because people who could AFFORD a condo in a new bayfront skyscraper would rather live in a mountainside mansion, and people who'd WANT to live in a bayfront condo can't afford to buy one
Maybe you don't live in the bay area so you don't understand. Anything close to the actual bay in the south bay smells like roasted garbage. Pay a visit to Alviso some time and take whiff. When I was looking for homes, I looked at a few in Alviso. Absolutely nuts that you'd pay essentially the same as anywhere else in the bay area to smell rotting organic matter all day, every day. We even get the smell in San Jose some days depending on the way the wind blows.
Anyway, the south bay is far from being packed to the point where engineering new land along the bay is going to be profitable. The entire region is one-story except for a few stunted sky scrapers in downtown San Jose (limited by planes incoming to SJC). There are a thousand places better to build a high rise than the mud flats of the bay.
Not to mention, there's already a failed high rise condo complex in downtown (360 Residences).
But they were only a small part of the story, what was also clear was that the vast majority of tech industry H-1Bs were going to big players like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, et. al. and when going to these companies, these companies were paying well above the national average salary for the roles in question - in many cases at least 2x higher, and certainly higher than the average local salaries (as best as I could find data on them) for those roles.
Say the average geo-based salary is $70k, and the average wage at Google is $120k, and the average wage for an H1B worker is $100k. H1B workers are making over the average, but are still getting shafted. These numbers are only an example that simply looking at H1B worker salary v. the average for the geo doesn't work.
So the big boss in the corner office is thinking, there's a lot of opportunities to reduce our costs in this area, and the alternative of keeping all the work here in the States just got a little worse.
If the Big Boss was around in the 90s and 00s, he understands that this is a fallacy, and probably ruined a few companies trying to cut costs by shipping their core competencies overseas.
In the brave new world of Big Data, users are not customers. Users are raw products to be quantified, classified and sold to advertisers and marketers. What users want is not important - it's the ones that actually pay Microsoft that matter.
Wow, insightful. But I'd suggest you word it a little more strongly for maximum effect:
Users are blood blisters, to be popped and squeezed and have their blood and fluids splatter the walls, only to be licked and sucked up by the tongues that are corporations.
Much better. That'll REALLY get your point across!
If you don't already own a PC, with what device are you posting comments to Slashdot? Or do most people use only a laptop, smartphone, or tablet computer?
I'm really confused if you are asking me a rhetorical question. Yes? Most people do use a laptop. And there are also people that use tablets, and have desktops that don't run Windows, and people that have desktops that have other bottlenecks that make them incapable of running games at 1080p60.
I mean, what are you saying? Any computer that can post to/. is capable, with a few hundred dollar upgrade, of running current gen AAA titles?
How so? If you already have a desktop PC with a competent CPU and 8 GB of RAM or more, adding a $200 GPU will let you play essentially all games on settings equivalent to those on the consoles.
That's a good point. Did you also know that a 8-bedroom mansion is cheaper than a travel trailer? Yeah, because if you already own the mansion, you only have to buy a koi pond for the back yard, around $2,000 The travel trailer will cost $40,000, around 20x more expensive!
Any contract attorney would advise you NOT to do that. Apparently AT&T didn't listen to their lawyers or figured the good press now out weighs the eventual bad press later.
I don't see the problem, as long as they can raise the price to whatever they want. They are in complete control.
Wrong. In a corrupt country, it absolutely is "perfectly acceptable".
The fact that you can get away with X or Y in some terrible third world country is not the definition of "acceptable". Are you really wasting bits arguing that point? Sheesh.
Likely not a whole lot. Couple days of a dev's salary to find and fix the problem.
Likely a lot, which is why they went out of their way to work with CR and find the root cause. Like them or not, CR has a pretty large user base. And those non-techie type of users are exactly where Apple targets their products.
If you are wanting to do something different, there's a long-established history of being forced to go the third-party route. If you're already using a Mac, you probably already know this.
