Ones that sign on the dotted line taking personal responsibility for the code they write.
LOL, and what percent of VW's $14 billion annual profit do these engineers receive? Nothing. I just love how management and the company take credit for the excellent work of their underlings. But when the product fails, it's the engineer's head on the guillotine block.
Of course, designer fashion accessories are all about the IP! You can find a cheap clone for a few hundred bucks in many other countries that use almost the same materials, built by copying/stealing IP.
Also, the name you mention, comes from having a reputation of having good IP and manufacturing ability.
but the other $7500 or so is just the 'labor' involved more or less, so not the IP at all just raw hours and custom tools needed to create one.
ORLY? Is the processing cost for components of a $1 million bugatti really 50 times more costly than your $20k compact car? I really doubt it. With the Bugatti, you're paying for the 0-60 times, top speed, handling etc. and the prestige of owning a supercar. Most of these features come from ingenious IP the company creates, and have little to do with how much it costs to convert raw materials to car parts.
What's worse, bad frontal crash safety or 4x more NOx fumes? I think it is the former (crash safety). So when are we going to see an $18 billion fine for the unsafe cars?
Without IP, your car would be a heap of raw materials like steel, plastic, rubber, leather etc. These raw materials are cheap and constitute a tiny fraction of the retail price of the car. You're paying for IP and the processing of these raw materials.
Are you sure about that? It'll increase their cost by a percent or two, but the profits will drop a lot as the 32 GB and higher models are priced over $200 than the 16 GB models.
If a 32GB model existed, 64GB and 128GB sales would be a lot lower, decreasing overall profits by 20-30%. Therefore, this price gouging will continue for the foreseeable future where downloading a couple of 3D games will consume all your flash space in the 16GB model. So you're forced to buy 32GB and higher.
What kind of completely incompetent idiot can't put an estimate on something based on past experience?
LOL, are you in one of those jobs where you implement the same thing over and over again, only slightly different each time? That's a shitty job or a shitty design. If you're doing something new it's unlikely you have experience enough to estimate the time. Time estimation works well for non-programming tasks that have been done before, not new tasks that have not been done before. Management has been screwing and stressing programmers demanding artificial/made up deadlines.
Plausible, but this is also plausible. The manager said, "I'll give you a big, fat bonus of 50,000 euros if you sneak this code in. No one will ever know such code exists." And the outside world did not know for over 5 years.
$18 billion is a ridiculously high fine. Has any company been charged such an amount? This is not a fine, it's more like a company death sentence. VW made $14 billion profit in 2014, so no way can they afford or are liable for something as high as $18 billion for one error.
Cars lose 33-50% of their value in the first 3 years and depreciation is worse for larger cars.
I just looked up honda civic lx sedan 2012 on autotrader.com. The new car price was $18,000 and the current used car price, for about 20k to 40k miles, is $14.5k to $15k, so only a 15% to 20% drop, not your 50% drop. I imagine toyotas and subarus drop a similar percentage range. That's hardly a bargain for used stuff.
The fact is a lot of Slashdot's value comes from user commentary.
And a nightclub's value is from meeting other customers. If a nightclub can charge an entry fee, why can't slashdot? That's because customers don't think it's not important enough to pay for, so ads are the best for getting income.
The websites are not free... they have ads. Don't like ads? Well don't visit the sites. Broadcast TV is also not free... it has roughly 15-20 minutes of ads per hour and has been around for over half a century so no need to act innocent because both have the same model.
It's not even refusing delivery. It's not requesting content in which one is not interested.
Downloading and/or watching ads is payment in exchange for downloading content you want to read. Not paying for using a service is stealing, unless you are a naive 10-year old kid.
Surfing the web is not stealing. I FUCKING PAID AN ISP TO DO SO.
That's like saying, "I paid for my car so I don't have to pay for any goods at the store to carry them in my car." Your payment only went to an ISP. Who is going to pay the website owner? Fairies? The rationalizations here are beyond retarded.
Tough Titty. The World does not owe Bad Programmers and Worse Marketers a living, no matter how much they think it does.
Conversely, the app developers don't owe consumers free apps. Don't want to pay for apps or view ads? Well then, delete the app, please.
Sorry if I offended you, but defending the Advertising Structure that has made large parts of the Internet unusable, is inexcusable. You and that awful Kargman share one trait in common: Greed.
Do you know why ad-driven apps exist in the first place? It's because the vast majority of consumers (80-90%) are unwilling to spend even one lousy dollar for an app. That's right, ads exist because consumers are cheap or expect everything for free. It's greed of a different flavor.
It's a different matter if ads are objectionable to many people. We could have an ad police to ensure there are not too many ads, that ads are not frequent or not too distracting to prevent you interacting with the main content. But there is nothing inherently wrong in advertising a product/service. Heck, most of you complainers make salaries because your boss hired advertisers to sell your company product, which in turn, pays your salaries.
No, because it's unlikely you'll completely ignore the ad if you mute the TV or ignore the web ad because it still registers in your peripheral vision, sometimes you'll notice it by accident.
It is stealing if you read a magazine where the postman, following your instructions, has used scissors to cut out all the ads from it. That analogy is similar to this case.
2) I dislike their adverts sufficiently that I'm prepared to spend actual money to stop seeing them.
Which results in lowered income for ad-driven apps, which means your free/app website won't be available anymore because the developer can't pay his bills to keep a roof over his head. Are consumers incapable of seeing beyond their own myopic, selfish needs or portraying themselves as the victims?
Java is just a middle layer. Ultimately, the Java code will have to call native C code, where a buffer overflow is most likely occurring. So the flaw is still in C. Or it could be a poor implementation of Java. Either way, it's not Java's (the language, not implementation) fault.
