I voted third party too, however I was still voting against Trump and against Clinton. I don't actually like the person I voted for any better, but in my state I cannot vote FOR the person I want, as he is not registered as a candidate here. Perhaps in yours you can actually vote for someone you like and have it count for something even if it's a loser.
... then we still don't know how plausible it is that they reviewed XXXX number of emails in 11 days, after taking months to review 80,000 emails before.
It's unclear to me why it matters. You're either voting against Trump, or against Hillary. If you're voting against Trump, you will do so even if Hillary is a known axe murdering pedophile who moonlights as an investment banker. You will hope the FBI catches up with her and slaps handcuffs on her the minute she is done being inaugurated and becomes at best useless, at worst a liability, to absolutely everyone.
You are doing this not because you like her, in fact odds are you hate her passionately and may secretly hope the republicans are right and she IS a criminal because those people get thrown in the clink. You are doing so because you fear Trump and his party. The election will not be won on the strength of either person's character, they're horrible people, either one might be in jail if they were not rich and well connected. It's being won based on how successful you want congress to be with the republican agenda (as they are the dominant force there now).
Both candidates are so horrible that we're beyond character assassination. We're voting on who gets the veto, and whether they will use it or not.
The answer to this is obvious: the cost of living in the US is enormously higher than India so in absolute terms our wages must be higher than someone in India. The better question is why must tech workers in the US be paid so much better, relatively, than other professions. The answer is supply and demand. Very few Americans seem to be willing or able to handle technical careers, both as a matter of poor education and as a matter of selection amongst those that have the education. It's a little misleading, since there are technically qualified people in the country unable to work in their field due to the presence of better qualified, lower wage applicants from abroad. We probably don't even KNOW the size of our workforce since we've created a culture of disposable people.
This is also true in India, we're getting the very cream of the crop from overseas. Their crop happens to be 3-4 times larger than ours, but they're making more than their non-tech peers, relatively, in India. If they come here for a few years, make american dollars but manage not to spend too much, they will have substantial money back home when their indenture ends. If they can manage that, it's tough and sometimes painful to do in Si Valley.
The real question is why do we still bring indentured servants from Asia like we did in the 1800s to build railroads, and send them back when we're done? Never mind the ethics, why are we trying to self-destruct ourselves like this? If supply is genuinely too low, such that no qualified applicants can actually be found, why do we not bring these people over in a more responsible fashion: by letting them compete on wages based on the same supply and demand, and then retaining them once we've invested in their training and upkeep. Why not have their families which no doubt have far better views on the value of education, come over and show our schools what proper students look like, and raise the bar for our own failing middle class? Why not attempt to fix our culture of poor education and low technological excellence at the source, and give those with the right brains a field to strive for, rather than avoid?
I do not encourage my children to go in to tech, if they really want to I will warn them that it's a do or die field, you are the top 10% or you are going to be unemployed for some fraction of your life. I encourage them to enter fields that are more difficult to outsource or more highly valued locally and stretch my budget to buy their way in to some areas that are largely exclusive by wealth rather than excellence, which is increasingly where reliable jobs still exist here.
From 2004- 2012 ish Apple laptops could compete spec for spec and come out reasonably priced.
This probably reflects that they've obtained the market that they want, and now want to milk some money out of it. They screwed up on RAM and they screwed up on graphics, and both choices seem to be mostly about avoiding products with higher margins to chip vendors than anything else. SkyLake I would argue is the correct choice, if they have to release in October, Kaby Lake doesn't have anything I would want in a pro-laptop yet. So in this sense they probably could have used the lower margin chip and kept customers happy.
The Touch Bar I understand slashdot will pan because, somehow, the culture here has been dominated by technophobia. I see a lot of use for it in my day to day life, I am happy to have the meaning of my function keys reflected on an active display, I will pay some money for it. The success of this seems more dependent on developer support than anything else, and that's going to be weak if people don't buy the laptop...and it's not looking good. Maybe they shouldn't let marketing choose specs.
I lost interest when i saw "Ubuntu Linux". Welcome to 2009. Since then Canonical murdered their own OS and we've had to spread ourselves across a dozen others.
Texas' largely republican government has incentivized my California-based company to open a design center in Austin (as it has most semiconductor companies). This helps get a bunch of rich tech people here to pay disproportionate property taxes to fund the otherwise temporarily financially embarrassed republican constituents in the rest of the state, who cannot afford to keep the government or themselves running.
I've noticed that both native texan's and California imports in these companies are almost entirely liberal democrats actively trying to vote out this same government, not so much over the fact that we are subsidizing most of Texas with our taxes, but the fact that said money is not being used on the poor, but rather on the rich.
