I wondered at the time if the initial volley of Apple to Samsung was a negotiation tactic to get the components down in price to improve profits. Spend a few million, get Samsung to say "ok, we'll bang down the chips/screen/ram/storage down (x%)" but of course it all went a bit pear shaped.
It's strange how much Apple seems to sue their own suppliers. This appears to be another situation where it's all gone non-according to plan.
Get help, at that stage, with your experience, become the 'wise mentor' and start 'nudging' the young 'uns around. Giving time to focus on one task at a time in more depth? Become a 2nd tier support where you can get more indepth with a problem when others are stuck?
Is that something that'd be viable where you are?
But... I hear ya. Pretty much in the same situation age wise, and have never had problems instantly recalling the sort of knowledge no-one else wanted to learn in the first place, 30 years later "ooo! dos 4.something and no-one knows why it's suddenly stopped working, but is essential to get the big machine thing next to it working? let me rummage around in my "BOX OF STUFF THAT WILL BECOME USEFUL ONE DAY" and see if... yes! a (maybe) working HD, let me copy stuff across, get it working, edit the config.sys, the autoexec.bat and... we're up and running again, no, wait, hmm, let me recall the serial port settings, hang on, think it's the cable, let me run up a new one, set it up, and... done. suck it youngsters". Really, soon as the keyboard's in front of me, it's near muscle memory to get old arcane command line switches recalled, to pop over to some SCO boxen that needs something sorted because the tape backup's not working for some reason etc.. Phone call out of the blue "do you by any chance remember the default password on that machine? the guy running it died and we can't figure out what it was, and we know you set it up, and maybe he never changed it" "ok, try..." "no" "in that case... wait, is this the one where the guy renamed admin to be adminlord?" "I don't know..." "ok, make the username 'adminlord' and the password 'BAABAAF1BF1BF00F00 (zeros, not 'ohs')" "IT WORKED! THANK YOU".
Then I got cancer last year, and the chemo... knocked me out, physically and mentally. The instant memory recall to anything disappeared, and/really/ worried me. "oh, it might come back, or not, but you're ok?" "not if I can't remember anything important, well, rather everything non-important to everyone else". It's one year after I finished treatment and... I'm 90-95%, it HAS returned, but things are still really hard. It doesn't come instantly without much effort, I have to concentrate for certain things to come to the forefront (anyone else who has high recall memory, uses 'mental models' to remember things, imagine being in your mind museum, knowing what it is you want, you go to the right aisle, find the shelf, take out the box. You can see the 'thing', all the attributes about it, you could DRAW the thing, and describe every single thing about it very clearly. But the name plate on the 'thing' is blank).
This really, really scared me, that so much of everything I do is remembering that I'd written the code to do that thing 15 years ago, or I read a magazine about that thing 5 years ago, the article was after the ad with the dell laptop, had a spelling mistake in the first sentence, but was a good article and I could quote the last paragraph.
But that wasn't working anymore. Then, back at work, tech support problems, code to fix. Was taking me a day wading through code I'd written 3 months ago to figure out what was going on, was incredibly slow work (and was still needing multiple naps a day as the chemo had really weakened me). Then, my boss sold a mockup of a prototype of a smoke and mirrors product to a client and I had to suddenly hit the ground running.
Would have been hard in my early 20's to get upto speed, the way I was feeling, I was fumbling around just getting the development tools knocked into shape where I could do anything, let alone code.
but, bit by bit, things started coming back, the numbness in my fingertips started to fade over a few weeks enough to get back to usual typing speed/accuracy. The feeling of "oh, I've written something like this before somewhere" was there, it just took a bit longer to hunt through old code to find it, whereas in the past it'd have been instantaneous to navigate down to the source code to cop
If the new Chromecast device with bluetooth supports pairing a gaming controller and can stream these games?
Never going to need a PS/Xbox/other gaming device ever again.
>Here's a better idea. Have the airlines provide their own security.
That's how it used to work. They paid the least amount possible.
Then the all the airlines operating out of an airport would get together so that an airport would have 1 security company (lowest bid!) to keep the cost as low as possible.
Here's an interesting issue though...
If it's a private company (the airline), doing the security, you don't have 4th amendment protection anyway, it's just other citizens, not the government, doing the searching.
>CT scanners don't create color images. They create INTENSITY maps, and you can apply pseudo-color colormaps to the intensity images to highlight small variations in density.
They could be using dual energy x-rays to create that slice to make that final image, in which case they can do the usual colour lookup to determine material composition, not just density. They're calling it a CT-scan as that's what people expect, but not sure if this would be capable of dual energy.
