no, 7. The ASCII standard is 7 bits, that there are 8 in a byte means that it usually consumes 8 bits. Case in point when Wordstar (in)famously used the high bit to flag last char in string they didn't violate ascii, because the 8th bit was not part of the standard, but they still broke the defacto standard because no one else could make use of it. -nB
Of course as TFA points out Italy would tank w/o cash transactions because their grey market floats tons of jobs.
As to bad guys needing to move large amounts of money (the banking version of the "save the children" cry) as a justification for killing cash I have a two word answer: Gold bullion.
Fortunately not hot desking... yet. Good news is the COO and dept managers gave up their offices to join staff in open plan, converting their offices into conference rooms. I'll give them credit for walking the talk.
Well, what if OP is simply the most qualified and there is a 2nd/3rd shift that handles ops. Shit happens, and sometimes you need your *best* people to handle it.
Now: That should be rarer than a blue moon, and the problem is when that kind of thing happens too often; a common problem.
As to the article, what if my boss and I are personal friends as well? The way TFS reads, that friendship would be damaged. I would hope that the law stated "business or employment related contact". -nb
at least we have 5' desks... with little (pointless and ugly) dividers. I simply took an edge (which still has a 'corner'-ish desk) and spewed crap onto the desk next to mine before anyone selected it.
I'll take a cube form over what I have now... We just moved to an open plan office from bullpen cubes (~20x20 ft cubes with 4 people per cube). I worked corporate for 20 years and the vast bulk of that was cube farms or labs.
Sadly as a yank who's worked in a multinational for two decades I can confirm your statement.
I really don't understand what Russia sees as the need for this though? It's never going to be used, it's (literally) overkill because it leaves nothing to invade afterwards, which means you can't take the resources of the country you just made into past tense.
Also, while us Yanks are currently acting like a bunch of kindergartners on some strange combo of meth and barbs, I don't think we're actually a threat to the world at this point (and seriously won't be at all soon).
Intel did try to license the tech. Qualcom refused. It was touch and go inside Intel's mobile groups for quite a long time after it was clear that WiDi lost and LTE was the winner. Trying to engineer around the Qualcom patents is what likely lead to this. Intel knows the performance is lacking. That it works at all is better than where they were this time last year. -nb
for Property damage only Google appears to be higher than average *but* only ~54% of property damage only accidents get reported while Google reports 100% of accidents, so... Likely a push.
This. Also *all* high performance flash drive out there now use multiple controllers even, so not only are they writing across the flash in parallel, they are striping the controllers too. (yes, drives != phone, just pointing out that parallel ops is where the market is going).
I wonder how it would work if a company simply listed all the components of the bill honestly, including profit margin. $6.50 broadcast transmission fee $4.00 fee for fuckall $15.00 cable replacement for damage (like DUI into telephone pole) $35.00 profit to company.
"And you must not work for Intel." Not anymore! But somewhere in their bug database for this is a manager calling me (and my team) a bunch of assholes for following the rules that *his* boss laid out.
as I'm entertaining myself re-reading the BOFH series (up to 2001), you wouldn't happen to be in operations would you?
Yeah, I think that I may have done better in networking as well, but when the fork in the road presented itself I chose the money. (started as validation at a networking company, when I moved I could have gone to either team). Though Intel has eviscerated their IT department as well; last I heard complaints about SLA were being met with laughter and there was a deathmarch just to keep the core network up. *.intel.com even went down at one point.
In my case (as I posted above) my entire team was replaced by another team in a cheaper country to operate in with *friendlier* contract laws. There are several tech employers that are big enough that they span multiple Geos, so they are using this as a way to shift costs out of the US and away from an increasingly unstable business/political climate here. -nb
Indeed! And when the company is big enough that it spans these GEOs you find things like what happened to me. Intel slashed the lions share of its Chipset Firmware ME/CSME team in the US and moved the tech wholesale to Israel. There were many on my team that said it wouldn't happen, couldn't happen; pointing at the crypto sourcecode as a prime example of what couldn't be moved outside the US. Of course they neglected to realize that there is no law about re-implementing the same feature/API outside the US and making sure it works, then simply not exporting the source that's under ITAR and still shuttering the team.
The result was that in my local market Intel (and later another semi) sloughed off so many people that the tech market is over-saturated.
I'm a SW/FW dev with a specialty in test and validation. I know crypto, power management, etc. What am I doing now? Helpdesk; at least it's a job, with a chance to move laterally into testing at this company.
The one good thing is I went from being an insignificant cog in a machine (1/107000th or so of the company) to a company where everyone knows everyone else. I have meetings with the CEO that are meaningful. Even as helldesk I have input.
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no, 7.
The ASCII standard is 7 bits, that there are 8 in a byte means that it usually consumes 8 bits.
Case in point when Wordstar (in)famously used the high bit to flag last char in string they didn't violate ascii, because the 8th bit was not part of the standard, but they still broke the defacto standard because no one else could make use of it.
-nB
See? AI is imitation. "TRUE" AI is just imitation.
