My understanding of GPU coding environment (not as a programmer, thank God, I just listened to job applicants and their presentations) is that, it is quite limited, almost all interpreted code. Some strange combination of C like code being written and then passed to renderers and shaders. It gets kind of "compiled" in place and gets executed. The binary code obfuscation that could be done in a plain regular chipset is generally not possible for GPU. So the source code of the malware itself might be visible to the analysts if they are looking for it. On the other hand, these GPU computing codes are so damned complex they might not need additional obfuscation.
I use one window to log into slashdot and keep it always in focus and on-top, and maximized so that it gets 100% of my attention. The other window is for distracting things like hacking out code, building, running test cases, updating rally etc etc. My attention span to slashdot has increased to nearly 30 minutes now.
Why would continuous updates drive personal buyers away?
Because, it ain't gonna be free. Free updates for 1 or 2 years and then you need to be on a subscription to get updates. At that point people will chuck it. Smart phones with bluetooth keyboards and hdmi output will be enough for most people for their home computing needs.
The power balance has shifted a lot, The Personal Computer is morphing into Corporate Computer. People buying with their own money are now going towards smartphones, tablets, chromebook like light platforms. Even corporations are using tablets in a big way. The servers have gone to Linux. Windows is being forced to inter-operate with other devices without having the advantage of being the de-facto monopoly.
When corporations are the only customers, they are able to extract better deals from Windows. They might think going to this continuous update and subscription model will bring more money. But it will only drive personal buyers away and make Microsoft more dependent on corporate customers than ever.
Till about couple of years ago, K-cup was a patented property of Green Mountain. So everyone paid their fees to stamp "compatible" with Keurig on their pods. The patent has expired and others can manufacture K-cup compatible machines, without paying royalties to Green Mountain. To protect their turf they tried this dumb idea. Lots of people shrank from buying the 2.0 because the word spread, "it will work only with Green mountain pods".
What makes this really a stupid move was that, there was no huge rush to make knock off copies of keurig machines. Very few machine makers went there. But the real dough for Green mountain was in the license fees paid by everyone making K cups. They stopped paying it and more players have entered the pod business.
The cell phone GPS antennae are tiny they catch the signal from the satellite and also many reflections. These reflections confuse the processor trying to fix the distance between itself and the satellite. They seem to have developed some signal processing algorithm that would remove these reflections. The article is skimpy on details.
Why are these girls complaining? The club book of their arch enemy, whose club's express purpose is to exclude these girls, has been revealed.. And neither Club Dictator-for-life nor the Club President and the First Tiger complained about it.
In the first quarter of this year, the company built 11,160 cars, averaging more than 1,000 per week during production. In the next quarter ending in June, Tesla hopes to build around 12,500 vehicles and deliver 10,000-11,000 vehicles. And although demand is high for its vehicles, the company lost $154 million in the period ending on March 31, 2015. The company plans to deliver around 55,000 vehicles total in 2015.
Extremely popular, sold out at the release, priced at eye popping 75K to 100K a piece. And.... the company *lost* money! If it is losing 40 million a quarter selling 11000 cars, it works out to 3600$ per car.
So this is just a sys-admin tool. Not a general purpose scripting language.
Well, I am fine with cygwin + bash and will not bother about this powershell
till it comes with a compelling feature that is cross platform.
They are just analyzing mostly comments, not code. Dijkstra gave the prescient warning ages ago: "Always debug the code, not the comment".
C coders know when they are using ugly hacks and would take a moment to comment it or name the function with the term ugly hack. They realize it is not elegant and make a note so that future developers do not think it is a reference implementation worthy of replication and emulation. It is basically "this is probably not worth copy/paste, do a fresh implementation".
Other language coders might be using these ugly hacks with pride not knowing anything better.
I was forced to move to a windows box ages ago by the company policy. Have been using cygwin, cygwin-X server and bash scripts extensively. So much so many of my colleagues think I am using a linux desktop. So getting something that runs natively in Windows looks attractive. But if I am going to learn something new, what advantages this powershell has that python does not? Cygwin + bash is cross platform enough for me to switch between ssh windows in linux boxes and my windows desktop. The run test suites I got an intern to whip up a python script.
