How? You've got, at a minimum, CPU, GPU, display, and disk. How do you continuously load the CPU so that all execution units are constantly working at their utmost? Same thing with the GPU. As for disk, are you reading, writing, seeking, or switching from one to the other?
Even if you could come up with such a worst-case scheme, it'd probably get so hot that the hardware would either throttle itslf back, or melt.
If your competitor hires this guy they might be able to outproduce you just long enough to put you out of business. Doing things right is important, but staying in business is the *most* important thing.
The last thing you want is for your business to be dependent on one single person. Even if he's not some kind of cowboy/diva/jerk with no social skills, he may get hit by a bus, leave for personal reasons, or just get a better offer.
Unless you're so small that you absolutely cannot hire another developer, you should start weaning your business off of such a person. Now, while it still has a chance.
Yes, it's possible that UBS was an isolated case (though, given UBS's size, it's hard to call anything it does "isolated.") and that other banks weren't being so blatant in their flouting of other countries' laws. It's also very likely that UBS's actions were completely in line with Swiss law and traditions.
If Microsoft has taught us anything, it's that today's lockin is tomorrow's lockout. The day MS decides that ActiveX no longer serves their purposes is the day that every site requiring ActiveX is out of luck.
The difference is, ActiveX is heavily used by business and enterprise customers.
The Microsoft music stores were used by consumers, and not even particularly valuable consumers; mostly kids whose parents didn't know what a real iPod looked like.
If enterprise customers tell Microsoft to jump, Microsoft asks, "How high?" If some snot-nosed kid with an Archos whatsit tells Microsoft to jump, Balmer throws a chair at him.
> 2. The screen is large and has great resolution.
No. 480x320 is NOT high resolution. Few non mobile phone optimized pages are going to display on that. The N8x0 series has 800x480. Do the math. Hopefully Apple fanbois can still do simple X > Y type reasoning.
Two words: multitouch zoom.
Tap-to-zoom and stroke-to-pan beats the pants off of those little zoom buttons any day. And it really does make the (real) web usable on a lower-res screen.
Yes, I know, I'm a fanboi, because I'm suggesting that human interface could have a bigger impact than specs. I'll leave you now.
WorldWideWeb 1.0 had a windowed, point-and-click UI, so it would be "graphical" compared to, say, Lynx.
The real title of "first graphical browser" goes to whichever application first displayed inline graphics on a page. I'm not sure exactly which one this was...NCSA Mosaic often gets credit for this, but the feature was also added to later versions of ViolaWWW and WorldWideWeb.
Inline graphics were a major factor in the success of the Web over existing internet hypertext systems like Gopher.
Hate to say it, but that's exactly why. The cost of labor is dropping, because there's a massive pool of it willing to work for less right now. Market forces and all - more supply, less demand, price drops.
Sure, it was awesome for us all during the.com boom because it was the other way around (demand outstripping supply, causing outrageous salaries, etc.), but the point is stop your bitching when it goes the other way. That's just the way an open market works.
That's entirely true. Microsoft is a business, after all, and answerable to its shareholders. If it thinks this is the path to greater profits, it should absolutely follow.
My point was that there is no external pressure on MS to make these cuts. And, regardless of the competitiveness of the labor market, there will still be a negative impact on morale and productivity. Most companies try to avoid pay cuts or big layoffs for this reason, 90s management fads aside. And I think most companies in MS's enviable position would risk carrying a little fat rather than risk turning its employees against it.
I agree. There's plenty of companies negotiating concessions with unions and regularly staffed employees for pay or incentive cuts. Slashdot villify's Microsoft enough that they don't need to post the common business practices of third parties in the employ of Microsoft. Give us a break kdawson, enough with the sensationalist anti-Microsoft vendetta.
How many of them made $17 billion in profits over the last year?
It's one thing to cut salaries when you're hemorrhaging. It's another to cut salaries when everyone else is hemorrhaging, and you have a stable, monopoly-protected revenue base, just because your workers have no alternative.
I see no mention in the summary of a specific product. Since I'm not going to RTFA, should I just assume that, since I don't own Adobe stock, I'm not affected?
You get 24/7 telephone and email support with 30-minute response. For hardware repairs, Apple-certified technicians provide onsite response within four hours during business hours and next-day onsite response when you contact Apple after business hours.
