He probably understands that there's work to be done, he just doesn't understand why anyone would want a Mac for that.
And in the state the Mac computers are today, neither do I.
If a new mac mini came with the possibility of a connection system that could have other important functions attached to it, it could take over a great deal of very different functions.
These important functions are defined by the users, who include but is not limited to every, music composer, rock band, portable music studio, mobile teaching institution or teachers. Perhaps even flexible connections for CNC, chemical controls, specialized industrial controls. The list is only limited to the inventive capacity of the connection possibilities.
The thought here is things like direct high bit rate multitrack recording is a PITA with the PC or the Mac. UNLESS you have the capacity to connect other devices to it and this is what Apple needs to do with the Mac Mini. Design a connection system that others can easily create a custom connection interface and bingo you have something great. Firewire worked well for audio at one time now it is dead, USB sucked at audio and now it still sucks. Unless Apple leads the way and becomes inclusive by sponsoring/helping other firms to create custom connection devices to their little gem of a computer it will die the death of the PC and it will not be a good death because the Mac Mini was and is a great little device that things like the Intel Nucs and the majority of other Windows centric micro computers do not hold a candle to because WindowsOS based embedded devices suck when it comes to flexibility of key operating system functions like audio, video and complex data stream multitasking in real time. The Mac kernel is by far a better design in this regard and Microsoft and a great many people already know this to be the case.
when a company loses business, they lower the damn prices.... but NOOOOOO not pay television services. they gouge the remaining subscribers to try to "make up" the lost profits instead.
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Here in Canada the CRTC tried to force the providers to unbundle the channel package choices. In areas where you cannot possibly get OTA signals the cable companies know that they have you by the shorts to say the least and it made no difference. I have had cable for far too long and been gouged by the assholes it seems forever! If it were not for the fact that my wife would leave I would cut the friggin' cord once and for all and just listen to what little is left of good radio, like the CBC and some American public radio we can still somewhat get where I live.
The greedy cable assholes seem to regularly find a way to increase the costs without providing value for dollar and get away with it because there is no choice. Because they also own and dominate the satellite industry you get hosed even worse if you switch to satellite. They are your ISP, telephone regardless of whether or not you chose them or the TELCO they dominate all incoming and outgoing communications. Their prices are currently greater than the costs for essential services of heating, water, sewer and taxes combined and they manage to get away with it because you have no alternative. The telco(s) even own all the cellular communication towers and gouge the hell out of you if you try to do anything other than make phone calls with cellular.
In the end we are stuck paying to watch mish mash rehashes of the same shows and then paying for their advertising slot time. The truth is the "network TV" supported by advertising is completely dying, cable is killing it and very slowly stealing all of their add revenue streams. What cable has done to replace network tv is to make up garbage rehashes of content put together to create a smoke and mirrors illusion of their advertising ridden ridiculous "1000 channel universe". The reality is that they do this to avoid content production costs and continue to suck on the teats of what little is left of the old networks.
PS yes I am prone to hyperbole. Using a phrase like the Atlantic boiling was just an attempt to get some smart people to wake up to the fact that right now the surface water temps there are no where near a seasonal norm. As the Greenland Ice shelf melts who knows what the end result will be, we can only make educated guesses. Major earth quakes where there were non historically? This is the point, we are playing Russian roulette with our atmosphere and sooner or later one or more of the bad outcomes of human caused global warming will occur. The blinders of denial do not help when you put a gun to your head.
I truly hope you are correct. And wish you all the best in what ever you do for a living. We will very soon see if you are right. I would suggest however that you financially invest in real estate in Puerto Rico. The market is cheap there and I am sure you can make a killing. They might also need some good salesmen to teach them about the advantages of buying nothing but new American Made fossil fuel devices instead of replacing their destroyed infrastructure with solar and wind devices. Heck the opportunities for making a quick buck are almost endless there!
And this is exactly the point Debbie was Sept 16 now we are now dealing with high water temps in the Atlantic causing major storms in Ireland a full month later. A huge difference and like comparing apples to oranges. The warm surface water is staying around much longer and is spreading much further to the north and this is a real problem.
It might not even be over quite yet for the Caribbean and even perhaps the Gulf of Mexico. Check out NOAA the water temps are still way up for this time of year. The mid 80s f is still well up in the range that intensifies storms to hurricanes. The mid Atlantic is still over 80 so we could still see some dangerous storms, here is hoping that this is the end for this year at least for the sake of the poor people of those countries. Aside from which, some of Trumps friends in the oil industry might have to delay their bone fishing and that would be an absolute catastrophe.
Pacific Blob? How are you so confident there wasn't a "pacific blob" in the 1600s? Do we have satellite observations of oceanic temperatures from the 17th century to back that up? Are you assembling that data from observations? Did they have calibrated temperature probes taking measurements day and night thousands of miles out at sea?
It seems to me that a lot of your belief system is built on inferences and assumptions. The largest of those being that the weather events of the 21st century have somehow made a biblical deviation from the norm. Anything approaching a climate "norm" is based on such a limited understanding of the world, it's hard to accept as the truth. Global Warming may be a new phenomenon. But if it is we need to treat it like a science with skepticism, and not like a religion.
Yes there have been anomalies and let us all hope beyond hope that this is indeed what we are seeing. The Maunder Minimum mini ice age that killed millions of poor people due to starvation and crop failure in Northern Europe and Russia during the Baroque era comes to mind.
Yes I have a healthy sense of scientific skepticism. But scientific skepticism does not help much when the bear decides that you are supper.
