Sounds like Color Printers. Buy them cheap and then pay a lot of money on the consumables. But wait - I spent $2,000 buying my fancy TV and now they want to "inject" ads into it?
My problems with this ad model is that I can't opt out. Think of regular TV - I can watch network TV "for free" and view ads.... or purchase HBO/Netflix/etc for the ad-free experience. How will I opt out in this model?
sounds broken - and many are. I ran into one that showed a picture of a house and asked "what is the house number?" Problem was - the picture contained two sets of numbers --- AND the most obvious address (nearly centered) contained Letters and the input box only allowed numbers (e.g. "801A")
My favorites are text questions: "1 + 1 = Please type Red in this box"
Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that the chemical diacetyl (and acetoin) is present in several vape flavors. Diacetyl is used for "butter flavor" in popcorn & candy - and over a decade ago workers at the popcorn factories began to show signs of the lung disease Bronchiolitis Obliterans, hence the name Popcorn Lung. Links were made between diacetyl and this irreversible lung disease.
There is a very real concern that breathing in vapes containing diacetyl could give uses Popcorn Lung.
Sure - we don't always need a law. But how many people know of this link - and is there a responsibility to inform them? Whose job is that?
They want to shut down Apple's services. Fine - but what competing products did Apple shutout of the market that will now be able to bounce back and increase market share?
If they desire to take away something - what is the replacement? If this is an NPE - they have no product. So Apple pays the patent tax - is granted a license - and we all move on.
Thank god finally.... Yes and.... Computer Science and writing Code are not the same thing. Analysis of algorithms, computer architecture, memory management methods, lists, queues, relational calculus, etc.... this is Computer Science. The university I attended made me write an Assembler to learn assembly language - and concepts like Forward referencing etc.
But coding - I have some English Majors around here doing that. Teach music on an electronic piano that plays sampled beats is not the same as Music theory.
Granted - you start them young to get them interested. And the early samples need to be easy and fun. But it needs to grow up with age.
Teaching coding is not teaching Computer Science. Any more than teaching Addition is Mathematics.
Plus I've heard great arguments of the difference between "Computer Science" vs "Computer Engineering."
The Scientist move theory and technology forward. Engineering builds practical stuff. Can't wait for my First Grader to learn Scrum !!:-P
well - yes - I too was shocked to learn this today. But apparently I already figured it out because the Microphone & Camera are disabled in the Settings.
The online description makes it sound like the iPhone Siri "Hey Siri - what music is playing now?" feature. Not really listening, rather identifying key words ( Shazam feature?!).
However, I have this (misplaced?) assumed privacy that Google and Apple only begin listening when I say "Okay Google" / "Hey Siri" and that all processing power is spent Only on detecting those trigger words. Facebook doesn't have this "Hey FB" trigger so I would have assumed that nothing was going on.
I probably looked at the settings one day and wondered "why would FB need the microphone??!... hell no."
My father listens to Canadian radio because the ads are in French. He finds that not being able to understand them makes the content more enjoyable - more background noise.:-)
Yes - thanks for pointing that out. I didn't want to go into details, maybe I should have put a " * VB6 folks know otherwise." As you know that switch has to be turned off once in awhile (when making a breaking change to the interface -- or just sometimes VB6 wouldn't compile child projects for unknown reasons). But for our internal code a breaking change was a refactoring effort - so we dealt with it (this wasn't a public API).
Yes - the rules of COM say you need to redo the IUUIDS blah blah. Couldn't link DLLs together - so VB6 forces the rules of COM on to you. Then having to update the referenced projects....Another "arrgg I hate VB" frustration. VB6 as a core language was short and simple getting the job done. But these little things around the edges was very frustrating.
Another way we did it (esp for public interfaces) was to write the interface in IDL as a C++ project - compile (MIDL) it to a DLL. Then reference the project and "Implement" that interface. Nice thing was - if we wanted to break the rules of COM and redefine the interface - VB6 played along.
ah yes. That was a sneaky way to put that in front of them.
