We've had people walking along train tracks while hunting Pokemon. (The sign reads: "Sprinter to Hoofddorp is cancelled due to a Snorlax on the tracks"). After the railroad complained, Niantic did adjust their servers to exclude railroads, highways, major industrial areas and military installations.
Register your own damn domain. There are many companies that offer web email and a whole bunch of other stuff for a couple of $ a month. And if their service sucks (or folds), the domain is still yours and you can just move it to a different service. Or you run your own service, it's not that hard. I've had the same email address since '96 and I expect to still have it when my tired old bones finally give up the ghost.
Also, 3D only really works in cinemas. Distance to the screen is what counts, not the (relative) size of the screen. The 3D in Avatar and Sanctum was amazing in the cinema, but even on a large scale TV it's hardly worth getting the glasses out for.
But that's just it: he's only going to review the good stuff. Which is something of a missed opportunity: Linus going off on an epic rant about the shortcomings of lame gadgets might make for a very fun read, but this? He's not a great reviewer... I own two of the three things he reviewed, and a different brand of the 3rd thing, and his reviews don't really explain why these things are so great other than "works as advertised".
Perhaps 70mm film is a bit like 3D: it only adds something when it's done right, in the right kind of movie. Jaws 3D vs. Avatar. Did shooting on 70mm add something to the Hateful Eight, or might it as well have been digital?
I doubt it. People already roughly know what others are earning. Where it might help is with tax dodges. People complain about high earners, but these can in turn point out at the public record of their tax return and show that they contribute to the public coffers accordingly. But someone showing a €1M income paying only €50k in taxes has some explaining to do.
Though personally I lean more towards the guys who came up with the window tax, which is exactly what you think it is. It's often cited as one of the more ridiculous ways the gov't tries to tax us, and of course it led to people simply bricking up their windows. But the motivation behind the window tax was everything but ridiculous. The government wanted to tax people according to their income, but they also thought that people's income levels weren't any of their damn business. So they counted windows instead.
With the newer versions of iOS, the chances of an app misbehaving are a lot smaller. It's harder for the developer to screw up, and the permissions have become a bit more fine grained and are pretty specific about running in the background, e.g. the phone now asks "allow location services even when the app is running in the background". Apps can only run in the background for specific reasons, although in this case I'm not sure how good Apple's vetting process actually is...
Still, if you suspect an app is being naughty and is sucking the battery dry, the Settings screen has an overview of how much battery each app has consumed in the past days. It's accurate enough to spot the offenders.
Disclaimer: I develop iOS stuff for fun (and sometimes make some money doing it). Sometimes an app doesn't seem to be suspended completely and parts of it keep running. A few years ago the Facebook app was notorious for this: if you didn't force-quit the app it would often suck the battery dry in a couple of hours. This would happen sometimes even with apps that were not designed to run in the background, i.e. track your location or keep an ear out for certain events. But those few cases aside, the guy is right: in almost all cases it makes no sense force-quitting an app; just going back to the home screen will make it suspend all activity. And over the years iOS has gotten a bit better at suspending apps.
App developers have to do very little to make this happen: threads are stopped automatically after a while, the app gets notified so that it can wrap up stuff and save the device state, free up memory if possible, and so on. And even if you don't free up that memory like a good little boy, the phone will do it for you... pretty much by force-quiting your app when needed. Not ideal, but as a developer you have the choice of either releasing memory or just let the app die when the phone needs it.
Meh. While people here are busy pointing out how unrealistic Musks plans are, why his ideas will never work, and of course spouting the tired old line about Why We Shouldn't Do Manned Space Exploration, Musk is getting shit done. And yes, there will be many setbacks along the way, and changes of plans. The reasons for those changes are a little more complicated than a simple "ha ha they didn't think of that" or "dumbasses forgot there's different rules for man rated spacecraft". If anything, SpaceX has made space exploration a bit exciting again, and cheaper at the same time. And I think that's great.
Sure, the personality cult around Musk is a bit scary and laughable at the same time (they always are). But the guy does deserve some credit. If anything he's a good example of "big dreams, small steps".
No, he is right, and it's what I do as well. It's nice if you could find a news source that is the truth, the whole truth and no lies, but let's be honest: even the news outlets that aspire to this (and many of them don't) fail to achieve it. So it's not about a compromise between truth and lies; it's about getting viewpoints from different perspectives. Shake up your faith in those unshakable truths a little, and read opposing opinions and sources that will cast doubt on those so called truths. You need to be able to filter crap from credible sources, though.
