Quicken Loans probably worries that one possible outcome leaves their arena more punctured, bloody and locked down for crime scene purposes than other outcomes.
I have yet to see an activist investor who has done anything but ruin a company, intentionally, for his personal gain. The only value I see in their activities is that somehow they manage to break a huge goliath with a stranglehold on an industry by accident, leaving the market open for new blood to come in. Of course when that happens it's because of carelessness on the investors part, normally in that case they just inflate prices beyond all reason.
Given the highly social, highly peer entangled corporate work environment (particularly as I see software jobs, looking in from the outside), she might actually have been able to learn more about computers in those two years wiping butts than her working counterparts who merely put in 40-45 hours a week in the corporate longship, if she merely invested one hour a day reading or doing self-directed technical work. That's a real figure based on my time at a few top 10 tech companies.
Of course she will fall behind that of the single, 80-hour a week employee who does the social thing at work and then goes home to do the real work. But so do most married men, unless their wives are able to stay at home to support their husbands career. This is a real problem in technology as far as I'm concerned, most of us work an unsustainable number of hours.
ake time off to have babies, spend a couple of years raising them, then come back to work expecting to be paid as if you never left
Actually if they get paid as if they never left, in most companies their salaries would be between 4-10% behind their peers for a couple years alone, depending on their performance level. Everyone else was getting yearly raises.
So what they should do is take a couple years off, come back to their current employer at the same pay, and find a new one at a higher pay, then either get the boss to give them a raise or jump ship.
20 years ago my computer science prof used this to explain why I should stay for my PhD rather than get a job doing real work (which at the time, was paying really, really well). If anything there is less effort in AI now than there was then, I've seen no attempts at self-programming computers yet, just languages with higher and higher levels of abstraction that take care of some messy details for you (with extreme limitations).
Meanwhile, I'm not sure why "creative people" is mutually exclusive with STEM, you don't need the 'A' to be creative. I associate the 'A' with technical skills in the fine arts, performing arts or academic skills in art history, literature, anthropology, etc.. You can be incredibly uncreative in any of those fields too (and still be successful), but have an excellent grasp of the skills. See the story about the Chinese village dedicated to copying artwork: high artistic skill, 0 creativity. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2375270/Dafen-Oil-Painting-Village-thousands-artists-recreate-paintings-sale-overseas.html, although there was one yesterday I can't find as well).
Creativity is orthogonal to the canvas you choose to work with. Coding skills however are very likely to enable you in any chosen profession, even if you do not do it professionally. I cannot count how many times in life some very simple thing did not exist because "we don't have a coder free". Sometimes that thing was just sending out an email periodically, or pulling stuff from a db into a spreadsheet in a particular way. There's no reason why everyone can't do things like that for themselves, except the lack of training and the belief that it is somehow hard.
My 6 year old macbook pro is arguably better than anything new. It has a 17" display. Apparently hipsters have some sort of size phobia, I'm not sure if its a rape trigger, or just a micro-aggression, but it offers plenty of pixels and enough room to see them all. With an SSD and an i7 it's plenty fast enough for medium games and all desktop work.
I guess I understood Schiller's comment to be mostly about "market size", and directed towards investors, who I think are the actual primary target of the iPhone SE. I don't understand why Apple wants to chase the low end market, except that investors see "market size" and have orgasms. In fact Apple has been, and continues to be enormously successful without it. Chase it and you end up eroding your high margin, lower volume customers who don't want the thing the lessers have, they want the special one.
I understand that college kids and the young may not care about this sort of thing, it's go cheap or don't go at all. But this is an absolutely terrible idea, that if it catches on, will make business travel even more shitty than it already it for people in most typical bottom dollar employers. Already some of these places have a $25/day restriction on food (McDonalds basically) . It's better not to compete with Airbnb, and let the kids do as kids do and focus on the captive audience that is already paying premium because it can afford it, but doesn't want to afford it.
Last time I overpaid on taxes, the difference was sent back to me. Sure, there are things you can do to give yourself an extra tax burden, but this isn't the right solution. The right solution is that they are required to pay a higher tax rate. If they thing their taxes are being misspent, then out those embezzlers for us all to see!
