My wife registered as preferring one of the parties here in our state. And she has gotten over 100 pieces of mail from that party urging her to vote for their candidates. I did not register a party preference, and have only gotten a couple of pieces of mail urging me to vote.
Her voting history has been blazoned across multiple cards in the mail in blatant attempts to shame her into voting. Mine was on one of the pieces of mail that I got.
It seems like pretty soon we'll be getting mail telling us that it's time for us to buy more toilet paper because we'll be out next week...
Looking at https://www.riaa.com/wp-conten..., I see that net "value" of shipped units including both physical and digital went up from 2014 to 2015: $6,950.5 to $7,015.9 (in millions)
And according to http://www.billboard.com/artic..., ASCAP generated revenues of $1.014 billion, up 1.14 percent from the $1.003 billion generated in 2014.
So, if artists and composers/arrangers are making less, either they're spreading the peanut butter around to more participants, or the industries are keeping more of the pot. OR, the artists bellyaching are being misled by their industry as to the real situation...
Having lived through such a scenario twice now, I will tell you that you'll need to be able to take a much more hands-off approach. An architect needs information to make decisions, but should not be mucking about in the systems. To be effective, you should either have read-only access to gather the information you need to do your job, or have a very good working relationship with the various delivery staff to provide you ad-hoc info about the environment.
Of course, the ideal situation would be to position the dynamic information that you need to be available automatically via some reporting engines, removing the need for the access or constantly bothering administrators, but my experience is that setting that type of thing up often is more complex and fraught with hurdles than simply bugging someone to get you the information.
Goddamned right; we don't need "the best programmers" we need to hire "American programmers." Look at unemployment in the US; WHY the fuck do we need to bring more people here? It's easy to train programmers in another language. They just want to fucking lower the price...
But three lefts do!
Controlling your own network is great (e.g. my ISP doesn't let me manage my router) but if you use this on someone else's without their express permission, this is all kinds of wrong...
"Good enough" is the current megatrend. Look at everything: cheap throwaway widgets (cheaper to replace than repair) rather than ones that will last for 20+ years. Things that work rather than work well. Multi-function devices (look at your phone) that do a bunch of things OK rather than one thing GREAT. As a society we want it cheap and we want it now.
Most people these days aren't willing to pay for quality. They're barely willing to pay. Thank you wal-mart.
I find it quite funny that so many slashdotters, arguably proponents of technology, turn into luddites when this topic rears up. Instead of saying no, fight for proper electronic voting technologies so we can turn this cesspool from a pseudo-republic into a real democracy and get rid of politicians altogether.
Agreed; my Droid 4 and my wife's Photon Q were the only thing we could find with real keyboards. I have tried touch keyboards for a few weeks and just could not be productive with them.
Amen. I'm amazed that people still argue about this shit; if you want to really make a difference, stop driving your fucking car. Buying a "green" phone indeed.
Since driving is a privilege and not a right, the government has the right to not license your car or even issue you a driver license. And [unfortunately] the courts have determined that the ACA directive to purchase insurance or pay a tax penalty is a tax, you're stuck with paying it or buying health care insurance...
Sure, but it's Amazon's right to try and get better prices for their consumers. And Hachette has a right to tell Amazon to get bent. And it's equally the rights of the consumer to tell Amazon to get bent, stop the Wal-Mart style strong-arming of suppliers and buy from more respecting shops.
But this is America where people are only concerned about the almighty dollar and instant gratification, so they will instead continue to buy from Amazon and Wal-Mart who ultimately decimate the local economy.
(full disclosure: I buy from Amazon occasionally, but more often shop at my local brick and mortar book stores)
It'd probably be a lot more efficient and cheaper to use the solar power to turn pumps for closed-loop geothermal heat - let's say you go down 10' when laying the road bed, you'll have nice comfy 50-ish degree earth to warm your de-icer. Am I crazy? (don't answer that!)
My wife would gladly work for what they are paying H-1Bs. Except that they don't want Americans. She's had the damnedest time finding work. I'm completely opposed thttp://news.slashdot.org/story/14/05/07/2214225/let-spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-work-in-us-says-white-house#o more work visas. We should trim them or eliminate altogether and hire Americans.
Yeah, sorry, but I don't want a protocol in my car that's subject to script kiddies DoSing it. I'm sure they'll get to CAN and everything else soon, but at least for now you can't just go to a warez site and take down a car. I think the crack about Cylons was spot on.
If so many ads weren't obnoxious flash or javascript and simply a hyperlinked picture/text, then I wouldn't feel compelled to block them. But these so-called ads are largely intrusive and annoying and make the web browsing experience suck. Just like email and spam that have tracking linked images in them that I choose to automatically round file instead of at least checking out the content. Make the experience pleasant and controllable by me and I'll play along; otherwise, I take control with tools like adblock.
This alone is an important reason to use your own domain. You can forever be in control of your own email address meaning you can have the address for life.
I've stood in a C-level meeting, and apologized that a critical name brand server failed. Their on-site tech showed up in 2 hours, and told us that the part would take 2 days to get. "BUT THE CONTRACT SAYS 4 HOUR RESPONSE!" Ya.. 4 hours for them to come back with something. Not 4 hours to resolve the problem completely. 4 hours frequently turns into days, or worse on holidays.
Apparently the purchaser didn't understand your support contract then, because the support tech easily made the commitment. How is that the vendor's fault? It's not... it's the fault of the support purchaser for not understanding what they bought. Higher level contracts (with call-to-repair guarantees) are available; if something's THAT critical, then you should have a fully functional spare or even better, a high-availability solution in addition to your maintenance contract, which it appears you didn't. So it was apparently not that critical...
