You can do that. You can't download a document from Drive, open Safari, and then upload the document onto a website using a form. You have to use a purpose built app.
This is how cable companies work. They give big discounts to new customers, then fuck over their existing customers because they know its a duopoly (if not an outright monopoly) and rake in the cash.
Oh, you are going to switch to Verizon? Hahaha, go right ahead. Once they start fucking you over you are not going to get any special deals to come back.
I actually just signed up for this $70 gigabit internet yesterday, as an existing Comcast customer. They said I was the first subscriber in my specific area. Perhaps they're limiting the number of sign-ups at that rate? I don't know. And I know for a fact that you can qualify as a new customer with comcast when you've not had service for 6 months. Don't get me wrong, I don't like the state of our internet in the US, either, and especially not the customer service of comcast, but you really don't have to make anything up. Comcast will shoot themselves in the foot without you helping.
Apple has it. They are trying to control the spin now.
And she didn't think to take a picture of it before they took it? I would not be surprised if any brand phone caught on fire, I just don't understand why she would document the burn with so many pictures of her burned arm but not one of the phone.
“Apple took my phone and details, but said it couldn’t have been the phone because it didn’t have a distinct smell,”
It doesn't tell us how often it happens but it does tell us it happens with iphones too
Yes I read the article. Clearly her arm was burned but everyone who was burned by a Note 7 took pictures of the phone because the phone was obviously damaged. She took pictures of her arm and nothing else. Why did she not take any other pictures? If I were Apple, I would want the phone too, just to validate the claim. They offered her a new phone, but I wouldn't expect any less after they took the first. The fact that it happens to iPhones does not surprise me in the least. I just don't trust that particular claim.
Still skeptical. There are no pictures of the phone, only of her burns. I feel like her phone would have to have taken damage to burn her like that. Unless she's claiming that the charger cable also got hot enough to burn her? I know that anyone's Li-Ion batteries can burn quite vigorously, but every example I have seen results in the phone at least bulging.
This is not just about copyrights. It is mostly about contract law. Have you read the purchase contract or license? No? Me neither. So anything either of have to say about this matter is pointless and meaningless.
We can, however, reasonably speculate whether the Navy's claims are plausible.
And as software developers, we can take this as a warning to make our contracts extra clear when dealing with the Navy.
Maybe the Navy is arguing that they had 38 seats that could be active at one time. Maybe they installed the software on 550k machines but only had 38 active users at a time? I don't know why they would install the software on so many machines, but who knows? Without the contract and an understanding of the software, we can only speculate.
Do they sell grammar books? Then you could learn about uncountable nouns.
I do not believe that Lego blocks would be considered as an uncountable noun in this context since you usually buy them in a set with a known quantity. For instance, when you buy a Star Wars X-wing Fighter Lego Set your buying a set with exactly 560 pieces.
I don't believe it is a digital print out of your actual finger. Based on what I have read, it looks like it's just a unique pattern you can use as a fingerprint on your device. Then, if you lose the sticker, you just remove it from your security settings and use a new one.
Why not try using a sport the "world" plays - a world series that is played by one country...
Two countries participate in the World Series of Baseball, technically. Both Canada and the US have teams. But I would imagine that the best players in the world play in Major League Baseball, I think it's the highest paying league.
We don't log keys, but we do log every application launched and site visited. It's mostly for after-the-fact investigations. When someone leaves pornographic printouts scattered around the corridoors as a joke (this has happened) or takes a picture of another student from the school website, draws a crude penis pointing in their mouth and labels it 'fag' (this has also happened) then we need every bit of evidence we can get to try to work out who was responsible - and to prove who was responsible when they accused then claims that they went to the toilet without logging out and someone else must have used their account.
Sounds like you're doing exactly what you should be doing at a school, then. I'd mod your reply up if I could.
You haven't been in Europe this week have you? It's winter come 2 months early right now. Snowfall almost record early in the year and much of Europe had below freezing temperatures over the last few days.
