The Irish make ~$46B in tax revenue from corporate taxes. Their GDP is only 210B. Apple's gross income is ~$60B. I doubt Apple is paying close to 80% of their income to the Irish.
From the same article: There are always more job openings than there are workers to fill them
I was in a small town this weekend and practically every business had a 'looking for help' sign. If you want to work, you can work. I get offers all the time even though I'm not looking.
In the tech industry there are indeed always dozens of people applying for jobs but most of them simply aren't qualified. In the tech industry at least we've created an environment where we have given these kids degrees for minimal effort. There are thousands of kids graduating with some random tech degree they aren't interested in or qualified for but when they started their 4 year education, there was high demand (and there still is high demand). There is high demand for qualified workers, people that can think, half the college graduates can't think for themselves, most of them can't even do high school mathematics or have a clue about basic physics, heck half the population still believes in a magic sky daddy and that the earth was created 6000 years ago.
The DRM gets stored in an obscure file somewhere in the Silverlight plugin. Once every so often, the Microsoft-specific database file that keeps your keys around will corrupt itself for no good reason (probably because it's attempting to update the DRM keys) and you'll have to go uninstall Silverlight, manually delete that file (because uninstalling does NOT remove EVERYTHING), then reinstall Silverlight just to get it back to work.
When you have ANY other media player open that has audio/video capture (VLC, XBMC), Silverlight will refuse to output either video or audio or both when running Netflix. It will come up with an obtuse error message that it couldn't initialize something in the bowels of Silverlight.
Yes, Apple uses patents for what they're intended for - to keep competition at bay while capitalizing on their 'invention'. They developed their invention, they get to keep it. (off course that is before entering into a discussion on the MERIT of a patent which I personally think there is none in the field of mathematics (software) or science)
The USB manufacturers use their patents to capitalize on standards. Every time you implement USB you got to pay a couple of cents to someone who is totally not involved in your design process simply because they bought somebody else's idea. It's perverse to think about it because if you do think up a similar solution, it's thoughtcrime. They didn't develop any hardware, they didn't think about it, they don't even sell you any hardware. USB patent holders and manufacturers are indeed in reciprocal arrangements because they ALL have similar patents and they are ALL infringing on each other, that's how ubiquitous and general these "inventions" and patents are that they rather not fight each other in endless court battles because they all know once they do, half their patent portfolio will be destroyed. But if you're not in the select group of patent holders or manufacturers, you don't get to benefit from these arrangements. You can't 3D print a USB-like connector because you're in violation of someone's patent, you have to buy them from a select number of manufacturers, if you're not big enough to fight them you're shit out of luck. But hey, it's a "standard", let's legalize these solutions so the oligopoly can raise the prices from cents to full dollars.
Microsoft tried to DRM-ize the web (Windows 98). It was called MSN. It didn't work. AOL tried the same. CompuServe tried. History is rife with companies that tried re-implementing the web according to their own standards (Microsoft), DRM-ing it (Macromedia/Adobe) and many companies attempted locking up their content in containers (Flash, ActiveX, Shockwave). It has failed every single time. Programmers can't program against a broken non-standard and users can't keep up with the increased hassle to get to what they want so they'll find it elsewhere.
Yes, cops are that stupid and corrupt. The reason that you don't talk to cops is BECAUSE they are stupid and corrupt and even if they aren't one, they can still be the other. Police exams don't pass people that are too smart (http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836) to begin with so you're most likely (99% of the time) dealing with someone of average IQ or LESS than average IQ, someone who didn't score perfectly on an exam about the rights of the people they serve.
Due to issues with my ex I've been "talking" to cops a lot. Yes, they will take everything you say and distort it through their own lens. If you are a male trying to get justice from a female; the female starts crying or cries abuse and you're pretty much screwed, admitting either before or after that you 'yelled' at someone or stood your ground or bat off a physical attack pretty much screws you over. The fact that she wrestled a child from your arms doesn't even go in the report because they weren't there to see it (unless you have bruises or cuts). I have learned to say the minimal amount of data and facts I need to get an effective police report, write things down in your own words, then go straight to court with it, the police won't help you.
