Every game will have a requirement that some portion of its processing be done on centralized servers, for a monthly fee, without which they won't play.
That's all you need to know. They might as well have a gigantic sign in the lobby of Facebook headquarters. Facebook is Zuckerberg and he's a sociopath and is incapable of change. Therefore Facebook will never change.
Also, only optics matter at every public company so Facebook's not unique in that regard.
Never buy from/through Amazon if it's at all important to you that the item is genuine and/or new and factory sealed. The list includes phones, batteries, chargers, and guitars.
I have a factory sealed Samsung charger that is, in fact, a well-done fake that only delivers 500mA and runs hot. It was purchased as the regular search item for a realistic price.
Never rebalance in a taxable account if it means paying capital gains. It's no different than panic selling in a crash, in that you'll lose 23+% of your gains depending on the state.
At most, redirect new money and dividends to asset classes who have fallen behind. They may never catch up, but that's OK.
Who are some of the people screaming the loudest about rebalancing? Investment companies and advisers. They skim off money on every transaction. No profit is made from people who buy and hold.
Pattern-matching/machine learning algorithms will be used to compare the writing style and vocabulary in the article against the large sample of communications records available in the White House. The author will be found quickly.
Zero-based counting in computers has evolved from a useful efficiency trick during an era of scarce resources into an almost elitist vestigial organ that needs to be chopped off. All it leads to is more intense thought processes and off-by-one bugs.
I hope they perform a thorough metallurgical, materials, and design analysis of this failure.
You can see from the video the base of the tower is held onto the foundation with a ring of tension rods or rebar. This is where the failure occurred
Corrosion? Unexpected fatigue loads? Design error (including counting on active blade feathering in a storm for protection, not present since shut down) ? problems with the steel? (alloy composition, heat treatment process, hydrogen embrittlement)
I wonder what the net energy savings actually is, since people simply now leave the lights on all the time.
I stocked up on hundreds of incandescent bulbs in the US before the ban went into effect. The black-body light is superior, full stop. No peaky semiconductor emission frequencies shining through the phosphor, leaving some colors dim. They also make my my eyes hurt if I happen to look at them directly.
I do mix incandescent with fluorescent at my workbench, for things like reading resistor color codes.
My efficiency plan is to turn them off when not in use.
$176k to keep it working? It will cost them $176 Million to replace it, resulting a similar level of hassles, errors, and inconsistencies as before. Just different ones.
Most or all of the problems in the article have no relationship to the fact that the software helping to support the bureaucracy is Notes. The detectives use of paper case files won't magically go away just because the software is replaced. Also, just perhaps, they Know What They're Doing, and paper has valuable or required chain-of-evidence advantages?
Isn't almost everything else of its ilk "decades old" (never mind still in active development like Notes)
If you drill through to the breakdown video, he shows the PCB called a "symphony of engineering"
It's a very ordinary design and would have been considered dense 25 years ago. Today, those components are medium-sized or even large. The PCB layout is designed to basic industry standards and no more. However, needlessly-small components reduce manufacturing yield and reliability. Unusual PCB designs increase costs and shrink your supplier base.
The design is simply competent so I can't imagine what he's used to seeing that makes this one worth gushing over.
Gene Roddenberry took a two-dimensional, pedestrian story and turned it into a masterpiece.
Examples:
Ordinary criminal antagonist -> Good main character transformed into paranoid lunatic
Guardian(s) explain everything right away -> The crew and audience have to figure out the consequences of time travel for themselves
Edith's gotta die -> Conflict and tension of not knowing must live/must die
Enterprise and crew turned into pirates -> Mysterious nonexistence - "we're totally alone"
Guardians are a couple of guys -> Enigmatic machine-being
Antagonist just shows up right in front of Kirk and Spock -> McCoy knows Edith separately for quite a while and meets Kirk/Spock at the very end
Spock is the cold soldier who ensures Edith's death -> Kirk must personally sacrifice the woman he loves by stopping McCoy
The situation was similar with The Godfather. The novel was little more than mass-market pulp.
It's a bilking machine, designed solely to separate investors from their money
Unless, perhaps, Hanlon's razor applies, and this is the product of starry-eyed app developers who think you can just scale up a Chinese quadcopter to a flight qualified passenger-carrying aircraft
Negligence can include incompetence, if one knows of their incompetence and proceeds anyway. It could also include "should have known" - thinks they can do it, but are not certified in a sub-specialty, or training lapsed.
