People launched apps from start button once, and once it is launched they pin it to the task bar. The telemetry data captured launches from start button 1, launches from pinned task bar item N. So start button lost the battle N to 1. So it should be removed.
I think it is a great idea and we should use it in other situations too. Like the dinner table. The pasta spoon was used 4 times to serve pasta from the bowl to your plate. But the dinner fork was dipped into the plate 104 times. Pasta lost it 26 to 1. Let us eliminate pasta spoon from the table to improve efficiency.
The function int main(int argc, char **argv) was called just once. But the function int getc() was called 2.5 billion times. So to improve efficiency let us remove the main() program.
Why dont you create a folder in the desk top, call it MyApps. Create sub folders in MyApps grouped in a manner most suitable for you you. Like "Editors" "Browsers" "CmdTools" "Dev" "Test" etc. Create short cuts in each of these sub folders the way you want it. Make this MyApp folder a new tool bar.
Now from the task bar you have your own customized menu tree to launch the apps. It is the closest thing to "Program Manager" of Windows 3.2. It is better because you can auto hide the task bar and make it always on top. Thus even when the icons on the desk top are all covered by launched windows, you can quickly launch yet another instance of cygwin terminal window.
Why did they waste precious resources conducting this survey? Most Democrats think Mitt Romney himself to be a humanoid android sent from the Gamma quadrant in sector six by the richest 0.001% of the universe to alter the history. So he is them, he is no good protecting us from them.
In what way mile and feet are improveents over kilometer and meter? Lengths are always measure in number of football fields. The approved unit for current is number of cows that could be knocked out, as in, "enough juice to knockout 10 cows". Power is measured in medium sized city. As in, "enough power to run three medium sized cities". Force is not measurable, "it is strong" or "it is weak" is the best even the best Jedi knights could do. The midichlorians would make the meter's needle spin wildly. There is a record of someone claiming to have measured midichlorians themselves. But the report is not trustworthy because it comes from the PF [*] era, where even the respected figures had engaged in revisionist history.
Glossary: PF era: Post Fame era, historians usually place it after the release of ROJ.
dig a one-kilometer-deep, three-kilometer-long trench with walls exactly three meters apart
Please avoid these strange and esoteric units and use units that are familiar to us. The approved units are football fields for lengths, Olympic size swimming pools for volume and libraries of congress for data volume, Rhode Island or Delaware for area.
Despite having so many categories, "Software Engineers" and "Software Developers" seem to be the bucket that catches all the people making a living creating software, but belong the category of "software skills are necessary but sufficient". In almost all branches of science, the "numerical simulation" has become very very important. We are graduating some 100,000 Masters in engineering and may be 25000 Ph Ds in engineering and a majority of them write code. Some very well, some very poorly but their programming skills is secondary to their knowledge of physics, chemistry and math. They all are likely to be paid way above this reported mean and clubbing them with "software kills alone are enough" group distorts the data.
From the article: '"This law made virtually the entire population of Rhode Island a criminal," said Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union
Does he claim all of them are liars? Good thing it was Rhode Island. Them fighting words in Arkansas and Texas.
Something like a minimum holding period in seconds or minutes, prohibition on naked shorts (you must borrow the security to short), and a small transaction fee to fund the enforcement mechanism would go a long way to bring sanity to the markets. Even in the commodity markets, some entity should estimate production of pork bellies or frozen concentrated orange juice or whatever and create "chips" that should be borrowed and returned to back the shorts. The shorted volume should not exceed estimated production by several times as it routinely happens now.
The borrower is not getting out of any obligations. All the borrower wants is to make sure he is paying off the right lender. The borrower has all the right to demand the guy dunning payment to prove that he is the real lender or has bought the note from the lender. If they misplaced the note, if they did not dot the i's and dash the tees tough luck the entity that thinks it owns the mortgage does not get a penny. That does not mean the borrower goes scot free. The mortgage note reverts to the original lender or the last legitimate provable owner of the note and they get paid.
Look, I am an immigrant, and I would like to believe I helped rather than hindered the innovation in my neck of the woods in America. (Though no patents, only trade secrets). But we have seen a constant barrage of postings and threads about how broken the patent system is. The speed with which patents are created is exceeding the speed of light. (But still it would not violate the theory of relativity because they carry no information;-)). Suddenly using the number of patents issued to foreign born scientists and engineers as a yardstick to measure the innovation contribution of my fellow immigrants, just because it supports my point of view, does not seem to be right. If we are really contributing to the innovation scene here, we should find better metrics than merely the number of patents.
