None of your rant is actually relevant. The problem wasn't "weather pumping anything all summer. it was the fact that we got an oddball hurricane that decided to linger a bit. If not for this peculiar bit of movement it would have been much less interesting and damaging.
Your narrative doesn't explain what happened.
> Right now large areas of Southern California are experiencing temps that are marginal for human survival.
You mean the desert? It's always been like that. Just ask anyone that's ever lived in Nevada, Arizona, or southern Utah. This is the sort of hysterical silliness that makes "deniers" out of people.
I doubt if Eastern North Americans know anything about what is currently happening in the West. The areas of the west that are experiencing record breaking temperatures and drought are far greater than the news media in the east is reporting. The heat wave in British Columbia is breaking all records for lack of rainfall and the areas of California reaching over 110f are not the areas you have stated!
To state that hurricanes in the Atlantic have nothing to do with the shifting climate cycles of the Pacific and the corresponding unusual and prolonged northern track of the jet stream is just plain wrong. A normal el Nino year would by now see a moderate cooling of the waters of the Atlantic where hurricanes start to form. Instead because the jet stream is staying way to the north cooler air is not making it to the areas of the Atlantic that are carried south and east by the trade winds. If this situation continues to the end of September then the Atlantic could easily spawn serious hurricanes into November instead of just the usual tropical depressions that send fall and winter rains to the east coast of North America. I suggest you go work for Ronald Frump, who knows he might need some help rebuilding his golf courses in Florida soon if Irma hits land there at cat 5;-) My apologies to Ronald Frump. Also my sincere apologies to the real Republican Ronald Frump in Florida who has a very unfortunate name but would most likely make a better POTUS than the current moron.
We'll all remember your instance that weather is climate the furst extreme cold snap that occurs this winter, which by your logic utterly disproves global warming...
I guess to you it's just an "inconvenient truth" how long it's been since we've even had any serious hurticanes hit the US.
Part of the reason why the hurricanes were absent was because of an unusual prolonged el Nino in the Pacific. The duration and severity of the typhoons in the Eastern Pacific during the el Nino years were also effected. But because typhoons do not directly effect North Americans by and large they are ignored. Now the situation is doing a wild swing in the other direction. Now we see the jet stream taking a long sweep to the north all summer pumping moisture eastward like a vacuum cleaner gone mad. All indications of radical changes in the earths climate. These changes are like the mood swings in bipolar individuals that are becoming suicidal.
The upside of the damage that is being done is that it might just shut down a fair portion of the biggest polluters and make gasoline and oil refining too expense to maintain thereby effectively reducing North American oil consumption. Houston and the gulf coast was a dumb place to put the majority of North America's key oil refining infrastructure the same as putting the Fukushima nuclear facility near the ocean in an earth quake hot spot was not exactly the best idea it was just the cheapest place to build because of the easy water and a handy heavy lift port access.
We are in for a very rough ride, this is just the beginning of hurricane season and a sustained change in corresponding ocean temperature patterns. My bet is that the majority of US centric ignorant Americans do not even know about the very recent North Pacific Blob and how radical changes in the ocean temp there are strongly effecting much more than just global weather patterns in ways never seen in history.
Right now large areas of Southern California are experiencing temps that are marginal for human survival. 45 degrees C over more than a few days is downright dangerous and the pattern of extreme summer drought on the West Coast will be followed with flooding in winter. Unfortunately we have brought this situation on ourselves and it will take huge human die off to effectively wake people up. Ocean temp change are contributing to the loss of a huge portion of the ocean's fisheries which is almost exclusively from our activities. The rapid loss of cheap protein from ocean sources will be the first phase of a planetary human die off. Be prepared for Friskies kitty vitals at 10 dollars a can boys! MEOW
Ever notice how anything the CIA does post Trump is Trumps fault, but pre-Trump is never Obama's fault?
One fly in the ointment here, the CIA has essentially been invisible since His Majesty of the DT took over the orafice of POTUS and down graded it to POtuS status. Essentially the CIA run amok is because if Obama did anything to restrain them it would have not made it past capital hill. So instead he focused on getting the affordable care act enacted and left the dirty dealing specialists alone to do their, well DIRTY WORK.
Hillary's e-mail screw ups while she was in her much anointed secretarial position didn't effect the CIA work done to get Bin Laden. So if anything one might just find that her and the CIA letting some info go wild is as important as getting it. Something which the previous Republican asshole were incapable of doing effectively. With BUSH league vice asshole Chaney, meddling with the CIA intel people and fucking them over into giving bullshit "weapons of mass distraction" intel, who can blame the CIA for going it alone and creating some innovative ways of getting real intel. Don't forget this ho hum big deal software trojan scheme goes all the way back to a time when Bin Laden was alive and laughing at the US and especially the Republicans for invading Iraq instead of concentrating on the real problems with assholes like Assad and the real radicals in North Pakistan and Afghanistan.
