Better than forcing staff to choose between losing their job and having offspring, Better than forcing staff to come back to work to come right back to work without time to bond and heal, then give their kids up to a caregiver during the daylight hours
And this is AMERICAN EXPRESS, so I'm pretty sure they can afford to do it, and I'm also fairly sure that if it was a big impact on revenue they wouldn't have done so.
Also pretty sure that neither you nor I work at Amex, so neither of our opinions matter worth two f**ks in this case. I did enjoy my own short stint of paternity leave as time to get closer to my daughter, however. Somehow my wife's employer also managed to get through it OK despite her literally being 1/8 of their workforce too...
If you look at it that way, I suppose. However a correct way to address either situation is to ensure that your processes, documentation, etc allow for staff turnover of any type. Given the number of mid-large companies that also tend to make use of contractors, it's not much different than what's necessary to get a contractor up to snuff to temporarily fill out a project team.
Yes, you can use it for free. However, some people DO pay for services on Reddit, and it seems that many of them aren't particularly pleased with the situation either.
The old adage about "two wrongs" comes to mind. Proper method would be to delete the post and/or ban the user.
Kinda like "well, the cop beat that guy to a pulp but he was selling drugs to kids." Yeah, we don't want slime who peddle drugs to kids, but we don't want cops who beat people down either.
It doesn't seem to add all that much burden in Canada or other countries that similarly don't treat new parents like garbage. If you can't do without sombody in a planned absence (parenthood has some pretty predictable dates), then you're even more SOL if they change jobs, get hit by a car, etc etc.
It's about doing what I want to work on. If I were suddenly flush in cash I could go back to school for stuff I want to learn, afford to build a full shop with the tools I want to work with, and not worry that "failure=lose house" if I wanted to start my own business
How does that work, though? If my employer gives me $10k for the purpose of a charitable donation, doesn't that essentially mean that I made (for tax purposes)
Binary drivers break, but a lot of semi-recent and newer cards are actually supported by the in-kernel driver which should not break in most cases (usually the drivers breakage = won't build with current kernel or xorg).
So while nVidia is working on Solaris and FreeBSD, their newest driver won't work for recent cards on recent kernels. Meanwhile their old cards get stuck without support in their problem, leaving you with nouveau (which is kinda like having a procotological exam with a glove dipped in wasabi).
I weighed heavily between both cards, and went with AMD since the OPEN SOURCE drivers have been given a *lot* of support by AMD, and work nicely without any third-party binary bullshit needed.
They say it's all fixed, but the fact that they rolled out with such a fairly obvious yet serious bug - especially after recently professing a strong focus on security - doesn't exactly fill my heart with confidence and trust.
Not seeing pricing or a place to buy it. Seems a bit limited in functionality compared to Pebble, but who knows maybe one of these will move to fill the void now that there's demand.
I've had a GS2, GS4, GS5, and my wife had a Note3/
We just recently bought Asus' Zenphone Laser3. Thus far I've noticed that performs just as well as any other phone I've had, with the extra features of Android 6. It also gets *much* better battery life than any Samsung I've ever owned. At $270CAD, it's significantly cheaper than the major Samsung models, but has better specs than their "cheap" models (e.g. better CPU, 32GB instead of 8GB storage), and comes factory unlocked (with none of that lock-to-the-first-SIM-card-used BS either).
The only downside I've seen to it thus far is that it doesn't have a removable battery like the ZF2 had, lacks wireless charging (Asus: PLEASE add this to the next model), and you can't have a second SIM card if you want to use a MicroSD.
Least to say, I don't see myself with any need to buy an S8 or any other Samsung. The more recent models already did away with removable batteries and don't support dual-SIM, so the only advantage they seem to have is the wireless charging. While I do love the charging, it's not a feature that I'm willing to pay double the price for nor submit myself to Samsung's dearth of updates for any non-current device.
I won a 3d printer (M3D) at a conference as a door prize. The big issue is: what to print, and how do you get it into a format for printing. For most stuff I've seen, you need a 3d scanner or something that can get [existing thing] into software to create [new thing].
I've recently been trying to build a case for my new phone because: a) It would be cool to have a custom case and b) Cases for Zenfone 3 are not so common
Thus far I've had some luck scanning the phone to image, building the layers as 2d templates, and then converting to SVG in Inkscape. However, going to Inkscape to anything else is pretty much a f*** up as it does not map the dimensions properly, so my SVG ends up being imported as 2.335x (or whatever) the size of the actual item.
Apart from that, I've been using Octoprint and the M33-Fio module for actual printing, which works quite nicely. The next issue is that my tray is only 5"x5"x5" so a lot of items end up being too big. The software has the ability to "cut" meshes into pieces but it would be cool if it could do so in a way that wasn't straight so the joints could lock together better.
