Mixed plastic scrap has near zero value. Only value is as fuel, which requires it to be burned mixed with something that burns hotter (gas, oil or coal).
The ticking time bomb is the SS trust. Full of junk bonds.
When those can't be rolled over, we're screwed. Should have already happened, but the fed has been buying the bonds left at the end of every auction. Putting them on both sides of the transaction.
Too bad you're too far north to grow really good pot outdoors. It's really hard to cover costs under lights, much less make a profit (at typical wholesale price in legal states).
Models prove nothing, any competent modeler can get the model to tell him what he wants to hear. That's part of the definition of 'competent modeler'.
Where models are used in high stakes negotiations, it's an adversarial process. We know how to lie with a model, we go through the datasets with jaundiced eyes. Always find something.
Validate the model by having someone that disagrees with you go through the details. Then finally validate with backcasting, you need extensive detailed historic data to backcast.
Each product should not invent it's own UI widgets.
Blender's aren't better, just different, for no benefit.
Making a cross platform app work smoothly is a challenge. But just sticking a 'new standard' UI into multiple GUIs is exactly the _wrong_ way to do it.
I worked one place where an open office was, sort of, necessary.
Because management was so bad, the only way anybody knew what was going on was informal communication. The morons didn't see that as a feature though. They _wanted_ everybody working in their narrow corner, ignorant of the _incredibly_broken_ big picture (and complete lack of coherent system design).
Metrics are hard, that is true. There is no substitute for technically competent management.
If your bean counters or sales weasels are in charge of your engineering, you've already lost. But 'good news', they won't know you stopped working and spend 8+ hours/day networking for a new job. Just game whatever broken metrics they are using.
China sells 2 million cars/month. 1 car in 24 in China is not European (your cite claims.5 million cars/year, but growing fast in last year). They are clearly counting parts imports or playing another statistical game.
Bullshit. Anybody who's touched Blenders UI should never be allowed near code.
Blender sucks balls. Sure, when doing new things, sometimes you need new UI elements. That's not what the Blender team did, they blew off all UI standards and rolled their own 'everything'. Like a DOS 'gui'. The point of user interface standards is so you don't have to _fight_ the 'file open' dialogs.
Consistent? No, that's half the problem. I suppose it's consistently _shitty_ on Windows, Mac and X.
They were building a multiplatform app, they had hard work to do, getting it to work correctly with the various GUIs. They said 'fuck it' and rolled their own terrible GUI, that doesn't do anything like any other program or even consistently
Open file dialogs are a prime, basic example. Every GUI has pretty standard, well working, browse for file(s)/folder functions, Blender built their own SHITTY ones.
'European' and 'Japanese' cars that are made in China (by minimum 50% Chinese owned companies) as the tariffs are so high they are unaffordable when imported? Those cars?
China has been at 'Trade war' with America and Europe for 20+ years, America is starting to fight.
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Mixed plastic scrap has near zero value. Only value is as fuel, which requires it to be burned mixed with something that burns hotter (gas, oil or coal).
They'll get sick of their rivers catching fire soon enough.
Environmentalism requires a level of prosperity.
No, most of the ocean trash goes down third world rivers.
Your employer doesn't own you. The bad ones tell you: 'It's like this everywhere'. They lie.
If your management really is THAT BAD, they are telling you to 'game the system for all you are worth'.
We spend millions a year on free obesity related healthcare for the 'poor' in the USA.
Globally someone can be fat OR poor, not both.
The ticking time bomb is the SS trust. Full of junk bonds.
When those can't be rolled over, we're screwed. Should have already happened, but the fed has been buying the bonds left at the end of every auction. Putting them on both sides of the transaction.
There are no keynesians. Keynesians save during good times.
All we have is spenders with an excuse.
US treasury bonds are the GOOD part of Chinese bank's reserves.
Let that sink in, their other debts are worse. That's what happens when the bank can't say no to children of central committee members.
Chumps!
We can't possibly pay, without minting a few trillion dollar coins.
But yeah, the world in general has not saved for the baby boomers retirement. We might do OK, if another major currency goes pop first.
Your patoine and lumber industries are healthy!
Too bad you're too far north to grow really good pot outdoors. It's really hard to cover costs under lights, much less make a profit (at typical wholesale price in legal states).
Do you get paid for this idiocy?
If you don't, you are even dumber.
Professional computer modeler posting.
Models prove nothing, any competent modeler can get the model to tell him what he wants to hear. That's part of the definition of 'competent modeler'.
Where models are used in high stakes negotiations, it's an adversarial process. We know how to lie with a model, we go through the datasets with jaundiced eyes. Always find something.
Validate the model by having someone that disagrees with you go through the details. Then finally validate with backcasting, you need extensive detailed historic data to backcast.
Each product should not invent it's own UI widgets.
Blender's aren't better, just different, for no benefit.
Making a cross platform app work smoothly is a challenge. But just sticking a 'new standard' UI into multiple GUIs is exactly the _wrong_ way to do it.
Incoherent blather is a commodity. You're fucked.
I'm sure I speak for all of /. when I say: 'Fuck you for putting that mental image into my mind!'
I worked one place where an open office was, sort of, necessary.
Because management was so bad, the only way anybody knew what was going on was informal communication. The morons didn't see that as a feature though. They _wanted_ everybody working in their narrow corner, ignorant of the _incredibly_broken_ big picture (and complete lack of coherent system design).
Metrics are hard, that is true. There is no substitute for technically competent management.
If your bean counters or sales weasels are in charge of your engineering, you've already lost. But 'good news', they won't know you stopped working and spend 8+ hours/day networking for a new job. Just game whatever broken metrics they are using.
Never take jobs at companies that produce commodities (like life insurance or CPUs). They are all run by sale weasels.
If your company doesn't produce commodities, keep your eyes open, it won't last forever.
Labor costs far exceed rent, unless you're hiring warm bodies to staff a phone bank.
For any sort of tech, saving 50% of rent, but losing 10% of productivity is a huge loss.
China sells 2 million cars/month. 1 car in 24 in China is not European (your cite claims .5 million cars/year, but growing fast in last year). They are clearly counting parts imports or playing another statistical game.
Bullshit. Anybody who's touched Blenders UI should never be allowed near code.
Blender sucks balls. Sure, when doing new things, sometimes you need new UI elements. That's not what the Blender team did, they blew off all UI standards and rolled their own 'everything'. Like a DOS 'gui'. The point of user interface standards is so you don't have to _fight_ the 'file open' dialogs.
Consistent? No, that's half the problem. I suppose it's consistently _shitty_ on Windows, Mac and X.
Blender is terrible.
They were building a multiplatform app, they had hard work to do, getting it to work correctly with the various GUIs. They said 'fuck it' and rolled their own terrible GUI, that doesn't do anything like any other program or even consistently
Open file dialogs are a prime, basic example. Every GUI has pretty standard, well working, browse for file(s)/folder functions, Blender built their own SHITTY ones.
Have you ever used Blender?
Your talking specifically about the people who ruined Gnome? The 'other people' on the project are RIGHT.
90% of everything is crap. UI design groups aren't selecting the right designers. Didn't do it for Gnome, didn't do it for Blender.
Blender is worse, you can't switch away to another UI.
'European' and 'Japanese' cars that are made in China (by minimum 50% Chinese owned companies) as the tariffs are so high they are unaffordable when imported? Those cars?
China has been at 'Trade war' with America and Europe for 20+ years, America is starting to fight.