Forcing tech companies to start maintaining and updating legacy software that is no longer made, sold, and supported for free, is like forcing Ford to offer free seatbelt and airbag kits for Model Ts.
You just can't lock s-foils in attack formation in a star trek game. It's sacrilege, even to mention such a thing in a joking manner. Put Beau in the brig while we decide what to do about it.
If you find him guilty are you going to throw him in the rancor pit or feed him to the Sarlacc?
I started the CS50 course on edX, and I find it a good intro for someone whose entire experience with coding and programming is nothing more than discussions here on Slashdot. Had never even written something as simple as a "hello, world" program. Malan actually seems to be a decent lecturer, and it's giving me at least a strong enough base that I can go on and self-learn some more skills to help forward my career. Of course, I was a liberal arts major, but my graduate degree was in a semi quantitative field.
Wouldn't that really mean the government that refuses to prosecute her is corrupt, not her? They're the ones that ultimately determine whether or not she is charged. And you know, for all the smoke he raised about it during the campaign, Trump doesn't seem to care too much. So, either she's not a criminal, Trump lied during his campaign and doesn't really give a shit, or he's corrupt for not pushing for charges and a trial. In either of the 3 options you've been had, but go ahead and keep on trying. It only makes you look more and more foolish.
Chinese is tonal language with a pictogram writing system. It's never going to catch on a global language.
The reliance on inflection in Chinese is what makes me think it will have a hard time gaining traction. A lot of people are using English with ATC as an example. Now try changing that to Chinese, and add in the accents of non-native speakers with the low fidelity of commercial aviation radios (those headsets are pretty scratchy and hard to hear, especially in a noisy cockpit), and you have a recipe for miscommunication. While English has an annoyingly high amount of homonyms, in terms of inflection even if a word is mispronouced it is usually clear what word is intended. And don't get me started on Arabic. Speaking it is hard enough, but reading it when short vowels aren't even printed and the same 3 letter root can make 5 different words depending on those hidden short vowels is a straight up pain in the ass.
I wonder if this particular specimen of arrogant entitled Tech Bro will finally realise its better to work with regulators around the world than to try and bully your way onto the scene and hope you built up enough critical mass to bulldoze your way through all those tedious regulations and laws that other companies have to comply with.
Kalanick and Elizabeth Holmes should get together. They would be the power couple of fraudulent...I mean disruptive...tech startups. They could start a new company called Uberos to disrupt the corrupt lab-testing industry by creating an app that allows people who have bought their own equipment for personal testing to test samples for other people too!
So happy to see these numbers. President Trump is a truly worthy successor to Lincoln...
How dare you compare Trump to a loser who couldn't even stop the Civil War! Sad! You need to compare him to a real winner like Andrew Jackson, a man so great that he was able to motivate people and get them moving all across the country!
My favorite was the one banner ad that would actually move your cursor out of the comment box while you typed, making it impossible to type more than a character or 2 at a time. Oh, yeah, and that damn tikka masala that took up half the page, scrolled, and you couldn't make go away. And every now and then on my work laptop, when using a mouse, Slashdot won't scroll when using the scroll wheel. Any other website works, just slashdot. They have ads that literally break their website and they don't care.
Even in real life writers in Hollywood have to reboot everything. Take something from 10 years ago, update bits of the story, recast some of the main actors, and change the ending.
If you don't like your service/provider, change it.
End of discussion!
Up until last year, I had exactly 1 provider that offered speeds faster than dialup. And this in a a major metropolitan area (albeit right on the fringe of one) in a town where even the townhomes are going for over 300k. In most places in the US there is no real competition for internet service. When the only option to a monopoly is a government service you are screwed, since the Republicans have trained their base to think that anything done by the goverment (except of course killing people, arresting bad guys, and putting out fires-you know, things that are as wholesome and American as apple pie) is evil, freedom-hating Communism. They bitch about $200 per month cable/internet bills but then cheer when any proposal that would actually fix it gets shot down.
I for instance work for the government in IT and during holidays when the non 12 monthers are out, I am basically a paper weight at my desk all day. So I take online classes,
This time of the month is always slow for me at my job, every month. So I've started going through edX courses during working hours to learn more skills I can use at work and, more importantly, move up or into different positions within my company. In my opinion, if it's legitimate business skills there shouldn't be an issue.
