Or, show up five minutes early for a meeting, and get kvetched at for spending time in the conference room that you could have been working. You can't win.
Quit that job. Fin.
I'm pretty sure that my meetings bear little semblance to astronaut meetings. For some careers it makes sense that showing up early will help with success. For example, students, sales people, astronauts, etc. Anything where it helps you get into the right frame of mind, gets noticed by your manager, or aids you in getting that sale.
However, my meetings tend to be about IT projects, are scheduled on top of each other, have varying priorities, etc. Very few, if any, would lead to an increase in success by attending early. Much of the success in IT is driven by results and who you know, not by attending meetings early...
An AD administrator in charge of purging old user accounts was using a script to cull AD. He put an * someplace he shouldn't and deleted all the users in a sub-domain. That was a fun week. And I was still cleaning up after that fiasco months later.
Why would it have taken a week to recover? You can un-delete objects in AD. Below is an example... Should have taken, at most, a few hours to recover, not a week.
When Newegg has listings for the new processors and motherboard. Although it might be too late for me since I retired my nine-year-old Vista-compatible AMD quad-core motherboard for a Windows 7-compatible AMD eight-core motherboard last year. I might let the platform mature before I spring for new hardware.
Based on the news articles, you should start seeing these on Newegg within a couple of weeks (March 2nd). Supposedly AMD primed the retail channel prior to the announcement.
I learned in school, 40 years ago, a continent is a big plate floating on the earth magma. That is actually a pretty strict definition. Plates are called "continental shelf", mere islands like Hawaii or Japan are not on a continental shelf.
No idea why the english/american wikipedia article disagrees, I guess because it is written by hobbyists?
The problem with this definition is that California would be on a different continent than the rest of the continental USA. (The San Andreas fault separates the north american plate from the pacific plate) So I suppose that's why everyday american-english wants to use different continent classifications than official scientific ?
And similarily. India is its own separate plate from the rest of eurasia. Also, traditionally europe and asia have been considered different continents, although they are on the same eurasian plate.
All in all, people have get used to some world view (list of continent), and it's hard to ask them to change as more details emerge and the scientific view shifts a bit.
(see: reptile and birds and mammals in the common use : turtles and lizards are reptiles, the rest are not. from an evolutionnary and classification point of view: if you include both turtles and lizards the thing you call "reptile" is such a big chunk of the tree, that birds and mammals appear actually inside of it as sub-branches)
So... Does this mean that we can make Pluto a planet again? I'm pretty sure that if you asked the majority of the public, their world view would be that it is.
He may well be a troll. Entirely possible. But the videos I've thus far seen were not of a trollish cast, and the "Death to All Jews" one in particular is not remotely anti-semitic. If you genuinely believe it to be so, you may be from an actual intellectual, emotional or perceptual disorder of some sort.
It may not have been used or understood by the guys on the video to be a racist message (i.e. they may not have had a clue what they were doing) but I'm sure that PDP did. Whether he believed that they would do it or not is moot. He chose the toxic message to be displayed and, like it or not, it does show that he had a lack of understanding or maturity that he was crossing the line into racism. Does that make him a racist, not necessarily. People do stupid things sometimes and it's only after when they realize that the message wasn't what they intended.
This act alone was enough for him to lose his corporate sponsorship. In this day and age, no company wants to anger their customer base. The other videos, out of context or not, might have had some bearing. However, I'm pretty sure that the corporations would have done their due diligence and actually watched all of the videos brought to their attention before pulling their sponsorship.
There may be some validity in criticism in how the media is handling this but it's his actions that caused it in the first place...
Very high bandwidth links to wireless access points makes more sense going forward as far as I'm concerned. Continual upgrades to cell and Wi-Fi networks and similar makes more sense than running a strand of fiber to every single home.
Sure, lets do that. And lets see how well it works during bad weather, for apartment buildings, etc. To a certain degree it's like switching from cable to Direct TV. Expect outages....
What could you ask a man/women do for $10 or a promise of $5 a day. What if you established a trust fund for their child that paid $5 a day for 40 years, could you convince someone to commit suicide on camera? What would it cost to make one of those people hurt or kill someone? If I offered them $5 a day, would they hurt a friend or so.....
So get off your high horse and use the gray lump between your ears to better understand what we have seen. If the Jews (my family) would have used the gray shit between their ears, they probably could have stopped the holocaust before it started. Instead they behaved all huffy and pissy like you. If you believe what he did wasn't a joke, fine. i agree. It was not a joke, but in the spirit which it was done, we learned something very important and if you're gonna be a SJW, then at least stop being a f-ing stupid one!
