This sounds a bit like layering design by contract on top of a typically dynamically typed language rather than being a strictly statically typed language. It's an interesting approach and would seem to achieve their goals of faster but more robust development.
Meh, we've got a lot of Oracle software in house (JD Edwards, Hyperion, OBIEE, Oracle DB) and it all works fairly well. We've had two duds from Oracle as well, Oracle VM was complete crap (we were only running it because of their ridiculous licensing for OBIEE) and the application we received based on BPEL was a completely unmaintainable turd, but that could have been the third party group that designed and built the application (though we found plenty of faults with base BPEL functionality so we lay the blame more on the stack than the third party). Frankly it's about the same ratio as MS has had for us for business apps and significantly better than Symantec or what I've previously experienced from CA. To be honest the only enterprise software group that's never let me down is Quest, they always bought good companies and did a good job of maintaining updates and support but now that they're part of Dell I doubt that will continue.
Also unlike the US, real estate is a scare resource and not as conducive to urban sprawl.
This is pure B.S., Île-de-France has the same population density as Cuyahoga County (~1,000/km^2) but yet Cleveland is often cited as an example of suburban sprawl run amok.
Sorry, my number was for dual income households, even at $51,371 saving 15% will get you $831k at 67 or 10% will get you $977k at 72. This is still far from supporting your argument that you have to be 'rich' to have $800k in your retirement account.
Uh, median household income is $67,348, if you put away 10% (bare minimum) then at 72 you will have ~$1.2M in constant dollars, even pushing retirement down to 67 you still have ~$800k. If you're working off some kind of definition other than median I'm not sure how you can argue that position publicly without giving your own definition.
Your concern is that those who are literally millionaires are not getting a fair deal? There is some serious inflation going on in your notion of "middle"
Uh, a $200k home and $800k IRA is pretty much the definition of a middle class person who didn't screw up his finances. I'm pretty solidly middle class and in my mid 30's I have $50k in home equity and a bit over $100k in my IRA, by the time I retire I should have $150k in home equity (in today's dollars) and around $1.2-$1.5m in my IRA (again in today's dollars). If you're not targeting similar levels of capital at retirement you're going to either be working well past your planned retirement age or
As well it should, compared to designing, building, testing, and launching a new probe manning the ground station has to be downright cheap so as long as they are getting useful scientific information out of it it seems shortsighted to cut the funding.
You can do the initial seed as a local backup and then take that offsite to the friends location, that's what I did with my brothers, we traded HDD's around to seed the backups to each other.
You can find a bunch of SAS LTO4 drives on ebay for ~$50-75, and adding a SAS PCIe HBA doesn't cost much more (if you have 20TB I assume you already have a tower).
You can easily do it cheaper with tape, $50 for an LTO4 drive, $400 for 20 tapes, and $5/month for a safe deposit box. You can double the number of tapes if you always want to have a copy offsite (vs retrieving the tapes, updating the contents and moving them offsite again) and still come out significantly cheaper.
You can get an LTO4 SAS drive for ~$50 on ebay, they do 800GB native per tape, so typically ~1.2TB per tape for mixed content (obviously if it's all compressed media it will be much closer to native). 10-20 tapes doesn't seem that bad (we send that many offsite daily). The tapes will cost you ~$20 each unless you're willing to go used (ewww).
She should get her NP, I can't see anytime in the foreseeable future where NP's won't be in high demand. With a push towards more universal coverage and no significant uptick in doctors choosing to become GP's a LOT of primary care is going to be performed by NP's.
Yeah except you can't keep that price and get a decent handset, that's why I just switched the wife over to Republic Wireless, same $25/month but she can use a non-sucky phone (Moto X) instead of her cruddy Optimus V on Virgin Mobile plus she now gets unlimited voice, twice as much data, and roaming to Verizon.
In theory that's correct, for instance our company has a policy that a manager and no more than two of his direct reports can be on a flight together, but the number of times that policy is violated when a bunch of the bigwigs are taking the chartered jet to a meeting far away makes it a bit toothless in reality. Who's going to fire the CEO and a bunch of EVP's?
