#4 LibreOffice is not a replacement of Office, even if it works for you. It does not work for me. A bit offtopic, there are lot of web-apps which work only with IE.
#7 This is annoying. There still is no stable video with lip-sync (main reason: pulseaudio). There is still no good replacement for xv (gimp & ristretto are both slow and cumbersome and limited). I do not know if it worse in windows or not, I know it is annoying in Linux world.
#10 atomic.h is in very few distros (Ubuntu LTS misses it). Two different distros are going to have different version of Python meaning difficulties if you need to support both. Same for huge amount of other SW, the biggest reason being nobody gives a shit about backward compatibility.
1: Memory model. That is, how "volatile" *really* behaves. 99.9% programmers do not understand volatile (i.e. memory barriers in SMP, etc). 2: Threads. 90% of programmers do not understand threads, and of those who do, most have no clue how memory barriers and atomic operations work.
We need a language where explicit threading is not needed. We do not (yet?) have one.
Do you know why their profit was so low? Because (some of them) funneled their profits to the company in tax heaven. How they do that? For example, by buying new logo for 1 billion, taking loan for that witn 20% interest rate, or by licencing for huge value, etc. From the company in the tax heaven.
I cannot understand how USA got a secret court. Proposing something like that back here in EU would (in most countries) mean political suiciside. I cannot imagine anyone (from far left to far right to anarchists to greens to intelligence agency to...) with the slightest credibility advocating such a beast here in Finland. Not at least publicly.
I do not think this particular disaster is that bad. Worse is the fact that there are huge amount of similar "we don't give a shit" disasters waiting to happen in every industry. It will continue as long as there are no persons responsible to fix those - company can always pay a fine.
The regulation, as I understand it, would try to keep (functional) guns from bad guys. Will it succeed 100%? No. Can it? No. But even 1% (less deaths) would be huge improvement, right?
As I am a foreigner, I probably should not give advice, but as an egoistic asshole I still give: 1: Remove the right to own guns from everybody. Give it back to those who register their guns. (get a better wording for same effect as this would never pass) 2: Penalise people who mishandle their guns (store/carry inappropriately, etc.) by revokin their gun permits. Or more. (ref: kid who shot neighbor kid: the owner of the gun should be severely penalized, IMHO). 3: Guns can (legally) be sold only to persons with a permit (for that particular gun). There needs to be easy and relatively cheap way to get the permit. "Bad" guys don't get one.
Something like this works, to a degree, in EU. It is by far not perfect, but better than nothing.
Worst, there is no "education for women must be provided". Why that? It is the only known (working) way to decrease number of child per female (and decrease human aspect to warming).
Obviously it might make sense to educate males too. But then, are they capable of learning? Does not seem like. I havn't.
But they are not doing it for free! If you do not like the deal, refuse from the severance! (TANSTAAFL) I have done a teeny-weeny similar deal (free time for later help), and of course I kept my side of the bargain.
Bloody hell, back here (Finland) they advertise netflix-like services for tablets. Slogan goes "you can watch what ever you like where ever you like, when ever you like" and the picture shows a mobile phone and tablet. But then, they do not limit 4G in any way. Not that I mind some cap, but 23G is smallish (less than a movie per day).
I disagree. I think it is obvious Google picked Java because it was popular. They could have made it compatible, but on purpose did not. So in effect they did pull developers from Java platform. If Google did not want to do that, they would not have used Java, but made a better language. A better language closer to modern scripting languages (e.g. no "generics") and more sane arithmetic (integers which cannot overflow, not require sin(x) return exactly[1] same result in every platform with every argument, etc.).
[1] I do not remember what the Java requirements are, but they are silly for this kind of a language. IMHO sin(10^50) is pretty much "implementation defined" as sin(10^50 + epsilon) is in effect random. Sure there are cases where you really have to do "infinitely precise" arithmetic to calculate sin(huge_value), but for generic computation? No.
Are you really claiming 1% of the rich could not buy all the houses (i.e. land), even if you government would give permits "everywhere"?
Tell me one reason why the rich would not buy all the property, even if there is (un)reasonable amount. That way they can control the people thus ensuring they always get a bigger slice.
I think this is the next phase on the "fewer owning more and more": you'd be better of being a slave than having a job & rent.
They only want "this" person for the top positions (board, ceo, etc), and they they give such a huge offer that there is no need to negotiate. Or if there is, they just make a new, bigger one.
Honestly, recruiting talent is not difficult, finding talent is. Sticking to "this person" is stupid, nobody is irreplaceable, at least not after "being hit by a bus".
E. Do not want to train people. Rather fire old people and hire new with the special knowledge. Some even expect you to *buy* development environment and demonstrate your knowhow.
Generics killed Java. Just an example, Java v.s. Javascript public static <AnyType extends Comparable<AnyType>> AnyType maximum(AnyType x, AnyType y, AnyType z) v.s. function maximum(x, y, z).
P.S. I must mention that Javascript is the worst language I have seen in a long time.
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#4 LibreOffice is not a replacement of Office, even if it works for you. It does not work for me. A bit offtopic, there are lot of web-apps which work only with IE.
#7 This is annoying. There still is no stable video with lip-sync (main reason: pulseaudio). There is still no good replacement for xv (gimp & ristretto are both slow and cumbersome and limited). I do not know if it worse in windows or not, I know it is annoying in Linux world.
#10 atomic.h is in very few distros (Ubuntu LTS misses it). Two different distros are going to have different version of Python meaning difficulties if you need to support both. Same for huge amount of other SW, the biggest reason being nobody gives a shit about backward compatibility.
