I think that the Trumpster is a good example of what's wrong with Twitter. It's a mish mosh of bad jokes, stupid Internet memes, shameless self promotion, and political ranting. Every time he posts, you get a new pile of retweets and replies that meet all of the criteria that I just stated.
You're right, of course. I basically disable push notifications for almost every application I use, web or mobile. All of the noise that those messages generate are distracting, and slow down my ability to get to important alerts like an e-mail from my boss or a text message from my wife.
Unfortunately, most of the jobs that Apple actually "created" in the US recently are low paying retail and support jobs at their Apple Store locations. The number of new hardware and software Engineers that Apple hired are probably a small percentage of the real number.
Yeah, this basically means that they're now working like every other retail business in existence.
When I worked at a grocery store as a teenager, I must have marked up items hundreds of times only to "discount" some of them 10 to 25% off a week later. Basically, the item was only a few cents less than the old retail price, which then went back to the new marked up price a week later.
The number of items that went up in price every week vs the number of items that went down every week was like 10 to 1. Basically, they just used the sales to generate price confusion so you were less likely to notice that your total grocery bill was creeping up about 6% every year.
I made the poor choice of making my e-mail address firstnamelastinitial@gmail.com back in the early beta period, and I'm constantly getting new account signups from people with the same first name and last initial. I probably have an account on almost every dating site, online game, and file sharing site in existence at this point.
I used to take over some of the accounts by having by doing a password reset on the account, but it was still a pain to unsubscribe myself from all of the mailing lists that I got signed up for. I REALLY wish that more sites would use a confirmation link before adding you to their mailing list.
If I had to do it over, I'd use my full name, middle initial, and full last name in my e-mail. I probably wouldn't use GMail, either, since it seems to be a target for spammers as well.
I'm willing to pay extra for an Apple phone because I don't want a phone filled with carrier bloatware. I also want more than 18 months of security updates before they cut me off, like Verizon did on both of my old Android phones.
And, yeah, I know that I could have rooted the phone and installed a different version of Android on there. The carriers do their damndest to make that process a pain in the ass, though, and many of the various homebrew Android distributions out there are even less stable than the carrier builds.
I'm sure that most developers already know this, but the demos of most new software that you usually see at trade shows are completely fake.
In most cases, you're really just looking at mockups with canned data in the database. Odds are that the infrastructure for communicating to "the cloud" isn't really ready yet. Even if it was, you don't want to depend on a flaky network connection at a trade show. So, "the cloud" is actually an embedded database on the device or on a server behind the trade show booth.
If you're smart, you can usually get these applications to crash by drilling down through the menus and looking for an unfinished mockup screen that their QA team might have missed.
Which would have made sense if 98% of Microsoft's users were using the phone/tablet version of Windows instead of the desktop version. Unfortunately for them (and everyone else who had the misfortune of using Windows 8.x), their users were about 98% desktop and 2% mobile.
Any lawyer with half a brain will tell you to sue the party with the deepest pockets. If Hogan's friend was worth more than 8 figures, I'm sure that they would have sued them as well.
It's true, ya know. Even after these all of these recent cryptolocker ransomware attacks and credit card information breaches, but government still seems to have no interest in passing anything related to cybersecurity legislation. They still seem to be convinced that businesses can self regulate this stuff, although it seems that the average business nowadays is about three years behind on Windows patches and has no clue how to configure proper authentication on an Amazon S3 bucket.
Something simple like letting consumers sue for actual damages from a security breach instead of the typical "We're sorry, here's a free year of credit monitoring" response would be a step in the right direction.
Lately, the version of XOrg in CentOS 6 has been really pissing me off. For some unknown reason, it randomly fails to determine the resolution of the monitor on bootup and I end up with a screen resolution of something stupidly low like 1024x768.
I can fix this by putting in a hardcoded xorg.conf file, but it's 2017 and that kind of shit really shouldn't be necessary anymore.
Why would this be different than any other political issue? The problem needs to be severe enough to make national news before Congress will act on it.
I'd even go one further and say that a Republican led Congress wouldn't pass AI legislation if the crazy robot murdering people happened to be in California or Washington. They would say that this is a state regulatory issue. Besides, it's a Blue state... those people who got killed weren't going to vote of us anyway. Sad, but the partisan divide has gotten to the point where a few human lives are less important than the status of the party.
I'm not sure if I'd really agree with this. The DARPA self driving car challenges were back in 2004-2007, and they had working prototypes that could finish the course by 2005.
Depending on what I'm doing, my work from home productivity is about the same at home as it is at work.
The pluses for being in the office are easier access to the rest of the development team (I can go ask them questions without using something like Skype or e-mail), and faster network connectivity to my servers that are in the office. The minuses for being in the office are the constant interruptions (the development team and helpless desk asking me constant questions, far more than I what I ask them), the shitty commute, and having to listen to people whine about things like politics and their personal lives. For the cloud hosted stuff, it's pretty much a wash whether or not I work from home since I need to VPN into it anyway.
