Re: Eh?
2 lenses on one side == one camera shirley?
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This has nothing to do with the actual story. The mod in question supported the policy.
Let's try to keep our views on the policy, and on the story, separate... I don't agree with the policy either but that is their decision to make. Of course the intersection of the two is that I don't think the policy itself was actually put to the community, but dropped on them from On High which is counter to the ethos of the site.
It's an example of the problems when you run a community and want to also make money from it. Your business interests may not align with what the users want.
Having followed this story on the site, there is clearly a LOT of ill-feeling from the SE community (including moderators) towards the corporate/business people. This is one example about how the people using the site feel like they are ill-treated and not listened to. Which is a shame since the creators of the site come from this background themselves.
I hope it gets sorted out because the story according to the most active users, who make the site actually useful, describes quite serious cracks starting to form in the whole thing.
The initial "pedo guy" - sure I can see it's like how many of us grew up on the playground where "gay" was a generic insult.
But he later posted something like "someone should check, it's true" or words to similar effect so I'm a little surprised he was cleared.
But by the logic I can insult someone with a very emotive pejorative term, should I be able to shout "shut up you stupid n*****" as just an insulting term? Or "quiet down fag"?
I find it most frustrating that I have two devices in the same room and they have to send messages to each by bouncing them off the internet.
I'm not sure if these new proposals will mean that or not - maybe things on the same network will discover each other?
The other thing about all IoT devices being WiFi... hmm. Many IoT devices are deliberately very low-power and use RF to a hub to run for months off a AA or 2. I don't want a dozen radiator smart TRVs each connected to my Wifi...
Big companies who rely on FOSS typically want to improve on it. Assuming the license requires them to contribute changes back they are paying back.
Often, they want to benefit from the main branch so will be active members of the projects anyway, driving them in directions they find valuable.
You can surely be aware of high-profile live streams and keep a look out for those hand-picked streams live. You can check the stream title/description and try to fingerprint and have some human operators checking suspect streams.
You might not get them all but you can then argue you are trying. And I for example would quickly get bored if the stream I was following got canned every few minutes making me look for another one repeatedly.
Heck you can even just have human operators trying to find the streams like normal 'punters' do - clearly these streams aren't hard to find. How many streams can one person take down in an hour - a lot?
This is just lovely geeky Sci-Fi come true. Sure a lot of it is not actually very useful but it's still extremely cool if you're into coding and so on.
If smart-glasses had ever taken off this could be really neat, as it is the problem is you'll 99% of the time point your phone at something and nothing will happen, which will make it not worth trying.
MS typically has its new generation of Windows in progress for years but I was just thinking I haven't heard anything about silly OS code-names for ages.
Since W10 effectively gives you major OS updates periodically, does this mean W10 just IS Windows for the foreseeable future... or is W11 being worked on in secret?
I loved the WP interface - what a breath of fresh air - and the hardware was very nice. But there were just too many missing things, or things that they made worse in 'updates'. WP7 was beautiful but didn't do much, WP8 had a lot more functionality but watered down the interface, etc.
I clung on to my yellow 1020 as long as I could for the wonderful camera but eventually gave up and switched to OnePlus.
Kind of amazing how badly and consistently they managed to screw the project up.
Since they have seemingly gone out of their way to make it accessible, why solder the RAM in? Is this sort of thing generally done to make them non-upgradeable, or does it offer a more robust / cheaper construction with nothing to come loose? It must take time/money to do glueing and soldering components so what are the reasons, realistically?
Surely it's really entertainment like Top Gear or Mythbusters... dressed around science/facts but only as an angle to make a good show.
A small minority might like a 10 minute single-take scene where they grease a steering rod but a prime-time TV slot needs to attract the mass market in the same way that Planet Earth is weaved to tell stories and cut to the money shots.
Well duh. The argument is whether you should pay for what you use, or we all contribute for a shared service. Exactly the same argument as whether you want all schools to charge fees in return for lower taxes since not everyone has kids. Most people, even most Tory voters, would prefer free schools.
You do diminish your credibility talking about 'stealing' like a 9 year old though.
I loved that idea.
I do not see the point of this device at all. Here's a really great screen, if you want you can turn the phone the other way round and use a much worse version.
If you could use both screens at once I could see some niche applications for gaming or something, but as it is I've got nothing other than the selfie screen so you can selfie with your main camera. Now that's handy I suppose but still a weird idea.
What? Who are the contractors who accept payment in cash, up-front? Contractors typically work on 30 day payment terms so you get paid several weeks after the end of the month rather than on the last day of the month. It's not uncommon to work on 60 day terms.
Your Ltd has these obligations but the point is, as an employee you still get paid when ill or on holiday or bank holidays. A typical employee is perhaps getting paid for being there about 85% of the time, and that's not counting maternity or paternity or longer illness.
>>Most of the contracts I was on, stated that you could not substitute yourself for another (Cheaper) individual.
You want to avoid clauses blocking RoS (right of substitution) in contracts and fight to remove them if at all possible.
Of course RoS clauses normally include wording "suitable" or "mutually agreed" which means if you can't be available, you OFFER a substitution but they do not have to accept it.
No. Nobody has ever checked if spending £millions and £billions is worthwhile. All these companies trying to manage a razor-thin profit margin have never attempted to measure if there are benefits or ROI for their advertising spend. Bean-counters querying how many pencils an employee can reasonably use in a year or how to shave 1p per employee from toilet paper usage are happy to accept massive advertising bills without caring if it achieves anything.
They don't care if they can repair something that will be obsolete in 2-3 years. If it broke they are going to get it sorted by Apple, not dig out their spadger and eye-glass.
Try for one moment thinking from others' viewpoint before judging them, dum-dum.