It's always amusing reading comments like this. I remember hearing this kind of thing when it came to software distribution.
"Installing Microsoft Office is so easy. I install it all the time with no issues. People are just so whiny. Why don't they just grow up and get used to it?"
Now try installing it across a few thousand, or maybe 50,000, PCs on a staggered schedule across a business where the OS installation is supposedly standardized. There's a world out there that you don't understand, and it has issues that you can't even comprehend. Their concerns are not your concerns.
If anything, it shows that the linux base is so big that major distros are now unable or unwilling to cater to the needs of professional system administrators.
Most consumers couldn't care less how stuff works under the hood. It's bizarre that that may be a reality in the Linux world, but here we are.
Doesn't this story come out every 15-20 years or so?
It basically says the same thing, that humans will never get better/taller/faster/more attractive than today. Then they say the same thing in 15-20 years, except that everything got better/faster/taller/more attractive during that time.
What this reporter is really saying is that two entities are eating all the ad money, and nobody else can make any ad money if current trends continue.
I vaguely remember seeing references and a diagram of Red Disk. As a data point, in general the communities will keep extending projects outwards along the same naming dimension, so expect programs named "gold disk," "blue disk," etc.
Projects actually never fail in the way you'd think. Everyone learns a whole lot, then moves on to the next iteration.
Red Disk itself was one of the first attempts at what's now called a data lake, I think. You can probably dig it out of google if you cared. There were one or two followup projects, all going in different directions.
It behooves them to look deeper, because it's always unclear whether those bugs are intentional or not. The more preconditions there are the more likely the issue wasn't organic.
This is the same problem Microsoft had with its stuff back in the day: forcing something to fit into the ecosystem.
Not everything has to run iOS or a variant, guys. Not everything has to leverage your own dog food. Not everything has to be a billion dollar hit.
Apple is forgetting how to launch a product because Apple doesn't do it often enough anymore. Apple is forgetting how to make decisions because they don't know how to anymore. This is an unfortunate trend that will only get worse.
I mean, Cook had to bring in a retiree to shut down the self-driving car division. Didn't Cook have the brainpower and balls to do that himself?
Most of the people who get caught will spew a whole bunch of crap on their media accounts before they're covered by OpSec.
Tech people tend to believe that most people are intelligent. Most UI and support people know that the general public tends to be as dumb as a doorknob. People from overseas can be even dumber.
At some point most terrorists proudly broadcast their beliefs out to the world. Then they get OpSec and stop. This might catch a bunch of them before they go operational.
The easiest thing to do would be to get a bunch of UE Booms, put them in party up mode, then use the 3.5 jack (or a 3.5 to BT adapter) to play music from the iPod. You'd have to set the Booms up with another device, but I think that should work.
What I generally do with iPods is put them in cars, because most cars today have the iPod USB protocol implemented. They're great in-car, but finding stuff can be tedious because car UIs don't like scrolling through 128GB of stuff.
It takes time to translate all the stolen documentation into Chinese then re-source the materials. Google translate isn't quite good enough for this task yet.
I suppose if you donâ(TM)t care if your site and backend stop working one day then having devs do QA is fine. It all depends on your requirements and expectations. Oh, and who checks to see that toggle a doesnâ(TM)t affect code path c? End-users, of course.
What we've discovered is that Twitter CSRs can whack any account whenever they want, for whatever reason they want. They have no real oversight whatsoever, so when this juvy decided to do something they just did it and left the building.
Besides being an asshole move, it shows a distinct lack of internal controls.
"And teens who vaped using high-nicotine e-cigarettes smoked an average of 14 times as many "regular" cigarettes per day six months later compared to those who'd tried nicotine-free versions of the devices"
This is ridiculous. Kids that e-smoked nicotine smoked more than kids that smoked nicotine-free e-cigs? What's the point of smoking if you have nicotine-free e-cigs?
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It's always amusing reading comments like this. I remember hearing this kind of thing when it came to software distribution.
"Installing Microsoft Office is so easy. I install it all the time with no issues. People are just so whiny. Why don't they just grow up and get used to it?"
Now try installing it across a few thousand, or maybe 50,000, PCs on a staggered schedule across a business where the OS installation is supposedly standardized. There's a world out there that you don't understand, and it has issues that you can't even comprehend. Their concerns are not your concerns.
If anything, it shows that the linux base is so big that major distros are now unable or unwilling to cater to the needs of professional system administrators.