I think the point that most people are making is that he could have come up with a better way of proving his point. All he had to do was use a different and less insulting and less racist way of doing it. It's my understanding that he chose the meme and that is what he is being judged on.
Does he have a valid point that people are in situations where they will do just about anything for a dollar just to survive? Yes. But we know that this is a sad truth, it's nothing new. There are other ways to draw attention to these types of causes, including starting up a charity or asking for donations for an existing one. He had the followers and could have done a lot of good. Imagine if your children could learn how to get involved in helping others half way around the world...
Instead, he chose a toxic message as part of his "comedy" and it overrides any good point he was trying to make.
That annoyed me, implying that the fastest wifi speed meant the fastest Internet speed. I hate deceptive advertising crap like that.
What's more annoying is that Verizon stopped their roll-out of FIOS in the North East after they got what they wanted, to encourage Comcast to come to the table and sell the Wireless spectrum that Verizon wanted. Once the deal was done, no more FIOS for you...
In fact, a Boston roll-out announced over the summer appears to be Verizon agreeing to a subsidized plan to expand FiOS to the home. However, investigations in to what exactly they are doing seem to indicate that the majority of the fiber being rolled out is specifically so that they can expand their wireless infrastructure. Their plan is to use 5G to connect homes instead of direct fiber to each house (less cost). The problem is that Wireless, as any WiFi expert can attest, sucks as far as reliability, interference from weather conditions and other sources, etc.
Microsoft Surface Pro... You can argue that it's just another tablet computer but they finally got it right and it's one of the best Windows tablets you can buy. Microsoft Mouse... Still a decent mouse Microsoft Word, Exchange, Outlook, etc... Exchange and Outlook were innovative for their time and were a part of the shift towards the digital office.
I'm sure that there are more on the programming side, etc., but these are the ones that most would be familiar with.
As impressive as those speeds are, I am much more impressed by a camera's image quality. What are the practical applications to these per-second speeds? Will they help eliminate blurring when I take a picture of my daughter, and she starts crawling away right when I take the picture? That would be useful.
Um, take a quick look at the size of the lens, that will tell you immediately what the limits are on image quality. Can you get good (or good-enough) photos out of a phone camera, in perfect conditions, yep... Can you get excellent photos in any number of challenging conditions? Nope... you need a real camera with a good quality lens for that.
The FBI notoriously takes years to act on FOIA requests. They are literally the worst agency at it.
Well, before they got overwhelmed by email requests, so it took them forever to catch up with all requests. Now they could easily stream line those requests with a bottle neck they created (with a couple lines of fax?). Great improvement I say.:p
I googled how much actual "play time" is involved in a NFL game.
It's 11 minutes.
I see the Superbowl as nothing but a bunch of advertising, some shitty attempts at "entertainment" at half time and an excuse to get a bunch of people together to eat a shitload of food.
It is a good time to do some traveling though as the freeways aren't crowded during the game.
And most video games can be played through in 30 minutes or less... what's your point? that you don't like Football (American Football)? Got it...
While there may be an average of 11 minutes of "play time", there is a lot going on beyond the actual physical play. Strategy, alignment, play calling, etc. takes up a bunch of time on field. For Football fans (American Football for our International friends) this is just as important as the actual physical play. Those who do not enjoy the game will see it as a waste of time.
I do agree that the Ads are over the top for the Superbowl, but that's how the NFL is so successful at generating money.
The message boards were the only reason I visited their site. While its true that trolls and SJW (pro and con) topics abound, there were also plenty of good information about the films in question. It seems to me that the real reason why they are shutting them down is because they aren't interested in the administrative overhead (dealing with complaints, etc.) to maintain them. Perhaps they are making enough money from the corporate side and paid subscriptions that they feel that they no longer need page hits from average users.
You also have to add a few third-party applications to fix the rest of the stuff that Microsoft broke, such as the Start menu.
I only had to do two things, install Start 10 ($5) and Spybot Anti-Beacon. There is free software out there to fix the Start menu but my personal preference was Start 10.
Also, I'm running Windows 10 Pro which allows me to defer updates until I am ready to install them. It cost a bit more than Home, but the added control is worth it.
If you read the article and look at the video clips, you see the robot get a running start, get down into a crouch and then jump in the air just in time to clear a barrier.
In a real warehouse that would be a pretty useless capability, but it still seemed kind of cool.
