Only thing Microsoft said clearly, is that Windows 10 upgrade will be free for _that device_.
I am concerned, does my perfectly transferrable and valid Windows 8 license become one of those untransferrable OEM licenses, if I take the "free" upgrade? Do I downgrade my license at the same time?
No way I am using the same PC for the whole lifespan of Windows 10..
First they started censoring child porn. This is totally acceptable, child porn is bad. Nobody dared to say anything.
Then they started censoring pirate sites. This was for the children also, I guess. People objecting these changes are mean pirates! Don't listen to them!
Then they started censoring youtube videos with "dubious" political agenda. When some people complained, it was "only an option to remove videos", blaah blaah blaah.
Now they are starting to censor books.
While there is still time, I suggest you read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and 1984 by Georgy Orwell. That should give you a pretty good picture where this is going..
AMD processors multithread badly. The multithreading inside a module was terrible in Bulldozer and not much better in future generations. Shortly put: you have 4 "fast" cores and each of those cores is paired with a "slow" core. The scheduler doesn't really know, which core is fast and which core is slow and that results in poor real life performance - just look at any decent game benchmark!
Meanwhile, Intel is transitioning to 14nm process, while your processor still is still 32nm from 2012, and this intel of mine actually 22nm from the same year. These numbers might not tell you much, but the main difference to me is that my processor runs much cooler and requires less power.
AMD is way behind the competition.
Luckily, the slides had great bullet points, like "40% more IPC" and "14nm process". If those happen sometime in 2016, Intel might actually have to compete and produce better CPUs. Last couple of years Intel has heavily invested in on-die GPU , and speed gains are minimal. That is why 2012's tech is still relevant.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
My mother is a retired teacher. The mother of my child is a teacher, too.
My child is in the public school system. We do some additional teaching after school and I generally buy him more candy on saturdays, if he solves some mathematical puzzles.
The teaching quality of every school varies. Generally, by home schooling, you could get much better learning results. The group size is just too large to focus on any individual problem. I think it is fair to say, that public schools teach the theory less effictively than home schooling. Practical application of that theory is known as homework and you should make sure your children actually do them.
But not everything that the school teaches is on curriculum. You learn first and foremost social skills. Group sizes are large. There are idiots. There are true friends. There is a cute girl in the first row. You have to work with other people. Just like in real life later on.
If you home school your children. they might become anti-social and biased on your personal world views. You can tell them Jesus created the dinosaurs and in your community that might be even recommended. Or skip those parts totally, because they weren't in the bible.
Neither option is perfect. I would still choose not to home school my children. That does not mean, that you cannot actively ask your children what they are learning, look at their homework and teach them additional skills they don't learn at school.
Meh, I totally forgot slashdot doesn't do even basic autoformatting..
My mother is a retired teacher. The mother of my child is a teacher, too.
My child is in the public school system. We do some additional teaching after school and I generally buy him more candy on saturdays, if he solves some mathematical puzzles.
The teaching quality of every school varies. Generally, by home schooling, you could get much better learning results. The group size is just too large to focus on any individual problem. I think it is fair to say, that public schools teach the theory less effictively than home schooling. Practical application of that theory is known as homework and you should make sure your children actually do them.
But not everything that the school teaches is on curriculum. You learn first and foremost social skills. Group sizes are large. There are idiots. There are true friends. There is a cute girl in the first row. You have to work with other people. Just like in real life later on.
If you home school your children. they might become anti-social and biased on your personal world views. You can tell them Jesus created the dinosaurs and in your community that might be even recommended. Or skip those parts totally, because they weren't in the bible.
Neither option is perfect. I would still choose not to home school my children. That does not mean, that you cannot actively ask your children what they are learning, look at their homework and teach them additional skills they don't learn at school.
I'll have you know that TRUE nerds used to have to jerk it to 320x200x256 palletized images. Nipples would be fucking CYAN half the time, but it was that or play wing commander. SuperVGA made the situation oh so much better, we could get 640x480x16bit in 200-300kB files that would take 2 hours to download, but hey, pink nipples!
You are doing it wrong. The 256 color palette is actually 262 144 color palette, but only 256 colors can be at the screen.
So actually normal VGA is deep down 18-bit, but it cannot show all those colors at once. You must have some real shitty quantization on your images, to get cyan. My nipples were pink. But then again, there is no 16-bit GIF, so all the images started being JPGs. They didn't take 200-300kB, either - what were you on? LZW-compressed TIFs? You should have used more quality sites like McHenry BBS, like.. er.. my friend told me.
Just sayin'..
After that, he can just fill the normal encrypted partition with porn, give the police password for that and just tell them he was embarassed to download so many xxx films.
They want to make your work more transparent. Apparently, they think you have too much spare time, too. Or you getting fired/outsourced, and this is a gentle reminder to document your work..
