But to be honest, things like my flashlight get alkaline batteries - the batteries last 3-5 years
My flashlight gets rechargeables. I was burning through alkalines in about 2-3 weeks. With rechargeables, I get through 3 weeks before the light starts dimming noticeably. Then again, I actually use my flashlight daily.
I've normally got things to do that require a lot of concentration, and things that don't. If I know that the standup is at 9:45 every morning, I don't start anything that requires concentration before then. At 10, I can start concentrating.
So, essentially if you work a normal day, you're wasting 2-3 hours in the morning waiting for this thing to pass, get in maybe 2 hours of "concentration time" because then you have to break for lunch and well, you kind of get where I'm going with this by now
88%? I'd still say that this company failed to do it right and that it wasted at least 5 man-hours of time a day so we're still at 100% (I'm assuming you've had experience with 9 jobs with agile and can't round correctly;) Why? Because you don't just hop into a meeting and back out without it disrupting what's most likely your most productive part of the day. You also don't go back into coding full tilt after a 15 minute interruption. And if you needed 1 minute to describe 3 lines that could have been sent via email, well, what's the point of the meeting? Conversely, if you're stuck because of something, why wait for a meeting to get help? That's a waste of potentially another day. And the real point here is that most of the team doesn't care or need to know, but the "management" does, and they're using this vehicle so they don't have to go round and actually talk to their team members.
what people normally describe agile to be like, however, seems to be a nightmare.
your description only highlights how much of a time sink useless scrum meetings are. I've never been anywhere where scrum didn't negatively affect a project's timeline. Even in the one place that did far more positive things with Agile than your situation and really only allowed the management to stay on top of the team's progress. It did not help the team achieve anything they needed to do, project resources needed, or really anything other than force management to prioritize certain features over others which any competent team lead / project head would do regardless.
I'm not sure what hell you work in, but I can assure you Waterfall, for one, really does exist and was used successfully more often than you might think until the bastardization of Agile went through Software development management like an extra large Chipotle burrito. Note that I personally use a looser variation of waterfall tuned to smaller faster deliverables, but it's not "Agile" as I actually do deliver.
The bonus there is that unsupported GPU APIs can be virtually synthesized so your generations newer GPU appears to be whatever old clunky API supporting GPU needed for the game.
You're complaining about a product that has known problems with the introduction of 10.6 and hasn't been updated in at least 3 years? Maybe it's time to look for alternatives?
FWIW, I *do* think Apple has a tougher time justifying these changes to its users for a couple of reasons.
They do? They've been pushing 64 bit since 2003. You haven't been able to buy a mac not capable of running a 64 bit OS since at least 2011.
After all, from 2006-2012, Apple sold the VERY expandable Mac Pro workstations
And as you state - all are capable of running 64 bit. Everything else is just FUD. I still have a soon to be recycled 10.6 laptop from 2006 which can't run higher than 10.7 because of Intel's crappy CPUs, maximum 3GB addressable RAM pretty much killed that series.
For a long time I had enough trouble dealing with my current encoder setup (especially with Apple products).
Hmmm, I've been encoding video on Apple and standard hardware for many years. H.264 isn't a problem with any remotely modern higher level CPU, even if it does not have baked in hardware support. H.265 is considerably slower without hardware support and doesn't really offer enough of an advantage to be worth the extra encoding time given the cost of storage. Maybe I'll change my tune on 4K HDR when I get there.
So - secure mail - existed since at least 1995 with the advent of PGP. Secure messaging/group messaging has existed since at least the introduction of OTR, which was way pre 2004 (can't be bothered to look it up) Secure file sharing and screen sharing both date even further back with ssh tunneling capabilities. And ssh also allows you to do secure backups via rsync and, actually, provides the secure gateway functionality. So if everything existed prior to Gabriel software and its associated patents then those patents are void due to prior art. If the patents predate ssh, the patents would have expired a long time ago. In fact, when I read some of the Virnetx patents years ago my thoughts were "These all have prior art and are invalid". I'm not sure why the patents haven't been thrown out as invalid other than the "District Court of East Texas". In any case, Virnetx patents are done, IIRC, because they were all set to expire within the last couple of years.
I guess I just don't fall into any of your categorizations. I long ago stopped worrying about what other people thought of my favorite bands. Some are or were popular, others not. If it's a decent musical composition that doesn't regurgitate the same 2 measures of musical patterns in endless repetition, it at least stands a chance of being good. Most popular music these days fails even that standard. I also don't wish to "learn to like" some crap. If I dislike like it on first listen history has shown that repeated listening only intensifies my dislike.