Pretty sure in the bronze age a horde of barbarians would kill him and take his "capital", possibly also raping him and his family. Beginning mostly with feudalism a group of very low wage earners protects him militarily while a group of other low wage earners and machinery designed by other low wage earners takes his capital and gives it back to him with interest. Those people, while unquestionably delivering more to his (and each others) bottom line than he is compensating them for, refrain from barbaric behavior because their pathetic wages are still better than raping and pillaging. In the modern age there has been a push to realize that simply possessing money is probably not a contribution to society and such people are effectively the same useless parasites their poor non-job seeking equivalents are, unless they are also capable of using that money effectively. Due to the need to maintain the semblance of a meritocracy and stability in society, we do not simply take their money away and redistribute it, this might undermine the productivity of capable and motivated low wage earners ambitions. Regardless, devoid of income and hope the low wage earners that do produce a better world are likely to return to the bronze age or earlier when it becomes the lesser of evils. The latest fashion out of paris suggests a return to togas and horned helmets.
Honestly I think the level of discussion on/. about politics is superior to most other sites. There's a lot of trolling, namecalling, browbeating and other junk to these posts, but it's not all bad. Doesn't this fit in the "mark it as politics and let users opt out" category? I never used it, but I thought there was a way to filter out stories for topics you disliked.
Absolutely. They can take a moderate now, or gamble on a big win in November.
Plan C, wait for the RNC and see who the candidate is. If Trump, they may as well go with Obama's nominee and learn to play ball. Trump will most likely lose to Hillary, and almost certainly lose to Sanders, then they will get a liberal or nothing at all. On the other hand, if Trump were to win, he's not really very conservative (based on the 30 years I've had to listen to his nonsense in NYC) so he'll likely pick either sameguy, or someone more liberal than these notional conservatives would want anyway. The only reason to stonewall further is on the outside chance that Cruz or Kasich can bring Trump down enough to have him believably be deselected at the convention.
So stalling makes a tiny bit of sense. Very tiny, I don't think Cruz stands a snowballs chance in hell nationally, I'm not sure why he's still in the race. Kasich might, being a somewhat more moderate conservative, but nobody knows who he is and he'll have an uphill battle against Hillary. He might, however, be the answer to Sanders who he can more believably paint as an extremist wingnut. Kasich might actually put someone more conservative in, should he win. It seems like a long shot, but I don't think there's a downside to them stalling.
I am assuming 2 people, which I think is a reasonable assumption. This doesn't work for a lone gunman, or two people who don't want to be robbed at the snack line.
However looking around at theater audiences my assumptions are actually on the low side for most movies (I usually see groups of 3-4), but about right for R-rated movies.
Perhaps the solution for Journals then is to actually ensure peer review is happening, and instead of going for exclusivity on all papers being published, focus on the very best papers for the field the journal is attempting to cover. So you're paying the journal good money to review and select exceptionally good papers, from what might end up being a sea of low quality or in many cases, lunatic fringe, papers.
It's about what it costs to see it in a theater in many places, when you factor in "practicality". About $20 for tickets, then another $20 for overpriced snacks. Add another $8 or so if it's "3D".
Still, I'd wait for it to come out cheaper elsewhere unless I hear the movie is exceptionally good from trustworthy sources (not paid for critics).
I think it is an objective truth that sending humans to space is costlier and more error prone than unmanned probes.
Whether we have achieved all the value we can from unmanned probes such that we need to send humans to make further progress is the part that is subject to continued debate.
Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is a sign of insanity.
If showing our age means we remember when MS was bad, and why MS was bad, then guilty as charged.
There are really good reasons to really hate Microsoft, and thus far, absolutely none to love them. Their OS is crap, their developer tool chain is crap, they still have cute ideas about the command line that are funny in a bad way. They appear to be all about Indian software development, and it shows. Honestly other than an effort by marketing to soften their image, they are still the same shitty company. It was just this past month that their covertly funded attempt at ruining Linux (aka the SCO lawsuit) finally died the true death. I don't know why we would expect anything has changed.
