Your speedometers will have to show both miles/hr and km/hr for at least 5 years, as people get used to the changeover. Suddenly, gasoline will be in litres with roughly 3.8 litres to a USA gallon. But there will be immense savings in construction, in international trade, because the rest of the world is using metric measure, and you will be able to USA products worldwide. Aircraft parts are all metric, as are probably trains, subway cars, etc. Tools for manufacturing purchased abroad or sent abroad will be metric.
It would be a standardized measure. TV weather reports could for a few years, post both measures. And produce that is in pounds would be sold in 1/3 kilos (about the same weight as a pound)
Because you are a techie, with some electrical knowledge, I would expect that your house is mov protected (Hi voltage overload / lightning protector). However, in many older homes (pre 1950), wiring was just a pair going to the outlet, with no third safety ground. What people have a tendency to do when they meet a 2 prong receptacle is clip off the safety ground. So, if one of the devices with extra MOVs is purchased, and there is no safety ground, you are, if there is a lightning strike, or some similar fault, taking your life in your hands. Circuit breakers on these adapters are useless, as the typical draw is 5 amperes or less. Breakers in electrical panels are usually rated for 15 amperes, and you could run two toasters on a line, but not three.
While they're slowly losing to cell phone companies and such, the Bell company in question DOES have a legal monopoly on the land line system in the area. Given that things like the 'touch tone' fee are known to piss people off, it's probably because they're regulated on what they can charge as part of the 'basic fee', having to go before a board or whatever to get that increased. Meanwhile, with sufficient justification they can add a fee, but no regulatory structure to REMOVE said fees, thus the continuation of them long past when it made sense.
Sort of like how we had a tax here in the USA meant to pay for the last spanish-american war* that was finally ended less than a decade ago. Or how tolls will go up to 'pay for the construction' of some road or bridge, but never get taken down, even after all the construction costs have been recouped several times over.
*Which a lot of US history student don't even know about.
I cant understand your remaining with a landline. I took a voip provider (minimum use, with North American calling, caller id, call waiting, conferencing, emails with missed messages and whatever. I got their little adapter box onto the router. I bought a ups for the router, the adapter box and for the cordless phones in the house. Last time we had a power failure (I test by pulling the main breaker), I still had phone service for hours. I used Vonage.
Being realistic? There's a glut of electricians right now--though there is a massive shortage of lineworkers(guys who work on utilities, can be much more dangerous but pay is better), lot of people started picking up that trade during the housing boom and are still out of work. I've heard anywhere between 10% and 55% depending where you live(either in Canada or the US and particular states/provinces) are unemployed. I'd suggest looking at what trades need the most hands, and consider it. Metal workers, CNC operators, mechanic(did this myself off and on for a decade), pipefitters and so on. The real problem is that kids aren't given the suggestion to look at trades these days, they got the same spiel that we were getting in the 80's and 90's, that going into technology is the way to go. But everyone needs someone to lay and fit pipe, fix their car, and so on.
I know someone who is certified as both plumber and electrician. Works for a city and has good secure job. No job loss and job searching for months between contracts. Not the highest pay, but when you consider overtime and steady wages, it is a good way to raise a family.
I made a gun using a couple of clothes pins, some rubber bands, and a single 22 cartridge. The only problem was that the entire cartridge and bullet was the projectile. I was lucky the thing never exploded. And I was about 5 years old at the time.
and LibreOffice gets everything else. LibreOffice is such a better piece of software after all the hard work done since the fork. But sometimes even when talking to my techy friends I have to elaborate when I say I created the doc in "LibreOffice".
=== The difference in downloads has to do with name popularity. OpenOffice implies free and unencumbered . LibreOffice, if it was called FreeOffice would probably have done better in terms of downloads. To non English speakers, LibreOffice means freedom. But most Americans don't think about libre as meaning free or free to use or unencumbered.
I have an engineering degree (BS, AOE) from an in-state university. At this point, 20 years down the road, having lived frugally the whole time, I own a mobile home that is older than I am, on a rented lot, no retirement 401k, medical care plan is over 1/3 of my income, and no significant savings or money to send my 14 year old to college in 4 years. No land, either.
The companies that have used my skills have all profited heavily from them, but I have not. Nor is my anecdotal evidence far from the truth for most other college educated americans, recently.
Since the sole beneficiary of a college degree is the employers, I categorically refuse to send my kid to college, and have advised him not to waste his time on it, either.