Sadly, the biggest problem with working from home is that your managers are assuming that you're goofing off when they can't see you. Even in this modern era where we have project tracking tools like JIRA and Salesforce that can pretty much track your productivity to the minute, they just get a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that you in the office.
Sadly, this is true. My gaming PC is 5 years old now, and the only parts on it that were seriously out of date were the graphics card (Radeon 6870: AMD stopped offering driver updates for it), and the hard drive. I upgraded those two parts with a GeForce 1060 and an SSD, and it's still as good as any modern PC that costs less than $700. The original Core i7 processor in it posts benchmarks comparable to a modern day Core i5. Why would I bother upgrading that?
Nice Systems probably got the contract because they offered to do the work much faster and cheaper than what Verizon's own staff estimated. Now you know why it was so much cheaper, guys.
Hell, most IT work in general is a lot easier when you don't have little things like data security to worry about! Just throw it on "the cloud", problem solved!
I look at the state where I live (Connecticut), and I see a place where all of the manufacturing and office jobs continue to disappear and keep getting replaced with low wage service jobs. We're quickly getting to a point where the only people left will be a handful of wealthy retired business owners and their families, and a bunch of poor folks offering services for these people.
So, yeah, I'm not really interested in having a bunch of kids knowing that they will likely end up washing the dogs and manicuring the nails of millionaires.
Shit... my family income is in the six figures, and I still think that XBox Live isn't affordable. Of course, it doesn't help that I live in Connecticut and half of my money goes to paying taxes of one sort or another.
It is at least somewhat surprising, considering that Microsoft has been advertising this "fact" in the Windows 10 Notification Center for months if you happen to be a Chrome user.
Why would Microsoft tell this lie to millions of people using Chrome in Windows 10, knowing that at least a small percentage of them have to means to prove that it's BS?
You're kidding, right? The psychopathic managers that outsource to places like WiPro to begin with would consider this refusal to shut down the building for fumigation as a plus! In their minds, it shows how focused they are on keeping costs low and meeting delivery targets on time.
Not to mention that they only give you 15 GB of storage for free. If you want to back up your entire 2 TB hard drive, that's going to cost you $20 a month.
For that kind of money, I think that I'll just buy a 2 TB portable drive for around $100 put an encrypted backup on that, and leave it in my cubicle at work.
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Did you miss the part where he said that he already wired the entire house with Cat 6e? Why would he want a slower redundant wired network connection?
I think that the Trumpster is a good example of what's wrong with Twitter. It's a mish mosh of bad jokes, stupid Internet memes, shameless self promotion, and political ranting. Every time he posts, you get a new pile of retweets and replies that meet all of the criteria that I just stated.
You're right, of course. I basically disable push notifications for almost every application I use, web or mobile. All of the noise that those messages generate are distracting, and slow down my ability to get to important alerts like an e-mail from my boss or a text message from my wife.
Unfortunately, most of the jobs that Apple actually "created" in the US recently are low paying retail and support jobs at their Apple Store locations. The number of new hardware and software Engineers that Apple hired are probably a small percentage of the real number.
Yeah, this basically means that they're now working like every other retail business in existence.
When I worked at a grocery store as a teenager, I must have marked up items hundreds of times only to "discount" some of them 10 to 25% off a week later. Basically, the item was only a few cents less than the old retail price, which then went back to the new marked up price a week later.
The number of items that went up in price every week vs the number of items that went down every week was like 10 to 1. Basically, they just used the sales to generate price confusion so you were less likely to notice that your total grocery bill was creeping up about 6% every year.
I made the poor choice of making my e-mail address firstnamelastinitial@gmail.com back in the early beta period, and I'm constantly getting new account signups from people with the same first name and last initial. I probably have an account on almost every dating site, online game, and file sharing site in existence at this point.
I used to take over some of the accounts by having by doing a password reset on the account, but it was still a pain to unsubscribe myself from all of the mailing lists that I got signed up for. I REALLY wish that more sites would use a confirmation link before adding you to their mailing list.
If I had to do it over, I'd use my full name, middle initial, and full last name in my e-mail. I probably wouldn't use GMail, either, since it seems to be a target for spammers as well.
I'm willing to pay extra for an Apple phone because I don't want a phone filled with carrier bloatware. I also want more than 18 months of security updates before they cut me off, like Verizon did on both of my old Android phones.
And, yeah, I know that I could have rooted the phone and installed a different version of Android on there. The carriers do their damndest to make that process a pain in the ass, though, and many of the various homebrew Android distributions out there are even less stable than the carrier builds.
I'm sure that most developers already know this, but the demos of most new software that you usually see at trade shows are completely fake.
In most cases, you're really just looking at mockups with canned data in the database. Odds are that the infrastructure for communicating to "the cloud" isn't really ready yet. Even if it was, you don't want to depend on a flaky network connection at a trade show. So, "the cloud" is actually an embedded database on the device or on a server behind the trade show booth.
If you're smart, you can usually get these applications to crash by drilling down through the menus and looking for an unfinished mockup screen that their QA team might have missed.
