I agree with the grandparent that healthcare shouldn't be (exclusively) private, so I'm probably a "left wing extremist" in your eyes (which would be a hysterical description to anyone who knew me). But $100k is not "rich" (depending largely on where you live, it certainly isn't around here) and your wife should be both applauded and compensated for her dedication (as should teachers, like my wife). She also shouldn't have to share the money spent on healthcare with the insurance companies. They're nothing more than middlemen and they don't provide any value whatsoever - take them out of the loop.
It's ALREADY rationed, there are plenty of people out there who can't get the care they need. Making the provision of healthcare dependent on need rather than how much you can afford is such an incredibly obvious thing to do that I simply can't understand those who are against it. I've lived under both systems and it's no contest which is better.
A citizen cannot participate in modern society without the use of an automobile.
Really? I'd guess at least 50% of the people I work with don't have a car, and don't use one with any kind of regularity. They appear to participate in modern society just fine.
There are an increasing number of the no-gate toll areas in the EZ-pass system, for example on the GSP in NJ. I've also heard they're considering the same for some of the Hudson river tunnels/bridges. They're actually really good - have improved traffic flow a great deal.
You can put pretty much anything you want on Xbox Live with their Indie Games area. Of course, whether anyone will play it is a whole other matter - but you can certainly write an app and put it in the marketplace just as easily as with iOS.
I don't know about 100mbps but I have a Linksys WRT160N running dd-wrt and it happily saturates my 50/50mbps FIOS line. Cost something like $30 as a refurb.
I work professionally with a mixture of IntelliJ, Eclipse and Visual Studio on a decent spec machine. One of those three performs more slowly and chews up more resources than the other two. I'll give you a hint - it's the one which isn't written in Java.
Not only is Eclipse slightly more than a "text editor" it also performs significantly better than a less-featured IDE written in a supposedly faster language. The "Java is slow" BS has to stop, it hasn't been true for close to a decade now.
There's a difference between deciding that your child shouldn't read a certain book and challenging it, which is essentially asking that no child should be allowed to read it.
And that's putting aside the absurdity of equating an extremely popular picture book about penguins to penthouse...my first child will be born soon (yay!) and there's already a copy of Tango on the bookshelf.
I'm European, I'm left wing (well - reasonably so), and while I kind of understand the point of unions the reality of them here in the US is terrible. They cause far more harm than good, and I would certainly never join one. My wife is a teacher, and so has no option but to pay her dues and be a "member" (compulsory membership is just one of their evils), but when I see what they're doing to the education system in the name of protecting teachers it makes me crazy.
So it may be anti-socialist for some people, but not for me. It's about trying to run an organization/business efficiently and being thwarted at every turn by a bunch of self-important power crazed lunatics who just like to hear the sound of their own voices saying "no". Ugh.
I work for a big company, you've heard of them. I've been there nearly 15 years, I started as an intern way back when and work with them quite a bit now. All our interns are paid, in fact they're paid pretty well, and we hire a lot of them (hundreds per year). To answer the OP's points one at a time:
1. 'You'll get training.' Indeed you will. The intern program lasts all summer and includes a considerable amount of formal classroom training as well as on the job stuff.
2. 'We might hire you after the internship.' We hire back the majority of our interns, it's actually one of our primary hiring mechanisms as a full summer internship tells us much more about you than an interview ever could (and vice versa!). We want to know you and we want you to get to know us, so you can be confident in choosing whether you come back full time.
3. 'You get to work with an awesome team.' Well, that's an opinion, but I think it's pretty awesome.
4. 'It will look great on your CV.' Damn straight it will.
5. 'You'll make great contacts.' That's up to you.
Not all internships are great, of course, but they're also not all terrible, and they're not all designed to exploit the very people we eventually hope to have as colleagues. I'll echo others comments here - if you're in tech, and you're good (and I mean really good, not just full of it) then you certainly shouldn't be considering unpaid internships. The same might apply to other fields but I honestly don't know those markets.
I agree entirely with your sentiments, except that I'm European, so I really am not sure what you're blathering on about at the end there. You seem to be under some misapprehension than rioting here is tolerated or legal, while it is obviously neither.
And Windows has "Administrator" - what's the difference?
The real issue here is that actual users care very much more about the stuff under their user account that the stuff owned by root. Installing malware as a regular user can do plenty of bad stuff without needing root.
ActiveX in IE 5 was a mess. Luckily it was EOL 10 years ago, try running 10 year old versions of Mac or Linux OSs and see how secure they are. Current versions of IE are better, and of course, if you don't run IE at all you're immune from ActiveX attacks as no other major browsers support it (and the other occasional vector, Outlook, is crazy paranoid these days).
The full user account ACL/permissions stuff has been in mainstream Windows since XP (again - many years ago).
