I think this is pretty much the real reason. A lot of these sites don't offer a lot of value except what's pumped up by marketing/sales folks. They don't PRODUCE anything, yet get insane valuations, at least until the next bubble bursts.
Actually, casting is probably one of the uses I *would* like to see in a smart TV. Screw a bunch of built-in apps that are poorly maintained and don't support future functionality, whatever is on your device should work.
Still, this seems more like ChromeCast, which is usually a type of buffered casting. I'd like to see something that is more like Mirroring etc, and better support for non-mobile devices. Being able to cast my laptop to the TV/etc as a second display wirelessly would be great (code on one, render on another).
Things like PTSD, forms of dementia, or personality disorders come to mind. How do these affect brainwaves in regards to the test?
While I'm not sure about the latter two, I recently listened to a radio-documentary about PTSD and how one company was combining monitoring of brainwaves with various forms of therapy in order to find the most effective treatment, so it stands to reason that heavy stress and particularly PTSD may change things.
Well, water is one solution to this, but generally that means consuming and polluting your water. One the other hand, there are ways to deal with waste that often require... (guess what)... power!
One of the simpler versions of this would be a solar composting outhouse. Heat the waste up to kill all the bacteria etc and you're left with a bunch of nice usable soil.
Having non-production and production environments is a good way to manage this. Have a process to strip/anonymize any "sensitive" information and build the non-production/test system from the backups. If it builds, then not only do you have a production-like system to test on, but you've just taken strong steps towards confirming the backups are good.
Sorry, but when I make income it doesn't come with instructions that cheating on taxes is bad, nor did standard fireworks say not to fire them near an airport when last I used them. Perhaps laser pointers have an aviation warning but those didn't when last I bought one either.
Why, because f***ing COMMON SENSE should already apply. But then, you people seem to need labels on your peanuts that say "allergen alert: contains peanuts"
"and unless spectacularly mishandled, does NOT lead to the plane crashing."
Yes, because when a man-made object hits your engine and causes it to pretty much blow apart in a terribly unpredictable way in a crowded airfield during one of the most sensitive parts of the flight, mishandling by the pilot is obviously going to be fault of any crash...
On the other hand, it's probably a good idea to wash your hands *beforehand*, as some of the skin on that particular part of your body is rather thin and you don't want to introduce nasties if possible.
But regardless of what your hands touch, combining thin skin and an area prone to being warm and possibly sweaty is still a good incubator for unpleasant things such as the bacteria/fungi behind jock itch etc.
Also, always rinse hands well after preparing habanero or other hot peppers or other extremely hot foods or you'll be doing a little pain-dance for quite awhile afterwards
And air pollution. If somebody drops a bomb you don't want it leaking out into the adjacent electronics section, food court, etc. Proper ventilation and air circulation are important, but generally you want that taking it somewhere other than the next room.
Where I worked previously, we would generally disclaim having backups, until an important situation arrives (we did have them, but if people don't think we don't they're a bit less likely to do something stupid with their data).
I completely agree that there are corrupt multinationals operating in Africa who allow or create human-rights abuses and don't follow safety/environmental practices. Sadly, I'm even aware of some from my home country. This also happens in other countries such as the garment industry in Pakistan,etc
However, as per the article, the thing about many of these companies is that at least when they're caught out, there can be enough of an outcry and/or penalties to push for a change in behaviour. The domestic industry is pretty much untouchable due to links with local government and no international accountability (the solution of "help overthrow the corrupt government" doesn't tend to work out so well either, as we've seen many times).
So no, I'm not saying we're innocent and rosy, and certainly western countries have their share of corruption. Meddling in politics to remove rights, burying human-rights-violating companies under shells. Not to mention that we've pretty much shipped industry overseas in general, which screws both local citizens (loss of jobs) and allows the corps to profit in a low-regulation jurisdiction. NIMBY'ism tends to be bad on this one... people don't want local mines, plantations, etc because they look bad and may have local environmental impact (so instead lets send them to screw the environment somewhere else that has even LESS regulation).
But beside all that, the point still remains. Multinationals are nasty and bad. In many cases the local corporations - especially as tied to the regime - are just as bad and even less accountable (barring revolt).
How useful is this? It seems like it would lock out competing low-cost cables while not dealing with the really bad ones. If a cable has a fault which will fry your computer/port, software isn't going to help much by that point.
