To me this is a no-brainer - the customer agreed to specific terms, then broke those terms with blatant evidence showing he intended to do so all along.
I don't know.. I've bought airline tickets a zillion times. And never have I been asked to agree to those terms. I think this could be disputed in court because its like a click-through. Nobody reads this. Besides the site Skiplagged.com is explicitly endorsing this behavior. That proves that I definitely did NOT agree to those terms. I just bought the ticket from and agent and that was that. If you have a problem with the agent sue them.
Browser based Java has long been dead.. like in 2000.
What Java is used for is for server-side enterprise apps. Mainly the backend. As well as for Android apps.
Applets and other schemes were dead on arrival pretty much, but Sun kept trying to push it. Desktop Java has mostly been successful for IDEs but beyond that didn't take. Of course, desktop apps are a lot less common these days. People just develop web apps.... often in Java using Spring or something.
I always cringe at Google redesigns.. I thought Gmail was just fine when it came out. Then they started messing with the UI. It wasn't an improvement.. now things are harder to see, they don't stand out as much. Now they're at it again. I worry.
Same goes for Chrome. They seem to come out with something really good in the beginning but then they want to "improve" it and they just mess it up.
Actually, as the name suggests, the Aedes Aegypty is an invasive species to the Americas that arrived in slave boats from Africa (the disease had previously spread from Asia to Africa a few hundred years earlier).
Dengue fever (a disease first identified in Asia) could then spread freely at first in South America but more recently in North America as well.
Eradicating the Aedes Aegypty won't harm biodiversity because it is an invader. And this sort of control measure is very targeted to this particular species of mosquito (unlike DDT for example that would kill everything).
Its everything really.. my first new car was a VW.. in 5 months I had 5 problems. Including all the oil pouring out of the engine one day.. Very poor quality cars in my opinion.
I designed an entire curriculum for a university in South America and worked there for 15 years and here are some insights that came from that experience:
1. A good curriculum is aspirational. It aspires to leave the structure so that good professors can come along and do a good job without the bureaucracy getting in the way. (Which is a.big problem in some Universities)
2. Universities have a tendency to prefer PhDs and research over instruction. I believe this is a great mistake. While having some top notch researchers is certainly grate for the PhD program, many undergrad and even master's programs are better served by having solid practitioners on the team. Having good practitioners is great because they introduce the latest and greatest business practices into the educational system thus enriching the program.
3. Many University programs are too focused on producing researchers. They imagine the PhD to be the pinnacle of the career, when in practice most people want to work in industry. In fact, many US universities short change their students by spending on just about everything but instruction (ever wondered why in spite of you paying $50k a year there are so few course choices ?)
4. Many professors have little to no real world experience. They've just made a career at sitting in the University. That doesn't benefit students.
5. A lot of the material often omits how to put knowledge into practice. For example, you study tons about graphs and finite automata, but are hard pressed when its time to put all this into practice somewhere.
So the best one can do is create a good framework, and hire the right professors so that over time they enrich the program. I'm happy to say our program became quite successful and while we're a bit weak in theoretical concepts (like "formal models of computation", or "complexity theory", etc..) we're quite strong in producing competent software engineers that have also been very successful when they want to pursue higher degrees.
It all comes down to Microsoft Office. If you have it then people will want to use your machine. If you don't they'll rebel.
LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Google Docs don't cut it. People want MS Office. If they had that they wouldn't care if its Linux or AmigaOS or ProDos (well.. maybe they'd object to ProDos these days).
The 2013 MBP was a great machine. I still have one, maxed out. It still works great. I also got very good service even after my AppleCare ran out. I paid $200 to get a new batter and got a new screen, keyboard and battery for free (because the old screen had some defects). All I had to do to get service was to walk into a random Apple store. This is much harder with other vendors.
The old MBP was a great machine. I bought it because I couldn't stand the idea of moving to Windows 8, so I jumped ship. Its hands down the best laptop I've ever had in battery life, quality, etc.. And I love having MacOSX because I can easily do Unixy stuff as well as run parallels to run windows when I need it (less and less frequent).
I wasn't brave (or patient) enough to move to Linux. I don't like the idea of having to spend a lot of time configuring or learning things. And at the time the MBP was a solid machine.
Today's version? I'm not so sure. No peripherals, low RAM, even higher price, emoji bar. None of these things seem like a move up. I feel like I'd be compromising. What I'd expect of a 2018 13" model?
