The entire plot of the Last Jedi was complete trash and the attempt to turn Star Wars into an in-your-face cheese party was just lame. Worst was that the whole premise of the movie was a slow chase in starships with hyper drives. Somehow we have to believe that the empire had no ships that can catch the rebels, but yet, the rebels have time to go on an spring break trip to Monte Carlo and listen to the Most Eisley cover band. Also, why made the central drama something something as ridiculously stupid as Laura Dern pretending she's entirely incompetent and had no plan... even to get own officers.
From your many argumentative comments, I see you're just not getting it.
Having H1b workers so tied to a single company is bad for everyone. It allows the consulting companies to treat them almost as slaves, no matter what they are getting paid - especially if they have a family whose immigration status also depends on their job. That's not good because a decent part of the reason some of the large consulting companies hire foreign workers isn't just that they are cheaper, but that they are easily controllable. They might still prefer a $100k slave that they can treat like dirt (and, at times, illegally) over an $80k local employee who can freely walk away any time they want. That system is not good for anyone except the large outsourcing shops, including domestic workers who have to lower their standards to compete with essentially indentured servants.
At least for me, the problem was the studios who pushed tons of post-production garbage as though it were real 3D. After Avatar, I shelled out the extra $4 a ticket to see a couple other movies in 3D, but it ended up being actually being only being a scene or two done in post-production, and it added nothing to the movies. Thay was the end of that! If a movie comes out that is shot in 3D and it really enhances the experience, I'm in, but if it's a cheaply executed gimmick to charge me more, no thanks.
I keep seeing all sorts of posts talking about how work perks aren't really free, but no one is accounting for a couple important realities. Number one, if that money were not spent on lunches, it would almost certainly not go to your paycheck, it would go into an executive bonus or shareholder dividend.
Companies tend to set pay based on market rates, so if you're getting the market rate and a lot of great perks, chances are you're getting the best deal you're going to get, and the perks are effectively free to you.
Secondly, companies have to pay various taxes on all the money they pay as salaries. Those payroll taxes do not apply to free lunches and ping pong tables. So there is some "free" money that gives the company the ability to spend more on perks than they could if they paid it out n cash.
I give you full points for disclosing your bias, but it's a complete distortion of the facts. Maybe if you count each local ISP with a few thousand users equal to the big dogs, you can say most ISPs don't offer video with a straight face but, when you look at it by user base, that's total BS. Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, and Verizon all offer both TV and internet and make up way more than 50% of the U.S. ISP market. All indications are that these data caps won't apply to their video services, so it's not really about bandwidth congestion (or they would be imposing a cap that you can only watch X hours a day of on-demand TV). This is straight up abuse of their monopoly in local markets.
Somehow I haven't seen anyone mention that.NET is actually newer than Ruby or JavaScript (the basis of node.js) and it is still developing rapidly, so I'm not sure what the criteria are for "Legacy".
I worked at a Ruby on Rails shop, and most of the twenty-something fanboys didn't understand language design or design patterns in general well enough to have a well defended opinion as to why Ruby on Rails was the right choice, they liked it because it was Ruby on Rails and that's what the cool kids use. It's performance is abysmal and it encourages terribly structured code. Language choices made "because it's cool" will quickly be replaced by the next buzzword. On the other hand, 40 years later, C/C++ are still widely used for performance critical applications at companies both stodgy (finance) and cutting edge (back-ends for tons of web companies).
With the Kindle, I think the Amazon has been one of, if not the most, successful at embracing what Android provides as a core, but extending/customizing it to support their preferred business model. Sure, they did a lot of work on their fork of Android, but if other companies aren't willing to put the work in, don't complain about something you're getting for free.
This sounds like a really great way to encourage students to pursue STEM majors and take higher paying jobs in the technology sector... Did we give up on that already?
I think Oracle has been pretty clear the whole way that they are trying to slowly kill off MySQL and drive users towards their more enterprise grade (read: grossly overpriced) product. They've jacked up the license fees substantially a couple times and pretty much every step of the way signaled that they're not really interested in supporting an open source DB, so I'm actually not even sure why this is newsworthy. I actually find a number of features of Oracle's DB offering fairly interesting, but wholly unnecessary for most web applications, so I expect everyone will move on to MariaDB and PostgreSQL. Nice of Oracle to provide a little window for everyone to switch, not that it was their intention.
