Supported for FreeBSD means still getting the latest releases of third-party software. Supported for CentOS means getting security back-ports of third-party software for a few packages and stale versions for everything else. When FreeBSD 11 goes EOL in 2021, you'll be able to build C++20 programs on it using a compiler and standard library versions that come from the official distribution channel. CentOS 7 can't even compile C++14 programs now without building the standard library and compiler from source.
Is that different from gay like George Neville-Neil is gay? Or gay like Eric Allman is gay? Don't we get to choose? I'm not going to list all of the gay FreeBSD contributors - I'm not sure I could, because we care more about their code than their sexual orientation.
There are several arguments. One is that vaping leads to smoking, which is the standard gateway drug argument and probably doesn't hold much water. One is that the quality of the fluid that you vape varies hugely depending on suppliers and a few were found to contain benzene (carcinogenic) and some other stuff that you probably don't want. That shouldn't really call for a ban, but for better regulation of the shops that sell the fluids.
The final argument is that, with some of the e-cigarettes, it's difficult for someone to tell at a distance whether you are smoking or vaping. Unless they're close enough to tell whether the glow on the end is a red LED or fire, they look very similar, particularly in low light levels. This makes enforcing a smoking bans much harder and so some places have a no-smoking-or-vaping policy to ease enforcement. That's not a great argument, but it's probably the least bad one.
The patent seems like a logical extension of the value predictor in the Alpha. The Alpha is pretty much required reading for anyone doing microprocessor design (both for the good ideas and the ones that turned out in hindsight to be bad ideas). The iPhone 5 was released 21 years after the first Alpha, so any technology from there should be completely safe to use - even if it were patented the day of release, it would be out of patent.
That's the only bit that made sense to me. I've flown into the US dozens of times, and each time I've not been a terrorist. After a while, I started seeing TSA Pre on my boarding passes: odds are, I'm probably not going to suddenly become a terrorist. It seems a lot more reliable than assuming that people who pay $100 and fill in a web form are not terrorists.
Unfortunately, I didn't fly much last year and so this year I'm back in the long queues.
I've seen a couple of companies address this by effectively charging for training, but with the proviso that they'll pay the cost if you're still there in a few years. If you stay, then the training was free. If you leave, then hopefully the new salary is sufficiently high that it's still a better move after you pay back the cost of the training.
For most skilled positions, the first 6-12 months is spent acquiring relevant knowledge to the particular workflow that the hiring company uses. Employees don't reach their maximum productivity after that. If someone has never stayed at a job for more than 18 months, then the prospective employer doesn't have much evidence that they ever will reach that peak. Are they hopping jobs because they're so amazing that they're always head-hunted, or are they always switching jobs because they're given the benefit of the doubt in the first year because they're still learning the ropes and they're encouraged to go elsewhere once their employer discovers that they're actually incapable of learning?
I'd have to look it up, but I was under the impression that this was changed a couple of years ago and that chain stores were now required to have the item on sale at the full price at at least 50% of their locations.
Huh? A Farnsworth Fuser can produce neutrons and can be made in most physics labs. I'd be very surprised if any company working on fusion doesn't have at least one.
You can do immigration before departure in a few places. Quite a few Canadian airports can do US immigration and so can Dublin (there's a flight from London City Airport that does a short hop to Dublin, runs everyone through US immigration, then puts them on a larger plane to the US). This is generally more convenient, because most people arrive at their departing airport with time to spare and are otherwise simply waiting around.
I wouldn't say satellite phones were a forerunner of modern mobile telephones, more of a parallel development. The modern phones are a linear descendant of carphones, which were first used in 1946 (Motorola an Bell in the USA - a land that has super-rich people, though the work was done by a state-owned monopoly, so I'm not sure what this says about the ideological part of the argument). The first communication satellite wasn't launched until after portable telephones were well-understood (though still bulky and analogue) technology.
The fuel margins on Concorde were really tight. I had a flying lesson at Exeter Airport that ended up being extended by about half an hour when Concorde came in (and so I got to see Concorde landing from above, which was fun). Apparently if it missed the landing, it didn't have enough fuel to do a complete circuit (it also had a huge turning circle) and so would have to land somewhere else. This meant that when Concorde stated its approach, it got complete priority over everything else in the sky.
