Nobody is going to the moon or Mars on a tourist trip in your lifetime, try to stop being an idiot before you die.
You underestimate how much money some people have.
Jeff Bezos: Net worth $142 billion (before divorce)
Apollo program: $125 billion in today's dollars
Jeff Bezos could single-handedly fund the Apollo program......Basically, don't underestimate what can happen when billionaire wants something.
Spot on. I think people have gotten numb to just how much money some of these people have. It's not like Bezos has 142B in a bank account somewhere, I assume most of his wealth is not-as-liquid-as-cash assets, but when you have that kind of balance sheet it makes it pretty easy to convince other people to invest their money in your ideas. Space tourism isn't a million man-hour problem, it's a funding problem. I plan on living another 30 or 40 years, with the right funding there's no reason we couldn't do it.
I wrote my novel almost entirely on my smartphone.
My biggest question, and not asking to be my usual smart-ass self, is "why?" I 100% understand the Google docs thing, I don't personally use it extensively, but I have used it and love it. (I'm pretty much conditioned to the MS world because of work, and their one-drive/O365 solution is actually getting pretty close to what Google Docs does well.) But I don't understand the reason for the choice of device. I am at least 10x faster typing on a keyboard than I am at text input on my phone. And I can't imagine navigating around a couple hundred pages of document trying to edit/move things around/etc. (I also have exactly 0 experience with novel writing. Anything I have written is business documentation.) Like I said, not asking to be a dick, generally curious.
Reminds me of an atrocity I built for managing purchase orders... Excel, VBA, MySQL. Was written about 10 years ago. Man I hope they killed and buried that thing out in the back yard where it belonged.
That people are not at their first serious job after 6 or 7 years sound normal to me.
Matches my experience as well, especially in the Tech world. Personally been about every 5 years or so. Seems like that's the only way to get any sort of a decent pay bump in this line work.
Seriously, there is no reason to be on Facebook anymore
Seriously then, don't go on there. Still trying to figure out how this made it to +4, Interesting.
Facebook exists for the same reason that the NFL does: Some people still find it interesting. Doesn't mean there isn't a swath of people that wouldn't be affected if it went away tomorrow. Different people have different interests, news at 11.
I personally concentrate on the 2-4 star reviews if I want to get a reasonable impression if a business/product. 1 star reviewers I generally find have an ax to grind, and 5 star reviews are usually just lazy.
Extra bonus points if you can figure out a way to integrate a vacuum tube headphone amp. I'm sure you'd till have an audiophile whining because a LiPo based power supply doesn't have the dynamic range of a true AC/DC power supply.
Now they will have to bring down thousands of pages: that is what will happen, in my view. There is a medical disciplinary panel but Google have been the judge until now. They have decided whether to take a page down -- and why do they have that position?" Van Lynden said.
It sounds like Van Lynden doesn't know how the internet works. Google can't "take down" anything. All it can do is remove references from its search results. I would love to hear an explanation for the technical aspects of how this would be done. Are Google's algorithms really that good that they can "de-list" certain websites but only for very specific search terms? What happens when/if this doctor gets put on the naughty list again? Are they required to de-list the next blog that people decide to comment on? This is very interesting from both a "free speech" (and yes, I realize this isn't a US story) and from a technical perspective.
And 1900's carriage makers would have been very adept at telling you how to improve horse drawn carriages. But if you wanted to tap into an undeserved market you might want to talk to people who know about automobiles. How hard would you really have to work to find a panel of women that know what they want in an FPS?
If you have only men in the company, you'll never know if your game is driving away women.
Are you saying men don't look at the demographic information their analytics are harvesting ?
Because I don't get how men wouldn't know, unless men don't ask ? Is that what you're saying ? Men aren't smart enough to ask their players about some of their information to get some idea of their demographic ?