Nor have colleges satisfied their charters, that I should support them.
=== Sorry for your misfortune. Had you been living in most any other country, for example, Britain, Australia, or even Canada, for your skills and employment history, you would have been able to own a home, have $0.00 school debt, have had the equivalent of universal healthcare, and the ability to send your kids through 1st year university for free. The other years range from $2500.00 to about $4000.00, and with no guns. Yes, the world other than the USA is what is called a social democrat world, where you and your children can live well, and receive a good education.
Is the American dream still alive? Only if you are a clever lucky business person.
Who in the hell wants to listen to an "English major" who runs an online ad service? This guy should be drawn and quartered, not quoted.
=== When you learn two programming languages, you learn several skills besides the software grammar. a)You learn to be structured in your thinking b)You learn to write precisely, and to eliminate redundancy. c)You learn a skill, that could help you to understand better, how "Scientists" think, as well as understanding how "Artistic" people think. You learn that both are bright and intelligent.
The brunt of the tax burden is borne by the middle class.
The "middle class" tend to pay the highest proportion of their income in taxes, but the wealthiest in society pay the largest chunk of the total personal tax bill.
In the UK, for example, the top 1% pay 24% of all Income Tax and the top 10% pay over 50%. The next 40%, which could reasonably be classified as the "middle class", pay 35% which leaves less than 12% being paid by the other half of society.
So in both absolute terms and per-capita terms, the richest 10% pay the most tax.
The top earners are also the most mobile and "international" members of society, so the unfortunate conclusion is that countries have to retain those top earners, and one way they do that is to give them a fabvourable tax position. While they pay lip-service to stopping evasion, most countries would prefer to have the richest paying some tax rather than losing them and getting no tax at all.
=== If the taxes are not made more equitable, the wealthy will be super wealthy, and the rest of the population, living quiet lives. But then wealth should be measured not on annual income, but on assets, and we should tax the assets in a progressive manner.
The first 5 million with perhaps 1 percent rate, with an increase to some super high value (5 % per billion dollars).
The Quebec Government tried to do that to restaurants. They wanted to tax the wine inventory, 25cents a bottle. Some restaurants had bottles from their previous store owners, dating back 30 years. (One Restaurant had 25,000 bottles). The government was almost defeated until pressure was applied to block the bill to do this retroactive tax. The government did not care if the bottle was single serving or litre size.
One can surmise that Quebec is in financial difficulty.
They usually have enough business knowledge that they provide some value to the company
Normally at this point where technical skills have faded and the desire to "keep up" is gone, people move more into a non-technical role where their experience and lessons learnt can be put to better use than their fading coding skills. Obviously though if he has allowed himself to become a poor programmer with no interest in improving, he might be just as shitty in a new role. Obviously a paragraph is very little to judge a guy on, but he sounds like the kinda person that barring a major attitude change, is probably going to be looking (unsuccessfully) for a job in 5 years or so when his lack of current skills can no longer be covered up.
=== What to do when the programmers get too comfortable in their obsolete skills. Examples are command line or "text mode ansi-graphics" and have not learned about object oriented design or how to write GUI C++ code. But they do have the business acumen and they can debug business problems in a jiffy.
Those gentleman must be coerced into wanting to upgrade. Tell them "you must take xxx course and pass or "risk career risks/layoff". Do not give them 5 courses, pace them or they will fail to put the 5 contents together. Those who take the courses are most often happy to learn new stuff. Those that don't, will suffer from attrition.
I am self taught, but I pushed myself to learn new stuff. I found what help I needed on forums, where any misunderstandings of theory or practice that I had were explained to me. (I am 70+).
Many individuals want to see what a printfile is for a 3D printer. This gun file gives them a chance to explore, without actually buying a 3d printer to make such a weapon. I just hope that legislators consider the 3d weapon print file to be a weapon, and require it to be encrypted, and only released to registered weapon(gun) owners.
Perhaps the justice system should treat 3d Gun printfiles as they would ChildPorn.
Gates erred when he said Ipad users cant prepare text.
My daughter and kids use the ipad and the cover becomes the keyboard. No, they do not write 30 page documents with it, but they do write emails, post to Facebook, etc.
