The thing is, Google doesn't make enough of anything to make it worthwhile to do this. You gotta make a gazillion chips to break even. Unless they plan to sell them to the Android OEMs... hmmm...
It is interesting that EVERY bit of data examined about the Shroud (pollen studies, linen study, weaving techniques, post-mortem "autopsy" study, a study of the dirt around the heels, the blood type of the stains, the image itself) ALL support the notion that the Shroud is authentic. The only study that supports a medieval origin is the carbon dating, which has also been challenged.
There are two interesting questions (at least) from that:
1) When there is a massive amount of factual data supporting authenticity and only one data supporting fraud, should all of the supporting data be ignored?
2) How did the supposed fraudster carry out such a detailed fraud?
Then there's the image itself. Although there have been a few (maybe one) success at creating something that looks like the image on the Shroud, there have been no successes at creating an image that matches the physical AND chemical composition of the image. We still don't know how that was done, fraud or not.
My point is that there is still a great deal about the Shroud that is highly controversial, allowing the faithful to continue to hold to their beliefs with not requirement to be stupid or uninformed.
I have 30Mbps DSL in Minnesota. It's very stable, doesn't share bandwidth with my neighbors, and generally rocks. Cable can certainly be faster, but it can be a lot slower, too.
All of this seems to presume that a site CAN be made 100% hacker-proof. I don't think that is likely.
This position reminds me a lot of the folks that want to sue gun companies when someone commits a murder with a gun. The people who released this data have the blood of the two (so far) victims on their hands - they're at least partly resonsible for their deaths.
They are not commodity computers. There is a "commodity" cpu, the chipset, but the rest of the MB is totally unique, designed by Apple, and made from top shelf components. Then there's the shell, which is made from a solid piece of aluminium. It adds a lot of nice stiffness to the thing. Of course, this may be of no value to some folks.
First she claimed she did no official business on that server, then claimed it was only for convenience, then claimed there was no classified emails on it, then claimed it had all been erased. Turns out none of that was true. Massively lying, she had to know she was going to get caught.
This implies there is something there she is desparate to hide. If she is not hiding something, why all the lies?
Even if there is nothing there except highly classified material, then she has broken the law and lied about it repeatedly. Does that make her a qualified Presidential candidate, or a criminal?
Being a manager - a *good* manager - requires just as much training and work and learning as it does to be a good programmer. If you are considering making that move, be prepared to take some courses and read management journals and blogs just like you read programmer stuff today. It's a skill and an art, too.
Also, don't give up programming. Keep your fingers in the pie, give yourself some of the project tasks (make sure they're not critical-path jobs!), keep up with languages and trends. You'll get more respect and support from your team, you'll make better management decisions, and you'll be more effective at communicating the issues with upper management.
In the end, it can be just as rewarding as being a straight programmer, but your rewards will come from seeing your team members achieving great things and knowing that you helped them be great.
It would be nice if knowing the language and job were all that is required to get hired today. The truth is that 50+ people don't get hired as programmers, period. It doesn't matter what you know, as you won't even get an interview, and your resume ends up in the trash as soon as they figure out your age.
I was going to mod you up until the last sentence. First you point out that the high-end Samsung phones cost as much as Apple phones and then you say Apple makes more profit (90% of the industry profit in the Christmas quarter) only because Apple buyers are more susceptible to advertising and are therefore more easily conned into paying more for their phones. Broken logic there.
American Justice is about having a penalty so severe that the risk/reward ratio makes doing the crime a bad idea. Unfortunately, many, many people today have a problem with thinking very far in the future.
Yes, but the specific issues which MAY have caused China to dump these products is not spying on US citizens, no? It's spying on China that they care about, which, in my view, Snowden had no righteous reason to divulge. Sure, spying on US citizens is bad and anti-constitutional. He may have done us all a favor bringing that to light. Just how did it help us, and what righteous standing does he have, by disclosing the details of our abilities regarding foreign entities?
One could argue that it's Snowden's revelations are hurting the economy. The NSA is supposed to be spying on foreign entities. No constitutional issues there at all.
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ISIS's self-proclaimed strategy is to incite "Rome" to attack them on Syrian soil, thus bringing about Islam's version of "armageddon".
The thing is, Google doesn't make enough of anything to make it worthwhile to do this. You gotta make a gazillion chips to break even. Unless they plan to sell them to the Android OEMs... hmmm...
My prison-guard wife says this is 100% not true, that you don't want to end your shift with someone hanging themselves in one of your cells.
Why can't Apple have motives that are altruistic, and then also point out how different those motives are from Google's?
It's the software and OS it runs that matters.
Actually, there is some earlier evidence for it. Don't know if it's enough to be conclusive.
