The company could even provide this as a service: "here's contact information for some short-term boyfriends that your wife/girlfriend can spend the day with while you're spending the week programming for us for free."
Argh.... the law, the law, the law.
The White-Slave Traffic Act, better known as the Mann Act could cause a tangle here.
The real downside is they interview continually, haven't hired anyone, and yet managed to complete several difficult projects with fresh new ideas.
If true this is fuel for litigation by a large group.
Copyright law violation for sure. Outright theft if they patent ideas they did not invent. Labor law, failing to compensate, over time, fail to file W-2... minimum wage laws... state and federal laws apply. Fraud....
Gark.... I need a magic decoder ring.
a=b equality
a.eq. b test for equality
a:=b assignment
a = b assignment
a >=b test a greater than or equal
a==b a is defined as exactly b as in 1 inch == 2.54cm
a~=b a is approximation the same as b as in 3m ~= 10 feet., a pint is ~= to a pound the world around.
a =/= b state a is not equal to b.
a =/= b test a is not equal to b.
a != b what he did not say.
Which is actually correct. What makes a poison poisonous isn't the inherent nature of being a chemical; it is the interaction that it has with an organism's chemistry. That's why.......
There needs to be an * above here.
Argon gas and even Helium can suffocate and kill a living creature. They do no react chemically....
There was a mystery story where Nitrogen gas was used to murder and left no trace. Lacking an increase in CO2 the person that died did not react in terror as one might when deprived of O2 in other ways.
......Crime correlates well with the overall poverty of the country, but also with wealth and income disparity. The reason why US has a relatively high crime rate in developed world is not because of guns, but rather because it has unusually high concentration of wealth, very low social mobility, and consequently many poor, disenfranchised people who don't have many prospects in life. This kind of thing breeds crime. Compare that to a well-functioning social democracy like Switzerland, and suddenly guns are a non-factor.
Also blame it on the Kardashians and the "Real Housewives of ______________"
Poverty is less an issue than "The Green Eyed Monster"..... Jealousy.
Jealousy, Greed and Envy combine to fuel much crime. Sitting home and watching TV where fools and idiots get to drink fine wine, eat what they will and have no visible means of support establish unreasonable expectations and are a blight on society almost as evil as the war on drugs.
Most crime and poverty would vanish if honest expectations existed in the masses. This election in the US watch for those that pander to dishonest expectations.
Stuff like Health Care is expensive (it is), but not as expensive as tort law that punishes the medical industry and does not improve health care one bit. Current tort law lines the pockets of legal vultures that prey on the heart strings of those that suffer.
This may be the best place to reduce this to some absurd level.
First off I am of the opinion that the Judge has overreached at a number of levels.
* free speech, She might be in contempt of court but her right to free speech is not within the reach of his court. i.e. the constitutional issue is bigger than his court. I am not an attorney but I would assert( that contempt of court has specified consequences under the law). Fines, jail time, printed retractions and apologies come to mind.
* deletion is forever His order to delete might be overruled but in the world of computers deletion is forever. Since his ruling contains irreversible actions it is beyond review and for that reason that is not within the reach of his court. This is in part why capital punishment rulings have mandated reviews. He is denying higher courts the ability to act in review... and that is an overreach.
* Facebook incorporated in Delaware His order has implications on a Delaware corporation to carry out the deletion click that he ordered. His court does not cross state borders (or national ones). An employee managing a backup archive in a cave in Switzerland may be enjoined to act on the deletion by Swiss law or contract law...
Now for the absurd bit... Let us look at this ruling and take it to the Supreme court. I believe he is overreaching to the point of contempt on the rights of this individual. His blanket deletion of the account is too close to an ruling that finds him in contempt of her rights and ruled that all his writing and rulings in the court he now sits be "deleted" his name on the door, his records in payroll, his retirement, his diploma on his office wall and all the contents of his "Office", all his ruling in previous (and future) cases.
What this girl said/ posted six months before the infraction is not an issue in front of the court, nor is what she will say (good or bad) in the future. Deleting her history and future on Facebook is an overreach. Ignore Dr. Who for now.
