I have a plasma TV that's about 10 years old. I just replaced it with a new screen because it was getting to the point where the contrast was noticeably low. Still works just fine (and no burn in), just the picture isn't as good as it used to be. It's probably done I'd guess 20k hours and this is 10 year old technology - the plasma I replaced it with will last much longer.
What will happen to all those paper books, which are too old, or are in a grey area of copyright? They will never scan and sell those. They will be lost forever, ending up with just a handful of copies scattered in a few libraries around the world.
And what would happen to them without Amazon? If they're in a "grey area of copyright" no-one's going to reprint them either. The copies which exist today are all the copies that will ever exist, scattered in a few libraries until they run out of shelf space and the librarian dumps them in a landfill. If someone does own the copyright and have access to the manuscript it's a LOT cheaper to give that to Amazon/whoever as an ebook than do a small run of physical copies. The likelihood that the content would be preserved in electronic form is MUCH higher than in physical form.
You seem to believe that because people like to consume new books electronically they're somehow suddenly incapable of reading paper - that if an hold book only exists physically it's "lost". I don't understand that at all. Old books are no worse off, new books are much better off (because the cost of duplication is now zero, there will be more copies).
Treasury has already recovered an amount that is greater than what was invested in banks under TARP. Taxpayers began to see a positive return on their bank investments in March 2011. Every additional dollar that is recovered from TARP's bank investments represents an additional return for the taxpayers. ââ
I'm not saying it was a good situation, but all this talk of massive bailouts is complete nonsense. The plan did what was intended and made some money for the taxpayer at the same time (the investment in AIG alone made over $20B). If you want to be mad at someone - look at the car companies - they still owe $$$$.
A zero-sum game requires that besides a winner there must be a loser.
Who told you the stock market was a zero sum game? (Hint: It's not). Personally I don't give a crap how profitable my retail bank is as long as they keep paying the interest rate they promise - the fact that they take my capital and use it to invest is precisely why they're in business (no one ever made a profit leaving money in a locked box) and I think it's great that they can continue to pay their employees.
HFT had nothing to do with the recent collapse, I'm not really sure why everyone's so up in arms about it all of a sudden. Eventually the margins will dry up and then people will move onto something else.
Cookies are bound to domains, and JS isn't allowed to cross domains (same origin policy). So yes, you can open a new tab or window and get into your mail without a login, but no, another site in another tab can't just suck down that data. Well, unless they're using an XSS exploit or something, but that would be what they're being accused of:)
If you're having performance issues, then C++ would offer a more efficient solution. Why jump through all these hoops to boost Java performance? Just use C++ and get twice the performance instantly with Linux.
That isn't true (in the general case) and it hasn't been for many, many years - can't tell if you're trolling or just ignorant. There are plenty of operations for which a JVM is actually faster than a C process (for example, Java new() is faster than malloc()), and Hotspot runtime optimization has access to a lot more information about how code is actually being used than static compile time optimization - the difference that makes can be remarkable.
Java isn't the right tool for every job, but neither is any language, and there are a great many applications out there for which converting to C++ (for example) would not give any kind of performance boost (and may even be slower).
I think it's much more likely the NSA figure out the VPN stuff by simple traffic analysis - they don't need Microsoft to tell them anything (particularly as I'm sure they're well aware that a large percentage of VPN connections don't involve Microsoft platforms). Doesn't mean I'm not interested in the phone home connection though...
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Sure there are complexities when dealing with dates, particularly when you have client/server interactions and even more so when the nodes might move around and switch time zones randomly.
But these problems have been solved, and any sensible language/platform has support for all this stuff. There's no excuse for a professional in 2012 to screw this stuff up.
Most phones use MMS instead of SMS when sending to multiple recipients. The iPhone (for example, I'm sure many others do the same) shows the names of everyone in the group at the top if you get a text message that was sent to multiple people.
An iPhone is off when you turn it off, just like any other phone. If that wasn't the case they wouldn't be allowed on planes. If you see some story about someone getting charges while their phone was "off" it just means they don't actually know how to turn it off (hint: it's not necessarily off when the screen is black) - that or a billing error.
That's because there are alternatives which are equivalent in every meaningful way. That's simply not the case for all types of software. For example there is no Linux equivalent for most Adobe products (I use Lightroom & Photoshop) - yes there is the GIMP and there are photo cataloging applications but they're not equivalent any more than Lynx is equivalent to Chrome. There's cool stuff happening in the Linux music world too, but nothing to seriously compare to the pro stuff like Ableton, Cubase, Logic, Traktor, etc.
I have nothing against Linux, I run it on several servers, but it's useless to me as a desktop environment if the third parties providing the software I use don't support it. And I realize I'm not everyone - but I am someone:)
It's preventing me upgrading to Win 8 from 7. Eventually staying on 7 won't be an option so I'll need to go elsewhere, basically Linux or Mac. Mac means expensive new hardware, Linux means significant issues running the software I use (Lightroom, Photoshop, Ableton, Traktor, etc etc). Neither is ideal.
