The first course I took that focused on team programming, I had four people on a team. Two were incompetent, couldn't write code that worked and had no concept of documentation or how to design interfaces to interoperate properly. The other two of us ended up having to do all the work at the last minute with a number of late nights.
Well his motivation for saying it doesn't negate what he says.
I've, honestly, found the same thing. In an economy like this, with so many GOOD people looking, you get 500+ resumes per position that comes open.
In my recent experience, the VAST majority of recent grads don't have knowledge or work ethic commensurate with their level of experience. Best case you get someone who is hard to manage, worst case you get someone who can't be relied on for even basic things.
I can't pretend to know why that is, although I'm sure I can come up with some theories, but the fact is its a VERY reasonable optimization of a large stack of resumes to simply toss recent grads. It sucks for the minuscule number who aren't like that, but I don't have time to phone screen a hundred people to find that one. (Although a recent observation suggests to me that simply tossing the resumes of a recent grad from any school I've heard of would help -- the bigger the name, the more the grad seems to think of themselves...)
If you pick up a phone, you have no privacy. Your telco monitors your activity. The telco of the receiving end of the call monitors the activity. The NSA monitors it. Hell, the NSA may be recording it. Networks the call traverse record bits of information about it. Any one of them can figure out the location, and the laws (when followed) are the laws of both ends of the call and every country the call transits.
If you want to know how it works, you can try googling about it. However, your inane privacy rant, I suspect, was the real purpose of your post... not some inquiry into how Google Voice works.
Um, no. Hot air balloons don't expand when you heat them up, otherwise the density of the air would remain at the external density and it wouldn't float. Notice how the hot breath you use when blowing up a balloon doesn't make it float.
Hot air balloons work because they DON'T expand. They let air out the bottom as the density drops.
You've got how it works ass-backwards. You heat the air to put LESS air into the balloon, not more.
They're both propagating magnetic fields traveling at the speed of light in the medium they are traveling though -- which is faster through air than copper.
So, speaking in simple physics, you are exactly wrong.
When I was in middle school, you were expected to get on the right bus, if you were taking a bus. Other kids just walked. (Yes, even at 10-12yo). They dropped you off at one stop in a neighborhood (not in front of your house tying up traffic).
Kids got on the wrong bus sometimes. Kids wandered off with friends. If it was the latter, you probably got an ass kickin' when you got home.
No one talked about laminated passes, or tracking kids, or making parents meet them at bus stops or any of the other ridiculous things done these days.
A lot of parents these days suck. celtic_hackr is one of them.
You're sort of right -- I assume you're peripherally involved with the use of E85 in the hot rod community, but haven't done it yourself.
From experience, its a pain in the balls to convert an engine to run on it. You lose a lot of horsepower, and you have to basically replace all the fuel lines, rejet the carb (if you can use the carb at all -- E85 is corrosive to aluminum, too).
Where it becomes interesting is when you build a new motor -- you can run a higher compression without having to run 100+ octane fuel, on smaller engines you can turbocharge with higher boost, but you have to do one of the two to get around the fact that you're producing a lot less power.
And you'll never EVER produce more power than gasoline with Ethanol. You can build an engine to burn more of it at a higher compression than you can with standard gasoline, but gallon for gallon you simply can't get more power with it. Gearheads prefer it to 100, or 110 octane because its not $7/gallon, so even if they burn 50-100% more of it, they still come out ahead.
Unless the tiers are pretty low, it may not impact most users.
I just checked -- in the time since I had my iPhone replaced when the battery blew up (end of last August) I've transferred 1.1GB over cellular down, under 100MB up. I use it constantly for "normal" sort of stuff -- Pandora in my car once or twice a week, lots of e-mail. Lots of web surfing. Maybe 20% of the time I update or install apps when I'm not on WiFi.
That's barely 150MB of downstream transfer a month. There may be power users who use vastly more, but they probably should be paying vastly more. Even a 500MB or 1GB cap per month would be more than enough for the majority of users, I'd bet.
Hell, looking at my usage, a pay-per-minute phone plan and a 500MB per month cap would be fantastic if it cut my bill in half. I've got almost 5000 rollover minutes built up because of less than 50 minutes of month of voice usage. I hate being stuck on high voice usage / "unlimited" data plans.
No, it was any federal funding of any institution that was doing it.
Meaning private funds used to do the research at an organization taking ANY public funds would cause the loss of the public funds.
I'm sure you've got political reasons for misstating it in your post, but if you're going to wave the conservative flag, don't act high and mighty about it.
