According to sushi's etymology, its meaning has evolved from "rice fermented with raw fish" to "raw fish and rice flavored with rice vinegar." So yes, sushi kinda means raw fish.
I think you just proved my point for me. Much obliged.
So are you some sort of creative genius that can come up with unique names (like sushi for raw fish), because most tech products have names based on their primary function or feature. Examples:
* iPhone: It's primary selling point is it's a mobile phone.
* iPad: It looks and can be used like a notepad
* Laptop: A computer small and light enough to place on your lap while sitting down anywhere
I don't think knuth's 3 volumes have dated at all- they're still the definitive computer science tomes.
The problem with Knuth's books is that he uses MIX, a weird type of assembly language, to write his algorithms. This probably made sense in the 70s and 80s when high level languages had not matured much, but not today. In this day of modern languages, the book should implement algorithms in C, Python or even Pascal.
Well, PDAs are associated with weak computers that are used to run simple tasks like calculator, diary, daily task organizer, calendar, notes etc -- assistant type tasks. The current smartphone is a full blown computer whose features are a big superset of the original PDA feature set. I think Pocket warmer would be a better name than PDA.
This is why they don't let engineers name products. As the old saying goes, if an engineer were asked to come up with a name sushi they would call it "cold dead fish".
I bet engineers or people close to engineering came up with names like laptop and desktop PC -- simple, descriptive, non-fluffy, without any exaggeration, and most importantly, still in use. As far as sushi is concerned, cold and dead are redundant, so an engineer would have come up with something like raw fish.
And what about the marketing geniuses that came up with names like "smartphone" and "hyperthreading?" These terms are full of exaggeration (hyperthreading is inferior to multicores and smartphones do not possess human-like smartness and intelligence) making them tacky and give off a vibe that only marketing and business people understand.
Replace names like smartphone and tablet with touch computer. These devices are after all just like the old laptop, desktop computers except they use touch based inputs.
So iphone 5 and below would be called a small touch computer. Whereas the large 5" samsung phone would be a standard size touch computer. 10" tablets would be called large, and 14" tablets would be called xtra large touch computers.
Only C (and its derivatives C++, Obj-C) seem to suffer from this buffer overrun issues because of its heavy dependence on pointers. Most other languages Pascal/Delphi, Java, Python, Basic have bounds checking and will not allow the programmer to read/write a variable x, using another variable y where y has no link to x.
If Pascal, with runtime bounds checking enabled, had been used instead of C, you would've gotten the an equivalent executable with less than 1% speed loss (due to error checking) compared to C/C++.
First, they are separating out just the channel that the user wants to watch, then they are digitizing that signal and encoding it onto the internet. That's what I don't think they are allowed to do, and that's why I believe they'll be shut down.
Aereo is just abusing/loop-holing a law that was not designed for the internet. This is blatant copyright infringement (retransmission/redistribution of copyrighted content). The OTA networks cannot allow this as they drastically lose control of the channel from which users consume content. Loss of control would lead to inability to charge the advertising rates they are used to.
So, should the big broadcasters (NBC, CBS etc) provide an optionally DRMed service that allows internet users to view their content for $8-$9/month?
Sapphire is second hardest material (1st is diamond) known and much more scratch resistant than gorilla glass. This is the best feature of sapphire glass. Check out the youtube video in this article -- even a concrete block can't scratch the sapphire glass. However, sapphire glass has many disadvantages:
*10x more expensive than gorilla glass
*1.6 times heavier than gorilla glass
*Higher refractive index so it's dimmer and therefore consumes more battery power to get same brightness as gorilla glass. A phone user is very interested in this property.
*Not environmentally friendly (energy consumption very high to produce glass)
If I own a company (I'm a shareholder) and want a return on my investment the only way for that to occur is for the company to grow.
Is that really the only way? I think most companies sell products for a decent profit (revenue - employee/material cost). Assuming a modest profit of just 20% and assuming shareholders own 50% of the company, why can't shareholders receive 10% return/year on their shares without it growing. That's not happening because share prices are so high investors barely make 0.1%.
If the company is low growth, its share price should be low such that investors can make 5-10% off dividends. That never seems to happen.
