Note iPod touch not iPhone, phone's are a needless expense given that all that is needed is wifi. So Android phones seem to be overkill too. Pads may be too large. So what other proven comparable devices/solutions are there? I think proven device/solution is the most important point.
Just curious but why does the operating system underneath it all matter?
Because iOS will rob you of your freedoms in ways that Bill Gates never imagined. I assume you mean "free software", as in freedom, when you say "open source". Unless of course, you don't care about freedom. There's no such thing as free software on iOS. It's incompatible with Job's EULA. I recommend getting a real OS. Free software, something less likely to screw you: in this case, Android.
Perhaps you should have read just a little bit further and learned: "an app that you distribute internally as an enterprise app doesn't need the Apple approval process that a regular app would need".
Also iOS can support open source, even for a regular app. The developer is free to give their source code to users. Users may need to register in order to load their build onto their device but that was their choice when the selected iOS as their platform. And if they prefer Android they can port the app to Android. You are being a bit of a drama queen with your hysteria.
But does anyone know of an open terminal (with printer + Wi-Fi), preferably running Linux, that we can use to run a custom application for retail, made by a reputable manufacturer?
Just curious but why does the operating system underneath it all matter? It seems the application is key and you can open source that regardless of the platform it is running on. Why not an iPod touch + card reading sled + open source app, an app that you distribute internally as an enterprise app so it doesn't need the Apple approval process that a regular app would need?
Given that the rocks are presumably federal property Alaskan law may not apply.
IANAL but in general there are requirements for the person possessing something to be able to claim Adverse Possession, wiki mentions good faith and paying taxes for example.
Also your claim that NASA abandoned the property is an assumption. NASA has been clear about the private possession of moon rocks from day one. Being misinformed by the museum would not seem to be abandonment.
I think things are a bit more complicated than being suggested.
To put it more bluntly: would you rather it be in a private collection or lost completely? Those are your two options.
Well there is a third option: rescued from museum mishandling, returned to NASA, and put on public display.
I don't think this guy did anything wrong, rather he deserves to be thanked. However the museum probably did not have ownership nor did they have the right to throw it out. If you loan something to a museum and they mishandle it don't you still own it?
The museum went right over all the debris, took what they wanted, declared the rest trash/unsalvageable, and rescinded ownership of it.
I'm not sure it was ever *owned* by the museum. The museum may have merely been in lawful possession of it for the purposes of public display. NASA may have been the rightful owner and they never rescinded ownership. **IF** so they may have every legal right to its return.
It's a dry heat in Phoenix. Cairo might be a humid heat.
Wiki also shows Cairo to be quite a bit cooler than the article suggests. Average summer high of around 95F, "rarely surpass 40 C (104 F)". So even with humidity the environment does not seem beyond what many Americans have experienced.
I'd bet you'd not give a thought to some busybody from Alaska and their plan to save those poor naive Arizonans from the heat.
True, I haven't given any thought to such a ridiculous straw man. Have you given any thought to a serious conversion between residents of Arizona and residents of Egypt on their respecting methods cooling? Or if you want more humidity lets swap Arizona with Mexico, a place with regions that are both hotter and more humid, and with which a few Americans have some experience and could share their observations on the local customs and techniques. Info want to be free, so sharing it is good right?:-)
... nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself...
Anyone of more legal background care to comment?
IANAL but if you are going to go that route be aware that it seems to have pros and cons. The key word seems to be "witness", as in someone offering evidence. They key/passphrase itself is not evidence. It may in fact be the legal equivalent to a physical key that unlocks a physical box, a box that may or may not contain evidence. There should be ample case history and ruling as to whether a person can be compelled to provide such a physical key. I expect that a direct answer to key/passphrase disclosure will be found there.
This is sort of like someone from Florida giving advice for dealing with a blizzard to someone who lives in northern Canada.
BS. The article mentioned temperatures up to 111 F. Millions who have grown up in inland southern california see that quite often in the summer time. And when they visit Phoenix in the summer these people think: damn its hot. So actually there are plenty of Americans who have comparable or even more extreme experience.
