While I believe that parents should have the right to choose what is right for their children, I have a problem from people deliberately being paid for distributing false information to push a viewpoint.
If people believe so vehemently that vaccination is wrong and want to express their viewpoint fine, but unless they have verifiable, peer-reviewed, replicated information, then they should not be allowed to profit financially from it.
When you see "985MB/s transfer speeds", I suspect that you're assuming that the card can read and write data at this speed all day long.
But, I suspect that there are limits in terms of writing and accessing data. I'm sure burst speeds of 985MB/s is possible (with longer read bursts than write) but the overall/average speed will probably be 20-50MB/s, which is still very good, but not what you're being lead to believe.
I can't see this being a very happy transition, especially for developers and product support.
Looking back, it took 5+ years to end support for PowerPC Macs, I can't see it being any less and I would expect it to be twice that especially for Mac Servers.
If this is all a reason for having apps that work on iPhone, iPad & Macs, I again point to HTML5 and WPA. I can see that their growth could result in a downfall of Apple specific hardware and apps.
It's amazing how many concepts and technologies have been predicted by early science fiction.
As soon as I saw the headline, I thought of Arthur C. Clarke's "The man who ploughed the sea" and how it is a cautionary tale for people who think about investing with fast talkers.
I can see where the report is coming from, but it's somewhat extreme and illustrates how hard it is to be fully protected on line. My company uses gsuite, so right off the bat we're in the 98%.
I'd just like to see some of the companies that are in the 2%. No way can anybody have any internet access right off the bat and even no computer access at all because data could be put onto thumb drives. Employees couldn't bring in smartphones because they might take a picture of something in the company and post it.
I suspect the companies fall into two camps: 1. Companies that have run they way they've been running for 50+ years with a mom or pop at the helm, no employees and at best a landline and a stack of three page invoices that were printed in the 1960s and the carbon paper between the pages is disintegrating. Taxes are done with a TI-30 calculator and communication is either via phone or mail - I don't think you can get stand-alone faxes any more. I'm guessing what they sell is driftwood carvings to tourists as I can't see how anybody can order materials/stock without any kind of a computerized system. 2. Very high tech/defense contractors that have material processes that are world class. I'm thinking of the metallurgy departments in jet-engine manufacturers where the metals and ceramics used in the engines are created with processes that they don't dare allow any possible information leaks. Employees are checked out and regularly followed by the FBI to make sure they aren't any kind of risk.
That's basically what we did - with the difference being is that we wanted to see the code to fix the problem which we then executed in a test harness to make sure it worked along with how quickly. We found that better programmers wrote faster (more efficient) code.
I would have to consider that a stretch as it might have been available to (Xerox) researchers, but I don't think there was anything available from Xerox was mainstream until the '80s, well after there were a goodly number of small computers and IBM coined the term.
Just did a quick wikipedia search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto) the Alto wasn't available for sale until 1979 and it cost $32k. I remember a friend of my parent's having a Xerox Star word processor in the early '80s, but that was a work machine, not a "Personal Computer".
I should have put that we have Googled the algorithm before we sent out the tests.
There was a surprisingly low number of people who Googled and tried to copy the answer from somebody else. Again, we were looking for the people who were excited by the challenge.
That just doesn't sound like it's going to bring out the best in candidates.
The best approach that I've found to making programming questions part of the selection process was having qualified applicants do the test prior to the first interview. We selected a few standard programming algorithms (Quicksort, Dijkstra's Algorithm and Hash table create) that we either gave the candidate broken code or the prototype which needed the code. The candidates were given one week to submit the tests at which point they would be reviewed and we'd decide whether or not to grant the candidate an interview. The review was based on operational correctness (did the code produce what we expected from given inputs) and performance (generally speed).
HR (this was at RIM, about ten years ago when they would hire anybody with a CS degree and was apparently breathing), raised holy hell as it eliminated at least three quarters of the applicants without us even talking to them. Well over two thirds of the candidates never submitted the tests with most of them saying "I graduated from... and where do you come off seeing if I can program?" and others saying, "I'm too busy in my current job to do this." with HR supporting those arguments. About 10% came back and asked if we had any other tests - these 10% always did the test we gave them successfully (and sometimes brilliantly) and these were generally hired and we never had performance issues with them.
