I can read five times faster than a person can talk. And that is just when I need to retain it all. Audio books are very frustrating to me, like listening to music played at too slow a speed.
And when I am working, I don't like distractions. I work in what the psychologists call a "state of flow" (which anyone can do if they know how). The only thing I would want to play is noise, to cover up outside sounds.
Not being happy in your work has it's own costs and risks. But just "keep your eyes open" about what is happening.
On the other hand, there are a lot of small established companies that are -not- so large, and are not startups. You don't have to jump "in the deep end of the pool".
To be fair, WrkRiot wasn't really a "bubble" company. It was funded through the personal wealth of its founders, who ran out of cash and started begging from employees. That could happen in any market.
That means it was not a company, it was a hobby! 8-P
On the other hand, if the founders paid for it and -didn't- have to borrow from employees because they actually made money, then it would be a company. 8-)
There comes a point, where the risk of serious damage from the Updates is more than the risk from the "hackers", then yes. Turn all updates from M$ off, and block the download websites in your router.
And like they said, don't answer emails from "Nigerian princes". 8-)
... Must be one hell of a friendly place, what with everyone barricaded in their little castles, shooting at anything that moves.
The country people are a lot more friendly than the city people, and more reasonable. Where I live it is very peaceful and quiet, and people are very helpful. Not everyone has guns, but people that don't own one in case of need are considered a bit strange. Don't believe what the news media say... 8-)
A shotgun fires "shot" as in plural. 2 3/4" #4 buckshot typically has 27 shots in it. So she quite literally did not shoot it down with "1 shot" and I don't mean that as a play on words. It's just headline bait garbage. A chimpanzee could have shot down that drone if you have him a wide-spread shotgun.
Actually, that -is- a good shot. And it is considered one shot. Even that close, it is far enough to be very difficult.
Shot pellets from a shotgun don't spread as far as people think. At that range it would be only a foot or two across, more than a single bullet but hardly more than the drone. Closer the pattern is smaller than your fist, farther there is lots of open space in the pattern to miss.
Inside a room, birdshot is not noticably different from a solid slug.;-) (Except it does not go though as many walls.)
For a while there were a lot of stories and it still happens today, but burglars would wait for people to come home and then break in. Hold them hostage and demand their goods. Most people don't lock their doors or enable their alarms when they are home.
That's in big cities where everyone is helpless.
Out in the country, criminals don't usually go around places where people are. Or at least not more than once or twice...
So you're saying there's code in there along the lines of:
. .// Events.WriteEvent("usbsubsystem", "Driver unsigned, not loaded 0x80039193"); -- 02/10/16 jrh - good, those idiots will probably search for that number, sucks to be them when there's nothing on our website about it, hahahaha! -- 02/11/16 ska - not good enough, try again
. . System.BSOD();// Crash, because clearly there's no better way to handle this problem . } }
Judging from what I have seen over the years, the chance of code very similar to that being in there, is definitely greater than zero.;-)
That sounds like something similar to the warehouse system I did a few years back. It used floating point to store quantities, and rounded to the user selection after doing any calculations or conversions. The display format was set to the same user selection, of how many decimal points. Each material type could have a different number of decimal places, in the same table column.
Only disadvantage is that, a dump to a different system requires my export app, so it can look up the settings.
The users set it to match their bank or supplier. Of course if excel hit a bug, it didn't recreate that. But I think they ended up doing work-arounds in their excel entry coding.
Uh, yeah. That's how arbitrary precision works - exponents and rationals, at least in any sane implementation I've ever seen. Any evaluation to a decimal form is deferred until the very last minute as a human presentation step.
This is a consequence of trying to make things easy enough for anyone to use. The usual attempt is to make it automatic, but making the computer smarter than the user is to lose control over what is happening.
"Make a machine even a fool can use, and only a fool would want to use it."
But computers are too new, for the actual knowledge to have propogated through humanity, yet... Maybe another hundred years?
A global civilization built upon universal central *control* is the only way humanity will progress.
The problem with this sort of stuff, is that the people saying it always think that they are part of the elite. In History, it does not seem to work out that way. Instead they end up part of the fertilizer... 8-{
When stuff like this occurs I always wonder...is the super-snazzy NSA really just a bunch of knuckleheads or are they really slick and this is part of an elaborate and well planned disinformation campaign? Based on my life experience I'm pretty sure its the former...but TV/movies make me wish it were like the latter.
When you were in school and didn't know the answer to a multiple-choice question, what was the usual answer? "D : All of the above" ===
Could be the knuckle-heads are being manipulated by the actual operators, as a show for us.
Of course, who is a knuckle-head and who is an operator, changes frequently...
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if enough people start using a word or phrase incorrectly, at some point that usage becomes the correct one.
A variation of the *big lie* technique?
Sorry, couldn't resist...
Yes, it is. ;-)
And also a way to discourage others from being less lazy than the speaker, so that the speaker does not have to exert effort.
I can read five times faster than a person can talk. And that is just when I need to retain it all. Audio books are very frustrating to me, like listening to music played at too slow a speed.
And when I am working, I don't like distractions. I work in what the psychologists call a "state of flow" (which anyone can do if they know how). The only thing I would want to play is noise, to cover up outside sounds.
When you make a digital 'purchase' (using the term loosely here), you never really OWN it, you're only RENTING it.
That is true with many current readers. 8-{
But the ability to store a lot, is seperate from the DRM and intrusion. As the old saying goes, "Let the buyer beware!"
I say, as I sit here by my bookshelves... 8-)
That story is just crazy enough to be true! 8-}
... but dear god am I happier.
