Usually ads served by the same site I'm visiting are the least annoying.
+1.
I don't really hate ads in general. I only hate *annoying* ads. So I don't need an ad blocker that blocks 100% of ads, I just need it to block the annoying/dangerous ones.
An Investor is someone who puts his money into something that will actually create something long-term after careful consideration, and hopes for it to succeed, and make a long-term profit, while knowing it will be some time before it pays off, in which he will probably lose some money.
Those crypto currencies, and also Wall Street these days, is nothing but a bunch of gamblers hoping to make money out of thin air, and jump from one sinking ship to another.
The interesting part is, that our company still has no problem finding new people. We put our finger in the air, and get enough people that we then can qualify in 6-12 month on-the-job training.
Companies just need to forget the fairy tale that a recruiter can get them a 100% qualified person. They need to create those people themselves, if they want them.
For me boils down on how strict the line between MY time and THEIR time is. For example, they could NEVER get me to answer the phone after hours by offering me MONEY.
On the other hand, I'm willing to answer (some*) of my companies calls after hours based on the fact that for example my company was also flexible enough to let us go swimming for a few hours during "lunch break" during the heat wave. Basically for me the flexibility they give me is worth more than a few extra bucks.
*But I have made it clear that once someone has called for a non-emergency their calls will no longer be answered.
I hear it's "PayPass", an aspiring new company which offers subscription bases payment processing based on the numbers of your customers and per month, not based on individual transactions. It will either be the Next Big Thing (TM) or a complete and utter failure.
.... is software that DOESN'T add new functionality all the time "Popular", and software that DOES adds crap all the time not so popular?
As a software developer myself, my gut feeling is that you have somewhat of a sweet spot with a 20:1 User:Developer Ratio, and maybe 200 users and 5 developers for getting "new features" out quick.
When you reach hundreds or even millions of users, the amount of work needed to define and support the new features (both technical and for user testing/training) becomes so great that it becomes pretty much impossible to add new features. Or at least no longer profitable.
Of course, there are also CIOs who say "Since this new system is going to increase efficiency, how many more customers can we serve with the same staff"?
What I would *really* like to be able to to, as a customer, is to rate the customers at the neighbouring tables. Somewhat the equivalent of the Slashdot Meta-Moderation (if that is still around).;-P
I use Gimp to print my counterfeit money, you insensitive clod.
(Of course, I still use a 15 year old version of Photoshop running under Wine to do actual image manipulation, since it is way better for that than Gimp.)
but you'd expect a lane assist feature to work as advertised.
When I have learned one thing in the last few years, it's that almost nothing works as advertises. Aside maybe toilet paper (if you are able to use it right)
If you are lucky it might work as described in an independent review, if the review wasn't bought behind the scenes.
The time in my life where I learned the most was probably my (German) electrician apprenticeship (which took three and a half years)
From interaction with panicked customers, to finding the fault in some obscure decades old machinery, to changing tires in a snowstorm, and even going out binge-drinking with colleagues.
Then I switched to IT during the dot-com boom at the turn of the millennium (because back then IT was way cooler). But I'm currently thinking about going "back out" for the last 10-15 years of my career. Because now IT is becoming more and more un-cool with all the bean-counters and lawyers invading all the nooks and crannies of technology.
It's not really a software / hardware distinction, the problem is more how complicated it gets. When we switched from relay logic to software logic in the production lines I was working on in the 1980 and 1990 the fault rate went way down, because less things were able to break. Plus you didn't have to re-wire the entire cabinet when the logic changed, you could just copy over the software. But of course those processor maybe had 512 bits of input and 128 bits of output, and the software consisted of maybe a few thousand and/or logic instructions and perhaps 1028 bits of RAM to store intermediate results. (and yes, i *mean* 0/1 bits, not bytes or anything else)
But yes, anything that has anything that's even remotely in the the area of "over the air"... something is *way* to complicated to be trusted with operating machinery in my opinion.
End of the day though, the CC will probably side with the buyer.
Depends on how often it happens. The CC company probably has some sort of similar rating system to catch people who abuse the system in a fraudulent manner. (Well, at least they can't do a charge-back on products they have never bought in the store, so at least that angle of fraud is impossible at least)
Exactly. Having an "Oh, i like to make sport when the sun is in that specific spot, and sport is scheduled at four in the afternoon on this flyer here, so let's move the time zone around that four in the afternoon is at that specific time"
What do they want next, redefining the pound because they weight to much?
That's what Chairman Mao did in the 1950s. Turned out to be quite bad, when the insects the birds also feed on destroyed a lot of the crops, and it caused a famine in which 20–45 million people died of starvation.
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Usually ads served by the same site I'm visiting are the least annoying.
+1.
I don't really hate ads in general. I only hate *annoying* ads.
So I don't need an ad blocker that blocks 100% of ads, I just need it to block the annoying/dangerous ones.
The more cars are around, the less children are walking.
When a child has to walk or bike to school it is less likely to be obese than when it's driven by soccer mom in her SUV.
So the PS4 was released in 2006?
... roughly....
People make mistakes all the time. The only person who makes no mistakes is a person who does nothing.
So if you punish mistakes, the solution people will come up with is to do nothing. Which will make finishing a project also completely impossible.