If anyone tried that where I work they'd be out so fast their head spun. Copying code for your own pet project at home is one thing (I still wouldn't do it, but at least the fall out is limited), but leaving your employer open to lawsuits is generally considered a bad idea.
The leadership of a union represents it's members in about the same way a government represents it's citizens - that's to say on paper, but really they're in it for themselves.
I'm a developer, my wife's a teacher. She was recently laid off, and got nothing whatsoever. How helpful were the union? They did nothing. After years of being forced to pay dues to a union she didn't even want to be a member of they were completely useless the first time she had a problem they're supposed to be there to help with.
On the other hand, I know my employer has laid people off in the last few years and they always get nice severance packages including cash, training and job seeking assistance. I earn FAR more than her, my hours are more flexible, my management is far better, and my working environment is better.
So with the unions preventing employers from firing useless people (and instead making sure it's always the person at the bottom of the totem pole who gets it - way to encourage new talent!) and actively working to prevent keen & passionate employees from going above & beyond (wouldn't want to make anyone else look bad!), and then providing no benefit whatsoever when the shit hits the fan - I'm happy to be as far away as possible.
As a long time Java &.NET dev I can attest to the quality of some of those projects. NUnit for one is better that the Java version it was originally based on. I'd also add Moq which is a great mocking library.
It's lock-in in the same way that Ford lock you in to using parts designed for Fords. I'm a Canon user but my lenses are about 50/50 Canon original and third party. No, I can't use a Nikkor because they've never made an EF mount lens to my knowledge, but a number of companies do.
I have one of the Korean 27" screens - they seem to be generally great. I went for a slightly higher end model to get HDMI etc, and I have no dead pixels at all. I can see slight variation in the backlight when it's full white but I've seen it at least that bad on every monitor I've ever owned (costing a lot more than this). Highly recommended (and if you don't want to go the eBay route, monoprice are now rebadging these themselves!).
As someone who's spent significant time living in both, your belief that the US government is significantly better/different is quaint and amusing. Maybe the EU went overboard on fan guards (the new rule actually seems reasonable to me) but at least no one tells you how big your soda cup can be, or threatens to lock you up for carrying a bottle of wine in public, or crossing the street at the wrong place. Every country has their little restrictions and laws which often seem normal to those living there and batshit crazy to everyone else. C'est la vie:)
Not according to Wikipedia, or this site or this one or this one. You get the idea - I can't really find anything defining CNC as anything other than Computer Numerical Control(led).
You ALWAYS get better performance with a wired connection. Even if you have superfast wifi that can max out your downstream connection the stability and reliability is never as good as wired. And if you need to run multiple streams of data around the house, forget it.
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I have a plasma TV that's about 10 years old. I just replaced it with a new screen because it was getting to the point where the contrast was noticeably low. Still works just fine (and no burn in), just the picture isn't as good as it used to be. It's probably done I'd guess 20k hours and this is 10 year old technology - the plasma I replaced it with will last much longer.
And what would happen to them without Amazon? If they're in a "grey area of copyright" no-one's going to reprint them either. The copies which exist today are all the copies that will ever exist, scattered in a few libraries until they run out of shelf space and the librarian dumps them in a landfill. If someone does own the copyright and have access to the manuscript it's a LOT cheaper to give that to Amazon/whoever as an ebook than do a small run of physical copies. The likelihood that the content would be preserved in electronic form is MUCH higher than in physical form.
You seem to believe that because people like to consume new books electronically they're somehow suddenly incapable of reading paper - that if an hold book only exists physically it's "lost". I don't understand that at all. Old books are no worse off, new books are much better off (because the cost of duplication is now zero, there will be more copies).
You do know TARP made a profit, right?
I'm not saying it was a good situation, but all this talk of massive bailouts is complete nonsense. The plan did what was intended and made some money for the taxpayer at the same time (the investment in AIG alone made over $20B). If you want to be mad at someone - look at the car companies - they still owe $$$$.
Who told you the stock market was a zero sum game? (Hint: It's not). Personally I don't give a crap how profitable my retail bank is as long as they keep paying the interest rate they promise - the fact that they take my capital and use it to invest is precisely why they're in business (no one ever made a profit leaving money in a locked box) and I think it's great that they can continue to pay their employees.
HFT had nothing to do with the recent collapse, I'm not really sure why everyone's so up in arms about it all of a sudden. Eventually the margins will dry up and then people will move onto something else.
Cookies are bound to domains, and JS isn't allowed to cross domains (same origin policy). So yes, you can open a new tab or window and get into your mail without a login, but no, another site in another tab can't just suck down that data. Well, unless they're using an XSS exploit or something, but that would be what they're being accused of :)
That isn't true (in the general case) and it hasn't been for many, many years - can't tell if you're trolling or just ignorant. There are plenty of operations for which a JVM is actually faster than a C process (for example, Java new() is faster than malloc()), and Hotspot runtime optimization has access to a lot more information about how code is actually being used than static compile time optimization - the difference that makes can be remarkable.
