Most people in consumer electronics do their own software & their own hardware. There aren't big companies with dedicated job functions like there were.
In the old days before before spanhaus, you could send mail with your own personal sendmail server. It delayed it 15 minutes so if U changed your mind you could kill sendmail & delete the queue. Of course Goog stock is worth a lot more than sendmail stock so yeah, the official first 5 second rule would be now.
The internet concentrated the jobs instead of spreading them out. Now if you're not geographically in Silicon Valley, your job can be done in Taiwan, so all the job seekers come to Silicon Valley. In the old days, you could have gotten a job in Nebraska. Not anymore. No-one even knows what Nebraska is anymore.
If U don't expect to be employed in the future, you need to make your own work. In 1980, 1991, & 2001, we expected future jobs. Not any more. There's still programming, but it's more focused on making money.
If rabbit ears ever come back, don't be surprised if it's delayed forever. Any plan which allows individuals to bypass cable providers is a conflict with the broadband tax credit, which explicitely requires you to pay a subscription plan for 5 megabit internet access to a major corporation, mainly Time Warner & Comcast.
Why give money to Time Warner if you're just going to let individuals suck it away with rabbit ear TV?
Check out diydrones.com. He sells a super cheap circuit board that interoperates with stuff most of his customers already have. What's another $30 when you've already invested $300? He gives away the source code & plans, but puts a ton of effort in publicity doing odd projects like the blimp autopilot, posting frequent firmware updates, & growing a social network around the product.
Effects aren't caused by free will. People don't have broadband because their leaders don't provide it, not because of free will. When are you humans going to learn your place?
Don't forget the iPhone influence. Those "apps" have to be written in objective C & people wrote zillions of those. Even Android buyers are bypassing the Java frameworks & just running native programs on their phones. This is still mostly a grassroots effect. Corporate investment is still focused on using the Android frameworks & standards based programming.
For C to die is like saying algebraic notation is going to die. Suspect if it wasn't for the need to eat, we would all program C & figure out ways to get the same features of our day job languages in C.
Startups need to compete with t-bills for money. Expect most of the technology money to go into t-bills to fund government economic plans. The economic plans are so far focused on housing & social services.
The android standards were written so you wouldn't install package managers & run native programs. You're supposed to be running Java Xlets. What's wrong with you people?
Even with all the digitization & virtualization, the physical world is king. People get home from whatever they were doing at 5pm on Sunday. People have to physically be commuting in another few hours. Packages are not physically shipped on weekends, so people wait until the last time they can place an order before the next shipment.
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Most people in consumer electronics do their own software & their own hardware. There aren't big companies with dedicated job functions like there were.
In the old days before before spanhaus, you could send mail with your own personal sendmail server. It delayed it 15 minutes so if U changed your mind you could kill sendmail & delete the queue. Of course Goog stock is worth a lot more than sendmail stock so yeah, the official first 5 second rule would be now.
The internet concentrated the jobs instead of spreading them out. Now if you're not geographically in Silicon Valley, your job can be done in Taiwan, so all the job seekers come to Silicon Valley. In the old days, you could have gotten a job in Nebraska. Not anymore. No-one even knows what Nebraska is anymore.
It is a business with no competition. The customers can't just stop paying for it. That would be called tax evasion.
A garage in Calif* costs $2 million. That would make a garage solar panel a bit more expensive than buying a solar panel from China.
Plenty of jobs for all those united technologies layoffs.
If U don't expect to be employed in the future, you need to make your own work. In 1980, 1991, & 2001, we expected future jobs. Not any more. There's still programming, but it's more focused on making money.
So when it starts reproducing itself, how long will it take to stop it?
U voted for the governer & state congress, so U get what U vote for. The people want more taxes.
It's only a matter of time before The Goog aggregates all pictures of the sky in realtime to find killer asteroids & make weather forecasts.
and buy treasury notes to fund ballard power
Is it fully compliant with the Android spec? How do you get a product certified to show the Android logo?
Guess you better have enough pieces of flare if you want to keep your anti matter rocket engine project alive.
It'll never happen, but there will be tax credits for large banks that use open source.
If rabbit ears ever come back, don't be surprised if it's delayed forever. Any plan which allows individuals to bypass cable providers is a conflict with the broadband tax credit, which explicitely requires you to pay a subscription plan for 5 megabit internet access to a major corporation, mainly Time Warner & Comcast.
Why give money to Time Warner if you're just going to let individuals suck it away with rabbit ear TV?
Check out diydrones.com. He sells a super cheap circuit board that interoperates with stuff most of his customers already have. What's another $30 when you've already invested $300? He gives away the source code & plans, but puts a ton of effort in publicity doing odd projects like the blimp autopilot, posting frequent firmware updates, & growing a social network around the product.
Effects aren't caused by free will. People don't have broadband because their leaders don't provide it, not because of free will. When are you humans going to learn your place?
Don't forget the iPhone influence. Those "apps" have to be written in objective C & people wrote zillions of those. Even Android buyers are bypassing the Java frameworks & just running native programs on their phones. This is still mostly a grassroots effect. Corporate investment is still focused on using the Android frameworks & standards based programming.
For C to die is like saying algebraic notation is going to die. Suspect if it wasn't for the need to eat, we would all program C & figure out ways to get the same features of our day job languages in C.
Startups need to compete with t-bills for money. Expect most of the technology money to go into t-bills to fund government economic plans. The economic plans are so far focused on housing & social services.
The android standards were written so you wouldn't install package managers & run native programs. You're supposed to be running Java Xlets. What's wrong with you people?
"I don't need doctors!! I need artists!!!!"
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Probably because sleep modes don't work on almost all laptops.
You can preallocate on ext3 by doing
dd if=/dev/zero of=$OUT_PATH bs=1024 seek=$SIZE count=1
No funky system call required.
Even with all the digitization & virtualization, the physical world is king. People get home from whatever they were doing at 5pm on Sunday. People have to physically be commuting in another few hours. Packages are not physically shipped on weekends, so people wait until the last time they can place an order before the next shipment.