The only time they open a computer with w7 is to play games.
to get what they want done. My experience is adults learn best when a clear reward is in sight. Also, don't forget the tried and true method of adult education:
1. Tell them what you're going to tell them.
2. Tell it to them.
3. Tell them what you just told them.
I know, it sounds silly and redundant, but it's effective.
=== Having implemented ERP systems, and designed software for manufacturing, I would hold a set of interviews to determine their pressing business irritants. From the list of the irritants, First thing in the AM I would schedule some presentations to show how the ERP system would solve or ease them. Then, after a coffee break, I would repeat what was presented, and introduce the new things that the ERP system will do, and not do for them.
And you must wind up with cost versus speed of implementation. Want all departments implemented as a big bang, then WOW, training, simulation testing, training for trouble shooting etc, and the possibility of the company shooting themselves.
Then I would present an implementation plan, starting with (inventory, or fleet management or whatever is the pain point that, when implemented,) would make them more willing to do more. Don't cure too much too fast, or they will freeze system implementation at the 65% level, because you solved that abscess.
Yes, both sides want to kill each other, that's the problem in a nutshell.
--- I am favorably biased towards Israel and with Israels wanting preconditions to peace. All the Arab countries have said, "We will wipe Israel off the map". Israel has said, if you want to be recognized, it is reciprocal. Recognize the State of Israel. We are here, we are not going away.
Instead you Arabs want the return of lands (some of which we are prepared to negotiate) and you will still persist in wanting our annihilation. The 1967 borders, (like the Mexico vs Texas and Arizona borders) is not on the table.
The OP has it wrong. Extended warranties last 3 years, during the lowest chance of failure time, electronic devices will generally die in the first few months (manufacturer warranty) or after 3 years (after extended warranty). Add to this that extended warranties have convoluted terms that attempt to stop people getting warranty repairs.
In Australia, extended warranties are useless due to Australian Consumer Law, which protects consumers by making manufacturers repair goods if they fail before a reasonable time. Essentially, if there's an extended warranty available, the item should last as long a the extended warranty.
=== I tend to buy extended warranties for items that have historically failed within three years. In that category are laptops, backup hard-disks and any electromechanical items. For statically located items(washer, dryer, oven, desktop computer, monitor), which is installed and rarely ever relocated, I go with the vendor's guarantee. I will, for a washer, consider the extended warranty if the store agrees to guaranteed service within 48 hours. (we are 10 at home, we do two full washing machine loads per day). The desktop computers are on 18 hrs per day. So, all things are considered, based on consumer reports reliabilities of the items we purchase.
This complaint reminds me of the two sisters living in the same house. Both were in the same grade. One sister was neat, her homework looked like a piece of art, but she never got marks into the 90's. The second sister was sloppy, bedroom upside down, stuff under the bed and on the floor, and her work appeared very messy. But the content was great, the marks based on content were rarely below 95%, and this sibling had time for tennis, and girls soccer.
So, one sister is the person who raised the question, the second victim is the guy that delivers. And does it within the 8 hours per day. And his stuff works.
Where can I find 5 of the second kind of developer. I am sure his mess is well organized, though the documentation may be missing a few dotted eyes and a few crossed tees .
Reported this past week in NYtimes. A 4 year old using a "scaled down rifle", (built smaller for kids) shot and killed his 2 year old sister. The gun or rifle was supposedly unloaded, but a bullet was left in the chamber. Click, bang dead.
Yes, we need more guns.
Perhaps the answer is to allow printing guns such that the NRA cannot profit from any sales. Maybe then, we replace one evil with another.
I hold a different opinion from Mr. Heins. Tablets will evolve to include cellphone data and wi-fi. And they may become voice activated. Since Samsung with S4 has an application to follow your eyes, the tablet will evolve to have something more intelligent than mouse/keyboard input.
A theoretical solution would be to have the client software generate a randomly created software, and store in in a keyvault with a simple name. When it is time to logo on to a site, you use the vault to send the password.
You can also email the vault to yourself at a secondary location or store it on your flash drive
All seems reasonable to me. Our civil society is founded on the fact that since the government actually costs money, then people need to pay tax. Trying to hide money in bitcoin ought be seen as tax evasion, unless they are paying taxes on that money.
Libertarian types trying to sponge off the taxes of hard working tax payers via tax evasion need to stop being so greedy and stealing other peoples money.
