What's wrong with Intel? They had a great streak after that Netburst fiasco (which took some very illegal anti-competitive practices from their part to survive pretty much unscathed), but it's been several years now that they seem to be struggling with new things. AMD finally caught up with them, their new fab process didn't pan out, they've been trying to enter the smartphone business in various ways and it seems they are always failing...
I had links to the reviews and the sellers on that blog post, but it's been a while so they since moved on (changed accounts perhaps?), so I removed the obsolete links, but left the rest as these binoculars and others similar are still sold. My notes here are about the phenomenon and how Amazon doesn't deal with it, not about a specific seller out of the thousands... That's the whole problem, you can't just go after the sellers one by one after you get lots of data on them when they spring up like mushrooms, you have to deal with the issue in a systemic way. That's IF you want to deal with it...
How I miss the good ol' days when most products were from Amazon so reviews were genuine and you could just trust them... Anyway, I was a top-500 reviewer on the UK site, mainly focusing on products I know a lot about, e.g. telescopes, as reviews on technical items by people who are clueless are dangerous (the worse telescope can get a 5* review if the user manages to sort of get a glimpse of the moon with it). At some point (a couple of years ago) I noticed there were some really suspicious looking binoculars as top sellers, including multiple listings of the same tiny "30x60 night vision" binoculars that were obviously neither 30x60 nor night vision, so I took it upon myself to get and review the 3 top ones - for one of them I even signed up to a "review club" that gave them to you for free in exchange of a review. They were actually worse than I expected (e.g. one 10x50 had the body of a 50mm binocular, but just 19mm effective aperture prisms!) - you can see a blog writeup here if you are curious - so I had to leave very detailed, technical, with picture proof, but scathing reviews. Since I was a top-500 user the reviews started from the first page, but then the disappeared. I was getting mass downvoted, so I dropped in reviewer rank and the reviews themselves were not visible in the first pages. A person contacted me through my blog and send me screenshots of facebook discussions with a seller who had a big FB group with people getting stuff for reviews, who was asking for all their groupies to downvote my reviews, calling me various names. A seller (the same or not, I don't remember) also wrote me and told me I was reported to Amazon for malicious slander and they wrote comments under my reviews that I was an unscrupulous competitor, owner of "Agena Astro". That last one is sort of funny, as Agena Astro is a huge and very respected US astronomical retailer which I, sadly, do not own:) (or have any relation to). Anyway, I contacted Amazon, sent them all that stuff including images of the whistleblower, they did jack. Not even restore my reviews or reviewer ranking, never mind punishing those organized sellers & reviewers. I mean Amazon has GREAT support if you are a customer in general (they have helped me even with badly behaving manufacturers - call me Samsung), but I was kind of appalled at how they did not care about this thing going on.
I can't say I am in any sort of panic right now. And what do you mean "fatally hacked"? You can only fatally hack an android or at least someone with a pacemaker...
That's a weird thing to say, I'm in the UK and the Perl job market is very competitive. Decent perl devs get snapped up immediately. My company had to offer about 20% more than we'd offer to a swift/obj-c dev of similar experience to lure our latest hire... But I am pretty sure no Perl dev would be filling out a stack overflow questionnaire.
Don't be a smart-ass, it says "Amazon Web Services" is part of Amazon. Unlike dozens of unrelated companies with "Amazon" in their name (the UK-only search returns ~400, like Amazon Tech, Amazon Cars, Amazon Enterprise etc).
Weird, I thought Oracle would tick all of government's boxes. I mean, I thought potential for unthinkably ballooning costs is what usually gets you government contracts?
They generally show us the way, the don't actually "teach us". Hey, planet of the apes is cool, let's do that! Hey, president Camacho is cool, if we can't get Terry Crews right now, let's start with Trump!
Although the for profit prison system is completely bonkers, you should start from lobbying itself. In Europe we call it bribery and it is part of the usual corruption that does exist virtually everywhere (it's politicians we are talking about), in various amounts depending on the country and now and then gets exposed, as there is at least some agents actively fighting against it. In America instead of trying to combat such corruption, they simply institutionalized it and gave it a nice name. As long as you declare your bribes, they are not illegal! Brilliant!
Why is the MCAS needed now? I understand it was there to avoid pilot training, but we are way passed that. If it can cause issues and you have to turn it off at times why not just remove it and let the pilots do what they are supposed to and push the nose down themselves of they have to. Of it can stall way too easily and pilots are not enough then still it would mean you have to discontinue the plane not enable MCAS.
I'm born in 1952 and when I was drafted (1970) the average height of my age was 6'2"... (I'm from the Netherlands) Still weird because in my youth I was always told about these tall US soldiers that in 1945 came to liberate us.
