... A DVR will grab every episode of whatever, ad infinitum.
Not all DVRs. By default, MythTV will only record new episodes if you select any one of the several "record all" settings. It uses a MySQL database to track things...
More correctly, I should have said, "not previously recorded" rather than "new" episodes - sorry.
... A DVR will grab every episode of whatever, ad infinitum.
Not all DVRs. By default, MythTV will only record new episodes if you select any one of the several "record all" settings. It uses a MySQL database to track things...
Other shows, like Firefly could have benefitted by being watchable even if the network wants to show other content...
The main problem when Firefly was first broadcast was that FOX insisted on showing the episodes out of order. The first episode aired was "The Train Job" (episode #2) and the series premier "Serenity" was shown 12th. Other episodes were similarly out of order (see the broadcast history section on the Wikipedia page). FOX also didn't like that they were shot in wide-screen (according to the DVD commentary). I enjoyed and understood the series much more after plunking down $50 for the DVD set and watching them all in order - then watching them all again with the commentary enabled.
It's time to organize the world's programmers and make it clear to business that we won't tolerate this treatment any longer. It doesn't matter if we form a union or not as long as we band together to protect our common interests as programmers.
Why I sympathize with your sentiment, as someone with ~30 years experience in this field, I can confidently say that you'd have better luck herding cats. [ We can't even agree as to whether systemd sucks, or sucks a lot.:-) ]
still Mark Zuckerberg et. al. are running to Congress crying "We can't get any American workers anymore, give us more H1B's!!!"
Of course, they actually mean, "we can't get any cheap American workers anymore... OMG our profit margins!"
Cut them some slack; they're just trying to be "competitive" - which means "do the minimum required". (for when you see that in explanations as to why your raises/bonuses suck.)
"What's curious is that, in many cases, incompetence does not leave people disoriented, perplexed, or cautious. Instead, the incompetent are often blessed with an inappropriate confidence, buoyed by something that feels to them like knowledge."
That's why I don't buy the claims of "The Death of Expertise". A heavily biased expert is not necessarily going to be more correct than a knowledgeable, relatively objective layperson though it could happen.
Assuming those go hand-in-hand, a heavily biased expert vs. a knowledgeable, relatively objective layperson. It's quite possible for either or both to be biased, or objective. The point of the article was that (motives aside) even a knowledgeable person (usually) knows less than an expert, but too many people do a couple of Google searches and think they know everything.
Many/. posts strike me like this. True I don't know the backgrounds of the posters, but imagine most have less knowledge about any discussed subject that the article author / researcher / whatever, yet we all see posts that start with "I disagree" or something similar.
For a personal example, my wife was a gifted education teacher (before she died in 2006) and once had a ninth-grade student who wanted interview Steven Hawking so she could "prove him wrong" (literally), based on what she learned in Sunday school.
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing - or so I've heard.
The obvious rebuttal to "The Death of Expertise" is conflict of interest combined with the opportunity to exploit that conflict of interest. It has never been so easy to buy and monetize expertise in the furtherance of propaganda as it is now.
While you have a point about "everyone has their price", I think you missed the entire point of that article, which is that there are, actually, people who know more about some stuff than other people and that many of the latter get bent out of shape about that. Yes, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but that does not make everyone's opinion equal to every other. Some may be learned opinions and others may simply be pulled out of an ass.
;According to BMW their so-called "security" is so secured that there are BILLIONS of combination in their "secure key" system
Well there's the problem right there - obviously they didn't take computer security seriously or they'd realize that billions of combinations hardly gives a brute-force hacking simpleton time tor their coffee to cool
It only works if you say "BILLIONS of combinations" in Car Sagan's voice.
I guess that's why I'm getting all those spams telling me bananas will kill me... fructose!
Watch the video, it's from an academic series on campus. The guy seems to know what he's talking about, unless you don't like actual experts. Fructose from a fibrous source (apple, banana) is better as the fiber slows the processing of the sugar, unlike, say, in a soda.
I've actually experienced some of what he discussed. I'm currently 51 with about 30 years of experience as a Unix system administrator/programmer, and have always looked pretty young for my age - or did when I had more hair:-). As a result, it seems that whenever I start a new job, there are people wanting to "explain" things to me, or who don't believe I know anything, or could have more expertise/experience than them, etc... (Perhaps that's not uncommon in our field.)
For example, back in the late 1990s, when I was (about) 35 and started work for a contractor at NASA Langley, an older guy started explaining to me "how Unix worked" during a meeting and I had to cut him off saying, "ya, I've been doing this for a quite while and have actually taken a class on Unix internals taught by one of the guys who wrote Berkeley Unix." To the guy's credit, he gave me the benefit of the doubt as being, at least, more experienced and we ended up working pretty well together.
