We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles
No. You overestimated your company's ability to create a viable design within the schedule you set, and you underestimated the complexity of the problem you faced. You don't get to blame the lack of "arrival" when you're at least partly responsible for that lack.
I am so fucking tired of the weasel-worded evasions of responsibility that have become the gold standard in PR-speak. You failed to meet a date - it happens. Grow up and own the responsibility, then learn and move on. Don't make a thinly veiled claim that 'the devil made me do it' or some such rot.
Apple has a history of censoring content in its platforms. In this it seems that they're no different from many other major players. That's probably not surprising, given the symbiotic relationship between big corporations and governments. But there's an inconsistency here. On the one hand, Apple actively opposes US law enforcement's efforts to compromise users' private data. On the other hand, they seem to get behind censorship in a big way, sometimes even in support of totalitarianism.
People behave inconsistently - I guess entities that enjoy 'corporate personhood' exhibit similar behaviour.
Forced from an early age to follow somebody else's idea of a schedule. Taken away from their families for many hours a day. Not allowed to pursue the things that truly interest and excite them. Forced to learn things which they're not interested in. Taught that knowledge is acquired by being stuffed full of it and then regurgitating it, as opposed to living and learning organically in the real world in real situations. Encouraged to believe that learning is hard, and that there is only one right way and only one approved opportunity to study any given subject or discipline. Actively prevented from learning what they might learn easily and enthusiastically, because 'that's not what we're studying right now'. Discouraged from being individuals, from being 'different'. In some cases, all of this pounding of square pegs into the approved round holes results in "jerks or (those who) are struggling". In other cases it results 'merely' in people who fall far short of the potential they were born with. So what's the proposal for 'fixing' these students? Why, of course, the answer must be more monitoring, more hand-holding, more theft of their autonomy, more invasion in their lives - still more prescription, and still more proscription. Do educators and authorities really not get that doing the same shit over and over again and expecting a different result is a symptom of insanity?
I suspect public schooling damages children neurologically. There's a lot of talk about how people's brains don't really mature until they're in their twenties, yet there have been more than a few examples throughout history of people in their early teens starting successful companies, commanding troops in battle and winning, and so forth. What if the public schools' lack of real-world engagement and experience and autonomy starves young brains of the stimulation that would, via neuro-plasticity, mature those brains much sooner? What if the constant thwarting of their every impulse and inclination dulls children and pre-disposes them to apathy and/or anger and/or despair? Just to be clear - yes, I AM theorizing that school might cause brain damage. I'm fairly certain that in many people it causes soul damage. It did in my case.
Anybody who is disgusted and saddened by the Orwellian interventions described in TFA really should read John Taylor Gatto's 'Underground History of American Education'. It totally changed my view of both the efficacy and the purpose of public education as it has been practised during the last century. The book is out of print, but is available in PDF as a free download - check it out via your favourite search engine.
Because using apt, dnf, yum, or whatever is so f*cking hard. But, maybe the people who use VSCode on a Linux box need the extra help.
No, using those things is not hard. Until you do something like add a third-party repository, either because the mainstream version of the program you want is too far out of date, or because there IS no mainstream version of the program you need. Then, on some future update, you end up with conflicts and broken packages, and you're in the Linux version of "DLL hell". Also, there are things I've tried to install which, because they're native to KDE and I'm on XFCE, insist on bringing in pretty much the entire DE as dependencies, even though most of them aren't truly needed. Conversely, there are things I've tried to UNinstall that want to remove pretty much my entire DE.
Linux DE's and programs have gotten far too complicated for any kind of sane package management - it's just too hard to reconcile the libraries and other dependencies across so many programs of different vintages. I feel for the package maintainers, and I understand why they throw everything-including-the-kitchen-sink into their dependency lists. But I have neither the time nor the inclination to build all this shit from source so it works on MY system, only to re-build it all in 6 months when some other change comes along and breaks things. For people like me, Snaps are VERY attractive. Sure, they add a lot of bloat - but in some cases I'm already forced to accept bloat to get what I want. And at least with Snaps, I can blow stuff away without fear that I'm going to break some other package or even bork my whole damned DE.
