Well it was only 13 different counties merging, and it doesn't cover an entire continent, but the US constitution is exactly what we did. Not perfect, but better than what I can understand of that.
Conscious that Europe is a continent that has brought forth civilization; And you accuse Americans of being self centered...
The law provides that some things must be kept. When the judge discovers that some were not kept, the judge can in fact assume there was something incriminating in that next batch. The judge will except very few excuses, none under your control. (If the storage room burns despite good fire protection the judge will assume there was nothing incriminating)
Must keep is required because the company in question has too much ability to screw the common man who doesn't keep things. When/if they screw you, your lawyer can get them to produce the evidence of it.
I used to work with a guy who did some layout work for airplane systems. Everything was triple redundant, and only one system was required to operate to work. Normal triple redundant means one can fail, this was two can fail - that way two systems can overpower one system that fails and tries to do the wrong thing.
Some systems were either too heavy or expensive to get triple redundancy. These systems had to be placed so that the pilot was always in between them. That way the only vector that could destroy both systems in one shot killed the pilot as well and you no longer care about the plane anyway.
Their accountant says use Quickbooks. (because he can download their data however often and turn in the taxes based on that) Quickbooks has up to date tax tables, which is what the accountant wants.
I'm told that overall quickbooks is a bad program (not double entry? I'm not an accountant so the problems don't make sense to me), but it works and everyone uses it.
I can buy tools at a "dollar store". For a few bucks I can get the basics. Not free, but not much less. I can get good tools for half the price of snap-on. (In fact I do, but mechanics don't because the quality and service eventually pays for the cost)
I know a carpenter who paid $350 for his hammer, out of his own pocket. Everyone else he works with is happy with a $25 hammer. (The $20
hammers ruin your body quick) The $350 is much better than any other hammer I've ever used. Worth $350? I'm not sure, but it is much nicer than the $25 ones. (I do however own a $70 hammer). This is something he paid for out of his own pocket, not some government waste.
It isn't the same thing, but it is plenty close. You can get free or cheap tools if you want. Good tools often cost a lot more and are worth the price.
Sure it is. IF it saves just one week worth of work it is well worth it. Where I work we have our own custom tool kit, that contains much less than QT. Way back when (early 90's - before STL did things better, but in a different way) we paid someone to spend months making the tool kit. Just this year I personally spent several weeks tracking down bugs in it (And I know of some I was unable to fix). I also have to re-do things that QT includes already.
A successful business owner needs to consider the cost of not buying QT, not just the cost of buying QT. It is likely that those who don't buy QT will spend several weeks doing things that QT makes easy. No matter what toolkit you choose there with be something that is harder than it should be. QT isn't perfect for everyone, and there are good reasons to choose something else. However choosing based only on cost is one of the things engineers hate about management.
No, but my mechanic friends do have several thousand in snap-on brand tools. Someone who wants to be a mechanic come to work the first day and has the snap-on man bring several thousand worth of tools the first day. (Snap-on gives easy credit to new mechanics, and they have the about the best tools, though you pay twice as much for them)
QT is a tool kit, not one tool. Buy the QT toolkit and you get hundreds of widgets, strings, and other tools. All well written (many people like them better than the C++ STL), debugged (as much as anything is debugged), and supported (Unlike this support knows something, unlike most of the others you named).
I agree, so long as you add the follow: doing the right work hard. Working hard to memorize fact (Brusters angle is 57 degree, and so on) is a waste of time. Working hard to understand glare is important.
It only sounds like a stupid question. However many laptop power supplies are designed with the assumption that there will be this big battery installed acting as a capacitor. So the power supply just sends in dirty power, letting the battery smooth out all the noise into a nice steady DC current.
That is why you leave your old, dead, battery in your laptop even though it gives at most a second of runtime - it still make the power better.
Read what the other guy said first. It applies to many cases.
India has 3-4 times as many people as the IS (~1 billion vs ~300 million). They send their best over here to get an education. It is no surprise that it seems like they have a lot of smart people, they do, but proportionally no more than the US. It is just that you see them because they don't fit in with Americans in anything else.
Education is not about hard work, it is about understanding. Many hours in memorization may help you ace a test. However unless you understand that the concepts mean it is wasted time.
They are supposed to make robots to do the service. No need for a revolution, they are at my level. I don't want the servants, I want the work I hate doing done without doing it myself.
150 years ago the rich had servants to do all their cleaning by hand. Now we have automatic washers (both clothes and dishes), vacuums, and much better soaps, so the middle class can afford almost the same lifestyle (everything clean without much effort).
