The nail was hit on the head in the second sentence.
However, it wouldn't be the CEO who goes to jail but some lowly middle management type.
The CEO will simply deny any knowledge that this was going, on and everyone down the chain of command will insist they never told the CEO what was going on, and anyone who refuses to tow the company line will be forced to accept an assignment in Russia. *cough*.
They are not fining the workers, they are fining the company that brought them in illegally.
The imported employees get spun off and transferred around so fast that the government loses track of them. Probably find dozens of them working on Obamacare web site right now.
H1B is not all that hard to get. You just lay off your current workers, then lie about there being no available US workers that meet the (carefully crafted) criteria.
I've noticed that writers and films feast on the apocalypse concept, more so in times of economic turmoil (now that they are pretty much done feasting on vampire genera).
I rather suspect that meeting intelligent alien life will be almost as anti-climatic as Gorbachev's dissolution of USSR. Instead of invading hordes looking for a planet to conqueror it will probably end up being more like "Hey, we just stopped by to say Hi".
I don't base the success on any such thing. Learn to read.
I'm saying the availability of Free software SAVED Apple, because that software gave Apple the breathing space it needed to keep the desktop computer side financially afloat long enough for them to develop the Iphone, which these days accounts for something like 75% of Apples revenue.
Without a readily adaptable BSD kernel, a linux browser, and a printing systm, and Jobs's Next skin, all with very permissive licenses, the most rational thing to do in 1978 would have been to shut it down.
Mentioning any computer language is by definition flamebait, because entrenched advocates will lash out at any mention of anything other than their pet language.
The present story suggest the code was C, which was supposed to be written to the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association standard. One of the key features of the standard was the availability of a large number of code verification tools. That may not be the case for other languages.
Its obvious from the story that none of these code analysis that none of these code checkers were used and therein lies the problem.
Toyota may have been at a much bigger legal risk using Ada than (badly) using the industry standard.
As someone who grew up during that time, nobody believed the Iron Curtain was going to come down during our lifetime. It was like the stars in the night sky - always there, always had been there, and always would be there.
As someone who grew up in that time, I am calling bullshit on you. I was there, It was expected. Most educated people marveled it lasted as long as it did.
Oh, and that "economic footnote" almost pushed the UN entirely off the Korean Peninsula.
Kaizen (continuous improvement) or just aren't aware that THIS is the heart and soul of the true Toyota Way.
The other thing that is the heart and sole of the Toyota way is a constant drumbeat of how safe their cars are over the background of failing brakes, stuck accelerators, forced recalls. The more trouble they are in, the louder they scream safety.
Those working on self-driving cars and those that are watching the technology already know that any such car would need an absolutely 100% rock solid OS.
This changes nothing.
But then its principal advocate is Google, where good enough gets pushed to production, left to languish and spring cleaned out of existence in a couple years. So in spite of the engineers knowing this, the trend is worrying. Especially when some of these cars are starting to be drive-by-wire and the trend is that there will exist no physical linkage between the human interface and the cars brakes, engine, steering.
Some how the assurance from and AC that "all is well" and Trust them, they are Scientists, just rings hollow.
Jobs didn't "shit can his own operating system", Jobs switched from the System 7-OS 8 operating system to Jobs own NeXTStep/Mach kernel approach
Lets face it, without the totally free BSD operating system Apple would have been dead. He took the cheap way out, lashing up and locking down open source software.