This is like the New York Times writing something that the court does not like. The courts knows that it cannot delete the NYT full history and it knows that it cannot kill its future by mandating that all copies of the NYT be destroyed and the existence of the NYT be dissolved. It can fine, it can demand a retraction, it can jail individuals.... But not delete the NYT. Or can it... under the new paranoia rules?
With the V-chip parents and schools can censor what many see.
Extending the dimensions of this concept to include other issues is obvious and logical. Google should do this for all their content, it is a tag no different than any attribute.
Defaults can be regional.
Something like.
Penis images, yes/no
Hair, no hair, flaccid not flaccid
Breasts, Yes/no
Baby attached
Cold, not cold
Prophet images, Yes/no;
Joseph Smith
Jesus, Mary, Joseph
Mohamed
Obama
Quick, before it gets a patent troll latched on to one of the above.
One simple answer is that it goes too far if you have a medical condition that causes you to go often enough that someone demands an answer.
Pregnancy, prostrate, infection, can all interact as can drinking water as so many Weight-watchers do.
Just begin wearing long skirts and put a piddle pot in your office. Fill it with anything that looks yellow enough. If the boss complains comment that you are unwilling to wear depends like he/she does.
Are you implying the wright brothers, who came up with a working airplane design after others had been trying for HUNDREDS of years, were patent trolling?!?
Interesting topic. Since all the previous inventors were unable to "make it fly" there was a critical invention by O&W.
One of the tangle in the phone and computer world is that much of the components are being used as intended by the inventor of the component.
One might patent a better razor but not the shave with that improved razor. Further the art of hair style and the variety of face hair styles are the obvious result of the tool kit of a barber.
Too much of this patent stuff is patenting the shave.
Am I as a user obligated to do anything? Do I get a full refund? Do I get an iPhone in exchange?
If this was in the states what does this mean for locked in plans. Do I get to switch to Verison from AT@T.... Is my unlimited grandfather data plan null and void? Do I have to restart the multiple year lockin clock with a new POS phone?
Heck I cannot get a software update from AT&T when it is clear that an update would take advantage of the existing hardware where the OS on it now was clearly rushed out and half baked in light of what is known today.
It is true that half baked cookie dough is tasty but it is still half baked and may still have raw egg -- can you say salmonella. Who knows what 'virus' might be lurking.
It depends a lot on the cameras. I used to work in the digital video surveillance industry. A lot of the "Low Light" cameras do in fact use infrared light to see in the dark. Some have lights built into them, and some are so sensitive that they can see just fine in black and white without much light at all. I would find it hard to believe that you couldn't blind the camera with some sort of light. If they close the aperture of the lens to compensate for the extreme brightness of a light, it would make objects with less light on them obscured.
Yet the cameras are designed to operate at night. This implies a lot of dynamic range so headlights and taillights do not dominate the exposure and eliminate the ability to recover the tag numbers. In this area they flash day or night. This fill flash combined with the reflective nature of most tag plates makes recovering the tag number easier.
It is a lot like hunting spiders at night with a flashlight. At hip level not so good but hold the flashlight close to an eye and spider and scorpion eyes light up.
It would take an astounding bright light to fool these cameras. The best defense is to have a camera of your own that lets you prove the yellow cycle is too short, prove that the camera flashed while yellow or green, proved with day-time stamps that you were someplace else.
As with customer service calls that say "this call may be monitored" I say thank you I will also record this call. It sometimes help should there be any discrepancy. Note that "may" has a strong quality of permission. They have permission as do I.
Also send a note to your local police station to the same effect that since many if not all their vehicles and many intersections are equipped with cameras it is clear that a fixed camera that involves no operator interaction (safety, hand free) is permitted by the same code and rules that permit the city of ____, the county of _____, the state of _______ to operate recording devices video and audio.
You're right, at least according to Apple, it's not a patent on a rectangle with rounded corners, it's a patent on ANY rectangle.
When the judge in one of the cases asked Apple what Samsungs devices should look like to not infringe, they submitted a drawing of a triangular device with a circular screen.
