Agreed that the Lenovos are pretty good. Current T-series and X-series are very good laptops. Carbon, Yoga and X1[234]0 being a little odd.
The Acer-built IBM Thinkpad i1400 sets a low-quality mark for the Thinkpad brand. I remember the 760 line burning people's laps, the 520 edge systems were flimsy... 600 systems were okay, but heat, power etc, not impressive. The T-series brought some consistency in quality, but there were always golden models a notch above the others. I still know of people clinging to their T20. I stil have a very much working X24...
It's hard to compare pre-2005 laptops though, materials, batteries, cooling, power consuption, etc, etc., have all improved so dramatically. The cost has dropped too, 'premium' machines are very affordable now. The x24 MSRP was >$2400. Today a Macbook Pro Retina starts at half that.
All this said, Lenovo bought the Thinkpad line a long time ago now. Anyone who thinks that Lenovo hasn't proven themselves yet, never will.
The article's title is sensationalist and the caption feeds that sensationalism.
The content itself is more nuianced.
records were corrupted last year
"computer programmer pressed the wrong button between May and July last year".
we lost the outcome of it as a computer programming error.
"made a mistake in the language that I used"
He added: "That lost the results data from those records. So they had been properly put on the system by the officers as a result of stopping and searching people, but we lost the outcome of it as a computer programming error.
"We have been working really hard to recover that data. I have personally overseen the sending out of several thousand emails to officers and follow-up audits.
"Corrupted" could mean anything from the records being absent to the programmer forgetting to include references to officer badge numbers. The error may have been a missing test case in the code before it was promoted to production, or if they're not that automated, somebody in UAT missing something.
Although, maybe the corrected code was something like:
If ( ageofsuspect <= 12 )
{
printf("Error, you cannot randomly search people 12 and under. Did you mean 16?");
getuserinput(ageofsuspect);
}
There's evidence that women are more discriminatory against women, so it's possible that an increased female workforce would encourage a greater wage disparity and fewer management opportunities.
"Don't let businesses run homeless people off who are trying to get out of the cold"
Damn right. Screw those bourguois minimum wage kids trying to make it through school cleaning vomit and filth out of bathrooms by people who view the coffee shop where they warmed up as the enemy!
"while they step over the clinging-desperately-to-life 'problem' all around them."
The *most* pathetic looking and in-your-face are conmen and criminals. Giving money is a transaction where they sell you a show where you can feel like you've done something good. In reality, you've just encouraged a beggar who fought for that premium corner.
Many of the people with real problems are quieter, and some of them don't even live on the streets. But hey, entitlement comes with believing that being on the street gives you some kind of credibility.
Mental illness is the real problem, and for those who can't fit into the mold of alcoholism, drug abuse, depression or schizophrenia, defiantly homeless should be considered a mental illness. It's certainly not making you or the people around you happy.
Few countries are equipped to deal with mental illness, so people live hard and die on the streets, and that's horrible.
"PHP is a bit so-so. It does its job, but doesn't really offer anything new or innovative language wise"
Prior to PHP, people were writing CGIs. Language-wise doesn't really matter, there was no interpreted inline-C-for HTML html preprocessor without smashable stacks by default.
Coming from the embedded world and C/C++, I think you're forgetting how much discipline you need to write in C or C++. Most people can't do it without a serious learning curve coming from PHP or Javascript.
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Agreed that the Lenovos are pretty good. Current T-series and X-series are very good laptops. Carbon, Yoga and X1[234]0 being a little odd.
The Acer-built IBM Thinkpad i1400 sets a low-quality mark for the Thinkpad brand. I remember the 760 line burning people's laps, the 520 edge systems were flimsy... 600 systems were okay, but heat, power etc, not impressive. The T-series brought some consistency in quality, but there were always golden models a notch above the others. I still know of people clinging to their T20. I stil have a very much working X24...
It's hard to compare pre-2005 laptops though, materials, batteries, cooling, power consuption, etc, etc., have all improved so dramatically. The cost has dropped too, 'premium' machines are very affordable now. The x24 MSRP was >$2400. Today a Macbook Pro Retina starts at half that.
All this said, Lenovo bought the Thinkpad line a long time ago now. Anyone who thinks that Lenovo hasn't proven themselves yet, never will.
The article's title is sensationalist and the caption feeds that sensationalism.
The content itself is more nuianced.
"Corrupted" could mean anything from the records being absent to the programmer forgetting to include references to officer badge numbers. The error may have been a missing test case in the code before it was promoted to production, or if they're not that automated, somebody in UAT missing something.