All the Bush invasion of Iraq did was to put pressure on the Saudis to keep oil prices down and get the stuff flowing from northern Iraq again. Essentially the taking control of the reserves out of the hands of Saddam Hussein and making the Saudis position very difficult. Not too much different from Saddam invading Kuwait and then blowing up their oil production to spite the US and increase his illegal northern export market share, he did have a cozy relationship with the Assad regime when it came to oil exports and was laughing at the US sanctions.
NO the US has been fucked over by the republicans to the extent that the rest of the world is well aware of the bullshit. Trump and his antics are just a laughing stock to most sane humans everywhere on this planet, contrary to popular belief the CIA is still very much respected by the rest of the world but the few sane US republicans are on life support. My prediction is that when Chaney finally kicks the bucket Colin Powell will finally come clean and tell the truth about how he was hood winked and made to look like a fool. NOW that would really be something, Colin Powell as the first black Republican president. President.. HMM not a bad idea. I'm sure he could get health care repealed and sooth the assholes in the once lucrative US health insurance industry who are still hell bent and desperate to kill it.
Do you have a program that assembles random words into a sentence?
I hope not...that's the last marketable skill people with MBA's have. If we automate it, imagine the horror when those people disperse into the rest of society.
I prefer the Chomskybot. What Samsung might be doing is hiring bullshit code grinders instead of high priced quality inhouse programmers. Either that or they have hired a pile of the recently deceased from Redmond. I always wondered what happened to the cruft that got the ax at Microsoft after Ballmer left, perhaps too many of them got into the hot IOT device market. I would not trust a Microsoft schooled hardware coder to program my friggin' toaster!
I have to say I have not seen a bad update from Samsung on any device I have owned so most likely their Q and A in coding has gone for a shit recently and there is a rational explanation for the down turn in the quality of their software.
A big part of the reason why nerds that are into tech gadgets can't get laid is that the chicks that they are after are too busy with a cell phone texting to notice the guy next to them drooling.
Youtube cashing in on advertising revenues is only a symptom of what is wrong with the RIAA and all the other bullshit so called "art" oriented organizations. There are many very talented musicians now being recognized world wide for their gifts because of youtube, many get concert dates and huge numbers of fans because they are exposed to the public in a new way that the RIAA and the old school "labels' cannot achieve.
Berta Rojas is a good example. Her art is something which the recording industry is not capable of delivering to the public precisely because she plays for a segmented audience and does not have mass appeal the way the overproduced pap of today's so called "pop" music does.
More and more people who know turn to youtube not to listen to new pop that the RIAA churns out in an endless stream. Instead youtube is becoming the best way for the worlds best artists to find an audience. Yes there is a plethora of pop posted to the 'tube" but there is also some stuff that would never be available and this is the most important aspect of what is going on.
I can just see it now some Nazi is going to cash in by claiming an artistic picture of their sausages were violated and used by Facebook commercially, Now every sauerkraut in Germany can go after Zuks mega bucks for using any "intellectual property", almost as if Germany is turning into a clone of West Texas or Utah.
While I'm sure they wanted to get it out on time it's not ready. I'm testing it right now on my Lumia 920 and while in general it's a major upgrade with many great features over 8 there are some pretty critical issues remaining. In the latest build which I got only a couple days ago my camera has completely stopped working. In the previous build the news app crashed opening one out of three articles.
It still needs work.
Don't worry they will do the same thing they did with quite a few hd audio functions in Win10 and simply apply a regression for the driver functions that break. Some people will lose others will be ok. Hell they didn't even get the Win10 release right for their own Surface 3 hardware without some features regressing. Windows and HD audio just plain suck period, always has and will continue to suck as long as they don't spend cash on it and pile on the cash for features like cortana which in turn breaks HD audio on some devices because of latency and other serious issues. That is where Apple and core audio has it all over Windows, fewer worries about a hundreds of garbage audio driver interfaces to maintain and test before releases. Audio problems were one of the show stoppers and the cortana team seemed to have priority over the WDM team which is absolutely stupid.
If they screw the pooch as badly with their own phone OS and audio goes for a shit then the release of WP10 will have to be put on hold or they will have to remove some features on the release.
To me it sounds like there is some hostile activity happening to at least one of the two. So they are going into survival mode. Watch as the axe starts to fall on North American wages and salaries. Watch like a hawk for equipment and whole factories secretly being loaded on ships to go to places where environmental law is non existent and labour is dirt cheap. Trust, integrity, company values have all become smoke and mirrors in our new Warlmart Nation world!
He said like Red Hat, SUSE & Debian. That means that these three are examples, not the canonical list.
Seems like you don't know much about reading comprehension at all.
