My TV would probably cost $40,000 a decade ago. My iPhone would be a $30,000 workstation in the 90s. The NAS in my living room is $900,000 worth of storage in 1998 dollars. To your contrary, I think people have a perfectly reasonable expectation of low and dropping prices.
More of this, please. Don't demoralize a new programmer who doesn't have the experience to choose well between two similar-sounding options.
It's probably more appropriate to be direct and concise in those cases, as otherwise you'd have all your time sucked away.
Agreed, but with a reminder that "direct and concise" is different from "asshole". You can say "thanks for the patch, but it conflicts with our long-term design goals and we can't accept it" is not the same as "LOL nope".
It gets weird. Some FLOSS projects stop because the work is "done". I have such a project myself that does data conversions from one database to another, and several distro download counters say it has quite a few thousand installations worldwide. And yet, I only touch the code when a bug report comes in. Other than that, it's more or less finished. It does what the label says, quickly and reliably. Many people use it in production. There's just not a whole lot that can be done to improve it other than succumbing to featuritis and adding a lot of bells and whistles.
Few commercial projects would hit this point because most rely on upgrade sales. I don't, so there's no incentive to push ahead. I suspect that's the case with many FLOSS projects which have scratched their itch. Why keep scratching?
many of them for completely stupid and banal offenses
As opposed to murder, theft, arson, bribery, etc. Hell, you can be rejected now for just having been arrested for possession of pot. I certainly wouldn't want a convicted felon, guilty of robbing a bank, *working* for a bank. They can get another job. It doesn't have to be working with people's money. Good damn reason not to want them doing that. You seem to be purposefully conflating "stupid and banal" with vicious and dangerous.
Not a particularly hard problem. Take the round trip time, and divide by two.
You're presuming a symmetrical link, which isn't a reasonable assumption for any nontrivial network setup. Your client may only have one path to the server, but the server may have a hundred load-balanced paths back. Or imagine a very asymmetric link like almost any cable or DSL connection. When you're dealing with milliseconds, these are practical questions and not hypothetical nitpicking.
I am curious if they still have the property of not attracting insects. One of the things we discovered while in Texas is that LED bulbs were great for outdoor lighting when you didn't want to attract insects like a normal light bulb inevitably does. Apparently, it has to do with the LED lights not transmitting light at certain frequencies. With a warmer light, they may be transmitting frequencies now that will attract insects. It would be great for indoor lighting, but it loses the benefit when used outdoors.
The problem with this approach is that the only people who actually use government transparency are other politicians, mainly to dig up dirt, and lobbyists -- it makes their job so much easier when they can confirm that a politician remains bought.
Well, and those pesky little exceptions like the ACLU and EFF who file a constant stream of FOIA requests so they can verify that officials are obeying their promises and the law. But except for watchdog groups, other politicians, and lobbyists, no one is monitoring politicians. Oh, them and the State Department, who wanted to see both sides of email conversations that former Secretary of State Clinton was involved in.
But yes, other than watchdog groups, other politicians, lobbyists, and cabinet-level government departments, no one is actually checking these things. Well, those guys and...
This is why nearly all laptops from all other companies have 2-4 USB ports, a display out, a network jack, and a headphone jack.
Ugh. I hate those legacy laptops with a hundred different connectors you have to manage every time you sit down to your desk or leave it, with one invariably falling behind the desk so that you have to go fishing. My favorite work environment was with a MacBook Air and a Thunderbolt Display. The display has one cable with two split ends that you plug into the laptop: one for power, and one for combined video / USB / Ethernet / audio. All of the permanent wiring like USB drives, Ethernet, etc. plugs into the monitor which acts like a hub for everything else.
I'd stake money that the next iteration will combine all of that into a single USB C cable. Get to work, unpack my laptop, plug in a single reversible jack, and sit down to all my wired accessories? Yes please.
I am not an Obama supporter. I did not vote for him, donate to him, or otherwise assist his campaign. And yet, I'd give him a pass if this is the only reason he'd have for knowing that she had a private server. When I email someone, I typically don't have the foggiest idea whether that address is served by Google, Yahoo, the CIA, or a Pentium in their basement. While her email address wasn't @state.gov, I wouldn't put it past a government official to think, "oh, wonder how she got State to set that up for her?" and then never thinking about it again.
No. This was the email address she used for official state business. By law that is owned by the government and not by the individuals involved. This whole thing came up recently because there is evidence "that she has not been forthright in turning over the official e-mails as requested", such as other parties dutifully turning over their emails which were in reply to something she'd sent, but the referenced email not being present in the files she submitted.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
