OS X is an evolution of NEXTSTEP, which was started in the late 80s. They saw that OS 9 was a dead end and Apple needed something "new" and "modern", so they went with NEXT (and for a good while there was this set of compatibility APIs called carbon, PROBABLY had a lot of mac classic code). You can still see a lot of similarities between Xcode today and what they were using on NEXT in the early 90s. new code, old code, it makes no difference. It ALL has flaws.
destructive responses go back to the days when a CP/M spreadsheet program incorporated code to delete everything it could touch if it detected a pirated copy - and they paid dearly for that at the time. At least the victim back then WAS a pirate (mostly, unless the pirate was an unscrupulous vendor, which was often the case back in the 80s).
Do you have any more information on this? Sounds like an interesting read.
I don't consider myself complacent at all, but at the same time I'd much rather work the 9-5 M-F then put in lots of hours.
Yeah, I don't think working 9-5 is a sign of "losing your passion", it's a sign that you get your work done and go home to do other things your passionate about.
If anything, working a ton of hours is just a sign that you're either: going to burn out in a year once it catches up with you, that you're more worried about looking like you're "dedicated", or that you're just screwing around most of the day and need to work long hours to finish the stuff you're getting paid for.
It's as simple as getting a $20 Jenny basic phone from Amazon, and possibly a $5 SIM adapter so your micro/nano sim can fit. I think it's a great insurance policy, and you can take the basic phone with you overseas to use with random sims (of course, with T-Mobile, you can still use your phone data-free,sms-free, and calls without usurious charges overseas too, but having a backup there is useful too).
You don't even have to buy your spare.
I have a BlackBerry I kept from 4 years ago as my backup sitting in my closet.
Doesn't do any whizz bang stuff the new phones do, but it'll at least give me text/data/phone if my regular phone craps out.
I've only had to use it once, and I loaned it out to a family member when their phone was being replaced a year ago.
I once spent 6 hours on a conference call with two remote team members working to solve a time-critical software issue for a delivery. Using IM would have been cumber/tiresome and would have probably been much less efficient than voice.
Your right, that would have been cumbersome.
We use IM in my company for quick communication on projects we're working on or to give someone information without having to walk over to their desk and make them stop what they're doing.
Kind of like "where was the code for that thing you did last year", "hey, I'm out of data to review, can you send over some more", or "ok, I finished generating that report, can you take a look".
Doesn't work well for every situation, but most of my work is people working on the same task but very different parts. IM just serves as a way to communicate status in a way that would be really annoying in email.
You won't get a raise over it, at worst "let go" from the job. Might as well reap the rewards of reduced workload and stress. Besides, employment is just like any other business agreement; it's mutual. So unless it's part of the job description to emphasize automation, you're doing it for YOU, not them.
Bleh, that sounds boring.
I automate all boring crap, so I can do more interesting things.
This just in, user who wants a niche feature uses hyperbole to attempt to make it appear that companies with large R&D and market research divisions are missing large parts of the market.
Next up - "Why Apple is 'missing the mark' by not creating a phone with an FM radio because I would find it useful, here is a 'survey' of 50 paid respondents to justify this".
There are many reasons why these phones don't exist, here are two big ones: 1) Bulkiness 2) Added cost (where even people who want these phones don't want to pay extra for it)
Is the submitter saying that even though they stopped processing disks on Saturday they are still within their defined window of 1-3 days processing?
If so, then what are you complaining about? They promised something and they are still delivering. Maybe they started with Saturday processing just to keep the service level and now the number of disks is not so overwhelming anymore that they are able to cut that day while still meeting their promise.
Starting Saturday, July 12, the entire “South Park” library — 244 episodes in all — will be available for free on Hulu, and will continue to be free on SouthPark.cc.com (the address that is replacing SouthParkStudios.com) until Sept. 24. At that point, both Hulu and SouthPark.cc.com will have day-after-air access to new episodes from season 18. In addition, each of the sites will offer a revolving selection of 30 free episodes at any given time.
It sounds like they will not require Hulu plus until Sept 24, after that you will only get a "revolving selection of 30 free episodes" if you are not a member of Hulu Plus.
