Illusory superiority is something we probably all have mentally: We all think we're above average employees, when obviously that's impossible.
One thing I've noticed working at a few major companies is that nobody ever really gets bad performance reviews: Instead, they all range from satisfactory to excellent. But in reality, those who get satisfactory are getting bad reviews, it's just more polite to NOT say "you stink".
How could a website dedicated to helping facilitate the widespread distribution of pirated materials engage in anything unethical? It's almost like they don't give a crap about anything except making money off the backs of other's work.
The point is, though, that getting 4k or 8k content is essentially useless unless you sit 3' from your TV. Which means, internet bandwidth is basically being wasted on nothing productive. That's probably why some cell providers downscale your Youtube videos: You can't really tell the difference on your 5" screen, so better to save bandwidth.
I really appreciate the comment. It doesn't show the "soap opera" effect (which I've seen before), but you're right, it's very possible there are some other crap settings going on.
To me, it looks like videos from the early 2000's where there was too much compression going on. Whereas if I pause my 720p TV, it looks pixel perfect. I'll check this out.
Same here. I have an 11-year-old 720p 42" TV, and I swear, it looks better than most other TV's out there. I'm pretty sure my cable box (Verizon FIOS) only outputs at 720p, and it looks fine. When my father got a 4k 50" TV for use with Cablevision, it looked like a pixelated nightmare, with jagged edges, etc.
Playing Mario Kart on my Nintendo Switch on my TV looks perfect. I can't imagine any other pixels being necessary.
I can't imagine replacing my TV anytime soon, and I certainly won't spend $1 extra to get 4k.
Exactly. I don't even really trust F5, or the refresh button. It's CTRL+F5 all the time now. What stinks is that we Slashdot nerds know this, but our parents? Millenials? No clue, so they'll end up with stale data all the time because of bad design choices.
You check in, you add your flight details to the portfolio screen, but then you can't navigate back to the barcode without activating some sort of action to invoke the refresh.
Every UI should have a specific button that allows you to do a manual refresh. "Hidden" UIs or weird actions (such as dragging down on Android, which sometimes refreshes certain apps) are no good, especially for non-technical users. Especially where it's non-trivial to even REALLY exit and application and start it up again.
For United, I have to use Android's task switcher to kill the app, then start it up again. Now it'll refresh successfully.
Stop with the fancy UIs and allow people to use technology to work!
"Even humanities graduates can learn how to code in a few months..."
Did anyone else get a good chuckle out of that sly dig? I can imagine a funny commercial: "Are you a high school dropout? Recently paroled? Functionally illiterate? Severe mental deficiency and/or brain damage? Or even a humanities graduate? You too can learn to code in a few months!"
And if the Linux kernel has a vulnerability that was exploited, Home Depot would be on the hook for billions of dollars? Or if the software from a vendor included a unpatched 3rd party library (such as OpenSSL?) It just wouldn't work, and it would be a nightmare of responsibilities and dependencies. The only winners would be lawyers.
Lawsuits should proceed if (and only if) the company responsible was negligent in things under their control: If they used MD5 hashes for passwords, or left default system passwords unchanged, or they were using Windows XP SP1 or if they lost a laptop with critical information. But that's not the case with many of these hacks (like with Target, where the hackers used VPN credentials from a contractor to install hacked firmware on point of sale systems. What could Target have done differently that they weren't already doing?)
Let's say Home Depot used point-of-sale software from Vendor X, which uses a Linux distribution and relied upon a network driver from Manufacturer Y.
A hacker is able to penetrate their network by exploiting the combination of driver and linux, which was also misconfigured by Vendor X.
Who is to blame here? Home Depot for not completely investigating their entire stack ? Vendor X for sloppy configuration? Manufacturer Y for having a bug in their software?
