For sure there are many crappy CFL's out there. When you buy a twisty CFL for 25 cents at a drug store, you get what you pay for.
My Cree-manufactured recessed retrofit LED's are doing great, they were like $25/each at Home Despot courtesy local utility subsidy. Unfortunately that only covered the 2700K models, but my wife insists on yellow light anyway.
Wish I had mod points to give, this echos my feelings too. I have a 4s now and have felt that my wife's 5 was already too big. And now we're seeing reports of 6's being bent up because they're too damned thin. I'll be delaying an update of my 4s indefinitely, maybe when the 7 comes out there will be an iPhone Mini that returns to the size of a phone.
And I'm neither skinny nor a candidate for tight jeans.
I'm having issues with Toshiba 3TB drives right now that best I can tell are vibration-related. 20%+ of these drives report medium errors within the first few months of deployment. Seagates in the same chassis don't fail at nearly that rate.
Toshiba and LSI swear that this is normal. They're on bad crack.
Plenty is broken with "Linux", but systemd vs antique SYSV init vs upstart is the least of our problems.
Let's first get a usable filesystem with integrated volume management and transparent compression. You know, like Solaris had 10 years ago.
But if we're going to talk about systemd... The sequential SysV init system has been a bottleneck for years. If systemd is too pervasive, why not port SMF to replace it? Yep, another place that Solaris solved the problem years ago, but Linux NIH syndrome and solipsism prevail.
I try OpenLibreOffice every few years. To date it has not been able to consistently open and display MS-created files. It can get back to me when it does.
Agreed, though this view is often unpopular. Clarence Thomas got blasted a while back for (rightly) thinking that affirmative action is insulting.
If any ethnic/racial/gender group is getting discriminated for/against in hiring, that's one thing -- and a thing that shouldn't ever happen.
If there are educational / opportunity barriers to ethnic / racial / gender groups getting getting educated, that's where the focus should be, equal opportunities. I worked for a tech company back around 1991 or so. The VP of engineering left and there was speculation as to who would replace him. A co-worker asserted that a certain software doc manager should get the job, but that she wouldn't because she was a woman. The idea that maybe a tech writer with *any* set of chromosomes might not be the right choice to lead a hardware / OS engineering department fell on deaf ears.
That said, when I read this article on MacRumors, my first thought was "Are all the Indians considered White???".
It is well established (through most of history) that direct contacts and personal networks are the most likely way to get jobs.
And what is one to do if there is no available GOBN to troll for a job? In my last search, pestering everyone I know about job openings got me nowhere. What did get me hired was applying for a position via a company's online job site. A well-designed LinkedIn profile is also valuable, though it does result in being spammed by offers for worthless contract jobs.
This means that while it is still important to apply through the web because they pull many workers through there, it is far more effective to get an employee referral.
And whose butt are those employee referrals supposed to be pulled from? I did once get a job this way, in 1989, though that was a bit of an anomaly. It's a different world now and a different market.
Maybe their "carrier-class" gear is better than the WAP from them I had and tossed out in disgust. Dropped connections frequently, the goofy management application was no more robust and had to be reinstalled with every new firmware version, which was inevitably a beta as they never seemed to offer real releases. When the thing's resets became more common and it died entirely, I engaged warranty service, and it took something like two months for them to send me a replacement, because -- get this -- they didn't have any!
I gave up and bought an ASUS that's been working well, though the coverage pattern is bizarre.
And what happens when someone changes the input on the TV connected to the thing? It'll sit there "broken" indefinitely. How many times have you walked into a coffee shop or even someone's home and found their big expensive TV stuck on the wrong zoom mode, then come back a year later and found it unchanged?
Oh and what happens when Samsung buys that product and kills it? Like my Boxee Box?
Yes, it is unfortunate that Napster did not succeed in staunching Metallica's creative death-spiral. But In this case, here we have Lionsgate mostly creating advertising. It's a second sequel to a movie nobody heard about in the first place. If 180k downloads have happened, that's probably double the number who would have seen it theatrically. "Near DVD quality" is hardly impressive in 2014 and they worked hard to find six obscure sites.
I'm not getting into the copyright argument on either side here, but I think it likely that this is more about publicity for a bomb of a movie than the ostensible rights.
This seemed to start when people started devolving to Linux in significant numbers. First time I subjected myself to a Linux desktop I was puzzled by the names. "Bonobo"? Seriously?
And then when OpenOffice became OpenOffice.org that was just stupid.
For years I worked for a global company - almost all servers run by a certain BU are on public addresses with little or no ACL / firewall protection. I periodically tried to get at least ACL's set up, but the team responsible for adding those to the router configs couldn't be bothered, no matter how clear I was about our exposure. I had to disable network IPMI on servers to remove that intrusion vector. After a number of years of trying I'd started to get some traction on setting up a private management network for the netmgmt and other embedded interfaces, but again disinterest from those in the deployment path stalled implementation. I'm astounded that we never got pwned in a serious way.
I hatched 6 emus a while back. I used to play chase with them for exercise -- rattites grow quickly and their legs need exercise. When they were running toward me the t-rex factor was a bit unnerving.
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I'm guessing you have ancient dimmers. My LED's work just fine on a switch or on a modern electronic dimmer rated for them.
For sure there are many crappy CFL's out there. When you buy a twisty CFL for 25 cents at a drug store, you get what you pay for. My Cree-manufactured recessed retrofit LED's are doing great, they were like $25/each at Home Despot courtesy local utility subsidy. Unfortunately that only covered the 2700K models, but my wife insists on yellow light anyway.
