My brother was visiting recently, and his POS BlackBerry (no idea what model) wouldn't charge from a standard USB, it kept complaining it needed a special cable.
My work blackberry charges fine off every USB cable I've used. Are you sure you weren't using a data-only USB cable?
You could argue the same thing for Detroit... if only they could devalue the Detroit national currency and print their way out of debt then they wouldn't have needed to go into default/bankruptcy and technically ruin their credit rating.
Pretty certain Iceland's credit rating is better now than what it was prior to devaluation.
Or they could just settle on a budget that is actually sustainable and not have to borrow at a rate that is outpacing the growth in tax revenue.
Which isn't really possible when the economy of Greece is that vastly different from the big earners of the European Union (let's not forget that the EU politicians took their membership despite all the EU auditors and advisers saying they would not economically fit).
The other issue is economic, the UK didn't use transitional controls when Poland entered the EU to delay immigration, so it got a really really large number of Polish immigrants because they had few other places to go. The evidence suggests the UK benefited from this economically but given the sheer speed and scale of the migration it's not hard to see why people got antsy.
Some of us have other reasons to be antsy.
I lived in Poland for over a decade, I was forced to have a visa and such when legally I wasn't required because I am an EU citizen. I was regularly told that I was stealing Polish land, taking the food out of their children's mouths, taking their jobs away by people who learned that I wasn't Polish. I learned Polish, could almost speak like a native.
I eventually moved to the UK, I participated in the Polish communities, listened to how a vocal minority wanted to demand there be Polish news papers, Polish radio stations, mandatory lessons to teach other children about Polish culture etc. I do remember once instance, I was in a job agency searching for a job, when one of the staff commented in Polish that I shouldn't be there to her colleague once she found out I was not Polish.
I don't think the majority of Polish people are bad people, I don't think the majority of them are xenophobic. I do feel antsy about them because I have been mistreated by many Polish people and their government and I have seen preferential treatment employed by Polish communities as a sort of solidarity against true integration into UK society.
I believe that people pick up on these signals and is part of the reason for the dislike.
You do realize the Greeks are in a miserable situation because they are not allowed to create their own currency and devalue (like Iceland did not too long ago) to recover?
Or the Scottish parliament can decide otherwise. Although you'll see Northern Ireland Assembly making many more different positions than the Scottish do to the rest of the UK.
Oh really? Care to back that assertion with facts and links?
Sure, but it'll have to be when I'm back home and not working in my client's offices. Which will be two weeks from now (internet is locked down and I'm only doing Slashdot while blocked in my work).
The UK has been nothing but a pain in the arse since day one of its membership. Screw them
There is nothing wrong with being eurosceptics. Next you're going to say that there is no legitimacy behind arguments like the European Union auditors not signing off on accounts for years (is it 10 now) in a row and that if they were a bank, they wouldn't have been shut down (hint: they would have or at least had their managed completely changed). Or how the people being unable to vote on European presidents is meant to be democratic for the European states etc?
Oh, you mean Australia? The country that is one of the biggest trade partner of the EU?
That is now, you're quick to forget history.
Gosh darn, those poor Aussies sure got screwed in those deals.
They did in the 1970s. They could have been more prosperous if they hadn't found significant issues ending getting locked out from much trade.
Why would they do that, now, since the EU is in a deep economic and institutional slump, is completely beyond me, but still...
The EU has a bunch of sad laws that discriminate against non-EU countries for trade. This has hurt the UK quite badly when it came to trade with other common wealth countries that weren't part of the EU. The way Australia got screwed was pretty bad and I think people that remember still hold it against the UK to this day.
I believe they should just stay while using the current situation to get more "practical independence", i.e.: more control over the union's government, taxing and expenses
They actually receive a lot of control over that through the Scottish parliament. The interesting thing is, if it wasn't for the rest of the UK, Scotland could not afford their welfare state (which is high due to people living in a lot of remote locations with little business prospects).
I once had a manager ask me to perform a task in a timeframe well short of reasonable. I said "no". He said "with a click of my fingers I can get 5 people just like you who will say yes". I said "go ahead". And... he didn't. I took the time that the job required, and it worked out OK.
