Wholly shit, I know I am out of it, but fury road for best picture? We watched that load of garbage a few months ago. Zero character development. Zero empathizing with anyone in the film period. The entire movie was just one big long driving fighting scene. The main character barely says 3 words that arent grunts for the entire film...
How the hell could anyone have that remotely come close to best fucking picture?!?!?
"Second, their obsession with touchscreens is great for people who don't actually do any real work. Oddly enough I do actual work with my computers, and I find touchscreens to be maddening devices. Why do I want fingerprint smears all over my screen? On top of that a touchscreen is more an impediment to actual work than a tool for it; this mirrors well with my observations that when people are using touchscreens on a laptop they almost without exception are goofing off; they go back to an actual pointing device for actual work."
Man you dont know what you are talking about. I thought the same thing about tablets when they first came out, but having used one for years now, they are great for certain situations. Like for instance, when you are ontop of a ladder or in a genie lift. You cant really use the keyboard so well in that case and so touch is invaluable. Or when walking around taking notes, or troubleshooting things like DMX controlled lighting fixtures. I have met some oil and gas techs that love using them for fieldwork too because they are extremely portable and you dont need to always bust out the keyboard cover to interact with them. They can be used one handed as well. Try balancing a laptop in one arm while reaching for something at the ceiling level. Impossible, but a surface makes light work of such situations.
I get it, they aren't for all use cases. If you mostly sit behind a desk all day there is probably little point, but for anyone who has to be offsite or in the field doing any sort of repair they are actually really great. Can clean with soap and water like any monitor.
Basically every situation where i am using a surface, i am not at a desk. That is where they really shine for me. At this price point, they are probably overkill for writing your screenplay at a coffee shop. But for the hard work, where a computer isnt really supposed to go, they are great.
Man sometimes people on here are like not in the real world. School districts use them pretty extensively. One in town has hundreds if not thousands for all their staff. We have about 20 of the devices in our company. From surface pro3 all the way to surface laptops. I see people at coffee shops with them all the time. Maybe its just your city that people don't have them in. They are a more expensive device that you would see more downtown and less in the suburbs.
My opinion having worked with them daily for over 3 years now is that they are amazing devices, but have extremely poor reliability long term.
First as for use, the ability to touch the screen all the time is something that i find myself missing when i have to switch to an old school laptop. I have used acer and asus laptops and dont find the touch done as well on those. I carry it around when i am away from my desk and its great to be able to quickly flip it open and turn something off or on, or edit switch configs in the field with a very small device that is quite snappy and full featured. They put some good hardware in there, in terms of performance.
As for reliability, all but one of our surface pro 3's has failed in some way. Most multiple times, and in the first year i think all had to be RMA'ed under warranty. Mostly this is because they over heat, sometimes the screen becomes unresponsive, and definitely at least 4 drop incidents have occurred where the screen cracked (A $600 fix). I have had some DOA as well. I have one that has a persistant USB port failure, and another that overheats and locks up when its sleeping (but performs fine if you shut it down as opposed to letting it go to sleep.
The surface laptops are somewhat newer, and not as many problems with them, but we did have one DOA unit out of the 7 or so we purchased. Microsoft store swapped it no questions asked though. I had a docking station that didnt output two display port outputs like it was supposed to as well, also swapped at MS store with zero hassles. When we purchased the surface pro 4, all had to be sent back for a manufacturing defect (recall) within the first month. But we got those right when they came out, like first units off the truck.
So in conclusion, i would recommend that if you have money and don't mind the fact that they are fragile and wont last more than 3 years, that one should purchase it. Like if you dont bat an eye about spending $1500 on a laptop every 3 years i would say definitely buy. The features they have and the lightweightedness and portability and convenience make up for the durability problems. Especially if its a corporate device where its not actually your money. Dropping it and having to spend $600 would be pretty brutal for a home user, with very few self repair options (they are more like a phone, or mac in this respect).
But they don't deserve all the hate i am seeing in this thread. If they were $400 bucks i would probably buy a few for home use. They are a great little package and everyone that uses one comments on how nice it is. Reliability is definitely an issue though, but less important for a business where you are swapping out old equipment for new usually after 3 years anyway.
"And apparently $15/hr is $31,200/year. A lot of cars on the road has MSRP more than that.."
