Unless what scratches one of your Aspie nerd itches is normally something that is complex enough that people have a hard time with it, and generally don't like doing it, and thus the market pays handsomely for it. Now, while that's not 100% of my job duty, it's currently about 40% and growing at a good clip. Mondays are great because I get to go play. Monday mornings suck however, because we front loaded *all* of our meetings such that I have 4 hours of scheduled meetings every Monday in the first 5 hours of the workday.
I think a lot of it was process tech.* By using the same compute ecosystem the process tweaks developed for one also are applicable to the other.
ARM has such a different layout that you would need wholesale different DRCs for it, which means a parallel path for process improvement in the FABs. Same issue with RISC and i960.
*I was not a process engineer at Intel, so this is speculative.
I have two SSNs, three names (though one is obviously a placeholder 'Baby Boy <lastname>'), one birthday, two sets of parents listed as my "real" parents on two different original birth certificates. The joys of a cross military to civilian adoption.
As to the SSN issue, there is simply no issue using the SSN as an identifier, the issue is it started being used as an authentication token. All we need to do is implement a national PIN register for the SSN holder. They provide the PIN to authenticate that they are the actual person represented by the SSN.
Until he liquidated it to Marvell, Intel had StrongARM; and internally had the RISC i960 that both could have done amazingly in this space, both were (stupidly IMnsHO) liquidated to make room for Atom/TinyIA/Quark, all of which have some level of the x86 baggage (from most to least) and thus the power consumption overhead.
i960 *could* have been re-tooled into an ultra low power core and simply add on the peripherals to make it into a SoC, or StrongARM could have been remodeled into a QC competitor.
Oh god I forgot about that mess... I worked in flash, and when that divested I moved over to chipsets.
By chance (Since you were in digital home, perhaps not) do you remember the IT Innovation center's ambulance? The Digital health showroom on wheels that I honestly don't think was ever shown to anyone?
I was with a chipset firmware team that was duplicated in the states and in Israel. Unfortunately the culture clash and competition clash led to some very abusive practices. I stood up against management about this, and was railroaded out the door with my chin up high, and like Milton's red stapler I took my lab chair with me! (Makes a kick-ass guitar stool; had direct mgr blessing and HR droid's approval).
Later the same year my entire former team was sent into the redeployment pool and all operations moved to the JER site. After 17 years I met my end there, never to be employed by them again. Barret was a vastly better CEO than Otellini, but BK makes both of the other two look like saints.
Well, just the RDS and display for your radio is likely several thousand lines of code when you figure in the firmware for the LCD driver. Not all that code is a monolithic project, it's the 500 lines of assembly for the LCD driver interface, the 1000 lines of embedded C for the RDS decoder, the 5000 lines of embedded C for the CDDA decoder in your stereo, the 20 lines of machine code for the uP in the amp, and we still haven't finished with the radio!
The line between hardware and LoC is even blurrier with tings line gauges, which are really just digital displays that mimic analog, and who's chips are all ASICs developed in VHDL. They have no code on them per-se (maybe a eeprom with parameter data?) but the entire chip was written no different than a static lib.
Add all that up, especially the transmission and ECM/PCM and I wouldn't be surprised at the line count being 7 digits or near enough.
I'm not poor, but I'm certainly not remotely rich. A new car purchase would bury me. Are you going to bail out the poor people on my back making me poor without the benefits?
In CA there have been several cases where arbitration clause was overruled by a judge... Maybe it's an issue of different circuits having different precedents?
Actually you can, even with the arbitration clause. The logic is simple and sound (and works). You signed the right to sue away under the duress of not having a job if you didn't. A decent enough lawyer will still take your case after signing that waiver and will still get to a court hearing/trial.
Google tried, it bombed. The issue with your plan is fairly straightforward: The plan increases ecosystem complexity, which increases price. Since phones are a commodity item they are largely selected by price (look at the new iPhone 'meh' response for what happens if price is too high).
I love the idea in principal, but practice dictates that it's just not viable.
I believe that you are *close* The case for #1 is more along the lines of: any time the defence has brought it up the cops have withdrawn their case rather than risk this precedent being set.
That has led to #3 happening because enough cases were won without the question of the stingray data coming up that they assumed it was A-Ok to use.
since phones already special case 911/999 calls such that they bypass SIM locks and handset locks, to the point of not even requiring a SIM in the phone to be connected it is safe to assume that even if "user disabled" the phone can turn on location for E911.
Of course as you noted, a read of the documentation is in order to know if this is or isn't the case.
And you could ask what happened to the people in a greenhouse when the cement substructure started mucking with O2 / CO2 balance levels when it cured (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2).
It can't be zero unless you're actively subsidizing them out of tax revenues collected exclusively from people who have no connection to the new employer.
Which is what they do, whilst making the assumption that those funds are a "loan" that will be repaid by the employees of the company when they pay taxes. It's a game of three card monty, where the dealer has palmed the ace before even pulling the cards out.
Not if the state agrees to a tax credit/rebate that includes rebating the estimated sales and income taxes paid by the new employees.
