I don't really understand this. Most places, they define the job and set the salary. They don't say 'well, we were looking to pay $60K, but since you're 40 we'll pay $150k.' If a job is offering $150K, then they'll pay that irrespective of whether the best applicant that they find is 20 or 40.
That's it precisely. Many seem to expect they can demand more because of experience but if a job opening is only at that lower level you may have to bite the bullet and get in then work into a higher position later. That or you find another way to make money in another career or in your own business or something. Expecting the taxpayers to pay for you to be a whiner about "no jobs at my level" for 2+ years of unemployment is simply unacceptable. I'm fine with a year of unemployment or, in the case of a major crash as we just saw, up to 2 years. What I'm not OK with is seeing people expect to be given what they want just because they "deserve it". Guess what? Life ain't fair!
*grumble under his breath about "self esteem at all costs parenting*
Now if by "no one wants older guys" you mean "won't pay what I demand", well, that is a part of economics. I'm paid significantly more than a starting employee. Maybe not quite as much as I could get elsewhere, but it seems comparable with industry pay for my level.
In my experience this has a lot to do with it. People got used to massive salaries during the boom years and adjusted their lifestyles to match that income. Now that the boom's over and sanity is restored, many "can't afford to survive" on what the market will bear.
In my case, I used to work at MSFT. Yeah, I got stock options and incredible benefits. Sure, I exercised my options... all of them, when I was laid off and the stock was still above $100. That money went into my retirement trust. I didn't use the money to buy a new car every 3 weeks (no exaggeration) like one of my former co-workers. After cycling through several contract gigs I went into business for myself and I've been self employed for 10 years now, making about the same on average each year as I did at MSFT but without counting those options. My retirement's covered and I'm fine but most folks I used to work with at MSFT aren't. They got used to having the ridiculous levels of income and can't handle that they no longer have "what they deserve".
So many folks nowadays refuse to see that those salaries aren't "what we all deserve" but are, instead, a result of a booming new industry that must eventually settle down to normalcy or burn itself out. During the dot com boom I kept hearing the statement that "all the old rules are out and it's a whole new world without limits". During the housing boom I kept hearing the statement that "real estate is a perfect investment... it never depreciates in price". In both cases, I knew better. Boom times come and go; in business these are usually referred to as peaks and valleys. The trick is to know when you're in a peak so you can save for the coming valley.
Back OT, the key is to not adjust your lifestyle above where it needs to be and, if you're unable to find work at that salary level then you need to find another career, adjust your expectations or branch out on your own. We, as a society, have allowed at least two generations to grow up not planning for the future other than long term retirement. We've taught people to use their homes as a credit card and to use their financial well being as a prop to live life as though they're far wealthier than they are. This cannot be sustained; it must change.
Thanks for posting regarding this story, Mr. Beckerman. I've followed such stories with great interest since a friend of mine had a ridiculous situation where he licensed a movie for showing in his venue then received a C&D the date of the showing. Please be aware that some of us truly appreciate the work you do and your communication with us here.
The mechanical approach was still a dead end that was not on the path to anything like where we are today. He was like the guys, previous to the Wright Brothers, who spent their (short) lives working on flapping wings. You could argue they had the right idea - heaver-than-air powered flight - and thus inspired those who came after - but the fact remains, they were barking up the wrong tree.
The difference (ha!) here is that the flapping wings didn't work for powering manned flight while the Babbage machines would have. Sure they'd have been limited but they would have worked! From there, as TFA says, refinements would have been implemented. It isn't as though modern computers are what was first designed, implemented or even conceived of. Great progress such as we've seen typically requires LOTS of folks putting their own mark on things.
Somewhat OT but imagine what would have happened had the Greeks realized the true power of steam. That they were tinkering with it is well known. We might have had flying chariots by now!
Load the laptop bay with C4 and then a detonator timed to go off 10 seconds after voltage is applied to the hard drive cable. Oh, all right, that's probably not exactly legal but MAN what a fun project that could be.
As another said, the OP has no trunk. Personally, I 'd suggest something like one of these. This si just a quick result from a Google search but I have a buddy with a nice under-seat one. Myself, I have a padded carton inside my truck's diamond plate toolbox but these sorts of lockboxes can easily be placed behind a seat if there's no room underneath. The trick is to put the valuables in before your stop. If you're seen putting stuff in these, they know it's valuable and may either steal your car or simply pick the lock. Personally, I can pick a lock in about 10 seconds and my lockpick trainer in the Army could do it faster than I can use a freaking key. Not all thieves will have such skills but enough do.