Obviously you are not poor. Poor people don't qualify for 31k loans. They buy $500 beaters. I've never paid more than 1k for a car and I am not even that poor.
The biggest scam in the world is new car sales. I would argue that anyone who pays more than a few thousand for a car is bad with their finances.
I worked for $8 an hour when i was just starting out 20 years ago and it was about 400 after tax bi-weekly (850 per month or so). You cant really afford gas and insurance for that much unless you live with your parents. A car loan would be completely out of the question.
For basically a fancy hypercard stack, it really had beautiful graphics and pushed the limits on what was possible with that era of technology. That said, i can still hear my quad speed cdrom drive churning, between movements, whenever i even think about that game!
"Because it is, multiple teams have studied the issue thoroughly and there seems to be broad agreement that eliminating the specific species responsible for most malaria would have very little ecological impact at all."
The older i get, the less i like humans with their unintended consequences and flawed methodologies mucking about with nature. "Multiple teams" built the atomic bombs and approved them for use. More people headed in the same direction means fuck all if they are all wrong. CRISPR is all kinds of fucked up. Humanity always thinks it knows better than nature. And is always wrong.
"Since Moore's law appears to have stalled since at least five years ago, it will be interesting to see if we start to see algorithm research or code optimization techniques coming to the fore again."
Hopefully you know that they haven't done any of that. They are just shipping more and more cores to make people buy new things. 6 cores will be the norm in a few years, 10 or 12 cores in 5 years will be normal. They will continue to ship new hardware and the benchmarks will say its faster because they always multiply single thread by the number of cores to get the benchmark results.
1 : exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner.l
2 : showing an offensive attitude of superiority
Do you just not know what arrogant means?
I'd rather work with a room full of mediocre nice people than even one arrogant, full of themselves, dickhole who thinks they are better than everyone else. I mean i have changed jobs and taken reduced pay to get away from self important twats (whoes poor attitude can never really make up for any sort of genius skills that they may posses).
It takes a true superior individual to realize that being nice to others and having social skills is actually a virtue worth cultivating.
Actually now that I think about it, one guy from another side of the company i occasionally have to deal with fits this bill. Everything is not his programming's fault, but user error. He has yet to design anything that hasn't needed a bunch of field patches to get working reliably, which of course, isn't his fault (spec was wrong, users are using it wrong, it shouldn't do that, etc). He doesn't seem to believe in deodorant (anti-social), and loves taking personal days when hes feeling "stressed", which is at least once almost every week (he is taking one today). He constantly sighs when you are talking to him, demurs frequently, and has a great deal on animosity for seemingly everyone and every thing.
He is just selfish and unrightly full of himself. He could not function without a huge ego, because he makes so many mistakes and really would have to change himself to the core to fix it. Well that doesn't usually happen till you have a life changing event in my experience. So i will go on dreading my interactions with him and make them as brief as possible.
If thats what happened, its still a joke. People rely on the cloud to back up their stuff. Anything can happen to local storage, and the apple ecosystem is so tied to the internet.
Can you even pull an mp4 file out of itunes with this movie to properly back it up? I would guess no.
Its hard to make an analogy, as there is no real life equivalent to repositories of software. But one assumes that purchases are for life and that if they have some licensing problem, they should prevent new downloads but honour downloads for things people have paid for.
Perhaps its like leasing a car, that then gets into an accident, and you go back to the dealer to get a lease replacement only to be told there are no other cars available, but you still have to continue making lease payments for a car you no longer have access to.
Oh well, not my problem personally. As everyone else moves to streaming I maintain my local library which is triple backed up.
Young Tom: How long do you think it's been up there? Cooper: The Delhi Mission Control went down same as ours, ten years ago. Young Tom: So for ten years? [Cooper touches the surface of the drone] Young Tom: Why did it come down so low? Cooper: I don't know. Maybe the sun cooked it's brain or it was looking for something. Young Murph: What? [to Tom] Cooper: Give me that large flat blade. [to Murph] Cooper: Maybe some kind of signal. I don't know. [Cooper opens up the side of the drone] Young Murph: What are you gonna do with it? Cooper: I'm gonna give it something socially responsible to do, like drive a combine. Young Murph: Can't we just let it go? It wasn't hurting anybody. Cooper: Listen, this thing needs to learn how to adapt, Murph, like the rest of us.
