I regularly have at least one bar of signal with my (HTC) Sensation - in my double-thick-walled cement basement, which isn't even in T-Mobile carrier range and is only in a 'partner' AT&T area. I'll reboot fairly often, granted - about once every other week or so, almost exclusively to just clear out the running application cache, not for a failure.
I don't know about that case, but I'm pretty sure this would fall under monopoly antitrust laws. It certainly seems to be a bit, oh, monopolistic of Apple.
Case in point, X does 'network transparency' which, in practice, is still kinda inferior. Over a slow connection, high-compression/low bitrate VNC is better. RDP, even Xrdp, is way, way better (faster, more responsive, etc.). So while it was designed wtih such uses in mind, soemthing about it makes it not all that useful in practice and a different approach needs to be taken.
That's great and all. Now for those of us with sciatic nerve problems, that's not even an option.
Personally, I'm a bit of an oddity. I have an extra vertebrae and scoliosis, and I find myself leaning to one side all the time. It's not severe scoliosis but it's bad enough to be uncomfortable and make certain exercises (eg. pushups) pinch nerves. Here are the positions I have found to be the most comfortable, long term:
* Don't just sit there, get up every hour or two and stretch, move around, etc. * A slightly reclined position seems to work best for me, with a chair that has good lumbar support. * A chair with a rigid 'sprung' back piece, where you have to lean into it to recline, is bad. It creates tension in the legs and lower back. * The chair seat should be low enough for you to be able to rest your feet flat footed on the floor * I get rid of the arm rests. They just give me shoulder and upper back tension. * Honestly, the cheapest of the cheap chairs (eg. $50 at WalMart) seem to be the most comfortable to me, as long as they're adjustable at the lumbar. Throw a pillow on the seat... * I've tried and enjoyed hammocks as well as those 'chiropractic' chairs which have you sit on your knees.
And some general advice about desktops: * I avoid 'keyboard trays' and 'keyboard elbow' (and carpel tunnel) at the same time by not using any of that stuff. I have IBM/Lenovo UltraNav keyboards which I place in my lap, like a laptop. * If you're reclining slightly, the height of the monitor is just about right on a 'normal' computer desk with the monitor at the lowest setting. I'm 6'2" but find that most computer desks place the monitor too high, still - the monitor should be at a 30 degree downward viewing angle for you. This way your neck/focal point is lower, as it would be were you working on something else. * Don't slouch. If you find yourself slouching it means you need to get up and move around for a while. Your back is getting fatigued.
Personally, my ideal setup would be:
* A desk with a surface height of 3' * Monitors are mounted on the wall, with adjustable VESA arms * keyboard/mouse are on an angle and height adjustable tray which can travel in a ~4' radius (similar to the VESA arm). * office chair as described above (more or less) but also with the option of a hammock chair, anchored to the ceiling on a track
I'm in the process of doing something to this effect in my office right now.
The guy was/is a fucking idiot (someone in sales or marketing, maybe - the bad sales drones seem to typically be liberal), but he sort of has a point despite himself. Phrased another way, "conservatism as an ideological belief system that is significant (but not completely) related to motivational concerns having to do do with mitigating risk."
The person who keeps a stock of a commonly used and highly cost-fluctuative item (say, bulk fuel) is not a fool. He's prudent. The engineer who designs a bridge to withstand max capacity plus 30% is being realistic, albeit not too cost conscious. The person who doesn't go for casual sexual flings isn't a fool, he's being realistic (statistical likelihood of catching an STD - or for that matter, encountering a crazy person).
A lifestyle outlook says a lot about a person's technical proclivity preference, I think.
I was thinking kinda the same thing, but the agile/waterfall approach does have a psychological element as a preferential 'seed', from what I've seen. However, my exposure to developers is somewhat limited. Where I'm experienced is with systems people.
Just as in real-world politics, software conservatism and liberalism are radically different world views. Make no mistake: they are at odds.
What I have noticed with sysadmin types is that there is a very significant preferential competence bias for conservatively minded people. Creative, conservative people make damn good systems/network engineers as well. For whatever reason, it seems that there's a very high likelihood that a thorough, methodical, competent systems person has right-leaning political political view as well. I don't really get it, but I've not met many people who have broken this mold.
Drive in from PA or NJ, spraypaint, hammer, or otherwise deface the sensors, and go home.
I suspect it won't be long before you won't be able to use public transit there without a state-issued and federally-monitored ID. And when people start bypassing that by sharing? They'll mandate they're embedded.
Once the correction is made officially, the media will be sure to jump on it. It'll be a two-fer: they'll get to call it a spastic bullet hose and a baby killing sniper battle canon.
