There are answers to most of your gripes....except search function needle/haystack ordering. That one bugs me too, as I can never remember which function uses which order.
On top of that, it's damaging to developing minds. Sega dropped development of a 3d product years ago because of a study they commissioned - the results depicted that children exposed to the 3d display suffered permanent problems with depth perception. Most adults recovered quickly from the 3d interface, but children were permanently affected.
TFA noted that some of the data was home screen contents - which tells me that they're researching usage patterns, most used widgets or other usage type information. So, why not send them data that's so ridiculous that their conclusions end up being entirely wrong. Maybe someone can turn it into an app that captures the real data and replaces it with what we want them to see.
How funny would it be if all of the sudden all moto usage research showed that a huge number of users were replacing all of their home screen widgets with Neko. Even funnier would be to report that everyone has that famous Rick Astley song on their home screen.
It seems to me that the first form of abuse should be a user providing bogus data to moto. If it's HTTP, and the credentials to upload are available (unencrypted, so they should be), then this is a "service" ready to be abused.
Time to send moto some seriously disturbing things that will skew the results of whatever research they're doing toward the odd and completely wrong.
Oh, but they'll call it a "mass shooting" or describe it as "mass casualties".
Of course they'll describe the pistol magazines as "high capacity" even though they are standard capacity for the firearm. The idea is to spin the event or item to make it sound more scary than it is.
The article was especially interesting to me, as it follows a conversation I had nearly 15 years ago after having learned COBOL II in college and couldn't even find a company who was willing to interview me - the reason given, we want 10 years of COBOL experience. How do you get 10 years of experience coming out of school when nobody will hire you because you don't have 10 years of experience?
That conversation was with a person who was a CICS administrator, and her take was that eventually the jobs would need to be filled by new blood as the old blood retired. Neither of us thought it would take 15 years, and I wasn't interested in waiting - so I moved on. Considering COBOL as a starter language, it was easier to learn other languages. I only had a few opportunities to use COBOL in the past 15 years, but COBOL isn't the sort of language that you forget.
With so many people out of work, and others struggling - I'd welcome some boring security over the mad dash that is consulting. Seldom does a paying job ever interest me as much as my personal projects.
with rumored shelf life on the order of the time span to cool a white dwarf to room temperature
They just failed to mention that room temperature is taken from a room which contains a white dwarf, so the temperature of the cooling white dwarf doesn't really hav far to fall.
I would hope it's some sort of standard dongle, like the old 3com/megahertz ethernet dongles - but I don't know. The manufacturers specs don't specify.
I didn't call anyone an "asshole". I called someone a smartass - a person who has previously called me a dumbass. You, however, I will call pedantic.
Did you expect me to paste the wikipedia entry?
Should I have considered that the laptop has ethernet simply because it's possible for a USB device to provide that capability? If that's the case, then I should I have also listed that the laptop has a 1TB drive because that is also available as a USB device. Maybe I should have written that both laptops have 50 USB ports, because I recently saw a 49 port USB hub.
I only named physical ports listed by the manufacturers and I'm getting all kinds of grief for it!
If you're trying to call a USB ethernet adapter a dongle, then OK. In that case, the Ativ has 3 ethernet ports - one with the included dongle and 2 additional via USB. If you want to include a USB hub "dongle" it can have many more.
Are we really going to start calling every USB device a dongle?
I wrote about actual physical ports included with each machine. I did not include adapters because that's a ridiculous argument. Both systems can be extended with adapters - Ativ requires fewer adapters to achieve what has come to be accepted as standard functionality (multiple monitor support and wired ethernet).
bla bla bla, USB can also be HDMI, VGA, Ethernet and everything that thunderbolt offers. I don't consider anything that plugs into thunderbolt as a "dongle" but as an adapter, like any USB adapter.
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There are answers to most of your gripes....except search function needle/haystack ordering. That one bugs me too, as I can never remember which function uses which order.
Did anyone else notice that the screen in the router case photo has a partially obscured Futurama video playing?
And where is "prolonged exposure" defined (not in the audioholics link)?. Does that mean an hour, two hours, three hours?
I won't be gambling with my child's vision.
On top of that, it's damaging to developing minds. Sega dropped development of a 3d product years ago because of a study they commissioned - the results depicted that children exposed to the 3d display suffered permanent problems with depth perception. Most adults recovered quickly from the 3d interface, but children were permanently affected.
It was discussed on /. here: 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children
For that reason alone, I won't allow my children to attend a 3d movie, and I won't have 3d equipment in my house.
Instead of waiting 5 hours to print your Yoda head, you can print it in mere decades.
The upside, you won't have layer lines, and you can choose materials other than PLA and ABS.
TFA noted that some of the data was home screen contents - which tells me that they're researching usage patterns, most used widgets or other usage type information. So, why not send them data that's so ridiculous that their conclusions end up being entirely wrong. Maybe someone can turn it into an app that captures the real data and replaces it with what we want them to see.
