I had the same thought. Why do we care? If people want to use a "wearable" then great - more power to you. It's not a problem that a lot of people DON'T want that though. I have a cell phone in my pocket. That's as connected as I need to be.
I'm still 15 years out from retirement, but I'd not give any MORE than 3 months notice, but at the same time, I'd not give any notice at all until I was comfortable that if they said "Thanks, but you're gone." I would be fine with it.
That shouldn't really matter. If they are looking for educated people and more blue people are educated than green then the organization shouldn't have to worry about hiring less qualified people based on political correctness.
Almost comically, these types of things also come from absolute hypocrites.
If I say "Green people are less educated." I'm attacked for propagating a stereotype, yet the same people levying those attacks will say "You can't hire based on education because green people can't compete.".
The stereotypes are both shunned and joyously embraced depending on whether one feels it'll help or hurt in the current scenario.
Very true. I noticed this when I was recently looking at home prices in 3 BRAND NEW subdivisions.
They were all being done by the same builder. They all had the same model of houses, however it would specifically list:
Model 1 in Neighborhood A is $140,000 Model 1 in Neighborhood B is $180,000 Model 1 in Neighborhood C is $240,000
Same house, and the neighborhoods aren't even established yet, but they've already decided that the neighborhoods will have a hierarchy where the houses all just cost more so that they know everyone in THAT neighborhood is financially better off.
Yeah - my boss is retiring in a few months and I just turned down the promotion into that management position. Realistically I probably have the best overview in the department of how things work, but I'm still 15 years from retirement and I don't think I could stomach that long in management - plus it would only be a pay increase of about 10%.
Maybe in 11 or 12 more years I'd be interested, but for now I still enjoy actual coding too much.
Possibly, but my guess is that most of the time they didn't actually see the meteor fall or know it came from space. They just found metal "rocks" on the ground that looked a certain way and they knew they could make tools and weapons out of them.
Many of these people are using Patreon to SUPPLEMENT what they make from another platform like Twitch or Youtube.
Also, a lot of people bringing in the truly large amounts are hiding the total amount of their pledges out of the belief that if potential donors saw what they were already making they'd be less likely to donate thinking that already had "enough" support (ie, why should I "donate" to someone already bringing in $15k+ per month?).
That doesn't sound like the case here. From what I can tell, Vid.me was essentially an alternative to Youtube - it allows people to upload their videos, control who can advertise on them, and offer subscription/tip services to their creators.
All sounds like a perfectly fine idea - kinda like Youtube but with the monetary structure of Twitch and/or Patreon built-in.
The issue, likely, is that like you, I had never heard of them until today, and I'm betting most other people hadn't either.
Also, to really compete you need ubiquitous app availability. Not just on phones but on set-top devices and game consoles. If people have to work too hard to access the content they won't bother.
Since it's in international waters, the only result of this will be that the nations that signed up won't be doing any fishing while the ones that didn't will still be doing business as usual.
99% of the coffee I drink I fix at home. I generally don't wake up with time for coffee (either homemade or to stop at a store) so I typically tend to drink coffee in the evenings after I get home from work.
That said, when I go to an actual coffee shop it's more for the experience and to get what I can't really make well at home (eg, my home coffee is just coffee, creamer and sugar, not anything fancy). I kind of view it as an occasional treat. Granted, "coffee shop coffee" is something I do maybe once a month at most so it's not like I'm blowing a fortune on it.
If you've lost physical posession of the phone you're already toast. As a security feature they just assume that if you can't get the password within 10 tries you're not the actual owner and it's best for the phone to wipe itself rather than site their waiting for them to brute-force it.
Also for most of your stuff it's backing up to the cloud anyways so if your phone erases itself you just get a new one, enter your Google account, and it's all still there anyways.
Depends. TV as a medium has shifted DRAMATICALLY in the last few decades.
If it's 1980's style "self contained story every episode" type TV then yeah, it'll be stupid. If it's the more modern format of it essentially just being one huge story chopped into 1-hour long chunks then that will work fine.
Stretching it too thin. The Hobbit would have been OK as two movies, and could probably have been done in one There wasn't enough source material for three.
Also, for a lot of people whose primary exposure to LOTR was through the original movies, the Hobbit changed certain aesthetics. IE, the dwarves had a markedly different style in The Hobbit. The goblins also were very, very different, and they used a good deal more CGI in The Hobbit versus LOTR.
Plus - and this is somewhat the "fault" of the source material - The Hobbit just came off as more childish. That makes sense - The Hobbit book came first and was intended for a younger audience. Tolkein wrote The LOTR afterwards and just decided to continue on with that story but with a more mature theme intended for a slightly older audience.
If I could setup a room in my house to store valuables (maybe even the whole house itself) so that entry was absolutely, physically IMPOSSIBLE without me entering a password at the door, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I don't care if cops can't get it if it also keeps out theives and other "neer do wells".
