The original question is just flat out stupid. These days, devices to generate the sound waves needed are ubiquitous. So those old iPods are useless and have no vauue. Why use an iPod when you have a million better sources for sound. And you're not saving any money. The speakers are where all the costs live.
"I've got a couple of old lug nuts lying around the house. Anybody know how I can use them to make a Formula I race car?"
Isn't this (/.) supposed to be a nerd site where nerd news is up to the minute? This came out a few days ago already. I shouldn't be reading old nerd news on this site. I think Apple has already released a patch and 83% of iPhone users have installed it already.
My wife and I drove to Kingstree, SC from Sunset Beach, NC. Easy drive of about 2 hours. Went into a McD's to get some coffee and take a..... There was a nice grassy, shady spot between McD's and a Bank so we just set up camp for 2 hours. A number of people joined us and the crowd was real congenial. There was a young couple (20's) from Boston that drove down and an older couple (80's) from Florida. Some people had extra glasses and some had none so they got shared all around. We took picture of each other with our glasses. Surprisingly, it was not very humid and there was a nice gentle breeze. After about 2 h, it happened behind a very thin cloud, which actually made viewing easier. Lots of oohs! and aaahs! I'd been telling my wife that there was a huge difference between 99.9 and 100%. Up until it happened she didn't believe me. Now she's a believer. Street lights came on and you could see Venus although it was almost straight up. We didn't see any stars and there was a notable absence of bird and bug sounds. And then it was over. A four hour trip back to the triangle area took about 45 minutes longer than it would normally. Overall, a great day to be alive.
I've been in the Verizon reward plan for some time now. I've got like 400,000 points. I just sort of got signed up when automatically. What they allow you to do is get a discount on items off retail price so that they're closer to but still greater than the price you would pay on Amazon or at Walmart for the same item. Anybody who thinks the Verizon reward program is worth anything is probably already compromised.
If it's MALware, doesn't it have to do something MALicious? I can't see what this stuff does that is bad. It just sits around watching what you do and doesn't bother you. Nobody even noticed it for years. I think it should be called PALware, like some guy who comes over and sits in your garage and watches while you work on your car. A real PAL. And it doesn't even drink your beer.
So I'm sitting here trying to figure out where you want to rank in the "World Economic Forum's ranking of the ease of finding skilled technology employees". If you rank first, then there are no jobs and skilled talent goes wasting. If you rank last, it can be because there are zillions of job opportunities sucking up all the talent or, maybe, your country hasn't gotten reliable electricity and certainly no infrastructure to support the creation of technical companies. Maybe dropping 3 spots to 17th is a good thing. I don't know. But neither first nor last is optimal.
This sounds like everything about ageism I've ever read. Stay current. Keep ahead of the game. Keep learning, blah, blah blah..... That's bullshit. That's just blaming you for getting old. Basically, as you get older, you're screwed unless you run the operation. Young people are cheaper and less likely to know more than the guy making the hiring and firing decisions. Guys making the hiring and firing decisions hate to pay for health insurance and hate even more that you might know more than they do and can call Bullsit when it's there.
When you're young, save all the money you can, cause you're gonna get laid off eventually and it's gonna be hard to get somebody to hire a smartass, know it all, old fart.
Interestingly enough, the people who have succeeded as they got older were the ones who let their skills languish and didn't have opinions and just did what they were told.
I'm sorry, I just don't believe that medical error is the third greatest cause of death.That's just stupid. Nobody in his right mind would ever go to a doctor if the odds were that high. Does anybody ever question the stats people toss around these days?
I've been watching and dabbling with this modeling stuff since the early 80's. I tend to agree with you. This is big spending along a rather shallow incline. Not so good that I'm gonna start smoking again.
About Gleevec, I don't think modeling had a lot to do with it. Identifying the target, and running a big screen were more important in its discovery.
It will be interesting to see if I can open some of those.pict files I have lying around that don't seem to open on anything anymore.
And what's with the AC's bashing of Jobs and Woz. 2 of the first 4 posts are whining about Apple worship before anything goes up. If you're gonna whine, be a man (or a woman, or something) and get an account, so we can see who you really are. Or, at least, some reasonable facsimile.
This has gotten to be standard fare. About 6 or 7 years ago, Wilson NC, fed up with Comcast or some such equally evil monopoly, took the bull by the horns and installed fiber throughout the city and gave everybody 1 Gbit service for $40 a month. Anyhow, the NC legislature, bought and paid for, almost immediately passed a law banning such practices. And that was with a Democrat as Governor, though a very Republican legislature would have overridden if she had the guts to veto. And so we all bent over and let TWC put it to us for another 5 years. When AT&T showed up, things got slightly better. The remote works pretty well now.
