Watching a non-expert trying to use a laptop and then watching them using a tablet is a real eye opener. I expect tablets to bounce back from their niche in the next few years.
... especially so if it is blatantly obvious that the company registered the domain in order to cash in on his name and both work in the same field. This is obvious quasi fraudulent malintent. This domain ownership would be cancelled in 5 minutes in any German court.
I'm no security expert and even I get the attack after reading it *once*. Imagine injecting alternative userland components into the OS this way. That no one has thought of this yet along with the Spectre and Meltdown shit that has been going on lately makes me wonder what types of trivial exploits we haven't discovered yet.
Creepy as fuck, that's for sure.
Gladly the fix is easy: Default exit before override with an appropriate message. No overriding by unpacking whatsoever. Shouldn't take the devs long to implement that.... And we just set up 7zip AES256 as the default for critical data transfer that needs to be GDPR compliant at our company last week.
Apple seems to nibble to death it's karma it has with opinion leaders, i.e. us. This could spell trouble for projects like Blender and Xonotic.... Could be that I might be staying away from new Apple hardware for good.
That's why the next disruptors will be entirely distributed. Google, FB, Amazon and Co. are todays AOL and CompuServe, plain and simple. They bascially own the web. Cracking that stronghold will likely only happen with fully distributed services. I expect something like this to show up with the next 5 years or so.
I literally was getting sleepy in that first paragraph listing all the dolby standards. He's like "Traditionally, you had a pre-mixed channel bed like 5.1 (A bladiblahJadajada audionuttechnobabble jaadajada" And me: "Aha, mmhmm...*nod off*... ZzzzZZzzzz *snor*"
It went so fast that I did notice it.:-)
Dude, I swear, *nobody* finished reading your comment. Don't take it to heart though. Why don't you tell us about your neat Burmester Amps?:-))
This is news to me. Very nice learning that SourceForge is being handled by a new crew and that you're catching up hard on repairing what has gone bad with it. Two thumbs up!... This has been going on for two years? Ok, I guess I was really happy with GitHub then. Still am, actually.
The SourceForge Frontpage still looks a little cluttered. Perhaps the branding could use a little more work.... Anyway, I'm getting a new sf account today and checking out what's up with you guys. Will be providing feedback.
This is the cyberpunk world of megacorps. Get used to it. Everyone involved know that the figures mentioned mean nothing in an economy that's basically going post-scarcity as we speak. This is about mindshare, eyeballs, end-user controll and future prospects. Even from a marketing standpoint this might be worth it for MS.
Yet somehow I see a golden future for GitLab up ahead. Mmmmh, I wonder why that is?
Why does everyone expect digital/virtual goods and services to be free?
Good question. You and MS can start by paying up for the Linux kernel instances you're using. That'll be 40$ a pop. Something like $40 - $200 for you I guess and roughly a bazillion dollars for MS who's been caching in big time with Linux on Azure. And their Ubuntu thingie on Winblows.
I'm tellin' ya, 2 billion purchasing price or not, MS better not screw this one up. They've regained some minimal amount of Karma with me with Visual Studio Code and the TypeScript work they've been doing, but gladly Git is distributed. As soon as they go all Windows XP on us I'm off to somewhere else with my repos, that's for sure.
Rendering blur effects on fonts and measuring the time to render to guess letters, checking for expected remote case to expose surfing history... The stuff web hackers can do is pretty amazing. If you're in web development and are looking for a reason to switch to sheep farming just visit a web hacker conference. You'll come home crying.
I'd like to have a cross platform descent redo. All three with a new engine that scales from old hardware to newest and runs on all consoles and all big desktop operating systems. That would be neat..... A few years back there was a fourth version in the works - whatever happened to that, does anyone know? I think it was crowd funded or something.
I find it amazing to have a piece of software that is 42 years old and still in active development. And usage. Think of it: Emacs invented the clipboard. And even though it recently has been beaten by other free editors in performance for larger files I do expect Emacs to take the crown again in upcoming versions.