An Investor is someone who puts his money into something that will actually create something long-term after careful consideration, and hopes for it to succeed, and make a long-term profit, while knowing it will be some time before it pays off, in which he will probably lose some money.
Those crypto currencies, and also Wall Street these days, is nothing but a bunch of gamblers hoping to make money out of thin air, and jump from one sinking ship to another.
The interesting part is, that our company still has no problem finding new people. We put our finger in the air, and get enough people that we then can qualify in 6-12 month on-the-job training.
Companies just need to forget the fairy tale that a recruiter can get them a 100% qualified person. They need to create those people themselves, if they want them.
For me boils down on how strict the line between MY time and THEIR time is. For example, they could NEVER get me to answer the phone after hours by offering me MONEY.
On the other hand, I'm willing to answer (some*) of my companies calls after hours based on the fact that for example my company was also flexible enough to let us go swimming for a few hours during "lunch break" during the heat wave. Basically for me the flexibility they give me is worth more than a few extra bucks.
*But I have made it clear that once someone has called for a non-emergency their calls will no longer be answered.
I hear it's "PayPass", an aspiring new company which offers subscription bases payment processing based on the numbers of your customers and per month, not based on individual transactions. It will either be the Next Big Thing (TM) or a complete and utter failure.
.... is software that DOESN'T add new functionality all the time "Popular", and software that DOES adds crap all the time not so popular?
As a software developer myself, my gut feeling is that you have somewhat of a sweet spot with a 20:1 User:Developer Ratio, and maybe 200 users and 5 developers for getting "new features" out quick.
When you reach hundreds or even millions of users, the amount of work needed to define and support the new features (both technical and for user testing/training) becomes so great that it becomes pretty much impossible to add new features. Or at least no longer profitable.
It kind of makes sense. Real live is also "pretty fun" no matter what clothes you war, and the real life fashion industry makes a lot of money, too.
Of course, there are also CIOs who say "Since this new system is going to increase efficiency, how many more customers can we serve with the same staff"?
But they seem to be a dying breed.....
What I would *really* like to be able to to, as a customer, is to rate the customers at the neighbouring tables. Somewhat the equivalent of the Slashdot Meta-Moderation (if that is still around). ;-P
I use Gimp to print my counterfeit money, you insensitive clod.
(Of course, I still use a 15 year old version of Photoshop running under Wine to do actual image manipulation, since it is way better for that than Gimp.)
Well, isn't the entire US *Build* on the idea of "foreigners grabbing the land of the natives"? ;-P
You do realize it's the market that wants thin, and not Apple?
So because "the market" wants thin 99% of actual people seem to put their thin smart phones in some sort of case that makes it thicker?
The battery in a Tesla is roughly equivalent to a tank in a car.
Just as the content of a tank can blow up a car, the content of a battery can blow up a Tesla.
Only it usually cost more to blow up a Tesla.
Well, I for one look forward to the second campaign between Sasha and Craig. I wonder how they propose to solve the Switzerland issue.
but you'd expect a lane assist feature to work as advertised.
When I have learned one thing in the last few years, it's that almost nothing works as advertises. Aside maybe toilet paper (if you are able to use it right)
If you are lucky it might work as described in an independent review, if the review wasn't bought behind the scenes.
Well, there is that one guy at work... :)
*Those* guys can probably tricked by changing the software wallpaper without changing anything on the hardware side. :)
The time in my life where I learned the most was probably my (German) electrician apprenticeship (which took three and a half years)
From interaction with panicked customers, to finding the fault in some obscure decades old machinery, to changing tires in a snowstorm, and even going out binge-drinking with colleagues.
Then I switched to IT during the dot-com boom at the turn of the millennium (because back then IT was way cooler). But I'm currently thinking about going "back out" for the last 10-15 years of my career. Because now IT is becoming more and more un-cool with all the bean-counters and lawyers invading all the nooks and crannies of technology.
Hey, if God wanted us to fly, he would have given us first class tickets.
It's not really a software / hardware distinction, the problem is more how complicated it gets. When we switched from relay logic to software logic in the production lines I was working on in the 1980 and 1990 the fault rate went way down, because less things were able to break. Plus you didn't have to re-wire the entire cabinet when the logic changed, you could just copy over the software. But of course those processor maybe had 512 bits of input and 128 bits of output, and the software consisted of maybe a few thousand and/or logic instructions and perhaps 1028 bits of RAM to store intermediate results. (and yes, i *mean* 0/1 bits, not bytes or anything else)
But yes, anything that has anything that's even remotely in the the area of "over the air" ... something is *way* to complicated to be trusted with operating machinery in my opinion.
End of the day though, the CC will probably side with the buyer.
Depends on how often it happens. The CC company probably has some sort of similar rating system to catch people who abuse the system in a fraudulent manner. (Well, at least they can't do a charge-back on products they have never bought in the store, so at least that angle of fraud is impossible at least)
Exactly. Having an "Oh, i like to make sport when the sun is in that specific spot, and sport is scheduled at four in the afternoon on this flyer here, so let's move the time zone around that four in the afternoon is at that specific time"
What do they want next, redefining the pound because they weight to much?
That's what Chairman Mao did in the 1950s. Turned out to be quite bad, when the insects the birds also feed on destroyed a lot of the crops, and it caused a famine in which 20–45 million people died of starvation.
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