How is it that only 3 companies are making such an easy and in-demand product? I could do a voting machine in a weekend including the hardware and a blockchain-based audit trail. So could a lot of us. I'm busy, someone do it.
They have decent content but it's such a waste without Chromecast support. They should hire people out of Hulu or Netflix (but definitely NOT HBO) to get that fixed. They did this whole PR thing blaming Google when it is totally their fault. Time to fix that up, no other part of Prime Video deserves attention.
Lol I have seen many projects waste so much time because of swift's BS incompatible updates to do critical things like making the ++ operator a compile error.
When election day is a holiday or held on a weekend, this is a legitimate argument, but a huge percentage of the population can say with credibility that working makes it unfeasible for them to vote.
I have a nice pair of Bluetooth headphones with mic, and as nice as they sound, the lag they introduce is unacceptable. Especially when it's been a few mins and it has to wake the bluetooth connection, it can take a quarter to a half second before I hear something that would have already been played if it were on the built-in speaker or on wired headphones.
When watching video, it makes a big difference, it feels like something is wrong with the file. When using it for voice communication, it makes a small but annoying difference.
It's not just my headphones either, I've tried others. BT headphones (and most likely speakers) suck for anything time-sensitive.
So after forcing the software on windows users everywhere, at random times, now they think they can start charging for it and have people bend over? Damn I'm glad I started refusing to use windows back around 3.1.
This might be cool if Amazon would bother to put in Chromecast support, no one is stopping them. Hulu, Netflix, CBS, HBO, and many other streaming vendors have managed to do it. Without that they are nowhere near worth paying for.
No. We are better than the NSA (low standard to rise to, but still). I know that was a joke but.. it's possible that non-feds might be caught up in this and it would really suck to be kicked out of defcon on the slightest suspicion. There needs to be some kind of test - something a fed would never do but a regular attendee would be glad to.. there are options.
If you are looking at resumes that actually list what/classes/ the candidates took, they probably have zero experience. The other guy who has some actual experience or did some personal project interesting enough to fill the space will get the job.
Anti-Trust is a joke in this country, and a sad one at that. Actually, I should say Anti-Trust was a joke back when we had it. Now we have Too Big To Fail.
With the incentives in place now, we are well on our way to having One Big Company, invulnerable to laws it doesn't bother to follow even though it wrote them all, and paid for all the votes.
Seriously, Anonymous Coward, that doesn't help clarify things at all. It's going to mean vastly different things to different people. Personally I find your analogy's implications offensive, but I won't go into detail because that would be following that distracting path further out into the woods.
Second, you have a typo missing a pretty important word - it should be "Linus does NOT want to do this in ideological grounds".
Also it's not so simple as it being an ideological objection. Linus argues that a major kernel addition that only runs binaries specifically and individually approved by a commercial entity with a history of actively trying to destroy linux, is perhaps a bad idea. He even uses the phrase "requires a lot more thought". Sure, later on he gets more angry and forceful in his arguments, but I agree with his decision here.
Trust and past behavior matter in human and corporate behavior - especially in the installation of a new system to manage trust at the very lowest core level of the operating system. Microsoft is has not proven to be, in my experience, technically competent or worthy of trust.
Yeah but there's no reliable search engine for reliable people who can do the work from the other side of the planet, and there tend to be issues involved with international hires, including paperwork, time differences, and language/accent interpretations.
Besides what has an office got that isn't available on the other side of the planet too? They do have offices there.
Damn right. I spent a decade in various cube farm environments, they are horrible, productivity-killing and soul-killing places. Never Again. Cubes are just a half assed attempt to pretend people have privacy when they don't. give them tables, give them offices, or admit you don't have enough space.
No it wouldn't have been ok, not even might. I only know from hearing the stories of others, to be fair, but if I had gone to prison for 6 months on trumped up charges because of something I did to try to increase the amount of freedom in the world without profiting from it, I would not find that acceptable, fair, ok, worth living for, etc.
It is sad to realize/say this, but Swartz probably did the best thing he could have done to draw attention to his cause and try to get it fixed. I hope it makes a difference.
Interviewer: And uh and.. how many are.. are these.. are these going to be.. a limited edition? Company Rep: Oh! The important thing is that it's limited edition..
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How is it that only 3 companies are making such an easy and in-demand product? I could do a voting machine in a weekend including the hardware and a blockchain-based audit trail. So could a lot of us. I'm busy, someone do it.
They have decent content but it's such a waste without Chromecast support. They should hire people out of Hulu or Netflix (but definitely NOT HBO) to get that fixed. They did this whole PR thing blaming Google when it is totally their fault. Time to fix that up, no other part of Prime Video deserves attention.