FWIW, devices deploying a fine mist in Phoenix seemed to work quite well in the summer.
Just like the 1000's of flags that came off the same roll of fabric. This little bit is also just a bit of that roll that stayed behind. Sure, it has a sig, but it could just as well be another flag that was signed. Guess it is worth what a fool will pay for it.
Actually this scrap comes from the guy who was in charge of creating the moon flag apparatus. So the scrap does have a pretty good paper trail as coming from the flag that made it to the moon.
"Mr. Moser, then a 30-year-old mechanical engineer, was put in charge of designing a flag mechanism that could not only fit into the lunar module and survive the flight, but also make the flag appear to fly on the windless moon.
His solution involved two sections of a staff, a telescoping tube and a nylon flag bought at a local housing goods store (Sears, he thinks). But in order for the flag to fit the staff, its edges needed to be trimmed. “They were throwing it all in the trash,” Mr. Moser recalled of the remnants in a recent interview, “so I picked it up out of the trash can, mounted it and had Neil Armstrong sign it.”
Forty-two years later, Mr. Moser is auctioning off those flag remnants." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/science/space/10moon.html
If it didn't go to the moon, who cares that it even went to auction?
The summary conveniently fails to mention that it comes with an autograph of the first man to set foot on the moon, one of the men who actually raised the flag on the moon. The autograph is on a photo of the flag raising so the flag scrap seems to be something to enhance the signature.
well that *is* a lot of money for a scrap of cloth.
Actually you get a little more than the scrap of cloth.
"Moser said he had Neil Armstrong sign a photo of the flag planted on the moon when the astronaut returned to Earth and he kept the picture and his rescued scrap of flag together in his NASA office until he retired in 1990.
But after hanging onto the photo and flag-swatch assemblage all these years, he finally decided to put them up to auction.." http://news.yahoo.com/swatch-moon-bound-flag-unsold-la-auction-032542272.html
If you think any American based company would move their home base to China (a communist country) you're nuts.
They do not need to physically move overseas. The can move manufacturing and other aspects of production overseas. They can then engineer the accounting so that the profits are booked by the overseas entities and taxed by their local governments. For example the overseas entity can charge the US entity a value close to the US retail price rather than a price close to the actual manufacturing cost.
I seriously doubt that MBA managers make these kinds of efforts when they take charge of companies. The dominant ethos of that profession appears to be to run a company by the numbers just long enough to move on to a higher paid position.
That's pretty much it. That's how the corporate American works and we're taught accordingly.
That's not how I was taught at a public university ranked in the top 35 in the US. As matter of fact in some of our case studies the take away was that the perspective you offer was partly responsible for failure.
Engineers who want to know the business end of things this is what you study: Basic Accounting, Economics: basics of Macro and Micro, Managerial accounting (reports: balance sheet, income statement, cash flows!!! ), Finance: although the manual for the HP 12C covers it all...
Uh, no. In my classes we were also taught to look for the financial gimmicks and tricks sometimes used to inflate financial reports. When found we were told to stay away from such companies. Well one professor actually suggested otherwise, he was of the opinion that one should wait for that company's failure, buy it cheap, discard the management and turn it around. He thought rehabilitating a mismanaged company with otherwise good products can be quite lucrative.
... Biz law - contracts. Pretty much the first semester of B school is all you really need. That's all. everything else is fluff...
I call BS. Claiming the above is a semester demonstrates a tendency towards *extreme* exaggeration, it lowers your credibility. Also other typical classes are not fluff. Statistics: A quite different class from the one I had that was part of scientific/engineering program. Organization Behavior: While often joked about the case studies also showed company failures because management blew off the issues raised in this class, more below. Negotiations: often an elective but also considered one of the most important classes by those who take it. Global Business: Obviously critical today, and if someone thinks it is about outsourcing then that person obviously hasn't taken such a class. Marketing: As an arrogant engineer expecting this to all be snake oil I loved learning how ignorant I was. Marketing can be highly scientifically and mathematically based. Info Tech: Again, software types like myself are often terribly mistaken as to what this class is about. Stategy: Do you seriously consider this topic fluff? The case studies we read suggest otherwise. Entrepreneurship: Another elective rather than a core class but for many its a critical class, again something you would consider fluff?