What about fake AI?
like This one?
7 bits.
Of course as TFA points out Italy would tank w/o cash transactions because their grey market floats tons of jobs.
As to bad guys needing to move large amounts of money (the banking version of the "save the children" cry) as a justification for killing cash I have a two word answer: Gold bullion.
-nb
Fortunately not hot desking... yet.
Good news is the COO and dept managers gave up their offices to join staff in open plan, converting their offices into conference rooms. I'll give them credit for walking the talk.
Still not thrilled with the idea though.
Well, what if OP is simply the most qualified and there is a 2nd/3rd shift that handles ops.
Shit happens, and sometimes you need your *best* people to handle it.
Now: That should be rarer than a blue moon, and the problem is when that kind of thing happens too often; a common problem.
As to the article, what if my boss and I are personal friends as well?
The way TFS reads, that friendship would be damaged.
I would hope that the law stated "business or employment related contact".
-nb
at least we have 5' desks...
with little (pointless and ugly) dividers. I simply took an edge (which still has a 'corner'-ish desk) and spewed crap onto the desk next to mine before anyone selected it.
/hat tip
That was amazing
got to love that cognitive dissonance.
I'll take a cube form over what I have now...
We just moved to an open plan office from bullpen cubes (~20x20 ft cubes with 4 people per cube).
I worked corporate for 20 years and the vast bulk of that was cube farms or labs.
certain folks without a suit even...
Sadly as a yank who's worked in a multinational for two decades I can confirm your statement.
I really don't understand what Russia sees as the need for this though? It's never going to be used, it's (literally) overkill because it leaves nothing to invade afterwards, which means you can't take the resources of the country you just made into past tense.
Also, while us Yanks are currently acting like a bunch of kindergartners on some strange combo of meth and barbs, I don't think we're actually a threat to the world at this point (and seriously won't be at all soon).
yes.
"Excited" is one word for it... ;)
I'm going with terrified though.
Intel did try to license the tech. Qualcom refused.
It was touch and go inside Intel's mobile groups for quite a long time after it was clear that WiDi lost and LTE was the winner. Trying to engineer around the Qualcom patents is what likely lead to this.
Intel knows the performance is lacking.
That it works at all is better than where they were this time last year.
-nb
http://newatlas.com/google-rev...
for Property damage only Google appears to be higher than average *but* only ~54% of property damage only accidents get reported while Google reports 100% of accidents, so... Likely a push.
This.
Also *all* high performance flash drive out there now use multiple controllers even, so not only are they writing across the flash in parallel, they are striping the controllers too. (yes, drives != phone, just pointing out that parallel ops is where the market is going).
I wonder how it would work if a company simply listed all the components of the bill honestly, including profit margin.
$6.50 broadcast transmission fee
$4.00 fee for fuckall
$15.00 cable replacement for damage (like DUI into telephone pole)
$35.00 profit to company.
It'd be interesting.
-nb
#I read The Register way too much...
$summary=~s/boffins/alpha geeks/ig; #happy?
#-nb
"And you must not work for Intel."
Not anymore!
But somewhere in their bug database for this is a manager calling me (and my team) a bunch of assholes for following the rules that *his* boss laid out.
HSD FVE
you obviously haven't worked with Intel's ME firmware...
Bugs are what it is made out of.
as I'm entertaining myself re-reading the BOFH series (up to 2001), you wouldn't happen to be in operations would you?
Yeah, I think that I may have done better in networking as well, but when the fork in the road presented itself I chose the money. (started as validation at a networking company, when I moved I could have gone to either team). Though Intel has eviscerated their IT department as well; last I heard complaints about SLA were being met with laughter and there was a deathmarch just to keep the core network up. *.intel.com even went down at one point.
find a position at a smaller firm that needs their skills, probably for less money.
35% less to be precise :(
In my case (as I posted above) my entire team was replaced by another team in a cheaper country to operate in with *friendlier* contract laws.
There are several tech employers that are big enough that they span multiple Geos, so they are using this as a way to shift costs out of the US and away from an increasingly unstable business/political climate here.
-nb
Indeed!
And when the company is big enough that it spans these GEOs you find things like what happened to me.
Intel slashed the lions share of its Chipset Firmware ME/CSME team in the US and moved the tech wholesale to Israel.
There were many on my team that said it wouldn't happen, couldn't happen; pointing at the crypto sourcecode as a prime example of what couldn't be moved outside the US.
Of course they neglected to realize that there is no law about re-implementing the same feature/API outside the US and making sure it works, then simply not exporting the source that's under ITAR and still shuttering the team.
The result was that in my local market Intel (and later another semi) sloughed off so many people that the tech market is over-saturated.
I'm a SW/FW dev with a specialty in test and validation. I know crypto, power management, etc. What am I doing now? Helpdesk; at least it's a job, with a chance to move laterally into testing at this company.
The one good thing is I went from being an insignificant cog in a machine (1/107000th or so of the company) to a company where everyone knows everyone else. I have meetings with the CEO that are meaningful. Even as helldesk I have input.
-nb