Not triangular but most of the "devices" on "Warrehouse 13" have circular screens. They were invented in the 18's or something according to the story. Google for: warehouse 13 gadgets images "Named after inventor Philo Farnsworth, the Farnsworth communicator is supposedly hacker-proof."
If you think the patents were for a rectangle with rounded corners then you know very little about it.
Rounded corners are interesting.
I suspect rounded corners are mandated by safety regulation that limit sharp corners or just design practices. Further objects intended for pockets need "eased" corners to not damage the garment.
And I suspect there is a design guideline for the cover glass that advised the customer to ease the corners. There might even be a specified radius. Without eased corners the glass cover would be too fragile when used in this intended way.
Of interest the new Apple store under construction in Palo Alto, CA had two 1800# glass windows replaced because the glass shattered as a result of installation errors. One was apparently a worker's tool smacking the surface and the other was impacted by the install of a roof pane of glass. Glass is interesting stuff but the nature of if mandates a number of design decision. i.e. the corners were not an artful design decision but rather OBVIOUS and well known in the industry design methodology for MANY reasons. Drop tests need not be a factor or consideration. Paper note books and note pads have eased corners too.
Even earthquake folk know this, architectural glass need not be large: http://www.earthquakespectra.org/doi/abs/10.1193/1.2164875?journalCode=eqsa Abstract The concept of employing architectural glass panels with modified corner geometries and edge finish conditions to improve their resistance to earthquake damage has been developed recently. To accomplish this, material is removed at glass panel corners (e.g., by rounding the glass corners) and glass edges are finished in the modified corner regions to minimize protrusions and edge surface roughness. The concept is applicable to a wide variety of architectural glass types and glazing frame types. Full-scale dynamic racking tests have shown that corner radius and glass edge finish conditions near the reshaped corner regions have significant influences on glass cracking and glass fallout drift resistances of monolithic architectural glass panels used in curtain walls.
Received: December 1, 2003; Accepted: March 31, 2005
"Good artists copy, great artists steal" - Steve Jobs 1994
This quote should be in the opening remarks in any like litigation involving Apple.
It goes to the core values and executive charter that management gave to the development team. Further it sets the value stage where one way or another Apple is willing to steal.
I think that Samsung stepped in it because of language based cultural differences. i.e. many Asian languages are iconic in nature.
This is important because in many languages yama is always drawn the same way and has the same meaning. I clearly do not want to make a mountain out of a mole-hill here but the iconic language bias and the iconic interface is clearly an important topic for discussion and litigation.
I'm fine with HFT. My only conditions are:....snip....
I am not sure I am.
The problem with HFT is it creates two clear groups. For now lets call them wetware and hardware.
The problem with two groups (yes there are more) is that the statistics to protect the groups from goofiness look a lot like a Bactrian camel for want of a better simplification.
Regulations that act on the central average are clearly incorrect when the two humps are obvious. A decision on the central average will overspend on one one hump and under spend on the other.
Companies have the same problem with multiple products that differ in cost or one sort or another. It is obvious in support where 2% of a multi-million computer system gets a lot of value for both the customer and the company. On a $25 computer 2% does not get past "Hello my name is Peggy".
Remember that HFT operates on a shared commons but those that share the market are not equal. More and more individuals are no longer in the market because they do not even get past "Hell" for their dime.
In some cases automated systems can make a market for individual traders. However just like some of the "big oil" contract games the game is rigged to provide accommodation for the insiders in a very limited group.
In closing the pressure on the middle class is pushing the humps further apart. At one time the middle class filled in the gap and minimized the weight in the disparate humps.
Speaking of: "What does "DO NOT HUMP" mean on the side of railroad cars?"
The underwear bomber may not have had a working plan as metacell notes but the risk of liquid explosives including binary agents is quite real. Some are difficult to detect and the variety implies that simple testing is not possible.
One possibly positive consideration is that they are difficult to make and test. They are mostly unstable making them difficult to deliver. At least that is what one armed Lefty tells me.
