Don't think I'd trust the software developed under a sweatshop-like 12 hours a day 6 days a week regime, sorry VW. Software made in the us by foremost experts in the field is bad enough to run into firetrucks as it is, this shit will explode when you press the engine start button.
That is what I was thinking. Lack of qualified developers, or lack of developers willing to sacrifice quality for cost and time?
>"Though I will admit a few documentaries or movies in UHD are fricken gorgeous compared to standard def."
If by "standard def" you mean (480I/P), sure. I totally agree. But almost nobody at normal 10' viewing distance from a 70" 4K TV upscaling from *quality* 1080P can tell any difference between that and actual 4K (UHD) source material. And by almost nobody, I mean way less than 1%.... and even then, it is probably only due to HDR, not resolution.
4K Bluray is mostly a marketing scheme without utility... already being rejected by the market mostly because the discs are not backwards compatible and cost more. Also rejected was 3D, although that actually adds something useful and interesting, especially when shot well. And THOSE discs ARE backwards compatible (can be played on any Bluray player through any TV in 2D). Plus, it is still the ONLY way to get quality 3D content.
Yeah, talking 480 vs UHD. I think the video looks smoother between 1080P and UHD, but it could all be in my head.
What I find most disturbing about the trend is how the younger generation seems to have lost the ability to discern the abysmal video quality of streaming services from the usually way better video quality from physical media.
I can only speculate that when you grow up watching stuff mostly on tiny smartphone displays, you are prone to impaired eye-sight. At my biblical age, I can still see within seconds whether a UHD BluRay conveys a true 4k image or is just a cheap 2k upscale. But many of my younger colleagues seem to not notice any difference, even when I point out the most obvious areas on a paused still image. And even less are they able to see how compression artifacts differ from ordinary motion-blur in high-motion scenes.
Therefore I expect the downward-spiral of readily available digital video quality will continue, with ever decreasing bandwidths and ever more aggressively "lossy" video codecs replacing actual image details with guesswork.
I had my CRT TV well into the time of LCD displays, just bought a 4k tv a year ago or so because the costs have come down. Honestly I still don't care about BluRay as a crappy show in UHD is still a crappy show and few good shows in standard definition lose much of what makes them a good show. Though I will admit a few documentaries or movies in UHD are fricken gorgeous compared to standard def.
While I think self driving cars is in fact another level of complexity entirely, this kind of makes me think NASA/ULA vs SpaceX. How much complexity is the problem that needs to be solved, and how much is the sheer inertia of a company that has been going one direction for a very long time?
Oh my how did we ever survive before the 1990's when we started having the Internet? It was all stone knives and bearskins living in caves then BOOM, Internet!
That statement didn't work so well to convince my boss.
Sure, they did some great things and the US wouldn't have been the great industrial power of the 20th century without them, but nothing is one sided: https://prezi.com/qleqtleyvtpi...
Actually, imagine the industry panic if people just started saying "fuck the Internet, why do we even need it at all?" and canceled.
You call your utility companies and tell them to start sending paper bills again, and pay them by check or over the phone.
Actually call the pizza place down the street you like to get pizza from and tell them what you want to order.
Buy things from local businesses instead of ordering them from Amazon; most businesses on the Internet have phones too, you know, you can call them to order something.
Go to Redbox and get a DVD instead of 'streaming' things.
Like some particular music? Buy a CD of it instead of 'streaming' it.
Want to be 'social'? Actually show up and be actually social with people, live and in person instead of using cancerous 'social media'.
Buy a newspaper to find out what's going on in the world.
And so on.
You don't have to have Internet. We lived just fine without it for 200 years, you can live without it now, if need be.
If many people started doing that in response to ISPs being shitty, they'd have to change their practices.
None of those helps me much with not wanting to drive 80 miles to use my college's computer servers (the closest college with a PHD program to my full time job) or saving on gas by working remotely (as bad as cable costs are, gas costs are worse).
Take your life into your own hands. Build the world you want, like our forefathers did.
By turning ever more to the warm, inviting, strangling hands of the Nanny State, you are building a tyranny for future generations. All so you can sit there comfortably, whining about how the latest SuperHero movie could be streamed in higher quality for cheaper.
Sounds good, eliminate all regulations and bring back the Robber Barons!
Geez, why would anyone want to voluntarily GIVE google your phone number?
I mean....i know they have tons on everyone, but I try not to voluntarily give them any info I don't have to, especially don't like to confirm my phone number to them.
When the college servers require Google Authentication to be used to sign in, concessions are made to complete a degree with significant money already sunk in. Plus, it is an Android phone, I think Google had the ability to get the number if they wanted the second I registered it.
My internet is still working for me for what I reasonably expect from my ISP for the price I am paying. If my ISP starts fiddling with my connection I'll pick another ISP. Remember buying internet access is a voluntary transaction between two parties if you don't like the service pick someone else.
