I never said it would. Neither would a single (expensive) weekend getaway like the article mentions.
In my family, screen time is fairly balanced. I use my computer or laptop for work during the day, but after that I'm generally all screened out.
My kids rarely watch the single TV we have in our home. I use it to play Spotify most of the time (hooked up to a sound system and I turn the actual screeen off, but need it to select the channel/play list I want).
They are too busy outside with their friends, just as I was as a child. This was my point.
My family of four (my wife and I fall in the 'millennial' generation, both kids under 10) goes to the lake a minimum of 4 times during summer break.
We have 2 lakes within 'day trip' distance, and it's quite cheap. A tank of gas (~$50), plus park pass ($10), and some pre-made food in a cooler for the day makes for a great day on the beach.
My kids love it, I love it, my wife loves it. We go as often as possible. I suspect we'll get out there more this year, as my wife recently left her day job to come work for me. We're no longer bound by her work schedule where she usually had to work weekends.
Now that it's nice out I have a really hard time keeping my kids in the house. They have friends all up and down my block, lots of kids to play with in a fairly nice neighbourhood so I encourage them to play outside. After office hours, I'll do work outside/in the vegetable garden.
I love technology as much as the next guy here on Slashdot, but I also enjoy being outside and working with my hands.
The majority of people want bigger screens, so more bigger screens are manufactured. The manufacturing processes get as streamlined as possible, thud allowing the manufacturer to reduce the price further. When OEMs come looking for price lists at X volume, the screens that are manufactured at much higher volume comes in cheaper. Motorola sees that and builds their phone with that, as it can hit its desired price point and stil tout a 5+" screen just like the "Expensive" models.
While I do not necessarily use every tech giant out there personally, I feel like if you took one away it could adversely affect how the markets have grown, and we could be living in a very different time.
One thing I am certain of, if Oracle did not buy Sun Microsystems, we would be better off today. I feel as though anyone else buying Sun would have yielded better for everyone.
Indeed. And in many cases if they don't offer T.38 (the fax standard over VOIP), they offer an e-mail based Fax gateway that's even easier to use than using a physical machine.
I've converted my inlaws to a VOIP line just this week. Their landline was $45/mo (with tax in). The VOIP line I'm expecting to be less than $10/mo based on their previous monthly average usage. $3/mo for the DID and around 500-700 minutes at $0.01 per minute.
I've only ever owned one Mac, and I installed Gentoo on it after about a month, then sold it about a year later.
OSX is a terrible interface, riddled with plenty of gotcha's that just frustrate the user eventually. Maybe its better now, but I used it back in 2008 or so.
I personally prefer Linux, but I've spent some time in Windows land. I also use Photoshop/Illustrator on a regular basis, so I have Win10 in a VM on my main workstation.
Even if I could use OSX in the same way (in a VM), while theoretically possible, it's very slow. I would still prefer using Windows than OSX.
I have had some success running older versions of PS/AI under WINE, but I just don't have the time to keep fiddling with it to make it work, and getting the latest versions of CC (to which I pay for the monthly license) is not possible at the moment.
I'm more of a developer than a creative though. I'm finding it's easier to sketch on paper what I want, and pay someone else to do the design work these days.
Basically just triple whatever estimate we come up with.
This comes with a huge benefit: If it turns out we over-estimate, the client is happier with an earlier finish date, or we can put a little extra time/effort into something that just didn't feel as polished, and the client got an even better value for their money.
We also have a policy to not bill over our quotes, so over-estimating is crucial. It holds us accountable so we don't bleed our clients and create bad blood.
Sounds like you just did a bunch of research on the colder places in Canada.
Your post history, literally from the last day or two hours, indicates you're in Ontario.
Living in a small town in Saskatchewan, I experience what you've described every year. Year after year. The only difference is I have a relatively decent sized center about 40 minutes away.
I built my own business up from nothing, specifically so I wouldn't have to move away from here, because one of the few things I actually enjoy here is the cold winters. Some other great things: tons of snow in winter, lots of light in summer (to grow my own food), low population densities, super fast internet (thank you gov't owned fiber network), no daylight saving time, and so on and so forth. The only thing I don't like is our current Provincial Government, but they'll be voted out in 3 years.
