It is not about a Soviet style economy. The state does not control the means of production. This is strictly about restraining capitalism to the deteriment of the citizen/worker. If a large company can abuse you, it will abuse you, especially if you are a low skilled worker. Is that the kind of world you want to live in? I encourage you to take a trip to Bejing. Go check it out.
What companies push laissez faire capitalism and tell us market forces and the invisible hand should decide everything. What happens when they lose? When they lose, they simply go to Congress and the president and explain how important they are, then ask for gigantic bailouts.
So if we can bailout Chase, Bank of America, and GM, we can definitely make sure the bottom of the economy has crumbs to eat. It is only fair. Or next time the invisible hand of the market visits Wall Street, let them be swept away.
Personally, I want a good country that is thriving, strong, and economically sound. With good paying stable jobs, happy prosperous citizens, and the top companies in the world.
No wonder the tech community is so upset with Trump. Sergey, Tim, Picachu.
Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, but at some point the country needs sustainable, reliable employment that doesn't shift or outsource with the wind.
Imagine the following. Florida tells Disney they will have to move out of Orlanda because they found a Chineese company willing to come in and pay more taxes. They are generous and give Disney 6-months to relocate.
That is equivalent of telling American workers they are going to lose their job to H1Bs or outsourcing. They have houses, families, communities, commitments, other employment. It just isn't feasible.
So either we have unfettered capitalism, where companies can move to Ireland for Tax Evasion and/or use the government to give them unlimited, cheap labor either through visa programs or just simply turning a blind eye to immigration enforcement, OR THE PEOPLE of the USA have a leader that is going to inject sanity into the system and restrain capitalism to the point where we can have stability and a viable middle class.
I for one do not want unrestrained laissez faire capitalism. If I wanted that, I could go work in Bejing where capitalism is choking out the Sun and factories like FoxConn have to put up suicide nets.
Lastly, if we aren't producing workers that are college and/or career ready, CHANGE THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. I do not know of a single state that REQUIRES COMPUTER PROGRAMMING TO GRADUATE. Prove me wrong, anybody. So what do you expect? Kids who are qualified to fill out worksheets. It's great!
Our politicians scream for 21-st Century SKILLS, STEM and Skills, HI-Tech workers, yet these are the SAME PEOPLE WHO VOTE TO APPROVED ANEMIC EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS that do no include ANY 21st Century STEM, or HI-TECH. If something is a priority, MAKE IT A PRIORITY. Don't just talk about it and say, "Oh golly gee, wish we had more kids with 21st Century skills."
You would think in our day and age DIGITAL LITERACY at a minimum would be required, but sadly we don't even have that in our educational system.
So, I say, GO TRUMP! Be a man of action. The time for talking is over and the time for doing has begun. Maybe the other lip service politicians can learn something from you. Layeth the smacketh dowm brother!
I think what you meant to say is that your are amazed that a politician has so quickly fulfilled his campaign promises: 1) to enforce the existing laws of the land through border security and 2) protect national security by halting travel between the USA and 7 countries through which the USA has no formal security setup, some of which are failed states.
Under the prior administrations things were squishy, even though they knew the threats and dangers.
It it time to chose a side. We don't want to end up like Europe. I personally have friends in Germany and France. Their current situation sucks. Their countries are not safe and their refugee friends won't assimilate. My friend in Germany can't even let her little daughters walk to the store alone for fear of refugee men. In France & Belgium, refugee children cheer over the Paris terrorist attacks. Where do they learn this? Is Islam compatible with the US Constitution, freedom, and democracy?
Meanwhile, President Trump is working to get good jobs and the American economy back on track.
This is clearly a man of action, who can't be bought or swayed by polls. This is leadership and getting the job done. It may be a shock. A jolt, but maybe, just maybe this is what we need after 8 years of squishy and 8 prior years of fum-bumbling. I don't agree with President Trump on everything he has done in the first 9 days, but at least their is a leader with America's interests in the White House.
