I own several samsung devices and i am extremly happy with the hw quality/price ratio.
But: Samsung, your software sucks. Deeply.
-Updates are late, incomplete and appear only until 1y after the products release (recently flashed my 1st gen galaxy tab to cyanogenmod and yeah - it runs better now)
-The crapware bundled on the device looks like it was specified by some management monkey and implemented by a intern. It suck the battery empty is most likely riddled with security holes
-Even talking to the devices (remeber that their camera device driver requres a writable system memory for everybody) seems to be implemented by a bunch of idiots
I think maintaining the balance between comedy, drama, political satire, science fiction while riding a often (seemingly) ridiculous plot requires very good acting.
In my experience iphones sold extremely well where they had the iPod bonus (that is, a non-negligible fraction of the population being on itunes).
In china Apple never managed tyo catch the same stronghold.
May also have to do with Apple fucking up on simple things in non-trivial (i.e. chinese) 2.5g network situations (when i traveled to China with my wife, her iphone3gs choked up on the chinese variant of GSM extension in a way that calls were impossible (neither my Nokia phones nor my galazy tab had that problem).
Or with the fucking provider-binding where apple plays police.
This possibility has been known since a long time.
However the scope is limited by the fact that GPS signals are wea and have a similar power everywhere, which implies that you (sitting on the gorund and beign subject to a 1/r^2 law in the power somebody reseives from you have to be close to the attack target (unless you want to set of everything, including the differential GPS stations) or use a very directed beam (difficult in real life).
It also meant that the vessel you want to control has no other means of navigation (not true for planes).
So, yes, it is a possibility to attack a ship/plane, but not an easy one.
I had a trombosis and got blood taken for amalysis more than once per week for half a year. Some nurses are good at it, some suck. And after hitting each of the standard places 10 times only the ones who are good at it will sudded without additional pain.
I would recomment/prefer to build the system not as a robot but as scanner which guides the nurse and indicates the right position to her does the fine positioning on the mm scale.
Pay somebody (contractor/consultant) who knoes what he does. Seriously, man. Ask for a 10 page concept with the tree best options fulfilling all your specific requirements (which you probably did not mention here), and offer him to implement it if you like one of these.
My 2 cents on this: To me it is completely non-obvious how dropbox could have ended up in the stack of possible solutions - to little control, intransparent business model, other use case is the dominant one. I would start by looking at the obvious storage providers (amazon, telecoms, specialized local/regional/natinal storage providers), compare them by the options/price they offer, look separately at software fulfilling my local needs and being capable of talking to the storage providers. Then i would create local scenarios about additional dedicated hw needed and after that i would make my choice/give the best options to my manager to select, based on business criteria.
I will for sure process my photos on my local harddrive. If you want my content to place ads on, then fucking buy it. Until then i will cash out the 2 Euro per year which is costs me to host my photo collection on amazon s3.
openoffice is based on staroffice. Staroffice was ported to multi-platform in the mid-90s, but existed before and was used t oa certain extend in Germany, and afaiu mainly there, and started by a german student in the mid-80s. Probably he did not think about which language to use bach then.
I studied some time (15y) ago (and stayed in academical research for a while) and i find the findings more than just plausible, even if if affects only a certain fractions of the students.
In principle it is very reasonable to readjust your plans after assessing the difficulty of the path you want to follow. Have seen too many who did not leave but got unhappy, frustrated (even with the degree they wanted), or ending up with a failed life (10y+ trying to get a degree which they did not get in the end). It is very reasonable to stop studying physics if you fail at math.
What is special for science is that there is no way around seeing your limitations. You solve the equation or you dont. Your are able to measure something or you are not. You are able to understand a certain theory or not. Sometimes you may take 1week to understand a few pages of a book, which you should understand faster to finish it in time.
IMHO the problem is not that the subject is difficult (which aplies for many subjects if you do them right), but the problem is that there is no way around the difficulty.
