I've had to report and ignore more than one idiot still on their soapbox about vaccinations causing autism.
5 minutes with Google will pull up that mercury was used as a preservative, had some correlation to autism, and hasn't been used since the Gov banned it in the 70's or 80's. And those research papers everyone pulls up? They all reference 1 paper, done in the 60's.
I can't wait for the braindead, unwashed masses to actually have a few braincells capable of independent thought. Since these same idiots believe everything they read on the internet (primarily Facebook), changes like this may actually help.
Or Blu-Ray disks? The formats are obsolete - they do not hold so much data, they are fragile, they become unreadable in a few years. Forget that junk.
Only if you use the disks as coasters or let toddlers play with them. I have DVD's that are 20 years old that still work just fine. Hell, I have CD's that are just as old and still work. My PS1 and Saturn still work like new.
No, Flash Player "was rendered irrelevant by HTML5", as was Shockwave. You still need some application to create vector animations that play back in the SVG or HTML Canvas environment. Which timeline-based animation editors are HTML5 animators using to create animations? Or are they all just rendering to video, which is ten times bigger than vectors and lacks any semblance of interactivity?
To create animations for Shockwave, you used Director.
To create animations for Flash Player, you used Flash.
To create animations for HTML Canvas, you use ________
Dreamweaver. It's had Javascript capabilities to move around stuff, time, animate and interaction bindings since version 2 nearly 20 years ago.
The funny part is some of the best places survive on next to no advertising budget. Costco is a prime example of a company that is incredibly popular and doesn't spend money on advertising (well, outside of their coupon mailers to their members).
How do they do it? They have competitive pricing, great customer service (return policy, friendly staff, etc...), they follow all distribution rules (they self-check all of their meat before it's put out on shelves), and they take care of their employees. Every Costco I've been to has been stupidly busy during rush hour and all-day Saturday.
Word of mouth and customer good will can go a very long way.
Snowden wasn't exercising a right. There's no "whistleblower" amendment, no non-disclosure contract get-out-of-jail free clause, or any such thing.
He released highly classified material without consent and is in violation of a contract he signed with the government, not to mention U.S. Criminal Code. Yes, you can argue that it was the right thing to do and get international conversations started. Doesn't stop the fact that his public release of the material was unlawful and (potentially) treasonous.
It's not entirely Apple's fault. Yes, they haven't really pushed anything *new* in a few years, but they aren't the only ones.
I have a 4 year old laptop running a 4000 series i7 and I look at websites on occasion to see if there is a laptop out there that has comparable specs + a dedicated graphics card (mine is just built-in intel) and there hasn't been much from any manufacturer in the realm I'm willing to pay.Sure, I can spend $2k or more to get some portable gamestation, but that's not what I want. I like the 15.6" size, the 16GB of RAM, the i7 3.4Ghz processor, and SSD + HD combo. There just isn't anything out there in the $1k-$1.3k range thats worth buying, and there hasn't been in 4 years.
Think of it as paying it forward for when you have little ones. Others will be paying to put them through school too.
If that's not in your life plan. How about the fact that with accessible education you raise the average IQ of our society? That means the total number of inbreds at the polls would be far fewer, our society would make more informed decisions, and we'd end this race to the bottom.
For me, it's worth a few % tax for my kids to go through college and for them to not have to deal with the brain-dead reality TV we have today. Nobody with more than 2 braincells gives a crap about the size of kimye's ass or what they ate last night.
This got me thinking about a conversation I had with a colleague last week.
We were talking about emulation and how the underlying design of systems, which chips are used, makes that emulation difficult. It seems consoles at first had off-the-shelf chips that were put to a new and interesting use (NES/Master System era). As the generations went on, the chips got more specialized (XB360/PS3 era), but did not veer too far from the established general-purpose PC architectures. After all, the xbox series used custom x86 chips with a special instruction set and odd behaviors, and the PS3 used a powerPC derived chip. Now both the PS4 and XB1 are using x86, a more general-purpose chip.
Which direction are the going to go next? Are we going to see a media/gaming optimized x86 series of chips? Or are we going the way of Sony/MS branded Steam machines with custom OS's?
I think the former would be a more fun experiment. X86 has that whole backwards compatibility and bolted-on instructions baggage it's been carrying around for years. Maybe between Sony, MS and (maybe) Nintendo, they can prune out some of the unnecessary crap and make the chips feel faster.