This being a democracy, the congress, and courts with their own powers can fight this out. That is how democracy works. We are also free to protest, start a recall, and/or start a twitter hashtag. History will judge this moment and the moments to come.
All those desperate to get into the country, to get back to work or to their brothers or sisters in America originally from Iran, their daughter who has dual US-Yemeni nationality, or their American-Somali mother based in California — they now have 90 days to reflect.
To think about how lucky they are to have a home in the land of the free. How fortunate they are to live in a country where democracy works and laws are made by the will of the people, not religion.
Trump said, 'We only want to admit those who will support our country and love deeply our people.'
Think of it less as a Muslim ban, and more as an American invitation. If you support America and will put America first, you will be welcome. If you cannot bring yourself to condemn the actions of those who commit terror in the name of your god, probably best stay in what's left of your home.
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Also from the article:
The typical response in Western Europe is a hashtag, a tea light and a leader, saying their people will not be cowed in the face of terror.
Except, they no longer speak for us. We are sick of their platitudes.
The response from the US president is far more reassuring: a ban on travellers from seven Muslim countries and a total ban on refugees and asylum seekers from Syria. Finally, a politician taking action.
Food is subsidized, you have to keep food cheap or people will get angry. Clothing/Textile is the result of horrible 3rd world working conditions. Furniture is the result of horrible 3rd world working conditions. Electronics is the result of horrible 3rd world working conditions. (See suicide net comments) Gas prices are all over the place, I will let you draw your own conclusion.
So let's ask the following questions.
1. Do you need a college education? Yes 2. Can college debt be discharged in bankruptcy? No 3. Do you need insurance? Yes 4. Are you forced to buy auto, home, and medical? Yes 5. Do you have to pay property taxes and fees? Yes 6. Can you grow your own food? Yes 7. Can you buy resale furniture or make your own? Yes 8. Can you walk, ride a bike, or take public transportation? Yes 9. Can you live without your cell phone? No, not if you are a hipster or millennial. It is more important to snapchat or tweet from a protest march than it is to vote as evidenced by the pathetic voter turnout rate for the last election. 55% really? 10. Can you save enough money for retirement? No.
So in conclusion, the numbers you accused me of Cherry Picking matter an awful lot more than cheap furniture and cheap electronics. The numbers I listed are things YOU HAVE TO BUY, most are mandated by law like INSURANCE.
The future is significantly less secure for young people today due to wage stagnation and lack of good, long-term stable jobs with benefits. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling a free-trade agreement. They will say stuff like, "Oh there will be some losers with the agreement, but many will be better off." What has this brought us? An economy where 40% of the workers exist in the service economy with few full-time workers or benefits.
I say this to anyone. If the playing field is level America can compete. If the playing field is not level and the American worker is competing with someone who makes $2/week, then no, we can no compete and win. If we are going to have free-trade, there has to be work-protection and and an adjustment factor for standard of living.
If not, the race to the bottom will continue. More laws will get passed forcing you to pay for things you have to have (money to go to college, auto, property, and health insurance) and can't afford while the standard of living plummets.
Corporate tax reform tax is meaningless for the big guys. The only thing a ZERO % corporate tax would is put a lot of high priced MBA's in the unemployment line. Taxes are a big industry in the USA. The more complex, the better since that equals fees. Imagine what a flat tax would do to H&R block and their industry.
If we could downsize the parasites: legal, accounting, government fees/regulations, insurance, this would have a measurable gain on what is left of the middle class.
The kids today are getting totally screwed. No pensions, crappy high-fee 401Ks, crappy insurance, crushing college debt, and are stuck in a service economy because their parents generation free-traded all the manufacturing jobs away allowing new-economy jobs to be offshored and/or replaced with H1-B's.
I realize we can never go back, but your one year of statistics is meaningless over the long term trend.
But it is good to see the leader of the country promoting manufacturing.
I believe that manufacturing is essential to national security and sovereignty.
