"Never enough time to do it right, but always time to do it over."
I feel sorry for anyone who works at places like this and I've worked at places like this before. Compressed schedules, vague changing demands, schedule slips when the hacked up mess finally falls apart. There are better ways to make software, but we just keep promoting good software engineers to managers that have no idea about management.
Wrong, the 10 Billion company will spin off another company with no Assets to build and run the plant using some loose financial derivatives to get the real money back to them. Spin off gets sued and goes bankrupt and only a fraction of value is lost.
"The hurdle has been the lack of a generic and complete platform security and content protection mechanism available for Android."
"Although we don’t have a common platform security mechanism and DRM, we are able to work with individual handset manufacturers to add content protection to their devices. Unfortunately, this is a much slower approach and leads to a fragmented experience on Android, in which some handsets will have access to Netflix and others won’t."
The lack of general platform content protection on Android makes them have to do it on an individual basis. The fragmentation of handset makes this difficult. Windows makes every comply with a base set of APIs. In Android you can mess with them as much as you want.
These is no Netflix client because DRM is hard to impossible on Fragmented Open Source Android. Apple and Microsoft have protected video paths. They either have to relicense content to stream DRM free, or come up with a solution on a phone by phone basis to meet the DRM requirements of the content agreements.
Small Format Grocery store with a natural/organic spin. They sell all self branded products. I come from the midwest and would say they are a much higher quality Aldi's
Delivery fee is $5 is you specify a 4 hour window. It only works on volume. If you and all your neighbor order, it will be profitable. This actually is re-making me a customer of Walmart. The San Jose area only has 2 Walmarts and no supercenters. This gives me access to supercenter products without driving 20 miles. I put in my first order.
Considering the time,gas and hassle, $10 delivery fee isn't much. It can be as low as $5, which I think is worth it. Honestly if they only do this to addresses outside of 5-10 miles from existing supercenters, they open themselves to lots of new customers.
Oh, Slashdot, while you are a wonderful waste of time normally, this time I thank you. I recently moved from the Kansas City Area (1.5 miles from a Walmart Super Center) to San Jose. Prices here are crazy and the closest Walmart Super Center is 20 miles, (10 to normal store). However thanks to Slashdot, I now know that Walmart delivers to my new address and I plan to use the service heavily. The 5.00 delivery fee is easily offset by the savings from the local stores(not to mention gas cost). My first order should be here Tuesday.
As much bashing as you want to do with Walmart, they for the most part sell the exact same products for cheaper. With non-perishable this is especially true. They may not carry all the high-end brands, and typically have a slightly lower quality store-brand for many products, but this doesn't relate to being lower quality overall. As for perishable products, their produce is on par with lower tier (bottom 50%) grocery stores, but if you stick to the stuff that is in season you are golden.
Even if you don't shop at Walmart, you should thank them. Their dedication to efficiency and low prices have lowered prices at all stores including competitors and raised the standard of living for everyone here in the US.
One slight mistake, Generally speaking people that are creating content believe and follow the licenses. The lechers that contribute little to nothing to society and just expect to be given everything for free that are the ones usually pirating. However you have a solid point, if you pirate material you basically have no ground to say this guy should get anything for his works.
They should make those farms profitable. There are simple solutions.... If if live in a city, you get mail 5 days a week. You live just outside a city 3 days a week. You live in the middle of nowhere? 1 day a week. Top of a mountain? once a month. There is significant value to be able to deliver to every American house, so don't destroy that, just make people choose to live closer to civilizations to get mail faster.
The best part is the Siemens Wind Energy Advertisment before the video. Apparently a with a few Windmills and a laser. Pew, Pew, Pew, we can finally have a green war!
Exactly, every band that doesn't sell 400,000 copies or more LOSES money for the label. Look at CD sales and you will find that most do not. So basically they give the band $350,000, the band makes nothing MORE until after the first million records. After that they make their 20%. This seems like a pretty fair deal for a 4 million dollar loan to a want-a-be rock star.
Although the iPhone just went from.115 megapixels to.46 megapixels in the last generation. Keep that up and they might match you. Monitors is the biggest thing, show me a laptop that can support 3 to 6 - 2560x1600 monitors and I am sold.
Can't give them away? Ever heard of craiglist? You can get rid of any junk for free. Just list it with an address and say it is on the curb. It will disappear in less then a day.
I bet they have a deal that there is a transmitter and direct fiber line to it IN Steve Jobs' office. More seriously, I would highly doubt that there aren't multiple att towers on apple's campus. When you are developing cell phones you can just cripple coverage with thousands of phones all doing automated testing on the same tower
When they get a search warrant, make a copy of your hard drive and find the movie still on there. There are some people that are smart and can cover their tracks, but when piracy is mainstream, even the idiots do it. That is the real problem, it is no longer hackers that steal movies, but the average joe.
