I work from home 1 day a week regularly, sometimes more. But our team works together. Collaboration is key to our work. And collaboration in a virtual setting is not nearly as effective. We also meet with other teams and clients/customers, also key.
Dealing with remote teams as we have to is measurably less effective.
But many of my clients are virtual, and I see them less often than yearly.
My work is centralized because that is infinitely more efficient than distributing it near where does arbitrarily live. Though some of it has been moved. To Mumbai, Gurgaon, Manila.
I could van pool, if I were seeking to sacrifice even more time to commuting.
If self-driving cars enable those for whom driving became dangerous to be mobile again, then so be it. Uber is that current solution, just without the freedom of being alone in the car. And even Uber wants to go driverless.
And if congestion is the problem, ignoring the need for roadway and capacity is the current solution, so what's the difference? Higher taxes for road improvement/construction/maintenance? Our current administration had/has the opportunity to 'invest' in infrastructure repair and improvement, to no avail. Taxes are better spent where they buy votes, and commuters, middle class moms, and commercial drivers are not potential voters for those who would control that spending.
The faster the better. I, for one, look forward to welcoming our self-directed overlords.
Last year I was included in Pre-Check for the first time ever, as far as I know. My boarding pass had a note on it.
No one ever mentioned Pre-Check, I had never heard of it, and it not only meant nothing, I didn't even recognize it. The agent at the head of the queues didn't mention anything. I went through regular screening.
Poorly implemented, poorly delivered, stupid. I finally, on the return trip, was told by the agent to turn right and bypass screening. I had no idea why until I saw the signage AFTER going through the Pre-Check gate.
Stupid. Typical TSA/government. We need to make them stop this. ALL of this.
"He worked in Northern Alberta as a heavy duty mechanic"
When I read this, I nearly stopped reading further, but curiosity conquered me.
Sorry, but the qualifications floor me.
"David hired an Accounting and Financial Consulting firm to assist in the management of Peachy Printer's finances."
Yup, surely THEY did a great job. Recourse here? I'm betting they did nothing but dip their beaks.
"Due to the fact that the Kickstarter campaign was over before Peachy Printer existed as a corporation, we did not have a corporate bank account set up to receive the funds. As a result, David’s personal account was set up to receive the funds."
Oh, here is where it went bad. I would have left it at Kickstarter until the corporate account was ready.
From here on, it's faith in others, failed human beings, and predictable outcomes.
True. My only complaint is that FB was pretending they used fair, unbiased, or impersonal algorithms to choose stories. Now we know they also choose based on philosophy, politics, and other arbitrary criteria.
Congressional hearings may expose this, and information is useful.
If you don't think a Facebook post can hurt someone you're not paying attention and if you don't think choosing that news you see doesn't have an impact on you you're still not paying attention.
And if you think there's nothing wrong with Facebook saying that they just choose what's popular when in fact they are choosing what they want to show you then enjoy the site
Our nation, from nearly its origination, has been the guarantor of naval commerce worldwide, and primarily for our own interests. Say out loud the words of the Marine Corps Hymn. Not much has changed. Back then it was cotton. Recently it was oil. Just as important is manufactured goods.
Go ahead, retreat from the world. Watch it devolve. No, I'm not yet ready to do that unless some coalition rises to take this on, and nothing has changed in that realm since 1801.
Elon's solution, to raise a carbon tax on gasoline-powered cars, isn't about equalizing a subsidy advantage, isn't about fairness.
It''s about artificially raising the price of gasoline powered cars,
So that alternatives are suddenly no more expensive to buy.
How about we carbon tax the production of vehicles also? Oh, wait. Tesla would pay dearly, since manufacturing a Tesla is a huge carbon cost. And operating a Tesla of course relies not on batteries, but primarily coal, oil, and nuclear for electricity. Big carbon tax to operate.
So, in the end, there are few carbon-neutral solutions to individual transport. Playing these games is, yes, gamesmanship, and Elon wants to sell more vehicles. Using taxation to his benefit is sharp practice. Do we want to do this? President Trump might do this in a moment. President Clinton II would instantly.
0 - None of this has to do with the 'old days', when roaming cost real $, and carriers were competitive with each other at the local market level?
1- Nor does it have to do with the old 'wireline' v 'non-wireline' distinctions?
2 - When wireline ruled, all you really needed in the CO were those old batteries, charged and ready, to survive maybe 48 hours without utility power. Fire off the generators 4 hours in if it seemed desperate. Of course, you should then start calling around to get spare battery packs and chargers for all the SLICs that would die, and diesel to supply your generators. Maine, 1998.
