I notice in the website that they very clearly state that they are a not-for-profit service, which means they CAN make a profit (it's just not the goal of the enterprise), it does put limits to certain things (IANAL), but it's not as restrictive as a non-profit.
I feel the same way, though I still run my squeeze gear, I wish it had some of the more modern stuff...
I've actually started writing replacement software (backend and front end) a couple of times for fun, but the protocols are really weird, the server actually tells the client everything that has to be displayed, screen by screen.
The likelihood that our two chemistries are compatible enough to eat one another is small, and even if they are, a species that can travel across light years, with all the power and tech that requires is likely to be able to manufacture their food much cheaply than what it would take to come down the gravity well just to get lunch.
I adore my typematrix keyboard, and it's thin enough to fit without a problem in my laptop bag and sits decently on top of my laptop, but I would love a laptop that incorporated it directly.
I've been running my Squeeze environment for years, I was really sad when Logitech bought them out and shelved it and though I'm happy it's still somewhat alive, I'm sad that no new major features are going into the server at all. It's one of those product lines that everyone who has one knows it's just right, their quality was great. And it's telling that the prices for used ones have stayed up even though they haven't released a new product in the line for years.
Seriously. I have kids, so my genes have been passed on, but what's so special about only my genes passing to the next generation? Why should I have a problem with having the product of our minds carry on our legacy? what if we could create a galactic empire made by our descendants, where our descendants are not biological but the products of our minds? That idea seems to me amazing and worthy!
I doubt that if AI ever took over it will get rid of biological life, but if it does, so what? other species have gone extinct, we will too. AI may be the worst event in the history of **our** civilization, but the best event in the history of **it's** civilization!
When I'm on the market for a new phone, I make it a point to send an email to the manufacturers of those I consider letting them know that I consider repairability a selling point. I also won't buy anything that scores below a 7 on this site: Repariability Score. I'm currently considering the latest Motorola phone to use on google fi, but I won't buy it until it's been rated.
I've slowly been making my way through NPR's 100 Science fiction books, I say slowly because even though I read a lot, I also belong to a book club, and the list is not just a list of books, but a list of book series, and if I like an author a lot I may read a lot by that author before I come back to pick up another in the list.
I'm mostly NOT reading those that are fantasy, at least not for now, even though I've read some.
I'm currently about 55 in.
It's one of the few things keeping some people on Windows... I second the comments above on Photoshop and AutoCAD... basically, anything that's preventing people from switching away from closed-source OS.
The reason this sounds stupid is because it's forgetting basic laws of supply and demand, it has nothing to do with employees being "mean".
As an employee I have a supply of 168hrs/week. Various activities compete for that time, such that I'm willing to provide up to 40 to someone in exchange for some money. My 40 hours are in the same market as tons of other people that are capable of doing my job. If there are two of us competing for the same job and I'm willing to provide only 16, but someone else is willing to work 40, they're likely to get the job, as it's easier to train one person than two (and on top of that government regulations make it expensive to have more people).
Though not impossible, I find it hard to believe that we'll get to a point where I'm willing to work 16/week but someone else won't provide a better offer, it would take a lot of changes, and it would take a shift in either regulation or market forces. What's in it for my employee? Only if my 16 hrs are worth as much as my competitor's 40 would it make sense, or if those 16 hrs were significantly cheaper than the competition's 40.
For now, 40 is a number that the market (and regulations, of course) have roughly settled on.
I DON'T! Of course, I have consolidated fiber, they bought out Surewest and I was really concerned that their service was going to go to crap, but they've been really good. It's one of the few providers I've ever used where I can talk to a knowledgeable tech easily, I even once had a really thorough conversation about how they should configure their new equipment and they fixed them right away (they were filtering UDP port 53 packets, which was breaking my DNS server).
When I bought the current house I live in, I gave it extra points because it was still in the Consolidated/Surewest area.
Could it be
C) The democrats chose their candidate poorly and Trump winning had not much to do with Obama and more to do with Hillary?
P.S. Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Johnson.
If the vote goes to the house, they only get to choose from the top three electoral vote getters, so yes, if you can have enough in the electoral college to choose a different candidate so that there's no clear 270 vote winner, *then* the house can select from among those three, but the house cannot chose randomly from other candidates.
I've always thought an alternative to this would be to have a third legislative branch, whose ONLY job is budget, and whose members would be selected by $taxesd instead of population, thereby giving an open, active voice to those making money, they would still be balanced by the Senate and house, but we would make the money in politics clearer and out in the open.
