Actually they do. These modern interpreted languages offer many key benefits over the compiled languages such as C/C++, <whatever>.NET, Java. 1. No compiled code: Sucks if you are trying to offer a closed source solution. But often in a business environment having your source as your running code, means decades after you leave you will still have the source available, even after they lost the original project. How many pros had came to a work environment where there was at least one legacy (Usually VB) application that all you have is an.EXE and unable to do maintenance on the code. So a minor tweak requires a full rebuild.
2. Platform independence. Sure Java is good too. But having code written that work well on various OS's and versions means you can keep this code longer than people decide to change the environment
3. Full language library. These languages were designed to get work done and quick coding. That means there they come with a rich library of common use tasks which are optimised for performance. While in theory you can get faster in C/C++ however when deadlines are looming, you may do a sub optimal get it done code, because a standard sub class isn't available.
Of course, but there are a lot of positions for companies that require the paper for the job where it really doesn't need one. Education is a value in itself. Self learning is useful, however when I work with purely self learned individuals they are particular gaps in their knowledge. It is like taking a book reading the first 2 chapters, then jumping to the last chapters with the advanced stuff. While missing a lot of minutia that is in the middle.
Price for performance? The chips no matter how small their transistors are still need to fit on a standard die. To get these chips to run faster you can add more transistors and/or better optimize them for their use. When you focus on the latter there is lass of a case of running out of space. If we buy a bigger home we don't buy bigger furniture just more of it.
What you get out of a school is equlivlant to what you put into it. 2 students who take the same major and get similar grades may still have a vastly different level of education.
You can major in say Comp-sci pass with over a 3.0 GPA and when they start work they are very green. Or someone can start work and quickly show that they deal with the big boys.
The difference is the amount they invest emotionally to their classes. Not just memorize for test and for the current project, but really let what is being taught sink into you. You don't go "why would I need this for my life?" But go "How can I use this to enrich my liffe?"
Problem is there too many students getting college degrees who really shouldn't be getting them, not because they are stupid, but they just care for such education. Which is fine, but our modern economy places values on the degree where for many cases it just isn't needed.
Well it is personal preference however... I think this way. For an upper middle class life: Where 6 figures should afford you. All calculations are AFTER TAXES and Work Benefits (Health Care,401k etc...) 1. Home: One bedroom for each occupant, 1 full bathroom for every 2 occupants. If multi-story should have a half bath. Services, Hot and cold water, electricity, internet, television, heating and cooling. For upper middle class you should be able to afford to live in a quite safe neighbourhood, with at least modest amount of greenery. This should take up 1/2 of your pay. 2. Travel: You should be able get to work in a timely manner, be able to go to the store(s) food, clothing, hardware... be able to attend official functions from be able to attend jury duty, and vote, go to weddings and funerals. This should be multiplied by 1.5 for each member of the household (round up) This should take up about 1/4 of your pay. 3. Food: Healthy food, where you are not starving. For every member of your house hold. This should take up about 1/8 of your pay. That leaves you with 1/8th of your salary to save or spend.
I live in an area with lower cost of living. If I made 175 or 200k a year I would be living a very wealthy life style, People who live a few hundred miles away in the major cities who make much more then me are living like when I started working decades ago.
Now I will get a bunch of hate responses from a lot of city people or people who prefer a more modest living, which I am not knocking them down, but for my personal happiness those are the percentages that makes me feel good.
Your field of vision of flying is hundreds of miles around you. When it is dark and you have your night vision you can see a lot of what is going on. When you are driving you just need to see a few hundred meters in front of you. And you probably have reflective paint on the road showing you where to drive.
1 is too many. There is still a general mistrust about air flight. All the statistics show it is the safest way to travel, but flying isn't a natural means of transportation for us, so we are naturally a little bit scared of it. Even seasoned pilots realize the bit of fear when they fly. Having anything go wrong does increase stress in the pilot. Their skills usually means nothing happens, but if just 1 plane goes down, it will scare people from flying.
At first I think it was just general stupidity and playing around. Watching a Laser is interesting, because it isn't something we naturally see, so there is almost a magical quality to it. So shining it at an airplane just to see if it would light up or scatter hitting a propeller seems interesting to try.
However now... I expect it is because it makes the news, so they get a odd sense of satisfaction that news happen because of their action.
So you are willing to get a system that runs more slowly so you don't need to run a systems that runs quicker? Your decision is just fueled by hate and that is really sad.
The flip side, is if security is too hard, people will be more lax with it. There isn't any perfect security, at best you can diversify your threats so any one type of attack will have limited scope.
There was a case where 2 people had the same name dob and state of birth, and they had lived in the same address at different times. That really gummed up the probabilistic matching algorithm
This is what I was taught in Business School. Employee turnover cost 150% more to replace then to keep. So you will break even if you replace a $125k with a $50k assuming that the new guy is capable of doing the work. The period of burnout means you will not be able to recoup your costs, as you are just paying the employee to be trained to work for your competitor.
