That is actually a pretty cool idea. Monday's are a great day to get normal life stuff done. I used to kind of do Sunday 6pm to Friday 11am. Fridays & Saturdays were great but Sundays was a bit cramped wrapping up personal stuff.
The article didn't get the point you intended across. In summary, because of the international sanctions, Russia has shifted its domestic economy more to agricultural production rather than import unbanned agricultural products. They revised their GDP growth from negative 0.6% to -0.5%. General economic growth is expected to be between 1-2%. These are ridiculously crappy numbers for a society that has poor infrastructure, and primarily a labor based market.
The article paints this as if the sanctions aren't working by comparing it to expectations that the economy should have crashed. This premise is based on just politician's talking points. But it is completely false. The point of sanctions isn't to crash the economy, create unrest, and leave the populace with little choice but to overthrow their leaders. If you want to crash the economy, infrastructure sabotage is best (ie: 9/11). But this is stupid, as all it will do is band the populace under their current leadership. Additionally, those with little to lose are more like to envy their neighbors and go to war (lesson of WWI and WWII).
No, the sanctions are doing exactly what they intended. They are preventing Russia from playing in the international economic game and reducing the speed of their social progress. Eventually they MAY see how far behind they are compared to other nations. But its a win win for the rest of the world. Either Russia will change or eventually become a low cost labor pool like China was 25 years ago. The nice thing about sanctions is that once lifted, the underlying economy will have massive growth and they can quickly catch up.
If sanctions non-violently switched a Russian rocket scientist or dentist from practicing their craft to baking bread... I don't think anyone should consider that a positive.
Generally speaking, the Exchange is probably more secure than your computer. I don't think I would be confident nor comfortable having $3 million dollar's worth of coins sitting in my laptop or USB drive at home. The problem here isn't so much about the security/reliability of the exchanges. I think they are fairly OK considering Bitcoin isn't collapsing. The problem is that the overall system has far less safety checks and nets than normal government backed currencies. Thou Bitcoin is better off than the currencies of China, Valenzuela, Somalia, etc.
There is also automation that has started digging in. A lot of work that gets offshored for clients is stuff like checking some fields before releasing a PO, executing a script to implement a change into prod, resetting user passwords, creating a VM from image, restarting & checking servers for patch level, etc. Mundane stuff that historically was cheaper to offload to the lowest cost labor but now it's better to have one small scripting team and a small executing team.
This isn't really a story about companies going back to tape as much one of companies going back to an actual sane backup solution.
Tape just happens to be the tried, tested, and true system with plenty of support infrastructure still around. All the other solutions aren't really direct archive replacements... process wise.
The real problem is that they didn't have Steve QA it! They should have placed the phone on edge on his coffin. If it falls left, fail. Right, means it sucks but will do.
If the phone flies off the coffin and shatters into a million pieces; sacrifice the dev team, repaint the room in their blood, and hire a new team.
Basically you are saying Teams vs Slack is worse than Skype + Teams vs Slack. I get that. But MS was already an entrenched IM vendor in the business world. Their primary competitor was themselves with LCS, OCS, Lync, Skype, and Teams. And the article should have just said "MS Communicator, new year, new name."
MS (and other big guys) talks about SaaS but then do stuff like this where its the same service but the branding has changed because the underlying technology comes from a different repo, code base, or dev team. They should have left the name as Skype or Lync.
Or even... HOW this is pressure on Slack? The Article is the same title and they just mention that Slack was worried about Teams before. And now somehow the highlight of MS cannibalizing one of its own products (a 3rd time in this product) is Slack worrying more...
And land within Seattle or New York or Washington DC are far far more than that... What is your point? There is a lot of demand for land close to most cities... let alone major ones like Seattle. Even places like Hyderabad, London, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Singapore are higher than that. You need to go much further out to places where the land is ~$10k per acre to build something for less than $50k.
A 100 years ago, this was quite true, and it still is in many parts of the world. People always have needed loans. Savings are quite difficult to secure. The more you have the more bad actors target you. So people took loans for that cow, bike, education, or house. But back then, that debt passed on to your children. It wasn't unusual to have the grandfather build a house and the grandchildren pay it off.
The interest you got charged was based on who you knew and what collateral you had. Gold, silver, daughters, etc. The lender many times basically owned your family. Those without connections or collateral had to beg or got no loans. They could never climb up in society.
The modern Credit System, even with all its faults, is phenomenal and quite far from your statement. It allows strangers to partially assess the risk of an investment in the other. Additionally, the debt doesn't pass on to others. The failure of the investment is shared by only all parties to the deal. This allows for greater investments and returns in society. The only figurative chaines of slavery are the ones self-imposed.
As for cheaper houses. Sure without lending, houses would be cheaper but they would be smaller too with less features. If you want, you can still build your own 1950's 1000 sqft ranch home on 1/2 an acre of unincorporated land in less than 6 months for under $50k.