You are quite off, I suspect you did a conversion error: 6'2" is 1.87 cm, when the average height of Dutch men in 1970 was about 1.76 (5'9" - 5'10"). The average height of the Dutch men has been increasing steadily and fast until around 2000, slower now but it is at its highest ever at 1.84m (just over 6ft). They started as the shortest men in the late 19th century (1.60 average), but I cannot find a 1940s figure to quote. US men on the other hand seems to have pretty much plateaued in height around 1970 and they were considered among the tallest in the world the further back you go in time. In 1943 specifically the average height of US recruits was 174cm. As I can't tell how that graph goes from the late 19th century's 160cm to the 1970 176cm, I am not sure if the US soldiers would be noticeably taller during WW 2. But I suspect the difference might have been more "psychological" rather than physical.
So, the FAA previously left the MCAS certification (along with other systems) to Boeing engineers. Is this how the "fix" is going to go through again? Normally they should go back and have FAA engineers redo the certification of every 737 Max system that might affect safety. But that would take years and FAA/Boeing wouldn't like that, would they;)
And all the above is without talking about what is the major cause of concern: software trying to compensate for the hardware design shortcomings an airplane... We could put these new engines on that 50+ year old frame that safely, but, don't worry, some software will take care of it... Only that software will have to turn off if there are issues with the sensors... What do you mean "how is turning off a safety feature safe"? Are you a commie or something?
Are you serious? "all the way back to iOS 11"? Dude, iOS 11 is barely 1.5 year old! I do my best to support actually old versions with my apps (for amateur astronomers) - I was able to support iOS 6 until last summer (Apple stopped allowing it), new versions of my apps support as far back as iOS 7, which is not easy if you want to fully support new devices as well, but there are ways to do it. I do get some thank you messages from iOS 7 or iOS 9 users (mainly people with devices such as iPhone 4S, iPad 2 who can't update), so I think that's worth the effort. Sure, I could go for the majority of users, if I limited to iOS 11 I'd get almost 90% of users and make it much easier for me, but I care about all of my users and try to serve as many as I can. Their devices are perfectly fine, why should they be excluded from new software?
That is factually incorrect. The MCAS system was not in the manual at all, nor were checklists for it. They went through a checklist for a DIFFERENT PROBLEM, a runaway stabilizer, that is a bit different in that it does not modify your stabilizer angle in the sort of pulses MCAS does, and many pilots would not confuse the runaway stabilizer with what was actually happening. It was luck that they went through a checklist for a problem they did not have, but that checklist also was applicable to their problem - which they could not possibly diagnose not being trained for it and not having it appear in any manuals.
Ok, maybe I am too tired, got back from work, but I don't understand anything on that post. The highlights I got: - Not many programs handle animated gifs. Who cares? OK, those who care could use PSP or something? - There some sort of annoying window movement when dragging a photo from a web browser to Photoshop? What??? - Photoshop does not support OS X full screen mode. Okayyy, hadn't actually noticed that, as I actually don't do serious work on the laptop display and full screen works really bad on a 3 monitor setup. Maybe it is a feature some people would like? Definitely not the major issue with Photoshop.
And all these inane points suggest "Photoshop is to 'powerful' for it's own good"? How? Why?
Dear god, is our post quality going to reduce even more?
A turd responsible for over 1/3rd if the top sites... brilliant. I wanted to make a blog at some point and was told that Wordpress is the most popular thing out there by far, so it would be easy to support, 1-click installed by my host etc. I didn't give it another thought, I mean, how bad could it be? So it took me a while to realize just how bad and how slow it is exactly. It was clearly developed by people who had no idea about... well anything, really. Mindboggling how it caught on so much.
Eh, Manchester (UK) kids are protesting by blocking the trams, one of the friendliest to the environment mode of transportation available for the city. If they don't realize the stupidity of that now, they sure won't in the future by missing more school...
From what I read, because they used the 737 frame but moved the engines, stalling is easier, so they NEED something like the MCAS. Just turning it off is not an option. I am a software engineer, so when I read that in order to cover for an aeronautics engineering flaw of the aircraft they turned to software, I shuddered...
That linked article has a video that is not available in the UK - and other places I imagine. Here is one that works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . It is cropped to pass youtube's flagging, so not the best (post if there's a better one), but if you want to see what the post is about it will serve...
I only go to the cinema when I know what it is and I think that there's a decent chance I would like it. Trailers sometimes help me decide, this one just perplexed me.
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What's wrong with Intel? They had a great streak after that Netburst fiasco (which took some very illegal anti-competitive practices from their part to survive pretty much unscathed), but it's been several years now that they seem to be struggling with new things. AMD finally caught up with them, their new fab process didn't pan out, they've been trying to enter the smartphone business in various ways and it seems they are always failing...
