Yep, they use frequency of search on the internet for the language to estimate. Which means confusing, and easily broken languages like C, and infrequently used(and thus easily forgotten) languages like bash get a huge leg-up.
I expect MS will probably just find a way to patch it up in the near future.
The "hole" though requires a hacker to tinker with memory.
I expect what Microsoft will instead do is restrict debugging access -- remote debugging ONLY available on special
installs of Windows RT "Developer Edition"; requiring a special product key, to enable developer functionality.
The tablets sold to consumers won't be developer-enabled, therefore, won't have the remote debugging functionality
required to tamper with kernel memory.
That still doesn't explain how in the fuck you get below zero movement, how can you move less than none?
Read the article for explanation. You indeed cannot have below zero "movement" or "jiggling".
Negative temperature, says nothing about movement.
That is the definition of temperature does not involve the amount of movement.
That is, Temperature is not exactly equivalent to a measure of movement; there are things stated to have temperature
where no notion of movement occurs; things like the magnetic spins and other quantum systems can have temperature, even if there is no kinetic energy.
Temperature is defined as: 1/T = dS/dE
\frac{1}{T} = \frac{dS}{dE} which says, in words, that the temperature is inversely proportional to the slope of the entropy vs. energy curve.
Chatting and talking with people does improve their English skills if they don't speak English natively. At least that's what I see when my 12 year old son has full score on every English test he has done so far, something no other kid manage to get in his class.
We were talking about teenagers. The people the 12 year old is chatting with are most likely older.
They can improve their dexterity with typing and other language skills, particularly when chatting in a place where other people have more developed skills.
However, the same can be done more quickly, through IRC chat, or by reading eBooks, writing blogs, and participating on Facebook; the latter two of which many children partake (usually involving lying about their age, to state they are 13 or older).
They may also, however, be in danger of becoming overly accommodated with chat room idiosyncrasies.
For example, they might get penalized for using "WTH" or "LOL" on a school paper, or an emoticon.
Often times chat participants will not be good role models; they may sling obscenities, spam, or other sexually obscene/offensive texts that a 12 year old has no business being in a place where they may be seen.
Staying up all night reading books isn't a good idea either if you have school or work the next day.
That all depends. If you have a test on the subject matter, and you needed to read something you forgot to read, you may still improve your lot by reading the book.
You are less likely to be addicted to a book and be unable to put it down, completely unaware of the passage of time VS a video game. It does happen, but the activity of reading has natural stopping points such as the end of a chapter.
Money is earned in order to keep you alive to do the thing that you enjoy. It is not the reason you're alive.
The fact is, most people will need money and resources to achieve sustainable happiness,
and most people cannot truly afford to sustain "maximum possible time spent recreating" until retirement.
In general parents will not (or can not) provide such things. To the extent possible, the child has to learn to be productive to ultimately earn money over their lifetime that will enable them to buy themselves things such as cars, house, money, food, electricity, computers to play WoW, WoW subscription fees, Internet service to access WoW.
The parent providing the child is a temporary situation to enable the child on their journey; everyone needs some time recreating, however, to the extent possible, the child must be working on growing up: that is, gathering both the education (book education and practical education), and financial resources to fund a reasonable path to enlightenment and happiness.
Also the form of happiness that takes emotions derived from pride/accomplishment and achieving status are also important things that teenagers need to learn, and are only available through productive self-improvement activities --- and gaining a few levels in WoW or solving a quest don't really count.
However, the reason behind not spending all your time in WoW is because you're missing out on fun, not because you're missing out on being productive.
Fun is not Happiness. Fun is only one possible way of being happy.
There are also experiences such as finding true love that are different from Fun,
and inherently involve large amounts of productive work (so much so, that it
can be barely possible to achieve).
Having teenagers is also work, and not necessarily much fun for the parents, but still, gives
parents' happiness.
So anyways, while you shouldn't treat your child as if they must be in a slave labor camp,
On average At most 3 to 4 hours a night during weekdays, should just be "recreation time",
followed by 8 hours of mandatory sleep, more time on weekends, but never less than 21 hours a week
allowed to be spent studying/homework outside class, nor less than 14 hours a week spent working, either on chores to earn privileges such as a WoW subscription, or at a part time job to earn money to buy their own WoW subscription.
1. That they will be convicted to jail. They could very easily get probation on the recommendation of the victims/parents.
