C's builtin types have architecture-dependent sizes. In Java, you write 'int i;' and get a four-byte integer. In C, your only guarantee about an int's size is that it's not smaller than a short (and likewise, a short is not smaller than a char, and a long is not smaller than an int).
Another common problem for portability is byte order. The arthimetic ways of getting individual bytes from an integer are portable, but if you try reading an integer array one byte at a time, you'll get different results on x86 and PowerPC processors. Most other languages don't let you do this sort of thing.
Of course Sprint isn't disinterested! They're bringing suit, which requires that they have standing. In other words, if they *were* disinterested, then the judge would have thrown out the case.
No, you have to have more intelligent, better trained people on the ground making decisions so they don't see someone with a gun and immediately start shooting. You want people who can recognize threats before anyone gets killed and can resolve the situation with minimal violence, in a way that will result in the best possible PR for your country.
Also think of false positive rates. If that test were pretty accurate and had only a 1% false positive rate, you'd suddenly be telling a quarter million men that they have breast cancer, when only 500 of them do. Your odds of having breast cancer given that you tested positive would then be one in five hundred.
The amount of wasted effort due to overmedication in this case would be enormous -- even assuming these treatments have no side effects. Even the more detailed and accurate tests might have a chance of complications.
Realistically, you'd be hurting people more than you'd help.
This isn't an oxford comma; the oxford comma separates the penultimate member of a list of at least three elements from the corresponding "and".
No, this is a community college comma, slinking in where it's unwanted out of a shameful, uncertain desire to appease prescriptivists without the requisite knowledge.
The problem with getting rid of race quotas today is that the politician who suggests it will get lynched by 16% of his constituency.
Minorities should be getting equal representation in schools and corporations, but quotas are the wrong way to approach the problem -- unless the major cause of disparity is in fact racism. For example: - Why are fewer black people getting tech jobs (as a percentage of the relevant population)? Because fewer black people are qualified for them.
- Why are fewer black people qualified for tech jobs? Because fewer attend college.
- Why do fewer black people attend college? Maybe cultural reasons -- in which case we can't do anything. I'm not in favor of forcing someone to attend college against their will. Maybe monetary reasons -- in which case we should increase need-based scholarships. Maybe because their previous education was poor enough to disqualify them -- in which case we should provide better teachers. Maybe genetic reasons -- in which case we should hurry up and discover the genetic reasons for intelligence variance so we can give everyone an IQ of 160.
Without knowing why we have inequality, we can't treat the issue without causing other problems.
If Mono could implement Microsoft's DRM schemes in such a way that Netflix just works, it would be trivially easy to alter Mono to save the DRM'd content (in unencrypted form) to a file. Sucks, but there it is.
They haven't sued Novell after ten years of Mono development. Why the hell would they wait this long?
If they didn't say "that are necessary to implement the Covered Specification", you could use any Microsoft patents you want without licensing them as long as you implemented some portion of C# or.NET along with your project. For instance, add a module to the Linux kernel that parses a reasonable subset of C# and you can get around the FAT long filename patent issue.
I would expect Amazon's marketing to indicate that these units within a region are a way to get fast communication between them without wholly losing redundancy. As such, it's a middle-tier option, not best at anything (you'd have the machines in the same data center if they really needed the bandwidth, and in separate regions if you really needed the redundancy).
If I'm wrong about that, then the marketing people who handled that should be dismissed.
I don't see why you would need Exchange et cetera for your production environment. That only needs IIS and some database. For a small site, you can get MSSQL Server for free (single-threaded and limited to 4GB, granted). Or you could use mono, and bring the cost of the server down to nothing.
For Visual Studio, you could get by with Express Edition, which is free, but has a one-programming-language-per-project limitation. That doesn't matter for most people. Worse, though, is that it doesn't accept plugins. That means no Resharper. And Resharper is something like $400 per seat. $1200 is a bit steep for a reasonable IDE (though it does knock the pants off everything else I've seen, mainly thanks to Resharper).
