That's the same as saying they today's kids can't get into comics, and the only way to get into them is to go back in time!
I presume you meant that is difficult to get into some series of comics as they started many years ago (when you were a kid). But if one were to pick a series that started recently then you should be able to catch up fairly quickly. And many examples have been mentioned in other comments.
And maybe then if you want to spend the time start looking at the older series and reading them from the start. Or from a point that your local comic book guy suggests.
This is much better than the Irish eircode system...
With eircode, each dwelling get's their own 'postcode'. This means that in an apartment block, each individual apartment has it's own postcode. Which is nice. But... they went to great strides to ensure that your neighbours have a completely different eircode. The codes are 'random' in order to ensure this. So it means that if someone sends you something but they wrote the code down marginally incorrect, your package will be delivered to someone several km away and not to your neighbours.
It also means that you need to either have (and have to buy) a copy of the ever-updating database locally, or have online access in order to lookup the eircode to see where you are going. And if you need to look up many of them, they'll charge you.
*sigh*
At least Google added them to maps. But they aren't a very well thought out system. This Plus system makes a lot more sense.
When I was in college doing my M.Sc we were told that Wikipedia was not to be referenced, and we could be marked down or failed for referencing it. The issue there is that anyone can change Wikipedia, so there's no guarantee that the information there is correct. (WolframAlpha, incidentally, can be referenced).
I did find myself using Wikipedia for the references, though. There are a lot of citations on every page, so if I wanted to look up something for a paper, I'd look up the citation on the wikipedia page and use it.
Yeah, the total eclipse isn't visible at all to most of us Europeans, unfortunately. (It'll be visible in Eastern Europe, a little bit, at sunset, but the totality will be over by then).
I haven't seen any "end of the world" comments on the interwebs.
Like, this is a major cosmic coincidence - Blue moon, Blood moon, "Super" moon, AND total lunar eclipse, all at the same time. And not a peep from our doomsday end-of-the-world friends. (I miss them already).
What are they waiting for - super blue blood moon eclipse solar-nova day, or something?!
I saw an article that mentions the viewing distance you need to be from a TV before you can actually see the difference in resolution. For a 1080p display, you need to be at most 3 times the height of the screen away. E.g. for a 55inch screen, that's 3 meters. Any further and people with normal vision won't be able to differentiate between 1080 and 720. As the resolution increases, this distance reduces according -- double the resolution and halve the distance. So for a 4k screen it's 1.5x the screen height, and for 8k is 0.75x the screen height.
The height of a 16:9 screen is approx half of the diagonal, so in this case ~44 inches. So following the rule above, one would need to be less than 3 feet from the screen in order to appreciate the uplift in resolution.
Basically what I'm saying here is that an 88" screen isn't big enough for my living room!!!
I'm going to guess they this is with an American accent. I've yet to hear a Google voice that says "kilometres" in the same way we do in Ireland. (It's something I find a little irritating when using Google Maps for navigation).
Agreed. I was thinking the same thing. Point a camera through the lens and show us what it looks like through the glasses, not a rendered-image slideshow.
Indeed. They can accurately measure the mass of 2 binaries by their orbits (that was stated), so for every pair of binaries they have 2 stars they can look at to calibrate the technique.
Because he's a nice manager who cares about his employees. He sees that they are close to retirement and wants them to be able to retain employment in the company to see their retirement. With, what, 30 years each in the company, they aren't going to be able to do much in another company. So he's trying to do something to help them.
People at any age can be trained and reskilled, so he's asking for some advice. Again, so that he can help these people who work for him.
Honestly, he's a good manager. It's good that he's trying to do something, as many a manager would ignore them, allow them to go obsolete, say it was the employees' fault for not upskilling themselves, and not bat an eyelid then when were shown the door with nothing more than a handshake and general directions to the job centre.
It's great to be motivated to want to learn new stuff, and want to keep up with everything new. But not everyone is so motivated. Just because someone isn't the same as others isn't a reason they should be overlooked or ignored. Instead, you need to look at a different want to engage with them. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another.
So kudos to this manager for being the better manager and for looking out for these guys. I really hope he gets some good advice from the comments here and helps these 2 guys.