Wish I had mod points to give, this echos my feelings too. I have a 4s now and have felt that my wife's 5 was already too big. And now we're seeing reports of 6's being bent up because they're too damned thin. I'll be delaying an update of my 4s indefinitely, maybe when the 7 comes out there will be an iPhone Mini that returns to the size of a phone. And I'm neither skinny nor a candidate for tight jeans.
Ubuntu kernel: like the way it suddenly started wrapping sd errors over a certain length, confounding monitoring?
I'm having issues with Toshiba 3TB drives right now that best I can tell are vibration-related. 20%+ of these drives report medium errors within the first few months of deployment. Seagates in the same chassis don't fail at nearly that rate. Toshiba and LSI swear that this is normal. They're on bad crack.
What about the option of not cheaping out on the connectivity plan and instead getting one that matches your actual usage?
Plenty is broken with "Linux", but systemd vs antique SYSV init vs upstart is the least of our problems. Let's first get a usable filesystem with integrated volume management and transparent compression. You know, like Solaris had 10 years ago. But if we're going to talk about systemd ... The sequential SysV init system has been a bottleneck for years. If systemd is too pervasive, why not port SMF to replace it? Yep, another place that Solaris solved the problem years ago, but Linux NIH syndrome and solipsism prevail.
I try OpenLibreOffice every few years. To date it has not been able to consistently open and display MS-created files. It can get back to me when it does.
Libertarianism is a great idea as long as every actor is altruistic and interested in the welfare of the society above themselves.
Exactly. Everyone Libertarian I've ever encountered is exactly the opposite.
... on the rare occasions that their goofy formats / software requirements are usable.
System vendors have always been like that. All of them, not just Apple.
Agreed, though this view is often unpopular. Clarence Thomas got blasted a while back for (rightly) thinking that affirmative action is insulting. If any ethnic/racial/gender group is getting discriminated for/against in hiring, that's one thing -- and a thing that shouldn't ever happen. If there are educational / opportunity barriers to ethnic / racial / gender groups getting getting educated, that's where the focus should be, equal opportunities. I worked for a tech company back around 1991 or so. The VP of engineering left and there was speculation as to who would replace him. A co-worker asserted that a certain software doc manager should get the job, but that she wouldn't because she was a woman. The idea that maybe a tech writer with *any* set of chromosomes might not be the right choice to lead a hardware / OS engineering department fell on deaf ears. That said, when I read this article on MacRumors, my first thought was "Are all the Indians considered White???".
Agreed. After all the outcry over the ribbon foo, when I finally saw it I was like "What's the big fuss?"
That, plus when they do actually hire people, it's at 2/3 the going pay. I looked at government jobs during my last search, the pay was pathetic.
It is well established (through most of history) that direct contacts and personal networks are the most likely way to get jobs.
And what is one to do if there is no available GOBN to troll for a job? In my last search, pestering everyone I know about job openings got me nowhere. What did get me hired was applying for a position via a company's online job site. A well-designed LinkedIn profile is also valuable, though it does result in being spammed by offers for worthless contract jobs.
This means that while it is still important to apply through the web because they pull many workers through there, it is far more effective to get an employee referral.
And whose butt are those employee referrals supposed to be pulled from? I did once get a job this way, in 1989, though that was a bit of an anomaly. It's a different world now and a different market.
CMU losing status is, to CMU, absolutely an intolerable option.
Some argue that happened years ago when the hypen was removed and the logo buggered.
You're pretty much accurately depicted Bruce Bohmke there.
Maybe their "carrier-class" gear is better than the WAP from them I had and tossed out in disgust. Dropped connections frequently, the goofy management application was no more robust and had to be reinstalled with every new firmware version, which was inevitably a beta as they never seemed to offer real releases. When the thing's resets became more common and it died entirely, I engaged warranty service, and it took something like two months for them to send me a replacement, because -- get this -- they didn't have any! I gave up and bought an ASUS that's been working well, though the coverage pattern is bizarre.
And what happens when someone changes the input on the TV connected to the thing? It'll sit there "broken" indefinitely. How many times have you walked into a coffee shop or even someone's home and found their big expensive TV stuck on the wrong zoom mode, then come back a year later and found it unchanged? Oh and what happens when Samsung buys that product and kills it? Like my Boxee Box?
. I don't know what is there [sic] business model and how long they'll be able to sustain it, but it looks like they got video-conferencing right.
... and right there you've nailed why this isn't a viable solution.
Yes, it is unfortunate that Napster did not succeed in staunching Metallica's creative death-spiral. But In this case, here we have Lionsgate mostly creating advertising. It's a second sequel to a movie nobody heard about in the first place. If 180k downloads have happened, that's probably double the number who would have seen it theatrically. "Near DVD quality" is hardly impressive in 2014 and they worked hard to find six obscure sites. I'm not getting into the copyright argument on either side here, but I think it likely that this is more about publicity for a bomb of a movie than the ostensible rights.
This seemed to start when people started devolving to Linux in significant numbers. First time I subjected myself to a Linux desktop I was puzzled by the names. "Bonobo"? Seriously? And then when OpenOffice became OpenOffice.org that was just stupid.
For years I worked for a global company - almost all servers run by a certain BU are on public addresses with little or no ACL / firewall protection. I periodically tried to get at least ACL's set up, but the team responsible for adding those to the router configs couldn't be bothered, no matter how clear I was about our exposure. I had to disable network IPMI on servers to remove that intrusion vector. After a number of years of trying I'd started to get some traction on setting up a private management network for the netmgmt and other embedded interfaces, but again disinterest from those in the deployment path stalled implementation. I'm astounded that we never got pwned in a serious way.
I hatched 6 emus a while back. I used to play chase with them for exercise -- rattites grow quickly and their legs need exercise. When they were running toward me the t-rex factor was a bit unnerving.
Guns don't kill people;, gargoyles kill people. - O'Malley, SU2