The more businesses will slip through your fingers. Seriously, somebody esplain this to me: Gasoline? It's gotten too expensive. Food? It's gotten too expensive. Healthcare? It's gotten too expensive. Housing? It's gotten too expensive. So why the f*ck isn't government too expensive?
If I had a dollar for every time some moron with a really stupid idea was able to get other people to part with their money for it, I'd be a rich man. George Carlin sums it up nicely when he said "You nail two pieces of wood together that have never been nailed together before and some schmuck will buy it from you." I would extend that further by saying "If you have charisma, you are able to convince people that the words coming out of your mouth are pure gold." In my experience, as with role-playing games, if someone with high charisma, chances is also a moron but people won't see it until it's too late. Chances are also high that such a person has the ability to blame their miserable failures on something or someone else, often a smart person with low charisma.
Unless you show me an internal NYT document that can be clearly shown as having been written BEFORE the wikileaks thing that describes their policy on such matters, this is all revisionist history. How many times has the NYT published something they should have either a) confirmed or b) thought twice about because it would get someone killed?
Technically yes, but it's become so impractical to do so that it's rarely worth it. And in the case of a political campaign, B.S. is considered free speech even when it comes to the media. Trouble is that they know it and are abusing it. They'll make some bold-faced, large font claim on page one above the fold on Monday thus igniting a firestorm and they publish a "clarification" (rarely a real retraction or apology) a week or so later. At that point, the damage is done and the opinion of people who get their news in 60-second bits is influenced.
But they are colored by the fact that people dislike spam and therefore dismissed the sender's political ideas as having the same value as spam. For my own part, I dislike political robodialing with a passion but I will still vote for the candidate who represents my views.
This is the dangerous side to social media. Because you can't control the message, things can spin wildly out of control particularly if the numbers aren't extremely in your favor to begin with. If you're a small company with a small customer base, one negative comment, justified or not, can destroy you. A negative comment can quickly go viral and they you're completely borked. You have no legal recourse to punish the liars and set the record straight. If you have an enormous positive following, that works to your advantage because they will defend you when someone brings up a negative even if it is true.
Certainly the cost of hiring people in the U.S. in general is a factor and more so now that ACA is in effect. Once you get to 50 employees now, your cost shoot up dramatically. Unionization? Possibly but not for tech labor. Regulation? Entirely likely. High taxes? To be sure and while a company could relocate to a tax friendly state, can they find the type and quality of labor they need locally? Or perhaps there is a concern that once a manufacturing business reaches a certain size, government will come along and try to demand a bigger cut of the profit by way of higher taxes, increased cost of dealing with regulation (aka having to hire more Ship B people), risk of unionization (aka having to hire more Ship B people).
An outright ban would probably result in the death of a search & rescue subject. Adding a proviso that exempts volunteer search & rescue organizations is required here and it specifically needs to address training activities that normally do not involve law enforcement.
Okay, so this gringo doesn't know the correct spelling. At least the intent is there unlike pasty white people who roll their R's in order to pander to activist latino groups. Pronouncing it "Dorrrrrrrritos" doesn't make them Mexican food.
That too many people have become lazy, narcissistic and generally so full of themselves that they think they're worth more than they really are. Add to that a group of people who blow smoke up the collective asses of these self-absorbed folk by promising them anything and everything in order to obtain and maintain power and influence.
Attention: Ship B is leaving and you need to get on board now before the Earth blows up.
It's hard enough for a cash-strapped department to find $25,000 for one. You'd need at least two and enough batteries in various states of being recharged in order to keep eyes on all the time. I know plenty of SWAT guys that would rather spend the money equipping their entire team with thermal night vision.
That is pretty impressive but it also serves to reinforce the fact that without the über power source, it's just a nifty demo. This is what I keep hearing from SWAT teams who either spend a ton of money (e.g. > $25k) buying one or are looking at getting one and then they discover that they can't put a camera up in the air for hours at a time without landing to change batteries.
And did anyone else read "Pole Acrobatics" and have a totally different expectation?;-)
OK. The bug in question specifically relates to the Cirrus Logic EP93xx architecture. In 3.0.13, there was a change to the kernel having to do with timing that caused usleep and similar timing calls to become pretty wildly inconsistent. If my kernel HZ was set to 1000 hertz, and I checked timing with commonly available code snippets, I used to get values that were usually within 3 or 4 hertz and one microsecond usleeps had about the same deviation. In 3.0.13, however, the measured kernel frequency varied by as much as 500 Hz and so did usleep. I checked releases as recent as 3.0.53 and the problem is still there but I can easily change the offending file to make it work.
