I think there's that, and the possibility of mistakes made by lack of visual differentiation. We have a social network at work, but there is no opportunity for confusion - it doesn't look anything like facebook.com. If Facebook and Facebook at Work are visually similar I suspect there will be at least one case where somebody mixes up destinations accidentally.
Presumably it would be hosted by FB. And I suspect for most companies that if the corporate internet connection goes down there are bigger issues than not being able to access corporate facebook.
Hmmm... I must be reading a different summary or am working with a different definition of TFS. When I read the summary, it says: 'According to a story at Wired, towns in Mexico that aren't served by the nation's telecom monopoly'.
I assume he wasn't being us specific as the article sure wasn't. I work on a remote team that spanned, at one point six timezones - a guy in Australia, a team in China, a team in SV and a few others scattered among the other three north american timezones. It certainly had its challenges.
I think it is especially difficult for a preexisting company to start thinking remote, and that is probably the real problem. The org is very head office centric and so many meetings start in a room and remote people get added in either part way through or after the pleasantries have taken place. They don't think to introduce people in the room so on the remote end all you hear is voices going back and forth at varying volumes depending on how far away the person is from the mic. If a couple of people in the room start having a person to person chat amongst themselves (not private but where the in room attendees are spectators and can listen in) then you are almost guaranteed to be SOL because they end up speaking quickly and don't enunciate as much and they don't speak as loud. If you are in the room you can jump in if you have something to add (probably using body language to indicate you want to add something) but you're lost very quickly if you are in the phone.
Partly true, perhaps, but not entirely. Good authors write books that result in people spending more money on books. In the 'traditional' model, there are two ways to grow:
1. Get existing customers to buy more books 2. Get new customers to start buying more books
This 'new' model removes growth source #1 because revenue doesn't increase if a customer reads more books - they've already paid their dues.
On the other hand, it has the potential to increase growth of #2, because in the 'new' model you can't lend a book to a friend after you've finished reading it. They have to subscribe themselves and pay in their dues.
No, except that in many cases the impact of failure begins to be comparable. It would be interesting to see data though on:
1. How many times auto pilot makes enough of a mistake to cause loss of life 2. How many times anti lock brakes fail and result in an accident that wouldn't have occurred without them 3. How many times a surgery robot fails and causes a patient to die, or necessitates drastic action on part of the supervising surgeon 4. How many times a pacemaker fails in an unexpected way causing damage to the user
The point was that if twitter goes down, then a bunch of people have to go somewhere else to get their social media fix and some businesses lose a medium on which to attempt to launch a viral ad campaign.
If somebody botches it up, it's a bit of lost revenue.
Somehow, autopilot software has been designed robustly enough such that: 1. You don't hear of a lot of severe accidents resulting from bugs in auto pilot software 2. Airlines find them reliable enough such that they continue to allow their pilots to use it
Thus, they have somehow managed to design such that there are no tiny bugs that cause huge problems.
Some commenters are ridiculing how people were 'outraged' from the year in review. But if you look at the actual article by Eric (http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/) - and note the title -'inadvertent algorithmic cruelty' it is much more an analysis of the design of the feature and applying human sensitivity to software design. His closing statement is 'If I could fix one thing about our industry, just one thing, it would be that: to increase awareness of and consideration for the failure modes, the edge cases, the worst-case scenarios.'
It wasn't a rant against Facebook. It wasn't a 'woe is me, Facebook ruined my life'. It was a post about how Facebook's design has an affect on him that they probably weren't going for.
Had it not been Eric Meyer, I would imagine there would have been no public apology, though perhaps just a rethink of the design.
There wasn't really even a demand that Facebook change anything. But if you're Facebook, you might consider how many others are in a similar situation that Eric is in and are confronted by uncomfortable images. It isn't good business to have people made uncomfortable, unhappy or pained by your product.
Similar to if they had accidentally had Goatse show up in everybody's feed. Even if nobody complained, you are still going to lose at least some customers because it makes the experience unpleasant.
Here's how you do it: 1. Go to a conference, and allow your dongle to 'accidentally' fall out of your bag onto the floor. Wait for somebody to come and pick it up. 2. Open up an online shop and sell knock-off dongles at a reduced price 3. Post an ad on Craigslist selling your 'old' dongle 4. Go to a conference and swap out the dongle that is there with your dongle
At $30 a pop people many unwitting Mac users would pick up one of these devices if they were convinced it were impossible to find out the owner. They might not use it right away, but chances are that at some point they will be in a bind and need one.
