I remember this, too, and it made an impression on me. I still use PowerPoint (or Prezi, or whatever) but spend a lot of time making sure the deck helps me deliver my message, instead of me just narrating whatever's on the screen. Typically I try to use fewer than 10 slides per hour and no more than two or three bullets per slide.
PPT can be a great tool when used correctly. Hardly anyone does, though. At least where I work.
Seriously, they put this guys life in danger. Shame on them.
If he wanted to remain anonymous perhaps he should not have used his own name? It was only a matter of time and enough interest to investigate given that starting point. And if Newsweek found him so easily, and if he's held a security clearance as reported, it's reasonable to believe the government has known who he since pretty much whenever the question first popped up. His life is in no more danger today than last week.
Sheriff : "What?" The police officer balks. Sheriff : "This is the guy who created Bitcoin?
Are we really supposed to believe that a Police Officer would know such geek trivia?
Seems to be a little overly dramatic.
You intentionally cut off the quote. "I would like to ask him about Bitcoin. This man is Satoshi Nakamoto." And plenty of cops are geeks, probably around the same as any other job. I used to have a bunch of them show up the LAN parties we'd do in the early 2000's.
Dependable banks require that those running them, and those depositing money into them are not GREEDY BASTARDS
Let me re-write that for you in a simplified form:
Dependable banks require that those running them, and those depositing money into them are not Human.
+1. The only reason there aren't more greedy bastards is due to the limited opportunities to act as one. Ask any communist how that worked out for them.
imagine a driver getting turn-by-turn navigation while a front-seat passenger streams music from the Internet, and each back-seat passenger watches streaming videos on separate displays.
Just because there's an internal network for the car's electronics doesn't mean there's any internet connection (and there'd better not be).
Just the possibility of playing NetWars on my car's intranet has me all in a tizzy.
1) You do not need a data connection to use GPS navigation. You do need to obtain offline maps and an app that can use them. I typically use OSMAnd with OpenStreetMaps when I'm traveling internationally to avoid data roaming charges.
2) I'm old enough to have grown up with Thomas Guides, and then printing out directions from MapQuest after that, and trying to figure out your next turn with them is far more distracting than using a GPS nav app. Looking at a paper map while driving should be considered at least as dangerous, if not more so.
I don't know about state laws, but you'd better be "hands-free" in Santa Fe. Personally, I find someplace to pull over should I need to talk because I find myself distracted but am safer looking at a GPS-focused map than craning my neck to figure where the hell I'm going. My wife's just the opposite - She talks on the phone just fine while driving, but looking at a GPS unit could endanger herself and others.
In California stopping on the shoulder to talk on the phone will also result in a ticket. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
If someone walks into a business with a menacing look on their face and is refused service, is that discrimination against people with menacing looks on their faces?
Should businesses be allowed to discriminate against polygomists? Or pedophiles?
Sounds like a lot of work deciding how to police these businesses. I guess the government doesn't mind because they want to control everything everyone does all the time.... Or, you know, we could just let businesses decide who they want to do business with.
It's legal to refuse to do business with any individual. It's illegal to refuse to do business with an entire class of people, simply because they're a member of that class.
In Arizona being gay is not a class. So this law is attempting to solve a "problem" that doesn't actually exist.
In terms of religion, there's a big difference between beliefs and practices. Any and all beliefs are legal in the USA. Practices must exist within the law.
People have the right to be racist. They also have the right to say & publish racist speech, etc.
I have mixed feelings. I know that the religious nuts are pushing this because of gay hatred, but I think businesses should have the freedom to refuse service. The public is welcome to boycott and post their negative opinion about the business.
On the other hand, I think this law may open the door to "no hispanics or negroes allowed" signs going up, because someone could claim its their religious belief...
Well, your last sentence was correct. Some Christians (I'm looking at you, Southern Baptists) used to preach that being black was the Mark of Cain and used it to justify first slavery and then racism. To purposefully legalize this behavior is stupidity of the first order. As the law is written, a business in Arizona could use the Mark of Cain argument to refuse to do business with blacks.
I imagine a gay CEO isn't too enthused about doing business with a state that thinks it's ok to refuse to do business with someone because they're gay. It's a two-way street, Arizona.
No one has massively hacked bitcoin cryptocurrency so far itself. (Maybe the NSA can.) However the banks storing bitcoin for exchange seem to have been vulnerable to hacking.
True, but from a practical perspective the exchanges are a mandatory part of the system.