If you like offer your master/phd thesis for download on a homepage, and a complete list of your skills. That is what I like to find for possible new colleagues. Anything beyond that does more harm than good IMHO for technical jobs. I work as a consultant and my employer needs people who can work behind the scenes, without bragging about it and solve some problems which require understanding/listening more than talking/broadcasting. Social media usage may be good if you want to go to an interenet marketing job or viral campaign manager, but lets face it:
If you have too many friends on facebook or ask stupid questions on the wrong platform, or provide your idea of demo-code, it means you have too much time. 100 friends on facebook and 1000 posts or questions on stackoverflow do not help you gettign a job done. Unless you can provide really high-profile answers, save your time. Post relevant things, keep political or religious or ideological things out of it, and only post about things you are really good at.
The perception of the west that anything in china is controlled centrally and that the word of an director of a university is beamed directly into the heads of the students is a dangerous and arrogant misconception of the western media - the chinese students are *not* stupid robots. There are a multitude of reasons why he could have said that, ranging from personally profiling himself as a hardliner to his own kind (military) via pure academic (theoretical) thoughts misinterpreted to (and i think this is the case) a well-orchestrated weakening of the position of the opponents in a negotiations (like: look we could also send sombody like this). And the official (not: as of "a univerity director tells" but as of "the government says repeatedly over 20 years") is a non-first strike policy and a policy never to attack a country which does not posess nulcear weapons using these.
The sino-indian conflict has other issue than China being expansionist. The main issue is (like many things regarding India) that the British Empire found it necessary to establish the balance of power everywhere and drew line on maps these were useful to them. China has no interest in anything but having control over the important connection from rest of china to Tibet.
I would think that India is seen as inconsistent and unreliable by the Chinese government - and therefore ther may be the impression that India could try something stupid (even if its probably not on the list of things of concern to india right now).
About the conflict with vietnam i have no opinion, due to a lack of knowledge.
A single generals opinions does *not* make a countries policy, i hope so at least, otherwise i would be pretty worried about the things said in the US electoral campaigns.
Taiwan is an interesting issue. The obvious solution to Taiwan is: Taiwan and Chine *need* to be reunited. The division was the result of a political civil war. I hope that some day they just join in the same way east and west Germany joined at some point. If the US would feel responsible for the region they should push for negotiations with the ultimate goal of joining these two countries in the next 20-40 years.
As far as i can see, China has not been expansionist since a long time. A look at the map reveals that China has surprisingly small territorial conflicts with other countries - and these are fueled mainly by the fact that some of these countries are under US protection. Or does anybody believe tha Japan would insist in owning some islands if they would have to pay for their own security?
Yea. Sure. Ideally speaking, yes. However i found one line about hte intent of creating a function not too much. But yes, breaking it down *is* refactoring (Could still be that you arrive at a function which is so fucked up its better to start from zero than to break it down)
If a function is to arcane to be understood in 10 Minutes, start breaking it down into smaller *documented* functions while maintaining the same test results. Good chance that this will also help the project directly
Yeah, i mean it's like gaming is the only area where nice looking young women are there to promote something. In contrast to... let's say cheerleading... which is only to be seen as an artist sport event where football happens at the side, and great care was taken by the costume designers to hide away the womens bodies appropriatly.
Includes listing the stakeholders in a project very realistically. If you estimate that for a key stakeholder pulling the plug on a positive continuation of some project is cheaper than the continuation, it is risk which can not be ignored.
I work in a consulting company and even the most rudimentary one day course in PM would give you enough skill to deny accepting DNF as a project to manage or even contribute. An incredibly high number of risks with a 100% change of hitting. If sth is 12y late then you can be sure there will be lawsuits and stakeholders scratching out their eyes on the high expectations not realized. My experience says: If software is so late, and nore than one company/team is involved the allegations on whos fault it was get ugly and a random time (e.g. when the revenue gained is sumed up and some manager in one of the teams is held liable), and if there is no expectation on a sucessful colaboration then there is also not hesitation to escalate up to a lawsuit.
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I own several samsung devices and i am extremly happy with the hw quality/price ratio.
But: Samsung, your software sucks. Deeply.
-Updates are late, incomplete and appear only until 1y after the products release (recently flashed my 1st gen galaxy tab to cyanogenmod and yeah - it runs better now)
-The crapware bundled on the device looks like it was specified by some management monkey and implemented by a intern. It suck the battery empty is most likely riddled with security holes
-Even talking to the devices (remeber that their camera device driver requres a writable system memory for everybody) seems to be implemented by a bunch of idiots
Especially since his acting is not good enough.
