If the software was written by a programmer who thought "We should have a built-in test system... maybe set an actual fire every 6 months and make sure we can detect it..." That's how testing works, right?
Yeah. Apple software NEVER had bugs when Steve Jobs was alive. iOS never had point releases before Tim took over.
Oh wait, no, there were bugs all the time. It's been conventional wisdom to NOT upgrade ANY device of ANY kind from ANY manufacturer with software from ANY vendor on day 1 for over a decade now, if that device's ability to function is critical to you.
Even a 1 in a million bug will affect a thousand people when you're talking about a billion devices.
Also: I'd be willing to bet that most of Apple's executive team DOES run beta software on their phones -- at least late betas. But you're talking about a couple dozen people -- not a really significant sample size, you know? -- and they probably all have pretty new phones. No one on this page is still using a 4S just for shits and giggles. And you know what? They shouldn't. They're busy running a company. They're not QA specialists. They have teams for that. Just because a team isn't perfect, that doesn't mean they're worthless.
Feel free to provide a counter-example of any perfect software or hardware from any company, ever. Bonus points if it was a point-oh release.
> Anything that doesn't ultimately generate more advertising > profits is very likely to get the ax at some point.
Which makes it all the more baffling why they cancelled Reader. They had millions of people voluntarily telling Google what their favorite sites were and they couldn't find a good use for that information?
I'm surprised that NONE of the designers on the show were aware that the most recognizable and maligned font of all time, Comic Sans (shown in this image http://b.fastcompany.net/multi... ), wasn't invented until 1994.
> it's amazing how the harder I worked at something, the luckier I was.
My favorite saying: "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." (Seneca the Younger) The more you think about it, the more you realize how true it is. Short of finding cash or winning the lottery, almost all "luck" is when something good comes your way and you're in a position to take advantage of it.
Or, if you're a fan of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) (or Louis Pasteur), "Chance favors the prepared mind."
> The bottom line is that the "conservatives" advocating abstinence training > are actually right. The only actual way to reduce teen pregnancy is to > encourage them to stop fucking so much.
Like many things, the theory is perfect -- I agree, abstinence is 100% effective, and other forms of birth control are less than that. But in the real world... how, exactly, do you stop teens from fucking?
The old joke is 100% true: What do you call someone who advocates abstinence-only education? Grandma.
Just like with computers: security in layers. How about teach abstinence and make birth control available?
"What we had more often are offers to co-bundle crap at the time of the installation. And to be honest, the amounts they suggest are HUGE, and difficult to resist."
Thanks! Must be hard. Your efforts are appreciated, FWIW.
I know someone who was in line for a ~20% raise and, instead of taking it, changed to a 4-day week at the same pay (and with the samebenefits), effectively working at the same hourly rate as they would have gotten with the raise. I'd do that in a second if I could.
1, an aside: why does the Slashdot AI/GS* think "You may like to read" a year-old story about a shooting in relation to this article? ("10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College") Seriously, fuck that thing. It's USELESS.
2, back on topic, HELL NO. Why would I want to pay more for "unlimited" data that I will never use? I'm doing just fine with my cheaper, 2GB-per-line plan as it exists now.
In other news, layoffs of this size baffle me. This, and the 12,000 from Intel a few months ago are almost too large to comprehend. And why so sudden? Have you ever woken up one day and decided that you didn't need 20% of your stuff? Is Cisco really so sure right this second that they need to change what they're doing so much that the only way to accomplish this change is to hack away a solid fifth of the company? And are they getting rid of 20% of their executive team as well? How many of these people will be looking for work in the near future? Out of those 60-odd people, I expect to see 12 of them out of a job. Right?
Do reporters even read these stories as they are writing them?!? "Airlines will likely suffer more disruptions like the one that grounded about 2,000 Delta flights this week because major carriers have not invested enough to overhaul reservations systems based on technology dating to the 1960s... [TPF] is still updated by IBM, which did a major rewrite of the operating system about a decade ago."
Big, complicated system, written by a big, experienced company, still maintained... Do they think we'd be better off if it were rewritten from the ground up as a Ruby on Rails app or something?
Psst, I don't want to cause a panic, but I heard that large, important chunks of the Internet run UNIX, which also dates back to the '60s.
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Orlando wins for quantity. 4 Disney parks, 2 Universal parks, and Sea World are all there. And Busch Gardens is about an hour away.
If the software was written by a programmer who thought "We should have a built-in test system... maybe set an actual fire every 6 months and make sure we can detect it..." That's how testing works, right?
Because OF COURSE a millimeter-thick grill has the same volume as an entire headphone socket. WHO WRITES THIS SHIT?
http://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/...
"Your OS of your choice can finally work on laptops with Intelâ(TM)s Kaby Lake chips."
*sigh*
Yeah. Apple software NEVER had bugs when Steve Jobs was alive. iOS never had point releases before Tim took over.
Oh wait, no, there were bugs all the time. It's been conventional wisdom to NOT upgrade ANY device of ANY kind from ANY manufacturer with software from ANY vendor on day 1 for over a decade now, if that device's ability to function is critical to you.