I got sick of it, unplugged it from the internet and use a TV box instead.
Why in the world did you ever plug it into the internet in the first place? I thought everyone on Slashdot knew better.
The TV shit will cost them a TV sale on the next upgrade of TVs.
Dear Samsung, Fuck You.
An ex-customer.
I could be wrong, but it seems that you're missing the point. The most important lesson here isn't "don't buy Samsung" - although that's certainly a good idea - it's "don't buy a smart TV". And if you MUST buy one - I know it's getting harder and harder to buy any other kind - then for Dog's sake never connect it to the Interwebs!
The Ipad Mini is just using previous designs used in other iPads. Unless Apple is now building new iPads out of salvage components, I don't consider this a frankenstein machine.
Nobody is forcing stupid Crapple to pollute the environment with disposable cheap shit garbage.
Actually, there are TWO parties twisting Apple's arm here. The first is that god-like class of folks called 'shareholders', who as a group have the power to make the bravest CEO quake in his or her boots. The second is that sheep-like bunch of people called consumers, who let themselves be brainwashed into "needing" the latest shiny as cheaply as possible. The latter make the former possible; the former pay the advertisers and other propagandists, who make the latter possible. I say 'chicken', you say 'egg'...
Of all the many words the summary quoted from TFA, these seven are the only ones that really needed saying; and they sure as hell didn't need to be said here.
You've probably thought of this, but I'll mention it in case you haven't. If your primary concern is high temperatures, make sure the boxes are painted white. If the bigger problem is low temperatures, pain them black.
As for fans, make sure your thermal design doesn't require them under any except the most extreme conditions. The vast percentage of the time fans shouldn't be bringing equipment temperature into the desired operating range, they should be bringing it farther into range.
I sometimes wonder if I'm the outlier, or if people are just really bad at business.
We're definitely the outliers. Most people in the 'mass customer' demographic, (and especially non-techies, it seems) have come to accept and even expect bad, abusive behaviour from the companies whose products they buy. To them that's 'just the way it is'. As a consequence, all of us who reward good behaviour and punish bad by voting with our wallets, represent little more than a rounding error in sales and profit stats.
I'm pretty sure whoever modded you down failed to notice a 'whoosh' sound overhead. But to be fair to that moderator, you post does ramble a bit, and it took me a while to be only fairly certain that you're being sarcastic. If it hadn't been for your username and your sig I might not have clued in to that possibility.
FTA: "magnetic field instead of an electric field; that meant it could be more compact".
IIRC an antenna's magnetic field intensity falls off as the cube of distance, whereas the electric field falls off as the square. I'd be interested to know how the range of this new tech compares with a more traditional transmitter having similar output power.
And by the way, how will this affect one's ability to rely on emails as reliable historical, (and perhaps legal), documentation? Will this new bit of shiny render 'going back through old emails' obsolete?
Then there's the prospect of full-on advertising in the body of an email. And will compatibility with regular email clients be maintained? I suspect not - Google and other players want us to do EVERYTHING via the browser, the better to control our 'experience'.
And WTF is (FTA) "a surface for actually getting things done"? AFAIC that's my desk. This new scheme is a 'surface' alright - it smells like an attack surface to me.
... the devices will certainly send some sort of ID which can then be related to other databases which DO contain your name, age, gender, address, race, political stance and a whole lot more stuff about you you were never told was being collected. So your post seems rather pathetically ignorant about the true nature of these kinds of systems and how they are and will be used against you by your government.
I came here to say pretty much what SlaveToTheGrind said, but you make a valid argument, and I'm re-considering my position as a result. I suspect you were modded down because of that gratuitous 'pathetically ignorant' jab you tossed in at the end. Raising a point is sufficient - there's no need to slam it down on the head of whomever you disagree with.
The company cited "local legal restrictions" as the cause of the VPN ad ban.
