and yet here we are every year the printer companies come out with new models with form factors especially for the ink and toner supply, and none of these printers are readily end user serviceable with available replacement parts.
I have a 7 year old Brother printer that I bought for $35. Just recently I replaced the toner and the drum, with whatever I found on Amazon. It doesn't have the brother badge on it so it's after market, but Brother still sells the parts as well. A few years ago I replaced the feed roller, that was also a $5 part from ebay.
I really don't know what your complaint is about, but it sure isn't universal.
Implying that a chain of trust somehow stops backdoors and stupid inexperienced coders who couldn't code their way through a bubble sort. Certifications do not trump low cost, especially if that cost involves opening your code to 3rd parties.
The problem is people don't know which is bigger, 7-in-10 or 13-in-25
Let me repeat myself: "The problem is always finding out what the easiest actually is.
Also 7 in 10 and 5 in 10 are also easy to understand. As are 70 out of 100 and 52 out of 100. Again, you target your lowest common denominator with the language they should understand. Your example effectively is the same as comparing numbers with non equal base units. If someone needs to convert something in their head then you've done something wrong in the way you've presented data.
Who cares what Intel and ARM do with their chips as long as manufacturers ship devices with default passwords, outdated software, no encryption, and whisk all the data from the devices off into some silly unsecured cloud.
We don't need 'Internet of Things', it's a solution looking for a problem, always has been, always will be.
What a brain-dead comment. IoT is not a solution looking for a problem. It's a name change representing technological development that has been ongoing for the past 20 years. Unless it is you think IoT = Internet connected fridge, in which case it's like saying the entire world of computing exists only to fill out data in an excel table and therefore computers are useless.
If you can't figure out 10% is 1-in-10, you have no hope of wading through the standard level of obfuscation added to any publication when discussing statistics.
Sure. If you can't figure out the most simple case you're quite right. That doesn't change the fact that numbers can be presented in a more simple and intuitive way to aid the understanding of a wider audience.
Let's flip that argument: There are some people who can't figure out that 10% is 1 in 10. However those that can, likely have no problem figuring out that 1 in 10 is 10%, so by expressing the number in its easiest to understand format you capture the understanding of the largest possible audience. The problem is always finding out what the easiest actually is.
2. What makes "1 in 4,000" easier to digest than "0.025%"?
If you're asking this question then you don't understand the human mind in terms of it's ability to visualise and process numbers. That isn't a bad thing, it's probably that you are smart and surround yourself with smart people, but it always pays to understand how to talk with people who aren't so clever. Simple tip: No decimals, base number of 1 as the lowest common denominator. Everything else should be stacked in terms of a 1. It is intuitively easier to understand for everyone than presenting something that needs to be multiplied from a factor of 1/100th.
Maybe it's just me, but this feels like reading a review my Grandmother might write if I put her in front of a ZX Spectrum in the early 80s. I don't think as much about what's available now as what is possible.
Quite a fitting comparison since most of the technological progressions that made computers what they are were ultimately not provided by Sinclaire.
Likewise, AR is an amazing field with amazing potential. Unfortunately there's nothing magical nor a great leap provided by this product.
maybe the technical capabilities are less than what some expected
So didn't build what they said they would.
That's just the point. For all the talk that Magic Leap put into (including the company name itself), what was delievered was to a certain degree,... meh.
Glad to see it placed so high given the fact that it is a small and relatively unimportant country.
Being important in this case is secondary to being remarkable (for both good and bad reasons). Unimportant and unremarkable countries fair well for visa issues. Being known for good reasons isn't relevant, you need to ensure you're not known for bad reasons.
The age distribution would actually agree with it quite well if you consider that pretty much everyone over the age of 7 owns a mobile phone. The under 7s account for 5% of the population currently.
A few years training, seriously? Licensing? To be a fucking plumber?
I take it you live in Poland (reference to another thread in which you just replied);-)
Yes I am serious. In many western countries, especially those countries where plumbers make some actual money there are licensing and forced apprenticeships in place. You may think it's easy right until you find yourself in court because shit is flowing the wrong direction (and I mean that in the most literal sense).
Now off the top of your head: How big does a storm water pit need to be in back yard for a surburban house with a 150sqm roof, how many downcomers from the gutters, how big a pipe needs to be used, how big is the collection pipe, where are you allowed to position an overflow point, and how do you cope with a clay surface.
If you take more than 2minutes to answer this question then you've already failed as a plumber and should go back to doing the apprenticeship. After all this is one of the easy questions, incidentally also the one that got my plumber a big fine from my local council after he did it wrong resulting in stormwater runoff into the neighbour's yard.
Climate change is the least of your problems. I bet you you can find Poland on this map: https://aqicn.org/map/europe/ without even seeing the country borders.