Folk keep harping on the price of the extra stuff like a laptop, keyboard, mouse, display. For "Operating Systems Development" the RasPI is ideal. You cannot do OS development on your own laptop. Some can be done under qemu but nothing is equal to real hardware.
OS development is like working on cars. You need a second car to go get parts if you are doing anything other than a trivial repair. Microsoft and Apple do not give out the keys to their walled garden so they exclude themselves. There are so many other hardware platforms that no class could address all the N! permutations of devices and stuff. Replace the head gasket on your car tonight if you want a lesson in auto mechanics that makes this point.
The RasPI is small, inexpensive and ideal for education.
It can be connected to a laptop via an ethernet link and powered from that same laptop or a wall wart. Reload the SD card as needed when something is broken.
Homework... pickup and then hand in an SD memory card... All students are pointed to the same base code image....
REMEMBER: OS design... like working on cars. You need a second car to go get parts if you are doing anything other than a trivial repair.
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The company could even provide this as a service: "here's contact information for some short-term boyfriends that your wife/girlfriend can spend the day with while you're spending the week programming for us for free."
Argh.... the law, the law, the law.
The White-Slave Traffic Act, better known as the Mann Act could cause a tangle here.
Is that you're programming in Ruby on Rails...
The real downside is they interview continually, haven't hired anyone, and yet managed to complete several difficult projects with fresh new ideas.
If true this is fuel for litigation by a large group.
Copyright law violation for sure.
Outright theft if they patent ideas they did not invent.
Labor law, failing to compensate, over time, fail to file W-2...
minimum wage laws... state and federal laws apply.
Fraud....
You mean A=>B != B=>A.
== equal
=> implies (causal)
Gark.... I need a magic decoder ring. .eq. b test for equality
a=b equality
a
a:=b assignment
a = b assignment
a >=b test a greater than or equal
a==b a is defined as exactly b as in 1 inch == 2.54cm
a~=b a is approximation the same as b as in 3m ~= 10 feet., a pint is ~= to a pound the world around.
a =/= b state a is not equal to b.
a =/= b test a is not equal to b.
a != b what he did not say.
This stuff needs a #define or some such thing.
Which is actually correct. What makes a poison poisonous isn't the inherent nature of being a chemical; it is the interaction that it has with an organism's chemistry. That's why.......
There needs to be an * above here.
Argon gas and even Helium can suffocate and kill a living creature.
They do no react chemically....
There was a mystery story where Nitrogen gas was used to murder
and left no trace. Lacking an increase in CO2 the person that
died did not react in terror as one might when deprived of O2 in
other ways.
* as in a footnote.
......
......Crime correlates well with the overall poverty of the country, but also with wealth and income disparity. The reason why US has a relatively high crime rate in developed world is not because of guns, but rather because it has unusually high concentration of wealth, very low social mobility, and consequently many poor, disenfranchised people who don't have many prospects in life. This kind of thing breeds crime. Compare that to a well-functioning social democracy like Switzerland, and suddenly guns are a non-factor.
Also blame it on the Kardashians and the "Real Housewives of ______________"
Poverty is less an issue than "The Green Eyed Monster" ..... Jealousy.
Jealousy, Greed and Envy combine to fuel much crime.
Sitting home and watching TV where fools and idiots get to
drink fine wine, eat what they will and have no visible means of
support establish unreasonable expectations and are a blight
on society almost as evil as the war on drugs.
Most crime and poverty would vanish if honest expectations
existed in the masses. This election in the US watch
for those that pander to dishonest expectations.
Stuff like Health Care is expensive (it is), but not as expensive as
tort law that punishes the medical industry and does not
improve health care one bit. Current tort law lines the pockets
of legal vultures that prey on the heart strings of those that
suffer.
This may be the best place to reduce this to some
absurd level.
First off I am of the opinion that the Judge has overreached at
a number of levels.
* free speech,
She might be in contempt of court but her right to free speech is
not within the reach of his court. i.e. the constitutional issue is
bigger than his court. I am not an attorney but I would assert(
that contempt of court has specified consequences under the law).
Fines, jail time, printed retractions and apologies come to mind.
