Did anyone also do a double-take on this story? $1B spent on software, and nothing to show for it? Let's say you pay a developer $100K/year, and the project lasted 10 years. That's 1000 developers working on this for 10 years! And after this, nothing to show for it? That's probably the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while... I wonder if a big chunk of this money went to crony suppliers like Halliburton.
America is so focused on blaming republicans/democrats, that they don't realize that they both follow the same principal: Laws are for sale. Stop this blame game and wake up. Your government has been taken over by big business, and it is the American people who are getting screwed to ensure that the wealth trickles to the top 0.1%. It's so ironic that America's ideal is to spread democracy, while its own democracy is a corrupted mess.
For the UAW in particular, I understand that it's really difficult to fire somebody, regardless of their behaviour. They also have massive bureaucracy and rules that make workers very inflexible. I'm not against unions, I'm actually for them, but the unions themselves have to be reasonable. The UAW is probably one of the main reasons there is a large anti-union movement. I'm glad to hear that not all unions are like the UAW.
Prices are still going down. I think this is a classic supply and demand phenomenon. The manufacturers can't keep prices up, otherwise their inventory would skyrocket. To prevent this, they have to lower prices. Looking at their financials on google, it doesn't look like they're making ridiculous profits, which I would expect they would if there was price collusion. Making HDDs has really low profit margins, no wonder no one wants to jump into this market. And if they do start raking in massive profits, expect to see another big player jump in again.
Although I have no problems with unions, I think the unions in north America like the UAW, need to change. They work against the very company that is providing them a living. I've heard enough stories from auto factories that make me cringe. A friend of mine interned at Ford, and he wasn't allowed to plug his computer into the socket, because that's the electricians job. Union workers who just goofed off and screwed things up all the time couldn't get fired, they just got moved to a position where they did nothing and still got paid. A friend of mine was forced to join the union after repeatedly being threatened.
Did anyone else notice that when Bond figured out the encryption key was "Grandborough", there was a G in the hex dump? I hate when movies try to depict computer hacking/cracking in a movie, it's always completely dumb.
I'm completely baffled by these skeptics. Can someone explain to me this climate change skepticism? It seems to be isolated to the US. What I don't get is, what is the motivation of the skeptics to deny climate change? What to the skeptics have to gain by jumping through hoops to reason that we have no effect on climate change? Are all these skeptics investors in oil companies?
The Tea Party faces the same problems republicans have. They include the religious right and anti-science people. I have the feeling that the religious right wants to be like the Taliban, and impose strict religious rules. And those anti-science people just blow my mind (anti-evolution and those climate change deniers).
And bad code is written in all languages. I would have to say, bad code is the norm. It is very difficult to maintain a clean code base. Code rots over time, and effort is required to keep it clean. The problem is, at least in my experience, a lot of software developers don't really understand data structures and patterns properly. There are even the few who cling on copying and pasting code all over the place. On top of that, management pushes time pressures on the developers.
Do what Germany is doing, not sure exactly how they regulate the telecom industry. But prices here are going down while speeds and data limits are going up.
I don't understand this attack on science. What is motivating this? Why are people getting so upset? Why can't they just live in their own reality and leave us alone?
Federal prosecutors officially adopted new guidelines about charging corporations with crimes — a softer approach that, longtime white-collar lawyers and former federal prosecutors say, helps explain the dearth of criminal cases despite a raft of inquiries into the financial crisis.
Though little noticed outside legal circles, the guidelines were welcomed by firms representing banks. The Justice Department’s directive, involving a process known as deferred prosecutions, signaled “an important step away from the more aggressive prosecutorial practices seen in some cases under their predecessors,” Sullivan & Cromwell, a prominent Wall Street law firm, told clients in a memo that September.
The guidelines left open a possibility other than guilty or not guilty, giving leniency often if companies investigated and reported their own wrongdoing. In return, the government could enter into agreements to delay or cancel the prosecution if the companies promised to change their behavior.
The problem is that most people have no idea about anything. I agree though, making laws to ask sites to comply to some regulation is stupid. Browsers should have better and easier to use cookie whitelisting by default. This way, if a website detects its not on the whitelist, it will have to ask the user to add them to the whitelist.
Also, people use Chrome because it's faster. It's just way faster than Firefox, at least on Windows on my slow PC.
Since Android phones are way cheaper, this will put pressure on Apple to lower their iPhone prices. This would mean market share would become more important, and perhaps profits will go down. But Apple is in no way in any trouble yet. The only people who might be in trouble are the shareholders. Especially those who bought in recently.
The US needs another major party, maybe call it the "Sane Party". Right now, it seems to me that the Democrats and Republicans are the same party, just differing on the smaller issues, but for bailing out banks and moving towards and authoritarian state.
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Did anyone also do a double-take on this story? $1B spent on software, and nothing to show for it? Let's say you pay a developer $100K/year, and the project lasted 10 years. That's 1000 developers working on this for 10 years! And after this, nothing to show for it? That's probably the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while... I wonder if a big chunk of this money went to crony suppliers like Halliburton.
Toshiba is now blackballed on my list of manufacturers to buy laptops from. Good, makes my decisions easier.
