He seems to have sorely underestimated how much the insecure rich bastards would be willing to pay to reassure themselves that they are successful and they stand apart from the unwashed masses.
At the time of booking you need to declare the name of the purchaser. And show ID at the time of usage. Indian Railways uses such a system. (Only one member of the party who booked the tickets has to show the id.)
Microsoft productivity pads are probably cannibalizing sales from the business executive laptops. Most of the shops that could support iOS devices have gone to Apple. But the shops that do not or could not support iOS were stuck carrying the business executive laptops. The Sony Vaio clones and Apple airbook clones. Those shops would switch to surface pad pro.
Once bitten twice shy. Now a days most IT shops want to use only the set of Microsoft products that inter-operate with other systems, even if the walled garden built by Microsoft is quite good and cost effective.
Is it possible for some samples to be stored safely in vaults, wait for the disease to sweep through the land and bring it back? Or the fungus has other hosts and lives forever in the soil?
One thing I miss in America is the stem of the banana "tree". Banana tree has layers and layers of greenish "bark". As you strip them, it turns white and right in the center, about 2 inches in diameter the "stem". Harvested and sold in all vegetable shops in South India. It is not sweet. It is more like white radish in consistency. Chop it into disks, saute it with musturd seeds, some lentils, asafoetida and salt. Sprinkle grated fresh coconut. Wow! Tastes. absolutely. fantastic. It is also gets used in a tamarind based sauce called sambar. Out of this world. Now a days they are slowly making an appearance in Indian grocery stores. Before it gets totally wiped off, may be it will be available in USA.
"On paper and on specs Porsche will beat Tesla. I think it would even beat Tesla in every benchmark on the test harness.
Only when it hits the real road, it might run into some unanticipated results", said the engineer who has been recently
transferred from the corporate HQ of Volkswagen to its Porsche division.
When someone does anything remotely good, we should compare that person against perfection, (and we get to define perfection too, whoppee) and carp on any deficiency from the ideal case. (Example: Remember, that natural food peddling yoga evangelist Mrs XYZ? She drives an SUV so yoga and natural foods are bad for you).
When someone does anything really bad, we compare that person against the worst possible example and praise the "better" stuff. (Example: Remember that jerk Mr ABC who stole petty cash from the block party fund? Well, at least he did not set his dogs on kids trick-or-treating, there is some good in him).
I don't know whether Zuckerberg is truly altruistic interested in doing chariy and believes in his own ability to do it better than the current modi operandi of charity work, or it is some weird tax dodge only a billionaire can afford to execute.
But I think *everything* is ultimately selfish, and no action, however seeming altruistic it seems prima facie, will ultimately have a selfish motive. Obvious direct selfish motives are of course fortune, fame, power, lust etc. Then comes altruism benefiting one's close relatives, more distant relatives, ones clan, tribe, nation or race, species. At this level no act can be really considered purely altruistic.
It should be possible to find out who did the code chage, who approved the change and who merged it.
One of our coders used a limerick, yes it was the man from Nantucket, as a static string. He used it to test some of the string utility functions he was developing. Forgot to remove it. Eventually a nosy customer found it by running strings on our executable and made a stink about it. (Never explained why they were poking around our executable with strings) It is out of our builds now, but if you do a blame on stingutils.cpp you can still see it and see how long it stayed in production.
Sitting farther away from the boss reduces unethical behavior. Why is that a good reason? What makes you think the employees want to reduce the unethical behavior of their bosses?
No, not that complicated. Just have to trachyons through the flux capacitor to emit metachlorians, to produce a grand conjuction from three different space-time metaverses .
I always add a case that can accept a strap loop. Or I mod it. The wallet cases made of leather can accept a grommet. Punch one in and cut out the hole inside. Then I loop a neck lanyard through it. The lanyard is usually connected to the belt. It is long enough to reach the ear, but not long enough to hit the floor if it is jostled out or if I drop it. Many people laugh at my Dilbert level of dorkiness.
But once in a while I catch a well dressed young person using a phone with screen cracked like a sun burst and that makes my day. Sadly I do not get any visible notification of people who have misplaced their phone.
