You have that backwards. A drop in the rate that new mortgages are created *will cause* a drop in consumer spending power and therefore employment. Our economy has been fueled by rising house prices and rising debt levels. A drop in house prices *will cause* an over supply of unsold inventory as a fear of dropping prices will trigger some "investors" to try to exit the market.
Let me explain that in another way. Take the situation of a single individual. In any given period you can spend your income, plus the value of any new loans you take out. If in the next period you don't take any more credit, your spending power is reduced when compared to the previous period even if your level of income remains constant. Now extrapolate the same idea to the entire economy. The amount of economic activity in a year is the amount of our income (GDP) plus the value of new loans we take out, or the velocity of the total level of debt. Therefore the change in economic activity between years, is the change in GDP plus the acceleration in the level of debt.
Now after the crisis hit in 2008, and we suddenly hit the brakes on new loans, what did we do? We gave a lump sum of cash to first home owners, which they all dutifully took to their bank manager and levered up to 95% on a new mortgage. This massive amount of additional loans drove the acceleration of debt positive again, gave us a huge boost in economic activity as the vendors received all of this additional spending power. The new money from loans flowed around the economy, and rescued us from a recession.
But for the last 12 months or so, we've been applying the brakes in our level of debt. We've been creating less loans, and we've been paying of the ones we already have (or going bankrupt). We have less additional spending power. The economy is slowing, house prices are falling, and unemployment will again start to rise.
Now I admit that most people don't think that the level of debt has any impact on the economy. So I'll let history be my judge. By 2017, baring any other government rescue, I expect house prices in Australia to drop at least 40% in real terms across the board.
On android you can also open an activity in front of the lock screen, or just replace it. So you could have your application appear immediately when the screen turns on, and build a password-ish way of getting to the underlying android OS.
The financial crisis is hitting us right now. Our housing bubble has started its decline, and almost nothing will prevent it. Another first home owners scheme? Not going to work this time.
Mark my words, the worst of this crisis is still to come.
The other big point to note here, if the laser is rigged up on / next to the sniper rifle scope. You could delay turning it on until the projectile has left the barrel. Giving you no more warning than the muzzle flash.
And yet, wifi coverage was fairly spotty for the conference. Some of those access points definitely weren't working, you'd have to manually choose which MAC address to use, or point your antenna in a different direction before you could connect properly.
If you wanted to setup a rouge AP, you could probably get away with it in the corridors. Though you wouldn't be able to hack everyone, there were plenty of people hanging around outside the main halls checking emails etc.
It all depends on the user experience. From the users point of view, they click a link, and may be prompted to enter their email provider, username and password. How can you guarantee that the web page you clicked on to start this process isn't providing their own form to fool the user and capture their password?
Or have a few trusted entities that sign your key and name record, SSL anyone?. Or allow duplicates with a web of trust. And allow url's to use the above public key for cross domain links.
Resolving short names to dns name servers in a p2p fashion is problematic. What we should build is a system based on public / private key pairs. Sure the problem of establishing that "Bank of America" has key XXXX is going to be problematic, I'm not sure exactly how to tackle it, and that's most of what the dns system actually solves. But after that step you could be performing name server lookups via a known public key. Just sign a new location record and publish it via something like DHT.
No root servers, no name confiscation, that key could belong to you forever.
Don't leave code around that is no longer needed. Just don't. I've deleted heaps of code in my career that was obviously unreachable. And remember that all of your history should be in source control, so the code isn't permanently dead anyway. If you *really* need to look at how a method used to work you can check out an old version of the application and look. And that is a fairly rare occurrence anyway. It is *far* more important to make sure the current version of the code is readable.
In Australia, everybody votes and (obviously) everybody pays taxes. The candidates that you actually vote for, get paid $2.31191 (+CPI) per vote that they get, and only if they get at least 4% of the total votes (eg Final 2010 federal election payment to political parties and candidates.