Who knows? For all we know about the solar system the sun might suddenly go into another cycle that puts the damper on global warming and makes the rapid burning of all the fossil fuels we can get our hands on a necessity for our survival. Some things however we can predict with a fair amount of certainty and with the very recent warming of the earths atmosphere and surface water temps, changes in dangerous weather patterns that will effect us drastically will happen within our life times and that of our children and this is a almost a certainty.
A rapid move now away from fossil fuel consumption might just save us if there is another mini ice age coming or if we blow ourselves up and in so doing actually test the nuclear winter hypothesis. Then again the MAD policy of the cold war served us well in one regard. At least it kept us from testing the nuclear winter hypothesis. Why some of us insist upon continuing to test the hypothesis of global warming by listening to the fossil fuel industry shills however is MAD in my books given the correlation between recent increases in C02 levels and the recent increases in global mean temperatures!
The level of panic is not what we have to worry about as the Atlantic boils for the next however many years it takes for the Pacific to switch around to El Niño again. What we do have to worry about is a longer succession of seasons of high ocean temps in the Atlantic and the shift in the cycle caused by global warming. Like all short sighted comments about what is going on the failure here is to see obvious trends and it is these trends to climate extremes that are the thing we have to worry about the most.
The existence of ocean weather patterns created by the movement of warm water has been known for centuries. The existence of a cycle between El Niño and La Niña has been known for a very long time and the cycle is usually about 4 to 6 years. This has changed and if the cycle continues to expand in years it is a direct result of rapid climate change. The extended duration of the last cycle cause the Pacific blob, a patch of warmer water much further north in the Pacific, something never seen before.
As a direct result of these rapid changes we can expect a much more violent climate. Plain and simple storms that cause damage will increase in frequency and severity and there is nothing we can do about it accept try to reduce the use of fossil fuels to slow the increase in atmospheric CO2. These are just the inconvenient truths about how messing up our atmospheric gas balance with the unrelenting and ever increasing burning of fossil fuels is causing more trouble than it is worth. Facts do not cause the panic however failure to act does. We still have people who believe in the idiotic NIMBY dictum that "the solution to pollution is dilution" shilling for the energy giants. Scott Pruitt is one of the worst.
Yes C02 is not a pollutant by definition but a sudden atmospheric imbalance of gases is something which is obviously going to effect our civilization in ways that we might regret. A slightly warmer earth is not necessarily a dangerous thing provided the change is not too fast for us to adapt as a species. Humans are causing an unnatural cycle to occur in atmosphere whether or not we survive our stupidity as a species remains to be seen. Then again just perhaps these short sighted greedy assholes that think they are capable of running the world will teach us to work together as a species for a change. Either that or they will blow us all up and thus solve the very real problem of mankind changing the earth's atmosphere too rapidly. The next phase of Trumpification of truth will most likely be the removal of the data to show what is happening simply do that by dissolving NASA now that muzzling the scientists working there is not working. Make America Great Again is the biggest lie ever foisted upon a peoples!
You're still paying for the EPA, and they are still spending money on important things which I'm sure must be in the interests of the country. We know those things are important, because they're so sensitive.
The morons look like they are trying to recreate a mem from episodes of Get Smart. When you are professional shill like Pruitt and you are appointed as a hatchet man you better not let your conversations be made public or the shit will hit the fan real quick. The actions and dealings of public servants in institutions like the EPA, the TSA, NASA, the CDC and the like should not be secrets they should be public record by law! We are moving towards a dictatorship and this is one of the first major steps in that direction. How government is dealing with issues that should be under continuous public debate and must be open to the public so the institution is directly responsible to the electors. This action simply goes to show that the muzzles of dictatorship is slowly being put in place.
When the moves to change the election process start by this obvious tyrant wantabee then perhaps some people will start to wake up and realize that the government of the US is in deep trouble. He has already hinted that this is in the works. Like Hitler said elect the NSDAP and you will never need to vote again. The republican party would be better served to formally split from these idiots and have a shadow leader appointed to expose their obvious moves toward a closed society.
DON'T link word documents to flash content or create.docx with flash content or trust the idiots who do! It is the same thing as pissing in a sand box and then wondering why your clothes stink.
Look, reactor fallout and dirty bombs are not quite the same.
The main thing is this: incidental exposure in an area with rain is only that from direct contact and ingestion, either via air (masks) or water/food.
You can flush your system with drinkable water, on a residential level, from the water stored in your hot water heater and in your toilet reservoirs, as well as anything in your fridge or freezer.
It's only from crops grown or water collected after the incident that you have a risk. Shower if exposed, change clothes exposed. Don't eat local products grown after the time of exposure.
As Hanford starts to leach higher levels into the water table that feeds the lower Columbia basin it only stands to reason that the water source for that agricultural area needs to be deemed safe as it spikes. By increasing the level of water born exposure tolerated it slows down the cleanup required to keep the water at a lower level of contamination. Next on the chopping block is the cleanup super fund and costs of monitoring and reimbursing workers that are not able to work due to reaching exposure limits. Increase the exposure limits and bingo you can put off doing environmental work until the fish and Walla Walla onions start to glow in the dark.
You might not see on Whitehouse dinner menu in 40 years Columbia River wild salmon, Washington state Granny Smith Apple Pie, Famous Washington State Riesling with the asshole that is power today. Because you can almost bet that this move to increase the water born limits is a move to put off the super fund work necessary to slow the spread of radiation from places like Hanford. All bets are off if there is a major seismic event hits the area though or if one of the upstream Columbia major dams lets loose. At that point any attempt to stop or slow the leaching would be impossible. Perhaps the only solution to places like Hanford is to learn how to re use and break down some of the worst waste products safely in reactors.
I run flash and mp4 on linux no problem. Just use the stand alone adobe.so running from/home instead of installing flash to/usr. Naturally you are running a binary that you did not compile yourself but these days most do not even know how to use gcc anymore so who gives a shit anyway?