I will buy their turnaround the same way I bought Apple's turn-around: after surviving the brink of bankruptcy and fundamentally changing the nature of their product in acknowledgement of its defects, and coming out the door with something I want to buy on its own merits: not because I have to, not because I'm stuck in some demented ecosystem.
... New exam rule: no wearing of wristwatches, of any kind, while taking an exam.
This is a subject matter screen. If having the answers on your wrist gets you an A on the test, the subject matter is trivial and unnecessary or you made an awful test. After getting through general electives, every single course I took was open book, open computer, open neighbor (if you wanted to dick the curve) and were still so damned hard people left in tears.
Choosing to release on console rather than PC may affect popularity. Fable always struck me as a game that was less good because of the need to accept console limitations.
A great semantics versus pragmatics debate ensues. What is language... oh the hell with that, we're not liberal arts majors here.
A sentence is a set of glyphs strung together, in such a way as to approximately obey the diction and grammar of the language it is delivered with. It is protected expression, however, when its author or speaker delivers it with the intention of conveying information that is not deliberately intended to mislead or cause harm.
Isn't that exactly what source code does? It is a language like any other, it is transformed by a compiler, modified by a various linkages and transformed to convey information to a user. Encrypted data is just speech that doesn't make sense to anyone but the receiver. igPay atinLay, for example.
By having publicly documented wages, employers at the low-mid tier can now set your wages by mutual agreement. You cannot go find a better job (salary wise), unless you can get a line on one of the upper tier companies who will definitely keep their salaries secret. Similarly getting employees from one of those upper tier companies might be nearly impossible, since you can't offer him anything competitive.
I think this hurts everyone to the pyyhric benefit of women and minorities.
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Regardless, what AT&T is capable of delivering is unreliable DSL service.
So why does anyone object?
Quicken Loans probably worries that one possible outcome leaves their arena more punctured, bloody and locked down for crime scene purposes than other outcomes.
I have yet to see an activist investor who has done anything but ruin a company, intentionally, for his personal gain. The only value I see in their activities is that somehow they manage to break a huge goliath with a stranglehold on an industry by accident, leaving the market open for new blood to come in. Of course when that happens it's because of carelessness on the investors part, normally in that case they just inflate prices beyond all reason.
TL;DR: Maybe they will die in a fire.
Given the highly social, highly peer entangled corporate work environment (particularly as I see software jobs, looking in from the outside), she might actually have been able to learn more about computers in those two years wiping butts than her working counterparts who merely put in 40-45 hours a week in the corporate longship, if she merely invested one hour a day reading or doing self-directed technical work. That's a real figure based on my time at a few top 10 tech companies.
Of course she will fall behind that of the single, 80-hour a week employee who does the social thing at work and then goes home to do the real work. But so do most married men, unless their wives are able to stay at home to support their husbands career. This is a real problem in technology as far as I'm concerned, most of us work an unsustainable number of hours.
ake time off to have babies, spend a couple of years raising them, then come back to work expecting to be paid as if you never left
Actually if they get paid as if they never left, in most companies their salaries would be between 4-10% behind their peers for a couple years alone, depending on their performance level. Everyone else was getting yearly raises.
So what they should do is take a couple years off, come back to their current employer at the same pay, and find a new one at a higher pay, then either get the boss to give them a raise or jump ship.
20 years ago my computer science prof used this to explain why I should stay for my PhD rather than get a job doing real work (which at the time, was paying really, really well). If anything there is less effort in AI now than there was then, I've seen no attempts at self-programming computers yet, just languages with higher and higher levels of abstraction that take care of some messy details for you (with extreme limitations).
Meanwhile, I'm not sure why "creative people" is mutually exclusive with STEM, you don't need the 'A' to be creative. I associate the 'A' with technical skills in the fine arts, performing arts or academic skills in art history, literature, anthropology, etc.. You can be incredibly uncreative in any of those fields too (and still be successful), but have an excellent grasp of the skills. See the story about the Chinese village dedicated to copying artwork: high artistic skill, 0 creativity. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2375270/Dafen-Oil-Painting-Village-thousands-artists-recreate-paintings-sale-overseas.html, although there was one yesterday I can't find as well).
