Their non web based things and products such as Android and Chrome seem to work well enough, but about all the web pages they have are.. uuh.. not good.
Basically their web based systems seem to be mostly programmed by random people from the street. Or maybe it is just that they move all the incompetent people from the other parts of their companies there.
>>Two of the biggest reductions in CO2 emissions have come from LED lights and shale gas. Both of these industries were developed by profit seeking capitalists, and have been widely adopted because they actually make economic sense.
Yes, but no on LED lights.
The big driver for pushing the LED light development was EU regulation. Before that there was not much of a market for them, so the development was slow.
But suddenly the companies saw that in few years there would be people who were forced to buy alternatives to traditional light bulbs in the huge market that is EU. So being capitalists they decided that pouring money into the development would be a good idea.
Thus indeed it was private companies that did the development and the development was driven by profit motive. But the reason why the market suddenly existed was (upcoming) regulation.
Then when the development was far enough, it actually started to make sense also in other parts of the world to use LED lights.
It is a very common and well known problem. The traditional method for many finger print readers was to blow gently on it so that the heat sensor thinks there is a finger and reads the greasy residual fingerprint.
As the privacy controls on iOS are better than Android(though the difference is a lot less than it used to be) and Facebook does not seem to like such things.
>There isn't any amount of coding skill that can defend against a glitch like that.
Actually there is a fairly simple solution. Though it is not about coding skill is is about understanding the problem.
If you data can is some cases be modified you need to sign it using digital signature methods, and if the signature is not correct you refuse to use the data.
Of course the "smart" cards of the era were nothing of the sort and wider understanding of digital signing is from a later era so not really a realistic/likely solution for the programmers back then, but is has to do with other knowledge, not coding skill.
If you have a lifting body design with lower acceleration than 1 g but high delta-v, you could theoretically accelerate in the upper atmosphere until you get the orbit velocity.
Basically as long as your lifting body keeps you up you do not need to devote any of your thrust to overcoming gravity, and instead you use to it to build up speed and when you have finally enough speed you go for orbit, at that point the earths gravity will slow you down as you do not have enough thrust, but if your speed was high enough, you will still have enough to orbit.
This does require you to have enough acceleration to overcome the drag of the atmosphere at that huge speed though. Of course you could go higher in the atmosphere to lower the drag, but it is not a trivial engineering problem both in terms of aerodynamics and heat management.
That is the sad truth about current Windows, while quite many things have become better, a lot has become worse. The file manager is hardly the worst culprit, but is definitely among the many things they have borked.
Well, as example one of our customers has following servers in their server room doing variety of tasks:
-One is brand new and is the primary server running a bunch of virtual machines. -A second is the four or five year old server that it replaced and is retained as backup to run the virtual machines if needed. -The main production management system has 2 servers (main and backup), both were bought in 2007/2008. (so approx 10 years). -There is the exchange server from about 2011(so about 7 years). Will be removed this summer so one less old server after that. -There is the warehouse system that was migrated to a new server about 2005. It requires a dongle placed on a parallel port and a NT 3.51 driver, that luckily apparently works in server 2003 at least. -There is the telephony server from about 2011 or 2012.
That customer is the most obvious such, but there is a surprising number of old servers here and there, though more and more of them are being replaced by cloud solutions or moved into virtual machines.
The main servers are often fairly new, but there is a surprising number of special servers doing some specific thing that were bought at one time and never updated, that could usually be migrated to virtual machines but many customers are reluctant to do anything on a system that works.
Looking at a few customers documentation there is quite often at least one server running something like windows server 2003 in the original server it was installed on.
Except users do not really care in the real life. "The website is broken" is their reaction and they go elsewhere.
In the ideal world we browsers would be standard compliant, in a slightly less ideal but good world user would blame the browser and either use another or report the but to them, but in the real world that is not the case.
Well, in a way yes: Our QA actually does debugging. Not really because they were originally intended to do that, but because we happened to get a couple of good people for the role.
