If you do not like the fact that taxpayers are bailing them out then take that up with your idiot, beholden senators and representatives
You mean the senators that were being paid by the bankers? There are very few "representatives" of the people anymore.
It's fine for them to be paid reasonable for doing their job. A big part of the problem is that they weren't. What they were doing was sloppy, immoral, and oft-times even illegal. They took huge risks, and then when they didn't pan out, the citizens paid for it.
Many places where I have worked strongly avoid using cloud services for company business. In the education industry in particular, they were quite strong on avoiding remote hosting in order to protect student data. Some places even go so far as to block Google Drive, dropbox, etc entirely.
Red Flag was tied to the Chinese government. Other than others tied to said government, who would want to run an "Open" OS from a government with policies of censorship (not to mention spying etc)?
Actually just had a bit of a b*tch session about this. Android mobile devices are overall the most well selling, with 40% adoption (IOS follows at 35%).
That comes to roughly 9m users on wireless devices. I'm not sure what adding other media devices (tablets, tv-boxes, etc) would contribute, but there are those as well.
So I heard a song on the radio I liked, and tried to buy it online.
Google Play Music: Not available in Canada Amazon Mp3: Not available in Canada iTunes: Not available on platforms other than IOS/Windows/Mac
So for everyone who *wants* to pay for music.... what are the options? Sounds like a case of "shut up and take my money" to me.
Actually, working 60 hours a week is pretty easy, especially for people with multiple jobs. Part of this is a side-effect of employers preferring part-time jobs over full-time. This results in people needing to work two jobs to get decent hours, because each job is only 25-30h and won't pay the bills, but cumulatively the two jobs may be 50-60h+, and end up with back-to-back shifts and little time for more than sleeping in-between.
The first several episodes were written like a basement-dwelling geek's fantasy, and turned off a lot of people.
Basement-dwelling gamer-nerd gets high-school in game. Game turns out to be simulation for real alien artifact. Geek gets beam onto spaceship with high tech and hot girl.
It's not exactly a new phenomenoa. Some producer comes up and says "hey, our target is drooling anti-social nerds, right? How can we appeal to them? I know, let's through in some smart dork who can save the world and get some T&A in the process"
It happens with game series too. Look how Final Fantasy went to the realm of "Sailor Moon Dressup" (FFX-2, the newer FFXIII-2). I actually tried to play FFX-2 but threw it out after a scene where the female characters were comparing cleavage sizes.
However SGU ended up, the early stages were a bunch of antisocial d*cks and a nerd on a lonely ship with no real clear plot direction. It was far from the previous SG series.
no one would ever emerge out of their self-created kingdoms inside holodecks
You'd need to work to pay for new holodeck material. Most of the stuff I've seen in the shows was made by highly technical people, so chances are a layman wouldn't be able to make very good holo-sims.
Every species except humans has some ludicrously rigid hardcoded trait
What makes you think that. There are definitely societal traits, but there are also characters that act against said traits (or at least at more moderate levels). Also, who is to say that the humans don't have hardcoded traits? I'm pretty sure that alien species would be able to pigeon-hole us with all sorts of traits.
In some cases, I've done something dumb - realized it was a stupid screw-up on my part - and worked late on my own dime to fix it. If it was a fairly obvious "I totally screwed it up", then I'm OK with that.
In other cases, the issue was because of inadequate time to test or the regular unknowns that come with software dev, new projects, other outside factors, etc. If I need to stay late to fix that, it's OT.
A brick builder makes a wall. He notices that it's unsteady near the bottom. He tells his manager that the mortar may be bad, and he wants to test it. The manager says they've got a timeline to meet, so keep building. A few bricks fall out, but the manager says they can fix those in phase two...
Then the wall falls down, and the brick builder gets blamed..
Unfortunately, it will take the child until they are 20 or so to feel the full effects of being poorly educated, worse, being denied the tools of critical thought. At that point bringing that person up to the capability to deal with the technology of the workplace that will face them in 2030 will be nearly insurmountable.
Quite often, it's not the (then adult) that feels the full effects but rather anyone around who is subject to his/her ill-taught legacy.
I used to think the same thing in Canada, but at the same time most merchants were pushed to use chip-and-pin, those awful fricking "paypass" cards (RFID, just pass over the reader with no PIN) came out. A lady at my financial institution was recently mentioning how they just got them in Debit card form rather than just the usual Mastercard... so now a thief can handily steal/fake your RFID and foist money straight out of your bank account. How convenient!
A "clipped" waveform also tends to sound like distorted crap. It's not really likely somebody is going to listen to horribly clipped audio long enough to damage a speaker (exempting idiots in crappy small cars with idiotically oversized woofers), unless the endurance of said speaker is terribly low to begin with.
In addition, Dell is denying the warranty based on the EXISTENCE of the VLC software on the machine, not any proof that it was used to produce clipped audio and damage the speaker. I know a lot of people that use VLC because it can open pretty much everything (including other-region DVD's), not because of the ability to pump up audio.