You provide the rationale to approve the decision that all online vendors collect sales taxes, (Federal or State)
I'm not "trying to impress anyone out there", I'm just trying not to die of boredom on my daily commute. A full-throttle acceleration from a stop light (when the way is clear and it's safe to do so) every now and then can really put a smile on my face.
I hear people say things about people with sports cars - "he's got small penis" or "he's showing off", but I'm just having fun. I'm having fun *for myself*. I've got no one to show off for - I'm married 17 years now.
This app is not for me.
=== what separates the men from the boys is what they do with their costly toys. Accelerate from 0 to 65 in 5.3 seconds is one answer.
salesforce.com selling the work of some 3rd party consultant to the client for sum X and day Y, just shoveling bullshit for money. said consultant(or company or whatever, some entity) then delivered the thing late and held the project hostage until got payment roughly doubly the original estimate, said product wasn't "ready". the company buying the service actually paying that is the amazing part but not so amazing after you hear what the product was for: tracking effectiveness of every single 15-30sec tv advertisement, so their product request was bullshit as well.
but why would someone spot their company 125k of cash on a credit card? why is salesforce asking 550k for breach of contract when they didn't deliver? how come the pillow company is saying that their advertisement campaign failed because they lacked tracking? did their sales go up or not? how the fuck is salesforce getting away with saying to amex that a contract they have with my pillow allows them to charge a card they already refunded once and a card that's not my pillows card? why didn't he just cancel said card?
the only thing to take home from it is that you shouldn't do business with any of these companies. oh, and never ever loan your employer money.
=== Having been in business a long time, I can surmise that the pillow company was under funded, and really, could not get funds from venture capitalists. So he used the employee as banker. This is what I conjecture / allege. The employee, believing in the product, used his card to finance the venture. The salesforce.com people may have had no ERP experience, and the pillow company none either, and being underfunded, they did not hire a project manager, or write a good contract. The pillow company may have been trusting that he was getting a complete system, with tracking, reporting, finance, marking support and SEO. Who knows.
Who provided the project management, and who signed off that the software was functioning?
I say give them the H1B workers. Those companies will be worse off because of it. I work with these guys and the quality suffers greatly. Some companies are smarter than to go that route. In many cases, 1 good non-H1B IT guy can do something 100 H1B workers can't. There are exceptions...
Whatever happened to the "you have to pay an H1B worker what you would pay a non-H1B worker"? And that you "have to prove you can't find a non-H1B worker"? Do they just say they can't find them because the price is too high? Do they pay a "contractor" the same rate as a non-H1B, which pays the H1B a very low rate, and gives a kickback to the company?
The typical way it works goes like this:
1) Talk to the recruiting firm and locate the H1-B worker you want to hire 2) Figure out (or create) a very precise skill set for that worker 3) Tailor a job posting to those exact requirements 4) Post job in local newspaper and wait a few weeks 5) Legally disqualify 95% of the applicants that don't match those exact requirements 6) Call a few in for interviews that do come close to matching - then disqualify them for other made-up reasons (not a good fit for our culture is a good one) 7) Claim that you can't fill the job with native talent and hire H1-B worker at fraction of price you'd have to pay a native worker
There is no bargain. The H1B people I know are book smart, but lack experience. They work twice as slow as North Americans. After two years though they are caught up and then, they go home to use the skills for India, or from whereever they came. You are training other nationals to compete with you. STOP.
I guess everyone should have an rfid chip placed in him at birth, in a location that is not shieldable from scanners. Then as you walk by certain intersections, you would be scanned and everyone would know your location.
Yup, it works for my dog, so it should work for humans. We could match the RFID in the passport to the RFID in our body as a bonus.
If strangers have the right to "see" me with their eyes as I walk the street and walk in to a store, is it so different if that "seeing" is recorded? Is that REALLY a violation of "privacy" when one is in a public place? I don't see a huge difference nor do I see it as a 'privacy' violation.
I think what the "privacy" crowd wants is a right to "anonymity". And I'm not sure we have a right to "anonymity".
=== Cameras and other surveillance stuff is only good after the crime or deed has been done. It is there to help analyze and lead to a capture. However, Boston was done with one depressed individual, and a brother who perhaps worshiped his older brother. If terrorists were to really be up to as much evil as some think, you would not ever know about it until the horrific deed was done. Surveillance is an after the fact method. I doubt very much that it is a preventative method.