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It's a shame really. I refuse to pay for Hulu Plus because of the obnoxious ads. I don't have cable for a reason, and that reason is I have a problem paying monthly for something and still being bombarded by advertisements.
For me I'll probably just stop watching South Park. Not that I would really watch it with any regularity, but it was nice to every once and a while pop over to their site and watch it free (but ad supported).
What would I do with all the extra time if I didn't have to spend hours at a dealership while the salesperson artificially inflates the amount of time it takes to pay so they hope I won't notice the $5k extra they tacked on!?
Not to mention what this will do to the vehicle undercarriage coating industry!
There is probably more to the whole POS installation than just the registry key.
I think someone just noticed that if you happen to only flip one of the many bits for the POS system that it would cause Windows Update to behave differently.
There are thousands upon thousands of people too poor for all three. They don't live anywhere with access to fresh food ("food deserts"), can't afford to travel to where they could buy fresh food, couldn't afford the food itself even if they could get there, can't afford to take the time out of their multiple jobs to go even if they could afford it, and can't afford to to take the time off to cook or eat it.
If this was true then only poor people would be obese. I'm not saying that the problems you mention aren't a factor of obesity in poor people, but I do think that being too poor to get at food is the main reason people are obese.
From the store's point of view though they won't sell it at the same price you get online because they need to pay for location, staff, deal with shoplifters and books that go stale and unsold that need to be taken off the shelves again.
I have had the same experience with Barnes and Noble where the same book is listed as cheaper on their website than it is in person.
I find it just a little dishonest because in general you assume that if you visit the website of a store that the price listed on the website will match what you will pay in the store. I don't think they would "open pandora's box" if they changed this policy, though I suspect that they maintain it to have it both ways: beating Amazon on price online and charging whatever they want in the store. When those two collide I'd bet the majority of people just suck it up and buy it at the retail price because they already drove out to Barnes and Noble.
A decent chrome book that 'isn't slow' will costs you $250 AT LEAST... and right next to it on the shelf is the Windows $250 laptop that... works exactly the same if you run everything in a browser like Chrome.
Google was running a deal last year where a school could get a chromebook for $100 a piece if you were at a school. My boyfriend was able to get an entire classroom set of chromebooks for $2000 raised through donors choose.
Spec and hardware wise they aren't the greatest things, but they're great for having everyone in the classroom do a quick online-based activity or other work without having to fight for the computer lab.
malware of this nature probably wouldn't even be feasible if it wasn't for bitcoin and it's kin. There'd be no way to anonymously extort money from victims.
Not the case.
CryptoLocker’s creators also recently shifted their monetization tactics, giving willing users additional time to pay the ransom with bitcoin or MoneyPak.
Strains of this in the past were using MoneyPak (prepaid cash card) to extort money just fine.
How do you think we can get through to the anti-vaxxers?
Unfortunately, I don't think anything will get through to them until their kids and loved ones start dying from very old and highly preventable diseases.
Their mindset is one much like the followers of creationism, etc where they believe that: 1) All scientists have been bought out by "big pharma" or 2) That the consensus among the scientific community is some kind of organized ploy to sell more and more drugs.
Because of this, no matter what scientists or public health officials say, they just plug their ears and go "LALALALALA".
Honestly, I wish Google and similar services would offer a "paid" version with no data mining or tracking. People forget that the awesome search engine, maps, etc. aren't a free resource, and their data is paying Google's bills.
You can do this partly with Google Apps, doesn't stop the tracking in Google Search though...
When I was working in the school districts, you didn't get the summer off, in fact, you got a _ton_ more work done because all of the teachers were out of your hair:)
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OS X is an evolution of NEXTSTEP, which was started in the late 80s. They saw that OS 9 was a dead end and Apple needed something "new" and "modern", so they went with NEXT (and for a good while there was this set of compatibility APIs called carbon, PROBABLY had a lot of mac classic code). You can still see a lot of similarities between Xcode today and what they were using on NEXT in the early 90s.
new code, old code, it makes no difference. It ALL has flaws.
