thats pretty bullshit. We had 8 or so pro 3s and half had video card problems or wireless problems and had to be straight up exchanged. all in the first year of owning them,
When we purchased 2 pro 4's, they were apparently a "bad batch" and microsoft took them back a week later.
My current pro 3 on my desk right now has a USB overload problem where it is constantly saying that the usb device is drawing more power than the tablet can supply. of course there is nothing plugged into the usb port and the pins are fine. This is like a 2-3 year old tablet that was already RMA'ed once...
So bullshit microsoft. In my opinion, surface tablets are awesome when they work, and irreplaceable in peoples workflows now, but horribly unreliable hardware wise. And that is not even touching the ridiculous firmware update process where drivers and firmware update together, nor the many issues caused by windows 10 itself.
a $2000-$3000 tablet should not have any issues period! They seem to be mostly heat related which is probably down to bad design or fabrication. I would only recommend them if 1) someone else is paying for it (and the "any problem" = $600 repair fees that go with it) or 2) you dont plan on having it more than the warranty period.
They are awesome, invaluable, but reliability is NOT a strong point... And someone every few months, drops one and cracks the screen. Not really microsofts fault, but as i said they charge a flat rate $600 for any out of warranty repair claim. And obviously its like a phone, you cant service it yourself, so you got no choice but to send it to MS or buy a whole new one.
Oh and the "optional" keyboard and cover (that doesnt ship with your $3000 device) costs $170. Absolutely required to do any real work with it, or you know, protect the extremely fragile screen.
Yeah well my 5.1 setup sounds absolutely beautiful over optical. Much better than dealing with the ground hum on 6x 3.5mm cables from two devices. Optical 4 life!!!
And do i want to send HDMI audio to my 2Watt projector speaker? no, no i do not.
Sure if you are some rich guy who has $500 bucks to drop on a new receiver everytime some new cable comes out, by all means "upgrade". My yamaha receivers are only 10 and 20 years old respectively, both work fine, neither has HDMI. And thats good, because i dont want my receiver controlling video! that would obsolete it way too fast. For instance, the s-vhs video inputs on my 90s yamaha receiver. useless.
So no, mr cloud, my receiver doesnt sound bad. it Does DTS for my living room and sounds fantastic. Of course i am not a pretentious audiophile.... i live in the real world.
Man i really hate windows 10 calc i have on my work pc. My workflow for calculating is Windowskey + r , type 'calc' , press enter, and then immediately start typing.
of course if you do this, the calculator takes.5 seconds to open (or more) and misses your first numerical keystrokes. This is because of a stupid animation as well. Simply not a problem on any previous version of windows. Pisses me off damn near every day.
What basic IT security practices are they refering to? everyone keeps saying that, but to me that sounds like a user that heard "someone from IT" use those words and then parots them to everyone till it becomes fact.
It would be nice, you know, on a technical site, to actually list somewhere what the referenced "basic IT security" steps to prevent this were IN THIS SPECIFIC INSTANCE.
Not like generally, as some comments are doing. Was it everyone running as admin? were they not running virus scanners? not segmenting the network? Patching too slow (obviously!)? I mean if its a report on this, can we get more specifics? that would be the interesting part! Not just people shit talking different departments. An actual technical discussion would be nice.
The problem is that you have let the media (and the right wing politics) define what it means to be a social justice type person. SJW now simply means "hollowly politically correct for the sake of it". The left has always championed progressive and equality minded values, and not just "for the sake of being correct". But because equality of race for example, is the correct thing to do. However most people throwing around SJW actually disagree with those liberal values that star trek and "people who consider themselves liberal" have espoused for 50+ years. This is the trap of labeling with a loaded term. There are certainly hollow people that just want to make themselves feel righteous for the sake of it, but we shouldn't throw away all of social justice progress because of that minority.
"SJW", like "fascists" is simply a term that one side of the political spectrum uses to group, label and dismiss the other side. Social justice is good and has led to much progress in the last century.
Thats your opinion. My wife even likes it, which is not true of any previous trek series.
