That estimate sounds low. Where I work, we would probably need to have an hour "lessons learned" meeting where all of the above listed people would need to explain what went wrong, how they fixed it, and how we prevent it from happening again.
And, no "Fire that Bill jerk who keeps checking in crappy code" is never an valid answer. This basically insures that we will have a repeat meeting the next time he does it.
I guess that you don't have "That guy" working in your organization,who makes a poorly documented code or script change that breaks the build or deploy process the day before he goes on vacation.
I thought that every organization had one of those people working for them. I think that our "guy" is named Bill. Fuck you, Bill!
Well, not the developer per se, but the DevOps guy should have a process to promote it automagically from development to qa to production.
If they do their job right, it shouldn't take more effort than pressing the "promote" button in their build and deploy tool of choice. For course, it never actually WORKS that way, but that's how the vendors tell me it should work.
Monero is one of the few cryptocurrencies out there that can still be mined reasonably well with the CPU instead of a GPU or an ASIC. That makes it a good profit center for malware authors, since almost any PC out there can mine it reasonably well.
I hope that you invested in some guns and ammo as well. If society ever truly falls apart to the point where cash is no longer accepted, nobody it going to want your gold or your bitcoin because they can't hunt for food with it.
If you're flush with VC money, you obviously get your own domain name for your e-mail. Something like peter@moneywastingstartup.com is probably still available.
Yeah, those benchmarks sound great, until you realize that about half of the software that you normally use on your Macbook isn't available on the platform.
Yeah... once you factor in BluRay sales, video service streaming fees, TV broadcast rights, and branded products (Toys, T-Shirts, etc) they'll still make a small fortune on this movie.
It's just going to take more time to become profitable than usual.
Sure, that's the rumored release date. Odds are you won't be able to actually get your hands on one for anywhere MSRP until October.
The only people getting them in August will likely be the people who preorder the overpriced "Founders Edition" or "Special Edition" cards, and the crypto miners will probably snap up most of the stock that's available in September.
If I was Nvidia's CEO, I'd probably say that they're not going to be available for awhile, either.
Well... at this point, I think that both of those companies have around an 800 Billion dollar market cap. I'm not sure how any antitrust committee could approve merging them at this point.
I already had to reluctantly replace my Nexus 7 with an iPad. The screen cracked (my kid dropped it), and there just wasn't another Android tablet that I could find that is as good.
Besides, Google stopped pushing Android updates to it about a year ago, so you can't keep it patched without 3rd party software.
The Nexus 7 was a fantastic tablet, though. It was fast (for it's time), had a great screen, and showed how awesome Android can be when the carriers and phone manufacturers aren't allowed to load it down with bloatware.
I'd imagine that Nielsen has ways of detecting this, like if the channel on the cable box hasn't been changed in over 2 hours after a program is over.
With the data they are collecting, they probably have a pretty good idea of what your tastes in TV are. If the morning news is over and Jerry Springer is left on for 20 minutes before it was changed (and you don't normally watch Jerry Springer!), that's a clue that you might have been really watching it.
You know that these things only send out your voice instructions to "the cloud" when the "Hey Google" or "Alexa" keywords are triggered, right? Otherwise, your voice goes nowhere.
People have connected packet sniffers to these things and confirmed this. I don't understand the paranoia over smart speakers. Sure, they'll probably get hacked at some point (like any other network connected device), but I'm sure that Google and Amazon will have patches available when the time comes.
Well, there ya go. Perhaps can use this game to simulate if arming teachers actually lowers the death count of a mass school shooting.
Personally, I think that it would, but only IF the teacher knew what they were doing with the firearm. Someone who isn't trained correctly would probably just up the body count by shooting through walls and hitting innocent bystanders.
Unfortunately, arming teachers would probably also increase the number of accidental shootings from kids finding a gun in a classroom that wasn't locked up correctly.
Yeah... didn't Sony just upgrade their Playstation 4 with a 4K capable "Plus" model a few months ago? I don't think that anybody that just bought one of those for $500 is going to be happy that it would have been obsolete by this Christmas.
Yeah, I can't afford any more kids. Preschool is expensive, dude.
I'm also not sure what kind of future these kids will have. If the Al Gore followers are right, the place where I live near the coast will turn into a swamp about 20 years from now.
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That estimate sounds low. Where I work, we would probably need to have an hour "lessons learned" meeting where all of the above listed people would need to explain what went wrong, how they fixed it, and how we prevent it from happening again.
And, no "Fire that Bill jerk who keeps checking in crappy code" is never an valid answer. This basically insures that we will have a repeat meeting the next time he does it.
I guess that you don't have "That guy" working in your organization ,who makes a poorly documented code or script change that breaks the build or deploy process the day before he goes on vacation.
I thought that every organization had one of those people working for them. I think that our "guy" is named Bill. Fuck you, Bill!
Well, not the developer per se, but the DevOps guy should have a process to promote it automagically from development to qa to production.
