But they only pay in "monopoly money"... The bank don't take that.
Seriously, if working with old code is that much of a problem, you should have moved from coding to architect by now. Improve your project management skills and use that to sell yourself as "modernizing" your new employer's code base. Although when older alanguages and paragidms are used, it's often because you've got interconnected parts of legacy systems... Like moving from RPG III to RPG ILE, there are interconnected pieces... And the boss needs a tax formula recalculated, not a full refresh, as much as the boss may want it too.
That's what the BioMed industry runs on... And why we "need" more H1-B. everybody is working "for experience" while racking up more loans... When they actually GET the degree, they are unemployable at anything but Starbucks.... Cause all the Grad students do the "grunt work" that really only needs a Bachelor or less. Unless they can get one of the professor jobs or industry job, but we're cutting "education".
I can say that for a Raspberry Pi setup at a contract manufacturer is an hour or two... The problem is securing the PARTS. You have to be a really large contract manufacturer to get parts in a timely manner... And low cost. You run into something as simple as resistors or capacitors that are only run in batches 3 times a year. Small assemblers have to buy everything from the "leftovers" market... So you pay double.. Sure the part is just 1 cent, but it adds up. And you have to wait for the parts to ship. You can't use FedEx because its only $100 worth of parts at a time, you just added 25% more to costs.
I'd also say that a run of 10,000 Pi boards would only take about one 8-10 hour shift... A little more for testing. This is $4 million in equipment being tied up, for less than a day of work. So by the time you figure in all the margins just to keep the lights on and pay the rent, you just can't compete unless quantities are 50k... Then you are paying too much for parts, so you lose anyway because for 8 weeks more of waiting the customer can get 25% discount.
At this point Surface is like the very first iPhone, that was hella expensive till Apple hit its contract sales with AT&T for subsidies to kick in. It's not the price that matters, it's the delivery. If $599 is what the think they need to do the product RIGHT, then they need to do that. But then they have to DELIVER.... Something Microsoft has consistently failed or let down lately.
Apple's track record before iPhone: OSX improving every release with rave reviews, iPods dominating the space, iTunes picking up steam with music and video, Apple TV, and the massive awesomely executed swap from PowerPC to Intel.
THEN iPhone the same year.
This is Microsoft's big day on stage and they are not remotely prepared. They have more money than god still... This is entirely a Microsoft people problem. It doesn't matter about Apple or Android, or Google.... With all their money and talent, it's Microsoft's carriage and glass slippers to the ball.
And if pattern holds, they're getting squished pumpkin. The board needs to fire everybody VP and UP... and start over. It's time for the Gates Crew to experience that "kicked out of your own company" feeling.
To be fair, we DID consider public safety in building the towers... Of 50k people in those buildings, the VAST majority were able to evacuate because we had proper building codes and evacuation plans in place.
As far as Internet security, SOX has forced companies to separate financial data from manufacturing data... Meaning the vast majority of susceptible systems are off the Internet, or behind firewalls...
In both cases, yes, damage can still be done... With the towers it was an act of war. With the Internet most companies would take a deliberate attack... There are 1000 other things that network admins have to worry about when dealing with power systems... From idiots with power tools to newbie employees... Super hacker ninjas trying to break software that's "glued shut" 99.99% of the time just isn't on the list.
You can spend all your time and sanity looking to build a perfect safe system, or spend a moderate amount of time building practical ways to recover quickly. When you are in the middle of parties committing acts of war, you have bigger problems.
I live in out-state Michigan and it wasn't that long ago you could ASSUME to have 2-3 days of power outage in winter. Forget TV, Cellphones and Internet... We're talking heat and light. People are too hung upon their 99.9% efficiencies, they forget we used to CLOSE whole cities for holiday and everybody got along just fine for a few days.
We attacked their program... Attached to their infrastructure... First. Forcing then to clean it up put their anti-hackers ahead of our corporate security.... It's not like the govt told ITS OWN interests about the flaws!!!
Laughingly, by forcing them to deal with Suxnet, we opened the box that ALL control systems are vulnerable to that type of attack... It's VERY common hardware not designed or intended to deal with the "Internet". I'd venture 90% of the places that use these control systems don't even KNOW what was going on. Of course most places in the US are "immune" because manufacturing and power companies are still backward enough they haven't connected their systems to anything. Thanks to SOX the majority of companies that might have considered hooking every toaster to the Internet have manufacturing networks in non-secured, but non-connected sub networks.
