By chance yesterday I was reading up on an offer by Verizon. When I looked at the fineprint or the contract I thought it said I would have to waive my rights to a class action lawsuits and persue an individual case if disputes do come up. I wonder how many of these people are subject to this provision and not even aware they signed away their rights?
You've never heard of the Alchemy chips because they are used in embedded applications. They are not marketed to the consumer but rather to companies and firmware/hardware engineers.
If you surf too fast through a book they will warn you that a bot may be reading the webpages and they may cancel your account if it happens too often.
Can't he contact NIH or something? If he has something none of his doctors can't identify yet he has serious symptoms, I would think some governmental agency would be concerned. Well atleast they are in the movies.
Here are some more information based on people I know:
I had 2 coworkers go back to their home country (China) because they find the opportunities are better there now. They both had green cards and stable employment here yet choose to go.
I had 1 coworker who wanted to leve computer programming field because be belived the reward to work ratio was too low compared to many other professions.
I know one guy who is in college and came with his parents and now has a green card. Yet the only computer science internship he could find was back in his home country for the summer.
Another person who became a citizen here had an offer from work to start offshore office in his home country at roughly the same salary as here. Otherwise he could stay here and travel a lot. He choose to stay here are the rest of his family is accustomed to living here.
I guess what we are seeing here is a kind of equilibrium mechanism. At one time all the good jobs were in the US (or "Western" contries in general) so there was a mad rush for people to get here. Now things have been shifting to be more equal and the migration is trickling the other way.
I have no problem blaming engineers and programmers. I just belive management should go along for the ride. They have to take the good with the bad. If they got $50K bonus for "successfully guiding the development of product abc" they should be fired for "majorly screwing up product xyz"
It should be the management getting fired because if it was successful you would see quotes praising the leadership effort of the management in making the project a success. Since they are calling the shots and credit they should take the blame.
This is what I do to get my enterprise running smoothly: * Level 5 diagnostics every hour * Level 3 diagnostics on first sign of battle ready * Level 1 diagnostics once a year * Inspection of warp coils for tetrion or verteron particles. These can cause poor engine performance.
"The new business model is what's allowing Gmail to offer 1 GB storage quotas, and still have an expectation of making money."
Last I checked hard drives are less than $1/GB. I hardly think storage quotas are their biggest expense. The total compensation for the CEO is probably bigger than their entire cost of the gmail infrastructure.
How else can we provide welfare to corporations. Perhaps we can cut all education funding and divert all social security taxes to these kinds of endevors.
I recall Elon founding X.com which was an online bank that was not much of a success and eventually merged with PayPal. I remember X.com from the dotcom days because I opened an account with them since they payed money for it. Here is a link with no reference to PayPal: http://rider.wharton.upenn.edu/~mslls/99_00/musk.h tml
These is my comments based on working in flash storage industry. There is an endurance limit to flash drives. The nand flash media are rated at about 100K erase/write cycles but in reality it can do more. There is additionally ECC correction to extend the life and preemptively recover with a sector goes bad. Once all the spare sectors go bad drive would likely prevent any further changes but still be readable. To give the most even wear and entend life, use a backup strategy where you erase all files and then rewrite or add incremently. Random write are the worse. Lastly flash failure decreases greatly with temperature so store at stable temperature.
Chester Carlson, the inventor of Xerox copying machines spend 8 years trying to find a company that would help him develop and productize his copying process. Despite it being something we now all take for granted, most of the companies saw no value in his invention.
At one time in the late 90s if you typed zelda.com you would get a porn site. I ended up typing this at work one time back then and boy was I in for a shock. Luckily employee snooping tools were not common back then and nobody was looking.
I've recently started playing FF X and it is hard to tell if it is a game or a movie. And no I am not talking about the quality of the graphics but rather the interactivity. I've played to 1/3 of the way from my guess and it is way too linear. Every map literally has an arrow pointing this way to the next challenge. My guess is some of the battles are rigged to move the plot along as they planned. With a little more automation it could have been made into a movie.