The reason you don't talk to cops is because there is a chance that you will get screwed over and not a chance that anything you say will be vindicating you. The cops don't HAVE to say anything to help you in court and CANNOT say anything that will help you. Just as your defense has the right to direct witnesses, so does the offense - ever heard "Objection, narrative", "Objection, guiding the witness" - that's what the prosecution will yell if you ask the cop on the stand to tell you what you said, they might just yell objection just to interrupt the story and disconnect the witness and the jury from the story. The prosecution's own re-election is based on CONVICTION rates, not "innocence" rates, they will likewise coach the witness pre-trial not to say certain things.
Yes, if you're innocent you'll be let go most of the time REGARDLESS of whether you talk. They can't keep you if you're not talking, not talking does not imply that you're not innocent, it only implies that your IQ is higher than that of the cops. The best thing you can do is tough it out until you get to a judge and even then all you CAN do is present and attack evidence.
If you're guilty and you know it you should wait for a plea bargain, 90% of the cases don't even go to trial these days. If they don't have enough evidence, the case will be dropped and you're off free, if there is enough evidence, your case will be up for a plea bargain before going to trial. This is true even for speeding tickets, the AG will typically offer you a 'disobey traffic device', which is typically a low fine. Going to the judge and letting the cops tell you how cooperative you were is a crapshoot, if the judge is in a bad mood or it's a jury of your peers, it won't matter all that much.
I'm in that category. Even though the existing grants are paid out and I will (for now) get my salary, I can't spend certain funds even though I "have" them, new research is going to be seriously hampered and this month may push back important research as much as a year (as well as continuing costs for repairs and data storage etc) if the new funding models they agree upon won't cut anything (usually in these crises the science gets defunded while the defense gets funded). Future data storage costs are going to be covered by emergency funding but if I didn't have it, there would be serious risk of significant data loss.
Adobe still requires your filesystem to be case-insensitive. It simply doesn't work on a case-sensitive filesystem. Those kind of bugs are what needs fixing and that means there is a shitload of hard-coded stuff and things that even Adobe hasn't been able to fix since 2001
Jobs just got really good people that had some really good ideas. BlackBerry stuck to the concept of a physical keyboard, they stuck to letting corporations control the experience of BYOD (which so far has failed miserably in just about any corporation), they stuck to Exchange and other antiquated e-mail systems while foregoing decent integration of existing and open standards (IMAP) which Google was building, they made some interesting security snafu's, running the entire e-mail system through their own servers and letting governments (India, US, Canada, Germany...) have the keys.
You can do what you want with iOS Configurator but deploying 15k of any type of device without an MDM is going to be insane. I work in EDU as well, Apple has FREE engineers and tech support for you if you didn't know, they can help you with it. There is also an MDM built-in into Apple Mac OS X Server, it only costs ~$29.
iOS is probably the only device that is manageable on an enterprise level. You can password-restrict your policies you know, maybe you should educate yourself before deploying anything.
This is the same problem as everywhere else. Inept system administrators (probably the cheapest on the bottom of the barrel) do stupid things and don't know how things work because it's not in the Start Menu in Windows or fixable by rebooting.
Even though insects are indeed edible and can be quite good (try them roasted or chocolate covered), TFA talks about using this product as a cheap replacement for animal feed for both livestock and fish farms. Currently livestock is fed reprocessed livestock leftovers which causes several problems. One, it's expensive to reprocess this into a healthy mix two, it's not very efficient. If you do it wrong (which is the case in a lot of 3rd world countries), you could help spread stuff like Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or FMD among your livestock. Additionally (if you're into that) the current processes are not organic so organic products cannot process their own waste.
According to the article, the larvae of these insects eat 90% of whatever you give them, once they're fat, you throw them in an oven and they become toasty bits to feed.
How did the driver get it onto the airport taxiways? I live pretty close to an airport and the taxiways are all very barricaded, you can't just drive onto an airport without someone noticing.