For all intents and purposes as far as heating a house goes, it's the middle of winter.
If there's one thing the internet taught me is that you really meant to say "intensive purposes." Cause freezing cold is intense!
I can agree with most of those sentiments but, a keyboard logger? That just seems a bit extreme. Does your IT group log all keystrokes the students type?
Well what gets me is e-mails that go out that say "Conference call at 4pm EDT" and well its November 8th today. So I have to wonder does this person really mean 4pm EST? or do they mean 5pm EST? I don't know if they are mistaken about their time zone. If everyone would just agree to provide both UTC and local time when they are communicating with folks in multiple timezones it would be possible for people to "correct" errors.
Computers should use UTC. Then your mistake does not happen. Humans should use local time. 90% of your interaction every day is probably with people in your locality. So why should you care, outside of communicating with remote offices, or with distant family members what time of day it is there? I do agree with some other commenters that it would be polite to list the UTC offset any time you publish a time for something.
7) A cruise missile can hit a 1 square meter target. This can only hit a 50 square meter target. That's pretty fucking useless "accuracy" for a "guided" munition that costs nearly as much as a cruise missile.
That may be by design. For instance, the chain gun on the AH-64 is called the AWS or "Area Weapon System". It is designed so that it spreads its shots over an area. There's no point in firing a cannon at foot soldiers and have a 10 round burst hit in one spot. It's far more effective to have those 10 rounds hit in a predictable pattern that the co-pilot can depend on when he aims the gun.
Wow, just wow. You haven't been down a darker nastier hole than dealing with an Indian IT company. Employees rotate like there are revolving doors installed in every cubical. No matter how good their English, there is a communication's barrier. Contracts are pretty much brought out on a daily basis. Procedure overwhelms any project; yet the procedure simply protects them while providing no value, but then they bill the shit out of you for that time.
Then there is this strange touchiness about any perceived insult. You say something doesn't work and they will either pretend they didn't hear you, or they will list off the resumes of all those involved. "Mamdoop, graduated top of his class, in a program that only accepts 100 students from over 1 million applicants. Are you saying that you know C++ better than he?" To which I reply, the program is crashing, it is crashing because he didn't do any tests at all and any client ID over 100 will crash the software.
Boom contract time: "Your sample set of clients only had 100 clients." This ignores the fact that the contract also stipulated that there will be 100,000-500,000 clients.
And it just goes on and on and on. Then after you finish successfully managing to sue them in an American court, you see that they are using your company name for a positive reference.
Then there is the endless changing of the contract. Somehow the monthly billing of $40,000 goes up to $45,000 and the extra is for "administrative excesses" and you say no, but it takes months for them to remove it, and as the end comes closer it goes up and up and up with subtle threats about the software ever being delivered if it doesn't get paid.
The best is when one of your own employees turns out to be related to the company in India that got the contract in the first place. You are never able to prove that something scummy happened but your employee gets wildly upset when the contract is canceled with extreme prejudice. Like holy shit losing his mind upset.
Somehow they have created a facade of competence without actually creating the competence. A simple test is how many companies in India are actually making viable software products for themselves. Not the government, not for others, but an Indian Facebook. I don't think that it is possible. I suspect that there are all kinds of Vapourware companies, as they would have that nailed down cold; but a company that does something cool, has lots of customers, makes lots of real money, and doesn't have a government department firehosing money into it.
Without that excellence, why would we go there again? This is why Western Programmers make the big bucks; they deliver what was wanted.
I've tried to hire an in-house software team in India. I received thousands of resumes, all 7-10 pages long. The first page of every single resume? Nothing but their pedigree: who their parents are, what important people their parents know, etc. It's mind boggling to someone from the US.
She didn't have to delete any email to violate the law. She didn't even have to know that she had classified material. She was required by law to return all state department materials when she left. When she did not, she violated the law. Having classified material in the email made it that much worse.
