I wouldn't say it's all bad software, I'm sure a lot of it is, but some of it is purpose driven software that has been repurposed as if it were off the shelf software. Dev houses build a piece of software for a specific need for a specific customer, then that customer refers them to others and they all want the same thing. They don't rewrite the software to be off-the-shelf, they just repurpose what they have and shoehorn it in and make it work(well, it works with MS SQL, but this company uses Sybase, so lets just quickly change the syntax and now everything is okay). It might be great software, but it's a shitty implementation of it.
The more connected I'm forced to be, the more disconnected I wish I was. My job at a technology company forces me to be connected 24/7 for various reason. Sooner or later I'm going to retire very early and move to some small town in the Sierra Nevadas. I've come to learn that I hate the privacy walls that are being torn down by both business and government on the internet, and as it evolves past the Old West in to East Berlin, I hate the whole thing more and more.
There won't be one exactly like it.. a long while back there was a dev posting somewhere that stated that Chromium doesn't have the hooks the FF does for NoScript to be implemented the way it is. Regardless, FF has it now and it works. I'm not a fan of FF, but I'm a fan of NoScript more than Ghostery, NotScript, and whatever other stuff is available on Chrome/Chromium that attempts to duplicate NoScript.
And that isn't reality today. I don't live in fear of the future. People that live in fear of the future institute rights wrecking shit like the Patriot Act and SOPA because they're afraid of what-ifs. Fuck that. Right now, that's not the case. The day it is is the day I worry about it.
This is a problem because Microsoft insists on a unified platform. The reality is that SecureBoot is only a forced "feature" of Windows RT(that is, Windows 8 on ARM devices). It's also a problem because linux circlejerkists on/. are retards who don't know how to read, as well.
He shouldn't have been, but he created the goddamn company, so he got to do what he wanted. How hard is that to understand? It's not like he went to Steve Jobs and said "hey dude, make me CEO of Apple when you die". He drafted the articles of incorporation, filed the correct paperwork, paid the money, and became CEO. It's not that hard.
And you're most likely not going to make an engineer a CEO(the vast vast majority of the time you're not). That's a business executive position, who are supposed to make sound business decisions, not sound engineering decisions. Putting an engineer in at CEO is no different than putting in a fan at CEO, which is what happened here, but with the caveat that the fan created the company and it was his choice to make.
1) You're obviously jealous since you have no athletic ability
2) He created a business venture that hired people in technical, well-paying jobs. Yea, they went under, but about half of new companies fail within 5 years. Without risk-takers and visionaries, we'd all be sitting around the stone circle talking about how Thag caught that scary squirrel with his bare hands
You're forgetting that GameStop now owns Impulse. Game trading, temporary licenses, etc, are entirely possible. Impulse is the #2 or #3 download marketplace(competing with D2D.. don't count GOG considering what they sell)
Different logic set, yes. EU allows for reason to inject itself into decisions of law(well I know the law says this, but is it really worth it to do it that way?). US is more literal, which is a huge problem when you have tons of ambiguous laws and, within the realm of this top, tons of ambiguous patents to live within that set of ambiguous laws. Thus, you get literal interpretations of ambiguity that are completely awful and anti-competitive, anti-consumer, and anti-business all at the same time.
My 25/25 FIOS has problems when my son uses Steam and gobbles up all 25mbits to download a patch while I'm playing a game. Saturation is possible if the source has the bandwidth to match your own. QoS is definitely not a bad thing.
When you start with UPS as a warehouse worker you make less than minimum wage after initiation and dues for the first few years. Thanks for looking out for me Teamsters
Tommy: Let's think about this for a sec, Ted. Why would somebody put a guarantee on a box? Hmmm, very interesting.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Go on, I'm listening.
Tommy: Here's the way I see it, Ted. Guy puts a fancy guarantee on a box 'cause he wants you to feel all warm and toasty inside.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Yeah, makes a man feel good.
Tommy: 'Course it does. Why shouldn't it? Ya figure you put that little box under your pillow at night, the Guarantee Fairy might come by and leave a quarter, am I right, Ted?
[chuckles until he sees that Ted is not laughing]
Ted Nelson, Customer: [impatiently] What's your point?
Tommy: The point is, how do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? "Building model airplanes" says the little fairy; well, we're not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. The next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser, and your daughter's knocked up. I seen it a hundred times.
Ted Nelson, Customer: But why do they put a guarantee on the box?
Tommy: Because they know all they sold ya was a guaranteed piece of shit. That's all it is, isn't it? Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I got spare time. But for now, for your customer's sake, for your daughter's sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality product from me.
Ted Nelson, Customer: [pause] Okay, I'll buy from you.
Largest relative to automaker is always volume. The measurement you are speaking of is "an equal weighting of sales, profits, assets and market value" and that list is all companies, not automotive, so obviously volume means nothing since Kellogg's doesn't sell automobiles.
Not a programmer by any means(You're out of your element, Donny), but I remember one of the first things being taught in high school APCS ~10 years ago was to always initialize a variable because uninitialized variables are unpredictable. We used a Borland compiler, and it gave random junk in an uninitialized variable if I recall.
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Third. Farmer gets credit from Heinlein for breaking barriers that made for his own success(and Farmer gives it back).
