Wow, this is nuts. 10 Years ago, I was working at 1920 x 1200... then because of hollywood most of us were forced to 1920 x 1080 and even more absurdly, mum and dad users were working at 1366x768 !!! For 10 years I waited and waited for the PC industry to bring out large hi res monitors... but again, it wasn't until the consumer 4k movement started, that PC manufactures started bringing out what I can only say is the absolute glory of 4k big monitors for programming. but why oh why would you want 4k on 5.5" screen , when dell and HP are still foisting sucky pixelated monitors on PC's. This phone is 564ppi when the eye can only resolve 300ppi. What a waste of pixels.
Cultures differ. I find the European mindset of desiring the state to provide for their needs to be immature. Maturity, in my opinion, requires a realization that no one has a right to another person's labor....no matter how much they claim to "need" it.
I get that: and I look down on people at the outer suburban shopping centre who are mooching off my labour. But. we already have plenty of overproduction of the basics of life, with tons of automation coming that will displace lower skilled jobs. So were are heading for a more socialist society whether we like it or not, and the USA is behind the 8ball on this paradigm shift.
It has always surprised me how little protection a US worker gets. Like your health care system; it sucks compared to the rest of the modern world (unless you are rich)
There seems to be this culture in the US of : There is nothing stopping you from becoming rich and powerful; and if you don't work hard enough, then you don't deserve anything.
Its like a society that got stuck at the selfish adolescent stage if independence, rather than moving to the mature state of interdependence. (ie like the EU, Canada, Australia, NZ), where society realises it need to provide basic health and employment protection services for those that aren't as smart, healthy or motivated as others.
Conversations, Richard Fidler, Radio National (ABC Australia0 Not tech specific; but very well done long form interviews on a diverse range of subjects. http://www.abc.net.au/radio/pr...
Let's say that I do get tortured and abused, and someone gets pictures of it and puts them online, say in liveleak, or even in some "well respected" news site. Who is responsible for torturing me? The one who did it? Or the jerks who hosted the pics?
They are both responsible, provided no party is a common carrier.
I read a very interesting article recently on the law of the commons. It essentially said that knowing someones real identity in a public commons, makes for polite (read socially acceptable) behaviour. This is why facebook is generally very polite; but anonymous blog comments can be abusive.
The issue is, we have a great tussle between our valid fear of governments, and even private businesses, abusing their knowledge of you; and our need as a society to protect those that cannot protect themselves by revealing the identity of those that abuse. This is not only children, but the elderly, and those with physical and mental impairments.
There is currently no answer to this problem as the two requirements will always oppose each other.
Australia has socialised health care, just like every other modern western country EXCEPT for the USA; which has always puzzled me. Poor people don't have private insurance and tend to smoke more, thus the burden for their health care falls on the public system.
I don't know anyone in our social group who smokes. Of our workplace of 50, none of the engineers/programmers/management smoke. About 3 of our production staff smoke. Its actually terrific living in an almost smoke free country.!
I'm hoping 3D cinema are next to go. Yes, it was fun in Avatar and all, but nowadays it only makes everything fuzzy and dark. The last movie I watched in 3D was "Star Wars Rogue One", and I had no option for 2D (movie theaters here in Brazil are doing this dirty practice). In some scenes it was so dark I could barely see anything... I liked the movie, but 3D almost ruined it for me.
Yep. Had exactly the same experience in Australia. Dim, fuzzy.would have been better in 2D.
The CIA must be one of the most evil organisation you Americans have. They are the private 'government overthrow agency' of big business. Watch you back Trump, if you try to dismantle them.
I couldn't give 2 rats if your Gucci handbag was real. In fact I wouldn't even know; to me it shows shallow consumerism with probably a matching personality. What I do care about is mains connected devices manufactured with poor creepages and insufficient protection that can catch fire and electrocute people. I would guess this would apply to the majority of plug packs, power supplies and battery packs. Thus they should be concentrating on devices that have mandatory safety and legislative standards requirements first.
I would add to that. Make patenting costs an exponential cost for the number of patents held by related primarily benficial entities. Patent Renewal Cost = No Of Patents Held ^ 3 Hold 1 Patent = $1 Hold 10 Patents = $1000 Hold 100 Patents = $1M Hold 1000 Patents = $1B
Yep. I bought an oppo F1 as a temporary phone Between my iPhone 4 In anticipation of the the new iPhone 7. In the mean time, the oppo at 1/3 the price has done everything I've needed it to do + no headphone jack on the 7 = no sale for me. The transition off the apple Eco system wasn't as painful as I thought.
