Ibm makes a ton of their money selling brand new supported systems that can run code compiled decades ago without modification.
Microsoft has the same business model - it's called "upward compatibility" and was introduced in the computer industry by IBM in 1964 when the IBM System 360 was released - prior to that every computer model was a snowflake unique and unlike any that preceded it or were to follow it.
Now you could independently worry this also implies aging hardware, but isn't that old.
COBOL programs running under MVS operating systems on MAINFRAME hardware doesn't imply old hardware - IBM is still releasing new mainframes every few years.
Someone said she was from Wales. (I cannot check TFA as it's page is so broken that I cannot read the left half of it). I live in Wales myself and can vouch for the fact that we don't get Fox News here.
That doesn't mean she doesn't represent everything that is wrong with education in America!
It's actually quite sad, that she could not recognize that he was doing mathematics. Nobody is asking her to classify the equation, or find the homogeneous solution, but to recognize mathematical problem solving . . . ? What did she do, skip elementary school . . . ?
I'm trying hard not to defend the math professor's seat mate, but it is probably very unlikely he was writing down anything that even remotely resembled anything taught in an elementary school math class... Last I checked Fifth Grade math in most school systems involved decimals, fractions, and percentages, nothing that requires using "greek sybmbols"...
It's likely she never took a calculus class, and she may not have even taken a trigonometry class - do you imagine the math professor was trying to work out a geometry problem?
There are currently over 500,000 open computing jobs, in every sector, from manufacturing to banking, from agriculture to healthcare, but only 50,000 computer science graduates a year.
Perhaps consider hiring unemployed, experienced IT workers instead of focusing on students fresh out of college? Just a thought...
I know more people working 40+ hours / week who earn below the poverty line
Do you know what the Federal Poverty Line is?
The Federal Poverty Level is $11,880 for an individual, $20,160 for a family of three - dividing that by 2,000 hours of work (50 weeks of 40 hour "full-time" employment = 2,000 hours) puts your friends at either $5.94/hr or $10.80/hr.
These workers are at the very bottom of the income spectrum, based on federal law that makes it a crime to pay a worker less than $7.25/hr.
For healthcare subsidies, any worker that works 30 or more hours/week is classified as 'full-time' and their employer must either provide healthcare coverage or pay a fee/penalty/tax for failing to do so.
Taking a 50 hr/wk job and splitting it between two people lets the employer classify each as 'part-time', as they only work 25 hr/wk, well under the 30 hr/wk 'full-time' threshold set under PPACA to trigger benefit costs for either and gets 50 hrs of work done at straight-pay.
So the difference is:
One employee paid straight pay for first 40 hrs, then time and a half for the remaining 10 hrs plus healthcare subsidies (55 hrs of pay + hc costs) vs. two 25 hour employees and no healthcare subsidies (50 hrs of pay + NO hc costs)...
See the difference? Don't worry - if you don't, your employer does, and they'll be happy to explain it to you.
Yeah, they may just double the pay of their store managers because tracking their hours is 'cumbersome'... I can't imagine a company that would rather double labor costs for store managers than track their hours just as they do for the clerks in the store...
I don't know if you saw the picture, but the protesters here were sitting down with linked arms, not in any way threatening the "peace" officer or pushing him to his limit. So while your point may be justified in some contexts, this isn't one of them.
There are 35,000 students enrolled at UC Davis, that comes to about $5/student - I wonder if there's anything else the campus could have spent that money on that might have actually benefited the students?
Hey look, in other news, the largest solar install is proving unworkable:
Here’s the story so far. Ivanpah: - is owned by Google, NRG Energy, and Brightsource, who have a market cap in excess of $500 billion. - received $1.6 billion in loan guarantees from the Department of Energy. - is paid four to five times as much per megawatt-hour as natural gas-powered plants. - is paid two to three times as much per megawatt-hour as other solar power producers. - has burned thousands of birds to death. - has delayed loan repayments. - is seeking over $500 million in grants to help pay off the guaranteed loans. - burns natural gas for 4.5 hours each morning to get its mojo going.
When this renewal is done most of the country should have the option for a residential install with a break even point in under 10 years...with zero subsidy! Non-sarcastic thanks, government!
Your "no subsidy" claim is based, I assume on consumer solar panel installations being able to sell their surplus electricity at a premium to the electric company that has no real need for it... That is the hidden subsidy that makes solar affordable
But I'm old enough to remember when "Obamacare" was the conservative Heritage Foundation's "free market" alternative to single payer under Clinton.