Windows also has no concept of data for execution vs data for storage
You can do this in Unix as well but this is very uncommon today as you need to be root and was a hack of the early 80s when coders wrote in assembly to gain performance tricks. This is frowned upon in the Unix world as there are excellent libraries that can obtain speeds close to assembly.
Now you've lost me. People don't code in assembly in unix because of "libraries"? Coding in assembler has something to do with data/code seperation? You have to be root to run assembler-coded apps in unix? Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
Anyway, this was why Windows was less secure and why MS wants you to switch to.NET
What the...?? What has.NET got to do with anything? You can write native c++ in a.NET application, therefore use of.NET is not inherently more secure than anything else.
The Kindle should be able to display and process books from retailers other than Amazon
It can. I don't understand where this myth came from that Kindle's can only show content from the Kindle store. Sure it can only read DRM files from the Kindle store, but that's also true for the Nook etc. If the file is non-DRM then it can read basically anything except ePub, and even ePub is easily converted. Most independent ebook stores sell in a variety of formats, and understand that being Kindle compatible is a good thing - so they are.
So you use Calibre to manage files on the Sony Reader, which also works fine with the Kindle and will convert epub to mobi so the Kindle can read it. PDF, text, etc are supported natively, so I really don't see the advantage of the Sony (at least in terms of format support - the hardware might be nicer). Your "review" basically says that if you buy something from Amazon it's locked to the Kindle, ignoring the fact that if you buy something from Sony it's locked to the Reader (and of course the catalog is much smaller on the Sony store, . But you're just going to steal the content anyway so who really cares...
That's certainly not the case nationwide. My wife is an elementary school librarian and I just asked her about this - she said that getting self published books in can sometimes be controversial as they have a mandate that all books must support the curriculum, and many self published books are of little academic value. That said, she said they can and do purchase them, and they have a number of self published books like yours from fellow students in the collection (which, incidentally, are very popular with the readers). Sounds like some kind of deal the county or district made with publishers, which sucks (and maybe should be questioned?) - my wife was pretty amazed that such a deal would exist. They do have preferred suppliers, as they offer the correct bindings/metadata services/tags etc and bulk pricing, but she can order anything from anywhere she wants.
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I agree with the grandparent that healthcare shouldn't be (exclusively) private, so I'm probably a "left wing extremist" in your eyes (which would be a hysterical description to anyone who knew me). But $100k is not "rich" (depending largely on where you live, it certainly isn't around here) and your wife should be both applauded and compensated for her dedication (as should teachers, like my wife). She also shouldn't have to share the money spent on healthcare with the insurance companies. They're nothing more than middlemen and they don't provide any value whatsoever - take them out of the loop.
It's ALREADY rationed, there are plenty of people out there who can't get the care they need. Making the provision of healthcare dependent on need rather than how much you can afford is such an incredibly obvious thing to do that I simply can't understand those who are against it. I've lived under both systems and it's no contest which is better.
I'm reading a Kindle book from my library right now - Overdrive now support Kindle for all their ebooks.
Really? I'd guess at least 50% of the people I work with don't have a car, and don't use one with any kind of regularity. They appear to participate in modern society just fine.
There are an increasing number of the no-gate toll areas in the EZ-pass system, for example on the GSP in NJ. I've also heard they're considering the same for some of the Hudson river tunnels/bridges. They're actually really good - have improved traffic flow a great deal.
You can put pretty much anything you want on Xbox Live with their Indie Games area. Of course, whether anyone will play it is a whole other matter - but you can certainly write an app and put it in the marketplace just as easily as with iOS.
I don't know about 100mbps but I have a Linksys WRT160N running dd-wrt and it happily saturates my 50/50mbps FIOS line. Cost something like $30 as a refurb.
I work professionally with a mixture of IntelliJ, Eclipse and Visual Studio on a decent spec machine. One of those three performs more slowly and chews up more resources than the other two. I'll give you a hint - it's the one which isn't written in Java.
Not only is Eclipse slightly more than a "text editor" it also performs significantly better than a less-featured IDE written in a supposedly faster language. The "Java is slow" BS has to stop, it hasn't been true for close to a decade now.
There's a difference between deciding that your child shouldn't read a certain book and challenging it, which is essentially asking that no child should be allowed to read it.
And that's putting aside the absurdity of equating an extremely popular picture book about penguins to penthouse...my first child will be born soon (yay!) and there's already a copy of Tango on the bookshelf.
I'm European, I'm left wing (well - reasonably so), and while I kind of understand the point of unions the reality of them here in the US is terrible. They cause far more harm than good, and I would certainly never join one. My wife is a teacher, and so has no option but to pay her dues and be a "member" (compulsory membership is just one of their evils), but when I see what they're doing to the education system in the name of protecting teachers it makes me crazy.
