Actually they will. I regularly got calls from my internet provider trying to upsell me on their cable/TV packages. I'd imagine that unless you have everything maxed, they continue to call trying to sell bigger bandwidth, long-distance calling plans, or movie channels.
That was kinda the point. It's beneficial to the traders.
How does this benefit those that actually produce (create or harvest) an actual product? Is there anyone that's going to benefit from that millisecond besides a trader?
Is Samsung or Apple going to profit by a few milliseconds? How about Microsoft? A small business? A mining corp?
Why not trade once every thousand years, if speed of market doesn't matter?
Because it matters to a human timescale. STM isn't like a medical procedure, where seconds or even milliseconds may count. You're not going to beat out a competitor by getting your product out a few seconds earlier. Probably not a few minutes earlier either. Hours? Maybe Days? Getting more likely...
But milliseconds or microseconds?
Until we get a race of sentient androids purchasing their own stuff in bulk volumes... probably not.
Netflix already supports subtitles. It's not on a lot of shows, but some do have them. If a given device doesn't support subtitles when the Netflix stream does, then it's the device maker that should be in the hot-seat for that case.
At this point, I think that Samsung is a lot farther ahead than it was a year ago.
A year ago, I went to Korea. People there are fairly gaga over devices. What did I see, fricking iPhones EVERYWHERE. Went back this year. What did I see. Galaxy Note has become the device-de-jour
iDevices are still considered "hip" on this side of the ocean, but the competitors are starting to get serious traction as well. Perhaps Samsung won't be able to hit iPhones profit-price-point, but with competitive pricing, they'll still make a killing.
Even my wife was a firm iPhone lover up until this year. Now she's been eyeing up my SG2 and wishes she'd gotten a tab (seems very suited to women as the size is purse-friendly than a regular smartphone or tablet).
With the GS3 coming and many others with tech that ahead of the iPhone, Android doesn't have any *need* to look similar, and will do better for being unique.
p.s. beveled raised edges beat rounded corners anyhow. A screen falling face-down is less likely to crack the screen. Although the newer OLED screens seem pretty resilient anyhow (dropped mine and it bounced screen-side off the corner of a metal filing cabinet, only damage was a bump in the anti-scratch film).
I suppose it would depend on the organ etc. Sam needs a kidney transplant. Bob has two healthy kidneys. Can Sam - who is of sound mind - agree to sell one of his kidneys for $x (I'm not sure if he can or not). Obviously, Bob can't sell his heart or non-redundant organs. Somebody shouldn't be able to sell anothers' organs due to the possibility of black-market harvesting etc.
I hear of people who volunteer [redundant organ x] to others. How about if a pricetag is involved for living transplants?
Obviously it can (and has been) mis-used, but I've seen various good uses for sound on webpages. For example, on a monitoring system, it might be good to have it play an audible alert along with a visible one when a system has failed or is experiencing issues.
On a site with sound or music files, playing samples without needing an external plugin/player is useful. A lot of sites use embedded flash plugins for this which don't necessarily would on portable devices.
For sites which are more interactive (e.g. an ajax'ish UI with progress bars, etc), an audible warning on completion could also be useful.Again, it is doable on current systems but generally requires a plugin/player.
With all the above, it would be equally nice to have an option to TURN IT OFF, of course. If sound is integrated into the browser, then an easy way to do this would be to have a whitelist of sites allowed to play sound (perhaps it asks the first time a site tries) and/or a global enable/disable checkbox.
What made you choose a Vaio? This is just my personal opinion, but it does come from over a decade of working with various brands etc. Sony used to make good hardware in various markets, but I never found them to be particularly good in the laptop/notebook market for the price-point. I've never bought a $3500 laptop, but I'd wager than a good portion of that price is simply the brand. Overall, I've found that the Vaio laptops were often thinner, but more prone to failure/damage and not any better spec'd than their somewhat less expensive counterparts.
E.G. In a generation where a Toshiba, HP, and Dell laptop would be able $8000-1200, the Vaio might be $1000-1500+ but not offer any better hardware. For a long time they often offered *less* than other manufacturers by only offering Sony-centric hardware (Sony memory-stick reader instead of a multi-card reader, etc). I knew a lot of asian (generally Chinese) students who were big on the Sony brand and - as the designated "tech guy" - often asked me to check out their laptops when they broke. There were terrible issues with display hinges, optical drive failure, and docking ports etc.
