In all fairness to this civil servant, there are entities more inefficient than the Federal Government. For example, there are the United Nations, the World Bank, and NATO. Most companies fail when they become this inefficient. It take a lot more to fail a larger company, and it takes a whole lot more to fail a nation, especially one of this size. There is a price to pay for efficiency. As Truman said, "the most efficient government is a tyranny."
Yes, I prefer C# over Java. I prefer the way C# handles threading. Besides, Microsoft's tools are better. Microsoft has done a better job than most in their development tools. For example, compare X-Code with IB and.NET with Visual Studio. It is less work and much clearer to implement a controller in VS than IB. VS will create the handler shells and reveal all the XML control code. IB requires a lot more repetitive hand coding and does not easily reveal how controllers are linked to views. Of course, great programmers might not care, as most just use vi and say "to hell" with IDEs. However, I am not a great programmer, and I do care.
The problem is the lack of doctors. If there were ten time as many physicians in the USA, the cost of health care would not be an issue. Instead, we make getting an MD the hardest and most expensive of all professions, and our medical educational institutions' output is limited to the point that NOW one third of all practicing doctors are foreign trained. Today the trend among private practices is to stop taking insurance, including Medicare. When you have a lock on the market you can make the rules.
So, why don't politicians pass laws to make it easier/cheaper to open medical schools and get medical degrees? When was the last time a politician got elected by promising a solution to an immediate problem that would take 20 years to implement?
Imagine if Microsoft were the only operating system -- no Mac OS, Linux, anything else -- and Microsoft could restrict the development of other OSes AND they could charge whatever they wanted without government restrictions. They would be Dr. Microsoft. Would having an OS insurance policy help you?
This is most likely to marginalize Microsoft even further. The big desktop boxes and laptops will still belong mostly to Microsoft, but anything more portable will be tough sledding for Redmond. Intel might not get much market share either, certainly not a dominant share.
I agreed to this when we did our app. It is their show, and they make their rules. I expected nothing less from a company that has always tried to control their products to the greatest extent. Sometimes it works (e.g., iPhone), and other times it doesn't (e.g., Lisa, A/UX, Pippin, AppleTV). Regarding their treatment of developers, I must say that this is one area where Microsoft has always been better. They had better tools in the 1980s, and they have better tools now. I believe this is mostly due to the competition that Apple lacked. Remember Borland? Even IBM in the late 1980s and early 1990s competed with Microsoft for developers with very good tools. Apple's tools are better than they were, and they are free (a smart move). Microsoft's tools are simple more evolved. For example Apple's Interface Builder, a GUI tool, still requires a lot of code around every drag-'n-drop, and it is hard to see where the controls are coded because they hide some. Visual Studio automatically creates event handler shells and leads you to them. You can view everything as code, and they warn you about the code they generated with their tools. Microsoft also has a variety of languages, and the dichotomy between managed and unmanaged code is much better documented.
The downside for Microsoft is that they carry an enormous legacy which has now come to haunt them. Apple has been consistent about leaving the past behind and some of their customers and developers with it. Two different business models with one thing in common -- they have beaten the crap out of everyone else. It is very hard to argue their successes as measured in billions of dollars in profits.
This little trick will disable all autoplay features, eg. CDs, USB-memories etc. Open the registry editor, regedt32.exe, and configure the following registry value:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer
Value Name: NoDriveTypeAutoRun
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: hex: 0x03fffffff
As many have noted, "the rules are what the contract says." So, who owns the contract? What if the plaintive did not have the right to use it? Of course, a usage violation might be a separate issue, but when something is used without the right to use it, the product of that usage can be taken from the abuser. For example, royalties from plagiarized music.
What if a large law firm started copyrighting all sort of boilerplate for new types of contracts, not prior art but forward thinking stuff. Then, like those companies that patent parts of developing standards, they went after everyone who negotiated such contracts in the future. In the case of royalties on intellectual property, they might claim some of that revenue due to the 'power' of the contract that claimed it. This may sound far fetched, but so did process patents.
If you think that is whack, someday, these posts will be taxed. No shit, free speech will not be 'free'.
In the constant presence of a directional current, the iron might migrate. There are already migration problems in lead-free solder -- http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4607147. Depending on the joint and quality of work, your PC might someday wear out, and I am not talking about the fans or disc drives.
I think the bigger news is that the spec includes a feature to communicate over WiFi. Only 25Mbps, but that could still be enough to take some cost out of devices that need both.