What does powershell has that python or perl does not have?
You are so out of date. We are drowning in excess capital. There are more than 2 trillion dollars of cash sloshing around the capital markets, looking for something to invest, anything to invest in. This is the time to play tough with the businesses who have been coddled for too long by people like you. These are our rules to play in our market. Don't like it? Fine, get out of my country.
The only place left are African tinpot dictatorships. Where else can they go? All we have to be is to be a *little* bit more supportive than them. We don't have to compromise labor safety or environmental regulation, nor do we have to pay them an arm and a leg. It is all comparative. Are we more supportive than countries with similar market size and infrastructure? That is enough, anything more is wasted.
Why the hell the government should not change the rule arbitrarily? By the same argument, if the government changes the income tax to 95% from next year, I have no recourse other than paying it. Why should the corporation be exempt? Changing any law at any time is the right of the government. If it adversely affects you, tough luck. Take your marbles and go home.
There are tons of unenforced traffic laws. Just enforce them to take care of these behemoths.
All horseless carriages must be preceded by a flagman on foot, it shall come to a full and complete stop at every cross road, ring a bell, set off a fire cracker before proceeding further. Such horseless carriages should also have a fake horse head/neck mounted so as not to frighten horses.
It is just not these indecipherable codes on the bills. I typically get explanation-of-benefits that runs like, "X-Ray radiology 800$, Paid by insurance company 100$, discount to insurance 685$, you owe them 15$". Any one without an insurance will be billed 800$. No body would pay such an insane bill. They will sell it to some debt collector at some 20 cents a dollar. The bill collector would hound the patient, add all sorts of fees and penalties and dun payments. About two thirds of the bankruptcies in USA are due to medical costs. If the lab billed honestly and charged 150$ for uninsured, 100$+15$ copay for insured, things will not spin out of control this badly.
Another thing is so many different people bill you and you have no idea. My wife had a surgery and we have bills rolling in for some four months after the procedure. Random doctors, labs, hospital departments, practices are billing us. For things that you don't understand at all. For things like rent for corridor space the gurney was parked on before entering the Operating room. They would glorify the corridor space as pre-op waiting area or some such jazzed up name. This on top of a per day rent for being inside the hospital.
The next step is going to be every doctor carrying an RFID detector and every patient tagged with an RFID tag. The machine will record all the patients the doctor passed by in the corridor and he/she can bill them all for looking at them.
Apparently the businesses have added clauses that would let them project future revenues and base claims on that. It is not merely, "We sell x number of widgets a year and this regulation stops this, so we lose x times profit per unit". They can claim, "Without this regulation we would have sold y number of widgets at z USD profits per unit, so our loss is y * z ".
Some 300 million PCs were shipped world wide. What fraction of it is home PCs? How many people are still buying a PC for their homes? While 1 billion android devices shipped and another half a billion iOS devices were shipped last year. More gaming consoles were probably sold than home PCs. Further home PCs are on the low end of the price range, often cheaper than smart phones. So if you count dollar volume of home PC sales, the picture looks dismal for home PCs.
During the hayday people bought windows PCs for home because they were familiar with it at work. Now... not many are buying home PCs. With competition from iPad, iPhone and chromebooks crowding in, home PC might become a relic like the VCR or the CD player.
It justifies progressive taxation and social services from a capitalistic point of view. Without invoking socialism or appealing to better human nature. It also forces the ultra right winger who argue all taxation is theft by government to account for the investment made on them by other tax payers. This argument is useful upto that extent, not too different from Elizabeth Warren's, "we built the roads and educated your workers, you built it, you keep a good chunk of the profits, we contributed too, so give us our fair share to create more successful people like you for the next generation". But of course you could not carry it to the extreme.
I agree with this guy somewhat, remember reading this way back then, he too quotes "who rules America". Well, I don't own 3 Dunkin Donut franchises, but I skip with a song on my lips to my VPN connection to hack code out at every opportunity. So I guess I am a wild success.
