The top management of eBay is going, "OK, the hackers got in, stole the credentials, but what can they do with it? What good does it do to them? They got to sell it in eBay, right? It is in their own interest we stay afloat to provide them sheep for fleecing right? So we are likely to survive till I make bonus right? After we get our boni who cares what happens to the company? I should be able to find another company to wreck next year".
The objection was not to using the birth of Jesus of Nazareth as a starting point. The objection was to the designation Anno Domini, (The Year of Our Lord). And it is called common era because it does not really start with the birth of Jesus. King Herod was dead by 4 BCE or 6 BCE depending on which eclipse you pick. So the census ordered by him must have been earlier. So Jesus was really born 5 BCE or 7 BCE. So the Common Era is exactly that, some arbitrary starting point. Mistakenly believed to be the year of the birth of Jesus by Christians. Because so many dynasties and Kings and commercial documents were dated based on that year count, it is quite appropriate to call it the Common Era. Christians are free to add 5 or 7 to the CE year and call it their AD. XXXX CE = (XXXX + 5 ) AD for Christians. Or 7 if they prefer the earlier eclipse dating for King Herod's death.
The correct designation is 4.5*10^9 BCE (Before Common Era). The BC (Before Christ) designation throws an integer overflow exception above the value 6000 and returns NaN.
All you have to do is to claim a little boy has sneaked aboard and the balloon has taken off and the balloon boy is missing. Every network will find, track and cover the balloon preempting all scheduled programming. Air Force and Air National Guard will be mobilized. Airports will be closed. It will be tracked. It. Cant. Fail.
Reagan set the stage. Clinton triangulated the Democrats and aligned himself with the Republicans. Though the Democrats love the "Big Dog", he was the one who decimated welfare as we knew it, killed Glass-Stegal, exempted derivatives from regulations, and permitted regulator shopping among the financial institutions. 100 billion dollar insurance companies register themselves as thrifts to escape oversight, for example. All through the 90s there was systemic wealth transfer from the bottom 80% to the top 20%. Most of the tax cuts ended up with the top 2% but rest of the top 20% got some bones and they played along. Then came 2000s where the top 2% systemically transferred wealth from the 80%-98% to the top 2%. Even inside that bracket it ended up in the top 0.1% disproportionately. Now we have America where the networth of bottom 50% is zero. In the last five years the net worth of people in the tranche of 98% to 99% stagnted, 99% to 99.5% tranche got modest wealth gains, 99.5% to 99.9% got some significant gains and the top 0.1% got most of the gains.
Now even the net worth 1 million to 4 million group itself is feeling the effects of income/wealth inequality. The most solid middle class of america, net worth between 0.5 million to 2 million (including home equity) is feeling the pinch. Obama is following Clinton footsteps, keep Democrats happy with social liberalism and but let Wall street rule the roost. Hilary is far more astute than the Big Dog, but she too, along with Obama, trust the Wall Street connected advisers too much. Elizabeth Warren is not an anomaly. Pretty soon all the politicians will realize the value of running against Wall Street, genuinely against Wall Street.
This animal must have been partially aquatic. Otherwise it is difficult to believe it could actually walk on the earth without some help from the buoyancy provided by water. Since it still has a fully developed femur, it is not totally aquatic like the cetaceans. Must be similar to the hippopotami.
Don't worry guys, it is just some ancient dinosaur hardly 77 tons in weight and about six stories tall. It can never challenge the current holder of the title "The Biggest Dinosaur", Microsoft.
The God of Regular Expressions is stern and unforgiving. You follow his Commandments strictly. Put a star where a star should be and a dot where a dot should be and respect and obey the square brackets. It does not matter whether an aspiring acolyte priest tried to write a prayer above his station or the Most Reverend His Rootness was careless in writing his prayer, you make a mistake and God of Regular Expression will smite you down like nobody's business.
Look at the picture of the computer the two serious looking scientists (or actors ) are sitting at.
Either it is a IBM-PC XT with a floppy disk from 1980s or it is a DVD/VCR player with a TV
set on top.
Governments of countries like Somalia, Nigeria and Sudan have already reached
your ideal situation of having hardly enough money. Strangely enough they
don't seem to be having thriving economy and fantastic growth.
Think about it.
Berry Mullennix, CEO at Tulsa-based Panther Energy, credits the tax program for helping his company grow to more than 90 employees, up from 18 a few years ago. 'I would argue the tax incentive is a direct reason we have so much horizontal drilling in the state today,' Mullennix says
It would be far more efficient to tax the damned company and keep it at 18 people and use the money to bridges and roads and schools. That would create far more than the measly 72 jobs created by that company.
