That's not a reason to call it good, this is anything but reasonable.
If you're inconvenienced by music, I suggest you pick one of the >90% of restaurants that don't play any.
Are you serious? I can't think of the last time I have been in a restaurant where there wasn't music playing. Usually through crappy, tinny speakers into a cavernous room with 30 foot high ceilings made out of metal, and bouncing off of all the exposed ducting and metal girders.
Trying to have a conversation over a dinner outside of the home is not even a remote possibility anymore.
It is a downloaded music festival. If it was some other sort of festival, it would seem like hypocrisy, but since it is about information being free, then it seems to fit. If music on the internet is supposed to be free because it is just data, then why should the likeness of a person be protected? It's just data.
I've heard of some that will reorder all your withdrawals in a day before all your deposits to try and overdraw you so they can charge a fee. Mine does the opposite; all the deposits are processed first, so even if you do overdraw, you have a grace period until the end of the day.
Most institutions do credits first processing. I had heard that it was illegal to do debits first processing, but a quick google doesn't seem to verify that. What banks will do, which ought to be illegal is to reorder your debits such that the biggest ones hit your account first in order to maximize fees. Lets say you have $10 in your account and you get hit with a 100 1 cent debits followed by a $10 debit. They will reorder the transactions such that the $10 hits first and then you get 100 $30 NSF fees.
Technically it is illegal for you to engage a transaction for which you do not have funds to cover in the bank account anyway.
My credit union has a deposit cheque by phone. A browser can't do that.
Yes they can. Well, the browser can't do the actual deposit, but neither does an app. An app takes a picture of the check using the devices camera and sends the picture to the bank who does the image processing and performs the deposit. This can easily be done in the browser. If your bank doesn't know how to do it, I am available at reasonable rates.
Santander was no more successful than US large banks and, just like US large banks, they pretended they didn't need large government bailouts by forcing their national government to bailout the people who owed Santander.
Quarter-to-quarter profits is a HORRIBLE way to measure the viability of an organization. The sooner we all learn that, the better for all entities, corporate or human.
What school did you go to that required more or less than the standard 120 credit hours for a bachelor's?
The minimum number of hours required to graduate with a BSEE from University of Illinois at Chicago is 128.
However, the number of hours of classes you end up taking with prerequisites and getting all courses in for your major ends up being much higher than that. It's been a long time since I graduated, but it seems like I had something like 143 or more credit hours when I graduated.
Maybe if your colleagues would grow some goddam integrity, the hires as a whole would get some goddam respect. What you're describing results in the hiring process basically being a complete game of chance. Can you believe, even for a second, that some people might not like that? Really shitty of them ain't it?
This is the same problem we have with sales. As soon as one salesman lied about his product, everybody else has to either lie about theirs, or hope that they can survive long enough for the lie to be found out. In the job market, people get pretty desperate and there is a never ending supply of new people willing to lie to get their resume seen while your honest one gets overlooked. Still, I choose to be honest, and hopefully others do too. Dishonesty of a few marks everybody as suspicious.
Because people who haven't dumped massive amounts of money on a degree can't learn after they start working? Hardly. The effects of college are greatly exaggerated.
Perhaps different people get different things out of a college education. I for one got quite a lot out of it. You can certainly go to college and not get a college education, but you sure can't skip college and get a college education.
The corollary is that, yes, those general ed and elective requirements DO serve a purpose. Chosen well, they help expand your horizons and teach you a little something about the world. So, when whatever major you did pick becomes unmarketable (and many do), you aren't left with nothing but useless knowledge.
It seems to me that when going through the Engineering program that we had to take about 90% of the classes that the typical Liberal Arts students took, plus about 50% more classes going further into physics and math. I know for a fact that the number of hours required to graduate was 20% higher for Engineering than for Liberal Arts students. And just to complete my major required much more than the minimum number of hours. Most Liberal Arts students were taking 12 to 15 hours per semester. I was taking an average of 19 and went as high as 21 one semester, plus I took summer classes one year. And no, I did not fail any classes. I actually was an officer in Tau Beta Pi (the engineering honor society) and president of IEEE (and also working 30 hours per week).
