After all, if it's bad for a novice programmer to use a jump to a label like that, how much worse is it for a compiler writer to use one, when they are supposedly professionals who know better?
I have zero respect for the certification. It will not buy me in a job interview. I have the slashdot'ers natural inclination to treat MS certification for what it is: someone I don't trust vouching for someone I don't know.
If you are in an interview with me:
o Prove you can code o Prove you didn't lie on your resume o Prove you can communicate with other engineers
Given all that, she seems like a smart little shit. I would have given her a chance.
Judging her life after the fact without extra information is not useful, and doing so makes you a dick.
I might add especially the 1%ers who inherited their wealth.
The 1% who inherited their wealth are probably quickly spending their way into the bottom of the 99%, improving the lot of everyone along their way down.
If, on the other hand, they inherited a blind trust, then they aren't doing that, but then again, there isn't a lot of dynasty building going on these days. Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffet aren't leaving the lion's share of their wealth to their children. They've already transferred large amounts over to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Andrew Carnegie didn't either: instead he spent the last 20 years of his life on philanthropic work, and endowed the Carnegie Corporation in order to continue that work. His only child, Margaret, inherited a tiny portion as a trust fund, and was on the board of the foundation.
You may remember Carnegie's establishment of free lending libraries in every county of the U.S., the endowment of Carnegie Mellon University, and about 1/4 of all the educational shows you've ever seen on PBS, among other works.
Just because someone accumulates a lot of wealth doesn't mean that the government would, or could, spend it more wisely, and it doesn't mean that if that wealth were divided among the masses that they would do so either.
The Carnegie free libraries have probably done more to advance knowledge, literacy, and education than anything the U.S. Government has ever done (aside from them not confiscating that money, enabling the libraries to be established without interference).
Some big works require uncommon foresight and vision, but that is usually not enough, unless they are accompanied by unusual resources, as well.
In the blog post, the rationale against the transport of liquids had to cite historical examples (one from 6 years ago, another from 16 years ago) from outside the U.S. to justify the policy. They were unable to cite U.S. incidents that their policy has caught/prevented.
Bruce, S., please call "Security Theatre" on this. Thanks.
And it happened at exactly the wrong time, when i386 systems were growing in popularity, and people wanted some Unix-like OS to run on it, and really wanted it for free.
Not really. If you look at the usage totals during those crucial years they weren't very high. That is not and was not a dominant marketshare. The issue was simple, the early adopters of Linux were from two groups:
a) Solaris users, who knew Sys-V
The BSD community wasn't interested in supporting either of those communities.
Except that until 1993, SunOS was BSD 4.3 based, not System V based. So all those BSD people in the BSD community, were former SunOS users from... the BSD community: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system) .
It was the lawsuit.
I was one of the people in the Sandy, Utah office of Novell USG (the former USL) who camped outside Mike Defazio's office (then EVP in charge of Novell USG) to get 386BSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD the same shipping terms as BSDI's BSD/386 until the 7 "offending files" could be rewritten. The exception on shipping those files was reached with BSDI because BSDI was willing to sign a royalty agreement. The exception was granted for the Open Source versions
I don't think anything, I'm just pointing out facts: Apple only shares code when it is forced to. Period.
That's utter BS.
I was one of the primary engineers on Apple's POSIX conformance effort, and Apple fixed the POSIX compliance of multiple hundreds of Open Source pacages , and then donated the code back to the projects.
This includes bash (and securing the sh portions of the VSC Open Group compliance tests for them to use without license), UUCP, CUPS, vim (also got them copies of the tests), pax, yacc (bison), lex (flex), tar (GNU tar), gcc (C99 compliance), and so on and so on.
What Apple doesn't do is announce anything, other than from the top. What that level of public relations control buys you is a lot of marketing buzz. What it loses you is public development blogs that inform ignorant people about other things, one of which is Apple's contributions to Open Source.
