Raise your hand if you haven't had this conversation before...
"We have a great 6-month contract opportunity in Nowhereville that we think you'd be a perfect fit for. The rate is $25/hr on 1099 with no benefits..."
You forgot "possibly a chance to go permanent"... which will never happen, they might extend your contract to a year until they find an H1-B to replace you.
Those are slick looking pieces of equipment, but yeah... I'm betting a new one is probably in the $20K+ range.
I picked up a Tek Spectrum Analyzer (2755) for $2K a couple years back, and I know new they're pretty expensive too.
Well, everything inside the FPGA. But as soon as you have to connect that FPGA to anything external to it, especially at the high clock speeds things run at today, all those wires/traces coming off the pins of the FPGA are essentially transmission lines with potential for crosstalk, reflection at the far end, etc.
Yup... and even more so at today's GHz speeds. Back in the days of 8-bit cpu's (6502, Z80, 8080) you could get away with less knowledge, but if you don't get transmission lines, reflection, termination, crosstalk, etc, you're going to have a lot of problems with modern day GHz speed processors.
They're all Asian.
Maybe now, but Bob Pease would have argued with you on that up until his death (maybe a decade ago now?).
Pfft, there is only one operating system.
I am a big fan of dm-crypt.
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RSX-11?
Will registryd be part of systemd soon? I can't wait having some centralized binary configuration only readable by systemd utilities.
They're still working on a GUI version of RegeditSysdLinux so people that shouldn't be anywhere *near* sysadmin can get in and break things easily.
Seriously....makes me want to scream (or did, I left that place), and you really think having the latest wiz-bang tools available is anything but the least of my worries? Not in production it isn't.
Yup, having been in a production environment with 1000's of machines, you get very 'risk averse' - your job is 24/7/365 uptime, making sure nothing breaks, *NOT* having the latest whiz-bang tools to play with.
The PROBLEM is that they simply collect too much data to have a prayer of being able to store and process it all. They are drowning in data and there is no practical way to store this data for any length of time so they routinely purge "old" data to make room. From news reports I've read in the past, I'm surmising that the raw data can only be kept for periods measured in days, maybe tens of days, before they run out of disk space.
Which is, in essence, admitting that they collect way too much data to really be useful - and that they would be far better off targeting particular people with proper warrants rather than trying to collect everything, illegally (according to the constitution).
I would add that if push comes to shove in the USA and the army steps in (and it would; that's what armies do), your biggest worry is which of the NSA or CIA will take control, and whether the FBI will launch an insurgency.
Wait... you mean they aren't *already* in control?
Unfortunately, "interfering" is subject to the individual officer's opinion, just like "resisting arrest" and a thousand other subjective offenses. In court, it's your word against his. Guess who the judge will side with?
You were "interfering" with the officers desire to shoot an innocent person and claim it was in 'self-defense'. Or their ability to beat the crap out of their 'suspect' for refusing to comply to their questioning.
The problem isn't android at all. The problem is that any phone past the 2 years release date is not supported. Heck, one year is often enough to never see an update. With CyanogenMod and other ROM makers out there supporting older devices supporting it by the Manufacturers shouldn't be an issue. Heck, they could hand off support to Cyanogen if they wanted, but that doesn't sell new handsets every 1.5 years.
Buying an Apple might get you updates beyond 2 years.
And good luck with any other OS.
Cyanogen (& other mods) thus far don't support a lot of the features in most models. Kinda defeats the purpose when to "upgrade" your 2y/o phone it means losing camera and wi-fi support.
ugh, less than $50K, serves me right for using the LT sign. Article you linked to says $20K.
Before we go to far on it, it should also be noted that the lady in question only sued them for a relatively small amount (medical bills, $50K if I recall although it's been a while) - McD's *refused* to pay, and took it to court where they lost big time. They really would have been far better off just settling with her like she wanted originally.
Explain to me where I'm supposed to get my GEOS updated for my Commodore 64? And I sent in my warranty registration card, but I never heard back from them.
Why, is there a security problem with it?
In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.