Look, these entrepreneurs are hard negotiators. If the taxpayers start with, "please please please create some jobs", they will ask for an arm and a leg. You give them an arm and a leg they will be back next year, "an arm and a leg? That was last year. What are you gonna give us this year?". You give another arm and a leg. And the year after they ditch you and go to the next country or state or country because, "your state has people without arms and legs, we can't employ them".
There is plenty of capital. If this Panther Energy does not want to invest there will be a Jaguar Energy or Tiger Energy. The capital markets are sloshing with 3 trillion dollars not knowing where to invest. Tell them the same thing they tell their employees, "this is what this job pays, if you don't like it, keep moving there are plenty who would work at this wage". Well, "this is what costs to do business in our state. If you don't like it, keep moving there are plenty of other investors for us". Unless the tax payer negotiates like this, you will not get anywhere. These crony capitalists invest in the election system, and get their own shills elected as legislators and government executives. That is why money in politics is so insidious.
What we now lack is demand. That is what is stifling the growth. Not the lack of capital, Not the lack of labor (lack of labor would lead to wage inflation). What we need is tough negotiators to represent the tax payers in the government.
All you need is make up. These recognition algorithms work by looking at the corners of mouth, centers of eyes and the tip of the nose. You should be able to take a picture of your mortal enemy load it up to Picassa or some such thing. Then use make up to add/subtract edges to your mouths, add a contrast point to the tip of the nose, take a selfie and see of Picassa matches your made up face to your patsy. Adjust it till you fool it. Then you can go commit serious crime in full view of the cameras, and tip off the police and point them to the guy who stole your girlfriend in high school. In security terms, the automatic face recognition systems hash your face to a checksum, but without a salt. Spoofing will be trivial.
Pretty soon contact lenses will be available where you could color part of it white and some part black to change the distance between eye centers. After that the automatic face recognition system for surveillance will get their well deserved death.
Almost all the senior managers, are total time wasters. They either spend time plotting meaningless metrics like, "the user story points burn down rate" or "team velocity" etc. Clueless idiots add up story points from divisions that use 1 story point = 1 engineer day with other divisions using 1 story point = 1 engineer week. They think fixing one bug that was remotely root exploit is 10 time less productive than fixing 10 dialogs with mis aligned text field with radio buttons.
We can easily lop off the 80% of the top 20% of the management, and since they are the one pulling in 80% of the total wages of the company, you might reduce payroll by a staggering 64%. But rest assured, they would rather cut 10 low wage employees rather than let go one of their own, even if that one fired VP can save more money, improve morale and increase productivity.
You are correct in saying that people of 1930 are not dumb. But it is a fact they will score abysmally in today's IQ tests. Incredibly badly. Scoring at the bottom 2% of the test takers badly. The only conclusion is, IQ tests do not measure intelligence correctly.
I even wrote to them, put some solar cells in the sun roof, use it to drive a couple of vent fans for hot days. Usually on the days I need it, there is plenty of sun light. I think some old car, may be Mazda Millennia, replacement for their 929, had it. But none of the car makers provide it. I am sure this idea is patented by someone and asking either too much, or these companies are stingy. Are there after market solar driven vent fans for parked cars?
If a person who scores 100 in IQ test today, takes the one administered in 1950s, he/she would score 130. If today's test had been given to someone who scored 100 in 1930s, he/she would have scored 50 or 60. This is known as Flynn effect.
Even if this allele was sweeping through the population for the last one hundred years, working its way to get "fixed", it would only explain a tiny fraction of the Flynn effect. What it really tells us something simple. It is exceedingly hard to come up with new original puzzles and tests. The whole population has been gaming the IQ tests for decades now. May be better nutrition, more familiarity with abstract symbols...
When they can't even explain Flynn Effect satisfactorily, take everything else based on IQ with a liberal pinch of salt.
i think, copyright holders should pay a small fine for every wrong infingement notice that could have been avoided.
Why small? May be it should start small and escalate based on each false claim they have filed, may be exponentially. Also small should be in relation to the size and strength of the spurious claimer. What is small for RIAA is not huge for the lone indie trying to get his/her work back from the false claimers.
Find a open source project that you like. Down load the sources and build. Go through bug reports and start fixing bugs. Pretty soon you will be working on code with tons of dependencies, but most of them are already written and supported. By and by you would end up almost "owning" a serious chunk of code.
