Yes, my 64GB MicroSDHC turned out for be 3.5GB of actual memory followed by rewrites that corrupt over the existing data. Apparently this is very common.
Final Fantasy X-2 sold very poorly even with the fantastic reception FFX had, and X-2 wasn't a terrible game (thought it was a bit obnoxious at times).
If you've ever played X-2, you might see why. FFX wasn't the greatest of the name (but, for its faults, it was decent), but X-2 was like a Sailor Moon Dressup game with a pinch of fanboy-pandering. I reached a scene where the protagonists are essentially comparing each others' cup sizes and then threw it in the bin.
Yeah, my question would be: WHAT DID YOU F'ING TEST THEM ON
It's not like consoles differ in graphics hardware for a given model. Sure, a certain PS4 or XBone might have varying drive sizes, but the video hardware is standard, that's why they're consoles and not PC's. So any blaming it on the "graphics vendor" is moot, because they had the same f***ing hardware as the users who are experiencing issues.
To me, that screams one of two things (or both): a) A really shyte QA process or b) They ignored a bunch of known issues and decided to ship the thing anyways. Because, money.
Sorry, Ubi, but you can't blame this on the graphics card. If it shows up now, it should have showed up during testing. It's your job to make sure that the game runs properly on the existing hardware, not the other way around.
Not, for the PC market, maybe that argument might hold water a bit, but we come back to the same issue. DX11 is a standard (I prefer GL myself by whatever), if the bottleneck is at the number of draws calls limited by the graphics API, then it is NOT a hardware issue. So, you didn't test the game on standard configurations with the two major graphics card vendors? Sorry, not their fault. AMD may be pitching in to help now but I doubt it's because their cards are the issue.
I wonder how hard it would be to dump something on there that "looks" like the real deal, but deliberately delivers poor performance, bad output, or even a cleverly hidden security hole.
Let them steal it, and then see if you can use those to your advantage when they make use of the subtly broken tech.
It's not exactly hard to find either. However, I'd say they know more when you're *looking* for a new job as opposed to when you're actually ready to quit. Extra hits from job-postings, google searches on how to update your resume, monster, etc etc paint a pretty obvious picture here.
"it's getting easier to capture video of the moments of your lives and share it"
Exactly. Yes, but can capture it, but we cannot consume it in the same manner. You can record all the video you want, but you're probably going to hit less of a broad audience simply because a mark-I eyeball can only parse video at a fairly slow rate. Also, just because you can make a video doesn't mean it will be *interesting* video
Thus, as boring as it is, I can read and parse "bobby used the potty for the first time today" in about 1 second, but I'm certainly not going to dedicate 5 minutes to watching it.
[for the above, "you" means the person posting on social media)
Fossil-fuels are, but petroleum-type fuels are not. The biggest problem is that the current methods don't scale well, but realistically the holy grail the ability to produce hefty amounts from common sources (sewage would be good, and there has been some progress on that front), allowing people to keep driving whatever they currently are but creating a "closed" system in terms of emissions.
Pictures in such locations are generally prohibited. Really, what's the source of liability if it happens in a private residence with somebody spying on the owner's young daughter?
I'd say an X86 is general, but optimized. Obviously it does some things better than others, and there's known trade-offs between floating-point VS integral math, etc, but that's why we have special instruction sets, GPUs, and now APU's as well. They're still able to accomplish general tasks - most with reasonable speed - but they've been added on-to to accomplish the special tasks that are most common.
Yeah, this is an argument I've had with a number of people about the whole misogamy discussion. A lot of these people don't care about your gender or your cause, they are just assh*les through and through. If you're a women they'll hit you on that point, especially if you're proud. If you're a guy they'll find something else, call you a noob, a some racial/sexual epithet. My take was that - unless we find a reasonable way to deal with the troll situation (how, I'm not sure, I don't want to have an ID card to get online) - then the situations of discrimination are going to get overwhelmed by unrelated static.