It is possible he stopped coding in the i386 era and has been a "manager" ever since. My point is, basically the interviewers have their own idiosyncrasies and many enjoy the power high they get when they look at some poor job applicant. Google and Microsoft will try to mitigate it to some extent by specifying policies and best practice documents, but in general unless you have a very large data set, chalk it all up to anecdotes.
The way to get the job is to express amazement at the awesomeness of that guy's pet function and wish you could some day be like him and would really like the opportunity to learn from masters like him. Otherwise he will become the soup nazi, "No Job to you!".
In most companies each person in the committee has his/her own style of questioning and sets of questions. So it would be quite a stretch to extrapolate from a few anecdotes about the interview to estimate the company policy. I know one guy who was fixated on the area of a 2D polygon and the point in-or-out test for a 2D polygon. There was another who would always ask for reversing a char string without temp storage, would not let go till he makes the interviewee agrees using recursion and double XOR is one hell of a trick. Then he would let the dazed applicant go with a self satisfied smile. Then there was this guy who was proud of scoring 800 in GRE analysis. All his questions would come out of mensa puzzle books. So unless your sample size is large, do not extrapolate from interview anecdotes to company policies.
The main idea was not to save the flywheel weight, but to cool the engine when the aircraft is not moving. These air cooled engines have fins on the engine block to radiate the heat away. At flight speeds at high altitude cooling is not an issue. But sitting on the runway, idling, these engine blocks would melt. So they decided to spin the cylinders instead of the crank shaft.
But such a heavy rotating mass makes for very unusual handling. When a small force is applied to a spinning disk in one direction a very large reaction happens in the mutually perpendicular third direction. Some fighter pilots would use it to make very very tight left turns, (or a right turn depending on the spin). Sometimes they would use two banks of cylinders counter rotating. Or two engines counter rotating to balance the angular momentum.
Ansys, Oracle and SAP have absolutely no hardware sales. Microsoft's xbox is just a small fraction of its over all sales. These companies are completely hardware agnostic and will run on any platform. It is not always the case, you need a loss making hardware division to help the software division.
I think the little known fact is that the specialty hardware makers probably have even better margins than Apple. Have you seen the junk peddled by the set top box makers like Scientific Atlanta and its peers? Have you noticed their price list? I think medical equipment makers, lab equipment (oscilloscopes, digital probes, signal generators) have higher profit margins than Apple. After all, Apple still competes in the consumer market place, and there is a limit how much more it can charge for a laptop or phone over its competitors. Then there are hardware makers totally insulated from the market vagaries, the military vendors and their suppliers. Bank robbers will hang their heads in shame if they see how these guys rob their clients blind.
Software vendors typically have > 30% margins. ANSS operating margin = 38.01% , MSFT 38.44%, ORCL 37.87%, SAP 31.81%, GOOG 32.12%. Apple may be charging premium prices for its hardware, but its margins are lower than other pure software vendors. So the hardware division, despite charging premium prices, is probably dragging down the profit margins of the software and entertainment divisions.
Some clever tricks and cache management. All the speed improvement seems to be coming via read/write speeds rather than any fundamental breakthrough or parallel implementation or massively parallel database of any such thing. And the test was the standard test but some hand picked data base and their own queries. Probably the original funders are planning to sell it down to the next set of chumps.
I must have confused the M-x doctor mode of emacs with the Dr Watson error dialogs from Windows NT. Sorry for the mistake. I have not used a true emacs editor for a long time. (no, no I did not switch to vi, nor to MsDev editor. I am using Visual Slick Edit that supports all the key binding of Emacs).
Homo sapiens (capital for genus, lowercase for the species) is not a race, it is a species. Actually present day humans belong to the sub-species Homo sapiens sapiens, the only surviving sub-species of Homo sapiens. The extinct one is Homo sapien neanderthalis, their common ancestor was Homo sapien archaic. Race is recognized subdivision of a species, equivalent to breeds in other animals. So yes, Caucasian, Negroid, Mongolian are races. Jewish is not a race.