They do not. windows is end of life'ing OS versions after two years. Meaning any of the 15xx releases (from 2015) are EOL now and will not receive updates.
So you can wait a bit, but not more than 2 years. And then you have 3 or 4 updates to apply at that time so its best to just download the 1803 (current release) ISO and upgrade directly instead of going through windows update.
It sucks. I have to make 3 new corporate images every 6 months. Its not hard with vms and such but you have to update your deployment environment and all the tools. Troubleshoot new script errors, copy in your custom settings. It takes a few days every 6 months for sure. We are always installing one release behind.
However its all bullshit when you compare it to my perfectly fine and dandy rock solid windows 7 install i have at home. I dont want to fuck around with software when I am at home so it will still till win7 is end of life or maybe beyond? i dont really have a lot of alternatives. I am not jumping on the revolving door upgrades with win10. Every "upgrade" is broken in some respect. Every single release they have released breaks something. I dont give a shit about new features, which is basically turning thick client applications into web "apps".
"Besides... Didn't 'Bob' document what he did? If not why wasn't he made to?
I get kinda tired of this 'no money, no expertise, no documentation, but it has to be kept running!'. No, it doesn't."
Just wondering if you or anyone else that blames this sysadmin has ever done tech support for small businesses or non profits. They aren't going to spend 10k redoing their websites that are currently working fine.
I can tell them they should do it all day and night and they will say "thank you for the info, but we have other priorities". So there is only so much a sysadmin can do. Charities do not have money. I assume NGO means charity in some respect. They are not proactive at all and generally know nothing about technology. You can make the director aware of the issue, but thats about it. Unless you want to be fixing it for free.
And yeah no one makes any documentation. That's the real world yo, not some kind of college course textbook fantasy where your knowledge evidently comes from. Charities often get things like web development done for free or extremely cheap. There is no budget to maintain the site and certainly not to hire a web developer for anything more than a small contract.
Left: - universal healthcare - environmental protections - marijuana legal - hate speech outlawed - no coal plants
FAR left, is above plus - universal income - 50%-90% corporate tax rate - all drugs legal - proportional representation - nationalized critical industries (energy, water, internet) and some too big to fail businesses or businesses in the national interest - no more nukes, nuke plants or any polluting power plant. renewables only. - cap higher end wages
So I very much doubt that the "mainstream" in the USA is "far left". I think you guys can barely get to the centrist position.
I know its said time and time again, but the USA version of "left" is considered center or center right by other 1st world democracies.
"HOWEVER what is even more dangerous is letting the government have direct sway over what actions companies like Facebook or Twitter can or cannot have over users."
I don't know about you, but I trust someone I elected far more than a for profit corporation 9 times out of 10. Your statement is very american. You don't trust the government so you elected trump to ruin it. So I wouldn't use the broken american political system, where they are trying to elect the least qualified person possible, as an example of the proper way to run a government. No wonder you are biased and think the corporations are here to $ave you. You know they only care about the bottom line and their brand image.
Government is for the people by the people. Twitter and facebook are for the money, by the money.
"The young always think there is a better way. As they grow up, they realize that the current way works, while most "good ideas" don't."
More like you learn that the new boss is the same as the old boss, you cant fight entrenched interests, you are too busy surviving and raising kids, have zero disposable time or money or energy to 'fight the system' anymore and accept that the rich will always win. For me that happened in my mid 20s. I drank for a while, then raised a family and am more concerned with their well being than enacting any sort of societal change, if i even had the time...
What you are describing is that people get broken down and more apathetic as they age. You can call that being "realistic" all you like, but reality as it is sucks. Sure there are lots of realities that are worse, but its not like the "money takes all" reality is anywhere close to good.
We can do better and indeed must because climate change is here to stay and will only get worse.
I guess you are trying to make some racist point, but perhaps instead of picking on black people like always, you americans could switch back to paper ballots like many other countries use (canada) which are pretty damn secure and verifiable.
