Libraries are more than just a place to get free books.
Libraries have a lot of activities for kids. Small-scale showmen do magic shows, puppet plays, play music, our library has a Minecraft club to discuss creation ideas, methods, mod programming, and a lot of other things.
Our library has a section where students of various ages meet with their tutors.
Some of our nearby libraries have a decent (somewhat expensive, better than the cheapest things) 3d printer, and my son is very interested in learning about that. I like the idea of him learning on that, to see how far such interest goes, before investing in purchasing a machine for home. (and figuring out where to put one and supplies at home vs how often would it be used)
Our library has book clubs and other activities for adults as well.
Can Amazon replace all of that? No. Can Starbucks? Uh, have you ever seen magic shows or plays at a Starbucks? I havent...
I go there to work sometimes (anywhere I have WiFi internet and cellphone signal...) as it's generally quiet, and nearby to activities my son is doing for a while.
Sorry, but I only see benefits to our libraries, and do nto want to see them taken away for the benefit of Amazon and other establishments tha tdo not adequately replace the libraries.
I'm not interested in the Arduino silliness. But in a way it is how Arduinos work. I used to work as a chip designer at the "Arduino chip" vendor, and have an understanding of how that "Arduino chip" itself was made... One of these HDL languages was involved...
Essentially, yes. Digital circuit design is largely done using VHDL or Verilog (or derivatives) "hardware design language" code. Type the functionality, type the netlist connecting it together and to analog blocks like clock PLLs, voltage regulators, PowerOnResets, IO pad buffers, etc. EDA tools synthesize the code into logic gates and wire them together. Build IP libraries for reuse so you don't have to code the same thing again, buy it from vendors, find it as open-source (opencores.org) etc...
My Tivo got part of the first episode, football messed up the scheduling so I didn't get to see much. It hasn't been on since. Sorry, not interested in paying for the show. (What else would I watch on their website for it?)
I see microSD card, check. I hope for a headphone jack, even with usbC. But I really wish for a removable/changable battery. After the Note 7 nonsense, how can they not do a removable battery? I'm still in my Note 4, which I can continue using by getting new batteries when they get old, and am still quite happy with it. Make a phone disposable, and I'm much less interested, especially if it tries to dispose of me or my car or house.
Allegedly did X. But the tinfoil hatters will say that he foiled the NSA/CIA/FBI/HS plan to both infiltrate everyone's computers and to make a few bucks in the process.
It's been too long since I've seen a binary tree to remember that sort of thing, and as someone with mostly experience in C, I don't know much at all about abstract classes...
I paid my own way to an embedded CPU vendor conference. Learned about heir new high-end processors at the time, and also took some nice high-preformance BCB design courses. Didn't network with others at all, and had nothing to do with my day job, just stuff I was that interested in.
My kid's kindergarten last year was a full day long. The half-day thing that I knew of Kindergarten, when I was long-ago a kid in PA, is here today called pre-K in MD.
I visited my son's Kindergarten for a day last year. When it's cold or rainy, they have indoor recess, which was in the media room that day, sitting in the dark, asked to sit still and be quiet while they watched a vouple Curious George videos. OK, so a cartoon monkey is jumping around on a pogo stick trying to make a painting that way, making a huge mess, and 5 year olds watching are expected to sit still and be quiet? No talking, we don't want to start any social interaction either... Weird... It it any wonder that kids are being judged as more and more unruly when you change the rules to be impossible for them to succeed in?
based on my last couple phones, the last update that my provider pushes out (which I cannot say no to) intentionally wrecks the thing. battery runtime drops like a rock (my Note 4 turns off at 27% battery remainining now), and my Droid 4 became unusably slow and hot-running, taking longer to tell me that someone is calling than is allowed so I could never answer to talk to someone, and apps were unbearably slow, with several no longer even able to load.
With this belief, of course they don't want to be bothered with updating old phones. They've already at some point done their last update with the intention of forcing people to stop using that one to buy a new one. Funcitonal updates at this point are of course not part of the plan at all, let alone security udpates or anything useful.
I need to start rooting and getting "alternative" OS deliveries to see if that helps or not...