I eagerly await the upload on sunday night. I think the characters are sufficiently complex already that I am not sure what will happen. Is the new guy from the prison a klingon spy? Was the captains escape orchestrated by the klingons so they could get a mole into discovery? How will genetically manipulating their chief scientist so they can use the drive affect his personality? will they be too afraid to kill off characters? or will they adopt the new netflix model of anyone can die (except obviously michael the protagonist).
Critics seem to be focusing on the technology, and that people in the prequel should all be using CRT's or something like that. I disagree, as star trek franchises have always represented the era in which they were created.
I haven't been this excited about star trek in years. Its far better than enterprise, and the jj abrhams movies. Obviously everyons opinion is different when it comes to taste in entertainment, but thats my 2 cents. By episode 6, its engaging and worth watching for sure.
" I don't consider it a hassle if Linux wants to reboot, because I get to choose exactly when that happens. It's also very rare."
Im a bit of a linux noob, but doesnt a new kernel get released like at least once a month? I have auto updates turned on on my server but with auto reboot off and it seems like every few weeks when i log in it wants to reboot. And i have definitely had old kernels clogging up my boot partition (which i stupidly made too small initially and had to fix). I use ubuntu LTS as well.
Am i doing linux wrong? pretty sure this happens. Grub has to rebuild itself and the machine has to reboot to use the new kernel. This happens several times a month...I used to run apt-get dist-upgrade when it said that updates were being kept back (such as linux-image or whatever the kernels are called...)
"USB-C power should allow for nearly universal DC power. Ideally all home routers, switches, and such will use USB-C power, eliminating a wide assortment of power bricks and connectors."
Erm, not sure what you mean by this. 5v USB power already does this if you want and is pretty standard, providing your device supports it (no difference). I don't see what the difference is except now you can do more amps (which i can do with multiple power supplies anyways).
It would be nicer if we went to 12v i think personally, because way way way more stuff is 12v than 5v. Pretty much 5v became standard because of USB, whereas 12v was standard far before computers even.
And we already have 48v POE, which solves the small device problem over long ass (several hundred feet of) cat 5/6 cables. I believe its 25watts for poe+ per port, and wont have the 10ft or so limit of USB cables (correct me if acceptable usb cable length has changed, but i doubt it).
I clearly remember 3com PCMCIA ethernet adapters with dongles in the 90s. We called them dongles then. To me a dongle is anything that "dangles" from the device.
is an HDMI to DVI adapter a dongle? if it has a length of cord, then i would call it a dongle perhaps. An adapter to me is just a hard piece of plastic without a cord. If it has a cord, it dangles, so dongle.
If you have been there recently, every second link you click has code injected to open a BUY VPN NOW! page. even magent links do this so i have to close the popup tab and click again.
still a valuable resource. Lots of torrent websites shut down recently. no script makes quick work of these sorts of things so no biggy for me, but i no longer recommend the site to normal users.
"High core counts expose bugs and inefficient algorithms that might be expensive to fix"
Easy solution, take the money spent to fix the issue out of the programmer who wrote the code's paycheque. If your going to be a dick, at least be a dick to the one who actually caused the problem. And that's not the user discovering the bugs. They did not create the bugs, the programmer did.
If anything, they should be paying the power user a "bug bounty" for QA'ing M$'s code for them!
Been on here since 99 or so, when i got my first tech job and slashdot was set as the homepage from my predecessor. Haven't stopped reading since.
Sure i play around with reddit, but their moderation system, shadowbans, and the fact that each subreddit only has a handful (if that) of moderators keeps me coming back here. There is far too much groupthink on any other aggregator with comments that I have tried, and the quality of comments on slashdot is always top notch. The AC system is also a rare delight in the new world order of disquis forums and such.
So keep on keeping on slashdot! Even fatboy slim had a song about you back in the day! linky
My personal favourite article from recent memory was the one about peoples favourite sci-fi films. Which I keep mining for new gems to watch on a friday night.
"The answer to the "problem of free speech" is more free speech."
