HDMI audio, seriously? PC monitor speakers are a joke at best.
LOL, why would I mention bitstreaming and LPCM if I'm just talking about PC monitor speakers, which never support those features to begin with? You very obviously haven't the slightest idea about what you're talking about here. As for the rest of your post, I think the others have debunked it well enough. Go back under the rock invented by Creative Labs advertisements.
And I know lots of unemployed skilled laborers... Anecdotes don't change anything.
Actually most of the jobs he mentions pay about $20 an hour if you aren't an idiot.
A few key questions though: What's their skill in? And are they actually good at it?
For example, MASSIVE difference between a good mechanic and a shitty one. Somebody who is ASE Master Technician certified will probably make $35 an hour, and most mechanics get paid a flat per-job rate that is determined industry wide (i.e. changing four tires on a 2003 Honda Civic is.5 hours worth of work, Changing the A/C on a 2005 Toyota Camry is 5 hours, etc.) They get paid that industry standard hourly estimation whether they do it in 3 hours or 6 hours. Naturally, the mechanic who does the AC job in 3 will likely get more work assigned, and will thus earn more in a typical day.
When my dad was at the height of his career as a mechanic for Toyota (about 2005,) he made about $110,000 a year in Arizona. Not joking.
And he went to guess where to learn to be a mechanic? Community college, in 1976.
I don't think he's really saying blue collar. What he's saying is learn a well defined skill that has great growth prospects. My skill is building enterprise grade networks (associates) and managing teams of those who do (bachelors.)
The capstone project has always been a multi-person team effort where 60% of your grade came from your team mates.
Not only did I do this online, but I was elected project manager for 4 out of the 7 projects in that class because I quickly became notorious for positioning the teams to not only get the projects done weeks ahead of the deadline, but over 90% on them as well.
My preferred mode of operation quickly became that anybody who joined the team had to agree to have the first meeting the day after the team finished being formed (other people waited til the week before.) First meeting was to have everybody agree on delegation for their research portion and/or work portion (i.e. editing.) Second meeting was to tie to together in a powerpoint, video, audio clip, or whatever (the assignment had variations in its requirements.) We did this in real time by sitting in Google Hangouts on webcams and all had the same document open in Google Sheets, Google Presentation, or whatever. After that the editors, narrators, etc, did their thing, then third meeting was to make final adjustments and get group consensus of "is this what we want to turn in?" followed by turn-in. 3 week assignments took about a week to complete, and nobody indicated that they felt rushed.
So yeah, good managerial experience in an online course. Plenty of interaction too.
Not only that, but I have to wonder why any hospital or scada network doesn't have some sort of ip block whitelist. In fact, dare I say, any ip connected network that isn't intended for its users to access Facebook should have some kind of autonomous system number whitelist in its bgp tables.
You can say what it "should" or "ought to" cost all day long, but good luck finding some place to give you that degree at ten cents a credit hour. Reality check: The fine artsy types expect to be paid a lot more than their practical value..
Not only correct, but I myself can't personally fathom how anybody comes out of school with a pile of debt. I spent about 7 years in college (three of those years were wasted on classes that I took for not knowing what I wanted to do, so it isn't as if I'm perfect) and I didn't borrow a cent. My bachelors is in IT management, and I got my degree by first going to community college (dirt cheap) and then doing online classes at the cheapest state university to finish the bachelors.
I'm presently making more money than everybody I know who went to the supposed best university in this state (ASU) and who also did get a lot of student debt, where I have zero. In fact after the grants I received I actually managed to come out of college with surplus cash.
They also ignore the dedicated sound cards, video-decoders and other chips to offload the CPU's
If you buy a dedicated sound card these days, you're retarded. All you need is a motherboard, cpu, ram, and a modern GPU. That's it. Even the lowest end GPUs nowadays include a full suite of HDMI audio support (by full, I mean it can bitstream any format, as well as LPCM, which is best for games.) If you're a headphone kind of person, most of the good ones are USB driven.
the standardized hardware and low level API's allow for performance optimizations
Actually yes, there have been. The USSR did genuinely start as communist, so did Vietnam. The USSR even tried to get rid of its legal system (as stipulated by Marx.) Just everything broke down within a few short years.
