It depends on what it is. I often buy the cheapest and the most expensive item at the same time. Sometimes there is a difference, sometimes there is not. But more times the cheap stuff is not that great. It tastes bland. And what I have noticed is that the quality is less uniform. e.g. it could be great one tile and the next time it is like eating cardboard.
That has not stopped me from trying out diffeent brands, stores and prices. In fact, I like doing that. And even at stores from the same company there will be differences in what is available. At least in Belgium. Depends on who lives around that store.
The thing we learned today is that hindsight is 20/20. People have got some ideas right and some ideas wrong. As long as the ones that where right bring in more money than those that where were wrong, they are visionaries.
The company I work frowns upon it, because that would mean the people at the reception are doing a lot of signing of on deleveries. Also, because they signed, they are responsible for the goods till I signed of on it. So extra work for them. Or the erson has to wait for me to come and sign of and it could well be that at that moment I am not available.
This was implemented when some people started abusing the system. One person had 5 deliveries a day for 2 weeks.
As I said "frowned upon", so not forbidden. But as I have other options, I do not use it. Some people do it if there are no other options for them. They will infor, reception upfront. No need to give cow orkers extra work for my personal pleasure. If it is send by the post, I can easily pck it up during my lunch break. If DHL or UPS, they will have pick-up points beween where I work and where I live. The only issue there is that many companies do not tell me what they use or do not pay for the pick-up option and also do not let me pay for it.
First you need to determine the difference between must-have and nice-to-have backups. I am thinking of personal stuff, not business related, That means that pictures you took of the first step are nice-to-have. Yes, it sucks if they are gone. 99% of the emails will fall under this as well and many of the things can be requested at the company you got them from in the first place.
So the real data you actually need as an individual will be much less than say 1GB. That means it can easily fit on a USB key. Write a script that does a copy of an encrypted up to date data-file to that key the moment you put the key in. Now you have offline backup.
And with prices of 32GB as low as they are, having those pictures of your first born is also possible. Even 256GB is not that expensive anymore.
I am just looking for a USB hub with Wifi instead of a cable to the PC, so I can place it near my front door as a key hanger.
I am at awe with your strength. Getting dog food, I understand, but moving a whole apartment? Even if you call a trailer 'an apartment' dragging that on its wheels is an achievement if more than over a few yards.
When I buy hardware, I often look what I want, put it in an order and pick it up the next day. Delivery at home is not possible as I work during the day and in Belgium, where I live, if there is no signature, they are responsible and I would keep calling them I never received it till either I have no place to store it or if they give me back my money and I still have several items.
U have the option of several places and sometimes I pick the store itself. Depends on the item and the situation. For me going to the store after ordering online means I have it faster.
I expect them to cut people and wages. I also expect them to cut hours of people who work there, so the people who work there now will need foodstamps.
Perhaps the thing that Amazon is trying to do is getting the foodstamps from their employees, They see them getting all that free monies and they want that.
There will still be human Go tournaments, just like forklifts haven't done away with human weightlifting contests.
But not as many. The reason that people are afraid is that they are afraid of their job and income and the fact that they might not be able to provide for their loved ones.
He would not need to worry about that, so he can welcome the replacement of the workworce If this fear is legit or not is something the future will decide. I think it is, unless there are serious social changes and those will be unlikely, unless we hang some people and overthrow some governments. At least, that is what history told me.
Well, car-sharing is not a US thing. It also exists in Europe. I do think that the danger for them is bigger in Europe. I am a car-sharer in Belgium and the reason is that I seldom need a car, because I already get public transport paid by the company I work for. This is nothing exceptional. So many people will dump the second car in the family and start using car-sharing as a second car for those moments it is really needed,
So the NADA is not the only issue and the US market is not the only market they should worry about. Car companies are global companies that need to look everywhere. If sales drop in the EU, their income will drop.
A car sharing company in Belgium claims that 1 car replaces 14 cars: http://www.cambio.be/cms/carsh... Take that as you like. Many people will use car sharing instead of a second car. As a car sharer myself I can tell you that you will drive less, because you need to plan it upfront (a reason why many people do not want it)
Not just them. A family member of mine had worked in the Al Burj Hotel and quit because the job was nothing as promised. Had to wait for a few days before getting the passport back. No huge issues, but still.
(And the crowd goes "But I would never give my passport out of hand.")
I use my own domain with the pop from my provider. The provider is small enough that they won't wasting money to look in my emails. They will not have enough financial reason to do so.
I run my own web interface for mail on my home webserver. So no mail server configuration.
I have also used GMX for mail, if not for anything else, because it isn't Gmail, or Hotmail or Yahoo.
I also am always assuming that what happens on the Internet is known. No secrets. That is easier than to assume there might be things that are and then find out they are not.