If they do their job right, it shouldn't take more effort than pressing the "promote" button in their build and deploy tool of choice. For course, it never actually WORKS that way, but that's how the vendors tell me it should work.
Monero is one of the few cryptocurrencies out there that can still be mined reasonably well with the CPU instead of a GPU or an ASIC. That makes it a good profit center for malware authors, since almost any PC out there can mine it reasonably well.
I hope that you invested in some guns and ammo as well. If society ever truly falls apart to the point where cash is no longer accepted, nobody it going to want your gold or your bitcoin because they can't hunt for food with it.
I don't think that GMail never let people have e-mail addresses that short, knowing that they would be spam magnets.
Hell... I have a firstnamelastinitial@gmail.com address, and the amount of misdirected e-mail I get is insane.
If you're flush with VC money, you obviously get your own domain name for your e-mail. Something like peter@moneywastingstartup.com is probably still available.
Yeah, those benchmarks sound great, until you realize that about half of the software that you normally use on your Macbook isn't available on the platform.
Yeah... once you factor in BluRay sales, video service streaming fees, TV broadcast rights, and branded products (Toys, T-Shirts, etc) they'll still make a small fortune on this movie.
It's just going to take more time to become profitable than usual.
Sure, that's the rumored release date. Odds are you won't be able to actually get your hands on one for anywhere MSRP until October.
The only people getting them in August will likely be the people who preorder the overpriced "Founders Edition" or "Special Edition" cards, and the crypto miners will probably snap up most of the stock that's available in September.
If I was Nvidia's CEO, I'd probably say that they're not going to be available for awhile, either.
Well... at this point, I think that both of those companies have around an 800 Billion dollar market cap. I'm not sure how any antitrust committee could approve merging them at this point.
I already had to reluctantly replace my Nexus 7 with an iPad. The screen cracked (my kid dropped it), and there just wasn't another Android tablet that I could find that is as good.
Besides, Google stopped pushing Android updates to it about a year ago, so you can't keep it patched without 3rd party software.
The Nexus 7 was a fantastic tablet, though. It was fast (for it's time), had a great screen, and showed how awesome Android can be when the carriers and phone manufacturers aren't allowed to load it down with bloatware.
Meanwhile, you can still get OS updates for a 4 1/2 year old iPhone 5S.
Not all phone manufactures suck about keeping their older phones updated, but Samsung is definitely one of ones that is horrible at it.
The battery in my iPhone 6 lasted three years before it needed to be replaced.
Battery replacements only cost $29 at an Apple Store now, mostly because of the kerfuffle over Apple throttling older iPhones with bad batteries.
There are reasons to hate Apple, but overpriced battery replacements aren't one of them anymore.
I'd imagine that Nielsen has ways of detecting this, like if the channel on the cable box hasn't been changed in over 2 hours after a program is over.
With the data they are collecting, they probably have a pretty good idea of what your tastes in TV are. If the morning news is over and Jerry Springer is left on for 20 minutes before it was changed (and you don't normally watch Jerry Springer!), that's a clue that you might have been really watching it.
Nah... those guys can't afford FCC lobbyists like the media companies and telcos can.
Yeah... it's likely that someone at Wired spent the Bitcoin on blow and then conveniently "lost" the private key to cover their tracks.
Yeah, I read up about that. It seems that she triggered Alexa to record a voice message with something she said, it it was recording her as designed.
Not sure if you would call that a bug or user error, but it's not something that was designed on purpose.
You know that these things only send out your voice instructions to "the cloud" when the "Hey Google" or "Alexa" keywords are triggered, right? Otherwise, your voice goes nowhere.
People have connected packet sniffers to these things and confirmed this. I don't understand the paranoia over smart speakers. Sure, they'll probably get hacked at some point (like any other network connected device), but I'm sure that Google and Amazon will have patches available when the time comes.
Well, there ya go. Perhaps can use this game to simulate if arming teachers actually lowers the death count of a mass school shooting.
Personally, I think that it would, but only IF the teacher knew what they were doing with the firearm. Someone who isn't trained correctly would probably just up the body count by shooting through walls and hitting innocent bystanders.
Unfortunately, arming teachers would probably also increase the number of accidental shootings from kids finding a gun in a classroom that wasn't locked up correctly.
Yeah... didn't Sony just upgrade their Playstation 4 with a 4K capable "Plus" model a few months ago? I don't think that anybody that just bought one of those for $500 is going to be happy that it would have been obsolete by this Christmas.
Or, alternate ending would be:
"From where I sit, it feels like there are new competitors coming up every day, and we buy them up before they can become a serious threat"
He also happens to be one of the biggest opponents of open source software ever born, going all the way back to the dawn of the PC era.
I'm sure that will truly endear him to the Slashdot crowd.
Yeah, I can't afford any more kids. Preschool is expensive, dude.
I'm also not sure what kind of future these kids will have. If the Al Gore followers are right, the place where I live near the coast will turn into a swamp about 20 years from now.