I believe the argument isn't that "men aren't smart enough to ask." it's that there are potentially perspectives that men wouldn't have even known to ask. It's the "you don't know what you don't know" conundrum. If I'm developing a new warehouse process it would be silly of me to not understand the perspective of every aspect of the process.
Story: At work, Girl comes in wearing a push-up bra, I notice. Ask: 'Did you change your hair? Something is different today...' Later one of the other women decides I need 'clueing in' tells me she's wearing a new bra...I say: 'Duh, I can't exactly compliment her on that.'
How about: "Story: At work, Girl comes in wearing a push-up bra, I notice. Ask: 'Good morning, how was the drive in? Nice work on that presentation yesterday.'" They are you co-worker, not your wife. They don't need compliments on their looks.
You remain a mammal
No shit. I didn't stop liking tits because I went to work. Doesn't mean I have to actively acknowledge at the office.
My company requires me to have a PIN code or other password on the device because my work e-mail is on there and it may contain sensitive information. (It doesn't, but that's not the point.) Biometrics allow me to follow company policy while maintaining easy access to my phone. I have a corporate duty to protect the "sensitive data" that's on my phone, but since I'm authorized to use the phone for "personal use" I wanted the extra layer of security of the secure storage locker that my company doesn't have access to.
That being said, all of your points are 100% valid. I'm not looking to keep the authorities out of my phone, if they want in there they are going to get in there either via questionable means or by compelling me to give them access. (The legality of that is for the courts to decide.) My security posture has two goals: 1) Follow company policy (protecting "sensitive data") and 2) keep prying eyes out of my collection of sexy wife pics. You know, like when you hand your mother in law your phone to show her a cute pic of your dog only to have her start swiping around.
It's like you WANT to get shafted just to save that $4 per year for your domain or whatever you're buying.
Personal experience, they are more expensive for.com addresses. I used them to register the domains (self hosted) but just moved my last one away from them at renewal time. I use porkbun, and so far no issues, and 4-5$ cheaper.
...why anyone would want to use biometric passcodes to unlock anything so private as a cell phone is today.
I know, most people don't seem to value privacy, but if you have any at all, doing biometric should be a no go from the start.
Because I don't want to type in a password every time I look at my phone. I don't keep anything in the general storage that I don't want someone else to see. That "stuff" gets relegated an encrypted actual password protected "storage locker".
Yes, you, I and everyone on this site is aware that they have shortened yellow lights. It is 100% a dick move, and should be stopped. I should have been more specific asking if GP had references to green lights being shortened to 1 second.
That's why stretches of highway will go from 65mph to 35 when going through a small town in places like central LA.
You mean it isn't safe for highway traffic to flow as fast in a populated area? Holy shit, stop the presses, this must be some kind of conspiracy! Literally every highway (and I'm not talking about limited access freeways) I have ever been on lowers speed limits when you enter a city vs rural. Every single one.
This is not a revenue thing, this is a safety thing. The fact that these speed change zones are prime locations for speed cameras (or police officers) is completely logical. On ever road, prior to speed limit changes there are signs that say "speed limit XX ahead" with plenty of time for you to slow down before you get there. I've been busted before when I've missed a speed change, so I understand people's frustrations, but you know what happened next time I drove past that area? I slowed the fuck down when I was supposed to.
In my area they would shorten green lights to 1 second on busy roads with no side streets to cause multi-hour delays, then they'd ticket drivers in the thousands who reasonably treated the signal as malfunctioning.
I hope this is an exaggeration. If not, do you have any articles on the subject? That seems like it would be a situation where pitchforks and torches would show up at the governors house.
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Nobody is going to the moon or Mars on a tourist trip in your lifetime, try to stop being an idiot before you die.
You underestimate how much money some people have. Jeff Bezos: Net worth $142 billion (before divorce) Apollo program: $125 billion in today's dollars
Jeff Bezos could single-handedly fund the Apollo program... ...Basically, don't underestimate what can happen when billionaire wants something.
