Both Nexus 5x's in my family bootlooped, but LG fixed both with a relatively quick turnaround. Annoying and disruptive problem sure, but they fixed it way past the official warranty period. If anything, this increased my confidence in LG because I know if some widespread issue like that happens they will likely fix it.
That said, I didn't have enough confidence to put official Oreo on it... I moved my Nexus 5x to Lineage as soon as I got the phone back. But the other one in the family has been running fine on official release since getting it back.
I suppose I can now box my 3G phone hoard of "backup" phones for electronics recycling. I wonder how this will affect MVNOs, and the many 3G phones activated on those that sell service on Verizon's network? I have one on PagePlus for the few times I don't think I'll have usable T-Mobile access.
Early Android podcasts listeners may recall Google Listen, a podcast playback app. They deprecated that, so I moved to BeyondPod. I also recall the loss of Google Reader and having to move elsewhere for that. Aside fro core apps (email/Calendar) I have a hard time taking up a new Google tool and becoming reliant on it knowing Google giveth and Google taketh away.
Years ago I started assigning a keyboard shortcut to Snipping Tool, which allows you to do pretty much everything they are describing. Copies to clipboard, or you can save in a couple of formats. And... annotate! (at least with highlighting and lines, would be good if they added text).
Rt-click Snipping Tool icon, in start menu, Open File Location, get Properties in shortcut, define a shortcut key combo.
One other nice thing with Snipping Tool is you can define a capture delay. So if you want to screen-cap a menu option that would otherwise lose focus and disappear by hitting a key sequence, you can set Snipping Tool to fire at a set time delay so you can mouse through and get it looking like you want before the screen capture hits.
You can select the area of the screen to capture, no more capturing everything, pasting into Paint, and cropping.
This "Innovation" has been around since at least Windows 7.
The eternal battle of password complexity hardship vs having 87% of your users' passwords on the latest "most common password" list.
How about taking it out of the hands of users? Find the largest dictionary available in the chosen language of the user, select two or three words from it, randomize which of those start or end with a capital letter, and random selection of a special character in-between them. Complexity attained, difficulty in selecting one gone.
Downsides include how to securely communicate this to a user. If it is shown on a screen it can be over-the-shoulder-checked, if it is sent via email then a hacked email account will supply passwords. Users can usually control the former, in the case of latter the user probably has a whole additional list of problems. But is something that assigns a password of a strength appropriate to the system being accessed better than the two extremes?
I really wish companies wouldn't re-use terms that were common for some other major product or service in, say, the last 100 years. Every time I see these NVIDIA news posts I think "woot, finally get to use Pascal again, er... oh."
Just the other day I was considering what storage level of Nexus 5x to plan on getting. I usually default to getting the max-storage model and paying whatever the extra is. But on my last couple of phones I realized I mostly stream my music, and automatically cloud-save photos/videos and later cloud-view them. The phone I'm using now (a OnePlus One running Cyanogenmod) has 64GB storage but I'm only using 6GB, and that's with a small subset of my music locally-stored in case I'm offline.
This is in the Android world and I don't know if the old days of having to synchronize your entire library to an i-device are gone, but I think a side-story is maybe you don't need huge amounts of local storage anymore.
It should be noted that a CMMI maturity level designation is not a certification. It may help to have some CMMI appraisal team experience to understand it (I do), but the designation is the result of an organization's self-assessment based on an appraisal model (SCAMPI) developed by SEI/CMMI Institute. When a company claims a certain maturity level, CMMI Institute does not say "we certify this organization (or organizational unit) is CMMI maturity level n." CMMI Institute says "based on our review of the result forwarded by the organization, a result approved by a certified CMMI lead appraiser, we conclude the organization appears to have correctly followed the SCAMPI method and met the standards the organization's appraisal team agrees they did."
An organizational unit is not CMMI-certified by an external certifying authority, it is appraised based on work of a mostly-internal appraisal team (usual exception is the appraisal team leader, a certified individual not employed by the appraised organization in my experience). I don't blame anyone for being confused on the "certification" label... I see it all the time. The title of the/. article itself incorrectly uses the term.
