It's bulky, slow, hard to program in, and Oracle made the web plugin the worst thing to happen to computer security in the history of computers. Adding the Ask Toolbar by default to the installer is the software version of jumping the shark. They are so done and over with and dead and buried at this point. I know a lot of fellow programmers and not one of them has anything positive to say about Java. It needs to die as quickly as humanly possible.
They could have hired some friends of mine, who are expert web database interface programmers, plus me (I'm fantastic at proper HTML and CSS styling and future-proof coding) for about $500,000. Where $90+ mil came from is beyond me and the $600+ mil should put some people in jail for fraud. Heads better freaking roll over this atrocity, which is probably now covered by health insurance.
Before they toot the "no radiation" horn too hard, how much radiation does an antimatter-matter reaction cause? I would think with pure hydrogen, it'd be none while heavier elements would blast off at least beta radiation.
So, never in history was one of the extended royal family members adopted without telling them or writing it down? That many generations is universally intact and spotless? They never accidentally swapped a Duke's (or whatever) baby at the hospital with their amazing pre-computer, pre-bracelet printing records keeping? Testing people too far apart in generations shouldn't even be considered. Now the hand vs rag one, that I can believe and respect because they're a lot closer in time and more direct so I still think it's correct.
About 90% of TOR exit nodes can't even use google at all without a verification code. About the same number can't access 4chan or Omegle or slashdot's discussion system or any major news site's comments box, etc x 100000. So that's real, actual proof that a single IP will get banned from just about anything because a handful of users will ruin it for everyone.
As for a pool of addresses, now it's like website ban roulette because you might hop on wifi and get an IP from the pool that's banned and you might not. Eventually all of them will be banned and pools of IPv4 addresses aren't cheap so they aren't big.
I'm not familiar with how Linux coding goes but how does code show up that nobody knows who wrote it? There's no IP tracking or user accounts or logins or an e-mail account or anything? People can just throw nonsense out there anonymously and maybe it'll get included? Or did they bypass the normal submission means and somehow just sneak it into an about to be built code block?
And yet, what is their plan to keep everyone on the wifi from being banned from everything everywhere? You get hundreds of people on one IP address from one gigantic wireless router and you've got a problem. One person does something stupid on slashdot, you're all IP banned. Last I heard, they don't send down individual outside IPs to everyone who connects. Even if they do, it'd shift around so much that it's basically the pay phone of the internet. You can commit any crime online and they'll never find you because it's anonymous. Yeah, they can sort of track it but I can sort of fake my MAC address and laptop name too.
Now they should turn signal quality into a game. With their static bitrate feeds, a wall of text looks great but confetti falling at the superbowl creates pixels the size of cats. So, every time someone adds a channel to their 10 trillion channel lineup and wastes more bandwidth on something 2 people are "watching" aka fell asleep on the couch, they light your desk on fire. Every time someone launches a pathetically inept satellite that can support like 1Mbps per channel, crash it into that engineer's house. Then every time someone loses signal because of snow or rain, that customer is allowed 24 hours to hunt down the original installer of the dish with a crossbow. Eventually the game would make it so everyone wins and they wouldn't be such a complete joke of a provider.
*gaaaaaaaaasp*
Are you trying to say that giving them ipads for 3-4x the price would also result in 15% failing?
Okay, first of all, Amplify sucks. While I'm at it, AGPTek is pretty bad, iView is a crime against technology, and Kocaso makes me throw me in my mouth just thinking about them. They should have went with a Rockchip-based assembly without lobotamized internals like DDR2 or a crap touchscreen. I finally settled on the Avatar Sirius tablet for my shop at $65 or 80 (v1 and v2 pricing) and use one myself. That and the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 are the only sub-$150 tablets of sufficient quality.
Buuuuut you still can't run office, type on them, surf the web at a reasonable speed, etc. FYI "them" = "all tablets"
This so reminds me of my trip to Santa Monica, CA. I stayed at the Oceanic on the beach and the plane, taxi, food, and hotel were all paid for + a free $50 prepaid Visa for random expenses by one of the companies I was working for. So I decided to treat myself since it was sort of vacation-y and not 100% business and get a nice salad with room service. I was dead set on it as I looked for the menu. Then I found it and it was like $34 plus in tiny italics it said there's an 18% gratuity on the bill regardless of payment method plus they probably want a cash tip anyway when they get there. First of all, if that 18% built-in gratuity actually goes to the delivery person, they make more than I do at my job. I would quit on the spot and bring salads to rich families for like $10 per trip in a heartbeat. Secondly, I didn't end up ordering anything.
Since in most business, patents, video games, and basically all aspects of life in certain foreign countries cheat and lie and scam, it is possible that a bunch of other countries are all faking their results. In some asian countries test results are held in higher regard than anything else and cheating is rampant. In Turkey it's widely accepted that all small business are trying to rip everyone off whenever possible.
Other countries could be bribing judges or stealing result lists for applicants to study, etc. Before everyone goes off America-hating, maybe they should consider that.