Um,.308 Winchester is about 10% less hot than commercial.30-06, but.30-06 has a wide range of loadings and bullet weights. It's one of, if not the, most adaptable cartridge out there due to its 100+ year history (starting with black powder in 1901 Springfields, IIRC).
7.62 NATO is quite a bit hotter than.308 Winchester, however.
Actually an assault rifle has very strict legal definitions
Citation needed. "Assault rifle" is a term made up by politicians and adopted by the media because it sounds threatening.
Actually, "assault rifles" have a very cleanly defined technical definition, crafted by the Germans in WWII. This definition conflates with the so-called "legal" definition found in a handful of disenfranchised locations, like California, Chicago, IL, and New York.
An 'assault rifle' is a shoulder-fired rifle, firing an intermediate round, use detachable magazines, and capable of select fire and have a 300 meter effective range.
Currently, there are no assault rifles available for sale to any human individual (ie not a corporation) in the United States by the technical definition.
Let's just rehash, shall we? An assault rifle must be capable of, at the very bare minimum, of both taking a detachable magazine and able to fire more than one bullet from its barrel with a single pull of the trigger. Cosmetic similarity alone does not make this qualification any more than putting a ricer sticker on the back window of your car makes it fast.
Intermediate cartridges are generally accepted to be in the 6mm range, which excludes.308 Winchester/7.62 NATO, which - surprise - the SIG716 just happens to be.
This is gross reactionary sensationalism from the same people who seem having no problem getting technical details on new surveillance, tax, and government intrusion laws right. It's hard to say it's anything but malice.
Quite a bit of sensationalist bullshit in this one, particularly from the OP and the 'news' source he quoted.
Let's start with: it's not an assault rifle. Let's follow up with incomplete information, and it being a problem at the shipping carrier - UPS, supposedly, put the label on the box after it 'fell off' another box (the TV)?
Something's fishy about that, particularly since DC has some of the heaviest firearm restrictions in the country, partially due to the spate of suspicious mass killings in the last couple weeks, partially due to the sudden surge in partisan efforts to ban firearms (Woo from SF put a bill forth to ban all detachable magazines), and partially due to the extreme unlikelihood that a) a shipping label would 'come off' and someone at UPS would incorrectly attach it to a box which already has a shipping label.
Of course, that does no good if Apple simply ignores the security questions.
Everyone here seems to be missing that point.
If they will reset your password over the phone while enabling you to add an email address to the account and without reasonably certainty you are who you say you are, they have thoroughly demonstrated they do not give half a shit about the security of your information. Period. There are banks like this as well. It would be trivial to take over someone's financial and digital life in today's world with a little knowledge of who they are.
It really is a shame that Qt has languished in relative obscurity for so many years. It really is a great toolkit (and I say that as a non-programmer who has only dabbled with it).
It's relatively simple, consistent, and has a large number of Windows-like constructor tools. It can be easily bound with many different other languages to construct a working program in a fairly short period of time. It's cross platform, running on everything*. The CPU overhead is relatively negligible (sans a massive framework like KDE).
It really astounds me that it's remained so cursory over the past decade or so. We had things like Qtopia way back in '00, and then it kind of went nowhere, even though there have been a lot of promising projects where it's been used - it's just fallen short of dominating like I'd have expected it to have. For instance, it was used in Maemo - but then replaced with something GTK-based. Why?
I suppose it depends on the gender and the subculture.
Baggy jeans are popular in the ghettos because they allow for easy concealment of illicit items. That's been entombed in gangster music at this point.
Tight jeans are popular with women, particularly 'skinny jeans', because the thought is that it accentuates their curves and makes them look skinny (I imagine). IMO, the joke's on them: they're only supposed to be worn by truly skinny girls; otherwise, it makes their fat asses more noticeable.
In outdoor work cultures, which is still most of the US, a 'Wranglers jeans' cut is still popular. There are a number of reasons for this. If you're familiar with chaps, it will allow chaps to actually be worn. The cut is also fairly functional, allowing for generally easy movement while still not chaffing while eg. riding a horse or 4 wheeler. The denim is also able to be thicker and stiffer with a cut like this, allowing for long wear. Meanwhile, they're tight enough to keep the important bits close enough to the body to not get caught on something running past, as easily snagged on something like barbed wire, and won't be as likely to get filthy after a day out in a field.
Then there's 'loose fit bootcut' jeans. They allow for the greatest amount of movement while still not getting in your way, while working. They're a 'tradesman's cut' - the persona can more easily perform more flexibility-requiring tasks, like bending, stooping, crawling, etc.
