Before they turned their eyes on the jews, the Nazis' concentration camps were filled with communists, actual socialists and social democrats.
They may have called themselves socialist for the sake of expediency during their early rise, but there was nothing left-wing about it. Once they were in power, the real socialists were imprisoned, as those ideas were a threat to their real agenda.
Instead of relying on single biased source, maybe focus more on the actual data and primary documents.
Its a relatively common business requirement now, although the stakeholders usually don't know what they mean.
"Its like the page reloads every time I do something. $site_of_competitor doesn't do that."
I've got about 10 years of PHP/Python/Java/Frontend development experience and can't find work after my previous employer failscaded after the technically-minded of the two owners bailed.
There's no other companies out here that do software/web builds, so for right now finding continued work in my field probably isn't going to happen. I've been trying to find temp work, but no one wants to hire someone with skills that might bail as soon as a better job comes along. There's maybe 5-10 new jobs a day from the largest agency in the area, but I'm competing with ~20 other people for each one.
$14/hr for a job I don't have to take home with me and lose sleep over would be a pretty sweet deal at this point.
Big Business with partner program/MS kickbacks or something?
At the jobs I've had, the PMs would have come down hard on developers spending more to get less. An A0 instance (.75GB ram, 20 GB non-SSD storage) is like $15/month, while at Digital Ocean you can get the tier 2 droplet (1 GB ram, 30 GB SSD storage) for only $10, $5 less.
My '09 Cube that I got last year can take them no problem as it is now. The front control arms and compliance bushings were replaced at the dealership before I got it. Its kind of a heavy car, so I'm not a big fan of going over obstacles at much faster than an idle crawl. I would much rather have that stuff get used up in the rare emergency situations where I really need it (to avoid accidents, etc) rather than every day due to an intentionally placed obstruction on my way to work.
It drives fine in normal conditions, and responds fine to emergency avoidance maneuvers. Potholes are never a problem, I can take those at normal speeds or avoid them if able. They also don't cause anywhere near as much of a dip as the tall speedbumps we have do.
Yeah, me neither. I value my safety and the integrity of my vehicle way more than I value getting to work five minutes sooner. I also have a car that's kinda heavy for its size (an '09 Nissan Cube), so I don't like to expose the suspension to unnecessary use.
That's why you'll find me going less than 10 mph where the rest of traffic is traveling closer to the posted speeds, or slowing way down to idle so I can get to the far edge of the speed bumps so as to only risk one side of the suspension. People behind me get royally pissed and I get honked at all the time, but what else can you do?
"Traffic calming", heh. To those of us who can't afford drive brand-new cars with fresh suspension, control arms and struts, all those artificial obstructions, bumps, etc, is an absolute nightmare nightmare. My city loves throwing that stuff up where it can, and all it does it make the people behind me pissed because I have to drive 10mph in a lot of areas because a not-new car like mine just can't handle being violently thrown around up, down left and right at 20mph the way speed bumps these days will.
Wow, that sticker thing is a great idea. I wish we had something like that here. In my city in the states, we don't get paper recycling (we can only do cardboard and bottles free), and our trash costs $5 a bag. So not only do I not have a choice about getting unsolicited bulk paper advertisements, I have to pay the city a premium to get rid of them. It blows.
That cursor corruption bug is actually very, very old and seems to have resurfaced recently as of 13.4 or so.
They were _supposed_ to fix that with the last patch (its in the patchnotes), but I still get it...
It is a bit weird, isn't it? It makes more sense when you think it through. Kind of a classic modern American capitalism story.
