1) I don't think Trump is as conservative as his followers seem to think: I do think he's an isolationist, but I know plenty of liberals who would prefer isolationism over the current policy (for different reasons perhaps). In terms of the usual conservative trash (i.e. returning to the theocracy that never was), he's very weak and makes no attempt to hide it. The biggest fear that many of us have, is that he tells us what we want to hear, but we have absolutely no idea what his real agenda is. A lot like his competition...
2) I have not seen a shortage of conservative news on Facbeook. While it may be getting filtered by useless things like Facebooks recommendations and trending stories, the users of FB that i am connected with have been spamming me for years with Benghazi, email, religious shit, etc. such that I am inundated with conservative "news". I actually don't see much liberal news.
I think this is a story for the sake of story and does not reflect how people use or perceive Facebook. As far as I'm concerned is is a place where I get spammed with Faux News stories. But then I rarely read the trending bar because 9/10 it's celebrity "news". The other 1/10 is bombastic headline that always turns out to be unsubstantiated.
Canonical is aware that sometimes even the best informal* testing procedures miss things
It was not missed. It was known as early as February, and found several times again several weeks before they shipped it. And it was two bugs: one with llvm emitting bad code (this caused my issues), then the second bug is the installer was not pulling updated modules correctly.
The issue was bad code from an llvm toolchain generating bad instructions, I don't think the nvidia proprietary problem alone would have fixed it. What I had to do instead was boot with "nomodeset", get to a terminal, then do dist-upgrade. Then it will boot (and I can install proprietary drivers or whatever too).
I have been using linux for years so this sort of thing is a throwback to 2002 (before that just getting X to run at all was an experience). I would not want someone who is a novice to computers to have to endure this. Particularly for a pretty bog standard set of hardware.
The release was DOA if you had skylake w/nVidia, for example. It was a known bug and went out the door. For the first time in years Ubuntu didn't "just work" on my computer. Worse, even if you asked it to take updates while installing, one of which would have fixed the issue, it failed to do so.
Perhaps the problem is that it was set for April 2016 and shipped in April 2016 when maybe it needed to be in May.
There shouldn't be a negotiation and they shouldn't be asking Apple (or anyone else) to volunteer. There should be a law, the amount owed should be definite, failure to pay would be a crime. That law should apply to everyone, equally.
Until the government, at all levels, fixes their shit, their shit is going to be broken. I am tired of hearing about Apple or Google or Facebook doing NOTHING wrong, but accused of something that sounds like (but is not) a crime.
We have set up a system where there is a game, and good players are going to game the system. So fix the system or fix the game.
When I use free software, I expect lousy default settings. When I pay for software, I expect the defaults to be appropriate for reasonable human beings.
I've never met a reasonable human being, perhaps by definition, who wanted to pay money for ads and nagware.
They damn well better issue a patch to remove all the nagware then
Here's a datapoint: I did not qualify for an upgrade so had to pay full price for Win10. It nags me about Office 365 all the time. I don't want to rent software, and have no need for that software, but it keeps doing it.
most places you can go are covered by HD broadcast, which you can get with an antenna. The broadcast quality is far superior to most cable or satellite streams that I've seen. I use that plus Tablo for DVR to cover everything you might want.
That is statistically unlikely, it happens, but if you make an informed decision and get good grades and truly understand the subject matter, you should be able to get a job. You can throw out 90-95% of degrees that almost certainly will go nowhere with incredible accuracy. If your degree ends with "of Arts", and you are expecting an ROI and/or need a job quickly after graduation, you are probably in trouble. This hasn't changed much in decades, if anything it has become even harder. Not to say if this is your passion you shouldn't do it, just that you should be aware of the prognosis and should plan accordingly.
Looking at the most in-demand degrees, not much has changed in 20 years. There are some exceptions, Electrical Engineering, while still in demand, has become something for the top 1% of grads. If you don't like math, and you are not interested in power, signal integrity or RF, you want to pick something else. Computer Science I think is a victim of circumstance. Demand is absolutely there but idiot CEOs made a lot of confusing sounds from one vent hole or another, and things went poorly. If you got a CS degree just to program, you messed up. If you got a CS degree and cannot program, you messed up. If you have a CS degree, you can program, but you also have a good grasp of information theory, parallel programming, and/or computer architecture, you are highly valued and companies are dying to find you and have been for a good long time and I think you're set for the foreseeable future. If all you can do is program, you will face competition from H-1Bs and non-degreed programmers: most of the jobs out there are for these people, but the wages aren't always so great and there's a lot of bullshit in hiring & wage fixing and contract to never-hire. If you are good on academics, but cannot program: you may have trouble outside of academia or the very limited number of research positions.