Another example of communism being implemented is the Icarians. They literally had a complete infrastructure, town, and all, handed to them at no cost. Yet they later fell apart anyways. Why? Because work eventually slowed down as the people lost motivation to work at all (they were literally working for free.) After that happened, new rules started being added (like no talking during work) to try to bring up productivity. But people just got sick of it and left.
Unlike communism, capitalism wasn't constructed. The fundamental principle behind capitalism is free markets, and free markets mean prices are governed by the forces of supply and demand. Any time where supply and demand doesn't figure into that, then it's not a free market (such as monopolies, for example) and thus is not capitalism.
Copyrights, by their nature, are not free market as far as that particular work is concerned. This, IMO, is why open source does so well: It eliminates the monopoly status given to proprietary software, so others are free to fork and compete.
Which by the way, among other things, this new DRM scheme would also allow malware to completely hide itself from not only AV software, but you as well. And in a perfect world (i.e. if SGX works as intel plans) nobody would be able to remove any malware that uses this.
I've never coded in Java before so I can't comment on the language itself, but I am always seeing security vulnerabilities related to it all the time. Furthermore, new versions of Java seem to break older applications (for example, when I was taking a CCNA Security course, we had to use Cisco SDM, which broke with newer versions of Java, and required that we install insecure and older copies (which in itself is a major chore as they are often hard to find and in many cases refuse to install properly.)
That said, I think that if Java (at least, the one maintained by Oracle) finally dies, then the world will be better off.
If it's out of their control, why do you think minorities aren't pursuing careers in computer science?
It's likely a cultural preference. That's very similar to asking why is chicken more popular in India?
You don't think it could possibly be the rich, white, entitled brogrammer work environments that most of silicon valley brags about?
If that was the case, then Asians would be underrepresented. Instead the opposite is true, they're over-represented.
Basically you are making a really retarded assumption similar to this one:
If region's population is 40% black and 60% white, then all sales of rap music to that region should be going to 40% black people and 60% white people, because you know, we're all human and therefore have all of the same preferences. Likewise, 40% of sales of country music CDs should be going to black people, and 60% to white people. If the figures don't reach those numbers, then clearly the stores that are selling them are racist.
See how stupid that is? And fundamentally it's no different than what you're saying.
Business lobbyists in the US would have candidates
Business lobbyists wouldn't give a shit. It wouldn't be worth spending their lobbying dollars on this because it doesn't impact them.
They'd threaten voters with nonsense like "You have to throw away your dad's old wrenches because it will be illegal to use inch sized bolts!"
Unless you did exactly that, then declaring that the US is metric is rather pointless. Pretty much the only impact switching to metric would have is that road signs on the interstates would be listed as kilometers instead of miles.
Meanwhile fashion magazines will continue to discuss weight loss in terms of inches and pounds, just like how English people still use "stone" as a measurement of weight.
I'm not sure what this whole debate is about. Everybody will use whatever measurement system they're comfortable with, and no president can ever change that.
Try amr wideband then, also called HD Voice. I've had it happen one time where a person had the phone on speaker, and I could hear somebody whispering to them from across the room.
Both devices must support the feature though, and so must your carrier. T-Mobile has supported it for about 3 years now, not sure about Sprint, but Verizon and AT&T have picked it up recently I'm pretty sure.
In this case (there are certainly others), they are using deceptive reporting to mislead people on the current state of affairs. Ask yourself why they would do this. The answer isn't "because they are angels."
Probably because they, like many other tech companies, are getting incessantly railed on an issue that is out of their control.
I don't know about you or any of these other SJWs, but I went to college for an IT career, and I only recall seeing at most one or two black people to a class the size of about 30 in any of my technology classes. In other classes I took (mainly the general requirement classes) there were more. (Most of the ones I met were either going for legal or service industry management careers.)
For whatever reason, most of them don't care to pursue a career related to technology. That isn't Google, Microsoft, Amazon, or anybody else's fault. Meanwhile they have to catch shit about it all the time, and pay ransom money to Al Sharpton (who himself is the real lying sack of shit.)