We came to the same question when (finally) switching from VB6 to.NET. By this time enough normal software engineers were on the job - so it wasn't a big discussion. But the answer that won for us was...most samples on the web are in C#. The industry has gone with C# and if we want to hire people in the future VB.NET probably won't be on as many resumes as C#. And C# looks a lot like Java - so lower retrain lift.
Therefore - for efficiency sake, it'll be faster/cheaper to find people who know C# and folks reading "the web" looking for help will find samples also in C#.
Bias? I feel they are biased in terms of "quality" of "what is news." My news feed always contains (to me -- stupid) Entertainment news "Celebrity caught walking their dog" or "Person paints house lime green" "Trump says Fox news anchor has two headed baby" Stuff that I wouldn't consider news. Tabloid "National Enquirer" stuff yes. But news...no.
hmm... interesting thought. Although I've never heard Music Streaming services be referred to as Cord Cutting folks (just Cable TV) - you do bring up an interesting paradigm. If one cut the cord - wouldn't they be switching to plain old AM/FM radio? First time I ran into this was listening to my local radio station --- streamed over the internet. It made me think of building an in-home Wifi device with AM/FM radio on it.
But I have cut the cord - I now stream HDTV in my house over Wifi to my devices and direct with my TV.
The mailman hates the long hike up into the woods to deliver my Netflix DVDs.
Yes and... as a once-upon-a-time-ago VB6 programmer at a business I had lobbied to go C++. But the business decided that VB6 was easy and they didn't want to have highly trained people - VB6 was an easier uplift. Yes VB6 was simple but it got the job done. And yes it should be put to pasture.
However, I'm interested in open-source because many of those old corp products are stuck in VB6 for a variety of reasons. It is "too hard" to port to.NET/Java and when you have 1+ million lines of code "easy" goes a long way. If we had access to the parser or compiler modifications might be made to help ease the migration. Better COM support by the compiler (stop changing the interface UID on each recompile). Who knows the possibilities.
So I while don't want "a few more years" - being able to add/cleanup a few features to make migrating (wrapping) a few last components would be nice.
but yeah - no new VB6 code. Maybe that's the first PR --- can't create new projects only compile old ones:-)
I think his real mistake was the attempted extortion. Had he claimed that a copy of the tax records fell in his lap and "boy are they juicy" - wait... I suppose that is slander (or is it?)
"oh yeah sure I stole them" would make somebody nervous. But demanding money is still a crime.
Pay the overage fees as protest !! Let them know that you are fed up and won't take this anymore !!!
My cell company keeps trying to get me to upgrade to a bigger better plan (which actually will cost me more for less). But I either stay below my cap - or pay the cheaper overage fee that this plan has.
Currently usage caps haven't come to my local Comcast/XFinity - but I dread the day it arrives.
Right! The explanation is worrisome - the car doesn't look "above" itself. Which makes me wonder about the basic crash avoidance technology - had he been driving down the highway and come upon stopped traffic....would the car have not noticed this shape truck and plowed into the back of it? It could also be proximity. Had he been farther back maybe it wouldn't have happened.
But - I am reminded of that Volvo customer video several months ago where a person Thought they had "City" Pedestrian avoidance and ran over a family member while demonstrating it. Responsibility for Use Error does not always lie with the user. I work in the medical device field. User Confusion is a failure mode - could the user misuse something believing they are using it correctly? Placing the Start and Stop buttons side-by-side (regardless of color or labeling) is a generally a bad idea. In a panic somebody may just be swatting at the control panel trying to Stop the machine.
What if somebody somehow double-taps the selector while shifting into Park? I assume this is the same release lever that is required to shift from D to P. I double press the one in my car (not a Tesla) because the first time I slip & push the selector too soon - and the selector is locked up on the mechanic device. So I must do it again.
My car has Launch Control in it. Besides having a special set of steps to enable it (press brake, press button / shift to special gear) --- the final step requires the Brake be held down with significant pressure before it will engage. While the car appears to be in launch mode - Lightly touching the brake won't turn it on. You must Mean It before revving the engine.
