Please see this article. Bad programmers actually create more work for the good programmers than they end up doing. If you want to be a programmer, fine. But it's not something I recommend you jump into with minimal training. There's almost no such thing as a "beginner" programmer job. Most good programmers have been programming for years (often a decade) at home or on their own before they start doing it for a living.
I understand what you are referring to, but has anybody actually measured something like the amount of power consumed by a switch under 0 and maximum load? I imagine there is a slight difference in cost between running a switch at full load and running it at zero load.
Also, the big problem is that most home users want high speed, but don't want to pay for a dedicated line that guarantees that speed. I want to be able to download at 25 mbps, because my pages load faster, and I don't have to wait long for the video to buffer. However I really don't think I should be allowed to use 25 mpbs, every second, for the entire month. So you have a problem. People want high speeds, but you don't want them going at full speed for the entire month, or they will over-utilize your network. Can you propose a better billing solution then billing them by throughput?
The difference between weed and speed limits is that weed can get you a criminal record, while speeding is a traffic offense, which only really effects your insurance prices. Sometimes if you speed a lot, they'll take your car away, but you won't ever get a criminal record. Unless you hit someone then you may be tried for vehicular manslaughter. The problem with marijuana laws is that in many places, they've done polls and found that the majority of people are in favour of legalizing/decriminalizing marijuana, yet the politicians still can't be bothered to put it to a real vote, or to just change the law, even though the majority of the people think the law is unjust.
I think that this is why a lot of places don't want to make marijuana legal. There's a whole bunch of people in jail (in some places more than others) for possession of marijuana , there's a whole lot more people who have criminal records for possession of marijuana. If they all of a sudden decide it's no longer illegal, there's going to be a whole lot of people who all of a sudden want their criminal records wiped clean. There's a whole lot of people who are going to want to get out of jail for things that are no longer crimes. Sure what they did was illegal at the time, but if the state comes around and says, "sorry, we were wrong, doing that isn't actually wrong" there's going to be a lot of grief from people who's lives have been ruined because of unjust laws.
But the cost of a physical book is negligible, near zero. How do I know this? They sell paperback novels at the dollar store. I know a guy who was going to open a dollar store franchise. They don't sell anything for a dollar that costs them more than 33 cents. Even with all the printing, warehousing, shipping, and other "costs" a paperback novel costs no more than 33 cents. All the rest is pure profit for the book store/publisher/author.
Exactly. There's many reasons why a town might want to extend their city limits out beyond where there's a lot of houses. They can collect quite a bit of property taxes out there from the few businesses and houses that are out there. Also, even, if there are only a few people, those people usually want water and trash service, which is usually provided for by the municipality. Timmins, Ontario is famous for this. It was the largest (by land area) town in Canada up until 1995. This was because they wanted to be able to include all the surrounding mines and logging lands as municipal lands for taxing purposes.
I wonder if the same could be detected for still photographs taken with a digital camera. Do the pixels have some variance from the EM radiation which apparently is always present? Would one be able to analyze the pixels and tell if a photo was in fact taken at a certain time or whether the picture had been edited later, for instance, if the time stamp doesn't match to the EM pattern present in the pixels? Because then you really could tell a Photoshopped picture from the pixels.
Maybe it's an Americanism, but there seems to be plenty of beef in Chinese food. A lot of the more "authentic" stuff seems to focus on chicken, duck, and seafood, along with tofu. But there is still quite a few beef dishes. Although a lot of the cheese from the old world (especially the good ones) seem to come from sheep or goat, you can get quite a good cheese from cow milk.
That's where I live and we get some truly amazing cheese. You can even get some raw milk stuff if you care to shop around. The ones you mention are quite good and can be found easily in grocery stores. St-Albert is awesome because they deliver daily to local stores which means you can get fresh, never refrigerated, curds. This is the way they were meant to be eaten. Also their mild Cheddar is very mild, and almost tastes like they took their fresh curds and packed them together. It's completely unlike any of the mass market stuff you find. There's some more exotic stuff around too if you're willing to look and spend some money. Be careful though, there's a lot of small cheese makers who somehow make cheese completely devoid of flavour and sell it for $10 for 100g.
