Questions: A. Do have the authority to make the decision? B. Are you tasked with giving him your "expert opinion" on the matter? C. Are you tasked to actually educate him enough about a technical decision that he has no technical skills to currently evaluate an answer?
Answers: A. Evaluate on the specs you know are important on the job, give him a specific brand, and say "trust me, buy these" B. Evaluate on the specs you know are important on the job, give him a specific brand, and say "trust me, buy these" C. You're boned.
I'll tell you exactly why: There is a strong sense of condescension behind political correctness and "tolerance".
I think the whole concept distills down to "Oh, we civilized people should be tolerant of others, but these $OTHER_FOLK are less civilized/human and therefore we can't expect them to understand tolerance."
It's a back-handed, dehumanizing degrading of those they claim to "tolerate", while they smugly hide behind politically correct terminology.
Either that, or a pure self-hatred of progress and its "costs", thus deferring to anybody seen as more primitive to literally take over with their more-in-tune-with-the-universe ways. Which again is still a degrading insult in how they relatively view their target of "tolerance".
Your statements offend my beliefs and sensibilities about what life is and the freedoms that are innate to every individual. You are poking at the sensibilities of many people with your own stick with comments exactly like you've stated here.
There is no way that differences in belief can be resolved, or even stated, in a non-offensive way, especially when those beliefs are held as absolute. Offensiveness is protected speech in civilized countries, and is such for very good reason. If offense of one party is prosecuted, then offense to ANY (no matter how insignificant, as many clearly regard the Muslim offense as insignificant) must be prosecuted, if there is to be rule of law. There is no way that a society like that can function.
They're cheap enough to keep migrating to newer drives and use your old drives for backup until they die. I suspect that reliability would increase the cost to consumer to a far greater extent, and would not trickle down in price as capacity increases have done so far.
While I'm sure you meant that in jest, with the current popularity of external drives, increasing physical form factor actually could be an option in the market.
No, the current through the transistor is a binary representation of a value, which can be run through arbitrary programs on the same general hardware. This is just using analog resonances to create a dedicated mechanical "FFT device" of actual waveforms, not performing analyses on numeric data.
To use a Car Analogy (TM), this is like saying I've invented a better driving simulation algorithm than Gran Turismo/Forza/rFactor/etc by building & driving a physical car.
Most people without jailbroken phones won't bother with your crappy app.
Most people who jailbroke purely for piracy are eager to try anything they can get working on it. (Those who jailbroke for any other purposes not included)
I could see a 1:4 ratio between the two groups, depending on the app.
I want to see a LOT of information at the same time without having to tab around and flip back and forth between viewing overlapping windows because my display is too limited to see everything at once. I honestly don't care about DPI (I just lean in when I need to see something smaller), but I care heavily about pixel count, otherwise known as "screen real estate". Inches are not a measure of usable screen real estate.
Sure, I'm a programmer and want to see lots of source code, documentation, wiki pages, etc, all at once, but even "normal" computer users have their email windows, IMs, facebook, etc, open while surfing the web or do other "normal" things. Keeping a glancing eye over to the other stuff is far easier than again having to tab around to everything.
Underpowered in which way? I'd expect ARM not to have the floating-point horsepower of Intel low-power CPUs, but this is datacenter, not HPC vector computation. I don't know enough about Atom et al to compare the rest of the feature set.
These automatic content detectors CANNOT evaluate whether or not the content is used under Fair Use. AFAICT, they have no copyright-based justification for removal of these videos. If this is in response to anything DMCA-related, the video submitters can strike penalties against YouTube or the complaint party if this is a bogus takedown of protected content, right?
Incidentally, I had no idea what the name of the parodied move was until this/. story. I've wanted to check it out.
Remember when Greece outlawed "gaming" devices, so everybody with a built-in Tetris clone in their cellphone was automatically a criminal smuggling illegal goods? This is betting, wagering, or gambling, which is a subset of gaming in general.
C) The fact that the posters are not Canadian citizens is immaterial. You break the law in Canada be it fraud or in this case Hate Crimes you are still subject to the repercussions.