High end CPU (6 cores or more) 32 GB of RAM CUDA graphics card Useful peripherals, not just USB-C Even longer battery life 4k or 8k screen
At least it should be competitive with the MS Surface. In fact, it should outdo it in every way. But I fear Apple has lost its mojo.. Tim Cook is the new Ballmer.
My 2013 13" has most of the same features.. same RAM. I could use a disk upgrade and a few more cores.. but this new version still only has 16 gb of RAM. Still more of an Air than a Pro.
I'm not keen on the ginormous trackpad, the bad keyboard, and the lack of peripherals. I guess I'll wait another year or so.
yeah.. the 13" is still disabled with only 16 GB of RAM. My ancient MacBook Pro already can do that. I need something better to upgrade. The extra 2 cores is nice.. but with only 16 GB it feels limited.
GitHub is a repository of interesting Software Engineering data. Especially if you have access to the private repositories. Its a goldmine for anyone seeking to do research on such matters.
Facebook employees in an uproar? What business did they think they were in?
Zuck may sugar coat what they are doing as "connecting people" but its basically an image/comment sharing site. Not some grandiose save the world mission.
I've noticed that "executives" in far away offices are often so out of touch with the companies in their charge, that I imagine them in meetings playing with action figures representing their different teams. Frankly, that's exactly what they do. They "play company" until one of their underlings has a really good execution that they can point to and take credit for and use to move away to some other sucker company for a bigger payoff.
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To me this is a no-brainer - the customer agreed to specific terms, then broke those terms with blatant evidence showing he intended to do so all along.
I don't know.. I've bought airline tickets a zillion times. And never have I been asked to agree to those terms. I think this could be disputed in court because its like a click-through. Nobody reads this. Besides the site Skiplagged.com is explicitly endorsing this behavior. That proves that I definitely did NOT agree to those terms. I just bought the ticket from and agent and that was that. If you have a problem with the agent sue them.
Browser based Java has long been dead.. like in 2000.
What Java is used for is for server-side enterprise apps. Mainly the backend. As well as for Android apps.
Applets and other schemes were dead on arrival pretty much, but Sun kept trying to push it.
Desktop Java has mostly been successful for IDEs but beyond that didn't take. Of course, desktop apps are a lot less common these days. People just develop web apps.... often in Java using Spring or something.
Check out the job offers in indeed.com so that you know just how popular Java is compared to anything else.
I always cringe at Google redesigns.. I thought Gmail was just fine when it came out. Then they started messing with the UI. It wasn't an improvement.. now things are harder to see, they don't stand out as much. Now they're at it again. I worry.
Same goes for Chrome. They seem to come out with something really good in the beginning but then they want to "improve" it and they just mess it up.
yeah.. my compression was lossy
Who is CEO of Intel these days? Ballmer?
It seems that they are really dropping the ball!!
Intel behind on their chip fabs?
Major security flaws in their chips?
Is this even possible for the once dominating chip company?
ps. I thought Ballmer was at Apple these days.. but it seems he's CEO of both spending more time at Intel?
Aussies are all for compression. They compress words lie:
Sraya for Australia
Assie for Australian
Avro for Afternoon
Brickie for Bricklayer
Brolly for umbrella
etc..
Since encryption messes with compression. They are culturally averse to it.
Actually, as the name suggests, the Aedes Aegypty is an invasive species to the Americas that arrived in slave boats from Africa (the disease had previously spread from Asia to Africa a few hundred years earlier).
Dengue fever (a disease first identified in Asia) could then spread freely at first in South America but more recently in North America as well.
Eradicating the Aedes Aegypty won't harm biodiversity because it is an invader. And this sort of control measure is very targeted to this particular species of mosquito (unlike DDT for example that would kill everything).
and don't forget the (mis)use of the word "organic" when talking about veggies.
Its everything really.. my first new car was a VW.. in 5 months I had 5 problems. Including all the oil pouring out of the engine one day.. Very poor quality cars in my opinion.
I designed an entire curriculum for a university in South America and worked there for 15 years and here are some insights that came from that experience:
1. A good curriculum is aspirational. It aspires to leave the structure so that good professors can come along and do a good job without the bureaucracy getting in the way. (Which is a .big problem in some Universities)
2. Universities have a tendency to prefer PhDs and research over instruction. I believe this is a great mistake. While having some top notch researchers is certainly grate for the PhD program, many undergrad and even master's programs are better served by having solid practitioners on the team. Having good practitioners is great because they introduce the latest and greatest business practices into the educational system thus enriching the program.
3. Many University programs are too focused on producing researchers. They imagine the PhD to be the pinnacle of the career, when in practice most people want to work in industry. In fact, many US universities short change their students by spending on just about everything but instruction (ever wondered why in spite of you paying $50k a year there are so few course choices ?)