Yeah, my father had a similar issue. His camera developed a crack that spread across the screen. It was in the case and never dropped. The only explanation we could figure was that it actually got hot in the case which aggravated a minute flaw in the glass (I had a similar thing happen once with glasses left in a hot car, and this was summer).
Unfortunately any "cracked screen" issue generally gets blamed on user abuse, and there's little recourse that doesn't cost more than the item (attending claims court isn't "free" if one has to take time off work), which is what these companies bank on.
"Water damage" is also a claim similarly abused on both ends.
rating apps requires Google Plus and all ratings will be linked to one's public profile
You find it bad that nobody is able to anonymously bash a competitor's product or praise their own without having an active Google+/Play profile.
There are times when anonymity is a good thing, but given how much anonymous company/product reviews are subject to abuse, I'm not going to complain too much about linking them to a real account (and AFAIK, if you have an Google "Play" account you pretty much have G+ anyhow).
Obsolete: Yes (in terms of being outdated and outclasses) Useless: No
The thing to keep in mind is that while there are weapons systems more advanced than the current missile defence, most of the potential aggressors are still using missile systems which are still pretty old. The old stuff comes at quantity (which, as said, has a quality of its own), so you still want to defend against that.
So a good missile defence stops most of these, and you can still add other defences against more advanced weaponry, which - while more advanced - is hopefully less numerous.
At near-relative speed, you don't really need a traditional missile/w payload. Just something hard enough to survive atmosphere until velocity makes a big boom. Similar concepts have been around in sci-fi for awhile, and were somewhat used in the last "GI Joe" movie as well. Basically a similar concept to "dinosaur killer" asteroids. Speed+Mass=Energy=Big Boom
Doesn't matter how fast your hardware is; it is always faster without Javascript.
Uhhhh, no. Compare load-times with AJAX-based interfaces versus full-form reloads. Yeah, it might take a bit of time to process the JS initially, but then you can significantly decrease the bandwidth needed to load new content by only sending updates etc.
One of the things that still annoys me about classic is that logging in triggers a full page reload
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If you do not like the fact that taxpayers are bailing them out then take that up with your idiot, beholden senators and representatives
You mean the senators that were being paid by the bankers? There are very few "representatives" of the people anymore.
It's fine for them to be paid reasonable for doing their job. A big part of the problem is that they weren't. What they were doing was sloppy, immoral, and oft-times even illegal. They took huge risks, and then when they didn't pan out, the citizens paid for it.
Is there anything preventing resale?
I see people selling theirs for >$1500 on eBay, and selling just invite-codes for $50+
I'm fairly sure that that first one is fairly illegal in many countries.
Which province?
Many places where I have worked strongly avoid using cloud services for company business. In the education industry in particular, they were quite strong on avoiding remote hosting in order to protect student data.
Some places even go so far as to block Google Drive, dropbox, etc entirely.
Red Flag was tied to the Chinese government. Other than others tied to said government, who would want to run an "Open" OS from a government with policies of censorship (not to mention spying etc)?
Actually just had a bit of a b*tch session about this.
Android mobile devices are overall the most well selling, with 40% adoption (IOS follows at 35%).
That comes to roughly 9m users on wireless devices. I'm not sure what adding other media devices (tablets, tv-boxes, etc) would contribute, but there are those as well.
So I heard a song on the radio I liked, and tried to buy it online.
Google Play Music: Not available in Canada
Amazon Mp3: Not available in Canada
iTunes: Not available on platforms other than IOS/Windows/Mac
So for everyone who *wants* to pay for music.... what are the options? Sounds like a case of "shut up and take my money" to me.
Actually, working 60 hours a week is pretty easy, especially for people with multiple jobs. Part of this is a side-effect of employers preferring part-time jobs over full-time. This results in people needing to work two jobs to get decent hours, because each job is only 25-30h and won't pay the bills, but cumulatively the two jobs may be 50-60h+, and end up with back-to-back shifts and little time for more than sleeping in-between.
The first several episodes were written like a basement-dwelling geek's fantasy, and turned off a lot of people.
Basement-dwelling gamer-nerd gets high-school in game. Game turns out to be simulation for real alien artifact. Geek gets beam onto spaceship with high tech and hot girl.
It's not exactly a new phenomenoa. Some producer comes up and says "hey, our target is drooling anti-social nerds, right? How can we appeal to them? I know, let's through in some smart dork who can save the world and get some T&A in the process"
It happens with game series too. Look how Final Fantasy went to the realm of "Sailor Moon Dressup" (FFX-2, the newer FFXIII-2). I actually tried to play FFX-2 but threw it out after a scene where the female characters were comparing cleavage sizes.
However SGU ended up, the early stages were a bunch of antisocial d*cks and a nerd on a lonely ship with no real clear plot direction. It was far from the previous SG series.
no one would ever emerge out of their self-created kingdoms inside holodecks
You'd need to work to pay for new holodeck material. Most of the stuff I've seen in the shows was made by highly technical people, so chances are a layman wouldn't be able to make very good holo-sims.