No physical access necessary - just a bit of social engineering to bring your device to the machine.
This is really probably the scariest vulnerability I have seen in a while.
When my wife and I went to buy our first house we were rejected for financing because my wife did not have a credit rating. It was a huge pita that was rectified by getting a credit card in her name and putting occasional charges on and over paying the bill by $5 or so. Credit cards are useful because it allows you to show you can be trusted with small things.
Bah. The magsafe connector is a gimmick. The advantage of the magsafe connector was supposed to be that it would release easily from the laptop in the event of a snag. This does work most of the time. Not always, but most of the time.
What is falsely implied is that other laptop connectors don't come out under such conditions. In my experience, this is not true - I've had two other laptops where the connector slipped out easily under a relatively small amount of force.
On the other hand, the magsafe connector is more complex and I've already had to replace it because the connector split apart, which I've never had happen on any other laptop I've owned.
That being said, Apple does, in general, make solid laptops. What I appreciate is that I can carry my laptop around open and not have to worry about the display flapping around.
The hardware integrates well with the software and OS - I've yet to come across a Windows laptop where the hardware vendor took the same care for the details.
Welfare does not reduce poverty structurally; it merely reduces the effects temporarily. If a government wants to really reduce poverty, it should invest in education and everything that fosters the creation of jobs in the long term.
You could say the same thing about the prison system.
On the other hand, (pure speculation), I wonder if temporarily reducing the effects of poverty can have a long term effect by increasing the ability of impoverished parents to help their children get a good education and reducing the need for parents to work two to three jobs to make ends meet using time that might be better spent being good influences on their children.
Yeah I wasn't really commenting on the success or failure of Motorola as an organization. Was only saying that no matter how well or poorly Motorola was doing, they are owned by Google and therefore have a lot of contingency available in the event they lose money.
Which, upon further investigation, they seem to be doing.
"Motorola Mobile Segment Operating Loss - Motorola Mobile segment operating loss in the fourth quarter of 2013 was $384 million, or -31% of Motorola Mobile segment revenues. This compares to segment operating loss of $152 million, or -10% of Motorola Mobile segment revenues in the fourth quarter of 2012."
Hmmm... did I misread something? Please enlighten me. As for posting anonymously, meh. I try not to get too hung up on stuff like Karma or whatever else people worry about.
Ah, I see what you're getting at. We also have carriers that use both CDMA and GSM here. Wikipedia suggests that the North American model of the Nexus 5 supports: 2G/3G/4G LTE GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz Model LG-D820 (North America) CDMA band class: 0/1/10 WCDMA bands: 1/2/4/5/6/8/19 LTE bands: 1/2/4/5/17/19/25/26/41
I would then guess that the Nexus 6 would do the same.
My understanding is that technologies are converging and the technical divide that used to separate two groups of carriers is disappearing.
If I can properly decode your sentence (which I suspect got fragmented because you tried to change the way you expressed it three to fours times before hitting submit), you are expressing a suspicion that it will only be available for AT&T and T-Mobile.
However, according to http://www.google.com/nexus/6/ one might be lead to believe it will be available on Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular also (based on pre-order logos). Not intimately familiar with the US cellular market, but I don't think exclusion of other carriers is based on fragmented spectrum.
RE: Seatbelts - a smaller Canadian airline says this in their safety video: 'Now that you've done it, we'll show you how you did it' recognizing that by the time you're watching the video you've probably already fastened your seat belt.
I find the complaints by the flight attendants a little insulting - I was just as able to ignore the safety video before as I am now.
See what you do to calculate the area of a square is you take the square of the length of one side. So 11 x 11, IIRC, is 121 square miles. 121 square miles * 640 = 77,440 windmills. So, you're right, it is a bit more than a square 11 miles on a side, but it's pretty close.
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There are numerous sources to support that. Two that probably hold some weight are:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/blur... and http://www.gnu.org/software/so..., both of which list R as a GNU package.
I had wondered if it was supposed to be GRPS, and somebody didn't know what that was and shortened it to GPS assuming it must be a typo or something.