I worked at a cheese shop when I was in University and we sold cheese from all over the world. I always thought it odd that there was no cheese from China. There's Cheese from India, the middle east, europe, south america. Just about everywhere. I can't recall any cheese coming from the far east, and I've never seen cheese a chinese restaurant (except the big buffet ones that server everything from french fries to kraft dinner to General Tao's chicken to tripe) I don't recall any cheese from Africa either. I wonder why some cultures developed cheese while others didn't. Why, even if they hadn't invented it on their own, why they didn't start making it once the cultures mixed.
Sure, it could be accidentally dialed, but have there been any studies done on how many "accidental" calls are done with 999 as opposed to 112 or 911? And I say accidental in quotes because I had a friend in university who dialed 911 and then hung up "immediately" thinking the call wouldn't have time to complete. Cops came by, he didn't get charged, but I wished he would have. Half the people who "accidentally" dialing the emergency number are probably dialing it on purpose and pretending it's an accident. Also, this will become less and less of a problem in the future, as screen based phones require you to press "slide to unlock" "Home, if you aren't there already", "Phone Icon", "Phone -because favorites always shows first", then you can dial the emergency number. Not Sure if you then have to press send, button, but I'm not trying that. Also, most clothes don't have any effect on capacitive touch screens, so dialing from your pocket would be just about impossible.
Same goes for Tor. I'd never run a Tor endpoint on my connection, because people use it for all kinds of nefarious activity. Last time I tried Tor, I went to 4chan (not that I need Tor for 4chan, but I was just testing various sites), and found that the endpoint I had connected to was banned, for guest what? child porn. When the authorities find out that child porn was coming through your connection, they don't go and know politely at your door. They bash the door in, in the middle of the night, and all your neighbours somehow find out about it. I've read enough news stories to know that I don't want to be sharing my internet connection with somebody else, because for all the good it could do, there's a lot of bad that could happen as well.
I'd be willing to pay about the same, if they offered new TV shows as they came out. Even if the TV shows still had commercials for the first 6 months after release, I'd still put up with it, because the only other legal option is cable, and they have commercials anyway.
Calls is one thing, because you can choose not to answer, and you aren't billed for airtime until you answer. But you can't choose to receive text messages or not, they are just sent. And yes, I do live in North America, (Canada Actually), but I have unlimited text messaging, and have since I singed up with Wind Mobile 2+ years ago. Didn't realize that this was how the other guys billed it. Unless you're frequently (and I mean very frequently) using your phone while travelling you can probably save quite a bit of money by going with a provider like Wind Mobile or Mobilicity if they are available in your area.
So what you're saying is that you pay to receive a text message? Even though you can't really choose whether or not you want to receive a particular message? That's absurd. With phone calls, you don't pay until you answer, if you pay at all for incoming calls. However with Text Messages, since there's no option to "not answer" it should be illegal for them to charge you for incoming texts. Otherwise they could rack up your bill by turning off the spam filter for a little while, or letting it run with looser rules than usual. Or by them just sending messages that look like spam, or wrong numbers, in order to charge you a little bit more. Some guy who doesn't like you and with an unlimited texting plan could also send you 1000 messages.
Yeah, but tuition itself only comes out to $12000 a year. Live at home or with relatives in the big city and you can save a lot of money while going to school. If you get together with a few other students and rent out a house, it's often cheaper than paying for residence at the university. Not only that, but the food included at most universities is also overpriced, as well as unhealthy. You'd be better off financially and nutritionally if you just made your own meals.
It's ok to sideload stuff from Amazon, and other markets, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't raise some red flags when the app asks for permissions it doesn't need. Also, if You're download a 99 cent app from a warez site, you are a cheapskate, and are almost asking to get conned. That's less than a cup of coffee, or a chocolate bar at most places.