The electronics are very deeply embedded. Not sure how you're gonna dump them when there's no physical cable connecting your throttle to your engine.
It's not that hard if you're handy. I've done it, as has anyone else that's into off-road stuff. All those safety systems are great on the highway but make driving over a bolder impossible. The real trick is being able to turn them off and on again.
Impossible in the case of EVs or hybrids.
Total bullshit. The first electric cars were made in the 1800's, how many computers did they have on-board?
Tell you what, you go get one of those 1800's electric cars and drive it at highway speeds for a couple hundred miles without any electronics. Then come back here and tell me how full of shit I am.
I think his point is that the decision to lock consumers into IE was made almost two decades ago, so people born since then should be looking for other reasons to dislike Microsoft. I will concede that Microsoft has lost their leadership position in anti-consumer practices and pretty much everyone has caught up to them now.
One way would be to insist that automakers do not nickel and dime design vehicles. The critical components related to vehicle safety should be designed for safety first, cost second.
These vehicles go for over $20 000, I should at least have the option to pay an extra $1000 to chuck the electronic crap.
The electronics are very deeply embedded. Not sure how you're gonna dump them when there's no physical cable connecting your throttle to your engine. Impossible in the case of EVs or hybrids.
Also although the article does a decent job of showing that a stack overflow is possible and might result in unexpected behavior, what's needed is a simulated failure scenario to see if that's what actually happens.
You've tried ultra bright IR but you really need flickering ultra-bright IR strobing at different rates and levels. A solid IR just sets things up for a better photo. Providing the camera didn't have an IR filter and did photograph IR a flickering IR would cause differing light needs within the exposure window which the camera would be unlikely to adapt to.
If you are able to link the timing of the flickering in with your own cameras you'd be able to shut it off momentarily (electronically) and grab the photo.
If I had points I'd mod you up, simply because you actually offered a potential solution rather than just rushed to judge the OP based on the use case.
I don't even care anymore if beta barely works, I will muddle through it. It's worth it to me to see the pain inflected on the Beta Assholes. That is how annoying they, not Beta, have become.
I'm really trying to give a shit about Beta, but I can't seem to do it. This sort of reaction happened the last time they redesigned, too. Everyone got over it./shrug
He's getting booed because he's taking all the fun out of the game for the viewers. It's not the freaking Olympics. It's a tv show, meant to entertain. He's not being entertaining.
The network, I'm sure, is ok with people being angry as long as they're getting angry by watching.
Basically what happened was Microsoft tried to take the same keyboard/mouse interface of Windows and shove it in a portable handheld form factor. Apple realized that the UIs must be different because interactions are different between a precise keyboard/mouse and an imprecise touchscreen - things that are easy with a mouse can be quite hard with a touchscreen (drags, for example), and vice versa.
And then, failing to really understand the lesson, they took their new mobile interface and tried to cram it into a PC. Apple tried to do the same thing with Launchpad, which also failed. Consumers want to use their mobile devices differently than their PC devices.
The real lesson is this: if you want someone to perform a task in a completely different way than they've already learned, there needs to be a big reward behind it.
Talk about the idea of storing your information in a propitiatory format using a subscription based software that you do not own.
"Oh your millions of documents are all in our closed source format now? It would be a shame of our subscription service quadrupled in price... Then again the stand alone versions are even more expensive... That's OK however, you will only have to pay us monthly... for forever."
Once you get by that stupid part, then you can go on to the stupid part about cloud based services... Also note that 99.99% of all those services are hosted in the USA where the NSA and every other government agency will be helping themselves to all your private data for whatever purposes they deem fit,
SO yeah, very quickly 3 good reasons never to use, and that is before you even look at the actual price, software features, etc...
You never "own" software unless you are the one who created it. You just own a right to use it according to whatever agreement you made with the creator. The quasi-legal wiretapping issues exist regardless of the location of the data. The physical location of the bits and documents is largely irrelevant. Proprietary formats could be an issue, but isn't in any practical sense.
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I remember this, too, and it made an impression on me. I still use PowerPoint (or Prezi, or whatever) but spend a lot of time making sure the deck helps me deliver my message, instead of me just narrating whatever's on the screen. Typically I try to use fewer than 10 slides per hour and no more than two or three bullets per slide.
PPT can be a great tool when used correctly. Hardly anyone does, though. At least where I work.
Seriously, they put this guys life in danger. Shame on them.
