I don't have a problem with them sharing revenue with the streamer, but honestly they're a business. A business finding a new way to sell things isn't a "cash grab".
Truthfully I don't see myself using this (it's never been difficult to just open a new tab if I wanted to buy the game), but in the grand scheme of things I'm sure they'll get enough sales from it to make it worth their while.
Sometimes moving takes you to a higher salary but also a higher cost of living.
I'm making $73k per year myself, but I also have a 1700 sqft house in a nice suburb that I pay $710 per month for (total purchase price was $115k back in 2013). While I could potentially make more if I moved I'd not necessarily have any more disposable income. As it is right now even after all of my bills are paid I've still got around $2000 per month in "open" income to do with as I wish.
Plus there's the fact that my friends and family are here, so truthfully I'm not sure I'd be willing to move for anything short of an obscene amount of money anyways.
I would ask you to take a step back and think about what kind of society you actually want to live in and how you could get there over the long term?
I think that's key to the point though.
I truly believe that the murder rate of a country is largely irrelevant to it's gun laws - it's cultural and people intent on killing will do so with whatever weapons are available.
Even if that weren't the case though. realistically most people here seem to be fine with our gun laws. As you say, our laws are some of the most lax, but is it so terrible that for people who WANT to be able to own and use guns, that we have at least one country that we can do so in? For anyone who wants strict firearms regulations they have a ton of options to choose from. Or heck at a minimum leave it up to the individual states and let them decide for themselves.
Geographically, yes. However Russians are also "Asian" (and depending on the textbook occasionally Europe and Asia aren't even referred to as separate continents anymore - just "Eurasia" since it's all really the same landmass).
While Indians may be from Asia, they are not Mongoloid which is what most people think of when they say "Asian".
Indeed. I think it's telling that if we could clone our solar system, stick it many light years away, and astronomers were able to detect Venus from this distance it'd be the most Earth-like planet we've ever found.
It's rocky, close to the same size and mass, same type of star as Earth's, and it's right on the inner edge of the star's habitable zone . . . yet being able to make direct observations we know that Venus is a hellish rock with no chance to harbor life.
Don't get TOO excited when we find "Earth-like" planets.
Yes. Not directly for quite a few years, but even in modern times I'll tip girls on cam sites and such. Not huge amounts (probably no more than $20 per month in total), but I try to support the content I like in some way. I also subscribe to a few Twitch streamers and am a Patreon of a handful of Youtubers.
If you don't, eventually the content goes away.
That said, while I think they'll certainly sell more issues with nudes, the whole concept of nude vs non-nude isn't Playboy's problem. The problem is that it's a magazine. While people might still be willing to pay for content, they're not willing to pay for content in that particular format anymore.
To a large degree I the shift the in the market is just making huge companies with a big staff just not profitable. Sure some things like a blockbuster movie is hard to do at home, but what Playboy is selling can be provided by any pretty girl with a camera in her bedroom. She can provide the product with a LOT less overhead than a huge company.
To many people anything less than what they have now is completely unbearable. To the rich they think if they were poor they'd kill themselves - despite many poor people living happy lives. To the young many think that they'd rather die than grow old - even though "old" is a moving target that keeps getting a little farther out as you age.
The will to live is strong - those without it don't pass on their genes as readily. Don't presume to know whether they'd want to live unless you're in their situation.
I'm sure it varies by locale, but where I'm at specifically that only applies to people doing business in those fields. The owner of the property can do whatever they are comfortable with so long as it will pass inspection.
Depending on how you're deploying it putting your database system in the AWS cloud doesn't require a software rewrite at all - the whole thing can be transparent to the application (much like just using a virtual server over a physical one already was).
Changing the database from Oracle to something else isn't quite so simple.
It's a perfectly valid thing - understand that nobody wants their time wasted. We're hiring for a Network Admin right now. Realistically about the max that H&R is going to approve is $75k-80k. Yes, that's underpaid, but that's what we have to work with. We've had quite a few applications come in from people who are CURRENTLY making $100k-125k, but it's not worth contacting them or offering an interview. It would literally be wasting their time and ours, so we wait until someone who comes along that we can afford. They're probably not as talented or experienced as some of the others, but it's what we can pay.
Not only do things like this take batteries, but the human body is a surprisingly well evolved "machine". If you got one of these merely as a preventative measure the odds are likely great that the device would break before the heart it was supposed to assist did.