It's so hard to ascribe blame in these situations. Data security is incredibly hard (and in fact, to date, nearly all software in the past 20 years has been exploited in one way or another). Would it be fair to hit Home Depot with a $50 billion settlement? So many companies have been hacked (Verizon, Gawker, voter registration systems, credit card companies, Target, etc). Would fining each of them tens of billions really make things better if data security is so hard that no one has pulled it off?
The flip answer would be: "Hey, once that first company gets hit with a $50 billion settlement, everyone else will start taking this seriously!" That might be true: It might also be true that you end up destroying businesses with nothing to show for it because Home Depot / Target / Verizon / etc are at the mercy of their vendors and 3rd party systems with vulnerabilities out of their control.
My manager and peers are constantly amazed at how much work I get done. The secret? Being a work at home employee means you don't have to deal with the incessant noise, eavesdropping on phone calls, office nonsense ("It's Tina in HR's birthday! Come sing!") etc. You can actually concentrate, especially when you're dealing with complex coding issues. Context switches are a fantastic productivity killer.
I don't blame the Apple CPU designers. They're probably among the teams that require the most concentration in tech. Good for them for willing to buck the "accepted wisdom" about open offices.
Exactly right. For the small percentage of women who did watch The League, Southpark, or Ballers, were their ratings equivalent to the males who watched them? Or how about my house where my wife loves "House Hunters International" but I'm ambivalent towards. She would give it an 8, myself a 4. Am I sabotaging the ratings?
Perhaps men and women just like different programming? Perhaps blacks, Latinos, Persians, etc all have different tastes when it comes to pop culture?
Right now, Chromebooks don't have large amounts of local storage ("It belongs in the cloud!"). Hopefully with Android support (with some games running into the gigs) this will push Chromebooks to offer large amounts of storage (64, 128, etc) and basically make these real laptops, instead of cloudy-laptops.
This is great news though, especially for Chromebooks with touchscreens.
This seems to be a case of completely misplaced priorities. The goal should be that the customer/visitor not have to install or use non-free software (such as MS Office, Edge Browser, Acrobat, etc), not the libraries used to render the government website. It might make perfect sense for the government to use non-free software to develop a site, such as their choice of database, OS, etc. Why worry about which javascript libraries are used if they work across all browsers? This seems like something that should be 34,500th on the list of priorities when it comes to the Federal Government's IT priorities.
He's living consequence-free in Putin's Russia, which the Panama Papers suggests has large number of government officials (including Putin himself) engaging in wholesale money-laundering of Russia's oil wealth. I'm sure we can expect him to criticize his hosts any tweet now.
I'm not calling this story out for half-truths, but I'm not sure about this article. Renewables to me suggest nuclear, wind, solar, thermal, and tidal power. I'm pretty sure they're not big nuclear fans in Scotland and I don't think solar would work well (since they're so far north). So is 57% of electricity production really coming from wind, therma and tidal power? That would be a HUGE story, but I don't think that's realistically possible.
Might this be misleading? 57% of net new electricity production is coming from renewables, not 57% of total generation?
I agree that this is stupid, but I think the answer is "We should no longer care about calculating time with respect to the Earth's position around the sun down to the 1-second level". Who cares? Maybe once every 20,000 years we should add another leap day.
But this constant fiddling with clocks for no reason just causes more problems than it solves.
In the episode, someone created MeowMeowBeanz and allowed you to rate people. This turned Greendale into a caste society with people voting each other up/down. http://community-sitcom.wikia....
I can only imagine the hellish nightmare that would be reality when this comes out.
It'll be interesting to see if they solve Uber's problem in California, where their drivers existed in a grey area of employment, with courts deciding they were employees (and thus entitled to expenses) rather than independent contractors. Interesting that the list of cities mentioned so far avoids California, even though SF and LA would be ideal cities for this.
I'm guessing they'll construct their driver contracts with extremely thoroughly reviewed legal definitions to avoid having these drivers classified as employees.
