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I don't know why LibreOffice defaults to using a different syntax than Excel.
Historical reasons that also got rolled into ODF's ISO spec. Both dot and exclamation mark are acceptable now, but historically that wasn't true. Additionally, if you have older files certified ISO 26300-1:2015 you'll need to stick to the dot notation in your client as the file most likely is riddled with dot notation. Standards are funny things that cause programmers to contort themselves in odd ways.
There are also two solutions to provided in your link
Yeah but I get why guy wants it the way that they are asking, I really don't blame him or her.
Oh as a side note, this Excel A1 format also allows the A:A (pure column) referencing for a column. However, even Microsoft recommends that you not do formulas this way and instead use their named method. TableName[SOME COLUMN NAME]. Which also brings me to something I do sorely miss in LibreOffice, the ability to create tables. There's work to do this in LibreOffice and no plans what-so-ever in AOO, so hoping LO gets it soon and all the more reason to dump AOO.
function incompatibility (Indirect's syntax), where OpenOffice would open them just fine.
Yeah that's actually an option in LO. You just hit Alt+F12, then under the LibreOffice Calc item, hit the Formula option. In that dialog change the "Formula syntax" from "Calc A1" to "Excel A1". Ta-da now all your formulas work.
It is non-binding. However, that doesn't make it useless. It is not unusual to first pass a non-binding resolution, wait to see the effects and problems that arise, and then from the weaknesses pass a binding resolution that's learned from the previous mistakes. Now that said, the resolution was always meant to be non-binding but it was indeed changed quite a bit to allow the US to pass it without Senate approval.
So this isn't unusual in the steps that the nations are taking, but the truth being is that a multitude of nations were having difficulty with getting the respective governments on-board and so there were changes to the original plan, US especially. Did that ultimately change the underlying outcome? Well, we won't really know until after we're a few more years into it. But truth be told, yes it was changed to make it easier to subvert the Senate, however, it being non-binding was kind of the entire goal, the degree and legal basis had to be carefully selected to ensure passage in not only the US but in other countries that were hostile to the plan.
So if you need a sound bite: The Paris agreement was going to be non-binding to start with since that's a normal thing, but because of the level of hostility many nations different legal wording was required to ensure that nations who objected wouldn't have any clear path to objection, especially the US.
I can't stand folks that take such binary viewpoints of insanely complex international agreements. Non-binding agreements do have a point to them. I'm so sorry that human beings cannot in one sitting create a 100% perfect plan for how to change a broad cross section of global industry on massive scales on the first go.
This made me audibly laugh. As if they aren't judgy enough on Facebook as is, it seems only appropriate to elevate them to providing the interpretation of law. Like for the defendant, share for the plaintiff.
Exactly this! The whole reason nuclear fusion works is because we're tapping into the energy in a neutron. A star's massive size creates a sizable amount of gravitational energy. A small amount of this gravitational energy is used to transition a proton into a neutron via the weak force. This creates deuterium. That eventually flies away from a star and carries off the energy or stays put and gains more energy by converting into helium. In nuclear fusion, we bring two deuterium atoms and form either tritium or Helium-3. The process of doing so releases some of that energy that was used to originally bind the proton and neutron. Fusion isn't creating energy from nothing, it came from somewhere to begin with. It's just that we've got so many isotopes of hydrogen, helium, and lithium on this planet, that using them as a fuel is cheap. We don't have some magic well for doubly charmed or bottom quarks.
Correct the single reaction is only 138 MeV. The whole point is that a single gram of material provides 6.02*10^23 reactions. That's 1.186 * 10^13 joules. 6.3 * 10^13 is roughly the energy in the Hiroshima bomb. However, I can be wrong about that, that's some serious back of the napkin math on a process I haven't really read up on, but it is Avogadro's number for the molar mass of a gram of hydrogen. Point being, while a single reaction is very weak, a single gram of material provides a massive amount of chances for a reaction.
I'm going to pipe in here. One key thing I see in Linux distros as we know them is that they have within them a baseline that you are given the tools to enhance the very thing that you are using. This is sort of by design as that's kind of a 10,000 foot view of what FOSS is about. Now you don't have to do that, but you still have that option if need be. Chrome OS and Android, along with all the other appliances running a Linux kernel do not have this. A Linux distro, Linux OS (not just a Linux kernel) encourages you or at the very least gives you enough room to, expand the world that you are working in.
I know folks on here like car analogies, so Linux is like an engine. A distro is a car, Chrome and Android are buses. Both do the whole getting you from point A to point B thing and both contain an engine, but a car isn't a bus for a whole lot of other reasons. Chrome OS and Android are users of the Linux kernel and nothing more. And honestly, I'd bet a pretty penny that we'll eventually see Linux dumped for Fuchsia, Chrome and Android to finally merge, and for Blink to slide even further away from being open as Android-ness creeps into the various parts within Google's already complicated web browser stack.
