It's the whole "grow or die" attitude. They expect a certain growth rate out of Google, and if Google can't make it then it's all doom and gloom. It doesn't really matter if the growth rate is realistic, healthy, or sustainable. The thing with Google is, they've managed a 20% growth rate the previous few years, so that's become the "normal" for them. But anyone can see that Google cannot possibly sustain a 20% growth rate forever.
So by your strange view, anything with a positive yield could be called "exponential". A savings account with 1% interest is "exponential" if you push the time of the graph out far enough.
A savings account that grows 1% per year does grow exponentially. It's one of the classic examples. Each year it will earn more and more as you earn interest on the previous years' worth of interest payments. Exponential growth has a specific mathematical definition - it doesn't mean "grows really really fast". Kind of like the term "broadband", which also has a very precise technical definition, but has been redefined by marketing types and government regulators to mean "really really fast internet". (well, fast from their perspective)
I think that's the root of the problem. Because of vaccines, most people in the west have not seen firsthand the horrors of diseases like smallpox and polio. For those that have, getting vaccinated is the obvious choice. Still is, even if you believe the vaccine may have a small risk, it's better than mumps or measles.
That's pretty much it. Since C doesn't have exception handling I use goto to accomplish something similar. That's about the only reason I ever use goto so generally I don't find it harmful when it comes to code I've created because if I see it, I know what it's doing. Of course, if it's something that someone else wrote, it could be doing just about anything, but it's not like you can abuse other language constructs.
I was recently surprised to find out that, at least in theory, you can order a Jeep Patriot with a manual transmission, crank windows, and no A/C. Now that's a Jeep. Though my guess is that you'll have a hard time actually trying to get something like that from a dealer.
Yeah, but that stuff is becoming standard on many models. It's started on luxury cars, and it's working it's way down through mainstream models and eventually will hit the base models. Just like things such as power locks and air conditioning are standard on almost every new car nowdays. Today, if you want something like a Honda Fit you can still manage to get something that's pretty much just a car, but if you want something equivalent to a luxury or sports car from 20 years ago (in terms of performance, build quality, and similar equipment level) good luck.
The script kiddie would have no idea that the security hole they were exploiting was fixed until they suddenly find out that their l33t hax0r t00lz no longer work.
I'm not so sure about that. They say I'll need a million just to retire. Having the million a couple decades early seems like it would not be enough. One way to think about it, I may reasonably expect to live another 50 years, and a million divided by 50 is just $20k a year. Of course, if you invest the money wisely, you'll be earning a return on it. On the other hand, inflation will eat away at your earnings and a raised cost of livings will chip away at your nest egg. I ran the numbers, and assuming a 5% return a year on your investment, and the first year you withdraw $30k and a 3% increase every year after that, the money will last you 49 years. Interestingly, you're a millionaire until about year 38, when you start having to withdraw large enough amounts due to inflation amounts that you end up depleting the fund in the next 10 or so years. If you assume a more modest 3% gain, the same 3% inflation (in other words, you invest conservatively with the goal of only keeping pace with inflation) but only withdraw $20k a year, you'll make it year 48.
An interesting question would be, do you take a chunk of your money (say, $150k) and buy a modest house right away? Not having to pay rent/mortgage would significantly lower your cost of living moving forward. But on the other hand, with interest rates on mortgages so low, would you be better off investing that money instead?
Buying a house would be cheaper than renting it. If you think about it, most people you would rent a house from don't own it. The house is mortgaged, and the rent they are going to charge is going to at least cover the mortgage. Now, that won't always be true in all locations and all the time due to local factors, but in the long run that's going to be the case. And even if you find it's cheaper to rent a place than to buy it, remember that the rent is going to go up every year or two, but your mortgage payment will not (assuming a fixed rate mortgage - you did get a fixed rate mortgage, right?). Finally, with any luck you'll be building up equity. When you stop paying rent, you'll have nothing. With a house, you'll likely have something.
The easy solution is not take the lump sum, and instead take the yearly payouts for the next 30 years (or whatever it is). That way, you simply can't blow all the money at once, and even if you manage to totally screw it up the first year, you'll get another chunk the next year. Hopefully, they'll do better the next time, but if not another chunk arrives the next year...
I would think that even if you managed to keep your winnings secret (oftentimes you simply can't claim the winnings anonymously), you'd still have a hard time coming up with a good cover story of how you can drive nice cars, take lots of vacations, live in a fancy house, send all your kids to expensive colleges, etc. with no apparent source of income.
You get that if you go to a website with a self-signed certificate, or an expired one, and similar. If you remember back a few years, some root CA's got hacked with the end result that any certificate signed by those CA's cannot be trusted and as it may be fraudulent. Other browsers will throw up warnings and big scary dialogs (as they should), but will still let you click through and go to the site if you really want to. Firefox straight up refuses to let you connect in this case. This is a problem as you can still find these certificates on older networking equipment that will likely never see an update, and if you're accessing the device over your LAN it doesn't really matter anyway.
