Yeah, sounds like someone is tweaking the headline so they can pick up some cheap stock after it gets dumped.
From actually RTFA, it sounds like VG is just assuming responsibility for further testing. The accident sounds tragic, but it looks like it may have been the co-pilot's... "fault" is a strong word, but they mentioned he unlocked the stabilizer a bit too early and then it automatically feathered when it wasn't supposed to.
SC may do good work, but these kinds of things happen, unfortunately. But it's really bad press for VG, and I can see their board upset about why they're letting a relatively "small" engineering outfit determine their fate. It sounds like VG should be in charge of this project and their own future now, for better or for worse. Now they're fully responsible for the risks and can certainly handle them differently.
http://fark.com/ is as close to a bipartisan "internet tavern" as I've ever seen. They used to have a "political balance meter" to try to link to a roughly equal number of stories / threads with a "leftist" and "rightist" spin. Anyway, it's useful to (occasionally) see well-articulated thoughts and opinions from "the other side", or even just discussion of news events from different perspectives... stuff that more often devolves into flamewars or gets stuck or pigeonholed on other social media.
That said, yeah, I know next to nothing about Drew, but it sounds like he might be a good moderator of useful discussion. Over beer.
They also used to have a "weeners" tag for the ladies (and dudes of a certain persuasion), but not sure what happened to all that content after they cleaned up.
For personal use? You don't need an anti-virus program. It's a racket. Use the built-in protections for your OS, and learn some common sense. If you do something that gets you infected, wipe and reload your OS, and DON'T DO THAT AGAIN. Once you have a trimmed group of common, trusted applications and games and settings, you'll be cruising fine. You'll more likely be wiping and reloading your OS due to hardware failures every few years than from virus attacks. Notice that you will need to make backups and treat your computers as disposable. You'll be happier this way.
For work? CYA! Find out what the company security policy is. Use/Buy one (and only one) that will take the liability WHEN (not if) a virus manages to sneak through. Make sure updates are turned on and up-to-date so they can't weasel out of liability coverage. That is all.
If VB is what the teacher is most comfortable with, and he and the students can do the most impressive "first projects" with it, then by all means use VB6.
I started learning by myself with Turbo Pascal. And ostensibly my first exposure to "programming" was with MS Office macros. Neither were great languages, but I got them to do interesting things, which were motivational. They were also useful, in that in my first temp jobs I could help office people set up mail merges and do stuff to their inventory and things like that. And then, finally I was also motivated to learn other, "better" languages when I hit their limitations. Sounds perfect for a HS course.
I also find it interesting that NASA kind of goes off another way, where the only people at Mission Control who are permitted to communicate with astronauts while they're performing a procedure are also former astronauts. Part of the rationale is to serve as a filter, so any conflict or uncertainty on the ground doesn't contribute to the stress of the operator in space. Wonder how they're doing now that there are a few more former female astronauts now than previously...
But the interface still sucks. I've used 8.1 as my primary desktop OS for almost a year now (Stock install, no Start Menu third party add-ons), and while it's a solid OS, there's still so much missing from the Metro interface.
Recently used documents is the thing I miss the most.
And just exploring through the tree-based Start Menu is something I really miss. I end up with so much stuff installed I forget some of it. Would occasionally just surf thru the Start menu to re-discover stuff. But with 8.1, if you don't remember it, you're not going to find it. Sure you can go page by page through all the listed stuff, but that's far more inefficient than being able to walk through a tree-based menu.
Does "Start Menu Classic" still work on Win8.1 ? I remember using it on Win8 for a little while before I went back to Win7 on my gaming box.
I think the main question on everyone's mind, though, is whether Win8.1 counts as a major "release" or not so we'll know where Win10 falls in the "good / shit" cycle: http://www.globalnerdy.com/wor... .
Though I guess we're damned either way... if Win8.1 counts as the "good" release, then Win10 will be "shit". If Win8/Win8.1 collectively count as the "shit" release in the cycle, then MS might have just skipped Win9 "good" to get to Win10 "shit".
Doesn't the USAF have a study somewhere that women are better at communicating data, period?
