However, while I have to admit that it is a pretty ballsy move to have your OS serve you ads, it's not like no one saw this one coming. I was wondering when I'd have Windows 10, "sponsored by Square Enix and Coca-Cola". It seems that it has now arrived. Welcome to the future.
Welcome to the past. They tried this shit with Active Desktop "channels" in a Windows 95 add-on and part of the core install of Windows 98
Yes. If someone only lists a page number, and not a cell number, then that worries me about their availability and familiarity with modern technology. I may hire them as a plumber, but for a technology-related service I would consider looking elsewhere.
Your original post is still ridiculous; the idea that you'd turn down a company because they offer a more reliable emergency contact is just stupid.
Reread the post, I didn't make that claim. Though I understand the author's sentiment. I believe they meant the company's primary point of contact being a pager is problematic, as it could indicate someone very unsophisticated with modern technologies. A similar concern is when the company's email address is one from aol.com. It is a valid warning indicator.
And sails are far more reliable than diesel engines; clearly modern international shipping is just a fad following what's new and shiny.
It's called weighing the benefits. The benefits of a modern smart phone far outweigh the limited benefit of a reliable pager for the vast majority of scenarios.
Past tense or present? Without more context such as "while I drink my coffee." or "when I was in grad school." the reader cannot determine context and information is lost when compared to the spoken example where the word "read" is pronounced differently to indicate tense.
People often forget the NSA has a 2nd role as equally important to their spying operations.
They are mandated to give guidance on securing the US Government and industry against threats - and they rightly encourage departments to use encryption to avoid eavesdropping.
It's their job to encourage domestic encryption, and to try to break foreign encryption.
Depends entirely on the load. If after USB load on CPU and the normal routing load on the CPU are combined and the total CPU load still has room to spare, then load it up and be done with it.
In my experience building routers using X86 hardware in the past, the CPU and RAM were so many orders of magnitude greater than a hardware router that neither was a bottleneck to performance. Even with crappy old hardware useless for any desktop use.
I haven't played with a Raspberry PI, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it's more than adequate for the task, even with the extra performance cost of USB (gp was warning against the Pi because of the USB hit). It sure is cheap enough to play with and find out:) If it's not up to the task, at least you have a Pi to play with for some other project!
That other $160M will probably need to be spent on the satellite itself (design, construction, monitoring, orbital adjustments, etc). There went the budget! Not to mention ruining your citizen's night vision even more than what they currently experience.
Street lighting is a good solution as it can be installed only where necessary. Blanketing an entire city with uniform night time lighting is an incredible waste of resources.
Now if it could be used for energy generation or telecommunications instead, then I think there's something to the idea.
So you'd rather have US technology sector look like Detroit. Union jobs ensure that the union bosses live well and the workers still get screwed as the jobs move overseas anyways. Only difference is the risk of taking the entire company down to foreign competition instead of individual roles within the company because the company gets locked-in to whatever staffing model existed when times were good.
If your job can be done cheaper elsewhere, it will be. It's only a matter of time, and protectionism and unions will only delay the inevitable and harm the particular company or industry overall. The key to having a successful career in a specific locale is to continuously prove increased value as the company and markets naturally change, or to have a job that requires physical presence.
Even surgeons are going to start facing pressure as remote-controlled robotic operations are becoming a reality. The expensive ones with subpar work will cry when they no longer can afford the lease on their BMWs, and the ones that are at the top of their fields will be in even more demand than they are today, but will be operating in more than just the one city where they have their current practice.
1. Yes, low battery is my fault - but I wasn't anticipating spending 20m on my phone in active data modes troubleshooting an app at midnight. Other users would likely not have identified the problem and been able to fix it. I can think of a lot of other scenarios where a developer cuts off access to an old version of an app leaving users stuck (not supporting older OS versions is another good example). 2. App size limit on iOS is imposed by Apple because AT&T and Verizon demanded it - nothing I can do about that if I want to stick with iOS. 3. I have no idea how many versions back my copy of the app was - nor do I have a way of knowing. But a webapp (which would have been completely suitable for this use) would not have had a versioning cutoff issue like this. 4. The risk of running out of power was do to wasting time troubleshooting and downloading a new version of the app. Had the app been working I would have been able to use it within my remaining battery life without cause for concern. 5. I'm not arguing that all apps should be webapps. I'm countering the gp's claim that auto-updates for apps are a panacea.
Um - you missed what I said. The app stopped working because the app servers wouldn't work with an older version of the client app, and the updated client was pushed out to the app store while I was in-flight.
