One thing I'd point out is that her apartment isn't in San Francisco, it's about 30 miles out.
There are things to be said for both sides. Yes, I have no problem with Yelp firing her. The, "Gosh, I was told I'd have to work for an entire year before I could consider being an internal candidate" is pretty silly. As someone else said, she should consider getting rid of her one bedroom and finding a roommate to live with. If a one bedroom apartment is $1245 where she lives, I'm sure she can find two bedroom apartments for $1800 or so that she could share and end up paying less rent and possibly less in utilities. She should also start figuring out what things cost--if she's close to a mass-transit line, it may be worthwhile to dump her car.
That said, Yelp might want to consider whether what they are paying people will aid them in getting the employees they want. I've seen plenty of companies who pay crap and treat employees like crap and then can't understand why they have such high employee turnover and low employee morale. "These kids today don't want to work! They're spoiled brats who think the world owes them!" It might also be smart to move a customer service call center somewhere else where you can pay people your current rates but it's cheaper for people to live and not have to worry about employees being unable to get into work because they have no money. While there's lots of technical talent in the Bay Area, you might be able to find better customer service people elsewhere.
Why not? One could argue that driving is good for them--getting out, seeing new things, etc. Alzheimer's doesn't necessarily hurt their driving skills.
I grew up in a fairly rural area. My father knew every back-road, logging trail, discontinued road, horse path, dog path, and ant path in the area and he loved to go out in his old jeep and drive them. As kids, we would go along on "Jeep Rides" with Dad in the summertime.
Brain damage is an interesting thing, which is what Alzheimer's is. My Dad didn't necessarily remember who I was, but you put him in a vehicle and he could still navigate all of the back-country of Vermont. About 3 months before he died, we went for a "Jeep Ride." I drove the main roads and he drove the back roads (since he didn't know me, he wasn't sure of my skills to be able to handle driving those old trails) and he knew exactly where he was going. I brought my bike GPS unit with me, just in case we got lost. I figured I could follow the track back from where we came. And while we were out and about, I had no idea where we were. But then we suddenly hit a road and my Dad said, "Follow this to the end, turn right, and we'll be back on 134 headed home." And he was right.
So Alzheimers will manifest itself in different ways in different people depending on what parts of the brain and being affected. And there may be good reasons to have a tracker on your cars depending on the people involved. But I wouldn't go with the blanket statement about who should and shouldn't be driving.
The rationale here is that they don't need these IT workers because they are outsourcing their work IT to IBM India. So the jobs are disappearing--Hertz will no longer have a position "IT Support Technician," for example. The job will not exist at Hertz.
That said, IBM India will have a position for "IT Support Technician" and it will be filled by someone in India who will be moved over here to perform the same task that the former Hertz-employed IT Technician would have done.
To me there's a difference between outsourcing and what we see here.
I don't have a problem with outsourcing. Sending work to India, China, Cleveland, or places with a lower cost of living where you don't have to pay people quite so much to get a job done is perfectly legitimate. Heck, IBM used to have lots of R&D-type offices in inexpensive places. This way they didn't have to pay people a lot of money but those employees could buy a nice house in that inexpensive area. There are advantages to doing your work in Silicon Valley (huge talent pool) and there are disadvantages to doing your work in Silicon Valley (very expensive place to live means you have to pay those people more money).
I have no problem with Apple building all of it's hardware in China. Heck, I have no problem with Apple designing all of it's hardware in China. I have no problem with Apple moving the whole kit and kaboodle of their product development to China, if they see fit to do so.
This is different. This is more like Apple moving it's hardware assembly over here but bringing all the workers from China over and paying them what they're paid in China.
Haven't you noticed that when you call Citi, Microsoft, or HP, for support, your representative "Jessica" after some questions tells about nice weather in Jaipur, and lovely "Ben" is from Bangalore working his first hour on his shift.
And, you see, I don't have a problem with this.
If I want to outsource work to people working overseas (in environments with a lower cost of living) and I'm willing to put up with the hassles of dealing with people on the other side of the planet, that's a legitimate choice for a company to make. If I call phone support, I'm looking to get assistance with a problem and if they can help me, it doesn't matter if they're in sunny California or rainy Manila.
Where I have an issue is that the jobs aren't moving--they're staying in the same place. There's still an IT guy down the hall. It's just that instead of being a Hertz employee, he's now an IBM India employee and is doing the same job that the former IT guy did and he was brought from another country to do it. That's not right.
So, in other words, what they're looking for is other people to arrest. It isn't that the case against the person who actually did the crime necessitates their being able to access information on the phone. It's that there may be other people involved and they want to look that over.
I know you're trolling, but I am curious about one thing...
There were plenty of Apollo missions that were manned but didn't land on the Moon. Apollo 7 stayed in Earth orbit. Apollo 8 took the CSM to the Moon. Apollo 9 tested the LEM in Earth orbit and Apollo 10 took a LEM to the Moon, but didn't land it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for self-driving cars. Personally, I want one. But I also enjoy my little roadster with the manual transmission. I'd love to get a Tesla Roadster (0-60 4 seconds solo in the carpool lane? W00t!). And I'd want a switch that would turn self-driving on and off.
