Kind of like Microsoft and Adobe software then. The problem is that there is no open or alternative market for these products which is why the prices are so high. I've used lexisnexis and I've found its search functions to be largely underwhelming.
These days coders should use the libraries that person above wrote. We have libraries perfectly capable of handling time. And you shouldn't use a time representation (eg. passing the string "10-12-15") in your code anyways.
The problem is that we have too many so-called 'coders' that have no idea of what programming is and how it should be done. The problem is that a JavaScript app or an ActiveX plugin might actually launch a nuke invoked by a VBA script the President wrote in Word, simply because that was the language the coder(s) knew and nobody up and down the chain knew what the actual correct way of doing stuff was..
Because people are bad at writing interfaces. POSIX is an example of a really good interface, how it is implemented on your platform doesn't matter, you use the POSIX library in C, Python etc, it works the same.
In the ideal world, your code would use the interfaces (public functions) and they would be there forever and operate the same regardless of the future versions. In the real world however, things change in libraries from version to version, even bug fix releases may break your code because it got rid of 'unnecessary' functions.
Why: because people are bad at interfaces (API's, whatever you call them) and want to make everything as clean and optimal as possible or don't want to maintain old crud "nobody uses". They also make new API's to do the same as old API's but today the fashion is camelcase and tomorrow it is something else. Mostly these days, libraries aren't just libraries anymore, they are entire programs with web servers etc built-in.
You have obviously no idea how the lower-level architectures of your computer operate.
On some platforms (eg. Intel), a single processor will have access to only a portion of the busses (eg. the PCIe bus and the memory). So anything that has access to specific hardware (say a GPU or a specific memory area) has to run on a specific processor (and that is done at a higher level by keeping it in the same thread). Sure you can go about it by doing an (automatic) memcpy every time you need to switch physical processor but that makes things more complicated and uses resources unnecessarily, especially if you cannot guarantee which processor your language will be using next.
There are certain things you can not abstract away in a lower-level programming language. If you as a programmer want to avoid 'seeing' that, you use Python (and even then, certain low level things are simpler implemented in C).
With a good tax attorney or dedicated accountant, a corporation can simply reinvest it's profits in the corporation. Big companies pay no tax not just because their international profits are untaxed but because their local ones are also untaxed. There is a small gap between a one-man shop and being able to get an accountant on the payroll. But once you get that accountant, you're no longer paying much of any taxes (besides perhaps the wage taxes), same goes for people, if you can afford investing and afford the accountants, you stop paying taxes. The only people and corporations that pay taxes in the US are those that make more than 50k and less than 250k/year.
It's fairly simple staying ahead of organized crime. Decent security practices counter pretty much any automated attack (which is what cyber-criminals do). Even things like storing card details is something that is well outdated and even against PCI practices (which are a minimum set anyone with a modicum of experience can comply with).
Not sure whether you're allowed to do this but just let the students pick what they're interested in and have them do that. Have them work in a team, have them research the subject.
Programming is not about rote memorization of chunks of code, it's a process of discovery. If they have to pass a certain test, allow them to do an open-book test completion thing. Pretty sure they can Google the results the tests expects.
Why a data cap at all? There is no need for data caps besides greed. Data caps are not a response to any technical issue, data caps aren't even relevant in the industry of data communication.
The thing is, there are no rights on the drug, the patent expired, there just aren't any other makers for it because the market is so small. You can make this drug at home with a relatively basic chem set, you can get it from the UK or Canada, the only people paying the multi-thousand dollar fee are the insurance companies.
Does it matter? It puts people at work and it adds value to the state, it is basically money that prints itself. The problem sits obviously in the corporations levying their taxes on it. But it is a better investment than 'defense'.
The other reason people might not like this: a) The Uncanny Valley b) It's basically a replay of a video recording, not the real people, why pay out of the nose for a glorified YouTube vide. c) It is always done the same, they are robots. There is no human interaction or improv. What makes comedians good is not a repetitive set of jokes you can see on Netflix, it is the improv with the attendees, with the set, with the people behind scene. I once went to a comedian who did an entire 10min improv bit with the translator for the hearing impaired, another one did a bit on his hotel and the town's name.
Some datacenter may be able to do that. Most datacenter want to be close to financial or consumer hubs. Eg. Paris or NYC (Wall Street) or any other big city.
The publishing companies often require you to sign over any rights to copyright/distribution. The other issue is that most Universities don't have a place to publish your stuff, most of them run their IT like an enterprise and are more worried about potential patents and for-profit spinoffs.
As these researchers have pointed out publicly in 2010 but all the way back to the early 2000's to these chip and pin companies, the pin can just as easy be read out with the right equipment. It was deemed 'impractical' but as Krebs has pointed out and the Cambridge researchers as well in a more recent post, the technology to clone the necessary card info to do other transactions exists and has been perfected to the point of being nearly invisible.
Or they may be enforceable by you. The unpaid clause may be deemed illegal and they'll have to compensate for all the time that you're "on call". At least that's what I would think is legal.