You can also still force firefox to use the flash.so as a preference. Don't run it in Wine then you run the chance of having your.wine directory compromised with a windows flash exploit LOL. Sorry if you are that afraid of.swf files. The ability to run binaries from/home also makes it much easier to remove shit like the much hated flash.macromedia drm configurations and try shit out without touching anything other than/home. Something which some people do not quite understand it seems. But then again the purpose of show hidden files seems to be something which some here do not get either.
This is the problem with distros like Suse and Ubuntu to an extent they try to hide how to do simple things from the user and like Microsoft target users who do not want to learn anything about system configuration or the real capabilities of Linux. Either that or obfuscate function relations so that only they can figure out WTF they did. LSB is a bit of a joke thanks to some distros. Go "con"figure I just exercised my systemDaemon.
What he should not do under any circumstances is competently recaptiualize extensive methodologies. But if all else fails as an example of his coding skills he could easily work up a slightly more complicated php or whatever gui front end to a table based generator like this oneand perhaps put some really cute kitten faces as the buttons to select the function(s) and perhaps even have a synth voice read back the phrases generated with a simple open source computer voice plugin to the espeak libs. Simple enough stuff to do for a skilled programmer. In other words what he codes does not need to be practical but can be just a fun little hack that is inventive.
My point is that the worst thing that he can do is to use buzz words like "leveraged" or "hallmarks of excellence" especially on a letter of introduction or worse use words that are nebulous corporate jargon during an interview! He is being interviewed as a programmer all he needs to do is explain which languages he is competent in and that he takes pride in his skills and can demonstrate them.
Most importantly he needs to ask what the company has to offer him in a polite way so that the interviewer quickly gets the point that the interviewee is self assured and aware of their worth. An experienced programmer that is self assured without arrogance that avoids the false pretense of corporate speak nonsense will always get the best jobs.
My boss got a kick out of this one.What was more fun though was running this one in stand alone flash in full screen on Linux after my boss asked to borrow my laptop a few years ago. He actually thought that my copy of windows had been hacked. Funny as hell when I had to come over and get him out of it and explain that he was not in a windows environment. He has not borrowed my laptop since but always asks for me for all his personal IT setup.
1) You won't get caught. The company interviewing you most certainly won't tell the other company that you shared code, and as long as you just show it to the interviewer on your own machine (not give them a file with the code) it won't escape into the wild, so you have nothing to worry about.
2) True, the company you are interviewing for many get a few ideas from what you showed them. But regardless, they would have to code it themselves (see point 1), and secondly, if the original company had management issues like that, it's almost their karma for treating their employees like that (should have trusted them more, in which case they would have stayed and not shared code).
You are the worst possible kind of candidate for a job in IT. No ethics, no pride, no class. Those are not things you can learn, you were simply born with a few missing parts.
You don't belong in IT but you probably have a future in used cars sales or marketing. Time to pivot, my friend, otherwise it won't be long before your name circulates on the informal do-no-hire network.
But he would have made a hell of a good PLUMBER working for Nixon. It seems what is happening is that morons with no scruples have a much easier time climbing the ladder of politics and even other places that rely upon employees with no scruples.
Instead of IT this guy would do well with companies like ENRON or just about any of the other garbage organizations that hire people of his ilk. He should however avoid the mafia and the respected organized crime corporations, because unless he has at least a practiced pretense of being scrupulous chances are he will be fired for good by someone with a Saturday night special!
Qualcomm is going after Apple in the US for violation of Qualcomm's US patents. It's going after Apple in China too, for violation of Qualcomm's China patents. I swear, you tech fucks don't understand a damn thing about patents. They ONLY cover for the country that issued them! A US patent has zero force outside of the US. Canada, China, Germany - no force at all. Each country has its own patents and laws related. Qualcomm will probably end up suing Apple in ALL the countries where it has those patents - and if it wins, Apple won't be able to sell OR build in any of those countries.
The US suits are more of a tit for tat shot because Apple sued Qualcomm first. What would be more interesting is if when Qualcomm gets shot down but the courts in both China and the US it then decides to go after Intel. However I suspect that Intel used some "clean" engineers to do the reverse work and will come out smelling like a rose in a shithouse and Qualcomm will not dare stir the pot by going after Intel. It took Intel 15 years to break into the CDMA market to the point where Apple feels comfortable with their chips but they did it, so most likely they did it cleanly. Qualcomm knows the writing is on the wall for their designs.
Apple sued Qualcomm because Qualcomm tried to extort Apple and charge them a premium and at the same time force them into using their chips. I suspect that the lastest moves from Qualcomm is a desperation move because they see the writing on the wall.
Why, because of his exemplary professional behavior? Also, who would be insane enough to hire him now?
Equifax Argentina division, he would most likely do a bang up job securing their servers. At least he knows how to effectively lock down and change admin passwords in a Windows server setup which is a skill that seems to elude Equifax IT specialists.
OH the irony! Now what would be really funny is if we see Microsoft buy into the lawsuits and even buy up a large portion of Qualcomm under Nokia. Nokia phones with a Microsoft branded Android OS would be one hell of a funny outcome if Qualcomm takes a dive trying to extort Apple. I just wonder why they don't go after Apple somewhere in the states, seems that they don't have the cojones. Then again Qualcomm most likely does not yet have the secondary support from Redmond quite yet to take on the Apple. Seems that Apple without Jobs and a Microsoft without Ballmer are much less combative. I miss the good ol' days of SCO and Baystar, if Qualcomm screws up and fails to enforce their patents because they are bullshit in the first place then just perhaps all hell will break loose in the chip sector.
Intel must be laughing all the way to the bank on this one.