Would you really complain if $2 of your taxes went to the candidate that you actually voted for?
The biggest gripe most programmers have with sales people is when they sell a feature that doesn't exist yet for a price that doesn't cover the cost to implement it. And somehow the sales person gets a bonus and the programmer has to work long hours and ends up with a bad performance review.
I've been an employee of a decent sized corporate network. There's nothing stopping you having an intranet page that the browser auto logs into using single sign-on, that shows different content to different users, or redirects users to more specific pages based on their roles.
There's nothing stopping you from putting a bunch of internet shortcuts in a folder (perhaps in the start menu) that launch in the users default browser.
Heck most of what group policy does is set registry entries. So commission a simple, tiny app that reads registry entries and generates a html-like page full of links and pretty pictures for the user to click on.
Just because IE does things in a specific way doesn't mean that the problem can't be solved using any number of different methods that give very similar end results.
If you don't think these solutions are adequate, explain your requirements in more detail. Note that "I can't add bookmarks via group policy" is not a requirement, it's an implementation issue.
Did you guys complain this much about the transition from FF2 to FF3? Firefox development has never been slow, they've always had teams of people working on big changes that are slated for the "next release", and other changes that are too big for that version and need to be delayed further. The problem was that they were trying to get too many features into the next release, which made it harder to test them all. IMHO the jump from FF3.6 to FF10 will be about the same magnitude of changes as the jumps from FF2 to FF3 was, and in about the same time frame.
Create a corporate intranet home page with all the links you think every employee needs. Put it on an easily remembered machine name like http://intranet./ What more do you seriously need?
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Or soon, a $25 Raspberry Pi running XBMC....
You have that backwards. A drop in the rate that new mortgages are created *will cause* a drop in consumer spending power and therefore employment. Our economy has been fueled by rising house prices and rising debt levels. A drop in house prices *will cause* an over supply of unsold inventory as a fear of dropping prices will trigger some "investors" to try to exit the market.
Let me explain that in another way. Take the situation of a single individual. In any given period you can spend your income, plus the value of any new loans you take out. If in the next period you don't take any more credit, your spending power is reduced when compared to the previous period even if your level of income remains constant. Now extrapolate the same idea to the entire economy. The amount of economic activity in a year is the amount of our income (GDP) plus the value of new loans we take out, or the velocity of the total level of debt. Therefore the change in economic activity between years, is the change in GDP plus the acceleration in the level of debt.
Now after the crisis hit in 2008, and we suddenly hit the brakes on new loans, what did we do? We gave a lump sum of cash to first home owners, which they all dutifully took to their bank manager and levered up to 95% on a new mortgage. This massive amount of additional loans drove the acceleration of debt positive again, gave us a huge boost in economic activity as the vendors received all of this additional spending power. The new money from loans flowed around the economy, and rescued us from a recession.
But for the last 12 months or so, we've been applying the brakes in our level of debt. We've been creating less loans, and we've been paying of the ones we already have (or going bankrupt). We have less additional spending power. The economy is slowing, house prices are falling, and unemployment will again start to rise.
Now I admit that most people don't think that the level of debt has any impact on the economy. So I'll let history be my judge. By 2017, baring any other government rescue, I expect house prices in Australia to drop at least 40% in real terms across the board.
On android you can also open an activity in front of the lock screen, or just replace it. So you could have your application appear immediately when the screen turns on, and build a password-ish way of getting to the underlying android OS.
The financial crisis is hitting us right now. Our housing bubble has started its decline, and almost nothing will prevent it. Another first home owners scheme? Not going to work this time.
Mark my words, the worst of this crisis is still to come.
In my experience Samsung phones don't wait until they're running out of ram. Their versions of android aggressively kill background apps.
Don't want a smart phone? Get a John's phone.
The other big point to note here, if the laser is rigged up on / next to the sniper rifle scope. You could delay turning it on until the projectile has left the barrel. Giving you no more warning than the muzzle flash.