We jury rigged up a 3d x-ray scanner 17ish years ago as proof of concept, bounced a few ideas off a screener company's people. Was.. think some German Uni had also come up with a way to implement it (but appeared different to ours, they were going for really small items, we were trying to figure out out to do 3d screener x-ray systems for luggage).
I'm sure the screener companies have figured this out years ago, it was making it able to be sold at a profit was the tricky bit we've been waiting all these years for.
Yeah, and for everyone of those things they'd list, there'd be h1z1 showing the same screenshot as pubg but earlier.
Ok, PU came in as a consultant, but the game was out before he turned up, with all those same things!
The second pubg wins this case, everyone's going to jump on them.
Can't see this ending well for anyone but the lawyers on an hourly rate.
Aye, saw the programme a cabbie ranting how bad the GPS tools were, how there was certain spots they'd see people doing u-turns because the satnav had told them to for some reason. And how if you ask to get to a certain pub, the gps drops you on the wrong side of the dual carriage way, because the road was built through the car park and the pub is on the 'wrong' side of where the co-ords were.
Watching the program at the time, it was all "yeah, but that can all be fixed, eventually people giving feedback will get that fixed". And now I use Google Maps (for ETA mostly) now and then, and there's a spot on the highway near the airport it tells me to get off at the junction and rejoin the same highway. And doesn't appear to know you can't go across, you have to take a right, go down a block, u-turn, then swing across fast to get to the turn lane, and I've posted 'this needed to be fixed' for... I don't know how many years, and it's still there. For no reason, it'll try and get me to leave the highway and then get back on.
But on a long slog across London? yeah, a black cab driver, who's driven for even a short amount of time, it's scary their awareness. They use GPS AND dispatch for updates, swirving around as needed, and knowing when to push it a bit more to make sure they're ahead of a footy game emptying "course, 10 mins to go, if they've not equalised by now, the fans will be leaving/rioting as this was important" whilst also pontificating about how it's all the immigrants fault, and this wouldn't have happened under Thatcher, and wish the whole of London had a congestion charge as something's gotta change here mate, it can't keep going on like this, and my uncle fought in the war for this you know, and he'd not have put up with it, and.. "20 goto 10 and throw in more racist comments"
Eventually? yeah, they'll be beaten by something, or they'll continue to use that device plus their knowledge, but for now, that 4 years + constant driving is going to take some beating.
As an aside, the amount of black cab drivers who win these TV general knowledge quiz shows is scary. That training/mind that's suitable for sucking up the routes appears well versed in sucking up all sorts of facts.
True, but it's a bit rough selling YOUR devices using someone else's services to make it worth using. Google lets people use youtube and change UI bits for your device, but you have to agree to their terms. If you don't, you have to use the generic (free) version. Amazon are trying to have their cake and eat it. Using Google's services but cutting out branding/ads/revenue for using that service. They're not forced to use Youtube, they could make amazon video the one and only way to watch something (*cough* kodi *cough*), but they're trying to take something for free and not contribute.
Google's being rough here, yeah, but it's their service.
YES! When all this stuff in the trial was kicking off, I kept thinking "But I had this stuff on my Palm YEARS ago"
https://images.sftcdn.net/imag...
There was a 'render' of a future Palm Pilot, made in... 98? That I wish I still had. Had pretty much every design thing that came later, even (shock horror) a colour display you could use your finger to select things, not just a stylus!
Just cancelled my hulu sub a couple of weeks ago. Just seemed a waste. The UI sucked, management of shows I wanted to watch was random at best, and support to try and get things fixed were responded with "that's just what we're doing now, deal with it" (close enough).
Another lesson on 'how to grind a viable/popular business into the ground, step 1. ignoring customers".
Always had a netflix sub, but just nothing worth watching on Hulu once they lost Comedy Central. I was happy to pay the few bucks to have a central point to watch the news shows/comedy/late night shows in one place, but the ever increasing adverts (that were unskippable, non-passive, I don't want to have to answer a quiz on which film Clooney was in, dammit), the same adverts over and over and over and over. It was bad at the election, then just kept getting worse with the same 3 ads being shown non-stop.
But the watchlist from Queue debacle, I shouldn't have to keep going back to find out shows that I was subbed to have no unsubbed and I need to fav/add them again (or that a late night show now has a new season, so I have to add the NEW season to keep watching the same thing I've seen the last half a dozen seasons of).