You're on to something here... getting developers with a Linux mindset enticed by Linux on Windowscould aide in migration of scientific development and server maintenance toward the Windows way of doing things. Alternatively, it could make those Windows developers move to Linux and then code porting could be minimal, lowering the barrier for Linux ports of things, such as games.
Makes me wonder if MS is slowly giving up on Windows and providing a transition to a Linux-based system. Maybe in a few years we'll have the Apple-Unix crowd bickering with the Windows-Linux crowd about which OS is superior.
My first thought was a future like Night of the Lepus. Giant rabbits destroying a town and eating people. If those people were actually assorted vegetables, and the town was an obvious small-scale cardboard recreation.
If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on C-/D+ movie gold.
Two easy counter-examples, Cheetahmen II and Action 52 for the NES. The cartridges were both unlicensed and "run-of-the-mill" products in that they were among the crappy NES titles of the time. Action-52 contains lots of crappy games that certainly wouldn't be worth the initial asking price for the cartridge. Today you can have one for ~$240, making it the 25th most expensive NES item. Cheetahmen II wasn't mass produced and only 1500 copies exist, but that can go for $1000.
Still not enough? Here's another list of random crap that's worth a lot today. The Super Soaker Monster XL sold for $500.
I couldn't find a list of things that have been recalled that are now collectible, but I seem to remember a baseball card with a profanity hidden on it being recalled/reprinted and the original is worth a hell of a lot more.
You still need an ISP to provide the internet connection so you can stream...
That and they don't want net neutrality so they can charge/deprioritize various providers to their hearts content. It'll be great when those Comcast customers get NBC at 1080p, but Netflix at 480i.
The whole point of these contracts is to boost the small PhD tech startups.
They are called "Small Business Innovative Research" for a reason. A Phase 1 contract lasts exactly 1 year and is funded at $100k to produce a strong concept (hopefully a breadboard-level prototype). It's enough to keep a few people busy part-time. I've seen 4-8 out for the same topic go to different companies to then compete for a Phase 2, which is typically higher funded, another year, limited to 1 or 2 businesses and the result is a prototype that has been field tested. After Phase 2 the government has ownership of the research, but the company has rights to (mass) produce for either the gov or public.
Some stuff our troops use today came from SBIR contracts. Why pay Raytheon hundreds of millions for one year when you can pay a smaller company $100k to focus on something great?
I have an iPhone 6s and refuse to use iTunes on my Windows desktop. For all my media management I use MediaMonkey. I have a large music collection (something like 2 weeks of music now) and MM works amazingly well and allows me to sync to android or iphone. The only downside is you do have to have iTunes installed to get the USB drivers installed. I just disabled iTunes auto-start and auto-manage and haven't looked back.
For older iphones, you may be able to get away with Amarok, Clementine, or MusicBee, though I haven't tried those with my phone.
I agree with everything said here and want to add something else:
Give some serious thought to what it is you really enjoy doing and find a job that best matches that.
I wanted to get into game design and development, it's what I spent a majority of my undergrad and masters taking classes for. I then realized that the game industry is insanely competitive and can be feast-or-famine with the bringing in of temp labor for the 3-6 months of crunch time before a release. Add in the "death march" of 60+ hour weeks and that grass doesn't look so green. I happened to fall into a job within a modelling and simulation group doing "serious gaming". While it didn't have the glamour of being the next Call of Duty (or even a gamepad anywhere in the building), it was still very close to my interests and with that job I was able to keep learning and work on some very interesting projects with great people. Plus, I was able to date and spend time doing what I want to do because I was limited to 40 hours a week.
Oh, and keep your eyes open for doorways to success and work on that professional network. Every single one of my jobs (except my current one) has been due to someone knowing me and looking for my skill set. It's not who you know, it's who knows you.
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I bet those kids didn't fight for 9 months and the mother was insanely happy.
Whenever my girls fight I find a chore for them to do. Channel that energy into something productive.
I was going to make the more tasteless joke targeting eating disorders... I think yours is better.
I've had to report and ignore more than one idiot still on their soapbox about vaccinations causing autism.
5 minutes with Google will pull up that mercury was used as a preservative, had some correlation to autism, and hasn't been used since the Gov banned it in the 70's or 80's. And those research papers everyone pulls up? They all reference 1 paper, done in the 60's.
