Informants and random inspections. When violations are found, nail the purchasers to the wall. Soon enough there won't be many US businesses buying their chips.
It's talking about DEFENDANTS -- as in people already arrested and charged.
If police, prosecutors, judges, and juries were doing their jobs even close to right, and ugly people were just more likely to commit crimes, the arrest rate would be higher, but the conviction rate would not be significantly different from that of any other group.
Materials cost alone for smartphones runs $150-200. Factor in R&D, manufacturing, freight/shipping, support, general cost of doing business (insurance, attorneys,...), 15-20% profit margin, and a $400 price tag starts looking impractical.
Make no mistake, the price of a subsidized phone really _is_ heavily subsidized. For smartphones, carriers usually pay the manufacturer $200-300 over what they charge the customer up-front, and that's _after_ they've negotiated volume discounts.
The worst I see in that test is 15%, some are under 10%. And the way I see people in California drive, I'd hate to think what the roads would look like if they were worrying about shifting, too.
Android is used in many devices by many companies. The version used on any particular device may be customized somewhat for that device, but the Android platform as a whole is not a "custom" anything anymore than Red Hat is a "custom Linux".
I hope there are saner explanations out there than that page, because trying to read through it left me with a half-dozen contradictory ideas about what the results of such a system would actually be, and I knew none of them could be right since they were all simply absurd.
Did you have a point you wanted to make about the subject at hand (*MATLAB*'s support or lack thereof for 64-bit integers), or did you just come here to be offensive?
You are indeed a clueless PHB. You don't even know who you're replying to. I'm not the person you were arguing with about the merits of ternary computing, nor have I stated a position on the subject at all. I have merely pointed out that you have engaged in a logical fallacy inherently insulting to all thinking persons. I have no obligation to present any arguments for or against ternary computing.
You are continuing to engage in the same fallacy, by the way: "ALL the electronic design options have been tried, examined, compared, tested and published"
If that were true, we may as well all pack up and go home, as there's no more advancement to be made anywhere.
Your views are those of a PHB. Or just an idiot. Either way, you're a waste of oxygen.
1) Just look around you : where does ternary logic live ? in some Russians' fond memory. OK.
"If it was a good idea, everybody would already be doing it!"
This horrific fallacy automatically and completely discredits the speaker. You are not a "computer designer" or any other sort of useful human being. You are a pointy-haired boss.
Well, "over-active" is relative. I can't count the number of times I've been told I have an over-active imagination or I'm being too paranoid or similar things, only to spend the following day explaining to the people in question how this thing they'd said was impossible had just occurred and would they kindly pull their heads out of their ass.
The Soviets did a lot of things that by western reasoning were unlikely or impossible given their apparent capabilities, I wouldn't blame the intelligence community for their paranoia entirely.
Has anyone considered using something other than metal, then? Or coating the metal turbine in some other material? The coating wouldn't even have to last the life of the turbine, just long enough to extend the life of the turbine to an economical length.
Better yet, maybe someone could come up with a design other than a classical turbine. The fact that you can't get good results by using existing designs in new situations isn't particularly interesting. If X doesn't work in situation Y, invent something that will.
You needn't point out that out, because it's painfully obvious that you know absolutely nothing about Dali Clock, its cross-platform history, or JWZ's own well-documented history and experience.
They find out the same way anyone finds out where you work. You tell somebody and it gets passed on, you update an online profile, a new co-worker who knows somebody at your former company tells them, your name shows up in a press release, a customer of both companies says something...
And I'm not sure about other regions (where it's more relevant given the lack of non-compete prohibition), but in Silicon Valley, finding out where any given person is currently working pretty much boils down to asking half a dozen people. Somebody will know.
Would it really be that simple? Wouldn't a CA require any correspondence from the mail site be signed with one of their certificates?
Yes it would, and no they wouldn't. Most certificates are issued in a completely automated manner, and there is no good way to make sure that a certificate hasn't already been issued for the domain by another CA (one could try making an HTTPS connection to the server, but that's still vulnerable to manipulation).
