LIke UL: Overpriced for its safety testing; you can get a CE certification for less. Or Energy Star: Let's you waste energy as long as you don't waste it in certain ways.
There's a lot more to RoHS than "states that specified substances aren't present." I could write a whole article on that one alone. Oh, gee, somebody has: Wikipedia!
For a scammer, $185k is pocket change. I can justify spending that on any number of TLDs. At $35 per year per name, you only need to sell 5,300 domain names to recoup your investment. At an ongoing cost of $25,000, you would have money in the bank.
You understand "at will" employment correctly; with some exceptions (filing workers' comp., organizing a union, age discrimination, etc.) you can be let go for any cause or no cause at all. But executives usually have contracts and any decent contract would cover a situation like this. Hence the "golden parachute" where the executive gets a bonus if laid off due to the sale of the company.
But "at will" employment works the other way as well: I can easily switch jobs with two weeks' notice.
Suggestion: Skip over the headings that don't appeal to you and read the ones that do. Comment on things you feel strongly about. I, for one, enjoy my daily Bitcoin story.
I was wondering what I was going to do without my daily bitcoin story. Now I'm happy until tomorrow when I'll be looking for the next bitcoin story.
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Of course, there for a while, Apple was running on the same Power PC architecture as IBM was using for midrange servers. I believe my Centris 610 has an IBM processor in it.
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Check out the Power Systems platform, you know, the one that Watson runs on. Single level storage (every byte on disk has a main memory address), programs that can be upgraded from one architecture to the next (32-bit to 64-bit, CISC to RISC) without recompiling and the ability to change partition parameters without rebooting and you will see some serious innovation that others just fantasize about. This was innovative when it came out in 1980 as the System/38 and remains so to this day.
I was going to put it as teaching this generation's coal miners but you put it better. At least you don't get black lung when you're an unemployed coder.
And there are people who believe that tulip bulbs are worth more than $100 each. When the only value is being able to sell it to some other schmuck for more, then eventually the whole thing will collapse and it won't have any value.
Later investors are paying extraordinary returns to early investors. The value of one bitcoin has gone from $.06 to $29 in less than a year? How is this not a Ponzi scheme?
Chrome ASSUMES that you're going to quit the browser every so often but I just leave it running it all the time. Every two weeks, I check to see if I have the latest version only to find that there's an update but it's been patiently waiting to restart to install the update. Obviously, some people on the Chrome team don't use Macs.
No, I'm just saying that there has been a regression in mainstream programming in the last 40 years. We are now just getting back to where we were in the '70s. Can you image where we would be now if we hadn't regressed (I'm talking about a world without blue screens and malware)?
I saw some open source the other day riddled with gotos. I learned (in the early 70s) how to write structured code (where any statement in the code has exactly one entrance point and exactly one exit point). To this day and millions of lines of code later, I still don't use gotos (and pseudo gotos like iter). I wasn't shocked to see the cruft in the open source, but I am disappointed that the review didn't mention structured coding.
The reality is that bad code these days is much worse than the bad code of yesteryear (just read The Daily WTF for a plethora of examples). Maybe someday we'll go back to what we had when we were working on "proving" that programs worked instead of just testing them.
That's the one. Even when you installed it properly, it might not run right. It told me once that my AVG antivirus was not on the list of allowed antivirus programs.
A computer science program that doesn't support Linux is worthless. I know you were talking to IT, but the computer science department should have enough involvement with IT to force support of Linux.
P.S. Everything these days is tied to operating systems. Yes, any wireless method should be platform independent but that means all platforms support it, not that there's no connection between the wireless method and the operating system.
To me, support of Linux is a litmus test of whether you support openness or you are tied to a specific platform. Don't support Linux? I'll call you proprietary.
You don't need Apple's or Google's cloud if you make your own. What is cloud? Securely providing data and/or services to your devices with Internat access.
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By law, flood insurance is covered by the federal government. Your insurance company should have nothing to do with it.
LIke UL: Overpriced for its safety testing; you can get a CE certification for less. Or Energy Star: Let's you waste energy as long as you don't waste it in certain ways.
There's a lot more to RoHS than "states that specified substances aren't present." I could write a whole article on that one alone. Oh, gee, somebody has: Wikipedia!