Yeah, I'll make sure to switch from my one cable provider to my one cable provider if they start acting up.
it was not "captured" but computer generated. this is no photo. radio telescopes don't take pictures, they record waves. Am I wrong?
True, and optical telescopes (mk 1 eyeball being the lowest technology example) just record em waves too. Most of the best cameras these days use computer chips to generate the image. So it seems like any other camera to me, just with a bit of a different lens and processing system.
Could we just have namespaces in C? Maybe reference types?
Or pushing the envelope, how about a simple single-inheritance class model? It seems like every project I've ever worked on has jumped through hoops creating a simplistic "object" model.
I've already been down this road once (or twice). We used C++ with no boost and limited to a very small set of features (well documented). But then along came someone who just wanted to use one little thing in boost. Or some other thing no on the list.
And then the long slide down the slippery slope began.
Libraries like boost all seem to be a balancing act between reinventing the wheel and having to deal with a library that does mostly what you want, but not quite the way you want.
I suspect this has little to do with the banking system and a lot to do with the nice old ladies who will let go of their checks when you pry them from their cold dead hands... in the express lane at the grocery (puts head on shopping cart and sobs).
Affordable eductation.
This has a lot to do with how media is portraying education. What universities list for tuition and what the average student pays after scholarships is often two different things. And people could get a plenty good education at many of the fine public colleges that charge a fraction of Yale or Harvard. Sure you can't network your way into a 6 figure job like 0.01% of the people who graduate from those elite universities, but you could actually pay off your tuition in 5-10 years on a reasonable 5 figure job without going bankrupt.
if (when?) we can get every mobile device at gigbit plus on mobile internet, we can do away with home routers and all devices just connect to mobile instead. if the price is competitive with wired internet. Seems it is possible the price will be higher per month, but not have to deal with the cost of installing fiber. Which will probably mean the providers will all stop installing cable and force us to mobile.
Note that this clause works well even without any qualifiers.
My account was locked a few years back because of some Chinese hacking attempts. I declined to send them a picture of my drivers license and haven't had any reason to change my mind since. Never put anything up on fb, so they can keep storing the account with my name and e-mail address (which already was on the internet with my resume at one point) for as long as they like.
- Users are "unwashed" compared to IT personnel? Have you *worked* in IT?
- The first thing IT professionals forget (speaking as one) is that computer management isn't the user's job. It may be *your* expertise, but it isn't *theirs*. They have a different job to do which you would probably suck at. Expecting them to be IT professionals on top of their regular job is an unreasonable expectation. So stop fussing about it.
- That said, often security issues really are kinda the user's fault. We told 'em and TOLD 'em, don't do that, you'll infect your.. ok, too late.
The awesome part is in engineering, we often need the tools that are most likely to need the admin access that is so dangerous, yet IT keeps yanking it and wondering why all the engineers keep complaining. Seems to always be a push and pull thing with no happy medium.
Good programmers write good code in every language. A bad programmer writes bad code in all of them.
Good programmers may not write good code in a language they don't understand yet. A great C# programmer could easily end up writing code with major memory holes in C because they don't understand the differences in memory management. A great Java programmer could end up making utter trash with sql because of the different ways of thinking about the languages.
The same is true of C programmers though, far too many of them don't understand the language and just hack stuff together to fulfil the contractual obligations and then disappear.
Contract work is a particular problems. There was a study recently, sorry I lost the link, where they put out contracts for a basic login page. Most of the developers didn't bother storing the password securely at first, then when asked managed to botch doing it. Contract work encourages minimum effort and throwing unsuitable libraries at problems, and often the person checking for completion doesn't understand the security issues.
I think you just described any project where the code base is to large to learn in the amount of time the average employee is provided to learn the code before being required to be productive... or any code base that is simply too large for any average employee to learn in full.
*Exacty* A loaded magazine is relatively harmless (no more dangerous than a notebook PC). A gun without a loaded magazine is relatively harmless (no more dangerous than a hardwood bat). Ammunition without a magazine or gun is harmless (well, I guess one could get hit in the eye with a hurled round, but that's about it). Only when all three are put together do you have something that's dangerous.
So no point to prevent one from making it through. Not like a group of three people could separately try to board, one with an unloaded gun, one with an unloaded magazine and one with bullets.
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Don't think I'd trust the software developed under a sweatshop-like 12 hours a day 6 days a week regime, sorry VW. Software made in the us by foremost experts in the field is bad enough to run into firetrucks as it is, this shit will explode when you press the engine start button.
That is what I was thinking. Lack of qualified developers, or lack of developers willing to sacrifice quality for cost and time?
>"Though I will admit a few documentaries or movies in UHD are fricken gorgeous compared to standard def."