Not being happy in your work has it's own costs and risks. But just "keep your eyes open" about what is happening.
On the other hand, there are a lot of small established companies that are -not- so large, and are not startups. You don't have to jump "in the deep end of the pool".
To be fair, WrkRiot wasn't really a "bubble" company. It was funded through the personal wealth of its founders, who ran out of cash and started begging from employees. That could happen in any market.
That means it was not a company, it was a hobby! 8-P
On the other hand, if the founders paid for it and -didn't- have to borrow from employees because they actually made money, then it would be a company. 8-)
Many of the modern flat monitor screens have a "manual" adjustment for blue filter in their settings.
But I have not seen one that has it set by time of day.
There comes a point, where the risk of serious damage from the Updates is more than the risk from the "hackers", then yes. Turn all updates from M$ off, and block the download websites in your router.
And like they said, don't answer emails from "Nigerian princes". 8-)
... Must be one hell of a friendly place, what with everyone barricaded in their little castles, shooting at anything that moves.
The country people are a lot more friendly than the city people, and more reasonable.
Where I live it is very peaceful and quiet, and people are very helpful.
Not everyone has guns, but people that don't own one in case of need are considered a bit strange.
Don't believe what the news media say... 8-)
"Youngman told Ars that she had just returned from church one Sunday morning and was cleaning her two shotguns -- .410 and a .20 gauge -- on her porch"
Yeesh.
Uh, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."
Where I live, no one would think that was unusual... 8-)
A shotgun fires "shot" as in plural. 2 3/4" #4 buckshot typically has 27 shots in it. So she quite literally did not shoot it down with "1 shot" and I don't mean that as a play on words. It's just headline bait garbage. A chimpanzee could have shot down that drone if you have him a wide-spread shotgun.
Actually, that -is- a good shot. And it is considered one shot. Even that close, it is far enough to be very difficult.
Shot pellets from a shotgun don't spread as far as people think. At that range it would be only a foot or two across, more than a single bullet but hardly more than the drone. Closer the pattern is smaller than your fist, farther there is lots of open space in the pattern to miss.
Inside a room, birdshot is not noticably different from a solid slug. ;-)
(Except it does not go though as many walls.)
Please note that it takes an astounding amount of paperwork to stop a bullet.
The law might help you in the days after something happens, but it is not much help at the time.
There is no such thing as a "statistical impossibility".
Some here might know that statistics cannot be generalized to larger groups, unless there are a certain minimum number of test samples?
Well, the math works both ways, the statistics can not be reliably applied to groups -smaller- than that sample size.
So, statistics are invalid for groups consisting of one person. ;-)
(That mistake has caused a whole list of bad things to happen in many societies.)
For a while there were a lot of stories and it still happens today, but burglars would wait for people to come home and then break in. Hold them hostage and demand their goods. Most people don't lock their doors or enable their alarms when they are home.
That's in big cities where everyone is helpless.
Out in the country, criminals don't usually go around places where people are. Or at least not more than once or twice...
"Have you checked your gun today?"
8-)
So you're saying there's code in there along the lines of:
Judging from what I have seen over the years, the chance of code very similar to that being in there, is definitely greater than zero. ;-)
That sounds like something similar to the warehouse system I did a few years back. It used floating point to store quantities, and rounded to the user selection after doing any calculations or conversions. The display format was set to the same user selection, of how many decimal points. Each material type could have a different number of decimal places, in the same table column.
Only disadvantage is that, a dump to a different system requires my export app, so it can look up the settings.
The users set it to match their bank or supplier. Of course if excel hit a bug, it didn't recreate that. But I think they ended up doing work-arounds in their excel entry coding.
Still working fine...
Uh, yeah. That's how arbitrary precision works - exponents and rationals, at least in any sane implementation I've ever seen. Any evaluation to a decimal form is deferred until the very last minute as a human presentation step.
That actually sounds correct, to me. 8-)
Fixed-point math has rounding errors, too. You just don't notice them because they truncate.
P.S. Don't believe what people tell you, half are wrong and half are lying. Except a few like me... 8-)
This is a consequence of trying to make things easy enough for anyone to use. The usual attempt is to make it automatic, but making the computer smarter than the user is to lose control over what is happening.
"Make a machine even a fool can use, and only a fool would want to use it."
But computers are too new, for the actual knowledge to have propogated through humanity, yet...
Maybe another hundred years?
There are Engineers, and then there are engineers. I am one type, but I have met plenty of the other.
It's probably true in many fields of endeavor...
It's called Beauracracy. It is a disease that infects large organizations. -Any- large organization.
Beware of it because it is fatal for the organization, unless some outside source keeps it alive.
(For instance, people's taxes.)
But it can be successfully fought against, if people are constantly alert for it.
Just consider it part of the "safety program".
Didn't you read the memo? Desktop computers are dead, please recycle yours as soon as possible. ...
No, I won't. 8-{
"F=IW"
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That's psy-war, but it is not coercion.
A global civilization built upon universal central *control* is the only way humanity will progress.
The problem with this sort of stuff, is that the people saying it always think that they are part of the elite. In History, it does not seem to work out that way. Instead they end up part of the fertilizer... 8-{
When stuff like this occurs I always wonder...is the super-snazzy NSA really just a bunch of knuckleheads or are they really slick and this is part of an elaborate and well planned disinformation campaign? Based on my life experience I'm pretty sure its the former...but TV/movies make me wish it were like the latter.
When you were in school and didn't know the answer to a multiple-choice question, what was the usual answer?
"D : All of the above" ===
Could be the knuckle-heads are being manipulated by the actual operators, as a show for us.
Of course, who is a knuckle-head and who is an operator, changes frequently...