I found the GP perfectly reasonable. We've discovered a new phenomenon, we need a baseline measurement before jumping to any conclusions. Claiming it is proof of warming is premature and smacks of alarmist bullshit. The sort of bullshit that is really ideologically driven.
more than that, if I want to transfer a few gig of music or movies to my phone, its much easier to slip the sd card out and put it in a reader on my PC.
Really? I've always copied them via the network, either from the phone (loads of decent file browsers out there that support SMB, FTP, SFTP) or from the computer (run an FTP server on your phone). The only time I use the cable is when I have to charge my phone.
Exactly. It's not like nobody could see this coming the last time they raised the debt ceiling. There was a similar crisis earlier this year and they "resolved" it by increasing the debt ceiling. Without structural reforms that bring the annual deficit under control, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that said ceiling will be reached again.
Frankly the runtimes are so lightweight and efficient that if you cant manage to write a GUI control panel in say.Net that performs as well as native then you are just a shit programmer.
Unless said controls are using WPF which then performs horribly on older machines. They might have improved it since.NET 3.5, but I haven't developed on Windows for quite a few years now so my knowledge could well be out of date. Or just plain wrong. This is the internet after all;)
What is pretty certain is that somebody worked and that somebody is attached to a number that should get paid.
There is a simple scam that gets around paper systems. You tell you mate that you are going to be late so he leaves a blank line on the sign in sheet above his name. When you get there you sign in on the blank line and no one will be the wiser.
The other issue with paper systems is that they have to be transcribed by a person into the payroll system. That introduces mistakes and higher costs.
I'd +1 this a million times if I had mod points.
Paper systems are so easy to exploit. I'm surprised that the majority of posters here on Slashdot have trouble understanding the motive behind these scanners.Yes, it's to keep better track of their workers in the "If you say you are present, you really are present".
well the reason they don't want the scanners is that then they can't as easily sell their job when they move on - or have their cousin cover for them on a sick day.
Or just not turn up for work and have a colleague claim that they're present but you can't see them now because they're out on some obscure bit of track.
As someone who works with the retail sector, this is absolute cobblers. Retailers are constantly focused on the bottom line, and they will only upgrade when it makes sense for them to. There are tills we support that run on Windows NT4. Yes, they're over 16 years old. No, they're not going to be upgraded anytime soon because they just work.
If that VB6 app is still in use, it's because it works. Why fix something that isn't broken just so you get the latest bells and whistles? This pisses off the support staff but it makes perfect sense for the business owner.
I smell horse shit. Panther was released in 2003 and ran only on PowerPC Macs. You're not going to be able to run Mountain Lion on any machine capable of running Panther.
An even better question will be to ask "How will we deal with climate change?" as only a fool blinded by dogma will deny that the earth's climate has changed (sometimes drastically) in the past. For example, let's fix the issue where droughts cause starvations in Africa as more frequent droughts are expected as the climate changes.
Why would a rich person not care about his grandchildren?
Any 1000 average people are richer than one rich person. If they act as a group, they are just as influential.
Who says they wouldn't care about their grand children? They're rich enough to look after their own and give the rest of us the fuck off. Good luck getting the 1000 average people to agree to a consensus.
They're gradually shifting to HTML5, with support for Windows 8.1 and IE11. Strange choice of browser. Apparently IE11 is the only browser at the moment that supports the "Premium Video Extensions". These will be extended to other browsers once the support is available.
I assume that the iOS and Android clients just stream the video directly, bypassing the browser and hence the need for Silverlight.
The greatest undermining of quality content is the lack of demand for quality content in a distributor-dominated system which cares only about quantity of eyeballs.
And you'll just torrent it anyway. See #2 about subscription fees.
It's just greed to be honest. They could probably dump half the channels on Sky with no noticeable drop in content quality. The hundreds of channels they tout are mostly crap. Hence I don't bother with Sky anymore.
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Oracle?
Well played sir. I can't tell if you're trolling or being serious.
It doesn't matter if you're behind Akamai if your website is that inefficiently designed. 56 JS files that are downloaded on hitting apply. WTF?
I found the GP perfectly reasonable. We've discovered a new phenomenon, we need a baseline measurement before jumping to any conclusions. Claiming it is proof of warming is premature and smacks of alarmist bullshit. The sort of bullshit that is really ideologically driven.
more than that, if I want to transfer a few gig of music or movies to my phone, its much easier to slip the sd card out and put it in a reader on my PC.
Really? I've always copied them via the network, either from the phone (loads of decent file browsers out there that support SMB, FTP, SFTP) or from the computer (run an FTP server on your phone). The only time I use the cable is when I have to charge my phone.
