What are the use cases for a type safe version of C anyway?
On the embedded side you can't live without being able to do type punning and other unsafe but extremely common techniques.
On the desktop side people have realized that big C apps are very hard to secure (hi Adobe) and maintain and moved on to other languages like C# or just gone full node.js.
In the middle you have things like operating systems, drivers, stacks etc. I guess they might benefit a little from being type safe, but do we actually have a problem with them not being so? Most of the issues seem to be related to lack of defence in depth and half baked ideas like running the USB stack in the kernel.
The problem is that they use it to boot the system, so you need it for at least the boot part before it can be disabled. There is that secret NSA disable bit, but you can't rely on it because at the very least the boot code has the execute first and that could be compromised.
To overcome this either Intel would have to create a new boot system and somehow disable any capability to change/update it (unlikely), or it will have to be replaced by an open source system that we can at least audit. Well, I guess there is another option, Intel could open source the boot code.
There are many bullshit claims on their page. "Accurate calorie count" via thermal management... No, skin temperature is not correlated with calorie burn to any useful extent.
They are extremely vague about how they will monitor your sleep quality too. It's not really a smart watch either, it doesn't have any connectivity.
My guess would be that it's a basic LCD watch with step counter built in. The calorie burn and sleep monitor are faked from the step counter data.
If they get rid of H1B companies will just move their operations to India. That's not the solution you are looking for.
You should concentrate on making high quality labor valued. Look at Germany, massive manufacturing base and competing with China on export value, because people value German quality and locality.
Basically you need to offer something that India can't.
The summary is incomplete: it's PAID time off that they are entitled to.
In the UK all employees are entitled to a minimum of about 5 weeks paid time off every year. Uber argued that they are not employees, but legally they are.
Interesting suggestion... Kes seemed to have the mind if an adult, which is the main objection to relationships with children. And did he actually ever have a romantic relationship with her, I can't remember...
Star Trek Continues is a TOS era show and it stands up really well. Okay, you have to suspend your disbelief at how primitive all the tech is, but it's easy because the stories are so good.
It's got all the classic Trek elements. Exploration and discovery, moral questions, new alien species...
The last two episodes have been real core Trek stories, but with new twists to keep them interesting. The time loop episode showed how Michael's Vulcan logic training helped her quickly accept what was happening and convince others, and could easily have been Data from TNG. The last episode on the alien planet was a classic "crew member corrupted by aliens" one, but with a new species of crew member with a unique (for Trek) premise - a race of nervous pray animals evolved to sentience.
The Klingons have always been about a society that is fractured into houses and only ever united by war, at least until something happened after the last war with the Federation and the Enterprise C incident. If I were speculating I'd guess that these Klingons are going to be largely replaced by the TNG era ones eventually, going through the TOS era ones which are known to be the result of a genetically engineered disease (ENT).
It will be like the cure for the Jem'ha'dar addiction, invented in one episode so apparently not that hard to do, but some excuse is given as to why it can't be mass produced and used long term.
Similarly I expect that either the spore network will be destroyed or its toll on the human computer component will lead to it being banned.
Geeks should identify with Bernham. She was raised by Vulkans and always tries to act rationally and logically. The time loop episode was a good example, most people who have had a hard time believing it but her rational attitude towards it was key to saving the day.
She is a bit socially awkward and they avoid plastering her with make-up so she looks like a real person. Some people seem to have a problem with her skin tone and gender not matching their own, which is ironic because they are usually the same people arguing that everything should be a meritocracy and those things are irrelevant.
The spore drive is pretty tame compared to some of the silliness seen on Star Trek. Right from the get-go we had Kirk talking computers to death, space Nazis, space native Americans more than once, space hippies, countless holodeck malfunctions, ad numerous villains with a grab gab of unexplained superpowers.
Remember season 1 of Next Generation? Apparently Westley can go faster than warp speed with his mind.
We have safely assume that Wikileaks aren't the only ones who have these tools. They have likely already been stolen by others, just like the NSA exploits before them.
Plus for most of us the CIA is just another adversary we want to defend against, no different than any other malicious actor out there.
I much prefer to know about these tools and vulnerabilities so I can defend against them. Patches will come quickly to quality software.
Thanks to MacOS it's become associated with crap font rendering. It wasn't until they got high resolution displays to negate the crap anti-aliasing that a print font really worked on screen.
I get most of my clothes from Uniqlo and Muji, and I find their sizes are very consistent so once I know one pair of jeans fits I can buy more any time online. I'd actually visit those shops if they had some nearer to me, having said that.
I imagine that in a few years 3D scanners will built into phones or at least cheap enough that people can just 3D scan themselves and have the retailer automatically select the correct size, and maybe even tailor the clothes a little before shipping.