*What* is it always a plumber in these anecdotal stories from the Right...
*Because people don't hire English teachers.
Pretty soon every brain who realizes that water runs down hill will have a plumbing "business"
Indeed, if the barriers to entry were zero then they would. A few years worth of training, licensing, and setting up a business actually represents a huge barrier to entry for an individual.
Being a dispossessed urban worker has nothing to do with it. The quality and variance of the products we consume make it impossible to sustain this kind of living even if I had 100% of my time to dedicate to doing something myself. The time and effort to create 1 thing doesn't scale 1:1 with more things.
This is also true 100s of years ago if not from the last millennium. Individuals live a struggled and incredibly basic life. Communities on the other hand thrive as they can benefit from each other's services.
You posed a question about human behaviour and referenced an issue with a device two generations earlier without any qualification as to the impact on people.
I hate the quality of my Surface Pro 3. But the incredibly quick turnaround of problems including replacement devices shipped out a day later is what keeps me considering the next Surface Pro when my old one dies.
On the flip side my father wanted to buy a device with this form factor right while I was having issues, so I recommended against it. He ended up buying a HP Spectre x2 which I had high hopes for. Poor sound, poor quality pen, and when he had a hardware failure he got the: "It's the responsibility of the retailer, no the resposibility of the OEM, no send it to the retailer and they'll forward it to the OEM" response. Took 3 weeks to get resolved.
The Surface Pro was a curiosity. The Surface Pro 2 was solid The Surface Pro 3 was average. The Surface Pro 4 nearly killed the line and got the entire product line not recommended from consumer reports. The Surface Pro 5 is moving back towards more solid territory as far as I can see.
One thing is certain: DON'T be an early adopter of small unserviceable devices.
Yes in the consumer arena, no in the corporate one. Windows system upgrades still drive "hardware refreshes" at major companies, even on hardware perfectly capable of running that new software.
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and yet here we are every year the printer companies come out with new models with form factors especially for the ink and toner supply, and none of these printers are readily end user serviceable with available replacement parts.
I have a 7 year old Brother printer that I bought for $35. Just recently I replaced the toner and the drum, with whatever I found on Amazon. It doesn't have the brother badge on it so it's after market, but Brother still sells the parts as well. A few years ago I replaced the feed roller, that was also a $5 part from ebay.
I really don't know what your complaint is about, but it sure isn't universal.
Implying that a chain of trust somehow stops backdoors and stupid inexperienced coders who couldn't code their way through a bubble sort. Certifications do not trump low cost, especially if that cost involves opening your code to 3rd parties.
Hit them in the wallet, it's all they understand.
Good luck with that. Using Duck Duck Go won't even register in the Google accounting department.
The problem is people don't know which is bigger, 7-in-10 or 13-in-25
Let me repeat myself: "The problem is always finding out what the easiest actually is.
Also 7 in 10 and 5 in 10 are also easy to understand. As are 70 out of 100 and 52 out of 100. Again, you target your lowest common denominator with the language they should understand. Your example effectively is the same as comparing numbers with non equal base units. If someone needs to convert something in their head then you've done something wrong in the way you've presented data.
Who cares what Intel and ARM do with their chips as long as manufacturers ship devices with default passwords, outdated software, no encryption, and whisk all the data from the devices off into some silly unsecured cloud.
We don't need 'Internet of Things', it's a solution looking for a problem, always has been, always will be.
What a brain-dead comment. IoT is not a solution looking for a problem. It's a name change representing technological development that has been ongoing for the past 20 years. Unless it is you think IoT = Internet connected fridge, in which case it's like saying the entire world of computing exists only to fill out data in an excel table and therefore computers are useless.
If you can't figure out 10% is 1-in-10, you have no hope of wading through the standard level of obfuscation added to any publication when discussing statistics.
Sure. If you can't figure out the most simple case you're quite right. That doesn't change the fact that numbers can be presented in a more simple and intuitive way to aid the understanding of a wider audience.
Let's flip that argument:
There are some people who can't figure out that 10% is 1 in 10. However those that can, likely have no problem figuring out that 1 in 10 is 10%, so by expressing the number in its easiest to understand format you capture the understanding of the largest possible audience. The problem is always finding out what the easiest actually is.
1. What "conversion"?
Multiplication.
2. What makes "1 in 4,000" easier to digest than "0.025%"?
If you're asking this question then you don't understand the human mind in terms of it's ability to visualise and process numbers. That isn't a bad thing, it's probably that you are smart and surround yourself with smart people, but it always pays to understand how to talk with people who aren't so clever.
Simple tip: No decimals, base number of 1 as the lowest common denominator. Everything else should be stacked in terms of a 1. It is intuitively easier to understand for everyone than presenting something that needs to be multiplied from a factor of 1/100th.
