I also don't telecommute anymore. I did it for ten years, and ended up utterly hating it. I still work with remote people when I go to the office, but really I just need to get out of the house. I am so much more focused and productive when I have a deadline looming everyday:). I'm also so much more productive just being around people: you can pick up so much more being in earshot of people, or just having people around who might randomly be able to save you a whole bunch of time Googling for things. Everybody's different though, and although many people have learnt how to be efficient with tools like Skype or finding other ways to get information, I think working as collective of hermits is just very strange and will create problems for society.
We don't have DST here you insensitive clods. It's just "summer time" or "GMT". I've always wondered why you provincial folks refer to it as DST. I'd be very happy for it to be summer time all year around!
My 32" 8 year old HDTV suits me fine. Given the amount of compression artefacts and detail loss in the signal I receive, I see little point in replacing it with something better until it dies.
I agree in that they offer limited choice when it comes to sorting. But in this particular case, trying to find the oldest posts is actually very easy because you can just set an end date and see what you get; then refine in a binary search kind of manner. It takes seconds.
Hmm, just remembered my mentor at my first job (an old man of, oh, you know, 38;) ). He complained that he wasn't going to read/. anymore because of all the comments along the lines of: 'fuck you', 'you're a fucking idiot, fuck you'. This would have been 1998 or 1999!
And now most of my posts are as AC simply because that's how things end up when I'm using my phone, and faffing around logging in just increase the risk of losing something that took too much effort to type on a mobile 'keyboard'. Actually I guess the mobile version of the site just isn't conducive to spending much time on/. nor making a big effort with comments, although the latter might simply be the new norm of mobile interaction.
Goatse and hot grits posts were literate? How many commenters are there now compared with then? Maybe it's just a percentage and you've got rose tinted specs?
Oyster only tracks in and out points, and possibly some transit points if people use the pink card readers to show they avoided zone 1. It doesn't show exact route and where you dillied and dallied waiting for a bad connection (Overground trains at Wilsden Junction and Piccadilly Line trains at Turham Green, I'm looking at you).
You've got it the wrong way around. You have to think about how long the hardware is supported, and consider newer versions of the operating system as patches to the original. From this perspective, the the mid 2007 MacBook Pros and early 2009 MacBooks are still receiving security patches via OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I'm still using one of these ten year old MacBook Pros at home, and it's going great, and the OS its running is still supported by Apple.
Just remember that not every major incident ends a fatal crash. Check out Air Transat 236, which ran out of fuel over the Atlantic. The pilot even managed a 360 degree turn without hydraulic power to control the altitude as he glided it back to the Azores.
You're comparing a set of command line tools with an IDE? I'll take MSVC over lldb any day of the week, and the Xcode front-end over the plain llvm-analyzer
Well that was a fairly mindless and pointless anti-EU rant. This has got nothing to do with the EU budget nor Brussels levying taxes across the EU, but individual countries trying to claw back some money for their own coffers, so your silly angst should be aimed at Paris, Berlin, Rome and Madrid (and the rest).
When I was a victim of identity theft a few years ago, they managed to convince my bank's telephone banking to change my mother's maiden name, locking me out of my accounts! You'd think alarm bells at the bank should have rung, but no. Social engineering is always the weakest point, and the amount of accurate information in this credit agency data breach can really enable bold criminals. So I agree with the other comments about providing inaccurate data for security questions where possible, but you have to have a scheme to work with it all because I can't even remember answers for dumb security questions like "who was your favourite teacher at primary school" or "what's your favourite colour" (I don't have favourites of either, so it's a crap shoot on how I'm feeling on the day how I answer)
I couldn't agree more. I didn't even realise they were missing despite Safari being my primary browser on the Mac. On my iPhone I assume they would be extra clutter using valuable space. Shift-Cmd-\, or zoom out if you want a useful way to see and browse through open tabs. What exactly am I missing?
I can't really tell what their app does now that it didn't do before when it was much smaller. I think they removed messaging and added lots of annoying advertising. They constantly want to send me updates, but I don't see why I should bother because I'm just seeing decreasing value.
Light levels in a lot of restaurants are still to low for iPhones. It's ridiculous that every iPhone release people keep coming out and saying that they are DSLR replacements. My Canon S100, which is several years old now, takes better photos than my iPhone 6s, although I'm sure the 7 is a big step up. I just don't happen to carry it very often these days, which is key. My 8 year old entry level Canon 500D DSLR takes vastly better photos than my iPhone, although I've replaced it in the past year with an 80D, which is even better.
Not to say that iPhone photography is pretty amazing, especially in good lighting and viewing the results only on small mobile screens. How about stopping the perpetuation of this marketing bullshit though? They're just not big enough with their sensors and glass and only have a fixed focal length and aperture to be even close to comparable in situations I use my DSLR.
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This isnâ(TM)t quite true. My Late 2007 MacBook Pro recieved the 2017-0004 security update recently.
I also don't telecommute anymore. I did it for ten years, and ended up utterly hating it. I still work with remote people when I go to the office, but really I just need to get out of the house. I am so much more focused and productive when I have a deadline looming everyday :). I'm also so much more productive just being around people: you can pick up so much more being in earshot of people, or just having people around who might randomly be able to save you a whole bunch of time Googling for things. Everybody's different though, and although many people have learnt how to be efficient with tools like Skype or finding other ways to get information, I think working as collective of hermits is just very strange and will create problems for society.
