When I can stream other videos just fine in HD, but this particular one won't play even at 240p, it's your CDN Google, it's not my connection.
(Or it's your ISP, if Hulu or someone else paid them to throttle youtube traffic)
Yeah, no.
hat said, Google changed their streaming protocol years ago instead of using HTTP ranges they used some other thing and that other thing would regularly time out and refuse to reconnect if you left the video paused.
That's just normal YouTube: leave it paused too long, and you'll need to refresh and watch a new commercial, and sometimes lose your place.
This is "won't play beyond the first 90 seconds (or so) of video no matter what you do". Note that CDNs often cache the first minute-ish of videos at the outer layer, so that they can start playing instantly while they connect to layers further back to get the rest of the video ready to play.
This is why no game gets money from me until there are: 1) Reviews from non-bought-out and non-agenda driven reviewers. (I'm looking at you, pc-gamer and kotaku.) 2) Actually released for a couple weeks to see how many show stopper bugs, and how reactive the company is to fixing them. (Hey, nothing goes out bug-free anymore, but if the company isnt quick to react to them, thats a very bad sign.)
This is why I only bother with game reviews from Total Biscuit and Jim Sterling. They've paid the dues to make it clear to me they're not bought out. Especially Jim Sterling and Konami (he ends most of his gaming news videos with "Fuck Konami News: all the news fit to make you say fuck Konami".) I'm sure there are other truly independent reviewers, but I doubt anyone affiliated with a game review magazine.
I had 2 kinds of problem now. The forst is what you mention - some videos just won't play past a certain point, regardless of quality settings. When I can stream other videos just fine in HD, but this particular one won't play even at 240p, it's your CDN Google, it's not my connection.
The other I'm getting more and more frequently is the "static screen", where my client can't even start playing the video. Mostly on IE, but also on FF and Pale Moon (old FF, really), and on machines with Flash and without. I was hoping that was a Flash vs no Flash problem that would sort itself out, but no. Refreshing the tab sometimes helps, but it really seems like a client-side issue. OK Google, it's starting to be obvious that you want non-Chrome browsers to have occasional playback issues.
The fix is usually in the code of the company that gives a shit about its customers, regardless of where the actual problem is. This is fundamentally a horrible MS security bug, that VMware didn't wall off. I'd bet that VMware fixed it, because they actually care about security.
Stores will bombard you with "helpful associates" if you look sketchy. Much more polite than coming up to you and saying "hey, you look like a shoplifter, but don't try anything, cause we're always watching".
"Using hyperbole" is just "being false and intentionally misleading" in stories about factual situations
Every newspaper story is this (except the sports section). The amazing thing is, people read that one story where they know the truth behind the story, say "hey, this is a bunch of BS", turn the page, and believe what's written on it. Newspapers are fiction - only the sports section will have factual reporting, because that's the only place the readers actually care.
You're using a debit card with a Visa (or MC) logo. Those have always required a PIN, and are now chip+PIN. Credit cards, OTOH, are chip+signature throughout the US.
C++ fixes these issues already, if you actually learn and use the language standard libraries (yes, what you're calling the 'crap' is the fix you're too arrogant to see).
That wired story reads like fiction, and doesn't really explain anything.
The first link is interesting - it's not a "bug" in VMware code (which thus far has only had a couple of exploitable bugs in its history), but an extremely clever remote exploit that's only loosely related to virtualization. Certainly a design flaw in VMware Workstation, though, since they allowed it to happen.
By printing to the host's printer from the guest, which by default is Microsoft's bizarre fake printer, you can exploit Microsoft's almost insane level of stupidity with Word and printing.
I'm not just making this up. The "Big 5" are the top employers of software developers.
* AWS rents computers, but that only has value because of their software. * Google and Facebook sell their users, via ad placement, but that only has value because of their software. * Microsoft, sure, still sells software directly, but their new direction is "cloud and mobile" * Apple sells jewelry, but that only has value though their software.
Yes, the people who make the datacenters happen at AWS, Google, Facebook, and MS are all important too, but that's not what those companies see as their focus. Yes, the people who assemble iPhones are important too, but that's not exactly a fun job. (Yes, there are also key people who design the Apple hardware, and while they're quite important to the business, it's a small part of Apple's tech employees.)
