I'm surprised the benefits last this long. Personally, I was stung by Dropbox. I was offered a campaign that promised 'unlimited storage for photos and videos' via their app sometime back. I used about 25 GB or so before the campaign ended only to discover that at some point the 'unlimited' offering disappeared. I could find very little mention of this 'unlimited' offering, and the fact I can't even DOWNLOAD (back up) the videos/phones I took that went over the newly imposed limit (due to a limit on download sizes) means that I basically lost access to those files. Dropbox is now, and forever, dead to me. Instead I pay Microsoft for a decent amount of storage and an office 365 subscription.
You do realize that the 'black' president you are seemingly attacking has done more to help America in his time in office than basically the previous 15 presidents before him...right? Or have you not read history?
As someone who lives in a certain large-ish city in TN, feel free to let this dumbass law scare you FAR FAR away from TN. Please don't come here (we already have enough morons moving here as it is), you'll be stuck on dial-up if you do *goes back to his Comcast 300 meg uncapped cable connection and stares at the Google Fiber hut a mile from his house*
Only on Slashdot can 3/4ths of a story be complete fiction written by troll and get a bunch of nerds (no insult, since I'm the biggest nerd of them all) passionate about X upset about Y. The only real story is that Microsoft removed the ability for insiders to opt out of testing...which was what they said would happen to begin with....long before Windows 10 ever came out.
Took you that long? Trust issues with Google aside, there were always Chromium along with other alternatives, and the platform is far superior to Firefox. Don't get me wrong, I was a Mozilla fanboy ever since they god rid of that god awful suite of applications they had and released Phoenix. etc. However, when Chrome came out, it redefined the browser market...just like the iPhone redefined the smart phone market (disclaimer: the only Apple devices I've ever owned were a Macintosh SE, SE/30, iPod Touch and a Macbook Pro...outside of dev work, I live, eat, and breath on a PC.) There is not a single browser on the market today that has the consistent speed and stability of Chrome. I even tried REALLY hard to like Firefox mobile (it has plugin support), but it was slow, unstable, and prone to freezing, just like it's desktop cousin. (Before you ask, I use almost every new version of Firefox that comes out...our test sweet tests against it)
Google claims to have this so-called 'deep-learning machine' can identify the location of any photo? I will bet Google 1 BILLION dollars that they can't identify the locations of most of the photos I have...all pre 90s photos taken all over the US with absolutely NO landmarks in the background or other key deciding factors. Someone at Google got waaay too cocky about their 'slightly improved' algorithm. On the other hand, I once knew a guy who invented a machine that could generate 400% of the power required to power itself...
To be fair, IBM appears to be a minority in the market. I personally have never seen IBM in big (or small) business. Most of the smaller businesses use Dell, and most of the larger ones use Cisco. Maybe there is some industry that I've never worked in that swears by IBM, but in Healthcare, retail (ERP), or startups, I've never seen an IBM system outside of some ancient rogue server. Sure they are making money somehow...
I wouldn't quite go that far. Amazon had a 960 GB SSD on sale at christmas for $199. It currently has that same SSD listed right now for $259. neither of those prices are out of reach of the general consumer (if it were, the drives would not be listed for sale). Do SSDs carry a premium? Of course. They also offer a number of benefits to justify that premium. Will they drop in cost? Definitely. I remember many years ago people claiming that NAND would never get cheaper, yet here we are watching capacities double every 1-2 years at a given price point. Oh and that SSD I mentioned earlier? it's launch price was $500.
FYI the SSD mentioned is at http://amzn.to/1PidPD8
What's being left out is that Google is NOT blocking an Adblocker, (this was quickly covered by real tech news sites, some of which *gasp* actually reached out to Google to fact check before blindly parroting 'news'.) Instead, they are blocking Adblockers that violate Google's terms of use. (modifying system files, interfering with other apps, etc.) You are perfectly welcome to build, publish, and even sell ad blockers. You aren't permitted to break functionality of other apps.