That's not really true. Windows NT 4 was pretty damn stable. It's UI sucked and it's software selection was weak, but that's another story.
Which would have made sense if 98% of Microsoft's users were using the phone/tablet version of Windows instead of the desktop version. Unfortunately for them (and everyone else who had the misfortune of using Windows 8.x), their users were about 98% desktop and 2% mobile.
Any lawyer with half a brain will tell you to sue the party with the deepest pockets. If Hogan's friend was worth more than 8 figures, I'm sure that they would have sued them as well.
It's true, ya know. Even after these all of these recent cryptolocker ransomware attacks and credit card information breaches, but government still seems to have no interest in passing anything related to cybersecurity legislation. They still seem to be convinced that businesses can self regulate this stuff, although it seems that the average business nowadays is about three years behind on Windows patches and has no clue how to configure proper authentication on an Amazon S3 bucket.
Something simple like letting consumers sue for actual damages from a security breach instead of the typical "We're sorry, here's a free year of credit monitoring" response would be a step in the right direction.
Lately, the version of XOrg in CentOS 6 has been really pissing me off. For some unknown reason, it randomly fails to determine the resolution of the monitor on bootup and I end up with a screen resolution of something stupidly low like 1024x768.
I can fix this by putting in a hardcoded xorg.conf file, but it's 2017 and that kind of shit really shouldn't be necessary anymore.
Why would this be different than any other political issue? The problem needs to be severe enough to make national news before Congress will act on it.
I'd even go one further and say that a Republican led Congress wouldn't pass AI legislation if the crazy robot murdering people happened to be in California or Washington. They would say that this is a state regulatory issue. Besides, it's a Blue state... those people who got killed weren't going to vote of us anyway. Sad, but the partisan divide has gotten to the point where a few human lives are less important than the status of the party.
I'm not sure if I'd really agree with this. The DARPA self driving car challenges were back in 2004-2007, and they had working prototypes that could finish the course by 2005.
Depending on what I'm doing, my work from home productivity is about the same at home as it is at work.
The pluses for being in the office are easier access to the rest of the development team (I can go ask them questions without using something like Skype or e-mail), and faster network connectivity to my servers that are in the office. The minuses for being in the office are the constant interruptions (the development team and helpless desk asking me constant questions, far more than I what I ask them), the shitty commute, and having to listen to people whine about things like politics and their personal lives. For the cloud hosted stuff, it's pretty much a wash whether or not I work from home since I need to VPN into it anyway.
Sadly, the biggest problem with working from home is that your managers are assuming that you're goofing off when they can't see you. Even in this modern era where we have project tracking tools like JIRA and Salesforce that can pretty much track your productivity to the minute, they just get a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that you in the office.
Sadly, this is true. My gaming PC is 5 years old now, and the only parts on it that were seriously out of date were the graphics card (Radeon 6870: AMD stopped offering driver updates for it), and the hard drive. I upgraded those two parts with a GeForce 1060 and an SSD, and it's still as good as any modern PC that costs less than $700. The original Core i7 processor in it posts benchmarks comparable to a modern day Core i5. Why would I bother upgrading that?
Nice Systems probably got the contract because they offered to do the work much faster and cheaper than what Verizon's own staff estimated. Now you know why it was so much cheaper, guys.
Hell, most IT work in general is a lot easier when you don't have little things like data security to worry about! Just throw it on "the cloud", problem solved!
I look at the state where I live (Connecticut), and I see a place where all of the manufacturing and office jobs continue to disappear and keep getting replaced with low wage service jobs. We're quickly getting to a point where the only people left will be a handful of wealthy retired business owners and their families, and a bunch of poor folks offering services for these people.
So, yeah, I'm not really interested in having a bunch of kids knowing that they will likely end up washing the dogs and manicuring the nails of millionaires.
Shit... my family income is in the six figures, and I still think that XBox Live isn't affordable. Of course, it doesn't help that I live in Connecticut and half of my money goes to paying taxes of one sort or another.
It is at least somewhat surprising, considering that Microsoft has been advertising this "fact" in the Windows 10 Notification Center for months if you happen to be a Chrome user.
Why would Microsoft tell this lie to millions of people using Chrome in Windows 10, knowing that at least a small percentage of them have to means to prove that it's BS?
Assuming that you don't get caught dumping them, sure. If you did, the value of the currency would probably plummet.
You're kidding, right? The psychopathic managers that outsource to places like WiPro to begin with would consider this refusal to shut down the building for fumigation as a plus! In their minds, it shows how focused they are on keeping costs low and meeting delivery targets on time.
Bah, that's a Medium at best. The worker can still function after being bitten, right? Push it into the next sprint.
Not to mention that they only give you 15 GB of storage for free. If you want to back up your entire 2 TB hard drive, that's going to cost you $20 a month.
For that kind of money, I think that I'll just buy a 2 TB portable drive for around $100 put an encrypted backup on that, and leave it in my cubicle at work.