I strongly disagree with your suggestion, which IMHO is not so far off from letting the government decide what profession people should take up (reminds of "The Giver"). A university should not be concerned with providing degrees that society needs. It should be concerned with a) providing a good education in whatever field their students enroll in and b) covering its costs.
If we need more STEM students, then salaries for STEM need to go up. What you're suggesting is simply a subsidy for industries that hire STEM students and I strongly disagree that those industries need to be subsidized (just look at the net incomes of some of these companies). Instead of letting Universities decide which majors students pursue, let the free market decide.
You don't even have to avoid buying a new one. Just by putting your old laptop on ebay you're doing the environment a great favor. It doesn't go to a landfill, you're destroying demand (so less new computers need to be manufactured), and the person who bought it from you will likely care for the computer because they paid for it. If you think your old laptop isn't worth anything then just start the auction at a penny. I got $70 for a laptop I had no use for.
But how can he not anticipate this question? Its been the number 1 question of RIM for the last 24 months, and he thinks its *unfair* he was asked about it?
He's either naive or an idiot.
Another possibility is that he's very aware that this has been a hot issue and had an agreement with the interviewer not to go into that. Maybe that's what he meant by "We've dealt with this" i.e. "You and I had an agreement not to talk about this". Not saying that's what happened but I wouldn't be surprised.
Exactly, security is one of the key reasons why web applications have become so popular on the desktop and I think we'll see a similar movement away from live in apps to web apps on smartphones. I never understood why people would install a live in app for Amazon or the NYTimes on their phone when they could just visit the website versions (which work much better by the way). Imagine installing binaries on your desktop for every e-commerce or news site you used - you're bound to get screwed.
If you do nothing wrong you won't have a police record.
Police records are created the moment a person is charged with a crime. There are plenty of people who were found not guilty but still have police records.
I agree that one should have the right to set the price for things they *make*. So if you *make* software you should be able to charge whatever you want for *making* software. But if all you're doing is *making copies* of the software (i.e. it's already been written), then all you should get paid for are copying costs.
If you could duplicate bird houses at no cost, then I would also say that you should only get paid for the first bird house you created because that's the only one that cost you any effort to build. I'll admit that there currently doesn't exist a good business model for products that have very high up-front costs but are very cheap to reproduce but just because we haven't come up with a good business model for such products yet doesn't mean we should shoehorn informational products with physical ones. They're simply different and the analogies don't apply.
The link you posted to states that it only does indentations and does not (obviously) replace the shortened variable names with anything meaningful. Again, reading code with meaningless function, class, and variable names is next to impossible even with proper formatting.
Yeah but the javascript you get is compressed with all white space taken out and variables are renamed to be as short as possible, which makes it next to impossible to debug.
Some day, people will actually read the wikipedia articles they post to before shooting from the hip:
In today's society the First World is viewed as countries who have the most advanced economies, the greatest influence, the highest standards of living, and the greatest technology.
A Fat Cat is a man of large means and no political experience who having reached middle age, and success in business, and finding no further thrill... of satisfaction in the mere piling up of more millions, develops a yearning for some sort of public honor and is willing to pay for it. The machine has what it seeks, public honor, and he has the money the machine needs
Objectively, a tablet is a laptop without a keyboard or the ability to do a lot of things laptops do, but with a higher price tag
You missed the most important difference and that's the touch screen. Using a laptop's pointer device, whether it's a touchpad, eraser head or track ball has always been an annoying experience for me. So much so that I always try to pack an external mouse with my laptop. Now an external mouse is not always feasible - for example, I wouldn't like using an external or internal mouse when I'm on my bus commute whereas a tablet would work effortlessly.
I came up with a similar idea but concluded that even though the idea of controlling your own data is attractive - the work that goes into maintaining your own server is not. Who's going to make sure your server is up 24/7 and maintain it? Your average facebook user will not be interested in that.
T-mobile has a built in tethering option (on the G2 at least) and using it is as simple as plugging the phone into the usb and checking the "usb tethering" checkbox. Both windows and linux automatically see the new connection. Excellent for accessing the net at work!
The risk of not getting repaid is held by the banks and not Visa. This is why Visa held up relatively well during the financial crisis while bank stocks were tanking.
Why buy a book on 3.3.1 when the API and (preview) code for 4 is already out? By the time you've learned 4, the stable release will probably already be released. That's the problem with technical references that are printed in hard copy - they take too long to get to market and can't be updated like references on the net.