Also, shows I used to watch, suddenly disappearing because of them arguing in the background. I don't want to then find/sub to some other online service, I'll simply give up on that show until the full thing appears on Netflix.
And the UI was just clunky. As in 'slower than the huffingtonpost' levels of slow.
Shame, it used to be so good, if we could go back to the content/usability from 3 years ago, I'd have been more than happy, but asking for more money for less of a service? see ya.
Yes! A friend had an Amstrad..PCW? That green/black monitor. HORRIBLE ui on the screen, but the fonts printed fantastic out. The Amiga had a great UI he loved to work in, but then printing... ugh.
Serious weakness, and something they knew about at an early stage but waited until it was far too late to do anything about.
After the change to the watchlist that instead of just being the programs I wanted to watch in the order I wanted to watch, setting + on a season, I just got so frustrated with their new watchlist that I 'tuned out'. Sent them a 'please return it how it was, it worked' message and got the "no, you're wrong, this is far better way to manage your subscriptions" response.
Then not having anything new to watch for months on end, but it dropping things I'd previously subbed to. Then adding programs I didn't want to watch in my list because they thought I might be interested, when I don't even speak spanish, why's it offering me programmes to watch in a language I don't understand?
And the ads, oh my goodness the ads. The same ones over and over and over and over. I'd try to adblock but it stopped the site working (fair enough, they need ad revenue I guess), then offered a 'watch without the ads' deal, but I feel the prior months of the same ads over and over and over was just torture to make the new package seems better value.
And then those ads that forced you to do some survey. I want to passively watch, not start answering questions on the name of the actor in Magnum PI. And I can't quit/skip unless I mash a few buttons for a bit.
I'm just... burned out. Gave up on hulu. It could/should have been great, and there's bound to be later sites that do what early Hulu did, that'll be popular. But what Hulu ended up being, an ad network you have to pay for, that's slow and clunky to use, keeps getting worse every few months, nope, cancelled a month ago.
Yes, it appears you can. On Chrome on Windows, under settings, there's the Search Engines option to change/add as you want, with the defaults, all configurable.
On Android, it appears it's not quite so flexible, I can only see;
Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, AOL.
But it's there. So looks like Google's offering a choice in Chrome/Android.
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Project Stream worked though. Assassin's Creed looked and played beautiful.
Bouncing cats, with wide circular eyes, all in css!
I wondered at the time if the initial volley of Apple to Samsung was a negotiation tactic to get the components down in price to improve profits. Spend a few million, get Samsung to say "ok, we'll bang down the chips/screen/ram/storage down (x%)" but of course it all went a bit pear shaped. It's strange how much Apple seems to sue their own suppliers. This appears to be another situation where it's all gone non-according to plan.
Is that something that'd be viable where you are?
But... I hear ya. Pretty much in the same situation age wise, and have never had problems instantly recalling the sort of knowledge no-one else wanted to learn in the first place, 30 years later "ooo! dos 4.something and no-one knows why it's suddenly stopped working, but is essential to get the big machine thing next to it working? let me rummage around in my "BOX OF STUFF THAT WILL BECOME USEFUL ONE DAY" and see if... yes! a (maybe) working HD, let me copy stuff across, get it working, edit the config.sys, the autoexec.bat and... we're up and running again, no, wait, hmm, let me recall the serial port settings, hang on, think it's the cable, let me run up a new one, set it up, and... done. suck it youngsters". Really, soon as the keyboard's in front of me, it's near muscle memory to get old arcane command line switches recalled, to pop over to some SCO boxen that needs something sorted because the tape backup's not working for some reason etc.. Phone call out of the blue "do you by any chance remember the default password on that machine? the guy running it died and we can't figure out what it was, and we know you set it up, and maybe he never changed it" "ok, try..." "no" "in that case... wait, is this the one where the guy renamed admin to be adminlord?" "I don't know..." "ok, make the username 'adminlord' and the password 'BAABAAF1BF1BF00F00 (zeros, not 'ohs')" "IT WORKED! THANK YOU".
Then I got cancer last year, and the chemo... knocked me out, physically and mentally. The instant memory recall to anything disappeared, and /really/ worried me. "oh, it might come back, or not, but you're ok?" "not if I can't remember anything important, well, rather everything non-important to everyone else". It's one year after I finished treatment and... I'm 90-95%, it HAS returned, but things are still really hard. It doesn't come instantly without much effort, I have to concentrate for certain things to come to the forefront (anyone else who has high recall memory, uses 'mental models' to remember things, imagine being in your mind museum, knowing what it is you want, you go to the right aisle, find the shelf, take out the box. You can see the 'thing', all the attributes about it, you could DRAW the thing, and describe every single thing about it very clearly. But the name plate on the 'thing' is blank).
