If you're arguing against the awful way the ignorant youngsters use language these days, remember that your grandparents thought exactly the same about you. And their grandparents about them...right back to old curmudgeons complaining about the grunts of their grandchildren 50,000 years ago.
People don't study their native tongues, they just copy people around them and make mistakes. Lingual evolution, it happens.
You might want to put "Uncanny Valley" in quotes and capitalize it so that people don't think you're just posting random words...
I haven't seen The Hobbit yet so I can't comment but I don't see how it can be worse. Not really. Not unless you were going into the cinema thinking "Oh, I really MUST analyze the frame rate thing down to the last minute detail so I can have an opinion later".
I bet if it was the other way round, if we'd always had 48fps and Peter Jackson was experimenting with 24fps to give it an "analog" feel, the pseuds would be complaining just as loudly. It's what they do.
I need to build another computer in the near future and I've been thinking long and hard about SSD versus HDD. Still undecided, but with trends like this, I'll be opting for SSD
That "future" better not be too near.
I'm not holding my breath for a 3TB SSD in the $100 range...
No, don't. Fortune 500 companies tend to be run by grown-ups, not Slashdot posters.
It's most likely a case of talking to the right person at the other company. Call them and ask who's in charge of your invoices, find out what's going on. Don't accept "we'll call you..." or "he's away this week...", ask to talk to the person's boss, go all the way up to the CEO if necessary.
Get a real suit to make the calls. Somebody who speaks the right language in the right tone of voice. Pay a lawyer with an extra-expensive suit to do it if necessary (scratch that, get a lawyer with an extra-expensive suit to do it, period. Show him your contract first).
Chances are, you'll get paid. A contract is a contract and big companies have shareholder reports where lawsuits for breach of them aren't popular items.
Step 2: If you don't have a contractual obligation then stop working for them. If they're not paying you and not telling you why then the romance is gone, somebody in their hierarchy doesn't like you for some reason. Stop working, call their main competitor and tell them what you were doing, they're probably interested.
The real first-world problem is lack of imagination. I can imagine scenarios where people would want one, why can't anybody else? (apparently...)
eg. I might design/build an embedded gadget using my desktop Model B Pi but when I want to deploy it it won't need Ethernet, USB or ability to run 3 desktop apps simultaneously. Why should I pay $10 extra for things that will never be used? $10 her, $10 there, it adds up over time (or real fast if I want to deploy 100 of them...)
They should have waited until they could get the cost down with 512MB of RAM. Having used both the 256 and 512 Model B, I found that no amount of tweaking could make the 256 model run a web browser acceptably on a Linux desktop.
To be fair, you can get Arduino clones for a lot less than that...
You can even make one yourself. Solder a $3 chip to a piece of perfboard and write "Arduino" on it. It'll work just the same.
The official $30 Arduino is for people who want their voltage regulators, USB interface, etc. all on a single board. Apparently that's a lot of people...
It'd require the customer bring their own container, and render the filling process much more time-consuming than 'insert pipe, squeeze handle.' There's also a spill hazard.
If only there was a way to build it into the car or something...I guess we'll have to wait a couple more centuries for such advanced tech though.
Raise the price of the car? I'm sure it would cost less than the army of bureaucrats currently being paid for by motorists.
I think hackers have more to fear from the mafia underground than legal authorities.
LOL, Does your made for Hollywood vision of script kiddies getting swept up in a sea of crime star a young Angelina Jolie flying through 3D cyberspace with her trusty RISC and spray-painted Kom-Pu-Tah? If you ask me, that's a market niche worth mining.
I'm more worried about how low the qualifications for "Hacker" have sunk over the last few years.
Nitpicking over the interpretation of 'trespass' aside, don't you think common sense could have prevailed? I'm sure two big policemen could have made the store managers intentions clear then managed to frog-march her out of the store without resorting to this.
I hate them. They gradually raise the volume in the gaps between sounds (background crickets or whatever get louder and louder and louder) then SLam it back down again on the first syllable of each dialog, making the first word unintelligible.
I'm sure the tech exists to embed proper compression information somewhere in the binary but nobody except me seems to think it's a good idea.
No, they mean violating US law by purchasing export-restricted devices within the US for the sole purpose of taking them outside the US to resell.
Since when is the iPhone export restricted?
The only thing being violated hare is Apple's desire to fix prices in different countries, and seriously, how much damage can one woman buying in an Apple store do to the richest company in the world? They should have just said "limit is one iPhone per day" then let her buy as many as she wanted.
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Learning a second language fluently is DIFFICULT. If a language course salesmen tells you otherwise, he's lying.
On the other hand, attempting it will teach you some culture and improve your English skills a lot.
PS: If you think you even know your native language, you're delusional.
I dunno. I prefer American spelling to British.
If you're arguing against the awful way the ignorant youngsters use language these days, remember that your grandparents thought exactly the same about you. And their grandparents about them...right back to old curmudgeons complaining about the grunts of their grandchildren 50,000 years ago.
People don't study their native tongues, they just copy people around them and make mistakes. Lingual evolution, it happens.
You might want to put "Uncanny Valley" in quotes and capitalize it so that people don't think you're just posting random words...
I haven't seen The Hobbit yet so I can't comment but I don't see how it can be worse. Not really. Not unless you were going into the cinema thinking "Oh, I really MUST analyze the frame rate thing down to the last minute detail so I can have an opinion later".
