I have two coworkers that worked at a startup that was bought by Apple. One quit 8 weeks after the purchase, the other lasted 7 months. They said the company is just like the old 1984 commercial. "A garden of pure ideology."
That does not bode well for a company that has to operate in a free market. And consumer electronics is about as free a market as exists in today's global economy.
Fuck you! The ownership of this site is absolutely relevant and you should be ashamed to promote that shitstain of a human being. Go fucking mod a subreddit or 4chan of some other bullshit "community." I've been on/. since 1998. Except for my dice hiatus, I've visited this site on a daily basis for nearly 20 years. I used to set it as the homepage of every machine I touched (which stopped the day taco left). Now it's a fucking wasteland because of people like you.
Tech industry leaders, i.e. Intelligent and moral scientists/engineers/educators/doctors/lawyers, WHOSE COMMENTS ARE THE PRIMARY REASON TO USE THIS WEBSITE, have been getting driven away in droves the last decade by the litany of horrible editors. You and your employer are just the latest in a long line of shitheels that have tried to monetize this community. Every one of you eroding it further, poisoning the well a little more. And so the quality of the comments has steadily declined. Honestly, this is the worst click bait post I've ever seen, even shittier than the blatant dice ads a few years ago.
If anyone is wondering,/. is currently owned by BizX LLC. An ad company located in downtown San Diego. I know an engineer who worked there, he said it's a shit show. Their whole business model is based on acquiring popular websites and throwing piles ads at existing user bases. 100% of Company revenue comes from Google Ads.
/. might be a lost cause at this point. I left for over a year after all the Dice ads, think it's time for another hiatus.
I don't think the Hero 4 line had any of the problems I had, but obviously they had some QA misses.
The new cameras are probably OK. My problem isn't so much with the quality of GoPro products as with how they handled the failures I encountered. Instead of admitting to it and helping customers find a solution, they did their damndest to actively sweep it under the rug. The heat from the Hero3 failures was so bad that the CEO was forced to respond at one point. It was a very frustrating thing to read. Instead of addressing the actual problem (it WAS a hardware problem, not software!), he talked about how GoPro users are a tribe, and we need to be patient with customer service, and of course keep buying gopro products because us shills (ahem, i mean customers) are such amazing people with amazing lives to record and share.
Yes. My best friend worked with the guy for years, then the dude went to work at GoPro. My buddy asked him because I was bitching so much about the corruption issues. All of us are software engineers.
The upscaling is pretty impressive. A good 4k upscaler looks significantly better on the same 1080 source. That said, 1080p give a pretty sharp picture in it's won right. I don't think 4k is very noticeable in typical size family room (i.e. viewing from 10-14 ft away) unless you have a 75" or larger TV. Similarly, if you have 42" or smaller TV 720p is probably OK unless you are sitting 6 ft away from it.
I had major issues with the GoPro 3 series when they were released. It was a latent failure that existed in the the silver/white series which had a slower flash memory controller than the black series. I had several microSD cards get corrupted, and tons of destroyed video data from three different cameras (all "silver" models manufactured during first 6 months of the product release).
The company never took responsibility. Never admitted to the hardware problem (friend of a friend works at GoPro and later confirmed they had a flash memory controller problem was fixed with a hardware rev). Support was non-existent. I wasted probably 40 hours of my life messing with firmware, testing, reaching out to gopro, and finally returning the cameras. Luckily I bought my second one at Best Buy (first was from Amazon) so they let me return that failed unit and then it's replacement failure for store credit (it had been months since I'd purchased the first one).
They were also actively gaming the Amazon reviews. I had my review removed twice.
Long story short, I vowed to never buy another gopro product.
It is common for rural areas to be disconnected form the grid and many small communities in Central/South America run off generators. I stayed at a surf/yoga camp in 2011 that was run off candles and generators, even though a place to tie into the grid was only a couple miles away.
When I ruminated about how a candle is probably a worse polluter than a 60W light bulb powered by a coal power plant, the crunchy ex-pat owner got pretty upset with me. I goolged it when we got home and sure enough, candles horrible for air pollution compared to light bulbs.
I suggest you and the UN read up on internet history before making demands about who should control it. Giving up control to a conglomerate made up of nations that have actively censored the web in their countries in the past seems like a far worse option that keeping things the way they are now.
Just the other day I was talking with an older German lady at a community council meeting. We were discussing about all the global problems we are having right now and she was waxxing poetic about Chinese an Russian hacking activities on the web. I reassured her that as long as DNS is under US government control, we holds the keys as far as global internet abuse and censorship. Welp I guess that's over.
