It's not just a matter familiarity. If nothing else, the ribbon is an atrocious waste of screen real estate. Look at "Page Layout... Size." Do I really need a picture of a piece of paper with arrows along the horizontal and vertical axes to explain "size"? No! You can minimize the ribbon, but it still re-appears when you access it, with all the visual clutter and disorganization making it slower to find and move your mouse to what you need. And for what?
Humbug. The referendum on our government's response to 9/11 was the decisive re-election of Bush/Cheney in 2004. You can say they used scare-mongering to win over the public, but ultimately the public is responsible for the votes they (we) cast.
It's not recognizing the pencil that's impressive, it's the response time - the super-low latency required to balance the pencil in real time. I'm not certain it's unprecedented, but it's definitely not something you could accomplish with a webcam.
While the TFA's GTA movie is no doubt impressive...
Yeah, I mean, who would have thought to start with something like GTA, and somehow totally transform it into "an epic 88-minutes of sex, drugs and violence"?
That shows 43% of their revenues coming from subscriptions. The article says 80% of profits come from those revenues. Does the 10-Q you linked contradict that? I would guess the accounting rules for deciding which profits come from which revenues are complicated, since it seems like a nebulous question.
Hey stupid, the people creating this technology would never have bothered if they thought the earth's natural reserves were going to last forever, i.e. they're aware of peak oil too, and are investing to get around it.
The technicalities you're talking about don't matter. What does matter is getting your point across, which requires an understanding of how people will react to what you write (such as predicting how somebody could misinterpret the words). You can only gain that ability through experience and feedback from your audience, and texting is giving today's kids more of that than ever before. They'll be great writers because writing is once again a tool that's actually useful for communicating with people they care about.
1. Don't erase any images from the flash card. Get a new card when full. Flash is cheap. Photos are priceless.
I don't understand why somebody would do this? What in the world are you going to do with boxes full of flash cards? How is that in any way better than consolidating them onto a hard drive and an offsite backup hard drive, and re-using the flash?
He said the state is going to look at every region and see which area is the best at a certain practice and ask if the community is willing to share it with the rest of the state... He said he's going to give Michiganders a sense of how the state's doing on myriad metrics annually. He also said wants to give residents a road map of where the state is going, by planning a two-year budget and creating an online "dashboard" that tracks the government's progress on different issues.
Now, we can have a lot of pointless dickering about whether the term "Open Source" is being abused. But more importantly, those ideas in themselves sound fine to me. I doubt they'll be enough to solve Michigan's huge problems, but that's another matter.
Like I said, if the card is cloned and not lost, you have 60 days to notice and report the charges (actually it's longer - 60 days from when the bank sends out the paper statement on which the charge appears).
Even if you physically lose the card, the two business days is from when you notice it. That's how the regulation is written.
You're mistaken about debit cards. So long as you report them within two business days after realizing the card is lost, your liability is limited by federal law to $50, same as a credit card. And you're not responsible for any unauthorized transfers (not involving the loss of the card) so long as you report them within 60 days.
And that's just what the law requires. In practice, I think every Visa or Mastercard debit or credit card has stronger protections than that - I've had unauthorized charges show up on a few cards, both personal and corporate, and never been held liable for anything beyond a $5 card replacement fee.
Oh, I see you didn't look at the pictures. They strung UTP cable right across the snow-covered grass and entryway of the guy who's complaining! You can't even swing the door open without a likely network outage!
A significant portion of the space concentration aerospace engineers that I graduated with from Cal Poly specifically avoided the defense megacorps when hunting for jobs (Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup) precisely because they did not want to work for an organization that had that kind of access into their personal lives.
It's kind of a bummer, but engineers (speaking broadly, including e.g. C.S. but especially aerospace) can't do much R&D without making that particular deal with the devil. The vast majority of research funding is related to either medicine or defense, and medicine doesn't have a great need for research-level engineers. That leaves defense. Obviously I'm speaking in generalities, but I'll stand by them. Sure, you can go out and start a business in whatever domain you like, but if people don't spend money there, it will be short-lived.