Spoken as a dedicated Nazi supporter of Systemd no doubt. ALL hail the new and mighty conqueror of common sense and sysv. Rather difficult putting the boots to Patrick though he seems to be able to keep Slackware very mean, lean, reliable, smokin' fast and rock solid security wise without the sysd Nazi's telling him how to set up a distro. I still love being able to tweek my os and you guys are dumbing down linux just so it can become mainstream. Give Patrick credit his creation has been around since the one series of kernels and Slackware is still used by a butt tonne of admins who don' t want to pay RedHat Suse or Oracle and know how to set up a real server. Different tools for different jobs. Ubuntu and all the derivatives are for newbees who can't even edit simple config files and that is just fine.
The grand old lady was known in Homer's Illiad as 'white armed Hera', the wife of Zeus.
Yes and Zeus and his sister Hera had a child which made Zeus jealous thinking that it would become a more powerful god than he. So he ate it. SOMEHOW I don't incest. child murder and cannibalism is how the Japanese managed to pull off the engineering marvel of using slow thrust over 5 years to salvage their mission to Venus though. But it might be how the US manages to send a manned mission to Mars if Donald Trump gets elected. Come to think of it he and his supporters are welcome to claim Mars provided they all homestead there permanently they can have it all to themselves. Oh and they can take along Tzar Putin while there at it! Credit where credit is due the Japanese are very insightful examining Venus over a long period of time. As the Sun cools it might become our next home until the Sun exhausts it's supply of hydrogen and swells up like Zeus in a rage and eats the planetary children that are too close.
You have a doughnut in the low level of your operating system that can communicate online without OS kernel protection, so essentially you boot to ram a executable that can modify the OS section of windows with impunity. About the same as Homer Simpson putting a doughnut into the reactor core to moderate the control rods!
It's likely a physical problem happened (i.e. tree fell on a line) and there is no redundancy in the network.
Comcast has a lack of redundancy as well.
If you want redundancy, multihome by getting a separate ISP on another provider. If you want an AT&T lineman to give you a cussing, install ISDN. It still exists and is the best thing for remote desktop I've seen. Latency as low as 16ms isn't bad at all. A better solution would be to use a local WISP as your backup. If a tree falls, service improves.
Thanks for that suggestion latency is not an issue except for the times I when I communicate directly over the net. A net outage while I am setting up a DAW is a royal pain in the ass to say the least.
Read my next post please it explains exactly why I am a little pissed at having my connection blacked out. I suspect that the internet infrastructure in BC is going to need a major rework because of streaming crap on the net. It just cost me half a work day when the net went down and perhaps a sale.
My previous post was a rant because I was in the middle of installing windows and linux as an audio server for a client when this happened. Now I have to start the windows configuration all over before I put in the Linux drive and reconfigure grub to dual boot both drives, A royal pain in the ass because I was in the middle of activating the windows OEM and now I have to phone Microshaft again GRRRRRRR
The lie is Shaw was down for more than just two hours we did not get our node on the hub back until just and hour ago at about 9 pm pacific! The story but only part of the problem! They are still having trouble all over the place and their business customers are in a blue funk to say the least!
Ever since Microsoft hatched windows vista and then proceeded to to screw over everybody with windows 8 and now the biggest " all your files are belong to us " release of windows 10 that screws over 7 with an automatic update. I am surprised this time they didn't hire the Stones to re release one of their songs and change the lyric from HEY HEY YOU YOU to Hey Hey who you you get onto our cloud. Like a scene from a rock and roll horror picture with a zombie geriatric rock band suddenly comes back to change history. I keenly remember having to use trumpet winsock to even get a dial up connection to work because Microsoft was to desparate to write their own stack for the net and realized that they would have to dominate the net as well as businesses to expand their empire. NOW we have a pile of zombie users watching of every crap movie they can watch on their Microshaft or to a lesser extent Crapple toy computer. Add all that to cell phones watching shit on the net regardless of whether it is LTE, 3g wifi at Barfucks or whatever and you have a recipe for internet chaos.
Today Shaw internet went out on Vancouver Island for the longest period of time I have ever seen it down. I am willing to bet it was not a hack or a fiber optic problem that took down Shaw today. If we continue to use the net for entertainment purposes then it is obvious that the infrastructure will by necessity will need updating. Like our highway systems and everybody in a car there are going to be major traffic problems that will cost us billions in lost time waiting to get things done stuck on the internet or on the freeway.
The bandwith problems are not coming from slashdotting the way it happened once upon a time in the good old day. And they are certainly not coming from me downloading torrent isos of bsd and linux, my son in law downloads over 200 gig a month in movies I rarely get over 4 gig a month use out of shaw and that is with all of our household network use including my wifes work, my music uploads and downloads and my audio work. So yes it is movies and streaming entertainment that is causing the pipes to plug. Trouble is the plumbers at microsoft and crapple are hard at it putting in bigger pipes so the shit shows can stream everywhere and your toilet is now in your living room and real computers are in the bathroom going for a shit!
