If the following blog post is worth anything, then maybe the USA will still go with eLoran as a backup:
http://www.panbo.com/archives/...
The next question is how cheap is the most affordable eLoran receiver, and where can one be bought?
I have seen some attempts to r creating HyperCard, but nothing really seems to have come of them. If there are any successful or fully functioning open source equivalents I would be interested in knowing about them.
I used HyperCard a bit and in certain ways the closest equivalent is something like PowerPoint or Keynote, though even with them there I a huge gap with HyperCard did. I wonder whether Apple could recreate a 21st century HyperCard, but using Keynote as a basis?
Well, given that Apple doesn't charge for OS upgrades anymore, it can be argued that the cost of the OS is $0, when bundled with a Mac. You can get your refund, but I am not sure that $0 is worth the effort.
The real cost is having to buy a new Mac every few years because the latest upgrade was an upgrade too far. Well, at least it easier to roll back, compared to an iPhone.
Reading the article now (shame on me for not doing so), I suspect there is malice or 'good intentions' resulted in failed risk analysis and fallout prediction.
Two wrongs don't make a right, was hopefully something that your parents taught you when you where quite small.
The issue is that the FTDI driver is deliberately reprogramming a chip that is not theirs and for which they have no authorisation to do so. This is an unauthorised modification and illegal.
You cannot stick something in a license agreement that allows you to break the law, because the courts will hold that part of the license agreement null and void.
As many many people have said the right and legal thing was to simply stop working and post a message to the user that the chip is a counterfeit/clone.
Why put this down to malice and not down to a programming/QA issue?
If I am developing something, then my general approach is to test it against know factors and some edge cases I can think about. Counterfeit stuff screws with the whole programming and QA cycle, since they say they are the same as something I developed, act as something I developed, but fail in subtle ways I wouldn't have considered or tested for.
Maybe FTDI did do something intentionally, but I suspect it was an oversight, especially considering they pulled the update once reports were coming in.
FTDI will probably have to do three things:
- Test for the known limitations of counterfeit hardware (they can't test for the unknowns).
- Update the EULA to be clear of risk/
- Update the installer to warn against cloned chips and impact it may have.
Private companies wouldn't be using it for free. They would need to lease out usage, but that wouldn't be an exclusive lease. When people were still using dial-up modems there was more competition, so this would be an attempt to recreate something that allows for this. Line sharing is really necessary for something healthy and focusing on innovation. BTW always jealous of France's http://free.fr/
What we have now is broken, so it is time to come up with a model that will help foster competition.
These cities should build the infrastructure, focus on the infrastructure and then allow service providers to compete with each other for service. Essentially, government deals with infrastructure since they are generally good with that and private business on the sevice, since they are generally good with that when there is healthy competition.
So a bug is a feature and per Google, a removed feature is a bug? Okay, I think I have it.
Beyond transactions, I wonder whether retailers should even be storing credit card information? Surely debating this problem to the credit card companies would be better? The only thing combines should be keep is maybe some sort of public key value for the credit card, which can only be unlocked with a user provide value. The private key would be in the hands of the credit card company to access your account.
I am thinking on the fly here, but the main gist is the less credit card details stored by non-credit card companies the better. These retailers could secure their systems better, but maybe they shouldn't be holding on to certain critical information either? We need to review what financial data is held in light of these issues.
In Europe you have a one time key for your online payments, that requires a special calculator looking device. Probably not the best solution, but not a terrible one either - it's just inconvenient and not necessarily clear to the non-tech savie.
Both have their place. If something represents a percentage of a total, then analogue displays are the best. If something has indefinite range, then digital is best. In the end the best solution should allow for getting essential information with minimum of effort, but it will also depend on the given context.
There are some places where is t is hard to decide which is best. One example is time, since at least for me, context of use makes a difference.
While I won't argue how important the Kernel is, if the kernel changes, then applications can continue working if libraries are binary compatible and the system architecture hasn't changed.
The Kernel is only part of the operating system. There are other things that go into an operating system, such as libraries, application and services. You will find most application are relying on OS version to find out about those , rather than about the underlying kernel. Sure they should probably not make assumption about the operating system as a whole, but developers make assumptions.
If your current company that makes it a fireable offense is in the USA, and I assume it is because your use of English seems American, it's breaking US employment law. Only managerial employees can be restricted in how they talk about pay.
It is American, but the offices where I am at are located in Canada. Either way, even if it is against the law, I am not sure I want to chance it until I leave the company.
Small companies often have barely enough to pay employees that are present. To be paying for employees on leave is something else, male or female. I recently had to take leave and if it wasn't for my insurance I wouldn't have gotten a dime. At the same time all the tech companies I have worked at treated everyone fairly and had policies about 'poisoned workplace'. Sure there are people who have discriminatory attitude, but in a healthy work place they shouldn't be staying long.
As for pay I don't know enough about the realities and individual cases to know the truth. What I do know is companies will often give you a pay that you negotiated, which may be worse than you are worth. A good company will try give up something fair knowing that unfair salary if it becomes knowledge hurts them more. My current company makes it a fireable offence to talk salary. Other companies I have worked for have a ladder according to position.
Good colleagues come in many shapes, form, sexuality, culture and variations of gended, just as do the bad colleagues. We all screw up sometimes, but we should endeavour to treat each other fairly and with respect.
Guy? I thought it was food they eat in Quebec and do serve in McDonalds?
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