I dunno, man they're opening up two more panels on her ass. At this rate I think we're be seeing November as this time where the World Series winds up, Football is getting into full swing, Turkey dinners, autumn colors, and Clinton investigations. I would use the dead horse card here, but damn I think the card has turn into confetti at this point. Besides, yeah, we all know she's shit. We also know Trump's full of shit too, I mean look at 90% of the comments here, there's literally no one surprised by this reveal and I would say 99% of the folks here feel zero will be done about it. And "why won't anything be done about it?" you might ask?
The DNC colluded with the Hillary campaign to fix the primary election process so Hillary would win. But no Slashdot story on that, because...?
Because no matter how shitty the people running this planet get, too many people can't get their head out of their "Team A VS Team B" ass mentality. Great job guy! Yet again, we'll make no progress on shit because everyone is just too busy trying to figure out which side is more corrupt. (thumbs up bro)
Someone get this person points stat! Jones folks are the most hilarious group on forums because of the clear lack of introspection on their part. "Everything is this big cover up made to fool you sheeple!" says the guy who's show literally exists for him to hock BS products on people with loose wallets. The best statement about the truth of Alex Jones I have ever heard is, "Alex Jones is like what would happen if Jerry Springer had to broadcast on QVC with the former X Files writing staff."
will head over occupy them "for their own good, to protect them."
Insanely doubtful even in the wildest dreams of how an independent California would play out. Russia, China, et al could not care less about California as a state or location. Physically being in California has zero value to them. Now as far as their economy goes that's actually worth something.
Of course, the cretins in Congress are falling right into the hands of the Russians who do want to destroy the US by dividing and conquering.
The only problem is that there isn't a get out of the union clause, so no matter how much people like to talk up California or Texas breaking away and becoming their own country, there is no chance that any state is leaving the Union any time soon. Willing or unwillingly, everyone is in this together until the end of time or the US altogether, you'd think that notion would have more people trying to find common ground. Now mentally, yeah, there is so much winning going on in the mentally dividing this country. The level of winning is like a crack addict who just hit the mega-millions lotto.
The CO2 is trapped in the cut down tree. So long as the wood isn't burned or rotting away, the CO2 is sequestered inside the frame of the house or building or whatever. Same goes for if you take a chopped down tree and get it to sink in a body of water. That's a carbon sink quite literally. Anytime you prevent wood from burning or being decomposed, that removes carbon from the atmosphere. Now the act of cutting the wood does release some CO2 gas, not in just the thing that's cutting the wood, but in the actual cutting.
Now I'm not the original guy but I think it's a choice of words here. Some of the newest treated wood ignites at 500C. Now steel won't melt at that temperature, not even close, but at 550C it loses 50% of its strength. So I sort of get where guy is coming from but yeah, it's an iffy argument. However, I think we can all agree that at either temperature, no one is going to exist very long. That said, I'm not sure about France's standards but I would assume that the level of planning that has to go into the fire suppression system before the blueprints are okayed has to be dizzying to say the least. However, I don't know the linked article is really shallow on information and I'm at work so I don't have the time to look it up.
I hear this crap and it is full of bullshit. Multiple source have indicated that 10 billion folks could live on this planet easily with changes. The issue isn't the number, it is the lifestyle. We couldn't fit 10 billion people on this planet and continue our extremely wasteful lifestyle. First world nations' current lifestyles are insanely inefficient and wasteful. However, we continue to survive and will continue to survive because the vast majority of those 10 billion when they get here, won't live in first world nations. So you don't have to worry about overpopulation because the majority of folks on this planet live in conditions that are less than favorable and first world nations aren't exactly baby making nations.
Just like when people moved off of timeshare mainframes to computers on premise.
Good God, have you not been in this industry long? This kind of tick tock is literally the name of the game. Be ready in sixty years when everyone touts whatever they call cloud in 2080.
For smartphones, they're just normal phones tied together with a PDA.
As someone who has worked on embedded devices and what not, this is true if we all agree to take a 40,000 mile high view of everything. If you look real close at the code, the ICs within the device, all the different hardware and software sub-systems and interconnects between the different parts of the SoC that go into an actual smartphone, they are nothing like a PDA. Trying to say a PDA is like a smartphone is like calling a computer a really smart calculator and a digital calculator an electronic abacus and by extension a computer a really smart digital abacus. It's not 100% wrong, but it's really glossing over the major details there. I mean to some degree the original TV was just streaming where you didn't get to decide what to watch and it happened over the air as opposed to via an interconnected network. Again, it's not 100% wrong, but it's seriously skipping lots of big details there. So it really depends on how you define "technology" and I get a lot of folks who are in the industry have been in it so long that nothing seems original. That's called be jaded. We're able to see a clear evolution of things at a high enough level and see how one goes to the next and so on. But for all it's worth it misses the smaller cogs in the clock that actually make the thing go, and those small cogs didn't just spring up overnight. But I digress, at some point I get, we just need a summary because we don't have a huge amount of time to go on and on about the details. That's fine. But do note, it's like a quick stab with a sewing needle when people who've worked on ICs hear people summarize it as "PDA meets phone". You're right, but not really.