Yes as we all know only Australia uses that default username/password combo.
Either that or something easy to remember and guess like waltzingmatilda or the likes. I would think that one could break into most of the infrastructure of.au with that one.
Allowing user set passwords to administration rights that are global and are accessible over the internet to critical data that is not locked down and encrypted is inherently stupid. About as smart as allowing remote admin priviledge to a website from the assholes claiming over the phone to be from microsoft windows security division calling you because your computer has been compromised. I suspect that the contractor was connected to someone who gave out the contract to a friend with some cash because the contractor sure as hell was not vetted properly!
Computers might be the ones who need to learn how to code. SPOOKY as hell because when you set the task of communication computer to computer in terms of AI it can cause the creation of new language. I know this is different from being self aware and codex ergo sum is not that same as je pense, donc je suis but perhaps it is a start and it is a related first step. Tim Cook is wrong here the future of computer coding might very well be by humans not creating the complete algorithms.
After all, a complicated set of libraries is all computer languages become. And with the extent and diversity of functions and myriad of libraries needed to create programs in the future, the task will become far better suited to computer memory than humans. Better to bore a computer to death with billions of lines of code than ruin a students brain with the rote learning of millions of interrelated library functions.
That way any crapware on the phone can be castrated. It comes down to carefully choosing the phone to make sure it is not hosed with either carrier crapware or manufacturer crAPPS.
Polaroid tried to break into the unlocked market and seems to be failing without having a secret revenue stream. Their 6 inch dual sim is a decent and super cheap phone and is as close to a stock android install as I have seen. I bought one for my wife and found it to be free from adware and garbage apps. Obviously some of the cheap unlocked phones are going to try the adware/spyware route. The only solution I see is if you just want a phone with no carrier lock then make dam sure that the android install is not polluted and you can remove garbage apps that try to go online without consent.
The phone plan that we have is setup so that the browser function and any other app including e-mail cannot use LTE, the voice search function of chrome is switched off. NO DATA PLAN PERIOD. It does mean that we cannot send text with pics but this is how you dig yourself into the cell phone 100 plus dollars a month rabbit hole and the carriers love it! SCREW THAT We only use the phone on the net if there is wifi available and keep the wifi turned off until we chose to enable it. For us it is a phone that can do the net but first and foremost it is a phone that we can chose to shut off when not in use and it does not keep us in the poor house!
Intel is working on much more than that and is trying hard to break into the phone market in a really big way, not just with atom based arch. Even though they have been out of the running for 16 years it seems this time they are coming back and are really looking for the brainz this time. Like I said either they are paying Qualcomm to not sue them or we might see a major tech merger. Say perhaps Qualcomm and Intel in a joint venture with a mind to squash Samsung once and for all?
Either way there are interesting times ahead in the cell chip sector and there will be blood on the floor with the introduction of the new high end Note by Samsung. The iPhone 8 has some serious competition this time around and I think Apple knows it. If the new 8 series from Samsung starts to take over a huge section of the market the way the original galaxy did you can bet the bullshit American protectionist law suits will fly again. Like the Boeing bombers now flying over Quebec Canada the tariff(s) on Samsung phones will be enormous.
Is Intel just playing a game with Qualcomm? OR will Apple sue Samsung again in the US over some more bullshit function patents with both Intel and Qualcomm cheer leaders in the background ready to doggy hump the judge and pile on if Apple succeeds? At least Taiwan is getting some bucks back out of the jerks considering the fact that chip production in Taiwan is on a downswing because of Apple slowly switching chips.
Qualcomm getting into manufacturing instead of just farming out their designs was a step that they might regret if Apple gets pissed enough with Qualcomm and switches over completely. Stay tuned slashdotters the 2018 iPhone will most likely have an intel inside sticker on it. What would be even more amazing is if somehow suddenly Nokia came back to life with Microsoft putting the bill to buy out all the unused Qualcomm production capacity in Taiwan. Stranger things have happened. Who knows we might even see a really great Nokia Android phone with secure MS office, sql and exchange. Life will could get very difficult for the MS, Android and Apple fanboys they would all feel like somehow they were forced into a sex change operation without consent.
Yeah..what about un-recyclable non-repairable phones that you put out every six months..
I hasten to point out that the majority of android phones are not even made by google controlled companies. Then again the google hate here on slashdot is something we have come to expect in first or second post positions over the years to say the least!
Want to release the hounds? Just post something about what google is claiming to do on Slashdot. It seems that almost the entire old scroogled crowd that has shilled the shit out of slashdot for years is alive and well to say the least. IF YOU DON'T FUCKING LIKE GOOGLE USE BING and buy a Nokia phone but STFU with the bullshit google troll posts.. please!
Although I do agree that the whole carbon neutral thing is PR bullshit at least they can make themselves feel good as you use google search and make the processors somewhere in their servers get a tiny bit hotter. I am really sorry that you have to suffer through some advertising for the privilege of using the google search engine or gmail. Send your money to fucking microsoft instead and stop replacing the default search engine in Edge and IE if you are serious about how much google inc is costing you and the environment!
I will tell you know, by 2030 this plan will fail or be extended. or ended if people wake up to realize climate change is a lie.
I would suggest that you go preach your bullshit to the people fighting the fires currently ravaging wine country in California. Then get a bullhorn and tell everybody who is running to get the hell out of the fire zones that climate change is a lie and that if they will just listen to the anti-science nutjobs there is nothing to worry about. Tell them they have nothing to worry about because very soon a radical swing to winter floods will start and what is left of their neighborhoods will have plenty of water and mud slides to put out any fires that are still burning.