So a 32GB RAM stick costs ~$1000. 32TB of RAM would cost $1,024,000. Given that RAM is about 1/4 of typical system build costs. This system costs about $4M raw. Oracle's markup is easily 1000% so $40M for this beast. And then the yearly licensing cost for Oracle at $2500/core: ~$1M.
At that cost you could probably develop your own MemCache/BDB cluster.
Most games are already portable to Linux. Very little games actually use DirectX-specific extensions (primarily because DirectX is not inter-compatible with platforms such as the PlayStation or Mac and these days a lot slower than GL). Even recent games such as GTA5 have included (partially) an open source engine.
The problem is nobody bothers making a build for Linux. Back in the day, Unreal-based games were easy to port because they had a Linux build, still nobody bothered making it. You could simply copy all the assets over and launch the game using the standard UT launcher. Off course DRM closed that loophole in later games.
Most laptop-fingerprint-thingies are basically very cheap camera's. They take a (very low resolution) picture and compare it with an existing (very low resolution) one. Easy to fool with a piece of paper or a superglue version of the fingerprint.
Other problems is (specifically with Windows) is that the Windows-based fingerprinting software (UPEK) stores the passwords pretty much plain text into the registry anyway.
Apparently the iPhone fingerprint scanner is not so easily fooled because otherwise there wouldn't be a bounty, even severed fingers are reported not to work with the iPhone sensor. So how does it do it? The patents are very vague but seem to describe some way of sending a (small) current through. If that is true, you would have to be able to replicate an entire fingerprint with a very specific capacitance and resistance so the "circuit" that are the ridges of your fingerprint can be replicated.
There's been talk lately about hybrid RAM-Flash memory spaces or making Flash fast enough to act as RAM. Either way, 4GB is right around the corner with most smartphones currently having 1-2GB of RAM, remember when you had 2-4GB of RAM in your computer? Today you have what - 16 to 32GB in the mid-level base systems?
Either way there are a lot more benefits besides the larger addressing space. If it were just about the larger addressing space, 64-bit would be slower and take more energy on anything that doesn't have >4GB (you may remember that conundrum when 64-bit was introduced on the desktop).
But this news article makes little sense. You can cross-compile iOS apps already to Mac OS (just create a different viewport) and depending on your target even 32 and 64 bit simultaneously. The problem is that iOS apps are not useful on a desktop. This iOS-will-converge-into-MacOS will never happen. Microsoft tried it with Windows 8 and you can see what a disaster that turned out to be.
There is a difference between "can't work with others" and "can't work on important projects". Those 'toxic' environments seem to be a lot of people blaming each other for their or management-customer faults, again a problem for management, not for the developers.
If your developer can't work on anything important because they're a drama queen every time something goes wrong, that doesn't make them a rock star. In the music industry, a rock star CAN be(come) a drama queen but being a drama queen doesn't make you a rock star. If your drama queen doesn't get the job done, they're not a good developer. A rock star developer does get the job done, whether or not that involves drama depends primarily on management and communication skills.
Why does anyone need to "work well" with others? That just seems stupid to me, people have different personalities and some personalities don't work well with others, in some way everyone has someone they do and don't work well with. If you're striving for everybody to "be nice" with each other, you're just going to be searching for the same boring people with the same boring people skills and the same thought patterns, mediocrity results at best, you can't think outside the box.
You need different types of people. Some people can't work well with certain people, some people simply need to be put in their place, some people shouldn't be talking to customers, some customers need to be told they're stupid. That's what managers are for, to MANAGE the interactions between their teams and others. "Rock star developers" and their opposite personality "customer service developers" are simply a sign of management failures.
But if you edit a single point in the first layers of the hard drive, you have to re-write your entire hard drive down? What happens when the power goes out before you're done writing? Does it rewrite entire tracks or just the magnetic domains that are compromised? How does it even know certain tracks have valid data or will it require a proprietary driver to make it work?
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The Irish make ~$46B in tax revenue from corporate taxes. Their GDP is only 210B. Apple's gross income is ~$60B. I doubt Apple is paying close to 80% of their income to the Irish.
From the same article: There are always more job openings than there are workers to fill them
I was in a small town this weekend and practically every business had a 'looking for help' sign. If you want to work, you can work. I get offers all the time even though I'm not looking.