Granted, for people already having trouble I'm sure it'll be great, but I don't see it as being some routine precautionary thing.
These are solid middle class jobs that are not super specialized anymore.
If they're not super specialized it shouldn't be an issue to find someone locally to do it for less than $100k. The H1B program was supposed to be for filling those really difficult to fill jobs.
And if you truly can't find anyone to do it locally, then it should be worth $100k to you.
I lived in a very rural area and anyone who had to call an ambulance needed to be prepared for a ~45 minute wait. And that's assuming it wasn't busy because in the entire county (which is larger than the state of Rhode Island) we had around a dozen ambulances total.
It kinda reminded me of a funny scene I saw once. There was a healthy restaurant (it was a non-chain place - can't remember the name but they served a lot of vegetarian dishes and almost nothing fried). Next to it was a Captain D's.
Despite the fact that one was supposed to be good for you and one was supposed to kill you, everyone at the Captain D's was 65+ and it seemed like it was almost all 20-somethings going into the health food place.
I'm not saying it's not bad for you, but those old people still got up there eating that unhealthy stuff. Heck my grandfather made it to his late 70's and I don't think he knew you could cook meat any way other than frying it.
access to above high school education isn't a given in a rural area
Poverty aside, the most people who attend a traditional college live on campus anyways. I grew up in a VERY rural area (the nearest gas station was 15 miles away - don't drive home if you're close to empty) and was actually from a poor family but when it came time for college I took out loans and lived on campus.
When I was done I ended up moving back to the general area (I live in a small town of about 8,000 people now, but it's within 20 miles of where I grew up). Having had a taste of more urban life in college I decided that I wanted to live somewhere a little more developed (ie, there's still stores and restaurants and such here), but still in the same general location. I've got broadband and the cost of living is low (my house payment is right at $700/month). There's hunting land close and within 15 minutes I can have my boat on salt or fresh water so the fishing is great.
I don't fault anyone for wanting to live in a bigger city, but I'm perfectly happy where I'm at.
There's nothing wrong with cutting costs and reducing pollution.
No, but I have a STRONG suspicion that these bullets will not "cut costs" and will be significantly more expensive than their old versions.
I have no issues going green when there's a financial incentive to do so (ie, LED bulbs over their lifespan are now far more cost effective than incandescent - I'd use them even if energy saver bulbs weren't mandated).
In over 50 years I have not heard of anyone's fridge being the source of a fire. Or are they installing lithium batteries now to backup power for its wifi connection that we don't need to begin with? A fridge needs only 2 things - power and a thermometer - to keep me safe.
I think you need to have your sarcasm meter replaced. Make sure it's not one of those cheap Chinese ones off of eBay . . .
The cooling coils don't work unless they can phone home to LG.
Well how else would you expect a customer to know that he has authentic LG cooling coils and not a third party replacement that could potentially damage your device, start a fire, or sacrifice your pets while you're not looking?
This I agree with. My advice when my younger sister went to college: whatever you do for a living you'll eventually learn to hate, because nothing is fun when you HAVE to do it all day every day. All you do when you pick something you love for a career is make a perfectly good hobby not fun anymore.
In the end - pick something that you're good at and that pays well. That money will allow you to enjoy life outside of your job, which is where the better parts of your life happen anyways.
And lean towards government sector jobs if you can accept a little less pay - the risk of outsourcing is significantly less (not zero, but less).
"Qualcomm has detailed the Snapdragon 835 processor, which will power most of the leading Android smartphones this year. It's designed to grab information from the air at gigabit speeds and turn it into rich virtual and augmented reality experiences, ".
It's a processor. I certainly welcome advancement but it's a piece of silicon that does math problems. This one does them a little faster than the last one on a little less power. It ain't magic.
and it is just not viable to plug a smartphone into a computer KVM and have it turn into a full featured desktop.
Don't think of how things behave today - think of how things CAN behave.
With sufficient advances in mobile computing power, there's no reason why you CAN'T do this. There's no reason why when you plug your phone in the smartphone apps couldn't become windows with a desktop UI. There's no reason why the monitor couldn't be touchscreen to facilitate applications that need multi-touch support. Some applications might be for sale in a Google or Apple "app" store but still be essentially for use only in "docked" mode, or it may feature two completely different UI's depending on the state of the device.
