And for those reasons I still torrent a bunch of stuff and store it on my drives, even though I pay for a Netflix subscription and some of the stuff I torrent is actually on Netflix in my country. I honestly don't mind paying a decent fee / month to be able to watch a wide range of shows, but this bullshit over regional availability and then removing shows you like has to stop.
It would also be nice if Netflix would stop being a dick to my bandwidth and give me H265 content at reasonable bitrates, since the equipment I am using to watch it on is all capable of playing back this format and the savings in bandwidth can be tremendous.
Netflix is doing good, so they get my money, even though I literally only watch 1-2 shows / episodes a month on the streaming service. I want to encourage this sort of disruption, and cash is the best encouragement of all.
The most secure system is the one with zero installations. At some point though, you need to realise that a system must also be usable, and so you trade some security in order to gain users.
It's not the programmer's fault that people who have no right calling themselves a programmer are clamouring to take up the title. The role of the programmer / computer scientist is still the same as it ever was, only now there's people with 6 weeks experience cut and pasteing JS into an editor thinking they are the same as a person with a 3 year bachelor degree in computer science.
To me, the distinction these days is between programmers and coders. Programmers are qualified, skilled, highly trained professionals capable of writing new algorithms, improving old ones, understanding the underlying architecture and execution trade-offs...coders customise your WordPress blog.
A software engineer is just a programmer, nothing more. Both turn concepts into designs, the only difference is in the lettering on their business card.
I love my original Kindle e-ink and the Android 7" tablet I bought later to supplement it.
First up - I'm a programmer, so I read a fair amount. That said, I'm un-employed so I prefer to read on the cheap. Years back I drank the Cool-Aid and bought an e-ink Kindle. I still love it, though I don't use it often, because these days I often need to read web pages.
When I "buy" a book, I can DL it onto my PC, the e-ink Kindle, my Android tablet (and since I love my mom, her ipad too for some books). That's a pretty good deal. Yeh, it's a hard limit of 5 devices, but that's also a pretty decent limit.
These days I purchase pretty much everything as an e-book, and almost always from Amazon. So yes, I guess it is hurting some people...those bookshops that used to charge me $50-60 USD for a single tech book, which was often out of date and (for many publishers) a pile of steaming and poorly researched shite.
The world changes...and in this case, for the better. I'd like some more competition for Amazon, but I in no way believe it should come from old, outdated bookstores. The future isn't written yet...onwards and upwards.
I definitely read through the comments for movies I'm interested in, but not quite sure about. It becomes a bit of a crap-shoot, but usually I just err on the side of watching them, and am only occasionally disappointed. Worst case, I watch 30 mins of something terrible - but honestly, that's rare enough to not care. Best case, I discover an indie classic or off-beat film I really love:D
IMDB is a good indication of what the masses think. It's not a good indication of quality overall, since the masses are more an indication of popularity over quality. In fact, the more popular a movie is, the more bland and un-interesting it usually is. Appear to a wider audience usually means appear on a much more limited and conventional base.
That was a particularly poor film. While 11% does seem low compared to other horribly poor films with the same production values, it doesn't seem low if you remove production values as a component - since without those the film is total excrement.
While the laugh track itself is so awful I think it gave me cancer, the worst part is not the laughter itself but how the actors have to pause after pretty much every second line and wait for the laughter track to die down before they deliver the next lines. This makes the show painfully slow to watch and the interactions are terribly disjointed. There's simply no flow to the dialogue.
The other worst thing is pretty much every other aspect of the show.
That "picture" along with the caption implying they have a live audience is pure misdirection. The first thing to notice, is despite it looking at first glance like 3 segments of seating for a show, making for a large audience - it is actually several shots of the same space with different people in it. The windows at the rear are a dead give-away in two of those shots. They actually use only the members from one of those shot for each showing I believe.
Now the audio part - what they actually do is record each episode and edit it down. This is then shown to an audience(s)and they record any laughter and reactions from the audience. They track, double track and overlay all the laughs to obtain the thick hearty sounding amount of laughs that they want the show to sound like it receives. Weak laughter can be tracked over from 5 or more showings to thicken the sound right out. Strong gags would only need a couple of over-dubs.
...or, you could just read those communications with Al'qaeda that you say are still on that computer. In fact, you most likely had, or you wouldn't be doing a home invasion on the American dream. And let's face it, if the bomb isn't in the place it was constructed, then it's 99% likely it's already been exploded at it's target location because real life isn't written by script writers trying to pad out a 42 minute long TV episode.
There's an old philosophy that those who wrestle with demons, become demons. The moment you cross the line and start torturing people you've become every bit as reprehensible as the people you hate.
