My last couple of work computers have been Macs because I'm a technical person, someone who likes Linux/Unix, working in an organization that uses Active Directory and other "Windows" stuff. Mac bridges those two.
MacOS plays nicely with Active Directory and all the other corporate stuff, runs Microsoft Office, etc. It's a perfectly good company computer.
Also, it's certified Unix, and runs all the open source applications used on Linux. It's a good OS for technical people. You can pretty much open a terminal and pretend it's Linux, there are few differences for day-to-day work.
I am very excited to work with industry and government to make this happen
Alternative Translation: We'll all pay $50 billion dollars for it, it'll go 16 years over the scheduled timeline, and barely work, being less powerful than a Fitbit.
Kinda like the border wall Clinton and Schumer voted for a decade ago, which will start being built maybe next year. Government - the original Kickstarter scam.
More specifically, the claim was that the music of "The Old Man Down the Road" was essentially a copy of "Run Through the Jungle". Fantasy owned the copyright to Run, and therefore also Old Man, *if* Old Man was a copy of Run.
The jury found that it was not a copy. Judgement for Fogerty.
Fogerty then sought attorney's fees; the court ruled that Fantasy's suit was not frivolous and denied fees. Fogerty took the issue of fees it to the Supreme Court, who agreed with the District Court - attorney's fees *may* be awarded if the suit if frivolous or brought in bad faith, the statute does not require that fees be awarded in all cases.
That's an interesting point. If the EU continues to act more and more like a single country, it will be fair to ask why they have so many seats. The US doesn't have one for each state.
That's interesting. The EU seems to be under impression that they've negotiated many trade treaties limiting tariffs, so member states no longer have the freedom to set their own:
And of course there are about a hundred EU rules about what kind of tariffs states may and may not have.
Not that there are NO differences between the EU and the US, of course, but at their core they are essentially the same type of thing - the US federal government has just been around longer, so it's parliament (Congress) has had more time to make more laws.
Check out the Google reports over the years. I think you'll find they have some good and some bad. Specifically, the more platters a drive has, the greater the chance of failure - regardless of manufacturer.
If you want to be a fan of any one brand, that's fine, doesn't bother me.
I hope this doesn't come across as negative, but today your posts are even better than they normally are. More clear and focused. If you've been doing something differently lately, you might want to keep doing it.
Just curious, do you think the United States is a country? Decide and we'll get back to that in a moment.
> The american education is so bad that a large swath think that europe is a country.
Ignoring for the moment that your education apparently didn't teach you what proper nouns are, I've noticed that a lot of Europeans seem to think Europe is a country these days. Ask them where they are from and they say "Europe." They aren't completely wrong, Europe (EU) has a parliament that makes law and a high court that interprets law. Because the (former?) countries that make up the EU are no longer completely sovereign, they are, to some measure, no longer countries.
You may say "each member of the EU *consented* to delegating only *some* powers to the EU. Because only some power is delegated, and that by consent, each remains a country." Very well then, have a look at the enumerated powers clause of the US Constitution. It's a list of all the powers that the US federal (federation) government has, limited powers delegated by the consent of the individual states. Very much like the EU. If the US is a country because it has a federation government, then so is the EU - it too has a federation government, common currency, EU-wide elections, etc.
Ps a clear example of this is that all manufacturers make drives with different numbers of platters. A drive with 5 platters is FAR more likely to fail than a drive with 1 platter. They may be made by the same manufacturer, but the 5-platter model is at least 5 times as likely to fail (platters interfere with each other).
> I'd be interested to see a comparison of SMART data between models and manufacturers too. I strongly suspect that some are much better at warning you of impending failure than others.
That *would* be interesting. That might be more consistent, with some manufacturer normally providing good data. Of course no matter what SMART does, if a model with 5 platters is subject to catastrophic failure, SMART can't do anything about that.
People who know more than I about hard drives have written that different manufacturers calculate SMART data *differently*, so to make predictions based on SMART, you need to know how to interpret the data from that specific manufacturer. HGST data may not be *better* or *worse* than Toshiba, just different, so if you use Toshiba drives you want to know how to understand Toshiba data.
Are you currently using a drive built in the 1970s? The 1980s or 1990s even? If not, you probably don't care about a drive that may last 45 years. You care, probably, about how likely it is that a drive will fail in the ~3 years before you upgrade it.
Looking at data from both Backblaze and Google, what's apparent to me is that all brands have some good models and some bad. Google made sure to point that out in their report. Something like "the most reliable model and the least reliable model are the same brand. While reliability is somewhat consistent within samples of the same model, there is little to no correlation between any brand name and reliability".
In other words, these studies show that HGST Model #12345678 is a good drive. They don't show that HGST (or any other company) consistently makes good drives.