It's the computers in your system that are the problem. Personally i believe that americans really are that stupid to legitimately elect trump and the russians probably didn't have to hack much, as americans are more than happy to make poor choices without any outside influence (For examples see: electing ronald regan, electing and re-electing george w bush, lack of gun control, lack of universal heathcare, letting obama et al kill indiscriminately with drones, iraq war, etc...).
because the society you then create is much worse than the one you are running away from. Weeding people out genetically has basically never gone over well...
I did birdly (HTC VIVE headset with a moving platform you are strapped to) when i was on vacation. After a single session i had motion sickness for at least 4 hours. I won't try that again. Completely not worth it.
Recently read an article about this exact topic. The reason being that people designing facial recognition systems use mostly white sample data. Garbage in, garbage out. We have the same problem with our HR timeclocks that use facial recognition and our black and brown employees.
"The Canada-born daughter of parents from Ghana, she realized that advanced facial-recognition systems, such as the ones used by IBM and Microsoft, struggled hard to detect her dark skin. Sometimes, the programs couldnâ(TM)t tell she was there at all. Then a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she was working on a robotics project, only to find that the robot, which was supposed to play peekaboo with human users, couldnâ(TM)t make her out. She completed the project by relying on her roommateâ(TM)s light-skinned face. In 2011, at a startup in Hong Kong, she tried her luck with another robotâ"same result. Four years later, as a graduate researcher at MIT, she found that the latest computer software still couldnâ(TM)t see her. But when Buolamwini slipped on a white maskâ"the sort of novelty item you could buy at a Walmart for Halloweenâ"the technology worked swimmingly. She finished her project coding in disguise."
Some other posters here saying that black people are harder to capture etc are just being ignorant at best. When they changed the sample data, their error rate dropped to 3% from 47%...
"Of course, thereâ(TM)s another solution, elegant in its simplicity and fundamentally fair: get better data. Thatâ(TM)s what happened after Joy Buolamwiniâ(TM)s findings chastened IBM for running a facial-recognition system insufficiently balanced for gender and skin tone. The company put together a broader selection of photos to use in its training set. And when IBM tested that new system against images of parliamentarians from countries such as Sweden, Finland, South Africa, and Senegal, something unsurprising happened: the algorithm performed well. For everyone. Not perfectly: the errors on dark-skinned women remained the highest, at 3.46 percent. But it was a ten-fold improvementâ"more than enough to prove that change is possible, as long as itâ(TM)s made a priority. Even a halfway intelligent machine knows that."
Hmm, not a lot of people defending this fossi guy, i think ill just check our your post history and... My oh my Fozzy1015 is your post history interesting!
Pretty much constant slams of tesla. Now is it just a simple coincidence that this guys real name is also "fossi" (with the same letter sounds even!). HMMMMM
the other half of the stuff you post is about investments, kind of like its your job to know about that kind of stuff. Isn't that interesting!
I guess we will see when you^H^H^Fossi ends up in prison if you^H^H^He stops posting. !remindme 6months
"Of course, the real problem there is the permanent, unchangeable key in hardware"
There are two different things here, the computer failing and is encrypted is fine as long as you make backups. I would want my laptop to be 100% encrypted, in case i decided to travel to america or something. Its always been ridiculous that you can just pull a harddrive out of a PC or pull the cmos battery and there is little other physical security going on there. I can see what you are arguing, that the current methods aren't strong enough, but at least its something. I'm not sure how exactly it works with these apple machines, but having a lock on my house does not mean that no one can possibly break in. It does stop all but the most dedicated though. I can't imagine that apples implementation is just security theatre. Police do seem to have a hard time cracking it and have to rely on exploits from what i understand.
A drive dying is fixed by making backups. You can do your own, or the cloud or whatever, as long as you do them! and check them every once in a while.
basically i am saying that if you rely on one computer's physical disk for all your storage, you are going to have a bad time. I dont think the solution is to not encrypt in this day and age. The solution is to have multiple backups of important data.
My greatest fear is natural disaster or physical theft. All hardware will die, that is a given, so you obviously have to expect that, and plan around it. I expect that one copy of all my data will burn to the ground one day.
