You took a C++ course and you didn't use Stroustrup's book, "The C++ Programming Language"? Isn't that like learning C and not reading K&R's book about it or taking a course on design patterns and not reading GOF?
There are a lot of classic computer science texts that I would expect all students to be familiar with.
Yes, procedures that require humans to never make mistakes are doomed to failure. Too many people design processes where they assume each operation is performed flawlessly 100% of the time instead of asking themselves what happens if X does Y instead of Z.
I'm not sure why they do this. My best guess is that a lot of people just don't have the experience to know how to anticipate things before they actually occur.
Isn't acetaminophen an antipyretic (fever reducer) and aspirin and ibuprofen anti-inflammatories (NSAID's)? I wouldn't call any of them pain killers. In my experience even the hydrocodone and oxycodone formulations don't work that well to kill pain. I have to take at least 15mg to notice any relief and that might just be the opiate buzz.
The best actual pain killer I've taken is Propoxyphene, but it was withdrawn from market due to causing electrical problems with the heart. I had a torn ligament and it worked great to take away the sharp pain while not affecting me mentally.
I come from a traditional Unix background, I want to say the first system I used was running SunOS 3.5. In college I found out about OpenBSD and ran it on my P-90 beige box. It was great for servers, but trying to run desktop apps was a hassle since you either hoped what you wanted was there in the ports collection or were forced to build it yourself. Back in those days just getting X11 to work with your graphics card could be difficult to impossible.
Eventually I got tired of dealing with a limited ports collection and started running FreeBSD. Much, much easier to use on a desktop system. More users than OpenBSD and a much larger ports collection.
Then I got hired on as the DevOps guy at a startup and they were running RHEL. I figured it would make more sense to use CentOS on one of my home servers than FreeBSD since I needed to improve my Linux skills. Eventually we moved to AWS and I started working with Amazon Linux.
So these days I use CentOS when I want a nice desktop experience and a wide range of applications and BSD when I want to run services for my network. I use ESXi on a larger Intel Xeon based server and have virtual machines running both operating systems.
After Heartbleed and the other issues affecting OpenSSL, and Shellsheck affecting bash, why the hell would anyone still be pushing this disproven "more eyeballs" narrative?!
People keep repeating the law incorrectly. Linus' Law states that "with many eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", it doesn't say anything about secure code.
What's next, you can't talk to people while the artist is on stage?
Granted, I'm a little annoyed by people at the front of the stage who have their phones out to record the entire show, but I think security should just toss them out of the venue instead of locking everyone's phone up.
I thought the point was that if you pay more you should get better service?
I haven't watched the video, but I'm guessing it features people who are upset about the situation? I think it would be fantastic if I could skip a long line by paying more if I'm in a hurry.
The cynic in me says that Google is taking money from someone to leave autoplay enabled. Whomever at W3C dreamt that "feature" up should be tarred and feathered.
It's going to be awful hard for the U.S. government to create their own systems that are superior to commercial offerings when they can't acquire or retain talent because the pay is too low and the working conditions suck.
The Benghazi and mishandling of classified information investigations found plenty.
We found out that Hillary knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack and that Susan Rice went on the mainstream news programs the next day and lied to the American People about it being caused by some amateur video about Prophet Muhammad.
We found out that not only did Hillary retain classified information on unauthorized, insecure systems, but she gave copies on a thumb drive to attorneys that lacked the proper security clearances to hold the information and we also discovered copies of those emails on Huma Abedin's former husband's laptop. We discovered she had her servers wiped (no, not with a cloth) when she found out she was being investigated. We also found out that despite receiving training on how to handle classified materials she was unable to identify classification marking on documents. Her explanations did not pass the sniff test.
Why do you believe nothing was found? Because she wasn't charged with a crime?
No, they can't hold you in contempt until you unlock the phone unless you're dumb enough to use a fingerprint reader. We have this thing called the 5th Amendment that prevents the government from forcing us to become a witness against ourselves.
There is plenty of legal precedent against compelling users to enter passwords and assisting law enforcement with searches.
LCDs are the fatal flaw (IMHO) with every other smartwatch.
