There were *4* "TFAs". I read two of them (although 50% is, of course, still a failing grade). You seem to have missed the core of my post, which was that a larger download and install isn't as big of a problem as other posters have been making it out as. Also, as you (and apparently the article) pointed out, it's likely to be a temporary issue.
I stand by my opinion that the developer took the worst possible route; I'm not a fan of forcing release of an inferior product due to an arbitrarily-specified release date. If you really want to point out how wrong someone is, pick someone further up the thread with their doom and gloom about how terrible the developer is for not taking their tiny SSD drives into account.
Those of us who read fiction (instead of how-to books) out of boredom
Speak for yourself. I responded to your post above because it mirrored my own experience (hiding the book I was reading from teachers, etc). Despite spending an inordinate amount of time with my nose buried in a fiction book, I did other (more useful) things on my own. In gradeschool, I tracked down books on robotics, programming, and electronics, and those provided the basis for a lot of my later interests. Not everyone who reads fiction out of boredom limits themselves like you did.
I pre-read the assigned work, then did the same. I got a lot of practice half-listening to the teacher so that I could "replay" the questions asked in my head and respond without looking up from the book. That usually got an amusing reaction.
Depends on the teacher. My 4th and 6th grade teachers weren't terrible, but my 5th grade teacher decided that I was a discipline problem for the reasons that the guy you responded to cited (except the grade curve; I think college was the first time I was graded on a curve).
If I disagreed, the other teachers used it as a basis for in-class discussion. The 5th grade teacher would go back and forth with "yeah-huh!" "nuh-uh!" until he got upset that I wasn't toeing the line, and I'd get sent to the principal's office. Thanks to my parents and how they worked to talk with the principal, I didn't have a serious problem. Other kids' parents weren't as involved in their lives.
"We" aren't going to spend the money; donors to the $250 million fundraising campaign are. It's not like public funds are going into paying for the display.
Just make a symlink/junction and run it off a RAM drive. You can just dedicate half your 128GB memory to it and have still have 14GB or so free. Yeah, you have to wait half a minute to stream it from your NAS to the ramdrive, big whoop. If you don't have enough ram or a fast enough hard drive, drop down to a dual or triple SLI setup instead, n00b.:D
If you're going to do all that, you're better off causing an inverse feedback loop in the chroniton resonator coils and reversing the polarity of the tachyon emitters; otherwise you'll overload the power junctions and cause a data cascade failure in the isolinear relays, and you certainly don't want that.
In my university classes, I knew more than one student that weaseled their way through classes without really understanding the material, so I know that those people are out there. A college/university education isn't a panacea; the student has to do work on their own to end up with any level of competency at graduation time.
In my case, I saw two benefits to a college education. First, it showed me what was important to study in my time. Second, it provided me the pass to get past the HR gatekeeper-goons at most employers. A degree is no replacement for having the drive to learn.
That reminds me of the situation about 15 years ago. I had a 6.4GB drive, and Baldur's Gate had a minimum install of 300MB (with annoying swaps between the 5 CDs the game came on). The game took up about 5% of the space on my drive (similar to the situation you've described). The difference: You can get 3TB of storage for under $150 (close to 5x your current space), where paying the same amount in 1999 wouldn't cover even doubling the space I had. In short, space is cheap. Anyhow, are you using that 35GB for something more important right now?
There's a trade-off that you took: lower capacity and higher cost per capacity for higher speed. For under $100 (or equivalent amounts in the currency of your choice) you can add a large spinning-platter drive and have the best of both worlds.
I'm not going to argue that 32GB of uncompressed audio isn't stupid (because it really, truly is; the dev could've included a 5GB option to use compressed audio, or something). What I *will* argue is that not everyone chose the same trade-off that you did, and you've got the option to take both roads at the same time.
If the company set up their own cell tower, it'd be easy to notice; my cell phone would display constant certificate problems, similar to the way it does if I connect to the corporate wifi using that same device.
What, opening the phone, voiding the warranty and unplugging the camera(s) from the board (or possibly cutting the traces)? Or do you mean pulling the phone's battery?
