My employer is going to start remote working (from home) 3 days a week next year.
What I don't get is what is in it for them? We will still have cubes, and have to be on site for 2 days a week (M/F) at least so they save nothing really on space/utilities etc.. about all they will save is probably on free coffee costs and plumbing.
They say they are doing it to be more competitive because younger employees expect this in comparison to other employers.
Call me paranoid but I can't help wondering what is in it for them?
>Is the docking station what gives it the console-level power?
Nope. Watch the video and freeze the screen. The tablet is all you get, what you see in the tablet is everything.
The docking station is a small cheap plastic thing with not connectors or ports or anything much at all it is clearly just used for charging and video out.
This is not a 'console' its a portable, and it will probably not be anything like console gaming or anything that can compete with Xbox or Playstation. Nintendo is clearly trying to compete here with iPads, not consoles.
Is it just me or are the version numbers accelerating?
Redhat Enterprise is still running 3.10 in its latest release. At this pace it seems like Linus will be well into 5.x, or 6.x before Redhat 8 ever comes out(probably beta next year).
Seriously, I wanna SEE some water, not pictures of where we think water used to be, where it was 10 minutes ago and left just before we got there....I wanna see water...real flowing, sparkling, water.
The thing that bugs me, is we haven't really even given Nuclear power a very good try yet.
We barely dipped our toes into the technology and then stopped, its only been a few decades worth so far. Imagine if we gave up on other technologies such as electricity, refrigeration, combustion engines, farming, aircraft, boats, or whatever after only a couple of decades of trying.
There is massive potential for engineering solutions to be developed to the problems that are present in these early attempts at nuclear power.
For people to just who totally say "no nuclear power", I say you are taking an ANTI-SCIENCE position.
I thought everyone knew that the Food Pyramid was totally made up by big business and in collusion with the government.
The Food Pyramid was designed in order to seer the masses to foods that could be grown/produced which would feed the people with the most PROFIT margins for commercial farming interests, such as grains, corn, etc..that favored massive commercial farming, and away from foods that required more effort to produce and favored small family farm production methods.
What people don't get is this. Microsoft is totally being left out of the cloud.
The fact is that no cloud provider wants to keep track of licenses, so all cloud platforms, all the new and exciting PaaS platforms etc. are based on ALL OPEN SOURCE. And there is a reason for this.
When you are offering a system that can fire up nodes and destroy them dynamically and on-demand, its just not worth it to have to keep track of some piece of that being commercially licensed and all the restrictions you end up with on your freedom to fire up new nodes on demand etc..
Microsoft has been totally shut out of the cloud offerings and PaaS developments out there because licensed software slows you down and restricts all the freedoms to be dynamic in a cloud world that makes it attractive in the first place.
Maybe if open source.Net takes off we will see it begin to become another offering by cloud providers and as part of popular PaaS platforms.
>pilots do not wait until the aircraft is 300 feet off
Actually your REQUIRED TO perform full autolands every 90 days in each aircraft in order to keep it certified to perform such landings when you 'really' need its help.
(work for airline, wrote the system that keeps track of the compliance)
Also have been in aircraft cockpit several times during autolands and even performed one myself in the full SIM. It's pretty amazing.
You mean a democrat believes that the Government should meddle in EVERYTHING and that there nothing that it does not have any limit to what it should do?!
You can run winlink over HF using any HF radio ($200+) and a decent wire antenna on the ship.
Its very popular for sea and also use in remote locations by Missionaries in Africa etc..
You can also use APRS to do automatic position reporting for your ship over HF Radio as well and your family would be able to track your location on a map. http://www.findu.com/
There are also various 'nets' where people all get together on a particular frequency and exchange messages etc. HAM's sill provide national message traffic passing services (Aka TELEGRAMS) for health and welfare messages for people. This is one of the main function that HAM's provide for RedCross, disaster locations etc.
You can come to the net and pick up and messages, and send a telegram to any family friends via HF voice.
http://www.cruiser.co.za/radionet.asp
Amateur(HAM) Radio is a very very valuable addition to worldwide boating activities.