Most consumers couldn't care less how stuff works under the hood. It's bizarre that that may be a reality in the Linux world, but here we are.
Doesn't this story come out every 15-20 years or so?
It basically says the same thing, that humans will never get better/taller/faster/more attractive than today. Then they say the same thing in 15-20 years, except that everything got better/faster/taller/more attractive during that time.
Uh, why not quit?
Note that Intel doesn't violate IP, it licenses it. The idea that Intel could violate an IP law is ludicrous.
Leave it to the French to protest something that's already happening.
What this reporter is really saying is that two entities are eating all the ad money, and nobody else can make any ad money if current trends continue.
I vaguely remember seeing references and a diagram of Red Disk. As a data point, in general the communities will keep extending projects outwards along the same naming dimension, so expect programs named "gold disk," "blue disk," etc.
Projects actually never fail in the way you'd think. Everyone learns a whole lot, then moves on to the next iteration.
Red Disk itself was one of the first attempts at what's now called a data lake, I think. You can probably dig it out of google if you cared. There were one or two followup projects, all going in different directions.
It behooves them to look deeper, because it's always unclear whether those bugs are intentional or not. The more preconditions there are the more likely the issue wasn't organic.
Asians don't count when you're talking about diversity or racism, because neither of them are poor and/or disadvantaged.
Note that while that is untrue given worldwide numbers it's true in the US, and if it's true in the US it must be true worldwide.
I mean, there's not one Apple Store in Africa. How racist is that?
This is the same problem Microsoft had with its stuff back in the day: forcing something to fit into the ecosystem.
Not everything has to run iOS or a variant, guys. Not everything has to leverage your own dog food. Not everything has to be a billion dollar hit.
Apple is forgetting how to launch a product because Apple doesn't do it often enough anymore. Apple is forgetting how to make decisions because they don't know how to anymore. This is an unfortunate trend that will only get worse.
I mean, Cook had to bring in a retiree to shut down the self-driving car division. Didn't Cook have the brainpower and balls to do that himself?
The mutation also causes an aversion to technology and religious piety, so it's a non-starter for most.
They're already looking at tiny signals in a bunch of noise. The problem is that those signals are hard to get to without automation.
Most of the people who get caught will spew a whole bunch of crap on their media accounts before they're covered by OpSec.
Tech people tend to believe that most people are intelligent. Most UI and support people know that the general public tends to be as dumb as a doorknob. People from overseas can be even dumber.
At some point most terrorists proudly broadcast their beliefs out to the world. Then they get OpSec and stop. This might catch a bunch of them before they go operational.
The easiest thing to do would be to get a bunch of UE Booms, put them in party up mode, then use the 3.5 jack (or a 3.5 to BT adapter) to play music from the iPod. You'd have to set the Booms up with another device, but I think that should work.
What I generally do with iPods is put them in cars, because most cars today have the iPod USB protocol implemented. They're great in-car, but finding stuff can be tedious because car UIs don't like scrolling through 128GB of stuff.
Green means go!
It takes time to translate all the stolen documentation into Chinese then re-source the materials. Google translate isn't quite good enough for this task yet.
I suppose if you donâ(TM)t care if your site and backend stop working one day then having devs do QA is fine. It all depends on your requirements and expectations. Oh, and who checks to see that toggle a doesnâ(TM)t affect code path c? End-users, of course.
What we've discovered is that Twitter CSRs can whack any account whenever they want, for whatever reason they want. They have no real oversight whatsoever, so when this juvy decided to do something they just did it and left the building.
Besides being an asshole move, it shows a distinct lack of internal controls.
I'm sure the denizens of /. are horrified that pr0n sites can use FaceID to track your O face across their platforms...with their consent.
Maybe they were too busy wondering how they fit a TV into something so small?
It's where everything goes eventually.
Nicotine is a great drug. It's a stimulant and a depressant. Sure it's poisonous, but so is every other drug in the correct dose.
Kids that take drugs take more drugs than kids that don't. News at 11.
"And teens who vaped using high-nicotine e-cigarettes smoked an average of 14 times as many "regular" cigarettes per day six months later compared to those who'd tried nicotine-free versions of the devices"
This is ridiculous. Kids that e-smoked nicotine smoked more than kids that smoked nicotine-free e-cigs? What's the point of smoking if you have nicotine-free e-cigs?