I noticed that Amazon charges per hour, but I'm wondering if this is wall-clock time, or CPU-usage time? In other words, do I pay if the virtual instance is running but the CPU is idle?
The problem is that engineers almost never take a stand and just keep on doing what management tells them to do, as long as the money keeps flowing in. Basically, we're just prostituting ourselves. And that makes Apple probably the filthiest brothel on the planet, and also the most expensive one.
Perhaps they can ask the Linux kernel developers to solve unemployment by coming up with novel resource scheduling algorithms, and ask the engineers at Google help solve the problem of populistic voting by introducing their page rank system into the elections.
Perhaps somebody could figure out how much a modern smartphone would cost if its developers would pay for each and every patent they would be infringing. I'm guessing that would give people who still don't get it a clear signal that something is wrong.
It's actually pretty easy to pop off the back and change out the battery. Just a thin piece a plastic and a pentalobe screw driver you can get for a couple bucks.
However, if you do that while on an airplane, then you're in for some more costs, plus a night in detention.
I have never actually seen "swap by XOR" being used in practice. In fact, I think it is slower, and obfuscates the code.
Furthermore, you should always ask *why* you are reversing the string. Perhaps you could make an abstraction that represents a "reversed string" without even reversing the string. Then, when a string gets reversed twice, you save cycles:)
Measure your employees by their ability to produce desired output; leave alone their human private lives and personal choices.
This is of course a slippery slope, because soon you'll be hiring only employees who are taking the drug (because they perform better than the rest). In other words, it leads us to a society where drug use is the norm.
So you admit that tablets were happening before jobs.
The most important tablet before the iPad was the Kindle. Sure, it was not a Turing-complete device, but the idea of content tied in a controlled way to a device didn't come from Apple.
True, but I was thinking more about organized piracy. It is easy to write a tool that automatically flips pages, and copy them to another format. It is much more difficult when page-flipping is a non-standard process.
So why hasn't anyone else built something better already?
It is certainly not because they cannot do it. IC manufacturing technology handles much higher densities, so making a screen with this resolution should be a breeze.
The reason for this is obvious... older fathers have better genes than younger ones, if you average over the complete population, because they survived for a longer period of time, plus perhaps the fact that they were considered sufficiently attractive at their old age to produce offspring.
It doesn't mean that you should wait until you're older to have children, unless, of course, you want to serve the greater interest of humanity.
Next up: Apple acquires US telcos, Facebook acquires the e-mail protocol, Oracle acquires your favorite programming language and Twitter acquires your buttocks.
Indeed, the best strategy for changing the world for the better may very well be to be a ruthless businessman at first, and then to spend your money on good things. For all we know, that may have been Gates' plan all along.
Jobs, on the other hand, after 40 years will at most be remembered for NOT inventing the flying car. Assuming of course that his reality distortion field is worn out.
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I noticed that Amazon charges per hour, but I'm wondering if this is wall-clock time, or CPU-usage time? In other words, do I pay if the virtual instance is running but the CPU is idle?
Does it have round corners?
I wonder how durable and strong the material is
You could always print a mold, and use that to cast the desired shape in any material of your own liking.
Oh, and to be fair, Google engineers are essentially a bunch of voyeurs, but that's a different story.
The problem is that engineers almost never take a stand and just keep on doing what management tells them to do, as long as the money keeps flowing in. Basically, we're just prostituting ourselves. And that makes Apple probably the filthiest brothel on the planet, and also the most expensive one.
Perhaps they can ask the Linux kernel developers to solve unemployment by coming up with novel resource scheduling algorithms, and ask the engineers at Google help solve the problem of populistic voting by introducing their page rank system into the elections.
Perhaps somebody could figure out how much a modern smartphone would cost if its developers would pay for each and every patent they would be infringing. I'm guessing that would give people who still don't get it a clear signal that something is wrong.
It's actually pretty easy to pop off the back and change out the battery. Just a thin piece a plastic and a pentalobe screw driver you can get for a couple bucks.
However, if you do that while on an airplane, then you're in for some more costs, plus a night in detention.
Let's get the technology going first.
Famous last words.
Of humanity.
This is why I would be ashamed if I were an Apple employee.
I have never actually seen "swap by XOR" being used in practice. In fact, I think it is slower, and obfuscates the code.
Furthermore, you should always ask *why* you are reversing the string. Perhaps you could make an abstraction that represents a "reversed string" without even reversing the string. Then, when a string gets reversed twice, you save cycles :)
Google is wanting to you to be technical and MS only cares about how well you can talk.
Of course, Google has the advantage of prior knowledge here. They probably had the guy profiled before he even signed up for the interview.
IIUC, this surface thing is just a laptop, with a stand to hold up the monitor?
And what adds to the horror, the majority of them are executed more than once.
Prior art, see my comment from June 12:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2909133&cid=40294085
Measure your employees by their ability to produce desired output; leave alone their human private lives and personal choices.
This is of course a slippery slope, because soon you'll be hiring only employees who are taking the drug (because they perform better than the rest). In other words, it leads us to a society where drug use is the norm.
So you admit that tablets were happening before jobs.
The most important tablet before the iPad was the Kindle. Sure, it was not a Turing-complete device, but the idea of content tied in a controlled way to a device didn't come from Apple.
True, but I was thinking more about organized piracy. It is easy to write a tool that automatically flips pages, and copy them to another format. It is much more difficult when page-flipping is a non-standard process.
One reason why they are doing this: because this way, their content is much more difficult to pirate.
Automatic extraction or conversion to e.g. PDF cannot be implemented.
So why hasn't anyone else built something better already?
It is certainly not because they cannot do it. IC manufacturing technology handles much higher densities, so making a screen with this resolution should be a breeze.
Perhaps a better way would be to show a popup on IE7. Something that annoys the user, but does not break down the functionality of the website.
The reason for this is obvious... older fathers have better genes than younger ones, if you average over the complete population, because they survived for a longer period of time, plus perhaps the fact that they were considered sufficiently attractive at their old age to produce offspring.
It doesn't mean that you should wait until you're older to have children, unless, of course, you want to serve the greater interest of humanity.
The best thing to do may be to inject so much noise into the internet, that they may have all your information, yet can't do anything useful with it.
Next up: Apple acquires US telcos, Facebook acquires the e-mail protocol, Oracle acquires your favorite programming language and Twitter acquires your buttocks.
Indeed, the best strategy for changing the world for the better may very well be to be a ruthless businessman at first, and then to spend your money on good things. For all we know, that may have been Gates' plan all along.
Jobs, on the other hand, after 40 years will at most be remembered for NOT inventing the flying car. Assuming of course that his reality distortion field is worn out.