What exactly do you mean by "the process of turning on his PC"?
Press the power button because computer is turned off.
My BLT drive on my computer just went AWOL and I got this big project due tomorrow for Mr. Kawasaki, and if I don't get it in, he's gonna ask me to commit Harakiri.
Harakiri is a acceptable solution. Please use something sharper than a plastic knife.
I majored in comp sci. I don't read these kinds of books.
I was working on the Google help desk in 2008 when I had to walk a recent computer science graduate through the process of turning on his PC. He was shocked — shocked! — that a cubicle farm wasn't like a computer lab and no one was standing around to turn on his computer. I'm always surprised by how many computer scientists don't know how to operate PC hardware. They probably don't read those kinds of books.
I recently ordered the ebook version of The Missing Manual for Filemaker Pro 14 and found it almost impossible to use to quickly jump around to a particular topic on my iPad or PC. I returned it to Amazon and ordered the dead tree version. That last time I bought a dead tree door stopper was ten years ago.
If you get rid of $100 you will see demand for gold and silver go up.
Most precious metals dealers don't accept cash. They take cashier's checks, money orders, wired transfers, regular checks, credit cards, PayPal and Bit Coins.
WSJ ran an article a few days ago which reported that the sale of safes and lock boxes in Japan has skyrocketed. The Japanese obviously expect the BoJ's negative interest rate policy to eventually affect the commercial banking sector. That's why the bankers must pursue a "War on Cash".
I read that WSJ article this morning and drew different conclusions. Japanese consumers are storing money in safes and lockboxes because the best interest rate for a retail savings account is 0.001% (a penny per year per $1000). If the banks charges zero or negative interest rates on retail saving accounts, hoarding cash at home makes better economic sense. Japanese officials didn't expect this behavior. They thought that negative rates would force savers into riskier assets that pay higher returns and reduced the amount of unproductive cash sitting on the sidelines
If banks are "hoarding" it's only because the economy is totally saturated with debt.
Banks are being penalized for holding too much cash, forcing large depositors to put their money elsewhere. Corporations are hoarding cash because they can't find investment opportunities that has a higher return on investment (ROI). If the corporate tax rate was significantly higher, much of the cash hoard would disappear as corporations would find ways to reinvest the cash.
I had the privilege of witnessing the original Atari implode as an outsider in the 1980's and the new Atari implode as an insider in 2000's.
The original Atari had no quality standards over third-party developers. So everyone and their grandmother were making bad video games at $30 per cartridge. The last Atari 2600 cartridge I bought was a shark attack game from a photography shop that was truly awful several months before E.T. killed the market. Nintendo changed that by enforcing quality standards and charging a per-cartridge licensing fee to develop for their console.
I ended up working at the new Atari (Infogrames acquired the intellectual property to Atari when it bought Hasbro Interactive) and become the lead tester responsible for Nintendo GameBoy Advanced and GameCube titles. The new Atari fell into the same trap as the original Atari, buying into the Hollywood convergence trap by licensing expensive properties (*cough* The Matrix *cough*) and producing a title for every game console available. This got them into trouble with Nintendo as the developers ported games from the Playstation 2 without making them unique for the GameCube and Nintendo started rejecting them out of hand. And then the dot com bust ended everything for the new Atari, which is still around today but with smaller ambitions.
I'm a troll for being sympathetic to your situation? Sheesh...
I paid taxes and everything.
The IRS hounded me for a year because I owed taxes on my unemployment benefits. Being unemployed for an extended period of time, filing for bankruptcy and unable to qualify for welfare didn't qualify for a hardship exemption in the eyes of the IRS.
Look, I am sorry your presumably tech resume didn't cut it during that time.
My resume was fine. The problem was with recruiters who saw that I had help desk experience for 3+ years in the last three positions, assumed that I wanted to continue doing help desk, and told me that no help desk positions were available. Never mind that wasn't the job I applied for. Seven applicants for every open job position didn't help either.
I am also sorry you did not look outside the box [...]