A few years back San Francisco passed the "Care not Cash" law where instead of just providing homeless people money they tried to find the a clean place to live, help them sober up and find a job. By pooling together the money from many homeless then can get better deals for a place to live. I read a few newspaper articles where the former homeless all had positive response to the effort.
I gave up playing games on my PC. I bought one of those new PS/2 systems and hooked up to the TV card on my Linux system. The PS/2 display will be in another window in X. Now I can switch between playing games and browsing, etc on one system and I don't need a noisy expensive video card on my PC anymore. Console games are not so expensive anyway if you wait a little while. I see plenty of games under $20 since new stuff comes up on a weekly basis.
If you just need the 80x25 text display it is very easy to implement in hardware. I did one recently using about 1% of the resources of the FPGA. And this is something with colored text and everything. I even borrowed the font bitmap used under Linux console mode so you can't even tell the difference.
My long term goal is it use the remaining 99% of FPGA resource to build a custom cpu and port uclinux onto it. Then add a keyboard and you have a computer on one chip.
The artificial monopoly is what gives the incentive to create the so-called IP. That is one of the big reasons you will probably never see much software built in Russia for use in Russia... why develop it if people will pirate it. Most of these programmers will instead work for US or some other outside companies because they are more likely to be compensated. It also results in a catch twenty-two situation where people pirate because they can't afford the software or IP and now software or IP is generate locally because people pirate.
"When the president of the Country puts the most famous, richest person in the country into a prison cell for basically just that - being rich and thus dangerous"
I assume you are talking about the owner of the oil company in the Soviet Union? I though he was put in jail because him company owes taxes to the government?
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By chance yesterday I was reading up on an offer by Verizon. When I looked at the fineprint or the contract I thought it said I would have to waive my rights to a class action lawsuits and persue an individual case if disputes do come up. I wonder how many of these people are subject to this provision and not even aware they signed away their rights?
You've never heard of the Alchemy chips because they are used in embedded applications. They are not marketed to the consumer but rather to companies and firmware/hardware engineers.
If you surf too fast through a book they will warn you that a bot may be reading the webpages and they may cancel your account if it happens too often.
Can't he contact NIH or something? If he has something none of his doctors can't identify yet he has serious symptoms, I would think some governmental agency would be concerned. Well atleast they are in the movies.
Here are some more information based on people I know:
I had 2 coworkers go back to their home country (China) because they find the opportunities are better there now. They both had green cards and stable employment here yet choose to go.
I had 1 coworker who wanted to leve computer programming field because be belived the reward to work ratio was too low compared to many other professions.
I know one guy who is in college and came with his parents and now has a green card. Yet the only computer science internship he could find was back in his home country for the summer.
Another person who became a citizen here had an offer from work to start offshore office in his home country at roughly the same salary as here. Otherwise he could stay here and travel a lot. He choose to stay here are the rest of his family is accustomed to living here.
I guess what we are seeing here is a kind of equilibrium mechanism. At one time all the good jobs were in the US (or "Western" contries in general) so there was a mad rush for people to get here. Now things have been shifting to be more equal and the migration is trickling the other way.
I have no problem blaming engineers and programmers. I just belive management should go along for the ride. They have to take the good with the bad. If they got $50K bonus for "successfully guiding the development of product abc" they should be fired for "majorly screwing up product xyz"
It should be the management getting fired because if it was successful you would see quotes praising the leadership effort of the management in making the project a success. Since they are calling the shots and credit they should take the blame.
To get DOOM 3 level of performance you need a bigger chrome exhaust (fan) and a "calvin and hobbes" sticker.
This is what I do to get my enterprise running smoothly:
* Level 5 diagnostics every hour
* Level 3 diagnostics on first sign of battle ready
* Level 1 diagnostics once a year
* Inspection of warp coils for tetrion or verteron particles. These can cause poor engine performance.
