We have no instant messaging problem. We just have a robust constellation of competing systems, serving different communities. Why is that as problem?
- My teen has a Snapchat community, an Instagram community, as Facebook community, a Pinterest community she hides from me, a Twitter community she denies, an SMS constellation, and a variety of less visible communities gathered around video, music, photo, and mixed media paradigms. Some of the members overlap and are pasrt of several communities, some of these communities serve specific purposes, some are flash mobs instantiating and disappearing quickly. She manages her various communities by platform sometimes. These are 'where she is' at any given moment, sometimes in more than one place at a time. Oh, and she has email too. Several of them.
- I don't want a messaging platform mixing my Facebook and G+ communities. Leave them separate. Some overlap occurs, but I can manage that.
- SMS is not very useful on my desktop PC You want to do some Universal Inbox of 'Follow Me' concept for 'messaging'? Please don't.
- I get messages from entities also. When Amazon delivers an order to me, I get SMS, an email, An Amazon app notification. I got one when it was scheduled for delivery. And when it was 'shipped'. And when it was ordered. I get 12 messages for that one order. If I ordered multiple items from different fulfillers, add 9 messages for each different fulfillment channel. It pollutes my life. I turn some of them off, and they creep back in. Multiple apps send me notifications. They are 'messaging' me. Some let me turn off notificaiotns, abnd they keep right on sending them. Some 'apologize', they blame their own app, most ignore me. The cost of 'free' is real.
- I rarely use or send videos. They are horribly inefficient for simple, spoken or written communication that does not require visuals, and I loathe how-to videos that waste 70% of their duration on establishing shots, personal anecdotes, uncomfortable drivel, wasted time and noise. Give me a step-by-step please. A list.
- Email is highly underrated, still. I carry on conversations in email very well if the correspondents keep up. At work I get IMs from the loathsome Skype For Business client I'm given, and despite the 'instant' intention people regularly turn away and let a chat linger for minutes. Instant is the behavior, not the app. Email is better than you think.
- I'm guessing the real complaint is having to manage the address books, friend lists, etc. that these platforms use. I refuse to use my Facebook/Linkdin/Google Contacts to log into multiple platforms. I don't want to share my contact info in Facebook with my Linkedin community. Or with Google, G+, Pinterest, etc. I have good reasons to keep separate communities separate.
We do NOT have a problem with proliferation of messaging platforms. If you think you do, leave some of them. Everyone you deal with online is either a member of more than one of your communities, or they are as member of one you will keep.
"That wasn't the case for Lopez-Alegria, though. His eyesight got significantly worse during his time in orbit, and NASA isn't paying for his contacts or doctor visits today, years after his retirement from the agency. However, he still travels to Houston, Texas once per year to allow the agency to gather data about his health, without any expectation that NASA will offer treatment for any conditions that may have developed because of his time in space. In other words, while Lopez-Alegria's eyesight deteriorates, NASA benefits from the data he provides to the American space program, without medical recompense to him today."
They *are* studying Michael. I wonder if they obtained informed consent? OR if he were told the truth, he might agree, for Science.
If, as the summary quoted, "Time crystals,... are structures that oscillate without any external energy supplied", how did they come to be? Spontaneously? Apparently not.
So these researchers "showed their method of production ", one that requires no external energy be applied to the time crystals, or their source materials?
that selling that technology to bad actors makes them more dangerous.
This is truly nearly pointless. Even crushing fines that result in bankruptcy and failure only move the corporate assets to another, more devious, and more ingenious entity, harder to detect.
There is no compensatory punishment for such acts. We are left with enemies of their own choosing, more able to harm us, and more costly to repel or defeat.
Sears is probably still in business because they *own* their real estate, mostly. No rent, easier to make the payroll.
And they will get stuck with that previously desirable real estate as brick n mortar gives way to online sales.
Retraction in retail should really pick up in 2017. All you fast food workers should jump on that and demand your $12 minimum wage, and accelerate the conversion to automated systems.
That, and the 'electronics hobbyist' morphed from ham operators and tinkerers to 'computer enthusiasts'. Radio Shack didn't make that transition well at all.
Add in mail order, and the computer revolution swept by them like a tsunami.
Now, with the maker revolution well underway, no one buys at stores. Indeed, China Post delivers so much stuff, much of the business is direct to China.
Inevitable. I don't even go the 12 miles to Fry's for simple stuff, Amazon Prime is worth it.
