The only people who can migrate are the people who only do Facebook/Youtube
. . . right, and most of the ppl on Youtube are suffering issues with buffering and stuttering (DASH) because Google has changed the player, and with Facebook - well - it's getting it's own issues - (privacy, and etc).
I really believe that; aside from the utility of using services like google drive and drop box, that this whole tablet/cloud thing has been just a fad.
A little insight from the experts should help to clarify:
* Quantum mechanics is magic.- Daniel Greenberger.
* Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. - Niels Bohr.
* Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. - Niels Bohr.
* If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it. - John Wheeler.
* It is safe to say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. - Richard Feynman.
* If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. - Albert Einstein.
* I do not like [quantum mechanics], and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it. - Erwin Schrödinger.
* Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense. - Roger Penrose.
That phrase means: "when we're trying to compute the state (A or B), we can't work out the formula until it arrives. (because we don't have enough information) - and when they arrive, bam! do the math, and the result is, A or B."
Math works that way. It's a model for a physical process in nature. The actual mechanism for that physical process? We don't know. And all theories are impossible. (involve FTL travel).
yeah, but if you have a $10,000 budget, and you tell your contractor to use a specific screwdriver that costs $2000 + $1000, EACH TIME YOU TURN THE HANDLE, expect that the contractor's not going to get much work done before you run out of money.
This was the whole fucking point of computer languages in the first place.
So that, not only would programmers NOT need to specialize. . . . But also, so that a company that works in a niche technology would have a wider supply of workers who can easily adapt to that niche technology.
So that brings us back, AGAIN, to the main point of this discussion: HR and recruiters DO NOT UNDERSTAND TECHNOLOGY, or the workers, or the skills. Therefore, their job requirements suck.
we don't know for sure, but I don't want to find out the hard way, better to play it safe and not burn it all
There is no doubt in my mind that we WILL find out the hard way. I think we may have had a chance had we acted on this in the 1970's. When we DID have the technology, and the understanding.
A billion people in the world are going to get access to AC and clean water over the next 50 years.
With growing loss of biodiversity, and ecological degradation, I would ask: what the fuck are these people going to eat? Who's going to employ them so they can afford AC and clean water? Where's this magical water going to come from - the exhaust pipe of a leaky nuclear reactor cooling condenser?
While, I do think that they could benefit from a lot more PV and solar thermal use (they're using incredibly scarce fresh water to cool that nuclear power plant in the desert), I can see why they still need clothes dryers.
The AC, IMO, is more a function of culture than necessity. Folks in these warmer climates DO tend to overcompensate. When I was in Illinois, people would crank them up full-blast in the summer, because it was so damn humid outside, and it felt so damn good to come inside from being out in it. But not so good to sit in the chill all day long, freezing your ass off.
Your bog-standard disposable plastic shopping bag, (which DOES get re-used, at least they did in my household, before they were banned in my county), will degrade in about 2-3 years, when exposed to direct sunlight, (UV). When buried, it's a different story.
One of the really damaging plastics out there is large-scale plastic sheeting used for trapping moisture in farming. It's polyethelene, and it stands up to more UV abuse, and they come in sheets hundreds of yards long. When they get blown away or washed out to sea - they definitely cause harm to wildlife. Several beached whales have been found with this crap bunched up and blocking their digestive tracts. The thing is: for shorelines not managed by humans, that whale carcass will rot away, and that plastic sheeting will wash back out into the ocean, and threaten more marine life.
"error loading firmwares" - - - having to go back and locate 1, 2, 3, (how many more) proprietary firmwares made installation a bit more painful than I had patience for. (after dealing with Legacy/UEFI boot issues).
Also: latest Debian kernel seems pretty old compared to what ships in the latest ubuntu release.
But I really feel the community drop-off in ubuntu, compared to a couple of years ago. And that's pretty important. They're going the way of Red Hat.
I've had 4 different macbooks, and two macbook pros - and mac laptop batteries have had serious issues with swelling, and burning-out chargers. My son has a 2006 macbook, and yes, he's gone back and replaced boards, and maxxed out ram and replaced the hard drive and optical drive. But the one very annoying recurring problem is when the battery swells, and grounds-out the trackpad. This happens about every year. You buy a new battery, and you have about 12 months. Plus, the chargers, also, keep burning out. They last about 1-2 years, and that's consistent with the mac books of that era as well.
yes; I do not have the tiny fingers of an 8-year-old Indonesian assembly-line worker, so while I'm very handy with a screwdriver and soldering iron, I admit to being flummoxed in changing ipod-nano batteries. (in fact, the one I tried to replace: I ended up cracking the lcd screen; mail-ordering a replacement, and cracking THAT, during post-battery-swap re-install.)
As for my car: Yes, you can get involved in some seriously costly mayhem if you fuck things up. I have done everything from top-end rebuilds, to swapping in aftermarket turbochargers, to rebuilding a fuel injection pump (diesel). Not trivial stuff. Still, I once burned-out an airbag controller, rendering the whole airbag system disabled. A replacement unit would have been $1000. (the replace-job was a simple, 4-screws and connector-plug; plus an ECU re-code).