I'm just finishing up an MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, my BS degree was in Computer Engineering. While we're being taught coding, and I started in CE instead of EE to get a stronger focus on the computer science portion, I've never been taught about secure programming. The CS portion of the CE degree mostly used Module-2 at the time, to impress the importance of consistent typing and what not, but in terms of how to make your code secure from malware attacks, or what a security weakness looks like or how to correct it, I've never seen that in general programming or embedded programming courses. I have no idea... And I don't know where to go and get an idea. I understand it's important, and after I do my last presentation for my last course in MS degree this coming week, I do want to seek out some resources about how to do that. I have a book about TDD for Embedded C programming, but surely that's not enough for security coverage, it seems more about correct functionality. I suspect that one could pass functional testing yet still have security holes...
So where do I go to learn effective "secure programming"? Do I go and take some MOOCs about white-hat hacking to learn how to break in, and then try not to leave those holes? Are those things applicable to embedded programming, or are they only about breaking into servers and websites?
I look forward to good suggestions, so that more of us can become capable of doing better in this regard.
I made full hard drive clones of both my Windows 7 pro and the Windows 10 that replaced it. Can go back if I feel the need...
Other than that, who has figured out tricks to stop unwanted updates form coming into Windows10? I've set my home wifi as "metered" in my Windows 10 settings, and attempted to set a couple policies such as to wait until I reboot, don't reboot on my behalf, and another to try and hold back updates. Not certain if they had the effect the website said they would.
I held off allowing the update to 10 to happen forbquite a while, using apps to help prevent it from happening. i bought another hard drive snd used clonedrive to copy everything, so now i have teo indistinquishable drives. I put one into cold storage, and then allowed the new one to dobthe 10 update.
I also have some vrtual machines, one with win7 pro that I have several things in (to help make it easier to move to a new computer someday) and one with win8 and win8.1 that i never really used but had to check out the 8.x versions. this past week i got all my apps up to date and got a few things od been thinking about, sobthat they are thrre and working in win7 land. thrn made a copy of virtual hard drive, stored away the older versions, and sllowed win10 updates on new copies. the moment i dont like win10, i have a path back to "better versions" for everything i have and do today.
Do employers give 2 weeks notice on a layoff? Or do the "affected" employees get a debriefing meeting and same time to gather their things before exiting the building that same day?
At some places today, if you give your 2 weeks notice, it very quickly turns into the above, and you end up going home same day at the employer's preference.
I think that if you are the employee wanting to leave, it really depends on your reasons and your relationship with the employer. If you're all on good terms with each other and in the middle of something, that it can be a polite thing to offer to stay on for a bit so they have some notice, but accept the possibility of being walked out anyway. If it's a difficult situation, then you can do so, but be prepared to be walked out.
This example sounds so ridiculous that I question its authenticity, but I think the alleged employee was very right to walk out right then. http://www.askamanager.org/201...
I'm curious what Uber will do when we void out the need for humans to be passengers. Would robot travellers really need to travel, or to be passengers? So, after we have all our automated kiosks at fast-food restauraunts voiding otu the need for people to go to work there, and we've voided out the need for humans to go there to eat, and we're all stuck at home with nothing to do and nothing to eat, will there still be places to go, or will we void those out as well along with things to do when you get there?
My laptop updated to Win10. This is a Dell Latitude e6530 which is allegedly well supported with 10.
It was difficult to get my speakers making sound again, but after a lot of work they do now.
I have not yet got my webcam/microphone to work again. Were fine in Win7.
My Canon MP530 printer/scanner/fax combo is not supported in Win10. Canon says NO drivers for Win10, buy a new printer instead. I myself would think that if users are being pushed so hard to update to 10, that it would be mandatory for peripheral vendors to support any device from Win7 and Win8 also in Win10, but this does not appear to be the case. So Microsoft has effectively stolen my printer/scanner from me, as I can no longer make use of it.
I am taking an online university course this summer, the last course for my MS degree. But my webcam, speakers, printer and scanner all went AWOL, and I've only been able to get one of those important items back. And my kid can't video chat with distant grandparents.