Buying new over repairing means more garbage in the landfill. Apple does not recycle those phones, and they are not designed to allow easy recycling of parts
Now, I really dislike the way everything is moving. But I understand why it is moving that way. This is one of those really tricky things. Consumers are wanting more functionality with increased dependability and decreased power consumption. So you design the hardware that supports that. You can put it in the SoC, which increases the fab cost versus buying off the shelf chips, or you can build the package yourself and add it on the board. When you do the latter, that takes away space, which means less room for the battery. Now loosing 10mm^3 of space might mean the battery loses 3 minutes of run time. There's trade offs like this all the time. Camera needs to be a bit bigger and that cuts 1.7 minutes here. Speakers are moving to this location, so the board needs to be turned upside down now and things moved to make room. The screen has support in these locations which makes these locations a bit weaker than anywhere else, need to arrange components around those weak points. All of that moving around can slice 0.4 minutes of time here, or 1.1 minutes there. And that's if you go the never opening it up route.
But if you add in clips to make the battery removable, wires to disconnect the battery from the board, the entire interconnect between the batteries and the board, caps to clean the supply, and on and on, you'll eventually cut like 20 minutes of run time from the battery. That's on top of all the other cuts to the power that'll come from ill-placed components. Now you can make up for that with software and making hardware that requires less power, which means more engineering. None of that is a problem except when you have folks wondering where your next phone is.
I'm not blaming people, but we've come up with an industry that's pretty ridiculous. Timeframes between new devices that don't really allow for engineers to plan squat really. Manufacturing that is done as cheaply as possible to keep costs down which in turn means a requirement for higher tolerances and thus more cuts here and there in functionality and power. The expectation of perf
I can't stand vaping because as soon as someone feels free to do so, they instantly exhale a 70 cubic meter cloud that makes everything it touches smell like week old Fruit Loops or what I am told is Bubblegum. The clouds stink and pretty much there's always that one douche canoe that has to create a cloud that is three times denser than standard air. So you know what? You go after those folks that feel that everywhere they go they have to create a cloud cover. I don't mind cars, I don't mind e-cigs, I don't mind a lot of things. However, I do mind those asshats that have to roll coal or exhale a vape cloud of epic size. Since it would be stupid to try and write a law that specifies "size" of cloud that's legal, it's just best to go ahead and outright put it out in the streets as well. You can thank the douche armada in my opinion for this law.
if your fucking drugs trespass upon it I will defend it with violence if necessary
I wouldn't go that far but seriously, I don't want to have to wade through a giant cloud of Fruit Loop flavoured stuff (since we're not calling it smoke) that just came out of your mouth hole. There's a point where you're doing your thing and then there's a point where you are being a total douche canoe. Billowing giant stuff clouds that smell like some breakfast cereal that no one can escape from, firmly puts you in the douche armada camp.
Wow well TIL, H.264/AVC was invented 40 years ago. HA! Take that ITU what with your assertion that it didn't get standardized until 2003. Oh and of course, 40 years ago CPUs were way powerful enough to decode that format, that's totally the reason I needed a decoder card when I got my first DVD drive for my PC, because I was using a computer 50 years old.
The technology to deliver video over the Internet was available long before 10 years ago
Well fuck dude, silicon existed 4.5 billions years ago on Earth, we just got inventive about how we arrange the atoms, so you're just talking chemistry. I mean do you not see how stupid your argument is? I think you need to come up for some air buddy, you've totally lost perspective.
I guess if you think Netflix is "tech" then you are (not) even worth responding to
I'm just going to assume the not there. Additionally, you're totally missing the point with the DVD thing from Netflix. 10 years ago, the "best" model for distribution was snail mail and now it's streaming. That's didn't happen because someone changed their business model, it happened because we made a lot of advancements in Internet speeds and reliability of delivery via the Internet.
What you are talking about is "models" not "tech". You probably think Siri is "AI" too.
Having read that, you should really take a look at this. I have a strong feeling that it applies here.
Oh yeah, no doubt on that. I'm just specifically speaking to the notion that Senators are surprised that we have troops in any African country. Senators should not be surprised or say things like, "We didn't know we had troops there." Better things to ask would be like what you said.
Congress claims ignorance that they didn't know that we had troops in Niger.
Simply put, any Senator that states they didn't know is either full of shit or has no idea what they are doing at a very, very important job. The United States, among other countries, have been in a variety of different African countries since 2003 in the "War on Terrorism". Niger hosts US and French troops publicly, but it's no stretch of the imagination that other countries are operating there too in less public operations. African countries have become a boon to recruitment in terror organizations.