Is it possible your are born and raised in the United States and you are under the impression the kind of discrimination and prejudice in the USA is the only kind of prejudice that exists in the world? For all you know the employee who stopped the sale, who was also an Iranian, probably recognized the dialect of Farsi the buyer was talking and thought, "I am a high ranking plains farmer. She is a stupid highland goat herd. This is my chance to show her place" and then said, "No iPad to you".
The regulations mean Apple employees can not sell products if they know it is going to be exported to an embargoed country. The export regulation compliance training repeatedly stress, "do not make the call. kick the ball upstairs. If you think it can violate the embargo, pass the buck, and let someone higher than you make the call. "
If they knew you were planning to send it outside America, and knew it was going to end up in a banned country, they have to stop the sale or be deemed to have helped you circumvent export regulations.
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I think it is a great idea and we should use it in other situations too. Like the dinner table. The pasta spoon was used 4 times to serve pasta from the bowl to your plate. But the dinner fork was dipped into the plate 104 times. Pasta lost it 26 to 1. Let us eliminate pasta spoon from the table to improve efficiency.
The function int main(int argc, char **argv) was called just once. But the function int getc() was called 2.5 billion times. So to improve efficiency let us remove the main() program.
Now from the task bar you have your own customized menu tree to launch the apps. It is the closest thing to "Program Manager" of Windows 3.2. It is better because you can auto hide the task bar and make it always on top. Thus even when the icons on the desk top are all covered by launched windows, you can quickly launch yet another instance of cygwin terminal window.
See? This is the kind of highly technical nuanced discussions I love in slashdot.
Why did they waste precious resources conducting this survey? Most Democrats think Mitt Romney himself to be a humanoid android sent from the Gamma quadrant in sector six by the richest 0.001% of the universe to alter the history. So he is them, he is no good protecting us from them.
Glossary: PF era: Post Fame era, historians usually place it after the release of ROJ.
dig a one-kilometer-deep, three-kilometer-long trench with walls exactly three meters apart
Please avoid these strange and esoteric units and use units that are familiar to us. The approved units are football fields for lengths, Olympic size swimming pools for volume and libraries of congress for data volume, Rhode Island or Delaware for area.
Despite having so many categories, "Software Engineers" and "Software Developers" seem to be the bucket that catches all the people making a living creating software, but belong the category of "software skills are necessary but sufficient". In almost all branches of science, the "numerical simulation" has become very very important. We are graduating some 100,000 Masters in engineering and may be 25000 Ph Ds in engineering and a majority of them write code. Some very well, some very poorly but their programming skills is secondary to their knowledge of physics, chemistry and math. They all are likely to be paid way above this reported mean and clubbing them with "software kills alone are enough" group distorts the data.
From the article: '"This law made virtually the entire population of Rhode Island a criminal," said Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union
Does he claim all of them are liars? Good thing it was Rhode Island. Them fighting words in Arkansas and Texas.
Something like a minimum holding period in seconds or minutes, prohibition on naked shorts (you must borrow the security to short), and a small transaction fee to fund the enforcement mechanism would go a long way to bring sanity to the markets. Even in the commodity markets, some entity should estimate production of pork bellies or frozen concentrated orange juice or whatever and create "chips" that should be borrowed and returned to back the shorts. The shorted volume should not exceed estimated production by several times as it routinely happens now.
The borrower is not getting out of any obligations. All the borrower wants is to make sure he is paying off the right lender. The borrower has all the right to demand the guy dunning payment to prove that he is the real lender or has bought the note from the lender. If they misplaced the note, if they did not dot the i's and dash the tees tough luck the entity that thinks it owns the mortgage does not get a penny. That does not mean the borrower goes scot free. The mortgage note reverts to the original lender or the last legitimate provable owner of the note and they get paid.
Look, I am an immigrant, and I would like to believe I helped rather than hindered the innovation in my neck of the woods in America. (Though no patents, only trade secrets). But we have seen a constant barrage of postings and threads about how broken the patent system is. The speed with which patents are created is exceeding the speed of light. (But still it would not violate the theory of relativity because they carry no information ;-)). Suddenly using the number of patents issued to foreign born scientists and engineers as a yardstick to measure the innovation contribution of my fellow immigrants, just because it supports my point of view, does not seem to be right. If we are really contributing to the innovation scene here, we should find better metrics than merely the number of patents.