My first civilian job interview for a real job using my electronics education, I was given a schematic of an op amp application, and asked to calculate the gain. I launched into a discussion of internal gain, input frquencies, what part number, and with that I could proceed. When the interviewer challenged me about that, since 741s were pretty simple, I spouted off a dozen part numbers I knew from the military equipment I was trained on, and that I assumed we were not talking about VHF/UHF applications, but probably audio, which two of the exotics I knew of were commonly used in signal processing. He gave in, I knew enough to know which leads to probe for what I wanted to know.
Mind you, this was for fixing calculators (no op amps there) and tape recorders (not yet using ICs), but he wanted to protect his employer from obvious rubes. I managed somehow to hold down that bench for 7 years before they folded the service department when calculators were no longer worth 15 minutes of work.
But two random questions at the border isn't doing much.
On another phone interview years and years later, after working in the desert sun for 6 hours, I was asked Novell questions for a GroupWise admin slot. I blanked on remembering NWAdmin was the primary tool for managing NetWare domains. Darn, that was a great opportunity. two weeks later I was hired for a temp job at Intel racking new servers, and no one including the full timers knew how to access and manage the EFI preboot. Got me two weeks of interesting work before we got those done and moved on to an unending stream of Proliant slices and obsolete images to be fixed without any real support. No one asked me about EFI during the interview process. No one really knew what the job would be, just that I could describe DHCP and iLO operation...
The 18-34 white females I'm aware of aren't biased towards white artists. They lust for the pop crap rap that hangs on sex and being macho. They love Beyonceeee being bleeped out. Pure anesthesia, though.
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We have no instant messaging problem. We just have a robust constellation of competing systems, serving different communities. Why is that as problem?
- My teen has a Snapchat community, an Instagram community, as Facebook community, a Pinterest community she hides from me, a Twitter community she denies, an SMS constellation, and a variety of less visible communities gathered around video, music, photo, and mixed media paradigms. Some of the members overlap and are pasrt of several communities, some of these communities serve specific purposes, some are flash mobs instantiating and disappearing quickly. She manages her various communities by platform sometimes. These are 'where she is' at any given moment, sometimes in more than one place at a time. Oh, and she has email too. Several of them.
- I don't want a messaging platform mixing my Facebook and G+ communities. Leave them separate. Some overlap occurs, but I can manage that.
- SMS is not very useful on my desktop PC You want to do some Universal Inbox of 'Follow Me' concept for 'messaging'? Please don't.
- I get messages from entities also. When Amazon delivers an order to me, I get SMS, an email, An Amazon app notification. I got one when it was scheduled for delivery. And when it was 'shipped'. And when it was ordered. I get 12 messages for that one order. If I ordered multiple items from different fulfillers, add 9 messages for each different fulfillment channel. It pollutes my life. I turn some of them off, and they creep back in. Multiple apps send me notifications. They are 'messaging' me. Some let me turn off notificaiotns, abnd they keep right on sending them. Some 'apologize', they blame their own app, most ignore me. The cost of 'free' is real.
- I rarely use or send videos. They are horribly inefficient for simple, spoken or written communication that does not require visuals, and I loathe how-to videos that waste 70% of their duration on establishing shots, personal anecdotes, uncomfortable drivel, wasted time and noise. Give me a step-by-step please. A list.
- Email is highly underrated, still. I carry on conversations in email very well if the correspondents keep up. At work I get IMs from the loathsome Skype For Business client I'm given, and despite the 'instant' intention people regularly turn away and let a chat linger for minutes. Instant is the behavior, not the app. Email is better than you think.
- I'm guessing the real complaint is having to manage the address books, friend lists, etc. that these platforms use. I refuse to use my Facebook/Linkdin/Google Contacts to log into multiple platforms. I don't want to share my contact info in Facebook with my Linkedin community. Or with Google, G+, Pinterest, etc. I have good reasons to keep separate communities separate.
We do NOT have a problem with proliferation of messaging platforms. If you think you do, leave some of them. Everyone you deal with online is either a member of more than one of your communities, or they are as member of one you will keep.
No problem.
I care a lot.
I'm waiting to see what will be done about it, by the new sheriff. Maybe nothing, maybe little, but... Wait and see.
We get to vote them out again in a little while.
"That wasn't the case for Lopez-Alegria, though. His eyesight got significantly worse during his time in orbit, and NASA isn't paying for his contacts or doctor visits today, years after his retirement from the agency. However, he still travels to Houston, Texas once per year to allow the agency to gather data about his health, without any expectation that NASA will offer treatment for any conditions that may have developed because of his time in space. In other words, while Lopez-Alegria's eyesight deteriorates, NASA benefits from the data he provides to the American space program, without medical recompense to him today."
