A significant number of vehicles, in particular vehicles for business, are leased. This is because Congress hacked up the tax code a long time ago (80's version). And they made an overpriced MBZ require 100+ years to depreciate. The solution, lease. The entire lease is fully deductible on month 1 to end of lease. I believe that maintenance is covered as well, although many leases include all the normal services. Excluding tires, IIRC.
This was probably written up by someone that is too young to know the reason leases are so crucial to business customers. Taxes. They didn't follow the money, basic reporting done wrong. Is that the new Bloomberg way? Have to wait and see if they get something else right.
My dear old Dad kept asking why I was getting paid? Essentially he had no idea about what software was and why anyone would pay his (not first born) son for it.
At the time I was a SW tech writing device drivers for storage (floppy, HDD) all of this prior to the launch of the PC. Well, during that time I would use engineering samples for some devices to prototype the driver. Then a production board with a production chip would be available for me to finish the little tweaks and send my code to QA.
The lid fell off one of my chips (40 pin package). It failed, big surprise. Not really, cause = engineering sample. I taped it back on the chip with clear tape. The next time he was at my house and asked what I did out came the chip. I flipped up the lid saying, "I make parts of this get hot in very specific patterns."
Greenpeace has done many poorly thought out (IMO) attacks on apple. When pressed they admit that apple does better than quite a few global players but pulling the stunts on them don't get any press coverage. So they attack apple.
Same old, same old. Different players, using taxes as their pivot then mumble waving about the environment.
I realize the WSJ hires people. And people post articles on/. to be read by even more people.
But the/. people have known about chip stacking for decades. Granted it has been very difficult to do previously. But so were nanometer chips back when nobody had a process that was less than a micron. No doubt WSJ will want to let their readers know the micron barrier was finally breached.
WSJ and timely, accurate articles about the electronics, fab processing, computer industries are fantasies. They have never happened in my reading of them. Which is why I quit them.
Old is expensive. Higher cost for salaries, medical care (typically, not always), retirement plans are vetted as are stock options.
Fire the old guys/gals was how I perceived Intel's last big layoff was (cost several friends their jobs). New CEO, cuts projects, closed sites and fired people in the late fifties to early sixties. Often with a caveat that they A: never talk about being canned and B: no matter what they will never be hired back under any condition.
That happens throughout modern businesses. College grads are cheap, they think the money is good but if they leave in five years their retirement vetting is a pittance and their stock is just starting to vet. They found a better job! Which will pay a little more, then they will start on the next round of retirement benefits and stock vetting.
If programming is the second language then why are they teaching python?
It would it be nice if the language doesn't incite flame wars re the choice of the day.
For that matter, WTH have the universities been doing teaching with Java?
If the goal is to produce more bad programming to enable the sale of more computers to enable the melting of more sand that's all fine. But past that easily 90% of the population would be better off without it.
One wonders how unaware the average W* user is. No Linux user would do that, I doubt if it's an OS X thing. But even assuming the worst for W* users this has to be a small attack vector.
The piece reads well, but convincing someone to execute a remote file seems like a stretch. Of course, if MSFT would address the issue by comparing the two files it would nip this 'feature' in the bud.
Looking to boost their market share clearly.
On/. we have people that know the difference between zero-day and user must download malware and do whatever the malware asks you to do to enable the exploit. Also, in a bonus of unlikelihood the app is unsigned.
Which everybody knows about. The Oracle audit resulting in millions of additional fees are stories of legendary hubris. Turn those jerks (mini-Larries) loose on their nascent cloud service will kill it in its tracks. Hopefully.
Losing track of all these creatives/artists/session players is exactly the plan. It always has been.
What they are doing now is trying to figure out how to prove who stole what from the ??AAs. Nothing they want to do will change their greed. The publishers believe they are the reason the music exists, demented but true sadly.
Funny how ATT never really came to grips with Unix. Beyond licensing and cash intake. They are just as clueless when it comes to user land equipment as anyone else. Even the hacks in China.
One does wonder how many of their products have the same user/password combo.
Are they concerned that their subscribers will follow?
Nobody does their scenario, everyone is different which is why cable is such a disaster. Instead of giving customers reasonable choices, skinny bundles, at reasonable prices they push for $200/month regardless of what you use. And Comcast for one will go to extraordinary lengths to get the cash, including their much publicized extra fees that don't really exist.
Every cutter I know is happy with the solution and they spend less money. Nobody wants to pay wired's projected costs. People read, they Netflix, they stream and YouTube. Who cares if the content providers go broke? Not I. If they can take down Comcast and their ilk on the way, so much the better.
While I believe it's well intentioned this has zero chance of effecting any change. So a few in Congress are finally aware but the majority of both houses are clueless when it comes to tech (think: a series of tubes clueless). Either it will fail entirely (highest IMO) or it will be broken re something basic regarding the Constitution. It's almost as if half in Congress have never read the document.