Since it seems to work well, we have made it policy and got a third QA person with the skills to do that too instead of another developer.
You do have to remember that things like logic rarely have a lot to do with such decisions.
Basically, yes, controlling the telecom equipment is indeed more dangerous than actual phones as each such thing impacts large number of users and a single smartphone much less.
But basically most smartphones are very un-secure devices where no one really knows what all software modules are in them.
I do not know generally, but that is true at least in Finland.
Finland is a fairly small, fairly prosperous country, with fairly small income inequality that has public tax information, so you can go look up anyone's income for the previous year.
But to see the information you have to go in person to tax office where they have computers where you can search for such, but cannot save the information. You are however allowed to make own notes of it. The idea there being to not allow automatic searches of everything. But going there and looking up your co-workers information is easy and fast enough if you are going to negotiate your salary.
Personally I think that the public information has played a part in lowering inequality.
that as some ort of socialism, but so few people see municipal roads as such. Yet both are there for a similar reason when market forces just do not work...
Well, strange enough some travelers actually make sure they have more than one card from more than one company...
Well and having some Euros along as you suggest is a good thing too, but cumbersome to pay with as you need to first usually convert them to local currency whereas cards work directly.
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Their non web based things and products such as Android and Chrome seem to work well enough, but about all the web pages they have are.. uuh.. not good.
Basically their web based systems seem to be mostly programmed by random people from the street. Or maybe it is just that they move all the incompetent people from the other parts of their companies there.
There is a mode for that too:
https://github.com/ryanprior/e...
and very appropriately when posting this I got the error:
"ameness filter encountered. Post aborted!"
I mean the default for chrome for android is that Google will read everything you browse?
>>Two of the biggest reductions in CO2 emissions have come from LED lights and shale gas. Both of these industries were developed by profit seeking capitalists, and have been widely adopted because they actually make economic sense.
Yes, but no on LED lights.
The big driver for pushing the LED light development was EU regulation. Before that there was not much of a market for them, so the development was slow.
But suddenly the companies saw that in few years there would be people who were forced to buy alternatives to traditional light bulbs in the huge market that is EU. So being capitalists they decided that pouring money into the development would be a good idea.
Thus indeed it was private companies that did the development and the development was driven by profit motive. But the reason why the market suddenly existed was (upcoming) regulation.
Then when the development was far enough, it actually started to make sense also in other parts of the world to use LED lights.
Indeed.
It is a very common and well known problem. The traditional method for many finger print readers was to blow gently on it so that the heat sensor thinks there is a finger and reads the greasy residual fingerprint.
There are two major reasons for "the average user" to chose Android devices over iOS devices.
1) Price. In many parts of the world even the basic iPhone is way too expensive to most people, but the budget Android devices are much more possible.
2) Choice of devices. With so many manufacturers doing so many different types of Android phones there is obviously a lot more choice in what to pick.
In US, the first option affects less people, though obviously still many people, but the second option is definitely a valid effect in US too.
As the privacy controls on iOS are better than Android(though the difference is a lot less than it used to be) and Facebook does not seem to like such things.
>There isn't any amount of coding skill that can defend against a glitch like that.
Actually there is a fairly simple solution. Though it is not about coding skill is is about understanding the problem.
If you data can is some cases be modified you need to sign it using digital signature methods, and if the signature is not correct you refuse to use the data.
Of course the "smart" cards of the era were nothing of the sort and wider understanding of digital signing is from a later era so not really a realistic/likely solution for the programmers back then, but is has to do with other knowledge, not coding skill.
That is not the only way.
If you have a lifting body design with lower acceleration than 1 g but high delta-v, you could theoretically accelerate in the upper atmosphere until you get the orbit velocity.
Basically as long as your lifting body keeps you up you do not need to devote any of your thrust to overcoming gravity, and instead you use to it to build up speed and when you have finally enough speed you go for orbit, at that point the earths gravity will slow you down as you do not have enough thrust, but if your speed was high enough, you will still have enough to orbit.
