Once you take the VC money you're basically tied to generating a ROI in 5 years. IPO is one way to do that, others are fairly hard as well. Obviously depends on the amount of investment.
I worked for a small consulting firm that was doing ok, making a bit of money every year. Then they decided to go the product route and accepted investor money. Many people thought, well if things don't go right we'll just go back to doing contracting since we were making money doing that.
What people didn't realize is that once the money was accepted they were committed to a make it or break it path. Either they launched a successful product and/or IPO'd or basically they were going to shutdown.
In the end they shutdown. A very great company to work for was no more. Was it a mistake? Many believed so. To its credit, the culture of the company did not change after the money came in. Unfortunately the dot com bust and many other factors spelled their demise.
Hopefully Google can keep their culture and style intact. They've made it this far, and that's difficult enough, hopefully they'll continue. I wish them well, I know several people who work there.
You missed one of the more exciting aspects of driving with Windows.
You're driving down the highway and all of a sudden you hear a radio alert. Now instead of the steering wheel controlling the direction of your car, you're changing the volume on your radio.
Or lack there of that earned the rath of many consumers and myself included years ago. Honestly I have no complaints against TWC, I'm a RoadRunner user. But years ago I used to have TCI, and their customer service was abysmal. I went out and spent a couple of grand to get a big dish just so I wouldn't have to deal with them. It wasn't the money at all, just their attitude. And it's kind of stuck with me since then, and I've been a dish user for years now.
If it was a decent language people wouldn't mangle it. There are too many rules, too many exceptions to those rules. Learning a language should be easy. You should have it mastered by third grade.
So I'm rather forgiving when it comes to spelling and grammar.
My guess that most of the issues are the latter two, though obviously this needs to be verified. Most things probably stem from poor error handling and edge case. It will be interesting to see if this turns up any real security holes.
This reminds me of the article some years ago about a project reported in an ACM publication to feed broken command lines to UNIX. They found numerous problems doing that.
Having done both commercial and open source software, I've not found one to be all that better than the other. Sure the best open source project is better than the worse commercial. I'm just not sure the average is that different.
I guess that means I'll be throwing away my plans for an alternative fuel car based on a liquid oxygen rocket. Do I have to send the government their grant money back?
Nah, most politicians can't admit mistakes. That's why there's spin. It would be refreshing if just once a candidate would say "Hey, I was mistaken. I've taken another look and changed my position." Instead they have to pussy foot around and try to pretend that they were saying the same thing from day one.
This was an orange glow this morning as well. Hard to say if it's from the surface or light reflected from the steam from below. Oddly enough there's currently a small white cloudy light visible now, not orange at all.
So the poor fools who are saddled with 24 hour support basically can't ever see a movie again unless they change jobs. granted they probably should fine other jobs. What happened to using non-audible rings? It's a shame there are jerks that either leave their phones on or leave on the audible ring on. I generally leave my phone in silent mode and occasionally visually check the phone for messages.
For me I'd avoid such theaters, their choice to use such things, but if they are going to assume I'm a jerk I'd rather not patronize such a place.
I just ran over the cord on mine with my chair and shorted the dang thing out. Just ordered a new one and read this. But it figures, mine isn't on the list:-(
While I agree there are few managers that truly know how to manage a software project. There are few engineers that can really manage a large scale project.
Open Source cheaper? It be interesting to add up all the donated hours. And then compare a comparable Open Source project with a similar commercial one.
For me I've been really frustrated with lack of technical documentation on the open source projects I've dealt with. No requirements, no design, and lots of duplicated code.
So in the end I think it's poor management of a project or lack of management that cause most of the problems and that's a global problem not just in the commercial realm.
Maybe not, but I'd bet you might take pictures of yourself on an exotic vacation. This is THE explorer as well as the vehicle.
I'm just waiting for the environmentalists to ban all off roading on Mars.