Broken also covers the clear misses that are very likely regarding trying to lock down security for reason X but breaks it for everything else. I have no trust in the Republican controlled Congress and less belief in their ability to do the right thing for any reason at all.
Subject related to semiconductor business in particular and/or computers in general.
Press word salad, insert stock market prediction re company X's stock will be skyrocketing/plummeting because of some random sentence heard at the local bar, but taken out of context. Regardless in it goes, then word salad on various computer terms that have little bearing on what the particular item is for.
Press word salad and Exit together. Print that sucker.
I noticed several titles re this sudden loss of support for Intel CPUs by W10. Cute, Intel Atom CPUs is accurate but very few would care about them. They are not a large market, never were and are quite literally a dead product line.
Granted, click driver journalism isn't the gold standard even if it is the current standard.
Well not a surprise actually. Peter Bright at Arstechnica.com made a similar pitch last year or so. Just as poorly thought out although more verbose than this piece.
New programmers are being trained in what language? Yep, Java (or worse java.script). Many of the code camp type of pushes appear (to me) as pitches to have everything run in the cloud/on the web/in HTML 5. None of which teach anything at all about systems, security and coding standards. How can you enforce a standard on crap? Just plop it down, see if it works.
The people making these pitches are not people that I would hire/trust. Sorry. If they aren't capable of doing the job, then don't hire them. I have a few people I would trust to write systems code. A few more that I would trust to write user level code. None of them were trained in Java. And we all write in C.
Well said.
Also the enthusiast tag is probably not completely accurate. I would suggest mid-range enthusiasts. The high end is still clearly Intel only territory. That might change in the next two quarters, but since they didn't report which processors were being tested, just that AMD's percentage rose, the article is mostly click bait. A hothardware special in other words.
Okay the last I just winged it, but that was the standard definition of Multics for(;;).
Since it wasn't posted, I did my duty for history. And tables. In Core.
Update, Williams piece does expand/explain The Machine idea. I had thought it was in the other article but that was mostly fluff (no insult intended) and linked to the Williams piece.
Slogging through The Machine. Better than nothing but I tire of not having actual gear to use, same for 3D-Xpoint for that matter.
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A significant number of vehicles, in particular vehicles for business, are leased. This is because Congress hacked up the tax code a long time ago (80's version). And they made an overpriced MBZ require 100+ years to depreciate. The solution, lease. The entire lease is fully deductible on month 1 to end of lease. I believe that maintenance is covered as well, although many leases include all the normal services. Excluding tires, IIRC.
This was probably written up by someone that is too young to know the reason leases are so crucial to business customers. Taxes. They didn't follow the money, basic reporting done wrong. Is that the new Bloomberg way? Have to wait and see if they get something else right.
My dear old Dad kept asking why I was getting paid? Essentially he had no idea about what software was and why anyone would pay his (not first born) son for it.
At the time I was a SW tech writing device drivers for storage (floppy, HDD) all of this prior to the launch of the PC. Well, during that time I would use engineering samples for some devices to prototype the driver. Then a production board with a production chip would be available for me to finish the little tweaks and send my code to QA.
The lid fell off one of my chips (40 pin package). It failed, big surprise. Not really, cause = engineering sample. I taped it back on the chip with clear tape. The next time he was at my house and asked what I did out came the chip. I flipped up the lid saying, "I make parts of this get hot in very specific patterns."
The subject was never brought up again.
Oh right, crap code from the audiophile that couldn't code straight.
Never used any of his work. Linux has been seriously stable in my system ever since I started blocking that audio whatever it was called.
Greenpeace has done many poorly thought out (IMO) attacks on apple. When pressed they admit that apple does better than quite a few global players but pulling the stunts on them don't get any press coverage. So they attack apple.
Same old, same old. Different players, using taxes as their pivot then mumble waving about the environment.
It's all about press.
I realize the WSJ hires people. And people post articles on /. to be read by even more people.
/. people have known about chip stacking for decades. Granted it has been very difficult to do previously. But so were nanometer chips back when nobody had a process that was less than a micron. No doubt WSJ will want to let their readers know the micron barrier was finally breached.
But the
WSJ and timely, accurate articles about the electronics, fab processing, computer industries are fantasies. They have never happened in my reading of them. Which is why I quit them.
Old is expensive. Higher cost for salaries, medical care (typically, not always), retirement plans are vetted as are stock options.
Fire the old guys/gals was how I perceived Intel's last big layoff was (cost several friends their jobs). New CEO, cuts projects, closed sites and fired people in the late fifties to early sixties. Often with a caveat that they A: never talk about being canned and B: no matter what they will never be hired back under any condition.
That happens throughout modern businesses. College grads are cheap, they think the money is good but if they leave in five years their retirement vetting is a pittance and their stock is just starting to vet. They found a better job! Which will pay a little more, then they will start on the next round of retirement benefits and stock vetting.
Yeah, old is out. Good luck.
If programming is the second language then why are they teaching python?
It would it be nice if the language doesn't incite flame wars re the choice of the day.