I agree with your perspective, and I opt out of the scanners on the same principles. I could have been clearer on that point. The reason I replied was that it seemed odd to list something that isn't an issue anymore among things that are still a problem.
I get the protest and "security theatre" angles, but the mm wave scanners are in the radio frequency range just below infrared in frequency, with less energy than visible light (so, definitely non-ionizing radiation). Cancer's not a realistic concern, unless there's somewhere where they're still using the backscatter X-ray machine; I'd avoid those due to possible safety concerns.
Then you've got the 38 million or so in the US that speak Spanish as a primary language at home, and additional 31 million Spanish-speakers that primarily use English.
118 million in Mexico, 38 million in the US, and an insignificant number in Canada (under a half million, apparently). 156 million out of a population of some 530 million is about 30%. 70% isn't "almost all". It's "most". Big difference there.
I do that (to a degree) when I'm learning something new, like a new language, or a new library in a language I already know. So, basically when I'm writing toy programs to figure out how something works. As you start to build something more serious, the verbatim code that you find online is likely to become less useful (although it can still be useful for the concepts contained in it). If you can exclusively build your programs out of code you pull out of a search engine, then you're either making something simple, or you're re-creating something that other people have already done.
Dieses Video ist in Deutschland leider nicht verfügbar, da es mÃglicherweise Musik enthÃlt, für die die erforderlichen Musikrechte von der GEMA nicht eingerÃumt wurden.
Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany, because it possibly contains music for which the necessary music rights weren't granted by GEMA. (My own translation, although a native German speaker would be better).
It seems like the English that was previously posted matches the meaning very closely (IMO).
Additional impulse radar systems are being manufactured in quantity for automotive applications (blind spot detection, parking aids, etc), but details on these are not easy to find unless you directly engage the manufacturers. Manufacturers of automotive radar equipment include, Delphi, Continental, TRW, Bosch, Denso, and Autoliv.
Some vehicles may use sonar. The article claims that at least come manufacturers are using a form of radar.
Google's main point to legislators is that regulation would be premature because Google Glass is not yet widely available
It seems like that's the perfect reason to nip the issue in the bud. If you wait to include Glass and such in distracted driving laws, you may increase cultural resistance to the law since people will have started to expect that driving with their wearable display device should be no problem.
Do you really think people should be trusted with that in your workplace?
Not particularly, but I understand that they want to know all of the activity on their network and don't want the increasingly prevalant use of encrypted connections to stop that. If an employee in the (rather large) company is doing something illegal and it's traced back to the corporate network, the company wants a CYA option. As a second point, they don't like sites that tend to be high-bandwidth. For myself, if I need to do something like online banking during a break, I usually bring my laptop and tether to my phone.
I know that my employer both blacklists certain sites and intercepts SSL (the certs are signed by the company, and you have to either accept constant browser warnings or install the company's certs as a root CA in the browser. I agree; it's not my equipment or my time, so I don't really have a problem with the situation.
The main problem I see with the Marxist distribution method: imagine a world where everyone has what he needs, but still there is some left over.
It seems like there would be a few options. Reducing production to meet need (shorter work hours) and keeping the surplus in reserve for leaner times (where appropriate) are two possibilities that come to mind for me.
Which gadgets is it replacing, exactly? My car provides a bluetooth connection, and driving is the only time I'm interested in used the phone hands-free. I don't have any particular desire to have a camera available all the time. My phone would be required to use Glass, but it provides every single functionality besides the AR HUD (that is, it has a camera, gyros, accel sensors, faster CPU, and more RAM than Glass).
I don't see any upsides for me, just a way to do the same things I can now while making the people around me paranoid.
Unless I'm missing something, those are just languages. Learn the basics and start writing your own projects in the one/ones that interest you. I was hired as a C++ developer, but I've been required to learn Perl, Ruby, and Bash scripting to perform my job. Picking up a new language isn't a big deal, provided you have sufficient motivation to do it.
You've got a CS degree from a good school. If you can claim a language on your resume and back it up with code, then I don't see a reason that you'd need to go back to school just for that.