As for something flashy and fast but unchangeable...you should expect that from any complex system that gives you too much by default. I got that with Hobo (a Ruby framework on top of Rails). Someone using stock ASP.NET without any of those fancy tools won't get that. A standard interview should distinguish, but if you're looking through a huge number of resumes, it might be a good filter (albeit prone to incorrect removals) to ignore.NET experience if it isn't accompanied by a significant amount of experience in other environments.
That said, you shouldn't have to defend your.NET experience, if you also have ten years' experience in development on Linux in C.
It's still up to the producer to determine which sales channels can offer their product. If Amazon is getting them less revenue than they'd get otherwise, they can easily stop offering their products through Amazon.
What I forsee happening is producers using Amazon to determine what price works best for their product, then selling it exclusively through channels with lower overhead.
Amazon will set a price for which the sales are profitable for Amazon. The percentage systems guarantee that it will also be profitable for the producer. Having MSRP as a factor makes the producer feel that they have more control. However, this will likely result in a few cases where the seller could realize much greater profits with a lower MSRP, since Amazon will want to ensure profitability on their part.
I believe Amazon's Product Ads system has taken similar tactics in the past, allowing vendors more control even when it's not in their best interests to exercise this control. It would fit with the corporate culture.
What is the principle by which you made this decision? Is it a desire to see as few deaths as possible? Then you should be focusing your efforts on heart disease. That accounts for a third of all deaths in the US! (831,000 or 34.3% in 2006, according to the American Heart Association.) It's about as bad as a WTC event every second day (and every Sunday).
Perhaps it's only "unnatural" deaths? Then you should be campaigning to forbid automobiles, since automobile accidents account for some 30,000 deaths in the US annually ( http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.html ). Instead, you suggest using an automobile.
Perhaps it's only deaths with a culpable party? Then let's restrict ourselves to automobile accidents involving drunk driving. That accounts for about 10,000 deaths in the US annually ( http://www-fars.nhtms.dot.gov/Crashes/CrashesAlcohol.aspx ). That's a WTC event every five months.
Perhaps you're upset by intentional murder alone? The going rate in the US is 17,000 per year ( http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0295.pdf ). Terrorism rates for the past ten years have been less than ten annually except in 2001.
If you're restricting yourself any further than this, I doubt the utility of your principle.
You're not necessarily inconsistent here, just inefficient.
More efficiently, upload the names of as many congressional lobbyists as you can find. I suspect US senators and representatives are immune (or at least have a Secret Service escort who can wave them through), but if a thousand lobbyists found themselves unable to fly, the change will happen in a matter of months.
It might work better to flag close relatives of congresspeople. Outside the immediate family so they won't reasonably have access to that Secret Service escort, but close enough to be in close contact.
This is still irrelevant to the original problem, since anyone who has access to modify the SCM's internal files is already trusted. They could easily enough submit a change in the ordinary fashion to accomplish their goals, even as a different user. You're worrying about a bank employee pulling off a high-tech heist rather than simply removing money from the till.
They replaced the GC about a year ago, I think. Now they have a generational, compacting collector. Should result in slower, more consistent running times and less memory usage.
Banshee is essentially a slight variation on Rhythmbox. Music player. It's got a couple small GUI advantages and disadvantages. It also leaks memory (if you're like me and leave it on random/repeat for your entire 25GB music library, you'll have to restart it every couple days) and is generally rather slow. (Somewhat like F-Spot.)
I wanted to like it, but I ended up going back to rhythmbox in the end, even though its gnome-do integration is broken. (Gnome-do is an application launcher.)
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You can explain things one-on-one just fine. Explaining things to a department of 50 people is going to be extremely painful.
Well, static typing, but you have groovy++ for that.
Nice thing about cremation: the bits that don't get fully incinerated get put in a heavy-duty rock tumbler type thing to get pulverized.