Your own link says as much:
Meanwhile, Apple was facing commercial difficulties of its own. The decade-old Mac OS had reached the limits of its single-user, co-operative multitasking architecture, and its once-innovative user interface was looking increasingly outdated. A massive development effort to replace it, known as Copland, was started in 1994, but was generally perceived outside of Apple to be a hopeless case due to political infighting. By 1996, Copland was nowhere near ready for release, and the project was eventually cancelled. Some elements of Copland were incorporated into Mac OS 8, released on July 26, 1997. After considering the purchase of BeOS — a multimedia-enabled, multi-tasking OS designed for hardware similar to Apple's — the company decided instead to acquire NeXT and use OPENSTEP as the basis for their new OS. Avie Tevanian took over OS development, and Steve Jobs was brought on as a consultant. At first, the plan was to develop a new operating system based almost entirely on an updated version of OPENSTEP
This device has less than 100% overlap. I'm guessing it's around 60% from looking at the monitor images. When the overlap decreases too much, it gives you the impression of having a very large nose that blocks each eye from seeing part of the other eye view. This can be annoying.
100% overlap is not my any means normal for the human vision system. 60% to 70% is normal for most people. Abandoning lens based optics seems count-intuitive. Using lenses that more closely copy the human eye would seem the wise choice.
Dell turned sour the minute he sold controlling interest to the wall street investors who were only interested in pinching pennies. I doubt Silver Lake is going to be a silent partner, but they would do well to give Mr Dell his way for a while.
Except those were NOT that successful, and those were precisely the computers Dell was talking about and which were sinking Apple at the time.
Jobs vision was that he had to stop relying on desktop computers because he was clearly losing that war in spite of a few partially successful products. His vision saved the company by moving to gadgets, and letting the computer side play catch up. Jobs pretty much followed Dell's advice, pulling almost all the R&D money away from computers. He shit-canned his own operating system, went out and grabbed FreeBSD, Konqueror, and Cups, and packaged it to keep the faithful happy while the real effort went into the iPhone.
Only his pride prevented him from killing off the computer line altogether.
You must be new here,/. has been anti apple since Android came out years ago
The question then is why was Lessig — who co-founded Creative Commons (and was a board member of the Free Software Foundation) using an iPhone in the first place?
You sort of expect just a little more dogfooding that that from a pontificater like Lessig.
Air-Sea had been a Navy concept since before world war 2. They believed it so much they built carriers, and coordinated land based planes with carrier based planes very effectively, even when the land based planes belonged to the army. Read about Midway.
China was not weak back in the 80s. China was not weak in the 60s. They were an economic powerhouse even then.
Douglas MacArther warned Never fight a land war in Asia".
Everyone but weapons system planners knew that the Soviet Union was going down as early as the 70s, because economists had predicted it even earlier, just by looking at empty shelves in soviet super markets and the drastic cut back in Soviet aid to its over-extended empire. They hung Castro out to dry, in the late 60s.
The need for precision weapons was noted in WW2. Some were even developed and uses back then. Dam buster bombs. The AGM-62 Walleye TV Guided bomb was in use in the 60s, conceived in 1958, and developed by the Navy, it was used in Viet Nam.. Carpet bombing works in Jungles, precision doesn't.
In short, he seems to have convinced people to use what was already available rather than sticking with old school methods.
In actuality, the predictions attributed to him were widely predicted by many people and found in Science Fiction long before his predictions. Even Popular Science back issues tend to look prescient with hind signt.
Anyone who reads slashdot can predict global trends and be right some of the time. I'd be more interested in some of the predictions which never came about.
Ok, so I called bs on your hundreds of laws that allow wide scale wire taps without a warrant, gag orders, seizure of records, etc, and you double down and now claim hundreds of thousands of laws allow this?
Let's go for a million, nice round number, and you won't look any more foolish than you already do.
Probably a good guess. Opensuse is about to release it's second version with systemd, with the last vestiges of run level compatibility targets removed. Not sure when that hits SLES.
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The nail was hit on the head in the second sentence.
However, it wouldn't be the CEO who goes to jail but some lowly middle management type.
The CEO will simply deny any knowledge that this was going, on and everyone down the chain of
command will insist they never told the CEO what was going on, and anyone who refuses to tow the
company line will be forced to accept an assignment in Russia. *cough*.
They are not fining the workers, they are fining the company that brought them in illegally.
