So sad. Making cars that don't run on dead dinosaurs, a choice by a crime-infested manufacturer. They should fix up their existing factory and not create jobs for illegal immigrants. Terrible.
Hopefully, soon. The flaming pile of rubbish that is Twitter has already cost the United States enough.
I'm sure it made sense at the time - giving SMS connectivity to social networking was a great idea in its day, but nowadays those tweets are coming primarily from PC's, tablets and smart phones. SMS was never designed for this (hell, it wasn't really designed at all - just created when somebody noticed 160+bytes of unused space in the digital telephony design and said "Hey! I can do something cool with that!"). If it had been designed, it would've started out as MMS, and given the klunky nature of the interface at the time would probably never have made it past being somebody's not-too-bright idea.
Also - are they comparing current wages or starting wages? It's an unfortunate truth that many organizations have more Caucasian Males making more because they were hired back when companies could (and were even expected to) hire white men. This also accounts for (some of) the disparity in management roles.
I'm sorry, but changing (or choosing to enforce) the current rules does not magically level the playing field. If it did, minorities would long ago have stopped complaining that the system is rigged against them. Then again, the situation I've just described does leave itself open to manipulation by the "good ol' boy's club".
I'd be more interested in knowing if job tenure was considered in analyzing the pay differential that the DOL alleges they've discovered.
Wanna multiply that by 365 days per year? Multiply that by a decade (or maybe two)? Multiply that by tens of thousands of men and women just like me?
I'm middle-aged (mid fifties). Slightly overweight at 185 pounds (I stand 5'7"). I only drink alcohol occasionally. Incidentally, I can point to three generations of males in my bloodline that have all died at the age of 72 - some nonsense about "threescore years and twelve".
Doctor ran this sort of actuarial bit against me - told me convincingly and with great conviction that I have an 80% chance of suffering a severe cardiac event in the next decade. Says I need to start doing statins if I want to change that.
Funny thing - she didn't bother telling me what I might accomplish if I start eating right, or exercising more, or even if I quit smoking - in fact, she seemed rather dubious that it would have any real effect at all (except the smoking part, for which she was happy to suggest several types of help if I wanted it). She didn't even tell me what my odds would be if I did start spending money on these drugs. I'm sure that insurance will pick up almost all of the cost - and I'm also sure that some pharmaceutical company somewhere would make a fair chunk of change off me for the rest of my unnatural life, sort of an annuity for big pharma. Problem is, I couldn't be sure I'd always be able to afford the drugs, and I'm told "once you start, you can't stop".
Yeah. I think I'd rather die living my life than clutching for more days.
I'm sure you're looking for an argument. Too bad - I'll stand by my (tongue-in-cheek) post as is.
I won't tell you to "shut the fuck up", though . . . I can think of no greater endorsement than attention from a troll such as yourself. Now, go back to your game of "Minesweeper" and leave the grown-ups here on Slashdot to talk about grown-up stuff.
If you're using proprietary software, you're subject to the design and implementation choices of your software's owner (because they no longer sell software, they license it). That's why the desktop icon says "My Computer" and not "Joe Sixpack's Computer". Now, get in, sit down, strap in, shut up and hang on!
It's all about energy density. Has been ever since Orville conned Wilbur into riding that damned fool contraption back in the twentieth century. You need to carry enough juice to continuously counter the weakest of four fundamental forces and have a highly reliable power plant that's efficient enough to release that energy fast enough while not being so heavy as to ground yon flying death trap.
Oh, and not running into stuff along the way would be nice to have, too. AI might do the stunt, but your average automobile driver can't even manage a groundcar safely. Who's going to insure these things?
They're the guys that took a photocopier interface and turned it into the Macintoss. Oh, I'll bet there's a guy or two at Xerox who'd love to have a word with them about that.
Then the Nameless One (okay, Bill Gates) licensed the GUI from Apple and before they could say "hang on, we stole that first!" hit the markets with Windoze. The first time I saw it, it was the 2.0 - klunky, buggy, performed like a tortoise on phenobarbitol, but correctly marketed to all of those businesses that had no clue what a computer was but knew they wanted 'em.