What the trolls care about is the RESPONSE. The bigger, the better. Yes, there are Elliot Rogers type people out there, but for every one of those there are probably a few dozen or even hundreds of trolls who really only care about the lulz, which in their mind is "it's fun to get a rise out of people by doing outrageous things." The only thing that these people remotely care about in regards to this woman is "what is the best way I can raise shit to cause a public reaction so I can high five my equally trollish friends and chuckle about it.
In this case, the reaction has been pretty severe, which is likely making the trolls very very happy, and establishing a feedback loop between them and the publicity of the issue while almost completely drowning out any reasonable discussion.
While Wu may be a victim of trolling, I'd say that it victimizes all of us by shutting down reasonable dialog and progress. Identifying a few of the bigger trolls who make death threats might help solve the issue a bit, but then I see the video of that anti-gay redneck who was recently taken down in the airport SMILING as he's hauled off and I wonder if some people are so damaged that even that might make it worse.
These days when the local ISP's give out routers, there is a stamp on the router that has the default login, wifi ESSID, and wifi login. You can change these of course, but the defaults are not the same between customers.
When I setup my firewall, it *WOULDN'T* work until I first set a password. This was the very first step.
This isn't customers - many who are less tech savvy - being lazy, it's the manufactures. There is absolutely no reason that they can't either package a unique password or simply require the users to create a password before the first use.
Sorry, maybe I worded that a bit off, I didn't mean to say that *you* were threatening her, but rather that so long as people were reasonable disagreeing then their import is acceptable, and for those that *are* giving death threats criminal charges are also acceptable.
I totally agree that many people are using outliers to shut down reasonable discourse. Politicians etc also seem to be using this, and I suspect that, rather than just having sock-puppets that support their angle, many are actually using sock-puppets that actually *criticize* them - but in the most objectionable/boorish manner possible - in order to deflect legitimate criticism. I'm seeing that in a lot of articles in my home-press. No matter what the issue, some idiot comes on and criticises or blames it on the gov't. I'm fairly sure nobody is quite that stupid, so what it actually appears to be is a tactic where you produce ineffective criticism in order to drown out the legitimate criticism.
Not sure if that's the case here. I've received internet threats before. I'm not quite famous enough that somebody might look up my home details, though. By having a strong public reaction to this, it may be an attempt to garner support and paint the overall opposition as offensive and belligerent.
So call her a troll, point out the crap, but don't threaten to kill her. Seems fair enough. Death threats are still death threats, and really have no place regardless of the actions of the target.
I've often gone to eBay etc to pick up my electronic odd-and-ends. I'd have to say that for stuff like SD cards - though you do pay the price locally - it may be a safer bet to buy in a B&M than online. The amount of fake cards is staggering. I'm not just talking about a "no-name" brand that's labelled as Samsung, or a class 4 listed as a class 10, but cards that are labelled as 16, 32, 64GB etc, are IDENTIFIED BY THE OS as the labelled capacity, but actually contain only 2-4GB and have modified firmware causing them to report as larger. That means the card seems to work fine initially, but when you go over the 2GB/4GB mark it actually starts overwriting existing sectors/files resulting in rampant data corruption.
If you want to test your card, you can use a utility like h2testw It will tell you if the card is having bad writes - which could indicate a faulty card - but also tells if it's doing stuff like writing back over existing files (which indicates a fraudulent "over-capacity" card).
[h2test2 is windows software. Sorry but I'm not sure if there's a 'nix equivalent. One could probably make a script that DD's numbers across various sectors and then checks afterwards whether they overwrote previous sectors).
And the display shows "Candidate X" while actually sending tokens to "Candidate Y"...
It's still not legitimately verifiable
If you need the screen fine, but print results ON PAPER. Make the paper easily scannable, and then load and scan. Speed of electronics, verifiable by an average human being. The paper is what Joe Average sees that confirms the vote, and the paper is the ultimate source of confirmation.
