I would rather a plane get to its destination on time than late since if affects other plans. Thus, if they are padding flight times and this means the plane gets to its destination at the scheduled padded time, I'm fine with it. My schedule isn't affected. Nothing worse than missing a connecting flight because of a delay.
I'm a little surprised its taken this long before this has happened. Math is ideal for computer computations. Music is math. Relationships between notes and chords is all math. Tempo is math. Meter is math. Change up the tempo and instruments and you go from trance to rock.
It's not just the horrendously designed system to detect porn that's the problem. Most of the features only work some of the time. (try the archive URL as in this example: "http://pick-a-name.tumblr.com/archive/".....it works for some accounts, not for others). That's just one example. If I cared enough, I could document at least a dozen more. I'm confident in that number and its probably even higher when accounting for differences in functionality between browsers, operating systems and apps.
I have this same problem with Google Home. "Hey google, what the temperature with windchill" gives me a wiki page about windchill (google recently fixed this but it's a good example). I tried asking google what would be my mortgage on 300k 30 year loan. Google could only reply it couldn't help me.
I think we should get rid of timezones, all together, and just stick with UTC. The problem is humans have been conditioned to think that the sun rises around 7am (yes it varies depending on the time of year etc). But there is no reason we can't change our thinking. For someone living in NYC, it means the sun rises at 12UTC.
But it would 12UTC around the world. It's mental thing. No one will like it. It would save such confusion about "what time is there".
If a day was shorter a billion years ago, does that mean a year was also shorter or does that mean there were more days in a year?
If the year is shorter then a 100,00 years (1 billion years ago) wouldn't be the same duration as a 100,000 years currently.....correct?
I am surprised. I wonder if software vendors will continue to support the Mac line. I mean it's not like their shitty mobile apps are what laptop and workstation users want. There's some real effort involved in pleasing the fruit's decision of the day.
10 years ago I would say yes. Especially in the audio and visual software application markets. Today those applications are just as performance capable on the PC. When I hear of someone working in those fields, I asked what platforms they use and I'm hearing more say PC whereas the answer used to be exclusively a "Mac". There's a shift going on. And I feel, this time, Apples decision will hurt them more than help.
What would happen if, say, during the commission of a crime, the suspects finger was lost (got ripped off... something gross)? If the cops recovered it, could they use it to attempt an unlock? If that's the case, we are one step from suspects "accidentally" losing a finger, conveniently.
Wrong. Our appeal was denied (!) and we were told we had to pay. We could go to their meeting in person to appeal again but I don't have the patience or time for that. It wasn't that expensive, so we paid the f-ing thing.
This is probably the reason they denied your appeal....they "knew" you would pay it rather than deal with the hassle. Its just another form of robbery imo.
The management myth that the more people you add to a problem, the quicker it gets solved. Pair programming, extreme programming. etc etc... I saw this in the 90s even if it wasn't called by a name then. 25+ years later in the industry and it hasn't died yet.
Check out Sovrin. https://sovrin.org/. They are working in this same space and have similar view points about decentralization. There's a number of white papers available on their site.
Agreed. I work in fintech. The biggest obstacle is their own processes. Most banks (mostly the large banks) take a year to "certify" (aka test in house) software. I am aware of many customers still using WinXP, Windows 7 on their platforms.
Replacing windows shell with another is not that hard. You could make notepad your shell (I'm not saying that useful--just noting you can) as its a matter of registry setting. The hard part of making a shell is writing and maintaining all of the functionality you get/want from a shell. And that's why I gave up on it.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding the affect of not allowing any injected code into the browser. The article didn't say what google would do to prevent users from malicious sites, as currently antivirus software does. Does this mean we are back to square one?
You're thinking of a COCOT (Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone), not all pay phones were COCOT's. Most payphones were owned by the carriers themselves and not by the property owner.
Maybe. I think it will still apply though. A carrier still has to pay for the telephone either by building it themselves or buying it from a mfg. They still have to support the operation of it. All of that incurs costs including labor. In the case of a carrier owned phone, they probably have to pay some form of rent to landowner where the phone is located. In the case of pay phones in public places like parks, they probably pay a fee back to the gov.
EA is convinced, like all the other game publishers, you are willing to shell out $70+ for the game, plus shell out even more cash for in game upgrades through the purchase of some kind of "in game currency" (credits, whatever). I don't know of any games I play these days that do not work off this model. It's enough to turn me away.
