And he's probably right, assuming he's a reasonably skilled coder.
It's the difference between a factory-made mass-produced "good enough for most uses" product and an artisan-made hand-crafted "best of the best" product.
We have a lot of people who absolutely refuse to believe that something as simple as waiting for a process to finish or rebooting will fix an issue, so when I get sucked into covering the Helldesk, I just run my fingers over the keyboard while waiting so the user thinks I'm doing some hardcore problem-fixing. It also helps keep them from getting impatiently as quickly because they think I'm doing something.
Comparing Java and JavaScript is like comparing a bicycle and a space shuttle. Sure, they're vaguely related as means of transportation but are otherwise completely unrelated.
From my experience, the majority of servers don't need to expand their storage much over time. We have a few servers with beefy storage for databases/file shares/email and the rest of them store most of their data on a NAS or just don't work with an expanding set of data (terminal servers, application servers, print servers). The end result is that we have a lot of 6 and 8 year old servers still spinning most of their original disks. The servers we do expand the storage for usually have disks added, not replaced, so some of the disks are still as old as the server. Over time, older servers get relegated to less intensive tasks until they finally do die (power supplies more often than not) or are completely obsolete.
Which is why I've had to return more than a dozen Seagate drives under warranty in the last two years from one sixteen-bay server; however, they were all one of two very close models so I'm more inclined to believe it was just a bad batch or bad firmware than a larger issue with Seagate. Unfortunately, the higher-ups insists on replacing failed RAID drives with the same model/firmware.
From my experience last time I tried the Federal site, just getting *any* results is a step up, even if it's just an offer to ship you cocaine direct from Colombia for "pain management".
When I was in high school, we had a few 20 year olds in our class. Of course, they were the sort of people who couldn't spell HTML in the first place...
The one advantage of email over postal mail is that it is not location dependent. We're an increasingly mobile world, and some people have jobs that take them all over the place weekly. It's much too inefficient for snail mail to keep up with them, but email requires zero changes to do so. Sure, it's a relatively small number of people that do this now but the world population is becoming increasingly mobile and it will need to be addressed at some point so it doesn't hurt to start thinking about it.
Not only did we not have it, I didn't even have any friends or relatives with Internet access in 1997. My grandfather got dial-up around 1998 and my family did around 1999. Looking back, it's amazing I spent as much time as I did on computers between getting our first in 1994 and getting Internet access 5 or so years later. It took time for the Internet to magically appear in rural New York.
Outside of farmers' markets, most foods do cross state boundaries (and much of it, national boundaries). Something as simple as a fruit basket probably contains food from Florida (oranges), Hawaii (bananas, pineapples), New York (apples), California (grapes) and Oregon (pears). Because different things are so reliant on different climates, food is probably one of the most likely products to cross state lines. More relevant to fast food and other companies most likely to use trans fats, they usually have a small list of suppliers that franchisees can buy from, which will likely be shipping from just a few major warehouses that each cover several states.
tl;dr: It's pretty unlikely that the average person will go an entire day without eating something that wasn't the result of interstate commerce.
Point the finger at McDonalds makes for a pretty poor argument when the article specifically mentions it as one of the many companies that have already eliminated trans fats. So in this case, they're actually ahead of the curve by several years.
Every anti-HFCS study I've ever seen just concludes that too much of it is bad, but it's generally no worse than too much sugar. The only difference is HFCS is used more, so it's more likely to be the cause of obesity or other sugar-related maladies.
Bad car analogy: Toyotas cause more crashes than Bugattis. It doesn't necessarily mean that Bugattis are safer, it just means there's more Toyotas to cause crashes. (It actually means zilch in the argument over which is safer).
"The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed measures that would all but eliminate artificial trans fats, the artery clogging substance that is a major contributor to heart disease in the United States, from the food supply."
Keyword: artificial. But because that wasn't enough, the article goes on to say:
"Some trans fats occur naturally. The F.D.A. proposal only applies to those that are added to foods."
Fire insurance might cover the physical materials that were damaged, but they probably won't cover the time and associated costs of rebuilding the information, not to mention lost time.
The big obstacle to a Jellynado movie is finding a way to make the hero survive without having to buy the rights to Optimus Prime, Batman and Godzilla.
"It is really surprising how many places they occur around the world — places you would never expect: Hawaii, Caribbean, Florida, Wales, New Caledonia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, India... as well as Australia.""
No, places I would never expect would be Kansas, Siberia and the middle of the Sahara. If cable television has taught me anything, it's that the sea is out to kill me. If I can smell saltwater in the air, I'm expecting some explosion of deadliness.
Yes, but Yahoo uses Bing under the hood, so there's no real point in suing Yahoo. It'd be like suing Dell or HP over a Windows antitrust issue. There might be some legal basis for it, but they're just reselling someone else's product.
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And he's probably right, assuming he's a reasonably skilled coder.
It's the difference between a factory-made mass-produced "good enough for most uses" product and an artisan-made hand-crafted "best of the best" product.
Why not?
If we asked Why? about every project out there, software and otherwise, we'd be stuck with a whole lot of unanswered questions.