I'm starting to think that Western culture (especially the modern evolution of it) is a giant case of Aspberger's syndrome. Technically proficient and able to endlessly sort details but lacking in wisdom or deeper understanding.
Someone posted a partial quote and this link in another thread. You might find it interesting and relevant with-regard-to the above sentiment: The Death of Expertise
I think it applies to a great many of the posts here on/....
I think the real issue with sugar intake is that sugar (or HFCS) is cheap, is tasty, and is in everything. Also, unlike say arsenic, any bad effects are usually deferred. That seems like the actual issue, and is probably why there are still obesity today.
You might find this interesting: Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology. It's about 90 minutes, but worth the watch. He describes how Fructose (from wherever, sugar, HFCS, etc...) is metabolized by the liver in a similar fashion as alcohol, but w/o the physical limitations of consuming too much alcohol, and raises triglycerides and cholesterol, etc...
No Mr. Bond, I expect you to bleed! *psychotic laugh*
Technically, that's from "Goldfinger" (which, coincidentally, I re-watched on TV last week), not "The Man with the Golden Gun", but it's all good... Here's the related XKCD, Centrifugal Force
Someone close to me died of Liver Cancer. I wish we had a treatment like this before he died.
My wife Susan died of a brain tumor, a Glioblastoma Multiforme, almost 9 years ago (January 13, 2006), just 7 weeks after initial diagnosis. The tumor was right next to her brain stem. Even if not a cure, something like this might have helped her live long enough for other treatments to work more. We had been together for only 20 years and it was over just like that, but I know I was lucky to have her in my life for even that short a span and especially to have those last 7 weeks together.
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... A DVR will grab every episode of whatever, ad infinitum.
Not all DVRs. By default, MythTV will only record new episodes if you select any one of the several "record all" settings. It uses a MySQL database to track things...
More correctly, I should have said, "not previously recorded" rather than "new" episodes - sorry.
... A DVR will grab every episode of whatever, ad infinitum.
Not all DVRs. By default, MythTV will only record new episodes if you select any one of the several "record all" settings. It uses a MySQL database to track things...
Other shows, like Firefly could have benefitted by being watchable even if the network wants to show other content...
The main problem when Firefly was first broadcast was that FOX insisted on showing the episodes out of order. The first episode aired was "The Train Job" (episode #2) and the series premier "Serenity" was shown 12th. Other episodes were similarly out of order (see the broadcast history section on the Wikipedia page). FOX also didn't like that they were shot in wide-screen (according to the DVD commentary). I enjoyed and understood the series much more after plunking down $50 for the DVD set and watching them all in order - then watching them all again with the commentary enabled.
There are no stumbling blocks that make it the sole domain of Microsoft and Tivo.
Not even TiVo's patent war chest?
MythTV works just fine for OTA and a Schedules Direct membership is $25/year for listings 14 days in advance.
It's time to organize the world's programmers and make it clear to business that we won't tolerate this treatment any longer. It doesn't matter if we form a union or not as long as we band together to protect our common interests as programmers.
Why I sympathize with your sentiment, as someone with ~30 years experience in this field, I can confidently say that you'd have better luck herding cats. [ We can't even agree as to whether systemd sucks, or sucks a lot. :-) ]
still Mark Zuckerberg et. al. are running to Congress crying "We can't get any American workers anymore, give us more H1B's!!!"
Of course, they actually mean, "we can't get any cheap American workers anymore... OMG our profit margins!"
Cut them some slack; they're just trying to be "competitive" - which means "do the minimum required". (for when you see that in explanations as to why your raises/bonuses suck.)
...has been using weaponized PowerPoint files in its recent attacks.
For PowerPoint to be classified as a WMD.
"...the company is fashioning nanoparticles—particles about one billionth of a meter in width"
Because traditionally, measurements in the ingredients of pills are in meters.
Sure, only about one billionth of a meter in width, but the pills are *really* long ...
[He pulls out a huge black pill.]
"What's curious is that, in many cases, incompetence does not leave people disoriented, perplexed, or cautious. Instead, the incompetent are often blessed with an inappropriate confidence, buoyed by something that feels to them like knowledge."
The truthiness of that seems pretty solid.
You can't advertise something as 'no peanuts' and then put peanuts in it.
Sure you can. On the front label, in BIG letters say: "No peanuts! *" and on the back label, in really small letters, say "* Note: Contains peanuts."
That's why I don't buy the claims of "The Death of Expertise". A heavily biased expert is not necessarily going to be more correct than a knowledgeable, relatively objective layperson though it could happen.
Assuming those go hand-in-hand, a heavily biased expert vs. a knowledgeable, relatively objective layperson. It's quite possible for either or both to be biased, or objective. The point of the article was that (motives aside) even a knowledgeable person (usually) knows less than an expert, but too many people do a couple of Google searches and think they know everything.