My #1 use for twitter is to respond to local politicians in my city. I could see someone claiming I'm a troll because of the general negativity. Would twitter decide to ban me for my comments? If so, I'd definitely stop using the application. Not that I give twtr with any revenue anyway.
I assume this is like other state taxes (I'm in CA) where consumers are supposed to self-report how much money they spent on the taxable goods every April.
If that is the case, I don't see the state of PA being able to recoup much of that $1.3 billion budget shortfall.
Apple's website does not list the iphone 5 as being for sale.
Apple hasn't sold DRM'd music since 2008.
Pretty sure it was 2009, and the only reason Apple dropped fariplay was because it made financial sense due to their dominant market position and the public's rising awareness of how shitty DRM is (especially Apple's implementation of it).
I.e. I think two of your points are moot/wrong and wonder what else in your argument is convoluted.
No kidding. I read a couple stories and they made my head hurt.
"Jacob invited me into the bathtub and I didn't get in but it made me uncorftable even though I was in the bathroom with him, maybe it was because I was so hungover."
"Jacob shamed me in public once."
The sad thing is that these are supposedly the people at the front lines now, fighting against censorship. No wonder we're losing.
Seems to me that Valve has an opportunity here if they can get good buy in from Intel. Why not evolve Steam OS to have solid hardware support on x86? Give it a functional browser, SMB integration, some media players. I know I'd be onboard for that.
I'm an old millenial (we used to be called gen Y), but technically still a millenial.
The biggest flaw I see in my cohorts is that they try to take on the entire world's problems and blame their personal issues on the rest of the world. The internet makes us so connected that people instantly try to relate themselves into movements and jump to conclusions about a complex problems that really have no bearing on them whatsoever. I think Han Solo said it best... Delusions of grandeur. And when it comes to reflection on where they are today, where they want to be in the future, and the inevitable disappointment; the blame game starts, It might be with their parents, or the school/teachers. or the banks, or the government, etc. There is always some institution to blame for their shitty low income life. It's never their own fault.
Student loan debt is a problem. Maybe you should have chosen a different degree or a less expensive university, as the number of jobs for people with liberal arts degrees doesn't match up the the number of people graduating each year. Similarly, banks charge high fees. But you can always put your money in a credit union.
These are the kind of things I deal with too, but I have found that I deal a lot better with them (i.e. they get resolved sooner) once I take the onus upon myself, instead of blaming everyone from my grandparents to Obama for my lot in life. There was a graduation speech a couple years back where the speaker talked about one subject... "You are not special." I think more people aged 18-34 should listen to that speech and take the lesson to heart before trying to blame their problems on institutions.
Yeah I think it was worth about double what I paid for it. It had been sitting for ten years under and ez-up canopy out in a field. The tires were rotted, drivers side window and steering wheel were missing, It's got a couple minor dents and the pan is rusted through under the battery but otherwise it's in pretty good shape. I replaced the coil, rebuilt the carb, changed the oil, plugs/wires, and all the fuel lines. Got the window and steering wheel replaced then put some gas in it and started right up...
The issue I'm having now is that I can't get the rear axle nuts off to do the brakes. They were installed with 207 ft/pd of force and have 10+ years of rust built up. Every time I hit em with the breaker bar that car acts like it's going to rock off the jack stands. I'm going to take it to a mechanic soon to see if they can get them off on a hydraulic lift. The rear brakes are so far out of whack that the e brake won't engage and the adjusters are rusted in place...
1967 VW Beetle. It's in decent shape, could be a daily driver but I have the Haggerty classic car insurance that only allows for 500 miles/year so it doesn't get driven much (and it's been on jack stands the last 6 months).
It might worth more than that, I paid $1500 ~3 years ago and put about $1500 into it since then.
Car obsessed country... No kidding. I'm a car guy and I live in California. My wife has a good job (as do I), and combined we are top 3% median household income or something...
We have 4 vehicles (a $3k classic car, a $6k truck, a $4k suv, and a $2k motorcycle), combined resale value of all our vehicles combined is about $15,000. I work with several car guys that manage their stable of vehicles very similarly to me (one guy has a new leaf because he actually make money on owning it due to electricity rates and his huge power bill).
We have friends that make 30% of the income we have that drive around in $35,000 cars; making $500/month payments when you include insurance. And they talk about their ridiculous cars like they are a necessary burden. It's absolutely insane. The silver lining is that stupid people like that are the reason that used cars are so cheap and plentiful.
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It's 95 in my room right now so...
I have two coworkers that worked at a startup that was bought by Apple. One quit 8 weeks after the purchase, the other lasted 7 months. They said the company is just like the old 1984 commercial. "A garden of pure ideology."
That does not bode well for a company that has to operate in a free market. And consumer electronics is about as free a market as exists in today's global economy.