Creativity is orthogonal to the canvas you choose to work with. Coding skills however are very likely to enable you in any chosen profession, even if you do not do it professionally. I cannot count how many times in life some very simple thing did not exist because "we don't have a coder free". Sometimes that thing was just sending out an email periodically, or pulling stuff from a db into a spreadsheet in a particular way. There's no reason why everyone can't do things like that for themselves, except the lack of training and the belief that it is somehow hard.
My 6 year old macbook pro is arguably better than anything new. It has a 17" display. Apparently hipsters have some sort of size phobia, I'm not sure if its a rape trigger, or just a micro-aggression, but it offers plenty of pixels and enough room to see them all. With an SSD and an i7 it's plenty fast enough for medium games and all desktop work.
I guess I understood Schiller's comment to be mostly about "market size", and directed towards investors, who I think are the actual primary target of the iPhone SE. I don't understand why Apple wants to chase the low end market, except that investors see "market size" and have orgasms. In fact Apple has been, and continues to be enormously successful without it. Chase it and you end up eroding your high margin, lower volume customers who don't want the thing the lessers have, they want the special one.
I understand that college kids and the young may not care about this sort of thing, it's go cheap or don't go at all. But this is an absolutely terrible idea, that if it catches on, will make business travel even more shitty than it already it for people in most typical bottom dollar employers. Already some of these places have a $25/day restriction on food (McDonalds basically) . It's better not to compete with Airbnb, and let the kids do as kids do and focus on the captive audience that is already paying premium because it can afford it, but doesn't want to afford it.
Last time I overpaid on taxes, the difference was sent back to me. Sure, there are things you can do to give yourself an extra tax burden, but this isn't the right solution. The right solution is that they are required to pay a higher tax rate. If they thing their taxes are being misspent, then out those embezzlers for us all to see!
They need a new name. I get it, sonic boom. But that word has some brand recognition associated with it already.
Pretty sure in the bronze age a horde of barbarians would kill him and take his "capital", possibly also raping him and his family. Beginning mostly with feudalism a group of very low wage earners protects him militarily while a group of other low wage earners and machinery designed by other low wage earners takes his capital and gives it back to him with interest. Those people, while unquestionably delivering more to his (and each others) bottom line than he is compensating them for, refrain from barbaric behavior because their pathetic wages are still better than raping and pillaging. In the modern age there has been a push to realize that simply possessing money is probably not a contribution to society and such people are effectively the same useless parasites their poor non-job seeking equivalents are, unless they are also capable of using that money effectively. Due to the need to maintain the semblance of a meritocracy and stability in society, we do not simply take their money away and redistribute it, this might undermine the productivity of capable and motivated low wage earners ambitions. Regardless, devoid of income and hope the low wage earners that do produce a better world are likely to return to the bronze age or earlier when it becomes the lesser of evils. The latest fashion out of paris suggests a return to togas and horned helmets.
#saltinelivesmatter
Honestly I think the level of discussion on /. about politics is superior to most other sites. There's a lot of trolling, namecalling, browbeating and other junk to these posts, but it's not all bad. Doesn't this fit in the "mark it as politics and let users opt out" category? I never used it, but I thought there was a way to filter out stories for topics you disliked.
Absolutely. They can take a moderate now, or gamble on a big win in November.
Plan C, wait for the RNC and see who the candidate is. If Trump, they may as well go with Obama's nominee and learn to play ball. Trump will most likely lose to Hillary, and almost certainly lose to Sanders, then they will get a liberal or nothing at all. On the other hand, if Trump were to win, he's not really very conservative (based on the 30 years I've had to listen to his nonsense in NYC) so he'll likely pick either sameguy, or someone more liberal than these notional conservatives would want anyway. The only reason to stonewall further is on the outside chance that Cruz or Kasich can bring Trump down enough to have him believably be deselected at the convention.
