Back in "the day" a little company that called itself Sceptre made these wonderful 14" CRT monitors. I had a few clients that had them and they were nice for their price. But every other one we set up would have crazy sync problems and the screen would just wave. Perplexed I called Sceptre to get some insight. The technician matter of factly and very serious instructed me to point the monitor toward the North Pole (we were on the Gulf coast). I suspiciously complied once I figured out which direction was North and viola! wavy screen went away. We had to rearrange the furniture.
Who is we? Everywhere I see a story about Kodak I see the bulk of the comments stating they waited too long to go digital. Kodak made their money off of consumables and no amount of digital camera sales would have off-set the loss of those sales. It would be like every man and woman on the planet switching to an electric shaver. Schick/Wilkinson Sword would shrivel up in a matter of months. The only reason Gillette would survive is it is a P&G property and they'd just use the brand for something else.
I remember when the company I was working for at the time (in the top 5 Global 500 co.) upgraded the Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition scanning engine (from 5 to 6 IIRC). It was back around 2005. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth that month. It instantaneously transformed Pentium class machines into 386DX boxes and the villagers were grabbing their pitchforks.
As consumers your explanation is the most logical since most of us only ever see the consumer side of a business. However Kodak was much more than a seller of cameras. Kodak had thousands of patents pertaining to film and film development. They sold the film, paper, and chemicals to dark rooms. Even if they had jumped on the digital camera bandwagon early on it would not have covered the loss of revenue from those sales but would have cannibalized it instead. Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975 and immediately shelved it fearing it would do just that.
I would add that techs tend to want to implement the most elaborate/expensive solution to cover the most contingencies. A manager needs to be able to know the corporate climate to temper enthusiasm with reality and budget while not stifling the enthusiasm.
Why in the hell do we put up with such incompetence? Do we not pay enough into the TSA to not hire utter morons?
Absolutely not! TSA agents are mostly people who couldn't pass the US Postal Carrier exam. Several people I knew who were not "bulbworthy" were getting jobs at the TSA shortly after 9/11. They have a very low bar for entry.
I suspect it is part of the settlement with the company that got screwed when Houstonians said no to red light cameras AFTER the city implemented them without asking the citizens if they wanted them.
I ordered something on the 12th of Dec. for scheduled delivery of the 17th and was seeing the warning on both FedEx and UPS saying weather was preventing delivery in many cases even though neither the product origin or my home were affected by the weather in question. Can only assume planes were grounded in those places preventing them from reaching other sites. I think it reached a head on Christmas Eve since a package I was expecting that day was at the depot but lost in their pile of orders. Says I should get it today!
Did you even RTFA?
This is for the 'internet of things' - Imagine you want to move the anti-theft system in your motorcycle from carrier A to B. Or a city wants to move their digital parking meters to a cheaper carrier. Instead of needing to move a physical SIM you could do is online.
Or an online watch, where there are advantages to having it sealed up, with no SIM slot. Heck even with a 'phone' it's useful. Imagine you arrive in Hong Kong at midnight and you want to move your phone to Vodaphone. You don't have to seek out some store and buy a SIM - Just happens presto.
Imagine all of those scenarios except the person/entity making the changes isn't the owner.
Most multivitamins are crap...That said supplementation is not. The problem is picking the good out of the crap. I suspect the studies focused on well known sources for multivitamins which would mean oneAday or centrum varieties which are almost always crap. That mixed with the study's funding by pharmaceutical companies (I didn't look but you know it was) and the "The case is closed" comment lead me to the conclusion...What a load of crap!
That pretty much sums up how people feel about DRM. They also feel like that about security, btw.
BINGO! How many people wake up to go to the airport thinking "OH Goody! I get to go through the TSA checkpoints on my way to grandma's." but they do it because it's the only way to get on the plane. There are plenty of people who will not fly because of the hassle flying has become since the TSA was enacted but they are still a minority. Same thing with 2Factor authentication. It is a PITA but the threat of a security breach has made it a reality for most of us. Steam has made DRM as unobtrusive as I believe is possible with current technology. I still don't like having the DRM there but at least it gets out of my way.
Serious question. You can take a gun anywhere you want but without ammo it's just a blunt instrument to strike someone with. Is there any indication someone has developed 3D printed bullets that won't explode the casing?