So don't start the app, and don't enable it on bootup when you don't want it (my Asus phone has built-in software to control startup apps, really helps battery life too), and turn off the telemetry settings in general when not in use.
Honestly, they've had similar functionality which used to be baked into maps anyhow. I used the former when on long trips down icy highways so that my wife/family could see that I didn't end up in a ditch somewhere. If the cost of such is that Google wants to watch my 8h+ haul during those times, I don't really care much.
What are they going to do, advertise that McDonalds has discount hot coffee and suggest a pit-stop partway through my trip?
Any other time it's turned off and the locator functionality for the whole phone is turned off to save battery life anyhow.
There's no guarantee, indeed, but a company can still be in trouble if it's found they were deceptive or mis-used funds. In this case though they also promised refunds to anyone who asks before shipping, so I guess we'll see.
There's a lot of hate on the Pebble KS right now, with people ranting about how they "ruined Xmas", which IMHO is pretty extreme and overall quite pathetic. I'd say even without the acquisition or other issues, expecting a KS to ship out fully by an exact date is pretty wishful thinking. It may be that they won't fulfil the Time2 at all, which would be a black eye for both Pebble/FitBit, but realistically it's pretty up-in-the-air right now. Certainly a few weeks or even a month delay aren't exactly unusual in the world of crowdfunding.
The term "karma-whore" has oft been used on slashdot, regardless of gender. The basic premise being that somebody is willing to commit an immoral* act for personal profit
*Morality, of course, being in the eyes of the beholder. I'd have more respect for somebody who sells "physical services" to a willing customer than somebody who engages in deceptive services to boost faulty products.
But because the warrant was about CP, nobody will want to stand against it because that would seem like he/she is supporting child abuse as opposed to supporting due-process and proper judicial oversight/responsibility.
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And yet, again, it works in so many countries.
Better than forcing staff to choose between losing their job and having offspring,
Better than forcing staff to come back to work to come right back to work without time to bond and heal, then give their kids up to a caregiver during the daylight hours
And this is AMERICAN EXPRESS, so I'm pretty sure they can afford to do it, and I'm also fairly sure that if it was a big impact on revenue they wouldn't have done so.
Also pretty sure that neither you nor I work at Amex, so neither of our opinions matter worth two f**ks in this case. I did enjoy my own short stint of paternity leave as time to get closer to my daughter, however. Somehow my wife's employer also managed to get through it OK despite her literally being 1/8 of their workforce too...
Tom Cruise for minister of religious affairs? :-)
If you look at it that way, I suppose. However a correct way to address either situation is to ensure that your processes, documentation, etc allow for staff turnover of any type. Given the number of mid-large companies that also tend to make use of contractors, it's not much different than what's necessary to get a contractor up to snuff to temporarily fill out a project team.
" one that lets you use it for free"
Yes, you can use it for free. However, some people DO pay for services on Reddit, and it seems that many of them aren't particularly pleased with the situation either.
The old adage about "two wrongs" comes to mind. Proper method would be to delete the post and/or ban the user.
Kinda like "well, the cop beat that guy to a pulp but he was selling drugs to kids." Yeah, we don't want slime who peddle drugs to kids, but we don't want cops who beat people down either.
Or the latest meet-and-greet with... Kanye fucking West. You can't even make this shit up anymore.
It doesn't seem to add all that much burden in Canada or other countries that similarly don't treat new parents like garbage. If you can't do without sombody in a planned absence (parenthood has some pretty predictable dates), then you're even more SOL if they change jobs, get hit by a car, etc etc.
It's about doing what I want to work on. If I were suddenly flush in cash I could go back to school for stuff I want to learn, afford to build a full shop with the tools I want to work with, and not worry that "failure=lose house" if I wanted to start my own business
How does that work, though? If my employer gives me $10k for the purpose of a charitable donation, doesn't that essentially mean that I made (for tax purposes)
$my_pay
+$10000 (taxable)
-$10000 (tax deduction for charitable donation)
=
$my_pay
Binary drivers break, but a lot of semi-recent and newer cards are actually supported by the in-kernel driver which should not break in most cases (usually the drivers breakage = won't build with current kernel or xorg).
So while nVidia is working on Solaris and FreeBSD, their newest driver won't work for recent cards on recent kernels. Meanwhile their old cards get stuck without support in their problem, leaving you with nouveau (which is kinda like having a procotological exam with a glove dipped in wasabi).
I weighed heavily between both cards, and went with AMD since the OPEN SOURCE drivers have been given a *lot* of support by AMD, and work nicely without any third-party binary bullshit needed.
They say it's all fixed, but the fact that they rolled out with such a fairly obvious yet serious bug - especially after recently professing a strong focus on security - doesn't exactly fill my heart with confidence and trust.