Something I don't get: vetting content sent TO her should not be her job. There should be professional scrubbers doing that kind of work. I've worked in many orgs, and executives aren't expected to be doing that kind of "grunt" work. It goes to cubicle peons, like me.
Also, her home server is not necessarily more or less safer than the regular office email. In fact, the regular S.D. email server was hacked. (There is a separate message system for classified content, but it's not technically "email". It's a diff animal.) The home-vs-office dichotomy seems moot, at least as far as handling classified info*. Putting it on the wrong office box versus the wrong personal box seems the same sin to me.
* She didn't get "official" approval to use a home server, and also didn't follow the proper rules for archiving. But that's diff than the classified info issue.
Except that those rules were not in place at the time that Clinton was Secretary of State. They were enacted after she left...
Doesn't matter. She can still be prosecuted for not turning over all of her State Department official correspondence and destroying it. Bill Clinton had to pardon former CIA Director Deutch because he kept government documents after he left the CIA. It is a real crime and is very often prosecuted. And you can't claim that she didn't know that she had the documents. Even if you did try to claim that, I do not believe the law does not require intent for that.
Which means that Apple made more profit than there was profit available.
That's your misunderstanding. There isn't an available profit, from which each company can take. It's not a pie.
Total profits is a pie. It's a fixed number. it's in the past, it's already said and done. Just like productivity. It already happened. You can't have more of something that is already measured than was measured. It's impossible. When you compare it to previous measurements then you can say "We had 200% growth" and it makes sense. You could also spend 105% of your budget - those are all things that are possible to exceed 100% on. This is a finite measurement.
In previous years Apple and Samsung accounted for the majority of profits in the smartphone category. Now that Samsung has sunk itself, not only with exploding mobile devices but also exploding washing machines, the only profitable firm is Apple.
The larger than 100% number is because most firms operate at a loss. For example, one can easily be 200% more productive than a very lazy coworker.
But how can you ever account for having over 100% of the total productivity? They said total profits. Which means that Apple made more profit than there was profit available. That's what the sentence literally means. That is impossible. It's like giving 110% effort. You cannot give more effort than all of the effort you possess.
So where'd the USB option go? Getting a USB-C to mini-USB-B or whatever plug type they're using these days is about as hard as getting a USB-A to mini-USB-B cable... or are we just wanting to complain about wifi.
Also, generally if you have a professional Nikon camera, it probably has a CF card slot (or both and you should be using CF). If you have an mid-range prosumer/enthusiast level Nikon camera it has an SD card slot. Same goes for Canon as far as I'm aware.
Believe me, at the rate Apple is cutting ports of their devices you're going to need a dongle for basically everything. Their phones have dongles, their computers have dongles. They're like Oprah and are just throwing out dongles for everyone. The whole point is that i don't want to carry a bag full of dongles so that I can listen to music on my phone, plug into an ethernet network, connect a flash drive (Who has a USB-C flash drive? Who actually buys flash drives these days - everyone gives them away), copy the pictures off my camera, and the list goes on.The SD slot form factor is tiny and the excuses they gave were all bullshit. If you're going to remove it then be honest with us and don't insult our intelligence by claiming that the design of SD card readers is just poor and awkward. Just admit that you removed it to save money, or just because you felt like it. Don't bullshit us about how it gives us a better laptop.
Melodramatic much? Photographers already deal quite happily with bags full of lenses, filters, contraptions of all sorts. Nobody will care about taking the extra 10 seconds to plug in an SD card adapter. Do the camera makers cede the professional market because they don't build all that shit into the cameras themselves?
Oh but they do. If you get a professional Nikon camera you can connect to your storage via ethernet, WiFi, USB, or by removing the storage itself. With the new MacBook Pro you have no native way to handle the storage. You have no ethernet port. So at that point you've narrowed it down to WiFi.
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You can do that. You can't download a document from Drive, open Safari, and then upload the document onto a website using a form. You have to use a purpose built app.
This is how cable companies work. They give big discounts to new customers, then fuck over their existing customers because they know its a duopoly (if not an outright monopoly) and rake in the cash.
