*) Deportation of foreigners convicted of serious crimes like murder, rape or other grave sex crime, robbery, human trafficking, drug trade, burglary or abuse of benefits. It not like you get deported for jaywalking or shoplifting. *) Building minarets is forbidden by law, yes. (in English an interdiction is typically issued by a court, parliaments make law) *) No statute of limitations for child molesters (no prescription is a bad translation) *) Life sentence for non-treatable, extremely dangerous rapists. It does not apply to all of them.
I think only 2) would fail under the US constitution, 3) and 4) are mostly already so and 1) would probably be possible.
In Finland, the most right wing party advertises itself as a "champion of welfare state". They're not really, but even they have to pay at least lip service.
This is something I don't think people in the US would understand, from left to right most want the welfare system. What the extreme right is claiming is that certain ethic groups are paying and other ethnic groups are leeching, they want welfare for their own not welfare for everyone. Oh maybe less blunt like making rules so that immigrants and such are ineligible for benefits, but if they could get support for racial discrimination they probably would.
Remember this is talking about 50,000 in a population of 5,4 million, the equivalent number in the US would be 2.9 million people signing a petition. That's a pretty solid bit of public support, considering most people won't bother to do anything or is just indifferent to the subject at hand. Trying to listen to millions of opinions is all but impossible, I'd say signatures is a pretty good way of raising the issue, once raised you can do a public poll and hear if the other 99% are vehemently opposed or just diffusely supportive.
What if a majority of finns pass a law that only those born in Finland have the right to stay?
What if a majority of finns vote for a party that will pass a law that only those born in Finland have the right to stay? Your whole argument relies on the assumption that by positioning a set of politicians between the people and the law we get a system with higher integrity and more respect for civil liberties, do you feel this is the case? Having a direct democracy and a constitution is not mutually exclusive, we could have an amendment process just like the representative democracies do.
The insurer has to guess the odds, and can actually guess wrong, so there's a lot less certainty. That's why there are reinsurers, who insure the insurers against unexpectedly large payouts.
I was under the impression that reinsurance existed not because there was uncertainty of the odds, but because there are known catastrophic risks that even insurance companies need risk pooling for. Like huge earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions, floods and so on that hit a very large number of your insurance clients at once. Consider it more that you subcontract out the really huge disasters.
This is what is fundamentally wrong with Walmartonomics. Walmart pays as little as possible. But, to succeed, it must have plenty of people to spend money in its stores. In effect, it wants a shit economy so it can get a cheap workforce, but really it wants a high wage economy to maximise its income. This kind of works if for "Walmart" we substitute China, and for "High wage economy" we substitute "The West". But what happens when all countries have been dragged into the mire? No markets, that's what.
Come on, if you take your small isolated community where everybody provides services to each other and everyone is roughly equally wealthy then obviously that is a well functioning market. If the world had grown organically as one "country" and one market, western workers never would have gotten so far ahead in wages as we have. There's been technology barriers, language barriers, transport barriers, trade barriers, culture barriers and so on meaning you "had to" get a western work that could command a higher and higher pay.
Those barriers have been coming down awfully quick and then obviously you get a lot of unbalanced flow of wealth, like you say one market is doing the production and one market is doing the consumption. Obviously in the long run that's not a sustainable situation, eventually the exchange of value must go both ways for there to be trade. Take my country Norway for example, why are we rich? Because we have oil to export (and gas and fish and hydro power for high energy products), we have something other countries need. Our politicians can spout all the bullshit they want about our workers and work life and regulations and education and whatnot but it's delusional. Our average worker is not that special.
Reality is, either you have to find a good reason as to why you should be able to charge so much more per hour, or it has to come down. And in that, your wealth obviously goes down, no longer can you buy ten hours of foreign labor for one hour of your own. You can of course be a brain surgeon instead of a McDonald's worker, but you can't simply expect your time to be more valuable by being western. And you can't close the door on cheap labor without closing the door on cheap products too.
Ireland, Italy and Greece are in trouble because the Governments borrowed and the taxes weren't paid, either through evasion (Italy and Greece), through "avoidance" schemes (Ireland) or because also the Governments had lied about the actual GNP (Greece). This actually wasn't the fault of the bankers, but of greedy and corrupt politicians.