4. Many professors have little to no real world experience. They've just made a career at sitting in the University. That doesn't benefit students.
5. A lot of the material often omits how to put knowledge into practice. For example, you study tons about graphs and finite automata, but are hard pressed when its time to put all this into practice somewhere.
So the best one can do is create a good framework, and hire the right professors so that over time they enrich the program. I'm happy to say our program became quite successful and while we're a bit weak in theoretical concepts (like "formal models of computation", or "complexity theory", etc..) we're quite strong in producing competent software engineers that have also been very successful when they want to pursue higher degrees.
Remember DARPA?
Of course they wanted to use this for war.
Alexa is a search engine. Just like Google.
Should Google pay Wikipedia for reading results?
It all comes down to Microsoft Office. If you have it then people will want to use your machine. If you don't they'll rebel.
LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Google Docs don't cut it. People want MS Office. If they had that they wouldn't care if its Linux or AmigaOS or ProDos (well.. maybe they'd object to ProDos these days).
The 2013 MBP was a great machine. I still have one, maxed out.
It still works great. I also got very good service even after my AppleCare ran out. I paid $200 to get a new batter and got a new screen, keyboard and battery for free (because the old screen had some defects).
All I had to do to get service was to walk into a random Apple store. This is much harder with other vendors.
The old MBP was a great machine. I bought it because I couldn't stand the idea of moving to Windows 8, so I jumped ship. Its hands down the best laptop I've ever had in battery life, quality, etc.. And I love having MacOSX because I can easily do Unixy stuff as well as run parallels to run windows when I need it (less and less frequent).
I wasn't brave (or patient) enough to move to Linux. I don't like the idea of having to spend a lot of time configuring or learning things. And at the time the MBP was a solid machine.
Today's version? I'm not so sure. No peripherals, low RAM, even higher price, emoji bar. None of these things seem like a move up. I feel like I'd be compromising. What I'd expect of a 2018 13" model?
High end CPU (6 cores or more)
32 GB of RAM
CUDA graphics card
Useful peripherals, not just USB-C
Even longer battery life
4k or 8k screen
At least it should be competitive with the MS Surface. In fact, it should outdo it in every way.
But I fear Apple has lost its mojo.. Tim Cook is the new Ballmer.
My 2013 13" has most of the same features.. same RAM. I could use a disk upgrade and a few more cores.. but this new version still only has 16 gb of RAM. Still more of an Air than a Pro.
I'm not keen on the ginormous trackpad, the bad keyboard, and the lack of peripherals. I guess I'll wait another year or so.
yeah.. the 13" is still disabled with only 16 GB of RAM. My ancient MacBook Pro already can do that. I need something better to upgrade. The extra 2 cores is nice.. but with only 16 GB it feels limited.
And no.. I don't want 15".
You mean Facebook is gathering private data about us?
OMG.. nothing is sacred anymore!
GitHub is a repository of interesting Software Engineering data. Especially if you have access to the private repositories. Its a goldmine for anyone seeking to do research on such matters.
I think they are doing it to gain more credibility in the Enterprise.
Compared to AWS, they have the world's most popular code repository.
Integrating it with Azure is simple. And they'll be able to give Azure users special advantages and support.
Facebook employees in an uproar? What business did they think they were in?
Zuck may sugar coat what they are doing as "connecting people" but its basically an image/comment sharing site. Not some grandiose save the world mission.
Get real.
SE is very good. The ginormous ones don't interest me..
I've noticed that "executives" in far away offices are often so out of touch with the companies in their charge, that I imagine them in meetings playing with action figures representing their different teams. Frankly, that's exactly what they do. They "play company" until one of their underlings has a really good execution that they can point to and take credit for and use to move away to some other sucker company for a bigger payoff.
The Inca and Aztec empires in the south, and groups like the Iroquois Confederacy in the north...
You mean the Inca in the South and the Aztec in the North.
You know the Aztecs lived in North America right? (Mexico is in North America)
Aztecs -> North (some Central)
Mayan -> Central (some North)
Inca -> South
Of course there were more civilizations in what today is US and Canada as well. Also further in South America.
You bring up a good point.
At the end of the day maintainability is very important in a software system. For many systems I'd say its more important than initial productivity.
Many features in the language is not as important. In fact, I'm a big fan of one of the most feature free languages ever: Smalltalk.
So Java has the advantage of being more predictable and more maintainable.
My big gripe is some of the crazy frameworks you have to deal with.