Everyone has the target market defined backwards. It's not a crippled laptop, it's an Android smartphone with a 12 hour battery life and a keyboard.
Look at what just happened with Apple and Samsung. They both had significant problems with their product releases because they were trying to make smartphones that were thinner and had more functionality. Apple had a case warp problem and the S8 was an incendiary device.
Consumers don't give a rat's ass about "thinner" at this point. Given a choice between a thin phone with a shorter batter life and a fatter phone with a longer use time, 99% of the public would want more talk time. But the public doesn't get that choice because Apple and Samsung are engaged in a pissing contest on design aesthetics.
If you don't think this is true, consider the market in battery packs for smart phones. Right now on Amazon there are 22,828 listings for external power for phones. People are carrying around another device just to keep their phones working.
So there is a market for a phone with a longer battery life. This is just one approach. If the smartphone manufacturers had a clue they would be competing on the real world use case of how long the phone works without needed to plug in somewhere. If there was any actual competition in the market this would happen, but effectively it's a duopoly between Samsung and Apple, at least outside of Chine. So we're stuck.
If you have been watching this case, you know that Steele and Hansmeier made four pornos available on the Pirate Bay. With this guilty plea, it is now 100% legal to down load the movies because the court has declared that any copyright claim on the content is unenforcable.
So has anyone seen these things? Considering that the lawyers/crooks scammed over $6 million using them, what did the victims end up with that caused so much trouble? This stuff is out there somewhere and it is probably easy to find.
Maybe they should have just become porn producers in the first place. They might have been able to make similar money for the same amount of effort and not ended up having to go to jail. They did produced two of the movies themselves.
This represents a case of epic stupidity. How dumb do you have to be to make some smut and then end up doing time in a federal pen because of it?
In the highly regarded fantasy novel Little, Big by Robert Crowley, the character Ariel Hawksquill uses Bruno's memory palace technique. It allows her to perform divination by remembering things she never knew about in the first place.
It's a wonderful book to read and has many places where the mundane world becomes intertwined with the world of magic. You might enjoy it if you liked Tolkien. However, it has no grand "save the world" plot, no epic battles and no iconic figures of good and evil. It's about people at the edge of a magical realm, and how this status changes them in both helpful and hurtful ways.
I have a notebook next to my machine. It does not have a big label on the front saying PASSWORDS. It's one of the anonymous things piled on my desk. I should keep a copy somewhere else like my safe deposit box, but I don't. If someone with bad intent can get into my house there's not much I can do about it, so that's where I draw the line.
I know it's a low tech solution, but no amount of computer hacking on any machine will get all my passwords. Since I usually remember the passwords I use all the time it is reasonably convenient. I use long easy to remember passwords with lots of non-alphanumeric characters, so that gives reasonably uncrackable passwords. An example would be !non-alpha.Numeric!. That's nineteen characters and relatively easy to remember.
Wrong on all counts. Democrats want to maintain personal privacy. They also want to regulate big business while the Republithugs want to eliminate all regulations. Remember what happened when Bush/Greenspan shut down all real banking regulation? The world economy went into meltdown in 2008. Trump and his toadies have already said that they want to roll back the legislation resulting from the banking sector malfeasance. It's beyond stupid and all the way to encouraging criminal corruption. That's how the Republican/White Supremacist/Oligarchy party roles.
And don't forget the treason with Russia. Trump and his Whitehouse are compromised by Putin and his band of merry spies, and the Republican's in the Congress are actively engaged in a cover up.
So what was that about the parties being the same again?
Dox the fucker. Let him personally experience what it means to have no personal privacy. I doubt it will change his mind (Republicans are stupid that way) but at least he will suffer and he deserves to.
Actually, no. You are confusing film production with a termite colony. It's not a bunch of workers spontaneously organizing and somehow making a complex structure. If your assertion worked then it would also be possible for a bunch of construction workers to just gather at a proposed building site and make a skyscraper. No one would ever suggest that could happen, but somehow there is a misconception that film making is not the equivalent of any other large scale industrial activity.
Film production succeeds or fails on organization. Long before a single stagehand, visual effects person, costume designer, art director, etc, etc is hired, there are accounts, lawyers and producers laying the groundwork. Everything has a schedule and a budget and a org-chart for top layer of administration. That's why films can change directors, starts and scripts. The organization that supports all these roles is already running.
