This is also true of integer types - Java guarantees a long is 64-bits. C++, well, on a 32-bit machine a long will be 32 bits with any compiler I'm aware of. On 64 bit Windows a long remains 32 bits. On 64 bit Linux a long is 64 bits. Makes Java easier to write in, but if you try to run it on a 32-bit machine you'll take a performance hit if you're using a long where an int would do.
There's tons of manufacturing in the USA. It mostly falls into 2 categories: highly specialized skills required, non-bulk items (Boeing), or highly automated processes to reduce the number of workers (car companies, coke, Ikea). One of the things a lot of the engineers work on is getting factories that can get rid of the workers to create a cheaper, more consistent product.
Someone mod this up please. Places with under 4% unemployment start to have the problem that employers can't find workers, regardless of how competitive their pay/benefits/working environments are. Over 5% and you start to find that people can't easily find jobs. 4-5% unemployment is actually a nice area.
My Blackberry has my name and contact info on the screen when the phone is locked for just that reason. Doesn't the iPhone do that, or does the Great Jobs think the background is sufficient to display when the phone is locked?
Or you can do reference-counted pointers from boost or c++0x for almost free, a couple extra processor cycles when a local copy of the pointer is copied or deleted, and a risk of cycles stopping deletion. You can use the STL vector class rather than arrays and worry less about going off the end of the array (with the tradeoff being that you have to worry about the massive penalty if your array is resized, and iterator invalidation, etc). As someone who interviews for a primarily C++ position I can't describe enough how depressing it is how many people call themselves C/C++ developers (as if that means anything, very different languages) without having any idea how to use the STL, or what the power of templates can really do to make your codebase much smaller.
C++ users seldom use malloc, in my experience, it's always new. And even then, reference counted pointers are far more common than raw pointers these days. A reference counted pointer gives you almost as good a guarantee as a GC, other than cycles causing issues, and you get deterministic deletion making RAII possible as a benefit!
So if no one is taking money how do you get into BitCoins in the fist place, other than mining, and how do you intend to get out? That's where the ponzi is, if people find they can't cash out at some point.
Because the cheap one costs $1, and I don't want to pay the 5000% markup for pretty plastic that still breaks? OK, Apple's markup isn't quite that bad, but it's significant for what you're getting. I'm writing this on a macbook on which the plastic has warped enough that the super-sexy DVD drive can no longer eject DVDs without some help from a screwdriver. It was fixed twice while this mac was under warranty, and the fact that they don't actually solve the problem with the part just tells me that Apple doesn't care about quality any more than those other companies that charge far less.
Glad I'm not in your world where laptops are supplanting PCs. Everyone I work with, including the secretaries, would be very pissed to lose easy dual screens, fast use of outlook with gigs of emails and huge attachments (ideal, no. Useful, yes), and the ability to have spreadsheet macros run in seconds rather than minutes. Laptops are nice for what they're good at, being mobile and pretty close to desktop speeds, but they're no replacement for desktops, even for the jobs you don't understand.
Who marked this informative? Yes, Apple is bigger than companies that specialize in one specific area, no shit. This is like pointing out that Microsoft is bigger than Nintendo, so what? Dell competes against Apple in desktop and laptop (does Dell make tablets?), and there are a hell of a lot more Dell's in the world than Macs. Dell doesn't compete in smartphone, music stores, portable music players, or anything else Apple is doing other than desktops and laptops. It doesn't matter how big Apple is to the competition, any more than it matters to Oracle how big IBM is (know anyone using DB2? But by your argument IBM is bigger so it should crush Oracle right?)
Wait, what? If you're using an internal CA in a company then you just push the config for it to your users. If you're like 99% of corporate users and have Active Directory then it's dead simple, I think the wizard to set up the CA will actually ask you if you want to hook it up to AD so your users don't get warnings. If you're using a *nix administration setup there are still ways to get it to the users without having to mail them CDs. (I have 20k employees at my workplace, I'd feel like retro AOL if I started mailing out CDs to every user!)
So you're the only person with access to the server room then? Not a single other person has access? That would be the only way to have complete control over the physical hardware. It would also be a major issue if you ever decided to leave the company.
Here in NA any number that starts with 1-900 is a pay-by-minute type. While the adult industry is the most well-known for them they can also be used by anyone where you're going to be charged by the minute for talking to them anyway (lawyers spring to mind).
We have plenty of food because modern farming methods, including GMO seeds that produce more and resist pests, are used rather than farming methods used 200 years ago.
How do you define genetically modified? Who checks that they label correctly? Is intentional cross-pollination genetic modification? Does it have to be done in a laboratory setting? If I intentionally introduce a virus am I performing genetic modification, since that's how viruses work?