Yes, I understand all that. It's also the exact same thing I'm saying is completely unutilized here and many times in general, yet still carries the downsides of the material used to touch the display.
Plus, with a resistive screen, if you did the ctrl-alt-del experiment, first it would see a small point centered around ctrl, then a large point centered between ctrl and alt, then a larger point centered around all 3. This is how pinch/zoom is possible on simple stylus-capable touch interfaces.
The only multitouch demonstration on any of the videos was rotating the playing cards (to little effect anyway).
Why is "multitouch" specifically such a buzzword, and not just "touch" on its own? Multitouch has so far had weird implications on what sort of appendage/stylus you can use on the surface, whereas single touch does not. Plus, you can effectively do pinch/zoom on a typically single-touch panel, just not rotations.
Long answer: They sort of used to be, but nowadays the lifecycles and capacities are large enough such that you could keep the SSD's interface saturated with writes for 5-10 years straight before you start to encroach on their conservatively rated write cycle life expectancy.
All the new desktops still have line-in jacks, as far as I've seen. If you're specifically looking at a portable platform intended to reduce size & weight, then of course they're going to be dropping jacks that are rarely used in a portable situation. However, line-in is still all over the place, and is great for consolidating media devices into 1 nice display & audio setup based around a non-portable computer, as well as the platform shifting purposes you're describing. I don't think the jack is going anywhere in the reasonable future.
Different cultures have different ages where they need to become self-sufficient, or become responsible to help out with the family income. This whole 18 or 21 year old "western" ideal of adulthood is destructive to our own development in many ways, and should not be forced onto other countries with drastically different ways that the people grow up.
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Questions:
A. Do have the authority to make the decision?
B. Are you tasked with giving him your "expert opinion" on the matter?
C. Are you tasked to actually educate him enough about a technical decision that he has no technical skills to currently evaluate an answer?
Answers:
A. Evaluate on the specs you know are important on the job, give him a specific brand, and say "trust me, buy these"
B. Evaluate on the specs you know are important on the job, give him a specific brand, and say "trust me, buy these"
C. You're boned.
Just like the war on drugs, war on terror, censorship...
I'll tell you exactly why: There is a strong sense of condescension behind political correctness and "tolerance".
I think the whole concept distills down to "Oh, we civilized people should be tolerant of others, but these $OTHER_FOLK are less civilized/human and therefore we can't expect them to understand tolerance."
It's a back-handed, dehumanizing degrading of those they claim to "tolerate", while they smugly hide behind politically correct terminology.
Either that, or a pure self-hatred of progress and its "costs", thus deferring to anybody seen as more primitive to literally take over with their more-in-tune-with-the-universe ways. Which again is still a degrading insult in how they relatively view their target of "tolerance".
Your statements offend my beliefs and sensibilities about what life is and the freedoms that are innate to every individual. You are poking at the sensibilities of many people with your own stick with comments exactly like you've stated here.
There is no way that differences in belief can be resolved, or even stated, in a non-offensive way, especially when those beliefs are held as absolute. Offensiveness is protected speech in civilized countries, and is such for very good reason. If offense of one party is prosecuted, then offense to ANY (no matter how insignificant, as many clearly regard the Muslim offense as insignificant) must be prosecuted, if there is to be rule of law. There is no way that a society like that can function.
They're cheap enough to keep migrating to newer drives and use your old drives for backup until they die. I suspect that reliability would increase the cost to consumer to a far greater extent, and would not trickle down in price as capacity increases have done so far.
While I'm sure you meant that in jest, with the current popularity of external drives, increasing physical form factor actually could be an option in the market.
No, the current through the transistor is a binary representation of a value, which can be run through arbitrary programs on the same general hardware. This is just using analog resonances to create a dedicated mechanical "FFT device" of actual waveforms, not performing analyses on numeric data.
To use a Car Analogy (TM), this is like saying I've invented a better driving simulation algorithm than Gran Turismo/Forza/rFactor/etc by building & driving a physical car.
