Now all someone has to do is invent drivers who aren't complete morons and we'll be in business!
Drivers? I want a robotic UAV I can program with the destination and take a nap. I have neither the desire or ability to 'drive' in 6 degrees of freedom.
Now, GEOS (the predecessor to Geoworks) did run on 8-bit procesors in the '80s, but it was in no way multitasking.
Not preemtively, but it aimed to give that impression. IIRC I could switch between the word processor and the paint program. I think the whole environment loaded in less than 5 minutes on the C=64.
Different enough to be remote but still in the same language.
The most ironic example of this I've heard recently is our Library of Congress is promoting reading with radio PSA's featuring American authors, but narrated by a Brit. If they do one for Mark Twain, I might just have to shoot my radio (with a revolver, of course).
How long would it take a prospective employer to research this stuff?
What stuff? You mean every single decision a business makes?
There are hundreds of thousands of regulations on businesses buried in laws, administrative policy, court decisions, ordinances, all at the local, county, state and Federal levels. There are 80,000 pages of new laws at the Federal level alone last year. Your only hope is to hire a lawyer, consult with him on every decision, and hope he's not missing anything (which he is).
"Interview questions that are forbidden when hiring a busboy" is only one of thousands of tasks that the diner owner needs to accomplish. There may be regulations on every one of them.
You act like it's hard to find this shit out. It's not.
Yes it is. These rules are buried in laws, administrative policy, court decisions, ordinances, all at the local, county, state and Federal levels. There are hundreds of thousands of regulations on businesses and 80,000 pages of new laws at the Federal level alone last year. Your only hope is to hire a lawyer, consult with him on every decision, and hope he's not missing anything (which he is).
And most of these laws don't apply to businesses with under 15 employees.
Some don't, but the bulk apply with just 1 employee.
And your example of the diner is just retarded. That's like saying, "Denny's can afford a clean kitchen, but Mom & Pop can't afford it, so screw them!"
No - keeping a clean kitchen is essential to running a diner. Knowing that you can't ask a prospective employee if he was in the Army or risk prosecution isn't.
None of these have anything to do with whether or not he can fill the job position I plan to fill.
Absolutely. The only question is whether adults can handle their feelings or whether the State has to regulate behavior so they don't have to risk being offended thereby putting businesses at risk of prosecution and hurting the economy in exchange.
Interesting, but I believe my statement would stand true even if that wasn't the case.
If you mean light water reactors specifically, that's probably true. Fast breeder reactors - there's a business case there (revenue streams from selling power and cleaning up nuclear waste), no meltdown concerns, and they're fairly small, so relatively cheap to construct. Lloyd's would at least insure one. But more likely they'll be built by China and India. At least MIT is working on them again after many years of not doing so (at a TEDx talk by some of the grad students, they got raucous applause... from a TEDx audience no less).
Nuclear power doesn't seem to be economically viable without government subsidies.
Only lightwater reactors, so they only allow those.
The free market includes irrational actors, and too many people fear anything nuke-you-lar.
And spiders - don't forget the spiders. Fortunately, the State doesn't ban spiders (despite the relatively high death rates of black widows vs. light water reactors).
which leaves global warming.
Which has States clamoring for additional power. On one hand they ban the solution while on the other hand they demand power to combat it. It's not coincidental that Al Gore lead the charge in the Senate to kill the Integral Fast Reactor.
'their' water seems to be building up in Antarctica as ice pack. Three miles thick in places, the coastlines that are under glaciers now show up on ancient maps before the Sahara desertified.
The warmingists are afraid that rising temperatures will cause desertification - there's a chance they might have that backwards.
Get the african nations to stop fighting each other over tarot roots, and get them to ship dirt to each other.
Great idea - let's get them some fast-breeder-reactor powered trains too.
Also, I bought the kit for our first kid, but she came early, and there was no time to do the cordblood collection. So, maybe it's still in a closet somewhere - $200 or so for a paper box and some tubes.
