Comment Re:TV as computer monitor (Score 1) 119
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
Do you remeber setting jumpers on your sound card and then configuring each app to talk to it? Do you remember having multiple boot disks with different TSRs loaded so that you can have just enough of your 640k to start a game and have your mouse driver work? Do you remember how you didn't have example code you could easily find after an easy Google search that you could just copy from your browser and paste into your IDE all without preventing your family members from using the phone?
Bitching about the bloat of a modern Windows install in comparison to a floppy-based version of DOS is like complaining about how many miles per gallon a Boeing passenger gets compared to your scooter.
I'm guessing that joke's a lot funnier outside of the United States.
Good programming languages cannot save a bad design.
Yes, that's why we drive electric cars now.
Is that actually possible or is there a drawback like "it's way too heavy" or "there's lots of energy but it doesn't come out quickly" or something like that? I know nothing of how plutonium is used to actually generate electricity.
Meanwhile during that period women were becoming part of the work-force and more expensive houses were being purchased by dual-income families. Living expenses go up, the minimum wage suffers.
Stagnated? It is almost higher than it ever has been adjusted for inflation.
Yes, stagnated, and your link illustrates it. Roll your mouse down that graph, you'll see the adjusted wage going down.
How is that different from Google indexing the dumb comments you make on Slashdot?
Hell there's been nothing innovative about the iPhone in the past 5 years either.
The same is true for the rest of the market. You lot got all fappity over a stylus.
what about those who are making 15 an hour now??? or those making 15.50??? will they get a raise???
If they're more valuable than those they could be replaced with then... yes.
And now you know why minimum wage should not have stagnated in the first place.
So you're a tech nerd who has an aversion to seeing ads.... Your life must be hell.
Who was selling half-price iPads and Apple Watches?
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.