I have found that most error pop-up boxes doesn't allow you to select text. And rather than tell them to try one way, and if it fails, try the other, which inevitably results in having to walk to their desk to show them again how it works... I give them one process that is guaranteed to work. Plus they'll usually screenshot everything so I can see what else they were running when it crashed.
vi works fine on OSX. You have a full unix shell. You can install any number of apps written in python through pip. My MBP (work provided) has 4 real cores, 4 HT cores, 8GB RAM (one day, I'll upgrade to 16 if it causes a problem), and more. I have 2 external monitors hooked to it, in addition to the monitor on the laptop. One from its display port, and one driven by USB (which works fine for text, email, and chat apps). I use all of the power on it when needed. Then again, I use it like a linux box, sitting in the CLI most of the time working on things. I don't want to have to learn to use crappy third party apps on windows, worry extensively about malware, and have to worry about trying to make scripting languages work. If I programmed.NET or something, I could see using windows. But for real work, using scripting languages, dev engines like eclipse, and having the compilers installed and configured in a couple of commands, able to administrate thousands of machines from a central location, you can beat a *nix base. And OSX gives me that on something I don't really have to worry about administrating and fixing.
When has shipping inmates off to a distant location ever been an issue? To be fair, there's probably less dangers to your health on Mars than Australia.
IT runs the website, just like marketing runs the print ads. If one makes money, so does the other. IT also runs the order processing system allowing purchases to be made without pencil and paper, allowing lower cost per individual transaction. IT runs the email system to allow continued communication with customers about the status of their order, preempting cancellation of orders. IT keeps the workstations running for all of the users. IT keeps the shared documentation servers allowing for faster delivery of information across the company, minimizing the time misinformation like old pricing is distributed. IT allows for the minimization of costs. IT allows for self-service. IT, when properly applied, can be net-income increasing, even if they also increase gross expenditures, just like everyone else. Having a salesman increases gross expenditure through salary, benefits, desk... and IT expenses related to his employment.
You don't have to understand it. You have to screen shot it and attach it to your helpdesk request. They can understand it and will present you with the appropriate solution. Calling the sysadmin with "there's an error on my screen" is going to result in you having to read it out loud to him, possibly misreading it, or him having to come to your desk. This is a giant waste of time as opposed to you spending 2 minutes writing the ticket, taking a screen shot and attaching it.
How do you get the new hardware into the system to take a backup that is compatible with your other hardware? Through an upgrade, which is often declined due to costs. After all, that machine hasn't failed in 12 years. It's obviously not going to fail in the next quarter, so that expense should be put off, so that we don't affect the bonus.
Of course not. They get the headlines by telling someone to do it, but don't want to have it said that they increased funding. Unless it can be linked to beating the terrorists. Then we'd be there next year.
There are a lot of companies out there that would love to have their own cloud infrastructure, either because they don't want to trust it to someone else, or because they need specialized hardware or have specific requirements, or even just because they get grants for capital expenditure but not ongoing costs. OpenStack is to help those people build their own cloud, in arenas where it makes sense for them.
Maybe that excessive cost is why the "suits" keep asking? Being expensive doesn't necessarily make things better. Just because you can't make something work doesn't mean it doesn't work well.
/Disclaimer: I work for Rackspace. But my opinions are my own.
1) Because everyone is used to the existing and no one has come up with a stunning reason to move to a new one.
2) Most simple problems have been solved. Think of something you do every day that would be better with computer intervention. There's not much I can think of.
3) CSS, Javascript, HTML5, Flash
4) Lolwut. Are you talking about the IDE or the language? For language, you have all the C derivatives, java, python, perl, and dozens of others in your repo. For the IDE you have eclipse and a couple other less-featured ones.
5) Learning AI's are really hard to write. They're also very computationally intensive. They're being worked on, but no one's really made one.
As for all your bitching about proprietary this and that and you're calling for Visual Basic on linux? Really? "why don't we have more proprietary crap on linux" followed by "there's too much proprietary crap"?
If you think you can do better, there are lots of programming options out there. Get to it.
Subsidized price? Are you talking about the loan that they paid back already, 9 years early, or are you talking about the $7500 that the government is pitching in? I'm not a big fan of the subsidy, myself, but I have to wonder if you've considered the taxes that the oil companies aren't paying, and the relative impact of that versus the cost of the electric vehicles. Maybe if the oil companies didn't have a stranglehold on our collective scrotums, we'd balance out a bit better.
If you prefer one hardware over the other without seeing benchmarks, then you are someone that is usually referred to as a "fanboy". Have fun with that.
Without the United States crippling the Axis production lines, the USSR would have found their westward march a little more difficult. Not to say they might not have won anyway, but it would have been much harder pressed. As it is, with the US and the USSR working together, the loss of life, and difficulty of the fight was astounding. Let's just agree that had any of the key players sat on their thumbs any longer, things might have been a bit more difficult.
Multiple sensor redundancy with soft failure modes in event of data mismatch. I would hope that top engineers could come up with somehting like that...