"Bananas were discovered by the Portuguese on the Atlantic coast of Africa. They cultivated the fruit on the Canary Islands. From there it was introduced to the Americas by Spanish missionaries....."
That is the recent, European and American history of the fruit, and what they 'discovered' in west Africa was that Africans were already cultivating it. Bananas had been discovered and used by others a whole long time before that. As can be seen in any wider treatment of the subject.
Yes I am well aware that the great Khan loved bananas and was also bananas from drinking too much of the products of fermentation using both them and rice! Same as Alexander the Great when he conquered Persia and discovered the delights of the east. In Persia there were laws where the production of sweet Musa products was only permitted for nobility for the purpose of the creation of alcohol. And the peasants were permitted only to use unripe fruits.
The Romans were more sensible about the use of Musa and saw it as an exotic staple from largely unknown places in Africa and the Middle east down to Mesopotamia, they were not aware of far eastern species of the plant. So for the Romans, plantain products were mostly in the form of a salt cured potato chip like products that were traded for throughout the Roman empire after the defeat of Hannibal.
The history of food usage and cultivation is a fascinating subject and is a key in itself to our understanding of agriculture and how we as a species have managed to fuck things up over the centuries. The historical use of Musa in China is even older and like much of ancient Chinese history is not well understood in the West, or in China for that matter but you can bet that they brewed beer from it as well as used the plant to the full extent possible given the size and age of their Empire.
Forgetting the history of Musa is almost criminal and many who just grab a banana do not understand that the species is not native to the Americas or parts of the Pacific.
"Bananas were discovered by the Portuguese on the Atlantic coast of Africa. They cultivated the fruit on the Canary Islands. From there it was introduced to the Americas by Spanish missionaries. Documenting the arrival of bananas in the New World a Spanish historian wrote: “This special kind [of fruit] was brought from the Island of Gran Canaria in the year 1516 by the Reverend Father Friar Tomas de Berlandga.".to the city of Santa Domingo whence the spread to the other settlements on this island [of Hispaniola].".And have been carried to the mainlaetting the history of Musa is almost criminal and many who just grab a banana do not understand that the species is not native to the Americas or parts of the Pacific.
We can only hope that some of the primary sub types of plantain and bananas remains free from the list of plants that this disease is effecting. Plantain is a very diverse species and going bananas over one cultivar of Musa is stupid and a prime example of how abuse of the environmental resources of this planet by todays industrial farming technology is not a long term reliable method to feed the world.
The whole problem with moving species around the planet is the fact that historical uses of the species become forgotten and the diversity how they can be used is also forgotten. How many North Americans have actually cooked plantain and used it as a staple food? This is the real problem with our mono culture for the purposes of concentrating sugars and starches; we essentially throw the baby out with the bath water and go for sweetness in our diet by only using musa in the sweetest forms possible. Little do we understand that the leaves, the shoots and root stocks are viable food products. We harvest only the fruit and trash the rest. In trashing the rest we introduce problems with concentrating the diseases that latch on to the plants and like a zombie plague of ebola virus the plantations become overrun with diseases including virus.
The very same problems occur with mono culture fish farms, feed pens, over grazed land and all the other industrial methods we employ to create our food. Until we truly start to move away from industrialized mono culture techniques that does not care for the environment and instead relies upon the overuse of pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics we will continue to experience trouble with many diseases effecting our use plants, livestock and even ourselves in the case of antibiotics!
This is a plant virus that is causing the problems in this case but one can be certain that the virus is spread more by the farming methods used currently.
The study of plant viruses is a relatively new field and it is becoming obvious that mono culture is starting to cause more than just problems with larger pathogens like plant fungi and bacteria that are controlled with spray chemicals on industrial farms.
The article does not clarify whether or not the virus is a retro or what not and is not specific about the nature of the virus. The field of direct acting antivirals is new and exciting but is not the best answer to this problem. I know I was just cured of HCV with Harvoni which costs over a thousand dollars US per day to treat! So eliminating plant virus problems will be far too expensive an undertaking given current patent laws and the greed of corporations. All one has to do is look at the cost of drugs to understand why creating plant antivirals is not going to work. I am sure the BANANA REPUBLIC big shots will just try to find a cheaper way around the virus if it hits there companies. By there proven tactics of just moving around the way they always have when the land and labour costs and local politics start to effect their bottom lines. Woody Allen already did a film about Bananas, now he could do a sequel and call it The Return of The Banana Zombies. especially if the fruit companies and their supporters get back into power and the price of oil and bananas go bananas!
Talented programmers don't copy-paste code from search results. They do the search to learn the facts they are lacking, so they can code the solution themselves. The sort of person who can't think a problem through, and so routinely just googles a solution and uses it as-is, is precisely the sort of person who should not be programming for a living.