1) Thats a good thing -- you rename where its declared and you can make damn certain code that was using it is really doing the right thing, and not something unexpected because of autoboxing or because of types implementing same-named methods that have differing behavior. 2) Why did you assume firstName was a string? It could've been a key into a over-normalized database table of first names. It could've been an index into an array. The point is, you don't know what crap other engineers have left around for you to step in. 3) I don't even understand what you mean. A variable name is a variable name. You search on it.
I finally stopped using Hungarian because SO many people whined about it, but there were significant benefits to it.
Still, using strongly declared variable with crappy names is better than the jack-assery that things like the addition of the "var" keyword in C# represent.
The companies with extremely inexpensive high bandwidth options are universally very high population-density countries.
When 90% of your population lives in cities, its a lot cheaper to get 100mbit service to 90% of your population.
The US is a rural country, in the grand scheme of things... thats why we pay through the teeth for connectivity, just as thats why our train system doesn't work well.
A city can provide vastly cheaper service than a cable company because they aren't keeping up infrastructure (that loses huge amounts of money) in the areas that AREN'T high-density.
People living in the city are paying $60/month for 10mbit service because people who live out in the middle of nowhere are paying $60/month for service. If the cable companies and telcos were allowed to charge what the service cost, they'd be charging $300 a month for cable and internet to the guy living out in the woods, and $30 a month for those in the city, but that sort of tiered pricing is frowned on in the US, even if the people not in the city are paying 1/3 the price for their housing, etc.
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Ha, this is very true.
The first course I took that focused on team programming, I had four people on a team. Two were incompetent, couldn't write code that worked and had no concept of documentation or how to design interfaces to interoperate properly. The other two of us ended up having to do all the work at the last minute with a number of late nights.
It was just like real life programming.
Well his motivation for saying it doesn't negate what he says.
I've, honestly, found the same thing. In an economy like this, with so many GOOD people looking, you get 500+ resumes per position that comes open.
In my recent experience, the VAST majority of recent grads don't have knowledge or work ethic commensurate with their level of experience. Best case you get someone who is hard to manage, worst case you get someone who can't be relied on for even basic things.
I can't pretend to know why that is, although I'm sure I can come up with some theories, but the fact is its a VERY reasonable optimization of a large stack of resumes to simply toss recent grads. It sucks for the minuscule number who aren't like that, but I don't have time to phone screen a hundred people to find that one. (Although a recent observation suggests to me that simply tossing the resumes of a recent grad from any school I've heard of would help -- the bigger the name, the more the grad seems to think of themselves...)
Guess what.
If you pick up a phone, you have no privacy. Your telco monitors your activity. The telco of the receiving end of the call monitors the activity. The NSA monitors it. Hell, the NSA may be recording it. Networks the call traverse record bits of information about it. Any one of them can figure out the location, and the laws (when followed) are the laws of both ends of the call and every country the call transits.
If you want to know how it works, you can try googling about it. However, your inane privacy rant, I suspect, was the real purpose of your post... not some inquiry into how Google Voice works.
GrandCentral and Google have been saying that for years.
I'll believe it when I see it.
(I've been waiting for porting since I got my Grand Central account)
If you notice, though, newer books with paperback editions, typically the Kindle version is $9.99 and the paperback less.
You have to get to much older books for Kindle prices to be lower than paperback prices, and even with old sci-fi novels, its typically 5% less.
200 books?
Where do you find new books for $2 each?
Most public libraries now charge for new books, I've found.
Typically there's one copy of a popular book for free, and a set of additional copies available for a 25-50 cent a day rental fee.
Its handy for the popular books because its cheaper than buying and you don't have to sit on a wait list for three months.
Um, no. Hot air balloons don't expand when you heat them up, otherwise the density of the air would remain at the external density and it wouldn't float. Notice how the hot breath you use when blowing up a balloon doesn't make it float.
Hot air balloons work because they DON'T expand. They let air out the bottom as the density drops.
You've got how it works ass-backwards. You heat the air to put LESS air into the balloon, not more.
Simple physics?
They're both propagating magnetic fields traveling at the speed of light in the medium they are traveling though -- which is faster through air than copper.
So, speaking in simple physics, you are exactly wrong.
You rang?
When I was in middle school, you were expected to get on the right bus, if you were taking a bus. Other kids just walked. (Yes, even at 10-12yo). They dropped you off at one stop in a neighborhood (not in front of your house tying up traffic).
Kids got on the wrong bus sometimes. Kids wandered off with friends. If it was the latter, you probably got an ass kickin' when you got home.
No one talked about laminated passes, or tracking kids, or making parents meet them at bus stops or any of the other ridiculous things done these days.