Quotes and platitudes sound nice but do nothing to solve the problem.
The problem with "free" speech is that it is not equal, or in the best case, a meritocracy. People with money to buy facebook ads, or just simply a bot army, can be much louder than legitimate people who know what they are talking about.
How do you tell them apart? Critical thought? People who are not knowledgeable about the subject matter are incapable of that. I for instance, cannot tell if the shockwave that is generated by NK nuclear tests is an atom or hydrogen bomb. I rely on "experts" to interpret that data for me.
In years passed, you would pick your news source by the writers and editors leanings, and the publications did have rough standards, or they would go under as untrustworthy. On the internet, there are no standards. Joe679@hotmail.com is zero percent accountable to anyone. What i think the article is arguing for is some sort of curated system for these massive distribution networks of "news". Since we can assume people are horrible at telling fake news from real news, and yet these companies are passing off these "feeds" as "news", they should be held accountable when its wrong.
I mean its a hard problem and i don't claim to know the answer. But just saying 'yarrr more free speech!", doesn't really do anything but make americans feel good about their ideology.
Depends. Which uses more fuel, these prototype rockets or an 8 hour plane flight? I think musk is angling by his price comment, that it will be if nothing else, similar. The point is, it doesn't have to be more wasteful with fuel necessarily. That's what new tech is all about! efficiencies.
Needed to replace a QSC amp. Found it on amazon with 2 day shipping for free (thing weighs like 30lbs...). Decided i felt sorry for our local AV place so i called them up and asked them the price. Was about $50 more plus some small amount for shipping. Told them about amazon and offered them to price match it, which they did.
2 weeks later and i was still waiting for the part. They said their supplier had a delay. Finally 3 weeks later the amp arrived. No apologies or anything from the local guys (likely not their fault, but still...)
So next time I won't even bother getting them to quote and price match. Amazon's distribution chain in canada is blowing everyone away right now.
The trend has been started by one guy, who wrote management books in the 80s-90s.
"Replacing "progress" with "innovation" skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement: the world may not be getting better and better but our devices are getting newer and newer.
The word "innovate"--to make new--used to have chiefly negative connotations: it signified excessive novelty, without purpose or end. Edmund Burke called the French Revolution a "revolt of innovation"; Federalists declared themselves to be "enemies to innovation." George Washington, on his deathbed, was said to have uttered these words: "Beware of innovation in politics." Noah Webster warned in his dictionary, in 1828, "It is often dangerous to innovate on the customs of a nation.""
"Disruptive innovation is a theory about why businesses fail. Its not more than that. It doesnt explain change. Its not a law of nature. Its an artifact of history, an idea, forged in time; its the manufacture of a moment of upsetting and edgy uncertainty. Transfixed by change, its blind to continuity. It makes a very poor prophet."
"We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun."
"Next phase is dockable (via a physical connector or wireless/bluetooth) phones/tablets with real keyboard, mice, monitor, and network connections."..." you will see desktops/laptops disappear from a large portion of businesses. "
What do you call a phone with peripherals and monitors attached, perhaps on the top of someones desk?
A desktop.
You have basically just said that desktops are evolving. What a futurist you are! Everyone knows that already. Take a look at what used to be called small form factor PCs. Dells for instance get a few cm smaller with every revision. The 7050 is mad tiny compared to even a 6 year old 780.
Smaller and smaller PC's, such as intel NUC's, will replace towers, if they have't already. Having the power supply inside the case is what is changing. You can get away with 12v @3.4amps now to do what you would have needed 120v 350watts to do 10 years ago. Those are basically laptops repackaged without a screen. Not to mention laptops with docking stations that have been around forever.
What will happen is that upgrade-able "workstations" will disappear for all but specialized uses where they need additional add on cards. And thats already happened. I deploy more and more intel NUC's where i can, every year. So no need to use phones for this. The industry already has options that work far better and are less prone to being dropped and smashed or lost in the toilet. These options are being deployed right now.
"Its the acronym that the SJW's chose. The SJW's invented the term and are now mad that it has a negative connotation."
