I had a Nexus 7 and really liked it, until Google stopped updating the OS. Eventually, it god slower and slower, until it was pretty much unusable. Maybe Google was taking a page out of Apple's playbook, who knows!
Still, I would have bought the latest generation of the Nexus because the price point was right, and the quality was good. But Google quit making them.
Now they've quit making the Pixel C (which I never bought because of the price).
I bought a Moto G phone and really liked it too, and Google also abandoned that line. Fortunately, Lenovo bought it and seems to be continuing Google's tradition of loading it with a stock OS and providing upgrades.
I'm becoming wary of Google devices, I just don't know whether they'll keep making and supporting them.
Those who want to sell account access on the black market are not trying just one user name at a time. They try thousands, maybe millions. They aren't going to try to sign up as thousands or millions of users, just to see if an account exists. Instead, they are going to use lists of guessed user names and common passwords to try to log in. Security certainly IS improved by not telling hackers whether the login failed due to incorrect user name vs. incorrect password.
I live in Houston, which was devastated by Hurricane Harvey this year. As the storm approached, we could all see (on radar) the progress of the storm, getting closer and closer. We knew it was going to cause a lot of damage, we just didn't know exactly when, or how much, or exactly where.
Bitcoin is going to be a disaster just as surely as Hurricane Harvey. It's going to hurt a lot of people, leave others unscathed, and help a few. But a collapse is certainly coming.
The best thing we can do for our friends is warn them away from investing money in Bitcoin that they can't afford to lose.
These days, everybody has used or at least seen apps, or used Word or Excel, and they've certainly used Web sites. That makes it easy to tell people that your job is to "build Web sites" or "create apps."
Back in the 80s, when nobody had every seen a computer, my job was "computer operator." It was much, much harder to explain that job back then!
I use this setting all the time, and it generally works. But it STILL doesn't prevent the video from downloading, it just immediately pauses it. I want it to block the video content from even starting to download!
One problem with a lot of those old debuggers and disassemblers was that they weren't that smart about what they were looking at. You often had to tell them a range of memory to disassemble, and they would blindly treat everything they saw as code, even if it was actually data. This was partly a problem because in those days, code and data weren't so neatly divided from one another, everything could live anywhere in memory. It was actually common for software to "poke" data into memory and then execute it. Ah, the good old days.
It's not the specific dollar amount that makes it due for a crash. It's the "irrational exuberance" of the droves of people who are buying Bitcoin right now. Like a Ponzi scheme, people are buying Bitcoin at high prices, paying off earlier investors, who are very happy with their take. But also like a Ponzi scheme, the rise will end, causing the last people in line to take heavy losses. The entire scheme WILL collapse. It's not a question of whether, but when.
Have you ever known somebody who was into UFOs and all that other paranormal stuff? They do in fact tend to be among the biggest "nerds" I've known. As a lifelong computer nerd (but not UFO believer) I think I know a nerd when I see one! (They are NOT unidentified.)
People many times predicted that Moore's Law couldn't continue much longer due to physical limitations, and yet somehow it did anyway. A new solution was found to get around each new physical limitation, allowing computers to continue to increase in speed for decades.
Modern medicine has simply reached a physical limitation. For the past couple hundred years, medicine has largely focused on fighting diseases and conditions that shortened people's lives. Antibiotics and vaccines have had dramatic effects on average human lifespans, but didn't really change what "old age" meant. But I'm confident that as scientists learn more about life at the molecular level, it will find ways to get past this "barrier" and surge ahead in its progress towards longer, healthier human lives.
the tech industry. Sexual harassment is actually as old as the human race, but this article narrowed the focus to "tech" jobs, so I guess by definition you can't go before the beginning of the tech industry.
Only if - you aren't cut out to be a manager - you let your tech skills rot
Personally, I've been a manager or director for most of the past seven years. I love it! I still write code at home to keep up with the latest developments. I relish the role of mentor and coach, and love it when I can play a role in helping my team members be successful.
Different people express emotions differently. That's why it's so hard to guess what someone is feeling.
For example, for some people, pausing before responding to a question means they don't know the answer, for others, it means that the person is carefully considering the nuances of a response.
In order to properly understand expressions, context is key. This is true of understanding spoken language as well. Computers are getting pretty good at understanding spoken language, but certainly not better than humans themselves. My guess is that this will be true of understanding emotions for some time.
All this leads me to believe that this is, at least in part, marketing hype.
Organic produce has become more in demand in recent years. Organic farmers have met the demand. The down side of organic farming is that it does require more labor. Maybe we're seeing some of this in the statistics.
You can't put big pots and pans in the dishwasher, or electric skillets, waffle makers, sharp knives, and on and on. It can't load itself, and it can't dry the dishes when it's done (even if it does have a "dry" cycle), and it can't put the dishes away.
The dishwasher only solves the easiest 20% of the problem.
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I had a Nexus 7 and really liked it, until Google stopped updating the OS. Eventually, it god slower and slower, until it was pretty much unusable. Maybe Google was taking a page out of Apple's playbook, who knows!
Still, I would have bought the latest generation of the Nexus because the price point was right, and the quality was good. But Google quit making them.
Now they've quit making the Pixel C (which I never bought because of the price).
I bought a Moto G phone and really liked it too, and Google also abandoned that line. Fortunately, Lenovo bought it and seems to be continuing Google's tradition of loading it with a stock OS and providing upgrades.