*this* Cook is more interested in production supply chain efficiencies than the art of creating great new products. And that's not a criticism of him, as that's an important role, but the wrong role for a CEO of technical fashion company.
I use a 4K xps15 laptop with a 27" external 4K monitor. I have no problem seeing fonts at 100% scaling on the 15" monitor. The extra resolution is a great productivity improvement, although most people who see my setup say it is too small for them. Maybe I have super eyes?
For under $500/year MS have a deal where you get 10 win 10 licences, 3 MSDN, full SQL server, server2012 + 10 cals, 5 o365, some Azure credit and a few other products as well. It's a great deal for small development shops as the licences allow commercial use inside your business.
But... Their web management portal just sucks. It was like it was written by three seperate teams. The work flow for renewal and user management is like reading Alice in Wonderland. Obscure error messages accounts that won't associate. man I've wasted a lot of theme on their sucky portal. I still can't figure out how to associate our user benefits to individual Azure accounts. It's like a TV dinner. They look delicious, but when you eat them you swear their is a dedicated team to take delicious looking natural a food and make it taste horrible. Even opening a support ticket seems to take presses of magical buttons from obscure parts of their portal. Aaaarrrggghhhh.
There seems to be a general war on cash. Australia is talking about getting rid of the $100 note. Europe is limiting cash transactions.
I think there are a few reasons for this. 1- Negative Interest Rates. ie It is better to hoard cash than have it in a bank earning -ve interest. 2- Govts need more tax revenue 3- Long term globalist agenda to have a cashless society so all men can be controlled as predicted 2000 years ago in Revelations 13 16And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark — the name of the beast or the number of its name.
I'm a 3D modeler, I've been working with 3D for over 20 years. I've YET to see a useful home-model that isn't just "look - I - printed - a - stock - model - ma!" tech demo. You'll actually be better off with a good CNC machine if you want to make prototypes on the cheap.
We are an electronics company who have a makerbot and a big ass CNC mill (and some manual lathes).The makerbot gets used a couple of times a week by engineers making jigs, or prototypes for form fit and sometimes function. The CNC mill rarely gets used, as it takes a lot more skill and effort to use. So while I find the concept was overhyped for consumer use, it does find niche uses in businesses that actually need to design and make stuff.
This will only stop if the government regulators get some balls and actually start prosecuting somebody. I bought a 'genuine' apple charger off eBay that was a fake with dangerously inadequate creepages. I told the supplier they had broken several laws, but all they cared about was the negative feedback on their eBay account. If the govt. crates mandatory safety legislation, they need to enforce it.
It's my 15th wedding anniversary today, and my wife said look at this. Facebook had without her asking, put together an anniversary congratulation, that included a slide show of engagement photos (from 16 years ago!) and wedding photos! Scary stuff!
You poor Americans; stuck in your mass manufactured bubble where you think Starbucks is good coffee (hint, they went broke in Australia because their coffee was crap), where your cheese is bright yellow and pumped from a truck, where builders still use feet and inches, where having heart condition could send you broke, where the great land of capititalism and competition won't allow competition for Internet in regional areas, where boarding an aeroplane requires a stranger groping you or a full body X-ray, where your police now look like a branch of the military, where you are 10 times more likely to be shot with a gun than other comparable western countries, yet any sane gun reform is met with loud no, where your hobby is invading small countries and/or overturning their elected leaders, where you mainstream news seems, like your politicians bought for by the highest bidder. The USA is a great country, but its trajectory is concerning... And yes, drip coffee sucks.
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Wow, this is nuts. ... then because of hollywood most of us were forced to 1920 x 1080 and even more absurdly, mum and dad users were working at 1366x768 !!! For 10 years I waited and waited for the PC industry to bring out large hi res monitors... but again, it wasn't until the consumer 4k movement started, that PC manufactures started bringing out what I can only say is the absolute glory of 4k big monitors for programming.