> By that interpretation, "attempted" murder isn't a crime either, so long as you completely miss your shot, swing, swerve..
The definition is for a "crime", crimes are defined mostly in state laws. The definition has to do with what actions you have a federal class action for, suing for money due to harm caused to many people. If no harm is caused, you can't sue as a federal class action.
Ps, the point you've missed is that the defender has to remove *all* of the vulnerabilities, the attacker only has to find *one*. Duplicate code and other forms of poor maintainability mean that the defender is more likely to overlook something in one copy, peer review can't be as as thorough in the allotted time, etc.
This is a very secure program (except in older versions of PHP): print 'Hello World';
The defender can readily understand the potential behaviors of the program. Greater complexity means greater risk.
Multiple choice type questions are of course easy to put on a test. There are many other choices, though. Cisco does a reasonably good job of testing skills on their certification exams. Even the entry-level exams include simulations and questions that require you to understand how and why things are as they are. Cisco's most advanced certifications *combine* a computerized test with in-person interviewing.
That's interesting. To me, there are positives and negatives to be able to do your own work. I do my own electrical, and I do it right. One of my good friends is a licensed electrician. I help him from time to time and he's not yet pointed out any safety issues with my work. I taught my brother, or helped him learn, and he just passed his certification test today. In other words, I can do the work right, and know when to call my electrician friend with questions (or look it up in the electric code).
On the other hand, I just bought a house from a guy who shouldn't have been doing his own electrical work. It's okay because of course we had the house inspected before purchase, so I knew I'd need to correct a couple of issues with the wiring.
It's his fault because as we know, Trump doesn't exactly like the NSA, CIA and FBI - he's said he plans to cut their budget and their power - they've lent credence The Onion type stories about him, he's called their competence into question.
Because Trump doesn't like them and intends to cut their budget, they'll have less ability to engage in mass surveillance. Therefore - oh sorry, gotta run, but I'm sure you can see where this is going, how it's Trump's fault. Obama wouldn't have allowed his agencies to do that if Trump wasn't going to piss them off later.
That *is* an issue, the current structure encourages keeping money outside of the US. Sometimes they use that money to build factories or other facilities outside of the US.
Between the repatriation tax and the double taxation of dividends (resulting in a 59% total tax rate), there is strong incentive to never return the money to US investors (retirement savers) in the form of dividends. Instead, the US investors become stockholders in an ever-growing European company. It has to keep growing, because paying dividends to your 401k instead triggers the 59% tax.
Most countries don't have this silly tax code because it does encourage silly behavior, trying to grow into industries completely outside their core competency rather than returning profit to your 401k. Companies do look for opportunities to bring money back. For example, while campaigning, candidate Trump said he'd try to change the rules to avoid punishing companies for bringing money to the US. If he and the Republicans manage to do that even forna short time, we should see a quick influx of cash as companies take advantage of the opportunity before it's changed again. That's happened before, a short window of lower rates.
As far as the bonds, they have time to wait - Microsoft just issued bonds due FORTY YEARS from now. In forty years, when these bonds are due, they can pay them by issuing another set of 40-year bonds. Some time in the next 80 years tax rates will be lower.
> do MS plan to go into enormous debt in the US while having an even more enormous sum sitting in a Irish bank?
Why not? If they issue bonds in the US paying 3% and they buy bonds in Ireland that pay them 3%, their cost in zero. (Other than currency risk.) It's not like credit-card debt, their interest cost is about equal to what they earn on the cash they'd otherwise spend, for a net cost of zero.
Two years ago, Obama finally submitted a budget request on time, and Congress passed a budget (written largely by Ryan). Paul Ryan became Speaker in October 2015.
Currently, they open the application process for three days, get far more applicants than the quota, then later randomly select some of the applicants. Since Infosys files the most applications, they get the most H1-Bs. The fact that they are using H1-Bs to undercut US workers doesn't currently count against them. So we get 190,000 cheap H1-Bs approved, and 200,000 positions that actually need special skills get denied, or can't be submitted since the application limit was hit six months before.
Suppose you change it to 2X average for the minimum H1-B salary and the highest salaries get precedence. Infosys no longer submits half a million applications for bog-standard developers, they want to pay *less* than average wage, not double the average wage. Even if they were willing to pay double, they'd probably be beat by someone willing to pay triple for their guy, because he's Jonas Ã-berg.
So you don't have a bunch of cheap labor displacing US programmers, instead you have them working with guys like Ã-berg.
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My last couple of work computers have been Macs because I'm a technical person, someone who likes Linux/Unix, working in an organization that uses Active Directory and other "Windows" stuff. Mac bridges those two.
MacOS plays nicely with Active Directory and all the other corporate stuff, runs Microsoft Office, etc. It's a perfectly good company computer.