It wouldn't apply in extenuating circumstances, such as if the surgeon is drunk and the patient will be dead in 5 minutes with no other surgeon closer than one hour away.
People who advocate decimal time are like freshly-minted programmers who declare that all existing code sucks and must be immediately replaced.
The ancients didn't deviate from basing time on finger-counting on a whim. 12 and 60 are Superior highly composite numbers and are thus divisible into useful sub-units without resorting to fractions. Quarter-hour, twelfth-hour, third-hour. This is a natural fit for circular phenomenon that roll over.
The full scale value they chose provides enough granularity without being too large. Activate the next level if you need more resolution. It's a beautiful system.
360 degrees for angular measurement is another example of a perfectly-chosen measurement system for real-world use.
A portion of the people automated out of their job simply don't have the neurons to support anything more complex, no matter how much education and training they're exposed to. The low complexity allowing early automation is why they were in the positions to begin with.
I'd guess the fraction that permanently phased out of the work force is similar to that which cannot be educated further.
There are several plausible sources of 700MHz in such a device. The third harmonic of DDR4 clocked at 233MHz could be an example, or the seventh of something at 100MHz.
This is basically a bench-top prototype. I LOL at the CE Mark visible on the PCB.
First, the open enclosure top. Really? The panels are all painted with no way to connect each other electrically. Even if you masked the screw heads from paint, and still have some long seams, it would be a significant improvement at 700MHz.
Connecting modules together with unshielded, unfiltered harnesses. This is almost certainly emitting most of the noise. Clamping a ferrite bead around each one would help tremendously.
Given the rest of the sloppiness, I'm sure the PCB design is junk also.
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Every game will have a requirement that some portion of its processing be done on centralized servers, for a monthly fee, without which they won't play.
Sorry, my attention span's just too short for that random link-vomit of a page.
"They "trust me". Dumb f*cks"
That's all you need to know. They might as well have a gigantic sign in the lobby of Facebook headquarters. Facebook is Zuckerberg and he's a sociopath and is incapable of change. Therefore Facebook will never change.
Also, only optics matter at every public company so Facebook's not unique in that regard.
CD-ROM and DVD
ATX chassis
GPIB
I2C and SPI
It goes with out saying, RS-232 and RS-422/285, which will still be in use 100 years from now
Never buy from/through Amazon if it's at all important to you that the item is genuine and/or new and factory sealed. The list includes phones, batteries, chargers, and guitars.
I have a factory sealed Samsung charger that is, in fact, a well-done fake that only delivers 500mA and runs hot. It was purchased as the regular search item for a realistic price.
Only a portion of nerds are interested in IT Operations.
It's a bargain if the safety feature prevented a $30,000 hospital bill.
Let's go back to no crumple zones where you can pound out a front end collision with a hammer and clean out the passengers with a fire hose.
Never rebalance in a taxable account if it means paying capital gains. It's no different than panic selling in a crash, in that you'll lose 23+% of your gains depending on the state.
At most, redirect new money and dividends to asset classes who have fallen behind. They may never catch up, but that's OK.
Who are some of the people screaming the loudest about rebalancing? Investment companies and advisers. They skim off money on every transaction. No profit is made from people who buy and hold.
This was settled a long time ago. Everyone knows it's a Space Station.
I have a new PC image and forgot to log in. Oh well.
Pattern-matching/machine learning algorithms will be used to compare the writing style and vocabulary in the article against the large sample of communications records available in the White House. The author will be found quickly.
This is the Right Way.
Zero-based counting in computers has evolved from a useful efficiency trick during an era of scarce resources into an almost elitist vestigial organ that needs to be chopped off. All it leads to is more intense thought processes and off-by-one bugs.
I hope they perform a thorough metallurgical, materials, and design analysis of this failure.
You can see from the video the base of the tower is held onto the foundation with a ring of tension rods or rebar. This is where the failure occurred
Corrosion? Unexpected fatigue loads? Design error (including counting on active blade feathering in a storm for protection, not present since shut down) ? problems with the steel? (alloy composition, heat treatment process, hydrogen embrittlement)
I wonder what the net energy savings actually is, since people simply now leave the lights on all the time.