Yes, but eventually XP will not support new hardware so upgrading will not be an option anymore. By then, your software will probably not work in the latest OS so you will be stuck with software that requires an ancient OS, which in turn requires ancient hardware. And it wouldn't be the first time it has happened. You just have to look at all those computers still running DOS or Windows 3.x.
Except virtual machines are now mainstream and easy to set up and maintain. My next rig will be a VM only affair so reinstalling my OS will consist of pulling the backup of my already configured VM. Hardware has gotten to the point even 3D games set to lower settings run quite well in a VM. So XP in its current form could potentially continue on in perpetuity.
I think this is true, however how do you get one? Most dictators are not benevolent. Lots of times they start out benevolent and end up not.
Have you ever seen the image of a woman who is past the point of pulling her hair out from her children's incessant "mommy I want that", "mommy he touched me!", "mommy that's not fair", etc. etc. etc.?
Now imagine you are that benevolent dictator (Mommy) and you have several million subjects (children). Kinda makes your skin crawl...
While this article is trying to paint a certain picture that may or may not be accurate the real reason solar has been able to take off in the last few years is solar efficiency. It just wasn't economically viable when solar could only get single digit efficiency yields. newer manufacturing and technology is starting to see ~20% efficiency and some promising results have seen up to ~40%. That means less panels to achieve the same result so it costs less to deploy.
It doesn't matter if you have a problem with it. The law states if you are stopped at a light you are still driving and subject to any distraction laws. And this guy is just waiting for you to come to his town.
Slow moving vehicles cause more accidents than speeding ones and when you are looking at your screen even for a second you slow down. I passed at least three cars this morning that were impeding traffic flow and every single one had their faced buried in their phone as I passed. And based on the maturity of assuming it isn't dangerous because you haven't had an accident (yet) I'd have to assume you aren't old enough to have a valid drivers license anyway.
I wasn't aware they had created an NPE corp to hold the license. I'd still call that a troll use personally.
I too originally though Intel had come up with the architecture until I looked at the information in the link I shared.
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Back in "the day" a little company that called itself Sceptre made these wonderful 14" CRT monitors. I had a few clients that had them and they were nice for their price. But every other one we set up would have crazy sync problems and the screen would just wave. Perplexed I called Sceptre to get some insight. The technician matter of factly and very serious instructed me to point the monitor toward the North Pole (we were on the Gulf coast). I suspiciously complied once I figured out which direction was North and viola! wavy screen went away. We had to rearrange the furniture.
Who is we? Everywhere I see a story about Kodak I see the bulk of the comments stating they waited too long to go digital. Kodak made their money off of consumables and no amount of digital camera sales would have off-set the loss of those sales. It would be like every man and woman on the planet switching to an electric shaver. Schick/Wilkinson Sword would shrivel up in a matter of months. The only reason Gillette would survive is it is a P&G property and they'd just use the brand for something else.
I remember when the company I was working for at the time (in the top 5 Global 500 co.) upgraded the Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition scanning engine (from 5 to 6 IIRC). It was back around 2005. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth that month. It instantaneously transformed Pentium class machines into 386DX boxes and the villagers were grabbing their pitchforks.
As consumers your explanation is the most logical since most of us only ever see the consumer side of a business. However Kodak was much more than a seller of cameras. Kodak had thousands of patents pertaining to film and film development. They sold the film, paper, and chemicals to dark rooms. Even if they had jumped on the digital camera bandwagon early on it would not have covered the loss of revenue from those sales but would have cannibalized it instead. Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975 and immediately shelved it fearing it would do just that.
I would add that techs tend to want to implement the most elaborate/expensive solution to cover the most contingencies. A manager needs to be able to know the corporate climate to temper enthusiasm with reality and budget while not stifling the enthusiasm.
Why in the hell do we put up with such incompetence? Do we not pay enough into the TSA to not hire utter morons?
Absolutely not! TSA agents are mostly people who couldn't pass the US Postal Carrier exam. Several people I knew who were not "bulbworthy" were getting jobs at the TSA shortly after 9/11. They have a very low bar for entry.
I suspect it is part of the settlement with the company that got screwed when Houstonians said no to red light cameras AFTER the city implemented them without asking the citizens if they wanted them.
Youre missing out. How on earth do you manage huge batch jobs like modifying 100 print queues or getting reports on your VMs?
REXX of course!