Incorrect. Its now a "loaded term" and the right wingers did that apparently in 2011:
"Katherine Martin says that the term switched from primarily positive to overwhelmingly negative around 2011, when it was first used as an insult on Twitter.[1] The same year an Urban Dictionary entry for the term also appeared.[1] The term's negative use became mainstream due to the Gamergate controversy,[10] emerging as the favoured term of Gamergate proponents to describe their ideological opponents
Use of the term has been described as attempting to degrade the motivations of the person accused of being an SJW, implying that their motives are "for personal validation rather than out of any deep-seated conviction".
So do i believe in equality for all, and progressive socialism? hell yes! But thats not what social justice warrior means anymore and you know it. It means as she has said above, that people are out for "personal validation rather than any deep seated conviction". Which again, is BS, because you cant tell me I dont have a burning desire to see people treated equally.
Im sure some people just believe what they believe because they have been taught that, but i know the history of fascism, i know the history of racism and i know the history of sexism and of capitalism, and yes I do want to wipe all those 'isms' right out of human thought. They are relics from the past, when people didn't embrace differences but feared them. When people were forced to fight "the other" for country, or money or power. When in reality, we are all in this together as humans, and there are currently planet wide problems that need to be addressed by all. Creating or emphasizing divisions is contrary to that goal.
We are all created equal. Then pissants in society create artificial divisions for their own purposes. Castes, genetics, country of origin, whatever. Breaking those down is a goal in life of mine for sure.
you apologists are retards. Replace "female" with "black" in his stupid memo, and hopefully you would be offended by that.
I tend to hate feminists who spout off about the patriarchy at every chance they get, but a guy arguing that there are real differences on the whole, with the way women and men think is just trolling, and gives these feminists so much ammunition its not even funny.
Men and women are equal, or they can be, given similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Period. Same as white and black skinned people are equal. That people are inherently racist and sexist (if they are) is a product of society, not actual differences between the races or sexes.
Anyone arguing against that, (who is probably male), obviously hasn't spent time actually talking to many women. And see if your wife thinks that this memo is legitimate. That's the real test, make your same stupid arguments to your wife and see how happy she is with your line of reasoning.
But you "men" are just too chickenshit to actually ask your wives aren't you.
Look i really hate smart phones, don't have one, etc.. but this is what every generation says. they said it about video games in the 80s too.
Smartphones are wreaking havoc with society, and we are getting close to a panopticon as depitcted in the recent movie "the circle", but i think they are equally damaging to kids as well as adults.
if anything, i can give the kids a break. They don't know any better. All the adult and elderly smart phone zombies are the ones i really hate, because they know how evil these technologies can be and they signed on anyways becuase everyone else was doing it.
I feel like in a few years, there will be a backlash against smartphones by the youths. The youths are the only ones who can save us! The elderly have a fear of missing out, something I as a computer professional never had. Which is why i couldn't be called a luddite by the media / co workers/etc for my lack of adoption of social media and the dreaded zombie phone.... But many older people (over 20s) such as myself were told that they were behind the times without a smartphone and basically peer pressured into it by early adopters.
" If you cant do that then the drugs are more important to you than the job, and who wants to hire you then?"
Yeah wow, having good health (like taking your MMJ prescription) is more important to some than working. Who would have thought?
Go a few weeks without your lipitor or anti depressants and see how you feel. Not to mention coffee, alcohol, nicotine and all the other legal drugs that some people cant just give up cold turkey so easily. Newly legal drugs should be no different.
I've known heroin addicts with impeccable work ethics, as long as they have a steady supply. The problem with drugs is that they are illegal, not the drugs themselves.
Anyone intoxicated at work effects their productivity and they should be fired for that. Not simply using drugs on their own personal time which is far different.
"If you ask me, I think that the devs are probably opposed to an open work environment is because it gives them less opportunity to waste company time using their computer for non-work-related activities."
Like posting to slashdot?:P
Well i work in an office with a door and only one other person in it, and it really depends on your co workers. If one of us is having a meeting, its pretty distracting to the other office mate, and things like the other person joining the meeting they werent invited to does occur. I will often chime in with my 2 cents for instance.