Funny, Hillary is now trying to claim that Obamacare was originally called Hillarycare when husband Bill was in the oval office - she wants credit for our current healthcare system "improvements"...
And lately Democrats have a way of taking discarded Republican Ideas, running with them, then seeking protection from the blow-back by declaring it a Republican Plan: they've done this with the loan guarantees to Solyndra, the Fast 7 Furious gun running program, and Obamacare. These were all once Great Democratic accomplishments, then when they blew-up, blame was directed at Republicans that proposed and then discarded the idea before Democrats picked them back up and ran with them.
Solyndra applied for $500M in loan guarantees under Bush admin, which rejected the application because of obvious problems with business plan - Democrats collected campaign donations from Solyndra leaders, approved the loan application, then when Solyndra went tits-up (on schedule, as predicted by government analysts that voted to deny the loan guarantees) it suddenly became a GOP program.
The Fast and Furious gun running program was modeled after a very small scale program attempted under Bush that quickly proved ineffective and was shut down. After Democrats took over the program was revivied and expanded (Democrats thought they could overcome the fatal flaws in the program through a massive increase in the number of guns that crossed the border.) they decided to keep the program their own little secret, refusing to work with the Mexican Government to track the guns once they crossed the border. Once the failed program came to light, Democrat blamed the Republicans for starting it.
Finally, Obamacare was supposedly based on a Republican idea proposed and dismissed by Republicans over a decade ago. Democrats picked it up, brushed it off, added their own ideas to the mix and rammed it through in a panic soon after Edward Kennedy's seat went to a Republican. Shortly after the program was rolled out and started to cause problems, Democrats wasted no time pointing to Romneycare (voted in by the people at the state level, not shoved down their throats before losing control of the Senate) and the Heritage Group's rejected plan as the real problem.
It's fun to watch Democrats do this over and over again, and never get called on it.
The basic problem, as I understand it, is that NPR programs, which NPR member stations pay to carry, are spending too much airtime talking about how the listener can cut their local member station out of the picture and access all NPR program streamed over the internet.. That's a reasonable complaint by the member stations.
The issue is that NPR wants to promote what it sees as The Future of NPR, specifically direct-streamed podcasts.
The simple answer is for NPR to use the same tools as other companies do and run advertisements for their streaming/podcast/apps - paid advertisements.
Simply put, NPR should figure out a pro-rated advertising rate (so many $ per minute), then refund the member stations every time a host promotes the podcasts, streaming service, smartphone app. That way broadcasters aren't paying NPR to educate consumers how to "disintermediate" member stations
they'd lower the density and use the same parts to get a 314GB drive, or raise the density and use 1 platter to get 314GB
You think they'd have to raise the density of a 500 GB platter to make it a 314 GB device? Lat time I checked 314 GB is 500 GB.
They could very easily just limit the storage of a 500 GB drive in firmware, preventing access to anything over 314 GB...
This drive requires a cable (not included $10-17 more), or you can just buy the $79.95 1TB PiDrive kit that includes the 1TB drive, power supply, required cables, and a case for the PiDrive.
You are confusing two different types of beta testing.
No, you are confusing 'beta testing' and 'evaluation'.
Microsoft makes software available for beta testers who want to help Microsoft debug/improve their software... This is called 'Beta Testing'.
When you want to test Microsoft's software in your environment, with your applications, on your hardware it is called an 'evaluation'.
Beta testers get early access to pre-production software, evaluators get free access to (time-limited) released software.
As noted previously, if you are doing compatibility testing with beta-level software you are testing too early, as beta software is very likely to change from release to release, and you wind up constantly re-evaluating compatibility as the code base changes dear neath you... You are chasing a moving target.
It is perfectly acceptable for MS to require feedback from pre-production beta testers to ensure on-going support/updates to your beta release software.
Free college is completely unaffordable for any government budget otherwise.
There's a dirty little secret regarding the European 'free college' program - only qualified, prepared students get to attend college - it is a meritocracy, not a guaranteed entitlement.
In America we have a staggering number of college dropouts with debt accumulated taking remedial classes after high school.
In most European universities only the students that place well on standardized testing earn spots at 'free' universities. Academically-deficient high school graduates will never get the chance to attend university.