Most people without jailbroken phones won't bother with your crappy app.
Most people who jailbroke purely for piracy are eager to try anything they can get working on it. (Those who jailbroke for any other purposes not included)
I could see a 1:4 ratio between the two groups, depending on the app.
How many people who are running it for just 4 or 5 hours a single time are running a legitimate copy?
Could these numbers point to pirates that wouldn't have bought your game anyway?
If the media has taught me anything, it's that every single substance, whether artificial or naturally occurring, both causes and cures cancer.
...Galvatron from Transformers: The Movie (the real one ;-) )
"This is bad comedy!"
I want to see a LOT of information at the same time without having to tab around and flip back and forth between viewing overlapping windows because my display is too limited to see everything at once. I honestly don't care about DPI (I just lean in when I need to see something smaller), but I care heavily about pixel count, otherwise known as "screen real estate". Inches are not a measure of usable screen real estate.
Sure, I'm a programmer and want to see lots of source code, documentation, wiki pages, etc, all at once, but even "normal" computer users have their email windows, IMs, facebook, etc, open while surfing the web or do other "normal" things. Keeping a glancing eye over to the other stuff is far easier than again having to tab around to everything.
Underpowered in which way? I'd expect ARM not to have the floating-point horsepower of Intel low-power CPUs, but this is datacenter, not HPC vector computation. I don't know enough about Atom et al to compare the rest of the feature set.
These automatic content detectors CANNOT evaluate whether or not the content is used under Fair Use. AFAICT, they have no copyright-based justification for removal of these videos. If this is in response to anything DMCA-related, the video submitters can strike penalties against YouTube or the complaint party if this is a bogus takedown of protected content, right?
Incidentally, I had no idea what the name of the parodied move was until this /. story. I've wanted to check it out.
Remember when Greece outlawed "gaming" devices, so everybody with a built-in Tetris clone in their cellphone was automatically a criminal smuggling illegal goods? This is betting, wagering, or gambling, which is a subset of gaming in general.
C) The fact that the posters are not Canadian citizens is immaterial. You break the law in Canada be it fraud or in this case Hate Crimes you are still subject to the repercussions.
Was the crime actually committed in Canada?
While this is a good act, Do good != do no evil. The former is existential while the latter is universal.
Your children have virtually unlimited time to break it.
You will not win.
Now 48 CPUs can block on cache misses!
fixed. Memory is the new disk.
No, it's just swamp gas. Nothing to see here, carry on.
Yes, I understand all that. It's also the exact same thing I'm saying is completely unutilized here and many times in general, yet still carries the downsides of the material used to touch the display.
Plus, with a resistive screen, if you did the ctrl-alt-del experiment, first it would see a small point centered around ctrl, then a large point centered between ctrl and alt, then a larger point centered around all 3. This is how pinch/zoom is possible on simple stylus-capable touch interfaces.
The only multitouch demonstration on any of the videos was rotating the playing cards (to little effect anyway).
Why is "multitouch" specifically such a buzzword, and not just "touch" on its own? Multitouch has so far had weird implications on what sort of appendage/stylus you can use on the surface, whereas single touch does not. Plus, you can effectively do pinch/zoom on a typically single-touch panel, just not rotations.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: They sort of used to be, but nowadays the lifecycles and capacities are large enough such that you could keep the SSD's interface saturated with writes for 5-10 years straight before you start to encroach on their conservatively rated write cycle life expectancy.
All the new desktops still have line-in jacks, as far as I've seen. If you're specifically looking at a portable platform intended to reduce size & weight, then of course they're going to be dropping jacks that are rarely used in a portable situation. However, line-in is still all over the place, and is great for consolidating media devices into 1 nice display & audio setup based around a non-portable computer, as well as the platform shifting purposes you're describing. I don't think the jack is going anywhere in the reasonable future.
Different cultures have different ages where they need to become self-sufficient, or become responsible to help out with the family income. This whole 18 or 21 year old "western" ideal of adulthood is destructive to our own development in many ways, and should not be forced onto other countries with drastically different ways that the people grow up.