To Apple's credit, the slowdown actually was a feature. (The same feature Androids have had, with the option to turn on/off, since at least version 6.) To their discredit, the reason they forced it on people without their consent and then lied about it, was to get them to buy a new phone.
Make a place negative enough and people do eventually disengage. Look at our national politics. Turnout is at a low point.
If we can make the negativity in the platform more explicit, harder to ignore - that might drive down membership. I hope this is an oversight on FBs part, and I hope they continue to make that oversight.
Doubt it... This wouldn't necessarily encourage such business to make capital investments in the state - power plant construction contractors don't accept cryptocurrencies, for one, nor do I see them any time soon. And if your claim is that the politician who introduced this legislation has the foresight to realize cryptocurrency mining operations will need to be colocated with solar energy in the future, the burden of proof would be on you to show a quote from him demonstrating such. Then demonstrating how this policy gets to that goal. Because far more likely, "wow cryptocurrency" is a way of looking forward-thinking and business-friendly without using the politically weaponized term "green energy" in a Republican state. Oh, and maybe he's got a few friends who need to offload BTCs that they know will be worthless by the next fiscal year. Money shufflers getting rich off the state (the taxpayers)... Another classic Republican move.
Actually, make that $700 since we're talking about buying two. That'll get you into professional studio monitor territory... I know $700 is the going rate for entry into cramped luxury living at Apple Apartment Homes... but out in the real world it'll buy you a whole lot.
If they got paid the same, but worked less, they would be getting a higher pay-per-hour. The title means exactly what it says. Saying it's misleading sounds like either being deliberately obtuse, or ignoring the details, which are spelled out nicely in the summary - which wouldn't fit in the headline.
"Female drivers get paid less" and "female drivers earn less" have exactly the same edge to me. But if you want to start nitpicking on the implications of the wording, "earning" is something one does for oneself, which would put more focus on what the drivers are doing. "Getting paid" is something that an employer does for (or to) the drivers, putting the focus on what the employer is doing.
Honestly, all the engineering done here seems to be with the intention of mitigating shortcomings inherent in having all your speakers sitting in a tiny box that gets placed on the kitchen shelf, or on top of a bar in the center of the room, or some other suboptimal spot. Cool, it's got automatic bass response correction... but where is that bass going to go when it leaves the plastic speaker container? The laws of physics, specifically acoustics, still apply - where the speakers are placed will have a *huge* effect on the sound. Placing the speaker in a corner is the best way to get bass that really fills and shakes the room. You'd need to stand the thing on its side to angle it right to take advantage of the acoustics of being in that corner. What's that going to do to the mics and the tweeters?
Where is the stereo image going to come from? Is it possible to link two together and have them split the channels properly? Why 7 tweeters? It sounds like this thing is designed to be placed into the center of a room and sort of radiate the sound evenly around it... meaning no stereo image.
Bass, bass, bass. The laws of physics again - no matter how high the excursion is on your woofer, if it's only measuring something like 3-4 inches, and it's sitting on a countertop, your low frequency response is going to be seriously limited.
Sure, it sounds good... compared to a tinny phone speaker, or the awful crap they put into the new TVs, "sound bars", and $30 Bluetooth tabletop speakers. But if you are looking to spend $350 on speakers, you can get a real serious set for that sort of money. This overpriced Apple gadget is no replacement. You're spending $350 on Siri. If you've got that money to blow, go ahead and blow it. But don't let the Reality Distortion Field get you.
Provide a decent wage, healthcare, and ignore nonviolent drug offenses, and I'm sure you could dig up 300,000 white Americans *easy* for a free trip to Japan. If the Japanese really care about the problem, and robot bathroom timers aren't enough to compensate for the lack of people... They have only to overcome their xenophobia.
JS running in your browser *would* be sandboxed... if the CPU didn't let memory leak between every single user process, as well as the kernel. Which, Golly Gee, is the entire problem here.
I do run NoScript, which will probably stop some drive-by attacks. But there are also sites that I need to actually work as intended - for example, the sites where I've been applying for jobs lately. The choice I'm left with becomes conducting an audit of a third-party's web infrastructure and JS for each job I apply to, or not applying for any jobs.
And so it appears you lack even a cursory understanding of the bug, or my security practices, but feel confident enough to tell me I'm talking out of my ass. Dunnig-Kreuger in effect, or just another of the shill army? "Sad!"
That goes against the part of the Republican platform of making it difficult to sue. It would create a loophole in the grand plan. Even if they do decide to go schizo on that particular piece of it, getting more lawyers involved has never made anything happen efficiently. Litigation needs to be the final resort when regulations have failed to prevent laws from being broken.