I think maintaining the balance between comedy, drama, political satire, science fiction while riding a often (seemingly) ridiculous plot requires very good acting.
which is under a suitable jurisdiction. The waterboard them until they have told you everything. If somebody asks: terrorists attacked your network.
Most things which required me to root my phone should be preinstalled
-backup
-firewall
-disable any service *which i do not need*
In my experience iphones sold extremely well where they had the iPod bonus (that is, a non-negligible fraction of the population being on itunes).
In china Apple never managed tyo catch the same stronghold.
May also have to do with Apple fucking up on simple things in non-trivial (i.e. chinese) 2.5g network situations (when i traveled to China with my wife, her iphone3gs choked up on the chinese variant of GSM extension in a way that calls were impossible (neither my Nokia phones nor my galazy tab had that problem).
Or with the fucking provider-binding where apple plays police.
can pick up.
A intransparent Bag should help.
This possibility has been known since a long time.
However the scope is limited by the fact that GPS signals are wea and have a similar power everywhere, which implies that you (sitting on the gorund and beign subject to a 1/r^2 law in the power somebody reseives from you have to be close to the attack target (unless you want to set of everything, including the differential GPS stations) or use a very directed beam (difficult in real life).
It also meant that the vessel you want to control has no other means of navigation (not true for planes).
So, yes, it is a possibility to attack a ship/plane, but not an easy one.
I had a trombosis and got blood taken for amalysis more than once per week for half a year. Some nurses are good at it, some suck. And after hitting each of the standard places 10 times only the ones who are good at it will sudded without additional pain.
I would recomment/prefer to build the system not as a robot but as scanner which guides the nurse and indicates the right position to her does the fine positioning on the mm scale.
Pay somebody (contractor/consultant) who knoes what he does. Seriously, man. Ask for a 10 page concept with the tree best options fulfilling all your specific requirements (which you probably did not mention here), and offer him to implement it if you like one of these.
My 2 cents on this: To me it is completely non-obvious how dropbox could have ended up in the stack of possible solutions - to little control, intransparent business model, other use case is the dominant one. I would start by looking at the obvious storage providers (amazon, telecoms, specialized local/regional/natinal storage providers), compare them by the options/price they offer, look separately at software fulfilling my local needs and being capable of talking to the storage providers. Then i would create local scenarios about additional dedicated hw needed and after that i would make my choice/give the best options to my manager to select, based on business criteria.
*slap palm on face*
I will for sure process my photos on my local harddrive. If you want my content to place ads on, then fucking buy it. Until then i will cash out the 2 Euro per year which is costs me to host my photo collection on amazon s3.
I guess it goes like that:
openoffice is based on staroffice. Staroffice was ported to multi-platform in the mid-90s, but existed before and was used t oa certain extend in Germany, and afaiu mainly there, and started by a german student in the mid-80s. Probably he did not think about which language to use bach then.
Subtract the 90% shit which the internet offers about everything and the 10% rest may be at least related to the topic
my experience if the reverse. when work dries up only the people who are interested in science study it.
I studied some time (15y) ago (and stayed in academical research for a while) and i find the findings more than just plausible, even if if affects only a certain fractions of the students.
In principle it is very reasonable to readjust your plans after assessing the difficulty of the path you want to follow. Have seen too many who did not leave but got unhappy, frustrated (even with the degree they wanted), or ending up with a failed life (10y+ trying to get a degree which they did not get in the end). It is very reasonable to stop studying physics if you fail at math.
What is special for science is that there is no way around seeing your limitations. You solve the equation or you dont. Your are able to measure something or you are not. You are able to understand a certain theory or not. Sometimes you may take 1week to understand a few pages of a book, which you should understand faster to finish it in time.
IMHO the problem is not that the subject is difficult (which aplies for many subjects if you do them right), but the problem is that there is no way around the difficulty.
> In the US, we wouldn't think twice about second guessing a higher up
Obviously you have *not* read the report on the TMI incident
Since i stumbled back then over a related preprint:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4595
Everything which needs to be said is said there.
