I don't run a small business, but the sheer incompetence of large banks like these are why I do my banking with a credit union. Any time I've had an issue, I've been able to resolve it in under five minutes. If you get to know some of the people who work there, they'd probably nip idiotic moves like this in bud.
The teacher is in Fargo, North Dakota though. If you know anything about that part of the country it's that it's about 20 years behind the coasts when it comes to the cultural zeitgeist. I think the kids there are still playing with Pogs at recess and telling their friends how fly it is. I'm sure they'll get around to it long after the rest of the country has moved on to something else.
I'm all for letting people do whatever kind of private education they want if they're willing to pay for it. I don't think it will matter much. There was a report done by the Brookings Institution that found that school district, school choice within district, and teacher quality within schools collectively only explain a little under 10% of the variance in student achievement.
Realistically, even if some private company has it all figured out, there isn't a lot of room for improvement. I think the only area where they have a good chance at making a compelling argument is driving down costs. There's been enough administrative creep in education that could be done away with while having negligible impact on educational outcomes.
People seem to be making an incorrect assumption that schools will have a significant impact on their children's education, when there are other factors that contribute far more heavily to this. As the old saying goes, don't let your schooling get in the way of your education.
I don't really get this argument. If you survive cancer, something else will eventually start killing you and that's probably going to be even more expensive. If you think that the medical industry exists only to bilk patients out of their money, then it's a lot easier to do that the longer you can keep them alive until they get something else too expensive to cure.
Is there a rule that says a person will only be "inspired" by someone who is the same gender that they are and / or has the same colour skin? And if so, why not require them to be the same height, or eye-colour, too.
I think only to the extent that a person believes that people who are not the same gender, ethnicity, culture, etc. as themselves are an other and in that way a little less human if they're being perfectly honest with themselves. It's the kind of naive thought one might have as a small child, but that should be dismissed even before puberty. '
I think that's what disgusts me most about the people so in favor of forced representation in media, etc. They essentially treat groups of people like idiot children who can't possible draw inspiration from someone who isn't also a member of that group. It's an insidious and less obvious separate but equal.
Writers can be a bit weird when it comes to their equipment. It may well be that he still used an ancient machine to actually write his novels that he had been using for some time. If all you're doing is some simple word processing, you could probably get by with using something from the 80's. Probably not a bad idea if you don't want the possibility of distraction.
I don't get how this is better. It doesn't seem faster, more reliable, or more secure than using a mobile phone for payment. Add the creepiness of a company taking pictures of you and I can't see a good reason for this when we already have other technologies that make payments quick and painless.
It's a mix a both, really. When you have companies in California offering salaries of $60,000 per year it's a lot different than that same salary being offered in somewhere like Nebraska where the cost of living is going to be a lot lower. There are a lot of Americans that aren't willing to work for that pay in California because it won't allow them to afford the type of lifestyle that they expect. Meanwhile, there are many H1-B workers who are more than happy to take those wages, because from their perspective its a great opportunity for them to live in a nice place and having the kind of freedoms that living in a western democracy affords that may not be possible in their native country.
There are a lot of skilled workers, but there aren't a lot of companies that want to pay the rates those workers feel that they're worth when they can get some wet behind the ears college graduate for perhaps half the salary. I don't know if that's always the best economic decision for the company, and some of that may come from companies not having a good way to measure productivity differences which is difficult to do in software engineering without creating some kind of metrics based hell that the smart employees will figure out how to game quite easily.
The truth isn't something that's always easy to completely understand and something like the global economy has so many moving parts that even if you understand some of the fundamental causes (e.g. higher demand for software engineers will increase wages, which ultimately leads to more people majoring in CS and increasing the available labor pool which reduces wages until an equilibrium is reached where the number of people capable and interested in being developers matches the demand) it's really hard to factor everything in. Think of it another way. If you could easily answer that question, centrally planned economies would be easy to pull off and the Soviet Union probably would have won the cold war instead of collapsing like it did.
Since I'm here... How much to call me a malodorous bastard?
We used to have some people here that would do it for $40 an hour, but they got replaced by some H-1B workers willing to do the job for only $22.50 an hour. They also had to lie on their CV about having 25 years experience abusing people on Slashdot, even though the site has only been around for about 20.