TLDR, backups and hardware security are really separate domains. Youre confusing them to nitpick a point, but in the real world(tm) apple's crypto philosophy (while not perfect) has been shown to work for threats that are day to day real (police, snoopy employers, boarder guards and jealous spouses).
epilogue: I should say that i personally would never buy an apple product because they are borderline irreparable, so i'm not really arguing that apple doesn't suck, just that their crypo philosophy seems to be working (but maybe i am just the untrained eye)
I'm sure it depends on the disk not dying that you have your backups on.
mac users probably upgrade faster than most and thus dont cross the 5 years rotational disk death threshold, where disks are far more likely to die after year 5.
All backups need to be tested. I just lost a drive, and i went to copy data to another drive to restore it, and that drive which was just as old and had no previous signs of failing, suddenly started re-allocating sectors like crazy and the speed dropped right off till it is now unreadable. It was probably failing for quite some time (nothing in event logs though..), but the act of dumping 500gb to it killed it for good.
Luckily i have lots of backups and the important stuff is also mirrored to the cloud services, and offsite physical copies once a month, so i didnt lose any data. But two drive failures can and does happen, especially with environmental conditions as a trigger like this crazy hot summer we are having.
"Stuff underground gets wet already, just in case you didn't know about "rain" and such."
sigh. you obviously havent done much infrastructure planning if you dont know the difference between water resistant and water proof. from TFA:
Buried fiber optic cables are designed to be water-resistant, but unlike the marine cables that ferry data from continent to continent under the ocean, they are not waterproof.
Plus there is the whole "there is nothing worse for equipment than seawater" thing, which if you had ever maintained anything around an ocean, you would be very aware of.
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Wholly shit, I know I am out of it, but fury road for best picture? We watched that load of garbage a few months ago. Zero character development. Zero empathizing with anyone in the film period. The entire movie was just one big long driving fighting scene. The main character barely says 3 words that arent grunts for the entire film...
How the hell could anyone have that remotely come close to best fucking picture?!?!?
Man you dont know what you are talking about. I thought the same thing about tablets when they first came out, but having used one for years now, they are great for certain situations. Like for instance, when you are ontop of a ladder or in a genie lift. You cant really use the keyboard so well in that case and so touch is invaluable. Or when walking around taking notes, or troubleshooting things like DMX controlled lighting fixtures. I have met some oil and gas techs that love using them for fieldwork too because they are extremely portable and you dont need to always bust out the keyboard cover to interact with them. They can be used one handed as well. Try balancing a laptop in one arm while reaching for something at the ceiling level. Impossible, but a surface makes light work of such situations.
I get it, they aren't for all use cases. If you mostly sit behind a desk all day there is probably little point, but for anyone who has to be offsite or in the field doing any sort of repair they are actually really great. Can clean with soap and water like any monitor.
Basically every situation where i am using a surface, i am not at a desk. That is where they really shine for me. At this price point, they are probably overkill for writing your screenplay at a coffee shop. But for the hard work, where a computer isnt really supposed to go, they are great.
Man sometimes people on here are like not in the real world. School districts use them pretty extensively. One in town has hundreds if not thousands for all their staff. We have about 20 of the devices in our company. From surface pro3 all the way to surface laptops. I see people at coffee shops with them all the time. Maybe its just your city that people don't have them in. They are a more expensive device that you would see more downtown and less in the suburbs.
My opinion having worked with them daily for over 3 years now is that they are amazing devices, but have extremely poor reliability long term.
First as for use, the ability to touch the screen all the time is something that i find myself missing when i have to switch to an old school laptop. I have used acer and asus laptops and dont find the touch done as well on those. I carry it around when i am away from my desk and its great to be able to quickly flip it open and turn something off or on, or edit switch configs in the field with a very small device that is quite snappy and full featured. They put some good hardware in there, in terms of performance.
As for reliability, all but one of our surface pro 3's has failed in some way. Most multiple times, and in the first year i think all had to be RMA'ed under warranty. Mostly this is because they over heat, sometimes the screen becomes unresponsive, and definitely at least 4 drop incidents have occurred where the screen cracked (A $600 fix). I have had some DOA as well. I have one that has a persistant USB port failure, and another that overheats and locks up when its sleeping (but performs fine if you shut it down as opposed to letting it go to sleep.
The surface laptops are somewhat newer, and not as many problems with them, but we did have one DOA unit out of the 7 or so we purchased. Microsoft store swapped it no questions asked though. I had a docking station that didnt output two display port outputs like it was supposed to as well, also swapped at MS store with zero hassles. When we purchased the surface pro 4, all had to be sent back for a manufacturing defect (recall) within the first month. But we got those right when they came out, like first units off the truck.