So it may be anti-socialist for some people, but not for me. It's about trying to run an organization/business efficiently and being thwarted at every turn by a bunch of self-important power crazed lunatics who just like to hear the sound of their own voices saying "no". Ugh.
I hear you. Was kind of interested in Spotify until I tried it, super long gaps. Not impressed!
Let me offer an alternative view.
I work for a big company, you've heard of them. I've been there nearly 15 years, I started as an intern way back when and work with them quite a bit now. All our interns are paid, in fact they're paid pretty well, and we hire a lot of them (hundreds per year). To answer the OP's points one at a time:
1. 'You'll get training.'
Indeed you will. The intern program lasts all summer and includes a considerable amount of formal classroom training as well as on the job stuff.
2. 'We might hire you after the internship.'
We hire back the majority of our interns, it's actually one of our primary hiring mechanisms as a full summer internship tells us much more about you than an interview ever could (and vice versa!). We want to know you and we want you to get to know us, so you can be confident in choosing whether you come back full time.
3. 'You get to work with an awesome team.'
Well, that's an opinion, but I think it's pretty awesome.
4. 'It will look great on your CV.'
Damn straight it will.
5. 'You'll make great contacts.'
That's up to you.
Not all internships are great, of course, but they're also not all terrible, and they're not all designed to exploit the very people we eventually hope to have as colleagues. I'll echo others comments here - if you're in tech, and you're good (and I mean really good, not just full of it) then you certainly shouldn't be considering unpaid internships. The same might apply to other fields but I honestly don't know those markets.
Sorry, you seem to be lost - this isn't the daily bitcoin thread, but a conversation about actual money.
I've never been to a garage sale :)
Saw this on one of the more amusing github comment threads of recent times.
I agree entirely with your sentiments, except that I'm European, so I really am not sure what you're blathering on about at the end there. You seem to be under some misapprehension than rioting here is tolerated or legal, while it is obviously neither.
Yes, you're nuts. You're going to KILL someone for using their phone in a movie theater? Get help, seriously, you're out of your mind.
Which short term benefits? The stench? Or the yellow teeth? Or the expense? Keep rationalizing dude. The reason you smoke is that you're addicted.
And Windows has "Administrator" - what's the difference?
The real issue here is that actual users care very much more about the stuff under their user account that the stuff owned by root. Installing malware as a regular user can do plenty of bad stuff without needing root.
ActiveX in IE 5 was a mess. Luckily it was EOL 10 years ago, try running 10 year old versions of Mac or Linux OSs and see how secure they are. Current versions of IE are better, and of course, if you don't run IE at all you're immune from ActiveX attacks as no other major browsers support it (and the other occasional vector, Outlook, is crazy paranoid these days).
The full user account ACL/permissions stuff has been in mainstream Windows since XP (again - many years ago).
Complete rubbish.
Now you've lost me. People don't code in assembly in unix because of "libraries"? Coding in assembler has something to do with data/code seperation? You have to be root to run assembler-coded apps in unix? Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
What the...?? What has .NET got to do with anything? You can write native c++ in a .NET application, therefore use of .NET is not inherently more secure than anything else.
It can. I don't understand where this myth came from that Kindle's can only show content from the Kindle store. Sure it can only read DRM files from the Kindle store, but that's also true for the Nook etc. If the file is non-DRM then it can read basically anything except ePub, and even ePub is easily converted. Most independent ebook stores sell in a variety of formats, and understand that being Kindle compatible is a good thing - so they are.
So you use Calibre to manage files on the Sony Reader, which also works fine with the Kindle and will convert epub to mobi so the Kindle can read it. PDF, text, etc are supported natively, so I really don't see the advantage of the Sony (at least in terms of format support - the hardware might be nicer). Your "review" basically says that if you buy something from Amazon it's locked to the Kindle, ignoring the fact that if you buy something from Sony it's locked to the Reader (and of course the catalog is much smaller on the Sony store, . But you're just going to steal the content anyway so who really cares...
That's certainly not the case nationwide. My wife is an elementary school librarian and I just asked her about this - she said that getting self published books in can sometimes be controversial as they have a mandate that all books must support the curriculum, and many self published books are of little academic value. That said, she said they can and do purchase them, and they have a number of self published books like yours from fellow students in the collection (which, incidentally, are very popular with the readers). Sounds like some kind of deal the county or district made with publishers, which sucks (and maybe should be questioned?) - my wife was pretty amazed that such a deal would exist. They do have preferred suppliers, as they offer the correct bindings/metadata services/tags etc and bulk pricing, but she can order anything from anywhere she wants.
And yet I'm still not interested :) Has always seemed like too much hassle.
It does suck. That said, I don't watch anything live anymore so it really doesn't matter. DVR/Streaming FTW.