So what you're saying is, this/. article is for people geekier than you? That's a good thing then, we need more intense geekiness and less US politics.
C++11 added threading constructs to the standard library, and I believe C++14 has some minor changes there as well. Standard cross-platform multi-threading is a big deal, though it's had to find documentation on the details.
I just discovered that thread-local storage is now a standard library thing - which is awesome. TLS is quite useful for logging and other infrastructure stuff, and making it standard is quite welcome.
Term limits mean you can't keep the good ones either. It also opens the door to outright bribery (instead of mere campaign contributions), buy offering senators million-dollar-a-year jobs at your company once their terms are up. (Japan has had a huge problem with that.) Though admittedly that's already the norm for congressional staff, who average something like a 15x pay increase when they move to the private sector.
For heavy industry the cost of shipping matters a lot more, too. If you have raw materials and customers in the same region, putting the factories there as well makes financial sense. That's why the US car companies original manufacturing clustered around the Great Lakes and the canal system - raw material shipping cost was a key concern. These days staying within the same rail system is still a big win.
The jobs are only done by robots in places where easily exploitable expendable human labour is not available
No, the facts are against you on that one. For one thing, robots don't sabotage the stuff they build; for another, there is a floor on wages: factory jobs have to be more attractive than farm jobs. Remember, people flock from farms to factory jobs in an industrial revolution because those are better jobs. There's still plenty of "easily exploitable expendable human labour" in China, but the US manufacturing is moving back to the US because automated factories are better.
Had democracy been more responsive in the late 1800s, I'm not sure the unions would have been needed at all, but at least in the US we had reached about the same peak of corporate corruption we have today, and not much democracy was happening.
I'm betting it's a problem with error handling in drivers, and will be fixed by a firmware push soon enough. QA for that sort of thing isn't easy (though that's no excuse - it's not that hard either), and tends to get cut short when a product is rushed.
If the project was running late and Sony was looking to cut corners to make the date, saying "well, we tested it on a dozen TVs and didn't see any problems, so lets just call the HDMI drivers tested so we can ship" is exactly the sort of thing I can see happening.
I can remember when Sony was obsessed with quality, and that sort of thing would never happen, but that's about 15 years ago now. These days sony timer is a Japanese phrase for products failing the day the warranty ends.
Interesting debate there about how much more the PS4 would cost if "Made in teh US"
Well, the US would be an odd place to manufacture a Japanese product, but you never know. Much of the manufacturing for US companies that was once done in China has come back to the US, because robots work cheaper still. That's a big part of why China's economy has been in real trouble for the last few years - the need for humans in manufacturing work is falling fast.
With or without those protests, no one would be in a dangerous factory right now, because most of those jobs are now done by robots (and soon all will be). Protests didn't change anyone's mind - the slow movement of labor from unskilled to skilled changed the way people had to be treated.
I've known plenty of boat owners and none of them really "used" their boat - they were money-burning status symbols they'd go float around on out of some sense of obligation.
I really think it's guys who have already bight the biggest pickup truck they can drive, and are looking for something to tow. Heaven forbid they actually save anything - soon as they get any sort of raise, they go looking for a new monthly payment.
So any culture difference from your must be racist and stupid and need changing? Some of us believe in tolerance of other cultures. You might try that sort of thing one day, it frees the mind.
Pretty much everywhere these days. Governments want you to join their military before doing that sort of thing, so that they pick who gets pillaged. Makes all the legal difference in the world.
I think "proper workplace behaviour" is one of those meaningless concepts used to justify underpaying employees on the grounds of, "Well they don't even know how to work properly, so this is actually training rather than a proper job."
You mean things like showing up on time, appropriately groomed, and working your shift are just meaningless concepts? It's easy if your way of living naturally includes doing that sort of thing, but for many it's a real shift.
But anyhow, while "unpaid internships" and the like are clearly exploitive, I hadn't heard it taken to that UK extreme yet. Eesh. There's still room between "living wage" and "0" for your first job, though.
If you let your cat out, and he has claws, you'll certainly see him bring home the spoils of war. Nothing says love like waking up to a pile of bunny heads on the bead and a row of bunny bodies on the floor.
A shotgun loaded with rocksalt can as easily kill one as it was loaded with lead.
Not beyond about 3 feet, rocksalt isn't exactly aerodynamic (plus sine you have to load those yourself in the first place, it's not like you're going to use a full charge.