Haven't they realized by now that one tiny little reason to make a customer buy their competitor's products will cause them to do so? Here it is. Mandatory, proprietary, overpriced crap is why Dell fell off a cliff in the business world. Why buy that $3 replacement fan when you can get a $40 one from dell because one one little plastic tab? Customers gave them a big, fat "fuck it, we're buying Lenovo" and jumped off that train like it was on fire. Good luck with that one, AMD.
"could be useful “in future civilization as an emergency backup hydration and medical source."
Except it dehydrates humans when they drink it and it's not nearly strong enough of an alcohol content to be an antiseptic. The sugars would actually cause an infection. All this article tells me is that the judges were idiots and Colorado alcoholic rednecks start pretty young.
They're too small to control or read, too hot, too short of battery life, too heavy, too bulky, and just too stupid of an idea. Until it can hover a 7" holographic screen above it, it's a stupid concept.
Definitely not. 32GB cache drives force you to buy an overpriced motherboard with a rather odd Intel chipset (maybe AMD has one too). Then if power is lost basically ever, you're screwed. Data transfers at 5:1 speed difference between an SSD cache drive and a traditional hard drives can stack up to whole minutes. You'll be cutting files in half left and right and from what Intel claimed, there is no magical remedy. They recommend a UPS.
They almost definitely absorb all tiny writes and ignore large sequential files by simply caching everything then stopping if the data doesn't stop after XX ms. That would match with their "OS agnostic" claim.
Also those old ones blue screened at least once per day. Apparently multiple firmware flashes still couldn't fix certain ones that couldn't properly move instructions around to put "commonly loaded" data into the cache area.
They seem to have forgotten a little defect. SSDs have a low failure rate, high speeds, okay prices, but everyone's scared of flash memory degradation after a number of writes. Some crappy one would get 1500 write cycles on a chip but OCZ ones get 9000 which, even at my high usage on a 128GB drive, is at least 8 years before it fries.
So Seagate decides to take the biggest pitfall and hated feature and put it into a hybrid drive. All data written to the gigantic drive is passed through that 8GB buffer first. Flash memory that can put up with that amount of writes over the long term doesn't exist. These drives would maybe last a year or two if you're lucky.
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It's bulky, slow, hard to program in, and Oracle made the web plugin the worst thing to happen to computer security in the history of computers. Adding the Ask Toolbar by default to the installer is the software version of jumping the shark. They are so done and over with and dead and buried at this point. I know a lot of fellow programmers and not one of them has anything positive to say about Java. It needs to die as quickly as humanly possible.
They could have hired some friends of mine, who are expert web database interface programmers, plus me (I'm fantastic at proper HTML and CSS styling and future-proof coding) for about $500,000. Where $90+ mil came from is beyond me and the $600+ mil should put some people in jail for fraud. Heads better freaking roll over this atrocity, which is probably now covered by health insurance.
Money != contractor knows what it's doing
I hope that's a nice way of saying they pirated it because that's what everyone in countries around there does.
Before they toot the "no radiation" horn too hard, how much radiation does an antimatter-matter reaction cause? I would think with pure hydrogen, it'd be none while heavier elements would blast off at least beta radiation.
My last post on this topic a couple days ago was "I'm starting to get the impression that Tepco only hired idiots." This has now been 100% confirmed.
If my $10 mil company can't afford Office 2013 and is switching to Libre, how the hell can an African school system afford it?
So, never in history was one of the extended royal family members adopted without telling them or writing it down? That many generations is universally intact and spotless? They never accidentally swapped a Duke's (or whatever) baby at the hospital with their amazing pre-computer, pre-bracelet printing records keeping? Testing people too far apart in generations shouldn't even be considered. Now the hand vs rag one, that I can believe and respect because they're a lot closer in time and more direct so I still think it's correct.
Who says it's working and people are happy? That's not what I read.
About 90% of TOR exit nodes can't even use google at all without a verification code. About the same number can't access 4chan or Omegle or slashdot's discussion system or any major news site's comments box, etc x 100000. So that's real, actual proof that a single IP will get banned from just about anything because a handful of users will ruin it for everyone.
As for a pool of addresses, now it's like website ban roulette because you might hop on wifi and get an IP from the pool that's banned and you might not. Eventually all of them will be banned and pools of IPv4 addresses aren't cheap so they aren't big.
That is exactly what I was thinking. What backwards language/compiler are they using? Obviously nothing from this decade.
I'm not familiar with how Linux coding goes but how does code show up that nobody knows who wrote it? There's no IP tracking or user accounts or logins or an e-mail account or anything? People can just throw nonsense out there anonymously and maybe it'll get included? Or did they bypass the normal submission means and somehow just sneak it into an about to be built code block?