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There were *4* "TFAs". I read two of them (although 50% is, of course, still a failing grade). You seem to have missed the core of my post, which was that a larger download and install isn't as big of a problem as other posters have been making it out as. Also, as you (and apparently the article) pointed out, it's likely to be a temporary issue.
I stand by my opinion that the developer took the worst possible route; I'm not a fan of forcing release of an inferior product due to an arbitrarily-specified release date. If you really want to point out how wrong someone is, pick someone further up the thread with their doom and gloom about how terrible the developer is for not taking their tiny SSD drives into account.
Those of us who read fiction (instead of how-to books) out of boredom
Speak for yourself. I responded to your post above because it mirrored my own experience (hiding the book I was reading from teachers, etc). Despite spending an inordinate amount of time with my nose buried in a fiction book, I did other (more useful) things on my own. In gradeschool, I tracked down books on robotics, programming, and electronics, and those provided the basis for a lot of my later interests. Not everyone who reads fiction out of boredom limits themselves like you did.
I pre-read the assigned work, then did the same. I got a lot of practice half-listening to the teacher so that I could "replay" the questions asked in my head and respond without looking up from the book. That usually got an amusing reaction.
Depends on the teacher. My 4th and 6th grade teachers weren't terrible, but my 5th grade teacher decided that I was a discipline problem for the reasons that the guy you responded to cited (except the grade curve; I think college was the first time I was graded on a curve).
If I disagreed, the other teachers used it as a basis for in-class discussion. The 5th grade teacher would go back and forth with "yeah-huh!" "nuh-uh!" until he got upset that I wasn't toeing the line, and I'd get sent to the principal's office. Thanks to my parents and how they worked to talk with the principal, I didn't have a serious problem. Other kids' parents weren't as involved in their lives.
"We" aren't going to spend the money; donors to the $250 million fundraising campaign are. It's not like public funds are going into paying for the display.
Just make a symlink/junction and run it off a RAM drive. You can just dedicate half your 128GB memory to it and have still have 14GB or so free. Yeah, you have to wait half a minute to stream it from your NAS to the ramdrive, big whoop. If you don't have enough ram or a fast enough hard drive, drop down to a dual or triple SLI setup instead, n00b. :D
If you're going to do all that, you're better off causing an inverse feedback loop in the chroniton resonator coils and reversing the polarity of the tachyon emitters; otherwise you'll overload the power junctions and cause a data cascade failure in the isolinear relays, and you certainly don't want that.
In my university classes, I knew more than one student that weaseled their way through classes without really understanding the material, so I know that those people are out there. A college/university education isn't a panacea; the student has to do work on their own to end up with any level of competency at graduation time.
In my case, I saw two benefits to a college education. First, it showed me what was important to study in my time. Second, it provided me the pass to get past the HR gatekeeper-goons at most employers. A degree is no replacement for having the drive to learn.
That reminds me of the situation about 15 years ago. I had a 6.4GB drive, and Baldur's Gate had a minimum install of 300MB (with annoying swaps between the 5 CDs the game came on). The game took up about 5% of the space on my drive (similar to the situation you've described). The difference: You can get 3TB of storage for under $150 (close to 5x your current space), where paying the same amount in 1999 wouldn't cover even doubling the space I had. In short, space is cheap. Anyhow, are you using that 35GB for something more important right now?
There's a trade-off that you took: lower capacity and higher cost per capacity for higher speed. For under $100 (or equivalent amounts in the currency of your choice) you can add a large spinning-platter drive and have the best of both worlds.
I'm not going to argue that 32GB of uncompressed audio isn't stupid (because it really, truly is; the dev could've included a 5GB option to use compressed audio, or something). What I *will* argue is that not everyone chose the same trade-off that you did, and you've got the option to take both roads at the same time.
If the company set up their own cell tower, it'd be easy to notice; my cell phone would display constant certificate problems, similar to the way it does if I connect to the corporate wifi using that same device.
What, opening the phone, voiding the warranty and unplugging the camera(s) from the board (or possibly cutting the traces)? Or do you mean pulling the phone's battery?