Counted one way, the US people favored Trump. Counted another way, the US people favored Clinton.
There's only one way we count, and that's the EC. We are united states (not capitalized), it's been that way for a while now, so get used to it. States are supposed to be semi-independent governing bodies. North Dakota doesn't get equal say to CA, but it also doesn't get what would otherwise amount to nothing. It's somewhere in between, which makes sense.
No, and it also doesn't do your dishes or read your kids a bedtime story.
Point is, why tie two unrelated functions together: charging and playing music. Sure, maybe whenever YOU are charging YOU want to listen to music, and whenever YOU are listening to music YOU also want to be charging... but I don't think that works for most people.
What if my phone is already charged, and I want to say, read a message from my spouse? I have to walk across the house and find it on the speaker dock?
Instead of having to fuck around with bluetooth and compromised battery life
Bluetooth has improved since you last tried it in 1999. The idea that having to physically dock your phone is better than having it work wireless is nuts.
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because people who could AFFORD a condo in a new bayfront skyscraper would rather live in a mountainside mansion, and people who'd WANT to live in a bayfront condo can't afford to buy one
Maybe you don't live in the bay area so you don't understand. Anything close to the actual bay in the south bay smells like roasted garbage. Pay a visit to Alviso some time and take whiff. When I was looking for homes, I looked at a few in Alviso. Absolutely nuts that you'd pay essentially the same as anywhere else in the bay area to smell rotting organic matter all day, every day. We even get the smell in San Jose some days depending on the way the wind blows.
Anyway, the south bay is far from being packed to the point where engineering new land along the bay is going to be profitable. The entire region is one-story except for a few stunted sky scrapers in downtown San Jose (limited by planes incoming to SJC). There are a thousand places better to build a high rise than the mud flats of the bay.
Not to mention, there's already a failed high rise condo complex in downtown (360 Residences).
But they were only a small part of the story, what was also clear was that the vast majority of tech industry H-1Bs were going to big players like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, et. al. and when going to these companies, these companies were paying well above the national average salary for the roles in question - in many cases at least 2x higher, and certainly higher than the average local salaries (as best as I could find data on them) for those roles.
Say the average geo-based salary is $70k, and the average wage at Google is $120k, and the average wage for an H1B worker is $100k. H1B workers are making over the average, but are still getting shafted. These numbers are only an example that simply looking at H1B worker salary v. the average for the geo doesn't work.
So the big boss in the corner office is thinking, there's a lot of opportunities to reduce our costs in this area, and the alternative of keeping all the work here in the States just got a little worse.
If the Big Boss was around in the 90s and 00s, he understands that this is a fallacy, and probably ruined a few companies trying to cut costs by shipping their core competencies overseas.
In the brave new world of Big Data, users are not customers. Users are raw products to be quantified, classified and sold to advertisers and marketers. What users want is not important - it's the ones that actually pay Microsoft that matter.
Wow, insightful. But I'd suggest you word it a little more strongly for maximum effect:
Users are blood blisters, to be popped and squeezed and have their blood and fluids splatter the walls, only to be licked and sucked up by the tongues that are corporations.
Much better. That'll REALLY get your point across!
If you don't already own a PC, with what device are you posting comments to Slashdot? Or do most people use only a laptop, smartphone, or tablet computer?
I'm really confused if you are asking me a rhetorical question. Yes? Most people do use a laptop. And there are also people that use tablets, and have desktops that don't run Windows, and people that have desktops that have other bottlenecks that make them incapable of running games at 1080p60.
I mean, what are you saying? Any computer that can post to /. is capable, with a few hundred dollar upgrade, of running current gen AAA titles?
How so? If you already have a desktop PC with a competent CPU and 8 GB of RAM or more, adding a $200 GPU will let you play essentially all games on settings equivalent to those on the consoles.