When the subcontract of your subcontractor of your subcontractor makes all of your critical pieces and parts, you are essentially owned by default.
All of our corporations have become global entities, paying taxes nowhere without a fight. Wall Street is a master of moving money around but manufacturing is truly where wealth creation happens. Taking raw materials and increasing their value into finished products.
If global corporations want access to our markets, it is time to own some brick-and-mortar here, pay some taxes here, and create some very good wage jobs here. This will ultimately feedback into the economy and create more wealth.
Giving the money to the top 5% doesn't seem to be doing much for global wealth creation since they hoard it, but giving money to a strong middle class kicks the economy into high gear quickly.
DVDs are just plain inconvenient. With the Amazon TV gizmo, I just speak into the microphone and my show is on for the kids, unlike the DVD which takes what seems like 10 minutes to get going due to all the NON-skippable crap. Either make a more convenient DVD or buh-bye!
It is all Johnny Ive's and his bullshit obsession for thin. Make the PhatBookPro! Yes, the MacBookPro can be made 2mm thicker to provide a 24 hour battery life or a realworld professional battery life of 10 hours. Johnny Ive's needs to just stop with thin until battery technology gets better. It seems to me that making the bottom panel modular would solve all the problems. If HP and Lenovo want to keep getting thinner, let them. Their touchpads and keyboards suck compared to the MacBookPro. Oh and bring back the glowing Apple logo on the back of the lid. What a dumb marketing move to ditch that.
C is not dying. Most of the libraries that are used behind the scenes to support Swift, Objective-C, Java, Python, Perl, LINUX, C#, and New Embedded Platforms like PI, are all written in C/C++.
C scales as well as any other language as long as you use C++ and objectify everything so it can fire it up in containers. You can't use global variables anymore and everything needs to be encapsulated into an object. It pains me to do this, but with the shift to the cloud there is no choice (please prove me wrong).
C is the bed-rock of all that is digital. If anything needs to die it is Java. The new owner of Java doesn't seem to be taking care of it like Sun Microsystems used to. Yeah, I am looking at your Oracle.
Consider how many C libraries this Slashdot page passed through just to get to your eyeballs.
At Christmas with the $2000 VISA bill coming due "the company" has the "at will employees" over a barrel since this information was not known prior.
It is time for IT to unionize. It is time for IT-USA to setup a trust-fund so that when this kind of misbehavior happens, the entire IT organization can walk and have a buffer to negotiate with "the company" or find new jobs.
With IT, it is symbiotic relationship between "the company" and the IT workers. Today data is the company and IT needs to make that data flow. If all of IT quits or bands together en mass in a work stoppage, the data will only flow for so long. The senior managers in the company are typically clueless as to how things operate at a day-to-day level.
So let's look at this and see what it would cost.
200 employees at $1000/week as stay afloat money = $200,000/week
So, if a fund existed with approximately $1,000,000 it could easily provide a buffer for either severance or negotiation. In order for this to work all the employees would have to band together and sign an agreement to quit and not offer any assistance to the company until they negotiated an offer that the majority of the employees agreed upon. At-will employment goes both ways.
The company would probably try to offer key players large sums to return and maintain operations but everyone would have to stand together.
Could this work if this fund existed or would it denigrate into "Lord of the Flies?"
On a side note, it is an overall longterm benefit to the USA, USA economy, and "the company" not to do things like this. The quarter-to-quarter "create shareholder value" mantra drives these myopic decisions. Sure would could continue to destroy every job and breakup and sell off parts of every company for a short-term profit, but long term it hurts all the players in an economy. How do we handle this?
Do we let the invisible hand of the market work?
Actually, scratch that, the invisible hand is dead as we saw in the financial crisis. The invisible hand was poised to wipe out most of the banking/mortgage industry and the government stopped the invisible hand by giving it piles and piles of cash.
So what is the new system?
How do we build a nation that has sustainability and offers good jobs?