Well, at least they have Ctrl and Alt keys on both sides of the keyboard, something not all compact designs have. Otherwise, using that keyboard for any kind of serious programming (and debugging - most IDE's make extensive use of the function keys) would get old pretty quickly.
I don't know if I would consider it an investment. That kind of implies you're in it for the long term, and my guess is any smart TV will stop getting updates within a year or two, and in about five years all the "Smart" features will be unsupported, broken, and damn near useless. I would invest in a good screen that I would hope to keep a while, and then keep the "smarts" separate so they can be updated as needed.
That's the number one thing I would like to see. I'm still using Winamp (with all its video-related quirks) as it's the only video player I have found that has a good playlist.
They reached the saturation point for me several years back. As soon as I realize it's a comic book movie, I pretty much instantly lose all interest. They all have the same basic story/plot (see the screenwriting book "Save The Cat!") and it's just the same characters over and over since they just keep rebooting the same franchises instead of trying something new. I don't get it, but it seems that lots of people like them so they'll just keep cranking them out as long as they make money.
Well, if you want to go with Microsoft, there's always Small Basic, which is free and aims to be have a relatively shallow learning curve similar to QBasic back in the Dos days. I don't know anyone who teaches that though.
Did Microsoft honestly think that corporate customers would want a tablet interface on their workstations? Other than that, Windows 8 is actually pretty good under the hood. If they had just dropped the familiar Windows 7 interface on top they would have had a winner.
Well, if the security was done correctly (like https) they wouldn't be able to man in the middle it. The car would be able to know it's not talking to the proper server, and anyone just passively ease-dropping on the connection would just get see an encrypted data stream. Apparently this is not how it was done.
At some point, you still have to walk over to the toaster to put the bread in it. While you're there, it's not a big deal to program the toaster by twiddling a few knobs or pushing a button or two. You also have to be there to remove the toast when its down. A toaster running NetBSD is still a cool project, but that doesn't mean it's really useful.
A patient thief would just wait for someone to walk off and not notice. In a busy car park, it probably wouldn't take long. An impatient one could just club you in the back of the head with a tire iron while you're busy trying to figure out why the remote isn't working.
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It's the whole "grow or die" attitude. They expect a certain growth rate out of Google, and if Google can't make it then it's all doom and gloom. It doesn't really matter if the growth rate is realistic, healthy, or sustainable. The thing with Google is, they've managed a 20% growth rate the previous few years, so that's become the "normal" for them. But anyone can see that Google cannot possibly sustain a 20% growth rate forever.
A savings account that grows 1% per year does grow exponentially. It's one of the classic examples. Each year it will earn more and more as you earn interest on the previous years' worth of interest payments. Exponential growth has a specific mathematical definition - it doesn't mean "grows really really fast". Kind of like the term "broadband", which also has a very precise technical definition, but has been redefined by marketing types and government regulators to mean "really really fast internet". (well, fast from their perspective)
I think that's the root of the problem. Because of vaccines, most people in the west have not seen firsthand the horrors of diseases like smallpox and polio. For those that have, getting vaccinated is the obvious choice. Still is, even if you believe the vaccine may have a small risk, it's better than mumps or measles.
That's pretty much it. Since C doesn't have exception handling I use goto to accomplish something similar. That's about the only reason I ever use goto so generally I don't find it harmful when it comes to code I've created because if I see it, I know what it's doing. Of course, if it's something that someone else wrote, it could be doing just about anything, but it's not like you can abuse other language constructs.
I was recently surprised to find out that, at least in theory, you can order a Jeep Patriot with a manual transmission, crank windows, and no A/C. Now that's a Jeep. Though my guess is that you'll have a hard time actually trying to get something like that from a dealer.
Yeah, but that stuff is becoming standard on many models. It's started on luxury cars, and it's working it's way down through mainstream models and eventually will hit the base models. Just like things such as power locks and air conditioning are standard on almost every new car nowdays. Today, if you want something like a Honda Fit you can still manage to get something that's pretty much just a car, but if you want something equivalent to a luxury or sports car from 20 years ago (in terms of performance, build quality, and similar equipment level) good luck.
What a silly question. Unless you have S-VHS, there's no reason to go above 1080p.
Did you manage to sleep through the big new stories the past year about 'Heartbleed' (OpenSSL) and 'Shellshock' (bash)?
The script kiddie would have no idea that the security hole they were exploiting was fixed until they suddenly find out that their l33t hax0r t00lz no longer work.
