Kid makes a mobile game, gets hired by FB as developer (software engineer my ass), somehow becomes a product manager and spends 2 years learning about his own demographic and creates a failed social app.
For some reason, this makes him attractive to Google and they hire him.
*ugh*
Not only is Idiocracy becoming real, so is Silicon Valley.
Non-smart TVs yes have less hardware, but because they're made in much smaller quantities, they demand a premium.
Where the hell have I been? Last time I shopped for a TV was 3 or 4 years ago, and smart TVs were in in smaller quantities and were more expensive. It's now the opposite?
I have been using hostmonster for many years, and am considering switching. I've looked a few and will make a decision when my current contract comes to an end. I've looked at InMotion and a few others.
Basically find a web host that has unlimited storage, or storage limits you are comfortable with (but check the TOS and make sure they don't have a limit on number of files [HOSTMONSTER!]).
As far as backups, some basic scripts and you should be good to go on linux. I am sure there are some free backup tools out there that will work for windows machines (but haven't looked).
Might not be as convenient as one of the cloud hosting companies, but YOU control it.
According to Disney, you don't own any of that content. You should know that by now. Disney owns it, and you simply have a copy - otherwise you are a filthy thief.
I'm actually serious. I thought about this, and my gut reaction is that I can't think of anything from a personal perspective to have open sourced. I am happy with Linux and the tools I have, even GIMP. There are a few things I use at work that I don't think I would really use at home, like Snag-It. Irfanview is something I always use as well, it's just a great all-around image viewer, screen capture, and image resizer.
But at work, we have an enterprise-level application that uses Silverlight a lot, and we have some VB6 apps as well. The next couple of years are going to be spent updating those, and as the manager of the testing group I am not looking forward to it at all. Save the comments for WHY we have those... we're a MS shop and those decisions pre-date me being there by many years.:)
I don't watch the news, let alone any faux-news (CNN/Fox/Etc). If I see it in the breakroom at work on the TV, I shut off the TV. I have co-workers who LOVED following Spicer and would talk about him constantly. It's just all garbage, smoke, and mirrors for the most part.
I do check the news on the internet, but not a lot. I don't do IG, FB, or Twitter. While I probably miss a lot of things, I also miss a lot of the bullshit. But it it hard to completely avoid. I find it disheartening that even sites like the BBC will keep running the same stories over and over and over with just minor information updates and new headlines.
Having said that, I think the main problem is that people want their news NOW. Investigation into Russian interference in our election?! Let them investigate, because that is pretty serious. But people expect answers immediately. It takes time - sometimes a lot - to investigate. You can't solve things like that on Twitter. Trump was screaming before the election how it was rigged, then he won, and suddenly he calls looking into a possible ACTUAL rigging a witch hunt. He protested a little too quickly and vehemently, and went right on the defensive about it. It should be investigated fully. It doesn't matter what I think, what you think, what celebrities think, or what the talking heads on TV think. What matters is what actually happened. They need to investigate and come up with the facts, and then we'll know. Until then, or until there are major updates, how about we all just STFU about it?
And here I am commenting on it... furthering the discussion... shame on me.
The web is changing faster than ever. Do we hate Firefox for changing to the new technology or hate them for being OLD and sticking with the OLD technology?
Firefox has to stick with the new standards in security and multiprocessing threads. Or do you not want security and performance?
I switched away from Firefox many months ago because it was unstable and performance had gotten AWFUL. From the time I launched the browser (default empty tab) to the time I could do anything in the browser was 30-45 seconds. Every time I launched it. Memory and CPU usage were fine. I powered through it, and after 3 or 4 new versions abandoned it for Pale Moon. ZERO performance issues, no goofy UI changes.
I don't hate Firefox, I miss it. I've been using it as long as it's been around. I don't like Chrome/Chromium. Pale Moon does what I want it to, and it does it well. Until it stops meeting my needs, it is my browser of choice. I have no reason go to back to Firefox.
"So we had to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a huge problem. I have a son—he’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers. It’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe, it's hardly doable. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that’s true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester. And certainly cyber is one of them."
Sure, being on the road is boring... but why stream? Between everyone on the bus you can't come up with a collection of Videos/Music, put them on a laptop with a wifi hotspot and serve up the entire bus?
This just sounds like a nonsensical problem with an obvious solution.