Sorry for being an elitist ass, but the job is hard, and not everybody is cut-out for it. Too much dependence on MSSQL by Danny Droptables is a clear sign that you belong in another industry.
A really good move to restore some faith in the programming community. Machine learning is a field that is much more complicated than desktop programming or user gui software design and will drive the very future of computers. The more programmers that can be stimulated to do research in the field of machine learning the better IMO. Far better than spawning nothing but hyped up "web programmers" which is what Microsoft was all about a few years back with all the.Net/mono crap they push on everyone.
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None of your rant is actually relevant. The problem wasn't "weather pumping anything all summer. it was the fact that we got an oddball hurricane that decided to linger a bit. If not for this peculiar bit of movement it would have been much less interesting and damaging.
Your narrative doesn't explain what happened.
> Right now large areas of Southern California are experiencing temps that are marginal for human survival.
You mean the desert? It's always been like that. Just ask anyone that's ever lived in Nevada, Arizona, or southern Utah. This is the sort of hysterical silliness that makes "deniers" out of people.
I doubt if Eastern North Americans know anything about what is currently happening in the West. The areas of the west that are experiencing record breaking temperatures and drought are far greater than the news media in the east is reporting. The heat wave in British Columbia is breaking all records for lack of rainfall and the areas of California reaching over 110f are not the areas you have stated!
To state that hurricanes in the Atlantic have nothing to do with the shifting climate cycles of the Pacific and the corresponding unusual and prolonged northern track of the jet stream is just plain wrong. A normal el Nino year would by now see a moderate cooling of the waters of the Atlantic where hurricanes start to form. Instead because the jet stream is staying way to the north cooler air is not making it to the areas of the Atlantic that are carried south and east by the trade winds. If this situation continues to the end of September then the Atlantic could easily spawn serious hurricanes into November instead of just the usual tropical depressions that send fall and winter rains to the east coast of North America. I suggest you go work for Ronald Frump, who knows he might need some help rebuilding his golf courses in Florida soon if Irma hits land there at cat 5 ;-) My apologies to Ronald Frump. Also my sincere apologies to the real Republican Ronald Frump in Florida who has a very unfortunate name but would most likely make a better POTUS than the current moron.
We'll all remember your instance that weather is climate the furst extreme cold snap that occurs this winter, which by your logic utterly disproves global warming...
I guess to you it's just an "inconvenient truth" how long it's been since we've even had any serious hurticanes hit the US.
Part of the reason why the hurricanes were absent was because of an unusual prolonged el Nino in the Pacific. The duration and severity of the typhoons in the Eastern Pacific during the el Nino years were also effected. But because typhoons do not directly effect North Americans by and large they are ignored. Now the situation is doing a wild swing in the other direction. Now we see the jet stream taking a long sweep to the north all summer pumping moisture eastward like a vacuum cleaner gone mad. All indications of radical changes in the earths climate. These changes are like the mood swings in bipolar individuals that are becoming suicidal.
The upside of the damage that is being done is that it might just shut down a fair portion of the biggest polluters and make gasoline and oil refining too expense to maintain thereby effectively reducing North American oil consumption. Houston and the gulf coast was a dumb place to put the majority of North America's key oil refining infrastructure the same as putting the Fukushima nuclear facility near the ocean in an earth quake hot spot was not exactly the best idea it was just the cheapest place to build because of the easy water and a handy heavy lift port access.
We are in for a very rough ride, this is just the beginning of hurricane season and a sustained change in corresponding ocean temperature patterns. My bet is that the majority of US centric ignorant Americans do not even know about the very recent North Pacific Blob and how radical changes in the ocean temp there are strongly effecting much more than just global weather patterns in ways never seen in history.
Right now large areas of Southern California are experiencing temps that are marginal for human survival. 45 degrees C over more than a few days is downright dangerous and the pattern of extreme summer drought on the West Coast will be followed with flooding in winter. Unfortunately we have brought this situation on ourselves and it will take huge human die off to effectively wake people up. Ocean temp change are contributing to the loss of a huge portion of the ocean's fisheries which is almost exclusively from our activities. The rapid loss of cheap protein from ocean sources will be the first phase of a planetary human die off. Be prepared for Friskies kitty vitals at 10 dollars a can boys! MEOW
At least according to the president who has rose colored glasses that protected his vision.
Ever notice how anything the CIA does post Trump is Trumps fault, but pre-Trump is never Obama's fault?
One fly in the ointment here, the CIA has essentially been invisible since His Majesty of the DT took over the orafice of POTUS and down graded it to POtuS status. Essentially the CIA run amok is because if Obama did anything to restrain them it would have not made it past capital hill. So instead he focused on getting the affordable care act enacted and left the dirty dealing specialists alone to do their, well DIRTY WORK.
