So my days of pirating shit isn't done, thought I would finally be "legit" and just stream all my stuffs, looks like that is not going to be the case. There is no way I am paying x/month for x number of streaming services. Hell, I've practically watched everything I want to watch on Netflix (at least in my country). The only way I would be remotely interested in Disney's streaming service is if I had kids, which i don't so they can shove it and I will pirate the 2 or 3 Disney things I actually do want to watch.
Agreed, definitely a bug in the system. I worked for a bank a long while ago and one of my colleagues put a commit in the wrong place on a debit order system, by the time the code hit the commit the primary key had *sometimes* changed, so it was either updating the correct record, or the wrong record, or deleting the wrong record. We only realized something was wrong when the complaints from customers filtered down to I.T. and we went looking for the issue, really fucked up my weekend. Why does shit *mostly* break on a fucking Friday?
My wife works for a major bank, and understandably they are rather anal retentive about security, to the point where trying to get access to a database is a three day affair involving reams of paperwork and authorizations. In a way also understandable, but as a developer who needs to connect to multiple databases (staging, QA etc.) it is a real pain in the ass. Googles approach sounds like a nightmare in comparison. I will let her know tonight that it can be way worse, it might stop her whining about it as much.
Same as video stores, it's not like anyone doesn't watch movies / series etc. it's just there is no longer a need to get in your car and go fetch it. Nobody wants their product anymore.
Book shops and eventually libraries are going to go the way of the dodo as well, pity about the libraries though, have lots of fond memories of libraries. But come to think of it, I live a block and a half from our local library and I've only been in it twice. First time to register, second time to take the books back, never even read one though, found a digital copy and put it on my kindle.
You probably get a few British films and that's it.
Valid point, Nollywood is HUGE but I bet the Americans don't even know it exists. Not that I watch it much personally, lots of drama type stuff, but I know a lot of people who do.
Erm, not sure what game you are playing, but I do know that using macro's is against the TOS for a lot of games, unless that changed, haven't been playing online games lately.
This is what got annoying on Blackberry as well, a torch app that needs access to your address book, I'm like wtf? Find another one, asks for the same thing, eventually I got off my ass and went and found a flashlight.
You CAN learn to code in a few months, heck if you are a quick study you could probably learn to code in ONE month.
To write GOOD code however takes a LOT longer.
Something these code camp twats probably knew damn well, but were more that willing to take money from the ignorant.
Also what makes me bang me head against my desk is that people don't realize that coding is not simply learning how an if and a while work, it's about learning how to write a file, read a database (you'll have to learn SQL as well) etc. etc. in your chosen language. That takes a lot of time.
That's what I did, gave my Sony TV away and bought a big monitor instead. It actually came with a remote, but the monitor is too stupid to send the remote signals to the rPi via HDMI, one thing I miss about the Sony, but it's something I can live with since about the only time I actually use the remote is to turn the monitor on. Volume etc. can all be controlled from the app on my phone / tablet.
Dude, I have no clue what Medium even does, kinda inferred it from the blurb. I did try a quick google search on "Medium" but obviously had zero fucking luck with that. But I had work to do and a deadline, so I didn't bust a gut trying to find out more.
If the only people who can clap have to be paid subscribers, then a simple calculation of how much money you will get by creating multiple accounts for the "bots" and the amount of money you would make getting "claps" would determine whether it was worth using a botnet. I assume Medium is making money in that equation somewhere so chances are you would be making a loss. UNLESS the pay scale they give you would slide depending on the number of claps and if the more you got the more prominently your stuff was displayed which would mean you would start getting claps from other people. I dunno, I suppose I need to research some more, but then I don't have a botnet (or the time to build one) so what's the point.
Maybe in your area, but when you use cells in my country it NAT's most of it through a couple IP addresses. It's not unusual to go to a site you have never been to before and it tells you your IP address has been banned for whatever.
What's annoying about videos is the wadsworth constant where the first 30% of a video is not worth watching because it contains nothing relevant to why you are watching the video in the first place. It's waffle about their other videos and pleas to subscribe etc. etc. You used to be able to add &wadsworth=1 to a youtube url, but the last time I tried it didn't work anymore.
The other reason I prefer reading to watching someone with a lisp trying to explain something, is that I read WAY faster than they can talk (without sounding like Mickey Mouse) so if I am skimming a wall of text scanning for something it's faster and I don't waste 10~15 minutes of my life before realizing the video does not have the information I am looking for.
The annoying part is everyone wants to be a youtube star, so more and more I have to sit through some twat waffling about his cat.