That's not to say that other manufacturers are great. My issues with HP hardware and support (known defects which they deny, major issues with graphic card overheats, etc) have been pretty nasty, so I'd actually rather go Sony than HP, but generally I've found that most others go through cycles of good/bad but are generally predicable overall.
My recommendation (again, just IMHO). Don't got with the just-out-the-door latest laptop. Give them at least a few months to have a few reviews and watch the reviews, etc. Unless you happen to just hit a major technology milestone or the next-year models, there's probably not going to be a huge difference between this month and a few months ago. Get what you need. The biggest, baddest GPU+CPU is also going to generate a lot of heat. That MacBook air is in many ways built for comfort over speed (GPU-wise etc). Also, check some of the less-common brands.
I ended up with an Asus laptop - which many stores don't carry a lot of compared to the HP's/Toshibas/Lenovo's etc - and it's served me well. Good warranty. No hardware issues. It runs current games with good performance, and while it gets hot running battlefield 3 or compiling, it's pretty cool for normal use. It took me about a month of shopping around and checking reviews. Next time might be a Toshiba, Lenovo (or who knows, maybe even a Sony), but whatever it is will be a balance of comfort and power.
I was thinking more back to the early/bad PHP days when register_globals was on by default. Some people that were moving towards PHP from other languages didn't realize this (and/or the inherent dangers) which resulted in some pretty ugly vulnerabilities. There were also some issues with some of the preg_* functions doing unexpected things (I believe memory leaks were once an issue).
But yeah, having recently worked with some PHP code that *isn't* using PDO, I sure do miss the Perl'ish way. That and regular expressions in PHP aren't nearly as nice.
Agreed. I've worked jobs previously where I made more money (including the cost-of-living factor), but the work-life balanced sucked so I left to take a lesser-paying jobs elsewhere.
Boss actually offered me a rather huge increase when I left too, but it wasn't about the money.
Not that money doesn't hurt. You need enough to pay the bills, and more money can sometimes compensate for less time (things you might not have time to do yourself but can then afford to pay somebody else to do), but it's not the be-all solution to life.
Actually, it does matter. A candidate with 5 years writing Perl scripts isn't necessarily going to be able to immediately write pro PHP scripts (vs a candidate with 5 years hard PHP experience) and certainly isn't going to be a pro C programmer whatever his/her Pascal or Visual Basic experience might be.
Can the candidate learn? Certainly possible. In time to do the work that needs doing, with good quality (and good security practices)? Quite likely not.
I actually had a job interview where they described a system they were running (in terms of the GUI etc) and asked if I can program addons etc for that. When I asked what language it was (or needed to be) made in, they couldn't answer me. In fact, they seemed annoyed that I kept asking about it. I wasn't able to determine if it was a web-app, Java app, compiled C++ binary, or whatever. In the end, I more or less passed on the job because I couldn't determine my own qualifications for the position.
I'm definitely proficient in the scripting languages I use on a regular basic (generally PHP/Perl), used to be decent with C++ (haven't used it much in awhile), and was able to pick my way through enough of other languages to fix other people's code, but the idea of taking on a job with hard deadlines and no clue as to what tools I'd be working with... not a good idea IMHO.
I've seen plenty of people who do seem to have your opinion. Yes, they can fuddle through and may get code that approximately gets the job done. They don't write GOOD code though, so what you end up with is often a buggy, inefficient mess. I've not a pro in various languages myself but I've still seen the horrific jobs that occur in such situations.
I find it rather disturbing that a recommendation to lie on your resume has a moderation of insightful.
Had an disagreement with my father the other day. A quick google lookup gave the correct answer:-)
Other than looking stuff up on google and calls/email, useful stuff my phone does navigation, manages stuff I have for sale (kijiji/craigslist), tracks my packages, provides a hotspot to my e-reader/laptop, allows extra security on my email, lets me look up movies, takes pictures, tracks the mileage of my car, controls the music on my MPD server, allows me to make inexpensive VOIP calls, allows me to keep up-to-date on my online banking, plays music while I'm out biking/hiking, scans barcodes, keeps note of calendar items such as birthdays/appointments, allows a connection to trade files with my fileserver, etc.