"rebating" it to who? The employees? I'm sure I'm missing something, but please explain how this rebate would work.
Rebating it to the company (Amazon in this case). Thus We expect that you will hire these 100 people at $1/year and they will each pay $0.10/year in total taxes (sales, property) to the municipality (total: $10.00). The state/municipality then gives $10 in tax breaks (offset to property tax, zoning fees, what have you) to the company.
The direct net is zero, indirect there is still a (much smaller) gain as those employees each spend $0.01 at the donut shop per year and the shop owner now has an additional $1.00 to spend that will itself produce tax income, though much less than the first order taxes that were rebated.
Who holds the car title during a loan? Most lenders will hold the title of the vehicle for the entire duration of the car loan. After the loan is paid off, the lender removes itself from the title and sends a copy of the document to the owner. While receiving a copy of the title is one way to be sure that a car loan is paid off, another is to review your credit report and see if the car loan shows as having been paid in full.
Mortgages and deeds of trust both grant the title for your property to your lender until the loan is paid. A mortgage is an agreement made between you and the lender. A mortgage grants ownership of your home to the lender which will transfer the title back to you after the loan is paid.
Well, I seriously entertained providing my ex with 1/2 of the pickup truck via plasma torch and requesting physically 1/2 of the hardwood floor I installed in the house I no longer live at to be used as kindling...
Using a phase-contrast microscope equipped with a high speed camera connected to a computer, as demon, the principle has been actually demonstrated.[3] In this experiment, information to energy conversion is performed on a Brownian particle by means of feedback control; that is, synchronizing the work given to the particle with the information obtained on its position. Computing energy balances for different feedback protocols, has confirmed that the Jarzynski equality requires a generalization that accounts for the amount of information involved in the feedback.
As someone else pointed out, ATT has moved away from subsidy phones and on to separating the financing of the phone and the communications service contract. I did not know this. I buy my phones outright, and have done so for the last 6 years or so, thus my information was dated...
I assume ATT did this to be able to advertise lower monthly contract prices since the phone is no longer paid for via subsidy.
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Unless what scratches one of your Aspie nerd itches is normally something that is complex enough that people have a hard time with it, and generally don't like doing it, and thus the market pays handsomely for it. Now, while that's not 100% of my job duty, it's currently about 40% and growing at a good clip. Mondays are great because I get to go play. Monday mornings suck however, because we front loaded *all* of our meetings such that I have 4 hours of scheduled meetings every Monday in the first 5 hours of the workday.
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I think a lot of it was process tech.*
By using the same compute ecosystem the process tweaks developed for one also are applicable to the other.
ARM has such a different layout that you would need wholesale different DRCs for it, which means a parallel path for process improvement in the FABs. Same issue with RISC and i960.
*I was not a process engineer at Intel, so this is speculative.
I have two SSNs, three names (though one is obviously a placeholder 'Baby Boy <lastname>'), one birthday, two sets of parents listed as my "real" parents on two different original birth certificates.
The joys of a cross military to civilian adoption.
As to the SSN issue, there is simply no issue using the SSN as an identifier, the issue is it started being used as an authentication token.
All we need to do is implement a national PIN register for the SSN holder. They provide the PIN to authenticate that they are the actual person represented by the SSN.
Until he liquidated it to Marvell, Intel had StrongARM; and internally had the RISC i960 that both could have done amazingly in this space, both were (stupidly IMnsHO) liquidated to make room for Atom/TinyIA/Quark, all of which have some level of the x86 baggage (from most to least) and thus the power consumption overhead.
i960 *could* have been re-tooled into an ultra low power core and simply add on the peripherals to make it into a SoC, or StrongARM could have been remodeled into a QC competitor.
Oh god I forgot about that mess...
I worked in flash, and when that divested I moved over to chipsets.
By chance (Since you were in digital home, perhaps not) do you remember the IT Innovation center's ambulance? The Digital health showroom on wheels that I honestly don't think was ever shown to anyone?
^^THIS
I was with a chipset firmware team that was duplicated in the states and in Israel. Unfortunately the culture clash and competition clash led to some very abusive practices. I stood up against management about this, and was railroaded out the door with my chin up high, and like Milton's red stapler I took my lab chair with me! (Makes a kick-ass guitar stool; had direct mgr blessing and HR droid's approval).
Later the same year my entire former team was sent into the redeployment pool and all operations moved to the JER site.
After 17 years I met my end there, never to be employed by them again.
Barret was a vastly better CEO than Otellini, but BK makes both of the other two look like saints.
Well, just the RDS and display for your radio is likely several thousand lines of code when you figure in the firmware for the LCD driver.
Not all that code is a monolithic project, it's the 500 lines of assembly for the LCD driver interface, the 1000 lines of embedded C for the RDS decoder, the 5000 lines of embedded C for the CDDA decoder in your stereo, the 20 lines of machine code for the uP in the amp, and we still haven't finished with the radio!
The line between hardware and LoC is even blurrier with tings line gauges, which are really just digital displays that mimic analog, and who's chips are all ASICs developed in VHDL. They have no code on them per-se (maybe a eeprom with parameter data?) but the entire chip was written no different than a static lib.
