Go to bank, hand over check and card, wait for cashier to pay cheque into your account?
You lost me at "go to bank". In the past 10 years I've set foot in a bank perhaps 3 times or so, to open a business account, to get a mortgage, and to discuss a business loan. I wouldn't want to have to go there every time I receive money from someone.
In the past I went more often: to cash checks, withdraw and deposit money, etc... Can't say I miss it.
When it comes to turning tablets into mini laptops, the one thing missing from iOS is proper mouse support. When writing documents I frequently use the mouse to scroll, highlight text, move the cursor or access menus. Having to reach over the keyboard to use the touch screen for these things sucks, not to mention that placing the cursor or highlighting text isn't very good on touch screens. Better than nothing, and certainly better than having to carry separate devices for that when you're just using that tablet as a tablet, but it still stinks.
Android has mouse support, as does the MS Surface Pro. Since I use Apple stuff, I wish they would be less "brave" and copy this feature.
Maybe. The last few seconds did not exactly look like controlled flight; meaning the software was operating as expected except for missing the fact that a building was in the way. Maybe the test package was rather heavy and shifted off-center after launch, pulling the drone into an uncontrollable bank. Or maybe the drone was meant to be launched manually by a human operator, then fly on GPS (well, GLONASS probably) to its intended destination where a second operator would assume control for the landing... and maybe that first operator had hit the sauce a bit too much. It's Russia. Everything is possible,
The problem apparently is that it's hard and expensive to secure rights for content in multiple countries. In some cases companies like Netflix simply don't bother in smaller countries, in other cases the distributor has already sold an exclusive license for content to someone else. The EU people are well aware of this. This new rule is simply the first step towards EU-wide licensing. First they'll make it easy to sell and enforce such a license, then they'll make it mandatory: Netflix will no longer be able to offer a different selection in different countries (with a posible exception for local content)
Oh and Phil Sherrell and his copyright fiction can go to hell. He and his ilk would do well to remember that copyright exists for the benefit of the public, not for creators or distributors.
Of course it's petty, as are a lot of the other measures they are taking post-Brexit. But there is a reason for these measures and the way they are announced: it's a strong message to those who oppose or have doubts about the EU: "Don't be stupid like them". It is in the Commission's interest to not have a smooth Brexit, and to wreck the UK economy a little in the process, somewhat like a maffia boss who has your legs broken when you don't want to play ball anymore. This was openly discussed in some circles in Brussels, until Merkel and Hollande put a sock in that sentiment (they did want a smooth and amicable Brexit)
Not to say that Brexit was a smart move or that all of the EU is bad. But there's something seriously wrong with some of the people running it.
I fully believe that he wanted to spur discussion. If you write a memo knowing that it goes against the grain of your audience, and you don't want a discussion, then what on earth do you want? But his comment, like Zuck's repsonse, is rather duplicitous (sleazily weaselly). Of course he wanted a discussion, but that's not all; he wanted change to follow, or at least warn people about how their policy might backfire. I don't believe for one second that this memo was just a discussion piece that did not accurately describe the company policy.
That's pretty decent, and comparable to what we pay. We had a cleaner come for 4 hours every 2 weeks (we don't have a huge house) and paid her €60 per session (€15 per hour). But that's all off the books, which is the way pretty much everyone here runs these services. There have been various attempts to turn these ubiquitous illicit cleaning gigs into proper jobs, but if I want to pay my cleaner fully above board and still have her end up with €15 an hour in her pocket, I'd have to shell out close to €30 / hour and do an ungodly amount of paperwork. If she does the paperwork and registeres as a one-man firm, things are simpler for me and she can just bill me for services like any company, and charge slightly under €30 in order to get her €15. But raising the cost to €30 doesn't mean cleaners now get an honest wage with all taxes properly paid up, it means people will instead choose to clean their own homes.
Which is why the comparison with the IPCC is rather appropriate. In both cases there’s a scientific study with bad (or even alarming) news, but a title and summary that aren’t supported by the study’s content, and are nothing short of politically motivated sensationalism. I just don’t get why true environmentalists would hurt their cause in this way by allowing such sensationalism to cast doubt on such studies... because the conclusions actually supported by the data are dire enough.
I don't think the situation is as dire as all that, but I agree that the problem is with the way we organise IT (and I still blame the bean counters for that). But:
because the system neither nurtures them, nor have any ability to recognize them
... this is spot on, and it's one of the reasons I quit my last job years ago and became an independent consultant: I wasn't allowed to nurture new talent. We couldn't spend any time on coaching, and when doing performance reviews, I constantly got challenged by my manager when I gave high marks for technical excellence.