People convicted of a crime don't go to a jail, they go to a prison.
They're already being held in a jail, and as teenagers, they are probably going to be held in jail throughout the proceedings unless someone posts bond on their behalf... the question will be if they get convicted and get sent to a prison, or if the outcome is that they are released, or get sentenced to a lesser penalty such as community service or mandatory counselling.
If someone can stay up until 5 AM playing WoW and still end up doing well in school, what's the problem?
The problem is threefold: (1) It is not healthy to stay up so long playing WoW; it is not a normal activity, and the only benefit is entertainment with significant negatives -- it is a nasty habit to get into, that can have serious consequences over time, due to sleep deprivation, and potential psychological issues due to emerging addictive/obsessive game playing behavior. As a parent, I would want the best for my kid; therefore, behaviors that are likely to result in unhealthy habits are intolerable. It would be just as unacceptable as it would be for them to stay out that late drinking or partying.
Staying up late that night on rare occasion might be OK, but not to continue a game to the 9th hour or longer.
(2) The child would seem to be playing one game for an excessively long period - if staying up until 5 AM -- this has negative social ramifications. Diversity of activities are important. Watching TV, playing computer games, or surfing the web, for more than a few hours a day: unacceptable. For the teenage to learn to survive and mature, it is important, that they be exposed to a more diverse experience, which means productive or intellectual activities besides playing WoW are not optional.
(3) Playing WoW is not productive. If the child has that much free time available that they are willing to be awake so long, then the greatest percentage of it must be used in a productive pursuit -- either pursuing educational activities, such as reading books, and specifically nonfiction, OR pursuing a productive activity that improves skills/abilities, or earns money.
The chance that they are BOTH productive and play WoW that long are basically negligible, so it is a safe thing to say, if they play WoW that long, it is reasonable to disallow them use of the computer.
(4) Parent provides the internet connection. This is a shared resource, and they need to learn to share, which means not utilizing it 24x7.
It is reasonable for the parent to say "You must always stop using it at 10 and go to bed"
[* Time after 10pm is Parents' porn-watching leisure time]
The problem is though, controlling a child in silly ways like an "internet curfew" when they are teenagers isn't productive and leads to deeper problems.
It isn't out of the line, if the kid tends to stay up all ours of the night playing online.
Or their school work suffers because they're sleepy in the morning.
When there's no job security, employees will start looking for alternatives.
Sure... the increase in risk for their employees, means that the increase in risks involved in getting a new job are less of an increase in risk than before.
If there's little increase in risk, why not go for the bigger reward, if one's available?
there are no subtle errors introduced into instruments or problems with high power non-FCC approved devices bought overseas
Well, when you are talking about non-approved devices, all bets are off -- the device might be an illegal intentional (or unintentional) emitter or jammer that breaks lots of things in the case that it's not approved.
Surface also has the benefit of not allowing/encouraging jailbreaking of an incompletely developed walled garden on an Intel platform, and thus risking that platform when applying a conversion of the platform to pull Intel into the fold.
OK... But how long before the FTC starts investigating Microsoft for abuse of monopoly powers to conduct the anticompetitive practice, product tying, with regards to implementing measures to prevent competitors from producing OSes compatible with their platform?
We dont care if you install us on a competing tablet, surface is just a marketing tool
As long as you pay for the software.
If you bought the surface, you already paid for the software too, so no, they shouldn't care what you installed on it;
their profit is already made with the sale, and doesn't rely on you keeping their software on the unit.
Hackers were able to get Android running even on an iPhone.
I don't think the Surface will be a technical impossibility getting Android running on it... the only question will be if hackers are willing
to devote the time and energy to it.
IMO it's just not worth it. Don't buy the crap from MS:)
If you use electricity effeciently and use gas for heat you save the most money on your energy bill.
Ashame, my only heater is electric, and draws a heck of a lot more amps than a lightbulb when it cycles on.
If the lit bulbs dampen the rate of temperature drop, resulting in fewer cycle ons of that massive equipment, the useful heat they emit could produce a total beneficial effect...
No, they can't, unless being a certain age is a demonstrable job requirement.
They're probably OK. The ADEA prohibits against discrminating against people over age 40; and the
age anti-discrimination law doesn't apply to anyone younger than that.
It is OK to favor an older worker over a younger one, or refusing an applicant because they are too young
-- but not because they are too old (unless there is a local law prohibiting this).
