing. Usually nothing.