There are plenty of non-Apple brand service sites that would like to say otherwise.
I service plenty of them myself but I outsource some repair services because it would be too risky for me to do it (eg. display replacement). Pretty much every repair site not just offers cheap replacement parts but also any glue or foam strips that may be required to reassemble your device.
Apple doesn't just throw away the device either or give you a refurb, they do repair them (replacing any component as necessary). If they have ways of opening them, recover the data and reassembling without damaging any components with as much as a scratch, you can do it too.
That's probably already the case. Most environments, at best, you see a username at the beginning of a change request but unless I have to hunt down the "blame" for a line of code across several different repo technologies (things that went from CVS to Mercurial to Git), it never matters WHO wrote the code.
And whether jsmith is John or Jane is the least of my worries and doesn't even come into play in large organizations.
Gender has nothing to do with this, this is just fitting a story to fit the data. Rejections have to do with quality of code and in most companies, quality is directly related to your chances at promotions. If you don't write quality code, you don't get promoted to senior levels, being promoted to a senior programmer doesn't make you a better programmer.
The wall was never a joke, it's a campaign promise, whether or not the funding will be there is another question. The Obama administration did collect intelligence on Trump prior to and during the elections, nobody is contesting that.
I think it was indeed a halfway serious quip. It's a clarification that he wants it done, sooner rather than later, he's smart enough to realize it won't be done during the first half of his presidency.
We've got nearly 40 years of progress since the moon landings and put well over a dozen people there since, even the Soviets with a significantly smaller GDP were able to do it and we now have hundreds of objects in space, it's so benign to shoot stuff in space that most people don't even know what the Kepler mission is. Mars is only ~200 times as far as the Moon and we've been there many times over with robots.
The problem is the human aspect (the time isolated in a tiny weightless cabin) and the eventual return of said humans, but even so, many people are willing to go on a one-way mission.
I highly doubt it's impossible to do in the next decade regardless of how dumb you think Trump is, with significant funding, NASA is capable of hiring smart engineers, it's not like they are going to expect Trump to do the work himself.
Which is different than any previous politician's motivations for anything? NASA wasn't created to do science, it was created to do war with Russia and boost the status of the US. We've been to the moon to the point it's soon to be a tourist attraction.
Protecting the owner from liability is already a thing. If you modify your medical device and it kills you, that's your own damn fault, nothing the medical industry can do about that. The only thing DRM on things like medical devices does is make sure you cannot legally investigate for flaws or improve the product if it is.
For two you don't need DRM for that. You need proper server-side controls. Once you have sent a piece of data off to or through an uncontrolled environment, you've already lost.
If you're lucky and/or your program is well written or simple enough. There is plenty of stuff that doesn't run and the reason people still run Redmondware from 2002.
Thousands of images are often used in medical imaging for a single scan. I have a production filesystem with 2B images, over 200TB. 16TB file sizes aren't all that hard to come by either. Obviously there is also the birthday problem, ZFS alleviates it by using bit comparisons in combination with 128 bit checksums.
I'm baffled that 48 bit checksums is still considered good enough nowadays.
I'm sure you have experience porting stuff from the early.NET or VB6 era.
Entire enterprises have been written on the back of Excel scripts, Word integrations and Access databases. VB6 is/was a step up on that and can contain entire ERP's..NET has improved but the ancestors of current iterations (anything pre-3.5 IMHO) were horrible to use and had many kludges, most of those kludges are the reasons why there is STILL no backwards or Mono compatibility for many components.
Most likely because it needs to run VB6 scripts to talk to the devices or some.NET flavor, most likely v1 or v2. Bad programmers know only bad languages.
In a lot of cases these companies, especially in the various construction and utilities, will have hired a programmer to make something in the late 90s and that same program now operates their entire fleet of devices. They don't want to spend the money on another programmer or systems design engineer so they still operate on the same hardware, same power supplies, same chipsets, same control and operating systems from that era even though much more faster, efficient and safer systems exist.
It's a statistical fact supported by both research and law enforcement reporting. The fact you don't like it because your politico-religious viewpoint hasn't caught up doesn't matter.
It can create the foam structure in about 14 hours. Then you have to insert your electric wiring and plumbing, then you have to pour over concrete and let it cure - a process that takes ~30 days.
