They were way cheaper than anyone else offering an unlimited plan, and AFAIK they were the only one offering syncing between multiple computers that was unlimited (Cabronite has unlimited but it is one computer cloud I think, onedrive is many to many). Anyways, I can see how a more useful syncing for half the price would attract all the hoarders out there.
Also, if my usage patterns are any indication: I download and then delete things because I don't want to run out of disk space. If I had infinite storage I might just keep an "already watched" folder instead. I think the very fact that their is no limit might have encouraged people's storage "needs" to grow.
I've had to kill and restart the onedrive service several times since upgrading to windows 10. It just doesn't sync reliably anymore. I have win 8.1 at work I use one drive to sync my podcasts. I delete several podcasts as I listen to them and hours later my home computer still has those files around. Only fix is to reboot or exit and re-open the one drive app. Windows 10 it just worked.
I agree they've given us a lesser product in windows 10 and now they want to reverse the trend and double to cost of a GB of storage too. Nice.
Muffin. Just because something is "easy" to do doesn't mean you have to do it. It would be easy for a Ford dealership to have some Toyota's on their lot. It doesn't mean they have to. I don't have to make it easy for competitors to win in the market. I can't bribe others to not sell their stuff or else but if I own the store, run the servers, handle the manufacturing contracts, license the content, host the content on my servers and stream it to my customers why the hell do I have to offer my infrastructure to the other guy? What is Google/Apple lacking in a marketing budget? Do they lack web traffic to their sites? Do they not also have army of lawyers to negotiate contracts with? Let the competition live or die by the quality of their offering. Don't make everyone prop everyone else's business up.
Yeah. A car dealership doesn't have to sell competitors cars. Isn't that part of the appeal of Apple? That you can talk to an Apple fan in an Apple store and use your iGadget with your Mac or Apple TV, and if you have a problem you can call AppleCare etc? Why can they provide an integrated experience but anyone else can't?
How can an online only company be considered anticompetitive with a company that has their own online stores, brick and mortar stores and third party retailers? It seems like anti-competitive is synonymous with competitive these days, as it: they might kick our ass in the market and we aren't going to take it.
But a couple papers I wrote for journals my supervisor specifically helped me make it more terse. He made it sound as that was a big factor in successfully getting papers published (at least in the field in question, condensed matter physics). I took it to mean that being longer winded/more explanatory was considered a waste of everyone's time and potentially hiding any original findings/justification for the thing to get published in the first place.
I think (to a more limited extent) science could learn from preaching a bit. Foundational reasoning for how you got to where you are going shouldn't be left as as an excercise for the reader. "Because we need to minimize the line integral over the Lagrangian" er "Jesus saves".
Yeah probably a lot lower. I've often found a 10X speed boost when optimizing SQL code for example. People just thought it must take about that long so didn't bother looking for a better way. Slap an index, reorder a query and presto. I get there are mathematical limits to cracking crypto but in this case you are trying to duplicate a file it sounds like right? I'm sure someone will come up with an in memory solution etc that somebody didn't think of. In short that $75k problem is probably more like 7.5k or even $750.
Not to mention: if I'm trying to hack a government site do you think I'm morally opposed to creating a botnet for ~free?
Well in the case of Canada and my opinion at least we don't really have much of an option. We have about 5-6 parties but 1 only runs candidates in Quebec, a couple don't run candidates in enough ridings to have a chance of being an opposition let alone form a government. Of the 3 left, really only 2 have had a good chance of winning in the last 20 or so years. So effectively 2 party if not actually.
I thing a better solution, which would be in effect the same thing as campaign finance reform: eliminate the party system entirely. Ban party whips, common signage, block voting etc. Every candidate has the stand or fall on their own positions. We'd still have committees to write laws, but those committees would be formed by some combination of qualification and lot (no more education minister with no post secondary for example) but everything would be a free vote.
I say it is effectively campaign finance reform because a single politican wouldn't have the machine to suck in the money from lobbyist. The lobbyists wouldn't have any guarantee who they need to bribe before the election because they'd have no idea who would end up being the strong negotiator at debates.That is one thing Canada has going for it though, we don't have long campaigns and advertising is a faction what it is per capita in the US.