I don't know about what "Swedish jeans" are, but I can tell you that 'tight jeans' are the domain of useless hipsters here in the US. The denim isn't thick enough to be useful as such and might as well be a light twill, and allowed movement is pretty negligible.
Yep, exactly. Most of the 'rockstars' don't actually have very good resumes either, in my experience.
To add to that, just because someone can build an entire cloud deployment on their own in 1/3 the time it would take 3 people, does not mean he is able to provide the support for it on his own. Guess what? Support roles - or really, any clean-up type role - is much more linear than a design role. You can't stick a 'rockstar' in support and expect them to get 3x the work done for very long before they burn to a crisp.
I recently relocated into a position with a larger company, in a position I am, arguably, only marginally qualified for (I have broad but tangential experience but an applicable skillset). The add had not even been posted by the time I received my offer.
The position I vacated took over 3 months to fill, and the candidate who took the position is, in my opinion, neither skilled or experienced enough to actually perform the work. Rumor had it the hiring manager was looking for someone at around 50k to do the work, initially (in the bay area, no less) then succumbed to 60k and possibly went a little higher - appropriate for his level of experience but not for the position he's supposed to do.
While the '30 plus day' ads may not be fake or fishing for free labor, I would say the odds are very high that is either true, the company does not know what they're looking for, or there is a fairly high degree of internal dysfunction within the organization allowing for people looking for jobs to languish while they 'make up their mind'. In this market, employers need to be sensitive to people needing to pay their bills first and foremost.
Das Kapital by Karl Marx. It's a poorly written (though may be it was the translation I read) diatribe about a utopian world free from capitalist overlords. It wasn't so depressing in and of itself, just it's implications, knowing what it would do over the next century to civilized cultures.
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That's kind of odd to hear.
I regularly have at least one bar of signal with my (HTC) Sensation - in my double-thick-walled cement basement, which isn't even in T-Mobile carrier range and is only in a 'partner' AT&T area. I'll reboot fairly often, granted - about once every other week or so, almost exclusively to just clear out the running application cache, not for a failure.
I don't know about that case, but I'm pretty sure this would fall under monopoly antitrust laws. It certainly seems to be a bit, oh, monopolistic of Apple.
For every religious extremist who hurts others in the name of God, there are dozens more who help
Unless the religion in question is Islam.
Q: Did you hear about the rich Imam who died and gave all his worldly possessions to charity?
A: No? Neither has anyone else.
A good Muslim friend laughed and laughed and laughed at that joke. Why? Because it's so true.
Case in point, X does 'network transparency' which, in practice, is still kinda inferior. Over a slow connection, high-compression/low bitrate VNC is better. RDP, even Xrdp, is way, way better (faster, more responsive, etc.). So while it was designed wtih such uses in mind, soemthing about it makes it not all that useful in practice and a different approach needs to be taken.
Enter wayland.
That's great and all. Now for those of us with sciatic nerve problems, that's not even an option.
Personally, I'm a bit of an oddity. I have an extra vertebrae and scoliosis, and I find myself leaning to one side all the time. It's not severe scoliosis but it's bad enough to be uncomfortable and make certain exercises (eg. pushups) pinch nerves. Here are the positions I have found to be the most comfortable, long term:
* Don't just sit there, get up every hour or two and stretch, move around, etc.
* A slightly reclined position seems to work best for me, with a chair that has good lumbar support.
* A chair with a rigid 'sprung' back piece, where you have to lean into it to recline, is bad. It creates tension in the legs and lower back.
* The chair seat should be low enough for you to be able to rest your feet flat footed on the floor
* I get rid of the arm rests. They just give me shoulder and upper back tension.
* Honestly, the cheapest of the cheap chairs (eg. $50 at WalMart) seem to be the most comfortable to me, as long as they're adjustable at the lumbar. Throw a pillow on the seat...
* I've tried and enjoyed hammocks as well as those 'chiropractic' chairs which have you sit on your knees.
And some general advice about desktops:
* I avoid 'keyboard trays' and 'keyboard elbow' (and carpel tunnel) at the same time by not using any of that stuff. I have IBM/Lenovo UltraNav keyboards which I place in my lap, like a laptop.
* If you're reclining slightly, the height of the monitor is just about right on a 'normal' computer desk with the monitor at the lowest setting. I'm 6'2" but find that most computer desks place the monitor too high, still - the monitor should be at a 30 degree downward viewing angle for you. This way your neck/focal point is lower, as it would be were you working on something else.
* Don't slouch. If you find yourself slouching it means you need to get up and move around for a while. Your back is getting fatigued.
