Correct. And some people come from cultures and households where it was okay to do so and possibly encouraged. Not everyone comes from that culture or household.
Not quite. ARM sells cores (for the most part) and OEMs integrate them into their custom chip. It is this customization that makes each chip so different. Had there been a single chip supplier, there wouldn't be this proliferation of "hacks" needed to boot, configure and use the chips.
That may have been true before internationalization and globalization. Now, huge entities like IBM, Samsung, Sony and Halliburton are beyond the reach of a single government and some collections of governments. Halliburton, for example, recently moved its headquarters from Houston to Dubai. If sanctions were taken against it by the US or some other large government, it would still be operating just fine, yet it receives its majority of income from the US government.
There's a very big difference between a ground system and an aircraft data acquisition, display, communication or controls system. If your satellite ground system crashes, you start it back up. If your aircraft crashes, well you know. Furthermore, before you can ship aero software you have meet DO-178B certification and possibly others. To do this you probably want to guarantee that the software is written up to code before you rely on it, so choosing any old library just won't do.
Several of my friends went off to work in Aerospace. Ada is very big in that industry and they don't hire Ada programmers. Instead they hire competent engineers and give them a 6 month (or more) class on how to program in Ada. This ensures that they actually know Ada, not just put it on their resume. It also trains the programmer on the specifics of how that organization employs Ada. Studies have shown this to training leads to better programmers, better programs, less cost and time overruns and fewer bugs.
It would be nice if all employers would have some on the job training, but it seems that the software industry has moved toward a hire-for-the-job system. Once the job is done, so is the programmer as well as all the domain knowledge that programmer has developed. This leads to programmers learning every language under the sun to inflate their resumes, but failing to learn how to program well in any language.
It will force a fundamental reorganization of society.
It won't be the first time corporations took part in the wholesale slaughtering of persons of lower status for profit. Oh, did you think that the shift would be toward a more egalitarian existence? Not likely. Even at this very moment people are easily being manipulated into campaigning against their interests so that the wealthy may maintain their status quo.
The Marines just cut their assistance program 75%. I'd not continue spreading that trope that the military will finance all of a college degree. The other branches are expected to follow suit. [1]
That's great. So you're saying the solution is for students to work 80-90 hours a week AND attend college? You've got a real workable plan, right there!
You'd think so, right? There's still no guarantee they'll address the problem, inform their customers and not go after the researcher. The only thing that forces them to do the right thing is pressure from their customers and/or regulatory organizations.
I also have used netted chairs for over 3 years now and have had no damage to either the chairs (quite surprising!) nor my clothes. I hadn't even considered wear on my clothes due to them, but it hasn't been a problem at all. I agree, I think Tablizer may have had poor chairs or some other issue causing his problem.
Lazy?! Most users will be ignorant of the details of the inner workings of their browser.
This is true for everyone about something. Do you really know all the details of how the latest car engines work? It really doesn't matter as long as it works correctly and doesn't affect you. But this, when working correctly, monitors your every move and logs your every activity. Someone has to inform the users or stop Amazon lest we let every user walk into this ignorant. Members of our Congress, elected to represent their constituents, have decided to stand up to Amazon.
And a ridiculous number of people don't use Google, but rather Baidu for all their searches. Know many of them? Because 3% of the browser share goes to Opera does not mean that it is distributed evenly.
I live and volunteer with HS students in the San Diego area and the problem I see most isn't the lack of parental involvement here, but the complete inability to assist. There are many students who come from Spanish (or other language) only families, both legal and illegal. The parents cannot communicate with teachers and organizations, frequently are undereducated to assist their children and even if they could there would still be a language barrier. Their children speak, read and write English very well, participate in class and extracurriculars but often don't have the support at home to help them achieve the success they're capable of.
This is a whole class of students, future adult Americans, who aren't getting the education they need to succeed in and contribute to America.
A real name policy is the kind of thing that does cost lives. Recently bloggers in Mexico have been executed by the cartels for posts the cartels disagreed with.
Google+ lost my support because of this. They also banned persons using their real names because Google didn't think they were real (e.g. Violet Blue). In addition, names and naming vary from culture to culture and some change entirely over time. Who does Google think they are to determine what or who is correct?
No company would back any RnD they didn't have exclusive rights to.
However, right now we have companies scaling back their R&D way back and publicly funded projects are doing the majority of development. Academia has been developing all sorts of solutions to problems only to have them snapped up and monopolized by industry.
Here's an example: University of Wisconsin-Madison develops a way to make processors more efficient. Intel uses this in their Core 2 Duo processors. [1] Who paid for the research? Let's look at the citation in one of UW-Madison's publications [2]:
NSF Grants CCR-9303030 and MIP-9505853, ONR Grant N00014-93-1-0465, and by U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca under Contract DABT63-95-C-0127 and ARPA order no. D346.