I always use Emacs in CLI mode which is where it belongs IMHO.
One of my need buddies says for him there's no space between a phone and a Subnotebooks, but I really like tablets. They're lightweight, have long battery time, easy to handle, fast, ideal for media consumption and this semester I've seen more people at college use surface tablets with styluses (stylii??) than I actually can count.
I've gotten a cheap 8"Asus for reading notes and surfing recently, after giving my daughter my yoga 2 10" for her traveling. She loves the 18 hours of battery and the fact that it's basically a performance notebook without an attached keyboard. She uses a thin Bluetooth on if she needs one, which isn't that often.
Bottom line: there is a solid market for tablets and Google shouldn't drop it off it IMHO.
... that will put up with 'opportunities' and bullshit. Preferably from university with a degree, that they can hire cheap and rent out for lots of money. We have that type of recruting based shops in abundance here in Germany too. Douchebags that want to hire you for 35 Euros and rent you out for 150 Euros an hour. That's a game anyone in his right mind wouldn't want to play in his mid-40ies anymore anyway.
When your older and have been in the business for long decades, people won't ask you for a quick hire. Won't happen, plain and simple.
You will, however, if you play your cards right, be able to get into better paying senior jobs. You will need a suit and tie to go with your grey hair and upgrade your habits and mannerisms to senior as well though. Don't expect to be taken for granted coming to work with a worn-out nerd t-shirt, 50kg overweight, flaky unkempt hair protruding from a balding head and wrinkles of a 50+ year old - that's my experience anyway.
Ageism works both ways. Truth be told, senior positions are more rare, but that doesn't stop an experienced software developer from going freelance and doing some consulting and remote working on the side. If you solve the problem, no one cares about your age. And if they do, it's like I said: They want someone stupid and naive to burn up. Stear clear.
Inviting Zuckerberg to bore him with toothless pointless questions and then have a selfie with him. The EU crew were a bunch of undereducated sissies and whimps, no better than US congress. They should've grilled him and put him on the spot with regards to privacy.
Bottom line: I am very disappoint with my legislators right now. That the russians want to have a big nothing-sandwich with his highness Grandmaster of Zuck is just as fitting.
In other news: Society that regards Kung Fu Masters higher in status than lawyers healthier than fat-ass society that loves sitting at desks and has a quota of morbidly obese through the effing roof.
Yet in other news: Rice and Soy Sauce healthier than Hamburgers, Fries & Ketchup.
Insights brought to you by Captain Obvious Research Institute.
Someone at De Beers learned his economics 101 well enough. Now if they only would use their obscene wealth to help out those african miners who will soon be out of a job... that would be actual good news.
This is so abysmally stupid I can hardly believe it. PUBG is basically a better asset flip. The only thing that it has going is a neat new game mechanic and a reason to multiplay on a larger map. Other than that there is zilch innovation in the game. PUBG is going to lose big time. Indie Game critic Jim Sterling did a perfect analysis of this situation.
There are some good FOSS projects that have potential, but they haven't reached critical mass yet. I suspect some player getting inroads within the next decade and giving Oracle and SAP a run for their money.
Silicon Valley is the figure head of a post scarcity economy where badge value constitutes the greater portion of all value.
Point in case: Facebook could go broke and collapse tomorrow and even the most die hard FB addicts would shrug it off and move to the next platform in something like 15 minutes or so.
In general it allready is the age of cyberpunk and post cyberpunk. The bubble is constantly busting. No news here.
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Watching a non-expert trying to use a laptop and then watching them using a tablet is a real eye opener. I expect tablets to bounce back from their niche in the next few years.
... especially so if it is blatantly obvious that the company registered the domain in order to cash in on his name and both work in the same field. This is obvious quasi fraudulent malintent. This domain ownership would be cancelled in 5 minutes in any German court.
