Well, if you're going to make a Turing machine run something equivalent to Conway's Game of Life, forget the random: have the simulation be A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life.
Be careful. If you make it too hard with too many hoops, then you'll see a rise in unlicensed drivers. The UK has a (modest) problem with this, actually, and very difficult/expensive licensing requirements.
In all seriousness, they use the laptops to provide supplementary data to model the shaking of the ground and the buildings, not as primary earthquake detectors. People deliberately shaking their laptops are their least concerns. (Normal shaking, like from typing, is more important.)
Leaches? They're like a percolating liquid flowing through the GPL code and dissolving bits and pieces of it to carry away (and possibly pollute the surrounding code environment)?
I work at a company where we sell some software which monitors access points. We have to be careful when taking things home to make sure that there aren't any offensive SSIDs that end up on the demo box. Occasionally something Interesting happens and it has to be carefully scrubbed...
Yes. As opposed to hacking any new functionality that's needed into all that existing cruft and introducing subtle, hard-to-understand bugs and security vulnerabilities. Which is the trade-off, after all.
(We don't have to stop all development on anything new in the future ever just because we have one mature codebase. It's not like we're all deploying the stuff tomorrow.)
If that were really the case, couldn't some entity with a couple of spare tens of billions start a new insurance company and make a bundle by saving people a ton of money? Or, to save time overcoming regulatory hurdles, maybe one of the existing insurance companies could offer it, and make up for their losses by dragging in a lot more customers. And if it really is so lucrative to overcharge for insurance, why would they wait until some investments turned up bad? Save some time, cut to the chase!
I just don't think the logic works out. You try to make as much profit as you can off your customers, and you try to make as much profit as you can off your investments. When the investments don't work out so well, it shouldn't really affect the customers that much. You might possibly have a bit of a regulatory scramble for capital and you might be able to burn some goodwill taking advantage of people who don't want to deal with the hassle of switching, but industry-wide "rake them over the coals" behavior is just asking for someone to steal customers.
Or... maybe the insurance companies were undercharging before, but have since realized that you can't make the kind of money off of the investment side of the business that you once thought you could, and so it isn't really worth it to charge people as low a premiums as they once did. That might explain why no one is doing it anymore.
One specific beef. One of the tax proposals is to extend the Medicare tax to unearned income for anyone who makes more than $200,000 ($250,000 if filing jointly). Specifically, it means that if you make $199,999 you're not taxed on any investment income or capital gains, but if you make another dollar then the tax applies retroactively to any capital gains you have whatsoever, possibly costing you hundreds of dollars.
That's bad tax design, and it will probably bite a bunch of middle-class/upper-middle-class types who have sudden large expenses and need to liquidate something to pay for them.
... only without the cell phone, but with a scanner device of some sort. It's nice to see the technology expand, but one worries about the enhanced potential for check fraud under this new scheme.
It gives customer the impression that they're being nickel-and-dimed to death.
Maybe if the main game were cheap ($20 or so) they could get away with a $5 multiplayer addon, but at normal videogame prices that stuff's not going to fly.
I was following Cities XL when they tried to pull that sort of garbage on people, and laughed when they pulled their "planet offer" for not attracting enough interest. Yeah, $5/mo for something like that's a little steep, guys, especially when you leave out features which the demo implied would be present (like mass transit: buses, trains, and such...) All in all, that was rather sad. (I found Societies to be more fun, and that's saying something.) The amazing part was the extent to which the fanboys went out of their way to justify this pricing model, and lashed out at people who felt they were duped and set out complaining about it.
Well, I don't know too many people who program in C and use Ant. And a glance at the FAQ implies it's Java-based (it talks about the JVM a bit).
I guess Cassandra just isn't really targeted at the market segment where the overhead of a JVM would make much of a difference, even if it would make redundancy easier.
I was as "social pariah" as the next guy at my school, and I graduated with 3 years ago with a ~$74,000 job offer. I won't tell you what I'm making now; you'd gawk.