Security is as much about not being stupid as anything else.
Somewhat redundant, yes, since one needn't boot the OS at all to wipe a drive (can we say DBAN?) or run the factory restore from the hard drive. Sure, you may catch stupid thieves but you can't count on recovery even then as the laptop may be held as evidence for a LONG time if charges are filed.
We have government for precisely this reason, to restore some semblance of a balance of power between the individual consumer and the corporate giants who feel free to subject you to anything they think they can make you swallow.
Well, kind of. I think we have government because we all agree pure anarchy is bad. We have the government we do to protect the Rights of the People from being trampled. Hmmm... how's that workin' out? Not as well as we'd like, in my opinion, but then again I'm a minority when all by myself.
Anyhow, my real point is it's silly to think "Government" as it exists is there to restore power to us instead of corporate giants. It sure seems to go the other way most of the time.
he doesn't know anyone in iran, he doesn't know any iranians, he just spent the weekend playing 'call of duty' and masturbating, but goddamnit, he knows foreign policy
Thanks. I love spitting coffee out my nose; it makes my morning so much more enjoyable.
WindBourne can be found during days at his job as a Wal Mart security guard
I'd think more along the lines of a receipt checker. "May I see your receipt please, Habib?" While the Caucasian shoplifter wheels a big screen TV out the door.
Friggin' ignorant people bug me but I've learned to ignore most of them. They're loudmouth idiots who've never been there. As someone who has been there, done that, I find them laughable more than anything.
Just so you know, you can pause the stream, move the slider to the exact time you want then right click the video and choose to copy at the current time. I like to put the time at a second or two before the bit folks need, personally. You get this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4vXaoPzF8#t=198s
Granted, Slashdot will ignore anything you type anyhow. That said, it would be helpful to know the solutions which were insufficient. Otherwise, we'll just all post stuff you've tried (assuming the OP is reading this).
That said, I've found few things work as well at digitizing notes than the various digital paper options out there. I have a therapist client that uses it for her case notes and then an iPad for content she takes with her. I'd probably prefer the 7" form factor but by offloading the more finicky aspect, handwriting, to a dedicated medium you then have many more options for the content portability.
My client uses a DigiMemo product but there are quite a number out there with various options you might look into.
The President can urge, suggest, bitch and moan but PotUS has no more ability to enact law than we do.
Executive Orders have the force of law.
Yes they do. However, we have this tiny, pesky, thing called the separation of powers. An Executive Order stepping on one of Congress's powers explicitly specified in the Constitution would be illegal and never pass the inevitable challenges. No President in his right mind would even think seriously of issuing one.
This is not an issue for the Executive branch. The Constitution clearly states, in Article 1, Section 8 that "The Congress shall have power..." then there are several clauses after. Clause 8 lays out the authority for patents: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries".
This issue must be decided by Congress. The President can urge, suggest, bitch and moan but PotUS has no more ability to enact law than we do. As others mentioned, there is some will to do so in Congress but it's going to take a massive push from we, the constituents, to get past the voice of the patent lobby.
You know, every other profession adds value to society.
Your posts proves that they only harm and when they are out of work they figure out ways to harm people entrepreneurial and all of course. Other people start businesses that serve society.
Seriously it would serve society better if they got paid for life not to work
I wouldn't go so far as to say that lawyers only harm. I would certainly agree that they need to be leashed NOW and not in a particularly polite way. Society must take control of itself again, not let itself be led around by the nose.
Why does anyone involved in anything illegal use a cellphone that's attached to their name? Go to Walmart buy a prepaid phone, buy a dozen, have someone else buy them, use your head.
Wouldn't help you as much as you want. They use stingrays in exactly that sort of case. In the one at hand, they didn't know the identity of the individual at first either. They can still identify you by the device you're using. You'd have to burn a phone or aircard (as in the case at hand) after every single use once you use it to commit a crime. Otherwise, they could quite conceivably use these devices to track you down.
I'm all for privacy but keep in mind there are limits to how easily you can hide if you choose to use a device with a unique ID on a system which you do not control.
"The margins there have to be pretty tight. I am a pretty well paid IT worker at around $37 an hour (80K a year). When I contract it is for $125 an hour, $100 on the low end. The overhead on taxes and administrative costs is so friggin high that we break even on the $100/hr jobs."