Agreed, my sister works for a large retailer and she was part of their team to implement automated loading. In their case however a lot of it WAS purely to remove the human element from the equation.
The reason being is that every year during the xmas peak times the forklift drivers would strike and demand higher wages. That forced them to get in part time workers to at least keep stock moving, of course the strikers don't like that so often there is violence and they have to get private security to protect the part time workers (often school kids on summer break - yeah it's summer here over xmas).
Also theft (or "shrinkage" in retailer talk) is bad enough that it was also a contributing factor in removing humans from the loop. Some of the stock still needs humans, but all the dry goods are automated, and they are looking at automating the rest.
Because there is more profit gluing the device together so that every two years your battery life is so sucky you replace the phone (instead of just the battery).
Agreed, a friend is rebuilding / upgrading his wife's PC and his own and he's going full AMD - something we both used to run but gave in and switched to intel because AMD was just so far behind.
Also I vividly remember the arguments, I lost count of the number of times my mother threw the map book at my father. GPS kinda stopped those as well, can't say I miss them. My wife and I both have a crap sense of direction, when we were going somewhere new we would have to build in extra travel time, because we ALWAYS got fucking lost. Still get lost occasionally even with GPS, but that's usually due to entering the incorrect details (although not always). Sometimes (especially when we haven't updated in a while) we will end up in a dead end because the GPS still thinks there is a road there. Once we ended up on some dudes farm, he was not impressed, seems a lot of people ended up in his driveway.
I still disagree, when you (used to) come out of an Airport your options where more varied and you could pick and choose which cab to take. Didn't really matter because they all cost about the same regardless. I suppose you could say they were price fixing, or colluding or whatever. What makes Uber stand out as well is their policy on how old the car can be, so you don't end up getting a lift from some ancient beat up car.
So is the Uber app, well it's not crap, but it's gotten so big I can't fit it on my phone anymore, if I want to Uber anywhere I have to cart my tablet around. Fucking annoying.
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So my days of pirating shit isn't done, thought I would finally be "legit" and just stream all my stuffs, looks like that is not going to be the case. There is no way I am paying x/month for x number of streaming services. Hell, I've practically watched everything I want to watch on Netflix (at least in my country). The only way I would be remotely interested in Disney's streaming service is if I had kids, which i don't so they can shove it and I will pirate the 2 or 3 Disney things I actually do want to watch.
Agreed, definitely a bug in the system. I worked for a bank a long while ago and one of my colleagues put a commit in the wrong place on a debit order system, by the time the code hit the commit the primary key had *sometimes* changed, so it was either updating the correct record, or the wrong record, or deleting the wrong record. We only realized something was wrong when the complaints from customers filtered down to I.T. and we went looking for the issue, really fucked up my weekend. Why does shit *mostly* break on a fucking Friday?
My wife works for a major bank, and understandably they are rather anal retentive about security, to the point where trying to get access to a database is a three day affair involving reams of paperwork and authorizations. In a way also understandable, but as a developer who needs to connect to multiple databases (staging, QA etc.) it is a real pain in the ass. Googles approach sounds like a nightmare in comparison. I will let her know tonight that it can be way worse, it might stop her whining about it as much.
Same as video stores, it's not like anyone doesn't watch movies / series etc. it's just there is no longer a need to get in your car and go fetch it. Nobody wants their product anymore.
Book shops and eventually libraries are going to go the way of the dodo as well, pity about the libraries though, have lots of fond memories of libraries. But come to think of it, I live a block and a half from our local library and I've only been in it twice. First time to register, second time to take the books back, never even read one though, found a digital copy and put it on my kindle.
Valid point, Nollywood is HUGE but I bet the Americans don't even know it exists. Not that I watch it much personally, lots of drama type stuff, but I know a lot of people who do.
Valid point, some "singers" can't even play an instrument, heck without AutoTune half of them can't sing.
Exactly, and if you are found to have a single image which can be construed as child porn you are fucked.
Erm, not sure what game you are playing, but I do know that using macro's is against the TOS for a lot of games, unless that changed, haven't been playing online games lately.
Puhleez, if you honestly though 90% of musicians wrote their own songs you are sadly mistaken.
This is what got annoying on Blackberry as well, a torch app that needs access to your address book, I'm like wtf? Find another one, asks for the same thing, eventually I got off my ass and went and found a flashlight.
You CAN learn to code in a few months, heck if you are a quick study you could probably learn to code in ONE month.
To write GOOD code however takes a LOT longer.