The fun part for me was when the robot put it's "hands" down on the ground to steady itself after the jump. I was wondering how they would handle the landing on just wheels. Without it the robot would have done a "face plant".
Apple has sold millions of watches. They don't release numbers, but estimates were 12 million in the first year. So there are like at least 20 million watches, probably. Apple sells like 50-80 million iPhones a year, so by that standard, they are a failure. And as you say, you probably know plenty of people with an iPhone, and only a few (or even none) with an Apple Watch.
The thing is, the Apple Watch NEVER had to match or even approach the iPhone in order to be a success. The iPhone is a such a success story it is a goddamned joke. The iPhone is close to half of Apple in most years, and this is for a company that nominally will sell you a server or monitor, actually will sell you a notebook, a laptop, a tablet, a goofy gameboy desktop, a variety of mice, the aforementioned watch, a bunch of almost entirely profit accessories (now with more dongles!), a music subscription service, and takes a cut off of everything they have a hand in selling, and not a small cut either.
The 8 bit Nintendo sold like 60 million units total. You probably knew someone with one of those, but for different reasons. There are entire companies with less units shipped than Apple Watch, and that will remain the case indefinitely. If your standard for success is "everyone in the civilized world will either own one of these or feel its absence day by day", then the Apple Watch is a failure. But if it is anything sane, it is not. It is clear that the Apple Watch, as a project, is quite profitable for Apple. Each Watch costs Apple much less to make than it sells for, and they sell millions.
No, you and your friends won't feel obligated to own and operate an Apple Watch. That doesn't make it a failure, any more than an Xbone or PS4 is a failure just because most people own neither.
I think that where the dichotomy lies is that most people conflate success with "popular". While the Apple watch may be a financial success and a success in a relatively limited market, it certainly isn't popular when compared to almost all other Apple products. As for the statement that Apple couldn't produce enough of them, we all know the games that manufacturers play just to be able to say that their product "sold out".
Yes, a niche product can be a success in it's own right. I see the Apple Watch as a niche product. I guess in that respect you could call it a success.
Same here, to be honest. AVG became unusable due to bloat a couple of years ago. Avast can have some serious issues when presented with a combination of Windows 10 with Anniversary Update and a Skylake CPU. The remainder all seem to be as bad as much of the malware they ostensibly protect you from.
I confess I spent a while feeling paranoid after I finally gave in and uninstalled Avast, but a few months on, I've had no problems with a combination of Windows Defender and a weekly Malwarebytes scan.
I've had no problem with Avast, Win 10, and the i5 Skylake on my Surface Pro 4. Not saying that there isn't one, just that I haven't experienced it.
My current security setup for all of my computers is Avast, Spybot S&D, and Spybot Anti-Beacon. The primary reason why I run Avast vs Defender is because Avast scans email on arrival and when sending and seems to have a bit more advanced protection. Defender only scans email when you open an attachment. One of these days, maybe my next computer, I'll drop Avast. But for now, this setup works for me.
Cable is yet again trying to "modernize" itself too woo back the cord-cutters. Yeah, the Roku is not why people are cutting the cord. It's the pricing model that a $2.50 credit doesn't come even close to fixing.
But... for those of us who do have a Roku and a X1 box, this would save us $2.50 a month. I have both in my bedroom and I only use X1 satellite box occasionally. I got the Roku to watch NHL Live as my favorite team (Oilers) plays late at night, local time. Getting rid of the extra X1 box and saving a few dollars, assuming that the App works well, is a bit of a win in my book. Plus, the Roku supports wireless and can be moved around the house. The X1 box has to be wired with Coax.
So, for cord cutters, maybe it won't be worth it in the end. But it's a nice option for those of us who still subscribe to cable.
"Critical Mass" indicates that there are more facilities coming online, or at least publicly planning to. No indication of that in TFA... in fact, the closest they got is this:
For now, gas peaker plants still win out on price for projects that aren’t constrained by space, emissions, or urgency, said Ron Nichols, President of SCE, the California utility responsible for most of the biggest battery storage contracts. 3 But that may change in the next five years, he said.
"...may change in the next five years..." is nowhere near actual activity that would indicate a "critical mass" in industry.
How about they call us when it actually gets in motion - regionally, if not nationally or globally.
Well, my definition is that "Critical Mass" means enough market share and sales for a company/product to have consumer acceptance and brand recognition. Plus, there is a component where it has been scaled to the point where manufacturing costs have been optimized. Given that the plants have just gone online and the products have yet to reach the market at any level of market share and that there hasn't been enough time to optimize the manufacturing process, I think that its a bit premature to be talking about "Critical Mass".