That's exactly right, and couldn't have said it better myself. We (as in society) still need an electric grid even as we are trying to move towards more sustainable energy sources. Whether it's solar, wind, nuclear, tidal, etc, we still need energy companies to provide transmission cables, transformers, backup power sources (such as natural gas generators for when wind/solar isn't providing enough, etc). Net metering makes sense to incent folks to install solar, but it's not sustainable as more and more folks install solar.
I completely agree with your comment (and disagree that someone marked it as "troll"). They're not using 100% renewable energy if they are hooked up to the grid receiving electricity that was generated by coal/gas/oil/etc. Like you said, if they gathered solar or wind energy during the day and stored it in batteries, that would be 100%.
Also, in a factory or manufacturing facility, having a continuous and steady flow of electricity is extremely important and not everyone can rely on variations of solar activity. If I had to make a guess, I would say their solar panels are not directed connected to the factory, but are instead configured like: solar panels-> inverters -> electric grid -> factory. Meaning they're relying on grid-sourced electricity and the solar panels exist solely to have net metering.
Finally, many manufacturers use exorbitant amounts of energy. Steel mills, car manufacturing, etc. It's not just a matter of putting a few solar panels on the roof.
I know we're all supposed to buy into the mutants in X-Men as being corollaries for the civil rights movement, but actually registering mutants would be a very logical and beneficial step. A woman who can control the weather? A guy who can destroy buildings if his sunglasses fall off? A girl who can kill you by touching you briefly? People who can shape-shift, instantly teleport past security? People who can control your mind?
Guess what? In the real world, having such people walking around controlling the weather on a whim wouldn't work. Gawker.com posted an editorial saying how the government should arrest Global Warming deniers. At the same time, shouldn't we arrest (or at least monitor) those that could actually make the the weather warmer?
So yeah, the whole comparison in this story makes no sense. Mutants can (and in the comics are definitely) a menace and should be registered.
Look this is not ideal for folks who want to go out and have a large drink with dinner. But on Mythbusters, they've done a number of driving myths at.07999% BAC, and the results are pretty dramatic. You are definitely impaired at.08%.
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Illusory superiority is something we probably all have mentally: We all think we're above average employees, when obviously that's impossible.
One thing I've noticed working at a few major companies is that nobody ever really gets bad performance reviews: Instead, they all range from satisfactory to excellent. But in reality, those who get satisfactory are getting bad reviews, it's just more polite to NOT say "you stink".
How could a website dedicated to helping facilitate the widespread distribution of pirated materials engage in anything unethical? It's almost like they don't give a crap about anything except making money off the backs of other's work.
The point is, though, that getting 4k or 8k content is essentially useless unless you sit 3' from your TV. Which means, internet bandwidth is basically being wasted on nothing productive. That's probably why some cell providers downscale your Youtube videos: You can't really tell the difference on your 5" screen, so better to save bandwidth.
I really appreciate the comment. It doesn't show the "soap opera" effect (which I've seen before), but you're right, it's very possible there are some other crap settings going on.
To me, it looks like videos from the early 2000's where there was too much compression going on. Whereas if I pause my 720p TV, it looks pixel perfect. I'll check this out.
Same here. I have an 11-year-old 720p 42" TV, and I swear, it looks better than most other TV's out there. I'm pretty sure my cable box (Verizon FIOS) only outputs at 720p, and it looks fine. When my father got a 4k 50" TV for use with Cablevision, it looked like a pixelated nightmare, with jagged edges, etc.
Playing Mario Kart on my Nintendo Switch on my TV looks perfect. I can't imagine any other pixels being necessary.
I can't imagine replacing my TV anytime soon, and I certainly won't spend $1 extra to get 4k.
Exactly. I don't even really trust F5, or the refresh button. It's CTRL+F5 all the time now. What stinks is that we Slashdot nerds know this, but our parents? Millenials? No clue, so they'll end up with stale data all the time because of bad design choices.
You check in, you add your flight details to the portfolio screen, but then you can't navigate back to the barcode without activating some sort of action to invoke the refresh.
