Less than that! It's not even hardcoded, it's just an initial setting. It's almost exactly equivalent to them telling OEMs "Hey, if you make Bing the default search engine instead of changing it to something else, we'll give this to you really cheap".
Defaults that nobody here would care about anyway, yet are massively important for market share because the average user doesn't bother to change them.
Yeah I'm kind of curious about that myself. Never heard of the guy, and a very quick perusal of his Wikipedia page doesn't look like he's too crazy, while still actually coming from politics.
Maybe the "unfortunately" is related to the fact that I've never heard of him, and probably neither have most people...
You should really talk to someone about your connection problems. Can't say I ever have buffering issues on Netflix. The video quality might not be blu-ray, but I'm not watching in a home theater, either.
If you want stuff ASAP after release, Amazon's option to buy digital movies is pretty hard to beat. The business model is completely antithetical to what everyone on Slashdot likes, and it's pricey, but if speed is your absolute only criteria...it wins. Publishers allow sales before they allow rentals. (If it wasn't so expensive, they wouldn't let it go on sale so early, because it cannibalizes box office figures.)
Clarify with your manager who is allowed to give you tasks. In a lot of environments, all requests from higher-up MUST go through your manager for prioritization. Make sure you know where and when this applies but it's probably most of the time, so just tell people "you need to go through my direct manager so we can track the things I need to work on". If you let four different people dump tasks on you, you'll get buried and you won't get your responsibilities done.
This bit me pretty hard my first few jobs and still does to some extent. Make sure you know what you're supposed to work on. If your plate is already full, don't branch out to other tasks. People are really good at overstating or understating the importance of what you need to work on, and you aren't the one who sets the schedule. It might be urgent for task A to get done this week, but maybe it's even more urgent for task B to get done by the end of next week, and if task B takes more work to get done...
It's amazing how big of a global impact you could get, from what seems at first glance to be an everyday iterative improvement to an esoteric technical product. Thank you for sharing!
Untrue? This is from the article: "In addition, the District’s Board Policy Manual explicitly states 'a student shall retain all rights to work created as part of the instruction or using District technology resources.'"
Eh, hardware companies have a way different perspective about patents than software ones. If your company's been around for many decades and products take many years to develop and get to market (unlike software), patents are way more effective at their job of "put your ideas on paper and show them to the world". Having a short term monopoly on that idea is awfully brief when it takes so long to build up public infrastructure.
I dunno, I think those of us who are better at blocking ads than you--and aren't bored enough to spend all their time refreshing large companies' press release pages--might find this kind of article useful.
Wouldn't spreading out the shots more make them more expensive to administer? That's just fine to me if it's socialized, but it's really not okay if it drives up the price of immunization for poor and uninsured families.
All it says is how hard you leaned on the grindstone fifteen years ago. Totally useless as a predictor by the time you're four years out of university (some would say much earlier). You got the degree, you've been exposing yourself to technologies, you're staying more current than some (not very good) currently-employed programmers and security guys. Put that GPA out of your mind entirely.
I grew up in Ballard. They were already starting to do this in the 80s, I remember when my neighbor's house got replaced by an apartment. As much as I liked the way things were early on, I really hope they make these new places big enough to have parking garages. Ballard is already way too low on on-street parking, and the roads are hideously narrow (plus traffic circles everywhere, oh man do the fire departments ever hate that).
They've been wrecking the place for decades trying to build a big suburb on top of small town infrastructure. Please, just put Ballard out of its misery and rebuild it from the ground up. Only hipsters live there now anyway.
Because I don't buy into the media frenzy that every cop everywhere is untrustworthy, and in my personal judgment, allowing them to do their jobs is more likely to benefit than harm me. Example, there's a lot of mail theft in my neighborhood, petty vandalism, street racing through school zones, and some guy emptying a handgun magazine in a parking lot in the middle of the night a few months ago. There's also no local police abuses that I know of, and when I've dealt with the local police they've been very friendly and helpful.
Maybe if I lived in the Orwellian dystopias that other posters seem to live in, I'd feel differently, but over here I'd like them to keep working as efficiently as possible.