Sharing should reduce the total number of vehicles in existence (anytime you have a pool - the total needed goes down). Mercedes issues a statement last year opening "worrying" about this and highlighted how the market may change with the combination of autonomous vehicles. And if carpooling were used it would also reduce the number of vehicles on the road at any given time - kind of a mini bus line.
Mass Transit couple with autonomous cars that fill in that last mile still allow people to go anywhere.
They did an experiment here in my city. There was a large heavily traveled 4 lane road (2 + 2). Traffic was always an issue - cars blocked the lane to turn Left - crashes as people pulled in from side streets etc. One side argued for a 5th lane. Others argued for fewer lanes. The experiment put in place a 3 lane highway.... 1+1 and a single center turn lane. Traffic congestion has all but gone away and accidents on the road have decreased significantly.
So we can still all go where we want - sometimes Less is More.
Another perspective --- why is he still building Individual Cars. I read an article where the author pointed out ---- it costs about the same to build A Car. That car still uses the roads/bridges and clogs roadways requiring larger roads to be built. And those batteries. They will become the next pollutant of some kind.
The author argued that the real way to the future is via Mass Transit. Fewer individual cars should be built. More sharing. That is the big step forward.
Some have even painted the picture of self-driving vehicles that act as taxis - on demand and shared. Possibly better than the bus in rural areas with more personal schedule choice.
Seriously - when a machine comes into the factory to replace works, you have a few choices.
Be better than the robot (a few will be) Find another job that hasn't automated yet Change careers and become the robot overlord.
Maybe someday the robots will repair the robots. But that doesn't look like it'll happen anytime soon (see articles about recent firings of robot Waiters in China).
And if you want a weird movie that takes a different look at the problem watch Automata starring Antonio Banderas. B movie at best - but interesting.
You are correct. And No they don't limit. But they don't collect sales tax either. Although now LL Bean is in the state - so even online purchases have sales tax.
But think about it - if I run a web business I must contact all zip codes in the USA to program the POS. While the Items taxed in my state are the same - each town has a different Rate. Some are just the flat state tax, some have an option tax.
Technically if I purchase something out of state I'm supposed to pay the difference to my state upon return. NH our neighboring state doesn't charge sales tax - so many drive across the border to purchase big ticket electronic items. Using Cash. So that there is no digital history on a credit card. Although most use a credit card because the State's threat to compel credit card companies to rat out customers has fallen dead each time proposed.
They charge the sales tax in the locality of the store. So if somebody drives to the next town - they pay the tax of that town.
There are lots of business in the state and they all figure out taxes on their products. There are even regional "New England" based stores but each state location has to deal with this.
But the point of the article - opening a website means you are now in all 50 states. So take the complexity of a single state and multiply it by 50. This is why Amazon (and others) are asking for a tax simplification. Right now I'm supposed to report on my state taxes all unpaid sales tax. Which is why I don't make any online purchases -- using a credit card (there have been threats to force credit card companies to report purchases to the state like the Feds want Stock purchases reported on the 1099-XYZ)
Yes - about 8 months ago. Bday gift from my wife. (previous I said 6...where does the time go. Fall of 2015).
If the battery lasted longer I wouldn't be so down on it. And waterproof. Yes you can shower with it - I give the kids a bath and put my arms in the water. But you aren't supposed to swim with it. So I'm worried what I'm going to do when boating season comes - probably leave it at home and wear my $30 Timex.
This is a $300 watch that I have to think about wearing. My $30 timex I don't think or worry about. It works in all conditions. My phone I can slip into a drawer and forget about it - and will need to do the same with the watch. but wait - I need the watch (at least time) --- so won't bring 2 with me.
I offered it as my personal experience. I've had one for ~6 months now. 12 million of us bought into the dream. In my case my wife bought into it for my bday.
But I'll probably throw $400 down on the next Watch hoping the dream will get better.
I'd chat more but my notification reminder to charge my watch just popped up.
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Sounds like Color Printers. Buy them cheap and then pay a lot of money on the consumables. But wait - I spent $2,000 buying my fancy TV and now they want to "inject" ads into it?