What's going to happen when inner-city parents realize all the 'free' university spots are filled with students that attended better schools in the suburbs? Will they demand universities lower their standards, demand their high schools get better, or demand affirmative action spots on campus?
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Microsoft has the same business model - it's called "upward compatibility" and was introduced in the computer industry by IBM in 1964 when the IBM System 360 was released - prior to that every computer model was a snowflake unique and unlike any that preceded it or were to follow it.
COBOL programs running under MVS operating systems on MAINFRAME hardware doesn't imply old hardware - IBM is still releasing new mainframes every few years.
Your bank, your insurance company, and any large corporation likely has COBOL programs running in their environment.
What it the issue with using COBOL? Is it the age of the language or the fact that all your professors in college choose not to teach it?
Using a proven tool to solve a problem is called being practical.
That doesn't mean she doesn't represent everything that is wrong with education in America!
Oh, wait... /sarcasm
I'm trying hard not to defend the math professor's seat mate, but it is probably very unlikely he was writing down anything that even remotely resembled anything taught in an elementary school math class... Last I checked Fifth Grade math in most school systems involved decimals, fractions, and percentages, nothing that requires using "greek sybmbols"...
It's likely she never took a calculus class, and she may not have even taken a trigonometry class - do you imagine the math professor was trying to work out a geometry problem?
Half Of Teens Think They're Addicted To Their Smartphones - the other half are in denial.
Perhaps consider hiring unemployed, experienced IT workers instead of focusing on students fresh out of college? Just a thought...
Do you know what the Federal Poverty Line is?
The Federal Poverty Level is $11,880 for an individual, $20,160 for a family of three - dividing that by 2,000 hours of work (50 weeks of 40 hour "full-time" employment = 2,000 hours) puts your friends at either $5.94/hr or $10.80/hr.
These workers are at the very bottom of the income spectrum, based on federal law that makes it a crime to pay a worker less than $7.25/hr.
For healthcare subsidies, any worker that works 30 or more hours/week is classified as 'full-time' and their employer must either provide healthcare coverage or pay a fee/penalty/tax for failing to do so.
Taking a 50 hr/wk job and splitting it between two people lets the employer classify each as 'part-time', as they only work 25 hr/wk, well under the 30 hr/wk 'full-time' threshold set under PPACA to trigger benefit costs for either and gets 50 hrs of work done at straight-pay.
So the difference is:
One employee paid straight pay for first 40 hrs, then time and a half for the remaining 10 hrs plus healthcare subsidies (55 hrs of pay + hc costs) vs. two 25 hour employees and no healthcare subsidies (50 hrs of pay + NO hc costs)...
See the difference? Don't worry - if you don't, your employer does, and they'll be happy to explain it to you.
Yeah, they may just double the pay of their store managers because tracking their hours is 'cumbersome'... I can't imagine a company that would rather double labor costs for store managers than track their hours just as they do for the clerks in the store...
Are you talking about the repeal of Glass-Steagall? That was under Clinton Administration, not Reagan.
I could be wrong, but isn't this the protest where the security guard looked the protesters in the eyes and said "if you do not disperse I will spray you with pepper spray" and then sprayed them when they didn't disperse?
There are 35,000 students enrolled at UC Davis, that comes to about $5/student - I wonder if there's anything else the campus could have spent that money on that might have actually benefited the students?
Hey look, in other news, the largest solar install is proving unworkable:
Here’s the story so far. Ivanpah:
- is owned by Google, NRG Energy, and Brightsource, who have a market cap in excess of $500 billion.
- received $1.6 billion in loan guarantees from the Department of Energy.
- is paid four to five times as much per megawatt-hour as natural gas-powered plants.
- is paid two to three times as much per megawatt-hour as other solar power producers.
- has burned thousands of birds to death.
- has delayed loan repayments.
- is seeking over $500 million in grants to help pay off the guaranteed loans.
- burns natural gas for 4.5 hours each morning to get its mojo going.
Source: http://dailysignal.com/2016/03...
Your "no subsidy" claim is based, I assume on consumer solar panel installations being able to sell their surplus electricity at a premium to the electric company that has no real need for it... That is the hidden subsidy that makes solar affordable
Funny, Hillary is now trying to claim that Obamacare was originally called Hillarycare when husband Bill was in the oval office - she wants credit for our current healthcare system "improvements"...
