management is overrated, overpaid and in general the reason that things go south when (not if) they do
Well, when many companies have management that's making more in the first day than regular employees make in a year, yet when "things go south" they leave with a big severance package... yeah I can see where that idea may have come from.
If the engineer screws up big, (s)he's going to be fired or possibly charged.
Unfortunately, an alternatively likely scenario might be. Very few cars, because gas has reached a point where it's unaffordable to the average person and alternative energy/transportation sources have been prevented by powerful lobbying and government hubris.
It's basic a gamble in the reverse sense of the lottery. Instead of a big win, the insurance covers you against a big loss. Given the state of the court system, it's not even just in case you're really at fault. There was a case where a kid was biking with no reflectors/lights on a foggy night, he cut in front of a car and got hit. Of course it's a terrible thing, but given the situation there wasn't anything the driver could have done to avoid the accident. However, a jury hears "young kid hit by car, crippled for life, medical expenses etc." Are you willing to gamble against paying some number that has a *lot* of zeroes behind it?
My current favourite is laptop backlight support. I haven't figured out if it's an issue with recent kernels or the recent fglrx drivers, but the last update gave me a blank screen after X starts. Several people have reported it, mostly Asus laptops but also some Toshiba I believe. Or at least it looked blank, until I took it into a room with good light and discovered that - hey - the backlight is just dialed down to zero. So now my choice is no vendor-accelerated driver, or no using the LCD:-(
Sometimes a switch may be warranted if you're running into a physical limitation. One issue I could see is that - if upgrading just for the "looks better" factor - you might end up in the realm of Dude3d/DNF, where constant changes push your end date so far out it never reaches a realistic/satisfactory completion.
That said, I see the issue of switching as one of the weakness of graphical toolkits. The underlying code could be fairly engine-agnostic in many ways, so a full rewrite shouldn't be necessary depending on what the base language/structure is.
These guys have apparently been denounced by the major religious denominations which they claim to belong to. I'm not sure what the criteria are to be a church (in many cases, the government seems to be a little unclear on this as well), but they're pretty much operating in isolation.
If people just ignored them more often instead of getting all bent out of shape, the trend would go away.
Some might, but in many cases they'll just increase the level of trolling to intolerable levels. It's like a certain "church" in the U.S. that trolls funerals, they troll whether if you feed them or not, but if they're ignored they'll just do even crazier/nastier stuff.
Evidence that it belonged to an early Geek civilization included partial remains of early Minoan "RedBull" drinks as well as partial remains of what appears to be an overclocked gaming abacus.
And this to me is a good reason to be scared of the cops. Here they've identified a picture which seems to be implicating the suspect, but actually it's something that anyone might have in their cache from some random post of Facebook. But the jury will eat this up.
Same thing for those that are nailed as suspected child predators. How hard would it be find some random incriminating picture in a web cache of most people's computer? The banner ads on TPB etc are sometimes pretty suspect.
I fail to see how this would be an effective marketing stunt. What's the message? * Hey, murderers use our devices and love them. Homicidal maniacs save 10% on your next iDevice purchase. It's a killer deal! or * We record all your searches and provide them upon request to the police and intelligence agencies. Citizen, it's your duty to buy an iDevice in the interest of public safety.
For core network gear (switches, etc), perhaps, but there are still some strong contenders in the firewall arena (Juniper), and they've more or less dropped out of other areas such as load-balancers with companies such as F5 picking up the market-share.
Oh for sure, but that's not a technology limitation.
I'd imagine that the companies selling stuff like this may not be concerned so much about the licensing if they're primarily playing rips, but companies like Samsung have already sorted out licensing for their existing blu-ray players, so why not exchange the crappy UI with something running Android that has more features. They happily use Android in their phones and tablets, so combining the two technologies would seem logical.
A lot of that came down to drives that shipped with crappy firmware. It was *fast* sure, but it was horribly fault-intolerant.
I had similar issues with one of my OCZ's. I copied the data off to a different SSD and replaced it. Later, I flashed the firmware and tried in a different machine. No issues with that one since
I thought that might be the case initially, but if they've gotten it working with rips having full-menu support, it should work for actual discs as well?
We gave them the photos for one specific purpose - to facilitate our ability to travel in other countries
No, you gave them the photos along with an application which has certain legal requirements for an international identification, and signed it based on your acceptance of such.