You're absolutely right to blame the bean counters; they are doing to IT what fast-food chains did to their restaurants: breaking jobs into easy to manage chunks for which you can hire lower-qualified but much cheaper labour. And the result actually is easier to manage; someone called this "predictable mediocrity". The difference is that in fast-food chains, they managed to set the bar at an acceptable level: when you walk into a McD or whatever, you know exactly what you're going to get. There's no joy at getting an awesome burger, but you're also sure you're not going to be disappointed.
In IT, predictable mediocrity doesn't result in an acceptable level of quality. Moreover, I predict that we'll see fewer well-rounded, intelligent professionals in the future, because there's almost no structural demand for that type of individual any more. What I see already happening is that companies who finally realise the value of having at least a couple of such individuals on board, find that they can't hire them because the way they set up IT means they cannot offer these professionals a satisfying work environment or any sort of meaninful career path.
IT needs a revolution, and not a technical one. Neither Agile.
FB’s strength is that it’s a one stop shop for identity. For applications revolving around communicating with other people, that is a big plus. Your FB friends with whom you share updates about your sleepy kittens can just as easily be reached if you need to discuss something with them in a group, if you want to exchange files or videos with them, if you’re inviting them to a party, or if you want to contact one of them individually. In all cases their identities are the same and they are already on your contact list. That is the strength of FB. It’s also, in my view, the main reason why WhatsApp did so well on mobile platforms: they basically used everyone’s phone number as an external user ID and re-used your phones contact list. No need to ask “can you sign on to this service and then let me know what your id is?”
No. Just no. Absolutely not. Because “being held acccountable for what you post” in some countries means jail time or torture. And even if it isn’t the government, in many countries including my own, the wrong opninion or party affiliation can result in bricks through your windows. In these times, when it’s not hardened activists but ordinary people feel they have a right and duty to silence undesirable opinions by any means at their disposal, I prefer to stay anonymous, thanks.
There’s some good lively political debate on a couple of blogs I frequent. As well as trolls, nut jobs and the occasional spammer. But we all understand that without anonymity, these sites would be dead. Most people would justly be afraid to posit anything remotely controversial under their real name.
No, a “conservative” 6.3 billion. Meaning they would have liked to put the figure much higher, but didn’t quite dare to.
Also: a prison term, a fine and restitution? If you steal actual physical CDs, they’ll stick you in prison, take back whichever CDs they can find and perhaps impound any profits you made selling them, but that’ll be the end of it.
It's called "jump on the bandwagon". People like to (visibly) join popular movements. Pretty much everyone already agreed that sexual abuse is bad, yet it took a schandal and a subsequent movement to get the #metoo ball rolling and have everyone publicly speak out against it. Same for the FB schandal.
Depends on where you live. If it's outside of the US or the UK, the selection on Netflix is decidedly poorer than what you're accustomed to. Some series never make their way here or they do so months later. Buying e-books, I still regularly get the message "this content is not available in your country" even though they are happy to send me a physical copy. Blurays are often significantly more expensive here. It's this sort of crap that drives me to pirate stuff. Except music. Because I can already get pretty much any music I want at a decent price, and DRM-free.
On the bright side, the EU has announced regulations that will let you take your subscription for any online service from one EU country to another, and they have explicitly stated that this is a precursor to (mandatory) EU-wide licensing. Basically it's the end of geofencing within the EU.
It'd be interesting to see the terms and conditions for living there. 24/7 surveillance in your own home? Sorry, I meant "The collection of a limited amount of data (=unlimited) that will help us improve the residents' experience (=experience will not be improved). Data may be shared with our select business partners (=everyone who pays)"
That's the definition. In practise, in a lot of cases GP isn't too far beside the mark. That doesn't mean there's no science going on at all in sociology departments, but if you read some of the papers coming out (which I do just to amuse myself from time to time), you'll see that a big part of it is an enormous echo chamber where "scientists" repeat dogma with little or no scientific basis.
Bitcoin prices dropped about $200 to around $8,388, according to Coinbase, following the order.
Bitcoin prices fell way more than that the day before, because someone farted in a trading room I assume. And now they are going back up. This stuff's really volatile, a $200 price change is just noise.
The sensors may become better and react faster than any human at some point, but even in that case there may be situations where a pedestrian who is walking where he shouldn't gets hit. An accident unavoidable by human or machine. Self driving cars cannot and will not be able to account for every situation, and there will be accidents. Who has right of way then becomes an important question to settle the legal matters... but in this particular case, with self driving cars still being in early experimental stages, the real question is whether self driving cars (or at least the Uber ones) are really up to the task yet, or if this was one of those all but impossible to avoid accidents.
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Go to bank, hand over check and card, wait for cashier to pay cheque into your account?
You lost me at "go to bank". In the past 10 years I've set foot in a bank perhaps 3 times or so, to open a business account, to get a mortgage, and to discuss a business loan. I wouldn't want to have to go there every time I receive money from someone.
