Take it from someone who had a WP7 phone for three years, and now has a WP8 phone: Skype never worked right on WP7 in the first place. It really shouldn't have been there to start with, but Microsoft couldn't have one of their most popular apps be a no-show on their mobile OS, so they put out a crippled mess that only served to piss off their users.
On WP8, Skype works just as it should, because WP8 is a completely different OS under the hood and can run the background processes necessary for it to function.
Aren't bugs impossible to avoid in programming, especially in complex projects? There's no such thing as a perfect programmer or perfect code; things can always be fixed, optimized, debugged, and improved. The brick wall analogy simply doesn't apply.
Can you cite references for this? I thought Dell in particular pawned off this type of work to their system builders in China. Dell still designs the look and feel of their machines and decides which parts go in, but the actual circuit board design is done further down the chain. At least, that's what I've always understood. Here's my source reference, btw:
I'm pretty sure Dell doesn't design the actual circuits on their boards, they just pick a chipset and ship off the parts list to their builder in Shenzhen or wherever. I'm willing to bet there was a mismatch between what the speaker could handle and what the audio chipset puts out. Some engineer somewhere cut a corner and didn't test it, and of course at build time all they check for is that sound is produced (this is Dell, not Apple; they don't care if it's great audio quality, just that it works long enough to make it into the shipping box).
That's all supposition on my part of course, but I'd put money on it being a mismatched speaker and chipset.
I was speaking strictly of species, specifically Homo sapiens vs Paranthropus boisei. You are being overly pedantic, and one-sided at that; why didn't you claim the same lineage for Paranthropus boisei? Oh yeah, because then you'd have no point to make.
They survived 1,000,000 years. We've been going at it for 200,000 years or so, and we're constantly at risk of killing ourselves off en masse. I'd say they did a lot better than we are doing on the species survival front.
I didn't see you being made fun of, I see a newcomer to a forum expressing a valid but ultimately unaccepted point, being told (yes, a bit harshly by one person who then apologized) that that's the way the developer wants it on his website, and in the end, there were no hard feelings expressed from anyone on the site.
If that's what you consider a beat-down, how have you survived the wild west of Slashdot??
The problem with what allegedly happened here is that once the "cat is out of the bag", i.e. the TSA has seen the documents, they cannot be unseen. The cops and prosecutors involved could get fired or even jailed, but in the meantime the TSA got what it wanted and can do whatever they wish with the information, which is most likely firing or demoting/transferring the whistleblowers while giving unrelated cause for those actions.
And then you pay cash for everything. Good luck with that on big ticket items like cars or houses.
It's not as difficult as you would think. My wife and I are on a five year budget plan to wipe out all of our existing debt. We have three vehicles; an old "work truck" that I paid cash for, her daily driver that she bought new before we started dating and still owes a few thousand on, and my daily driver that we paid cash for. Essentially, my debts will be satisfied within two years, her car and student loan (her only debts) within 18 months. We'll be snowballing all of the money we save from not making payments to finish paying off this house. A few years down the line we'll have enough saved up to pay at least half the note on a new house, maybe more if the market is right and we make back a lot on this one. Given that all three vehicles are in excellent mechanical condition and I'm meticulous about maintenance, barring an accident it will be at least ten years before we need to buy a new car and we plan to pay cash for it.
And we're not wealthy or upper middle class snobs; I work as an IT manager for a very small company and she works for local government. Our combined income is less than a lawyer just out of college. We've just learned how to manage money responsibly and not live beyond our means. We don't drive BMWs on a McDonald's salary like many people around here, and we don't have a six bedroom house with a 100 sq ft yard in an HOA neighborhood. We have a modest two bedroom cottage on half an acre of cheap land, a Chevy, a Toyota and a Nissan, and a whole heap of common sense.
Hey, you were the one getting all pedantic up in here in the first place. I got your point from the start, don't be a dick just because you were proven wrong on semantics.
Practically speaking, you're quite dense. To be apathetic means to have no feelings towards something, or to have a lack of motivation. To be okay with something means to agree with and support it. One is neutral, bordering on negative in tone, the other is positive in tone.