The Japanese also attacked our main base in the Philippines (taken from the Spanish-American war) at the same time hoping to knock us out of the game in the Pacific. They figured we'd take our ball home and go pick on Germany... One of the big Oops! Of the war. It was a calculated risk to "poke the bear" to keep our noses our of their business in the Pacific... It backfired.
Wonder how they managed to make it so easy? Surely, you'd have to mail some kind of postcard in.... Which you would only receive if you registered your book with the publisher...
Making it so easy is clearly Anazon getting back at the lawyers so there are no "unclaimed funds".
No, not really... If you use ANY mainstream ISP they are already logging your requests for marketing purposes... Just not specifically about "you". That was the deal with DNS being hijacked... It's not like they don't still do it. The guy that owns your "wire" has 100% of the info you send.
PROFITS PROFITS PROFITS.... They make the world go round.
The Android makers are basically filling market share.. They aren't GROWING. They all used to make their money selling knockoffs to individual phone companies... Then Apple came along and nixed their one advantage of having the "built-in" contracts to keep the lines running. Basically, all the old phone base is selling Android to keep the lights on and workers employed... Apple is out there making massive profit AND building out NEW capacity with new technologies that Apple's not sharing.
Microsoft used to tout "cash is king" in reasoning for their large cash hoard. apple has several YEARS of profits in the bank. They could grab market share, but at this point, they would only be taking money put of their own pockets. BMW could sell their cars for the same price as Chevies... But what's the point in that?
Microsoft invoked the Osborbe Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect) on their own fledgling product. Even Mighty APPLE had to admit all the waiting for iPhone 5 (that they didn't even officially announce themselves!) caused an Osborne Effect last quarter.
It's been almost SIX MONTHS since Microsoft started touting WP8 as the next big thing... And your WP7 apps don't get to come along.... So there is ABSOLUTELY no reason to buy a WP7 device, or develop WP7 apps, because it won't gain you anything. Apple gets flack for changing a CONNECTOR after NINE years...
How are companies supposed to survive with no product to sell for SIX MONTHS? Poor Nokia is just doomed...DOOMED!
HTC is more about being a step behind Samsung than failing. That one step behind is a giant profit margin, hurting their books... HTC is still OEM for important Nexus devices... They just aren't making PROFIT.
Moto was at one point the original Cellular phone company... Too much time resting on past fame, dropping Nextel so they make phones but don't even run a phone service...
Actually, using AC's numbers above about %sugar that 500 cal is the recommended amount daily from sugar, it's still not far off. A 20 oz soda is about 250 calories... So you should only have 2 per day. I'm sure they choose 16 oz because kids are smaller and need less.
I suppose that we have too much beverage inflation going on. Cans were 12oz and bottles were 16.7 oz (1/2 L) for a long time... Then the fountain soda inflation took over... A Big Gulp was the biggest thing... In 1980... At 32 oz... And that's not even special now.
Now if they will address the next big beverage problem... Caffeine. That stuff is just as evil as High Fructose Corn Syrup. Not to mention all the health problems it enables by encouraging sleep deprivation (including over eating sugary beverages, and other stuff to stay awake)
Then we can have New York work on Pride, Greed, Usury....
That might be the quickest way to get action on this! After all, most companies use Exchange (IMAP). So what you are saying is that anybody running IMAP is not "really" reading emails, so corporate emails don't need subpoenas or warrants!
You just code the changes in your own library, then copy to the production library.... Or just edit in production, because the program object doesn't update until you compile.
For things like banking, compliance is the bigger issue most of the time. Bugs calculating somebody's checkbook are rare. But having new tax rules on tap Jan. 1 becomes most important.
I work in MRP, good ole manufacturing. So the defining factor is SHIPPING and number two is GET PAID. Those can drive SAME DAY changes.
But that GROWTH is almost exclusively from squeezing Windows and Office (and associated tools) for more money every year.... I see the checks my company writes. XBox is just barely profitably.... Sure it's black now... But not 80% PROFIT MARGIN like Windows and Office.