In the past I went more often: to cash checks, withdraw and deposit money, etc... Can't say I miss it.
You wouldn't even have the money in your hand by the time I am done with my purchase.
Isn't that called shoplifting?
When it comes to turning tablets into mini laptops, the one thing missing from iOS is proper mouse support. When writing documents I frequently use the mouse to scroll, highlight text, move the cursor or access menus. Having to reach over the keyboard to use the touch screen for these things sucks, not to mention that placing the cursor or highlighting text isn't very good on touch screens. Better than nothing, and certainly better than having to carry separate devices for that when you're just using that tablet as a tablet, but it still stinks.
Android has mouse support, as does the MS Surface Pro. Since I use Apple stuff, I wish they would be less "brave" and copy this feature.
Maybe. The last few seconds did not exactly look like controlled flight; meaning the software was operating as expected except for missing the fact that a building was in the way. Maybe the test package was rather heavy and shifted off-center after launch, pulling the drone into an uncontrollable bank. Or maybe the drone was meant to be launched manually by a human operator, then fly on GPS (well, GLONASS probably) to its intended destination where a second operator would assume control for the landing... and maybe that first operator had hit the sauce a bit too much. It's Russia. Everything is possible,
The problem apparently is that it's hard and expensive to secure rights for content in multiple countries. In some cases companies like Netflix simply don't bother in smaller countries, in other cases the distributor has already sold an exclusive license for content to someone else. The EU people are well aware of this. This new rule is simply the first step towards EU-wide licensing. First they'll make it easy to sell and enforce such a license, then they'll make it mandatory: Netflix will no longer be able to offer a different selection in different countries (with a posible exception for local content)
Oh and Phil Sherrell and his copyright fiction can go to hell. He and his ilk would do well to remember that copyright exists for the benefit of the public, not for creators or distributors.
Of course it's petty, as are a lot of the other measures they are taking post-Brexit. But there is a reason for these measures and the way they are announced: it's a strong message to those who oppose or have doubts about the EU: "Don't be stupid like them". It is in the Commission's interest to not have a smooth Brexit, and to wreck the UK economy a little in the process, somewhat like a maffia boss who has your legs broken when you don't want to play ball anymore. This was openly discussed in some circles in Brussels, until Merkel and Hollande put a sock in that sentiment (they did want a smooth and amicable Brexit)
Not to say that Brexit was a smart move or that all of the EU is bad. But there's something seriously wrong with some of the people running it.
I fully believe that he wanted to spur discussion. If you write a memo knowing that it goes against the grain of your audience, and you don't want a discussion, then what on earth do you want? But his comment, like Zuck's repsonse, is rather duplicitous (sleazily weaselly). Of course he wanted a discussion, but that's not all; he wanted change to follow, or at least warn people about how their policy might backfire. I don't believe for one second that this memo was just a discussion piece that did not accurately describe the company policy.
81% of ICO's were Scams, 6% were classified as Failed Scams, 5% as Scams Gone Dead, and 8% went on to trade on a exchange
So it's more like 92%. And I'm not so sure about the remaining 8% either.
That's pretty decent, and comparable to what we pay. We had a cleaner come for 4 hours every 2 weeks (we don't have a huge house) and paid her €60 per session (€15 per hour). But that's all off the books, which is the way pretty much everyone here runs these services. There have been various attempts to turn these ubiquitous illicit cleaning gigs into proper jobs, but if I want to pay my cleaner fully above board and still have her end up with €15 an hour in her pocket, I'd have to shell out close to €30 / hour and do an ungodly amount of paperwork. If she does the paperwork and registeres as a one-man firm, things are simpler for me and she can just bill me for services like any company, and charge slightly under €30 in order to get her €15. But raising the cost to €30 doesn't mean cleaners now get an honest wage with all taxes properly paid up, it means people will instead choose to clean their own homes.
Which is why the comparison with the IPCC is rather appropriate. In both cases there’s a scientific study with bad (or even alarming) news, but a title and summary that aren’t supported by the study’s content, and are nothing short of politically motivated sensationalism. I just don’t get why true environmentalists would hurt their cause in this way by allowing such sensationalism to cast doubt on such studies... because the conclusions actually supported by the data are dire enough.
because the system neither nurtures them, nor have any ability to recognize them
... this is spot on, and it's one of the reasons I quit my last job years ago and became an independent consultant: I wasn't allowed to nurture new talent. We couldn't spend any time on coaching, and when doing performance reviews, I constantly got challenged by my manager when I gave high marks for technical excellence.
You're absolutely right to blame the bean counters; they are doing to IT what fast-food chains did to their restaurants: breaking jobs into easy to manage chunks for which you can hire lower-qualified but much cheaper labour. And the result actually is easier to manage; someone called this "predictable mediocrity". The difference is that in fast-food chains, they managed to set the bar at an acceptable level: when you walk into a McD or whatever, you know exactly what you're going to get. There's no joy at getting an awesome burger, but you're also sure you're not going to be disappointed.