As an older person, who is no longer fully employed, my sense is that BeauHD is also an older person who resents the notion that old people don't keep up with technology and so he posts this as a way of say that just the opposite is true. I neither agree nor disagree. Propensity to code is a trait that you get at birth. You need to find those people when you hire if that's what you want. If you're lucky, they may also be good engineers.
Oh yeah, the other thing is if you find such people when they're young, don't fire them when they reach 50.
No! No! No!
The only time I get a friendly call from a woman is when Heather, from Account Services, calls to offer me help on my credit card debt. I look forward to those calls every day. When I'm in a bad place, Heather calls and I say "Excuse me, I have to take this". And Heather is amazing. She really gets around. She calls from Maine one day and from Arizona the next. Once while talking to Heather on the office phone, she also called my cell. And a different number every time. Amazing woman, that Heather. Please don't take her away. Could it be I'm falling in love?
All you nerds seem kind of confused about this repairability stuff. Engineering in the ability for your run of the mill nerd to fix something as complex and crammed together as a modern smartphone is would make the cost skyrocket, the reliability plummet and the size explode. If you want a phone you can fix, go take an electronics course and build one from scratch. Shit, think of the fun you'll have fixin' that sucker every night after supper.
You're full of it. It has nothing to do with brand consumption. The truth is that the tradeoff for cheap, reliable, waterproof and sort of shock resistant is to make things with glue and not with screws. Anybody could make a nice repairable phone with lots of little tiny screws for you to play with and loose as you spent 28 hours replacing a 27 cent component. It's just you'd complain that it was too heavy and expensive and unreliable. The lack of repairability is not some kind of conspiracy. It's just the result of an optimization process to get the most bang for the buck. Sorry, but when one runs that experiment it comes out glue and not screws.
Sony was once a technological wonderhaus and then they started buying content. Then the content guys started dictating the technology direction, mostly surrounding protecting their content. The result was that Sony, who invented the walkman, couldn't make a usable iPod competitor.
They should sell Sir Paul his stuff back and go back to being tech wizards.
And maybe Apple should look at Sony before they go down the same path.
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The original question is just flat out stupid. These days, devices to generate the sound waves needed are ubiquitous. So those old iPods are useless and have no vauue. Why use an iPod when you have a million better sources for sound. And you're not saving any money. The speakers are where all the costs live.
"I've got a couple of old lug nuts lying around the house. Anybody know how I can use them to make a Formula I race car?"
Isn't this (/.) supposed to be a nerd site where nerd news is up to the minute? This came out a few days ago already. I shouldn't be reading old nerd news on this site. I think Apple has already released a patch and 83% of iPhone users have installed it already.
There is nothing done at Duke university that costs $5/treatment. If they type your name in the computer, it's gonna cost more than that.
My wife and I drove to Kingstree, SC from Sunset Beach, NC. Easy drive of about 2 hours. Went into a McD's to get some coffee and take a ..... There was a nice grassy, shady spot between McD's and a Bank so we just set up camp for 2 hours. A number of people joined us and the crowd was real congenial. There was a young couple (20's) from Boston that drove down and an older couple (80's) from Florida. Some people had extra glasses and some had none so they got shared all around. We took picture of each other with our glasses. Surprisingly, it was not very humid and there was a nice gentle breeze. After about 2 h, it happened behind a very thin cloud, which actually made viewing easier. Lots of oohs! and aaahs! I'd been telling my wife that there was a huge difference between 99.9 and 100%. Up until it happened she didn't believe me. Now she's a believer. Street lights came on and you could see Venus although it was almost straight up. We didn't see any stars and there was a notable absence of bird and bug sounds. And then it was over. A four hour trip back to the triangle area took about 45 minutes longer than it would normally. Overall, a great day to be alive.
As a UNC fan, I'd say that's par for the course.
Hell No!. I didn't say anything. Seriously, I didn't. I mean, nothing. I didn't even know this was going on.
I've been in the Verizon reward plan for some time now. I've got like 400,000 points. I just sort of got signed up when automatically. What they allow you to do is get a discount on items off retail price so that they're closer to but still greater than the price you would pay on Amazon or at Walmart for the same item. Anybody who thinks the Verizon reward program is worth anything is probably already compromised.
If it's MALware, doesn't it have to do something MALicious? I can't see what this stuff does that is bad. It just sits around watching what you do and doesn't bother you. Nobody even noticed it for years. I think it should be called PALware, like some guy who comes over and sits in your garage and watches while you work on your car. A real PAL. And it doesn't even drink your beer.
So I'm sitting here trying to figure out where you want to rank in the "World Economic Forum's ranking of the ease of finding skilled technology employees". If you rank first, then there are no jobs and skilled talent goes wasting. If you rank last, it can be because there are zillions of job opportunities sucking up all the talent or, maybe, your country hasn't gotten reliable electricity and certainly no infrastructure to support the creation of technical companies. Maybe dropping 3 spots to 17th is a good thing. I don't know. But neither first nor last is optimal.