NB: I don't work for Apple any more, I work for Google, so I don't have a hobby horse in that race, other than correcting your misstatement.
I understand that we are supposed to be a society of victimology, where it's more important that a single victim feel good about themselves than it is to save society, or the species, as a whole, but...
Maybe it's time to go back to the pre-antibiotic known-working fixes for contagious diseases for which there is no cure, i.e.: sanitariums and leper colonies? At least that way, in two hundred years, there will still be people around to feel morally outraged at the excesses of their ancestors.
"Inkling has several universities working with its iPad textbooks, including Brown's Alpert Medical School, University of California-Irvine, University of Central Florida and Hult International Business School."
So if you go to one of those schools, and "could only have one device", if you want your textbook, that device will be an iPad.
You research the candidate positions, you go to the polling place, you go into the voting booth, you use the voting machine, and whoever Diebold wants to win wins.
The fact that the general rule of thumb for parking enforcement officers is to ticket a car without a placard parked in a spot marked to require a placard doesn't impact whether or not that enforcement is legally mandated.
You are missing three crucial points:
(1) The Apple parking lots are clearly marked "private property" (try parking in them and walking to BJ's Restaurant and see what happens to your car).
(2) Parking enforcement on private property is only done as a result of a request from the property owner.
So yeah, you'll get towed if you park an unplacarded car in a spot marked to require a placard which happens to be on private property if there is a complaint by the property owner or one of their legally appointed representatives (such as corporate security). How likely is it that the property owner or one of their representatives to sic parking enforcement on themselves/their boss? How likely is it that someone else manning the cameras isn't going to say "Hey! They're towing the bosses car!" and put a stop to it, even if the act was done by a maverick as their way of resigning?
Public places of business, such as malls, will usually have blanket agreements with the local authorities, including profit sharing for ticketed violations. You'll usually get unconditionally ticketed there, but even then, there are generally "executive vehicle" bumper/windshield stickers issued to upper management in those places to exempt them from the rules.
(1) Additional hardware requirements (2) Software incompatibility, including, but not limited to:
(a) Existing vertical market apps glued together with Visual BASIC
(b) Inability to run already purchased copies of Office on the new OS
(c) Inability to run already purchased other programs
(d) Lack of driver support for older hardware
(i) what sane printer maker is going to port a driver for their 4 year old model with broken toner/ink DRM to a new OS?
(ii) many hardware companies are out of business yet/because the hardware they made is still working fine (3) Buying into putting all your machines online so they can phone the mothership and download god knows what
(a) Worked like a charm for the automated checkout registers at Lucky's, didn't it? Get your new Visa/BofA ATM card yet?
(b) Once it's working, leave it the hell alone; I don't need an auto-update of IE on my server/POS/home system with firefox/Chrome on it
(c) an offline machine gathers no worms (4) There's simply no significant value proposition, unless you consider "Ooooh! Shiiiiny!" a value proposition
Get over it: Good enough is the enemy of better, particulary if (better - good enough) == nothing useful to me.
Corporations are supposed to fight for profit, but within the laws. They're not meant to influence the laws themselves. Laws are supposed to be determined by politicians, on the basis of what their constituents want.
Precisely. Elected representatives serve their constituents. Ordinary persons like you, me, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Enron, and Disney Corp..
He owned the building complex, and you are only required to have a legally mandated number of handicapped spots. Steve insured that there were more than the legally mandated number of spots available so that he was never in technical violation of the rules.
He was perfectly within his rights, so long as there was not a sufficient number of other people gaming the system at the same time. I suggest you avoid trying to do the same thing, unless you are the property owner and the single largest tax payer in a given municipality, however.
You'll likely eventually win, unless you are a total dick, but the lawyer costs will exceed just paying the fine, since it isn't a moving violation and therefore will only cost you the fine.
