A Russian company with close ties to KGB exploits a loophole in US patent law, tries to bankrupt a small American firm struggling to make a living out of its intellectual property. The Congress will consider additional sanctions against Russia.
I'm pretty sure the reaction would have been the same had he published it in his personal blog. Actually, it could've been worse since he wrote stuff about what is going on inside Google, which is not supposed to be discussed outside.
Canada can't possibly absorb a lot of IT workers - there are not enough jobs for them. Unless more US companies open Canadian offices and create jobs to be filled with these H1B losers this will go nowhere. But this would be hardly different from traditional outsourcing.
Fortran is not a colloquial whim, it's the official form used by the ANSI specification of the Fortran programming language. The last ANSI specification using FORTRAN was FORTRAN 77. It's 2017 in case you haven't noticed.
Actually, it is Fortran. Maybe it was FORTRAN when FUN3D was originally written, but now it's most certainly just Fortran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran
https://software.intel.com/en-us/fortran-compilers
[the software] has strict export restrictions requiring all challenge participants to be U.S. citizens over the age of 18.
Given the popularity of Fortran these days amongst 'geeks' (whatever they mean by that), this challenge is essentially limited to people already working on it.
They have the word "demand" in the article so they are half way there - now let them figure out the "supply" part of the equation. Pay more and there will be no problem with the supply of skilled people [skilled as in properly trained, motivated, primarily local workforce, not as in "outsourced to India"].
They keep mentioning he's a doctor as though that gives him more rights. I'm not a doctor, but I'd be just as upset if I were told to get off the plan in such circumstances. Doctor or not, United is in the wrong here.
As for the article, it has a wrong conclusion saying "if you face security then just comply or you get a fat lip". Well, everyone complying is the reason the police shoot unarmed people on the streets, passengers get dragged off the plane after paying full price for the ticket and so on. Compliance is not the way to deal with assholes like United.
My original point is that a company does not have to manufacture something to have a high market cap. I'm not interested in discussing obvious things unrelated to that. If you don't know what every word in that sentence means go study. Or get lost.
That's not necessarily true. Company valuations are not directly related to profits. So many (most?) new tech companies are not profitable. Some never make a dollar in profit. Amazon worked at at loss for how many years? Twitter? Remove the hype and Tesla would probably be considered one of the worst run businesses in history.
Business is not about manufacturing something, it's about selling something. You can (hypothetically) make the best car in the world and make no profit, while Google will make tens of billions in advertisement. Internet companies that manufacture nothing sell advertising, user data, and other services that may or may not have a physical form. As long as they sell something people are willing to buy, they are viable.
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So how is any of your troubles with a gaming video card relevant to the city of Munich choosing their desktop OS for work?
So they talk about a municipal government choosing between Linux and Windows and your best argument is "Windows is better for gaming"?
What's that like?
What's your rent in SF?
Does this include banksters, politicians and patent trolls?
A Russian company with close ties to KGB exploits a loophole in US patent law, tries to bankrupt a small American firm struggling to make a living out of its intellectual property. The Congress will consider additional sanctions against Russia.
If you admittedly haven't seen mono in a long time... years ago, why do you bother commenting about it?
In Canada it's $1299 CAD without contract - just over $1000 USD.
I'm pretty sure the reaction would have been the same had he published it in his personal blog. Actually, it could've been worse since he wrote stuff about what is going on inside Google, which is not supposed to be discussed outside.
It works on Linux too.
I watch Netflix in Firefox. On Linux and Windows.
I respectfully disagree - I think the best Microsoft products are mice and keyboards.
Canada can't possibly absorb a lot of IT workers - there are not enough jobs for them. Unless more US companies open Canadian offices and create jobs to be filled with these H1B losers this will go nowhere. But this would be hardly different from traditional outsourcing.
"Afford a home" as in "live in your mom's basement"?
Yep, this problem has JavaScript written all over it.
Fortran is not a colloquial whim, it's the official form used by the ANSI specification of the Fortran programming language. The last ANSI specification using FORTRAN was FORTRAN 77. It's 2017 in case you haven't noticed.
Actually, it is Fortran. Maybe it was FORTRAN when FUN3D was originally written, but now it's most certainly just Fortran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran
https://software.intel.com/en-us/fortran-compilers
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Given the popularity of Fortran these days amongst 'geeks' (whatever they mean by that), this challenge is essentially limited to people already working on it.
Wow. $10 for Netflix vs $40 for useless live TV crap. What a tough choice. NOT.
They have the word "demand" in the article so they are half way there - now let them figure out the "supply" part of the equation. Pay more and there will be no problem with the supply of skilled people [skilled as in properly trained, motivated, primarily local workforce, not as in "outsourced to India"].
They keep mentioning he's a doctor as though that gives him more rights. I'm not a doctor, but I'd be just as upset if I were told to get off the plan in such circumstances. Doctor or not, United is in the wrong here.
As for the article, it has a wrong conclusion saying "if you face security then just comply or you get a fat lip". Well, everyone complying is the reason the police shoot unarmed people on the streets, passengers get dragged off the plane after paying full price for the ticket and so on. Compliance is not the way to deal with assholes like United.
My original point is that a company does not have to manufacture something to have a high market cap. I'm not interested in discussing obvious things unrelated to that. If you don't know what every word in that sentence means go study. Or get lost.
That's not necessarily true. Company valuations are not directly related to profits. So many (most?) new tech companies are not profitable. Some never make a dollar in profit. Amazon worked at at loss for how many years? Twitter? Remove the hype and Tesla would probably be considered one of the worst run businesses in history.
Business is not about manufacturing something, it's about selling something. You can (hypothetically) make the best car in the world and make no profit, while Google will make tens of billions in advertisement. Internet companies that manufacture nothing sell advertising, user data, and other services that may or may not have a physical form. As long as they sell something people are willing to buy, they are viable.