You sir are an unmitigated asshole and have no idea of the concept of oscillations in scale and how the radical changes and oscillation to extremes in climate patterns we are now seeing is as a direct result of climate change. Whatever you do don't put your brain to work learning anything about predictive mathematical modeling, it is obviously well beyond your intelligence level.
There is a reason why more people are switching to electric cars in California than elsewhere in the US, there they are seeing the results of the radical increases to the earths level of CO2 in the atmosphere to a much greater extent than the rust belt region where the cars are built, I might add largely with the electricity created by the coal belt. Unfortunately a huge portion of the population of the US is essentially fucked in the head with an obsession for gas and diesel guzzling oversized pieces of steel on four wheels and it will take another stupid economic collapse and many more deaths from severe storms for the majority to finally wake up from their stupidity. Either that or some unforeseen consequence from the recent increased CO2 in the atmosphere will bite us all in the ass and thereby reduce our consumption of fossil fuels by wiping the majority of us off the fucking planet.
Jackasses. Take your cloud music services bullshit and shove it up your analogue holes. Bluetooth devices are garbage audio like most of the crap being sold as digital files. The assholes are still 'normalizing' and ruining the great classical recordings to make them more audible in car stereo settings. As far as I am concerned the whole recording industry has turned into a bunch of morons who couldn't tell the difference between flugelhorn and a fucking fog horn.
Yes I am pissed at these assholes, Sony, Apple, Google and the whole shebang deserve to be roasted for what they do to classical recordings. Sell me pure 24 bit by at least 96 audio files of great well mixed recordings and I will pay but as long as you jackasses 'normalize' and compress the shit out of classical recording I want nothing to do with you and you will not get one more cent out of my pocket period.
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He probably understands that there's work to be done, he just doesn't understand why anyone would want a Mac for that.
And in the state the Mac computers are today, neither do I.
If a new mac mini came with the possibility of a connection system that could have other important functions attached to it, it could take over a great deal of very different functions.
These important functions are defined by the users, who include but is not limited to every, music composer, rock band, portable music studio, mobile teaching institution or teachers. Perhaps even flexible connections for CNC, chemical controls, specialized industrial controls. The list is only limited to the inventive capacity of the connection possibilities.
The thought here is things like direct high bit rate multitrack recording is a PITA with the PC or the Mac. UNLESS you have the capacity to connect other devices to it and this is what Apple needs to do with the Mac Mini. Design a connection system that others can easily create a custom connection interface and bingo you have something great. Firewire worked well for audio at one time now it is dead, USB sucked at audio and now it still sucks. Unless Apple leads the way and becomes inclusive by sponsoring/helping other firms to create custom connection devices to their little gem of a computer it will die the death of the PC and it will not be a good death because the Mac Mini was and is a great little device that things like the Intel Nucs and the majority of other Windows centric micro computers do not hold a candle to because WindowsOS based embedded devices suck when it comes to flexibility of key operating system functions like audio, video and complex data stream multitasking in real time. The Mac kernel is by far a better design in this regard and Microsoft and a great many people already know this to be the case.
when a company loses business, they lower the damn prices.... but NOOOOOO not pay television services. they gouge the remaining subscribers to try to "make up" the lost profits instead.
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Here in Canada the CRTC tried to force the providers to unbundle the channel package choices. In areas where you cannot possibly get OTA signals the cable companies know that they have you by the shorts to say the least and it made no difference. I have had cable for far too long and been gouged by the assholes it seems forever! If it were not for the fact that my wife would leave I would cut the friggin' cord once and for all and just listen to what little is left of good radio, like the CBC and some American public radio we can still somewhat get where I live.
The greedy cable assholes seem to regularly find a way to increase the costs without providing value for dollar and get away with it because there is no choice. Because they also own and dominate the satellite industry you get hosed even worse if you switch to satellite. They are your ISP, telephone regardless of whether or not you chose them or the TELCO they dominate all incoming and outgoing communications. Their prices are currently greater than the costs for essential services of heating, water, sewer and taxes combined and they manage to get away with it because you have no alternative. The telco(s) even own all the cellular communication towers and gouge the hell out of you if you try to do anything other than make phone calls with cellular.
In the end we are stuck paying to watch mish mash rehashes of the same shows and then paying for their advertising slot time. The truth is the "network TV" supported by advertising is completely dying, cable is killing it and very slowly stealing all of their add revenue streams. What cable has done to replace network tv is to make up garbage rehashes of content put together to create a smoke and mirrors illusion of their advertising ridden ridiculous "1000 channel universe". The reality is that they do this to avoid content production costs and continue to suck on the teats of what little is left of the old networks.
PS yes I am prone to hyperbole. Using a phrase like the Atlantic boiling was just an attempt to get some smart people to wake up to the fact that right now the surface water temps there are no where near a seasonal norm. As the Greenland Ice shelf melts who knows what the end result will be, we can only make educated guesses. Major earth quakes where there were non historically? This is the point, we are playing Russian roulette with our atmosphere and sooner or later one or more of the bad outcomes of human caused global warming will occur. The blinders of denial do not help when you put a gun to your head.
I truly hope you are correct. And wish you all the best in what ever you do for a living. We will very soon see if you are right. I would suggest however that you financially invest in real estate in Puerto Rico. The market is cheap there and I am sure you can make a killing. They might also need some good salesmen to teach them about the advantages of buying nothing but new American Made fossil fuel devices instead of replacing their destroyed infrastructure with solar and wind devices. Heck the opportunities for making a quick buck are almost endless there!
It might not even be over quite yet for the Caribbean and even perhaps the Gulf of Mexico. Check out NOAA the water temps are still way up for this time of year. The mid 80s f is still well up in the range that intensifies storms to hurricanes. The mid Atlantic is still over 80 so we could still see some dangerous storms, here is hoping that this is the end for this year at least for the sake of the poor people of those countries. Aside from which, some of Trumps friends in the oil industry might have to delay their bone fishing and that would be an absolute catastrophe.
