With all this data, and history behind them, perhaps they could come up with some new talent that doesn't sound like all the other existing talent that's come before them?
How long before this bug is re-introduced? It's continually blows my mind people *voluntarily* use Win10...the track record of show-stopping problems with this OS is well known.
This is off-topic, but I want to thank you for your time at Research In Motion. I loved my Blackberry (the real, original tough-as-nails) one, and I currently sport a KeyOne, which I know isn't a *real* BB (like the no true scotsman fallacy) but the keyboard is oh so seductive...
Way to miss the point, entirely.
It was a film shoot. It was expressly set up to be a film shoot. Bringing a dSLR to the film shoot, is akin to bringing a gun to a fencing class.
Wrong tool for the event.
Although with a Nikon F3. Why? Because you don't get to see the results instantly, so it forces you to slow down and think about what you are doing, and get it right in the camera.
I hosted a workshop in my studio for a film-only shoot. I got several people who showed up with digital cameras, and were politely told it was a film-only shoot. The puzzled looks were priceless.
State/Federal work. - Your work isn't valued, nothing gets done, the pay is shit, but the perks make up for that. You can be 100% incompetent at programming and will never get fired because the amount of paperwork to start the process to replace you, isn't worth the effort. Small tasks requiring 1 programmer will take years as the higher-ups change design specs daily, and more and more people are thrown into the dev team until the original program has been twisted so badly it now has it's own e.mail server built-in. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here, but those 3 and 4 day holiday weekend allow you to slog to work for one more year (or so you keep telling yourself) until something better comes along.
With unlimited up/down modding, which just reinforces the statement above. Ars Technica has recently gone the same way and it's brought a once great site down because of it. Contrary ideas get downmodded into oblivion and it stifles the discussion of controversial topics.
It would take much to look at the Ubuntu forums and see which threads generate the most replies, chances are, it's a problem that Canonical needs to solve, or hell, look through the *countless* threads on why *nix sucks, and see about fixing some of those. Like, for example....here! https://itvision.altervista.or... no "opt out" needed
as I see it: (and I speak as an Ubuntu user doing RNN research)
For a great many years, *nix seems to slavishly copy Windows (and to a lesser extend, MacOS) features and looks, all while screaming "look at me! I'm different!"
I'm trying to dump Windows for good, but being a clone of Windows, especially in functions like this (cough, telemetry) does not engender good will from me.
Here's a thought for Ubuntu and all the other distros out there prepping their photocopiers, stop adding "features" and go back to fixing the glaring issues your OS has. Get the basics right, then worry about the gloss. Oh, and stop aping Microsoft, you claim you're different, prove it.
This is off-topic, but your comment about 75mil being nothing to scoff at, is why I am writing this post.
At some point in the past, I worked for the Treasury, and saw 1st-hand how budgets were made, money was bandied about, etc.
We had an external audit and one of the auditors was a really cool guy, and we got to be friends. Over lunch one day, I asked about how certain aspects of his audit was scored, and what actions were taken on, for example, when they found money to me missing (embezzlement)
He looked at me and said, "well it depends on the department. For example, int he DoE (dept of education) anything under 75 million "missing" is a rounding error."
I was floored, totally gobsmacked. What he was saying is they didn't look too hard is the balance sheet came up shy of anything under 75 mil, because it's a clerical error, but over that, had to be investigated.
You can draw your own conclusions on that, but the gov't wastes money like no one else out there and in point of fact, they elevate it to an art style.
Once again, if I have to run it in a VM, I lose performance (maybe a little, maybe a lot) so what's the point? Run it natively, assuming your applications are available.
I've been running VMs of different sorts (Oracle, VMWare, etc) trying to find the best performance (or more accurately, the least performance loss) recently, and the other poster is correct, GPU passthrough is a real bitch to enable and doesn't always work right from reboot to reboot. I think all adobe applications these days work much better with GPU acceleration, so running them under a VM is a huge problem (for the people who need those applications as part of their daily work.)
You are correct, VMs are quite the thing now, but if I have to run a VM to get work done, I might as well drop the VM and run the real thing instead.
I *desperately* want to ditch Windows, and I'm willing to live with the compromises Linux brings, to a point, but some programs in Windows just don't have workalikes under Linux, and unfortunately, those are the ones I need Windows for...
They'll lauch it half finished, apply some healf hearted updates that half fix half the bugs, and promptly lose interest in the whole shebang simply because it didn't set the world on fire instantly.
I have a pair of very large monitor lizards that can count. They know when feeding time is (Pavlovian learned response no doubt there) and if I give them, each, 10 food items, they are happy. If I give one 9, and the other 11 for example, the one with 11 will eat 10 and leave the other one. The one with 9, will hunt for a 10th food item, and won't stop until he finds something to eat. This happens regardless of food item size (to a point, they cannot eat 10 full sized rabbits, for example, but 10 rats is easy to do)
The accumulation of more money is not the end goal. The money is a means to power, a way to influence society or pure ego gratification (how many rich folk have libraries or other places named after themselves?)
That is why the rick try to get richer, for the power it can bring.
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With all this data, and history behind them, perhaps they could come up with some new talent that doesn't sound like all the other existing talent that's come before them?
Illegal Radio Abuse..... ....as opposed to the legal kind?
How long before this bug is re-introduced?
It's continually blows my mind people *voluntarily* use Win10...the track record of show-stopping problems with this OS is well known.
This is off-topic, but I want to thank you for your time at Research In Motion.