Although, maybe the corrected code was something like:
If ( ageofsuspect <= 12 )
{
printf("Error, you cannot randomly search people 12 and under. Did you mean 16?");
getuserinput(ageofsuspect);
}
It didn't occur to me that it actually included the private key for its own root certificate in the local proxy...
Unbelievably stupid design.
bankofamerica.com courtesy of Superfish:
https://i.imgur.com/Ky0Bwih.jpg
Not sure about the source of the screenshot, independent confirmation would be good.
"The onyl solution to pregnancy and STDs is common sense, unfortunately this "solution" will only act as a smoke screen for many."
My girlfriend menstruates 24x7x365 when on birth control. Others affect her blood pressure severely or cause enormous weight gain and acne.
We've been monogamous for years and rely on condoms.
Your opinion that people in our situation don't matter is misguided and immoral.
There's evidence that women are more discriminatory against women, so it's possible that an increased female workforce would encourage a greater wage disparity and fewer management opportunities.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070318083402/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/newspapers/sunday_times/britain/article1265356.ece
At those numbers, it means that a female graduate has >2x the chance of being hired at Intel than her male classmates.
Shielded Ethernet cables are grounded at both ends.
A $10 ethernet cable will give you the same as a $10k cable. 0% packet loss.
"Audioquest claims these cables are directional and an arrow on the connecter indicates the data flow from source to receiver."
lol
Yep, goes right through to post-secondary too.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/185157/number-of-bachelor-degrees-by-gender-since-1950/
"In 2012, about 0.76 million male and 1.03 million female students earned a bachelor's degree in the United States"
Girls consistently outperform boys in school. In all subjects.
The education system doesn't work as well for boys.
It's a straw man argument intended to degrade anyone who identifies themselves as "Liberal".
There's no content or intelligence in it.
Some people never run Windows so they haven't noticed that Windows has been pretty solid for the past 15 years.
Win 10 looks like it's going to be very interesting.
The 11" Macbook is 11.8" wide x 7.6" deep. This Dell is 12" x 7.9"...
If I could get a 13" retina display on a 11" Macbook, I would be very happy.
"...realize that trying to maintain this luxury image will kill them."
They just recorded the largest public corprorate profit... in history.
You do know what a coffee shop is for?
"Don't let businesses run homeless people off who are trying to get out of the cold"
Damn right. Screw those bourguois minimum wage kids trying to make it through school cleaning vomit and filth out of bathrooms by people who view the coffee shop where they warmed up as the enemy!
Can't reason with crazy.
"while they step over the clinging-desperately-to-life 'problem' all around them."
The *most* pathetic looking and in-your-face are conmen and criminals. Giving money is a transaction where they sell you a show where you can feel like you've done something good. In reality, you've just encouraged a beggar who fought for that premium corner.
Many of the people with real problems are quieter, and some of them don't even live on the streets. But hey, entitlement comes with believing that being on the street gives you some kind of credibility.
Mental illness is the real problem, and for those who can't fit into the mold of alcoholism, drug abuse, depression or schizophrenia, defiantly homeless should be considered a mental illness. It's certainly not making you or the people around you happy.
Few countries are equipped to deal with mental illness, so people live hard and die on the streets, and that's horrible.
"PHP is a bit so-so. It does its job, but doesn't really offer anything new or innovative language wise"
Prior to PHP, people were writing CGIs. Language-wise doesn't really matter, there was no interpreted inline-C-for HTML html preprocessor without smashable stacks by default.
Coming from the embedded world and C/C++, I think you're forgetting how much discipline you need to write in C or C++. Most people can't do it without a serious learning curve coming from PHP or Javascript.
It's funny to read this thread in a New York accent.
Port it to minecraft. There seems to be some good 1970's CS work happening there.
Fair point, the article seems to be missing the key point of running a hidden service to hide yourself from traffic analysis:
You run a relay node to create cover traffic. You use the hidden service to blend in with the cover traffic.
It's discussed in the article under "Traffic analysis resistance"
Not that I agree with the method...
"...of course - forgot all the social constrains of a new technology"
This has been the biggest cryptocurrency experiment in history. Successful beyond most people's dreams.
"...at least in the given example, neither current grid power nor wind power is capable of doing the stated job..."
Not sure where you live, the grid is very reliable where I am.
Gas, coal and nuclear are today's technology for meeting demand.
If you take out nuclear, you're not helping fossil fuel emissions.