Hillary's e-mail screw ups while she was in her much anointed secretarial position didn't effect the CIA work done to get Bin Laden. So if anything one might just find that her and the CIA letting some info go wild is as important as getting it. Something which the previous Republican asshole were incapable of doing effectively. With BUSH league vice asshole Chaney, meddling with the CIA intel people and fucking them over into giving bullshit "weapons of mass distraction" intel, who can blame the CIA for going it alone and creating some innovative ways of getting real intel. Don't forget this ho hum big deal software trojan scheme goes all the way back to a time when Bin Laden was alive and laughing at the US and especially the Republicans for invading Iraq instead of concentrating on the real problems with assholes like Assad and the real radicals in North Pakistan and Afghanistan.
All the Bush invasion of Iraq did was to put pressure on the Saudis to keep oil prices down and get the stuff flowing from northern Iraq again. Essentially the taking control of the reserves out of the hands of Saddam Hussein and making the Saudis position very difficult. Not too much different from Saddam invading Kuwait and then blowing up their oil production to spite the US and increase his illegal northern export market share, he did have a cozy relationship with the Assad regime when it came to oil exports and was laughing at the US sanctions.
NO the US has been fucked over by the republicans to the extent that the rest of the world is well aware of the bullshit. Trump and his antics are just a laughing stock to most sane humans everywhere on this planet, contrary to popular belief the CIA is still very much respected by the rest of the world but the few sane US republicans are on life support. My prediction is that when Chaney finally kicks the bucket Colin Powell will finally come clean and tell the truth about how he was hood winked and made to look like a fool. NOW that would really be something, Colin Powell as the first black Republican president. President.. HMM not a bad idea. I'm sure he could get health care repealed and sooth the assholes in the once lucrative US health insurance industry who are still hell bent and desperate to kill it.
Do you have a program that assembles random words into a sentence?
I hope not...that's the last marketable skill people with MBA's have. If we automate it, imagine the horror when those people disperse into the rest of society.
Too late. The bull shit generator has been around for a while now.
I prefer the Chomskybot. What Samsung might be doing is hiring bullshit code grinders instead of high priced quality inhouse programmers. Either that or they have hired a pile of the recently deceased from Redmond. I always wondered what happened to the cruft that got the ax at Microsoft after Ballmer left, perhaps too many of them got into the hot IOT device market. I would not trust a Microsoft schooled hardware coder to program my friggin' toaster!
I have to say I have not seen a bad update from Samsung on any device I have owned so most likely their Q and A in coding has gone for a shit recently and there is a rational explanation for the down turn in the quality of their software.
So that's why I can't get laid, I'm too smart?
Yeah, I'll go with that.
A big part of the reason why nerds that are into tech gadgets can't get laid is that the chicks that they are after are too busy with a cell phone texting to notice the guy next to them drooling.
Berta Rojas is a good example. Her art is something which the recording industry is not capable of delivering to the public precisely because she plays for a segmented audience and does not have mass appeal the way the overproduced pap of today's so called "pop" music does.
More and more people who know turn to youtube not to listen to new pop that the RIAA churns out in an endless stream. Instead youtube is becoming the best way for the worlds best artists to find an audience. Yes there is a plethora of pop posted to the 'tube" but there is also some stuff that would never be available and this is the most important aspect of what is going on.
I can just see it now some Nazi is going to cash in by claiming an artistic picture of their sausages were violated and used by Facebook commercially, Now every sauerkraut in Germany can go after Zuks mega bucks for using any "intellectual property", almost as if Germany is turning into a clone of West Texas or Utah.
While I'm sure they wanted to get it out on time it's not ready. I'm testing it right now on my Lumia 920 and while in general it's a major upgrade with many great features over 8 there are some pretty critical issues remaining. In the latest build which I got only a couple days ago my camera has completely stopped working. In the previous build the news app crashed opening one out of three articles.
It still needs work.
Don't worry they will do the same thing they did with quite a few hd audio functions in Win10 and simply apply a regression for the driver functions that break. Some people will lose others will be ok. Hell they didn't even get the Win10 release right for their own Surface 3 hardware without some features regressing. Windows and HD audio just plain suck period, always has and will continue to suck as long as they don't spend cash on it and pile on the cash for features like cortana which in turn breaks HD audio on some devices because of latency and other serious issues. That is where Apple and core audio has it all over Windows, fewer worries about a hundreds of garbage audio driver interfaces to maintain and test before releases. Audio problems were one of the show stoppers and the cortana team seemed to have priority over the WDM team which is absolutely stupid.
If they screw the pooch as badly with their own phone OS and audio goes for a shit then the release of WP10 will have to be put on hold or they will have to remove some features on the release.
All well and good but will they drive on the wrong side of the freakin' road?
To me it sounds like there is some hostile activity happening to at least one of the two. So they are going into survival mode. Watch as the axe starts to fall on North American wages and salaries. Watch like a hawk for equipment and whole factories secretly being loaded on ships to go to places where environmental law is non existent and labour is dirt cheap. Trust, integrity, company values have all become smoke and mirrors in our new Warlmart Nation world!
