If the developers are writing comments then you are working at the right companies. I'd rather have a bad term or two used when commenting code than have no comments.
When I was in grade school (mid 80s) the teacher's would take us to the computer lab to play games two or three times a week. The games were things like Word Muncher, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, Oregon Trail, and a Logo variant. I remember Word Muncher helping a bit with spelling and my interest in geography grew as a result of Carmen San Diego.
Ebook readers sinply won't take off big-time until the manufacturers forget their proprietary formats and go for something sensible.
You mean like ePub which is supported on sucn E-Ink devices as Sony Readers, iRex readers, and Hanlin readers. I personally use the Sony Reader and love it. I would consider switching to the Kindle, except that it supports limited file formats and the whispernet service does not work in Alaska (Why oh why could they not have used WiFi instead).
FTA, âoeIt's a fresh attempt to introduce the concept of plants, rather than humans or animals, to robot making."
That concept sounds as interesting as watching grass grow. Maybe they are trying to put a new twist on robot wars with a match between the synthetic grass cluster and the Robo Mower.
he big barrier to ssl for small sites is cost - in some cases the cost of an ssl cert will exceed all other costs.
I would disagree. One of the biggest barriers to implementing SSL on my sites is the lack of IP addresses. I only have two IP addresses, yet I host 16 web sites. My understanding is that HTTPS requires IP based virtuals which would prevent me from hosting more than two sites if I were to use SSL for all of my sites.
... care needs to be taken to avoid a false sense of security.
Which is why the video states that SSL/TLS should be the only user visible transport security and their third goal is to have no visual indications and no alternative URL schemes.
American are scared, losing world leader status, economy going down the drain
How exactly does an article published on a Japanese news site about a Japanese company (Sony) relate to American insecurities?
Maybe a better question is how does Japan keeping source code for its devices closed prevent the US from loosing world leader status, help support the economy, or alleviate concerns about a VP candidate?
When a police officer is tracking you, do they hitch a ride without telling you?
Let's suppose that an officer on the street can observe me in my house by looking through the window. Is the police officer then justified in mounting a camera to the side of my house and pointing it in the window without first obtaining a warrant?
I think most people would agree that the police do not have the right to mount a camera to my house, building, or any other structure without my consent or a court issued warrant.
If mounting the camera to my house is not allowed, why are they allowed to mount other foreign objects (GPS) to my moveable property (car) without a warrant?
Whether reasonably measurable or not, they are, without my express authorization or compensation, using energy from my vehicle and causing additional wear and tear on my vehicle. This could be construed as theft of service (transportation fees).
3) In the event you have a serious accident and are unconscious or hurt in the middle of nowhere, they can still contact help for you (unlikely?)
Very likely for those of us that live:
In Alaska
In the Yukon
In rural Nevada
In rural Michigan
and in many non-urban areas
Not every one lives in a city and not every road is in a heavily traveled suburban area. Not convinced, count the number of cars that pass by you during a January night on Alaska-1 (one of the busiest Alaskan highways) near Denali. I bet you will only need one hand.
There is a big need to fix testosterone-fueled code at Ingres because only about 20% of the engineers are women, McGrattan says. (Most of them are in jobs involving quality assurance or adapting the product to a new locale, she says, and not the "heavy lifting" of writing code.)
Hmm, most of the women modify existing code or review existing code rather than write from scratch. Where is the comparison between male and female "heavy lifting" code writers and between make and female quality assurance/adaptor coders. Or was this comparison not as sensational as blaming the sex of the coder rather than the type of coder?
When the reality sets in that they are paying upwards of $400/yr in data charges for a device they pretty much just use to make phone calls or play music sales will level off.
You mean I can make calls on my iPhone. I thought it was just an Internet tablet like the Nokia n810, but with a slicker interface and network access through the cellular network.
Sarcasm aside, I rarely use my iPhone as a phone. I use the e-mail, web, notes, calendar, address book, and SMS capabilities (in that order) far more than the phone capabilities. The fact that I can make phone calls is nice, but I probably only talk on it once or twice a week. On the other hand I used the other functions upwards of 20-40 times a day.
Most of the people that I know that bought iPhones, use the iPhone as a replacement for their PDA, mobile phone, and iPod.
