I had an Acer Aspire One 10" as well (windows 7). Toshiba drive crashed within a year. 1080p would freeze up after 10 seconds and it would shutdown from overheating if you did two things at once (It was definitely not useful for any programming), especially while charging. Actually, it crashed several times from overheating when Windows 7 was setting up the first time I turned it on. After the crash, put an SSD in there and installed linux; went much better. Still, 1080p (and even 720p) were still a no go and programming was still pretty much a no go as well.
If you have to add 2x4 GB DIMMS (at the time probably a 70-100$ upgrade 5-6 years ago) and a > 100$ small SSD (5 yrs ago) to make it usable, could have gone indeed for a low-end laptop.
Because they're going to lower the price of electricity if they can cut jobs, right? Wrong! they'll just increase their profit!
You know what happens when everyone starts consuming less electricity due to solar power, smart meters, led screens, led lighting, energy-saving dish-washers and washing machines? They just raise the price of electricity. This has been happening here (Belgium) for years now. They just disguise this under "environmental friendly measures" to teach people to be more "ecology minded". But if everyone consumes 20% less, prices are not going to drop 20%. They still need to make money, so they'll raise them instead.
I checked out that Euler site to see what type of problems there were and I'd like to see the average 14 year using tricks to solve geometric progressions and such, which was clearly something that was necessary on the first random problem I looked at.
bought an old HP EliteBook, i7, 8 GB ram with SSD a couple of years ago (was around 200$ as well) and installed Ubuntu.
Still runs great, no plans to switch just yet.
PewDiePie only has to support one person: himself. His investment to do his thing is a good camera, a good mic, a good gaming rig and that's it. And at this stage he probably gets paid plenty to endorse certain products. To shoot a movie, you need a much bigger investment, hundreds of people and experts with different trades, secure locations and studios, soundtracks, a distribution network etc....
They actually do care in sectors like healthcare where information is heavily protected by law through HIPAA and it definitely is everyone's concern.
Fines are high and the damage to the business may be even higher. Stocks go down. Partners don't trust you anymore with their data.
You bet the C-suite is concerned if a breach means their 50 million $ worth of stock just dropped by 50%.
Take the deployment of Police resources. They try to predict in what area crimes are more likely to happen at a time in point. Area has higher crime rate, police forces are deployed in the area. Result: even more crimes recorded in that area.
Model says people are not the right candidate to get the job. Result: you don't get the job and other people who look good to the model get the job. Again, more data that "proves" those people should not get that job and the other people do.
Kodi is just media player software. Every TV now has a build-in media player and internet access. Okay, maybe not those 'illegal' streaming plug-ins, but they all have browsers where you can access the same content. I mean, do these built-in TV media-players really expect all those.mp4 and.mkv files they play to be "legally" obtained? They know damn well the origin of most of that content is shady at best, yet they enable it.
I think there is more behind this story and it's probably more tax than copyright related. They are making hundreds of thousands in a parallel market without paying taxes. That's the real crime here.
true. It's not like water evaporated from the moon "while cooling". How would the water beat the gravity of the moon? It must have escaped before the moon was formed.
Right. I've seen talks of a firm using AI and ML to trade on Forex and they definitely have a kill-switch for big events. The AI and ML works well on every-day trading but not one-in-four year events like elections.
This. I've also heard the argument of buying the high-end mac because that's the best value for money period.
If you went for the 27" iMac 1 to 2 years ago, you'd have a monitor that is basically worth 1,000$ compared to the competition 27" 4k's out there (27" 4k monitor prices of last year). So for the 1,000$ left of the price of the 27" iMac you'd have top-end hardware in there. Plus you get the great design look of the iMac. Great value for money.
They still do it in Rogue One (and pretty much every action movie). All the battles and shoot-outs are filmed handy-cam style with maybe 1 or 2 second shots, because if you keep that fixed it will probably look a bit corny with stormtroopers and other characters in heavy costumes logging about.
Loved the movie, btw!
Francois Mitterand, former French president was also diagnosed early on with prostate cancer, but they kept this a secret for obvious political reasons. Every time he had to go abroad, they made sure not to throw any of the medication packages in the trash can, since they know it would be searched. I don't know if they went as far as making him poop or pee in another bathroom or porta-potty though.
Back in the 90s I was in college and the CS department implemented some mailing-lists per course and one for the whole department (this was on a Unix server). Someone was smart enough to subscribe the mailing-list to itself (and they didn't saw it coming). He successfully mail bombed all the accounts in the department and crashed the server:). Evidently the CS department was not amused, proclaiming they would certainly find the prankster but back in those days you could just probably have done this by telnet-ting the smtp server so nope...