Every time I looked outside the box, I was told I was overqualified by hiring managers and unemployable by recruiters. When the economy got better (three applicants for every open job position), I spent three years working seven days a week from deploying PCs to building out data centers.
Somewhere between IT jobs I found myself spending 2 1/2 years employed pretty deeply in the local music industry.
You were unemployed for 2.5 years following the Great Recession. I understand your situation. I was unemployed for two years (2009-2010), underemployed (working 20 hours per month) for six months, and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy. Alas, I spent my entire looking for a job.
Every time my friend tries to use Apple Pay with his iPhone, his bank automatically deactivates his debit card and he has to call in explain what the fraudulent activity he was trying to commit.
You're welcome! I haven't had a pay raise in two years. I could make 40% more money in the private sector. But I'm willing to do my part in protecting national security.
Lol, 30 degrees outside and I'm still walking in a light sweater;
Some of us value our health, especially when taking public transit. I wear a field jacket, sweater and stocking cap when the temperature drops below 60 degrees.
If it's 40-50 degrees all day, you practically don't need to run heat.
During the day, no. When the temperature drops into the 40's and 30's, yes.
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What exactly do you mean by "the process of turning on his PC"?
Press the power button because computer is turned off.
My BLT drive on my computer just went AWOL and I got this big project due tomorrow for Mr. Kawasaki, and if I don't get it in, he's gonna ask me to commit Harakiri.
Harakiri is a acceptable solution. Please use something sharper than a plastic knife.
So that's 188 on the list so far...
That's a lot of iPhones with illicit cat videos.
I majored in comp sci. I don't read these kinds of books.
I was working on the Google help desk in 2008 when I had to walk a recent computer science graduate through the process of turning on his PC. He was shocked — shocked! — that a cubicle farm wasn't like a computer lab and no one was standing around to turn on his computer. I'm always surprised by how many computer scientists don't know how to operate PC hardware. They probably don't read those kinds of books.
I recently ordered the ebook version of The Missing Manual for Filemaker Pro 14 and found it almost impossible to use to quickly jump around to a particular topic on my iPad or PC. I returned it to Amazon and ordered the dead tree version. That last time I bought a dead tree door stopper was ten years ago.
If you get rid of $100 you will see demand for gold and silver go up.
Most precious metals dealers don't accept cash. They take cashier's checks, money orders, wired transfers, regular checks, credit cards, PayPal and Bit Coins.
Criminals should be considered a separate race of people born with brains not socialized in the same way that most other types of humans possess.
We call those people politicians.
WSJ ran an article a few days ago which reported that the sale of safes and lock boxes in Japan has skyrocketed. The Japanese obviously expect the BoJ's negative interest rate policy to eventually affect the commercial banking sector. That's why the bankers must pursue a "War on Cash".
I read that WSJ article this morning and drew different conclusions. Japanese consumers are storing money in safes and lockboxes because the best interest rate for a retail savings account is 0.001% (a penny per year per $1000). If the banks charges zero or negative interest rates on retail saving accounts, hoarding cash at home makes better economic sense. Japanese officials didn't expect this behavior. They thought that negative rates would force savers into riskier assets that pay higher returns and reduced the amount of unproductive cash sitting on the sidelines
If banks are "hoarding" it's only because the economy is totally saturated with debt.
Banks are being penalized for holding too much cash, forcing large depositors to put their money elsewhere. Corporations are hoarding cash because they can't find investment opportunities that has a higher return on investment (ROI). If the corporate tax rate was significantly higher, much of the cash hoard would disappear as corporations would find ways to reinvest the cash.
I had the privilege of witnessing the original Atari implode as an outsider in the 1980's and the new Atari implode as an insider in 2000's.
The original Atari had no quality standards over third-party developers. So everyone and their grandmother were making bad video games at $30 per cartridge. The last Atari 2600 cartridge I bought was a shark attack game from a photography shop that was truly awful several months before E.T. killed the market. Nintendo changed that by enforcing quality standards and charging a per-cartridge licensing fee to develop for their console.