Being highly reactive, O2 + C2H6O = C02 + H2O. I doubt if that happens in the body, but the liver "gets rid" of ethanol by oxygenating it into acetic acid, a metabolite. A little more O2 might help the liver, but that comes from the respiratory system, not the tummy. Maybe O2 + C2H6 + H3O+ + Cl- = something (perhaps dichloroethane). Anyone know?
a bus. It is actually a hub and requires that one end-system be a controller (Intel's euphemism for a PC), a non trivial piece of silicon when compared to the slave. Other alternatives like Ethernet and Firewire (IEEE1394) never became popular enough for peripheral devices. So, the economies of scale are not there. Ethernet (i.e., 100BASE-T) might work. However, the specification requirements to drive the signal 100 meters make the interface too expensive, power-wise, for battery operated devices, and POE makes the power side more expensive. There is also the cabling issue. Firewire is truly a bus, but the silicon is still pricey when compared to USB 2.0, and there still may be a 25 cent royalty (per device) from Apple.
Microsoft was one a start-up, where asking for forgiveness was the rule and the best results trumped the right way. Now it is a Fortune 100 multinational corporation, a'la Exxon. The rule is "ask for permission," and performance reviews are managed by an HR department the size of Twitter. I suspect that someone from Legal now approves the "randomness routine." Lest you think I jest, I bet they have a patent pending on this infamous algorithm.
When a society ceases to produce real property, the value of intangible property virtually soars. Even our money is no longer tangible, as vastly larger sums flow through wires than through hands. Someday, free speech will not be, as the government will see it as the last bastion of tax revenues.
Telcos have a large legacy, over a century old. They lay cable expecting it to last 50 years, a business decision. It made sense when all it carried was 4KHz voice traffic for 80 years. If you look how long it took them to get rid of all the switchboards (where they saved a fortune in labor cost), you can understand their "bell head" mentality about wiring, which will not save them any working capital to replace functional copper with high-bandwidth fiber to the b-box. They can make almost as much money providing DSL at 5Mbps over existing copper. The alternative would be to make the wiring infrastructure public, like the freeway system.
Imagine if we had to replace the Interstate freeway system, a public infrastructure. Who would vote to pay for that, even if you could go 650 miles per hour? As tempting as it might sound, would each of you pay $1,000,000? Not me.
If this 'warp' were applied to one mass, hydrogen, then it should apply to anything in space -- nebulae, planets, suns, black holes. Most science fiction doesn't go that far. I suspect there are exceptions.
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If everyone in America suddenly starting eating a diet that would maintain their BMI at 23, most of the food industry would go bankrupt in six months.
Plop, plop
Fizz, fizz
Oh, what a relief it is!
I'd rather be smoked than cured.
People who have color blindness see in shades of gray. People who are Color Blind just see Black and White but try to ignore it.
In all fairness to this civil servant, there are entities more inefficient than the Federal Government. For example, there are the United Nations, the World Bank, and NATO. Most companies fail when they become this inefficient. It take a lot more to fail a larger company, and it takes a whole lot more to fail a nation, especially one of this size. There is a price to pay for efficiency. As Truman said, "the most efficient government is a tyranny."
Yes, I prefer C# over Java. I prefer the way C# handles threading. Besides, Microsoft's tools are better. Microsoft has done a better job than most in their development tools. For example, compare X-Code with IB and .NET with Visual Studio. It is less work and much clearer to implement a controller in VS than IB. VS will create the handler shells and reveal all the XML control code. IB requires a lot more repetitive hand coding and does not easily reveal how controllers are linked to views. Of course, great programmers might not care, as most just use vi and say "to hell" with IDEs. However, I am not a great programmer, and I do care.
The problem is the lack of doctors. If there were ten time as many physicians in the USA, the cost of health care would not be an issue. Instead, we make getting an MD the hardest and most expensive of all professions, and our medical educational institutions' output is limited to the point that NOW one third of all practicing doctors are foreign trained. Today the trend among private practices is to stop taking insurance, including Medicare. When you have a lock on the market you can make the rules.
So, why don't politicians pass laws to make it easier/cheaper to open medical schools and get medical degrees? When was the last time a politician got elected by promising a solution to an immediate problem that would take 20 years to implement?
Imagine if Microsoft were the only operating system -- no Mac OS, Linux, anything else -- and Microsoft could restrict the development of other OSes AND they could charge whatever they wanted without government restrictions. They would be Dr. Microsoft. Would having an OS insurance policy help you?
This is most likely to marginalize Microsoft even further. The big desktop boxes and laptops will still belong mostly to Microsoft, but anything more portable will be tough sledding for Redmond. Intel might not get much market share either, certainly not a dominant share.
I tried to get nine women to have a baby in a month, and all I got was bitch slapped.
