We have been doing this for new homes in San Antonio for the past 5-10 years. My house was built in 1993 and it's like this.
We have community mailboxes at many residential street corners. One or two large boxes are reserved for parcels. When parcels are receivd, they are put there, with the key placed in the resident's letter-sized box. It works out just fine. I live in the cold and snow belt of Canada
"But every Android phone that Engler and Vines tested was set by default to use a much less stringent safeguard, delaying the user just 30 seconds after every five guesses. At that rate, the robot can still guess five PINs every 35 seconds, or all 10,000 possibilities in 19 hours and 24 minutes."
Not by default.
=== Why release such a product? Are they on an ego trip to help the street gangs that break into cars or attack people for their cellphones?
If they go beyond describing it, I would call them accomplices to crime the next time a criminal (builds and) uses one of their robots for a stolen cellphone.
When MS was on top, everyone and his uncle were against their software. XP was best, Vista was horrific, W7 was full of xxxx, W8 is worse. But now that they are down 11% and they are left to scrap so many tablets, at such a large amount of money, we suddenly are their sympathetic friend.
Don't include me in your 'we'. I want to see them crash and burn so Linux can take over.
Windows is bug-ridden nonsense and the world is better off without it.
=== You probably have a job today because of Microsoft. Yes, they started with DOS, and they were ruthless against competitors. And 90% of corporations today still use their software. So... recognize that they are sincere in fixing bugs, and that they had no comparisons to really show them better designs. They may have seen a few alternatives, but not all developers within MS had that privilege.
When MS was on top, everyone and his uncle were against their software. XP was best, Vista was horrific, W7 was full of xxxx, W8 is worse. But now that they are down 11% and they are left to scrap so many tablets, at such a large amount of money, we suddenly are their sympathetic friend.
We in Slashdot need a company to persecute. It has recently moved from MS to Apple. I guess pretty soon it will be for MAC attacks and then go after the Android. Its seems that slashdotters appear to be against whoever or whatever is the most popular. What MS did was innovative. Only the world is not able to pay for their innovations, or to adopt to their mindset when it comes to user interfaces.
I use Linux as my preference, but W7 is just great too. It is just two annoyances for some individuals, a) It is closed source, and b) it is designed the MS way, according to MS's time and ergonomic studies to show what is best. As an example, the ribbon is really great for word, excel, and powerpoint, for example. We had to adjust to it and now the old way with office 2003 is more cumbersome to use.
So, let MS redo its tablet. They will come out with something pretty good, and we will bitch again about it.
Let us ask the DE developers to take that windows ribbon concept and apply it to Linux, and when we click on a menu item, have the icons appear on the screen. We would have the best of both worlds, -- menus and icon accesses. (Something that Gnome had with Fedora 18) or its version 3.6.
All in favour of solving gui interface problems raise their hand.
Nothing new here. Had the same experience in mexico a dozen years ago. Red light or green light. But back then, there was a guy standing on a switch could just flex his knee to make additional selections if you looks particularly shady.
=== Even without the knee jerk, the number of inspectors would drop, as they would not be needed. Wonderful to cut waste at the government level.
Doesn't even pay the tuition plus living expenses for an *average* college.
=== You live in the wrong country. A great university in Europe, Canada, Australia, (don't know Latin America), would be about $4,000 per year plus residency. A non-resident may pay up to 3 times that, but if they became residents, they would end up not paying more than the original amount.
In my city, a student can get a two bedroom apartment for around $1000 per month. (The second room could become a study room, or could be used by a second student as a cost cutting shared living option.
When anti-socialism takes place in education, with "For profit" universities, the country loses as the quality of education drops. For profit universities can't allow students in later years to fail as the students would then not be there to pay the fees.
My own view is that the way we educate plumbers, electricians, carpenters, bricklayers should also be applied to programming. We give prospective programmers the skills they need for programming or network support, we apprentice them, and test them, and most of these students will achieve good understanding to eventually become certified. A university degree would be reserved for mathematics, physics, chemistry, hardware engineering in the sciences, and the arts. Degree people would be designers of applications for their respective disciplines.
As a mathematics postgraduate, and I do programming, I do not see myself as doing a job that needs university, though I use my other knowledge to support ERP systems. I do support manufacturing systems (MRP, MPS' continuous processes), logistics, finance, and service as part of my ERP skill set. But this added knowledge is not always taught in an undergraduate computer science degree. I have not programmed or designed systems for legal or medicine, but that is an option for the next generation of graduates. (As far as I know, there is no requirement in CS to also study one of these business or social areas as part of a basic degree).
Someone we read about is a boor. A boor, basically did not grow up to deal with people. Can you imagine how the boor is at home. Somewhere along the way, because computer programs can't talk back, you can deal with it with any language, from bullying English, swearing to talkng nice to it. But you also have to do the same with people. The boor shows small vocabularies, which implies small minds.
You can fit the boor description to many people. I know a few of them
I'm amazed the Media didn't manage to convict him, despite how hard they tried.
I am amazed that they sided with Zimmerman. I guess color makes a difference. If the lad was white, the questions one would ask are:
How does a man carrying a gun, attack a youth with candy in his hand, tackle the youth to the ground, and then as the youth defends himself, he gets to shoot and kill the youth? Did the young man select and go forward to attack the older and weaponed person, after coming out of a store, with candy in his hands?
Zimmerman did the attack, the boy defended himself, and Zimmerman killed him, after the boy managed to get on top to flee? In a fight, Zimmerman and the boy both had scrap wounds. The boy was unarmed, no knife, no weapon, only agility to flee, but with some strength to attack his attacker.
OK, Everyone, you are now free to murder. Enjoy your right.
It's definitely one of them. Here's a little piece of insight: most problems have more than one cause, and fixing one cause is better than not fixing any. Sometimes you can't fix all the causes, so your best bet is to fix the ones that you can.
Over here, we've been having issues with public construction works. Due to budget slashing, more and more engineering is being outsourced to private firms. What this ended up doing is that at one point cities didn't have the internal knowledge and skills required to determine whether bids were realistic and weren't cutting corners or overcharging, which has led to a LOT of projects overrunning budgets (both time and money) dramatically or costing more than they should've. All of this to shave off what amounts to a few pennies in the grand scheme of things.
And in the province of Quebec, its even worse. The elected governments dipped into the contract awarded funds to the tune of 3%. Ergo, contracts had 3% added to their cost as an illegal funding of political parties. Moreover, Cruise ship vacations and golf tournaments in far away vacation resources insured that the contracts would only be divided between a select few companies. These companies got together and decided the winners, losers and the next go-arounders.
Microsoft is buying time. They need to downsize by at least 25,000 employees. And to prevent the key employees from jumping away now, they are eliminating that urge by dangling carrots.
Even if the machine shop is getting electricity. This isn't detailed in TFA but is well documented elsewhere. Take this article where they explain:
The consequences of a transformer failure are catastrophic, as there is a lack of manufacturing capacity for extra high-voltage transformers in the U.S.A. and worldwide. According to a study by the Metatech Corporation, commissioned under Executive Order 13407 for assessment of vulnerability to geomagnetic storms, manufacturers presently have a backlog of nearly three years for all extra high-voltage transformers (230 kilovolts and above). Only one plant exists in the U.S.A. capable of manufacturing a transformer up to 345 kV. There is no manufacturing capability in the U.S.A. for 500 kV and 765 kV transformers, which represent the largest group of at-risk transformers in the U.S. power grid. The 500 and 765 kV transformers are the backbone of the grid that extends into regions that contain nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population, according to John Kappenman of Storm Analysis Consultants and Metatech Corp.
A further example to make it more obvious that khallow doesn't actually understand what the problem is.
I guess we would all get off the grid, and those of us lucky to get solar panels or windmills would be OK. No use thinking about gasoline or diesel powered generators -- the refineries would be as stuck without power, as would everyone else
The tendency of the rate of profit to fall is a theory put forward by Marx to the effect that the rate of profit enjoyed by capitalists will get smaller and smaller over time. This is because capitalists use more and more developed materials and machinery in their production as the labour process becomes more and more socialised over time, and use smaller and smaller amounts of wage-labour per unit output.
personally I think Marx's criticism of capitalism is pretty accurate. Its only where he assumes that uprising and revolution will lead to some utopian ideal that he goes wrong.
=== Do you think that all business managers are heartless. Even they too may be "combined". And the company has to turn a profit, or close its doors. So, when your competition is offering equal engineering skills, and the same or better quality of product, the company has no choice. Manufacture offshore, or squeeze salaries. That means, basically, hire someone who has done the work before. Save training costs, and be first to market, if you can,
Again, for the 100th time, I must patiently explain that it's not the change itself that's the problem.
The problem is when the change takes away features and functionality, or hides them.
For example, Windows underwent a significant amount of UI design change between 3.1 and WinXP, and almost all of it was an improvement.
But we now have a new generation of UI designers who are operating on the theory that if you hide or remove features and functionality, it will make the interface better. We've seen the dismal results of their work: Canonical Unity, GNOME 3, and Windows 8 -- all resoundingly criticized for the hiding and/or removal of features, and for abandoning the crucial principle of discoverability.
=== its back to the command line for us. (I switched to KDE). During Fedora 19 alphas and betas cinnamon was not available. Time to flip between cinnamon and KDE. Gnome 3 is too flashy and not providing enough functionality. Even Gnome with Fedora 18 was much better than Gnome3 with Fedora 19. (In my opinion)
Our gun loving country stopped two world wars and suppressed a communist Behemoth while facilitating democracy for half the world...We arent afraid of force
And it is killing more civilians than all the other countries combined. Even disallowing criminal to criminal killings, or including them
The USA was last to enter the 2nd world war, because it was making a fortune selling arms to the British and their allies. The Japs attacked Perl Harbour because the USA was selling arms to the enemies of Japan. USA worships the dollar, and does not who is right or wrong. Should we talk about Korea, Irac and agent orange, and the banana plantation killings
This. They can end up going up to the point that only businesses can afford them.
On the plus side, we might be able to move away from the awful glossy-widesceen-with-awful-keyboard models that the public have been forcing on us for the last few years.
=== To the contrary, I see pcs as a thriving market. A tablet has to be carried. You cannot put too much into a tablet. A physical keyboard and multitasking are required for productivity. With SDDs becoming larger capacity and more reliable, the spinning platter will be reserved for back end storage. As my age and my eyes age with me, I need large screens. For productivity, I have two screens on my desk. Am I the exception for a home system? Perhaps, but not in offices in areas where finance, programming, design take place. And if I work from home, I need those tools too. So, the laptop will fold into the tablet, but the PC will live on.
And Linux will progress slowly to meet requirements for the small shops. The big guys will stay with sharepoint, lyncs, Office and the business tools that MS provides. Small business will elect to work with Linux tools. And the winner will be......
hard is merely the fact that often, the theories and equations taught are quite abstract. It is very important to have a solid grasp of concepts, but in the end, the material could be improved with visual and/or tangible results which have some values and/or association to the abstract concepts.
=== I would like to append to your comments with personal experience. I was just a regular kid doing math in highschool. I was a failure with social subjects such as psychology or second language, because my mind's orientation was geared to rules and that rules should not have exceptions. I had some mentors at that time that asked me if my homemade stereo amp power supply was adequate. (I had to learn to calculate the capacity, and to learn the size in microfarads of filter capacitors and the like). Later, I learned (self-taught) solid state design. I was motivated. I worked after school as a technician in a lab, and did first year university at night. The engineers at work encouraged me to complete university and continue in the day program. They encouraged me to take maths as they saw it as one of my dominant interests.
I graduated with pure and applied mathematics. Following my graduation, I worked in large systems doing capacity planning, forecasting, system modelling etc. I was also lucky because our high school curriculum in mathematics was not superficial, but well enough to provide the building foundation for later university work. That is me. My observation of me and my peers at that time was that we were poor in psychology or economics or creative writing, but we were strong in the sciences. Was mathematics/physics the last resort for us or is it a natural inclination to excel where we had our strengths.
Today, I still work in design, but I have added fluency in French and Spanish to my skill-set. I was not able to handle a second language when I was in university or high-school. Maths and science people have different brains. We are all budding Einsteins
I switched 6 years ago. Now I use Linux 90% of the time and MSOffice the other 10% of the time. I have no need for other than MSOffice. Already there is a good compatible alternative created in China. I use it and am just waiting for their Linux version.
Sadly, libreoffice has some issues to which Ifind hard to get accustomed.
Arming yourself or others with concealed weapons is not going to make anyone safer. You have a trial going on with Zimmerman who was allowed to have a gun. The result, a youth is dead.
More you have guns, more depressed or crazed individuals will have an opportunity to seize and use one. Fewer guns means better protection. Only police or security guards, licensed and trained in weaponry should be allowed to have guns, and with latching holsters.
Irrelevant.
First, we do not live a magicland, where you can snap your fingers and instantly make all guns disappear. Just from a practical standpoint, it is impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.
Second, I have a fundamental human right to self-defense, and the handgun is the reasonable and highly effective tool for exercising that right. You may not take my tool of self-defense any more than you may take my printing press because you believe the world would be a better place if I shut up.
I live in a civilized country. We are not allowed to carry guns unless we have special needs (carrying drugs, or as a courrier). The guns cannot be concealed. We need special permits to carry guns.
We have already had policewomen killed because a guy was fearing his life, and fired with a high powered handgun though is front door. All he got was a manslaughter charge, because he did not plan murder.
Because you live in a gun country, you go ahead and exercise your right to continue to arm yourself. Can you protect yourself if you are fired upon? If you were attacked, it may be your kid trying to get into the house because he forgot his key, and did not want to wake you. I defend your right and wish you all the safety you can mentally and physically garner up.
I did the same calculations after Sandy Hook, because I would see so many people screaming ridiculous things like "ban all guns!" or "arm school teachers!" And I looked up the stats from the department of education, and you're right, there are 100,000 schools. With an average of 180 days in a school year, and an average of two acts of gun violence at American K-12 schools per year since 2000, that basically means that 17,999,998 out of 18,000,000 school days each year, nothing bad happens.
Americans have a control fetish, where they think they can FIX AND CONTROL ALL PROBLEMS without incurring any other ill effects. If you "ban all guns," you will never find them all, and there will be law abiding citizens who would have used a weapon in self defense, who will instead be dead. So maybe you stopped a school shooting, but some shopkeeper died because he couldn't defend himself against a robber with a baseball bat. If you arm the teachers, fine, maybe those schoolmarms will instantly morph into SEAL Team 6 when some nut shows up at the school with a gun and take him out. But there will be another 1 in a million day when a teacher flies off the handle and shoots somebody, or fails to lock up the weapon safely and a kid gets a hold of it and kills himself or some kid on the playground.
The law of intended consequences always bites you in the ass. When the statistic is down to 2 in 18,000,000, you can't really do anything to fix those last two without causing something else awful to happen, instead. The answer isn't to turn schools into fortresses or to snatch every gun in America. The correct response to a school shooting is to weep, hugs your kids tighter, ask everyone to keep an eye out for friends or family who might be having mental problems and try to help them, mourn the dead, never forget them, and move on with life.
Arming yourself or others with concealed weapons is not going to make anyone safer. You have a trial going on with Zimmerman who was allowed to have a gun. The result, a youth is dead.
More you have guns, more depressed or crazed individuals will have an opportunity to seize and use one. Fewer guns means better protection. Only police or security guards, licensed and trained in weaponry should be allowed to have guns, and with latching holsters.
The USA government has the resources to keep Snowdon in the news in the most unfavourable light. Criticize him, depict him in the most negative terms, and most of all, prosecute the hell out of him, when you will be able to, to set a frighting example to other employees who know the government is paranoiac about revealing the "dirty" things they, the NSA are doing.
Yes, Russia and every other country does it, but at least they are open about it. With those countries citizens know it is standard operating procedures. By the way, smaller countries do it too.
Snowdon does not have the financial resources to fight back on the propaganda front. He just can't fight from an airport in-transit lounge.
Americans, are you any better than the Russian citizens with respect to privacy? I think not.
Thats not the issue. If your spreadsheet is SO larger that on a MODERN CPU, its slow... you're doing it wrong.
You can make insanely complex, application like spreadsheets, without noticing 'recalc' time. By the time you get to noticing 'recalc' time, you've fucked up.
Caveat: OO.org is known to have some of the crappiest code in existence, so with the case of Calc, you don't have to make ridiculous spreadsheets to notice recalc time. GPU support won't fix the problem however as its not the math thats the issue, its the shitty logic code filled with stupid crap written by clueless devs that cause Calc to be so slow.
=== My experience with larger sheets was with references from one sheet to another. It is that occasionally, libreoffice software has to wait for garbage collection to free up some fragmented working memory. A few seconds of pause and then its again off to the races. So, going the GPU route may help, and perhaps better software memory management would be a priority problem to tackle.
Would you train your daughter to be a sewing machine operator? If you agree, then send your kids to learn Programming. It is a skill, but more importantly, it is at the bottom of the totem pole, except for certain skills.
An embroidery operator can do intricate work. So some programmers may end up coding some sophisticated algorithms.
Time to reflect on what is a profession, a trade or a skill.
=== The qwerty keyboard has its layout from the Remington, Underwood and other mechanical typewriters. If the more frequently used keys were always on the home position, with those machines you would end up in mid-air collision with two keys, as one is returning and one is going up to hit.
I think that with electronic keyboards, we could use some optimisation in this area. In fact, we could use a few new characters such as the Euro, Rupee or Yen symbols as well as the and $. Oh, I forgot, my US keyboard layout does not have the symbol, but it seems to have others. € appears on a new USA keyboard layout where the currently is placed.
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We have been doing this for new homes in San Antonio for the past 5-10 years. My house was built in 1993 and it's like this.
We have community mailboxes at many residential street corners. One or two large boxes are reserved for parcels. When parcels are receivd, they are put there, with the key placed in the resident's letter-sized box. It works out just fine. I live in the cold and snow belt of Canada
"But every Android phone that Engler and Vines tested was set by default to use a much less stringent safeguard, delaying the user just 30 seconds after every five guesses. At that rate, the robot can still guess five PINs every 35 seconds, or all 10,000 possibilities in 19 hours and 24 minutes."
Not by default.
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Why release such a product? Are they on an ego trip to help the street gangs that break into cars or attack people for their cellphones?
If they go beyond describing it, I would call them accomplices to crime the next time a criminal (builds and) uses one of their robots for a stolen cellphone.
When MS was on top, everyone and his uncle were against their software. XP was best, Vista was horrific, W7 was full of xxxx, W8 is worse.
But now that they are down 11% and they are left to scrap so many tablets, at such a large amount of money, we suddenly are their sympathetic friend.
Don't include me in your 'we'. I want to see them crash and burn so Linux can take over.
Windows is bug-ridden nonsense and the world is better off without it.
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You probably have a job today because of Microsoft. Yes, they started with DOS, and they were ruthless against competitors. And 90% of corporations today still use their software. So... recognize that they are sincere in fixing bugs, and that they had no comparisons to really show them better designs. They may have seen a few alternatives, but not all developers within MS had that privilege.
When MS was on top, everyone and his uncle were against their software. XP was best, Vista was horrific, W7 was full of xxxx, W8 is worse.
But now that they are down 11% and they are left to scrap so many tablets, at such a large amount of money, we suddenly are their sympathetic friend.
We in Slashdot need a company to persecute. It has recently moved from MS to Apple. I guess pretty soon it will be for MAC attacks and then go after the Android. Its seems that slashdotters appear to be against whoever or whatever is the most popular. What MS did was innovative. Only the world is not able to pay for their innovations, or to adopt to their mindset when it comes to user interfaces.
I use Linux as my preference, but W7 is just great too. It is just two annoyances for some individuals, a) It is closed source, and b) it is designed the MS way, according to MS's time and ergonomic studies to show what is best. As an example, the ribbon is really great for word, excel, and powerpoint, for example. We had to adjust to it and now the old way with office 2003 is more cumbersome to use.
So, let MS redo its tablet. They will come out with something pretty good, and we will bitch again about it.
Let us ask the DE developers to take that windows ribbon concept and apply it to Linux, and when we click on a menu item, have the icons appear on the screen. We would have the best of both worlds, -- menus and icon accesses. (Something that Gnome had with Fedora 18) or its version 3.6.
All in favour of solving gui interface problems raise their hand.
Nothing new here.
Had the same experience in mexico a dozen years ago.
Red light or green light.
But back then, there was a guy standing on a switch could just flex his knee to make additional selections if you looks particularly shady.
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Even without the knee jerk, the number of inspectors would drop, as they would not be needed. Wonderful to cut waste at the government level.
Doesn't even pay the tuition plus living expenses for an *average* college.
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You live in the wrong country. A great university in Europe, Canada, Australia, (don't know Latin America), would be about
$4,000 per year plus residency. A non-resident may pay up to 3 times that, but if they became residents, they would end up not paying more than the original amount.
In my city, a student can get a two bedroom apartment for around $1000 per month. (The second room could become a study room, or could be used by a second student as a cost cutting shared living option.
When anti-socialism takes place in education, with "For profit" universities, the country loses as the quality of education drops. For profit universities can't allow students in later years to fail as the students would then not be there to pay the fees.
My own view is that the way we educate plumbers, electricians, carpenters, bricklayers should also be applied to programming. We give prospective programmers the skills they need for programming or network support, we apprentice them, and test them, and most of these students will achieve good understanding to eventually become certified. A university degree would be reserved for mathematics, physics, chemistry, hardware engineering in the sciences, and the arts.
Degree people would be designers of applications for their respective disciplines.
As a mathematics postgraduate, and I do programming, I do not see myself as doing a job that needs university, though I use my other knowledge to support ERP systems. I do support manufacturing systems (MRP, MPS' continuous processes), logistics, finance, and service as part of my ERP skill set. But this added knowledge is not always taught in an undergraduate computer science degree. I have not programmed or designed systems for legal or medicine, but that is an option for the next generation of graduates. (As far as I know, there is no requirement in CS to also study one of these business or social areas as part of a basic degree).
How many run Linux? Or BSD?
Answer,
The more efficient ones.
Someone we read about is a boor. A boor, basically did not grow up to deal with people. Can you imagine how the boor is at home. Somewhere along the way, because computer programs can't talk back, you can deal with it with any language, from bullying English, swearing to talkng nice to it. But you also have to do the same with people. The boor shows small vocabularies, which implies small minds.
You can fit the boor description to many people. I know a few of them
I'm amazed the Media didn't manage to convict him, despite how hard they tried.
I am amazed that they sided with Zimmerman. I guess color makes a difference. If the lad was white, the questions one would ask are:
How does a man carrying a gun, attack a youth with candy in his hand, tackle the youth to the ground, and then as the youth defends himself, he gets to shoot and kill the youth? Did the young man select and go forward to attack the older and weaponed person, after coming out of a store, with candy in his hands?
Zimmerman did the attack, the boy defended himself, and Zimmerman killed him, after the boy managed to get on top to flee? In a fight, Zimmerman and the boy both had scrap wounds. The boy was unarmed, no knife, no weapon, only agility to flee, but with some strength to attack his attacker.
OK, Everyone, you are now free to murder. Enjoy your right.
It's definitely one of them. Here's a little piece of insight: most problems have more than one cause, and fixing one cause is better than not fixing any. Sometimes you can't fix all the causes, so your best bet is to fix the ones that you can.
Over here, we've been having issues with public construction works. Due to budget slashing, more and more engineering is being outsourced to private firms. What this ended up doing is that at one point cities didn't have the internal knowledge and skills required to determine whether bids were realistic and weren't cutting corners or overcharging, which has led to a LOT of projects overrunning budgets (both time and money) dramatically or costing more than they should've. All of this to shave off what amounts to a few pennies in the grand scheme of things.
And in the province of Quebec, its even worse. The elected governments dipped into the contract awarded funds to the tune of 3%. Ergo, contracts had 3% added to their cost as an illegal funding of political parties. Moreover, Cruise ship vacations and golf tournaments in far away vacation resources insured that the contracts would only be divided between a select few companies. These companies got together and decided the winners, losers and the next go-arounders.
Microsoft is buying time. They need to downsize by at least 25,000 employees. And to prevent the key employees from jumping away now, they are eliminating that urge by dangling carrots.
Even if the machine shop is getting electricity. This isn't detailed in TFA but is well documented elsewhere. Take this article where they explain:
A further example to make it more obvious that khallow doesn't actually understand what the problem is.
I guess we would all get off the grid, and those of us lucky to get solar panels or windmills would be OK. No use thinking about gasoline or diesel powered generators -- the refineries would be as stuck without power, as would everyone else
Employers want to make as much money as possible without having to pay people.
Its been said before:
The tendency of the rate of profit to fall is a theory put forward by Marx to the effect that the rate of profit enjoyed by capitalists will get smaller and smaller over time. This is because capitalists use more and more developed materials and machinery in their production as the labour process becomes more and more socialised over time, and use smaller and smaller amounts of wage-labour per unit output.
personally I think Marx's criticism of capitalism is pretty accurate. Its only where he assumes that uprising and revolution will lead to some utopian ideal that he goes wrong.
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Do you think that all business managers are heartless. Even they too may be "combined". And the company has to turn a profit, or close its doors.
So, when your competition is offering equal engineering skills, and the same or better quality of product, the company has no choice. Manufacture offshore, or squeeze salaries. That means, basically, hire someone who has done the work before. Save training costs, and be first to market, if you can,
Some people just can't stand anything changing
Again, for the 100th time, I must patiently explain that it's not the change itself that's the problem.
The problem is when the change takes away features and functionality, or hides them.
For example, Windows underwent a significant amount of UI design change between 3.1 and WinXP, and almost all of it was an improvement.
But we now have a new generation of UI designers who are operating on the theory that if you hide or remove features and functionality, it will make the interface better. We've seen the dismal results of their work: Canonical Unity, GNOME 3, and Windows 8 -- all resoundingly criticized for the hiding and/or removal of features, and for abandoning the crucial principle of discoverability.
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its back to the command line for us. (I switched to KDE). During Fedora 19 alphas and betas cinnamon was not available.
Time to flip between cinnamon and KDE. Gnome 3 is too flashy and not providing enough functionality. Even Gnome with Fedora 18 was much better than Gnome3 with Fedora 19. (In my opinion)
Our gun loving country stopped two world wars and suppressed a communist Behemoth while facilitating democracy for half the world...We arent afraid of force
And it is killing more civilians than all the other countries combined. Even disallowing criminal to criminal killings, or including them
The USA was last to enter the 2nd world war, because it was making a fortune selling arms to the British and their allies.
The Japs attacked Perl Harbour because the USA was selling arms to the enemies of Japan. USA worships the dollar, and does not who is right or wrong. Should we talk about Korea, Irac and agent orange, and the banana plantation killings
This. They can end up going up to the point that only businesses can afford them.
On the plus side, we might be able to move away from the awful glossy-widesceen-with-awful-keyboard models that the public have been forcing on us for the last few years.
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To the contrary, I see pcs as a thriving market. A tablet has to be carried. You cannot put too much into a tablet. A physical keyboard and multitasking are required for productivity.
With SDDs becoming larger capacity and more reliable, the spinning platter will be reserved for back end storage. As my age and my eyes age with me, I need large screens. For productivity, I have two screens on my desk. Am I the exception for a home system? Perhaps, but not in offices in areas where finance, programming, design take place. And if I work from home, I need those tools too. So, the laptop will fold into the tablet, but the PC will live on.
And Linux will progress slowly to meet requirements for the small shops. The big guys will stay with sharepoint, lyncs, Office and the business tools that MS provides. Small business will elect to work with Linux tools. And the winner will be......
hard is merely the fact that often, the theories and equations taught are quite abstract. It is very important to have a solid grasp of concepts, but in the end, the material could be improved with visual and/or tangible results which have some values and/or association to the abstract concepts.
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I would like to append to your comments with personal experience. I was just a regular kid doing math in highschool. I was a failure with social subjects such as psychology or second language, because my mind's orientation was geared to rules and that rules should not have exceptions. I had some mentors at that time that asked me if my homemade stereo amp power supply was adequate. (I had to learn to calculate the capacity, and to learn the size in microfarads of filter capacitors and the like). Later, I learned (self-taught) solid state design. I was motivated. I worked after school as a technician in a lab, and did first year university at night. The engineers at work encouraged me to complete university and continue in the day program. They encouraged me to take maths as they saw it as one of my dominant interests.
I graduated with pure and applied mathematics. Following my graduation, I worked in large systems doing capacity planning, forecasting, system modelling etc. I was also lucky because our high school curriculum in mathematics was not superficial, but well enough to provide the building foundation for later university work.
That is me. My observation of me and my peers at that time was that we were poor in psychology or economics or creative writing, but we were strong in the sciences. Was mathematics/physics the last resort for us or is it a natural inclination to excel where we had our strengths.
Today, I still work in design, but I have added fluency in French and Spanish to my skill-set. I was not able to handle a second language when I was in university or high-school. Maths and science people have different brains. We are all budding Einsteins
I switched 6 years ago. Now I use Linux 90% of the time and MSOffice the other 10% of the time. I have no need for other than MSOffice. Already there is a good compatible alternative created in China. I use it and am just waiting for their Linux version.
Sadly, libreoffice has some issues to which Ifind hard to get accustomed.
Arming yourself or others with concealed weapons is not going to make anyone safer. You have a trial going on with Zimmerman who was allowed to have a gun. The result, a youth is dead.
More you have guns, more depressed or crazed individuals will have an opportunity to seize and use one. Fewer guns means better protection. Only police or security guards, licensed and trained in weaponry should be allowed to have guns, and with latching holsters.
Irrelevant.
First, we do not live a magicland, where you can snap your fingers and instantly make all guns disappear. Just from a practical standpoint, it is impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.
Second, I have a fundamental human right to self-defense, and the handgun is the reasonable and highly effective tool for exercising that right. You may not take my tool of self-defense any more than you may take my printing press because you believe the world would be a better place if I shut up.
I live in a civilized country. We are not allowed to carry guns unless we have special needs (carrying drugs, or as a courrier). The guns cannot be concealed. We need special permits to carry guns.
We have already had policewomen killed because a guy was fearing his life, and fired with a high powered handgun though is front door. All he got was a manslaughter charge, because he did not plan murder.
Because you live in a gun country, you go ahead and exercise your right to continue to arm yourself. Can you protect yourself if you are fired upon? If you were attacked, it may be your kid trying to get into the house because he forgot his key, and did not want to wake you.
I defend your right and wish you all the safety you can mentally and physically garner up.
I did the same calculations after Sandy Hook, because I would see so many people screaming ridiculous things like "ban all guns!" or "arm school teachers!" And I looked up the stats from the department of education, and you're right, there are 100,000 schools. With an average of 180 days in a school year, and an average of two acts of gun violence at American K-12 schools per year since 2000, that basically means that 17,999,998 out of 18,000,000 school days each year, nothing bad happens.
Americans have a control fetish, where they think they can FIX AND CONTROL ALL PROBLEMS without incurring any other ill effects. If you "ban all guns," you will never find them all, and there will be law abiding citizens who would have used a weapon in self defense, who will instead be dead. So maybe you stopped a school shooting, but some shopkeeper died because he couldn't defend himself against a robber with a baseball bat. If you arm the teachers, fine, maybe those schoolmarms will instantly morph into SEAL Team 6 when some nut shows up at the school with a gun and take him out. But there will be another 1 in a million day when a teacher flies off the handle and shoots somebody, or fails to lock up the weapon safely and a kid gets a hold of it and kills himself or some kid on the playground.
The law of intended consequences always bites you in the ass. When the statistic is down to 2 in 18,000,000, you can't really do anything to fix those last two without causing something else awful to happen, instead. The answer isn't to turn schools into fortresses or to snatch every gun in America. The correct response to a school shooting is to weep, hugs your kids tighter, ask everyone to keep an eye out for friends or family who might be having mental problems and try to help them, mourn the dead, never forget them, and move on with life.
Arming yourself or others with concealed weapons is not going to make anyone safer. You have a trial going on with Zimmerman who was allowed to have a gun. The result, a youth is dead.
More you have guns, more depressed or crazed individuals will have an opportunity to seize and use one. Fewer guns means better protection. Only police or security guards, licensed and trained in weaponry should be allowed to have guns, and with latching holsters.
The USA government has the resources to keep Snowdon in the news in the most unfavourable light. Criticize him, depict him in the most negative terms, and most of all, prosecute the hell out of him, when you will be able to, to set a frighting example to other employees who know the government is paranoiac about revealing the "dirty" things they, the NSA are doing.
Yes, Russia and every other country does it, but at least they are open about it. With those countries citizens know it is standard operating procedures. By the way, smaller countries do it too.
Snowdon does not have the financial resources to fight back on the propaganda front. He just can't fight from an airport in-transit lounge.
Americans, are you any better than the Russian citizens with respect to privacy? I think not.
Thats not the issue. If your spreadsheet is SO larger that on a MODERN CPU, its slow ... you're doing it wrong.
You can make insanely complex, application like spreadsheets, without noticing 'recalc' time. By the time you get to noticing 'recalc' time, you've fucked up.
Caveat: OO.org is known to have some of the crappiest code in existence, so with the case of Calc, you don't have to make ridiculous spreadsheets to notice recalc time. GPU support won't fix the problem however as its not the math thats the issue, its the shitty logic code filled with stupid crap written by clueless devs that cause Calc to be so slow.
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My experience with larger sheets was with references from one sheet to another. It is that occasionally, libreoffice software has to wait for garbage collection to free up some fragmented working memory. A few seconds of pause and then its again off to the races. So, going the GPU route may help, and perhaps better software memory management would be a priority problem to tackle.
Would you train your daughter to be a sewing machine operator? If you agree, then send your kids to learn Programming. It is a skill, but more importantly, it is at the bottom of the totem pole, except for certain skills.
An embroidery operator can do intricate work. So some programmers may end up coding some sophisticated algorithms.
Time to reflect on what is a profession, a trade or a skill.
By the way, score this Funny.
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The qwerty keyboard has its layout from the Remington, Underwood and other mechanical typewriters. If the more frequently used keys were always on the home position, with those machines you would end up in mid-air collision with two keys, as one is returning and one is going up to hit.
I think that with electronic keyboards, we could use some optimisation in this area. In fact, we could use a few new characters such as the Euro, Rupee or Yen symbols as well as the and $. Oh, I forgot, my US keyboard layout does not have the symbol, but it seems to have others. € appears on a new USA keyboard layout where the currently is placed.
...freedom of speech.
He wasn't actually making a direct threat at any place or thing...just shooting off his mouth.
Sad that you can be arrested for just a general saying of something.
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Only in the USA. Other countries hire people with brains.