HR guy: "We need people who are 22 years old with an M.Sc. and 20 years of specific experience, and we can't find any."
C-level exec: "See, I told you we can't find qualified domestic hires and we need to ramp up the H-1B visas."
Well, you are partially right. If you look for a 22 year old H1B with an MS, you probably will find one. They all seem to have MS from some Indian university or another. I wouldn't vouch for how that university compares to education in the U.S.
Also, you can usually find H1Bs who will happily put down vast quantities of experience in technologies that they don't really have. The same thing happens in the U.S. as well, but it always seems more grossly exaggerated in the H1B resumes. Probably because they are desperate. And because the companies are desperate to pay less, they will accept the lies and hire the person who lied and said they had 5 year when they have zero or the person who told the truth that they only have 4 years. Paying 70% of a salary for zero productivity is better than paying 100% salary for 80% productivity, right?
the employers used to look for smart or adaptable kids on college campuses with general skills... They're not doing that now. They're just expecting that the kids will show up with the skills that the employer needs when the employer needs them.
In other words, the employers are idiots, and there's very little that a student can do about it.
Well, yes, exactly. Because apparently the employer never went to college so they don't realize that college is not for vocational training but for making a person well-rounded, teachable and educated, but with a particular focus on an area of study. Instead, the employer wants a seat filler that comes to the job already knowing a trade, meaning that they either came from a vocational school or from another job, but since they are wanting to pay only entry level wages, nobody is going to come from another job. And the vocational school applicant will be able to hit the ground running which means good profits for this quarter, but without the general education their long term use to the company could be severely limited. I say could be, because there is always SOME possibility of finding someone teachable in a vo-tech, or out of high school, or dropped out of high school.
You are right, codewords wouldn't work, but how about a skill testing multiple-choice question(s). If you get enough right, you can get escalated
So, some questions like...
"Is it plugged in?"
"Did you try rebooting your computer?"
"Have you tried unplugging the route, waiting 5 seconds and then plugging it back in?"
Support: "Hello, this is Ranjit/Deepak/Rakesh/George Washington at tech support. Can I get your name/account number please."
Me: "Yes, my account is 12345. Can I get second level support, please?"
Support: "Do you have a ticket or reference number?"
Me: "No, but I'm a network engineer/software developer/I.T. professional, and I know everything you're going to ask me to try, I've already done. So, rather than waste both your time and mine, it'll be a lot easier if you just put me through to second level."
Support: "Ok, I can do that. Hold please."
No audible clicking, then
Support: "Hello, this is Ranjit/Deepak/Rakesh/George Washington at second level tech support. Can I get your name/account number please."
Instead of spending $68 Billion on a single high speed rail line between 2 cities that are already linked by several adequate transportation options, maybe we should use a fraction of that money for water projects? Moving water to where people live is a simple engineering problem. Why not solve it instead of being a victim of the weather?
How about move the people to where the water is instead? California of course already provides a number of incentives for people to not live there, but perhaps they could do more and actively subsidize moving people to places more suitable for human habitation.
However, the article says some astonishingly stupid things, like: "'Nobody imagined a problem like this could happen to three engines,' a person familiar with the 12-year-old project said."
If it was a mechanical issue, then yes, I would believe it would be a billion to one chance for something to happen to all three engines. On the other hand, since it is software, I would say that it is a billion to one chance that it would NOT happen to all three engines.
You take the hint and send them a text, my friend. That's why their voicemail box is full or uninitialized. They don't do voicemail.
I wouldn't be so rude as to send them a text without knowing whether their phone has text capabilities or whether they have to pay for texts individually. If they want texts, they can set up their voicemail to ask for you to send them a text. I have heard some voicemail messages request that you send texts.
Of course, sending a text is not something I am aware that you can do from an office phone or landline. I'm sure there are ways, but they are not obvious and may not be free or cheap.
Yup. The effing bing bar is something I delete on a weekly basis from several machines. Granted it's also stupid user syndrome.
At issue is the fact that by using the Ask.com toolbar, you give click profit to Ask.com instead of Microsoft through the Bing toolbar. I question the legality of declaring something malware because it eats into your competing products profits.
will java be also removed since it's bundeled with ask toolbar?
