You seem to be arguing that drone usage by private companies violates the privacy and/or security of the American public. Many people agree with that. Additionally, many people agree that drone usage by Law Enforcement Agencies and US Federal Agencies also violates the privacy and/or security of the American public.
I find it hypocritical, then, that you would simultaneously support the use of armed drones in the US by Federal Agencies and Law Enforcement while objecting to unarmed drone use by private enterprise. Perhaps I'm not understanding your position clearly. Perhaps, and I believe this to be more likely, I am.
Video cards push pixels and the number of pixels has stalled in the last couple of years. 1920x1080 is the norm, and there appears to be no push to go higher. I read a great rant last year that effective summed it up. You can't blame console games for the fact that PC gamers have screens with the same resolution as their TVs. Blame either the manufacturers for failing to increase pixel density or consumers for failing to demand it. You've got to go to a 30" monitor to get a higher resolution, and the price of those beasts scares most people away. Why pay $800+ for a 30" when a pair of 24" 1080p monitors costs half that?
---------- Still waiting for my in-retina display.
All this hullabaloo and we don't even have a diff of the two versions. Lots of hot air being blown around, but nobody's seen what the real cause of the problem is. Two words got moved, should be a simple thing to diff.
----- Who needs proof when they have a hot air balloon?
I'm wondering if they're counting every one of the automated page update checks as a page view. I'd be really curious to see exactly what they count as a page view.
Too bad they've decided to do away with split screen. I count myself one of the lucky geeks with a wife who loves video games and one of our favorite types has been the split-screen dungeon crawl like Baldur's Gate. We won't be buying another TV and another PS3 to play games on, though, so I guess this is a game we won't be buying.
Dear Game Developers: Please bring back split-screen play as a standard. While Borderlands is great, we won't be playing it forever.
----- My wife and I play on the couch; video games, too.
That's a terrible quote from a not-so-good blog post. It also appears that the submitter, Unexpof, only links to stories on Graham Cluley's blog at Sophos.
Well, we haven't met;-)
TDD is great. I love the quality of code that comes out of it in comparison to the from-the-hip stuff that I've dealt with for many years.
That said, sometimes new things crop up. Something that wasn't thought about before, some integration, some last-minute partner request gets shoved in or discovered, and now there's a bug being logged. If the QA person can not only log the bug but (re)write the unit test to verify that you've fixed it, are you really going to turn that down?
There are ample opportunities within QA to do programming. I have yet to meet a developer who says, "No, don't write my unit tests for me."
Have you heard of Selenium? How about Groovy, FIT, JUnit, JMeter, or ant? How's your svn-fu and when was the last time you mucked around in an apache.conf file? Know some SQL that you've used for verification? Got any handy shell scripts? Had to mess around with Prototype, JSON, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, or Ruby?
C'mon, be honest with yourself. What's really holding you up?
I work for a company that uses Amazon S3 for our customer's data storage for the same reasons that many other companies do - they're reliable and inexpensive. We have a couple hundred terabytes of data stored on Amazon's servers and, aside from this one instance, we haven't had a major problem in three years.
Because we're in Seattle and a few blocks from Amazon's headquarters, we got a personal visit last week from one of the senior managers of Amazon's hosted platforms group. In addition to being able to ask him all kinds of great questions about how they do their business and what technologies they employ that we could also use, we got to ask him about what happened.
He was completely open and honest about it. He knew that we, like every other Amazon S3 customer, had suffered and that some of us had lost a Sunday to dealing with customer complaints. He apologized and told us that they were taking steps to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
Amazon has handled this very well and we will continue to be a customer of theirs.
--- Five nines allows for over eight hours of downtime a year.
As someone who has experience with hardware, software, web, and game QA, I can attest that QA has always been an entry point to development, regardless of the field. Testers learn the development process, common mistakes, common fixes, and, eventually, how to work the process to their advantage without stepping on toes or burning out. Testers can focus on technical, business, or process specialties without losing focus on their current jobs. This enables them to move rather easily into development, marketing, or project management roles.
Hopefully, the good ones decide to stick around. Good testers are hard to find.
I refuse to purchase 128-bit audio, even at a discounted $9.99 per album. I'd rather spend more to get a CD, rip it myself without DRM so I can load it onto any media/player I desire, and at a quality level I'm willing to tolerate. Any other "solution" is a greedy attempt to limit my choices with a substandard product.
It's an obvious fake. The photos are taken from the Ars Technica autopsy of the Nano. If you look closely at the picture with the "attached" ATA board, it's clear the wires are Photoshopped in.
No, the average Joe wants a computer to be able to do what he says, when he says it, not when he can figure out how to make some program do it or go to school for years to do it himself.
-- Computer, google natural language voice recognition, please, and open the first five results.
For the past several years, according to the judge's decision, case law has clearly stated that online publishers cannot feign ignorance of the global reach of their publications.
Is this decision really threatening free speech and the gloabl dissemination of information? If that information is libelous, I surely hope so. Sounds to me like some companies that benefit from glabalization aren't liking some of the effects. For a $7000 (Canadian, even) judgement, there sure is a lot of heavy lawyering going on.
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lawmakers would never knowingly yield authority
I can see how Greenwald would think that. He isn't in the business of buying and selling their authority.
What's the difference between Blackberry and Apple? Well, a Blackberry is a small, bitter fruit.
Senator Schumer,
You seem to be arguing that drone usage by private companies violates the privacy and/or security of the American public. Many people agree with that. Additionally, many people agree that drone usage by Law Enforcement Agencies and US Federal Agencies also violates the privacy and/or security of the American public.