What the federal law prohibits is favoring a younger worker over an older one, giving the younger worker more money, compensation,
or better benefits, because they are younger, or adopting a policy that has a disproportionately negative effect on older employees/applicants.
Employers can NOT ask how old you are? Seems that would matter in some jobs. Porno industry would be one. Any job that serves or sells alcohol.
Plus most jobs have your fill an application, which requests your date of birth.
The info will be on the application. If there is a legally mandated age requirement, the application will be sorted out citing the rule.
The interviewer cannot ask you that question about your age, to make the decision; this will generally be enforced by company policy, in order to keep the organization in compliance with non-discrimination rules, the interviewer won't even have access to the info. They can ask you if you have verified that you are legally allowed to transport or sell alcohol or do other actions required for the job that may be legally restricted.
You can be sure that 9 times out of 10, the job will go to the guy/gal who does hand over the info.
No... If they do give it to a guy/gal who handed over the info, AND they asked you to hand over the info, AND you didn't,
AND they didn't hire you; then you may be able to sue them, and then they will have to prove that their choice to hire
the guy/gal instead had nothing to do with handing over the login info.
Only in schools where CS is taught out of the math department.
Where do you place schools, where CS is a separate department in the college of sciences,
and they're not taught out either Math or Engineering schools?:)
And typically colleges grade on none of those things.
It's hard enough for students to get their code working; I do believe if maintainability, extensibility, and self-documentation were
grading characteristics, there might be 3 or 4 CS graduates in the US per year
There are probably lots of online schools offering degrees other than Comp Sci. Look at those.
You're self-taught in programming languages; that's good enough for programming.
Your job experience as a Senior Developer is a very strong credential for getting another job.
Maybe you should think of getting a Business degree.
Get a degree in Business or Management, combined with Senior level developer experience,
and you should be an attractive candidate, for a programming position, regardless of your lack
of formal training in CS.
CS degree is only imperative if you would like to do advanced Science work, eg scientific research into computing, or teach at a university in
the field.
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Yep, they use frequency of search on the internet for the language to estimate. Which means confusing, and easily broken languages like C, and infrequently used(and thus easily forgotten) languages like bash get a huge leg-up.
How come BATCH (.BAT) isn't on there, then?
Critical systems written by vendors other than Microsoft?
I expect MS will probably just find a way to patch it up in the near future.
The "hole" though requires a hacker to tinker with memory.
I expect what Microsoft will instead do is restrict debugging access -- remote debugging ONLY available on special installs of Windows RT "Developer Edition"; requiring a special product key, to enable developer functionality.
The tablets sold to consumers won't be developer-enabled, therefore, won't have the remote debugging functionality required to tamper with kernel memory.
That still doesn't explain how in the fuck you get below zero movement, how can you move less than none?
Read the article for explanation. You indeed cannot have below zero "movement" or "jiggling". Negative temperature, says nothing about movement. That is the definition of temperature does not involve the amount of movement.
That is, Temperature is not exactly equivalent to a measure of movement; there are things stated to have temperature where no notion of movement occurs; things like the magnetic spins and other quantum systems can have temperature, even if there is no kinetic energy. Temperature is defined as: 1/T = dS/dE
Chatting and talking with people does improve their English skills if they don't speak English natively. At least that's what I see when my 12 year old son has full score on every English test he has done so far, something no other kid manage to get in his class.
We were talking about teenagers. The people the 12 year old is chatting with are most likely older. They can improve their dexterity with typing and other language skills, particularly when chatting in a place where other people have more developed skills.
However, the same can be done more quickly, through IRC chat, or by reading eBooks, writing blogs, and participating on Facebook; the latter two of which many children partake (usually involving lying about their age, to state they are 13 or older).
They may also, however, be in danger of becoming overly accommodated with chat room idiosyncrasies. For example, they might get penalized for using "WTH" or "LOL" on a school paper, or an emoticon.
Often times chat participants will not be good role models; they may sling obscenities, spam, or other sexually obscene/offensive texts that a 12 year old has no business being in a place where they may be seen.
Staying up all night reading books isn't a good idea either if you have school or work the next day.
That all depends. If you have a test on the subject matter, and you needed to read something you forgot to read, you may still improve your lot by reading the book.