At the time there was also an issue of using a medical courier ($$$) - not sure if that's changed or not.
Pocket size. I don't think this display is flexible enough, but there was a company a few years ago that put out a concept eBook reader in a scroll form factor. Rolled up, the screen was completely protected and it would fit in a pocket. Unrolled, it gave a reasonably large screen. I'd love to have a device like that.
In the early 90's, _Earth: Final Conflict_ had a device called a 'global communicator' (everybody's cell phone) that worked this way. Darned if I can find a video on YouTube, though.
TFT LCD panels are a type of LCD panel that uses TFT parts. To use "TFT" as a shorthand is convenient but only useful as such when the subject domain is LCD panels.
I'm not sure of all the uses for TFT's but there are probably many.
The bad side: it puts money in the hands of the few.
Jeff is probably a reasonable example of real capitalism - he works like mad, and he's really smart.
I'm wasting time on Slashdot at 12:47 AM - I would never expect to be rewarded with money for that kind of behaviour. Oh, but the UPS man arrived at my office today with a label tape cart from his warehouse that I ordered Monday night - actual shipping cost $1. That's genius.
Crony capitalists, on the other hand, deserve an extra special layer of hell. And if Jeff made any money on that one-click nonsense* he might think about how to atone for that.
* I actually started using it, after all these years, now that they have a 2-click '1-click' box that's usable.
"Ahem. I do not have any public social networking accounts. If I did, I regret what you are asking would violate their terms of service, and I would have to respond in the negative."
That gets me thinking. Next time I'm interviewing somebody I'll ask that question, and if they don't answer the way you did, I'll end the interview right there, and suggest some security books for them to read.
Or is there perhaps a reason why you think one of these might unavoidably come up during an interview?
No, the problem is that he likely doesn't know these are illegal. Hiring employees opens up a businessman to lawsuits from literally hundreds of angles.
Heck, if I were hiring, I'd strongly favor former military - they tend to make excellent workers. But, apparently that would be illegal to ask.
To hell with that - I'll hire another subcontractor for projects instead, but I have that luxury - Mom & Pop running a diner sure don't, and they don't have the time or money to hire lawyers or attend professional HR training just to hire a busboy.
Oh, but Denny's *can* afford all these regulations, so screw the local diner, I can still get $4 pancakes somewhere, and nobody has to worry about getting their tender feelings hurt.
Regulations *always* favor the incumbent and adults who can't handle their emotions are creating the fascist state.
Every person who ever reads your code disagrees. Programming is not a solitary activity.
And in the mid-80's I was handing in work sets that needed to be run though a pretty-printer before submitting so the teacher only saw one typesetting variation (his preference). What's the excuse today? This was on a z80 card running in an Apple ][ and that ran in realtime so there's not a horsepower problem.
How does having a canonical brace format in any way limit what you are able to do with the language?
Does it not limit how you write your code?
Using a separate brace style means you must either manually enforce it, or fork gofmt and make the changes yourself. In the end, is it really worth the extra effort?
To some people it might be. I don't know why, but I'm not them. What's the harm in letting the machines handle formatting again?
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Now all someone has to do is invent drivers who aren't complete morons and we'll be in business!
Drivers? I want a robotic UAV I can program with the destination and take a nap. I have neither the desire or ability to 'drive' in 6 degrees of freedom.
Now, GEOS (the predecessor to Geoworks) did run on 8-bit procesors in the '80s, but it was in no way multitasking.
Not preemtively, but it aimed to give that impression. IIRC I could switch between the word processor and the paint program. I think the whole environment loaded in less than 5 minutes on the C=64.
Different enough to be remote but still in the same language.
The most ironic example of this I've heard recently is our Library of Congress is promoting reading with radio PSA's featuring American authors, but narrated by a Brit. If they do one for Mark Twain, I might just have to shoot my radio (with a revolver, of course).
They make their money from the authoring tools, not from the player.
They've stopped licensing their video servers?