I can't wait for the braindead, unwashed masses to actually have a few braincells capable of independent thought. Since these same idiots believe everything they read on the internet (primarily Facebook), changes like this may actually help.
Or Blu-Ray disks? The formats are obsolete - they do not hold so much data, they are fragile, they become unreadable in a few years. Forget that junk.
Only if you use the disks as coasters or let toddlers play with them. I have DVD's that are 20 years old that still work just fine. Hell, I have CD's that are just as old and still work. My PS1 and Saturn still work like new.
"Flash, which was rendered irrelevant by HTML5"
No, Flash Player "was rendered irrelevant by HTML5", as was Shockwave. You still need some application to create vector animations that play back in the SVG or HTML Canvas environment. Which timeline-based animation editors are HTML5 animators using to create animations? Or are they all just rendering to video, which is ten times bigger than vectors and lacks any semblance of interactivity?
To create animations for Shockwave, you used Director. To create animations for Flash Player, you used Flash. To create animations for HTML Canvas, you use ________
Dreamweaver. It's had Javascript capabilities to move around stuff, time, animate and interaction bindings since version 2 nearly 20 years ago.
That explains McAffee AV's behavior.
"You can pry this OS from my cold, dead hands!"
The funny part is some of the best places survive on next to no advertising budget. Costco is a prime example of a company that is incredibly popular and doesn't spend money on advertising (well, outside of their coupon mailers to their members).
How do they do it? They have competitive pricing, great customer service (return policy, friendly staff, etc...), they follow all distribution rules (they self-check all of their meat before it's put out on shelves), and they take care of their employees. Every Costco I've been to has been stupidly busy during rush hour and all-day Saturday.
Word of mouth and customer good will can go a very long way.
Snowden wasn't exercising a right. There's no "whistleblower" amendment, no non-disclosure contract get-out-of-jail free clause, or any such thing.
He released highly classified material without consent and is in violation of a contract he signed with the government, not to mention U.S. Criminal Code. Yes, you can argue that it was the right thing to do and get international conversations started. Doesn't stop the fact that his public release of the material was unlawful and (potentially) treasonous.
So, future people will be less than 98% chimp... and some % bacon?
It's not entirely Apple's fault. Yes, they haven't really pushed anything *new* in a few years, but they aren't the only ones.
I have a 4 year old laptop running a 4000 series i7 and I look at websites on occasion to see if there is a laptop out there that has comparable specs + a dedicated graphics card (mine is just built-in intel) and there hasn't been much from any manufacturer in the realm I'm willing to pay.Sure, I can spend $2k or more to get some portable gamestation, but that's not what I want. I like the 15.6" size, the 16GB of RAM, the i7 3.4Ghz processor, and SSD + HD combo. There just isn't anything out there in the $1k-$1.3k range thats worth buying, and there hasn't been in 4 years.
Think of it as paying it forward for when you have little ones. Others will be paying to put them through school too.
If that's not in your life plan. How about the fact that with accessible education you raise the average IQ of our society? That means the total number of inbreds at the polls would be far fewer, our society would make more informed decisions, and we'd end this race to the bottom.
For me, it's worth a few % tax for my kids to go through college and for them to not have to deal with the brain-dead reality TV we have today. Nobody with more than 2 braincells gives a crap about the size of kimye's ass or what they ate last night.
This got me thinking about a conversation I had with a colleague last week.
We were talking about emulation and how the underlying design of systems, which chips are used, makes that emulation difficult. It seems consoles at first had off-the-shelf chips that were put to a new and interesting use (NES/Master System era). As the generations went on, the chips got more specialized (XB360/PS3 era), but did not veer too far from the established general-purpose PC architectures. After all, the xbox series used custom x86 chips with a special instruction set and odd behaviors, and the PS3 used a powerPC derived chip. Now both the PS4 and XB1 are using x86, a more general-purpose chip.
Which direction are the going to go next? Are we going to see a media/gaming optimized x86 series of chips? Or are we going the way of Sony/MS branded Steam machines with custom OS's?
I think the former would be a more fun experiment. X86 has that whole backwards compatibility and bolted-on instructions baggage it's been carrying around for years. Maybe between Sony, MS and (maybe) Nintendo, they can prune out some of the unnecessary crap and make the chips feel faster.
The proper Canadian spelling is "Program-ay".
/ducks
Windows Hammer (tm): "It looks like you're trying to hammer a nail. Would you like me to help?"