Basically every other division takes money away from the profits Windows and Office make... It serves the company as a nice way to subsidize tech jobs, and they certainly wouldn't want to pay all those taxes.. But fundamentally, Microsoft has spent multiple BILLIONS of dollars a year chasing "the next big thing" that simply hasn't panned out for them.
Historically NO PRODUCT will ever match Windows and Office... That was their once-in-history chance. Microsoft hasn't built another product even close. XBox is almost able to stand on its own, but that's it.
Exactly.... Windows and Office make money by the bagful..... EVERYTHING ELSE... Not so much. The only profitable devices -on their own- are the peripheral division... Mouses and keyboards. The only services they haven't totally botched are the Software Assurance. I suppose Xbox Live may be making money, but it's profit is drown in the rest of that division.
MOST of Microsoft loses money, buoyed by the fantastical profits of Windows and Office. So the company's plan is to stab all the Windows 8 partners in the back!
More than that I'd guarantee #799 having $50k paid in royalties ISN'T SEEING A DIME because all the royalty money get thrown in a big hat at Sound Exchange, then the fees come out, then they cut ALL of it by plays, which means anybody not on commercial radio gets a sliver... It's calculated "en masse" not by what some individual station paid in... So that $50k goes "poof!"
THEN t#799's label and agent get paid FIRST.... So get gets $1... Less the stamp.
this money is paid to ASCAP & BMI, and double that is paid to Sound Exchange. After accounting fees, hooker fees, blow fees, that fees, radio payload fees.... Artists get 52 cents...
There was a spot on "1000 ways to die" like that. Some DEA hotshot was harassing a farmer looking for pot planted in the woods. Farmer told him not to go in a certain field and hotshot stormed straight there... Promptly caught an angry bull! Oops!
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But they only pay in "monopoly money" ... The bank don't take that.
Seriously, if working with old code is that much of a problem, you should have moved from coding to architect by now. Improve your project management skills and use that to sell yourself as "modernizing" your new employer's code base. Although when older alanguages and paragidms are used, it's often because you've got interconnected parts of legacy systems... Like moving from RPG III to RPG ILE, there are interconnected pieces... And the boss needs a tax formula recalculated, not a full refresh, as much as the boss may want it too.
That's what the BioMed industry runs on... And why we "need" more H1-B. everybody is working "for experience" while racking up more loans... When they actually GET the degree, they are unemployable at anything but Starbucks.... Cause all the Grad students do the "grunt work" that really only needs a Bachelor or less. Unless they can get one of the professor jobs or industry job, but we're cutting "education".
I can say that for a Raspberry Pi setup at a contract manufacturer is an hour or two... The problem is securing the PARTS. You have to be a really large contract manufacturer to get parts in a timely manner... And low cost. You run into something as simple as resistors or capacitors that are only run in batches 3 times a year. Small assemblers have to buy everything from the "leftovers" market... So you pay double.. Sure the part is just 1 cent, but it adds up. And you have to wait for the parts to ship. You can't use FedEx because its only $100 worth of parts at a time, you just added 25% more to costs.
I'd also say that a run of 10,000 Pi boards would only take about one 8-10 hour shift... A little more for testing. This is $4 million in equipment being tied up, for less than a day of work. So by the time you figure in all the margins just to keep the lights on and pay the rent, you just can't compete unless quantities are 50k... Then you are paying too much for parts, so you lose anyway because for 8 weeks more of waiting the customer can get 25% discount.
At this point Surface is like the very first iPhone, that was hella expensive till Apple hit its contract sales with AT&T for subsidies to kick in. It's not the price that matters, it's the delivery. If $599 is what the think they need to do the product RIGHT, then they need to do that. But then they have to DELIVER.... Something Microsoft has consistently failed or let down lately.
Apple's track record before iPhone: OSX improving every release with rave reviews, iPods dominating the space, iTunes picking up steam with music and video, Apple TV, and the massive awesomely executed swap from PowerPC to Intel.
THEN iPhone the same year.
This is Microsoft's big day on stage and they are not remotely prepared. They have more money than god still... This is entirely a Microsoft people problem. It doesn't matter about Apple or Android, or Google.... With all their money and talent, it's Microsoft's carriage and glass slippers to the ball.