Fact is, -40 and colder sucks and because I'm not a sadist, I don't make my kids walk to school in it. -10? -20? Not a problem. That weather is quite enjoyable, in my opinion. Even into the -30s if there is no wind, but living in the flattest part of the country means there is usually wind.
Do you count the "Windchill Factor"? If so, yes it does get to -60C, and -45C without.
Besides, it's not MY comfort, its my childrens comfort. Seeing as they are both under 10, theit bodies can not handle the cold nearly as well as I can. Personally, I rather enjoy the cold.
Boy Slashdot is full of a bunch of ignorant pricks lately.
It really helps to keep a routine when you work from home. I walk my kids to school when it's nice out (too cold most of the winter), and their not on holidays.
During the summer, while my kids are not in school, it's much more difficult. I think the worst part is the constant feeling that I have to work on all stuff outdoors. Today, in between some scheduled calls, I fixed a gate on my fence, laid tarps over my veggie garden to stop weeds from germinating, and lubed up the parts that need lube on my bicycle.
I find it much easier to work in the evenings anyway, so that's when I get the majority of my work done.
I manage backups for some of my customers. Some from a couple of GB, up to around 12TB. I know, I know, very small scale for most of you.
I replicate this across 4 locations: - a local backup (usually a NAS type of device, in their office) which backs itself up to - on my servers (in Montreal, Canada) - on my office backup server (located in my office) - then another copy in Backblaze B2 (wherever their DC is)
So typically the data syncs to the NAS pretty much continually, then the NAS pushes out (encrypted) incremental backup archives to my servers in Montreal, my office server downloads from the Montreal server every couple hours, and the Montreal server also pushes up to Backblaze's B2 object storage.
Providing false information on your domain registration is against the registration agreement, and they have every right to terminate your domain name without notice.
WHOIS privacy services cost what they do for two reasons: 1) They have a list a mile long of compliance crap they have to keep up on 2) They are required to forward any messages they receive to the domain owner. This means e-mail, telephone, and postal mail.
One trick they use to get around this: They set up a shell company in a small foreign country that would cost a lot to call or send postal mail to. E-mail forwarding is easy, and really low cost. This heightens the bar for people to actually try and contact the company behind the domain name to a point where most people and scammers will simply not try.
They also have to submit your real information to the Registry, where it is held in escrow for situations where law enforcement needs to be involved and only the public WHOIS database receives the privacy protection companies information.
This is not true. The Registry still receives your information you submit at the time of registration from the Registrar, to be held in escrow (for law enforcement, or proving who the legal owner of the domain is). They then submit their own information to be placed in the WHOIS database.
So you are still the real owner, and only the public record (WHOIS database) of the domain is masked with the WHOIS Privacy companies information.
I've found that some (most?) Linux distro's recompile FF to their release packages, instead of simply using the Mozilla provided binaries.
This creates a much more stable browser.
I use Funtoo Linux, and always go the compile route when updating FF. The one time I decided waiting for it to compile would be too long (was in a time crunch) it was a terrible experience. When I later "upgraded" to the self-compiled version it stablized.
I guess a lot of it depends on what your system has for native libs, and compatible versions. If you're using a huge binary blob from Mozilla you're missing out on utilizing shared libraries, and possibly using out-dated, bundled in versions of those libraries.
I set FF to just download PDFs, that way I can open them in something that can render PDFs properly.
Don't get me wrong, pdf.js (what FF uses to render in browser) is incredibly useful. Unfortunately it can be slow, and some issues with embedded fonts still seem to exist.
The Canadian TLD (.CA) masks personal domain registration information.
When you register a.CA, you define if you are a business or individual. If it's a business, the information is available to the public via WHOIS, if you register as Personal, the information is not available to the public to search. In the event the domain holder needs to be contacted for legal reasons, the CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority) will hand over the info in compliance with the law.
This is how all TLD's should be run.
As a business owner, and Domain Reseller, I have a lot of domain names under my business. The biggest issue I have with it being on public record, is the SPAM e-mails. I get so many SPAM e-mails, I created a special e-mailbox just for my domain names (domains@mybusinessname).
I'm actually in the process of setting up a special service for my own clients to "mask" just the e-mail addresses on their domain registrations, where I pass it through a spam filter and flag messages before sending them over to the client where it's clear as day that the messages are probably spam. Think of it as an inbound spam filter, but only for domain registrations.