Would be good for general ATM banking as well. At least then if the ATM machine was comprimized the information it gained would be useless. Instead of typing in the pin, put your card in, type in the Secure ID.
Then you should use one of the many third party libraries available. Rarely should you come across something that needs a hand roled container.
Your use of the term "heavyweight" is interesting, as I've found them to be fairly lightweight compared to the Java and C# counterparts, at least in terms of speed and footprint, though code wise there's a higher cost.
Uh yeah, if you were programming in C++ 10 years ago maybe. There's really is no excuse for buffer overruns in modern C++ code except inept programmers.
For me, Java forces me to give up too much and I remain skeptical that Java's GC algorithm is smart enough to management memory efficiently when under the gun. Have they outfitted it with something better than the generational algorithms I've seen so far? That algorithm chokes when large amounts of memory end up paged out.
Any such act that might prevent a user or company from doing business could have legal consequences. IMO the risk of that is probably more than the return of having such things in place.
Someone breaks into your house. He is armed, you are not. You lose some valuables
Interesting, I guess for a mind reader such as yourself this works well. Unfortunately I can't read minds and when someone is in my home I must assume he could do more than take a few things.
Most banks are going to reproduce their own checks rather than relying on the fed to do it. That was the actual system I was working on.
I imagine there's a compiled list of banks accepting electronic checks and/or a list of ones that don't. All incoming checks get shredded, and the ones that go to banks that can't handle electronic transfers get the replacement check.
I agree the savings doesn't seem like much, but when you're talking large banks and millions of checks a penny or two can make quite a difference.
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All water is recycled anyway, whether that is by man or by nature.
You think nothing urinates in rivers that cities draw their water from?
If the "Yuk" factor bothers them, maybe they should get thirsty enough for them to forget about it.
Reminds me of the shock factor some people have when they are faced with the fact that the meat they are eating was once a living animal.
Once you take the VC money you're basically tied to generating a ROI in 5 years. IPO is one way to do that, others are fairly hard as well. Obviously depends on the amount of investment.
I worked for a small consulting firm that was doing ok, making a bit of money every year. Then they decided to go the product route and accepted investor money. Many people thought, well if things don't go right we'll just go back to doing contracting since we were making money doing that.
What people didn't realize is that once the money was accepted they were committed to a make it or break it path. Either they launched a successful product and/or IPO'd or basically they were going to shutdown.
In the end they shutdown. A very great company to work for was no more. Was it a mistake? Many believed so. To its credit, the culture of the company did not change after the money came in. Unfortunately the dot com bust and many other factors spelled their demise.
Hopefully Google can keep their culture and style intact. They've made it this far, and that's difficult enough, hopefully they'll continue. I wish them well, I know several people who work there.
Great, now we'll see toilet paper in public restrooms get even thinner. Hopefully this might be stronger than the current stock.
You missed one of the more exciting aspects of driving with Windows.
You're driving down the highway and all of a sudden you hear a radio alert. Now instead of the steering wheel controlling the direction of your car, you're changing the volume on your radio.
Ah yes, the shorted 9 volt battery. I remember it well. Ouch
Lithium Ion's sound bad, but what happens when you short a fuel cell?
Or lack there of that earned the rath of many consumers and myself included years ago. Honestly I have no complaints against TWC, I'm a RoadRunner user. But years ago I used to have TCI, and their customer service was abysmal. I went out and spent a couple of grand to get a big dish just so I wouldn't have to deal with them. It wasn't the money at all, just their attitude. And it's kind of stuck with me since then, and I've been a dish user for years now.
If it was a decent language people wouldn't mangle it. There are too many rules, too many exceptions to those rules. Learning a language should be easy. You should have it mastered by third grade.
So I'm rather forgiving when it comes to spelling and grammar.
Nor does certain code get the same amount of eyes. Some spots people just don't want to look at ;-)
My guess that most of the issues are the latter two, though obviously this needs to be verified. Most things probably stem from poor error handling and edge case. It will be interesting to see if this turns up any real security holes.