Vaping started out as kind of a hobbyist/DIY thing, long long before Big Tobacco came along. Ruyan--the original Chinese manufacturer of ecig hardware--started shipping internationally in 2005 or so. Gradually it developed into a cottage industry with mom&pop type operations mixing their own juices to sell and selling hardware on the side--ordering from china sucks for an individual order, and a lot of people were suspicious of the Chinese liquid and wanted American-made. So we got all kinds of small businesses like Mister-E-Liquid, MadVapes, Mountain Oak Vapor, etc growing and starting to cater to mail-order customers in the states, as well as making better and improved hardware. Eventually Big Tobacco noticed this growth sector. The super-big players--Lorrilard & Phillip Morris-wanting a larger slice of the nicotine marketshare now that their cigarette profits were declining, bought up some of the less reputable, heavily advertised, low quality, high-margin e-cigarette companies (Blu & Njoy -- you see these crappy proprietary 510-style units in gas stations). They haven't done too well despite advertising campaigns, since the hardware is terrible and the juice is often even worse.
Now we're in a position where no one wants to buy Big Tobbaco's hardware and juice. People want to be able to buy from reputable smaller suppliers and manufacturers that provide higher-quality hardware (variable voltage mods, high-capacity batteries, long-life manual switches, rebuildable atomizers and tanks) and good-tasting juice. Big Tobacco doesn't want to get involved in these things because they aren't Big Profit. So Big Tobacco did what Big Business does best -- lobby and use political connections and influence to edge out and eliminate their competition.
If you are concerned about the juice contents, you can make your own. It is quite simple, there aren't any reactions you have to control or anything -- you're just mixing propylene glycol, 36 mg/ml nicotine concentrate, and any flavorings you want. Conosseuirs may use vegetable glycerin in lieu of PG and play around with adding things like distilled water or capsacin to decrease/increase the vapor's "throat hit".
Propylene glycol is on the GRAS list, is safe for inhalation as a vapor and even has a slight antimicrobial effect. Hospitals, especially those institutions who specialize in treating immunocompromised individuals, sometimes mist it into the air to help reduce airborne pathogen levels (http://ebm.sagepub.com/content/48/2/544.full.pdf). And if you've ever seen a fog machine, the 'fog' they produce is propylene glycol mist (http://chemistry.about.com/od/howthingswork/a/smokemachines_3.htm).
Personally, I worry a lot more about what a big "regulated" corporate entity might put into juice, considering they gave us normal cigarettes with all their additives. I am far, far more comfortable with the small businesses that currently supply my ejuice than I ever would be with some big company.
Startup times are not irrelevant, they are very important to many users. Our biggest complaint from FF-using clients is "It takes too long to open a web link in Outlook". They don't leave the browser open because it isn't a critical or oft-used part of their workflow, and will seldom if ever have more than one tab open simultaneously,so performance after running a few hours or under extreme load doesn't have much bearing on our usage scenario.
Do you do anything special after the install to get it to get more speed out of it?
Because of the automated updating in Chrome, we'd rather not support it, but its getting to the point where we're having so many issues with FF that the tradeoff is acceptable.
I've got two D610s with fresh XP installs from work here for a side-by-side comparison, and in a vanilla FF vs vanilla Chrome test with both at their current versions (FF 15.0.1 and Chrome 21.0.1180.89), FF takes about 3-5 seconds to startup, spawn its first tab and finish loading the contents, while Chrome loads and spawns its default tab pretty much instantly in less than a second, with far less of the hard drive thrashing.
Additionally, Firefox vis a vis doesn't load its UI 'cleanly' (toolbar, tabs appear haphazardly at different times), and in some instances, actually gets classified as 'unresponsive' by windows for a bit before its done loading. These last two are especially problematic for our more naive users, as they perceive it as a problem in need of our attention rather than normal program behavior.
$1300 is a shit ton of money. That'd get me 2 classes closer to my degree (I'm only 3 quarters away from finishing, but I hit the financial aid cap--no more loans or grants for me:() and into some real development work.