They would use female radio operators since they found it easier to understand female voices over lossy radio channels. Maybe something to do with the higher pitched voices, or better use of intonation in language, or maybe something empathic or psychological that we don't understand but the effect was there.
Then there are the Germans who refuse to take orders from female voices to the extent that GPS manufacturers have to make special male recordings for those markets. Was that a factor during WWII as well?
On the flip side, was it the USAF or NASA that was investigating the long term social groups for extended space missions, and found that grous of all-men could get along, but introduce one female and they start fighting for her attentions? But that was still better than an all-female crew, who would eventually but almost always turn on each other after too much time working together?
Yeah it had a somewhat similar mesh network, though. I still see the little shoeboxes hanging down from the occasional streetlight in most metro areas, so I assume the richochet network is still being used for its stuff... even though a lot of municipalities have been working to upgrade their communications networks since 9/11
Yeah, I'm a bit worried about what this means for SpaceX, having worked for Boeing when they were trying to push for more communications satellites to help fill up their launch schedules.
A lot of these services (Iridium, or even Metricom Ricochet) might be considered business failures but technological successes. The networks still operate and serve their primary customers (I believe the Ricochet is used by law enforcement)... it's just the shell companies that tried to sell excess bandwidth to the public that failed financially.
Huh actually, the wikipedia page for Iridium mentions that SpaceX is launching the Iridium NEXT satellites this year to be more data-focsed than voice-focused: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... Not sure if this SpaceX constellation is being launched to augment this, or if it's just a business ploy to negotiate more favorable prices with their customer by pretending to go into competition with them:P
Yes, it's pretty cool to go through that for the first phone or two, but after the 5th or 6th time it kinda gets old to have to spend an hour or two keeping track of how TWRP is replacing the clockworkmod bootloader, which exploit to use to root, backing up using Titanium or Helium, etc. After a while it feels less like you're learning new stuff and more like you're jumping through hoops just to get a new OS version that other people get automatically OTA:P But at least the adb and fastboot stuff from Google stays pretty consistent.
Eh, with Windows 7 it hasn't been that bad, or even with Win98 before that. Every six months or so when it starts having problems, just reinstall from scratch, walk away and let it reboot a few times to finish updates, then install the nVidia updater and Steam and anything else from ninite.com . Just a few more steps than setting up a fresh Linux Mint box.
That said, the last time my C:\ drive failed, I restored my AppData dir from backups into the new system but still couldn't get some of my games to find their settings / savegame states. Probably need to dink with something in the registry, but haven't been motivated enough, since most of my current games save state to the cloud.
Getting cyanogen on my HTC is a maze of shady.exe files linked from shady forums hosted on shady filedrop sites.
Hate to admit it, but this. Trying to find the right set of instructions to follow to get most phones rooted so you can install a custom bootloader and install CyanogenMOD is a big mess. Sort of like an IQ test of trust and persistence to determine whether you're worthy of running a custom ROM.
That said, I've trusted my phone's behavior more when it's running CyanogenMOD than when I was running the manufacturer's ROM.
Yep, if you have any qualms about doing stuff on Android, feel free to get a cheap Android tablet to experiment on, like the old $200 Nexus 7. Then you can feel free to fill that one with games and crapware and wipe and reload it regularly like a Windows gaming box. This lets you play without too much risk without compromising your primary Android device. If you use the same google Play account, you don't even have to buy your paid apps twice (though of course then you're exposing your google account that you use to pay for Google apps, but if you're like me, that's separate from your personal gmail account)
My primary Android device is my phone, and I just keep a bare minimum of essential apps on it so it runs fast and lean. After the Android 5 update, haven't even felt compelled to root it.
Yeah, a lot of the smartest kids in my magnet school were girls... the two co-valedictorians were Russian twins. And at my ivy league college, ASME and SWE were both pretty much run by the same group of women. I kinda thought that would continue to be the norm out in the professional world. I ought to figure out where they went.
A "computer" used to refer to a human calculator operator, and lots of them were women. Here's some history in picture form for you: http://womenandtechnologyproje...
Sounds right... there seems to be good competition for female tech workers in the Seattle area. It makes sense too, since if your product is better able to serve the female population, that can pretty much double your customer base.