CFS may also be a number of other issues masking under a single misnomer. Most people I know of who claim to have CFS have this in common: a form of (clinical) depression, a form of mistrust in science or scientific medicine (homeopathic, vegetarian or other 'alternative medicine' nuts) and denial about the above.
A friend of my mother has a family of sufferers. They have the lifestyle and symptoms of heavy metal poisoning (live in ancient houses, minimal home upkeep and do antique restoration) they claim CFS, never got tested for lead or other heavy metals by their homeopath. I have a childhood friend that got married that she cannot exit due to religious restrictions and a year into the marriage suddenly acquired CFS.
CFS is a blanket diagnosis for people that sometimes refuse to get better and I doubt it's even an official diagnosis.
If you read the article, they are doing quite a few things wrong such as standards support and garbage collection.
So you may be running your test really fast if you skip garbage collection or a host of features but that's not feasible for real-world situations. SunSpider specifically runs the same test(s) multiple times to get some statistical confidence in the results and only tests bog-standard JS performance, it also doesn't test the latest versions of EcmaScript so you may be running eg. a hand-built array filter or a crypto library without actually using the native features built-in later (ES5, ES6).
If through memory management trickery can re-use assets that should've been deleted over and over, your tests may be faster but in the end you're also opening yourself up to major security and privacy issues.
The problem will be that the bureaucracy will cause 'FCC licensed drivers' to be utterly outdated except for a few proprietary ones because someone could line someones pockets to get it pushed through.
The unlicensed firmware will still be shipped on most cheap routers however since they're coming from China where the FCC has no jurisdiction and the resellers don't care much about import requirements.
Be careful what you wish for if you let a government agency get involved with your plans. Your plans however good will be overburdened with legalese and pork, in the end you'll get a law that is ripe for abuse by those in power and those with money.
They get paid by both views and clicks. The ad industry believes that even if you subliminally suggest brands at someone, even by being obnoxious, you will later on remember that brand and choose it. And even if you don't choose it, if it's obnoxious enough, you might talk about it with other people about how obnoxious they are and then those people have been suggested that brand.
Yes, I live in a town with ~40-60k students (several universities and colleges) that have nothing to do all night. The problem is that their attendance started dropping at some point and they raised prices to keep up their income.
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Kind of like Microsoft and Adobe software then. The problem is that there is no open or alternative market for these products which is why the prices are so high. I've used lexisnexis and I've found its search functions to be largely underwhelming.
These days coders should use the libraries that person above wrote. We have libraries perfectly capable of handling time. And you shouldn't use a time representation (eg. passing the string "10-12-15") in your code anyways.
The problem is that we have too many so-called 'coders' that have no idea of what programming is and how it should be done. The problem is that a JavaScript app or an ActiveX plugin might actually launch a nuke invoked by a VBA script the President wrote in Word, simply because that was the language the coder(s) knew and nobody up and down the chain knew what the actual correct way of doing stuff was..
Because people are bad at writing interfaces. POSIX is an example of a really good interface, how it is implemented on your platform doesn't matter, you use the POSIX library in C, Python etc, it works the same.
In the ideal world, your code would use the interfaces (public functions) and they would be there forever and operate the same regardless of the future versions. In the real world however, things change in libraries from version to version, even bug fix releases may break your code because it got rid of 'unnecessary' functions.
Why: because people are bad at interfaces (API's, whatever you call them) and want to make everything as clean and optimal as possible or don't want to maintain old crud "nobody uses". They also make new API's to do the same as old API's but today the fashion is camelcase and tomorrow it is something else. Mostly these days, libraries aren't just libraries anymore, they are entire programs with web servers etc built-in.
You have obviously no idea how the lower-level architectures of your computer operate.
On some platforms (eg. Intel), a single processor will have access to only a portion of the busses (eg. the PCIe bus and the memory). So anything that has access to specific hardware (say a GPU or a specific memory area) has to run on a specific processor (and that is done at a higher level by keeping it in the same thread). Sure you can go about it by doing an (automatic) memcpy every time you need to switch physical processor but that makes things more complicated and uses resources unnecessarily, especially if you cannot guarantee which processor your language will be using next.
There are certain things you can not abstract away in a lower-level programming language. If you as a programmer want to avoid 'seeing' that, you use Python (and even then, certain low level things are simpler implemented in C).
With a good tax attorney or dedicated accountant, a corporation can simply reinvest it's profits in the corporation. Big companies pay no tax not just because their international profits are untaxed but because their local ones are also untaxed. There is a small gap between a one-man shop and being able to get an accountant on the payroll. But once you get that accountant, you're no longer paying much of any taxes (besides perhaps the wage taxes), same goes for people, if you can afford investing and afford the accountants, you stop paying taxes. The only people and corporations that pay taxes in the US are those that make more than 50k and less than 250k/year.
It's fairly simple staying ahead of organized crime. Decent security practices counter pretty much any automated attack (which is what cyber-criminals do). Even things like storing card details is something that is well outdated and even against PCI practices (which are a minimum set anyone with a modicum of experience can comply with).
