Apple was an extremely bad example of yours. Ever heard of Darwin? It is open source, runs on PPC and Intel.
Apple runs on Apple hardware, not commodity, and during the timeframe when Google was small, Apple hardware was much more expensive and also hostile to stuff like BSD installs. Commodity hardware and easily changed OSes make for really easy operational control. If Google had needed, they could have taken 2 or 3 linux cluster nodes and installed BSD or some random thing on them. Not so with Apple.
The Postal Inspection Service is a federal law enforcement agency, but USPS itself is no longer run by the government.
That's irrelevant. The USPS has a legal monopoly on mail and is for all intents and purposes a federal agency. Their computers still claim to be government property when you log on and congress has specific interest in their continued survival.
you can install random crap in the engine compartment, or on the wheels, or on the brake calipers, or in the steering pump, and have horrid results. (I speak from experience. Never ever mix radial and bias-ply tires. Scary.)
Yeah, but I bet you don't expect the car to behave after defiling it like that. The basic functions of a car haven't changed much in 20 years. It's more eficient, and ABS helps, but the basic behavior is the same.
That's right. They were created when some distant star went supernova. It's all due to solar power...
Wow, you stretched that point so far I think I heard it scream. Generally, solar power refers to power derived from our sun (which is named Sol). Everything else would be called nuclear.
Cars are 'systems'. Vastly more complex then that PC you are sitting at now.
Yeah right, how many cars allow you to install random stuff on the computer? Fact is, your car has been continuously refined over the past century, while your computer has been vastly extended over 30 years.
So their "data protection" is that basically they can give your personal data (from the application form, you know, the one that says NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER and usually other things like OCCUPATION, MONTHLY INCOME) with anyone they choose.
Read it again. They share your info with Tesco companies and businesses that process the info for them, which apparently means printers. No mention of sharing your home address with strategic partners or anything.
Increasing wages doesn't help - often the only people that seem to be hired are immigrant labor that aren't all that interested in higher wages - they will do the same low-quality work for minimum wage or below.
You gotta be shitting me. Of course the immigrants want more money. If they have enough English to work checkout and do their job well, then you should pay them more. It does help retention. Most of the people I've seen working checkout are citizens that've been here a while (with the exception of the one cute Russian woman). You may also be surprised to learn that checkout can pay up to $13/hr.
The idea of the "working mom" being there is long gone - for one reason or another that labor pool has dried up. High school and college kids aren't motivated enough for the most part. I don't understand why people still (after welfare "reform") still seem to feel it is better to be on welfare or unemployment than working somewhere, but that seems to be the case.
As a former college student, I found that internships paid better than supermarket jobs, but I would have taken a $7/hr job anywhere in a supermarket before doing food service again. Stocking shelves and checkout are way easier than cleaning up after the sunday breakfast crowd and trying not to gag on the smell of old eggs.
Only trouble is, Massport is the landlord and Continental is the tenant, and while very few of us have read TFA, I bet nobody on/. has read the actual lease.
The FCC has basically said that clauses that regulate these devices are illegal, so why would it even matter?
Once she gets any kind of offer, she should tell the current outfit she's leaving unless she gets $X increase in salary.
Terrible advice. What happens is, should gthey cough up, they now view her as disloyal and will can her at the first downturn. The proper way to do it is to document the projects she's saved, with specifics as to how, make a nice quick pitch document, and request a 50-70% raise. If they go for it, then great. If not, you've got tested material for the job search you should do, as you'll never be taken seriously.
Basically, they evaluate whether or not the description is adequate, has it been done before exactly, and whether or not it will most likely operate as claimed.
They also judge whether a practicioner of that particular art would find it obvious. Logically (yeah, I know), a trivial extension of a previous invention would also be covered.
Go look up who got a patent on the car, and how much they had to do with actually developing the technology.
Here's a link; basically, someone patented an existing invention, then set up a consortium to enforce the patent by way of a licensing agreement. Ford would've joined, but they demanded he set the price too high, so he got the patent killed.
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I modified my kernel to give me a black text on white background for my Sun monitor.
Your kernel? What does the kernel care about terminal displays?
Apple was an extremely bad example of yours. Ever heard of Darwin? It is open source, runs on PPC and Intel.
Apple runs on Apple hardware, not commodity, and during the timeframe when Google was small, Apple hardware was much more expensive and also hostile to stuff like BSD installs. Commodity hardware and easily changed OSes make for really easy operational control. If Google had needed, they could have taken 2 or 3 linux cluster nodes and installed BSD or some random thing on them. Not so with Apple.
I like the idea of getting free boxes from UPS. It's not like they're good for anything else.
The Postal Inspection Service is a federal law enforcement agency, but USPS itself is no longer run by the government.
That's irrelevant. The USPS has a legal monopoly on mail and is for all intents and purposes a federal agency. Their computers still claim to be government property when you log on and congress has specific interest in their continued survival.