I bet if it was the other way round, if we'd always had 48fps and Peter Jackson was experimenting with 24fps to give it an "analog" feel, the pseuds would be complaining just as loudly. It's what they do.
Don't you think you should care about both of those things even if one of them doesn't particularly bother YOU, personally?
I need to build another computer in the near future and I've been thinking long and hard about SSD versus HDD. Still undecided, but with trends like this, I'll be opting for SSD
That "future" better not be too near.
I'm not holding my breath for a 3TB SSD in the $100 range...
Says who? Do you have hard info on this type of radiation?
If the machines only give one person in 100 million cancer, they're still more dangerous then the terrorism they're supposed to be preventing.
(Which they aren't...terrorists can put the C4 up their asses...)
Well, that's OK then. So long as YOU don't care, neither should anybody else.
The rape victims, the sexually assaulted, the people with any sort of problem should just get over it, right?
Name and shame.
No, don't. Fortune 500 companies tend to be run by grown-ups, not Slashdot posters.
It's most likely a case of talking to the right person at the other company. Call them and ask who's in charge of your invoices, find out what's going on. Don't accept "we'll call you..." or "he's away this week...", ask to talk to the person's boss, go all the way up to the CEO if necessary.
Get a real suit to make the calls. Somebody who speaks the right language in the right tone of voice. Pay a lawyer with an extra-expensive suit to do it if necessary (scratch that, get a lawyer with an extra-expensive suit to do it, period. Show him your contract first).
Chances are, you'll get paid. A contract is a contract and big companies have shareholder reports where lawsuits for breach of them aren't popular items.
Step 2: If you don't have a contractual obligation then stop working for them. If they're not paying you and not telling you why then the romance is gone, somebody in their hierarchy doesn't like you for some reason. Stop working, call their main competitor and tell them what you were doing, they're probably interested.
I'm just positing an example. I'm sure there's plenty more.
I don't think it's smaller though, it's the same PCB...
How does the developed world lack imagination?
Not the 'world', the people who always come on Slashdot posting about how if they don't want something it has no right to exist.
In other news, 35% of parents are clueless about how the Internet works.
simply possessing such images (which, one could argue, is harmless) would mean prison sentence.
Not in my country. Here we argued and decided it was harmless...
What's a 'disagree'? When can I buy one?
The real first-world problem is lack of imagination. I can imagine scenarios where people would want one, why can't anybody else? (apparently...)
eg. I might design/build an embedded gadget using my desktop Model B Pi but when I want to deploy it it won't need Ethernet, USB or ability to run 3 desktop apps simultaneously. Why should I pay $10 extra for things that will never be used? $10 her, $10 there, it adds up over time (or real fast if I want to deploy 100 of them...)
And that's a first-world scenario...!
They should have waited until they could get the cost down with 512MB of RAM. Having used both the 256 and 512 Model B, I found that no amount of tweaking could make the 256 model run a web browser acceptably on a Linux desktop.
Huh? My 256MB Pi runs a web browser perfectly...
And why would anyone choose this model over B, with twice the ram, Ethernet, and a second USB port for a measly 10$ savings?
Not everybody is a spoiled first-world brat whose daddy pays for everything...?
To be fair, you can get Arduino clones for a lot less than that...
You can even make one yourself. Solder a $3 chip to a piece of perfboard and write "Arduino" on it. It'll work just the same.
The official $30 Arduino is for people who want their voltage regulators, USB interface, etc. all on a single board. Apparently that's a lot of people...
It'd require the customer bring their own container, and render the filling process much more time-consuming than 'insert pipe, squeeze handle.' There's also a spill hazard.
If only there was a way to build it into the car or something...I guess we'll have to wait a couple more centuries for such advanced tech though.
Raise the price of the car? I'm sure it would cost less than the army of bureaucrats currently being paid for by motorists.
I think hackers have more to fear from the mafia underground than legal authorities.
LOL, Does your made for Hollywood vision of script kiddies getting swept up in a sea of crime star a young Angelina Jolie flying through 3D cyberspace with her trusty RISC and spray-painted Kom-Pu-Tah? If you ask me, that's a market niche worth mining.
I'm more worried about how low the qualifications for "Hacker" have sunk over the last few years.
it becomes trespassing past that point
Nitpicking over the interpretation of 'trespass' aside, don't you think common sense could have prevailed? I'm sure two big policemen could have made the store managers intentions clear then managed to frog-march her out of the store without resorting to this.
I hate them. They gradually raise the volume in the gaps between sounds (background crickets or whatever get louder and louder and louder) then SLam it back down again on the first syllable of each dialog, making the first word unintelligible.
I'm sure the tech exists to embed proper compression information somewhere in the binary but nobody except me seems to think it's a good idea.
It even has a name - "dynamic range compression".
If it was my house and I was threatened, sure.
This was a public store in a shopping mall and nobody's life was in danger.
Calling the police/security is reasonable. Using physical/electrical violence isn't.
No matter how little English she speaks she must understand a repeated "no" combined with a gesture towards the door.
No, they mean violating US law by purchasing export-restricted devices within the US for the sole purpose of taking them outside the US to resell.
Since when is the iPhone export restricted?
The only thing being violated hare is Apple's desire to fix prices in different countries, and seriously, how much damage can one woman buying in an Apple store do to the richest company in the world? They should have just said "limit is one iPhone per day" then let her buy as many as she wanted.