We have a lot of people who absolutely refuse to believe that something as simple as waiting for a process to finish or rebooting will fix an issue, so when I get sucked into covering the Helldesk, I just run my fingers over the keyboard while waiting so the user thinks I'm doing some hardcore problem-fixing. It also helps keep them from getting impatiently as quickly because they think I'm doing something.
You can ask a lot of questions, but that doesn't mean they're good questions.
Comparing Java and JavaScript is like comparing a bicycle and a space shuttle. Sure, they're vaguely related as means of transportation but are otherwise completely unrelated.
Since you apparently already have the statistics, why do you need theirs?
I think what you mean is a 20% chance of having a teachable moment.
From my experience, the majority of servers don't need to expand their storage much over time. We have a few servers with beefy storage for databases/file shares/email and the rest of them store most of their data on a NAS or just don't work with an expanding set of data (terminal servers, application servers, print servers). The end result is that we have a lot of 6 and 8 year old servers still spinning most of their original disks. The servers we do expand the storage for usually have disks added, not replaced, so some of the disks are still as old as the server. Over time, older servers get relegated to less intensive tasks until they finally do die (power supplies more often than not) or are completely obsolete.
Which is why I've had to return more than a dozen Seagate drives under warranty in the last two years from one sixteen-bay server; however, they were all one of two very close models so I'm more inclined to believe it was just a bad batch or bad firmware than a larger issue with Seagate. Unfortunately, the higher-ups insists on replacing failed RAID drives with the same model/firmware.
From my experience last time I tried the Federal site, just getting *any* results is a step up, even if it's just an offer to ship you cocaine direct from Colombia for "pain management".
When I was in high school, we had a few 20 year olds in our class. Of course, they were the sort of people who couldn't spell HTML in the first place...
The one advantage of email over postal mail is that it is not location dependent. We're an increasingly mobile world, and some people have jobs that take them all over the place weekly. It's much too inefficient for snail mail to keep up with them, but email requires zero changes to do so. Sure, it's a relatively small number of people that do this now but the world population is becoming increasingly mobile and it will need to be addressed at some point so it doesn't hurt to start thinking about it.
I hear the moon is actually a stuffed crust, just chock full of cheese.
Not only did we not have it, I didn't even have any friends or relatives with Internet access in 1997. My grandfather got dial-up around 1998 and my family did around 1999. Looking back, it's amazing I spent as much time as I did on computers between getting our first in 1994 and getting Internet access 5 or so years later. It took time for the Internet to magically appear in rural New York.
When it (the movie) first came out, I was mostly in it for the bare boobs. We didn't have Internet access back then.
Outside of farmers' markets, most foods do cross state boundaries (and much of it, national boundaries). Something as simple as a fruit basket probably contains food from Florida (oranges), Hawaii (bananas, pineapples), New York (apples), California (grapes) and Oregon (pears). Because different things are so reliant on different climates, food is probably one of the most likely products to cross state lines.
More relevant to fast food and other companies most likely to use trans fats, they usually have a small list of suppliers that franchisees can buy from, which will likely be shipping from just a few major warehouses that each cover several states.
tl;dr: It's pretty unlikely that the average person will go an entire day without eating something that wasn't the result of interstate commerce.
Point the finger at McDonalds makes for a pretty poor argument when the article specifically mentions it as one of the many companies that have already eliminated trans fats. So in this case, they're actually ahead of the curve by several years.
Every anti-HFCS study I've ever seen just concludes that too much of it is bad, but it's generally no worse than too much sugar. The only difference is HFCS is used more, so it's more likely to be the cause of obesity or other sugar-related maladies.
Bad car analogy: Toyotas cause more crashes than Bugattis. It doesn't necessarily mean that Bugattis are safer, it just means there's more Toyotas to cause crashes. (It actually means zilch in the argument over which is safer).
"The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed measures that would all but eliminate artificial trans fats, the artery clogging substance that is a major contributor to heart disease in the United States, from the food supply."
Keyword: artificial. But because that wasn't enough, the article goes on to say:
"Some trans fats occur naturally. The F.D.A. proposal only applies to those that are added to foods."
Fire insurance might cover the physical materials that were damaged, but they probably won't cover the time and associated costs of rebuilding the information, not to mention lost time.
The big obstacle to a Jellynado movie is finding a way to make the hero survive without having to buy the rights to Optimus Prime, Batman and Godzilla.
Can't we just flip the world over? That way, all of the jellyfish will drain onto the turtles, all the way down.
"It is really surprising how many places they occur around the world — places you would never expect: Hawaii, Caribbean, Florida, Wales, New Caledonia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, India ... as well as Australia.""
No, places I would never expect would be Kansas, Siberia and the middle of the Sahara. If cable television has taught me anything, it's that the sea is out to kill me. If I can smell saltwater in the air, I'm expecting some explosion of deadliness.
Yes, but Yahoo uses Bing under the hood, so there's no real point in suing Yahoo. It'd be like suing Dell or HP over a Windows antitrust issue. There might be some legal basis for it, but they're just reselling someone else's product.
For the purposes of comparing search engines, Bing and Yahoo are the same.