Since all the reports are similar, I would just create a script to handle the documentation needs. I would also do extra work: create report how much this affects the efficiency of patch / hotfix distribution and how time all these process changes take (and maybe inflate that number a bit, just a bit).
This would also be a great time to ask for an assistant to ease the workload.
The prices of bulbs will soar, even for the transition period and quality remains the same. The cheap LEDs are far from natural color, and compact fluorescent bulbs will not illuminate as much after a year or so.
OP is just discovering the command line and finding out, that you can actually do almost anything with it.Don't bash his learning process (pun intended).
Take a webcam picture: streamer -f jpeg -o image.jpg
Do magic with that picture: convert image.jpg -colorspace Gray image_gray.jpg
Sure, you can only use browser to access the internet. Secure browser will not compromise your system. But it will give the hacker your IP address.
Using the IP address the hacker can do a number of things. He can exploit vunerability on some service, that is not protected by the firewall. Or exploit a problem in the firewall software itself. These vunerabilities are not so common, but it is naive to think, that if you only use the browser, only thing that needs to be secure - is the browser.
The whole XP OS is getting compromised, because hackers had so much time to work on it. And soon, the exploits will not be fixed. Please upgrade to an OS that gets regular security updates or disconnet yourself from the internet.
Is NSA finding this RNG hard to crack, or did NSA tell RSA to slip in a backdoor back in 2006 - and RSA folks are trying to crawl out of the hole they dug for themselves?
Once you get used to it, the new Start menu is ok. You don't spend much time in there anyway.
The real pain in the ass are the stupid full screen Metro apps. Yeah, they just pop up with brightly colored interface that is optimized for touch. They completely disrupt your workflow, there is no visible Exit-button, and they do that for one screen only (if you have multimonitor system, you will totally hate this).
This happens more every now and then and I have to go through some trouble to replace them with better OSS alternatives. If you are watching a video, default app might pop up, and maybe nag about codec or not being up to date - when you really just want to see the video now, with clear controls. PDF reader pops up with no clear navigation and ofcourse fullscreen, and these ofcourse always go to the same monitor, even if you would like to read the PDF on screen #2, while coding. Shit like this happens also with images and music, and the interface is just.. horrible.
I don't even care anymore, if they fixed this. I've been downloading OSS replacements for just about every program and I am curretly ok with my Windows. But instead of fixing the Start menu, which is only a minor nuisance, they could make WINDOWED and USABLE default apps.
They should also shoot the guy, who designed all their new software (Office, Visual Studio..) USING ONLY CAPS FOR TITLES, patch them back to normal and make my eyes hurt less.
Current incumbent is repeatedly failing. QED. What more do you need to know?
..and replacing him with someone who knows all the technologies today will help how?
The projects are already underway, late and technological decisions have already been made.
The problem is, he shouldn't have been making these decisions in the first place! They need a technological guru to tell them how to design the architecture, what technologies to use and how to implement this in reasonable time.
The original manager can still keep his paycheck, make decisions about schedules, go to customers and explain why everything is late, worry about tracking resources (humans) and reporting to his superiors.
They just need a high level position for technical guy, who really knows his stuff, but doesn't like to become an evil manager (all managers are evil by nature) and can help the with the big picture. Hell, this could even be a career path for successful techie in their own company. Why does everyone always think to get promoted you must become a manager?
Head of IT doesn't really need to know that much tech. His blind trust in his underlings might be an issue, but lack of technical skills is not really an issue.
What they lack is manager level (paywise) position for Solution Architect - or just good old fashioned software process, like Scrum .
I see no reason why you can't become a good programmer. I work in IT and I see many people over forty having to learn new skills, because they are familiar with the operational systems and have too little on their plate (that is what bosses always think..).
Then again, you are becoming a grunt. You are pushed down from your career path, doing things that twenty-somethings do when they are just hired.
My advice to you: become really good in something. Pick one programming language you like, and start to design large scale architectures, interactions between high level critical systems and make sure that if they get implemented, you'll be there doing it. You need to get your career going, and IMHO software architect is the way to go.
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Only thing Microsoft said clearly, is that Windows 10 upgrade will be free for _that device_.
I am concerned, does my perfectly transferrable and valid Windows 8 license become one of those untransferrable OEM licenses, if I take the "free" upgrade? Do I downgrade my license at the same time?
No way I am using the same PC for the whole lifespan of Windows 10..
Don't you guys care at all?
First they started censoring child porn. This is totally acceptable, child porn is bad. Nobody dared to say anything.
Then they started censoring pirate sites. This was for the children also, I guess. People objecting these changes are mean pirates! Don't listen to them!
Then they started censoring youtube videos with "dubious" political agenda. When some people complained, it was "only an option to remove videos", blaah blaah blaah.
Now they are starting to censor books.
While there is still time, I suggest you read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and 1984 by Georgy Orwell. That should give you a pretty good picture where this is going..