There are limitations to what you can do while accessing public land though as your own link points out. Personally, I don't think it should be illegal at all for private individuals to film public locations while in public and especially not when its public servants being filmed. But someone has to stand up for our freedoms, even though it may come at great personal expense to themselves, or we will quickly find that government encroachment has eroded them to nothing.
That's idiotic. That's about the same as saying that anyone who claims to have been drinking for 20 years is an alcoholic. Clearly we know that's not true and there are plenty of people who only drink occasionally and in small amounts.
That's why I think the big commercial players will slowly die out, but college radio stations and things like that will continue to thrive. There are better ways of delivering payola than radio now, so there's not a lot of incentive for the media companies to support it once the audience goes away.
Science is still practiced by people who can be pig-headed and stick to their guns long after it has become apparent there is no basis for them or will be reluctant to accept some new information that seems to turn the field on its head. It's something of human nature to cling to an initial belief despite good evidence to the contrary.
The important part is that mathematics and science give us the means to verify our beliefs (or at least in the case of science to test and reject other possible explanations) as the universe is under no obligation to conform to a mistaken belief. Religion has no such methods.
Palm's problem was that they were two years late to the party. I think that they easily could be in a similar position to Apple now if they had launched alongside Apple or even shortly thereafter like some of the big Android devices of the time instead of being caught with their pants down. The company sat on their hands for entirely too long and had nothing to show for it when the iPhone changed the game. The fact that the Pre ad WebOS were as good as they were at release showed that the company still had some serious engineering and design chops.
I doubt Trump has anything to do with it. Google Fibre foundered for years under the Obama administration and I doubt the Feds really care all that much regaerdless of who is charge. I'd look a the Governor or Mayor to see if that's where the holdup is at.
The easy solution is to allow for other app stores to exist outside of Apple's official store. People can still trust the apps they get from Apple and their store and are under no requirement to use some other store to purchase their apps.
I can see Apple being against this because they want to control the whole platform and user experience. Having previously done tech support I can understand Apple's position that users are bloody stupid and shouldn't be trusted with anything. Unfortunately there's no easy or quick way to determine if someone is capable of making those kinds of decisions, so it just becomes a platform choice. If you want the freedom to choose for yourself and are willing to accept the consequences of that, get an Android phone instead.
I think it's pretty good marketing for the New America Foundation. This is a fairly inexpensive way to tell the whole world that they'll think whatever they're paid to.
I don't know if that's a good argument. It's a bit like saying that a certain amount of one fuel (say coal) obviously doesn't contain the same amount of energy as some quantity of another fuel (say oil) simply because converting between them uses some energy to do so. If that weren't the case, you'd have the body undertaking metabolic processes that have no energy cost whatsoever, essentially a perfect engine. I think it's far more reasonable to say that just because you have two quantities of fuel that contain the same amount of potential energy, you may not have equally good ways of extracting that potential energy and putting it to use.
Even if your body is capable of extracting more from certain types of fuels, you're still going to need to limit the amount of input or the excess is going to get stored and you'll gain weight. If your an average adult eating 1600 calories per day and are relatively active and still putting on massive amounts of weight, something is clearly wrong with that picture and its pretty important to figure out what that is. The number of conditions that cause issues such as that do not occur at the rates necessary for us to see such widespread obesity in the population. For most people, the more likely explanation is that they're consuming far more than they'll admit.
And if there are certain foods that are exacerbating the problem, then it's necessary to remove them from the diet.
The news media hardly helps. I can't count the number of times I've read some story where they've grabbed on to some result and misrepresented what the science actually says or use it to draw conclusion that aren't supported by the research.
Yes there are medical conditions that can lead to problems with certain diets (here's a guy who only eats raw meat due to some medical condition), and there's almost certainly some genetic factors that can contribute to how the human body processes certain foods or Samoans and other Pacific islanders wouldn't have an even bigger problem with the modern western diet than most westerners do. However, you can't look at the obesity figures for the U.S. and tell me that every single one of them has some condition that's responsible for their weight and not the sheer number of calories they're consuming. A calorie may not always be the same as any other, but when you're consuming four or five thousand every day, it doesn't matter all that much.
I know expressing contempt for the issue makes you feel smart but it makes you look stupid.