And yet, what is their plan to keep everyone on the wifi from being banned from everything everywhere? You get hundreds of people on one IP address from one gigantic wireless router and you've got a problem. One person does something stupid on slashdot, you're all IP banned. Last I heard, they don't send down individual outside IPs to everyone who connects. Even if they do, it'd shift around so much that it's basically the pay phone of the internet. You can commit any crime online and they'll never find you because it's anonymous. Yeah, they can sort of track it but I can sort of fake my MAC address and laptop name too.
Now they should turn signal quality into a game. With their static bitrate feeds, a wall of text looks great but confetti falling at the superbowl creates pixels the size of cats. So, every time someone adds a channel to their 10 trillion channel lineup and wastes more bandwidth on something 2 people are "watching" aka fell asleep on the couch, they light your desk on fire. Every time someone launches a pathetically inept satellite that can support like 1Mbps per channel, crash it into that engineer's house. Then every time someone loses signal because of snow or rain, that customer is allowed 24 hours to hunt down the original installer of the dish with a crossbow. Eventually the game would make it so everyone wins and they wouldn't be such a complete joke of a provider.
*gaaaaaaaaasp*
Are you trying to say that giving them ipads for 3-4x the price would also result in 15% failing?
Okay, first of all, Amplify sucks. While I'm at it, AGPTek is pretty bad, iView is a crime against technology, and Kocaso makes me throw me in my mouth just thinking about them. They should have went with a Rockchip-based assembly without lobotamized internals like DDR2 or a crap touchscreen. I finally settled on the Avatar Sirius tablet for my shop at $65 or 80 (v1 and v2 pricing) and use one myself. That and the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 are the only sub-$150 tablets of sufficient quality.
Buuuuut you still can't run office, type on them, surf the web at a reasonable speed, etc. FYI "them" = "all tablets"
This so reminds me of my trip to Santa Monica, CA. I stayed at the Oceanic on the beach and the plane, taxi, food, and hotel were all paid for + a free $50 prepaid Visa for random expenses by one of the companies I was working for. So I decided to treat myself since it was sort of vacation-y and not 100% business and get a nice salad with room service. I was dead set on it as I looked for the menu. Then I found it and it was like $34 plus in tiny italics it said there's an 18% gratuity on the bill regardless of payment method plus they probably want a cash tip anyway when they get there. First of all, if that 18% built-in gratuity actually goes to the delivery person, they make more than I do at my job. I would quit on the spot and bring salads to rich families for like $10 per trip in a heartbeat. Secondly, I didn't end up ordering anything.
Since in most business, patents, video games, and basically all aspects of life in certain foreign countries cheat and lie and scam, it is possible that a bunch of other countries are all faking their results. In some asian countries test results are held in higher regard than anything else and cheating is rampant. In Turkey it's widely accepted that all small business are trying to rip everyone off whenever possible.
Other countries could be bribing judges or stealing result lists for applicants to study, etc. Before everyone goes off America-hating, maybe they should consider that.
Haven't they realized by now that one tiny little reason to make a customer buy their competitor's products will cause them to do so? Here it is. Mandatory, proprietary, overpriced crap is why Dell fell off a cliff in the business world. Why buy that $3 replacement fan when you can get a $40 one from dell because one one little plastic tab? Customers gave them a big, fat "fuck it, we're buying Lenovo" and jumped off that train like it was on fire. Good luck with that one, AMD.
"could be useful “in future civilization as an emergency backup hydration and medical source."
Except it dehydrates humans when they drink it and it's not nearly strong enough of an alcohol content to be an antiseptic. The sugars would actually cause an infection. All this article tells me is that the judges were idiots and Colorado alcoholic rednecks start pretty young.
I'm starting to think that only complete idiots are employed there.
They're too small to control or read, too hot, too short of battery life, too heavy, too bulky, and just too stupid of an idea. Until it can hover a 7" holographic screen above it, it's a stupid concept.
Definitely not. 32GB cache drives force you to buy an overpriced motherboard with a rather odd Intel chipset (maybe AMD has one too). Then if power is lost basically ever, you're screwed. Data transfers at 5:1 speed difference between an SSD cache drive and a traditional hard drives can stack up to whole minutes. You'll be cutting files in half left and right and from what Intel claimed, there is no magical remedy. They recommend a UPS.
They almost definitely absorb all tiny writes and ignore large sequential files by simply caching everything then stopping if the data doesn't stop after XX ms. That would match with their "OS agnostic" claim.
Also those old ones blue screened at least once per day. Apparently multiple firmware flashes still couldn't fix certain ones that couldn't properly move instructions around to put "commonly loaded" data into the cache area.
They seem to have forgotten a little defect. SSDs have a low failure rate, high speeds, okay prices, but everyone's scared of flash memory degradation after a number of writes. Some crappy one would get 1500 write cycles on a chip but OCZ ones get 9000 which, even at my high usage on a 128GB drive, is at least 8 years before it fries.
So Seagate decides to take the biggest pitfall and hated feature and put it into a hybrid drive. All data written to the gigantic drive is passed through that 8GB buffer first. Flash memory that can put up with that amount of writes over the long term doesn't exist. These drives would maybe last a year or two if you're lucky.