In the tech industry there are indeed always dozens of people applying for jobs but most of them simply aren't qualified. In the tech industry at least we've created an environment where we have given these kids degrees for minimal effort. There are thousands of kids graduating with some random tech degree they aren't interested in or qualified for but when they started their 4 year education, there was high demand (and there still is high demand). There is high demand for qualified workers, people that can think, half the college graduates can't think for themselves, most of them can't even do high school mathematics or have a clue about basic physics, heck half the population still believes in a magic sky daddy and that the earth was created 6000 years ago.
The DRM gets stored in an obscure file somewhere in the Silverlight plugin. Once every so often, the Microsoft-specific database file that keeps your keys around will corrupt itself for no good reason (probably because it's attempting to update the DRM keys) and you'll have to go uninstall Silverlight, manually delete that file (because uninstalling does NOT remove EVERYTHING), then reinstall Silverlight just to get it back to work.
When you have ANY other media player open that has audio/video capture (VLC, XBMC), Silverlight will refuse to output either video or audio or both when running Netflix. It will come up with an obtuse error message that it couldn't initialize something in the bowels of Silverlight.
Yes, Apple uses patents for what they're intended for - to keep competition at bay while capitalizing on their 'invention'. They developed their invention, they get to keep it. (off course that is before entering into a discussion on the MERIT of a patent which I personally think there is none in the field of mathematics (software) or science)
The USB manufacturers use their patents to capitalize on standards. Every time you implement USB you got to pay a couple of cents to someone who is totally not involved in your design process simply because they bought somebody else's idea. It's perverse to think about it because if you do think up a similar solution, it's thoughtcrime. They didn't develop any hardware, they didn't think about it, they don't even sell you any hardware. USB patent holders and manufacturers are indeed in reciprocal arrangements because they ALL have similar patents and they are ALL infringing on each other, that's how ubiquitous and general these "inventions" and patents are that they rather not fight each other in endless court battles because they all know once they do, half their patent portfolio will be destroyed. But if you're not in the select group of patent holders or manufacturers, you don't get to benefit from these arrangements. You can't 3D print a USB-like connector because you're in violation of someone's patent, you have to buy them from a select number of manufacturers, if you're not big enough to fight them you're shit out of luck. But hey, it's a "standard", let's legalize these solutions so the oligopoly can raise the prices from cents to full dollars.
Microsoft tried to DRM-ize the web (Windows 98). It was called MSN. It didn't work. AOL tried the same. CompuServe tried. History is rife with companies that tried re-implementing the web according to their own standards (Microsoft), DRM-ing it (Macromedia/Adobe) and many companies attempted locking up their content in containers (Flash, ActiveX, Shockwave). It has failed every single time. Programmers can't program against a broken non-standard and users can't keep up with the increased hassle to get to what they want so they'll find it elsewhere.
Yes, cops are that stupid and corrupt. The reason that you don't talk to cops is BECAUSE they are stupid and corrupt and even if they aren't one, they can still be the other. Police exams don't pass people that are too smart (http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836) to begin with so you're most likely (99% of the time) dealing with someone of average IQ or LESS than average IQ, someone who didn't score perfectly on an exam about the rights of the people they serve.
Due to issues with my ex I've been "talking" to cops a lot. Yes, they will take everything you say and distort it through their own lens. If you are a male trying to get justice from a female; the female starts crying or cries abuse and you're pretty much screwed, admitting either before or after that you 'yelled' at someone or stood your ground or bat off a physical attack pretty much screws you over. The fact that she wrestled a child from your arms doesn't even go in the report because they weren't there to see it (unless you have bruises or cuts). I have learned to say the minimal amount of data and facts I need to get an effective police report, write things down in your own words, then go straight to court with it, the police won't help you.