Personally, my ideal setup would be:
* A desk with a surface height of 3'
* Monitors are mounted on the wall, with adjustable VESA arms
* keyboard/mouse are on an angle and height adjustable tray which can travel in a ~4' radius (similar to the VESA arm).
* office chair as described above (more or less) but also with the option of a hammock chair, anchored to the ceiling on a track
I'm in the process of doing something to this effect in my office right now.
The guy was/is a fucking idiot (someone in sales or marketing, maybe - the bad sales drones seem to typically be liberal), but he sort of has a point despite himself. Phrased another way, "conservatism as an ideological belief system that is significant (but not completely) related to motivational concerns having to do do with mitigating risk."
The person who keeps a stock of a commonly used and highly cost-fluctuative item (say, bulk fuel) is not a fool. He's prudent.
The engineer who designs a bridge to withstand max capacity plus 30% is being realistic, albeit not too cost conscious.
The person who doesn't go for casual sexual flings isn't a fool, he's being realistic (statistical likelihood of catching an STD - or for that matter, encountering a crazy person).
A lifestyle outlook says a lot about a person's technical proclivity preference, I think.
I was thinking kinda the same thing, but the agile/waterfall approach does have a psychological element as a preferential 'seed', from what I've seen. However, my exposure to developers is somewhat limited. Where I'm experienced is with systems people.
Just as in real-world politics, software conservatism and liberalism are radically different world views. Make no mistake: they are at odds.
What I have noticed with sysadmin types is that there is a very significant preferential competence bias for conservatively minded people. Creative, conservative people make damn good systems/network engineers as well. For whatever reason, it seems that there's a very high likelihood that a thorough, methodical, competent systems person has right-leaning political political view as well. I don't really get it, but I've not met many people who have broken this mold.
By that logic, regular checkpoints should be put up all along public roadways. It's for public safety, of course. Right?
I can see there being a rise in vandal tourism.
Drive in from PA or NJ, spraypaint, hammer, or otherwise deface the sensors, and go home.
I suspect it won't be long before you won't be able to use public transit there without a state-issued and federally-monitored ID. And when people start bypassing that by sharing? They'll mandate they're embedded.
No, they do not.
There is nowhere within the US where you can legally purchase an assault rifle.
Once the correction is made officially, the media will be sure to jump on it. It'll be a two-fer: they'll get to call it a spastic bullet hose and a baby killing sniper battle canon.
Um, .308 Winchester is about 10% less hot than commercial .30-06, but .30-06 has a wide range of loadings and bullet weights. It's one of, if not the, most adaptable cartridge out there due to its 100+ year history (starting with black powder in 1901 Springfields, IIRC).
7.62 NATO is quite a bit hotter than .308 Winchester, however.
Anything sharper than a butter knife was an excuse to go to the store.
The gun store?
Severe irrationality is common, maybe.
Actually an assault rifle has very strict legal definitions
Citation needed. "Assault rifle" is a term made up by politicians and adopted by the media because it sounds threatening.
Actually, "assault rifles" have a very cleanly defined technical definition, crafted by the Germans in WWII. This definition conflates with the so-called "legal" definition found in a handful of disenfranchised locations, like California, Chicago, IL, and New York.
An 'assault rifle' is a shoulder-fired rifle, firing an intermediate round, use detachable magazines, and capable of select fire and have a 300 meter effective range.
Currently, there are no assault rifles available for sale to any human individual (ie not a corporation) in the United States by the technical definition.
Let's just rehash, shall we? An assault rifle must be capable of, at the very bare minimum, of both taking a detachable magazine and able to fire more than one bullet from its barrel with a single pull of the trigger. Cosmetic similarity alone does not make this qualification any more than putting a ricer sticker on the back window of your car makes it fast.
Intermediate cartridges are generally accepted to be in the 6mm range, which excludes .308 Winchester/7.62 NATO, which - surprise - the SIG716 just happens to be.
This is gross reactionary sensationalism from the same people who seem having no problem getting technical details on new surveillance, tax, and government intrusion laws right. It's hard to say it's anything but malice.
Quite a bit of sensationalist bullshit in this one, particularly from the OP and the 'news' source he quoted.
Let's start with: it's not an assault rifle. Let's follow up with incomplete information, and it being a problem at the shipping carrier - UPS, supposedly, put the label on the box after it 'fell off' another box (the TV)?
Something's fishy about that, particularly since DC has some of the heaviest firearm restrictions in the country, partially due to the spate of suspicious mass killings in the last couple weeks, partially due to the sudden surge in partisan efforts to ban firearms (Woo from SF put a bill forth to ban all detachable magazines), and partially due to the extreme unlikelihood that a) a shipping label would 'come off' and someone at UPS would incorrectly attach it to a box which already has a shipping label.