And if pattern holds, they're getting squished pumpkin. The board needs to fire everybody VP and UP... and start over. It's time for the Gates Crew to experience that "kicked out of your own company" feeling.
To be fair, we DID consider public safety in building the towers... Of 50k people in those buildings, the VAST majority were able to evacuate because we had proper building codes and evacuation plans in place.
As far as Internet security, SOX has forced companies to separate financial data from manufacturing data... Meaning the vast majority of susceptible systems are off the Internet, or behind firewalls...
In both cases, yes, damage can still be done... With the towers it was an act of war. With the Internet most companies would take a deliberate attack... There are 1000 other things that network admins have to worry about when dealing with power systems... From idiots with power tools to newbie employees... Super hacker ninjas trying to break software that's "glued shut" 99.99% of the time just isn't on the list.
You can spend all your time and sanity looking to build a perfect safe system, or spend a moderate amount of time building practical ways to recover quickly. When you are in the middle of parties committing acts of war, you have bigger problems.
I live in out-state Michigan and it wasn't that long ago you could ASSUME to have 2-3 days of power outage in winter. Forget TV, Cellphones and Internet... We're talking heat and light. People are too hung upon their 99.9% efficiencies, they forget we used to CLOSE whole cities for holiday and everybody got along just fine for a few days.
We attacked their program... Attached to their infrastructure... First. Forcing then to clean it up put their anti-hackers ahead of our corporate security.... It's not like the govt told ITS OWN interests about the flaws!!!
Laughingly, by forcing them to deal with Suxnet, we opened the box that ALL control systems are vulnerable to that type of attack... It's VERY common hardware not designed or intended to deal with the "Internet". I'd venture 90% of the places that use these control systems don't even KNOW what was going on. Of course most places in the US are "immune" because manufacturing and power companies are still backward enough they haven't connected their systems to anything. Thanks to SOX the majority of companies that might have considered hooking every toaster to the Internet have manufacturing networks in non-secured, but non-connected sub networks.
The Japanese also attacked our main base in the Philippines (taken from the Spanish-American war) at the same time hoping to knock us out of the game in the Pacific. They figured we'd take our ball home and go pick on Germany... One of the big Oops! Of the war. It was a calculated risk to "poke the bear" to keep our noses our of their business in the Pacific... It backfired.
We just pack up a bunch of clones to keep it repaired. Unpack them every few years as necessary.
Wonder how they managed to make it so easy? Surely, you'd have to mail some kind of postcard in.... Which you would only receive if you registered your book with the publisher...
Making it so easy is clearly Anazon getting back at the lawyers so there are no "unclaimed funds".
This is the "fantasy" portion of Slashdot.... Most nerds here couldn't talk to a girl, if they were paying her!
Because Big Bird only needs Millions in support.... NASA's projects require BILLIONS over multiple years.
Big Bird helps little kids... NASA helps rich defense contractors.... They usually vote Republican.
No, not really... If you use ANY mainstream ISP they are already logging your requests for marketing purposes... Just not specifically about "you". That was the deal with DNS being hijacked... It's not like they don't still do it. The guy that owns your "wire" has 100% of the info you send.
PROFITS PROFITS PROFITS.... They make the world go round.
The Android makers are basically filling market share.. They aren't GROWING. They all used to make their money selling knockoffs to individual phone companies... Then Apple came along and nixed their one advantage of having the "built-in" contracts to keep the lines running. Basically, all the old phone base is selling Android to keep the lights on and workers employed... Apple is out there making massive profit AND building out NEW capacity with new technologies that Apple's not sharing.
Microsoft used to tout "cash is king" in reasoning for their large cash hoard. apple has several YEARS of profits in the bank. They could grab market share, but at this point, they would only be taking money put of their own pockets. BMW could sell their cars for the same price as Chevies... But what's the point in that?
Microsoft invoked the Osborbe Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect) on their own fledgling product. Even Mighty APPLE had to admit all the waiting for iPhone 5 (that they didn't even officially announce themselves!) caused an Osborne Effect last quarter.
