Don't fret, AC is a bipolar schiz with DID. While one personality shuns us, there are surely thousands of others that will continue to contribute greatly to the body of/. knowledge and social atmosphere.
That depends on the method used to gather the information. If you consider the percentage to be the ratio of software titles released to a language and the number of companies advertising the applications that are generated when compared to the market, I'm kind of suprised that the iPhone hasn't driven that number much higher. Mind you, they aren't basing these stats on lines of code, or even the real strength of the language within the programming community: they are basing it on popularity at the moment. FTA "The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. ".
From what I can tell the numbers are highly inflated by ads, increased numbers of classes for "non-programmers" trying to make it big in the app world, and small businesses advertising for short term contract work to build a simple app. Personally I think these language numbers are skewed too heavily and too easily to hide the truth. C/C++ (of which I don't program in professionally right now) are both extremely popular and have been for a long time. I don't see that changing any time soon, just as I don't see most established languages being replaced (Cobol programmers right now are at a premium).
Most get around this by detaining you with mock authority. They can't hold you, but they don't actually express your right to leave at any time, so they get away with holding people who don't know the law. Telcos have similar authority with their users: you don't know your rights (who could with the convoluted agreements that we sign) within the limits of your customer contract, so when the feds come knocking the Telco rolls over without question and hands them everything including your traffic habits and any emails you've stored on their mail server (which is legitimate to do for most cases). After working in IT management for a mid size MSO I can tell you that all the MSOs I know of simply hand everything they can over to the feds at the drop of a hat. It saves time, money, and ensures that they stay in the good graces of the local authorities (many of whom pay through the teeth for point-to-point fiber services to said MSOs).
Four years ago I was drinking coffee with a few friends at a local IHOP when they lost power for some reason or another. When the lights came back on the registers did not, and they couldn't get them going again. When we opted to leave the manager told us they would round our coffee ($1.29) up to $2.00 because he didn't know how to do the required calculation to get our individual coffee totals without the registers. We had to show him how to calculate tax, and even then he complained because he thought we could be 'gaming' him. Most of the other people leaving at the same time we did paid his rounded guesses because they couldn't figure out the totals for themselves.
Your public school sucked actually. Any time you teach someone to run away instead of standing up for themselves you breed dependence. What you should have done was fight (win or lose) and defend yourself. School is supposed to be a learning environment for the real world, and in the real world nobody saves you from the bully.
"kid" is not just a lie, but a damn lie. He was young but damn sure not a kid. Kids don't stand over 6' tall and definitely aren't 17. You could say young adult, or teenager, or even adult considering the age, but not "kid".
No, that isn't anywhere close to the markup on a text message sadly.
My 2.5GB data plan costs $20 per month. So divide $20 by 2,500,000,000 and that is the cost per byte (0.000000008 dollars per byte, or hairs of a penny). Meanwhile, you pay 30 cents per text message that you send (160 bytes). So the comparison is 0.30 (sms) vs 0.00000128 (160 bytes of data) or roughly 23,437,500% markup.
would you mind providing the math on how 9600bps increased by 20,000% comes out to 230GB/s ? I've looked it over a few times and I'm not seeing it. The network bandwidth speeds have increased massively in the last 31 years, but we're talking about substantial increases in usage following those bandwidth increases. It is essentially the same as building an extra lane on a highway and then wondering why the new highway lane is always full too - you made more room, so now more people use it. The same goes for mobile - they made the networks faster, and more people started using it because they could. Now they are finding that no matter how much they increase bandwidth the customers will increase usage.
Around here, nothing is obvious, especially when it comes to people professing the greatness of vi or emacs. You must have momentarily forgotten, but this is/.
It costs $1.40 per foot for coax and $1.79 per foot for fiber to run a single line, not counting the cost to rebalance the network once the new line has been added, the cost of additional equipment, and the cost of infrastructure improvements to support it all (depending on distance you may need a repeater and injector, or if it is at the end of a maxed strand you'll need to extend the entire strand and run at least 2,000 feet of new fiber). Running cable to a person's home isn't as simple as just running up the pole and plugging it in. There are a lot of factors that go into it, and normally extending plant out to suit one person costs the company far more than they could make in a year from that user.