Now, I'm not saying that you should go out of your way to be "a social pariah" or anything, but I don't think that entry-level software-engineering jobs are particularly related to your professional networking efforts inside college itself. I'd recommend seeking internships at tech companies like IBM as a more effective early-career boost.
Maybe not over the loss of a limb, but certainly over health insurance.
I had an acquaintance online who had an upset stomach once, and while tossing and turning managed to twist a particularly sensitive part of his anatomy and, ah, lost one of the pair. Ouch. Also, $10,000+ isn't a pretty bill. Get catastrophic health insurance. Don't wait for Obama+company.
Ah, but they were quality internships. IBM ExtremeBlue SpeedTeam. $18.75/hr (for the first), and I learned enough practical object-oriented Perl there to land me my first (and current) job.
Of my 3 college internships, only one was near home. The others were over 12 hours' drive away. The one in Texas had housing; in New York, I paid $300/mo for a shared room with other interns in a decrepit old Quaker boarding-school-turned-day-school.
You want a nice job out of college? Have experience. Do internships. Experience, experience and internships. Also, experience. And internships seldom hurt.
I did 3 internships over 4 summers and worked on an academic website during the school year. There was some big-name experience there: IBM offers a few good internship programs. I won't tell you how much I'm making now; you'd be aghast.
The area of Sweden is about 450,000 square kilometers. The area of the state of California is about 425,000 square kilometers.
The number of illegal immigrants alone, in the US, is estimated at around 10-15 million, depending who you ask. The population of Sweden is about 9 million.
You can throw out all these comparisons of broadband, but when you get down to it, it turns out that things are radically different over on this continent. Just want to point that out before we start saying that one or the other is morally superior.
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Well, if you're going to make a Turing machine run something equivalent to Conway's Game of Life, forget the random: have the simulation be A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life.
Global warming? Or mere subsidence?
(Or both?)
Maybe if they do better than chip-and-PIN, which is fundamentally broken.
Be careful. If you make it too hard with too many hoops, then you'll see a rise in unlicensed drivers. The UK has a (modest) problem with this, actually, and very difficult/expensive licensing requirements.
In all seriousness, they use the laptops to provide supplementary data to model the shaking of the ground and the buildings, not as primary earthquake detectors. People deliberately shaking their laptops are their least concerns. (Normal shaking, like from typing, is more important.)
Leaches? They're like a percolating liquid flowing through the GPL code and dissolving bits and pieces of it to carry away (and possibly pollute the surrounding code environment)?
Or did you mean the parasites?
I work at a company where we sell some software which monitors access points. We have to be careful when taking things home to make sure that there aren't any offensive SSIDs that end up on the demo box. Occasionally something Interesting happens and it has to be carefully scrubbed...
Yes. As opposed to hacking any new functionality that's needed into all that existing cruft and introducing subtle, hard-to-understand bugs and security vulnerabilities. Which is the trade-off, after all.
(We don't have to stop all development on anything new in the future ever just because we have one mature codebase. It's not like we're all deploying the stuff tomorrow.)
The Wall Street Journal's assessment said otherwise; if they've amended it to make it more sane, though, that's good.
If that were really the case, couldn't some entity with a couple of spare tens of billions start a new insurance company and make a bundle by saving people a ton of money? Or, to save time overcoming regulatory hurdles, maybe one of the existing insurance companies could offer it, and make up for their losses by dragging in a lot more customers. And if it really is so lucrative to overcharge for insurance, why would they wait until some investments turned up bad? Save some time, cut to the chase!
I just don't think the logic works out. You try to make as much profit as you can off your customers, and you try to make as much profit as you can off your investments. When the investments don't work out so well, it shouldn't really affect the customers that much. You might possibly have a bit of a regulatory scramble for capital and you might be able to burn some goodwill taking advantage of people who don't want to deal with the hassle of switching, but industry-wide "rake them over the coals" behavior is just asking for someone to steal customers.