I have encountered similar issues, except, I get the person to sign off on the risk before doing it. So, if it fails, it's on their head for doing a bad estimation, not mine since I raised the risk.
I do admit, sometimes it can be hard to get people to sign off, so CC'ing stakeholders in follow up e-mails usually helps.
Your implementation of agile wasn't done very well. It works quite well at my company for the pure Agile, Scrum projects. When people don't do the full agile methodology, that's when things start going awry. Of course, if everyone is inexperienced in programming and agile, you're not going to get very far (not much different from waterfall).
The very good developers will be at a loss to explain how they only got one task done, as their task was truly a 50 hour task.
Something is very wrong at your company if this happens where they can't explain why it was a 50 hour task.
When that developer cannot explain why it will take longer, people just say "we'll just go with the original estimate then." Then those people don't get the tons of work done, and the whole project failure is pinned on them.
I've never been in a situation where I couldn't explain why, I have been in a situation where I have been overridden. In those instances, I go out of my way to get the overriding decision signed off (risk based approach) so if it blows up; I'm absolved, since I did raise the risk and got the risk signed off.
Then those people don't get the tons of work done, and the whole project failure is pinned on them.
I've been on late projects, never been on any that were cancelled and people fired.
I don't see how it's MS responsibility to run servers for third party games. For first party and second party, yea, I'd expect that in a just world. Considering 95% of games for all consoles are third party, it would be absolutely absurd to expect the console maker to control all online access to games down to the server level.
Considering they charge a fee to play online, force developers to use their APIs, force users to use only their service. I would and that's why I don't have an xbox anymore, nor an xbox live subscription.
It might help, considering most games are abandoned within a year and dickholes like EA straight up take the online portions down - like with Army of Two, but how would they make any profit?
Hey, I'm told the console experience is to 'just work', so I expect it to 'just work' and provide a level of quality with that service. My expectations are limited to the console when just paying for the console, but paying for online use? Now those expectations are applied to online use.. I am not here to workout the logistics, but if I was, I would use this thing called 'the cloud', possibly even this cloud system Microosft made called 'Azure' to spin up the relevant servers on demand.
Not to mention, your 15 bucks a month doesn't exactly pay to keep dedicated servers running.
Logistically speaking, they can oversell infrastructure using the cloud, since people are unlikely to be using their consoles 24/7. They have enough data to figure out the pricing point that would work for them.
Not necessarily defending them, but isn't the point of business to make a profit?
As a consumer, isn't the point of consoles to provide a quality service that "just works" ? As opposed to home Internet connection ran servers that are done on PCs often where the experience varies particularly when people are expected to pay for online capability.
They should be allowed to profit off of XBL
I didn't say they couldn't. I'm saying that I won't pay for a service that doesn't deliver to my expectations. I never stated I minded if the pricing was more expensive either.
In other words, I am not paying for a service that doesn't deliver, it doesn't matter how cheap you make it. A service that doesn't deliver is not a great deal, it's a rip off.
xbox live does kind of piss me off. You pay for them for online play. They aren't providing game servers for you to play on, they're relying on some random person in the group they've matched you against. Then you get matched up against some people who can't handle six players at the same time and it's an awful experience. People in the game blame the guy with the poor Internet, I blame Microsoft for not providing dedicated servers when it's been paid for.
I would rather key in IP addresses manually and have my own dedicated servers than this paid crap. Of course, this wouldn't make Microsoft a profit then.
Would it not be a universal issue if it was the game?
Indeed, and no other application or game on my system is like this. I can play BF4 at maximum settings at 60fps, same with Star Citizen etc.
Of course, what you're trying to say is that other people should be experiencing this.
This is genuinely the first I've heard of glaring Minecraft performance issues and I know of many people who run it at 60fps or more on far lower spec systems than you're running.
This is no doubt in my mind because people who struggle with this just give up on the game and don't bother. So they aren't participating in your community. I have only met two other people who had this issue too, but considering that I only know 12 people who have tried/played/play Minecraft, that's not really unsurprising. I do know that the issue is definitely exasperated when bumping up quality settings and fullscreen.