There are components that are designed to be user-servicable. Then there's things that your general "handy" person can hack-together in their garage. But I can't personally re-flash a controller module. And I'm not dexterous enough to service miniatureized electronics that were not ever designed to be anything more than disposable commodity items.
When it comes to laptops - that's some pretty fucking expensive "disposable commodity items" - and while laptops, in general, ARE a pain in the ass to work on (if you're doing more than replacing RAM or HD) - I prefer the standard wintel-style laptop, to the direction Apple's headed.
. . . and this was the case for my Aunt. Who had a stroke, and was left paralyzed and unable to swallow. They would have put in a feeding-tube, and sustained her in this state for. . . who knows? years? She was very religious, but she did not see it as suicide, or even "assisted suicide". She saw it as "letting nature take it's course". It did take several days for that process, and in that process, she suffered through the gradual process of organ failure. But she's at peace now.
The only argument that I have about this, is (rare) cases like Stephen Hawking, where he gets ALS - 99.999% of the time, that's a death sentence in 6-12 months. He ends up surviving paralyzed in a wheelchair for decades.
Now: Had he wanted to off-himself, I wouldn't blame him.
But think of everything he's achieved since then.
This is only a very small point, of course.
My uncle died of ALS, and I don't think that medical costs were that high, because he opted for in-home care, and he went relatively quickly. It was a difficult and frustrating process - but it was only a few months, and he died in his sleep.
I guess that, IN THEORY, any speaker can be a microphone. If only there is a circuit that can read voltage levels induced on the speaker-coil by air vibrations on the membrane. (in hardware terms, you can just connect a speaker as a microphone - but in computer-terms, there probably is not the audio-input digitizer on that physical channel, on most audio boards).
If you're being monitored by the NSA, and if you're a journalist, that excludes a huge amount of potential sources who might talk with you. Certain sources would shy away from any contact which might be monitored by the NSA. (this is true whether any of Snowden's revelations were true or not - only if the revelations were credible).
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Simple fix. Raise the international standards for contamination thresholds. Oh wait - they did that.
Oh, I'm sorry, you wanted to buy access to ALL of the Internet? You only bought basic Internet.
. . . not unlike Cable's approach to selling channel packages.
Good thing I almost never key-in my passwords.
I copy them straight off of strongpasswordgenerator.com, and paste them into my password fields.
The only people who can migrate are the people who only do Facebook/Youtube
. . . right, and most of the ppl on Youtube are suffering issues with buffering and stuttering (DASH) because Google has changed the player, and with Facebook - well - it's getting it's own issues - (privacy, and etc).
I really believe that; aside from the utility of using services like google drive and drop box, that this whole tablet/cloud thing has been just a fad.
A little insight from the experts should help to clarify:
* Quantum mechanics is magic.- Daniel Greenberger.
* Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. - Niels Bohr.
* Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. - Niels Bohr.
* If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it. - John Wheeler.
* It is safe to say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. - Richard Feynman.
* If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. - Albert Einstein.
* I do not like [quantum mechanics], and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it. - Erwin Schrödinger.
* Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense. - Roger Penrose.
The key here, is "resolves to".
That phrase means: "when we're trying to compute the state (A or B), we can't work out the formula until it arrives. (because we don't have enough information) - and when they arrive, bam! do the math, and the result is, A or B."
Math works that way. It's a model for a physical process in nature. The actual mechanism for that physical process? We don't know. And all theories are impossible. (involve FTL travel).
yeah, but if you have a $10,000 budget, and you tell your contractor to use a specific screwdriver that costs $2000 + $1000, EACH TIME YOU TURN THE HANDLE, expect that the contractor's not going to get much work done before you run out of money.
The cure for this is 1.2 million copies of Malwarebytes, cleaning this shit off.
Sadly, I am dreaming if 1.2 million people would visit malwarebytes.com, download their stuff, and run it regularly. :(
This was the whole fucking point of computer languages in the first place.
So that, not only would programmers NOT need to specialize. . . .
But also, so that a company that works in a niche technology would have a wider supply of workers who can easily adapt to that niche technology.
So that brings us back, AGAIN, to the main point of this discussion: HR and recruiters DO NOT UNDERSTAND TECHNOLOGY, or the workers, or the skills. Therefore, their job requirements suck.
You got a good dental plan?
'Truly private money is an inferior alternative to the money that comes with the backing of a political authority.
Authority to govern comes from the consent of the governed.
So anything that's true about "government money" is also true for private money.
we don't know for sure, but I don't want to find out the hard way, better to play it safe and not burn it all
There is no doubt in my mind that we WILL find out the hard way.
I think we may have had a chance had we acted on this in the 1970's. When we DID have the technology, and the understanding.
A billion people in the world are going to get access to AC and clean water over the next 50 years.
With growing loss of biodiversity, and ecological degradation, I would ask: what the fuck are these people going to eat? Who's going to employ them so they can afford AC and clean water? Where's this magical water going to come from - the exhaust pipe of a leaky nuclear reactor cooling condenser?
They DO have a thing called "winter" in Phoenix.