I wouldn't say it's all bad software, I'm sure a lot of it is, but some of it is purpose driven software that has been repurposed as if it were off the shelf software. Dev houses build a piece of software for a specific need for a specific customer, then that customer refers them to others and they all want the same thing. They don't rewrite the software to be off-the-shelf, they just repurpose what they have and shoehorn it in and make it work(well, it works with MS SQL, but this company uses Sybase, so lets just quickly change the syntax and now everything is okay). It might be great software, but it's a shitty implementation of it.
Because the state says so per the qualifications for the exemption? If I had my choice I'd move, but I can't.
California has various exemptions from overtime pay laws. I fall under the "computer professional" exemption.
And that has really never been debated. Apple is an advertising company that sells the products they advertise for.
The more connected I'm forced to be, the more disconnected I wish I was. My job at a technology company forces me to be connected 24/7 for various reason. Sooner or later I'm going to retire very early and move to some small town in the Sierra Nevadas. I've come to learn that I hate the privacy walls that are being torn down by both business and government on the internet, and as it evolves past the Old West in to East Berlin, I hate the whole thing more and more.
There won't be one exactly like it.. a long while back there was a dev posting somewhere that stated that Chromium doesn't have the hooks the FF does for NoScript to be implemented the way it is. Regardless, FF has it now and it works. I'm not a fan of FF, but I'm a fan of NoScript more than Ghostery, NotScript, and whatever other stuff is available on Chrome/Chromium that attempts to duplicate NoScript.
And that isn't reality today. I don't live in fear of the future. People that live in fear of the future institute rights wrecking shit like the Patriot Act and SOPA because they're afraid of what-ifs. Fuck that. Right now, that's not the case. The day it is is the day I worry about it.
This is a problem because Microsoft insists on a unified platform. The reality is that SecureBoot is only a forced "feature" of Windows RT(that is, Windows 8 on ARM devices). It's also a problem because linux circlejerkists on /. are retards who don't know how to read, as well.
Gore Vidal was a WP7 user?
He shouldn't have been, but he created the goddamn company, so he got to do what he wanted. How hard is that to understand? It's not like he went to Steve Jobs and said "hey dude, make me CEO of Apple when you die". He drafted the articles of incorporation, filed the correct paperwork, paid the money, and became CEO. It's not that hard.
And you're most likely not going to make an engineer a CEO(the vast vast majority of the time you're not). That's a business executive position, who are supposed to make sound business decisions, not sound engineering decisions. Putting an engineer in at CEO is no different than putting in a fan at CEO, which is what happened here, but with the caveat that the fan created the company and it was his choice to make.
He was already rich, and he risked a significant amount of his own personal fortune. And I didn't call him a visionary.
1) You're obviously jealous since you have no athletic ability
2) He created a business venture that hired people in technical, well-paying jobs. Yea, they went under, but about half of new companies fail within 5 years. Without risk-takers and visionaries, we'd all be sitting around the stone circle talking about how Thag caught that scary squirrel with his bare hands
You're forgetting that GameStop now owns Impulse. Game trading, temporary licenses, etc, are entirely possible. Impulse is the #2 or #3 download marketplace(competing with D2D.. don't count GOG considering what they sell)
Tell that to my grandma
Until they buy Office and say "Why the fuck won't this just work?"
Different logic set, yes. EU allows for reason to inject itself into decisions of law(well I know the law says this, but is it really worth it to do it that way?). US is more literal, which is a huge problem when you have tons of ambiguous laws and, within the realm of this top, tons of ambiguous patents to live within that set of ambiguous laws. Thus, you get literal interpretations of ambiguity that are completely awful and anti-competitive, anti-consumer, and anti-business all at the same time.
My 25/25 FIOS has problems when my son uses Steam and gobbles up all 25mbits to download a patch while I'm playing a game. Saturation is possible if the source has the bandwidth to match your own. QoS is definitely not a bad thing.
When you start with UPS as a warehouse worker you make less than minimum wage after initiation and dues for the first few years. Thanks for looking out for me Teamsters
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Tommy: Let's think about this for a sec, Ted. Why would somebody put a guarantee on a box? Hmmm, very interesting.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Go on, I'm listening.
Tommy: Here's the way I see it, Ted. Guy puts a fancy guarantee on a box 'cause he wants you to feel all warm and toasty inside.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Yeah, makes a man feel good.
Tommy: 'Course it does. Why shouldn't it? Ya figure you put that little box under your pillow at night, the Guarantee Fairy might come by and leave a quarter, am I right, Ted?
[chuckles until he sees that Ted is not laughing]
Ted Nelson, Customer: [impatiently] What's your point?
Tommy: The point is, how do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? "Building model airplanes" says the little fairy; well, we're not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. The next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser, and your daughter's knocked up. I seen it a hundred times.
Ted Nelson, Customer: But why do they put a guarantee on the box?
Tommy: Because they know all they sold ya was a guaranteed piece of shit. That's all it is, isn't it? Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I got spare time. But for now, for your customer's sake, for your daughter's sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality product from me.
Ted Nelson, Customer: [pause] Okay, I'll buy from you.
Largest relative to automaker is always volume. The measurement you are speaking of is "an equal weighting of sales, profits, assets and market value" and that list is all companies, not automotive, so obviously volume means nothing since Kellogg's doesn't sell automobiles.
What about magnets of unusual size?
Not a programmer by any means(You're out of your element, Donny), but I remember one of the first things being taught in high school APCS ~10 years ago was to always initialize a variable because uninitialized variables are unpredictable. We used a Borland compiler, and it gave random junk in an uninitialized variable if I recall.
What is a struct if not an object in the philosophical sense?