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Your speedometers will have to show both miles/hr and km/hr for at least 5 years, as people get used to the changeover. Suddenly, gasoline will be in litres with roughly 3.8 litres to a USA gallon. But there will be immense savings in construction, in international trade, because the rest of the world is using metric measure, and you will be able to USA products worldwide. Aircraft parts are all metric, as are probably trains, subway cars, etc. Tools for manufacturing purchased abroad or sent abroad will be metric.
It would be a standardized measure. TV weather reports could for a few years, post both measures. And produce that is in pounds would be sold in 1/3 kilos (about the same weight as a pound)
Because you are a techie, with some electrical knowledge, I would expect that your house is mov protected (Hi voltage overload / lightning protector). However, in many older homes (pre 1950), wiring was just a pair going to the outlet, with no third safety ground.
What people have a tendency to do when they meet a 2 prong receptacle is clip off the safety ground. So, if one of the devices with extra MOVs is purchased, and there is no safety ground, you are, if there is a lightning strike, or some similar fault, taking your life in your hands. Circuit breakers on these adapters are useless, as the typical draw is 5 amperes or less. Breakers in electrical panels are usually rated for 15 amperes, and you could run two toasters on a line, but not three.
While they're slowly losing to cell phone companies and such, the Bell company in question DOES have a legal monopoly on the land line system in the area. Given that things like the 'touch tone' fee are known to piss people off, it's probably because they're regulated on what they can charge as part of the 'basic fee', having to go before a board or whatever to get that increased. Meanwhile, with sufficient justification they can add a fee, but no regulatory structure to REMOVE said fees, thus the continuation of them long past when it made sense.
Sort of like how we had a tax here in the USA meant to pay for the last spanish-american war* that was finally ended less than a decade ago. Or how tolls will go up to 'pay for the construction' of some road or bridge, but never get taken down, even after all the construction costs have been recouped several times over.
*Which a lot of US history student don't even know about.
I cant understand your remaining with a landline. I took a voip provider (minimum use, with North American calling, caller id, call waiting, conferencing, emails with missed messages and whatever. I got their little adapter box onto the router. I bought a ups for the router, the adapter box and for the cordless phones in the house. Last time we had a power failure (I test by pulling the main breaker), I still had phone service for hours. I used Vonage.
I'd suggest being an electrician over a plumber.
Being realistic? There's a glut of electricians right now--though there is a massive shortage of lineworkers(guys who work on utilities, can be much more dangerous but pay is better), lot of people started picking up that trade during the housing boom and are still out of work. I've heard anywhere between 10% and 55% depending where you live(either in Canada or the US and particular states/provinces) are unemployed. I'd suggest looking at what trades need the most hands, and consider it. Metal workers, CNC operators, mechanic(did this myself off and on for a decade), pipefitters and so on. The real problem is that kids aren't given the suggestion to look at trades these days, they got the same spiel that we were getting in the 80's and 90's, that going into technology is the way to go. But everyone needs someone to lay and fit pipe, fix their car, and so on.
I know someone who is certified as both plumber and electrician. Works for a city and has good secure job. No job loss and job searching for months between contracts. Not the highest pay, but when you consider overtime and steady wages, it is a good way to raise a family.
I made a gun using a couple of clothes pins, some rubber bands, and a single 22 cartridge. The only problem was that the entire cartridge and bullet was the projectile. I was lucky the thing never exploded. And I was about 5 years old at the time.
and LibreOffice gets everything else. LibreOffice is such a better piece of software after all the hard work done since the fork. But sometimes even when talking to my techy friends I have to elaborate when I say I created the doc in "LibreOffice".
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The difference in downloads has to do with name popularity. OpenOffice implies free and unencumbered . LibreOffice, if it was called FreeOffice would probably have done better in terms of downloads. To non English speakers, LibreOffice means freedom. But most Americans don't think about libre as meaning free or free to use or unencumbered.
I have an engineering degree (BS, AOE) from an in-state university. At this point, 20 years down the road, having lived frugally the whole time, I own a mobile home that is older than I am, on a rented lot, no retirement 401k, medical care plan is over 1/3 of my income, and no significant savings or money to send my 14 year old to college in 4 years. No land, either.
The companies that have used my skills have all profited heavily from them, but I have not. Nor is my anecdotal evidence far from the truth for most other college educated americans, recently.
Since the sole beneficiary of a college degree is the employers, I categorically refuse to send my kid to college, and have advised him not to waste his time on it, either.