Right. Let's see... Quicktime still works but the Sims 2 doesn't. Quicktime doesn't seem to break anything else, so logically, it MUST be Apple's fault. I think the rest of the Quicktime users who aren't playing the Sims 2 would disagree with your placement of blame.:)
Brainwashed much? You're basically implying that if I hit you in the head with a hammer and you're knocked out, but the hammer, nearby mailbox, and tree are unharmed, that proves that the hammer isn't to blame - your head is.
If there are a dozen other people in the room at the time, and only I get hit, then yeah, my head probably is at fault. Either it didn't get me out of the way fast enough, or it said something that pissed you off.
Seriously, QT is a fundamental API on OS X. If your app breaks when it changes, and your app is the only one that breaks when it changes, then your app is the one with the problem. QED.
All the major disposable battery makers (The bunny company, the copper-top company, that discount company with the 50s-scifi name) all make their disposable (eg. alkaline) batteries in the US.
And all of them import their rechargeables (the AA NiCads you use--or should be using--in your digital cameras) from Japan (mostly) or China.
Perhaps you need to adjust for the fact the Free Trade is in fact benefiting a few million people out there, who just don't happen to live in the US?
Who? The Chinese factory workers? The Peruvian farm laborers? The African cotton growers who can't compete, and so end up more and more in debt to buy imported clothes?
There are literally a few million people who really benefit from free trade. A few million out of seven billion.
No, it isn't. It's descended from NEXTSTEP technology, but it is most certainly not NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP was a failure in the marketplace, which led to NeXT being bought out by Apple for its technology.
That BeOS, OS/2, and NEXTSTEP enjoyed. The fate of technically superior, generically compatible, for-profit alternative operating systems is pretty well established.
There are three ways to build a successful OS: - Legacy monopoly position - Free (libre) - Make your money on hardware
Selling a "premium" OS for generic hardware is a surefire path to irrellevance.
1. I'm guessing you don't live in Florida, Louisiana, or pretty much anywhere else in the Southeast. Malaria was certainly epidemic across much of the country, and could probably still be again.
2. Widespread use of DDT was the cheapest and simplest way to eliminate malaria-containing mosquitoes, but it was hardly cheap or simple. The fact was, we eliminated DDT in the US because (even then) we were a wealthy nation that threw resources at the problem. If it hadn't been DDT, it could have been another pesticide, or widespread use of antimalarials to eliminate the chain of transmission. Money killed malaria, not DDT. Just like money has killed off smallpox, polio, and dozens of other endemic diseases in North America.
3. See above.
For what it's worth, plenty of poor nations still use DDT, and yet they still have not eliminated malaria. Not because DDT is ineffective (though it's less effective than it was fifty years ago) but because they don't have the resources to use it (or anything else) comprehensively.
The fact is, the methods used by the US were imperfect and dangerous. If the industrialized advocated their use in poor, third world countries, in two generations, they would (justifiably) complain about how the evil, powerful nations of the world dumped these toxic chemicals all over their countries, killed all of their birds, and caused thousands of cases of cancer, even though we knew better.
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I often ask Atheists how they explain the remarkable fine tuning that the universe displays
If you were an intelligent designer who held the laws of physics in his hands, would you make the balance so precarious?
NBC knows that the real SciFi demographic now gets its media fix from filesharing services.
Its only option is to market its products to the mainstream populace that hasn't yet given up on broadcast.
Even if you could come up with such a worst-case scheme, it'd probably get so hot that the hardware would either throttle itslf back, or melt.
Then it isn't really fit for use as a computer, let alone a laptop, is it?
That's one opinion.
Suppose you have a design that can run safely at level 10 indefinitely, but only temporarily at level 11. Do you:
A. Set the firmware to run only at level 10
or
B. Program it to switch between level 10 and 11 depending on level of usage and temperature?
(Hint: most every manufacturer these days uses some variation of B.
1) Fully load the machine
How? You've got, at a minimum, CPU, GPU, display, and disk. How do you continuously load the CPU so that all execution units are constantly working at their utmost? Same thing with the GPU. As for disk, are you reading, writing, seeking, or switching from one to the other?
Even if you could come up with such a worst-case scheme, it'd probably get so hot that the hardware would either throttle itslf back, or melt.
