1. repulsor beams are more energy efficient, so they are likely to be used first; 2. this device repels, so is kind of like a repulsor beam; 3. a true repulsor beam or tractor beam is gravito-magnetic, not sonic; 4. a true repsor beam will generate an off axis tractor beam of equal power, but with that power dispersed over a wider arc (most likely a full 360 degree dispersal in the plane perpendicular to the beam, with additional dispersal above and below that plane), so there is a small possibility of using that tractor beam for a secondary purpose. That is the most likely way tractor beams will be used.
I completely agree. If they were motivated to learn, they would have done still so on their own. That's the thing with IT, self teaching (especially when you already know the management frameworks and principles) is not only easy, but the most effective way to learn.
You are wasting your time. If the work is not there, they are redundant. Act accordingly.
(IAAL, but not your lawyer. See your own lawyer to make sure you do this right and don't risk a claim. I was in IT for 20 years before becoming a lawyer, including at executive management level, so my evaluation of that part comes from direct experience)
His statement might be right (and probably is) but there is no need for him to express himself that way. He's not a teenager anymore, he's in his late 40s and ought to be able to better control his impulses (or even be centred enough not to have them in the first place). His words would carry far more weight of he expressed himself more maturely.
Exactly. The shortage was of employers who understood the technical difficulty of coding, and were willing to pay accordingly. I am now in law, which pays better, but coding at any reasonable level of quality (so, better than offshore minimal skill code monkey ships provide) is more intellectually demanding than law.
In Australia, women are now in the majority In the legal profession, an outstripping men at the entry level 2 to 1. However, they are still a minority among barristers (who specialise in court work), who are required to be self employed.
In tha past few weeks I have been In a court with a lot of high school legal studies classes coming into the gallery. There the girls seen to outnumber the boys 10 to 1.
Me too. If the site is a news site, and there is no RSS, I either construct my own RSS using wget, cron and shell scripts, or just don't read the site. If/. dropped RSS, well, it is not what it once was, I would just stop reading it.
Actually it's JVM. It can run more than just Java. I have ported GCC to it as a target (fully featured for at least C and C++, including pointers, trampolines and long jumps). I only lacked standard libraries to make it useful.
PGP and OpenPGP are obsolete. You should be using S/MIME - that is where all the work on getting the process right has been going on, and for that protocol the set up is accessible in anything modern.
The Note series is designed to be a serious workhorse. A lot of the people who own them need the battery to last, so they replace it when the battery life drops below an acceptable level (for them). This is likely well before the battery "dies".
The non user replaceable battery and the curved screen are keeping me off the Note 7, not the exploding battery. I need a replaceable battery for the reasons above, and flat screen so I can add a case that protects the screen adequately. Both of these are about device lifetime.
Samsung is opening up an opportunity for another supplier. Hopefully one takes up that opportunity.
It does not use the address. It uses the 2nd, 3rd and 5th letters of the last name, 2nd and 3rd letters of the first name, date of birth and sex. For shorter names it pads with "2". You can fake it into reporting "name withheld" by putting a "9" in each of those positions in the name.
Going by the extracts, the agreement out to him might not do what he says it does.
There might be diverting in the definitions that changes that, but I doubt it. More likely, this guy is just being a jerk who is too cheap to pay a lawyer to review the agreement and advise him, even though it seems he has the money to do so.
From TFA, it seems that IFTTT has just gotten it's hands on done venture capital. One of the first things incoming venture capital will do is require regularisation of important ad hoc legal relationships (including making sure that all necessary copyright licences are in place), so this change would not be unexpected.
Some networks have been intentionally configured to send out RAs every 3 seconds because Samsung devices drop all IPv6 when the screen is off. This causes them to lose all network access (even IPv4) when the screen comes back on, until the next RA. Samsung broke it, they need to fix it.
It would of course be better if solicited RAs were not sent as broadcasts.
There are also many mistakes being made that demonstrate a basic lack of understanding, that cannot be attributed to lack of code review (my favourite example is email address validation code that assumes a TLD must have 2 or 3 characters).
Because businesses think software development in general, and especially web development, is easy. They hire monkeys and pay peanuts (or sometimes even serious dollars that could get them quality of they could recognise they were being taken for a ride), and we continue to see the most basic errors being repeated across most web sites. Seriously, the quality of web developers generally is absolutely appalling.
This strikes me as a complete answer. If it has good support for calling out to (native) C ( and you have the skills to do that when needed) and does not have the memory blowout of Java, you are losing nothing by basing the project on Rust instead of C.
In Australia, most transactions now are contactless (NFC) chip transactions, with PIN only required when the merchant hits a (merchant dependant) limit. With our without the PIN, it's faster than swipe plus signature. Without the PIN it's faster than cash. The US is basically a nation of paranoid luddites looking for an excuse not to move on.
This is only because they have not bothered to learn these things. My point really is, the ones who do not bother learning other fields should get off their bums and do so. Some of us do, and do repair or own cars, and do excel in second careers. And screwdriver? If a programmer really wants to scare a hardware person, the tool of choice to hold on approach to the server room is a soldering iron.