I suppose this depends on your definition of "constructive", but without a smart-device I'd likely miss more birthdays/appointments, have less track of my bills and other statistical information, and spend a lot more time near a computer/w internet to get various things done.
Elsewhere things are more sane. I believe in EU that enforced arbitration is not allowed, and in BC Canada you can't be forced to give up your rights to class action in this manner.
another striking thing that backs this up is that schizophrenia rates are significantly higher in developed countries than in developing countries
a) How many people with schizophrenia would actually get to a doctor/professional to be diagnosed in poorer countries b) How many would survive to adulthood and/or long enough to have children, etc?
It appears that they released Amalur, and were working on Project copernicus (which is the MMO). As Amalur didn't break even and basically bankrupted them, Copernicus won't likely be completed (unless somebody else buys them out and finishes it).
Were they products you actually cared about? All I remember seeing were a) Car ads (I'm not shopping for a car) b) Intimate product ads, many targetted at an older demographic (I don't need viagra or KY, thanks) c) Feminine hygiene products (not a woman, and my fiancee doesn't have hygiene issues) d) A bunch of sh*t that was our of my region. Not going to drive 4000km to hit Red Lobster or some car dealership e) Some upcoming movies or games etc
The latter was the only one that might slightly interest me, and none of it was new. They *all* tended to repeat the same ads several times through a show, making me much more pissed off than interested.
Seriously, if they want to advertise viagra and KY, better to try and get ads at the local pharmacy than on the tube. You'll catch more people who are interested and physically present.
The cloud is a security hole. Some people get it. Some (likely most) people don't.
It's nice to see those that *do* get it. It shows an outbreak of common sense, critical thinking, and also gives me examples to provide to other people who are too trusting of today's technology...
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I've used it on machines with RAID-1 (software)+LVM and not had any issues.
Actually they will. I regularly got calls from my internet provider trying to upsell me on their cable/TV packages. I'd imagine that unless you have everything maxed, they continue to call trying to sell bigger bandwidth, long-distance calling plans, or movie channels.
If a rabbit could choose humans or rabbits, which would it likely choose?
That was kinda the point. It's beneficial to the traders.
How does this benefit those that actually produce (create or harvest) an actual product? Is there anyone that's going to benefit from that millisecond besides a trader?
Is Samsung or Apple going to profit by a few milliseconds? How about Microsoft?
A small business?
A mining corp?
See title of the post.
Why not trade once every thousand years, if speed of market doesn't matter?
Because it matters to a human timescale. STM isn't like a medical procedure, where seconds or even milliseconds may count.
You're not going to beat out a competitor by getting your product out a few seconds earlier. Probably not a few minutes earlier either.
Hours? Maybe
Days? Getting more likely...
But milliseconds or microseconds?
Until we get a race of sentient androids purchasing their own stuff in bulk volumes... probably not.
But rather than the tiny subtitle text at the bottom, I want to see it in 1960-style batman captions...
Netflix already supports subtitles. It's not on a lot of shows, but some do have them.
If a given device doesn't support subtitles when the Netflix stream does, then it's the device maker that should be in the hot-seat for that case.
At this point, I think that Samsung is a lot farther ahead than it was a year ago.
A year ago, I went to Korea. People there are fairly gaga over devices. What did I see, fricking iPhones EVERYWHERE.
Went back this year. What did I see. Galaxy Note has become the device-de-jour
iDevices are still considered "hip" on this side of the ocean, but the competitors are starting to get serious traction as well. Perhaps Samsung won't be able to hit iPhones profit-price-point, but with competitive pricing, they'll still make a killing.
Even my wife was a firm iPhone lover up until this year. Now she's been eyeing up my SG2 and wishes she'd gotten a tab (seems very suited to women as the size is purse-friendly than a regular smartphone or tablet).
With the GS3 coming and many others with tech that ahead of the iPhone, Android doesn't have any *need* to look similar, and will do better for being unique.
p.s. beveled raised edges beat rounded corners anyhow. A screen falling face-down is less likely to crack the screen. Although the newer OLED screens seem pretty resilient anyhow (dropped mine and it bounced screen-side off the corner of a metal filing cabinet, only damage was a bump in the anti-scratch film).
I suppose it would depend on the organ etc.