In IT, predictable mediocrity doesn't result in an acceptable level of quality. Moreover, I predict that we'll see fewer well-rounded, intelligent professionals in the future, because there's almost no structural demand for that type of individual any more. What I see already happening is that companies who finally realise the value of having at least a couple of such individuals on board, find that they can't hire them because the way they set up IT means they cannot offer these professionals a satisfying work environment or any sort of meaninful career path.
IT needs a revolution, and not a technical one. Neither Agile.
FB’s strength is that it’s a one stop shop for identity. For applications revolving around communicating with other people, that is a big plus. Your FB friends with whom you share updates about your sleepy kittens can just as easily be reached if you need to discuss something with them in a group, if you want to exchange files or videos with them, if you’re inviting them to a party, or if you want to contact one of them individually. In all cases their identities are the same and they are already on your contact list. That is the strength of FB. It’s also, in my view, the main reason why WhatsApp did so well on mobile platforms: they basically used everyone’s phone number as an external user ID and re-used your phones contact list. No need to ask “can you sign on to this service and then let me know what your id is?”
No. Just no. Absolutely not. Because “being held acccountable for what you post” in some countries means jail time or torture. And even if it isn’t the government, in many countries including my own, the wrong opninion or party affiliation can result in bricks through your windows. In these times, when it’s not hardened activists but ordinary people feel they have a right and duty to silence undesirable opinions by any means at their disposal, I prefer to stay anonymous, thanks.
There’s some good lively political debate on a couple of blogs I frequent. As well as trolls, nut jobs and the occasional spammer. But we all understand that without anonymity, these sites would be dead. Most people would justly be afraid to posit anything remotely controversial under their real name.
No, a “conservative” 6.3 billion. Meaning they would have liked to put the figure much higher, but didn’t quite dare to.
Also: a prison term, a fine and restitution? If you steal actual physical CDs, they’ll stick you in prison, take back whichever CDs they can find and perhaps impound any profits you made selling them, but that’ll be the end of it.
It's called "jump on the bandwagon". People like to (visibly) join popular movements. Pretty much everyone already agreed that sexual abuse is bad, yet it took a schandal and a subsequent movement to get the #metoo ball rolling and have everyone publicly speak out against it. Same for the FB schandal.
Physically, these are not mutually exclusive. No, not speaking from experience...
Depends on where you live. If it's outside of the US or the UK, the selection on Netflix is decidedly poorer than what you're accustomed to. Some series never make their way here or they do so months later. Buying e-books, I still regularly get the message "this content is not available in your country" even though they are happy to send me a physical copy. Blurays are often significantly more expensive here. It's this sort of crap that drives me to pirate stuff. Except music. Because I can already get pretty much any music I want at a decent price, and DRM-free.
On the bright side, the EU has announced regulations that will let you take your subscription for any online service from one EU country to another, and they have explicitly stated that this is a precursor to (mandatory) EU-wide licensing. Basically it's the end of geofencing within the EU.
You're as risky as the riskiest person you've ever interacted with.
FTFY. As some TV show host put it: "This is like getting an STD because an acquaintance had unprotected sex with an infected person"
It'd be interesting to see the terms and conditions for living there. 24/7 surveillance in your own home? Sorry, I meant "The collection of a limited amount of data (=unlimited) that will help us improve the residents' experience (=experience will not be improved). Data may be shared with our select business partners (=everyone who pays)"
That's the definition. In practise, in a lot of cases GP isn't too far beside the mark. That doesn't mean there's no science going on at all in sociology departments, but if you read some of the papers coming out (which I do just to amuse myself from time to time), you'll see that a big part of it is an enormous echo chamber where "scientists" repeat dogma with little or no scientific basis.
What makes you think gentrification only happens to non white folk? No need to get racist about it.
How the hell is sorting even an "AI task"?
Also, blockchain. Still? Seriously?
Bitcoin prices dropped about $200 to around $8,388, according to Coinbase, following the order.
Bitcoin prices fell way more than that the day before, because someone farted in a trading room I assume. And now they are going back up. This stuff's really volatile, a $200 price change is just noise.
The sensors may become better and react faster than any human at some point, but even in that case there may be situations where a pedestrian who is walking where he shouldn't gets hit. An accident unavoidable by human or machine. Self driving cars cannot and will not be able to account for every situation, and there will be accidents. Who has right of way then becomes an important question to settle the legal matters... but in this particular case, with self driving cars still being in early experimental stages, the real question is whether self driving cars (or at least the Uber ones) are really up to the task yet, or if this was one of those all but impossible to avoid accidents.