Blu-Ray's picture is probably great, but between the problems of having to pay extra, and wait for a physical disc, and not being able to copy it over to my iPod Video (for treadmill viewing), I've never actually watched one. The quality of streaming video has improved so rapidly in just the last few years - from animated GIFs to illicit VCD to youtube to Netflix HD - plus the massive upgrade from NTSC to broadcast HD - I'm thinking I'll just skip Blu Ray.
I would rather netflix stay fixed cost for unlimited service, and have somebody else charge for "premium" content. (Amazon Video on Demand is my current favorite, although their price of $3.99 for new releases is too rich for my blood.)
If netflix got into both, I fear the amount included in the fixed monthly bill would become less instead of more.
The streamed content is nowhere near the size of the data on a DVD. If they were streaming the entire DVD it would cost much more.
It's is claimed between 1.8 and 3 GB per movie. Quite a bit less than DVD bitrate, but it's not 350 MB/hr like a lot of torrents used to be, either.
Subjectively, I think the visual quality of HD netflix streams easily surpasses DVD, evidently due to more efficient encoding. (Maybe I'm just not watching enough visually-frenzied action movies).
It's a surprising disparity to me to, and the wiggle words "up to $1" are probably there for a reason. With mail delays, you can get basically 2 DVDs per week for each you are allowed home at once. For the two at a time plan, that would be $16 per month on shipping alone for a plan that costs $14.99 per month. It's possible netflix runs that way, since most customers probably aren't nearly that efficient. But I am that efficient, and you'd think they would have throttled me by now if I were an unprofitable customer.
What I fail to see in the article is how the virus would have been any more effective had they used the entire bag of tricks. You use what you must, and save the rest for next time.
Senior devs find it difficult to keep up with new technologies because the company is too busy milking the existing skillset. They're not going to excuse you from your current job just because it's a dead-end leading to career stagnation; after all, they really need somebody to do it, for the moment.
For some reason companies rather have high turnover and pay each new hire more than give raises to staff. It makes no sense and is not fair, but it is life.
It does make sense: employees have an extremely high job switching cost (which may require selling a home, uprooting kids' and spouse's life, and finding the spouse a new job) whereas the new hire can go here or somewhere else just as easily. Thus it makes sense to take advantage of those already on roll, regardless of their value to the company.
It's astonishing that they can keep such a process rolling with 500 engineers, let alone 200
It is astonishing. I guess that's why nobody was doing it before, and they were able to get rich from a mere website in what seemed to be an already established niche.
Most of the comments here are looking at the process and predicting a result. That's backwards. We can see the result; the company is extremely successful. If that doesn't match your mental model of processes, maybe the mental model needs updating.
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It's not just a matter familiarity. If nothing else, the ribbon is an atrocious waste of screen real estate. Look at "Page Layout... Size." Do I really need a picture of a piece of paper with arrows along the horizontal and vertical axes to explain "size"? No! You can minimize the ribbon, but it still re-appears when you access it, with all the visual clutter and disorganization making it slower to find and move your mouse to what you need. And for what?
And the search? Curiously, the article titled "Earth" is the tenth result for the search term "Earth".
Humbug. The referendum on our government's response to 9/11 was the decisive re-election of Bush/Cheney in 2004. You can say they used scare-mongering to win over the public, but ultimately the public is responsible for the votes they (we) cast.
It's not recognizing the pencil that's impressive, it's the response time - the super-low latency required to balance the pencil in real time. I'm not certain it's unprecedented, but it's definitely not something you could accomplish with a webcam.
Yeah, I mean, who would have thought to start with something like GTA, and somehow totally transform it into "an epic 88-minutes of sex, drugs and violence"?
That shows 43% of their revenues coming from subscriptions. The article says 80% of profits come from those revenues. Does the 10-Q you linked contradict that? I would guess the accounting rules for deciding which profits come from which revenues are complicated, since it seems like a nebulous question.
Hey stupid, the people creating this technology would never have bothered if they thought the earth's natural reserves were going to last forever, i.e. they're aware of peak oil too, and are investing to get around it.
