Really, I've never posted this before because I always think it's obvious and better left unsaid, but your comment was so striking I feel my hand is forced:
there's an entire generation of gamers who haven't played these games
And I don't think they'll have the patience for old school JRPGs, either. Nowadays, the grindy, repetitive, random battles are just called "bad design."
OK, lets be 100% honest about this kid. This entire thing was a setup by his FATHER to get attention for his "cause". His father is a well known activist and Imam who plans these types of events. Now that the whole thing has been exposed as a fraud the father is moving. Of course the media never follows up, and the public never learns the truth.
The kid's dad could not MAKE the authorities overreact like they did, and he clearly is actually interested in electronics. See the lead photo here: http://www.dallasnews.com/opin...
As pointed out before: The kid 'invented' a bigotry-detector.
Yes, though I really don't think it was ethnic bigotry. A socially awkward white boy would probably have received the same treatment, due to hysteria over school violence and whatnot.
Research the background of the kid's parents and you'll start to see what I mean.
IMO, this was all part of a preconceived plan to scare people at school by bringing in a suspicious-looking device and then cry discrimination when called out on it.
where the heck is stuff like less, tail, head, etc? IIRC the last time I went looking for it, PowerShell's version of tail and grep are totally retarded and difficult next to the relative simplicity of $foo | tail -n 10 or something.
I agree that's a pretty stupid command not to replicate. PowerShell is object oriented, though, so parsing flat text files isn't as critical as you'd think.
Sorry, but that's not what "narrow" means, because that's not how nuclear weapons are detonated. If there was a remote chance of setting off a hydrogen bomb simply by dropping it, I don't think even the craziest hawk would have been putting the things in planes to begin with.
No warheads detonated, narrowly averting what could have been an explosion more powerful than the atomic strikes against Japan at the end of World War II.
It's not "cluttered" with special offers. It shows you a full screen ad before you unlock it, and it shows you small banner at the bottom of your home screen. They aren't obtrusive in any way. When you're reading, they're not there. LCD screens are cheaper than e-ink because they are produced in such higher quantities.
He was frustrated that his $2 Mater couldn't two $2 Lightning, so I drilled a few holes and added a tow hook and hitch made from paper clips. He was happy and I had fun. I've made other hacks and fixes since then to get extended functionality out of his toys, or to make non-toys into toys. It's quite rewarding.
I am thoroughly annoyed by people using the 7-Zip format for archives. The few extra bytes saved is not worth the annoyance, neither for RAR nor 7z files.
It's cute how he thinks no one thought about this and sanitized the audit trail. I'm sure he also thinks his 4096-bit disk encryption thwarts even the most determined ne'er-do-wells.
The people running the car computer division are not the people running the mail servers. They are not the backup admins. They are not the desktop admins. They are probably not the kinds of people who would know how to erase an audit trail completely, nor the kinds of people willing and able to coerce their coworkers not to testify against them for 1) authorizing the cheat and 2) trying to erase the trail.
subsidized by yours and my taxpayer dollars, natch
The simple fact is automakers are considered of such importance to the economy that all of them are heavily subsidized by their respective governments.
One thing that amazes me about American politics is how they get caught up on certain issues forever, while a lot of other countries seem to just move on to newer problems after making a decision. Abortion is a good example - I could barely believe how Planned Parenthood funding was a core debate subject at the Republican leader debate (sad when that was the most entertaining TV on).
That is amazing to you? If you believe abortion is murdering babies, then you aren't going to "move on." Anti-war protesters don't "move on" until the war ends or their country stop participating. You're talking about things that are an affront to these people, and expecting them to shrug it off and talk about highway funding or fiscal minutia is naive.
“He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” said Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who immigrated from Sudan and occasionally returns there to run for president.
Meh, your anecdote smacks of US executives observing Japanese team bonding exercises and assuming those were why Japanese corproations were so successful, instead of their permanent jobs with good salaries and conditions.
Japanese culture is why the Japanese method works. You can't get large numbers of Western workers to put up with large patches of unpaid overtime every week (not to mention the fact there is no reciprocal loyalty between the employer and employee). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_work_environment#Working_conditions
They have also screwed up the one major life decision they have made so far: Their college major.
Whether and when to go to college is a far more important. If liberal arts majors want to work in IT, there are always certifications. If you will not hire them, big deal.
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Really, I've never posted this before because I always think it's obvious and better left unsaid, but your comment was so striking I feel my hand is forced:
WHOOSH
but I personally have little interest in games on a ~5 inch screen whose controls usually are just variations on "Turn device or touch the screen".
Do you really need tactile controls for menu- and turn-based combat?
there's an entire generation of gamers who haven't played these games
And I don't think they'll have the patience for old school JRPGs, either. Nowadays, the grindy, repetitive, random battles are just called "bad design."