3 - Without reading the usual, it seems secure gateways could be fashioned out of leftover PCs and a reasonably well secured Linux firewall, maybe even one of several purpose-built boxen or maybe something from Cisco? Is this so hard? Really? I know, TLS is probably secretly broken, and MITM attacks can be made, but is this so hard to fix? Oh yea, put a honking UPS on that gateway.
"Then you could probably be charged with obstruction of justice. "I cannot be compelled to incriminate myself" "You have to give us the evidence you possess" "I'm innocent, what evidence?" "You have to let us look at everything you have" "You have a warrant for that?" "Yes, we do" "You can't make me incriminate myself" "So you admit you're guilty?" "I admit to nothing" "So show us everything you have" "No" "Then you're guilty of not helping us prove you're guilty" "I have a right to do that"
Not so much, perhaps. So much for the Fifth Amendment, among others.
And there is the problem. Much of what is accepted as fact proving climate change is man caused is truly opinion, and based on data either flawed or altered. Asking for peer-reviewed denials is clever - the majority both suppresses dissent and trivializes it.
If you can't be bothered to sort through the fact and opinion on one side, then the argument is lost, isn't it?
- Identify potential new customers for products and services. Mistakes here result in poor choices and losses.
- Identify and prevent fraud of all types. Mistakes here result in losses.
- Identify existing customers that could be successfully marketed new or additional products and services. Mistakes here result in disgruntled customers and losses.
Sometimes it's hard to determine if a technology is useful or even functional. Money often is a good indicator.
I have my Canon MP620 hooked up to my Android phone and my wife's iPhone, and the 12 YO's Chromebook - via Google Cloud Print. Yes, all we have to do is open my Windows 10 laptop and turn it on - not even log in. that;s as good as it will get until we spring for a new printer with all the internet exploits built in.
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I work from home 1 day a week regularly, sometimes more. But our team works together. Collaboration is key to our work. And collaboration in a virtual setting is not nearly as effective. We also meet with other teams and clients /customers, also key.
Dealing with remote teams as we have to is measurably less effective.
But many of my clients are virtual, and I see them less often than yearly.
My work is centralized because that is infinitely more efficient than distributing it near where does arbitrarily live. Though some of it has been moved. To Mumbai, Gurgaon, Manila.
I could van pool, if I were seeking to sacrifice even more time to commuting.
But whichever way it goes, should be fun.
Unless it's YOUR change.
If self-driving cars enable those for whom driving became dangerous to be mobile again, then so be it. Uber is that current solution, just without the freedom of being alone in the car. And even Uber wants to go driverless.
And if congestion is the problem, ignoring the need for roadway and capacity is the current solution, so what's the difference? Higher taxes for road improvement/construction/maintenance? Our current administration had/has the opportunity to 'invest' in infrastructure repair and improvement, to no avail. Taxes are better spent where they buy votes, and commuters, middle class moms, and commercial drivers are not potential voters for those who would control that spending.
The faster the better. I, for one, look forward to welcoming our self-directed overlords.
Last year I was included in Pre-Check for the first time ever, as far as I know. My boarding pass had a note on it.
No one ever mentioned Pre-Check, I had never heard of it, and it not only meant nothing, I didn't even recognize it. The agent at the head of the queues didn't mention anything. I went through regular screening.
Poorly implemented, poorly delivered, stupid. I finally, on the return trip, was told by the agent to turn right and bypass screening. I had no idea why until I saw the signage AFTER going through the Pre-Check gate.
Stupid. Typical TSA/government. We need to make them stop this. ALL of this.
"He worked in Northern Alberta as a heavy duty mechanic"
When I read this, I nearly stopped reading further, but curiosity conquered me.
Sorry, but the qualifications floor me.
"David hired an Accounting and Financial Consulting firm to assist in the management of Peachy Printer's finances."
Yup, surely THEY did a great job. Recourse here? I'm betting they did nothing but dip their beaks.
"Due to the fact that the Kickstarter campaign was over before Peachy Printer existed as a corporation, we did not have a corporate bank account set up to receive the funds. As a result, David’s personal account was set up to receive the funds."
Oh, here is where it went bad. I would have left it at Kickstarter until the corporate account was ready.
From here on, it's faith in others, failed human beings, and predictable outcomes.
True. My only complaint is that FB was pretending they used fair, unbiased, or impersonal algorithms to choose stories. Now we know they also choose based on philosophy, politics, and other arbitrary criteria.
Congressional hearings may expose this, and information is useful.
If you don't think a Facebook post can hurt someone you're not paying attention and if you don't think choosing that news you see doesn't have an impact on you you're still not paying attention.