Oh, you are going to switch to Verizon? Hahaha, go right ahead. Once they start fucking you over you are not going to get any special deals to come back.
I actually just signed up for this $70 gigabit internet yesterday, as an existing Comcast customer. They said I was the first subscriber in my specific area. Perhaps they're limiting the number of sign-ups at that rate? I don't know. And I know for a fact that you can qualify as a new customer with comcast when you've not had service for 6 months. Don't get me wrong, I don't like the state of our internet in the US, either, and especially not the customer service of comcast, but you really don't have to make anything up. Comcast will shoot themselves in the foot without you helping.
Apple has it. They are trying to control the spin now.
And she didn't think to take a picture of it before they took it? I would not be surprised if any brand phone caught on fire, I just don't understand why she would document the burn with so many pictures of her burned arm but not one of the phone.
From the link:
“Apple took my phone and details, but said it couldn’t have been the phone because it didn’t have a distinct smell,”
It doesn't tell us how often it happens but it does tell us it happens with iphones too
Yes I read the article. Clearly her arm was burned but everyone who was burned by a Note 7 took pictures of the phone because the phone was obviously damaged. She took pictures of her arm and nothing else. Why did she not take any other pictures? If I were Apple, I would want the phone too, just to validate the claim. They offered her a new phone, but I wouldn't expect any less after they took the first. The fact that it happens to iPhones does not surprise me in the least. I just don't trust that particular claim.
http://www.news.com.au/technol... Only in China?
Still skeptical. There are no pictures of the phone, only of her burns. I feel like her phone would have to have taken damage to burn her like that. Unless she's claiming that the charger cable also got hot enough to burn her? I know that anyone's Li-Ion batteries can burn quite vigorously, but every example I have seen results in the phone at least bulging.
We can, however, reasonably speculate whether the Navy's claims are plausible.
And as software developers, we can take this as a warning to make our contracts extra clear when dealing with the Navy.
Maybe the Navy is arguing that they had 38 seats that could be active at one time. Maybe they installed the software on 550k machines but only had 38 active users at a time? I don't know why they would install the software on so many machines, but who knows? Without the contract and an understanding of the software, we can only speculate.
CSI is Channel State Information, in case you were wondering, since the editors don't do their jobs.
That's what CSI stands for? No wonder i could never get into that TV show.
Do they sell grammar books? Then you could learn about uncountable nouns.
I do not believe that Lego blocks would be considered as an uncountable noun in this context since you usually buy them in a set with a known quantity. For instance, when you buy a Star Wars X-wing Fighter Lego Set your buying a set with exactly 560 pieces.
Can you change your fingerprints when you want?
I don't believe it is a digital print out of your actual finger. Based on what I have read, it looks like it's just a unique pattern you can use as a fingerprint on your device. Then, if you lose the sticker, you just remove it from your security settings and use a new one.
Why not try using a sport the "world" plays - a world series that is played by one country...
Two countries participate in the World Series of Baseball, technically. Both Canada and the US have teams. But I would imagine that the best players in the world play in Major League Baseball, I think it's the highest paying league.
Well, I already moved to Canada several years ago. Too bad we may have to build a wall now.
Please send us the bill. We've earned it.
It will be interesting to see what they do with that power in the upcoming years.
My guess is gloat then fuck everybody.
As long as they call me the next morning, that'll be more action than I've gotten all week.
We don't log keys, but we do log every application launched and site visited. It's mostly for after-the-fact investigations. When someone leaves pornographic printouts scattered around the corridoors as a joke (this has happened) or takes a picture of another student from the school website, draws a crude penis pointing in their mouth and labels it 'fag' (this has also happened) then we need every bit of evidence we can get to try to work out who was responsible - and to prove who was responsible when they accused then claims that they went to the toilet without logging out and someone else must have used their account.
Sounds like you're doing exactly what you should be doing at a school, then. I'd mod your reply up if I could.
