It doesn't fucking matter what workers were, who they were, or where they came from. They and the company are bound by our laws while they're here. THE COMPANY BROKE THE FUCKING LAW BY PAYING THEM UNDER MINIMUM WAGE. FULL STOP. FUCKING PERIOD.
Are you retarded? It's more than technically wrong. THEY BROKE THE FUCKING LAW.
Not egregious? They paid about 20% of the already too low FUCKING MINIMUM WAGE. How is this not "egregious"? You really are a moron.
Thank God I don't feel any need to buy anything that ugly. I'm not sure who are the most profoundly stupid about aesthetics here - Dell/Alienware or their customers. Buy here's a clue for those of you thinking of buying one - when you're tired of looking like an over-privileged tween who got hold of daddy's credit card, get a real case that's worth that kind of money. Simplicity and elegance win every time over ugly, overpriced bling.
I know that comes as a shock to many of you, but it's true - I will miss him. Motherfucker was comedy gold. Where else do you go for that these days? Schmidt? Fucking gray man in a fucking gray suit. Same with Tim Cook - you can put him in jeans, but he just is a guy hat would rather be in a boardroom than on a stage. Larry Ellison? Scary (appropriate for the season), but not funny. The new guy? Nadella? Has the whole exotic foreigner befuddlement thing down (and that's just with respect to HR practice vs. tech culture), but I figure he's not going to be the full-on Olympic chair-throwing, "developers, developers, developers", "I'm going to squirt you with my Zune", "fucking kill Google" sort of guy that Balmer was.
I'm just saying an age has passed. Nothing but gray men, as far as the eye can see. I love my new oligarchs.
Not every troll truly lives.,P>Actually, no troll really lives, for he or she is more broken than most. Unable to gain positive attention, they settle for (and attempt to cause) negative attention - it's better than not being noticed at all, isn't it?
In the final analysis, trolls are really just sad, pathetic people. So fuck 'em.
Their "toolbar" hides in Oracle's installer for Java. The parasite... nay, symbiote, uses this installer as a vector to infect unsuspecting computers, the end result being the madness of innocent system administrators and dragooned relatives helping Grandma figure out why her system is so slow because she hasn't sprung for new hardware since the mid-Nineteen-Fucking-Nineties and it's a GODDAMN Windows Machine And... MOTHER OF GOD! I don't believe this! It's XP and it Has Every Piece of Malware Since the DAWN OF TIME INSTALLED ON IT AND I HAVE TO CLEAN IT ALL OFF BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T LOSE THE MOTHERFUCKING CAT VIDEO HER &^!!%(*!&$!&^*$#! FRIEND CHARLENE SENT HER AND THE SENILE OLD BIDDY CAN'T REMEMBER... uh, where she put it... ahem, um sorry, where was I? Oh, yeah...
I've seen it far too many times for it to be a phantom. A zombie, perhaps, shambling along on toolbar installations by those too green or momentarily distracted or forgetful... So, even if it is dead, it lives! IT LIVES!
Uh, no. You assume that making the country an even larger police state would help. But I'm sure the Canadians already had about as big a police state as it needed.
And the fuss over incidents involving two persons? Out of millions that live in and travel through Canada each year? Seems like their police apparatus is working pretty well from my point of view.
You talk as if we could bring an end to the threat of someone doing something nefarious, if only we just did something (think of the chil... soldiers). But you know what? We're doing enough. The actual count of terrorism deaths compared with just about any other cause should convince just about anyone of that. But when your argument is emotional, I guess facts don't matter (but still we try...).
So, no, neither Canada, nor the US, nor does just about any developed country need a bigger police, monitoring, border-controlling, etc. apparatus. They should probably try a bit harder to make sure that wealth and opportunity are distributed a bit more equitably and that people have a bit more say in what's being done for/to them and that might be a bit more cost-effective, but it's also a tangent along which I will not proceed further.
What is clear is that freedom is built on acceptable losses. You can debate acceptable loss levels, but the fact of those losses never go away. Talking about acceptable levels and what is needed to achieve those levels might generate a fruitful discussion but, somehow, I don't think you want to talk about things that way.
SpaceX's costs are still nowhere near low enough to change the economics of space as Musk and his investors envision, but they have a plan to do so (of which more later).
Alto was a microcoded design but, unlike many computers, the microcode engine was not hidden from the programmer in a layered design. Applications such as Pinball took advantage of this to accelerate performance. The Alto had a bit-slice arithmetic logic unit (ALU) based on the Texas Instruments' 74181 chip, a ROM control store with a writable control store extension and had 128 (expandable to 512) kB of main memory organized in 16-bit words. Mass storage was provided by a hard disk drive that used a removable 2.5 MB single-platter cartridge (Diablo Systems, a company Xerox later bought) similar to those used by the IBM 2310. The base machine and one disk were housed in a cabinet about the size of a small refrigerator; one additional disk could be added in daisy-chain fashion.
It would be relatively simple to come up with an emulator that could run well. Although I'd rather see a Dandelion clone, anyway - I knew all about the AMD 2900 series, back in the day.