I loved my Blackberry (the real, original tough-as-nails) one, and I currently sport a KeyOne, which I know isn't a *real* BB (like the no true scotsman fallacy) but the keyboard is oh so seductive...
Way to miss the point, entirely. It was a film shoot. It was expressly set up to be a film shoot. Bringing a dSLR to the film shoot, is akin to bringing a gun to a fencing class. Wrong tool for the event.
Although with a Nikon F3.
Why? Because you don't get to see the results instantly, so it forces you to slow down and think about what you are doing, and get it right in the camera.
I hosted a workshop in my studio for a film-only shoot.
I got several people who showed up with digital cameras, and were politely told it was a film-only shoot.
The puzzled looks were priceless.
Now I know what I'm worth....
Why my internet bill nearly doubled recently. Gotta pay for all those lawyers somehow...
One other option:
State/Federal work. - Your work isn't valued, nothing gets done, the pay is shit, but the perks make up for that. You can be 100% incompetent at programming and will never get fired because the amount of paperwork to start the process to replace you, isn't worth the effort.
Small tasks requiring 1 programmer will take years as the higher-ups change design specs daily, and more and more people are thrown into the dev team until the original program has been twisted so badly it now has it's own e.mail server built-in.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here, but those 3 and 4 day holiday weekend allow you to slog to work for one more year (or so you keep telling yourself) until something better comes along.
With unlimited up/down modding, which just reinforces the statement above.
Ars Technica has recently gone the same way and it's brought a once great site down because of it. Contrary ideas get downmodded into oblivion and it stifles the discussion of controversial topics.
A bad thing to do.
Next dumb question?
It would take much to look at the Ubuntu forums and see which threads generate the most replies, chances are, it's a problem that Canonical needs to solve, or hell, look through the *countless* threads on why *nix sucks, and see about fixing some of those.
Like, for example....here!
https://itvision.altervista.or...
no "opt out" needed
as I see it: (and I speak as an Ubuntu user doing RNN research)
For a great many years, *nix seems to slavishly copy Windows (and to a lesser extend, MacOS) features and looks, all while screaming "look at me! I'm different!"
I'm trying to dump Windows for good, but being a clone of Windows, especially in functions like this (cough, telemetry) does not engender good will from me.
Here's a thought for Ubuntu and all the other distros out there prepping their photocopiers, stop adding "features" and go back to fixing the glaring issues your OS has. Get the basics right, then worry about the gloss. Oh, and stop aping Microsoft, you claim you're different, prove it.
Still gathering a ton of data, which at the very least will impact network throughput.
This is off-topic, but your comment about 75mil being nothing to scoff at, is why I am writing this post.
At some point in the past, I worked for the Treasury, and saw 1st-hand how budgets were made, money was bandied about, etc.
We had an external audit and one of the auditors was a really cool guy, and we got to be friends. Over lunch one day, I asked about how certain aspects of his audit was scored, and what actions were taken on, for example, when they found money to me missing (embezzlement)
He looked at me and said, "well it depends on the department. For example, int he DoE (dept of education) anything under 75 million "missing" is a rounding error."
I was floored, totally gobsmacked. What he was saying is they didn't look too hard is the balance sheet came up shy of anything under 75 mil, because it's a clerical error, but over that, had to be investigated.
You can draw your own conclusions on that, but the gov't wastes money like no one else out there and in point of fact, they elevate it to an art style.
Once again, if I have to run it in a VM, I lose performance (maybe a little, maybe a lot) so what's the point? Run it natively, assuming your applications are available.
I've been running VMs of different sorts (Oracle, VMWare, etc) trying to find the best performance (or more accurately, the least performance loss) recently, and the other poster is correct, GPU passthrough is a real bitch to enable and doesn't always work right from reboot to reboot. I think all adobe applications these days work much better with GPU acceleration, so running them under a VM is a huge problem (for the people who need those applications as part of their daily work.)
You are correct, VMs are quite the thing now, but if I have to run a VM to get work done, I might as well drop the VM and run the real thing instead.
I *desperately* want to ditch Windows, and I'm willing to live with the compromises Linux brings, to a point, but some programs in Windows just don't have workalikes under Linux, and unfortunately, those are the ones I need Windows for...
"Children", "Snacks"...same thing.
Nope, these things are chick magnets.
A walk in the park gets me a lot of phone numbers.
They'll lauch it half finished, apply some healf hearted updates that half fix half the bugs, and promptly lose interest in the whole shebang simply because it didn't set the world on fire instantly.
Such as?
I mean, I've seen The Terminator movies, self aware robots never end well for humanity
Paging APK to the White Courtesy Phone.
APK you are needed on the White Courtesy Phone.
I have a pair of very large monitor lizards that can count.
They know when feeding time is (Pavlovian learned response no doubt there) and if I give them, each, 10 food items, they are happy.
If I give one 9, and the other 11 for example, the one with 11 will eat 10 and leave the other one. The one with 9, will hunt for a 10th food item, and won't stop until he finds something to eat.
This happens regardless of food item size (to a point, they cannot eat 10 full sized rabbits, for example, but 10 rats is easy to do)
The accumulation of more money is not the end goal. The money is a means to power, a way to influence society or pure ego gratification (how many rich folk have libraries or other places named after themselves?)
That is why the rick try to get richer, for the power it can bring.
Whoosh.
That's the sound of the post going over your head.
But apparently you're too stupid to realize that.