C's builtin types have architecture-dependent sizes. In Java, you write 'int i;' and get a four-byte integer. In C, your only guarantee about an int's size is that it's not smaller than a short (and likewise, a short is not smaller than a char, and a long is not smaller than an int).
Another common problem for portability is byte order. The arthimetic ways of getting individual bytes from an integer are portable, but if you try reading an integer array one byte at a time, you'll get different results on x86 and PowerPC processors. Most other languages don't let you do this sort of thing.
Of course Sprint isn't disinterested! They're bringing suit, which requires that they have standing. In other words, if they *were* disinterested, then the judge would have thrown out the case.
No, you have to have more intelligent, better trained people on the ground making decisions so they don't see someone with a gun and immediately start shooting. You want people who can recognize threats before anyone gets killed and can resolve the situation with minimal violence, in a way that will result in the best possible PR for your country.
That's going to be hard to find, though.
Also think of false positive rates. If that test were pretty accurate and had only a 1% false positive rate, you'd suddenly be telling a quarter million men that they have breast cancer, when only 500 of them do. Your odds of having breast cancer given that you tested positive would then be one in five hundred.
The amount of wasted effort due to overmedication in this case would be enormous -- even assuming these treatments have no side effects. Even the more detailed and accurate tests might have a chance of complications.
Realistically, you'd be hurting people more than you'd help.
This isn't an oxford comma; the oxford comma separates the penultimate member of a list of at least three elements from the corresponding "and".
No, this is a community college comma, slinking in where it's unwanted out of a shameful, uncertain desire to appease prescriptivists without the requisite knowledge.
The problem with getting rid of race quotas today is that the politician who suggests it will get lynched by 16% of his constituency.
Minorities should be getting equal representation in schools and corporations, but quotas are the wrong way to approach the problem -- unless the major cause of disparity is in fact racism. For example:
- Why are fewer black people getting tech jobs (as a percentage of the relevant population)?
Because fewer black people are qualified for them.
- Why are fewer black people qualified for tech jobs?
Because fewer attend college.
- Why do fewer black people attend college?
Maybe cultural reasons -- in which case we can't do anything. I'm not in favor of forcing someone to attend college against their will.
Maybe monetary reasons -- in which case we should increase need-based scholarships.
Maybe because their previous education was poor enough to disqualify them -- in which case we should provide better teachers.
Maybe genetic reasons -- in which case we should hurry up and discover the genetic reasons for intelligence variance so we can give everyone an IQ of 160.
Without knowing why we have inequality, we can't treat the issue without causing other problems.
If Mono could implement Microsoft's DRM schemes in such a way that Netflix just works, it would be trivially easy to alter Mono to save the DRM'd content (in unencrypted form) to a file. Sucks, but there it is.
If they didn't say "that are necessary to implement the Covered Specification", you could use any Microsoft patents you want without licensing them as long as you implemented some portion of C# or .NET along with your project. For instance, add a module to the Linux kernel that parses a reasonable subset of C# and you can get around the FAT long filename patent issue.
I would expect Amazon's marketing to indicate that these units within a region are a way to get fast communication between them without wholly losing redundancy. As such, it's a middle-tier option, not best at anything (you'd have the machines in the same data center if they really needed the bandwidth, and in separate regions if you really needed the redundancy). If I'm wrong about that, then the marketing people who handled that should be dismissed.
I don't see why you would need Exchange et cetera for your production environment. That only needs IIS and some database. For a small site, you can get MSSQL Server for free (single-threaded and limited to 4GB, granted). Or you could use mono, and bring the cost of the server down to nothing.
For Visual Studio, you could get by with Express Edition, which is free, but has a one-programming-language-per-project limitation. That doesn't matter for most people. Worse, though, is that it doesn't accept plugins. That means no Resharper. And Resharper is something like $400 per seat. $1200 is a bit steep for a reasonable IDE (though it does knock the pants off everything else I've seen, mainly thanks to Resharper).