So to pick a degree that will succeed, you have to do research and talk to people in the field. But if you do some homework you will most likely land on your feet. Shit happens, the economy periodically tanks, and there are almost no jobs available. But outside of that, unless you are in the PhD level and focusing on very narrow fields, technology isn't moving so fast as you make it sound if you are asking the right questions. Personally I would avoid a PhD until having worked in the industry for a few years for exactly that reason.
Getting out of school after 5 years with job experience is probably better than getting out in 4 without it.
This is almost certainly true. However money is the reason why most people load themselves with 22 credit semesters (certainly it is why I did it). You pay by the credit hour until you are a full time student, then you just pay tuition (somewhere around 12 credits). If you can handle 22 credits, you can save a year of tuition: that's an awful lot of money in some schools. By an awful lot, I mean really a ridiculous amount if you are in a private college.
I've never had an employer ask me why it took 5 years to graduate as opposed to 4.
I have had employers look very carefully at my dates. I double majored and got a masters in 4.5 years, questions are asked. They do look. But 5 years isn't that uncommon, and for STEM degrees 5 years is really what many schools are recommending as "moderate load". Over 5 and people may ask, but you can argue you had a job or whatever and I doubt you will get turned down for it. I would come armed for that situation.
If your area of study won't get you a job, you either a) wasted money or b) don't need money that badly to begin with. You don't end up with a degree in klingon poetry by accident, decisions were made. This is something to research before plopping down a heap of bucks on college tuition or selecting a degree program.
Going there and destroy people's produce is destruction of property, which is vandalism or malicious mischief in California punishable by up to a year in prison.
I live in Texas, it is often punishable by death*. I'm not advocating DOING this, just pointing out exactly what you said. If we're just going to throw law and order out the window and inflict suffering on our fellow man because what they do annoys us. Doesn't really sound very nice, and certainly this will escalate. Incensed by a newly damaged lawn, our temper-challenged CEO will likely step this one up and retaliate. Someone will end up being hurt over unlicensed fruit sales.
* As long as you can find a way to couch it in the right terms under the castle doctrine or property crimes laws
It is unclear you have the wherewithal to make good on your threats and get away with them. But Richy McRichFace probably could, unless the authorities were so unusually meticulous that even a really good lawyer couldn't find a way out.
I don't think there is great argument about zoning laws. A simple call to the police would have the problem resolved quickly. If he felt the need to deal with the problem at all.
I do not make overtime. It's free labor. The alternative is less appealing though.
My point is only that I am doing mundane work that others could do that does not tie up "valuable" and "scarce" engineering "talent", but I am doing it for free. Jobs could be created simply by keeping people in my shoes from working. We cannot do so voluntarily, for a number of reasons. I know some former employers who pushed even harder and had engineers doing project management work and fired the project managers.
I believe it because I already see it. Unemployment up all over the place.
Correlation is not causation. You could be seeing this because, for example, employers are trying to get more utilization out of salaried employees by pushing them to work more than 40 hours a week. In fact I don't think I've worked under 60 in an average week in my entire career. Most of that does not require an engineering degree, it's the kind of mundane corporate bureaucracy that any high school grad could pull off.
Cortana on Google & Chrome: Knoledgable and street smart, she may not be the best player in the field, but she can do the job.
Cortona on Edge & Bing: For $20 she might give you head and a couple STDs but it is unlikely can find you and you will end up giving your money to a russian hacker by accident anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
The wars between git and perforce are eternal. But I haven't seen SVN come up in a while.
1) I don't think Trump is as conservative as his followers seem to think: I do think he's an isolationist, but I know plenty of liberals who would prefer isolationism over the current policy (for different reasons perhaps). In terms of the usual conservative trash (i.e. returning to the theocracy that never was), he's very weak and makes no attempt to hide it. The biggest fear that many of us have, is that he tells us what we want to hear, but we have absolutely no idea what his real agenda is. A lot like his competition...