The situation is so nested in irony and recursive insanity that it provides more entertainment than cable. If we were to oblige you, there's a good chance your state would fall to ruin: but fear not, keep voting for secession and you can watch us run for the other border taking our money with us.
At least here in Texas, arguably the only important red state, one cannot even vote for Sanders because he has registered as a candidate and chosen a running mate. Simply writing his name on a ballot will cause your vote to not count at all.
So those wanting to protest vote are forced to dig a bit deeper. But yes, he's the only candidate I would have voted for this year. Instead I was voting against two assholes.
Ok but I wouldn't buy the Dell system if they paid me. Or HP. There isn't a good notebook vendor other than Apple, and now we're stuck with whatever Apple chooses to give us. Yay world.
And years of using the escape key as it was is going to retrain my poor pinky (or in my deformed case, left ring finger) to stop all that in favor of caps-lock?
I'm not anti-touch bar I think this needed to be done for a while. I disagree that function keys were particular to an ancient mainframe (I use mine all the time), their meanings are obscure and app specific and the touch bar design is actually a good way of implementing something like that.
However I am also pro-escape key. It seems to me they could have sandwiched the escape key between the power button with the touch-bar in the middle and made it look pretty damn good and lost only a few pixels on either side. Escape and Power are the only two functions in that row that are common to all apps and all needs. Both are used (frequently) to mean "stop your bullshit": on your left you have the persuader and on the right you'd have the enforcer. The persuader stops modal bullshit and does a good job of telling applications "fuck you and the horse you rode in on". The power button is there for delivering the same message to the OS, it's used far less frequently, but when you need it, you really need it.
The web was invented by tim berniers lee, a brit working in cern, a european city.
CERN is an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, in English: European Organization for Nuclear Research. I'm sure CERN makes more sense in obsolete languages, but EONR doesn't roll off the tongue like CERN.
I don't think this is going to work very well for the majority of us who rely on that particular key. If this rumor is true, it is one of the few legitimately infuriating things Apple will have done with their products.
The place to do this paritcularly benighted thing is in the macbook and "air" line for college kids majoring in basket weaving and their later life selves: marketing bots. For the technical world, the esc key is still very, very important. You shouldn't drop it on your "pro" line, for "profesionals" who actually work for a living. The best part about OS X is that it's still basically BSD and you can ignore the UI and badly implemented software, this undermines that.
I don't see this as a problem for women who work in software engineering as much as women who work in lower paying professions. In this field it is still profitable to use day-care and work, at least for the few years that you need day-care before school starts.
What does hurt is taking time off for maternity, to a small degree, or taking a few years off for child-rearing to a large degree. That is a more fair criticism, technology moves very fast and the women who are in it do have a problem catching up with N years of being out of date.
What if there are certain groups within this industry, or in any industry really, who are hostile to women being there?
Please out these groups, I have not seen anything like this. What I do see is that I've interviewed exactly 1 woman in almost 20 years. There is no supply, whatever is happening seems to be happening downstream of the corporate world, in colleges or below.
idiots that cant figure out the slightest thing, and they pay the premium for it too!
Because of this, PCs continue to race to the bottom and are a source of trouble even for expert users and will never get better because those users suck every dime from system vendor margins. Mac's make Apple some money because, as long as they "just work", they can charge a premium and be part of the food chain.
More like engineers are move devoted to their technology than to whomever happens to employ them at any given time. Particularly large, overbearing corporations that saddle them with a lot of rules and marketing idiots.
This is more a story about how technical people work than it is about Apple.
His message is lost amidst the racism and hooting and hollering of the "republican base". It's no secret Wall St. wants Hillary, and it's no secret they don't like his protectionism viewpoint. It has literally been too easy for them to undermine his position... which he ably enables to the point that I still think he's actively trying to get Hillary elected.
But, I fear that something this radical is a non-starter for a lot of reasons
It's a non-starter in the united states. We can't even figure out health care. At best UBI is going to be a seen as a way for libertarian idealists to wash their hands of a big government problem, and for liberals to get the free hand-out they think will solve poor people problems. Other countries will have to try this first, and maybe in 200 years, if it works, we'll jump on. For now though it doesn't even seem worth talking about (which doesn't seem to stop slashdot from talking about it).
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I voted third party too, however I was still voting against Trump and against Clinton. I don't actually like the person I voted for any better, but in my state I cannot vote FOR the person I want, as he is not registered as a candidate here. Perhaps in yours you can actually vote for someone you like and have it count for something even if it's a loser.