You are also confusing distrabution with production. The economic model of production and distribution has changed a lot over the last hundred years or so. Until the late 1940's the studios were vertical monopolies. The studios made the films and owned the movie theaters. If you went to see a Warner or a Fox Studio film you had to go to a Warner or Fox owned movie theater. These monopolies were broken by the Department of Justice, which is why movie theater chains show films by any studio.
There have been continuous change since the 1950's, because of broadcast television and the growth (and now death) of suburban malls. Multiplex theaters, wide screen 70mm film, THX/Dolby sound, and 3D are all a part of the change.
Silicon Valley produces no content. Period. They don't make video games or TV or film. They may hire others to do these kind of things, but they are not the authors. When Amazon or Netflicks has original content, they are mostly taking over the function of finance and distribution which have historically been infrastructure supplied by the studios. All the rest is done by the existing film and TV production organizations. Silicon Valley is just another finance and distribution venue that supports the existing industry. In some ways it's like non-US production houses who employ Hollywood to make products intended for a non-US market. Hollywood remains Hollywood through all of this.
Red Terror? You are so behind the times. Wake up, it's the 21st century!
Today's angry paranoid crypto-fascist needs to be ranting about Moooslims, Mexicans, gays etc, and the perennial favorite, Jews. No one is so old school these days to waste any time on Commies. It doesn't even rate any nostalgia points.
You can't fully participate in the destruction of American civil society if you stick with these old fashioned attitudes. Ruining our economic system and destroying our world leadership is a big task, and slackers like you are not doing your fair share. Get on Trumps Twitter feed, go over to Brightbert, sign up for Stormfront to get remedial education in current Fascist ideology.
If you want the old school rabid right, you can go KKK. They are still in the game.
Yep, the head of one of the most talked about tech companies in the world has hired the former Attorney General of the United States because of an allegation that has no factual basis and can be easily disproved. Or so you claim.
This dramatic behavior, including sending email to everyone in the company, is certainly the result of a staggering record of illegal behavior and coverup at Uber. It's not "one bad apple" or one complaining employee. That could be explained away without going into full panic mode.
There must be a pattern of malfeasance that leaves the organization vulnerable to lawsuits by current and former employees and legal problems at the state, federal and even city level. And investors as well. Uber does business in all 50 states, so this could be a gigantic mess. Also, individuals and organizations could decide that they do not want to do business with a company that lets some of it's employees run amuck.
This is how companies try and get ahead of the problem when they are faced with a legal and public relations nightmare. Your shrill defense say much more about you then it does about Uber or any thing else. A guilty conscience, perhaps?
Do you keep your KKK robes on hangers in the closet so they will not be wrinkled but might be seen, or do you keep them folded in a drawer where they need ironing but stay out of sight?
P.S. How does it feel to be supporting Comrade Putin?
Early mainframes and minicomputers all had binary switches on their control consoles. The number of switches was typically the length of a hardware word. Each switch also had a light (incandescent, not LED) to show if the switch was on or off, i.e. one or zero. Some minicomputers in industrial applications didn't have any user interface except the switches and lights.
Loading the initial software on these kinds of systems often required setting the console switches to a specific pattern. On some of the early minicomputers the operator had to use the toggle switches to load a short binary program that would be the first stage of the boot sequence. Sometimes the next stage was loading a more complex boot code that was input from paper tape. Even with a disk attached the load sequence was power up the machine into a non-running state, toggle the low level boot into memory, load the paper tape, then press a button to start the machine. If it all went well the result was a prompt on the console TTY or VDT accompanied by a bell (TTY) or a beep (VDT).
The console switches could be read and the lights set in software. Sitting at the machine console an experienced operator could tell how busy the computer was by looking at the light pattern. In some desperate circumstances code could only be debugged by having test code that read the switches and set the lights as it ran.
In George Lukas's first full length move THX 1138 there is an IBM 7094 mainframe. It had lights that formed a grid that could hold a few letters. At one key point in the film just before the end, these lights spell the word "TILT".
Trump lies on a daily basis. Your "rebuttal" is completely meaningless because you are equating out and out falsehood with criticism. Even if the criticism is unfounded or nasty, the right to free speech is in the constitution. When Trump and his toadies in the Senate ban an elected official they are directly attacking the constitution.
Why don't you get off Slashdot and go over to Brightbart or Stormfront and hang out with the rest of your Nazi buddies?
::Sarcasm ON:: And one guy in Montreal shot up a mosque and killed some people, therefor all right wingers are violent terrorists. Someone said that in a blog I read and I don't have a link to it., but it must be true.::Sarcasm OFF::
What kind of asshat are you? Your assertion is at the two year old level: no facts, no logic, just babbling. But Trumpholes like you live in a fact and logic free world, so this kind of stupid is normal for you.