It's not offensive, but it sounds strange in normal conversation. Unless of course you regularly refer to men and women as male and female.
Exactly. It's not like nobody could see this coming the last time they raised the debt ceiling. There was a similar crisis earlier this year and they "resolved" it by increasing the debt ceiling. Without structural reforms that bring the annual deficit under control, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that said ceiling will be reached again.
Frankly the runtimes are so lightweight and efficient that if you cant manage to write a GUI control panel in say .Net that performs as well as native then you are just a shit programmer.
Unless said controls are using WPF which then performs horribly on older machines. They might have improved it since .NET 3.5, but I haven't developed on Windows for quite a few years now so my knowledge could well be out of date. Or just plain wrong. This is the internet after all ;)
You list Python/PHP/Ruby and then talk about shellcode as an alternative? Huh?
When you have a single developer responsible for 47K apps, I always take app store numbers from any company with a pinch of salt.
That'd be all well and good, if we were talking about RIM/Blackberry, but the article you linked has *NOTHING* to do with the topic at hand...
Because we know the App Store and Google Play are well curated and there is no possibility of crap submissions being accepted?
When you have a single developer responsible for 47K apps, I always take app store numbers from any company with a pinch of salt.
What is pretty certain is that somebody worked and that somebody is attached to a number that should get paid.
There is a simple scam that gets around paper systems. You tell you mate that you are going to be late so he leaves a blank line on the sign in sheet above his name. When you get there you sign in on the blank line and no one will be the wiser.
The other issue with paper systems is that they have to be transcribed by a person into the payroll system. That introduces mistakes and higher costs.
I'd +1 this a million times if I had mod points.
Paper systems are so easy to exploit. I'm surprised that the majority of posters here on Slashdot have trouble understanding the motive behind these scanners.Yes, it's to keep better track of their workers in the "If you say you are present, you really are present".
well the reason they don't want the scanners is that then they can't as easily sell their job when they move on - or have their cousin cover for them on a sick day.
Or just not turn up for work and have a colleague claim that they're present but you can't see them now because they're out on some obscure bit of track.
As someone who works with the retail sector, this is absolute cobblers. Retailers are constantly focused on the bottom line, and they will only upgrade when it makes sense for them to. There are tills we support that run on Windows NT4. Yes, they're over 16 years old. No, they're not going to be upgraded anytime soon because they just work.
If that VB6 app is still in use, it's because it works. Why fix something that isn't broken just so you get the latest bells and whistles? This pisses off the support staff but it makes perfect sense for the business owner.
I smell horse shit. Panther was released in 2003 and ran only on PowerPC Macs. You're not going to be able to run Mountain Lion on any machine capable of running Panther.
The only problem with VirtualBox is that it doesn't support retina displays properly, so text just looks fuzzy.
You're approaching this from a financial perspective. Let's approach this from a product perspective. Kodak is dead.
An even better question will be to ask "How will we deal with climate change?" as only a fool blinded by dogma will deny that the earth's climate has changed (sometimes drastically) in the past. For example, let's fix the issue where droughts cause starvations in Africa as more frequent droughts are expected as the climate changes.
Why would a rich person not care about his grandchildren? Any 1000 average people are richer than one rich person. If they act as a group, they are just as influential.
Who says they wouldn't care about their grand children? They're rich enough to look after their own and give the rest of us the fuck off. Good luck getting the 1000 average people to agree to a consensus.
I think I'm going to start calling it "E-sexy" as that sounds way cooler.
They're gradually shifting to HTML5, with support for Windows 8.1 and IE11. Strange choice of browser. Apparently IE11 is the only browser at the moment that supports the "Premium Video Extensions". These will be extended to other browsers once the support is available.
I assume that the iOS and Android clients just stream the video directly, bypassing the browser and hence the need for Silverlight.
I use nginx as a web server and load balancer. It works very well and I have no need for Apache.
The greatest undermining of quality content is the lack of demand for quality content in a distributor-dominated system which cares only about quantity of eyeballs.
And you'll just torrent it anyway. See #2 about subscription fees.
It's just greed to be honest. They could probably dump half the channels on Sky with no noticeable drop in content quality. The hundreds of channels they tout are mostly crap. Hence I don't bother with Sky anymore.
Apple cares a lot about geeks, particularly geeks with fat wallets and a lust for shiny hardware.
*seductive whisper* retina display...
Exactly. Best laptop (possibly computer) I've ever bought.
That's off by more than two orders of magnitude. Heads need to roll.