Basically if you are living in a first world nation and your government is worried about global terrorism, then it is safe to say that your country more than likely has a shit load of special units in Africa doing all kinds of really risky stuff. Every Senator is basically given that general overview before diving deeper into the details.
I cannot speak for others but my router has per device site whitelist. It's not insanely hard to set up, I get that the majority cannot do this and I've built ones for friends for $120, so I would think that more people would see this as an opportunity to make some fast cash.
2. This claim is based on what empirical data?
Cannot speak for the other person, but I do know that Amazon tablets can have a kid profile added and it limits what the built in browser can do. So maybe that?
3. You don't have to fill out any forms to view a porn site.
I think person was speaking in more general terms like trying to get into forums and post personal information.
I'm not advocating parents give kids tablets and run. I keep an ear open to hear what they're doing and if they interact with the internet, the router gives me a daily digest and I run through at night. A python script runs through the log and pulls out any domains we've not seen in the last seven days, so I can easily see what's changing. Additionally, I do peak in on them every 15-20 minutes and their Internet connection is cut after one hour, tablets go cold by themselves after an hour and a half (parental setup on the Amazon tablets). There's lots of tools that are out there that can help not hover over the kid but still keep them somewhat safe. They'll never be 100% insulated but that's okay, they need to also develop skills in picking what is right and what is not right on the Internet, and yes as a parent you need to help develop those skills.
Yes, I get that there are parents that just dump a tablet on a kid, but honestly IMHO the tablet is just an excuse, the parent was going to dump something on their kid to get them out of their hair, the tablet just happens to be the excuse dejure.
So I've been around for awhile. I've bounced into several different roles. Now I've seen outright agism. Where the boss just won't hire anyone over 35 and once you're pass that point, you're sent to support and then eventually shown the door.
Now, not 100% of the time, but a lot of the time, would say 60%, they're doing projects that are one offs and the customer is maybe a five year account or something. Basically, everyone goes into this, knowing that whatever is built, isn't sticking around for a long time. Microwave software so to say. A team of three or four folks get together write some software in six months, support it for about three years, and then they're all sent packing after the year it takes for the customer to leave the company. You want to talk about reinventing the wheel. But in these shops, they use platforms that allow things like this to happen. Something where you type a couple of XML files or JSON files, write some business logic, and the platform handles the boiler plate. Are they secure? Meh, sort of, they're typically no around long enough for anyone to penetrate. Are they robust? Again meh, about as robust as a system that will be used for all of five years will ever be.
Now that's not all the time though. That 40% I've seen of agism where they're not popping software out left and right of meh quality. I'd say there is about two categories there. One, the most common, where they let go of talent and taint their rep in circles and basically they resort to buying third party stuff because zero people want to work for them, even fresh grads get wind that they'll get underpaid and in ten or so years they'll be sent unceremoniously packing. The rarer kind I've seen, maybe two out of the companies I've worked for, they are just insane. One placed I worked, the IT boss mandated his secretary wear a dress to work (since that's about all of the dress code he controlled). At an xmas party he fessed up that it was because he liked looking at her legs and imagined that one day he'd get a quick upskirt before she got "too wifey". I left that place pretty damn quick, but not before seeing him part ways with a 37 year programmer who single handedly wrote the API for a lot of business logic to the database. He pulled in a 23-year old Indian visa student to intern and poor guy was in over his head as he tried to support business logic that had existed for upteen years. I honestly felt sorry for guy, because boss man continually drilled him and had guy second guessing every single thing he did.
Now all that said, I've also seen stubborn. Where the older guys don't see any reason to leave a platform. Now if they've got a good argument, I'll give them that. But I'd say that it's pretty break even with what people I've seen, where they don't want to leave a platform because they don't want to learn a new one. One company I worked for had RPG III and COBOL. Okay no problem there. However, we were getting requests from customers to update this business logic or that business logic and it wasn't so much the language, RPG ILE is a treat and highly flexible, as the way they programmed. They were just stuck in a method of coding that didn't produce flexible code. It was always highly brittle and every deploy was a hold your breathe moment. I'm not saying they needed to leave AS400, but their I cannot help think that their blunt refusal to change brought about some of their dismissal. That place eventually fold because we got buried under legacy code that was just not supportable unless the big customer was willing to have a hard freeze for a year while we got back on track. They pulled their contract and the company literally had all eggs in a single basket, the basket that just left.
So I've seen agism, but I've seen stubborn more often than I've seen agism. And maybe that's because I'm not very silver in the hair enough or something. I think if you're flexible enough, you'll find something. I'd recommend to anyone getting into the IT field, get a savings ac
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I don't know why that post was modded down.
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I don't know why LibreOffice defaults to using a different syntax than Excel.