I'm unfamiliar with software-defined radio, and I don't want to spent 20 minutes watching a video.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=software+defined+radio
How long would it take a prospective employer to research this stuff?
What stuff? You mean every single decision a business makes?
There are hundreds of thousands of regulations on businesses buried in laws, administrative policy, court decisions, ordinances, all at the local, county, state and Federal levels. There are 80,000 pages of new laws at the Federal level alone last year. Your only hope is to hire a lawyer, consult with him on every decision, and hope he's not missing anything (which he is).
"Interview questions that are forbidden when hiring a busboy" is only one of thousands of tasks that the diner owner needs to accomplish. There may be regulations on every one of them.
You act like it's hard to find this shit out. It's not.
Yes it is. These rules are buried in laws, administrative policy, court decisions, ordinances, all at the local, county, state and Federal levels. There are hundreds of thousands of regulations on businesses and 80,000 pages of new laws at the Federal level alone last year. Your only hope is to hire a lawyer, consult with him on every decision, and hope he's not missing anything (which he is).
And most of these laws don't apply to businesses with under 15 employees.
Some don't, but the bulk apply with just 1 employee.
And your example of the diner is just retarded. That's like saying, "Denny's can afford a clean kitchen, but Mom & Pop can't afford it, so screw them!"
No - keeping a clean kitchen is essential to running a diner. Knowing that you can't ask a prospective employee if he was in the Army or risk prosecution isn't.
None of these have anything to do with whether or not he can fill the job position I plan to fill.
Absolutely. The only question is whether adults can handle their feelings or whether the State has to regulate behavior so they don't have to risk being offended thereby putting businesses at risk of prosecution and hurting the economy in exchange.
Late 90s.
ah, thanks.
And it didn't roll up. The screen was solid.
Do you mean the prop or what it was imagined to be? The imagined part had a roll-out screen. Check out the scissor mechanism on the prop.
EFC was a good show in season 1, and then they dumbed it down and it was boring.
Agreed! Such wasted potential. I suppose if Gene were around it would have been good.
Interesting, but I believe my statement would stand true even if that wasn't the case.
If you mean light water reactors specifically, that's probably true. Fast breeder reactors - there's a business case there (revenue streams from selling power and cleaning up nuclear waste), no meltdown concerns, and they're fairly small, so relatively cheap to construct. Lloyd's would at least insure one. But more likely they'll be built by China and India. At least MIT is working on them again after many years of not doing so (at a TEDx talk by some of the grad students, they got raucous applause ... from a TEDx audience no less).
Nuclear power doesn't seem to be economically viable without government subsidies.
Only lightwater reactors, so they only allow those.
The free market includes irrational actors, and too many people fear anything nuke-you-lar.
And spiders - don't forget the spiders. Fortunately, the State doesn't ban spiders (despite the relatively high death rates of black widows vs. light water reactors).
which leaves global warming.
Which has States clamoring for additional power. On one hand they ban the solution while on the other hand they demand power to combat it. It's not coincidental that Al Gore lead the charge in the Senate to kill the Integral Fast Reactor.
I'm just one big ray of sunshine, aren't I?
Damn realists....
Africa: 50+ warring nations with penis envy problems, and no unifying structure at all.
So, like South America, plus war?
Africa is suffering desertification
'their' water seems to be building up in Antarctica as ice pack. Three miles thick in places, the coastlines that are under glaciers now show up on ancient maps before the Sahara desertified.
The warmingists are afraid that rising temperatures will cause desertification - there's a chance they might have that backwards.
Get the african nations to stop fighting each other over tarot roots, and get them to ship dirt to each other.
Great idea - let's get them some fast-breeder-reactor powered trains too.
Correct answer.
Also, I bought the kit for our first kid, but she came early, and there was no time to do the cordblood collection. So, maybe it's still in a closet somewhere - $200 or so for a paper box and some tubes.
At the time there was also an issue of using a medical courier ($$$) - not sure if that's changed or not.
LTFS is the key technology, because TAR was just too annoying to use.