Turning off auto-update altogether would have guaranteed the app didn't work either. My point was that turning on auto-update isn't the panacea the grandparent post was claiming.
A web app would have been perfectly suitable here (initial payload for UI is trivial in this app as most of UI is real-time mapping which is downloaded on-demand anyways) and wouldn't have crapped out in the same way due to out-of-sync client installations.
Try being more professional in your comprehension and conversation skills.
It's not a strawman. I have several apps on my phone that haven't updated even though I turn on auto-updates and hit OK because of stupid restrictions on things like maximum app size over wifi (I have unlimited data so it doesn't matter). I also almost got screwed the last time I flew as the app I was using for my ride from the airport to home failed and disappeared from my launcher, and my phone was almost dead. Turns out there was a required update for it to work that was issued while I was *in-flight* and the app store didn't auto-update. I had used the app successfully 6 hours earlier on my way to the airport. Luckily I was able to delete and reinstall the app, and still book my ride before my battery drained.
Parent had bad grammar and you interpreted it wrong. By asking "is seventeen covered by a few" they meant "...they only got there seventeen hundred years before Cook..."
Well, the creator owns a huge chunk of coins that are worth some serious money today and will only increase substantially if the network continues to have growth.
Then you must be doing something wrong - this has worked flawlessly for me from a 3GS to a 4S and now a 6. I've done it with multiple iterations for both myself and my wife, and replaced a broken phone as well. I've also assisted my parents with incremental upgrades mixing and matching devices as they were lost/broken, and hand-me-down replacements with 3G, 3GS, 4, 4s, 5, and 5s. I myself have well over 100 apps and not the same ones that my wife or parents are using.
As I said, any specific apps where this failed are most likely because the developer explicitly used the APIs that save data in a non-backed-up location. I had exactly 1 app where it didn't carry over using the backup/restore process, and that app was pushing 3rd party cloud sync as an add-on service.
Wifi locations and passwords should not be saved on device - that would be a security risk. All my notes and reminders have worked fine. PDFs again depend on the app and what the app developer decided to do for data storage. I know none of my PDFs in iBooks were lost and I never have used cloud sync for that. My text messages go back to 2011 when I still had a 3GS. The only reason they don't go back earlier is because I hosed my backups at one point when messing around with jailbreaking. Again, no issues carrying it forward between devices.
Umm... you can also sync to your computer to make a backup, and then restore the new phone from the backup. iTunes even prompts this on new device setup. Stop making a mountain out of a made-up problem.
Now, some apps store data in places that are explicitly not included in a backup/restore - and that's the fault of the app developer for choosing to do that (some devs use it for a shady up-sell to store data in their cloud)
If it can be turned on by remote control, then it needs some kind of standby mode to watch for the remote control signal. Even your 1970s wood cased TVs were running in a standby mode (for the few that featured wireless remotes) instead of a true 100% power-off.
As for specs not mattering, if you have the same game on two platforms and one has superior specs to the other, which version are you going to want?
That only matters for a very small fraction of games that are optimized to take advantage of the extra specs on multiple platforms. The vast majority of games are developed for one specific platform and other platforms (even if better specs) are a less-than optimal port that won't take advantage of the extra capabilities.
The specs don't matter. The gameplay and titles do. That's why the Wii wiped the floor with sales over Sony and Mcrisoft when it came out. It was woefully underpowered, and didn't have any HD capability yet far outstripped the technology leaders in sales, and even with the joke of a name. Why? Because they focused on gameplay.
Which modern system has the best portfolio of games and upcoming releases? That's how to pick which console to buy. The hardware should be meaningless in this decision. The hardware only matters when you play the same game (with same platform tuning) and try to compare. That's going to be a limited set of titles to worry about since most of them are really only tuned for one platform and a basic port to other platforms leaves them less than optimized.
So any random schmoe in NYC who wants to drive for Uber or Lift is actually getting the much more expensive TLC plates? I don't buy that. Next time you see a pink mustache check the plates.
Actually a big point of agile is that since you've broken it down into manageable chunks you can pivot on findings and change the design as you go along. The point of sprints is to manage capacity and progress so you don't have someone going off on their own for a few months only to come back with something that doesn't fit what the rest of the team needed.
If the task is long, break it down. You can setup blockers and dependencies if need be. On a huge refactoring effort, make each module or library it's own task. That's how you'd be doing the work anyways. The tasks should reflect how you work so that you aren't a black box.
If it was 12 people for 4 months, it wasn't a "task" it was an Epic. How did the 12 people split their planning efforts to begin with? That is at least 12 different stories right there.