It's unclear to me why it matters. You're either voting against Trump, or against Hillary. If you're voting against Trump, you will do so even if Hillary is a known axe murdering pedophile who moonlights as an investment banker. You will hope the FBI catches up with her and slaps handcuffs on her the minute she is done being inaugurated and becomes at best useless, at worst a liability, to absolutely everyone.
You are doing this not because you like her, in fact odds are you hate her passionately and may secretly hope the republicans are right and she IS a criminal because those people get thrown in the clink. You are doing so because you fear Trump and his party. The election will not be won on the strength of either person's character, they're horrible people, either one might be in jail if they were not rich and well connected. It's being won based on how successful you want congress to be with the republican agenda (as they are the dominant force there now).
Both candidates are so horrible that we're beyond character assassination. We're voting on who gets the veto, and whether they will use it or not.
The answer to this is obvious: the cost of living in the US is enormously higher than India so in absolute terms our wages must be higher than someone in India. The better question is why must tech workers in the US be paid so much better, relatively, than other professions. The answer is supply and demand. Very few Americans seem to be willing or able to handle technical careers, both as a matter of poor education and as a matter of selection amongst those that have the education. It's a little misleading, since there are technically qualified people in the country unable to work in their field due to the presence of better qualified, lower wage applicants from abroad. We probably don't even KNOW the size of our workforce since we've created a culture of disposable people.
This is also true in India, we're getting the very cream of the crop from overseas. Their crop happens to be 3-4 times larger than ours, but they're making more than their non-tech peers, relatively, in India. If they come here for a few years, make american dollars but manage not to spend too much, they will have substantial money back home when their indenture ends. If they can manage that, it's tough and sometimes painful to do in Si Valley.
The real question is why do we still bring indentured servants from Asia like we did in the 1800s to build railroads, and send them back when we're done? Never mind the ethics, why are we trying to self-destruct ourselves like this? If supply is genuinely too low, such that no qualified applicants can actually be found, why do we not bring these people over in a more responsible fashion: by letting them compete on wages based on the same supply and demand, and then retaining them once we've invested in their training and upkeep. Why not have their families which no doubt have far better views on the value of education, come over and show our schools what proper students look like, and raise the bar for our own failing middle class? Why not attempt to fix our culture of poor education and low technological excellence at the source, and give those with the right brains a field to strive for, rather than avoid?
I do not encourage my children to go in to tech, if they really want to I will warn them that it's a do or die field, you are the top 10% or you are going to be unemployed for some fraction of your life. I encourage them to enter fields that are more difficult to outsource or more highly valued locally and stretch my budget to buy their way in to some areas that are largely exclusive by wealth rather than excellence, which is increasingly where reliable jobs still exist here.
What option in system preferences makes Esc an actual key located in the correct spot with tactile feedback?
From 2004- 2012 ish Apple laptops could compete spec for spec and come out reasonably priced.
This probably reflects that they've obtained the market that they want, and now want to milk some money out of it. They screwed up on RAM and they screwed up on graphics, and both choices seem to be mostly about avoiding products with higher margins to chip vendors than anything else. SkyLake I would argue is the correct choice, if they have to release in October, Kaby Lake doesn't have anything I would want in a pro-laptop yet. So in this sense they probably could have used the lower margin chip and kept customers happy.
The Touch Bar I understand slashdot will pan because, somehow, the culture here has been dominated by technophobia. I see a lot of use for it in my day to day life, I am happy to have the meaning of my function keys reflected on an active display, I will pay some money for it. The success of this seems more dependent on developer support than anything else, and that's going to be weak if people don't buy the laptop...and it's not looking good. Maybe they shouldn't let marketing choose specs.
I lost interest when i saw "Ubuntu Linux". Welcome to 2009. Since then Canonical murdered their own OS and we've had to spread ourselves across a dozen others.
Texas' largely republican government has incentivized my California-based company to open a design center in Austin (as it has most semiconductor companies). This helps get a bunch of rich tech people here to pay disproportionate property taxes to fund the otherwise temporarily financially embarrassed republican constituents in the rest of the state, who cannot afford to keep the government or themselves running.
I've noticed that both native texan's and California imports in these companies are almost entirely liberal democrats actively trying to vote out this same government, not so much over the fact that we are subsidizing most of Texas with our taxes, but the fact that said money is not being used on the poor, but rather on the rich.
The situation is so nested in irony and recursive insanity that it provides more entertainment than cable. If we were to oblige you, there's a good chance your state would fall to ruin: but fear not, keep voting for secession and you can watch us run for the other border taking our money with us.
Seems like I can trade in old mbp's I no longer use, resell the surface pro on ebay and get the cash for a new mbp.
Only problem: I don't think I could move the surface pro's profitably (or perhaps at all).
*has NOT
Not in any RED state he wouldn't.