Code Re-use and open source software lead to super-reliable, robust, and secure code that is the foundation of the Internet. With all the eyes constantly looking over the code it continues to get better and better. And since no program or company has time to write everything from scratch, code will be reused until we can teach computers how to write code.
Folks, we live in an age where programmers declare integers that are going to count from 1...10 as LONG INTEGERS, eating 8 bytes of RAM, where only 1 byte is needed.
We live in an age of cloud computing, load balancers, containers, and distributed databases with stored procedures. When code runs, you have no idea where it is running and how it is spread out over cloud services. Most of the time you don't even know what country the physical box is in.
I have a pure CS degree, but as long as we can keep making things faster and bigger, I am not sure if this book will ever be a top seller. In the brave new world of computing I am not even sure what optimization means anymore. Optimize for CPU, network, compiler, database, cloud architecture??? It is maddening!
As for me, I am currently doing an embedded systems project. Am I doing it in 'C' and ASM like in the good old days? Heck, no, I am using python on a quad core ARM SOC with 1GB of RAM. Even at max processing load I am barely hitting 10% CPU while coding in Python. As long as hardware is fast and cheap, there is no need to spend this kind of time optimizing every cycle and byte. BTW, this is my first Python project. Easy-peasy language that is great for hardware interfacing projects, most libraries exist for common chips like the MCP3008 (AD convertor).
To the kids out there. This is a great time to be alive. You can build anything, learn anything, and talk to anyone. Do cool stuff. Learn everything. There are no limits and powerful hardware is cheap. Look around at how lucky you are to be alive right now. It is an amazing time!
I want to go stand a platform and get scanned by a 3D scanner, chose my options on a touch screen, come back in 30 minutes and have clothes that fit made by a robot. I will fold them myself, finding clothes that actually fit and don't need tailoring is far more time consuming that folding.
Wow, this is just unbelievable. A 10nm die. It is so amazing how far we have come in just 30 years. I am truly impressed and amazed that we can carry around a 2Ghz Quad core in our pocket that is a fully functional computer. It is truly impressive, congratulations everyone!
And make sure there is a PID (process ID) lookup table so you can verify that a lock holder isn't dead holding a lock on shared memory/other resource. You can design it well but you need this verification to make it more bullet proof.
1. Cloud billing, yes just try and figure out your AWS cloud bill. 2. Race conditions (but technically this is a multi-threading problem). 3. Database Deadlocks, yes I know most RDBMS try to resolve deadlocks but they still happen 4. Semaphores / Spinlocks and Deadlocks 5. BIOS insecurity, yes you can decompile an EFI bios, change it, and reload it back on a motherboard 6. Firmware/Hardware security and trust issues with Intel CPUs, USB devices, and expansion cards. No hardware is secure thanks to the cesspool of firmware and rowhammer. 7. New data breaking old programs, such as unicode characters 8. The incredible pace of obsolesce in hardware, software 9. Windows 10.... who the hell knows what the O/S is doing? Sit and watch task manager on a fresh install for 30 minutes and you will be amazed at the stuff that goes on, Windows Telemetry anyone? 10. Apple removing legacy ports from hardware and encouraging everyone else to do the same so we all end up in dongle-hell.
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It is not about a Soviet style economy. The state does not control the means of production. This is strictly about restraining capitalism to the deteriment of the citizen/worker. If a large company can abuse you, it will abuse you, especially if you are a low skilled worker. Is that the kind of world you want to live in? I encourage you to take a trip to Bejing. Go check it out.
What companies push laissez faire capitalism and tell us market forces and the invisible hand should decide everything. What happens when they lose? When they lose, they simply go to Congress and the president and explain how important they are, then ask for gigantic bailouts.
So if we can bailout Chase, Bank of America, and GM, we can definitely make sure the bottom of the economy has crumbs to eat. It is only fair. Or next time the invisible hand of the market visits Wall Street, let them be swept away.
Personally, I want a good country that is thriving, strong, and economically sound. With good paying stable jobs, happy prosperous citizens, and the top companies in the world.