Do Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google sell software directly? No. But they're all software companies, nevertheless. Their value (well, the AWS part of Amazon) comes from the software they write.
Shrink-wrapped software is very 20th century, you know?
His point was that there's no way through the normal filesystem interface to recover deleted data on an SSD - you'd have to pull the chips and write your own firmware to explore them. With a journaling filesystem you may be able to "undelete" the file without nearly so much effort. And obviously if you have backups of any kind, that's even easier. Worrying about the SSD seems pretty far down the list.
With that many employees you would think that they could dispatch a driver to personally deliver my package to my door!
That's called "Prime Now" in a few cities, which is mostly for food delivery (including pizza), but I think you can get some other stuff (I know you can get beer).
In Seattle where you can get Sunday delivery, the packages I've had delivered Sunday came somewhat like pizza - some guy in a beater car drove up, left the package on my doorstep, rang the bell, and drove off. (I'd bet he was carrying more than just my package, but it wasn't a delivery van or anything). Same day delivery seems to be a third party delivery service, though.
Apple doesn't build hardware - that's done by Chinese slave labor. They do a bit of hardware design, but mostly it's software: iOS, any custom firmware, all the Apple-provided apps, all the back-end infrastructure for all their cloud stuff (or at least the stuff that's not run on Azure),m their commerce system, their auth system, etc, etc. They're one of the Big 5 software companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft), and the only one of those that still sells software directly is Microsoft. Doesn't change the fact that all 5 are software companies.
So technical training is all I need to get a good job and keep it?
I'd say so, given the pattern of MS layoffs thus far: * QA people * Salesmen * Manufacturing workers in FInland * More salesmen
Coding seems to be the place to be. I know some devs were layed off along the way, but from what I hear backchannel it's still a net increase in coding jobs (cloud and mobile growing fast, other areas slowly shrinking).
y knew what the tax rate was in the country whose laws and protections they chose to work in
Ah, so your argument is that one of the Big 5 software companies in the US should close it's US operations and hire somewhere cheaper. I don't like your plan. In fact, your plan is fucking awful.
I want Apple to spend more of that money on projects in the US - more software job demand, thanks. We'll benefit far more from Apple spending that money on something useful, than from the government taxing it and giving it to their banker friends.
What's worse is: even in modern flat memory architectures, compiler writers who ran out of useful work to do may now "optimize" into gibberish the subtraction of two pointers not the same array. Bastards.
That being said, the standard C headers provide all the types needed to implement pointer arithmetic in a portable way: size_t, ptrdiff_t, intptr_t, uintptr_t.
intptr_t, and uintptr_t are optional in the standard.
ptrdiff_t can be useful, but it comes from subtracting pointers, and that's only well defined when they're pointers into the same array, which is almost never how memmove or memcpy are used.
the C standard libraries would have been more consistent if most functions using size_t had been using a signed integer type instead
Unsigned makes the most sense - you don't index negatively into arrays, you don't have negatively-sized objects, and only the Windows kernel has negative memory addresses. But they started with int, I guess, so it's now a jumble.
This was my first thought as well, particularly when I saw that LOTR was listed. I'd say that 5 billion is probably an extremely conservative estimate as well.
You'd be wrong there, it's around 150 million copies. While LOTR makes the "top tier" of lists of successful books, there's always an asterisk. For books there a "0th Tier", which are significantly above stuff like LOTR and Harold the Potter: * The Bible * Chairman Mao's Book You'll Be Shot If you Don't Buy * The works of Shakespeare * The works of Agatha Christie
If you look at the list of best selling fiction authors, you'll see the next 2 best sellers after Christie are both romance novelists, and you have to go some ways down to find the first geek-interest author.
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When I can stream other videos just fine in HD, but this particular one won't play even at 240p, it's your CDN Google, it's not my connection.
(Or it's your ISP, if Hulu or someone else paid them to throttle youtube traffic)
Yeah, no.
hat said, Google changed their streaming protocol years ago instead of using HTTP ranges they used some other thing and that other thing would regularly time out and refuse to reconnect if you left the video paused.