Don't worry, they'll add the phrase "security is ensured by military grade encryption" to marketing material.
You mean playing by the rules the states have set in place for taxes, and now being robbed by way of thanks for complying.
How do you know they have been playing by the rules? This is a raid, next they'll investigate whether this is true or not.
Why XUbuntu is IMHO much nicer (and more responsive) than KDE.
1: Memory model. That is, how "volatile" *really* behaves. 99.9% programmers do not understand volatile (i.e. memory barriers in SMP, etc).
2: Threads. 90% of programmers do not understand threads, and of those who do, most have no clue how memory barriers and atomic operations work.
We need a language where explicit threading is not needed. We do not (yet?) have one.
"Me: Their profit was .3 billion."
Do you know why their profit was so low? Because (some of them) funneled their profits to the company in tax heaven. How they do that? For example, by buying new logo for 1 billion, taking loan for that witn 20% interest rate, or by licencing for huge value, etc. From the company in the tax heaven.
Legal? Maybe. Ethical? You answer that.
This must the most idiotic, incorrect and bigoted post I have ever seen at +5.
I cannot understand how USA got a secret court. Proposing something like that back here in EU would (in most countries) mean political suiciside. I cannot imagine anyone (from far left to far right to anarchists to greens to intelligence agency to ...) with the slightest credibility advocating such a beast here in Finland. Not at least publicly.
I do not think this particular disaster is that bad. Worse is the fact that there are huge amount of similar "we don't give a shit" disasters waiting to happen in every industry. It will continue as long as there are no persons responsible to fix those - company can always pay a fine.
How do you know if the device is compromised?
It has Linux inside.
Seriously, the OS's in these systems are too buggy and make exploits far too easy. Not to mention the application programs.
The regulation, as I understand it, would try to keep (functional) guns from bad guys.
Will it succeed 100%? No. Can it? No. But even 1% (less deaths) would be huge improvement, right?
As I am a foreigner, I probably should not give advice, but as an egoistic asshole I still give:
1: Remove the right to own guns from everybody. Give it back to those who register their guns. (get a better wording for same effect as this would never pass)
2: Penalise people who mishandle their guns (store/carry inappropriately, etc.) by revokin their gun permits. Or more. (ref: kid who shot neighbor kid: the owner of the gun should be severely penalized, IMHO).
3: Guns can (legally) be sold only to persons with a permit (for that particular gun). There needs to be easy and relatively cheap way to get the permit. "Bad" guys don't get one.
Something like this works, to a degree, in EU. It is by far not perfect, but better than nothing.
Worst, there is no "education for women must be provided".
Why that? It is the only known (working) way to decrease number of child per female (and decrease human aspect to warming).
Obviously it might make sense to educate males too. But then, are they capable of learning? Does not seem like. I havn't.
But they are not doing it for free! If you do not like the deal, refuse from the severance! (TANSTAAFL)
I have done a teeny-weeny similar deal (free time for later help), and of course I kept my side of the bargain.
Bloody hell, back here (Finland) they advertise netflix-like services for tablets. Slogan goes "you can watch what ever you like where ever you like, when ever you like" and the picture shows a mobile phone and tablet. But then, they do not limit 4G in any way.
Not that I mind some cap, but 23G is smallish (less than a movie per day).
Reminds me of my electronic tyre pressure gauge. It was extremely good - as a random number generator. Moved back to analog.
I disagree. I think it is obvious Google picked Java because it was popular. They could have made it compatible, but on purpose did not. So in effect they did pull developers from Java platform.
If Google did not want to do that, they would not have used Java, but made a better language. A better language closer to modern scripting languages (e.g. no "generics") and more sane arithmetic (integers which cannot overflow, not require sin(x) return exactly[1] same result in every platform with every argument, etc.).
[1] I do not remember what the Java requirements are, but they are silly for this kind of a language. IMHO sin(10^50) is pretty much "implementation defined" as sin(10^50 + epsilon) is in effect random. Sure there are cases where you really have to do "infinitely precise" arithmetic to calculate sin(huge_value), but for generic computation? No.
Are you really claiming 1% of the rich could not buy all the houses (i.e. land), even if you government would give permits "everywhere"?
Tell me one reason why the rich would not buy all the property, even if there is (un)reasonable amount. That way they can control the people thus ensuring they always get a bigger slice.
I think this is the next phase on the "fewer owning more and more": you'd be better of being a slave than having a job & rent.
Before 9/11, CIA have admitted their most imporant task was to spy for american companies. I bet today it is the same. Poor Germans.
They only want "this" person for the top positions (board, ceo, etc), and they they give such a huge offer that there is no need to negotiate. Or if there is, they just make a new, bigger one.
Honestly, recruiting talent is not difficult, finding talent is. Sticking to "this person" is stupid, nobody is irreplaceable, at least not after "being hit by a bus".
Even worse than lawyers (effectively) banning film documentaries.
In one interview I said straight (about pair programming), "if someone else touches my keyboard, I go home". Didn't get the job - thank god.
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E. Do not want to train people. Rather fire old people and hire new with the special knowledge. Some even expect you to *buy* development environment and demonstrate your knowhow.
I wonder what would have happened had they not had Google Translate. A boy?
Generics killed Java.
Just an example, Java v.s. Javascript public static <AnyType extends Comparable<AnyType>> AnyType maximum(AnyType x, AnyType y, AnyType z) v.s. function maximum(x, y, z).
P.S. I must mention that Javascript is the worst language I have seen in a long time.