And if you think there's nothing wrong with Facebook saying that they just choose what's popular when in fact they are choosing what they want to show you then enjoy the site
They would rather have Trump than Cruz and Clinton than Trump. I doubt they have gotten into how to deal with Sanders, but no hurry for that.
And neither they nor I are crazy.
You can pick up a stick found on the ground and hit me with it.
The damages aren't the cost of the weapon, but the effect it has.
It makes him aligned with the GOP establishment.
And that is the root of the civil war within the Republican Party.
Ditto.
Actually, I pay NO attention to the news sidebar, and very, very little to sponsored pages.
But then, I'm a Conservative, raised to question even those I think I agree with.
And the maintenance, decommissioning, you know, real costs.
Or the need for gadgets, or food not grown here, or whatever...
If it were only just oil.
Our nation, from nearly its origination, has been the guarantor of naval commerce worldwide, and primarily for our own interests. Say out loud the words of the Marine Corps Hymn. Not much has changed. Back then it was cotton. Recently it was oil. Just as important is manufactured goods.
Go ahead, retreat from the world. Watch it devolve. No, I'm not yet ready to do that unless some coalition rises to take this on, and nothing has changed in that realm since 1801.
Elon's solution, to raise a carbon tax on gasoline-powered cars, isn't about equalizing a subsidy advantage, isn't about fairness.
It''s about artificially raising the price of gasoline powered cars,
So that alternatives are suddenly no more expensive to buy.
How about we carbon tax the production of vehicles also? Oh, wait. Tesla would pay dearly, since manufacturing a Tesla is a huge carbon cost. And operating a Tesla of course relies not on batteries, but primarily coal, oil, and nuclear for electricity. Big carbon tax to operate.
So, in the end, there are few carbon-neutral solutions to individual transport. Playing these games is, yes, gamesmanship, and Elon wants to sell more vehicles. Using taxation to his benefit is sharp practice. Do we want to do this? President Trump might do this in a moment. President Clinton II would instantly.
0 - None of this has to do with the 'old days', when roaming cost real $, and carriers were competitive with each other at the local market level?
1- Nor does it have to do with the old 'wireline' v 'non-wireline' distinctions?
2 - When wireline ruled, all you really needed in the CO were those old batteries, charged and ready, to survive maybe 48 hours without utility power. Fire off the generators 4 hours in if it seemed desperate. Of course, you should then start calling around to get spare battery packs and chargers for all the SLICs that would die, and diesel to supply your generators. Maine, 1998.
3 - Without reading the usual, it seems secure gateways could be fashioned out of leftover PCs and a reasonably well secured Linux firewall, maybe even one of several purpose-built boxen or maybe something from Cisco? Is this so hard? Really? I know, TLS is probably secretly broken, and MITM attacks can be made, but is this so hard to fix? Oh yea, put a honking UPS on that gateway.
"Then you could probably be charged with obstruction of justice.
"I cannot be compelled to incriminate myself"
"You have to give us the evidence you possess"
"I'm innocent, what evidence?"
"You have to let us look at everything you have"
"You have a warrant for that?"
"Yes, we do"
"You can't make me incriminate myself"
"So you admit you're guilty?"
"I admit to nothing"
"So show us everything you have"
"No"
"Then you're guilty of not helping us prove you're guilty"
"I have a right to do that"
Not so much, perhaps. So much for the Fifth Amendment, among others.
And there is the problem. Much of what is accepted as fact proving climate change is man caused is truly opinion, and based on data either flawed or altered. Asking for peer-reviewed denials is clever - the majority both suppresses dissent and trivializes it.
If you can't be bothered to sort through the fact and opinion on one side, then the argument is lost, isn't it?
Questioning the evidence with other equally credible evidence isn't lying.
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Many use big data systems and techniques to:
- Identify potential new customers for products and services. Mistakes here result in poor choices and losses.
- Identify and prevent fraud of all types. Mistakes here result in losses.
- Identify existing customers that could be successfully marketed new or additional products and services. Mistakes here result in disgruntled customers and losses.
Sometimes it's hard to determine if a technology is useful or even functional. Money often is a good indicator.
When was printing last plug n play?
I have my Canon MP620 hooked up to my Android phone and my wife's iPhone, and the 12 YO's Chromebook - via Google Cloud Print. Yes, all we have to do is open my Windows 10 laptop and turn it on - not even log in. that;s as good as it will get until we spring for a new printer with all the internet exploits built in.
An app that isn't available to the majority of users is mislabeled 'best'.
As in 'if i can't even use it, how is it best'?
Imagine it's a beowulf cluster...