The problem is the concept of the "PC Master Race". You do not need a PC Master Race PC to be at the cutting edge of gaming, but you do need more than what Apple currently sells. The PC Master Race sets an impossible and unrealistic bar, those guys really do spend a lot of time and energy.
On the other hand, you need a top end CPU and a top end nvidia GPU, 16GB of ram and SSD. Apple does not sell that thing, nor any PC system company that I think actually does any real R&D, most of the ones that sell you this stuff will do "burn in", but that's not something worth the bucks they want to charge.
Throw these clowns in jail for a while for filing frivolous lawsuits. Then put them in the town square (of NYC or something) with a vat of tar and a pile of feathers, let passers by apply liberal amounts of each.
Funny, I never had trouble accessing registers using C
Memory mapped registers? Sure, no problem. But you also have I/O mapped registers which require special instructions, as well as things like the arm machine state registers which have a family of instructions you need to use. Then there are things like memory and instruction barriers, they also require specific instructions that you cannot make C emit without a library call to an asm function. You have cache invalidates, semaphore mechanisms etc. All of this requires an assembly library at least.
you're probably not working in the embedded space anymore, , and will almost definitely have an actual OS on your device which can and will handle those details for you.
That depends very heavily on how you define embedded, what you do and who your employer is. I've done a lot of embedded work, I make no assumptions. Cell phones have very advanced processors and quite capable OSes. BMCs in x86 servers? Some do, some don't. Robotics controllers almost never have an OS, and some controller vendors make using C very difficult (I won't name names). At least as of 5 years ago my friend who does a lot of flight controls works very heavily with assembly, and there's a very rigorous process for how code is written and reviewed, some of those guys are positively allergic to operating systems - everything is a state machine with definite and well defined entry/exit criteria.
I don't think anything can be said about this field that can hold up in a general sense. Saying embedded is like saying "anything smaller than a PC", which includes a phone that is many times more powerful and complicated than any PC I had in the 90s (with an OS to match), all the way down to the AFCI fuses whose sole job is to detect electrical arcs and trip the breaker.
There are good reasons to work in assembly, particularly in systems programming. Or if you don't want to pay licensing fees for an OS, you may need to implement functions in assembly that are not possible in a high level language like C (manipulating machine state registers, implementing barriers, etc.).
I have been using assembly for various architectures for my entire career and most of my teenage life, I don't see any reason why it would ever go away. Mostly the number of people doing high level development has increased so radically that it honestly surprises me that it makes #10. Optimization for performance is definitely not a reason I'd expect to see asm hit #10 - most companies don't spend enough time on their applications to get to the point where they can optimize intelligently, and writing something in assembly is not always or a performance enhancer.
We're doubting exactly how many options were carefully considered before "bomb robot" came up on the list. And no, while I often defend the police when they shoot some guy with a history of violent crime who is clearly a punk, they seem to be getting more and more willing to resort to fatal solutions and using the term "had no choice" when videos show otherwise. Also overuse of the term "terrorism" and "clear and present threat".
In this case you can't even argue high adrenaline and needing to make rapid decisions, this was cold and calculated.
Reagan used the term an awful lot. Orthogonal it was the80s when us kids got "DARE" pushed on us. It gave us a good education on what kinds of drugs are out there, although most of the impacts and what not was pure lies and blatant propaganda. Still, when we got old enough to want to use drugs, we knew how to be discriminating about it.
Never seen that happen after working with over a dozen tech start-ups the past thirty years.
I have seen it happen a few times if you leave for a direct competitor and you are in the semi-conductor industry. Certain employers are very paranoid.
It's an asinine policy, you know you are leaving long before you tell the boss, any sabotage and theft you want to do should already be done... it's purely for show.
They will lay you off without notice and lately without any kind of severance. You can certainly walk out the door on them and not look back, especially if you see the writing on the wall (i.e. you are training your cheap foreign replacements).
The question is whether this is a SMART move or not. It will be remembered, that you can be sure of. And the boss who was about to lay you off without severance is probably next anyway, so very likely you will meet again elsewhere. There are other ways to screw upper management without shitting the bed. A good policy is not to fuck the people you work with, fuck the execs and fuck the shareholders for sure, but don't fuck your coworkers (figuratively, if they're hot, that's your business).
News at 11: CNN, Reuters, ABC, WashPo, Huffington, Faux News, and every other news source also decide which killings, rapes, assaults, incidents, political mishaps and weather event to report.
I have bene known to buy vegetables on occasion. I know this is unamerican, probably a terrorist act, but I have done it. And frequently the Walmart I use in the Austin, TX area has been known to source vegetables that are as fresh or fresher than the higher priced and overfull grocery store across the street. This is a local statement, vegetables at Walmart do not seemed to be sourced from national sources (unlike say, Target, which does not have very good produce) and in my case they seem very fresh. This may not apply in your area.
