I agree. There is nothing intelligent about a bag filled with cornflour and water. Anyway, it's a great innovation on the older (2012) idea of using the same sort of thing to patch potholes temporarily.
See this: http://www.popsci.com.au/tech/...
They are probably doing nifty quantum entanglement experiments. But that is a ruse - the true mission is to see how well a Hostess Twinkie's "freshness" is sustained when exposed to a hard vacuum and unadulterated solar and cosmic radiation.
I always though it was ridiculous too. Turns out if you use some kind of profile management system to control a swag of iPads at a school for example then if you wanted to push out these iWork apps you'd have to purchase a copy for each device (because setting up management usually means wiping the iPads clean) ! This is nuts considering each device already had an entitlement for these programs out of the box - I never understood why Apple wanted to double dip this way apart from the benefits of double dipping for them.
A friend used to do hang gliding and would have wedge tail eagles either soar with him or attack him. He's had one eagle run it's claws along the leading edge of the glider to try tear it and get him out of the sky.
They just ditched another cost center and gave another reason they think Exchange admins should put their staff onto rent-seeking hosted cloud Exchange.
I have noticed when purchasing new items these days that there are slips of paper reminding consumers of their rights and whatever the company bandies about as company policy cannot trump Australian consumer law, ever.
We do refunds here. Suck it up.
I completely agree. Get a Mikrotik device of some kind. They are reliable, Swiss-army-knife-flexible, cheap, robust and have a huge range of devices to choose from. You can even assemble your own configuration from parts if you want too. The Winbox config utility is fantastic and works just fine with Wine in Linux. They are now coming out with models that have 802.11ac too.
I Mikrotiks with ADSL2+ modems (like the Draytek Vigor 120) in RFC-1422 bridged mode but they will work fine with cable modems, Wimax system and with some models you can use a USB 3G/4G dongle.
Anything sold in the last 4-5 years with an i3/i5/i7 with over 2GB of RAM and Vista or Win7 is still more than enough for most businesses and individuals. There is no real incentive to replace the whole machine when there are cheap options to upgrade with a few more GB and an SSD to give it a new lease of life.
As I recall this happened when the South Brisbane exchange was relocated a few years ago. Everyone who was on that exchange ended up with a brand new fibre to the premises connection to replace the copper.
I agree we do lived in a death and gore sanitised world. I don't like such gore as entertainment like we get now with Dexter or any number of other splatter fantasies as it's not tempered in the west with the agony of injury and pain and the finality of death. Gimme living boobs anyday for entertainment!
I remember visiting an Indian friends house and a newspaper he had showed a large front page picture of the woman who blew up Rajif Ghandi pieced back together as much as possible - head, arms and legs only. It was pretty jolting to see as a teenager but I think the West needs more of such doses reality.
Given the creator of Windows and US government can, sufficiently compelled, walk into any Windows system that is internet connected at any time they desire what's the frickin' point? Everything else is security theatrics. Do what the old security honcho of MS has done and drop out.
I recall reading about a hushed up brouhaha ages ago concerning backdoored USA compiled software run on Australian government systems in the 80's or early 90's. Google seems to disavow all knowledge damnit.
There's nothing wrong with raising a family instead of staying current as a developer, it's a perfectly fair choice, just don't then be surprised when the real world will let you no longer be a developer as a result of you opting to do other things than stay current.
I agree. At my age I am at the point where I want development to be more of a hobby and do work activities that don't involve sitting in front of a CAD tool, CRO or debugger any more anyway. Time for a career change? Probably.
The snotty little wet-behind-the-ears original poster needs to show some obviously lacking maturity and get some perspective instead of just whining like a little spoilt bitch.
> They want you current but do nothing to provide you the necessary tools or the time to stay current.
Every single damned company I have worked for (all engineering and IT) have all insisted any new learning is to be done on your own time and expense, even if it benefits the organisation in the long run. Oh, but they still expect you to keep on top of the latest and greatest and contribute to the bottom line at all times.
Oh I dunno, maybe outside of work he has plenty of other crap to think about like raise a family. Once the kids come you can forget the countless hours hacking away learning new things yourself for the sake of it like you used to.
Fine, don't use BeRTOS (or whatever RTOS). Ditch that and still use the free AVR avr-gcc compiler suite from Atmel along with Codelite and gdb that comes along for the ride.
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I agree. There is nothing intelligent about a bag filled with cornflour and water. Anyway, it's a great innovation on the older (2012) idea of using the same sort of thing to patch potholes temporarily. See this: http://www.popsci.com.au/tech/...
They are probably doing nifty quantum entanglement experiments. But that is a ruse - the true mission is to see how well a Hostess Twinkie's "freshness" is sustained when exposed to a hard vacuum and unadulterated solar and cosmic radiation.