No wonder the tech community is so upset with Trump. Sergey, Tim, Picachu.
Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, but at some point the country needs sustainable, reliable employment that doesn't shift or outsource with the wind.
Imagine the following. Florida tells Disney they will have to move out of Orlanda because they found a Chineese company willing to come in and pay more taxes. They are generous and give Disney 6-months to relocate.
That is equivalent of telling American workers they are going to lose their job to H1Bs or outsourcing. They have houses, families, communities, commitments, other employment. It just isn't feasible.
So either we have unfettered capitalism, where companies can move to Ireland for Tax Evasion and/or use the government to give them unlimited, cheap labor either through visa programs or just simply turning a blind eye to immigration enforcement, OR THE PEOPLE of the USA have a leader that is going to inject sanity into the system and restrain capitalism to the point where we can have stability and a viable middle class.
I for one do not want unrestrained laissez faire capitalism. If I wanted that, I could go work in Bejing where capitalism is choking out the Sun and factories like FoxConn have to put up suicide nets.
Lastly, if we aren't producing workers that are college and/or career ready, CHANGE THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. I do not know of a single state that REQUIRES COMPUTER PROGRAMMING TO GRADUATE. Prove me wrong, anybody. So what do you expect? Kids who are qualified to fill out worksheets. It's great!
Our politicians scream for 21-st Century SKILLS, STEM and Skills, HI-Tech workers, yet these are the SAME PEOPLE WHO VOTE TO APPROVED ANEMIC EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS that do no include ANY 21st Century STEM, or HI-TECH. If something is a priority, MAKE IT A PRIORITY. Don't just talk about it and say, "Oh golly gee, wish we had more kids with 21st Century skills."
You would think in our day and age DIGITAL LITERACY at a minimum would be required, but sadly we don't even have that in our educational system.
So, I say, GO TRUMP! Be a man of action. The time for talking is over and the time for doing has begun. Maybe the other lip service politicians can learn something from you. Layeth the smacketh dowm brother!
I think what you meant to say is that your are amazed that a politician has so quickly fulfilled his campaign promises: 1) to enforce the existing laws of the land through border security and 2) protect national security by halting travel between the USA and 7 countries through which the USA has no formal security setup, some of which are failed states.
Under the prior administrations things were squishy, even though they knew the threats and dangers.
It it time to chose a side. We don't want to end up like Europe. I personally have friends in Germany and France. Their current situation sucks. Their countries are not safe and their refugee friends won't assimilate. My friend in Germany can't even let her little daughters walk to the store alone for fear of refugee men. In France & Belgium, refugee children cheer over the Paris terrorist attacks. Where do they learn this? Is Islam compatible with the US Constitution, freedom, and democracy?
It is time to pause, take a breath, and sort this mess out. And as a friendly reminder, the travel ban countries were chosen by President Obama.
Meanwhile, President Trump is working to get good jobs and the American economy back on track.
This is clearly a man of action, who can't be bought or swayed by polls. This is leadership and getting the job done. It may be a shock. A jolt, but maybe, just maybe this is what we need after 8 years of squishy and 8 prior years of fum-bumbling. I don't agree with President Trump on everything he has done in the first 9 days, but at least their is a leader with America's interests in the White House.
This being a democracy, the congress, and courts with their own powers can fight this out. That is how democracy works. We are also free to protest, start a recall, and/or start a twitter hashtag. History will judge this moment and the moments to come.
KATIE HOPKINS: Trump's immigration crackdown is a clear message to the Muslim world - get your own houses in order before you come to ours.
The conclusion of the article sums it up nicely:
All those desperate to get into the country, to get back to work or to their brothers or sisters in America originally from Iran, their daughter who has dual US-Yemeni nationality, or their American-Somali mother based in California — they now have 90 days to reflect.
To think about how lucky they are to have a home in the land of the free. How fortunate they are to live in a country where democracy works and laws are made by the will of the people, not religion.
Trump said, 'We only want to admit those who will support our country and love deeply our people.'