So you did it? And you where lucky not to kill anyone? And now you are bragging about it?
Did you miss the part about "where I grew up". Buddy of mind got shot - stings like a bitch. I got bit by dogs set on me. We both did a lot of running away.
But those were different times - you'd walk out into the woods in the morning, and parents wouldn't care where you were till sunset (and no one wore pads to ride anything, though you could wear a particularly heavy coat while sledding and not be taken for a wimp needing a good beating).
Making a false report to a credit agency runs into laws with real teeth. It's one of the few places where you're personally and criminally liable for how you do business, even if you work for a big corporation.
Did your country's "right to roam" historically include the right to roam over to the neighboring country in boats, loot rape burn and pillage, then carry home the spoils?
Where I grew up, shooting a kid with a shotgun (loaded with rock salt) was considered an object lesson about property rights, and we'd have been shocked if anyone went to jail for it. How times have changed.
For many years the actual measurement from ground stations were been "adjusted" upwards, matching predictions of early models. Does that prove the science was bad? No. Is "adjusting" the measured data in such a way that now the predictions of your model hold a huge warning signal that justifies extreme skepticism? Yes. That sort of thing, in any field, is quite corrosive to the scientific method.
Now we see the predictions of the early models failing despite all the "adjustments", and a method proposed by which we invent data that happens to match newer models. That has bad science warning signs written all over it - no matter how well intentioned the actors, we know how hard it is to prevent "rounding in the direction of theory" even with actual measurements - unconscious bias towards accepted theory is a real problem in all fields. Again, extreme skepticism is called for.
If you're not extra-skeptical of all claims that would be wonderfully helpful if true, you have very poor BS filters in general.
Remember the previously skeptical Berkeley statistics professor---a favorite of the usual "skeptical" right-wing deception machine---who was convinced that the climatologists were doing their data analysis wrong and showing excessive global warming. And he & students got the underlying data sets and worked for years. And they found that the climatologists had the right answer all along (in fact their own estimates of warming were a touch higher than the climatologists).
Right - actual science happened, and it was wonderful. Publishing into an echo chamber of people who all agree with you gives only minimal vetting of your ideas. Believable science happens when some calls BS on your ideas, repeats your experiment to show how wrong you are, and instead convinces himself you were right. That is the most critical part of the scientific method, and "consensus science" sabotages it.
Charity, government or otherwise. Same way they'll survive if they can't get that first job. (Or, in the case of some people my age, it's the wife getting her first job since her teenage years now that the kids are gone, supported by her husband. That 1950s pattern is still around, here and there.)
As a general rule of thumb, the sort of companies that offer first job to workers that are not only unskilled, but new at even proper workplace behavior, have low margins and a fairly fixed amount they can spend on salary - how many people do you want to divide that pool up between? An "entitled special flower" (ahem, "living") wage means higher youth unemployment (and more young people leaving college having never had a real job to learn that proper workplace behavior). A lower minimum wage means it's much easier to get a first job, but you need to move up to get a living wage.
Lets say you have an entirely self-sufficient and impregnable moon colony. It represents 10% of your company's assets. The other 90% are here on Earth. Your military ability to defend your moonbase isn't all that relevant to the bigger picture.
Lets say you have an impregnable moon colony that needs supplies from Earth, and you're financially self-sufficient and don't care whether your Earth assets are seized, and your supplies are perfectly safe in transit. All your military goals are met, but no one will sell you supplies. Is an embargo now a question of physical defense in your head?
The likely, practical problems are these political issues, not space pirates looting your base, as colorful at that would be.
ripping off the whole country by paying workers too little to live on
Not all jobs should pay enough to live on. Teenagers still living at home need easy-to-get first jobs (and it's not just teens of course, but anyone needing that first job). That's a critical element of society that has been diminishing lately.
My point is: it's not about physical defense of your property on the moon, you can do that and still have it effectively taken from you because you need the Earth. That's different from the colonies that led to America, or the frontier thereafter.
It's bad enough to try to back up one's position with Wikipedia references, but at least that's something. But a YouTube video? Really? C'mon.
Learn to accept that intelligent people can disagree with your deeply-held beliefs.
And, really, it's right to be quite skeptical of any scientist who argues that "my theory wasn't wrong, 15 years of data was all wrong". That's an extraordinary claim.
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So what you're saying is, this /. article is for people geekier than you? That's a good thing then, we need more intense geekiness and less US politics.