At $300 revenue per pay phone per year, do the owners of the pay phone make any money? Ultimately its the profitability of the pay phone service that will determine if the pay phone stays in use or not.
....and yet we want to trust the government with managing Net Neutrality. For me, it is these examples that make net neutrality scary as designed. Do not mistake my opposition to current net neutrality as sign off that corporations like Combat/XFinity (err I mean comcast) should be free to do what they want with the internet. As designed, I'm concerned government managing it will good until some excuse comes along. It needs to be run by neutral entities. Like domain registration was at one time in the past.
This is very typical. At one time, florida law allowed police to confiscate any cash on you (if you carried more than $300) during a traffic citation on the assumption it was drug money. It was on the person to prove the money was not acquired through illegal drug activities. Oklahoma also had similar laws at one point. I do not know if they are still applied. Tax fraud arrests was very similarly executed in the 80s, even to the point a senator wrote a book about armed IRS agents ransacking in the middle of the night, freezing every bank account the person in question had etc....again on them to prove they were not in violation of tax laws before getting their $ back. Round and round we go.
While I don't feel he should get this kind of compensation after such a major screwup, it makes no difference to those affected. Distributed among all of those affected, 63 cents will not fix any thing. Even if the $90M was distributed to 1% of those affected, it amounts to $63 and again wouldn't repair the harm done ($90M divided by 1.4M (thats ~1 percent of 143M). And taking away his severance or whatever its called, I highly doubt it will stop the next executive from thinking he/she can get away with it.
I suppose that can be a bit debatable which was first....the egg or the chicken. Look at snapchat. They made the app then it became popular. I have to agree with his comments about passivity. I find snapchat the most meaningless messaging app ever. Sorry folks. "Here's a pic of me with big eyes and librarian glasses". Wow. So impressed.
I don't want videos to autoplay (I am looking forward to chromes update to prevent videos from autoplaying). Making more videos over content is clearly a misguided understanding of viewers, at least for me. Typically I am listening to music when I browse. Nothing more annoying that some @#$@# video playing while I am listening to music.
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I would rather a plane get to its destination on time than late since if affects other plans. Thus, if they are padding flight times and this means the plane gets to its destination at the scheduled padded time, I'm fine with it. My schedule isn't affected. Nothing worse than missing a connecting flight because of a delay.
This is completely contrarian to marketwatch report
Job numbers are so hard to follow because there's different ways of counting them, reporting them etc.
I'm a little surprised its taken this long before this has happened. Math is ideal for computer computations. Music is math. Relationships between notes and chords is all math. Tempo is math. Meter is math. Change up the tempo and instruments and you go from trance to rock.
It's not just the horrendously designed system to detect porn that's the problem. Most of the features only work some of the time. (try the archive URL as in this example: "http://pick-a-name.tumblr.com/archive/" .....it works for some accounts, not for others). That's just one example. If I cared enough, I could document at least a dozen more. I'm confident in that number and its probably even higher when accounting for differences in functionality between browsers, operating systems and apps.
I have this same problem with Google Home. "Hey google, what the temperature with windchill" gives me a wiki page about windchill (google recently fixed this but it's a good example). I tried asking google what would be my mortgage on 300k 30 year loan. Google could only reply it couldn't help me.
Probably the most needed and useful book for programming.
I think we should get rid of timezones, all together, and just stick with UTC. The problem is humans have been conditioned to think that the sun rises around 7am (yes it varies depending on the time of year etc). But there is no reason we can't change our thinking. For someone living in NYC, it means the sun rises at 12UTC. But it would 12UTC around the world. It's mental thing. No one will like it. It would save such confusion about "what time is there".
If a day was shorter a billion years ago, does that mean a year was also shorter or does that mean there were more days in a year?
If the year is shorter then a 100,00 years (1 billion years ago) wouldn't be the same duration as a 100,000 years currently.....correct?
I am surprised. I wonder if software vendors will continue to support the Mac line. I mean it's not like their shitty mobile apps are what laptop and workstation users want. There's some real effort involved in pleasing the fruit's decision of the day.
10 years ago I would say yes. Especially in the audio and visual software application markets. Today those applications are just as performance capable on the PC. When I hear of someone working in those fields, I asked what platforms they use and I'm hearing more say PC whereas the answer used to be exclusively a "Mac". There's a shift going on. And I feel, this time, Apples decision will hurt them more than help.