We software developers have been dealing crashes for a long time, and we know what to do.
Usually save the coredump and reboot the machine if necessary. Some clueless windows developers
insist on powering off, power off the router, unplug the router and wait for the capacitors to discharge
before rebooting them all.
On Toyotas, you press and hold the on button down for 4 seconds, it shuts down the car. I know you were shooting for funny, but this is a useful thing to know. Make sure what the equivalent is in your car. Also petition to NTSB to standardize this, double click, triple click, press or hold down, something or the other, as a panic stop. If some bean counter has patented it, bean their heads, and subsume it using eminent domain.
People who choose "correct horse battery staple" would always choose good passwords, would not reuse the same passwords for all their accounts. People who choose 12345, if forced to choose "correct horse battery staple", would write it on a post it note and very cleverly tape it to the underside of their keyboards instead of the monitor and congratulate themselves on their devious ingenuity.
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The top management of eBay is going, "OK, the hackers got in, stole the credentials, but what can they do with it? What good does it do to them? They got to sell it in eBay, right? It is in their own interest we stay afloat to provide them sheep for fleecing right? So we are likely to survive till I make bonus right? After we get our boni who cares what happens to the company? I should be able to find another company to wreck next year".
The objection was not to using the birth of Jesus of Nazareth as a starting point. The objection was to the designation Anno Domini, (The Year of Our Lord). And it is called common era because it does not really start with the birth of Jesus. King Herod was dead by 4 BCE or 6 BCE depending on which eclipse you pick. So the census ordered by him must have been earlier. So Jesus was really born 5 BCE or 7 BCE. So the Common Era is exactly that, some arbitrary starting point. Mistakenly believed to be the year of the birth of Jesus by Christians. Because so many dynasties and Kings and commercial documents were dated based on that year count, it is quite appropriate to call it the Common Era. Christians are free to add 5 or 7 to the CE year and call it their AD. XXXX CE = (XXXX + 5 ) AD for Christians. Or 7 if they prefer the earlier eclipse dating for King Herod's death.
The correct designation is 4.5*10^9 BCE (Before Common Era). The BC (Before Christ) designation throws an integer overflow exception above the value 6000 and returns NaN.
Dont worry about what is going to happen in the next 86 years or 100 years. They have plans to destroy humanity well before that.
They just have google it right? Google will find it. They might even hit the "I feel lucky" button.
All you have to do is to claim a little boy has sneaked aboard and the balloon has taken off and the balloon boy is missing. Every network will find, track and cover the balloon preempting all scheduled programming. Air Force and Air National Guard will be mobilized. Airports will be closed. It will be tracked. It. Cant. Fail.
Now even the net worth 1 million to 4 million group itself is feeling the effects of income/wealth inequality. The most solid middle class of america, net worth between 0.5 million to 2 million (including home equity) is feeling the pinch. Obama is following Clinton footsteps, keep Democrats happy with social liberalism and but let Wall street rule the roost. Hilary is far more astute than the Big Dog, but she too, along with Obama, trust the Wall Street connected advisers too much. Elizabeth Warren is not an anomaly. Pretty soon all the politicians will realize the value of running against Wall Street, genuinely against Wall Street.
This animal must have been partially aquatic. Otherwise it is difficult to believe it could actually walk on the earth without some help from the buoyancy provided by water. Since it still has a fully developed femur, it is not totally aquatic like the cetaceans. Must be similar to the hippopotami.
Don't worry guys, it is just some ancient dinosaur hardly 77 tons in weight and about six stories tall. It can never challenge the current holder of the title "The Biggest Dinosaur", Microsoft.
The God of Regular Expressions is stern and unforgiving. You follow his Commandments strictly. Put a star where a star should be and a dot where a dot should be and respect and obey the square brackets. It does not matter whether an aspiring acolyte priest tried to write a prayer above his station or the Most Reverend His Rootness was careless in writing his prayer, you make a mistake and God of Regular Expression will smite you down like nobody's business.
People who are eating this dietary supplement find all kinds of worms living in their guts living 50% longer.
Even absolute classics like "Goto considered harmful" can be misleading
Only thing worse than GOTO statement is COMEFROM statement. Event driven programming is basically COMEFROM functions.
Look at the picture of the computer the two serious looking scientists (or actors ) are sitting at. Either it is a IBM-PC XT with a floppy disk from 1980s or it is a DVD/VCR player with a TV set on top.
