The whole iPass thing is a criminal enterprise to begin with. The idea of untraceably collecting money from people as they drive. Where is my receipt? And everyone was assured that no records were kept - until a stubborn divorce lawyer subpoenaed the Toll Authority for the records and... imagine that, they were able to produce the records. It is now common knowledge that the records exist.
Yes and you can login to your IPASS account and view the records yourself.
At 60Mph (a conservative speed for the 294 I would say)
"the 294"? You're not from around here, are you? It is "294" not "the 294".:)
Insofar as I do have a nice new chair now (my first), may I observe that those who DO have $700 Aeron chairs do so because they are creating wealth, not just absorbing material.
Ummm... no. OnStar existed before General Magic added speech recognition services to it and Hertzfeld was gone before General Magic started getting into speech recognition applications.
I've never heard about that in any kind of class 3 slot machines (the normal kind of machines you'd find in Las Vegas). Is it possible that the slot machines in the casinos in Manitoba are class 2 machines? Class 2 machines aren't really slot machines in the normal sense. They're more like instant winner scratch cards that get their payout from a central determination system and then just use the reels to present the win to the player. It is possible on those machines that you'd never see a certain combination because that win just isn't available in the system. They're sometimes called Video Lottery Terminals.
First off, the only place I've seen virtual reels used is in mechanical slot machines. Video slot machines' reel strips might be long but you still have the same odds to get any symbol on the reel.
The reason that virtual reels were invented is because mechanical slot machines can only have a limited number of symbols on a reel due to physical limitations such as the size of the reel or the stepper motors that spin the reels. Let's say that number of symbols is 20. For a 3 reel machanical slot machine, that means there can only be 20*20*20 = 8000 different combinations of symbols on a given payline. The chances of getting a particular combination are 1 in 8000. If you were designing a paytable to go with a slot machine, you'd be limited to paying out 8000 for a winning combination otherwise the machine would be paying out more than 100% over the long term.
With the virtual reels you can increase the odds of getting any particular combination of symbols by increasing the number of symbols on a virtual reel. This allow you also to pay more than the 8000 credits from above.
This isn't fraud. I also call BS on the symbols on the reels that you can never get. If you have a pay described anywhere on the paytable glass or in the help and pays pages for video slot machines, that pay has to be available. All of the gambling jurisdictions validate the math and the software to guarantee that the player has a chance to win any advertised values. Also, some jurisdictions have limitations on the odds of getting any of those value (the limits I've seen are 1 in 16 million).
Is the economy of Seattle that out of whack where if the average salary for an IT worker is $90k, you still have people who won't take the job because of the salary?
Or is this really a case where the median salary is the number we really should be talking about?
These include people don't want to work for MS, don't want to relocate, don't like job, don't like salary, etc.
I really don't think the H1-B program was intended to solve the problem that your company, its location and its compensation apparently aren't attractive to potential candidates. It was intended to solve the problem where there aren't enough candidates to fill the positions available.
But this begs the question, would the code inspection have found the bug in the first place? How did the bug escape testing and end up in production software? Any process that relies on code inspections to find 100% of the bugs is faulty. Humans can only be so good at reading through code and running through the myriad of ways a particular piece of code could be wrong.
The thing that every seems to forget about the code inspection school of thought is that it was developed at a time when running tests and debugging actually did cost real money back in the 1970's when Fagan came up with his inspection process. Your department was charged everytime you compiled and ran your program on the mainframe computer because the mainframe was expensive to buy/rent, power and maintain.
Now it doesn't cost real money but has an implied cost that bugs found later in the development process cost more money to fix than if you found then in the coding phase at a code review. Never mind the fact that the recommended rates of code inspects in lines of code per hour are near glacial and costs more money now to have 4 highly paid people to sit in a room and read code out loud. One project I worked on was all brand new code and would have taken three full months of code reviews to review every single piece of code at the speed the QA people were insisting was required for a proper code inspection.
The process also insisted that we code inspect before we began any testing. So instead of running a suite of tests that could test 90% of the code in a matter of minutes, the QA insisted that we go through a code inspection before test just because the QA people's definitive texts on software quality still use the same data that Fagan used from his research back in the 1970s. They can quote the facts but they don't understand what assumptions were in the original research.