You haven't been in Europe this week have you? It's winter come 2 months early right now. Snowfall almost record early in the year and much of Europe had below freezing temperatures over the last few days.
For all intents and purposes as far as heating a house goes, it's the middle of winter.
If there's one thing the internet taught me is that you really meant to say "intensive purposes." Cause freezing cold is intense!
I can agree with most of those sentiments but, a keyboard logger? That just seems a bit extreme. Does your IT group log all keystrokes the students type?
Well what gets me is e-mails that go out that say "Conference call at 4pm EDT" and well its November 8th today. So I have to wonder does this person really mean 4pm EST? or do they mean 5pm EST? I don't know if they are mistaken about their time zone. If everyone would just agree to provide both UTC and local time when they are communicating with folks in multiple timezones it would be possible for people to "correct" errors.
Computers should use UTC. Then your mistake does not happen. Humans should use local time. 90% of your interaction every day is probably with people in your locality. So why should you care, outside of communicating with remote offices, or with distant family members what time of day it is there? I do agree with some other commenters that it would be polite to list the UTC offset any time you publish a time for something.
7) A cruise missile can hit a 1 square meter target. This can only hit a 50 square meter target. That's pretty fucking useless "accuracy" for a "guided" munition that costs nearly as much as a cruise missile.
That may be by design. For instance, the chain gun on the AH-64 is called the AWS or "Area Weapon System". It is designed so that it spreads its shots over an area. There's no point in firing a cannon at foot soldiers and have a 10 round burst hit in one spot. It's far more effective to have those 10 rounds hit in a predictable pattern that the co-pilot can depend on when he aims the gun.
Wow, just wow. You haven't been down a darker nastier hole than dealing with an Indian IT company. Employees rotate like there are revolving doors installed in every cubical. No matter how good their English, there is a communication's barrier. Contracts are pretty much brought out on a daily basis. Procedure overwhelms any project; yet the procedure simply protects them while providing no value, but then they bill the shit out of you for that time. Then there is this strange touchiness about any perceived insult. You say something doesn't work and they will either pretend they didn't hear you, or they will list off the resumes of all those involved. "Mamdoop, graduated top of his class, in a program that only accepts 100 students from over 1 million applicants. Are you saying that you know C++ better than he?" To which I reply, the program is crashing, it is crashing because he didn't do any tests at all and any client ID over 100 will crash the software. Boom contract time: "Your sample set of clients only had 100 clients." This ignores the fact that the contract also stipulated that there will be 100,000-500,000 clients. And it just goes on and on and on. Then after you finish successfully managing to sue them in an American court, you see that they are using your company name for a positive reference. Then there is the endless changing of the contract. Somehow the monthly billing of $40,000 goes up to $45,000 and the extra is for "administrative excesses" and you say no, but it takes months for them to remove it, and as the end comes closer it goes up and up and up with subtle threats about the software ever being delivered if it doesn't get paid. The best is when one of your own employees turns out to be related to the company in India that got the contract in the first place. You are never able to prove that something scummy happened but your employee gets wildly upset when the contract is canceled with extreme prejudice. Like holy shit losing his mind upset. Somehow they have created a facade of competence without actually creating the competence. A simple test is how many companies in India are actually making viable software products for themselves. Not the government, not for others, but an Indian Facebook. I don't think that it is possible. I suspect that there are all kinds of Vapourware companies, as they would have that nailed down cold; but a company that does something cool, has lots of customers, makes lots of real money, and doesn't have a government department firehosing money into it. Without that excellence, why would we go there again? This is why Western Programmers make the big bucks; they deliver what was wanted.
I've tried to hire an in-house software team in India. I received thousands of resumes, all 7-10 pages long. The first page of every single resume? Nothing but their pedigree: who their parents are, what important people their parents know, etc. It's mind boggling to someone from the US.
She didn't have to delete any email to violate the law. She didn't even have to know that she had classified material. She was required by law to return all state department materials when she left. When she did not, she violated the law. Having classified material in the email made it that much worse.