Pacific Blob? How are you so confident there wasn't a "pacific blob" in the 1600s? Do we have satellite observations of oceanic temperatures from the 17th century to back that up? Are you assembling that data from observations? Did they have calibrated temperature probes taking measurements day and night thousands of miles out at sea? It seems to me that a lot of your belief system is built on inferences and assumptions. The largest of those being that the weather events of the 21st century have somehow made a biblical deviation from the norm. Anything approaching a climate "norm" is based on such a limited understanding of the world, it's hard to accept as the truth. Global Warming may be a new phenomenon. But if it is we need to treat it like a science with skepticism, and not like a religion.
Yes there have been anomalies and let us all hope beyond hope that this is indeed what we are seeing. The Maunder Minimum mini ice age that killed millions of poor people due to starvation and crop failure in Northern Europe and Russia during the Baroque era comes to mind.
Yes I have a healthy sense of scientific skepticism. But scientific skepticism does not help much when the bear decides that you are supper.
Who knows? For all we know about the solar system the sun might suddenly go into another cycle that puts the damper on global warming and makes the rapid burning of all the fossil fuels we can get our hands on a necessity for our survival. Some things however we can predict with a fair amount of certainty and with the very recent warming of the earths atmosphere and surface water temps, changes in dangerous weather patterns that will effect us drastically will happen within our life times and that of our children and this is a almost a certainty.
A rapid move now away from fossil fuel consumption might just save us if there is another mini ice age coming or if we blow ourselves up and in so doing actually test the nuclear winter hypothesis. Then again the MAD policy of the cold war served us well in one regard. At least it kept us from testing the nuclear winter hypothesis. Why some of us insist upon continuing to test the hypothesis of global warming by listening to the fossil fuel industry shills however is MAD in my books given the correlation between recent increases in C02 levels and the recent increases in global mean temperatures!
The existence of ocean weather patterns created by the movement of warm water has been known for centuries. The existence of a cycle between El Niño and La Niña has been known for a very long time and the cycle is usually about 4 to 6 years. This has changed and if the cycle continues to expand in years it is a direct result of rapid climate change. The extended duration of the last cycle cause the Pacific blob, a patch of warmer water much further north in the Pacific, something never seen before.
As we see the global mean temperatures are increasing more rapidly directly because of the corresponding increase in atmospheric C02.
As a direct result of these rapid changes we can expect a much more violent climate. Plain and simple storms that cause damage will increase in frequency and severity and there is nothing we can do about it accept try to reduce the use of fossil fuels to slow the increase in atmospheric CO2. These are just the inconvenient truths about how messing up our atmospheric gas balance with the unrelenting and ever increasing burning of fossil fuels is causing more trouble than it is worth. Facts do not cause the panic however failure to act does. We still have people who believe in the idiotic NIMBY dictum that "the solution to pollution is dilution" shilling for the energy giants. Scott Pruitt is one of the worst.
Yes C02 is not a pollutant by definition but a sudden atmospheric imbalance of gases is something which is obviously going to effect our civilization in ways that we might regret. A slightly warmer earth is not necessarily a dangerous thing provided the change is not too fast for us to adapt as a species. Humans are causing an unnatural cycle to occur in atmosphere whether or not we survive our stupidity as a species remains to be seen. Then again just perhaps these short sighted greedy assholes that think they are capable of running the world will teach us to work together as a species for a change. Either that or they will blow us all up and thus solve the very real problem of mankind changing the earth's atmosphere too rapidly. The next phase of Trumpification of truth will most likely be the removal of the data to show what is happening simply do that by dissolving NASA now that muzzling the scientists working there is not working. Make America Great Again is the biggest lie ever foisted upon a peoples!
You're still paying for the EPA, and they are still spending money on important things which I'm sure must be in the interests of the country. We know those things are important, because they're so sensitive.
The morons look like they are trying to recreate a mem from episodes of Get Smart. When you are professional shill like Pruitt and you are appointed as a hatchet man you better not let your conversations be made public or the shit will hit the fan real quick. The actions and dealings of public servants in institutions like the EPA, the TSA, NASA, the CDC and the like should not be secrets they should be public record by law! We are moving towards a dictatorship and this is one of the first major steps in that direction. How government is dealing with issues that should be under continuous public debate and must be open to the public so the institution is directly responsible to the electors. This action simply goes to show that the muzzles of dictatorship is slowly being put in place.
When the moves to change the election process start by this obvious tyrant wantabee then perhaps some people will start to wake up and realize that the government of the US is in deep trouble. He has already hinted that this is in the works. Like Hitler said elect the NSDAP and you will never need to vote again. The republican party would be better served to formally split from these idiots and have a shadow leader appointed to expose their obvious moves toward a closed society.
DON'T link word documents to flash content or create .docx with flash content or trust the idiots who do! It is the same thing as pissing in a sand box and then wondering why your clothes stink.
Look, reactor fallout and dirty bombs are not quite the same.
The main thing is this: incidental exposure in an area with rain is only that from direct contact and ingestion, either via air (masks) or water/food.
You can flush your system with drinkable water, on a residential level, from the water stored in your hot water heater and in your toilet reservoirs, as well as anything in your fridge or freezer.
It's only from crops grown or water collected after the incident that you have a risk. Shower if exposed, change clothes exposed. Don't eat local products grown after the time of exposure.