Uhh, you missed Slackware, which blah blah blah
He said like Red Hat, SUSE & Debian. That means that these three are examples, not the canonical list.
Seems like you don't know much about reading comprehension at all.
Spoken as a dedicated Nazi supporter of Systemd no doubt. ALL hail the new and mighty conqueror of common sense and sysv. Rather difficult putting the boots to Patrick though he seems to be able to keep Slackware very mean, lean, reliable, smokin' fast and rock solid security wise without the sysd Nazi's telling him how to set up a distro. I still love being able to tweek my os and you guys are dumbing down linux just so it can become mainstream. Give Patrick credit his creation has been around since the one series of kernels and Slackware is still used by a butt tonne of admins who don' t want to pay RedHat Suse or Oracle and know how to set up a real server. Different tools for different jobs. Ubuntu and all the derivatives are for newbees who can't even edit simple config files and that is just fine.
The grand old lady was known in Homer's Illiad as 'white armed Hera', the wife of Zeus.
Yes and Zeus and his sister Hera had a child which made Zeus jealous thinking that it would become a more powerful god than he. So he ate it. SOMEHOW I don't incest. child murder and cannibalism is how the Japanese managed to pull off the engineering marvel of using slow thrust over 5 years to salvage their mission to Venus though. But it might be how the US manages to send a manned mission to Mars if Donald Trump gets elected. Come to think of it he and his supporters are welcome to claim Mars provided they all homestead there permanently they can have it all to themselves. Oh and they can take along Tzar Putin while there at it! Credit where credit is due the Japanese are very insightful examining Venus over a long period of time. As the Sun cools it might become our next home until the Sun exhausts it's supply of hydrogen and swells up like Zeus in a rage and eats the planetary children that are too close.
You have a doughnut in the low level of your operating system that can communicate online without OS kernel protection, so essentially you boot to ram a executable that can modify the OS section of windows with impunity. About the same as Homer Simpson putting a doughnut into the reactor core to moderate the control rods!
It's likely a physical problem happened (i.e. tree fell on a line) and there is no redundancy in the network. Comcast has a lack of redundancy as well.
If you want redundancy, multihome by getting a separate ISP on another provider. If you want an AT&T lineman to give you a cussing, install ISDN. It still exists and is the best thing for remote desktop I've seen. Latency as low as 16ms isn't bad at all. A better solution would be to use a local WISP as your backup. If a tree falls, service improves.
Thanks for that suggestion latency is not an issue except for the times I when I communicate directly over the net. A net outage while I am setting up a DAW is a royal pain in the ass to say the least.
You need to drink less caffeine.
Read my next post please it explains exactly why I am a little pissed at having my connection blacked out. I suspect that the internet infrastructure in BC is going to need a major rework because of streaming crap on the net. It just cost me half a work day when the net went down and perhaps a sale.
The lie is Shaw was down for more than just two hours we did not get our node on the hub back until just and hour ago at about 9 pm pacific! The story but only part of the problem! They are still having trouble all over the place and their business customers are in a blue funk to say the least!
Today Shaw internet went out on Vancouver Island for the longest period of time I have ever seen it down. I am willing to bet it was not a hack or a fiber optic problem that took down Shaw today. If we continue to use the net for entertainment purposes then it is obvious that the infrastructure will by necessity will need updating. Like our highway systems and everybody in a car there are going to be major traffic problems that will cost us billions in lost time waiting to get things done stuck on the internet or on the freeway.
The bandwith problems are not coming from slashdotting the way it happened once upon a time in the good old day. And they are certainly not coming from me downloading torrent isos of bsd and linux, my son in law downloads over 200 gig a month in movies I rarely get over 4 gig a month use out of shaw and that is with all of our household network use including my wifes work, my music uploads and downloads and my audio work. So yes it is movies and streaming entertainment that is causing the pipes to plug. Trouble is the plumbers at microsoft and crapple are hard at it putting in bigger pipes so the shit shows can stream everywhere and your toilet is now in your living room and real computers are in the bathroom going for a shit!
"Bananas were discovered by the Portuguese on the Atlantic coast of Africa. They cultivated the fruit on the Canary Islands. From there it was introduced to the Americas by Spanish missionaries. ...."
That is the recent, European and American history of the fruit, and what they 'discovered' in west Africa was that Africans were already cultivating it. Bananas had been discovered and used by others a whole long time before that. As can be seen in any wider treatment of the subject.
Yes I am well aware that the great Khan loved bananas and was also bananas from drinking too much of the products of fermentation using both them and rice! Same as Alexander the Great when he conquered Persia and discovered the delights of the east. In Persia there were laws where the production of sweet Musa products was only permitted for nobility for the purpose of the creation of alcohol. And the peasants were permitted only to use unripe fruits.
