Supported by Social Security? The maximum monthly payment from Social Security is $2116. I don't know about you, but that's a lot less than I'm making monthly right now. If my investments don't pay off well, I'm going to be coding at 75 just to keep afloat.
The whole concept of retirement is going to have to be rethought as we move past the era where the number of younger workers greatly exceeds the number of retirees and as life expectancy after retirement age increases.
The "limited liability" applies to *shareholders*, not to corporations as a whole or to corporate officers. Limited liability simply means that shareholders are only liable for the amount that they invested in the company, nothing more. It doesn't place corporations above the law or limit the amount of damages that can be levied against them. What it means is that if a company is bankrupted by a liability you can't then move on to the shareholders and say "Hey, you owned a piece of this company that owes me money and therefore you own me more money". This is in contrast to a structure like a sole proprietorship where you, as the owner/operator of the company are also liable for all of its debts with no limit to that liability.
What makes you think your ATM card is all nice and clean? You're sticking it in the same reader everyone else is putting theirs in. When someone sneezes on their card and stuffs it in the ATM I'm sure the next person gets some of that snot on their card.
And where would you put those generators? In the machine room? Even WITH power you probably don't have adequate ventilation. 300 foot extension cords out to the parking lot?
You could probably get a couple of racks up and running this way (there's not an infinite supply of generators at the local Lowe's either remember) but no way you'd be able to power a data center of any size.
The UI shouldn't have listed 1x as a possible choice if the drive knows it can't burn at that speed.
I'm currently developing an application that uses Apple's Disc Recording framework to do the disc burning. There are a lot of corner cases that the framework should handle that it does not. It's not the user's fault. The UI gave him an option to do 1x and he picked it.
Are A/V cables any less prone to failure than data cables?
Of course! Provided that you bought the high-end audiophile grade cabling in addition to increasing presence, cancelling out any phase jitter and working in conjunction with your tube amplifier to provide the most analog warmth for your music they also magically heal themselves.
We had that situation. One of our managers had set up a rack and he had gone through and cable tied everything down just so. The rack didn't need to be changed very often but finally there was a day when something needed to be replaced. One of the sys admins who worked for him (who was a close friend with him) walked over to his desk after she had fixed things and dropped a double handful of cut-off cable ties onto it.
Well, when they start flying off the shelves we'll know that you were right. At the moment, though, it would seem that most consumers and even early adopters just don't see the value proposition.
And you needed S-video and 5.1 channel surround-sounce recievers to take advantage of the quality improvements of DVDs, but few people had them when DVDs were first comming out.
As many others have pointed out, DVDs offered a number of features besides higher resolution that made them attractive to consumers. Convenience, durability, menus and extras were all big advantages that DVDs had over VHS. Psychologically, purchasing a DVD disc seemed much more reasonable than purchasing a VHS tape, probably because we'd all been through cassettes and CD's.
HD discs are only offering higher resolution so it really needs to shine there all the time.
You can run Windows on the Macs now. So, get a high end workstation, save money, get a nicer case with room for expansion/customization, still run your crap Windows stuff and just put some tape over the Apple logo. Why do you hate Apple so badly?
It's funny, because the Mac fanbois at least hate Windows because it sucks and they can give reasons. Apple haters just seem to hate Apple and the logic is missing.
20 "average" slahdotters? About a million years. As far as I can tell the average slashdotter is not a programmer. 20 "average" slashdot programmers? Well, you can get a basic application together in a year or two. Then, you will continue to refine, improve, reduce. The big features actually tend to take the least amount of time. It's all of the little nice features that make a really polished product that take the time.
In any case, as others have pointed out, FileNet was a functioning, profitable company with over $400 million a year in revenues. That's what you're paying for, not just the code. Flip it around. If you owned a company that was taking in $400 million a year would you sell it for $20 million?
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And here's your buzzer sir! BZZZZT
There's two things to consider in a filesystem - the volume format, which is the way the bits are laid out on the disk, and the code that works with those bits. The Windows implementation of FAT16 and all other implementations (Linux/BSDMac OS/camera internal) FAT16 are completely different code bases. It's relatively trivial to add calls to the code to send file system notifications and requires no changes to the volume format. Therefore, you could have a FAT16 send file system notifications to an external indexing system and still have the on-disk volume format be 100% compatible with other implementations.
Oh, that's easy. They hired some contractors when they had a little angel funding and then shopped the prototype around for a while to get some more funding. Startups don't just happen overnight. Typically you'll see years of low-level activity before they receive enough funding to really start moving.
Most LCD viewfinders have some amount of lag/blurring/etc. when you're trying to follow action or just move the camera. You don't get that with a mirror.
Depending on how your code is sandboxed it may not be able to do I/O.
And if you're able to subsitute your own boot loader, why are you messing about with removing class protection? You've already subverted any security the system might have.
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Supported by Social Security? The maximum monthly payment from Social Security is $2116. I don't know about you, but that's a lot less than I'm making monthly right now. If my investments don't pay off well, I'm going to be coding at 75 just to keep afloat. The whole concept of retirement is going to have to be rethought as we move past the era where the number of younger workers greatly exceeds the number of retirees and as life expectancy after retirement age increases.