8 years ago, shortly after the Ansari X-Prize was claimed, I was a new graduate who just started at one of Lockheed when Bob Stevens came to our office and held a townhall. Working up the nerve, I asked what impact he saw the X-Prize having, to which he replied "None, they spent $25 million to win a $10 million prize, so I don't see that being a good business model." Shocked by his lack of forward looking vision, I re-phrased "Do you think the fact that commercialization of space travel will change the shape of our industry?" (we were heavily involved in satellites at that location) Once again he brushed it off, saying that we had looked at the type of technology they were using long ago and decided it was not feasible to do profitably. And that was when I knew that Bob Stevens has absolutely zero vision, and is merely a bean counter. The only business model Lockheed knows is 1) Hire former military/government officials 2) Pay them gobs of money 3) Send them to schmooze their old buddies in the government and 4) Convince them to buy ridiculously expensive systems, whether the country really needs them or not (can't tell you how much completely wasted spending goes on because some general gets convinced that he needs his own satellite/plane/vehicle/etc rather than sharing the ones already available because he doesn't want to share with some other branch of the military or agency).
My bulletin board/forum is spam-bot secure. Why? Video captcha of animated.GIFs. No spam bot can get through, you *NEED* a human to answer the captcha, as it's a question related to the GIF itself (example, display a short clip of Hajime no Ippo, where Ippo is performing the Dempsey Roll. The question will ask "What move is being performed here?")
Have fun making a bot with knowledge of every manga/anime ever made with enough horsepower to OCR everything.
Every gif file has a name, filesize, hash, etc... and with a few bucks and the Mechanical Turk, I bet they can map one of these unique identifiers to the answers to your captcha, and hello spam city! I'm guessing you're really experiencing security through obscurity, which isn't real security.
It seems like any time there was a curved track section, it wouldn't work to just move it in 3 inches since the old piece would be to long or too short (depending on which way the curve was going). Not sure exactly how frequent this is, but I would think there would be quite a few to replace in 11,000+ miles of track. That would actually be interesting to me since you would have to have all the new pieces ready and on site (since you couldn't move them with the track torn up) waiting for that day.
I love the fact that in his own endless rant, he even says he doesn't want lawyers to pull rank... guess what, there's a reason mathematicians are not allowed to practice law unless they happen to attend law school, you have to actually know the laws for your inane rambling opinion to matter! Complete ignorance for the subject matter you are arguing should be an instant "bury" and this should never make the front page of/.
I commute to work, not that I like to, but I do like my wife (whose job is not close to mine), and I like being able to afford a townhouse, so living close work and quitting my job were not options. Where I live we have this new-fangled thing called a "toll road." You see, the way it works is you pay to drive on it based on how far you travel. When the road was built, the promise was that the tolls would only be used to pay off construction bonds and maintenance. Unfortunately, the state realized that no one can do without that toll road and they could set the price at whatever they like, so they changed the law, raised the tolls, and now they use it as a way to fund pet projects of all varieties. Of course, given their long history of honesty in policy making, I'm sure the federal government would never pull a bait and switch like that...
I'm pretty sure the constitution doesn't limit what government can legislate, except for the pretty specific clauses ensuring specific kinds of fundamental individual freedoms such as freedom of speech, association, freedom from arbitrary incarceration, and several other specific limitations on the government's scope of power.
In other respects, it's allowed to be a government and legislate whatever its democratically elected legislators vote to legislate.
Try reading the Constitution before taking wild guesses what it does and doesn't say. They are called "enumerated powers" and are found in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
I like CFL bulbs, and probably 80% of the bulbs in my house have been converted, but there are some applications that CFLs are actually less eco-friendly for, like areas where the lights are turned on and off frequently, like hallways, closets, and bathrooms. It would be a shame if this law actually makes things less efficient than just leaving people to their own devices... I think most people don't like spending their time changing light bulbs and are going to buy CFLs anyway.
After years of not being able to participate in all night Halo matches or play WoW because I have too many projects around the house, it finally pays off to be a/.er with a wife.
I'm not sure how this is a surprise to anyone, the latest toys are always expensive until manufacturers get economies of scale. I still remember when flat screen TVs were $15,000 roughly 12 years ago and now it seems like you can almost find them for free in a box of cracker jacks.