To be fair, I haven't used Firefox for a LONG time. When I did use it, it was when they first forked from the original Mozilla code base and went through a gazillion different name changes. That being said, I think this story is overblown and most of you are overreacting. Mozilla is simply trying to move (the UN-MAINTAINED) fine grained cookie control to the hands of some excellent add-on developers. The current code that resides in the Mozilla repo is completely un-maintained. Anyone like me who remembers what Firefox was like back in the day will know what I mean when I say 'less' is 'better'. Can Mozilla do stuff better? Without a doubt. Should this be a change that stops you from using Firefox? No.
Disclaimer: I don't use Firefox outside of Ruby on Rails selenium tests.
Not me, I use github for business and bitbucket for semi-personal. In my 5-6 years of using BB i've never seen it go down. Probably timing (used BB full time from 2011-2014 and part time for 2015-2016), but Github going down seems to be a regular occurrence. I don't mean to criticize Github at all (though BB has a much better freemium setup and less downtime), but it seems like they tend to have a lot more issues then competitors at Bitbucket or other locations.Also note that Atlassian, who owns Bitbucket, also owns sourcetree, jira, confluence, and hip chat. I absolutely hate jira (dog slow) and hip chat has gone waaay down hill since going free, but sourcetree, confluence, and bitbucket still seem to be pretty decent.
Meh, just require companies to pay market rate to to foreign workers along with a higher tax rate. Watch those workers disappear overnight. Everyone says there is a shortage of IT workers. I don't believe there is a shortage, but rather companies set their expectations too high. If there wasn't a visa offering for tech workers (let's say you couldn't outsource either), I'm betting companies would find a way to make things work.
This comment will get modded to hell...what the hell, all good comments do...
What I hear from the comments section:
blah blah blah US Sux blah blah blah something about trump blah blah blah XYZ country does it so much better blah blah blah
What is actually happening in the US: We have the most free country on the planet. Every country has it's problems, but hell, at least our (*cough* UK *cough*) country isn't censoring the internet (like china) or worse.
Come on guys...your arguments are weak. Every country has it's faults obviously, at least ours aren't compromising on our freedom of speech and ability to make decisions on a daily basis (and don't bring up the NSA, despite controversy, name one single case where the NSA metadata has ever been used to successfully convict a US citizen on US soil.)
I especially love how foreigners claim to be following Trump in the US. That practically makes me orgasm since, the US itself doesn't even have that much Trump coverage. I mean really...shouldn't you guys be focused on...I don't know, independence?
Maybe, however since this was a government job, things are changed up ever so slightly. In most states a whistleblower law applies along with various public records acts. It's very different from working for a private employer. Your actions as a public employer are being held accountable by various laws that have been implemented in an attempt to protect the taxpayers. Someone's head is going to roll for this and I'm sure the IT guy will win out in the end unless he's hiding something.
As devices get thinner, batteries get smaller, and battery life shrinks. Batteries aren't subject to "Moore's law". They do not gain power as they shrink in size.
No they won't. They'll just blame some other random thing that the U.S. or . ' is buying oil from our enemies...so they must pay'. Groups like ISIS will always exist. Whether it be Japan in WWII,The Soviet Union, Vietnam, North Korea, Al Qaeda, ISIS, or some other threat. The only difference is that our U.S. dick waving gives them a scapegoat. Don't be fooled however, because they'd find some other excuse to attack us anyways.
These groups exist for no other reason then to do their own dick waving. They want to be in the news and scare people into submission. I don't agree with the U.S. or other countries having a heavy handed approach, but hell poke a bear with a stick and you deserve what happens next...maybe that is what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs...
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I'm surprised the benefits last this long. Personally, I was stung by Dropbox. I was offered a campaign that promised 'unlimited storage for photos and videos' via their app sometime back. I used about 25 GB or so before the campaign ended only to discover that at some point the 'unlimited' offering disappeared. I could find very little mention of this 'unlimited' offering, and the fact I can't even DOWNLOAD (back up) the videos/phones I took that went over the newly imposed limit (due to a limit on download sizes) means that I basically lost access to those files. Dropbox is now, and forever, dead to me. Instead I pay Microsoft for a decent amount of storage and an office 365 subscription.