Maybe I misread the summary, but it sounds like they found that the investment in a bachelors was always worth it, even factoring in the cost of school and time not working.
NES and SNES games are not 100% available in the commercial market. Try getting a copy of the original FF-III, for example. The virtual console only has a small selection of games, compared to what was available.
As opposed to driving around an engine that needs to convert chemical energy to mechanical and electric, survive vibrations and bumps, control pollution, and not make enough noise to wake up the neighborhood? The problems of an ICE, while solved, were much larger than the problems of electric storage. Pure electrics can fill all the space that used to be taken up by things like the engine, cooling systems, exhaust systems, alternator, and fill it with battery. Electric motors are fairly small, simple pieces of technology.
Also an electric doesn't need the range of a current gas vehicle day 1. It needs enough juice to get me to the next rapid recharge/battery swap station, whichever ends up being the way the infrastructure goes.
Which gets kind of fuzzy in the case of countries that won't let you give up citizenship, or of China that considers everyone of Chinese descent (racially Chinese) to be a citizen, regardless of where they were born or if they've ever been to China.
The EULA they give to a consumer who pays them $100 forbids use in nuclear reactors. You can bet the government isn't agreeing to quite the same document as the rest of us.
In the end you still need a certain amount of energy to lift a person. No matter how light the equipment is lifting a few hundred pounds in a controlled manner takes a lot of energy, and there are theoretical limits as to how much chemical energy a fuel can hold. If we can get a nuclear or antimatter system down to that size then maybe, but I don't think I'll volunteer to be the one to fly around with that on my back.
Lots of startups - especially in software - are started with basically no money at all. It's one person, or a small group, that decides to go without pay and does everything themselves. Develop, market, get the first few sales to get some cash flowing, then worry about how to pay for all the pizza that was required to get the product developed. Very few small businesses have 7 figures of financing up front.
It's essentially the same calculation a VC makes, he's just targeting college students. For them, if it doesn't work out it's generally trivial to go back to school, or go out to the workplace with a resume that shows you're an entrepreneur. Making a decent run at running a business, even if you fail, can open doors you may not expect.
To compete with cheap labor you can either automate your processes to make your product cheaper still, which a lot of US manufacturers do, or you can work in industries where high quality is important and price is not so important. That second one is why Boeing is the largest exporter in the USA. Neither of those help people who don't want to learn a skill for a job, and keep learning for their entire careers, however.
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This is also true of integer types - Java guarantees a long is 64-bits. C++, well, on a 32-bit machine a long will be 32 bits with any compiler I'm aware of. On 64 bit Windows a long remains 32 bits. On 64 bit Linux a long is 64 bits. Makes Java easier to write in, but if you try to run it on a 32-bit machine you'll take a performance hit if you're using a long where an int would do.
There's tons of manufacturing in the USA. It mostly falls into 2 categories: highly specialized skills required, non-bulk items (Boeing), or highly automated processes to reduce the number of workers (car companies, coke, Ikea). One of the things a lot of the engineers work on is getting factories that can get rid of the workers to create a cheaper, more consistent product.
Someone mod this up please. Places with under 4% unemployment start to have the problem that employers can't find workers, regardless of how competitive their pay/benefits/working environments are. Over 5% and you start to find that people can't easily find jobs. 4-5% unemployment is actually a nice area.
My Blackberry has my name and contact info on the screen when the phone is locked for just that reason. Doesn't the iPhone do that, or does the Great Jobs think the background is sufficient to display when the phone is locked?
Or you can do reference-counted pointers from boost or c++0x for almost free, a couple extra processor cycles when a local copy of the pointer is copied or deleted, and a risk of cycles stopping deletion. You can use the STL vector class rather than arrays and worry less about going off the end of the array (with the tradeoff being that you have to worry about the massive penalty if your array is resized, and iterator invalidation, etc). As someone who interviews for a primarily C++ position I can't describe enough how depressing it is how many people call themselves C/C++ developers (as if that means anything, very different languages) without having any idea how to use the STL, or what the power of templates can really do to make your codebase much smaller.
C++ users seldom use malloc, in my experience, it's always new. And even then, reference counted pointers are far more common than raw pointers these days. A reference counted pointer gives you almost as good a guarantee as a GC, other than cycles causing issues, and you get deterministic deletion making RAII possible as a benefit!
So if no one is taking money how do you get into BitCoins in the fist place, other than mining, and how do you intend to get out? That's where the ponzi is, if people find they can't cash out at some point.
Because the cheap one costs $1, and I don't want to pay the 5000% markup for pretty plastic that still breaks? OK, Apple's markup isn't quite that bad, but it's significant for what you're getting. I'm writing this on a macbook on which the plastic has warped enough that the super-sexy DVD drive can no longer eject DVDs without some help from a screwdriver. It was fixed twice while this mac was under warranty, and the fact that they don't actually solve the problem with the part just tells me that Apple doesn't care about quality any more than those other companies that charge far less.