Similar issue in Canada where there are pockets that are vastly dominated by a given (non-local) culture/language. A friend of mine had parents who had been here for decades, but still didn't really speak English because they lived in a "Chinatown" where they could get all their personal needs met. It put a lot of pressure on my friend however, who was the oldest child. As she learned to speak full English in school, she had to deal with parent-teacher interviews and help her parents with legal/tax forms as they couldn't understand the English themselves. It's my personal opinion, but I find that moving to a country and not bothering to learn the official/dominant language, or at least some of the culture is pretty pathetic. Certainly if I moved out-of-country I'd do so for the betterment of myself and my family
For the record, my wife is an ESL immigrant and agrees with this, as do the majority of our ESL friends. They do like to get together and speak the "mother tongue" and share food etc, but they also integrate with the community-at-large and make a good effort to learn English etc.
Except that domestic companies are even worse. Owned by internal corrupt government members, they're pretty much above the law and all the money goes back to those same corrupt governments. Since they have no international presence, there's not the same international pressure to clean up their act either.
I wonder if it's social pressures, or some other driving force. I can only go on personal experience, but I know a gal who was quite smart. At least as much as myself (no, not being egotistic, just comparative), and definitely better educated. We competed on grades in secondary school. Post HS, she took the same program in Uni as me plus others I didn't take.
However, afterwards, the job market was of course tough for everyone. We both initially ended up with fairly low-paying jobs (not minimum wage but only a bit better than) that were only somewhat related to our education. From there, that's where we diverged. I often gave up my "comfort zone" to take risks on better jobs. First, it was a job was better than my previous, but only offered trial contract where I split shifts with another person (and thus, I had two jobs that I worked part-time). I hung in with it and eventually the other guy quit, leaving me a decent full-time position. From there, I moved between various jobs - even moving across the country - generally improving my situation or sometimes staying in something similar but learning more.
My friend, on the other hand, was not into looking for a new job. Even when her hours got cut back, and it was a "writing-on-the-wall" scenario, she wouldn't look until things pretty much reached the end. Even after that, she went into a similar industry that didn't pay great and didn't make use of her education. I will also confess that for awhile, said friend and I dated, and throughout I was pushing her to try for something better as I knew she was more than capable.
Again, I only have person experience to go on, but I've found this the case with many female friends, relatives, and colleagues. There seems to be less risk-taking or changing of positions in general.
Around here, malls are pretty dead. Honestly I've always figured that if they added something like a small arcade, pub, or a couple of pool-tables they'd at least have better luck at getting mixed clientèle in...
The plea system is often broken because they use it to give the appearance of leniency while at the same time throwing the book at you. In reality it's to save court-time.
Well, we're offering you only two year in jail if you plead guilty to minor crime X, but if you don't please we're going to f***'ing nail you with A through Z and if any of that sticks, you're looking at 10+ years. Feel like copying any MORE movies, punk?
it is hard to physically intimidate a person stronger than you
By sheer physically prowess, perhaps, but add a frying pan, sharp object etc and it's likely not all that hard. Also, if a much-smaller partner is taken to slapping you in the head/face, or more physical acts, many guys have limited options even in defending themselves as clocking him/her (the partner) out is still probably going to end up with you in the bar of the squad-car. Similarly, even holding somebody off can lead to bruising if they struggle, which again leads to the more "imposing" looking person ending up in trouble, even if that person was not the aggressor.
In a lot of cases that's how much of real science works. Even if you have a great idea, unless it's great and CHEAP, you'll need to dig up funding or get a backer so you can make it happen.
If you've got a good concept for a working long-range teleporter, or a way to convert sand to gold but they require access to something like the LHC, then it won't do you much good without backing to get there...
Whenever I post a picture of my young'n, or anything personal, I add them to my personal site/gallery and then fire an update to FB letting people know there's new pictures. I've already asked that family *not* post pictures of her to Facebook, just send 'em to me for inclusion in the gallery.
I don't want to see my kid (or myself for that matter) showing up in Facebook ads or third-parties because some retarded EULA gave them permission to it.
Oh noes, that means I'll have to pay $120/yr for Netflix, which may be slightly more than a month of cable or satellite service (and minus the commercials). I guess I'll take the other $1000 and buy the stuff that's not available on Netflix
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"You need salesmen, marketers"
I think this is pretty much the real reason. A lot of these sites don't offer a lot of value except what's pumped up by marketing/sales folks. They don't PRODUCE anything, yet get insane valuations, at least until the next bubble bursts.