My problems with this ad model is that I can't opt out. Think of regular TV - I can watch network TV "for free" and view ads.... or purchase HBO/Netflix/etc for the ad-free experience. How will I opt out in this model?
Spending $2,000 apparently wasn't enough.
Robot looking for Robots -- Robot Dating Systems
sounds broken - and many are. I ran into one that showed a picture of a house and asked "what is the house number?" Problem was - the picture contained two sets of numbers --- AND the most obvious address (nearly centered) contained Letters and the input box only allowed numbers (e.g. "801A")
My favorites are text questions: "1 + 1 = Please type Red in this box"
Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that the chemical diacetyl (and acetoin) is present in several vape flavors. Diacetyl is used for "butter flavor" in popcorn & candy - and over a decade ago workers at the popcorn factories began to show signs of the lung disease Bronchiolitis Obliterans, hence the name Popcorn Lung. Links were made between diacetyl and this irreversible lung disease.
There is a very real concern that breathing in vapes containing diacetyl could give uses Popcorn Lung.
Sure - we don't always need a law. But how many people know of this link - and is there a responsibility to inform them? Whose job is that?
CBS News account of the story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/e-...
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They want to shut down Apple's services. Fine - but what competing products did Apple shutout of the market that will now be able to bounce back and increase market share?
If they desire to take away something - what is the replacement? If this is an NPE - they have no product. So Apple pays the patent tax - is granted a license - and we all move on.
Thank god finally.... Yes and.... Computer Science and writing Code are not the same thing. Analysis of algorithms, computer architecture, memory management methods, lists, queues, relational calculus, etc.... this is Computer Science. The university I attended made me write an Assembler to learn assembly language - and concepts like Forward referencing etc.
But coding - I have some English Majors around here doing that. Teach music on an electronic piano that plays sampled beats is not the same as Music theory.
Granted - you start them young to get them interested. And the early samples need to be easy and fun. But it needs to grow up with age.
Teaching coding is not teaching Computer Science. Any more than teaching Addition is Mathematics.
Plus I've heard great arguments of the difference between "Computer Science" vs "Computer Engineering."
The Scientist move theory and technology forward. Engineering builds practical stuff. Can't wait for my First Grader to learn Scrum !! :-P
well - yes - I too was shocked to learn this today. But apparently I already figured it out because the Microphone & Camera are disabled in the Settings.
The online description makes it sound like the iPhone Siri "Hey Siri - what music is playing now?" feature. Not really listening, rather identifying key words ( Shazam feature?!).
However, I have this (misplaced?) assumed privacy that Google and Apple only begin listening when I say "Okay Google" / "Hey Siri" and that all processing power is spent Only on detecting those trigger words. Facebook doesn't have this "Hey FB" trigger so I would have assumed that nothing was going on.
I probably looked at the settings one day and wondered "why would FB need the microphone??!... hell no."
I see your point. But when has malware every cared which button you clicked before installing?
oh...yeah... I see your point.
My father listens to Canadian radio because the ads are in French. He finds that not being able to understand them makes the content more enjoyable - more background noise. :-)
Yes - thanks for pointing that out. I didn't want to go into details, maybe I should have put a " * VB6 folks know otherwise." As you know that switch has to be turned off once in awhile (when making a breaking change to the interface -- or just sometimes VB6 wouldn't compile child projects for unknown reasons). But for our internal code a breaking change was a refactoring effort - so we dealt with it (this wasn't a public API).
Yes - the rules of COM say you need to redo the IUUIDS blah blah. Couldn't link DLLs together - so VB6 forces the rules of COM on to you. Then having to update the referenced projects....Another "arrgg I hate VB" frustration. VB6 as a core language was short and simple getting the job done. But these little things around the edges was very frustrating.
Another way we did it (esp for public interfaces) was to write the interface in IDL as a C++ project - compile (MIDL) it to a DLL. Then reference the project and "Implement" that interface. Nice thing was - if we wanted to break the rules of COM and redefine the interface - VB6 played along.
ah yes. That was a sneaky way to put that in front of them.