So when I'm going to work, yeah, I'd probably turn on self-drive and read a book. But if I was going out to visit my sister in Colorado? Yeah, there are some stretches of road that are fun to drive and I'd want to flip that switch.
I tried watching that last go around where the US did fairly well in it...game was about to be over and...OH wait...for no explainable reason, we're gonna add another 12 minutes to the game...
Actually, as an American football fan, I have to admit I think it's pretty entertaining.
In football, you have a visible clock. They stop it for out-of-bounds, incomplete passes, penalties, etc. When it gets down to zero? Game over. In soccer, the refs keep track of how much time is spent on things like corner kicks, throw-ins, penalty kicks, and the like. So when the clock hits zero, that's when they announce how much time was spent.
It adds an entertaining element to the game--you have little idea how much extra time you're going to have (I'm sure the teams have someone who keeps track and guesses, but the typical fan won't). So it ain't over until it's over.
Besides...a "real" game of football has something like "Sudden Death"....
Actually, during the regular season, the NFL allows ties. They play one overtime period and if nobody scores (or they both score back-to-back field goals), it's a tie. There's been three of them in the last five years. In the playoffs, I believe they just keep doing overtime until both teams have touched the ball and somebody scores.
Soccer has ties in the regular season, I believe, but championship games play a couple of overtime matches and then shootouts until somebody wins.
I agree that I prefer watching American football, but soccer is pretty fun to watch as well.
The neat question would be how much land is needed.
If the hyper loop is elevated, let's say 20 feet off the ground, then you only need "land" for the pylons to support it. You'd also need, I would imagine, some sort of 'right-of-way' agreement), but hat agreement can be forced by the government and you'd only have to pay for the land to support the pylon.
Depending on how big the pylons are, that could be a pretty impressive cost savings.
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If Apple is all-powerful, can they make a phone that they can't hack?
HA HA HA! We got him now!
Usually, you have two people sign the lease. Heck, maybe her Dad can cosign for her--she moved here to be closer to him, after all.
One thing I'd point out is that her apartment isn't in San Francisco, it's about 30 miles out.
There are things to be said for both sides. Yes, I have no problem with Yelp firing her. The, "Gosh, I was told I'd have to work for an entire year before I could consider being an internal candidate" is pretty silly. As someone else said, she should consider getting rid of her one bedroom and finding a roommate to live with. If a one bedroom apartment is $1245 where she lives, I'm sure she can find two bedroom apartments for $1800 or so that she could share and end up paying less rent and possibly less in utilities. She should also start figuring out what things cost--if she's close to a mass-transit line, it may be worthwhile to dump her car.
That said, Yelp might want to consider whether what they are paying people will aid them in getting the employees they want. I've seen plenty of companies who pay crap and treat employees like crap and then can't understand why they have such high employee turnover and low employee morale. "These kids today don't want to work! They're spoiled brats who think the world owes them!" It might also be smart to move a customer service call center somewhere else where you can pay people your current rates but it's cheaper for people to live and not have to worry about employees being unable to get into work because they have no money. While there's lots of technical talent in the Bay Area, you might be able to find better customer service people elsewhere.
Sure. My Unix dictionary has 235,886 words. You are given 10 chances.
Choose wisely.
Well, as I understand it, the encryption is AES-256. So, in theory, it would take about 33,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years, assuming you used the fastest supercomputer.
...which ought to be enough for anyone.
Why not? One could argue that driving is good for them--getting out, seeing new things, etc. Alzheimer's doesn't necessarily hurt their driving skills.
I grew up in a fairly rural area. My father knew every back-road, logging trail, discontinued road, horse path, dog path, and ant path in the area and he loved to go out in his old jeep and drive them. As kids, we would go along on "Jeep Rides" with Dad in the summertime.
Brain damage is an interesting thing, which is what Alzheimer's is. My Dad didn't necessarily remember who I was, but you put him in a vehicle and he could still navigate all of the back-country of Vermont. About 3 months before he died, we went for a "Jeep Ride." I drove the main roads and he drove the back roads (since he didn't know me, he wasn't sure of my skills to be able to handle driving those old trails) and he knew exactly where he was going. I brought my bike GPS unit with me, just in case we got lost. I figured I could follow the track back from where we came. And while we were out and about, I had no idea where we were. But then we suddenly hit a road and my Dad said, "Follow this to the end, turn right, and we'll be back on 134 headed home." And he was right.
So Alzheimers will manifest itself in different ways in different people depending on what parts of the brain and being affected. And there may be good reasons to have a tracker on your cars depending on the people involved. But I wouldn't go with the blanket statement about who should and shouldn't be driving.
Obviously. It was invented by Al Gore, a demmycrat.
I still wish they'd use 127.0.0.1...
...and, as I understand it, the IP Address is 512.276.128.17.
Actually, I was thinking of Roger Daltry.
The rationale here is that they don't need these IT workers because they are outsourcing their work IT to IBM India. So the jobs are disappearing--Hertz will no longer have a position "IT Support Technician," for example. The job will not exist at Hertz.
