Comment Re:Dear BPI, (Score 1) 89
True story:
At one ISP I worked at, the abuse@ DMCA notices were filtered into a separate mailbox, and was only read / searched to find links to download. This was, of course, not in USA
True story:
At one ISP I worked at, the abuse@ DMCA notices were filtered into a separate mailbox, and was only read / searched to find links to download. This was, of course, not in USA
http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-more-movies-121018/
http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-boosts-cd-sales-071103/
http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-30-more-music-than-non-p2p-peers-121015/
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-boosts-music-sales-study-finds-120517/
Yeah, I'm lazy. And the site does have its own agenda. But the articles all link to the original sources, so should be verifiable if you're curious.
These guys probably are among the best and brightest.
Actually, probably not.
Nagel concluded that democracies rarely or never elect the best leaders. Their advantage over dictatorships or other forms of government is merely that they "effectively prevent lower-than-average candidates from becoming leaders."
It's simple, Samsung was the only kids on the block with that quality and reliability.
Apple have tried a few times before, but the results have generally been rather bad.
I seem to recall some similar stories now and then, but right now it's so much Google noise it's hard to find old stories.
Anyway, seems like other producers have caught up, and are now ready to deliver. Hopefully.
By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
-- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
Ordered from raspberrypi.rsdelivers.com - one of the two that was recommended from http://www.raspberrypi.org/ page.
I looked at element14 but they didn't seem to have a casing for it, so I ended up at the other recommended place.
How about actually, you know, shipping the things? Ordered a month ago, only thing I've got from it so far is an automated email and a PI-shaped hole in my paypal account..
Less mucking about, more actually delivering stuff please.
That is
It's a bit like defining a home as where you sleep, and further defining that the only thing that thus needs warrant to search is your bed mattress and blankets.
Or define vehicle as "Ferrari, horse, horse wagon and steam wagon".
Or maybe define the president as whoever sits in the president's chair in the oval office...
Whoever wrote those "laws" are crazy, and should be in a mental hospital somewhere, not writing
I think this video might adequately convey your reaction.
On the idea that he invented the automobile
Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, as is occasionally believed. Indeed, he began as a race driver of other people's cars. As Ford himself noted, by the 1870s, the notion of a "horseless carriage was a common idea".[93] Many people worked toward the idea, as the history of steam road vehicles and of automobiles shows. Ford was, however, more influential than any other single person in changing the paradigm of the automobile from a very expensive, heavy, hand-built toy for rich people into a lightweight, reliable, affordable, mass-produced mode of transportation for working-class people.
On the idea that he invented the assembly line
Both Ford and Ransom E. Olds are sometimes credited with the invention of the assembly line, although (as is the case with many inventions) the assembly line's development included many inventors. It combined the idea of interchangeable parts (another gradual technological development that is often mistakenly attributed to one individual or another). After 5 years of empirical development, Ford's first moving assembly line (employing conveyor belts) began mass production on or around April 1, 1913. The concept was first applied to subassemblies, and shortly after to the entire chassis. Although it is inaccurate to say that Ford personally invented the assembly line, his sponsorship of its development and use was central to its explosive success in the 20th century
Actually, at least here in Norway its'a huge deal. National TV, newspapers, and so on have had a field week of telling everyone just how terrible the new iOS maps have been.
Of course, it does not exactly help that they kinda left out some of the larger cities, routed main roads through airports, moved some other cities to the bottom of the sea, and misplaced some places by around half a country.
You also got this amusing image comparing iOS6 maps and Google maps for the center of Norway's 2nd largest city, Bergen.
I often do that, too. The problem is, I think, that we only look at what's needed to solve the problem, and nothing more. Not altering related code, not testing it, creating an UI for it, and so on.
What I've gotten in the habit of doing is taking my first estimate, double it, then shift it to next time unit.
If I think it will take 1 hour, I say two days. If I think it will take two days, I say four weeks.
A bit harsh, and seems large.. But works surprisingly well actually.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
I got fired, not for having the shortest average call time on the center, not for being one of the best problem solvers, not for helping out the lvl 3 tech support folks (that was more or less not allowed to talk on phone, only solve cases sent from lvl 2 in the ticket system), but... For, as technical support, not selling enough new junk to customers having problems with the junk they already had gotten from us.
When being pushed on it, I answered the annoying pusher that I thought I was hired to solve problems, not create new ones.. Shortly after, I was fired for not having the right attitude.
I do not regret it one second though. One of my better memories from that was an old lady calling in, and in the middle of trouble shooting she exclaimed "How nice to finally get someone that tries to solve my problem! This is the third time I've called in now, the two others just wanted to sell me stuff!"
There were several times I had concrete suggestions on how to improve the technical support's both correctness and efficiency, but was stonewalled by management every single time. I think most of them just look at support as a buffer / piss drain between the customers and the company, not as something to actually help the customers.
Bergen in Norway fared even worse (Norwegian article).
As an added insult, Bergen is built around Vågen, and that and the harbor kind of defines Bergen.. It would be a bit like omitting the White House in Washington, or Statue of Liberty in NY.
Hi, I'm from the rabid Android fanclub, and you can have the GP. He talked obvious nonsense about retina crap to make our tablets look bad!
He's clearly a crazy Apple fanboy that just tries to lull us into a false sense of security in the first part of his post.
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