The technicalities you're talking about don't matter. What does matter is getting your point across, which requires an understanding of how people will react to what you write (such as predicting how somebody could misinterpret the words). You can only gain that ability through experience and feedback from your audience, and texting is giving today's kids more of that than ever before. They'll be great writers because writing is once again a tool that's actually useful for communicating with people they care about.
I'd call it the opposite; they sent us thousands of cargo ships full of goods, in exchange for permission to copy some bits, and billions of IOUs.
I'd trust a general-purpose web browser to be more secure and less buggy than some made-up "app" any day.
I don't understand why somebody would do this? What in the world are you going to do with boxes full of flash cards? How is that in any way better than consolidating them onto a hard drive and an offsite backup hard drive, and re-using the flash?
Now, we can have a lot of pointless dickering about whether the term "Open Source" is being abused. But more importantly, those ideas in themselves sound fine to me. I doubt they'll be enough to solve Michigan's huge problems, but that's another matter.
Even if you physically lose the card, the two business days is from when you notice it. That's how the regulation is written.
And that's just what the law requires. In practice, I think every Visa or Mastercard debit or credit card has stronger protections than that - I've had unauthorized charges show up on a few cards, both personal and corporate, and never been held liable for anything beyond a $5 card replacement fee.
Oh, I see you didn't look at the pictures. They strung UTP cable right across the snow-covered grass and entryway of the guy who's complaining! You can't even swing the door open without a likely network outage!
It's kind of a bummer, but engineers (speaking broadly, including e.g. C.S. but especially aerospace) can't do much R&D without making that particular deal with the devil. The vast majority of research funding is related to either medicine or defense, and medicine doesn't have a great need for research-level engineers. That leaves defense. Obviously I'm speaking in generalities, but I'll stand by them. Sure, you can go out and start a business in whatever domain you like, but if people don't spend money there, it will be short-lived.
Blu-Ray's picture is probably great, but between the problems of having to pay extra, and wait for a physical disc, and not being able to copy it over to my iPod Video (for treadmill viewing), I've never actually watched one. The quality of streaming video has improved so rapidly in just the last few years - from animated GIFs to illicit VCD to youtube to Netflix HD - plus the massive upgrade from NTSC to broadcast HD - I'm thinking I'll just skip Blu Ray.
If netflix got into both, I fear the amount included in the fixed monthly bill would become less instead of more.
It's is claimed between 1.8 and 3 GB per movie. Quite a bit less than DVD bitrate, but it's not 350 MB/hr like a lot of torrents used to be, either.
Subjectively, I think the visual quality of HD netflix streams easily surpasses DVD, evidently due to more efficient encoding. (Maybe I'm just not watching enough visually-frenzied action movies).
It's a surprising disparity to me to, and the wiggle words "up to $1" are probably there for a reason. With mail delays, you can get basically 2 DVDs per week for each you are allowed home at once. For the two at a time plan, that would be $16 per month on shipping alone for a plan that costs $14.99 per month. It's possible netflix runs that way, since most customers probably aren't nearly that efficient. But I am that efficient, and you'd think they would have throttled me by now if I were an unprofitable customer.
What I fail to see in the article is how the virus would have been any more effective had they used the entire bag of tricks. You use what you must, and save the rest for next time.
Senior devs find it difficult to keep up with new technologies because the company is too busy milking the existing skillset. They're not going to excuse you from your current job just because it's a dead-end leading to career stagnation; after all, they really need somebody to do it, for the moment.
It does make sense: employees have an extremely high job switching cost (which may require selling a home, uprooting kids' and spouse's life, and finding the spouse a new job) whereas the new hire can go here or somewhere else just as easily. Thus it makes sense to take advantage of those already on roll, regardless of their value to the company.
According to the juvenile activist slashdot exaggeration of the law, yes. Otherwise, no.
It is astonishing. I guess that's why nobody was doing it before, and they were able to get rich from a mere website in what seemed to be an already established niche.
Most of the comments here are looking at the process and predicting a result. That's backwards. We can see the result; the company is extremely successful. If that doesn't match your mental model of processes, maybe the mental model needs updating.