We came to the same question when (finally) switching from VB6 to .NET. By this time enough normal software engineers were on the job - so it wasn't a big discussion. But the answer that won for us was...most samples on the web are in C#. The industry has gone with C# and if we want to hire people in the future VB.NET probably won't be on as many resumes as C#. And C# looks a lot like Java - so lower retrain lift.
Therefore - for efficiency sake, it'll be faster/cheaper to find people who know C# and folks reading "the web" looking for help will find samples also in C#.
Bias? I feel they are biased in terms of "quality" of "what is news." My news feed always contains (to me -- stupid) Entertainment news "Celebrity caught walking their dog" or "Person paints house lime green" "Trump says Fox news anchor has two headed baby" Stuff that I wouldn't consider news. Tabloid "National Enquirer" stuff yes. But news...no.
Is there a conservative version of The Enquirer?
hmm... interesting thought. Although I've never heard Music Streaming services be referred to as Cord Cutting folks (just Cable TV) - you do bring up an interesting paradigm. If one cut the cord - wouldn't they be switching to plain old AM/FM radio? First time I ran into this was listening to my local radio station --- streamed over the internet. It made me think of building an in-home Wifi device with AM/FM radio on it.
But I have cut the cord - I now stream HDTV in my house over Wifi to my devices and direct with my TV.
The mailman hates the long hike up into the woods to deliver my Netflix DVDs.
Just a #$& ad.
Yes and... as a once-upon-a-time-ago VB6 programmer at a business I had lobbied to go C++. But the business decided that VB6 was easy and they didn't want to have highly trained people - VB6 was an easier uplift. Yes VB6 was simple but it got the job done. And yes it should be put to pasture.
However, I'm interested in open-source because many of those old corp products are stuck in VB6 for a variety of reasons. It is "too hard" to port to .NET/Java and when you have 1+ million lines of code "easy" goes a long way. If we had access to the parser or compiler modifications might be made to help ease the migration. Better COM support by the compiler (stop changing the interface UID on each recompile). Who knows the possibilities.
So I while don't want "a few more years" - being able to add/cleanup a few features to make migrating (wrapping) a few last components would be nice.
but yeah - no new VB6 code. Maybe that's the first PR --- can't create new projects only compile old ones :-)
I think his real mistake was the attempted extortion. Had he claimed that a copy of the tax records fell in his lap and "boy are they juicy" - wait ... I suppose that is slander (or is it?)
"oh yeah sure I stole them" would make somebody nervous. But demanding money is still a crime.
Pay the overage fees as protest !! Let them know that you are fed up and won't take this anymore !!!
My cell company keeps trying to get me to upgrade to a bigger better plan (which actually will cost me more for less). But I either stay below my cap - or pay the cheaper overage fee that this plan has.
Currently usage caps haven't come to my local Comcast/XFinity - but I dread the day it arrives.
Right! The explanation is worrisome - the car doesn't look "above" itself. Which makes me wonder about the basic crash avoidance technology - had he been driving down the highway and come upon stopped traffic....would the car have not noticed this shape truck and plowed into the back of it? It could also be proximity. Had he been farther back maybe it wouldn't have happened.
But - I am reminded of that Volvo customer video several months ago where a person Thought they had "City" Pedestrian avoidance and ran over a family member while demonstrating it. Responsibility for Use Error does not always lie with the user. I work in the medical device field. User Confusion is a failure mode - could the user misuse something believing they are using it correctly? Placing the Start and Stop buttons side-by-side (regardless of color or labeling) is a generally a bad idea. In a panic somebody may just be swatting at the control panel trying to Stop the machine.
What if somebody somehow double-taps the selector while shifting into Park? I assume this is the same release lever that is required to shift from D to P. I double press the one in my car (not a Tesla) because the first time I slip & push the selector too soon - and the selector is locked up on the mechanic device. So I must do it again.
My car has Launch Control in it. Besides having a special set of steps to enable it (press brake, press button / shift to special gear) --- the final step requires the Brake be held down with significant pressure before it will engage. While the car appears to be in launch mode - Lightly touching the brake won't turn it on. You must Mean It before revving the engine.