I could see that system promoting much more entrepreneurial behavior, and reduce the size of the employee labour pool. The people who control the means of production are not going to like that.
Actually a decent software developer can do most vehicle repair themselves, if they can be bothered to research it. The particular repairs described, however, are getting into the area where repairs require equipment that only the most dedicated motor mechanic geeks will have at home. Also, with both of those problems, there is a good chance it would need a new engine fairly soon, if not already.
There was a time when software geeks were people who liked to fix stuff - any stuff - and just had a particular flair for coding. Don't assume that all software developers are one trick ponys.
IAAL. I do mostly commercial litigation. Most lawyers do either mostly or entirely transactional work - negotiating agreements, drafting documents, that sort of thing. Usually when a client comes to me it is because one of the transactional lawyers stuffed up, or because the client thought they did not need a lawyer for transactional work.
If you think all of this can be automated, I am sure I will be seeing you soon.
Basically, you can fork out some money on a good transactional lawyer up front, or you can come to me and fork out a truckload of money later.
Additionally, in nearly all of the litigation I do, there is at least one issue where the past cases do not quite cover the point. Then the lawyers have to figure out what the rule is for the particular facts. It is very rarely just a simple case of applying known rules to simple facts.
That is without even getting to questions of proof and whether the witnesses will be believed, which is hard for a machine to assess.
IAAL but TINLA, but you should see an intellectual property lawyer and ask for their advice on the following matters. These things do vary by jurisdiction, although some of it is based on the TRIPS treaty (required for WTO membership), so it is getting to be less different between the jurisdictions.
Firstly, if you did this as a contractor, you quite likely still own the copyright, unless you signed an agreement saying you don't. In that case he client has a licence, the scope of which may vary, but not so far as to allow them to apply their own copyright claim to the exclusion of you. Secondly, what they have done is quite likely a breach of your moral right of attribution, especially if you were a contractor rather than an employee.
There may well be scope for a nice scary letter from a lawyer to get them to behave.
Sometims their "geek" is the problem. I got copies of emails from ASIC (an Australian government agency) under FOI, in which their supposed Internet geek insisted an email address was invalid because it didn't end with one of the big 5 TLDs or a CCTLD. When you're dealing with that kind of rank incompetence, you have no hope of getting a reasonable outcome.
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iPhones are for people with more money than brains.
I would be more interested in a correlation with intelligence. Or with tech skills.
1. repulsor beams are more energy efficient, so they are likely to be used first;
2. this device repels, so is kind of like a repulsor beam;
3. a true repulsor beam or tractor beam is gravito-magnetic, not sonic;
4. a true repsor beam will generate an off axis tractor beam of equal power, but with that power dispersed over a wider arc (most likely a full 360 degree dispersal in the plane perpendicular to the beam, with additional dispersal above and below that plane), so there is a small possibility of using that tractor beam for a secondary purpose. That is the most likely way tractor beams will be used.
I completely agree. If they were motivated to learn, they would have done still so on their own. That's the thing with IT, self teaching (especially when you already know the management frameworks and principles) is not only easy, but the most effective way to learn.
You are wasting your time. If the work is not there, they are redundant. Act accordingly.
(IAAL, but not your lawyer. See your own lawyer to make sure you do this right and don't risk a claim. I was in IT for 20 years before becoming a lawyer, including at executive management level, so my evaluation of that part comes from direct experience)
His statement might be right (and probably is) but there is no need for him to express himself that way. He's not a teenager anymore, he's in his late 40s and ought to be able to better control his impulses (or even be centred enough not to have them in the first place). His words would carry far more weight of he expressed himself more maturely.
Exactly. The shortage was of employers who understood the technical difficulty of coding, and were willing to pay accordingly. I am now in law, which pays better, but coding at any reasonable level of quality (so, better than offshore minimal skill code monkey ships provide) is more intellectually demanding than law.
In Australia, women are now in the majority In the legal profession, an outstripping men at the entry level 2 to 1. However, they are still a minority among barristers (who specialise in court work), who are required to be self employed.
In tha past few weeks I have been In a court with a lot of high school legal studies classes coming into the gallery. There the girls seen to outnumber the boys 10 to 1.
Me too. If the site is a news site, and there is no RSS, I either construct my own RSS using wget, cron and shell scripts, or just don't read the site. If /. dropped RSS, well, it is not what it once was, I would just stop reading it.
Use keepass2 Android with an InputStick. It looks like a keyboard on both the device and the desktop.
Actually it's JVM. It can run more than just Java. I have ported GCC to it as a target (fully featured for at least C and C++, including pointers, trampolines and long jumps). I only lacked standard libraries to make it useful.
PGP and OpenPGP are obsolete. You should be using S/MIME - that is where all the work on getting the process right has been going on, and for that protocol the set up is accessible in anything modern.
The Note series is designed to be a serious workhorse. A lot of the people who own them need the battery to last, so they replace it when the battery life drops below an acceptable level (for them). This is likely well before the battery "dies".