More like that the bearer of bad news doesn't get reelected. So if your trade isn't balanced, if you're in reality burning away your savings will you be the one to impose cutbacks? No. So to sustain it they took up more and more debt, they entered a spiral like credit card victims do, using one credit card to pay the other credit card's bills until all they can afford is the interest payments. Then you take it one step too far and the house of card collapses. Even with the knife at their throats the cuts don't go over lightly, now it's all emergency brakes on and even that may not be enough.
Setting up Linux to print to any decent office printer is usually a very simple affair: just find the printer, then select the manufacturer and model from the huge lists provided by CUPS, and off you go. Whether it's an HP LaserJet, a Ricoh, a Xerox, etc., it can print to any of these things. But a $30 piece of shit inkjet? Forget it
Here's a $30 printer that works perfectly under Linux, not that I've tried this particular one. It's more a matter of brand than price, some companies just have shit support and others are quite good.
Well, they have conducted experiments that should be sensitive enough to pick up airport radar within several hundred light years and that would pick up a directed ping from an equivalent antenna over 10000 light years away. Our TV and radio signals are too weak and airport radar would be a lucky blip with no content, but the last one sounds like something we'd do in the next 50 years as we find good candidate exoplanets so we should be able to hear civilizations slightly more advanced than our own, assuming they want to talk to us and everything is pointing in the right direction. But yes, it would take a fair amount of luck right now. Of course we are building much larger arrays, the Square Kilometer Array should be done in another decade or so but everybody wants to be the first to make the discovery so we'll take the slim chances too.
Not to mention unstable, if two egos get too close and reach critical rivalry an uncontrolled chain reaction occurs and the fallout can poison the surroundings for years.
If that was true, great IT people wouldn't get anything done. Many old legacy systems are written in an archaic language with little to no documentation, zero support and have grown like a cancer bolting on one piece of functionality after another without structure or consistency, with plenty of code that's there for tasks it doesn't do or ways to work you don't use anymore. If you went tangling into that mess, you'd probably come out as a COBOL or Java 1.0 guru in a decade or so rather than an expert on current systems. Great people just tend to make sure they have the surface area covered, what systems does it speak with? Who are the users? Because that's what usually gets the rash ones, it's "I didn't know it was doing that" not small implementation details of what it does do.
Once you've made sure you have know all the involved ones, then I'd much rather try getting functional requirements. What is the system providing you today? Is it the way you want it to be? Replacing legacy crap with modern code functioning as legacy crap is stupid. Most likely you will find you can do this simpler and better and more suited to the business needs, needs that have been ignore because there would be nobody to work on the legacy system. Probably new needs that they were told were impossible with the old system. Code can not tell you all of this. Okay ideally you'd know both those and all the code, but you'd probably be an old man by then. Make sure you have all the major things covered and just realize to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.
Given that 'Open Source' is(among other things) the trendy way to put a product on deathwatch, it does have some correlation with job losses. Company X decides to take Product Y out behind the woodshed, kicks out a perfunctory OSS release and then axes the internal dev team.
Yes, but it's still meaningless to say "Open Source kills engineering jobs and depresses wages" as there's no obvious causation. If webOS was successful they wouldn't be axing the dev team nor open sourcing it. After all, companies have been killing projects and laying off the staff for ages. The only question would be if open sourcing it lets you kill it faster, by letting the community keep it on life support rather than doing it yourself. Maybe you even get a bit of good PR and goodwill for doing it too, even if they just throw it out to die it beats taking it to the trash bin.
And for what it's worth, it allows people to go scavenger hunting. Perhaps webOS doesn't have a future, but maybe they have some functionality or logic other projects could use. I certainly don't see how it could be worse. Sourceforge is also full of dead and abandoned projects, but if you wanted to revive one it's easier to start from something than it is to start from scratch, at least if it wasn't written by someone featured on thedailywtf. Of course it's not good if open source got equated with being on deathwatch, but in that case Android would have to be on deathwatch too so I don't think you'd get very far implying that.
I have only been staying in Stockholm for a month, but currently it gives me the feeling that Sweden and some other Europe countries have much more financial freedom than in US. If I were to create a startup based on alternative currencies ideas similar to Google's P2P money or Ripple, then Stockholm would be a much better place than Silicon Valley, all due to the absurd US anti-money laundering regulation.