How many people use these phones in its all original slender splendor? 99% of them add a case. Some of them pay token respect to the slenderness as a concept. Some go the other way and make it conspicuously bulky to invoke a feeling of ruggedness. Some add covers that lets you a few credit cards and driving license, gym membership card or bus passes. Some of the ladies clutch purses have a holder to pack the phone inside along with assorted things that must be carried at all times. You never know when you suddenly need the eye brow tweezer or the 15% off coupon from Bed Bath and Beyond that expired 18 months ago. Anyway, I digress.
The point is very few consumers worship slenderness and sleekness as much as the designers of Apple. At some point it is not a selling point anymore. Looks like Apple is where Microsoft was in lat 1990s. Running on inertia of the huge installed base and de-facto monopoly status.
No one ever figured out the right way to power a little fan attached to the chop sticks to cool your noodles as you pull them from the bowl, till USB came along. And there were some twenty more such crazy things powered by USB.
Every cell phone manufacturer would make a new charger with a new connector totally incompatible with one another. Some manufacturer will change the charger between lines of their own product. (Nokia was a little more friendly than others in this respect). You forget to pack a charger you can't borrow one easily. You lose one, they come dunning for $19.99 + shipping and handling. What a mess!
Finally Android put a stop to it. Now on the android side almost all the chargers are ubiquitous micro USB. Most wearables and bluetooth headphones... almost all don't pack a wallwart any more. They just give a USB adapter to serve as charger.
I understand Apple still sees their users as captive market to be exploited using non standard cables, connectors etc each costing 20$
Free speech concerns do not apply to private companies, and in fact forcing a company to carry some speech it does not want to carry would be a violation of its rights too. But that is true only when there is competition and alternatives available for the patrons. When group of companies that collectively control a significant chunk of their market act in a discriminatory manner they can be compelled. This was the logic used in enforcing de segregation and civil rights laws on private companies all over Jim Crow south.
Goes without saying correlation does not imply causation.
Further it is hard to believe engg faculty are more conservative than business school faculty or law school faculty. I have been a TA in engg grad school. Our faculty ranged from my muslim PhD guru to dyed-in-the-wool Texas-homeland-hillbilly professor complete with knee high leather boots, 5 gallon hat and some kind of buckle-and-shoe-lace thing he wore instead of a tie, Korean war veteran.
In Asia smart kids aspire to become engineers or doctors. They do well in home country and end up in USA engg school and suddenly are confronted with international level of academic competition. Those who just managed to make it just barely over the GRE score threshold find it very hard. I have seen grad students struggle. Psychological break down common because they have borrowed heavily to come to USA and their assistantship is on the verge of being taken away due to poor GPA. It transcends country of origin. Indian and Chinese students as likely to struggle here as are Middle Eastern, Taiwanese, Indonesian grad students.
Further Engg/Med schools attract more international students, because lack of English knowledge is not as much of an impediment to Engg/Med schools compared to business or law schools.
And the terrorists need engineers as much as any organization. Except for purely retail, purely accounting, purely law companies everyone else needs engineers. So they actively recruit among the frustrated engineers.
Mosquito bites are irritating, but as long as they don't spread disease they are endurable. Till the malaria pathogen mutates to find a new vector it would work.
No way the school district is going to pay 15 mill to this family that has already emigrated to Qatar. It will probably cost a few thousands in lawyer fees. On the other hand, that clock boy is going to lose all sympathy from most people. It lends credence to the accusation that the boy's father, a presidential candidate in south sudan or chad or some such place is quite media savvy and has manipulated the media and gamed the system.
Distributed power generation could provide a vital back up for such grid failures. So to protect the profit potential of utilities sucking the blood of captive customers we need to sabotage roof top solar first. If grid gets sabotaged, then we can get the feds to cough up money for doing all the maintenance work that were cut back for decades.