Java isn't the right tool for every job, but neither is any language, and there are a great many applications out there for which converting to C++ (for example) would not give any kind of performance boost (and may even be slower).
I think it's much more likely the NSA figure out the VPN stuff by simple traffic analysis - they don't need Microsoft to tell them anything (particularly as I'm sure they're well aware that a large percentage of VPN connections don't involve Microsoft platforms). Doesn't mean I'm not interested in the phone home connection though...
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Sure there are complexities when dealing with dates, particularly when you have client/server interactions and even more so when the nodes might move around and switch time zones randomly.
But these problems have been solved, and any sensible language/platform has support for all this stuff. There's no excuse for a professional in 2012 to screw this stuff up.
Most phones use MMS instead of SMS when sending to multiple recipients. The iPhone (for example, I'm sure many others do the same) shows the names of everyone in the group at the top if you get a text message that was sent to multiple people.
An iPhone is off when you turn it off, just like any other phone. If that wasn't the case they wouldn't be allowed on planes. If you see some story about someone getting charges while their phone was "off" it just means they don't actually know how to turn it off (hint: it's not necessarily off when the screen is black) - that or a billing error.
That's because there are alternatives which are equivalent in every meaningful way. That's simply not the case for all types of software. For example there is no Linux equivalent for most Adobe products (I use Lightroom & Photoshop) - yes there is the GIMP and there are photo cataloging applications but they're not equivalent any more than Lynx is equivalent to Chrome. There's cool stuff happening in the Linux music world too, but nothing to seriously compare to the pro stuff like Ableton, Cubase, Logic, Traktor, etc.
I have nothing against Linux, I run it on several servers, but it's useless to me as a desktop environment if the third parties providing the software I use don't support it. And I realize I'm not everyone - but I am someone :)
It's preventing me upgrading to Win 8 from 7. Eventually staying on 7 won't be an option so I'll need to go elsewhere, basically Linux or Mac. Mac means expensive new hardware, Linux means significant issues running the software I use (Lightroom, Photoshop, Ableton, Traktor, etc etc). Neither is ideal.
If anyone tried that where I work they'd be out so fast their head spun. Copying code for your own pet project at home is one thing (I still wouldn't do it, but at least the fall out is limited), but leaving your employer open to lawsuits is generally considered a bad idea.
Unless you want buttermilk, because that's what you just made. But keep buttermilk in the pancakes, not the coffee :)
The leadership of a union represents it's members in about the same way a government represents it's citizens - that's to say on paper, but really they're in it for themselves.
I'm a developer, my wife's a teacher. She was recently laid off, and got nothing whatsoever. How helpful were the union? They did nothing. After years of being forced to pay dues to a union she didn't even want to be a member of they were completely useless the first time she had a problem they're supposed to be there to help with.
On the other hand, I know my employer has laid people off in the last few years and they always get nice severance packages including cash, training and job seeking assistance. I earn FAR more than her, my hours are more flexible, my management is far better, and my working environment is better.
So with the unions preventing employers from firing useless people (and instead making sure it's always the person at the bottom of the totem pole who gets it - way to encourage new talent!) and actively working to prevent keen & passionate employees from going above & beyond (wouldn't want to make anyone else look bad!), and then providing no benefit whatsoever when the shit hits the fan - I'm happy to be as far away as possible.
Good riddance.
As a long time Java & .NET dev I can attest to the quality of some of those projects. NUnit for one is better that the Java version it was originally based on. I'd also add Moq which is a great mocking library.
It's lock-in in the same way that Ford lock you in to using parts designed for Fords. I'm a Canon user but my lenses are about 50/50 Canon original and third party. No, I can't use a Nikkor because they've never made an EF mount lens to my knowledge, but a number of companies do.
There still are - Tamron, Sigma etc. I have a couple of Sigma EF lenses that I love.
I have one of the Korean 27" screens - they seem to be generally great. I went for a slightly higher end model to get HDMI etc, and I have no dead pixels at all. I can see slight variation in the backlight when it's full white but I've seen it at least that bad on every monitor I've ever owned (costing a lot more than this). Highly recommended (and if you don't want to go the eBay route, monoprice are now rebadging these themselves!).
As someone who's spent significant time living in both, your belief that the US government is significantly better/different is quaint and amusing. Maybe the EU went overboard on fan guards (the new rule actually seems reasonable to me) but at least no one tells you how big your soda cup can be, or threatens to lock you up for carrying a bottle of wine in public, or crossing the street at the wrong place. Every country has their little restrictions and laws which often seem normal to those living there and batshit crazy to everyone else. C'est la vie :)
Not according to Wikipedia, or this site or this one or this one. You get the idea - I can't really find anything defining CNC as anything other than Computer Numerical Control(led).
Yes, must.
You ALWAYS get better performance with a wired connection. Even if you have superfast wifi that can max out your downstream connection the stability and reliability is never as good as wired. And if you need to run multiple streams of data around the house, forget it.
I read a lot of resumes. 3 pages for 35 years is fine...it's the 6+ pages for less than 10 years which get me.