..should probably keep their trap shut. When I think about companies that have really capitalized on the rise of the mobile phone market, Intel is top of the list...[sarcastic snicker]
I don't think he could make himself look guiltily if he tried. When you resort to objecting extradition to a neutral country because you might end up in Guantanamo, you look like hi're grasping at straws because you're guilty, whether or not it's try. It would be one thing if he were being sent to Poland or another country who was actually involved in that stuff, but Sweden? C'mon....
Seriously, all this means is that some atheists make equally ridiculous claims as some believers. Given how little we truly understand about the universe, I think it's a little premature to say that the cosmological constant is/isn't tuned to produce life. While it's observed value may result in fewer galaxies forming, it likely also means fewer galaxies colliding and annihilating all life caught in the collision. I don't think that the cosmological constant in and of itself has any implication in the argument for whether or not God exists, and I have no idea why people on both sides try to make every scientific issue connect back to that. Take a philosophy class, there is no definitive proof or disproof, believe what you choose to believe and let everyone else to make their own choice.
If the U.S. was really willing to ignore all the rules to get him (as his lawyer is suggesting), it wouldn't matter. The fact is, it's pretty tough to end up in Gitmo unless you're found with a detonator in hand in Afghanistan, and it certainly doesn't happen when there is this much PR around a case. And really, being extradited from one of America's closest allies to a neutral country seems like it would be a move in his favor if the concern was really being handed over to the CIA or some such thing. Seems like another attempt to divert the focus from the charges at hand.
Personally I am not opposed to some degree of capacity planning, but the very example used repeatedly in this article undermines the premise. Who ever knows when they're about to get \.ed? How can the tech guys know the exact impact that the sales teams' latest promotion is going to have on traffic? And 10 minutes startup time isn't all that bad if you have software that looks at the traffic trends rather than waiting for their to be an actual capacity shortage. It might not be perfect, but it's better than trying to plan (and by plan, I mean guess) exactly how much capacity you will need at any given time.
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The entire plot of the Last Jedi was complete trash and the attempt to turn Star Wars into an in-your-face cheese party was just lame. Worst was that the whole premise of the movie was a slow chase in starships with hyper drives. Somehow we have to believe that the empire had no ships that can catch the rebels, but yet, the rebels have time to go on an spring break trip to Monte Carlo and listen to the Most Eisley cover band. Also, why made the central drama something something as ridiculously stupid as Laura Dern pretending she's entirely incompetent and had no plan... even to get own officers.
From your many argumentative comments, I see you're just not getting it. Having H1b workers so tied to a single company is bad for everyone. It allows the consulting companies to treat them almost as slaves, no matter what they are getting paid - especially if they have a family whose immigration status also depends on their job. That's not good because a decent part of the reason some of the large consulting companies hire foreign workers isn't just that they are cheaper, but that they are easily controllable. They might still prefer a $100k slave that they can treat like dirt (and, at times, illegally) over an $80k local employee who can freely walk away any time they want. That system is not good for anyone except the large outsourcing shops, including domestic workers who have to lower their standards to compete with essentially indentured servants.
At least for me, the problem was the studios who pushed tons of post-production garbage as though it were real 3D. After Avatar, I shelled out the extra $4 a ticket to see a couple other movies in 3D, but it ended up being actually being only being a scene or two done in post-production, and it added nothing to the movies. Thay was the end of that! If a movie comes out that is shot in 3D and it really enhances the experience, I'm in, but if it's a cheaply executed gimmick to charge me more, no thanks.
Doesn't pretty much every bank have a model hyperloop?
I keep seeing all sorts of posts talking about how work perks aren't really free, but no one is accounting for a couple important realities. Number one, if that money were not spent on lunches, it would almost certainly not go to your paycheck, it would go into an executive bonus or shareholder dividend. Companies tend to set pay based on market rates, so if you're getting the market rate and a lot of great perks, chances are you're getting the best deal you're going to get, and the perks are effectively free to you. Secondly, companies have to pay various taxes on all the money they pay as salaries. Those payroll taxes do not apply to free lunches and ping pong tables. So there is some "free" money that gives the company the ability to spend more on perks than they could if they paid it out n cash.