If by "standard def" you mean (480I/P), sure. I totally agree. But almost nobody at normal 10' viewing distance from a 70" 4K TV upscaling from *quality* 1080P can tell any difference between that and actual 4K (UHD) source material. And by almost nobody, I mean way less than 1%.... and even then, it is probably only due to HDR, not resolution.
4K Bluray is mostly a marketing scheme without utility... already being rejected by the market mostly because the discs are not backwards compatible and cost more. Also rejected was 3D, although that actually adds something useful and interesting, especially when shot well. And THOSE discs ARE backwards compatible (can be played on any Bluray player through any TV in 2D). Plus, it is still the ONLY way to get quality 3D content.
Yeah, talking 480 vs UHD. I think the video looks smoother between 1080P and UHD, but it could all be in my head.
What I find most disturbing about the trend is how the younger generation seems to have lost the ability to discern the abysmal video quality of streaming services from the usually way better video quality from physical media.
I can only speculate that when you grow up watching stuff mostly on tiny smartphone displays, you are prone to impaired eye-sight. At my biblical age, I can still see within seconds whether a UHD BluRay conveys a true 4k image or is just a cheap 2k upscale. But many of my younger colleagues seem to not notice any difference, even when I point out the most obvious areas on a paused still image. And even less are they able to see how compression artifacts differ from ordinary motion-blur in high-motion scenes.
Therefore I expect the downward-spiral of readily available digital video quality will continue, with ever decreasing bandwidths and ever more aggressively "lossy" video codecs replacing actual image details with guesswork.
I had my CRT TV well into the time of LCD displays, just bought a 4k tv a year ago or so because the costs have come down. Honestly I still don't care about BluRay as a crappy show in UHD is still a crappy show and few good shows in standard definition lose much of what makes them a good show. Though I will admit a few documentaries or movies in UHD are fricken gorgeous compared to standard def.
While I think self driving cars is in fact another level of complexity entirely, this kind of makes me think NASA/ULA vs SpaceX. How much complexity is the problem that needs to be solved, and how much is the sheer inertia of a company that has been going one direction for a very long time?
Oh my how did we ever survive before the 1990's when we started having the Internet? It was all stone knives and bearskins living in caves then BOOM, Internet!
That statement didn't work so well to convince my boss.
Here you go. Learn you some history.
Sure, they did some great things and the US wouldn't have been the great industrial power of the 20th century without them, but nothing is one sided: https://prezi.com/qleqtleyvtpi...
Vote with your wallet. But you can't because your so addicted to it.
True, could just quit my job and college because I can't do it without an internet connection! You offering to cover my expenses?
Actually, imagine the industry panic if people just started saying "fuck the Internet, why do we even need it at all?" and canceled.
You call your utility companies and tell them to start sending paper bills again, and pay them by check or over the phone.
Actually call the pizza place down the street you like to get pizza from and tell them what you want to order.
Buy things from local businesses instead of ordering them from Amazon; most businesses on the Internet have phones too, you know, you can call them to order something.
Go to Redbox and get a DVD instead of 'streaming' things.
Like some particular music? Buy a CD of it instead of 'streaming' it.
Want to be 'social'? Actually show up and be actually social with people, live and in person instead of using cancerous 'social media'.
Buy a newspaper to find out what's going on in the world.
And so on.
You don't have to have Internet. We lived just fine without it for 200 years, you can live without it now, if need be.
If many people started doing that in response to ISPs being shitty, they'd have to change their practices.
None of those helps me much with not wanting to drive 80 miles to use my college's computer servers (the closest college with a PHD program to my full time job) or saving on gas by working remotely (as bad as cable costs are, gas costs are worse).
Take your life into your own hands. Build the world you want, like our forefathers did.
By turning ever more to the warm, inviting, strangling hands of the Nanny State, you are building a tyranny for future generations. All so you can sit there comfortably, whining about how the latest SuperHero movie could be streamed in higher quality for cheaper.
Sounds good, eliminate all regulations and bring back the Robber Barons!
Geez, why would anyone want to voluntarily GIVE google your phone number?
I mean....i know they have tons on everyone, but I try not to voluntarily give them any info I don't have to, especially don't like to confirm my phone number to them.
When the college servers require Google Authentication to be used to sign in, concessions are made to complete a degree with significant money already sunk in. Plus, it is an Android phone, I think Google had the ability to get the number if they wanted the second I registered it.
I'm using Google Authenticator for some applications. Maybe I'm confused (like a lot of things) but how does this help me move to 2FA?
My internet is still working for me for what I reasonably expect from my ISP for the price I am paying. If my ISP starts fiddling with my connection I'll pick another ISP.
Remember buying internet access is a voluntary transaction between two parties if you don't like the service pick someone else.
