Indeed. Where I live, we have tons of snow plows and salt. We maybe need it 10-15 days a year. So in three years, we don't use our equipment about as little as they give for justifying why they don't have them. That's the dumbest justification I've seen. Most places that have snow removal equipment don't use them very often, but they aren't dumb enough to hope that things will just work out. If you know you get snow every three years or so, that sounds like enough justification to purchase equipment. Down there you could get buy with some large tanker trucks to brine the streets before hand. This greatly reduces the chance of icing, even if you aren't going to plow. It comes down to: equipment is expensive and we just don't want to buy it.
The problem with some features, is that they add weight to the car. I don't want to pay for gas to truck around 20 lbs of crap I can't use. I can't imagine cruise control takes much to make it work with computerized cars (software having little mass), but something like a seat heater would. I'm already hesitant to buy a new car with all the crappy "infotainment" systems that pretty much all suck and generally aren't updated.
Why waste 45 minutes interviewing for a developer position at a place that doesn't use version control?
Well, I would follow up by asking whether I'm being hired to fix that - senior dev jobs often include that sort of thing. That being said, I once left a job after two weeks (well, two weeks after an internal transfer) because the group insisted on using Rational Rose. I've since asked about that on every phone interview, so as not to waste my time in person if they're that silly.
Indeed, and one of my first tasks at one job was to implement version control. They just never got around to it. That's presumably why they are hiring: they need help, otherwise, no opening.
The summary says "had increased from 40 million to 70 million", but the title of this post says 110 million. I note that 40 + 70 = 110, so I think somebody parsed it wrong.
Probably the people who wrote the obamacare web site.
Target declined me for a credit card in August and wouldn't tell me why either and I still don't know, so I guess that was a "Good Thing".
[True story!]
If you write to them, I'm pretty sure they are required to tell you. Plus, you can get free copies of your credit reports as a result.
No loss, though. I had one of their CCs and their customer support was so amazingly inept that I cancelled out of frustration. I've never dealt with a CC company with such pathetic customer support. It makes me mad just thinking about it. I can only imagine how well they handled a massive amount of fraud on their cards. Good thing their support is in India or people would have liked showed up with baseball bats.
It's bet it's less than 1% of what traverses their network every day. If they are using hadoop for marketing purposes, I'd guess all the CC information for every account in the US is a drop in the bucket in comparison. I'd further bet it compresses well, as does most text, making it the size of a few nice digital pictures of cats.
If they are paying their IT staff $10/hr, then I'd expect nothing less. However, I doubt that. The IT staff are probably mostly salaried, which means no OT.
This is probably the only way it will happen. Well, more realistically congress will pass a law requiring some poorly thought-up "fixes" and after several iterations of failure, we'll end up with Europe does. You can't secure a completely insecure system with bandaids, duct tape and PCI (which is nothing more than a liability deferral instrument.) This is going to become more and more common. Frankly, I'm surprised we don't have a report like this every other month.
Bank routing number and account numbers printed on checks is even worse, though. Writing a check with an amount isn't much more secure than leaving the amount field blank.
I was wondering how long it would take for people to try to shift the blame from the incompetent government to "evil corporations."
Of course, a corporation is an entity created by laws of the incompetent government, who then pays the same corporations in a way that doesn't ensure a quality deliverable. A publicly traded corporation is legally obligated to not leave money on the floor, so if the government makes it easy to steal from them, then the corporation is required by the government to do just that via securities regulations.
Sounds like bad insurance. We just had a kid and paid $100 plus $100/day for the hospital. Came to $400 total. We've spent more than that on pictures in two years. And my insurance isn't even all that good. My previous company's was much, much better.
I do have FiOS and it is battery backed up, but you are responsible for replacing and paying for the batteries. They don't even do a good check as to when the battery won't take a charge. Even with battery, you get significantly less than a day's worth of standby time. POTS gave you a minimum of 24-hours.
FiOS is moving their customers to VoIP-based telephony, and it's generally not very good. Lots of times where calls don't work, no dial tone late at night, etc. The old POTS circuit (which they removed) was archaic, but had much better up time. On the other hand, it's cheaper and they throw in all the "features" you used to have to pay for like call waiting, caller ID, three-way calling, etc. Not very hard to do with VoIP, of course, but at least it's cheaper. I looked into dropping the voice part, but it came down to less than $10 a month for unlimited long distance, voice mail, etc. Hard to say no to that, since it still sounds a ton better than AT&T cellular.
In Canada, I greatly prefer Canada Post to UPS or any of the other corporate carriers like DHL. I've had carriers stick my packages in the mailbox (which is fine) and fake a signature (which is not).
UPS just sucks. I had packages sent to me marked "Signature Required" and come home to find that package sitting out in the open at the front door.
Probably depends on where you live. Where I am, UPS is pretty good and FedEx sucks so bad I no refuse to order from companies that use them (I'm thinking of you Harbor Freight.) The most annoying this is they leave packages in front of your garage door, so you conveniently run over them when you leave. This is despite many complaints. They claim that people like it that way, but no one else is that stupid. And when the product is damaged, they claim it's not their fault. That and FedEx ground is slower than loading packages on cats and having them deliver across the US.