Every species except humans has some ludicrously rigid hardcoded trait
What makes you think that. There are definitely societal traits, but there are also characters that act against said traits (or at least at more moderate levels). Also, who is to say that the humans don't have hardcoded traits? I'm pretty sure that alien species would be able to pigeon-hole us with all sorts of traits.
Just to clarify, the one by "Tacit Dynamics" ?
they didn't realize the link was right out in the open
Well, if their webserver creates access logs like most I've known, then they should have been able to figure that out fairly quickly and easily...
In some cases, I've done something dumb - realized it was a stupid screw-up on my part - and worked late on my own dime to fix it. If it was a fairly obvious "I totally screwed it up", then I'm OK with that.
In other cases, the issue was because of inadequate time to test or the regular unknowns that come with software dev, new projects, other outside factors, etc. If I need to stay late to fix that, it's OT.
Software analogy to bricks
A brick builder makes a wall. He notices that it's unsteady near the bottom. He tells his manager that the mortar may be bad, and he wants to test it. The manager says they've got a timeline to meet, so keep building. A few bricks fall out, but the manager says they can fix those in phase two...
Then the wall falls down, and the brick builder gets blamed..
Unfortunately, it will take the child until they are 20 or so to feel the full effects of being poorly educated, worse, being denied the tools of critical thought. At that point bringing that person up to the capability to deal with the technology of the workplace that will face them in 2030 will be nearly insurmountable.
Quite often, it's not the (then adult) that feels the full effects but rather anyone around who is subject to his/her ill-taught legacy.
I used to think the same thing in Canada, but at the same time most merchants were pushed to use chip-and-pin, those awful fricking "paypass" cards (RFID, just pass over the reader with no PIN) came out. A lady at my financial institution was recently mentioning how they just got them in Debit card form rather than just the usual Mastercard... so now a thief can handily steal/fake your RFID and foist money straight out of your bank account. How convenient!
One step forward, two steps back.
Uhhhh.
"We want our mobile device to be able to do what a PC does"
Not equal to
"We want the usable interface on a PC to be bogged down with cumbersome mobile cruft that works like s*** on a large or non-touchscreen"
A "clipped" waveform also tends to sound like distorted crap. It's not really likely somebody is going to listen to horribly clipped audio long enough to damage a speaker (exempting idiots in crappy small cars with idiotically oversized woofers), unless the endurance of said speaker is terribly low to begin with.
In addition, Dell is denying the warranty based on the EXISTENCE of the VLC software on the machine, not any proof that it was used to produce clipped audio and damage the speaker. I know a lot of people that use VLC because it can open pretty much everything (including other-region DVD's), not because of the ability to pump up audio.
Yeah, my father had a similar issue. His camera developed a crack that spread across the screen.
It was in the case and never dropped. The only explanation we could figure was that it actually got hot in the case which aggravated a minute flaw in the glass (I had a similar thing happen once with glasses left in a hot car, and this was summer).
Unfortunately any "cracked screen" issue generally gets blamed on user abuse, and there's little recourse that doesn't cost more than the item (attending claims court isn't "free" if one has to take time off work), which is what these companies bank on.
"Water damage" is also a claim similarly abused on both ends.
I seem to remember a similar quote from "Third Rock from the Sun"
"Smoking will cuts years off of your life"
"Yes, but those are off the end of your life, and those years suck anyhow"
rating apps requires Google Plus and all ratings will be linked to one's public profile
You find it bad that nobody is able to anonymously bash a competitor's product or praise their own without having an active Google+/Play profile.
There are times when anonymity is a good thing, but given how much anonymous company/product reviews are subject to abuse, I'm not going to complain too much about linking them to a real account (and AFAIK, if you have an Google "Play" account you pretty much have G+ anyhow).
Obsolete: Yes (in terms of being outdated and outclasses)
Useless: No
The thing to keep in mind is that while there are weapons systems more advanced than the current missile defence, most of the potential aggressors are still using missile systems which are still pretty old.
The old stuff comes at quantity (which, as said, has a quality of its own), so you still want to defend against that.
So a good missile defence stops most of these, and you can still add other defences against more advanced weaponry, which - while more advanced - is hopefully less numerous.
My laptop is obsolete too, but it's still useful.
At near-relative speed, you don't really need a traditional missile /w payload. Just something hard enough to survive atmosphere until velocity makes a big boom. Similar concepts have been around in sci-fi for awhile, and were somewhat used in the last "GI Joe" movie as well.
Basically a similar concept to "dinosaur killer" asteroids. Speed+Mass=Energy=Big Boom
Doesn't matter how fast your hardware is; it is always faster without Javascript.
Uhhhh, no. Compare load-times with AJAX-based interfaces versus full-form reloads. Yeah, it might take a bit of time to process the JS initially, but then you can significantly decrease the bandwidth needed to load new content by only sending updates etc.
One of the things that still annoys me about classic is that logging in triggers a full page reload