Yeaaaaah, you might want to hold off on signing up for that just yet.
Not seeing pricing or a place to buy it. Seems a bit limited in functionality compared to Pebble, but who knows maybe one of these will move to fill the void now that there's demand.
I've had a GS2, GS4, GS5, and my wife had a Note3/
We just recently bought Asus' Zenphone Laser3. Thus far I've noticed that performs just as well as any other phone I've had, with the extra features of Android 6. It also gets *much* better battery life than any Samsung I've ever owned. At $270CAD, it's significantly cheaper than the major Samsung models, but has better specs than their "cheap" models (e.g. better CPU, 32GB instead of 8GB storage), and comes factory unlocked (with none of that lock-to-the-first-SIM-card-used BS either).
The only downside I've seen to it thus far is that it doesn't have a removable battery like the ZF2 had, lacks wireless charging (Asus: PLEASE add this to the next model), and you can't have a second SIM card if you want to use a MicroSD.
Least to say, I don't see myself with any need to buy an S8 or any other Samsung. The more recent models already did away with removable batteries and don't support dual-SIM, so the only advantage they seem to have is the wireless charging. While I do love the charging, it's not a feature that I'm willing to pay double the price for nor submit myself to Samsung's dearth of updates for any non-current device.
I won a 3d printer (M3D) at a conference as a door prize. The big issue is: what to print, and how do you get it into a format for printing. For most stuff I've seen, you need a 3d scanner or something that can get [existing thing] into software to create [new thing].
I've recently been trying to build a case for my new phone because:
a) It would be cool to have a custom case
and
b) Cases for Zenfone 3 are not so common
Thus far I've had some luck scanning the phone to image, building the layers as 2d templates, and then converting to SVG in Inkscape. However, going to Inkscape to anything else is pretty much a f*** up as it does not map the dimensions properly, so my SVG ends up being imported as 2.335x (or whatever) the size of the actual item.
Apart from that, I've been using Octoprint and the M33-Fio module for actual printing, which works quite nicely. The next issue is that my tray is only 5"x5"x5" so a lot of items end up being too big. The software has the ability to "cut" meshes into pieces but it would be cool if it could do so in a way that wasn't straight so the joints could lock together better.
I keep one of those hammer+belt-cutter thingies in my door compartment just in case. They're cheap and don't take up much room.
So don't start the app, and don't enable it on bootup when you don't want it (my Asus phone has built-in software to control startup apps, really helps battery life too), and turn off the telemetry settings in general when not in use.
Honestly, they've had similar functionality which used to be baked into maps anyhow. I used the former when on long trips down icy highways so that my wife/family could see that I didn't end up in a ditch somewhere. If the cost of such is that Google wants to watch my 8h+ haul during those times, I don't really care much.
What are they going to do, advertise that McDonalds has discount hot coffee and suggest a pit-stop partway through my trip?
Any other time it's turned off and the locator functionality for the whole phone is turned off to save battery life anyhow.
There's no guarantee, indeed, but a company can still be in trouble if it's found they were deceptive or mis-used funds. In this case though they also promised refunds to anyone who asks before shipping, so I guess we'll see.
There's a lot of hate on the Pebble KS right now, with people ranting about how they "ruined Xmas", which IMHO is pretty extreme and overall quite pathetic. I'd say even without the acquisition or other issues, expecting a KS to ship out fully by an exact date is pretty wishful thinking. It may be that they won't fulfil the Time2 at all, which would be a black eye for both Pebble/FitBit, but realistically it's pretty up-in-the-air right now. Certainly a few weeks or even a month delay aren't exactly unusual in the world of crowdfunding.
now the company is being bought by a company that likes to kill its purchases.
I'm wondering what (if any) their obligations are towards existing backers of the PT2 if they're buying out Pebble...
The term "karma-whore" has oft been used on slashdot, regardless of gender. The basic premise being that somebody is willing to commit an immoral* act for personal profit
*Morality, of course, being in the eyes of the beholder. I'd have more respect for somebody who sells "physical services" to a willing customer than somebody who engages in deceptive services to boost faulty products.
But because the warrant was about CP, nobody will want to stand against it because that would seem like he/she is supporting child abuse as opposed to supporting due-process and proper judicial oversight/responsibility.
I can only hope that if the US dumps the TPP that Canada and the rest will follow...
Then again, if there is no TPP, does that mean a lot of the US-led copyright/spying provisions are now toast?
In the USA. However this could get expensive for them in Europe...
Proudly made in the USA, with new embossed Eagle hologram emblem on the rear to show that you are a patriotic supporter of the U.S.A
Hey, if people will pay for a damn gold iphone, why not?