That said, IBM India will have a position for "IT Support Technician" and it will be filled by someone in India who will be moved over here to perform the same task that the former Hertz-employed IT Technician would have done.
To me there's a difference between outsourcing and what we see here.
I don't have a problem with outsourcing. Sending work to India, China, Cleveland, or places with a lower cost of living where you don't have to pay people quite so much to get a job done is perfectly legitimate. Heck, IBM used to have lots of R&D-type offices in inexpensive places. This way they didn't have to pay people a lot of money but those employees could buy a nice house in that inexpensive area. There are advantages to doing your work in Silicon Valley (huge talent pool) and there are disadvantages to doing your work in Silicon Valley (very expensive place to live means you have to pay those people more money).
I have no problem with Apple building all of it's hardware in China. Heck, I have no problem with Apple designing all of it's hardware in China. I have no problem with Apple moving the whole kit and kaboodle of their product development to China, if they see fit to do so.
This is different. This is more like Apple moving it's hardware assembly over here but bringing all the workers from China over and paying them what they're paid in China.
Haven't you noticed that when you call Citi, Microsoft, or HP, for support, your representative "Jessica" after some questions tells about nice weather in Jaipur, and lovely "Ben" is from Bangalore working his first hour on his shift.
And, you see, I don't have a problem with this.
If I want to outsource work to people working overseas (in environments with a lower cost of living) and I'm willing to put up with the hassles of dealing with people on the other side of the planet, that's a legitimate choice for a company to make. If I call phone support, I'm looking to get assistance with a problem and if they can help me, it doesn't matter if they're in sunny California or rainy Manila.
Where I have an issue is that the jobs aren't moving--they're staying in the same place. There's still an IT guy down the hall. It's just that instead of being a Hertz employee, he's now an IBM India employee and is doing the same job that the former IT guy did and he was brought from another country to do it. That's not right.
So, in other words, what they're looking for is other people to arrest. It isn't that the case against the person who actually did the crime necessitates their being able to access information on the phone. It's that there may be other people involved and they want to look that over.
I know you're trolling, but I am curious about one thing...
There were plenty of Apollo missions that were manned but didn't land on the Moon. Apollo 7 stayed in Earth orbit. Apollo 8 took the CSM to the Moon. Apollo 9 tested the LEM in Earth orbit and Apollo 10 took a LEM to the Moon, but didn't land it.
Were all of them faked as well?
Stellarator? Sounds like something Dr. Doofenschmirtz would build.
"Behold, Perry the Platypus! My Stellarator! It will make anyone it zaps think they are Marlon Brando in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'!"
Hear hear!
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for self-driving cars. Personally, I want one. But I also enjoy my little roadster with the manual transmission. I'd love to get a Tesla Roadster (0-60 4 seconds solo in the carpool lane? W00t!). And I'd want a switch that would turn self-driving on and off.
So when I'm going to work, yeah, I'd probably turn on self-drive and read a book. But if I was going out to visit my sister in Colorado? Yeah, there are some stretches of road that are fun to drive and I'd want to flip that switch.
I was going to say, it's sort of like an NSAssert.
Actually, if you want to play R vs. D...
In 2004, when this was approved, the President (George W. Bush) was a republican. So, ah ha!
Of course, in 2004, the Secretary of Transportation (Norman Mineta) was a democrat. So, ah ha!
In other words, at least in this case, it's kind of silly to play "R vs. D," unless you want to say that "they both do it."
If you want to world series to live up to their name, maybe, just maybe, you should invite other countries, no ?
Like Canada?
They already do.
Don't worry--even if a christian does it, we'll make up a link.
I tried watching that last go around where the US did fairly well in it...game was about to be over and...OH wait...for no explainable reason, we're gonna add another 12 minutes to the game...
Actually, as an American football fan, I have to admit I think it's pretty entertaining.
In football, you have a visible clock. They stop it for out-of-bounds, incomplete passes, penalties, etc. When it gets down to zero? Game over.
In soccer, the refs keep track of how much time is spent on things like corner kicks, throw-ins, penalty kicks, and the like. So when the clock hits zero, that's when they announce how much time was spent.
It adds an entertaining element to the game--you have little idea how much extra time you're going to have (I'm sure the teams have someone who keeps track and guesses, but the typical fan won't). So it ain't over until it's over.
Besides...a "real" game of football has something like "Sudden Death"....
Actually, during the regular season, the NFL allows ties. They play one overtime period and if nobody scores (or they both score back-to-back field goals), it's a tie. There's been three of them in the last five years. In the playoffs, I believe they just keep doing overtime until both teams have touched the ball and somebody scores.
Soccer has ties in the regular season, I believe, but championship games play a couple of overtime matches and then shootouts until somebody wins.
I agree that I prefer watching American football, but soccer is pretty fun to watch as well.
The neat question would be how much land is needed.
If the hyper loop is elevated, let's say 20 feet off the ground, then you only need "land" for the pylons to support it. You'd also need, I would imagine, some sort of 'right-of-way' agreement), but hat agreement can be forced by the government and you'd only have to pay for the land to support the pylon.
Depending on how big the pylons are, that could be a pretty impressive cost savings.