The SI unit is GB, which is 1,000,000,000 bytes. G-anything is 1,000,000,000 anything in SI units. Hence why GiB came into being in order to distinguish between the SI unit and the power-of-two unit.
This isn't marketing (although HD manufacturers were/are notorius for using the SI unit correctly, while knowing that your average techy uses the power-of-two meaning [incorrectly]), it's standardisation of scientific values.
I think he point is that cryptography isn't just about "crypto currencies".
It's another example of people who don't understand the world of technology changing the meaning of a word from the technical meaning (crypto being short for cryptography) to the meaning they want it to mean (crypto being short for cryptography based digital currency, a subset of cryptography itself).
It's like "literally" being changed to means "figuratively", mainly be cause people didn't understand sarcasm, and/or didn't know the work "figuratively".
Or "Internet" now being spelt with a lower case I (internet) to mean "The Internet" and not "an internet". Again, the difference is a technical different that most people don't understand, so don't care about. (You'll never take away my upper-case I for Internet! Never!)
So, yeah, I know where he's coming from. But the battle is already lost on this one, as always...
Some of those counters are available (certainly Mobile Data used is available at the OS level, and you can set a warning level for it), but this app will allow you to view them better, and to control stuff. For example, if an app that you don't really use is using too much data, you can stop it using mobile data with this app.
Google these days try to push out stuff in apps rather than in OS upgrades, as that way these can be used on devices where the manufacturers don't update the OS. Maybe system apps are now available to download from Google Play so they can be updated outside of the OS release.
Here's hoping for a Slashdot Effect, in the most positive way, for that petition.
Interestingly I've seen Imgur posts linking to it with over 100,000 likes, but the petition has yet to raise 100,000 signatures! (76k at time of writing).
Slashdot Mirror
That's the same as saying they today's kids can't get into comics, and the only way to get into them is to go back in time!
I presume you meant that is difficult to get into some series of comics as they started many years ago (when you were a kid). But if one were to pick a series that started recently then you should be able to catch up fairly quickly. And many examples have been mentioned in other comments.
And maybe then if you want to spend the time start looking at the older series and reading them from the start. Or from a point that your local comic book guy suggests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (The European City Centre With No Street Names)
This is much better than the Irish eircode system...
With eircode, each dwelling get's their own 'postcode'. This means that in an apartment block, each individual apartment has it's own postcode. Which is nice.
But... they went to great strides to ensure that your neighbours have a completely different eircode. The codes are 'random' in order to ensure this. So it means that if someone sends you something but they wrote the code down marginally incorrect, your package will be delivered to someone several km away and not to your neighbours.
It also means that you need to either have (and have to buy) a copy of the ever-updating database locally, or have online access in order to lookup the eircode to see where you are going. And if you need to look up many of them, they'll charge you.
*sigh*
At least Google added them to maps. But they aren't a very well thought out system. This Plus system makes a lot more sense.
When I was in college doing my M.Sc we were told that Wikipedia was not to be referenced, and we could be marked down or failed for referencing it. The issue there is that anyone can change Wikipedia, so there's no guarantee that the information there is correct. (WolframAlpha, incidentally, can be referenced).
I did find myself using Wikipedia for the references, though. There are a lot of citations on every page, so if I wanted to look up something for a paper, I'd look up the citation on the wikipedia page and use it.
You could've clicked on the link to see a map of the world showing where it was visible, then.
Yeah, the total eclipse isn't visible at all to most of us Europeans, unfortunately. (It'll be visible in Eastern Europe, a little bit, at sunset, but the totality will be over by then).
Nasa always post some good info about eclipses: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/...
(Note: All times are in UTC)
I haven't seen any "end of the world" comments on the interwebs.
Like, this is a major cosmic coincidence - Blue moon, Blood moon, "Super" moon, AND total lunar eclipse, all at the same time. And not a peep from our doomsday end-of-the-world friends. (I miss them already).
What are they waiting for - super blue blood moon eclipse solar-nova day, or something?!
While similar to how corn flour in water works, it's a different compound. More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
True.
Specifically for this, most say Keelow-meters or Killow-meters, while we day kill-Om-eters. Emphasis is on the Om.
That's an issue with Slashdot. The  characters above are degree symbols. Slashdot doesn't encode them correctly.
