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  1. Re:Fear is a good thing for business on Oscar Winners, Sports Stars and Bill Gates Are Building Lavish Bunkers (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well the rich/poor divide is a problem.
    It is mostly due to both sides not understanding the other.
    While many wealthy people worked hard or smart for their wealth. And many poor are there due to slacking off and bad life decisions. It isn't always so cut and dry as the old moral argument for being wealthy. There are degrees of luck especially for the super rich...
    IBM may had wanted to have full license over DOS.
    HP may had denied woz the rights to the Apple 1
    That one lucky incident that got your name out just didn't happen.
    Your parents didn't have a few million dollars for you to start out with.
    Also for the poor.
    You may had to deal with undiagnosed ADD
    You could have low level autism without any additional help
    The teachers and society said you wouldn't amount to anything
    Your parents had no money to give you any advantages
    That one chance for a break was lost.

    As the rich see it the poor are just being lazy so giving them money will not encourage them to try harder.
    While the poor see the rich of just holding onto their money without giving them a break so they can try again.
    When you are rich you can take risks as failure is an option and try again. For the poor failure means death.

  2. Despite the grime. If you leave the disk in, and use the drive it more or less keeps the internals clean. I had worked at factories, where the PC's have been running for decades, when I open them up the area where they are fans are grubby, however places where there is limited airflow they are like new.

  3. A cartridge is mounted in the back.

  4. Currently that generation is called iGen. It will probably change as times goes on. As what we call millennials now use to be gen Y.

  5. However you have the choice to drop a service if you want. Also many services don't have commercial or limited commercials For cable TV you are paying for 20-30% of adds over your shows.

  6. Re:Clinton is above the law on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh just quit all the conspiracy nonsense.

    1. Back in the early and mid 00's having your own email was the "Cool" thing to do. As for people in such short term government positions will want an email that will follow them.
    2. Shouldn't the government have a track of all the email sent on its servers. And we just pull all of them that went to Clinton's server and we will know what sensitive information that went across.
    3. Is there any evidence that she scolded or discouraged people from sending emails to her work email?
    4. If this was such a big deal, why didn't anyone bring it up earlier, until she decided to run for president?

    In short I don't see where she broke the law. The person who may had broke the law is the person who sent classified information to her email address.
    But I agree with the FBI she did have a bad judgement using personal email for work... However she is a politician not a IT expert.

    If it was an average guy who did this... Chances are they may had lost their job, but not had criminal activity put on him.

  7. Re:Everything under the sun at Amazon on 55 Percent Of Online Shoppers Start Their Product Searches On Amazon (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Well to the point Amazon means you are not having to hunt and peck specialty stores. Even if you will save a few bucks.

  8. Re:Which is cool... on 55 Percent Of Online Shoppers Start Their Product Searches On Amazon (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You should be well aware, that the movie industry is opposed to that, and make sure this isn't allowed in their license.

    It is supposably to stop illegal sharing of the data. But I think it is more to keep the honest honest approach. Having a file you obtained legally sitting on your PC ready to be copied and shared with your friend who would share it with their friend...

    While currently the person would actually have to go to the darknet to get the pirated version.

  9. You can get by on 100mbs, but it stinks. I am at a remote location and limited to 100mbs. I get a 10gig file to transform I spend so much time downloading it, fixing and send it back.
    So taking normally 15 minutes to transfer the file. it can take 1.5 with 1gbs, or 18 seconds with 5gbs.

  10. Re:So no cable ripping, but... on IEEE Sets New Ethernet Standard That Brings 5X the Speed Without Cable Ripping (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see why.
    If the cable is the same the jacks use all the cables. At least when I put the head on the cables I connected them all.

  11. Re:No authority on Yahoo's Delay in Reporting Hack 'Unacceptable', Say Senators (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    People are scared, if they don't give them lip service, then they may not get elected .

  12. The cloud is fine if you are a small company where you don't want to use your resources servers for your organization. However after you get to a particular size, the cloud advantage goes away. But we no longer get that option.

  13. Re:Bandiwidth is *free* fallacy.. on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Bandwidth isn't free. However technology makes it cheaper to produce every day.

    My cable internet has the same cables it always had for decades. As the companies course of business where they replace their technogy it gets faster and faster. So for your current price you should expect increased bandwidth.

    When I was a kid I use to run a BBS. It was first at 2400bps. Then after the modem died I went to 14.4k my users liked the extra speed and there was no way I could find a 2400bps at the store anymore. Then after that died I went 56k modem.

    Having a modem die was part of the risk running a BBS replacing it cost money but it was mostly the same amount each time and we get faster speed.

  14. You don't need the DOB for Age discrimination in tech.
    If you meet the job experience requirements, then you are too old to work there.

    Also even if you are young and like to learn Old Technology and Languages as a hobby better not put them on your resume, because then you will be pinned as an old timer.

  15. And Yawn! on Adobe To Run Some Of Its Creative Cloud Services On Azure (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to give a big so what. I know we suppose to hate Microsoft and I have no love for Azure. But so what, it is Adobe who will need to deal with the consequences more than the users of the services.

