One of the great reasons why wireless networking and phone technology is popular in Africa is that the copper thieves can't steal the wires. One area I visited often, many years back, had a 25 mile long telephone cable to a phone that never worked. By the time the installation crew finished the installation the first half of the line would be gone and they'd wait for the next year's budget and start all over again...
The number of calls in the interface do matter because they increase complexity. This makes fs maintainability and development a bit harder from version to version as it gets less clear what each call should do. Many of the calls are optional, or can be performed by defaults, which does help to simplify things.
There is little calling overhead from using multiple calls. Of course these interface changes are all done for a good reason: performance, stability, security.
The value chain is something that has been building for a long time. For example, Toshiba first made just the ceramic compound for embedding chips which they sold to chip makers, then they started building chips for American companies, then they started building their own chips, then products and boardsets for other brands, then their own branded products.
As more and more the actual design is moving out of USA and all that is left is branding and putting a US friendly face on the product through the branding badge, manuals and tech support. As these Asian brands build up their credibility their brands gain value too: Samsung being a prime example. As this happens, the American brands lose value.
This is happening in all sorts of areas including electronics, car manufacture etc.
Branding is highly lucrative and is what allows Apple to sell an ipod Nano at perhaps 20x its build price. However, branding is not a sustainable business model and won't last forever.
The CEOs secured the shareholders a great bail-out and the shareholders just want to say thanks.
The big idea with recession-time spending is to generate infrastructure that will help build the economy in the future. Spend now, reap later. For the Great Depression this was roads, bridges and the like. The problem with extrapolating this thinking into the modern age is that a road continues to perform its function for 50 years while broadband goes obsolete in a couple of years.
We use dual licensing too: GPL2 or get a commercial license if you want to use it in non-GPL environments.
While the GPL purists might balk at this, it does make the product usable elsewhere (more usage == more testing == good for everyone) and also provides a revenue stream to help further development (good for everyone).
Being practical is far more important than being purist.
They're forced into this because nobody wants to keep giving them more credit.
Unfortunately you're correct that the rest of the world has been ready to work in the kitchens and make money off the people throwing their credit cards around.
We're just coming out of a boom. Like previous booms, this last boom created jobs for people that could spell computa. Come the end of the boom and these are the first jobs to go.
Advice for the sub average? Well if you are sub average then you're always going to be at high risk. The same applies to any industry - it is not just a computer thing. Find something you're better at.
If you're sub average and insist on being in the industry then face it that you're only going to be employed 50% of the time.
Right now the police can pull you over and ask for your license. Don't show it and you see the inside of a cell.
And while you're driving around your car has license plates on it which can be scanned from far further than RFID.
The potential for abuse is already there and has been for a long time.
One cool thing with new tech is that it lifts the bar for the scammers. With RFID you need a lot more than a photocopier and laminator to make a fake drivers license.
If we have independent observations from different parties, each using different methods then we can use the numbers in conjunction with eachother.
In the LHC case we have pretty much the same set of information being analysed by different people but using the same science, we then don't gain anything except verification of calculations. Even then, scientists very seldom run all their calculations from scratch but use common packages (MathCAD etc) and models. If they all run the same calcs then that's hardly verification.
What is far more important in the LHC case is this: Do scientists have sufficient understanding of the laws of physics? Asking them is pointless because they don't know how much they don't know and are thus incapable of making a reasonable guess as to whether something will happen that exceeds the bounds of their knowledge.
What we're talking about is more possibility than probability.
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Less threads would suck as that would drive up latency.
One of the great reasons why wireless networking and phone technology is popular in Africa is that the copper thieves can't steal the wires. One area I visited often, many years back, had a 25 mile long telephone cable to a phone that never worked. By the time the installation crew finished the installation the first half of the line would be gone and they'd wait for the next year's budget and start all over again...
Seriously, this is just another case of illogical fear of "new" technologies. It is already easy to track him: just look for the long motorcade.
Fool me 12 times, shame on me
There is little calling overhead from using multiple calls. Of course these interface changes are all done for a good reason: performance, stability, security.
As more and more the actual design is moving out of USA and all that is left is branding and putting a US friendly face on the product through the branding badge, manuals and tech support. As these Asian brands build up their credibility their brands gain value too: Samsung being a prime example. As this happens, the American brands lose value.
This is happening in all sorts of areas including electronics, car manufacture etc.
Branding is highly lucrative and is what allows Apple to sell an ipod Nano at perhaps 20x its build price. However, branding is not a sustainable business model and won't last forever.
The CEOs secured the shareholders a great bail-out and the shareholders just want to say thanks.
The big idea with recession-time spending is to generate infrastructure that will help build the economy in the future. Spend now, reap later. For the Great Depression this was roads, bridges and the like. The problem with extrapolating this thinking into the modern age is that a road continues to perform its function for 50 years while broadband goes obsolete in a couple of years.
These pods look cute and all, but do they really do anything that trains and buses don't? The trains at SFO and SeaTac do a great job.
While the GPL purists might balk at this, it does make the product usable elsewhere (more usage == more testing == good for everyone) and also provides a revenue stream to help further development (good for everyone).
Being practical is far more important than being purist.
Considering that most Linux machines are embedded (cellphones and the like) where Windows is too fat-assed to play.
Just publish it in a public space: blog, user group etc.
If you have kept the rights then you don't have to do anything special to keep it free for all. Just tell people that it is.
They're forced into this because nobody wants to keep giving them more credit.
Unfortunately you're correct that the rest of the world has been ready to work in the kitchens and make money off the people throwing their credit cards around.
The victim gets all pissed and wants to see the evidence and yell at someone. Their rational thinking (what little they have) goes out the window.
Advice for the sub average? Well if you are sub average then you're always going to be at high risk. The same applies to any industry - it is not just a computer thing. Find something you're better at.
If you're sub average and insist on being in the industry then face it that you're only going to be employed 50% of the time.
When you build on a fault line, nature is going to give you a big fucking shake sometime.
Building a dam nearby might bring the event forward a bit, but it's going to happen anyway.
As with all things geological, there are a lot of unknown variables, hence the "could", "might" and other diluting terms.
And while you're driving around your car has license plates on it which can be scanned from far further than RFID.
The potential for abuse is already there and has been for a long time.
One cool thing with new tech is that it lifts the bar for the scammers. With RFID you need a lot more than a photocopier and laminator to make a fake drivers license.
It is the last thing America needs too! American consumer culture is wrecking the sustainability of many economies.
Teleporting by a week is a fantastic breakthrough! Before now they've only managed a few nanoseconds.
In the LHC case we have pretty much the same set of information being analysed by different people but using the same science, we then don't gain anything except verification of calculations. Even then, scientists very seldom run all their calculations from scratch but use common packages (MathCAD etc) and models. If they all run the same calcs then that's hardly verification.
What is far more important in the LHC case is this: Do scientists have sufficient understanding of the laws of physics? Asking them is pointless because they don't know how much they don't know and are thus incapable of making a reasonable guess as to whether something will happen that exceeds the bounds of their knowledge.
What we're talking about is more possibility than probability.
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Windows people use the recycling bin instead of the trash can.
Priced low enough that you couldn't be arsed to ask for a refund
And B&W will look fine.