Many think it is fair, because they think the rules are the same. (Not saying they are right) What they fail to see is that the rules are NOT the same.
You could see it as if the rules say "You need to pay 30% tax(*)" and they say that rules are the same. They do not see that the (*) says "Unless you have red hair. Then you pay 0%" It makes it as if those soulless red heads are just lucky.
It would be easier for people to understand if the rules where reveresed.. You pay 0%, unless you do not have red hair.
Many people do similar things. It is a bit of a self fulfilling prophesy. There are sports people who have to go on the field with the right foot first. Some will want to have a lucky number as shirtnumber. A politician might want to have his tie done in a cerain way. In programming: Some will use spaces instead of tabs.
The result is the same: It works. Now why is that? Because when you do it, you won't spend time thinking how you did NOT do it. That time can then be used for the task at hand. And when you need to be concentrated 100%, you will be better than using 1% thinking how something is a bit off.
We learn as kids that a kiss on the knee is the bestest way to stop a booboo.
And I am sure that everybody has things like this and that has nothing to do with autism or anything else. Just human behaviour.
The prices are highly based on what people are willing to pay. e.g. a flight Brussels-NYC-Brussels is much cheaper than NYC-Brussels-NYC if you take the same flights. And when I compare US prices to prices in Europe with the same distance in flight, the fuel must be a lot cheaper in Europe. No, not only looking at cheap airlines. Yes, I verified that the distance was similar.
Such an example is e.g. Cities: Skylines. Without the mods it would be just better than Sim City. They even implemented several things that where previously only available with mods.
I would go further and remove the "Winner takes all" that is heavily biassed for a bi-party system. Politics should not be that you do what the majority wants, but to do what most people want. Yes, there is a differnce and in politics you should be able to negotiate to what you and others want.
There are plenty of countries where multi-party systems work. It also gives people who see some thinks they want in party 1 and also so,e things they want in party 2 a way to let their voice hear.
The obvious next big thing is to not only have a separation between state and chuch, but also state and business.
I once worked at a place where I did a calculation in FTE savings if we did the password change every 90 days instead of 30 days and the answer was that it was policy to do it and the reason was that it was because of security.
I am still waiting on the answer as to why I and everybody else could see all the peoples login, password and pin code in plain text when you browsed the Intranet. (Yes, I am that type of user who will open random files to see what is in them. Just see that I don't have access) And yes, I do that last one. One place I had to do a password changer every WEEK and it had all the 'security' in place, so I could do it with e.g. week number, because it had 2 characters in the same order. Only way to remember it was to use a post-it note.
Also interested to see years experience and age. Perhaps older and thus more expensive coders use spaces, while people who are younger and/or have less experience use tabs. This could be on how they learned things and that could have changed. It does not even mean that spaces is better than tabs. It could even be that those who use tabs earn more compared to spaces when they have the same experience, because they are more interested in efficiency and thus produce better code and thus get better payment.
Or it could mean that people who use spaces are more interested in money than those who use tabs who are interested in neat code.
Your data is not as important as you think. (Talking about personal, not business here) All from the bank and what not will still be at the bank. The access to the bank will be restored. The data I have given the IRS will still be somewhere available.
Look seriously at your data and see if they are 'must have' and 'nice to have'. Hint: pictures of your kids, your music and your movie collection is 'nice to have'. Except for perhaps 100 emails (if that much) keeping emails is nice to have when older than 7 days.
There might be some things that you need to have, but that would easily fit on a USB key. Automate it that when you get home, you put in the USB key on your key chain (now you also always know where your keys are) and let that do the backup. A solution would even be to put something like this one at the door and make it even easier.
I use my domain name with email to seriously filter out a LOT of things, so I would not want to be without it. How I do that? Unlimited aliases.
When I have a company that needs my email, because reasons (like my bank or a company I buy online from) I make the email address as companyname@example.com and othercompanyname@example.com.
This has several advantages 1) I can easily filter it to different mailboxes 2) I will know if it was spam. e.g. if it was send to random@example.com, but it was send from bank.com@example.com, I will know it did not really came from bank.com as they do not have the address random. 3) I will know if they resell the data (or worse, have been hacked) and stop doing business with them. (No more eBay for me) 4) Easy to set up new addresses per company and special reasons. e.g. if I am going to do a longer holiday I could use e.g. trip2017@example.com and do everything related to that trip with that address. That way I can do hotel bookings, restaurant and hotel reservations and what not with that address. It will fall into the correct folder and when I get back, I remove the alias and not worry if they are spamming me, because I forgot to unselected something on a website I do not trust.
So by own domain is well worth its 15EUR or so per year. The web hosting I have is nice, but I could easily do without.
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It depends on what it is. I often buy the cheapest and the most expensive item at the same time. Sometimes there is a difference, sometimes there is not.