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LOL, and what percent of VW's $14 billion annual profit do these engineers receive? Nothing. I just love how management and the company take credit for the excellent work of their underlings. But when the product fails, it's the engineer's head on the guillotine block.
Of course, designer fashion accessories are all about the IP! You can find a cheap clone for a few hundred bucks in many other countries that use almost the same materials, built by copying/stealing IP.
Also, the name you mention, comes from having a reputation of having good IP and manufacturing ability.
Suppose the enemy can jam signals controlling the drone. Your drone becomes a dead pigeon in that case.
ORLY? Is the processing cost for components of a $1 million bugatti really 50 times more costly than your $20k compact car? I really doubt it. With the Bugatti, you're paying for the 0-60 times, top speed, handling etc. and the prestige of owning a supercar. Most of these features come from ingenious IP the company creates, and have little to do with how much it costs to convert raw materials to car parts.
Now be honest. Even if no accident actually occurs, won't you be scared as hell driving an unsafe car?
So it depends on more than just the number of deaths and injuries caused by accidents. An unsafe car is only slightly better than a motorbike.
What's worse, bad frontal crash safety or 4x more NOx fumes? I think it is the former (crash safety). So when are we going to see an $18 billion fine for the unsafe cars?
The word "Batmobile" is trademarkable, whereas the actual physical/ornamental design of the car is copyrightable.
Without IP, your car would be a heap of raw materials like steel, plastic, rubber, leather etc. These raw materials are cheap and constitute a tiny fraction of the retail price of the car. You're paying for IP and the processing of these raw materials.
Are you sure about that? It'll increase their cost by a percent or two, but the profits will drop a lot as the 32 GB and higher models are priced over $200 than the 16 GB models.
If a 32GB model existed, 64GB and 128GB sales would be a lot lower, decreasing overall profits by 20-30%. Therefore, this price gouging will continue for the foreseeable future where downloading a couple of 3D games will consume all your flash space in the 16GB model. So you're forced to buy 32GB and higher.
LOL, are you in one of those jobs where you implement the same thing over and over again, only slightly different each time? That's a shitty job or a shitty design. If you're doing something new it's unlikely you have experience enough to estimate the time. Time estimation works well for non-programming tasks that have been done before, not new tasks that have not been done before. Management has been screwing and stressing programmers demanding artificial/made up deadlines.
What if websites add this code?
if httpRequest.userAgent.contains("ios9"):
showPage("404 no stuff for freeloaders")
endif
Plausible, but this is also plausible. The manager said, "I'll give you a big, fat bonus of 50,000 euros if you sneak this code in. No one will ever know such code exists." And the outside world did not know for over 5 years.
They were probably salesmen. Or did you think companies just offer their deals on groupon without any kind of sales effort?
$18 billion is a ridiculously high fine. Has any company been charged such an amount? This is not a fine, it's more like a company death sentence. VW made $14 billion profit in 2014, so no way can they afford or are liable for something as high as $18 billion for one error.
I just looked up honda civic lx sedan 2012 on autotrader.com. The new car price was $18,000 and the current used car price, for about 20k to 40k miles, is $14.5k to $15k, so only a 15% to 20% drop, not your 50% drop. I imagine toyotas and subarus drop a similar percentage range. That's hardly a bargain for used stuff.
And a nightclub's value is from meeting other customers. If a nightclub can charge an entry fee, why can't slashdot? That's because customers don't think it's not important enough to pay for, so ads are the best for getting income.
The websites are not free... they have ads. Don't like ads? Well don't visit the sites. Broadcast TV is also not free... it has roughly 15-20 minutes of ads per hour and has been around for over half a century so no need to act innocent because both have the same model.
Downloading and/or watching ads is payment in exchange for downloading content you want to read. Not paying for using a service is stealing, unless you are a naive 10-year old kid.
That's like saying, "I paid for my car so I don't have to pay for any goods at the store to carry them in my car." Your payment only went to an ISP. Who is going to pay the website owner? Fairies? The rationalizations here are beyond retarded.
Conversely, the app developers don't owe consumers free apps. Don't want to pay for apps or view ads? Well then, delete the app, please.
Do you know why ad-driven apps exist in the first place? It's because the vast majority of consumers (80-90%) are unwilling to spend even one lousy dollar for an app. That's right, ads exist because consumers are cheap or expect everything for free. It's greed of a different flavor.
It's a different matter if ads are objectionable to many people. We could have an ad police to ensure there are not too many ads, that ads are not frequent or not too distracting to prevent you interacting with the main content. But there is nothing inherently wrong in advertising a product/service. Heck, most of you complainers make salaries because your boss hired advertisers to sell your company product, which in turn, pays your salaries.
No, because it's unlikely you'll completely ignore the ad if you mute the TV or ignore the web ad because it still registers in your peripheral vision, sometimes you'll notice it by accident.
It is stealing if you read a magazine where the postman, following your instructions, has used scissors to cut out all the ads from it. That analogy is similar to this case.
Which results in lowered income for ad-driven apps, which means your free/app website won't be available anymore because the developer can't pay his bills to keep a roof over his head. Are consumers incapable of seeing beyond their own myopic, selfish needs or portraying themselves as the victims?
Java is just a middle layer. Ultimately, the Java code will have to call native C code, where a buffer overflow is most likely occurring. So the flaw is still in C. Or it could be a poor implementation of Java. Either way, it's not Java's (the language, not implementation) fault.
Acceleration and top-speed are very important otherwise a bicycle would be considered more sporty since it handles better than any car.
These systems may be connected to the engine system as needed, however, none of them should be connected to the entertainment system or the internet.
Do you need the internet to run a car? No, so stop adding useless tracking/spying computers to everything.