Canada and Common Wealtch countries generally have a very different definition of freedom of speech than the US. Not our strongest showing for sure. Doesn't affect me much though. If I don't like you I don't go around you. If you insist on being a jerk in my presence and prevent me from avoiding you you won't remember what I called you because you'll be unconscious. Either way I don't need freedom for "extreme speech", because as I suspect most people are, my views are fairly moderate and I'm not hugely offended by people on the fringes left and right as long as they don't mess with actions/laws that affect me they can rant like lunatics as much as they want.
Also the bank is on the hook for the fraud so they rightly so will be as tight as they can get away with without losing customers. This is why I always have at least $200 in my pocket at all times. Might not be enough for tires but can generally get me food, a place to stay and a ride home should anything go wrong.
Except some banks, at least mine does, explicitly tells you there is no need to call them when you are travelling. Could be different at your bank but I suspect that the minimum wage slave taking the call generally says "uh, huh, I've added a note to your file" and waits for you to get off the line so they can keep their average call length down. A "note in the file" likely doesn't feed into their automated system that is used for fraud prevention, especially since their is a good chance that the system that the customer service rep uses is made by someone else than the fraud detection system.
Always have sum local currency on hand, IMO the only way to go. I'd say a couple days expenses worth, hotel, cabs food included. Ie about 300 euros or so if going to europe and lesser or more depending on cost of living where you're headed. As it says on the back of your card: This card is the property of bank X and must be returned upon request or the equivalent wording: your bank isn't under any obligation to honour your card when you are away at "camp" in Sudan nor do they have to respond to your urgent requests form your Iranian cell in a timely manner. They might lose your business but that doesn't help you when the hotel calls security when you try to leave after they tell you your card is no good.
There is a flip side to it though. Your vacation is a chance to see how valuable you are/how well you've done mentoring/training others to be self sufficient. Nothing gives you leverage in a performance review like a clear example you can point to where you swooped in after a week Jamaica and saved the day.
Well it depends on how you interpret the Dirac-Einstein equation among others. Either way though, in normal use it comes up a lot with people arguing their political/moral positions post hoc ergo propter hoc: "if you work hard you will be a success, therefore if you are poor you are lazy". Probably not a good example of that but there does tend to be a "I did it so if you didn't you suck" kind of mentality in a lot of people's thinking.
I agree both have things to give you. Programming: about 50% of it is soft though: negotiating features and priorities with other devs/departments/clients, what design patterns or other types of architectural structure to use. When and if you can bring in new tools etc. There might be one correct way to right the if/else but if the if/else exists in the first place is often where we earn the big bucks.
I have it even better usually I'm going over to visit family and they don't have a computer/internet: I'm completely unplugged (well I'll bring my own gadgets but don't advertise that fact to anyone at work;)).
I agree. CS as a required course not so much. Use of a computer somewhere in their other classes though: a useful skill that is pretty much required to function at this point. For 95%+ of people a computer is a tool they don't need to program it at all. Maybe 4% would benefit from some "programming" (bash/dos scripting, VBA some basic SQL). We don't require everyone to become a mechanic, nor do we require mechanics to know how to build a wrench from a block of steel just how to use it.
Well by that argument making debate club a class might be better. You'd have to learn to think clearly AND how to interact with others that are disagreeing with you. Too much of our education system are focused on either expert-> novice (teacher knows student learns) or with, for example writing essays, student forms an argument and doesn't really get opposed just given a score. In that scenario you learn to guess the rules by which you are scored rather than how to better support your argument (or God forbid learn that you might be wrong and have to change your opinion without throwing a tantrum/punch).
Coding as a proxy for logic and critical thinking might be good. To many people don't understand correlation vs causation, cause must precede the effect etc.
I know I can have a new job in less than a month. There is no "allowed" when it comes to my vacation time. At best I'll say "I'd like a week off sometime in the next month, when would you prefer?" That said I'm from a country with such things as labor laws: they MUST give me paid time off, it isn't optional.
+1 for individual sports. Never seems to be an option that is considered though. Sending your kid off to soccer camp is much easier. Plus individual sports tend towards expensive/elitist (track being the exception): horse riding, golf, rowing etc. Maybe you can but I've never knew of such a thing as a summer track camp. People tend to send kids away for general camps, or hockey, soccer, football, probably in that order of popularity with hockey potentially higher than general (I'm in Canada eh?).