6ÂF = -14.444ÂC
(For the majority of the world that doesn't understand Fossil units)
I saw an article that mentions the viewing distance you need to be from a TV before you can actually see the difference in resolution. For a 1080p display, you need to be at most 3 times the height of the screen away. E.g. for a 55inch screen, that's 3 meters. Any further and people with normal vision won't be able to differentiate between 1080 and 720.
As the resolution increases, this distance reduces according -- double the resolution and halve the distance. So for a 4k screen it's 1.5x the screen height, and for 8k is 0.75x the screen height.
The height of a 16:9 screen is approx half of the diagonal, so in this case ~44 inches. So following the rule above, one would need to be less than 3 feet from the screen in order to appreciate the uplift in resolution.
Basically what I'm saying here is that an 88" screen isn't big enough for my living room!!!
I'm going to guess they this is with an American accent. I've yet to hear a Google voice that says "kilometres" in the same way we do in Ireland. (It's something I find a little irritating when using Google Maps for navigation).
Agreed. I was thinking the same thing. Point a camera through the lens and show us what it looks like through the glasses, not a rendered-image slideshow.
:bangs-head-on-desk:
It was a pun...
*sigh*
Surely a Tolkien Ring, no?
The FCC
Indeed. They can accurately measure the mass of 2 binaries by their orbits (that was stated), so for every pair of binaries they have 2 stars they can look at to calibrate the technique.
Because he's a nice manager who cares about his employees. He sees that they are close to retirement and wants them to be able to retain employment in the company to see their retirement. With, what, 30 years each in the company, they aren't going to be able to do much in another company. So he's trying to do something to help them.
People at any age can be trained and reskilled, so he's asking for some advice. Again, so that he can help these people who work for him.
Honestly, he's a good manager. It's good that he's trying to do something, as many a manager would ignore them, allow them to go obsolete, say it was the employees' fault for not upskilling themselves, and not bat an eyelid then when were shown the door with nothing more than a handshake and general directions to the job centre.
It's great to be motivated to want to learn new stuff, and want to keep up with everything new. But not everyone is so motivated. Just because someone isn't the same as others isn't a reason they should be overlooked or ignored. Instead, you need to look at a different want to engage with them. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another.
So kudos to this manager for being the better manager and for looking out for these guys. I really hope he gets some good advice from the comments here and helps these 2 guys.
Talk to them. Explain the situation. Ask them if there are any areas they are interested in. Give them options and allow them to choose.
The SI unit is GB, which is 1,000,000,000 bytes. G-anything is 1,000,000,000 anything in SI units.
Hence why GiB came into being in order to distinguish between the SI unit and the power-of-two unit.
This isn't marketing (although HD manufacturers were/are notorius for using the SI unit correctly, while knowing that your average techy uses the power-of-two meaning [incorrectly]), it's standardisation of scientific values.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No. These currencies use strong cryptographic hashing and cryptographic signatures, so 'crypto' is more accurate than 'cyber'.
I think he point is that cryptography isn't just about "crypto currencies".
It's another example of people who don't understand the world of technology changing the meaning of a word from the technical meaning (crypto being short for cryptography) to the meaning they want it to mean (crypto being short for cryptography based digital currency, a subset of cryptography itself).
It's like "literally" being changed to means "figuratively", mainly be cause people didn't understand sarcasm, and/or didn't know the work "figuratively".
Or "Internet" now being spelt with a lower case I (internet) to mean "The Internet" and not "an internet". Again, the difference is a technical different that most people don't understand, so don't care about. (You'll never take away my upper-case I for Internet! Never!)
So, yeah, I know where he's coming from. But the battle is already lost on this one, as always...
Some of those counters are available (certainly Mobile Data used is available at the OS level, and you can set a warning level for it), but this app will allow you to view them better, and to control stuff. For example, if an app that you don't really use is using too much data, you can stop it using mobile data with this app.
Google these days try to push out stuff in apps rather than in OS upgrades, as that way these can be used on devices where the manufacturers don't update the OS. Maybe system apps are now available to download from Google Play so they can be updated outside of the OS release.
Here's hoping for a Slashdot Effect, in the most positive way, for that petition.
Interestingly I've seen Imgur posts linking to it with over 100,000 likes, but the petition has yet to raise 100,000 signatures! (76k at time of writing).