For that matter, WTH have the universities been doing teaching with Java?
If the goal is to produce more bad programming to enable the sale of more computers to enable the melting of more sand that's all fine. But past that easily 90% of the population would be better off without it.
Thanks. I prefer to get to the source without having to click through some other site. And this was after I had an Amazon link to the book up.
One wonders how unaware the average W* user is. No Linux user would do that, I doubt if it's an OS X thing. But even assuming the worst for W* users this has to be a small attack vector.
The piece reads well, but convincing someone to execute a remote file seems like a stretch. Of course, if MSFT would address the issue by comparing the two files it would nip this 'feature' in the bud.
Looking to boost their market share clearly. On /. we have people that know the difference between zero-day and user must download malware and do whatever the malware asks you to do to enable the exploit. Also, in a bonus of unlikelihood the app is unsigned.
Which everybody knows about. The Oracle audit resulting in millions of additional fees are stories of legendary hubris. Turn those jerks (mini-Larries) loose on their nascent cloud service will kill it in its tracks. Hopefully.
Well said. I find the addition of block-chain to problem X quite funny, but you nailed the issue. Born broken, even gaffer's tape can't fix this dog.
Losing track of all these creatives/artists/session players is exactly the plan. It always has been.
What they are doing now is trying to figure out how to prove who stole what from the ??AAs. Nothing they want to do will change their greed. The publishers believe they are the reason the music exists, demented but true sadly.
Funny how ATT never really came to grips with Unix. Beyond licensing and cash intake. They are just as clueless when it comes to user land equipment as anyone else. Even the hacks in China. One does wonder how many of their products have the same user/password combo.
Are they concerned that their subscribers will follow?
Nobody does their scenario, everyone is different which is why cable is such a disaster. Instead of giving customers reasonable choices, skinny bundles, at reasonable prices they push for $200/month regardless of what you use. And Comcast for one will go to extraordinary lengths to get the cash, including their much publicized extra fees that don't really exist.
Every cutter I know is happy with the solution and they spend less money. Nobody wants to pay wired's projected costs. People read, they Netflix, they stream and YouTube. Who cares if the content providers go broke? Not I. If they can take down Comcast and their ilk on the way, so much the better.
While I believe it's well intentioned this has zero chance of effecting any change. So a few in Congress are finally aware but the majority of both houses are clueless when it comes to tech (think: a series of tubes clueless). Either it will fail entirely (highest IMO) or it will be broken re something basic regarding the Constitution. It's almost as if half in Congress have never read the document.
Broken also covers the clear misses that are very likely regarding trying to lock down security for reason X but breaks it for everything else. I have no trust in the Republican controlled Congress and less belief in their ability to do the right thing for any reason at all.
Apple didn't support that resource heavy anti-security program either.
Because their customer experience is better without that old crap. Or this new crap.
Subject related to semiconductor business in particular and/or computers in general.
Press word salad, insert stock market prediction re company X's stock will be skyrocketing/plummeting because of some random sentence heard at the local bar, but taken out of context. Regardless in it goes, then word salad on various computer terms that have little bearing on what the particular item is for.
Press word salad and Exit together. Print that sucker.
I noticed several titles re this sudden loss of support for Intel CPUs by W10. Cute, Intel Atom CPUs is accurate but very few would care about them. They are not a large market, never were and are quite literally a dead product line.
Granted, click driver journalism isn't the gold standard even if it is the current standard.
Well not a surprise actually. Peter Bright at Arstechnica.com made a similar pitch last year or so. Just as poorly thought out although more verbose than this piece.
New programmers are being trained in what language? Yep, Java (or worse java.script). Many of the code camp type of pushes appear (to me) as pitches to have everything run in the cloud/on the web/in HTML 5. None of which teach anything at all about systems, security and coding standards. How can you enforce a standard on crap? Just plop it down, see if it works.
The people making these pitches are not people that I would hire/trust. Sorry. If they aren't capable of doing the job, then don't hire them. I have a few people I would trust to write systems code. A few more that I would trust to write user level code. None of them were trained in Java. And we all write in C.
There is C.
There is no C++.
Nice troll, but a BSOD would have been an order of magnitude better.
And what would they use it for more stack, RAM or a prioritized path to cache?
Well said.
Also the enthusiast tag is probably not completely accurate. I would suggest mid-range enthusiasts. The high end is still clearly Intel only territory. That might change in the next two quarters, but since they didn't report which processors were being tested, just that AMD's percentage rose, the article is mostly click bait. A hothardware special in other words.
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Okay the last I just winged it, but that was the standard definition of Multics for(;;).
Since it wasn't posted, I did my duty for history. And tables. In Core.
Update, Williams piece does expand/explain The Machine idea. I had thought it was in the other article but that was mostly fluff (no insult intended) and linked to the Williams piece.
Slogging through The Machine. Better than nothing but I tire of not having actual gear to use, same for 3D-Xpoint for that matter.