I've seen plenty of female tech workers and Microsoft and Disney here, compared to some of the defense-industrial sausage-fests back in the DC area. Amazon is probably playing catch-up.
Some of our neighbors work for Amazon, both husband and wife. They met in college doing CS, he was her tutor. They both had applied for the same job at Amazon way back when. I don't recall the specifics, but she ended up getting a different job at Amazon at a higher level. He got that job, but a few years later after he became a manager he could go back and look up the details in the hiring system and saw that Amazon was prepared to hire her for that lower level job at a higher pay than him.
So there certainly is competition here for female tech workers. Study your STEM, girls!
Yeah, originally a lot of the CS geniuses (Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing) were women or something, and for some reason the manly men felt insecure or threatened by this and completely turned it into a bro thing to protect their own insecurities and have been making it hostile ever since.
/ not SJW, just would like to have more women in the workplace.
Yeah, I can understand that a lot of the CPS laws and procedures were written to make it possible to rescue children from truly abusive parents promptly. If there was any more wiggle room, the CPS would not be able to act promptly.
That said, I can certainly see cruel neighbors calling CPS on each other just to get kids off their lawns.
Getting a kick out of this story since we just moved 3000 miles away from Montgomery Co. MD a few years ago, where our kids used to walk/bike a mile home from their elementary school.
Nice setup. I'd go a step further and buy a HD for a trusted friend and rsync a snapshot of my home dir to their box, gnupg encrypted if you want.
There's also AWS Glacier that I use for semi-annual dumps for photo archives and other things that don't change. The SAGU java client is relatively straightforward, and I save the manifest in 1-2 cloud storage services. I think 10GB worth of stuff is costing me about 47 per month... most of the cost is just incurred during retrieval, so it's a pretty good deal for data insurance.
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Yeah, sounds like someone is tweaking the headline so they can pick up some cheap stock after it gets dumped.
From actually RTFA, it sounds like VG is just assuming responsibility for further testing. The accident sounds tragic, but it looks like it may have been the co-pilot's ... "fault" is a strong word, but they mentioned he unlocked the stabilizer a bit too early and then it automatically feathered when it wasn't supposed to.
SC may do good work, but these kinds of things happen, unfortunately. But it's really bad press for VG, and I can see their board upset about why they're letting a relatively "small" engineering outfit determine their fate. It sounds like VG should be in charge of this project and their own future now, for better or for worse. Now they're fully responsible for the risks and can certainly handle them differently.
http://fark.com/ is as close to a bipartisan "internet tavern" as I've ever seen. They used to have a "political balance meter" to try to link to a roughly equal number of stories / threads with a "leftist" and "rightist" spin. Anyway, it's useful to (occasionally) see well-articulated thoughts and opinions from "the other side", or even just discussion of news events from different perspectives... stuff that more often devolves into flamewars or gets stuck or pigeonholed on other social media.
That said, yeah, I know next to nothing about Drew, but it sounds like he might be a good moderator of useful discussion. Over beer.
Hah, boobies!
No, they always called it foobies, and moved that stuff to their own domain once they got "serious".
http://foobies.com/
They also used to have a "weeners" tag for the ladies (and dudes of a certain persuasion), but not sure what happened to all that content after they cleaned up.
For personal use?
You don't need an anti-virus program. It's a racket. Use the built-in protections for your OS, and learn some common sense. If you do something that gets you infected, wipe and reload your OS, and DON'T DO THAT AGAIN. Once you have a trimmed group of common, trusted applications and games and settings, you'll be cruising fine. You'll more likely be wiping and reloading your OS due to hardware failures every few years than from virus attacks. Notice that you will need to make backups and treat your computers as disposable. You'll be happier this way.
For work? CYA!
Find out what the company security policy is. Use/Buy one (and only one) that will take the liability WHEN (not if) a virus manages to sneak through. Make sure updates are turned on and up-to-date so they can't weasel out of liability coverage. That is all.
Excellent! Next up: ranking everyone on Facebook from best to worst!
Obligatory XKCD panel #3: http://xkcd.com/451/
Mod AC parent up.
If VB is what the teacher is most comfortable with, and he and the students can do the most impressive "first projects" with it, then by all means use VB6.