That's actually early for them. MS considers it "fashionably late".
jesus, i always just thought that was a dark line; now you're telling me it's the scar from that time when my vagina healed?
I knew there was something... different... about you.
You're on to something here... getting developers with a Linux mindset enticed by Linux on Windowscould aide in migration of scientific development and server maintenance toward the Windows way of doing things. Alternatively, it could make those Windows developers move to Linux and then code porting could be minimal, lowering the barrier for Linux ports of things, such as games.
Makes me wonder if MS is slowly giving up on Windows and providing a transition to a Linux-based system. Maybe in a few years we'll have the Apple-Unix crowd bickering with the Windows-Linux crowd about which OS is superior.
My first thought was a future like Night of the Lepus. Giant rabbits destroying a town and eating people. If those people were actually assorted vegetables, and the town was an obvious small-scale cardboard recreation.
If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on C-/D+ movie gold.
Seems you don't have a collector's mindset.
Two easy counter-examples, Cheetahmen II and Action 52 for the NES. The cartridges were both unlicensed and "run-of-the-mill" products in that they were among the crappy NES titles of the time. Action-52 contains lots of crappy games that certainly wouldn't be worth the initial asking price for the cartridge. Today you can have one for ~$240, making it the 25th most expensive NES item. Cheetahmen II wasn't mass produced and only 1500 copies exist, but that can go for $1000.
Still not enough? Here's another list of random crap that's worth a lot today. The Super Soaker Monster XL sold for $500.
I couldn't find a list of things that have been recalled that are now collectible, but I seem to remember a baseball card with a profanity hidden on it being recalled/reprinted and the original is worth a hell of a lot more.
You still need an ISP to provide the internet connection so you can stream...
That and they don't want net neutrality so they can charge/deprioritize various providers to their hearts content. It'll be great when those Comcast customers get NBC at 1080p, but Netflix at 480i.
The whole point of these contracts is to boost the small PhD tech startups.
They are called "Small Business Innovative Research" for a reason. A Phase 1 contract lasts exactly 1 year and is funded at $100k to produce a strong concept (hopefully a breadboard-level prototype). It's enough to keep a few people busy part-time. I've seen 4-8 out for the same topic go to different companies to then compete for a Phase 2, which is typically higher funded, another year, limited to 1 or 2 businesses and the result is a prototype that has been field tested. After Phase 2 the government has ownership of the research, but the company has rights to (mass) produce for either the gov or public.
Some stuff our troops use today came from SBIR contracts. Why pay Raytheon hundreds of millions for one year when you can pay a smaller company $100k to focus on something great?
I have an iPhone 6s and refuse to use iTunes on my Windows desktop. For all my media management I use MediaMonkey. I have a large music collection (something like 2 weeks of music now) and MM works amazingly well and allows me to sync to android or iphone. The only downside is you do have to have iTunes installed to get the USB drivers installed. I just disabled iTunes auto-start and auto-manage and haven't looked back.
For older iphones, you may be able to get away with Amarok, Clementine, or MusicBee, though I haven't tried those with my phone.
I agree with everything said here and want to add something else:
Give some serious thought to what it is you really enjoy doing and find a job that best matches that.
I wanted to get into game design and development, it's what I spent a majority of my undergrad and masters taking classes for. I then realized that the game industry is insanely competitive and can be feast-or-famine with the bringing in of temp labor for the 3-6 months of crunch time before a release. Add in the "death march" of 60+ hour weeks and that grass doesn't look so green. I happened to fall into a job within a modelling and simulation group doing "serious gaming". While it didn't have the glamour of being the next Call of Duty (or even a gamepad anywhere in the building), it was still very close to my interests and with that job I was able to keep learning and work on some very interesting projects with great people. Plus, I was able to date and spend time doing what I want to do because I was limited to 40 hours a week.
Oh, and keep your eyes open for doorways to success and work on that professional network. Every single one of my jobs (except my current one) has been due to someone knowing me and looking for my skill set. It's not who you know, it's who knows you.
... Hold the executive(s) responsible personally. Pierce the corporate veil and go after them directly for ordering non-compliance.
So what I'm hearing is public execution of CEO's. Seems a bit barbaric, but I bet it would get companies to shape up.
Maybe I should have noted I live in a large metropolitan area in Texas... And there are a few Amazon warehouses within the next-day window.