Something these code camp twats probably knew damn well, but were more that willing to take money from the ignorant.
Also what makes me bang me head against my desk is that people don't realize that coding is not simply learning how an if and a while work, it's about learning how to write a file, read a database (you'll have to learn SQL as well) etc. etc. in your chosen language. That takes a lot of time.
That's what I did, gave my Sony TV away and bought a big monitor instead. It actually came with a remote, but the monitor is too stupid to send the remote signals to the rPi via HDMI, one thing I miss about the Sony, but it's something I can live with since about the only time I actually use the remote is to turn the monitor on. Volume etc. can all be controlled from the app on my phone / tablet.
Dude, I have no clue what Medium even does, kinda inferred it from the blurb. I did try a quick google search on "Medium" but obviously had zero fucking luck with that. But I had work to do and a deadline, so I didn't bust a gut trying to find out more.
If the only people who can clap have to be paid subscribers, then a simple calculation of how much money you will get by creating multiple accounts for the "bots" and the amount of money you would make getting "claps" would determine whether it was worth using a botnet. I assume Medium is making money in that equation somewhere so chances are you would be making a loss. UNLESS the pay scale they give you would slide depending on the number of claps and if the more you got the more prominently your stuff was displayed which would mean you would start getting claps from other people. I dunno, I suppose I need to research some more, but then I don't have a botnet (or the time to build one) so what's the point.
Maybe in your area, but when you use cells in my country it NAT's most of it through a couple IP addresses. It's not unusual to go to a site you have never been to before and it tells you your IP address has been banned for whatever.
What's annoying about videos is the wadsworth constant where the first 30% of a video is not worth watching because it contains nothing relevant to why you are watching the video in the first place. It's waffle about their other videos and pleas to subscribe etc. etc. You used to be able to add &wadsworth=1 to a youtube url, but the last time I tried it didn't work anymore.
The other reason I prefer reading to watching someone with a lisp trying to explain something, is that I read WAY faster than they can talk (without sounding like Mickey Mouse) so if I am skimming a wall of text scanning for something it's faster and I don't waste 10~15 minutes of my life before realizing the video does not have the information I am looking for.
The annoying part is everyone wants to be a youtube star, so more and more I have to sit through some twat waffling about his cat.
Exactly what I was thinking, where is my botnet when I need it!
Next headline about Medium is that it's funds are Low and it's going Under.
Agreed, my sister works for a large retailer and she was part of their team to implement automated loading. In their case however a lot of it WAS purely to remove the human element from the equation.
The reason being is that every year during the xmas peak times the forklift drivers would strike and demand higher wages. That forced them to get in part time workers to at least keep stock moving, of course the strikers don't like that so often there is violence and they have to get private security to protect the part time workers (often school kids on summer break - yeah it's summer here over xmas).
Also theft (or "shrinkage" in retailer talk) is bad enough that it was also a contributing factor in removing humans from the loop. Some of the stock still needs humans, but all the dry goods are automated, and they are looking at automating the rest.
Because there is more profit gluing the device together so that every two years your battery life is so sucky you replace the phone (instead of just the battery).
Agreed, a friend is rebuilding / upgrading his wife's PC and his own and he's going full AMD - something we both used to run but gave in and switched to intel because AMD was just so far behind.
Also I vividly remember the arguments, I lost count of the number of times my mother threw the map book at my father. GPS kinda stopped those as well, can't say I miss them. My wife and I both have a crap sense of direction, when we were going somewhere new we would have to build in extra travel time, because we ALWAYS got fucking lost. Still get lost occasionally even with GPS, but that's usually due to entering the incorrect details (although not always). Sometimes (especially when we haven't updated in a while) we will end up in a dead end because the GPS still thinks there is a road there. Once we ended up on some dudes farm, he was not impressed, seems a lot of people ended up in his driveway.
I still disagree, when you (used to) come out of an Airport your options where more varied and you could pick and choose which cab to take. Didn't really matter because they all cost about the same regardless. I suppose you could say they were price fixing, or colluding or whatever. What makes Uber stand out as well is their policy on how old the car can be, so you don't end up getting a lift from some ancient beat up car.
So is the Uber app, well it's not crap, but it's gotten so big I can't fit it on my phone anymore, if I want to Uber anywhere I have to cart my tablet around. Fucking annoying.
Valid point, and if I had mod points I would give you one.
Yeah, like that fucking worked with metered taxi's.
I would mod you up, you hit the nail right on the head. Loved your car analogy, very /.