Code inspections do have their place. I would say those places are to enforce coding standards and knowledge transfer which both help with maintainability in the long term. In reality however, most of the code I inspect today has been pounded on for a month or so before we review it. I can't remember the last time I actually found an error through inspection that would have resulted in a bug report. Most of the stuff we find are missing documentation and typos in that documentation. *yawn*
James Who? *does a quick google* Oh I remember him. I forget that there is this little world of people who religiously read or listen to their favorite political commentators and work themselves up into a frenzy about how the other side is Wrong and Destroying Our Country.
A world of people whose attitudes to those whose opinions are different have changed from disagreement to outright hatred.
A world of people who can't relate to those who they disagree beyond the simple labels that have become vulgarities only by the sheer magnitude of bile behind them when they are uttered.
In that world, I think mentioning James Carville is supposed to be an insult or justify Coulter's actions in some fashion. Be honest with yourself, can you read one of her columns objectively without feeling dirty? If you can, do you think that says anything about you as a person?
I don't consider somebody who resorts to libel and slander to get her point across as somebody who is a "strong woman". I don't think anybody who hates another group of people because their views and opinions differ from her is "strong" or "mature" or any other adjective you could use to describe anybody from either gender who can behave in civil society.
I think it is a Silicon Valley thing. During my stint out there, I worked with a few management types out there that had a string of companies that failed or were bought out before they filed for bankruptcy. None of these people seemed to want to take responsibility for their failures. It was usually the market's fault for not understanding their products or services (cf: General Magic, in both of its iterations) never the fact that they really didn't understand the market in the first place and had no idea how to execute their business plan.
How they get away with making sure the business world has a cloudy memory of their lack of accomplishments is that they usually leave when there isn't any money to milk out of the company in the form of bonuses or stock options. By that point, they've left the company using their flimsy resume of psuedo accomplishments to start another company and con a VC firm to give them the start-up money so the cycle can begin again. They never have to preside over the actual failure of the company.
The worst part of EOLing the RedHat line is that there isn't a real migration path from RedHat to RedHat Enterprise. Basically, the migration path is 1) back everything up, 2) install RedHat Enterprise, 3) restore user data such as home directories, databases, mail configuration, etc. 4) spend the next week getting the server to work as it did before you installed RedHat Enterprise.
If you're trying to migrate a critical installation that can't be down for long periods of time, I guess you're SOL.
Actually I don't think ANY critics are members of the Academy since the Academy is for the creative and technical people who make the movies but I could be wrong.
This is the typical argument given by groups that argue that placing the Ten Commandments in the judicial building rotunda that the first amendment isn't about separation of church and state. They also misquote James Madison who was architect of the Constitution and a strong opponent of separation of church and state. He was also a proponent of freedom FROM religion:
Quoted from "James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments":
"Above all are they to be considered as retaining an "equal title to the free exercise of Religion according to the dictates of Conscience." [Virginia Declaration of Rights, art. 16] Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offence against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to man, must an account of it be rendered. As the Bill violates equality by subjecting some to peculiar burdens, so it violates the same principle, by granting to others peculiar exemptions. Are the Quakers and Menonists the only sects who think a compulsive support of their Religions unnecessary and unwarrantable? Can their piety alone be entrusted with the care of public worship? Ought their Religions to be endowed above all others with extraordinary privileges by which proselytes may be enticed from all others? We think too favorably of the justice and good sense of these denominations to believe that they either covet pre-eminences over their fellow citizens or that they will be seduced by them from the common opposition to the measure."
But as always, don't let the facts get in the way of your "history."
Why should government use force to take what the family thinks is best and give it to bureaucrats who think they know better because the masses have decreed they should know better?
"Use force"? I've never lived in Michigan but I find it hard to believe that they have tax stormtroopers going from door to door to hold a gun to your head while you fill out your 1040.
Perhaps you are just unfamiliar with representative democracy. The voters of Michigan elected a legislature that passed a bill that approved the funding to buy these laptops. It wasn't some dictator for life that decided this. It was ELECTED representatives that did this.