Some countries still have bans on some books, and it would be best to not be caught with them in your possession if you travel to one of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments ; for example, it would be a grave mistake to take Mein Kampf to Germany, or Zhuan Falun to China or Suicide mode d'emploi to France or Rangila Rasul to India. At best, you will be PNG'ed (Personna Non Gratta) and expelled from the country and asked to not come back. At worst, you get a free trip to a foreign prison.
Assuming you mean real, as in paper, books, take something that a bookstore at your destination(s) my be interested in exchanging for a good book from where you are going (assuming you can read the language or they yours), or just bring a book that interests you, preferrably in the destination countries primary language, and donate it to a library there when you are done with it.
If you mean pretend/electronic books, you could do worse than to simply download a wide selection of books from Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf, which could include most of the classics of Western literature, since Thomas Hardy, Jane Austin, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, etc., etc. are basically all off copyright at this point, and available for download from that site.
1. Destroy economy so wages are depressed 2. U.S. now source of cheap labor 3. Best of both worlds - outsourced wages with domestic location 4. Profit! 5. Rich get richer, poor get poorer 6. Repeat as desired
And they'll have a built-in market, with all those people in the U.S. who are flush with cash.
Wait... I think I'm sensing a flaw in your logic about that actually being the plan, here... If only I could put my finger on the place it was broken... And then push to kill that region of your brain so you'd stop saying stupid things like this.
Every friggin LCD TV manufactured since the dawn of LCD TVs look and feel the same. If it weren't for the glowing 'Sony' emblem on mine,
Wait until Apple makes an LCD TV... it will be prettier, more expensive, and have an Apple logo on it which won't glow except to let you know that it's off. It will also have a single sheet of laser cut something or other somewhere on it, and probably laser pin holes so you can't see the LEDs unless they're on.
Because the only way to make money is to take open source software and ensure that the recipients of your modified version cannot have the source code?
Don't be ridiculous!
As Richard Stallman's personal example proves, you can also get MacArthur Fellowship grants, work in academia, and get paid to lecture and sleep on other people's couches wherever you go.
Or that the source code must absolutely be integrated deeply into yours?
And again, you are being ridicuous!
Look at the huge numbers of integrated development environments and graphical debuggers that have arisen around gdb because you don't need deep integration, and gdb itself lends itself so readily to use as a modular component via popen(3)! Why do you think it has such a sophisticated and useful macro command language, with stack variables and the ability to do shadow state locally, rather than forcing you to allocate memory on the target to store string variables?
Oh wait. Perhaps that was not the best example of a GPL'ed product from the FSF itself which can be used modularly in other software...
I'm thinking about making a holiday donation to a charity, but I'm not sure where to give it. I've looked at organizations such as the Red Cross and Village Reach that promote disaster relief and health in the developing world. I want my money to have the biggest possible impact, so where should I send it?
Without knowing what, to you, qualifies something as a "big impact", or differentiates the magnitude of "big impact A" from that of "big impact B", you are going to get nothing but people pimping their favorite charity, or other people denigrating particular charites, as responses to your question.
For all we know, what you are actually asking for is which one will allow you to deduct it from your taxes with the lowest taxable administrative hold-out, giving you the biggest impact on your tax deduction.
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Screw geek cred. I don't want idiots throwing toilet-paper at the space station. Or explosives.
How can we not have the infrastructure to move off this crazy planet?
Totally agree we need cheap access to space.
Now where did I leave that ceramic coated rebar? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
-- Terry
Award GTH badge when the compiler emits JMP?
After all, if it's bad for a novice programmer to use a jump to a label like that, how much worse is it for a compiler writer to use one, when they are supposedly professionals who know better?
-- Terry
To the Germans who can't get the YouTube link: try this one instead:
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/History/Speeches/I-Have-a-Dream/7283
-- Terry
I have zero respect for the certification. It will not buy me in a job interview. I have the slashdot'ers natural inclination to treat MS certification for what it is: someone I don't trust vouching for someone I don't know.
