It's not altruistic, and it's not just Apple. The Atlantic had an article recently about how a lot of companies (e.g. GM) are doing the same thing, for two reasons: (a) Chinese wages have been rising at about 18% per year since 2000, (b) oil is very pricey now, meaning shipping stuff over from China is more expensive.
So, yeah, Apple aren't doing this because they've suddenly discovered patriotism. This is based on a cold cost calculation, just like the original decision to move their manufacturing to China. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the spin they're trying to put on this is more than a little disingenuous.
Link to a better writeup, one that doesn't attempt strained architectural analogies (ignore the first paragraph or three, but do look at the comments).
What you need to examine for something like this is how it compares between people that went to these schools and people that could have, but didn't. Those who had the grades and test scores, maybe even applied, but elected to go to a state school instead. My bet? Not much difference.
FYI, they did do this, and came to the same conclusion you did.
In 1999, economists from Princeton and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation looked at some of the same data Eide and his colleagues had used, but crunched them in a different way: They compared students at more selective colleges to others of "seemingly comparable ability," based on their SAT scores and class rank, who had attended less selective schools, either by choice or because a top college rejected them.
The earnings of graduates in the two groups were about the same — perhaps shifting the ledger in favor of the less expensive, less prestigious route.
If anyone's worried about that, they can continue to choose to hide their own sexuality as long as they please. And I'm pretty sure they're more qualified to make that decision than some random blowhard on the Internet.
Maybe Avast should release stats on how many people actually chose to purchase after the warning? Would give us one estimate on the piracy vs lost sale ratio.
This may be noobish, but is there some way to set up a certificate authority, have its verification key (V) be publicly available from a website or something, and have V signed by (say) Verisign?
I don't think the Neo's supposed to be an iPhone-killer. The company's probably targeting enthusiasts, the kind of people who make up Linux's desktop share. And there are enough of us to make this a viable business proposition.
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(X) Microsoft will not put up with it
Uh, no. Microsoft actually wanted to do this ten years ago.
It's not altruistic, and it's not just Apple. The Atlantic had an article recently about how a lot of companies (e.g. GM) are doing the same thing, for two reasons: (a) Chinese wages have been rising at about 18% per year since 2000, (b) oil is very pricey now, meaning shipping stuff over from China is more expensive. So, yeah, Apple aren't doing this because they've suddenly discovered patriotism. This is based on a cold cost calculation, just like the original decision to move their manufacturing to China. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the spin they're trying to put on this is more than a little disingenuous.
Apparently we're past denial and anger, and are now in the middle of bargaining.
This is going to get rough. Before we get to acceptance, we have depression to go through first.
Ahem, sorry. I meant Fr1st!!!!
But maybe you could roll it up into a scroll or something.
OK, honestly not trying to troll here, but I can't be the only one who thinks the new Launcher's ugly as sin.
Here's Unity: screenshot
Now here's the dock on my Mac: screenshot
Just because someone's lobbying for something doesn't mean it's wrong.
"5/11 participants (P2, P3, P5, P9, P10, P11)"
Wait, so is it 5/11 or 6/11?
Link to a better writeup, one that doesn't attempt strained architectural analogies (ignore the first paragraph or three, but do look at the comments).
... even now he is still head and shoulders above GWB, or how McCain would have been
That's not saying a lot.
But it should still be cheaper than buying a new laptop.
Right, there are no H-1Bs in the financial sector.
I can't think of anything specific about OO that makes it poorly suited to parallel programming.
Search for the "inheritance anomaly". The academic CS community has known about it since the 80s, but no-one's yet found a satisfactory fix.
I'm sorry, but Microsoft? How the hell could this possibly affect them?
I'm no lawyer, but I assume the legal system doesn't allow unaffected third parties to be involved in lawsuits?
NAT. Firewall. Not the same.
I suspect that proving code is safe using static analysis is probably NP-complete.
I believe it's undecidable. Rice's theorem.
Wait, there was a second one? *scuttles off*
That /. is written in Perl.
Ah. This explains a lot.
What you need to examine for something like this is how it compares between people that went to these schools and people that could have, but didn't. Those who had the grades and test scores, maybe even applied, but elected to go to a state school instead. My bet? Not much difference.
FYI, they did do this, and came to the same conclusion you did.
In 1999, economists from Princeton and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation looked at some of the same data Eide and his colleagues had used, but crunched them in a different way: They compared students at more selective colleges to others of "seemingly comparable ability," based on their SAT scores and class rank, who had attended less selective schools, either by choice or because a top college rejected them. The earnings of graduates in the two groups were about the same — perhaps shifting the ledger in favor of the less expensive, less prestigious route.
If anyone's worried about that, they can continue to choose to hide their own sexuality as long as they please. And I'm pretty sure they're more qualified to make that decision than some random blowhard on the Internet.
Maybe Avast should release stats on how many people actually chose to purchase after the warning? Would give us one estimate on the piracy vs lost sale ratio.
This may be noobish, but is there some way to set up a certificate authority, have its verification key (V) be publicly available from a website or something, and have V signed by (say) Verisign?
Well, TFS did say something about the driver heading onto a "busy intersection". It wasn't just one guy's life versus his and his children's.
I know, I know, trolley problem and all that, but it wasn't as simple as you make it out to be.
but the output is algorithmic with a bit of randomness thrown in.
And who's to say that's not what creativity is?
Movement? Isn't movement the change of position with time?
I don't think the Neo's supposed to be an iPhone-killer. The company's probably targeting enthusiasts, the kind of people who make up Linux's desktop share. And there are enough of us to make this a viable business proposition.