So the net effect is that the fuel company that screwed up the instructions is out the ~$4.3m in markup they could have made selling the fuel to H211 as a private company, sounds like a complete non-issue to me, if you screw up the paperwork and lose out on potential income too bad. Why this is any kind of an investigation is beyond me, the government is out $0, they got free use of the plane over 200 times, and they got rental income for hanger space that most likely would have been empty if H211's plane wasn't parked there. In fact the government is out money for the audit (or out auditor time which is the same thing since I'm sure there's plenty of actual waste or malfeasance they could have been uncovering).
Bullshit, utility scale solar is down to $.11/kWhr as of Q4 2013 (down from $.21 in 2010 when the DoE started SunShot) which is less than double the $.056/kWhr total cost for new natural gas plants.
Look into low self discharge batteries, the Eneloop second generation batteries maintain 75% of their charge after 3 years without use and can be fully charged for 1500 cycles. The third generation cells go to 90% after 1 year and 70% after 5 years but they're enough more expensive at this point that they're not worth the extra cost for most applications, they've also increased the stability a bit to 1800 cycles.
Contracts are contracts, if you think for one microsecond that a corporation won't do EVERYTHING in its power to screw you over using the fine print you're delusional AND lucky to have never been screwed in that manner. For the rest of us we've learned that the corporations have zero ethics or morals so we feel free to treat them in the same way. It's like people who feel they owe a former employer anything after they have left, why? I might feel an obligation to former coworkers as I've often developed personal relationships with people I'm around for around half my waking hours, but I feel zero obligation to the corporation once the employee/employer relationship ends.
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Huh? I learned design by contract back in college, at RIT we used Eiffel which is language designed around the concept, no marketing here.
This sounds a bit like layering design by contract on top of a typically dynamically typed language rather than being a strictly statically typed language. It's an interesting approach and would seem to achieve their goals of faster but more robust development.
Meh, we've got a lot of Oracle software in house (JD Edwards, Hyperion, OBIEE, Oracle DB) and it all works fairly well. We've had two duds from Oracle as well, Oracle VM was complete crap (we were only running it because of their ridiculous licensing for OBIEE) and the application we received based on BPEL was a completely unmaintainable turd, but that could have been the third party group that designed and built the application (though we found plenty of faults with base BPEL functionality so we lay the blame more on the stack than the third party). Frankly it's about the same ratio as MS has had for us for business apps and significantly better than Symantec or what I've previously experienced from CA. To be honest the only enterprise software group that's never let me down is Quest, they always bought good companies and did a good job of maintaining updates and support but now that they're part of Dell I doubt that will continue.
So I've learned to never, ever update anything on my phone.
Or root it and install Titanium Backup, whenever I get a bum update I just leave a bad review and then install the backup from the previous night.
Also unlike the US, real estate is a scare resource and not as conducive to urban sprawl.
This is pure B.S., Île-de-France has the same population density as Cuyahoga County (~1,000/km^2) but yet Cleveland is often cited as an example of suburban sprawl run amok.
Sorry, my number was for dual income households, even at $51,371 saving 15% will get you $831k at 67 or 10% will get you $977k at 72. This is still far from supporting your argument that you have to be 'rich' to have $800k in your retirement account.
Uh, median household income is $67,348, if you put away 10% (bare minimum) then at 72 you will have ~$1.2M in constant dollars, even pushing retirement down to 67 you still have ~$800k. If you're working off some kind of definition other than median I'm not sure how you can argue that position publicly without giving your own definition.
Your concern is that those who are literally millionaires are not getting a fair deal? There is some serious inflation going on in your notion of "middle"
Uh, a $200k home and $800k IRA is pretty much the definition of a middle class person who didn't screw up his finances. I'm pretty solidly middle class and in my mid 30's I have $50k in home equity and a bit over $100k in my IRA, by the time I retire I should have $150k in home equity (in today's dollars) and around $1.2-$1.5m in my IRA (again in today's dollars). If you're not targeting similar levels of capital at retirement you're going to either be working well past your planned retirement age or
As well it should, compared to designing, building, testing, and launching a new probe manning the ground station has to be downright cheap so as long as they are getting useful scientific information out of it it seems shortsighted to cut the funding.