I agree with your perspective, and I opt out of the scanners on the same principles. I could have been clearer on that point. The reason I replied was that it seemed odd to list something that isn't an issue anymore among things that are still a problem.
I get the protest and "security theatre" angles, but the mm wave scanners are in the radio frequency range just below infrared in frequency, with less energy than visible light (so, definitely non-ionizing radiation). Cancer's not a realistic concern, unless there's somewhere where they're still using the backscatter X-ray machine; I'd avoid those due to possible safety concerns.
Then you've got the 38 million or so in the US that speak Spanish as a primary language at home, and additional 31 million Spanish-speakers that primarily use English.
118 million in Mexico, 38 million in the US, and an insignificant number in Canada (under a half million, apparently). 156 million out of a population of some 530 million is about 30%. 70% isn't "almost all". It's "most". Big difference there.
I do that (to a degree) when I'm learning something new, like a new language, or a new library in a language I already know. So, basically when I'm writing toy programs to figure out how something works. As you start to build something more serious, the verbatim code that you find online is likely to become less useful (although it can still be useful for the concepts contained in it). If you can exclusively build your programs out of code you pull out of a search engine, then you're either making something simple, or you're re-creating something that other people have already done.
Well, except for all those Spanish speakers down south, living in a country that's still considered part of North America.
Dieses Video ist in Deutschland leider nicht verfügbar, da es mÃglicherweise Musik enthÃlt, für die die erforderlichen Musikrechte von der GEMA nicht eingerÃumt wurden.
Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany, because it possibly contains music for which the necessary music rights weren't granted by GEMA. (My own translation, although a native German speaker would be better).
It seems like the English that was previously posted matches the meaning very closely (IMO).
Additional impulse radar systems are being manufactured in quantity for automotive applications (blind spot detection, parking aids, etc), but details on these are not easy to find unless you directly engage the manufacturers. Manufacturers of automotive radar equipment include, Delphi, Continental, TRW, Bosch, Denso, and Autoliv.
Some vehicles may use sonar. The article claims that at least come manufacturers are using a form of radar.
Google's main point to legislators is that regulation would be premature because Google Glass is not yet widely available
It seems like that's the perfect reason to nip the issue in the bud. If you wait to include Glass and such in distracted driving laws, you may increase cultural resistance to the law since people will have started to expect that driving with their wearable display device should be no problem.
Wikipedia says that there are 6 of them.
Do you really think people should be trusted with that in your workplace?
Not particularly, but I understand that they want to know all of the activity on their network and don't want the increasingly prevalant use of encrypted connections to stop that. If an employee in the (rather large) company is doing something illegal and it's traced back to the corporate network, the company wants a CYA option. As a second point, they don't like sites that tend to be high-bandwidth. For myself, if I need to do something like online banking during a break, I usually bring my laptop and tether to my phone.
I know that my employer both blacklists certain sites and intercepts SSL (the certs are signed by the company, and you have to either accept constant browser warnings or install the company's certs as a root CA in the browser. I agree; it's not my equipment or my time, so I don't really have a problem with the situation.
The main problem I see with the Marxist distribution method: imagine a world where everyone has what he needs, but still there is some left over.
It seems like there would be a few options. Reducing production to meet need (shorter work hours) and keeping the surplus in reserve for leaner times (where appropriate) are two possibilities that come to mind for me.
Which gadgets is it replacing, exactly? My car provides a bluetooth connection, and driving is the only time I'm interested in used the phone hands-free. I don't have any particular desire to have a camera available all the time. My phone would be required to use Glass, but it provides every single functionality besides the AR HUD (that is, it has a camera, gyros, accel sensors, faster CPU, and more RAM than Glass).
I don't see any upsides for me, just a way to do the same things I can now while making the people around me paranoid.
Unless I'm missing something, those are just languages. Learn the basics and start writing your own projects in the one/ones that interest you. I was hired as a C++ developer, but I've been required to learn Perl, Ruby, and Bash scripting to perform my job. Picking up a new language isn't a big deal, provided you have sufficient motivation to do it.
You've got a CS degree from a good school. If you can claim a language on your resume and back it up with code, then I don't see a reason that you'd need to go back to school just for that.