Driving straight is not the challenge. The failure mode is much more severe on a highway, and extreme conditions are probably just as difficult to manage for an autopilot as city traffic, if not more. For example, what does the AP do when
- the car hits a big pothole and perhaps blows a tire? There's too little time for a human to take over. Sometimes you need to make a choice, whether to stop abruptly or not.
- lane markings disappear because of prior construction? Construction detour?
- truck blows a tire in front of you? (happened to me twice)
- some animal/idiot wanders into the road? Hint: avoid is a better maneuver than hitting and holding the brakes. You don't want to stop dead on a highway.
Give me city traffic with a 50km/h speed limit any day.
Blow a tire? The car has the information from sensors to tell which tire blew instantly, allowing it to apply brakes on the other wheels, hold the steering at the appropriate angles, perhaps even adjusting the suspension. Then it will monitor the other lanes in a 360 degree view to safely move off the road as quickly as possible. In addition, one could use run-flat tires to minimize this chance. It would also monitor tire pressure to minimize the chances. In addition to that, one could have the car monitor tread depth, and require manual override for unsafe tires.
Lane markings disappear? GPS data, in addition to 360 degree visual sensors and data from vehicles in front of it mean that your self-driver is more likely to determine a safe path more readily than a human driver.
Truck blows a tire? The car doesn't have your quarter-second reaction time (at best) to contend with before it begins to analyze the data from its 360 degree cameras which know where it's safe to go, sensor data which tells it how much grip it has, road conditions, brake ability, and is able to determine and begin executing the best case for avoidance before you would have even noticed the blowout.
Idiot or animal wanders in? Car is more likely to notice it faster. Infrared spectrum makes body heat stand out on animals that evolved to blend into the surroundings and night-time walkers that think that black is a good idea. In addition, it's able to track these objects without ceasing to track the location of the vehicle, and surrounding vehicles and objects. The car is able to process visual input from 360 degrees of visual input, in addition to all sensor data to make the best decision on minimizing impact with the animal or idiot. And it does this beginning before you would have noticed them (by about a quarter second) and with a good bit more input than you would have available.
In addition to all of this, it's possible that cars could share this data, so that there are multiple vantages being processed on any of these situations, so that they can react in tandem, and know what other vehicles are intending to do, lowering chances of impact even more.
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And taxes paid in Ireland. http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/05/21/apple-called-a-tax-dodger-by-senate-committee-apple-says-system-needs-to-be-dramatically-simplified/
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I have found that most error pop-up boxes doesn't allow you to select text. And rather than tell them to try one way, and if it fails, try the other, which inevitably results in having to walk to their desk to show them again how it works... I give them one process that is guaranteed to work. Plus they'll usually screenshot everything so I can see what else they were running when it crashed.
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Should we get rid of the guilty plea as well, then?
vi works fine on OSX. You have a full unix shell. You can install any number of apps written in python through pip. My MBP (work provided) has 4 real cores, 4 HT cores, 8GB RAM (one day, I'll upgrade to 16 if it causes a problem), and more. I have 2 external monitors hooked to it, in addition to the monitor on the laptop. One from its display port, and one driven by USB (which works fine for text, email, and chat apps). I use all of the power on it when needed. Then again, I use it like a linux box, sitting in the CLI most of the time working on things. I don't want to have to learn to use crappy third party apps on windows, worry extensively about malware, and have to worry about trying to make scripting languages work. If I programmed .NET or something, I could see using windows. But for real work, using scripting languages, dev engines like eclipse, and having the compilers installed and configured in a couple of commands, able to administrate thousands of machines from a central location, you can beat a *nix base. And OSX gives me that on something I don't really have to worry about administrating and fixing.
man $command
I'm sure you'l find that works much better.
Java 7 isn't always compatible with Java 6 apps, either.
When has shipping inmates off to a distant location ever been an issue? To be fair, there's probably less dangers to your health on Mars than Australia.
You can buy a lot of ramen, rice and pasta with $200. That's a big ol' chunk of change for someone that's truly broke.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9.2
Seems like it's mentioned there to me...
Are you telling me that Newegg's website generates no profit? Because I'm pretty sure that their IT department runs that...
IT runs the website, just like marketing runs the print ads. If one makes money, so does the other. IT also runs the order processing system allowing purchases to be made without pencil and paper, allowing lower cost per individual transaction. IT runs the email system to allow continued communication with customers about the status of their order, preempting cancellation of orders. IT keeps the workstations running for all of the users. IT keeps the shared documentation servers allowing for faster delivery of information across the company, minimizing the time misinformation like old pricing is distributed. IT allows for the minimization of costs. IT allows for self-service. IT, when properly applied, can be net-income increasing, even if they also increase gross expenditures, just like everyone else. Having a salesman increases gross expenditure through salary, benefits, desk... and IT expenses related to his employment.
You don't have to understand it. You have to screen shot it and attach it to your helpdesk request. They can understand it and will present you with the appropriate solution. Calling the sysadmin with "there's an error on my screen" is going to result in you having to read it out loud to him, possibly misreading it, or him having to come to your desk. This is a giant waste of time as opposed to you spending 2 minutes writing the ticket, taking a screen shot and attaching it.