FMEA baby !!! :-P
Sharing should reduce the total number of vehicles in existence (anytime you have a pool - the total needed goes down). Mercedes issues a statement last year opening "worrying" about this and highlighted how the market may change with the combination of autonomous vehicles. And if carpooling were used it would also reduce the number of vehicles on the road at any given time - kind of a mini bus line.
Mass Transit couple with autonomous cars that fill in that last mile still allow people to go anywhere.
They did an experiment here in my city. There was a large heavily traveled 4 lane road (2 + 2). Traffic was always an issue - cars blocked the lane to turn Left - crashes as people pulled in from side streets etc. One side argued for a 5th lane. Others argued for fewer lanes. The experiment put in place a 3 lane highway.... 1+1 and a single center turn lane. Traffic congestion has all but gone away and accidents on the road have decreased significantly.
So we can still all go where we want - sometimes Less is More.
Another perspective --- why is he still building Individual Cars. I read an article where the author pointed out ---- it costs about the same to build A Car. That car still uses the roads/bridges and clogs roadways requiring larger roads to be built. And those batteries. They will become the next pollutant of some kind.
The author argued that the real way to the future is via Mass Transit. Fewer individual cars should be built. More sharing. That is the big step forward.
Some have even painted the picture of self-driving vehicles that act as taxis - on demand and shared. Possibly better than the bus in rural areas with more personal schedule choice.
Seriously - when a machine comes into the factory to replace works, you have a few choices.
Be better than the robot (a few will be)
Find another job that hasn't automated yet
Change careers and become the robot overlord.
Maybe someday the robots will repair the robots. But that doesn't look like it'll happen anytime soon (see articles about recent firings of robot Waiters in China).
And if you want a weird movie that takes a different look at the problem watch Automata starring Antonio Banderas. B movie at best - but interesting.
sorry I forgot the HTML for defeated sheep, tongue in cheek, tag. :-P
You are correct. And No they don't limit. But they don't collect sales tax either. Although now LL Bean is in the state - so even online purchases have sales tax.
But think about it - if I run a web business I must contact all zip codes in the USA to program the POS. While the Items taxed in my state are the same - each town has a different Rate. Some are just the flat state tax, some have an option tax.
Technically if I purchase something out of state I'm supposed to pay the difference to my state upon return. NH our neighboring state doesn't charge sales tax - so many drive across the border to purchase big ticket electronic items. Using Cash. So that there is no digital history on a credit card. Although most use a credit card because the State's threat to compel credit card companies to rat out customers has fallen dead each time proposed.
They will get their money.
They charge the sales tax in the locality of the store. So if somebody drives to the next town - they pay the tax of that town.
There are lots of business in the state and they all figure out taxes on their products. There are even regional "New England" based stores but each state location has to deal with this.
But the point of the article - opening a website means you are now in all 50 states. So take the complexity of a single state and multiply it by 50. This is why Amazon (and others) are asking for a tax simplification. Right now I'm supposed to report on my state taxes all unpaid sales tax. Which is why I don't make any online purchases -- using a credit card (there have been threats to force credit card companies to report purchases to the state like the Feds want Stock purchases reported on the 1099-XYZ)
Yes - about 8 months ago. Bday gift from my wife. (previous I said 6...where does the time go. Fall of 2015).
If the battery lasted longer I wouldn't be so down on it. And waterproof. Yes you can shower with it - I give the kids a bath and put my arms in the water. But you aren't supposed to swim with it. So I'm worried what I'm going to do when boating season comes - probably leave it at home and wear my $30 Timex.
This is a $300 watch that I have to think about wearing. My $30 timex I don't think or worry about. It works in all conditions. My phone I can slip into a drawer and forget about it - and will need to do the same with the watch. but wait - I need the watch (at least time) --- so won't bring 2 with me.
I offered it as my personal experience. I've had one for ~6 months now. 12 million of us bought into the dream. In my case my wife bought into it for my bday.
But I'll probably throw $400 down on the next Watch hoping the dream will get better.
I'd chat more but my notification reminder to charge my watch just popped up.