The non user replaceable battery and the curved screen are keeping me off the Note 7, not the exploding battery. I need a replaceable battery for the reasons above, and flat screen so I can add a case that protects the screen adequately. Both of these are about device lifetime.
Samsung is opening up an opportunity for another supplier. Hopefully one takes up that opportunity.
It does not use the address. It uses the 2nd, 3rd and 5th letters of the last name, 2nd and 3rd letters of the first name, date of birth and sex. For shorter names it pads with "2". You can fake it into reporting "name withheld" by putting a "9" in each of those positions in the name.
Going by the extracts, the agreement out to him might not do what he says it does.
There might be diverting in the definitions that changes that, but I doubt it. More likely, this guy is just being a jerk who is too cheap to pay a lawyer to review the agreement and advise him, even though it seems he has the money to do so.
From TFA, it seems that IFTTT has just gotten it's hands on done venture capital. One of the first things incoming venture capital will do is require regularisation of important ad hoc legal relationships (including making sure that all necessary copyright licences are in place), so this change would not be unexpected.
Some networks have been intentionally configured to send out RAs every 3 seconds because Samsung devices drop all IPv6 when the screen is off. This causes them to lose all network access (even IPv4) when the screen comes back on, until the next RA. Samsung broke it, they need to fix it.
It would of course be better if solicited RAs were not sent as broadcasts.
There are also many mistakes being made that demonstrate a basic lack of understanding, that cannot be attributed to lack of code review (my favourite example is email address validation code that assumes a TLD must have 2 or 3 characters).
Because businesses think software development in general, and especially web development, is easy. They hire monkeys and pay peanuts (or sometimes even serious dollars that could get them quality of they could recognise they were being taken for a ride), and we continue to see the most basic errors being repeated across most web sites. Seriously, the quality of web developers generally is absolutely appalling.
This strikes me as a complete answer. If it has good support for calling out to (native) C ( and you have the skills to do that when needed) and does not have the memory blowout of Java, you are losing nothing by basing the project on Rust instead of C.
The liability on PIN versus chip is mostly an evidentiary issue, notwithstanding the contractual starting position.
In Australia, most transactions now are contactless (NFC) chip transactions, with PIN only required when the merchant hits a (merchant dependant) limit. With our without the PIN, it's faster than swipe plus signature. Without the PIN it's faster than cash. The US is basically a nation of paranoid luddites looking for an excuse not to move on.
This is only because they have not bothered to learn these things. My point really is, the ones who do not bother learning other fields should get off their bums and do so. Some of us do, and do repair or own cars, and do excel in second careers. And screwdriver? If a programmer really wants to scare a hardware person, the tool of choice to hold on approach to the server room is a soldering iron.
I could see that system promoting much more entrepreneurial behavior, and reduce the size of the employee labour pool. The people who control the means of production are not going to like that.
Actually a decent software developer can do most vehicle repair themselves, if they can be bothered to research it. The particular repairs described, however, are getting into the area where repairs require equipment that only the most dedicated motor mechanic geeks will have at home. Also, with both of those problems, there is a good chance it would need a new engine fairly soon, if not already. There was a time when software geeks were people who liked to fix stuff - any stuff - and just had a particular flair for coding. Don't assume that all software developers are one trick ponys.
IAAL. I do mostly commercial litigation. Most lawyers do either mostly or entirely transactional work - negotiating agreements, drafting documents, that sort of thing. Usually when a client comes to me it is because one of the transactional lawyers stuffed up, or because the client thought they did not need a lawyer for transactional work. If you think all of this can be automated, I am sure I will be seeing you soon. Basically, you can fork out some money on a good transactional lawyer up front, or you can come to me and fork out a truckload of money later. Additionally, in nearly all of the litigation I do, there is at least one issue where the past cases do not quite cover the point. Then the lawyers have to figure out what the rule is for the particular facts. It is very rarely just a simple case of applying known rules to simple facts. That is without even getting to questions of proof and whether the witnesses will be believed, which is hard for a machine to assess.
IAAL but TINLA, but you should see an intellectual property lawyer and ask for their advice on the following matters. These things do vary by jurisdiction, although some of it is based on the TRIPS treaty (required for WTO membership), so it is getting to be less different between the jurisdictions. Firstly, if you did this as a contractor, you quite likely still own the copyright, unless you signed an agreement saying you don't. In that case he client has a licence, the scope of which may vary, but not so far as to allow them to apply their own copyright claim to the exclusion of you. Secondly, what they have done is quite likely a breach of your moral right of attribution, especially if you were a contractor rather than an employee. There may well be scope for a nice scary letter from a lawyer to get them to behave.
Sometims their "geek" is the problem. I got copies of emails from ASIC (an Australian government agency) under FOI, in which their supposed Internet geek insisted an email address was invalid because it didn't end with one of the big 5 TLDs or a CCTLD. When you're dealing with that kind of rank incompetence, you have no hope of getting a reasonable outcome.