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ParticipantUh what? Intel has been making WiFi/Bluetooth chips for years.
Speaking to a previous poster, the problem with Windows Phone/RT is that the OS is utter crippled garbage. Windows on tablets beats out iOS or Android in functionality when we’re talking about Windows 8 or 8 Pro running on a mobile device (with 10+ years of software developed for Windows behind it), not a “lite” version that’s limited to “Metro(sexual)” craplets from the Microsoft store.
ParticipantOh, I agree. We’re still talking about two different evolutionary tracks.
One is a phone that grew a big screen and de-emphasized the phone features. The other is a laptop that grew a touch screen.
ParticipantApples to oranges — one is a laptop with a touch screen, the other is an el-cheapo media consumption device. Albeit one more functional than devices cursed with iOS or Win RT crippleware.
Participant^^^
Maybe in the long run, though 150 new hires in the US in 2014 is basically a blip for now.
ParticipantTechnically, in both CA and NY, you can learn law by apprenticeship 😀 Time to find an attorney who needs an indentured servant for three years.
ParticipantDidn’t NorCal get some rain and snow in the last week? (finally)
The problem is that something like 85-90% of CA’s water supply goes for agriculture, not for residential use.
Participant“Retirement” in my book is the state of not HAVING to work. It doesn’t mean that you don’t work, just that you have a choice not to do so while remaining comfortable.
ParticipantWho says anything about moving to a tech hub to strike it rich? If you’re unmarried, living somewhere like PB where you can walk to the beach after work, drive 3-4 hours to go skiing in winter, have “good” weather basically all year round, and which has its share of unattached people of the correct gender is a hell of a lot more enjoyable than living in inland Texas.
ParticipantThat wasn’t the statistical average — don’t compare your experience to the norm.
Participant“Both my parents worked through the 60’s and 70’s (we were not rich).”
Sure, but this wasn’t the norm, nor were people shamed for having a single-working-parent family (zOMFeministG-d, how can you throw away a career!?!?). Also, working hours and commuting times were shorter on average then vs today.
The ideal situation would be for average per-capita working hours today to approximate those of the 60s.
ParticipantThe definition of 100% capacity is arbitrary — no reason why it should stand at a 40-50 hour week. Actually, American society is more like an V8 with two dead spark plugs running at full throttle with nitrous injection. It may provide its rated HP output, but it’s liable to break the crankshaft or drop an exhaust valve soon enough.
Secondly, if you think about it, the current situation is unprecedented. 40 years ago, people married younger and the average family only had one working parent. Commutes were also shorter.
Assuming a 45-hour week including commuting for one parent, the average hours “worked” per parent were:
(45 + $housework) / 2Now, assuming a 50-hour week including commuting for BOTH parents, we’re talking about…
(50 + 50 + $housework) / 2
$housework may be marginally less due to after-school day care in the second case, but not significantly less.A 30-hour or 35-hour week per employee would more closely approximate the norm that prevailed from the 1910s through the mid 1970s while not locking one parent or the other out of having a career outside the home.
ParticipantSan Diego is a lot cheaper than NY or many places on the East Coast. Programmers are generally younger — it’s not that hard to rent a studio in one of the beach cities for about a grand a month. Easily doable even on an entry-level programmer’s salary of $50-60k per year.
ParticipantWhy salvage? If a junkyard will give you a grand, a private buyer looking to fix the car will give you about the same, and at least you’re not destroying a repairable car.
ParticipantThey’ve been doing this on the East Coast for a while now. Actually, some decent deals to be had. Even if reserve isn’t met, they sometimes sell.
Time only gets extended if there’s a last-minute bid, same as a physical auction. They don’t extend just because reserve isn’t met.
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