You are less likely to be addicted to a book and be unable to put it down, completely unaware of the passage of time VS a video game. It does happen, but the activity of reading has natural stopping points such as the end of a chapter.
Money is earned in order to keep you alive to do the thing that you enjoy. It is not the reason you're alive.
The fact is, most people will need money and resources to achieve sustainable happiness, and most people cannot truly afford to sustain "maximum possible time spent recreating" until retirement.
In general parents will not (or can not) provide such things. To the extent possible, the child has to learn to be productive to ultimately earn money over their lifetime that will enable them to buy themselves things such as cars, house, money, food, electricity, computers to play WoW, WoW subscription fees, Internet service to access WoW.
The parent providing the child is a temporary situation to enable the child on their journey; everyone needs some time recreating, however, to the extent possible, the child must be working on growing up: that is, gathering both the education (book education and practical education), and financial resources to fund a reasonable path to enlightenment and happiness.
Also the form of happiness that takes emotions derived from pride/accomplishment and achieving status are also important things that teenagers need to learn, and are only available through productive self-improvement activities --- and gaining a few levels in WoW or solving a quest don't really count.
However, the reason behind not spending all your time in WoW is because you're missing out on fun, not because you're missing out on being productive.
Fun is not Happiness. Fun is only one possible way of being happy.
There are also experiences such as finding true love that are different from Fun, and inherently involve large amounts of productive work (so much so, that it can be barely possible to achieve).
Having teenagers is also work, and not necessarily much fun for the parents, but still, gives parents' happiness.
So anyways, while you shouldn't treat your child as if they must be in a slave labor camp, On average At most 3 to 4 hours a night during weekdays, should just be "recreation time", followed by 8 hours of mandatory sleep, more time on weekends, but never less than 21 hours a week allowed to be spent studying/homework outside class, nor less than 14 hours a week spent working, either on chores to earn privileges such as a WoW subscription, or at a part time job to earn money to buy their own WoW subscription.
1. That they will be convicted to jail. They could very easily get probation on the recommendation of the victims/parents.
People convicted of a crime don't go to a jail, they go to a prison. They're already being held in a jail, and as teenagers, they are probably going to be held in jail throughout the proceedings unless someone posts bond on their behalf... the question will be if they get convicted and get sent to a prison, or if the outcome is that they are released, or get sentenced to a lesser penalty such as community service or mandatory counselling.
If someone can stay up until 5 AM playing WoW and still end up doing well in school, what's the problem?
The problem is threefold: (1) It is not healthy to stay up so long playing WoW; it is not a normal activity, and the only benefit is entertainment with significant negatives -- it is a nasty habit to get into, that can have serious consequences over time, due to sleep deprivation, and potential psychological issues due to emerging addictive/obsessive game playing behavior. As a parent, I would want the best for my kid; therefore, behaviors that are likely to result in unhealthy habits are intolerable. It would be just as unacceptable as it would be for them to stay out that late drinking or partying.
Staying up late that night on rare occasion might be OK, but not to continue a game to the 9th hour or longer.
(2) The child would seem to be playing one game for an excessively long period - if staying up until 5 AM -- this has negative social ramifications. Diversity of activities are important. Watching TV, playing computer games, or surfing the web, for more than a few hours a day: unacceptable. For the teenage to learn to survive and mature, it is important, that they be exposed to a more diverse experience, which means productive or intellectual activities besides playing WoW are not optional.
(3) Playing WoW is not productive. If the child has that much free time available that they are willing to be awake so long, then the greatest percentage of it must be used in a productive pursuit -- either pursuing educational activities, such as reading books, and specifically nonfiction, OR pursuing a productive activity that improves skills/abilities, or earns money.
The chance that they are BOTH productive and play WoW that long are basically negligible, so it is a safe thing to say, if they play WoW that long, it is reasonable to disallow them use of the computer.
(4) Parent provides the internet connection. This is a shared resource, and they need to learn to share, which means not utilizing it 24x7. It is reasonable for the parent to say "You must always stop using it at 10 and go to bed"
[* Time after 10pm is Parents' porn-watching leisure time]
If I were the parents, I wouldn't have had my own children arrested, or put them in a position to be arrested.
What about the kid involved who was not their child?
Refraining from reporting a crime is a bad idea. One of the major restraints against crime is the risk of getting caught and penalized.
The problem is though, controlling a child in silly ways like an "internet curfew" when they are teenagers isn't productive and leads to deeper problems.