I started learning by myself with Turbo Pascal. And ostensibly my first exposure to "programming" was with MS Office macros. Neither were great languages, but I got them to do interesting things, which were motivational. They were also useful, in that in my first temp jobs I could help office people set up mail merges and do stuff to their inventory and things like that. And then, finally I was also motivated to learn other, "better" languages when I hit their limitations. Sounds perfect for a HS course.
Hey, that's pretty cool, thanks!
I also find it interesting that NASA kind of goes off another way, where the only people at Mission Control who are permitted to communicate with astronauts while they're performing a procedure are also former astronauts. Part of the rationale is to serve as a filter, so any conflict or uncertainty on the ground doesn't contribute to the stress of the operator in space. Wonder how they're doing now that there are a few more former female astronauts now than previously...
But the interface still sucks. I've used 8.1 as my primary desktop OS for almost a year now (Stock install, no Start Menu third party add-ons), and while it's a solid OS, there's still so much missing from the Metro interface.
Recently used documents is the thing I miss the most.
And just exploring through the tree-based Start Menu is something I really miss. I end up with so much stuff installed I forget some of it. Would occasionally just surf thru the Start menu to re-discover stuff. But with 8.1, if you don't remember it, you're not going to find it. Sure you can go page by page through all the listed stuff, but that's far more inefficient than being able to walk through a tree-based menu.
Does "Start Menu Classic" still work on Win8.1 ? I remember using it on Win8 for a little while before I went back to Win7 on my gaming box.
I think the main question on everyone's mind, though, is whether Win8.1 counts as a major "release" or not so we'll know where Win10 falls in the "good / shit" cycle: http://www.globalnerdy.com/wor... .
Though I guess we're damned either way... if Win8.1 counts as the "good" release, then Win10 will be "shit". If Win8/Win8.1 collectively count as the "shit" release in the cycle, then MS might have just skipped Win9 "good" to get to Win10 "shit".
Doesn't the USAF have a study somewhere that women are better at communicating data, period?
They would use female radio operators since they found it easier to understand female voices over lossy radio channels. Maybe something to do with the higher pitched voices, or better use of intonation in language, or maybe something empathic or psychological that we don't understand but the effect was there.
Then there are the Germans who refuse to take orders from female voices to the extent that GPS manufacturers have to make special male recordings for those markets. Was that a factor during WWII as well?
On the flip side, was it the USAF or NASA that was investigating the long term social groups for extended space missions, and found that grous of all-men could get along, but introduce one female and they start fighting for her attentions? But that was still better than an all-female crew, who would eventually but almost always turn on each other after too much time working together?
Yeah it had a somewhat similar mesh network, though. I still see the little shoeboxes hanging down from the occasional streetlight in most metro areas, so I assume the richochet network is still being used for its stuff... even though a lot of municipalities have been working to upgrade their communications networks since 9/11
Yeah, I'm a bit worried about what this means for SpaceX, having worked for Boeing when they were trying to push for more communications satellites to help fill up their launch schedules.
A lot of these services (Iridium, or even Metricom Ricochet) might be considered business failures but technological successes. The networks still operate and serve their primary customers (I believe the Ricochet is used by law enforcement)... it's just the shell companies that tried to sell excess bandwidth to the public that failed financially.
Huh actually, the wikipedia page for Iridium mentions that SpaceX is launching the Iridium NEXT satellites this year to be more data-focsed than voice-focused: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... :P
Not sure if this SpaceX constellation is being launched to augment this, or if it's just a business ploy to negotiate more favorable prices with their customer by pretending to go into competition with them
Really. Here's the "simple" 9-phase process with for the pretty common Nexus 5 :
http://forum.xda-developers.co...
Yes, it's pretty cool to go through that for the first phone or two, but after the 5th or 6th time it kinda gets old to have to spend an hour or two keeping track of how TWRP is replacing the clockworkmod bootloader, which exploit to use to root, backing up using Titanium or Helium, etc. After a while it feels less like you're learning new stuff and more like you're jumping through hoops just to get a new OS version that other people get automatically OTA :P But at least the adb and fastboot stuff from Google stays pretty consistent.
