A perfect example of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Millions will lose access to valuable content, and it's unlikely that any of the people who couldn't access the content would agree that this is the right thing to do. If you're hearing impaired do you really want to screw over millions of people who aren't just because you can't access something? I doubt it.
Skip building a single F-35 and you could could pay a team of 1000 people to do whatever it takes to make the content accessible to people with disabilities, but noooooooooo, we gotta have that fucking airplane.
The government should pay for to make it accessible (or at least help) since they were the ones that decreed it had to be accessible. But again, noooooooo, we gotta build that fucking wall or give tax breaks to millionaires or train 10,000 extra ICE agents to round up families and deport them (at our expense, of course).
No. Either way you look at it, this means more ads. No one would spend the money for this for the same number of ads. I can guarantee you that among other selling points ("targeted ads!") one of them will be that they can display more ads and therefore make (charge) more money.
And this is why I don't have any IoT devices. X-10 still works for me.
I have a lot of X-10 stuff running, but sadly they changed all the fucking light controllers to this asinine "soft start" shit and it's been a disaster. If you use them you probably know exactly what I'm talking about.
"Hidden Backdoor Discovered In Chinese IoT Devices"
Shocking *cough*.
Seriously, this should surprise no one. No one who's been paying attention, anyway. At this point I pretty much assume that any internet-enabled Chinese hardware likely contains some sort of backdoor, hard-coded passwords, or other hidden stuff.
After over 2 decades of programming I'm sick of "functional", "OO", "parallel", "strongly typed", "loosely typed", "actor based", etc languages. Every single esoteric or pseudo-esoteric language out there is fucking dumb (this includes c++ and c#.)
Thank you for saying what so many people here will not acknowledge or admit.
That's just what we need more of... distracted drivers trying to read bright moving images on a billboard while driving at 55mph.
Bingo.
Every time I see one of these things from the freeway I wonder why they aren't illegal. They're an obvious hazard in terms of unnecessary distractions. There is no way to ignore them which means you're not able to pay full attention to the traffic around you. Seriously, I can't understand why they were ever allowed to be built.
After interviewing with them recently, now I'm kinda glad that Uber didn't extend an offer to me; the company seems to have been involved in a *lot* of tricky shit lately, not the least of which is that the CEO appears to be a gigantic flaming asshole.
Writing an app specifically designed to help them break or flout the local laws isn't anything to be proud of. I gotta wonder how many man-hours went into building that, and how many programmers ignored their conscience to make it happen. Didn't ANY of them stop and say, "Hey, this isn't right...."?
Had they made me an offer I almost certainly would have taken it, but I think I'd be feeling kinda shitty and conflicted about it now.
"Two days of walking around the show floor showed companies expressing a consistent unwillingness to abandon the humble headphone jack, even on models as thin as, or thinner than, the iPhone 7."
Very good, and I'm glad to hear it. There is NO reason to let Apple set the standard, especially when the standard they set sucks or changes with every new model or just doesn't make any fucking sense. And don't give me that "courage" bullshit- I wasn't buying that line of crap then and I'm not buying it now.
Long live the humble headphone jack- a simple, time-tested bit of tech that still has a lot of life left in it.
"Make sure you bring writing samples", but they never asked to see them.
What?
I wasn't interviewing to be a driver, I was interviewing for a tech writing and API documenting position. In other words, they wanted to see a portfolio of documents I'd written before.
Only Microsoft would think that people don't want control of updates, or that unexpected reboots aren't disruptive.
I've learned to expect the highest level of unawareness from Microsoft, even on regarding the most obvious topics. Sometimes I think they say things like this just to gauge the level of outrage and "WTF?" that follows.
It's almost as if none of them use a computer, at least not one running Windows. They sound genuinely baffled that an unexpected reboot would be cause for concern. It's mind-boggling.
John Cable: "We also heard that unexpected reboots are disruptive if they happen at the wrong time"
Donald Trump: "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated"
Is John Cable channeling Donald Trump? Because these two statements are horrifyingly similar in that they both show an almost unheard of level of cluelessness.
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A perfect example of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Millions will lose access to valuable content, and it's unlikely that any of the people who couldn't access the content would agree that this is the right thing to do. If you're hearing impaired do you really want to screw over millions of people who aren't just because you can't access something? I doubt it.
Skip building a single F-35 and you could could pay a team of 1000 people to do whatever it takes to make the content accessible to people with disabilities, but noooooooooo, we gotta have that fucking airplane.
The government should pay for to make it accessible (or at least help) since they were the ones that decreed it had to be accessible. But again, noooooooo, we gotta build that fucking wall or give tax breaks to millionaires or train 10,000 extra ICE agents to round up families and deport them (at our expense, of course).
Our priorities are fucking stupid.
No, no, that sounds like a job interview, and we all know that Uber isn't an employer. Shame on you for falling for the taxi-government cartel's lies.
I wasn't interviewing as a driver, I was interviewing as a technical writer in their software development division. So yeah, it was a job interview.
Same number of ads just a targeted sequence.
