I was amazed to find youtube vids by people who restore old air raid sirens, then drag them out into unpopulated regions to start them up. Made my hobbies seem so insignificant... and quiet.
I liked walking into a computer store and typing in a short loop poking color values etc into the video RAM on a C64. Back then I could remember the fun memory locations for such things. Prolly get arrested these days for endangering epileptics.
And in line with old-age computers, they aren't even network enabled; I have to copy a file to a SD card and physically take it to my printer and insert it! oh the humanity.
I would also like them to cull out the poor quality rips of movies, the movies with changed speed and a comment to replay at half speed, and those mirrored backward movie rips which are supposedly hidden from search engines. You still can't report a video for being an illegal copy of somebody elses property.
Did Red offer any useful content other than home made reality shows? I coulda paid a small amount to go ad-free and have decent things to watch, but they never showed me anything compelling.
I still consciously avoid products that have been promoted in annoying advertisements, if there is an alternative brand available.
There are only a very small number of advertisements which I have seen (the first 2 times anyway) and noted to be a clever, amusing and/or non-annoying ad. Can't recall if that has encouraged me to buy that particular brand instead of another tho.
The suggestion that advertising could be included in "free" apps is hard to debate, tho I prefer to pay for the games I use and not be bothered with suggestions of other things I could pay for, while playing the game. I guess it would be different if the advertisers wanted to provide us with the VR gear for free tho... bring on your free games with ads if you give me the hardware to use it on my PS4 : )
So have they analysed the burst for data content? It could have been a civilization broadcasting all of their knowledge in one great encyclopedia. Sadly, we weren't here to catch the public encryption key they published a billion years earlier.
Also, given the gravitational masses and movement of galaxies and other matter in between, why is time expected to be functioning at the same rate across the distance those rays have traveled? In fact, couldn't time dilation present the appearance of an expanding universe, if only observed from one location?
Holy crap if they gave that one the Sir Peter it would end up 6 hours long and there would be mandatory adrenaline shots at half-time to bring the audience back to consciousness.
Teach them to have pride in their work, and do things well or not do them at all.
One important aspect of coding that gets too little attention these days is, imagine if you were employed by the same company for many years, and had to go back and revisit your code from a year or more back, to make enhancements or whatever. Did you make code that you yourself could understand quickly, 12 months after you wrote it?
You may work in a team who have set some basic rules and standards for code, but even within those boundaries you can make code easy or hard to understand. Think of your future self.
But a middle aged coder who is "merely" very good is suspect: why isn't he an architect or a project manager?
For me, I started out in small companies where I was doing a bit of everything, so the title didn't include architect etc, but I had projects that were challenging and fun, and I just got in there and did them. Later on when I started looking round for another job, I had piss all to prove what I had done or what I knew, and had a bunch of young quiz masters trying determine if I knew something, but I couldn't tell what it was they were looking for, it certainly didn't relate to the decades of experience I have behind me, and it seems I'm just an ass when it comes to those interviews. Never mind, do my own thing I guess...
By the time someone is 40-50, they should have a broad skillset, and a deep network of former colleagues. The old guys whining about being unable to find a job are mostly turds that have serially rejected and their former co-workers are glad to be rid of them. There are a LOT of people like that out there. These are the guys you remember from college who wanted to copy your assignment an hour before it was due, because they had no idea how to do it themselves, the dead weight on your programming team, and now they are old.
Condescending asshole, you're forgetting about the entire generation of socially awkward nerds whose childhood coincided with the personal computer revolution, who grew up interacting with machines instead of people, who never learned social skills, and who never accumulated a professional network because they'd rather not interact with people like you. Those were the technically inclined kids who were doing all your programming assignments while you dead weight bastard cheated your way through college. Those nerd kids grew up, and they're literally 40-year-old virgins now. Until recently they were able to make a decent living using only their technical skills, until social scum like you forced the socially awkward out of the industry which they built for you.
I agree with most of that, tho also I have the problem that most of my network of former colleagues have retired or died. Guess I could have moved on to managing other developers but I didn't enjoy that, and stuck with doing what does give me reward.
Instead of going "yay VS 2017" I googled "Couldn't install Visual Studio 2017 community edition"
SHIT TON of hits. More than a million. Sad, just sad.