If you spend a few minutes searching you'll find there's a half-dozen other watches out there that use an ePaper or eInk display. Check out the Sony FES for example. Unfortunately none of them match the feature set of the Pebble Time.
How do you change your watch display to show two time zones at once? Or show Donkey Kong and have him do an animation when you flick your wrist? Can you control your music player with your watch? Can you play Tiny Bird while sitting on the toilet? Can you roll six d20's on your watch?
I have a watch with a mechanical movement, it will run pretty much forever without needing to be taken off and charged. It's been sitting in my watch winder since I've owned by Pebble Time Steel. My Pebble does need to be charged once a week, but it only takes an hour and I do it while I'm working at my desk.
Being able to use my watch to perform certain functions is vastly superior to pulling a phone out of my pocket, entering my passphrase and then going into an app to do something. If I get a call or a text message I just have to look at my wrist. I can respond by pushing a few buttons or talking at it. I know it seems really simple, but it's a huge improvement as far as usability goes.
I own a Pebble Time Steel and I love the device. An always-on display and several days worth of charge are requirements and none of the Android watches provide that. iWatches only work with iPhones, so they aren't an option.
I looked at the FitBit devices and they're all garbage for my purposes. I don't want a fitness tracker, I want a smartwatch! I find it ironic that FitBit kept the Pebble developers since each update to my Pebble seemed to break something important. The fitness tracking features that were added just don't work properly. Sometimes my sleep data is wildly inaccurate, hours of sleep not counted, and there's no way to correct the information. According to the step counter I'm burning more than 4,000 calories a day!
I just don't understand why Pebble continued creating all of those new devices if they were having financial problems. The Pebble Round I can understand, but why was money spent developing the Time 2 and Core? The cherry on top was Pebble's CEO holding out for less money; he turned down $740 million from Citizen and instead took $35 million from FitBit. WTF?! Did he go to the George Costanza school of business?
Cloning and genetic engineering of superior humans will eventually happen so long as we can avoid blowing ourselves up or creating some superbug/virus that wipes us all out.
We're not playing God, we're playing Human using the tools that God gave us.
Hulu now offers ad-free subscriptions. I renewed my subscription once that happened and cancelled Netflix since a lot of the shows I watched have moved to Hulu.
Like Amazon, Netfix is more or less betting the house on original content. They've both figured out that whilst offering house-hold named content is a good way to pull in customers, the licensing and legal shenanigans make it a difficult game to be in long term. Instead, make sure you've got enough original content to keep people 'filled up'.
This original content strategy is the reason that I'm cancelling my Netflix subscription after 9 or so years. I typically used Netflix for television shows, but it got to the point where I had either seen all of the old content I was interested in, or Netflix had lost the rights to the shows I still wanted to watch. I used to watch movies, but their offering just got worse and worse; for the last few years anything I would search for would not be available to watch.
A lot of shows have moved to Hulu. Family Guy, South Park, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dr. Who, Rick and Morty? All are on Hulu and not Netflix. Thankfully Hulu finally got a clue and offered ad-free subscriptions and new episodes appear weekly instead of after the end of a season like on Netflix. Now I have a handful of new episodes to watch each week versus binge watching a season in three days and then having to wait another year for more.
As for the original content? I'm just not interested in what I've seen so far. Stranger Things was okay, but season two went out with a whimper and it's just not a show I would watch over and over like a Seinfeld, Trailer Park Boys or It's Always Sunny.
Yup, that's why Judo is called the Gentle Way and why we stress mutual welfare and benefit!
Martial arts are generally about self-defense and not fighting, but there's a lot more to it then that. It takes a lot of discipline, mental toughness and hard work to make it all the way to a black belt.
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You took a C++ course and you didn't use Stroustrup's book, "The C++ Programming Language"? Isn't that like learning C and not reading K&R's book about it or taking a course on design patterns and not reading GOF?
There are a lot of classic computer science texts that I would expect all students to be familiar with.
Of course the FCC can preempt the states. This is an issue of interstate commerce, not intrastate.
Why would you need to be home? This thing has wheels, it can just drive to wherever you're at.