Buddy, I am not talking about everybody. I am talking about someone who earned at the top 1% of the income spectrum all his/her career. Even such a successful person won't accumulate enough to be in the top 1% by wealth after a life time of earning.
That shows how we have distorted the returns on earned income and investment income.
Anyone can start a business and become insanely successful, as in anyone can win the mega jackpot lottery. Only a few lucky business owners who start without seed money from inheritance actually make their share of the business grow to above 5 million dollars. The family owned stores have large number of partners. Law and medical practices too have so many partners, the share of each partner would be less than two or three million.
Stock options, lucky breaks in venture capital funded start ups, luck in business (buy a rundown subway franchise and then suddenly a casino opens next door kind of luck), luck in birth are the only way to top 1% by wealth. This is a fundamental shift from the era of 1950 to 2000 when earned income without luck placed a person at the top 1%. We are basically going back to early 1900s. The gilded age. Rich folks have a rich life. And working folks are scrapping by. Professionals are thankful for not being in the working class and stay in their station.
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My understanding of GPU coding environment (not as a programmer, thank God, I just listened to job applicants and their presentations) is that, it is quite limited, almost all interpreted code. Some strange combination of C like code being written and then passed to renderers and shaders. It gets kind of "compiled" in place and gets executed. The binary code obfuscation that could be done in a plain regular chipset is generally not possible for GPU. So the source code of the malware itself might be visible to the analysts if they are looking for it. On the other hand, these GPU computing codes are so damned complex they might not need additional obfuscation.
I use one window to log into slashdot and keep it always in focus and on-top, and maximized so that it gets 100% of my attention. The other window is for distracting things like hacking out code, building, running test cases, updating rally etc etc. My attention span to slashdot has increased to nearly 30 minutes now.
Similarly if you laid in a bath of alcohol for long enough, you could get drunk by the body absorbing alcohol through your skin.
Come on. Stop giving the college kids fresh ideas on how to get drunk. Enough already.
Why would continuous updates drive personal buyers away?
Because, it ain't gonna be free. Free updates for 1 or 2 years and then you need to be on a subscription to get updates. At that point people will chuck it. Smart phones with bluetooth keyboards and hdmi output will be enough for most people for their home computing needs.
The power balance has shifted a lot, The Personal Computer is morphing into Corporate Computer. People buying with their own money are now going towards smartphones, tablets, chromebook like light platforms. Even corporations are using tablets in a big way. The servers have gone to Linux. Windows is being forced to inter-operate with other devices without having the advantage of being the de-facto monopoly.
When corporations are the only customers, they are able to extract better deals from Windows. They might think going to this continuous update and subscription model will bring more money. But it will only drive personal buyers away and make Microsoft more dependent on corporate customers than ever.
What makes this really a stupid move was that, there was no huge rush to make knock off copies of keurig machines. Very few machine makers went there. But the real dough for Green mountain was in the license fees paid by everyone making K cups. They stopped paying it and more players have entered the pod business.
The cell phone GPS antennae are tiny they catch the signal from the satellite and also many reflections. These reflections confuse the processor trying to fix the distance between itself and the satellite. They seem to have developed some signal processing algorithm that would remove these reflections. The article is skimpy on details.
It works only for white people.
Why are these girls complaining? The club book of their arch enemy, whose club's express purpose is to exclude these girls, has been revealed.. And neither Club Dictator-for-life nor the Club President and the First Tiger complained about it.
In the first quarter of this year, the company built 11,160 cars, averaging more than 1,000 per week during production. In the next quarter ending in June, Tesla hopes to build around 12,500 vehicles and deliver 10,000-11,000 vehicles. And although demand is high for its vehicles, the company lost $154 million in the period ending on March 31, 2015. The company plans to deliver around 55,000 vehicles total in 2015.
Extremely popular, sold out at the release, priced at eye popping 75K to 100K a piece. And .... the company *lost* money! If it is losing 40 million a quarter selling 11000 cars, it works out to 3600$ per car.