I ended up working at the new Atari (Infogrames acquired the intellectual property to Atari when it bought Hasbro Interactive) and become the lead tester responsible for Nintendo GameBoy Advanced and GameCube titles. The new Atari fell into the same trap as the original Atari, buying into the Hollywood convergence trap by licensing expensive properties (*cough* The Matrix *cough*) and producing a title for every game console available. This got them into trouble with Nintendo as the developers ported games from the Playstation 2 without making them unique for the GameCube and Nintendo started rejecting them out of hand. And then the dot com bust ended everything for the new Atari, which is still around today but with smaller ambitions.
Did you even read the article you linked?
Yes. And your point?
And poor you, with your hour-long bus ride to get to work.
The express bus is the fastest route of I've ever taken across Silicon Valley. I used to spend to two hours each way driving on the freeway.
Crayons Tackles How Developers Interact With Mobile Devices
Note the lack of names, and the general mischaracterization of Jobs' attitude.
If you were fired by Steve Jobs, would you want to the whole world to know that you were a douchebag at Apple? Or, worse, a marketing douchebag?
In other words, they'll raise their pay rates when we stop with the H-1B visa bullshit already.
I'm not talking about H-1B workers. I'm talking about American workers who take any low paying job that comes their way.
'Scuse me while I hold my breath...
Please do and remove yourself from the gene pool.
Well obviously, if that's how things were, it's solely because you're just a lazy POS.
Now this is a troll.
To feed the troll or not to feed the troll...?
I'm a troll for being sympathetic to your situation? Sheesh...
I paid taxes and everything.
The IRS hounded me for a year because I owed taxes on my unemployment benefits. Being unemployed for an extended period of time, filing for bankruptcy and unable to qualify for welfare didn't qualify for a hardship exemption in the eyes of the IRS.
Look, I am sorry your presumably tech resume didn't cut it during that time.
My resume was fine. The problem was with recruiters who saw that I had help desk experience for 3+ years in the last three positions, assumed that I wanted to continue doing help desk, and told me that no help desk positions were available. Never mind that wasn't the job I applied for. Seven applicants for every open job position didn't help either.
I am also sorry you did not look outside the box [...]
Every time I looked outside the box, I was told I was overqualified by hiring managers and unemployable by recruiters. When the economy got better (three applicants for every open job position), I spent three years working seven days a week from deploying PCs to building out data centers.
I also spent my entire time looking for a noun.
FTFY
Somewhere between IT jobs I found myself spending 2 1/2 years employed pretty deeply in the local music industry.
You were unemployed for 2.5 years following the Great Recession. I understand your situation. I was unemployed for two years (2009-2010), underemployed (working 20 hours per month) for six months, and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy. Alas, I spent my entire looking for a job.
Every time my friend tries to use Apple Pay with his iPhone, his bank automatically deactivates his debit card and he has to call in explain what the fraudulent activity he was trying to commit.
Nice! I hope you are enjoying my money.
Signed, Taxpayers
You're welcome! I haven't had a pay raise in two years. I could make 40% more money in the private sector. But I'm willing to do my part in protecting national security.
I'm going to say that's apocryphal unless you have a citation.
There are many elevator stories but I like this one the best.
http://vanshardware.com/2010/07/the-legend-of-apples-steve-jobs/
Pussy.
That's my heater.
Ironic that they couldn't afford to pay for a better review.
Lol, 30 degrees outside and I'm still walking in a light sweater;
Some of us value our health, especially when taking public transit. I wear a field jacket, sweater and stocking cap when the temperature drops below 60 degrees.
If it's 40-50 degrees all day, you practically don't need to run heat.
During the day, no. When the temperature drops into the 40's and 30's, yes.
My point is that people like you are ready to jump down just about anyone's throat for just about any reason.
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here.
Um, so why do you do it? You don't have to.
I have a government IT job with a nice benefit package and job security as the prime contract is fully funded for the next four years.
No one needs to live in California.
Born and raise here, one of the few natives left in Silicon Valley.
And wow? 30 degrees in the morning? You poor baby!
My coworkers in the Rockies wished it was that warm where there are too.