So in conclusion, i would recommend that if you have money and don't mind the fact that they are fragile and wont last more than 3 years, that one should purchase it. Like if you dont bat an eye about spending $1500 on a laptop every 3 years i would say definitely buy. The features they have and the lightweightedness and portability and convenience make up for the durability problems. Especially if its a corporate device where its not actually your money. Dropping it and having to spend $600 would be pretty brutal for a home user, with very few self repair options (they are more like a phone, or mac in this respect).
But they don't deserve all the hate i am seeing in this thread. If they were $400 bucks i would probably buy a few for home use. They are a great little package and everyone that uses one comments on how nice it is. Reliability is definitely an issue though, but less important for a business where you are swapping out old equipment for new usually after 3 years anyway.
Obviously you are not poor. Poor people don't qualify for 31k loans. They buy $500 beaters. I've never paid more than 1k for a car and I am not even that poor.
The biggest scam in the world is new car sales. I would argue that anyone who pays more than a few thousand for a car is bad with their finances.
I worked for $8 an hour when i was just starting out 20 years ago and it was about 400 after tax bi-weekly (850 per month or so). You cant really afford gas and insurance for that much unless you live with your parents. A car loan would be completely out of the question.
For basically a fancy hypercard stack, it really had beautiful graphics and pushed the limits on what was possible with that era of technology. That said, i can still hear my quad speed cdrom drive churning, between movements, whenever i even think about that game!
The older i get, the less i like humans with their unintended consequences and flawed methodologies mucking about with nature. "Multiple teams" built the atomic bombs and approved them for use. More people headed in the same direction means fuck all if they are all wrong. CRISPR is all kinds of fucked up. Humanity always thinks it knows better than nature. And is always wrong.
Hopefully you know that they haven't done any of that. They are just shipping more and more cores to make people buy new things. 6 cores will be the norm in a few years, 10 or 12 cores in 5 years will be normal. They will continue to ship new hardware and the benchmarks will say its faster because they always multiply single thread by the number of cores to get the benchmark results.
Do you just not know what arrogant means?
I'd rather work with a room full of mediocre nice people than even one arrogant, full of themselves, dickhole who thinks they are better than everyone else. I mean i have changed jobs and taken reduced pay to get away from self important twats (whoes poor attitude can never really make up for any sort of genius skills that they may posses).
It takes a true superior individual to realize that being nice to others and having social skills is actually a virtue worth cultivating.
Actually now that I think about it, one guy from another side of the company i occasionally have to deal with fits this bill. Everything is not his programming's fault, but user error. He has yet to design anything that hasn't needed a bunch of field patches to get working reliably, which of course, isn't his fault (spec was wrong, users are using it wrong, it shouldn't do that, etc). He doesn't seem to believe in deodorant (anti-social), and loves taking personal days when hes feeling "stressed", which is at least once almost every week (he is taking one today). He constantly sighs when you are talking to him, demurs frequently, and has a great deal on animosity for seemingly everyone and every thing.
He is just selfish and unrightly full of himself. He could not function without a huge ego, because he makes so many mistakes and really would have to change himself to the core to fix it. Well that doesn't usually happen till you have a life changing event in my experience. So i will go on dreading my interactions with him and make them as brief as possible.
If thats what happened, its still a joke. People rely on the cloud to back up their stuff. Anything can happen to local storage, and the apple ecosystem is so tied to the internet.
Can you even pull an mp4 file out of itunes with this movie to properly back it up? I would guess no.
Its hard to make an analogy, as there is no real life equivalent to repositories of software. But one assumes that purchases are for life and that if they have some licensing problem, they should prevent new downloads but honour downloads for things people have paid for.
Perhaps its like leasing a car, that then gets into an accident, and you go back to the dealer to get a lease replacement only to be told there are no other cars available, but you still have to continue making lease payments for a car you no longer have access to.
Oh well, not my problem personally. As everyone else moves to streaming I maintain my local library which is triple backed up.
If *I* want.
Not advisers, not the american people, I.
"*I* am the state"
me me me, I I I. He has all the situational awareness of a toddler.