And as far as the group behavior/personal dynamics class goes, we were taught that "sensitivity training" was the solution for all human resource problems - it was all basic psych and sociology and lots of buzz words. Let's put it this way, if you don't have any social skills, getting personal coaching will do much more for you than those fluff classes.
My organizational behavior class was quite different. This topic surfaced in many other classes and in various case studies neglect in the OB area was one of the factors leading to team or company failure. It also helped me to see events over my career in a different light. Teaching social skills is not what OB is about. As a matter of fact that sort of stuff was done outside of class, for example a club focused on public speaking.
There! Now you won't waste 2+ years and $40K+ on a big piece of toilet paper. Want a Masters Degree for ego, promotion, or whatever? Get it in something you'll enjoy.
I have a MS CS and an MBA. The MS CS was largely more of the same, taking many of the BS CS classes a bit further. There were some interesting electives and doing some research in one of these was fun. However unless you
Because of the FDIC insurance provided by the government. Prior to the FDIC there were runs on banks because people thought they would have some trouble.
I don't disagree, but I do feel it necessary to point out that when the feds back the banks, you imply it's a good thing, but when the feds back SS, you imply it's a bad thing. Again, I'm not arguing for or against the process, but for logic to be used when discussing it.
I'm not sure I've done that, I butted into an existing conversation so maybe confusion as to who said what is normal. I think my main point is that IOUs from a company, a bank, or social security are not equivalent. I'm all for backing SS although I think some tweaking regarding retirement age (my age group already had a bump decades ago so we're looking at round 2) and means testing will be needed.
Its not a self IOU because of the FDIC insurance and regulation.
The issue there wasn't that it was self insurance, but that the insurer for banks is the same for SS and everyone trusts the feds for one and not the other. It's not logical or consistent.
I do not see the equivalency between the two. When a bank fails the gov't does not crank up the printing presses or tell people they are SOL to some degree, they seem to transfer the account from an unhealthy bank to a healthy bank. If SS gets to an unhealthy point there is not some other organization to transfer your "retirement benefits" to. I think this is a critical distinction.
The name 'Space Invaders' rings a bell for a lot of people...
Some people will make a little mistake and accidentally rent "Spaced Invaders", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/, and they will probably be far better off.:-)
And yet the vast majority of the people use banks and don't worry that they'll have trouble getting their money out.
Because of the FDIC insurance provided by the government. Prior to the FDIC there were runs on banks because people thought they would have some trouble.
"During the 1930s, the U.S. and the rest of the world experienced a severe economic contraction that is now called the Great Depression. In the U.S. during the height of the Great Depression, the official unemployment rate was 25% and the stock market had declined 75% since 1929. Bank runs were common because there wasn't insurance on deposits at banks, banks kept only a fraction of deposits in reserve, and customers ran the risk of losing the money that they had deposited if their bank failed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdic
But when I suggest the same with another self IOU, people go nuts and claim it's unheard of.
Its not a self IOU because of the FDIC insurance and regulation. For example note how in the last year the FDIC shows up on a Friday afternoon at some bank, informs the surprised managers that the bank is shut down and this branch will reopen on Monday as a branch of some different bank. Over the weekend the accounts are transferred into the custody of the acquiring bank. Depositors show up on Monday and there is a new name and logo on the building but everything else is pretty much the same. Well except for the FDIC representative that greets and answers questions and reassures everyone that their money is safe.
My argument isn't that it's "good" or "bad" but that nearly all companies will put a debt on the books with one department or another And complaining that the government is doing it is a massive "duh". Of course they are. And when they insinuate it's a "bad" thing I'm not trying to assert that it's a good thing, but pointing out that if it's bad, then nearly everyone is bad.