Mah, I liked to read. By the time I was in 6-7th grade I was reading stuff my parents didn't understand, by 9th often stuff I couldn't find a teacher that understood it. My science class was basically my teacher pointing me to the library and telling me to go nuts (I have a theoretical physics bent), or even funnier giving me the kit to play with at home "here go make yourself some hydrogen".
I was also active though, I liked baseball but didn't like that it took up every free moment of the summer. I'd like to be able to play soccer one day then basketball the next. Then bike in the woods and throw dirt clumps at friends etc. Didn't like the structure of being on a league and forced to play 3-4 days a week (or what would have been the alternative a camp where you play different sports but someone tells you what and when).
Just noticed your post after mine. Yeah I agree. I've seen parents sign up their kids for baseball or whatever and the kid is stuck doing something they hate 3 days a week. Parents need to learn: just because I like something doesn't mean my kid "should" like it too whether it is food, sports, jobs, or God.
Multiple OS and application preferences.. what? Windows 10 has multiple desktop support. Even if he didn't mean that Windows 8+ have settings syncing (not necessarily going to save your bacon for apps but will at least for the OS itself). Some applications play nice with that model already. Ex. VS 2013: I use the same login at home and work so I get all my addons, font settings, etc synced over for me.
I'm not sure how desktops work in win 10 if apps "see" that they are already running or not. That was my problem with SysInternals desktop: Firefox open in one desktop would prevent it from opening in another and there's no way to move an app between the two. So I'd be coding and need a browser and need to go to my "communication" desktop close the browser back to my coding desktop and open it again etc. Or live with having to remember things going back and forth between screens. Mah. Wasn't worth it once I had more then one monitor to play with.
Exactly. I think in the past they might have burned 1B building a "core Windows" version for networking. I think recently MS has realized that there is no point spending a lot of money to roll your own, or even keep secret tech you make that you have no intention in selling. Ex: ASP,.Net, Entity Framework etc all going open source: none of them were things you were paying for anyways so why not open it up? You still will likely use windows and VS if you like the tech so they might as well.
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They were way cheaper than anyone else offering an unlimited plan, and AFAIK they were the only one offering syncing between multiple computers that was unlimited (Cabronite has unlimited but it is one computer cloud I think, onedrive is many to many). Anyways, I can see how a more useful syncing for half the price would attract all the hoarders out there.
Also, if my usage patterns are any indication: I download and then delete things because I don't want to run out of disk space. If I had infinite storage I might just keep an "already watched" folder instead. I think the very fact that their is no limit might have encouraged people's storage "needs" to grow.
I've had to kill and restart the onedrive service several times since upgrading to windows 10. It just doesn't sync reliably anymore. I have win 8.1 at work I use one drive to sync my podcasts. I delete several podcasts as I listen to them and hours later my home computer still has those files around. Only fix is to reboot or exit and re-open the one drive app. Windows 10 it just worked.
I agree they've given us a lesser product in windows 10 and now they want to reverse the trend and double to cost of a GB of storage too. Nice.
to use what you are paying for?
Muffin. Just because something is "easy" to do doesn't mean you have to do it. It would be easy for a Ford dealership to have some Toyota's on their lot. It doesn't mean they have to. I don't have to make it easy for competitors to win in the market. I can't bribe others to not sell their stuff or else but if I own the store, run the servers, handle the manufacturing contracts, license the content, host the content on my servers and stream it to my customers why the hell do I have to offer my infrastructure to the other guy? What is Google/Apple lacking in a marketing budget? Do they lack web traffic to their sites? Do they not also have army of lawyers to negotiate contracts with? Let the competition live or die by the quality of their offering. Don't make everyone prop everyone else's business up.
Yeah. A car dealership doesn't have to sell competitors cars. Isn't that part of the appeal of Apple? That you can talk to an Apple fan in an Apple store and use your iGadget with your Mac or Apple TV, and if you have a problem you can call AppleCare etc? Why can they provide an integrated experience but anyone else can't?
How can an online only company be considered anticompetitive with a company that has their own online stores, brick and mortar stores and third party retailers? It seems like anti-competitive is synonymous with competitive these days, as it: they might kick our ass in the market and we aren't going to take it.
