Just because something is easy to count doesn't mean it should be your primary metric.
This may be metric for data entry jobs but it's increasingly useless the further up the food chain you are.
Reviewing code may involve the mousewheel and no keystrokes
Reading slowly for comprehension and making sure we're not making errors is also vital. Time to assimilate and digest information is also work. No, really.
There are days where I'm hammering the keyboard and there are days when I'm plotting and thinking. Moreover, if we're drawing up plans and sketches on whiteboards and notebooks or large sheets of paper, or we're in meetings, keystrokes don't count. Counting keystrokes may be useful in a lot of jobs but like code check ins, they're not the actual metric of value on their own.
Captachas and auto correct is how the coming robot overlords are communicating. In fact my autocorrect is s....NOTHING IS WRONG WITH AUTOCORRECT. PLEASE CONTINUE WITH YOUR DAY.
>First off, those sketches were basically Vader fully-fleshed out. There was little imagination needed beyond those sketches. Your personal incredulity says a lot, but not in the way you think.
The props and costumes had to be made and the paintings were different each time. Once they needed to go from pigment into the real world choices had to be made.
For example how threadbare should the farmers clothes be, what combination of new and worn should the stormtroopers' costumes be, fabric and materials choices. and of course, none of it could be taken off the rack. All of the costumes had to be assembled -- even if they used components -- from the get go.
It's a bit like saying Dykstra had nothing to do because there were paintings. Or the actor, come to think of it.
The USA got rid of the fairness doctrine that required standards in news gathering and broadcasting and look at the result. Now you'll have gated access to the internet so that news becomes even more corporatized and with no local coverage, you could have hurricanes ripping up the district before the studio a time zone or two away decides to see if they can get someone with a cell phone to do a live hit.
I want a full sized tower. It should use all 110 volts coming out of the wall for high availability duty cycle for the whole warranty period and beyond. It needs room for a lot of internal drives for low latency high volumes of data. It should be pushed hard and be able to take it, no thermal throttling. I want a desktop unit, not a laptop in a desktop shell.
When you get that done, we'll talk about replacing the MacBook Pro 17 inch.
What removed in the last few years
MagSafe
Wired mice/keyboard
Semi-matte and matte finish for monitors
Monitors
Creative professional software
Admin tools for remote management of large deployments of Macs
Educational market support
Headphone jacks
Desktops that use desktop hardware, not low-power mobile device hardware
Machines that support more than 16 gigs of RAM
What they've added
Watchbands
Battery powered mice and keyboards that cannot have their power cells changed
Goods that are valuable last a long time and that usually means repairable. Disposable is typically synonymous with irreparable. Apple hardware (I'm looking at you, Mac Pro full size tower) used to be repairable, using very high quality stock parts. Their last great laptop, the 17 inch, similarly was similarly repairable.
However repairable also means you can modify it, upgrade it and extend its value. Apple has stopped being that company. Their repair program is 'throw it out and buy another'. However, they'll promote themselves as a green company despite this nonsense.
My Mac hardware is ageing. I'm waiting to see what happens when the new tower is released and after decades of being their customer starting with the Apple 2, I may well admit the truth -- they abandoned me and what I consider to be good hardware.
If you have no data retention requirements, go right ahead but pal, you first. There's simply no way I'd trust SSDs to be anything other than consumables at this time.
Once footage and images are done with as a project closes, tape was and is the perfect place for them. There is flat out no need to have archival storage on spinning platters that gather dust on sleds.
As predictable as every other large purchase made by Microsoft, Linked in will be used to shill other MS products at the cost of core functionality clarity of mission. Finally, because it doesn't sell enough MS Office licences, it will be moved sideways into Bing as Bing Business, and then it will die a slow death because it doesn't also sell enough Teams licences.
In my humble experience, musicians and mathematicians can converse very coherently upon the subject of algorithms. It's truly something to be a fly on the wall for one of those conversations.
However, back to the matter at hand. I suspect that we will learn that Equifax was a shell of a company that is still running XP or even NT and that the business people treated the tech side of the company as janitors who basically had to keep the place looking tidy and those credit card transactions coming in.