I'm becoming wary of Google devices, I just don't know whether they'll keep making and supporting them.
Those who want to sell account access on the black market are not trying just one user name at a time. They try thousands, maybe millions. They aren't going to try to sign up as thousands or millions of users, just to see if an account exists. Instead, they are going to use lists of guessed user names and common passwords to try to log in. Security certainly IS improved by not telling hackers whether the login failed due to incorrect user name vs. incorrect password.
I live in Houston, which was devastated by Hurricane Harvey this year. As the storm approached, we could all see (on radar) the progress of the storm, getting closer and closer. We knew it was going to cause a lot of damage, we just didn't know exactly when, or how much, or exactly where.
Bitcoin is going to be a disaster just as surely as Hurricane Harvey. It's going to hurt a lot of people, leave others unscathed, and help a few. But a collapse is certainly coming.
The best thing we can do for our friends is warn them away from investing money in Bitcoin that they can't afford to lose.
These days, everybody has used or at least seen apps, or used Word or Excel, and they've certainly used Web sites. That makes it easy to tell people that your job is to "build Web sites" or "create apps."
Back in the 80s, when nobody had every seen a computer, my job was "computer operator." It was much, much harder to explain that job back then!
Downloading Chrome or Firefox!
I use this setting all the time, and it generally works. But it STILL doesn't prevent the video from downloading, it just immediately pauses it. I want it to block the video content from even starting to download!
https://www.greentechmedia.com...
One problem with a lot of those old debuggers and disassemblers was that they weren't that smart about what they were looking at. You often had to tell them a range of memory to disassemble, and they would blindly treat everything they saw as code, even if it was actually data. This was partly a problem because in those days, code and data weren't so neatly divided from one another, everything could live anywhere in memory. It was actually common for software to "poke" data into memory and then execute it. Ah, the good old days.
It's not the specific dollar amount that makes it due for a crash. It's the "irrational exuberance" of the droves of people who are buying Bitcoin right now. Like a Ponzi scheme, people are buying Bitcoin at high prices, paying off earlier investors, who are very happy with their take. But also like a Ponzi scheme, the rise will end, causing the last people in line to take heavy losses. The entire scheme WILL collapse. It's not a question of whether, but when.
Have you ever known somebody who was into UFOs and all that other paranormal stuff? They do in fact tend to be among the biggest "nerds" I've known. As a lifelong computer nerd (but not UFO believer) I think I know a nerd when I see one! (They are NOT unidentified.)
People many times predicted that Moore's Law couldn't continue much longer due to physical limitations, and yet somehow it did anyway. A new solution was found to get around each new physical limitation, allowing computers to continue to increase in speed for decades.
Modern medicine has simply reached a physical limitation. For the past couple hundred years, medicine has largely focused on fighting diseases and conditions that shortened people's lives. Antibiotics and vaccines have had dramatic effects on average human lifespans, but didn't really change what "old age" meant. But I'm confident that as scientists learn more about life at the molecular level, it will find ways to get past this "barrier" and surge ahead in its progress towards longer, healthier human lives.
the tech industry. Sexual harassment is actually as old as the human race, but this article narrowed the focus to "tech" jobs, so I guess by definition you can't go before the beginning of the tech industry.
I keep reading and hearing about this, but I don't see it.
I'm 51, and still thriving in software development. I work next to a 60-year-old programmer.
Maybe this ageism thing is a Silicon Valley phenomenon. In Houston, I've worked with lots of successful older programmers.
Only if
- you aren't cut out to be a manager
- you let your tech skills rot
Personally, I've been a manager or director for most of the past seven years. I love it! I still write code at home to keep up with the latest developments. I relish the role of mentor and coach, and love it when I can play a role in helping my team members be successful.
Different people express emotions differently. That's why it's so hard to guess what someone is feeling.
For example, for some people, pausing before responding to a question means they don't know the answer, for others, it means that the person is carefully considering the nuances of a response.
In order to properly understand expressions, context is key. This is true of understanding spoken language as well. Computers are getting pretty good at understanding spoken language, but certainly not better than humans themselves. My guess is that this will be true of understanding emotions for some time.
All this leads me to believe that this is, at least in part, marketing hype.
It's hard for computers, hard for people too.
Did you ever walk through a door and forget what you had planned to get in that room?
Shifting context (attention) requires a large amount of processing. It's not surprising that the brain "blinks."
Wouldn't that have been easier?
You do realize how the story ended for this guy, right? They'll come after you, too!
Beep beep!
https://www.amazon.com/Mattel-...
There was really such a thing, before "radio buttons" became a computer user interface thing!
...before the picture finally started to show up, when you first turned on the TV.
Organic produce has become more in demand in recent years. Organic farmers have met the demand. The down side of organic farming is that it does require more labor. Maybe we're seeing some of this in the statistics.
Farm workers make up about 1.4% of the US work force. At such a low rate, it's not hard for statistical noise to result in an "increase."
You can't put big pots and pans in the dishwasher, or electric skillets, waffle makers, sharp knives, and on and on. It can't load itself, and it can't dry the dishes when it's done (even if it does have a "dry" cycle), and it can't put the dishes away.
The dishwasher only solves the easiest 20% of the problem.
You might like the Jolly Roger Telephone Company. They're pretty much doing just what you want.
http://www.jollyrogertelco.com...