Every UI should have a specific button that allows you to do a manual refresh. "Hidden" UIs or weird actions (such as dragging down on Android, which sometimes refreshes certain apps) are no good, especially for non-technical users. Especially where it's non-trivial to even REALLY exit and application and start it up again.
For United, I have to use Android's task switcher to kill the app, then start it up again. Now it'll refresh successfully.
Stop with the fancy UIs and allow people to use technology to work!
"Even humanities graduates can learn how to code in a few months..."
Did anyone else get a good chuckle out of that sly dig? I can imagine a funny commercial: "Are you a high school dropout? Recently paroled? Functionally illiterate? Severe mental deficiency and/or brain damage? Or even a humanities graduate? You too can learn to code in a few months!"
And if the Linux kernel has a vulnerability that was exploited, Home Depot would be on the hook for billions of dollars? Or if the software from a vendor included a unpatched 3rd party library (such as OpenSSL?) It just wouldn't work, and it would be a nightmare of responsibilities and dependencies. The only winners would be lawyers.
Lawsuits should proceed if (and only if) the company responsible was negligent in things under their control: If they used MD5 hashes for passwords, or left default system passwords unchanged, or they were using Windows XP SP1 or if they lost a laptop with critical information. But that's not the case with many of these hacks (like with Target, where the hackers used VPN credentials from a contractor to install hacked firmware on point of sale systems. What could Target have done differently that they weren't already doing?)
Let's say Home Depot used point-of-sale software from Vendor X, which uses a Linux distribution and relied upon a network driver from Manufacturer Y.
A hacker is able to penetrate their network by exploiting the combination of driver and linux, which was also misconfigured by Vendor X.
Who is to blame here? Home Depot for not completely investigating their entire stack ? Vendor X for sloppy configuration? Manufacturer Y for having a bug in their software?
It's so hard to ascribe blame in these situations. Data security is incredibly hard (and in fact, to date, nearly all software in the past 20 years has been exploited in one way or another). Would it be fair to hit Home Depot with a $50 billion settlement? So many companies have been hacked (Verizon, Gawker, voter registration systems, credit card companies, Target, etc). Would fining each of them tens of billions really make things better if data security is so hard that no one has pulled it off?
The flip answer would be: "Hey, once that first company gets hit with a $50 billion settlement, everyone else will start taking this seriously!" That might be true: It might also be true that you end up destroying businesses with nothing to show for it because Home Depot / Target / Verizon / etc are at the mercy of their vendors and 3rd party systems with vulnerabilities out of their control.
My manager and peers are constantly amazed at how much work I get done. The secret? Being a work at home employee means you don't have to deal with the incessant noise, eavesdropping on phone calls, office nonsense ("It's Tina in HR's birthday! Come sing!") etc. You can actually concentrate, especially when you're dealing with complex coding issues. Context switches are a fantastic productivity killer. I don't blame the Apple CPU designers. They're probably among the teams that require the most concentration in tech. Good for them for willing to buck the "accepted wisdom" about open offices.
Exactly right. For the small percentage of women who did watch The League, Southpark, or Ballers, were their ratings equivalent to the males who watched them? Or how about my house where my wife loves "House Hunters International" but I'm ambivalent towards. She would give it an 8, myself a 4. Am I sabotaging the ratings? Perhaps men and women just like different programming? Perhaps blacks, Latinos, Persians, etc all have different tastes when it comes to pop culture?
Right now, Chromebooks don't have large amounts of local storage ("It belongs in the cloud!"). Hopefully with Android support (with some games running into the gigs) this will push Chromebooks to offer large amounts of storage (64, 128, etc) and basically make these real laptops, instead of cloudy-laptops. This is great news though, especially for Chromebooks with touchscreens.