My concern with CMMI is not the procedures and practices themselves, I think they are brilliant if implemented and the organization is resourced to handle it while not tripping up development teams. My concern is in self-assessment, that an inherent conflict of interest exists for the members of an appraisal team employed by the company they are appraising. A company that spends a lot of money preparing for and conducting a valid appraisal it expects a positive result for. But an accredited lead appraiser (again, not an employee of the appraised company in my experience) is not going to keep that distinction for long if they pass through insufficient/bogus appraisals, and that is supposed to be the check on self-assessment risks.
So it isn't the same as PMI, which gives a four hour exam to produce a quantitative, evidenced pass-fail score for a project manager and puts their stamp on a certification that the candidate knows the material with required proficiency and has met other work experience requirements. It is more nuanced and really comes down to how much you trust a given self-assessment.
+1, I installed tt-rss on my Web server too shortly after the announcement. I didn't care out the Google Reader interface itself, just the aggregation so all my Android devices are synchronized.
You already listed all the failures of the IT department, recognized from middle management to the CEO. The buck stops at leadership... whether he's the smartest guy on the planet or incompetent, a leadership change seems to be in order.
Put another way, what will some other gauge of his competence will add to what is known?
What about Kirk from re-image, and wasn't Sulu a captain? I'm not even counting Spock, just thinking bridge captains that played major roles. Yeah Sulu didn't play a major role as a bridge captain but certainly played a rather large role up to that point.
I can think of no better way to inspire under-performers in a growing company than to jettison the worker who has been a superhero to date in a small company. This article is baffling to me and I don't understand why the author thinks dealing with super-performers should be different based on the company size. And the premise that it is unreasonable for the guy who constantly pulls backsides of others out of the fire to become a little irritated is odd.
Just so I have this straight, in order to drop the "jerk" suffix, a super-achieving worker who fills in for people when they are on vacation or sick, does not take vacation himself because the company is so reliant on his performance, and probably isn't getting credit for how many times he saved his coworkers must a) always be cheerful, and b) not speak up when he believes management is heading in directions that will increase reliance on said worker and make life even more difficult.
Basically the mind is cutting the heart out of a company, when both need to recognize each other's strengths and capitalize on them instead of picking a "winner".
How about ask the question another way... how much more would you need to be offered to make it a no-brainer for you to move? 20%? If you know that number, ask the new offerer to match that. Be honest, tell them you are on the fence, and for that much you'll close the deal today. That's the worth of fun to you.
I once had a gracious offer from an employer I left... I had a significant vacation balance and they offered to leave me on the books to run out that vacation over time (as opposed to a lump-sum following termination) in case I wanted to come back if the new job didn't work out. It bought me about six weeks of "tryout" in the new job. That is way beyond normal but that was nice to have... I almost didn't take the new job at all after hearing that and realizing how much they wanted me to stay, but the pay raise in this case was 25% and I was much younger and just couldn't pass up the money.
That goes to paragraph #1... instead of possibly hurting your relationship in the current job by introducing some boat rocking, work the other end by making the new position something too hard to pass up. Personally 10% probably wouldn't be worth the risk to me unless I felt the new job was a great fit.
"Lame phishing spam attempt" should be reworded to "sucessful phishing spam launch that took advantage of an insider security threat".
If it is in the recipient's inbox, the spam happened sucessfully. If it didn't, it was an unsucessful attempt.
A read of TFA shows no mention of the word "lame". In fact the statement does what it should do... describes what happened and what action was taken. "The email this morning was an abuse of functionality by a volunteer who has been spoken to. This feature has since been removed as a precautionary measure."
I speculated some time ago that voice minute usage will dwindle down to the point where they would be offered as unlimited on all plans eventually, with the plan levels (tiering) moved from minutes used to data used. Part two was right, but I didn't really expect a movement toward data-only plans.
By the way those aren't new, before everyone had smartphones those of us with Blackberries and older units could get data-only plans.
Please re-read my comment. If the publisher retracts the story and apologizes and that isn't good enough for you, where do YOU draw the line?
> If someone makes one incorrect statement in their entire lifetime is all their work worthless to you?
Red herring. There is a big difference between making an incorrect statement by mistake or omission, and having your publisher retract your story and apologize for gross negligence in breaking journalistic standards.
It may be just me, but if one part of an article is retracted due to false statements or intentional innacuracies, with apologies from the publisher on releasing the story into the wild, I'm not going to base an opinion on ANY OTHER PART of the article or any other material sourced by that author. I'll have an opinion, but I'll base it on other sources.
Was it too much to take on at once? I'm not referring to four limbs on one patient, I'm referring to four limbs on one patient PLUS a face transplant the same day by the same team.