Spot on. I think people have gotten numb to just how much money some of these people have. It's not like Bezos has 142B in a bank account somewhere, I assume most of his wealth is not-as-liquid-as-cash assets, but when you have that kind of balance sheet it makes it pretty easy to convince other people to invest their money in your ideas. Space tourism isn't a million man-hour problem, it's a funding problem. I plan on living another 30 or 40 years, with the right funding there's no reason we couldn't do it.
Unrelated, +2 starting score the result of just being on here forever?
They are entitled to be assholes.
I thought entitlement was supposed to be a Millennial thing?
I wrote my novel almost entirely on my smartphone.
My biggest question, and not asking to be my usual smart-ass self, is "why?" I 100% understand the Google docs thing, I don't personally use it extensively, but I have used it and love it. (I'm pretty much conditioned to the MS world because of work, and their one-drive/O365 solution is actually getting pretty close to what Google Docs does well.) But I don't understand the reason for the choice of device. I am at least 10x faster typing on a keyboard than I am at text input on my phone. And I can't imagine navigating around a couple hundred pages of document trying to edit/move things around/etc. (I also have exactly 0 experience with novel writing. Anything I have written is business documentation.) Like I said, not asking to be a dick, generally curious.
Reminds me of an atrocity I built for managing purchase orders... Excel, VBA, MySQL. Was written about 10 years ago. Man I hope they killed and buried that thing out in the back yard where it belonged.
MS Access.
That people are not at their first serious job after 6 or 7 years sound normal to me.
Matches my experience as well, especially in the Tech world. Personally been about every 5 years or so. Seems like that's the only way to get any sort of a decent pay bump in this line work.
goodbye to all the flat earth
Dammit. That's my source for youtube lolz...
Seriously, there is no reason to be on Facebook anymore
Seriously then, don't go on there. Still trying to figure out how this made it to +4, Interesting.
Facebook exists for the same reason that the NFL does: Some people still find it interesting. Doesn't mean there isn't a swath of people that wouldn't be affected if it went away tomorrow. Different people have different interests, news at 11.
Any review system that involves money changing hands between the platform and the place being reviewed can't be trusted.
I personally concentrate on the 2-4 star reviews if I want to get a reasonable impression if a business/product. 1 star reviewers I generally find have an ax to grind, and 5 star reviews are usually just lazy.
Extra bonus points if you can figure out a way to integrate a vacuum tube headphone amp. I'm sure you'd till have an audiophile whining because a LiPo based power supply doesn't have the dynamic range of a true AC/DC power supply.
Now they will have to bring down thousands of pages: that is what will happen, in my view. There is a medical disciplinary panel but Google have been the judge until now. They have decided whether to take a page down -- and why do they have that position?" Van Lynden said.
It sounds like Van Lynden doesn't know how the internet works. Google can't "take down" anything. All it can do is remove references from its search results. I would love to hear an explanation for the technical aspects of how this would be done. Are Google's algorithms really that good that they can "de-list" certain websites but only for very specific search terms? What happens when/if this doctor gets put on the naughty list again? Are they required to de-list the next blog that people decide to comment on? This is very interesting from both a "free speech" (and yes, I realize this isn't a US story) and from a technical perspective.
And 1900's carriage makers would have been very adept at telling you how to improve horse drawn carriages. But if you wanted to tap into an undeserved market you might want to talk to people who know about automobiles. How hard would you really have to work to find a panel of women that know what they want in an FPS?
If you have only men in the company, you'll never know if your game is driving away women.
Are you saying men don't look at the demographic information their analytics are harvesting ?
Because I don't get how men wouldn't know, unless men don't ask ? Is that what you're saying ? Men aren't smart enough to ask their players about some of their information to get some idea of their demographic ?
I believe the argument isn't that "men aren't smart enough to ask." it's that there are potentially perspectives that men wouldn't have even known to ask. It's the "you don't know what you don't know" conundrum. If I'm developing a new warehouse process it would be silly of me to not understand the perspective of every aspect of the process.
