The hilarity of this story is that the raising minimum wage is a scapegoat. Fast Food franchises have been looking into kiosks for years. Capitalism motivates businesses to automate, not regulation.
Even if other countries adopt this policy, it won't work because of time zone differences. China is six hours ahead of France, the USA is 6 to 9 hours behind France. Conducting international business becomes impossible.
Gee, if only someone would invent the electric lightbulb so our work hours wouldn't be locked to the movement of the sun.
If you go into the KB settings in iOS 9 you'll see an 'about keyboard privacy' link that spells out that 'Full Access' explicitly means access to all of the data that the AC spelled out. I'm not sure if you have to opt in or opt out (not willing to try it...), but your options basically are all-or-nothing.
Craptop? I drove over a work-supplied d630 and all that happened was the screen cracked and the HDD stopped working - replaced both and the thing still worked until the day I left.
I'll be sure to note that in case I ever end up in an occupation where I need a laptop to survive a truck driving over it after a trip to Best Buy and... ermm.. whoever you go to to get the screen replaced.
Your laptop works for you - great - but it's far from being a bargain, especially considering the poor vertical resolution (900px? 800px? That's like programming through a letterbox)
The one I had in 2010 was 1200px vertical, the one I purchased in 2012 is 1800px. The Dell Inspiron I had previous to 2010 was also 1200px tall and it may have been the shortest-lived laptop I have owned despite not being a whole lot cheaper than a Macbook Pro.
The appeal of the Quadro architecture has diminished quite a bit in the last five years, in fact there are many sectors of the industry where it's actually NOT preferred because it under-performs in circumstances that increasingly matter. A couple of years ago I gave up a Quadro in my desktop in exchange for a high end gaming card that cost less than half as much and it performs a lot better.
Price != Value. I also spent a little over two grand on a 2012 MacBook Pro and it's still behaving quite nicely. I'm four years in and still doing work on it. Nothing on it worn, broken, or showing any signicant signs of age. My previous non-Apple laptops would, at most, work for about two years before keys start breaking, volume controls start malfunctioning, hinges crack, etc.
It may be the most expensive singular laptop purchase I've made. But if you look at how much I've spent on my laptops and divide it by how many useful years I've gotten out of them, I'm way ahead with the MBP.
You call a company to fix it, and they send out a plumber to install a new toilet. This new toilet has a "feature" whereby you can't flush it unless you swipe your debit card and pay a flush fee.
I'm not a home-owner, but I had no idea a plumber could force an un-replaceable toilet on you.
If you actually belonged here instead of wandering in from the Youtube comments section you'd have the prerequisite knowledge to answer this question on your own.
What I find funny about this discussion is that our whole mathematical proof that extra-terrestrial life exists basically boils down to: "There's lots of places to look." Which is fine until we get to Fermi's Paradox, which reels that back in. There is no math that can determine if we're alone in the universe until we actually meet any. At best all math can say is: "Here's how long it'll take to give up the search."
The best we can do is try to narrow down where we'd search. That's the point of the 'Habitable Zone', it should really be called the "Familiar-to-us Zone'.
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Because if we can label enough things as PC we can fulfill our claim that there's much PC.
Heh. I had to scroll past a lot of AC comments that wouldn't pass a Turing test to get to yours.
You gotta better way to keep these cars from becoming getaway drivers?
Ask Slashdot: What Was The Greatest Era Of Innovation?
Whatever obscure era anyone is unlikely to suggest so I can appear smarter than everyone else.
The hilarity of this story is that the raising minimum wage is a scapegoat. Fast Food franchises have been looking into kiosks for years. Capitalism motivates businesses to automate, not regulation.
Yep. Job creators are not the businesses that sell the products, they are the consumers that buy them.
Even if other countries adopt this policy, it won't work because of time zone differences. China is six hours ahead of France, the USA is 6 to 9 hours behind France. Conducting international business becomes impossible.
Gee, if only someone would invent the electric lightbulb so our work hours wouldn't be locked to the movement of the sun.