"Meanwhile, the face transplant patient, who was operated on by the same team of surgeons on the same day, was reported to be in good condition. "
When storing off images of "fresh" installs, a few hardware changes here and seventy-two Windows security updates there still make recovery a long process. Blowing away to factory works well on a tablet or phone because the hardware doesn't change, and the reset bases itself on the currently-installed version of the OS.
If Reset and Refresh incorporates security patches as they are applied I suppose things would be a little easier.
I have been using a credit card to pay online every month for a couple of years now. Verizon Wireless does NOT charge a fee. Some utilities do, but Verizon Wireless has not.
This is also why I don't rely on Slashdot (replying posts such as yours, specifically) as a reliable news source.
With all the outrage over huge profits from a drug like Lipitor, no one brings up the fact that these companies spend millions on drug research the pans out to squat because the product doesn't make it through FDA trials.
I get the whole idea of "they made billions on that drug, look at them try to farm it for more money." I find that view less than even-handed. A company develops a product that extends useful lifespan, I'm glad for it and they should be amply rewarded for doing so. Could drugs be cheaper? Probably, but I'm not going to offer a position on a given company's profits on a single drug when I DON'T have full knowledge of the amounts of money spent on endeavors that went sorely negative. Every time you read a story about a drug that didn't make it through whatever phase of FDA drug trials and you can bet that's millions of dollars down the tubes. And yeah, the ones that work have to produce revenue to pay for that particular drug's development and turn a profit, AS WELL AS make up for the ones that didn't work out that millions got flushed on.
The system has warts but it is what it is, if large profits aren't there as a potential reward we aren't going to get advanced drugs and treatments to prevent, remedy and cure human ills because a company has to put up major bank to develop those things. Mod me down but that is business reality.
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Both Nexus 5x's in my family bootlooped, but LG fixed both with a relatively quick turnaround. Annoying and disruptive problem sure, but they fixed it way past the official warranty period. If anything, this increased my confidence in LG because I know if some widespread issue like that happens they will likely fix it.
That said, I didn't have enough confidence to put official Oreo on it... I moved my Nexus 5x to Lineage as soon as I got the phone back. But the other one in the family has been running fine on official release since getting it back.
I suppose I can now box my 3G phone hoard of "backup" phones for electronics recycling. I wonder how this will affect MVNOs, and the many 3G phones activated on those that sell service on Verizon's network? I have one on PagePlus for the few times I don't think I'll have usable T-Mobile access.
Early Android podcasts listeners may recall Google Listen, a podcast playback app. They deprecated that, so I moved to BeyondPod. I also recall the loss of Google Reader and having to move elsewhere for that. Aside fro core apps (email/Calendar) I have a hard time taking up a new Google tool and becoming reliant on it knowing Google giveth and Google taketh away.
Years ago I started assigning a keyboard shortcut to Snipping Tool, which allows you to do pretty much everything they are describing. Copies to clipboard, or you can save in a couple of formats. And... annotate! (at least with highlighting and lines, would be good if they added text).
Rt-click Snipping Tool icon, in start menu, Open File Location, get Properties in shortcut, define a shortcut key combo.
One other nice thing with Snipping Tool is you can define a capture delay. So if you want to screen-cap a menu option that would otherwise lose focus and disappear by hitting a key sequence, you can set Snipping Tool to fire at a set time delay so you can mouse through and get it looking like you want before the screen capture hits.
You can select the area of the screen to capture, no more capturing everything, pasting into Paint, and cropping.
This "Innovation" has been around since at least Windows 7.
The eternal battle of password complexity hardship vs having 87% of your users' passwords on the latest "most common password" list.
How about taking it out of the hands of users? Find the largest dictionary available in the chosen language of the user, select two or three words from it, randomize which of those start or end with a capital letter, and random selection of a special character in-between them. Complexity attained, difficulty in selecting one gone.
Downsides include how to securely communicate this to a user. If it is shown on a screen it can be over-the-shoulder-checked, if it is sent via email then a hacked email account will supply passwords. Users can usually control the former, in the case of latter the user probably has a whole additional list of problems. But is something that assigns a password of a strength appropriate to the system being accessed better than the two extremes?
I really wish companies wouldn't re-use terms that were common for some other major product or service in, say, the last 100 years. Every time I see these NVIDIA news posts I think "woot, finally get to use Pascal again, er... oh."