I had links to the reviews and the sellers on that blog post, but it's been a while so they since moved on (changed accounts perhaps?), so I removed the obsolete links, but left the rest as these binoculars and others similar are still sold.
My notes here are about the phenomenon and how Amazon doesn't deal with it, not about a specific seller out of the thousands... That's the whole problem, you can't just go after the sellers one by one after you get lots of data on them when they spring up like mushrooms, you have to deal with the issue in a systemic way. That's IF you want to deal with it...
How I miss the good ol' days when most products were from Amazon so reviews were genuine and you could just trust them... :) (or have any relation to).
Anyway, I was a top-500 reviewer on the UK site, mainly focusing on products I know a lot about, e.g. telescopes, as reviews on technical items by people who are clueless are dangerous (the worse telescope can get a 5* review if the user manages to sort of get a glimpse of the moon with it). At some point (a couple of years ago) I noticed there were some really suspicious looking binoculars as top sellers, including multiple listings of the same tiny "30x60 night vision" binoculars that were obviously neither 30x60 nor night vision, so I took it upon myself to get and review the 3 top ones - for one of them I even signed up to a "review club" that gave them to you for free in exchange of a review. They were actually worse than I expected (e.g. one 10x50 had the body of a 50mm binocular, but just 19mm effective aperture prisms!) - you can see a blog writeup here if you are curious - so I had to leave very detailed, technical, with picture proof, but scathing reviews. Since I was a top-500 user the reviews started from the first page, but then the disappeared. I was getting mass downvoted, so I dropped in reviewer rank and the reviews themselves were not visible in the first pages. A person contacted me through my blog and send me screenshots of facebook discussions with a seller who had a big FB group with people getting stuff for reviews, who was asking for all their groupies to downvote my reviews, calling me various names. A seller (the same or not, I don't remember) also wrote me and told me I was reported to Amazon for malicious slander and they wrote comments under my reviews that I was an unscrupulous competitor, owner of "Agena Astro". That last one is sort of funny, as Agena Astro is a huge and very respected US astronomical retailer which I, sadly, do not own
Anyway, I contacted Amazon, sent them all that stuff including images of the whistleblower, they did jack. Not even restore my reviews or reviewer ranking, never mind punishing those organized sellers & reviewers. I mean Amazon has GREAT support if you are a customer in general (they have helped me even with badly behaving manufacturers - call me Samsung), but I was kind of appalled at how they did not care about this thing going on.
I can't say I am in any sort of panic right now. And what do you mean "fatally hacked"? You can only fatally hack an android or at least someone with a pacemaker...
Wait, who did?
That's a weird thing to say, I'm in the UK and the Perl job market is very competitive. Decent perl devs get snapped up immediately. My company had to offer about 20% more than we'd offer to a swift/obj-c dev of similar experience to lure our latest hire...
But I am pretty sure no Perl dev would be filling out a stack overflow questionnaire.
No idea about this 'PHEV', but I have to say, I like trucking!
Don't be a smart-ass, it says "Amazon Web Services" is part of Amazon. Unlike dozens of unrelated companies with "Amazon" in their name (the UK-only search returns ~400, like Amazon Tech, Amazon Cars, Amazon Enterprise etc).
Weird, I thought Oracle would tick all of government's boxes. I mean, I thought potential for unthinkably ballooning costs is what usually gets you government contracts?
They generally show us the way, the don't actually "teach us". Hey, planet of the apes is cool, let's do that! Hey, president Camacho is cool, if we can't get Terry Crews right now, let's start with Trump!
It wasn't me! Some impostor using my slashdot handle!
Although the for profit prison system is completely bonkers, you should start from lobbying itself. In Europe we call it bribery and it is part of the usual corruption that does exist virtually everywhere (it's politicians we are talking about), in various amounts depending on the country and now and then gets exposed, as there is at least some agents actively fighting against it. In America instead of trying to combat such corruption, they simply institutionalized it and gave it a nice name. As long as you declare your bribes, they are not illegal! Brilliant!
Why is the MCAS needed now? I understand it was there to avoid pilot training, but we are way passed that.
If it can cause issues and you have to turn it off at times why not just remove it and let the pilots do what they are supposed to and push the nose down themselves of they have to.
Of it can stall way too easily and pilots are not enough then still it would mean you have to discontinue the plane not enable MCAS.
I'm born in 1952 and when I was drafted (1970) the average height of my age was 6'2"...
(I'm from the Netherlands)
Still weird because in my youth I was always told about these tall US soldiers that in 1945 came to liberate us.