But a couple papers I wrote for journals my supervisor specifically helped me make it more terse. He made it sound as that was a big factor in successfully getting papers published (at least in the field in question, condensed matter physics). I took it to mean that being longer winded/more explanatory was considered a waste of everyone's time and potentially hiding any original findings/justification for the thing to get published in the first place.
I think (to a more limited extent) science could learn from preaching a bit. Foundational reasoning for how you got to where you are going shouldn't be left as as an excercise for the reader. "Because we need to minimize the line integral over the Lagrangian" er "Jesus saves".
Yeah probably a lot lower. I've often found a 10X speed boost when optimizing SQL code for example. People just thought it must take about that long so didn't bother looking for a better way. Slap an index, reorder a query and presto. I get there are mathematical limits to cracking crypto but in this case you are trying to duplicate a file it sounds like right? I'm sure someone will come up with an in memory solution etc that somebody didn't think of. In short that $75k problem is probably more like 7.5k or even $750.
Not to mention: if I'm trying to hack a government site do you think I'm morally opposed to creating a botnet for ~free?
Well in the case of Canada and my opinion at least we don't really have much of an option. We have about 5-6 parties but 1 only runs candidates in Quebec, a couple don't run candidates in enough ridings to have a chance of being an opposition let alone form a government. Of the 3 left, really only 2 have had a good chance of winning in the last 20 or so years. So effectively 2 party if not actually.
I thing a better solution, which would be in effect the same thing as campaign finance reform: eliminate the party system entirely. Ban party whips, common signage, block voting etc. Every candidate has the stand or fall on their own positions. We'd still have committees to write laws, but those committees would be formed by some combination of qualification and lot (no more education minister with no post secondary for example) but everything would be a free vote.
I say it is effectively campaign finance reform because a single politican wouldn't have the machine to suck in the money from lobbyist. The lobbyists wouldn't have any guarantee who they need to bribe before the election because they'd have no idea who would end up being the strong negotiator at debates.That is one thing Canada has going for it though, we don't have long campaigns and advertising is a faction what it is per capita in the US.
Canada and Common Wealtch countries generally have a very different definition of freedom of speech than the US. Not our strongest showing for sure. Doesn't affect me much though. If I don't like you I don't go around you. If you insist on being a jerk in my presence and prevent me from avoiding you you won't remember what I called you because you'll be unconscious. Either way I don't need freedom for "extreme speech", because as I suspect most people are, my views are fairly moderate and I'm not hugely offended by people on the fringes left and right as long as they don't mess with actions/laws that affect me they can rant like lunatics as much as they want.
Also the bank is on the hook for the fraud so they rightly so will be as tight as they can get away with without losing customers. This is why I always have at least $200 in my pocket at all times. Might not be enough for tires but can generally get me food, a place to stay and a ride home should anything go wrong.
Except some banks, at least mine does, explicitly tells you there is no need to call them when you are travelling. Could be different at your bank but I suspect that the minimum wage slave taking the call generally says "uh, huh, I've added a note to your file" and waits for you to get off the line so they can keep their average call length down. A "note in the file" likely doesn't feed into their automated system that is used for fraud prevention, especially since their is a good chance that the system that the customer service rep uses is made by someone else than the fraud detection system.
Always have sum local currency on hand, IMO the only way to go. I'd say a couple days expenses worth, hotel, cabs food included. Ie about 300 euros or so if going to europe and lesser or more depending on cost of living where you're headed. As it says on the back of your card: This card is the property of bank X and must be returned upon request or the equivalent wording: your bank isn't under any obligation to honour your card when you are away at "camp" in Sudan nor do they have to respond to your urgent requests form your Iranian cell in a timely manner. They might lose your business but that doesn't help you when the hotel calls security when you try to leave after they tell you your card is no good.
I couldn't get my rocket in the package er building it was meant for.
There is a flip side to it though. Your vacation is a chance to see how valuable you are/how well you've done mentoring/training others to be self sufficient. Nothing gives you leverage in a performance review like a clear example you can point to where you swooped in after a week Jamaica and saved the day.
Well it depends on how you interpret the Dirac-Einstein equation among others. Either way though, in normal use it comes up a lot with people arguing their political/moral positions post hoc ergo propter hoc: "if you work hard you will be a success, therefore if you are poor you are lazy". Probably not a good example of that but there does tend to be a "I did it so if you didn't you suck" kind of mentality in a lot of people's thinking.