LHR to SFO, SFO or LHR to NRT would benefit from shorter flight times. LHR to JFK is barely worth it because so much of the total travel time is getting to and from the airports and time spent hanging around the airport in the slack that you had to allow in case of delays or really long security lines.
That calculation isn't as simple as you might think. Airlines buy fuel futures to be able to predict their costs and often over-buy incase they add more routes. They then trade these. If the fuel cost goes up a lot, then selling the futures can be quite profitable, and in a few cases completely cover their cost of buying fuel, so that 15% may include the cost of fuel minus a big profit when they sold some futures to another airline.
They do sometimes, but the fines get pretty large and if you do it repeatedly then they're significantly more than you're likely to make from the sale.
In the UK, it is illegal to advertise a sale price unless you have sold the same item at the pre-discount price for a certain period, so pretty much any shop here is an exception to this.
Senior management does, because their peers judge them on output of their department relative to costs. Middle management does the opposite, because their peers judge them based on number of subordinates.
Even though app seems like it's short for application it is rather short for "Mobile Application".
Bullshit. People have been shortening application to app for decades. NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Mac OS X all used.app as the file extension for applications, used NSApp as the global variable that holds a pointer to the current application object, and used App in their marketing terminology since the '80s. iOS apps were called apps because that's the same term that Apple has used on the desktop since it was a company called NeXT, trying to redefine the term to only mean mobile apps is nonsense.
No one knew it was there because, statistically speaking, it wasn't. Random sampling of machines is probably not going to find something that's only on one in 2,000, particularly if they're clustered somehow.
The founders of the USA created a system of checks and balances to restrain the government. This included splitting powers between the state and federal governments and splitting the power of the federal government between the legislature, executive, and judiciary, all of which were appointed by different mechanisms.
They didn't feel the need to provide similar checks and balances on the power of rich people or corporations, because neither was particularly powerful in the US at the time of founding (if they'd looked at the East India Company a bit more closely, they might have done things differently).
A few years ago, United was about the only US carrier to make a profit. Unfortunately, all of them made a loss on the business of actually flying planes. They all buy fuel futures to let them plan their operating costs in advance and United made a fairly hefty profit selling some of theirs when prices spiked. I don't know if they've managed to make a profit operating planes since then, but the economics of operating an airline is deeply strange. RyanAir, for example, gets sufficient subsidies from a lot of the small airports that they fly to that they can make a profit even if the plane is empty, the passengers are just there to justify the subsidies (they won't be renewed if they don't deliver a sufficiently large total number of passengers). Anything that they take from their passengers is pure profit.
Over the last two or three decades, there's been such a race to the bottom for airlines that they're basically having to sell their tickets at below cost and make money elsewhere. They're not the only business to hit this. Some of the supermarkets in the UK got bad press about five years ago for paying farmers below cost for milk. Milk goes off sufficiently quickly that unless you have a second customer lined up, if they supermarket refuses to pay your production costs you either make a small loss selling to them or make a large loss disposing of the milk. In the long term, this isn't sustainable, because it just pushes farms out of the milk business. The same seems to be happening with airlines.
Huh? Go to Settings. One of the top items (the top one after the block of device settings) is Notifications. Click on it. You are presented with a list of apps. Click on the app. At the top, there is a global toggle to allow notifications. If it's turned on, then you have more options underneath to control where notifications are shown. Control of notifications is centralised, so it's easy to go down the list and disable them for all apps except the ones that you actually want. On top of that, apps are never given the permission to display notifications by default: the first time that they try, you will be prompted to allow them. You only need to go via the settings screen if you want to change your mind later.
Face it, Apple doesn't care about their users, they only care about their revenue.
The same is true of Google. The difference is that Google gets all of its revenue from ads, whereas Apple gets most of theirs from people buying the devices, so they'll make money from you even if you never run any apps that run annoying popups, whereas Google has a big financial incentive to make it difficult for you to avoid seeing ads.
Turn off auto-sync for your emails too. You don't need to respond in seconds. It's an email.
