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  1. Re: Or, they could buy them in Canada... on Trump Tells Apple To Make Products In the US To Avoid China Tariffs (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple could quietly start manufacturing in the countries that Trump manufactures his products in, which he is not imposing tariffs on. Of course moving manufacturing could also be expensive.

  2. Re:Seems this topic is stuck in the roundabout. on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 1

    Your item 1 fits my first thought, i.e. in the over 50 years that I have been driving this dilemma has never happened. Every near accident (which I always successfully avoided) involved my car, with me as sole occupant and another vehicle also with the driver as the sole occupant. Except once, a lady cut into my lane when only the front of her car was past the front of my car by about half the length of her car, had to brake hard to drop far enough behind her car that she did not hit me when she entered my lane. She had two children in the car, who I could see because they were standing in the back seat running back and forth across the seat.

  3. Re:On an ALWAC IIIE on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 1

    Where did you go to school? I am self taught, because the schools did not have computer science in the 60's where I went to school (I majored in math). Actually, I should not say self taught, as soon as I saw Fortran, I understood and wrote it, to solve differential equations, which is what Fortran does easily. But was not sure I wanted to be a programmer because I did not know what they did and was afraid that mean that I would be keypunching, which isa terrible way to enter code. After staying home with babies until they were in preschool, I started working part time in accounting. Fortunately for me they got a computer after a year or two and I was the only one who knew anything about computers so I became the computer person. This computer had a normal keyboard, programs and data were stored on tape, no big box of cards which was disaster if they were dropped so they were out of order or in some way damaged (no stapling, folding, etc.) and I could correct typos without starting all over. This computer had assembly code, I saw the code, understood and wrote it and the programs worked perfect, so then I applied for a full time assembly language programming job and continued coding ever after. Several different assembly languages, Pascal, C, C++, various Unix shell scripting languages such as Bourne C shell. I bought a little Attari home computer, 64 K, in the early 80's that my children learned on. (Re-posted with my login.)

  4. Re:Schooling, perhaps? on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This does not just apply to private schools versus public. Students in public schools in affluent areas score much higher on tests than in public schools in poor neighborhoods, at least in California. This is because public schools get money based on the taxes paid in the area of the school, also parents with higher income can spend more time with their children. Way back in the late 50's when I first moved to California the first school I went to was in the Watts District a very poor area. Back then all the schools before and after Watts provided each student with text books, paper and pencils and tests that were printed at the school. Not Watts, no books, no pencils, no paper. The teacher lectured and had a chalk board and chalk. One day a week we got one piece of paper and a pencil to practice writing, but mostly the teachers physically sat on the children to keep them under control and there was very little learning. All other schools had regular reading assignments from the text books and home work, not the school in Watts.

  5. Re:Therac 25 on How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives · · Score: 1

    I think 3) is problems with all levels of code from UI down to OS, UI should not give the 'P'roceed option, and the lower levels should not accept the proceed. Many years ago, around mid 80's I was modifying network security code to use a new disk drive that was being installed in the network computers, everything worked well until I wanted to test error return, the only way I could, was to power off the disk drive, the firmware for the disk drive reported that it successfully had written and read the drive, which of course it did not. I went to the person who wrote the firmware and told him, he said that it was a successful command because the command had been delivered to the gate. I told him users do not care if the command was delivered to the gate, they want to know if the data was written to the disk and if it was read, which he argued about but finally corrected his code to report errors on reading and writing. He did not fully follow the design in that the codes were supposed to be the same numbers as the previous disk drives, so existing code would report errors the same as previously, he condensed the error codes some, but at least it reported errors.

  6. Re:Antecdotes != Evidence on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    You seem to misunderstand Galag88, he is not running Windows 7, he is running Windows 8, which was upgraded to 8 from previously 7 on his system. I have two separate computers one with Windows 7 and the other bought new two years ago with Windows 8, the 7 computer is slow, slow and slower, the 8 computer is still running very fast. So it does look like Windows 8 did get rid of the problem that existed in previous versions. If version 10 has the same OS ability that 8 has, then 10 should work that well also.

  7. Re: Here's the solution on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    Agree with Ms. Public, a server is a very different environment than a desktop, app, environment, saloomy is comparing two totally different worlds. The MS OS has always been a bad design for desktop environment. But I have used Windows 8 now for two years and it has not slowed down and I have not done any clean up other than malware removal occasionally so perhaps MS did get the OS problem corrected with Windows 8.

  8. Re:DIET OF THE POOR on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    This is true, basically the poor cannot afford food that is actually good nutritionally, the condition of obesity is actually a symptom of lack of good nutrition, which is the fault of the food industry driven by a society that is more interested in making more money than in what is beneficial to people. And I do not think taking pills for this will improve anyone's health, it may disguise the symptoms of lack of nourishment by reducing a personâ(TM)s weight, but probably will not last. And the loss of weight by taking pills does not necessarily mean the person is healthier. There have been diet pills that were effective in reducing weight that were linked to heart attacks. The best remedy is good nutritious natural food for everyone.

  9. Re:DIET OF THE POOR on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    This is true, basically the poor cannot afford food that is actually good nutritionally, the condition of obesity is actually a symptom of lack of good nutrition, which is the fault of the food industry driven by a society that is more interested in making more money than in what is beneficial to people. And I do not think taking pills for this will improve anyone's health, it may disguise the symptoms of lack of nourishment by reducing a persons weight, but probably will not last. And the loss of weight by taking pills does not necessarily mean the person is healthier. There have been diet pills that were effective in reducing weight that were linked to heart attacks. The best remedy is good nutritious natural food for everyone.

  10. Re:How about NEW cars? on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 1

    Definitely, I have seen gasoline engine cars catch on fire for no apparent reason, they also sometimes have electrical fires. More importantly gasoline engine cars do not give you a warning with enough time to park safely and get out before the fire becomes apparent as the Tesla does. If I ever am in a car that catches fire I would very much prefer that it happen in a Tesla.