In other words, "The Chinese market is too lucrative to risk pissing off the country's rulers, so we're going to go full-on evil in order to curry favour and secure our place at the trough".
Investigators listen to 'black box' cockpit recordings of planes that crash - why don't they do that for ANY report of a significant malfunction that looks like it might cause a crash under different circumstances? Hell, it doesn't even have to be "the" black box - they could have secondary recorders whose data are more accessible.
I also wonder why there isn't an 'airline pilots only' social media platform that would spread news of this kind of incident far faster than 'official' channels. If pilots were regularly in touch with their counterparts all over the world, I bet we'd all be a lot safer. And if there happens to be some regulatory or competitive or face-saving reason why it wouldn't be allowed, well, fuck that and do it anyway.
I use a method espoused by a white house staffer to prevent my microwave from spying on me. Piece of tape. Works wonders.
That's assuming you know the location of the camera... er, cameras. And then there are the microphones - a piece of tape isn't terribly effective for those.
Then pretty soon the market will cluster around the few devices that do not do this? Sure, some people will stick with say Firestick forever, but many will say "screw this" and swap to Roku. Then if Roku does the targeted ads they'll switch to Apple, etc. The only way the targeted ads work is if the consumers don't give a shit anymore.
I'm guessing that either all of your friends are geeks, or you don't get out much. I see zero sign that the majority of people will offer any more than token resistance to this kind of targeted advertising. Facebook lives, Google thrives, and corporations in general rule because most people just accept the status quo.
We may be getting closer to that point but we're not at the 100% sheep level.
No, we're not at 100% sheepness, but we're way north of 90%, and some would say we're well past 99%. In any case, this shit is a done deal, and most people will just suck it up, as they have with Windows 10, shitty cellular providers, and corrupt governments.
Thanks very much for the info. My dryness isn't severe enough for me to consider treatment - I don't notice it often, and when I do it's a very minor discomfort. It's just that even people without dry eyes sometimes end up with them after Lasik, so I figure I'd have a greater-than-average chance of post-surgery problems.
I've worn glasses since Grade 5, and I'm also very nearsighted, though not so bad as you. I too have problems with fogging glasses, and I have additional difficulties when I wear eye protection when I'm doing shop work. And I've had brief experiences similar to your post-operation vision when I've worn contacts.
Even all that isn't enough to make me take that surgery risk. Plus, I have age-related presbyopia, which Lasik can't correct for. And if I HAVE to have glasses, then I'll choose having to have them for distance every time with no hesitation. When I've had contacts in and not had my reading glasses close at hand, I've felt panicky at my inability to see clearly what's right in front of my face. If I can't see something far away, I can almost always move closer. When I can't see something up close, I often can't move far enough away to see it clearly, because then it's too small. If I had eye surgery I'd have to have them under-correct so I could see up close comfortably. But then I'd still need glasses at least part of the time for distance - so for me, the surgery risk simply isn't worth it.
I'm glad your surgery worked out so well for you though, as I have a keen appreciation for what you went through before you had it.
Another risk in laser eye surgery is extreme dryness. My eyes are already on the dry side - damned if I'm going to gamble on having to depend on drops for the rest of my life, in addition to the posibility of poor night vision, or worse if the procedure goes sideways.
I can't even wear contacts - even when I ignore the irritation, all the ones I've tried cause my eyes to get gummy and blurry. I've resigned myself to wearing glasses, (and getting hosed because of it), for the rest of my life.
I'm wondering where people take the energy to be outraged into all directions at all times.
From the conspiracy theorist's perspective, that's the whole point. If you get everybody pissed off in several directions at once they have less energy available to fight for any given cause. A distracted, divided populace is much easier to manipulate and much less likely to rebel effectively - it's called "divide and conquer".
... it sounds like like something out a sci-fi futuristic dystopian book...
Or a dystopian chapter out of a history book - we could be witnessing the birth of a modern (per)version of zaibatsu, sneaking in the back door via workplace healthcare...
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We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles
No. You overestimated your company's ability to create a viable design within the schedule you set, and you underestimated the complexity of the problem you faced. You don't get to blame the lack of "arrival" when you're at least partly responsible for that lack.