They could be caching a copy of it, they could be leeching a copy of it, they could be sucking a copy of it up into BigData(tm) and analyzing the shit out of it,
I'm sure they do all of those and them archive it for later analysis. Given FBs history and lack of ethics, any privacy invading behavior is reasonable to suspect until proven otherwise.
What's worse is the the overall stability and reliability of macOS has gone down hill. I have to reboot or recover from hung core processes or even the window server about once a week now. I used to go weeks, sometimes months, between reboots, not any more.
I agree quality has gone downhill since Jobs' death, but it went downhill somewhat prior to that as well. iOS 9 and 10.7 were both under Jobs and were the start of GCD. While GCD solves a specific problem, converting the entire OS to it has proven to be a great source for all sorts of bugs. Even so I'm running multiple 10.10-10.12 systems and they're nice and stable for months. Not sure what you're doing, but even running multiple VMs hasn't affected the stability at all.
To be fair, I don't consider facebook keeping in touch. Really keeping in touch is orthogonal to having a facebook account.
That statement comes from a position of privilege. I'd love to be able to travel around and actually do things with my friends, but I can't afford to. I can afford to communicate with them on Facebook. You're a privileged elitist.
I guess all these semi private communication avenues are new to you?
Phones (call them)
SMS (text them)
Email (send them actual cohesive sentences, pictures, and even short videos)
Video chat (There are numerous implementations to choose from to make a phone call that much more interactive and personal)
But yeah, I guess FaceBook is the only way to keep in touch in an affordable way.
So essentially every attacker for every version of Windows? In case you're behind the times, Windows is a clusterfuck wrt security. If you can execute any code on a windows machine, you can effectively own it, at least as of just 6 months ago.
Bitcoin is an interesting experiment that both validated cryptocurrency as a thing, and demonstrated exactly how not to implement a cryptocurrency. It will go down as a footnote in history for being the first cryptocurrency.
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But to be honest, things like my flashlight get alkaline batteries - the batteries last 3-5 years
My flashlight gets rechargeables. I was burning through alkalines in about 2-3 weeks. With rechargeables, I get through 3 weeks before the light starts dimming noticeably. Then again, I actually use my flashlight daily.
I've normally got things to do that require a lot of concentration, and things that don't. If I know that the standup is at 9:45 every morning, I don't start anything that requires concentration before then. At 10, I can start concentrating.
So, essentially if you work a normal day, you're wasting 2-3 hours in the morning waiting for this thing to pass, get in maybe 2 hours of "concentration time" because then you have to break for lunch and well, you kind of get where I'm going with this by now
Welcome to the 88% that don't do agile correctly.
88%? I'd still say that this company failed to do it right and that it wasted at least 5 man-hours of time a day so we're still at 100% (I'm assuming you've had experience with 9 jobs with agile and can't round correctly ;) Why? Because you don't just hop into a meeting and back out without it disrupting what's most likely your most productive part of the day. You also don't go back into coding full tilt after a 15 minute interruption. And if you needed 1 minute to describe 3 lines that could have been sent via email, well, what's the point of the meeting? Conversely, if you're stuck because of something, why wait for a meeting to get help? That's a waste of potentially another day. And the real point here is that most of the team doesn't care or need to know, but the "management" does, and they're using this vehicle so they don't have to go round and actually talk to their team members.
what people normally describe agile to be like, however, seems to be a nightmare.
your description only highlights how much of a time sink useless scrum meetings are. I've never been anywhere where scrum didn't negatively affect a project's timeline. Even in the one place that did far more positive things with Agile than your situation and really only allowed the management to stay on top of the team's progress. It did not help the team achieve anything they needed to do, project resources needed, or really anything other than force management to prioritize certain features over others which any competent team lead / project head would do regardless.
I'm not sure what hell you work in, but I can assure you Waterfall, for one, really does exist and was used successfully more often than you might think until the bastardization of Agile went through Software development management like an extra large Chipotle burrito. Note that I personally use a looser variation of waterfall tuned to smaller faster deliverables, but it's not "Agile" as I actually do deliver.
A PDP-11 requires 600W min of power compared to 5W for Rasp Pi.
The bonus there is that unsupported GPU APIs can be virtually synthesized so your generations newer GPU appears to be whatever old clunky API supporting GPU needed for the game.
You're complaining about a product that has known problems with the introduction of 10.6 and hasn't been updated in at least 3 years? Maybe it's time to look for alternatives?