That's a good point. Did you also know that a 8-bedroom mansion is cheaper than a travel trailer? Yeah, because if you already own the mansion, you only have to buy a koi pond for the back yard, around $2,000 The travel trailer will cost $40,000, around 20x more expensive!
Yes, but will the games have local multiplayer?
But there's no need to make a phone to do that. Make an app that runs on each platform.
Let them dream the dream. Own it all. Hardware. Software. Airwaves. User data. Anything less is a failure.
Why can't I watch Amazon Instant Video on my Android phone?
I'm guessing it'll be a "guilty until proven innocent". They'll shut you down until you can provide you are clean.
Any contract attorney would advise you NOT to do that. Apparently AT&T didn't listen to their lawyers or figured the good press now out weighs the eventual bad press later.
I don't see the problem, as long as they can raise the price to whatever they want. They are in complete control.
Now they're trying their best to get rid of me. It may just work.
How? By only charging you 1/2 the price and giving you unlimited data?
it up means just unfolding the displays and you're done
Deployment of the screens is completely motorized. No kidding.
Wrong. In a corrupt country, it absolutely is "perfectly acceptable".
The fact that you can get away with X or Y in some terrible third world country is not the definition of "acceptable". Are you really wasting bits arguing that point? Sheesh.
Probably because the actual bug is in a Framework ALSO used by FireFox.
Um, what? Pretty certain FF doesn't share code w/ Safari. If you are referring to Webkit, no FF does not use Webkit. It uses Gecko.
Likely not a whole lot. Couple days of a dev's salary to find and fix the problem.
Likely a lot, which is why they went out of their way to work with CR and find the root cause. Like them or not, CR has a pretty large user base. And those non-techie type of users are exactly where Apple targets their products.
Next time Apple test your software better.
I don't care if software has bugs (because it always does). I care if they get fixed in a timely manner.
If you are wanting to do something different, there's a long-established history of being forced to go the third-party route. If you're already using a Mac, you probably already know this.
Think Different, but do as we say.
I could argue that is a reasonable thing to do during a stress test.
Was it a stress test? Or a typical usage test?
... and luckily, one person's opinion about the EC doesn't change the law.
Counted one way, the US people favored Trump. Counted another way, the US people favored Clinton.
There's only one way we count, and that's the EC. We are united states (not capitalized), it's been that way for a while now, so get used to it. States are supposed to be semi-independent governing bodies. North Dakota doesn't get equal say to CA, but it also doesn't get what would otherwise amount to nothing. It's somewhere in between, which makes sense.
And yeah I didn't vote for Trump.
California suffers from numerous problems. 1. Illegal voters 2. Voter intimidation 3. Voter depression
Also,
4. Voter suppression
5. Voter aggression
6. Vote anticipation
7. Voter aggravation
8. Voter illustration
9. Voter constipation
10. Voter elaboration
11. Voter absolution
12. Voter abstraction
13. Voter inauguration
12. Voter incineration
13. Voter alliteration
Yes I threw awa my mod points to post this stupid comment.
Cut them some slack, they're working harder than anyone for Linux on the desktop!
Don't be an idiot. 2017 is the year of the Linux desktop.
They only do that so that they can watch you masturbate.
Sheesh, get over it people. If someone wants to watch you masturbate, what you should do is feel flattered by the gesture.
So bluetooth is a charging technology now?
No, and it also doesn't do your dishes or read your kids a bedtime story.
Point is, why tie two unrelated functions together: charging and playing music. Sure, maybe whenever YOU are charging YOU want to listen to music, and whenever YOU are listening to music YOU also want to be charging ... but I don't think that works for most people.
What if my phone is already charged, and I want to say, read a message from my spouse? I have to walk across the house and find it on the speaker dock?
Instead of having to fuck around with bluetooth and compromised battery life
Bluetooth has improved since you last tried it in 1999. The idea that having to physically dock your phone is better than having it work wireless is nuts.