As for something flashy and fast but unchangeable...you should expect that from any complex system that gives you too much by default. I got that with Hobo (a Ruby framework on top of Rails). Someone using stock ASP.NET without any of those fancy tools won't get that. A standard interview should distinguish, but if you're looking through a huge number of resumes, it might be a good filter (albeit prone to incorrect removals) to ignore .NET experience if it isn't accompanied by a significant amount of experience in other environments.
That said, you shouldn't have to defend your .NET experience, if you also have ten years' experience in development on Linux in C.
RedHat did their marketing right, regardless of their technical followthrough.
It's still up to the producer to determine which sales channels can offer their product. If Amazon is getting them less revenue than they'd get otherwise, they can easily stop offering their products through Amazon.
What I forsee happening is producers using Amazon to determine what price works best for their product, then selling it exclusively through channels with lower overhead.
Amazon will set a price for which the sales are profitable for Amazon. The percentage systems guarantee that it will also be profitable for the producer. Having MSRP as a factor makes the producer feel that they have more control. However, this will likely result in a few cases where the seller could realize much greater profits with a lower MSRP, since Amazon will want to ensure profitability on their part. I believe Amazon's Product Ads system has taken similar tactics in the past, allowing vendors more control even when it's not in their best interests to exercise this control. It would fit with the corporate culture.
No afterlife? Dammit, I want to get a robotic body once I die.
What is the principle by which you made this decision? Is it a desire to see as few deaths as possible? Then you should be focusing your efforts on heart disease. That accounts for a third of all deaths in the US! (831,000 or 34.3% in 2006, according to the American Heart Association.) It's about as bad as a WTC event every second day (and every Sunday).
Perhaps it's only "unnatural" deaths? Then you should be campaigning to forbid automobiles, since automobile accidents account for some 30,000 deaths in the US annually ( http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.html ). Instead, you suggest using an automobile.
Perhaps it's only deaths with a culpable party? Then let's restrict ourselves to automobile accidents involving drunk driving. That accounts for about 10,000 deaths in the US annually ( http://www-fars.nhtms.dot.gov/Crashes/CrashesAlcohol.aspx ). That's a WTC event every five months.
Perhaps you're upset by intentional murder alone? The going rate in the US is 17,000 per year ( http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0295.pdf ). Terrorism rates for the past ten years have been less than ten annually except in 2001.
If you're restricting yourself any further than this, I doubt the utility of your principle.
You're not necessarily inconsistent here, just inefficient.
More efficiently, upload the names of as many congressional lobbyists as you can find. I suspect US senators and representatives are immune (or at least have a Secret Service escort who can wave them through), but if a thousand lobbyists found themselves unable to fly, the change will happen in a matter of months.
It might work better to flag close relatives of congresspeople. Outside the immediate family so they won't reasonably have access to that Secret Service escort, but close enough to be in close contact.
This is still irrelevant to the original problem, since anyone who has access to modify the SCM's internal files is already trusted. They could easily enough submit a change in the ordinary fashion to accomplish their goals, even as a different user. You're worrying about a bank employee pulling off a high-tech heist rather than simply removing money from the till.
I'd go for a UUID, myself. I have a printout of RFC4122 hanging over my bed...
Real Men use clay tablets.
They replaced the GC about a year ago, I think. Now they have a generational, compacting collector. Should result in slower, more consistent running times and less memory usage.
Banshee is essentially a slight variation on Rhythmbox. Music player. It's got a couple small GUI advantages and disadvantages. It also leaks memory (if you're like me and leave it on random/repeat for your entire 25GB music library, you'll have to restart it every couple days) and is generally rather slow. (Somewhat like F-Spot.)
I wanted to like it, but I ended up going back to rhythmbox in the end, even though its gnome-do integration is broken. (Gnome-do is an application launcher.)
That would actually work, if a judge or jury thinks that the people hosting the video would reasonably believe the video is actually CC licensed.