Poor people are not renting anything for $5-$10 a day, they're buying a bus pass..
Exactly. "Riding the bus is for poor people, and we're not poor. Better off subscribing to UberAir for $200 a month. That way I might actually get a few hours to sleep while I catch a ride from my regular job to my night job."
And cars do not cost that much to buy or maintain. My total car-related expenses last year were $1056.
I'm with you there. My car is paid off and I spend maybe $30 a month on gas, plus insurance. But many people aren't like us. They have $250-300+ 3 year leases, or are paying $350 a month on a 10 year loan for their newest Super Heavy Duty Extra Wide body Crew Cab F-1000 (which they will probably trade in in 3 years anyway for the latest model, extending their loans even more). And they are paying for Gas, maintenance, and insurance on top of that. When you take all that into account, subscribing to a service for a couple hundred dollars a month saves them money.
Any transportation/self-driving car unicorn worth their IPO would be salivating over the opportunity to have both of those groups of people as customers.
and who's going to pay to ride if they're broke and out of work?
Hello!
You can't kill the golden goose (US Middle class) and expect to keep getting gold.
Middle class owns things. Poor people have to rent them. Even $5-10 dollars a day (and not necessarily every day) still comes out to a cheaper monthly bill than paying for payments on a vehicle loan, insurance, and upkeep/gas. Autonomous cars are putting companies in place to profit when there is no more middle class.
With self-driving cars putting vast numbers of people out of work, WHO will afford the flying car?
The goal ins't to sell them to people. The end game is corporations owning autonomous flying cars that people then use either through a subscription-like service or pay per use. The first step is to get people used to autonomous transportation (driverless cars). Once this is done and commonplace and people are used to it (and the accompanying decline in automobile ownership) the next big step is safe and reliable 1-4 person flying transportation. Once that is perfected you move to autonomous flying vehicles. By this time they hope that individual car ownership will be almost completely eradicated, because who will pay $50k for a car when you can pay a couple dollars a day or subscribe for $200 a month and get a ride to wherever you need to go just about whenever you need to? Why pay for a car that will spend 20 hours a day just sitting there?
I've been wondering for quite a while when we could have something like this. The question is how the processing works for the card, for example
a) Does it process against a chip in the card which allows the card to pass information to the pin-pad or not (good to prevent use of stolen cards)
b) Does it process against the pin-pad allowing a transaction to be verified (good to transactions from cloned cards)
The first choice is good to reduce the more immediate impact of card theft, and better from a privacy perspective. The second is more effective against somebody cloning your card - which around here is more common - but it means that your CC company presumably needs your biometric info. It also allows the use of fingerprints as a password replacement (pin-pad)
It could be built in to the opposite end of the card from the chip. So as the chip is inserted in the reader, your finger is over the built-in scanner authenticating that the person using and holding the card is the person that owns the card. Might help for stolen/cloned cards, but it wouldn't do much for cards that were fraudulently issued due to identity theft, as the thief could just open and register the card using their own fingerprint.
I passed no judgment, actually. I just pointed out, the deck is not stacked in Trump's favor — certainly not "entirely".
Sadly, in US politics these days if you are seen even eating in the same restaurant as someone from the other party you are vilified and torn down the next time you come up for re-election as a traitor to the party.
Apparently, people are periodically shifting in their opinion on whether or not party-loyalty (and consequent predictability) are a good thing. For every time you blast one's sticking to the party line, I can counter, that it is good thing, that a politician not doing that is not fulfilling the promise his party-affiliation made to the electorate.
The best example I can think of it that damn loyalty and support pledge the Republicans were demanding all Presidential candidates take, promising that they would support the nominee no matter who it was. How can you stand there one day and tell people that someone is incompetent, wrong, and unfit to rule, and then turn around and declare your full and unconditional support to them the next? Either you lied to the electorate or you are giving up on your principles, both in the name of party loyalty.
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Forcing tech companies to start maintaining and updating legacy software that is no longer made, sold, and supported for free, is like forcing Ford to offer free seatbelt and airbag kits for Model Ts.
You just can't lock s-foils in attack formation in a star trek game. It's sacrilege, even to mention such a thing in a joking manner. Put Beau in the brig while we decide what to do about it.
If you find him guilty are you going to throw him in the rancor pit or feed him to the Sarlacc?