It's been almost SIX MONTHS since Microsoft started touting WP8 as the next big thing... And your WP7 apps don't get to come along.... So there is ABSOLUTELY no reason to buy a WP7 device, or develop WP7 apps, because it won't gain you anything. Apple gets flack for changing a CONNECTOR after NINE years...
How are companies supposed to survive with no product to sell for SIX MONTHS? Poor Nokia is just doomed...DOOMED!
HTC is more about being a step behind Samsung than failing. That one step behind is a giant profit margin, hurting their books... HTC is still OEM for important Nexus devices... They just aren't making PROFIT.
Moto was at one point the original Cellular phone company... Too much time resting on past fame, dropping Nextel so they make phones but don't even run a phone service...
Actually, using AC's numbers above about %sugar that 500 cal is the recommended amount daily from sugar, it's still not far off. A 20 oz soda is about 250 calories... So you should only have 2 per day. I'm sure they choose 16 oz because kids are smaller and need less.
I suppose that we have too much beverage inflation going on. Cans were 12oz and bottles were 16.7 oz (1/2 L) for a long time... Then the fountain soda inflation took over... A Big Gulp was the biggest thing ... In 1980... At 32 oz... And that's not even special now.
http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/super-sized-beverages
Now if they will address the next big beverage problem... Caffeine. That stuff is just as evil as High Fructose Corn Syrup. Not to mention all the health problems it enables by encouraging sleep deprivation (including over eating sugary beverages, and other stuff to stay awake)
Then we can have New York work on Pride, Greed, Usury....
That might be the quickest way to get action on this! After all, most companies use Exchange (IMAP). So what you are saying is that anybody running IMAP is not "really" reading emails, so corporate emails don't need subpoenas or warrants!
Just leaving that here....
You just code the changes in your own library, then copy to the production library.... Or just edit in production, because the program object doesn't update until you compile.
For things like banking, compliance is the bigger issue most of the time. Bugs calculating somebody's checkbook are rare. But having new tax rules on tap Jan. 1 becomes most important.
I work in MRP, good ole manufacturing. So the defining factor is SHIPPING and number two is GET PAID. Those can drive SAME DAY changes.
But that GROWTH is almost exclusively from squeezing Windows and Office (and associated tools) for more money every year.... I see the checks my company writes. XBox is just barely profitably.... Sure it's black now... But not 80% PROFIT MARGIN like Windows and Office.
Basically every other division takes money away from the profits Windows and Office make... It serves the company as a nice way to subsidize tech jobs, and they certainly wouldn't want to pay all those taxes.. But fundamentally, Microsoft has spent multiple BILLIONS of dollars a year chasing "the next big thing" that simply hasn't panned out for them.
Historically NO PRODUCT will ever match Windows and Office... That was their once-in-history chance. Microsoft hasn't built another product even close. XBox is almost able to stand on its own, but that's it.
Exactly.... Windows and Office make money by the bagful..... EVERYTHING ELSE... Not so much. The only profitable devices -on their own- are the peripheral division... Mouses and keyboards. The only services they haven't totally botched are the Software Assurance. I suppose Xbox Live may be making money, but it's profit is drown in the rest of that division.
MOST of Microsoft loses money, buoyed by the fantastical profits of Windows and Office. So the company's plan is to stab all the Windows 8 partners in the back!
More than that I'd guarantee #799 having $50k paid in royalties ISN'T SEEING A DIME because all the royalty money get thrown in a big hat at Sound Exchange, then the fees come out, then they cut ALL of it by plays, which means anybody not on commercial radio gets a sliver... It's calculated "en masse" not by what some individual station paid in... So that $50k goes "poof!"
THEN t#799's label and agent get paid FIRST.... So get gets $1... Less the stamp.
Of course the ARTIST gets ... ZILCH...
this money is paid to ASCAP & BMI, and double that is paid to Sound Exchange. After accounting fees, hooker fees, blow fees, that fees, radio payload fees.... Artists get 52 cents...
Game animals are often colorblind and can't see that little bit of red.. Or don't care. It lets you know it's working.
Next time use TWO ... So the cameras can watch each other!
There was a spot on "1000 ways to die" like that. Some DEA hotshot was harassing a farmer looking for pot planted in the woods. Farmer told him not to go in a certain field and hotshot stormed straight there... Promptly caught an angry bull! Oops!