You seem to be thinking too much in the mindset that if it doesn't work now, then it can't possibly ever work. A smartphone is a computer. It'll run anything compiled for it and the peripheral and and software issues are EASY. It's just a matter of the hardware getting fast enough and someone packaging everything up correctly.
I don't know. Personally, I'm going to maintain my skepticism, but I've noticed that my smartphone has slowly been replacing a lot of things that I didn't think I'd give up.
I never thought I'd really use the camera on a phone nevermind how common they were. I have a nice DSLR at home afterall. But then it got to where whenever I want to take pictures my phone is in my pocket and my DSLR is . . . at home.
Like most people it's replaced my watch and alarm clock, and actually as a person who does a decent amount of hunting I've even taken to using the flashlight feature rather than carrying a separate flashlight.
I used to have a standalone GPS and never thought I'd use my phone, but with it having essentially free map updates I always use the phone navigation now. My car audio system has basically just become a bluetooth output device for the phone.
One thing that does seem strange to note is that my smartphone has completely replaced . . . my tablet. My smartphone (a Galaxy S7) feels as fast as or faster than just about any tablet, and the screen size on smartphones has crept up to the point where a tablet use is pointless for me.
Now, admittedly I still keep a laptop and a desktop separate. I do most of my home computing on my desktop and only use the laptop for travel. I would say that I'd never replace them, but the simple reality is that it's VERY convenient to always have your primary device in your pocket. It probably won't be the Galaxy S8, but I can very well envision an EVENTUAL future in 5-7 years where my main "computer" is just my smartphone plugged into a docking station so that I use it with a large monitor, keyboard, and mouse. The only thing I'd be leery of is gaming but Nintendo is already basing it's next console on mobile tech. Depending on how much technology progresses if they just have a bluetooth gamepad to go with that large monitor that might do just fine for my gaming needs too.
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I don't have a problem with them sharing revenue with the streamer, but honestly they're a business. A business finding a new way to sell things isn't a "cash grab".
Truthfully I don't see myself using this (it's never been difficult to just open a new tab if I wanted to buy the game), but in the grand scheme of things I'm sure they'll get enough sales from it to make it worth their while.
Sometimes moving takes you to a higher salary but also a higher cost of living.
I'm making $73k per year myself, but I also have a 1700 sqft house in a nice suburb that I pay $710 per month for (total purchase price was $115k back in 2013). While I could potentially make more if I moved I'd not necessarily have any more disposable income. As it is right now even after all of my bills are paid I've still got around $2000 per month in "open" income to do with as I wish.
Plus there's the fact that my friends and family are here, so truthfully I'm not sure I'd be willing to move for anything short of an obscene amount of money anyways.
I would ask you to take a step back and think about what kind of society you actually want to live in and how you could get there over the long term?
I think that's key to the point though.
I truly believe that the murder rate of a country is largely irrelevant to it's gun laws - it's cultural and people intent on killing will do so with whatever weapons are available.
Even if that weren't the case though. realistically most people here seem to be fine with our gun laws. As you say, our laws are some of the most lax, but is it so terrible that for people who WANT to be able to own and use guns, that we have at least one country that we can do so in? For anyone who wants strict firearms regulations they have a ton of options to choose from. Or heck at a minimum leave it up to the individual states and let them decide for themselves.
Geographically, yes. However Russians are also "Asian" (and depending on the textbook occasionally Europe and Asia aren't even referred to as separate continents anymore - just "Eurasia" since it's all really the same landmass).
While Indians may be from Asia, they are not Mongoloid which is what most people think of when they say "Asian".
That's just what I was wondering. So everybody who uses PC-BSD - am I now the same race as them, regardless of their ethnicity?
I'm pretty sure you need more than 1 person to qualify as a "race".
Indeed. I think it's telling that if we could clone our solar system, stick it many light years away, and astronomers were able to detect Venus from this distance it'd be the most Earth-like planet we've ever found.
It's rocky, close to the same size and mass, same type of star as Earth's, and it's right on the inner edge of the star's habitable zone . . . yet being able to make direct observations we know that Venus is a hellish rock with no chance to harbor life.
Don't get TOO excited when we find "Earth-like" planets.
