There are basically 3 types of users. Gamers, pro-users and end-users. The last one is the largest group. The first two already use desktops.
Why would the last group need a PC if they already have a portable. From what I see with friends that are end-users I see various things 1) Storage. Can be solved with an external SSD or HD or in exceptional cases a NAS. 2) Bigger screen 3) Mouse and keyboard.
If you add those three things, you have a (cheap) PC. And those I would already call heavy users. Most would be ok with just a USB-C docking station with the screen, keyboard, mouse and external HD. A separate PC? Not so much.
If there are busy periods, you should not get days off. That is the same in Europe. If that period is 52 weeks a year, you are understaffed and need more people. Even if it is more than 3 months a year in a row, you should do something about staffing.
It is not that hard to calculate. You need X hours. That comes to Y FTE. In that you calculate the holidays and sick days and breaks and what not. If you have Excel, it is pretty easy to do.
Obviously if you do not calculate those holidays and other absence days, you are going to have a bad time. Do not calculate in breaks and it gets worse. Next round to 10 hours a day for easy calculation and it gets even worse.
So yes, it is like a traffic jam, but if the traffic jam is there all day every day, perhaps you need bigger roads and/or better public transport as everybody that plays City Skylines knows.
I get 35 paid holidays. I am required to take them. I can transfer 5 to next year and those I have to take before then end of February. If I don't, they are gone forever. That is not the issue. The issue is that I will pay 85% income tax on it, so I get almost nothing.
The 5 days and end February depends from company to company. Once company the HR manager (Why are they always women?) came to me on a Friday mid Febfruaryand said I still had 10 days I had to take before the end of February. I asked if it was possible to extend it, because I thought it was end of March (as in the previous company I worked at) She said no and I said to my boss: See you in twee weeks. He was not happy, but could do nothing.
In Belgium this is pretty standard. The manager should pay attention that not too many people keep their holidays and wait till e.g. end of December and take of the holidays. That is also why you can transfer days. That way they can refuse those specific days.
The taking of holidays, when to ask for them and such are all written into law. Extentions in favour of the employees are possible (e.g. transferring the days to next year) are possible from company to company. It might even differ from department to department.
This is, I think, because most will focus on the backup. However the backup is just a tool. What people need to focus on (and test and train) is the restore.
What people need to do is figure out how to do a restore and that will lead to the backup. A backup will not always lead to a restore.
It should be part of a contingency plan. What do we do if the building burns down and our self acclaimed IT guru dies in that fire? How do we continue. One of the things will be to do is a data restore.
Indeed lucky that the COO and the rest of the board where very understanding. I even spoke to the CEO and he said at that time if anything came from it, they would pay for the lawyer.
I was looking for a remote thing to turn on and of a light. Only one said that the information would be send to a server in China. All the rest did not talk about it and made it appear as if it would only connect to your router and then you could connect to it with your cellphone.
And I have looked at many of them in several countries. So if I, who understands a little bit about Internet, can almost be fooled in buying one, How will the 95% of the people who have no idea protect themselves?
People have NO idea what is going to be send, where it is going to be send and how to protect themselves of sending or receiving things.
Because if they did, we would not getting any more spam.
Years ago I saw some child porn, so as a good citizen I reported it, When nothing was done after a week, I informed the newspapers. The next day the child porn was gone. Me was happy.
Then came at my work (where I had done it all) the COO to me and asked me if he was allowed to give my details to the police, due to an investigation about child porn. So I explained him what has happened and I also showed the emails I had send. As I had done the right thing, I allowed to give my details.
I was then ordered by the police to go to them and they where after me for. 1) Obstruction of the law, because I informed the press about an ongoing investigation. "Oh, you send an email? Our mailserver is down at the moment, Sorry." 2) Spreading of childporn. "Oh, so you just did a reply on a message on Usenet where the URL was in saying that you would be reporting it? Ok, not that bad as it was already known, we guess." 3) Falsification of information "Yes, we understand that you gave fake information to a free email address."
So not only where they clueless, if I would have had a different COO, I could have been fired as they told that it was about child porn.
Since then I have not seen anything even remotely illegal on the Interwebs and I am sure that I never will.
The Fourth Amendment is written in such a way as to...
Well, that is all well and nice. It could say anything at this point. Unless it is not followed up and there is no accountability, it is as meaningless as a mom yelling at her kids at Wallmart.
These people have been caught with the hand in the cookie jar several times already and all they say is "So fucking what?" On the one side you have the companies. On the other the government and the people are between a rock and a hard place.
People have died to take back their liberties, but now "Give me liberty or give me death" just looks nice on a license plate. Also note: the longer you play nice, the bloodier it gets at the end and the longer it takes time to settle down.
I just hope that I am not here anymore when The peoples revolution starts, because now it is not if, but when.
I know people who think the things that you call less fun, they call fun. Some people like some things, others don't. SO if the GP says that coding is not fun, he is right, just like people who say it is fun.
Some people say eating vegetables isn't fun. I think it is.