Another classic in big companies (and has happened several times at one I worked for) is people trying to send an e-mail to a department in the company like HR, finding a list named something like "HR_Dallas" in the global address listing not knowing this is not the HR Dallas department but rather the list that sends an e-mail to all Dallas employees. Yep, you just send your private confidential mail to all the employees:-)
Calling Hilary "Leftist" is pretty ridiculous though. Maybe she is leftist in the seriously "rightist" biased US; but she is definitely at least "moderate-right" to just plain "right" from a European POV.
Which still leaves out standpoints on abortion and gay marriage, which in most European countries are well agreed upon by the "regular" right and left. Only religious conservative parties are really against it. So these are not typical "left is pro" and "right is contra" topics. Both left and right are pro, just the religious and very conservative are contra.
True. I remember a girl who went to a catholic private school (Belgium), and they were told on regular basis that they were the elite because this was an elite school and such. Of course that was pure bs, since the course curriculum is the same in every school. If you take advanced math and science, you will get advanced math and science regardless of being in a public or catholic school. It's just the entitlement that's different.
On many of the computers, like the C64, you actually had to type in commands to load files and games from disk and cassette. This was done directly in BASIC. So you were simply not able to ignore it. And most people didn't go further than 10 PRINT "HELLO", but when kids got together some would just show some skills and the other kids simply wanted to learn it as well.
Now, even if there are programming languages packaged on your computer, you still need to specifically use that program.
Personally I find the discussion a bit ridiculous. Most programming languages can be learned online and have online interpreters. You don't need to package it at all. Just by googling I found one for BASIC, Javascript, Python, Java, Ruby, etc... where I just had to start programming on the website immediately.
I'm not really knowledgeable in the subject, but I wonder if it's even possible at all. Isn't a blockchain exactly there to not be tampered with? Isn't it a distributed system? So "editing" a former block would require you to "edit" it in all distributed systems, changing the hash, and would require all following blocks to be re-edited and re-hashed as well.
30k/yr is the price of an outsourced Indian software developer though. That's exactly the price quoted by our Executive VP.
And replacing a local 100k developer with an outsourced 30k one is much faster than fishing for H1Bs.
Let's jump into a black hole so we can float inside the time-bee-hive that opens a window to the daughter's childhood room!
Yes, that movie was actually great with a "Oh Hell No! WTF ?!" ending.
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I had an Acer Aspire One 10" as well (windows 7). Toshiba drive crashed within a year. 1080p would freeze up after 10 seconds and it would shutdown from overheating if you did two things at once (It was definitely not useful for any programming), especially while charging. Actually, it crashed several times from overheating when Windows 7 was setting up the first time I turned it on. After the crash, put an SSD in there and installed linux; went much better. Still, 1080p (and even 720p) were still a no go and programming was still pretty much a no go as well.
If you have to add 2x4 GB DIMMS (at the time probably a 70-100$ upgrade 5-6 years ago) and a > 100$ small SSD (5 yrs ago) to make it usable, could have gone indeed for a low-end laptop.
Because they're going to lower the price of electricity if they can cut jobs, right? Wrong! they'll just increase their profit!
You know what happens when everyone starts consuming less electricity due to solar power, smart meters, led screens, led lighting, energy-saving dish-washers and washing machines? They just raise the price of electricity. This has been happening here (Belgium) for years now. They just disguise this under "environmental friendly measures" to teach people to be more "ecology minded". But if everyone consumes 20% less, prices are not going to drop 20%. They still need to make money, so they'll raise them instead.
I checked out that Euler site to see what type of problems there were and I'd like to see the average 14 year using tricks to solve geometric progressions and such, which was clearly something that was necessary on the first random problem I looked at.
bought an old HP EliteBook, i7, 8 GB ram with SSD a couple of years ago (was around 200$ as well) and installed Ubuntu.
Still runs great, no plans to switch just yet.
70% are pirates and 30% watches and borrows movies from a friend.
PewDiePie only has to support one person: himself. His investment to do his thing is a good camera, a good mic, a good gaming rig and that's it. And at this stage he probably gets paid plenty to endorse certain products. To shoot a movie, you need a much bigger investment, hundreds of people and experts with different trades, secure locations and studios, soundtracks, a distribution network etc ....
They sharded with replication factor 3, nothing can go wrong !!!
They actually do care in sectors like healthcare where information is heavily protected by law through HIPAA and it definitely is everyone's concern.
Fines are high and the damage to the business may be even higher. Stocks go down. Partners don't trust you anymore with their data.
You bet the C-suite is concerned if a breach means their 50 million $ worth of stock just dropped by 50%.
Take the deployment of Police resources. They try to predict in what area crimes are more likely to happen at a time in point. Area has higher crime rate, police forces are deployed in the area. Result: even more crimes recorded in that area.