Why are there only one or two cable companies? There should be 5 to 7 unless comcast has some revolutionary patented technology that everyone has to have. Many people are sick of the constant price gouging that is caused by lack of real competition.
Golf has a high level of skill but you don't have to be very strong or fast.
While putting does not require much strength, doesn't driving (i.e. long distance shots) require a lot of upper body strength equivalent to olympic sports like javelin and discus throw?
Yeah, pizza-hole golf is the equivalent to dumbing down school kids by eliminating cursive writing (common core). Birdies are going to become very common. A whole bunch of (possibly evil) idiots are ruining everything out there.
That's assuming all the blame falls (pun not intended) on the engineer. That's kind of a double standard -- if the building is a success, management takes the credit (and profit) for creating it. But if it fails, it's the engineer's fault. The overseers, i.e. management, have to take some or a lot of the blame.
Why doesn't the developer and his/her company do a good job of reducing such bugs in the first place? How much time and money is wasted taking computers offline for updates, how many millions spent on admins patching systems? If the bugs were hard to avoid, I would understand. But c'mon, this is (criminal) laziness and greed, hiring incompetent developers (or paying competent developers the same salary as incompetent ones), and doing a rush job to release the software early to keep some artificial schedule (to save development cost money).
So in short, the developing company and their developers are personally responsible for many bugs and they should pay market price for their incompetence and not expect charity from strangers to do all the hard work finding the bugs.
First, this is an absolutely stupid premise: there is no such thing as "infinitely many vulnerabilities".
Theoretically, yes, the bugs are finite but if it takes decades to find and eliminate them all, they may as well be infinite, practically speaking. Case in point, win xp, which has been out for almost 13 years and bugs are still being found everyday.
And you think a pittance like $1000 for a critical bug is enough incentive for the finder to not hawk this juicy fruit in the black market? They need to pay more!
Well, hindsight is 20/20. Can you can guarantee that the design of the next reactor using smart and cautious engineers won't blow up or cause damage? No! There's also the problem of dumping nuclear waste. I think the harm caused by coal is less than that caused by a nuclear reactor incident and the risk of maintaining a reactor is totally not worth it.
Why are they still developing it? What are the goals of the new design? Who is target market for the new design? There should be a slashdot poll asking which format users prefer: a) beta b) classic c) both With this we can discover if the naysayers are a minority or not.
It seems pointless to continue developing something so inferior (but slightly prettier) to the original. Just create a nicer looking skin for classic and be done with it.
But where does the BSD license say, "If you use our code and make over $1 billion in sales, you must donate some money to our foundation?" It doesn't, so Apple pays nada. Why all the hate and jealousy? If you throw thousands of dollars on the street, don't expect the money to multiply and return to your pocket.
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According to sushi's etymology, its meaning has evolved from "rice fermented with raw fish" to "raw fish and rice flavored with rice vinegar." So yes, sushi kinda means raw fish.
So are you some sort of creative genius that can come up with unique names (like sushi for raw fish), because most tech products have names based on their primary function or feature. Examples:
The 10" and 14" screen versions don't fit in your pocket :-)
The problem with Knuth's books is that he uses MIX, a weird type of assembly language, to write his algorithms. This probably made sense in the 70s and 80s when high level languages had not matured much, but not today. In this day of modern languages, the book should implement algorithms in C, Python or even Pascal.
Well, PDAs are associated with weak computers that are used to run simple tasks like calculator, diary, daily task organizer, calendar, notes etc -- assistant type tasks. The current smartphone is a full blown computer whose features are a big superset of the original PDA feature set. I think Pocket warmer would be a better name than PDA.
I bet engineers or people close to engineering came up with names like laptop and desktop PC -- simple, descriptive, non-fluffy, without any exaggeration, and most importantly, still in use. As far as sushi is concerned, cold and dead are redundant, so an engineer would have come up with something like raw fish.
And what about the marketing geniuses that came up with names like "smartphone" and "hyperthreading?" These terms are full of exaggeration (hyperthreading is inferior to multicores and smartphones do not possess human-like smartness and intelligence) making them tacky and give off a vibe that only marketing and business people understand.
Replace names like smartphone and tablet with touch computer. These devices are after all just like the old laptop, desktop computers except they use touch based inputs.