Young Tom: How long do you think it's been up there?
Cooper: The Delhi Mission Control went down same as ours, ten years ago.
Young Tom: So for ten years?
[Cooper touches the surface of the drone]
Young Tom: Why did it come down so low?
Cooper: I don't know. Maybe the sun cooked it's brain or it was looking for something.
Young Murph: What?
[to Tom]
Cooper: Give me that large flat blade.
[to Murph]
Cooper: Maybe some kind of signal. I don't know.
[Cooper opens up the side of the drone]
Young Murph: What are you gonna do with it?
Cooper: I'm gonna give it something socially responsible to do, like drive a combine.
Young Murph: Can't we just let it go? It wasn't hurting anybody.
Cooper: Listen, this thing needs to learn how to adapt, Murph, like the rest of us.
They do not. windows is end of life'ing OS versions after two years. Meaning any of the 15xx releases (from 2015) are EOL now and will not receive updates.
So you can wait a bit, but not more than 2 years. And then you have 3 or 4 updates to apply at that time so its best to just download the 1803 (current release) ISO and upgrade directly instead of going through windows update.
It sucks. I have to make 3 new corporate images every 6 months. Its not hard with vms and such but you have to update your deployment environment and all the tools. Troubleshoot new script errors, copy in your custom settings. It takes a few days every 6 months for sure. We are always installing one release behind.
However its all bullshit when you compare it to my perfectly fine and dandy rock solid windows 7 install i have at home. I dont want to fuck around with software when I am at home so it will still till win7 is end of life or maybe beyond? i dont really have a lot of alternatives. I am not jumping on the revolving door upgrades with win10. Every "upgrade" is broken in some respect. Every single release they have released breaks something. I dont give a shit about new features, which is basically turning thick client applications into web "apps".
Just wondering if you or anyone else that blames this sysadmin has ever done tech support for small businesses or non profits. They aren't going to spend 10k redoing their websites that are currently working fine.
I can tell them they should do it all day and night and they will say "thank you for the info, but we have other priorities". So there is only so much a sysadmin can do. Charities do not have money. I assume NGO means charity in some respect. They are not proactive at all and generally know nothing about technology. You can make the director aware of the issue, but thats about it. Unless you want to be fixing it for free.
And yeah no one makes any documentation. That's the real world yo, not some kind of college course textbook fantasy where your knowledge evidently comes from. Charities often get things like web development done for free or extremely cheap. There is no budget to maintain the site and certainly not to hire a web developer for anything more than a small contract.
bwahaha...
Left:
- universal healthcare
- environmental protections
- marijuana legal
- hate speech outlawed
- no coal plants
FAR left, is above plus
- universal income
- 50%-90% corporate tax rate
- all drugs legal
- proportional representation
- nationalized critical industries (energy, water, internet) and some too big to fail businesses or businesses in the national interest
- no more nukes, nuke plants or any polluting power plant. renewables only.
- cap higher end wages
So I very much doubt that the "mainstream" in the USA is "far left". I think you guys can barely get to the centrist position.
I know its said time and time again, but the USA version of "left" is considered center or center right by other 1st world democracies.
I don't know about you, but I trust someone I elected far more than a for profit corporation 9 times out of 10. Your statement is very american. You don't trust the government so you elected trump to ruin it. So I wouldn't use the broken american political system, where they are trying to elect the least qualified person possible, as an example of the proper way to run a government. No wonder you are biased and think the corporations are here to $ave you. You know they only care about the bottom line and their brand image.
Government is for the people by the people. Twitter and facebook are for the money, by the money.
More like you learn that the new boss is the same as the old boss, you cant fight entrenched interests, you are too busy surviving and raising kids, have zero disposable time or money or energy to 'fight the system' anymore and accept that the rich will always win. For me that happened in my mid 20s. I drank for a while, then raised a family and am more concerned with their well being than enacting any sort of societal change, if i even had the time...
What you are describing is that people get broken down and more apathetic as they age. You can call that being "realistic" all you like, but reality as it is sucks. Sure there are lots of realities that are worse, but its not like the "money takes all" reality is anywhere close to good.
We can do better and indeed must because climate change is here to stay and will only get worse.