I'm just surprised you never experienced distraction from working alongside others. I get along well with my officemate but there are plenty of people in this building who i would have a very hard time sharing an office with. People who talk on the phone all day, people who play music, people who chat constantly about their insipid lives.. etc. And I couldn't imagine having like 5+ people all working in the same space. The odds are quite high at least one of those people would piss me off.
Perhaps you are just immune to distraction better than most. And "wasting" time is a misnomer. I could spend all day banging my head against the wall to try and solve a problem, or i could relax a bit and a solution will come to me when im thinking of something else. I am not alone in operating this way I think.
If you want to do proper password management and shares without making windows accounts with the same passwords on all the pcs (requires knowing the password, and that no user changes them). Then it could be useful to have a domain controller.
I do fine with just using the same passwords and account names on all the workstations personally, but issues do arise if my wife or son changes the password.
Didnt want to spare the resources on my server for another vm to do this though.
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thats pretty bullshit. We had 8 or so pro 3s and half had video card problems or wireless problems and had to be straight up exchanged. all in the first year of owning them,
When we purchased 2 pro 4's, they were apparently a "bad batch" and microsoft took them back a week later.
My current pro 3 on my desk right now has a USB overload problem where it is constantly saying that the usb device is drawing more power than the tablet can supply. of course there is nothing plugged into the usb port and the pins are fine. This is like a 2-3 year old tablet that was already RMA'ed once...
So bullshit microsoft. In my opinion, surface tablets are awesome when they work, and irreplaceable in peoples workflows now, but horribly unreliable hardware wise. And that is not even touching the ridiculous firmware update process where drivers and firmware update together, nor the many issues caused by windows 10 itself.
a $2000-$3000 tablet should not have any issues period! They seem to be mostly heat related which is probably down to bad design or fabrication. I would only recommend them if 1) someone else is paying for it (and the "any problem" = $600 repair fees that go with it) or 2) you dont plan on having it more than the warranty period.
They are awesome, invaluable, but reliability is NOT a strong point... And someone every few months, drops one and cracks the screen. Not really microsofts fault, but as i said they charge a flat rate $600 for any out of warranty repair claim. And obviously its like a phone, you cant service it yourself, so you got no choice but to send it to MS or buy a whole new one.
Oh and the "optional" keyboard and cover (that doesnt ship with your $3000 device) costs $170. Absolutely required to do any real work with it, or you know, protect the extremely fragile screen.
Yeah well my 5.1 setup sounds absolutely beautiful over optical. Much better than dealing with the ground hum on 6x 3.5mm cables from two devices. Optical 4 life!!!
And do i want to send HDMI audio to my 2Watt projector speaker? no, no i do not.
Sure if you are some rich guy who has $500 bucks to drop on a new receiver everytime some new cable comes out, by all means "upgrade". My yamaha receivers are only 10 and 20 years old respectively, both work fine, neither has HDMI. And thats good, because i dont want my receiver controlling video! that would obsolete it way too fast. For instance, the s-vhs video inputs on my 90s yamaha receiver. useless.
So no, mr cloud, my receiver doesnt sound bad. it Does DTS for my living room and sounds fantastic. Of course i am not a pretentious audiophile.... i live in the real world.
Man i really hate windows 10 calc i have on my work pc. My workflow for calculating is Windowskey + r , type 'calc' , press enter, and then immediately start typing.
of course if you do this, the calculator takes .5 seconds to open (or more) and misses your first numerical keystrokes. This is because of a stupid animation as well. Simply not a problem on any previous version of windows. Pisses me off damn near every day.
What basic IT security practices are they refering to? everyone keeps saying that, but to me that sounds like a user that heard "someone from IT" use those words and then parots them to everyone till it becomes fact.
It would be nice, you know, on a technical site, to actually list somewhere what the referenced "basic IT security" steps to prevent this were IN THIS SPECIFIC INSTANCE.