10 Years ago, I was working at 1920 x 1200
but why oh why would you want 4k on 5.5" screen , when dell and HP are still foisting sucky pixelated monitors on PC's. This phone is 564ppi when the eye can only resolve 300ppi. What a waste of pixels.
Cultures differ. I find the European mindset of desiring the state to provide for their needs to be immature. Maturity, in my opinion, requires a realization that no one has a right to another person's labor....no matter how much they claim to "need" it.
I get that: and I look down on people at the outer suburban shopping centre who are mooching off my labour.
But. we already have plenty of overproduction of the basics of life, with tons of automation coming that will displace lower skilled jobs. So were are heading for a more socialist society whether we like it or not, and the USA is behind the 8ball on this paradigm shift.
It has always surprised me how little protection a US worker gets. Like your health care system; it sucks compared to the rest of the modern world (unless you are rich)
There seems to be this culture in the US of : There is nothing stopping you from becoming rich and powerful; and if you don't work hard enough, then you don't deserve anything.
Its like a society that got stuck at the selfish adolescent stage if independence, rather than moving to the mature state of interdependence. (ie like the EU, Canada, Australia, NZ), where society realises it need to provide basic health and employment protection services for those that aren't as smart, healthy or motivated as others.
Conversations, Richard Fidler, Radio National (ABC Australia0
Not tech specific; but very well done long form interviews on a diverse range of subjects.
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/pr...
I'm interested to know what /.ers opinions are on PCIe and RAID.
We run SATA SSDs as RAID1 or RAID6 in our servers and support for PCIe RAID is not great yet.
Are PCIe drives so reliable now, as to not needing RAID?
Let's say that I do get tortured and abused, and someone gets pictures of it and puts them online, say in liveleak, or even in some "well respected" news site. Who is responsible for torturing me? The one who did it? Or the jerks who hosted the pics?
They are both responsible, provided no party is a common carrier.
I read a very interesting article recently on the law of the commons. It essentially said that knowing someones real identity in a public commons, makes for polite (read socially acceptable) behaviour. This is why facebook is generally very polite; but anonymous blog comments can be abusive.
The issue is, we have a great tussle between our valid fear of governments, and even private businesses, abusing their knowledge of you; and our need as a society to protect those that cannot protect themselves by revealing the identity of those that abuse. This is not only children, but the elderly, and those with physical and mental impairments.
There is currently no answer to this problem as the two requirements will always oppose each other.
Australia has socialised health care, just like every other modern western country EXCEPT for the USA; which has always puzzled me.
Poor people don't have private insurance and tend to smoke more, thus the burden for their health care falls on the public system.
I don't know anyone in our social group who smokes. Of our workplace of 50, none of the engineers/programmers/management smoke. About 3 of our production staff smoke. Its actually terrific living in an almost smoke free country.!
I'm hoping 3D cinema are next to go.
Yes, it was fun in Avatar and all, but nowadays it only makes everything fuzzy and dark.
The last movie I watched in 3D was "Star Wars Rogue One", and I had no option for 2D (movie theaters here in Brazil are doing this dirty practice). In some scenes it was so dark I could barely see anything... I liked the movie, but 3D almost ruined it for me.
Yep. Had exactly the same experience in Australia. Dim, fuzzy.would have been better in 2D.
The CIA must be one of the most evil organisation you Americans have.
They are the private 'government overthrow agency' of big business.
Watch you back Trump, if you try to dismantle them.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a...
I couldn't give 2 rats if your Gucci handbag was real. In fact I wouldn't even know; to me it shows shallow consumerism with probably a matching personality.
What I do care about is mains connected devices manufactured with poor creepages and insufficient protection that can catch fire and electrocute people. I would guess this would apply to the majority of plug packs, power supplies and battery packs.
Thus they should be concentrating on devices that have mandatory safety and legislative standards requirements first.
I thought moon dust built up at 1mm/1000 years , thus 4.5B years would 4500m thick??
What gives?
We use a scrum plugin for redmine which our software guys seem to like and actually use... plus it is open source!
You make some good suggestions.
I would add to that.
Make patenting costs an exponential cost for the number of patents held by related primarily benficial entities.
