As someone from an economy not running as well as you, I assure you. KEEP disrespecting the recruiters. FUCK them, drive the wages higher, make them fucking work for you, because when the coin flips and the job market is the other way, they don't give a god damn shit about you.
Yes and no, we might only have 25 million people here, but the average disposable income (while dropping, due to stupid govt fiscal management) is still pretty darn high.
We might only buy a fraction of the US or the UK but per population we're probably up there a fair bit.
Plus of course the "Aussie rape tax" as we call it. Why charge a reasonable price, when you know we have money? Scam the fuck out of us, seemingly, we don't care.
We pay well well above what most countries do for software and hardware.
Much of it is very very un-inhabitable. Doesn't change our government(s) pushing for incredibly crazy high immigration rates AND not spending money on infrastructure.
They get paper based GDP growth and 'the numbers go higher' for many things but the actual standard of living quality, job quantity and wage growth is going bad bad bad for people.
They don't care, this is a huge country, shovel em all in! What could go wrong? (Golly, why are more and more people homeless, unemployed or working 3 separate part time jobs?)
It's only a matter of time, we're well past the point of no return. I can't really fathom a good analogy, perhaps the titanic? Except 10,000 times larger and moving much, much slower but we're only 6 feet from the ice burg. We're gonna take a little bit to hit it, but rest assured we absoloutely will be hitting that ice burg.
Don't breed, having kids in the future that's coming is only more depressing.
If you got an Android 8.1 phone, I think (?) that you're extremely likely to get updates as it's apparently much easier for the manufacturers to port all the code in, or something like that.
It's one of the few, significantly positive concepts from Google in a while.
I still think they should have a feature and bug total freeze for a solid, 3 to 6 months and do anything and everything humanly possible to make it run, as fast and lean as possible. iOS has several simple 'tricks' which make it feel faster, even when it isn't.
Phones aren't awful slouches but I'd like to see them quicker. But what's the incentive, handset manufacturers want their phones to feel sluggish at the 12-36 month mark
Do people within Apple just continue to agree with stuff because someone higher up suggested it? No critical thoughts?
They had 'laser' based keyboards nearly a decade ago, keyboard directly on your desk surface. Not only would tapping the table endlessly hurt the finger tips, the lack of tactile feedback is awful. Also, how do you "hold down" a key or repeatedly press it?
Between this and the touch bar itself, the headphone jack (sorry, no, I'm not a luddite, I'm just someone doesn't need or want to charge inferior, bulky, expensive, bluetooth headphones) Apple is going bad places. At least for me.
My closest sauna is in the fancy YMCA city run gymnasium near me, about $80 US per month membership. My other gym is only $35 US per month (no sauna)
The people going were mostly wealthy or older with retiree card discounts.
I love the heck of the sauna, if I were ever rich, I'd get one, wonderful things (I detest the cold) but the cost to run one, I believe is quite astronomical.
The new 're-install over the top of yourself' patching system is terrible. If it fails it can render a machine unable to boot and despite (presumably........?) their best efforts, several settings you've configured WILL be reset to default.
I am a silent PC user, when sound comes out, it's because I want it to. Why do notification audio keep getting turned on?
There's a heap of odd little things which re-enable themselves when these updates occur, worst thing is you had to google to find out how to disable them months ago and not since, so you've forgotten.
Are these the same idiots who keep making all my applications BRIGHT WHITE with no lines / shading / colour and they take away the text labelling from my icons?
Those of us from many years before it was even a concept, those of us good with money, have always hated it.
In Australia, buy an $800 cell phone, get a $20 per month cell plan, total 2 year cost $1240. But you could always get the phone free! with a plan, only $80 per month... or $1920.
And so on and so forth. Applications, gaming, etc, it's all 'just rent it' and it stinks when the option for people with a clue to pay outright, disappears.
There's 0% chance of me ever paying for Windows as a service.
and I have owned every single ipad obsessively for the past 4 generations (great resale value)
I do not subscribe to this bluetooth idiocy. I do not need a thinner ipad. I wouldn't mind the smaller bezel, I wouldn't mind it closer to 16:9. I wouldn't mind an OLED display for true blacks or even better camera / speakers. But overall I'm fairly happy with my ipad Pro 10.5 but I'll be if you think I'll upgrade for a unit with no headphone jack.
I find the lack of a thumb pad / home button already fairly offensive but the headphone jack on a device like that? Which people use on planes? Hell, god damned no.
You have your upper tier skilled contractors (I suspect a fair few here) who are brought in on very good money to complete a project or do a specialist task. In Australia, they'd make at least 100 to 200k a year. Day rates exceeding $500/700 a day. I'd assume in US / SF, these people would be 200k+ minimum.