Yeah...those damn marketers...building the most successful and profitable company in the world...how dare they?
You do realize that the 'black' president you are seemingly attacking has done more to help America in his time in office than basically the previous 15 presidents before him...right? Or have you not read history?
My city (in TN) is growing so fast they don't have housing for everyone. rekt?
As someone who lives in a certain large-ish city in TN, feel free to let this dumbass law scare you FAR FAR away from TN. Please don't come here (we already have enough morons moving here as it is), you'll be stuck on dial-up if you do *goes back to his Comcast 300 meg uncapped cable connection and stares at the Google Fiber hut a mile from his house*
Well, you see, we Americans have this pesky little thing called the constitution...which guarantees gun rights...
1 out of 3 'developers' aren't developers. GG.
Only on Slashdot can 3/4ths of a story be complete fiction written by troll and get a bunch of nerds (no insult, since I'm the biggest nerd of them all) passionate about X upset about Y. The only real story is that Microsoft removed the ability for insiders to opt out of testing...which was what they said would happen to begin with....long before Windows 10 ever came out.
lcd...cam? HAHAHAHA
Took you that long? Trust issues with Google aside, there were always Chromium along with other alternatives, and the platform is far superior to Firefox. Don't get me wrong, I was a Mozilla fanboy ever since they god rid of that god awful suite of applications they had and released Phoenix. etc. However, when Chrome came out, it redefined the browser market...just like the iPhone redefined the smart phone market (disclaimer: the only Apple devices I've ever owned were a Macintosh SE, SE/30, iPod Touch and a Macbook Pro...outside of dev work, I live, eat, and breath on a PC.) There is not a single browser on the market today that has the consistent speed and stability of Chrome. I even tried REALLY hard to like Firefox mobile (it has plugin support), but it was slow, unstable, and prone to freezing, just like it's desktop cousin. (Before you ask, I use almost every new version of Firefox that comes out...our test sweet tests against it)
Google claims to have this so-called 'deep-learning machine' can identify the location of any photo? I will bet Google 1 BILLION dollars that they can't identify the locations of most of the photos I have...all pre 90s photos taken all over the US with absolutely NO landmarks in the background or other key deciding factors. Someone at Google got waaay too cocky about their 'slightly improved' algorithm. On the other hand, I once knew a guy who invented a machine that could generate 400% of the power required to power itself...
To be fair, IBM appears to be a minority in the market. I personally have never seen IBM in big (or small) business. Most of the smaller businesses use Dell, and most of the larger ones use Cisco. Maybe there is some industry that I've never worked in that swears by IBM, but in Healthcare, retail (ERP), or startups, I've never seen an IBM system outside of some ancient rogue server. Sure they are making money somehow...
My 840 evo has never given me any issues. Bought it at launch.
MakeMKV is better. I rip all my DVDs and Blurays to my nas, then stream them to my Raspberry Pi running OpenElec with WMC remote. Very nice setup.
Yep, you piqued our curiosity, now it's time to show you mean business.
Or you can just take your severance...and I don't know...FIND ANOTHER JOB!?!
I wouldn't quite go that far. Amazon had a 960 GB SSD on sale at christmas for $199. It currently has that same SSD listed right now for $259. neither of those prices are out of reach of the general consumer (if it were, the drives would not be listed for sale). Do SSDs carry a premium? Of course. They also offer a number of benefits to justify that premium. Will they drop in cost? Definitely. I remember many years ago people claiming that NAND would never get cheaper, yet here we are watching capacities double every 1-2 years at a given price point. Oh and that SSD I mentioned earlier? it's launch price was $500. FYI the SSD mentioned is at http://amzn.to/1PidPD8
What's being left out is that Google is NOT blocking an Adblocker, (this was quickly covered by real tech news sites, some of which *gasp* actually reached out to Google to fact check before blindly parroting 'news'.) Instead, they are blocking Adblockers that violate Google's terms of use. (modifying system files, interfering with other apps, etc.) You are perfectly welcome to build, publish, and even sell ad blockers. You aren't permitted to break functionality of other apps.