I don't know where a lot of companies went to business schools to get their MBA. But I went to an accredited one that focused a lot on ethics, and long term planning.
Managers are quite aware of that. That is why they may feel the need to push down on the employees to keep their numbers up. The execs who come up with these performance numbers out of their butts are the real problems. Their Ego states, because they are so high up that they must be smarter than everyone. But the organization is so large they cant grasp what is going on, as it is very complex. So they try to make a simple metric so they can spot what is going on. The problem is this metric needs to be easily calculated and none of that Statistical stuff with margin of error, but a hard and fast number of good or bad.
On the average the cost to replace an employee is 150% More over a year. Making a culture where people just get kicked out only to be replaced by someone else, who will need to learn how the business operates the written and unwritten rules, knowing what trends will kick in, what breaks more often, isn't economical.
Normally a new employee will need to stayed hired at an organization for 3 years for them to break even. Years 3-5 are critical time to make sure that employee stays that is where you need to make sure you are ready to offer a raise or some other additional benefit, to make sure he doesn't jump ship for a better job.
Now that doesn't mean a company should keep all its jobs. Sometimes the companies focus shifts and you don't need particular jobs, Such as how Netflix is transitioning from DVD mailing to Online streaming. That means those guys who are in the mailroom have their jobs at risk, unless they are able move to a different area which is more to the company's new focus.
However Bad behavior is firing people then replacing them over again, with newer,greener,cheaper employees who will bring a couple of new fresh ideas to the table, however they will need to reinvent hundreds of best practices that had been learned in the past.
I applaud you. Why is it so hard to spell out your acronym, at least once. I can think of very few Acronyms that are appropriate to leave on Slashdot. CPU,GPU, RAM and DRM. DRM is borderline.
Because Mystery Science Theater 3000 shows the entire film. The producer of the original film may demand that it would be DRM some how. Granted Mystery Science Theater 3000 may be considered parody... However is can be on the edge of copyright infringement without artist consent. And can lead to a complex legal battle, where one side just may lose.
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Actually they do. .EXE and unable to do maintenance on the code. So a minor tweak requires a full rebuild.
These modern interpreted languages offer many key benefits over the compiled languages such as C/C++, <whatever>.NET, Java.
1. No compiled code: Sucks if you are trying to offer a closed source solution. But often in a business environment having your source as your running code, means decades after you leave you will still have the source available, even after they lost the original project. How many pros had came to a work environment where there was at least one legacy (Usually VB) application that all you have is an
2. Platform independence. Sure Java is good too. But having code written that work well on various OS's and versions means you can keep this code longer than people decide to change the environment
3. Full language library. These languages were designed to get work done and quick coding. That means there they come with a rich library of common use tasks which are optimised for performance. While in theory you can get faster in C/C++ however when deadlines are looming, you may do a sub optimal get it done code, because a standard sub class isn't available.
Of course, but there are a lot of positions for companies that require the paper for the job where it really doesn't need one. Education is a value in itself. Self learning is useful, however when I work with purely self learned individuals they are particular gaps in their knowledge. It is like taking a book reading the first 2 chapters, then jumping to the last chapters with the advanced stuff. While missing a lot of minutia that is in the middle.
Price for performance?
The chips no matter how small their transistors are still need to fit on a standard die.
To get these chips to run faster you can add more transistors and/or better optimize them for their use.
When you focus on the latter there is lass of a case of running out of space.
If we buy a bigger home we don't buy bigger furniture just more of it.
What you get out of a school is equlivlant to what you put into it.
2 students who take the same major and get similar grades may still have a vastly different level of education.
You can major in say Comp-sci pass with over a 3.0 GPA and when they start work they are very green. Or someone can start work and quickly show that they deal with the big boys.
The difference is the amount they invest emotionally to their classes. Not just memorize for test and for the current project, but really let what is being taught sink into you. You don't go "why would I need this for my life?" But go "How can I use this to enrich my liffe?"
Problem is there too many students getting college degrees who really shouldn't be getting them, not because they are stupid, but they just care for such education. Which is fine, but our modern economy places values on the degree where for many cases it just isn't needed.
Well it is personal preference however... I think this way.
For an upper middle class life: Where 6 figures should afford you. All calculations are AFTER TAXES and Work Benefits (Health Care,401k etc...)
1. Home: One bedroom for each occupant, 1 full bathroom for every 2 occupants. If multi-story should have a half bath. Services, Hot and cold water, electricity, internet, television, heating and cooling. For upper middle class you should be able to afford to live in a quite safe neighbourhood, with at least modest amount of greenery. This should take up 1/2 of your pay.
2. Travel: You should be able get to work in a timely manner, be able to go to the store(s) food, clothing, hardware... be able to attend official functions from be able to attend jury duty, and vote, go to weddings and funerals. This should be multiplied by 1.5 for each member of the household (round up) This should take up about 1/4 of your pay.
3. Food: Healthy food, where you are not starving. For every member of your house hold. This should take up about 1/8 of your pay.
That leaves you with 1/8th of your salary to save or spend.