Think of it this way: Would you spend $15,000 running cable to someone's home so you could earn $90 a month from them? how about $200 a month from them? Considering you're only making roughly $10-$30 in profit from that user, its going to take longer to recoup the cost of the initial investment than it will take for the plant they use to need replacement and maintenance (as most coax infrastructure runs last 5-7 years before replacement is needed). It sucks that your parents can't get cable, but don't blame the company for not just throwing capital down the drain.
Organizations big enough to use tape have been using hybrid disk / tape backup solutions for a very long time. We use locally stored centralized backups that we can push to remote sites from disk, and then also perform offsite backups nightly with tape. It is really the only way to go when you have multi-terabyte incremental backups.
You should have performed a better google search, since I buy LTO-5 tapes (1.5TB uncompressed, 3TB compressed) for roughly $60 each. Included in that cost is pre-labeling based on my specifications and series numbers from previous orders, and two day shipping. Roughly 1/3 the cost of the tiny tapes you found, and under half the cost of the comparable hard drive.
Tape offers many benefits that you don't have in a hard drive, including better drop resistance (moron resistant), and the ability to be physicaly write locked (again, moron resistant). In addition you have tape libraries that swap tapes out automatically, so I can store a month worth of tapes in my library and not worry about someone else managing backups while I take vacation (moron resistant!) or wait out a bad winter storm.
Don't get me wrong, tapes and tape libraries aren't for every company, but I have incremental backups upwards of 6TB (comparable to the full backups of people I've read here) and full backups roughly five times that. With the volume of data I manage I can't just keep ordering disks and controller cards, so tapes help me save time and money.
My $600 phone can barely take a drop from my pocket to the server room floor without me wondering if I now have to spend another $600. Land warrior systems can be thrown out of a helicopter hit by a mule and smashed against rocks while the soldier wearing it does his job without wondering if it still works. Quite a bit of the money involved in systems like land warrior is dedicated to ensuring stability and reliability during combat operations in extreme heat, cold, rain, and snow. All of these are things that a $600 cell phone can't do.
I agree on all points, except my chair, which is custom made by my brother who also built my desk. Other than that I'm really just being an asshole, so please continue.
I think kids see all of the solutions in the world and then think "why bother?" I have to admit that when it comes to programming something yourself in-house and spending a few months getting exactly what you want, or spending 5 minutes buying a package from someone else and the next two weeks tailoring it to provide the results you require, it makes sense to take the existing solution. Programmers face a different problem today than they once did. Before it was an issue of "this code doesn't exist yet", while today its "almost everything you can imagine needing, someone has already written." The incentive to write effective and innovative code in a sea of "effective and innovative code" is a moving target that previous generations of programmers never faced.
The "serious shortage of qualified people" is mostly the fault of the companies themselves. Businesses want to pay pennies and earn dollars when it comes to developers, and they only want to hire the absolute "creme of the crop". Also it is not that there are only a handful of rockstar programmers, but simply a lack of opportunity for programmers to become highly skilled. It is difficult to work a job, go to school, and then find time to become some sort of master coder in the small amount of time you have left to sleep / eat / avoid divorce.
Businesses want pre-packaged master programmers with a decade of experience and two degrees, and they want to pay $50,000 a year with meager benefits to match. If they set the bar lower and actually hired college graduates with little experience for a decent wage they might find that the average person can learn to become what you need them to (in this example, an amazing programmer). But when you go looking for a job all you find are "Sr..NET Developer, minimum 10+ years experience" and you rarely (maybe 1 a month) find "Entry level.NET programmer, Bachelors or 2-4 years experience".
Everyone has to start somewhere, but they never become masters when you fail to give them a chance.
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Look into any forum, bbs, email chain, web server, or telnet session, and there you will find him.
Yes the novices will go to prison and learn from the experts everything you could imagine about exploiting holes.
Don't fret, AC is a bipolar schiz with DID. While one personality shuns us, there are surely thousands of others that will continue to contribute greatly to the body of /. knowledge and social atmosphere.