It costs you $63/hour in administrative costs and taxes? Wow. What are these "administrative costs" that cost so much? You make quarterly tax payments, you pay the monthly health insurance bill.... what else is there that costs upwards of $150K/year?
Good lord. I'm self employed myself and get this sort of comment all the time form folks who've never run a business, let alone one in this industry. There's a HELL of a lot more than just taxes and "administrative" costs. Heck, COMON$ commented below on a few of their other expenses but even that is putting it mildly. Most folks look at their own bills and assume that's what a business pays. Nothing could be farther form the truth. There is a very mature industry designed to do nothing aside form sucking as much money as possible from every business at every step of the process.
One excellent example of this is phone service... good old POTS. Just last week I completed a job helping a lady move her office closer to her new condo. Closer as in across the street from. Personally I hate moving one or the other; I can't imagine doing both at once but heck, she pays so who cares. She really uses her cell but, of course, still wanted land lines in both locations. At home for emergencies (power's out, cell towers are at capacity and she needs to call family or whatever) and for her fax machine in the office. (I suppose the fax in the office can also be used as an emergency line). The residential POTS service is $15 a month before taxes. The business line, also without features of ANY kind (long distance or anything else and certainly not any SLA) runs $40 a month before taxes. Both are from the same phone company and, in fact, are using the same basic path for the copper up to 300 feet from the buildings (I checked with the installer out of curiosity). Where's the "justification" for charging more than double, heck nearly triple, for the same darn service?
Running a business is simply more expensive than most people realize. Now, this doesn't mean I like the federal government's addiction to contractors and the arrangement is crazy, paying "markup" which surely was originally to cover overhead which now doesn't exist. That simply doesn't extend to "normal" businesses, though. The normal businesses can be instructive in how these arrangements started, however, and I think we need a method of limiting profit on federal contracts in some way, not that I am smart enough to know how to do so.:\
It's not complicated to use for any Slashdot user, but that's kind of his point. I love my Android phone and kinda hate Apple, but when non-techie friends ask what to buy, I tell them to get an iPhone because it is much more likely to just work for them.
I find this varies by individual. I have an 80 year old client who has trouble figuring out the iPad interface but did just fine on an Android 2.2 phone her niece gave her. On the flipside, I have another older client (late sixties) who did fantastic with an iPhone and couldn't figure out why their Nook wasn't the same. It's really not limited by age, either, in my experience.
I have to pull the battery on my Droid X once or twice a day due to lockups.
Sounds like some apps are causing issues to me. A friend with a DroidX recently told me he'd never had to power cycle it at all. Anecdotal, sure, but as with many things "computer" there're way too many variables on these devices to blame a need for hard reboots on the OS itself. This isn't an attack on you, by the way, just pointing out it's hard to color a particular product as reliable or not based on a sample size of one. I haven't had issues with most of my phones but that doesn't mean nobody else did either.
tl;dr: Everyone is different and so are which devices will or won't work for them.
WinMo 6.5 was released at about the same time as Android 1.5 (Cupcake).
*laughs* I read that, at first, as "WinMo 6.5 was released at about the same time as Android 1.5, cupcake." and had hit reply to sya I hadn't seen cupcake used as a somewhat minor insult on Slashdot before. Ahhh, too bad. It would have been truly out of place but funny regardless.
The war in the Pacific was started over oil, and turned on fuel supply.
In the end, Japan was using biofuels made from the roots of pine trees, which they had a lot of because the trees had been felled to be burned themselves.
It took 100,000 pine tree stumps to make one tank of gas for a Japanese fighter jet.
Biofuels are an overrated source of energy.
Once the oil begins to run out, heavier-than-air airraft are going to become scarce.
This has all the hallmarks of an urban legend. First of all, the Japanese "fighter jets" were basically nonexistent in WW2, coming too late to enter service. Furthermore, the "100,000 pine tree stumps" isn't quite correct either. For one thing, it's the roots that were (are?) turned into fuel. Now, it may take 100k roots, I have no idea, but I highly doubt it was "stumps". Finally, last I read, this had been a pilot project (no pun intended) only. While technically feasible, the manpower required to convert the pine roots into fuel was determined to be too much of an impact on other programs.
Regardless, this isn't an oil based biofuel, it would have been an ethanol one. Bit of a difference there, I think, though I am not an expert on the matter.