Think of it less as a Muslim ban, and more as an American invitation. If you support America and will put America first, you will be welcome.
If you cannot bring yourself to condemn the actions of those who commit terror in the name of your god, probably best stay in what's left of your home.
-----
Also from the article:
The typical response in Western Europe is a hashtag, a tea light and a leader, saying their people will not be cowed in the face of terror.
Except, they no longer speak for us. We are sick of their platitudes.
The response from the US president is far more reassuring: a ban on travellers from seven Muslim countries and a total ban on refugees and asylum seekers from Syria. Finally, a politician taking action.
Thanks, I did not know that. I won't have one in my house due to the creepiness factor. :)
How you hack Alex to have the voice of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry?
Computer, set self-destruct, authorization code Picard alpha 0-0-0-1-0.
Boom!
Food is subsidized, you have to keep food cheap or people will get angry.
Clothing/Textile is the result of horrible 3rd world working conditions.
Furniture is the result of horrible 3rd world working conditions.
Electronics is the result of horrible 3rd world working conditions. (See suicide net comments)
Gas prices are all over the place, I will let you draw your own conclusion.
So let's ask the following questions.
1. Do you need a college education? Yes
2. Can college debt be discharged in bankruptcy? No
3. Do you need insurance? Yes
4. Are you forced to buy auto, home, and medical? Yes
5. Do you have to pay property taxes and fees? Yes
6. Can you grow your own food? Yes
7. Can you buy resale furniture or make your own? Yes
8. Can you walk, ride a bike, or take public transportation? Yes
9. Can you live without your cell phone? No, not if you are a hipster or millennial. It is more important to snapchat or tweet from a protest march than it is to vote as evidenced by the pathetic voter turnout rate for the last election. 55% really?
10. Can you save enough money for retirement? No.
So in conclusion, the numbers you accused me of Cherry Picking matter an awful lot more than cheap furniture and cheap electronics. The numbers I listed are things YOU HAVE TO BUY, most are mandated by law like INSURANCE.
The future is significantly less secure for young people today due to wage stagnation and lack of good, long-term stable jobs with benefits. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling a free-trade agreement. They will say stuff like, "Oh there will be some losers with the agreement, but many will be better off." What has this brought us? An economy where 40% of the workers exist in the service economy with few full-time workers or benefits.
If Germany can do it, the USA can do. Good education, strong worker protection, world class products, and strong exports.
I say this to anyone. If the playing field is level America can compete. If the playing field is not level and the American worker is competing with someone who makes $2/week, then no, we can no compete and win. If we are going to have free-trade, there has to be work-protection and and an adjustment factor for standard of living.
If not, the race to the bottom will continue. More laws will get passed forcing you to pay for things you have to have (money to go to college, auto, property, and health insurance) and can't afford while the standard of living plummets.
This must stop.
Dude, this is a red herring. The fortune 500 DOES NOT PAY TAXES. If we lowered taxes to ZERO % the net effect would be the same.
Corporate tax reform tax is meaningless for the big guys. The only thing a ZERO % corporate tax would is put a lot of high priced MBA's in the unemployment line. Taxes are a big industry in the USA. The more complex, the better since that equals fees. Imagine what a flat tax would do to H&R block and their industry.
Tax reform would destroy the important financial jobs, so it is ALL TALK and will never happen. They have their lobbyists on the ready.
If we could downsize the parasites: legal, accounting, government fees/regulations, insurance, this would have a measurable gain on what is left of the middle class.
High value products do no use container ships. Companies like Apple buy shipping capacity and go UPS/FedEx Air. Container ships are for big stuff, heavy stuff, or mass made in China junk.
Dude, you are a moron, try this nice liberal publication to see that wages are flat while the cost to do basic important things like go to college has doubled since 1987. Wages may have had a little bump last year, but guess what so did the cost of health care, college, property taxes, insurance etc....
Look at the pretty graph.