There may be more, but the things I know don't work after installing Win10 include my laptop's webcam and speakers, and my combo printer/scanner/fax machine.
I'm taking an online class this summer, involving video conferencing, printing stuff and scannign my work to submit online. My kid can't skype with his remote grandparents.
Sorry MS, this is quite a fail.
There are allegedly Win10 drivers for stuff internal in my laptop, but I haven't yet solved that riddle satisfactorily.
The maker of my printer/scanner unit says NO, we wil lnot make any Win10 drivers for that. Screw you, buy a new one. IMHO, if MS is so insistent that Win7 and Win8 users change to Win10, then they should also make demands on vendors to mandatorily make Win10 drivers for any gizmos they made for Win7 or Win8. My printer/scanner has vendor supported drivers for both Win7 and 8, but MS wants to take this support away from me by not wanting me to continue using my Win7 Ultimate edition.
So, since stuff no longer works, and some of that stuff probably never will work again, should I be able to sue MS, since I'd have been find if we had not been hustled into this Win10 thing?
Before I allowed Win10 to do its thing, I did a clonezilla on my hard drive, so I can go back with a hard drive swap. Or so I assume and hope. Would MS have mangled the licensing to forbid that from working?
My wife didn't get any confirmation or anything when hers updated, and she was in the middle of some important work that she lost and had to do over a while later. She says she said no when it asked, and I assume she got scammed by the red X means yes trick. I don't know if that's what happened or not, but makes the most sense from what she told me. She was in Virtualbox installing RedHat when hers began Win10 install and that of course did not get saved properly when the rug underneath it was pulled.
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Libraries are more than just a place to get free books.
Libraries have a lot of activities for kids. Small-scale showmen do magic shows, puppet plays, play music, our library has a Minecraft club to discuss creation ideas, methods, mod programming, and a lot of other things.
Our library has a section where students of various ages meet with their tutors.
Some of our nearby libraries have a decent (somewhat expensive, better than the cheapest things) 3d printer, and my son is very interested in learning about that. I like the idea of him learning on that, to see how far such interest goes, before investing in purchasing a machine for home. (and figuring out where to put one and supplies at home vs how often would it be used)
Our library has book clubs and other activities for adults as well.
Can Amazon replace all of that? No. Can Starbucks? Uh, have you ever seen magic shows or plays at a Starbucks? I havent...
I go there to work sometimes (anywhere I have WiFi internet and cellphone signal...) as it's generally quiet, and nearby to activities my son is doing for a while.
Sorry, but I only see benefits to our libraries, and do nto want to see them taken away for the benefit of Amazon and other establishments tha tdo not adequately replace the libraries.
I'm not interested in the Arduino silliness. But in a way it is how Arduinos work. I used to work as a chip designer at the "Arduino chip" vendor, and have an understanding of how that "Arduino chip" itself was made... One of these HDL languages was involved...
Essentially, yes. Digital circuit design is largely done using VHDL or Verilog (or derivatives) "hardware design language" code. Type the functionality, type the netlist connecting it together and to analog blocks like clock PLLs, voltage regulators, PowerOnResets, IO pad buffers, etc. EDA tools synthesize the code into logic gates and wire them together. Build IP libraries for reuse so you don't have to code the same thing again, buy it from vendors, find it as open-source (opencores.org) etc...
Is a host controller chip available yet for testing any driver code with the USB3.2 framework?
Uh, maybe that isn't good news...
My Tivo got part of the first episode, football messed up the scheduling so I didn't get to see much. It hasn't been on since. Sorry, not interested in paying for the show. (What else would I watch on their website for it?)
Will we have to start using it to install Chrome on those platforms too?
I see microSD card, check.
I hope for a headphone jack, even with usbC.
But I really wish for a removable/changable battery. After the Note 7 nonsense, how can they not do a removable battery? I'm still in my Note 4, which I can continue using by getting new batteries when they get old, and am still quite happy with it. Make a phone disposable, and I'm much less interested, especially if it tries to dispose of me or my car or house.
Allegedly did X. But the tinfoil hatters will say that he foiled the NSA/CIA/FBI/HS plan to both infiltrate everyone's computers and to make a few bucks in the process.