Historical reasons that also got rolled into ODF's ISO spec. Both dot and exclamation mark are acceptable now, but historically that wasn't true. Additionally, if you have older files certified ISO 26300-1:2015 you'll need to stick to the dot notation in your client as the file most likely is riddled with dot notation. Standards are funny things that cause programmers to contort themselves in odd ways.
There are also two solutions to provided in your link
Yeah but I get why guy wants it the way that they are asking, I really don't blame him or her.
Oh as a side note, this Excel A1 format also allows the A:A (pure column) referencing for a column. However, even Microsoft recommends that you not do formulas this way and instead use their named method. TableName[SOME COLUMN NAME]. Which also brings me to something I do sorely miss in LibreOffice, the ability to create tables. There's work to do this in LibreOffice and no plans what-so-ever in AOO, so hoping LO gets it soon and all the more reason to dump AOO.
function incompatibility (Indirect's syntax), where OpenOffice would open them just fine.
Yeah that's actually an option in LO. You just hit Alt+F12, then under the LibreOffice Calc item, hit the Formula option. In that dialog change the "Formula syntax" from "Calc A1" to "Excel A1". Ta-da now all your formulas work.
If it's not a binding deal, it's a useless turd.
It is non-binding. However, that doesn't make it useless. It is not unusual to first pass a non-binding resolution, wait to see the effects and problems that arise, and then from the weaknesses pass a binding resolution that's learned from the previous mistakes. Now that said, the resolution was always meant to be non-binding but it was indeed changed quite a bit to allow the US to pass it without Senate approval.
So this isn't unusual in the steps that the nations are taking, but the truth being is that a multitude of nations were having difficulty with getting the respective governments on-board and so there were changes to the original plan, US especially. Did that ultimately change the underlying outcome? Well, we won't really know until after we're a few more years into it. But truth be told, yes it was changed to make it easier to subvert the Senate, however, it being non-binding was kind of the entire goal, the degree and legal basis had to be carefully selected to ensure passage in not only the US but in other countries that were hostile to the plan.
So if you need a sound bite: The Paris agreement was going to be non-binding to start with since that's a normal thing, but because of the level of hostility many nations different legal wording was required to ensure that nations who objected wouldn't have any clear path to objection, especially the US.
I can't stand folks that take such binary viewpoints of insanely complex international agreements. Non-binding agreements do have a point to them. I'm so sorry that human beings cannot in one sitting create a 100% perfect plan for how to change a broad cross section of global industry on massive scales on the first go.
3) Facebook
This made me audibly laugh. As if they aren't judgy enough on Facebook as is, it seems only appropriate to elevate them to providing the interpretation of law. Like for the defendant, share for the plaintiff.
Exactly this! The whole reason nuclear fusion works is because we're tapping into the energy in a neutron. A star's massive size creates a sizable amount of gravitational energy. A small amount of this gravitational energy is used to transition a proton into a neutron via the weak force. This creates deuterium. That eventually flies away from a star and carries off the energy or stays put and gains more energy by converting into helium. In nuclear fusion, we bring two deuterium atoms and form either tritium or Helium-3. The process of doing so releases some of that energy that was used to originally bind the proton and neutron. Fusion isn't creating energy from nothing, it came from somewhere to begin with. It's just that we've got so many isotopes of hydrogen, helium, and lithium on this planet, that using them as a fuel is cheap. We don't have some magic well for doubly charmed or bottom quarks.
Correct the single reaction is only 138 MeV. The whole point is that a single gram of material provides 6.02*10^23 reactions. That's 1.186 * 10^13 joules. 6.3 * 10^13 is roughly the energy in the Hiroshima bomb. However, I can be wrong about that, that's some serious back of the napkin math on a process I haven't really read up on, but it is Avogadro's number for the molar mass of a gram of hydrogen. Point being, while a single reaction is very weak, a single gram of material provides a massive amount of chances for a reaction.
I'm going to pipe in here. One key thing I see in Linux distros as we know them is that they have within them a baseline that you are given the tools to enhance the very thing that you are using. This is sort of by design as that's kind of a 10,000 foot view of what FOSS is about. Now you don't have to do that, but you still have that option if need be. Chrome OS and Android, along with all the other appliances running a Linux kernel do not have this. A Linux distro, Linux OS (not just a Linux kernel) encourages you or at the very least gives you enough room to, expand the world that you are working in.
I know folks on here like car analogies, so Linux is like an engine. A distro is a car, Chrome and Android are buses. Both do the whole getting you from point A to point B thing and both contain an engine, but a car isn't a bus for a whole lot of other reasons. Chrome OS and Android are users of the Linux kernel and nothing more. And honestly, I'd bet a pretty penny that we'll eventually see Linux dumped for Fuchsia, Chrome and Android to finally merge, and for Blink to slide even further away from being open as Android-ness creeps into the various parts within Google's already complicated web browser stack.
Guess it's not news.