The same can be said of women, by the way. As another anecdote, two of my cousins are currently wanting to get IT jobs, but their sister wants to become a dentist, and that isn't due to any different treatment by their parents (they buy her as much computer stuff as they buy for her brothers. In fact she often asks for and receives more expensive Apple phones/tablets where they get Android devices.)
Try dialing down the dogma a fraction, and accept that there are reasonable compromises that provide reasonable mitigation to the worst aspects of any economic system.
I didn't claim there wasn't. However this whole "war on the 1%" theme is a load of crap. There will always be a 1%. Furthermore, not only is the 1% a very arbitrary figure (what about the top 2%? Or the top 0.5%? Or the top 30%? Why are they just pegging the number one?) but a lot of these so called "evil 1%ers" are doing a MUCH greater job helping the poor than the poor do. Take Bill Gates for example, working his ass off to help people that are so low on the socioeconomic ladder that occupy wall street doesn't even give a shit about them.
No more than VLC, firefox, or a ton of other popular open source programs are.
To which I mean, these programs have seen scamware sites create trojanized copies that they then pay to get first listing as an ad for in search engines. It's technically not illegal nor is it against the GPL.
The only part that is actually illegal is where the scam artist actually use information gleaned for illicit purposes.
Bing is actually a popular place for these kinds of ads, by the way, because Microsoft seems to do even less vetting of its ad sources than Google does (my guess is maybe they aren't terribly concerned if ad based business models are believed to be flawed by the larger public? Either that or Bing is so unprofitable that they can't afford to vet it better.)
I think the most complicated thing I ever did was install an ethernet adapter on a series 1 tivo (they had no USB ports either.) To do so involved using an adapter that had a female PCI form factor socket, which connected to an ISA protocol motherboard that had a male PCI form factor shunt. Then of course there was drilling a hole for an ethernet port on the back of the tivo.
Andrew Tridgell of Samba fame wrote the driver for it.
Maybe. Assuming Microsoft makes a proper SSH client that is as good as PuTTY, instead of software like that piece of shit called HyperTerminal from way back when, which almost always couldn't establish a proper working terminal with anything, had basically no file transfer support (or rather, it had very buggy and limited support,) and required a very annoying (and mostly pointless) setup process each time you wanted to connect to a different host.
Then again, why not just fork and bundle PuTTY? But do something to make the sessions easily exportable (I really hate how PuTTY stores those in the registry by default.)
In fact, it would be awesome if the registry just disappeared entirely. I haven't met anybody who actually likes it, and god knows it's been a dream come true for malware authors who want to hide shit (easy to do since it's so big, maze-like, and unwieldy for anybody to sift through.)
There's yet to be any truly communist government that actually attempts to eliminate that.
Actually the original Marx driven Paris Commune tried it. So did the Icarians, and a long list of others who didn't reach the scale of an entire nation.
Granted the Paris commune found external pressure, the other communes didn't (such as the Icarians.) However those other communes always ended up the same: Started out with a motivated few that literally gave away all of their possessions, and eventually people got tired of working for nothing, production gradually declined, new rules were forced to make up for it (in the case of the Icarians, they later had rules like no talking while working) and people got fed up with it and disbanded.
Don't know if parent is trolling or not, but I had a similar thought. I've heard that Canadian carriers are even worse than US carriers when it comes to device freedom (and pricing, and reliability, and just about everything else) and a thought occurred to me that there may be carrier pressure to force the end users to buy a new device.
If so, it wouldn't be a narrative I hadn't heard before. I was on Sprint about 2.5 years ago and they were rather vicious when it came to that kind of thing.
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HDMI audio, seriously? PC monitor speakers are a joke at best.
LOL, why would I mention bitstreaming and LPCM if I'm just talking about PC monitor speakers, which never support those features to begin with? You very obviously haven't the slightest idea about what you're talking about here. As for the rest of your post, I think the others have debunked it well enough. Go back under the rock invented by Creative Labs advertisements.
And I know lots of unemployed skilled laborers... Anecdotes don't change anything.