I'll admit that the GPL is not useful for some business models but the notion that most people can't make a living developing GPL software is false and I bet most people believe that making money from GPL isn't possible because they misunderstand the GPL. Specifically, most people believe that the GPL license requires you to share the source with anyone who asks for it. That's false. You only have to share the source with the people you distribute the binaries to. Even if you're code is an extension of someone else's GPL code, you do not have to share your changes with the original author (as long as you don't give them the binaries). This rule means you can feasibly charge and develop GPL software for clients who will use the binaries inhouse and the clients would be under no obligation to share the source with their competitors.
You missed the minus sign
-site:foo.com is a blacklist
site:foo.com is a whitelist
So yes, this does the same thing but the benefit is you don't have to type it for every query
Why can't we afford it? The market is willing to buy our debt at attractive interest rates and if the return from this project is greater than the interest rate, then we should do it. A successful high speed rail network would lower road maintenance costs and reduce the need for emergency services. It would lower traffic congestion, which would result in a faster commute for car drivers. Other benefits include lower gas prices which translates into a stronger US economy and less money for petro dictators. IMHO fixing the transportation system is our only chance to pull ourselves out of this mess and that's why we can't afford NOT to build this. Our ability to repay our debt depends on making society more efficient.
Instead of using adblockers, how about boycotting content that comes with annoying ads? Content owners are people, too, and you're not respecting their wishes when you block ads.
Maybe Google and the government are smart enough to realize that blocking Iranian government IPs is just as effective as blocking all Iranian IPs - in other words it's not effective at all.
Do you honestly think that if anyone in the Iranian government wanted access to Google Earth, that they weren't able to get it? There are a ton of responses to this very story about how one could easily use a proxy to circumvent the IP blocking, well guess what, that was also possible before.
Russia dreams of empire lost. China dreams of empire to come. Iran dreams of dominating the Middle East and restoring the glory of Persia as an atomic power. Meanwhile madmen in North Korea and Venezuela dream their mad dreams of power and glory.
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I strongly disagree with your suggestion, which IMHO is not so far off from letting the government decide what profession people should take up (reminds of "The Giver"). A university should not be concerned with providing degrees that society needs. It should be concerned with a) providing a good education in whatever field their students enroll in and b) covering its costs.
If we need more STEM students, then salaries for STEM need to go up. What you're suggesting is simply a subsidy for industries that hire STEM students and I strongly disagree that those industries need to be subsidized (just look at the net incomes of some of these companies). Instead of letting Universities decide which majors students pursue, let the free market decide.
You don't even have to avoid buying a new one. Just by putting your old laptop on ebay you're doing the environment a great favor. It doesn't go to a landfill, you're destroying demand (so less new computers need to be manufactured), and the person who bought it from you will likely care for the computer because they paid for it. If you think your old laptop isn't worth anything then just start the auction at a penny. I got $70 for a laptop I had no use for.
But how can he not anticipate this question? Its been the number 1 question of RIM for the last 24 months, and he thinks its *unfair* he was asked about it? He's either naive or an idiot.
Another possibility is that he's very aware that this has been a hot issue and had an agreement with the interviewer not to go into that. Maybe that's what he meant by "We've dealt with this" i.e. "You and I had an agreement not to talk about this". Not saying that's what happened but I wouldn't be surprised.
Exactly, security is one of the key reasons why web applications have become so popular on the desktop and I think we'll see a similar movement away from live in apps to web apps on smartphones. I never understood why people would install a live in app for Amazon or the NYTimes on their phone when they could just visit the website versions (which work much better by the way). Imagine installing binaries on your desktop for every e-commerce or news site you used - you're bound to get screwed.
If you do nothing wrong you won't have a police record.
Police records are created the moment a person is charged with a crime. There are plenty of people who were found not guilty but still have police records.
If I make something
I agree that one should have the right to set the price for things they *make*. So if you *make* software you should be able to charge whatever you want for *making* software. But if all you're doing is *making copies* of the software (i.e. it's already been written), then all you should get paid for are copying costs.
If you could duplicate bird houses at no cost, then I would also say that you should only get paid for the first bird house you created because that's the only one that cost you any effort to build. I'll admit that there currently doesn't exist a good business model for products that have very high up-front costs but are very cheap to reproduce but just because we haven't come up with a good business model for such products yet doesn't mean we should shoehorn informational products with physical ones. They're simply different and the analogies don't apply.