Nor have colleges satisfied their charters, that I should support them.
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Sorry for your misfortune. Had you been living in most any other country, for example, Britain, Australia, or even Canada, for your skills and employment history, you would have been able to own a home, have $0.00 school debt, have had the equivalent of universal healthcare, and the ability to send your kids through 1st year university for free. The other years range from $2500.00 to about $4000.00, and with no guns. Yes, the world other than the USA is what is called a social democrat world, where you and your children can live well, and receive a good education.
Is the American dream still alive? Only if you are a clever lucky business person.
Who in the hell wants to listen to an "English major" who runs an online ad service? This guy should be drawn and quartered, not quoted.
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When you learn two programming languages, you learn several skills besides the software grammar.
a)You learn to be structured in your thinking
b)You learn to write precisely, and to eliminate redundancy.
c)You learn a skill, that could help you to understand better, how "Scientists" think, as well as understanding how "Artistic" people think. You learn that both are bright and intelligent.
The brunt of the tax burden is borne by the middle class.
The "middle class" tend to pay the highest proportion of their income in taxes, but the wealthiest in society pay the largest chunk of the total personal tax bill.
In the UK, for example, the top 1% pay 24% of all Income Tax and the top 10% pay over 50%. The next 40%, which could reasonably be classified as the "middle class", pay 35% which leaves less than 12% being paid by the other half of society.
So in both absolute terms and per-capita terms, the richest 10% pay the most tax.
The top earners are also the most mobile and "international" members of society, so the unfortunate conclusion is that countries have to retain those top earners, and one way they do that is to give them a fabvourable tax position. While they pay lip-service to stopping evasion, most countries would prefer to have the richest paying some tax rather than losing them and getting no tax at all.
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If the taxes are not made more equitable, the wealthy will be super wealthy, and the rest of the population, living quiet lives. But then wealth should be measured not on annual income, but on assets, and we should tax the assets in a progressive manner.
The first 5 million with perhaps 1 percent rate, with an increase to some super high value (5 % per billion dollars).
The Quebec Government tried to do that to restaurants. They wanted to tax the wine inventory, 25cents a bottle. Some restaurants had bottles from their previous store owners, dating back 30 years. (One Restaurant had 25,000 bottles).
The government was almost defeated until pressure was applied to block the bill to do this retroactive tax. The government did not care if the bottle was single serving or litre size.
One can surmise that Quebec is in financial difficulty.
They usually have enough business knowledge that they provide some value to the company
Normally at this point where technical skills have faded and the desire to "keep up" is gone, people move more into a non-technical role where their experience and lessons learnt can be put to better use than their fading coding skills. Obviously though if he has allowed himself to become a poor programmer with no interest in improving, he might be just as shitty in a new role. Obviously a paragraph is very little to judge a guy on, but he sounds like the kinda person that barring a major attitude change, is probably going to be looking (unsuccessfully) for a job in 5 years or so when his lack of current skills can no longer be covered up.
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What to do when the programmers get too comfortable in their obsolete skills. Examples are command line or "text mode ansi-graphics" and have not learned about object oriented design or how to write GUI C++ code. But they do have the business acumen and they can debug business problems in a jiffy.
Those gentleman must be coerced into wanting to upgrade. Tell them "you must take xxx course and pass or "risk career risks/layoff". Do not give them 5 courses, pace them or they will fail to put the 5 contents together. Those who take the courses are most often happy to learn new stuff. Those that don't, will suffer from attrition.
I am self taught, but I pushed myself to learn new stuff. I found what help I needed on forums, where any misunderstandings of theory or practice that I had were explained to me. (I am 70+).
Many individuals want to see what a printfile is for a 3D printer. This gun file gives them a chance to explore, without actually buying a 3d printer to make such a weapon. I just hope that legislators consider the 3d weapon print file to be a weapon, and require it to be encrypted, and only released to registered weapon(gun) owners.
Perhaps the justice system should treat 3d Gun printfiles as they would ChildPorn.
Gates erred when he said Ipad users cant prepare text.
My daughter and kids use the ipad and the cover becomes the keyboard. No, they do not write 30 page documents with it, but they do write emails, post to Facebook, etc.