Yes, procedures that require humans to never make mistakes are doomed to failure. Too many people design processes where they assume each operation is performed flawlessly 100% of the time instead of asking themselves what happens if X does Y instead of Z.
I'm not sure why they do this. My best guess is that a lot of people just don't have the experience to know how to anticipate things before they actually occur.
Isn't acetaminophen an antipyretic (fever reducer) and aspirin and ibuprofen anti-inflammatories (NSAID's)? I wouldn't call any of them pain killers. In my experience even the hydrocodone and oxycodone formulations don't work that well to kill pain. I have to take at least 15mg to notice any relief and that might just be the opiate buzz.
The best actual pain killer I've taken is Propoxyphene, but it was withdrawn from market due to causing electrical problems with the heart. I had a torn ligament and it worked great to take away the sharp pain while not affecting me mentally.
I come from a traditional Unix background, I want to say the first system I used was running SunOS 3.5. In college I found out about OpenBSD and ran it on my P-90 beige box. It was great for servers, but trying to run desktop apps was a hassle since you either hoped what you wanted was there in the ports collection or were forced to build it yourself. Back in those days just getting X11 to work with your graphics card could be difficult to impossible.
Eventually I got tired of dealing with a limited ports collection and started running FreeBSD. Much, much easier to use on a desktop system. More users than OpenBSD and a much larger ports collection.
Then I got hired on as the DevOps guy at a startup and they were running RHEL. I figured it would make more sense to use CentOS on one of my home servers than FreeBSD since I needed to improve my Linux skills. Eventually we moved to AWS and I started working with Amazon Linux.
So these days I use CentOS when I want a nice desktop experience and a wide range of applications and BSD when I want to run services for my network. I use ESXi on a larger Intel Xeon based server and have virtual machines running both operating systems.
After Heartbleed and the other issues affecting OpenSSL, and Shellsheck affecting bash, why the hell would anyone still be pushing this disproven "more eyeballs" narrative?!
People keep repeating the law incorrectly. Linus' Law states that "with many eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", it doesn't say anything about secure code.
What's next, you can't talk to people while the artist is on stage?
Granted, I'm a little annoyed by people at the front of the stage who have their phones out to record the entire show, but I think security should just toss them out of the venue instead of locking everyone's phone up.
I thought the point was that if you pay more you should get better service?
I haven't watched the video, but I'm guessing it features people who are upset about the situation? I think it would be fantastic if I could skip a long line by paying more if I'm in a hurry.
The cynic in me says that Google is taking money from someone to leave autoplay enabled. Whomever at W3C dreamt that "feature" up should be tarred and feathered.
It's going to be awful hard for the U.S. government to create their own systems that are superior to commercial offerings when they can't acquire or retain talent because the pay is too low and the working conditions suck.
We'll see. The Clinton Foundation is under investigation and felons are ineligible for public office.
The Benghazi and mishandling of classified information investigations found plenty.
We found out that Hillary knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack and that Susan Rice went on the mainstream news programs the next day and lied to the American People about it being caused by some amateur video about Prophet Muhammad.
We found out that not only did Hillary retain classified information on unauthorized, insecure systems, but she gave copies on a thumb drive to attorneys that lacked the proper security clearances to hold the information and we also discovered copies of those emails on Huma Abedin's former husband's laptop. We discovered she had her servers wiped (no, not with a cloth) when she found out she was being investigated. We also found out that despite receiving training on how to handle classified materials she was unable to identify classification marking on documents. Her explanations did not pass the sniff test.
Why do you believe nothing was found? Because she wasn't charged with a crime?
It's time to kill the unborn in the womb!
The difference is that the TSA can't put you in prison for using a non-approved lock, they just cut it off your luggage.
No, they can't hold you in contempt until you unlock the phone unless you're dumb enough to use a fingerprint reader. We have this thing called the 5th Amendment that prevents the government from forcing us to become a witness against ourselves.
There is plenty of legal precedent against compelling users to enter passwords and assisting law enforcement with searches.
LCDs are the fatal flaw (IMHO) with every other smartwatch.