When companies acquire debt they often put up collateral. Ford anticipated the economic slowdown and went on a massive borrowing spree putting much of their assets up as collateral, including the Ford logo. The other source of debt would be stocks and bonds. Stock holders get a share of ownership, but can be wiped out, see Enron shareholders. Bond holders are also at risk but are first in line during bankruptcy but they may still only get a fraction of their investment. Note that the current administration stepped in during the recent GM restructuring and interfered with this long standing legal precedent and bond holders got even less.
Basically, people who companies go into debt to sometimes lose, those IOUs turned out to be worth pennies on the dollar or nothing at all.
With respect to the Federal government's financing and debt practices, comparisons to companies don't work so well. The government is able to make up the regulations that it will operate under at will and to print money at will. Even Goldman Sachs can't get away with that.:-)
You might as well argue that your bank account has no money in it because they loaned it out...
A person might make that argument and that person would be correct. That's why when there are runs on banks the banks fail. That's why we have FDIC insurance where the government guarantees your account, because the money is not in the bank.
As for testing - that's a later stage in the process of development.
Testing and code reviews should occur at the earliest possible moment and be integrated throughout development. Bugs cost less when they are found earlier.
"OK, so we have now our first code review session. So far we have written only
int main()
{
}
Any comments on this?"
Yes, you forgot the exit code. See, code reviews help.:-)
The connections they make are incredible and they do successfully predict consumer behaviors that are verified at the cash register.
The difference, of course, being that if a fast food joint is wrong about their profiling, they will simply lose some money. If the police are wrong, then an innocent person spends time in jail...
How? The data mining is not for determining who to arrest, rather it is for things like determining where and when to patrol.
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but why?
Note iPod touch not iPhone, phone's are a needless expense given that all that is needed is wifi. So Android phones seem to be overkill too. Pads may be too large. So what other proven comparable devices/solutions are there? I think proven device/solution is the most important point.
Just curious but why does the operating system underneath it all matter?
Because iOS will rob you of your freedoms in ways that Bill Gates never imagined. I assume you mean "free software", as in freedom, when you say "open source". Unless of course, you don't care about freedom. There's no such thing as free software on iOS. It's incompatible with Job's EULA. I recommend getting a real OS. Free software, something less likely to screw you: in this case, Android.
Perhaps you should have read just a little bit further and learned: "an app that you distribute internally as an enterprise app doesn't need the Apple approval process that a regular app would need".
Also iOS can support open source, even for a regular app. The developer is free to give their source code to users. Users may need to register in order to load their build onto their device but that was their choice when the selected iOS as their platform. And if they prefer Android they can port the app to Android. You are being a bit of a drama queen with your hysteria.
But does anyone know of an open terminal (with printer + Wi-Fi), preferably running Linux, that we can use to run a custom application for retail, made by a reputable manufacturer?
Just curious but why does the operating system underneath it all matter? It seems the application is key and you can open source that regardless of the platform it is running on. Why not an iPod touch + card reading sled + open source app, an app that you distribute internally as an enterprise app so it doesn't need the Apple approval process that a regular app would need?
Given that the rocks are presumably federal property Alaskan law may not apply.
IANAL but in general there are requirements for the person possessing something to be able to claim Adverse Possession, wiki mentions good faith and paying taxes for example.
Also your claim that NASA abandoned the property is an assumption. NASA has been clear about the private possession of moon rocks from day one. Being misinformed by the museum would not seem to be abandonment.
I think things are a bit more complicated than being suggested.
To put it more bluntly: would you rather it be in a private collection or lost completely? Those are your two options.
Well there is a third option: rescued from museum mishandling, returned to NASA, and put on public display.
I don't think this guy did anything wrong, rather he deserves to be thanked. However the museum probably did not have ownership nor did they have the right to throw it out. If you loan something to a museum and they mishandle it don't you still own it?
The museum went right over all the debris, took what they wanted, declared the rest trash/unsalvageable, and rescinded ownership of it.