And I'm sure the impact on the families for this expenditure is more likely to prevent them from supersizing their BigMac rather than preventing them from sending a child to college or paying for that family vacation to DisneyWorld. Be reasonable.
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"the 294"? You're not from around here, are you? It is "294" not "the 294". :)
Chairs are for earners!
would have been a shorter book if the web said "Eat Pig".
Ummm... no. OnStar existed before General Magic added speech recognition services to it and Hertzfeld was gone before General Magic started getting into speech recognition applications.
I've never heard about that in any kind of class 3 slot machines (the normal kind of machines you'd find in Las Vegas). Is it possible that the slot machines in the casinos in Manitoba are class 2 machines? Class 2 machines aren't really slot machines in the normal sense. They're more like instant winner scratch cards that get their payout from a central determination system and then just use the reels to present the win to the player. It is possible on those machines that you'd never see a certain combination because that win just isn't available in the system. They're sometimes called Video Lottery Terminals.
First off, the only place I've seen virtual reels used is in mechanical slot machines. Video slot machines' reel strips might be long but you still have the same odds to get any symbol on the reel.
The reason that virtual reels were invented is because mechanical slot machines can only have a limited number of symbols on a reel due to physical limitations such as the size of the reel or the stepper motors that spin the reels. Let's say that number of symbols is 20. For a 3 reel machanical slot machine, that means there can only be 20*20*20 = 8000 different combinations of symbols on a given payline. The chances of getting a particular combination are 1 in 8000. If you were designing a paytable to go with a slot machine, you'd be limited to paying out 8000 for a winning combination otherwise the machine would be paying out more than 100% over the long term.
With the virtual reels you can increase the odds of getting any particular combination of symbols by increasing the number of symbols on a virtual reel. This allow you also to pay more than the 8000 credits from above.
This isn't fraud. I also call BS on the symbols on the reels that you can never get. If you have a pay described anywhere on the paytable glass or in the help and pays pages for video slot machines, that pay has to be available. All of the gambling jurisdictions validate the math and the software to guarantee that the player has a chance to win any advertised values. Also, some jurisdictions have limitations on the odds of getting any of those value (the limits I've seen are 1 in 16 million).
I noticed that sendmail and bind weren't on the list. I guess they're not as exploit-y as DJB would lead us to believe....
Simple enough: private schools aren't mandated to accept every student including special-education children who have expensive needs.
Who are these people and can they pay via PayPal?
But this begs the question, would the code inspection have found the bug in the first place? How did the bug escape testing and end up in production software? Any process that relies on code inspections to find 100% of the bugs is faulty. Humans can only be so good at reading through code and running through the myriad of ways a particular piece of code could be wrong.
The thing that every seems to forget about the code inspection school of thought is that it was developed at a time when running tests and debugging actually did cost real money back in the 1970's when Fagan came up with his inspection process. Your department was charged everytime you compiled and ran your program on the mainframe computer because the mainframe was expensive to buy/rent, power and maintain.
Now it doesn't cost real money but has an implied cost that bugs found later in the development process cost more money to fix than if you found then in the coding phase at a code review. Never mind the fact that the recommended rates of code inspects in lines of code per hour are near glacial and costs more money now to have 4 highly paid people to sit in a room and read code out loud. One project I worked on was all brand new code and would have taken three full months of code reviews to review every single piece of code at the speed the QA people were insisting was required for a proper code inspection.
The process also insisted that we code inspect before we began any testing. So instead of running a suite of tests that could test 90% of the code in a matter of minutes, the QA insisted that we go through a code inspection before test just because the QA people's definitive texts on software quality still use the same data that Fagan used from his research back in the 1970s. They can quote the facts but they don't understand what assumptions were in the original research.
Code inspections do have their place. I would say those places are to enforce coding standards and knowledge transfer which both help with maintainability in the long term. In reality however, most of the code I inspect today has been pounded on for a month or so before we review it. I can't remember the last time I actually found an error through inspection that would have resulted in a bug report. Most of the stuff we find are missing documentation and typos in that documentation. *yawn*
Except for this one he did for NPR's Marketplace that aired Wednesday.