If you are in an interview with me:
o Prove you can code
o Prove you didn't lie on your resume
o Prove you can communicate with other engineers
Given all that, she seems like a smart little shit. I would have given her a chance.
Judging her life after the fact without extra information is not useful, and doing so makes you a dick.
--Terry
I might add especially the 1%ers who inherited their wealth.
The 1% who inherited their wealth are probably quickly spending their way into the bottom of the 99%, improving the lot of everyone along their way down.
If, on the other hand, they inherited a blind trust, then they aren't doing that, but then again, there isn't a lot of dynasty building going on these days. Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffet aren't leaving the lion's share of their wealth to their children. They've already transferred large amounts over to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Andrew Carnegie didn't either: instead he spent the last 20 years of his life on philanthropic work, and endowed the Carnegie Corporation in order to continue that work. His only child, Margaret, inherited a tiny portion as a trust fund, and was on the board of the foundation.
You may remember Carnegie's establishment of free lending libraries in every county of the U.S., the endowment of Carnegie Mellon University, and about 1/4 of all the educational shows you've ever seen on PBS, among other works.
Just because someone accumulates a lot of wealth doesn't mean that the government would, or could, spend it more wisely, and it doesn't mean that if that wealth were divided among the masses that they would do so either.
The Carnegie free libraries have probably done more to advance knowledge, literacy, and education than anything the U.S. Government has ever done (aside from them not confiscating that money, enabling the libraries to be established without interference).
Some big works require uncommon foresight and vision, but that is usually not enough, unless they are accompanied by unusual resources, as well.
-- Terry
So basically it's OK to be a weenie, as long as you don't have a monopoly in the market where you are being a weenie?
You may be legally correct, but that doesn't mean that someone calling a weenie a weenie isn't just as correct.
-- Terry
In the blog post, the rationale against the transport of liquids had to cite historical examples (one from 6 years ago, another from 16 years ago) from outside the U.S. to justify the policy. They were unable to cite U.S. incidents that their policy has caught/prevented.
Bruce, S., please call "Security Theatre" on this. Thanks.
-- Terry
Not really. If you look at the usage totals during those crucial years they weren't very high. That is not and was not a dominant marketshare. The issue was simple, the early adopters of Linux were from two groups:
a) Solaris users, who knew Sys-V
The BSD community wasn't interested in supporting either of those communities.
Except that until 1993, SunOS was BSD 4.3 based, not System V based. So all those BSD people in the BSD community, were former SunOS users from ... the BSD community: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system) .
It was the lawsuit.
I was one of the people in the Sandy, Utah office of Novell USG (the former USL) who camped outside Mike Defazio's office (then EVP in charge of Novell USG) to get 386BSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD the same shipping terms as BSDI's BSD/386 until the 7 "offending files" could be rewritten. The exception on shipping those files was reached with BSDI because BSDI was willing to sign a royalty agreement. The exception was granted for the Open Source versions
-- Terry
I don't think anything, I'm just pointing out facts: Apple only shares code when it is forced to. Period.
That's utter BS.
I was one of the primary engineers on Apple's POSIX conformance effort, and Apple fixed the POSIX compliance of multiple hundreds of Open Source pacages , and then donated the code back to the projects.
This includes bash (and securing the sh portions of the VSC Open Group compliance tests for them to use without license), UUCP, CUPS, vim (also got them copies of the tests), pax, yacc (bison), lex (flex), tar (GNU tar), gcc (C99 compliance), and so on and so on.
What Apple doesn't do is announce anything, other than from the top. What that level of public relations control buys you is a lot of marketing buzz. What it loses you is public development blogs that inform ignorant people about other things, one of which is Apple's contributions to Open Source.
NB: I don't work for Apple any more, I work for Google, so I don't have a hobby horse in that race, other than correcting your misstatement.
-- Terry
This will be unpopular....
I understand that we are supposed to be a society of victimology, where it's more important that a single victim feel good about themselves than it is to save society, or the species, as a whole, but...