We don't have DST here you insensitive clods. It's just "summer time" or "GMT". I've always wondered why you provincial folks refer to it as DST. I'd be very happy for it to be summer time all year around!
Really screwed if you fly through these eight countries:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Following the link
from: https://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/...
to here: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/p...
It appears that spending has continued to go up. So if there have been cuts, where's the difference going?
What's the cost of fixing sports injuries versus a lifetime of poorer physical or mental health, or reduced positive contributions to society?
My 32" 8 year old HDTV suits me fine. Given the amount of compression artefacts and detail loss in the signal I receive, I see little point in replacing it with something better until it dies.
I agree in that they offer limited choice when it comes to sorting. But in this particular case, trying to find the oldest posts is actually very easy because you can just set an end date and see what you get; then refine in a binary search kind of manner. It takes seconds.
Hmm, just remembered my mentor at my first job (an old man of, oh, you know, 38 ;) ). He complained that he wasn't going to read /. anymore because of all the comments along the lines of: 'fuck you', 'you're a fucking idiot, fuck you'. This would have been 1998 or 1999!
And now most of my posts are as AC simply because that's how things end up when I'm using my phone, and faffing around logging in just increase the risk of losing something that took too much effort to type on a mobile 'keyboard'. Actually I guess the mobile version of the site just isn't conducive to spending much time on /. nor making a big effort with comments, although the latter might simply be the new norm of mobile interaction.
Yeah, mine too! Stuck in the 4 digit club :(
Goatse and hot grits posts were literate? How many commenters are there now compared with then? Maybe it's just a percentage and you've got rose tinted specs?
Pretty easy with Google search... https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (1999, from the days before automatic +1 moderation)
RAID-0 isn't RAID, because there's no redundancy.
SSDs aren't really inexpensive.
So what are you left with? ADs! Yes, thanks for the ads /.
Incidentally, why would anybody want to use something labled as "beta" for RAID-0?
Oyster only tracks in and out points, and possibly some transit points if people use the pink card readers to show they avoided zone 1. It doesn't show exact route and where you dillied and dallied waiting for a bad connection (Overground trains at Wilsden Junction and Piccadilly Line trains at Turham Green, I'm looking at you).
I always wait for the .1 releases for these things. Maybe by then ID will have provided a 64-bit build of Doom, otherwise I'm gonna be in conflict!
You've got it the wrong way around. You have to think about how long the hardware is supported, and consider newer versions of the operating system as patches to the original. From this perspective, the the mid 2007 MacBook Pros and early 2009 MacBooks are still receiving security patches via OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I'm still using one of these ten year old MacBook Pros at home, and it's going great, and the OS its running is still supported by Apple.
Just remember that not every major incident ends a fatal crash. Check out Air Transat 236, which ran out of fuel over the Atlantic. The pilot even managed a 360 degree turn without hydraulic power to control the altitude as he glided it back to the Azores.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Ok, pretty exceptional!
You're comparing a set of command line tools with an IDE? I'll take MSVC over lldb any day of the week, and the Xcode front-end over the plain llvm-analyzer
Does it matter, so long as it works? It's been in production some time now.
Well that was a fairly mindless and pointless anti-EU rant. This has got nothing to do with the EU budget nor Brussels levying taxes across the EU, but individual countries trying to claw back some money for their own coffers, so your silly angst should be aimed at Paris, Berlin, Rome and Madrid (and the rest).
When I was a victim of identity theft a few years ago, they managed to convince my bank's telephone banking to change my mother's maiden name, locking me out of my accounts! You'd think alarm bells at the bank should have rung, but no. Social engineering is always the weakest point, and the amount of accurate information in this credit agency data breach can really enable bold criminals. So I agree with the other comments about providing inaccurate data for security questions where possible, but you have to have a scheme to work with it all because I can't even remember answers for dumb security questions like "who was your favourite teacher at primary school" or "what's your favourite colour" (I don't have favourites of either, so it's a crap shoot on how I'm feeling on the day how I answer)
I couldn't agree more. I didn't even realise they were missing despite Safari being my primary browser on the Mac. On my iPhone I assume they would be extra clutter using valuable space. Shift-Cmd-\, or zoom out if you want a useful way to see and browse through open tabs. What exactly am I missing?
Is this story just a childish anti-Apple rant?
I can't really tell what their app does now that it didn't do before when it was much smaller. I think they removed messaging and added lots of annoying advertising. They constantly want to send me updates, but I don't see why I should bother because I'm just seeing decreasing value.
Light levels in a lot of restaurants are still to low for iPhones. It's ridiculous that every iPhone release people keep coming out and saying that they are DSLR replacements. My Canon S100, which is several years old now, takes better photos than my iPhone 6s, although I'm sure the 7 is a big step up. I just don't happen to carry it very often these days, which is key. My 8 year old entry level Canon 500D DSLR takes vastly better photos than my iPhone, although I've replaced it in the past year with an 80D, which is even better.
Not to say that iPhone photography is pretty amazing, especially in good lighting and viewing the results only on small mobile screens. How about stopping the perpetuation of this marketing bullshit though? They're just not big enough with their sensors and glass and only have a fixed focal length and aperture to be even close to comparable in situations I use my DSLR.