I started the CS50 course on edX, and I find it a good intro for someone whose entire experience with coding and programming is nothing more than discussions here on Slashdot. Had never even written something as simple as a "hello, world" program. Malan actually seems to be a decent lecturer, and it's giving me at least a strong enough base that I can go on and self-learn some more skills to help forward my career. Of course, I was a liberal arts major, but my graduate degree was in a semi quantitative field.
The largest class size I had in college was about 20 people. There are some benefits to going to smaller schools.
I certainly don't plan to support businesses that grew successful through illegal means.
He says as he hops into his Uber for the ride to his AirBnB
Wouldn't that really mean the government that refuses to prosecute her is corrupt, not her? They're the ones that ultimately determine whether or not she is charged. And you know, for all the smoke he raised about it during the campaign, Trump doesn't seem to care too much. So, either she's not a criminal, Trump lied during his campaign and doesn't really give a shit, or he's corrupt for not pushing for charges and a trial. In either of the 3 options you've been had, but go ahead and keep on trying. It only makes you look more and more foolish.
Chinese is tonal language with a pictogram writing system. It's never going to catch on a global language.
The reliance on inflection in Chinese is what makes me think it will have a hard time gaining traction. A lot of people are using English with ATC as an example. Now try changing that to Chinese, and add in the accents of non-native speakers with the low fidelity of commercial aviation radios (those headsets are pretty scratchy and hard to hear, especially in a noisy cockpit), and you have a recipe for miscommunication. While English has an annoyingly high amount of homonyms, in terms of inflection even if a word is mispronouced it is usually clear what word is intended. And don't get me started on Arabic. Speaking it is hard enough, but reading it when short vowels aren't even printed and the same 3 letter root can make 5 different words depending on those hidden short vowels is a straight up pain in the ass.
The only thing I haven't seen Uber accused of is facilitating...white power movements. They've got everything else covered.
So we just have to find an instance where a Neo-Nazi took an Uber to a protest and we are good to go?
I wonder if this particular specimen of arrogant entitled Tech Bro will finally realise its better to work with regulators around the world than to try and bully your way onto the scene and hope you built up enough critical mass to bulldoze your way through all those tedious regulations and laws that other companies have to comply with.
Kalanick and Elizabeth Holmes should get together. They would be the power couple of fraudulent...I mean disruptive...tech startups. They could start a new company called Uberos to disrupt the corrupt lab-testing industry by creating an app that allows people who have bought their own equipment for personal testing to test samples for other people too!
So happy to see these numbers. President Trump is a truly worthy successor to Lincoln...
How dare you compare Trump to a loser who couldn't even stop the Civil War! Sad! You need to compare him to a real winner like Andrew Jackson, a man so great that he was able to motivate people and get them moving all across the country!
Up next, new app scam named "Goggle, Inc.". Another 1 million people clicked on it.
Don't for get the other common scam trick, calling it "Google, lnc" (pronouced like "link")
My favorite was the one banner ad that would actually move your cursor out of the comment box while you typed, making it impossible to type more than a character or 2 at a time. Oh, yeah, and that damn tikka masala that took up half the page, scrolled, and you couldn't make go away. And every now and then on my work laptop, when using a mouse, Slashdot won't scroll when using the scroll wheel. Any other website works, just slashdot. They have ads that literally break their website and they don't care.
Even in real life writers in Hollywood have to reboot everything. Take something from 10 years ago, update bits of the story, recast some of the main actors, and change the ending.
If you don't like your service/provider, change it. End of discussion!
Up until last year, I had exactly 1 provider that offered speeds faster than dialup. And this in a a major metropolitan area (albeit right on the fringe of one) in a town where even the townhomes are going for over 300k. In most places in the US there is no real competition for internet service. When the only option to a monopoly is a government service you are screwed, since the Republicans have trained their base to think that anything done by the goverment (except of course killing people, arresting bad guys, and putting out fires-you know, things that are as wholesome and American as apple pie) is evil, freedom-hating Communism. They bitch about $200 per month cable/internet bills but then cheer when any proposal that would actually fix it gets shot down.
Please tell me the laptop ships in a leather bound box and smells of rich mahogany.
Something tells me his time in office won't last long enough to even pick the mission logo.
If he does, how much do you want to bet the logo has a lot of gold and has his name on it?
Two words: "Mars casino".