You are quite off, I suspect you did a conversion error: 6'2" is 1.87 cm, when the average height of Dutch men in 1970 was about 1.76 (5'9" - 5'10"). The average height of the Dutch men has been increasing steadily and fast until around 2000, slower now but it is at its highest ever at 1.84m (just over 6ft). They started as the shortest men in the late 19th century (1.60 average), but I cannot find a 1940s figure to quote.
US men on the other hand seems to have pretty much plateaued in height around 1970 and they were considered among the tallest in the world the further back you go in time. In 1943 specifically the average height of US recruits was 174cm. As I can't tell how that graph goes from the late 19th century's 160cm to the 1970 176cm, I am not sure if the US soldiers would be noticeably taller during WW 2. But I suspect the difference might have been more "psychological" rather than physical.
So, the FAA previously left the MCAS certification (along with other systems) to Boeing engineers. Is this how the "fix" is going to go through again? Normally they should go back and have FAA engineers redo the certification of every 737 Max system that might affect safety. ;)
But that would take years and FAA/Boeing wouldn't like that, would they
And all the above is without talking about what is the major cause of concern: software trying to compensate for the hardware design shortcomings an airplane... We could put these new engines on that 50+ year old frame that safely, but, don't worry, some software will take care of it... Only that software will have to turn off if there are issues with the sensors... What do you mean "how is turning off a safety feature safe"? Are you a commie or something?
Are you serious? "all the way back to iOS 11"? Dude, iOS 11 is barely 1.5 year old!
I do my best to support actually old versions with my apps (for amateur astronomers) - I was able to support iOS 6 until last summer (Apple stopped allowing it), new versions of my apps support as far back as iOS 7, which is not easy if you want to fully support new devices as well, but there are ways to do it. I do get some thank you messages from iOS 7 or iOS 9 users (mainly people with devices such as iPhone 4S, iPad 2 who can't update), so I think that's worth the effort.
Sure, I could go for the majority of users, if I limited to iOS 11 I'd get almost 90% of users and make it much easier for me, but I care about all of my users and try to serve as many as I can. Their devices are perfectly fine, why should they be excluded from new software?
That is factually incorrect. The MCAS system was not in the manual at all, nor were checklists for it.
They went through a checklist for a DIFFERENT PROBLEM, a runaway stabilizer, that is a bit different in that it does not modify your stabilizer angle in the sort of pulses MCAS does, and many pilots would not confuse the runaway stabilizer with what was actually happening. It was luck that they went through a checklist for a problem they did not have, but that checklist also was applicable to their problem - which they could not possibly diagnose not being trained for it and not having it appear in any manuals.
Ok, maybe I am too tired, got back from work, but I don't understand anything on that post. The highlights I got:
- Not many programs handle animated gifs. Who cares? OK, those who care could use PSP or something?
- There some sort of annoying window movement when dragging a photo from a web browser to Photoshop? What???
- Photoshop does not support OS X full screen mode. Okayyy, hadn't actually noticed that, as I actually don't do serious work on the laptop display and full screen works really bad on a 3 monitor setup. Maybe it is a feature some people would like? Definitely not the major issue with Photoshop.
And all these inane points suggest "Photoshop is to 'powerful' for it's own good"? How? Why?
Dear god, is our post quality going to reduce even more?
A turd responsible for over 1/3rd if the top sites... brilliant.
I wanted to make a blog at some point and was told that Wordpress is the most popular thing out there by far, so it would be easy to support, 1-click installed by my host etc. I didn't give it another thought, I mean, how bad could it be?
So it took me a while to realize just how bad and how slow it is exactly. It was clearly developed by people who had no idea about... well anything, really. Mindboggling how it caught on so much.
Eh, Manchester (UK) kids are protesting by blocking the trams, one of the friendliest to the environment mode of transportation available for the city. If they don't realize the stupidity of that now, they sure won't in the future by missing more school...
Facebook + Cryptocurrency, yes, that is exactly what the world needs!
From what I read, because they used the 737 frame but moved the engines, stalling is easier, so they NEED something like the MCAS. Just turning it off is not an option. I am a software engineer, so when I read that in order to cover for an aeronautics engineering flaw of the aircraft they turned to software, I shuddered...
My bad, it is an old episode. Who would have thought, you can't trust people on the internet! :D
That linked article has a video that is not available in the UK - and other places I imagine. Here is one that works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . It is cropped to pass youtube's flagging, so not the best (post if there's a better one), but if you want to see what the post is about it will serve...
I only go to the cinema when I know what it is and I think that there's a decent chance I would like it. Trailers sometimes help me decide, this one just perplexed me.