That's the point. There is software that can be used to run any company in any field. It's called a compiler, although it does require a good deal of customization.
Ah, well you see, I write cross browser code, that doesn't run in IE.
I write cross-browser code as well, and other than the generally broken JavaScript engine in IE (that raises an exception for things that no other browser does), I find that for CSS, things generally work better in IE than Safari. Safari is rapidly becoming the IE 6 of the modern era. So many bugs in Safari that just never get fixed. Table styling in particular with col-spans are just broken and have been for 5 years.
Of course IE 6 and even 7 aren't useful ad browsers, 9 and 10 aren't too bad.
Eclipse IS slow, period. I work with him for over six years and has ALWAYS been slow compared with a similar IDE that is not based on Java. And not only slow, but terribly buggy. TFA sounds more like an article made by an eclipse fanboy than a developer trying to make a truly honest comparison.
I've got Eclipse Juno and a later version of VS installed on the same relatively fast PC (solid state disks). Neither are speed demons, but I think VS is slower, particularly when building. It's somewhat amazing how fast Eclipse builds my project with over 1000 classes, whereas VS takes about the same amount of time to build a C project with 10 files small files.
I really hope this means every XBox will come with a Cablecard slot in the back, just so Microsoft can cause every Cable Company manager's head to explode at the same time when they announce the feature.
That would be about the only thing that would make be interested in buying one. That and if the subscription (which I'm sure it will require) is cheap enough. My Verizon DVR blows chunks. My old ReplayTV from 15 years ago had a better and more responsive interface than the crap Comcast and Verizon are pushing.
The new Kinect sounds neat, and much better than anything Sony will likely have. (In fairness, I have a PS3 and not an XBox 360.) I've never wanted to browse the web on my TV, so that part is useless. About the only app I care about is Netflix and maybe some other video providers, but my cheap Sony Bluray player can do all that as can the PS3 already.
No mention of GPU specs? That's telling. Seems more like an AppleTV with gaming.
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Yes, using bad analogies is like cutting a tree down with a fish.
Indeed. Where I live, we have tons of snow plows and salt. We maybe need it 10-15 days a year. So in three years, we don't use our equipment about as little as they give for justifying why they don't have them. That's the dumbest justification I've seen. Most places that have snow removal equipment don't use them very often, but they aren't dumb enough to hope that things will just work out. If you know you get snow every three years or so, that sounds like enough justification to purchase equipment. Down there you could get buy with some large tanker trucks to brine the streets before hand. This greatly reduces the chance of icing, even if you aren't going to plow. It comes down to: equipment is expensive and we just don't want to buy it.
The problem with some features, is that they add weight to the car. I don't want to pay for gas to truck around 20 lbs of crap I can't use. I can't imagine cruise control takes much to make it work with computerized cars (software having little mass), but something like a seat heater would. I'm already hesitant to buy a new car with all the crappy "infotainment" systems that pretty much all suck and generally aren't updated.
Why waste 45 minutes interviewing for a developer position at a place that doesn't use version control?
Well, I would follow up by asking whether I'm being hired to fix that - senior dev jobs often include that sort of thing. That being said, I once left a job after two weeks (well, two weeks after an internal transfer) because the group insisted on using Rational Rose. I've since asked about that on every phone interview, so as not to waste my time in person if they're that silly.
Indeed, and one of my first tasks at one job was to implement version control. They just never got around to it. That's presumably why they are hiring: they need help, otherwise, no opening.
You could still purchase halogen bulbs and these new more efficient incandescent bulbs, e.g. uses 53 watts for the output of a 75 watt bulb.
The summary says "had increased from 40 million to 70 million", but the title of this post says 110 million. I note that 40 + 70 = 110, so I think somebody parsed it wrong.
Probably the people who wrote the obamacare web site.
Target declined me for a credit card in August and wouldn't tell me why either and I still don't know, so I guess that was a "Good Thing".
[True story!]
If you write to them, I'm pretty sure they are required to tell you. Plus, you can get free copies of your credit reports as a result.
No loss, though. I had one of their CCs and their customer support was so amazingly inept that I cancelled out of frustration. I've never dealt with a CC company with such pathetic customer support. It makes me mad just thinking about it. I can only imagine how well they handled a massive amount of fraud on their cards. Good thing their support is in India or people would have liked showed up with baseball bats.
That's a lot of data, though....
It's bet it's less than 1% of what traverses their network every day. If they are using hadoop for marketing purposes, I'd guess all the CC information for every account in the US is a drop in the bucket in comparison. I'd further bet it compresses well, as does most text, making it the size of a few nice digital pictures of cats.
If they are paying their IT staff $10/hr, then I'd expect nothing less. However, I doubt that. The IT staff are probably mostly salaried, which means no OT.
This is probably the only way it will happen. Well, more realistically congress will pass a law requiring some poorly thought-up "fixes" and after several iterations of failure, we'll end up with Europe does. You can't secure a completely insecure system with bandaids, duct tape and PCI (which is nothing more than a liability deferral instrument.) This is going to become more and more common. Frankly, I'm surprised we don't have a report like this every other month.