While a stamped and official copy of a Certificate of Live Birth may be restricted to the actual person, their parent or someone similar, the records of the event are still very much a matter of public record, especially for anyone older than a certain date. There are databases which have collected all of this information in an easily searchable format and, once in there, it's fair game for private parties to search, assuming they pay for the privilege.
I'd presume she gave her legal name as part of the CC transaction, which allowed them to then to a public records search for her DoB. That'd likely be the theory, anyhow. Personally, I'd be shocked if they didn't require her to provide a legal name instead of a stage name anyhow; how else can a contract for ToS be valid?
"Most preschoolers get scolded for writing on walls, but kids living 13,000 years ago were encouraged to scribble, at least in caves."
Uhm... How do they know that those children didn't get scolded for it too?
Last line of the linked article reads, " And some of the drawings were high on the walls and on the ceiling, suggesting that the children were lifted." I'm reasonably sure that's how they know. I suppose an argument could be made that it was their teenage siblings holding them up but back then by that age the teens would have been the parents of other 2 or 3 year olds.
the interview demonstrates that the agency involved (and this Eric May character) has a giant axe to grind - a political agenda.
You should find the interview from August. That one was supposed to be about something else then *ta da!* Eric May happens to be there as well. Mr May spent several questions trying to badger, in my view, Dr Monnett into admitting there'd been "huge objections" to his original paper on the observed polar bear mortalities. The only reason I can see for this would be to try and show he lied in Mr May's original interview with the Doctor, thereby enabling criminal charges.
Now, we're all speculating as to the reason for this but it sure seems SOMEONE has an axe to grind. It's highly suspicious to me that the IG won't state what, exactly, the allegations were and who made them. This is a huge waste of money and an unfortunate witchhunt over basically nothing. I'd say it's unbelievable but unfortunately, I am simply not terribly surprised by it. If we disagree with someone nowadays, it seems we must attack them and grind them into the ground.
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I don't really understand this. Most places, they define the job and set the salary. They don't say 'well, we were looking to pay $60K, but since you're 40 we'll pay $150k.' If a job is offering $150K, then they'll pay that irrespective of whether the best applicant that they find is 20 or 40.
That's it precisely. Many seem to expect they can demand more because of experience but if a job opening is only at that lower level you may have to bite the bullet and get in then work into a higher position later. That or you find another way to make money in another career or in your own business or something. Expecting the taxpayers to pay for you to be a whiner about "no jobs at my level" for 2+ years of unemployment is simply unacceptable. I'm fine with a year of unemployment or, in the case of a major crash as we just saw, up to 2 years. What I'm not OK with is seeing people expect to be given what they want just because they "deserve it". Guess what? Life ain't fair!
*grumble under his breath about "self esteem at all costs parenting*
Now if by "no one wants older guys" you mean "won't pay what I demand", well, that is a part of economics. I'm paid significantly more than a starting employee. Maybe not quite as much as I could get elsewhere, but it seems comparable with industry pay for my level.
In my experience this has a lot to do with it. People got used to massive salaries during the boom years and adjusted their lifestyles to match that income. Now that the boom's over and sanity is restored, many "can't afford to survive" on what the market will bear.
In my case, I used to work at MSFT. Yeah, I got stock options and incredible benefits. Sure, I exercised my options ... all of them, when I was laid off and the stock was still above $100. That money went into my retirement trust. I didn't use the money to buy a new car every 3 weeks (no exaggeration) like one of my former co-workers. After cycling through several contract gigs I went into business for myself and I've been self employed for 10 years now, making about the same on average each year as I did at MSFT but without counting those options. My retirement's covered and I'm fine but most folks I used to work with at MSFT aren't. They got used to having the ridiculous levels of income and can't handle that they no longer have "what they deserve".
So many folks nowadays refuse to see that those salaries aren't "what we all deserve" but are, instead, a result of a booming new industry that must eventually settle down to normalcy or burn itself out. During the dot com boom I kept hearing the statement that "all the old rules are out and it's a whole new world without limits". During the housing boom I kept hearing the statement that "real estate is a perfect investment ... it never depreciates in price". In both cases, I knew better. Boom times come and go; in business these are usually referred to as peaks and valleys. The trick is to know when you're in a peak so you can save for the coming valley.