The AliExpress sellers seem to have realized that people are generally okay if they get something that doesn't work as long as the problem is quickly rectified, so it's cheaper to cut manufacturing costs a bit and send replacements. In practice it's often the case that if the factory tests the board and it fails they just chuck it for all but the simplest fixes anyway, so really they are only out the cost of shipping.
They are also less suspicious. A western eBay seller would want to know how you tested it and have it back for inspection to make sure you didn't blow it up. The Chinese sellers just take your word for it and ship another one, and it's probably fine for them because there aren't many people who bother to screw them out of a second spare board.
There is also the issue of underemployment. In the UK the numbers are low because a million people are on "zero hour" contracts. Basically you have no guarantee of getting any work, you might get zero hours one week and 40 hours the next. Companies don't even have to make people redundant any more, they just stop giving them hours.
Not all jobs are equal. Shitty jobs can be as bad as being unemployed.
I've been comparing Japanese retail to UK retail for years and they seem to have solved a lot of the problems that making shopping in the UK a generally crappy experience.
Their range is as varied as online retailers, and they usually have what you want actually in stock. You get to make a genuine choice of which model you want, and then they have it in every available colour as well. I'm not sure how they do it, but it's not like the UK where they generally have two or three options max, and one of those is special order, and you can have any colour as long as it's black.
And this applies to retailers large and small. While the smaller shops have less variety, when they do carry something they carry the whole range.
The prices are fairly competitive with online too. You can usually save a few yen online, but of course there is also postage. And to compete with that the shops offer local delivery within the hour - a guy will turn up on a scooter with your item. But you actually want to go to the shops, where they treat you well, have plenty of staff on hand and there is loads of other stuff like high quality but fast food.
In the UK you have better rights when buying stuff online too. Due to "distance selling" regulations you have two weeks to return the item for any reason, or no reason. You just pay return shipping, unless it's faulty or not as described.
Not many shops will let you return stuff for two weeks. Makes taking a chance on some Amazon or eBay item a lot safer, because if it does turn out to be total crap you are at worst out the shipping. And you can ship almost anything for under a fiver via My Hermes these days.
There was something on the radio about how online clothes retailers are starting to offer virtual mannequins that use your measurements to preview clothing and suggest the right size.
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What are the use cases for a type safe version of C anyway?
On the embedded side you can't live without being able to do type punning and other unsafe but extremely common techniques.
On the desktop side people have realized that big C apps are very hard to secure (hi Adobe) and maintain and moved on to other languages like C# or just gone full node.js.
In the middle you have things like operating systems, drivers, stacks etc. I guess they might benefit a little from being type safe, but do we actually have a problem with them not being so? Most of the issues seem to be related to lack of defence in depth and half baked ideas like running the USB stack in the kernel.
The problem is that they use it to boot the system, so you need it for at least the boot part before it can be disabled. There is that secret NSA disable bit, but you can't rely on it because at the very least the boot code has the execute first and that could be compromised.
To overcome this either Intel would have to create a new boot system and somehow disable any capability to change/update it (unlikely), or it will have to be replaced by an open source system that we can at least audit. Well, I guess there is another option, Intel could open source the boot code.
There are many bullshit claims on their page. "Accurate calorie count" via thermal management... No, skin temperature is not correlated with calorie burn to any useful extent.
They are extremely vague about how they will monitor your sleep quality too. It's not really a smart watch either, it doesn't have any connectivity.
My guess would be that it's a basic LCD watch with step counter built in. The calorie burn and sleep monitor are faked from the step counter data.
All that week so is make it extremely hard for new/smaller companies to get the talent they genuinely need.
If they get rid of H1B companies will just move their operations to India. That's not the solution you are looking for.
You should concentrate on making high quality labor valued. Look at Germany, massive manufacturing base and competing with China on export value, because people value German quality and locality.
Basically you need to offer something that India can't.
You guys should consider an Amendment to add a right to privacy, for what it is worth.
The summary is incomplete: it's PAID time off that they are entitled to.
In the UK all employees are entitled to a minimum of about 5 weeks paid time off every year. Uber argued that they are not employees, but legally they are.
Interesting suggestion... Kes seemed to have the mind if an adult, which is the main objection to relationships with children. And did he actually ever have a romantic relationship with her, I can't remember...
Star Trek Continues is a TOS era show and it stands up really well. Okay, you have to suspend your disbelief at how primitive all the tech is, but it's easy because the stories are so good.
They have flat touch screens. A century later and they are back to big clunky buttons and neon indicator lights.
Similar to Enterprise then, the original NX-01 had better tech than the NC-1701 a century later.
It's got all the classic Trek elements. Exploration and discovery, moral questions, new alien species...
The last two episodes have been real core Trek stories, but with new twists to keep them interesting. The time loop episode showed how Michael's Vulcan logic training helped her quickly accept what was happening and convince others, and could easily have been Data from TNG. The last episode on the alien planet was a classic "crew member corrupted by aliens" one, but with a new species of crew member with a unique (for Trek) premise - a race of nervous pray animals evolved to sentience.
