Google Glass was like the 3rd time this tech has fallen on its face. I mentioned this before recently but I can remember when Sony had some that used a CD-ROM Walkman for the HUD data. They were going to be on the face of every engine mechanic by the end of the 90s…

Smartwatches don’t have cameras for the most part, smartglasses don’t need them either. Also a camera isn’t required for audio translation.

As long as it’s plastic coated metal it should still be capable of shielding any wavelength larger than the squares. So you would still need to put your WiFi antenna on the outside I think.

Speaking of ADHD getting in the way, despite the previous commenter saying mobo I was still imagining it the other way around. That makes way more sense.

(Ugh, the number of times I’ve cut myself trying to get the Ethernet shield out of the way)

Real answer: it serves two purposes. First it ties the ground shielding from the ports to the grounding plane of the case itself so that static discharge is dissipated there rather than the motherboard. Second it completes the RF shield created by the case, this was way more important in earlier in computing and is also required to comply with that FCC rule about not interfering with other devices that you see printed on the bottom of things still sometimes.

Back in the day there was no backplane and the only port on the mobo was the AT keyboard port so that was the only hole in the case. The rest were punchouts for parallel and various serial ports that would be connected to the mobo via ribbon cable. When the first ATX mobos came out they kept the punchouts for the backplane but that required all the manufacturers to use the same port layout so that lasted all of like 2 years before the pop-in shield became the norm.

How are the new ones getting around the different port layouts?

My local basketball team recently made it almost to the finals, so my wife and I felt obliged to watch a couple of the games. Holy shit, there was so much advertising. Even when they challenged a call and they had 15 seconds or so they still stick an ad on the screen. They even have ads that are digitally super imposed on the court and you can tell cause they don’t always clip correctly around the players but who cares if it interrupts your watching cause we need our money.

That ‘the fans will partake regardless, we need to attract the masses’ attitude is literally what is wrong with all media right now. Basically every major franchise now not only needs to exist across all media types but has been generalized to the point of unrecognizable blandness.

A lot of the stuff that comes over the online TV channels is also broadcast over the air, have you considered getting them an antenna?

Yes, my original comment was about being irritated that that person was hired, and they were very much not willing to be coached or I would have been a lot more willing to help them.

I appreciate you saying that, and I’m not saying that self-taught developers can’t be effective. But my experience has been like home schooled people. In rare cases you can’t tell until the person tells you, but for the most part they are obvious in a bad way and are oblivious to it and there really isn’t an in between. At the end of the day though self-taught or not the worst are people who feel that their learning is over.

Agreed, what little luck I’ve had has fallen through and I very specifically felt that it was because they were looking for somebody who was younger and less experienced than I am at least in this one instance.

There is a big difference between mentoring and dealing with a 4 year difference in education and maturity.

My problem with what you’re saying is then the expectation becomes that I’m going to give you the education that I paid and took the time for, I’m not getting paid to be your professor and since I’m the senior that we’re not meeting our deadlines falls on me not you. And I’m not talking about just programming knowledge, a CS degree is far more than programming, one of my classes was just how to talk to users and understand what their needs are through interviewing and observing. And I say this is somebody who also dropped out but then went back later and finished my degree.

I couldn’t believe it when they actually hired somebody at a job I used to work at, to work with three of us who all had CS degrees, who had been through six weeks of a Vo-tech program after recently graduating high school. And the higher-ups actually expected this person to be able to work on the stack we were using at the same level we did.

I have 15 years of experience and have been unemployed for 18 months, it’s not just juniors who can’t find a job right now.

*Milquetoast

Trying to remember if they left themselves turned on.

1000 hours is what one person working full-time works in six months… So that’s a really unimpressive number given they are basically saying they let 10 people look at it for a couple weeks before letting millions of people use it.

You didn’t answer my question. It doesn’t matter how long you have it that’s still more expensive than it used to be unless you can get your hauling done in less time than it takes to watch The Lion King. I’m not even sure what you’re trying to argue at this point.