The kids today are getting totally screwed. No pensions, crappy high-fee 401Ks, crappy insurance, crushing college debt, and are stuck in a service economy because their parents generation free-traded all the manufacturing jobs away allowing new-economy jobs to be offshored and/or replaced with H1-B's.
I realize we can never go back, but your one year of statistics is meaningless over the long term trend.
Please someone mod this parent into the basement.
But it is good to see the leader of the country promoting manufacturing.
I believe that manufacturing is essential to national security and sovereignty.
When the subcontract of your subcontractor of your subcontractor makes all of your critical pieces and parts, you are essentially owned by default.
All of our corporations have become global entities, paying taxes nowhere without a fight.
Wall Street is a master of moving money around but manufacturing is truly where wealth creation happens. Taking raw materials and increasing their value into finished products.
If global corporations want access to our markets, it is time to own some brick-and-mortar here, pay some taxes here, and create some very good wage jobs here. This will ultimately feedback into the economy and create more wealth.
Giving the money to the top 5% doesn't seem to be doing much for global wealth creation since they hoard it, but giving money to a strong middle class kicks the economy into high gear quickly.
DVDs are just plain inconvenient. With the Amazon TV gizmo, I just speak into the microphone and my show is on for the kids, unlike the DVD which takes what seems like 10 minutes to get going due to all the NON-skippable crap. Either make a more convenient DVD or buh-bye!
It is all Johnny Ive's and his bullshit obsession for thin. Make the PhatBookPro! Yes, the MacBookPro can be made 2mm thicker to provide a 24 hour battery life or a realworld professional battery life of 10 hours. Johnny Ive's needs to just stop with thin until battery technology gets better. It seems to me that making the bottom panel modular would solve all the problems. If HP and Lenovo want to keep getting thinner, let them. Their touchpads and keyboards suck compared to the MacBookPro. Oh and bring back the glowing Apple logo on the back of the lid. What a dumb marketing move to ditch that.
If I had mod points, you would get them ALL! Yes, go learn Python or Ruby on Rails or Visual Studio or Swift.
C is not dying. Most of the libraries that are used behind the scenes to support Swift, Objective-C, Java, Python, Perl, LINUX, C#, and New Embedded Platforms like PI, are all written in C/C++.
C scales as well as any other language as long as you use C++ and objectify everything so it can fire it up in containers. You can't use global variables anymore and everything needs to be encapsulated into an object. It pains me to do this, but with the shift to the cloud there is no choice (please prove me wrong).
C is the bed-rock of all that is digital. If anything needs to die it is Java. The new owner of Java doesn't seem to be taking care of it like Sun Microsystems used to. Yeah, I am looking at your Oracle.
Consider how many C libraries this Slashdot page passed through just to get to your eyeballs.
At Christmas with the $2000 VISA bill coming due "the company" has the "at will employees" over a barrel since this information was not known prior.
It is time for IT to unionize. It is time for IT-USA to setup a trust-fund so that when this kind of misbehavior happens, the entire IT organization can walk and have a buffer to negotiate with "the company" or find new jobs.
With IT, it is symbiotic relationship between "the company" and the IT workers. Today data is the company and IT needs to make that data flow. If all of IT quits or bands together en mass in a work stoppage, the data will only flow for so long. The senior managers in the company are typically clueless as to how things operate at a day-to-day level.
So let's look at this and see what it would cost.
200 employees at $1000/week as stay afloat money = $200,000/week
So, if a fund existed with approximately $1,000,000 it could easily provide a buffer for either severance or negotiation. In order for this to work all the employees would have to band together and sign an agreement to quit and not offer any assistance to the company until they negotiated an offer that the majority of the employees agreed upon. At-will employment goes both ways.
The company would probably try to offer key players large sums to return and maintain operations but everyone would have to stand together.
Could this work if this fund existed or would it denigrate into "Lord of the Flies?"