Back OT, the key is to not adjust your lifestyle above where it needs to be and, if you're unable to find work at that salary level then you need to find another career, adjust your expectations or branch out on your own. We, as a society, have allowed at least two generations to grow up not planning for the future other than long term retirement. We've taught people to use their homes as a credit card and to use their financial well being as a prop to live life as though they're far wealthier than they are. This cannot be sustained; it must change.
Thanks for posting regarding this story, Mr. Beckerman. I've followed such stories with great interest since a friend of mine had a ridiculous situation where he licensed a movie for showing in his venue then received a C&D the date of the showing. Please be aware that some of us truly appreciate the work you do and your communication with us here.
The mechanical approach was still a dead end that was not on the path to anything like where we are today. He was like the guys, previous to the Wright Brothers, who spent their (short) lives working on flapping wings. You could argue they had the right idea - heaver-than-air powered flight - and thus inspired those who came after - but the fact remains, they were barking up the wrong tree.
The difference (ha!) here is that the flapping wings didn't work for powering manned flight while the Babbage machines would have. Sure they'd have been limited but they would have worked ! From there, as TFA says, refinements would have been implemented. It isn't as though modern computers are what was first designed, implemented or even conceived of. Great progress such as we've seen typically requires LOTS of folks putting their own mark on things.
Somewhat OT but imagine what would have happened had the Greeks realized the true power of steam. That they were tinkering with it is well known. We might have had flying chariots by now!
Load the laptop bay with C4 and then a detonator timed to go off 10 seconds after voltage is applied to the hard drive cable. Oh, all right, that's probably not exactly legal but MAN what a fun project that could be.
As another said, the OP has no trunk. Personally, I 'd suggest something like one of these. This si just a quick result from a Google search but I have a buddy with a nice under-seat one. Myself, I have a padded carton inside my truck's diamond plate toolbox but these sorts of lockboxes can easily be placed behind a seat if there's no room underneath. The trick is to put the valuables in before your stop. If you're seen putting stuff in these, they know it's valuable and may either steal your car or simply pick the lock. Personally, I can pick a lock in about 10 seconds and my lockpick trainer in the Army could do it faster than I can use a freaking key. Not all thieves will have such skills but enough do.
Security is as much about not being stupid as anything else.
Somewhat redundant, yes, since one needn't boot the OS at all to wipe a drive (can we say DBAN?) or run the factory restore from the hard drive. Sure, you may catch stupid thieves but you can't count on recovery even then as the laptop may be held as evidence for a LONG time if charges are filed.
We have government for precisely this reason, to restore some semblance of a balance of power between the individual consumer and the corporate giants who feel free to subject you to anything they think they can make you swallow.
Well, kind of. I think we have government because we all agree pure anarchy is bad. We have the government we do to protect the Rights of the People from being trampled. Hmmm ... how's that workin' out? Not as well as we'd like, in my opinion, but then again I'm a minority when all by myself.
Anyhow, my real point is it's silly to think "Government" as it exists is there to restore power to us instead of corporate giants. It sure seems to go the other way most of the time.
he doesn't know anyone in iran, he doesn't know any iranians, he just spent the weekend playing 'call of duty' and masturbating, but goddamnit, he knows foreign policy
Thanks. I love spitting coffee out my nose; it makes my morning so much more enjoyable.
WindBourne can be found during days at his job as a Wal Mart security guard
I'd think more along the lines of a receipt checker. "May I see your receipt please, Habib?" While the Caucasian shoplifter wheels a big screen TV out the door.
Friggin' ignorant people bug me but I've learned to ignore most of them. They're loudmouth idiots who've never been there. As someone who has been there, done that, I find them laughable more than anything.
*Victoria Secrets - Giving men a reason to go to the mall for 20 years.
OT here:
Heck with men. My 8 year old stepson walked by one and said, "Let's go in THERE!" Yeah, we're going to have fun with this kid, I tell ya. =D
Just so you know, you can pause the stream, move the slider to the exact time you want then right click the video and choose to copy at the current time. I like to put the time at a second or two before the bit folks need, personally. You get this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4vXaoPzF8#t=198s
Granted, Slashdot will ignore anything you type anyhow. That said, it would be helpful to know the solutions which were insufficient. Otherwise, we'll just all post stuff you've tried (assuming the OP is reading this).
That said, I've found few things work as well at digitizing notes than the various digital paper options out there. I have a therapist client that uses it for her case notes and then an iPad for content she takes with her. I'd probably prefer the 7" form factor but by offloading the more finicky aspect, handwriting, to a dedicated medium you then have many more options for the content portability.