Oh, I wouldn't bet on it. I'm in Norway, not Sweden but both fairly socialist countries that depend heavily on income taxes and sales taxes. Strictly speaking you can use cash most everywhere, but it's getting more and more biased against it. The last item they've been pushing is electronic tickets for local buses, because they don't want neither bus drivers nor ticket machines getting robbed. You get heavy price incentives to use electronic cards or to pay over your cell phone - there's no such thing as an anonymous cell phone here by the way, that was outlawed quite a few years ago so it's all traceable back to me and there's no such thing as an anonymous debit cards either, they're all registered to your unique id. If I pay any person or company over 10k NOK - about $1800 - in cash during a year, I can be charged as co-conspirator in their tax fraud if they cheat on their taxes for doing nothing other than paying in cash.
Another example is the employee cafeteria, there are several I know of that no longer take cash, either taking just plastic directly or through their own cards you can only charge with plastic. Even if you're a homeless crack addict you don't get food coupons anymore, you get an electronic card only valid in the grocery store - but not for beer. Honestly if it wasn't for a generation of elderly who insist on using cash I'm pretty sure we'd have pushed through a cashless society, because while we're not so heavy on the organized crime and terrorism propaganda, there's plenty of the tax fraud, black economy, anti-robbery propaganda with a good smear of if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
You're supposed to, but if nobody asks for it then it likely doesn't happen since lack of work documentation would be somewhere around #43542 on my list of worries should I end up in a traffic accident. And if your manager is ridden hard to always do new system and new projects, well he too might let it slip until the shit hits the fan. It's the same way documentation and testing have a mysterious way of disappearing from development plans. Sometimes it seems companies are happy to find a scapegoat, but do nothing about the system that leads to it being that way.
Don't know about you, but if I was the new worker and at the end of the day you came to me with a paper for me to sign saying I now know everything my first reaction would be "WTF?" and the second "No way." I have no idea how much you forgot to tell me, even if it says "managing the $foo server" you may have forgotten to tell me about some job or routine or process related to that. In fact, it'd probably be the start of a drama scene with the new boss as I go to him to talk about it.
If you get called, you'll quickly figure out if it's (1) help me do my job, (2) I couldn't be arsed to read the documentation or (3) something genuinely non-obvious. Dismiss (1)s, even if you do remember (2)s point them to the docs instead and answer (3)s. At least so far I'd say 100% of my past employers have asked for a few minutes of my time and 0% have abused the privilege. Just stick to answering how it was but you can't say what direction to take going forwards anymore and it'll be over quickly and friendly.
Just because you catch every exception doesn't prevent the software from spectacularly failing to perform as desired. The code has bugs that aren't exceptions (and if you think you can prevent that with tests, the tests have bugs), the specifications have "bugs", the design has "bugs", hell even the functional requirements have "bugs". In school you pretty much have end-to-end transparency, your code does everything start to finish and the requirements are as given by the professor.
For example, say you design up a perfectly safe web app with a sanitation layer. Some other coder takes over and is asked to add a feature and end up calling the code directly bypassing your layer, ending up causing not only a bug but a security exploit. There are no exceptions raised, the requirements are probably satisfied that when the user does X then Y happens but still you have bugs. It's simply a matter of choosing which ones to chase down and maybe that ghost bug isn't it.
P.S. I have a good example of a freak bug, which was chased down almost by accident. A product I worked with had a locking table so the application could give exclusive editing access and it contained different kinds of locks. One of those lock checks didn't check the object type, which only manifested itself if a different object with the same id - (type, id) was the unique pair - happened to be locked. It really was a case of "the trunk doesn't open if the windshield wipers are set to double speed" kind of thing. That sort of shit happens, and if you're not NASA then working 99.99% of the time is good enough.
Ah, I was thinking of the non-symbian phones - kinda important distinction. They created the Maemo platform and managed to put out a whole of three phones (N800, N810 and N900) and what now looks like their first and last MeeGo phone, the N9. What I was trying to say was they didn't manage to turn Symbian into a smartphone OS nor did they commit to getting Maemo/MeeGo-based phones out there in volume.