Their HD202s have been available 5/$89 at BSW for the past ten years (which is also why you see Sennheisers in radio a lot). They're good enough for voice work and are often used in recording studios for tracking. And even at their low cost they still sound better than Beats or Bose stuff.
Yes. And you can have my AKG headphones when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Even at the cost of a comparable set of Beats headphones they are so much better than those PoSs. Same for Bose. I can actually hear balanced sound and detail from my AKGs. I use them for audio editing. I can definitely hear the difference. I say to anyone that buys either Beats or Bose (or other consumer stuff) to at least upgrade to a prosumer level of headphones from one of the manufacturers listed in the parent post - your ears will thank you.
You forgot to mention the even more impressive format function in Common Lisp that can print out roman numerals for you, not to mention its built-in iteration constructs, which you folks copied for your fmt function.
And to try to control project risks, we have many best practices. Some work well in a given industry, some don't; some work well for a given product, some don't; some work well in a given organization, some don't; some work well for a given team, some don't; and some of them work well together, others don't.
The sad thing is that we underestimate these contextual issues, everywhere in our industry - from process consultants who want to sell their expertise, to Agilistas who sacrifice their objectivity to their god, to PMPs who want a schedule down to five minute increments before they're satisfied (and your status reports for each of those tasks had better be in order, Buster!), not to mention business people demanding irrelevant statistics (because what's important to an engineering manager might not be important to an accounts payable manager and vice versa), QA teams morphed to process teams (because you engineer in quality, not test it in) who demand the same processes across the company (no matter what's being built), to VPs who tout metric gains that don't fall outside the boundaries of noise, given the process being measured, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
However, to me it is unsurprising that companies that decided to roll their own processes rather than "cookie cutter"ing one are doing better. They're probably more attuned to their environment than any company in the throes of iatrogenic Agilista or PMPing agony will ever be.
Virus mutations aren't my specialty but from what I've read Ebola mutating to become airborne isn't a high probability.
It will become higher with each flu season this outbreak is not contained, as some patients will have co-infections with influenza each seaon, allowing LGT to do its magic more often, making it more probable.
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It doesn't fucking matter what workers were, who they were, or where they came from. They and the company are bound by our laws while they're here. THE COMPANY BROKE THE FUCKING LAW BY PAYING THEM UNDER MINIMUM WAGE. FULL STOP. FUCKING PERIOD.
Are you retarded? It's more than technically wrong. THEY BROKE THE FUCKING LAW.
Not egregious? They paid about 20% of the already too low FUCKING MINIMUM WAGE. How is this not "egregious"? You really are a moron.
Thank God I don't feel any need to buy anything that ugly. I'm not sure who are the most profoundly stupid about aesthetics here - Dell/Alienware or their customers. Buy here's a clue for those of you thinking of buying one - when you're tired of looking like an over-privileged tween who got hold of daddy's credit card, get a real case that's worth that kind of money. Simplicity and elegance win every time over ugly, overpriced bling.
I know that comes as a shock to many of you, but it's true - I will miss him. Motherfucker was comedy gold. Where else do you go for that these days? Schmidt? Fucking gray man in a fucking gray suit. Same with Tim Cook - you can put him in jeans, but he just is a guy hat would rather be in a boardroom than on a stage. Larry Ellison? Scary (appropriate for the season), but not funny. The new guy? Nadella? Has the whole exotic foreigner befuddlement thing down (and that's just with respect to HR practice vs. tech culture), but I figure he's not going to be the full-on Olympic chair-throwing, "developers, developers, developers", "I'm going to squirt you with my Zune", "fucking kill Google" sort of guy that Balmer was.
I'm just saying an age has passed. Nothing but gray men, as far as the eye can see. I love my new oligarchs.
Not every troll truly lives.,P>Actually, no troll really lives, for he or she is more broken than most. Unable to gain positive attention, they settle for (and attempt to cause) negative attention - it's better than not being noticed at all, isn't it?
In the final analysis, trolls are really just sad, pathetic people. So fuck 'em.
Their "toolbar" hides in Oracle's installer for Java. The parasite... nay, symbiote, uses this installer as a vector to infect unsuspecting computers, the end result being the madness of innocent system administrators and dragooned relatives helping Grandma figure out why her system is so slow because she hasn't sprung for new hardware since the mid-Nineteen-Fucking-Nineties and it's a GODDAMN Windows Machine And... MOTHER OF GOD! I don't believe this! It's XP and it Has Every Piece of Malware Since the DAWN OF TIME INSTALLED ON IT AND I HAVE TO CLEAN IT ALL OFF BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T LOSE THE MOTHERFUCKING CAT VIDEO HER &^!!%(*!&$!&^*$#! FRIEND CHARLENE SENT HER AND THE SENILE OLD BIDDY CAN'T REMEMBER... uh, where she put it... ahem, um sorry, where was I? Oh, yeah...