If an organization has security so tight that an individual is unable to carry a medium such as a sheet of paper, a thumb drive, digital camera, mp3 player, or cell phone off the premise, I seriously doubt the organization would allow the individual unrestricted access to the public Internet from within the organization's network.
An ssl page, especially if wikileaks sets up some sort of drop system with other domains so you aren't obviously submitting to wikileaks, is much harder to track because people use ssl pages all over the internet all the time.
Why would you submit something to Wikileaks from your organization's network or through your organization's mail servers? I would think that act alone would scream, "Fire me," at the top of its figurative lungs to your soon to be ex-employers.
Actually there is an Official 2.0 beta release of the iPhone software available for the iPhone (current build 5A240d), however you have to be a registered iPhone Developer to download it from iPhone Developer Portal. The software in the simulator is not the same Beta software which Apple makes available for the physical phone.
Beta testers were notified by e-mail of the software expiration that night. A new copy was available immediately from the AppleSeed site.
I actually did not receive an e-mail explaining that the software was going to expire and that I needed to download a new copy from the AppleSeed Site. On a side note, the AppleSeed program is only available to ADC members that have a Premier or Select membership which is a least an additional $500 on top of the iPhone Developer program.
Maybe people who beta test software should have a good understanding that it is a BETA test and Apple highly recommended that the BETA software not be installed on personal or business-related phones that need to have 100% accessibility and reliability.
True enough, however some of us do not have a lot of disposable income and cannot afford to buy two or three $400-$500 devices for testing. I am prepared to accept bugs in beta firmware, however this seems more deliberate than an unexpected bug. If you truly did receive an e-mail warning about the impending expiration, I am now outraged that the same notice was not sent to all registered iPhone developers.
How many beta testers in this program understand how to use a web browser to go grab the new release? If you're gonna be a n00b about it, don't sign up to be a tester.
Care to provide a link to the new release for those of us registered iPhone developers that were not lucky enough to be sent a notification?
I would agree with you if the people you refer to used stock firmware, however we have requested and gone out of our way to use Beta firmware in order to get a head start on developing for the platform. Although I am frustrated that my phone has had bugs since I loaded the beta firmware and I am upset that my phone is not working, I recognize that I placed myself in this situation by switching to the beta software despite Apple's warnings posted in their portal about doing so. However I am mostly angry with myself for being too "cheap" to buy a test device (an iPod Touch maybe) and instead opted to use my primary phone for development.
What if your browser uses link prefetching? Will they then have enough justification to take my computers and smart phone away which would leave me without the ability to work?
In the case of university tuition, whether he can get a debit card or not is irrelevant. Legal U.S. tender must be accepted by a creditor (the University) from the debtor (the student) to pay off a debt within the U.S. If the University required payment before it allowed the student to register for classes, then the University could require payment by credit card. However since the University extended credit to the student for the classes, it is required to accept legal tender as payment for those classes.
You're supposed to report it to the IRS but if you don't actually make money (or reasonably would have) then they couldn't really get tax money out of you anyways. For example, if you trade your computer repairs for Joe's plumbing service and they are both about the same value (assuming just labor and no parts) then I don't see how anyone makes any money on them.
So if Jane cleans Joe's house for dollars, I trade my computer repairs for Jane's dollars (previously Joe's dollars), and I trade Jane's dollars for Joe's plumbing service, then by your logic not one of us would have to pay taxes since the value of all three transactions are about the same no one would make money on it.
Every financial transaction we make is a barter whether is is buying stocks, buying services, or buying goods. Rather than bickering prices at a market most people. as part of the negotiating, settle for a "fixed" price at a store in exchange for the convenience of more selections, better availability, and consistency.
Sales tax is not the same as income tax. Sales tax is not based on the amount of profit you made, but rather the value (read cost) of the goods and services rendered or exchanged. When bartering at the market, the goods and services being bartered over have some type of value or else you would not be wasting your time trying to obtain them while attempting to retain as much of your current possessions or time as possible. Of course I am making the assumption that most people value their time.
If you want to avoid sales tax legally, move some where like Alaska (with the exceptions of a few towns) where there is no sales tax.