Will be interesting reading either way...
My cell provider seems to have reduced the number of vocemails that I am allowed to store. I have deleted 15 messages, and it is still full.
If I want more space, I need to pay more.
So, this will keep my voicemail full, no matter how many times I buy more voicemail slots.
My family, coworkers, customers, suppliers will not be able to leave messages if I can' answer the phone just then. Great...
This is a boon to the voicemail services who will rake in more cash for more space, but the consumer will only have downsides to this.
>> it's literally over a decade since anybody genuinely gave a shit about a new Amiga.
Well, enough people gave enough of a *#^%@ to make a new computer...
Enjoy your emulator. Let others enjoy their new computer. Why is this worth being so angry about?
I use my Tivo box to watch Netflix. :p
It's been too long since I've seen a binary tree to remember that sort of thing, and as someone with mostly experience in C, I don't know much at all about abstract classes...
I paid my own way to an embedded CPU vendor conference. Learned about heir new high-end processors at the time, and also took some nice high-preformance BCB design courses. Didn't network with others at all, and had nothing to do with my day job, just stuff I was that interested in.
A full elementary school day long that is, same as the 1st-5th graders.
My kid's kindergarten last year was a full day long. The half-day thing that I knew of Kindergarten, when I was long-ago a kid in PA, is here today called pre-K in MD.
I visited my son's Kindergarten for a day last year. When it's cold or rainy, they have indoor recess, which was in the media room that day, sitting in the dark, asked to sit still and be quiet while they watched a vouple Curious George videos. OK, so a cartoon monkey is jumping around on a pogo stick trying to make a painting that way, making a huge mess, and 5 year olds watching are expected to sit still and be quiet? No talking, we don't want to start any social interaction either... Weird... It it any wonder that kids are being judged as more and more unruly when you change the rules to be impossible for them to succeed in?
based on my last couple phones, the last update that my provider pushes out (which I cannot say no to) intentionally wrecks the thing. battery runtime drops like a rock (my Note 4 turns off at 27% battery remainining now), and my Droid 4 became unusably slow and hot-running, taking longer to tell me that someone is calling than is allowed so I could never answer to talk to someone, and apps were unbearably slow, with several no longer even able to load.
With this belief, of course they don't want to be bothered with updating old phones. They've already at some point done their last update with the intention of forcing people to stop using that one to buy a new one. Funcitonal updates at this point are of course not part of the plan at all, let alone security udpates or anything useful.
I need to start rooting and getting "alternative" OS deliveries to see if that helps or not...
I'm just finishing up an MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, my BS degree was in Computer Engineering. While we're being taught coding, and I started in CE instead of EE to get a stronger focus on the computer science portion, I've never been taught about secure programming. The CS portion of the CE degree mostly used Module-2 at the time, to impress the importance of consistent typing and what not, but in terms of how to make your code secure from malware attacks, or what a security weakness looks like or how to correct it, I've never seen that in general programming or embedded programming courses. I have no idea... And I don't know where to go and get an idea. I understand it's important, and after I do my last presentation for my last course in MS degree this coming week, I do want to seek out some resources about how to do that. I have a book about TDD for Embedded C programming, but surely that's not enough for security coverage, it seems more about correct functionality. I suspect that one could pass functional testing yet still have security holes...
So where do I go to learn effective "secure programming"? Do I go and take some MOOCs about white-hat hacking to learn how to break in, and then try not to leave those holes? Are those things applicable to embedded programming, or are they only about breaking into servers and websites?
I look forward to good suggestions, so that more of us can become capable of doing better in this regard.
I made full hard drive clones of both my Windows 7 pro and the Windows 10 that replaced it. Can go back if I feel the need...
Other than that, who has figured out tricks to stop unwanted updates form coming into Windows10? I've set my home wifi as "metered" in my Windows 10 settings, and attempted to set a couple policies such as to wait until I reboot, don't reboot on my behalf, and another to try and hold back updates. Not certain if they had the effect the website said they would.
I held off allowing the update to 10 to happen forbquite a while, using apps to help prevent it from happening. i bought another hard drive snd used clonedrive to copy everything, so now i have teo indistinquishable drives. I put one into cold storage, and then allowed the new one to dobthe 10 update.