Model says people are not the right candidate to get the job. Result: you don't get the job and other people who look good to the model get the job. Again, more data that "proves" those people should not get that job and the other people do.
back in 95 Slackware was the 'easy' distribution :-)
Kodi is just media player software. Every TV now has a build-in media player and internet access. Okay, maybe not those 'illegal' streaming plug-ins, but they all have browsers where you can access the same content. I mean, do these built-in TV media-players really expect all those .mp4 and .mkv files they play to be "legally" obtained? They know damn well the origin of most of that content is shady at best, yet they enable it.
I think there is more behind this story and it's probably more tax than copyright related. They are making hundreds of thousands in a parallel market without paying taxes. That's the real crime here.
true. It's not like water evaporated from the moon "while cooling". How would the water beat the gravity of the moon? It must have escaped before the moon was formed.
Right. I've seen talks of a firm using AI and ML to trade on Forex and they definitely have a kill-switch for big events. The AI and ML works well on every-day trading but not one-in-four year events like elections.
This. I've also heard the argument of buying the high-end mac because that's the best value for money period.
If you went for the 27" iMac 1 to 2 years ago, you'd have a monitor that is basically worth 1,000$ compared to the competition 27" 4k's out there (27" 4k monitor prices of last year). So for the 1,000$ left of the price of the 27" iMac you'd have top-end hardware in there. Plus you get the great design look of the iMac. Great value for money.
right. That's why no one trades on the Forex ... or do they?
They still do it in Rogue One (and pretty much every action movie). All the battles and shoot-outs are filmed handy-cam style with maybe 1 or 2 second shots, because if you keep that fixed it will probably look a bit corny with stormtroopers and other characters in heavy costumes logging about.
Loved the movie, btw!
Francois Mitterand, former French president was also diagnosed early on with prostate cancer, but they kept this a secret for obvious political reasons. Every time he had to go abroad, they made sure not to throw any of the medication packages in the trash can, since they know it would be searched. I don't know if they went as far as making him poop or pee in another bathroom or porta-potty though.
Back in the 90s I was in college and the CS department implemented some mailing-lists per course and one for the whole department (this was on a Unix server). Someone was smart enough to subscribe the mailing-list to itself (and they didn't saw it coming). He successfully mail bombed all the accounts in the department and crashed the server :). Evidently the CS department was not amused, proclaiming they would certainly find the prankster but back in those days you could just probably have done this by telnet-ting the smtp server so nope ...
:-)
Another classic in big companies (and has happened several times at one I worked for) is people trying to send an e-mail to a department in the company like HR, finding a list named something like "HR_Dallas" in the global address listing not knowing this is not the HR Dallas department but rather the list that sends an e-mail to all Dallas employees. Yep, you just send your private confidential mail to all the employees
Calling Hilary "Leftist" is pretty ridiculous though. Maybe she is leftist in the seriously "rightist" biased US; but she is definitely at least "moderate-right" to just plain "right" from a European POV.
Which still leaves out standpoints on abortion and gay marriage, which in most European countries are well agreed upon by the "regular" right and left. Only religious conservative parties are really against it. So these are not typical "left is pro" and "right is contra" topics. Both left and right are pro, just the religious and very conservative are contra.
True. I remember a girl who went to a catholic private school (Belgium), and they were told on regular basis that they were the elite because this was an elite school and such. Of course that was pure bs, since the course curriculum is the same in every school. If you take advanced math and science, you will get advanced math and science regardless of being in a public or catholic school. It's just the entitlement that's different.
On many of the computers, like the C64, you actually had to type in commands to load files and games from disk and cassette. This was done directly in BASIC. So you were simply not able to ignore it. And most people didn't go further than 10 PRINT "HELLO", but when kids got together some would just show some skills and the other kids simply wanted to learn it as well.
Now, even if there are programming languages packaged on your computer, you still need to specifically use that program.
Personally I find the discussion a bit ridiculous. Most programming languages can be learned online and have online interpreters. You don't need to package it at all. Just by googling I found one for BASIC, Javascript, Python, Java, Ruby, etc... where I just had to start programming on the website immediately.
I'm not really knowledgeable in the subject, but I wonder if it's even possible at all. Isn't a blockchain exactly there to not be tampered with? Isn't it a distributed system? So "editing" a former block would require you to "edit" it in all distributed systems, changing the hash, and would require all following blocks to be re-edited and re-hashed as well.
Hey, this sounds exactly like the kind of tactics the VW software used to evade emission tests. I see the engineers fired by VW got a new job :-)
30k/yr is the price of an outsourced Indian software developer though. That's exactly the price quoted by our Executive VP.
And replacing a local 100k developer with an outsourced 30k one is much faster than fishing for H1Bs.
Let's jump into a black hole so we can float inside the time-bee-hive that opens a window to the daughter's childhood room!
Yes, that movie was actually great with a "Oh Hell No! WTF ?!" ending.