2) I have not seen a shortage of conservative news on Facbeook. While it may be getting filtered by useless things like Facebooks recommendations and trending stories, the users of FB that i am connected with have been spamming me for years with Benghazi, email, religious shit, etc. such that I am inundated with conservative "news". I actually don't see much liberal news.
I think this is a story for the sake of story and does not reflect how people use or perceive Facebook. As far as I'm concerned is is a place where I get spammed with Faux News stories. But then I rarely read the trending bar because 9/10 it's celebrity "news". The other 1/10 is bombastic headline that always turns out to be unsubstantiated.
Canonical is aware that sometimes even the best informal* testing procedures miss things
It was not missed. It was known as early as February, and found several times again several weeks before they shipped it. And it was two bugs: one with llvm emitting bad code (this caused my issues), then the second bug is the installer was not pulling updated modules correctly.
The issue was bad code from an llvm toolchain generating bad instructions, I don't think the nvidia proprietary problem alone would have fixed it. What I had to do instead was boot with "nomodeset", get to a terminal, then do dist-upgrade. Then it will boot (and I can install proprietary drivers or whatever too).
I have been using linux for years so this sort of thing is a throwback to 2002 (before that just getting X to run at all was an experience). I would not want someone who is a novice to computers to have to endure this. Particularly for a pretty bog standard set of hardware.
The release was DOA if you had skylake w/nVidia, for example. It was a known bug and went out the door. For the first time in years Ubuntu didn't "just work" on my computer. Worse, even if you asked it to take updates while installing, one of which would have fixed the issue, it failed to do so.
Perhaps the problem is that it was set for April 2016 and shipped in April 2016 when maybe it needed to be in May.
There shouldn't be a negotiation and they shouldn't be asking Apple (or anyone else) to volunteer. There should be a law, the amount owed should be definite, failure to pay would be a crime. That law should apply to everyone, equally.
Until the government, at all levels, fixes their shit, their shit is going to be broken. I am tired of hearing about Apple or Google or Facebook doing NOTHING wrong, but accused of something that sounds like (but is not) a crime.
We have set up a system where there is a game, and good players are going to game the system. So fix the system or fix the game.
When I use free software, I expect lousy default settings. When I pay for software, I expect the defaults to be appropriate for reasonable human beings.
I've never met a reasonable human being, perhaps by definition, who wanted to pay money for ads and nagware.
They damn well better issue a patch to remove all the nagware then
Here's a datapoint: I did not qualify for an upgrade so had to pay full price for Win10. It nags me about Office 365 all the time. I don't want to rent software, and have no need for that software, but it keeps doing it.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
Forced downgrade to Windows Me. By July 29th, these users will pay $238 to "Please God, stop the pain"
I suspect I'll get downmodded to -1 so people can avoid the question and pretend like it's not here.
We just don't think it's a problem, and we want them to have phones to call us or text us when shit gets too real.
I guess knowing how to google is a very hard skill to learn.
I can offer only one datapoint that suggests that it may, indeed, be out of reach for many:
http://lmgtfy.com/
most places you can go are covered by HD broadcast, which you can get with an antenna. The broadcast quality is far superior to most cable or satellite streams that I've seen. I use that plus Tablo for DVR to cover everything you might want.
It's still cheaper than cable or satellite...
That is statistically unlikely, it happens, but if you make an informed decision and get good grades and truly understand the subject matter, you should be able to get a job. You can throw out 90-95% of degrees that almost certainly will go nowhere with incredible accuracy. If your degree ends with "of Arts", and you are expecting an ROI and/or need a job quickly after graduation, you are probably in trouble. This hasn't changed much in decades, if anything it has become even harder. Not to say if this is your passion you shouldn't do it, just that you should be aware of the prognosis and should plan accordingly.
