Besides - consumers today change over from watching TV at decided times to use Video on Demand like Netflix and YouTube.
In many cases they can at the same time avoid the annoying ads injected into the TV programs that are on broadcast. On the web - well, there you have adblock to clean up the crap.
We are in the middle of a media transition phase where people changes their habits to do cherry picking and only pay for what they want to see.
In a way it is - or a dilution death where everything evaporates into small particles unable to find each other. But it's still an open question if the universe eventually will contract and collapse into a singularity and then a new big bang occurs in a cyclic event or if it's just going to end as an empty balloon. Too little is known about the whole picture of the universe to be able to determine the fate.
In any case it's so far away in time that humankind isn't going to be around then - unless we are able to spread between the galaxies, but in that case we may even be able to find paths to the past or to other universes.
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done." - Robert A. Heinlein
If something is good enough for consumers it will be known and used!
Many web sites complains about ad blocking today, but they have to be aware that they caused the need for adblockers themselves. Too many ads like "Your PC have a problem" hopping like it has Parkinson on the screen is stressful and false. Static ads are actually less of a problem.
Ads with sound and pop-ups covering the whole darn screen are a sure call for adblocker to be installed.
But having backup of your files is always a good idea.
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As horrible as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were they have also served as severe deterrents against nuclear usage in war since.
Unfortunately they won't deter true terrorists that are willing to die for their cause. I can imagine that a container can get loaded with a nuke and then delivered to the port of Los Angeles, New York or Amsterdam where it will go off.
Well - I had a similar network card experience once, an 8-bit card was incorrectly identified as a 16-bit card. Some digging and I found the driver code that made the wrong assumption and patched it. I should have filed a bug correction on the kernel but I never did, and today it's pretty much no point in doing it. Card in question was a 8-bit Western Digital compatible card from Accton.
Programs that crashes when running under a debugger are always fun, sometimes it's better and easier to run the program normally and then do a post mortem on the core file generated. Hence "generating core dumps" is a standing joke in some development.
Fortunately the number of cases where a debugger don't work have diminished greatly over the years compared to how it was under MS-DOS.
On the level of someone changing order of columns in an indexing for no particular reason, possibly because it looked better to have the index column in alphabetical order.
Bug #1 - not a bug really. Just an awkward mistake, but good that Bloomberg dropped it. But that also shows the need for documentation of how stuff works when someone quits.
I once developed an SMS gateway and did a test run on it but forgot to change the list of phone numbers so my manager at the time got 50 text messages with the same content. Ooops!:)
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I agree - the design isn't always critical, just look at Minecraft and Tetris.
Oracle are the ones that have destroyed Java since nobody trusts Oracle and their licensing.
Tells us more about your preferences than anything else. It's an avenue we shouldn't explore, and now I'll go back and watch zit videos on YouTube.
And the impact on radio astronomy would be considerable as well.
What if Windows is installed in a non-standard path? Will this BIOS tool still be able to inject the stuff?
But the question is actually if it makes sense to have many authors on a paper. If you have 10 or more it should already raise a warning flag.
Besides - consumers today change over from watching TV at decided times to use Video on Demand like Netflix and YouTube.
In many cases they can at the same time avoid the annoying ads injected into the TV programs that are on broadcast. On the web - well, there you have adblock to clean up the crap.
We are in the middle of a media transition phase where people changes their habits to do cherry picking and only pay for what they want to see.
In a way it is - or a dilution death where everything evaporates into small particles unable to find each other. But it's still an open question if the universe eventually will contract and collapse into a singularity and then a new big bang occurs in a cyclic event or if it's just going to end as an empty balloon. Too little is known about the whole picture of the universe to be able to determine the fate.
In any case it's so far away in time that humankind isn't going to be around then - unless we are able to spread between the galaxies, but in that case we may even be able to find paths to the past or to other universes.
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done." - Robert A. Heinlein
If something is good enough for consumers it will be known and used!
Many web sites complains about ad blocking today, but they have to be aware that they caused the need for adblockers themselves. Too many ads like "Your PC have a problem" hopping like it has Parkinson on the screen is stressful and false. Static ads are actually less of a problem.
Ads with sound and pop-ups covering the whole darn screen are a sure call for adblocker to be installed.
You mean that the successor to Cryptolocker will be worse?
How do you know that it's not taxable? The problem is to figure out where the taxes should have been paid.
I assume that it's Bitlocker, not Cryptolocker.
Like the movie Ransom with Mel Gibson.
But having backup of your files is always a good idea.
As horrible as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were they have also served as severe deterrents against nuclear usage in war since.
Unfortunately they won't deter true terrorists that are willing to die for their cause. I can imagine that a container can get loaded with a nuke and then delivered to the port of Los Angeles, New York or Amsterdam where it will go off.
Same thing is silently going on elsewhere as well - like on 4chan.
The censorship canary is dead!
Those on the RAM disk of course, unfortunately we had a power failure.
When viewing this I got the footer quote "%DCL-MEM-BAD, bad memory VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears".
I find it very suitable to this article.
Well - I had a similar network card experience once, an 8-bit card was incorrectly identified as a 16-bit card. Some digging and I found the driver code that made the wrong assumption and patched it. I should have filed a bug correction on the kernel but I never did, and today it's pretty much no point in doing it. Card in question was a 8-bit Western Digital compatible card from Accton.
It's way too common that people re-use variables for different purposes. Especially in Visual Basic.
It's also a good way to ensure your code only works on your favorite platform!
Only 4 days - that's good for a problem like that - especially if you are junior.
Programs that crashes when running under a debugger are always fun, sometimes it's better and easier to run the program normally and then do a post mortem on the core file generated. Hence "generating core dumps" is a standing joke in some development.
Fortunately the number of cases where a debugger don't work have diminished greatly over the years compared to how it was under MS-DOS.
On the level of someone changing order of columns in an indexing for no particular reason, possibly because it looked better to have the index column in alphabetical order.
Or just have the path variable set wrong - current directory last in the path can yield some interesting effects when coding.
Bug #1 - not a bug really. Just an awkward mistake, but good that Bloomberg dropped it. But that also shows the need for documentation of how stuff works when someone quits.
I once developed an SMS gateway and did a test run on it but forgot to change the list of phone numbers so my manager at the time got 50 text messages with the same content. Ooops! :)