It probably varies a little the farther you get from Redmond, but sadly the parent has some truth to it, especially here in Western Washington.
Come across the lake - we have lots of Linux/C++/Perl jobs.
you can install random crap in the engine compartment, or on the wheels, or on the brake calipers, or in the steering pump, and have horrid results. (I speak from experience. Never ever mix radial and bias-ply tires. Scary.)
Yeah, but I bet you don't expect the car to behave after defiling it like that. The basic functions of a car haven't changed much in 20 years. It's more eficient, and ABS helps, but the basic behavior is the same.
Your god dies of snakebite and stays dead; my god rises from the dead and lives forever...
Thor died of a snakebite? Anyway, my God just wants to screw and have fun.
That's right. They were created when some distant star went supernova. It's all due to solar power...
Wow, you stretched that point so far I think I heard it scream. Generally, solar power refers to power derived from our sun (which is named Sol). Everything else would be called nuclear.
Cars are 'systems'. Vastly more complex then that PC you are sitting at now.
Yeah right, how many cars allow you to install random stuff on the computer? Fact is, your car has been continuously refined over the past century, while your computer has been vastly extended over 30 years.
So their "data protection" is that basically they can give your personal data (from the application form, you know, the one that says NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER and usually other things like OCCUPATION, MONTHLY INCOME) with anyone they choose.
Read it again. They share your info with Tesco companies and businesses that process the info for them, which apparently means printers. No mention of sharing your home address with strategic partners or anything.
Anyone here ever read Jennifer Govenment by Max Barry?
Yeah, it seemed somewhat contrived - slaughtering customers to increase product demand? And anyway, how many people named John work for Nike?
Increasing wages doesn't help - often the only people that seem to be hired are immigrant labor that aren't all that interested in higher wages - they will do the same low-quality work for minimum wage or below.
You gotta be shitting me. Of course the immigrants want more money. If they have enough English to work checkout and do their job well, then you should pay them more. It does help retention. Most of the people I've seen working checkout are citizens that've been here a while (with the exception of the one cute Russian woman). You may also be surprised to learn that checkout can pay up to $13/hr.
The idea of the "working mom" being there is long gone - for one reason or another that labor pool has dried up. High school and college kids aren't motivated enough for the most part. I don't understand why people still (after welfare "reform") still seem to feel it is better to be on welfare or unemployment than working somewhere, but that seems to be the case.
As a former college student, I found that internships paid better than supermarket jobs, but I would have taken a $7/hr job anywhere in a supermarket before doing food service again. Stocking shelves and checkout are way easier than cleaning up after the sunday breakfast crowd and trying not to gag on the smell of old eggs.
That said, my lease forbids sat dishes. It's not the fact that it's a sat dish that's a nono, but screwing it to the side of the house is.
I suppose you could mount it to a bucket of cement - that's fairly stable.
Only trouble is, Massport is the landlord and Continental is the tenant, and while very few of us have read TFA, I bet nobody on /. has read the actual lease.
The FCC has basically said that clauses that regulate these devices are illegal, so why would it even matter?
Perhaps it could load a default document instead of putting the code inline. Then, the html fix would be trivial.
It should do the date check before sniffing the User-Agent string - getting day of week is way cheaper than string searches.
As an experiment, try not paying your suppliers.
How's that a problem? Don't pay them for 2 days, call them and make an excuse, then process the payments on day 3. Not even a blip on the radar.
Once she gets any kind of offer, she should tell the current outfit she's leaving unless she gets $X increase in salary.
Terrible advice. What happens is, should gthey cough up, they now view her as disloyal and will can her at the first downturn. The proper way to do it is to document the projects she's saved, with specifics as to how, make a nice quick pitch document, and request a 50-70% raise. If they go for it, then great. If not, you've got tested material for the job search you should do, as you'll never be taken seriously.
Just because you're on the internet, doesn't mean you get to be a pompous ass.
Then what's the point?
Basically, they evaluate whether or not the description is adequate, has it been done before exactly, and whether or not it will most likely operate as claimed.
They also judge whether a practicioner of that particular art would find it obvious. Logically (yeah, I know), a trivial extension of a previous invention would also be covered.
Gives a new meaning to "clusterfuck", doesn't it?
That sounds exhausting, actually.
"This is going to be the best prom ever."
the only thing I HATE about firing the AK47 that the AR15/M16 doesn't do, is eject the cartidge case right onto my head.
Mine did that too - I think the only way around it is to fire tilted.
I have 10.4 or whatever, and it still opens in preview. My only beef is that FF randomly loses keyboard focus.
Go look up who got a patent on the car, and how much they had to do with actually developing the technology.
Here's a link; basically, someone patented an existing invention, then set up a consortium to enforce the patent by way of a licensing agreement. Ford would've joined, but they demanded he set the price too high, so he got the patent killed.
Remind you of anything?