Perhaps a better phrase would be "Critical Capacity". There is finally have enough manufacturing capacity to meet Tesla's needs so that they can start rolling out their home/corporate products and the more affordable versions of their cars.
I accidentally modded down. Posting to erase. Absolutely insane. Whether you agree with a country's tax schemes, a sovereign nation has the right to decide these issues for themselves. More incomprehensible to me is why any sovereign would agree to such external interference in the first place. The benefits of being in a free-trade zone, no matter how lucrative, are not worth handing your balls over to Brussels. Money should not be worth more than dignity.
Except that being part of a trade agreement includes actually having to follow the rules as outlined as part of the agreement that you agreed to. If you didn't want to give up taxation autonomy then that should have been negotiated as part of the deal or you never should have signed it in the first place. In this case, Ireland gave up those rights to be part of the EU trading block and are trying to do an end-around the parts that they don't like.
For example, there have been many arguments in the NAFTA trade deal between the US and Canada concerning how import taxes are applied. Both countries have had to, at one point or another, reduce or remove certain import taxes as a result of it being found to be in violation of the trade agreement.
So no, a sovereign nation that has negotiated away those rights to gain a trade benefit does not have a right to decide by themselves and expect to continue as a partner in a trade deal. Of course, they can always decide to opt out. But, access to the EU trade market might be one of the reasons why companies choose Ireland beyond the obvious tax benefits.
Avaya has been making horrible equipment, especially for IP phones. If you want to make equipment that's closed source, closed to literally everything, require purchasing licenses just to add an extra phone and is incompatible with everything (Left overs from the Nortel era), what do you expect? They are still popular in the used phone system market, since they work good enough, but you no longer have support for it, other than your phone guy. Want to add a phone? What a big headache... Their much touted scalability is quite a sham when it requires a team of people just to add phones.
Meanwhile, I bought my office Yealink IP phones and they work great and literally compatible with everything, SIP (of course), including adding address books, supports VPN connections and very easy to manage. They also look great, sound great and the color touch screen is a big plus. They're not exactly cheap either. Yealink also doesn't handcuff me with licensing, restrictions and fees. Works great with Asterisk and I can add as many damn phones as I please.
People still need these phones, they're not going away any time soon, unless cellphones start linking your business phone extension, but a lot of people don't like doing that either. Much of the telecomms business moved onto VOIP providers, IP phones that work and your local IT support.
Many companies are moving towards software phones that support chat, voice, and video conferencing (i.e. Skype for Business) for office workers. That way you can work from another desk, at home, etc. while having the same phone number. Physical phones and phone systems are no longer being invested in.
The Pussy Grabber in Chief is going to lower corporate tax from 35% to 15% so America can become tax-friendly like Ireland.
Except the admitted Sexual Predator in Chief already says he doesn't pay any taxes and he knows full well corporations don't pay taxes, either.
We've been hearing a lot about Ireland lately, like how Microsoft's cloud service business is booming ever since Microsoft told American 3-letters to fuck off on grabbing people's data from Ireland.
Recall Trump's visit(s) to Ireland re: golf course?
That's where that tax-dodging coke head keeps his money, too.
Hey, I'm fine with them lowing the tax rate from 35% to 15% as long as there isn't any loopholes, deductions, or any way out of paying the 15% tax rate. After all, most corporations probably end up paying a lot less with the financial games they play.
Alexa, Google Home, Siri, Google Assistant. All of them. There have already been articles out that say usage is dropping after the "new" factor wears off.
They will go the way of 3D TV within five years.
I bought a Logitech Harmony Elite and the package with or without the Echo Dot was the same price, so I got the one with the Echo Dot. It is nice being able to tell Alexa to "tell Harmony to turn on the TV", etc. However, I don't have anything else to integrate it to. I do like that I can tell it to stream radio stations from Tune-in. I was thinking that it would also make a decent Alarm clock but Amazon hasn't integrated streaming into it's alarm yet. So far, it's just an interesting toy.
The biggest barrier to the smart home is getting all of the devices to talk to each other. Until it's basically plug-n-play, it's just not going to happen. It looks like Amazon, and others, are trying to solve this. We'll see if they can succeed...
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Quit that job. Fin.
I'm pretty sure that my meetings bear little semblance to astronaut meetings. For some careers it makes sense that showing up early will help with success. For example, students, sales people, astronauts, etc. Anything where it helps you get into the right frame of mind, gets noticed by your manager, or aids you in getting that sale.