Still, this borders on abuse of monopoly power.
And yet, wifi coverage was fairly spotty for the conference. Some of those access points definitely weren't working, you'd have to manually choose which MAC address to use, or point your antenna in a different direction before you could connect properly.
If you wanted to setup a rouge AP, you could probably get away with it in the corridors. Though you wouldn't be able to hack everyone, there were plenty of people hanging around outside the main halls checking emails etc.
But overall, it was a pretty cool conference.
So you could implement some simple map reduce operations and run them directly in RAM?
It all depends on the user experience. From the users point of view, they click a link, and may be prompted to enter their email provider, username and password. How can you guarantee that the web page you clicked on to start this process isn't providing their own form to fool the user and capture their password?
She gave a keynote talk at linux conf au, the talk is now available on youtube.
Or have a few trusted entities that sign your key and name record, SSL anyone?. Or allow duplicates with a web of trust. And allow url's to use the above public key for cross domain links.
Resolving short names to dns name servers in a p2p fashion is problematic. What we should build is a system based on public / private key pairs. Sure the problem of establishing that "Bank of America" has key XXXX is going to be problematic, I'm not sure exactly how to tackle it, and that's most of what the dns system actually solves. But after that step you could be performing name server lookups via a known public key. Just sign a new location record and publish it via something like DHT.
No root servers, no name confiscation, that key could belong to you forever.
Don't leave code around that is no longer needed. Just don't. I've deleted heaps of code in my career that was obviously unreachable. And remember that all of your history should be in source control, so the code isn't permanently dead anyway. If you *really* need to look at how a method used to work you can check out an old version of the application and look. And that is a fairly rare occurrence anyway. It is *far* more important to make sure the current version of the code is readable.
Even a NAT'd private IP6 address space, behind limited IP4 addresses, would be better than reusing the same 10/8 addresses for every private network.
In Australia, everybody votes and (obviously) everybody pays taxes. The candidates that you actually vote for, get paid $2.31191 (+CPI) per vote that they get, and only if they get at least 4% of the total votes (eg Final 2010 federal election payment to political parties and candidates.
Would you really complain if $2 of your taxes went to the candidate that you actually voted for?
The biggest gripe most programmers have with sales people is when they sell a feature that doesn't exist yet for a price that doesn't cover the cost to implement it. And somehow the sales person gets a bonus and the programmer has to work long hours and ends up with a bad performance review.
I've been an employee of a decent sized corporate network. There's nothing stopping you having an intranet page that the browser auto logs into using single sign-on, that shows different content to different users, or redirects users to more specific pages based on their roles.
There's nothing stopping you from putting a bunch of internet shortcuts in a folder (perhaps in the start menu) that launch in the users default browser.
Heck most of what group policy does is set registry entries. So commission a simple, tiny app that reads registry entries and generates a html-like page full of links and pretty pictures for the user to click on.
Just because IE does things in a specific way doesn't mean that the problem can't be solved using any number of different methods that give very similar end results.
If you don't think these solutions are adequate, explain your requirements in more detail. Note that "I can't add bookmarks via group policy" is not a requirement, it's an implementation issue.
Did you guys complain this much about the transition from FF2 to FF3? Firefox development has never been slow, they've always had teams of people working on big changes that are slated for the "next release", and other changes that are too big for that version and need to be delayed further. The problem was that they were trying to get too many features into the next release, which made it harder to test them all. IMHO the jump from FF3.6 to FF10 will be about the same magnitude of changes as the jumps from FF2 to FF3 was, and in about the same time frame.
Create a corporate intranet home page with all the links you think every employee needs. Put it on an easily remembered machine name like http://intranet./ What more do you seriously need?
So that's why Stephen Hawking was looking for a full time engineer....
Reminds me of this hack; 133 byte PE executable with remote code loading.
Whoosh.
This isn't a buffer overflow, it's a XSS scripting attack. The mp3's meta data is inserted into a HTML document without cleansing it.