Get your head out of your ass. You, Trump, and the other infantile right wingers are messing with some really nasty crap, and there could be hell to pay. If it was only you morons who had to pay the bill I think it would be just fine, but you are going to screw up everyone, including me. That gets my attention.
I and a lot of other people are really pissed. At least one pole says that 40% of the voting public thinks Trump should be impeached. He's been in less then a month and he has alienated a significant percentage of the voting public. This goes way beyond the kind of disapproval that happens during any president's term.
Trump is a danger to himself and others. At some point, and it could be really soon, he is going to completely defy the constitution, and our entire political system will be imperiled. You and the other degenerate shitheads who put him into office will have to decide if you support the constitution or are out and out fascists. I expect the latter, and that could lead the country into the pit of hell. It that happens I know who to blame.
Claiming "It's possible to write any traversal algorithm using loops, without any recursion." is incorrect for both trees and graphs. The closest you can come is to maintain a stack structure and manually push and pop data and control flow information on the stack. It's ugly, and recursion is much easier to code and debug. Having done it both ways, I can say that coding your own stacks and using loops is not easy.
Your reply has answered the final question I asked: it is possible to be a "coder" and not understand recursion or recursive data structures. If you had ever studied data structures in computer science you would know that just looping is not enough.
To be even more pedantic, there are some recursive data structures, such as the threaded binary tree that allow tree traversal without recursion. This works by replacing null links in the tree structure with pointers to the next node for a specific traversal order. This is more expensive to build or modify then a general binary tree, and making it in the first place uses recursion. If you want to know what other similar tricks like this you can pull, look at The Art of Computer Programming volume 1 chapter 2.3.
Without recursion, data structures like trees or graphs are useless. Kind of a problem if you have a directory tree structure, or you want to follows URL links for web scraping. Just on that alone, I would assume the rest of the article is crap.
Does this horrible misrepresentation mean there are coders who don't realize that they are using a recursive algorithm? This lack of understanding could be a result of how some languages hide all the details of data structure implementation. Specifically, I'm thinking about Java. I saw a code example recently that was building a tree, but there were no obvious recursive calls anywhere. All the details were hidden in the data structure access interface. The way I knew what was going on was because "tree" was part of the object name.
Given how "high-level" a lot of programming has become, I have a bad feeling that someone could be a working programmer and still have no idea what their data structures do. So if they do see recursive algorithms, they would call it a "forgotten code construct". Is this possible?
You are too young to for this to be part of your personal experience, but there once was a drug called Thalidomide. It was sold for morning sickness and caused severe birth defects. Thousands of infants died and tens of thousands were born with deformed limbs. This was in the mid 1950's and caused a massive change in how drugs were tested. Thalidomide is still used, but not by pregnant women.
More recently there are significant problems with metal on metal joint replacements. For some designs the failure rate is 75% to 100%. And this was after FDA approval was granted.
So is the requirement for government approval the "bureaucracy" you are talking about? If so, I'm sure you can find somewhere in the world where you can get a completely unregulated major medical procedure, say involving surgery. Before you go, just leave a contact address so we know where to send the condolences for your funeral. I, at least, would consider your demise to be suicide.
Just how stupid are you? Do you actually know anyone doing research? Have you ever been in a research environment, either in the private sector or in academia? I doubt it, because if you had any direct experience you would know that researchers care a hell of a lot about "having to pay the bill."
In today's competitive environment there are two ways that academic researchers can advance their careers: producing research results that advance the state of the art AND doing research that leads to commercially viable results. In point of fact, it is very hard to get funding if there is no clear relationship between the research goals and practical applications.
So take you anti-intellectual bias back to where you live in your parents basement and stow it next to your resentment for people who do things that are meaningful. If you ever get that chip off your shoulder you might actually be able to make a contribution to society some day.
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Look at what just happened with Apple and Samsung. They both had significant problems with their product releases because they were trying to make smartphones that were thinner and had more functionality. Apple had a case warp problem and the S8 was an incendiary device.
Consumers don't give a rat's ass about "thinner" at this point. Given a choice between a thin phone with a shorter batter life and a fatter phone with a longer use time, 99% of the public would want more talk time. But the public doesn't get that choice because Apple and Samsung are engaged in a pissing contest on design aesthetics.
If you don't think this is true, consider the market in battery packs for smart phones. Right now on Amazon there are 22,828 listings for external power for phones. People are carrying around another device just to keep their phones working.