Why is this the dilemma presented. We get user privacy at the cost of a parade of pop up windows. Really? Maaaaaybe you could decide to not spam your customers with popup windows.
This is how bullies talk: don't make me hurt you!
The sooner ISPs become regulated as utilities, the better.
The broadcast industry has effectively standardized on 720 compressed; most people can't tell the difference between DVD and HD and it's already cost them thousands to find that out. My humble opinion is that the hardware manufacturers got addicted to the consumer upgrade cycle and they're pushing 4K. Having made a certain number of industrial films, I can tell you that no-one is screaming to support 4k.
I suspect that this will drag on so long that the screen makers will jump to 8k before there's much consumer traction.
The uprezzing of content to four thousand px will take time and money to accomplish. If I were Disney or any other large owner of content, I'd probably want to be conservative as well.
Industry will somehow, with a straight face, claim that the answer will be getting government out of the way. The *only* reason this could have possibly happened is because of onerous, confusing regulations.
1) If you need to collect everything, it's because you don't know what you want. 2) Collecting everything is expensive and usually wrong because data ages differently. 3) A pile of inaccurate data does not become more accurate the more data you have. 4) Confirmation bias is an omnipresent risk. 5) Priming is an omnipresent risk. 6) The sub group of people who make up the defence and intelligence communities have their own outlooks, biases and foibles, like the rest of us. 7) The 'we must do something with this since data we have it' is a variant of the sunk costs fallacy.
The security freeze prevents anyone, even you, from opening a credit account or getting a loan in your name, including yourself, until you lift the freeze.
You never know about a identity theft until after the fact and weird bills start coming in. Basically you agree to a PIN number. No new loans can take place in your name unless the applicant knows the number.
The credit reputation agencies don't offer it by default because their business model is to sell you fraud alert monitoring services. Logically, if there's a freeze, there's nothing for them to monitor. This is the cheapest and best solution.
Second, stop giving Equifax your money. Third, class action suit.
PS: Krebs on Security has a great piece that's now a few years old but shows why credit freezes are good and the other crap sold by Equifax and their peers are more or less useless in comparison: Transition and Experien promote have little value: https://krebsonsecurity.com/20...
>No one knows who filed this claim - all the identities cited are faked or stolen.
No-one knows yet. The identities are fraudulent but the motives are not. Someone did this to hurt them, not just play rough and tumble capitalism. I'd start by asking the owners a few questions:
1) Do you have any particularly disgruntled ex-employees? 2) Is there a competitor who has been particularly aggressive? 3) Did anyone on the executive get divorced recently?
This probably was not done by someone on the other side of the Earth who never heard of the product. It was done by someone who knew them and wanted them hit when they were vulnerable. That's going to be a very short list.
I'd imagine that Amazon's fraud department has a bunch of interns data mining to see if they can't help narrow that list even further because right now they need to demonstrate good will. You can also bet that the defamed law firm will not be letting this slide.
Of course, proving this in court may be another matter but it may never need to get to that. The suspect may go bankrupt in pretrial.
The issue is that the difference in degree becomes a difference in kind.
There have always been the ability to make note of licence plates by individual patrolmen. Now it can be automatically cross referenced so that your social and political affiliations can be estimated easily. Imagine how easy it would be for union organization to be tracked, or that you visited a psychologist or cancer specialist.
If you think that this information won't be abused by people in power please, please open a history book.
They called it task manager and it was ideal for unorganized task reminders. If there was a new version out as a stand alone app, I'd take it.
That aside, the book on Palm has yet to be written. They invented the smart phone and just as BlackBerry was emerging, Palm sold their increasingly creaky Garnet OS to a third party because their new OS was 'just around the corner'. Well it wasn't and the company went broke licensing their own OS back otherwise their hardware would be bricked.
Someone doubtless made a heap of money on this lunacy.
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Just because something is easy to count doesn't mean it should be your primary metric.
This may be metric for data entry jobs but it's increasingly useless the further up the food chain you are.
Reviewing code may involve the mousewheel and no keystrokes
Reading slowly for comprehension and making sure we're not making errors is also vital.