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Welcome to the past. They tried this shit with Active Desktop "channels" in a Windows 95 add-on and part of the core install of Windows 98
And here in LA at the beach it was in the upper 80s F when we'd usually expect something more like 65 F. Local temperatures != global average.
Yes. If someone only lists a page number, and not a cell number, then that worries me about their availability and familiarity with modern technology. I may hire them as a plumber, but for a technology-related service I would consider looking elsewhere.
Reread the post, I didn't make that claim. Though I understand the author's sentiment. I believe they meant the company's primary point of contact being a pager is problematic, as it could indicate someone very unsophisticated with modern technologies. A similar concern is when the company's email address is one from aol.com. It is a valid warning indicator.
And sails are far more reliable than diesel engines; clearly modern international shipping is just a fad following what's new and shiny.
It's called weighing the benefits. The benefits of a modern smart phone far outweigh the limited benefit of a reliable pager for the vast majority of scenarios.
I read newspapers daily.
Past tense or present? Without more context such as "while I drink my coffee." or "when I was in grad school." the reader cannot determine context and information is lost when compared to the spoken example where the word "read" is pronounced differently to indicate tense.
People often forget the NSA has a 2nd role as equally important to their spying operations.
They are mandated to give guidance on securing the US Government and industry against threats - and they rightly encourage departments to use encryption to avoid eavesdropping.
It's their job to encourage domestic encryption, and to try to break foreign encryption.
Depends entirely on the load. If after USB load on CPU and the normal routing load on the CPU are combined and the total CPU load still has room to spare, then load it up and be done with it.
In my experience building routers using X86 hardware in the past, the CPU and RAM were so many orders of magnitude greater than a hardware router that neither was a bottleneck to performance. Even with crappy old hardware useless for any desktop use.
I haven't played with a Raspberry PI, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it's more than adequate for the task, even with the extra performance cost of USB (gp was warning against the Pi because of the USB hit). It sure is cheap enough to play with and find out :) If it's not up to the task, at least you have a Pi to play with for some other project!
That other $160M will probably need to be spent on the satellite itself (design, construction, monitoring, orbital adjustments, etc). There went the budget! Not to mention ruining your citizen's night vision even more than what they currently experience.
Street lighting is a good solution as it can be installed only where necessary. Blanketing an entire city with uniform night time lighting is an incredible waste of resources.
Now if it could be used for energy generation or telecommunications instead, then I think there's something to the idea.
So what if the CPU is hit hard? It's a computing device is being used dedicated as a router. It's not like you'd be browsing or compiling on it.
Unless the CPU is a performance bottleneck, then it really doesn't matter if it's under heavy load.
So you'd rather have US technology sector look like Detroit. Union jobs ensure that the union bosses live well and the workers still get screwed as the jobs move overseas anyways. Only difference is the risk of taking the entire company down to foreign competition instead of individual roles within the company because the company gets locked-in to whatever staffing model existed when times were good.
If your job can be done cheaper elsewhere, it will be. It's only a matter of time, and protectionism and unions will only delay the inevitable and harm the particular company or industry overall. The key to having a successful career in a specific locale is to continuously prove increased value as the company and markets naturally change, or to have a job that requires physical presence.
Even surgeons are going to start facing pressure as remote-controlled robotic operations are becoming a reality. The expensive ones with subpar work will cry when they no longer can afford the lease on their BMWs, and the ones that are at the top of their fields will be in even more demand than they are today, but will be operating in more than just the one city where they have their current practice.
1. Yes, low battery is my fault - but I wasn't anticipating spending 20m on my phone in active data modes troubleshooting an app at midnight. Other users would likely not have identified the problem and been able to fix it. I can think of a lot of other scenarios where a developer cuts off access to an old version of an app leaving users stuck (not supporting older OS versions is another good example).
2. App size limit on iOS is imposed by Apple because AT&T and Verizon demanded it - nothing I can do about that if I want to stick with iOS.
3. I have no idea how many versions back my copy of the app was - nor do I have a way of knowing. But a webapp (which would have been completely suitable for this use) would not have had a versioning cutoff issue like this.
4. The risk of running out of power was do to wasting time troubleshooting and downloading a new version of the app. Had the app been working I would have been able to use it within my remaining battery life without cause for concern.
5. I'm not arguing that all apps should be webapps. I'm countering the gp's claim that auto-updates for apps are a panacea.
Um - you missed what I said. The app stopped working because the app servers wouldn't work with an older version of the client app, and the updated client was pushed out to the app store while I was in-flight.
