NT4 was awesome, so long as you didn't install poor quality device drivers that would cause a BSOD. It was way better than any of the consumer Win95,98,ME versions out at the same time. Win2K was also awesome.
My MBP is just about to turn six (and it's had almost as many batteries, but that's a different story). Mavericks breathes new life in to it because of memory compression. The 6GB RAM I've got in it just ain't enough anymore, but it doesn't hit the swap file as much as it did before.
Bullshit. I hate driving in N. America: the head-lights are dim, but what really annoys me is how many people have them poorly adjusted. The worst culprits seem to be pick-ups with their lights askew causing in particular a lot of dazzling from mirrors which I rarely get in Europe. Many European countries allow brighter lights, but they also require them to be be shielded in a specific way. For instance, the annual MOT test that all vehicles over three years old in the UK must pass explicitly checks light alignment to ensure that other drivers aren't dazzled.
Wow, and it has a much worse encoding speed. x264 is a slow AVC encoder, and the reference HEVC HM10 encoder is horrendous and probably an order or two magnitude slower than third party implementations. Hard to justify VP9 for commercial content producers (it will cost more to deliver lower quality content).
4K only becomes interesting if you want to have a bigger screen. I think sitting close to an enormous screen is more immersive than other fads like 3D and more interesting from that perspective than higher frame rates. Then again, I don't want an enormous TV in my living room that ends up being the first thing people use.
YouTube isn't meant for downloading, so suck it up; you're in a very small minority. DASH is awesome because we finally have an industry standard way of delivering adaptive streams. Well, it has some complications in being a little bit too generic but but a lot of the industry is going the same way now.
Everything's wrong with it! I was complaining to somebody just today about how shit Skype can be, whilst we were on a conference call and the person who was running it had dialled in via Skype. Laptops like to have the mic near the keyboard, and this person was talking notes and updating some documents at the same time as splitting our ear drums. Get a f*****g headset people, and everybody else: learn how to mute if you're not talking.
Perhaps I read too much in to your "until recently" and too far between the lines. Anyway, it's good to remember the old days, but I'm sure another 20 years culture will have changed even further and more rapidly!
Don't stereotype all of us south of the border in the same way. Hallowe'en seems pretty irrelevant where I live in west London. Having lived in the US and Canada from the age of 19 to 35, coming home I was astounded at how big Guy Fawkes Night is, with my re-introduction being a massive mid-week gathering on Clapham Common for fireworks and then a late on the beers. Maybe there is some interest in Hallowe'en in middle class child-rich suburbia, but it's nothing compared with N. America or the traditional British/English events. Quite frankly I'm looking forward to the anarchy, pyromania and chaos of the annual blood-thirsty torching of Guy Fawkes. Hallowe'en OTOH just seems childish, as seemingly do the adults that partake in it. Thank f*** there's nobody at the office today in a stupid costume: I didn't have to be rude.
Is that why healthcare in the US is twice the price per person as in Canada, and most of the difference is in the admin cost per person?
George Bush was right during his re-election campaign when he wanted small businesses to be able to get together for healthcare: there are economies of scale that can benefit healthcare. The NHS is the largest bulk purchaser of drugs in the world, and it gets a correspondingly cheaper price on drugs. Meanwhile the pharmaceutical companies make 25% of their profits in the US.
Private healthcare pays. Not for the patient though.
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As a Londoner myself, I think I'm allowed to take the piss out of Americans who habitually bring up that stereotype, even though it's blatantly not true. As somebody who's lived in a few places around the world, my chief complaints about the weather are that it doesn't get hot enough in summer and the winters are pretty mild and boring too! It doesn't stop the locals whinging like a bunch of babies.
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He must have thought it wouldn't be a problem in London, what with all the pea soupers and drizzle.
He went to Saipan where he tried to sell software and data to US agents pretending to be business men. Isn't Saipan US territory? Perhaps you should try RTFA before sounding of like a dickhead.