And lately Democrats have a way of taking discarded Republican Ideas, running with them, then seeking protection from the blow-back by declaring it a Republican Plan: they've done this with the loan guarantees to Solyndra, the Fast 7 Furious gun running program, and Obamacare. These were all once Great Democratic accomplishments, then when they blew-up, blame was directed at Republicans that proposed and then discarded the idea before Democrats picked them back up and ran with them.
Solyndra applied for $500M in loan guarantees under Bush admin, which rejected the application because of obvious problems with business plan - Democrats collected campaign donations from Solyndra leaders, approved the loan application, then when Solyndra went tits-up (on schedule, as predicted by government analysts that voted to deny the loan guarantees) it suddenly became a GOP program.
The Fast and Furious gun running program was modeled after a very small scale program attempted under Bush that quickly proved ineffective and was shut down. After Democrats took over the program was revivied and expanded (Democrats thought they could overcome the fatal flaws in the program through a massive increase in the number of guns that crossed the border.) they decided to keep the program their own little secret, refusing to work with the Mexican Government to track the guns once they crossed the border. Once the failed program came to light, Democrat blamed the Republicans for starting it.
Finally, Obamacare was supposedly based on a Republican idea proposed and dismissed by Republicans over a decade ago. Democrats picked it up, brushed it off, added their own ideas to the mix and rammed it through in a panic soon after Edward Kennedy's seat went to a Republican. Shortly after the program was rolled out and started to cause problems, Democrats wasted no time pointing to Romneycare (voted in by the people at the state level, not shoved down their throats before losing control of the Senate) and the Heritage Group's rejected plan as the real problem.
It's fun to watch Democrats do this over and over again, and never get called on it.
This is EXACTLY the same argument used to help ram PPACA (Obamacare) and it's non-participation fees/taxes.
And I'm just curious, what the heck does this mean:
How are those "not actually utilizing NPR" actually "utilizing" NPR?
The basic problem, as I understand it, is that NPR programs, which NPR member stations pay to carry, are spending too much airtime talking about how the listener can cut their local member station out of the picture and access all NPR program streamed over the internet.. That's a reasonable complaint by the member stations.
The issue is that NPR wants to promote what it sees as The Future of NPR, specifically direct-streamed podcasts.
The simple answer is for NPR to use the same tools as other companies do and run advertisements for their streaming/podcast/apps - paid advertisements.
Simply put, NPR should figure out a pro-rated advertising rate (so many $ per minute), then refund the member stations every time a host promotes the podcasts, streaming service, smartphone app. That way broadcasters aren't paying NPR to educate consumers how to "disintermediate" member stations
How did month become more significant than year?
MM/DD/YY = 3/14/15 last year! - some went so far as to celebrate at 9:26 AM for 3/14/15 9:26 AM
You think they'd have to raise the density of a 500 GB platter to make it a 314 GB device? Lat time I checked 314 GB is 500 GB.
They could very easily just limit the storage of a 500 GB drive in firmware, preventing access to anything over 314 GB...
This drive requires a cable (not included $10-17 more), or you can just buy the $79.95 1TB PiDrive kit that includes the 1TB drive, power supply, required cables, and a case for the PiDrive.
His punishment should include counting and rolling all those quarters - that's 19,600 rolls of quarters.
Says who? You? Who are you to tell others what they want or need?
No, you are confusing 'beta testing' and 'evaluation'.
Microsoft makes software available for beta testers who want to help Microsoft debug/improve their software... This is called 'Beta Testing'.
When you want to test Microsoft's software in your environment, with your applications, on your hardware it is called an 'evaluation'.
Beta testers get early access to pre-production software, evaluators get free access to (time-limited) released software.
As noted previously, if you are doing compatibility testing with beta-level software you are testing too early, as beta software is very likely to change from release to release, and you wind up constantly re-evaluating compatibility as the code base changes dear neath you... You are chasing a moving target.
It is perfectly acceptable for MS to require feedback from pre-production beta testers to ensure on-going support/updates to your beta release software.
There's a dirty little secret regarding the European 'free college' program - only qualified, prepared students get to attend college - it is a meritocracy, not a guaranteed entitlement.
In America we have a staggering number of college dropouts with debt accumulated taking remedial classes after high school.
In most European universities only the students that place well on standardized testing earn spots at 'free' universities. Academically-deficient high school graduates will never get the chance to attend university.
What's going to happen when inner-city parents realize all the 'free' university spots are filled with students that attended better schools in the suburbs? Will they demand universities lower their standards, demand their high schools get better, or demand affirmative action spots on campus?