I don't remember the last time I ever opened paint. Any windows machine in my house or that I use gets Irfanview installed as the default image program. The only thing it is really lacking is an easier way to draw on photos... it has one, but i don't like it much.
Between Irfanview and Snagit, all my basic image and capturing needs are covered. If Irfanview had Snagit's photo markup capabilities it would be perfect.
I used to use Xubuntu (after Kubuntu and KDE declined). It worked well, but I always keep an eye on what's out there, and I tried Mint as a live distro for a bit and really liked it. Just enough polish in the right areas for me. I tried MATE and Cinnamon, but I like XFCE better. I didn't care for the upgrade philosophy of "re-install" at first, but it made me re-organize my partitions in what is really a better way of doing it. I had done a long series of rolling upgrades while on Kubuntu, and things just got unstable and kind of weird.
Can you please please please offer a good replacement for systemd. Of course it was all over that survey, but I guess it fell on deaf ears.
I've been on Mint XFCE for several years now, and recently upgraded 18.1 to 18.2. Smooth and fast. I love Mint, but I see systemd being the death knell for it in my eyes if things keep going the way they are.
You go to install the latest kernel, and then it errors out in a partially-updated state because/boot is full. It took quite a bit of googling to find the right solution of how to remove old kernels to make enough space to get the latest installed. An option to safely do this automatically would be nice.
(I am on Mint, and my system may or may not have been in a bad state with a partially-installed kernel, but I wasn't about to reboot and find out)
Here is how you make revenue for Office365 go up - change your pricing. I would venture that most of this comes from companies. They simply bundle the two together, of course requiring that you buy both. Maybe your costs are the same, or maybe they go up a little, but the ratio is probably heavily weighted towards office365. Microsoft can then say the revenue for 365 goes up, traditional license revenue goes down. But you still have to have both. Maybe they can push just 365 on new clients, but i think that would be a hard sell.
Then once their subscription numbers are up, they can just let the client-version wither and die.
At work we have Office365, but everyone I know uses the traditional installed version. It is buggier than it used to be, because it has to phone-home to mothership365. Store docs to OneDrive, view them in the cloud (which I never really do), or log in and use the 365 calendar/outlook, which I try to avoid at all costs. Many many times Office applications will hang now that they are 'integrated' with 365.
Nobody will care about 365 until they take away the client version, then productivity will tank. By that time though, the frog will be boiled.
FTA: "The rules require employers to issue a disclaimer before they check applicants' online accounts"
So part of the application process will be a statement that "by submitting your application you agree that the company may view your public account on social media sites."
Why is this a big deal? I always do light research candidates online, it's a way of validating what is on their resume. I've even had co-workers with spouses/friends who work at the places where the candidates are, and I've gotten feedback that made me not consider them.
How the hell are you supposed to hire someone if you don't learn about them? Of course, I am only interested in how they are at their job, not in their personal life.
Firstly, he is all about owning people's information. I would have no reason to believe he is doing this out of the goodness of anything - because he could do that without a press release.
I don't necessarily disagree with your view in premise, but I don't understand this part:
There is a real problem in this country where people stay within their own "bubble"... hopelessly ignorant of this issue in our society.
What exactly is the "problem" or "issue"? That people stay within their own areas of interest, or simply have subsets of our society that they are a part of, because of choice or otherwise? Why is reaching outside of your own bubble, or in this case into other people's bubbles, inherently a good thing?
What you state is correct, but the real tragedy here is that people treat things like this - internet trolls, and even real-life trolls like Trump - as real news. The more attention Trump gets for the unimportant things he does and says, the less is being paid towards the important things he does or does not do. He's treating this country like a reality TV show, he knows how to push people's buttons. Too bad that isn't his job. People today are manipulated with such ease, even an idiot can do it. It says a lot about the mentality of both sides.
Parents, who invest $1M per child and blood, sweat, tears and sleepless nights having input on what their child learns?? This concept is anathema to the fascist progressives and alt-left who believe they know better what your child should learn than you do, never mind that at best most of them hold a BA in philosophy or education, while there are many parents that hold MS and PhDs in hard science fields.
I get what you are saying.. but for every educated person who has a child in school there is an uneducated one... for everyone who sheds money, blood, sweat and tears, there is one who sheds meth or bigotry or hatred or bible-thumping. Your argument has to apply to them as well - that they get a say into what is taught.
Initially I feel really bad for whoever gets the job of "unbiased hearing officer" because I can't imagine a worse position to be in. Then I feel really bad for the kids, who no matter what are not going to get good direction on learning.