Given the rest of your post, the same could be said for you as well.
Yes, it's break-even at two years, but it makes the implicit assumption that you need a new phone after two years. This is not the case so there's this hidden cost that you may not need to incur. My current phone is two years old at this point and I have no need at all to upgrade. I paid the full price at the time of purchase, so every month I hold on to it beyond that two year point is money I'm saving.
I think I had read that Apple is locked into a deal with Intel for several more years, so I wouldn't expect to see any AMD processors soon.
I suspect that in the long run, Apple's plan is to replace Intel with their own custom chips. Their recent ARM SoCs don't clock as high as Intel chips, but they have been able to achieve similar performance per clock in many areas.
It's probably still a few years before they make the move to their own chips, but it seems like that's where they're going. This seems even more likely as the amount of performance needed for consumer PCs is going to remain relatively fixed while improvements in chip design and fabrication processes make it economically possible for Apple to use their own SoCs in their notebooks or desktops even if they can't compete with the most powerful high-end Intel or AMD chips.
Perhaps Apple will start designing products intended for the professional market that still use those high-end CPUs from Intel/AMD, but most of their customers don't require that level of power and it's probably much more cost economical for Apple to use their own custom chips, especially if they have lower power draw for similar levels of performance.
They're missing a very important part of the equation in that many phones these days are good enough to last for at least four years. I suppose there's some reason to be pessimistic about that if you have one of the Android handsets that isn't going to get updated after a year to two, or if the newest version of iOS makes your older iPhone incredibly sluggish, but from a financial point of view you end up saving a lot of money over leasing.
If you make the flawed assumption that a phone is only good for two years, then it doesn't really matter if you pay $700 up front or a monthly payment of $30 to lease it. However, if you keep that same $700 phone for 4 years, then the monthly cost goes down to under $15 when you stretch the cost out like that. So unless you're the type of person that just has to have a shiny new device every year, leasing isn't necessarily your best option.
Yeah, I remember when Seagate had the most reliable drives and I used them for many years until their quality went way down. I'm not buying spinning disks any longer, though the last ones I bought were Samsung manufactured (funnily enough they sold their hard drive business to Seagate several years ago) and some of those are still seeing regular use in some older boxes or for local backup. By the time they fail I'll probably be able to replace them with an SSD that's just as large, but costs less than what I paid for those spinning drives when I bought them new.
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I don't run a small business, but the sheer incompetence of large banks like these are why I do my banking with a credit union. Any time I've had an issue, I've been able to resolve it in under five minutes. If you get to know some of the people who work there, they'd probably nip idiotic moves like this in bud.
The teacher is in Fargo, North Dakota though. If you know anything about that part of the country it's that it's about 20 years behind the coasts when it comes to the cultural zeitgeist. I think the kids there are still playing with Pogs at recess and telling their friends how fly it is. I'm sure they'll get around to it long after the rest of the country has moved on to something else.
I'm all for letting people do whatever kind of private education they want if they're willing to pay for it. I don't think it will matter much. There was a report done by the Brookings Institution that found that school district, school choice within district, and teacher quality within schools collectively only explain a little under 10% of the variance in student achievement.
Realistically, even if some private company has it all figured out, there isn't a lot of room for improvement. I think the only area where they have a good chance at making a compelling argument is driving down costs. There's been enough administrative creep in education that could be done away with while having negligible impact on educational outcomes.
People seem to be making an incorrect assumption that schools will have a significant impact on their children's education, when there are other factors that contribute far more heavily to this. As the old saying goes, don't let your schooling get in the way of your education.
I don't really get this argument. If you survive cancer, something else will eventually start killing you and that's probably going to be even more expensive. If you think that the medical industry exists only to bilk patients out of their money, then it's a lot easier to do that the longer you can keep them alive until they get something else too expensive to cure.
Is there a rule that says a person will only be "inspired" by someone who is the same gender that they are and / or has the same colour skin? And if so, why not require them to be the same height, or eye-colour, too.
I think only to the extent that a person believes that people who are not the same gender, ethnicity, culture, etc. as themselves are an other and in that way a little less human if they're being perfectly honest with themselves. It's the kind of naive thought one might have as a small child, but that should be dismissed even before puberty. '
I think that's what disgusts me most about the people so in favor of forced representation in media, etc. They essentially treat groups of people like idiot children who can't possible draw inspiration from someone who isn't also a member of that group. It's an insidious and less obvious separate but equal.