Time to assimilate and digest information is also work. No, really.
There are days where I'm hammering the keyboard and there are days when I'm plotting and thinking. Moreover, if we're drawing up plans and sketches on whiteboards and notebooks or large sheets of paper, or we're in meetings, keystrokes don't count. Counting keystrokes may be useful in a lot of jobs but like code check ins, they're not the actual metric of value on their own.
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Captachas and auto correct is how the coming robot overlords are communicating. In fact my autocorrect is s....NOTHING IS WRONG WITH AUTOCORRECT. PLEASE CONTINUE WITH YOUR DAY.
>First off, those sketches were basically Vader fully-fleshed out. There was little imagination needed beyond those sketches.
Your personal incredulity says a lot, but not in the way you think.
The props and costumes had to be made and the paintings were different each time. Once they needed to go from pigment into the real world choices had to be made.
For example how threadbare should the farmers clothes be, what combination of new and worn should the stormtroopers' costumes be, fabric and materials choices. and of course, none of it could be taken off the rack. All of the costumes had to be assembled -- even if they used components -- from the get go.
It's a bit like saying Dykstra had nothing to do because there were paintings. Or the actor, come to think of it.
Why would you want to repair it when you could throw it away and buy another?
...against these grand experiments.
The USA got rid of the fairness doctrine that required standards in news gathering and broadcasting and look at the result. Now you'll have gated access to the internet so that news becomes even more corporatized and with no local coverage, you could have hurricanes ripping up the district before the studio a time zone or two away decides to see if they can get someone with a cell phone to do a live hit.
Great.
Your electorate will be less informed than ever.
I want a full sized tower. It should use all 110 volts coming out of the wall for high availability duty cycle for the whole warranty period and beyond. It needs room for a lot of internal drives for low latency high volumes of data. It should be pushed hard and be able to take it, no thermal throttling. I want a desktop unit, not a laptop in a desktop shell.
When you get that done, we'll talk about replacing the MacBook Pro 17 inch.
What removed in the last few years
MagSafe
Wired mice/keyboard
Semi-matte and matte finish for monitors
Monitors
Creative professional software
Admin tools for remote management of large deployments of Macs
Educational market support
Headphone jacks
Desktops that use desktop hardware, not low-power mobile device hardware
Machines that support more than 16 gigs of RAM
What they've added
Watchbands
Battery powered mice and keyboards that cannot have their power cells changed
Only rich people can afford to buy junk.
Goods that are valuable last a long time and that usually means repairable. Disposable is typically synonymous with irreparable. Apple hardware (I'm looking at you, Mac Pro full size tower) used to be repairable, using very high quality stock parts. Their last great laptop, the 17 inch, similarly was similarly repairable.
However repairable also means you can modify it, upgrade it and extend its value. Apple has stopped being that company. Their repair program is 'throw it out and buy another'. However, they'll promote themselves as a green company despite this nonsense.
My Mac hardware is ageing. I'm waiting to see what happens when the new tower is released and after decades of being their customer starting with the Apple 2, I may well admit the truth -- they abandoned me and what I consider to be good hardware.
He usually has some wise words.
You can never...ever... trust SSDs.
If you have no data retention requirements, go right ahead but pal, you first. There's simply no way I'd trust SSDs to be anything other than consumables at this time.
Once footage and images are done with as a project closes, tape was and is the perfect place for them. There is flat out no need to have archival storage on spinning platters that gather dust on sleds.
It's really a random link generator.
As predictable as every other large purchase made by Microsoft, Linked in will be used to shill other MS products at the cost of core functionality clarity of mission. Finally, because it doesn't sell enough MS Office licences, it will be moved sideways into Bing as Bing Business, and then it will die a slow death because it doesn't also sell enough Teams licences.
In my humble experience, musicians and mathematicians can converse very coherently upon the subject of algorithms. It's truly something to be a fly on the wall for one of those conversations.
However, back to the matter at hand. I suspect that we will learn that Equifax was a shell of a company that is still running XP or even NT and that the business people treated the tech side of the company as janitors who basically had to keep the place looking tidy and those credit card transactions coming in.