On a side note, it is an overall longterm benefit to the USA, USA economy, and "the company" not to do things like this. The quarter-to-quarter "create shareholder value" mantra drives these myopic decisions. Sure would could continue to destroy every job and breakup and sell off parts of every company for a short-term profit, but long term it hurts all the players in an economy. How do we handle this?
Do we let the invisible hand of the market work?
Actually, scratch that, the invisible hand is dead as we saw in the financial crisis. The invisible hand was poised to wipe out most of the banking/mortgage industry and the government stopped the invisible hand by giving it piles and piles of cash.
So what is the new system?
How do we build a nation that has sustainability and offers good jobs?
Code Re-use and open source software lead to super-reliable, robust, and secure code that is the foundation of the Internet. With all the eyes constantly looking over the code it continues to get better and better. And since no program or company has time to write everything from scratch, code will be reused until we can teach computers how to write code.
Folks, we live in an age where programmers declare integers that are going to count from 1...10 as LONG INTEGERS, eating 8 bytes of RAM, where only 1 byte is needed.
We live in an age of cloud computing, load balancers, containers, and distributed databases with stored procedures. When code runs, you have no idea where it is running and how it is spread out over cloud services. Most of the time you don't even know what country the physical box is in.
I have a pure CS degree, but as long as we can keep making things faster and bigger, I am not sure if this book will ever be a top seller. In the brave new world of computing I am not even sure what optimization means anymore. Optimize for CPU, network, compiler, database, cloud architecture??? It is maddening!
As for me, I am currently doing an embedded systems project. Am I doing it in 'C' and ASM like in the good old days? Heck, no, I am using python on a quad core ARM SOC with 1GB of RAM. Even at max processing load I am barely hitting 10% CPU while coding in Python. As long as hardware is fast and cheap, there is no need to spend this kind of time optimizing every cycle and byte. BTW, this is my first Python project. Easy-peasy language that is great for hardware interfacing projects, most libraries exist for common chips like the MCP3008 (AD convertor).
To the kids out there. This is a great time to be alive. You can build anything, learn anything, and talk to anyone. Do cool stuff. Learn everything. There are no limits and powerful hardware is cheap. Look around at how lucky you are to be alive right now. It is an amazing time!
Yes, I can confirm this feature.
Folding is easy!
I want to go stand a platform and get scanned by a 3D scanner, chose my options on a touch screen, come back in 30 minutes and have clothes that fit made by a robot. I will fold them myself, finding clothes that actually fit and don't need tailoring is far more time consuming that folding.
Wow, this is just unbelievable. A 10nm die. It is so amazing how far we have come in just 30 years. I am truly impressed and amazed that we can carry around a 2Ghz Quad core in our pocket that is a fully functional computer. It is truly impressive, congratulations everyone!
Pipes, named pipes, and shared memory for IPC (Interprocess Communication), just work.
And make sure there is a PID (process ID) lookup table so you can verify that a lock holder isn't dead holding a lock on shared memory/other resource. You can design it well but you need this verification to make it more bullet proof.
Yes... off-by-one... bit me last week, Google decided to define January as month zero, so all queries need a month+1... maddening.
I would like to add a small list:
1. Cloud billing, yes just try and figure out your AWS cloud bill.
2. Race conditions (but technically this is a multi-threading problem).
3. Database Deadlocks, yes I know most RDBMS try to resolve deadlocks but they still happen
4. Semaphores / Spinlocks and Deadlocks
5. BIOS insecurity, yes you can decompile an EFI bios, change it, and reload it back on a motherboard
6. Firmware/Hardware security and trust issues with Intel CPUs, USB devices, and expansion cards. No hardware is secure thanks to the cesspool of firmware and rowhammer.
7. New data breaking old programs, such as unicode characters
8. The incredible pace of obsolesce in hardware, software
9. Windows 10.... who the hell knows what the O/S is doing? Sit and watch task manager on a fresh install for 30 minutes and you will be amazed at the stuff that goes on, Windows Telemetry anyone?
10. Apple removing legacy ports from hardware and encouraging everyone else to do the same so we all end up in dongle-hell.