Actually, casting is probably one of the uses I *would* like to see in a smart TV. Screw a bunch of built-in apps that are poorly maintained and don't support future functionality, whatever is on your device should work.
Still, this seems more like ChromeCast, which is usually a type of buffered casting. I'd like to see something that is more like Mirroring etc, and better support for non-mobile devices. Being able to cast my laptop to the TV/etc as a second display wirelessly would be great (code on one, render on another).
Things like PTSD, forms of dementia, or personality disorders come to mind. How do these affect brainwaves in regards to the test?
While I'm not sure about the latter two, I recently listened to a radio-documentary about PTSD and how one company was combining monitoring of brainwaves with various forms of therapy in order to find the most effective treatment, so it stands to reason that heavy stress and particularly PTSD may change things.
Well, water is one solution to this, but generally that means consuming and polluting your water. One the other hand, there are ways to deal with waste that often require... (guess what) ... power!
One of the simpler versions of this would be a solar composting outhouse. Heat the waste up to kill all the bacteria etc and you're left with a bunch of nice usable soil.
Having non-production and production environments is a good way to manage this. Have a process to strip/anonymize any "sensitive" information and build the non-production/test system from the backups. If it builds, then not only do you have a production-like system to test on, but you've just taken strong steps towards confirming the backups are good.
Sorry, but when I make income it doesn't come with instructions that cheating on taxes is bad, nor did standard fireworks say not to fire them near an airport when last I used them. Perhaps laser pointers have an aviation warning but those didn't when last I bought one either.
Why, because f***ing COMMON SENSE should already apply. But then, you people seem to need labels on your peanuts that say "allergen alert: contains peanuts"
"and unless spectacularly mishandled, does NOT lead to the plane crashing."
Yes, because when a man-made object hits your engine and causes it to pretty much blow apart in a terribly unpredictable way in a crowded airfield during one of the most sensitive parts of the flight, mishandling by the pilot is obviously going to be fault of any crash...
On the other hand, it's probably a good idea to wash your hands *beforehand*, as some of the skin on that particular part of your body is rather thin and you don't want to introduce nasties if possible.
But regardless of what your hands touch, combining thin skin and an area prone to being warm and possibly sweaty is still a good incubator for unpleasant things such as the bacteria/fungi behind jock itch etc.
Also, always rinse hands well after preparing habanero or other hot peppers or other extremely hot foods or you'll be doing a little pain-dance for quite awhile afterwards
And air pollution. If somebody drops a bomb you don't want it leaking out into the adjacent electronics section, food court, etc.
Proper ventilation and air circulation are important, but generally you want that taking it somewhere other than the next room.
The bathrooms at my office have these, which seem to be a pretty smart idea. I wish they were everywhere.
Where I worked previously, we would generally disclaim having backups, until an important situation arrives (we did have them, but if people don't think we don't they're a bit less likely to do something stupid with their data).
And they couldn't get that information from the telecommunications provider?
I completely agree that there are corrupt multinationals operating in Africa who allow or create human-rights abuses and don't follow safety/environmental practices. Sadly, I'm even aware of some from my home country. This also happens in other countries such as the garment industry in Pakistan,etc
However, as per the article, the thing about many of these companies is that at least when they're caught out, there can be enough of an outcry and/or penalties to push for a change in behaviour. The domestic industry is pretty much untouchable due to links with local government and no international accountability (the solution of "help overthrow the corrupt government" doesn't tend to work out so well either, as we've seen many times).
So no, I'm not saying we're innocent and rosy, and certainly western countries have their share of corruption. Meddling in politics to remove rights, burying human-rights-violating companies under shells. Not to mention that we've pretty much shipped industry overseas in general, which screws both local citizens (loss of jobs) and allows the corps to profit in a low-regulation jurisdiction. NIMBY'ism tends to be bad on this one... people don't want local mines, plantations, etc because they look bad and may have local environmental impact (so instead lets send them to screw the environment somewhere else that has even LESS regulation).
But beside all that, the point still remains. Multinationals are nasty and bad. In many cases the local corporations - especially as tied to the regime - are just as bad and even less accountable (barring revolt).
How useful is this? It seems like it would lock out competing low-cost cables while not dealing with the really bad ones. If a cable has a fault which will fry your computer/port, software isn't going to help much by that point.
A hardware device might work better.