Story: At work, Girl comes in wearing a push-up bra, I notice. Ask: 'Did you change your hair? Something is different today...' Later one of the other women decides I need 'clueing in' tells me she's wearing a new bra...I say: 'Duh, I can't exactly compliment her on that.'
How about: "Story: At work, Girl comes in wearing a push-up bra, I notice. Ask: 'Good morning, how was the drive in? Nice work on that presentation yesterday.'" They are you co-worker, not your wife. They don't need compliments on their looks.
You remain a mammal
No shit. I didn't stop liking tits because I went to work. Doesn't mean I have to actively acknowledge at the office.
...as it was, we were flirting. People do that.
And it's fucking creepy, knock it off.
My company requires me to have a PIN code or other password on the device because my work e-mail is on there and it may contain sensitive information. (It doesn't, but that's not the point.) Biometrics allow me to follow company policy while maintaining easy access to my phone. I have a corporate duty to protect the "sensitive data" that's on my phone, but since I'm authorized to use the phone for "personal use" I wanted the extra layer of security of the secure storage locker that my company doesn't have access to.
That being said, all of your points are 100% valid. I'm not looking to keep the authorities out of my phone, if they want in there they are going to get in there either via questionable means or by compelling me to give them access. (The legality of that is for the courts to decide.) My security posture has two goals: 1) Follow company policy (protecting "sensitive data") and 2) keep prying eyes out of my collection of sexy wife pics. You know, like when you hand your mother in law your phone to show her a cute pic of your dog only to have her start swiping around.
And I don't want to.
Good call.
That's not all you can use it for
What else can you use it for?
If you're afraid that someone may get access to your fingerprint and uses it without your authorization ...
Think of a chain link fence some people put around their gardens or whatever.... For that you may have a locker/safe.
I can't be the only one that read "that's not all you can use it for." as a sex innuendo... Can I?
he will get ... my grocery list.
I keep that in the secure locker. I don't want my health insurer to know how much crappy food I eat.
Company policy requires that password protect my phone.
It's like you WANT to get shafted just to save that $4 per year for your domain or whatever you're buying.
Personal experience, they are more expensive for .com addresses. I used them to register the domains (self hosted) but just moved my last one away from them at renewal time. I use porkbun, and so far no issues, and 4-5$ cheaper.
...why anyone would want to use biometric passcodes to unlock anything so private as a cell phone is today. I know, most people don't seem to value privacy, but if you have any at all, doing biometric should be a no go from the start.
Because I don't want to type in a password every time I look at my phone. I don't keep anything in the general storage that I don't want someone else to see. That "stuff" gets relegated an encrypted actual password protected "storage locker".
Yes, you, I and everyone on this site is aware that they have shortened yellow lights. It is 100% a dick move, and should be stopped. I should have been more specific asking if GP had references to green lights being shortened to 1 second.
That's why stretches of highway will go from 65mph to 35 when going through a small town in places like central LA.
You mean it isn't safe for highway traffic to flow as fast in a populated area? Holy shit, stop the presses, this must be some kind of conspiracy! Literally every highway (and I'm not talking about limited access freeways) I have ever been on lowers speed limits when you enter a city vs rural. Every single one.
This is not a revenue thing, this is a safety thing. The fact that these speed change zones are prime locations for speed cameras (or police officers) is completely logical. On ever road, prior to speed limit changes there are signs that say "speed limit XX ahead" with plenty of time for you to slow down before you get there. I've been busted before when I've missed a speed change, so I understand people's frustrations, but you know what happened next time I drove past that area? I slowed the fuck down when I was supposed to.
In my area they would shorten green lights to 1 second on busy roads with no side streets to cause multi-hour delays, then they'd ticket drivers in the thousands who reasonably treated the signal as malfunctioning.
I hope this is an exaggeration. If not, do you have any articles on the subject? That seems like it would be a situation where pitchforks and torches would show up at the governors house.