To be fair, I haven't used Firefox for a LONG time. When I did use it, it was when they first forked from the original Mozilla code base and went through a gazillion different name changes. That being said, I think this story is overblown and most of you are overreacting. Mozilla is simply trying to move (the UN-MAINTAINED) fine grained cookie control to the hands of some excellent add-on developers. The current code that resides in the Mozilla repo is completely un-maintained. Anyone like me who remembers what Firefox was like back in the day will know what I mean when I say 'less' is 'better'. Can Mozilla do stuff better? Without a doubt. Should this be a change that stops you from using Firefox? No. Disclaimer: I don't use Firefox outside of Ruby on Rails selenium tests.
Not me, I use github for business and bitbucket for semi-personal. In my 5-6 years of using BB i've never seen it go down. Probably timing (used BB full time from 2011-2014 and part time for 2015-2016), but Github going down seems to be a regular occurrence. I don't mean to criticize Github at all (though BB has a much better freemium setup and less downtime), but it seems like they tend to have a lot more issues then competitors at Bitbucket or other locations.Also note that Atlassian, who owns Bitbucket, also owns sourcetree, jira, confluence, and hip chat. I absolutely hate jira (dog slow) and hip chat has gone waaay down hill since going free, but sourcetree, confluence, and bitbucket still seem to be pretty decent.
Meh, just require companies to pay market rate to to foreign workers along with a higher tax rate. Watch those workers disappear overnight. Everyone says there is a shortage of IT workers. I don't believe there is a shortage, but rather companies set their expectations too high. If there wasn't a visa offering for tech workers (let's say you couldn't outsource either), I'm betting companies would find a way to make things work.
This comment will get modded to hell...what the hell, all good comments do... What I hear from the comments section: blah blah blah US Sux blah blah blah something about trump blah blah blah XYZ country does it so much better blah blah blah What is actually happening in the US: We have the most free country on the planet. Every country has it's problems, but hell, at least our (*cough* UK *cough*) country isn't censoring the internet (like china) or worse. Come on guys...your arguments are weak. Every country has it's faults obviously, at least ours aren't compromising on our freedom of speech and ability to make decisions on a daily basis (and don't bring up the NSA, despite controversy, name one single case where the NSA metadata has ever been used to successfully convict a US citizen on US soil.) I especially love how foreigners claim to be following Trump in the US. That practically makes me orgasm since, the US itself doesn't even have that much Trump coverage. I mean really...shouldn't you guys be focused on...I don't know, independence?
Maybe, however since this was a government job, things are changed up ever so slightly. In most states a whistleblower law applies along with various public records acts. It's very different from working for a private employer. Your actions as a public employer are being held accountable by various laws that have been implemented in an attempt to protect the taxpayers. Someone's head is going to roll for this and I'm sure the IT guy will win out in the end unless he's hiding something.
As devices get thinner, batteries get smaller, and battery life shrinks. Batteries aren't subject to "Moore's law". They do not gain power as they shrink in size.
No they won't. They'll just blame some other random thing that the U.S. or . ' is buying oil from our enemies...so they must pay'. Groups like ISIS will always exist. Whether it be Japan in WWII,The Soviet Union, Vietnam, North Korea, Al Qaeda, ISIS, or some other threat. The only difference is that our U.S. dick waving gives them a scapegoat. Don't be fooled however, because they'd find some other excuse to attack us anyways. These groups exist for no other reason then to do their own dick waving. They want to be in the news and scare people into submission. I don't agree with the U.S. or other countries having a heavy handed approach, but hell poke a bear with a stick and you deserve what happens next...maybe that is what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs...