Here is a real eye opener: Bjarne Stroustrup cited the JSF coding standard as an example of C++ usage: "Also, embedded systems programming is a major area of use and growth of C++; for example, the software for the next generation US fighter planes are in C++ (see the JSF++ coding rules on my home pages)." http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;408408016;pp;5;fp;16;fpid;1
I particular like the following statement in the JSF++ coding rules that the creator of C++ holds up as an example of how to use C++: AV Rule 208 C++ exceptions shall not be used (i.e. throw, catch and try shall not be used.)
Rationale: Tool support is not adequate at this time.
You can give it away for free via iTunes for the iPhone too. Apple lets you set any price including free.
The NDA issue may only exist because of the beta nature of the SDK. Past MacOS-X betas have has similar NDAs that were lifted when the final product shipped.
I agree that the article doesn't express any bias in it's tone by just reporting the "facts". The bias comes from the choice of what "facts" to state. The statistics in the article are for graduation within only 12 years. The statistics would claim that a child who repeated kindergarten doesn't count when he graduates after 13 years of public school. And the stats are still rather obviously difficult to believe Come on, Detroit only graduates 24% of students. You believe that ? Only 70% of students graduate nation wide ? You believe that ?
How about Child Trends: "Dropout rates of young people ages 16 to 24 in the civilian, non-institutionalized population gradually declined between 1972 and 2005, from 15 percent to a low of 9 in 2005."
Choosing what nonsense to report also exposes a bias.
There are obviously a wide range of natural temperaments among young children. However, as the father of three, I assure you that not all children behave as described, and I suspect that almost all children can be trained not to behave as described. (Some mental illness or developmental disability might preclude such training).
The reason that bystanders stare in horror at seriously misbehaving children and parents is that such behavior is NOT normal and is therefore unexpected/shocking. People also stare when adults are abusive or disruptive or antisocial. Any behavior outside normal conventions will prompt staring.
My advise is that young children like to have rules and behavioral boundaries. Clear rules make them feel socially confident and reduce anxiety. Children test the boundaries when they feel insecure, and the best response is to reinforce the previously established boundaries. That makes them feel like the world is stable and sensible. When a parent moves the boundaries or the child can't find the boundaries, nobody will be happy - least of all the child. Interestingly, the exact same guidance applies to puppies.
This has to be good. Right ? How will this work with specifications that say "render text like Word 98?" Will Microsoft now document how Word 98 renders ?
The pardons of President William Clinton can illustrate some of the various reasons. Clinton pardoned his brother, Roger, for obvious familial reasons. He pardoned a pair of Hasidic Jews convicted of defrauding the government, restoring their civil rights but leaving monetary penalties intact. In a controversial move, he pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich, after application for clemency, in part, from the state of Israel, which had benefited from Rich's philanthropic gestures. President Ford pardoned President Nixon of any wrong-doing in order to put a close to the Nixon era for good. President James Madison pardoned army deserters in an attempt to refill the military's ranks for the War of 1812. President Abraham Lincoln pardoned all Civil War deserters on the condition that they return to their units to fight. Carter pardoned the Vietnam War draft dodgers to help in the long healing process the nation endured after that war.
Finally, there is no review of pardons. This issue, too, was brought up in the Constitutional Convention, that pardons be granted with the consent of the Senate, but the measure was defeated 8-1. In modern days, there is an office in the Justice Department where pardons are sent, and a Pardons Attorney who reviews and recommends applications. The President may still receive pardons personally, and may grant them at any time. The President need not provide a reason for a pardon, and the courts and the Congress have no legal authority to approve, disapprove, reject, or accept a pardon. Currently, the only way to change the pardon power is by constitutional amendment, though history has shown that the scope of the power can be modified by the courts (as in the acceptance doctrine).
The President has the power to completely overturn a criminal conviction. This is a full pardon. The conviction is wiped away as if it never happened. The President can commute a criminal sentence. The President can make a pardon conditional, vacating a conviction but leaving paid fines in place, or even making the payment of a fine a prerequisite before a pardon takes effect.
The President has the unlimited constitutional power to pardon and commute sentences. It is underused in my opinion.
I would commute the sentences of all non-violent drug offenders to time served. Actually, I would give the states and federal persecutors 10 days identify any non-violent drug offenders who's sentences should _not_ be commuted and commute the sentences of the rest. To convince me the sentences should not be commuted, I will require a ten page hand written essay explaining why in each case. That will limit the exceptions to the ones persecutors really care about.
I would publicly pledge amnesty to all individuals who decline to pay federal income tax while I am president. I expect total federal revenue to drop by 1/3 to 1/2.
I would submit a budget to congress that only spends 1/3 to 1/2 of the 2007 budget.
I would declare blanket amnesty for all illegal aliens who have not committed any crime other than being illegal aliens. I would promise similar amnesty to all immigrants who enter the country while I am president. I would direct boarder guards to allow such immigrants to enter unimpeded.
Labor obeys the laws of supply and demand just like every other economic transaction. When there are no more jobs for immigrants, they will stop coming on their own. Attempts to limit the work force are like any other supply or price controls. They distort the system and are inefficient by definition. I would declare amnesty for any employer who pays less than minimum wage. The minimum wage is a price control and therefore bad by definition. The financial agreement between an employer and an employee is private: the government has no role in the transaction.
However, I would encourage labor unions and collective barganing. Labor needs the power to oppose heavy handed management. I think unions can do a better job of protecting member interests than the government can.
In every dimension by every measure, the U.S. standard of living is much higher today than in the 1950 (for all classes): 1 Home size: According to the National Association of Home Builders, the average home size in the United States was 2,330 square feet in 2004, up from 1,400 square feet in 1970.
2 Home ownership: Today 66.8 percent 1940s, we were a nation of renters -- just 45 percent of Americans owned their homes/
3 GDP per Capita (inflation adjusted): Today it's more than $42,000 Adjusted for Inflation, U.S. Per Capita GDP Has Doubled Since 1970
4 Household income (adjusted for inflation) growth 1967 - 2003 The rich are getting richer faster than the poor are getting richer!
Percentage growth in real household income from 1967 to 2003: 20th percentile 28.4% Median (50th) $29.9% 80th percentile 62.6% 95th percentile 73.8%
5 Educational Attainment: percentage of 25-29 year olds completing high school was roughly 50% in 1950 versus nearly 90% today. The percentage of persons with a Bachelor's degree or higher increased from roughly 5% in 1950, to today's high of 27.2%
6 Race and Gender Equality By every measure, much better now than in the 1950s.
7 Energy Energy costs consume 2-3% of GDP today vs. almost 30% 30 years ago.
8 Health Health expenditures as a percentage of GDP are up 3.9 percent since 1987. Average Annual Growth Rates in Total Health Expenditures Per Capita is 3.6% since 1980.
9 Life expectancy: 72.03 in 1951. 80.8 in 2004.
10 Retirement: Percentage of males working after age 65: Today it's 24%. In 1958 it was 69%.
We retire earlier and live longer!
Most data is from Wikipedia. Others are easily googlable.
Everyone appreciates employee benefits, good working conditions, and balanced work/life relationships.
However, some laws of economics seem to be as incontrovertible as laws of nature. Every attempt to avoid the laws of economics has resulted in economic disaster. Too many times, "Social Justice" is a euphemism for "unsustainable.".
One very well establish law of economics is the law of supply and demand. If there is a demand, there will be a supply. If supply exceeds demand, prices will fall. If demand exceeds supply, prices will rise. Labor is not immune to the law of supply and demand, and historical efforts to distort this law through protectionist tariffs or artificial labor constraints or social justice programs have all failed. The only form of social justice that has ever worked is "equal opportunity" which in fact is the removal of artificial constraints. It has never been possible to assure equal outcome.
Hate the laws if you want, but you can't change them.
The Hindu Varna caste system is deeply repugnant to many Americans and probably westerners in general. We like to believe there is a meritocracy and not pre-ordained hereditary stations in life.
Rigid social and functional hierarchies based on heredity have surely been discredited by the "America Dream" where anyone can grow up to be president:) In all seriousness, many if not most of America's greatest minds have been oppressed displaced refugees or the close descendants of those Shudra.
There was never a time when a NeXT computer was more expensive than the most comparable Mac, and at many times, the minimum NeXT computer had higher specs than the maximum Mac and the NeXT was still less expensive.
It is true the NeXT did not make inexpensive computers, but on the other hand, they were making workstations. Consider the Sun, HP, Dec, Apollo, and NCR competitors of the time. Arguably, Wintel eventually ended the age of the Unix workstation, but not until the mid 90s. In 1989, PCs were 80286 XTs with CGA or EGA graphics, ISA buses, and DOS. A 68030/40 with floating point, direct memory access to video RAM, and a Megapixel monitor was very high end.
NeXTstep 1.0 was released in 1989. Max OS X is a descendant of NeXTstep and is still missing a few features that NeXTstep had in 1989. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXTSTEP
Arguably, the only features Mac OS X has added prior to 10.5 have been dubious compatibility with ancient Mac applications and lots of eye candy. OK. To be fair, Apple has evolved OS X to be more than NeXTstep (particularly for programmers) and to use the current hardware that is at least 64x faster than the old NeXT hardware. Sadly NeXTstep was dormant and even regressed substantially in Apple's hands from 1997 to 2005. Think what we would have now if Apple hadn't wasted those years.
Just for fun, name a feature in OS X that didn't have an adequate or superior alternative in NeXTstep ? I'll start: Spotlight vs. Digital Librarian
While you certainly can spend $60,000 to $100,000 on four years at a university, that is hardly the norm. I am currently (until last term) putting a niece through a four year program at a state university for approximately $7500 per year. I begged her not to work while in school, but she does anyway. Meanwhile, my wife is getting her MBA a the same school, and that also costs about $7500 per year (but pays for fewer courses per year). If I was getting an MBA, my employer would pay for it.
My other niece apparently did it the "right" way. She got married, had a baby, and graduated from high school all in one year in that order. As a mother with no income, she receives enough financial aid (grants) and other benefits to pay her full tuition, subsidize her child's day care, and have enough left over to put gas in her car. Her student health insurance (included in the tuition grant) even covers the baby. When combined with "gifts" from family members, I think she is better off than the other niece who works.
"Both Linux and the Solaris OS support the notion of binding a process or thread to a processor. Linux allows binding to a set of processors for non-exclusive use of those processors. The Solaris OS allows binding to a set of processors for exclusive use, (that is, CPU fencing), but does not allow binding to a group for non-exclusive use (except via Solaris Zones?). Linux does not have a mechanism for CPU fencing, though implementations can be found on the web (see, for example, the CPUSETS for Linux page on the bullopensource.org site). The Linux system calls that are processor affinity based are sched_setaffinity(2) and sched_getaffinity(2)."
Let me get this straight? You are complaining because people with a legitimate mental illness, "Asperger's Syndrome", "discriminate against people who do not hold to that ideal..." You sound like a bigot to me. To paraphrase, "if people with Asperger's Syndrome can't just be normal, it is unfair to me!" You do know that a defining charateristic of Asperger's Syndrome is insensitivitiy to the emotions of others and an inability to perceive indirect comminication like body language and tone of voice, don't you? Pity your co-workers if you must. Don't be such a bigot.
How does it sound when you say, "The one other white in our group (of 20-30 people) doesn't really see any discrimination against us, but she's quite a bit ghetto, and she's willing to tell peope to just shut up?"
I have now entered this reply in three different places. Have any of the posters who claim iTunes store customers are locked-in to iPods ever used the iTune store for music ?
Every song downloaded from the iTunes Store can be burned to CD and played on any CD player. They can also be re-read from CD in any desired format including MP3 or non-DRM AAC or WMA for use on any player.
That is quite a bit less restrictive than this new service.
Further, Apple has publicly committed to DRM free music sales whenever the publisher will permit it. Apple claims they don't want DRM and it can't work anyway. "Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store".
Every song downloaded from the iTunes Store can be burned to CD and played on any CD player. They can also be re-read from CD in any desired format including MP3 or non-DRM AAC or WMA for use on any player.
That is quite a bit less restrictive than this new service.
How is Apple different: Because every song downloaded from the iTunes Store can be burned to CD and played on any CD player. They can also be re-read from CD in any desired format including MP3 or non-DRM AAC.
Further, Apple has publicly committed to DRM free music sales whenever the publisher will permit it. Apple claims they don't want DRM and it can't work anyway. "Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store".
It's ironic that you chose your particular car analogy, because there was a famous USA court ruling that car manufactures could not artificially restrict the ability of third parties to install car radios not supplied by the car manufacturer. USA auto manufacturers tried to force customers to buy radios exclusively from the car manufacturer by using non-standard electrical connections and deliberately restrictive physical constraints. Then the car manufacturers claimed that their physical constraints and connector designs were protected intellectual property.
I made a mistake above. According to the hard copy school report card for my school district, the average teacher salary is $43,200. I don't know the district's median. I can't find the figures on-line.
Quoting the article: According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the average public elementary school teacher in the United States earns about $30.75 an hour. The average hourly pay of other public-service employees - such as firefighters ($17.91) or police officers ($22.64) - pales in comparison.
Indeed, teachers' hourly rate exceeds even those in professions that require far more training and expertise. Compare the schoolteacher's $30.75 to the average biologist's $28.07 an hour - or the mechanical engineer's $29.76 or the chemist's $30.68.
Whose hourly pay is competitive with that of teachers? Computer scientists ($32.86), dentists ($35.51) and even nuclear engineers ($36.16).
Note, too, that these hourly figures exclude benefits, such as health coverage and retirement accounts, which are typically more generous for government employees, such as teachers, than for private-sector workers.
I have interviewed 20 people in the last three months. The candidates that were interviewed already survived a resume down-select cycle that sends 9 out of ten resumes to the round file. So far, we have hired four of the candidates I interviewed, and two are now working directly for me.
Here in the mid-west where cost of living is very low and quality of life is very high (by some standards), entry level computer science or computer engineering graduates make between $45K and $60K based on how much we want them and whether they were involved with a co-op or internship program. We also employ several interns. [Keep in mind that you can buy a nice 2000 sf house in a neighborhood with low crime and good schools with a salary of $60K per year around here.]
A super star programmer/engineer will be promoted three or four times in the first ten years and can expect to make $100+K at that point.
I have the good fortune to work with great people who are well educated and talented. We have very high standards to maintain. We love to hire entry level people, but we are selective. Frankly, I prefer to have someone with no experience working for me than someone with the wrong experience; Not all experience is good. By the way, I usually regard "professional" certifications as a negative on a resume. They indicate that the applicant doesn't know what is important.
Around here, the median income for a school teacher around is ~$60K.
I didn't say the CEO should be arrested. I said "key managers" should be arrested. IF a rouge employee at a bank trashed 1300 deposit slips before the transaction were completed, it would be called grand theft. The rogue employee would be arrested, but criminal and or civil justice would pursue the manager who failed to maintain reasonable security for deposits. There must be a process in place to prevent fraud and theft. If there isn't such a process, it is managers who are culpable.
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Here is a real eye opener: Bjarne Stroustrup cited the JSF coding standard as an example of C++ usage: "Also, embedded systems programming is a major area of use and growth of C++; for example, the software for the next generation US fighter planes are in C++ (see the JSF++ coding rules on my home pages)." http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;408408016;pp;5;fp;16;fpid;1
I particular like the following statement in the JSF++ coding rules that the creator of C++ holds up as an example of how to use C++:
AV Rule 208 C++ exceptions shall not be used (i.e. throw, catch and try shall not be used.)
Rationale: Tool support is not adequate at this time.
You can give it away for free via iTunes for the iPhone too. Apple lets you set any price including free.
The NDA issue may only exist because of the beta nature of the SDK. Past MacOS-X betas have has similar NDAs that were lifted when the final product shipped.
I don't. Skews apparently does.
I agree that the article doesn't express any bias in it's tone by just reporting the "facts". The bias comes from the choice of what "facts" to state. The statistics in the article are for graduation within only 12 years. The statistics would claim that a child who repeated kindergarten doesn't count when he graduates after 13 years of public school. And the stats are still rather obviously difficult to believe Come on, Detroit only graduates 24% of students. You believe that ? Only 70% of students graduate nation wide ? You believe that ?
How about the US Census Bureau statistics: "85 percent of adults age 25 and over had completed at least high school, an all-time high" http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/001863.html
How about Child Trends: "Dropout rates of young people ages 16 to 24 in the civilian, non-institutionalized population gradually declined between 1972 and 2005, from 15 percent to a low of 9 in 2005."
Choosing what nonsense to report also exposes a bias.
There are obviously a wide range of natural temperaments among young children. However, as the father of three, I assure you that not all children behave as described, and I suspect that almost all children can be trained not to behave as described. (Some mental illness or developmental disability might preclude such training).
The reason that bystanders stare in horror at seriously misbehaving children and parents is that such behavior is NOT normal and is therefore unexpected/shocking. People also stare when adults are abusive or disruptive or antisocial. Any behavior outside normal conventions will prompt staring.
My advise is that young children like to have rules and behavioral boundaries. Clear rules make them feel socially confident and reduce anxiety. Children test the boundaries when they feel insecure, and the best response is to reinforce the previously established boundaries. That makes them feel like the world is stable and sensible. When a parent moves the boundaries or the child can't find the boundaries, nobody will be happy - least of all the child. Interestingly, the exact same guidance applies to puppies.
@interface NSScreen (screenNumber)
- (int)screenNumber;
@end
@implementation NSScreen (screenNumber)
- (int)screenNumber
{
return _screenNumber;
}
@end
Methods start with lower case.
Apple reserves all symbols that start with '_'.
This has to be good. Right ? How will this work with specifications that say "render text like Word 98?" Will Microsoft now document how Word 98 renders ?
U.S. Constitution - Article 2 Section 2
From: http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_pard.html
The pardons of President William Clinton can illustrate some of the various reasons. Clinton pardoned his brother, Roger, for obvious familial reasons. He pardoned a pair of Hasidic Jews convicted of defrauding the government, restoring their civil rights but leaving monetary penalties intact. In a controversial move, he pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich, after application for clemency, in part, from the state of Israel, which had benefited from Rich's philanthropic gestures. President Ford pardoned President Nixon of any wrong-doing in order to put a close to the Nixon era for good. President James Madison pardoned army deserters in an attempt to refill the military's ranks for the War of 1812. President Abraham Lincoln pardoned all Civil War deserters on the condition that they return to their units to fight. Carter pardoned the Vietnam War draft dodgers to help in the long healing process the nation endured after that war.
Finally, there is no review of pardons. This issue, too, was brought up in the Constitutional Convention, that pardons be granted with the consent of the Senate, but the measure was defeated 8-1. In modern days, there is an office in the Justice Department where pardons are sent, and a Pardons Attorney who reviews and recommends applications. The President may still receive pardons personally, and may grant them at any time. The President need not provide a reason for a pardon, and the courts and the Congress have no legal authority to approve, disapprove, reject, or accept a pardon. Currently, the only way to change the pardon power is by constitutional amendment, though history has shown that the scope of the power can be modified by the courts (as in the acceptance doctrine).
The President has the power to completely overturn a criminal conviction. This is a full pardon. The conviction is wiped away as if it never happened. The President can commute a criminal sentence. The President can make a pardon conditional, vacating a conviction but leaving paid fines in place, or even making the payment of a fine a prerequisite before a pardon takes effect.
The President has the unlimited constitutional power to pardon and commute sentences. It is underused in my opinion.
I would commute the sentences of all non-violent drug offenders to time served. Actually, I would give the states and federal persecutors 10 days identify any non-violent drug offenders who's sentences should _not_ be commuted and commute the sentences of the rest. To convince me the sentences should not be commuted, I will require a ten page hand written essay explaining why in each case. That will limit the exceptions to the ones persecutors really care about.
I would publicly pledge amnesty to all individuals who decline to pay federal income tax while I am president. I expect total federal revenue to drop by 1/3 to 1/2.
I would submit a budget to congress that only spends 1/3 to 1/2 of the 2007 budget.
I would declare blanket amnesty for all illegal aliens who have not committed any crime other than being illegal aliens. I would promise similar amnesty to all immigrants who enter the country while I am president. I would direct boarder guards to allow such immigrants to enter unimpeded.
Labor obeys the laws of supply and demand just like every other economic transaction. When there are no more jobs for immigrants, they will stop coming on their own. Attempts to limit the work force are like any other supply or price controls. They distort the system and are inefficient by definition. I would declare amnesty for any employer who pays less than minimum wage. The minimum wage is a price control and therefore bad by definition. The financial agreement between an employer and an employee is private: the government has no role in the transaction.
However, I would encourage labor unions and collective barganing. Labor needs the power to oppose heavy handed management. I think unions can do a better job of protecting member interests than the government can.
In every dimension by every measure, the U.S. standard of living is much higher today than in the 1950 (for all classes):
1 Home size:
According to the National Association of Home Builders, the average home size in the United States was 2,330 square feet in 2004, up from 1,400 square feet in 1970.
2 Home ownership:
Today 66.8 percent
1940s, we were a nation of renters -- just 45 percent of Americans owned their homes/
3 GDP per Capita (inflation adjusted):
Today it's more than $42,000
Adjusted for Inflation, U.S. Per Capita GDP Has Doubled Since 1970
4 Household income (adjusted for inflation) growth 1967 - 2003
The rich are getting richer faster than the poor are getting richer!
Percentage growth in real household income from 1967 to 2003:
20th percentile 28.4%
Median (50th) $29.9%
80th percentile 62.6%
95th percentile 73.8%
5 Educational Attainment:
percentage of 25-29 year olds completing high school was roughly 50% in 1950 versus nearly 90% today. The percentage of persons with a Bachelor's degree or higher increased from roughly 5% in 1950, to today's high of 27.2%
6 Race and Gender Equality
By every measure, much better now than in the 1950s.
7 Energy
Energy costs consume 2-3% of GDP today vs. almost 30% 30 years ago.
8 Health
Health expenditures as a percentage of GDP are up 3.9 percent since 1987.
Average Annual Growth Rates in Total Health Expenditures Per Capita is 3.6% since 1980.
9 Life expectancy:
72.03 in 1951. 80.8 in 2004.
10 Retirement:
Percentage of males working after age 65:
Today it's 24%. In 1958 it was 69%.
We retire earlier and live longer!
Most data is from Wikipedia. Others are easily googlable.
Everyone appreciates employee benefits, good working conditions, and balanced work/life relationships.
However, some laws of economics seem to be as incontrovertible as laws of nature. Every attempt to avoid the laws of economics has resulted in economic disaster. Too many times, "Social Justice" is a euphemism for "unsustainable.".
One very well establish law of economics is the law of supply and demand. If there is a demand, there will be a supply. If supply exceeds demand, prices will fall. If demand exceeds supply, prices will rise. Labor is not immune to the law of supply and demand, and historical efforts to distort this law through protectionist tariffs or artificial labor constraints or social justice programs have all failed.
The only form of social justice that has ever worked is "equal opportunity" which in fact is the removal of artificial constraints. It has never been possible to assure equal outcome.
Hate the laws if you want, but you can't change them.
The Hindu Varna caste system is deeply repugnant to many Americans and probably westerners in general. We like to believe there is a meritocracy and not pre-ordained hereditary stations in life.
:) In all seriousness, many if not most of America's greatest minds have been oppressed displaced refugees or the close descendants of those Shudra.
Rigid social and functional hierarchies based on heredity have surely been discredited by the "America Dream" where anyone can grow up to be president
There was never a time when a NeXT computer was more expensive than the most comparable Mac, and at many times, the minimum NeXT computer had higher specs than the maximum Mac and the NeXT was still less expensive.
It is true the NeXT did not make inexpensive computers, but on the other hand, they were making workstations. Consider the Sun, HP, Dec, Apollo, and NCR competitors of the time. Arguably, Wintel eventually ended the age of the Unix workstation, but not until the mid 90s. In 1989, PCs were 80286 XTs with CGA or EGA graphics, ISA buses, and DOS. A 68030/40 with floating point, direct memory access to video RAM, and a Megapixel monitor was very high end.
NeXTstep 1.0 was released in 1989. Max OS X is a descendant of NeXTstep and is still missing a few features that NeXTstep had in 1989. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXTSTEP
Arguably, the only features Mac OS X has added prior to 10.5 have been dubious compatibility with ancient Mac applications and lots of eye candy. OK. To be fair, Apple has evolved OS X to be more than NeXTstep (particularly for programmers) and to use the current hardware that is at least 64x faster than the old NeXT hardware. Sadly NeXTstep was dormant and even regressed substantially in Apple's hands from 1997 to 2005. Think what we would have now if Apple hadn't wasted those years.
Just for fun, name a feature in OS X that didn't have an adequate or superior alternative in NeXTstep ? I'll start: Spotlight vs. Digital Librarian
While you certainly can spend $60,000 to $100,000 on four years at a university, that is hardly the norm. I am currently (until last term) putting a niece through a four year program at a state university for approximately $7500 per year. I begged her not to work while in school, but she does anyway. Meanwhile, my wife is getting her MBA a the same school, and that also costs about $7500 per year (but pays for fewer courses per year). If I was getting an MBA, my employer would pay for it.
My other niece apparently did it the "right" way. She got married, had a baby, and graduated from high school all in one year in that order. As a mother with no income, she receives enough financial aid (grants) and other benefits to pay her full tuition, subsidize her child's day care, and have enough left over to put gas in her car. Her student health insurance (included in the tuition grant) even covers the baby. When combined with "gifts" from family members, I think she is better off than the other niece who works.
I think that what Intel's Evangelist wants is already available through standard POSIX pthreads and the POSIX-RT extensions.
man pset_create, pset_assign, or pset_bind.
I just checked and it seems that Solaris, HP-UX support this POSIX feature. Maybe it's only Linux that is non-standard: I found ythis quote: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/solaris_linux_app.html
"Both Linux and the Solaris OS support the notion of binding a process or thread to a processor. Linux allows binding to a set of processors for non-exclusive use of those processors. The Solaris OS allows binding to a set of processors for exclusive use, (that is, CPU fencing), but does not allow binding to a group for non-exclusive use (except via Solaris Zones?). Linux does not have a mechanism for CPU fencing, though implementations can be found on the web (see, for example, the CPUSETS for Linux page on the bullopensource.org site). The Linux system calls that are processor affinity based are sched_setaffinity(2) and sched_getaffinity(2)."
Let me get this straight? You are complaining because people with a legitimate mental illness, "Asperger's Syndrome", "discriminate against people who do not hold to that ideal..." You sound like a bigot to me. To paraphrase, "if people with Asperger's Syndrome can't just be normal, it is unfair to me!" You do know that a defining charateristic of Asperger's Syndrome is insensitivitiy to the emotions of others and an inability to perceive indirect comminication like body language and tone of voice, don't you? Pity your co-workers if you must. Don't be such a bigot.
How does it sound when you say, "The one other white in our group (of 20-30 people) doesn't really see any discrimination against us, but she's quite a bit ghetto, and she's willing to tell peope to just shut up?"
Interesting theory!
So why does Apple sell DRM free music, and why does iTunes burn any music to totally DRM free CDs ?