Unfortunately, physical security isn't capable of that, but digital security mostly is, and so I prefer to use the strongest encryption I can.
I have to agree. Too many people get wrapped up in the idea that "old is bad - change is a necessity". The world isn't that simplistic.
Fonts and typefaces are not technology. THEY DO NOT BECOME OUTDATED. If Helvetica works, then it works. There's no need to create busy work to replace it.
Cool story, bro. http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/1... Kmart still bought it. They then merged into Sears Holding. Still owned, bought by Kmart. So the original point still..stands. Actually.
If you, however, actually really sort of look at the heart of the specific matter, than you will in time realize that many, if not all, of the additional - dare I say, superfluous - words that you are choosing to occasionally pepper throughout your comment, probably are not strictly necessary.
I have to agree with this - and I don't know why companies keep doing this. When I want to shop at a flea market I got to eBay or Aliexpress. That's their ENTIRE BUSINESS MODEL.
When I go to Amazon, Walmart, or Newegg, the first thing I do is to scroll to the side and filter out 3rd party vendors.
Newegg's interface is still a lot better for actually finding computer parts. All of their filters are much more targeted.
That said - I'll admit that due to Prime I often go to Newegg.com, create a shopping list of what I want . . . then go over to Amazon and search the specific product names to duplicate the cart and buy from there instead.
But how long will anything have a plug that you can use them with?
According to most tech companies lately a headphone jack apparently is obsolete, is known to cause cancer in the state of California, and most probably murders puppies for fun on the weekends.
While I have no specific suggestions on WHAT they should do, I'll agree that this is most certainly a problem that needs to be resolved. Since the dawn of the computing age standard practice has been if an account is compromised, you immediately change your password, yet out in meat-space we're expected to keep a 9-digit number secret (while simultaneously having to hand it out to countless people to conduct business) for our entire lives?
The SSN was created in 1936. That's 10 years before the first modern, programmable computer was invented. It's a product of a by-gone time.
Trivia: while the link to Nero is POSSIBLE, that's speculative. Nero is actually never mentioned directly in the bible, but the number 666 most certainly is.
King James Version (I reference that as it's one of the older English translations) Revelation 13:18 "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
As said the "man" being referred to may be Nero, but it doesn't explicitly state that anywhere.
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I had the same thought. Why do we care? If people want to use a "wearable" then great - more power to you. It's not a problem that a lot of people DON'T want that though. I have a cell phone in my pocket. That's as connected as I need to be.
I'm still 15 years out from retirement, but I'd not give any MORE than 3 months notice, but at the same time, I'd not give any notice at all until I was comfortable that if they said "Thanks, but you're gone." I would be fine with it.
That shouldn't really matter. If they are looking for educated people and more blue people are educated than green then the organization shouldn't have to worry about hiring less qualified people based on political correctness.
Almost comically, these types of things also come from absolute hypocrites.
If I say "Green people are less educated." I'm attacked for propagating a stereotype, yet the same people levying those attacks will say "You can't hire based on education because green people can't compete.".
The stereotypes are both shunned and joyously embraced depending on whether one feels it'll help or hurt in the current scenario.
Relatively. Obviously they can't occupy literally the same space but they're all within the same general vicinity.
Very true. I noticed this when I was recently looking at home prices in 3 BRAND NEW subdivisions.
They were all being done by the same builder. They all had the same model of houses, however it would specifically list:
Model 1 in Neighborhood A is $140,000
Model 1 in Neighborhood B is $180,000
Model 1 in Neighborhood C is $240,000
Same house, and the neighborhoods aren't even established yet, but they've already decided that the neighborhoods will have a hierarchy where the houses all just cost more so that they know everyone in THAT neighborhood is financially better off.
Yeah - my boss is retiring in a few months and I just turned down the promotion into that management position. Realistically I probably have the best overview in the department of how things work, but I'm still 15 years from retirement and I don't think I could stomach that long in management - plus it would only be a pay increase of about 10%.
Maybe in 11 or 12 more years I'd be interested, but for now I still enjoy actual coding too much.
Possibly, but my guess is that most of the time they didn't actually see the meteor fall or know it came from space. They just found metal "rocks" on the ground that looked a certain way and they knew they could make tools and weapons out of them.
Many of these people are using Patreon to SUPPLEMENT what they make from another platform like Twitch or Youtube.
Also, a lot of people bringing in the truly large amounts are hiding the total amount of their pledges out of the belief that if potential donors saw what they were already making they'd be less likely to donate thinking that already had "enough" support (ie, why should I "donate" to someone already bringing in $15k+ per month?).
That doesn't sound like the case here. From what I can tell, Vid.me was essentially an alternative to Youtube - it allows people to upload their videos, control who can advertise on them, and offer subscription/tip services to their creators.
All sounds like a perfectly fine idea - kinda like Youtube but with the monetary structure of Twitch and/or Patreon built-in.