The reason you don't talk to cops is because there is a chance that you will get screwed over and not a chance that anything you say will be vindicating you. The cops don't HAVE to say anything to help you in court and CANNOT say anything that will help you. Just as your defense has the right to direct witnesses, so does the offense - ever heard "Objection, narrative", "Objection, guiding the witness" - that's what the prosecution will yell if you ask the cop on the stand to tell you what you said, they might just yell objection just to interrupt the story and disconnect the witness and the jury from the story. The prosecution's own re-election is based on CONVICTION rates, not "innocence" rates, they will likewise coach the witness pre-trial not to say certain things.
Yes, if you're innocent you'll be let go most of the time REGARDLESS of whether you talk. They can't keep you if you're not talking, not talking does not imply that you're not innocent, it only implies that your IQ is higher than that of the cops. The best thing you can do is tough it out until you get to a judge and even then all you CAN do is present and attack evidence.
If you're guilty and you know it you should wait for a plea bargain, 90% of the cases don't even go to trial these days. If they don't have enough evidence, the case will be dropped and you're off free, if there is enough evidence, your case will be up for a plea bargain before going to trial. This is true even for speeding tickets, the AG will typically offer you a 'disobey traffic device', which is typically a low fine. Going to the judge and letting the cops tell you how cooperative you were is a crapshoot, if the judge is in a bad mood or it's a jury of your peers, it won't matter all that much.
I'm in that category. Even though the existing grants are paid out and I will (for now) get my salary, I can't spend certain funds even though I "have" them, new research is going to be seriously hampered and this month may push back important research as much as a year (as well as continuing costs for repairs and data storage etc) if the new funding models they agree upon won't cut anything (usually in these crises the science gets defunded while the defense gets funded). Future data storage costs are going to be covered by emergency funding but if I didn't have it, there would be serious risk of significant data loss.
Being prosecuted for being a whistleblower, being followed, being harassed... to expect and deal with that is common sense?
Adobe still requires your filesystem to be case-insensitive. It simply doesn't work on a case-sensitive filesystem. Those kind of bugs are what needs fixing and that means there is a shitload of hard-coded stuff and things that even Adobe hasn't been able to fix since 2001
Jobs just got really good people that had some really good ideas. BlackBerry stuck to the concept of a physical keyboard, they stuck to letting corporations control the experience of BYOD (which so far has failed miserably in just about any corporation), they stuck to Exchange and other antiquated e-mail systems while foregoing decent integration of existing and open standards (IMAP) which Google was building, they made some interesting security snafu's, running the entire e-mail system through their own servers and letting governments (India, US, Canada, Germany...) have the keys.
You can do what you want with iOS Configurator but deploying 15k of any type of device without an MDM is going to be insane. I work in EDU as well, Apple has FREE engineers and tech support for you if you didn't know, they can help you with it. There is also an MDM built-in into Apple Mac OS X Server, it only costs ~$29.
Both of those scenarios can be blocked with an MDM profile. Talk to your Apple rep. Also, stop spending money on MDM's that can't do what you want.
iOS is probably the only device that is manageable on an enterprise level. You can password-restrict your policies you know, maybe you should educate yourself before deploying anything.
This is the same problem as everywhere else. Inept system administrators (probably the cheapest on the bottom of the barrel) do stupid things and don't know how things work because it's not in the Start Menu in Windows or fixable by rebooting.
Even though insects are indeed edible and can be quite good (try them roasted or chocolate covered), TFA talks about using this product as a cheap replacement for animal feed for both livestock and fish farms. Currently livestock is fed reprocessed livestock leftovers which causes several problems. One, it's expensive to reprocess this into a healthy mix two, it's not very efficient. If you do it wrong (which is the case in a lot of 3rd world countries), you could help spread stuff like Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or FMD among your livestock. Additionally (if you're into that) the current processes are not organic so organic products cannot process their own waste.
According to the article, the larvae of these insects eat 90% of whatever you give them, once they're fat, you throw them in an oven and they become toasty bits to feed.
I would be glad if there were only 5 applicants for every job. There are about 5 applicants when we DON'T have an opening.
How did the driver get it onto the airport taxiways? I live pretty close to an airport and the taxiways are all very barricaded, you can't just drive onto an airport without someone noticing.