Looking at the most in-demand degrees, not much has changed in 20 years. There are some exceptions, Electrical Engineering, while still in demand, has become something for the top 1% of grads. If you don't like math, and you are not interested in power, signal integrity or RF, you want to pick something else. Computer Science I think is a victim of circumstance. Demand is absolutely there but idiot CEOs made a lot of confusing sounds from one vent hole or another, and things went poorly. If you got a CS degree just to program, you messed up. If you got a CS degree and cannot program, you messed up. If you have a CS degree, you can program, but you also have a good grasp of information theory, parallel programming, and/or computer architecture, you are highly valued and companies are dying to find you and have been for a good long time and I think you're set for the foreseeable future. If all you can do is program, you will face competition from H-1Bs and non-degreed programmers: most of the jobs out there are for these people, but the wages aren't always so great and there's a lot of bullshit in hiring & wage fixing and contract to never-hire. If you are good on academics, but cannot program: you may have trouble outside of academia or the very limited number of research positions.
So to pick a degree that will succeed, you have to do research and talk to people in the field. But if you do some homework you will most likely land on your feet. Shit happens, the economy periodically tanks, and there are almost no jobs available. But outside of that, unless you are in the PhD level and focusing on very narrow fields, technology isn't moving so fast as you make it sound if you are asking the right questions. Personally I would avoid a PhD until having worked in the industry for a few years for exactly that reason.
Getting out of school after 5 years with job experience is probably better than getting out in 4 without it.
This is almost certainly true. However money is the reason why most people load themselves with 22 credit semesters (certainly it is why I did it). You pay by the credit hour until you are a full time student, then you just pay tuition (somewhere around 12 credits). If you can handle 22 credits, you can save a year of tuition: that's an awful lot of money in some schools. By an awful lot, I mean really a ridiculous amount if you are in a private college.
I've never had an employer ask me why it took 5 years to graduate as opposed to 4.
I have had employers look very carefully at my dates. I double majored and got a masters in 4.5 years, questions are asked. They do look. But 5 years isn't that uncommon, and for STEM degrees 5 years is really what many schools are recommending as "moderate load". Over 5 and people may ask, but you can argue you had a job or whatever and I doubt you will get turned down for it. I would come armed for that situation.
depending on what your area of study was.
If your area of study won't get you a job, you either a) wasted money or b) don't need money that badly to begin with. You don't end up with a degree in klingon poetry by accident, decisions were made. This is something to research before plopping down a heap of bucks on college tuition or selecting a degree program.
Going there and destroy people's produce is destruction of property, which is vandalism or malicious mischief in California punishable by up to a year in prison.
I live in Texas, it is often punishable by death*. I'm not advocating DOING this, just pointing out exactly what you said. If we're just going to throw law and order out the window and inflict suffering on our fellow man because what they do annoys us. Doesn't really sound very nice, and certainly this will escalate. Incensed by a newly damaged lawn, our temper-challenged CEO will likely step this one up and retaliate. Someone will end up being hurt over unlicensed fruit sales.
* As long as you can find a way to couch it in the right terms under the castle doctrine or property crimes laws
It is unclear you have the wherewithal to make good on your threats and get away with them. But Richy McRichFace probably could, unless the authorities were so unusually meticulous that even a really good lawyer couldn't find a way out.
I don't think there is great argument about zoning laws. A simple call to the police would have the problem resolved quickly. If he felt the need to deal with the problem at all.
The issue is his attitude and threats.
Makes one want to go do donuts on his lawn, a fitting punishment for his particular crime.
I do not make overtime. It's free labor. The alternative is less appealing though.
My point is only that I am doing mundane work that others could do that does not tie up "valuable" and "scarce" engineering "talent", but I am doing it for free. Jobs could be created simply by keeping people in my shoes from working. We cannot do so voluntarily, for a number of reasons. I know some former employers who pushed even harder and had engineers doing project management work and fired the project managers.
I believe it because I already see it. Unemployment up all over the place.
Correlation is not causation. You could be seeing this because, for example, employers are trying to get more utilization out of salaried employees by pushing them to work more than 40 hours a week. In fact I don't think I've worked under 60 in an average week in my entire career. Most of that does not require an engineering degree, it's the kind of mundane corporate bureaucracy that any high school grad could pull off.
It's time, the sky is falling.
Wow, their steel is worse than their plastic?
I think their words were "Happy International Women's Day", and he started yelling his safe word, which happens to be "Sell!"
Cortana on Google & Chrome: Knoledgable and street smart, she may not be the best player in the field, but she can do the job.
Cortona on Edge & Bing: For $20 she might give you head and a couple STDs but it is unlikely can find you and you will end up giving your money to a russian hacker by accident anyway.