You know after spending some time in SlashBI curious george wasn't nearly as curious.
That depends on the method used to gather the information. If you consider the percentage to be the ratio of software titles released to a language and the number of companies advertising the applications that are generated when compared to the market, I'm kind of suprised that the iPhone hasn't driven that number much higher. Mind you, they aren't basing these stats on lines of code, or even the real strength of the language within the programming community: they are basing it on popularity at the moment. FTA "The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. ".
From what I can tell the numbers are highly inflated by ads, increased numbers of classes for "non-programmers" trying to make it big in the app world, and small businesses advertising for short term contract work to build a simple app. Personally I think these language numbers are skewed too heavily and too easily to hide the truth. C/C++ (of which I don't program in professionally right now) are both extremely popular and have been for a long time. I don't see that changing any time soon, just as I don't see most established languages being replaced (Cobol programmers right now are at a premium).
Most get around this by detaining you with mock authority. They can't hold you, but they don't actually express your right to leave at any time, so they get away with holding people who don't know the law. Telcos have similar authority with their users: you don't know your rights (who could with the convoluted agreements that we sign) within the limits of your customer contract, so when the feds come knocking the Telco rolls over without question and hands them everything including your traffic habits and any emails you've stored on their mail server (which is legitimate to do for most cases). After working in IT management for a mid size MSO I can tell you that all the MSOs I know of simply hand everything they can over to the feds at the drop of a hat. It saves time, money, and ensures that they stay in the good graces of the local authorities (many of whom pay through the teeth for point-to-point fiber services to said MSOs).
Four years ago I was drinking coffee with a few friends at a local IHOP when they lost power for some reason or another. When the lights came back on the registers did not, and they couldn't get them going again. When we opted to leave the manager told us they would round our coffee ($1.29) up to $2.00 because he didn't know how to do the required calculation to get our individual coffee totals without the registers. We had to show him how to calculate tax, and even then he complained because he thought we could be 'gaming' him. Most of the other people leaving at the same time we did paid his rounded guesses because they couldn't figure out the totals for themselves.
Your public school sucked actually. Any time you teach someone to run away instead of standing up for themselves you breed dependence. What you should have done was fight (win or lose) and defend yourself. School is supposed to be a learning environment for the real world, and in the real world nobody saves you from the bully.
Nope, teenager.
"kid" is not just a lie, but a damn lie. He was young but damn sure not a kid. Kids don't stand over 6' tall and definitely aren't 17. You could say young adult, or teenager, or even adult considering the age, but not "kid".
Why in the fuck was I modded troll?
Good question, but this follow up statement may be holding a clue:
I guess the repugnant little asshats pushing this book must have some points. Fucking worthless pathetic immoral assfuckers.
Yeah, that blurb didn't help ya.
No, that isn't anywhere close to the markup on a text message sadly.
My 2.5GB data plan costs $20 per month. So divide $20 by 2,500,000,000 and that is the cost per byte (0.000000008 dollars per byte, or hairs of a penny). Meanwhile, you pay 30 cents per text message that you send (160 bytes). So the comparison is 0.30 (sms) vs 0.00000128 (160 bytes of data) or roughly 23,437,500% markup.
would you mind providing the math on how 9600bps increased by 20,000% comes out to 230GB/s ? I've looked it over a few times and I'm not seeing it. The network bandwidth speeds have increased massively in the last 31 years, but we're talking about substantial increases in usage following those bandwidth increases. It is essentially the same as building an extra lane on a highway and then wondering why the new highway lane is always full too - you made more room, so now more people use it. The same goes for mobile - they made the networks faster, and more people started using it because they could. Now they are finding that no matter how much they increase bandwidth the customers will increase usage.
Around here, nothing is obvious, especially when it comes to people professing the greatness of vi or emacs. You must have momentarily forgotten, but this is /.
On that tiger filled image alone you deserve every mod point available.