No. Either way you look at it, this means more ads. No one would spend the money for this for the same number of ads. I can guarantee you that among other selling points ("targeted ads!") one of them will be that they can display more ads and therefore make (charge) more money.
And this is why I don't have any IoT devices.
X-10 still works for me.
I have a lot of X-10 stuff running, but sadly they changed all the fucking light controllers to this asinine "soft start" shit and it's been a disaster. If you use them you probably know exactly what I'm talking about.
"Hidden Backdoor Discovered In Chinese IoT Devices"
Shocking *cough*.
Seriously, this should surprise no one. No one who's been paying attention, anyway. At this point I pretty much assume that any internet-enabled Chinese hardware likely contains some sort of backdoor, hard-coded passwords, or other hidden stuff.
What's left? Chrome.
I recently switched to Pale Moon and I gotta say, I like it a lot. No memory leaks and the few key add-ons I need are there (NoScipt and Adblock).
What's 50% of 1%??
The only thing I ever used Internet Exploder for was to download Firefox. You mean it can browse the web too?
You don't goto McDonalds in the first place if you expect to eat gourmet.
Say WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
Ninja please, don' be dissin' on mah McHappy Place or I bust a cap in yo' ass!
And who will you complain to when the food is shit* or the order is wrong?
What happens when it takes your money and goes "beep" but delivers no food? Who will take your complaint?
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*shittier than normal, that is
No, same number of advertisements
No, because now the advertisements will change, it won't just be one static ad.
There will be lots of ads waiting to be seen and you'll see at least one of them, if not more.
After over 2 decades of programming I'm sick of "functional", "OO", "parallel", "strongly typed", "loosely typed", "actor based", etc languages. Every single esoteric or pseudo-esoteric language out there is fucking dumb (this includes c++ and c#.)
Thank you for saying what so many people here will not acknowledge or admit.
I'd like to have some of the same medication that Douglas Crockford is on, but in a smaller dose.
That's just what we need more of ... distracted drivers trying to read bright moving images on a billboard while driving at 55mph.
Bingo.
Every time I see one of these things from the freeway I wonder why they aren't illegal. They're an obvious hazard in terms of unnecessary distractions. There is no way to ignore them which means you're not able to pay full attention to the traffic around you. Seriously, I can't understand why they were ever allowed to be built.
Am I the only one who looks at an electronic billboard and thinks "What a sweet target!"?
And not just for shooting at- they'd probably be satisfying to hack into or paint over with some kind of thick, durable coating.
But either way, every time I see one I'm filled with the urge to destroy or vandalize it.
I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Yay, more advertising!"
Obligatory "Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan".
After interviewing with them recently, now I'm kinda glad that Uber didn't extend an offer to me; the company seems to have been involved in a *lot* of tricky shit lately, not the least of which is that the CEO appears to be a gigantic flaming asshole.
Writing an app specifically designed to help them break or flout the local laws isn't anything to be proud of. I gotta wonder how many man-hours went into building that, and how many programmers ignored their conscience to make it happen. Didn't ANY of them stop and say, "Hey, this isn't right...."?
Had they made me an offer I almost certainly would have taken it, but I think I'd be feeling kinda shitty and conflicted about it now.
This article just came out and I'm sure the Demoocrats and their MSM lapdogs are gonna jump all over it.
Unlike the Republicans who show a total lack of interest when it comes to what public officials do with private email services.
"Mike Pence Used His AOL Email..."
He uses AOL....I think we've heard all we need to hear. The man is clearly unfit for office.
"Two days of walking around the show floor showed companies expressing a consistent unwillingness to abandon the humble headphone jack, even on models as thin as, or thinner than, the iPhone 7."
Very good, and I'm glad to hear it. There is NO reason to let Apple set the standard, especially when the standard they set sucks or changes with every new model or just doesn't make any fucking sense. And don't give me that "courage" bullshit- I wasn't buying that line of crap then and I'm not buying it now.
Long live the humble headphone jack- a simple, time-tested bit of tech that still has a lot of life left in it.
32 million...to put that into perspective, that's more than the population of Texas, not quite as many as the population of California.
Or, put another way, that's about the combined populations of Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Way to go, Yahoo.
I'm guessing he would be working writing press releases? Documentation? Certainly he wasn't there to be hired as a driver.
Correct, I was interviewing for a tech writing and API documenting position.
"Make sure you bring writing samples", but they never asked to see them.
What?
I wasn't interviewing to be a driver, I was interviewing for a tech writing and API documenting position. In other words, they wanted to see a portfolio of documents I'd written before.
Only Microsoft would think that people don't want control of updates, or that unexpected reboots aren't disruptive.
I've learned to expect the highest level of unawareness from Microsoft, even on regarding the most obvious topics. Sometimes I think they say things like this just to gauge the level of outrage and "WTF?" that follows.
It's almost as if none of them use a computer, at least not one running Windows. They sound genuinely baffled that an unexpected reboot would be cause for concern. It's mind-boggling.
John Cable: "We also heard that unexpected reboots are disruptive if they happen at the wrong time"
Donald Trump: "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated"
Is John Cable channeling Donald Trump? Because these two statements are horrifyingly similar in that they both show an almost unheard of level of cluelessness.