I'm not sure it was ever *owned* by the museum. The museum may have merely been in lawful possession of it for the purposes of public display. NASA may have been the rightful owner and they never rescinded ownership. **IF** so they may have every legal right to its return.
Perhaps the curb thing has to do with law enforcement collecting trash without a warrant.
It's a dry heat in Phoenix. Cairo might be a humid heat.
Wiki also shows Cairo to be quite a bit cooler than the article suggests. Average summer high of around 95F, "rarely surpass 40 C (104 F)". So even with humidity the environment does not seem beyond what many Americans have experienced.
I'd bet you'd not give a thought to some busybody from Alaska and their plan to save those poor naive Arizonans from the heat.
True, I haven't given any thought to such a ridiculous straw man. Have you given any thought to a serious conversion between residents of Arizona and residents of Egypt on their respecting methods cooling? Or if you want more humidity lets swap Arizona with Mexico, a place with regions that are both hotter and more humid, and with which a few Americans have some experience and could share their observations on the local customs and techniques. Info want to be free, so sharing it is good right? :-)
... nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself ...
Anyone of more legal background care to comment?
IANAL but if you are going to go that route be aware that it seems to have pros and cons. The key word seems to be "witness", as in someone offering evidence. They key/passphrase itself is not evidence. It may in fact be the legal equivalent to a physical key that unlocks a physical box, a box that may or may not contain evidence. There should be ample case history and ruling as to whether a person can be compelled to provide such a physical key. I expect that a direct answer to key/passphrase disclosure will be found there.
This is sort of like someone from Florida giving advice for dealing with a blizzard to someone who lives in northern Canada.
BS. The article mentioned temperatures up to 111 F. Millions who have grown up in inland southern california see that quite often in the summer time. And when they visit Phoenix in the summer these people think: damn its hot. So actually there are plenty of Americans who have comparable or even more extreme experience.
FWIW, devices deploying a fine mist in Phoenix seemed to work quite well in the summer.
FWIW, a wiki search shows Neil Armstrong autographs going for as much as $27,000.
I'm no lawyer but trash may not be free to grab until you put it out on the curb for pickup.
In any case it sounded like his employer was quite aware of what he was doing, at the least there may have been implicit consent.
Just like the 1000's of flags that came off the same roll of fabric. This little bit is also just a bit of that roll that stayed behind. Sure, it has a sig, but it could just as well be another flag that was signed. Guess it is worth what a fool will pay for it.
Actually this scrap comes from the guy who was in charge of creating the moon flag apparatus. So the scrap does have a pretty good paper trail as coming from the flag that made it to the moon.
"Mr. Moser, then a 30-year-old mechanical engineer, was put in charge of designing a flag mechanism that could not only fit into the lunar module and survive the flight, but also make the flag appear to fly on the windless moon. His solution involved two sections of a staff, a telescoping tube and a nylon flag bought at a local housing goods store (Sears, he thinks). But in order for the flag to fit the staff, its edges needed to be trimmed. “They were throwing it all in the trash,” Mr. Moser recalled of the remnants in a recent interview, “so I picked it up out of the trash can, mounted it and had Neil Armstrong sign it.” Forty-two years later, Mr. Moser is auctioning off those flag remnants."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/science/space/10moon.html
If it didn't go to the moon, who cares that it even went to auction?
The summary conveniently fails to mention that it comes with an autograph of the first man to set foot on the moon, one of the men who actually raised the flag on the moon. The autograph is on a photo of the flag raising so the flag scrap seems to be something to enhance the signature.
well that *is* a lot of money for a scrap of cloth.
Actually you get a little more than the scrap of cloth.
"Moser said he had Neil Armstrong sign a photo of the flag planted on the moon when the astronaut returned to Earth and he kept the picture and his rescued scrap of flag together in his NASA office until he retired in 1990. But after hanging onto the photo and flag-swatch assemblage all these years, he finally decided to put them up to auction.."
http://news.yahoo.com/swatch-moon-bound-flag-unsold-la-auction-032542272.html
You missed moving to china.