It is interesting that EVERY bit of data examined about the Shroud (pollen studies, linen study, weaving techniques, post-mortem "autopsy" study, a study of the dirt around the heels, the blood type of the stains, the image itself) ALL support the notion that the Shroud is authentic. The only study that supports a medieval origin is the carbon dating, which has also been challenged.
There are two interesting questions (at least) from that:
1) When there is a massive amount of factual data supporting authenticity and only one data supporting fraud, should all of the supporting data be ignored?
2) How did the supposed fraudster carry out such a detailed fraud?
Then there's the image itself. Although there have been a few (maybe one) success at creating something that looks like the image on the Shroud, there have been no successes at creating an image that matches the physical AND chemical composition of the image. We still don't know how that was done, fraud or not.
My point is that there is still a great deal about the Shroud that is highly controversial, allowing the faithful to continue to hold to their beliefs with not requirement to be stupid or uninformed.
I have 30Mbps DSL in Minnesota. It's very stable, doesn't share bandwidth with my neighbors, and generally rocks. Cable can certainly be faster, but it can be a lot slower, too.
All of this seems to presume that a site CAN be made 100% hacker-proof. I don't think that is likely.
This position reminds me a lot of the folks that want to sue gun companies when someone commits a murder with a gun. The people who released this data have the blood of the two (so far) victims on their hands - they're at least partly resonsible for their deaths.
They are not commodity computers. There is a "commodity" cpu, the chipset, but the rest of the MB is totally unique, designed by Apple, and made from top shelf components. Then there's the shell, which is made from a solid piece of aluminium. It adds a lot of nice stiffness to the thing. Of course, this may be of no value to some folks.
First she claimed she did no official business on that server, then claimed it was only for convenience, then claimed there was no classified emails on it, then claimed it had all been erased. Turns out none of that was true. Massively lying, she had to know she was going to get caught.
This implies there is something there she is desparate to hide. If she is not hiding something, why all the lies?
Even if there is nothing there except highly classified material, then she has broken the law and lied about it repeatedly. Does that make her a qualified Presidential candidate, or a criminal?
I once wrote a spreadsheet to calculate and graph the collision rates on various hash table algorithms over various use cases. Don't dis spreadsheets.
THIS is why aerospace and aeronatical parts cost so dang much.
Being a manager - a *good* manager - requires just as much training and work and learning as it does to be a good programmer. If you are considering making that move, be prepared to take some courses and read management journals and blogs just like you read programmer stuff today. It's a skill and an art, too.
Also, don't give up programming. Keep your fingers in the pie, give yourself some of the project tasks (make sure they're not critical-path jobs!), keep up with languages and trends. You'll get more respect and support from your team, you'll make better management decisions, and you'll be more effective at communicating the issues with upper management.
In the end, it can be just as rewarding as being a straight programmer, but your rewards will come from seeing your team members achieving great things and knowing that you helped them be great.
It would be nice if knowing the language and job were all that is required to get hired today. The truth is that 50+ people don't get hired as programmers, period. It doesn't matter what you know, as you won't even get an interview, and your resume ends up in the trash as soon as they figure out your age.
I thinkk that's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
I was going to mod you up until the last sentence. First you point out that the high-end Samsung phones cost as much as Apple phones and then you say Apple makes more profit (90% of the industry profit in the Christmas quarter) only because Apple buyers are more susceptible to advertising and are therefore more easily conned into paying more for their phones. Broken logic there.
It's always been this way, about pretty much every aspect of social society. Most folks do (or don't do) whatever peer pressure pushes them to do.
American Justice is about having a penalty so severe that the risk/reward ratio makes doing the crime a bad idea. Unfortunately, many, many people today have a problem with thinking very far in the future.
If you can't attack the facts, attack the messenger. Sort of SOP these days.
Because Bill Clinton thought they should. Congress tried to repeal it in 2005, but the bill failed.
Seems to me like it's time to look at that again.
The lake wasn't filled by our demand for gadgets, it was filled by Baotou, and the Chinese government allowed them to do it.
Yes, but the specific issues which MAY have caused China to dump these products is not spying on US citizens, no? It's spying on China that they care about, which, in my view, Snowden had no righteous reason to divulge. Sure, spying on US citizens is bad and anti-constitutional. He may have done us all a favor bringing that to light. Just how did it help us, and what righteous standing does he have, by disclosing the details of our abilities regarding foreign entities?
One could argue that it's Snowden's revelations are hurting the economy. The NSA is supposed to be spying on foreign entities. No constitutional issues there at all.
Sorry, 90 days of food is pretty much the max for an attack sub. Boomers can carry more.