Sam needs a kidney transplant. Bob has two healthy kidneys. Can Sam - who is of sound mind - agree to sell one of his kidneys for $x (I'm not sure if he can or not).
Obviously, Bob can't sell his heart or non-redundant organs. Somebody shouldn't be able to sell anothers' organs due to the possibility of black-market harvesting etc.
I hear of people who volunteer [redundant organ x] to others. How about if a pricetag is involved for living transplants?
the same idiots who claimed that stock/housing prices could just keep going up and up FOREVER!
They pretty much can if you factor in devaluation of currency (not a good thing, but not impossible to happen)
Fine if you want to listen to a whole item, there's no reason you can't download+play it. For clips or segments, etc, that would be a huge PITA.
Obviously it can (and has been) mis-used, but I've seen various good uses for sound on webpages.
For example, on a monitoring system, it might be good to have it play an audible alert along with a visible one when a system has failed or is experiencing issues.
On a site with sound or music files, playing samples without needing an external plugin/player is useful. A lot of sites use embedded flash plugins for this which don't necessarily would on portable devices.
For sites which are more interactive (e.g. an ajax'ish UI with progress bars, etc), an audible warning on completion could also be useful.Again, it is doable on current systems but generally requires a plugin/player.
With all the above, it would be equally nice to have an option to TURN IT OFF, of course. If sound is integrated into the browser, then an easy way to do this would be to have a whitelist of sites allowed to play sound (perhaps it asks the first time a site tries) and/or a global enable/disable checkbox.
What made you choose a Vaio? This is just my personal opinion, but it does come from over a decade of working with various brands etc. Sony used to make good hardware in various markets, but I never found them to be particularly good in the laptop/notebook market for the price-point. I've never bought a $3500 laptop, but I'd wager than a good portion of that price is simply the brand. Overall, I've found that the Vaio laptops were often thinner, but more prone to failure/damage and not any better spec'd than their somewhat less expensive counterparts.
E.G. In a generation where a Toshiba, HP, and Dell laptop would be able $8000-1200, the Vaio might be $1000-1500+ but not offer any better hardware. For a long time they often offered *less* than other manufacturers by only offering Sony-centric hardware (Sony memory-stick reader instead of a multi-card reader, etc). I knew a lot of asian (generally Chinese) students who were big on the Sony brand and - as the designated "tech guy" - often asked me to check out their laptops when they broke. There were terrible issues with display hinges, optical drive failure, and docking ports etc.
That's not to say that other manufacturers are great. My issues with HP hardware and support (known defects which they deny, major issues with graphic card overheats, etc) have been pretty nasty, so I'd actually rather go Sony than HP, but generally I've found that most others go through cycles of good/bad but are generally predicable overall.
My recommendation (again, just IMHO). Don't got with the just-out-the-door latest laptop. Give them at least a few months to have a few reviews and watch the reviews, etc. Unless you happen to just hit a major technology milestone or the next-year models, there's probably not going to be a huge difference between this month and a few months ago. Get what you need. The biggest, baddest GPU+CPU is also going to generate a lot of heat. That MacBook air is in many ways built for comfort over speed (GPU-wise etc). Also, check some of the less-common brands.
I ended up with an Asus laptop - which many stores don't carry a lot of compared to the HP's/Toshibas/Lenovo's etc - and it's served me well. Good warranty. No hardware issues. It runs current games with good performance, and while it gets hot running battlefield 3 or compiling, it's pretty cool for normal use. It took me about a month of shopping around and checking reviews. Next time might be a Toshiba, Lenovo (or who knows, maybe even a Sony), but whatever it is will be a balance of comfort and power.
I was thinking more back to the early/bad PHP days when register_globals was on by default.
Some people that were moving towards PHP from other languages didn't realize this (and/or the inherent dangers) which resulted in some pretty ugly vulnerabilities. There were also some issues with some of the preg_* functions doing unexpected things (I believe memory leaks were once an issue).
But yeah, having recently worked with some PHP code that *isn't* using PDO, I sure do miss the Perl'ish way. That and regular expressions in PHP aren't nearly as nice.
Agreed. I've worked jobs previously where I made more money (including the cost-of-living factor), but the work-life balanced sucked so I left to take a lesser-paying jobs elsewhere.
Boss actually offered me a rather huge increase when I left too, but it wasn't about the money.