Oh god! It would be so nice if people would do less cool new stuff! These days it feels like people barely know how to code. The end result is a "good enough" product that no one maintains. If there is a customer complaint, they patch it.
That's it. People work on "cool new stuff" and patches. No one seems to work on the stuff that people are actually using and is actually important.
Where did all these people with "fine coordination for sewing" come from? The place wasn't a ton of unemployed people looking for that kind of work. Nor is that kind of work easier or harder to learn than the next kind. The jobs came, for a skill set that clearly wasn't in large supply. Overtime, the supply grew and outpaced the demand and now demand is tanking.
There will be other jobs looking for other or maybe similar skills. And there won't be a ton of people unemployed with just that new skill. The unemployed will need to learn the new skill. But true, not all will be able to make the transition.
Sorry, but basically our entire human history disagrees with you. Yes locally there will be people out of jobs and unemployed. But as a society, we have _always_ come out ahead with every increase in productivity. Automation or otherwise.
The arguments you put forth have been rehashed for the atleast the last 200 years if not sooner. And every time, people say "But THIS time!"
The fee wasn't in the docs. The dealership asked for it after they sold the vehicle to him. The guy's mother (is he a Slashdot reader?) settled it with the dealership. The dealership removed the device at no additional cost.
I am guessing they forgot to remove their property and saw that the subcontractor (many times the service behind the hardware is someone else) would charge them ~$200 so they decided the pass on the charge. At this point, tough luck, deal was done. The user doesn't even need to return the GPS (service can be turned off), it kind of was sold with the car. The dealership should have asked nicely and gone to pick up their stuff.
I stopped watching cable around 2002. But since 2005 I have had cable only because it was cheaper to bundle the internet with some basic TV package; than just the internet. It also stops the annoying quarterly calls from the cable company about how they can make my life so much better with a more expensive package.
I don't think people have really "watched" TV for a long time. Its just some moving picture in the background at parties and dinners. No one schedules their lives around shows anymore. Around 2008 my friends even stopped bothering to schedule the box to record stuff for later viewing.
So other than the football games, I think people have realized that cable was an expensive way to have a moving picture as wallpaper...
What we are missing is the list of hotels that use these guys. Don't need to list all of them, just the big ones. Get enough media attention on big hotel names not keeping personal informantion secure and they will start paying attention.
It doesn't absolve them of their duties just because they hired a 3rd party. Maybe companies hiring out will pay more attention to details and operations after a few of these hit the news.
Just listing the party that screwed up means it goes away and another just like it fills the void. The people who took down your info have no incentive to respect its security.
For credit and debit cards, businesses don't actually get the funds till much later. Even CASH, for large businesses, they don't recognize it as received till 30-90 days later to accommodate returns.
For tabs, it's not a "pay me later" system. It's an informal IOU & credit system (what credit cards are based on too). It's just a way to have multiple ways (ppl) of paying for stuff without carrying a lot of cash on hand.
Glad I wasn't the only one. Maybe in 1995 it was impressive that you could store and retrieve quickly so much customer data... but that was pretty normal by even 2000.
Back then... you didn't "lift" anything off a shelf. You didn't do the traditional shopping like today. Carts are actually a recent concept (i.e. Macy's still doesn't have them).
You went up to the counter and told the boy to get you x, y, & z. The boy (or girl) got it for you, sometimes off a shelf reached by ladder. You told them to put it on the tab (depending on who you were, they knew which tab) and walked out.
Also, stuff too difficult to carry or you were too busy to, could be shipped home by the end of that day. Remember not everyone had phones... it was easier to make the "rounds" to gather the weekly needs.
Yes it would have been made. Historically, one could open tabs at local stores. Your wife/kid/slave/farmhand/driver would go in, get what they want, and ask that it be added to the family head's tab. At the end of the month, or when the amount reached a threshold, a boy or shopkeeper would come by and collect the dues. Sometimes they would only need an IOU to go ask the local bank for the funds withdrawn.. like a check.
There are countries that still practice this today. Its not exactly the same because the people have mostly been replaced with machines... but that difference shouldn't warrant a patent.
Even today, you can go retrofit a standard rocket firecracker from a local store with explosives and go shoot them at stuff. There isn't some all seeing security system that will stop you. 2kg of explosives from one drone isn't going to cause as much damage as people think to a warship. And I am sure if it was going to a sensitive location or a bunch were coming in, there would be soldiers shooting them out of the sky.
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That is actually a pretty cool idea. Monday's are a great day to get normal life stuff done. I used to kind of do Sunday 6pm to Friday 11am. Fridays & Saturdays were great but Sundays was a bit cramped wrapping up personal stuff.
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The beard under the period and the shift key for cap "T". God, keep up man!