A lot of parents these days suck. celtic_hackr is one of them.
You're sort of right -- I assume you're peripherally involved with the use of E85 in the hot rod community, but haven't done it yourself.
From experience, its a pain in the balls to convert an engine to run on it. You lose a lot of horsepower, and you have to basically replace all the fuel lines, rejet the carb (if you can use the carb at all -- E85 is corrosive to aluminum, too).
Where it becomes interesting is when you build a new motor -- you can run a higher compression without having to run 100+ octane fuel, on smaller engines you can turbocharge with higher boost, but you have to do one of the two to get around the fact that you're producing a lot less power.
And you'll never EVER produce more power than gasoline with Ethanol. You can build an engine to burn more of it at a higher compression than you can with standard gasoline, but gallon for gallon you simply can't get more power with it. Gearheads prefer it to 100, or 110 octane because its not $7/gallon, so even if they burn 50-100% more of it, they still come out ahead.
Might want to take a look at maps of Amazon deforestation before you declare it works.
As a hint, you may also want to take a look at their fuel usage as compared to the US relative to that deforestation.
Unless the tiers are pretty low, it may not impact most users.
I just checked -- in the time since I had my iPhone replaced when the battery blew up (end of last August) I've transferred 1.1GB over cellular down, under 100MB up. I use it constantly for "normal" sort of stuff -- Pandora in my car once or twice a week, lots of e-mail. Lots of web surfing. Maybe 20% of the time I update or install apps when I'm not on WiFi.
That's barely 150MB of downstream transfer a month. There may be power users who use vastly more, but they probably should be paying vastly more. Even a 500MB or 1GB cap per month would be more than enough for the majority of users, I'd bet.
Hell, looking at my usage, a pay-per-minute phone plan and a 500MB per month cap would be fantastic if it cut my bill in half. I've got almost 5000 rollover minutes built up because of less than 50 minutes of month of voice usage. I hate being stuck on high voice usage / "unlimited" data plans.
We live in a country of poorly educated boobs voting for people they relate to.
I'd argue we've already got a tyranny of the minority.
If you didn't see a problem, then you weren't in that 14%.
If you were, you'd know NOTHING was working. Offline GMail didn't work, sending didn't work, POP didn't work, etc.
Surprised?
Hell, I've got it bookmarked!
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Not the jailbroken ones.
That 1 billion is a misnomer.
Every time you download an update to an app, its considered a sale (and you get a $0 receipt for it).
I'm sure I've racked up hundreds of sales, but I've only bought maybe four programs.
I'm not sure Gates ever said that.
And we already know he didn't say the thing you were making an offhand mock about.
Its not accidental, its a made up troll story that wasn't verified by Slashdot editors before posting.
And I've seen plenty of Firefox browsers (and Google homepages) while walking the halls at Microsoft.
No, it was any federal funding of any institution that was doing it.
Meaning private funds used to do the research at an organization taking ANY public funds would cause the loss of the public funds.
I'm sure you've got political reasons for misstating it in your post, but if you're going to wave the conservative flag, don't act high and mighty about it.
1) Thats a good thing -- you rename where its declared and you can make damn certain code that was using it is really doing the right thing, and not something unexpected because of autoboxing or because of types implementing same-named methods that have differing behavior.
2) Why did you assume firstName was a string? It could've been a key into a over-normalized database table of first names. It could've been an index into an array. The point is, you don't know what crap other engineers have left around for you to step in.
3) I don't even understand what you mean. A variable name is a variable name. You search on it.
I finally stopped using Hungarian because SO many people whined about it, but there were significant benefits to it.
Still, using strongly declared variable with crappy names is better than the jack-assery that things like the addition of the "var" keyword in C# represent.
GE isn't some vaporware Silicon Valley think tank or startup.
The companies with extremely inexpensive high bandwidth options are universally very high population-density countries.
When 90% of your population lives in cities, its a lot cheaper to get 100mbit service to 90% of your population.
The US is a rural country, in the grand scheme of things... thats why we pay through the teeth for connectivity, just as thats why our train system doesn't work well.
A city can provide vastly cheaper service than a cable company because they aren't keeping up infrastructure (that loses huge amounts of money) in the areas that AREN'T high-density.
People living in the city are paying $60/month for 10mbit service because people who live out in the middle of nowhere are paying $60/month for service. If the cable companies and telcos were allowed to charge what the service cost, they'd be charging $300 a month for cable and internet to the guy living out in the woods, and $30 a month for those in the city, but that sort of tiered pricing is frowned on in the US, even if the people not in the city are paying 1/3 the price for their housing, etc.