The big problem we had was explaining to HR (sorry "Organizational Development", RIM speak) that just because you graduated with a CS degree, that did not mean you could program and that we wanted people who wanted to be challenged. When it came right down to it, they were getting hammered by their management because we were only interviewing 10-20% of their "qualified candidates" and felt that our approach made them look bad as other divisions within RIM wanted to follow our approach.
My response was "tough shit" and lead to some interesting meetings with senior VPs at RIM.
I just rebooted and forgot to login to/. so this is repeated AC post.
Regardless of what Samsung does and does not support, their Blu-Ray players have significant quality and reliability issues along with poor service. Buying one really soured me on buying anything Samsung - I recently broke down and bought a Samsung refrigerator and while it has been fine, it's delivery and setup were a real story.
I know a number of other people with the the same experience (of course, there will be people here who have had a Samsung Blu-Ray players that haven't given them a second's worth of problems even though they left it out in the snow).
I can see something like this happening: Original Tweet: "Contrary to what's being reported by the lying MSM, I did not have relations or even spend time with that woman." Clarification 1: "After reflection and prayer with my wife and my pastor, I realize that the interactions I had with that woman were inappropriate." Clarification 2: "I have consulted with my attorney and I can confidently say that at no time during our time together did I have any reason to think that woman was a member of the Russian government." Clarification 3: "I realize that the police report says otherwise, but because I met the woman in the hotel bar, I naturally assumed that she was over 18." Clarification 4: "To be completely honest, the skimpy dress lead me to originally believe the person that I spent time with in my hotel room was a woman."
It's an intriguing question but I don't see the need to bring in new OS's to desktop apps. If there are better UX constructs in iOS & Android, they'll be copied on the existing ones and life will go on.
The really big people who will answer the question are desktop App developers - can you see Microsoft porting Office to yet another OS that doesn't start with "Win"? What about game developers, will they want to support basically two versions of their games on the same OS, depending on the hardware platform and IO methods?
I wouldn't be surprised if Android & iOS appeared on some desktop hardware, I'd be very impressed if they carved out anything more than a niche.
And less sarcastically... what about the average joe who would just like to use the OS environment they are already familiar with? That alone is a valid reason to run Windows 10.
How many "average joes" do you know that can properly configure an SD card with an OS to run on a RasPI?
My biggest complaint about Win10 is really how slowly it runs on fairly low end machines (which I can load Mint or ChromeOS and they run acceptably). Note that the RasPI 3 runs ChromeOS quite as well.
So you have Win10 executing on the RasPI, but does respond in anyway that is acceptable? This includes loading and executing apps.
I agree totally, since airlines basically always (I think the OP was generous in saying "many flights" are) overbook then isn't somebody doing this actually providing the airline with an opportunity to avoid a negative experience for another customer?
And, if this is the case, shouldn't the customer be rewarded rather than sued?
I'm pretty skeptical of whether or not the tower would have worked.
Tesla was able to demonstrate three phase AC quite inexpensively and showed how it could be effectively scaled up (which lead George Westinghouse to basically bet the farm on Tesla). Along with that, the math behind it could be easily followed and demonstrated significant improvements over DC and single phase AC.
Wardenclyffe seemed to be a black hole for money with no real demonstrations coming from it - just a lot of hand waving by Tesla saying "trust me".
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While I believe that parents should have the right to choose what is right for their children, I have a problem from people deliberately being paid for distributing false information to push a viewpoint.
If people believe so vehemently that vaccination is wrong and want to express their viewpoint fine, but unless they have verifiable, peer-reviewed, replicated information, then they should not be allowed to profit financially from it.
When you see "985MB/s transfer speeds", I suspect that you're assuming that the card can read and write data at this speed all day long.