This really, really scared me, that so much of everything I do is remembering that I'd written the code to do that thing 15 years ago, or I read a magazine about that thing 5 years ago, the article was after the ad with the dell laptop, had a spelling mistake in the first sentence, but was a good article and I could quote the last paragraph.
But that wasn't working anymore. Then, back at work, tech support problems, code to fix. Was taking me a day wading through code I'd written 3 months ago to figure out what was going on, was incredibly slow work (and was still needing multiple naps a day as the chemo had really weakened me). Then, my boss sold a mockup of a prototype of a smoke and mirrors product to a client and I had to suddenly hit the ground running.
Would have been hard in my early 20's to get upto speed, the way I was feeling, I was fumbling around just getting the development tools knocked into shape where I could do anything, let alone code.
but, bit by bit, things started coming back, the numbness in my fingertips started to fade over a few weeks enough to get back to usual typing speed/accuracy. The feeling of "oh, I've written something like this before somewhere" was there, it just took a bit longer to hunt through old code to find it, whereas in the past it'd have been instantaneous to navigate down to the source code to cop
If the new Chromecast device with bluetooth supports pairing a gaming controller and can stream these games? Never going to need a PS/Xbox/other gaming device ever again.
>Here's a better idea. Have the airlines provide their own security. That's how it used to work. They paid the least amount possible. Then the all the airlines operating out of an airport would get together so that an airport would have 1 security company (lowest bid!) to keep the cost as low as possible. Here's an interesting issue though... If it's a private company (the airline), doing the security, you don't have 4th amendment protection anyway, it's just other citizens, not the government, doing the searching.
>CT scanners don't create color images. They create INTENSITY maps, and you can apply pseudo-color colormaps to the intensity images to highlight small variations in density. They could be using dual energy x-rays to create that slice to make that final image, in which case they can do the usual colour lookup to determine material composition, not just density. They're calling it a CT-scan as that's what people expect, but not sure if this would be capable of dual energy.
We jury rigged up a 3d x-ray scanner 17ish years ago as proof of concept, bounced a few ideas off a screener company's people. Was.. think some German Uni had also come up with a way to implement it (but appeared different to ours, they were going for really small items, we were trying to figure out out to do 3d screener x-ray systems for luggage). I'm sure the screener companies have figured this out years ago, it was making it able to be sold at a profit was the tricky bit we've been waiting all these years for.
If it works the same way as a regular screener x-ray, it should still highlight things that could be explosives.
Or port it to DBG's Forgelight engine, then after a year sue them for h1z1 copying them but going back in time and doing it earlier.
Yeah, and for everyone of those things they'd list, there'd be h1z1 showing the same screenshot as pubg but earlier. Ok, PU came in as a consultant, but the game was out before he turned up, with all those same things! The second pubg wins this case, everyone's going to jump on them. Can't see this ending well for anyone but the lawyers on an hourly rate.
Watching the program at the time, it was all "yeah, but that can all be fixed, eventually people giving feedback will get that fixed". And now I use Google Maps (for ETA mostly) now and then, and there's a spot on the highway near the airport it tells me to get off at the junction and rejoin the same highway. And doesn't appear to know you can't go across, you have to take a right, go down a block, u-turn, then swing across fast to get to the turn lane, and I've posted 'this needed to be fixed' for... I don't know how many years, and it's still there. For no reason, it'll try and get me to leave the highway and then get back on.
But on a long slog across London? yeah, a black cab driver, who's driven for even a short amount of time, it's scary their awareness. They use GPS AND dispatch for updates, swirving around as needed, and knowing when to push it a bit more to make sure they're ahead of a footy game emptying "course, 10 mins to go, if they've not equalised by now, the fans will be leaving/rioting as this was important" whilst also pontificating about how it's all the immigrants fault, and this wouldn't have happened under Thatcher, and wish the whole of London had a congestion charge as something's gotta change here mate, it can't keep going on like this, and my uncle fought in the war for this you know, and he'd not have put up with it, and.. "20 goto 10 and throw in more racist comments"
Eventually? yeah, they'll be beaten by something, or they'll continue to use that device plus their knowledge, but for now, that 4 years + constant driving is going to take some beating.
As an aside, the amount of black cab drivers who win these TV general knowledge quiz shows is scary. That training/mind that's suitable for sucking up the routes appears well versed in sucking up all sorts of facts.