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
I have now entered this reply in three different places. Have any of the posters who claim iTunes store customers are locked-in to iPods ever used the iTune store for music ?
Every song downloaded from the iTunes Store can be burned to CD and played on any CD player. They can also be re-read from CD in any desired format including MP3 or non-DRM AAC or WMA for use on any player.
That is quite a bit less restrictive than this new service.
Further, Apple has publicly committed to DRM free music sales whenever the publisher will permit it. Apple claims they don't want DRM and it can't work anyway. "Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store".
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
Every song downloaded from the iTunes Store can be burned to CD and played on any CD player. They can also be re-read from CD in any desired format including MP3 or non-DRM AAC or WMA for use on any player.
That is quite a bit less restrictive than this new service.
How is Apple different: Because every song downloaded from the iTunes Store can be burned to CD and played on any CD player. They can also be re-read from CD in any desired format including MP3 or non-DRM AAC.
Further, Apple has publicly committed to DRM free music sales whenever the publisher will permit it. Apple claims they don't want DRM and it can't work anyway. "Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store".
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
It's ironic that you chose your particular car analogy, because there was a famous USA court ruling that car manufactures could not artificially restrict the ability of third parties to install car radios not supplied by the car manufacturer. USA auto manufacturers tried to force customers to buy radios exclusively from the car manufacturer by using non-standard electrical connections and deliberately restrictive physical constraints. Then the car manufacturers claimed that their physical constraints and connector designs were protected intellectual property.
The fight continues to this day: See the "Right to Repair" act. http://www.aftermarket.org/Government/Government.asp
I made a mistake above. According to the hard copy school report card for my school district, the average teacher salary is $43,200. I don't know the district's median. I can't find the figures on-line.
As of 2002, the average salary for teachers nationwide was about $44,600 not counting benefits. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_nypost_teacher_pay_myth.htm
Quoting the article:
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the average public elementary school teacher in the United States earns about $30.75 an hour. The average hourly pay of other public-service employees - such as firefighters ($17.91) or police officers ($22.64) - pales in comparison.
Indeed, teachers' hourly rate exceeds even those in professions that require far more training and expertise. Compare the schoolteacher's $30.75 to the average biologist's $28.07 an hour - or the mechanical engineer's $29.76 or the chemist's $30.68.
Whose hourly pay is competitive with that of teachers? Computer scientists ($32.86), dentists ($35.51) and even nuclear engineers ($36.16).
Note, too, that these hourly figures exclude benefits, such as health coverage and retirement accounts, which are typically more generous for government employees, such as teachers, than for private-sector workers.
I have interviewed 20 people in the last three months. The candidates that were interviewed already survived a resume down-select cycle that sends 9 out of ten resumes to the round file. So far, we have hired four of the candidates I interviewed, and two are now working directly for me.
Here in the mid-west where cost of living is very low and quality of life is very high (by some standards), entry level computer science or computer engineering graduates make between $45K and $60K based on how much we want them and whether they were involved with a co-op or internship program. We also employ several interns. [Keep in mind that you can buy a nice 2000 sf house in a neighborhood with low crime and good schools with a salary of $60K per year around here.]
A super star programmer/engineer will be promoted three or four times in the first ten years and can expect to make $100+K at that point.
I have the good fortune to work with great people who are well educated and talented. We have very high standards to maintain. We love to hire entry level people, but we are selective. Frankly, I prefer to have someone with no experience working for me than someone with the wrong experience; Not all experience is good. By the way, I usually regard "professional" certifications as a negative on a resume. They indicate that the applicant doesn't know what is important.
Around here, the median income for a school teacher around is ~$60K.
I didn't say the CEO should be arrested. I said "key managers" should be arrested. IF a rouge employee at a bank trashed 1300 deposit slips before the transaction were completed, it would be called grand theft. The rogue employee would be arrested, but criminal and or civil justice would pursue the manager who failed to maintain reasonable security for deposits. There must be a process in place to prevent fraud and theft. If there isn't such a process, it is managers who are culpable.