Sure many things could be automated, but that doesn't mean that they will be automated. Sure you could automate a hairstylist, but part of the whole experience is having an actual human there. There's a reason that many bars use cute college girls as waitresses. Having a robot may technically get the job done better and cheaper, but would the customers still want to come to your bar? Plus, you'll actually have to pay for the robot waitresses. As it is now, the owners pay them almost nothing, and they basically get all their money from tips. Nobody is going to tip a robot. Also, don't underestimate the power of unions. We could have had automated trains/subways many years ago, and we still don't have them. It's not because it's technically difficult, or because it's too expensive. It's because it is political suicide for any politician to even propose such an idea.
Most the the games classified as "Nintendo Hard" actually originated in the arcade. The reason they were hard was to get you to put more quarters in the machine. Granted some original Nintendo games were hard like "Zelda, second quest, without maps" because of rediculous things like, "walk towards some random wall for 3 seconds" and you just walk though. Even figuring out where to put the bombs was all guess work. Now you can basically walk through the Zelda games and almost never get lost. And all the bomb spots are obviously marked.
Make sure you get an education for something that can't be replaced by a robot, or isn't likely to be replaced by a robot. Anything designing or programming robots is probably ok. But even common jobs that don't require a university degree like car mechanic, barber/hair stylist, plumber, electrician, and many other jobs aren't likely to be automated by robots. If you're intelligent and driven, you could also be a doctor, dentist, veterinarian, accountant, or lawyer. There's plenty of jobs out there that can't be automated away. But those aren't the jobs that are just easy pickings, where they could (and often do) hire some highschool kid to do the job. People won't be able to walk into a job with no job skills and get hired. Those kinds of jobs have been disappearing for the last 50 years, and will dry up in the next 50.
Except that if Apple really did charge more than needed, than someone else would step in and sell a similar product for cheaper. But we just don't see that happening. Other companies make similar products, but almost none of them contain the same amount of "polish" as the Apple products. Just the physical design, getting so much into a small case, and making just about every component custom in order to do so has to account for a sustantial cost. Although they use commodity CPUs in their machines, that's about the only thing in their computers that's commodity. Most of the rest is custom build, and redesigned every year. Sure they probably could have got away with making the iPhone thinner again this year, but that's not the way they do things.
From what I hear, based on the StackExchange podcast, and the tweets that went out from SquareSpace and StackExchange during the whole idea is that Peer1 had a complete failure, and it was only due to the hard work of their customers (SE and SquareSpace) that the datacenter was able to remain operational. If your customers have to start carrying buckets of diesel up 17 flights of starirs, you, as a datacenter have failed. Peer1, left to their own devices would have just let the thing shutdown, and apparently head office wasn't aware of how bad things even were.
This is my exact problem with the Android App ecosystem. Too much free stuff that tries to pry money out of you in other ways. Games that are impossibly difficult unless you pay to unlock special powers. Games that give you bonus items for giving them a 5 star rating. Games that spend more time displaying ads then letting you play. You can get an XBox 360 for $150. Why would I want to spend $99 on an Android based console? Plus the XBox 360 has been out for a while, and there are a ton of games you can get for cheap.
A PS3 controller is $40, which is more than half the price of buying those Android dongles you hook up to the TV. So while it would work, it gets quite expensive. For an android dongle and a PS3 controller, you could pay $120. Or you could just spend the extra $30 and get an xBox 360 for $150
Yeah, in my Opinion all the Browsers suck, at least on Gingerbread. The stock browser had this funny behaviour where you'd have to "force close" every day or it would refuse to load pages. I used Dolphin for a while but it just stopped working one day, and hasn't worked since, even with uninstalling and reinstalling it. Firefox worked well, but was very slow and sucked down my battery pretty fast. Chrome only runs on ICS and above. I've settled on Opera, because it seems to be the most stable, but many sites (facebook included) don't render the same way they do on the stock browser, not sure it it doesn't support advanced features or if the devs just don't care. I don't used the Facebook App on my phone because that thing is an abomination. I like my Android phone in general, but the browsing experience is probably my biggest complaint.