Or... maybe the insurance companies were undercharging before, but have since realized that you can't make the kind of money off of the investment side of the business that you once thought you could, and so it isn't really worth it to charge people as low a premiums as they once did. That might explain why no one is doing it anymore.
One specific beef. One of the tax proposals is to extend the Medicare tax to unearned income for anyone who makes more than $200,000 ($250,000 if filing jointly). Specifically, it means that if you make $199,999 you're not taxed on any investment income or capital gains, but if you make another dollar then the tax applies retroactively to any capital gains you have whatsoever, possibly costing you hundreds of dollars.
That's bad tax design, and it will probably bite a bunch of middle-class/upper-middle-class types who have sudden large expenses and need to liquidate something to pay for them.
... only without the cell phone, but with a scanner device of some sort. It's nice to see the technology expand, but one worries about the enhanced potential for check fraud under this new scheme.
It gives customer the impression that they're being nickel-and-dimed to death. Maybe if the main game were cheap ($20 or so) they could get away with a $5 multiplayer addon, but at normal videogame prices that stuff's not going to fly.
I was following Cities XL when they tried to pull that sort of garbage on people, and laughed when they pulled their "planet offer" for not attracting enough interest. Yeah, $5/mo for something like that's a little steep, guys, especially when you leave out features which the demo implied would be present (like mass transit: buses, trains, and such...) All in all, that was rather sad. (I found Societies to be more fun, and that's saying something.) The amazing part was the extent to which the fanboys went out of their way to justify this pricing model, and lashed out at people who felt they were duped and set out complaining about it.
Well, I don't know too many people who program in C and use Ant. And a glance at the FAQ implies it's Java-based (it talks about the JVM a bit).
I guess Cassandra just isn't really targeted at the market segment where the overhead of a JVM would make much of a difference, even if it would make redundancy easier.
Yes! These products are wonderful! They are spectacular! They are a beam of sunshine refreshing my soul! I'm so happy with them! Daisies!
I was as "social pariah" as the next guy at my school, and I graduated with 3 years ago with a ~$74,000 job offer. I won't tell you what I'm making now; you'd gawk.
Now, I'm not saying that you should go out of your way to be "a social pariah" or anything, but I don't think that entry-level software-engineering jobs are particularly related to your professional networking efforts inside college itself. I'd recommend seeking internships at tech companies like IBM as a more effective early-career boost.
Maybe not over the loss of a limb, but certainly over health insurance.
I had an acquaintance online who had an upset stomach once, and while tossing and turning managed to twist a particularly sensitive part of his anatomy and, ah, lost one of the pair. Ouch. Also, $10,000+ isn't a pretty bill. Get catastrophic health insurance. Don't wait for Obama+company.
I disagree.
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I prefer Anyone Can Build a Tub-Style Mechanical Chicken Plucker.
Ah, but they were quality internships. IBM ExtremeBlue SpeedTeam. $18.75/hr (for the first), and I learned enough practical object-oriented Perl there to land me my first (and current) job.
Of my 3 college internships, only one was near home. The others were over 12 hours' drive away. The one in Texas had housing; in New York, I paid $300/mo for a shared room with other interns in a decrepit old Quaker boarding-school-turned-day-school.
You want a nice job out of college? Have experience. Do internships. Experience, experience and internships. Also, experience. And internships seldom hurt.
I did 3 internships over 4 summers and worked on an academic website during the school year. There was some big-name experience there: IBM offers a few good internship programs. I won't tell you how much I'm making now; you'd be aghast.
Depending on where you live, your local wastewater treatment plant may do something similar and sell the results to nearby farms.
The area of Sweden is about 450,000 square kilometers. The area of the state of California is about 425,000 square kilometers. The number of illegal immigrants alone, in the US, is estimated at around 10-15 million, depending who you ask. The population of Sweden is about 9 million.
You can throw out all these comparisons of broadband, but when you get down to it, it turns out that things are radically different over on this continent. Just want to point that out before we start saying that one or the other is morally superior.
Now find some way to make "the hospital" part of that answer.
Pretty hard, isn't it?