The Romans were more sensible about the use of Musa and saw it as an exotic staple from largely unknown places in Africa and the Middle east down to Mesopotamia, they were not aware of far eastern species of the plant. So for the Romans, plantain products were mostly in the form of a salt cured potato chip like products that were traded for throughout the Roman empire after the defeat of Hannibal.
The history of food usage and cultivation is a fascinating subject and is a key in itself to our understanding of agriculture and how we as a species have managed to fuck things up over the centuries. The historical use of Musa in China is even older and like much of ancient Chinese history is not well understood in the West, or in China for that matter but you can bet that they brewed beer from it as well as used the plant to the full extent possible given the size and age of their Empire.
"Bananas were discovered by the Portuguese on the Atlantic coast of Africa. They cultivated the fruit on the Canary Islands. From there it was introduced to the Americas by Spanish missionaries. Documenting the arrival of bananas in the New World a Spanish historian wrote: “This special kind [of fruit] was brought from the Island of Gran Canaria in the year 1516 by the Reverend Father Friar Tomas de Berlandga.".to the city of Santa Domingo whence the spread to the other settlements on this island [of Hispaniola].".And have been carried to the mainlaetting the history of Musa is almost criminal and many who just grab a banana do not understand that the species is not native to the Americas or parts of the Pacific.
We can only hope that some of the primary sub types of plantain and bananas remains free from the list of plants that this disease is effecting. Plantain is a very diverse species and going bananas over one cultivar of Musa is stupid and a prime example of how abuse of the environmental resources of this planet by todays industrial farming technology is not a long term reliable method to feed the world.
The whole problem with moving species around the planet is the fact that historical uses of the species become forgotten and the diversity how they can be used is also forgotten. How many North Americans have actually cooked plantain and used it as a staple food? This is the real problem with our mono culture for the purposes of concentrating sugars and starches; we essentially throw the baby out with the bath water and go for sweetness in our diet by only using musa in the sweetest forms possible. Little do we understand that the leaves, the shoots and root stocks are viable food products. We harvest only the fruit and trash the rest. In trashing the rest we introduce problems with concentrating the diseases that latch on to the plants and like a zombie plague of ebola virus the plantations become overrun with diseases including virus.
The very same problems occur with mono culture fish farms, feed pens, over grazed land and all the other industrial methods we employ to create our food. Until we truly start to move away from industrialized mono culture techniques that does not care for the environment and instead relies upon the overuse of pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics we will continue to experience trouble with many diseases effecting our use plants, livestock and even ourselves in the case of antibiotics!
This is a plant virus that is causing the problems in this case but one can be certain that the virus is spread more by the farming methods used currently.
The study of plant viruses is a relatively new field and it is becoming obvious that mono culture is starting to cause more than just problems with larger pathogens like plant fungi and bacteria that are controlled with spray chemicals on industrial farms.
The article does not clarify whether or not the virus is a retro or what not and is not specific about the nature of the virus. The field of direct acting antivirals is new and exciting but is not the best answer to this problem. I know I was just cured of HCV with Harvoni which costs over a thousand dollars US per day to treat! So eliminating plant virus problems will be far too expensive an undertaking given current patent laws and the greed of corporations. All one has to do is look at the cost of drugs to understand why creating plant antivirals is not going to work. I am sure the BANANA REPUBLIC big shots will just try to find a cheaper way around the virus if it hits there companies. By there proven tactics of just moving around the way they always have when the land and labour costs and local politics start to effect their bottom lines. Woody Allen already did a film about Bananas, now he could do a sequel and call it The Return of The Banana Zombies. especially if the fruit companies and their supporters get back into power and the price of oil and bananas go bananas!
Might it not help if Microsoft had Cortana working correctly on windows 10 first? Instead of being a sorta works beta ware product.
I miss GNAA.
I miss BSD it must be dead! But who can forget the loveliness of BSD But that was when slashdot actually was interesting.
Talented programmers don't copy-paste code from search results. They do the search to learn the facts they are lacking, so they can code the solution themselves. The sort of person who can't think a problem through, and so routinely just googles a solution and uses it as-is, is precisely the sort of person who should not be programming for a living.
Sorry for being an elitist ass, but the job is hard, and not everybody is cut-out for it. Too much dependence on MSSQL by Danny Droptables is a clear sign that you belong in another industry.
There corrected the error of your logic.
A really good move to restore some faith in the programming community. Machine learning is a field that is much more complicated than desktop programming or user gui software design and will drive the very future of computers. The more programmers that can be stimulated to do research in the field of machine learning the better IMO. Far better than spawning nothing but hyped up "web programmers" which is what Microsoft was all about a few years back with all the .Net/mono crap they push on everyone.
Likely difficult. Windows 10 seems to be written in Flash
No this is the first good version of windows that was written in flash. Now it only runs on HTML5 and is as good as ever.