After living and work expenses, with the current availability of work orders at my job extended over twelve months, I can't even save that much in a YEAR if I spent absolutely nowhere except the gas station. It has nothing to do with being 'bad with money'. The money just doesn't exist for us the way it does for you in a torrential downpour. We don't have to worry about 'principles & interest' on anything, because we're too busy debating things like "Which is more important this month--electricity or car insurance?" and putting off paying the other utilities until the mileage reimbursement check comes from work, then the next month carrying a balance on a different utility to pay off the late fees on the first...
'Rich' is getting enough money injected into your account on a regular basis that you don't have to worry about this delicate financial dance and can afford to use your money to invest and/or add value to your existing assets. Anarchduke was right, you could use some perspective. Do you want to come live in the hood and clean malware off people's computers for nigh-minimum wage with me?
Of course buying your own home is going to be cheaper than renting. That's one of the luxuries you get when your income and credit score gets high enough. (http://moneyland.time.com/2012/03/21/housing-math-buying-is-now-cheaper-than-renting-98-of-the-time/)
But its not that bad. Rather luxurious by my standards, actually. Before I got my current job and moved here, I was paying $325 a month for a room in a 4-roommate household with broken windows in all the common areas and barely functional heat, in a really bad part of Rochester. I don't mean bad as in 'there's unscrupulous-looking individuals walking about outside in the early morning hours', I mean gunfire and 'look outside and on a regular basis there'd be a small army of cops breaking down a door down the street' bad.
I live in the city close to work, too, which is pretty much mandatory because otherwise this $4/gallon gas crap would literally price me out of employment.
You are not intended to live on minimum wage. Anybody who shows up on time and sober will be making above minimum in three months.
Conversely anybody who can't produce at least minimum wage worth of value per hour will never ever be able to get (or keep) a job.
Care to email that to my boss? I haven't gotten a raise, *ever*. Granted I started at $9.00, $1.75 over the state minimum, but since I only get occasional work when someone needs me to muck around with the webserver, design a skin for a new site, or drive to a client to deploy equipment/troubleshoot something, I don't get the benefit of constant regular hours.
I'm in the exact same position as you--24 credit hours away from graduation, I hit the cap. The financial aid office said the only thing that could be done was to convince my parents to sign a PLUS loan--one isn't creditworthy, and the other hasn't been an active figure in my life since they divorced the other several years ago.
So now, I'm stuck in an endless cycle of wage garnishments and the IRS keeping my tax return until someday, 35 years down the line or so, I can get out of default and go back to school to finish my degree.
There's no way out, and it really, really sucks.
Somewhat offtopic, but I'm finding it kinda difficult to believe that in this job market in the US, there are people lucky enough to be employed as developers that don't understand basic RDBMS concepts like indexes or joins. I'm just an undergraduate, but even at this level competition for jobs is incredibly fierce--I can't imagine someone being considered for code-writing positions lacking knowledge of crossjoin, outer joins, indexes, B+ trees, kd trees, etc. That kind of stuff comes up in almost every interview I've had so far, and I've got nothing yet for a while.:(
Do you actually encounter on a regular basis this kind of clueless-ness? How do these people manage to get hired?
Not enough people care to change this ethos. There's a large amount of people here who would do anything to fight the "terrorists". That's how this happened in the first place.
The US has a LOOOONG history of corn subsidies (originally designed to help struggling agricultural families from falling under and ruining US food prices). By now, of course, most of it goes to corporates that own huge tracts of farms. It's a very entrenched interest group. I imagine you've seen at least one of those "don't hate HFCS, it's just like sugar!!!111" commercials on TV.
Is that seriously where we've arrived at, where a hardware company gets kudos just for sending back the defective card?
I would certainly hope they'd be legally obligated to send it back if they refuse the RMA. Personally, I think that if they can't follow through on their promise, they should be obligated to refund the purchase price of the product, but I realize this kind of common courtesy is none too common these days.
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Before they turned their eyes on the jews, the Nazis' concentration camps were filled with communists, actual socialists and social democrats.