I give you full points for disclosing your bias, but it's a complete distortion of the facts. Maybe if you count each local ISP with a few thousand users equal to the big dogs, you can say most ISPs don't offer video with a straight face but, when you look at it by user base, that's total BS. Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, and Verizon all offer both TV and internet and make up way more than 50% of the U.S. ISP market. All indications are that these data caps won't apply to their video services, so it's not really about bandwidth congestion (or they would be imposing a cap that you can only watch X hours a day of on-demand TV). This is straight up abuse of their monopoly in local markets.
Somehow I haven't seen anyone mention that .NET is actually newer than Ruby or JavaScript (the basis of node.js) and it is still developing rapidly, so I'm not sure what the criteria are for "Legacy".
I worked at a Ruby on Rails shop, and most of the twenty-something fanboys didn't understand language design or design patterns in general well enough to have a well defended opinion as to why Ruby on Rails was the right choice, they liked it because it was Ruby on Rails and that's what the cool kids use. It's performance is abysmal and it encourages terribly structured code. Language choices made "because it's cool" will quickly be replaced by the next buzzword. On the other hand, 40 years later, C/C++ are still widely used for performance critical applications at companies both stodgy (finance) and cutting edge (back-ends for tons of web companies).
With the Kindle, I think the Amazon has been one of, if not the most, successful at embracing what Android provides as a core, but extending/customizing it to support their preferred business model. Sure, they did a lot of work on their fork of Android, but if other companies aren't willing to put the work in, don't complain about something you're getting for free.
This sounds like a really great way to encourage students to pursue STEM majors and take higher paying jobs in the technology sector... Did we give up on that already?
I think Oracle has been pretty clear the whole way that they are trying to slowly kill off MySQL and drive users towards their more enterprise grade (read: grossly overpriced) product. They've jacked up the license fees substantially a couple times and pretty much every step of the way signaled that they're not really interested in supporting an open source DB, so I'm actually not even sure why this is newsworthy. I actually find a number of features of Oracle's DB offering fairly interesting, but wholly unnecessary for most web applications, so I expect everyone will move on to MariaDB and PostgreSQL. Nice of Oracle to provide a little window for everyone to switch, not that it was their intention.
8 years ago, shortly after the Ansari X-Prize was claimed, I was a new graduate who just started at one of Lockheed when Bob Stevens came to our office and held a townhall. Working up the nerve, I asked what impact he saw the X-Prize having, to which he replied "None, they spent $25 million to win a $10 million prize, so I don't see that being a good business model." Shocked by his lack of forward looking vision, I re-phrased "Do you think the fact that commercialization of space travel will change the shape of our industry?" (we were heavily involved in satellites at that location) Once again he brushed it off, saying that we had looked at the type of technology they were using long ago and decided it was not feasible to do profitably. And that was when I knew that Bob Stevens has absolutely zero vision, and is merely a bean counter. The only business model Lockheed knows is 1) Hire former military/government officials 2) Pay them gobs of money 3) Send them to schmooze their old buddies in the government and 4) Convince them to buy ridiculously expensive systems, whether the country really needs them or not (can't tell you how much completely wasted spending goes on because some general gets convinced that he needs his own satellite/plane/vehicle/etc rather than sharing the ones already available because he doesn't want to share with some other branch of the military or agency).
My bulletin board/forum is spam-bot secure. Why? Video captcha of animated .GIFs. No spam bot can get through, you *NEED* a human to answer the captcha, as it's a question related to the GIF itself (example, display a short clip of Hajime no Ippo, where Ippo is performing the Dempsey Roll. The question will ask "What move is being performed here?")
Have fun making a bot with knowledge of every manga/anime ever made with enough horsepower to OCR everything.
Every gif file has a name, filesize, hash, etc... and with a few bucks and the Mechanical Turk, I bet they can map one of these unique identifiers to the answers to your captcha, and hello spam city! I'm guessing you're really experiencing security through obscurity, which isn't real security.
"and the flux capacitor, but the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline; it always has."
It seems like any time there was a curved track section, it wouldn't work to just move it in 3 inches since the old piece would be to long or too short (depending on which way the curve was going). Not sure exactly how frequent this is, but I would think there would be quite a few to replace in 11,000+ miles of track. That would actually be interesting to me since you would have to have all the new pieces ready and on site (since you couldn't move them with the track torn up) waiting for that day.