* deletion is forever
His order to delete might be overruled but in the world of computers
deletion is forever. Since his ruling contains irreversible actions it
is beyond review and for that reason that is not within the reach of his
court. This is in part why capital punishment rulings have mandated reviews.
He is denying higher courts the ability to act in review... and that
is an overreach.
* Facebook incorporated in Delaware
His order has implications on a Delaware corporation to carry
out the deletion click that he ordered. His court does not
cross state borders (or national ones). An employee managing
a backup archive in a cave in Switzerland may be enjoined to
act on the deletion by Swiss law or contract law...
Now for the absurd bit... Let us look at this ruling and take it
to the Supreme court. I believe he is overreaching to the point
of contempt on the rights of this individual. His blanket deletion
of the account is too close to an ruling that finds him in
contempt of her rights and ruled that all his writing and rulings in the court
he now sits be "deleted" his name on the door, his records in
payroll, his retirement, his diploma on his office wall and all the contents
of his "Office", all his ruling in previous (and future) cases.
What this girl said/ posted six months before the infraction
is not an issue in front of the court, nor is what she will say
(good or bad) in the future. Deleting her history and future
on Facebook is an overreach. Ignore Dr. Who for now.
This is like the New York Times writing something that the court
does not like. The courts knows that it cannot delete the
NYT full history and it knows that it cannot kill its future by
mandating that all copies of the NYT be destroyed and the
existence of the NYT be dissolved. It can fine, it can demand
a retraction, it can jail individuals.... But not delete the NYT.
Or can it... under the new paranoia rules?
With the V-chip parents and schools can censor what many see.
Extending the dimensions of this concept to include other issues is obvious and logical.
Google should do this for all their content, it is a tag no different than any attribute.
Defaults can be regional.
Something like.
Penis images, yes/no
Hair, no hair, flaccid not flaccid
Breasts, Yes/no
Baby attached
Cold, not cold
Prophet images, Yes/no;
Joseph Smith
Jesus, Mary, Joseph
Mohamed
Obama
Quick, before it gets a patent troll latched on to one of the above.
A court can order your execution, I'd imagine they can order the deletion of an online account.
Not so sure.... not so quick.
A court can issue orders within the law. I doubt the law has
any mention about facebook (yet).
Deletion of an on line account is an assault on a persons identity
and that person's ability to communicate with their community.
i.e. banishment.
With on line payment and commerce so tightly coupled today this ruling reaches
into deep dark waters.
I think the judge has overreacted.
Contempt of court for LOL perhaps.
Newspapers may have to pay a fine and print a retraction but
vanish from the face of the ear
If you work on a single server install RCS. You only need to
Learn ci & co to start.
If you work on many boxes you need a network friendly tool.
The obvious ones are git and mecurial (CVS too).
Simple cp works too.
More important may be version tags and date time hints in the scripts.
One simple answer is that it goes too far if
you have a medical condition that causes you
to go often enough that someone demands an
answer.
Pregnancy, prostrate, infection, can all interact
as can drinking water as so many Weight-watchers
do.
Just begin wearing long skirts and put a
piddle pot in your office. Fill it with anything
that looks yellow enough. If the boss complains
comment that you are unwilling to wear depends
like he/she does.
Are you implying the wright brothers, who came up with a working airplane design after others had been trying for HUNDREDS of years, were patent trolling?!?
Interesting topic.
Since all the previous inventors were unable to "make it fly" there
was a critical invention by O&W.
One of the tangle in the phone and computer world is that
much of the components are being used as intended by
the inventor of the component.
One might patent a better razor but not the
shave with that improved razor. Further
the art of hair style and the variety of face
hair styles are the obvious result of the
tool kit of a barber.
Too much of this patent stuff is patenting the shave.
.
....snip...
Implementing the law of physics in a GUI doesnt deserve a patent.
Hello god... Implementing a law of physics how cool is that.
I have only been able to simulate and model laws of physics on my computers.
What does a recall imply.
Am I as a user obligated to do anything?
Do I get a full refund?