The imported employees get spun off and transferred around so fast that the government loses track of them.
Probably find dozens of them working on Obamacare web site right now.
But why bother?
H1B is not all that hard to get.
You just lay off your current workers, then lie about there being no available US workers that meet the (carefully crafted) criteria.
I've noticed that writers and films feast on the apocalypse concept, more so in times of economic turmoil (now that they are pretty much done feasting on vampire genera).
I rather suspect that meeting intelligent alien life will be almost as anti-climatic as Gorbachev's dissolution of USSR.
Instead of invading hordes looking for a planet to conqueror it will probably end up being more like "Hey, we just stopped by to say Hi".
Adobe hasn't notified me of anything so my data must be safe. Right?
Right?
I got dozens of different notices. They had links to places where I could change my password. Lots of different places.
I could forward you a few if you want.
Given the level of bloat in Photoshop and Acrobat, I'm amazed the hackers had enough disk space and time to download it.
He shit-canned Apple's old OS, the one built before he left Apple, and SOLD his Next OS to Apple, but it in turn was simply BSD with a skin.
I don't base the success on any such thing. Learn to read.
I'm saying the availability of Free software SAVED Apple, because that software gave Apple the breathing space it needed to keep the desktop computer side financially afloat long enough for them to develop the Iphone, which these days accounts for something like 75% of Apples revenue.
Without a readily adaptable BSD kernel, a linux browser, and a printing systm, and Jobs's Next skin, all with very permissive licenses, the most rational thing to do in 1978 would have been to shut it down.
Mentioning any computer language is by definition flamebait, because entrenched advocates will lash out at
any mention of anything other than their pet language.
The present story suggest the code was C, which was supposed to be written to the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association standard. One of the key features of the standard was the availability of a large number of code verification tools. That may not be the case for other languages.
Its obvious from the story that none of these code analysis that none of these code checkers were used and therein lies the problem.
Toyota may have been at a much bigger legal risk using Ada than (badly) using the industry standard.
I have a chance of avoiding bad drivers.
I have no chance of avoiding a drive-by-wire failure.
As someone who grew up during that time, nobody believed the Iron Curtain was going to come down during our lifetime. It was like the stars in the night sky - always there, always had been there, and always would be there.
As someone who grew up in that time, I am calling bullshit on you. I was there, It was expected. Most educated people marveled it lasted as long as it did.
Oh, and that "economic footnote" almost pushed the UN entirely off the Korean Peninsula.
Kaizen (continuous improvement) or just aren't aware that THIS is the heart and soul of the true Toyota Way.
The other thing that is the heart and sole of the Toyota way is a constant drumbeat of how safe their cars are over the background of failing brakes, stuck accelerators, forced recalls. The more trouble they are in, the louder they scream safety.
Those working on self-driving cars and those that are watching the technology already know that any such car would need an absolutely 100% rock solid OS.
This changes nothing.
But then its principal advocate is Google, where good enough gets pushed to production, left to languish and spring cleaned out of existence in a couple years.
So in spite of the engineers knowing this, the trend is worrying.
Especially when some of these cars are starting to be drive-by-wire and the trend is that there will exist no physical linkage between the human interface and the cars brakes, engine, steering.
Some how the assurance from and AC that "all is well" and Trust them, they are Scientists, just rings hollow.
Jobs didn't "shit can his own operating system", Jobs switched from the System 7-OS 8 operating system to Jobs own NeXTStep/Mach kernel approach
Lets face it, without the totally free BSD operating system Apple would have been dead. He took the cheap way out, lashing up and locking down open source software.
Your own link says as much:
Meanwhile, Apple was facing commercial difficulties of its own. The decade-old Mac OS had reached the limits of its single-user, co-operative multitasking architecture, and its once-innovative user interface was looking increasingly outdated. A massive development effort to replace it, known as Copland, was started in 1994, but was generally perceived outside of Apple to be a hopeless case due to political infighting. By 1996, Copland was nowhere near ready for release, and the project was eventually cancelled. Some elements of Copland were incorporated into Mac OS 8, released on July 26, 1997.