If you spend a few minutes searching you'll find there's a half-dozen other watches out there that use an ePaper or eInk display. Check out the Sony FES for example. Unfortunately none of them match the feature set of the Pebble Time.
How do you change your watch display to show two time zones at once? Or show Donkey Kong and have him do an animation when you flick your wrist? Can you control your music player with your watch? Can you play Tiny Bird while sitting on the toilet? Can you roll six d20's on your watch?
I have a watch with a mechanical movement, it will run pretty much forever without needing to be taken off and charged. It's been sitting in my watch winder since I've owned by Pebble Time Steel. My Pebble does need to be charged once a week, but it only takes an hour and I do it while I'm working at my desk.
Being able to use my watch to perform certain functions is vastly superior to pulling a phone out of my pocket, entering my passphrase and then going into an app to do something. If I get a call or a text message I just have to look at my wrist. I can respond by pushing a few buttons or talking at it. I know it seems really simple, but it's a huge improvement as far as usability goes.
I own a Pebble Time Steel and I love the device. An always-on display and several days worth of charge are requirements and none of the Android watches provide that. iWatches only work with iPhones, so they aren't an option.
I looked at the FitBit devices and they're all garbage for my purposes. I don't want a fitness tracker, I want a smartwatch! I find it ironic that FitBit kept the Pebble developers since each update to my Pebble seemed to break something important. The fitness tracking features that were added just don't work properly. Sometimes my sleep data is wildly inaccurate, hours of sleep not counted, and there's no way to correct the information. According to the step counter I'm burning more than 4,000 calories a day!
I just don't understand why Pebble continued creating all of those new devices if they were having financial problems. The Pebble Round I can understand, but why was money spent developing the Time 2 and Core? The cherry on top was Pebble's CEO holding out for less money; he turned down $740 million from Citizen and instead took $35 million from FitBit. WTF?! Did he go to the George Costanza school of business?
The chances of me buying a FitBit product are 0%.
Your brain circuits will be mapped to an artificial neural net.
You'll believe you're still you, but it will just be an illusion.
Cloning and genetic engineering of superior humans will eventually happen so long as we can avoid blowing ourselves up or creating some superbug/virus that wipes us all out.
We're not playing God, we're playing Human using the tools that God gave us.
Hulu now offers ad-free subscriptions. I renewed my subscription once that happened and cancelled Netflix since a lot of the shows I watched have moved to Hulu.
Like Amazon, Netfix is more or less betting the house on original content. They've both figured out that whilst offering house-hold named content is a good way to pull in customers, the licensing and legal shenanigans make it a difficult game to be in long term. Instead, make sure you've got enough original content to keep people 'filled up'.
This original content strategy is the reason that I'm cancelling my Netflix subscription after 9 or so years. I typically used Netflix for television shows, but it got to the point where I had either seen all of the old content I was interested in, or Netflix had lost the rights to the shows I still wanted to watch. I used to watch movies, but their offering just got worse and worse; for the last few years anything I would search for would not be available to watch.
A lot of shows have moved to Hulu. Family Guy, South Park, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dr. Who, Rick and Morty? All are on Hulu and not Netflix. Thankfully Hulu finally got a clue and offered ad-free subscriptions and new episodes appear weekly instead of after the end of a season like on Netflix. Now I have a handful of new episodes to watch each week versus binge watching a season in three days and then having to wait another year for more.
As for the original content? I'm just not interested in what I've seen so far. Stranger Things was okay, but season two went out with a whimper and it's just not a show I would watch over and over like a Seinfeld, Trailer Park Boys or It's Always Sunny.
because wallets can be lost/stolen/hacked.
That's why they created multisignature. You need cooperation between multiple people to perform an transaction.
You can also make a paper wallet, cut it into pieces and give each piece to a different person.
Then you beat the crap out of each other.
Yup, that's why Judo is called the Gentle Way and why we stress mutual welfare and benefit!
Martial arts are generally about self-defense and not fighting, but there's a lot more to it then that. It takes a lot of discipline, mental toughness and hard work to make it all the way to a black belt.