The only time they open a computer with w7 is to play games.
to get what they want done. My experience is adults learn best when a clear reward is in sight. Also, don't forget the tried and true method of adult education:
1. Tell them what you're going to tell them.
2. Tell it to them.
3. Tell them what you just told them.
I know, it sounds silly and redundant, but it's effective.
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Having implemented ERP systems, and designed software for manufacturing, I would hold a set of interviews to determine their pressing business irritants. From the list of the irritants, First thing in the AM I would schedule some presentations to show how the ERP system would solve or ease them. Then, after a coffee break, I would repeat what was presented, and introduce the new things that the ERP system will do, and not do for them.
And you must wind up with cost versus speed of implementation. Want all departments implemented as a big bang, then WOW, training, simulation testing, training for trouble shooting etc, and the possibility of the company shooting themselves.
Then I would present an implementation plan, starting with (inventory, or fleet management or whatever is the pain point that, when implemented,) would make them more willing to do more. Don't cure too much too fast, or they will freeze system implementation at the 65% level, because you solved that abscess.
Yes, both sides want to kill each other, that's the problem in a nutshell.
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I am favorably biased towards Israel and with Israels wanting preconditions to peace. All the Arab countries have said, "We will wipe Israel off the map". Israel has said, if you want to be recognized, it is reciprocal. Recognize the State of Israel. We are here, we are not going away.
Instead you Arabs want the return of lands (some of which we are prepared to negotiate) and you will still persist in wanting our annihilation. The 1967 borders, (like the Mexico vs Texas and Arizona borders) is not on the table.
The OP has it wrong. Extended warranties last 3 years, during the lowest chance of failure time, electronic devices will generally die in the first few months (manufacturer warranty) or after 3 years (after extended warranty). Add to this that extended warranties have convoluted terms that attempt to stop people getting warranty repairs.
In Australia, extended warranties are useless due to Australian Consumer Law, which protects consumers by making manufacturers repair goods if they fail before a reasonable time. Essentially, if there's an extended warranty available, the item should last as long a the extended warranty.
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I tend to buy extended warranties for items that have historically failed within three years. In that category are laptops, backup hard-disks and any electromechanical items.
For statically located items(washer, dryer, oven, desktop computer, monitor), which is installed and rarely ever relocated, I go with the vendor's guarantee. I will, for a washer, consider the extended warranty if the store agrees to guaranteed service within 48 hours. (we are 10 at home, we do two full washing machine loads per day). The desktop computers are on 18 hrs per day. So, all things are considered, based on consumer reports reliabilities of the items we purchase.
This complaint reminds me of the two sisters living in the same house. Both were in the same grade.
One sister was neat, her homework looked like a piece of art, but she never got marks into the 90's.
The second sister was sloppy, bedroom upside down, stuff under the bed and on the floor, and her work appeared very messy.
But the content was great, the marks based on content were rarely below 95%, and this sibling had time for tennis, and girls soccer.
So, one sister is the person who raised the question, the second victim is the guy that delivers. And does it within the 8 hours per day. And his stuff works.
Where can I find 5 of the second kind of developer. I am sure his mess is well organized, though the documentation may be missing a few dotted eyes and a few crossed tees .
Reported this past week in NYtimes. A 4 year old using a "scaled down rifle", (built smaller for kids) shot and killed his 2 year old sister. The gun or rifle was supposedly unloaded, but a bullet was left in the chamber. Click, bang dead.
Yes, we need more guns.
Perhaps the answer is to allow printing guns such that the NRA cannot profit from any sales. Maybe then, we replace one evil with another.
I hold a different opinion from Mr. Heins. Tablets will evolve to include cellphone data and wi-fi. And they may become voice activated.
Since Samsung with S4 has an application to follow your eyes, the tablet will evolve to have something more intelligent than mouse/keyboard input.
A theoretical solution would be to have the client software generate a randomly created software, and store in in a keyvault with a simple name. When it is time to logo on to a site, you use the vault to send the password.
You can also email the vault to yourself at a secondary location or store it on your flash drive
All seems reasonable to me. Our civil society is founded on the fact that since the government actually costs money, then people need to pay tax. Trying to hide money in bitcoin ought be seen as tax evasion, unless they are paying taxes on that money.
Libertarian types trying to sponge off the taxes of hard working tax payers via tax evasion need to stop being so greedy and stealing other peoples money.