At least here in Texas, arguably the only important red state, one cannot even vote for Sanders because he has registered as a candidate and chosen a running mate. Simply writing his name on a ballot will cause your vote to not count at all.
So those wanting to protest vote are forced to dig a bit deeper. But yes, he's the only candidate I would have voted for this year. Instead I was voting against two assholes.
* Despite being a male panda, Ling Ling's name meant "darling little girl" in Chinese.
And they wonder why we have trouble breeding them in captivity.
How many virtual machines can you have with a 256GB SSD?
Ok but I wouldn't buy the Dell system if they paid me. Or HP. There isn't a good notebook vendor other than Apple, and now we're stuck with whatever Apple chooses to give us. Yay world.
And years of using the escape key as it was is going to retrain my poor pinky (or in my deformed case, left ring finger) to stop all that in favor of caps-lock?
I'm not anti-touch bar I think this needed to be done for a while. I disagree that function keys were particular to an ancient mainframe (I use mine all the time), their meanings are obscure and app specific and the touch bar design is actually a good way of implementing something like that.
However I am also pro-escape key. It seems to me they could have sandwiched the escape key between the power button with the touch-bar in the middle and made it look pretty damn good and lost only a few pixels on either side. Escape and Power are the only two functions in that row that are common to all apps and all needs. Both are used (frequently) to mean "stop your bullshit": on your left you have the persuader and on the right you'd have the enforcer. The persuader stops modal bullshit and does a good job of telling applications "fuck you and the horse you rode in on". The power button is there for delivering the same message to the OS, it's used far less frequently, but when you need it, you really need it.
The web was invented by tim berniers lee, a brit working in cern, a european city.
CERN is an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, in English: European Organization for Nuclear Research. I'm sure CERN makes more sense in obsolete languages, but EONR doesn't roll off the tongue like CERN.
This was what my attempt at snark was getting to. Whatever we pay them can't compete with what they're getting via other means, with strings attached.
I don't think this is going to work very well for the majority of us who rely on that particular key. If this rumor is true, it is one of the few legitimately infuriating things Apple will have done with their products.
The place to do this paritcularly benighted thing is in the macbook and "air" line for college kids majoring in basket weaving and their later life selves: marketing bots. For the technical world, the esc key is still very, very important. You shouldn't drop it on your "pro" line, for "profesionals" who actually work for a living. The best part about OS X is that it's still basically BSD and you can ignore the UI and badly implemented software, this undermines that.
Congress needs to shut up and start doing its job
What job are they paid best to do, exactly?
ack of affordable daycare
I don't see this as a problem for women who work in software engineering as much as women who work in lower paying professions. In this field it is still profitable to use day-care and work, at least for the few years that you need day-care before school starts.
What does hurt is taking time off for maternity, to a small degree, or taking a few years off for child-rearing to a large degree. That is a more fair criticism, technology moves very fast and the women who are in it do have a problem catching up with N years of being out of date.
What if there are certain groups within this industry, or in any industry really, who are hostile to women being there?
Please out these groups, I have not seen anything like this. What I do see is that I've interviewed exactly 1 woman in almost 20 years. There is no supply, whatever is happening seems to be happening downstream of the corporate world, in colleges or below.
idiots that cant figure out the slightest thing, and they pay the premium for it too!
Because of this, PCs continue to race to the bottom and are a source of trouble even for expert users and will never get better because those users suck every dime from system vendor margins. Mac's make Apple some money because, as long as they "just work", they can charge a premium and be part of the food chain.
A great way to sabotage HBO now and streaming though.
the cult-like Apple doesn't like competing cults?
More like engineers are move devoted to their technology than to whomever happens to employ them at any given time. Particularly large, overbearing corporations that saddle them with a lot of rules and marketing idiots.
This is more a story about how technical people work than it is about Apple.
his message is great but his constituents suck
FTFY.
His message is lost amidst the racism and hooting and hollering of the "republican base". It's no secret Wall St. wants Hillary, and it's no secret they don't like his protectionism viewpoint. It has literally been too easy for them to undermine his position... which he ably enables to the point that I still think he's actively trying to get Hillary elected.
But, I fear that something this radical is a non-starter for a lot of reasons
It's a non-starter in the united states. We can't even figure out health care. At best UBI is going to be a seen as a way for libertarian idealists to wash their hands of a big government problem, and for liberals to get the free hand-out they think will solve poor people problems. Other countries will have to try this first, and maybe in 200 years, if it works, we'll jump on. For now though it doesn't even seem worth talking about (which doesn't seem to stop slashdot from talking about it).
t's their own fault for being unemployed because they didn't keep their wages down .
You had a typo in there, I fixed it.