The Klingons have always been about a society that is fractured into houses and only ever united by war, at least until something happened after the last war with the Federation and the Enterprise C incident. If I were speculating I'd guess that these Klingons are going to be largely replaced by the TNG era ones eventually, going through the TOS era ones which are known to be the result of a genetically engineered disease (ENT).
It will be like the cure for the Jem'ha'dar addiction, invented in one episode so apparently not that hard to do, but some excuse is given as to why it can't be mass produced and used long term.
Similarly I expect that either the spore network will be destroyed or its toll on the human computer component will lead to it being banned.
Wow, you can't have used Windows since the XP days, prior to Service Pack 1... So 2002 maybe?
- Accounts haven't run as admin since Vista.
- The firewall has been enabled since XP SP1.
- Windows Defender has been on by default since Vista.
Geeks should identify with Bernham. She was raised by Vulkans and always tries to act rationally and logically. The time loop episode was a good example, most people who have had a hard time believing it but her rational attitude towards it was key to saving the day.
She is a bit socially awkward and they avoid plastering her with make-up so she looks like a real person. Some people seem to have a problem with her skin tone and gender not matching their own, which is ironic because they are usually the same people arguing that everything should be a meritocracy and those things are irrelevant.
The spore drive is pretty tame compared to some of the silliness seen on Star Trek. Right from the get-go we had Kirk talking computers to death, space Nazis, space native Americans more than once, space hippies, countless holodeck malfunctions, ad numerous villains with a grab gab of unexplained superpowers.
Remember season 1 of Next Generation? Apparently Westley can go faster than warp speed with his mind.
We have safely assume that Wikileaks aren't the only ones who have these tools. They have likely already been stolen by others, just like the NSA exploits before them.
Plus for most of us the CIA is just another adversary we want to defend against, no different than any other malicious actor out there.
I much prefer to know about these tools and vulnerabilities so I can defend against them. Patches will come quickly to quality software.
Thanks to MacOS it's become associated with crap font rendering. It wasn't until they got high resolution displays to negate the crap anti-aliasing that a print font really worked on screen.
It's part of their branding, the same as having a logo out colour scheme.
I get most of my clothes from Uniqlo and Muji, and I find their sizes are very consistent so once I know one pair of jeans fits I can buy more any time online. I'd actually visit those shops if they had some nearer to me, having said that.
I imagine that in a few years 3D scanners will built into phones or at least cheap enough that people can just 3D scan themselves and have the retailer automatically select the correct size, and maybe even tailor the clothes a little before shipping.
The AliExpress sellers seem to have realized that people are generally okay if they get something that doesn't work as long as the problem is quickly rectified, so it's cheaper to cut manufacturing costs a bit and send replacements. In practice it's often the case that if the factory tests the board and it fails they just chuck it for all but the simplest fixes anyway, so really they are only out the cost of shipping.
They are also less suspicious. A western eBay seller would want to know how you tested it and have it back for inspection to make sure you didn't blow it up. The Chinese sellers just take your word for it and ship another one, and it's probably fine for them because there aren't many people who bother to screw them out of a second spare board.
There is also the issue of underemployment. In the UK the numbers are low because a million people are on "zero hour" contracts. Basically you have no guarantee of getting any work, you might get zero hours one week and 40 hours the next. Companies don't even have to make people redundant any more, they just stop giving them hours.
Not all jobs are equal. Shitty jobs can be as bad as being unemployed.
I've been comparing Japanese retail to UK retail for years and they seem to have solved a lot of the problems that making shopping in the UK a generally crappy experience.
Their range is as varied as online retailers, and they usually have what you want actually in stock. You get to make a genuine choice of which model you want, and then they have it in every available colour as well. I'm not sure how they do it, but it's not like the UK where they generally have two or three options max, and one of those is special order, and you can have any colour as long as it's black.
And this applies to retailers large and small. While the smaller shops have less variety, when they do carry something they carry the whole range.
The prices are fairly competitive with online too. You can usually save a few yen online, but of course there is also postage. And to compete with that the shops offer local delivery within the hour - a guy will turn up on a scooter with your item. But you actually want to go to the shops, where they treat you well, have plenty of staff on hand and there is loads of other stuff like high quality but fast food.
In the UK you have better rights when buying stuff online too. Due to "distance selling" regulations you have two weeks to return the item for any reason, or no reason. You just pay return shipping, unless it's faulty or not as described.
Not many shops will let you return stuff for two weeks. Makes taking a chance on some Amazon or eBay item a lot safer, because if it does turn out to be total crap you are at worst out the shipping. And you can ship almost anything for under a fiver via My Hermes these days.
There was something on the radio about how online clothes retailers are starting to offer virtual mannequins that use your measurements to preview clothing and suggest the right size.