Only difference is the guys camping out the day before release at the mall entrances are millionaires ;-)
So this is just a sys-admin tool. Not a general purpose scripting language. Well, I am fine with cygwin + bash and will not bother about this powershell till it comes with a compelling feature that is cross platform.
C coders know when they are using ugly hacks and would take a moment to comment it or name the function with the term ugly hack. They realize it is not elegant and make a note so that future developers do not think it is a reference implementation worthy of replication and emulation. It is basically "this is probably not worth copy/paste, do a fresh implementation".
Other language coders might be using these ugly hacks with pride not knowing anything better.
What does powershell has that python or perl does not have?
The only place left are African tinpot dictatorships. Where else can they go? All we have to be is to be a *little* bit more supportive than them. We don't have to compromise labor safety or environmental regulation, nor do we have to pay them an arm and a leg. It is all comparative. Are we more supportive than countries with similar market size and infrastructure? That is enough, anything more is wasted.
Why the hell the government should not change the rule arbitrarily? By the same argument, if the government changes the income tax to 95% from next year, I have no recourse other than paying it. Why should the corporation be exempt? Changing any law at any time is the right of the government. If it adversely affects you, tough luck. Take your marbles and go home.
All horseless carriages must be preceded by a flagman on foot, it shall come to a full and complete stop at every cross road, ring a bell, set off a fire cracker before proceeding further. Such horseless carriages should also have a fake horse head/neck mounted so as not to frighten horses.
Another thing is so many different people bill you and you have no idea. My wife had a surgery and we have bills rolling in for some four months after the procedure. Random doctors, labs, hospital departments, practices are billing us. For things that you don't understand at all. For things like rent for corridor space the gurney was parked on before entering the Operating room. They would glorify the corridor space as pre-op waiting area or some such jazzed up name. This on top of a per day rent for being inside the hospital.
The next step is going to be every doctor carrying an RFID detector and every patient tagged with an RFID tag. The machine will record all the patients the doctor passed by in the corridor and he/she can bill them all for looking at them.
105: Destination charge
127: Additional dealer mark up
164: Dealer regional promotional advertisement fee
Apparently the businesses have added clauses that would let them project future revenues and base claims on that. It is not merely, "We sell x number of widgets a year and this regulation stops this, so we lose x times profit per unit". They can claim, "Without this regulation we would have sold y number of widgets at z USD profits per unit, so our loss is y * z ".
During the hayday people bought windows PCs for home because they were familiar with it at work. Now... not many are buying home PCs. With competition from iPad, iPhone and chromebooks crowding in, home PC might become a relic like the VCR or the CD player.
It justifies progressive taxation and social services from a capitalistic point of view. Without invoking socialism or appealing to better human nature. It also forces the ultra right winger who argue all taxation is theft by government to account for the investment made on them by other tax payers. This argument is useful upto that extent, not too different from Elizabeth Warren's, "we built the roads and educated your workers, you built it, you keep a good chunk of the profits, we contributed too, so give us our fair share to create more successful people like you for the next generation". But of course you could not carry it to the extreme.
I agree with this guy somewhat, remember reading this way back then, he too quotes "who rules America". Well, I don't own 3 Dunkin Donut franchises, but I skip with a song on my lips to my VPN connection to hack code out at every opportunity. So I guess I am a wild success.
Anyone can start a business and become insanely successful, as in anyone can win the mega jackpot lottery. Only a few lucky business owners who start without seed money from inheritance actually make their share of the business grow to above 5 million dollars. The family owned stores have large number of partners. Law and medical practices too have so many partners, the share of each partner would be less than two or three million.
Stock options, lucky breaks in venture capital funded start ups, luck in business (buy a rundown subway franchise and then suddenly a casino opens next door kind of luck), luck in birth are the only way to top 1% by wealth. This is a fundamental shift from the era of 1950 to 2000 when earned income without luck placed a person at the top 1%. We are basically going back to early 1900s. The gilded age. Rich folks have a rich life. And working folks are scrapping by. Professionals are thankful for not being in the working class and stay in their station.
Please re-read my posting. I am claiming socialism is venture capitalism.