For a scammer, $185k is pocket change. I can justify spending that on any number of TLDs. At $35 per year per name, you only need to sell 5,300 domain names to recoup your investment. At an ongoing cost of $25,000, you would have money in the bank.
You understand "at will" employment correctly; with some exceptions (filing workers' comp., organizing a union, age discrimination, etc.) you can be let go for any cause or no cause at all. But executives usually have contracts and any decent contract would cover a situation like this. Hence the "golden parachute" where the executive gets a bonus if laid off due to the sale of the company.
But "at will" employment works the other way as well: I can easily switch jobs with two weeks' notice.
Suggestion: Skip over the headings that don't appeal to you and read the ones that do. Comment on things you feel strongly about. I, for one, enjoy my daily Bitcoin story.
I was wondering what I was going to do without my daily bitcoin story. Now I'm happy until tomorrow when I'll be looking for the next bitcoin story.
Of course, there for a while, Apple was running on the same Power PC architecture as IBM was using for midrange servers. I believe my Centris 610 has an IBM processor in it.
Check out the Power Systems platform, you know, the one that Watson runs on. Single level storage (every byte on disk has a main memory address), programs that can be upgraded from one architecture to the next (32-bit to 64-bit, CISC to RISC) without recompiling and the ability to change partition parameters without rebooting and you will see some serious innovation that others just fantasize about. This was innovative when it came out in 1980 as the System/38 and remains so to this day.
I was going to put it as teaching this generation's coal miners but you put it better. At least you don't get black lung when you're an unemployed coder.
And there are people who believe that tulip bulbs are worth more than $100 each. When the only value is being able to sell it to some other schmuck for more, then eventually the whole thing will collapse and it won't have any value.
Later investors are paying extraordinary returns to early investors. The value of one bitcoin has gone from $.06 to $29 in less than a year? How is this not a Ponzi scheme?
Chrome ASSUMES that you're going to quit the browser every so often but I just leave it running it all the time. Every two weeks, I check to see if I have the latest version only to find that there's an update but it's been patiently waiting to restart to install the update. Obviously, some people on the Chrome team don't use Macs.
No, I'm just saying that there has been a regression in mainstream programming in the last 40 years. We are now just getting back to where we were in the '70s. Can you image where we would be now if we hadn't regressed (I'm talking about a world without blue screens and malware)?
I saw some open source the other day riddled with gotos. I learned (in the early 70s) how to write structured code (where any statement in the code has exactly one entrance point and exactly one exit point). To this day and millions of lines of code later, I still don't use gotos (and pseudo gotos like iter). I wasn't shocked to see the cruft in the open source, but I am disappointed that the review didn't mention structured coding.
The reality is that bad code these days is much worse than the bad code of yesteryear (just read The Daily WTF for a plethora of examples). Maybe someday we'll go back to what we had when we were working on "proving" that programs worked instead of just testing them.
Trademarks are based on the sound of the trademark, not the spelling. HandiPak is the same as Handypack in trademark law.
it is surprising that a few slashdot posters still don't know how to code links: Click Here!
That's the one. Even when you installed it properly, it might not run right. It told me once that my AVG antivirus was not on the list of allowed antivirus programs.
... unless they use some weird connection tool (do those even exist any more).
You, you've never run across Cisco's Clean Access Agent? Lucky you!
A computer science program that doesn't support Linux is worthless. I know you were talking to IT, but the computer science department should have enough involvement with IT to force support of Linux.
P.S. Everything these days is tied to operating systems. Yes, any wireless method should be platform independent but that means all platforms support it, not that there's no connection between the wireless method and the operating system.
To me, support of Linux is a litmus test of whether you support openness or you are tied to a specific platform. Don't support Linux? I'll call you proprietary.
You mean I can move to Tennessee and be guaranteed of never seeing Sarah Palin's picture again?
You don't need Apple's or Google's cloud if you make your own. What is cloud? Securely providing data and/or services to your devices with Internat access.
If you can't afford to do this, your business is not viable. I see this every once in a while, usually about two years before bankruptcy.
There was talk that updates would be incremental for that very reason.
I believe Steve said that you can have 10 devices linked to an App Store account.