Yeah, that was a typo in my submission. I should have said 2021, not 2024 given that the REDIT post was '4 years ago'. Sorry.

iPhones are for people with more money than brains.

I would be more interested in a correlation with intelligence. Or with tech skills.

1. repulsor beams are more energy efficient, so they are likely to be used first;
2. this device repels, so is kind of like a repulsor beam;
3. a true repulsor beam or tractor beam is gravito-magnetic, not sonic;
4. a true repsor beam will generate an off axis tractor beam of equal power, but with that power dispersed over a wider arc (most likely a full 360 degree dispersal in the plane perpendicular to the beam, with additional dispersal above and below that plane), so there is a small possibility of using that tractor beam for a secondary purpose. That is the most likely way tractor beams will be used.

I completely agree. If they were motivated to learn, they would have done still so on their own. That's the thing with IT, self teaching (especially when you already know the management frameworks and principles) is not only easy, but the most effective way to learn.

You are wasting your time. If the work is not there, they are redundant. Act accordingly.

(IAAL, but not your lawyer. See your own lawyer to make sure you do this right and don't risk a claim. I was in IT for 20 years before becoming a lawyer, including at executive management level, so my evaluation of that part comes from direct experience)

His statement might be right (and probably is) but there is no need for him to express himself that way. He's not a teenager anymore, he's in his late 40s and ought to be able to better control his impulses (or even be centred enough not to have them in the first place). His words would carry far more weight of he expressed himself more maturely.

Exactly. The shortage was of employers who understood the technical difficulty of coding, and were willing to pay accordingly. I am now in law, which pays better, but coding at any reasonable level of quality (so, better than offshore minimal skill code monkey ships provide) is more intellectually demanding than law.

There should be an easier way.

Music is encoded at 44khz * 24-bit samples. That's about 1Mbits per second of audio.

Why not just run through all the permutations of possible 1s and 0s and copyright that? You'd literally have every possible 1-second sound that could exist.

Now, as to the computational power you'd need, well, there's the rub.

In Australia, women are now in the majority In the legal profession, an outstripping men at the entry level 2 to 1. However, they are still a minority among barristers (who specialise in court work), who are required to be self employed.

In tha past few weeks I have been In a court with a lot of high school legal studies classes coming into the gallery. There the girls seen to outnumber the boys 10 to 1.

Can't speak to anything other than what I've seen: People aren't retiring.

At my last place, we had a workers comp claim by a mid-level manager; she tripped on a power cable and broke her hip. She was already in her late 60s at the time of the accident. And after taking 2 years off to recover, SHE CAME BACK!

We had to make crazy adjustments to our workflow so that OSHA/workers comp would be satisfied.

I was scowled at for suggesting we *not* hire people too old to see the cables on the floor. Or people with such advanced bone density loss that a simple slip/fall means 2 years of physical therapy.

How can a junior manager (or technician) seriously consider staying in a job where his/her boss is only a few years older and is literally planning on working till they die?

Me too. If the site is a news site, and there is no RSS, I either construct my own RSS using wget, cron and shell scripts, or just don't read the site. If /. dropped RSS, well, it is not what it once was, I would just stop reading it.

Use keepass2 Android with an InputStick. It looks like a keyboard on both the device and the desktop.

Actually it's JVM. It can run more than just Java. I have ported GCC to it as a target (fully featured for at least C and C++, including pointers, trampolines and long jumps). I only lacked standard libraries to make it useful.

PGP and OpenPGP are obsolete. You should be using S/MIME - that is where all the work on getting the process right has been going on, and for that protocol the set up is accessible in anything modern.

The Note series is designed to be a serious workhorse. A lot of the people who own them need the battery to last, so they replace it when the battery life drops below an acceptable level (for them). This is likely well before the battery "dies".

The non user replaceable battery and the curved screen are keeping me off the Note 7, not the exploding battery. I need a replaceable battery for the reasons above, and flat screen so I can add a case that protects the screen adequately. Both of these are about device lifetime.

Samsung is opening up an opportunity for another supplier. Hopefully one takes up that opportunity.