I agree both have things to give you. Programming: about 50% of it is soft though: negotiating features and priorities with other devs/departments/clients, what design patterns or other types of architectural structure to use. When and if you can bring in new tools etc. There might be one correct way to right the if/else but if the if/else exists in the first place is often where we earn the big bucks.
I have it even better usually I'm going over to visit family and they don't have a computer/internet: I'm completely unplugged (well I'll bring my own gadgets but don't advertise that fact to anyone at work ;)).
I agree. CS as a required course not so much. Use of a computer somewhere in their other classes though: a useful skill that is pretty much required to function at this point. For 95%+ of people a computer is a tool they don't need to program it at all. Maybe 4% would benefit from some "programming" (bash/dos scripting, VBA some basic SQL). We don't require everyone to become a mechanic, nor do we require mechanics to know how to build a wrench from a block of steel just how to use it.
Well by that argument making debate club a class might be better. You'd have to learn to think clearly AND how to interact with others that are disagreeing with you. Too much of our education system are focused on either expert-> novice (teacher knows student learns) or with, for example writing essays, student forms an argument and doesn't really get opposed just given a score. In that scenario you learn to guess the rules by which you are scored rather than how to better support your argument (or God forbid learn that you might be wrong and have to change your opinion without throwing a tantrum/punch).
Coding as a proxy for logic and critical thinking might be good. To many people don't understand correlation vs causation, cause must precede the effect etc.
I know I can have a new job in less than a month. There is no "allowed" when it comes to my vacation time. At best I'll say "I'd like a week off sometime in the next month, when would you prefer?" That said I'm from a country with such things as labor laws: they MUST give me paid time off, it isn't optional.
+1 for individual sports. Never seems to be an option that is considered though. Sending your kid off to soccer camp is much easier. Plus individual sports tend towards expensive/elitist (track being the exception): horse riding, golf, rowing etc. Maybe you can but I've never knew of such a thing as a summer track camp. People tend to send kids away for general camps, or hockey, soccer, football, probably in that order of popularity with hockey potentially higher than general (I'm in Canada eh?).
Mah, I liked to read. By the time I was in 6-7th grade I was reading stuff my parents didn't understand, by 9th often stuff I couldn't find a teacher that understood it. My science class was basically my teacher pointing me to the library and telling me to go nuts (I have a theoretical physics bent), or even funnier giving me the kit to play with at home "here go make yourself some hydrogen".
I was also active though, I liked baseball but didn't like that it took up every free moment of the summer. I'd like to be able to play soccer one day then basketball the next. Then bike in the woods and throw dirt clumps at friends etc. Didn't like the structure of being on a league and forced to play 3-4 days a week (or what would have been the alternative a camp where you play different sports but someone tells you what and when).
Just noticed your post after mine. Yeah I agree. I've seen parents sign up their kids for baseball or whatever and the kid is stuck doing something they hate 3 days a week. Parents need to learn: just because I like something doesn't mean my kid "should" like it too whether it is food, sports, jobs, or God.
This is the equivalent of fathers that insist that their boys play a sport. Sometimes the kid really isn't interested in computers.
Multiple OS and application preferences .. what? Windows 10 has multiple desktop support. Even if he didn't mean that Windows 8+ have settings syncing (not necessarily going to save your bacon for apps but will at least for the OS itself). Some applications play nice with that model already. Ex. VS 2013: I use the same login at home and work so I get all my addons, font settings, etc synced over for me.
I'm not sure how desktops work in win 10 if apps "see" that they are already running or not. That was my problem with SysInternals desktop: Firefox open in one desktop would prevent it from opening in another and there's no way to move an app between the two. So I'd be coding and need a browser and need to go to my "communication" desktop close the browser back to my coding desktop and open it again etc. Or live with having to remember things going back and forth between screens. Mah. Wasn't worth it once I had more then one monitor to play with.
Exactly. I think in the past they might have burned 1B building a "core Windows" version for networking. I think recently MS has realized that there is no point spending a lot of money to roll your own, or even keep secret tech you make that you have no intention in selling. Ex: ASP, .Net, Entity Framework etc all going open source: none of them were things you were paying for anyways so why not open it up? You still will likely use windows and VS if you like the tech so they might as well.