Glad I'm not in your world where laptops are supplanting PCs. Everyone I work with, including the secretaries, would be very pissed to lose easy dual screens, fast use of outlook with gigs of emails and huge attachments (ideal, no. Useful, yes), and the ability to have spreadsheet macros run in seconds rather than minutes. Laptops are nice for what they're good at, being mobile and pretty close to desktop speeds, but they're no replacement for desktops, even for the jobs you don't understand.
Who marked this informative? Yes, Apple is bigger than companies that specialize in one specific area, no shit. This is like pointing out that Microsoft is bigger than Nintendo, so what? Dell competes against Apple in desktop and laptop (does Dell make tablets?), and there are a hell of a lot more Dell's in the world than Macs. Dell doesn't compete in smartphone, music stores, portable music players, or anything else Apple is doing other than desktops and laptops. It doesn't matter how big Apple is to the competition, any more than it matters to Oracle how big IBM is (know anyone using DB2? But by your argument IBM is bigger so it should crush Oracle right?)
Wait, what? If you're using an internal CA in a company then you just push the config for it to your users. If you're like 99% of corporate users and have Active Directory then it's dead simple, I think the wizard to set up the CA will actually ask you if you want to hook it up to AD so your users don't get warnings. If you're using a *nix administration setup there are still ways to get it to the users without having to mail them CDs. (I have 20k employees at my workplace, I'd feel like retro AOL if I started mailing out CDs to every user!)
So you're the only person with access to the server room then? Not a single other person has access? That would be the only way to have complete control over the physical hardware. It would also be a major issue if you ever decided to leave the company.
Here in NA any number that starts with 1-900 is a pay-by-minute type. While the adult industry is the most well-known for them they can also be used by anyone where you're going to be charged by the minute for talking to them anyway (lawyers spring to mind).
We have plenty of food because modern farming methods, including GMO seeds that produce more and resist pests, are used rather than farming methods used 200 years ago.
How do you define genetically modified? Who checks that they label correctly? Is intentional cross-pollination genetic modification? Does it have to be done in a laboratory setting? If I intentionally introduce a virus am I performing genetic modification, since that's how viruses work?
Or some falls off the back of the truck carrying it to the field...
Maybe I misread the summary, but it sounds like they found that the investment in a bachelors was always worth it, even factoring in the cost of school and time not working.
NES and SNES games are not 100% available in the commercial market. Try getting a copy of the original FF-III, for example. The virtual console only has a small selection of games, compared to what was available.
As opposed to driving around an engine that needs to convert chemical energy to mechanical and electric, survive vibrations and bumps, control pollution, and not make enough noise to wake up the neighborhood? The problems of an ICE, while solved, were much larger than the problems of electric storage. Pure electrics can fill all the space that used to be taken up by things like the engine, cooling systems, exhaust systems, alternator, and fill it with battery. Electric motors are fairly small, simple pieces of technology. Also an electric doesn't need the range of a current gas vehicle day 1. It needs enough juice to get me to the next rapid recharge/battery swap station, whichever ends up being the way the infrastructure goes.
Which gets kind of fuzzy in the case of countries that won't let you give up citizenship, or of China that considers everyone of Chinese descent (racially Chinese) to be a citizen, regardless of where they were born or if they've ever been to China.
The EULA they give to a consumer who pays them $100 forbids use in nuclear reactors. You can bet the government isn't agreeing to quite the same document as the rest of us.
In the end you still need a certain amount of energy to lift a person. No matter how light the equipment is lifting a few hundred pounds in a controlled manner takes a lot of energy, and there are theoretical limits as to how much chemical energy a fuel can hold. If we can get a nuclear or antimatter system down to that size then maybe, but I don't think I'll volunteer to be the one to fly around with that on my back.
Lots of startups - especially in software - are started with basically no money at all. It's one person, or a small group, that decides to go without pay and does everything themselves. Develop, market, get the first few sales to get some cash flowing, then worry about how to pay for all the pizza that was required to get the product developed. Very few small businesses have 7 figures of financing up front.
It's essentially the same calculation a VC makes, he's just targeting college students. For them, if it doesn't work out it's generally trivial to go back to school, or go out to the workplace with a resume that shows you're an entrepreneur. Making a decent run at running a business, even if you fail, can open doors you may not expect.
To compete with cheap labor you can either automate your processes to make your product cheaper still, which a lot of US manufacturers do, or you can work in industries where high quality is important and price is not so important. That second one is why Boeing is the largest exporter in the USA. Neither of those help people who don't want to learn a skill for a job, and keep learning for their entire careers, however.