But more times the cheap stuff is not that great. It tastes bland.
And what I have noticed is that the quality is less uniform. e.g. it could be great one tile and the next time it is like eating cardboard.
That has not stopped me from trying out diffeent brands, stores and prices. In fact, I like doing that. And even at stores from the same company there will be differences in what is available. At least in Belgium. Depends on who lives around that store.
The thing we learned today is that hindsight is 20/20.
People have got some ideas right and some ideas wrong. As long as the ones that where right bring in more money than those that where were wrong, they are visionaries.
The company I work frowns upon it, because that would mean the people at the reception are doing a lot of signing of on deleveries. Also, because they signed, they are responsible for the goods till I signed of on it. So extra work for them. Or the erson has to wait for me to come and sign of and it could well be that at that moment I am not available.
This was implemented when some people started abusing the system. One person had 5 deliveries a day for 2 weeks.
As I said "frowned upon", so not forbidden. But as I have other options, I do not use it. Some people do it if there are no other options for them. They will infor, reception upfront. No need to give cow orkers extra work for my personal pleasure.
If it is send by the post, I can easily pck it up during my lunch break. If DHL or UPS, they will have pick-up points beween where I work and where I live. The only issue there is that many companies do not tell me what they use or do not pay for the pick-up option and also do not let me pay for it.
First you need to determine the difference between must-have and nice-to-have backups. I am thinking of personal stuff, not business related,
That means that pictures you took of the first step are nice-to-have. Yes, it sucks if they are gone.
99% of the emails will fall under this as well and many of the things can be requested at the company you got them from in the first place.
So the real data you actually need as an individual will be much less than say 1GB. That means it can easily fit on a USB key. Write a script that does a copy of an encrypted up to date data-file to that key the moment you put the key in. Now you have offline backup.
And with prices of 32GB as low as they are, having those pictures of your first born is also possible. Even 256GB is not that expensive anymore.
I am just looking for a USB hub with Wifi instead of a cable to the PC, so I can place it near my front door as a key hanger.
I am at awe with your strength. Getting dog food, I understand, but moving a whole apartment? Even if you call a trailer 'an apartment' dragging that on its wheels is an achievement if more than over a few yards.
When I buy hardware, I often look what I want, put it in an order and pick it up the next day. Delivery at home is not possible as I work during the day and in Belgium, where I live, if there is no signature, they are responsible and I would keep calling them I never received it till either I have no place to store it or if they give me back my money and I still have several items.
U have the option of several places and sometimes I pick the store itself. Depends on the item and the situation. For me going to the store after ordering online means I have it faster.
I expect them to cut people and wages. I also expect them to cut hours of people who work there, so the people who work there now will need foodstamps.
Perhaps the thing that Amazon is trying to do is getting the foodstamps from their employees, They see them getting all that free monies and they want that.
OTOH, perhaps they knew how to run it and that is why they sold it. I have seen companies been sold because they knew what they where doing.
But not as many.
The reason that people are afraid is that they are afraid of their job and income and the fact that they might not be able to provide for their loved ones.
He would not need to worry about that, so he can welcome the replacement of the workworce
If this fear is legit or not is something the future will decide. I think it is, unless there are serious social changes and those will be unlikely, unless we hang some people and overthrow some governments. At least, that is what history told me.
Well, car-sharing is not a US thing. It also exists in Europe. I do think that the danger for them is bigger in Europe.
I am a car-sharer in Belgium and the reason is that I seldom need a car, because I already get public transport paid by the company I work for. This is nothing exceptional.
So many people will dump the second car in the family and start using car-sharing as a second car for those moments it is really needed,
So the NADA is not the only issue and the US market is not the only market they should worry about. Car companies are global companies that need to look everywhere. If sales drop in the EU, their income will drop.
A car sharing company in Belgium claims that 1 car replaces 14 cars: http://www.cambio.be/cms/carsh...
Take that as you like. Many people will use car sharing instead of a second car. As a car sharer myself I can tell you that you will drive less, because you need to plan it upfront (a reason why many people do not want it)
So where are your numbers?
Not just them. A family member of mine had worked in the Al Burj Hotel and quit because the job was nothing as promised. Had to wait for a few days before getting the passport back.
No huge issues, but still.
(And the crowd goes "But I would never give my passport out of hand.")
I use my own domain with the pop from my provider. The provider is small enough that they won't wasting money to look in my emails. They will not have enough financial reason to do so.
I run my own web interface for mail on my home webserver. So no mail server configuration.
I have also used GMX for mail, if not for anything else, because it isn't Gmail, or Hotmail or Yahoo.
I also am always assuming that what happens on the Internet is known. No secrets. That is easier than to assume there might be things that are and then find out they are not.