However, my meetings tend to be about IT projects, are scheduled on top of each other, have varying priorities, etc. Very few, if any, would lead to an increase in success by attending early. Much of the success in IT is driven by results and who you know, not by attending meetings early...
An AD administrator in charge of purging old user accounts was using a script to cull AD. He put an * someplace he shouldn't and deleted all the users in a sub-domain. That was a fun week. And I was still cleaning up after that fiasco months later.
Why would it have taken a week to recover? You can un-delete objects in AD. Below is an example... Should have taken, at most, a few hours to recover, not a week.
https://technet.microsoft.com/...
Given two hypothetical smartphones - all features identical, except:
The first phone has no headphone jack, but has a higher water proofing rating.
The second phone doesn't have as good of a water proofing rating, but has a 3mm headphone jack.
Both sell for the same price.
Which would you choose?
The one with the headphone jack... I can add water resistance by adding a case. I can't add a headphone jack.
When Newegg has listings for the new processors and motherboard. Although it might be too late for me since I retired my nine-year-old Vista-compatible AMD quad-core motherboard for a Windows 7-compatible AMD eight-core motherboard last year. I might let the platform mature before I spring for new hardware.
Based on the news articles, you should start seeing these on Newegg within a couple of weeks (March 2nd). Supposedly AMD primed the retail channel prior to the announcement.
I learned in school, 40 years ago, a continent is a big plate floating on the earth magma. That is actually a pretty strict definition. Plates are called "continental shelf", mere islands like Hawaii or Japan are not on a continental shelf.
No idea why the english/american wikipedia article disagrees, I guess because it is written by hobbyists?
The problem with this definition is that California would be on a different continent than the rest of the continental USA.
(The San Andreas fault separates the north american plate from the pacific plate)
So I suppose that's why everyday american-english wants to use different continent classifications than official scientific ?
And similarily. India is its own separate plate from the rest of eurasia. Also, traditionally europe and asia have been considered different continents, although they are on the same eurasian plate.
All in all, people have get used to some world view (list of continent), and it's hard to ask them to change as more details emerge and the scientific view shifts a bit.
(see: reptile and birds and mammals
in the common use : turtles and lizards are reptiles, the rest are not.
from an evolutionnary and classification point of view: if you include both turtles and lizards the thing you call "reptile" is such a big chunk of the tree, that birds and mammals appear actually inside of it as sub-branches)
So... Does this mean that we can make Pluto a planet again? I'm pretty sure that if you asked the majority of the public, their world view would be that it is.
User Friendly was my favorite back in the day, before it went into a permanent loop.
http://userfriendly.org/
Same here. I've never heard of Pokey the Penguin but I always enjoyed the User Friendly comic strip.
He may well be a troll. Entirely possible. But the videos I've thus far seen were not of a trollish cast, and the "Death to All Jews" one in particular is not remotely anti-semitic. If you genuinely believe it to be so, you may be from an actual intellectual, emotional or perceptual disorder of some sort.
It may not have been used or understood by the guys on the video to be a racist message (i.e. they may not have had a clue what they were doing) but I'm sure that PDP did. Whether he believed that they would do it or not is moot. He chose the toxic message to be displayed and, like it or not, it does show that he had a lack of understanding or maturity that he was crossing the line into racism. Does that make him a racist, not necessarily. People do stupid things sometimes and it's only after when they realize that the message wasn't what they intended.
This act alone was enough for him to lose his corporate sponsorship. In this day and age, no company wants to anger their customer base. The other videos, out of context or not, might have had some bearing. However, I'm pretty sure that the corporations would have done their due diligence and actually watched all of the videos brought to their attention before pulling their sponsorship.
There may be some validity in criticism in how the media is handling this but it's his actions that caused it in the first place...
Very high bandwidth links to wireless access points makes more sense going forward as far as I'm concerned. Continual upgrades to cell and Wi-Fi networks and similar makes more sense than running a strand of fiber to every single home.
Sure, lets do that. And lets see how well it works during bad weather, for apartment buildings, etc. To a certain degree it's like switching from cable to Direct TV. Expect outages....
What could you ask a man/women do for $10 or a promise of $5 a day. What if you established a trust fund for their child that paid $5 a day for 40 years, could you convince someone to commit suicide on camera? What would it cost to make one of those people hurt or kill someone? If I offered them $5 a day, would they hurt a friend or so .....