From the pictures it seems like the thing is stationary with a fairly 'short' arm so you'll be limited by the actual 'size' of the robot, a small igloo-type structure is all it seems to be capable of (although longer arms are probably feasible, they would obviously increase the base cost).
The specifications still exist though, regardless of the false advertising, only in the US and for the better part of the last decade has the FCC and other government organizations given latitude to providers to allow falsely advertised network generations (part of the so-called 'net neutrality' laws allowing T-Mobile and others to zero-rate their content).
The 5G spec won't even be finished until 2020 so it's impossible for anyone, even AT&T to currently even create modems, antenna systems or implementations based on 5G. 5G technology probably won't be available in mainstream mobile devices until at least 2025.
In the EU you can get 100Mbps speeds on a phone. It correctly identifies 3G/LTE/4G according to your plan, the cheaper plans still being 3G ($5-15/mo) and the more expensive plans ($20-50) giving you more speeds. Data is usually unlimited (or at least has a very high limit) but text and voice are limited on a per minute/SMS. Most countries also require all phones to be unlocked and portable.
1) Most of those agreements, if made too broad could be unenforceable especially if your imaginary property has nothing related to your job or assignments.
2) If you're working on your own project, you should not consider it being on company time if you're salaried, even though you may be physically "there", again, as long as it's not related to your job or using significant resources from the company.
3) Most companies just have it as boilerplate and don't really care or know what you invent (just don't tell them)
I'm salaried. I didn't agree to work any particular times or length, just to finish my job in the way and time I see fit. State law, managers, meeting schedules and/or insurance requires me to be at my job from 8-5 with a mandatory 1 hour break throughout - guess what - I could play video games or do side work, some may be beneficial to the company, sometimes I need time to relax, sometimes it's improving open source software. I also respond to emergencies outside those hours, as an hourly employee I would be entitled to 1.5-3x the wage, so my hours worked outside count similarly double or triple.
Flags? When I was young, we had to start a fire by rubbing a stick in a piece of wood and then use smoke signals from the top of a hill, that's how we played Quake, and we liked it.
The Obama rules legalized prioritizing traffic while keeping their status as common carrier. Prior to that there was no such thing as zero-rating. After the rules were implemented alternative provider buildouts such as Google Fiber and municipal internet got intense legal pushback to the point most of those projects are now halted.
Obama FCC also allowed multiple mergers that resulted in Spectrum - the worst of Comcast and TWC combined.
I don't see where the FCC helped me in the last 10 years, I still get 10Mbps and even though they're not allowed to prioritize traffic, they ARE allowed to de-prioritize traffic such as YouTube and Netflix which they happily do.
No 5G standard yet, 4G is gigabit speeds so there is no need yet but there is a standards body that defines them but US providers ignore that and give you 2G at best.
Crime among African-Americans is a cultural thing, nothing to do with how rich they are, as a matter of fact rich blacks are even more likely to commit crimes than poor whites.
That's largely because there is neither fame nor money in peer review. Peer review IS being done though, at least in the harder sciences, many studies that build on other studies will at least attempt to verify the original results. Only when they see large discrepancies will they ever be further reviewed and published and then only if the original paper has been of quite some impact to the field (hundreds or thousands of references to the paper).
Things like this has been known to the scientific community for a while, the models used to communicate the impact of fats and food on your health to the public are just way too simplistic. It's not just about fats, it's what you eat/drink with those fats. The food pyramid is one of those things that has been known to be false soon after it was introduced but even the food plate is way too simplistic and unrealistic.
Everything you eat (fat, sugar, alcohol, acids etc) has an impact on each other, the French classical diet of "du vin, du pain et du Boursin" (wine, bread and cheese or alcohol, gluten and fat) does not result in fat Frenchmen even though every doctor will tell you it will blow you up like a balloon.
The most efficient agencies run with about 30% of overhead (their budget vs what they give out in grants and funding etc). That's almost all unnecessary spending.
The EPA on the other hand, manages ~$10B/y in funds and manages to only spend ~5B on grants, half of that on State grants. Even if you accept the Federal government rescuing individual states, the rest is what I would consider overhead.
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There are plenty of non-Apple brand service sites that would like to say otherwise.
I service plenty of them myself but I outsource some repair services because it would be too risky for me to do it (eg. display replacement). Pretty much every repair site not just offers cheap replacement parts but also any glue or foam strips that may be required to reassemble your device.