Here's a general kernel question: How do you go about choosing a kernel version? With new second-digit releases coming out every few months and with third-digit releases for older second-digit versions coming out even faster and continuing to be maintained long after a new second-digit release, at what point do you say "Yeah, that's good enough, let's ship it?" The change logs are so extensive that I find myself unable to determine if going through the work to tweak and build a kernel for an embedded system is worth it. In one case, I found that a serious bug was introduced in the arch files for the 3.0.x kernel series which is still being maintained. It's up to 3.0.65 as of 2/17. I had to build about a dozen kernels before I figured out in which version the bug was introduced. Ultimately, it's a huge time suck to deal with but I'm concerned that I may be missing some useful change or bug fix that is lurking in the shadows. Thoughts? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I'd be really interested in seeing another hacker group go up against him to see if he's as good as the legend says he is. And how would you know which side was successful? Certainly the outcome of the election is highly suspect. If you can prevent hacking, you also have detailed knowledge of how to stuff the ballot box.
a fringe group of environmentalists (emphasis on the 'mental' part) will sue to shut down the construction project in order to save these whales and if that fails they will chain themselves to the construction equipment. I'd be tempted to bury them under the road while quoting René Belloq "Who knows, in a thousand years even you may be worth something."
From my own experience as an engineer/entrepreneur, I find it difficult to determine the effectiveness of marketing. Take magazine ads. You can spend a great deal of money on just the ad space never mind producing the artwork. So how do you know the ad is working? Reader service has gone the way of the Dodo. Sure you can put a special web link in the ad but how many people are going to sidestep it? And how long do you have to run the ad before you can decide if it's working? I've heard three months but what if your customers have budget calendars and you just ran the ad at the wrong time of the year? And then at what point do you decide that you're simply throwing the money away?
Trade shows? For certain products, hands on with the customers is essential. It's also an expensive and complicated form of marketing.
Okay, how about hiring a marketing firm? BIG bucks. And how do you know they aren't taking you for a ride and charging you a ton of money for something you could easily do yourself? After all, they are in business to make money too so they are going to attempt to do the least amount of work for the dollar as possible. You're charging me $10,000 to send press releases to all the industry magazines? Excuse me? $50,000 to build a website? *Cough* Oh, and they often expect you to provide the artwork. Ba-huh?!?!?
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It would have been completed in half that time. LONG LIVE EIAS!
The more businesses will slip through your fingers. Seriously, somebody esplain this to me: Gasoline? It's gotten too expensive. Food? It's gotten too expensive. Healthcare? It's gotten too expensive. Housing? It's gotten too expensive. So why the f*ck isn't government too expensive?
But it will take years to figure out the dynamics of this matrix.
If I had a dollar for every time some moron with a really stupid idea was able to get other people to part with their money for it, I'd be a rich man. George Carlin sums it up nicely when he said "You nail two pieces of wood together that have never been nailed together before and some schmuck will buy it from you." I would extend that further by saying "If you have charisma, you are able to convince people that the words coming out of your mouth are pure gold." In my experience, as with role-playing games, if someone with high charisma, chances is also a moron but people won't see it until it's too late. Chances are also high that such a person has the ability to blame their miserable failures on something or someone else, often a smart person with low charisma.
Unless you show me an internal NYT document that can be clearly shown as having been written BEFORE the wikileaks thing that describes their policy on such matters, this is all revisionist history. How many times has the NYT published something they should have either a) confirmed or b) thought twice about because it would get someone killed?
Technically yes, but it's become so impractical to do so that it's rarely worth it. And in the case of a political campaign, B.S. is considered free speech even when it comes to the media. Trouble is that they know it and are abusing it. They'll make some bold-faced, large font claim on page one above the fold on Monday thus igniting a firestorm and they publish a "clarification" (rarely a real retraction or apology) a week or so later. At that point, the damage is done and the opinion of people who get their news in 60-second bits is influenced.
But they are colored by the fact that people dislike spam and therefore dismissed the sender's political ideas as having the same value as spam. For my own part, I dislike political robodialing with a passion but I will still vote for the candidate who represents my views.
If they could add an additional pixel that's sensitive to IR only and be able to switch it on and off, that would be really useful.
This is the dangerous side to social media. Because you can't control the message, things can spin wildly out of control particularly if the numbers aren't extremely in your favor to begin with. If you're a small company with a small customer base, one negative comment, justified or not, can destroy you. A negative comment can quickly go viral and they you're completely borked. You have no legal recourse to punish the liars and set the record straight. If you have an enormous positive following, that works to your advantage because they will defend you when someone brings up a negative even if it is true.
Certainly the cost of hiring people in the U.S. in general is a factor and more so now that ACA is in effect. Once you get to 50 employees now, your cost shoot up dramatically. Unionization? Possibly but not for tech labor. Regulation? Entirely likely. High taxes? To be sure and while a company could relocate to a tax friendly state, can they find the type and quality of labor they need locally? Or perhaps there is a concern that once a manufacturing business reaches a certain size, government will come along and try to demand a bigger cut of the profit by way of higher taxes, increased cost of dealing with regulation (aka having to hire more Ship B people), risk of unionization (aka having to hire more Ship B people).