It's not really about what you think. People lie to themselves more than anyone else. There's a LOT of bullshit in AA, but part of the truth of the 12 step programs is that the first step is recognizing the problem. The default state of an addict is not recognizing the problem. Especially for something like Facebook where there aren't long-standing taboos you have to break to maintain the addiction. When everyone in your social circle is telling you what you're doing is OK, and you can't see it for yourself, you don't even get to Step 1. Maintaining a perfect, blind addiction.
I believe you wouldn't use it more than once, and I also believe you're not a photojournalist in a warzone. Taking 60 seconds to decrypt your pictures once you get back to safety would be the quickest, easiest part of the job.
Perhaps it wasn't graded at all, just used to prompt a classroom discussion, like it's now prompting a Slashdot discussion.
If it *was* graded, that would be done subjectively, like a literary analysis. Not objectively like a math problem.
Two sides of the same xenophobic coin, as I see it. One of the interesting things with the Trump presidency is how transparently rooted a lot of it is in the psychology of the one man. Not that other presidents didn't have a psyche or an ego, but they did a much better job abstracting that from both their policies and their rhetoric. I don't recall (for example) Bush ever flipping so quickly and pointedly his opinion of a man, as Trump did with Comey, over a perceived personal slight, which is how Trump reads any hint of disloyalty.
Regarding specific protectionist policies, like his proposed flat border tax on all imports from Mexico, there's been plenty of flip-flopping. I'd be interested to know why he listened to the economists when they told him to drop that one, but he didn't listen to many of those same economists that told him his tax plan wasn't so hot. Perhaps his very personal gain from the latter. He's never been one for details, to put it generously, except where his own funds are immediately concerned. That's why he shifted his career away from actual real estate and developing (too risky, too many bankruptcies, too many details) into a sort of branding empire - a master of image manipulation.
It's a much easier alternative for me as well. I could buy 20 new phones, plus an SD card to keep the same data on each them, for less than the price of a single iPhone. But in reality, I only need to switch phones every 18 months or so - pretty much the same schedule as someone who always gets the new iPhone.
So maybe this is "Hebrew gobbledygook". What difference does it make?
I'm still not convinced it's anything more than a sort of forgery, a faked artifact, and the only reason people care about it now is the circular "a bunch of previous people also cared about it".
Much more interesting than all the totally predictable Russia trolls. If I didn't think Slashdot/Dice was so idiotic, I'd say the mass of Russia stories were a honeypot to gather IP addresses, linguistic analysis, etc. of the Russia trolls. But it's more believable to me they are just after traffic, any traffic. I wonder how many click on ads?
I'm still trying to figure out what his platform actually was. Depends on which of his brainfarts he chose to release that day. Really the only consistency has been incendiary anti-immigrant rhetoric - that noble, time-tested populace-rallying tool.
It's been a while since I've seen any such alerts, but Android did give me options along the lines of "Stop all alerts" and "Stop only alerts of this kind". Whether or not the alerts get sent with the proper flags is another question, and it sounds like that's maybe what the FCC is trying to standardize and fix here.
Not firing incompetent people for high-level fuckups is an example of managerial incompetence. Seems like a flavor of favoritism of some sort. Why do you think a competent manager would be less likely to fire this guy than if he were a contractor? Are you under the illusion that the courts won't allow companies to fire their employees when there's a clear example of failing at the job? Even in the parts of the country where the right to fire hasn't been explicitly and unconditionally protected under the law, that's not true.
Besides that, "Emergency Broadcast System monitor" doesn't sound like the kind of job where contracting really fits. Contracting is great arrangement if you're opening a new office and need Cat5e installed and a couple of servers built - clearly-defined jobs with a start and a finish. Not where you need people to sit until literal doomsday waiting for the call. Incompetent people may be attracted to that job, but the idea that they must end up there is false. That depends, again, on management. How they hire, how they fire. Setting the employees up as "contractors" won't make a lick of difference, besides maybe being able to wiggle out of giving them healthcare (which shouldn't be something the *employer* is burdened with anyway, but that's another story).
My hunch - and I won't pretend to know what actually happened, like so many others on Slashdot - is that there were several grunts who made mistakes, and on top of that, there's probably some procedural/technical/systemic issues that contributed. All of those things point to management problems. Assuming my hunches are correct, we need to get rid of whoever handles hiring/firing. We need to get rid of whoever approved the procedures or made the software. And we probably need to get rid of whoever is above them - who is probably a politician of some kind who gave these duties to one of his private-sector buddies. But we don't want to call for that. No, we want to train our tunnelvision on the guy who hit the button.
Yes, and also for the experience of hearing the music itself. What about that do you have trouble comprehending? I think it shouldn't be difficult, even for someone who doesn't make music.