Then you have 'normal' IT workers, doing basic work, account creation, service desk, back up and restore teams, desktop support. These guys aren't really specialists (not anymore) and there's a volume of work to keep them compartmentalized in a fairly mundane role which is more like working a conveyor belt than hardcore IT. These guys, probably should be perm, but many places still keep em as contractors, so you can fire them easy and pay them poorly. Once you do the figures on their hourly rate, vs the perm staff, factoring in holiday leave / sick leave / medical (for the USA) 401k and whatever other benefits there are. These guys are OFTEN getting shafted and it's extremely common in the industry. I myself have worked a "contract" gig at a mid level salary at best for 4 years for example. I've seen people do it for 11 years..... We're talking under 70k wages (AUD, like 55k US)
It's fucking the employees. There's no such thing as 'long service leave' anymore, you get close to being eligible and you're accidentally made redundant.
Toronto is becoming similar to Vancouver in that the government(s) responsible for the place, seem to have/almost/ 0 care factor about corrupt Chinese money being funneled in via overseas property purchasing or basically giving out residency like candy (for enough money, see also: Australia)
Honestly, I thought Toronto was worse than it must be for this to have even occurred. I thought it was only a bit behind Vancouver.
These 2 things (the tech jobs, Chinese property investment) can not be good for the original locals and youth of Toronto.
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Apparently up to 3 or 4 left leaning accounts get banned too out of each million "bad" accounts....
As someone from an economy not running as well as you, I assure you. KEEP disrespecting the recruiters. FUCK them, drive the wages higher, make them fucking work for you, because when the coin flips and the job market is the other way, they don't give a god damn shit about you.
I'm very old, to me a watch is a fasion and timepiece. I rarely wear one, but if I do, it sure won't be as guady as a smart watch.
I also already pull my phone out of my pocket FAR too much as it is. I need not, even more contact with the internet.
AND they need charging.
Nope, never.
How about I never buy a smartwatch instead?
Yes and no, we might only have 25 million people here, but the average disposable income (while dropping, due to stupid govt fiscal management) is still pretty darn high.
We might only buy a fraction of the US or the UK but per population we're probably up there a fair bit.
Plus of course the "Aussie rape tax" as we call it. Why charge a reasonable price, when you know we have money? Scam the fuck out of us, seemingly, we don't care.
We pay well well above what most countries do for software and hardware.
Much of it is very very un-inhabitable. Doesn't change our government(s) pushing for incredibly crazy high immigration rates AND not spending money on infrastructure.
They get paper based GDP growth and 'the numbers go higher' for many things but the actual standard of living quality, job quantity and wage growth is going bad bad bad for people.
They don't care, this is a huge country, shovel em all in! What could go wrong?
(Golly, why are more and more people homeless, unemployed or working 3 separate part time jobs?)
How will the people of 1986 comprehend why a strange probe of unknown origin crashes into the San Francisco bay?
I can't remember it, I'm not a stalker, I just googled.
Someone else pointed out his behaviour a few months back and I haven't stopped noticing it.
That's all you need to know folks.
Beau, I've seen your twitter account, I've seen your submissions here.
Cut this shit out.
https://xkcd.com/1732/
Yeah, I know it's a cartoon and not precise scale but it's pretty blatant at the end of it, bad things are coming.
Combine this, with the recent discussion of methane finally escaping in siberia.
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
It's only a matter of time, we're well past the point of no return. I can't really fathom a good analogy, perhaps the titanic? Except 10,000 times larger and moving much, much slower but we're only 6 feet from the ice burg. We're gonna take a little bit to hit it, but rest assured we absoloutely will be hitting that ice burg.
Don't breed, having kids in the future that's coming is only more depressing.
If you got an Android 8.1 phone, I think (?) that you're extremely likely to get updates as it's apparently much easier for the manufacturers to port all the code in, or something like that.
It's one of the few, significantly positive concepts from Google in a while.
I still think they should have a feature and bug total freeze for a solid, 3 to 6 months and do anything and everything humanly possible to make it run, as fast and lean as possible. iOS has several simple 'tricks' which make it feel faster, even when it isn't.
Phones aren't awful slouches but I'd like to see them quicker.
But what's the incentive, handset manufacturers want their phones to feel sluggish at the 12-36 month mark
Do people within Apple just continue to agree with stuff because someone higher up suggested it? No critical thoughts?
They had 'laser' based keyboards nearly a decade ago, keyboard directly on your desk surface. Not only would tapping the table endlessly hurt the finger tips, the lack of tactile feedback is awful. Also, how do you "hold down" a key or repeatedly press it?