Great book. IMHO better than Snow Crash. Never did get the weird cult elements though.
An outright ban would probably result in the death of a search & rescue subject. Adding a proviso that exempts volunteer search & rescue organizations is required here and it specifically needs to address training activities that normally do not involve law enforcement.
Apparently odor sensors have been banned in the entire beltway area because of their ability to detect and identify the sources of bullsh*t.
Okay, so this gringo doesn't know the correct spelling. At least the intent is there unlike pasty white people who roll their R's in order to pander to activist latino groups. Pronouncing it "Dorrrrrrrritos" doesn't make them Mexican food.
"oh, no, not junior rodeo..."
Seriously, wtf? By what right do ISPs have to be judge, jury, and executioner?
We need a leader who is willing to quote Kang saying "You've committed a wanton act of war!"
Seriously, what is it going to take before people in our government are willing to publicly accuse China of acts of war?
That too many people have become lazy, narcissistic and generally so full of themselves that they think they're worth more than they really are. Add to that a group of people who blow smoke up the collective asses of these self-absorbed folk by promising them anything and everything in order to obtain and maintain power and influence.
Attention: Ship B is leaving and you need to get on board now before the Earth blows up.
It's hard enough for a cash-strapped department to find $25,000 for one. You'd need at least two and enough batteries in various states of being recharged in order to keep eyes on all the time. I know plenty of SWAT guys that would rather spend the money equipping their entire team with thermal night vision.
That is pretty impressive but it also serves to reinforce the fact that without the über power source, it's just a nifty demo. This is what I keep hearing from SWAT teams who either spend a ton of money (e.g. > $25k) buying one or are looking at getting one and then they discover that they can't put a camera up in the air for hours at a time without landing to change batteries.
And did anyone else read "Pole Acrobatics" and have a totally different expectation? ;-)
Oh, and the vendor supported kernel didn't have things like JFFS or Ext3 or mdev so I had to roll my own.
OK. The bug in question specifically relates to the Cirrus Logic EP93xx architecture. In 3.0.13, there was a change to the kernel having to do with timing that caused usleep and similar timing calls to become pretty wildly inconsistent. If my kernel HZ was set to 1000 hertz, and I checked timing with commonly available code snippets, I used to get values that were usually within 3 or 4 hertz and one microsecond usleeps had about the same deviation. In 3.0.13, however, the measured kernel frequency varied by as much as 500 Hz and so did usleep. I checked releases as recent as 3.0.53 and the problem is still there but I can easily change the offending file to make it work.
Here's a general kernel question: How do you go about choosing a kernel version? With new second-digit releases coming out every few months and with third-digit releases for older second-digit versions coming out even faster and continuing to be maintained long after a new second-digit release, at what point do you say "Yeah, that's good enough, let's ship it?" The change logs are so extensive that I find myself unable to determine if going through the work to tweak and build a kernel for an embedded system is worth it. In one case, I found that a serious bug was introduced in the arch files for the 3.0.x kernel series which is still being maintained. It's up to 3.0.65 as of 2/17. I had to build about a dozen kernels before I figured out in which version the bug was introduced. Ultimately, it's a huge time suck to deal with but I'm concerned that I may be missing some useful change or bug fix that is lurking in the shadows. Thoughts? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I'd be really interested in seeing another hacker group go up against him to see if he's as good as the legend says he is. And how would you know which side was successful? Certainly the outcome of the election is highly suspect. If you can prevent hacking, you also have detailed knowledge of how to stuff the ballot box.
a fringe group of environmentalists (emphasis on the 'mental' part) will sue to shut down the construction project in order to save these whales and if that fails they will chain themselves to the construction equipment. I'd be tempted to bury them under the road while quoting René Belloq "Who knows, in a thousand years even you may be worth something."
From my own experience as an engineer/entrepreneur, I find it difficult to determine the effectiveness of marketing. Take magazine ads. You can spend a great deal of money on just the ad space never mind producing the artwork. So how do you know the ad is working? Reader service has gone the way of the Dodo. Sure you can put a special web link in the ad but how many people are going to sidestep it? And how long do you have to run the ad before you can decide if it's working? I've heard three months but what if your customers have budget calendars and you just ran the ad at the wrong time of the year? And then at what point do you decide that you're simply throwing the money away?
Trade shows? For certain products, hands on with the customers is essential. It's also an expensive and complicated form of marketing.
Okay, how about hiring a marketing firm? BIG bucks. And how do you know they aren't taking you for a ride and charging you a ton of money for something you could easily do yourself? After all, they are in business to make money too so they are going to attempt to do the least amount of work for the dollar as possible. You're charging me $10,000 to send press releases to all the industry magazines? Excuse me? $50,000 to build a website? *Cough* Oh, and they often expect you to provide the artwork. Ba-huh?!?!?