James Who? *does a quick google* Oh I remember him. I forget that there is this little world of people who religiously read or listen to their favorite political commentators and work themselves up into a frenzy about how the other side is Wrong and Destroying Our Country.
A world of people whose attitudes to those whose opinions are different have changed from disagreement to outright hatred.
A world of people who can't relate to those who they disagree beyond the simple labels that have become vulgarities only by the sheer magnitude of bile behind them when they are uttered.
In that world, I think mentioning James Carville is supposed to be an insult or justify Coulter's actions in some fashion. Be honest with yourself, can you read one of her columns objectively without feeling dirty? If you can, do you think that says anything about you as a person?
I don't consider somebody who resorts to libel and slander to get her point across as somebody who is a "strong woman". I don't think anybody who hates another group of people because their views and opinions differ from her is "strong" or "mature" or any other adjective you could use to describe anybody from either gender who can behave in civil society.
I think it is a Silicon Valley thing. During my stint out there, I worked with a few management types out there that had a string of companies that failed or were bought out before they filed for bankruptcy. None of these people seemed to want to take responsibility for their failures. It was usually the market's fault for not understanding their products or services (cf: General Magic, in both of its iterations) never the fact that they really didn't understand the market in the first place and had no idea how to execute their business plan.
How they get away with making sure the business world has a cloudy memory of their lack of accomplishments is that they usually leave when there isn't any money to milk out of the company in the form of bonuses or stock options. By that point, they've left the company using their flimsy resume of psuedo accomplishments to start another company and con a VC firm to give them the start-up money so the cycle can begin again. They never have to preside over the actual failure of the company.
Forget that... gopher to the rescue!
The worst part of EOLing the RedHat line is that there isn't a real migration path from RedHat to RedHat Enterprise. Basically, the migration path is 1) back everything up, 2) install RedHat Enterprise, 3) restore user data such as home directories, databases, mail configuration, etc. 4) spend the next week getting the server to work as it did before you installed RedHat Enterprise.
If you're trying to migrate a critical installation that can't be down for long periods of time, I guess you're SOL.
Nope... didn't take me long to find something that was disallowed to be a valid URL:
/infocus/iraq
Disallow:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq is a valid URL.
Actually I don't think ANY critics are members of the Academy since the Academy is for the creative and technical people who make the movies but I could be wrong.
I meant "proponent"... oops...
This is the typical argument given by groups that argue that placing the Ten Commandments in the judicial building rotunda that the first amendment isn't about separation of church and state. They also misquote James Madison who was architect of the Constitution and a strong opponent of separation of church and state. He was also a proponent of freedom FROM religion:
Quoted from "James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments":
"Above all are they to be considered as retaining an "equal title to the free exercise of Religion according to the dictates of Conscience." [Virginia Declaration of Rights, art. 16] Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offence against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to man, must an account of it be rendered. As the Bill violates equality by subjecting some to peculiar burdens, so it violates the same principle, by granting to others peculiar exemptions. Are the Quakers and Menonists the only sects who think a compulsive support of their Religions unnecessary and unwarrantable? Can their piety alone be entrusted with the care of public worship? Ought their Religions to be endowed above all others with extraordinary privileges by which proselytes may be enticed from all others? We think too favorably of the justice and good sense of these denominations to believe that they either covet pre-eminences over their fellow citizens or that they will be seduced by them from the common opposition to the measure."
But as always, don't let the facts get in the way of your "history."
Except that it required an act of Congress to put "In God We Trust" on our money...
"Use force"? I've never lived in Michigan but I find it hard to believe that they have tax stormtroopers going from door to door to hold a gun to your head while you fill out your 1040.
Perhaps you are just unfamiliar with representative democracy. The voters of Michigan elected a legislature that passed a bill that approved the funding to buy these laptops. It wasn't some dictator for life that decided this. It was ELECTED representatives that did this.
And I'm sure the impact on the families for this expenditure is more likely to prevent them from supersizing their BigMac rather than preventing them from sending a child to college or paying for that family vacation to DisneyWorld. Be reasonable.
I dunno... maybe a blackboard, some chalk and a couple of erasers. Paper, pens and pencils would be apropos. Textbooks I hear have a pretty low TCO.