The rich will always hire frivolous things like full time painters. The middle class can't afford that, but we can hire some things done.
The shortage is of people worth interviewing. My boss gave me a stack of resumes the other day. Of 20, 2 gave an indication they had programed and were honest. (HTML is not programing. VB is, but there is enough bad VB in the world that it is only worth something if you can program something else) Most were IT people, but we are not large enough to need a full time firewall admin.
My peers that are good programmers are all working. At least the ones I can find anyway. There are a large number of programmers that I wouldn't hire who are not working.
No, cheap labor drives up everyone's standard of living.
The Mexicans live dirt cheap, because conditions I wouldn't want to live in are still better than what they had. (Mexico city is nice enough, but there are some really poor areas in Mexico) They can even send money home to their family so their family improves.
I want servants. Just this morning I noticed that my floor was dirty enough to need an extra vacuuming, but I didn't have time to do it before work. A servant could do that vacuuming, leaving me more time to play racquetball or some such - things I would rather do.
In the mean time, the servant can send his kids to school, so they can learn everything I know. The kids then can build on the technology I'm making so we both get robots to vacuum our carpets. (Robots vacuums are close, but not quite to the level that I want them)
This isn't about me, me, me. This is about making the world better. The world is a better place if we can improve the conditions in Mexico. shut the border and Mexico will have a harder time improving.
I don't know many people who have managed to work for one company long enough that the same boss for 20 years is even theoretical possible. When you consider re-orgs it is even less likely. I've been re-orged to a different boss 11 times in the past 8 years. Only once did I change jobs intentionally. I've gone through 4 bosses in a single year more than once. (sometimes the boss quit, othertimes just a re-org)
My boss has not made more than double what I make since I graduated. (Estimate only, it is hard to know what someone makes, but I have an idea of what they spend) His bosses boss made a lot, but at the boss's level you can find plenty of MBAs who will work for just as cheap. Of course they have a better shot of moving into the really high paying positions, but few make it that high.
I was with you to the end. Right at the end you suddenly start to sound like a typical teacher - loved most of school, but hated math. Like a typical teacher you can do it, but are unable to pass on the pure beauty that is truth math. (Not to be confused with arithmetic)
Reading and writing are foundations, it would be a mistake to forget them. However math is as important as philosophy, and both are more important than history. (History is the grounding you need to understand philosophy, while science is the grounding of math)
In short: math and philosophy teach you to think. They are what school should be about. The rest is just to make sure the lessions you are learning seem relevant.
I don't know, I have not audited the entire code base. In fact I have not yet seen evidence that the code is available for audit, so by default we need to assume it is insecure enough that they cannot make the source available.
2048 bit RSA is good, but what about the rest of the process? RSA is normally used used for key exchange. Use the RSA only to exchange a 32 bit RC-4 key and the whole thing is insecure. Then there are obscure channels. Things like noting how long it takes to reject a key an indicate how close you are. Maybe the processor leaks information that a sensitive reader can use to detect what it is processing?
Maybe this is good, maybe it is not. I have not seen an analysis by anyone well known in the cryptography community, so I don't trust it.
In the case of a one time (48 hour) disk, I think the courts would decide in Hollywood's favor. So long as it is made clear that you are getting the disk for 48 hours only that is.
However for the more general case where you own an unlimited disk and make a copy they are likely to decide for you. Actually if you made a copy of a limited use disk, and destroyed the copy when the original self-destructs you are likely to decide in your favor.
I remember using Altavista, and it did just fine for years. Eventially I started hearing about this 'google' thing that some people liked, but because of habit I just went to Altavista.digital.com (I think changing from the domain was the start of their troubles) for all my searching. Gradually I realized that altavista just wasn't working anymore, but it wasn't until I did a search and the first 10 links all turned up dead that I decided to try this 'google' thing I've been hearing about. I never went back to altavista again.
Google might not be around in 5 years. However it is google's fight to loose, not Microsoft's to win.
Microsoft might not be around in 5 years either, but I wouldn't perdict that. Linux will continue to grow, but Microsoft is good enough for most people so they won't switch unless there is motivation. So long as Microsoft doesn't do something bad enough to cause them to loose the OS market they won't anymore.
If bush would stick to conservative principals he would sign this. Conservatives consider the government for only a few things, but military defense is one of those things.
Of course "mainstreet USA" shops are all closed. They were run by those trying to sell me junk for twice what Wal-Mart charges without giving me the good service[1] I get at Wal-Mart. It didn't help those shops that they were only open during the hours when I'm at my day job. The local small businesses that gave customers value are still in business despite Wal-Mart being there. Those that we only went to because we were in a hurry and they were open have failed. Good riddance to the latter.