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To Apple's credit, the slowdown actually was a feature. (The same feature Androids have had, with the option to turn on/off, since at least version 6.) To their discredit, the reason they forced it on people without their consent and then lied about it, was to get them to buy a new phone.
Make a place negative enough and people do eventually disengage. Look at our national politics. Turnout is at a low point.
If we can make the negativity in the platform more explicit, harder to ignore - that might drive down membership. I hope this is an oversight on FBs part, and I hope they continue to make that oversight.
Doubt it... This wouldn't necessarily encourage such business to make capital investments in the state - power plant construction contractors don't accept cryptocurrencies, for one, nor do I see them any time soon. And if your claim is that the politician who introduced this legislation has the foresight to realize cryptocurrency mining operations will need to be colocated with solar energy in the future, the burden of proof would be on you to show a quote from him demonstrating such. Then demonstrating how this policy gets to that goal. Because far more likely, "wow cryptocurrency" is a way of looking forward-thinking and business-friendly without using the politically weaponized term "green energy" in a Republican state. Oh, and maybe he's got a few friends who need to offload BTCs that they know will be worthless by the next fiscal year. Money shufflers getting rich off the state (the taxpayers)... Another classic Republican move.
Actually, make that $700 since we're talking about buying two. That'll get you into professional studio monitor territory... I know $700 is the going rate for entry into cramped luxury living at Apple Apartment Homes... but out in the real world it'll buy you a whole lot.
If they got paid the same, but worked less, they would be getting a higher pay-per-hour. The title means exactly what it says. Saying it's misleading sounds like either being deliberately obtuse, or ignoring the details, which are spelled out nicely in the summary - which wouldn't fit in the headline.
"Female drivers get paid less" and "female drivers earn less" have exactly the same edge to me. But if you want to start nitpicking on the implications of the wording, "earning" is something one does for oneself, which would put more focus on what the drivers are doing. "Getting paid" is something that an employer does for (or to) the drivers, putting the focus on what the employer is doing.
Honestly, all the engineering done here seems to be with the intention of mitigating shortcomings inherent in having all your speakers sitting in a tiny box that gets placed on the kitchen shelf, or on top of a bar in the center of the room, or some other suboptimal spot. Cool, it's got automatic bass response correction... but where is that bass going to go when it leaves the plastic speaker container? The laws of physics, specifically acoustics, still apply - where the speakers are placed will have a *huge* effect on the sound. Placing the speaker in a corner is the best way to get bass that really fills and shakes the room. You'd need to stand the thing on its side to angle it right to take advantage of the acoustics of being in that corner. What's that going to do to the mics and the tweeters?
Where is the stereo image going to come from? Is it possible to link two together and have them split the channels properly? Why 7 tweeters? It sounds like this thing is designed to be placed into the center of a room and sort of radiate the sound evenly around it... meaning no stereo image.
Bass, bass, bass. The laws of physics again - no matter how high the excursion is on your woofer, if it's only measuring something like 3-4 inches, and it's sitting on a countertop, your low frequency response is going to be seriously limited.
Sure, it sounds good... compared to a tinny phone speaker, or the awful crap they put into the new TVs, "sound bars", and $30 Bluetooth tabletop speakers. But if you are looking to spend $350 on speakers, you can get a real serious set for that sort of money. This overpriced Apple gadget is no replacement. You're spending $350 on Siri. If you've got that money to blow, go ahead and blow it. But don't let the Reality Distortion Field get you.
Provide a decent wage, healthcare, and ignore nonviolent drug offenses, and I'm sure you could dig up 300,000 white Americans *easy* for a free trip to Japan. If the Japanese really care about the problem, and robot bathroom timers aren't enough to compensate for the lack of people... They have only to overcome their xenophobia.
Yeah, CNN, the government agency that coined the phrase "alternative facts". Duh. What don't you understand?
JS running in your browser *would* be sandboxed... if the CPU didn't let memory leak between every single user process, as well as the kernel. Which, Golly Gee, is the entire problem here.
I do run NoScript, which will probably stop some drive-by attacks. But there are also sites that I need to actually work as intended - for example, the sites where I've been applying for jobs lately. The choice I'm left with becomes conducting an audit of a third-party's web infrastructure and JS for each job I apply to, or not applying for any jobs.
And so it appears you lack even a cursory understanding of the bug, or my security practices, but feel confident enough to tell me I'm talking out of my ass. Dunnig-Kreuger in effect, or just another of the shill army? "Sad!"
That goes against the part of the Republican platform of making it difficult to sue. It would create a loophole in the grand plan. Even if they do decide to go schizo on that particular piece of it, getting more lawyers involved has never made anything happen efficiently. Litigation needs to be the final resort when regulations have failed to prevent laws from being broken.