Even if they can't prove it was you the media company will just lobby for a law that declares copyright infringement from an IP address is the responsibility of the person owning the ISP account then you will be screwed.
Dear Journalists, There are lies, damn lies, statistics and now facebook group sizes. All are meaningless but facebook groups are exceedingly meaningless. Although facebook might be the latest internet craze please get off your ass and do some real journalism. Please never quote how many people are in a facebook group again. I really don't care how many idiots clicked a viral marketing button because they have nothing better to do then drool over facebook updates all day at their computer/phone. Then again, you are probably quoting facebook because you are one of these people. Please at least stop writing for mediums outside of facebook and make the world a better place.
Often these aren't a single very common typo or error. They are usually 10-100 unique aspects of the file that should be different. After looking at a hundred programs, two that are the same stand out like a sore thumb.
Justice is important, any accusation of cheating should be appeal-able if they are truly wrongly accused. Most people just admit it.
Fortunately the smart usually don't cheat or get away with it. Cheating well almost always if more work then the original. Even if not, I would still probably hire a smart cheater (who takes short cuts on unimportant things) rather then a knowledgeable idiot.
This would be flagged but wouldn't pass the manual review. As a former Graduate Teaching Assistant, cheaters are easy to spot because they are LAZY! They turn in the exact same files (same comments with same misspellings) with maybe a different name at the top. The only good way to cheat is to make sure every things is perfectly correct and has no identifying characteristics.
Yeah, buy you apparently play by the rules and only consume what is given away for free (or what you paid for). The problem is that most people see that some music is given away for free and then suddenly the demand that all their music is free. It isn't, but that doesn't stop them from pirating it. If you don't like the business model, don't consume their content, especially by pirating it. Choose to consume content that has a good business model, like the parent poster consuming free content. If you think the free stuff sucks, then pay for the good stuff.
It is going to sue because apple bans applications not programmed in C/C++/Objective C. Apple states this is because compatibility layers make bad apps, I would think it is more of a middle finger to adobe who has publicly announced it's plans to make a flash to iphone tool.
Ok, square footage and power might be impressive to some. I really just want to know the number of fiber lines and bandwidth in these data centers. I figure if it is about 1 TB/s, I could consider renting space for an apartment there for the right price.
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Sounds about like
http://xkcd.com/908/
"Never enough time to do it right, but always time to do it over."
I feel sorry for anyone who works at places like this and I've worked at places like this before. Compressed schedules, vague changing demands, schedule slips when the hacked up mess finally falls apart. There are better ways to make software, but we just keep promoting good software engineers to managers that have no idea about management.
Approaching 200 million iOS devices, I bet they have sold half a million macs to developers making programs for them.
Wrong, the 10 Billion company will spin off another company with no Assets to build and run the plant using some loose financial derivatives to get the real money back to them. Spin off gets sued and goes bankrupt and only a fraction of value is lost.
http://blog.netflix.com/2010/11/netflix-on-android.html
"The hurdle has been the lack of a generic and complete platform security and content protection mechanism available for Android."
"Although we don’t have a common platform security mechanism and DRM, we are able to work with individual handset manufacturers to add content protection to their devices. Unfortunately, this is a much slower approach and leads to a fragmented experience on Android, in which some handsets will have access to Netflix and others won’t."
The lack of general platform content protection on Android makes them have to do it on an individual basis. The fragmentation of handset makes this difficult. Windows makes every comply with a base set of APIs. In Android you can mess with them as much as you want.
These is no Netflix client because DRM is hard to impossible on Fragmented Open Source Android. Apple and Microsoft have protected video paths. They either have to relicense content to stream DRM free, or come up with a solution on a phone by phone basis to meet the DRM requirements of the content agreements.
Small Format Grocery store with a natural/organic spin. They sell all self branded products. I come from the midwest and would say they are a much higher quality Aldi's
Delivery fee is $5 is you specify a 4 hour window. It only works on volume. If you and all your neighbor order, it will be profitable. This actually is re-making me a customer of Walmart. The San Jose area only has 2 Walmarts and no supercenters. This gives me access to supercenter products without driving 20 miles. I put in my first order.
Considering the time,gas and hassle, $10 delivery fee isn't much. It can be as low as $5, which I think is worth it. Honestly if they only do this to addresses outside of 5-10 miles from existing supercenters, they open themselves to lots of new customers.
Oh, Slashdot, while you are a wonderful waste of time normally, this time I thank you. I recently moved from the Kansas City Area (1.5 miles from a Walmart Super Center) to San Jose. Prices here are crazy and the closest Walmart Super Center is 20 miles, (10 to normal store). However thanks to Slashdot, I now know that Walmart delivers to my new address and I plan to use the service heavily. The 5.00 delivery fee is easily offset by the savings from the local stores(not to mention gas cost). My first order should be here Tuesday.