I'm no security expert and even I get the attack after reading it *once*. Imagine injecting alternative userland components into the OS this way. That no one has thought of this yet along with the Spectre and Meltdown shit that has been going on lately makes me wonder what types of trivial exploits we haven't discovered yet.
Creepy as fuck, that's for sure.
Gladly the fix is easy: Default exit before override with an appropriate message. No overriding by unpacking whatsoever. Shouldn't take the devs long to implement that. ... And we just set up 7zip AES256 as the default for critical data transfer that needs to be GDPR compliant at our company last week.
Apple seems to nibble to death it's karma it has with opinion leaders, i.e. us. This could spell trouble for projects like Blender and Xonotic. ... Could be that I might be staying away from new Apple hardware for good.
Gogs is neat too.
That's why the next disruptors will be entirely distributed. Google, FB, Amazon and Co. are todays AOL and CompuServe, plain and simple. They bascially own the web. Cracking that stronghold will likely only happen with fully distributed services. I expect something like this to show up with the next 5 years or so.
In a way I'm looking forward to that.
I literally was getting sleepy in that first paragraph listing all the dolby standards. He's like "Traditionally, you had a pre-mixed channel bed like 5.1 (A bladiblahJadajada audionuttechnobabble jaadajada" And me: "Aha, mmhmm ...*nod off* ... ZzzzZZzzzz *snor*"
It went so fast that I did notice it. :-)
Dude, I swear, *nobody* finished reading your comment. Don't take it to heart though. Why don't you tell us about your neat Burmester Amps? :-))
This is news to me. Very nice learning that SourceForge is being handled by a new crew and that you're catching up hard on repairing what has gone bad with it. Two thumbs up! ... This has been going on for two years? Ok, I guess I was really happy with GitHub then. Still am, actually.
The SourceForge Frontpage still looks a little cluttered. Perhaps the branding could use a little more work. ... Anyway, I'm getting a new sf account today and checking out what's up with you guys. Will be providing feedback.
Good luck in bringing SourceForge back!
Why are unprofitable companies worth so much?
This is the cyberpunk world of megacorps. Get used to it. Everyone involved know that the figures mentioned mean nothing in an economy that's basically going post-scarcity as we speak. This is about mindshare, eyeballs, end-user controll and future prospects. Even from a marketing standpoint this might be worth it for MS.
Yet somehow I see a golden future for GitLab up ahead. Mmmmh, I wonder why that is?
Why does everyone expect digital/virtual goods and services to be free?
Good question. You and MS can start by paying up for the Linux kernel instances you're using. That'll be 40$ a pop. Something like $40 - $200 for you I guess and roughly a bazillion dollars for MS who's been caching in big time with Linux on Azure. And their Ubuntu thingie on Winblows.
I'm tellin' ya, 2 billion purchasing price or not, MS better not screw this one up. They've regained some minimal amount of Karma with me with Visual Studio Code and the TypeScript work they've been doing, but gladly Git is distributed. As soon as they go all Windows XP on us I'm off to somewhere else with my repos, that's for sure.
As far as wacky jokes go, this one is a little over the top.
That's for sure.
Rendering blur effects on fonts and measuring the time to render to guess letters, checking for expected remote case to expose surfing history ... The stuff web hackers can do is pretty amazing. If you're in web development and are looking for a reason to switch to sheep farming just visit a web hacker conference. You'll come home crying.
I'd like to have a cross platform descent redo. All three with a new engine that scales from old hardware to newest and runs on all consoles and all big desktop operating systems. That would be neat. .... A few years back there was a fourth version in the works - whatever happened to that, does anyone know? I think it was crowd funded or something.
I find it amazing to have a piece of software that is 42 years old and still in active development. And usage. Think of it: Emacs invented the clipboard. And even though it recently has been beaten by other free editors in performance for larger files I do expect Emacs to take the crown again in upcoming versions.