Actually most of the jobs he mentions pay about $20 an hour if you aren't an idiot.
A few key questions though: What's their skill in? And are they actually good at it?
For example, MASSIVE difference between a good mechanic and a shitty one. Somebody who is ASE Master Technician certified will probably make $35 an hour, and most mechanics get paid a flat per-job rate that is determined industry wide (i.e. changing four tires on a 2003 Honda Civic is .5 hours worth of work, Changing the A/C on a 2005 Toyota Camry is 5 hours, etc.) They get paid that industry standard hourly estimation whether they do it in 3 hours or 6 hours. Naturally, the mechanic who does the AC job in 3 will likely get more work assigned, and will thus earn more in a typical day.
When my dad was at the height of his career as a mechanic for Toyota (about 2005,) he made about $110,000 a year in Arizona. Not joking.
And he went to guess where to learn to be a mechanic? Community college, in 1976.
I don't think he's really saying blue collar. What he's saying is learn a well defined skill that has great growth prospects. My skill is building enterprise grade networks (associates) and managing teams of those who do (bachelors.)
The capstone project has always been a multi-person team effort where 60% of your grade came from your team mates.
Not only did I do this online, but I was elected project manager for 4 out of the 7 projects in that class because I quickly became notorious for positioning the teams to not only get the projects done weeks ahead of the deadline, but over 90% on them as well.
My preferred mode of operation quickly became that anybody who joined the team had to agree to have the first meeting the day after the team finished being formed (other people waited til the week before.) First meeting was to have everybody agree on delegation for their research portion and/or work portion (i.e. editing.) Second meeting was to tie to together in a powerpoint, video, audio clip, or whatever (the assignment had variations in its requirements.) We did this in real time by sitting in Google Hangouts on webcams and all had the same document open in Google Sheets, Google Presentation, or whatever. After that the editors, narrators, etc, did their thing, then third meeting was to make final adjustments and get group consensus of "is this what we want to turn in?" followed by turn-in. 3 week assignments took about a week to complete, and nobody indicated that they felt rushed.
So yeah, good managerial experience in an online course. Plenty of interaction too.
Not only that, but I have to wonder why any hospital or scada network doesn't have some sort of ip block whitelist. In fact, dare I say, any ip connected network that isn't intended for its users to access Facebook should have some kind of autonomous system number whitelist in its bgp tables.
You can say what it "should" or "ought to" cost all day long, but good luck finding some place to give you that degree at ten cents a credit hour. Reality check: The fine artsy types expect to be paid a lot more than their practical value..
Not only correct, but I myself can't personally fathom how anybody comes out of school with a pile of debt. I spent about 7 years in college (three of those years were wasted on classes that I took for not knowing what I wanted to do, so it isn't as if I'm perfect) and I didn't borrow a cent. My bachelors is in IT management, and I got my degree by first going to community college (dirt cheap) and then doing online classes at the cheapest state university to finish the bachelors.
I'm presently making more money than everybody I know who went to the supposed best university in this state (ASU) and who also did get a lot of student debt, where I have zero. In fact after the grants I received I actually managed to come out of college with surplus cash.
They also ignore the dedicated sound cards, video-decoders and other chips to offload the CPU's
If you buy a dedicated sound card these days, you're retarded. All you need is a motherboard, cpu, ram, and a modern GPU. That's it. Even the lowest end GPUs nowadays include a full suite of HDMI audio support (by full, I mean it can bitstream any format, as well as LPCM, which is best for games.) If you're a headphone kind of person, most of the good ones are USB driven.
the standardized hardware and low level API's allow for performance optimizations
You mean like these kinds of "optimizations"?
http://www.ign.com/wikis/xbox-...
That's NOT a good thing.
Actually yes, there have been. The USSR did genuinely start as communist, so did Vietnam. The USSR even tried to get rid of its legal system (as stipulated by Marx.) Just everything broke down within a few short years.
Another example of communism being implemented is the Icarians. They literally had a complete infrastructure, town, and all, handed to them at no cost. Yet they later fell apart anyways. Why? Because work eventually slowed down as the people lost motivation to work at all (they were literally working for free.) After that happened, new rules started being added (like no talking during work) to try to bring up productivity. But people just got sick of it and left.