Now, it deserves to be said that Bill was slimier than Steve. He managed to put it to IBM in through the same time frame (actually, he hosed IBM down first by several years). Nobody felt sorry for IBM then, even though this was before they began their meteoric descent into becoming the overgrown, megalithic dinosaur of the IT industry. We all knew that IBM was so great and so powerful that Billy couldn't hurt 'em and besides . . . Winders was so cute and so fun! I could have a clock right on my screen while I pretended to work hard on a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet open (in a DOS window, mind you) - and I could even play around with Solitaire, as long as the boss wasn't around! IBM was always going to own the enterprise computing environment, let Billy have a few bucks selling his hobby toys to computer enthusiasts.
But back to Apple - somewhere along the line, Stevie learned a pretty good lesson. He got the living #3!! away from the enterprise and started salivating over the home market early on. Along the way, he picked up on the niche needs of artists and publishers while Billy kept cranking out collaborationware to go with the new Never-Tested version of Windows and IBM kept insisting (wishing?) that the whole PC craze would go away, because anything worth doing was worth doing on a mainframe anyhow.
Fast forward - Apple still insists on owning your hardware and software stack with a thoroughness that makes even Microsoft blush. Sure, they beat M$ to the punch on a lot of nifty stuff, but really - patenting rounded corners? I'm pretty sure furniture can be found going back to the caveman days with filleted corners, beveled edges, and even a white paint job. Next thing you know, they'll be putting the audio jack on the bottom of the phone . ..
It's going to cost enterprises money to adapt to this change - whether it's for the better or not - because they have to spend time and effort evaluating and redesigning their patch and security management stances.
OTOH, they did manage to make the famous "patch Tuesday" and equally infamous "exploit Wednesday" go away . . . then again, nowadays it seems like every day is "exploit Wednesday".
An interesting (if highly implausible) interpretation of the facts.
This was the same FBI director who released an, er . . . interestingly timed statement about HRC's emails, yes?
Occam's Razor suggests that the simpler explanation is correct - that the reason the FBI didn't recommend charges was because charges weren't justified.
Even the FBI (Herr Drumpf's apparent pet agency) has clearly stated that there were no grounds to sustain legal action against Clinton. Therefore, in their estimation there was no reason to pursue a criminal indictment against her. Were she guilty of perjury this would almost certainly not be so.
Now, if the charges were lying and deception it'd be a different story . . . but then again, compared to the PEOTUS she's friggin' Mother Teresa. I hope you enjoyed the 1950's, 'cause that's where we're heading now. A shame our PEOTUS has no decency, sir.
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So sad. Making cars that don't run on dead dinosaurs, a choice by a crime-infested manufacturer. They should fix up their existing factory and not create jobs for illegal immigrants. Terrible.
Sad. Just sad.
You say that as though it were a bad thing.
I'm sure it made sense at the time - giving SMS connectivity to social networking was a great idea in its day, but nowadays those tweets are coming primarily from PC's, tablets and smart phones. SMS was never designed for this (hell, it wasn't really designed at all - just created when somebody noticed 160+bytes of unused space in the digital telephony design and said "Hey! I can do something cool with that!"). If it had been designed, it would've started out as MMS, and given the klunky nature of the interface at the time would probably never have made it past being somebody's not-too-bright idea.
I'm sorry, but changing (or choosing to enforce) the current rules does not magically level the playing field. If it did, minorities would long ago have stopped complaining that the system is rigged against them. Then again, the situation I've just described does leave itself open to manipulation by the "good ol' boy's club".
I'd be more interested in knowing if job tenure was considered in analyzing the pay differential that the DOL alleges they've discovered.
That's where everybody else releases classified US docs, isn't it?
Thomas Crapper and Leonardo Da Vinci would both uninvent the water flush closet if they'd known it would come to this.
I'm middle-aged (mid fifties). Slightly overweight at 185 pounds (I stand 5'7"). I only drink alcohol occasionally. Incidentally, I can point to three generations of males in my bloodline that have all died at the age of 72 - some nonsense about "threescore years and twelve".
Funny thing - she didn't bother telling me what I might accomplish if I start eating right, or exercising more, or even if I quit smoking - in fact, she seemed rather dubious that it would have any real effect at all (except the smoking part, for which she was happy to suggest several types of help if I wanted it). She didn't even tell me what my odds would be if I did start spending money on these drugs. I'm sure that insurance will pick up almost all of the cost - and I'm also sure that some pharmaceutical company somewhere would make a fair chunk of change off me for the rest of my unnatural life, sort of an annuity for big pharma. Problem is, I couldn't be sure I'd always be able to afford the drugs, and I'm told "once you start, you can't stop".
