They had fat binaries for apps compiled to both PPC and x86, but that wasn't the only solution, since with just that you wouldn't be able to run apps until the developer recompiled and shipped a new version. They also had a binary translator to run unmodified PPC binaries on x86.
The way Congress currently is, electing middle-class people would be a significant downgrade in their wealth. The median net worth of a Senator is $2.6 million.
The almost complete lack of liability that tech companies have managed to engineer for themselves via EULAs is fairly astonishing. Very few other industries have managed to pull off such a complete abdication of responsibility to deliver safe and functional products, and gotten the courts to agree with them.
The first part 'loss of life' should already be covered by simply applying murder and/or manslaughter charges. There is no reason to invent a new law for this, only because it's done with a computer.
A cynical guess as to why they might want a separate law is because the prosecutor doesn't want to have to actually prove murder and/or manslaughter according to conventional standards of evidence.
Yes, that's how it works in Denmark as well. I thought that was how Sweden also worked, but I don't know much about the Swedish economy. I'm surprised to hear this story. Are there really schools that are not part of the union framework agreements? In Denmark that is not the case; the only non-unionized employers are small mom-and-pop shops, mostly kebab shops and 1-man plumbing businesses.
Depends on the state, but even if your income is too low for income tax to really kick in, it can be about 15-25% in evaded taxes. In Texas, for example, lawn-care services are subject to sales tax, so if you're providing lawn-care services in Texas, you should be paying 6.25-8.25% off the top (depending on the city) to the state and/or municipality and/or county. Then federal payroll taxes for self-employed individuals are about 15% on the remaining post-expenses amount, which probably works out to around 10% of the gross.
It's a pretty low period of time in engineering; generally the people doing the high-level work are those who've been there 10+ years and know everything inside and out. If you've only been working on a, say, a polyethylene process for only 2 years, you're not exactly a seasoned expert who people are going to trust to make significant changes to the process.
Really depends on the company and type of work. In some companies, there are very large startup costs getting someone up to speed doing anything, so whether someone is likely to leave is a big consideration. A mediocre employee who sticks around in that case might be better than a superstar who has a 50% chance of leaving within less than 5 years.
Less often the case with pure programming jobs, especially on common platforms like web-tech and such, where good people tend to come in already knowing a bunch of the tools. But it's a fairly common situation in engineering, where companies often have extensive in-house stuff, ranging from in-house simulation software to proprietary chemical processes and equipment.
My read is that their intent is a little more targeted: find 10-15 companies that specifically target college students with online services like textbook rental, and find some way to siphon off a portion of those companies' revenue stream in return for "delivering" them access to the 15k users. Then leave the rest of the web unfiltered. This is essentially the model of net-non-neutrality ISPs have been using with Netflix, but in a "softer" sense, where it isn't actually blocked, but service is degraded. They leave most sites alone (because there's no money in them), and go after a handful of potential cash cows for a cut of the revenue.
My guess is that this company saw what ISPs have been doing with Netflix, and wonder if it's possible to do with other sectors than video streaming, too. It's harder to do with non-bandwidth-intensive sites, though. An ISP can soft-block Netflix by just degrading the access, and even have some plausible deniability (blame Netflix's ISP or servers for the poor performance), which some people will believe. But a textbook rental site doesn't need streaming HD video levels of bandwidth, so you might have to block them entirely to make this scheme work. And people will notice/complain about that much more.
You'd almost think the humans who came up with the idea of "buildings", durable structures intended to last for a significant period of time while sheltering their occupants from the elements, were on to something.
While we're at it, it's worth noting the other person mentioned in this headline, Mark Zuckerberg, is also part of the American ruling class, and acts accordingly.
He was raised nearly from birth to fill that role, too, attending an elite private boarding school that's basically a finishing school for members of that class.
Around here Python's matplotlib has been making some inroads in the plotting category, even among people who use R for the actual data analysis, but it's admittedly not as featureful as the whole suite of R plotting packages.
You can't talk SAS unless you've got a big bank account, though. A one-year, individual (single-desktop) license costs upwards of $5,000, which makes it a non-starter for a lot of people. Also, it's not open source.