Even a 1 in a million bug will affect a thousand people when you're talking about a billion devices.
Also: I'd be willing to bet that most of Apple's executive team DOES run beta software on their phones -- at least late betas. But you're talking about a couple dozen people -- not a really significant sample size, you know? -- and they probably all have pretty new phones. No one on this page is still using a 4S just for shits and giggles. And you know what? They shouldn't. They're busy running a company. They're not QA specialists. They have teams for that. Just because a team isn't perfect, that doesn't mean they're worthless.
Feel free to provide a counter-example of any perfect software or hardware from any company, ever. Bonus points if it was a point-oh release.
Dogs? Technically they have nothing but canine teeth. ;-)
> That only gets rid of what is in /usr/bin.
He started with cd /
Your H1B replacement will surely be smart enough to know you can save some keystrokes and just say rm -rf /*
> Anything that doesn't ultimately generate more advertising
> profits is very likely to get the ax at some point.
Which makes it all the more baffling why they cancelled Reader. They had millions of people voluntarily telling Google what their favorite sites were and they couldn't find a good use for that information?
This story has been on the front page for two hours with a glaring error in the headline? Do you guys even look at the site?
TI-99/4A, 1981. That's thirty-five years ago. Get off my lawn.
I'm surprised that NONE of the designers on the show were aware that the most recognizable and maligned font of all time, Comic Sans (shown in this image http://b.fastcompany.net/multi... ), wasn't invented until 1994.
Perfection is hard.
> This is the problem with taking advice from successful people: it's tainted by self-selection bias.
+1,000,000. I know plenty of people who have "followed their dreams" to varying extents and they aren't doing that well.
Meanwhile, I've given up most of my dreams and I'm getting by OK. :-/ (Only half kidding.)
> it's amazing how the harder I worked at something, the luckier I was.
My favorite saying: "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." (Seneca the Younger) The more you think about it, the more you realize how true it is. Short of finding cash or winning the lottery, almost all "luck" is when something good comes your way and you're in a position to take advantage of it.
Or, if you're a fan of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) (or Louis Pasteur), "Chance favors the prepared mind."
> The bottom line is that the "conservatives" advocating abstinence training
> are actually right. The only actual way to reduce teen pregnancy is to
> encourage them to stop fucking so much.
Like many things, the theory is perfect -- I agree, abstinence is 100% effective, and other forms of birth control are less than that. But in the real world... how, exactly, do you stop teens from fucking?
The old joke is 100% true: What do you call someone who advocates abstinence-only education? Grandma.
Just like with computers: security in layers. How about teach abstinence and make birth control available?
"What we had more often are offers to co-bundle crap at the time of the installation. And to be honest, the amounts they suggest are HUGE, and difficult to resist."
Thanks! Must be hard. Your efforts are appreciated, FWIW.
I know someone who was in line for a ~20% raise and, instead of taking it, changed to a 4-day week at the same pay (and with the samebenefits), effectively working at the same hourly rate as they would have gotten with the raise. I'd do that in a second if I could.
Because Redbox, libraries, and Handbrake exist.
Is it just me? Are all my computers messed up? Am I the only one seeing this happen almost every day? "...as well as the siteÃ(TM)s archives..."
CLICK "PREVIEW" FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
1, an aside: why does the Slashdot AI/GS* think "You may like to read" a year-old story about a shooting in relation to this article? ("10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College") Seriously, fuck that thing. It's USELESS.
2, back on topic, HELL NO. Why would I want to pay more for "unlimited" data that I will never use? I'm doing just fine with my cheaper, 2GB-per-line plan as it exists now.
* Artificial Intelligence/Genuine Stupidity
Software still needs hardware to run on, right?
In other news, layoffs of this size baffle me. This, and the 12,000 from Intel a few months ago are almost too large to comprehend. And why so sudden? Have you ever woken up one day and decided that you didn't need 20% of your stuff? Is Cisco really so sure right this second that they need to change what they're doing so much that the only way to accomplish this change is to hack away a solid fifth of the company? And are they getting rid of 20% of their executive team as well? How many of these people will be looking for work in the near future? Out of those 60-odd people, I expect to see 12 of them out of a job. Right?
Do reporters even read these stories as they are writing them?!? "Airlines will likely suffer more disruptions like the one that grounded about 2,000 Delta flights this week because major carriers have not invested enough to overhaul reservations systems based on technology dating to the 1960s... [TPF] is still updated by IBM, which did a major rewrite of the operating system about a decade ago."
Big, complicated system, written by a big, experienced company, still maintained... Do they think we'd be better off if it were rewritten from the ground up as a Ruby on Rails app or something?
Psst, I don't want to cause a panic, but I heard that large, important chunks of the Internet run UNIX, which also dates back to the '60s.
From Wikipedia: "Since 1996 she has been docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia."
What does it cost to leave something that huge parked in (what I presume is) a good spot in a major city for twenty years?
Google map: https://goo.gl/maps/CG8Tyhw2g8...
Agree. http://imgur.com/a/JpsM2
"What you submitted appears below. If there is a mistake...well, you should have used the 'Preview' button!"
Does Slashcode say the same thing to editors?