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If the developers are writing comments then you are working at the right companies. I'd rather have a bad term or two used when commenting code than have no comments.
When I was in grade school (mid 80s) the teacher's would take us to the computer lab to play games two or three times a week. The games were things like Word Muncher, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, Oregon Trail, and a Logo variant. I remember Word Muncher helping a bit with spelling and my interest in geography grew as a result of Carmen San Diego.
Ebook readers sinply won't take off big-time until the manufacturers forget their proprietary formats and go for something sensible.
You mean like ePub which is supported on sucn E-Ink devices as Sony Readers, iRex readers, and Hanlin readers. I personally use the Sony Reader and love it. I would consider switching to the Kindle, except that it supports limited file formats and the whispernet service does not work in Alaska (Why oh why could they not have used WiFi instead).
How appropriate that a user named CorporateSuit refers to his IT team as "slaves on rowers."
FTA, âoeIt's a fresh attempt to introduce the concept of plants, rather than humans or animals, to robot making."
That concept sounds as interesting as watching grass grow. Maybe they are trying to put a new twist on robot wars with a match between the synthetic grass cluster and the Robo Mower.
he big barrier to ssl for small sites is cost - in some cases the cost of an ssl cert will exceed all other costs.
I would disagree. One of the biggest barriers to implementing SSL on my sites is the lack of IP addresses. I only have two IP addresses, yet I host 16 web sites. My understanding is that HTTPS requires IP based virtuals which would prevent me from hosting more than two sites if I were to use SSL for all of my sites.
... care needs to be taken to avoid a false sense of security.
Which is why the video states that SSL/TLS should be the only user visible transport security and their third goal is to have no visual indications and no alternative URL schemes.
American are scared, losing world leader status, economy going down the drain
How exactly does an article published on a Japanese news site about a Japanese company (Sony) relate to American insecurities?
Maybe a better question is how does Japan keeping source code for its devices closed prevent the US from loosing world leader status, help support the economy, or alleviate concerns about a VP candidate?
When a police officer is tracking you, do they hitch a ride without telling you?
Let's suppose that an officer on the street can observe me in my house by looking through the window. Is the police officer then justified in mounting a camera to the side of my house and pointing it in the window without first obtaining a warrant?
I think most people would agree that the police do not have the right to mount a camera to my house, building, or any other structure without my consent or a court issued warrant.
If mounting the camera to my house is not allowed, why are they allowed to mount other foreign objects (GPS) to my moveable property (car) without a warrant?
Whether reasonably measurable or not, they are, without my express authorization or compensation, using energy from my vehicle and causing additional wear and tear on my vehicle. This could be construed as theft of service (transportation fees).
3) In the event you have a serious accident and are unconscious or hurt in the middle of nowhere, they can still contact help for you (unlikely?)
Very likely for those of us that live:
Not every one lives in a city and not every road is in a heavily traveled suburban area. Not convinced, count the number of cars that pass by you during a January night on Alaska-1 (one of the busiest Alaskan highways) near Denali. I bet you will only need one hand.
I completely agree with the parent.
From the FTA:
There is a big need to fix testosterone-fueled code at Ingres because only about 20% of the engineers are women, McGrattan says. (Most of them are in jobs involving quality assurance or adapting the product to a new locale, she says, and not the "heavy lifting" of writing code.)Hmm, most of the women modify existing code or review existing code rather than write from scratch. Where is the comparison between male and female "heavy lifting" code writers and between make and female quality assurance/adaptor coders. Or was this comparison not as sensational as blaming the sex of the coder rather than the type of coder?
You mean I can make calls on my iPhone. I thought it was just an Internet tablet like the Nokia n810, but with a slicker interface and network access through the cellular network.
Sarcasm aside, I rarely use my iPhone as a phone. I use the e-mail, web, notes, calendar, address book, and SMS capabilities (in that order) far more than the phone capabilities. The fact that I can make phone calls is nice, but I probably only talk on it once or twice a week. On the other hand I used the other functions upwards of 20-40 times a day.
Most of the people that I know that bought iPhones, use the iPhone as a replacement for their PDA, mobile phone, and iPod.