One of my biggest security peeves is the question at ATMs that wants to email me a receipt of my transaction! I would love it if my bank communicated with me that way, but not without me giving them a public encryption key first. Getting my balance and info sent to me by email sounds like the stupidest thing in the world... I'm really surprised no banking security experts have mentioned anything (I'm looking at you BofA)
I have to say that I'm absolutely, head over heels in love with my current keyboard. yes, it doesn't click loud, I had this angry typing mode that would let anyone within miles know that I was coding my ass off, that's the only thing I miss, other than that, I love the key placement (putting the enter key in the center is genius, as is making caps-lock really hard to reach).
I'm sorry for those old school people who refuse to learn anything new, but if you really want to feel a difference, give the typematrix keyboard a fly for a month. Though I type Dvorak, I managed to have my QWERTY coder GF converted to it as well, and she loves it.
And no, not affiliated with it, just a VERY satisfied customer.
My number one advice to anyone thinking about starting a business is to draw a line in the sand. Clearly state to yourself and others how much money you're willing to put into the business and how much time you're willing to spend. The DAY that you cross that line evaluate, if the business is not at that point successful, STOP spending money and call it quits.
Number two advice. Don't be the only one spending money, if your business idea is not good enough to get someone (not in your family) interested enough to help you bank roll it, then it's not likely good enough to be worth it. Besides, with that you also get someone else who's vested into the success, and that person/group can help you find other resources you might need.
But that's just generic business advice.. about software I have much more to say, but if you don't have those two then no matter how good you think your idea is you won't make it.
We evolved in Africa, but we also evolved *after* Africa, and I guess we continue to evolve. Yes, I know that while we were in Africa we were not eating wholly beasts, but we certainly did for a long period during the last glaciation, that's what I was referring to. I'd say 30,000 years (or whatever) of eating Mammoth probably gave us a taste for them.
We were around while these beasts roamed the earth, and may have had a hand in their disappearance to begin with. Given that our ancestors evolved to eat these animals, my personal theory is that Mammoth meat is perfect, and thus it's likely to be the tastiest meat there is.
I for one, am looking forward to cloning enough of these that we could grow them for meat.
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that we should NOT be idealist? that we should NOT hold goals, dreams, desires? I know perfectly well the state of reality, and know perfectly well how mostly irrational and stupid some or my fellow humans are, but that does not mean I stop looking to be a better person, to look for good people, to expect better, tell me, oh wise one, should I give up?
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I notice in the website that they very clearly state that they are a not-for-profit service, which means they CAN make a profit (it's just not the goal of the enterprise), it does put limits to certain things (IANAL), but it's not as restrictive as a non-profit.
I feel the same way, though I still run my squeeze gear, I wish it had some of the more modern stuff... I've actually started writing replacement software (backend and front end) a couple of times for fun, but the protocols are really weird, the server actually tells the client everything that has to be displayed, screen by screen.
The likelihood that our two chemistries are compatible enough to eat one another is small, and even if they are, a species that can travel across light years, with all the power and tech that requires is likely to be able to manufacture their food much cheaply than what it would take to come down the gravity well just to get lunch.
I adore my typematrix keyboard, and it's thin enough to fit without a problem in my laptop bag and sits decently on top of my laptop, but I would love a laptop that incorporated it directly.
I've been running my Squeeze environment for years, I was really sad when Logitech bought them out and shelved it and though I'm happy it's still somewhat alive, I'm sad that no new major features are going into the server at all. It's one of those product lines that everyone who has one knows it's just right, their quality was great. And it's telling that the prices for used ones have stayed up even though they haven't released a new product in the line for years.
Seriously. I have kids, so my genes have been passed on, but what's so special about only my genes passing to the next generation? Why should I have a problem with having the product of our minds carry on our legacy? what if we could create a galactic empire made by our descendants, where our descendants are not biological but the products of our minds? That idea seems to me amazing and worthy!
I doubt that if AI ever took over it will get rid of biological life, but if it does, so what? other species have gone extinct, we will too. AI may be the worst event in the history of **our** civilization, but the best event in the history of **it's** civilization!
The Doctor is THE Doctor, the word doctor came from him, not the other way around :)
When I'm on the market for a new phone, I make it a point to send an email to the manufacturers of those I consider letting them know that I consider repairability a selling point. I also won't buy anything that scores below a 7 on this site: Repariability Score. I'm currently considering the latest Motorola phone to use on google fi, but I won't buy it until it's been rated.
I've slowly been making my way through NPR's 100 Science fiction books, I say slowly because even though I read a lot, I also belong to a book club, and the list is not just a list of books, but a list of book series, and if I like an author a lot I may read a lot by that author before I come back to pick up another in the list. I'm mostly NOT reading those that are fantasy, at least not for now, even though I've read some. I'm currently about 55 in.
As a Libertarian I'm a bit of an opponent of this "Taxation is Theft" meme... because technically it should really be "Taxation is Extortion" :)
It's one of the few things keeping some people on Windows... I second the comments above on Photoshop and AutoCAD... basically, anything that's preventing people from switching away from closed-source OS.