An Afghan all-girl robotics team was denied entry into the US for a competition. If you are thinking it was because of the travel ban, it wasn't because a) Afghanistan wasn't part of the travel ban and b) teams from countries that were part of the bad were able to secure visas.
What I thought should have been highlighted more in the submission is that girls are generally denied education in Afghanistan so this was a big achievement for them. I also thought there could have been more details around the fact that visas are denied often for all kinds of reasons. The fact that one of the girls on the team doesn't understand why they weren't allowed in is somewhat meaningless. I also thought it was kind of interesting that they could still watch their robot perform via a live feed.
I didn't get any sense that this post was anti or pro Trump, or anti or pro any issue. I read it for what it was, and I think the people who are bitching on both sides of the "argument" in this post need to see this for what it is - a very poorly written story summary.
icons like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Belichick as proof that dogged dedication (usually measured by long hours) was the only way to reach the top of your field.
Please cite how many people have worked just as hard as these guys and were NOT at the top of their field. Then we can compare.
Burning out is real, and is very hard to recover from. I have been there, and it sucked. Sometimes you don't realize how bad it sucks until you get away from it.
And is "getting to the top of your field" really your goal? I know there are people who think "wow, I wish I could be like ", but the reality is that if you were like them, then you probably wouldn't be happy. Giving everything to your job to get to the top likely leaves you with nothing left but that job. There are exceptions, but the risk is that you give it all and don't get to the top. You will always wish you either gave more, or didn't even go down that path.
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Kid makes a mobile game, gets hired by FB as developer (software engineer my ass), somehow becomes a product manager and spends 2 years learning about his own demographic and creates a failed social app.
For some reason, this makes him attractive to Google and they hire him.
*ugh*
Not only is Idiocracy becoming real, so is Silicon Valley.
Non-smart TVs yes have less hardware, but because they're made in much smaller quantities, they demand a premium.
Where the hell have I been? Last time I shopped for a TV was 3 or 4 years ago, and smart TVs were in in smaller quantities and were more expensive. It's now the opposite?
I swear, technology is just killing itself.
I have been using hostmonster for many years, and am considering switching. I've looked a few and will make a decision when my current contract comes to an end. I've looked at InMotion and a few others.
Basically find a web host that has unlimited storage, or storage limits you are comfortable with (but check the TOS and make sure they don't have a limit on number of files [HOSTMONSTER!]).
As far as backups, some basic scripts and you should be good to go on linux. I am sure there are some free backup tools out there that will work for windows machines (but haven't looked).
Might not be as convenient as one of the cloud hosting companies, but YOU control it.
According to Disney, you don't own any of that content. You should know that by now. Disney owns it, and you simply have a copy - otherwise you are a filthy thief.
I'm actually serious.
I thought about this, and my gut reaction is that I can't think of anything from a personal perspective to have open sourced. I am happy with Linux and the tools I have, even GIMP. There are a few things I use at work that I don't think I would really use at home, like Snag-It. Irfanview is something I always use as well, it's just a great all-around image viewer, screen capture, and image resizer.
But at work, we have an enterprise-level application that uses Silverlight a lot, and we have some VB6 apps as well. The next couple of years are going to be spent updating those, and as the manager of the testing group I am not looking forward to it at all. Save the comments for WHY we have those... we're a MS shop and those decisions pre-date me being there by many years. :)
A random guy posts a rant on MS github page, gets 8 responses, and it becomes a story on Slashdot?
Some days I really question why I still read this site.
Was going to mod, but instead I'll comment.
I don't watch the news, let alone any faux-news (CNN/Fox/Etc). If I see it in the breakroom at work on the TV, I shut off the TV. I have co-workers who LOVED following Spicer and would talk about him constantly. It's just all garbage, smoke, and mirrors for the most part.
I do check the news on the internet, but not a lot. I don't do IG, FB, or Twitter. While I probably miss a lot of things, I also miss a lot of the bullshit. But it it hard to completely avoid. I find it disheartening that even sites like the BBC will keep running the same stories over and over and over with just minor information updates and new headlines.
