The economy is just a little messed up in Venezula last I looked... Maybe you should re-think that as a positive example.
Oh, and don't confuse the government 'offering' paternal time off with government 'forcing employers' to offer paternal time off. Politicians like to take credit for forcing employers to offer benefits at the employer's expense.
In some cases countries do offer 'unemployment'-type paternity benefits that amount to a fraction of the workers normal pay.
No word on why the child will only get 50% of that time â" maybe that's what the gains chart suggested as a good tradeoff â" or if expectant parents who apply to send their children to Zuckerberg's new Primary School, which aims to "help children from underserved communities reach their full potential," will be expected to make a similar commitment.
If Mark Zuckerberg were a regular person, I could see taking only half the time offered initially, reserving the right to take the additional time if the need arises I. The remaining first ten months of the baby's first year...
Being Mark Zuckerberg (and not a "normal person") I imagine he could choose to take as much time off as often as he likes, that he's taking two months of is probably as much his way of trying to encourage employees to take advantage of the program as it is to give his own child the best outcome for these vitally important first months.
Yes, you can. They don't start with a 4 cylinder eco engine...
There wastage eat scene in "Days of Thunder" where Robert Duvallwalks around a 'stock' car and lists the various modifications he was going to make to get the car ready - my favorite was to increase the size of the fuel line to hold an additional extra gallon or two of fuel to extend the range of the car...
Guys in fishing boats dropped thermometers to a random depth under the water surface and recorded their temperatures as accurately as they cared to (maybe to the closest half a degree?) whenever they chose to.
What you have a problem accepting conclusions based on an ever-changing measurement methodology/technology?
October 2015 was the hottest month in that entire database, which goes back to 1891.
Gosh, the warmest month in 124 years - that's like saying last Thursday was the warmest day in the last 4 months - so what? Add in the fact that our techniques for gathering surface temperatures were based on random samples taken by fishing boats four months ago and have steadily improved to currently being measured with satellites circling the globe for the last few weeks of my recorded history of temperatures.
NB it got pretty flipping hot prior to 1891, hotter than it was in October, 2015.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that all the measurements are accurate, and that our data from 1880 is as accurate as today's data - it isn't, but let's just say that.
We have data that goes back about 135 years - how long has man been on the planet? The most 'conservative' estimates I've heard, which are resoundingly mocked by many here is around 10,000 years, which would put our sample size at about 1.35%. If man has been rolling around the planet longer than that (and we know he has), the sample size becomes even smaller.
So October 2016 was the warmest in the past 135 years... So what? If you're going to argue that a single anomalous weather event neither proves nor disproves 'climate change', how can you infer anything from data for one month out of 135 years, when the devices used to collect the data have improved in accuracy and scope over the sample period? (How did they average surface temperatures across the seas - they didn't have a global network of weather satellites for the first half of the sample period.)
I think one CPU per screen is overkill, unless each is going to be it's own discrete Display. A single PC with a bunch of high-end/multi-port display cards would enable you to have a fully-customizable display, rather than 50-60 discrete desktops.
For single cup per display purposes, you could throw a bunch of the Infocus Kangaroo PCs at the problem.
Or, if you really feel you have to throw 50-60 Raspberry Pis at this problem, consider hiring someone to make you a card cage that can hold dozens of RPis in a 2-3U rack chassis, a 20-30 amp 5V power supply shouldn't be that hard to find. (Something similar was done with DEC multias, small, single board Alpha-based computers years ago - difference is, the multia PCB didn't have connectors soldered to every side of the board.
Not that much less - add a case, power supply, 32 gig sad card, wifi/Bluetooth and you are heading towards $100. You can argue the value of the 4 HR battery and win 10 license included, and adding keyboard/mouse and display are common costs for either platform.
The RPi seems cheaper than this because it starts at $40, but it needs a fair bit of additional items to be ready for most applications.
My two kangaroo PCs arrived on Friday, both included the dock you claim is 'optional' based on your reading of the newegg page.
The initial reports are very positive - Win 10 on the quad-core Atom w/ 2 gigs of RAM is quite usable. I'd like a bit more built-in storage, but a microSD card adding 64 Gigs can be had for $20, and it fits inside the case.
As for your other points:
Wired Ethernet is not always a suitable replacement for WiFi.
The simple truth is that the Raspberry Pi:
does not include a case, does not include a power supply, does not include wireless networking (wifi or Bluetooth), Does not include local storage
All of those items needed in many/most use cases, and adding them can bring the cost of a raspberry Pi 'system' very close to the $100 introductory price of the Kangaroo.
When the firm chooses the assignments as well as the method, as Amazon is doing here, then they're no longer contracting. They're employing.
Your logic would mean that virtually every temp, as soon as the company that brought them in tells them what to do and how to do it, they instantly cease being temps and become full-time employees of the firm they are temporarily working for?