Tell that to the people who have been effectively unable to work for years because of them, and racked up huge legal bills trying (unsuccessfully) to defeat them.
California is the only state in the US with a general prohibition on non-competes, and even that is not absolute for non-grunts.
From TFS: "Out of eleven webmail services chosen at random and without prejudice, just under half of them permitted him to register with credentials (ssladmin) that allowed him to create an SSL certificate in their name."
Speaking as someone who's been doing the independent contractor thing in the US, it's not as rosy as people seem to think. Those "contractors' rates" are _not_ what a lot of people think they are:
* FICA (social security/medicare) taxes are "doubled" (as an employee, you only see 1/2 of the total withheld, as a contractor, you pay it all).
* You provide your own health insurance. If you can somehow get it on the group market (a few states actually have a legal minimum "group" size of 1), you could be looking at $300-400 or more for a good plan. Maybe $500+ if you're over 40. If you get it on the individual market (at least for the next few years), well, you're screwed if you get sick.
* If you're smart, you incorporate or form an LLC and get liability insurance. Depending on what you do and what state you're in, this may require $2000/year or more, besides the paperwork, pro-forma meetings, separate bank accounts, etc..
* Your taxes get more complicated. Most regular employees can trivially fill out a 1040-EZ by hand or use a free or cheap software package and be done in an hour. With self-employed business income, you may spend several tens of hours/year dealing with documenting expenses and estimated tax payments, and if things get at all complicated, you're best off paying an accountant, costing additional money.
* Invoicing the customer takes time, and you probably won't get the check or wire transfer for 3-5 weeks.
* If you're not just working for one customer over a long period, you get a lot of overhead in finding business, preparing bids, negotiating contracts, etc., none of it directly billable.
* _ALL_ equipment/infrastructure is your responsibility. Nobody's providing you with a laptop, an internet connection, email, calendaring/groupware, software, etc.
* If you're working from home, your utility bills will definitely go up. If you're renting separate office space, you have that overhead.
With these and other factors, there can easily be 40-50% or more overhead beyond salary that regular full-time employees never see.
It can sound strange to anyone who isn't familiar with it, but it has some practical logic to it. If you have to buy your own equipment, you have greater incentive to protect and avoid damaging it. And to be fair to the employer, many of these jobs do not attract the world's most mature and responsible people.
At better employers, you may get a small, fixed allowance, perhaps for one or two uniforms every couple of years, for example. They may also offer reimbursement for replacement of items damaged in on-the-job accidents that weren't reasonably avoidable.
People need to have some degree of stability in their jobs, to be able to get a mortgage, to have a family.
Employers already have economic incentive to provide some stability. Experience counts for a lot more in job security than pieces of paper do, and they're not going to cut an existing employee just because someone with more pieces of paper comes along unless the employee is already performing poorly (in which case it's perfectly justified), or there's something else entirely going on under the hood (whether it's discrimination, misconduct on the part of the employee, etc.).
If you truly encounter an employer who is hiring and firing solely based on how many pieces of paper each person has, you've found a business that no sane person would want to work for, and which is unlikely to be in business much longer anyway.
Actually, yes. Generally speaking, employers in the US may require workers to purchase their own equipment without reimbursement. The expenses are tax deductible for the workers, but that's about it.
Although rare in IT, there are a lot of jobs out there where this is, to one degree or another, routine. Employees that have to wear uniforms are a good example. Jobs that involve a lot of driving often require use of the employee's own car, and don't always provide reimbursement.
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Informants and random inspections. When violations are found, nail the purchasers to the wall. Soon enough there won't be many US businesses buying their chips.
It's talking about DEFENDANTS -- as in people already arrested and charged.
If police, prosecutors, judges, and juries were doing their jobs even close to right, and ugly people were just more likely to commit crimes, the arrest rate would be higher, but the conviction rate would not be significantly different from that of any other group.