I love the fact that in his own endless rant, he even says he doesn't want lawyers to pull rank... guess what, there's a reason mathematicians are not allowed to practice law unless they happen to attend law school, you have to actually know the laws for your inane rambling opinion to matter! Complete ignorance for the subject matter you are arguing should be an instant "bury" and this should never make the front page of /.
I commute to work, not that I like to, but I do like my wife (whose job is not close to mine), and I like being able to afford a townhouse, so living close work and quitting my job were not options. Where I live we have this new-fangled thing called a "toll road." You see, the way it works is you pay to drive on it based on how far you travel. When the road was built, the promise was that the tolls would only be used to pay off construction bonds and maintenance. Unfortunately, the state realized that no one can do without that toll road and they could set the price at whatever they like, so they changed the law, raised the tolls, and now they use it as a way to fund pet projects of all varieties. Of course, given their long history of honesty in policy making, I'm sure the federal government would never pull a bait and switch like that...
I'm pretty sure the constitution doesn't limit what government can legislate, except for the pretty specific clauses ensuring specific kinds of fundamental individual freedoms such as freedom of speech, association, freedom from arbitrary incarceration, and several other specific limitations on the government's scope of power.
In other respects, it's allowed to be a government and legislate whatever its democratically elected legislators vote to legislate.
Try reading the Constitution before taking wild guesses what it does and doesn't say. They are called "enumerated powers" and are found in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
I like CFL bulbs, and probably 80% of the bulbs in my house have been converted, but there are some applications that CFLs are actually less eco-friendly for, like areas where the lights are turned on and off frequently, like hallways, closets, and bathrooms. It would be a shame if this law actually makes things less efficient than just leaving people to their own devices... I think most people don't like spending their time changing light bulbs and are going to buy CFLs anyway.
After years of not being able to participate in all night Halo matches or play WoW because I have too many projects around the house, it finally pays off to be a /.er with a wife.
I'm not sure how this is a surprise to anyone, the latest toys are always expensive until manufacturers get economies of scale. I still remember when flat screen TVs were $15,000 roughly 12 years ago and now it seems like you can almost find them for free in a box of cracker jacks.
..should probably keep their trap shut. When I think about companies that have really capitalized on the rise of the mobile phone market, Intel is top of the list...[sarcastic snicker]
I don't think he could make himself look guiltily if he tried. When you resort to objecting extradition to a neutral country because you might end up in Guantanamo, you look like hi're grasping at straws because you're guilty, whether or not it's try. It would be one thing if he were being sent to Poland or another country who was actually involved in that stuff, but Sweden? C'mon....
Seriously, all this means is that some atheists make equally ridiculous claims as some believers. Given how little we truly understand about the universe, I think it's a little premature to say that the cosmological constant is/isn't tuned to produce life. While it's observed value may result in fewer galaxies forming, it likely also means fewer galaxies colliding and annihilating all life caught in the collision. I don't think that the cosmological constant in and of itself has any implication in the argument for whether or not God exists, and I have no idea why people on both sides try to make every scientific issue connect back to that. Take a philosophy class, there is no definitive proof or disproof, believe what you choose to believe and let everyone else to make their own choice.
If the U.S. was really willing to ignore all the rules to get him (as his lawyer is suggesting), it wouldn't matter. The fact is, it's pretty tough to end up in Gitmo unless you're found with a detonator in hand in Afghanistan, and it certainly doesn't happen when there is this much PR around a case. And really, being extradited from one of America's closest allies to a neutral country seems like it would be a move in his favor if the concern was really being handed over to the CIA or some such thing. Seems like another attempt to divert the focus from the charges at hand.
Personally I am not opposed to some degree of capacity planning, but the very example used repeatedly in this article undermines the premise. Who ever knows when they're about to get \.ed? How can the tech guys know the exact impact that the sales teams' latest promotion is going to have on traffic? And 10 minutes startup time isn't all that bad if you have software that looks at the traffic trends rather than waiting for their to be an actual capacity shortage. It might not be perfect, but it's better than trying to plan (and by plan, I mean guess) exactly how much capacity you will need at any given time.