Writers can be a bit weird when it comes to their equipment. It may well be that he still used an ancient machine to actually write his novels that he had been using for some time. If all you're doing is some simple word processing, you could probably get by with using something from the 80's. Probably not a bad idea if you don't want the possibility of distraction.
I don't get how this is better. It doesn't seem faster, more reliable, or more secure than using a mobile phone for payment. Add the creepiness of a company taking pictures of you and I can't see a good reason for this when we already have other technologies that make payments quick and painless.
It's a mix a both, really. When you have companies in California offering salaries of $60,000 per year it's a lot different than that same salary being offered in somewhere like Nebraska where the cost of living is going to be a lot lower. There are a lot of Americans that aren't willing to work for that pay in California because it won't allow them to afford the type of lifestyle that they expect. Meanwhile, there are many H1-B workers who are more than happy to take those wages, because from their perspective its a great opportunity for them to live in a nice place and having the kind of freedoms that living in a western democracy affords that may not be possible in their native country.
There are a lot of skilled workers, but there aren't a lot of companies that want to pay the rates those workers feel that they're worth when they can get some wet behind the ears college graduate for perhaps half the salary. I don't know if that's always the best economic decision for the company, and some of that may come from companies not having a good way to measure productivity differences which is difficult to do in software engineering without creating some kind of metrics based hell that the smart employees will figure out how to game quite easily.
The truth isn't something that's always easy to completely understand and something like the global economy has so many moving parts that even if you understand some of the fundamental causes (e.g. higher demand for software engineers will increase wages, which ultimately leads to more people majoring in CS and increasing the available labor pool which reduces wages until an equilibrium is reached where the number of people capable and interested in being developers matches the demand) it's really hard to factor everything in. Think of it another way. If you could easily answer that question, centrally planned economies would be easy to pull off and the Soviet Union probably would have won the cold war instead of collapsing like it did.
Since I'm here... How much to call me a malodorous bastard?
We used to have some people here that would do it for $40 an hour, but they got replaced by some H-1B workers willing to do the job for only $22.50 an hour. They also had to lie on their CV about having 25 years experience abusing people on Slashdot, even though the site has only been around for about 20.
There are limitations to what you can do while accessing public land though as your own link points out. Personally, I don't think it should be illegal at all for private individuals to film public locations while in public and especially not when its public servants being filmed. But someone has to stand up for our freedoms, even though it may come at great personal expense to themselves, or we will quickly find that government encroachment has eroded them to nothing.
That's idiotic. That's about the same as saying that anyone who claims to have been drinking for 20 years is an alcoholic. Clearly we know that's not true and there are plenty of people who only drink occasionally and in small amounts.
That's why I think the big commercial players will slowly die out, but college radio stations and things like that will continue to thrive. There are better ways of delivering payola than radio now, so there's not a lot of incentive for the media companies to support it once the audience goes away.
Science is still practiced by people who can be pig-headed and stick to their guns long after it has become apparent there is no basis for them or will be reluctant to accept some new information that seems to turn the field on its head. It's something of human nature to cling to an initial belief despite good evidence to the contrary.
The important part is that mathematics and science give us the means to verify our beliefs (or at least in the case of science to test and reject other possible explanations) as the universe is under no obligation to conform to a mistaken belief. Religion has no such methods.
Palm's problem was that they were two years late to the party. I think that they easily could be in a similar position to Apple now if they had launched alongside Apple or even shortly thereafter like some of the big Android devices of the time instead of being caught with their pants down. The company sat on their hands for entirely too long and had nothing to show for it when the iPhone changed the game. The fact that the Pre ad WebOS were as good as they were at release showed that the company still had some serious engineering and design chops.
I doubt Trump has anything to do with it. Google Fibre foundered for years under the Obama administration and I doubt the Feds really care all that much regaerdless of who is charge. I'd look a the Governor or Mayor to see if that's where the holdup is at.
The easy solution is to allow for other app stores to exist outside of Apple's official store. People can still trust the apps they get from Apple and their store and are under no requirement to use some other store to purchase their apps.