I am so fucking tired of the weasel-worded evasions of responsibility that have become the gold standard in PR-speak. You failed to meet a date - it happens. Grow up and own the responsibility, then learn and move on. Don't make a thinly veiled claim that 'the devil made me do it' or some such rot.
Apple has a history of censoring content in its platforms. In this it seems that they're no different from many other major players. That's probably not surprising, given the symbiotic relationship between big corporations and governments. But there's an inconsistency here. On the one hand, Apple actively opposes US law enforcement's efforts to compromise users' private data. On the other hand, they seem to get behind censorship in a big way, sometimes even in support of totalitarianism.
People behave inconsistently - I guess entities that enjoy 'corporate personhood' exhibit similar behaviour.
Forced from an early age to follow somebody else's idea of a schedule. Taken away from their families for many hours a day. Not allowed to pursue the things that truly interest and excite them. Forced to learn things which they're not interested in. Taught that knowledge is acquired by being stuffed full of it and then regurgitating it, as opposed to living and learning organically in the real world in real situations. Encouraged to believe that learning is hard, and that there is only one right way and only one approved opportunity to study any given subject or discipline. Actively prevented from learning what they might learn easily and enthusiastically, because 'that's not what we're studying right now'. Discouraged from being individuals, from being 'different'. In some cases, all of this pounding of square pegs into the approved round holes results in "jerks or (those who) are struggling". In other cases it results 'merely' in people who fall far short of the potential they were born with. So what's the proposal for 'fixing' these students? Why, of course, the answer must be more monitoring, more hand-holding, more theft of their autonomy, more invasion in their lives - still more prescription, and still more proscription. Do educators and authorities really not get that doing the same shit over and over again and expecting a different result is a symptom of insanity?
I suspect public schooling damages children neurologically. There's a lot of talk about how people's brains don't really mature until they're in their twenties, yet there have been more than a few examples throughout history of people in their early teens starting successful companies, commanding troops in battle and winning, and so forth. What if the public schools' lack of real-world engagement and experience and autonomy starves young brains of the stimulation that would, via neuro-plasticity, mature those brains much sooner? What if the constant thwarting of their every impulse and inclination dulls children and pre-disposes them to apathy and/or anger and/or despair? Just to be clear - yes, I AM theorizing that school might cause brain damage. I'm fairly certain that in many people it causes soul damage. It did in my case.
Anybody who is disgusted and saddened by the Orwellian interventions described in TFA really should read John Taylor Gatto's 'Underground History of American Education'. It totally changed my view of both the efficacy and the purpose of public education as it has been practised during the last century. The book is out of print, but is available in PDF as a free download - check it out via your favourite search engine.
Because using apt, dnf, yum, or whatever is so f*cking hard. But, maybe the people who use VSCode on a Linux box need the extra help.
No, using those things is not hard. Until you do something like add a third-party repository, either because the mainstream version of the program you want is too far out of date, or because there IS no mainstream version of the program you need. Then, on some future update, you end up with conflicts and broken packages, and you're in the Linux version of "DLL hell". Also, there are things I've tried to install which, because they're native to KDE and I'm on XFCE, insist on bringing in pretty much the entire DE as dependencies, even though most of them aren't truly needed. Conversely, there are things I've tried to UNinstall that want to remove pretty much my entire DE.
Linux DE's and programs have gotten far too complicated for any kind of sane package management - it's just too hard to reconcile the libraries and other dependencies across so many programs of different vintages. I feel for the package maintainers, and I understand why they throw everything-including-the-kitchen-sink into their dependency lists. But I have neither the time nor the inclination to build all this shit from source so it works on MY system, only to re-build it all in 6 months when some other change comes along and breaks things. For people like me, Snaps are VERY attractive. Sure, they add a lot of bloat - but in some cases I'm already forced to accept bloat to get what I want. And at least with Snaps, I can blow stuff away without fear that I'm going to break some other package or even bork my whole damned DE.