If you walk down a public street, you might not have a conversation with everyone on the street. But that doesn't mean if the cops ask a random guy if they saw you that they can't say "yes", or the guy you bought a hot dog from, etc...
A surprising number of people trust the police to have good intentions when they're trying to find someone...and you know what, if the cops came to my door and asked if I've seen a guy around the neighborhood with such-and-such description, I'm pretty sure I'd give them a prompt and truthful answer. I suspect most people in late-1700s America would too, no matter what you think the founding fathers might have said.
If you want a telecommunications company that won't give up your info without a warrant, go start one.
You're broadcasting to pretty much anyone. Roaming is, or at least used to be, a thing. Even if it's not turned on, I know my cell phone at least tells me that it can dial 911 using another network even when it's out of range of mine. So yes it's talking to a lot more than just the one provider...same with wireless access points that broadcast their name (or wifi devices that constantly search for them).
I've paid five bucks for a game I already physically own so that I don't need to dig the CD out of the garage more times than I'd like to admit, and probably a lot of old CDs and low quality CDRs don't even work anymore, it's not like I've checked them in a decade or two. Used to pirate them (surely it's ethical if I still have the box?) but that's even more of a hassle. Convenience can be worth one hell of a premium, and who cares if I could have dug up a working wrapper or working DosBox configuration somewhere thirty pages down on a forum thread on archive.org? That's something those millenials have time for. Hell yes I'm willing to pay to not waste that kind of time.
It's irritating as hell when my provider won't post new Android versions, but at this point I'm on a pretty old phone (I don't want to give out my slide-out keyboard) and I don't want to be forced to upgrade to something the hardware can't run as easily.
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are enough to make me forgive a whole lotta sins here.
Less than that! It's not even hardcoded, it's just an initial setting. It's almost exactly equivalent to them telling OEMs "Hey, if you make Bing the default search engine instead of changing it to something else, we'll give this to you really cheap".
Defaults that nobody here would care about anyway, yet are massively important for market share because the average user doesn't bother to change them.
Yeah I'm kind of curious about that myself. Never heard of the guy, and a very quick perusal of his Wikipedia page doesn't look like he's too crazy, while still actually coming from politics.
Maybe the "unfortunately" is related to the fact that I've never heard of him, and probably neither have most people...
You should really talk to someone about your connection problems. Can't say I ever have buffering issues on Netflix. The video quality might not be blu-ray, but I'm not watching in a home theater, either.
If you want stuff ASAP after release, Amazon's option to buy digital movies is pretty hard to beat. The business model is completely antithetical to what everyone on Slashdot likes, and it's pricey, but if speed is your absolute only criteria...it wins. Publishers allow sales before they allow rentals. (If it wasn't so expensive, they wouldn't let it go on sale so early, because it cannibalizes box office figures.)
Clarify with your manager who is allowed to give you tasks. In a lot of environments, all requests from higher-up MUST go through your manager for prioritization. Make sure you know where and when this applies but it's probably most of the time, so just tell people "you need to go through my direct manager so we can track the things I need to work on". If you let four different people dump tasks on you, you'll get buried and you won't get your responsibilities done.
This bit me pretty hard my first few jobs and still does to some extent. Make sure you know what you're supposed to work on. If your plate is already full, don't branch out to other tasks. People are really good at overstating or understating the importance of what you need to work on, and you aren't the one who sets the schedule. It might be urgent for task A to get done this week, but maybe it's even more urgent for task B to get done by the end of next week, and if task B takes more work to get done...
It's amazing how big of a global impact you could get, from what seems at first glance to be an everyday iterative improvement to an esoteric technical product. Thank you for sharing!
As long as it doesn't turn into the "History" Channel.
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Untrue? This is from the article: "In addition, the District’s Board Policy Manual explicitly states 'a student shall retain all rights to work created as part of the instruction or using District technology resources.'"
That school's policy clearly states that copyright is retained by the creator even when using school equipment.