So get off your high horse and use the gray lump between your ears to better understand what we have seen. If the Jews (my family) would have used the gray shit between their ears, they probably could have stopped the holocaust before it started. Instead they behaved all huffy and pissy like you. If you believe what he did wasn't a joke, fine. i agree. It was not a joke, but in the spirit which it was done, we learned something very important and if you're gonna be a SJW, then at least stop being a f-ing stupid one!
I think the point that most people are making is that he could have come up with a better way of proving his point. All he had to do was use a different and less insulting and less racist way of doing it. It's my understanding that he chose the meme and that is what he is being judged on.
Does he have a valid point that people are in situations where they will do just about anything for a dollar just to survive? Yes. But we know that this is a sad truth, it's nothing new. There are other ways to draw attention to these types of causes, including starting up a charity or asking for donations for an existing one. He had the followers and could have done a lot of good. Imagine if your children could learn how to get involved in helping others half way around the world...
Instead, he chose a toxic message as part of his "comedy" and it overrides any good point he was trying to make.
That annoyed me, implying that the fastest wifi speed meant the fastest Internet speed. I hate deceptive advertising crap like that.
What's more annoying is that Verizon stopped their roll-out of FIOS in the North East after they got what they wanted, to encourage Comcast to come to the table and sell the Wireless spectrum that Verizon wanted. Once the deal was done, no more FIOS for you...
In fact, a Boston roll-out announced over the summer appears to be Verizon agreeing to a subsidized plan to expand FiOS to the home. However, investigations in to what exactly they are doing seem to indicate that the majority of the fiber being rolled out is specifically so that they can expand their wireless infrastructure. Their plan is to use 5G to connect homes instead of direct fiber to each house (less cost). The problem is that Wireless, as any WiFi expert can attest, sucks as far as reliability, interference from weather conditions and other sources, etc.
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
And when exactly has MS ever innovated?
Microsoft Surface Pro... You can argue that it's just another tablet computer but they finally got it right and it's one of the best Windows tablets you can buy.
Microsoft Mouse... Still a decent mouse
Microsoft Word, Exchange, Outlook, etc... Exchange and Outlook were innovative for their time and were a part of the shift towards the digital office.
I'm sure that there are more on the programming side, etc., but these are the ones that most would be familiar with.
As impressive as those speeds are, I am much more impressed by a camera's image quality. What are the practical applications to these per-second speeds? Will they help eliminate blurring when I take a picture of my daughter, and she starts crawling away right when I take the picture? That would be useful.
Um, take a quick look at the size of the lens, that will tell you immediately what the limits are on image quality. Can you get good (or good-enough) photos out of a phone camera, in perfect conditions, yep... Can you get excellent photos in any number of challenging conditions? Nope... you need a real camera with a good quality lens for that.
The FBI notoriously takes years to act on FOIA requests. They are literally the worst agency at it.
Well, before they got overwhelmed by email requests, so it took them forever to catch up with all requests. Now they could easily stream line those requests with a bottle neck they created (with a couple lines of fax?). Great improvement I say. :p
Oh, and the fax is out of paper.... (grin)
I googled how much actual "play time" is involved in a NFL game.
It's 11 minutes.
I see the Superbowl as nothing but a bunch of advertising, some shitty attempts at "entertainment" at half time and an excuse to get a bunch of people together to eat a shitload of food.
It is a good time to do some traveling though as the freeways aren't crowded during the game.
And most video games can be played through in 30 minutes or less... what's your point? that you don't like Football (American Football)? Got it...
While there may be an average of 11 minutes of "play time", there is a lot going on beyond the actual physical play. Strategy, alignment, play calling, etc. takes up a bunch of time on field. For Football fans (American Football for our International friends) this is just as important as the actual physical play. Those who do not enjoy the game will see it as a waste of time.
I do agree that the Ads are over the top for the Superbowl, but that's how the NFL is so successful at generating money.
The message boards were the only reason I visited their site. While its true that trolls and SJW (pro and con) topics abound, there were also plenty of good information about the films in question. It seems to me that the real reason why they are shutting them down is because they aren't interested in the administrative overhead (dealing with complaints, etc.) to maintain them. Perhaps they are making enough money from the corporate side and paid subscriptions that they feel that they no longer need page hits from average users.
You also have to add a few third-party applications to fix the rest of the stuff that Microsoft broke, such as the Start menu.
I only had to do two things, install Start 10 ($5) and Spybot Anti-Beacon. There is free software out there to fix the Start menu but my personal preference was Start 10.