True, but it's a bit rough selling YOUR devices using someone else's services to make it worth using. Google lets people use youtube and change UI bits for your device, but you have to agree to their terms. If you don't, you have to use the generic (free) version. Amazon are trying to have their cake and eat it. Using Google's services but cutting out branding/ads/revenue for using that service. They're not forced to use Youtube, they could make amazon video the one and only way to watch something (*cough* kodi *cough*), but they're trying to take something for free and not contribute.
Google's being rough here, yeah, but it's their service.
There's other types now?
YES! When all this stuff in the trial was kicking off, I kept thinking "But I had this stuff on my Palm YEARS ago" https://images.sftcdn.net/imag... There was a 'render' of a future Palm Pilot, made in... 98? That I wish I still had. Had pretty much every design thing that came later, even (shock horror) a colour display you could use your finger to select things, not just a stylus!
Just cancelled my hulu sub a couple of weeks ago. Just seemed a waste. The UI sucked, management of shows I wanted to watch was random at best, and support to try and get things fixed were responded with "that's just what we're doing now, deal with it" (close enough). Another lesson on 'how to grind a viable/popular business into the ground, step 1. ignoring customers". Always had a netflix sub, but just nothing worth watching on Hulu once they lost Comedy Central. I was happy to pay the few bucks to have a central point to watch the news shows/comedy/late night shows in one place, but the ever increasing adverts (that were unskippable, non-passive, I don't want to have to answer a quiz on which film Clooney was in, dammit), the same adverts over and over and over and over. It was bad at the election, then just kept getting worse with the same 3 ads being shown non-stop. But the watchlist from Queue debacle, I shouldn't have to keep going back to find out shows that I was subbed to have no unsubbed and I need to fav/add them again (or that a late night show now has a new season, so I have to add the NEW season to keep watching the same thing I've seen the last half a dozen seasons of).
Also, shows I used to watch, suddenly disappearing because of them arguing in the background. I don't want to then find/sub to some other online service, I'll simply give up on that show until the full thing appears on Netflix.
And the UI was just clunky. As in 'slower than the huffingtonpost' levels of slow.
Shame, it used to be so good, if we could go back to the content/usability from 3 years ago, I'd have been more than happy, but asking for more money for less of a service? see ya.
Yes! A friend had an Amstrad..PCW? That green/black monitor. HORRIBLE ui on the screen, but the fonts printed fantastic out. The Amiga had a great UI he loved to work in, but then printing... ugh.
Serious weakness, and something they knew about at an early stage but waited until it was far too late to do anything about.
After the change to the watchlist that instead of just being the programs I wanted to watch in the order I wanted to watch, setting + on a season, I just got so frustrated with their new watchlist that I 'tuned out'. Sent them a 'please return it how it was, it worked' message and got the "no, you're wrong, this is far better way to manage your subscriptions" response. Then not having anything new to watch for months on end, but it dropping things I'd previously subbed to. Then adding programs I didn't want to watch in my list because they thought I might be interested, when I don't even speak spanish, why's it offering me programmes to watch in a language I don't understand? And the ads, oh my goodness the ads. The same ones over and over and over and over. I'd try to adblock but it stopped the site working (fair enough, they need ad revenue I guess), then offered a 'watch without the ads' deal, but I feel the prior months of the same ads over and over and over was just torture to make the new package seems better value. And then those ads that forced you to do some survey. I want to passively watch, not start answering questions on the name of the actor in Magnum PI. And I can't quit/skip unless I mash a few buttons for a bit. I'm just... burned out. Gave up on hulu. It could/should have been great, and there's bound to be later sites that do what early Hulu did, that'll be popular. But what Hulu ended up being, an ad network you have to pay for, that's slow and clunky to use, keeps getting worse every few months, nope, cancelled a month ago.
Ah, let me guess, you owned an Atari ST.
!Yeah, who is he and what's HE ever done for the Web?
They probably saw a demo of an IED using a 9V so said 'oh, we gotta stop that'.
c#/Xamarin can target ios/android/windows/mac. Shame it's not also on Linux, but hey, Android runs on Linux,so...
Wabbit season!
And a copy of the pee tape to remind him who he's working for.
Yes, it appears you can. On Chrome on Windows, under settings, there's the Search Engines option to change/add as you want, with the defaults, all configurable.
On Android, it appears it's not quite so flexible, I can only see;
Google,
Yahoo,
Bing,
Ask,
AOL.
But it's there. So looks like Google's offering a choice in Chrome/Android.