AMD processors multithread badly. The multithreading inside a module was terrible in Bulldozer and not much better in future generations. Shortly put: you have 4 "fast" cores and each of those cores is paired with a "slow" core. The scheduler doesn't really know, which core is fast and which core is slow and that results in poor real life performance - just look at any decent game benchmark!
Meanwhile, Intel is transitioning to 14nm process, while your processor still is still 32nm from 2012, and this intel of mine actually 22nm from the same year. These numbers might not tell you much, but the main difference to me is that my processor runs much cooler and requires less power.
AMD is way behind the competition.
Luckily, the slides had great bullet points, like "40% more IPC" and "14nm process". If those happen sometime in 2016, Intel might actually have to compete and produce better CPUs. Last couple of years Intel has heavily invested in on-die GPU , and speed gains are minimal. That is why 2012's tech is still relevant.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Edsger Dijkstra
There is nothing stopping you from using your train with these new Xeons:
http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-ck101/
One of the first Ubuntu phones. It did make it to the front page of slashdot, but apparently the editors have hard time remembering what they wrote..
My mother is a retired teacher. The mother of my child is a teacher, too.
My child is in the public school system. We do some additional teaching after school and I generally buy him more candy on saturdays, if he solves some mathematical puzzles.
The teaching quality of every school varies. Generally, by home schooling, you could get much better learning results. The group size is just too large to focus on any individual problem. I think it is fair to say, that public schools teach the theory less effictively than home schooling. Practical application of that theory is known as homework and you should make sure your children actually do them.
But not everything that the school teaches is on curriculum. You learn first and foremost social skills. Group sizes are large. There are idiots. There are true friends. There is a cute girl in the first row. You have to work with other people. Just like in real life later on.
If you home school your children. they might become anti-social and biased on your personal world views. You can tell them Jesus created the dinosaurs and in your community that might be even recommended. Or skip those parts totally, because they weren't in the bible.
Neither option is perfect. I would still choose not to home school my children. That does not mean, that you cannot actively ask your children what they are learning, look at their homework and teach them additional skills they don't learn at school.
Meh, I totally forgot slashdot doesn't do even basic autoformatting..
My mother is a retired teacher. The mother of my child is a teacher, too. My child is in the public school system. We do some additional teaching after school and I generally buy him more candy on saturdays, if he solves some mathematical puzzles. The teaching quality of every school varies. Generally, by home schooling, you could get much better learning results. The group size is just too large to focus on any individual problem. I think it is fair to say, that public schools teach the theory less effictively than home schooling. Practical application of that theory is known as homework and you should make sure your children actually do them. But not everything that the school teaches is on curriculum. You learn first and foremost social skills. Group sizes are large. There are idiots. There are true friends. There is a cute girl in the first row. You have to work with other people. Just like in real life later on. If you home school your children. they might become anti-social and biased on your personal world views. You can tell them Jesus created the dinosaurs and in your community that might be even recommended. Or skip those parts totally, because they weren't in the bible. Neither option is perfect. I would still choose not to home school my children. That does not mean, that you cannot actively ask your children what they are learning, look at their homework and teach them additional skills they don't learn at school.
I'll have you know that TRUE nerds used to have to jerk it to 320x200x256 palletized images. Nipples would be fucking CYAN half the time, but it was that or play wing commander. SuperVGA made the situation oh so much better, we could get 640x480x16bit in 200-300kB files that would take 2 hours to download, but hey, pink nipples!
You are doing it wrong. The 256 color palette is actually 262 144 color palette, but only 256 colors can be at the screen. So actually normal VGA is deep down 18-bit, but it cannot show all those colors at once. You must have some real shitty quantization on your images, to get cyan. My nipples were pink. But then again, there is no 16-bit GIF, so all the images started being JPGs. They didn't take 200-300kB, either - what were you on? LZW-compressed TIFs? You should have used more quality sites like McHenry BBS, like .. er.. my friend told me.
Just sayin'..
The computing student should learn to use hidden partitions:
http://www.howtogeek.com/10921...
After that, he can just fill the normal encrypted partition with porn, give the police password for that and just tell them he was embarassed to download so many xxx films.
In the voice of Nelson from the Simpsons: Ha-ha!
They want to make your work more transparent. Apparently, they think you have too much spare time, too. Or you getting fired/outsourced, and this is a gentle reminder to document your work..
Since all the reports are similar, I would just create a script to handle the documentation needs. I would also do extra work: create report how much this affects the efficiency of patch / hotfix distribution and how time all these process changes take (and maybe inflate that number a bit, just a bit).
This would also be a great time to ask for an assistant to ease the workload.
s/Or/And/
..where incandescent bulbs are banned.
The prices of bulbs will soar, even for the transition period and quality remains the same. The cheap LEDs are far from natural color, and compact fluorescent bulbs will not illuminate as much after a year or so.