Not sure whether you're allowed to do this but just let the students pick what they're interested in and have them do that. Have them work in a team, have them research the subject.
Programming is not about rote memorization of chunks of code, it's a process of discovery. If they have to pass a certain test, allow them to do an open-book test completion thing. Pretty sure they can Google the results the tests expects.
Why a data cap at all? There is no need for data caps besides greed. Data caps are not a response to any technical issue, data caps aren't even relevant in the industry of data communication.
The thing is, there are no rights on the drug, the patent expired, there just aren't any other makers for it because the market is so small. You can make this drug at home with a relatively basic chem set, you can get it from the UK or Canada, the only people paying the multi-thousand dollar fee are the insurance companies.
Does it matter? It puts people at work and it adds value to the state, it is basically money that prints itself. The problem sits obviously in the corporations levying their taxes on it. But it is a better investment than 'defense'.
The other reason people might not like this:
a) The Uncanny Valley
b) It's basically a replay of a video recording, not the real people, why pay out of the nose for a glorified YouTube vide.
c) It is always done the same, they are robots. There is no human interaction or improv. What makes comedians good is not a repetitive set of jokes you can see on Netflix, it is the improv with the attendees, with the set, with the people behind scene. I once went to a comedian who did an entire 10min improv bit with the translator for the hearing impaired, another one did a bit on his hotel and the town's name.
Some datacenter may be able to do that. Most datacenter want to be close to financial or consumer hubs. Eg. Paris or NYC (Wall Street) or any other big city.
The publishing companies often require you to sign over any rights to copyright/distribution. The other issue is that most Universities don't have a place to publish your stuff, most of them run their IT like an enterprise and are more worried about potential patents and for-profit spinoffs.
Paris is a major communications hub in Europe just like NYC is for the US.
Did you see the shims? The entire SoC can be done on a sheet of flex plastic well within tolerance of the readers.
As these researchers have pointed out publicly in 2010 but all the way back to the early 2000's to these chip and pin companies, the pin can just as easy be read out with the right equipment. It was deemed 'impractical' but as Krebs has pointed out and the Cambridge researchers as well in a more recent post, the technology to clone the necessary card info to do other transactions exists and has been perfected to the point of being nearly invisible.
Not during support sessions. Never had anyone upsell me anything when having problems with Apple systems.
I think if 16 players across teams at the NFL were arrested in the USA, it would be 'rocking' the nation just as much.
Or they may be enforceable by you. The unpaid clause may be deemed illegal and they'll have to compensate for all the time that you're "on call". At least that's what I would think is legal.
CFS may also be a number of other issues masking under a single misnomer. Most people I know of who claim to have CFS have this in common: a form of (clinical) depression, a form of mistrust in science or scientific medicine (homeopathic, vegetarian or other 'alternative medicine' nuts) and denial about the above.
A friend of my mother has a family of sufferers. They have the lifestyle and symptoms of heavy metal poisoning (live in ancient houses, minimal home upkeep and do antique restoration) they claim CFS, never got tested for lead or other heavy metals by their homeopath. I have a childhood friend that got married that she cannot exit due to religious restrictions and a year into the marriage suddenly acquired CFS.
CFS is a blanket diagnosis for people that sometimes refuse to get better and I doubt it's even an official diagnosis.
Corporations are only people when it comes to political donations, otherwise they are entities unbound by law.
If you read the article, they are doing quite a few things wrong such as standards support and garbage collection.
So you may be running your test really fast if you skip garbage collection or a host of features but that's not feasible for real-world situations. SunSpider specifically runs the same test(s) multiple times to get some statistical confidence in the results and only tests bog-standard JS performance, it also doesn't test the latest versions of EcmaScript so you may be running eg. a hand-built array filter or a crypto library without actually using the native features built-in later (ES5, ES6).
If through memory management trickery can re-use assets that should've been deleted over and over, your tests may be faster but in the end you're also opening yourself up to major security and privacy issues.
The problem will be that the bureaucracy will cause 'FCC licensed drivers' to be utterly outdated except for a few proprietary ones because someone could line someones pockets to get it pushed through.
The unlicensed firmware will still be shipped on most cheap routers however since they're coming from China where the FCC has no jurisdiction and the resellers don't care much about import requirements.
Be careful what you wish for if you let a government agency get involved with your plans. Your plans however good will be overburdened with legalese and pork, in the end you'll get a law that is ripe for abuse by those in power and those with money.
They get paid by both views and clicks. The ad industry believes that even if you subliminally suggest brands at someone, even by being obnoxious, you will later on remember that brand and choose it. And even if you don't choose it, if it's obnoxious enough, you might talk about it with other people about how obnoxious they are and then those people have been suggested that brand.
Yes, I live in a town with ~40-60k students (several universities and colleges) that have nothing to do all night. The problem is that their attendance started dropping at some point and they raised prices to keep up their income.