How do you get the new hardware into the system to take a backup that is compatible with your other hardware? Through an upgrade, which is often declined due to costs. After all, that machine hasn't failed in 12 years. It's obviously not going to fail in the next quarter, so that expense should be put off, so that we don't affect the bonus.
Of course not. They get the headlines by telling someone to do it, but don't want to have it said that they increased funding. Unless it can be linked to beating the terrorists. Then we'd be there next year.
There are a lot of companies out there that would love to have their own cloud infrastructure, either because they don't want to trust it to someone else, or because they need specialized hardware or have specific requirements, or even just because they get grants for capital expenditure but not ongoing costs. OpenStack is to help those people build their own cloud, in arenas where it makes sense for them.
Maybe that excessive cost is why the "suits" keep asking? Being expensive doesn't necessarily make things better. Just because you can't make something work doesn't mean it doesn't work well.
/Disclaimer: I work for Rackspace. But my opinions are my own.
1) Because everyone is used to the existing and no one has come up with a stunning reason to move to a new one.
2) Most simple problems have been solved. Think of something you do every day that would be better with computer intervention. There's not much I can think of.
3) CSS, Javascript, HTML5, Flash
4) Lolwut. Are you talking about the IDE or the language? For language, you have all the C derivatives, java, python, perl, and dozens of others in your repo. For the IDE you have eclipse and a couple other less-featured ones.
5) Learning AI's are really hard to write. They're also very computationally intensive. They're being worked on, but no one's really made one.
As for all your bitching about proprietary this and that and you're calling for Visual Basic on linux? Really? "why don't we have more proprietary crap on linux" followed by "there's too much proprietary crap"?
If you think you can do better, there are lots of programming options out there. Get to it.
You can always add one via bluetooth: http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Smartphones-iPhone/dp/B00512Z28W
Subsidized price? Are you talking about the loan that they paid back already, 9 years early, or are you talking about the $7500 that the government is pitching in? I'm not a big fan of the subsidy, myself, but I have to wonder if you've considered the taxes that the oil companies aren't paying, and the relative impact of that versus the cost of the electric vehicles. Maybe if the oil companies didn't have a stranglehold on our collective scrotums, we'd balance out a bit better.
If you prefer one hardware over the other without seeing benchmarks, then you are someone that is usually referred to as a "fanboy". Have fun with that.
Without the United States crippling the Axis production lines, the USSR would have found their westward march a little more difficult. Not to say they might not have won anyway, but it would have been much harder pressed. As it is, with the US and the USSR working together, the loss of life, and difficulty of the fight was astounding. Let's just agree that had any of the key players sat on their thumbs any longer, things might have been a bit more difficult.
Multiple sensor redundancy with soft failure modes in event of data mismatch. I would hope that top engineers could come up with somehting like that...
Driving straight is not the challenge. The failure mode is much more severe on a highway, and extreme conditions are probably just as difficult to manage for an autopilot as city traffic, if not more. For example, what does the AP do when - the car hits a big pothole and perhaps blows a tire? There's too little time for a human to take over. Sometimes you need to make a choice, whether to stop abruptly or not. - lane markings disappear because of prior construction? Construction detour? - truck blows a tire in front of you? (happened to me twice) - some animal/idiot wanders into the road? Hint: avoid is a better maneuver than hitting and holding the brakes. You don't want to stop dead on a highway.
Give me city traffic with a 50km/h speed limit any day.
Blow a tire? The car has the information from sensors to tell which tire blew instantly, allowing it to apply brakes on the other wheels, hold the steering at the appropriate angles, perhaps even adjusting the suspension. Then it will monitor the other lanes in a 360 degree view to safely move off the road as quickly as possible. In addition, one could use run-flat tires to minimize this chance. It would also monitor tire pressure to minimize the chances. In addition to that, one could have the car monitor tread depth, and require manual override for unsafe tires.
Lane markings disappear? GPS data, in addition to 360 degree visual sensors and data from vehicles in front of it mean that your self-driver is more likely to determine a safe path more readily than a human driver.
Truck blows a tire? The car doesn't have your quarter-second reaction time (at best) to contend with before it begins to analyze the data from its 360 degree cameras which know where it's safe to go, sensor data which tells it how much grip it has, road conditions, brake ability, and is able to determine and begin executing the best case for avoidance before you would have even noticed the blowout.
Idiot or animal wanders in? Car is more likely to notice it faster. Infrared spectrum makes body heat stand out on animals that evolved to blend into the surroundings and night-time walkers that think that black is a good idea. In addition, it's able to track these objects without ceasing to track the location of the vehicle, and surrounding vehicles and objects. The car is able to process visual input from 360 degrees of visual input, in addition to all sensor data to make the best decision on minimizing impact with the animal or idiot. And it does this beginning before you would have noticed them (by about a quarter second) and with a good bit more input than you would have available.
In addition to all of this, it's possible that cars could share this data, so that there are multiple vantages being processed on any of these situations, so that they can react in tandem, and know what other vehicles are intending to do, lowering chances of impact even more.
The car is a better driver.