Eh, with Windows 7 it hasn't been that bad, or even with Win98 before that. Every six months or so when it starts having problems, just reinstall from scratch, walk away and let it reboot a few times to finish updates, then install the nVidia updater and Steam and anything else from ninite.com . Just a few more steps than setting up a fresh Linux Mint box.
That said, the last time my C:\ drive failed, I restored my AppData dir from backups into the new system but still couldn't get some of my games to find their settings / savegame states. Probably need to dink with something in the registry, but haven't been motivated enough, since most of my current games save state to the cloud.
Getting cyanogen on my HTC is a maze of shady .exe files linked from shady forums hosted on shady filedrop sites.
Hate to admit it, but this. Trying to find the right set of instructions to follow to get most phones rooted so you can install a custom bootloader and install CyanogenMOD is a big mess. Sort of like an IQ test of trust and persistence to determine whether you're worthy of running a custom ROM.
That said, I've trusted my phone's behavior more when it's running CyanogenMOD than when I was running the manufacturer's ROM.
Yep, if you have any qualms about doing stuff on Android, feel free to get a cheap Android tablet to experiment on, like the old $200 Nexus 7. Then you can feel free to fill that one with games and crapware and wipe and reload it regularly like a Windows gaming box. This lets you play without too much risk without compromising your primary Android device. If you use the same google Play account, you don't even have to buy your paid apps twice (though of course then you're exposing your google account that you use to pay for Google apps, but if you're like me, that's separate from your personal gmail account)
My primary Android device is my phone, and I just keep a bare minimum of essential apps on it so it runs fast and lean. After the Android 5 update, haven't even felt compelled to root it.
Yeah, a lot of the smartest kids in my magnet school were girls... the two co-valedictorians were Russian twins. And at my ivy league college, ASME and SWE were both pretty much run by the same group of women. I kinda thought that would continue to be the norm out in the professional world. I ought to figure out where they went.
Argue with the graph.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...
A "computer" used to refer to a human calculator operator, and lots of them were women. Here's some history in picture form for you:
http://womenandtechnologyproje...
He committed suicide after being bullied for not being bro enough?
yeah, "man" falls under "or something"
...at the expense of every other company.
Sounds right... there seems to be good competition for female tech workers in the Seattle area. It makes sense too, since if your product is better able to serve the female population, that can pretty much double your customer base.
I've seen plenty of female tech workers and Microsoft and Disney here, compared to some of the defense-industrial sausage-fests back in the DC area. Amazon is probably playing catch-up.
Some of our neighbors work for Amazon, both husband and wife. They met in college doing CS, he was her tutor. They both had applied for the same job at Amazon way back when. I don't recall the specifics, but she ended up getting a different job at Amazon at a higher level. He got that job, but a few years later after he became a manager he could go back and look up the details in the hiring system and saw that Amazon was prepared to hire her for that lower level job at a higher pay than him.
So there certainly is competition here for female tech workers. Study your STEM, girls!
Yeah, originally a lot of the CS geniuses (Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing) were women or something, and for some reason the manly men felt insecure or threatened by this and completely turned it into a bro thing to protect their own insecurities and have been making it hostile ever since.
/ not SJW, just would like to have more women in the workplace.
Yeah, I think they want you to hire a nanny or au pair so you can pay the nanny household employee tax.
What better way to eliminate poverty by making it illegal to be poor?
Yeah, I can understand that a lot of the CPS laws and procedures were written to make it possible to rescue children from truly abusive parents promptly. If there was any more wiggle room, the CPS would not be able to act promptly.
That said, I can certainly see cruel neighbors calling CPS on each other just to get kids off their lawns.
Getting a kick out of this story since we just moved 3000 miles away from Montgomery Co. MD a few years ago, where our kids used to walk/bike a mile home from their elementary school.
47 (cents), /. ate my unicode
Nice setup. I'd go a step further and buy a HD for a trusted friend and rsync a snapshot of my home dir to their box, gnupg encrypted if you want.
There's also AWS Glacier that I use for semi-annual dumps for photo archives and other things that don't change. The SAGU java client is relatively straightforward, and I save the manifest in 1-2 cloud storage services. I think 10GB worth of stuff is costing me about 47 per month... most of the cost is just incurred during retrieval, so it's a pretty good deal for data insurance.