Bank routing number and account numbers printed on checks is even worse, though. Writing a check with an amount isn't much more secure than leaving the amount field blank.
And there was a spherical cow
... in a vacuum.
Dyson or Hoover?
Clearly it's a Dyson Spherical Cow, given we might as well assume a large amount of free energy, too.
My problem isn't that I can't sing. It's just a little distracting when everyone keeps throwing rotten fruit at me while I'm singing.
Have you tried dry humping another person on the stage. I hear that works well for popularity.
I was wondering how long it would take for people to try to shift the blame from the incompetent government to "evil corporations."
Of course, a corporation is an entity created by laws of the incompetent government, who then pays the same corporations in a way that doesn't ensure a quality deliverable. A publicly traded corporation is legally obligated to not leave money on the floor, so if the government makes it easy to steal from them, then the corporation is required by the government to do just that via securities regulations.
Central Planning at its best. What we would consider worse, they consider better.
OK, John Stossel :)
Bah, that implies there WAS a plan. I think it was more just an ad-hoc collection of contracts that accreted a non-functional web site as a result.
Sounds like bad insurance. We just had a kid and paid $100 plus $100/day for the hospital. Came to $400 total. We've spent more than that on pictures in two years. And my insurance isn't even all that good. My previous company's was much, much better.
I do have FiOS and it is battery backed up, but you are responsible for replacing and paying for the batteries. They don't even do a good check as to when the battery won't take a charge. Even with battery, you get significantly less than a day's worth of standby time. POTS gave you a minimum of 24-hours.
FiOS is moving their customers to VoIP-based telephony, and it's generally not very good. Lots of times where calls don't work, no dial tone late at night, etc. The old POTS circuit (which they removed) was archaic, but had much better up time. On the other hand, it's cheaper and they throw in all the "features" you used to have to pay for like call waiting, caller ID, three-way calling, etc. Not very hard to do with VoIP, of course, but at least it's cheaper. I looked into dropping the voice part, but it came down to less than $10 a month for unlimited long distance, voice mail, etc. Hard to say no to that, since it still sounds a ton better than AT&T cellular.
UPS just sucks. I had packages sent to me marked "Signature Required" and come home to find that package sitting out in the open at the front door.
Probably depends on where you live. Where I am, UPS is pretty good and FedEx sucks so bad I no refuse to order from companies that use them (I'm thinking of you Harbor Freight.) The most annoying this is they leave packages in front of your garage door, so you conveniently run over them when you leave. This is despite many complaints. They claim that people like it that way, but no one else is that stupid. And when the product is damaged, they claim it's not their fault. That and FedEx ground is slower than loading packages on cats and having them deliver across the US.
That's the point. There is software that can be used to run any company in any field. It's called a compiler, although it does require a good deal of customization.
Sigh... Tell me again why /. doesn't have an "Edit" button?
Because computers are hard and most developers don't have a degree.
Ah, well you see, I write cross browser code, that doesn't run in IE.
I write cross-browser code as well, and other than the generally broken JavaScript engine in IE (that raises an exception for things that no other browser does), I find that for CSS, things generally work better in IE than Safari. Safari is rapidly becoming the IE 6 of the modern era. So many bugs in Safari that just never get fixed. Table styling in particular with col-spans are just broken and have been for 5 years.
Of course IE 6 and even 7 aren't useful ad browsers, 9 and 10 aren't too bad.
Ahem. PERSON-month. Can't offend the PC crowd, now.
Particularly when everyone is moving to tablets.
Eclipse IS slow, period. I work with him for over six years and has ALWAYS been slow compared with a similar IDE that is not based on Java. And not only slow, but terribly buggy. TFA sounds more like an article made by an eclipse fanboy than a developer trying to make a truly honest comparison.
I've got Eclipse Juno and a later version of VS installed on the same relatively fast PC (solid state disks). Neither are speed demons, but I think VS is slower, particularly when building. It's somewhat amazing how fast Eclipse builds my project with over 1000 classes, whereas VS takes about the same amount of time to build a C project with 10 files small files.
That makes it over priced, they would have to pay me to drink it.
If you want bottled water, just drink that. If you must pickup a sixer of megabrewery product for a hot day you could get some blue moon.
I believe PBR is actually cheaper than bottled water. I'll still stick with water, though.
I really hope this means every XBox will come with a Cablecard slot in the back, just so Microsoft can cause every Cable Company manager's head to explode at the same time when they announce the feature.
That would be about the only thing that would make be interested in buying one. That and if the subscription (which I'm sure it will require) is cheap enough. My Verizon DVR blows chunks. My old ReplayTV from 15 years ago had a better and more responsive interface than the crap Comcast and Verizon are pushing.
The new Kinect sounds neat, and much better than anything Sony will likely have. (In fairness, I have a PS3 and not an XBox 360.) I've never wanted to browse the web on my TV, so that part is useless. About the only app I care about is Netflix and maybe some other video providers, but my cheap Sony Bluray player can do all that as can the PS3 already.
No mention of GPU specs? That's telling. Seems more like an AppleTV with gaming.