Materials cost alone for smartphones runs $150-200. Factor in R&D, manufacturing, freight/shipping, support, general cost of doing business (insurance, attorneys, ...), 15-20% profit margin, and a $400 price tag starts looking impractical.
Make no mistake, the price of a subsidized phone really _is_ heavily subsidized. For smartphones, carriers usually pay the manufacturer $200-300 over what they charge the customer up-front, and that's _after_ they've negotiated volume discounts.
Where in the world are you pulling 20-30% from?
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/new-cars/news/2008/10/save-gas-and-money-with-a-stick-shift-10-08/overview/manual-vs-auto-ov.htm
The worst I see in that test is 15%, some are under 10%. And the way I see people in California drive, I'd hate to think what the roads would look like if they were worrying about shifting, too.
Wow, you sure know how to encourage intelligent conversation. Act like a jackass who can't even tell who he's responding to.
Fuck off.
Apparently, then, you consider Apache to simply be a custom version of NCSA HTTPd.
Uh, no.
Android is used in many devices by many companies. The version used on any particular device may be customized somewhat for that device, but the Android platform as a whole is not a "custom" anything anymore than Red Hat is a "custom Linux".
I hope there are saner explanations out there than that page, because trying to read through it left me with a half-dozen contradictory ideas about what the results of such a system would actually be, and I knew none of them could be right since they were all simply absurd.
Take half the seats and make them geographic constituencies directly elected by Single Transferable Vote. Allocate the remaining seats proportionally.
Did you have a point you wanted to make about the subject at hand (*MATLAB*'s support or lack thereof for 64-bit integers), or did you just come here to be offensive?
You are indeed a clueless PHB. You don't even know who you're replying to. I'm not the person you were arguing with about the merits of ternary computing, nor have I stated a position on the subject at all. I have merely pointed out that you have engaged in a logical fallacy inherently insulting to all thinking persons. I have no obligation to present any arguments for or against ternary computing.
You are continuing to engage in the same fallacy, by the way: "ALL the electronic design options have been tried, examined, compared, tested and published"
If that were true, we may as well all pack up and go home, as there's no more advancement to be made anywhere.
Your views are those of a PHB. Or just an idiot. Either way, you're a waste of oxygen.
1) Just look around you : where does ternary logic live ? in some Russians' fond memory. OK.
"If it was a good idea, everybody would already be doing it!"
This horrific fallacy automatically and completely discredits the speaker. You are not a "computer designer" or any other sort of useful human being. You are a pointy-haired boss.
Well, "over-active" is relative. I can't count the number of times I've been told I have an over-active imagination or I'm being too paranoid or similar things, only to spend the following day explaining to the people in question how this thing they'd said was impossible had just occurred and would they kindly pull their heads out of their ass.
The Soviets did a lot of things that by western reasoning were unlikely or impossible given their apparent capabilities, I wouldn't blame the intelligence community for their paranoia entirely.
Also, salt water is not easy on turbines.
Has anyone considered using something other than metal, then? Or coating the metal turbine in some other material? The coating wouldn't even have to last the life of the turbine, just long enough to extend the life of the turbine to an economical length.
Better yet, maybe someone could come up with a design other than a classical turbine. The fact that you can't get good results by using existing designs in new situations isn't particularly interesting. If X doesn't work in situation Y, invent something that will.
I haven't actually read TFA
You needn't point out that out, because it's painfully obvious that you know absolutely nothing about Dali Clock, its cross-platform history, or JWZ's own well-documented history and experience.
Educate yourself first, then speak.
http://www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWZ
They find out the same way anyone finds out where you work. You tell somebody and it gets passed on, you update an online profile, a new co-worker who knows somebody at your former company tells them, your name shows up in a press release, a customer of both companies says something...
And I'm not sure about other regions (where it's more relevant given the lack of non-compete prohibition), but in Silicon Valley, finding out where any given person is currently working pretty much boils down to asking half a dozen people. Somebody will know.