There may be 3,000,000 truckers, but there are 300,000,000 consumers, and everyone of them benefits.
Let us assume that the AI costs nothing and is included in the price of a new truck. Also assume all the other amounts are correct. Now let us do the calculations. The trucker adds 5 cents to the product. So we remove the trucker. What do you think will happen with those 5 cents? You will not get your goods 5 cents cheaper. If anything you are lucky to get 2.5 cents cheaper stuff. The rest will be taken as profit to pay out the CxO people and shareholders so they can buy a new car.
So the 3.000.000 truckers are out of a job and 100 CEOs get a great bonus.
So what you say is true if we shoot those 3.000.000 people. Otherwise? Not so much.
Science is a process. It is a pear-reviewed process. It does not care who does or not does it.
Scientists OTOH are people and that means they can decide if they want to be assholes or not. That is greatly a political discussion. Just as we should not mix religion with politics, we should not mix science with politics.
Now if you want to do a scientific investigation about scientists, please go ahead and give ne some science with proof as to why changing things would be better, because for all I know it could be worse, because the LQJYGDXWY are less established or in the long term they That could also be completely wrong and for that you have science to bring proof.
During the cleanup after the death of my mom my sister and myself found letters from my dad to his best friend. )send back to him when that friend died) Suddenly we got information that we never had before. We are both adults and even though the information was revealing, it was also meaningless.
And that was about letters that where written on paper and where people spend the time to write. Not on some emails send to say "I Liek U"
99% of communication is drivel and the 1% is drivel of a bit higher standard. There is no need to keep emails in almost any case. There is a reason people forget things. It is because it is generally good not to remember everything. So what if I do not know the name of my kindergarten teacher? Would I be more functional if I did?
With emails as with everything, unless there is a very important emotional value, I throw things out after one year (generally speaking)
There is absolutely no reason to keep all your emails. None, whatsoever. It is called hoarding. "But I just looked up an email from 15 years ago yesterday" will be said here. Would it be a huge disaster if you where unable to find that mail? I doubt so. Helpful? Sure. Impossible to get on with life without it? Not really.
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Unfortunately that is how copyright works. If copyright where as it was now, Benz would have been suing the hell out of Ford for copying their car.
There are basically 3 types of users. Gamers, pro-users and end-users. The last one is the largest group. The first two already use desktops.
Why would the last group need a PC if they already have a portable. From what I see with friends that are end-users I see various things
1) Storage. Can be solved with an external SSD or HD or in exceptional cases a NAS.
2) Bigger screen
3) Mouse and keyboard.
If you add those three things, you have a (cheap) PC. And those I would already call heavy users. Most would be ok with just a USB-C docking station with the screen, keyboard, mouse and external HD. A separate PC? Not so much.
If there are busy periods, you should not get days off. That is the same in Europe. If that period is 52 weeks a year, you are understaffed and need more people. Even if it is more than 3 months a year in a row, you should do something about staffing.
It is not that hard to calculate. You need X hours. That comes to Y FTE. In that you calculate the holidays and sick days and breaks and what not. If you have Excel, it is pretty easy to do.
Obviously if you do not calculate those holidays and other absence days, you are going to have a bad time. Do not calculate in breaks and it gets worse. Next round to 10 hours a day for easy calculation and it gets even worse.
So yes, it is like a traffic jam, but if the traffic jam is there all day every day, perhaps you need bigger roads and/or better public transport as everybody that plays City Skylines knows.
I get 35 paid holidays. I am required to take them. I can transfer 5 to next year and those I have to take before then end of February. If I don't, they are gone forever. That is not the issue. The issue is that I will pay 85% income tax on it, so I get almost nothing.
The 5 days and end February depends from company to company. Once company the HR manager (Why are they always women?) came to me on a Friday mid Febfruaryand said I still had 10 days I had to take before the end of February. I asked if it was possible to extend it, because I thought it was end of March (as in the previous company I worked at) She said no and I said to my boss: See you in twee weeks.
He was not happy, but could do nothing.
In Belgium this is pretty standard. The manager should pay attention that not too many people keep their holidays and wait till e.g. end of December and take of the holidays. That is also why you can transfer days. That way they can refuse those specific days.
The taking of holidays, when to ask for them and such are all written into law. Extentions in favour of the employees are possible (e.g. transferring the days to next year) are possible from company to company. It might even differ from department to department.
I know plenty of self-employed people in Europe. They take vacations all the time.
That would mean they filter Wikipedia.org
So GP is right.
This is, I think, because most will focus on the backup. However the backup is just a tool. What people need to focus on (and test and train) is the restore.
What people need to do is figure out how to do a restore and that will lead to the backup. A backup will not always lead to a restore.
It should be part of a contingency plan. What do we do if the building burns down and our self acclaimed IT guru dies in that fire? How do we continue. One of the things will be to do is a data restore.
The Airlines are against it.
The thing is that it does not solve the real issue. The problem is NOT the PCs. The thing is the security theater and people being ok with it.