If he wanted to remain anonymous perhaps he should not have used his own name? It was only a matter of time and enough interest to investigate given that starting point. And if Newsweek found him so easily, and if he's held a security clearance as reported, it's reasonable to believe the government has known who he since pretty much whenever the question first popped up. His life is in no more danger today than last week.
Newsweek : This man is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Sheriff : "What?" The police officer balks.
Sheriff : "This is the guy who created Bitcoin?
Are we really supposed to believe that a Police Officer would know such geek trivia?
Seems to be a little overly dramatic.
You intentionally cut off the quote. "I would like to ask him about Bitcoin. This man is Satoshi Nakamoto." And plenty of cops are geeks, probably around the same as any other job. I used to have a bunch of them show up the LAN parties we'd do in the early 2000's.
Dependable banks require that those running them, and those depositing money into them are not GREEDY BASTARDS
Let me re-write that for you in a simplified form:
Dependable banks require that those running them, and those depositing money into them are not Human.
+1. The only reason there aren't more greedy bastards is due to the limited opportunities to act as one. Ask any communist how that worked out for them.
How will the trailer hold up to the average idiot with a forklift? Or to the average idiot that didn't strap the load in and it shifts?
Likely better than the aluminum used today.
imagine a driver getting turn-by-turn navigation while a front-seat passenger streams music from the Internet, and each back-seat passenger watches streaming videos on separate displays.
Just because there's an internal network for the car's electronics doesn't mean there's any internet connection (and there'd better not be).
Just the possibility of playing NetWars on my car's intranet has me all in a tizzy.
Cables? What about chargers? Why can't I charge my electric car with my phone's charger? This needs to change!
Can confirm unable to charge PEV with my laptop's USB port. Epic fail on the part of the manufacturer.
You may want to review your OSI model. I don't remember QoS, but layer 1 is the physical medium. Ethernet is layer 2.
And Diffserv operates at layer 3, assuming TCP/IP. QoS definitely does not take place only or even primarily at layer 7.
Edit: Total cost for OSMAnd and OpenStreetMaps for offline navigation: $0
A couple points:
1) You do not need a data connection to use GPS navigation. You do need to obtain offline maps and an app that can use them. I typically use OSMAnd with OpenStreetMaps when I'm traveling internationally to avoid data roaming charges.
2) I'm old enough to have grown up with Thomas Guides, and then printing out directions from MapQuest after that, and trying to figure out your next turn with them is far more distracting than using a GPS nav app. Looking at a paper map while driving should be considered at least as dangerous, if not more so.
...there is nothing about LA that precludes you from setting your 4-ways, pulling over, checking the phone, and safely entering traffic again.
That's also illegal, at least on the freeways. http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vct...
I don't know about state laws, but you'd better be "hands-free" in Santa Fe. Personally, I find someplace to pull over should I need to talk because I find myself distracted but am safer looking at a GPS-focused map than craning my neck to figure where the hell I'm going. My wife's just the opposite - She talks on the phone just fine while driving, but looking at a GPS unit could endanger herself and others.
In California stopping on the shoulder to talk on the phone will also result in a ticket. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
If someone walks into a business with a menacing look on their face and is refused service, is that discrimination against people with menacing looks on their faces?
Should businesses be allowed to discriminate against polygomists? Or pedophiles?
Sounds like a lot of work deciding how to police these businesses. I guess the government doesn't mind because they want to control everything everyone does all the time. ... Or, you know, we could just let businesses decide who they want to do business with.
It's legal to refuse to do business with any individual. It's illegal to refuse to do business with an entire class of people, simply because they're a member of that class.
In Arizona being gay is not a class. So this law is attempting to solve a "problem" that doesn't actually exist.
In terms of religion, there's a big difference between beliefs and practices. Any and all beliefs are legal in the USA. Practices must exist within the law.
People have the right to be racist. They also have the right to say & publish racist speech, etc.
I have mixed feelings. I know that the religious nuts are pushing this because of gay hatred, but I think businesses should have the freedom to refuse service. The public is welcome to boycott and post their negative opinion about the business.
On the other hand, I think this law may open the door to "no hispanics or negroes allowed" signs going up, because someone could claim its their religious belief...
Well, your last sentence was correct. Some Christians (I'm looking at you, Southern Baptists) used to preach that being black was the Mark of Cain and used it to justify first slavery and then racism. To purposefully legalize this behavior is stupidity of the first order. As the law is written, a business in Arizona could use the Mark of Cain argument to refuse to do business with blacks.