They *are* studying Michael. I wonder if they obtained informed consent? OR if he were told the truth, he might agree, for Science.
i haven't seen that yet.
you're not going to audit the code in your car. you're not going to audit the code in your Instant Pot.
you want the code to be available to the community, so that others can get together and audit it.
and no carmaker is going to permit that unless compelled to, because the code is too critical.
so be focused on real accountability.
i see no VW execs nor engineers yet facing the possibility of real jail time.
That's two.
If, as the summary quoted, "Time crystals,... are structures that oscillate without any external energy supplied", how did they come to be? Spontaneously? Apparently not.
So these researchers "showed their method of production ", one that requires no external energy be applied to the time crystals, or their source materials?
And this is why I am not a physicist.
Read up.
that selling that technology to bad actors makes them more dangerous.
This is truly nearly pointless. Even crushing fines that result in bankruptcy and failure only move the corporate assets to another, more devious, and more ingenious entity, harder to detect.
There is no compensatory punishment for such acts. We are left with enemies of their own choosing, more able to harm us, and more costly to repel or defeat.
Sears is probably still in business because they *own* their real estate, mostly. No rent, easier to make the payroll.
And they will get stuck with that previously desirable real estate as brick n mortar gives way to online sales.
Retraction in retail should really pick up in 2017. All you fast food workers should jump on that and demand your $12 minimum wage, and accelerate the conversion to automated systems.
That, and the 'electronics hobbyist' morphed from ham operators and tinkerers to 'computer enthusiasts'. Radio Shack didn't make that transition well at all.
Add in mail order, and the computer revolution swept by them like a tsunami.
Now, with the maker revolution well underway, no one buys at stores. Indeed, China Post delivers so much stuff, much of the business is direct to China.
Inevitable. I don't even go the 12 miles to Fry's for simple stuff, Amazon Prime is worth it.
Sooner or later you buy a kit, develop contacts locally, and share.
Or you sit alone in the dark, angry at the shipping.
My first civilian job interview for a real job using my electronics education, I was given a schematic of an op amp application, and asked to calculate the gain. I launched into a discussion of internal gain, input frquencies, what part number, and with that I could proceed. When the interviewer challenged me about that, since 741s were pretty simple, I spouted off a dozen part numbers I knew from the military equipment I was trained on, and that I assumed we were not talking about VHF/UHF applications, but probably audio, which two of the exotics I knew of were commonly used in signal processing. He gave in, I knew enough to know which leads to probe for what I wanted to know.
Mind you, this was for fixing calculators (no op amps there) and tape recorders (not yet using ICs), but he wanted to protect his employer from obvious rubes. I managed somehow to hold down that bench for 7 years before they folded the service department when calculators were no longer worth 15 minutes of work.
But two random questions at the border isn't doing much.
On another phone interview years and years later, after working in the desert sun for 6 hours, I was asked Novell questions for a GroupWise admin slot. I blanked on remembering NWAdmin was the primary tool for managing NetWare domains. Darn, that was a great opportunity. two weeks later I was hired for a temp job at Intel racking new servers, and no one including the full timers knew how to access and manage the EFI preboot. Got me two weeks of interesting work before we got those done and moved on to an unending stream of Proliant slices and obsolete images to be fixed without any real support. No one asked me about EFI during the interview process. No one really knew what the job would be, just that I could describe DHCP and iLO operation...
Random questions are tough. I feel for Celestine.
The 18-34 white females I'm aware of aren't biased towards white artists. They lust for the pop crap rap that hangs on sex and being macho. They love Beyonceeee being bleeped out. Pure anesthesia, though.
Jay-Z is right, but he's making money on it.
He's paying just less than 23% if his gross income for housing. Not may Americans can pay less than 30% of their gross.
Take job for half the pay where you can get a 40% cut in housing costs. Because that's the alternative for most of us.
And you are the consummate AC. M0r0n.
Teaching shell scripting and Powershell would be cool.
They teach coding in Lebret?
"I think you mean this will be passed on to consumers"
Every cost is passed on to consumers. Consumers pay for everything.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
I was playing Avatar then. Before that, pimping puds with D&D marathons.
I'm not confused about this. From my educational experience, you know what we call submerged continents?
Ocean Floor.
C'mon, stop this.
"you won, damn-it, now get on with doing the job"
I read that his opponents complain about *what* he's doing, and that he's not doing anything.
Which is it? Neither, most of his opposition just hates him. No matter what he does.
That way we can be independent contractors, all of us. And you can make smartphones all by yersef.
Oh, wait.
And get it booked as legal settlement instead of wages...
Sharp Practice.