I stocked up on hundreds of incandescent bulbs in the US before the ban went into effect. The black-body light is superior, full stop. No peaky semiconductor emission frequencies shining through the phosphor, leaving some colors dim. They also make my my eyes hurt if I happen to look at them directly.
I do mix incandescent with fluorescent at my workbench, for things like reading resistor color codes.
My efficiency plan is to turn them off when not in use.
We've got three quality and fairly orthogonal PBS channels plus PBS Kids.
Lots of oldies and rerun channels like Antenna, MeTV, Movies, Buzzr...
You have to go with premium cable to get a better selection.
$176k to keep it working? It will cost them $176 Million to replace it, resulting a similar level of hassles, errors, and inconsistencies as before. Just different ones.
Most or all of the problems in the article have no relationship to the fact that the software helping to support the bureaucracy is Notes. The detectives use of paper case files won't magically go away just because the software is replaced. Also, just perhaps, they Know What They're Doing, and paper has valuable or required chain-of-evidence advantages?
Isn't almost everything else of its ilk "decades old" (never mind still in active development like Notes)
If you drill through to the breakdown video, he shows the PCB called a "symphony of engineering"
It's a very ordinary design and would have been considered dense 25 years ago. Today, those components are medium-sized or even large. The PCB layout is designed to basic industry standards and no more. However, needlessly-small components reduce manufacturing yield and reliability. Unusual PCB designs increase costs and shrink your supplier base.
The design is simply competent so I can't imagine what he's used to seeing that makes this one worth gushing over.
Gene Roddenberry took a two-dimensional, pedestrian story and turned it into a masterpiece.
Examples:
Ordinary criminal antagonist -> Good main character transformed into paranoid lunatic
Guardian(s) explain everything right away -> The crew and audience have to figure out the consequences of time travel for themselves
Edith's gotta die -> Conflict and tension of not knowing must live/must die
Enterprise and crew turned into pirates -> Mysterious nonexistence - "we're totally alone"
Guardians are a couple of guys -> Enigmatic machine-being
Antagonist just shows up right in front of Kirk and Spock -> McCoy knows Edith separately for quite a while and meets Kirk/Spock at the very end
Spock is the cold soldier who ensures Edith's death -> Kirk must personally sacrifice the woman he loves by stopping McCoy
The situation was similar with The Godfather. The novel was little more than mass-market pulp.
It's not a flying car. It's not an air taxi.
It's a bilking machine, designed solely to separate investors from their money
Unless, perhaps, Hanlon's razor applies, and this is the product of starry-eyed app developers who think you can just scale up a Chinese quadcopter to a flight qualified passenger-carrying aircraft
Negligence can include incompetence, if one knows of their incompetence and proceeds anyway. It could also include "should have known" - thinks they can do it, but are not certified in a sub-specialty, or training lapsed.
It wouldn't apply in extenuating circumstances, such as if the surgeon is drunk and the patient will be dead in 5 minutes with no other surgeon closer than one hour away.
...resorting to fractions.
sorry, /s/fractions/decimals
People who advocate decimal time are like freshly-minted programmers who declare that all existing code sucks and must be immediately replaced.
The ancients didn't deviate from basing time on finger-counting on a whim. 12 and 60 are Superior highly composite numbers and are thus divisible into useful sub-units without resorting to fractions. Quarter-hour, twelfth-hour, third-hour. This is a natural fit for circular phenomenon that roll over. The full scale value they chose provides enough granularity without being too large. Activate the next level if you need more resolution. It's a beautiful system.
360 degrees for angular measurement is another example of a perfectly-chosen measurement system for real-world use.
A portion of the people automated out of their job simply don't have the neurons to support anything more complex, no matter how much education and training they're exposed to. The low complexity allowing early automation is why they were in the positions to begin with.
I'd guess the fraction that permanently phased out of the work force is similar to that which cannot be educated further.
This is basically a bench-top prototype. I LOL at the CE Mark visible on the PCB.
First, the open enclosure top. Really? The panels are all painted with no way to connect each other electrically. Even if you masked the screw heads from paint, and still have some long seams, it would be a significant improvement at 700MHz.
Connecting modules together with unshielded, unfiltered harnesses. This is almost certainly emitting most of the noise. Clamping a ferrite bead around each one would help tremendously.
Given the rest of the sloppiness, I'm sure the PCB design is junk also.
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