Just look at us - and don't go down this route..
Even TFA got it wrong. It is Jukkasjärvi, not Jukkasjårvi.
Direct translation is "The Lake of Jukkas". And "The Loke of Jukkas" sounds funny (å is pronounced that way) in native Finnish tongue.
Yeah, it is so close to Finland, the name is in Finnish, even though it is a part of Sweden.
OP is just discovering the command line and finding out, that you can actually do almost anything with it.Don't bash his learning process (pun intended).
Take a webcam picture:
streamer -f jpeg -o image.jpg
Do magic with that picture:
convert image.jpg -colorspace Gray image_gray.jpg
And do check out rest of the ImageMagick:
http://www.imagemagick.org/
The piracy is just the reason they tell the public.
The real reason is that their firewall/surveillance software is not yet fully compatible with latest operating systems.
and a cartridge designed to release smell
Damn, now I don't get to say: "Your Xbox stinks!"
Please, don't trivialize things.
Sure, you can only use browser to access the internet. Secure browser will not compromise your system. But it will give the hacker your IP address.
Using the IP address the hacker can do a number of things. He can exploit vunerability on some service, that is not protected by the firewall. Or exploit a problem in the firewall software itself. These vunerabilities are not so common, but it is naive to think, that if you only use the browser, only thing that needs to be secure - is the browser.
The whole XP OS is getting compromised, because hackers had so much time to work on it. And soon, the exploits will not be fixed. Please upgrade to an OS that gets regular security updates or disconnet yourself from the internet.
No sane auto manufacturer is going to take the risk of legal liability. There will be accidents. And there will be lawsuits.
I am betting all the research that goes on at Ford or Toyota is just for the patents - they don't ever want to go in to production. Too risky.
Is NSA finding this RNG hard to crack, or did NSA tell RSA to slip in a backdoor back in 2006 - and RSA folks are trying to crawl out of the hole they dug for themselves?
Once you get used to it, the new Start menu is ok. You don't spend much time in there anyway.
The real pain in the ass are the stupid full screen Metro apps. Yeah, they just pop up with brightly colored interface that is optimized for touch. They completely disrupt your workflow, there is no visible Exit-button, and they do that for one screen only (if you have multimonitor system, you will totally hate this).
This happens more every now and then and I have to go through some trouble to replace them with better OSS alternatives. If you are watching a video, default app might pop up, and maybe nag about codec or not being up to date - when you really just want to see the video now, with clear controls. PDF reader pops up with no clear navigation and ofcourse fullscreen, and these ofcourse always go to the same monitor, even if you would like to read the PDF on screen #2, while coding. Shit like this happens also with images and music, and the interface is just .. horrible.
I don't even care anymore, if they fixed this. I've been downloading OSS replacements for just about every program and I am curretly ok with my Windows. But instead of fixing the Start menu, which is only a minor nuisance, they could make WINDOWED and USABLE default apps.
They should also shoot the guy, who designed all their new software (Office, Visual Studio..) USING ONLY CAPS FOR TITLES, patch them back to normal and make my eyes hurt less.
I checked, there is no 12 core version of Xeon E5, so presumably to get the 12 cores on this one will use two packages as the last one did.
You need to check more carefully:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Xeon-Ivy-Bridge-EP-Server,21972.html
Current incumbent is repeatedly failing. QED. What more do you need to know?
..and replacing him with someone who knows all the technologies today will help how?
The projects are already underway, late and technological decisions have already been made.
The problem is, he shouldn't have been making these decisions in the first place! They need a technological guru to tell them how to design the architecture, what technologies to use and how to implement this in reasonable time.
The original manager can still keep his paycheck, make decisions about schedules, go to customers and explain why everything is late, worry about tracking resources (humans) and reporting to his superiors.
They just need a high level position for technical guy, who really knows his stuff, but doesn't like to become an evil manager (all managers are evil by nature) and can help the with the big picture. Hell, this could even be a career path for successful techie in their own company. Why does everyone always think to get promoted you must become a manager?
You must be a techie. The coding kind.
Head of IT doesn't really need to know that much tech. His blind trust in his underlings might be an issue, but lack of technical skills is not really an issue.
What they lack is manager level (paywise) position for Solution Architect - or just good old fashioned software process, like Scrum .
I see no reason why you can't become a good programmer. I work in IT and I see many people over forty having to learn new skills, because they are familiar with the operational systems and have too little on their plate (that is what bosses always think..).
Then again, you are becoming a grunt. You are pushed down from your career path, doing things that twenty-somethings do when they are just hired.
My advice to you: become really good in something. Pick one programming language you like, and start to design large scale architectures, interactions between high level critical systems and make sure that if they get implemented, you'll be there doing it. You need to get your career going, and IMHO software architect is the way to go.