Avast tells me a couple of times a week that my GWT Developer plugin is a virus even though I tell it every time to ignore the warning and allow the plugin to run.
Turning off voicemail is dumb. How are you supposed to get ahold of somebody who isn't available at that instant? About half the people who call my company looking for a rent house don't answer the phone when you attempt to call them or their voicemail hasn't been set up, or it is full. What am I supposed to do, keep calling them until they answer? No thank you, I will just call somebody else who actually answers their phone or has voicemail and rent the house to them instead.
How do people get jobs if they don't have voicemail and don't answer their phones? My guess is they don't. The HR people aren't going to keep calling them. They will just go on to the next candidate.
Some workplaces ban IM completely, so pinging people ahead of time isn't even possible. Not to mention, I REALLY hate getting hit with an IM, because people expect an instant response to an IM. I don't always even have time to respond back. I could be in a meeting or away from my desk. Sometimes it will be an hour or two later before I can respond back "Yes, I'm available."
I've seen plenty of proposals on how it might be possible at some point in the future, but that's not what you claimed. You said that it was already happening which sounds highly unlikely.
Certain studies have done Cost analysis that takes into account the environmental impacts of coal (but not the environmental impacts of solar) and concluded that solar was cheaper.
Nearly every species on planet earth has gone extinct due to circumstances beyond their control. Humans are the first and only species capable of having control over their own existence.
When we go, it will also be due to circumstances beyond our control.
But the problem with that is that the Republicans have us near the tipping point where there is no hope for humanity. We are close to the point where there is no way for us to survive. So yes, our deaths will be slowly unfurling, but the point at which we can stop it is nearly upon us. There doesn't appear to be any way to stop the Republicans from killing us all.
Wow, Republicans are pretty awesome if less than 1% of the entire population of the world is somehow responsible for every problem facing humanity.
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That's not a reason to call it good, this is anything but reasonable.
If you're inconvenienced by music, I suggest you pick one of the >90% of restaurants that don't play any.
Are you serious? I can't think of the last time I have been in a restaurant where there wasn't music playing. Usually through crappy, tinny speakers into a cavernous room with 30 foot high ceilings made out of metal, and bouncing off of all the exposed ducting and metal girders.
Trying to have a conversation over a dinner outside of the home is not even a remote possibility anymore.
It is a downloaded music festival. If it was some other sort of festival, it would seem like hypocrisy, but since it is about information being free, then it seems to fit. If music on the internet is supposed to be free because it is just data, then why should the likeness of a person be protected? It's just data.
I've heard of some that will reorder all your withdrawals in a day before all your deposits to try and overdraw you so they can charge a fee. Mine does the opposite; all the deposits are processed first, so even if you do overdraw, you have a grace period until the end of the day.
Most institutions do credits first processing. I had heard that it was illegal to do debits first processing, but a quick google doesn't seem to verify that. What banks will do, which ought to be illegal is to reorder your debits such that the biggest ones hit your account first in order to maximize fees. Lets say you have $10 in your account and you get hit with a 100 1 cent debits followed by a $10 debit. They will reorder the transactions such that the $10 hits first and then you get 100 $30 NSF fees.
Technically it is illegal for you to engage a transaction for which you do not have funds to cover in the bank account anyway.
My credit union has a deposit cheque by phone. A browser can't do that.
Yes they can. Well, the browser can't do the actual deposit, but neither does an app. An app takes a picture of the check using the devices camera and sends the picture to the bank who does the image processing and performs the deposit. This can easily be done in the browser. If your bank doesn't know how to do it, I am available at reasonable rates.
Does quarterly profits dropping more than 90% sound like Santander was a "successful" bank? http://www.bbc.com/news/business-20079104
Santander was no more successful than US large banks and, just like US large banks, they pretended they didn't need large government bailouts by forcing their national government to bailout the people who owed Santander.
Quarter-to-quarter profits is a HORRIBLE way to measure the viability of an organization. The sooner we all learn that, the better for all entities, corporate or human.