Apple doesn't just throw away the device either or give you a refurb, they do repair them (replacing any component as necessary). If they have ways of opening them, recover the data and reassembling without damaging any components with as much as a scratch, you can do it too.
That's probably already the case. Most environments, at best, you see a username at the beginning of a change request but unless I have to hunt down the "blame" for a line of code across several different repo technologies (things that went from CVS to Mercurial to Git), it never matters WHO wrote the code.
And whether jsmith is John or Jane is the least of my worries and doesn't even come into play in large organizations.
Gender has nothing to do with this, this is just fitting a story to fit the data. Rejections have to do with quality of code and in most companies, quality is directly related to your chances at promotions. If you don't write quality code, you don't get promoted to senior levels, being promoted to a senior programmer doesn't make you a better programmer.
The wall was never a joke, it's a campaign promise, whether or not the funding will be there is another question. The Obama administration did collect intelligence on Trump prior to and during the elections, nobody is contesting that.
I think it was indeed a halfway serious quip. It's a clarification that he wants it done, sooner rather than later, he's smart enough to realize it won't be done during the first half of his presidency.
We've got nearly 40 years of progress since the moon landings and put well over a dozen people there since, even the Soviets with a significantly smaller GDP were able to do it and we now have hundreds of objects in space, it's so benign to shoot stuff in space that most people don't even know what the Kepler mission is. Mars is only ~200 times as far as the Moon and we've been there many times over with robots.
The problem is the human aspect (the time isolated in a tiny weightless cabin) and the eventual return of said humans, but even so, many people are willing to go on a one-way mission.
I highly doubt it's impossible to do in the next decade regardless of how dumb you think Trump is, with significant funding, NASA is capable of hiring smart engineers, it's not like they are going to expect Trump to do the work himself.
Which is different than any previous politician's motivations for anything? NASA wasn't created to do science, it was created to do war with Russia and boost the status of the US. We've been to the moon to the point it's soon to be a tourist attraction.
Protecting the owner from liability is already a thing. If you modify your medical device and it kills you, that's your own damn fault, nothing the medical industry can do about that. The only thing DRM on things like medical devices does is make sure you cannot legally investigate for flaws or improve the product if it is.
For two you don't need DRM for that. You need proper server-side controls. Once you have sent a piece of data off to or through an uncontrolled environment, you've already lost.
Spare us, there are various JS packages that allow you to attach objects and methods to HTML tags.
If you're lucky and/or your program is well written or simple enough. There is plenty of stuff that doesn't run and the reason people still run Redmondware from 2002.
Thousands of images are often used in medical imaging for a single scan. I have a production filesystem with 2B images, over 200TB. 16TB file sizes aren't all that hard to come by either. Obviously there is also the birthday problem, ZFS alleviates it by using bit comparisons in combination with 128 bit checksums.
I'm baffled that 48 bit checksums is still considered good enough nowadays.
I'm sure you have experience porting stuff from the early .NET or VB6 era.
Entire enterprises have been written on the back of Excel scripts, Word integrations and Access databases. VB6 is/was a step up on that and can contain entire ERP's. .NET has improved but the ancestors of current iterations (anything pre-3.5 IMHO) were horrible to use and had many kludges, most of those kludges are the reasons why there is STILL no backwards or Mono compatibility for many components.
Most likely because it needs to run VB6 scripts to talk to the devices or some .NET flavor, most likely v1 or v2. Bad programmers know only bad languages.
In a lot of cases these companies, especially in the various construction and utilities, will have hired a programmer to make something in the late 90s and that same program now operates their entire fleet of devices. They don't want to spend the money on another programmer or systems design engineer so they still operate on the same hardware, same power supplies, same chipsets, same control and operating systems from that era even though much more faster, efficient and safer systems exist.
It's a statistical fact supported by both research and law enforcement reporting. The fact you don't like it because your politico-religious viewpoint hasn't caught up doesn't matter.
It can create the foam structure in about 14 hours. Then you have to insert your electric wiring and plumbing, then you have to pour over concrete and let it cure - a process that takes ~30 days.
From the pictures it seems like the thing is stationary with a fairly 'short' arm so you'll be limited by the actual 'size' of the robot, a small igloo-type structure is all it seems to be capable of (although longer arms are probably feasible, they would obviously increase the base cost).