Between this and the touch bar itself, the headphone jack (sorry, no, I'm not a luddite, I'm just someone doesn't need or want to charge inferior, bulky, expensive, bluetooth headphones) Apple is going bad places. At least for me.
That their liberal arts degree isn't making them as much as their STEM pals.
Fairly reasonable reply TBH.
My closest sauna is in the fancy YMCA city run gymnasium near me, about $80 US per month membership. My other gym is only $35 US per month (no sauna)
The people going were mostly wealthy or older with retiree card discounts.
I love the heck of the sauna, if I were ever rich, I'd get one, wonderful things (I detest the cold) but the cost to run one, I believe is quite astronomical.
The new 're-install over the top of yourself' patching system is terrible. If it fails it can render a machine unable to boot and despite (presumably... .. .. .?) their best efforts, several settings you've configured WILL be reset to default.
I am a silent PC user, when sound comes out, it's because I want it to. Why do notification audio keep getting turned on?
There's a heap of odd little things which re-enable themselves when these updates occur, worst thing is you had to google to find out how to disable them months ago and not since, so you've forgotten.
The instragram like story thing?
LOL Go for it, ruin it, I couldn't care less. I don't know a single person who uses that!
I get some people don't care for 2 SIM cards.
I'm one of them, I know what I'd prefer.
Idiots.
Are these the same idiots who keep making all my applications BRIGHT WHITE with no lines / shading / colour and they take away the text labelling from my icons?
Those of us from many years before it was even a concept, those of us good with money, have always hated it.
In Australia, buy an $800 cell phone, get a $20 per month cell plan, total 2 year cost $1240. But you could always get the phone free! with a plan, only $80 per month ... or $1920.
And so on and so forth. Applications, gaming, etc, it's all 'just rent it' and it stinks when the option for people with a clue to pay outright, disappears.
There's 0% chance of me ever paying for Windows as a service.
and I have owned every single ipad obsessively for the past 4 generations (great resale value)
I do not subscribe to this bluetooth idiocy. I do not need a thinner ipad. I wouldn't mind the smaller bezel, I wouldn't mind it closer to 16:9. I wouldn't mind an OLED display for true blacks or even better camera / speakers. But overall I'm fairly happy with my ipad Pro 10.5 but I'll be if you think I'll upgrade for a unit with no headphone jack.
I find the lack of a thumb pad / home button already fairly offensive but the headphone jack on a device like that? Which people use on planes? Hell, god damned no.
Nope.
I can see it now, a group of 7 rape a woman in the middle of a town square at midday in the middle of a parade.
Sadly the police and media /and the victim/ reports that no one can describe the assailants with any more detail than "multiple men",........
Of course the one guy who caught it on film is being charged for privacy violations and hate speech!
Wait is this Germany or Sweden?
The methane is releasing in Siberia now.
It's on, I believe the runaway effect is going on. It's still going to be slow for us as humans, since the world moves at a slower pace.
Shit is hitting the fan, now. Little tiny flecks have already hit the blade, but huge lumps coming soon.
Don't breed, we're going to see some serious shit in the next 20 years. Not 200, the next 20 will be shocking.
You have your upper tier skilled contractors (I suspect a fair few here) who are brought in on very good money to complete a project or do a specialist task. In Australia, they'd make at least 100 to 200k a year. Day rates exceeding $500/700 a day. I'd assume in US / SF, these people would be 200k+ minimum.
Then you have 'normal' IT workers, doing basic work, account creation, service desk, back up and restore teams, desktop support. These guys aren't really specialists (not anymore) and there's a volume of work to keep them compartmentalized in a fairly mundane role which is more like working a conveyor belt than hardcore IT. These guys, probably should be perm, but many places still keep em as contractors, so you can fire them easy and pay them poorly. Once you do the figures on their hourly rate, vs the perm staff, factoring in holiday leave / sick leave / medical (for the USA) 401k and whatever other benefits there are. These guys are OFTEN getting shafted and it's extremely common in the industry. I myself have worked a "contract" gig at a mid level salary at best for 4 years for example. I've seen people do it for 11 years..... We're talking under 70k wages (AUD, like 55k US)
It's fucking the employees. There's no such thing as 'long service leave' anymore, you get close to being eligible and you're accidentally made redundant.
Toronto is becoming similar to Vancouver in that the government(s) responsible for the place, seem to have /almost/ 0 care factor about corrupt Chinese money being funneled in via overseas property purchasing or basically giving out residency like candy (for enough money, see also: Australia)
Honestly, I thought Toronto was worse than it must be for this to have even occurred. I thought it was only a bit behind Vancouver.
These 2 things (the tech jobs, Chinese property investment) can not be good for the original locals and youth of Toronto.