True, the good thing about recording shooting more than you need is that you can crop though, I've been reading some such thoughts about the Nikon D800 (36MP, $3000 camera) and the JVC GY-HMQ10 (4K, $5000 video camera). Need an extra 2x zoom on that camera? Crop it to 9MB and you still have a very useful picture. Is what you're trying to film moving to erratic for you to stay on target? Zoom back out and crop to 1080p in post-production. Not a cheap solution but if you're can't get another take, it might be worth it.
Before you start doing math, correct your numbers. That chip you are calling 8-core (...) correct your numbers unless you dont want to let facts get in the way of your inner banboy.
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unleashed the AMD FX family of CPUs, delivering a fully unlocked and customizable experience for desktop PC users. The AMD FX series of desktop CPUs includes the first-ever eight-core desktop processor
There you have it, in their own damn press release. Besides it's not my math, there's no other way to interpret "They could have built something that achieved 90-100% of Intel's best on single threads instead of 60-80% [but] the performance per core * number of cores would be lower." than that he counts each module as two cores. If he didn't, the statement would be meaningless. And if one core is performing 60-80% of an Intel core then two cores (one module) should perform 120-160% for a well threaded application, which we all know it doesn't. Not if we take four modules and four Intel cores to make a FX-8150 and 2500K/2600K either. The truth is one Intel core outperforms one AMD module - or two cores as AMD likes to call it.
This suggests either a longer life for Symbian - or maybe Symbian was just an easier platform to make a show-stopping device that may turn out to be more of a concept phone.
Or as most of us have figured out, Nokia has been a rudderless company and this is probably the work of the "let's turn Symbian into a smart phone" faction and this is just to recover a little bit of all the money they've wasted, just like the pathetically few N-series phones they released. They probably jumped on the wrong ship when they went all in on Windows Phone, but at least that one is going somewhere. Nokia never managed to agree on one thing and then actually do it well, so Apple and Google ate them for lunch. Epic management fail, if you ask me.
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Since you seem to be omitting some details:
*) Deportation of foreigners convicted of serious crimes like murder, rape or other grave sex crime, robbery, human trafficking, drug trade, burglary or abuse of benefits. It not like you get deported for jaywalking or shoplifting.
*) Building minarets is forbidden by law, yes. (in English an interdiction is typically issued by a court, parliaments make law)
*) No statute of limitations for child molesters (no prescription is a bad translation)
*) Life sentence for non-treatable, extremely dangerous rapists. It does not apply to all of them.
I think only 2) would fail under the US constitution, 3) and 4) are mostly already so and 1) would probably be possible.
In Finland, the most right wing party advertises itself as a "champion of welfare state". They're not really, but even they have to pay at least lip service.
This is something I don't think people in the US would understand, from left to right most want the welfare system. What the extreme right is claiming is that certain ethic groups are paying and other ethnic groups are leeching, they want welfare for their own not welfare for everyone. Oh maybe less blunt like making rules so that immigrants and such are ineligible for benefits, but if they could get support for racial discrimination they probably would.
Remember this is talking about 50,000 in a population of 5,4 million, the equivalent number in the US would be 2.9 million people signing a petition. That's a pretty solid bit of public support, considering most people won't bother to do anything or is just indifferent to the subject at hand. Trying to listen to millions of opinions is all but impossible, I'd say signatures is a pretty good way of raising the issue, once raised you can do a public poll and hear if the other 99% are vehemently opposed or just diffusely supportive.
What if a majority of finns pass a law that only those born in Finland have the right to stay?
What if a majority of finns vote for a party that will pass a law that only those born in Finland have the right to stay? Your whole argument relies on the assumption that by positioning a set of politicians between the people and the law we get a system with higher integrity and more respect for civil liberties, do you feel this is the case? Having a direct democracy and a constitution is not mutually exclusive, we could have an amendment process just like the representative democracies do.
The insurer has to guess the odds, and can actually guess wrong, so there's a lot less certainty. That's why there are reinsurers, who insure the insurers against unexpectedly large payouts.
I was under the impression that reinsurance existed not because there was uncertainty of the odds, but because there are known catastrophic risks that even insurance companies need risk pooling for. Like huge earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions, floods and so on that hit a very large number of your insurance clients at once. Consider it more that you subcontract out the really huge disasters.
but it got +4 Funny. You need to get laid.
I'd say the moderators need to get laid...