ReFS on a parity storage space also solves bitrot and it's built into Window 8.1. Plus you can use an SSD as a cache.
You can do the initial seed as a local backup and then take that offsite to the friends location, that's what I did with my brothers, we traded HDD's around to seed the backups to each other.
You can find a bunch of SAS LTO4 drives on ebay for ~$50-75, and adding a SAS PCIe HBA doesn't cost much more (if you have 20TB I assume you already have a tower).
You can easily do it cheaper with tape, $50 for an LTO4 drive, $400 for 20 tapes, and $5/month for a safe deposit box. You can double the number of tapes if you always want to have a copy offsite (vs retrieving the tapes, updating the contents and moving them offsite again) and still come out significantly cheaper.
You can get an LTO4 SAS drive for ~$50 on ebay, they do 800GB native per tape, so typically ~1.2TB per tape for mixed content (obviously if it's all compressed media it will be much closer to native). 10-20 tapes doesn't seem that bad (we send that many offsite daily). The tapes will cost you ~$20 each unless you're willing to go used (ewww).
She should get her NP, I can't see anytime in the foreseeable future where NP's won't be in high demand. With a push towards more universal coverage and no significant uptick in doctors choosing to become GP's a LOT of primary care is going to be performed by NP's.
Yeah except you can't keep that price and get a decent handset, that's why I just switched the wife over to Republic Wireless, same $25/month but she can use a non-sucky phone (Moto X) instead of her cruddy Optimus V on Virgin Mobile plus she now gets unlimited voice, twice as much data, and roaming to Verizon.
In theory that's correct, for instance our company has a policy that a manager and no more than two of his direct reports can be on a flight together, but the number of times that policy is violated when a bunch of the bigwigs are taking the chartered jet to a meeting far away makes it a bit toothless in reality. Who's going to fire the CEO and a bunch of EVP's?
So the net effect is that the fuel company that screwed up the instructions is out the ~$4.3m in markup they could have made selling the fuel to H211 as a private company, sounds like a complete non-issue to me, if you screw up the paperwork and lose out on potential income too bad. Why this is any kind of an investigation is beyond me, the government is out $0, they got free use of the plane over 200 times, and they got rental income for hanger space that most likely would have been empty if H211's plane wasn't parked there. In fact the government is out money for the audit (or out auditor time which is the same thing since I'm sure there's plenty of actual waste or malfeasance they could have been uncovering).
Incorrect, though the numbers are close, see Table IV.C.1-6 a, the weighted industry average puts cars .001 HP/lb ahead of light trucks.
Interesting, though I have to wonder if Macho Springs/First Solar isn't receiving some type of subsidy that allows it to reach that price.
It's the current installed cost of utility scale solar.
Bullshit, utility scale solar is down to $.11/kWhr as of Q4 2013 (down from $.21 in 2010 when the DoE started SunShot) which is less than double the $.056/kWhr total cost for new natural gas plants.
The Ars side widget is broken, perhaps they don't want me to see the Ars articles until they have time to approve their copies here on slashdot...
Look into low self discharge batteries, the Eneloop second generation batteries maintain 75% of their charge after 3 years without use and can be fully charged for 1500 cycles. The third generation cells go to 90% after 1 year and 70% after 5 years but they're enough more expensive at this point that they're not worth the extra cost for most applications, they've also increased the stability a bit to 1800 cycles.
Contracts are contracts, if you think for one microsecond that a corporation won't do EVERYTHING in its power to screw you over using the fine print you're delusional AND lucky to have never been screwed in that manner. For the rest of us we've learned that the corporations have zero ethics or morals so we feel free to treat them in the same way. It's like people who feel they owe a former employer anything after they have left, why? I might feel an obligation to former coworkers as I've often developed personal relationships with people I'm around for around half my waking hours, but I feel zero obligation to the corporation once the employee/employer relationship ends.