Fuck you! The ownership of this site is absolutely relevant and you should be ashamed to promote that shitstain of a human being. Go fucking mod a subreddit or 4chan of some other bullshit "community." I've been on /. since 1998. Except for my dice hiatus, I've visited this site on a daily basis for nearly 20 years. I used to set it as the homepage of every machine I touched (which stopped the day taco left). Now it's a fucking wasteland because of people like you.
Tech industry leaders, i.e. Intelligent and moral scientists/engineers/educators/doctors/lawyers, WHOSE COMMENTS ARE THE PRIMARY REASON TO USE THIS WEBSITE, have been getting driven away in droves the last decade by the litany of horrible editors. You and your employer are just the latest in a long line of shitheels that have tried to monetize this community. Every one of you eroding it further, poisoning the well a little more. And so the quality of the comments has steadily declined. Honestly, this is the worst click bait post I've ever seen, even shittier than the blatant dice ads a few years ago.
You are a fucking shill man. You add nothing.
-1 off topic... Because this shitpost has nothing to do with /. editors/ownership right? pfft. I think I'm right on topic.
If anyone is wondering, /. is currently owned by BizX LLC. An ad company located in downtown San Diego. I know an engineer who worked there, he said it's a shit show. Their whole business model is based on acquiring popular websites and throwing piles ads at existing user bases. 100% of Company revenue comes from Google Ads.
/. might be a lost cause at this point. I left for over a year after all the Dice ads, think it's time for another hiatus.
I don't think the Hero 4 line had any of the problems I had, but obviously they had some QA misses.
The new cameras are probably OK. My problem isn't so much with the quality of GoPro products as with how they handled the failures I encountered. Instead of admitting to it and helping customers find a solution, they did their damndest to actively sweep it under the rug. The heat from the Hero3 failures was so bad that the CEO was forced to respond at one point. It was a very frustrating thing to read. Instead of addressing the actual problem (it WAS a hardware problem, not software!), he talked about how GoPro users are a tribe, and we need to be patient with customer service, and of course keep buying gopro products because us shills (ahem, i mean customers) are such amazing people with amazing lives to record and share.
I found the letter: http://goprouser.freeforums.or...
Yes. My best friend worked with the guy for years, then the dude went to work at GoPro. My buddy asked him because I was bitching so much about the corruption issues. All of us are software engineers.
The upscaling is pretty impressive. A good 4k upscaler looks significantly better on the same 1080 source. That said, 1080p give a pretty sharp picture in it's won right. I don't think 4k is very noticeable in typical size family room (i.e. viewing from 10-14 ft away) unless you have a 75" or larger TV. Similarly, if you have 42" or smaller TV 720p is probably OK unless you are sitting 6 ft away from it.
I had major issues with the GoPro 3 series when they were released. It was a latent failure that existed in the the silver/white series which had a slower flash memory controller than the black series. I had several microSD cards get corrupted, and tons of destroyed video data from three different cameras (all "silver" models manufactured during first 6 months of the product release).
The company never took responsibility. Never admitted to the hardware problem (friend of a friend works at GoPro and later confirmed they had a flash memory controller problem was fixed with a hardware rev). Support was non-existent. I wasted probably 40 hours of my life messing with firmware, testing, reaching out to gopro, and finally returning the cameras. Luckily I bought my second one at Best Buy (first was from Amazon) so they let me return that failed unit and then it's replacement failure for store credit (it had been months since I'd purchased the first one).
They were also actively gaming the Amazon reviews. I had my review removed twice.
Long story short, I vowed to never buy another gopro product.
It is common for rural areas to be disconnected form the grid and many small communities in Central/South America run off generators. I stayed at a surf/yoga camp in 2011 that was run off candles and generators, even though a place to tie into the grid was only a couple miles away.
When I ruminated about how a candle is probably a worse polluter than a 60W light bulb powered by a coal power plant, the crunchy ex-pat owner got pretty upset with me. I goolged it when we got home and sure enough, candles horrible for air pollution compared to light bulbs.
It's complete garbage from some kind of bullshit mobile marketing company: http://download.blancco.com/do...
if i had up votes, you would get them.
I suggest you and the UN read up on internet history before making demands about who should control it. Giving up control to a conglomerate made up of nations that have actively censored the web in their countries in the past seems like a far worse option that keeping things the way they are now.
Just the other day I was talking with an older German lady at a community council meeting. We were discussing about all the global problems we are having right now and she was waxxing poetic about Chinese an Russian hacking activities on the web. I reassured her that as long as DNS is under US government control, we holds the keys as far as global internet abuse and censorship. Welp I guess that's over.
Seriously, we should not have given this up.