So there is a market for a phone with a longer battery life. This is just one approach. If the smartphone manufacturers had a clue they would be competing on the real world use case of how long the phone works without needed to plug in somewhere. If there was any actual competition in the market this would happen, but effectively it's a duopoly between Samsung and Apple, at least outside of Chine. So we're stuck.
So has anyone seen these things? Considering that the lawyers/crooks scammed over $6 million using them, what did the victims end up with that caused so much trouble? This stuff is out there somewhere and it is probably easy to find.
Maybe they should have just become porn producers in the first place. They might have been able to make similar money for the same amount of effort and not ended up having to go to jail. They did produced two of the movies themselves.
This represents a case of epic stupidity. How dumb do you have to be to make some smut and then end up doing time in a federal pen because of it?
You forgot one: Spending all your time on Slashdot. It's a living death, but you can disappear from human existence.
It's a wonderful book to read and has many places where the mundane world becomes intertwined with the world of magic. You might enjoy it if you liked Tolkien. However, it has no grand "save the world" plot, no epic battles and no iconic figures of good and evil. It's about people at the edge of a magical realm, and how this status changes them in both helpful and hurtful ways.
I know it's a low tech solution, but no amount of computer hacking on any machine will get all my passwords. Since I usually remember the passwords I use all the time it is reasonably convenient. I use long easy to remember passwords with lots of non-alphanumeric characters, so that gives reasonably uncrackable passwords. An example would be !non-alpha.Numeric!. That's nineteen characters and relatively easy to remember.
And don't forget the treason with Russia. Trump and his Whitehouse are compromised by Putin and his band of merry spies, and the Republican's in the Congress are actively engaged in a cover up.
So what was that about the parties being the same again?
Dox the fucker. Let him personally experience what it means to have no personal privacy. I doubt it will change his mind (Republicans are stupid that way) but at least he will suffer and he deserves to.
If they drop the price enough, it might be a good deal for a Linux laptop.
Unreal Chicken. Isn't that the code name for the upcoming flavor based interface for the Unreal Engine?
Film production succeeds or fails on organization. Long before a single stagehand, visual effects person, costume designer, art director, etc, etc is hired, there are accounts, lawyers and producers laying the groundwork. Everything has a schedule and a budget and a org-chart for top layer of administration. That's why films can change directors, starts and scripts. The organization that supports all these roles is already running.
You are also confusing distrabution with production. The economic model of production and distribution has changed a lot over the last hundred years or so. Until the late 1940's the studios were vertical monopolies. The studios made the films and owned the movie theaters. If you went to see a Warner or a Fox Studio film you had to go to a Warner or Fox owned movie theater. These monopolies were broken by the Department of Justice, which is why movie theater chains show films by any studio.
There have been continuous change since the 1950's, because of broadcast television and the growth (and now death) of suburban malls. Multiplex theaters, wide screen 70mm film, THX/Dolby sound, and 3D are all a part of the change.
Silicon Valley produces no content. Period. They don't make video games or TV or film. They may hire others to do these kind of things, but they are not the authors. When Amazon or Netflicks has original content, they are mostly taking over the function of finance and distribution which have historically been infrastructure supplied by the studios. All the rest is done by the existing film and TV production organizations. Silicon Valley is just another finance and distribution venue that supports the existing industry. In some ways it's like non-US production houses who employ Hollywood to make products intended for a non-US market. Hollywood remains Hollywood through all of this.
Today's angry paranoid crypto-fascist needs to be ranting about Moooslims, Mexicans, gays etc, and the perennial favorite, Jews. No one is so old school these days to waste any time on Commies. It doesn't even rate any nostalgia points.
You can't fully participate in the destruction of American civil society if you stick with these old fashioned attitudes. Ruining our economic system and destroying our world leadership is a big task, and slackers like you are not doing your fair share. Get on Trumps Twitter feed, go over to Brightbert, sign up for Stormfront to get remedial education in current Fascist ideology.
If you want the old school rabid right, you can go KKK. They are still in the game.
This dramatic behavior, including sending email to everyone in the company, is certainly the result of a staggering record of illegal behavior and coverup at Uber. It's not "one bad apple" or one complaining employee. That could be explained away without going into full panic mode.
There must be a pattern of malfeasance that leaves the organization vulnerable to lawsuits by current and former employees and legal problems at the state, federal and even city level. And investors as well. Uber does business in all 50 states, so this could be a gigantic mess. Also, individuals and organizations could decide that they do not want to do business with a company that lets some of it's employees run amuck.