The link you posted to states that it only does indentations and does not (obviously) replace the shortened variable names with anything meaningful. Again, reading code with meaningless function, class, and variable names is next to impossible even with proper formatting.
Yeah but the javascript you get is compressed with all white space taken out and variables are renamed to be as short as possible, which makes it next to impossible to debug.
Some day, people will actually read the wikipedia articles they post to before shooting from the hip:
In today's society the First World is viewed as countries who have the most advanced economies, the greatest influence, the highest standards of living, and the greatest technology.
A Fat Cat is a man of large means and no political experience who having reached middle age, and success in business, and finding no further thrill ... of satisfaction in the mere piling up of more millions, develops a yearning for some sort of public honor and is willing to pay for it. The machine has what it seeks, public honor, and he has the money the machine needs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_cat_(term)
Objectively, a tablet is a laptop without a keyboard or the ability to do a lot of things laptops do, but with a higher price tag
You missed the most important difference and that's the touch screen. Using a laptop's pointer device, whether it's a touchpad, eraser head or track ball has always been an annoying experience for me. So much so that I always try to pack an external mouse with my laptop. Now an external mouse is not always feasible - for example, I wouldn't like using an external or internal mouse when I'm on my bus commute whereas a tablet would work effortlessly.
I came up with a similar idea but concluded that even though the idea of controlling your own data is attractive - the work that goes into maintaining your own server is not. Who's going to make sure your server is up 24/7 and maintain it? Your average facebook user will not be interested in that.
math can be used to build bridges that won't collapse, compute the most efficient design for wings, etc.
Before that happens someone has to decide that it makes sense to build a bridge and then come up with the financing if it does.
T-mobile has a built in tethering option (on the G2 at least) and using it is as simple as plugging the phone into the usb and checking the "usb tethering" checkbox. Both windows and linux automatically see the new connection. Excellent for accessing the net at work!
The risk of not getting repaid is held by the banks and not Visa. This is why Visa held up relatively well during the financial crisis while bank stocks were tanking.
Why buy a book on 3.3.1 when the API and (preview) code for 4 is already out? By the time you've learned 4, the stable release will probably already be released. That's the problem with technical references that are printed in hard copy - they take too long to get to market and can't be updated like references on the net.
I'll admit that the GPL is not useful for some business models but the notion that most people can't make a living developing GPL software is false and I bet most people believe that making money from GPL isn't possible because they misunderstand the GPL. Specifically, most people believe that the GPL license requires you to share the source with anyone who asks for it. That's false. You only have to share the source with the people you distribute the binaries to. Even if you're code is an extension of someone else's GPL code, you do not have to share your changes with the original author (as long as you don't give them the binaries). This rule means you can feasibly charge and develop GPL software for clients who will use the binaries inhouse and the clients would be under no obligation to share the source with their competitors.
You missed the minus sign -site:foo.com is a blacklist site:foo.com is a whitelist So yes, this does the same thing but the benefit is you don't have to type it for every query
Cisco just so happens to sell the equipment you'll need to upgrade your network. What a coincidence!
You left out the most common one: inheritance.
Why can't we afford it? The market is willing to buy our debt at attractive interest rates and if the return from this project is greater than the interest rate, then we should do it. A successful high speed rail network would lower road maintenance costs and reduce the need for emergency services. It would lower traffic congestion, which would result in a faster commute for car drivers. Other benefits include lower gas prices which translates into a stronger US economy and less money for petro dictators. IMHO fixing the transportation system is our only chance to pull ourselves out of this mess and that's why we can't afford NOT to build this. Our ability to repay our debt depends on making society more efficient.
Instead of using adblockers, how about boycotting content that comes with annoying ads? Content owners are people, too, and you're not respecting their wishes when you block ads.
Why would any of your info be on the utah.gov web server?
Maybe Google and the government are smart enough to realize that blocking Iranian government IPs is just as effective as blocking all Iranian IPs - in other words it's not effective at all.
Do you honestly think that if anyone in the Iranian government wanted access to Google Earth, that they weren't able to get it? There are a ton of responses to this very story about how one could easily use a proxy to circumvent the IP blocking, well guess what, that was also possible before.
If anything the ban was naive.
Russia dreams of empire lost. China dreams of empire to come. Iran dreams of dominating the Middle East and restoring the glory of Persia as an atomic power. Meanwhile madmen in North Korea and Venezuela dream their mad dreams of power and glory.
What does the US dream about?