So stalling makes a tiny bit of sense. Very tiny, I don't think Cruz stands a snowballs chance in hell nationally, I'm not sure why he's still in the race. Kasich might, being a somewhat more moderate conservative, but nobody knows who he is and he'll have an uphill battle against Hillary. He might, however, be the answer to Sanders who he can more believably paint as an extremist wingnut. Kasich might actually put someone more conservative in, should he win. It seems like a long shot, but I don't think there's a downside to them stalling.
I am assuming 2 people, which I think is a reasonable assumption. This doesn't work for a lone gunman, or two people who don't want to be robbed at the snack line.
However looking around at theater audiences my assumptions are actually on the low side for most movies (I usually see groups of 3-4), but about right for R-rated movies.
lack of peer review
Perhaps the solution for Journals then is to actually ensure peer review is happening, and instead of going for exclusivity on all papers being published, focus on the very best papers for the field the journal is attempting to cover. So you're paying the journal good money to review and select exceptionally good papers, from what might end up being a sea of low quality or in many cases, lunatic fringe, papers.
It's about what it costs to see it in a theater in many places, when you factor in "practicality". About $20 for tickets, then another $20 for overpriced snacks. Add another $8 or so if it's "3D".
Still, I'd wait for it to come out cheaper elsewhere unless I hear the movie is exceptionally good from trustworthy sources (not paid for critics).
I think it is an objective truth that sending humans to space is costlier and more error prone than unmanned probes.
Whether we have achieved all the value we can from unmanned probes such that we need to send humans to make further progress is the part that is subject to continued debate.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is a sign of insanity.
If showing our age means we remember when MS was bad, and why MS was bad, then guilty as charged.
There are really good reasons to really hate Microsoft, and thus far, absolutely none to love them. Their OS is crap, their developer tool chain is crap, they still have cute ideas about the command line that are funny in a bad way. They appear to be all about Indian software development, and it shows. Honestly other than an effort by marketing to soften their image, they are still the same shitty company. It was just this past month that their covertly funded attempt at ruining Linux (aka the SCO lawsuit) finally died the true death. I don't know why we would expect anything has changed.
I will buy their turnaround the same way I bought Apple's turn-around: after surviving the brink of bankruptcy and fundamentally changing the nature of their product in acknowledgement of its defects, and coming out the door with something I want to buy on its own merits: not because I have to, not because I'm stuck in some demented ecosystem.
This is a subject matter screen. If having the answers on your wrist gets you an A on the test, the subject matter is trivial and unnecessary or you made an awful test. After getting through general electives, every single course I took was open book, open computer, open neighbor (if you wanted to dick the curve) and were still so damned hard people left in tears.
Choosing to release on console rather than PC may affect popularity. Fable always struck me as a game that was less good because of the need to accept console limitations.
A great semantics versus pragmatics debate ensues. What is language... oh the hell with that, we're not liberal arts majors here.
A sentence is a set of glyphs strung together, in such a way as to approximately obey the diction and grammar of the language it is delivered with. It is protected expression, however, when its author or speaker delivers it with the intention of conveying information that is not deliberately intended to mislead or cause harm.
Isn't that exactly what source code does? It is a language like any other, it is transformed by a compiler, modified by a various linkages and transformed to convey information to a user. Encrypted data is just speech that doesn't make sense to anyone but the receiver. igPay atinLay, for example.
No, I think he's referring to that thing with Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg challenging each other with schoolyard insults. I think Will Farrell won.
I could provide a source to that, but I'd hate to break the fugue.
Apparently the rich plan to grow up to be code monkeys rather than hedge fund managers, CEOs or anonymous board members these days.
By having publicly documented wages, employers at the low-mid tier can now set your wages by mutual agreement. You cannot go find a better job (salary wise), unless you can get a line on one of the upper tier companies who will definitely keep their salaries secret. Similarly getting employees from one of those upper tier companies might be nearly impossible, since you can't offer him anything competitive.
I think this hurts everyone to the pyyhric benefit of women and minorities.