So I am guessing these 60,000 working are hoping to get enough to retire on, as I imagine they will find finding a job pretty hard after this?
At $324.5 million, that only comes out to $5.4K per person. Which is obviously way too low.
Perl handles everything strangely. Their classes are so strange, and there is not a language out there that has a worse way of passing variables to methods. And by far the best unique feature, in any programming language, is its handling of regular expressions. After using Perl Regular Expressions, searching and conditionals feel like such a chore in any other language.
But if it is so big, instead of tiny insectoid parasites, a pack of rats might just burrow into its hide and make a nest, instead of fleas it might have ferrets like creatures crawling over it and biting it to drink its blood. And I do not even want to think about what it might have instead of the standard tapeworms.
It would be interesting to research what type of ecosystems build up around such giant creatures.
If he got such a large number of people to hate him, in all likelihood he was an arrogant ass. Looking back, in high school I was a complete arrogant ass-hole, who could not stop myself from rubbing my superior intellect in everyone face. I am continually surprised how everyone treated me so well. But I think people need weakness to exploit, to bully.
Video game journalist never had that sort of integrity, nor is it really even applicable. Everyone who knows anything about video game/indie journalist knows that it is extremely chummy with the devs and they like it that way. It is not a secret, and in my mind it is not even a violation of their journalistic integrity.
"Real" journalists write about facts, game journalists write about their opinions. There magazines and blogs are basically just a series of editorials, not news articles. Now I am know almost nothing about journalistic ethics, but to me it seems that the sort of job that game journalists do, it is less of or completely not an issue to have personal relationships with the people you are writing about. And regardless of the ideal, it is currently industry wide, and completely accepted.
And if you want to launch a game dev career it absolutely would be invaluable to go to PAX and buy a beer from some guy from RPS. And if you wanted to sleep your way to fame, I am sure you could. Have you seen pictures of these people, they are the farthest things from professionals.
back then -- largescale wireless also didn't quite exist yet.
It is not because other calculators might be more powerful. Primarily, it is because TI has paid or schmoozed the right people. Officially, the word is that they cannot verify that any other calculators do not include internet or phone network access, and maybe a handful of other features. But at the same time, I have never taken a test that allowed you to bring anything you wanted; Tests are too much about memorizing the material for it to be feasible to allow text books. And when they do, it is only because the test is designed that unless you are an absolute expert and memorised everything, you will not have time to finish.
And I am sure competitors exist, but schools only allow the TI's.
It is the same for old standard calculators, the university/college will only approve the use of that one TI calculator.
In my university, you have one allowed calculator, and you still had to pay to get a sticker to let the exam procs know that "yes, this calculator is allowed"
You have obviously never used a computer, nor understand how they work. Billions of complex things happen every second with hundreds of programs interacting and random errors popping up and propagating. The idea that you could solve a random wrong bit in 8 gigs, or even just some weird bug in the source code of windows is beyond absurd.
Rebooting permanently SOLVES at least 80% of all problems.
Well based on how you define it, you can get pretty much any statistic. Most people who code some amount for their job, who do not have a comp sci degree is probably far over 50%.
It is not as simple as theory vs practice. Yes, Comp Sci is very theory heavy and far too much so for the workplace. But companies are often not just looking for code writing monkeys. Being able to code is not nearly enough to actually write a useful program or even just a tiny part of it. You need a lot of math and advanced logic, and at least some of that theory they teach in comp sci.
Otherwise it is like trying to solve calculus problems without any formal calculus knowledge; You might be able to hack your way through it, but that is about it.
SV is not going to care about the Streisand Effect if they are in prison for the next 40 years, which is something that happens when you forge court documents.
Actually, I think you have a point that can be refined. If the deductible is higher than the cost of the replacement that is just misleading advertisement. Everyone assumes that having issuance means that you are protected in some way, not that filing a claim is actually profitable by the insurance company.
Except that the reason they place cell infrastructure on top of towers is not arbitrary. It is not like they can hide these "cell towers" 50 feet underground. Sure they could paint them blue, but they have to be high, and there are not really too many other ways of building something that is really high.
It seems to me that there is a far easier and more effective way to solve this problem.
This Solution: Have a list of different resolution images for display, have the browser device which one to pick.
Better Solution: Have an image format based on streaming. As the data is steamed in the resolution increases. Based on my experience with slow internet we already have a format very like this (starts out fussy, but complete, gets more details as the picture finishes loading). The browser just stops the stream when it has an image of the appropriate size. You do not need to have 18 different copies of the same picture lying around and, you do not need to expressly code in every circumstance. The HTML code we already have and have been using for a long time is already capable and it is forward and backwards compatible. Visit a page with your computer hooked up to some some of a kind 40K monitor no problem as long as the original image is of a high quality, visit with a 640X* smartphone screen, no problem. The site designer doe snot have to know every use case, let the browser worry about that.
Apple obviously does not deeply review each and every entry. Many of the apps would hardly even stand up to a glance.
So how can they arbitrarily say that an interface is too complex if they do not even spend the time to learn anything about the app.
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So I am guessing these 60,000 working are hoping to get enough to retire on, as I imagine they will find finding a job pretty hard after this?
At $324.5 million, that only comes out to $5.4K per person. Which is obviously way too low.