I always use Emacs in CLI mode which is where it belongs IMHO.
Here's to another great 42 years!
Running a full blown weekly/daily media format all on your own is taxing to your mental health.
No shit.
Guess why John Oliver, Bill Maher and Co. have armies of staff supporting them.
One of my need buddies says for him there's no space between a phone and a Subnotebooks, but I really like tablets. They're lightweight, have long battery time, easy to handle, fast, ideal for media consumption and this semester I've seen more people at college use surface tablets with styluses (stylii??) than I actually can count.
I've gotten a cheap 8"Asus for reading notes and surfing recently, after giving my daughter my yoga 2 10" for her traveling. She loves the 18 hours of battery and the fact that it's basically a performance notebook without an attached keyboard. She uses a thin Bluetooth on if she needs one, which isn't that often.
Bottom line: there is a solid market for tablets and Google shouldn't drop it off it IMHO.
... that will put up with 'opportunities' and bullshit. Preferably from university with a degree, that they can hire cheap and rent out for lots of money. We have that type of recruting based shops in abundance here in Germany too. Douchebags that want to hire you for 35 Euros and rent you out for 150 Euros an hour. That's a game anyone in his right mind wouldn't want to play in his mid-40ies anymore anyway.
When your older and have been in the business for long decades, people won't ask you for a quick hire.
Won't happen, plain and simple.
You will, however, if you play your cards right, be able to get into better paying senior jobs. You will need a suit and tie to go with your grey hair and upgrade your habits and mannerisms to senior as well though. Don't expect to be taken for granted coming to work with a worn-out nerd t-shirt, 50kg overweight, flaky unkempt hair protruding from a balding head and wrinkles of a 50+ year old - that's my experience anyway.
Ageism works both ways. Truth be told, senior positions are more rare, but that doesn't stop an experienced software developer from going freelance and doing some consulting and remote working on the side. If you solve the problem, no one cares about your age. And if they do, it's like I said: They want someone stupid and naive to burn up. Stear clear.
My 2 cents.
Inviting Zuckerberg to bore him with toothless pointless questions and then have a selfie with him. The EU crew were a bunch of undereducated sissies and whimps, no better than US congress. They should've grilled him and put him on the spot with regards to privacy.
Bottom line: I am very disappoint with my legislators right now. That the russians want to have a big nothing-sandwich with his highness Grandmaster of Zuck is just as fitting.
... US standard Fast Food Fare.
In other news:
Society that regards Kung Fu Masters higher in status than lawyers healthier than fat-ass society that loves sitting at desks and has a quota of morbidly obese through the effing roof.
Yet in other news:
Rice and Soy Sauce healthier than Hamburgers, Fries & Ketchup.
Insights brought to you by Captain Obvious Research Institute.
Someone at De Beers learned his economics 101 well enough. ... that would be actual good news.
Now if they only would use their obscene wealth to help out those african miners who will soon be out of a job
This is so abysmally stupid I can hardly believe it. PUBG is basically a better asset flip. The only thing that it has going is a neat new game mechanic and a reason to multiplay on a larger map. Other than that there is zilch innovation in the game. PUBG is going to lose big time. Indie Game critic Jim Sterling did a perfect analysis of this situation.
... ripe for disruption.
There are some good FOSS projects that have potential, but they haven't reached critical mass yet. I suspect some player getting inroads within the next decade and giving Oracle and SAP a run for their money.
Looking forward to that.
Silicon Valley is the figure head of a post scarcity economy where badge value constitutes the greater portion of all value.
Point in case: Facebook could go broke and collapse tomorrow and even the most die hard FB addicts would shrug it off and move to the next platform in something like 15 minutes or so.
In general it allready is the age of cyberpunk and post cyberpunk. The bubble is constantly busting. No news here.
My 2 eurocents.
I think you misread something there sir. Deliberately I presume. :-)