The big lesson learned from the 2008 financial collapse is: fail big. Fail small, you need to pay for the cost of failure. Fail big, feds will pay for the cost of failure. So make sure that all failures are catastrophic, so that there is huge public pressure to "do something". The utilities will have contingency plans ready to hold the hat out for federal handout.
We freed the banking from the law of supply and demand and the profits of the financial sector have boomed to 25% of all profits earned by all enterprises. But still we are still hampered by rest of the economy saddled with physical process of delivering goods and services in the real world of Euclidean geometry and physics. Ages ago, before we understood the real cost of energy a small band of elite "scientists" passed all sorts of laws, "conservation of energy" "conservation of angular momentum" and the most egregious of all, the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Our economy has been straining at the yoke of these tyrannical laws.
It is high time we repeal these draconian laws and free the economy to create more jobs and prosperity for all. We will form a committee of high powered lawyers and finance wizards to study the constitutionality of these laws, and we are planning to sue them to be declared unconstitutional and hence null and void. Our private assessment is that the John Roberts court will be sympathetic to our plea but timing is of the essence, we need to get the case in the docket while Scalia is still in office.
We will not rest till the Finance sector takes home 98% of all profits earned in all endeavors.
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He seems to have sorely underestimated how much the insecure rich bastards would be willing to pay to reassure themselves that they are successful and they stand apart from the unwashed masses.
At the time of booking you need to declare the name of the purchaser. And show ID at the time of usage. Indian Railways uses such a system. (Only one member of the party who booked the tickets has to show the id.)
Once bitten twice shy. Now a days most IT shops want to use only the set of Microsoft products that inter-operate with other systems, even if the walled garden built by Microsoft is quite good and cost effective.
Is it possible for some samples to be stored safely in vaults, wait for the disease to sweep through the land and bring it back? Or the fungus has other hosts and lives forever in the soil?
One thing I miss in America is the stem of the banana "tree". Banana tree has layers and layers of greenish "bark". As you strip them, it turns white and right in the center, about 2 inches in diameter the "stem". Harvested and sold in all vegetable shops in South India. It is not sweet. It is more like white radish in consistency. Chop it into disks, saute it with musturd seeds, some lentils, asafoetida and salt. Sprinkle grated fresh coconut. Wow! Tastes. absolutely. fantastic. It is also gets used in a tamarind based sauce called sambar. Out of this world. Now a days they are slowly making an appearance in Indian grocery stores. Before it gets totally wiped off, may be it will be available in USA.
"On paper and on specs Porsche will beat Tesla. I think it would even beat Tesla in every benchmark on the test harness. Only when it hits the real road, it might run into some unanticipated results", said the engineer who has been recently transferred from the corporate HQ of Volkswagen to its Porsche division.
When someone does anything really bad, we compare that person against the worst possible example and praise the "better" stuff. (Example: Remember that jerk Mr ABC who stole petty cash from the block party fund? Well, at least he did not set his dogs on kids trick-or-treating, there is some good in him).
I don't know whether Zuckerberg is truly altruistic interested in doing chariy and believes in his own ability to do it better than the current modi operandi of charity work, or it is some weird tax dodge only a billionaire can afford to execute.
But I think *everything* is ultimately selfish, and no action, however seeming altruistic it seems prima facie, will ultimately have a selfish motive. Obvious direct selfish motives are of course fortune, fame, power, lust etc. Then comes altruism benefiting one's close relatives, more distant relatives, ones clan, tribe, nation or race, species. At this level no act can be really considered purely altruistic.
To get the Lunar Helium3 cheaply you need to use rockets powered by red mercury.
How will it stop the reciever taking screen grabs? OR save it using other methods?
Well, you remember the limerick well, sadly the mods don't seem to.
One of our coders used a limerick, yes it was the man from Nantucket, as a static string. He used it to test some of the string utility functions he was developing. Forgot to remove it. Eventually a nosy customer found it by running strings on our executable and made a stink about it. (Never explained why they were poking around our executable with strings) It is out of our builds now, but if you do a blame on stingutils.cpp you can still see it and see how long it stayed in production.
No, not in the banks. They use a circular loop of deniability. They have found a perfect way to commit perfect crime.