My client uses a DigiMemo product but there are quite a number out there with various options you might look into.
The President can urge, suggest, bitch and moan but PotUS has no more ability to enact law than we do.
Executive Orders have the force of law.
Yes they do. However, we have this tiny, pesky, thing called the separation of powers. An Executive Order stepping on one of Congress's powers explicitly specified in the Constitution would be illegal and never pass the inevitable challenges. No President in his right mind would even think seriously of issuing one.
This is not an issue for the Executive branch. The Constitution clearly states, in Article 1, Section 8 that "The Congress shall have power ..." then there are several clauses after. Clause 8 lays out the authority for patents: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries".
This issue must be decided by Congress. The President can urge, suggest, bitch and moan but PotUS has no more ability to enact law than we do. As others mentioned, there is some will to do so in Congress but it's going to take a massive push from we, the constituents, to get past the voice of the patent lobby.
You know, every other profession adds value to society.
Your posts proves that they only harm and when they are out of work they figure out ways to harm people entrepreneurial and all of course. Other people start businesses that serve society.
Seriously it would serve society better if they got paid for life not to work
I wouldn't go so far as to say that lawyers only harm. I would certainly agree that they need to be leashed NOW and not in a particularly polite way. Society must take control of itself again, not let itself be led around by the nose.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Why does anyone involved in anything illegal use a cellphone that's attached to their name? Go to Walmart buy a prepaid phone, buy a dozen, have someone else buy them, use your head.
Wouldn't help you as much as you want. They use stingrays in exactly that sort of case. In the one at hand, they didn't know the identity of the individual at first either. They can still identify you by the device you're using. You'd have to burn a phone or aircard (as in the case at hand) after every single use once you use it to commit a crime. Otherwise, they could quite conceivably use these devices to track you down.
I'm all for privacy but keep in mind there are limits to how easily you can hide if you choose to use a device with a unique ID on a system which you do not control.
"The margins there have to be pretty tight. I am a pretty well paid IT worker at around $37 an hour (80K a year). When I contract it is for $125 an hour, $100 on the low end. The overhead on taxes and administrative costs is so friggin high that we break even on the $100/hr jobs."
It costs you $63/hour in administrative costs and taxes? Wow. What are these "administrative costs" that cost so much? You make quarterly tax payments, you pay the monthly health insurance bill.... what else is there that costs upwards of $150K/year?
Good lord. I'm self employed myself and get this sort of comment all the time form folks who've never run a business , let alone one in this industry. There's a HELL of a lot more than just taxes and "administrative" costs. Heck, COMON$ commented below on a few of their other expenses but even that is putting it mildly. Most folks look at their own bills and assume that's what a business pays. Nothing could be farther form the truth. There is a very mature industry designed to do nothing aside form sucking as much money as possible from every business at every step of the process.
One excellent example of this is phone service ... good old POTS. Just last week I completed a job helping a lady move her office closer to her new condo. Closer as in across the street from. Personally I hate moving one or the other; I can't imagine doing both at once but heck, she pays so who cares. She really uses her cell but, of course, still wanted land lines in both locations. At home for emergencies (power's out, cell towers are at capacity and she needs to call family or whatever) and for her fax machine in the office. (I suppose the fax in the office can also be used as an emergency line). The residential POTS service is $15 a month before taxes. The business line, also without features of ANY kind (long distance or anything else and certainly not any SLA) runs $40 a month before taxes. Both are from the same phone company and, in fact, are using the same basic path for the copper up to 300 feet from the buildings (I checked with the installer out of curiosity). Where's the "justification" for charging more than double, heck nearly triple, for the same darn service?
Running a business is simply more expensive than most people realize. Now, this doesn't mean I like the federal government's addiction to contractors and the arrangement is crazy, paying "markup" which surely was originally to cover overhead which now doesn't exist. That simply doesn't extend to "normal" businesses, though. The normal businesses can be instructive in how these arrangements started, however, and I think we need a method of limiting profit on federal contracts in some way, not that I am smart enough to know how to do so. :\
Ballmer's crystal ball doesn't function the way you might expect. Why? Because it's actually a Palantir.
Which begs the question: is Ballmer Sauron, Saruman, or Denethor? Hmm, maybe he's actually Pippin...
Well, I think we're all in agreement he's not Aragorn!