Patent Renewal Cost = No Of Patents Held ^ 3
Hold 1 Patent = $1
Hold 10 Patents = $1000
Hold 100 Patents = $1M
Hold 1000 Patents = $1B
Yep. I bought an oppo F1 as a temporary phone Between my iPhone 4 In anticipation of the the new iPhone 7. In the mean time, the oppo at 1/3 the price has done everything I've needed it to do + no headphone jack on the 7 = no sale for me. The transition off the apple Eco system wasn't as painful as I thought.
*this*
Cook is more interested in production supply chain efficiencies than the art of creating great new products.
And that's not a criticism of him, as that's an important role, but the wrong role for a CEO of technical fashion company.
I use a 4K xps15 laptop with a 27" external 4K monitor.
I have no problem seeing fonts at 100% scaling on the 15" monitor.
The extra resolution is a great productivity improvement, although most people who see my setup say it is too small for them.
Maybe I have super eyes?
For under $500/year MS have a deal where you get 10 win 10 licences, 3 MSDN, full SQL server, server2012 + 10 cals, 5 o365, some Azure credit and a few other products as well. It's a great deal for small development shops as the licences allow commercial use inside your business.
But... Their web management portal just sucks. It was like it was written by three seperate teams. The work flow for renewal and user management is like reading Alice in Wonderland. Obscure error messages accounts that won't associate. man I've wasted a lot of theme on their sucky portal. I still can't figure out how to associate our user benefits to individual Azure accounts. It's like a TV dinner. They look delicious, but when you eat them you swear their is a dedicated team to take delicious looking natural a food and make it taste horrible.
Even opening a support ticket seems to take presses of magical buttons from obscure parts of their portal. Aaaarrrggghhhh.
I live in Europe. I work in the financial sector. Please explain to me how Europe is limiting cash transactions.
https://www.french-property.co...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
That's a race I don't want to win.
Agreed.
There seems to be a general war on cash.
Australia is talking about getting rid of the $100 note.
Europe is limiting cash transactions.
I think there are a few reasons for this.
1- Negative Interest Rates. ie It is better to hoard cash than have it in a bank earning -ve interest.
2- Govts need more tax revenue
3- Long term globalist agenda to have a cashless society so all men can be controlled as predicted 2000 years ago in Revelations 13
16And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark — the name of the beast or the number of its name.
Unfortunately for BT the software stacks will still suck.
I've given up on BT mice. Even the Microsoft branded ones, on different computers with different MS OS's eventually un-pair and become unusable.
I'm a 3D modeler, I've been working with 3D for over 20 years. I've YET to see a useful home-model that isn't just "look - I - printed - a - stock - model - ma!" tech demo. You'll actually be better off with a good CNC machine if you want to make prototypes on the cheap.
We are an electronics company who have a makerbot and a big ass CNC mill (and some manual lathes).The makerbot gets used a couple of times a week by engineers making jigs, or prototypes for form fit and sometimes function. The CNC mill rarely gets used, as it takes a lot more skill and effort to use.
So while I find the concept was overhyped for consumer use, it does find niche uses in businesses that actually need to design and make stuff.
This will only stop if the government regulators get some balls and actually start prosecuting somebody. I bought a 'genuine' apple charger off eBay that was a fake with dangerously inadequate creepages. I told the supplier they had broken several laws, but all they cared about was the negative feedback on their eBay account.
If the govt. crates mandatory safety legislation, they need to enforce it.
Well, we are the product.
It's my 15th wedding anniversary today, and my wife said look at this.
Facebook had without her asking, put together an anniversary congratulation, that included a slide show of engagement photos (from 16 years ago!) and wedding photos!
Scary stuff!
You poor Americans; stuck in your mass manufactured bubble where you think Starbucks is good coffee (hint, they went broke in Australia because their coffee was crap), where your cheese is bright yellow and pumped from a truck, where builders still use feet and inches, where having heart condition could send you broke, where the great land of capititalism and competition won't allow competition for Internet in regional areas, where boarding an aeroplane requires a stranger groping you or a full body X-ray, where your police now look like a branch of the military, where you are 10 times more likely to be shot with a gun than other comparable western countries, yet any sane gun reform is met with loud no, where your hobby is invading small countries and/or overturning their elected leaders, where you mainstream news seems, like your politicians bought for by the highest bidder.
The USA is a great country, but its trajectory is concerning... And yes, drip coffee sucks.
Google. Bad Lip Reading.
Especially Ted Cruz and Bushes Of Love.