No, because being okay with it implies that they understand it and don't see a problem with it. I'm saying they don't understand it and don't want to take the time to understand it. Apathy does not equal approval.
I don't think it's a matter of the general public being okay with it; rather they don't understand it and can't be bothered to find out why it's a bad thing. The vast majority of the voting public in this country range from the working poor to the middle class. These people are usually working two or more jobs per family (when it's not a broken family; even then the single parent often works two jobs) and simply don't have time to find out who is doing what in the government, much less do something about it. They vote along established party lines based on their upbringing, and probably hope that one asshole will screw the country over just a smidge less than the other one. Given that situation and attitude, it's no surprise that most Americans default to "I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care if they listen to my phone calls and read my email."
I think if the curtain was truly pulled back by someone with a public face (i.e. not just one whistleblower that no one heard of before June), people would begin to realize what is really going on and why it's so wrong. But panels like the one in the article exist to make sure that never happens. Someone above referenced the fox guarding the hen house, and that's a great analogy.
Indeed, if my wife and I were to do this once we have children, we would try to strike a middle ground. No outright banning of modern tech, but definitely limiting it. My nieces (12 and 4) each have their own tablet, and the older one has a new computer, Xbox 360, TV bigger than ours, her own cellphone, and no less than three portable gaming consoles. I'm a technology freak; I love to dabble with anything electronic...but in my opinion that's way too much tech for a developing child.
The problem with even partially going tech-free is that you become the outcast, and your children even more so. When I was growing up in the 80s, being the only kid without a Walkman and NES made me the "poor loser kid" on the block, even though financially we were no worse off than our neighbors. In today's world where children learn to read using Leapfrog tablets instead of actual books, the idea of being without some form of electronic device is considered a hardship at best.
I'm only friends with two people, but I have dozens of bands and band members' accounts in my news feed.
Then you may want to go back to MySpace. I hear they are ditching the failed attempt at being a Facebook clone and are going back to their roots as a music lover's haven.
Because bedbugs are the ultimate venereal disease of hotel chains. They are very difficult to get rid of, and even if the hotel manages to wipe them out, once word gets out no one will touch them. Basically, the hotel chain feels the guy cost them real money. Though in truth, the hotel cost themselves the money by having the infestation in the first place; this guy just happened to be the patron who spoke out about it.
His review was of his room; he didn't sleep in the entire hotel and didn't claim to find the bugs anywhere but his own room. I'm no lawyer but the backlash from doing something as stupid as suing a customer for telling the truth will likely cost the chain much more than the $95k they wanted from him. I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up paying him in the end (or at least his legal fees).
The problem with the way self-insurance works is that it is only feasible for the very wealthy, and those are the types who can afford to shop around and get a much better rate than us peons. So self-insurance is completely off the table for pretty much anyone who makes less than $100k per year.
Newsflash: I am poor. I work with other poor people, and I live right in the middle of the poorest part of my county. And I'm damned happy that I'm allowed to have liability only insurance on my 1982 pickup truck, because if I were forced to have full coverage as owners of new vehicles do, I wouldn't be able to afford to drive it. My house cost less than the average full sized SUV, and I can barely afford those mortgage payments.
So fuck you, asshole. I'm living in near poverty and I know just how irresponsible my peers are with savings. I'm right there with them, I haven't had a savings account since high school, and I'm 35 now.
Because the state requires that you pay for insurance to drive legally.
Only if you don't have the money to cover the minimum liability. If you do have money, as long as it is set aside in one of couple ways so it can't disappear before needed, you don't need insurance to drive.
Are you speaking just of Florida? Because it's different in every state. Here in Georgia you have to have liability coverage at minimum to legally operate a vehicle, even if you have thousands in a savings account named "just in case I'm a bad driver". There was a time when you didn't have to have insurance in Alabama, but a few years ago they mandated minimum liability insurance coverage as well.