If you think any American based company would move their home base to China (a communist country) you're nuts.
They do not need to physically move overseas. The can move manufacturing and other aspects of production overseas. They can then engineer the accounting so that the profits are booked by the overseas entities and taxed by their local governments. For example the overseas entity can charge the US entity a value close to the US retail price rather than a price close to the actual manufacturing cost.
I seriously doubt that MBA managers make these kinds of efforts when they take charge of companies. The dominant ethos of that profession appears to be to run a company by the numbers just long enough to move on to a higher paid position.
That's pretty much it. That's how the corporate American works and we're taught accordingly.
That's not how I was taught at a public university ranked in the top 35 in the US. As matter of fact in some of our case studies the take away was that the perspective you offer was partly responsible for failure.
Engineers who want to know the business end of things this is what you study: Basic Accounting, Economics: basics of Macro and Micro, Managerial accounting (reports: balance sheet, income statement, cash flows!!! ), Finance: although the manual for the HP 12C covers it all ...
Uh, no. In my classes we were also taught to look for the financial gimmicks and tricks sometimes used to inflate financial reports. When found we were told to stay away from such companies. Well one professor actually suggested otherwise, he was of the opinion that one should wait for that company's failure, buy it cheap, discard the management and turn it around. He thought rehabilitating a mismanaged company with otherwise good products can be quite lucrative.
... Biz law - contracts. Pretty much the first semester of B school is all you really need. That's all. everything else is fluff ...
I call BS. Claiming the above is a semester demonstrates a tendency towards *extreme* exaggeration, it lowers your credibility. Also other typical classes are not fluff. Statistics: A quite different class from the one I had that was part of scientific/engineering program. Organization Behavior: While often joked about the case studies also showed company failures because management blew off the issues raised in this class, more below. Negotiations: often an elective but also considered one of the most important classes by those who take it. Global Business: Obviously critical today, and if someone thinks it is about outsourcing then that person obviously hasn't taken such a class. Marketing: As an arrogant engineer expecting this to all be snake oil I loved learning how ignorant I was. Marketing can be highly scientifically and mathematically based. Info Tech: Again, software types like myself are often terribly mistaken as to what this class is about. Stategy: Do you seriously consider this topic fluff? The case studies we read suggest otherwise. Entrepreneurship: Another elective rather than a core class but for many its a critical class, again something you would consider fluff?
And as far as the group behavior/personal dynamics class goes, we were taught that "sensitivity training" was the solution for all human resource problems - it was all basic psych and sociology and lots of buzz words. Let's put it this way, if you don't have any social skills, getting personal coaching will do much more for you than those fluff classes.
My organizational behavior class was quite different. This topic surfaced in many other classes and in various case studies neglect in the OB area was one of the factors leading to team or company failure. It also helped me to see events over my career in a different light. Teaching social skills is not what OB is about. As a matter of fact that sort of stuff was done outside of class, for example a club focused on public speaking.
There! Now you won't waste 2+ years and $40K+ on a big piece of toilet paper. Want a Masters Degree for ego, promotion, or whatever? Get it in something you'll enjoy.
I have a MS CS and an MBA. The MS CS was largely more of the same, taking many of the BS CS classes a bit further. There were some interesting electives and doing some research in one of these was fun. However unless you
Because of the FDIC insurance provided by the government. Prior to the FDIC there were runs on banks because people thought they would have some trouble.
I don't disagree, but I do feel it necessary to point out that when the feds back the banks, you imply it's a good thing, but when the feds back SS, you imply it's a bad thing. Again, I'm not arguing for or against the process, but for logic to be used when discussing it.
I'm not sure I've done that, I butted into an existing conversation so maybe confusion as to who said what is normal. I think my main point is that IOUs from a company, a bank, or social security are not equivalent. I'm all for backing SS although I think some tweaking regarding retirement age (my age group already had a bump decades ago so we're looking at round 2) and means testing will be needed.