Heck even the images from the "Grab" program in the recent versions of OSX have the original Grab icon from NeXTSTEP
destructive responses go back to the days when a CP/M spreadsheet program incorporated code to delete everything it could touch if it detected a pirated copy - and they paid dearly for that at the time. At least the victim back then WAS a pirate (mostly, unless the pirate was an unscrupulous vendor, which was often the case back in the 80s).
Do you have any more information on this? Sounds like an interesting read.
I don't consider myself complacent at all, but at the same time I'd much rather work the 9-5 M-F then put in lots of hours.
Yeah, I don't think working 9-5 is a sign of "losing your passion", it's a sign that you get your work done and go home to do other things your passionate about.
If anything, working a ton of hours is just a sign that you're either: going to burn out in a year once it catches up with you, that you're more worried about looking like you're "dedicated", or that you're just screwing around most of the day and need to work long hours to finish the stuff you're getting paid for.
To cover iPhones an Apple store would have to have at most 8 different models.
Also, at least with the iPhone 5S they can do screen replacements in store which is probably one of the most common repair issues other than water.
It's as simple as getting a $20 Jenny basic phone from Amazon, and possibly a $5 SIM adapter so your micro/nano sim can fit. I think it's a great insurance policy, and you can take the basic phone with you overseas to use with random sims (of course, with T-Mobile, you can still use your phone data-free,sms-free, and calls without usurious charges overseas too, but having a backup there is useful too).
You don't even have to buy your spare.
I have a BlackBerry I kept from 4 years ago as my backup sitting in my closet.
Doesn't do any whizz bang stuff the new phones do, but it'll at least give me text/data/phone if my regular phone craps out.
I've only had to use it once, and I loaned it out to a family member when their phone was being replaced a year ago.
I once spent 6 hours on a conference call with two remote team members working to solve a time-critical software issue for a delivery. Using IM would have been cumber/tiresome and would have probably been much less efficient than voice.
Your right, that would have been cumbersome.
We use IM in my company for quick communication on projects we're working on or to give someone information without having to walk over to their desk and make them stop what they're doing.
Kind of like "where was the code for that thing you did last year", "hey, I'm out of data to review, can you send over some more", or "ok, I finished generating that report, can you take a look".
Doesn't work well for every situation, but most of my work is people working on the same task but very different parts. IM just serves as a way to communicate status in a way that would be really annoying in email.
You won't get a raise over it, at worst "let go" from the job. Might as well reap the rewards of reduced workload and stress. Besides, employment is just like any other business agreement; it's mutual. So unless it's part of the job description to emphasize automation, you're doing it for YOU, not them.
Bleh, that sounds boring.
I automate all boring crap, so I can do more interesting things.
You have to upgrade to 4.3.0.37 on Linux to obtain connections. They've cut off earlier versions.
I'm using 4.2.0.11 on Kubuntu with no issues...
This just in, user who wants a niche feature uses hyperbole to attempt to make it appear that companies with large R&D and market research divisions are missing large parts of the market.
Next up - "Why Apple is 'missing the mark' by not creating a phone with an FM radio because I would find it useful, here is a 'survey' of 50 paid respondents to justify this".
There are many reasons why these phones don't exist, here are two big ones:
1) Bulkiness
2) Added cost (where even people who want these phones don't want to pay extra for it)
Summary doesn't make sense to me.
Is the submitter saying that even though they stopped processing disks on Saturday they are still within their defined window of 1-3 days processing?
If so, then what are you complaining about? They promised something and they are still delivering. Maybe they started with Saturday processing just to keep the service level and now the number of disks is not so overwhelming anymore that they are able to cut that day while still meeting their promise.
From http://variety.com/2014/digita...:
Starting Saturday, July 12, the entire “South Park” library — 244 episodes in all — will be available for free on Hulu, and will continue to be free on SouthPark.cc.com (the address that is replacing SouthParkStudios.com) until Sept. 24. At that point, both Hulu and SouthPark.cc.com will have day-after-air access to new episodes from season 18. In addition, each of the sites will offer a revolving selection of 30 free episodes at any given time.
It sounds like they will not require Hulu plus until Sept 24, after that you will only get a "revolving selection of 30 free episodes" if you are not a member of Hulu Plus.
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It's a shame really. I refuse to pay for Hulu Plus because of the obnoxious ads. I don't have cable for a reason, and that reason is I have a problem paying monthly for something and still being bombarded by advertisements.
