Yeah, anarchy (or pure capitalism) would be a perfect government... if people were perfect. Just like monarchy or absolute rule would be perfect... if leaders were perfect. Since none of us are perfect, we have an imperfect government with checks and balances to try to handle our imperfect people and leaders.
When you find perfect people, let me know. I'd love to see their government in action.
Yep, my upgrade last fall was due to a motherboard getting blown out in a storm. I think my new computer will probably last me until we have quantum computing or something.
I wonder if slowing with the regenerative breaking is as efficient as just taking your foot off the gas and coasting for a while. That is assuming you can predict traffic well enough to not need some kind of breaking.
A multitude of ways. Such as not having a round in the chamber, leave the safety on, don't cock the hammer, don't put a finger on the trigger, don't aim the gun at something you don't want a hole in?
Well from the summary "They can be so focused on graphics that they forget they have to get the timing right".
I could say many console and PC games are so focused on graphics they forgot to produce a game to go with it. Though Atari does produce some nice games along side some crap games.
Where I work we get paid straight overtime, but it is our choice to work OT. Though most projects aren't willing to pay for that. Fortunately this law is not going to impact us. If we were paid 1.5x for OT, we would probably never be given the choice to work OT.
Tell that to the families of the women and children who are murdered in the net terrorist attack that could have been prevented had the NSA been able to monitor the terrorists communications as they are supposed to.
What would you like to tell the millions of people who have their bank accounts hacked and drained by terrorists because the government took away our encryption? I guess the suicides that would cause are not important.
I'm curious what kind of testing is involved? I'm assuming that having people board the module will not happen for some time until they are pretty sure it can't suffer a catastrophic blowout. Unless they've already done vacuum testing on the ground?
Done that. You'd be surprised how often people have issues with attempts to get it right the first time and demand it be changed. Though I'm working on software in a certification environment, where minor errors take a lot of money to get through the full process to fix. The certification process still doesn't play that well with agile. Maybe some day they will get up to speed.
I think part of it is the capability of computers. XP is kind of a peak in OS, where computers had the capability to do everything the OS truly needed. Vista, 7, 8 and 10 provided minimal OS gains over XP, not enough to justify the cost of buying a whole new OS. So they had to add pretty, eye catching features to get people interested in the OS (mostly people who consume content on computers, rather than produce it). I would rather see Windows 10 be stable and fast (which since release it seems to be going the opposite direction), but I'm not MS's primary demographic.
I think phones did the same thing. I've got a Galaxy S5 which honestly is more than I really need in a handheld computing device (too small of a package to use for true development or number crunching, for me anyway). As a result I think smartphones are doing the same thing as PC OSes, to keep business going and people buying the latest thing they can no longer add functionality so they add fluff.
Though my bent $0.02 is probably biased a little since I spend more time with developing and teaching than I do with consuming content.
I'm (barely) a Millennial and have never really been a hipster in my opinion. I spend a lot of my time as a developer explaining to the systems people (who are mostly 10-30 years older than I am) that anything not fully designed in systems requirements will result in me using educated guesses as to what they want. This often results in much hemming and hawing until I tell them to put in writing that I can make educated guesses in my implementation and suddenly I see designs being fleshed out.
Then down the road I'm asked to make updates to the software that are contrary to the design and pointing this out falls on deaf ears.
Poor systems design (much like everything complaining about the lazy new generation) isn't something new to software. Just that the more a system can do, the less time people spend making a complete design before implementing it.
Where I am a living wage runs about $12 an hour with a 40 hour job. No cable TV, cheap prepay cell phone, low quality rental house yes but one can afford to live. This all is of course assuming no health issues, that one is a major issue with surviving on a low wage.
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I'm unsure this project will ever be on the rails, but I wish them the best of luck.
In general, so I suppose all of the rest you listed is illegal too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Sorry to tell you, but marijuana is not illegal in Washington.
And Gerbils are illegal in California.
With stunts like that, pushing ads and apps on people and everything, why does it still cost something to get Windows 10?
Put the damn ISO on your website, unlock the damn activation/serial/whatever thing and you'll get more users.
But being paid twice works for cable TV companies!
Yeah, anarchy (or pure capitalism) would be a perfect government... if people were perfect. Just like monarchy or absolute rule would be perfect... if leaders were perfect. Since none of us are perfect, we have an imperfect government with checks and balances to try to handle our imperfect people and leaders.