I ordered something on the 12th of Dec. for scheduled delivery of the 17th and was seeing the warning on both FedEx and UPS saying weather was preventing delivery in many cases even though neither the product origin or my home were affected by the weather in question. Can only assume planes were grounded in those places preventing them from reaching other sites. I think it reached a head on Christmas Eve since a package I was expecting that day was at the depot but lost in their pile of orders. Says I should get it today!
The operator IMO would be considered an owner of the service. I was referring to third parties not affiliated with either the device or service.
Did you even RTFA? This is for the 'internet of things' - Imagine you want to move the anti-theft system in your motorcycle from carrier A to B. Or a city wants to move their digital parking meters to a cheaper carrier. Instead of needing to move a physical SIM you could do is online. Or an online watch, where there are advantages to having it sealed up, with no SIM slot. Heck even with a 'phone' it's useful. Imagine you arrive in Hong Kong at midnight and you want to move your phone to Vodaphone. You don't have to seek out some store and buy a SIM - Just happens presto.
Imagine all of those scenarios except the person/entity making the changes isn't the owner.
Just because AC is being paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get him.
Most multivitamins are crap...That said supplementation is not. The problem is picking the good out of the crap. I suspect the studies focused on well known sources for multivitamins which would mean oneAday or centrum varieties which are almost always crap. That mixed with the study's funding by pharmaceutical companies (I didn't look but you know it was) and the "The case is closed" comment lead me to the conclusion...What a load of crap!
That pretty much sums up how people feel about DRM. They also feel like that about security, btw.
BINGO! How many people wake up to go to the airport thinking "OH Goody! I get to go through the TSA checkpoints on my way to grandma's." but they do it because it's the only way to get on the plane. There are plenty of people who will not fly because of the hassle flying has become since the TSA was enacted but they are still a minority. Same thing with 2Factor authentication. It is a PITA but the threat of a security breach has made it a reality for most of us. Steam has made DRM as unobtrusive as I believe is possible with current technology. I still don't like having the DRM there but at least it gets out of my way.
I suspect the programming languages of the not to distant future will make Visual Basic look like brain surgery. "Siri...write a program to do X."
And as soon as Gentoo finishes compiling they'll post their responses.
Serious question. You can take a gun anywhere you want but without ammo it's just a blunt instrument to strike someone with. Is there any indication someone has developed 3D printed bullets that won't explode the casing?
Yes, but eventually XP will not support new hardware so upgrading will not be an option anymore. By then, your software will probably not work in the latest OS so you will be stuck with software that requires an ancient OS, which in turn requires ancient hardware. And it wouldn't be the first time it has happened. You just have to look at all those computers still running DOS or Windows 3.x.
Except virtual machines are now mainstream and easy to set up and maintain. My next rig will be a VM only affair so reinstalling my OS will consist of pulling the backup of my already configured VM. Hardware has gotten to the point even 3D games set to lower settings run quite well in a VM. So XP in its current form could potentially continue on in perpetuity.
I think this is true, however how do you get one? Most dictators are not benevolent. Lots of times they start out benevolent and end up not.
Have you ever seen the image of a woman who is past the point of pulling her hair out from her children's incessant "mommy I want that", "mommy he touched me!", "mommy that's not fair", etc. etc. etc.?
Now imagine you are that benevolent dictator (Mommy) and you have several million subjects (children). Kinda makes your skin crawl...
Add to that the adage Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and it's not so hard to see why good men go bad.
While this article is trying to paint a certain picture that may or may not be accurate the real reason solar has been able to take off in the last few years is solar efficiency. It just wasn't economically viable when solar could only get single digit efficiency yields. newer manufacturing and technology is starting to see ~20% efficiency and some promising results have seen up to ~40%. That means less panels to achieve the same result so it costs less to deploy.
That's OK I keep tinfoil on my unit to prevent that.
Because somebody has to know how to build the calculator in the first place or you'll just end up kidnapping other people's children.
It doesn't matter if you have a problem with it. The law states if you are stopped at a light you are still driving and subject to any distraction laws. And this guy is just waiting for you to come to his town.
Slow moving vehicles cause more accidents than speeding ones and when you are looking at your screen even for a second you slow down. I passed at least three cars this morning that were impeding traffic flow and every single one had their faced buried in their phone as I passed. And based on the maturity of assuming it isn't dangerous because you haven't had an accident (yet) I'd have to assume you aren't old enough to have a valid drivers license anyway.
I wasn't aware they had created an NPE corp to hold the license. I'd still call that a troll use personally.
I too originally though Intel had come up with the architecture until I looked at the information in the link I shared.