If your competitor hires this guy they might be able to outproduce you just long enough to put you out of business. Doing things right is important, but staying in business is the *most* important thing.
The last thing you want is for your business to be dependent on one single person. Even if he's not some kind of cowboy/diva/jerk with no social skills, he may get hit by a bus, leave for personal reasons, or just get a better offer.
Unless you're so small that you absolutely cannot hire another developer, you should start weaning your business off of such a person. Now, while it still has a chance.
It is easy to misunderstand Swiss banking secrecy as some kind of dodgy way of assisting rich foreigners with tax fraud/evasion.
Especially considering that UBS, one of the biggest Swiss banks, has admitted to having sent representatives to the US for exactly that purpose.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/business/20tax.html?pagewanted=print
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2009-02-19-ubs-tax-evaders-irs_N.htm
Yes, it's possible that UBS was an isolated case (though, given UBS's size, it's hard to call anything it does "isolated.") and that other banks weren't being so blatant in their flouting of other countries' laws. It's also very likely that UBS's actions were completely in line with Swiss law and traditions.
The sticking point will be what Microsoft does about compatibility for ActiveX apps.
How sticky are we talking? Sticky like trying to make PlaysForSure compatible with the Zune? Sticky like ongoing support for MSN Music?
If Microsoft has taught us anything, it's that today's lockin is tomorrow's lockout. The day MS decides that ActiveX no longer serves their purposes is the day that every site requiring ActiveX is out of luck.
The difference is, ActiveX is heavily used by business and enterprise customers.
The Microsoft music stores were used by consumers, and not even particularly valuable consumers; mostly kids whose parents didn't know what a real iPod looked like.
If enterprise customers tell Microsoft to jump, Microsoft asks, "How high?" If some snot-nosed kid with an Archos whatsit tells Microsoft to jump, Balmer throws a chair at him.
> 2. The screen is large and has great resolution.
No. 480x320 is NOT high resolution. Few non mobile phone optimized pages are going to display on that. The N8x0 series has 800x480. Do the math. Hopefully Apple fanbois can still do simple X > Y type reasoning.
Two words: multitouch zoom.
Tap-to-zoom and stroke-to-pan beats the pants off of those little zoom buttons any day. And it really does make the (real) web usable on a lower-res screen.
Yes, I know, I'm a fanboi, because I'm suggesting that human interface could have a bigger impact than specs. I'll leave you now.
Hasn't Unisys been pushing Windows for mainframes for years now? Since Win2K?
link
WorldWideWeb 1.0 had a windowed, point-and-click UI, so it would be "graphical" compared to, say, Lynx.
The real title of "first graphical browser" goes to whichever application first displayed inline graphics on a page. I'm not sure exactly which one this was...NCSA Mosaic often gets credit for this, but the feature was also added to later versions of ViolaWWW and WorldWideWeb.
Inline graphics were a major factor in the success of the Web over existing internet hypertext systems like Gopher.
Who else was confused how Salt was going to help software security?
Not me. But I still can't see what this has to do with hashes.
the lock icon is shown in the corner of the window titlebar far away from the website address.
So there's no way to fake it with a favicon?
Hate to say it, but that's exactly why. The cost of labor is dropping, because there's a massive pool of it willing to work for less right now. Market forces and all - more supply, less demand, price drops.
Sure, it was awesome for us all during the .com boom because it was the other way around (demand outstripping supply, causing outrageous salaries, etc.), but the point is stop your bitching when it goes the other way. That's just the way an open market works.
That's entirely true. Microsoft is a business, after all, and answerable to its shareholders. If it thinks this is the path to greater profits, it should absolutely follow.
My point was that there is no external pressure on MS to make these cuts. And, regardless of the competitiveness of the labor market, there will still be a negative impact on morale and productivity. Most companies try to avoid pay cuts or big layoffs for this reason, 90s management fads aside. And I think most companies in MS's enviable position would risk carrying a little fat rather than risk turning its employees against it.
I agree. There's plenty of companies negotiating concessions with unions and regularly staffed employees for pay or incentive cuts. Slashdot villify's Microsoft enough that they don't need to post the common business practices of third parties in the employ of Microsoft. Give us a break kdawson, enough with the sensationalist anti-Microsoft vendetta.