Also, I'm running Windows 10 Pro which allows me to defer updates until I am ready to install them. It cost a bit more than Home, but the added control is worth it.
If you read the article and look at the video clips, you see the robot get a running start, get down into a crouch and then jump in the air just in time to clear a barrier.
In a real warehouse that would be a pretty useless capability, but it still seemed kind of cool.
The fun part for me was when the robot put it's "hands" down on the ground to steady itself after the jump. I was wondering how they would handle the landing on just wheels. Without it the robot would have done a "face plant".
Totally absurd.
Apple has sold millions of watches. They don't release numbers, but estimates were 12 million in the first year. So there are like at least 20 million watches, probably. Apple sells like 50-80 million iPhones a year, so by that standard, they are a failure. And as you say, you probably know plenty of people with an iPhone, and only a few (or even none) with an Apple Watch.
The thing is, the Apple Watch NEVER had to match or even approach the iPhone in order to be a success. The iPhone is a such a success story it is a goddamned joke. The iPhone is close to half of Apple in most years, and this is for a company that nominally will sell you a server or monitor, actually will sell you a notebook, a laptop, a tablet, a goofy gameboy desktop, a variety of mice, the aforementioned watch, a bunch of almost entirely profit accessories (now with more dongles!), a music subscription service, and takes a cut off of everything they have a hand in selling, and not a small cut either.
The 8 bit Nintendo sold like 60 million units total. You probably knew someone with one of those, but for different reasons. There are entire companies with less units shipped than Apple Watch, and that will remain the case indefinitely. If your standard for success is "everyone in the civilized world will either own one of these or feel its absence day by day", then the Apple Watch is a failure. But if it is anything sane, it is not. It is clear that the Apple Watch, as a project, is quite profitable for Apple. Each Watch costs Apple much less to make than it sells for, and they sell millions.
No, you and your friends won't feel obligated to own and operate an Apple Watch. That doesn't make it a failure, any more than an Xbone or PS4 is a failure just because most people own neither.
I think that where the dichotomy lies is that most people conflate success with "popular". While the Apple watch may be a financial success and a success in a relatively limited market, it certainly isn't popular when compared to almost all other Apple products. As for the statement that Apple couldn't produce enough of them, we all know the games that manufacturers play just to be able to say that their product "sold out".
Yes, a niche product can be a success in it's own right. I see the Apple Watch as a niche product. I guess in that respect you could call it a success.
Same here, to be honest. AVG became unusable due to bloat a couple of years ago. Avast can have some serious issues when presented with a combination of Windows 10 with Anniversary Update and a Skylake CPU. The remainder all seem to be as bad as much of the malware they ostensibly protect you from.
I confess I spent a while feeling paranoid after I finally gave in and uninstalled Avast, but a few months on, I've had no problems with a combination of Windows Defender and a weekly Malwarebytes scan.
I've had no problem with Avast, Win 10, and the i5 Skylake on my Surface Pro 4. Not saying that there isn't one, just that I haven't experienced it.
My current security setup for all of my computers is Avast, Spybot S&D, and Spybot Anti-Beacon. The primary reason why I run Avast vs Defender is because Avast scans email on arrival and when sending and seems to have a bit more advanced protection. Defender only scans email when you open an attachment. One of these days, maybe my next computer, I'll drop Avast. But for now, this setup works for me.
Cable is yet again trying to "modernize" itself too woo back the cord-cutters. Yeah, the Roku is not why people are cutting the cord. It's the pricing model that a $2.50 credit doesn't come even close to fixing.
But... for those of us who do have a Roku and a X1 box, this would save us $2.50 a month. I have both in my bedroom and I only use X1 satellite box occasionally. I got the Roku to watch NHL Live as my favorite team (Oilers) plays late at night, local time. Getting rid of the extra X1 box and saving a few dollars, assuming that the App works well, is a bit of a win in my book. Plus, the Roku supports wireless and can be moved around the house. The X1 box has to be wired with Coax.
So, for cord cutters, maybe it won't be worth it in the end. But it's a nice option for those of us who still subscribe to cable.
Good article, but...
"Critical Mass" indicates that there are more facilities coming online, or at least publicly planning to. No indication of that in TFA... in fact, the closest they got is this:
"...may change in the next five years..." is nowhere near actual activity that would indicate a "critical mass" in industry.
How about they call us when it actually gets in motion - regionally, if not nationally or globally.