This seems to be a case of completely misplaced priorities. The goal should be that the customer/visitor not have to install or use non-free software (such as MS Office, Edge Browser, Acrobat, etc), not the libraries used to render the government website. It might make perfect sense for the government to use non-free software to develop a site, such as their choice of database, OS, etc. Why worry about which javascript libraries are used if they work across all browsers? This seems like something that should be 34,500th on the list of priorities when it comes to the Federal Government's IT priorities.
He's living consequence-free in Putin's Russia, which the Panama Papers suggests has large number of government officials (including Putin himself) engaging in wholesale money-laundering of Russia's oil wealth. I'm sure we can expect him to criticize his hosts any tweet now.
I'm not calling this story out for half-truths, but I'm not sure about this article. Renewables to me suggest nuclear, wind, solar, thermal, and tidal power. I'm pretty sure they're not big nuclear fans in Scotland and I don't think solar would work well (since they're so far north). So is 57% of electricity production really coming from wind, therma and tidal power? That would be a HUGE story, but I don't think that's realistically possible. Might this be misleading? 57% of net new electricity production is coming from renewables, not 57% of total generation?
I agree that this is stupid, but I think the answer is "We should no longer care about calculating time with respect to the Earth's position around the sun down to the 1-second level". Who cares? Maybe once every 20,000 years we should add another leap day. But this constant fiddling with clocks for no reason just causes more problems than it solves.
In the episode, someone created MeowMeowBeanz and allowed you to rate people. This turned Greendale into a caste society with people voting each other up/down. http://community-sitcom.wikia.... I can only imagine the hellish nightmare that would be reality when this comes out.
It'll be interesting to see if they solve Uber's problem in California, where their drivers existed in a grey area of employment, with courts deciding they were employees (and thus entitled to expenses) rather than independent contractors. Interesting that the list of cities mentioned so far avoids California, even though SF and LA would be ideal cities for this. I'm guessing they'll construct their driver contracts with extremely thoroughly reviewed legal definitions to avoid having these drivers classified as employees.
That's exactly right, and couldn't have said it better myself. We (as in society) still need an electric grid even as we are trying to move towards more sustainable energy sources. Whether it's solar, wind, nuclear, tidal, etc, we still need energy companies to provide transmission cables, transformers, backup power sources (such as natural gas generators for when wind/solar isn't providing enough, etc). Net metering makes sense to incent folks to install solar, but it's not sustainable as more and more folks install solar.
I completely agree with your comment (and disagree that someone marked it as "troll"). They're not using 100% renewable energy if they are hooked up to the grid receiving electricity that was generated by coal/gas/oil/etc. Like you said, if they gathered solar or wind energy during the day and stored it in batteries, that would be 100%. Also, in a factory or manufacturing facility, having a continuous and steady flow of electricity is extremely important and not everyone can rely on variations of solar activity. If I had to make a guess, I would say their solar panels are not directed connected to the factory, but are instead configured like: solar panels-> inverters -> electric grid -> factory. Meaning they're relying on grid-sourced electricity and the solar panels exist solely to have net metering. Finally, many manufacturers use exorbitant amounts of energy. Steel mills, car manufacturing, etc. It's not just a matter of putting a few solar panels on the roof.
I know we're all supposed to buy into the mutants in X-Men as being corollaries for the civil rights movement, but actually registering mutants would be a very logical and beneficial step. A woman who can control the weather? A guy who can destroy buildings if his sunglasses fall off? A girl who can kill you by touching you briefly? People who can shape-shift, instantly teleport past security? People who can control your mind? Guess what? In the real world, having such people walking around controlling the weather on a whim wouldn't work. Gawker.com posted an editorial saying how the government should arrest Global Warming deniers. At the same time, shouldn't we arrest (or at least monitor) those that could actually make the the weather warmer? So yeah, the whole comparison in this story makes no sense. Mutants can (and in the comics are definitely) a menace and should be registered.
Look this is not ideal for folks who want to go out and have a large drink with dinner. But on Mythbusters, they've done a number of driving myths at .07999% BAC, and the results are pretty dramatic. You are definitely impaired at .08%.