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Please see this article. Bad programmers actually create more work for the good programmers than they end up doing. If you want to be a programmer, fine. But it's not something I recommend you jump into with minimal training. There's almost no such thing as a "beginner" programmer job. Most good programmers have been programming for years (often a decade) at home or on their own before they start doing it for a living.
I understand what you are referring to, but has anybody actually measured something like the amount of power consumed by a switch under 0 and maximum load? I imagine there is a slight difference in cost between running a switch at full load and running it at zero load.
Also, the big problem is that most home users want high speed, but don't want to pay for a dedicated line that guarantees that speed. I want to be able to download at 25 mbps, because my pages load faster, and I don't have to wait long for the video to buffer. However I really don't think I should be allowed to use 25 mpbs, every second, for the entire month. So you have a problem. People want high speeds, but you don't want them going at full speed for the entire month, or they will over-utilize your network. Can you propose a better billing solution then billing them by throughput?
The difference between weed and speed limits is that weed can get you a criminal record, while speeding is a traffic offense, which only really effects your insurance prices. Sometimes if you speed a lot, they'll take your car away, but you won't ever get a criminal record. Unless you hit someone then you may be tried for vehicular manslaughter. The problem with marijuana laws is that in many places, they've done polls and found that the majority of people are in favour of legalizing/decriminalizing marijuana, yet the politicians still can't be bothered to put it to a real vote, or to just change the law, even though the majority of the people think the law is unjust.
I think that this is why a lot of places don't want to make marijuana legal. There's a whole bunch of people in jail (in some places more than others) for possession of marijuana , there's a whole lot more people who have criminal records for possession of marijuana. If they all of a sudden decide it's no longer illegal, there's going to be a whole lot of people who all of a sudden want their criminal records wiped clean. There's a whole lot of people who are going to want to get out of jail for things that are no longer crimes. Sure what they did was illegal at the time, but if the state comes around and says, "sorry, we were wrong, doing that isn't actually wrong" there's going to be a lot of grief from people who's lives have been ruined because of unjust laws.
But the cost of a physical book is negligible, near zero. How do I know this? They sell paperback novels at the dollar store. I know a guy who was going to open a dollar store franchise. They don't sell anything for a dollar that costs them more than 33 cents. Even with all the printing, warehousing, shipping, and other "costs" a paperback novel costs no more than 33 cents. All the rest is pure profit for the book store/publisher/author.
Exactly. There's many reasons why a town might want to extend their city limits out beyond where there's a lot of houses. They can collect quite a bit of property taxes out there from the few businesses and houses that are out there. Also, even, if there are only a few people, those people usually want water and trash service, which is usually provided for by the municipality. Timmins, Ontario is famous for this. It was the largest (by land area) town in Canada up until 1995. This was because they wanted to be able to include all the surrounding mines and logging lands as municipal lands for taxing purposes.
I wonder if the same could be detected for still photographs taken with a digital camera. Do the pixels have some variance from the EM radiation which apparently is always present? Would one be able to analyze the pixels and tell if a photo was in fact taken at a certain time or whether the picture had been edited later, for instance, if the time stamp doesn't match to the EM pattern present in the pixels? Because then you really could tell a Photoshopped picture from the pixels.
Maybe it's an Americanism, but there seems to be plenty of beef in Chinese food. A lot of the more "authentic" stuff seems to focus on chicken, duck, and seafood, along with tofu. But there is still quite a few beef dishes. Although a lot of the cheese from the old world (especially the good ones) seem to come from sheep or goat, you can get quite a good cheese from cow milk.
That's where I live and we get some truly amazing cheese. You can even get some raw milk stuff if you care to shop around. The ones you mention are quite good and can be found easily in grocery stores. St-Albert is awesome because they deliver daily to local stores which means you can get fresh, never refrigerated, curds. This is the way they were meant to be eaten. Also their mild Cheddar is very mild, and almost tastes like they took their fresh curds and packed them together. It's completely unlike any of the mass market stuff you find. There's some more exotic stuff around too if you're willing to look and spend some money. Be careful though, there's a lot of small cheese makers who somehow make cheese completely devoid of flavour and sell it for $10 for 100g.