After considering the purchase of BeOS — a multimedia-enabled, multi-tasking OS designed for hardware similar to Apple's — the company decided instead to acquire NeXT and use OPENSTEP as the basis for their new OS. Avie Tevanian took over OS development, and Steve Jobs was brought on as a consultant. At first, the plan was to develop a new operating system based almost entirely on an updated version of OPENSTEP
NextStep is simply a thin skin on top of BSD.
This device has less than 100% overlap. I'm guessing it's around 60% from looking at the monitor images. When the overlap decreases too much, it gives you the impression of having a very large nose that blocks each eye from seeing part of the other eye view. This can be annoying.
100% overlap is not my any means normal for the human vision system. 60% to 70% is normal for most people.
Abandoning lens based optics seems count-intuitive. Using lenses that more closely copy the human eye would seem the wise choice.
I beg for #3
I'd settle for #2.
Dell turned sour the minute he sold controlling interest to the wall street investors who were only interested in pinching pennies.
I doubt Silver Lake is going to be a silent partner, but they would do well to give Mr Dell his way for a while.
This.
Except it wasn't an "all new OS".
Except those were NOT that successful, and those were precisely the computers Dell was talking about and which were sinking Apple at the time.
Jobs vision was that he had to stop relying on desktop computers because he was clearly losing that war in spite of a few partially successful products. His vision saved the company by moving to gadgets, and letting the computer side play catch up. Jobs pretty much followed Dell's advice, pulling almost all the R&D money away from computers. He shit-canned his own operating system, went out and grabbed FreeBSD, Konqueror, and Cups, and packaged it to keep the faithful happy while the real effort went into the iPhone.
Only his pride prevented him from killing off the computer line altogether.
How's that working out for them?
You must be new here, /. has been anti apple since Android came out years ago
The question then is why was Lessig — who co-founded Creative Commons (and was a board member of the Free Software Foundation) using an iPhone in the first place?
You sort of expect just a little more dogfooding that that from a pontificater like Lessig.
Not that impressive.
Air-Sea had been a Navy concept since before world war 2. They believed it so much they built carriers, and coordinated land based planes with carrier based planes very effectively, even when the land based planes belonged to the army. Read about Midway.
China was not weak back in the 80s. China was not weak in the 60s. They were an economic powerhouse even then.
Douglas MacArther warned Never fight a land war in Asia".
Everyone but weapons system planners knew that the Soviet Union was going down as early as the 70s, because economists had predicted it even earlier, just by looking at empty shelves in soviet super markets and the drastic cut back in Soviet aid to its over-extended empire. They hung Castro out to dry, in the late 60s.
The need for precision weapons was noted in WW2. Some were even developed and uses back then. Dam buster bombs. The AGM-62 Walleye TV Guided bomb was in use in the 60s, conceived in 1958, and developed by the Navy, it was used in Viet Nam.. Carpet bombing works in Jungles, precision doesn't.
In short, he seems to have convinced people to use what was already available rather than sticking with old school methods.
I suspect he predicted his own demise, and to uphold his record, he has to go.
In actuality, the predictions attributed to him were widely predicted by many people
and found in Science Fiction long before his predictions. Even Popular Science
back issues tend to look prescient with hind signt.
Anyone who reads slashdot can predict global trends and be right some of the time.
I'd be more interested in some of the predictions which never came about.
Ok, so I called bs on your hundreds of laws that allow wide scale wire taps without a warrant, gag orders, seizure of records, etc, and you double down and now claim hundreds of thousands of laws allow this?
Let's go for a million, nice round number, and you won't look any more foolish than you already do.
Probably a good guess.
Opensuse is about to release it's second version with systemd, with the last vestiges of run level compatibility targets removed.
Not sure when that hits SLES.