I've seen it far too many times for it to be a phantom. A zombie, perhaps, shambling along on toolbar installations by those too green or momentarily distracted or forgetful... So, even if it is dead, it lives! IT LIVES!
Uh, no. You assume that making the country an even larger police state would help. But I'm sure the Canadians already had about as big a police state as it needed.
And the fuss over incidents involving two persons? Out of millions that live in and travel through Canada each year? Seems like their police apparatus is working pretty well from my point of view.
You talk as if we could bring an end to the threat of someone doing something nefarious, if only we just did something (think of the chil... soldiers). But you know what? We're doing enough. The actual count of terrorism deaths compared with just about any other cause should convince just about anyone of that. But when your argument is emotional, I guess facts don't matter (but still we try...).
So, no, neither Canada, nor the US, nor does just about any developed country need a bigger police, monitoring, border-controlling, etc. apparatus. They should probably try a bit harder to make sure that wealth and opportunity are distributed a bit more equitably and that people have a bit more say in what's being done for/to them and that might be a bit more cost-effective, but it's also a tangent along which I will not proceed further.
What is clear is that freedom is built on acceptable losses. You can debate acceptable loss levels, but the fact of those losses never go away. Talking about acceptable levels and what is needed to achieve those levels might generate a fruitful discussion but, somehow, I don't think you want to talk about things that way.
SpaceX's costs are still nowhere near low enough to change the economics of space as Musk and his investors envision, but they have a plan to do so (of which more later).
Long extension cord?
It was a 16-bit architecture. Use the Wiki:
It would be relatively simple to come up with an emulator that could run well. Although I'd rather see a Dandelion clone, anyway - I knew all about the AMD 2900 series, back in the day.
Or it's customary in your country for all people at retirement age to perform ritual suicide?
No, we just let them starve to death.
Fucking troll.
The question is which end of Barbie they shot the bullets from - that is just so crucial.
Does this explain the lack of female pop singers today?
You're noticing a lack? If anything, the market seems oversupplied to me. Or maybe it just seems that way because the quality is so spotty.
It won't hurt crypto algorithms unless their names are both Alice.
Apparently the BBC thinks upgrading psychopathic, racist death machines is a good idea!
Doesn't everybody?
How on earth do they find "pay someone a billion and a half to take this business" to be cheaper than just shutting the entire thing down?
Because maybe they can't just shut it down? Perhaps they still need the chips for a while until they can migrate their hardware to other chips?
Why no to build-in [sic] capabilities for a ship to break itself easily?
Because it might then break itself while it's underway, rather than waiting until it got to the shipyard?
Sennheiser? Yes.
Their HD202s have been available 5/$89 at BSW for the past ten years (which is also why you see Sennheisers in radio a lot). They're good enough for voice work and are often used in recording studios for tracking. And even at their low cost they still sound better than Beats or Bose stuff.
Yes. And you can have my AKG headphones when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Even at the cost of a comparable set of Beats headphones they are so much better than those PoSs. Same for Bose. I can actually hear balanced sound and detail from my AKGs. I use them for audio editing. I can definitely hear the difference. I say to anyone that buys either Beats or Bose (or other consumer stuff) to at least upgrade to a prosumer level of headphones from one of the manufacturers listed in the parent post - your ears will thank you.
You forgot to mention the even more impressive format function in Common Lisp that can print out roman numerals for you, not to mention its built-in iteration constructs, which you folks copied for your fmt function.
... there is no way to know what works best and what is worst: you have nothing to compare against and no motivation to become better.
You haven't heard of metrics other than dollars?
Stop assuming that simplicity is the only aesthetic principle - even Modernists hate living in Modernist houses.
When did they run out of cats? Or dd they mummify them and bury them all with Steve Jobs?
And to try to control project risks, we have many best practices. Some work well in a given industry, some don't; some work well for a given product, some don't; some work well in a given organization, some don't; some work well for a given team, some don't; and some of them work well together, others don't.
The sad thing is that we underestimate these contextual issues, everywhere in our industry - from process consultants who want to sell their expertise, to Agilistas who sacrifice their objectivity to their god, to PMPs who want a schedule down to five minute increments before they're satisfied (and your status reports for each of those tasks had better be in order, Buster!), not to mention business people demanding irrelevant statistics (because what's important to an engineering manager might not be important to an accounts payable manager and vice versa), QA teams morphed to process teams (because you engineer in quality, not test it in) who demand the same processes across the company (no matter what's being built), to VPs who tout metric gains that don't fall outside the boundaries of noise, given the process being measured, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
However, to me it is unsurprising that companies that decided to roll their own processes rather than "cookie cutter"ing one are doing better. They're probably more attuned to their environment than any company in the throes of iatrogenic Agilista or PMPing agony will ever be.
Yeah, unless the military or "intelligence" are involved. Then they'll gladly self-censor. They're all info whores to someone.
Virus mutations aren't my specialty but from what I've read Ebola mutating to become airborne isn't a high probability.
It will become higher with each flu season this outbreak is not contained, as some patients will have co-infections with influenza each seaon, allowing LGT to do its magic more often, making it more probable.