[1]That should tell you just how bad the service was at most of those places.
Last 'pair' of jeans I bought: $11, Made in the US. The Chinese equivalents in the same store were $13.
I get t-shirts from all over. My current one is from Pakistan (which isn't perfect, but I have hopes their government will make the world a better place at least, unlike China which has no interest in making the world better)
Flip-flops: Brazil. Much better than China.
I'm not going to take my underware off at work, but I'm pretty sure it was US made.
The US grows a lot of cotton. It is hard to other countries to compete with the US, when they have to pay for two-way shipping to/from the us, while the US company only needs to pay shipping across the US.
Sometimes you need to look harder, but there are plenty of non-Chinese products out there that are good deal.
It is called a trade war. You don't buy from me, well I will turn around and not buy from you.
Mind both sides loose in a trade war, but China has already started it. The US is no longer in a winning situation - we make software, and they are refusing to buy our software, so we can't buy from them in turn anyway.
DeBeers is the most evil company I know of. I don't buy anything they have anything to do with. If I had to get a diamond I would make sure it isn't from DeBeers, Canada is just one place to get diamonds that are not evil. In general I'd prefer a ruby which looks nicer anyway.
I can't research everything, but when I am made aware of such facts I take action.
I also avoid buying things made in China, because they have a bad record. Sometimes I don't have a choice though, I've been unable to find a source for some things I need that doesn't come from China. Diamonds are not something I need, so I can be more selective about my source.
Big weddings are about family and friends. I don't believe in the expensive ones. I do believe in weddings where you get the family - even those from out of state) together for a day. If see a wedding as inflated something is wrong. Many people do have fallen for the idea that you need to spend a lot on a wedding, but most of the weddings I've been to have been reasonable. (Either you are too cynical about weddings, or your family/friends are spending way to much money) Mind, there is nothing wrong with eloping.
Night clubs make their money selling the beer. They will do everything they can to ban this because it is cheaper than beer and causes their customers to buy less beer.
Or did you mean night clubs will collect this the way that DeBeers collects diamonds? That I'd believe.
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Well it was only 13 different counties merging, and it doesn't cover an entire continent, but the US constitution is exactly what we did. Not perfect, but better than what I can understand of that.
Conscious that Europe is a continent that has brought forth civilization; And you accuse Americans of being self centered...
Wood is an excellent building material. It last for years, and is safer in a fire than most of the alternatives.
Real wood becomes soft before it fails. So you have warning to get out (fire), or fix it (rot). Most alternatives tend to fail suddenly.
Although cement seems long lasting, in practice it doesn't last longer than dry wood.
The law provides that some things must be kept. When the judge discovers that some were not kept, the judge can in fact assume there was something incriminating in that next batch. The judge will except very few excuses, none under your control. (If the storage room burns despite good fire protection the judge will assume there was nothing incriminating)
Must keep is required because the company in question has too much ability to screw the common man who doesn't keep things. When/if they screw you, your lawyer can get them to produce the evidence of it.
I used to work with a guy who did some layout work for airplane systems. Everything was triple redundant, and only one system was required to operate to work. Normal triple redundant means one can fail, this was two can fail - that way two systems can overpower one system that fails and tries to do the wrong thing.
Some systems were either too heavy or expensive to get triple redundancy. These systems had to be placed so that the pilot was always in between them. That way the only vector that could destroy both systems in one shot killed the pilot as well and you no longer care about the plane anyway.
Their accountant says use Quickbooks. (because he can download their data however often and turn in the taxes based on that) Quickbooks has up to date tax tables, which is what the accountant wants.
I'm told that overall quickbooks is a bad program (not double entry? I'm not an accountant so the problems don't make sense to me), but it works and everyone uses it.
I can buy tools at a "dollar store". For a few bucks I can get the basics. Not free, but not much less. I can get good tools for half the price of snap-on. (In fact I do, but mechanics don't because the quality and service eventually pays for the cost)
I know a carpenter who paid $350 for his hammer, out of his own pocket. Everyone else he works with is happy with a $25 hammer. (The $20 hammers ruin your body quick) The $350 is much better than any other hammer I've ever used. Worth $350? I'm not sure, but it is much nicer than the $25 ones. (I do however own a $70 hammer). This is something he paid for out of his own pocket, not some government waste.
It isn't the same thing, but it is plenty close. You can get free or cheap tools if you want. Good tools often cost a lot more and are worth the price.