I got sick of it, unplugged it from the internet and use a TV box instead.
Why in the world did you ever plug it into the internet in the first place? I thought everyone on Slashdot knew better.
The TV shit will cost them a TV sale on the next upgrade of TVs.
Dear Samsung, Fuck You. An ex-customer.
I could be wrong, but it seems that you're missing the point. The most important lesson here isn't "don't buy Samsung" - although that's certainly a good idea - it's "don't buy a smart TV". And if you MUST buy one - I know it's getting harder and harder to buy any other kind - then for Dog's sake never connect it to the Interwebs!
The Ipad Mini is just using previous designs used in other iPads. Unless Apple is now building new iPads out of salvage components, I don't consider this a frankenstein machine.
A Frankenstein design, perhaps?
Nobody is forcing stupid Crapple to pollute the environment with disposable cheap shit garbage.
Actually, there are TWO parties twisting Apple's arm here. The first is that god-like class of folks called 'shareholders', who as a group have the power to make the bravest CEO quake in his or her boots. The second is that sheep-like bunch of people called consumers, who let themselves be brainwashed into "needing" the latest shiny as cheaply as possible. The latter make the former possible; the former pay the advertisers and other propagandists, who make the latter possible. I say 'chicken', you say 'egg'...
... you're better off not being on Facebook ...
Of all the many words the summary quoted from TFA, these seven are the only ones that really needed saying; and they sure as hell didn't need to be said here.
You've probably thought of this, but I'll mention it in case you haven't. If your primary concern is high temperatures, make sure the boxes are painted white. If the bigger problem is low temperatures, pain them black.
As for fans, make sure your thermal design doesn't require them under any except the most extreme conditions. The vast percentage of the time fans shouldn't be bringing equipment temperature into the desired operating range, they should be bringing it farther into range.
Very good! Where are my mod points when I really need them?
I sometimes wonder if I'm the outlier, or if people are just really bad at business.
We're definitely the outliers. Most people in the 'mass customer' demographic, (and especially non-techies, it seems) have come to accept and even expect bad, abusive behaviour from the companies whose products they buy. To them that's 'just the way it is'. As a consequence, all of us who reward good behaviour and punish bad by voting with our wallets, represent little more than a rounding error in sales and profit stats.
I'm pretty sure whoever modded you down failed to notice a 'whoosh' sound overhead. But to be fair to that moderator, you post does ramble a bit, and it took me a while to be only fairly certain that you're being sarcastic. If it hadn't been for your username and your sig I might not have clued in to that possibility.
FTA: "magnetic field instead of an electric field; that meant it could be more compact".
IIRC an antenna's magnetic field intensity falls off as the cube of distance, whereas the electric field falls off as the square. I'd be interested to know how the range of this new tech compares with a more traditional transmitter having similar output power.
And by the way, how will this affect one's ability to rely on emails as reliable historical, (and perhaps legal), documentation? Will this new bit of shiny render 'going back through old emails' obsolete?
Then there's the prospect of full-on advertising in the body of an email. And will compatibility with regular email clients be maintained? I suspect not - Google and other players want us to do EVERYTHING via the browser, the better to control our 'experience'.
And WTF is (FTA) "a surface for actually getting things done"? AFAIC that's my desk. This new scheme is a 'surface' alright - it smells like an attack surface to me.
... the devices will certainly send some sort of ID which can then be related to other databases which DO contain your name, age, gender, address, race, political stance and a whole lot more stuff about you you were never told was being collected. So your post seems rather pathetically ignorant about the true nature of these kinds of systems and how they are and will be used against you by your government.
I came here to say pretty much what SlaveToTheGrind said, but you make a valid argument, and I'm re-considering my position as a result. I suspect you were modded down because of that gratuitous 'pathetically ignorant' jab you tossed in at the end. Raising a point is sufficient - there's no need to slam it down on the head of whomever you disagree with.
The company cited "local legal restrictions" as the cause of the VPN ad ban.