As Hanford starts to leach higher levels into the water table that feeds the lower Columbia basin it only stands to reason that the water source for that agricultural area needs to be deemed safe as it spikes. By increasing the level of water born exposure tolerated it slows down the cleanup required to keep the water at a lower level of contamination. Next on the chopping block is the cleanup super fund and costs of monitoring and reimbursing workers that are not able to work due to reaching exposure limits. Increase the exposure limits and bingo you can put off doing environmental work until the fish and Walla Walla onions start to glow in the dark.
You might not see on Whitehouse dinner menu in 40 years Columbia River wild salmon, Washington state Granny Smith Apple Pie, Famous Washington State Riesling with the asshole that is power today. Because you can almost bet that this move to increase the water born limits is a move to put off the super fund work necessary to slow the spread of radiation from places like Hanford. All bets are off if there is a major seismic event hits the area though or if one of the upstream Columbia major dams lets loose. At that point any attempt to stop or slow the leaching would be impossible. Perhaps the only solution to places like Hanford is to learn how to re use and break down some of the worst waste products safely in reactors.
You can also still force firefox to use the flash.so as a preference. Don't run it in Wine then you run the chance of having your .wine directory compromised with a windows flash exploit LOL. Sorry if you are that afraid of .swf files. The ability to run binaries from /home also makes it much easier to remove shit like the much hated flash .macromedia drm configurations and try shit out without touching anything other than /home. Something which some people do not quite understand it seems. But then again the purpose of show hidden files seems to be something which some here do not get either.
This is the problem with distros like Suse and Ubuntu to an extent they try to hide how to do simple things from the user and like Microsoft target users who do not want to learn anything about system configuration or the real capabilities of Linux. Either that or obfuscate function relations so that only they can figure out WTF they did. LSB is a bit of a joke thanks to some distros. Go "con"figure I just exercised my systemDaemon.
My point is that the worst thing that he can do is to use buzz words like "leveraged" or "hallmarks of excellence" especially on a letter of introduction or worse use words that are nebulous corporate jargon during an interview! He is being interviewed as a programmer all he needs to do is explain which languages he is competent in and that he takes pride in his skills and can demonstrate them.
Most importantly he needs to ask what the company has to offer him in a polite way so that the interviewer quickly gets the point that the interviewee is self assured and aware of their worth. An experienced programmer that is self assured without arrogance that avoids the false pretense of corporate speak nonsense will always get the best jobs.
My boss got a kick out of this one.What was more fun though was running this one in stand alone flash in full screen on Linux after my boss asked to borrow my laptop a few years ago. He actually thought that my copy of windows had been hacked. Funny as hell when I had to come over and get him out of it and explain that he was not in a windows environment. He has not borrowed my laptop since but always asks for me for all his personal IT setup.
Think of it this way:
1) You won't get caught. The company interviewing you most certainly won't tell the other company that you shared code, and as long as you just show it to the interviewer on your own machine (not give them a file with the code) it won't escape into the wild, so you have nothing to worry about.
2) True, the company you are interviewing for many get a few ideas from what you showed them. But regardless, they would have to code it themselves (see point 1), and secondly, if the original company had management issues like that, it's almost their karma for treating their employees like that (should have trusted them more, in which case they would have stayed and not shared code).
You are the worst possible kind of candidate for a job in IT. No ethics, no pride, no class. Those are not things you can learn, you were simply born with a few missing parts.
You don't belong in IT but you probably have a future in used cars sales or marketing. Time to pivot, my friend, otherwise it won't be long before your name circulates on the informal do-no-hire network.
But he would have made a hell of a good PLUMBER working for Nixon. It seems what is happening is that morons with no scruples have a much easier time climbing the ladder of politics and even other places that rely upon employees with no scruples.
Instead of IT this guy would do well with companies like ENRON or just about any of the other garbage organizations that hire people of his ilk. He should however avoid the mafia and the respected organized crime corporations, because unless he has at least a practiced pretense of being scrupulous chances are he will be fired for good by someone with a Saturday night special!
Qualcomm is going after Apple in the US for violation of Qualcomm's US patents. It's going after Apple in China too, for violation of Qualcomm's China patents. I swear, you tech fucks don't understand a damn thing about patents. They ONLY cover for the country that issued them! A US patent has zero force outside of the US. Canada, China, Germany - no force at all. Each country has its own patents and laws related. Qualcomm will probably end up suing Apple in ALL the countries where it has those patents - and if it wins, Apple won't be able to sell OR build in any of those countries.
The US suits are more of a tit for tat shot because Apple sued Qualcomm first. What would be more interesting is if when Qualcomm gets shot down but the courts in both China and the US it then decides to go after Intel. However I suspect that Intel used some "clean" engineers to do the reverse work and will come out smelling like a rose in a shithouse and Qualcomm will not dare stir the pot by going after Intel. It took Intel 15 years to break into the CDMA market to the point where Apple feels comfortable with their chips but they did it, so most likely they did it cleanly. Qualcomm knows the writing is on the wall for their designs.
Apple sued Qualcomm because Qualcomm tried to extort Apple and charge them a premium and at the same time force them into using their chips. I suspect that the lastest moves from Qualcomm is a desperation move because they see the writing on the wall.
Why, because of his exemplary professional behavior? Also, who would be insane enough to hire him now?
Equifax Argentina division, he would most likely do a bang up job securing their servers. At least he knows how to effectively lock down and change admin passwords in a Windows server setup which is a skill that seems to elude Equifax IT specialists.
Intel must be laughing all the way to the bank on this one.
Yes as we all know only Australia uses that default username/password combo.
Either that or something easy to remember and guess like waltzingmatilda or the likes. I would think that one could break into most of the infrastructure of .au with that one.
Allowing user set passwords to administration rights that are global and are accessible over the internet to critical data that is not locked down and encrypted is inherently stupid. About as smart as allowing remote admin priviledge to a website from the assholes claiming over the phone to be from microsoft windows security division calling you because your computer has been compromised. I suspect that the contractor was connected to someone who gave out the contract to a friend with some cash because the contractor sure as hell was not vetted properly!