"The new business model is what's allowing Gmail to offer 1 GB storage quotas, and still have an expectation of making money."
Last I checked hard drives are less than $1/GB. I hardly think storage quotas are their biggest expense. The total compensation for the CEO is probably bigger than their entire cost of the gmail infrastructure.
How else can we provide welfare to corporations. Perhaps we can cut all education funding and divert all social security taxes to these kinds of endevors.
I recall Elon founding X.com which was an online bank that was not much of a success and eventually merged with PayPal. I remember X.com from the dotcom days because I opened an account with them since they payed money for it. Here is a link with no reference to PayPal: http://rider.wharton.upenn.edu/~mslls/99_00/musk.h tml
These is my comments based on working in flash storage industry. There is an endurance limit to flash drives. The nand flash media are rated at about 100K erase/write cycles but in reality it can do more. There is additionally ECC correction to extend the life and preemptively recover with a sector goes bad. Once all the spare sectors go bad drive would likely prevent any further changes but still be readable. To give the most even wear and entend life, use a backup strategy where you erase all files and then rewrite or add incremently. Random write are the worse. Lastly flash failure decreases greatly with temperature so store at stable temperature.
I heard you can win the game by simply doing the following: UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT LEFT RIGHT RIGHT A B START
Chester Carlson, the inventor of Xerox copying machines spend 8 years trying to find a company that would help him develop and productize his copying process. Despite it being something we now all take for granted, most of the companies saw no value in his invention.
Lex: "It's a UNIX system! I know how to tokening this!"
Yacc: "It's a UNIX system! I know how to parse this!"
At one time in the late 90s if you typed zelda.com you would get a porn site. I ended up typing this at work one time back then and boy was I in for a shock. Luckily employee snooping tools were not common back then and nobody was looking.
I've recently started playing FF X and it is hard to tell if it is a game or a movie. And no I am not talking about the quality of the graphics but rather the interactivity. I've played to 1/3 of the way from my guess and it is way too linear. Every map literally has an arrow pointing this way to the next challenge. My guess is some of the battles are rigged to move the plot along as they planned. With a little more automation it could have been made into a movie.
A few years back San Francisco passed the "Care not Cash" law where instead of just providing homeless people money they tried to find the a clean place to live, help them sober up and find a job. By pooling together the money from many homeless then can get better deals for a place to live. I read a few newspaper articles where the former homeless all had positive response to the effort.
I gave up playing games on my PC. I bought one of those new PS/2 systems and hooked up to the TV card on my Linux system. The PS/2 display will be in another window in X. Now I can switch between playing games and browsing, etc on one system and I don't need a noisy expensive video card on my PC anymore. Console games are not so expensive anyway if you wait a little while. I see plenty of games under $20 since new stuff comes up on a weekly basis.
If you just need the 80x25 text display it is very easy to implement in hardware. I did one recently using about 1% of the resources of the FPGA. And this is something with colored text and everything. I even borrowed the font bitmap used under Linux console mode so you can't even tell the difference.
My long term goal is it use the remaining 99% of FPGA resource to build a custom cpu and port uclinux onto it. Then add a keyboard and you have a computer on one chip.
The artificial monopoly is what gives the incentive to create the so-called IP. That is one of the big reasons you will probably never see much software built in Russia for use in Russia... why develop it if people will pirate it. Most of these programmers will instead work for US or some other outside companies because they are more likely to be compensated. It also results in a catch twenty-two situation where people pirate because they can't afford the software or IP and now software or IP is generate locally because people pirate.
"When the president of the Country puts the most famous, richest person in the country into a prison cell for basically just that - being rich and thus dangerous"
I assume you are talking about the owner of the oil company in the Soviet Union? I though he was put in jail because him company owes taxes to the government?
If US copyrights don't have much hold then I think Adobe's patents would be of big concern to someone in that country developing a world class editor.