This is what is fundamentally wrong with Walmartonomics. Walmart pays as little as possible. But, to succeed, it must have plenty of people to spend money in its stores. In effect, it wants a shit economy so it can get a cheap workforce, but really it wants a high wage economy to maximise its income. This kind of works if for "Walmart" we substitute China, and for "High wage economy" we substitute "The West". But what happens when all countries have been dragged into the mire? No markets, that's what.
Come on, if you take your small isolated community where everybody provides services to each other and everyone is roughly equally wealthy then obviously that is a well functioning market. If the world had grown organically as one "country" and one market, western workers never would have gotten so far ahead in wages as we have. There's been technology barriers, language barriers, transport barriers, trade barriers, culture barriers and so on meaning you "had to" get a western work that could command a higher and higher pay.
Those barriers have been coming down awfully quick and then obviously you get a lot of unbalanced flow of wealth, like you say one market is doing the production and one market is doing the consumption. Obviously in the long run that's not a sustainable situation, eventually the exchange of value must go both ways for there to be trade. Take my country Norway for example, why are we rich? Because we have oil to export (and gas and fish and hydro power for high energy products), we have something other countries need. Our politicians can spout all the bullshit they want about our workers and work life and regulations and education and whatnot but it's delusional. Our average worker is not that special.
Reality is, either you have to find a good reason as to why you should be able to charge so much more per hour, or it has to come down. And in that, your wealth obviously goes down, no longer can you buy ten hours of foreign labor for one hour of your own. You can of course be a brain surgeon instead of a McDonald's worker, but you can't simply expect your time to be more valuable by being western. And you can't close the door on cheap labor without closing the door on cheap products too.
Ireland, Italy and Greece are in trouble because the Governments borrowed and the taxes weren't paid, either through evasion (Italy and Greece), through "avoidance" schemes (Ireland) or because also the Governments had lied about the actual GNP (Greece). This actually wasn't the fault of the bankers, but of greedy and corrupt politicians.
More like that the bearer of bad news doesn't get reelected. So if your trade isn't balanced, if you're in reality burning away your savings will you be the one to impose cutbacks? No. So to sustain it they took up more and more debt, they entered a spiral like credit card victims do, using one credit card to pay the other credit card's bills until all they can afford is the interest payments. Then you take it one step too far and the house of card collapses. Even with the knife at their throats the cuts don't go over lightly, now it's all emergency brakes on and even that may not be enough.
Setting up Linux to print to any decent office printer is usually a very simple affair: just find the printer, then select the manufacturer and model from the huge lists provided by CUPS, and off you go. Whether it's an HP LaserJet, a Ricoh, a Xerox, etc., it can print to any of these things. But a $30 piece of shit inkjet? Forget it
Here's a $30 printer that works perfectly under Linux, not that I've tried this particular one. It's more a matter of brand than price, some companies just have shit support and others are quite good.
Please don't. That xkcd meme is a new low, even for slashdot.
Well, they have conducted experiments that should be sensitive enough to pick up airport radar within several hundred light years and that would pick up a directed ping from an equivalent antenna over 10000 light years away. Our TV and radio signals are too weak and airport radar would be a lucky blip with no content, but the last one sounds like something we'd do in the next 50 years as we find good candidate exoplanets so we should be able to hear civilizations slightly more advanced than our own, assuming they want to talk to us and everything is pointing in the right direction. But yes, it would take a fair amount of luck right now. Of course we are building much larger arrays, the Square Kilometer Array should be done in another decade or so but everybody wants to be the first to make the discovery so we'll take the slim chances too.
Not to mention unstable, if two egos get too close and reach critical rivalry an uncontrolled chain reaction occurs and the fallout can poison the surroundings for years.
If that was true, great IT people wouldn't get anything done. Many old legacy systems are written in an archaic language with little to no documentation, zero support and have grown like a cancer bolting on one piece of functionality after another without structure or consistency, with plenty of code that's there for tasks it doesn't do or ways to work you don't use anymore. If you went tangling into that mess, you'd probably come out as a COBOL or Java 1.0 guru in a decade or so rather than an expert on current systems. Great people just tend to make sure they have the surface area covered, what systems does it speak with? Who are the users? Because that's what usually gets the rash ones, it's "I didn't know it was doing that" not small implementation details of what it does do.