Eh, hardware companies have a way different perspective about patents than software ones. If your company's been around for many decades and products take many years to develop and get to market (unlike software), patents are way more effective at their job of "put your ideas on paper and show them to the world". Having a short term monopoly on that idea is awfully brief when it takes so long to build up public infrastructure.
I dunno, I think those of us who are better at blocking ads than you--and aren't bored enough to spend all their time refreshing large companies' press release pages--might find this kind of article useful.
Wouldn't spreading out the shots more make them more expensive to administer? That's just fine to me if it's socialized, but it's really not okay if it drives up the price of immunization for poor and uninsured families.
All it says is how hard you leaned on the grindstone fifteen years ago. Totally useless as a predictor by the time you're four years out of university (some would say much earlier). You got the degree, you've been exposing yourself to technologies, you're staying more current than some (not very good) currently-employed programmers and security guys. Put that GPA out of your mind entirely.
Yeah, but that's guest spots. Ballard doesn't have enough parking for the people who actually live there. Often narrow lots with no driveways.
I was going to say "Hey I've seen that movie", but the short story looks one hell of a lot darker.
I grew up in Ballard. They were already starting to do this in the 80s, I remember when my neighbor's house got replaced by an apartment. As much as I liked the way things were early on, I really hope they make these new places big enough to have parking garages. Ballard is already way too low on on-street parking, and the roads are hideously narrow (plus traffic circles everywhere, oh man do the fire departments ever hate that).
They've been wrecking the place for decades trying to build a big suburb on top of small town infrastructure. Please, just put Ballard out of its misery and rebuild it from the ground up. Only hipsters live there now anyway.
Because I don't buy into the media frenzy that every cop everywhere is untrustworthy, and in my personal judgment, allowing them to do their jobs is more likely to benefit than harm me. Example, there's a lot of mail theft in my neighborhood, petty vandalism, street racing through school zones, and some guy emptying a handgun magazine in a parking lot in the middle of the night a few months ago. There's also no local police abuses that I know of, and when I've dealt with the local police they've been very friendly and helpful.
Maybe if I lived in the Orwellian dystopias that other posters seem to live in, I'd feel differently, but over here I'd like them to keep working as efficiently as possible.
If you walk down a public street, you might not have a conversation with everyone on the street. But that doesn't mean if the cops ask a random guy if they saw you that they can't say "yes", or the guy you bought a hot dog from, etc...
A surprising number of people trust the police to have good intentions when they're trying to find someone...and you know what, if the cops came to my door and asked if I've seen a guy around the neighborhood with such-and-such description, I'm pretty sure I'd give them a prompt and truthful answer. I suspect most people in late-1700s America would too, no matter what you think the founding fathers might have said.
If you want a telecommunications company that won't give up your info without a warrant, go start one.
You're broadcasting to pretty much anyone. Roaming is, or at least used to be, a thing. Even if it's not turned on, I know my cell phone at least tells me that it can dial 911 using another network even when it's out of range of mine. So yes it's talking to a lot more than just the one provider...same with wireless access points that broadcast their name (or wifi devices that constantly search for them).
I've paid five bucks for a game I already physically own so that I don't need to dig the CD out of the garage more times than I'd like to admit, and probably a lot of old CDs and low quality CDRs don't even work anymore, it's not like I've checked them in a decade or two. Used to pirate them (surely it's ethical if I still have the box?) but that's even more of a hassle. Convenience can be worth one hell of a premium, and who cares if I could have dug up a working wrapper or working DosBox configuration somewhere thirty pages down on a forum thread on archive.org? That's something those millenials have time for. Hell yes I'm willing to pay to not waste that kind of time.
Did you somehow miss this part of the summary? "an entirely optional launcher"
It's irritating as hell when my provider won't post new Android versions, but at this point I'm on a pretty old phone (I don't want to give out my slide-out keyboard) and I don't want to be forced to upgrade to something the hardware can't run as easily.
I'm guessing that much like KFC trying to avoid the stigma of "Fried", GOG is trying to dodge the stigma of "Old" for a big market segment out there.