In other words, "The Chinese market is too lucrative to risk pissing off the country's rulers, so we're going to go full-on evil in order to curry favour and secure our place at the trough".
Fuck Google.
Investigators listen to 'black box' cockpit recordings of planes that crash - why don't they do that for ANY report of a significant malfunction that looks like it might cause a crash under different circumstances? Hell, it doesn't even have to be "the" black box - they could have secondary recorders whose data are more accessible.
I also wonder why there isn't an 'airline pilots only' social media platform that would spread news of this kind of incident far faster than 'official' channels. If pilots were regularly in touch with their counterparts all over the world, I bet we'd all be a lot safer. And if there happens to be some regulatory or competitive or face-saving reason why it wouldn't be allowed, well, fuck that and do it anyway.
I use a method espoused by a white house staffer to prevent my microwave from spying on me. Piece of tape. Works wonders.
That's assuming you know the location of the camera ... er, cameras. And then there are the microphones - a piece of tape isn't terribly effective for those.
Well said and well played! I might have gone with "you can still feel it when it probes your anus" - I guess you're just classier than I am...
Then pretty soon the market will cluster around the few devices that do not do this? Sure, some people will stick with say Firestick forever, but many will say "screw this" and swap to Roku. Then if Roku does the targeted ads they'll switch to Apple, etc. The only way the targeted ads work is if the consumers don't give a shit anymore.
I'm guessing that either all of your friends are geeks, or you don't get out much. I see zero sign that the majority of people will offer any more than token resistance to this kind of targeted advertising. Facebook lives, Google thrives, and corporations in general rule because most people just accept the status quo.
We may be getting closer to that point but we're not at the 100% sheep level.
No, we're not at 100% sheepness, but we're way north of 90%, and some would say we're well past 99%. In any case, this shit is a done deal, and most people will just suck it up, as they have with Windows 10, shitty cellular providers, and corrupt governments.
Thanks very much for the info. My dryness isn't severe enough for me to consider treatment - I don't notice it often, and when I do it's a very minor discomfort. It's just that even people without dry eyes sometimes end up with them after Lasik, so I figure I'd have a greater-than-average chance of post-surgery problems.
I've worn glasses since Grade 5, and I'm also very nearsighted, though not so bad as you. I too have problems with fogging glasses, and I have additional difficulties when I wear eye protection when I'm doing shop work. And I've had brief experiences similar to your post-operation vision when I've worn contacts.
Even all that isn't enough to make me take that surgery risk. Plus, I have age-related presbyopia, which Lasik can't correct for. And if I HAVE to have glasses, then I'll choose having to have them for distance every time with no hesitation. When I've had contacts in and not had my reading glasses close at hand, I've felt panicky at my inability to see clearly what's right in front of my face. If I can't see something far away, I can almost always move closer. When I can't see something up close, I often can't move far enough away to see it clearly, because then it's too small. If I had eye surgery I'd have to have them under-correct so I could see up close comfortably. But then I'd still need glasses at least part of the time for distance - so for me, the surgery risk simply isn't worth it.
I'm glad your surgery worked out so well for you though, as I have a keen appreciation for what you went through before you had it.
Another risk in laser eye surgery is extreme dryness. My eyes are already on the dry side - damned if I'm going to gamble on having to depend on drops for the rest of my life, in addition to the posibility of poor night vision, or worse if the procedure goes sideways.
I can't even wear contacts - even when I ignore the irritation, all the ones I've tried cause my eyes to get gummy and blurry. I've resigned myself to wearing glasses, (and getting hosed because of it), for the rest of my life.
I'm wondering where people take the energy to be outraged into all directions at all times.
From the conspiracy theorist's perspective, that's the whole point. If you get everybody pissed off in several directions at once they have less energy available to fight for any given cause. A distracted, divided populace is much easier to manipulate and much less likely to rebel effectively - it's called "divide and conquer".
... it sounds like like something out a sci-fi futuristic dystopian book...
Or a dystopian chapter out of a history book - we could be witnessing the birth of a modern (per)version of zaibatsu, sneaking in the back door via workplace healthcare...