Add all that up, especially the transmission and ECM/PCM and I wouldn't be surprised at the line count being 7 digits or near enough.
I'm not sure why it would "probably" be pointed at my bed.
Because the camera is on the same face as the clock.
Most people face the clock towards the bed so they can read it.
I'm not poor, but I'm certainly not remotely rich. A new car purchase would bury me. Are you going to bail out the poor people on my back making me poor without the benefits?
Thanks,
Working[lower] middle class.
In CA there have been several cases where arbitration clause was overruled by a judge... Maybe it's an issue of different circuits having different precedents?
Actually you can, even with the arbitration clause.
The logic is simple and sound (and works).
You signed the right to sue away under the duress of not having a job if you didn't.
A decent enough lawyer will still take your case after signing that waiver and will still get to a court hearing/trial.
Google tried, it bombed.
The issue with your plan is fairly straightforward:
The plan increases ecosystem complexity, which increases price.
Since phones are a commodity item they are largely selected by price (look at the new iPhone 'meh' response for what happens if price is too high).
I love the idea in principal, but practice dictates that it's just not viable.
I believe that you are *close*
The case for #1 is more along the lines of: any time the defence has brought it up the cops have withdrawn their case rather than risk this precedent being set.
That has led to #3 happening because enough cases were won without the question of the stingray data coming up that they assumed it was A-Ok to use.
since phones already special case 911/999 calls such that they bypass SIM locks and handset locks, to the point of not even requiring a SIM in the phone to be connected it is safe to assume that even if "user disabled" the phone can turn on location for E911.
Of course as you noted, a read of the documentation is in order to know if this is or isn't the case.
And you could ask what happened to the people in a greenhouse when the cement substructure started mucking with O2 / CO2 balance levels when it cured (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2).
And if you're going to do something like this, for gods sakes don't do it in a glass walled conf room!
It can't be zero unless you're actively subsidizing them out of tax revenues collected exclusively from people who have no connection to the new employer.
Which is what they do, whilst making the assumption that those funds are a "loan" that will be repaid by the employees of the company when they pay taxes. It's a game of three card monty, where the dealer has palmed the ace before even pulling the cards out.
there should be federal law banning the practice outright.
My google fu is failing me badly to find the proper quote and author, but here's the gist of it:
Any time someone says "There ought to be a law" there almost certainly shouldn't be one.
"rebating" it to who? The employees? I'm sure I'm missing something, but please explain how this rebate would work.
Rebating it to the company (Amazon in this case).
Thus We expect that you will hire these 100 people at $1/year and they will each pay $0.10/year in total taxes (sales, property) to the municipality (total: $10.00). The state/municipality then gives $10 in tax breaks (offset to property tax, zoning fees, what have you) to the company.
The direct net is zero, indirect there is still a (much smaller) gain as those employees each spend $0.01 at the donut shop per year and the shop owner now has an additional $1.00 to spend that will itself produce tax income, though much less than the first order taxes that were rebated.
Who holds the car title during a loan?
Most lenders will hold the title of the vehicle for the entire duration of the car loan. After the loan is paid off, the lender removes itself from the title and sends a copy of the document to the owner. While receiving a copy of the title is one way to be sure that a car loan is paid off, another is to review your credit report and see if the car loan shows as having been paid in full.
https://www.freecreditreport.com/blog/who-keeps-the-car-title-during-financing/
Mortgages and deeds of trust both grant the title for your property to your lender until the loan is paid. A mortgage is an agreement made between you and the lender. A mortgage grants ownership of your home to the lender which will transfer the title back to you after the loan is paid.
http://oureverydaylife.com/bank-hold-deed-until-house-paid-off-11688.html
In both cases you do NOT own the property you are using.
There are corner cases, but they are few.
Well, I seriously entertained providing my ex with 1/2 of the pickup truck via plasma torch and requesting physically 1/2 of the hardwood floor I installed in the house I no longer live at to be used as kindling...
So, yeah, fairly plausible.
The mortality rate for national newsworthy and international newsworthy airplane accidents is near 100%, hence the cognitive disconnect.
I do in fact.
Here's a citation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_information_theory#Information_is_physical
and the relevant portion:
Using a phase-contrast microscope equipped with a high speed camera connected to a computer, as demon, the principle has been actually demonstrated.[3] In this experiment, information to energy conversion is performed on a Brownian particle by means of feedback control; that is, synchronizing the work given to the particle with the information obtained on its position. Computing energy balances for different feedback protocols, has confirmed that the Jarzynski equality requires a generalization that accounts for the amount of information involved in the feedback.
Additional links:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/ar...
https://physics.stackexchange....
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
-natch
As someone else pointed out, ATT has moved away from subsidy phones and on to separating the financing of the phone and the communications service contract. I did not know this. I buy my phones outright, and have done so for the last 6 years or so, thus my information was dated...
I assume ATT did this to be able to advertise lower monthly contract prices since the phone is no longer paid for via subsidy.