Very few successful solutions. And for those suggesting the use of a Terminal, even that is slower than Windows Explorer if I'm browsing a Windows share in another office.
I'd be happy with that if I could browse a Windows-based file share at the same speed as Windows Explorer. Right now I can't get it to list the files within an hour of a folder on a build server (about 4,000 files). One of the few things that makes me use Windows... it's often faster to boot Windows in VMWare and shut it down again than it is to use Finder.
Bonus points if I could natively use Windows UNC paths from those people still stuck on Windows without adding "smb:" and having to swap all the back slashes for forward slashes.
1080p _is_ 2k, or at least the most common 2k resolution for TVs. Likewise, the most common 4k resolution will probably be 1080p doubled (3840x2160). There are a range of common resolutions of course that fall under the 4k umbrella.
then if I buy some RRSPs (retirement savings) that goes untaxed
That's not true. You're just delaying when you pay tax, and hoping that you will be in a lower tax bracket by then to see the benefit of saving in the programme.
You need to learn some humility and sense of your own limitations. Concurrency and revision control have been around for decades, so it's concerning that you don't know that.
As for your colleague, you're just describing a shit engineer. That's a problem with your company and its processes. That's a management issue. Whinging on/. won't change that, so what are your proposals to your management to improve the team?
Another question for you: what expectations does your employer place on people to learn new technologies and theories? What opportunities do they provide for career path and growth that might encourage somebody to learn new things? Has your colleague been asked to take on new roles and responsibilities that might need him to adapt?
Perhaps you need to express code review in terms of cross-training, effective communication to the wider team and improving the health of the team beyond truck count = 1.
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Maybe try the DLNA server in DivX 10, if you can run on OS X or WIndows.. DivX know a little bit about MKV.
Compared to Windows 3.1, Win 95 was also great.
NT4 was awesome, so long as you didn't install poor quality device drivers that would cause a BSOD. It was way better than any of the consumer Win95,98,ME versions out at the same time. Win2K was also awesome.
My MBP is just about to turn six (and it's had almost as many batteries, but that's a different story). Mavericks breathes new life in to it because of memory compression. The 6GB RAM I've got in it just ain't enough anymore, but it doesn't hit the swap file as much as it did before.
Bullshit. I hate driving in N. America: the head-lights are dim, but what really annoys me is how many people have them poorly adjusted. The worst culprits seem to be pick-ups with their lights askew causing in particular a lot of dazzling from mirrors which I rarely get in Europe. Many European countries allow brighter lights, but they also require them to be be shielded in a specific way. For instance, the annual MOT test that all vehicles over three years old in the UK must pass explicitly checks light alignment to ensure that other drivers aren't dazzled.
Wow, and it has a much worse encoding speed. x264 is a slow AVC encoder, and the reference HEVC HM10 encoder is horrendous and probably an order or two magnitude slower than third party implementations. Hard to justify VP9 for commercial content producers (it will cost more to deliver lower quality content).
4K only becomes interesting if you want to have a bigger screen. I think sitting close to an enormous screen is more immersive than other fads like 3D and more interesting from that perspective than higher frame rates. Then again, I don't want an enormous TV in my living room that ends up being the first thing people use.
YouTube isn't meant for downloading, so suck it up; you're in a very small minority. DASH is awesome because we finally have an industry standard way of delivering adaptive streams. Well, it has some complications in being a little bit too generic but but a lot of the industry is going the same way now.
I think you might be wrong. I've opened my case to find a letter telling me that it had been opened and searched en route.
Are they going to integrate Emacs in to their web services?
M-x doctor
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M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
Or maybe they're porting their web services to elisp.
Everything's wrong with it! I was complaining to somebody just today about how shit Skype can be, whilst we were on a conference call and the person who was running it had dialled in via Skype. Laptops like to have the mic near the keyboard, and this person was talking notes and updating some documents at the same time as splitting our ear drums. Get a f*****g headset people, and everybody else: learn how to mute if you're not talking.
