Ha. I was an RIT student in the 90's too. It was a total sausage fest. I went back for a visit in 2005 because I was in the area and noticed a lot more women there. I don't know what the per-major balance was, but it was at least better overall.
Ugh. I remember taking an 8088 class after knowing 6502/68000 well. Multiplexed address/data bus, segmented addressing, little-endian, and backwards operands. I was like, "Is there anything left for them to be contrary about?!! How did this get to be the dominating platform?!"
I blame Intel for single-handedly turning subsequent generations of programmers off from assembly language.
I'd mod this to the top if I could. Nail on the head.
Also, I think it is because public companies are always forced to give at least the illusion of growth, even when contraction is their best hope for survival.
I've never had any of these per-se, except a wifi changeover problem with the first 2.3 update, usually caused by intermittent, equally weak cell and wifi reception. The phone would get confused and give up on one or the other. Also, there is a known issue on some units with bad solder joints or circuit board cracking in the power button/headphone jack area. This was a warranty fix from HTC if you had the problem. I never had it but a friend did. They swapped out his phone no questions asked.
LTE is great but unnecessary for most phone transactions.
What we really need in this country is not so much faster speeds, but more reasonable prices and terms on what we already have! So far those that are going LTE have capped their data and raised their rates (Verizon & AT&T).
If T-Mobile bothered to market themselves on a low price/liberal terms angle they would have to fight the new customers off with a stick and could get by with HSPA+ for 3 more years! That's the reason those of us that like T-Mobile are with them in the first place.
I'm not leaving, but I'm definitely not going to re-up until this is settled and AT&T is out of the picture.
Also keep in mind that Wall Street measures the success of a Wireless carrier by #of contracts and high ARPU (average revenue per user). T-Mobile is basically a budget carrier which until recently offered excellent prices and terms on non-contract plans. They had loyal customers who were no longer on contract, new customers who could opt out, and just lower general rates than the competition. Even if they were making good profits they still wouldn't look good to Wall Street based on the benchmarks that AT&T and Verizon set.
Furthermore, even though T-Mobile was the best value, AT&T and Verizon had specific customer draws working in their favor. AT&T had the iPhone, and Verizon has the best signal penetration.
Now AT&T doesn't have the iPhone exclusive anymore and it turns out that they were sitting around raising rates, constricting terms, and counting their money for 3 years instead of re-investing in infrastructure and in the meantime the Verizon tortoise has long passed them. Now they need to buy T-Mobile as a shortcut to catch up. Tough titty, AT&T. Do it on your own.
Why don't they just make spring-loaded rail trucks that compress and expand as the gauge changes? Only thing I can think of is friction, but a simple mechanism could fix that: Just squeeze to a few millimeters narrower than the normal gauge and then have some rod that sticks up from the tracks that hits a locking switch on each axle. Then go back to normal gauge. Hell, they could even use a mechanism like a ball point pen.
Indeed. If the whole thing got privately funded, I think the US/Canada/State of Alaska wouldn't be able to rubber stamp it fast enough. The biggest impediment would probably be a few lip-service "environmental impact" studies.
Your Phone experience was probably AT&T, since it has the frequencies that most foreign phones roam to the US on. You're absolutely right about the (lack of) regulation here, but it's too late to change all of the non-interoperable systems the phone companies use.
As for the subways, they are paid for by local governments. You must have been in NYC or Boston, because those are old and decrepit systems. Washington DC, San Francisco, and Atlanta have very nice systems. I'm in Portland and we have a top-notch surface rail/streetcar system. Don't base your opinion of the entire country's commuter rail on one municipality.
I haven't programmed in a long time, but isn't this just a matter of a compiler switch to make it quadword-aligned? If the program is asking the OS for blocks of memory and not addressing it itself what does it matter?
- Interpreted, so you can quickly test things. - Structured enough, but isn't all up in your face about it. Based on natural whitespacing instead of annoying brackets/braces, etc. - Only as OO as you want it to be. - More words and less cryptic symbols. I absolutely despise C and its ilk because of all the asterisk/ampersand/bracket/brace/parenthesis shit I have to keep track of. If x86 assembly wasn't so godawful itself, I'd even opt for that over C. At least it's easier to read what's going on. Some encourage C++ because of a "just throw 'em into the deep end" mentality. I did okay in C++ classes in college, but knowing that this is what the programming world was predominantly built on completely turned me off to it as a career. Oops, digressing...