Do I get an iPhone in exchange?
If this was in the states what does this mean for locked in
plans. Do I get to switch to Verison from AT@T....
Is my unlimited grandfather data plan null and void?
Do I have to restart the multiple year lockin clock with
a new POS phone?
Heck I cannot get a software update from AT&T when it
is clear that an update would take advantage of the existing
hardware where the OS on it now was clearly rushed out
and half baked in light of what is known today.
It is true that half baked cookie dough is tasty but it is
still half baked and may still have raw egg -- can you
say salmonella. Who knows what 'virus' might be lurking.
It depends a lot on the cameras. I used to work in the digital video surveillance industry. A lot of the "Low Light" cameras do in fact use infrared light to see in the dark. Some have lights built into them, and some are so sensitive that they can see just fine in black and white without much light at all. I would find it hard to believe that you couldn't blind the camera with some sort of light. If they close the aperture of the lens to compensate for the extreme brightness of a light, it would make objects with less light on them obscured.
Yet the cameras are designed to operate at night. This implies a lot
of dynamic range so headlights and taillights do not dominate the
exposure and eliminate the ability to recover the tag numbers. In this
area they flash day or night. This fill flash combined with the reflective nature
of most tag plates makes recovering the tag number easier.
It is a lot like hunting spiders at night with a flashlight. At hip level
not so good but hold the flashlight close to an eye and spider and
scorpion eyes light up.
It would take an astounding bright light to fool these cameras.
The best defense is to have a camera of your own that lets you
prove the yellow cycle is too short, prove that the camera flashed
while yellow or green, proved with day-time stamps that you
were someplace else.
As with customer service calls that say "this call may be monitored"
I say thank you I will also record this call. It sometimes help should there
be any discrepancy. Note that "may" has a strong quality of permission.
They have permission as do I.
Also send a note to your local police station to the same effect that since
many if not all their vehicles and many intersections are equipped with
cameras it is clear that a fixed camera that involves no operator interaction
(safety, hand free) is permitted by the same code and rules that permit
the city of ____, the county of _____, the state of _______ to operate
recording devices video and audio.
You're right, at least according to Apple, it's not a patent on a rectangle with rounded corners, it's a patent on ANY rectangle.
When the judge in one of the cases asked Apple what Samsungs devices should look like to not infringe, they submitted a drawing of a triangular device with a circular screen.
Not triangular but most of the "devices" on "Warrehouse 13" have circular screens.
They were invented in the 18's or something according to the story.
Google for: warehouse 13 gadgets images
"Named after inventor Philo Farnsworth, the Farnsworth communicator is supposedly hacker-proof."
If you think the patents were for a rectangle with rounded corners then you know very little about it.
Rounded corners are interesting.
I suspect rounded corners are mandated by safety regulation
that limit sharp corners or just design practices. Further objects intended for
pockets need "eased" corners to not damage the garment.
And I suspect there is a design guideline for the cover glass
that advised the customer to ease the corners. There might
even be a specified radius. Without eased corners the glass
cover would be too fragile when used in this intended way.
Of interest the new Apple store under construction in Palo Alto, CA
had two 1800# glass windows replaced because the glass shattered
as a result of installation errors. One was apparently a worker's tool
smacking the surface and the other was impacted by the install of
a roof pane of glass. Glass is interesting stuff but the nature of
if mandates a number of design decision. i.e. the corners were not
an artful design decision but rather OBVIOUS and well known in the
industry design methodology for MANY reasons. Drop tests need not
be a factor or consideration. Paper note books and note pads have
eased corners too.
Even earthquake folk know this, architectural glass need not be large:
http://www.earthquakespectra.org/doi/abs/10.1193/1.2164875?journalCode=eqsa
Abstract
The concept of employing architectural glass panels with modified corner geometries and edge finish conditions to improve their resistance to earthquake damage has been developed recently. To accomplish this, material is removed at glass panel corners (e.g., by rounding the glass corners) and glass edges are finished in the modified corner regions to minimize protrusions and edge surface roughness. The concept is applicable to a wide variety of architectural glass types and glazing frame types. Full-scale dynamic racking tests have shown that corner radius and glass edge finish conditions near the reshaped corner regions have significant influences on glass cracking and glass fallout drift resistances of monolithic architectural glass panels used in curtain walls.