That's no reason to turn off auto-sync, just turn off notifications for emails. With auto-sync, the emails will be there the next time that you look at your phone, but won't require you to respond immediately.
In some cases, because people in management justify their existence (and salaries) by the number of people that report to them. Add more employees, manager's importance goes up. That provides a strong incentive to have employees that don't do anything useful, but do report to you.
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Supported for FreeBSD means still getting the latest releases of third-party software. Supported for CentOS means getting security back-ports of third-party software for a few packages and stale versions for everything else. When FreeBSD 11 goes EOL in 2021, you'll be able to build C++20 programs on it using a compiler and standard library versions that come from the official distribution channel. CentOS 7 can't even compile C++14 programs now without building the standard library and compiler from source.
Is that different from gay like George Neville-Neil is gay? Or gay like Eric Allman is gay? Don't we get to choose? I'm not going to list all of the gay FreeBSD contributors - I'm not sure I could, because we care more about their code than their sexual orientation.
There are several arguments. One is that vaping leads to smoking, which is the standard gateway drug argument and probably doesn't hold much water. One is that the quality of the fluid that you vape varies hugely depending on suppliers and a few were found to contain benzene (carcinogenic) and some other stuff that you probably don't want. That shouldn't really call for a ban, but for better regulation of the shops that sell the fluids.
The final argument is that, with some of the e-cigarettes, it's difficult for someone to tell at a distance whether you are smoking or vaping. Unless they're close enough to tell whether the glow on the end is a red LED or fire, they look very similar, particularly in low light levels. This makes enforcing a smoking bans much harder and so some places have a no-smoking-or-vaping policy to ease enforcement. That's not a great argument, but it's probably the least bad one.
The patent seems like a logical extension of the value predictor in the Alpha. The Alpha is pretty much required reading for anyone doing microprocessor design (both for the good ideas and the ones that turned out in hindsight to be bad ideas). The iPhone 5 was released 21 years after the first Alpha, so any technology from there should be completely safe to use - even if it were patented the day of release, it would be out of patent.
Unfortunately, I didn't fly much last year and so this year I'm back in the long queues.
So, well under half of the people who fly into the US then?
I've seen a couple of companies address this by effectively charging for training, but with the proviso that they'll pay the cost if you're still there in a few years. If you stay, then the training was free. If you leave, then hopefully the new salary is sufficiently high that it's still a better move after you pay back the cost of the training.
For most skilled positions, the first 6-12 months is spent acquiring relevant knowledge to the particular workflow that the hiring company uses. Employees don't reach their maximum productivity after that. If someone has never stayed at a job for more than 18 months, then the prospective employer doesn't have much evidence that they ever will reach that peak. Are they hopping jobs because they're so amazing that they're always head-hunted, or are they always switching jobs because they're given the benefit of the doubt in the first year because they're still learning the ropes and they're encouraged to go elsewhere once their employer discovers that they're actually incapable of learning?
I'd have to look it up, but I was under the impression that this was changed a couple of years ago and that chain stores were now required to have the item on sale at the full price at at least 50% of their locations.
Huh? A Farnsworth Fuser can produce neutrons and can be made in most physics labs. I'd be very surprised if any company working on fusion doesn't have at least one.
You can do immigration before departure in a few places. Quite a few Canadian airports can do US immigration and so can Dublin (there's a flight from London City Airport that does a short hop to Dublin, runs everyone through US immigration, then puts them on a larger plane to the US). This is generally more convenient, because most people arrive at their departing airport with time to spare and are otherwise simply waiting around.
I wouldn't say satellite phones were a forerunner of modern mobile telephones, more of a parallel development. The modern phones are a linear descendant of carphones, which were first used in 1946 (Motorola an Bell in the USA - a land that has super-rich people, though the work was done by a state-owned monopoly, so I'm not sure what this says about the ideological part of the argument). The first communication satellite wasn't launched until after portable telephones were well-understood (though still bulky and analogue) technology.