Buzz is wonderful though if you have a circle of friends you want to banter with without being bombarded with a bunch of external people/crap or over-exposing yourself. Buzz didn't take off because people thought it was a Twitter clone, when really, instead of a One-to-Many paradigm where everybody seems to shout and few seem to listen, it's more of a Some-to-Some paradigm where groups of friends can discuss things. It's semi-public email, which explains the Gmail tie-in and nicely fills the gap between private email and "personal broadcasting".
Social backwaters like Buzz are ideal for this kind of community-building and personally I'm glad to have it. It's the difference between a small college town and mega-city. You don't find the crime and billboards and boomin-bass-mobiles out here, but it's also not a ghost town like Livejournal, or redneck like Yahoo groups. Maybe coffee shop vs. night club is a better analogy...
It drives me nuts. I hate that so many contests are tied to Facebook now. "Like" us for a chance to win XXX. So to enter you not only have to have a FB account, but you need one with real information about you.
Someone made a Facebook scrubber plugin of sorts for Chrome that I'm trying out.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec
It's hard to tell how well it's working though. 8^/
We're going to find, in less than a decade, that we've given away everything that made this nation great, and we'll be left with very little to show for it. Rome was smarter than we were.
Agree, except we didn't give it away. We pawned it.
"The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of its deep space probes. Fleeing the Cylon tyranny, a young loaner, captain William "Buck" Rogers is on a quest to champion the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, from a world of criminals who operate above the law. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. These are their stories. *BUM-BUM*"
I'm not saying we didn't need a new stack. I'm asking what was the reason they made the new notation such a drastic break from the old one if all we needed was more range?
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Ha. I was an RIT student in the 90's too. It was a total sausage fest. I went back for a visit in 2005 because I was in the area and noticed a lot more women there. I don't know what the per-major balance was, but it was at least better overall.
Ugh. I remember taking an 8088 class after knowing 6502/68000 well.
Multiplexed address/data bus, segmented addressing, little-endian, and backwards operands.
I was like, "Is there anything left for them to be contrary about?!! How did this get to be the dominating platform?!"
I blame Intel for single-handedly turning subsequent generations of programmers off from assembly language.
I buy gas in Washington whenever I'm across the river because I want to pump it myself.
Perhaps their coveted cinnamon roll recipe?
/bin or /usr/bin?
I'd mod this to the top if I could. Nail on the head.
Also, I think it is because public companies are always forced to give at least the illusion of growth, even when contraction is their best hope for survival.
Why do I picture Yahoo as the Wile E. Coyote of tech companies?
I've never had any of these per-se, except a wifi changeover problem with the first 2.3 update, usually caused by intermittent, equally weak cell and wifi reception. The phone would get confused and give up on one or the other. Also, there is a known issue on some units with bad solder joints or circuit board cracking in the power button/headphone jack area. This was a warranty fix from HTC if you had the problem. I never had it but a friend did. They swapped out his phone no questions asked.
...is the biggest knife to the heart of all this stuff, open or closed.
LTE is great but unnecessary for most phone transactions.
What we really need in this country is not so much faster speeds, but more reasonable prices and terms on what we already have! So far those that are going LTE have capped their data and raised their rates (Verizon & AT&T).
If T-Mobile bothered to market themselves on a low price/liberal terms angle they would have to fight the new customers off with a stick and could get by with HSPA+ for 3 more years! That's the reason those of us that like T-Mobile are with them in the first place.
I'll take unlimited $10 a month 2G over 2GB-capped $30 a month 3G any day of the week, but that's just me.
Nor did Dish Network/DirecTV.
I'm not leaving, but I'm definitely not going to re-up until this is settled and AT&T is out of the picture.
Also keep in mind that Wall Street measures the success of a Wireless carrier by #of contracts and high ARPU (average revenue per user).
T-Mobile is basically a budget carrier which until recently offered excellent prices and terms on non-contract plans. They had loyal customers who were no longer on contract, new customers who could opt out, and just lower general rates than the competition. Even if they were making good profits they still wouldn't look good to Wall Street based on the benchmarks that AT&T and Verizon set.