While, I do think that they could benefit from a lot more PV and solar thermal use (they're using incredibly scarce fresh water to cool that nuclear power plant in the desert), I can see why they still need clothes dryers.
The AC, IMO, is more a function of culture than necessity. Folks in these warmer climates DO tend to overcompensate. When I was in Illinois, people would crank them up full-blast in the summer, because it was so damn humid outside, and it felt so damn good to come inside from being out in it. But not so good to sit in the chill all day long, freezing your ass off.
Your bog-standard disposable plastic shopping bag, (which DOES get re-used, at least they did in my household, before they were banned in my county), will degrade in about 2-3 years, when exposed to direct sunlight, (UV). When buried, it's a different story.
One of the really damaging plastics out there is large-scale plastic sheeting used for trapping moisture in farming. It's polyethelene, and it stands up to more UV abuse, and they come in sheets hundreds of yards long. When they get blown away or washed out to sea - they definitely cause harm to wildlife. Several beached whales have been found with this crap bunched up and blocking their digestive tracts. The thing is: for shorelines not managed by humans, that whale carcass will rot away, and that plastic sheeting will wash back out into the ocean, and threaten more marine life.
Tried it.
"error loading firmwares" - - - having to go back and locate 1, 2, 3, (how many more) proprietary firmwares made installation a bit more painful than I had patience for. (after dealing with Legacy/UEFI boot issues).
Also: latest Debian kernel seems pretty old compared to what ships in the latest ubuntu release.
But I really feel the community drop-off in ubuntu, compared to a couple of years ago. And that's pretty important. They're going the way of Red Hat.
y'all know he means: 'Tor'.
I've had 4 different macbooks, and two macbook pros - and mac laptop batteries have had serious issues with swelling, and burning-out chargers. My son has a 2006 macbook, and yes, he's gone back and replaced boards, and maxxed out ram and replaced the hard drive and optical drive. But the one very annoying recurring problem is when the battery swells, and grounds-out the trackpad. This happens about every year. You buy a new battery, and you have about 12 months. Plus, the chargers, also, keep burning out. They last about 1-2 years, and that's consistent with the mac books of that era as well.
yes; I do not have the tiny fingers of an 8-year-old Indonesian assembly-line worker, so while I'm very handy with a screwdriver and soldering iron, I admit to being flummoxed in changing ipod-nano batteries. (in fact, the one I tried to replace: I ended up cracking the lcd screen; mail-ordering a replacement, and cracking THAT, during post-battery-swap re-install.)
As for my car:
Yes, you can get involved in some seriously costly mayhem if you fuck things up.
I have done everything from top-end rebuilds, to swapping in aftermarket turbochargers, to rebuilding a fuel injection pump (diesel). Not trivial stuff. Still, I once burned-out an airbag controller, rendering the whole airbag system disabled. A replacement unit would have been $1000. (the replace-job was a simple, 4-screws and connector-plug; plus an ECU re-code).
There are components that are designed to be user-servicable. Then there's things that your general "handy" person can hack-together in their garage. But I can't personally re-flash a controller module. And I'm not dexterous enough to service miniatureized electronics that were not ever designed to be anything more than disposable commodity items.
When it comes to laptops - that's some pretty fucking expensive "disposable commodity items" - and while laptops, in general, ARE a pain in the ass to work on (if you're doing more than replacing RAM or HD) - I prefer the standard wintel-style laptop, to the direction Apple's headed.
. . . and this was the case for my Aunt. Who had a stroke, and was left paralyzed and unable to swallow. They would have put in a feeding-tube, and sustained her in this state for. . . who knows? years? She was very religious, but she did not see it as suicide, or even "assisted suicide". She saw it as "letting nature take it's course". It did take several days for that process, and in that process, she suffered through the gradual process of organ failure. But she's at peace now.
The only argument that I have about this, is (rare) cases like Stephen Hawking, where he gets ALS - 99.999% of the time, that's a death sentence in 6-12 months. He ends up surviving paralyzed in a wheelchair for decades.
Now: Had he wanted to off-himself, I wouldn't blame him.
But think of everything he's achieved since then.
This is only a very small point, of course.
My uncle died of ALS, and I don't think that medical costs were that high, because he opted for in-home care, and he went relatively quickly. It was a difficult and frustrating process - but it was only a few months, and he died in his sleep.
As for Alzheimers. . . . fuck alzheimers.
I guess that, IN THEORY, any speaker can be a microphone. If only there is a circuit that can read voltage levels induced on the speaker-coil by air vibrations on the membrane. (in hardware terms, you can just connect a speaker as a microphone - but in computer-terms, there probably is not the audio-input digitizer on that physical channel, on most audio boards).
It's almost as if Parliamentary Scandinavia, Republican Rome, and Democratic Greece never happened. . .
My poppa always told me that the best government would be a "Benign Dictatorship". The only problem is finding a benign dictator.
They are doing whatever the insurance companies will pay for.
If you're being monitored by the NSA, and if you're a journalist, that excludes a huge amount of potential sources who might talk with you. Certain sources would shy away from any contact which might be monitored by the NSA. (this is true whether any of Snowden's revelations were true or not - only if the revelations were credible).