Once you've made sure you have know all the involved ones, then I'd much rather try getting functional requirements. What is the system providing you today? Is it the way you want it to be? Replacing legacy crap with modern code functioning as legacy crap is stupid. Most likely you will find you can do this simpler and better and more suited to the business needs, needs that have been ignore because there would be nobody to work on the legacy system. Probably new needs that they were told were impossible with the old system. Code can not tell you all of this. Okay ideally you'd know both those and all the code, but you'd probably be an old man by then. Make sure you have all the major things covered and just realize to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.
Given that 'Open Source' is(among other things) the trendy way to put a product on deathwatch, it does have some correlation with job losses. Company X decides to take Product Y out behind the woodshed, kicks out a perfunctory OSS release and then axes the internal dev team.
Yes, but it's still meaningless to say "Open Source kills engineering jobs and depresses wages" as there's no obvious causation. If webOS was successful they wouldn't be axing the dev team nor open sourcing it. After all, companies have been killing projects and laying off the staff for ages. The only question would be if open sourcing it lets you kill it faster, by letting the community keep it on life support rather than doing it yourself. Maybe you even get a bit of good PR and goodwill for doing it too, even if they just throw it out to die it beats taking it to the trash bin.
And for what it's worth, it allows people to go scavenger hunting. Perhaps webOS doesn't have a future, but maybe they have some functionality or logic other projects could use. I certainly don't see how it could be worse. Sourceforge is also full of dead and abandoned projects, but if you wanted to revive one it's easier to start from something than it is to start from scratch, at least if it wasn't written by someone featured on thedailywtf. Of course it's not good if open source got equated with being on deathwatch, but in that case Android would have to be on deathwatch too so I don't think you'd get very far implying that.
I have only been staying in Stockholm for a month, but currently it gives me the feeling that Sweden and some other Europe countries have much more financial freedom than in US. If I were to create a startup based on alternative currencies ideas similar to Google's P2P money or Ripple, then Stockholm would be a much better place than Silicon Valley, all due to the absurd US anti-money laundering regulation.
Oh, I wouldn't bet on it. I'm in Norway, not Sweden but both fairly socialist countries that depend heavily on income taxes and sales taxes. Strictly speaking you can use cash most everywhere, but it's getting more and more biased against it. The last item they've been pushing is electronic tickets for local buses, because they don't want neither bus drivers nor ticket machines getting robbed. You get heavy price incentives to use electronic cards or to pay over your cell phone - there's no such thing as an anonymous cell phone here by the way, that was outlawed quite a few years ago so it's all traceable back to me and there's no such thing as an anonymous debit cards either, they're all registered to your unique id. If I pay any person or company over 10k NOK - about $1800 - in cash during a year, I can be charged as co-conspirator in their tax fraud if they cheat on their taxes for doing nothing other than paying in cash.
Another example is the employee cafeteria, there are several I know of that no longer take cash, either taking just plastic directly or through their own cards you can only charge with plastic. Even if you're a homeless crack addict you don't get food coupons anymore, you get an electronic card only valid in the grocery store - but not for beer. Honestly if it wasn't for a generation of elderly who insist on using cash I'm pretty sure we'd have pushed through a cashless society, because while we're not so heavy on the organized crime and terrorism propaganda, there's plenty of the tax fraud, black economy, anti-robbery propaganda with a good smear of if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
GP is projecting so hard he should be pointed at a wall in the board room.
LOL wish I had mod points, made me chuckle.
You're supposed to, but if nobody asks for it then it likely doesn't happen since lack of work documentation would be somewhere around #43542 on my list of worries should I end up in a traffic accident. And if your manager is ridden hard to always do new system and new projects, well he too might let it slip until the shit hits the fan. It's the same way documentation and testing have a mysterious way of disappearing from development plans. Sometimes it seems companies are happy to find a scapegoat, but do nothing about the system that leads to it being that way.
Don't know about you, but if I was the new worker and at the end of the day you came to me with a paper for me to sign saying I now know everything my first reaction would be "WTF?" and the second "No way." I have no idea how much you forgot to tell me, even if it says "managing the $foo server" you may have forgotten to tell me about some job or routine or process related to that. In fact, it'd probably be the start of a drama scene with the new boss as I go to him to talk about it.