Not like generally, as some comments are doing. Was it everyone running as admin? were they not running virus scanners? not segmenting the network? Patching too slow (obviously!)? I mean if its a report on this, can we get more specifics? that would be the interesting part! Not just people shit talking different departments. An actual technical discussion would be nice.
Maybe next article...
The problem is that you have let the media (and the right wing politics) define what it means to be a social justice type person. SJW now simply means "hollowly politically correct for the sake of it". The left has always championed progressive and equality minded values, and not just "for the sake of being correct". But because equality of race for example, is the correct thing to do. However most people throwing around SJW actually disagree with those liberal values that star trek and "people who consider themselves liberal" have espoused for 50+ years. This is the trap of labeling with a loaded term. There are certainly hollow people that just want to make themselves feel righteous for the sake of it, but we shouldn't throw away all of social justice progress because of that minority.
"SJW", like "fascists" is simply a term that one side of the political spectrum uses to group, label and dismiss the other side. Social justice is good and has led to much progress in the last century.
Thats your opinion. My wife even likes it, which is not true of any previous trek series.
I eagerly await the upload on sunday night. I think the characters are sufficiently complex already that I am not sure what will happen. Is the new guy from the prison a klingon spy? Was the captains escape orchestrated by the klingons so they could get a mole into discovery? How will genetically manipulating their chief scientist so they can use the drive affect his personality? will they be too afraid to kill off characters? or will they adopt the new netflix model of anyone can die (except obviously michael the protagonist).
Critics seem to be focusing on the technology, and that people in the prequel should all be using CRT's or something like that. I disagree, as star trek franchises have always represented the era in which they were created.
I haven't been this excited about star trek in years. Its far better than enterprise, and the jj abrhams movies. Obviously everyons opinion is different when it comes to taste in entertainment, but thats my 2 cents. By episode 6, its engaging and worth watching for sure.
Im a bit of a linux noob, but doesnt a new kernel get released like at least once a month? I have auto updates turned on on my server but with auto reboot off and it seems like every few weeks when i log in it wants to reboot. And i have definitely had old kernels clogging up my boot partition (which i stupidly made too small initially and had to fix). I use ubuntu LTS as well.
Am i doing linux wrong? pretty sure this happens. Grub has to rebuild itself and the machine has to reboot to use the new kernel. This happens several times a month...I used to run apt-get dist-upgrade when it said that updates were being kept back (such as linux-image or whatever the kernels are called...)
Erm, not sure what you mean by this. 5v USB power already does this if you want and is pretty standard, providing your device supports it (no difference). I don't see what the difference is except now you can do more amps (which i can do with multiple power supplies anyways).
It would be nicer if we went to 12v i think personally, because way way way more stuff is 12v than 5v. Pretty much 5v became standard because of USB, whereas 12v was standard far before computers even.
And we already have 48v POE, which solves the small device problem over long ass (several hundred feet of) cat 5/6 cables. I believe its 25watts for poe+ per port, and wont have the 10ft or so limit of USB cables (correct me if acceptable usb cable length has changed, but i doubt it).
I clearly remember 3com PCMCIA ethernet adapters with dongles in the 90s. We called them dongles then. To me a dongle is anything that "dangles" from the device.
is an HDMI to DVI adapter a dongle? if it has a length of cord, then i would call it a dongle perhaps. An adapter to me is just a hard piece of plastic without a cord. If it has a cord, it dangles, so dongle.
If you have been there recently, every second link you click has code injected to open a BUY VPN NOW! page. even magent links do this so i have to close the popup tab and click again.
still a valuable resource. Lots of torrent websites shut down recently. no script makes quick work of these sorts of things so no biggy for me, but i no longer recommend the site to normal users.
Easy solution, take the money spent to fix the issue out of the programmer who wrote the code's paycheque. If your going to be a dick, at least be a dick to the one who actually caused the problem. And that's not the user discovering the bugs. They did not create the bugs, the programmer did.
If anything, they should be paying the power user a "bug bounty" for QA'ing M$'s code for them!
wow netflix isnt 5.1? is that like the YIFY model of streaming: crap for the masses.