1) Gasoline is just as explosive as DYNOMITE, its SUPER SUPER dangerous to store. Diesel can be stored very safely for a long time, its not even really flammable hardly, and zero explosive dangers. Also its very dangerous to refill a hot generator with gasoline, diesel is safe enough to pretty much keep it running and refill it on the fly.
2) Gasoline generators usually run at about 6000RPM and are LOUD, Diesel generators run at about ONLY 1500-2000 RPM and are much much more quiet because of it.
3) Gasoline engines are only rated for a life expectancy of hundreds of hours. Diesel generator engines are rated for many thousands and more reliable over that lifetime to boot.
4) When all the gas stations are closed and you can't get anymore (because you were at lease not stupid enough to try and store gasoline on site), you can always steal some diesel from the national guard trucks when they are not looking.:)
Not EVERY category.... that Keyboard article about 'every category' didn't even bother to include PROGRAMMING....like say where a keyboard is actually important!!?
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So mythtv(backend) + kodi. *yawn*
My employer is going to start remote working (from home) 3 days a week next year.
What I don't get is what is in it for them? We will still have cubes, and have to be on site for 2 days a week (M/F) at least so they save nothing really on space/utilities etc.. about all they will save is probably on free coffee costs and plumbing.
They say they are doing it to be more competitive because younger employees expect this in comparison to other employers.
Call me paranoid but I can't help wondering what is in it for them?
For real good technical analysis of this roofing, this episode of EEVBlog is the best.
https://www.eevblog.com/2016/10/31/eevblog-938-tesla-solar-roofs-are-they-viable/
https://youtu.be/h6FXy_LQXrs
Probably not a "X1", the press releases mentioned it is a 'customized' (translation very stripped down, low cost, low power version) of the Terga.
>Is the docking station what gives it the console-level power?
Nope. Watch the video and freeze the screen. The tablet is all you get, what you see in the tablet is everything.
The docking station is a small cheap plastic thing with not connectors or ports or anything much at all it is clearly just used for charging and video out.
This is not a 'console' its a portable, and it will probably not be anything like console gaming or anything that can compete with Xbox or Playstation. Nintendo is clearly trying to compete here with iPads, not consoles.
This announcement means Nintendo has officially left the console market and is now competing with ipads.
This device appears to be nothing but a 7" tablet with a little plastic charging/video-out docking port that can use external wireless controllers.
This might be the next thing in portable gaming systems, but there is no way this will be 'console' class. It is basically a PS-vita with a dock.
Personally if I was going to carry around a 7" tablet device, I would just carry a real tablet that can do so much more.
Is it just me or are the version numbers accelerating?
Redhat Enterprise is still running 3.10 in its latest release. At this pace it seems like Linus will be well into 5.x, or 6.x before Redhat 8 ever comes out(probably beta next year).
So, where is the study about all the uninformed non-scientists PUSHING fake AGW?
I wanna see a study on all the nonsense spouted by Katie Couric, or even the local news idiots about AGW and its impact.
This is awesome because only a linux fanboy would not see that:
/sarcasm
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Select-String 'hole_in_the_ground'
is sooooo soooo much better than
grep -r 'hole_in_the_ground'
This just seems like a very poor excuse for puppet/chef/cfengine etc... to me.
Well, one source of fake news and false information is just as good as another...
newb
Pics or it didn't happen...
Seriously, I wanna SEE some water, not pictures of where we think water used to be, where it was 10 minutes ago and left just before we got there....I wanna see water...real flowing, sparkling, water.
The thing that bugs me, is we haven't really even given Nuclear power a very good try yet.
We barely dipped our toes into the technology and then stopped, its only been a few decades worth so far. Imagine if we gave up on other technologies such as electricity, refrigeration, combustion engines, farming, aircraft, boats, or whatever after only a couple of decades of trying.
There is massive potential for engineering solutions to be developed to the problems that are present in these early attempts at nuclear power.