I guess you are trying to make some racist point, but perhaps instead of picking on black people like always, you americans could switch back to paper ballots like many other countries use (canada) which are pretty damn secure and verifiable.
It's the computers in your system that are the problem. Personally i believe that americans really are that stupid to legitimately elect trump and the russians probably didn't have to hack much, as americans are more than happy to make poor choices without any outside influence (For examples see: electing ronald regan, electing and re-electing george w bush, lack of gun control, lack of universal heathcare, letting obama et al kill indiscriminately with drones, iraq war, etc...).
because the society you then create is much worse than the one you are running away from. Weeding people out genetically has basically never gone over well...
Ref, as always, black mirror did it. men against fire
I did birdly (HTC VIVE headset with a moving platform you are strapped to) when i was on vacation. After a single session i had motion sickness for at least 4 hours. I won't try that again. Completely not worth it.
Recently read an article about this exact topic. The reason being that people designing facial recognition systems use mostly white sample data. Garbage in, garbage out. We have the same problem with our HR timeclocks that use facial recognition and our black and brown employees.
From the walrus
Some other posters here saying that black people are harder to capture etc are just being ignorant at best. When they changed the sample data, their error rate dropped to 3% from 47%...
Hmm, not a lot of people defending this fossi guy, i think ill just check our your post history and... My oh my Fozzy1015 is your post history interesting!
https://slashdot.org/~fozzy101...
Pretty much constant slams of tesla. Now is it just a simple coincidence that this guys real name is also "fossi" (with the same letter sounds even!). HMMMMM
the other half of the stuff you post is about investments, kind of like its your job to know about that kind of stuff. Isn't that interesting!
I guess we will see when you^H^H^Fossi ends up in prison if you^H^H^He stops posting. !remindme 6months
There are two different things here, the computer failing and is encrypted is fine as long as you make backups. I would want my laptop to be 100% encrypted, in case i decided to travel to america or something. Its always been ridiculous that you can just pull a harddrive out of a PC or pull the cmos battery and there is little other physical security going on there. I can see what you are arguing, that the current methods aren't strong enough, but at least its something. I'm not sure how exactly it works with these apple machines, but having a lock on my house does not mean that no one can possibly break in. It does stop all but the most dedicated though. I can't imagine that apples implementation is just security theatre. Police do seem to have a hard time cracking it and have to rely on exploits from what i understand.
A drive dying is fixed by making backups. You can do your own, or the cloud or whatever, as long as you do them! and check them every once in a while.
basically i am saying that if you rely on one computer's physical disk for all your storage, you are going to have a bad time. I dont think the solution is to not encrypt in this day and age. The solution is to have multiple backups of important data.
My greatest fear is natural disaster or physical theft. All hardware will die, that is a given, so you obviously have to expect that, and plan around it. I expect that one copy of all my data will burn to the ground one day.
TLDR, backups and hardware security are really separate domains. Youre confusing them to nitpick a point, but in the real world(tm) apple's crypto philosophy (while not perfect) has been shown to work for threats that are day to day real (police, snoopy employers, boarder guards and jealous spouses).
epilogue: I should say that i personally would never buy an apple product because they are borderline irreparable, so i'm not really arguing that apple doesn't suck, just that their crypo philosophy seems to be working (but maybe i am just the untrained eye)
I'm sure it depends on the disk not dying that you have your backups on.
mac users probably upgrade faster than most and thus dont cross the 5 years rotational disk death threshold, where disks are far more likely to die after year 5.
All backups need to be tested. I just lost a drive, and i went to copy data to another drive to restore it, and that drive which was just as old and had no previous signs of failing, suddenly started re-allocating sectors like crazy and the speed dropped right off till it is now unreadable. It was probably failing for quite some time (nothing in event logs though..), but the act of dumping 500gb to it killed it for good.
Luckily i have lots of backups and the important stuff is also mirrored to the cloud services, and offsite physical copies once a month, so i didnt lose any data. But two drive failures can and does happen, especially with environmental conditions as a trigger like this crazy hot summer we are having.
sigh. you obviously havent done much infrastructure planning if you dont know the difference between water resistant and water proof. from TFA:
Plus there is the whole "there is nothing worse for equipment than seawater" thing, which if you had ever maintained anything around an ocean, you would be very aware of.