I guess people really dont care about audio, which explains the popularity of both yify and netflix...
Been on here since 99 or so, when i got my first tech job and slashdot was set as the homepage from my predecessor. Haven't stopped reading since.
Sure i play around with reddit, but their moderation system, shadowbans, and the fact that each subreddit only has a handful (if that) of moderators keeps me coming back here. There is far too much groupthink on any other aggregator with comments that I have tried, and the quality of comments on slashdot is always top notch. The AC system is also a rare delight in the new world order of disquis forums and such.
So keep on keeping on slashdot! Even fatboy slim had a song about you back in the day! linky
My personal favourite article from recent memory was the one about peoples favourite sci-fi films. Which I keep mining for new gems to watch on a friday night.
Quotes and platitudes sound nice but do nothing to solve the problem.
The problem with "free" speech is that it is not equal, or in the best case, a meritocracy. People with money to buy facebook ads, or just simply a bot army, can be much louder than legitimate people who know what they are talking about.
How do you tell them apart? Critical thought? People who are not knowledgeable about the subject matter are incapable of that. I for instance, cannot tell if the shockwave that is generated by NK nuclear tests is an atom or hydrogen bomb. I rely on "experts" to interpret that data for me.
In years passed, you would pick your news source by the writers and editors leanings, and the publications did have rough standards, or they would go under as untrustworthy. On the internet, there are no standards. Joe679@hotmail.com is zero percent accountable to anyone. What i think the article is arguing for is some sort of curated system for these massive distribution networks of "news". Since we can assume people are horrible at telling fake news from real news, and yet these companies are passing off these "feeds" as "news", they should be held accountable when its wrong.
I mean its a hard problem and i don't claim to know the answer. But just saying 'yarrr more free speech!", doesn't really do anything but make americans feel good about their ideology.
Depends. Which uses more fuel, these prototype rockets or an 8 hour plane flight? I think musk is angling by his price comment, that it will be if nothing else, similar. The point is, it doesn't have to be more wasteful with fuel necessarily. That's what new tech is all about! efficiencies.
Needed to replace a QSC amp. Found it on amazon with 2 day shipping for free (thing weighs like 30lbs...). Decided i felt sorry for our local AV place so i called them up and asked them the price. Was about $50 more plus some small amount for shipping. Told them about amazon and offered them to price match it, which they did.
2 weeks later and i was still waiting for the part. They said their supplier had a delay. Finally 3 weeks later the amp arrived. No apologies or anything from the local guys (likely not their fault, but still...)
So next time I won't even bother getting them to quote and price match. Amazon's distribution chain in canada is blowing everyone away right now.
The trend has been started by one guy, who wrote management books in the 80s-90s.
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What do you call a phone with peripherals and monitors attached, perhaps on the top of someones desk?
A desktop.
You have basically just said that desktops are evolving. What a futurist you are! Everyone knows that already. Take a look at what used to be called small form factor PCs. Dells for instance get a few cm smaller with every revision. The 7050 is mad tiny compared to even a 6 year old 780.
Smaller and smaller PC's, such as intel NUC's, will replace towers, if they have't already. Having the power supply inside the case is what is changing. You can get away with 12v @3.4amps now to do what you would have needed 120v 350watts to do 10 years ago. Those are basically laptops repackaged without a screen. Not to mention laptops with docking stations that have been around forever.
What will happen is that upgrade-able "workstations" will disappear for all but specialized uses where they need additional add on cards. And thats already happened. I deploy more and more intel NUC's where i can, every year. So no need to use phones for this. The industry already has options that work far better and are less prone to being dropped and smashed or lost in the toilet. These options are being deployed right now.
Incorrect. Its now a "loaded term" and the right wingers did that apparently in 2011:
So do i believe in equality for all, and progressive socialism? hell yes! But thats not what social justice warrior means anymore and you know it. It means as she has said above, that people are out for "personal validation rather than any deep seated conviction". Which again, is BS, because you cant tell me I dont have a burning desire to see people treated equally.