Looks like you and I did.
Who profits from it? Intel and UW-Madison.
This pattern has been repeated endlessly and in all sorts of fields. Academia is on the cutting edge of drug and medical research using funding from the US taxpayers, but the pharmas are claiming to have spent billions of dollars researching their drugs. Yeah, billions were spent, but they were the American public's. Just another example of public risk with privatized profits.
The producer rule can easily be sidestepped, particularly in the case of software. I can write a program that implements a reference implementation, failing to do anything productive and then make it available to license for a ridiculous amount. This way I cover my ass on the producer rule, someone can waste money and license the reference implementation and I can still go out and sue everyone silly.
Patents are a bad idea and prevent innovation. Software patents doubly so.
It's a bunch of baloney as well. In college I made friends with some of my professors and when summer came around they were scrounging for work because they didn't get paid during that time. Some took vacations, some took summer class roles, some worked on grants and others consulted during the summer.
Doom for windows 3.1 was the proof of concept for WinG
That's nice. But it isn't related to the fact that you can run Doom under Windows.
As for your examples.
If you don't like my examples, fine. Fact of the matter was that Doom was the height of hardware intensive computing at the time. Games like Chips Challenge, Sim City, Commander Keen, Battle Chess and the like were the norm. All of this predated the 3dfx Voodoo graphics card, which accelerated graphics. At the same time the 3dfx cards came out, we began to see more 3D games such as Descent and Descent II and Quake, of which only Descent predated Windows 95, but was released in 1995, and all of them ran fine under Windows 95.
Prior to Windows 95, you had an installation of DOS and win.exe was executed to bring up Windows. Because Windows (up to 3.12) users are a proper subset of the DOS users, games that targeted DOS had a greater audience than those that targeted Windows. Windows 95 heralded in the time when you couldn't target DOS without having windows there. From that point forward, targeting your software at DOS didn't benefit it any.
Windows 3 had plenty of games that ran under it. Chips Challenge, Sim City, Doom and others all ran fine on Windows.
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Correct. And some people come from cultures and households where it was okay to do so and possibly encouraged. Not everyone comes from that culture or household.
Not quite. ARM sells cores (for the most part) and OEMs integrate them into their custom chip. It is this customization that makes each chip so different. Had there been a single chip supplier, there wouldn't be this proliferation of "hacks" needed to boot, configure and use the chips.
That may have been true before internationalization and globalization. Now, huge entities like IBM, Samsung, Sony and Halliburton are beyond the reach of a single government and some collections of governments. Halliburton, for example, recently moved its headquarters from Houston to Dubai. If sanctions were taken against it by the US or some other large government, it would still be operating just fine, yet it receives its majority of income from the US government.
There's a very big difference between a ground system and an aircraft data acquisition, display, communication or controls system. If your satellite ground system crashes, you start it back up. If your aircraft crashes, well you know. Furthermore, before you can ship aero software you have meet DO-178B certification and possibly others. To do this you probably want to guarantee that the software is written up to code before you rely on it, so choosing any old library just won't do.
I don't see many ads for Ada or Lisp these days.
Several of my friends went off to work in Aerospace. Ada is very big in that industry and they don't hire Ada programmers. Instead they hire competent engineers and give them a 6 month (or more) class on how to program in Ada. This ensures that they actually know Ada, not just put it on their resume. It also trains the programmer on the specifics of how that organization employs Ada. Studies have shown this to training leads to better programmers, better programs, less cost and time overruns and fewer bugs.
It would be nice if all employers would have some on the job training, but it seems that the software industry has moved toward a hire-for-the-job system. Once the job is done, so is the programmer as well as all the domain knowledge that programmer has developed. This leads to programmers learning every language under the sun to inflate their resumes, but failing to learn how to program well in any language.
It will force a fundamental reorganization of society.
It won't be the first time corporations took part in the wholesale slaughtering of persons of lower status for profit. Oh, did you think that the shift would be toward a more egalitarian existence? Not likely. Even at this very moment people are easily being manipulated into campaigning against their interests so that the wealthy may maintain their status quo.
The Marines just cut their assistance program 75%. I'd not continue spreading that trope that the military will finance all of a college degree. The other branches are expected to follow suit. [1]
That's great. So you're saying the solution is for students to work 80-90 hours a week AND attend college? You've got a real workable plan, right there!
You'd think so, right? There's still no guarantee they'll address the problem, inform their customers and not go after the researcher. The only thing that forces them to do the right thing is pressure from their customers and/or regulatory organizations.
I also have used netted chairs for over 3 years now and have had no damage to either the chairs (quite surprising!) nor my clothes. I hadn't even considered wear on my clothes due to them, but it hasn't been a problem at all. I agree, I think Tablizer may have had poor chairs or some other issue causing his problem.