Maybe it's time to go back to the pre-antibiotic known-working fixes for contagious diseases for which there is no cure, i.e.: sanitariums and leper colonies? At least that way, in two hundred years, there will still be people around to feel morally outraged at the excesses of their ancestors.
-- Terry
He's wrong, and here's why:
"Inkling has several universities working with its iPad textbooks, including Brown's Alpert Medical School, University of California-Irvine, University of Central Florida and Hult International Business School."
So if you go to one of those schools, and "could only have one device", if you want your textbook, that device will be an iPad.
-- Terry
Geeks know we are not to blame for who's elected
You research the candidate positions, you go to the polling place, you go into the voting booth, you use the voting machine, and whoever Diebold wants to win wins.
-- Terry
Sorry, but you are confused.
The fact that the general rule of thumb for parking enforcement officers is to ticket a car without a placard parked in a spot marked to require a placard doesn't impact whether or not that enforcement is legally mandated.
You are missing three crucial points:
(1) The Apple parking lots are clearly marked "private property" (try parking in them and walking to BJ's Restaurant and see what happens to your car).
(2) Parking enforcement on private property is only done as a result of a request from the property owner.
So yeah, you'll get towed if you park an unplacarded car in a spot marked to require a placard which happens to be on private property if there is a complaint by the property owner or one of their legally appointed representatives (such as corporate security). How likely is it that the property owner or one of their representatives to sic parking enforcement on themselves/their boss? How likely is it that someone else manning the cameras isn't going to say "Hey! They're towing the bosses car!" and put a stop to it, even if the act was done by a maverick as their way of resigning?
Public places of business, such as malls, will usually have blanket agreements with the local authorities, including profit sharing for ticketed violations. You'll usually get unconditionally ticketed there, but even then, there are generally "executive vehicle" bumper/windshield stickers issued to upper management in those places to exempt them from the rules.
-- Terry
The reasons for using XP are obviously:
(1) Additional hardware requirements
(2) Software incompatibility, including, but not limited to:
(a) Existing vertical market apps glued together with Visual BASIC
(b) Inability to run already purchased copies of Office on the new OS
(c) Inability to run already purchased other programs
(d) Lack of driver support for older hardware
(i) what sane printer maker is going to port a driver for their 4 year old model with broken toner/ink DRM to a new OS?
(ii) many hardware companies are out of business yet/because the hardware they made is still working fine
(3) Buying into putting all your machines online so they can phone the mothership and download god knows what
(a) Worked like a charm for the automated checkout registers at Lucky's, didn't it? Get your new Visa/BofA ATM card yet?
(b) Once it's working, leave it the hell alone; I don't need an auto-update of IE on my server/POS/home system with firefox/Chrome on it
(c) an offline machine gathers no worms
(4) There's simply no significant value proposition, unless you consider "Ooooh! Shiiiiny!" a value proposition
Get over it: Good enough is the enemy of better, particulary if (better - good enough) == nothing useful to me.
-- Terry
Corporations are supposed to fight for profit, but within the laws. They're not meant to influence the laws themselves. Laws are supposed to be determined by politicians, on the basis of what their constituents want.
Precisely. Elected representatives serve their constituents. Ordinary persons like you, me, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Enron, and Disney Corp..
-- Terry
He owned the building complex, and you are only required to have a legally mandated number of handicapped spots. Steve insured that there were more than the legally mandated number of spots available so that he was never in technical violation of the rules.
Here's the ADA requirements for parking spaces:
http://www.ada.gov/adata1.htm
Here's a more accessible interpretation, with a table indicating the number of spots required per number of total parking spaces:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Disability-Law-917/Handicapped-Parking.htm
He was perfectly within his rights, so long as there was not a sufficient number of other people gaming the system at the same time. I suggest you avoid trying to do the same thing, unless you are the property owner and the single largest tax payer in a given municipality, however.