Yes. Not directly for quite a few years, but even in modern times I'll tip girls on cam sites and such. Not huge amounts (probably no more than $20 per month in total), but I try to support the content I like in some way. I also subscribe to a few Twitch streamers and am a Patreon of a handful of Youtubers.
If you don't, eventually the content goes away.
That said, while I think they'll certainly sell more issues with nudes, the whole concept of nude vs non-nude isn't Playboy's problem. The problem is that it's a magazine. While people might still be willing to pay for content, they're not willing to pay for content in that particular format anymore.
To a large degree I the shift the in the market is just making huge companies with a big staff just not profitable. Sure some things like a blockbuster movie is hard to do at home, but what Playboy is selling can be provided by any pretty girl with a camera in her bedroom. She can provide the product with a LOT less overhead than a huge company.
You say that as someone who isn't enduring it.
To many people anything less than what they have now is completely unbearable. To the rich they think if they were poor they'd kill themselves - despite many poor people living happy lives. To the young many think that they'd rather die than grow old - even though "old" is a moving target that keeps getting a little farther out as you age.
The will to live is strong - those without it don't pass on their genes as readily. Don't presume to know whether they'd want to live unless you're in their situation.
No because the 40% was already eliminating the guessing and was reducing the actual result of 70% (the whole 40% thing was confusing and unnecessary).
The real % of the time it's right is 70%, which is significantly better than random chance (which would be 50%).
I'm sure it varies by locale, but where I'm at specifically that only applies to people doing business in those fields. The owner of the property can do whatever they are comfortable with so long as it will pass inspection.
I'm pretty sure all the ad blockers are facilitated via Extensions, not Plugins.
Depending on how you're deploying it putting your database system in the AWS cloud doesn't require a software rewrite at all - the whole thing can be transparent to the application (much like just using a virtual server over a physical one already was).
Changing the database from Oracle to something else isn't quite so simple.
It's a perfectly valid thing - understand that nobody wants their time wasted. We're hiring for a Network Admin right now. Realistically about the max that H&R is going to approve is $75k-80k. Yes, that's underpaid, but that's what we have to work with. We've had quite a few applications come in from people who are CURRENTLY making $100k-125k, but it's not worth contacting them or offering an interview. It would literally be wasting their time and ours, so we wait until someone who comes along that we can afford. They're probably not as talented or experienced as some of the others, but it's what we can pay.
Not only do things like this take batteries, but the human body is a surprisingly well evolved "machine". If you got one of these merely as a preventative measure the odds are likely great that the device would break before the heart it was supposed to assist did.
Granted, for people already having trouble I'm sure it'll be great, but I don't see it as being some routine precautionary thing.
These are solid middle class jobs that are not super specialized anymore.
If they're not super specialized it shouldn't be an issue to find someone locally to do it for less than $100k. The H1B program was supposed to be for filling those really difficult to fill jobs.
And if you truly can't find anyone to do it locally, then it should be worth $100k to you.
I lived in a very rural area and anyone who had to call an ambulance needed to be prepared for a ~45 minute wait. And that's assuming it wasn't busy because in the entire county (which is larger than the state of Rhode Island) we had around a dozen ambulances total.
It kinda reminded me of a funny scene I saw once. There was a healthy restaurant (it was a non-chain place - can't remember the name but they served a lot of vegetarian dishes and almost nothing fried). Next to it was a Captain D's.
Despite the fact that one was supposed to be good for you and one was supposed to kill you, everyone at the Captain D's was 65+ and it seemed like it was almost all 20-somethings going into the health food place.
I'm not saying it's not bad for you, but those old people still got up there eating that unhealthy stuff. Heck my grandfather made it to his late 70's and I don't think he knew you could cook meat any way other than frying it.
access to above high school education isn't a given in a rural area
Poverty aside, the most people who attend a traditional college live on campus anyways. I grew up in a VERY rural area (the nearest gas station was 15 miles away - don't drive home if you're close to empty) and was actually from a poor family but when it came time for college I took out loans and lived on campus.
When I was done I ended up moving back to the general area (I live in a small town of about 8,000 people now, but it's within 20 miles of where I grew up). Having had a taste of more urban life in college I decided that I wanted to live somewhere a little more developed (ie, there's still stores and restaurants and such here), but still in the same general location. I've got broadband and the cost of living is low (my house payment is right at $700/month). There's hunting land close and within 15 minutes I can have my boat on salt or fresh water so the fishing is great.