Sure it is. IF it saves just one week worth of work it is well worth it. Where I work we have our own custom tool kit, that contains much less than QT. Way back when (early 90's - before STL did things better, but in a different way) we paid someone to spend months making the tool kit. Just this year I personally spent several weeks tracking down bugs in it (And I know of some I was unable to fix). I also have to re-do things that QT includes already.
A successful business owner needs to consider the cost of not buying QT, not just the cost of buying QT. It is likely that those who don't buy QT will spend several weeks doing things that QT makes easy. No matter what toolkit you choose there with be something that is harder than it should be. QT isn't perfect for everyone, and there are good reasons to choose something else. However choosing based only on cost is one of the things engineers hate about management.
No, but my mechanic friends do have several thousand in snap-on brand tools. Someone who wants to be a mechanic come to work the first day and has the snap-on man bring several thousand worth of tools the first day. (Snap-on gives easy credit to new mechanics, and they have the about the best tools, though you pay twice as much for them)
QT is a tool kit, not one tool. Buy the QT toolkit and you get hundreds of widgets, strings, and other tools. All well written (many people like them better than the C++ STL), debugged (as much as anything is debugged), and supported (Unlike this support knows something, unlike most of the others you named).
I agree, so long as you add the follow: doing the right work hard. Working hard to memorize fact (Brusters angle is 57 degree, and so on) is a waste of time. Working hard to understand glare is important.
It only sounds like a stupid question. However many laptop power supplies are designed with the assumption that there will be this big battery installed acting as a capacitor. So the power supply just sends in dirty power, letting the battery smooth out all the noise into a nice steady DC current.
That is why you leave your old, dead, battery in your laptop even though it gives at most a second of runtime - it still make the power better.
Read what the other guy said first. It applies to many cases.
India has 3-4 times as many people as the IS (~1 billion vs ~300 million). They send their best over here to get an education. It is no surprise that it seems like they have a lot of smart people, they do, but proportionally no more than the US. It is just that you see them because they don't fit in with Americans in anything else.
Education is not about hard work, it is about understanding. Many hours in memorization may help you ace a test. However unless you understand that the concepts mean it is wasted time.
They are supposed to make robots to do the service. No need for a revolution, they are at my level. I don't want the servants, I want the work I hate doing done without doing it myself.
150 years ago the rich had servants to do all their cleaning by hand. Now we have automatic washers (both clothes and dishes), vacuums, and much better soaps, so the middle class can afford almost the same lifestyle (everything clean without much effort).
The rich will always hire frivolous things like full time painters. The middle class can't afford that, but we can hire some things done.
The shortage is of people worth interviewing. My boss gave me a stack of resumes the other day. Of 20, 2 gave an indication they had programed and were honest. (HTML is not programing. VB is, but there is enough bad VB in the world that it is only worth something if you can program something else) Most were IT people, but we are not large enough to need a full time firewall admin.
My peers that are good programmers are all working. At least the ones I can find anyway. There are a large number of programmers that I wouldn't hire who are not working.
No, cheap labor drives up everyone's standard of living.
The Mexicans live dirt cheap, because conditions I wouldn't want to live in are still better than what they had. (Mexico city is nice enough, but there are some really poor areas in Mexico) They can even send money home to their family so their family improves.
I want servants. Just this morning I noticed that my floor was dirty enough to need an extra vacuuming, but I didn't have time to do it before work. A servant could do that vacuuming, leaving me more time to play racquetball or some such - things I would rather do.
In the mean time, the servant can send his kids to school, so they can learn everything I know. The kids then can build on the technology I'm making so we both get robots to vacuum our carpets. (Robots vacuums are close, but not quite to the level that I want them)
This isn't about me, me, me. This is about making the world better. The world is a better place if we can improve the conditions in Mexico. shut the border and Mexico will have a harder time improving.
I don't know many people who have managed to work for one company long enough that the same boss for 20 years is even theoretical possible. When you consider re-orgs it is even less likely. I've been re-orged to a different boss 11 times in the past 8 years. Only once did I change jobs intentionally. I've gone through 4 bosses in a single year more than once. (sometimes the boss quit, othertimes just a re-org)
My boss has not made more than double what I make since I graduated. (Estimate only, it is hard to know what someone makes, but I have an idea of what they spend) His bosses boss made a lot, but at the boss's level you can find plenty of MBAs who will work for just as cheap. Of course they have a better shot of moving into the really high paying positions, but few make it that high.