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My wife registered as preferring one of the parties here in our state. And she has gotten over 100 pieces of mail from that party urging her to vote for their candidates. I did not register a party preference, and have only gotten a couple of pieces of mail urging me to vote. Her voting history has been blazoned across multiple cards in the mail in blatant attempts to shame her into voting. Mine was on one of the pieces of mail that I got. It seems like pretty soon we'll be getting mail telling us that it's time for us to buy more toilet paper because we'll be out next week...
Or had "bone spurs"
*cough* Rothfuss *cough*
No no, Stellar was a different company. ;-)
Looking at https://www.riaa.com/wp-conten..., I see that net "value" of shipped units including both physical and digital went up from 2014 to 2015: $6,950.5 to $7,015.9 (in millions) And according to http://www.billboard.com/artic..., ASCAP generated revenues of $1.014 billion, up 1.14 percent from the $1.003 billion generated in 2014. So, if artists and composers/arrangers are making less, either they're spreading the peanut butter around to more participants, or the industries are keeping more of the pot. OR, the artists bellyaching are being misled by their industry as to the real situation...
Having lived through such a scenario twice now, I will tell you that you'll need to be able to take a much more hands-off approach. An architect needs information to make decisions, but should not be mucking about in the systems. To be effective, you should either have read-only access to gather the information you need to do your job, or have a very good working relationship with the various delivery staff to provide you ad-hoc info about the environment. Of course, the ideal situation would be to position the dynamic information that you need to be available automatically via some reporting engines, removing the need for the access or constantly bothering administrators, but my experience is that setting that type of thing up often is more complex and fraught with hurdles than simply bugging someone to get you the information.
What's next, Orcs? The oppression of Middle Earth continues!
Goddamned right; we don't need "the best programmers" we need to hire "American programmers." Look at unemployment in the US; WHY the fuck do we need to bring more people here? It's easy to train programmers in another language. They just want to fucking lower the price...
But what about those poor bacteria's feelings !?!? They're slave labor!
But three lefts do! Controlling your own network is great (e.g. my ISP doesn't let me manage my router) but if you use this on someone else's without their express permission, this is all kinds of wrong...
"Good enough" is the current megatrend. Look at everything: cheap throwaway widgets (cheaper to replace than repair) rather than ones that will last for 20+ years. Things that work rather than work well. Multi-function devices (look at your phone) that do a bunch of things OK rather than one thing GREAT. As a society we want it cheap and we want it now. Most people these days aren't willing to pay for quality. They're barely willing to pay. Thank you wal-mart.
I find it quite funny that so many slashdotters, arguably proponents of technology, turn into luddites when this topic rears up. Instead of saying no, fight for proper electronic voting technologies so we can turn this cesspool from a pseudo-republic into a real democracy and get rid of politicians altogether.
Agreed; my Droid 4 and my wife's Photon Q were the only thing we could find with real keyboards. I have tried touch keyboards for a few weeks and just could not be productive with them.
Amen. I'm amazed that people still argue about this shit; if you want to really make a difference, stop driving your fucking car. Buying a "green" phone indeed.
Since driving is a privilege and not a right, the government has the right to not license your car or even issue you a driver license. And [unfortunately] the courts have determined that the ACA directive to purchase insurance or pay a tax penalty is a tax, you're stuck with paying it or buying health care insurance...
Sure, but it's Amazon's right to try and get better prices for their consumers. And Hachette has a right to tell Amazon to get bent. And it's equally the rights of the consumer to tell Amazon to get bent, stop the Wal-Mart style strong-arming of suppliers and buy from more respecting shops. But this is America where people are only concerned about the almighty dollar and instant gratification, so they will instead continue to buy from Amazon and Wal-Mart who ultimately decimate the local economy. (full disclosure: I buy from Amazon occasionally, but more often shop at my local brick and mortar book stores)
It'd probably be a lot more efficient and cheaper to use the solar power to turn pumps for closed-loop geothermal heat - let's say you go down 10' when laying the road bed, you'll have nice comfy 50-ish degree earth to warm your de-icer. Am I crazy? (don't answer that!)
My wife would gladly work for what they are paying H-1Bs. Except that they don't want Americans. She's had the damnedest time finding work. I'm completely opposed thttp://news.slashdot.org/story/14/05/07/2214225/let-spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-work-in-us-says-white-house#o more work visas. We should trim them or eliminate altogether and hire Americans.
Call it whatever you want. If it sticks, it's official. Why should they get the only right to name something?
Do the same thing with power plugs; you'll thank yourself later.
Yeah, sorry, but I don't want a protocol in my car that's subject to script kiddies DoSing it. I'm sure they'll get to CAN and everything else soon, but at least for now you can't just go to a warez site and take down a car. I think the crack about Cylons was spot on.
Trademark preventing use of, perhaps. Ownership? Hell no.
If so many ads weren't obnoxious flash or javascript and simply a hyperlinked picture/text, then I wouldn't feel compelled to block them. But these so-called ads are largely intrusive and annoying and make the web browsing experience suck. Just like email and spam that have tracking linked images in them that I choose to automatically round file instead of at least checking out the content. Make the experience pleasant and controllable by me and I'll play along; otherwise, I take control with tools like adblock.
This alone is an important reason to use your own domain. You can forever be in control of your own email address meaning you can have the address for life.
Unless you get divorced. ;-)
Apparently the purchaser didn't understand your support contract then, because the support tech easily made the commitment. How is that the vendor's fault? It's not... it's the fault of the support purchaser for not understanding what they bought. Higher level contracts (with call-to-repair guarantees) are available; if something's THAT critical, then you should have a fully functional spare or even better, a high-availability solution in addition to your maintenance contract, which it appears you didn't. So it was apparently not that critical...