I know, get off my lawn, etc etc.
Just the other day I was considering what storage level of Nexus 5x to plan on getting. I usually default to getting the max-storage model and paying whatever the extra is. But on my last couple of phones I realized I mostly stream my music, and automatically cloud-save photos/videos and later cloud-view them. The phone I'm using now (a OnePlus One running Cyanogenmod) has 64GB storage but I'm only using 6GB, and that's with a small subset of my music locally-stored in case I'm offline.
This is in the Android world and I don't know if the old days of having to synchronize your entire library to an i-device are gone, but I think a side-story is maybe you don't need huge amounts of local storage anymore.
It should be noted that a CMMI maturity level designation is not a certification. It may help to have some CMMI appraisal team experience to understand it (I do), but the designation is the result of an organization's self-assessment based on an appraisal model (SCAMPI) developed by SEI/CMMI Institute. When a company claims a certain maturity level, CMMI Institute does not say "we certify this organization (or organizational unit) is CMMI maturity level n." CMMI Institute says "based on our review of the result forwarded by the organization, a result approved by a certified CMMI lead appraiser, we conclude the organization appears to have correctly followed the SCAMPI method and met the standards the organization's appraisal team agrees they did."
An organizational unit is not CMMI-certified by an external certifying authority, it is appraised based on work of a mostly-internal appraisal team (usual exception is the appraisal team leader, a certified individual not employed by the appraised organization in my experience). I don't blame anyone for being confused on the "certification" label... I see it all the time. The title of the /. article itself incorrectly uses the term.
My concern with CMMI is not the procedures and practices themselves, I think they are brilliant if implemented and the organization is resourced to handle it while not tripping up development teams. My concern is in self-assessment, that an inherent conflict of interest exists for the members of an appraisal team employed by the company they are appraising. A company that spends a lot of money preparing for and conducting a valid appraisal it expects a positive result for. But an accredited lead appraiser (again, not an employee of the appraised company in my experience) is not going to keep that distinction for long if they pass through insufficient/bogus appraisals, and that is supposed to be the check on self-assessment risks.
So it isn't the same as PMI, which gives a four hour exam to produce a quantitative, evidenced pass-fail score for a project manager and puts their stamp on a certification that the candidate knows the material with required proficiency and has met other work experience requirements. It is more nuanced and really comes down to how much you trust a given self-assessment.
+1, I installed tt-rss on my Web server too shortly after the announcement. I didn't care out the Google Reader interface itself, just the aggregation so all my Android devices are synchronized.
Still isn't perfect yet, but usable.
You already listed all the failures of the IT department, recognized from middle management to the CEO. The buck stops at leadership... whether he's the smartest guy on the planet or incompetent, a leadership change seems to be in order.
Put another way, what will some other gauge of his competence will add to what is known?
You don't usually "upgrade" from 500GB to 2.5GB of data for $10 a month.
Verizon was much cooler, they chopped your unlimited data down to a 2GB cap for FREE when you "upgraded" your phone! T-Mobile sucks!
What about Kirk from re-image, and wasn't Sulu a captain? I'm not even counting Spock, just thinking bridge captains that played major roles. Yeah Sulu didn't play a major role as a bridge captain but certainly played a rather large role up to that point.
I can think of no better way to inspire under-performers in a growing company than to jettison the worker who has been a superhero to date in a small company. This article is baffling to me and I don't understand why the author thinks dealing with super-performers should be different based on the company size. And the premise that it is unreasonable for the guy who constantly pulls backsides of others out of the fire to become a little irritated is odd.
Just so I have this straight, in order to drop the "jerk" suffix, a super-achieving worker who fills in for people when they are on vacation or sick, does not take vacation himself because the company is so reliant on his performance, and probably isn't getting credit for how many times he saved his coworkers must a) always be cheerful, and b) not speak up when he believes management is heading in directions that will increase reliance on said worker and make life even more difficult.
Basically the mind is cutting the heart out of a company, when both need to recognize each other's strengths and capitalize on them instead of picking a "winner".
I call BS, link to a 1TB hybrid drive for $2 to $3 USD.
How about ask the question another way... how much more would you need to be offered to make it a no-brainer for you to move? 20%? If you know that number, ask the new offerer to match that. Be honest, tell them you are on the fence, and for that much you'll close the deal today. That's the worth of fun to you.