I can see Apple being against this because they want to control the whole platform and user experience. Having previously done tech support I can understand Apple's position that users are bloody stupid and shouldn't be trusted with anything. Unfortunately there's no easy or quick way to determine if someone is capable of making those kinds of decisions, so it just becomes a platform choice. If you want the freedom to choose for yourself and are willing to accept the consequences of that, get an Android phone instead.
I think it's pretty good marketing for the New America Foundation. This is a fairly inexpensive way to tell the whole world that they'll think whatever they're paid to.
I don't know if that's a good argument. It's a bit like saying that a certain amount of one fuel (say coal) obviously doesn't contain the same amount of energy as some quantity of another fuel (say oil) simply because converting between them uses some energy to do so. If that weren't the case, you'd have the body undertaking metabolic processes that have no energy cost whatsoever, essentially a perfect engine. I think it's far more reasonable to say that just because you have two quantities of fuel that contain the same amount of potential energy, you may not have equally good ways of extracting that potential energy and putting it to use.
Even if your body is capable of extracting more from certain types of fuels, you're still going to need to limit the amount of input or the excess is going to get stored and you'll gain weight. If your an average adult eating 1600 calories per day and are relatively active and still putting on massive amounts of weight, something is clearly wrong with that picture and its pretty important to figure out what that is. The number of conditions that cause issues such as that do not occur at the rates necessary for us to see such widespread obesity in the population. For most people, the more likely explanation is that they're consuming far more than they'll admit.
And if there are certain foods that are exacerbating the problem, then it's necessary to remove them from the diet.
The news media hardly helps. I can't count the number of times I've read some story where they've grabbed on to some result and misrepresented what the science actually says or use it to draw conclusion that aren't supported by the research.
I know expressing contempt for the issue makes you feel smart but it makes you look stupid.
Given the rest of your post, the same could be said for you as well.
Yes, it's break-even at two years, but it makes the implicit assumption that you need a new phone after two years. This is not the case so there's this hidden cost that you may not need to incur. My current phone is two years old at this point and I have no need at all to upgrade. I paid the full price at the time of purchase, so every month I hold on to it beyond that two year point is money I'm saving.
I think I had read that Apple is locked into a deal with Intel for several more years, so I wouldn't expect to see any AMD processors soon.
I suspect that in the long run, Apple's plan is to replace Intel with their own custom chips. Their recent ARM SoCs don't clock as high as Intel chips, but they have been able to achieve similar performance per clock in many areas.
It's probably still a few years before they make the move to their own chips, but it seems like that's where they're going. This seems even more likely as the amount of performance needed for consumer PCs is going to remain relatively fixed while improvements in chip design and fabrication processes make it economically possible for Apple to use their own SoCs in their notebooks or desktops even if they can't compete with the most powerful high-end Intel or AMD chips.
Perhaps Apple will start designing products intended for the professional market that still use those high-end CPUs from Intel/AMD, but most of their customers don't require that level of power and it's probably much more cost economical for Apple to use their own custom chips, especially if they have lower power draw for similar levels of performance.
They're missing a very important part of the equation in that many phones these days are good enough to last for at least four years. I suppose there's some reason to be pessimistic about that if you have one of the Android handsets that isn't going to get updated after a year to two, or if the newest version of iOS makes your older iPhone incredibly sluggish, but from a financial point of view you end up saving a lot of money over leasing.
If you make the flawed assumption that a phone is only good for two years, then it doesn't really matter if you pay $700 up front or a monthly payment of $30 to lease it. However, if you keep that same $700 phone for 4 years, then the monthly cost goes down to under $15 when you stretch the cost out like that. So unless you're the type of person that just has to have a shiny new device every year, leasing isn't necessarily your best option.
Yeah, I remember when Seagate had the most reliable drives and I used them for many years until their quality went way down. I'm not buying spinning disks any longer, though the last ones I bought were Samsung manufactured (funnily enough they sold their hard drive business to Seagate several years ago) and some of those are still seeing regular use in some older boxes or for local backup. By the time they fail I'll probably be able to replace them with an SSD that's just as large, but costs less than what I paid for those spinning drives when I bought them new.
I think you only start liking country if you do a lot of meth.