The specifications still exist though, regardless of the false advertising, only in the US and for the better part of the last decade has the FCC and other government organizations given latitude to providers to allow falsely advertised network generations (part of the so-called 'net neutrality' laws allowing T-Mobile and others to zero-rate their content).
The 5G spec won't even be finished until 2020 so it's impossible for anyone, even AT&T to currently even create modems, antenna systems or implementations based on 5G. 5G technology probably won't be available in mainstream mobile devices until at least 2025.
In the EU you can get 100Mbps speeds on a phone. It correctly identifies 3G/LTE/4G according to your plan, the cheaper plans still being 3G ($5-15/mo) and the more expensive plans ($20-50) giving you more speeds. Data is usually unlimited (or at least has a very high limit) but text and voice are limited on a per minute/SMS. Most countries also require all phones to be unlocked and portable.
1) Most of those agreements, if made too broad could be unenforceable especially if your imaginary property has nothing related to your job or assignments.
2) If you're working on your own project, you should not consider it being on company time if you're salaried, even though you may be physically "there", again, as long as it's not related to your job or using significant resources from the company.
3) Most companies just have it as boilerplate and don't really care or know what you invent (just don't tell them)
I'm salaried. I didn't agree to work any particular times or length, just to finish my job in the way and time I see fit. State law, managers, meeting schedules and/or insurance requires me to be at my job from 8-5 with a mandatory 1 hour break throughout - guess what - I could play video games or do side work, some may be beneficial to the company, sometimes I need time to relax, sometimes it's improving open source software. I also respond to emergencies outside those hours, as an hourly employee I would be entitled to 1.5-3x the wage, so my hours worked outside count similarly double or triple.
Flags? When I was young, we had to start a fire by rubbing a stick in a piece of wood and then use smoke signals from the top of a hill, that's how we played Quake, and we liked it.
The Obama rules legalized prioritizing traffic while keeping their status as common carrier. Prior to that there was no such thing as zero-rating. After the rules were implemented alternative provider buildouts such as Google Fiber and municipal internet got intense legal pushback to the point most of those projects are now halted.
Obama FCC also allowed multiple mergers that resulted in Spectrum - the worst of Comcast and TWC combined.
I don't see where the FCC helped me in the last 10 years, I still get 10Mbps and even though they're not allowed to prioritize traffic, they ARE allowed to de-prioritize traffic such as YouTube and Netflix which they happily do.
No 5G standard yet, 4G is gigabit speeds so there is no need yet but there is a standards body that defines them but US providers ignore that and give you 2G at best.
No, 3G is a standard.
3G has bandwidth between 20/5 and 600/100 Mbps. 4G should give you 1G/500. In the US you get 2G, 3G at best.
Crime among African-Americans is a cultural thing, nothing to do with how rich they are, as a matter of fact rich blacks are even more likely to commit crimes than poor whites.
That's largely because there is neither fame nor money in peer review. Peer review IS being done though, at least in the harder sciences, many studies that build on other studies will at least attempt to verify the original results. Only when they see large discrepancies will they ever be further reviewed and published and then only if the original paper has been of quite some impact to the field (hundreds or thousands of references to the paper).
Things like this has been known to the scientific community for a while, the models used to communicate the impact of fats and food on your health to the public are just way too simplistic. It's not just about fats, it's what you eat/drink with those fats. The food pyramid is one of those things that has been known to be false soon after it was introduced but even the food plate is way too simplistic and unrealistic.
Everything you eat (fat, sugar, alcohol, acids etc) has an impact on each other, the French classical diet of "du vin, du pain et du Boursin" (wine, bread and cheese or alcohol, gluten and fat) does not result in fat Frenchmen even though every doctor will tell you it will blow you up like a balloon.
So you saved ~40-80k/year for 30 years to earn 40-80k for about 20 years. Accounting for inflation, that's a bad investment.
The most efficient agencies run with about 30% of overhead (their budget vs what they give out in grants and funding etc). That's almost all unnecessary spending.
The EPA on the other hand, manages ~$10B/y in funds and manages to only spend ~5B on grants, half of that on State grants. Even if you accept the Federal government rescuing individual states, the rest is what I would consider overhead.