But on a more serious note, I had to "correct" the iPhone 3 times to type that quote.
The article didn't get the point you intended across. In summary, because of the international sanctions, Russia has shifted its domestic economy more to agricultural production rather than import unbanned agricultural products. They revised their GDP growth from negative 0.6% to -0.5%. General economic growth is expected to be between 1-2%. These are ridiculously crappy numbers for a society that has poor infrastructure, and primarily a labor based market.
The article paints this as if the sanctions aren't working by comparing it to expectations that the economy should have crashed. This premise is based on just politician's talking points. But it is completely false. The point of sanctions isn't to crash the economy, create unrest, and leave the populace with little choice but to overthrow their leaders. If you want to crash the economy, infrastructure sabotage is best (ie: 9/11). But this is stupid, as all it will do is band the populace under their current leadership. Additionally, those with little to lose are more like to envy their neighbors and go to war (lesson of WWI and WWII).
No, the sanctions are doing exactly what they intended. They are preventing Russia from playing in the international economic game and reducing the speed of their social progress. Eventually they MAY see how far behind they are compared to other nations. But its a win win for the rest of the world. Either Russia will change or eventually become a low cost labor pool like China was 25 years ago. The nice thing about sanctions is that once lifted, the underlying economy will have massive growth and they can quickly catch up.
If sanctions non-violently switched a Russian rocket scientist or dentist from practicing their craft to baking bread... I don't think anyone should consider that a positive.
Generally speaking, the Exchange is probably more secure than your computer. I don't think I would be confident nor comfortable having $3 million dollar's worth of coins sitting in my laptop or USB drive at home. The problem here isn't so much about the security/reliability of the exchanges. I think they are fairly OK considering Bitcoin isn't collapsing. The problem is that the overall system has far less safety checks and nets than normal government backed currencies. Thou Bitcoin is better off than the currencies of China, Valenzuela, Somalia, etc.
There is also automation that has started digging in. A lot of work that gets offshored for clients is stuff like checking some fields before releasing a PO, executing a script to implement a change into prod, resetting user passwords, creating a VM from image, restarting & checking servers for patch level, etc. Mundane stuff that historically was cheaper to offload to the lowest cost labor but now it's better to have one small scripting team and a small executing team.
This isn't really a story about companies going back to tape as much one of companies going back to an actual sane backup solution.
Tape just happens to be the tried, tested, and true system with plenty of support infrastructure still around. All the other solutions aren't really direct archive replacements... process wise.
The real problem is that they didn't have Steve QA it! They should have placed the phone on edge on his coffin. If it falls left, fail. Right, means it sucks but will do.
If the phone flies off the coffin and shatters into a million pieces; sacrifice the dev team, repaint the room in their blood, and hire a new team.
Basically you are saying Teams vs Slack is worse than Skype + Teams vs Slack. I get that. But MS was already an entrenched IM vendor in the business world. Their primary competitor was themselves with LCS, OCS, Lync, Skype, and Teams. And the article should have just said "MS Communicator, new year, new name."
MS (and other big guys) talks about SaaS but then do stuff like this where its the same service but the branding has changed because the underlying technology comes from a different repo, code base, or dev team. They should have left the name as Skype or Lync.
Or even... HOW this is pressure on Slack? The Article is the same title and they just mention that Slack was worried about Teams before. And now somehow the highlight of MS cannibalizing one of its own products (a 3rd time in this product) is Slack worrying more...
Well... they did buy Skype 6 years ago so probably the model doesn't work anymore. But I don't think it ever really did thou.
And land within Seattle or New York or Washington DC are far far more than that... What is your point? There is a lot of demand for land close to most cities... let alone major ones like Seattle. Even places like Hyderabad, London, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Singapore are higher than that. You need to go much further out to places where the land is ~$10k per acre to build something for less than $50k.
Debt is modern slavery
A 100 years ago, this was quite true, and it still is in many parts of the world. People always have needed loans. Savings are quite difficult to secure. The more you have the more bad actors target you. So people took loans for that cow, bike, education, or house. But back then, that debt passed on to your children. It wasn't unusual to have the grandfather build a house and the grandchildren pay it off.
The interest you got charged was based on who you knew and what collateral you had. Gold, silver, daughters, etc. The lender many times basically owned your family. Those without connections or collateral had to beg or got no loans. They could never climb up in society.
The modern Credit System, even with all its faults, is phenomenal and quite far from your statement. It allows strangers to partially assess the risk of an investment in the other. Additionally, the debt doesn't pass on to others. The failure of the investment is shared by only all parties to the deal. This allows for greater investments and returns in society. The only figurative chaines of slavery are the ones self-imposed.
As for cheaper houses. Sure without lending, houses would be cheaper but they would be smaller too with less features. If you want, you can still build your own 1950's 1000 sqft ranch home on 1/2 an acre of unincorporated land in less than 6 months for under $50k.