They may have called themselves socialist for the sake of expediency during their early rise, but there was nothing left-wing about it. Once they were in power, the real socialists were imprisoned, as those ideas were a threat to their real agenda.
Instead of relying on single biased source, maybe focus more on the actual data and primary documents.
Its a relatively common business requirement now, although the stakeholders usually don't know what they mean. "Its like the page reloads every time I do something. $site_of_competitor doesn't do that."
I dunno about that. At least not here.
I've got about 10 years of PHP/Python/Java/Frontend development experience and can't find work after my previous employer failscaded after the technically-minded of the two owners bailed.
There's no other companies out here that do software/web builds, so for right now finding continued work in my field probably isn't going to happen. I've been trying to find temp work, but no one wants to hire someone with skills that might bail as soon as a better job comes along. There's maybe 5-10 new jobs a day from the largest agency in the area, but I'm competing with ~20 other people for each one.
$14/hr for a job I don't have to take home with me and lose sleep over would be a pretty sweet deal at this point.
Big Business with partner program/MS kickbacks or something?
At the jobs I've had, the PMs would have come down hard on developers spending more to get less. An A0 instance (.75GB ram, 20 GB non-SSD storage) is like $15/month, while at Digital Ocean you can get the tier 2 droplet (1 GB ram, 30 GB SSD storage) for only $10, $5 less.
My '09 Cube that I got last year can take them no problem as it is now. The front control arms and compliance bushings were replaced at the dealership before I got it. Its kind of a heavy car, so I'm not a big fan of going over obstacles at much faster than an idle crawl. I would much rather have that stuff get used up in the rare emergency situations where I really need it (to avoid accidents, etc) rather than every day due to an intentionally placed obstruction on my way to work.
It drives fine in normal conditions, and responds fine to emergency avoidance maneuvers. Potholes are never a problem, I can take those at normal speeds or avoid them if able. They also don't cause anywhere near as much of a dip as the tall speedbumps we have do.
Yeah, me neither. I value my safety and the integrity of my vehicle way more than I value getting to work five minutes sooner. I also have a car that's kinda heavy for its size (an '09 Nissan Cube), so I don't like to expose the suspension to unnecessary use.
That's why you'll find me going less than 10 mph where the rest of traffic is traveling closer to the posted speeds, or slowing way down to idle so I can get to the far edge of the speed bumps so as to only risk one side of the suspension. People behind me get royally pissed and I get honked at all the time, but what else can you do?
"Traffic calming", heh. To those of us who can't afford drive brand-new cars with fresh suspension, control arms and struts, all those artificial obstructions, bumps, etc, is an absolute nightmare nightmare. My city loves throwing that stuff up where it can, and all it does it make the people behind me pissed because I have to drive 10mph in a lot of areas because a not-new car like mine just can't handle being violently thrown around up, down left and right at 20mph the way speed bumps these days will.
Wow, that sticker thing is a great idea. I wish we had something like that here. In my city in the states, we don't get paper recycling (we can only do cardboard and bottles free), and our trash costs $5 a bag. So not only do I not have a choice about getting unsolicited bulk paper advertisements, I have to pay the city a premium to get rid of them. It blows.
Are you in Europe?
As someone who enrolled today, I beg to differ....
In 1984, Winston talks about public confessions exactly like this one...
That cursor corruption bug is actually very, very old and seems to have resurfaced recently as of 13.4 or so. They were _supposed_ to fix that with the last patch (its in the patchnotes), but I still get it...
It is a bit weird, isn't it? It makes more sense when you think it through. Kind of a classic modern American capitalism story.