When functional languages can do real world high speed low latency application development that rivals c++ for performance, then I'll consider giving up c++. Until then, we'll re-invent your shitty programming concepts in a way that is performant.
Computer with sub-millisecond reaction time and ability to perfectly calculate matrices, vectors and quaternions as well as predict positioning in x amount of seconds beats person. No-one should be surprised.
Garam marsala is a spice which can be used in curry, but is just as great on deserts and other foods. The dominate flavours are from cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon and cloves, all of which are perfect for this.
they are dirt cheap for store brand 1kg packets (avoid the branded stuff, it's oats man).
I like making them into porridge in the colder months, which is pretty bland stuff, but...if you kick it up a notch with your spice weasel, they can be pretty damn good. If I want to spoil myself I throw dried fruit like figs, dates, prunes or apricots into them before heating it up. Nuts and the like are also great - hell, make mueseli into porridge at a pinch. Then BAM, I hit them with garam marsala, drizzle some honey on and if I've been good and can take the calories, a bit of cream.
Just adding a little extra stuff can take a fairly bland and healthy breakfast and make it a tasty and still pretty healthy one ( you control just how healthy).
This would only make sense if there was anything of value inside the stone structure that is worth protecting - but there isn't. There's no remnants of housing or a castle or anything inside the semi-circle. You don't just take your army up the hill and park it inside a stone circle to protect it from invaders - you have to *also* protect your farms, cattle, granaries, etc.
There's more chance it's a ritual site or calendar than some sort of defensive structure.
"deliver one-day, in-person workshops to local elementary school teachers to teach computer science in a format that's fun and accessible"
So that's all it takes to learn computer science well enough to teach it to others - 1 day? Shit, I wasted my time on that 3 year degree. I can't believe anything of real value could be taught in just one day.
It's the defacto standard for games - meeting the requirement of being pretty much everywhere, but at the same time not well known. Most games with a scripting language have selected Lua because it's tiny, fast, simple and effective.
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"The OS will expand to consume all the machine's resources"..only, for the internet. People will just watch more video.
And for those reasons I still torrent a bunch of stuff and store it on my drives, even though I pay for a Netflix subscription and some of the stuff I torrent is actually on Netflix in my country. I honestly don't mind paying a decent fee / month to be able to watch a wide range of shows, but this bullshit over regional availability and then removing shows you like has to stop.
It would also be nice if Netflix would stop being a dick to my bandwidth and give me H265 content at reasonable bitrates, since the equipment I am using to watch it on is all capable of playing back this format and the savings in bandwidth can be tremendous.
Netflix is doing good, so they get my money, even though I literally only watch 1-2 shows / episodes a month on the streaming service. I want to encourage this sort of disruption, and cash is the best encouragement of all.
The most secure system is the one with zero installations. At some point though, you need to realise that a system must also be usable, and so you trade some security in order to gain users.
It's not the programmer's fault that people who have no right calling themselves a programmer are clamouring to take up the title. The role of the programmer / computer scientist is still the same as it ever was, only now there's people with 6 weeks experience cut and pasteing JS into an editor thinking they are the same as a person with a 3 year bachelor degree in computer science.
To me, the distinction these days is between programmers and coders. Programmers are qualified, skilled, highly trained professionals capable of writing new algorithms, improving old ones, understanding the underlying architecture and execution trade-offs...coders customise your WordPress blog.
A software engineer is just a programmer, nothing more. Both turn concepts into designs, the only difference is in the lettering on their business card.
No is the correct answer.
There's always the option of the fairly similarly priced Beaglebone Black and / or ODROID-C1+.
I love my original Kindle e-ink and the Android 7" tablet I bought later to supplement it.
First up - I'm a programmer, so I read a fair amount. That said, I'm un-employed so I prefer to read on the cheap. Years back I drank the Cool-Aid and bought an e-ink Kindle. I still love it, though I don't use it often, because these days I often need to read web pages.
When I "buy" a book, I can DL it onto my PC, the e-ink Kindle, my Android tablet (and since I love my mom, her ipad too for some books). That's a pretty good deal. Yeh, it's a hard limit of 5 devices, but that's also a pretty decent limit.
These days I purchase pretty much everything as an e-book, and almost always from Amazon. So yes, I guess it is hurting some people...those bookshops that used to charge me $50-60 USD for a single tech book, which was often out of date and (for many publishers) a pile of steaming and poorly researched shite.
The world changes...and in this case, for the better. I'd like some more competition for Amazon, but I in no way believe it should come from old, outdated bookstores. The future isn't written yet...onwards and upwards.