I once had a gracious offer from an employer I left... I had a significant vacation balance and they offered to leave me on the books to run out that vacation over time (as opposed to a lump-sum following termination) in case I wanted to come back if the new job didn't work out. It bought me about six weeks of "tryout" in the new job. That is way beyond normal but that was nice to have... I almost didn't take the new job at all after hearing that and realizing how much they wanted me to stay, but the pay raise in this case was 25% and I was much younger and just couldn't pass up the money.
That goes to paragraph #1... instead of possibly hurting your relationship in the current job by introducing some boat rocking, work the other end by making the new position something too hard to pass up. Personally 10% probably wouldn't be worth the risk to me unless I felt the new job was a great fit.
Agreed, I preferred it when my hosed system just froze on bootup, stopping at "L I ".
It's called "if you sexually harass someone you are fired." The "jokiness" and "just kidding" levels are mainly determined by the recipient.
"Lame phishing spam attempt" should be reworded to "sucessful phishing spam launch that took advantage of an insider security threat".
If it is in the recipient's inbox, the spam happened sucessfully. If it didn't, it was an unsucessful attempt.
A read of TFA shows no mention of the word "lame". In fact the statement does what it should do... describes what happened and what action was taken. "The email this morning was an abuse of functionality by a volunteer who has been spoken to. This feature has since been removed as a precautionary measure."
I speculated some time ago that voice minute usage will dwindle down to the point where they would be offered as unlimited on all plans eventually, with the plan levels (tiering) moved from minutes used to data used. Part two was right, but I didn't really expect a movement toward data-only plans.
By the way those aren't new, before everyone had smartphones those of us with Blackberries and older units could get data-only plans.
Please re-read my comment. If the publisher retracts the story and apologizes and that isn't good enough for you, where do YOU draw the line?
> If someone makes one incorrect statement in their entire lifetime is all their work worthless to you?
Red herring. There is a big difference between making an incorrect statement by mistake or omission, and having your publisher retract your story and apologize for gross negligence in breaking journalistic standards.
It may be just me, but if one part of an article is retracted due to false statements or intentional innacuracies, with apologies from the publisher on releasing the story into the wild, I'm not going to base an opinion on ANY OTHER PART of the article or any other material sourced by that author. I'll have an opinion, but I'll base it on other sources.
The patient has passed away according to reports.
Was it too much to take on at once? I'm not referring to four limbs on one patient, I'm referring to four limbs on one patient PLUS a face transplant the same day by the same team.
"Meanwhile, the face transplant patient, who was operated on by the same team of surgeons on the same day, was reported to be in good condition. "
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/quadruple-limb-transplant-patient-dies.aspx?pageID=238&nID=14816&NewsCatID=341
When storing off images of "fresh" installs, a few hardware changes here and seventy-two Windows security updates there still make recovery a long process. Blowing away to factory works well on a tablet or phone because the hardware doesn't change, and the reset bases itself on the currently-installed version of the OS.
If Reset and Refresh incorporates security patches as they are applied I suppose things would be a little easier.
I have been using a credit card to pay online every month for a couple of years now. Verizon Wireless does NOT charge a fee. Some utilities do, but Verizon Wireless has not.
This is also why I don't rely on Slashdot (replying posts such as yours, specifically) as a reliable news source.
With all the outrage over huge profits from a drug like Lipitor, no one brings up the fact that these companies spend millions on drug research the pans out to squat because the product doesn't make it through FDA trials.
I get the whole idea of "they made billions on that drug, look at them try to farm it for more money." I find that view less than even-handed. A company develops a product that extends useful lifespan, I'm glad for it and they should be amply rewarded for doing so. Could drugs be cheaper? Probably, but I'm not going to offer a position on a given company's profits on a single drug when I DON'T have full knowledge of the amounts of money spent on endeavors that went sorely negative. Every time you read a story about a drug that didn't make it through whatever phase of FDA drug trials and you can bet that's millions of dollars down the tubes. And yeah, the ones that work have to produce revenue to pay for that particular drug's development and turn a profit, AS WELL AS make up for the ones that didn't work out that millions got flushed on.
The system has warts but it is what it is, if large profits aren't there as a potential reward we aren't going to get advanced drugs and treatments to prevent, remedy and cure human ills because a company has to put up major bank to develop those things. Mod me down but that is business reality.