The run cost of that old PDP is orders of magnitude higher than replacing it with a Rasp Pi.
old games move to VMs. Problem solved.
FWIW, I *do* think Apple has a tougher time justifying these changes to its users for a couple of reasons.
They do? They've been pushing 64 bit since 2003. You haven't been able to buy a mac not capable of running a 64 bit OS since at least 2011.
After all, from 2006-2012, Apple sold the VERY expandable Mac Pro workstations
And as you state - all are capable of running 64 bit. Everything else is just FUD. I still have a soon to be recycled 10.6 laptop from 2006 which can't run higher than 10.7 because of Intel's crappy CPUs, maximum 3GB addressable RAM pretty much killed that series.
You could have replaced that 486 a long long time ago with a much smaller system using much less power and paid for itself probably 2 or 3 times over.
For a long time I had enough trouble dealing with my current encoder setup (especially with Apple products).
Hmmm, I've been encoding video on Apple and standard hardware for many years. H.264 isn't a problem with any remotely modern higher level CPU, even if it does not have baked in hardware support. H.265 is considerably slower without hardware support and doesn't really offer enough of an advantage to be worth the extra encoding time given the cost of storage. Maybe I'll change my tune on 4K HDR when I get there.
So - secure mail - existed since at least 1995 with the advent of PGP. Secure messaging/group messaging has existed since at least the introduction of OTR, which was way pre 2004 (can't be bothered to look it up) Secure file sharing and screen sharing both date even further back with ssh tunneling capabilities. And ssh also allows you to do secure backups via rsync and, actually, provides the secure gateway functionality. So if everything existed prior to Gabriel software and its associated patents then those patents are void due to prior art. If the patents predate ssh, the patents would have expired a long time ago. In fact, when I read some of the Virnetx patents years ago my thoughts were "These all have prior art and are invalid". I'm not sure why the patents haven't been thrown out as invalid other than the "District Court of East Texas". In any case, Virnetx patents are done, IIRC, because they were all set to expire within the last couple of years.
I guess I just don't fall into any of your categorizations. I long ago stopped worrying about what other people thought of my favorite bands. Some are or were popular, others not. If it's a decent musical composition that doesn't regurgitate the same 2 measures of musical patterns in endless repetition, it at least stands a chance of being good. Most popular music these days fails even that standard. I also don't wish to "learn to like" some crap. If I dislike like it on first listen history has shown that repeated listening only intensifies my dislike.
Among my older systems, I'd have to say that yeah, the 2 year cycle is over.
They could be caching a copy of it, they could be leeching a copy of it, they could be sucking a copy of it up into BigData(tm) and analyzing the shit out of it,
I'm sure they do all of those and them archive it for later analysis. Given FBs history and lack of ethics, any privacy invading behavior is reasonable to suspect until proven otherwise.
Since you're already in the Mac world if you have this particular problem, the easiest means to 5K is an iMac.
What's worse is the the overall stability and reliability of macOS has gone down hill. I have to reboot or recover from hung core processes or even the window server about once a week now. I used to go weeks, sometimes months, between reboots, not any more.
I agree quality has gone downhill since Jobs' death, but it went downhill somewhat prior to that as well. iOS 9 and 10.7 were both under Jobs and were the start of GCD. While GCD solves a specific problem, converting the entire OS to it has proven to be a great source for all sorts of bugs. Even so I'm running multiple 10.10-10.12 systems and they're nice and stable for months. Not sure what you're doing, but even running multiple VMs hasn't affected the stability at all.
To be fair, I don't consider facebook keeping in touch. Really keeping in touch is orthogonal to having a facebook account.
That statement comes from a position of privilege. I'd love to be able to travel around and actually do things with my friends, but I can't afford to. I can afford to communicate with them on Facebook. You're a privileged elitist.
I guess all these semi private communication avenues are new to you?
But yeah, I guess FaceBook is the only way to keep in touch in an affordable way.
The American Midwest is basically one step above Africa ... [and] is a shit hole
Guess that explains Trump.
So essentially every attacker for every version of Windows? In case you're behind the times, Windows is a clusterfuck wrt security. If you can execute any code on a windows machine, you can effectively own it, at least as of just 6 months ago.
Bitcoin is an interesting experiment that both validated cryptocurrency as a thing, and demonstrated exactly how not to implement a cryptocurrency. It will go down as a footnote in history for being the first cryptocurrency.
There is no point installing 10
FTFY
Great, so now you can change the DNS servers via a single super secure command line? I'll bet that doesn't get hacked.
Call MS?