Yeah, I hate it when jobs advertise for X experience in Y language, rather than just asking for a creative, analytical thinker with development experience.
Ok, I'm being partly sarcastic, but in an ideal world, I'd be serious.
I'm sure that's true wrt writing and compiling....but there's plenty of programs I write that need to run for days to weeks on current i7 processors before producing output...so CPU can still be a bottleneck.
Although personally, the last desktop I bought/built was in 2001. I've been exclusively on a laptop since 2004.
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pretty amazing. the yearly updates make me feel like I'm getting a new device each year.
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yeah, the cost is trivial. No one cares. Except perhaps in principle.
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You just can't let other people use them without forking over $100/year. (At all for iOS or without making users disable scary security dialogs for OS X.)
You can develop for a Mac in any development environment. It doesn't have to be Xcode. That's just a free IDE from Apple.
You can distribute your software to anyone without paying Apple anything. The Mac is an open platform.
Only for iOS devices, which are closed platforms, and which all software is sold by Apple and not third parties, do you have to pay $100/yr to have Apple sell your software.
Agreed. $10/month is incredible value for access to the world's music on demand. Still, it's a luxury that not everyone can afford.
I pay $5/month for SiriusXM. I wouldn't pay more, but I think it's good value at that price.
Just call SiriusXM up and tell them you'll subscribe for $5/month but not a penny more. They'll agree after a few minutes of back and forth. Their prices are fluid.
Notice the interesting trend of people on Slashdot being generally happy/content with machines that are up to 5-6 yrs old?
That's intriguing from a group of technology happy people who mostly earn good money.
I suspect it's the combination of family obligations (time and money), good work machines, and portable devices...that have reduced our desire and allocation of money for frequently updating our machines. And of course the fact that CPU performance has largely been flat lined over the past several years while SSD upgrades have dramatically improved the performance of our older machines.
Clearly...look at all the delusional people who believe in magical wizards in the sky that talk to them although no one else can hear them...I'm talking about God here...yet still produce good science. Granted, many are too delusional to do that, but some can put their delusions aside for the narrow area of science they explore.
Sure, most people won't swap out their TVs for 4k or 8k just because it's available...but enough people will so that in 5 years when I do upgrade....I'll be getting 4k for less than I paid for my current 1080p TVs. So let's be happy about it all...
fortunately, they want each other dead as well, but they are reproducing faster than they are killing each other, so it's still a problem for the west to deal with.
In fact, in most states, they will probably use the changing market as an excuse to raise rates, knowing they will continue to sell the same number of policies while paying fewer claims.
Totally...but it can be a win-win situation where insurance companies lower rates significantly, and yet still make more profit due to orders of magnitude reductions in claims.
you're missing the market. first off, people will not make an effort to find the bugs unless the price is right. plenty of high quality people won't try for $1K, leaving bugs undiscovered, at least by white hats. second, if there isn't decent compensation for finding the bugs, some people will sell them on the black market, where they could go for much much more.
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Oh, that sounds great. Pointers please. I've bluffed my way in, but have yet to achieve the god-like position and huge sums of money.
because they had the wrong attitude....
Yeah, I hate it when jobs advertise for X experience in Y language, rather than just asking for a creative, analytical thinker with development experience.
Ok, I'm being partly sarcastic, but in an ideal world, I'd be serious.
We've lost that kind of 'slow down and make sure it's right' attitude that engineers really need to have.
Oh, they slowed down alright, but the attitude was not right.
this would have caused the affected propellers to spin too slowly causing loss of power and eventually, a crash.
WTF? No automated system check to determine if all needed files are present before flying??!
I'm sure that's true wrt writing and compiling....but there's plenty of programs I write that need to run for days to weeks on current i7 processors before producing output...so CPU can still be a bottleneck.
Hahaha...yes...there's that. :)
Although personally, the last desktop I bought/built was in 2001. I've been exclusively on a laptop since 2004.
pretty amazing. the yearly updates make me feel like I'm getting a new device each year.
yeah, the cost is trivial. No one cares. Except perhaps in principle.
You just can't let other people use them without forking over $100/year. (At all for iOS or without making users disable scary security dialogs for OS X.)
You can develop for a Mac in any development environment. It doesn't have to be Xcode. That's just a free IDE from Apple.
You can distribute your software to anyone without paying Apple anything. The Mac is an open platform.
Only for iOS devices, which are closed platforms, and which all software is sold by Apple and not third parties, do you have to pay $100/yr to have Apple sell your software.
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Agreed. $10/month is incredible value for access to the world's music on demand. Still, it's a luxury that not everyone can afford.
I pay $5/month for SiriusXM. I wouldn't pay more, but I think it's good value at that price.
Just call SiriusXM up and tell them you'll subscribe for $5/month but not a penny more. They'll agree after a few minutes of back and forth. Their prices are fluid.
ha, I remember my college computer, a Pentium 200Mhz with 32MB RAM could play MP3s well, but couldn't do much else at the same time.
Notice the interesting trend of people on Slashdot being generally happy/content with machines that are up to 5-6 yrs old?
That's intriguing from a group of technology happy people who mostly earn good money.
I suspect it's the combination of family obligations (time and money), good work machines, and portable devices...that have reduced our desire and allocation of money for frequently updating our machines. And of course the fact that CPU performance has largely been flat lined over the past several years while SSD upgrades have dramatically improved the performance of our older machines.
"I'm sorry I'm not sorry enough for you!"
Clearly he's the rock star scientist.
Your average geek story would go something like this...
"you fall in love with them"
"they reject you and things become awkward"
"you cry when they criticize you"
Clearly...look at all the delusional people who believe in magical wizards in the sky that talk to them although no one else can hear them...I'm talking about God here...yet still produce good science. Granted, many are too delusional to do that, but some can put their delusions aside for the narrow area of science they explore.
And the 2013 Mac Pro is the same as the 2015 Mac Pro. You're still current!
I have a 2010 Macbook Pro 15" w/ 8GB RAM & Dual drives (256GB SSD + 500GB HDD).
BUT IT RARELY GETS USED....due to my newer (Mac) work machines, my iPad, iPhone, AppleTV, FireTV, Xbox360, Nintendo Wii U, and Synology NAS.
Anyone else find they use their primary machine less than a couple of hours a week?
Sure, most people won't swap out their TVs for 4k or 8k just because it's available...but enough people will so that in 5 years when I do upgrade....I'll be getting 4k for less than I paid for my current 1080p TVs. So let's be happy about it all...
and they couldn't just rewind and replay it. so they had to kill someone anew at every showing!
well the problem is they want us dead.
fortunately, they want each other dead as well, but they are reproducing faster than they are killing each other, so it's still a problem for the west to deal with.
because they had soldiers coming home from war that needed an outlet for killing, and because you had slaves that could be force to fight.
In fact, in most states, they will probably use the changing market as an excuse to raise rates, knowing they will continue to sell the same number of policies while paying fewer claims.
Totally...but it can be a win-win situation where insurance companies lower rates significantly, and yet still make more profit due to orders of magnitude reductions in claims.
you're missing the market. first off, people will not make an effort to find the bugs unless the price is right. plenty of high quality people won't try for $1K, leaving bugs undiscovered, at least by white hats. second, if there isn't decent compensation for finding the bugs, some people will sell them on the black market, where they could go for much much more.