Indeed lucky that the COO and the rest of the board where very understanding. I even spoke to the CEO and he said at that time if anything came from it, they would pay for the lawyer.
Yeah, because it is easy to get out a HD from a portable. Especially for those millions of people who have no idea it is even possible.
This is not about a few Hax0rs who can get around the system. This is about an assault on your personal life.
First they came for the business people ...
What about Universal free time. What I mean is that you should not work 4 jobs at 20 hours each just so you can get a bowl of rice.
It means working 40 hours at one job and have some quality of time and have another person working the other 40 hours and BOTH get enough to live.
Quality of life should be important.
Depends on the boat.
Humanitairian work will basically means food to starving kids in Africa. Ask China if they need help building roads there.
I was looking for a remote thing to turn on and of a light. Only one said that the information would be send to a server in China. All the rest did not talk about it and made it appear as if it would only connect to your router and then you could connect to it with your cellphone.
And I have looked at many of them in several countries. So if I, who understands a little bit about Internet, can almost be fooled in buying one, How will the 95% of the people who have no idea protect themselves?
People have NO idea what is going to be send, where it is going to be send and how to protect themselves of sending or receiving things.
Because if they did, we would not getting any more spam.
Years ago I saw some child porn, so as a good citizen I reported it, When nothing was done after a week, I informed the newspapers. The next day the child porn was gone. Me was happy.
Then came at my work (where I had done it all) the COO to me and asked me if he was allowed to give my details to the police, due to an investigation about child porn. So I explained him what has happened and I also showed the emails I had send. As I had done the right thing, I allowed to give my details.
I was then ordered by the police to go to them and they where after me for.
1) Obstruction of the law, because I informed the press about an ongoing investigation. "Oh, you send an email? Our mailserver is down at the moment, Sorry."
2) Spreading of childporn. "Oh, so you just did a reply on a message on Usenet where the URL was in saying that you would be reporting it? Ok, not that bad as it was already known, we guess."
3) Falsification of information "Yes, we understand that you gave fake information to a free email address."
So not only where they clueless, if I would have had a different COO, I could have been fired as they told that it was about child porn.
Since then I have not seen anything even remotely illegal on the Interwebs and I am sure that I never will.
Well, that is all well and nice. It could say anything at this point. Unless it is not followed up and there is no accountability, it is as meaningless as a mom yelling at her kids at Wallmart.
These people have been caught with the hand in the cookie jar several times already and all they say is "So fucking what?" On the one side you have the companies. On the other the government and the people are between a rock and a hard place.
People have died to take back their liberties, but now "Give me liberty or give me death" just looks nice on a license plate. Also note: the longer you play nice, the bloodier it gets at the end and the longer it takes time to settle down.
I just hope that I am not here anymore when The peoples revolution starts, because now it is not if, but when.
But he got a blowjob and lied about it .... so that is worse, right? If only he would have grabbed the intern by the pussy.
I know people who think the things that you call less fun, they call fun. Some people like some things, others don't. SO if the GP says that coding is not fun, he is right, just like people who say it is fun.
Some people say eating vegetables isn't fun. I think it is.
and they do what? And I should care why?
Boiling the water? I have been drinking tap water all my life and I am ok. My great-aunt becaÃe 115 and she drank tap water.
If your water is undrinkable without boiling it, you have serious problems if you live in a first world country.Â
I live in Belgium and drank tap water all over Europe. Never an issue.
Crazy how marketing works. People buying water they can get basically for free.
So it is old people that write the subtitles I download? Darn.
Science is a process. It is a pear-reviewed process. It does not care who does or not does it.
Scientists OTOH are people and that means they can decide if they want to be assholes or not. That is greatly a political discussion.
Just as we should not mix religion with politics, we should not mix science with politics.
Now if you want to do a scientific investigation about scientists, please go ahead and give ne some science with proof as to why changing things would be better, because for all I know it could be worse, because the LQJYGDXWY are less established or in the long term they
That could also be completely wrong and for that you have science to bring proof.
Please do not mix up Science with Scientists.
During the cleanup after the death of my mom my sister and myself found letters from my dad to his best friend. )send back to him when that friend died) Suddenly we got information that we never had before. We are both adults and even though the information was revealing, it was also meaningless.
And that was about letters that where written on paper and where people spend the time to write. Not on some emails send to say "I Liek U"
99% of communication is drivel and the 1% is drivel of a bit higher standard. There is no need to keep emails in almost any case.
There is a reason people forget things. It is because it is generally good not to remember everything. So what if I do not know the name of my kindergarten teacher? Would I be more functional if I did?
With emails as with everything, unless there is a very important emotional value, I throw things out after one year (generally speaking)
There is absolutely no reason to keep all your emails. None, whatsoever. It is called hoarding. "But I just looked up an email from 15 years ago yesterday" will be said here. Would it be a huge disaster if you where unable to find that mail? I doubt so. Helpful? Sure. Impossible to get on with life without it? Not really.