For me I'll probably just stop watching South Park. Not that I would really watch it with any regularity, but it was nice to every once and a while pop over to their site and watch it free (but ad supported).
Why?
Because if it happens enough people will lose faith in all Kickstarter projects and then Kickstarter will go out of business.
What would I do with all the extra time if I didn't have to spend hours at a dealership while the salesperson artificially inflates the amount of time it takes to pay so they hope I won't notice the $5k extra they tacked on!?
Not to mention what this will do to the vehicle undercarriage coating industry!
Kind of funny that the journal paper on rent seeking is protected by a $44 paywall...
There is probably more to the whole POS installation than just the registry key.
I think someone just noticed that if you happen to only flip one of the many bits for the POS system that it would cause Windows Update to behave differently.
There are thousands upon thousands of people too poor for all three. They don't live anywhere with access to fresh food ("food deserts"), can't afford to travel to where they could buy fresh food, couldn't afford the food itself even if they could get there, can't afford to take the time out of their multiple jobs to go even if they could afford it, and can't afford to to take the time off to cook or eat it.
If this was true then only poor people would be obese. I'm not saying that the problems you mention aren't a factor of obesity in poor people, but I do think that being too poor to get at food is the main reason people are obese.
From the store's point of view though they won't sell it at the same price you get online because they need to pay for location, staff, deal with shoplifters and books that go stale and unsold that need to be taken off the shelves again.
I have had the same experience with Barnes and Noble where the same book is listed as cheaper on their website than it is in person.
I find it just a little dishonest because in general you assume that if you visit the website of a store that the price listed on the website will match what you will pay in the store. I don't think they would "open pandora's box" if they changed this policy, though I suspect that they maintain it to have it both ways: beating Amazon on price online and charging whatever they want in the store. When those two collide I'd bet the majority of people just suck it up and buy it at the retail price because they already drove out to Barnes and Noble.
But, curiously enough, they're indistinguishable from the bots.
Not really, as a bot by definition isn't a person.
People who sign up for Twitter and use it a as a news source or whatever are still getting something out of it.
hell even a plain old SMS would work better.
If you set it up properly, you can have twitter send you an SMS whenever a specific users tweets.
A decent chrome book that 'isn't slow' will costs you $250 AT LEAST ... and right next to it on the shelf is the Windows $250 laptop that ... works exactly the same if you run everything in a browser like Chrome.
Google was running a deal last year where a school could get a chromebook for $100 a piece if you were at a school. My boyfriend was able to get an entire classroom set of chromebooks for $2000 raised through donors choose.
Spec and hardware wise they aren't the greatest things, but they're great for having everyone in the classroom do a quick online-based activity or other work without having to fight for the computer lab.
malware of this nature probably wouldn't even be feasible if it wasn't for bitcoin and it's kin. There'd be no way to anonymously extort money from victims.
Not the case.
CryptoLocker’s creators also recently shifted their monetization tactics, giving willing users additional time to pay the ransom with bitcoin or MoneyPak.
Strains of this in the past were using MoneyPak (prepaid cash card) to extort money just fine.
http://blog.trendmicro.com/cry...
It is very much a religious issue for many people.
Which is why religious people are free to not enter same sex relationships.
How do you think we can get through to the anti-vaxxers?
Unfortunately, I don't think anything will get through to them until their kids and loved ones start dying from very old and highly preventable diseases.
Their mindset is one much like the followers of creationism, etc where they believe that:
1) All scientists have been bought out by "big pharma" or
2) That the consensus among the scientific community is some kind of organized ploy to sell more and more drugs.
Because of this, no matter what scientists or public health officials say, they just plug their ears and go "LALALALALA".
Honestly, I wish Google and similar services would offer a "paid" version with no data mining or tracking. People forget that the awesome search engine, maps, etc. aren't a free resource, and their data is paying Google's bills.
You can do this partly with Google Apps, doesn't stop the tracking in Google Search though...
Until then, enjoy those summers off.
When I was working in the school districts, you didn't get the summer off, in fact, you got a _ton_ more work done because all of the teachers were out of your hair :)