Vaping started out as kind of a hobbyist/DIY thing, long long before Big Tobacco came along. Ruyan--the original Chinese manufacturer of ecig hardware--started shipping internationally in 2005 or so. Gradually it developed into a cottage industry with mom&pop type operations mixing their own juices to sell and selling hardware on the side--ordering from china sucks for an individual order, and a lot of people were suspicious of the Chinese liquid and wanted American-made. So we got all kinds of small businesses like Mister-E-Liquid, MadVapes, Mountain Oak Vapor, etc growing and starting to cater to mail-order customers in the states, as well as making better and improved hardware. Eventually Big Tobacco noticed this growth sector. The super-big players--Lorrilard & Phillip Morris-wanting a larger slice of the nicotine marketshare now that their cigarette profits were declining, bought up some of the less reputable, heavily advertised, low quality, high-margin e-cigarette companies (Blu & Njoy -- you see these crappy proprietary 510-style units in gas stations). They haven't done too well despite advertising campaigns, since the hardware is terrible and the juice is often even worse.
Now we're in a position where no one wants to buy Big Tobbaco's hardware and juice. People want to be able to buy from reputable smaller suppliers and manufacturers that provide higher-quality hardware (variable voltage mods, high-capacity batteries, long-life manual switches, rebuildable atomizers and tanks) and good-tasting juice. Big Tobacco doesn't want to get involved in these things because they aren't Big Profit. So Big Tobacco did what Big Business does best -- lobby and use political connections and influence to edge out and eliminate their competition.
If you are concerned about the juice contents, you can make your own. It is quite simple, there aren't any reactions you have to control or anything -- you're just mixing propylene glycol, 36 mg/ml nicotine concentrate, and any flavorings you want. Conosseuirs may use vegetable glycerin in lieu of PG and play around with adding things like distilled water or capsacin to decrease/increase the vapor's "throat hit".
Propylene glycol is on the GRAS list, is safe for inhalation as a vapor and even has a slight antimicrobial effect. Hospitals, especially those institutions who specialize in treating immunocompromised individuals, sometimes mist it into the air to help reduce airborne pathogen levels (http://ebm.sagepub.com/content/48/2/544.full.pdf). And if you've ever seen a fog machine, the 'fog' they produce is propylene glycol mist (http://chemistry.about.com/od/howthingswork/a/smokemachines_3.htm).
Personally, I worry a lot more about what a big "regulated" corporate entity might put into juice, considering they gave us normal cigarettes with all their additives. I am far, far more comfortable with the small businesses that currently supply my ejuice than I ever would be with some big company.
Startup times are not irrelevant, they are very important to many users. Our biggest complaint from FF-using clients is "It takes too long to open a web link in Outlook". They don't leave the browser open because it isn't a critical or oft-used part of their workflow, and will seldom if ever have more than one tab open simultaneously,so performance after running a few hours or under extreme load doesn't have much bearing on our usage scenario.
Do you do anything special after the install to get it to get more speed out of it?
Because of the automated updating in Chrome, we'd rather not support it, but its getting to the point where we're having so many issues with FF that the tradeoff is acceptable.
I've got two D610s with fresh XP installs from work here for a side-by-side comparison, and in a vanilla FF vs vanilla Chrome test with both at their current versions (FF 15.0.1 and Chrome 21.0.1180.89), FF takes about 3-5 seconds to startup, spawn its first tab and finish loading the contents, while Chrome loads and spawns its default tab pretty much instantly in less than a second, with far less of the hard drive thrashing.
Additionally, Firefox vis a vis doesn't load its UI 'cleanly' (toolbar, tabs appear haphazardly at different times), and in some instances, actually gets classified as 'unresponsive' by windows for a bit before its done loading. These last two are especially problematic for our more naive users, as they perceive it as a problem in need of our attention rather than normal program behavior.
Unless, of course, you want to continue working for that company....
$1300 is a shit ton of money. That'd get me 2 classes closer to my degree (I'm only 3 quarters away from finishing, but I hit the financial aid cap--no more loans or grants for me :() and into some real development work.