I find it hypocritical, then, that you would simultaneously support the use of armed drones in the US by Federal Agencies and Law Enforcement while objecting to unarmed drone use by private enterprise. Perhaps I'm not understanding your position clearly. Perhaps, and I believe this to be more likely, I am.
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Your lips are moving.
Video cards push pixels and the number of pixels has stalled in the last couple of years. 1920x1080 is the norm, and there appears to be no push to go higher. I read a great rant last year that effective summed it up. You can't blame console games for the fact that PC gamers have screens with the same resolution as their TVs. Blame either the manufacturers for failing to increase pixel density or consumers for failing to demand it. You've got to go to a 30" monitor to get a higher resolution, and the price of those beasts scares most people away. Why pay $800+ for a 30" when a pair of 24" 1080p monitors costs half that?
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Still waiting for my in-retina display.
All this hullabaloo and we don't even have a diff of the two versions. Lots of hot air being blown around, but nobody's seen what the real cause of the problem is. Two words got moved, should be a simple thing to diff.
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Who needs proof when they have a hot air balloon?
I'm wondering if they're counting every one of the automated page update checks as a page view. I'd be really curious to see exactly what they count as a page view.
Nice work, anonymous. Thanks.
Too bad they've decided to do away with split screen. I count myself one of the lucky geeks with a wife who loves video games and one of our favorite types has been the split-screen dungeon crawl like Baldur's Gate. We won't be buying another TV and another PS3 to play games on, though, so I guess this is a game we won't be buying.
Dear Game Developers: Please bring back split-screen play as a standard. While Borderlands is great, we won't be playing it forever.
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My wife and I play on the couch; video games, too.
That's a terrible quote from a not-so-good blog post. It also appears that the submitter, Unexpof, only links to stories on Graham Cluley's blog at Sophos.
The Press Release is dated January 22, 2009. Has there been any recent developments? What's the timeline for human trials?
I had no trouble finding a high-res HMD. The price made me choke a bit, though.
Belkin tried this a few years ago. As I recall, it didn't work out too well for them.
Well, we haven't met ;-)
TDD is great. I love the quality of code that comes out of it in comparison to the from-the-hip stuff that I've dealt with for many years.
That said, sometimes new things crop up. Something that wasn't thought about before, some integration, some last-minute partner request gets shoved in or discovered, and now there's a bug being logged. If the QA person can not only log the bug but (re)write the unit test to verify that you've fixed it, are you really going to turn that down?
There are ample opportunities within QA to do programming. I have yet to meet a developer who says, "No, don't write my unit tests for me."
Have you heard of Selenium? How about Groovy, FIT, JUnit, JMeter, or ant? How's your svn-fu and when was the last time you mucked around in an apache.conf file? Know some SQL that you've used for verification? Got any handy shell scripts? Had to mess around with Prototype, JSON, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, or Ruby?
C'mon, be honest with yourself. What's really holding you up?
I work for a company that uses Amazon S3 for our customer's data storage for the same reasons that many other companies do - they're reliable and inexpensive. We have a couple hundred terabytes of data stored on Amazon's servers and, aside from this one instance, we haven't had a major problem in three years.
Because we're in Seattle and a few blocks from Amazon's headquarters, we got a personal visit last week from one of the senior managers of Amazon's hosted platforms group. In addition to being able to ask him all kinds of great questions about how they do their business and what technologies they employ that we could also use, we got to ask him about what happened.
He was completely open and honest about it. He knew that we, like every other Amazon S3 customer, had suffered and that some of us had lost a Sunday to dealing with customer complaints. He apologized and told us that they were taking steps to make sure it wouldn't happen again.
Amazon has handled this very well and we will continue to be a customer of theirs.
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Five nines allows for over eight hours of downtime a year.
It took very little digging to find the relevant US patent.
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I can't see you, therefore you don't exist.
As someone who has experience with hardware, software, web, and game QA, I can attest that QA has always been an entry point to development, regardless of the field. Testers learn the development process, common mistakes, common fixes, and, eventually, how to work the process to their advantage without stepping on toes or burning out. Testers can focus on technical, business, or process specialties without losing focus on their current jobs. This enables them to move rather easily into development, marketing, or project management roles.
Hopefully, the good ones decide to stick around. Good testers are hard to find.
What's the process to become a registrar, again?
In the google link of the original post is the perfect answer:
A global network connecting millions of computers.
Can we have more interesting topics for Ask Slashdot, now? Please?
I refuse to purchase 128-bit audio, even at a discounted $9.99 per album. I'd rather spend more to get a CD, rip it myself without DRM so I can load it onto any media/player I desire, and at a quality level I'm willing to tolerate. Any other "solution" is a greedy attempt to limit my choices with a substandard product.
It's an obvious fake. The photos are taken from the Ars Technica autopsy of the Nano. If you look closely at the picture with the "attached" ATA board, it's clear the wires are Photoshopped in.
It was just last Novemeber that they were asking to become members. I have to consider that fair warning to the users of i2.
My iPod made me do it. It's a tool of teh d3\/1|!
Let's extend it by 6 months! That will save even more oil!!!
C'mon, you know you wanna.
No, the average Joe wants a computer to be able to do what he says, when he says it, not when he can figure out how to make some program do it or go to school for years to do it himself.
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Computer, google natural language voice recognition, please, and open the first five results.
For the past several years, according to the judge's decision, case law has clearly stated that online publishers cannot feign ignorance of the global reach of their publications.
Is this decision really threatening free speech and the gloabl dissemination of information? If that information is libelous, I surely hope so. Sounds to me like some companies that benefit from glabalization aren't liking some of the effects. For a $7000 (Canadian, even) judgement, there sure is a lot of heavy lawyering going on.
Everything everywhere. Wasn't that the point?