Yes, I agree, Doritos are Doritos, provided they are Doritos and not store brand nacho corn chips. I would not trust Walmart with that latter thing. I will say that Walmart's aisle of brand name junk food is twice the size of my grocery store, with more variety. I can say that across the board for the store, there is more selection in general. Part of the issue is that my local grocery chain has very little competition.
I can't speak for everyone, but I think almost everyone wears their watch on their non-dominant hand?
90% of people are right handed. I don't have a statistic for what wrist people wear watches on, but in a sample size of 100 I found that 100 wore their watch on their left hand. Presumably some of these people are left handed, although I have no way of knowing. This means hackers are engaged in hate crimes against left handers.
This is merely to put the final nail in Bernie's coffin. We're left with two absolutely horrible people who shouldn't be pissed on should they catch fire. But we're not lucky enough for either one to catch fire.
The assumption is the quality of their grocery isle matches teh quality of all the other isles. I like the selection walmart has compared to the local grocery store. But I'd rather pay by ApplePay and not be bothered with their crap. I will just pay the old fashioned slow way if and when i have to use walmart. Hopefully they will realize they can fire a few more people by having us all move through their faster and give up on this idiocy, it's about the only language they understand.
This technique needs a name, possibly the "Chinese Shakedown".
More specifically this is Huawei, a company that is synonymous with spying and corporate espionage (http://www.networkworld.com/article/2223272/cisco-subnet/60-minutes-torpedoes-huawei-in-less-than-15-minutes.html), and that's just the 60 minutes speech. In two of my previous employers people have been arrested and thrown in jail for stealing data and sending it to the homeland, these are facts proven in court.
They shouldn't be allowed in our country at all, or yours, if you are smart. Patent infringement is a joke, they haven't had an original idea yet.
There is definitely a trade off between paying more for a car and getting more years out of it, and I suspect enough of us absolutely loathe car shopping and have been utterly disappointed with some of the faster moving features (mostly electronics) that might beget a faster update cycle that we are making that trade. Why buy new? There isn't a substantial increase in fuel economy, the feature-set is mostly decades old stuff, and the electronics are usually best done aftermarket...the price gouging on replacement parts or updates is beyond all reason.
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The problem is the concept of the "PC Master Race". You do not need a PC Master Race PC to be at the cutting edge of gaming, but you do need more than what Apple currently sells. The PC Master Race sets an impossible and unrealistic bar, those guys really do spend a lot of time and energy.
On the other hand, you need a top end CPU and a top end nvidia GPU, 16GB of ram and SSD. Apple does not sell that thing, nor any PC system company that I think actually does any real R&D, most of the ones that sell you this stuff will do "burn in", but that's not something worth the bucks they want to charge.
I imagine it's both. It's like being paid to film porn.
Throw these clowns in jail for a while for filing frivolous lawsuits. Then put them in the town square (of NYC or something) with a vat of tar and a pile of feathers, let passers by apply liberal amounts of each.
Funny, I never had trouble accessing registers using C
Memory mapped registers? Sure, no problem. But you also have I/O mapped registers which require special instructions, as well as things like the arm machine state registers which have a family of instructions you need to use. Then there are things like memory and instruction barriers, they also require specific instructions that you cannot make C emit without a library call to an asm function. You have cache invalidates, semaphore mechanisms etc. All of this requires an assembly library at least.
you're probably not working in the embedded space anymore, , and will almost definitely have an actual OS on your device which can and will handle those details for you.
That depends very heavily on how you define embedded, what you do and who your employer is. I've done a lot of embedded work, I make no assumptions. Cell phones have very advanced processors and quite capable OSes. BMCs in x86 servers? Some do, some don't. Robotics controllers almost never have an OS, and some controller vendors make using C very difficult (I won't name names). At least as of 5 years ago my friend who does a lot of flight controls works very heavily with assembly, and there's a very rigorous process for how code is written and reviewed, some of those guys are positively allergic to operating systems - everything is a state machine with definite and well defined entry/exit criteria.
I don't think anything can be said about this field that can hold up in a general sense. Saying embedded is like saying "anything smaller than a PC", which includes a phone that is many times more powerful and complicated than any PC I had in the 90s (with an OS to match), all the way down to the AFCI fuses whose sole job is to detect electrical arcs and trip the breaker.
There are good reasons to work in assembly, particularly in systems programming. Or if you don't want to pay licensing fees for an OS, you may need to implement functions in assembly that are not possible in a high level language like C (manipulating machine state registers, implementing barriers, etc.).
I have been using assembly for various architectures for my entire career and most of my teenage life, I don't see any reason why it would ever go away. Mostly the number of people doing high level development has increased so radically that it honestly surprises me that it makes #10. Optimization for performance is definitely not a reason I'd expect to see asm hit #10 - most companies don't spend enough time on their applications to get to the point where they can optimize intelligently, and writing something in assembly is not always or a performance enhancer.
Only terrists use IEDs.
Their mama should have used an IUD.