I'm not so sure about that. They say I'll need a million just to retire. Having the million a couple decades early seems like it would not be enough. One way to think about it, I may reasonably expect to live another 50 years, and a million divided by 50 is just $20k a year. Of course, if you invest the money wisely, you'll be earning a return on it. On the other hand, inflation will eat away at your earnings and a raised cost of livings will chip away at your nest egg. I ran the numbers, and assuming a 5% return a year on your investment, and the first year you withdraw $30k and a 3% increase every year after that, the money will last you 49 years. Interestingly, you're a millionaire until about year 38, when you start having to withdraw large enough amounts due to inflation amounts that you end up depleting the fund in the next 10 or so years. If you assume a more modest 3% gain, the same 3% inflation (in other words, you invest conservatively with the goal of only keeping pace with inflation) but only withdraw $20k a year, you'll make it year 48.
An interesting question would be, do you take a chunk of your money (say, $150k) and buy a modest house right away? Not having to pay rent/mortgage would significantly lower your cost of living moving forward. But on the other hand, with interest rates on mortgages so low, would you be better off investing that money instead?
Buying a house would be cheaper than renting it. If you think about it, most people you would rent a house from don't own it. The house is mortgaged, and the rent they are going to charge is going to at least cover the mortgage. Now, that won't always be true in all locations and all the time due to local factors, but in the long run that's going to be the case. And even if you find it's cheaper to rent a place than to buy it, remember that the rent is going to go up every year or two, but your mortgage payment will not (assuming a fixed rate mortgage - you did get a fixed rate mortgage, right?). Finally, with any luck you'll be building up equity. When you stop paying rent, you'll have nothing. With a house, you'll likely have something.
The easy solution is not take the lump sum, and instead take the yearly payouts for the next 30 years (or whatever it is). That way, you simply can't blow all the money at once, and even if you manage to totally screw it up the first year, you'll get another chunk the next year. Hopefully, they'll do better the next time, but if not another chunk arrives the next year...
I would think that even if you managed to keep your winnings secret (oftentimes you simply can't claim the winnings anonymously), you'd still have a hard time coming up with a good cover story of how you can drive nice cars, take lots of vacations, live in a fancy house, send all your kids to expensive colleges, etc. with no apparent source of income.
I hope that you don't leave your car windows cracked when you park. If not, someone could always slip the winning lottery ticket into your car.
You get that if you go to a website with a self-signed certificate, or an expired one, and similar. If you remember back a few years, some root CA's got hacked with the end result that any certificate signed by those CA's cannot be trusted and as it may be fraudulent. Other browsers will throw up warnings and big scary dialogs (as they should), but will still let you click through and go to the site if you really want to. Firefox straight up refuses to let you connect in this case. This is a problem as you can still find these certificates on older networking equipment that will likely never see an update, and if you're accessing the device over your LAN it doesn't really matter anyway.
I have nothing against Caps Lock, but as far as I'm concerned it can live up there next to Scroll Lock. The Windows key can also join it.
Well, at least they have Ctrl and Alt keys on both sides of the keyboard, something not all compact designs have. Otherwise, using that keyboard for any kind of serious programming (and debugging - most IDE's make extensive use of the function keys) would get old pretty quickly.
I don't know if I would consider it an investment. That kind of implies you're in it for the long term, and my guess is any smart TV will stop getting updates within a year or two, and in about five years all the "Smart" features will be unsupported, broken, and damn near useless. I would invest in a good screen that I would hope to keep a while, and then keep the "smarts" separate so they can be updated as needed.
That's the number one thing I would like to see. I'm still using Winamp (with all its video-related quirks) as it's the only video player I have found that has a good playlist.
They reached the saturation point for me several years back. As soon as I realize it's a comic book movie, I pretty much instantly lose all interest. They all have the same basic story/plot (see the screenwriting book "Save The Cat!") and it's just the same characters over and over since they just keep rebooting the same franchises instead of trying something new. I don't get it, but it seems that lots of people like them so they'll just keep cranking them out as long as they make money.
Well, if you want to go with Microsoft, there's always Small Basic, which is free and aims to be have a relatively shallow learning curve similar to QBasic back in the Dos days. I don't know anyone who teaches that though.
Did Microsoft honestly think that corporate customers would want a tablet interface on their workstations? Other than that, Windows 8 is actually pretty good under the hood. If they had just dropped the familiar Windows 7 interface on top they would have had a winner.
Well, if the security was done correctly (like https) they wouldn't be able to man in the middle it. The car would be able to know it's not talking to the proper server, and anyone just passively ease-dropping on the connection would just get see an encrypted data stream. Apparently this is not how it was done.
If the security was present, well designed, and well implemented, I don't think most would care how they necessarily did it.
At some point, you still have to walk over to the toaster to put the bread in it. While you're there, it's not a big deal to program the toaster by twiddling a few knobs or pushing a button or two. You also have to be there to remove the toast when its down. A toaster running NetBSD is still a cool project, but that doesn't mean it's really useful.
A patient thief would just wait for someone to walk off and not notice. In a busy car park, it probably wouldn't take long. An impatient one could just club you in the back of the head with a tire iron while you're busy trying to figure out why the remote isn't working.