It costs $1.40 per foot for coax and $1.79 per foot for fiber to run a single line, not counting the cost to rebalance the network once the new line has been added, the cost of additional equipment, and the cost of infrastructure improvements to support it all (depending on distance you may need a repeater and injector, or if it is at the end of a maxed strand you'll need to extend the entire strand and run at least 2,000 feet of new fiber). Running cable to a person's home isn't as simple as just running up the pole and plugging it in. There are a lot of factors that go into it, and normally extending plant out to suit one person costs the company far more than they could make in a year from that user. Think of it this way: Would you spend $15,000 running cable to someone's home so you could earn $90 a month from them? how about $200 a month from them? Considering you're only making roughly $10-$30 in profit from that user, its going to take longer to recoup the cost of the initial investment than it will take for the plant they use to need replacement and maintenance (as most coax infrastructure runs last 5-7 years before replacement is needed). It sucks that your parents can't get cable, but don't blame the company for not just throwing capital down the drain.
It was magical for him...
Organizations big enough to use tape have been using hybrid disk / tape backup solutions for a very long time. We use locally stored centralized backups that we can push to remote sites from disk, and then also perform offsite backups nightly with tape. It is really the only way to go when you have multi-terabyte incremental backups.
You should have performed a better google search, since I buy LTO-5 tapes (1.5TB uncompressed, 3TB compressed) for roughly $60 each. Included in that cost is pre-labeling based on my specifications and series numbers from previous orders, and two day shipping. Roughly 1/3 the cost of the tiny tapes you found, and under half the cost of the comparable hard drive. Tape offers many benefits that you don't have in a hard drive, including better drop resistance (moron resistant), and the ability to be physicaly write locked (again, moron resistant). In addition you have tape libraries that swap tapes out automatically, so I can store a month worth of tapes in my library and not worry about someone else managing backups while I take vacation (moron resistant!) or wait out a bad winter storm. Don't get me wrong, tapes and tape libraries aren't for every company, but I have incremental backups upwards of 6TB (comparable to the full backups of people I've read here) and full backups roughly five times that. With the volume of data I manage I can't just keep ordering disks and controller cards, so tapes help me save time and money.
Symantec Advanced Pre-emptive Defense tech... SAP'ed
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You can't find helicopters that haven't been hit by mules, it is part of the training process for combat mules.
My $600 phone can barely take a drop from my pocket to the server room floor without me wondering if I now have to spend another $600. Land warrior systems can be thrown out of a helicopter hit by a mule and smashed against rocks while the soldier wearing it does his job without wondering if it still works. Quite a bit of the money involved in systems like land warrior is dedicated to ensuring stability and reliability during combat operations in extreme heat, cold, rain, and snow. All of these are things that a $600 cell phone can't do.
I agree on all points, except my chair, which is custom made by my brother who also built my desk. Other than that I'm really just being an asshole, so please continue.
I think kids see all of the solutions in the world and then think "why bother?" I have to admit that when it comes to programming something yourself in-house and spending a few months getting exactly what you want, or spending 5 minutes buying a package from someone else and the next two weeks tailoring it to provide the results you require, it makes sense to take the existing solution. Programmers face a different problem today than they once did. Before it was an issue of "this code doesn't exist yet", while today its "almost everything you can imagine needing, someone has already written." The incentive to write effective and innovative code in a sea of "effective and innovative code" is a moving target that previous generations of programmers never faced.
The "serious shortage of qualified people" is mostly the fault of the companies themselves. Businesses want to pay pennies and earn dollars when it comes to developers, and they only want to hire the absolute "creme of the crop". Also it is not that there are only a handful of rockstar programmers, but simply a lack of opportunity for programmers to become highly skilled. It is difficult to work a job, go to school, and then find time to become some sort of master coder in the small amount of time you have left to sleep / eat / avoid divorce. Businesses want pre-packaged master programmers with a decade of experience and two degrees, and they want to pay $50,000 a year with meager benefits to match. If they set the bar lower and actually hired college graduates with little experience for a decent wage they might find that the average person can learn to become what you need them to (in this example, an amazing programmer). But when you go looking for a job all you find are "Sr. .NET Developer, minimum 10+ years experience" and you rarely (maybe 1 a month) find "Entry level .NET programmer, Bachelors or 2-4 years experience".
Everyone has to start somewhere, but they never become masters when you fail to give them a chance.