Maybe it's just me, but this feels like reading a review my Grandmother might write if I put her in front of a ZX Spectrum in the early 80s. I don't think as much about what's available now as what is possible.
Quite a fitting comparison since most of the technological progressions that made computers what they are were ultimately not provided by Sinclaire.
Likewise, AR is an amazing field with amazing potential. Unfortunately there's nothing magical nor a great leap provided by this product.
they actually built what they said they would
maybe the technical capabilities are less than what some expected
So didn't build what they said they would.
That's just the point. For all the talk that Magic Leap put into (including the company name itself), what was delievered was to a certain degree, ... meh.
But their list ought not to simply count countries, but weigh them by something
That depends on what you're measuring in your success.
Better trading: GDP.
Better choice of travel destinations: area.
Better treatment of people by foreign governments: number of countries.
Glad to see it placed so high given the fact that it is a small and relatively unimportant country.
Being important in this case is secondary to being remarkable (for both good and bad reasons). Unimportant and unremarkable countries fair well for visa issues. Being known for good reasons isn't relevant, you need to ensure you're not known for bad reasons.
The age distribution would actually agree with it quite well if you consider that pretty much everyone over the age of 7 owns a mobile phone. The under 7s account for 5% of the population currently.
I suspect there are other omissions.
By my count I would suspect 190 other omissions.
Kids staying indoors and developing mental health disorders from social networking is not awesome.
It's a great deal of more awesome than setting up strawman arguements.
A few years training, seriously? Licensing? To be a fucking plumber?
I take it you live in Poland (reference to another thread in which you just replied) ;-)
Yes I am serious. In many western countries, especially those countries where plumbers make some actual money there are licensing and forced apprenticeships in place. You may think it's easy right until you find yourself in court because shit is flowing the wrong direction (and I mean that in the most literal sense).
Now off the top of your head: How big does a storm water pit need to be in back yard for a surburban house with a 150sqm roof, how many downcomers from the gutters, how big a pipe needs to be used, how big is the collection pipe, where are you allowed to position an overflow point, and how do you cope with a clay surface.
If you take more than 2minutes to answer this question then you've already failed as a plumber and should go back to doing the apprenticeship. After all this is one of the easy questions, incidentally also the one that got my plumber a big fine from my local council after he did it wrong resulting in stormwater runoff into the neighbour's yard.
Climate change is the least of your problems. I bet you you can find Poland on this map: https://aqicn.org/map/europe/ without even seeing the country borders.
*What* is it always a plumber in these anecdotal stories from the Right...
*Because people don't hire English teachers.
Pretty soon every brain who realizes that water runs down hill will have a plumbing "business"
Indeed, if the barriers to entry were zero then they would. A few years worth of training, licensing, and setting up a business actually represents a huge barrier to entry for an individual.
as a dispossessed urban worker
Being a dispossessed urban worker has nothing to do with it. The quality and variance of the products we consume make it impossible to sustain this kind of living even if I had 100% of my time to dedicate to doing something myself. The time and effort to create 1 thing doesn't scale 1:1 with more things.
This is also true 100s of years ago if not from the last millennium. Individuals live a struggled and incredibly basic life. Communities on the other hand thrive as they can benefit from each other's services.
When you spend quite this much public money on something, any problem will reach the widespread news without any assistance what so ever.
Remind me again. How much is it going to cost to get to Mars ?
I hope a lot. These kinds of projects give us incredible advancements in technology.
*aaaahhhh choooil*
Sorry. There is a lot of dust in the room at the moment.
How is it misleading? They said they are #5. They made no mention of being bigger than Acer.
You posed a question about human behaviour and referenced an issue with a device two generations earlier without any qualification as to the impact on people.
I hate the quality of my Surface Pro 3. But the incredibly quick turnaround of problems including replacement devices shipped out a day later is what keeps me considering the next Surface Pro when my old one dies.
On the flip side my father wanted to buy a device with this form factor right while I was having issues, so I recommended against it. He ended up buying a HP Spectre x2 which I had high hopes for. Poor sound, poor quality pen, and when he had a hardware failure he got the: "It's the responsibility of the retailer, no the resposibility of the OEM, no send it to the retailer and they'll forward it to the OEM" response. Took 3 weeks to get resolved.
The Surface Pro was a curiosity.
The Surface Pro 2 was solid
The Surface Pro 3 was average.
The Surface Pro 4 nearly killed the line and got the entire product line not recommended from consumer reports.
The Surface Pro 5 is moving back towards more solid territory as far as I can see.
One thing is certain: DON'T be an early adopter of small unserviceable devices.
Yes in the consumer arena, no in the corporate one. Windows system upgrades still drive "hardware refreshes" at major companies, even on hardware perfectly capable of running that new software.