This sounds like everything about ageism I've ever read. Stay current. Keep ahead of the game. Keep learning, blah, blah blah..... That's bullshit. That's just blaming you for getting old. Basically, as you get older, you're screwed unless you run the operation. Young people are cheaper and less likely to know more than the guy making the hiring and firing decisions. Guys making the hiring and firing decisions hate to pay for health insurance and hate even more that you might know more than they do and can call Bullsit when it's there.
When you're young, save all the money you can, cause you're gonna get laid off eventually and it's gonna be hard to get somebody to hire a smartass, know it all, old fart.
Interestingly enough, the people who have succeeded as they got older were the ones who let their skills languish and didn't have opinions and just did what they were told.
I figured it out.
Causes of death:
1. Heart stops beating
2. Stops breathing
3. 1 or 2 happens with a Lawyer present
4. Profit
I'm sorry, I just don't believe that medical error is the third greatest cause of death.That's just stupid. Nobody in his right mind would ever go to a doctor if the odds were that high. Does anybody ever question the stats people toss around these days?
Business Scientist? What the hell is a Business Scientist?
"Venezuela will be in trouble"
That's really going out on a limb.
I've been watching and dabbling with this modeling stuff since the early 80's. I tend to agree with you. This is big spending along a rather shallow incline. Not so good that I'm gonna start smoking again.
About Gleevec, I don't think modeling had a lot to do with it. Identifying the target, and running a big screen were more important in its discovery.
It will be interesting to see if I can open some of those .pict files I have lying around that don't seem to open on anything anymore.
And what's with the AC's bashing of Jobs and Woz. 2 of the first 4 posts are whining about Apple worship before anything goes up. If you're gonna whine, be a man (or a woman, or something) and get an account, so we can see who you really are. Or, at least, some reasonable facsimile.
This has gotten to be standard fare. About 6 or 7 years ago, Wilson NC, fed up with Comcast or some such equally evil monopoly, took the bull by the horns and installed fiber throughout the city and gave everybody 1 Gbit service for $40 a month. Anyhow, the NC legislature, bought and paid for, almost immediately passed a law banning such practices. And that was with a Democrat as Governor, though a very Republican legislature would have overridden if she had the guts to veto. And so we all bent over and let TWC put it to us for another 5 years. When AT&T showed up, things got slightly better. The remote works pretty well now.
As an older person, who is no longer fully employed, my sense is that BeauHD is also an older person who resents the notion that old people don't keep up with technology and so he posts this as a way of say that just the opposite is true. I neither agree nor disagree. Propensity to code is a trait that you get at birth. You need to find those people when you hire if that's what you want. If you're lucky, they may also be good engineers.
Oh yeah, the other thing is if you find such people when they're young, don't fire them when they reach 50.
No! No! No! The only time I get a friendly call from a woman is when Heather, from Account Services, calls to offer me help on my credit card debt. I look forward to those calls every day. When I'm in a bad place, Heather calls and I say "Excuse me, I have to take this". And Heather is amazing. She really gets around. She calls from Maine one day and from Arizona the next. Once while talking to Heather on the office phone, she also called my cell. And a different number every time. Amazing woman, that Heather. Please don't take her away. Could it be I'm falling in love?
By sticking their head in the sand, looks like some judge is well on their way.
I logged in to say something related to the irony of it all. From the six posts already up, it seems the irony is pretty obvious. So, never mind.
Thanks.
Thanks, I needed that.
All you nerds seem kind of confused about this repairability stuff. Engineering in the ability for your run of the mill nerd to fix something as complex and crammed together as a modern smartphone is would make the cost skyrocket, the reliability plummet and the size explode. If you want a phone you can fix, go take an electronics course and build one from scratch. Shit, think of the fun you'll have fixin' that sucker every night after supper.
You're full of it. It has nothing to do with brand consumption. The truth is that the tradeoff for cheap, reliable, waterproof and sort of shock resistant is to make things with glue and not with screws. Anybody could make a nice repairable phone with lots of little tiny screws for you to play with and loose as you spent 28 hours replacing a 27 cent component. It's just you'd complain that it was too heavy and expensive and unreliable. The lack of repairability is not some kind of conspiracy. It's just the result of an optimization process to get the most bang for the buck. Sorry, but when one runs that experiment it comes out glue and not screws.
Sony was once a technological wonderhaus and then they started buying content. Then the content guys started dictating the technology direction, mostly surrounding protecting their content. The result was that Sony, who invented the walkman, couldn't make a usable iPod competitor.
They should sell Sir Paul his stuff back and go back to being tech wizards.
And maybe Apple should look at Sony before they go down the same path.
Full disclosure: I own stock in both.