So Meg wants everyone to traipse on in from their homes to the cube farms which are noisy, crowded, and as such, on the verge of constant chaos. I know. I've been there.
Verizon Wireless is CDMA. All of China is CDMA. What's wrong with CDMA? If the phone is lost or stolen, the carrier can turn it into a brick. Not sure you can do that with a GSM phone.
If I am not mistaken, I think Verizon's plan is to control how much bandwidth each web site can have based on how much the site's owner is willing to pay for the size of the pipe. As users of the Internet, you should be able to use as much bandwidth as the contract with your ISP allows -- I don't think that part will change. However, when it comes to online retail traffic this would tilt the playing field in favor of the big guns -- just like in the brick-and-mortar retail world. This is obviously a hot issue. I believe net neutrality succeeds only as long as bandwidth appears to be unlimited. Ten to fifteen years ago there was an extreme overabundance of bandwidth and it was very hard to argue against net neutrality. I am not sure that's true anymore.
This is curious. For some reason, I was under the impression that lie detector results are not permissible as testimony in court cases precisely because of their unreliability. So why is this a big deal?
Isn't this what insurance is for? Businesses, large and small, get sued all the time. If you don't have insurance, especially if you're running a small business, you COULD be held personally liable, so this is not something new.
As for Linus' abusive behavior: it is his right to act like a jerk. Most people would not work for or along side such a person, but apparently Linus has enough supporters/admirers/worshippers, that he is not motivated to tone it down a couple of notches. But he should try it sometime just to see what a difference it will make.
7 million of undocumented COBOL code that will cost billions to update or replace with a modern language -- a harbinger, I think, of the end of civilization as we know it.
"...it was designed so that bean counters with no programming experience could audit the source code and understand it well enough..."
Sorry to be stating the obvious, but verbose or not, you can still write bad code (in ANY programming language, for that matter). Long, descriptive variable and paragraph names are the choice of the programmer (or perhaps whatever coding guidelines that should've been followed) and not the constraint imposed by the language.
While you can use a spanner to pound a nail, a hammer is better.
"Agile" like "object-oriented", "top-down design", "structured programming" and many others before it, was just the latest in the long line of "faddish" software engineering methodologies. It has its place, but it is not the be all and end all. It is a tool that must be used judiciously and in the appropriate circumstances.
My impression of "Agile" is that it works best on initially small projects with minimal requirements that grow quickly by accretion. At some point in time a certain threshold is reached, the law of diminishing returns kicks in and "Agile" gradually loses it potency. I cannot imagine "Agile" working in a situation where the requirements are the size of an encyclopedia set and not a lick of code is written. I don't see it working very well in this kind of scenario.
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So Meg wants everyone to traipse on in from their homes to the cube farms which are noisy, crowded, and as such, on the verge of constant chaos. I know. I've been there.
It's been said that the average American spends 4 hours a day watching TV. That may have something to do with the low scores.
I guess 1st amendment rights extend only to U.S. citizens.
The $44,400 fine is not even a slap on the wrist. Not exactly a deterrent to other companies engaged in such activity.
They should not change this. This has been standard mouse-interaction behavour on most, if not all, UNIX (and UNIX variants) GUIs, not just GNOME.
Just say 'no'. And tell them to f--k off while you're at it.
Verizon Wireless is CDMA. All of China is CDMA. What's wrong with CDMA? If the phone is lost or stolen, the carrier can turn it into a brick. Not sure you can do that with a GSM phone.
If I am not mistaken, I think Verizon's plan is to control how much bandwidth each web site can have based on how much the site's owner is willing to pay for the size of the pipe. As users of the Internet, you should be able to use as much bandwidth as the contract with your ISP allows -- I don't think that part will change. However, when it comes to online retail traffic this would tilt the playing field in favor of the big guns -- just like in the brick-and-mortar retail world. This is obviously a hot issue. I believe net neutrality succeeds only as long as bandwidth appears to be unlimited. Ten to fifteen years ago there was an extreme overabundance of bandwidth and it was very hard to argue against net neutrality. I am not sure that's true anymore.
Nice guy.
Good. What encryption was Google using before? AES? If so, I find it hard to believe that anyone (or anything) can break an AES encryption.
Honoring a pot-smoking, violence-prone teenager? Seriously?
This is curious. For some reason, I was under the impression that lie detector results are not permissible as testimony in court cases precisely because of their unreliability. So why is this a big deal?
Isn't this what insurance is for? Businesses, large and small, get sued all the time. If you don't have insurance, especially if you're running a small business, you COULD be held personally liable, so this is not something new.
... since a significant number of programmers are, shall we say, less than proficient typers.
Maybe Bill Gates should seek a patent on making Bill Gates less boring.
As for Linus' abusive behavior: it is his right to act like a jerk. Most people would not work for or along side such a person, but apparently Linus has enough supporters/admirers/worshippers, that he is not motivated to tone it down a couple of notches. But he should try it sometime just to see what a difference it will make.
7 million of undocumented COBOL code that will cost billions to update or replace with a modern language -- a harbinger, I think, of the end of civilization as we know it.
"...it was designed so that bean counters with no programming experience could audit the source code and understand it well enough..." Sorry to be stating the obvious, but verbose or not, you can still write bad code (in ANY programming language, for that matter). Long, descriptive variable and paragraph names are the choice of the programmer (or perhaps whatever coding guidelines that should've been followed) and not the constraint imposed by the language.
Who needs the NSA to spy on you, when your neighbors can do it? Why not just trash the 2nd and 4th amendments and be done with it?
TRAIN people to program in COBOL? Why not just HIRE the unemployed COBOL programmers?
Sounds like Mr. Smith either needs to review the U.S. Constitution or transfer to another field of endeavor.
Use Verizon Wireless or T-Mobile. U.S. government cannot spy on the users of those two cellphone services because they are both partially owned by foreign companies. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324049504578543800240266368.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLE_Video_Third
Now we know why Feinstein wants to take all our guns.
... and funny.
While you can use a spanner to pound a nail, a hammer is better. "Agile" like "object-oriented", "top-down design", "structured programming" and many others before it, was just the latest in the long line of "faddish" software engineering methodologies. It has its place, but it is not the be all and end all. It is a tool that must be used judiciously and in the appropriate circumstances. My impression of "Agile" is that it works best on initially small projects with minimal requirements that grow quickly by accretion. At some point in time a certain threshold is reached, the law of diminishing returns kicks in and "Agile" gradually loses it potency. I cannot imagine "Agile" working in a situation where the requirements are the size of an encyclopedia set and not a lick of code is written. I don't see it working very well in this kind of scenario.