Examples? Other than for extremely simple UIs, I haven't run across any.
Oh god! It would be so nice if people would do less cool new stuff! These days it feels like people barely know how to code. The end result is a "good enough" product that no one maintains. If there is a customer complaint, they patch it.
That's it. People work on "cool new stuff" and patches. No one seems to work on the stuff that people are actually using and is actually important.
Where did all these people with "fine coordination for sewing" come from? The place wasn't a ton of unemployed people looking for that kind of work. Nor is that kind of work easier or harder to learn than the next kind. The jobs came, for a skill set that clearly wasn't in large supply. Overtime, the supply grew and outpaced the demand and now demand is tanking.
There will be other jobs looking for other or maybe similar skills. And there won't be a ton of people unemployed with just that new skill. The unemployed will need to learn the new skill. But true, not all will be able to make the transition.
Sorry, but basically our entire human history disagrees with you. Yes locally there will be people out of jobs and unemployed. But as a society, we have _always_ come out ahead with every increase in productivity. Automation or otherwise.
The arguments you put forth have been rehashed for the atleast the last 200 years if not sooner. And every time, people say "But THIS time!"
I know, I will turn in my card later...
The fee wasn't in the docs. The dealership asked for it after they sold the vehicle to him. The guy's mother (is he a Slashdot reader?) settled it with the dealership. The dealership removed the device at no additional cost.
I am guessing they forgot to remove their property and saw that the subcontractor (many times the service behind the hardware is someone else) would charge them ~$200 so they decided the pass on the charge. At this point, tough luck, deal was done. The user doesn't even need to return the GPS (service can be turned off), it kind of was sold with the car. The dealership should have asked nicely and gone to pick up their stuff.
I stopped watching cable around 2002. But since 2005 I have had cable only because it was cheaper to bundle the internet with some basic TV package; than just the internet. It also stops the annoying quarterly calls from the cable company about how they can make my life so much better with a more expensive package.
I don't think people have really "watched" TV for a long time. Its just some moving picture in the background at parties and dinners. No one schedules their lives around shows anymore. Around 2008 my friends even stopped bothering to schedule the box to record stuff for later viewing.
So other than the football games, I think people have realized that cable was an expensive way to have a moving picture as wallpaper...
What we are missing is the list of hotels that use these guys. Don't need to list all of them, just the big ones. Get enough media attention on big hotel names not keeping personal informantion secure and they will start paying attention.
It doesn't absolve them of their duties just because they hired a 3rd party. Maybe companies hiring out will pay more attention to details and operations after a few of these hit the news.
Just listing the party that screwed up means it goes away and another just like it fills the void. The people who took down your info have no incentive to respect its security.
No, that's pretty much paying later.
For credit and debit cards, businesses don't actually get the funds till much later. Even CASH, for large businesses, they don't recognize it as received till 30-90 days later to accommodate returns.
For tabs, it's not a "pay me later" system. It's an informal IOU & credit system (what credit cards are based on too). It's just a way to have multiple ways (ppl) of paying for stuff without carrying a lot of cash on hand.
Glad I wasn't the only one. Maybe in 1995 it was impressive that you could store and retrieve quickly so much customer data... but that was pretty normal by even 2000.
Back then... you didn't "lift" anything off a shelf. You didn't do the traditional shopping like today. Carts are actually a recent concept (i.e. Macy's still doesn't have them).
You went up to the counter and told the boy to get you x, y, & z. The boy (or girl) got it for you, sometimes off a shelf reached by ladder. You told them to put it on the tab (depending on who you were, they knew which tab) and walked out.
Also, stuff too difficult to carry or you were too busy to, could be shipped home by the end of that day. Remember not everyone had phones... it was easier to make the "rounds" to gather the weekly needs.
Yes it would have been made. Historically, one could open tabs at local stores. Your wife/kid/slave/farmhand/driver would go in, get what they want, and ask that it be added to the family head's tab. At the end of the month, or when the amount reached a threshold, a boy or shopkeeper would come by and collect the dues. Sometimes they would only need an IOU to go ask the local bank for the funds withdrawn.. like a check.
There are countries that still practice this today. Its not exactly the same because the people have mostly been replaced with machines... but that difference shouldn't warrant a patent.
Or maybe there isn't anyone advanced more than 50,000 years than us in our galaxy? That would mean we wouldn't pick up their radio waves till today.
Maybe the intillegent ones are in other galaxies. They need to be at least 2.5 millions years ahead of us to detect them.
Even today, you can go retrofit a standard rocket firecracker from a local store with explosives and go shoot them at stuff. There isn't some all seeing security system that will stop you. 2kg of explosives from one drone isn't going to cause as much damage as people think to a warship. And I am sure if it was going to a sensitive location or a bunch were coming in, there would be soldiers shooting them out of the sky.