Well, my definition is that "Critical Mass" means enough market share and sales for a company/product to have consumer acceptance and brand recognition. Plus, there is a component where it has been scaled to the point where manufacturing costs have been optimized. Given that the plants have just gone online and the products have yet to reach the market at any level of market share and that there hasn't been enough time to optimize the manufacturing process, I think that its a bit premature to be talking about "Critical Mass".
Perhaps a better phrase would be "Critical Capacity". There is finally have enough manufacturing capacity to meet Tesla's needs so that they can start rolling out their home/corporate products and the more affordable versions of their cars.
I accidentally modded down. Posting to erase. Absolutely insane. Whether you agree with a country's tax schemes, a sovereign nation has the right to decide these issues for themselves. More incomprehensible to me is why any sovereign would agree to such external interference in the first place. The benefits of being in a free-trade zone, no matter how lucrative, are not worth handing your balls over to Brussels. Money should not be worth more than dignity.
Except that being part of a trade agreement includes actually having to follow the rules as outlined as part of the agreement that you agreed to. If you didn't want to give up taxation autonomy then that should have been negotiated as part of the deal or you never should have signed it in the first place. In this case, Ireland gave up those rights to be part of the EU trading block and are trying to do an end-around the parts that they don't like.
For example, there have been many arguments in the NAFTA trade deal between the US and Canada concerning how import taxes are applied. Both countries have had to, at one point or another, reduce or remove certain import taxes as a result of it being found to be in violation of the trade agreement.
So no, a sovereign nation that has negotiated away those rights to gain a trade benefit does not have a right to decide by themselves and expect to continue as a partner in a trade deal. Of course, they can always decide to opt out. But, access to the EU trade market might be one of the reasons why companies choose Ireland beyond the obvious tax benefits.
It sure is for China.
Avaya has been making horrible equipment, especially for IP phones. If you want to make equipment that's closed source, closed to literally everything, require purchasing licenses just to add an extra phone and is incompatible with everything (Left overs from the Nortel era), what do you expect? They are still popular in the used phone system market, since they work good enough, but you no longer have support for it, other than your phone guy. Want to add a phone? What a big headache... Their much touted scalability is quite a sham when it requires a team of people just to add phones.
Meanwhile, I bought my office Yealink IP phones and they work great and literally compatible with everything, SIP (of course), including adding address books, supports VPN connections and very easy to manage. They also look great, sound great and the color touch screen is a big plus. They're not exactly cheap either. Yealink also doesn't handcuff me with licensing, restrictions and fees. Works great with Asterisk and I can add as many damn phones as I please.
People still need these phones, they're not going away any time soon, unless cellphones start linking your business phone extension, but a lot of people don't like doing that either. Much of the telecomms business moved onto VOIP providers, IP phones that work and your local IT support.
Many companies are moving towards software phones that support chat, voice, and video conferencing (i.e. Skype for Business) for office workers. That way you can work from another desk, at home, etc. while having the same phone number. Physical phones and phone systems are no longer being invested in.
The Pussy Grabber in Chief is going to lower corporate tax from 35% to 15% so America can become tax-friendly like Ireland.
Except the admitted Sexual Predator in Chief already says he doesn't pay any taxes and he knows full well corporations don't pay taxes, either.
We've been hearing a lot about Ireland lately, like how Microsoft's cloud service business is booming ever since Microsoft told American 3-letters to fuck off on grabbing people's data from Ireland.
Recall Trump's visit(s) to Ireland re: golf course?
That's where that tax-dodging coke head keeps his money, too.
Hey, I'm fine with them lowing the tax rate from 35% to 15% as long as there isn't any loopholes, deductions, or any way out of paying the 15% tax rate. After all, most corporations probably end up paying a lot less with the financial games they play.
Alexa, Google Home, Siri, Google Assistant. All of them. There have already been articles out that say usage is dropping after the "new" factor wears off.
They will go the way of 3D TV within five years.
I bought a Logitech Harmony Elite and the package with or without the Echo Dot was the same price, so I got the one with the Echo Dot. It is nice being able to tell Alexa to "tell Harmony to turn on the TV", etc. However, I don't have anything else to integrate it to. I do like that I can tell it to stream radio stations from Tune-in. I was thinking that it would also make a decent Alarm clock but Amazon hasn't integrated streaming into it's alarm yet. So far, it's just an interesting toy.
The biggest barrier to the smart home is getting all of the devices to talk to each other. Until it's basically plug-n-play, it's just not going to happen. It looks like Amazon, and others, are trying to solve this. We'll see if they can succeed...