The fuel margins on Concorde were really tight. I had a flying lesson at Exeter Airport that ended up being extended by about half an hour when Concorde came in (and so I got to see Concorde landing from above, which was fun). Apparently if it missed the landing, it didn't have enough fuel to do a complete circuit (it also had a huge turning circle) and so would have to land somewhere else. This meant that when Concorde stated its approach, it got complete priority over everything else in the sky.
LHR to SFO, SFO or LHR to NRT would benefit from shorter flight times. LHR to JFK is barely worth it because so much of the total travel time is getting to and from the airports and time spent hanging around the airport in the slack that you had to allow in case of delays or really long security lines.
That calculation isn't as simple as you might think. Airlines buy fuel futures to be able to predict their costs and often over-buy incase they add more routes. They then trade these. If the fuel cost goes up a lot, then selling the futures can be quite profitable, and in a few cases completely cover their cost of buying fuel, so that 15% may include the cost of fuel minus a big profit when they sold some futures to another airline.
They do sometimes, but the fines get pretty large and if you do it repeatedly then they're significantly more than you're likely to make from the sale.
In the UK, it is illegal to advertise a sale price unless you have sold the same item at the pre-discount price for a certain period, so pretty much any shop here is an exception to this.
Senior management does, because their peers judge them on output of their department relative to costs. Middle management does the opposite, because their peers judge them based on number of subordinates.
Even though app seems like it's short for application it is rather short for "Mobile Application".
Bullshit. People have been shortening application to app for decades. NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Mac OS X all used .app as the file extension for applications, used NSApp as the global variable that holds a pointer to the current application object, and used App in their marketing terminology since the '80s. iOS apps were called apps because that's the same term that Apple has used on the desktop since it was a company called NeXT, trying to redefine the term to only mean mobile apps is nonsense.
No one knew it was there because, statistically speaking, it wasn't. Random sampling of machines is probably not going to find something that's only on one in 2,000, particularly if they're clustered somehow.
The founders of the USA created a system of checks and balances to restrain the government. This included splitting powers between the state and federal governments and splitting the power of the federal government between the legislature, executive, and judiciary, all of which were appointed by different mechanisms.
They didn't feel the need to provide similar checks and balances on the power of rich people or corporations, because neither was particularly powerful in the US at the time of founding (if they'd looked at the East India Company a bit more closely, they might have done things differently).
A few years ago, United was about the only US carrier to make a profit. Unfortunately, all of them made a loss on the business of actually flying planes. They all buy fuel futures to let them plan their operating costs in advance and United made a fairly hefty profit selling some of theirs when prices spiked. I don't know if they've managed to make a profit operating planes since then, but the economics of operating an airline is deeply strange. RyanAir, for example, gets sufficient subsidies from a lot of the small airports that they fly to that they can make a profit even if the plane is empty, the passengers are just there to justify the subsidies (they won't be renewed if they don't deliver a sufficiently large total number of passengers). Anything that they take from their passengers is pure profit.
Over the last two or three decades, there's been such a race to the bottom for airlines that they're basically having to sell their tickets at below cost and make money elsewhere. They're not the only business to hit this. Some of the supermarkets in the UK got bad press about five years ago for paying farmers below cost for milk. Milk goes off sufficiently quickly that unless you have a second customer lined up, if they supermarket refuses to pay your production costs you either make a small loss selling to them or make a large loss disposing of the milk. In the long term, this isn't sustainable, because it just pushes farms out of the milk business. The same seems to be happening with airlines.
Face it, Apple doesn't care about their users, they only care about their revenue.
The same is true of Google. The difference is that Google gets all of its revenue from ads, whereas Apple gets most of theirs from people buying the devices, so they'll make money from you even if you never run any apps that run annoying popups, whereas Google has a big financial incentive to make it difficult for you to avoid seeing ads.
Turn off auto-sync for your emails too. You don't need to respond in seconds. It's an email.
That's no reason to turn off auto-sync, just turn off notifications for emails. With auto-sync, the emails will be there the next time that you look at your phone, but won't require you to respond immediately.
In some cases, because people in management justify their existence (and salaries) by the number of people that report to them. Add more employees, manager's importance goes up. That provides a strong incentive to have employees that don't do anything useful, but do report to you.