The issue, likely, is that like you, I had never heard of them until today, and I'm betting most other people hadn't either.
Also, to really compete you need ubiquitous app availability. Not just on phones but on set-top devices and game consoles. If people have to work too hard to access the content they won't bother.
Since it's in international waters, the only result of this will be that the nations that signed up won't be doing any fishing while the ones that didn't will still be doing business as usual.
99% of the coffee I drink I fix at home. I generally don't wake up with time for coffee (either homemade or to stop at a store) so I typically tend to drink coffee in the evenings after I get home from work.
That said, when I go to an actual coffee shop it's more for the experience and to get what I can't really make well at home (eg, my home coffee is just coffee, creamer and sugar, not anything fancy). I kind of view it as an occasional treat. Granted, "coffee shop coffee" is something I do maybe once a month at most so it's not like I'm blowing a fortune on it.
If you've lost physical posession of the phone you're already toast. As a security feature they just assume that if you can't get the password within 10 tries you're not the actual owner and it's best for the phone to wipe itself rather than site their waiting for them to brute-force it.
Also for most of your stuff it's backing up to the cloud anyways so if your phone erases itself you just get a new one, enter your Google account, and it's all still there anyways.
Outside of movie editing and some extreme scientific work, the business world in general universally uses Windows.
There are too many very specific tasks with niche software that is only available on that platform.
Did they learn nothing from the Windows 8 debacle?
Depends. TV as a medium has shifted DRAMATICALLY in the last few decades.
If it's 1980's style "self contained story every episode" type TV then yeah, it'll be stupid. If it's the more modern format of it essentially just being one huge story chopped into 1-hour long chunks then that will work fine.
Stretching it too thin. The Hobbit would have been OK as two movies, and could probably have been done in one There wasn't enough source material for three.
Also, for a lot of people whose primary exposure to LOTR was through the original movies, the Hobbit changed certain aesthetics. IE, the dwarves had a markedly different style in The Hobbit. The goblins also were very, very different, and they used a good deal more CGI in The Hobbit versus LOTR.
Plus - and this is somewhat the "fault" of the source material - The Hobbit just came off as more childish. That makes sense - The Hobbit book came first and was intended for a younger audience. Tolkein wrote The LOTR afterwards and just decided to continue on with that story but with a more mature theme intended for a slightly older audience.
That's a weakness of the technology.
If I could setup a room in my house to store valuables (maybe even the whole house itself) so that entry was absolutely, physically IMPOSSIBLE without me entering a password at the door, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I don't care if cops can't get it if it also keeps out theives and other "neer do wells".
Unfortunately, physical security isn't capable of that, but digital security mostly is, and so I prefer to use the strongest encryption I can.
I have to agree. Too many people get wrapped up in the idea that "old is bad - change is a necessity". The world isn't that simplistic.
Fonts and typefaces are not technology. THEY DO NOT BECOME OUTDATED. If Helvetica works, then it works. There's no need to create busy work to replace it.
Cool story, bro. http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/1... Kmart still bought it. They then merged into Sears Holding. Still owned, bought by Kmart. So the original point still..stands. Actually.
If you, however, actually really sort of look at the heart of the specific matter, than you will in time realize that many, if not all, of the additional - dare I say, superfluous - words that you are choosing to occasionally pepper throughout your comment, probably are not strictly necessary.
and finish in the body. It's confusing.
I have to agree with this - and I don't know why companies keep doing this. When I want to shop at a flea market I got to eBay or Aliexpress. That's their ENTIRE BUSINESS MODEL.
When I go to Amazon, Walmart, or Newegg, the first thing I do is to scroll to the side and filter out 3rd party vendors.
Newegg's interface is still a lot better for actually finding computer parts. All of their filters are much more targeted.
That said - I'll admit that due to Prime I often go to Newegg.com, create a shopping list of what I want . . . then go over to Amazon and search the specific product names to duplicate the cart and buy from there instead.
But how long will anything have a plug that you can use them with?
According to most tech companies lately a headphone jack apparently is obsolete, is known to cause cancer in the state of California, and most probably murders puppies for fun on the weekends.
While I have no specific suggestions on WHAT they should do, I'll agree that this is most certainly a problem that needs to be resolved. Since the dawn of the computing age standard practice has been if an account is compromised, you immediately change your password, yet out in meat-space we're expected to keep a 9-digit number secret (while simultaneously having to hand it out to countless people to conduct business) for our entire lives?
The SSN was created in 1936. That's 10 years before the first modern, programmable computer was invented. It's a product of a by-gone time.
Trivia: while the link to Nero is POSSIBLE, that's speculative. Nero is actually never mentioned directly in the bible, but the number 666 most certainly is.
King James Version (I reference that as it's one of the older English translations)
Revelation 13:18
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
As said the "man" being referred to may be Nero, but it doesn't explicitly state that anywhere.