I'm normally not keen on the government telling us how to live our lives, but having mandatory liability coverage is a no-brainer for the vast majority of poor and middle-class citizens who simply can't be assumed to be responsible enough to have a personal insurance savings plan, and can't afford a huge payout if they do cause an accident. I'd rather pay $50/month to insure that I won't be sued and bankrupted because I made a mistake driving, than bank that money and hope that I've saved up enough to fight said lawsuit.
On the other side of the coin, I'd much rather the person who hits me has liability coverage, so their insurance company takes care of me instead of leaving me to chase after their assets in court. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if states without mandatory liability coverage have more hit-and-run accidents than other states.
I've used mine as a simple file server and I think it uses around 5-6 watts at 100% CPU with both USB ports populated. It is picky about storage, but most USB flash drives and most good quality genuine SDHC cards work well in my experience. Get a good quality power supply (it uses a Micro USB port) and use a powered USB hub for any high-current peripherals, and you shouldn't have any power issues.
Right now mine serves as a poor man's HTPC, a front end to my Plex server via Raspbmc, until I can replace it with a Roku. Then the Pi will become a private cloud server via OwnCloud.
Of course, they are capable of much more than what I've done. There is a GPIO header, camera and LCD headers, and a couple of groups have even built budget supercomputers out of dozens of units. It can run Debian (Raspbian), Arch Linux, Plan 9, RiscOS, BSD, Gentoo Linux, and there is steady progress on an Android port. You can also do bare metal programming on it, of course.
What fighting is necessary with Intel? The last time I can recall Intel video being buggy in GNU/Linux was with trying to set up KMS on an older kernel that didn't fully support it. It's all done automatically now in most distros.
I'm going with the consensus here: If you want good open source drivers, go Intel. If you want good 3D support and don't care about open source, go Nvidia. If you want half-assed open and closed drivers at the same time, go AMD/ATI.
Or just don't install X at all, and you won't notice a difference among the three.;-)
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Take it from someone who had a WP7 phone for three years, and now has a WP8 phone: Skype never worked right on WP7 in the first place. It really shouldn't have been there to start with, but Microsoft couldn't have one of their most popular apps be a no-show on their mobile OS, so they put out a crippled mess that only served to piss off their users.
On WP8, Skype works just as it should, because WP8 is a completely different OS under the hood and can run the background processes necessary for it to function.
Aren't bugs impossible to avoid in programming, especially in complex projects? There's no such thing as a perfect programmer or perfect code; things can always be fixed, optimized, debugged, and improved. The brick wall analogy simply doesn't apply.
Can you cite references for this? I thought Dell in particular pawned off this type of work to their system builders in China. Dell still designs the look and feel of their machines and decides which parts go in, but the actual circuit board design is done further down the chain. At least, that's what I've always understood. Here's my source reference, btw:
http://www.xoticpc.com/laptop-...
I'm pretty sure Dell doesn't design the actual circuits on their boards, they just pick a chipset and ship off the parts list to their builder in Shenzhen or wherever. I'm willing to bet there was a mismatch between what the speaker could handle and what the audio chipset puts out. Some engineer somewhere cut a corner and didn't test it, and of course at build time all they check for is that sound is produced (this is Dell, not Apple; they don't care if it's great audio quality, just that it works long enough to make it into the shipping box).
That's all supposition on my part of course, but I'd put money on it being a mismatched speaker and chipset.
I was speaking strictly of species, specifically Homo sapiens vs Paranthropus boisei. You are being overly pedantic, and one-sided at that; why didn't you claim the same lineage for Paranthropus boisei? Oh yeah, because then you'd have no point to make.
They survived 1,000,000 years. We've been going at it for 200,000 years or so, and we're constantly at risk of killing ourselves off en masse. I'd say they did a lot better than we are doing on the species survival front.
I didn't see you being made fun of, I see a newcomer to a forum expressing a valid but ultimately unaccepted point, being told (yes, a bit harshly by one person who then apologized) that that's the way the developer wants it on his website, and in the end, there were no hard feelings expressed from anyone on the site.
If that's what you consider a beat-down, how have you survived the wild west of Slashdot??