If an organization has security so tight that an individual is unable to carry a medium such as a sheet of paper, a thumb drive, digital camera, mp3 player, or cell phone off the premise, I seriously doubt the organization would allow the individual unrestricted access to the public Internet from within the organization's network.
An ssl page, especially if wikileaks sets up some sort of drop system with other domains so you aren't obviously submitting to wikileaks, is much harder to track because people use ssl pages all over the internet all the time.
Why would you submit something to Wikileaks from your organization's network or through your organization's mail servers? I would think that act alone would scream, "Fire me," at the top of its figurative lungs to your soon to be ex-employers.
Freakin' awesome name. Now I just need to think of something funny to use the domain for.
Actually there is an Official 2.0 beta release of the iPhone software available for the iPhone (current build 5A240d), however you have to be a registered iPhone Developer to download it from iPhone Developer Portal. The software in the simulator is not the same Beta software which Apple makes available for the physical phone.
BTW, the new Firmware has been released as of a few minutes ago. It is not available from the iPhone Development Portal.
Beta testers were notified by e-mail of the software expiration that night. A new copy was available immediately from the AppleSeed site.
I actually did not receive an e-mail explaining that the software was going to expire and that I needed to download a new copy from the AppleSeed Site. On a side note, the AppleSeed program is only available to ADC members that have a Premier or Select membership which is a least an additional $500 on top of the iPhone Developer program.
Maybe people who beta test software should have a good understanding that it is a BETA test and Apple highly recommended that the BETA software not be installed on personal or business-related phones that need to have 100% accessibility and reliability.
True enough, however some of us do not have a lot of disposable income and cannot afford to buy two or three $400-$500 devices for testing. I am prepared to accept bugs in beta firmware, however this seems more deliberate than an unexpected bug. If you truly did receive an e-mail warning about the impending expiration, I am now outraged that the same notice was not sent to all registered iPhone developers.
How many beta testers in this program understand how to use a web browser to go grab the new release? If you're gonna be a n00b about it, don't sign up to be a tester.
Care to provide a link to the new release for those of us registered iPhone developers that were not lucky enough to be sent a notification?
I would agree with you if the people you refer to used stock firmware, however we have requested and gone out of our way to use Beta firmware in order to get a head start on developing for the platform. Although I am frustrated that my phone has had bugs since I loaded the beta firmware and I am upset that my phone is not working, I recognize that I placed myself in this situation by switching to the beta software despite Apple's warnings posted in their portal about doing so. However I am mostly angry with myself for being too "cheap" to buy a test device (an iPod Touch maybe) and instead opted to use my primary phone for development.
Shouldn't that be:
after 8 seasons, the series finale airs January 20th
What if your browser uses link prefetching? Will they then have enough justification to take my computers and smart phone away which would leave me without the ability to work?
"We don't hate freedom. We just hate that you are giving more to yourself by taking it away from everyone else."
In the case of university tuition, whether he can get a debit card or not is irrelevant. Legal U.S. tender must be accepted by a creditor (the University) from the debtor (the student) to pay off a debt within the U.S. If the University required payment before it allowed the student to register for classes, then the University could require payment by credit card. However since the University extended credit to the student for the classes, it is required to accept legal tender as payment for those classes.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender.
But I would only offer him a penny for his thoughts.
So if Jane cleans Joe's house for dollars, I trade my computer repairs for Jane's dollars (previously Joe's dollars), and I trade Jane's dollars for Joe's plumbing service, then by your logic not one of us would have to pay taxes since the value of all three transactions are about the same no one would make money on it.
Every financial transaction we make is a barter whether is is buying stocks, buying services, or buying goods. Rather than bickering prices at a market most people. as part of the negotiating, settle for a "fixed" price at a store in exchange for the convenience of more selections, better availability, and consistency.
Sales tax is not the same as income tax. Sales tax is not based on the amount of profit you made, but rather the value (read cost) of the goods and services rendered or exchanged. When bartering at the market, the goods and services being bartered over have some type of value or else you would not be wasting your time trying to obtain them while attempting to retain as much of your current possessions or time as possible. Of course I am making the assumption that most people value their time.
If you want to avoid sales tax legally, move some where like Alaska (with the exceptions of a few towns) where there is no sales tax.