I live in an area with lower cost of living. If I made 175 or 200k a year I would be living a very wealthy life style, People who live a few hundred miles away in the major cities who make much more then me are living like when I started working decades ago.
Now I will get a bunch of hate responses from a lot of city people or people who prefer a more modest living, which I am not knocking them down, but for my personal happiness those are the percentages that makes me feel good.
Please resize your window, without having to guess what the number of columns and rows you need.
Your field of vision of flying is hundreds of miles around you. When it is dark and you have your night vision you can see a lot of what is going on. When you are driving you just need to see a few hundred meters in front of you. And you probably have reflective paint on the road showing you where to drive.
1 is too many.
There is still a general mistrust about air flight. All the statistics show it is the safest way to travel, but flying isn't a natural means of transportation for us, so we are naturally a little bit scared of it. Even seasoned pilots realize the bit of fear when they fly. Having anything go wrong does increase stress in the pilot. Their skills usually means nothing happens, but if just 1 plane goes down, it will scare people from flying.
The news will need to also show every time these people get caught. Perhaps have random zones where they are patrolling for laser users.
At first I think it was just general stupidity and playing around.
Watching a Laser is interesting, because it isn't something we naturally see, so there is almost a magical quality to it. So shining it at an airplane just to see if it would light up or scatter hitting a propeller seems interesting to try.
However now... I expect it is because it makes the news, so they get a odd sense of satisfaction that news happen because of their action.
So you are willing to get a system that runs more slowly so you don't need to run a systems that runs quicker? Your decision is just fueled by hate and that is really sad.
The flip side, is if security is too hard, people will be more lax with it.
There isn't any perfect security, at best you can diversify your threats so any one type of attack will have limited scope.
GNU = GNU Not Unix.
GNU/Linux is not Unix
GNU systems including Linux are very Unix like. But have none of the original Bell Labs Code. It isn't a Fork of Unix, but a new product.
GNU was derived as a response to some legal and copyright issues in the early 1990's.
GNU is GPL but GPL is how they chose to license the System.
If it is called Unix, then chances are it is fairly darn old.
Otherwise they would be calling it Solaris, xBSD, OS X...
They are... However you will need to make new software to interact with it.
It is a case of Organic design, where a small app to make your job easier becomes a vital infrastructure, and was never designed for future upgrades.
Normally they would use it to check your credit or as a way to verify you identity.
There was a case where 2 people had the same name dob and state of birth, and they had lived in the same address at different times. That really gummed up the probabilistic matching algorithm
McDonalds is hiring, but so is your biggest competitor who would love to get their hands on a trained employee with insider knowledge.
This is what I was taught in Business School.
Employee turnover cost 150% more to replace then to keep. So you will break even if you replace a $125k with a $50k assuming that the new guy is capable of doing the work. The period of burnout means you will not be able to recoup your costs, as you are just paying the employee to be trained to work for your competitor.
I don't know where a lot of companies went to business schools to get their MBA. But I went to an accredited one that focused a lot on ethics, and long term planning.
Most of those problems are not your fault. Having you go home early is to make sure you don't get stressed out due to poor efforts of others.
Normally I was the first to leave, but I was also the first to get there. My projects are on time, and the quality is up.
Managers are quite aware of that. That is why they may feel the need to push down on the employees to keep their numbers up.
The execs who come up with these performance numbers out of their butts are the real problems.
Their Ego states, because they are so high up that they must be smarter than everyone.
But the organization is so large they cant grasp what is going on, as it is very complex. So they try to make a simple metric so they can spot what is going on.
The problem is this metric needs to be easily calculated and none of that Statistical stuff with margin of error, but a hard and fast number of good or bad.
On the average the cost to replace an employee is 150% More over a year. Making a culture where people just get kicked out only to be replaced by someone else, who will need to learn how the business operates the written and unwritten rules, knowing what trends will kick in, what breaks more often, isn't economical.
Normally a new employee will need to stayed hired at an organization for 3 years for them to break even. Years 3-5 are critical time to make sure that employee stays that is where you need to make sure you are ready to offer a raise or some other additional benefit, to make sure he doesn't jump ship for a better job.
Now that doesn't mean a company should keep all its jobs. Sometimes the companies focus shifts and you don't need particular jobs, Such as how Netflix is transitioning from DVD mailing to Online streaming. That means those guys who are in the mailroom have their jobs at risk, unless they are able move to a different area which is more to the company's new focus.
However Bad behavior is firing people then replacing them over again, with newer,greener,cheaper employees who will bring a couple of new fresh ideas to the table, however they will need to reinvent hundreds of best practices that had been learned in the past.
I applaud you. Why is it so hard to spell out your acronym, at least once. I can think of very few Acronyms that are appropriate to leave on Slashdot.
CPU,GPU, RAM and DRM. DRM is borderline.
Because Mystery Science Theater 3000 shows the entire film. The producer of the original film may demand that it would be DRM some how. Granted Mystery Science Theater 3000 may be considered parody... However is can be on the edge of copyright infringement without artist consent. And can lead to a complex legal battle, where one side just may lose.