Many /. posts strike me like this. True I don't know the backgrounds of the posters, but imagine most have less knowledge about any discussed subject that the article author / researcher / whatever, yet we all see posts that start with "I disagree" or something similar.
For a personal example, my wife was a gifted education teacher (before she died in 2006) and once had a ninth-grade student who wanted interview Steven Hawking so she could "prove him wrong" (literally), based on what she learned in Sunday school.
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing - or so I've heard.
Bonus, hacking into the display system ...y.
Yes. The inside of airplane walls. Finally, an appropriate display for colonoscopy videos. Especially in coach.
The obvious rebuttal to "The Death of Expertise" is conflict of interest combined with the opportunity to exploit that conflict of interest. It has never been so easy to buy and monetize expertise in the furtherance of propaganda as it is now.
While you have a point about "everyone has their price", I think you missed the entire point of that article, which is that there are, actually, people who know more about some stuff than other people and that many of the latter get bent out of shape about that. Yes, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but that does not make everyone's opinion equal to every other. Some may be learned opinions and others may simply be pulled out of an ass.
;According to BMW their so-called "security" is so secured that there are BILLIONS of combination in their "secure key" system
Well there's the problem right there - obviously they didn't take computer security seriously or they'd realize that billions of combinations hardly gives a brute-force hacking simpleton time tor their coffee to cool
It only works if you say "BILLIONS of combinations" in Car Sagan's voice.
You forgot the sarcasm tag and there are lots of people that don't get sarcasm. Expect lots of serious replies.
Either way, it beats mentioning any specific "News" organizations and getting labeled "troll". :-)
I guess that's why I'm getting all those spams telling me bananas will kill me... fructose!
Watch the video, it's from an academic series on campus. The guy seems to know what he's talking about, unless you don't like actual experts. Fructose from a fibrous source (apple, banana) is better as the fiber slows the processing of the sugar, unlike, say, in a soda.
A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light ...
There are News organizations that manipulate, encourage or suppress stories that may make a President look good or bad? When did this happen?
I've actually experienced some of what he discussed. I'm currently 51 with about 30 years of experience as a Unix system administrator/programmer, and have always looked pretty young for my age - or did when I had more hair :-). As a result, it seems that whenever I start a new job, there are people wanting to "explain" things to me, or who don't believe I know anything, or could have more expertise/experience than them, etc... (Perhaps that's not uncommon in our field.)
For example, back in the late 1990s, when I was (about) 35 and started work for a contractor at NASA Langley, an older guy started explaining to me "how Unix worked" during a meeting and I had to cut him off saying, "ya, I've been doing this for a quite while and have actually taken a class on Unix internals taught by one of the guys who wrote Berkeley Unix." To the guy's credit, he gave me the benefit of the doubt as being, at least, more experienced and we ended up working pretty well together.
I'm starting to think that Western culture (especially the modern evolution of it) is a giant case of Aspberger's syndrome. Technically proficient and able to endlessly sort details but lacking in wisdom or deeper understanding.
Someone posted a partial quote and this link in another thread. You might find it interesting and relevant with-regard-to the above sentiment: The Death of Expertise
I think it applies to a great many of the posts here on /. ...
I think the real issue with sugar intake is that sugar (or HFCS) is cheap, is tasty, and is in everything. Also, unlike say arsenic, any bad effects are usually deferred. That seems like the actual issue, and is probably why there are still obesity today.
You might find this interesting: Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology. It's about 90 minutes, but worth the watch. He describes how Fructose (from wherever, sugar, HFCS, etc...) is metabolized by the liver in a similar fashion as alcohol, but w/o the physical limitations of consuming too much alcohol, and raises triglycerides and cholesterol, etc...
Thanks. That was one of the few included quotes I've seen on /. that made me actually want to read the source material.
Columbia can invite Ahmadinejad to speak and that's okay even though he is a horrible dictator.
Opposed to a non-horrible dictator? (at least in modern usage) Would that be a Monarchy or some such other construct?
No Mr. Bond, I expect you to bleed! *psychotic laugh*
Technically, that's from "Goldfinger" (which, coincidentally, I re-watched on TV last week), not "The Man with the Golden Gun", but it's all good... Here's the related XKCD, Centrifugal Force
Worst Bond film ever.
Someone close to me died of Liver Cancer. I wish we had a treatment like this before he died.
My wife Susan died of a brain tumor, a Glioblastoma Multiforme, almost 9 years ago (January 13, 2006), just 7 weeks after initial diagnosis. The tumor was right next to her brain stem. Even if not a cure, something like this might have helped her live long enough for other treatments to work more. We had been together for only 20 years and it was over just like that, but I know I was lucky to have her in my life for even that short a span and especially to have those last 7 weeks together.
Remember Sue...