I dunno, man they're opening up two more panels on her ass. At this rate I think we're be seeing November as this time where the World Series winds up, Football is getting into full swing, Turkey dinners, autumn colors, and Clinton investigations. I would use the dead horse card here, but damn I think the card has turn into confetti at this point. Besides, yeah, we all know she's shit. We also know Trump's full of shit too, I mean look at 90% of the comments here, there's literally no one surprised by this reveal and I would say 99% of the folks here feel zero will be done about it. And "why won't anything be done about it?" you might ask?
The DNC colluded with the Hillary campaign to fix the primary election process so Hillary would win. But no Slashdot story on that, because ...?
Because no matter how shitty the people running this planet get, too many people can't get their head out of their "Team A VS Team B" ass mentality. Great job guy! Yet again, we'll make no progress on shit because everyone is just too busy trying to figure out which side is more corrupt. (thumbs up bro)
Someone get this person points stat! Jones folks are the most hilarious group on forums because of the clear lack of introspection on their part. "Everything is this big cover up made to fool you sheeple!" says the guy who's show literally exists for him to hock BS products on people with loose wallets. The best statement about the truth of Alex Jones I have ever heard is, "Alex Jones is like what would happen if Jerry Springer had to broadcast on QVC with the former X Files writing staff."
BRIC based coalition
It's BRICS as South Africa has joined.
will head over occupy them "for their own good, to protect them."
Insanely doubtful even in the wildest dreams of how an independent California would play out. Russia, China, et al could not care less about California as a state or location. Physically being in California has zero value to them. Now as far as their economy goes that's actually worth something.
Of course, the cretins in Congress are falling right into the hands of the Russians who do want to destroy the US by dividing and conquering.
The only problem is that there isn't a get out of the union clause, so no matter how much people like to talk up California or Texas breaking away and becoming their own country, there is no chance that any state is leaving the Union any time soon. Willing or unwillingly, everyone is in this together until the end of time or the US altogether, you'd think that notion would have more people trying to find common ground. Now mentally, yeah, there is so much winning going on in the mentally dividing this country. The level of winning is like a crack addict who just hit the mega-millions lotto.
consume the original amount of CO2
The CO2 is trapped in the cut down tree. So long as the wood isn't burned or rotting away, the CO2 is sequestered inside the frame of the house or building or whatever. Same goes for if you take a chopped down tree and get it to sink in a body of water. That's a carbon sink quite literally. Anytime you prevent wood from burning or being decomposed, that removes carbon from the atmosphere. Now the act of cutting the wood does release some CO2 gas, not in just the thing that's cutting the wood, but in the actual cutting.
Now I'm not the original guy but I think it's a choice of words here. Some of the newest treated wood ignites at 500C. Now steel won't melt at that temperature, not even close, but at 550C it loses 50% of its strength. So I sort of get where guy is coming from but yeah, it's an iffy argument. However, I think we can all agree that at either temperature, no one is going to exist very long. That said, I'm not sure about France's standards but I would assume that the level of planning that has to go into the fire suppression system before the blueprints are okayed has to be dizzying to say the least. However, I don't know the linked article is really shallow on information and I'm at work so I don't have the time to look it up.
This planet can't hold ten billion people
I hear this crap and it is full of bullshit. Multiple source have indicated that 10 billion folks could live on this planet easily with changes. The issue isn't the number, it is the lifestyle. We couldn't fit 10 billion people on this planet and continue our extremely wasteful lifestyle. First world nations' current lifestyles are insanely inefficient and wasteful. However, we continue to survive and will continue to survive because the vast majority of those 10 billion when they get here, won't live in first world nations. So you don't have to worry about overpopulation because the majority of folks on this planet live in conditions that are less than favorable and first world nations aren't exactly baby making nations.
Just like when people moved off of timeshare mainframes to computers on premise.
Good God, have you not been in this industry long? This kind of tick tock is literally the name of the game. Be ready in sixty years when everyone touts whatever they call cloud in 2080.
poor experience. No greeting, no thank you, no human interaction, and patronizing repetitive instructions.
Funny, I could literally say the same thing for a Walmart cashier.
They're going to put people out of work.
Uh, yeah, I think that's the point. Go Youtube "Humans need not apply"
For smartphones, they're just normal phones tied together with a PDA.
As someone who has worked on embedded devices and what not, this is true if we all agree to take a 40,000 mile high view of everything. If you look real close at the code, the ICs within the device, all the different hardware and software sub-systems and interconnects between the different parts of the SoC that go into an actual smartphone, they are nothing like a PDA. Trying to say a PDA is like a smartphone is like calling a computer a really smart calculator and a digital calculator an electronic abacus and by extension a computer a really smart digital abacus. It's not 100% wrong, but it's really glossing over the major details there. I mean to some degree the original TV was just streaming where you didn't get to decide what to watch and it happened over the air as opposed to via an interconnected network. Again, it's not 100% wrong, but it's seriously skipping lots of big details there. So it really depends on how you define "technology" and I get a lot of folks who are in the industry have been in it so long that nothing seems original. That's called be jaded. We're able to see a clear evolution of things at a high enough level and see how one goes to the next and so on. But for all it's worth it misses the smaller cogs in the clock that actually make the thing go, and those small cogs didn't just spring up overnight. But I digress, at some point I get, we just need a summary because we don't have a huge amount of time to go on and on about the details. That's fine. But do note, it's like a quick stab with a sewing needle when people who've worked on ICs hear people summarize it as "PDA meets phone". You're right, but not really.