That's simply wrong - I can't believe you think this is correct, I have to believe you've come down with a severe case of Amazon Derangement Syndrome, a close relative of Wal-Mart Derangement Syndrome, where you turn logic on it's head just to 'prove' Amazon is evil...
I had an EEOC worker specifically tell me they would do nothing for me because I was a contractor, not an employee.
Just curious, as a contractor, weren't you self-employed? In order for the EEOC to intervene on your behalf as an aggreved worker, they'd wind up going after you, as the employer!
Once it tries to "lock" the contractors into fixed hours and shifts- they are not contractors- they are employees.
Really? Having fixed hours/shift defines one as an employee? That is among the stupidest things I've read today.
These workers were interviewed by an outside firm, hired by an outside firm, submit time sheets to an outside firm, and cash paychecks from that same outside firm... Wearing an Amazon shirt at the request of your non-Amazon employer doesn't make you an Amazon employee - it just doesn't.
The drivers reported to and worked exclusively out of an Amazon warehouse, were scheduled to work fixed shifts during Amazon's Prime Now service hours, and were required to wear shirts and hats bearing the Amazon Prime Now logo and carry a smartphone preloaded with the app, according to the complaint.
Scheduled hours? company shirt/hat? An app on their phone?
It was written in the mid-seventies, using a proportional font that wouldn't be invented until two decades later - but no worries, Dan Rather swears it's authentic. In fact, he'll stake his reputation (as host of an unknown interview show on an obscure cable channel) on it!
As soon as you boot the OS, you're out of RAM with 2GB's
No, you're not - Vista flailed about with only 2 gigs, Win 7 was usable w/ 2 gigs, Win 8/8.1 was decent, and I expect Win 10 to be at least as good as Win 8/8.1 was with 2 gigs.
I need a computer to run a small windows-only application of trivial
Raspberry Pi doesn't run x86 Windows executables.
At $100 including case, ps, storage device, and wifi it is cost-competitive with Raspberry Pi.
An older desktop is what it will be replacing - old PCs collect dust, cat hair, etc and require cleaning, tend to rely on many spinning bits (fans, HDs), and if the hard drive dies, not an unreasonable thing for an off-lease desktop, you are looking at $40-60 for a replacement.
Oh, and power cost for a 24x7 kangaroo is much less than an old P4/Core 2 Duo desktop.
I see no indication the dock is not included in the $99 introductory offer, and the review I read on Venturebeat.com clearly indicates the dock is included...
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The economy is just a little messed up in Venezula last I looked... Maybe you should re-think that as a positive example.
Oh, and don't confuse the government 'offering' paternal time off with government 'forcing employers' to offer paternal time off. Politicians like to take credit for forcing employers to offer benefits at the employer's expense.
In some cases countries do offer 'unemployment'-type paternity benefits that amount to a fraction of the workers normal pay.
If Mark Zuckerberg were a regular person, I could see taking only half the time offered initially, reserving the right to take the additional time if the need arises I. The remaining first ten months of the baby's first year...
Being Mark Zuckerberg (and not a "normal person") I imagine he could choose to take as much time off as often as he likes, that he's taking two months of is probably as much his way of trying to encourage employees to take advantage of the program as it is to give his own child the best outcome for these vitally important first months.
Yes, you can. They don't start with a 4 cylinder eco engine...
There wastage eat scene in "Days of Thunder" where Robert Duvallwalks around a 'stock' car and lists the various modifications he was going to make to get the car ready - my favorite was to increase the size of the fuel line to hold an additional extra gallon or two of fuel to extend the range of the car...
Guys in fishing boats dropped thermometers to a random depth under the water surface and recorded their temperatures as accurately as they cared to (maybe to the closest half a degree?) whenever they chose to.
What you have a problem accepting conclusions based on an ever-changing measurement methodology/technology?
Gosh, the warmest month in 124 years - that's like saying last Thursday was the warmest day in the last 4 months - so what? Add in the fact that our techniques for gathering surface temperatures were based on random samples taken by fishing boats four months ago and have steadily improved to currently being measured with satellites circling the globe for the last few weeks of my recorded history of temperatures.
NB it got pretty flipping hot prior to 1891, hotter than it was in October, 2015.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that all the measurements are accurate, and that our data from 1880 is as accurate as today's data - it isn't, but let's just say that.
We have data that goes back about 135 years - how long has man been on the planet? The most 'conservative' estimates I've heard, which are resoundingly mocked by many here is around 10,000 years, which would put our sample size at about 1.35%. If man has been rolling around the planet longer than that (and we know he has), the sample size becomes even smaller.
So October 2016 was the warmest in the past 135 years... So what? If you're going to argue that a single anomalous weather event neither proves nor disproves 'climate change', how can you infer anything from data for one month out of 135 years, when the devices used to collect the data have improved in accuracy and scope over the sample period? (How did they average surface temperatures across the seas - they didn't have a global network of weather satellites for the first half of the sample period.)