Yeah, I'll make sure to switch from my one cable provider to my one cable provider if they start acting up.
it was not "captured" but computer generated. this is no photo. radio telescopes don't take pictures, they record waves. Am I wrong?
True, and optical telescopes (mk 1 eyeball being the lowest technology example) just record em waves too. Most of the best cameras these days use computer chips to generate the image. So it seems like any other camera to me, just with a bit of a different lens and processing system.
Could we just have namespaces in C? Maybe reference types?
Or pushing the envelope, how about a simple single-inheritance class model? It seems like every project I've ever worked on has jumped through hoops creating a simplistic "object" model.
I've already been down this road once (or twice). We used C++ with no boost and limited to a very small set of features (well documented). But then along came someone who just wanted to use one little thing in boost. Or some other thing no on the list.
And then the long slide down the slippery slope began.
Libraries like boost all seem to be a balancing act between reinventing the wheel and having to deal with a library that does mostly what you want, but not quite the way you want.
Using checks is still a thing.
I suspect this has little to do with the banking system and a lot to do with the nice old ladies who will let go of their checks when you pry them from their cold dead hands... in the express lane at the grocery (puts head on shopping cart and sobs).
Affordable eductation.
This has a lot to do with how media is portraying education. What universities list for tuition and what the average student pays after scholarships is often two different things. And people could get a plenty good education at many of the fine public colleges that charge a fraction of Yale or Harvard. Sure you can't network your way into a 6 figure job like 0.01% of the people who graduate from those elite universities, but you could actually pay off your tuition in 5-10 years on a reasonable 5 figure job without going bankrupt.
if (when?) we can get every mobile device at gigbit plus on mobile internet, we can do away with home routers and all devices just connect to mobile instead. if the price is competitive with wired internet. Seems it is possible the price will be higher per month, but not have to deal with the cost of installing fiber. Which will probably mean the providers will all stop installing cable and force us to mobile.
Not to mention the redefinition of 5G, since full 4G was defined as up to 1 Gbps down and 5G was defined as over 1 Gbps.
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...you're better off not being on Facebook.
Note that this clause works well even without any qualifiers.
My account was locked a few years back because of some Chinese hacking attempts. I declined to send them a picture of my drivers license and haven't had any reason to change my mind since. Never put anything up on fb, so they can keep storing the account with my name and e-mail address (which already was on the internet with my resume at one point) for as long as they like.
A few points:
- Users are "unwashed" compared to IT personnel? Have you *worked* in IT?
- The first thing IT professionals forget (speaking as one) is that computer management isn't the user's job. It may be *your* expertise, but it isn't *theirs*. They have a different job to do which you would probably suck at. Expecting them to be IT professionals on top of their regular job is an unreasonable expectation. So stop fussing about it.
- That said, often security issues really are kinda the user's fault. We told 'em and TOLD 'em, don't do that, you'll infect your.. ok, too late.
The awesome part is in engineering, we often need the tools that are most likely to need the admin access that is so dangerous, yet IT keeps yanking it and wondering why all the engineers keep complaining. Seems to always be a push and pull thing with no happy medium.
I couldn't get it to properly sync with Yahoo and Thunderbird seemed to run a lot in the background. Maybe I should try to get it working again...
Good programmers write good code in every language. A bad programmer writes bad code in all of them.
Good programmers may not write good code in a language they don't understand yet. A great C# programmer could easily end up writing code with major memory holes in C because they don't understand the differences in memory management. A great Java programmer could end up making utter trash with sql because of the different ways of thinking about the languages.
The same is true of C programmers though, far too many of them don't understand the language and just hack stuff together to fulfil the contractual obligations and then disappear.
Contract work is a particular problems. There was a study recently, sorry I lost the link, where they put out contracts for a basic login page. Most of the developers didn't bother storing the password securely at first, then when asked managed to botch doing it. Contract work encourages minimum effort and throwing unsuitable libraries at problems, and often the person checking for completion doesn't understand the security issues.
I think you just described any project where the code base is to large to learn in the amount of time the average employee is provided to learn the code before being required to be productive... or any code base that is simply too large for any average employee to learn in full.
*Exacty* A loaded magazine is relatively harmless (no more dangerous than a notebook PC). A gun without a loaded magazine is relatively harmless (no more dangerous than a hardwood bat). Ammunition without a magazine or gun is harmless (well, I guess one could get hit in the eye with a hurled round, but that's about it). Only when all three are put together do you have something that's dangerous.
So no point to prevent one from making it through. Not like a group of three people could separately try to board, one with an unloaded gun, one with an unloaded magazine and one with bullets.
I know I'm not adding to the discussion but this just brought my reading to a jarring halt...
"Thunderstorms are known to produce brief tornadoes"
Pray tell some other method knowing of producing tornadoes strong enough to risk life and property?
The ability to recall a previous state and return to it. I've got an idea, should we call this new invention something like "memory"?