Well, the best would be more of a turbine like arrangement, but then the shit would really hit the fan.
That's because Lynne Cheney was sunbathing topless in that photo. Be glad you can't see that.
The "limited liability" applies to *shareholders*, not to corporations as a whole or to corporate officers. Limited liability simply means that shareholders are only liable for the amount that they invested in the company, nothing more. It doesn't place corporations above the law or limit the amount of damages that can be levied against them. What it means is that if a company is bankrupted by a liability you can't then move on to the shareholders and say "Hey, you owned a piece of this company that owes me money and therefore you own me more money". This is in contrast to a structure like a sole proprietorship where you, as the owner/operator of the company are also liable for all of its debts with no limit to that liability.
Vacuum tunnels? That would suck.
What makes you think your ATM card is all nice and clean? You're sticking it in the same reader everyone else is putting theirs in. When someone sneezes on their card and stuffs it in the ATM I'm sure the next person gets some of that snot on their card.
And where would you put those generators? In the machine room? Even WITH power you probably don't have adequate ventilation. 300 foot extension cords out to the parking lot?
You could probably get a couple of racks up and running this way (there's not an infinite supply of generators at the local Lowe's either remember) but no way you'd be able to power a data center of any size.
The UI shouldn't have listed 1x as a possible choice if the drive knows it can't burn at that speed.
I'm currently developing an application that uses Apple's Disc Recording framework to do the disc burning. There are a lot of corner cases that the framework should handle that it does not. It's not the user's fault. The UI gave him an option to do 1x and he picked it.
Are A/V cables any less prone to failure than data cables?
Of course! Provided that you bought the high-end audiophile grade cabling in addition to increasing presence, cancelling out any phase jitter and working in conjunction with your tube amplifier to provide the most analog warmth for your music they also magically heal themselves.
We had that situation. One of our managers had set up a rack and he had gone through and cable tied everything down just so. The rack didn't need to be changed very often but finally there was a day when something needed to be replaced. One of the sys admins who worked for him (who was a close friend with him) walked over to his desk after she had fixed things and dropped a double handful of cut-off cable ties onto it.
No, Microsoft just sucks.
In Soviet Russia, verbs fancy you!
Well, when they start flying off the shelves we'll know that you were right. At the moment, though, it would seem that most consumers and even early adopters just don't see the value proposition.
And you needed S-video and 5.1 channel surround-sounce recievers to take advantage of the quality improvements of DVDs, but few people had them when DVDs were first comming out.
As many others have pointed out, DVDs offered a number of features besides higher resolution that made them attractive to consumers. Convenience, durability, menus and extras were all big advantages that DVDs had over VHS. Psychologically, purchasing a DVD disc seemed much more reasonable than purchasing a VHS tape, probably because we'd all been through cassettes and CD's.
HD discs are only offering higher resolution so it really needs to shine there all the time.
The new Macs are only PCs in a nice case with an Apple logo on the front. So, if it's cheaper and you can run Windows on it, what are you hating?
You can run Windows on the Macs now. So, get a high end workstation, save money, get a nicer case with room for expansion/customization, still run your crap Windows stuff and just put some tape over the Apple logo. Why do you hate Apple so badly?
It's funny, because the Mac fanbois at least hate Windows because it sucks and they can give reasons. Apple haters just seem to hate Apple and the logic is missing.
20 "average" slahdotters? About a million years. As far as I can tell the average slashdotter is not a programmer. 20 "average" slashdot programmers? Well, you can get a basic application together in a year or two. Then, you will continue to refine, improve, reduce. The big features actually tend to take the least amount of time. It's all of the little nice features that make a really polished product that take the time.
In any case, as others have pointed out, FileNet was a functioning, profitable company with over $400 million a year in revenues. That's what you're paying for, not just the code. Flip it around. If you owned a company that was taking in $400 million a year would you sell it for $20 million?
Now that he's told us he's going to have to kill us.
You realize that they can tell you but then they'll have to kill you.
Well, this paper seems to think you can parallelize SHA-1 at least to the extent of using vector (SIMD) instructions on it
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And here's your buzzer sir! BZZZZT
There's two things to consider in a filesystem - the volume format, which is the way the bits are laid out on the disk, and the code that works with those bits. The Windows implementation of FAT16 and all other implementations (Linux/BSDMac OS/camera internal) FAT16 are completely different code bases. It's relatively trivial to add calls to the code to send file system notifications and requires no changes to the volume format. Therefore, you could have a FAT16 send file system notifications to an external indexing system and still have the on-disk volume format be 100% compatible with other implementations.
Oh, that's easy. They hired some contractors when they had a little angel funding and then shopped the prototype around for a while to get some more funding. Startups don't just happen overnight. Typically you'll see years of low-level activity before they receive enough funding to really start moving.
Most LCD viewfinders have some amount of lag/blurring/etc. when you're trying to follow action or just move the camera. You don't get that with a mirror.
Depending on how your code is sandboxed it may not be able to do I/O.
And if you're able to subsitute your own boot loader, why are you messing about with removing class protection? You've already subverted any security the system might have.
The JVM doesn't have to support JNI or it could sandbox it away from you.