So a 32GB RAM stick costs ~$1000. 32TB of RAM would cost $1,024,000. Given that RAM is about 1/4 of typical system build costs. This system costs about $4M raw. Oracle's markup is easily 1000% so $40M for this beast. And then the yearly licensing cost for Oracle at $2500/core: ~$1M.
At that cost you could probably develop your own MemCache/BDB cluster.
Most games are already portable to Linux. Very little games actually use DirectX-specific extensions (primarily because DirectX is not inter-compatible with platforms such as the PlayStation or Mac and these days a lot slower than GL). Even recent games such as GTA5 have included (partially) an open source engine.
The problem is nobody bothers making a build for Linux. Back in the day, Unreal-based games were easy to port because they had a Linux build, still nobody bothered making it. You could simply copy all the assets over and launch the game using the standard UT launcher. Off course DRM closed that loophole in later games.
Most laptop-fingerprint-thingies are basically very cheap camera's. They take a (very low resolution) picture and compare it with an existing (very low resolution) one. Easy to fool with a piece of paper or a superglue version of the fingerprint.
Other problems is (specifically with Windows) is that the Windows-based fingerprinting software (UPEK) stores the passwords pretty much plain text into the registry anyway.
Apparently the iPhone fingerprint scanner is not so easily fooled because otherwise there wouldn't be a bounty, even severed fingers are reported not to work with the iPhone sensor. So how does it do it? The patents are very vague but seem to describe some way of sending a (small) current through. If that is true, you would have to be able to replicate an entire fingerprint with a very specific capacitance and resistance so the "circuit" that are the ridges of your fingerprint can be replicated.
Windows is the only OS out there that isn't fully POSIX compatible, so no, you can't develop on a broken platform.
Either way, why would you want to pay for licensing in order to run open source software?
Intel chips are RISC as well, the CISC is bolted on top for compatibility reasons.
There's been talk lately about hybrid RAM-Flash memory spaces or making Flash fast enough to act as RAM. Either way, 4GB is right around the corner with most smartphones currently having 1-2GB of RAM, remember when you had 2-4GB of RAM in your computer? Today you have what - 16 to 32GB in the mid-level base systems?
Either way there are a lot more benefits besides the larger addressing space. If it were just about the larger addressing space, 64-bit would be slower and take more energy on anything that doesn't have >4GB (you may remember that conundrum when 64-bit was introduced on the desktop).
But this news article makes little sense. You can cross-compile iOS apps already to Mac OS (just create a different viewport) and depending on your target even 32 and 64 bit simultaneously. The problem is that iOS apps are not useful on a desktop. This iOS-will-converge-into-MacOS will never happen. Microsoft tried it with Windows 8 and you can see what a disaster that turned out to be.
There is a difference between "can't work with others" and "can't work on important projects". Those 'toxic' environments seem to be a lot of people blaming each other for their or management-customer faults, again a problem for management, not for the developers.
If your developer can't work on anything important because they're a drama queen every time something goes wrong, that doesn't make them a rock star. In the music industry, a rock star CAN be(come) a drama queen but being a drama queen doesn't make you a rock star. If your drama queen doesn't get the job done, they're not a good developer. A rock star developer does get the job done, whether or not that involves drama depends primarily on management and communication skills.
Why does anyone need to "work well" with others? That just seems stupid to me, people have different personalities and some personalities don't work well with others, in some way everyone has someone they do and don't work well with. If you're striving for everybody to "be nice" with each other, you're just going to be searching for the same boring people with the same boring people skills and the same thought patterns, mediocrity results at best, you can't think outside the box.
You need different types of people. Some people can't work well with certain people, some people simply need to be put in their place, some people shouldn't be talking to customers, some customers need to be told they're stupid. That's what managers are for, to MANAGE the interactions between their teams and others. "Rock star developers" and their opposite personality "customer service developers" are simply a sign of management failures.
But if you edit a single point in the first layers of the hard drive, you have to re-write your entire hard drive down? What happens when the power goes out before you're done writing? Does it rewrite entire tracks or just the magnetic domains that are compromised? How does it even know certain tracks have valid data or will it require a proprietary driver to make it work?