I don't fault anyone for wanting to live in a bigger city, but I'm perfectly happy where I'm at.
There's nothing wrong with cutting costs and reducing pollution.
No, but I have a STRONG suspicion that these bullets will not "cut costs" and will be significantly more expensive than their old versions.
I have no issues going green when there's a financial incentive to do so (ie, LED bulbs over their lifespan are now far more cost effective than incandescent - I'd use them even if energy saver bulbs weren't mandated).
In over 50 years I have not heard of anyone's fridge being the source of a fire.
Or are they installing lithium batteries now to backup power for its wifi connection that we don't need to begin with?
A fridge needs only 2 things - power and a thermometer - to keep me safe.
I think you need to have your sarcasm meter replaced. Make sure it's not one of those cheap Chinese ones off of eBay . . .
The cooling coils don't work unless they can phone home to LG.
Well how else would you expect a customer to know that he has authentic LG cooling coils and not a third party replacement that could potentially damage your device, start a fire, or sacrifice your pets while you're not looking?
They only have your best interests in mind.
This I agree with. My advice when my younger sister went to college: whatever you do for a living you'll eventually learn to hate, because nothing is fun when you HAVE to do it all day every day. All you do when you pick something you love for a career is make a perfectly good hobby not fun anymore.
In the end - pick something that you're good at and that pays well. That money will allow you to enjoy life outside of your job, which is where the better parts of your life happen anyways.
And lean towards government sector jobs if you can accept a little less pay - the risk of outsourcing is significantly less (not zero, but less).
Dang I'm getting sick of marketing speak:
"Qualcomm has detailed the Snapdragon 835 processor, which will power most of the leading Android smartphones this year. It's designed to grab information from the air at gigabit speeds and turn it into rich virtual and augmented reality experiences, ".
It's a processor. I certainly welcome advancement but it's a piece of silicon that does math problems. This one does them a little faster than the last one on a little less power. It ain't magic.
and it is just not viable to plug a smartphone into a computer KVM and have it turn into a full featured desktop.
Don't think of how things behave today - think of how things CAN behave.
With sufficient advances in mobile computing power, there's no reason why you CAN'T do this. There's no reason why when you plug your phone in the smartphone apps couldn't become windows with a desktop UI. There's no reason why the monitor couldn't be touchscreen to facilitate applications that need multi-touch support. Some applications might be for sale in a Google or Apple "app" store but still be essentially for use only in "docked" mode, or it may feature two completely different UI's depending on the state of the device.
You seem to be thinking too much in the mindset that if it doesn't work now, then it can't possibly ever work. A smartphone is a computer. It'll run anything compiled for it and the peripheral and and software issues are EASY. It's just a matter of the hardware getting fast enough and someone packaging everything up correctly.
I don't know. Personally, I'm going to maintain my skepticism, but I've noticed that my smartphone has slowly been replacing a lot of things that I didn't think I'd give up.
I never thought I'd really use the camera on a phone nevermind how common they were. I have a nice DSLR at home afterall. But then it got to where whenever I want to take pictures my phone is in my pocket and my DSLR is . . . at home.
Like most people it's replaced my watch and alarm clock, and actually as a person who does a decent amount of hunting I've even taken to using the flashlight feature rather than carrying a separate flashlight.
I used to have a standalone GPS and never thought I'd use my phone, but with it having essentially free map updates I always use the phone navigation now. My car audio system has basically just become a bluetooth output device for the phone.
One thing that does seem strange to note is that my smartphone has completely replaced . . . my tablet. My smartphone (a Galaxy S7) feels as fast as or faster than just about any tablet, and the screen size on smartphones has crept up to the point where a tablet use is pointless for me.
Now, admittedly I still keep a laptop and a desktop separate. I do most of my home computing on my desktop and only use the laptop for travel. I would say that I'd never replace them, but the simple reality is that it's VERY convenient to always have your primary device in your pocket. It probably won't be the Galaxy S8, but I can very well envision an EVENTUAL future in 5-7 years where my main "computer" is just my smartphone plugged into a docking station so that I use it with a large monitor, keyboard, and mouse. The only thing I'd be leery of is gaming but Nintendo is already basing it's next console on mobile tech. Depending on how much technology progresses if they just have a bluetooth gamepad to go with that large monitor that might do just fine for my gaming needs too.