When you find perfect people, let me know. I'd love to see their government in action.
Yep, my upgrade last fall was due to a motherboard getting blown out in a storm. I think my new computer will probably last me until we have quantum computing or something.
I wonder if slowing with the regenerative breaking is as efficient as just taking your foot off the gas and coasting for a while. That is assuming you can predict traffic well enough to not need some kind of breaking.
A multitude of ways. Such as not having a round in the chamber, leave the safety on, don't cock the hammer, don't put a finger on the trigger, don't aim the gun at something you don't want a hole in?
While I agree with the sentiment, the practicality leaves some to be desired.
Well from the summary "They can be so focused on graphics that they forget they have to get the timing right". I could say many console and PC games are so focused on graphics they forgot to produce a game to go with it. Though Atari does produce some nice games along side some crap games.
Pray tell the alternative that has the compatibility with all of the weather programs, probably written to run in windows?
Just like being force fed fewer bricks: http://ars.userfriendly.org/ca...
Where I work we get paid straight overtime, but it is our choice to work OT. Though most projects aren't willing to pay for that. Fortunately this law is not going to impact us. If we were paid 1.5x for OT, we would probably never be given the choice to work OT.
Tell that to the families of the women and children who are murdered in the net terrorist attack that could have been prevented had the NSA been able to monitor the terrorists communications as they are supposed to.
What would you like to tell the millions of people who have their bank accounts hacked and drained by terrorists because the government took away our encryption? I guess the suicides that would cause are not important.
Well time is money, one could spend time instead of money. Or is that too much?
NO! It stands for saUcer Flying Object. As in flying saucer!
I'm curious what kind of testing is involved? I'm assuming that having people board the module will not happen for some time until they are pretty sure it can't suffer a catastrophic blowout. Unless they've already done vacuum testing on the ground?
today there would be much less problem with near-zero birth rates
Heh. Yeah, they could look like India instead as a high birth rate on limited landmass requires building vertically to house all of the population.
Done that. You'd be surprised how often people have issues with attempts to get it right the first time and demand it be changed. Though I'm working on software in a certification environment, where minor errors take a lot of money to get through the full process to fix. The certification process still doesn't play that well with agile. Maybe some day they will get up to speed.
Yeah I'm keeping my S5 for as long as it does the job. After that I may be done with Samsung phones, unfortunately.
I think part of it is the capability of computers. XP is kind of a peak in OS, where computers had the capability to do everything the OS truly needed. Vista, 7, 8 and 10 provided minimal OS gains over XP, not enough to justify the cost of buying a whole new OS. So they had to add pretty, eye catching features to get people interested in the OS (mostly people who consume content on computers, rather than produce it). I would rather see Windows 10 be stable and fast (which since release it seems to be going the opposite direction), but I'm not MS's primary demographic.
I think phones did the same thing. I've got a Galaxy S5 which honestly is more than I really need in a handheld computing device (too small of a package to use for true development or number crunching, for me anyway). As a result I think smartphones are doing the same thing as PC OSes, to keep business going and people buying the latest thing they can no longer add functionality so they add fluff.
Though my bent $0.02 is probably biased a little since I spend more time with developing and teaching than I do with consuming content.
I'm (barely) a Millennial and have never really been a hipster in my opinion. I spend a lot of my time as a developer explaining to the systems people (who are mostly 10-30 years older than I am) that anything not fully designed in systems requirements will result in me using educated guesses as to what they want. This often results in much hemming and hawing until I tell them to put in writing that I can make educated guesses in my implementation and suddenly I see designs being fleshed out.
Then down the road I'm asked to make updates to the software that are contrary to the design and pointing this out falls on deaf ears.
Poor systems design (much like everything complaining about the lazy new generation) isn't something new to software. Just that the more a system can do, the less time people spend making a complete design before implementing it.
Good to know all the experience with human societies gives us a good idea of how aliens will think.
Where I am a living wage runs about $12 an hour with a 40 hour job. No cable TV, cheap prepay cell phone, low quality rental house yes but one can afford to live. This all is of course assuming no health issues, that one is a major issue with surviving on a low wage.
because his business model was based on exploiting his loyal employees.
Yeah, they would prefer to have no paying job over being exploited I'm sure.