It's not really about what you think. People lie to themselves more than anyone else. There's a LOT of bullshit in AA, but part of the truth of the 12 step programs is that the first step is recognizing the problem. The default state of an addict is not recognizing the problem. Especially for something like Facebook where there aren't long-standing taboos you have to break to maintain the addiction. When everyone in your social circle is telling you what you're doing is OK, and you can't see it for yourself, you don't even get to Step 1. Maintaining a perfect, blind addiction.
We already have the Ministry of Alternative Facts.
I believe you wouldn't use it more than once, and I also believe you're not a photojournalist in a warzone. Taking 60 seconds to decrypt your pictures once you get back to safety would be the quickest, easiest part of the job.
You download and execute code every time you open your web browser.
Perhaps it wasn't graded at all, just used to prompt a classroom discussion, like it's now prompting a Slashdot discussion.
If it *was* graded, that would be done subjectively, like a literary analysis. Not objectively like a math problem.
Two sides of the same xenophobic coin, as I see it. One of the interesting things with the Trump presidency is how transparently rooted a lot of it is in the psychology of the one man. Not that other presidents didn't have a psyche or an ego, but they did a much better job abstracting that from both their policies and their rhetoric. I don't recall (for example) Bush ever flipping so quickly and pointedly his opinion of a man, as Trump did with Comey, over a perceived personal slight, which is how Trump reads any hint of disloyalty.
Regarding specific protectionist policies, like his proposed flat border tax on all imports from Mexico, there's been plenty of flip-flopping. I'd be interested to know why he listened to the economists when they told him to drop that one, but he didn't listen to many of those same economists that told him his tax plan wasn't so hot. Perhaps his very personal gain from the latter. He's never been one for details, to put it generously, except where his own funds are immediately concerned. That's why he shifted his career away from actual real estate and developing (too risky, too many bankruptcies, too many details) into a sort of branding empire - a master of image manipulation.
It's a much easier alternative for me as well. I could buy 20 new phones, plus an SD card to keep the same data on each them, for less than the price of a single iPhone. But in reality, I only need to switch phones every 18 months or so - pretty much the same schedule as someone who always gets the new iPhone.
So maybe this is "Hebrew gobbledygook". What difference does it make?
I'm still not convinced it's anything more than a sort of forgery, a faked artifact, and the only reason people care about it now is the circular "a bunch of previous people also cared about it".
Much more interesting than all the totally predictable Russia trolls. If I didn't think Slashdot/Dice was so idiotic, I'd say the mass of Russia stories were a honeypot to gather IP addresses, linguistic analysis, etc. of the Russia trolls. But it's more believable to me they are just after traffic, any traffic. I wonder how many click on ads?
I'm still trying to figure out what his platform actually was. Depends on which of his brainfarts he chose to release that day. Really the only consistency has been incendiary anti-immigrant rhetoric - that noble, time-tested populace-rallying tool.
It's been a while since I've seen any such alerts, but Android did give me options along the lines of "Stop all alerts" and "Stop only alerts of this kind". Whether or not the alerts get sent with the proper flags is another question, and it sounds like that's maybe what the FCC is trying to standardize and fix here.
Not firing incompetent people for high-level fuckups is an example of managerial incompetence. Seems like a flavor of favoritism of some sort. Why do you think a competent manager would be less likely to fire this guy than if he were a contractor? Are you under the illusion that the courts won't allow companies to fire their employees when there's a clear example of failing at the job? Even in the parts of the country where the right to fire hasn't been explicitly and unconditionally protected under the law, that's not true.
Besides that, "Emergency Broadcast System monitor" doesn't sound like the kind of job where contracting really fits. Contracting is great arrangement if you're opening a new office and need Cat5e installed and a couple of servers built - clearly-defined jobs with a start and a finish. Not where you need people to sit until literal doomsday waiting for the call. Incompetent people may be attracted to that job, but the idea that they must end up there is false. That depends, again, on management. How they hire, how they fire. Setting the employees up as "contractors" won't make a lick of difference, besides maybe being able to wiggle out of giving them healthcare (which shouldn't be something the *employer* is burdened with anyway, but that's another story).
My hunch - and I won't pretend to know what actually happened, like so many others on Slashdot - is that there were several grunts who made mistakes, and on top of that, there's probably some procedural/technical/systemic issues that contributed. All of those things point to management problems. Assuming my hunches are correct, we need to get rid of whoever handles hiring/firing. We need to get rid of whoever approved the procedures or made the software. And we probably need to get rid of whoever is above them - who is probably a politician of some kind who gave these duties to one of his private-sector buddies. But we don't want to call for that. No, we want to train our tunnelvision on the guy who hit the button.
Yes, and also for the experience of hearing the music itself. What about that do you have trouble comprehending? I think it shouldn't be difficult, even for someone who doesn't make music.
Most companies call it "Human Resources".