So, communism it's like capitalism then?
Unlike communism, capitalism wasn't constructed. The fundamental principle behind capitalism is free markets, and free markets mean prices are governed by the forces of supply and demand. Any time where supply and demand doesn't figure into that, then it's not a free market (such as monopolies, for example) and thus is not capitalism.
Copyrights, by their nature, are not free market as far as that particular work is concerned. This, IMO, is why open source does so well: It eliminates the monopoly status given to proprietary software, so others are free to fork and compete.
I think the reason reverse engineering is forbidden is because of Intel's new DRM scheme:
https://www.virusbtn.com/virus...
Which by the way, among other things, this new DRM scheme would also allow malware to completely hide itself from not only AV software, but you as well. And in a perfect world (i.e. if SGX works as intel plans) nobody would be able to remove any malware that uses this.
I've never coded in Java before so I can't comment on the language itself, but I am always seeing security vulnerabilities related to it all the time. Furthermore, new versions of Java seem to break older applications (for example, when I was taking a CCNA Security course, we had to use Cisco SDM, which broke with newer versions of Java, and required that we install insecure and older copies (which in itself is a major chore as they are often hard to find and in many cases refuse to install properly.)
That said, I think that if Java (at least, the one maintained by Oracle) finally dies, then the world will be better off.
Same with Flash too.
If it's out of their control, why do you think minorities aren't pursuing careers in computer science?
It's likely a cultural preference. That's very similar to asking why is chicken more popular in India?
You don't think it could possibly be the rich, white, entitled brogrammer work environments that most of silicon valley brags about?
If that was the case, then Asians would be underrepresented. Instead the opposite is true, they're over-represented.
Basically you are making a really retarded assumption similar to this one:
If region's population is 40% black and 60% white, then all sales of rap music to that region should be going to 40% black people and 60% white people, because you know, we're all human and therefore have all of the same preferences. Likewise, 40% of sales of country music CDs should be going to black people, and 60% to white people. If the figures don't reach those numbers, then clearly the stores that are selling them are racist.
See how stupid that is? And fundamentally it's no different than what you're saying.
Not that I disagree, but she doesn't want the alternative.
Business lobbyists in the US would have candidates
Business lobbyists wouldn't give a shit. It wouldn't be worth spending their lobbying dollars on this because it doesn't impact them.
They'd threaten voters with nonsense like "You have to throw away your dad's old wrenches because it will be illegal to use inch sized bolts!"
Unless you did exactly that, then declaring that the US is metric is rather pointless. Pretty much the only impact switching to metric would have is that road signs on the interstates would be listed as kilometers instead of miles.
Meanwhile fashion magazines will continue to discuss weight loss in terms of inches and pounds, just like how English people still use "stone" as a measurement of weight.
I'm not sure what this whole debate is about. Everybody will use whatever measurement system they're comfortable with, and no president can ever change that.
Try amr wideband then, also called HD Voice. I've had it happen one time where a person had the phone on speaker, and I could hear somebody whispering to them from across the room.
Both devices must support the feature though, and so must your carrier. T-Mobile has supported it for about 3 years now, not sure about Sprint, but Verizon and AT&T have picked it up recently I'm pretty sure.
Its relevant to knowing if their hiring practices are biased for or against people with a certain skin colour, for example...
No, it's not. To do that, you'd need an analysis that includes much more than just who is working there now. Two huge variables you're leaving out:
1) How many minorities actually applied for a job there?
2) Of those, how many were actually qualified?
Go take your zero knowledge SJW outrage to twitter and/or wordpress where it belongs.
In this case (there are certainly others), they are using deceptive reporting to mislead people on the current state of affairs. Ask yourself why they would do this. The answer isn't "because they are angels."
Probably because they, like many other tech companies, are getting incessantly railed on an issue that is out of their control.
I don't know about you or any of these other SJWs, but I went to college for an IT career, and I only recall seeing at most one or two black people to a class the size of about 30 in any of my technology classes. In other classes I took (mainly the general requirement classes) there were more. (Most of the ones I met were either going for legal or service industry management careers.)