My #1 use for twitter is to respond to local politicians in my city. I could see someone claiming I'm a troll because of the general negativity. Would twitter decide to ban me for my comments? If so, I'd definitely stop using the application. Not that I give twtr with any revenue anyway.
with his wife.
I assume this is like other state taxes (I'm in CA) where consumers are supposed to self-report how much money they spent on the taxable goods every April.
If that is the case, I don't see the state of PA being able to recoup much of that $1.3 billion budget shortfall.
Apple has been selling basically the same form factor -- the iPhone 5 for over four years.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Apple's website does not list the iphone 5 as being for sale.
Apple hasn't sold DRM'd music since 2008.
Pretty sure it was 2009, and the only reason Apple dropped fariplay was because it made financial sense due to their dominant market position and the public's rising awareness of how shitty DRM is (especially Apple's implementation of it).
I.e. I think two of your points are moot/wrong and wonder what else in your argument is convoluted.
No kidding. I read a couple stories and they made my head hurt.
"Jacob invited me into the bathtub and I didn't get in but it made me uncorftable even though I was in the bathroom with him, maybe it was because I was so hungover."
"Jacob shamed me in public once."
The sad thing is that these are supposedly the people at the front lines now, fighting against censorship. No wonder we're losing.
Seems to me that Valve has an opportunity here if they can get good buy in from Intel. Why not evolve Steam OS to have solid hardware support on x86? Give it a functional browser, SMB integration, some media players. I know I'd be onboard for that.
I'm an old millenial (we used to be called gen Y), but technically still a millenial.
The biggest flaw I see in my cohorts is that they try to take on the entire world's problems and blame their personal issues on the rest of the world. The internet makes us so connected that people instantly try to relate themselves into movements and jump to conclusions about a complex problems that really have no bearing on them whatsoever. I think Han Solo said it best... Delusions of grandeur. And when it comes to reflection on where they are today, where they want to be in the future, and the inevitable disappointment; the blame game starts, It might be with their parents, or the school/teachers. or the banks, or the government, etc. There is always some institution to blame for their shitty low income life. It's never their own fault.
Student loan debt is a problem. Maybe you should have chosen a different degree or a less expensive university, as the number of jobs for people with liberal arts degrees doesn't match up the the number of people graduating each year. Similarly, banks charge high fees. But you can always put your money in a credit union.
These are the kind of things I deal with too, but I have found that I deal a lot better with them (i.e. they get resolved sooner) once I take the onus upon myself, instead of blaming everyone from my grandparents to Obama for my lot in life. There was a graduation speech a couple years back where the speaker talked about one subject... "You are not special." I think more people aged 18-34 should listen to that speech and take the lesson to heart before trying to blame their problems on institutions.
Yeah I think it was worth about double what I paid for it. It had been sitting for ten years under and ez-up canopy out in a field. The tires were rotted, drivers side window and steering wheel were missing, It's got a couple minor dents and the pan is rusted through under the battery but otherwise it's in pretty good shape. I replaced the coil, rebuilt the carb, changed the oil, plugs/wires, and all the fuel lines. Got the window and steering wheel replaced then put some gas in it and started right up...
The issue I'm having now is that I can't get the rear axle nuts off to do the brakes. They were installed with 207 ft/pd of force and have 10+ years of rust built up. Every time I hit em with the breaker bar that car acts like it's going to rock off the jack stands. I'm going to take it to a mechanic soon to see if they can get them off on a hydraulic lift. The rear brakes are so far out of whack that the e brake won't engage and the adjusters are rusted in place...
1967 VW Beetle. It's in decent shape, could be a daily driver but I have the Haggerty classic car insurance that only allows for 500 miles/year so it doesn't get driven much (and it's been on jack stands the last 6 months). It might worth more than that, I paid $1500 ~3 years ago and put about $1500 into it since then.
Car obsessed country... No kidding. I'm a car guy and I live in California. My wife has a good job (as do I), and combined we are top 3% median household income or something...
We have 4 vehicles (a $3k classic car, a $6k truck, a $4k suv, and a $2k motorcycle), combined resale value of all our vehicles combined is about $15,000. I work with several car guys that manage their stable of vehicles very similarly to me (one guy has a new leaf because he actually make money on owning it due to electricity rates and his huge power bill).
We have friends that make 30% of the income we have that drive around in $35,000 cars; making $500/month payments when you include insurance. And they talk about their ridiculous cars like they are a necessary burden. It's absolutely insane. The silver lining is that stupid people like that are the reason that used cars are so cheap and plentiful.
I switched from 2xWDTV to 2xFireTV + Kodi about a year ago for our two TVs. It's a huge upgrade dude. I highly recommend it.