Governments of countries like Somalia, Nigeria and Sudan have already reached your ideal situation of having hardly enough money. Strangely enough they don't seem to be having thriving economy and fantastic growth. Think about it.
Berry Mullennix, CEO at Tulsa-based Panther Energy, credits the tax program for helping his company grow to more than 90 employees, up from 18 a few years ago. 'I would argue the tax incentive is a direct reason we have so much horizontal drilling in the state today,' Mullennix says
It would be far more efficient to tax the damned company and keep it at 18 people and use the money to bridges and roads and schools. That would create far more than the measly 72 jobs created by that company.
Look, these entrepreneurs are hard negotiators. If the taxpayers start with, "please please please create some jobs", they will ask for an arm and a leg. You give them an arm and a leg they will be back next year, "an arm and a leg? That was last year. What are you gonna give us this year?". You give another arm and a leg. And the year after they ditch you and go to the next country or state or country because, "your state has people without arms and legs, we can't employ them".
There is plenty of capital. If this Panther Energy does not want to invest there will be a Jaguar Energy or Tiger Energy. The capital markets are sloshing with 3 trillion dollars not knowing where to invest. Tell them the same thing they tell their employees, "this is what this job pays, if you don't like it, keep moving there are plenty who would work at this wage". Well, "this is what costs to do business in our state. If you don't like it, keep moving there are plenty of other investors for us". Unless the tax payer negotiates like this, you will not get anywhere. These crony capitalists invest in the election system, and get their own shills elected as legislators and government executives. That is why money in politics is so insidious.
What we now lack is demand. That is what is stifling the growth. Not the lack of capital, Not the lack of labor (lack of labor would lead to wage inflation). What we need is tough negotiators to represent the tax payers in the government.
Pretty soon contact lenses will be available where you could color part of it white and some part black to change the distance between eye centers. After that the automatic face recognition system for surveillance will get their well deserved death.
We can easily lop off the 80% of the top 20% of the management, and since they are the one pulling in 80% of the total wages of the company, you might reduce payroll by a staggering 64%. But rest assured, they would rather cut 10 low wage employees rather than let go one of their own, even if that one fired VP can save more money, improve morale and increase productivity.
You are correct in saying that people of 1930 are not dumb. But it is a fact they will score abysmally in today's IQ tests. Incredibly badly. Scoring at the bottom 2% of the test takers badly. The only conclusion is, IQ tests do not measure intelligence correctly.
I even wrote to them, put some solar cells in the sun roof, use it to drive a couple of vent fans for hot days. Usually on the days I need it, there is plenty of sun light. I think some old car, may be Mazda Millennia, replacement for their 929, had it. But none of the car makers provide it. I am sure this idea is patented by someone and asking either too much, or these companies are stingy. Are there after market solar driven vent fans for parked cars?
Even if this allele was sweeping through the population for the last one hundred years, working its way to get "fixed", it would only explain a tiny fraction of the Flynn effect. What it really tells us something simple. It is exceedingly hard to come up with new original puzzles and tests. The whole population has been gaming the IQ tests for decades now. May be better nutrition, more familiarity with abstract symbols...
When they can't even explain Flynn Effect satisfactorily, take everything else based on IQ with a liberal pinch of salt.
i think, copyright holders should pay a small fine for every wrong infingement notice that could have been avoided.
Why small? May be it should start small and escalate based on each false claim they have filed, may be exponentially. Also small should be in relation to the size and strength of the spurious claimer. What is small for RIAA is not huge for the lone indie trying to get his/her work back from the false claimers.
Find a open source project that you like. Down load the sources and build. Go through bug reports and start fixing bugs. Pretty soon you will be working on code with tons of dependencies, but most of them are already written and supported. By and by you would end up almost "owning" a serious chunk of code.
Usually save the coredump and reboot the machine if necessary. Some clueless windows developers insist on powering off, power off the router, unplug the router and wait for the capacitors to discharge before rebooting them all.
On Toyotas, you press and hold the on button down for 4 seconds, it shuts down the car. I know you were shooting for funny, but this is a useful thing to know. Make sure what the equivalent is in your car. Also petition to NTSB to standardize this, double click, triple click, press or hold down, something or the other, as a panic stop. If some bean counter has patented it, bean their heads, and subsume it using eminent domain.
People who choose "correct horse battery staple" would always choose good passwords, would not reuse the same passwords for all their accounts. People who choose 12345, if forced to choose "correct horse battery staple", would write it on a post it note and very cleverly tape it to the underside of their keyboards instead of the monitor and congratulate themselves on their devious ingenuity.