I also have some vrtual machines, one with win7 pro that I have several things in (to help make it easier to move to a new computer someday) and one with win8 and win8.1 that i never really used but had to check out the 8.x versions. this past week i got all my apps up to date and got a few things od been thinking about, sobthat they are thrre and working in win7 land. thrn made a copy of virtual hard drive, stored away the older versions, and sllowed win10 updates on new copies. the moment i dont like win10, i have a path back to "better versions" for everything i have and do today.
Do employers give 2 weeks notice on a layoff? Or do the "affected" employees get a debriefing meeting and same time to gather their things before exiting the building that same day?
At some places today, if you give your 2 weeks notice, it very quickly turns into the above, and you end up going home same day at the employer's preference.
I think that if you are the employee wanting to leave, it really depends on your reasons and your relationship with the employer. If you're all on good terms with each other and in the middle of something, that it can be a polite thing to offer to stay on for a bit so they have some notice, but accept the possibility of being walked out anyway. If it's a difficult situation, then you can do so, but be prepared to be walked out.
This example sounds so ridiculous that I question its authenticity, but I think the alleged employee was very right to walk out right then.
http://www.askamanager.org/201...
I'm curious what Uber will do when we void out the need for humans to be passengers. Would robot travellers really need to travel, or to be passengers? So, after we have all our automated kiosks at fast-food restauraunts voiding otu the need for people to go to work there, and we've voided out the need for humans to go there to eat, and we're all stuck at home with nothing to do and nothing to eat, will there still be places to go, or will we void those out as well along with things to do when you get there?
My laptop updated to Win10. This is a Dell Latitude e6530 which is allegedly well supported with 10.
It was difficult to get my speakers making sound again, but after a lot of work they do now.
I have not yet got my webcam/microphone to work again. Were fine in Win7.
My Canon MP530 printer/scanner/fax combo is not supported in Win10. Canon says NO drivers for Win10, buy a new printer instead. I myself would think that if users are being pushed so hard to update to 10, that it would be mandatory for peripheral vendors to support any device from Win7 and Win8 also in Win10, but this does not appear to be the case. So Microsoft has effectively stolen my printer/scanner from me, as I can no longer make use of it.
I am taking an online university course this summer, the last course for my MS degree. But my webcam, speakers, printer and scanner all went AWOL, and I've only been able to get one of those important items back. And my kid can't video chat with distant grandparents.
Consider me disappointed with 10...
There may be more, but the things I know don't work after installing Win10 include my laptop's webcam and speakers, and my combo printer/scanner/fax machine.
I'm taking an online class this summer, involving video conferencing, printing stuff and scannign my work to submit online. My kid can't skype with his remote grandparents.
Sorry MS, this is quite a fail.
There are allegedly Win10 drivers for stuff internal in my laptop, but I haven't yet solved that riddle satisfactorily.
The maker of my printer/scanner unit says NO, we wil lnot make any Win10 drivers for that. Screw you, buy a new one. IMHO, if MS is so insistent that Win7 and Win8 users change to Win10, then they should also make demands on vendors to mandatorily make Win10 drivers for any gizmos they made for Win7 or Win8. My printer/scanner has vendor supported drivers for both Win7 and 8, but MS wants to take this support away from me by not wanting me to continue using my Win7 Ultimate edition.
So, since stuff no longer works, and some of that stuff probably never will work again, should I be able to sue MS, since I'd have been find if we had not been hustled into this Win10 thing?
Before I allowed Win10 to do its thing, I did a clonezilla on my hard drive, so I can go back with a hard drive swap. Or so I assume and hope. Would MS have mangled the licensing to forbid that from working?
My wife didn't get any confirmation or anything when hers updated, and she was in the middle of some important work that she lost and had to do over a while later. She says she said no when it asked, and I assume she got scammed by the red X means yes trick. I don't know if that's what happened or not, but makes the most sense from what she told me. She was in Virtualbox installing RedHat when hers began Win10 install and that of course did not get saved properly when the rug underneath it was pulled.