After all, a complicated set of libraries is all computer languages become. And with the extent and diversity of functions and myriad of libraries needed to create programs in the future, the task will become far better suited to computer memory than humans. Better to bore a computer to death with billions of lines of code than ruin a students brain with the rote learning of millions of interrelated library functions.
Polaroid tried to break into the unlocked market and seems to be failing without having a secret revenue stream. Their 6 inch dual sim is a decent and super cheap phone and is as close to a stock android install as I have seen. I bought one for my wife and found it to be free from adware and garbage apps. Obviously some of the cheap unlocked phones are going to try the adware/spyware route. The only solution I see is if you just want a phone with no carrier lock then make dam sure that the android install is not polluted and you can remove garbage apps that try to go online without consent.
The phone plan that we have is setup so that the browser function and any other app including e-mail cannot use LTE, the voice search function of chrome is switched off. NO DATA PLAN PERIOD. It does mean that we cannot send text with pics but this is how you dig yourself into the cell phone 100 plus dollars a month rabbit hole and the carriers love it! SCREW THAT We only use the phone on the net if there is wifi available and keep the wifi turned off until we chose to enable it. For us it is a phone that can do the net but first and foremost it is a phone that we can chose to shut off when not in use and it does not keep us in the poor house!
An Intel inside iPhone would be an interesting development.
Already happening. Fortune
Intel is working on much more than that and is trying hard to break into the phone market in a really big way, not just with atom based arch. Even though they have been out of the running for 16 years it seems this time they are coming back and are really looking for the brainz this time. Like I said either they are paying Qualcomm to not sue them or we might see a major tech merger. Say perhaps Qualcomm and Intel in a joint venture with a mind to squash Samsung once and for all?
Either way there are interesting times ahead in the cell chip sector and there will be blood on the floor with the introduction of the new high end Note by Samsung. The iPhone 8 has some serious competition this time around and I think Apple knows it. If the new 8 series from Samsung starts to take over a huge section of the market the way the original galaxy did you can bet the bullshit American protectionist law suits will fly again. Like the Boeing bombers now flying over Quebec Canada the tariff(s) on Samsung phones will be enormous.
Qualcomm getting into manufacturing instead of just farming out their designs was a step that they might regret if Apple gets pissed enough with Qualcomm and switches over completely. Stay tuned slashdotters the 2018 iPhone will most likely have an intel inside sticker on it. What would be even more amazing is if somehow suddenly Nokia came back to life with Microsoft putting the bill to buy out all the unused Qualcomm production capacity in Taiwan. Stranger things have happened. Who knows we might even see a really great Nokia Android phone with secure MS office, sql and exchange. Life will could get very difficult for the MS, Android and Apple fanboys they would all feel like somehow they were forced into a sex change operation without consent.
Yeah..what about un-recyclable non-repairable phones that you put out every six months..
I hasten to point out that the majority of android phones are not even made by google controlled companies. Then again the google hate here on slashdot is something we have come to expect in first or second post positions over the years to say the least!
Want to release the hounds? Just post something about what google is claiming to do on Slashdot. It seems that almost the entire old scroogled crowd that has shilled the shit out of slashdot for years is alive and well to say the least. IF YOU DON'T FUCKING LIKE GOOGLE USE BING and buy a Nokia phone but STFU with the bullshit google troll posts.. please!
Although I do agree that the whole carbon neutral thing is PR bullshit at least they can make themselves feel good as you use google search and make the processors somewhere in their servers get a tiny bit hotter. I am really sorry that you have to suffer through some advertising for the privilege of using the google search engine or gmail. Send your money to fucking microsoft instead and stop replacing the default search engine in Edge and IE if you are serious about how much google inc is costing you and the environment!
I will tell you know, by 2030 this plan will fail or be extended. or ended if people wake up to realize climate change is a lie.
I would suggest that you go preach your bullshit to the people fighting the fires currently ravaging wine country in California. Then get a bullhorn and tell everybody who is running to get the hell out of the fire zones that climate change is a lie and that if they will just listen to the anti-science nutjobs there is nothing to worry about. Tell them they have nothing to worry about because very soon a radical swing to winter floods will start and what is left of their neighborhoods will have plenty of water and mud slides to put out any fires that are still burning.
You sir are an unmitigated asshole and have no idea of the concept of oscillations in scale and how the radical changes and oscillation to extremes in climate patterns we are now seeing is as a direct result of climate change. Whatever you do don't put your brain to work learning anything about predictive mathematical modeling, it is obviously well beyond your intelligence level.
There is a reason why more people are switching to electric cars in California than elsewhere in the US, there they are seeing the results of the radical increases to the earths level of CO2 in the atmosphere to a much greater extent than the rust belt region where the cars are built, I might add largely with the electricity created by the coal belt. Unfortunately a huge portion of the population of the US is essentially fucked in the head with an obsession for gas and diesel guzzling oversized pieces of steel on four wheels and it will take another stupid economic collapse and many more deaths from severe storms for the majority to finally wake up from their stupidity. Either that or some unforeseen consequence from the recent increased CO2 in the atmosphere will bite us all in the ass and thereby reduce our consumption of fossil fuels by wiping the majority of us off the fucking planet.
Yes I am pissed at these assholes, Sony, Apple, Google and the whole shebang deserve to be roasted for what they do to classical recordings. Sell me pure 24 bit by at least 96 audio files of great well mixed recordings and I will pay but as long as you jackasses 'normalize' and compress the shit out of classical recording I want nothing to do with you and you will not get one more cent out of my pocket period.