Once I started reading publications from all parts of the political spectrum instead of just my favorite newspaper and a blog or 2, I realised what a myopic view on the world such a limited set of sources resulted in.
I see Gartner the same way as "shock-blogs: full of opinionated crap and fake news, but often a convenient source of interesting background material and further reading.
It means Lada was the only game in town. That's not the case with Airpods. There's plenty of other BT headphones or earbuds to choose from, not to mention regular headphones for those who still have a 3.5mm jack on their phones. Most are cheaper too. Yet some (apparently: plenty) people still choose to pay the premium and wait 6 weeks for their AirPods.
Just so. I wouldn't even trust us slashdotters (or myself for that matter) to get this right all the time. We do need a multi pronged approach, and anomaly detection is one of them. The ISPs might be able to play a role in that, though as we've seen in the last DDOS attack by IoT devices, botnet operators have learned to fly under the radar and send only small mounts of traffic per device instead of crapflooding to the max of its extent. Detection at the ISP level is becoming harder. But I've not seen any client side solutions that I'd call consumer friendly.
Not a feature, but it's a fair assumption that an IoT device contains either a vulnerability, or something that sends data to its master when it's not supposed to, or both. Assuming that, you have no business hooking up any such devices directly to the internet with not even a NAT to hide behind. Any IoT device should sit behind a bastard of a firewall that lets nothing out, or in case the device does need some connection to the Internet to function, is very restrictive about the connections it is allowed to make.
In other words: isolate these things on your LAN. And avoid devices that do not really need Internet from a functional perspective yet require a connection because whatever.
The ARE no relevant pros and cons. It's all rubbish. That article is biased, clearly written by a guy who prefers spaces. I can find several other articles extolling the virtues of using tabs. But in the end... how often has this issue actually tripped you up? How often, for that matter, has the use of C&R style braces vs. Berkeley style actually mattered? I've done some projects where tabs, spaces, curly styles and other stuff usually locked down in style guides was freely mixed, and you know what? It. Didn't. Matter.
Working from home 1 or 2 days a week was the norm at a previous job, and even most of the extroverts took advantage of that policy. For a lot of tasks, not being interrupted helps a lot, plus working from home regularly is a great way to manage your work-life balance, as you can easily slip some personal errands into the day while still getting all of your work done.
But working from home all the time? I did that for a while, and even being an introvert, that drove me nuts. After a while you do miss the interaction at the office.
Maybe that is true for jobs that require daily face-to-face interactions. But in a lot of jobs there is plenty of work that requires concentration and no direct interaction. Dealing with email. Producing documents and reports. Reviews and analysis. Research. And in most cases you don't want to be interrupted by others when you're dealing with that. If it's necessary, in many cases phone calls or IMs are good enough.
The one thing that may be a bit hard to do remotely is direct and constant supervision of others. But if the team requires that, you seriously need to review your work practices.
Are their domestic car makers held to the same quotas? (fairly, so only counting actual cars and not forklifts, mopeds or small delivery vehicles). If so, I don't see the problem.
I wish Apple would add a mouse pointer to iOS (plus a trackpad to the keyboard covers, and a docking station w/ a couple of regular old USB ports of course, not a single Unobtainium connector). If you want to use your phone or tablet as a full blown workstation, this is an essential feature. I'm at work now messing with a Surface Pro, and it copes quite well with the touchscreen and mouse combination. Maybe Apple can do what MS did and just run OSX on their high end phones, and change the OS so it runs apps as well.
Very true. Even though it cost Apple only around $200 to make my iPhone, I never felt like I overpaid to it when I use it, or when I compare it to other more affordable phones out there (I own a few Androids for development work). The problem is that in practice we tend to replace our phones fairly often. I can justify spending $600 every 2 years or so (the old phone will still be worth a couple 100), but $1200? That pro model would have to be waaaay better than their regular phones; just having a faster processor or a somewhat better screen won't be worth it. And I am afraid that Apple knows this. So they might be tempted to add whatever cool new feature they come up with to their flagship pro model first in order to entice us to buy that one, even if they could easily add those features to the regular models as well. It's not a matter of "what Apple could do in a phone with a higher price", it's not about cost or engineering, but about marketing. And when marketing is applied ruthlessly, we all know who loses...
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We've had people walking along train tracks while hunting Pokemon. (The sign reads: "Sprinter to Hoofddorp is cancelled due to a Snorlax on the tracks"). After the railroad complained, Niantic did adjust their servers to exclude railroads, highways, major industrial areas and military installations.