But, I suspect that there are limits in terms of writing and accessing data. I'm sure burst speeds of 985MB/s is possible (with longer read bursts than write) but the overall/average speed will probably be 20-50MB/s, which is still very good, but not what you're being lead to believe.
Everybody and I mean EVERYBODY knows pagers are going to make a big come back in 2019!
I can't see this being a very happy transition, especially for developers and product support.
Looking back, it took 5+ years to end support for PowerPC Macs, I can't see it being any less and I would expect it to be twice that especially for Mac Servers.
Maybe this is why Linus made his comments about ARMs a couple of days ago: https://slashdot.org/story/19/...
If this is all a reason for having apps that work on iPhone, iPad & Macs, I again point to HTML5 and WPA. I can see that their growth could result in a downfall of Apple specific hardware and apps.
Shit you're right. Good thing there aren't any methods for separating U-238 from U-235
Oh wait, there seems to be six or more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's amazing how many concepts and technologies have been predicted by early science fiction.
As soon as I saw the headline, I thought of Arthur C. Clarke's "The man who ploughed the sea" and how it is a cautionary tale for people who think about investing with fast talkers.
Sounds like fun limited only by your imagination. Just saying.
I can see where the report is coming from, but it's somewhat extreme and illustrates how hard it is to be fully protected on line. My company uses gsuite, so right off the bat we're in the 98%.
I'd just like to see some of the companies that are in the 2%. No way can anybody have any internet access right off the bat and even no computer access at all because data could be put onto thumb drives. Employees couldn't bring in smartphones because they might take a picture of something in the company and post it.
I suspect the companies fall into two camps:
1. Companies that have run they way they've been running for 50+ years with a mom or pop at the helm, no employees and at best a landline and a stack of three page invoices that were printed in the 1960s and the carbon paper between the pages is disintegrating. Taxes are done with a TI-30 calculator and communication is either via phone or mail - I don't think you can get stand-alone faxes any more. I'm guessing what they sell is driftwood carvings to tourists as I can't see how anybody can order materials/stock without any kind of a computerized system.
2. Very high tech/defense contractors that have material processes that are world class. I'm thinking of the metallurgy departments in jet-engine manufacturers where the metals and ceramics used in the engines are created with processes that they don't dare allow any possible information leaks. Employees are checked out and regularly followed by the FBI to make sure they aren't any kind of risk.
Create apps that run on smartphones, tablets and traditional computers?
That's basically what we did - with the difference being is that we wanted to see the code to fix the problem which we then executed in a test harness to make sure it worked along with how quickly. We found that better programmers wrote faster (more efficient) code.
I would have to consider that a stretch as it might have been available to (Xerox) researchers, but I don't think there was anything available from Xerox was mainstream until the '80s, well after there were a goodly number of small computers and IBM coined the term.
Just did a quick wikipedia search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto) the Alto wasn't available for sale until 1979 and it cost $32k. I remember a friend of my parent's having a Xerox Star word processor in the early '80s, but that was a work machine, not a "Personal Computer".
I guess I should have been more explicit - if the candidate regurgitated what somebody else had put up on Google, we wouldn't have hired them.
They should be able to understand, explain in their own words and recreate on their own what they learned from Google.
I should have put that we have Googled the algorithm before we sent out the tests.
There was a surprisingly low number of people who Googled and tried to copy the answer from somebody else. Again, we were looking for the people who were excited by the challenge.
That just doesn't sound like it's going to bring out the best in candidates.
The best approach that I've found to making programming questions part of the selection process was having qualified applicants do the test prior to the first interview. We selected a few standard programming algorithms (Quicksort, Dijkstra's Algorithm and Hash table create) that we either gave the candidate broken code or the prototype which needed the code. The candidates were given one week to submit the tests at which point they would be reviewed and we'd decide whether or not to grant the candidate an interview. The review was based on operational correctness (did the code produce what we expected from given inputs) and performance (generally speed).