It's not complicated to use for any Slashdot user, but that's kind of his point. I love my Android phone and kinda hate Apple, but when non-techie friends ask what to buy, I tell them to get an iPhone because it is much more likely to just work for them.
I find this varies by individual. I have an 80 year old client who has trouble figuring out the iPad interface but did just fine on an Android 2.2 phone her niece gave her. On the flipside, I have another older client (late sixties) who did fantastic with an iPhone and couldn't figure out why their Nook wasn't the same. It's really not limited by age, either, in my experience.
I have to pull the battery on my Droid X once or twice a day due to lockups.
Sounds like some apps are causing issues to me. A friend with a DroidX recently told me he'd never had to power cycle it at all. Anecdotal, sure, but as with many things "computer" there're way too many variables on these devices to blame a need for hard reboots on the OS itself. This isn't an attack on you, by the way, just pointing out it's hard to color a particular product as reliable or not based on a sample size of one. I haven't had issues with most of my phones but that doesn't mean nobody else did either.
tl;dr: Everyone is different and so are which devices will or won't work for them.
WinMo 6.5 was released at about the same time as Android 1.5 (Cupcake).
*laughs* I read that, at first, as "WinMo 6.5 was released at about the same time as Android 1.5, cupcake." and had hit reply to sya I hadn't seen cupcake used as a somewhat minor insult on Slashdot before. Ahhh, too bad. It would have been truly out of place but funny regardless.
The war in the Pacific was started over oil, and turned on fuel supply.
In the end, Japan was using biofuels made from the roots of pine trees, which they had a lot of because the trees had been felled to be burned themselves.
It took 100,000 pine tree stumps to make one tank of gas for a Japanese fighter jet.
Biofuels are an overrated source of energy.
Once the oil begins to run out, heavier-than-air airraft are going to become scarce.
This has all the hallmarks of an urban legend. First of all, the Japanese "fighter jets" were basically nonexistent in WW2, coming too late to enter service. Furthermore, the "100,000 pine tree stumps" isn't quite correct either. For one thing, it's the roots that were (are?) turned into fuel. Now, it may take 100k roots, I have no idea, but I highly doubt it was "stumps". Finally, last I read, this had been a pilot project (no pun intended) only. While technically feasible, the manpower required to convert the pine roots into fuel was determined to be too much of an impact on other programs.
Regardless, this isn't an oil based biofuel, it would have been an ethanol one. Bit of a difference there, I think, though I am not an expert on the matter.
While a stamped and official copy of a Certificate of Live Birth may be restricted to the actual person, their parent or someone similar, the records of the event are still very much a matter of public record, especially for anyone older than a certain date. There are databases which have collected all of this information in an easily searchable format and, once in there, it's fair game for private parties to search, assuming they pay for the privilege.
I'd presume she gave her legal name as part of the CC transaction, which allowed them to then to a public records search for her DoB. That'd likely be the theory, anyhow. Personally, I'd be shocked if they didn't require her to provide a legal name instead of a stage name anyhow; how else can a contract for ToS be valid?
"Most preschoolers get scolded for writing on walls, but kids living 13,000 years ago were encouraged to scribble, at least in caves."
Uhm... How do they know that those children didn't get scolded for it too?
Last line of the linked article reads, " And some of the drawings were high on the walls and on the ceiling, suggesting that the children were lifted." I'm reasonably sure that's how they know. I suppose an argument could be made that it was their teenage siblings holding them up but back then by that age the teens would have been the parents of other 2 or 3 year olds.
the interview demonstrates that the agency involved (and this Eric May character) has a giant axe to grind - a political agenda.
You should find the interview from August. That one was supposed to be about something else then *ta da!* Eric May happens to be there as well. Mr May spent several questions trying to badger, in my view, Dr Monnett into admitting there'd been "huge objections" to his original paper on the observed polar bear mortalities. The only reason I can see for this would be to try and show he lied in Mr May's original interview with the Doctor, thereby enabling criminal charges.
Now, we're all speculating as to the reason for this but it sure seems SOMEONE has an axe to grind. It's highly suspicious to me that the IG won't state what, exactly, the allegations were and who made them. This is a huge waste of money and an unfortunate witchhunt over basically nothing. I'd say it's unbelievable but unfortunately, I am simply not terribly surprised by it. If we disagree with someone nowadays, it seems we must attack them and grind them into the ground.