Register your own damn domain. There are many companies that offer web email and a whole bunch of other stuff for a couple of $ a month. And if their service sucks (or folds), the domain is still yours and you can just move it to a different service. Or you run your own service, it's not that hard. I've had the same email address since '96 and I expect to still have it when my tired old bones finally give up the ghost.
Also, 3D only really works in cinemas. Distance to the screen is what counts, not the (relative) size of the screen. The 3D in Avatar and Sanctum was amazing in the cinema, but even on a large scale TV it's hardly worth getting the glasses out for.
But that's just it: he's only going to review the good stuff. Which is something of a missed opportunity: Linus going off on an epic rant about the shortcomings of lame gadgets might make for a very fun read, but this? He's not a great reviewer... I own two of the three things he reviewed, and a different brand of the 3rd thing, and his reviews don't really explain why these things are so great other than "works as advertised".
Perhaps 70mm film is a bit like 3D: it only adds something when it's done right, in the right kind of movie. Jaws 3D vs. Avatar. Did shooting on 70mm add something to the Hateful Eight, or might it as well have been digital?
I doubt it. People already roughly know what others are earning. Where it might help is with tax dodges. People complain about high earners, but these can in turn point out at the public record of their tax return and show that they contribute to the public coffers accordingly. But someone showing a €1M income paying only €50k in taxes has some explaining to do.
Though personally I lean more towards the guys who came up with the window tax, which is exactly what you think it is. It's often cited as one of the more ridiculous ways the gov't tries to tax us, and of course it led to people simply bricking up their windows. But the motivation behind the window tax was everything but ridiculous. The government wanted to tax people according to their income, but they also thought that people's income levels weren't any of their damn business. So they counted windows instead.
With the newer versions of iOS, the chances of an app misbehaving are a lot smaller. It's harder for the developer to screw up, and the permissions have become a bit more fine grained and are pretty specific about running in the background, e.g. the phone now asks "allow location services even when the app is running in the background". Apps can only run in the background for specific reasons, although in this case I'm not sure how good Apple's vetting process actually is...
Still, if you suspect an app is being naughty and is sucking the battery dry, the Settings screen has an overview of how much battery each app has consumed in the past days. It's accurate enough to spot the offenders.
Disclaimer: I develop iOS stuff for fun (and sometimes make some money doing it).
Sometimes an app doesn't seem to be suspended completely and parts of it keep running. A few years ago the Facebook app was notorious for this: if you didn't force-quit the app it would often suck the battery dry in a couple of hours. This would happen sometimes even with apps that were not designed to run in the background, i.e. track your location or keep an ear out for certain events. But those few cases aside, the guy is right: in almost all cases it makes no sense force-quitting an app; just going back to the home screen will make it suspend all activity. And over the years iOS has gotten a bit better at suspending apps.
App developers have to do very little to make this happen: threads are stopped automatically after a while, the app gets notified so that it can wrap up stuff and save the device state, free up memory if possible, and so on. And even if you don't free up that memory like a good little boy, the phone will do it for you... pretty much by force-quiting your app when needed. Not ideal, but as a developer you have the choice of either releasing memory or just let the app die when the phone needs it.
Meh. While people here are busy pointing out how unrealistic Musks plans are, why his ideas will never work, and of course spouting the tired old line about Why We Shouldn't Do Manned Space Exploration, Musk is getting shit done. And yes, there will be many setbacks along the way, and changes of plans. The reasons for those changes are a little more complicated than a simple "ha ha they didn't think of that" or "dumbasses forgot there's different rules for man rated spacecraft". If anything, SpaceX has made space exploration a bit exciting again, and cheaper at the same time. And I think that's great.
Sure, the personality cult around Musk is a bit scary and laughable at the same time (they always are). But the guy does deserve some credit. If anything he's a good example of "big dreams, small steps".
No, he is right, and it's what I do as well. It's nice if you could find a news source that is the truth, the whole truth and no lies, but let's be honest: even the news outlets that aspire to this (and many of them don't) fail to achieve it. So it's not about a compromise between truth and lies; it's about getting viewpoints from different perspectives. Shake up your faith in those unshakable truths a little, and read opposing opinions and sources that will cast doubt on those so called truths. You need to be able to filter crap from credible sources, though.
Once I started reading publications from all parts of the political spectrum instead of just my favorite newspaper and a blog or 2, I realised what a myopic view on the world such a limited set of sources resulted in.
I see Gartner the same way as "shock-blogs: full of opinionated crap and fake news, but often a convenient source of interesting background material and further reading.