Furthermore, even though T-Mobile was the best value, AT&T and Verizon had specific customer draws working in their favor. AT&T had the iPhone, and Verizon has the best signal penetration.
Now AT&T doesn't have the iPhone exclusive anymore and it turns out that they were sitting around raising rates, constricting terms, and counting their money for 3 years instead of re-investing in infrastructure and in the meantime the Verizon tortoise has long passed them. Now they need to buy T-Mobile as a shortcut to catch up. Tough titty, AT&T. Do it on your own.
Well as a former NoVa resident, I laughed.
Why don't they just make spring-loaded rail trucks that compress and expand as the gauge changes?
Only thing I can think of is friction, but a simple mechanism could fix that: Just squeeze to a few millimeters narrower than the normal gauge and then have some rod that sticks up from the tracks that hits a locking switch on each axle. Then go back to normal gauge. Hell, they could even use a mechanism like a ball point pen.
Indeed. If the whole thing got privately funded, I think the US/Canada/State of Alaska wouldn't be able to rubber stamp it fast enough. The biggest impediment would probably be a few lip-service "environmental impact" studies.
Your Phone experience was probably AT&T, since it has the frequencies that most foreign phones roam to the US on. You're absolutely right about the (lack of) regulation here, but it's too late to change all of the non-interoperable systems the phone companies use.
As for the subways, they are paid for by local governments. You must have been in NYC or Boston, because those are old and decrepit systems. Washington DC, San Francisco, and Atlanta have very nice systems. I'm in Portland and we have a top-notch surface rail/streetcar system. Don't base your opinion of the entire country's commuter rail on one municipality.
I haven't programmed in a long time, but isn't this just a matter of a compiler switch to make it quadword-aligned? If the program is asking the OS for blocks of memory and not addressing it itself what does it matter?
- Interpreted, so you can quickly test things.
- Structured enough, but isn't all up in your face about it. Based on natural whitespacing instead of annoying brackets/braces, etc.
- Only as OO as you want it to be.
- More words and less cryptic symbols. I absolutely despise C and its ilk because of all the asterisk/ampersand/bracket/brace/parenthesis shit I have to keep track of. If x86 assembly wasn't so godawful itself, I'd even opt for that over C. At least it's easier to read what's going on. Some encourage C++ because of a "just throw 'em into the deep end" mentality. I did okay in C++ classes in college, but knowing that this is what the programming world was predominantly built on completely turned me off to it as a career. Oops, digressing...
Buzz is wonderful though if you have a circle of friends you want to banter with without being bombarded with a bunch of external people/crap or over-exposing yourself. Buzz didn't take off because people thought it was a Twitter clone, when really, instead of a One-to-Many paradigm where everybody seems to shout and few seem to listen, it's more of a Some-to-Some paradigm where groups of friends can discuss things. It's semi-public email, which explains the Gmail tie-in and nicely fills the gap between private email and "personal broadcasting".
Social backwaters like Buzz are ideal for this kind of community-building and personally I'm glad to have it. It's the difference between a small college town and mega-city. You don't find the crime and billboards and boomin-bass-mobiles out here, but it's also not a ghost town like Livejournal, or redneck like Yahoo groups.
Maybe coffee shop vs. night club is a better analogy...
It drives me nuts. I hate that so many contests are tied to Facebook now. "Like" us for a chance to win XXX. So to enter you not only have to have a FB account, but you need one with real information about you. Someone made a Facebook scrubber plugin of sorts for Chrome that I'm trying out. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec It's hard to tell how well it's working though. 8^/
We're going to find, in less than a decade, that we've given away everything that made this nation great, and we'll be left with very little to show for it. Rome was smarter than we were.
Agree, except we didn't give it away. We pawned it.
"The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of its deep space probes. Fleeing the Cylon tyranny, a young loaner, captain William "Buck" Rogers is on a quest to champion the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, from a world of criminals who operate above the law. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. These are their stories. *BUM-BUM*"
I'm not saying we didn't need a new stack. I'm asking what was the reason they made the new notation such a drastic break from the old one if all we needed was more range?
> We need to move away from typing addresses manually and toward things like multicast DNS anyway.
Why?
(I'm asking seriously, not to sound like a dick or anything.)