Buying new over repairing means more garbage in the landfill. Apple does not recycle those phones, and they are not designed to allow easy recycling of parts
Now, I really dislike the way everything is moving. But I understand why it is moving that way. This is one of those really tricky things. Consumers are wanting more functionality with increased dependability and decreased power consumption. So you design the hardware that supports that. You can put it in the SoC, which increases the fab cost versus buying off the shelf chips, or you can build the package yourself and add it on the board. When you do the latter, that takes away space, which means less room for the battery. Now loosing 10mm^3 of space might mean the battery loses 3 minutes of run time. There's trade offs like this all the time. Camera needs to be a bit bigger and that cuts 1.7 minutes here. Speakers are moving to this location, so the board needs to be turned upside down now and things moved to make room. The screen has support in these locations which makes these locations a bit weaker than anywhere else, need to arrange components around those weak points. All of that moving around can slice 0.4 minutes of time here, or 1.1 minutes there. And that's if you go the never opening it up route.
But if you add in clips to make the battery removable, wires to disconnect the battery from the board, the entire interconnect between the batteries and the board, caps to clean the supply, and on and on, you'll eventually cut like 20 minutes of run time from the battery. That's on top of all the other cuts to the power that'll come from ill-placed components. Now you can make up for that with software and making hardware that requires less power, which means more engineering. None of that is a problem except when you have folks wondering where your next phone is.
I'm not blaming people, but we've come up with an industry that's pretty ridiculous. Timeframes between new devices that don't really allow for engineers to plan squat really. Manufacturing that is done as cheaply as possible to keep costs down which in turn means a requirement for higher tolerances and thus more cuts here and there in functionality and power. The expectation of perf
I can't stand vaping because as soon as someone feels free to do so, they instantly exhale a 70 cubic meter cloud that makes everything it touches smell like week old Fruit Loops or what I am told is Bubblegum. The clouds stink and pretty much there's always that one douche canoe that has to create a cloud that is three times denser than standard air. So you know what? You go after those folks that feel that everywhere they go they have to create a cloud cover. I don't mind cars, I don't mind e-cigs, I don't mind a lot of things. However, I do mind those asshats that have to roll coal or exhale a vape cloud of epic size. Since it would be stupid to try and write a law that specifies "size" of cloud that's legal, it's just best to go ahead and outright put it out in the streets as well. You can thank the douche armada in my opinion for this law.
if your fucking drugs trespass upon it I will defend it with violence if necessary
I wouldn't go that far but seriously, I don't want to have to wade through a giant cloud of Fruit Loop flavoured stuff (since we're not calling it smoke) that just came out of your mouth hole. There's a point where you're doing your thing and then there's a point where you are being a total douche canoe. Billowing giant stuff clouds that smell like some breakfast cereal that no one can escape from, firmly puts you in the douche armada camp.
Wow well TIL, H.264/AVC was invented 40 years ago. HA! Take that ITU what with your assertion that it didn't get standardized until 2003. Oh and of course, 40 years ago CPUs were way powerful enough to decode that format, that's totally the reason I needed a decoder card when I got my first DVD drive for my PC, because I was using a computer 50 years old.
The technology to deliver video over the Internet was available long before 10 years ago
Well fuck dude, silicon existed 4.5 billions years ago on Earth, we just got inventive about how we arrange the atoms, so you're just talking chemistry. I mean do you not see how stupid your argument is? I think you need to come up for some air buddy, you've totally lost perspective.
I guess if you think Netflix is "tech" then you are (not) even worth responding to
I'm just going to assume the not there. Additionally, you're totally missing the point with the DVD thing from Netflix. 10 years ago, the "best" model for distribution was snail mail and now it's streaming. That's didn't happen because someone changed their business model, it happened because we made a lot of advancements in Internet speeds and reliability of delivery via the Internet.
What you are talking about is "models" not "tech". You probably think Siri is "AI" too.
Having read that, you should really take a look at this. I have a strong feeling that it applies here.
Oh yeah, no doubt on that. I'm just specifically speaking to the notion that Senators are surprised that we have troops in any African country. Senators should not be surprised or say things like, "We didn't know we had troops there." Better things to ask would be like what you said.
Congress claims ignorance that they didn't know that we had troops in Niger.