We're doubting exactly how many options were carefully considered before "bomb robot" came up on the list. And no, while I often defend the police when they shoot some guy with a history of violent crime who is clearly a punk, they seem to be getting more and more willing to resort to fatal solutions and using the term "had no choice" when videos show otherwise. Also overuse of the term "terrorism" and "clear and present threat".
In this case you can't even argue high adrenaline and needing to make rapid decisions, this was cold and calculated.
But you, sir, are "trolling for the people" amirite?
Reagan used the term an awful lot. Orthogonal it was the80s when us kids got "DARE" pushed on us. It gave us a good education on what kinds of drugs are out there, although most of the impacts and what not was pure lies and blatant propaganda. Still, when we got old enough to want to use drugs, we knew how to be discriminating about it.
Never seen that happen after working with over a dozen tech start-ups the past thirty years.
I have seen it happen a few times if you leave for a direct competitor and you are in the semi-conductor industry. Certain employers are very paranoid.
It's an asinine policy, you know you are leaving long before you tell the boss, any sabotage and theft you want to do should already be done... it's purely for show.
They will lay you off without notice and lately without any kind of severance. You can certainly walk out the door on them and not look back, especially if you see the writing on the wall (i.e. you are training your cheap foreign replacements).
The question is whether this is a SMART move or not. It will be remembered, that you can be sure of. And the boss who was about to lay you off without severance is probably next anyway, so very likely you will meet again elsewhere. There are other ways to screw upper management without shitting the bed. A good policy is not to fuck the people you work with, fuck the execs and fuck the shareholders for sure, but don't fuck your coworkers (figuratively, if they're hot, that's your business).
News at 11: CNN, Reuters, ABC, WashPo, Huffington, Faux News, and every other news source also decide which killings, rapes, assaults, incidents, political mishaps and weather event to report.
I have bene known to buy vegetables on occasion. I know this is unamerican, probably a terrorist act, but I have done it. And frequently the Walmart I use in the Austin, TX area has been known to source vegetables that are as fresh or fresher than the higher priced and overfull grocery store across the street. This is a local statement, vegetables at Walmart do not seemed to be sourced from national sources (unlike say, Target, which does not have very good produce) and in my case they seem very fresh. This may not apply in your area.
Yes, I agree, Doritos are Doritos, provided they are Doritos and not store brand nacho corn chips. I would not trust Walmart with that latter thing. I will say that Walmart's aisle of brand name junk food is twice the size of my grocery store, with more variety. I can say that across the board for the store, there is more selection in general. Part of the issue is that my local grocery chain has very little competition.
Have you been shopping recently? You don't swipe cards anymore, you stick them in and wait 30s.
He's transformed the company.
From a pile of horse shit to a pile of bull shit. Well done indeed.
That's a good point, if there's a physical keypad it invariably is located on the right side.
I can't speak for everyone, but I think almost everyone wears their watch on their non-dominant hand?
90% of people are right handed. I don't have a statistic for what wrist people wear watches on, but in a sample size of 100 I found that 100 wore their watch on their left hand. Presumably some of these people are left handed, although I have no way of knowing. This means hackers are engaged in hate crimes against left handers.
That I will do.
Not if it runs Windows. If it ran Linux or macOS? Tempting, providing MS invested the same effort in mfg quality as Apple, I'd even pay more.
This is merely to put the final nail in Bernie's coffin. We're left with two absolutely horrible people who shouldn't be pissed on should they catch fire. But we're not lucky enough for either one to catch fire.
The election is over, we all lost.
The assumption is the quality of their grocery isle matches teh quality of all the other isles. I like the selection walmart has compared to the local grocery store. But I'd rather pay by ApplePay and not be bothered with their crap. I will just pay the old fashioned slow way if and when i have to use walmart. Hopefully they will realize they can fire a few more people by having us all move through their faster and give up on this idiocy, it's about the only language they understand.
s/retained/detained/
One way or another.
This technique needs a name, possibly the "Chinese Shakedown".
More specifically this is Huawei, a company that is synonymous with spying and corporate espionage (http://www.networkworld.com/article/2223272/cisco-subnet/60-minutes-torpedoes-huawei-in-less-than-15-minutes.html), and that's just the 60 minutes speech. In two of my previous employers people have been arrested and thrown in jail for stealing data and sending it to the homeland, these are facts proven in court.
They shouldn't be allowed in our country at all, or yours, if you are smart. Patent infringement is a joke, they haven't had an original idea yet.
All hail her Grace, Queen Hillary of House Clinton, President of the US and of the Congress, Chosen of the Street, and Detested by the Realm.
There is definitely a trade off between paying more for a car and getting more years out of it, and I suspect enough of us absolutely loathe car shopping and have been utterly disappointed with some of the faster moving features (mostly electronics) that might beget a faster update cycle that we are making that trade. Why buy new? There isn't a substantial increase in fuel economy, the feature-set is mostly decades old stuff, and the electronics are usually best done aftermarket...the price gouging on replacement parts or updates is beyond all reason.