You provide the rationale to approve the decision that all online vendors collect sales taxes, (Federal or State)
I'm not "trying to impress anyone out there", I'm just trying not to die of boredom on my daily commute. A full-throttle acceleration from a stop light (when the way is clear and it's safe to do so) every now and then can really put a smile on my face.
I hear people say things about people with sports cars - "he's got small penis" or "he's showing off", but I'm just having fun. I'm having fun *for myself*. I've got no one to show off for - I'm married 17 years now.
This app is not for me.
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what separates the men from the boys is what they do with their costly toys. Accelerate from 0 to 65 in 5.3 seconds is one answer.
it's a threeway bullshit throwing battle.
salesforce.com selling the work of some 3rd party consultant to the client for sum X and day Y, just shoveling bullshit for money. said consultant(or company or whatever, some entity) then delivered the thing late and held the project hostage until got payment roughly doubly the original estimate, said product wasn't "ready". the company buying the service actually paying that is the amazing part but not so amazing after you hear what the product was for: tracking effectiveness of every single 15-30sec tv advertisement, so their product request was bullshit as well.
but why would someone spot their company 125k of cash on a credit card? why is salesforce asking 550k for breach of contract when they didn't deliver? how come the pillow company is saying that their advertisement campaign failed because they lacked tracking? did their sales go up or not? how the fuck is salesforce getting away with saying to amex that a contract they have with my pillow allows them to charge a card they already refunded once and a card that's not my pillows card? why didn't he just cancel said card?
the only thing to take home from it is that you shouldn't do business with any of these companies. oh, and never ever loan your employer money.
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Having been in business a long time, I can surmise that the pillow company was under funded, and really, could not get funds from venture capitalists.
So he used the employee as banker. This is what I conjecture / allege.
The employee, believing in the product, used his card to finance the venture.
The salesforce.com people may have had no ERP experience, and the pillow company none either, and being underfunded, they did not hire a project manager, or write a good contract. The pillow company may have been trusting that he was getting a complete system, with tracking, reporting, finance, marking support and SEO. Who knows.
Who provided the project management, and who signed off that the software was functioning?
I say give them the H1B workers. Those companies will be worse off because of it. I work with these guys and the quality suffers greatly. Some companies are smarter than to go that route. In many cases, 1 good non-H1B IT guy can do something 100 H1B workers can't. There are exceptions...
Whatever happened to the "you have to pay an H1B worker what you would pay a non-H1B worker"? And that you "have to prove you can't find a non-H1B worker"? Do they just say they can't find them because the price is too high? Do they pay a "contractor" the same rate as a non-H1B, which pays the H1B a very low rate, and gives a kickback to the company?
The typical way it works goes like this:
1) Talk to the recruiting firm and locate the H1-B worker you want to hire
2) Figure out (or create) a very precise skill set for that worker
3) Tailor a job posting to those exact requirements
4) Post job in local newspaper and wait a few weeks
5) Legally disqualify 95% of the applicants that don't match those exact requirements
6) Call a few in for interviews that do come close to matching - then disqualify them for other made-up reasons (not a good fit for our culture is a good one)
7) Claim that you can't fill the job with native talent and hire H1-B worker at fraction of price you'd have to pay a native worker
There is no bargain. The H1B people I know are book smart, but lack experience. They work twice as slow as North Americans. After two years though they are caught up and then, they go home to use the skills for India, or from whereever they came. You are training other nationals to compete with you. STOP.
I guess everyone should have an rfid chip placed in him at birth, in a location that is not shieldable from scanners.
Then as you walk by certain intersections, you would be scanned and everyone would know your location.
Yup, it works for my dog, so it should work for humans. We could match the RFID in the passport to the RFID in our body as a bonus.
Is this really about PRIVACY? Or ANONYMITY?
If strangers have the right to "see" me with their eyes as I walk the street and walk in to a store, is it so different if that "seeing" is recorded? Is that REALLY a violation of "privacy" when one is in a public place? I don't see a huge difference nor do I see it as a 'privacy' violation.
I think what the "privacy" crowd wants is a right to "anonymity". And I'm not sure we have a right to "anonymity".
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Cameras and other surveillance stuff is only good after the crime or deed has been done. It is there to help analyze and lead to a capture. However, Boston was done with one depressed individual, and a brother who perhaps worshiped his older brother.
If terrorists were to really be up to as much evil as some think, you would not ever know about it until the horrific deed was done. Surveillance is an after the fact method. I doubt very much that it is a preventative method.