As much bashing as you want to do with Walmart, they for the most part sell the exact same products for cheaper. With non-perishable this is especially true. They may not carry all the high-end brands, and typically have a slightly lower quality store-brand for many products, but this doesn't relate to being lower quality overall. As for perishable products, their produce is on par with lower tier (bottom 50%) grocery stores, but if you stick to the stuff that is in season you are golden.
Even if you don't shop at Walmart, you should thank them. Their dedication to efficiency and low prices have lowered prices at all stores including competitors and raised the standard of living for everyone here in the US.
One slight mistake, Generally speaking people that are creating content believe and follow the licenses. The lechers that contribute little to nothing to society and just expect to be given everything for free that are the ones usually pirating. However you have a solid point, if you pirate material you basically have no ground to say this guy should get anything for his works.
They should make those farms profitable. There are simple solutions.... If if live in a city, you get mail 5 days a week. You live just outside a city 3 days a week. You live in the middle of nowhere? 1 day a week. Top of a mountain? once a month. There is significant value to be able to deliver to every American house, so don't destroy that, just make people choose to live closer to civilizations to get mail faster.
The best part is the Siemens Wind Energy Advertisment before the video. Apparently a with a few Windmills and a laser. Pew, Pew, Pew, we can finally have a green war!
Exactly, every band that doesn't sell 400,000 copies or more LOSES money for the label. Look at CD sales and you will find that most do not. So basically they give the band $350,000, the band makes nothing MORE until after the first million records. After that they make their 20%. This seems like a pretty fair deal for a 4 million dollar loan to a want-a-be rock star.
A hellaphysicist will be pretty mad is the proton is a hellometer smaller.
Although the iPhone just went from .115 megapixels to .46 megapixels in the last generation. Keep that up and they might match you. Monitors is the biggest thing, show me a laptop that can support 3 to 6 - 2560x1600 monitors and I am sold.
Can't give them away? Ever heard of craiglist? You can get rid of any junk for free. Just list it with an address and say it is on the curb. It will disappear in less then a day.
The same point when you put down Call of Duty and fight a real war, with real guns!
I bet they have a deal that there is a transmitter and direct fiber line to it IN Steve Jobs' office. More seriously, I would highly doubt that there aren't multiple att towers on apple's campus. When you are developing cell phones you can just cripple coverage with thousands of phones all doing automated testing on the same tower
When they get a search warrant, make a copy of your hard drive and find the movie still on there. There are some people that are smart and can cover their tracks, but when piracy is mainstream, even the idiots do it. That is the real problem, it is no longer hackers that steal movies, but the average joe.
Even if they can't prove it was you the media company will just lobby for a law that declares copyright infringement from an IP address is the responsibility of the person owning the ISP account then you will be screwed.
Dear Journalists,
There are lies, damn lies, statistics and now facebook group sizes. All are meaningless but facebook groups are exceedingly meaningless. Although facebook might be the latest internet craze please get off your ass and do some real journalism. Please never quote how many people are in a facebook group again. I really don't care how many idiots clicked a viral marketing button because they have nothing better to do then drool over facebook updates all day at their computer/phone. Then again, you are probably quoting facebook because you are one of these people. Please at least stop writing for mediums outside of facebook and make the world a better place.
Thanks,
Keith
Often these aren't a single very common typo or error. They are usually 10-100 unique aspects of the file that should be different. After looking at a hundred programs, two that are the same stand out like a sore thumb.
Justice is important, any accusation of cheating should be appeal-able if they are truly wrongly accused. Most people just admit it.
Fortunately the smart usually don't cheat or get away with it. Cheating well almost always if more work then the original. Even if not, I would still probably hire a smart cheater (who takes short cuts on unimportant things) rather then a knowledgeable idiot.
This would be flagged but wouldn't pass the manual review. As a former Graduate Teaching Assistant, cheaters are easy to spot because they are LAZY! They turn in the exact same files (same comments with same misspellings) with maybe a different name at the top. The only good way to cheat is to make sure every things is perfectly correct and has no identifying characteristics.
Yeah, buy you apparently play by the rules and only consume what is given away for free (or what you paid for). The problem is that most people see that some music is given away for free and then suddenly the demand that all their music is free. It isn't, but that doesn't stop them from pirating it. If you don't like the business model, don't consume their content, especially by pirating it. Choose to consume content that has a good business model, like the parent poster consuming free content. If you think the free stuff sucks, then pay for the good stuff.
It is going to sue because apple bans applications not programmed in C/C++/Objective C. Apple states this is because compatibility layers make bad apps, I would think it is more of a middle finger to adobe who has publicly announced it's plans to make a flash to iphone tool.
Ok, square footage and power might be impressive to some. I really just want to know the number of fiber lines and bandwidth in these data centers. I figure if it is about 1 TB/s, I could consider renting space for an apartment there for the right price.