I didn't realize the Wongs were related to Trump...
I for instance work for the government in IT and during holidays when the non 12 monthers are out, I am basically a paper weight at my desk all day. So I take online classes,
This time of the month is always slow for me at my job, every month. So I've started going through edX courses during working hours to learn more skills I can use at work and, more importantly, move up or into different positions within my company. In my opinion, if it's legitimate business skills there shouldn't be an issue.
Poor people are not renting anything for $5-$10 a day, they're buying a bus pass. .
Exactly. "Riding the bus is for poor people, and we're not poor. Better off subscribing to UberAir for $200 a month. That way I might actually get a few hours to sleep while I catch a ride from my regular job to my night job."
And cars do not cost that much to buy or maintain. My total car-related expenses last year were $1056.
I'm with you there. My car is paid off and I spend maybe $30 a month on gas, plus insurance. But many people aren't like us. They have $250-300+ 3 year leases, or are paying $350 a month on a 10 year loan for their newest Super Heavy Duty Extra Wide body Crew Cab F-1000 (which they will probably trade in in 3 years anyway for the latest model, extending their loans even more). And they are paying for Gas, maintenance, and insurance on top of that. When you take all that into account, subscribing to a service for a couple hundred dollars a month saves them money.
Any transportation/self-driving car unicorn worth their IPO would be salivating over the opportunity to have both of those groups of people as customers.
and who's going to pay to ride if they're broke and out of work?
Hello!
You can't kill the golden goose (US Middle class) and expect to keep getting gold.
Middle class owns things. Poor people have to rent them. Even $5-10 dollars a day (and not necessarily every day) still comes out to a cheaper monthly bill than paying for payments on a vehicle loan, insurance, and upkeep/gas. Autonomous cars are putting companies in place to profit when there is no more middle class.
With self-driving cars putting vast numbers of people out of work, WHO will afford the flying car?
The goal ins't to sell them to people. The end game is corporations owning autonomous flying cars that people then use either through a subscription-like service or pay per use. The first step is to get people used to autonomous transportation (driverless cars). Once this is done and commonplace and people are used to it (and the accompanying decline in automobile ownership) the next big step is safe and reliable 1-4 person flying transportation. Once that is perfected you move to autonomous flying vehicles. By this time they hope that individual car ownership will be almost completely eradicated, because who will pay $50k for a car when you can pay a couple dollars a day or subscribe for $200 a month and get a ride to wherever you need to go just about whenever you need to? Why pay for a car that will spend 20 hours a day just sitting there?
I would have had first post, but I used a prototype to type this :(
I've been wondering for quite a while when we could have something like this. The question is how the processing works for the card, for example a) Does it process against a chip in the card which allows the card to pass information to the pin-pad or not (good to prevent use of stolen cards) b) Does it process against the pin-pad allowing a transaction to be verified (good to transactions from cloned cards)
The first choice is good to reduce the more immediate impact of card theft, and better from a privacy perspective. The second is more effective against somebody cloning your card - which around here is more common - but it means that your CC company presumably needs your biometric info. It also allows the use of fingerprints as a password replacement (pin-pad)
It could be built in to the opposite end of the card from the chip. So as the chip is inserted in the reader, your finger is over the built-in scanner authenticating that the person using and holding the card is the person that owns the card. Might help for stolen/cloned cards, but it wouldn't do much for cards that were fraudulently issued due to identity theft, as the thief could just open and register the card using their own fingerprint.
I passed no judgment, actually. I just pointed out, the deck is not stacked in Trump's favor — certainly not "entirely".
Apparently, people are periodically shifting in their opinion on whether or not party-loyalty (and consequent predictability) are a good thing. For every time you blast one's sticking to the party line, I can counter, that it is good thing, that a politician not doing that is not fulfilling the promise his party-affiliation made to the electorate.
The best example I can think of it that damn loyalty and support pledge the Republicans were demanding all Presidential candidates take, promising that they would support the nominee no matter who it was. How can you stand there one day and tell people that someone is incompetent, wrong, and unfit to rule, and then turn around and declare your full and unconditional support to them the next? Either you lied to the electorate or you are giving up on your principles, both in the name of party loyalty.
Hell Jimmy Carter could have beaten him if he could have been talked into running.
Jimmy Carter's brain cancer would probably have beaten Trump