Their job is to make money in a parasitic relationship between the job seeker, their recruiting corp, and the employer. I actually got placed in my current position by a recruiter. It was initially a temp position, and I was very clear I was looking for the possibility of a long-term. They tried to put language where I'd not be able to interview for a permanent position with a company they'd placed me in (for 3 months after end of placement). I got that taken out, but later found they're put language into the employer's section where *THEY* had to pay a penalty for accepting me as a permanent employee. Keep in mind this is after they were already making 20-40% above what I got paid for the time they placed me as a contractor.
Then, AFTER the company has decided it was worth paying the blood money to keep me rather than a fresh interviewee, I'm settled in for a few months when the same recruiting agency comes back and asks me if I'd be interested in [position] elsewhere. Yes, the company paid them to keep me, and months later they're trying to poach me away already. Not ethnical at all, IMHO.
I work in IT because I like it. I'm also good at what I do. I'm not sure which influences the other more, but at least part of part of that is likely that I don't stop learning at work, I enjoy trying new things and new tech. It's not required of me, but it interests me and thus I tend to keep up-to-date on a variety of technical fields etc.
Then again, at my employer we've recently had several "lunch and learn" seminars. I generally avoid those because my break is time to collect thoughts and the topics often don't fall within my general interest. If it's a lunch conference on some tech I find interesting, I'd more likely attend so long as I wasn't already overloaded from daily work.
Because hot-to-trop tech people are even less likely to locate to a relatively small city where the pay-to-mortgage-ratio is more reasonable, but there's not 24hr sushi, pizza, and nightclubs around?
More importantly, I would generally expect more of somebody with 2-3 years of *RECENT* experience, as opposed to 5+ years of experience but no practical experience in the last few years.
20+ years ago the average competent adult had a few numbers memorized, and the rest were written down on a piece of paper or in something like this. I've got a lot less phone #'s memorized these days, but there's plenty of other stuff to remember: SIN #, Visa #, IP addresses, etc.
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Yes, my 64GB MicroSDHC turned out for be 3.5GB of actual memory followed by rewrites that corrupt over the existing data. Apparently this is very common.
Final Fantasy X-2 sold very poorly even with the fantastic reception FFX had, and X-2 wasn't a terrible game (thought it was a bit obnoxious at times).
If you've ever played X-2, you might see why. FFX wasn't the greatest of the name (but, for its faults, it was decent), but X-2 was like a Sailor Moon Dressup game with a pinch of fanboy-pandering. I reached a scene where the protagonists are essentially comparing each others' cup sizes and then threw it in the bin.
Yeah, my question would be: WHAT DID YOU F'ING TEST THEM ON
It's not like consoles differ in graphics hardware for a given model. Sure, a certain PS4 or XBone might have varying drive sizes, but the video hardware is standard, that's why they're consoles and not PC's. So any blaming it on the "graphics vendor" is moot, because they had the same f***ing hardware as the users who are experiencing issues.
To me, that screams one of two things (or both):
a) A really shyte QA process
or
b) They ignored a bunch of known issues and decided to ship the thing anyways. Because, money.
Sorry, Ubi, but you can't blame this on the graphics card. If it shows up now, it should have showed up during testing. It's your job to make sure that the game runs properly on the existing hardware, not the other way around.
Not, for the PC market, maybe that argument might hold water a bit, but we come back to the same issue. DX11 is a standard (I prefer GL myself by whatever), if the bottleneck is at the number of draws calls limited by the graphics API, then it is NOT a hardware issue. So, you didn't test the game on standard configurations with the two major graphics card vendors? Sorry, not their fault. AMD may be pitching in to help now but I doubt it's because their cards are the issue.
It's a shame if nothing were to happen to it (upgrades) for the next several years?
So who's "sponsoring" this group? My guess is one (or many) of MS, Apple, and/or perhaps Oracle.
Or the first time a teacher puts on some in-class movie to entertain the kiddies while he marks papers, and there's a scene with gunfire...
I wonder how hard it would be to dump something on there that "looks" like the real deal, but deliberately delivers poor performance, bad output, or even a cleverly hidden security hole.
Let them steal it, and then see if you can use those to your advantage when they make use of the subtly broken tech.