I definitely read through the comments for movies I'm interested in, but not quite sure about. It becomes a bit of a crap-shoot, but usually I just err on the side of watching them, and am only occasionally disappointed. Worst case, I watch 30 mins of something terrible - but honestly, that's rare enough to not care. Best case, I discover an indie classic or off-beat film I really love :D
IMDB is a good indication of what the masses think. It's not a good indication of quality overall, since the masses are more an indication of popularity over quality. In fact, the more popular a movie is, the more bland and un-interesting it usually is. Appear to a wider audience usually means appear on a much more limited and conventional base.
TLDR: Popularity is no gauge of quality.
That was a particularly poor film. While 11% does seem low compared to other horribly poor films with the same production values, it doesn't seem low if you remove production values as a component - since without those the film is total excrement.
While the laugh track itself is so awful I think it gave me cancer, the worst part is not the laughter itself but how the actors have to pause after pretty much every second line and wait for the laughter track to die down before they deliver the next lines. This makes the show painfully slow to watch and the interactions are terribly disjointed. There's simply no flow to the dialogue.
The other worst thing is pretty much every other aspect of the show.
That "picture" along with the caption implying they have a live audience is pure misdirection. The first thing to notice, is despite it looking at first glance like 3 segments of seating for a show, making for a large audience - it is actually several shots of the same space with different people in it. The windows at the rear are a dead give-away in two of those shots. They actually use only the members from one of those shot for each showing I believe.
Now the audio part - what they actually do is record each episode and edit it down. This is then shown to an audience(s)and they record any laughter and reactions from the audience. They track, double track and overlay all the laughs to obtain the thick hearty sounding amount of laughs that they want the show to sound like it receives. Weak laughter can be tracked over from 5 or more showings to thicken the sound right out. Strong gags would only need a couple of over-dubs.
"Do the right thing...for the shareholders, all all and any cost."
...or, you could just read those communications with Al'qaeda that you say are still on that computer. In fact, you most likely had, or you wouldn't be doing a home invasion on the American dream. And let's face it, if the bomb isn't in the place it was constructed, then it's 99% likely it's already been exploded at it's target location because real life isn't written by script writers trying to pad out a 42 minute long TV episode.
There's an old philosophy that those who wrestle with demons, become demons. The moment you cross the line and start torturing people you've become every bit as reprehensible as the people you hate.
When functional languages can do real world high speed low latency application development that rivals c++ for performance, then I'll consider giving up c++. Until then, we'll re-invent your shitty programming concepts in a way that is performant.
Safe as houses, safe as fuck!
Computer with sub-millisecond reaction time and ability to perfectly calculate matrices, vectors and quaternions as well as predict positioning in x amount of seconds beats person. No-one should be surprised.
Garam marsala is a spice which can be used in curry, but is just as great on deserts and other foods. The dominate flavours are from cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon and cloves, all of which are perfect for this.
Live a little, try it out :D
Forgot to mention...
they are dirt cheap for store brand 1kg packets (avoid the branded stuff, it's oats man).
I like making them into porridge in the colder months, which is pretty bland stuff, but...if you kick it up a notch with your spice weasel, they can be pretty damn good. If I want to spoil myself I throw dried fruit like figs, dates, prunes or apricots into them before heating it up. Nuts and the like are also great - hell, make mueseli into porridge at a pinch. Then BAM, I hit them with garam marsala, drizzle some honey on and if I've been good and can take the calories, a bit of cream.
Just adding a little extra stuff can take a fairly bland and healthy breakfast and make it a tasty and still pretty healthy one ( you control just how healthy).
Oats are great. They satiate you pretty well, are low gi, actively lower your cholesterol and chances of diabetes and...
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This would only make sense if there was anything of value inside the stone structure that is worth protecting - but there isn't. There's no remnants of housing or a castle or anything inside the semi-circle. You don't just take your army up the hill and park it inside a stone circle to protect it from invaders - you have to *also* protect your farms, cattle, granaries, etc.
There's more chance it's a ritual site or calendar than some sort of defensive structure.
It's their yummy new almond flavoured product.
"deliver one-day, in-person workshops to local elementary school teachers to teach computer science in a format that's fun and accessible"
So that's all it takes to learn computer science well enough to teach it to others - 1 day? Shit, I wasted my time on that 3 year degree. I can't believe anything of real value could be taught in just one day.
It's the defacto standard for games - meeting the requirement of being pretty much everywhere, but at the same time not well known. Most games with a scripting language have selected Lua because it's tiny, fast, simple and effective.