Its not a self IOU because of the FDIC insurance and regulation.
The issue there wasn't that it was self insurance, but that the insurer for banks is the same for SS and everyone trusts the feds for one and not the other. It's not logical or consistent.
I do not see the equivalency between the two. When a bank fails the gov't does not crank up the printing presses or tell people they are SOL to some degree, they seem to transfer the account from an unhealthy bank to a healthy bank. If SS gets to an unhealthy point there is not some other organization to transfer your "retirement benefits" to. I think this is a critical distinction.
The name 'Space Invaders' rings a bell for a lot of people...
Some people will make a little mistake and accidentally rent "Spaced Invaders", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/, and they will probably be far better off. :-)
And yet the vast majority of the people use banks and don't worry that they'll have trouble getting their money out.
Because of the FDIC insurance provided by the government. Prior to the FDIC there were runs on banks because people thought they would have some trouble.
"During the 1930s, the U.S. and the rest of the world experienced a severe economic contraction that is now called the Great Depression. In the U.S. during the height of the Great Depression, the official unemployment rate was 25% and the stock market had declined 75% since 1929. Bank runs were common because there wasn't insurance on deposits at banks, banks kept only a fraction of deposits in reserve, and customers ran the risk of losing the money that they had deposited if their bank failed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdic
But when I suggest the same with another self IOU, people go nuts and claim it's unheard of.
Its not a self IOU because of the FDIC insurance and regulation. For example note how in the last year the FDIC shows up on a Friday afternoon at some bank, informs the surprised managers that the bank is shut down and this branch will reopen on Monday as a branch of some different bank. Over the weekend the accounts are transferred into the custody of the acquiring bank. Depositors show up on Monday and there is a new name and logo on the building but everything else is pretty much the same. Well except for the FDIC representative that greets and answers questions and reassures everyone that their money is safe.
My argument isn't that it's "good" or "bad" but that nearly all companies will put a debt on the books with one department or another And complaining that the government is doing it is a massive "duh". Of course they are. And when they insinuate it's a "bad" thing I'm not trying to assert that it's a good thing, but pointing out that if it's bad, then nearly everyone is bad.
When companies acquire debt they often put up collateral. Ford anticipated the economic slowdown and went on a massive borrowing spree putting much of their assets up as collateral, including the Ford logo. The other source of debt would be stocks and bonds. Stock holders get a share of ownership, but can be wiped out, see Enron shareholders. Bond holders are also at risk but are first in line during bankruptcy but they may still only get a fraction of their investment. Note that the current administration stepped in during the recent GM restructuring and interfered with this long standing legal precedent and bond holders got even less.
:-)
Basically, people who companies go into debt to sometimes lose, those IOUs turned out to be worth pennies on the dollar or nothing at all.
With respect to the Federal government's financing and debt practices, comparisons to companies don't work so well. The government is able to make up the regulations that it will operate under at will and to print money at will. Even Goldman Sachs can't get away with that.
You might as well argue that your bank account has no money in it because they loaned it out ...
A person might make that argument and that person would be correct. That's why when there are runs on banks the banks fail. That's why we have FDIC insurance where the government guarantees your account, because the money is not in the bank.
I was using C++. In C++, main has an implicit return 0;.
Which should eventually be replaced with an explicit return indicating the exit state of the program. So I think the code review holds. :-)
As for testing - that's a later stage in the process of development.
Testing and code reviews should occur at the earliest possible moment and be integrated throughout development. Bugs cost less when they are found earlier.
"OK, so we have now our first code review session. So far we have written only
Any comments on this?"
Yes, you forgot the exit code. See, code reviews help. :-)
The connections they make are incredible and they do successfully predict consumer behaviors that are verified at the cash register.
The difference, of course, being that if a fast food joint is wrong about their profiling, they will simply lose some money. If the police are wrong, then an innocent person spends time in jail...
How? The data mining is not for determining who to arrest, rather it is for things like determining where and when to patrol.
No. Data mining can find much more subtle stuff. Things beyond the observations of a single person.