I think one CPU per screen is overkill, unless each is going to be it's own discrete Display. A single PC with a bunch of high-end/multi-port display cards would enable you to have a fully-customizable display, rather than 50-60 discrete desktops.
For single cup per display purposes, you could throw a bunch of the Infocus Kangaroo PCs at the problem.
Or, if you really feel you have to throw 50-60 Raspberry Pis at this problem, consider hiring someone to make you a card cage that can hold dozens of RPis in a 2-3U rack chassis, a 20-30 amp 5V power supply shouldn't be that hard to find. (Something similar was done with DEC multias, small, single board Alpha-based computers years ago - difference is, the multia PCB didn't have connectors soldered to every side of the board.
Sticky-tape on the back of the monitors?
Sounds very impressive, quite professional.
Not that much less - add a case, power supply, 32 gig sad card, wifi/Bluetooth and you are heading towards $100. You can argue the value of the 4 HR battery and win 10 license included, and adding keyboard/mouse and display are common costs for either platform.
The RPi seems cheaper than this because it starts at $40, but it needs a fair bit of additional items to be ready for most applications.
My two kangaroo PCs arrived on Friday, both included the dock you claim is 'optional' based on your reading of the newegg page.
The initial reports are very positive - Win 10 on the quad-core Atom w/ 2 gigs of RAM is quite usable. I'd like a bit more built-in storage, but a microSD card adding 64 Gigs can be had for $20, and it fits inside the case.
As for your other points:
Wired Ethernet is not always a suitable replacement for WiFi.
The simple truth is that the Raspberry Pi:
does not include a case,
does not include a power supply,
does not include wireless networking (wifi or Bluetooth),
Does not include local storage
All of those items needed in many/most use cases, and adding them can bring the cost of a raspberry Pi 'system' very close to the $100 introductory price of the Kangaroo.
Your logic would mean that virtually every temp, as soon as the company that brought them in tells them what to do and how to do it, they instantly cease being temps and become full-time employees of the firm they are temporarily working for?
That's simply wrong - I can't believe you think this is correct, I have to believe you've come down with a severe case of Amazon Derangement Syndrome, a close relative of Wal-Mart Derangement Syndrome, where you turn logic on it's head just to 'prove' Amazon is evil...
Just curious, as a contractor, weren't you self-employed? In order for the EEOC to intervene on your behalf as an aggreved worker, they'd wind up going after you, as the employer!
Really? Having fixed hours/shift defines one as an employee? That is among the stupidest things I've read today.
These workers were interviewed by an outside firm, hired by an outside firm, submit time sheets to an outside firm, and cash paychecks from that same outside firm... Wearing an Amazon shirt at the request of your non-Amazon employer doesn't make you an Amazon employee - it just doesn't.
I suspect their 'fixed schedule' will evolve into 'random, unpredictable schedule', just to remind them they are contractors... Winning!
That these were the hallmarks of employee status:
Scheduled hours? company shirt/hat? An app on their phone?
Would these contractors prefer random shifts?
It was written in the mid-seventies, using a proportional font that wouldn't be invented until two decades later - but no worries, Dan Rather swears it's authentic. In fact, he'll stake his reputation (as host of an unknown interview show on an obscure cable channel) on it!
So sorry, but the "if" at the beginning of your post made it read like a question - perhaps rhetorical, but a question none the less.
SD Card AND Flash? And I think you left out WiFi adapter...
No, you're not - Vista flailed about with only 2 gigs, Win 7 was usable w/ 2 gigs, Win 8/8.1 was decent, and I expect Win 10 to be at least as good as Win 8/8.1 was with 2 gigs.
Seriously, did you see this first line:
Raspberry Pi doesn't run x86 Windows executables.
At $100 including case, ps, storage device, and wifi it is cost-competitive with Raspberry Pi.
An older desktop is what it will be replacing - old PCs collect dust, cat hair, etc and require cleaning, tend to rely on many spinning bits (fans, HDs), and if the hard drive dies, not an unreasonable thing for an off-lease desktop, you are looking at $40-60 for a replacement.
Oh, and power cost for a 24x7 kangaroo is much less than an old P4/Core 2 Duo desktop.
Wow, no gui so it isn't very useful...
Computers serve functions other than displaying things on a screen for end-users...
It has wifi & Bluetooth, a USB 3 to Ethernet adapter isn't so expensive...
A machine with specs this low would qualify for 'free' Windows 8.1 with Bing, not sure if there is a similar version of Windows 10.
I see no indication the dock is not included in the $99 introductory offer, and the review I read on Venturebeat.com clearly indicates the dock is included...
Which specs are 'way much better' on the Intel HDMI compute stick? Similar CPU, RAM, and storage space AFAIK from a quick review of the specs...