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R itself is okay, but even as a long-time user I don't think the language or environment itself is all that much to brag about. What makes it great for statistics is just that statisticians use it, which means that a lot of the packages are written by statisticians. That makes a big difference: recent papers often have R implementations, standard problems have well-maintained R packages for them with all the bells and whistles, etc. As Matloff notes, this means they often have everything that statisticians are looking for, while straightforward textbook implementations you often find in other languages often aren't nearly as thorough in how they handle the statistical models, or only handle some special cases (though there are some really good packages in other languages, just not as many).
But I don't think that has much to do with R itself being uniquely suited to statisticians. It's used for historical reasons: Bell Labs S was influential in the field way back when nothing like Python or Julia existed, and statisticians started using it because it was a lot nicer than Fortran, which is what other areas of science mostly used back then. GNU R is essentially a free-software workalike for Bell's S, and it's kept most of the community on board through a mixture of existing packages, familiarity, and inertia.
I don't think Marxism invented the idea that rich and poor people live differently, and their interests might sometimes be in opposition. Even the Bible has some pretty long sections about it.
I see a future were we just get used to it, the same as we ignore people checking their phone already.
It's possible, but at least in my social circles so far people haven't really adapted to carrying on a conversation while checking phone, at least for more than brief glances. When someone looks down at their phone for more than 3-4 seconds, the conversation pauses, and resumes when they look back up again. The explicit looking-at-the-screen aspect essentially communicates out-of-band the "am I paying attention to this conversation or not?" aspect that's used to fairly seamlessly pause and restart the conversation. So far, I've found it hard to do that with people wearing eyepieces (I've had conversations with people wearing prototype versions on and off since 2004), since you don't get the explicit notification of now-looking-at-screen, now-looking-back-up attentional state that you get with smartphones.
And most areas don't even have as many as four providers. Everywhere I've lived in the U.S. has had two providers: the local cable monopoly, and the local phone monopoly.
In particular because oil isn't really something that spoils with age, nor is it something that's getting less valuable over time, as a general trend. Even if higher taxes did result in some more oil being left in the ground this year, it'd just be pumped later, probably for more money.
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Polynesian island with a fresh water source
If one exists, the Polynesians themselves would be very interested in hearing about this island...
You haven't see what a rat election looks like.
They had fat binaries for apps compiled to both PPC and x86, but that wasn't the only solution, since with just that you wouldn't be able to run apps until the developer recompiled and shipped a new version. They also had a binary translator to run unmodified PPC binaries on x86.
The way Congress currently is, electing middle-class people would be a significant downgrade in their wealth. The median net worth of a Senator is $2.6 million.
The almost complete lack of liability that tech companies have managed to engineer for themselves via EULAs is fairly astonishing. Very few other industries have managed to pull off such a complete abdication of responsibility to deliver safe and functional products, and gotten the courts to agree with them.
The first part 'loss of life' should already be covered by simply applying murder and/or manslaughter charges. There is no reason to invent a new law for this, only because it's done with a computer.
A cynical guess as to why they might want a separate law is because the prosecutor doesn't want to have to actually prove murder and/or manslaughter according to conventional standards of evidence.
Isn't actually making the meme-image pretty superfluous in this case?
Yes, that's how it works in Denmark as well. I thought that was how Sweden also worked, but I don't know much about the Swedish economy. I'm surprised to hear this story. Are there really schools that are not part of the union framework agreements? In Denmark that is not the case; the only non-unionized employers are small mom-and-pop shops, mostly kebab shops and 1-man plumbing businesses.
Depends on the state, but even if your income is too low for income tax to really kick in, it can be about 15-25% in evaded taxes. In Texas, for example, lawn-care services are subject to sales tax, so if you're providing lawn-care services in Texas, you should be paying 6.25-8.25% off the top (depending on the city) to the state and/or municipality and/or county. Then federal payroll taxes for self-employed individuals are about 15% on the remaining post-expenses amount, which probably works out to around 10% of the gross.
It's a pretty low period of time in engineering; generally the people doing the high-level work are those who've been there 10+ years and know everything inside and out. If you've only been working on a, say, a polyethylene process for only 2 years, you're not exactly a seasoned expert who people are going to trust to make significant changes to the process.
Really depends on the company and type of work. In some companies, there are very large startup costs getting someone up to speed doing anything, so whether someone is likely to leave is a big consideration. A mediocre employee who sticks around in that case might be better than a superstar who has a 50% chance of leaving within less than 5 years.