Also, it's certified Unix, and runs all the open source applications used on Linux. It's a good OS for technical people. You can pretty much open a terminal and pretend it's Linux, there are few differences for day-to-day work.
> when the rest of the world (Linux and Windows) is still on x86?
Linux has supported ARM since 1994. Today, the vast majority of Linux kernels running are running on ARM processors.
> America" is one of three continents. ...
> I'm a Californian.
Indeed. California public schools, it seems.
I am very excited to work with industry and government to make this happen Alternative Translation: We'll all pay $50 billion dollars for it, it'll go 16 years over the scheduled timeline, and barely work, being less powerful than a Fitbit. Kinda like the border wall Clinton and Schumer voted for a decade ago, which will start being built maybe next year. Government - the original Kickstarter scam.
More specifically, the claim was that the music of "The Old Man Down the Road" was essentially a copy of "Run Through the Jungle". Fantasy owned the copyright to Run, and therefore also Old Man, *if* Old Man was a copy of Run.
The jury found that it was not a copy. Judgement for Fogerty.
Fogerty then sought attorney's fees; the court ruled that Fantasy's suit was not frivolous and denied fees. Fogerty took the issue of fees it to the Supreme Court, who agreed with the District Court - attorney's fees *may* be awarded if the suit if frivolous or brought in bad faith, the statute does not require that fees be awarded in all cases.
That's an interesting point. If the EU continues to act more and more like a single country, it will be fair to ask why they have so many seats. The US doesn't have one for each state.
That's interesting. The EU seems to be under impression that they've negotiated many trade treaties limiting tariffs, so member states no longer have the freedom to set their own:
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/poli...
And of course there are about a hundred EU rules about what kind of tariffs states may and may not have.
Not that there are NO differences between the EU and the US, of course, but at their core they are essentially the same type of thing - the US federal government has just been around longer, so it's parliament (Congress) has had more time to make more laws.
Check out the Google reports over the years. I think you'll find they have some good and some bad. Specifically, the more platters a drive has, the greater the chance of failure - regardless of manufacturer.
If you want to be a fan of any one brand, that's fine, doesn't bother me.
That's interesting.
I hope this doesn't come across as negative, but today your posts are even better than they normally are. More clear and focused. If you've been doing something differently lately, you might want to keep doing it.
Just curious, do you think the United States is a country?
Decide and we'll get back to that in a moment.
> The american education is so bad that a large swath think that europe is a country.
Ignoring for the moment that your education apparently didn't teach you what proper nouns are, I've noticed that a lot of Europeans seem to think Europe is a country these days. Ask them where they are from and they say "Europe." They aren't completely wrong, Europe (EU) has a parliament that makes law and a high court that interprets law. Because the (former?) countries that make up the EU are no longer completely sovereign, they are, to some measure, no longer countries.
You may say "each member of the EU *consented* to delegating only *some* powers to the EU. Because only some power is delegated, and that by consent, each remains a country." Very well then, have a look at the enumerated powers clause of the US Constitution. It's a list of all the powers that the US federal (federation) government has, limited powers delegated by the consent of the individual states. Very much like the EU. If the US is a country because it has a federation government, then so is the EU - it too has a federation government, common currency, EU-wide elections, etc.
Ps a clear example of this is that all manufacturers make drives with different numbers of platters. A drive with 5 platters is FAR more likely to fail than a drive with 1 platter. They may be made by the same manufacturer, but the 5-platter model is at least 5 times as likely to fail (platters interfere with each other).
> I'd be interested to see a comparison of SMART data between models and manufacturers too. I strongly suspect that some are much better at warning you of impending failure than others.
That *would* be interesting. That might be more consistent, with some manufacturer normally providing good data. Of course no matter what SMART does, if a model with 5 platters is subject to catastrophic failure, SMART can't do anything about that.
People who know more than I about hard drives have written that different manufacturers calculate SMART data *differently*, so to make predictions based on SMART, you need to know how to interpret the data from that specific manufacturer. HGST data may not be *better* or *worse* than Toshiba, just different, so if you use Toshiba drives you want to know how to understand Toshiba data.
Are you currently using a drive built in the 1970s? The 1980s or 1990s even? If not, you probably don't care about a drive that may last 45 years. You care, probably, about how likely it is that a drive will fail in the ~3 years before you upgrade it.
Looking at data from both Backblaze and Google, what's apparent to me is that all brands have some good models and some bad. Google made sure to point that out in their report. Something like "the most reliable model and the least reliable model are the same brand. While reliability is somewhat consistent within samples of the same model, there is little to no correlation between any brand name and reliability".
In other words, these studies show that HGST Model #12345678 is a good drive. They don't show that HGST (or any other company) consistently makes good drives.
> By that interpretation, "attempted" murder isn't a crime either, so long as you completely miss your shot, swing, swerve..