I agreed to this when we did our app. It is their show, and they make their rules. I expected nothing less from a company that has always tried to control their products to the greatest extent. Sometimes it works (e.g., iPhone), and other times it doesn't (e.g., Lisa, A/UX, Pippin, AppleTV). Regarding their treatment of developers, I must say that this is one area where Microsoft has always been better. They had better tools in the 1980s, and they have better tools now. I believe this is mostly due to the competition that Apple lacked. Remember Borland? Even IBM in the late 1980s and early 1990s competed with Microsoft for developers with very good tools. Apple's tools are better than they were, and they are free (a smart move). Microsoft's tools are simple more evolved. For example Apple's Interface Builder, a GUI tool, still requires a lot of code around every drag-'n-drop, and it is hard to see where the controls are coded because they hide some. Visual Studio automatically creates event handler shells and leads you to them. You can view everything as code, and they warn you about the code they generated with their tools. Microsoft also has a variety of languages, and the dichotomy between managed and unmanaged code is much better documented.
The downside for Microsoft is that they carry an enormous legacy which has now come to haunt them. Apple has been consistent about leaving the past behind and some of their customers and developers with it. Two different business models with one thing in common -- they have beaten the crap out of everyone else. It is very hard to argue their successes as measured in billions of dollars in profits.
. . . because there are so many to choose!
This little trick will disable all autoplay features, eg. CDs, USB-memories etc. Open the registry editor, regedt32.exe, and configure the following registry value:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer
Value Name: NoDriveTypeAutoRun
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: hex: 0x03fffffff
I think they use it to calculate the box office numbers too.
At least he wasn't having sex.
As many have noted, "the rules are what the contract says." So, who owns the contract? What if the plaintive did not have the right to use it? Of course, a usage violation might be a separate issue, but when something is used without the right to use it, the product of that usage can be taken from the abuser. For example, royalties from plagiarized music.
What if a large law firm started copyrighting all sort of boilerplate for new types of contracts, not prior art but forward thinking stuff. Then, like those companies that patent parts of developing standards, they went after everyone who negotiated such contracts in the future. In the case of royalties on intellectual property, they might claim some of that revenue due to the 'power' of the contract that claimed it. This may sound far fetched, but so did process patents.
If you think that is whack, someday, these posts will be taxed. No shit, free speech will not be 'free'.
In the constant presence of a directional current, the iron might migrate. There are already migration problems in lead-free solder -- http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4607147. Depending on the joint and quality of work, your PC might someday wear out, and I am not talking about the fans or disc drives.
I think the bigger news is that the spec includes a feature to communicate over WiFi. Only 25Mbps, but that could still be enough to take some cost out of devices that need both.
than to tell people not to do it. Call it fatalism.
Being highly reactive, O2 + C2H6O = C02 + H2O. I doubt if that happens in the body, but the liver "gets rid" of ethanol by oxygenating it into acetic acid, a metabolite. A little more O2 might help the liver, but that comes from the respiratory system, not the tummy. Maybe O2 + C2H6 + H3O+ + Cl- = something (perhaps dichloroethane). Anyone know?
Obviously, Veracode's tests aren't thorough enough. But it raises the question, "who tests the testing software?"
a bus. It is actually a hub and requires that one end-system be a controller (Intel's euphemism for a PC), a non trivial piece of silicon when compared to the slave. Other alternatives like Ethernet and Firewire (IEEE1394) never became popular enough for peripheral devices. So, the economies of scale are not there. Ethernet (i.e., 100BASE-T) might work. However, the specification requirements to drive the signal 100 meters make the interface too expensive, power-wise, for battery operated devices, and POE makes the power side more expensive. There is also the cabling issue. Firewire is truly a bus, but the silicon is still pricey when compared to USB 2.0, and there still may be a 25 cent royalty (per device) from Apple.
Microsoft was one a start-up, where asking for forgiveness was the rule and the best results trumped the right way. Now it is a Fortune 100 multinational corporation, a'la Exxon. The rule is "ask for permission," and performance reviews are managed by an HR department the size of Twitter. I suspect that someone from Legal now approves the "randomness routine." Lest you think I jest, I bet they have a patent pending on this infamous algorithm.
When a society ceases to produce real property, the value of intangible property virtually soars. Even our money is no longer tangible, as vastly larger sums flow through wires than through hands. Someday, free speech will not be, as the government will see it as the last bastion of tax revenues.
Telcos have a large legacy, over a century old. They lay cable expecting it to last 50 years, a business decision. It made sense when all it carried was 4KHz voice traffic for 80 years. If you look how long it took them to get rid of all the switchboards (where they saved a fortune in labor cost), you can understand their "bell head" mentality about wiring, which will not save them any working capital to replace functional copper with high-bandwidth fiber to the b-box. They can make almost as much money providing DSL at 5Mbps over existing copper. The alternative would be to make the wiring infrastructure public, like the freeway system.
Imagine if we had to replace the Interstate freeway system, a public infrastructure. Who would vote to pay for that, even if you could go 650 miles per hour? As tempting as it might sound, would each of you pay $1,000,000? Not me.
If this 'warp' were applied to one mass, hydrogen, then it should apply to anything in space -- nebulae, planets, suns, black holes. Most science fiction doesn't go that far. I suspect there are exceptions.