Less often the case with pure programming jobs, especially on common platforms like web-tech and such, where good people tend to come in already knowing a bunch of the tools. But it's a fairly common situation in engineering, where companies often have extensive in-house stuff, ranging from in-house simulation software to proprietary chemical processes and equipment.
My read is that their intent is a little more targeted: find 10-15 companies that specifically target college students with online services like textbook rental, and find some way to siphon off a portion of those companies' revenue stream in return for "delivering" them access to the 15k users. Then leave the rest of the web unfiltered. This is essentially the model of net-non-neutrality ISPs have been using with Netflix, but in a "softer" sense, where it isn't actually blocked, but service is degraded. They leave most sites alone (because there's no money in them), and go after a handful of potential cash cows for a cut of the revenue.
My guess is that this company saw what ISPs have been doing with Netflix, and wonder if it's possible to do with other sectors than video streaming, too. It's harder to do with non-bandwidth-intensive sites, though. An ISP can soft-block Netflix by just degrading the access, and even have some plausible deniability (blame Netflix's ISP or servers for the poor performance), which some people will believe. But a textbook rental site doesn't need streaming HD video levels of bandwidth, so you might have to block them entirely to make this scheme work. And people will notice/complain about that much more.
You'd almost think the humans who came up with the idea of "buildings", durable structures intended to last for a significant period of time while sheltering their occupants from the elements, were on to something.
While we're at it, it's worth noting the other person mentioned in this headline, Mark Zuckerberg, is also part of the American ruling class, and acts accordingly.
He was raised nearly from birth to fill that role, too, attending an elite private boarding school that's basically a finishing school for members of that class.
Around here Python's matplotlib has been making some inroads in the plotting category, even among people who use R for the actual data analysis, but it's admittedly not as featureful as the whole suite of R plotting packages.
You can't talk SAS unless you've got a big bank account, though. A one-year, individual (single-desktop) license costs upwards of $5,000, which makes it a non-starter for a lot of people. Also, it's not open source.
R itself is okay, but even as a long-time user I don't think the language or environment itself is all that much to brag about. What makes it great for statistics is just that statisticians use it, which means that a lot of the packages are written by statisticians. That makes a big difference: recent papers often have R implementations, standard problems have well-maintained R packages for them with all the bells and whistles, etc. As Matloff notes, this means they often have everything that statisticians are looking for, while straightforward textbook implementations you often find in other languages often aren't nearly as thorough in how they handle the statistical models, or only handle some special cases (though there are some really good packages in other languages, just not as many).
But I don't think that has much to do with R itself being uniquely suited to statisticians. It's used for historical reasons: Bell Labs S was influential in the field way back when nothing like Python or Julia existed, and statisticians started using it because it was a lot nicer than Fortran, which is what other areas of science mostly used back then. GNU R is essentially a free-software workalike for Bell's S, and it's kept most of the community on board through a mixture of existing packages, familiarity, and inertia.
Yeah, what has biology ever done for us...
Do schools actually need Access?
I don't think Marxism invented the idea that rich and poor people live differently, and their interests might sometimes be in opposition. Even the Bible has some pretty long sections about it.
I see a future were we just get used to it, the same as we ignore people checking their phone already.
It's possible, but at least in my social circles so far people haven't really adapted to carrying on a conversation while checking phone, at least for more than brief glances. When someone looks down at their phone for more than 3-4 seconds, the conversation pauses, and resumes when they look back up again. The explicit looking-at-the-screen aspect essentially communicates out-of-band the "am I paying attention to this conversation or not?" aspect that's used to fairly seamlessly pause and restart the conversation. So far, I've found it hard to do that with people wearing eyepieces (I've had conversations with people wearing prototype versions on and off since 2004), since you don't get the explicit notification of now-looking-at-screen, now-looking-back-up attentional state that you get with smartphones.
Don't worry, plenty of them already have employment as prison guards...
And most areas don't even have as many as four providers. Everywhere I've lived in the U.S. has had two providers: the local cable monopoly, and the local phone monopoly.
In particular because oil isn't really something that spoils with age, nor is it something that's getting less valuable over time, as a general trend. Even if higher taxes did result in some more oil being left in the ground this year, it'd just be pumped later, probably for more money.
Yeah that sounds pretty low-class. In rich countries we put our universities in sensible places, like the spa.