Having said that, I think the main problem is that people want their news NOW. Investigation into Russian interference in our election?! Let them investigate, because that is pretty serious. But people expect answers immediately. It takes time - sometimes a lot - to investigate. You can't solve things like that on Twitter. Trump was screaming before the election how it was rigged, then he won, and suddenly he calls looking into a possible ACTUAL rigging a witch hunt. He protested a little too quickly and vehemently, and went right on the defensive about it. It should be investigated fully. It doesn't matter what I think, what you think, what celebrities think, or what the talking heads on TV think. What matters is what actually happened. They need to investigate and come up with the facts, and then we'll know. Until then, or until there are major updates, how about we all just STFU about it?
And here I am commenting on it... furthering the discussion... shame on me.
The web is changing faster than ever. Do we hate Firefox for changing to the new technology or hate them for being OLD and sticking with the OLD technology?
Firefox has to stick with the new standards in security and multiprocessing threads. Or do you not want security and performance?
I switched away from Firefox many months ago because it was unstable and performance had gotten AWFUL. From the time I launched the browser (default empty tab) to the time I could do anything in the browser was 30-45 seconds. Every time I launched it. Memory and CPU usage were fine. I powered through it, and after 3 or 4 new versions abandoned it for Pale Moon. ZERO performance issues, no goofy UI changes.
I don't hate Firefox, I miss it. I've been using it as long as it's been around. I don't like Chrome/Chromium. Pale Moon does what I want it to, and it does it well. Until it stops meeting my needs, it is my browser of choice. I have no reason go to back to Firefox.
He makes George W. Bush seems presidential.
"So we had to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a huge problem. I have a son—he’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers. It’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe, it's hardly doable. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that’s true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester. And certainly cyber is one of them."
Sure, being on the road is boring... but why stream?
Between everyone on the bus you can't come up with a collection of Videos/Music, put them on a laptop with a wifi hotspot and serve up the entire bus?
This just sounds like a nonsensical problem with an obvious solution.
I don't remember the last time I ever opened paint. Any windows machine in my house or that I use gets Irfanview installed as the default image program. The only thing it is really lacking is an easier way to draw on photos... it has one, but i don't like it much.
Between Irfanview and Snagit, all my basic image and capturing needs are covered. If Irfanview had Snagit's photo markup capabilities it would be perfect.
they switched FROM it.
I used to use Xubuntu (after Kubuntu and KDE declined). It worked well, but I always keep an eye on what's out there, and I tried Mint as a live distro for a bit and really liked it. Just enough polish in the right areas for me. I tried MATE and Cinnamon, but I like XFCE better. I didn't care for the upgrade philosophy of "re-install" at first, but it made me re-organize my partitions in what is really a better way of doing it. I had done a long series of rolling upgrades while on Kubuntu, and things just got unstable and kind of weird.
Now my eye is on Devuan.
Can you please please please offer a good replacement for systemd. Of course it was all over that survey, but I guess it fell on deaf ears.
I've been on Mint XFCE for several years now, and recently upgraded 18.1 to 18.2. Smooth and fast. I love Mint, but I see systemd being the death knell for it in my eyes if things keep going the way they are.
Web Browser: Chrome, then Firefox when needed. lynx if it gets bad enough.
Pale Moon, then Firefox, then Chromium, then Lynx.
Email Client: They all suck, but Thunderbird and alpine
YES... alpine (combined with fetchmail) all the way, been using it forever. If I have to I will use webmail as a backup.
File manager: I accidentally start this once in a while. Then I close it ASAP.
LOL. Yes, exactly.
Office Suite: OpenOffice, because there's no other realistic choice outside of Google Docs or Office 365.
LibreOffice
Video Player: Don't use.
Music Player: Don't use.
VLC for both
Photo Viewer: eog, because I don't know what else is out there. Not a great choice, admittedly.
geeqie is great. I still alias it to gqview, because that is what I used to use until it forked into geeqie and I can type gqview easier.
You go to install the latest kernel, and then it errors out in a partially-updated state because /boot is full.
It took quite a bit of googling to find the right solution of how to remove old kernels to make enough space to get the latest installed. An option to safely do this automatically would be nice.
(I am on Mint, and my system may or may not have been in a bad state with a partially-installed kernel, but I wasn't about to reboot and find out)
Here is how you make revenue for Office365 go up - change your pricing.
I would venture that most of this comes from companies. They simply bundle the two together, of course requiring that you buy both. Maybe your costs are the same, or maybe they go up a little, but the ratio is probably heavily weighted towards office365. Microsoft can then say the revenue for 365 goes up, traditional license revenue goes down. But you still have to have both. Maybe they can push just 365 on new clients, but i think that would be a hard sell.