If you get called, you'll quickly figure out if it's (1) help me do my job, (2) I couldn't be arsed to read the documentation or (3) something genuinely non-obvious. Dismiss (1)s, even if you do remember (2)s point them to the docs instead and answer (3)s. At least so far I'd say 100% of my past employers have asked for a few minutes of my time and 0% have abused the privilege. Just stick to answering how it was but you can't say what direction to take going forwards anymore and it'll be over quickly and friendly.
Just because you catch every exception doesn't prevent the software from spectacularly failing to perform as desired. The code has bugs that aren't exceptions (and if you think you can prevent that with tests, the tests have bugs), the specifications have "bugs", the design has "bugs", hell even the functional requirements have "bugs". In school you pretty much have end-to-end transparency, your code does everything start to finish and the requirements are as given by the professor.
For example, say you design up a perfectly safe web app with a sanitation layer. Some other coder takes over and is asked to add a feature and end up calling the code directly bypassing your layer, ending up causing not only a bug but a security exploit. There are no exceptions raised, the requirements are probably satisfied that when the user does X then Y happens but still you have bugs. It's simply a matter of choosing which ones to chase down and maybe that ghost bug isn't it.
P.S. I have a good example of a freak bug, which was chased down almost by accident. A product I worked with had a locking table so the application could give exclusive editing access and it contained different kinds of locks. One of those lock checks didn't check the object type, which only manifested itself if a different object with the same id - (type, id) was the unique pair - happened to be locked. It really was a case of "the trunk doesn't open if the windshield wipers are set to double speed" kind of thing. That sort of shit happens, and if you're not NASA then working 99.99% of the time is good enough.
ripping off copy protection from something you legally bought is not the same as piracy
No, but you'll be a criminal anyway
Ah, I was thinking of the non-symbian phones - kinda important distinction. They created the Maemo platform and managed to put out a whole of three phones (N800, N810 and N900) and what now looks like their first and last MeeGo phone, the N9. What I was trying to say was they didn't manage to turn Symbian into a smartphone OS nor did they commit to getting Maemo/MeeGo-based phones out there in volume.
True, the good thing about recording shooting more than you need is that you can crop though, I've been reading some such thoughts about the Nikon D800 (36MP, $3000 camera) and the JVC GY-HMQ10 (4K, $5000 video camera). Need an extra 2x zoom on that camera? Crop it to 9MB and you still have a very useful picture. Is what you're trying to film moving to erratic for you to stay on target? Zoom back out and crop to 1080p in post-production. Not a cheap solution but if you're can't get another take, it might be worth it.
Yes, the 21 different models of n-series phones released
You do know different colors don't count as different models right? Or would you like to try listing them...
Before you start doing math, correct your numbers. That chip you are calling 8-core (...) correct your numbers unless you dont want to let facts get in the way of your inner banboy.
Oh, I let facts get in my way like that AMD is calling it an 8-core?
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unleashed the AMD FX family of CPUs, delivering a fully unlocked and customizable experience for desktop PC users. The AMD FX series of desktop CPUs includes the first-ever eight-core desktop processor
There you have it, in their own damn press release. Besides it's not my math, there's no other way to interpret "They could have built something that achieved 90-100% of Intel's best on single threads instead of 60-80% [but] the performance per core * number of cores would be lower." than that he counts each module as two cores. If he didn't, the statement would be meaningless. And if one core is performing 60-80% of an Intel core then two cores (one module) should perform 120-160% for a well threaded application, which we all know it doesn't. Not if we take four modules and four Intel cores to make a FX-8150 and 2500K/2600K either. The truth is one Intel core outperforms one AMD module - or two cores as AMD likes to call it.
This suggests either a longer life for Symbian - or maybe Symbian was just an easier platform to make a show-stopping device that may turn out to be more of a concept phone.
Or as most of us have figured out, Nokia has been a rudderless company and this is probably the work of the "let's turn Symbian into a smart phone" faction and this is just to recover a little bit of all the money they've wasted, just like the pathetically few N-series phones they released. They probably jumped on the wrong ship when they went all in on Windows Phone, but at least that one is going somewhere. Nokia never managed to agree on one thing and then actually do it well, so Apple and Google ate them for lunch. Epic management fail, if you ask me.
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So about 50% more truth than usual then?