I live in Germany. Where they have spent tens of billions upon tens of billions on what is a superb rail network which is still completely unable to compete with the car.
Rail in Germany has a tiny fraction (10%) of the passenger miles as the car. In fact it couldn't even cope with the traffic levels the car is capable of handling.
The sovereign government of most nation creates some money for the people to use. This is cash; notes & coins.
They pay someone with the cash and the recipient takes the money to their bank to deposit it. When they do, the bank takes the cash and writes the amount in a book. Credit is created by your high street banks not the government.
When you transfer the credit from one bank to another the second bank expect notes and coins to be sent; they have to trust the first bank to do this, hence clearing. Course nobody actually moves physical money any more and they haven't done for a while but the principle is the same.
When you pay or spend credit, the credit is bank money. The bank's job is to make their credit appear to be dollars. Which is interesting because only ~5% of money is dollars, the other 95% was created by banks so it has a lot of covering to do.
Money doesn't grow on trees? No, it's magic'd out of nothing.
If North Korea have printed 20 million or even 200 million, it's completely insignificant. Private US corporations have quite legally created ~9,000 million.
Too bad the route takes 3.5 hours instead of 49 minutes driving
The problem... well stated. The fundamental maths of current public transport technologies mean that they can physically never replace the car in terms of performance. You could spend trillions on it and it would still suck so badly that nobody uses it. (This is what Europe does)
There are technologies out there where the maths do add up (PRT) and which can outperform cars, but they would replace existing public transport systems which have lobbyists, unions, huge subsidies, decades of waste ec. Egos would be bruised and we can't have that.
Frankly unless you are doing something very specialised with your app, Apache is probably what you are looking for and even if you are doing something very specialised it can probably take a creditable stab at it.
There is some very good real world evidence (and several books on the subject) that the kanban approach both increases throughput of work, and more crucially, the quality of the work.
It has the added benefit that the work done is work which the business values highly.
Minimise work in progress. The key is to put a limit on the things which will be actively worked on. This puts an economic value on your team's time within the company. If you don't do this, you are effectively free and why wouldn't they then just chuck more and more junk at you?
It's then up to management to actually do their jobs and decide what is important and what is wishful thinking.
Note, it's probably not your job to decide the business priorities.
My banking passwords are of course more controlled, with far more specialised systems enforcing password strength to exactly 6 digit numerical characters. Clearly date of birth is the state of the art in banking security.
You can correlate one set of events with another set of apparently entirely independent ones. All you need is the compute power and access to the data sets.
Why even bother producing coins that are worth more as a material than as a coin?
Well it used to be the material that mattered. You were exchanging N grams of copper, or silver or gold. The British pound used to be a unit of weight of silver. Course the government needs to inflate away it's overspending, renege on it's debts, spend on political promises, make war etc so they changed the meaning of the word so they can reduce the value you receive to effectively nothing.
In 1964 gas for your car cost around 30c per gallon. 3 silver dimes. Today it costs about 3-4 dollars, a ten fold increase in the dollar price and about the melt value of ~2 silver dimes (cheaper production).
I'll leave it to you figure out who the sucker is.
Slashdot Mirror
All that changes is their methods of delivering their propaganda.
Or better.
Tag them evil or not evil.
Even on dipped beam you can see it curving away into the distance.
German motorways don't have these.
The subway just gets you to another subway station, you probably forgot to add the walking and waiting times. The car gets you to your destination.
I live in Germany.
Where they have spent tens of billions upon tens of billions on what is a superb rail network which is still completely unable to compete with the car.
Rail in Germany has a tiny fraction (10%) of the passenger miles as the car. In fact it couldn't even cope with the traffic levels the car is capable of handling.
Stats available at:
http://www.oecd.org/
I recommend you download the stats and compare passenger miles by car vs passenger miles by rail. In France no less.
What I mean by this.
The sovereign government of most nation creates some money for the people to use. This is cash; notes & coins.
They pay someone with the cash and the recipient takes the money to their bank to deposit it. When they do, the bank takes the cash and writes the amount in a book. Credit is created by your high street banks not the government.