It's not exactly hard to find either. However, I'd say they know more when you're *looking* for a new job as opposed to when you're actually ready to quit. Extra hits from job-postings, google searches on how to update your resume, monster, etc etc paint a pretty obvious picture here.
"it's getting easier to capture video of the moments of your lives and share it"
Exactly. Yes, but can capture it, but we cannot consume it in the same manner.
You can record all the video you want, but you're probably going to hit less of a broad audience simply because a mark-I eyeball can only parse video at a fairly slow rate. Also, just because you can make a video doesn't mean it will be *interesting* video
Thus, as boring as it is, I can read and parse "bobby used the potty for the first time today" in about 1 second, but I'm certainly not going to dedicate 5 minutes to watching it.
[for the above, "you" means the person posting on social media)
Fossil-fuels are, but petroleum-type fuels are not. The biggest problem is that the current methods don't scale well, but realistically the holy grail the ability to produce hefty amounts from common sources (sewage would be good, and there has been some progress on that front), allowing people to keep driving whatever they currently are but creating a "closed" system in terms of emissions.
Pictures in such locations are generally prohibited. Really, what's the source of liability if it happens in a private residence with somebody spying on the owner's young daughter?
I'd say an X86 is general, but optimized. Obviously it does some things better than others, and there's known trade-offs between floating-point VS integral math, etc, but that's why we have special instruction sets, GPUs, and now APU's as well. They're still able to accomplish general tasks - most with reasonable speed - but they've been added on-to to accomplish the special tasks that are most common.
"Why is this not being done? "
It's not?
Yeah, this is an argument I've had with a number of people about the whole misogamy discussion. A lot of these people don't care about your gender or your cause, they are just assh*les through and through. If you're a women they'll hit you on that point, especially if you're proud. If you're a guy they'll find something else, call you a noob, a some racial/sexual epithet. My take was that - unless we find a reasonable way to deal with the troll situation (how, I'm not sure, I don't want to have an ID card to get online) - then the situations of discrimination are going to get overwhelmed by unrelated static.
What the trolls care about is the RESPONSE. The bigger, the better. Yes, there are Elliot Rogers type people out there, but for every one of those there are probably a few dozen or even hundreds of trolls who really only care about the lulz, which in their mind is "it's fun to get a rise out of people by doing outrageous things." The only thing that these people remotely care about in regards to this woman is "what is the best way I can raise shit to cause a public reaction so I can high five my equally trollish friends and chuckle about it.
In this case, the reaction has been pretty severe, which is likely making the trolls very very happy, and establishing a feedback loop between them and the publicity of the issue while almost completely drowning out any reasonable discussion.
While Wu may be a victim of trolling, I'd say that it victimizes all of us by shutting down reasonable dialog and progress.
Identifying a few of the bigger trolls who make death threats might help solve the issue a bit, but then I see the video of that anti-gay redneck who was recently taken down in the airport SMILING as he's hauled off and I wonder if some people are so damaged that even that might make it worse.
These days when the local ISP's give out routers, there is a stamp on the router that has the default login, wifi ESSID, and wifi login. You can change these of course, but the defaults are not the same between customers.
When I setup my firewall, it *WOULDN'T* work until I first set a password. This was the very first step.
This isn't customers - many who are less tech savvy - being lazy, it's the manufactures. There is absolutely no reason that they can't either package a unique password or simply require the users to create a password before the first use.
Sorry, maybe I worded that a bit off, I didn't mean to say that *you* were threatening her, but rather that so long as people were reasonable disagreeing then their import is acceptable, and for those that *are* giving death threats criminal charges are also acceptable.
I totally agree that many people are using outliers to shut down reasonable discourse. Politicians etc also seem to be using this, and I suspect that, rather than just having sock-puppets that support their angle, many are actually using sock-puppets that actually *criticize* them - but in the most objectionable/boorish manner possible - in order to deflect legitimate criticism. I'm seeing that in a lot of articles in my home-press. No matter what the issue, some idiot comes on and criticises or blames it on the gov't. I'm fairly sure nobody is quite that stupid, so what it actually appears to be is a tactic where you produce ineffective criticism in order to drown out the legitimate criticism.