How funny would it be if all of the sudden all moto usage research showed that a huge number of users were replacing all of their home screen widgets with Neko. Even funnier would be to report that everyone has that famous Rick Astley song on their home screen.
Maybe they "should've" or "should have", but they never "should of"
It seems to me that the first form of abuse should be a user providing bogus data to moto. If it's HTTP, and the credentials to upload are available (unencrypted, so they should be), then this is a "service" ready to be abused.
Time to send moto some seriously disturbing things that will skew the results of whatever research they're doing toward the odd and completely wrong.
Oh, but they'll call it a "mass shooting" or describe it as "mass casualties".
Of course they'll describe the pistol magazines as "high capacity" even though they are standard capacity for the firearm. The idea is to spin the event or item to make it sound more scary than it is.
"mass shooting" > "shooting"
"mass casualties" > "casualties"
"high capacity magazine" > "magazine"
"weapon of mass destruction" > "bomb"
According to MicroFocus - no. Here's what they have to say about it:
Worldwide, 200x more daily COBOL transactions than Google and You Tube searches Five billion lines of new COBOL code are developed every year
No, that statement is missing some punctuation that no COBOL developer would have missed.
The joke doesn't work if you play both parts. Expect that someone here (especially here) will catch your reference and carry you to the punchline.
The article was especially interesting to me, as it follows a conversation I had nearly 15 years ago after having learned COBOL II in college and couldn't even find a company who was willing to interview me - the reason given, we want 10 years of COBOL experience. How do you get 10 years of experience coming out of school when nobody will hire you because you don't have 10 years of experience?
That conversation was with a person who was a CICS administrator, and her take was that eventually the jobs would need to be filled by new blood as the old blood retired. Neither of us thought it would take 15 years, and I wasn't interested in waiting - so I moved on. Considering COBOL as a starter language, it was easier to learn other languages. I only had a few opportunities to use COBOL in the past 15 years, but COBOL isn't the sort of language that you forget.
With so many people out of work, and others struggling - I'd welcome some boring security over the mad dash that is consulting. Seldom does a paying job ever interest me as much as my personal projects.
with rumored shelf life on the order of the time span to cool a white dwarf to room temperature
They just failed to mention that room temperature is taken from a room which contains a white dwarf, so the temperature of the cooling white dwarf doesn't really hav far to fall.
Every Addeco post has a slew of negative comments related to the theft of Turner Barrs idea.
I wonder how long it will take for them to figure out that the Internet won't forgive or forget until they do the right thing...
just choose a short adapter
I did not include adapters in my list because they are not part of the delivered product.
The 'micro HDMI' isn't any more standard, in any useful sense
HDMI Connector Type D (the micro connector) is definitely part of the HDMI 1.3 specification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
Ethernet port and maybe SD card slot
Using ethernet on my laptop now, and SD frequently - copying from SD cards used in my cameras
I would hope it's some sort of standard dongle, like the old 3com/megahertz ethernet dongles - but I don't know. The manufacturers specs don't specify.
I didn't call anyone an "asshole". I called someone a smartass - a person who has previously called me a dumbass. You, however, I will call pedantic.
Did you expect me to paste the wikipedia entry?
Should I have considered that the laptop has ethernet simply because it's possible for a USB device to provide that capability? If that's the case, then I should I have also listed that the laptop has a 1TB drive because that is also available as a USB device. Maybe I should have written that both laptops have 50 USB ports, because I recently saw a 49 port USB hub.
I only named physical ports listed by the manufacturers and I'm getting all kinds of grief for it!
If you're trying to call a USB ethernet adapter a dongle, then OK. In that case, the Ativ has 3 ethernet ports - one with the included dongle and 2 additional via USB. If you want to include a USB hub "dongle" it can have many more.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC704ZM/A/apple-usb-ethernet-adapter
Are we really going to start calling every USB device a dongle?
I wrote about actual physical ports included with each machine. I did not include adapters because that's a ridiculous argument. Both systems can be extended with adapters - Ativ requires fewer adapters to achieve what has come to be accepted as standard functionality (multiple monitor support and wired ethernet).
Ethernet is a port, AC smartass.
bla bla bla, USB can also be HDMI, VGA, Ethernet and everything that thunderbolt offers. I don't consider anything that plugs into thunderbolt as a "dongle" but as an adapter, like any USB adapter.
Mac Air:
2xUSB 3.0, HP/Mic, SD (Air 13), Thunderbolt
Ativ:
2xUSB 3.0, micro HDMI, mini VGA, RJ45(Dongle), SD, HP/Mic
Ativ beats air by 2 video outputs and wired ethernet. Also by SD when compared to the Air 11.
So, going by the dictionary definition of the word "more", I'd have to say the the Ativ beats the Air when it comes to standard ports.
Keep telling yourself that. My turbobrick is a BAMF!
Campana T-Rex is another, and a powerful vehicle too. Last I looked, it sports a 1200cc engine.
They also didn't have OSHA
Neither does China