Sitting farther away from the boss reduces unethical behavior. Why is that a good reason? What makes you think the employees want to reduce the unethical behavior of their bosses?
No, not that complicated. Just have to trachyons through the flux capacitor to emit metachlorians, to produce a grand conjuction from three different space-time metaverses .
But once in a while I catch a well dressed young person using a phone with screen cracked like a sun burst and that makes my day. Sadly I do not get any visible notification of people who have misplaced their phone.
The point is very few consumers worship slenderness and sleekness as much as the designers of Apple. At some point it is not a selling point anymore. Looks like Apple is where Microsoft was in lat 1990s. Running on inertia of the huge installed base and de-facto monopoly status.
No one ever figured out the right way to power a little fan attached to the chop sticks to cool your noodles as you pull them from the bowl, till USB came along. And there were some twenty more such crazy things powered by USB.
Finally Android put a stop to it. Now on the android side almost all the chargers are ubiquitous micro USB. Most wearables and bluetooth headphones... almost all don't pack a wallwart any more. They just give a USB adapter to serve as charger.
I understand Apple still sees their users as captive market to be exploited using non standard cables, connectors etc each costing 20$
Free speech concerns do not apply to private companies, and in fact forcing a company to carry some speech it does not want to carry would be a violation of its rights too. But that is true only when there is competition and alternatives available for the patrons. When group of companies that collectively control a significant chunk of their market act in a discriminatory manner they can be compelled. This was the logic used in enforcing de segregation and civil rights laws on private companies all over Jim Crow south.
Further it is hard to believe engg faculty are more conservative than business school faculty or law school faculty. I have been a TA in engg grad school. Our faculty ranged from my muslim PhD guru to dyed-in-the-wool Texas-homeland-hillbilly professor complete with knee high leather boots, 5 gallon hat and some kind of buckle-and-shoe-lace thing he wore instead of a tie, Korean war veteran.
In Asia smart kids aspire to become engineers or doctors. They do well in home country and end up in USA engg school and suddenly are confronted with international level of academic competition. Those who just managed to make it just barely over the GRE score threshold find it very hard. I have seen grad students struggle. Psychological break down common because they have borrowed heavily to come to USA and their assistantship is on the verge of being taken away due to poor GPA. It transcends country of origin. Indian and Chinese students as likely to struggle here as are Middle Eastern, Taiwanese, Indonesian grad students.
Further Engg/Med schools attract more international students, because lack of English knowledge is not as much of an impediment to Engg/Med schools compared to business or law schools.
And the terrorists need engineers as much as any organization. Except for purely retail, purely accounting, purely law companies everyone else needs engineers. So they actively recruit among the frustrated engineers.
... Just file a bugzilla defect. We will fix it in the next release.
Mosquito bites are irritating, but as long as they don't spread disease they are endurable. Till the malaria pathogen mutates to find a new vector it would work.
No way the school district is going to pay 15 mill to this family that has already emigrated to Qatar. It will probably cost a few thousands in lawyer fees. On the other hand, that clock boy is going to lose all sympathy from most people. It lends credence to the accusation that the boy's father, a presidential candidate in south sudan or chad or some such place is quite media savvy and has manipulated the media and gamed the system.
The big lesson learned from the 2008 financial collapse is: fail big. Fail small, you need to pay for the cost of failure. Fail big, feds will pay for the cost of failure. So make sure that all failures are catastrophic, so that there is huge public pressure to "do something". The utilities will have contingency plans ready to hold the hat out for federal handout.
It is high time we repeal these draconian laws and free the economy to create more jobs and prosperity for all. We will form a committee of high powered lawyers and finance wizards to study the constitutionality of these laws, and we are planning to sue them to be declared unconstitutional and hence null and void. Our private assessment is that the John Roberts court will be sympathetic to our plea but timing is of the essence, we need to get the case in the docket while Scalia is still in office.
We will not rest till the Finance sector takes home 98% of all profits earned in all endeavors.
Confidential. Circulation strictly limited. For the eyes of finance executives only