I imagine a gay CEO isn't too enthused about doing business with a state that thinks it's ok to refuse to do business with someone because they're gay. It's a two-way street, Arizona.
No one has massively hacked bitcoin cryptocurrency so far itself. (Maybe the NSA can.) However the banks storing bitcoin for exchange seem to have been vulnerable to hacking.
True, but from a practical perspective the exchanges are a mandatory part of the system.
The electronics are very deeply embedded. Not sure how you're gonna dump them when there's no physical cable connecting your throttle to your engine.
It's not that hard if you're handy. I've done it, as has anyone else that's into off-road stuff. All those safety systems are great on the highway but make driving over a bolder impossible. The real trick is being able to turn them off and on again.
Impossible in the case of EVs or hybrids.
Total bullshit. The first electric cars were made in the 1800's, how many computers did they have on-board?
Tell you what, you go get one of those 1800's electric cars and drive it at highway speeds for a couple hundred miles without any electronics. Then come back here and tell me how full of shit I am.
I think his point is that the decision to lock consumers into IE was made almost two decades ago, so people born since then should be looking for other reasons to dislike Microsoft. I will concede that Microsoft has lost their leadership position in anti-consumer practices and pretty much everyone has caught up to them now.
One way would be to insist that automakers do not nickel and dime design vehicles. The critical components related to vehicle safety should be designed for safety first, cost second.
These vehicles go for over $20 000, I should at least have the option to pay an extra $1000 to chuck the electronic crap.
The electronics are very deeply embedded. Not sure how you're gonna dump them when there's no physical cable connecting your throttle to your engine. Impossible in the case of EVs or hybrids.
Also although the article does a decent job of showing that a stack overflow is possible and might result in unexpected behavior, what's needed is a simulated failure scenario to see if that's what actually happens.
You've tried ultra bright IR but you really need flickering ultra-bright IR strobing at different rates and levels. A solid IR just sets things up for a better photo. Providing the camera didn't have an IR filter and did photograph IR a flickering IR would cause differing light needs within the exposure window which the camera would be unlikely to adapt to.
If you are able to link the timing of the flickering in with your own cameras you'd be able to shut it off momentarily (electronically) and grab the photo.
If I had points I'd mod you up, simply because you actually offered a potential solution rather than just rushed to judge the OP based on the use case.
As the saying goes, wish in one hand and shit in the other, then see which one fills up first. I wish you good luck with your strategy.
I don't even care anymore if beta barely works, I will muddle through it. It's worth it to me to see the pain inflected on the Beta Assholes. That is how annoying they, not Beta, have become.
I'm really trying to give a shit about Beta, but I can't seem to do it. This sort of reaction happened the last time they redesigned, too. Everyone got over it. /shrug
He's getting booed because he's taking all the fun out of the game for the viewers. It's not the freaking Olympics. It's a tv show, meant to entertain. He's not being entertaining.
The network, I'm sure, is ok with people being angry as long as they're getting angry by watching.
Basically what happened was Microsoft tried to take the same keyboard/mouse interface of Windows and shove it in a portable handheld form factor. Apple realized that the UIs must be different because interactions are different between a precise keyboard/mouse and an imprecise touchscreen - things that are easy with a mouse can be quite hard with a touchscreen (drags, for example), and vice versa.
And then, failing to really understand the lesson, they took their new mobile interface and tried to cram it into a PC. Apple tried to do the same thing with Launchpad, which also failed. Consumers want to use their mobile devices differently than their PC devices.
The real lesson is this: if you want someone to perform a task in a completely different way than they've already learned, there needs to be a big reward behind it.
OK before you even start kicking the cloud.
Talk about the idea of storing your information in a propitiatory format using a subscription based software that you do not own.
"Oh your millions of documents are all in our closed source format now? It would be a shame of our subscription service quadrupled in price... Then again the stand alone versions are even more expensive... That's OK however, you will only have to pay us monthly... for forever."
Once you get by that stupid part, then you can go on to the stupid part about cloud based services... Also note that 99.99% of all those services are hosted in the USA where the NSA and every other government agency will be helping themselves to all your private data for whatever purposes they deem fit,
SO yeah, very quickly 3 good reasons never to use, and that is before you even look at the actual price, software features, etc...
You never "own" software unless you are the one who created it. You just own a right to use it according to whatever agreement you made with the creator. The quasi-legal wiretapping issues exist regardless of the location of the data. The physical location of the bits and documents is largely irrelevant. Proprietary formats could be an issue, but isn't in any practical sense.