That's just normal YouTube: leave it paused too long, and you'll need to refresh and watch a new commercial, and sometimes lose your place.
This is "won't play beyond the first 90 seconds (or so) of video no matter what you do". Note that CDNs often cache the first minute-ish of videos at the outer layer, so that they can start playing instantly while they connect to layers further back to get the rest of the video ready to play.
This is why no game gets money from me until there are:
1) Reviews from non-bought-out and non-agenda driven reviewers. (I'm looking at you, pc-gamer and kotaku.)
2) Actually released for a couple weeks to see how many show stopper bugs, and how reactive the company is to fixing them. (Hey, nothing goes out bug-free anymore, but if the company isnt quick to react to them, thats a very bad sign.)
This is why I only bother with game reviews from Total Biscuit and Jim Sterling. They've paid the dues to make it clear to me they're not bought out. Especially Jim Sterling and Konami (he ends most of his gaming news videos with "Fuck Konami News: all the news fit to make you say fuck Konami".) I'm sure there are other truly independent reviewers, but I doubt anyone affiliated with a game review magazine.
I had 2 kinds of problem now. The forst is what you mention - some videos just won't play past a certain point, regardless of quality settings. When I can stream other videos just fine in HD, but this particular one won't play even at 240p, it's your CDN Google, it's not my connection.
The other I'm getting more and more frequently is the "static screen", where my client can't even start playing the video. Mostly on IE, but also on FF and Pale Moon (old FF, really), and on machines with Flash and without. I was hoping that was a Flash vs no Flash problem that would sort itself out, but no. Refreshing the tab sometimes helps, but it really seems like a client-side issue. OK Google, it's starting to be obvious that you want non-Chrome browsers to have occasional playback issues.
R&D is important to bring this feature to both Fire Phone users!
The fix is usually in the code of the company that gives a shit about its customers, regardless of where the actual problem is. This is fundamentally a horrible MS security bug, that VMware didn't wall off. I'd bet that VMware fixed it, because they actually care about security.
If your card as issued wants a PIN, then the machines in the US will ask for a PIN. This is true of debit cards here.
Stores will bombard you with "helpful associates" if you look sketchy. Much more polite than coming up to you and saying "hey, you look like a shoplifter, but don't try anything, cause we're always watching".
"Using hyperbole" is just "being false and intentionally misleading" in stories about factual situations
Every newspaper story is this (except the sports section). The amazing thing is, people read that one story where they know the truth behind the story, say "hey, this is a bunch of BS", turn the page, and believe what's written on it. Newspapers are fiction - only the sports section will have factual reporting, because that's the only place the readers actually care.
You're using a debit card with a Visa (or MC) logo. Those have always required a PIN, and are now chip+PIN. Credit cards, OTOH, are chip+signature throughout the US.
C++ fixes these issues already, if you actually learn and use the language standard libraries (yes, what you're calling the 'crap' is the fix you're too arrogant to see).
That wired story reads like fiction, and doesn't really explain anything.
The first link is interesting - it's not a "bug" in VMware code (which thus far has only had a couple of exploitable bugs in its history), but an extremely clever remote exploit that's only loosely related to virtualization. Certainly a design flaw in VMware Workstation, though, since they allowed it to happen.
By printing to the host's printer from the guest, which by default is Microsoft's bizarre fake printer, you can exploit Microsoft's almost insane level of stupidity with Word and printing.
I'm not just making this up. The "Big 5" are the top employers of software developers.
* AWS rents computers, but that only has value because of their software.
* Google and Facebook sell their users, via ad placement, but that only has value because of their software.
* Microsoft, sure, still sells software directly, but their new direction is "cloud and mobile"
* Apple sells jewelry, but that only has value though their software.
Yes, the people who make the datacenters happen at AWS, Google, Facebook, and MS are all important too, but that's not what those companies see as their focus. Yes, the people who assemble iPhones are important too, but that's not exactly a fun job. (Yes, there are also key people who design the Apple hardware, and while they're quite important to the business, it's a small part of Apple's tech employees.)