When you transfer the credit from one bank to another the second bank expect notes and coins to be sent; they have to trust the first bank to do this, hence clearing. Course nobody actually moves physical money any more and they haven't done for a while but the principle is the same.
When you pay or spend credit, the credit is bank money. The bank's job is to make their credit appear to be dollars. Which is interesting because only ~5% of money is dollars, the other 95% was created by banks so it has a lot of covering to do.
Money doesn't grow on trees? No, it's magic'd out of nothing.
If North Korea have printed 20 million or even 200 million, it's completely insignificant. Private US corporations have quite legally created ~9,000 million.
Too bad the route takes 3.5 hours instead of 49 minutes driving
The problem... well stated. The fundamental maths of current public transport technologies mean that they can physically never replace the car in terms of performance. You could spend trillions on it and it would still suck so badly that nobody uses it. (This is what Europe does)
There are technologies out there where the maths do add up (PRT) and which can outperform cars, but they would replace existing public transport systems which have lobbyists, unions, huge subsidies, decades of waste ec. Egos would be bruised and we can't have that.
if you don't hold your breath.
Anyone know the stock ticker? With management like that it seems like an excellent short target.
1. I'm aware of systems handling 12k+ requests per second, on Apache. Not terribly exotic ones either.
2. Forking? Really?
3. PHP... Now I understand.
Frankly unless you are doing something very specialised with your app, Apache is probably what you are looking for and even if you are doing something very specialised it can probably take a creditable stab at it.
There is some very good real world evidence (and several books on the subject) that the kanban approach both increases throughput of work, and more crucially, the quality of the work.
It has the added benefit that the work done is work which the business values highly.
Minimise work in progress. The key is to put a limit on the things which will be actively worked on. This puts an economic value on your team's time within the company. If you don't do this, you are effectively free and why wouldn't they then just chuck more and more junk at you?
It's then up to management to actually do their jobs and decide what is important and what is wishful thinking.
Note, it's probably not your job to decide the business priorities.
They are lobbyist porn. All they are looking for is a name to stick on it, the politicians are just puppets dancing in front of the crowd.
They rarely are really left or right wing. Usually they are simply authoritarian.
China... Communist? Really? Corporations in bed with the state?
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
Benito Mussolini
China went from communist to fascist and nobody noticed.
A typical web site password of mine:
1jVzaVAy9Xhfoc_eok0V49ld-
My banking passwords are of course more controlled, with far more specialised systems enforcing password strength to exactly 6 digit numerical characters. Clearly date of birth is the state of the art in banking security.
Just 1.28 cm more and it would have been 50 meters exactly. What a coincidence. You might almost think they had gone metric.
I see they'll be missing planets again in the future.
If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to fear. Just make sure you follow the law.
Let me Google that for you.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22debt+serf%22
Apart from staying in my current job, is there any advice for someone who can't really risk the mortgage and kid's education on a whim?"
There's a reason the monetary system is debt based. You just found it.
Got a mobile?
You can correlate one set of events with another set of apparently entirely independent ones. All you need is the compute power and access to the data sets.
HFT is there to front run orders, kick stops, stuff quotes and so on. The world got along just fine without it.
as are 2 & 5.
Why even bother producing coins that are worth more as a material than as a coin?
Well it used to be the material that mattered. You were exchanging N grams of copper, or silver or gold. The British pound used to be a unit of weight of silver. Course the government needs to inflate away it's overspending, renege on it's debts, spend on political promises, make war etc so they changed the meaning of the word so they can reduce the value you receive to effectively nothing.
In 1964 gas for your car cost around 30c per gallon. 3 silver dimes. Today it costs about 3-4 dollars, a ten fold increase in the dollar price and about the melt value of ~2 silver dimes (cheaper production).
I'll leave it to you figure out who the sucker is.
after finding a copy of your virus on their system, which they did not put there, and then winning.
1. Genetically modify common cold virus and patent modifications.
2. Spread cold!
3. Sue EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. Profit!
You did it! You found the missing step!
"Americans like bland greasy meat, so their livestock farming practices reflect that."
ITYM cheap meat.