I always though it was ridiculous too. Turns out if you use some kind of profile management system to control a swag of iPads at a school for example then if you wanted to push out these iWork apps you'd have to purchase a copy for each device (because setting up management usually means wiping the iPads clean) ! This is nuts considering each device already had an entitlement for these programs out of the box - I never understood why Apple wanted to double dip this way apart from the benefits of double dipping for them.
A friend used to do hang gliding and would have wedge tail eagles either soar with him or attack him. He's had one eagle run it's claws along the leading edge of the glider to try tear it and get him out of the sky.
They just ditched another cost center and gave another reason they think Exchange admins should put their staff onto rent-seeking hosted cloud Exchange.
This 250kW wave unit is being connected to the grid in South West Victoria in Australia in a few months. http://www.standard.net.au/sto...
I have noticed when purchasing new items these days that there are slips of paper reminding consumers of their rights and whatever the company bandies about as company policy cannot trump Australian consumer law, ever. We do refunds here. Suck it up.
I completely agree. Get a Mikrotik device of some kind. They are reliable, Swiss-army-knife-flexible, cheap, robust and have a huge range of devices to choose from. You can even assemble your own configuration from parts if you want too. The Winbox config utility is fantastic and works just fine with Wine in Linux. They are now coming out with models that have 802.11ac too. I Mikrotiks with ADSL2+ modems (like the Draytek Vigor 120) in RFC-1422 bridged mode but they will work fine with cable modems, Wimax system and with some models you can use a USB 3G/4G dongle.
Anything sold in the last 4-5 years with an i3/i5/i7 with over 2GB of RAM and Vista or Win7 is still more than enough for most businesses and individuals. There is no real incentive to replace the whole machine when there are cheap options to upgrade with a few more GB and an SSD to give it a new lease of life.
As I recall this happened when the South Brisbane exchange was relocated a few years ago. Everyone who was on that exchange ended up with a brand new fibre to the premises connection to replace the copper.
Timothy, you complete numpty. "Officially Confirms" is perfectly cromulent.
30 Days? Sounds like a trial license expiring.
I agree we do lived in a death and gore sanitised world. I don't like such gore as entertainment like we get now with Dexter or any number of other splatter fantasies as it's not tempered in the west with the agony of injury and pain and the finality of death. Gimme living boobs anyday for entertainment! I remember visiting an Indian friends house and a newspaper he had showed a large front page picture of the woman who blew up Rajif Ghandi pieced back together as much as possible - head, arms and legs only. It was pretty jolting to see as a teenager but I think the West needs more of such doses reality.
Given the creator of Windows and US government can, sufficiently compelled, walk into any Windows system that is internet connected at any time they desire what's the frickin' point? Everything else is security theatrics. Do what the old security honcho of MS has done and drop out.
... factories that make $5 wrenchs. I heard they are set to make a killing soon.
My bleary memory now recalls it was probably about PROMIS and INSLAW. Read about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Casolaro
I recall reading about a hushed up brouhaha ages ago concerning backdoored USA compiled software run on Australian government systems in the 80's or early 90's. Google seems to disavow all knowledge damnit.
How do you get a decent image if you have to peer through the sticky tape used to grab the graphene?
Australian and New Zealand ./ers will understand this as "Google Releases Glass Factory System Image, Completely Fucking Broken Bootloader"
Did they try NOT eating surströmming at lunch in the vicinity of the experiment?
There's nothing wrong with raising a family instead of staying current as a developer, it's a perfectly fair choice, just don't then be surprised when the real world will let you no longer be a developer as a result of you opting to do other things than stay current.
I agree. At my age I am at the point where I want development to be more of a hobby and do work activities that don't involve sitting in front of a CAD tool, CRO or debugger any more anyway. Time for a career change? Probably.
The snotty little wet-behind-the-ears original poster needs to show some obviously lacking maturity and get some perspective instead of just whining like a little spoilt bitch.
> They want you current but do nothing to provide you the necessary tools or the time to stay current. Every single damned company I have worked for (all engineering and IT) have all insisted any new learning is to be done on your own time and expense, even if it benefits the organisation in the long run. Oh, but they still expect you to keep on top of the latest and greatest and contribute to the bottom line at all times.
Oh I dunno, maybe outside of work he has plenty of other crap to think about like raise a family. Once the kids come you can forget the countless hours hacking away learning new things yourself for the sake of it like you used to.
... is spinning in his grave. Call me when the OP trips over this Wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goertzel_algorithm
Fine, don't use BeRTOS (or whatever RTOS). Ditch that and still use the free AVR avr-gcc compiler suite from Atmel along with Codelite and gdb that comes along for the ride.