I personally wouldn't bet against Google's never-ending hunger for data.
If you go into the KB settings in iOS 9 you'll see an 'about keyboard privacy' link that spells out that 'Full Access' explicitly means access to all of the data that the AC spelled out. I'm not sure if you have to opt in or opt out (not willing to try it...), but your options basically are all-or-nothing.
Shame on Apple.
What prevents Google from sending everything you type back to the mother-ship?
The company also announced that it is releasing something called Parsey McParseface (Google has a sense of humor)..
If by 'sense of humor' you mean 'a repeat of something that was humorous a while ago under a different context'.
At least with Trump you aren't automatically called a racist and deemed wrong simply for disagreeing with him...
Well, you are right. It's agreeing with Trump that gets you called a racist.
Craptop? I drove over a work-supplied d630 and all that happened was the screen cracked and the HDD stopped working - replaced both and the thing still worked until the day I left.
I'll be sure to note that in case I ever end up in an occupation where I need a laptop to survive a truck driving over it after a trip to Best Buy and ... ermm.. whoever you go to to get the screen replaced.
Your laptop works for you - great - but it's far from being a bargain, especially considering the poor vertical resolution (900px? 800px? That's like programming through a letterbox)
The one I had in 2010 was 1200px vertical, the one I purchased in 2012 is 1800px. The Dell Inspiron I had previous to 2010 was also 1200px tall and it may have been the shortest-lived laptop I have owned despite not being a whole lot cheaper than a Macbook Pro.
The appeal of the Quadro architecture has diminished quite a bit in the last five years, in fact there are many sectors of the industry where it's actually NOT preferred because it under-performs in circumstances that increasingly matter. A couple of years ago I gave up a Quadro in my desktop in exchange for a high end gaming card that cost less than half as much and it performs a lot better.
You've got a long way to go before you consider a $2k laptop/4 years to be a bargain of any sort.
The D630 was insufficient even back in its day for the work that I do. Not all of us can get by with bargain-basement craptops.
Price != Value. I also spent a little over two grand on a 2012 MacBook Pro and it's still behaving quite nicely. I'm four years in and still doing work on it. Nothing on it worn, broken, or showing any signicant signs of age. My previous non-Apple laptops would, at most, work for about two years before keys start breaking, volume controls start malfunctioning, hinges crack, etc.
It may be the most expensive singular laptop purchase I've made. But if you look at how much I've spent on my laptops and divide it by how many useful years I've gotten out of them, I'm way ahead with the MBP.
You call a company to fix it, and they send out a plumber to install a new toilet.
This new toilet has a "feature" whereby you can't flush it unless you swipe your debit card and pay a flush fee.
I'm not a home-owner, but I had no idea a plumber could force an un-replaceable toilet on you.
But can anyone tell me why this matters?
If you actually belonged here instead of wandering in from the Youtube comments section you'd have the prerequisite knowledge to answer this question on your own.
You're on a nerd-discussion site. Most of what we want to talk about are products we can go buy. You may need to lighten up a little.
Why? Looking into making micro-transactions?
Honda may not charge me but I loose the opportunity to make money that day (My car is required to make money) so I'm a little miffed.
Your being alive and in good health is also required for you to make money.
Natural selection; she rear ended someone else and brought this onto herself.
Speaking of natural selection: Comments like these help ensure you'll never reproduce.
Did you understand the episode?
This is great! Just one question: What the hell is SharePoint? Sounds like one of those "Push Technologies" things that disappeared.
What I find funny about this discussion is that our whole mathematical proof that extra-terrestrial life exists basically boils down to: "There's lots of places to look." Which is fine until we get to Fermi's Paradox, which reels that back in. There is no math that can determine if we're alone in the universe until we actually meet any. At best all math can say is: "Here's how long it'll take to give up the search."
The best we can do is try to narrow down where we'd search. That's the point of the 'Habitable Zone', it should really be called the "Familiar-to-us Zone'.