What school did you go to that required more or less than the standard 120 credit hours for a bachelor's?
The minimum number of hours required to graduate with a BSEE from University of Illinois at Chicago is 128.
However, the number of hours of classes you end up taking with prerequisites and getting all courses in for your major ends up being much higher than that. It's been a long time since I graduated, but it seems like I had something like 143 or more credit hours when I graduated.
Maybe if your colleagues would grow some goddam integrity, the hires as a whole would get some goddam respect. What you're describing results in the hiring process basically being a complete game of chance. Can you believe, even for a second, that some people might not like that? Really shitty of them ain't it?
This is the same problem we have with sales. As soon as one salesman lied about his product, everybody else has to either lie about theirs, or hope that they can survive long enough for the lie to be found out. In the job market, people get pretty desperate and there is a never ending supply of new people willing to lie to get their resume seen while your honest one gets overlooked. Still, I choose to be honest, and hopefully others do too. Dishonesty of a few marks everybody as suspicious.
Because people who haven't dumped massive amounts of money on a degree can't learn after they start working? Hardly. The effects of college are greatly exaggerated.
Perhaps different people get different things out of a college education. I for one got quite a lot out of it. You can certainly go to college and not get a college education, but you sure can't skip college and get a college education.
The corollary is that, yes, those general ed and elective requirements DO serve a purpose. Chosen well, they help expand your horizons and teach you a little something about the world. So, when whatever major you did pick becomes unmarketable (and many do), you aren't left with nothing but useless knowledge.
It seems to me that when going through the Engineering program that we had to take about 90% of the classes that the typical Liberal Arts students took, plus about 50% more classes going further into physics and math. I know for a fact that the number of hours required to graduate was 20% higher for Engineering than for Liberal Arts students. And just to complete my major required much more than the minimum number of hours. Most Liberal Arts students were taking 12 to 15 hours per semester. I was taking an average of 19 and went as high as 21 one semester, plus I took summer classes one year. And no, I did not fail any classes. I actually was an officer in Tau Beta Pi (the engineering honor society) and president of IEEE (and also working 30 hours per week).
HR guy: "We need people who are 22 years old with an M.Sc. and 20 years of specific experience, and we can't find any."
C-level exec: "See, I told you we can't find qualified domestic hires and we need to ramp up the H-1B visas."
Well, you are partially right. If you look for a 22 year old H1B with an MS, you probably will find one. They all seem to have MS from some Indian university or another. I wouldn't vouch for how that university compares to education in the U.S.
Also, you can usually find H1Bs who will happily put down vast quantities of experience in technologies that they don't really have. The same thing happens in the U.S. as well, but it always seems more grossly exaggerated in the H1B resumes. Probably because they are desperate. And because the companies are desperate to pay less, they will accept the lies and hire the person who lied and said they had 5 year when they have zero or the person who told the truth that they only have 4 years. Paying 70% of a salary for zero productivity is better than paying 100% salary for 80% productivity, right?
In other words, the employers are idiots, and there's very little that a student can do about it.
Well, yes, exactly. Because apparently the employer never went to college so they don't realize that college is not for vocational training but for making a person well-rounded, teachable and educated, but with a particular focus on an area of study. Instead, the employer wants a seat filler that comes to the job already knowing a trade, meaning that they either came from a vocational school or from another job, but since they are wanting to pay only entry level wages, nobody is going to come from another job. And the vocational school applicant will be able to hit the ground running which means good profits for this quarter, but without the general education their long term use to the company could be severely limited. I say could be, because there is always SOME possibility of finding someone teachable in a vo-tech, or out of high school, or dropped out of high school.
You are right, codewords wouldn't work, but how about a skill testing multiple-choice question(s). If you get enough right, you can get escalated
So, some questions like...
"Is it plugged in?"
"Did you try rebooting your computer?"
"Have you tried unplugging the route, waiting 5 seconds and then plugging it back in?"