America is so focused on blaming republicans/democrats, that they don't realize that they both follow the same principal: Laws are for sale. Stop this blame game and wake up. Your government has been taken over by big business, and it is the American people who are getting screwed to ensure that the wealth trickles to the top 0.1%. It's so ironic that America's ideal is to spread democracy, while its own democracy is a corrupted mess.
For the UAW in particular, I understand that it's really difficult to fire somebody, regardless of their behaviour. They also have massive bureaucracy and rules that make workers very inflexible. I'm not against unions, I'm actually for them, but the unions themselves have to be reasonable. The UAW is probably one of the main reasons there is a large anti-union movement. I'm glad to hear that not all unions are like the UAW.
So you're posting as Anonymous so YOU don't look stupid?
Prices are still going down. I think this is a classic supply and demand phenomenon. The manufacturers can't keep prices up, otherwise their inventory would skyrocket. To prevent this, they have to lower prices. Looking at their financials on google, it doesn't look like they're making ridiculous profits, which I would expect they would if there was price collusion. Making HDDs has really low profit margins, no wonder no one wants to jump into this market. And if they do start raking in massive profits, expect to see another big player jump in again.
Although I have no problems with unions, I think the unions in north America like the UAW, need to change. They work against the very company that is providing them a living. I've heard enough stories from auto factories that make me cringe. A friend of mine interned at Ford, and he wasn't allowed to plug his computer into the socket, because that's the electricians job. Union workers who just goofed off and screwed things up all the time couldn't get fired, they just got moved to a position where they did nothing and still got paid. A friend of mine was forced to join the union after repeatedly being threatened.
Did anyone else notice that when Bond figured out the encryption key was "Grandborough", there was a G in the hex dump? I hate when movies try to depict computer hacking/cracking in a movie, it's always completely dumb.
I'm completely baffled by these skeptics. Can someone explain to me this climate change skepticism? It seems to be isolated to the US. What I don't get is, what is the motivation of the skeptics to deny climate change? What to the skeptics have to gain by jumping through hoops to reason that we have no effect on climate change? Are all these skeptics investors in oil companies?
But Apple is the competitive force that pushes the others to provide high resolution displays on laptops, hopefully.
While we're at it, can we also have our screens matte instead of the glossy crap?
I'd be concerned about the tiny amounts of lead in the metal pen. No matter how small the quantity is.
The Tea Party faces the same problems republicans have. They include the religious right and anti-science people. I have the feeling that the religious right wants to be like the Taliban, and impose strict religious rules. And those anti-science people just blow my mind (anti-evolution and those climate change deniers).
Bad code is bad code whether it is old or new
And bad code is written in all languages. I would have to say, bad code is the norm. It is very difficult to maintain a clean code base. Code rots over time, and effort is required to keep it clean. The problem is, at least in my experience, a lot of software developers don't really understand data structures and patterns properly. There are even the few who cling on copying and pasting code all over the place. On top of that, management pushes time pressures on the developers.
Do what Germany is doing, not sure exactly how they regulate the telecom industry. But prices here are going down while speeds and data limits are going up.
But at least Windows allows you to switch back to the old style interface...
What is the difference between this and byte-code? There is none, because both are not human-readable.
Chuck Norris can read it. In fact, Chuck Norris compiles code in his head.
Well, at least he didn't use '12345'. But he could have put in a bit more effort and used '1234567'...
I don't understand this attack on science. What is motivating this? Why are people getting so upset? Why can't they just live in their own reality and leave us alone?
I always thought that the "war on religion" was just rhetoric to rile people up.
JPM, like all other big banks, are engaged in outright fraud. Like rigging municipal bonds, where the penalty was a just fine (ie - cost of doing business). Maybe even rigging LIBOR, where I bet the end result will just be another fine. The problem is, no one goes to jail since it is now official policy not to prosecute bank fraud.
Federal prosecutors officially adopted new guidelines about charging corporations with crimes — a softer approach that, longtime white-collar lawyers and former federal prosecutors say, helps explain the dearth of criminal cases despite a raft of inquiries into the financial crisis.
Though little noticed outside legal circles, the guidelines were welcomed by firms representing banks. The Justice Department’s directive, involving a process known as deferred prosecutions, signaled “an important step away from the more aggressive prosecutorial practices seen in some cases under their predecessors,” Sullivan & Cromwell, a prominent Wall Street law firm, told clients in a memo that September.
The guidelines left open a possibility other than guilty or not guilty, giving leniency often if companies investigated and reported their own wrongdoing. In return, the government could enter into agreements to delay or cancel the prosecution if the companies promised to change their behavior.
The problem is that most people have no idea about anything. I agree though, making laws to ask sites to comply to some regulation is stupid. Browsers should have better and easier to use cookie whitelisting by default. This way, if a website detects its not on the whitelist, it will have to ask the user to add them to the whitelist.
Also, people use Chrome because it's faster. It's just way faster than Firefox, at least on Windows on my slow PC.
Since Android phones are way cheaper, this will put pressure on Apple to lower their iPhone prices. This would mean market share would become more important, and perhaps profits will go down. But Apple is in no way in any trouble yet. The only people who might be in trouble are the shareholders. Especially those who bought in recently.
The US needs another major party, maybe call it the "Sane Party". Right now, it seems to me that the Democrats and Republicans are the same party, just differing on the smaller issues, but for bailing out banks and moving towards and authoritarian state.
Did they finally fix the 260 character path limit? This has been annoying me for years.