For whatever reason, most of them don't care to pursue a career related to technology. That isn't Google, Microsoft, Amazon, or anybody else's fault. Meanwhile they have to catch shit about it all the time, and pay ransom money to Al Sharpton (who himself is the real lying sack of shit.)
The same can be said of women, by the way. As another anecdote, two of my cousins are currently wanting to get IT jobs, but their sister wants to become a dentist, and that isn't due to any different treatment by their parents (they buy her as much computer stuff as they buy for her brothers. In fact she often asks for and receives more expensive Apple phones/tablets where they get Android devices.)
I don't know the protocols in detail, but isn't CIFS/SMBFS much better suited for random access than SCP/SFTP is?
Try dialing down the dogma a fraction, and accept that there are reasonable compromises that provide reasonable mitigation to the worst aspects of any economic system.
I didn't claim there wasn't. However this whole "war on the 1%" theme is a load of crap. There will always be a 1%. Furthermore, not only is the 1% a very arbitrary figure (what about the top 2%? Or the top 0.5%? Or the top 30%? Why are they just pegging the number one?) but a lot of these so called "evil 1%ers" are doing a MUCH greater job helping the poor than the poor do. Take Bill Gates for example, working his ass off to help people that are so low on the socioeconomic ladder that occupy wall street doesn't even give a shit about them.
No more than VLC, firefox, or a ton of other popular open source programs are.
To which I mean, these programs have seen scamware sites create trojanized copies that they then pay to get first listing as an ad for in search engines. It's technically not illegal nor is it against the GPL.
The only part that is actually illegal is where the scam artist actually use information gleaned for illicit purposes.
Bing is actually a popular place for these kinds of ads, by the way, because Microsoft seems to do even less vetting of its ad sources than Google does (my guess is maybe they aren't terribly concerned if ad based business models are believed to be flawed by the larger public? Either that or Bing is so unprofitable that they can't afford to vet it better.)
I think the most complicated thing I ever did was install an ethernet adapter on a series 1 tivo (they had no USB ports either.) To do so involved using an adapter that had a female PCI form factor socket, which connected to an ISA protocol motherboard that had a male PCI form factor shunt. Then of course there was drilling a hole for an ethernet port on the back of the tivo.
Andrew Tridgell of Samba fame wrote the driver for it.
Maybe. Assuming Microsoft makes a proper SSH client that is as good as PuTTY, instead of software like that piece of shit called HyperTerminal from way back when, which almost always couldn't establish a proper working terminal with anything, had basically no file transfer support (or rather, it had very buggy and limited support,) and required a very annoying (and mostly pointless) setup process each time you wanted to connect to a different host.
Then again, why not just fork and bundle PuTTY? But do something to make the sessions easily exportable (I really hate how PuTTY stores those in the registry by default.)
In fact, it would be awesome if the registry just disappeared entirely. I haven't met anybody who actually likes it, and god knows it's been a dream come true for malware authors who want to hide shit (easy to do since it's so big, maze-like, and unwieldy for anybody to sift through.)
There's yet to be any truly communist government that actually attempts to eliminate that.
Actually the original Marx driven Paris Commune tried it. So did the Icarians, and a long list of others who didn't reach the scale of an entire nation.
Granted the Paris commune found external pressure, the other communes didn't (such as the Icarians.) However those other communes always ended up the same: Started out with a motivated few that literally gave away all of their possessions, and eventually people got tired of working for nothing, production gradually declined, new rules were forced to make up for it (in the case of the Icarians, they later had rules like no talking while working) and people got fed up with it and disbanded.
Don't know if parent is trolling or not, but I had a similar thought. I've heard that Canadian carriers are even worse than US carriers when it comes to device freedom (and pricing, and reliability, and just about everything else) and a thought occurred to me that there may be carrier pressure to force the end users to buy a new device.
If so, it wouldn't be a narrative I hadn't heard before. I was on Sprint about 2.5 years ago and they were rather vicious when it came to that kind of thing.