The worst SPAM is where the spammers claim that your domain name has expired (even if expiration is weeks or months away) and send out fake renewal invoices. I get so many calls from clients wondering why they've received a bill for $200 for a domain name, when they already paid for the registration.
My goal with this filtering is that anytime something looks like an invoice, I'll inject a big red banner to the email saying this is probably a scam and should simply be discarded.
Now, you may be thinking "Why not just trash the spam?" Well, according to ICANN and the CIRA (and friends), if you provide an e-mail masking service, ALL messages must be delivered. The whole point of the WHOIS is for users to get in touch with domain owners, and a single false positive would be in violation of the domain registration agreements I am a part of.
I am currently working to automate this process for my own customers, and may open it up to the public if there is any interest in it from outside users. Depending on message volume, it will be free, or really cheap. Ideally I'd like to offer it to other registrars/resellers to utilize and I would charge them a minuscule fee just to cover my costs.
I am not a diabetic, and in pretty decent shape. Can I stand some more gym time, absolutely. But nearly everyone can.
I actually grow my own produce, we eat quite well. Very little carbs. Today I'm actually roto tilling in some compost in preparation of growing season.
Reducing carb intake for my son will not help anything.
Fuck off and quit making assumptions about people.
You're a fucking idiot. My son has an auto-immune disease, not because he eat too many carbs.
Please learn the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. He's in perfect health, and always has been. Can't control when your body decides to kill off it's own insulin producing cells.
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I never said it would. Neither would a single (expensive) weekend getaway like the article mentions.
In my family, screen time is fairly balanced. I use my computer or laptop for work during the day, but after that I'm generally all screened out.
My kids rarely watch the single TV we have in our home. I use it to play Spotify most of the time (hooked up to a sound system and I turn the actual screeen off, but need it to select the channel/play list I want).
They are too busy outside with their friends, just as I was as a child. This was my point.
My family of four (my wife and I fall in the 'millennial' generation, both kids under 10) goes to the lake a minimum of 4 times during summer break.
We have 2 lakes within 'day trip' distance, and it's quite cheap. A tank of gas (~$50), plus park pass ($10), and some pre-made food in a cooler for the day makes for a great day on the beach.
My kids love it, I love it, my wife loves it. We go as often as possible. I suspect we'll get out there more this year, as my wife recently left her day job to come work for me. We're no longer bound by her work schedule where she usually had to work weekends.
Now that it's nice out I have a really hard time keeping my kids in the house. They have friends all up and down my block, lots of kids to play with in a fairly nice neighbourhood so I encourage them to play outside. After office hours, I'll do work outside/in the vegetable garden.
I love technology as much as the next guy here on Slashdot, but I also enjoy being outside and working with my hands.
Basic supply and demand.
The majority of people want bigger screens, so more bigger screens are manufactured. The manufacturing processes get as streamlined as possible, thud allowing the manufacturer to reduce the price further. When OEMs come looking for price lists at X volume, the screens that are manufactured at much higher volume comes in cheaper. Motorola sees that and builds their phone with that, as it can hit its desired price point and stil tout a 5+" screen just like the "Expensive" models.
Elon a salesman? Have you ever seen him speak?
I like the stuff he's putting his money into, but he is not good at forming a verbal sentence, let alone in front of people or the media.
No doubt.
Here in Saskatchewan, Canada, our government owned carrier gave up on CDMA about 10 years ago, and finally shut down the CDMA radios about a year ago.
I like being able to change carriers by swapping the SIM out. My next phone will be Dual-SIM for sure.
Carrier locked phones are still a problem, but there is a fairly big market online of factory unlocked phones so my needs are covered.
While I do not necessarily use every tech giant out there personally, I feel like if you took one away it could adversely affect how the markets have grown, and we could be living in a very different time.
One thing I am certain of, if Oracle did not buy Sun Microsystems, we would be better off today. I feel as though anyone else buying Sun would have yielded better for everyone.
Indeed. And in many cases if they don't offer T.38 (the fax standard over VOIP), they offer an e-mail based Fax gateway that's even easier to use than using a physical machine.
Does VOIP count?
I have a business VOIP Line.