I worked at a cheese shop when I was in University and we sold cheese from all over the world. I always thought it odd that there was no cheese from China. There's Cheese from India, the middle east, europe, south america. Just about everywhere. I can't recall any cheese coming from the far east, and I've never seen cheese a chinese restaurant (except the big buffet ones that server everything from french fries to kraft dinner to General Tao's chicken to tripe) I don't recall any cheese from Africa either. I wonder why some cultures developed cheese while others didn't. Why, even if they hadn't invented it on their own, why they didn't start making it once the cultures mixed.
Sure, it could be accidentally dialed, but have there been any studies done on how many "accidental" calls are done with 999 as opposed to 112 or 911? And I say accidental in quotes because I had a friend in university who dialed 911 and then hung up "immediately" thinking the call wouldn't have time to complete. Cops came by, he didn't get charged, but I wished he would have. Half the people who "accidentally" dialing the emergency number are probably dialing it on purpose and pretending it's an accident. Also, this will become less and less of a problem in the future, as screen based phones require you to press "slide to unlock" "Home, if you aren't there already", "Phone Icon", "Phone -because favorites always shows first", then you can dial the emergency number. Not Sure if you then have to press send, button, but I'm not trying that. Also, most clothes don't have any effect on capacitive touch screens, so dialing from your pocket would be just about impossible.
Same goes for Tor. I'd never run a Tor endpoint on my connection, because people use it for all kinds of nefarious activity. Last time I tried Tor, I went to 4chan (not that I need Tor for 4chan, but I was just testing various sites), and found that the endpoint I had connected to was banned, for guest what? child porn. When the authorities find out that child porn was coming through your connection, they don't go and know politely at your door. They bash the door in, in the middle of the night, and all your neighbours somehow find out about it. I've read enough news stories to know that I don't want to be sharing my internet connection with somebody else, because for all the good it could do, there's a lot of bad that could happen as well.
I'd be willing to pay about the same, if they offered new TV shows as they came out. Even if the TV shows still had commercials for the first 6 months after release, I'd still put up with it, because the only other legal option is cable, and they have commercials anyway.
Calls is one thing, because you can choose not to answer, and you aren't billed for airtime until you answer. But you can't choose to receive text messages or not, they are just sent. And yes, I do live in North America, (Canada Actually), but I have unlimited text messaging, and have since I singed up with Wind Mobile 2+ years ago. Didn't realize that this was how the other guys billed it. Unless you're frequently (and I mean very frequently) using your phone while travelling you can probably save quite a bit of money by going with a provider like Wind Mobile or Mobilicity if they are available in your area.
So what you're saying is that you pay to receive a text message? Even though you can't really choose whether or not you want to receive a particular message? That's absurd. With phone calls, you don't pay until you answer, if you pay at all for incoming calls. However with Text Messages, since there's no option to "not answer" it should be illegal for them to charge you for incoming texts. Otherwise they could rack up your bill by turning off the spam filter for a little while, or letting it run with looser rules than usual. Or by them just sending messages that look like spam, or wrong numbers, in order to charge you a little bit more. Some guy who doesn't like you and with an unlimited texting plan could also send you 1000 messages.
Yeah, but tuition itself only comes out to $12000 a year. Live at home or with relatives in the big city and you can save a lot of money while going to school. If you get together with a few other students and rent out a house, it's often cheaper than paying for residence at the university. Not only that, but the food included at most universities is also overpriced, as well as unhealthy. You'd be better off financially and nutritionally if you just made your own meals.
It's ok to sideload stuff from Amazon, and other markets, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't raise some red flags when the app asks for permissions it doesn't need. Also, if You're download a 99 cent app from a warez site, you are a cheapskate, and are almost asking to get conned. That's less than a cup of coffee, or a chocolate bar at most places.