Perhaps I read too much in to your "until recently" and too far between the lines. Anyway, it's good to remember the old days, but I'm sure another 20 years culture will have changed even further and more rapidly!
Don't stereotype all of us south of the border in the same way. Hallowe'en seems pretty irrelevant where I live in west London. Having lived in the US and Canada from the age of 19 to 35, coming home I was astounded at how big Guy Fawkes Night is, with my re-introduction being a massive mid-week gathering on Clapham Common for fireworks and then a late on the beers. Maybe there is some interest in Hallowe'en in middle class child-rich suburbia, but it's nothing compared with N. America or the traditional British/English events. Quite frankly I'm looking forward to the anarchy, pyromania and chaos of the annual blood-thirsty torching of Guy Fawkes. Hallowe'en OTOH just seems childish, as seemingly do the adults that partake in it. Thank f*** there's nobody at the office today in a stupid costume: I didn't have to be rude.
Is that why healthcare in the US is twice the price per person as in Canada, and most of the difference is in the admin cost per person?
George Bush was right during his re-election campaign when he wanted small businesses to be able to get together for healthcare: there are economies of scale that can benefit healthcare. The NHS is the largest bulk purchaser of drugs in the world, and it gets a correspondingly cheaper price on drugs. Meanwhile the pharmaceutical companies make 25% of their profits in the US.
Private healthcare pays. Not for the patient though.
As a Londoner myself, I think I'm allowed to take the piss out of Americans who habitually bring up that stereotype, even though it's blatantly not true. As somebody who's lived in a few places around the world, my chief complaints about the weather are that it doesn't get hot enough in summer and the winters are pretty mild and boring too! It doesn't stop the locals whinging like a bunch of babies.
He must have thought it wouldn't be a problem in London, what with all the pea soupers and drizzle.
How about Tempora? You should suggest that one to them.
He went to Saipan where he tried to sell software and data to US agents pretending to be business men. Isn't Saipan US territory? Perhaps you should try RTFA before sounding of like a dickhead.
I'm running Lion. The performance is terrible.
Lots of threads on the internet like this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2172049?start=0&tstart=0
Very few successful solutions. And for those suggesting the use of a Terminal, even that is slower than Windows Explorer if I'm browsing a Windows share in another office.
I'd be happy with that if I could browse a Windows-based file share at the same speed as Windows Explorer. Right now I can't get it to list the files within an hour of a folder on a build server (about 4,000 files). One of the few things that makes me use Windows... it's often faster to boot Windows in VMWare and shut it down again than it is to use Finder.
Bonus points if I could natively use Windows UNC paths from those people still stuck on Windows without adding "smb:" and having to swap all the back slashes for forward slashes.
1080p _is_ 2k, or at least the most common 2k resolution for TVs. Likewise, the most common 4k resolution will probably be 1080p doubled (3840x2160). There are a range of common resolutions of course that fall under the 4k umbrella.
Cmd+Space -> Terminal
malcs-mac:~ $ sudo sh -c 'cd / && grep -ir "walled garden" *'
Password:
malcs-mac:~ $
Seems pretty unrestricted to me.
then if I buy some RRSPs (retirement savings) that goes untaxed
That's not true. You're just delaying when you pay tax, and hoping that you will be in a lower tax bracket by then to see the benefit of saving in the programme.
It is also annoying to have the program pop up when you are just plugging in the phone to charge it.
So tell not to open for that device. Come on gadget man.
You need to learn some humility and sense of your own limitations. Concurrency and revision control have been around for decades, so it's concerning that you don't know that.
As for your colleague, you're just describing a shit engineer. That's a problem with your company and its processes. That's a management issue. Whinging on /. won't change that, so what are your proposals to your management to improve the team?
Another question for you: what expectations does your employer place on people to learn new technologies and theories? What opportunities do they provide for career path and growth that might encourage somebody to learn new things? Has your colleague been asked to take on new roles and responsibilities that might need him to adapt?
Perhaps you need to express code review in terms of cross-training, effective communication to the wider team and improving the health of the team beyond truck count = 1.