I've converted my inlaws to a VOIP line just this week. Their landline was $45/mo (with tax in). The VOIP line I'm expecting to be less than $10/mo based on their previous monthly average usage. $3/mo for the DID and around 500-700 minutes at $0.01 per minute.
I've only ever owned one Mac, and I installed Gentoo on it after about a month, then sold it about a year later.
OSX is a terrible interface, riddled with plenty of gotcha's that just frustrate the user eventually. Maybe its better now, but I used it back in 2008 or so.
I personally prefer Linux, but I've spent some time in Windows land. I also use Photoshop/Illustrator on a regular basis, so I have Win10 in a VM on my main workstation.
Even if I could use OSX in the same way (in a VM), while theoretically possible, it's very slow. I would still prefer using Windows than OSX.
I have had some success running older versions of PS/AI under WINE, but I just don't have the time to keep fiddling with it to make it work, and getting the latest versions of CC (to which I pay for the monthly license) is not possible at the moment.
I'm more of a developer than a creative though. I'm finding it's easier to sketch on paper what I want, and pay someone else to do the design work these days.
My company does something similar.
Basically just triple whatever estimate we come up with.
This comes with a huge benefit: If it turns out we over-estimate, the client is happier with an earlier finish date, or we can put a little extra time/effort into something that just didn't feel as polished, and the client got an even better value for their money.
We also have a policy to not bill over our quotes, so over-estimating is crucial. It holds us accountable so we don't bleed our clients and create bad blood.
Sounds like you just did a bunch of research on the colder places in Canada.
Your post history, literally from the last day or two hours, indicates you're in Ontario.
Living in a small town in Saskatchewan, I experience what you've described every year. Year after year. The only difference is I have a relatively decent sized center about 40 minutes away.
I built my own business up from nothing, specifically so I wouldn't have to move away from here, because one of the few things I actually enjoy here is the cold winters. Some other great things: tons of snow in winter, lots of light in summer (to grow my own food), low population densities, super fast internet (thank you gov't owned fiber network), no daylight saving time, and so on and so forth. The only thing I don't like is our current Provincial Government, but they'll be voted out in 3 years.
Fact is, -40 and colder sucks and because I'm not a sadist, I don't make my kids walk to school in it. -10? -20? Not a problem. That weather is quite enjoyable, in my opinion. Even into the -30s if there is no wind, but living in the flattest part of the country means there is usually wind.
Looking through your post history, you're in Ontario.
I know for a fact that Ontario never stays that cold, I don't care how north you are. A couple of days, maybe, then you're done.
Come try a Saskatchewan winter on for size.
Do you count the "Windchill Factor"? If so, yes it does get to -60C, and -45C without.
Besides, it's not MY comfort, its my childrens comfort. Seeing as they are both under 10, theit bodies can not handle the cold nearly as well as I can. Personally, I rather enjoy the cold.
Boy Slashdot is full of a bunch of ignorant pricks lately.
I work from home as well.
It really helps to keep a routine when you work from home. I walk my kids to school when it's nice out (too cold most of the winter), and their not on holidays.
During the summer, while my kids are not in school, it's much more difficult. I think the worst part is the constant feeling that I have to work on all stuff outdoors. Today, in between some scheduled calls, I fixed a gate on my fence, laid tarps over my veggie garden to stop weeds from germinating, and lubed up the parts that need lube on my bicycle.
I find it much easier to work in the evenings anyway, so that's when I get the majority of my work done.
Indeed.
I manage backups for some of my customers. Some from a couple of GB, up to around 12TB. I know, I know, very small scale for most of you.
I replicate this across 4 locations:
- a local backup (usually a NAS type of device, in their office) which backs itself up to
- on my servers (in Montreal, Canada)
- on my office backup server (located in my office)
- then another copy in Backblaze B2 (wherever their DC is)
So typically the data syncs to the NAS pretty much continually, then the NAS pushes out (encrypted) incremental backup archives to my servers in Montreal, my office server downloads from the Montreal server every couple hours, and the Montreal server also pushes up to Backblaze's B2 object storage.
All really affordable and mostly automated.
Providing false information on your domain registration is against the registration agreement, and they have every right to terminate your domain name without notice.
WHOIS privacy services cost what they do for two reasons:
1) They have a list a mile long of compliance crap they have to keep up on
2) They are required to forward any messages they receive to the domain owner. This means e-mail, telephone, and postal mail.