Sure many things could be automated, but that doesn't mean that they will be automated. Sure you could automate a hairstylist, but part of the whole experience is having an actual human there. There's a reason that many bars use cute college girls as waitresses. Having a robot may technically get the job done better and cheaper, but would the customers still want to come to your bar? Plus, you'll actually have to pay for the robot waitresses. As it is now, the owners pay them almost nothing, and they basically get all their money from tips. Nobody is going to tip a robot. Also, don't underestimate the power of unions. We could have had automated trains/subways many years ago, and we still don't have them. It's not because it's technically difficult, or because it's too expensive. It's because it is political suicide for any politician to even propose such an idea.
Most the the games classified as "Nintendo Hard" actually originated in the arcade. The reason they were hard was to get you to put more quarters in the machine. Granted some original Nintendo games were hard like "Zelda, second quest, without maps" because of rediculous things like, "walk towards some random wall for 3 seconds" and you just walk though. Even figuring out where to put the bombs was all guess work. Now you can basically walk through the Zelda games and almost never get lost. And all the bomb spots are obviously marked.
Make sure you get an education for something that can't be replaced by a robot, or isn't likely to be replaced by a robot. Anything designing or programming robots is probably ok. But even common jobs that don't require a university degree like car mechanic, barber/hair stylist, plumber, electrician, and many other jobs aren't likely to be automated by robots. If you're intelligent and driven, you could also be a doctor, dentist, veterinarian, accountant, or lawyer. There's plenty of jobs out there that can't be automated away. But those aren't the jobs that are just easy pickings, where they could (and often do) hire some highschool kid to do the job. People won't be able to walk into a job with no job skills and get hired. Those kinds of jobs have been disappearing for the last 50 years, and will dry up in the next 50.
Except that if Apple really did charge more than needed, than someone else would step in and sell a similar product for cheaper. But we just don't see that happening. Other companies make similar products, but almost none of them contain the same amount of "polish" as the Apple products. Just the physical design, getting so much into a small case, and making just about every component custom in order to do so has to account for a sustantial cost. Although they use commodity CPUs in their machines, that's about the only thing in their computers that's commodity. Most of the rest is custom build, and redesigned every year. Sure they probably could have got away with making the iPhone thinner again this year, but that's not the way they do things.
From what I hear, based on the StackExchange podcast, and the tweets that went out from SquareSpace and StackExchange during the whole idea is that Peer1 had a complete failure, and it was only due to the hard work of their customers (SE and SquareSpace) that the datacenter was able to remain operational. If your customers have to start carrying buckets of diesel up 17 flights of starirs, you, as a datacenter have failed. Peer1, left to their own devices would have just let the thing shutdown, and apparently head office wasn't aware of how bad things even were.
This is my exact problem with the Android App ecosystem. Too much free stuff that tries to pry money out of you in other ways. Games that are impossibly difficult unless you pay to unlock special powers. Games that give you bonus items for giving them a 5 star rating. Games that spend more time displaying ads then letting you play. You can get an XBox 360 for $150. Why would I want to spend $99 on an Android based console? Plus the XBox 360 has been out for a while, and there are a ton of games you can get for cheap.
A PS3 controller is $40, which is more than half the price of buying those Android dongles you hook up to the TV. So while it would work, it gets quite expensive. For an android dongle and a PS3 controller, you could pay $120. Or you could just spend the extra $30 and get an xBox 360 for $150
Yeah, in my Opinion all the Browsers suck, at least on Gingerbread. The stock browser had this funny behaviour where you'd have to "force close" every day or it would refuse to load pages. I used Dolphin for a while but it just stopped working one day, and hasn't worked since, even with uninstalling and reinstalling it. Firefox worked well, but was very slow and sucked down my battery pretty fast. Chrome only runs on ICS and above. I've settled on Opera, because it seems to be the most stable, but many sites (facebook included) don't render the same way they do on the stock browser, not sure it it doesn't support advanced features or if the devs just don't care. I don't used the Facebook App on my phone because that thing is an abomination. I like my Android phone in general, but the browsing experience is probably my biggest complaint.