After living and work expenses, with the current availability of work orders at my job extended over twelve months, I can't even save that much in a YEAR if I spent absolutely nowhere except the gas station. It has nothing to do with being 'bad with money'. The money just doesn't exist for us the way it does for you in a torrential downpour. We don't have to worry about 'principles & interest' on anything, because we're too busy debating things like "Which is more important this month--electricity or car insurance?" and putting off paying the other utilities until the mileage reimbursement check comes from work, then the next month carrying a balance on a different utility to pay off the late fees on the first...
'Rich' is getting enough money injected into your account on a regular basis that you don't have to worry about this delicate financial dance and can afford to use your money to invest and/or add value to your existing assets. Anarchduke was right, you could use some perspective. Do you want to come live in the hood and clean malware off people's computers for nigh-minimum wage with me?
Of course buying your own home is going to be cheaper than renting. That's one of the luxuries you get when your income and credit score gets high enough. (http://moneyland.time.com/2012/03/21/housing-math-buying-is-now-cheaper-than-renting-98-of-the-time/)
But its not that bad. Rather luxurious by my standards, actually. Before I got my current job and moved here, I was paying $325 a month for a room in a 4-roommate household with broken windows in all the common areas and barely functional heat, in a really bad part of Rochester. I don't mean bad as in 'there's unscrupulous-looking individuals walking about outside in the early morning hours', I mean gunfire and 'look outside and on a regular basis there'd be a small army of cops breaking down a door down the street' bad.
I live in the city close to work, too, which is pretty much mandatory because otherwise this $4/gallon gas crap would literally price me out of employment.
You are not intended to live on minimum wage. Anybody who shows up on time and sober will be making above minimum in three months.
Conversely anybody who can't produce at least minimum wage worth of value per hour will never ever be able to get (or keep) a job.
Care to email that to my boss? I haven't gotten a raise, *ever*. Granted I started at $9.00, $1.75 over the state minimum, but since I only get occasional work when someone needs me to muck around with the webserver, design a skin for a new site, or drive to a client to deploy equipment/troubleshoot something, I don't get the benefit of constant regular hours.
A raise would be killer. ;)
I'm in the exact same position as you--24 credit hours away from graduation, I hit the cap. The financial aid office said the only thing that could be done was to convince my parents to sign a PLUS loan--one isn't creditworthy, and the other hasn't been an active figure in my life since they divorced the other several years ago. So now, I'm stuck in an endless cycle of wage garnishments and the IRS keeping my tax return until someday, 35 years down the line or so, I can get out of default and go back to school to finish my degree. There's no way out, and it really, really sucks.
Somewhat offtopic, but I'm finding it kinda difficult to believe that in this job market in the US, there are people lucky enough to be employed as developers that don't understand basic RDBMS concepts like indexes or joins. I'm just an undergraduate, but even at this level competition for jobs is incredibly fierce--I can't imagine someone being considered for code-writing positions lacking knowledge of crossjoin, outer joins, indexes, B+ trees, kd trees, etc. That kind of stuff comes up in almost every interview I've had so far, and I've got nothing yet for a while. :(
Do you actually encounter on a regular basis this kind of clueless-ness? How do these people manage to get hired?
Not enough people care to change this ethos. There's a large amount of people here who would do anything to fight the "terrorists". That's how this happened in the first place.
A day of classes at a university where there curiously often aren't electrical outlets in CS classrooms.
The US has a LOOOONG history of corn subsidies (originally designed to help struggling agricultural families from falling under and ruining US food prices). By now, of course, most of it goes to corporates that own huge tracts of farms. It's a very entrenched interest group. I imagine you've seen at least one of those "don't hate HFCS, it's just like sugar!!!111" commercials on TV.
Is that seriously where we've arrived at, where a hardware company gets kudos just for sending back the defective card?
I would certainly hope they'd be legally obligated to send it back if they refuse the RMA. Personally, I think that if they can't follow through on their promise, they should be obligated to refund the purchase price of the product, but I realize this kind of common courtesy is none too common these days.