C++11 added threading constructs to the standard library, and I believe C++14 has some minor changes there as well. Standard cross-platform multi-threading is a big deal, though it's had to find documentation on the details.
I just discovered that thread-local storage is now a standard library thing - which is awesome. TLS is quite useful for logging and other infrastructure stuff, and making it standard is quite welcome.
Term limits mean you can't keep the good ones either. It also opens the door to outright bribery (instead of mere campaign contributions), buy offering senators million-dollar-a-year jobs at your company once their terms are up. (Japan has had a huge problem with that.) Though admittedly that's already the norm for congressional staff, who average something like a 15x pay increase when they move to the private sector.
For heavy industry the cost of shipping matters a lot more, too. If you have raw materials and customers in the same region, putting the factories there as well makes financial sense. That's why the US car companies original manufacturing clustered around the Great Lakes and the canal system - raw material shipping cost was a key concern. These days staying within the same rail system is still a big win.
Doing your manufacturing in a cheap labor market can makes sense. Doing it in a different expensive labor market less so.
The jobs are only done by robots in places where easily exploitable expendable human labour is not available
No, the facts are against you on that one. For one thing, robots don't sabotage the stuff they build; for another, there is a floor on wages: factory jobs have to be more attractive than farm jobs. Remember, people flock from farms to factory jobs in an industrial revolution because those are better jobs. There's still plenty of "easily exploitable expendable human labour" in China, but the US manufacturing is moving back to the US because automated factories are better.
Had democracy been more responsive in the late 1800s, I'm not sure the unions would have been needed at all, but at least in the US we had reached about the same peak of corporate corruption we have today, and not much democracy was happening.
I'm betting it's a problem with error handling in drivers, and will be fixed by a firmware push soon enough. QA for that sort of thing isn't easy (though that's no excuse - it's not that hard either), and tends to get cut short when a product is rushed.
If the project was running late and Sony was looking to cut corners to make the date, saying "well, we tested it on a dozen TVs and didn't see any problems, so lets just call the HDMI drivers tested so we can ship" is exactly the sort of thing I can see happening.
I can remember when Sony was obsessed with quality, and that sort of thing would never happen, but that's about 15 years ago now. These days sony timer is a Japanese phrase for products failing the day the warranty ends.
Interesting debate there about how much more the PS4 would cost if "Made in teh US"
Well, the US would be an odd place to manufacture a Japanese product, but you never know. Much of the manufacturing for US companies that was once done in China has come back to the US, because robots work cheaper still. That's a big part of why China's economy has been in real trouble for the last few years - the need for humans in manufacturing work is falling fast.
With or without those protests, no one would be in a dangerous factory right now, because most of those jobs are now done by robots (and soon all will be). Protests didn't change anyone's mind - the slow movement of labor from unskilled to skilled changed the way people had to be treated.
I've known plenty of boat owners and none of them really "used" their boat - they were money-burning status symbols they'd go float around on out of some sense of obligation.
I really think it's guys who have already bight the biggest pickup truck they can drive, and are looking for something to tow. Heaven forbid they actually save anything - soon as they get any sort of raise, they go looking for a new monthly payment.
Hopefully you're not one of that sad crowd.
So any culture difference from your must be racist and stupid and need changing? Some of us believe in tolerance of other cultures. You might try that sort of thing one day, it frees the mind.
If not USING your PC is your idea of IT, I'm glad I dont' work w/ you!
If there's one thing every IT guys hates, it's users. If they could block all users logins so they the equipment would remain pure, they would.
Pretty much everywhere these days. Governments want you to join their military before doing that sort of thing, so that they pick who gets pillaged. Makes all the legal difference in the world.
I think "proper workplace behaviour" is one of those meaningless concepts used to justify underpaying employees on the grounds of, "Well they don't even know how to work properly, so this is actually training rather than a proper job."
You mean things like showing up on time, appropriately groomed, and working your shift are just meaningless concepts? It's easy if your way of living naturally includes doing that sort of thing, but for many it's a real shift.
But anyhow, while "unpaid internships" and the like are clearly exploitive, I hadn't heard it taken to that UK extreme yet. Eesh. There's still room between "living wage" and "0" for your first job, though.
If you let your cat out, and he has claws, you'll certainly see him bring home the spoils of war. Nothing says love like waking up to a pile of bunny heads on the bead and a row of bunny bodies on the floor.
A shotgun loaded with rocksalt can as easily kill one as it was loaded with lead.