Then once their subscription numbers are up, they can just let the client-version wither and die.
At work we have Office365, but everyone I know uses the traditional installed version. It is buggier than it used to be, because it has to phone-home to mothership365. Store docs to OneDrive, view them in the cloud (which I never really do), or log in and use the 365 calendar/outlook, which I try to avoid at all costs. Many many times Office applications will hang now that they are 'integrated' with 365.
Nobody will care about 365 until they take away the client version, then productivity will tank. By that time though, the frog will be boiled.
LinkedIn is on the list of online accounts you aren't allowed to check.
I had one recent applicant put a link to their LinkedIn profile on their resume.
FTA: "The rules require employers to issue a disclaimer before they check applicants' online accounts"
So part of the application process will be a statement that "by submitting your application you agree that the company may view your public account on social media sites."
Why is this a big deal? I always do light research candidates online, it's a way of validating what is on their resume. I've even had co-workers with spouses/friends who work at the places where the candidates are, and I've gotten feedback that made me not consider them.
How the hell are you supposed to hire someone if you don't learn about them? Of course, I am only interested in how they are at their job, not in their personal life.
Firstly, he is all about owning people's information. I would have no reason to believe he is doing this out of the goodness of anything - because he could do that without a press release.
I don't necessarily disagree with your view in premise, but I don't understand this part:
There is a real problem in this country where people stay within their own "bubble" ... hopelessly ignorant of this issue in our society.
What exactly is the "problem" or "issue"? That people stay within their own areas of interest, or simply have subsets of our society that they are a part of, because of choice or otherwise? Why is reaching outside of your own bubble, or in this case into other people's bubbles, inherently a good thing?
What you state is correct, but the real tragedy here is that people treat things like this - internet trolls, and even real-life trolls like Trump - as real news.
The more attention Trump gets for the unimportant things he does and says, the less is being paid towards the important things he does or does not do. He's treating this country like a reality TV show, he knows how to push people's buttons. Too bad that isn't his job. People today are manipulated with such ease, even an idiot can do it. It says a lot about the mentality of both sides.
Parents, who invest $1M per child and blood, sweat, tears and sleepless nights having input on what their child learns?? This concept is anathema to the fascist progressives and alt-left who believe they know better what your child should learn than you do, never mind that at best most of them hold a BA in philosophy or education, while there are many parents that hold MS and PhDs in hard science fields.
I get what you are saying.. but for every educated person who has a child in school there is an uneducated one... for everyone who sheds money, blood, sweat and tears, there is one who sheds meth or bigotry or hatred or bible-thumping. Your argument has to apply to them as well - that they get a say into what is taught.
Initially I feel really bad for whoever gets the job of "unbiased hearing officer" because I can't imagine a worse position to be in.
Then I feel really bad for the kids, who no matter what are not going to get good direction on learning.
An Afghan all-girl robotics team was denied entry into the US for a competition. If you are thinking it was because of the travel ban, it wasn't because a) Afghanistan wasn't part of the travel ban and b) teams from countries that were part of the bad were able to secure visas.
What I thought should have been highlighted more in the submission is that girls are generally denied education in Afghanistan so this was a big achievement for them. I also thought there could have been more details around the fact that visas are denied often for all kinds of reasons. The fact that one of the girls on the team doesn't understand why they weren't allowed in is somewhat meaningless. I also thought it was kind of interesting that they could still watch their robot perform via a live feed.
I didn't get any sense that this post was anti or pro Trump, or anti or pro any issue. I read it for what it was, and I think the people who are bitching on both sides of the "argument" in this post need to see this for what it is - a very poorly written story summary.
What a flawed question.
icons like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Belichick as proof that dogged dedication (usually measured by long hours) was the only way to reach the top of your field.
Please cite how many people have worked just as hard as these guys and were NOT at the top of their field. Then we can compare.
Burning out is real, and is very hard to recover from. I have been there, and it sucked. Sometimes you don't realize how bad it sucks until you get away from it.
And is "getting to the top of your field" really your goal? I know there are people who think "wow, I wish I could be like ", but the reality is that if you were like them, then you probably wouldn't be happy. Giving everything to your job to get to the top likely leaves you with nothing left but that job. There are exceptions, but the risk is that you give it all and don't get to the top. You will always wish you either gave more, or didn't even go down that path.
I'd rather be happy, thanks.