Of course, that does no good if Apple simply ignores the security questions.
Everyone here seems to be missing that point.
If they will reset your password over the phone while enabling you to add an email address to the account and without reasonably certainty you are who you say you are, they have thoroughly demonstrated they do not give half a shit about the security of your information. Period. There are banks like this as well. It would be trivial to take over someone's financial and digital life in today's world with a little knowledge of who they are.
Microsoft is killing .NET in preference for their new -whatever- products in 2012 and W8, though. They want to push people further 'up the stack'.
It really is a shame that Qt has languished in relative obscurity for so many years. It really is a great toolkit (and I say that as a non-programmer who has only dabbled with it).
It's relatively simple, consistent, and has a large number of Windows-like constructor tools. It can be easily bound with many different other languages to construct a working program in a fairly short period of time. It's cross platform, running on everything*. The CPU overhead is relatively negligible (sans a massive framework like KDE).
It really astounds me that it's remained so cursory over the past decade or so. We had things like Qtopia way back in '00, and then it kind of went nowhere, even though there have been a lot of promising projects where it's been used - it's just fallen short of dominating like I'd have expected it to have. For instance, it was used in Maemo - but then replaced with something GTK-based. Why?
I'm only able to find jeans at places like Cabelas or Sportsman's Warehouse now: 32"x34" loose fit bootcut. Everywhere else tends to not have that.
I suppose it depends on the gender and the subculture.
Baggy jeans are popular in the ghettos because they allow for easy concealment of illicit items. That's been entombed in gangster music at this point.
Tight jeans are popular with women, particularly 'skinny jeans', because the thought is that it accentuates their curves and makes them look skinny (I imagine). IMO, the joke's on them: they're only supposed to be worn by truly skinny girls; otherwise, it makes their fat asses more noticeable.
In outdoor work cultures, which is still most of the US, a 'Wranglers jeans' cut is still popular. There are a number of reasons for this. If you're familiar with chaps, it will allow chaps to actually be worn. The cut is also fairly functional, allowing for generally easy movement while still not chaffing while eg. riding a horse or 4 wheeler. The denim is also able to be thicker and stiffer with a cut like this, allowing for long wear. Meanwhile, they're tight enough to keep the important bits close enough to the body to not get caught on something running past, as easily snagged on something like barbed wire, and won't be as likely to get filthy after a day out in a field.
Then there's 'loose fit bootcut' jeans. They allow for the greatest amount of movement while still not getting in your way, while working. They're a 'tradesman's cut' - the persona can more easily perform more flexibility-requiring tasks, like bending, stooping, crawling, etc.
I don't know about what "Swedish jeans" are, but I can tell you that 'tight jeans' are the domain of useless hipsters here in the US. The denim isn't thick enough to be useful as such and might as well be a light twill, and allowed movement is pretty negligible.
Well, that accounts for about half of the jobs Obama claims to have added to the economy.
I wonder where the other half are. Management, maybe?
Yep, exactly. Most of the 'rockstars' don't actually have very good resumes either, in my experience.
To add to that, just because someone can build an entire cloud deployment on their own in 1/3 the time it would take 3 people, does not mean he is able to provide the support for it on his own. Guess what? Support roles - or really, any clean-up type role - is much more linear than a design role. You can't stick a 'rockstar' in support and expect them to get 3x the work done for very long before they burn to a crisp.
I recently relocated into a position with a larger company, in a position I am, arguably, only marginally qualified for (I have broad but tangential experience but an applicable skillset). The add had not even been posted by the time I received my offer.
The position I vacated took over 3 months to fill, and the candidate who took the position is, in my opinion, neither skilled or experienced enough to actually perform the work. Rumor had it the hiring manager was looking for someone at around 50k to do the work, initially (in the bay area, no less) then succumbed to 60k and possibly went a little higher - appropriate for his level of experience but not for the position he's supposed to do.
While the '30 plus day' ads may not be fake or fishing for free labor, I would say the odds are very high that is either true, the company does not know what they're looking for, or there is a fairly high degree of internal dysfunction within the organization allowing for people looking for jobs to languish while they 'make up their mind'. In this market, employers need to be sensitive to people needing to pay their bills first and foremost.
Das Kapital by Karl Marx. It's a poorly written (though may be it was the translation I read) diatribe about a utopian world free from capitalist overlords. It wasn't so depressing in and of itself, just it's implications, knowing what it would do over the next century to civilized cultures.