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I want to hear the story of the internal investigation at Samsung, and which people lost their jobs as a result of the debacle. Was it some poor test engineer who didn't find the stupid design error? Some hapless engineer squeezed by management to make the phone a few mm thinner? Or was it the schmuck who didn't listen to the guys saying, "Wow, that's cutting out all the safety margin." Or was it nobody at all because who care if a few people get burned half a planet away.
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And I'd really like to know what really went on at VW re the emissions cheating....
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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Or some marketing guy rushing to get it on the market before it was ready.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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If only Samsung would stop chasing and start believing in their products.
the iPhone 7 was always going to be a non-event. We'd known that for months. Yet Samsung panicked and rushed out a product with disastrous consequences. If they'd waited, perfected, and let the noise of the iPhone 7 subside (I think it took maybe a week before people stopped talking about it) then they could have had the stage to themselves, with an audience keen to see something special.
They instead gave everyone the wrong kind of special.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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There have been several layers of "special" involved. That's a pity since mainstream Samsung products are of high quality themselves. They could have waited indeed.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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LithiumSomething batteries don't take two things lightly and can get very nasty when they happen:
- being mistreated electrically, including overloading, draining them too low or shorts
- being mistreated mechanically, especially when they leak or the cells short out due to mechanical damage.
Anyone who reads the safety statements in the manual has a chance to know this. How naive, reckless or otherwise 'special' can someone be to override a decision about such a question or leave it to those who are not qualified to answer that question?
I just hope they find a good way to deal with that guy, like covering him with honey and then throwing him onto an anthill.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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From my experience in business he probably got promoted after dumping it on someone else.
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Chris Maunder wrote: iPhone 7 was always going to be a non-event
Have you tried to go into your telecoms retail shop recently. In both SG and Oz the queues are hours long because all the fanboys are trying to upgrade to these phones.
Telstra's call centre has a recorded message using this phone as the excuse for lousy service and long wait times.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Telstra's call centre has a recorded message using this phone as the excuse for lousy service and long wait times
Well, they've worn out all their other excuses, right?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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On the article, this is only one 'experts' view.....especially when you start reading 'likely' 'super-agressive' 'potential'.........
There was another one I read....goes and finds it.......that said they [Samsung] but it down to a battery manufacturing defect.
Samsung pins explosive Galaxy Note 7 on battery flaw - CNET[^]
¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Right. The tools aren't making the decisions. No tool will absolve the user of responsibility.
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Better engineers and/or better managers. If a manager says "I don't care if this thing actually sucks, we'll ship it now!", the engineer can either lose his job or comply.
Aside of that, I agree. Tools are but that: Tools. A power drill is also a tool and should be used by someone who's not an idiot.
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In my previous job (industry automation) I wanted to start the tradition of sticking something to the new machines.
The message was: "This machine has no brain, use yours"
My boss didn't allowed me to 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Hey, that's neat! I'll tell that the machine guys in my company!
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Samsung also has an exploding washing machine. Really I think up there in the higher management Samsung has people who are not technically competent asking for dangerous features and the personnel on the implementation level have no say. Sort of like every shop in the tech world.
Reality is an unfair constraint. - Every manager I ever worked for
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Ygnaiih wrote: Samsung also has an exploding washing machine.
 Ygnaiih wrote: Really I think up there in the higher management Samsung has people who are not technically competent
One is a mistake, two is malicious! Samsung, get that jihadist out of the management! 
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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What some people/companies don't get is that (metaphorically) it takes a suitable temperature, time and care to cook an egg properly for delivery to the consumer.
There is no arguing with this law of nature.
Ignore it at your own peril.
It will bite your behind without hesitation or remorse.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Not long ago we had a question here, what interview questions concerning hexadecimal notation and logical operators have to do with 'real world programs'.
I must admit, I was a little shocked. In my 'real world' that's something so basic, it's not worth mentioning. It was, in fact, the first thing I ever did on a computer and last weekend I started to write some assembly code for my old computer.
It's going to be a game, a remake of a badly programmed game that fell into my hands 35 years ago. Not only did it use preposterous 8k memory, it also made no good use of the already spartan graphics.
Here are two of my main antagonists as bit patterns. Each pattern is 16 bits wide and each bit encodes a pixel directly. These pixels are twice as wide as they are high and (obviously) monochrome.
Can you take the hexadecimal patterns, draw them on a piece of paper and (hopefully) tell me what they are supposed to represent?
First pattern:
01 00
07 C0
1B B0 < Edit: Inserted those two bytes as improvement!
1A B0
39 38
40 04
80 02
80 02
80 02
Second pattern:
84 02 81 02
83 82
4F E4
3E F8
07 C0
I made the patterns without writing them down, so please tell me any errors or improvements you can find. And the logical operations will be needed to place them into the video buffer at any place I want to show them.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 6-Dec-16 7:04am.
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.......*........
.....*****......
...**.*.*.**....
..***..*..***...
.*...........*..
*.............*.
*.............*.
*.............*.
*....*........*.
*.....***.....*.
.*..*******..*..
..*****.*****...
.....*****......
Um.
No, no idea.
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That was quick. I see one error in the first byte of the second pattern. It should be 81, not 82 84. My fault.
They are not easy to recognize this way. On graph paper with each pixel two boxes wide and one box high they should be better.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I wrote a quick program to do it:
**
**********
**** ** ** ****
****** ** ******
** **
** **
** **
** **
** ** **
** ****** **
** ************** **
********** **********
**********
Space invaders? Arms down for the first, arms up for the second?
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x01, 0x00));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x07, 0xC0));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x1A, 0xB0));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x39, 0x38));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x40, 0x04));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x80, 0x02));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x80, 0x02));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x80, 0x02));
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x81, 0x02));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x83, 0x82));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x4F, 0xE4));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x3E, 0xF8));
Console.WriteLine(ToBits(0x07, 0xC0));
}
private string ToBits(int a, int b)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(32);
GetBits(sb, a);
GetBits(sb, b);
return sb.ToString();
}
private void GetBits(StringBuilder sb, int a)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
{
sb.Append((a & 0x80) == 0 ? " " : "**");
a <<= 1;
}
}
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Invaders, yes, but not that kind. The aspect ratio of the pixels is really important.
This[^] is what #1 is supposed to be, and this is for #2[^].
Any perspective other than the frontal view would make them even less recognizable. Would it help to double the width to 32 pixels?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Now I know what I'm looking at, the Klingon is recognisable. The Bird Of Prey? Not so much.
I take it you're talking monochrome sprites here?
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OriginalGriff wrote: I take it you're talking monochrome sprites here?
Yes, monochrome and an aspect ratio of 2 for the pixels.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Then I think you've got the Klingon about as close as you can.Pulling the "leg ends" inwards as they are on the original distorts them too much, I think:
**
**********
**** ** ** ****
****** ** ******
** **
** **
** **
** **
The TOS Romulan is so nondescript in front or rear elevation that there isn't much you can do at all at the kind of resolution you're talking - you need a side view to get the underside decoration visible before it's obviously Romulan. So what you have may work - given that it'll be distinctly different from the other sprites if not distinctly visible. The NG ships had a much more distinctive look D'deridex Class[^] (which worked well in the BotF game).
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