Did you do a quick review of those reports to see how many of them were from Nov/Dec 2016, and referred to one of the release candidate versions?
You might want to note that release candidate installations are usually created for the purpose of discovering the problems which occur for different users with different environments etc, so they appear to have served their exact purpose, and enough people were enthusiastic about VS2017 to both participate as an early tester and post reports about their problems. Looks like an acceptable software rollout process to me.
I often see blockbuster movies with 2-4 friends or family members, so then its a bargain.
You haven't seen the small print yet. It will probably be a crime to let anybody outside of permanent residents see the $50 screening of the movie. You will probably also need a web cam covering the audience to allow the movie to start playing...
What is up with companies putting every machine they have on an open internet connection? Once there used to be well considered decisions on what bits of the corporate infrastructure needed to be exposed at all. Do they now hire just anybody who knows how to type a password by himself, and say "go for it! set up our security!".
Proof? There were more sales of VHS tapes before that website started up than there were after. Probably much higher sales of 8mm before that site started too. Need any more evidence?
I have hired movies on youtube in HD, but they always have multiple pauses while waiting for data. I don't know where youtube movies are streamed from for NZ tho.
The problem I have is I cannot find many local retailers that still stock DVDs or BluRay. Those that do seem to be clearing their old stock and don't get much new release stuff in. Another thing I once expected, that hasn't happened, is re-releases of old TV series on bluray, as one disk could hold quite a lot of episodes, in their original format. There are a lot of old favorites I would like to add to my overcrowded shelves.
It is quite disappointing that so little is being released on bluray or DVD, and the availability of both new and old releases was pathetically small long before Netflix came to my country. Regional locking makes it risky ordering disks online as I need to trust that the disk will play on one of my devices.
Maybe DVD availability is different for you murcans, but from NZ it looks like the premise of this article has things backwards.
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I was amazed to find youtube vids by people who restore old air raid sirens, then drag them out into unpopulated regions to start them up.
Made my hobbies seem so insignificant... and quiet.
I liked walking into a computer store and typing in a short loop poking color values etc into the video RAM on a C64. Back then I could remember the fun memory locations for such things.
Prolly get arrested these days for endangering epileptics.
And in line with old-age computers, they aren't even network enabled; I have to copy a file to a SD card and physically take it to my printer and insert it! oh the humanity.
I would also like them to cull out the poor quality rips of movies, the movies with changed speed and a comment to replay at half speed, and those mirrored backward movie rips which are supposedly hidden from search engines.
You still can't report a video for being an illegal copy of somebody elses property.
Did Red offer any useful content other than home made reality shows?
I coulda paid a small amount to go ad-free and have decent things to watch, but they never showed me anything compelling.
"Lower operating costs (i.e., no fueling)..."
Its gotta be perpetual motion. Just free electricity! Let me on that plane... Not!
It's cruel to make porpoises have to use a garage door remote. They don't even have fingers to use the phone app.
I still consciously avoid products that have been promoted in annoying advertisements, if there is an alternative brand available.
There are only a very small number of advertisements which I have seen (the first 2 times anyway) and noted to be a clever, amusing and/or non-annoying ad. Can't recall if that has encouraged me to buy that particular brand instead of another tho.
The suggestion that advertising could be included in "free" apps is hard to debate, tho I prefer to pay for the games I use and not be bothered with suggestions of other things I could pay for, while playing the game.
I guess it would be different if the advertisers wanted to provide us with the VR gear for free tho... bring on your free games with ads if you give me the hardware to use it on my PS4 : )
So have they analysed the burst for data content? It could have been a civilization broadcasting all of their knowledge in one great encyclopedia.
Sadly, we weren't here to catch the public encryption key they published a billion years earlier.
Also, given the gravitational masses and movement of galaxies and other matter in between, why is time expected to be functioning at the same rate across the distance those rays have traveled? In fact, couldn't time dilation present the appearance of an expanding universe, if only observed from one location?
All I have seen of it so far is concentrating on one central actor and not saying much at all about anything else.
Holy crap if they gave that one the Sir Peter it would end up 6 hours long and there would be mandatory adrenaline shots at half-time to bring the audience back to consciousness.
Teach them to have pride in their work, and do things well or not do them at all.