The definition is for a "crime", crimes are defined mostly in state laws. The definition has to do with what actions you have a federal class action for, suing for money due to harm caused to many people. If no harm is caused, you can't sue as a federal class action.
Ps, the point you've missed is that the defender has to remove *all* of the vulnerabilities, the attacker only has to find *one*. Duplicate code and other forms of poor maintainability mean that the defender is more likely to overlook something in one copy, peer review can't be as as thorough in the allotted time, etc.
This is a very secure program (except in older versions of PHP):
print 'Hello World';
The defender can readily understand the potential behaviors of the program. Greater complexity means greater risk.
I find it interesting - it seems you're not so stupid, just supremely full pf yourself and perhaps you need to take your meds.
Also, the plaintiffs can still sue under state law. The ruling is that they can't make a federal case out of it.
Multiple choice type questions are of course easy to put on a test. There are many other choices, though. Cisco does a reasonably good job of testing skills on their certification exams. Even the entry-level exams include simulations and questions that require you to understand how and why things are as they are. Cisco's most advanced certifications *combine* a computerized test with in-person interviewing.
Sometimes my bad typing and autocorrect completely jumbles my posts.
Yet, it is still funny when someone writes two sentences about their "skills" and makes five grammar errors in those two sentences. Skills indeed.
That's interesting. To me, there are positives and negatives to be able to do your own work. I do my own electrical, and I do it right. One of my good friends is a licensed electrician. I help him from time to time and he's not yet pointed out any safety issues with my work. I taught my brother, or helped him learn, and he just passed his certification test today. In other words, I can do the work right, and know when to call my electrician friend with questions (or look it up in the electric code).
On the other hand, I just bought a house from a guy who shouldn't have been doing his own electrical work. It's okay because of course we had the house inspected before purchase, so I knew I'd need to correct a couple of issues with the wiring.
It's his fault because as we know, Trump doesn't exactly like the NSA, CIA and FBI - he's said he plans to cut their budget and their power - they've lent credence The Onion type stories about him, he's called their competence into question.
Because Trump doesn't like them and intends to cut their budget, they'll have less ability to engage in mass surveillance. Therefore - oh sorry, gotta run, but I'm sure you can see where this is going, how it's Trump's fault. Obama wouldn't have allowed his agencies to do that if Trump wasn't going to piss them off later.
That *is* an issue, the current structure encourages keeping money outside of the US. Sometimes they use that money to build factories or other facilities outside of the US.
Between the repatriation tax and the double taxation of dividends (resulting in a 59% total tax rate), there is strong incentive to never return the money to US investors (retirement savers) in the form of dividends. Instead, the US investors become stockholders in an ever-growing European company. It has to keep growing, because paying dividends to your 401k instead triggers the 59% tax.
Most countries don't have this silly tax code because it does encourage silly behavior, trying to grow into industries completely outside their core competency rather than returning profit to your 401k. Companies do look for opportunities to bring money back. For example, while campaigning, candidate Trump said he'd try to change the rules to avoid punishing companies for bringing money to the US. If he and the Republicans manage to do that even forna short time, we should see a quick influx of cash as companies take advantage of the opportunity before it's changed again. That's happened before, a short window of lower rates.
As far as the bonds, they have time to wait - Microsoft just issued bonds due FORTY YEARS from now. In forty years, when these bonds are due, they can pay them by issuing another set of 40-year bonds. Some time in the next 80 years tax rates will be lower.
> do MS plan to go into enormous debt in the US while having an even more enormous sum sitting in a Irish bank?
Why not? If they issue bonds in the US paying 3% and they buy bonds in Ireland that pay them 3%, their cost in zero. (Other than currency risk.) It's not like credit-card debt, their interest cost is about equal to what they earn on the cash they'd otherwise spend, for a net cost of zero.
Two years ago, Obama finally submitted a budget request on time, and Congress passed a budget (written largely by Ryan). Paul Ryan became Speaker in October 2015.
Currently, they open the application process for three days, get far more applicants than the quota, then later randomly select some of the applicants. Since Infosys files the most applications, they get the most H1-Bs. The fact that they are using H1-Bs to undercut US workers doesn't currently count against them. So we get 190,000 cheap H1-Bs approved, and 200,000 positions that actually need special skills get denied, or can't be submitted since the application limit was hit six months before.
Suppose you change it to 2X average for the minimum H1-B salary and the highest salaries get precedence. Infosys no longer submits half a million applications for bog-standard developers, they want to pay *less* than average wage, not double the average wage. Even if they were willing to pay double, they'd probably be beat by someone willing to pay triple for their guy, because he's Jonas Ã-berg.
So you don't have a bunch of cheap labor displacing US programmers, instead you have them working with guys like Ã-berg.