For people to just who totally say "no nuclear power", I say you are taking an ANTI-SCIENCE position.
s/seer/steer
I thought everyone knew that the Food Pyramid was totally made up by big business and in collusion with the government.
The Food Pyramid was designed in order to seer the masses to foods that could be grown/produced which would feed the people with the most PROFIT margins for commercial farming interests, such as grains, corn, etc..that favored massive commercial farming, and away from foods that required more effort to produce and favored small family farm production methods.
What people don't get is this. Microsoft is totally being left out of the cloud.
.Net takes off we will see it begin to become another offering by cloud providers and as part of popular PaaS platforms.
The fact is that no cloud provider wants to keep track of licenses, so all cloud platforms, all the new and exciting PaaS platforms etc. are based on ALL OPEN SOURCE. And there is a reason for this.
When you are offering a system that can fire up nodes and destroy them dynamically and on-demand, its just not worth it to have to keep track of some piece of that being commercially licensed and all the restrictions you end up with on your freedom to fire up new nodes on demand etc..
Microsoft has been totally shut out of the cloud offerings and PaaS developments out there because licensed software slows you down and restricts all the freedoms to be dynamic in a cloud world that makes it attractive in the first place.
Maybe if open source
Sashdot UID# 8361
Member since ~ 1997-2000
Been here since the beginning....considering leaving.
Really...seriously, its NO BETTER at all, and in a huge number of ways worse.
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Slashdot UID# 8,361
Member since ~ 1997-2000
Been here since the beginning....considering leaving.
As the AmSat Guys, they have huge amounts of experience building micro satellites (and deploying them).
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php
>pilots do not wait until the aircraft is 300 feet off
Actually your REQUIRED TO perform full autolands every 90 days in each aircraft in order to keep it certified to perform such landings when you 'really' need its help.
(work for airline, wrote the system that keeps track of the compliance)
Also have been in aircraft cockpit several times during autolands and even performed one myself in the full SIM. It's pretty amazing.
What?!
You mean a democrat believes that the Government should meddle in EVERYTHING and that there nothing that it does not have any limit to what it should do?!
Shock and Horror.
Just get a HAM license, and use WINLINK/AIRMAIL and you can have all the free email you want.
http://www.winlink.org/
http://hamradio.arc.nasa.gov/meetings/HFradioatsea.html
You can run winlink over HF using any HF radio ($200+) and a decent wire antenna on the ship.
Its very popular for sea and also use in remote locations by Missionaries in Africa etc..
You can also use APRS to do automatic position reporting for your ship over HF Radio as well and your family would be able to track your location on a map. http://www.findu.com/
There are also various 'nets' where people all get together on a particular frequency and exchange messages etc. HAM's sill provide national message traffic passing services (Aka TELEGRAMS) for health and welfare messages for people. This is one of the main function that HAM's provide for RedCross, disaster locations etc.
You can come to the net and pick up and messages, and send a telegram to any family friends via HF voice.
http://www.cruiser.co.za/radionet.asp
Amateur(HAM) Radio is a very very valuable addition to worldwide boating activities.
1) Gasoline is just as explosive as DYNOMITE, its SUPER SUPER dangerous to store. Diesel can be stored very safely for a long time, its not even really flammable hardly, and zero explosive dangers. Also its very dangerous to refill a hot generator with gasoline, diesel is safe enough to pretty much keep it running and refill it on the fly.
2) Gasoline generators usually run at about 6000RPM and are LOUD, Diesel generators run at about ONLY 1500-2000 RPM and are much much more quiet because of it.
3) Gasoline engines are only rated for a life expectancy of hundreds of hours. Diesel generator engines are rated for many thousands and more reliable over that lifetime to boot.
4) When all the gas stations are closed and you can't get anymore (because you were at lease not stupid enough to try and store gasoline on site), you can always steal some diesel from the national guard trucks when they are not looking.
Not EVERY category.... that Keyboard article about 'every category' didn't even bother to include PROGRAMMING....like say where a keyboard is actually important!!?
It was just a 'best keyboard for gaming' article.