One important aspect of coding that gets too little attention these days is, imagine if you were employed by the same company for many years, and had to go back and revisit your code from a year or more back, to make enhancements or whatever. Did you make code that you yourself could understand quickly, 12 months after you wrote it?
You may work in a team who have set some basic rules and standards for code, but even within those boundaries you can make code easy or hard to understand. Think of your future self.
But a middle aged coder who is "merely" very good is suspect: why isn't he an architect or a project manager?
For me, I started out in small companies where I was doing a bit of everything, so the title didn't include architect etc, but I had projects that were challenging and fun, and I just got in there and did them. Later on when I started looking round for another job, I had piss all to prove what I had done or what I knew, and had a bunch of young quiz masters trying determine if I knew something, but I couldn't tell what it was they were looking for, it certainly didn't relate to the decades of experience I have behind me, and it seems I'm just an ass when it comes to those interviews. Never mind, do my own thing I guess...
By the time someone is 40-50, they should have a broad skillset, and a deep network of former colleagues. The old guys whining about being unable to find a job are mostly turds that have serially rejected and their former co-workers are glad to be rid of them. There are a LOT of people like that out there. These are the guys you remember from college who wanted to copy your assignment an hour before it was due, because they had no idea how to do it themselves, the dead weight on your programming team, and now they are old.
Condescending asshole, you're forgetting about the entire generation of socially awkward nerds whose childhood coincided with the personal computer revolution, who grew up interacting with machines instead of people, who never learned social skills, and who never accumulated a professional network because they'd rather not interact with people like you. Those were the technically inclined kids who were doing all your programming assignments while you dead weight bastard cheated your way through college. Those nerd kids grew up, and they're literally 40-year-old virgins now. Until recently they were able to make a decent living using only their technical skills, until social scum like you forced the socially awkward out of the industry which they built for you.
I agree with most of that, tho also I have the problem that most of my network of former colleagues have retired or died. Guess I could have moved on to managing other developers but I didn't enjoy that, and stuck with doing what does give me reward.
I... I could laugh... or cry... been there done that... did you stay in development or start selling shoes?
Instead of going "yay VS 2017" I googled "Couldn't install Visual Studio 2017 community edition"
SHIT TON of hits. More than a million. Sad, just sad.
Did you do a quick review of those reports to see how many of them were from Nov/Dec 2016, and referred to one of the release candidate versions?
You might want to note that release candidate installations are usually created for the purpose of discovering the problems which occur for different users with different environments etc, so they appear to have served their exact purpose, and enough people were enthusiastic about VS2017 to both participate as an early tester and post reports about their problems. Looks like an acceptable software rollout process to me.
I often see blockbuster movies with 2-4 friends or family members, so then its a bargain.
You haven't seen the small print yet. It will probably be a crime to let anybody outside of permanent residents see the $50 screening of the movie. You will probably also need a web cam covering the audience to allow the movie to start playing...
What is up with companies putting every machine they have on an open internet connection?
Once there used to be well considered decisions on what bits of the corporate infrastructure needed to be exposed at all.
Do they now hire just anybody who knows how to type a password by himself, and say "go for it! set up our security!".
Proof? There were more sales of VHS tapes before that website started up than there were after.
Probably much higher sales of 8mm before that site started too.
Need any more evidence?
heh
That's true. If you're not careful all the bits fall out and you have to go a sweep them up.
Ha, you should use Linux. Thats why it has sticky bits.
Yeah but at least after we have finished with the sheep we export them to Australia.
I have hired movies on youtube in HD, but they always have multiple pauses while waiting for data.
I don't know where youtube movies are streamed from for NZ tho.
The problem I have is I cannot find many local retailers that still stock DVDs or BluRay. Those that do seem to be clearing their old stock and don't get much new release stuff in. Another thing I once expected, that hasn't happened, is re-releases of old TV series on bluray, as one disk could hold quite a lot of episodes, in their original format. There are a lot of old favorites I would like to add to my overcrowded shelves.
It is quite disappointing that so little is being released on bluray or DVD, and the availability of both new and old releases was pathetically small long before Netflix came to my country. Regional locking makes it risky ordering disks online as I need to trust that the disk will play on one of my devices.
Maybe DVD availability is different for you murcans, but from NZ it looks like the premise of this article has things backwards.