There must be something that Minecraft or Java/JNI doesn't like about your specific hardware configuration, but I really couldn't guess what.
I honestly think the game was written poorly. I remember a time when overflows (corrupts your map because you went too far) could happen because you went too far and it was because Notch did not use a feature of Java that used to be advertised as a big reason to use Java... Bignums. Then instead of actually fixing it with bignums, he just hard codes a barrier. Instead of using literals to represent all the data in a grid, he chose to create some of the most inefficient way to store that data and we end up with servers that require 12GB for a modest Minecraft server setup. He could have created zoning with bignums, which would have allowed only the relevant portions at the time to be loaded into memory.
I am convinced based off what I have observed from decompiled Minecraft classes and the solutions that were chosen to solve problems that the issues I am experiencing are from a poorly designed and poorly implemented engine that causing some issues with my system.
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My work blackberry charges fine off every USB cable I've used. Are you sure you weren't using a data-only USB cable?
They could release an iOS update that prevents bending. They already released iOS updates for fast recharging via microwave and waterproofing support.
Not really... I used tiny invisible text. (white text) with all the relevant keywords that they were looking for in the job descriptions.
Including an app to control the Harmony hub...
I never considered using the harmony ultimate to control sex toys... Thanks for the idea!
Pretty certain Iceland's credit rating is better now than what it was prior to devaluation.
Which isn't really possible when the economy of Greece is that vastly different from the big earners of the European Union (let's not forget that the EU politicians took their membership despite all the EU auditors and advisers saying they would not economically fit).
Some of us have other reasons to be antsy.
I lived in Poland for over a decade, I was forced to have a visa and such when legally I wasn't required because I am an EU citizen. I was regularly told that I was stealing Polish land, taking the food out of their children's mouths, taking their jobs away by people who learned that I wasn't Polish. I learned Polish, could almost speak like a native.
I eventually moved to the UK, I participated in the Polish communities, listened to how a vocal minority wanted to demand there be Polish news papers, Polish radio stations, mandatory lessons to teach other children about Polish culture etc. I do remember once instance, I was in a job agency searching for a job, when one of the staff commented in Polish that I shouldn't be there to her colleague once she found out I was not Polish.
I don't think the majority of Polish people are bad people, I don't think the majority of them are xenophobic. I do feel antsy about them because I have been mistreated by many Polish people and their government and I have seen preferential treatment employed by Polish communities as a sort of solidarity against true integration into UK society.
I believe that people pick up on these signals and is part of the reason for the dislike.
You do realize the Greeks are in a miserable situation because they are not allowed to create their own currency and devalue (like Iceland did not too long ago) to recover?
Or the Scottish parliament can decide otherwise. Although you'll see Northern Ireland Assembly making many more different positions than the Scottish do to the rest of the UK.
Which is stupid expensive to build, maintain. Nuclear power is cheaper and don't require fossil fuels to back it up.
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Sure, but it'll have to be when I'm back home and not working in my client's offices. Which will be two weeks from now (internet is locked down and I'm only doing Slashdot while blocked in my work).
There is nothing wrong with being eurosceptics. Next you're going to say that there is no legitimacy behind arguments like the European Union auditors not signing off on accounts for years (is it 10 now) in a row and that if they were a bank, they wouldn't have been shut down (hint: they would have or at least had their managed completely changed). Or how the people being unable to vote on European presidents is meant to be democratic for the European states etc?
That is now, you're quick to forget history.
They did in the 1970s. They could have been more prosperous if they hadn't found significant issues ending getting locked out from much trade.
This is a myth, the Barnett formula does not effect public expenditure (including welfare).
The EU has a bunch of sad laws that discriminate against non-EU countries for trade. This has hurt the UK quite badly when it came to trade with other common wealth countries that weren't part of the EU. The way Australia got screwed was pretty bad and I think people that remember still hold it against the UK to this day.
They actually receive a lot of control over that through the Scottish parliament. The interesting thing is, if it wasn't for the rest of the UK, Scotland could not afford their welfare state (which is high due to people living in a lot of remote locations with little business prospects).
I have encountered similar issues, except, I get the person to sign off on the risk before doing it. So, if it fails, it's on their head for doing a bad estimation, not mine since I raised the risk.