You'll likely eventually win, unless you are a total dick, but the lawyer costs will exceed just paying the fine, since it isn't a moving violation and therefore will only cost you the fine.
-- Terry
lol
I just have to say you are funny.
f u n n y .
--Terry
Paul Christoforo has apologized to the customer and to Penny Arcade, and also asks them to please tell people to stop sending hate male
They're sending mysandrists?
lol
That was my first thought too.
--Terry
Some countries still have bans on some books, and it would be best to not be caught with them in your possession if you travel to one of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments ; for example, it would be a grave mistake to take Mein Kampf to Germany, or Zhuan Falun to China or Suicide mode d'emploi to France or Rangila Rasul to India. At best, you will be PNG'ed (Personna Non Gratta) and expelled from the country and asked to not come back. At worst, you get a free trip to a foreign prison.
Assuming you mean real, as in paper, books, take something that a bookstore at your destination(s) my be interested in exchanging for a good book from where you are going (assuming you can read the language or they yours), or just bring a book that interests you, preferrably in the destination countries primary language, and donate it to a library there when you are done with it.
If you mean pretend/electronic books, you could do worse than to simply download a wide selection of books from Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf, which could include most of the classics of Western literature, since Thomas Hardy, Jane Austin, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, etc., etc. are basically all off copyright at this point, and available for download from that site.
--Terry
Actually, entry Level EC2 is free for 1 year, and has been since Nov. 2010.
You don't need to pay for accessing it, but you still need to pay for the processing power, storage and RAM in your EC2
See here:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/amazon-web-services-offers-ec2-access-no-charge-531
-- Terry
1. Destroy economy so wages are depressed
2. U.S. now source of cheap labor
3. Best of both worlds - outsourced wages with domestic location
4. Profit!
5. Rich get richer, poor get poorer
6. Repeat as desired
And they'll have a built-in market, with all those people in the U.S. who are flush with cash.
Wait...
I think I'm sensing a flaw in your logic about that actually being the plan, here...
If only I could put my finger on the place it was broken...
And then push to kill that region of your brain so you'd stop saying stupid things like this.
-- Terry
Every friggin LCD TV manufactured since the dawn of LCD TVs look and feel the same. If it weren't for the glowing 'Sony' emblem on mine,
Wait until Apple makes an LCD TV... it will be prettier, more expensive, and have an Apple logo on it which won't glow except to let you know that it's off. It will also have a single sheet of laser cut something or other somewhere on it, and probably laser pin holes so you can't see the LEDs unless they're on.
-- Terry
Because the only way to make money is to take open source software and ensure that the recipients of your modified version cannot have the source code?
Don't be ridiculous!
As Richard Stallman's personal example proves, you can also get MacArthur Fellowship grants, work in academia, and get paid to lecture and sleep on other people's couches wherever you go.
Or that the source code must absolutely be integrated deeply into yours?
And again, you are being ridicuous!
Look at the huge numbers of integrated development environments and graphical debuggers that have arisen around gdb because you don't need deep integration, and gdb itself lends itself so readily to use as a modular component via popen(3)! Why do you think it has such a sophisticated and useful macro command language, with stack variables and the ability to do shadow state locally, rather than forcing you to allocate memory on the target to store string variables?
Oh wait. Perhaps that was not the best example of a GPL'ed product from the FSF itself which can be used modularly in other software...
-- Terry
I'm thinking about making a holiday donation to a charity, but I'm not sure where to give it. I've looked at organizations such as the Red Cross and Village Reach that promote disaster relief and health in the developing world. I want my money to have the biggest possible impact, so where should I send it?
Without knowing what, to you, qualifies something as a "big impact", or differentiates the magnitude of "big impact A" from that of "big impact B", you are going to get nothing but people pimping their favorite charity, or other people denigrating particular charites, as responses to your question.
For all we know, what you are actually asking for is which one will allow you to deduct it from your taxes with the lowest taxable administrative hold-out, giving you the biggest impact on your tax deduction.
-- Terry