Lazy?! Most users will be ignorant of the details of the inner workings of their browser.
This is true for everyone about something. Do you really know all the details of how the latest car engines work? It really doesn't matter as long as it works correctly and doesn't affect you. But this, when working correctly, monitors your every move and logs your every activity. Someone has to inform the users or stop Amazon lest we let every user walk into this ignorant. Members of our Congress, elected to represent their constituents, have decided to stand up to Amazon.
A "feet of drones"
Fixed. Thanks for keeping us on our toes.
I see what you did there!
And a ridiculous number of people don't use Google, but rather Baidu for all their searches. Know many of them? Because 3% of the browser share goes to Opera does not mean that it is distributed evenly.
Windows is not POSIX certified. It has POSIX compliant libraries that can be added to provide this functionality. [1]
Waivers are granted to get Windows and other software that violates guidelines approved for use.
I live and volunteer with HS students in the San Diego area and the problem I see most isn't the lack of parental involvement here, but the complete inability to assist. There are many students who come from Spanish (or other language) only families, both legal and illegal. The parents cannot communicate with teachers and organizations, frequently are undereducated to assist their children and even if they could there would still be a language barrier. Their children speak, read and write English very well, participate in class and extracurriculars but often don't have the support at home to help them achieve the success they're capable of.
This is a whole class of students, future adult Americans, who aren't getting the education they need to succeed in and contribute to America.
+1
A real name policy is the kind of thing that does cost lives. Recently bloggers in Mexico have been executed by the cartels for posts the cartels disagreed with. Google+ lost my support because of this. They also banned persons using their real names because Google didn't think they were real (e.g. Violet Blue). In addition, names and naming vary from culture to culture and some change entirely over time. Who does Google think they are to determine what or who is correct?
I think you missed sarcasm in that last statement. You demonstrated his point exactly.
No company would back any RnD they didn't have exclusive rights to.
However, right now we have companies scaling back their R&D way back and publicly funded projects are doing the majority of development. Academia has been developing all sorts of solutions to problems only to have them snapped up and monopolized by industry.
Here's an example: University of Wisconsin-Madison develops a way to make processors more efficient. Intel uses this in their Core 2 Duo processors. [1] Who paid for the research? Let's look at the citation in one of UW-Madison's publications [2]:
NSF Grants CCR-9303030 and MIP-9505853, ONR Grant N00014-93-1-0465, and by U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca under Contract DABT63-95-C-0127 and ARPA order no. D346.
Looks like you and I did.
Who profits from it? Intel and UW-Madison.
This pattern has been repeated endlessly and in all sorts of fields. Academia is on the cutting edge of drug and medical research using funding from the US taxpayers, but the pharmas are claiming to have spent billions of dollars researching their drugs. Yeah, billions were spent, but they were the American public's. Just another example of public risk with privatized profits.
The producer rule can easily be sidestepped, particularly in the case of software. I can write a program that implements a reference implementation, failing to do anything productive and then make it available to license for a ridiculous amount. This way I cover my ass on the producer rule, someone can waste money and license the reference implementation and I can still go out and sue everyone silly.
Patents are a bad idea and prevent innovation. Software patents doubly so.
It's a bunch of baloney as well. In college I made friends with some of my professors and when summer came around they were scrounging for work because they didn't get paid during that time. Some took vacations, some took summer class roles, some worked on grants and others consulted during the summer.
Sounds like you should have worried a little more about math class than starting your own company.
[citation needed]
OK Mister SuperCreationist(tm)....
Whatever, asshole.
Doom for windows 3.1 was the proof of concept for WinG
That's nice. But it isn't related to the fact that you can run Doom under Windows.
As for your examples.
If you don't like my examples, fine. Fact of the matter was that Doom was the height of hardware intensive computing at the time. Games like Chips Challenge, Sim City, Commander Keen, Battle Chess and the like were the norm. All of this predated the 3dfx Voodoo graphics card, which accelerated graphics. At the same time the 3dfx cards came out, we began to see more 3D games such as Descent and Descent II and Quake, of which only Descent predated Windows 95, but was released in 1995, and all of them ran fine under Windows 95.
Are you one of the SuperCreationist(tm)
What the hell, man?
Prior to Windows 95, you had an installation of DOS and win.exe was executed to bring up Windows. Because Windows (up to 3.12) users are a proper subset of the DOS users, games that targeted DOS had a greater audience than those that targeted Windows. Windows 95 heralded in the time when you couldn't target DOS without having windows there. From that point forward, targeting your software at DOS didn't benefit it any.
Windows 3 had plenty of games that ran under it. Chips Challenge, Sim City, Doom and others all ran fine on Windows.