Do Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google sell software directly? No. But they're all software companies, nevertheless. Their value (well, the AWS part of Amazon) comes from the software they write.
Shrink-wrapped software is very 20th century, you know?
His point was that there's no way through the normal filesystem interface to recover deleted data on an SSD - you'd have to pull the chips and write your own firmware to explore them. With a journaling filesystem you may be able to "undelete" the file without nearly so much effort. And obviously if you have backups of any kind, that's even easier. Worrying about the SSD seems pretty far down the list.
With that many employees you would think that they could dispatch a driver to personally deliver my package to my door!
That's called "Prime Now" in a few cities, which is mostly for food delivery (including pizza), but I think you can get some other stuff (I know you can get beer).
In Seattle where you can get Sunday delivery, the packages I've had delivered Sunday came somewhat like pizza - some guy in a beater car drove up, left the package on my doorstep, rang the bell, and drove off. (I'd bet he was carrying more than just my package, but it wasn't a delivery van or anything). Same day delivery seems to be a third party delivery service, though.
That does seem to be the way these days, though I expect they still have a strong sales force on the Azure side.
Apple doesn't build hardware - that's done by Chinese slave labor. They do a bit of hardware design, but mostly it's software: iOS, any custom firmware, all the Apple-provided apps, all the back-end infrastructure for all their cloud stuff (or at least the stuff that's not run on Azure),m their commerce system, their auth system, etc, etc. They're one of the Big 5 software companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft), and the only one of those that still sells software directly is Microsoft. Doesn't change the fact that all 5 are software companies.
So technical training is all I need to get a good job and keep it?
I'd say so, given the pattern of MS layoffs thus far:
* QA people
* Salesmen
* Manufacturing workers in FInland
* More salesmen
Coding seems to be the place to be. I know some devs were layed off along the way, but from what I hear backchannel it's still a net increase in coding jobs (cloud and mobile growing fast, other areas slowly shrinking).
"Windows has been updated! Please enter your credit card number to purchase a license for Windows 10 or press any key to power off your PC."
Not sneaky enough - too much interactivity.
"Windows has been updated! Your credit card with the following number has been billed for the upgrade. Thank you for your continued patronage."
y knew what the tax rate was in the country whose laws and protections they chose to work in
Ah, so your argument is that one of the Big 5 software companies in the US should close it's US operations and hire somewhere cheaper. I don't like your plan. In fact, your plan is fucking awful.
I want Apple to spend more of that money on projects in the US - more software job demand, thanks. We'll benefit far more from Apple spending that money on something useful, than from the government taxing it and giving it to their banker friends.
Have you ever heard of a "hedge fund"? `Cause it really doesn't seem like you know anything about them.
Ah, fair enough.
What's worse is: even in modern flat memory architectures, compiler writers who ran out of useful work to do may now "optimize" into gibberish the subtraction of two pointers not the same array. Bastards.
That being said, the standard C headers provide all the types needed to implement pointer arithmetic in a portable way: size_t, ptrdiff_t, intptr_t, uintptr_t.
intptr_t, and uintptr_t are optional in the standard.
ptrdiff_t can be useful, but it comes from subtracting pointers, and that's only well defined when they're pointers into the same array, which is almost never how memmove or memcpy are used.
the C standard libraries would have been more consistent if most functions using size_t had been using a signed integer type instead
Unsigned makes the most sense - you don't index negatively into arrays, you don't have negatively-sized objects, and only the Windows kernel has negative memory addresses. But they started with int, I guess, so it's now a jumble.
This was my first thought as well, particularly when I saw that LOTR was listed. I'd say that 5 billion is probably an extremely conservative estimate as well.
You'd be wrong there, it's around 150 million copies. While LOTR makes the "top tier" of lists of successful books, there's always an asterisk. For books there a "0th Tier", which are significantly above stuff like LOTR and Harold the Potter:
* The Bible
* Chairman Mao's Book You'll Be Shot If you Don't Buy
* The works of Shakespeare
* The works of Agatha Christie
If you look at the list of best selling fiction authors, you'll see the next 2 best sellers after Christie are both romance novelists, and you have to go some ways down to find the first geek-interest author.