What would happen if, say, during the commission of a crime, the suspects finger was lost (got ripped off ... something gross)? If the cops recovered it, could they use it to attempt an unlock? If that's the case, we are one step from suspects "accidentally" losing a finger, conveniently.
Wrong. Our appeal was denied (!) and we were told we had to pay. We could go to their meeting in person to appeal again but I don't have the patience or time for that. It wasn't that expensive, so we paid the f-ing thing.
This is probably the reason they denied your appeal....they "knew" you would pay it rather than deal with the hassle. Its just another form of robbery imo.
The management myth that the more people you add to a problem, the quicker it gets solved. Pair programming, extreme programming. etc etc... I saw this in the 90s even if it wasn't called by a name then. 25+ years later in the industry and it hasn't died yet.
Check out Sovrin. https://sovrin.org/. They are working in this same space and have similar view points about decentralization. There's a number of white papers available on their site.
Agreed. I work in fintech. The biggest obstacle is their own processes. Most banks (mostly the large banks) take a year to "certify" (aka test in house) software. I am aware of many customers still using WinXP, Windows 7 on their platforms.
Replacing windows shell with another is not that hard. You could make notepad your shell (I'm not saying that useful--just noting you can) as its a matter of registry setting. The hard part of making a shell is writing and maintaining all of the functionality you get/want from a shell. And that's why I gave up on it.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding the affect of not allowing any injected code into the browser. The article didn't say what google would do to prevent users from malicious sites, as currently antivirus software does. Does this mean we are back to square one?
You're thinking of a COCOT (Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone), not all pay phones were COCOT's. Most payphones were owned by the carriers themselves and not by the property owner.
Maybe. I think it will still apply though. A carrier still has to pay for the telephone either by building it themselves or buying it from a mfg. They still have to support the operation of it. All of that incurs costs including labor. In the case of a carrier owned phone, they probably have to pay some form of rent to landowner where the phone is located. In the case of pay phones in public places like parks, they probably pay a fee back to the gov.
EA is convinced, like all the other game publishers, you are willing to shell out $70+ for the game, plus shell out even more cash for in game upgrades through the purchase of some kind of "in game currency" (credits, whatever). I don't know of any games I play these days that do not work off this model. It's enough to turn me away.
At $300 revenue per pay phone per year, do the owners of the pay phone make any money? Ultimately its the profitability of the pay phone service that will determine if the pay phone stays in use or not.
....and yet we want to trust the government with managing Net Neutrality. For me, it is these examples that make net neutrality scary as designed. Do not mistake my opposition to current net neutrality as sign off that corporations like Combat/XFinity (err I mean comcast) should be free to do what they want with the internet. As designed, I'm concerned government managing it will good until some excuse comes along. It needs to be run by neutral entities. Like domain registration was at one time in the past.
This is very typical. At one time, florida law allowed police to confiscate any cash on you (if you carried more than $300) during a traffic citation on the assumption it was drug money. It was on the person to prove the money was not acquired through illegal drug activities. Oklahoma also had similar laws at one point. I do not know if they are still applied. Tax fraud arrests was very similarly executed in the 80s, even to the point a senator wrote a book about armed IRS agents ransacking in the middle of the night, freezing every bank account the person in question had etc....again on them to prove they were not in violation of tax laws before getting their $ back. Round and round we go.
Maybe :)
But that is not what I was saying.
While I don't feel he should get this kind of compensation after such a major screwup, it makes no difference to those affected. Distributed among all of those affected, 63 cents will not fix any thing. Even if the $90M was distributed to 1% of those affected, it amounts to $63 and again wouldn't repair the harm done ($90M divided by 1.4M (thats ~1 percent of 143M). And taking away his severance or whatever its called, I highly doubt it will stop the next executive from thinking he/she can get away with it.
I suppose that can be a bit debatable which was first....the egg or the chicken. Look at snapchat. They made the app then it became popular. I have to agree with his comments about passivity. I find snapchat the most meaningless messaging app ever. Sorry folks. "Here's a pic of me with big eyes and librarian glasses". Wow. So impressed.
I don't want videos to autoplay (I am looking forward to chromes update to prevent videos from autoplaying). Making more videos over content is clearly a misguided understanding of viewers, at least for me. Typically I am listening to music when I browse. Nothing more annoying that some @#$@# video playing while I am listening to music.