Turning off auto-update altogether would have guaranteed the app didn't work either. My point was that turning on auto-update isn't the panacea the grandparent post was claiming.
A web app would have been perfectly suitable here (initial payload for UI is trivial in this app as most of UI is real-time mapping which is downloaded on-demand anyways) and wouldn't have crapped out in the same way due to out-of-sync client installations.
Try being more professional in your comprehension and conversation skills.
It's not a strawman. I have several apps on my phone that haven't updated even though I turn on auto-updates and hit OK because of stupid restrictions on things like maximum app size over wifi (I have unlimited data so it doesn't matter). I also almost got screwed the last time I flew as the app I was using for my ride from the airport to home failed and disappeared from my launcher, and my phone was almost dead. Turns out there was a required update for it to work that was issued while I was *in-flight* and the app store didn't auto-update. I had used the app successfully 6 hours earlier on my way to the airport. Luckily I was able to delete and reinstall the app, and still book my ride before my battery drained.
Parent had bad grammar and you interpreted it wrong. By asking "is seventeen covered by a few" they meant "...they only got there seventeen hundred years before Cook..."
Well, the creator owns a huge chunk of coins that are worth some serious money today and will only increase substantially if the network continues to have growth.
Not to mention the many, many, backup and restores I did in my jailbreaking days because jailbreaking put your device in a wiped "new device" state.
Then you must be doing something wrong - this has worked flawlessly for me from a 3GS to a 4S and now a 6. I've done it with multiple iterations for both myself and my wife, and replaced a broken phone as well. I've also assisted my parents with incremental upgrades mixing and matching devices as they were lost/broken, and hand-me-down replacements with 3G, 3GS, 4, 4s, 5, and 5s. I myself have well over 100 apps and not the same ones that my wife or parents are using.
As I said, any specific apps where this failed are most likely because the developer explicitly used the APIs that save data in a non-backed-up location. I had exactly 1 app where it didn't carry over using the backup/restore process, and that app was pushing 3rd party cloud sync as an add-on service.
Wifi locations and passwords should not be saved on device - that would be a security risk. All my notes and reminders have worked fine. PDFs again depend on the app and what the app developer decided to do for data storage. I know none of my PDFs in iBooks were lost and I never have used cloud sync for that. My text messages go back to 2011 when I still had a 3GS. The only reason they don't go back earlier is because I hosed my backups at one point when messing around with jailbreaking. Again, no issues carrying it forward between devices.
Umm... you can also sync to your computer to make a backup, and then restore the new phone from the backup. iTunes even prompts this on new device setup. Stop making a mountain out of a made-up problem.
Now, some apps store data in places that are explicitly not included in a backup/restore - and that's the fault of the app developer for choosing to do that (some devs use it for a shady up-sell to store data in their cloud)
If it can be turned on by remote control, then it needs some kind of standby mode to watch for the remote control signal. Even your 1970s wood cased TVs were running in a standby mode (for the few that featured wireless remotes) instead of a true 100% power-off.
That only matters for a very small fraction of games that are optimized to take advantage of the extra specs on multiple platforms. The vast majority of games are developed for one specific platform and other platforms (even if better specs) are a less-than optimal port that won't take advantage of the extra capabilities.
The specs don't matter. The gameplay and titles do. That's why the Wii wiped the floor with sales over Sony and Mcrisoft when it came out. It was woefully underpowered, and didn't have any HD capability yet far outstripped the technology leaders in sales, and even with the joke of a name. Why? Because they focused on gameplay.
Which modern system has the best portfolio of games and upcoming releases? That's how to pick which console to buy. The hardware should be meaningless in this decision. The hardware only matters when you play the same game (with same platform tuning) and try to compare. That's going to be a limited set of titles to worry about since most of them are really only tuned for one platform and a basic port to other platforms leaves them less than optimized.
So any random schmoe in NYC who wants to drive for Uber or Lift is actually getting the much more expensive TLC plates? I don't buy that. Next time you see a pink mustache check the plates.
Actually a big point of agile is that since you've broken it down into manageable chunks you can pivot on findings and change the design as you go along. The point of sprints is to manage capacity and progress so you don't have someone going off on their own for a few months only to come back with something that doesn't fit what the rest of the team needed.
If the task is long, break it down. You can setup blockers and dependencies if need be. On a huge refactoring effort, make each module or library it's own task. That's how you'd be doing the work anyways. The tasks should reflect how you work so that you aren't a black box.
If it was 12 people for 4 months, it wasn't a "task" it was an Epic. How did the 12 people split their planning efforts to begin with? That is at least 12 different stories right there.