I was with you to the end. Right at the end you suddenly start to sound like a typical teacher - loved most of school, but hated math. Like a typical teacher you can do it, but are unable to pass on the pure beauty that is truth math. (Not to be confused with arithmetic)
Reading and writing are foundations, it would be a mistake to forget them. However math is as important as philosophy, and both are more important than history. (History is the grounding you need to understand philosophy, while science is the grounding of math)
In short: math and philosophy teach you to think. They are what school should be about. The rest is just to make sure the lessions you are learning seem relevant.
I don't know, I have not audited the entire code base. In fact I have not yet seen evidence that the code is available for audit, so by default we need to assume it is insecure enough that they cannot make the source available.
2048 bit RSA is good, but what about the rest of the process? RSA is normally used used for key exchange. Use the RSA only to exchange a 32 bit RC-4 key and the whole thing is insecure. Then there are obscure channels. Things like noting how long it takes to reject a key an indicate how close you are. Maybe the processor leaks information that a sensitive reader can use to detect what it is processing?
Maybe this is good, maybe it is not. I have not seen an analysis by anyone well known in the cryptography community, so I don't trust it.
In the case of a one time (48 hour) disk, I think the courts would decide in Hollywood's favor. So long as it is made clear that you are getting the disk for 48 hours only that is.
However for the more general case where you own an unlimited disk and make a copy they are likely to decide for you. Actually if you made a copy of a limited use disk, and destroyed the copy when the original self-destructs you are likely to decide in your favor.
I remember using Altavista, and it did just fine for years. Eventially I started hearing about this 'google' thing that some people liked, but because of habit I just went to Altavista.digital.com (I think changing from the domain was the start of their troubles) for all my searching. Gradually I realized that altavista just wasn't working anymore, but it wasn't until I did a search and the first 10 links all turned up dead that I decided to try this 'google' thing I've been hearing about. I never went back to altavista again.
Google might not be around in 5 years. However it is google's fight to loose, not Microsoft's to win.
Microsoft might not be around in 5 years either, but I wouldn't perdict that. Linux will continue to grow, but Microsoft is good enough for most people so they won't switch unless there is motivation. So long as Microsoft doesn't do something bad enough to cause them to loose the OS market they won't anymore.
If bush would stick to conservative principals he would sign this. Conservatives consider the government for only a few things, but military defense is one of those things.
Of course "mainstreet USA" shops are all closed. They were run by those trying to sell me junk for twice what Wal-Mart charges without giving me the good service[1] I get at Wal-Mart. It didn't help those shops that they were only open during the hours when I'm at my day job. The local small businesses that gave customers value are still in business despite Wal-Mart being there. Those that we only went to because we were in a hurry and they were open have failed. Good riddance to the latter.
[1]That should tell you just how bad the service was at most of those places.
Last 'pair' of jeans I bought: $11, Made in the US. The Chinese equivalents in the same store were $13.
I get t-shirts from all over. My current one is from Pakistan (which isn't perfect, but I have hopes their government will make the world a better place at least, unlike China which has no interest in making the world better)
Flip-flops: Brazil. Much better than China.
I'm not going to take my underware off at work, but I'm pretty sure it was US made.
The US grows a lot of cotton. It is hard to other countries to compete with the US, when they have to pay for two-way shipping to/from the us, while the US company only needs to pay shipping across the US.
Sometimes you need to look harder, but there are plenty of non-Chinese products out there that are good deal.
It is called a trade war. You don't buy from me, well I will turn around and not buy from you.
Mind both sides loose in a trade war, but China has already started it. The US is no longer in a winning situation - we make software, and they are refusing to buy our software, so we can't buy from them in turn anyway.
DeBeers is the most evil company I know of. I don't buy anything they have anything to do with. If I had to get a diamond I would make sure it isn't from DeBeers, Canada is just one place to get diamonds that are not evil. In general I'd prefer a ruby which looks nicer anyway.
I can't research everything, but when I am made aware of such facts I take action.
I also avoid buying things made in China, because they have a bad record. Sometimes I don't have a choice though, I've been unable to find a source for some things I need that doesn't come from China. Diamonds are not something I need, so I can be more selective about my source.
Big weddings are about family and friends. I don't believe in the expensive ones. I do believe in weddings where you get the family - even those from out of state) together for a day. If see a wedding as inflated something is wrong. Many people do have fallen for the idea that you need to spend a lot on a wedding, but most of the weddings I've been to have been reasonable. (Either you are too cynical about weddings, or your family/friends are spending way to much money) Mind, there is nothing wrong with eloping.
Night clubs make their money selling the beer. They will do everything they can to ban this because it is cheaper than beer and causes their customers to buy less beer.
Or did you mean night clubs will collect this the way that DeBeers collects diamonds? That I'd believe.