The reason this sounds stupid is because it's forgetting basic laws of supply and demand, it has nothing to do with employees being "mean". As an employee I have a supply of 168hrs/week. Various activities compete for that time, such that I'm willing to provide up to 40 to someone in exchange for some money. My 40 hours are in the same market as tons of other people that are capable of doing my job. If there are two of us competing for the same job and I'm willing to provide only 16, but someone else is willing to work 40, they're likely to get the job, as it's easier to train one person than two (and on top of that government regulations make it expensive to have more people). Though not impossible, I find it hard to believe that we'll get to a point where I'm willing to work 16/week but someone else won't provide a better offer, it would take a lot of changes, and it would take a shift in either regulation or market forces. What's in it for my employee? Only if my 16 hrs are worth as much as my competitor's 40 would it make sense, or if those 16 hrs were significantly cheaper than the competition's 40. For now, 40 is a number that the market (and regulations, of course) have roughly settled on.
I DON'T! Of course, I have consolidated fiber, they bought out Surewest and I was really concerned that their service was going to go to crap, but they've been really good. It's one of the few providers I've ever used where I can talk to a knowledgeable tech easily, I even once had a really thorough conversation about how they should configure their new equipment and they fixed them right away (they were filtering UDP port 53 packets, which was breaking my DNS server). When I bought the current house I live in, I gave it extra points because it was still in the Consolidated/Surewest area.
Sorry... historically, Metropolis is supposed to be Cleveland.
Could it be
C) The democrats chose their candidate poorly and Trump winning had not much to do with Obama and more to do with Hillary?
P.S. Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Johnson.
If the vote goes to the house, they only get to choose from the top three electoral vote getters, so yes, if you can have enough in the electoral college to choose a different candidate so that there's no clear 270 vote winner, *then* the house can select from among those three, but the house cannot chose randomly from other candidates.
Kial ne? do mi ne certas se 12-baso estas bona ideo.
I've always thought an alternative to this would be to have a third legislative branch, whose ONLY job is budget, and whose members would be selected by $taxesd instead of population, thereby giving an open, active voice to those making money, they would still be balanced by the Senate and house, but we would make the money in politics clearer and out in the open.
One of my biggest security peeves is the question at ATMs that wants to email me a receipt of my transaction! I would love it if my bank communicated with me that way, but not without me giving them a public encryption key first. Getting my balance and info sent to me by email sounds like the stupidest thing in the world... I'm really surprised no banking security experts have mentioned anything (I'm looking at you BofA)
I have to say that I'm absolutely, head over heels in love with my current keyboard. yes, it doesn't click loud, I had this angry typing mode that would let anyone within miles know that I was coding my ass off, that's the only thing I miss, other than that, I love the key placement (putting the enter key in the center is genius, as is making caps-lock really hard to reach). I'm sorry for those old school people who refuse to learn anything new, but if you really want to feel a difference, give the typematrix keyboard a fly for a month. Though I type Dvorak, I managed to have my QWERTY coder GF converted to it as well, and she loves it. And no, not affiliated with it, just a VERY satisfied customer.
My number one advice to anyone thinking about starting a business is to draw a line in the sand. Clearly state to yourself and others how much money you're willing to put into the business and how much time you're willing to spend. The DAY that you cross that line evaluate, if the business is not at that point successful, STOP spending money and call it quits. Number two advice. Don't be the only one spending money, if your business idea is not good enough to get someone (not in your family) interested enough to help you bank roll it, then it's not likely good enough to be worth it. Besides, with that you also get someone else who's vested into the success, and that person/group can help you find other resources you might need. But that's just generic business advice.. about software I have much more to say, but if you don't have those two then no matter how good you think your idea is you won't make it.
We evolved in Africa, but we also evolved *after* Africa, and I guess we continue to evolve. Yes, I know that while we were in Africa we were not eating wholly beasts, but we certainly did for a long period during the last glaciation, that's what I was referring to. I'd say 30,000 years (or whatever) of eating Mammoth probably gave us a taste for them.
We were around while these beasts roamed the earth, and may have had a hand in their disappearance to begin with. Given that our ancestors evolved to eat these animals, my personal theory is that Mammoth meat is perfect, and thus it's likely to be the tastiest meat there is. I for one, am looking forward to cloning enough of these that we could grow them for meat.
Really bad, I have both a Moneual case I love and Zalman coolers which work great.
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that we should NOT be idealist? that we should NOT hold goals, dreams, desires? I know perfectly well the state of reality, and know perfectly well how mostly irrational and stupid some or my fellow humans are, but that does not mean I stop looking to be a better person, to look for good people, to expect better, tell me, oh wise one, should I give up?