I think there's that, and the possibility of mistakes made by lack of visual differentiation. We have a social network at work, but there is no opportunity for confusion - it doesn't look anything like facebook.com. If Facebook and Facebook at Work are visually similar I suspect there will be at least one case where somebody mixes up destinations accidentally.
Presumably it would be hosted by FB. And I suspect for most companies that if the corporate internet connection goes down there are bigger issues than not being able to access corporate facebook.
Hmmm... I must be reading a different summary or am working with a different definition of TFS. When I read the summary, it says: 'According to a story at Wired, towns in Mexico that aren't served by the nation's telecom monopoly'.
I assume he wasn't being us specific as the article sure wasn't. I work on a remote team that spanned, at one point six timezones - a guy in Australia, a team in China, a team in SV and a few others scattered among the other three north american timezones. It certainly had its challenges.
I think it is especially difficult for a preexisting company to start thinking remote, and that is probably the real problem. The org is very head office centric and so many meetings start in a room and remote people get added in either part way through or after the pleasantries have taken place. They don't think to introduce people in the room so on the remote end all you hear is voices going back and forth at varying volumes depending on how far away the person is from the mic. If a couple of people in the room start having a person to person chat amongst themselves (not private but where the in room attendees are spectators and can listen in) then you are almost guaranteed to be SOL because they end up speaking quickly and don't enunciate as much and they don't speak as loud. If you are in the room you can jump in if you have something to add (probably using body language to indicate you want to add something) but you're lost very quickly if you are in the phone.
"they may as well remind us to park our HDD drive heads everytime we power down."
Are you saying I don't have to maintain my park.sh script anymore? I wish you'd told me that before I completely rewrote it to support SSDs.
Partly true, perhaps, but not entirely. Good authors write books that result in people spending more money on books. In the 'traditional' model, there are two ways to grow:
1. Get existing customers to buy more books
2. Get new customers to start buying more books
This 'new' model removes growth source #1 because revenue doesn't increase if a customer reads more books - they've already paid their dues.
On the other hand, it has the potential to increase growth of #2, because in the 'new' model you can't lend a book to a friend after you've finished reading it. They have to subscribe themselves and pay in their dues.
No, except that in many cases the impact of failure begins to be comparable. It would be interesting to see data though on:
1. How many times auto pilot makes enough of a mistake to cause loss of life
2. How many times anti lock brakes fail and result in an accident that wouldn't have occurred without them
3. How many times a surgery robot fails and causes a patient to die, or necessitates drastic action on part of the supervising surgeon
4. How many times a pacemaker fails in an unexpected way causing damage to the user
The point was that if twitter goes down, then a bunch of people have to go somewhere else to get their social media fix and some businesses lose a medium on which to attempt to launch a viral ad campaign.
If somebody botches it up, it's a bit of lost revenue.
Somehow, autopilot software has been designed robustly enough such that:
1. You don't hear of a lot of severe accidents resulting from bugs in auto pilot software
2. Airlines find them reliable enough such that they continue to allow their pilots to use it
Thus, they have somehow managed to design such that there are no tiny bugs that cause huge problems.
Some commenters are ridiculing how people were 'outraged' from the year in review. But if you look at the actual article by Eric (http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/) - and note the title -'inadvertent algorithmic cruelty' it is much more an analysis of the design of the feature and applying human sensitivity to software design. His closing statement is 'If I could fix one thing about our industry, just one thing, it would be that: to increase awareness of and consideration for the failure modes, the edge cases, the worst-case scenarios.'
It wasn't a rant against Facebook. It wasn't a 'woe is me, Facebook ruined my life'. It was a post about how Facebook's design has an affect on him that they probably weren't going for.
Had it not been Eric Meyer, I would imagine there would have been no public apology, though perhaps just a rethink of the design.
There wasn't really even a demand that Facebook change anything. But if you're Facebook, you might consider how many others are in a similar situation that Eric is in and are confronted by uncomfortable images. It isn't good business to have people made uncomfortable, unhappy or pained by your product.
Similar to if they had accidentally had Goatse show up in everybody's feed. Even if nobody complained, you are still going to lose at least some customers because it makes the experience unpleasant.
Here's how you do it:
1. Go to a conference, and allow your dongle to 'accidentally' fall out of your bag onto the floor. Wait for somebody to come and pick it up.