HR (this was at RIM, about ten years ago when they would hire anybody with a CS degree and was apparently breathing), raised holy hell as it eliminated at least three quarters of the applicants without us even talking to them. Well over two thirds of the candidates never submitted the tests with most of them saying "I graduated from ... and where do you come off seeing if I can program?" and others saying, "I'm too busy in my current job to do this." with HR supporting those arguments. About 10% came back and asked if we had any other tests - these 10% always did the test we gave them successfully (and sometimes brilliantly) and these were generally hired and we never had performance issues with them.
The big problem we had was explaining to HR (sorry "Organizational Development", RIM speak) that just because you graduated with a CS degree, that did not mean you could program and that we wanted people who wanted to be challenged. When it came right down to it, they were getting hammered by their management because we were only interviewing 10-20% of their "qualified candidates" and felt that our approach made them look bad as other divisions within RIM wanted to follow our approach.
My response was "tough shit" and lead to some interesting meetings with senior VPs at RIM.
I just rebooted and forgot to login to /. so this is repeated AC post.
No, but it handles 4C without any problems.
Regardless of what Samsung does and does not support, their Blu-Ray players have significant quality and reliability issues along with poor service. Buying one really soured me on buying anything Samsung - I recently broke down and bought a Samsung refrigerator and while it has been fine, it's delivery and setup were a real story.
I know a number of other people with the the same experience (of course, there will be people here who have had a Samsung Blu-Ray players that haven't given them a second's worth of problems even though they left it out in the snow).
I can see something like this happening:
Original Tweet: "Contrary to what's being reported by the lying MSM, I did not have relations or even spend time with that woman."
Clarification 1: "After reflection and prayer with my wife and my pastor, I realize that the interactions I had with that woman were inappropriate."
Clarification 2: "I have consulted with my attorney and I can confidently say that at no time during our time together did I have any reason to think that woman was a member of the Russian government."
Clarification 3: "I realize that the police report says otherwise, but because I met the woman in the hotel bar, I naturally assumed that she was over 18."
Clarification 4: "To be completely honest, the skimpy dress lead me to originally believe the person that I spent time with in my hotel room was a woman."
It's an intriguing question but I don't see the need to bring in new OS's to desktop apps. If there are better UX constructs in iOS & Android, they'll be copied on the existing ones and life will go on.
The really big people who will answer the question are desktop App developers - can you see Microsoft porting Office to yet another OS that doesn't start with "Win"? What about game developers, will they want to support basically two versions of their games on the same OS, depending on the hardware platform and IO methods?
I wouldn't be surprised if Android & iOS appeared on some desktop hardware, I'd be very impressed if they carved out anything more than a niche.
Robots can lead the way but to really exploit space, you need humans: https://www.scientificamerican... or https://www.wired.com/2012/04/... and here's a great paper on the subject: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pa...
Great job by everybody involved - I'm sure if it wasn't for the big dust storm, it would still be working and sending back new discoveries.
And less sarcastically... what about the average joe who would just like to use the OS environment they are already familiar with? That alone is a valid reason to run Windows 10.
How many "average joes" do you know that can properly configure an SD card with an OS to run on a RasPI?
My biggest complaint about Win10 is really how slowly it runs on fairly low end machines (which I can load Mint or ChromeOS and they run acceptably). Note that the RasPI 3 runs ChromeOS quite as well.
So you have Win10 executing on the RasPI, but does respond in anyway that is acceptable? This includes loading and executing apps.
I agree totally, since airlines basically always (I think the OP was generous in saying "many flights" are) overbook then isn't somebody doing this actually providing the airline with an opportunity to avoid a negative experience for another customer?
And, if this is the case, shouldn't the customer be rewarded rather than sued?
That the fence was needed to prevent problems with Uranus?
Jesus, not everything is political.
I'm pretty skeptical of whether or not the tower would have worked.
Tesla was able to demonstrate three phase AC quite inexpensively and showed how it could be effectively scaled up (which lead George Westinghouse to basically bet the farm on Tesla). Along with that, the math behind it could be easily followed and demonstrated significant improvements over DC and single phase AC.
Wardenclyffe seemed to be a black hole for money with no real demonstrations coming from it - just a lot of hand waving by Tesla saying "trust me".