Similar issue in Canada where there are pockets that are vastly dominated by a given (non-local) culture/language. A friend of mine had parents who had been here for decades, but still didn't really speak English because they lived in a "Chinatown" where they could get all their personal needs met. It put a lot of pressure on my friend however, who was the oldest child. As she learned to speak full English in school, she had to deal with parent-teacher interviews and help her parents with legal/tax forms as they couldn't understand the English themselves. It's my personal opinion, but I find that moving to a country and not bothering to learn the official/dominant language, or at least some of the culture is pretty pathetic. Certainly if I moved out-of-country I'd do so for the betterment of myself and my family
For the record, my wife is an ESL immigrant and agrees with this, as do the majority of our ESL friends. They do like to get together and speak the "mother tongue" and share food etc, but they also integrate with the community-at-large and make a good effort to learn English etc.
Except that domestic companies are even worse. Owned by internal corrupt government members, they're pretty much above the law and all the money goes back to those same corrupt governments. Since they have no international presence, there's not the same international pressure to clean up their act either.
I wonder if it's social pressures, or some other driving force. I can only go on personal experience, but I know a gal who was quite smart. At least as much as myself (no, not being egotistic, just comparative), and definitely better educated. We competed on grades in secondary school. Post HS, she took the same program in Uni as me plus others I didn't take.
However, afterwards, the job market was of course tough for everyone. We both initially ended up with fairly low-paying jobs (not minimum wage but only a bit better than) that were only somewhat related to our education. From there, that's where we diverged. I often gave up my "comfort zone" to take risks on better jobs. First, it was a job was better than my previous, but only offered trial contract where I split shifts with another person (and thus, I had two jobs that I worked part-time). I hung in with it and eventually the other guy quit, leaving me a decent full-time position. From there, I moved between various jobs - even moving across the country - generally improving my situation or sometimes staying in something similar but learning more.
My friend, on the other hand, was not into looking for a new job. Even when her hours got cut back, and it was a "writing-on-the-wall" scenario, she wouldn't look until things pretty much reached the end. Even after that, she went into a similar industry that didn't pay great and didn't make use of her education. I will also confess that for awhile, said friend and I dated, and throughout I was pushing her to try for something better as I knew she was more than capable.
Again, I only have person experience to go on, but I've found this the case with many female friends, relatives, and colleagues. There seems to be less risk-taking or changing of positions in general.
"Sorry, the mall just went woman only"
What, they aren't already? :-)
Around here, malls are pretty dead. Honestly I've always figured that if they added something like a small arcade, pub, or a couple of pool-tables they'd at least have better luck at getting mixed clientèle in...
The plea system is often broken because they use it to give the appearance of leniency while at the same time throwing the book at you. In reality it's to save court-time.
Well, we're offering you only two year in jail if you plead guilty to minor crime X, but if you don't please we're going to f***'ing nail you with A through Z and if any of that sticks, you're looking at 10+ years. Feel like copying any MORE movies, punk?
it is hard to physically intimidate a person stronger than you
By sheer physically prowess, perhaps, but add a frying pan, sharp object etc and it's likely not all that hard. Also, if a much-smaller partner is taken to slapping you in the head/face, or more physical acts, many guys have limited options even in defending themselves as clocking him/her (the partner) out is still probably going to end up with you in the bar of the squad-car. Similarly, even holding somebody off can lead to bruising if they struggle, which again leads to the more "imposing" looking person ending up in trouble, even if that person was not the aggressor.
In a lot of cases that's how much of real science works. Even if you have a great idea, unless it's great and CHEAP, you'll need to dig up funding or get a backer so you can make it happen.
If you've got a good concept for a working long-range teleporter, or a way to convert sand to gold but they require access to something like the LHC, then it won't do you much good without backing to get there...
Unity, systemd, pulseaudio (which is getting a lot better but can still be a pain sometimes) and a bunch of other stuff...
Whenever I post a picture of my young'n, or anything personal, I add them to my personal site/gallery and then fire an update to FB letting people know there's new pictures. I've already asked that family *not* post pictures of her to Facebook, just send 'em to me for inclusion in the gallery.
I don't want to see my kid (or myself for that matter) showing up in Facebook ads or third-parties because some retarded EULA gave them permission to it.
There once was a man from Nantucket...
Hey, if we can teach the Microsoft bot bad things in a few days, imagine what we could do with a full-time job!
Oh noes, that means I'll have to pay $120/yr for Netflix, which may be slightly more than a month of cable or satellite service (and minus the commercials). I guess I'll take the other $1000 and buy the stuff that's not available on Netflix