2. Open up an online shop and sell knock-off dongles at a reduced price
3. Post an ad on Craigslist selling your 'old' dongle
4. Go to a conference and swap out the dongle that is there with your dongle
At $30 a pop people many unwitting Mac users would pick up one of these devices if they were convinced it were impossible to find out the owner. They might not use it right away, but chances are that at some point they will be in a bind and need one.
No physical access necessary - just a bit of social engineering to bring your device to the machine.
This is really probably the scariest vulnerability I have seen in a while.
When my wife and I went to buy our first house we were rejected for financing because my wife did not have a credit rating. It was a huge pita that was rectified by getting a credit card in her name and putting occasional charges on and over paying the bill by $5 or so. Credit cards are useful because it allows you to show you can be trusted with small things.
Bah. The magsafe connector is a gimmick. The advantage of the magsafe connector was supposed to be that it would release easily from the laptop in the event of a snag. This does work most of the time. Not always, but most of the time.
What is falsely implied is that other laptop connectors don't come out under such conditions. In my experience, this is not true - I've had two other laptops where the connector slipped out easily under a relatively small amount of force.
On the other hand, the magsafe connector is more complex and I've already had to replace it because the connector split apart, which I've never had happen on any other laptop I've owned.
That being said, Apple does, in general, make solid laptops. What I appreciate is that I can carry my laptop around open and not have to worry about the display flapping around.
The hardware integrates well with the software and OS - I've yet to come across a Windows laptop where the hardware vendor took the same care for the details.
Welfare does not reduce poverty structurally; it merely reduces the effects temporarily. If a government wants to really reduce poverty, it should invest in education and everything that fosters the creation of jobs in the long term.
You could say the same thing about the prison system.
On the other hand, (pure speculation), I wonder if temporarily reducing the effects of poverty can have a long term effect by increasing the ability of impoverished parents to help their children get a good education and reducing the need for parents to work two to three jobs to make ends meet using time that might be better spent being good influences on their children.
Also, 65% of peple are bad at typng.
Yeah I wasn't really commenting on the success or failure of Motorola as an organization. Was only saying that no matter how well or poorly Motorola was doing, they are owned by Google and therefore have a lot of contingency available in the event they lose money.
Which, upon further investigation, they seem to be doing.
Do they?
http://investor.google.com/ear... seems to suggest that they are losing money:
"Motorola Mobile Segment Operating Loss - Motorola Mobile segment operating loss in the fourth quarter of 2013 was $384 million, or -31% of Motorola Mobile segment revenues. This compares to segment operating loss of $152 million, or -10% of Motorola Mobile segment revenues in the fourth quarter of 2012."
Hmmm... did I misread something? Please enlighten me. As for posting anonymously, meh. I try not to get too hung up on stuff like Karma or whatever else people worry about.
Ah, I see what you're getting at. We also have carriers that use both CDMA and GSM here. Wikipedia suggests that the North American model of the Nexus 5 supports:
2G/3G/4G LTE
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Model LG-D820 (North America)
CDMA band class: 0/1/10
WCDMA bands: 1/2/4/5/6/8/19
LTE bands: 1/2/4/5/17/19/25/26/41
I would then guess that the Nexus 6 would do the same.
My understanding is that technologies are converging and the technical divide that used to separate two groups of carriers is disappearing.
If I can properly decode your sentence (which I suspect got fragmented because you tried to change the way you expressed it three to fours times before hitting submit), you are expressing a suspicion that it will only be available for AT&T and T-Mobile.
However, according to http://www.google.com/nexus/6/ one might be lead to believe it will be available on Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular also (based on pre-order logos). Not intimately familiar with the US cellular market, but I don't think exclusion of other carriers is based on fragmented spectrum.
It's amazing how companies can manage to survive when they are owned by Google.
RE: Seatbelts - a smaller Canadian airline says this in their safety video: 'Now that you've done it, we'll show you how you did it' recognizing that by the time you're watching the video you've probably already fastened your seat belt.
I find the complaints by the flight attendants a little insulting - I was just as able to ignore the safety video before as I am now.
See what you do to calculate the area of a square is you take the square of the length of one side. So 11 x 11, IIRC, is 121 square miles. 121 square miles * 640 = 77,440 windmills. So, you're right, it is a bit more than a square 11 miles on a side, but it's pretty close.
So a company released a beta version, and then a stable version that didn't add features to the beta? Wow. That really *is* news for nerds!
Nerds eat pancakes too!