It is possible he stopped coding in the i386 era and has been a "manager" ever since. My point is, basically the interviewers have their own idiosyncrasies and many enjoy the power high they get when they look at some poor job applicant. Google and Microsoft will try to mitigate it to some extent by specifying policies and best practice documents, but in general unless you have a very large data set, chalk it all up to anecdotes.
The way to get the job is to express amazement at the awesomeness of that guy's pet function and wish you could some day be like him and would really like the opportunity to learn from masters like him. Otherwise he will become the soup nazi, "No Job to you!".
In most companies each person in the committee has his/her own style of questioning and sets of questions. So it would be quite a stretch to extrapolate from a few anecdotes about the interview to estimate the company policy. I know one guy who was fixated on the area of a 2D polygon and the point in-or-out test for a 2D polygon. There was another who would always ask for reversing a char string without temp storage, would not let go till he makes the interviewee agrees using recursion and double XOR is one hell of a trick. Then he would let the dazed applicant go with a self satisfied smile. Then there was this guy who was proud of scoring 800 in GRE analysis. All his questions would come out of mensa puzzle books. So unless your sample size is large, do not extrapolate from interview anecdotes to company policies.
The H1-Bs are asked to wear a special arm band with a pocket for the papers. They arm band should have an yellow star embroidered on it.
But such a heavy rotating mass makes for very unusual handling. When a small force is applied to a spinning disk in one direction a very large reaction happens in the mutually perpendicular third direction. Some fighter pilots would use it to make very very tight left turns, (or a right turn depending on the spin). Sometimes they would use two banks of cylinders counter rotating. Or two engines counter rotating to balance the angular momentum.
I think the little known fact is that the specialty hardware makers probably have even better margins than Apple. Have you seen the junk peddled by the set top box makers like Scientific Atlanta and its peers? Have you noticed their price list? I think medical equipment makers, lab equipment (oscilloscopes, digital probes, signal generators) have higher profit margins than Apple. After all, Apple still competes in the consumer market place, and there is a limit how much more it can charge for a laptop or phone over its competitors. Then there are hardware makers totally insulated from the market vagaries, the military vendors and their suppliers. Bank robbers will hang their heads in shame if they see how these guys rob their clients blind.
Software vendors typically have > 30% margins. ANSS operating margin = 38.01% , MSFT 38.44%, ORCL 37.87%, SAP 31.81%, GOOG 32.12%. Apple may be charging premium prices for its hardware, but its margins are lower than other pure software vendors. So the hardware division, despite charging premium prices, is probably dragging down the profit margins of the software and entertainment divisions.
But can show the obviousness of an idea. It can show the patent has no novel idea. Would it actually carry the day in a court? I am not sure.
Some clever tricks and cache management. All the speed improvement seems to be coming via read/write speeds rather than any fundamental breakthrough or parallel implementation or massively parallel database of any such thing. And the test was the standard test but some hand picked data base and their own queries. Probably the original funders are planning to sell it down to the next set of chumps.
I must have confused the M-x doctor mode of emacs with the Dr Watson error dialogs from Windows NT. Sorry for the mistake. I have not used a true emacs editor for a long time. (no, no I did not switch to vi, nor to MsDev editor. I am using Visual Slick Edit that supports all the key binding of Emacs).
Homo sapiens (capital for genus, lowercase for the species) is not a race, it is a species. Actually present day humans belong to the sub-species Homo sapiens sapiens, the only surviving sub-species of Homo sapiens. The extinct one is Homo sapien neanderthalis, their common ancestor was Homo sapien archaic. Race is recognized subdivision of a species, equivalent to breeds in other animals. So yes, Caucasian, Negroid, Mongolian are races. Jewish is not a race.
Is it possible your are born and raised in the United States and you are under the impression the kind of discrimination and prejudice in the USA is the only kind of prejudice that exists in the world? For all you know the employee who stopped the sale, who was also an Iranian, probably recognized the dialect of Farsi the buyer was talking and thought, "I am a high ranking plains farmer. She is a stupid highland goat herd. This is my chance to show her place" and then said, "No iPad to you".
The regulations mean Apple employees can not sell products if they know it is going to be exported to an embargoed country. The export regulation compliance training repeatedly stress, "do not make the call. kick the ball upstairs. If you think it can violate the embargo, pass the buck, and let someone higher than you make the call. "
If they knew you were planning to send it outside America, and knew it was going to end up in a banned country, they have to stop the sale or be deemed to have helped you circumvent export regulations.