Im sure some people just believe what they believe because they have been taught that, but i know the history of fascism, i know the history of racism and i know the history of sexism and of capitalism, and yes I do want to wipe all those 'isms' right out of human thought. They are relics from the past, when people didn't embrace differences but feared them. When people were forced to fight "the other" for country, or money or power. When in reality, we are all in this together as humans, and there are currently planet wide problems that need to be addressed by all. Creating or emphasizing divisions is contrary to that goal.
We are all created equal. Then pissants in society create artificial divisions for their own purposes. Castes, genetics, country of origin, whatever. Breaking those down is a goal in life of mine for sure.
you apologists are retards. Replace "female" with "black" in his stupid memo, and hopefully you would be offended by that.
I tend to hate feminists who spout off about the patriarchy at every chance they get, but a guy arguing that there are real differences on the whole, with the way women and men think is just trolling, and gives these feminists so much ammunition its not even funny.
Men and women are equal, or they can be, given similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Period. Same as white and black skinned people are equal. That people are inherently racist and sexist (if they are) is a product of society, not actual differences between the races or sexes.
Anyone arguing against that, (who is probably male), obviously hasn't spent time actually talking to many women. And see if your wife thinks that this memo is legitimate. That's the real test, make your same stupid arguments to your wife and see how happy she is with your line of reasoning.
But you "men" are just too chickenshit to actually ask your wives aren't you.
Look i really hate smart phones, don't have one, etc.. but this is what every generation says. they said it about video games in the 80s too.
Smartphones are wreaking havoc with society, and we are getting close to a panopticon as depitcted in the recent movie "the circle", but i think they are equally damaging to kids as well as adults.
if anything, i can give the kids a break. They don't know any better. All the adult and elderly smart phone zombies are the ones i really hate, because they know how evil these technologies can be and they signed on anyways becuase everyone else was doing it.
I feel like in a few years, there will be a backlash against smartphones by the youths. The youths are the only ones who can save us! The elderly have a fear of missing out, something I as a computer professional never had. Which is why i couldn't be called a luddite by the media / co workers /etc for my lack of adoption of social media and the dreaded zombie phone.... But many older people (over 20s) such as myself were told that they were behind the times without a smartphone and basically peer pressured into it by early adopters.
Yeah wow, having good health (like taking your MMJ prescription) is more important to some than working. Who would have thought?
Go a few weeks without your lipitor or anti depressants and see how you feel. Not to mention coffee, alcohol, nicotine and all the other legal drugs that some people cant just give up cold turkey so easily. Newly legal drugs should be no different.
I've known heroin addicts with impeccable work ethics, as long as they have a steady supply. The problem with drugs is that they are illegal, not the drugs themselves.
Anyone intoxicated at work effects their productivity and they should be fired for that. Not simply using drugs on their own personal time which is far different.
Like posting to slashdot? :P
Well i work in an office with a door and only one other person in it, and it really depends on your co workers. If one of us is having a meeting, its pretty distracting to the other office mate, and things like the other person joining the meeting they werent invited to does occur. I will often chime in with my 2 cents for instance.
I'm just surprised you never experienced distraction from working alongside others. I get along well with my officemate but there are plenty of people in this building who i would have a very hard time sharing an office with. People who talk on the phone all day, people who play music, people who chat constantly about their insipid lives.. etc. And I couldn't imagine having like 5+ people all working in the same space. The odds are quite high at least one of those people would piss me off.
Perhaps you are just immune to distraction better than most. And "wasting" time is a misnomer. I could spend all day banging my head against the wall to try and solve a problem, or i could relax a bit and a solution will come to me when im thinking of something else. I am not alone in operating this way I think.
If you want to do proper password management and shares without making windows accounts with the same passwords on all the pcs (requires knowing the password, and that no user changes them). Then it could be useful to have a domain controller.
I do fine with just using the same passwords and account names on all the workstations personally, but issues do arise if my wife or son changes the password.
Didnt want to spare the resources on my server for another vm to do this though.