I do admit, sometimes it can be hard to get people to sign off, so CC'ing stakeholders in follow up e-mails usually helps.
Your implementation of agile wasn't done very well. It works quite well at my company for the pure Agile, Scrum projects. When people don't do the full agile methodology, that's when things start going awry. Of course, if everyone is inexperienced in programming and agile, you're not going to get very far (not much different from waterfall).
Something is very wrong at your company if this happens where they can't explain why it was a 50 hour task.
I've never been in a situation where I couldn't explain why, I have been in a situation where I have been overridden. In those instances, I go out of my way to get the overriding decision signed off (risk based approach) so if it blows up; I'm absolved, since I did raise the risk and got the risk signed off.
I've been on late projects, never been on any that were cancelled and people fired.
But it'll stop you from getting their money.
From the Point of Sale systems, it's the same exact technology used for NFC payments, which is used by NFC enabled cards and Google Wallet.
All those retailers that support Apple Pay, identically support NFC enabled cards and Google Wallet.
The iPhone users in my office don't use cases.
Considering they charge a fee to play online, force developers to use their APIs, force users to use only their service. I would and that's why I don't have an xbox anymore, nor an xbox live subscription.
Hey, I'm told the console experience is to 'just work', so I expect it to 'just work' and provide a level of quality with that service. My expectations are limited to the console when just paying for the console, but paying for online use? Now those expectations are applied to online use.. I am not here to workout the logistics, but if I was, I would use this thing called 'the cloud', possibly even this cloud system Microosft made called 'Azure' to spin up the relevant servers on demand.
Logistically speaking, they can oversell infrastructure using the cloud, since people are unlikely to be using their consoles 24/7. They have enough data to figure out the pricing point that would work for them.
As a consumer, isn't the point of consoles to provide a quality service that "just works" ? As opposed to home Internet connection ran servers that are done on PCs often where the experience varies particularly when people are expected to pay for online capability.
I didn't say they couldn't. I'm saying that I won't pay for a service that doesn't deliver to my expectations. I never stated I minded if the pricing was more expensive either.
In other words, I am not paying for a service that doesn't deliver, it doesn't matter how cheap you make it. A service that doesn't deliver is not a great deal, it's a rip off.
TItanfall MP on PC are hosted on Microsoft Azure, not home PCs. No subscription to xbox live to get it either.
I wasn't speaking of Titanfall in my example. I stopped using xbox some years ago after some bad experiences with games doing what I have mentioned.
xbox live does kind of piss me off. You pay for them for online play. They aren't providing game servers for you to play on, they're relying on some random person in the group they've matched you against. Then you get matched up against some people who can't handle six players at the same time and it's an awful experience. People in the game blame the guy with the poor Internet, I blame Microsoft for not providing dedicated servers when it's been paid for.
I would rather key in IP addresses manually and have my own dedicated servers than this paid crap. Of course, this wouldn't make Microsoft a profit then.
Indeed, and no other application or game on my system is like this. I can play BF4 at maximum settings at 60fps, same with Star Citizen etc.
Of course, what you're trying to say is that other people should be experiencing this.
This is no doubt in my mind because people who struggle with this just give up on the game and don't bother. So they aren't participating in your community. I have only met two other people who had this issue too, but considering that I only know 12 people who have tried/played/play Minecraft, that's not really unsurprising. I do know that the issue is definitely exasperated when bumping up quality settings and fullscreen.
I honestly think the game was written poorly. I remember a time when overflows (corrupts your map because you went too far) could happen because you went too far and it was because Notch did not use a feature of Java that used to be advertised as a big reason to use Java... Bignums. Then instead of actually fixing it with bignums, he just hard codes a barrier. Instead of using literals to represent all the data in a grid, he chose to create some of the most inefficient way to store that data and we end up with servers that require 12GB for a modest Minecraft server setup. He could have created zoning with bignums, which would have allowed only the relevant portions at the time to be loaded into memory.
I am convinced based off what I have observed from decompiled Minecraft classes and the solutions that were chosen to solve problems that the issues I am experiencing are from a poorly designed and poorly implemented engine that causing some issues with my system.