So iphone 5 and below would be called a small touch computer. Whereas the large 5" samsung phone would be a standard size touch computer. 10" tablets would be called large, and 14" tablets would be called xtra large touch computers.
or... Trojan Horse
Only C (and its derivatives C++, Obj-C) seem to suffer from this buffer overrun issues because of its heavy dependence on pointers. Most other languages Pascal/Delphi, Java, Python, Basic have bounds checking and will not allow the programmer to read/write a variable x, using another variable y where y has no link to x.
If Pascal, with runtime bounds checking enabled, had been used instead of C, you would've gotten the an equivalent executable with less than 1% speed loss (due to error checking) compared to C/C++.
Aereo is just abusing/loop-holing a law that was not designed for the internet. This is blatant copyright infringement (retransmission/redistribution of copyrighted content). The OTA networks cannot allow this as they drastically lose control of the channel from which users consume content. Loss of control would lead to inability to charge the advertising rates they are used to.
So, should the big broadcasters (NBC, CBS etc) provide an optionally DRMed service that allows internet users to view their content for $8-$9/month?
Sapphire glass requires 100 times more energy than glass.
Is that really the only way? I think most companies sell products for a decent profit (revenue - employee/material cost). Assuming a modest profit of just 20% and assuming shareholders own 50% of the company, why can't shareholders receive 10% return/year on their shares without it growing. That's not happening because share prices are so high investors barely make 0.1%.
If the company is low growth, its share price should be low such that investors can make 5-10% off dividends. That never seems to happen.
Why are there only one or two cable companies? There should be 5 to 7 unless comcast has some revolutionary patented technology that everyone has to have. Many people are sick of the constant price gouging that is caused by lack of real competition.
Perhaps all you say is true, but this bug kinda disproves open source's selling point that "many eyeballs" means bugs can't exist for long.
While putting does not require much strength, doesn't driving (i.e. long distance shots) require a lot of upper body strength equivalent to olympic sports like javelin and discus throw?
Yeah, pizza-hole golf is the equivalent to dumbing down school kids by eliminating cursive writing (common core). Birdies are going to become very common. A whole bunch of (possibly evil) idiots are ruining everything out there.
Something requiring human strength, speed and skill (coordination).
That's assuming all the blame falls (pun not intended) on the engineer. That's kind of a double standard -- if the building is a success, management takes the credit (and profit) for creating it. But if it fails, it's the engineer's fault. The overseers, i.e. management, have to take some or a lot of the blame.
Why doesn't the developer and his/her company do a good job of reducing such bugs in the first place? How much time and money is wasted taking computers offline for updates, how many millions spent on admins patching systems? If the bugs were hard to avoid, I would understand. But c'mon, this is (criminal) laziness and greed, hiring incompetent developers (or paying competent developers the same salary as incompetent ones), and doing a rush job to release the software early to keep some artificial schedule (to save development cost money).
So in short, the developing company and their developers are personally responsible for many bugs and they should pay market price for their incompetence and not expect charity from strangers to do all the hard work finding the bugs.
Theoretically, yes, the bugs are finite but if it takes decades to find and eliminate them all, they may as well be infinite, practically speaking. Case in point, win xp, which has been out for almost 13 years and bugs are still being found everyday.
And you think a pittance like $1000 for a critical bug is enough incentive for the finder to not hawk this juicy fruit in the black market? They need to pay more!
Well, hindsight is 20/20. Can you can guarantee that the design of the next reactor using smart and cautious engineers won't blow up or cause damage? No! There's also the problem of dumping nuclear waste. I think the harm caused by coal is less than that caused by a nuclear reactor incident and the risk of maintaining a reactor is totally not worth it.
Why are they still developing it? What are the goals of the new design? Who is target market for the new design? There should be a slashdot poll asking which format users prefer:
a) beta
b) classic
c) both
With this we can discover if the naysayers are a minority or not.
It seems pointless to continue developing something so inferior (but slightly prettier) to the original. Just create a nicer looking skin for classic and be done with it.
But where does the BSD license say, "If you use our code and make over $1 billion in sales, you must donate some money to our foundation?" It doesn't, so Apple pays nada. Why all the hate and jealousy? If you throw thousands of dollars on the street, don't expect the money to multiply and return to your pocket.