Many think it is fair, because they think the rules are the same. (Not saying they are right)
What they fail to see is that the rules are NOT the same.
You could see it as if the rules say "You need to pay 30% tax(*)" and they say that rules are the same. They do not see that the (*) says "Unless you have red hair. Then you pay 0%"
It makes it as if those soulless red heads are just lucky.
It would be easier for people to understand if the rules where reveresed..
You pay 0%, unless you do not have red hair.
So in short : "Service guarantees Citiwenship.".
As they are buying a food store, why not both?
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Many people do similar things. It is a bit of a self fulfilling prophesy. There are sports people who have to go on the field with the right foot first. Some will want to have a lucky number as shirtnumber.
A politician might want to have his tie done in a cerain way.
In programming: Some will use spaces instead of tabs.
The result is the same: It works. Now why is that? Because when you do it, you won't spend time thinking how you did NOT do it. That time can then be used for the task at hand. And when you need to be concentrated 100%, you will be better than using 1% thinking how something is a bit off.
We learn as kids that a kiss on the knee is the bestest way to stop a booboo.
And I am sure that everybody has things like this and that has nothing to do with autism or anything else. Just human behaviour.
The prices are highly based on what people are willing to pay.
e.g. a flight Brussels-NYC-Brussels is much cheaper than NYC-Brussels-NYC if you take the same flights.
And when I compare US prices to prices in Europe with the same distance in flight, the fuel must be a lot cheaper in Europe. No, not only looking at cheap airlines. Yes, I verified that the distance was similar.
Such an example is e.g. Cities: Skylines. Without the mods it would be just better than Sim City. They even implemented several things that where previously only available with mods.
I would go further and remove the "Winner takes all" that is heavily biassed for a bi-party system. Politics should not be that you do what the majority wants, but to do what most people want. Yes, there is a differnce and in politics you should be able to negotiate to what you and others want.
There are plenty of countries where multi-party systems work. It also gives people who see some thinks they want in party 1 and also so,e things they want in party 2 a way to let their voice hear.
The obvious next big thing is to not only have a separation between state and chuch, but also state and business.
I once worked at a place where I did a calculation in FTE savings if we did the password change every 90 days instead of 30 days and the answer was that it was policy to do it and the reason was that it was because of security.
I am still waiting on the answer as to why I and everybody else could see all the peoples login, password and pin code in plain text when you browsed the Intranet. (Yes, I am that type of user who will open random files to see what is in them. Just see that I don't have access)
And yes, I do that last one. One place I had to do a password changer every WEEK and it had all the 'security' in place, so I could do it with e.g. week number, because it had 2 characters in the same order. Only way to remember it was to use a post-it note.
Also interested to see years experience and age. Perhaps older and thus more expensive coders use spaces, while people who are younger and/or have less experience use tabs.
This could be on how they learned things and that could have changed.
It does not even mean that spaces is better than tabs. It could even be that those who use tabs earn more compared to spaces when they have the same experience, because they are more interested in efficiency and thus produce better code and thus get better payment.
Or it could mean that people who use spaces are more interested in money than those who use tabs who are interested in neat code.
Or it could mean absolutely nothing at all.
Your data is not as important as you think. (Talking about personal, not business here)
All from the bank and what not will still be at the bank. The access to the bank will be restored. The data I have given the IRS will still be somewhere available.
Look seriously at your data and see if they are 'must have' and 'nice to have'. Hint: pictures of your kids, your music and your movie collection is 'nice to have'. Except for perhaps 100 emails (if that much) keeping emails is nice to have when older than 7 days.
There might be some things that you need to have, but that would easily fit on a USB key. Automate it that when you get home, you put in the USB key on your key chain (now you also always know where your keys are) and let that do the backup.
A solution would even be to put something like this one at the door and make it even easier.
I use my domain name with email to seriously filter out a LOT of things, so I would not want to be without it. How I do that? Unlimited aliases.
When I have a company that needs my email, because reasons (like my bank or a company I buy online from) I make the email address as companyname@example.com and othercompanyname@example.com.
This has several advantages
1) I can easily filter it to different mailboxes
2) I will know if it was spam. e.g. if it was send to random@example.com, but it was send from bank.com@example.com, I will know it did not really came from bank.com as they do not have the address random.
3) I will know if they resell the data (or worse, have been hacked) and stop doing business with them. (No more eBay for me)
4) Easy to set up new addresses per company and special reasons. e.g. if I am going to do a longer holiday I could use e.g. trip2017@example.com and do everything related to that trip with that address. That way I can do hotel bookings, restaurant and hotel reservations and what not with that address. It will fall into the correct folder and when I get back, I remove the alias and not worry if they are spamming me, because I forgot to unselected something on a website I do not trust.
So by own domain is well worth its 15EUR or so per year. The web hosting I have is nice, but I could easily do without.