Not sure if that's the case here. I've received internet threats before. I'm not quite famous enough that somebody might look up my home details, though. By having a strong public reaction to this, it may be an attempt to garner support and paint the overall opposition as offensive and belligerent.
So call her a troll, point out the crap, but don't threaten to kill her. Seems fair enough.
Death threats are still death threats, and really have no place regardless of the actions of the target.
I've often gone to eBay etc to pick up my electronic odd-and-ends. I'd have to say that for stuff like SD cards - though you do pay the price locally - it may be a safer bet to buy in a B&M than online.
The amount of fake cards is staggering. I'm not just talking about a "no-name" brand that's labelled as Samsung, or a class 4 listed as a class 10, but cards that are labelled as 16, 32, 64GB etc, are IDENTIFIED BY THE OS as the labelled capacity, but actually contain only 2-4GB and have modified firmware causing them to report as larger. That means the card seems to work fine initially, but when you go over the 2GB/4GB mark it actually starts overwriting existing sectors/files resulting in rampant data corruption.
If you want to test your card, you can use a utility like h2testw It will tell you if the card is having bad writes - which could indicate a faulty card - but also tells if it's doing stuff like writing back over existing files (which indicates a fraudulent "over-capacity" card).
[h2test2 is windows software. Sorry but I'm not sure if there's a 'nix equivalent. One could probably make a script that DD's numbers across various sectors and then checks afterwards whether they overwrote previous sectors).
And the display shows "Candidate X" while actually sending tokens to "Candidate Y" ...
It's still not legitimately verifiable
If you need the screen fine, but print results ON PAPER. Make the paper easily scannable, and then load and scan. Speed of electronics, verifiable by an average human being. The paper is what Joe Average sees that confirms the vote, and the paper is the ultimate source of confirmation.
Their job is to make money in a parasitic relationship between the job seeker, their recruiting corp, and the employer. I actually got placed in my current position by a recruiter. It was initially a temp position, and I was very clear I was looking for the possibility of a long-term.
They tried to put language where I'd not be able to interview for a permanent position with a company they'd placed me in (for 3 months after end of placement). I got that taken out, but later found they're put language into the employer's section where *THEY* had to pay a penalty for accepting me as a permanent employee. Keep in mind this is after they were already making 20-40% above what I got paid for the time they placed me as a contractor.
Then, AFTER the company has decided it was worth paying the blood money to keep me rather than a fresh interviewee, I'm settled in for a few months when the same recruiting agency comes back and asks me if I'd be interested in [position] elsewhere. Yes, the company paid them to keep me, and months later they're trying to poach me away already. Not ethnical at all, IMHO.
I work in IT because I like it. I'm also good at what I do. I'm not sure which influences the other more, but at least part of part of that is likely that I don't stop learning at work, I enjoy trying new things and new tech. It's not required of me, but it interests me and thus I tend to keep up-to-date on a variety of technical fields etc.
Then again, at my employer we've recently had several "lunch and learn" seminars. I generally avoid those because my break is time to collect thoughts and the topics often don't fall within my general interest. If it's a lunch conference on some tech I find interesting, I'd more likely attend so long as I wasn't already overloaded from daily work.
Question: Do you find that HFA individuals work better with other people having a similar affliction, or worse?
Is it like having a room full of stubborn bulls always butting heads, or as a group do they tend to skip the fluff and get to work?
Because hot-to-trop tech people are even less likely to locate to a relatively small city where the pay-to-mortgage-ratio is more reasonable, but there's not 24hr sushi, pizza, and nightclubs around?
More importantly, I would generally expect more of somebody with 2-3 years of *RECENT* experience, as opposed to 5+ years of experience but no practical experience in the last few years.
20+ years ago the average competent adult had a few numbers memorized, and the rest were written down on a piece of paper or in something like this.
I've got a lot less phone #'s memorized these days, but there's plenty of other stuff to remember: SIN #, Visa #, IP addresses, etc.