Yeah. I think I'd rather die living my life than clutching for more days.
Never mind. I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
Sounds like the Catholic Church (see: Inquisition).
Nope. Not even with your dick.
If only we could find some unobtanium, or noobtanium, or dilithium crystals, or vibranium, or adamantium, or duranium, or quirium, or . . .
I won't tell you to "shut the fuck up", though . . . I can think of no greater endorsement than attention from a troll such as yourself. Now, go back to your game of "Minesweeper" and leave the grown-ups here on Slashdot to talk about grown-up stuff.
Jim Lovell: Imagine if Christopher Columbus had come back from the New World and no one returned in his footsteps.
If you're using proprietary software, you're subject to the design and implementation choices of your software's owner (because they no longer sell software, they license it). That's why the desktop icon says "My Computer" and not "Joe Sixpack's Computer". Now, get in, sit down, strap in, shut up and hang on!
Jealous much?
So that when the Premier decides he doesn't like your font or your color scheme, they know who to send for reeducation.
It's all about energy density. Has been ever since Orville conned Wilbur into riding that damned fool contraption back in the twentieth century. You need to carry enough juice to continuously counter the weakest of four fundamental forces and have a highly reliable power plant that's efficient enough to release that energy fast enough while not being so heavy as to ground yon flying death trap. Oh, and not running into stuff along the way would be nice to have, too. AI might do the stunt, but your average automobile driver can't even manage a groundcar safely. Who's going to insure these things?
Then the Nameless One (okay, Bill Gates) licensed the GUI from Apple and before they could say "hang on, we stole that first!" hit the markets with Windoze. The first time I saw it, it was the 2.0 - klunky, buggy, performed like a tortoise on phenobarbitol, but correctly marketed to all of those businesses that had no clue what a computer was but knew they wanted 'em.
Now, it deserves to be said that Bill was slimier than Steve. He managed to put it to IBM in through the same time frame (actually, he hosed IBM down first by several years). Nobody felt sorry for IBM then, even though this was before they began their meteoric descent into becoming the overgrown, megalithic dinosaur of the IT industry. We all knew that IBM was so great and so powerful that Billy couldn't hurt 'em and besides . . . Winders was so cute and so fun! I could have a clock right on my screen while I pretended to work hard on a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet open (in a DOS window, mind you) - and I could even play around with Solitaire, as long as the boss wasn't around! IBM was always going to own the enterprise computing environment, let Billy have a few bucks selling his hobby toys to computer enthusiasts.
But back to Apple - somewhere along the line, Stevie learned a pretty good lesson. He got the living #3!! away from the enterprise and started salivating over the home market early on. Along the way, he picked up on the niche needs of artists and publishers while Billy kept cranking out collaborationware to go with the new Never-Tested version of Windows and IBM kept insisting (wishing?) that the whole PC craze would go away, because anything worth doing was worth doing on a mainframe anyhow.
Fast forward - Apple still insists on owning your hardware and software stack with a thoroughness that makes even Microsoft blush. Sure, they beat M$ to the punch on a lot of nifty stuff, but really - patenting rounded corners? I'm pretty sure furniture can be found going back to the caveman days with filleted corners, beveled edges, and even a white paint job. Next thing you know, they'll be putting the audio jack on the bottom of the phone . . .
Oh, wait . . .
OTOH, they did manage to make the famous "patch Tuesday" and equally infamous "exploit Wednesday" go away . . . then again, nowadays it seems like every day is "exploit Wednesday".
This was the same FBI director who released an, er . . . interestingly timed statement about HRC's emails, yes?
Occam's Razor suggests that the simpler explanation is correct - that the reason the FBI didn't recommend charges was because charges weren't justified.
I'm sorry . . . Exactly which medical school did you receive your doctorate from?
Ransomware.
Now, if the charges were lying and deception it'd be a different story . . . but then again, compared to the PEOTUS she's friggin' Mother Teresa. I hope you enjoyed the 1950's, 'cause that's where we're heading now. A shame our PEOTUS has no decency, sir.