Would it really be that simple? Wouldn't a CA require any correspondence from the mail site be signed with one of their certificates?
Yes it would, and no they wouldn't. Most certificates are issued in a completely automated manner, and there is no good way to make sure that a certificate hasn't already been issued for the domain by another CA (one could try making an HTTPS connection to the server, but that's still vulnerable to manipulation).
Tell that to the people who have been effectively unable to work for years because of them, and racked up huge legal bills trying (unsuccessfully) to defeat them.
California is the only state in the US with a general prohibition on non-competes, and even that is not absolute for non-grunts.
From TFS: "Out of eleven webmail services chosen at random and without prejudice, just under half of them permitted him to register with credentials (ssladmin) that allowed him to create an SSL certificate in their name."
Does that help?
Speaking as someone who's been doing the independent contractor thing in the US, it's not as rosy as people seem to think. Those "contractors' rates" are _not_ what a lot of people think they are:
* FICA (social security/medicare) taxes are "doubled" (as an employee, you only see 1/2 of the total withheld, as a contractor, you pay it all).
* You provide your own health insurance. If you can somehow get it on the group market (a few states actually have a legal minimum "group" size of 1), you could be looking at $300-400 or more for a good plan. Maybe $500+ if you're over 40. If you get it on the individual market (at least for the next few years), well, you're screwed if you get sick.
* If you're smart, you incorporate or form an LLC and get liability insurance. Depending on what you do and what state you're in, this may require $2000/year or more, besides the paperwork, pro-forma meetings, separate bank accounts, etc..
* Your taxes get more complicated. Most regular employees can trivially fill out a 1040-EZ by hand or use a free or cheap software package and be done in an hour. With self-employed business income, you may spend several tens of hours/year dealing with documenting expenses and estimated tax payments, and if things get at all complicated, you're best off paying an accountant, costing additional money.
* Invoicing the customer takes time, and you probably won't get the check or wire transfer for 3-5 weeks.
* If you're not just working for one customer over a long period, you get a lot of overhead in finding business, preparing bids, negotiating contracts, etc., none of it directly billable.
* _ALL_ equipment/infrastructure is your responsibility. Nobody's providing you with a laptop, an internet connection, email, calendaring/groupware, software, etc.
* If you're working from home, your utility bills will definitely go up. If you're renting separate office space, you have that overhead.
With these and other factors, there can easily be 40-50% or more overhead beyond salary that regular full-time employees never see.
It can sound strange to anyone who isn't familiar with it, but it has some practical logic to it. If you have to buy your own equipment, you have greater incentive to protect and avoid damaging it. And to be fair to the employer, many of these jobs do not attract the world's most mature and responsible people.
At better employers, you may get a small, fixed allowance, perhaps for one or two uniforms every couple of years, for example. They may also offer reimbursement for replacement of items damaged in on-the-job accidents that weren't reasonably avoidable.
Employers already have economic incentive to provide some stability. Experience counts for a lot more in job security than pieces of paper do, and they're not going to cut an existing employee just because someone with more pieces of paper comes along unless the employee is already performing poorly (in which case it's perfectly justified), or there's something else entirely going on under the hood (whether it's discrimination, misconduct on the part of the employee, etc.).
If you truly encounter an employer who is hiring and firing solely based on how many pieces of paper each person has, you've found a business that no sane person would want to work for, and which is unlikely to be in business much longer anyway.
What next, you have to bring your own desk?
Actually, yes. Generally speaking, employers in the US may require workers to purchase their own equipment without reimbursement. The expenses are tax deductible for the workers, but that's about it.
Although rare in IT, there are a lot of jobs out there where this is, to one degree or another, routine. Employees that have to wear uniforms are a good example. Jobs that involve a lot of driving often require use of the employee's own car, and don't always provide reimbursement.
No, you haven't made your point. In fact you've sabotaged your point by relying on facts you do not understand and acting like a spoiled brat.
If you have an _actual_ point to make, make it. Otherwise you're just a sniveling little troll.