This reminds me of the article some years ago about a project reported in an ACM publication to feed broken command lines to UNIX. They found numerous problems doing that.
Having done both commercial and open source software, I've not found one to be all that better than the other. Sure the best open source project is better than the worse commercial. I'm just not sure the average is that different.
TiVo for radio! RaVio? RaTiVo? RaDiVo?
I guess that means I'll be throwing away my plans for an alternative fuel car based on a liquid oxygen rocket. Do I have to send the government their grant money back?
Nah, most politicians can't admit mistakes. That's why there's spin. It would be refreshing if just once a candidate would say "Hey, I was mistaken. I've taken another look and changed my position." Instead they have to pussy foot around and try to pretend that they were saying the same thing from day one.
This was an orange glow this morning as well. Hard to say if it's from the surface or light reflected from the steam from below. Oddly enough there's currently a small white cloudy light visible now, not orange at all.
So the poor fools who are saddled with 24 hour support basically can't ever see a movie again unless they change jobs. granted they probably should fine other jobs. What happened to using non-audible rings? It's a shame there are jerks that either leave their phones on or leave on the audible ring on. I generally leave my phone in silent mode and occasionally visually check the phone for messages.
For me I'd avoid such theaters, their choice to use such things, but if they are going to assume I'm a jerk I'd rather not patronize such a place.
I just ran over the cord on mine with my chair and shorted the dang thing out. Just ordered a new one and read this. But it figures, mine isn't on the list :-(
While I agree there are few managers that truly know how to manage a software project. There are few engineers that can really manage a large scale project. Open Source cheaper? It be interesting to add up all the donated hours. And then compare a comparable Open Source project with a similar commercial one. For me I've been really frustrated with lack of technical documentation on the open source projects I've dealt with. No requirements, no design, and lots of duplicated code. So in the end I think it's poor management of a project or lack of management that cause most of the problems and that's a global problem not just in the commercial realm.
Maybe not, but I'd bet you might take pictures of yourself on an exotic vacation. This is THE explorer as well as the vehicle. I'm just waiting for the environmentalists to ban all off roading on Mars.
Would be good for general ATM banking as well. At least then if the ATM machine was comprimized the information it gained would be useless. Instead of typing in the pin, put your card in, type in the Secure ID.
I believe some ATM machines were switching to Windows NT as well. Not sure how widespread that is. Forget ripping the machine out, just infect it.
Then you should use one of the many third party libraries available. Rarely should you come across something that needs a hand roled container.
Your use of the term "heavyweight" is interesting, as I've found them to be fairly lightweight compared to the Java and C# counterparts, at least in terms of speed and footprint, though code wise there's a higher cost.
Uh yeah, if you were programming in C++ 10 years ago maybe. There's really is no excuse for buffer overruns in modern C++ code except inept programmers. For me, Java forces me to give up too much and I remain skeptical that Java's GC algorithm is smart enough to management memory efficiently when under the gun. Have they outfitted it with something better than the generational algorithms I've seen so far? That algorithm chokes when large amounts of memory end up paged out.
Any such act that might prevent a user or company from doing business could have legal consequences. IMO the risk of that is probably more than the return of having such things in place.
Someone breaks into your house. He is armed, you are not. You lose some valuables
Interesting, I guess for a mind reader such as yourself this works well. Unfortunately I can't read minds and when someone is in my home I must assume he could do more than take a few things.
So I guess anyone reading this that is a courier for a bank should probably start looking for another job.
Most banks are going to reproduce their own checks rather than relying on the fed to do it. That was the actual system I was working on.
I imagine there's a compiled list of banks accepting electronic checks and/or a list of ones that don't. All incoming checks get shredded, and the ones that go to banks that can't handle electronic transfers get the replacement check.
I agree the savings doesn't seem like much, but when you're talking large banks and millions of checks a penny or two can make quite a difference.