This is how companies try and get ahead of the problem when they are faced with a legal and public relations nightmare. Your shrill defense say much more about you then it does about Uber or any thing else. A guilty conscience, perhaps?
P.S. How does it feel to be supporting Comrade Putin?
Problem solved.
Loading the initial software on these kinds of systems often required setting the console switches to a specific pattern. On some of the early minicomputers the operator had to use the toggle switches to load a short binary program that would be the first stage of the boot sequence. Sometimes the next stage was loading a more complex boot code that was input from paper tape. Even with a disk attached the load sequence was power up the machine into a non-running state, toggle the low level boot into memory, load the paper tape, then press a button to start the machine. If it all went well the result was a prompt on the console TTY or VDT accompanied by a bell (TTY) or a beep (VDT).
The console switches could be read and the lights set in software. Sitting at the machine console an experienced operator could tell how busy the computer was by looking at the light pattern. In some desperate circumstances code could only be debugged by having test code that read the switches and set the lights as it ran.
In George Lukas's first full length move THX 1138 there is an IBM 7094 mainframe. It had lights that formed a grid that could hold a few letters. At one key point in the film just before the end, these lights spell the word "TILT".
Wish I could mod you up. The truth remains even in the face of Trump and his delusional followers.
You unwittingly gave him a new goal. The next time you think of something like this, please don't post it online.
Why don't you get off Slashdot and go over to Brightbart or Stormfront and hang out with the rest of your Nazi buddies?
They can use this for all internal and external communications and never have to admit that they lied or changed their position.
What kind of asshat are you? Your assertion is at the two year old level: no facts, no logic, just babbling. But Trumpholes like you live in a fact and logic free world, so this kind of stupid is normal for you.
Get your head out of your ass. You, Trump, and the other infantile right wingers are messing with some really nasty crap, and there could be hell to pay. If it was only you morons who had to pay the bill I think it would be just fine, but you are going to screw up everyone, including me. That gets my attention.
I and a lot of other people are really pissed. At least one pole says that 40% of the voting public thinks Trump should be impeached. He's been in less then a month and he has alienated a significant percentage of the voting public. This goes way beyond the kind of disapproval that happens during any president's term.
Trump is a danger to himself and others. At some point, and it could be really soon, he is going to completely defy the constitution, and our entire political system will be imperiled. You and the other degenerate shitheads who put him into office will have to decide if you support the constitution or are out and out fascists. I expect the latter, and that could lead the country into the pit of hell. It that happens I know who to blame.
Your reply has answered the final question I asked: it is possible to be a "coder" and not understand recursion or recursive data structures. If you had ever studied data structures in computer science you would know that just looping is not enough.
To be even more pedantic, there are some recursive data structures, such as the threaded binary tree that allow tree traversal without recursion. This works by replacing null links in the tree structure with pointers to the next node for a specific traversal order. This is more expensive to build or modify then a general binary tree, and making it in the first place uses recursion. If you want to know what other similar tricks like this you can pull, look at The Art of Computer Programming volume 1 chapter 2.3.
Does this horrible misrepresentation mean there are coders who don't realize that they are using a recursive algorithm? This lack of understanding could be a result of how some languages hide all the details of data structure implementation. Specifically, I'm thinking about Java. I saw a code example recently that was building a tree, but there were no obvious recursive calls anywhere. All the details were hidden in the data structure access interface. The way I knew what was going on was because "tree" was part of the object name.
Given how "high-level" a lot of programming has become, I have a bad feeling that someone could be a working programmer and still have no idea what their data structures do. So if they do see recursive algorithms, they would call it a "forgotten code construct". Is this possible?
Manbearpig's public identity is Donald Trump.
More recently there are significant problems with metal on metal joint replacements. For some designs the failure rate is 75% to 100%. And this was after FDA approval was granted.
So is the requirement for government approval the "bureaucracy" you are talking about? If so, I'm sure you can find somewhere in the world where you can get a completely unregulated major medical procedure, say involving surgery. Before you go, just leave a contact address so we know where to send the condolences for your funeral. I, at least, would consider your demise to be suicide.
In today's competitive environment there are two ways that academic researchers can advance their careers: producing research results that advance the state of the art AND doing research that leads to commercially viable results. In point of fact, it is very hard to get funding if there is no clear relationship between the research goals and practical applications.
So take you anti-intellectual bias back to where you live in your parents basement and stow it next to your resentment for people who do things that are meaningful. If you ever get that chip off your shoulder you might actually be able to make a contribution to society some day.