Not beyond about 3 feet, rocksalt isn't exactly aerodynamic (plus sine you have to load those yourself in the first place, it's not like you're going to use a full charge.
So you did it? And you where lucky not to kill anyone? And now you are bragging about it?
Did you miss the part about "where I grew up". Buddy of mind got shot - stings like a bitch. I got bit by dogs set on me. We both did a lot of running away.
But those were different times - you'd walk out into the woods in the morning, and parents wouldn't care where you were till sunset (and no one wore pads to ride anything, though you could wear a particularly heavy coat while sledding and not be taken for a wimp needing a good beating).
Making a false report to a credit agency runs into laws with real teeth. It's one of the few places where you're personally and criminally liable for how you do business, even if you work for a big corporation.
Did your country's "right to roam" historically include the right to roam over to the neighboring country in boats, loot rape burn and pillage, then carry home the spoils?
Where I grew up, shooting a kid with a shotgun (loaded with rock salt) was considered an object lesson about property rights, and we'd have been shocked if anyone went to jail for it. How times have changed.
For many years the actual measurement from ground stations were been "adjusted" upwards, matching predictions of early models. Does that prove the science was bad? No. Is "adjusting" the measured data in such a way that now the predictions of your model hold a huge warning signal that justifies extreme skepticism? Yes. That sort of thing, in any field, is quite corrosive to the scientific method.
Now we see the predictions of the early models failing despite all the "adjustments", and a method proposed by which we invent data that happens to match newer models. That has bad science warning signs written all over it - no matter how well intentioned the actors, we know how hard it is to prevent "rounding in the direction of theory" even with actual measurements - unconscious bias towards accepted theory is a real problem in all fields. Again, extreme skepticism is called for.
If you're not extra-skeptical of all claims that would be wonderfully helpful if true, you have very poor BS filters in general.
Remember the previously skeptical Berkeley statistics professor---a favorite of the usual "skeptical" right-wing deception machine---who was convinced that the climatologists were doing their data analysis wrong and showing excessive global warming. And he & students got the underlying data sets and worked for years. And they found that the climatologists had the right answer all along (in fact their own estimates of warming were a touch higher than the climatologists).
Right - actual science happened, and it was wonderful. Publishing into an echo chamber of people who all agree with you gives only minimal vetting of your ideas. Believable science happens when some calls BS on your ideas, repeats your experiment to show how wrong you are, and instead convinces himself you were right. That is the most critical part of the scientific method, and "consensus science" sabotages it.
Charity, government or otherwise. Same way they'll survive if they can't get that first job. (Or, in the case of some people my age, it's the wife getting her first job since her teenage years now that the kids are gone, supported by her husband. That 1950s pattern is still around, here and there.)
As a general rule of thumb, the sort of companies that offer first job to workers that are not only unskilled, but new at even proper workplace behavior, have low margins and a fairly fixed amount they can spend on salary - how many people do you want to divide that pool up between? An "entitled special flower" (ahem, "living") wage means higher youth unemployment (and more young people leaving college having never had a real job to learn that proper workplace behavior). A lower minimum wage means it's much easier to get a first job, but you need to move up to get a living wage.
Lets say you have an entirely self-sufficient and impregnable moon colony. It represents 10% of your company's assets. The other 90% are here on Earth. Your military ability to defend your moonbase isn't all that relevant to the bigger picture.
Lets say you have an impregnable moon colony that needs supplies from Earth, and you're financially self-sufficient and don't care whether your Earth assets are seized, and your supplies are perfectly safe in transit. All your military goals are met, but no one will sell you supplies. Is an embargo now a question of physical defense in your head?
The likely, practical problems are these political issues, not space pirates looting your base, as colorful at that would be.
ripping off the whole country by paying workers too little to live on
Not all jobs should pay enough to live on. Teenagers still living at home need easy-to-get first jobs (and it's not just teens of course, but anyone needing that first job). That's a critical element of society that has been diminishing lately.
My point is: it's not about physical defense of your property on the moon, you can do that and still have it effectively taken from you because you need the Earth. That's different from the colonies that led to America, or the frontier thereafter.
It's bad enough to try to back up one's position with Wikipedia references, but at least that's something. But a YouTube video? Really? C'mon.
Learn to accept that intelligent people can disagree with your deeply-held beliefs.
And, really, it's right to be quite skeptical of any scientist who argues that "my theory wasn't wrong, 15 years of data was all wrong". That's an extraordinary claim.