  16. Re:Privacy Concerns. on HERE, Automakers Team Up To Share Data On Traffic Conditions (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is that they know you are in a vehicle and which vehicle. To get that data from your phone, there will be a lot more statistical correlation on the data. So if your phone is going 100mph in a 45mph zone. How do they know it is you, or your just left your phone in a car that went at that speed.

    If it is a car that is registered to you, you hold responsibility for infractions of that car.

    Also being that we know it is automobile data. if we want to catch speeders it is a much smaller data sets with less big computation.

    Select Distinct C.Name, C.Address, Cast(D.DatapointDT as date) InfractionDate from Customer C left join DrivingData D on C.CustomerID = D.CustomerID where D.SpeedSegment >= 75

  17. Reduced OS for short term gains. on Google Is Planning a 'Pixel 3' Laptop Running 'Andromeda' OS For Release in Q3 2017 (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I would focus on getting such devices to run on full desktop OS's or we will get in the trouble that we had with windows 3.1-ME

    Where DOS and Windows Up to ME. Were designed for Low End Desktops while Unix/VMS/NT were designed for real computing. By the time 95 came out Desktop PC's were powerful enough to run the Big Boy OS's however we were stuck on the legacy systems for compatibility for over a decade.

    What really did the trick was the move to 64bit. And the rise of Web Applications, allowing a much smoother transition.

    But these OS's designed for mobile, will only get us in trouble once mobile devices are on par with our desktop systems.

  18. Privacy Concerns. on HERE, Automakers Team Up To Share Data On Traffic Conditions (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    While I would love to get live traffic info... I would have concerns about privacy with my Car broadcasting where I am at any moment.

    Just because it is an European company it doesn't mean that the government will not want to get its hold on that data.

  19. Re:Hope the technology has come a long way on Uber Is Researching a New Vertical-Takeoff Ride Offering That Flies You Around (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The biggest mistake people make, is thinking, if technology X was tested and it failed. that in 50 years with new technology and materials it will still fail.

    Vertical take off technology use to depend on a skill pilot to manually account for dozens of corrections per second. Computer can handle thousands of corrections per second.

    Equipping a device the person transporting was considered one of the lightest component, while now it is one of the heaviest.

         

  20. Well I wasn't bragging about my preprocessor syntax. I actually had to look them up, because it had been a while. However back in the day, changing those were the key to cross platform capability. As with #ifdef it would tell the compiler which version of a function to load.

    Now using a browser for emulation is mostly a toy. However why can't we have fun with toys every now and then. Why does technology need to be "enterprise class" all the time?

  21. Re:Disappointing on 'Transformer' BMW Turns Into A Giant Robot (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well they are all angry that they couldn't afford a Mercedes.
    However I expect it is you is angry at them and portray when even a BMW driver is bad, that you put them all in the same bucket, while someone who may be equally nasty in a beat up Honda, you just classify as some low level slob and drive away in your fancy newer car, confident that you are better than that.

    However it is Baby Boomer thing, to try to show status based on the car they drive, less so in Gen X and even less in Millennials. It would be interesting to see if this changes over time, when Gen Xers get those high level positions and Millennials get steady work and jobs.

  22. Re:Wow on Boot Linux (or OpenBSD Or Oberon Or FreeDOS) In Your Browser (copy.sh) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Where do you draw the line?

    Browsers use to just do text with hyperlinks, then we added formatted text and then pictures, additional text positional and formatting. Then we added input form features. After that we did some preserver checks to validate information before sending to the server so people didn't have to wait for a response. The types of checks got more complex and also needed better ways to show the validated info. Then we realized we didn't need to reload the whole page just send the data needed, based on the data the display can be changed...

    Once you give a programmer a tool, that can do IF, Loops and store variables it becomes a development platform.

  23. Re:IoA on What Vint Cerf Would Do Differently (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At the time 32 bits seemed like a lot of data to send.
    On a 300bps modem it would take a noticeable fraction of a second. 64bit or 128 bit would take much longer, and slowdown nearly everything. Also RAM was small think kilobytes having to store that much data would be sacrificing it somewhere else in the code.

    In short if it were implement back then, it would never catch on, and we would be using a different networking protocol now. Perhaps one with much more problematic limitations.

    Today using 128bit address having the ability to give more IP Addresses than possible in the universe, really make sure that just randomly picking an address probably will not create a duplicate address.

  24. Re:This again? on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Assembly isn't hard, however it is tedious. You have a relatively small set of commands that do simple things. So for example if you want to print something. You will need to assign the memory address/registers for your text, populate that memory address with the data. Tell where it will look for that set of data, then call the interrupt that will have the video processor turn your string to text.

    or you can use printf that does all that, and more for better performance, as it can buffer the data set and display the data more efficiently. Because the person who wrote the printf probably spent a lot of time to get that command right, while if you are working on your own app. You probably don't have the time to recreate all that work for a simple result.

  25. Re:This again? on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Assembly" is getting nearly useless for normal development, as much of it will be doing OS calls. Due to lack of standardization in hardware, and security protections on the OS to prevent to much direct access to under the hood.