Something I don't get: vetting content sent TO her should not be her job. There should be professional scrubbers doing that kind of work. I've worked in many orgs, and executives aren't expected to be doing that kind of "grunt" work. It goes to cubicle peons, like me.
Also, her home server is not necessarily more or less safer than the regular office email. In fact, the regular S.D. email server was hacked. (There is a separate message system for classified content, but it's not technically "email". It's a diff animal.) The home-vs-office dichotomy seems moot, at least as far as handling classified info*. Putting it on the wrong office box versus the wrong personal box seems the same sin to me.
* She didn't get "official" approval to use a home server, and also didn't follow the proper rules for archiving. But that's diff than the classified info issue.
Except that those rules were not in place at the time that Clinton was Secretary of State. They were enacted after she left...
Doesn't matter. She can still be prosecuted for not turning over all of her State Department official correspondence and destroying it. Bill Clinton had to pardon former CIA Director Deutch because he kept government documents after he left the CIA. It is a real crime and is very often prosecuted. And you can't claim that she didn't know that she had the documents. Even if you did try to claim that, I do not believe the law does not require intent for that.
Which means that Apple made more profit than there was profit available.
That's your misunderstanding. There isn't an available profit, from which each company can take. It's not a pie.
Total profits is a pie. It's a fixed number. it's in the past, it's already said and done. Just like productivity. It already happened. You can't have more of something that is already measured than was measured. It's impossible. When you compare it to previous measurements then you can say "We had 200% growth" and it makes sense. You could also spend 105% of your budget - those are all things that are possible to exceed 100% on. This is a finite measurement.
In previous years Apple and Samsung accounted for the majority of profits in the smartphone category. Now that Samsung has sunk itself, not only with exploding mobile devices but also exploding washing machines, the only profitable firm is Apple.
The larger than 100% number is because most firms operate at a loss. For example, one can easily be 200% more productive than a very lazy coworker.
But how can you ever account for having over 100% of the total productivity? They said total profits. Which means that Apple made more profit than there was profit available. That's what the sentence literally means. That is impossible. It's like giving 110% effort. You cannot give more effort than all of the effort you possess.
So where'd the USB option go? Getting a USB-C to mini-USB-B or whatever plug type they're using these days is about as hard as getting a USB-A to mini-USB-B cable... or are we just wanting to complain about wifi.
Also, generally if you have a professional Nikon camera, it probably has a CF card slot (or both and you should be using CF). If you have an mid-range prosumer/enthusiast level Nikon camera it has an SD card slot. Same goes for Canon as far as I'm aware.
Believe me, at the rate Apple is cutting ports of their devices you're going to need a dongle for basically everything. Their phones have dongles, their computers have dongles. They're like Oprah and are just throwing out dongles for everyone. The whole point is that i don't want to carry a bag full of dongles so that I can listen to music on my phone, plug into an ethernet network, connect a flash drive (Who has a USB-C flash drive? Who actually buys flash drives these days - everyone gives them away), copy the pictures off my camera, and the list goes on.The SD slot form factor is tiny and the excuses they gave were all bullshit. If you're going to remove it then be honest with us and don't insult our intelligence by claiming that the design of SD card readers is just poor and awkward. Just admit that you removed it to save money, or just because you felt like it. Don't bullshit us about how it gives us a better laptop.
Only the mac has shit SD slots that stick out unlike other pcs.
I'm aware of that. That is by Apple's own design and not due to the fact that there are no better solutions.
Melodramatic much? Photographers already deal quite happily with bags full of lenses, filters, contraptions of all sorts. Nobody will care about taking the extra 10 seconds to plug in an SD card adapter. Do the camera makers cede the professional market because they don't build all that shit into the cameras themselves?
Oh but they do. If you get a professional Nikon camera you can connect to your storage via ethernet, WiFi, USB, or by removing the storage itself. With the new MacBook Pro you have no native way to handle the storage. You have no ethernet port. So at that point you've narrowed it down to WiFi.