This does require you to have enough acceleration to overcome the drag of the atmosphere at that huge speed though. Of course you could go higher in the atmosphere to lower the drag, but it is not a trivial engineering problem both in terms of aerodynamics and heat management.
Given their fairly low homelessness rate (about 1/3 of US) that is not such a pressing need as it would be in some other places.
That is the sad truth about current Windows, while quite many things have become better, a lot has become worse. The file manager is hardly the worst culprit, but is definitely among the many things they have borked.
Well, as example one of our customers has following servers in their server room doing variety of tasks:
-One is brand new and is the primary server running a bunch of virtual machines.
-A second is the four or five year old server that it replaced and is retained as backup to run the virtual machines if needed.
-The main production management system has 2 servers (main and backup), both were bought in 2007/2008. (so approx 10 years).
-There is the exchange server from about 2011(so about 7 years). Will be removed this summer so one less old server after that.
-There is the warehouse system that was migrated to a new server about 2005. It requires a dongle placed on a parallel port and a NT 3.51 driver, that luckily apparently works in server 2003 at least.
-There is the telephony server from about 2011 or 2012.
That customer is the most obvious such, but there is a surprising number of old servers here and there, though more and more of them are being replaced by cloud solutions or moved into virtual machines.
The main servers are often fairly new, but there is a surprising number of special servers doing some specific thing that were bought at one time and never updated, that could usually be migrated to virtual machines but many customers are reluctant to do anything on a system that works.
Looking at a few customers documentation there is quite often at least one server running something like windows server 2003 in the original server it was installed on.
Except users do not really care in the real life. "The website is broken" is their reaction and they go elsewhere.
In the ideal world we browsers would be standard compliant, in a slightly less ideal but good world user would blame the browser and either use another or report the but to them, but in the real world that is not the case.
Well, in a way yes:
Our QA actually does debugging. Not really because they were originally intended to do that, but because we happened to get a couple of good people for the role.
Since it seems to work well, we have made it policy and got a third QA person with the skills to do that too instead of another developer.
That is open source for you: Either you use what other make, you convince others to make it or you make/modify it yourself.
>The worst thing Samsung will do is turn your porn into K-Pop videos.
But think of the mental health issues, that would surely overwhelm the entire medical system of the nation.
You do have to remember that things like logic rarely have a lot to do with such decisions.
Basically, yes, controlling the telecom equipment is indeed more dangerous than actual phones as each such thing impacts large number of users and a single smartphone much less.
But basically most smartphones are very un-secure devices where no one really knows what all software modules are in them.
I do not know generally, but that is true at least in Finland.
Finland is a fairly small, fairly prosperous country, with fairly small income inequality that has public tax information, so you can go look up anyone's income for the previous year.
But to see the information you have to go in person to tax office where they have computers where you can search for such, but cannot save the information. You are however allowed to make own notes of it. The idea there being to not allow automatic searches of everything. But going there and looking up your co-workers information is easy and fast enough if you are going to negotiate your salary.
Personally I think that the public information has played a part in lowering inequality.
Of course it is mandatory, have you not read third paragraph in point 314.159 in the user agreement in the newer iPhones?
"Furthermore, you affirm that you are a member of the cult of Apple, or will agree to become a member withing two(2) weeks from this date and..."
Sheesh, do people no longer read all 500 page EULAs throughout and follow them to the letter?
that as some ort of socialism, but so few people see municipal roads as such. Yet both are there for a similar reason when market forces just do not work...
of Tesla compared to companies like say BMW, that actually sells more electric cars, makes a profit on them and such...
So for Tesla stock value at least Elon Musk has been great.
The do no evil policy was ditched a long time ago.
I guess Linus was right again.
Well, strange enough some travelers actually make sure they have more than one card from more than one company...
Well and having some Euros along as you suggest is a good thing too, but cumbersome to pay with as you need to first usually convert them to local currency whereas cards work directly.