Received: December 1, 2003; Accepted: March 31, 2005
"My god, it's full of pies!"
Golly it is pies all the way down too.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal" - Steve Jobs 1994
This quote should be in the opening remarks in any like litigation
involving Apple.
It goes to the core values and executive charter that management
gave to the development team. Further it sets the value stage
where one way or another Apple is willing to steal.
I think that Samsung stepped in it because of language based cultural
differences. i.e. many Asian languages are iconic in nature.
This is important because in many languages yama is always
drawn the same way and has the same meaning. I clearly
do not want to make a mountain out of a mole-hill here but
the iconic language bias and the iconic interface is clearly
an important topic for discussion and litigation.
Quick trolls patent this 7,000-year old technology
Yes +1
Mod parent+1 up. He is doing the "right thing"(tm).
There are also middle and high schools where
other teachers are also in a good place to
do the right thing.
....snip...
I'm fine with HFT. My only conditions are: ....snip....
I am not sure I am.
The problem with HFT is it creates two clear groups.
For now lets call them wetware and hardware.
The problem with two groups (yes there are more) is
that the statistics to protect the groups from goofiness
look a lot like a Bactrian camel for want of a better
simplification.
Regulations that act on the central average are clearly
incorrect when the two humps are obvious. A decision
on the central average will overspend on one one hump and
under spend on the other.
Companies have the same problem with multiple products
that differ in cost or one sort or another. It is obvious in
support where 2% of a multi-million computer system gets
a lot of value for both the customer and the company.
On a $25 computer 2% does not get past "Hello my name is Peggy".
Remember that HFT operates on a shared commons but those that share
the market are not equal. More and more individuals are no longer
in the market because they do not even get past "Hell" for their dime.
In some cases automated systems can make a market for individual
traders. However just like some of the "big oil" contract games
the game is rigged to provide accommodation for the insiders in
a very limited group.
In closing the pressure on the middle class is pushing the humps
further apart. At one time the middle class filled in the gap
and minimized the weight in the disparate humps.
Speaking of: "What does "DO NOT HUMP" mean on the side of railroad cars?"
An effective law would have the side effect of
outlawing any copy of the law itself.
Kafka would giggle at the folly of it all.
There is a wide range of liquid nasty out there.
The underwear bomber may not have had a working plan
as metacell notes but the risk of liquid explosives including binary agents
is quite real. Some are difficult to detect and the variety
implies that simple testing is not possible.
One possibly positive consideration is that they are difficult to make and test.
They are mostly unstable making them difficult to deliver. At
least that is what one armed Lefty tells me.
Great. First the supervolcano under Yellowstone, now deadly virus from Yosemite.
You nature lovers and conservationists feel good about yourselves for preserving it? Huh?
Do look at the Mamouth volcanic risk area. Yosemite is well within the reach of this hazard and it does bubble and gurgle a bit too.
Folk keep harping on the price of the extra stuff like a laptop, keyboard, mouse, display.
For "Operating Systems Development" the RasPI is ideal. You cannot do OS development
on your own laptop. Some can be done under qemu but nothing is equal to real hardware.
OS development is like working on cars. You need a second car to go get parts
if you are doing anything other than a trivial repair. Microsoft and Apple do not give
out the keys to their walled garden so they exclude themselves. There are so many
other hardware platforms that no class could address all the N! permutations of devices
and stuff. Replace the head gasket on your car tonight if you want a lesson in auto mechanics that
makes this point.
The RasPI is small, inexpensive and ideal for education.
It can be connected to a laptop via an ethernet link and powered from that
same laptop or a wall wart. Reload the SD card as needed when something
is broken.
Homework... pickup and then hand in an SD memory card... All students are pointed to
the same base code image....
REMEMBER: OS design... like working on cars. You need a second car to go get parts
if you are doing anything other than a trivial repair.