This looks like a developer's blog on it. Spec is open, reference release is LGPL.
I wonder if it makes sense to replace tar for on-disk files.
Backup to another building in the same city? Usually fine for a small company, but often more expensive than tape over time (due to bandwidth costs)
Taxi cabs are cheaper and have higher bandwidth. Latency is a bitch, of course.
Pocket size. I don't think this display is flexible enough, but there was a company a few years ago that put out a concept eBook reader in a scroll form factor. Rolled up, the screen was completely protected and it would fit in a pocket. Unrolled, it gave a reasonably large screen. I'd love to have a device like that.
In the early 90's, _Earth: Final Conflict_ had a device called a 'global communicator' (everybody's cell phone) that worked this way. Darned if I can find a video on YouTube, though.
TFT requires active power for a display
TFT LCD panels are a type of LCD panel that uses TFT parts. To use "TFT" as a shorthand is convenient but only useful as such when the subject domain is LCD panels.
I'm not sure of all the uses for TFT's but there are probably many.
The bad side: it puts money in the hands of the few.
Jeff is probably a reasonable example of real capitalism - he works like mad, and he's really smart.
I'm wasting time on Slashdot at 12:47 AM - I would never expect to be rewarded with money for that kind of behaviour. Oh, but the UPS man arrived at my office today with a label tape cart from his warehouse that I ordered Monday night - actual shipping cost $1. That's genius.
Crony capitalists, on the other hand, deserve an extra special layer of hell. And if Jeff made any money on that one-click nonsense* he might think about how to atone for that.
* I actually started using it, after all these years, now that they have a 2-click '1-click' box that's usable.
"Ahem. I do not have any public social networking accounts. If I did, I regret what you are asking would violate their terms of service, and I would have to respond in the negative."
That gets me thinking. Next time I'm interviewing somebody I'll ask that question, and if they don't answer the way you did, I'll end the interview right there, and suggest some security books for them to read.
He insisted, so I thanked him for his time, got up and left.
You are what's right with the world.
Everything that's successful has a standardized interface.
It's bad enough what a SQL injection attack can do now, imagine what can happen when it effects something with arms to beat people over the head with
Like my grandpa used to say, "Son, you can't take out a SQL injection attack with buckshot, but them robots go down hard."
Or is there perhaps a reason why you think one of these might unavoidably come up during an interview?
No, the problem is that he likely doesn't know these are illegal. Hiring employees opens up a businessman to lawsuits from literally hundreds of angles.
Heck, if I were hiring, I'd strongly favor former military - they tend to make excellent workers. But, apparently that would be illegal to ask.
To hell with that - I'll hire another subcontractor for projects instead, but I have that luxury - Mom & Pop running a diner sure don't, and they don't have the time or money to hire lawyers or attend professional HR training just to hire a busboy.
Oh, but Denny's *can* afford all these regulations, so screw the local diner, I can still get $4 pancakes somewhere, and nobody has to worry about getting their tender feelings hurt.
Regulations *always* favor the incumbent and adults who can't handle their emotions are creating the fascist state.
I highly doubt you could find any commercial insurance company that would underwrite a new nuclear plant these days.
They're not allowed to - the Feds nationalized nuclear insurance in the 60's.
There are three possibilities: global warming, agrarian society, nuclear power.
Every person who ever reads your code disagrees. Programming is not a solitary activity.
And in the mid-80's I was handing in work sets that needed to be run though a pretty-printer before submitting so the teacher only saw one typesetting variation (his preference). What's the excuse today? This was on a z80 card running in an Apple ][ and that ran in realtime so there's not a horsepower problem.
How does having a canonical brace format in any way limit what you are able to do with the language?
Does it not limit how you write your code?
Using a separate brace style means you must either manually enforce it, or fork gofmt and make the changes yourself. In the end, is it really worth the extra effort?
To some people it might be. I don't know why, but I'm not them. What's the harm in letting the machines handle formatting again?