The problem with what allegedly happened here is that once the "cat is out of the bag", i.e. the TSA has seen the documents, they cannot be unseen. The cops and prosecutors involved could get fired or even jailed, but in the meantime the TSA got what it wanted and can do whatever they wish with the information, which is most likely firing or demoting/transferring the whistleblowers while giving unrelated cause for those actions.
Sounds like the school administration had heard that you were a Zero, yet still kinda Cool.
And then you pay cash for everything. Good luck with that on big ticket items like cars or houses.
It's not as difficult as you would think. My wife and I are on a five year budget plan to wipe out all of our existing debt. We have three vehicles; an old "work truck" that I paid cash for, her daily driver that she bought new before we started dating and still owes a few thousand on, and my daily driver that we paid cash for. Essentially, my debts will be satisfied within two years, her car and student loan (her only debts) within 18 months. We'll be snowballing all of the money we save from not making payments to finish paying off this house. A few years down the line we'll have enough saved up to pay at least half the note on a new house, maybe more if the market is right and we make back a lot on this one. Given that all three vehicles are in excellent mechanical condition and I'm meticulous about maintenance, barring an accident it will be at least ten years before we need to buy a new car and we plan to pay cash for it.
And we're not wealthy or upper middle class snobs; I work as an IT manager for a very small company and she works for local government. Our combined income is less than a lawyer just out of college. We've just learned how to manage money responsibly and not live beyond our means. We don't drive BMWs on a McDonald's salary like many people around here, and we don't have a six bedroom house with a 100 sq ft yard in an HOA neighborhood. We have a modest two bedroom cottage on half an acre of cheap land, a Chevy, a Toyota and a Nissan, and a whole heap of common sense.
Yeah, you know, where you actually said that it's apathy and not approval? Here, I'll quote you:
If this doesn't matter to enough people to vote them out, then the abuses will continue to happen.
Hey, you were the one getting all pedantic up in here in the first place. I got your point from the start, don't be a dick just because you were proven wrong on semantics.
Practically speaking, you're quite dense. To be apathetic means to have no feelings towards something, or to have a lack of motivation. To be okay with something means to agree with and support it. One is neutral, bordering on negative in tone, the other is positive in tone.
No, because being okay with it implies that they understand it and don't see a problem with it. I'm saying they don't understand it and don't want to take the time to understand it. Apathy does not equal approval.
I don't think it's a matter of the general public being okay with it; rather they don't understand it and can't be bothered to find out why it's a bad thing. The vast majority of the voting public in this country range from the working poor to the middle class. These people are usually working two or more jobs per family (when it's not a broken family; even then the single parent often works two jobs) and simply don't have time to find out who is doing what in the government, much less do something about it. They vote along established party lines based on their upbringing, and probably hope that one asshole will screw the country over just a smidge less than the other one. Given that situation and attitude, it's no surprise that most Americans default to "I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care if they listen to my phone calls and read my email."
I think if the curtain was truly pulled back by someone with a public face (i.e. not just one whistleblower that no one heard of before June), people would begin to realize what is really going on and why it's so wrong. But panels like the one in the article exist to make sure that never happens. Someone above referenced the fox guarding the hen house, and that's a great analogy.
Indeed, if my wife and I were to do this once we have children, we would try to strike a middle ground. No outright banning of modern tech, but definitely limiting it. My nieces (12 and 4) each have their own tablet, and the older one has a new computer, Xbox 360, TV bigger than ours, her own cellphone, and no less than three portable gaming consoles. I'm a technology freak; I love to dabble with anything electronic...but in my opinion that's way too much tech for a developing child.
The problem with even partially going tech-free is that you become the outcast, and your children even more so. When I was growing up in the 80s, being the only kid without a Walkman and NES made me the "poor loser kid" on the block, even though financially we were no worse off than our neighbors. In today's world where children learn to read using Leapfrog tablets instead of actual books, the idea of being without some form of electronic device is considered a hardship at best.
I'm only friends with two people, but I have dozens of bands and band members' accounts in my news feed.
Then you may want to go back to MySpace. I hear they are ditching the failed attempt at being a Facebook clone and are going back to their roots as a music lover's haven.