How many of them made $17 billion in profits over the last year?
It's one thing to cut salaries when you're hemorrhaging. It's another to cut salaries when everyone else is hemorrhaging, and you have a stable, monopoly-protected revenue base, just because your workers have no alternative.
Probably because there are so many of them that it's hard to keep track. (Some of them have, indeed, been sent to the pen.
I see no mention in the summary of a specific product. Since I'm not going to RTFA, should I just assume that, since I don't own Adobe stock, I'm not affected?
a crappy service contract (no next-day service, no on-site service-- I've looked into it)
Not very hard, apparently.
http://www.apple.com/server/support/
You get 24/7 telephone and email support with 30-minute response. For hardware repairs, Apple-certified technicians provide onsite response within four hours during business hours and next-day onsite response when you contact Apple after business hours.
...hackers and phishers ever take a third-grade English class.
Typos, grammar errors, and awkward Google transalations probably do more to alert average users to scams than SSL certificate warnings.
Right. Let's see... Quicktime still works but the Sims 2 doesn't. Quicktime doesn't seem to break anything else, so logically, it MUST be Apple's fault. I think the rest of the Quicktime users who aren't playing the Sims 2 would disagree with your placement of blame. :)
Brainwashed much? You're basically implying that if I hit you in the head with a hammer and you're knocked out, but the hammer, nearby mailbox, and tree are unharmed, that proves that the hammer isn't to blame - your head is.
If there are a dozen other people in the room at the time, and only I get hit, then yeah, my head probably is at fault. Either it didn't get me out of the way fast enough, or it said something that pissed you off.
Seriously, QT is a fundamental API on OS X. If your app breaks when it changes, and your app is the only one that breaks when it changes, then your app is the one with the problem. QED.
All the major disposable battery makers (The bunny company, the copper-top company, that discount company with the 50s-scifi name) all make their disposable (eg. alkaline) batteries in the US.
And all of them import their rechargeables (the AA NiCads you use--or should be using--in your digital cameras) from Japan (mostly) or China.
Perhaps you need to adjust for the fact the Free Trade is in fact benefiting a few million people out there, who just don't happen to live in the US?
Who? The Chinese factory workers? The Peruvian farm laborers? The African cotton growers who can't compete, and so end up more and more in debt to buy imported clothes?
There are literally a few million people who really benefit from free trade. A few million out of seven billion.
Take NeXT off that list. OS X *IS* NeXT.
No, it isn't. It's descended from NEXTSTEP technology, but it is most certainly not NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP was a failure in the marketplace, which led to NeXT being bought out by Apple for its technology.
That BeOS, OS/2, and NEXTSTEP enjoyed. The fate of technically superior, generically compatible, for-profit alternative operating systems is pretty well established.
There are three ways to build a successful OS:
- Legacy monopoly position
- Free (libre)
- Make your money on hardware
Selling a "premium" OS for generic hardware is a surefire path to irrellevance.
(Jessica Simpson, Nelly Furtado, here's looking at you).
Furtado being one of the few performers who (supposedly) refuses to use Auto-Tune.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_correction
1. I'm guessing you don't live in Florida, Louisiana, or pretty much anywhere else in the Southeast. Malaria was certainly epidemic across much of the country, and could probably still be again.
2. Widespread use of DDT was the cheapest and simplest way to eliminate malaria-containing mosquitoes, but it was hardly cheap or simple. The fact was, we eliminated DDT in the US because (even then) we were a wealthy nation that threw resources at the problem. If it hadn't been DDT, it could have been another pesticide, or widespread use of antimalarials to eliminate the chain of transmission. Money killed malaria, not DDT. Just like money has killed off smallpox, polio, and dozens of other endemic diseases in North America.
3. See above.
For what it's worth, plenty of poor nations still use DDT, and yet they still have not eliminated malaria. Not because DDT is ineffective (though it's less effective than it was fifty years ago) but because they don't have the resources to use it (or anything else) comprehensively.
The fact is, the methods used by the US were imperfect and dangerous. If the industrialized advocated their use in poor, third world countries, in two generations, they would (justifiably) complain about how the evil, powerful nations of the world dumped these toxic chemicals all over their countries, killed all of their birds, and caused thousands of cases of cancer, even though we knew better.