Support: "Hello, this is Ranjit/Deepak/Rakesh/George Washington at tech support. Can I get your name/account number please." Me: "Yes, my account is 12345. Can I get second level support, please?" Support: "Do you have a ticket or reference number?" Me: "No, but I'm a network engineer/software developer/I.T. professional, and I know everything you're going to ask me to try, I've already done. So, rather than waste both your time and mine, it'll be a lot easier if you just put me through to second level." Support: "Ok, I can do that. Hold please."
No audible clicking, then
Support: "Hello, this is Ranjit/Deepak/Rakesh/George Washington at second level tech support. Can I get your name/account number please."
Instead of spending $68 Billion on a single high speed rail line between 2 cities that are already linked by several adequate transportation options, maybe we should use a fraction of that money for water projects? Moving water to where people live is a simple engineering problem. Why not solve it instead of being a victim of the weather?
How about move the people to where the water is instead? California of course already provides a number of incentives for people to not live there, but perhaps they could do more and actively subsidize moving people to places more suitable for human habitation.
It's not far wrong. GWT is a plague, even if it's not technically malware per se.
What would be the preferable technology to use instead of GWT?
However, the article says some astonishingly stupid things, like: "'Nobody imagined a problem like this could happen to three engines,' a person familiar with the 12-year-old project said."
If it was a mechanical issue, then yes, I would believe it would be a billion to one chance for something to happen to all three engines. On the other hand, since it is software, I would say that it is a billion to one chance that it would NOT happen to all three engines.
You take the hint and send them a text, my friend. That's why their voicemail box is full or uninitialized. They don't do voicemail.
I wouldn't be so rude as to send them a text without knowing whether their phone has text capabilities or whether they have to pay for texts individually. If they want texts, they can set up their voicemail to ask for you to send them a text. I have heard some voicemail messages request that you send texts.
Of course, sending a text is not something I am aware that you can do from an office phone or landline. I'm sure there are ways, but they are not obvious and may not be free or cheap.
Yup. The effing bing bar is something I delete on a weekly basis from several machines. Granted it's also stupid user syndrome.
At issue is the fact that by using the Ask.com toolbar, you give click profit to Ask.com instead of Microsoft through the Bing toolbar. I question the legality of declaring something malware because it eats into your competing products profits.
will java be also removed since it's bundeled with ask toolbar?
Avast tells me a couple of times a week that my GWT Developer plugin is a virus even though I tell it every time to ignore the warning and allow the plugin to run.
There's this wonderful new invention called E-mail, maybe you've heard of it?
Of course I have heard of it, but people who call looking for a rent house don't leave their e-mail, they leave their phone number.
Turning off voicemail is dumb. How are you supposed to get ahold of somebody who isn't available at that instant? About half the people who call my company looking for a rent house don't answer the phone when you attempt to call them or their voicemail hasn't been set up, or it is full. What am I supposed to do, keep calling them until they answer? No thank you, I will just call somebody else who actually answers their phone or has voicemail and rent the house to them instead.
How do people get jobs if they don't have voicemail and don't answer their phones? My guess is they don't. The HR people aren't going to keep calling them. They will just go on to the next candidate.
Some workplaces ban IM completely, so pinging people ahead of time isn't even possible. Not to mention, I REALLY hate getting hit with an IM, because people expect an instant response to an IM. I don't always even have time to respond back. I could be in a meeting or away from my desk. Sometimes it will be an hour or two later before I can respond back "Yes, I'm available."
I've seen plenty of proposals on how it might be possible at some point in the future, but that's not what you claimed. You said that it was already happening which sounds highly unlikely.
Certain studies have done Cost analysis that takes into account the environmental impacts of coal (but not the environmental impacts of solar) and concluded that solar was cheaper.
Nearly every species on planet earth has gone extinct due to circumstances beyond their control. Humans are the first and only species capable of having control over their own existence.
When we go, it will also be due to circumstances beyond our control.
But the problem with that is that the Republicans have us near the tipping point where there is no hope for humanity. We are close to the point where there is no way for us to survive. So yes, our deaths will be slowly unfurling, but the point at which we can stop it is nearly upon us. There doesn't appear to be any way to stop the Republicans from killing us all.
Wow, Republicans are pretty awesome if less than 1% of the entire population of the world is somehow responsible for every problem facing humanity.