Because bedbugs are the ultimate venereal disease of hotel chains. They are very difficult to get rid of, and even if the hotel manages to wipe them out, once word gets out no one will touch them. Basically, the hotel chain feels the guy cost them real money. Though in truth, the hotel cost themselves the money by having the infestation in the first place; this guy just happened to be the patron who spoke out about it.
His review was of his room; he didn't sleep in the entire hotel and didn't claim to find the bugs anywhere but his own room. I'm no lawyer but the backlash from doing something as stupid as suing a customer for telling the truth will likely cost the chain much more than the $95k they wanted from him. I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up paying him in the end (or at least his legal fees).
It takes me 20 minutes to bike to work. I do that every day except Thursdays, when I run in instead.
I hope for your coworkers' sake they have a shower at work that you're allowed to use. Ewww.
The problem with the way self-insurance works is that it is only feasible for the very wealthy, and those are the types who can afford to shop around and get a much better rate than us peons. So self-insurance is completely off the table for pretty much anyone who makes less than $100k per year.
Newsflash: I am poor. I work with other poor people, and I live right in the middle of the poorest part of my county. And I'm damned happy that I'm allowed to have liability only insurance on my 1982 pickup truck, because if I were forced to have full coverage as owners of new vehicles do, I wouldn't be able to afford to drive it. My house cost less than the average full sized SUV, and I can barely afford those mortgage payments.
So fuck you, asshole. I'm living in near poverty and I know just how irresponsible my peers are with savings. I'm right there with them, I haven't had a savings account since high school, and I'm 35 now.
Because the state requires that you pay for insurance to drive legally.
Only if you don't have the money to cover the minimum liability. If you do have money, as long as it is set aside in one of couple ways so it can't disappear before needed, you don't need insurance to drive.
Are you speaking just of Florida? Because it's different in every state. Here in Georgia you have to have liability coverage at minimum to legally operate a vehicle, even if you have thousands in a savings account named "just in case I'm a bad driver". There was a time when you didn't have to have insurance in Alabama, but a few years ago they mandated minimum liability insurance coverage as well.
I'm normally not keen on the government telling us how to live our lives, but having mandatory liability coverage is a no-brainer for the vast majority of poor and middle-class citizens who simply can't be assumed to be responsible enough to have a personal insurance savings plan, and can't afford a huge payout if they do cause an accident. I'd rather pay $50/month to insure that I won't be sued and bankrupted because I made a mistake driving, than bank that money and hope that I've saved up enough to fight said lawsuit.
On the other side of the coin, I'd much rather the person who hits me has liability coverage, so their insurance company takes care of me instead of leaving me to chase after their assets in court. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if states without mandatory liability coverage have more hit-and-run accidents than other states.
I've used mine as a simple file server and I think it uses around 5-6 watts at 100% CPU with both USB ports populated. It is picky about storage, but most USB flash drives and most good quality genuine SDHC cards work well in my experience. Get a good quality power supply (it uses a Micro USB port) and use a powered USB hub for any high-current peripherals, and you shouldn't have any power issues.
Right now mine serves as a poor man's HTPC, a front end to my Plex server via Raspbmc, until I can replace it with a Roku. Then the Pi will become a private cloud server via OwnCloud.
Of course, they are capable of much more than what I've done. There is a GPIO header, camera and LCD headers, and a couple of groups have even built budget supercomputers out of dozens of units. It can run Debian (Raspbian), Arch Linux, Plan 9, RiscOS, BSD, Gentoo Linux, and there is steady progress on an Android port. You can also do bare metal programming on it, of course.
What fighting is necessary with Intel? The last time I can recall Intel video being buggy in GNU/Linux was with trying to set up KMS on an older kernel that didn't fully support it. It's all done automatically now in most distros.
I'm going with the consensus here: If you want good open source drivers, go Intel. If you want good 3D support and don't care about open source, go Nvidia. If you want half-assed open and closed drivers at the same time, go AMD/ATI.
Or just don't install X at all, and you won't notice a difference among the three. ;-)