OK, lets be 100% honest about this kid. This entire thing was a setup by his FATHER to get attention for his "cause". His father is a well known activist and Imam who plans these types of events. Now that the whole thing has been exposed as a fraud the father is moving. Of course the media never follows up, and the public never learns the truth.
The kid's dad could not MAKE the authorities overreact like they did, and he clearly is actually interested in electronics. See the lead photo here: http://www.dallasnews.com/opin...
As pointed out before: The kid 'invented' a bigotry-detector.
Yes, though I really don't think it was ethnic bigotry. A socially awkward white boy would probably have received the same treatment, due to hysteria over school violence and whatnot.
Research the background of the kid's parents and you'll start to see what I mean.
IMO, this was all part of a preconceived plan to scare people at school by bringing in a suspicious-looking device and then cry discrimination when called out on it.
You're assuming a lot.
where the heck is stuff like less, tail, head, etc? IIRC the last time I went looking for it, PowerShell's version of tail and grep are totally retarded and difficult next to the relative simplicity of $foo | tail -n 10 or something.
I agree that's a pretty stupid command not to replicate. PowerShell is object oriented, though, so parsing flat text files isn't as critical as you'd think.
No warheads detonated, narrowly averting what could have been an explosion more powerful than the atomic strikes against Japan at the end of World War II.
If you mean buttons for page turns, the Voyage still has tactile buttons along the edges.
It's not "cluttered" with special offers. It shows you a full screen ad before you unlock it, and it shows you small banner at the bottom of your home screen. They aren't obtrusive in any way. When you're reading, they're not there. LCD screens are cheaper than e-ink because they are produced in such higher quantities.
My wife got a $10k taxpayer subsidy on her Tesla. That could have paid for a thousand anti-malaria bed nets. That is misplaced priorities.
Sorry, someone has to bring this point up: How many malaria bed nets would the whole Tesla have paid for, minus the cost of a bus pass?
Wish I had mod points. Your comment is not only insightful, it is quite understated. That company has a hand in everything in south Orange County.
Oh come on, you're being so partisan. Solids can be just as wet, water is just a bigger target because it fits the msm narrative.
He was frustrated that his $2 Mater couldn't two $2 Lightning, so I drilled a few holes and added a tow hook and hitch made from paper clips. He was happy and I had fun. I've made other hacks and fixes since then to get extended functionality out of his toys, or to make non-toys into toys. It's quite rewarding.
Next story.
I am thoroughly annoyed by people using the 7-Zip format for archives. The few extra bytes saved is not worth the annoyance, neither for RAR nor 7z files.
What annoyance?
Can't wait to buy an $800 phone to use this $99 vr screen.
I get your point. Still, the phone is the screen.
It's cute how he thinks no one thought about this and sanitized the audit trail. I'm sure he also thinks his 4096-bit disk encryption thwarts even the most determined ne'er-do-wells.
The people running the car computer division are not the people running the mail servers. They are not the backup admins. They are not the desktop admins. They are probably not the kinds of people who would know how to erase an audit trail completely, nor the kinds of people willing and able to coerce their coworkers not to testify against them for 1) authorizing the cheat and 2) trying to erase the trail.
subsidized by yours and my taxpayer dollars, natch
The simple fact is automakers are considered of such importance to the economy that all of them are heavily subsidized by their respective governments.
One thing that amazes me about American politics is how they get caught up on certain issues forever, while a lot of other countries seem to just move on to newer problems after making a decision. Abortion is a good example - I could barely believe how Planned Parenthood funding was a core debate subject at the Republican leader debate (sad when that was the most entertaining TV on).
That is amazing to you? If you believe abortion is murdering babies, then you aren't going to "move on." Anti-war protesters don't "move on" until the war ends or their country stop participating. You're talking about things that are an affront to these people, and expecting them to shrug it off and talk about highway funding or fiscal minutia is naive.
“He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” said Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who immigrated from Sudan and occasionally returns there to run for president.
He made the mistake of thinking that school was a place for learning and exploration. It is not.
He also made the mistake of not having white skin and having a Muslim-sounding name.
That first the narrative, but I imagine if he were a pasty skinned maladjusted kid that liked to wear black hoodies, he'd have met a similar reaction.
Yes, the movie can give NASA a Hollywood bump. A small, ultimately meaningless bump.
Meh, your anecdote smacks of US executives observing Japanese team bonding exercises and assuming those were why Japanese corproations were so successful, instead of their permanent jobs with good salaries and conditions.
Japanese culture is why the Japanese method works. You can't get large numbers of Western workers to put up with large patches of unpaid overtime every week (not to mention the fact there is no reciprocal loyalty between the employer and employee).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_work_environment#Working_conditions
They have also screwed up the one major life decision they have made so far: Their college major.
Whether and when to go to college is a far more important. If liberal arts majors want to work in IT, there are always certifications. If you will not hire them, big deal.
Others will.