Crore is 10 million, not 10 billion. Also written as 1,00,00,000 with the commas separating lakhs and crores (and thousands)
OLED's going to allow for more room for the battery. But I know, we'll get thinner devices with the same rubbish standby time instead...
It means Lada was the only game in town. That's not the case with Airpods. There's plenty of other BT headphones or earbuds to choose from, not to mention regular headphones for those who still have a 3.5mm jack on their phones. Most are cheaper too. Yet some (apparently: plenty) people still choose to pay the premium and wait 6 weeks for their AirPods.
Just so. I wouldn't even trust us slashdotters (or myself for that matter) to get this right all the time. We do need a multi pronged approach, and anomaly detection is one of them. The ISPs might be able to play a role in that, though as we've seen in the last DDOS attack by IoT devices, botnet operators have learned to fly under the radar and send only small mounts of traffic per device instead of crapflooding to the max of its extent. Detection at the ISP level is becoming harder. But I've not seen any client side solutions that I'd call consumer friendly.
Not a feature, but it's a fair assumption that an IoT device contains either a vulnerability, or something that sends data to its master when it's not supposed to, or both. Assuming that, you have no business hooking up any such devices directly to the internet with not even a NAT to hide behind. Any IoT device should sit behind a bastard of a firewall that lets nothing out, or in case the device does need some connection to the Internet to function, is very restrictive about the connections it is allowed to make.
In other words: isolate these things on your LAN. And avoid devices that do not really need Internet from a functional perspective yet require a connection because whatever.
You are technicallly correct. The best kind of correct.
However, for most people outside of the former British Empire, the definition of "Asians" doesn't include Indians
Or we will do the needful
FTFY.
The ARE no relevant pros and cons. It's all rubbish. That article is biased, clearly written by a guy who prefers spaces. I can find several other articles extolling the virtues of using tabs. But in the end... how often has this issue actually tripped you up? How often, for that matter, has the use of C&R style braces vs. Berkeley style actually mattered? I've done some projects where tabs, spaces, curly styles and other stuff usually locked down in style guides was freely mixed, and you know what? It. Didn't. Matter.
Style guides should be just that: a guide.
Working from home 1 or 2 days a week was the norm at a previous job, and even most of the extroverts took advantage of that policy. For a lot of tasks, not being interrupted helps a lot, plus working from home regularly is a great way to manage your work-life balance, as you can easily slip some personal errands into the day while still getting all of your work done.
But working from home all the time? I did that for a while, and even being an introvert, that drove me nuts. After a while you do miss the interaction at the office.
Maybe that is true for jobs that require daily face-to-face interactions. But in a lot of jobs there is plenty of work that requires concentration and no direct interaction. Dealing with email. Producing documents and reports. Reviews and analysis. Research. And in most cases you don't want to be interrupted by others when you're dealing with that. If it's necessary, in many cases phone calls or IMs are good enough.
The one thing that may be a bit hard to do remotely is direct and constant supervision of others. But if the team requires that, you seriously need to review your work practices.
Are their domestic car makers held to the same quotas? (fairly, so only counting actual cars and not forklifts, mopeds or small delivery vehicles). If so, I don't see the problem.
nationality = 'Italian'
Did you miss an "=" or did you intend to give an entire team Italian passports?
I wish Apple would add a mouse pointer to iOS (plus a trackpad to the keyboard covers, and a docking station w/ a couple of regular old USB ports of course, not a single Unobtainium connector). If you want to use your phone or tablet as a full blown workstation, this is an essential feature. I'm at work now messing with a Surface Pro, and it copes quite well with the touchscreen and mouse combination. Maybe Apple can do what MS did and just run OSX on their high end phones, and change the OS so it runs apps as well.
Very true. Even though it cost Apple only around $200 to make my iPhone, I never felt like I overpaid to it when I use it, or when I compare it to other more affordable phones out there (I own a few Androids for development work). The problem is that in practice we tend to replace our phones fairly often. I can justify spending $600 every 2 years or so (the old phone will still be worth a couple 100), but $1200? That pro model would have to be waaaay better than their regular phones; just having a faster processor or a somewhat better screen won't be worth it. And I am afraid that Apple knows this. So they might be tempted to add whatever cool new feature they come up with to their flagship pro model first in order to entice us to buy that one, even if they could easily add those features to the regular models as well. It's not a matter of "what Apple could do in a phone with a higher price", it's not about cost or engineering, but about marketing. And when marketing is applied ruthlessly, we all know who loses...