Not that money doesn't hurt. You need enough to pay the bills, and more money can sometimes compensate for less time (things you might not have time to do yourself but can then afford to pay somebody else to do), but it's not the be-all solution to life.
Actually, it does matter. A candidate with 5 years writing Perl scripts isn't necessarily going to be able to immediately write pro PHP scripts (vs a candidate with 5 years hard PHP experience) and certainly isn't going to be a pro C programmer whatever his/her Pascal or Visual Basic experience might be.
Can the candidate learn? Certainly possible.
In time to do the work that needs doing, with good quality (and good security practices)? Quite likely not.
I actually had a job interview where they described a system they were running (in terms of the GUI etc) and asked if I can program addons etc for that. When I asked what language it was (or needed to be) made in, they couldn't answer me. In fact, they seemed annoyed that I kept asking about it. I wasn't able to determine if it was a web-app, Java app, compiled C++ binary, or whatever. In the end, I more or less passed on the job because I couldn't determine my own qualifications for the position.
I'm definitely proficient in the scripting languages I use on a regular basic (generally PHP/Perl), used to be decent with C++ (haven't used it much in awhile), and was able to pick my way through enough of other languages to fix other people's code, but the idea of taking on a job with hard deadlines and no clue as to what tools I'd be working with... not a good idea IMHO.
I've seen plenty of people who do seem to have your opinion. Yes, they can fuddle through and may get code that approximately gets the job done. They don't write GOOD code though, so what you end up with is often a buggy, inefficient mess. I've not a pro in various languages myself but I've still seen the horrific jobs that occur in such situations.
I find it rather disturbing that a recommendation to lie on your resume has a moderation of insightful.
Had an disagreement with my father the other day. A quick google lookup gave the correct answer :-)
Other than looking stuff up on google and calls/email, useful stuff my phone does navigation, manages stuff I have for sale (kijiji/craigslist), tracks my packages, provides a hotspot to my e-reader/laptop, allows extra security on my email, lets me look up movies, takes pictures, tracks the mileage of my car, controls the music on my MPD server, allows me to make inexpensive VOIP calls, allows me to keep up-to-date on my online banking, plays music while I'm out biking/hiking, scans barcodes, keeps note of calendar items such as birthdays/appointments, allows a connection to trade files with my fileserver, etc.
I suppose this depends on your definition of "constructive", but without a smart-device I'd likely miss more birthdays/appointments, have less track of my bills and other statistical information, and spend a lot more time near a computer /w internet to get various things done.
How about the ones that said "what's he doing" and stole another kid's marshmallow?
Elsewhere things are more sane. I believe in EU that enforced arbitration is not allowed, and in BC Canada you can't be forced to give up your rights to class action in this manner.
another striking thing that backs this up is that schizophrenia rates are significantly higher in developed countries than in developing countries
a) How many people with schizophrenia would actually get to a doctor/professional to be diagnosed in poorer countries
b) How many would survive to adulthood and/or long enough to have children, etc?
I was confused by this at first as well.
It appears that they released Amalur, and were working on Project copernicus (which is the MMO). As Amalur didn't break even and basically bankrupted them, Copernicus won't likely be completed (unless somebody else buys them out and finishes it).
Pills? ...
I'm going for a cyborg body, which will be - as Cmdr Data calls it - "fully functional and programmed in many techniques"
Were they products you actually cared about?
All I remember seeing were
a) Car ads (I'm not shopping for a car)
b) Intimate product ads, many targetted at an older demographic (I don't need viagra or KY, thanks)
c) Feminine hygiene products (not a woman, and my fiancee doesn't have hygiene issues)
d) A bunch of sh*t that was our of my region. Not going to drive 4000km to hit Red Lobster or some car dealership
e) Some upcoming movies or games etc
The latter was the only one that might slightly interest me, and none of it was new. They *all* tended to repeat the same ads several times through a show, making me much more pissed off than interested.
Seriously, if they want to advertise viagra and KY, better to try and get ads at the local pharmacy than on the tube. You'll catch more people who are interested and physically present.
The cloud is a security hole. Some people get it. Some (likely most) people don't.
It's nice to see those that *do* get it. It shows an outbreak of common sense, critical thinking, and also gives me examples to provide to other people who are too trusting of today's technology...