And in this case, the person was illegally travelling using a fraudulent passport with a fake/stolen identity. This is exactly the type of stuff that should be caught and flagged (though it would be better done at the time of application).
This isn't some camera on a street-corner watching your every move, it's a comparison between a wanted posted and the passport database. It's a legitimate use of the technology without being overly invasive.
On the other hand, I wonder how the guy managed to get the passport in the first place. Was "Kevin Hodges" a real person (perhaps deceased) whom Stammer stole the identity of?
I would guess this has improved since Google acquired them (but didn't Lenovo buy them subsequently). I had one of the early Droid phones. Motorola was the absolute *worst* company for supplying updates. It's actually one of the reasons I moved to Samsung.
The bumper is cheap and replaceable. A smaller phone means a smaller overall size, even with the bumper. However, I'd say that phone are actually getting *bigger* these days. Thinner yes, but the overall length/height of popular smartphones are much bigger than phones a few generations back.
Rather than a traditional PC, it's probably a small box running Android. Some of the newer ones are pretty spiffy, and support apps for XBMC, Netflix, Hulu, and all the other goodies.
The biggest thing that seems to be missing from Android devices: disc-based playback. I've yet to see one that will play any optical discs, let alone Blu-Ray. This doesn't make much sense to me as many blu-ray players already come with Netflix apps etc on some proprietary crappy/buggy UI (I need to pull the plug on mine periodically when Netflix stops working). It would sure be nice to have everything in one box.
There are some devices which purport to have "full blu-ray menu support" using Android, but when I investigated further they only support rips and lack an optical drive:-(
Was there some indicating that "goofing off" produced defects which caused fatalities? I'd agree with the later (Corporate pressure towards profit) but I don't think that's related to the issue at hand.
As demonstrated by many places I've worked and also university exam time... slacking off in the beginning and then trying to "grind" through to meet a thin deadline at the end usually comes at the expense of quality. The work may be done, but how many B.S. patent applications is it enabling to pass through.
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management is overrated, overpaid and in general the reason that things go south when (not if) they do
Well, when many companies have management that's making more in the first day than regular employees make in a year, yet when "things go south" they leave with a big severance package... yeah I can see where that idea may have come from.
If the engineer screws up big, (s)he's going to be fired or possibly charged.
Yes. Thus far. Gas is also generally lower than up here (Canada, about $1.32/L or $5/gallon), but it's certainly not going down in the long-run...
Unfortunately, an alternatively likely scenario might be.
Very few cars, because gas has reached a point where it's unaffordable to the average person and alternative energy/transportation sources have been prevented by powerful lobbying and government hubris.
It's basic a gamble in the reverse sense of the lottery. Instead of a big win, the insurance covers you against a big loss. Given the state of the court system, it's not even just in case you're really at fault. There was a case where a kid was biking with no reflectors/lights on a foggy night, he cut in front of a car and got hit. Of course it's a terrible thing, but given the situation there wasn't anything the driver could have done to avoid the accident.
However, a jury hears "young kid hit by car, crippled for life, medical expenses etc." Are you willing to gamble against paying some number that has a *lot* of zeroes behind it?
My current favourite is laptop backlight support. I haven't figured out if it's an issue with recent kernels or the recent fglrx drivers, but the last update gave me a blank screen after X starts. Several people have reported it, mostly Asus laptops but also some Toshiba I believe. :-(
Or at least it looked blank, until I took it into a room with good light and discovered that - hey - the backlight is just dialed down to zero. So now my choice is no vendor-accelerated driver, or no using the LCD
Sometimes a switch may be warranted if you're running into a physical limitation. One issue I could see is that - if upgrading just for the "looks better" factor - you might end up in the realm of Dude3d/DNF, where constant changes push your end date so far out it never reaches a realistic/satisfactory completion.
That said, I see the issue of switching as one of the weakness of graphical toolkits. The underlying code could be fairly engine-agnostic in many ways, so a full rewrite shouldn't be necessary depending on what the base language/structure is.
These guys have apparently been denounced by the major religious denominations which they claim to belong to. I'm not sure what the criteria are to be a church (in many cases, the government seems to be a little unclear on this as well), but they're pretty much operating in isolation.
Actually, that claim is not so undisputed as you might think. Still in the USA though.
But given the "Eurotrash" comment I'm probably just feeding a troll.
If people just ignored them more often instead of getting all bent out of shape, the trend would go away.