Perl handles everything strangely. Their classes are so strange, and there is not a language out there that has a worse way of passing variables to methods. And by far the best unique feature, in any programming language, is its handling of regular expressions. After using Perl Regular Expressions, searching and conditionals feel like such a chore in any other language.
But if it is so big, instead of tiny insectoid parasites, a pack of rats might just burrow into its hide and make a nest, instead of fleas it might have ferrets like creatures crawling over it and biting it to drink its blood. And I do not even want to think about what it might have instead of the standard tapeworms. It would be interesting to research what type of ecosystems build up around such giant creatures.
If he got such a large number of people to hate him, in all likelihood he was an arrogant ass. Looking back, in high school I was a complete arrogant ass-hole, who could not stop myself from rubbing my superior intellect in everyone face. I am continually surprised how everyone treated me so well. But I think people need weakness to exploit, to bully.
Video game journalist never had that sort of integrity, nor is it really even applicable. Everyone who knows anything about video game/indie journalist knows that it is extremely chummy with the devs and they like it that way. It is not a secret, and in my mind it is not even a violation of their journalistic integrity. "Real" journalists write about facts, game journalists write about their opinions. There magazines and blogs are basically just a series of editorials, not news articles. Now I am know almost nothing about journalistic ethics, but to me it seems that the sort of job that game journalists do, it is less of or completely not an issue to have personal relationships with the people you are writing about. And regardless of the ideal, it is currently industry wide, and completely accepted. And if you want to launch a game dev career it absolutely would be invaluable to go to PAX and buy a beer from some guy from RPS. And if you wanted to sleep your way to fame, I am sure you could. Have you seen pictures of these people, they are the farthest things from professionals.
back then -- largescale wireless also didn't quite exist yet.
It is not because other calculators might be more powerful. Primarily, it is because TI has paid or schmoozed the right people. Officially, the word is that they cannot verify that any other calculators do not include internet or phone network access, and maybe a handful of other features. But at the same time, I have never taken a test that allowed you to bring anything you wanted; Tests are too much about memorizing the material for it to be feasible to allow text books. And when they do, it is only because the test is designed that unless you are an absolute expert and memorised everything, you will not have time to finish.
And I am sure competitors exist, but schools only allow the TI's. It is the same for old standard calculators, the university/college will only approve the use of that one TI calculator. In my university, you have one allowed calculator, and you still had to pay to get a sticker to let the exam procs know that "yes, this calculator is allowed"
You have obviously never used a computer, nor understand how they work. Billions of complex things happen every second with hundreds of programs interacting and random errors popping up and propagating. The idea that you could solve a random wrong bit in 8 gigs, or even just some weird bug in the source code of windows is beyond absurd. Rebooting permanently SOLVES at least 80% of all problems.
Well based on how you define it, you can get pretty much any statistic. Most people who code some amount for their job, who do not have a comp sci degree is probably far over 50%.
Ya, Totally waste the rest of your day talking to the police so you can have the police give the sales person a talking to.
It is not as simple as theory vs practice. Yes, Comp Sci is very theory heavy and far too much so for the workplace. But companies are often not just looking for code writing monkeys. Being able to code is not nearly enough to actually write a useful program or even just a tiny part of it. You need a lot of math and advanced logic, and at least some of that theory they teach in comp sci.
Otherwise it is like trying to solve calculus problems without any formal calculus knowledge; You might be able to hack your way through it, but that is about it.
SV is not going to care about the Streisand Effect if they are in prison for the next 40 years, which is something that happens when you forge court documents.
Yes, but this was already a refurbished model. Basically, worthless.
Actually, I think you have a point that can be refined. If the deductible is higher than the cost of the replacement that is just misleading advertisement. Everyone assumes that having issuance means that you are protected in some way, not that filing a claim is actually profitable by the insurance company.
perhaps the government should legislate that every phone sold comes with a spare encase your first one breaks.
Probably why they allow 100% customer fault warranty claims. At that price they are actually making money on every warranty claim.
I was more surprised with the free overnight delivery and warranty covering accidents.
I am sure that Bennett also believes that the government should enact some legislation forcing school children to read his angry rants.
This is like the worst article I have seen on /. in a while.
Except that the reason they place cell infrastructure on top of towers is not arbitrary. It is not like they can hide these "cell towers" 50 feet underground. Sure they could paint them blue, but they have to be high, and there are not really too many other ways of building something that is really high.
Once is more than enough to be annoying.
Um, so as long as you pick new news sources to summarise, it is not a dupe?
It seems to me that there is a far easier and more effective way to solve this problem.
This Solution: Have a list of different resolution images for display, have the browser device which one to pick.
Better Solution: Have an image format based on streaming. As the data is steamed in the resolution increases. Based on my experience with slow internet we already have a format very like this (starts out fussy, but complete, gets more details as the picture finishes loading). The browser just stops the stream when it has an image of the appropriate size. You do not need to have 18 different copies of the same picture lying around and, you do not need to expressly code in every circumstance. The HTML code we already have and have been using for a long time is already capable and it is forward and backwards compatible. Visit a page with your computer hooked up to some some of a kind 40K monitor no problem as long as the original image is of a high quality, visit with a 640X* smartphone screen, no problem. The site designer doe snot have to know every use case, let the browser worry about that.
Apple obviously does not deeply review each and every entry. Many of the apps would hardly even stand up to a glance. So how can they arbitrarily say that an interface is too complex if they do not even spend the time to learn anything about the app.
About 140 million