One trick they use to get around this: They set up a shell company in a small foreign country that would cost a lot to call or send postal mail to. E-mail forwarding is easy, and really low cost. This heightens the bar for people to actually try and contact the company behind the domain name to a point where most people and scammers will simply not try.
They also have to submit your real information to the Registry, where it is held in escrow for situations where law enforcement needs to be involved and only the public WHOIS database receives the privacy protection companies information.
This is not true. The Registry still receives your information you submit at the time of registration from the Registrar, to be held in escrow (for law enforcement, or proving who the legal owner of the domain is). They then submit their own information to be placed in the WHOIS database.
So you are still the real owner, and only the public record (WHOIS database) of the domain is masked with the WHOIS Privacy companies information.
Spotted the guy who has no idea how huge software projects like a web browser works.
I've found that some (most?) Linux distro's recompile FF to their release packages, instead of simply using the Mozilla provided binaries.
This creates a much more stable browser.
I use Funtoo Linux, and always go the compile route when updating FF. The one time I decided waiting for it to compile would be too long (was in a time crunch) it was a terrible experience. When I later "upgraded" to the self-compiled version it stablized.
I guess a lot of it depends on what your system has for native libs, and compatible versions. If you're using a huge binary blob from Mozilla you're missing out on utilizing shared libraries, and possibly using out-dated, bundled in versions of those libraries.
I set FF to just download PDFs, that way I can open them in something that can render PDFs properly.
Don't get me wrong, pdf.js (what FF uses to render in browser) is incredibly useful. Unfortunately it can be slow, and some issues with embedded fonts still seem to exist.
Personally I use Evince on Linux to read PDFs.
The Canadian TLD (.CA) masks personal domain registration information.
When you register a .CA, you define if you are a business or individual. If it's a business, the information is available to the public via WHOIS, if you register as Personal, the information is not available to the public to search. In the event the domain holder needs to be contacted for legal reasons, the CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority) will hand over the info in compliance with the law.
This is how all TLD's should be run.
As a business owner, and Domain Reseller, I have a lot of domain names under my business. The biggest issue I have with it being on public record, is the SPAM e-mails. I get so many SPAM e-mails, I created a special e-mailbox just for my domain names (domains@mybusinessname).
I'm actually in the process of setting up a special service for my own clients to "mask" just the e-mail addresses on their domain registrations, where I pass it through a spam filter and flag messages before sending them over to the client where it's clear as day that the messages are probably spam. Think of it as an inbound spam filter, but only for domain registrations.
The worst SPAM is where the spammers claim that your domain name has expired (even if expiration is weeks or months away) and send out fake renewal invoices. I get so many calls from clients wondering why they've received a bill for $200 for a domain name, when they already paid for the registration.
My goal with this filtering is that anytime something looks like an invoice, I'll inject a big red banner to the email saying this is probably a scam and should simply be discarded.
Now, you may be thinking "Why not just trash the spam?" Well, according to ICANN and the CIRA (and friends), if you provide an e-mail masking service, ALL messages must be delivered. The whole point of the WHOIS is for users to get in touch with domain owners, and a single false positive would be in violation of the domain registration agreements I am a part of.
I am currently working to automate this process for my own customers, and may open it up to the public if there is any interest in it from outside users. Depending on message volume, it will be free, or really cheap. Ideally I'd like to offer it to other registrars/resellers to utilize and I would charge them a minuscule fee just to cover my costs.
Clearly you didn't read my post.
I am not a diabetic, and in pretty decent shape. Can I stand some more gym time, absolutely. But nearly everyone can.
I actually grow my own produce, we eat quite well. Very little carbs. Today I'm actually roto tilling in some compost in preparation of growing season.
Reducing carb intake for my son will not help anything.
Fuck off and quit making assumptions about people.
You're a fucking idiot. My son has an auto-immune disease, not because he eat too many carbs.
Please learn the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. He's in perfect health, and always has been. Can't control when your body decides to kill off it's own insulin producing cells.
Indeed. I'm 28 years old, supposedly in the "Milennial" generation and never have I heard about this.
There are a dozen other ways to send money, some of them free. Many times even easier to just use cash.
No these two themes are quite different.
Also there is Youtube 'leanback' here https://www.youtube.com/tv that can be navigated without a mouse.