Some might, but in many cases they'll just increase the level of trolling to intolerable levels. It's like a certain "church" in the U.S. that trolls funerals, they troll whether if you feed them or not, but if they're ignored they'll just do even crazier/nastier stuff.
Wow... that's so close to something else at first I thought the name was a joke... given the context where "Sieg Heil" was popularly used...
Evidence that it belonged to an early Geek civilization included partial remains of early Minoan "RedBull" drinks as well as partial remains of what appears to be an overclocked gaming abacus.
And this to me is a good reason to be scared of the cops. Here they've identified a picture which seems to be implicating the suspect, but actually it's something that anyone might have in their cache from some random post of Facebook. But the jury will eat this up.
Same thing for those that are nailed as suspected child predators. How hard would it be find some random incriminating picture in a web cache of most people's computer? The banner ads on TPB etc are sometimes pretty suspect.
I fail to see how this would be an effective marketing stunt. What's the message?
* Hey, murderers use our devices and love them. Homicidal maniacs save 10% on your next iDevice purchase. It's a killer deal!
or
* We record all your searches and provide them upon request to the police and intelligence agencies. Citizen, it's your duty to buy an iDevice in the interest of public safety.
For core network gear (switches, etc), perhaps, but there are still some strong contenders in the firewall arena (Juniper), and they've more or less dropped out of other areas such as load-balancers with companies such as F5 picking up the market-share.
Oh for sure, but that's not a technology limitation.
I'd imagine that the companies selling stuff like this may not be concerned so much about the licensing if they're primarily playing rips, but companies like Samsung have already sorted out licensing for their existing blu-ray players, so why not exchange the crappy UI with something running Android that has more features. They happily use Android in their phones and tablets, so combining the two technologies would seem logical.
A lot of that came down to drives that shipped with crappy firmware. It was *fast* sure, but it was horribly fault-intolerant.
I had similar issues with one of my OCZ's. I copied the data off to a different SSD and replaced it. Later, I flashed the firmware and tried in a different machine. No issues with that one since
I thought that might be the case initially, but if they've gotten it working with rips having full-menu support, it should work for actual discs as well?
We gave them the photos for one specific purpose - to facilitate our ability to travel in other countries
No, you gave them the photos along with an application which has certain legal requirements for an international identification, and signed it based on your acceptance of such.
And in this case, the person was illegally travelling using a fraudulent passport with a fake/stolen identity. This is exactly the type of stuff that should be caught and flagged (though it would be better done at the time of application).
This isn't some camera on a street-corner watching your every move, it's a comparison between a wanted posted and the passport database. It's a legitimate use of the technology without being overly invasive.
On the other hand, I wonder how the guy managed to get the passport in the first place. Was "Kevin Hodges" a real person (perhaps deceased) whom Stammer stole the identity of?
I would guess this has improved since Google acquired them (but didn't Lenovo buy them subsequently). I had one of the early Droid phones. Motorola was the absolute *worst* company for supplying updates. It's actually one of the reasons I moved to Samsung.
The bumper is cheap and replaceable. A smaller phone means a smaller overall size, even with the bumper. However, I'd say that phone are actually getting *bigger* these days. Thinner yes, but the overall length/height of popular smartphones are much bigger than phones a few generations back.
Rather than a traditional PC, it's probably a small box running Android. Some of the newer ones are pretty spiffy, and support apps for XBMC, Netflix, Hulu, and all the other goodies.
The biggest thing that seems to be missing from Android devices: disc-based playback. I've yet to see one that will play any optical discs, let alone Blu-Ray. This doesn't make much sense to me as many blu-ray players already come with Netflix apps etc on some proprietary crappy/buggy UI (I need to pull the plug on mine periodically when Netflix stops working). It would sure be nice to have everything in one box.
There are some devices which purport to have "full blu-ray menu support" using Android, but when I investigated further they only support rips and lack an optical drive :-(
Was there some indicating that "goofing off" produced defects which caused fatalities? I'd agree with the later (Corporate pressure towards profit) but I don't think that's related to the issue at hand.
It could be as simple as:
X got there earlier. When Y came, X typically killed them because they looked different.
It's not as if the world were particularly civilized back then... (or now, in many cases).
As demonstrated by many places I've worked and also university exam time... slacking off in the beginning and then trying to "grind" through to meet a thin deadline at the end usually comes at the expense of quality. The work may be done, but how many B.S. patent applications is it enabling to pass through.