It isn't out of the line, if the kid tends to stay up all ours of the night playing online. Or their school work suffers because they're sleepy in the morning.
When there's no job security, employees will start looking for alternatives.
Sure... the increase in risk for their employees, means that the increase in risks involved in getting a new job are less of an increase in risk than before.
If there's little increase in risk, why not go for the bigger reward, if one's available?
there are no subtle errors introduced into instruments or problems with high power non-FCC approved devices bought overseas
Well, when you are talking about non-approved devices, all bets are off -- the device might be an illegal intentional (or unintentional) emitter or jammer that breaks lots of things in the case that it's not approved.
Jabber + PSYC
IRC needs a redesign from scratch...
Sounds like a great idea... I even have an idea of what we could call the redesign: Jabber / Conference Room.
Surface also has the benefit of not allowing/encouraging jailbreaking of an incompletely developed walled garden on an Intel platform, and thus risking that platform when applying a conversion of the platform to pull Intel into the fold.
OK... But how long before the FTC starts investigating Microsoft for abuse of monopoly powers to conduct the anticompetitive practice, product tying, with regards to implementing measures to prevent competitors from producing OSes compatible with their platform?
We dont care if you install us on a competing tablet, surface is just a marketing tool
As long as you pay for the software.
If you bought the surface, you already paid for the software too, so no, they shouldn't care what you installed on it; their profit is already made with the sale, and doesn't rely on you keeping their software on the unit.
Hackers were able to get Android running even on an iPhone. I don't think the Surface will be a technical impossibility getting Android running on it... the only question will be if hackers are willing to devote the time and energy to it.
IMO it's just not worth it. Don't buy the crap from MS :)
If you use electricity effeciently and use gas for heat you save the most money on your energy bill.
Ashame, my only heater is electric, and draws a heck of a lot more amps than a lightbulb when it cycles on.
If the lit bulbs dampen the rate of temperature drop, resulting in fewer cycle ons of that massive equipment, the useful heat they emit could produce a total beneficial effect...
No, they can't, unless being a certain age is a demonstrable job requirement.
They're probably OK. The ADEA prohibits against discrminating against people over age 40; and the age anti-discrimination law doesn't apply to anyone younger than that. It is OK to favor an older worker over a younger one, or refusing an applicant because they are too young -- but not because they are too old (unless there is a local law prohibiting this).
What the federal law prohibits is favoring a younger worker over an older one, giving the younger worker more money, compensation, or better benefits, because they are younger, or adopting a policy that has a disproportionately negative effect on older employees/applicants.
Employers can NOT ask how old you are? Seems that would matter in some jobs. Porno industry would be one. Any job that serves or sells alcohol.
Plus most jobs have your fill an application, which requests your date of birth.
The info will be on the application. If there is a legally mandated age requirement, the application will be sorted out citing the rule.
The interviewer cannot ask you that question about your age, to make the decision; this will generally be enforced by company policy, in order to keep the organization in compliance with non-discrimination rules, the interviewer won't even have access to the info. They can ask you if you have verified that you are legally allowed to transport or sell alcohol or do other actions required for the job that may be legally restricted.
You can be sure that 9 times out of 10, the job will go to the guy/gal who does hand over the info.
No... If they do give it to a guy/gal who handed over the info, AND they asked you to hand over the info, AND you didn't, AND they didn't hire you; then you may be able to sue them, and then they will have to prove that their choice to hire the guy/gal instead had nothing to do with handing over the login info.
Only in schools where CS is taught out of the math department.
Where do you place schools, where CS is a separate department in the college of sciences, and they're not taught out either Math or Engineering schools? :)
And typically colleges grade on none of those things. It's hard enough for students to get their code working; I do believe if maintainability, extensibility, and self-documentation were grading characteristics, there might be 3 or 4 CS graduates in the US per year
There are probably lots of online schools offering degrees other than Comp Sci. Look at those.
You're self-taught in programming languages; that's good enough for programming. Your job experience as a Senior Developer is a very strong credential for getting another job.
Maybe you should think of getting a Business degree.
Get a degree in Business or Management, combined with Senior level developer experience, and you should be an attractive candidate, for a programming position, regardless of your lack of formal training in CS.
CS degree is only imperative if you would like to do advanced Science work, eg scientific research into computing, or teach at a university in the field.