This is so easily foiled, anyone who wants to hide can just rest under a blanket, lie down, hide in the trunk, etc. Not a good use of money.
Lol I have seen many projects waste so much time because of swift's BS incompatible updates to do critical things like making the ++ operator a compile error.
This is a good argument for open source cars.
When election day is a holiday or held on a weekend, this is a legitimate argument, but a huge percentage of the population can say with credibility that working makes it unfeasible for them to vote.
Or if the chinese are really that worried, they can order their military people to play pokemon go to make it seem like it's not a base.
The same can be said for her.
I have a nice pair of Bluetooth headphones with mic, and as nice as they sound, the lag they introduce is unacceptable. Especially when it's been a few mins and it has to wake the bluetooth connection, it can take a quarter to a half second before I hear something that would have already been played if it were on the built-in speaker or on wired headphones.
When watching video, it makes a big difference, it feels like something is wrong with the file. When using it for voice communication, it makes a small but annoying difference.
It's not just my headphones either, I've tried others. BT headphones (and most likely speakers) suck for anything time-sensitive.
So after forcing the software on windows users everywhere, at random times, now they think they can start charging for it and have people bend over? Damn I'm glad I started refusing to use windows back around 3.1.
This might be cool if Amazon would bother to put in Chromecast support, no one is stopping them. Hulu, Netflix, CBS, HBO, and many other streaming vendors have managed to do it. Without that they are nowhere near worth paying for.
Travelling Wave Reactors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor are perfectly safe. There is no reason to stop using nuclear power, we just need to start being smart about it.
in another context or another less totalitarian government situation i might call that a troll.. but here- mod parent up.
They will be, someday. Hopefully while they are still alive.
No. We are better than the NSA (low standard to rise to, but still). I know that was a joke but.. it's possible that non-feds might be caught up in this and it would really suck to be kicked out of defcon on the slightest suspicion. There needs to be some kind of test - something a fed would never do but a regular attendee would be glad to.. there are options.
Wake me up when they have 4k ones.
If you are looking at resumes that actually list what /classes/ the candidates took, they probably have zero experience. The other guy who has some actual experience or did some personal project interesting enough to fill the space will get the job.
Thanks for the detail - interesting.
Anti-Trust is a joke in this country, and a sad one at that.
Actually, I should say Anti-Trust was a joke back when we had it.
Now we have Too Big To Fail.
With the incentives in place now, we are well on our way to having One Big Company, invulnerable to laws it doesn't bother to follow even though it wrote them all, and paid for all the votes.
"A bit of a Palestinian"??
Seriously, Anonymous Coward, that doesn't help clarify things at all. It's going to mean vastly different things to different people. Personally I find your analogy's implications offensive, but I won't go into detail because that would be following that distracting path further out into the woods.
Second, you have a typo missing a pretty important word - it should be "Linus does NOT want to do this in ideological grounds".
Also it's not so simple as it being an ideological objection. Linus argues that a major kernel addition that only runs binaries specifically and individually approved by a commercial entity with a history of actively trying to destroy linux, is perhaps a bad idea. He even uses the phrase "requires a lot more thought". Sure, later on he gets more angry and forceful in his arguments, but I agree with his decision here.
Trust and past behavior matter in human and corporate behavior - especially in the installation of a new system to manage trust at the very lowest core level of the operating system. Microsoft is has not proven to be, in my experience, technically competent or worthy of trust.
Yeah but there's no reliable search engine for reliable people who can do the work from the other side of the planet, and there tend to be issues involved with international hires, including paperwork, time differences, and language/accent interpretations.
Besides what has an office got that isn't available on the other side of the planet too? They do have offices there.
Damn right. I spent a decade in various cube farm environments, they are horrible, productivity-killing and soul-killing places. Never Again.
Cubes are just a half assed attempt to pretend people have privacy when they don't. give them tables, give them offices, or admit you don't have enough space.
No it wouldn't have been ok, not even might. I only know from hearing the stories of others, to be fair, but if I had gone to prison for 6 months on trumped up charges because of something I did to try to increase the amount of freedom in the world without profiting from it, I would not find that acceptable, fair, ok, worth living for, etc.
It is sad to realize/say this, but Swartz probably did the best thing he could have done to draw attention to his cause and try to get it fixed. I hope it makes a difference.
Perl seconded! What the hell, they are supporting Groovy but not perl?
Interviewer: And uh and.. how many are.. are these.. are these going to be.. a limited edition? ..
Company Rep: Oh! The important thing is that it's limited edition