Simply put, any Senator that states they didn't know is either full of shit or has no idea what they are doing at a very, very important job. The United States, among other countries, have been in a variety of different African countries since 2003 in the "War on Terrorism". Niger hosts US and French troops publicly, but it's no stretch of the imagination that other countries are operating there too in less public operations. African countries have become a boon to recruitment in terror organizations.
Basically if you are living in a first world nation and your government is worried about global terrorism, then it is safe to say that your country more than likely has a shit load of special units in Africa doing all kinds of really risky stuff. Every Senator is basically given that general overview before diving deeper into the details.
1. You don't have to search for porn to find it.
I cannot speak for others but my router has per device site whitelist. It's not insanely hard to set up, I get that the majority cannot do this and I've built ones for friends for $120, so I would think that more people would see this as an opportunity to make some fast cash.
2. This claim is based on what empirical data?
Cannot speak for the other person, but I do know that Amazon tablets can have a kid profile added and it limits what the built in browser can do. So maybe that?
3. You don't have to fill out any forms to view a porn site.
I think person was speaking in more general terms like trying to get into forums and post personal information.
I'm not advocating parents give kids tablets and run. I keep an ear open to hear what they're doing and if they interact with the internet, the router gives me a daily digest and I run through at night. A python script runs through the log and pulls out any domains we've not seen in the last seven days, so I can easily see what's changing. Additionally, I do peak in on them every 15-20 minutes and their Internet connection is cut after one hour, tablets go cold by themselves after an hour and a half (parental setup on the Amazon tablets). There's lots of tools that are out there that can help not hover over the kid but still keep them somewhat safe. They'll never be 100% insulated but that's okay, they need to also develop skills in picking what is right and what is not right on the Internet, and yes as a parent you need to help develop those skills.
Yes, I get that there are parents that just dump a tablet on a kid, but honestly IMHO the tablet is just an excuse, the parent was going to dump something on their kid to get them out of their hair, the tablet just happens to be the excuse dejure.
So I've been around for awhile. I've bounced into several different roles. Now I've seen outright agism. Where the boss just won't hire anyone over 35 and once you're pass that point, you're sent to support and then eventually shown the door.
Now, not 100% of the time, but a lot of the time, would say 60%, they're doing projects that are one offs and the customer is maybe a five year account or something. Basically, everyone goes into this, knowing that whatever is built, isn't sticking around for a long time. Microwave software so to say. A team of three or four folks get together write some software in six months, support it for about three years, and then they're all sent packing after the year it takes for the customer to leave the company. You want to talk about reinventing the wheel. But in these shops, they use platforms that allow things like this to happen. Something where you type a couple of XML files or JSON files, write some business logic, and the platform handles the boiler plate. Are they secure? Meh, sort of, they're typically no around long enough for anyone to penetrate. Are they robust? Again meh, about as robust as a system that will be used for all of five years will ever be.
Now that's not all the time though. That 40% I've seen of agism where they're not popping software out left and right of meh quality. I'd say there is about two categories there. One, the most common, where they let go of talent and taint their rep in circles and basically they resort to buying third party stuff because zero people want to work for them, even fresh grads get wind that they'll get underpaid and in ten or so years they'll be sent unceremoniously packing. The rarer kind I've seen, maybe two out of the companies I've worked for, they are just insane. One placed I worked, the IT boss mandated his secretary wear a dress to work (since that's about all of the dress code he controlled). At an xmas party he fessed up that it was because he liked looking at her legs and imagined that one day he'd get a quick upskirt before she got "too wifey". I left that place pretty damn quick, but not before seeing him part ways with a 37 year programmer who single handedly wrote the API for a lot of business logic to the database. He pulled in a 23-year old Indian visa student to intern and poor guy was in over his head as he tried to support business logic that had existed for upteen years. I honestly felt sorry for guy, because boss man continually drilled him and had guy second guessing every single thing he did.
Now all that said, I've also seen stubborn. Where the older guys don't see any reason to leave a platform. Now if they've got a good argument, I'll give them that. But I'd say that it's pretty break even with what people I've seen, where they don't want to leave a platform because they don't want to learn a new one. One company I worked for had RPG III and COBOL. Okay no problem there. However, we were getting requests from customers to update this business logic or that business logic and it wasn't so much the language, RPG ILE is a treat and highly flexible, as the way they programmed. They were just stuck in a method of coding that didn't produce flexible code. It was always highly brittle and every deploy was a hold your breathe moment. I'm not saying they needed to leave AS400, but their I cannot help think that their blunt refusal to change brought about some of their dismissal. That place eventually fold because we got buried under legacy code that was just not supportable unless the big customer was willing to have a hard freeze for a year while we got back on track. They pulled their contract and the company literally had all eggs in a single basket, the basket that just left.
So I've seen agism, but I've seen stubborn more often than I've seen agism. And maybe that's because I'm not very silver in the hair enough or something. I think if you're flexible enough, you'll find something. I'd recommend to anyone getting into the IT field, get a savings ac