ratsmack

58 ms·

1. 721.▲
   by ratsmack 7y ago

   It has nothing to do with a soul... it's just the nature of large business to revolve around marketing and accounting to maximize profits, while disregarding sound engineering.
2. 722.▲
   by ratsmack 7y ago

   This is the one thing that has rustled my jimmies every time I have had to deal with it. They could have easily had marketing jargon for the general consumer and then left the real specification number in generally accepted computing values
3. 723.▲
   by ratsmack 7y ago

   They are not essential to the overall health of the economy and in no way should be given a tax payer funded bailout. As far as the journalists go, they should be offered the same benefits as any other worker that lost their job. Just becau
4. 724.▲
   by ratsmack 7y ago

   Excel, or more generically, spreadsheets are useful for many different projects. But they are also responsible for many computational errors because of their use for things that should be done with a statically constrained system or program
5. 725.▲
   by ratsmack 7y ago

   It looks to me like the captain made some poor judgement in addressing this by side stepping the chain of command.
6. 726.▲
   by ratsmack 7y ago

   Yes, and it is extremely handy for debugging email issues and for identifying spammers.
7. 727.▲
   by ratsmack 7y ago

   This is interesting, but there is no context regarding the reason for posting this.
8. 728.▲
   by ratsmack 7y ago

   It's just something you wouldn't want to say in too loud in public.
9. 729.▲
   by ratsmack 7y ago

   This behavior just drives up the price for everyone. There should really be a limit on what can be returned.
10. 730.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    And the licensing is not perpetual. Once you stop paying the annual licensing, you are legally obligated to stop sing the software.
11. 731.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    We used Epicore Vantage ERP for manufacturing. The starting cost per seat was $175 per user per month. With many added modules it can easily reach twice that per user. Our $30 million a year company was spending about $150K per year licenci
12. 732.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    If you click on the red dots on the map it gives you the specifics of that location.
13. 733.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    I've been using this one: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
14. 734.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    You can use this link: https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/
15. 735.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    Gab did that and was summarily attacked by silicon Valley et al., so I guess you would have to build an entirely separate internet infrastructure instead of just opening up shop with phpBB.
16. 736.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    And the next question is... who determines who is or is not a journalist. I don't believe there is a definitive requirement that is used to differentiates between a blogger and someone that writes for the NYT.
17. 737.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    This is the best point I've seen in this thread so far. Companies should just stick to their business interests and leave politics and social engineering to others.
18. 738.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    Please define what a "normal presidential administration" looks like.
19. 739.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    Static value should never be taxed, which includes real property. The value should only become apparent at the time of sale.
20. 740.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    I have three boys, two are engineers and one is a gamer. Guess who fixes their computer when things go awry? That's right, it's me, their 65 year old father that learned to code assembly back in 1976 on a Dec PDP. I tried to teach
21. 741.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    For everyone concerned about the damage this crap is doing to the environment and humans should watch "The Devil We Know"[1]. This film covers a time frame, starting in the 50's up to the current day. [1] https://y
22. 742.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    Also, the field separator (FS) can be a regular expression. FS = "[0-9]"
23. 743.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    I opened an account on Reddit the first day they came online. I watched as the quality of posts degraded into nothing but senseless rabble driven by the desire of people clamoring for karma. I left about 4.5 years ago, which was about the t
24. 744.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    I find it odd that on the blue screen notification they stated that they "Strongly Recommend" you to upgrade to Windows 10 on a "New PC".
25. 745.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    How about a correlation between IQ and race. It seems that no one will touch the subject out of fear the it would end their career.
26. 746.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    I like this comment: >At the end of the day, "AI" is just glorified statistics (running on increasingly powerful computers).
27. 747.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    This describes the majority of voters which do not have a clue as to what they are voting for, or the platform that their favorite candidate stand on. The just blindly vote the party ticket because that's their team. Generally, it is t
28. 748.▲
    CES boss defends Ivanka Trump’s upcoming keynote speech amid backlash(cnbc.com)

    1 points by ratsmack 7y ago|0 comments
29. 749.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    I spent 45 years in this industry and the following describes exactly what happened in the mid 90's throughout the entire industry. As subcontractors, we were told that we needed to get on board with the new way of thinking, or we woul
30. 750.▲
    by ratsmack 7y ago

    This just pushes the validation of a patent into the courts, and at a much higher cost than properly researching its validity from the beginning.