If you like offer your master/phd thesis for download on a homepage, and a complete list of your skills. That is what I like to find for possible new colleagues. Anything beyond that does more harm than good IMHO for technical jobs. I work as a consultant and my employer needs people who can work behind the scenes, without bragging about it and solve some problems which require understanding/listening more than talking/broadcasting. Social media usage may be good if you want to go to an interenet marketing job or viral campaign manager, but lets face it:
If you have too many friends on facebook or ask stupid questions on the wrong platform, or provide your idea of demo-code, it means you have too much time. 100 friends on facebook and 1000 posts or questions on stackoverflow do not help you gettign a job done. Unless you can provide really high-profile answers, save your time. Post relevant things, keep political or religious or ideological things out of it, and only post about things you are really good at.
The perception of the west that anything in china is controlled centrally and that the word of an director of a university is beamed directly into the heads of the students is a dangerous and arrogant misconception of the western media - the chinese students are *not* stupid robots. There are a multitude of reasons why he could have said that, ranging from personally profiling himself as a hardliner to his own kind (military) via pure academic (theoretical) thoughts misinterpreted to (and i think this is the case) a well-orchestrated weakening of the position of the opponents in a negotiations (like: look we could also send sombody like this). And the official (not: as of "a univerity director tells" but as of "the government says repeatedly over 20 years") is a non-first strike policy and a policy never to attack a country which does not posess nulcear weapons using these.
http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/jks/cjjk/2622/t93539.htm
The sino-indian conflict has other issue than China being expansionist. The main issue is (like many things regarding India) that the British Empire found it necessary to establish the balance of power everywhere and drew line on maps these were useful to them. China has no interest in anything but having control over the important connection from rest of china to Tibet.
I would think that India is seen as inconsistent and unreliable by the Chinese government - and therefore ther may be the impression that India could try something stupid (even if its probably not on the list of things of concern to india right now).
About the conflict with vietnam i have no opinion, due to a lack of knowledge.
A single generals opinions does *not* make a countries policy, i hope so at least, otherwise i would be pretty worried about the things said in the US electoral campaigns.
Taiwan is an interesting issue. The obvious solution to Taiwan is: Taiwan and Chine *need* to be reunited. The division was the result of a political civil war. I hope that some day they just join in the same way east and west Germany joined at some point. If the US would feel responsible for the region they should push for negotiations with the ultimate goal of joining these two countries in the next 20-40 years.
As far as i can see, China has not been expansionist since a long time. A look at the map reveals that China has surprisingly small territorial conflicts with other countries - and these are fueled mainly by the fact that some of these countries are under US protection. Or does anybody believe tha Japan would insist in owning some islands if they would have to pay for their own security?
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222846&cid=18048620
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222540&cid=18026304
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=221306&cid=17942722
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=221306&cid=17934696
Yea. Sure. Ideally speaking, yes. However i found one line about hte intent of creating a function not too much. But yes, breaking it down *is* refactoring (Could still be that you arrive at a function which is so fucked up its better to start from zero than to break it down)
If a function is to arcane to be understood in 10 Minutes, start breaking it down into smaller *documented* functions while maintaining the same test results. Good chance that this will also help the project directly
Yeah, i mean it's like gaming is the only area where nice looking young women are there to promote something. In contrast to... let's say cheerleading... which is only to be seen as an artist sport event where football happens at the side, and great care was taken by the costume designers to hide away the womens bodies appropriatly.
Arent perchlorates an easily accessible source of oxygen?
Includes listing the stakeholders in a project very realistically. If you estimate that for a key stakeholder pulling the plug on a positive continuation of some project is cheaper than the continuation, it is risk which can not be ignored.
I work in a consulting company and even the most rudimentary one day course in PM would give you enough skill to deny accepting DNF as a project to manage or even contribute. An incredibly high number of risks with a 100% change of hitting. If sth is 12y late then you can be sure there will be lawsuits and stakeholders scratching out their eyes on the high expectations not realized. My experience says: If software is so late, and nore than one company/team is involved the allegations on whos fault it was get ugly and a random time (e.g. when the revenue gained is sumed up and some manager in one of the teams is held liable), and if there is no expectation on a sucessful colaboration then there is also not hesitation to escalate up to a lawsuit.