Why is this the dilemma presented. We get user privacy at the cost of a parade of pop up windows. Really? Maaaaaybe you could decide to not spam your customers with popup windows.
This is how bullies talk: don't make me hurt you!
The sooner ISPs become regulated as utilities, the better.
The broadcast industry has effectively standardized on 720 compressed; most people can't tell the difference between DVD and HD and it's already cost them thousands to find that out. My humble opinion is that the hardware manufacturers got addicted to the consumer upgrade cycle and they're pushing 4K. Having made a certain number of industrial films, I can tell you that no-one is screaming to support 4k.
I suspect that this will drag on so long that the screen makers will jump to 8k before there's much consumer traction.
The uprezzing of content to four thousand px will take time and money to accomplish. If I were Disney or any other large owner of content, I'd probably want to be conservative as well.
If only they could have been freed from the yoke of these onerous, confusing regulations, this never would have happened!
Industry will somehow, with a straight face, claim that the answer will be getting government out of the way. The *only* reason this could have possibly happened is because of onerous, confusing regulations.
Why?
Memories are short.
1) If you need to collect everything, it's because you don't know what you want.
2) Collecting everything is expensive and usually wrong because data ages differently.
3) A pile of inaccurate data does not become more accurate the more data you have.
4) Confirmation bias is an omnipresent risk.
5) Priming is an omnipresent risk.
6) The sub group of people who make up the defence and intelligence communities have their own outlooks, biases and foibles, like the rest of us.
7) The 'we must do something with this since data we have it' is a variant of the sunk costs fallacy.
The security freeze prevents anyone, even you, from opening a credit account or getting a loan in your name, including yourself, until you lift the freeze.
You never know about a identity theft until after the fact and weird bills start coming in. Basically you agree to a PIN number. No new loans can take place in your name unless the applicant knows the number.
It's close to free but there may be a few $10 fees depending on where you do it: https://www.transunion.com/cre...
The credit reputation agencies don't offer it by default because their business model is to sell you fraud alert monitoring services. Logically, if there's a freeze, there's nothing for them to monitor. This is the cheapest and best solution.
Second, stop giving Equifax your money.
Third, class action suit.
PS: Krebs on Security has a great piece that's now a few years old but shows why credit freezes are good and the other crap sold by Equifax and their peers are more or less useless in comparison: Transition and Experien promote have little value: https://krebsonsecurity.com/20...
>No one knows who filed this claim - all the identities cited are faked or stolen.
No-one knows yet. The identities are fraudulent but the motives are not. Someone did this to hurt them, not just play rough and tumble capitalism. I'd start by asking the owners a few questions:
1) Do you have any particularly disgruntled ex-employees?
2) Is there a competitor who has been particularly aggressive?
3) Did anyone on the executive get divorced recently?
This probably was not done by someone on the other side of the Earth who never heard of the product. It was done by someone who knew them and wanted them hit when they were vulnerable. That's going to be a very short list.
I'd imagine that Amazon's fraud department has a bunch of interns data mining to see if they can't help narrow that list even further because right now they need to demonstrate good will. You can also bet that the defamed law firm will not be letting this slide.
Of course, proving this in court may be another matter but it may never need to get to that. The suspect may go bankrupt in pretrial.
Cheese cake, smoked meat or lesbian porn.
The issue is that the difference in degree becomes a difference in kind.
There have always been the ability to make note of licence plates by individual patrolmen. Now it can be automatically cross referenced so that your social and political affiliations can be estimated easily. Imagine how easy it would be for union organization to be tracked, or that you visited a psychologist or cancer specialist.
If you think that this information won't be abused by people in power please, please open a history book.
And heavily compressed to boot. Keep your money people.
They called it task manager and it was ideal for unorganized task reminders. If there was a new version out as a stand alone app, I'd take it.
That aside, the book on Palm has yet to be written. They invented the smart phone and just as BlackBerry was emerging, Palm sold their increasingly creaky Garnet OS to a third party because their new OS was 'just around the corner'. Well it wasn't and the company went broke licensing their own OS back otherwise their hardware would be bricked.
Someone doubtless made a heap of money on this lunacy.