Comment Re:Customer support (Score 2) 360
Obviously not... see if you can spot NK on the map
Obviously not... see if you can spot NK on the map
How? The internet cables go through China - so you either cut China off from the Internet too, or you accept that all NK traffic goes via China's routers.
I doubt China will see nipping into their territory and cutting any of their internet cabling as perfectly reasonable.
why would China DDoS NK's routers? Surely they'd just unplug the cables that stretch over the border. they could even say "for maintenance" if they needed an excuse, feeble though it is.
A "collapsible shipping container like palette" would be harder to load and unload than a palette.
not really - a pallet with sides is still a pallet. Only now its easier to put stuff in that won't fall off the edge. You only need to put bars at the corners with thin material stretched between them. The only issue is cost, pallets are simple and cheap.
TBH a pallet with sides is no different to a pallet with a box of stuff stuck on top of it, so I don't really see the need, but I understand where they're coming from.
And how do you accommodate over-high items? Or stuff that is over-wide?
charge extra for custom handling. Isn't that what the shipping industry would love
but isn't the pallet a standardised container - albeit without walls and a top?
Its standard width, and length means it fits into standardised holes in warehouses and can be moved with standardised vehicles. The shipping container is no different except it has walls to keep stuff together.
the point I take is that its the standardisation that matters. True in so many areas.
I'll tell you one more ting to look at in C/C++ : web development.
I had to replace a PHP webserver that did a small bit of functionality recently, and we had a C++ service that did all the heavy lifting anyway, so I added a webserver lib to it (civitweb, a fork of mongoose) and found to my surprise that it was trivially easy. sure I had to write out my own headers but that requires all of 3 lines of cut and paste code, the rest - pure ease.
All the bloated web frameworks I'd used previously are gone now, for all their advanced functionality, I find they just get in the way. I might still use them for big systems that have a lot of pre-built functionality, but if you want web serving that provides most of the functionality in client-side javascript anyway, I'd be doing it in C from now on!
Of late,
this is why I prefer C++ - my time is worth a lot less than the time all my users spend using my programs, so although my boss complains about my productivity, he does that when I'm writing
I would pick PHP over
the main reason is the bloat in
For webservices, I found that WCF is crud. Its nice to code up a webservice that doesn't require IIS, and it all seems nice. But then I saw how PHP could do a web service in 6 lines of code compared to the 6 files of code WCF required I knew I was using the wrong tool for the job (especially when you factor in WCF's dreadful performance).
The last aspect is security - having worked in very high secure systems, one additional thing you can do to help add a layer of security is not to use a monoculture - so a web server written in PHP that talks to a Windows server running
I'm all for
PS. Apache has supported threads since 2.0 came out, it only spawns processes where some 'cgi-style' processor requires them. Also, on Unixy systems spawning processes is as cheap as spawning threads on Windows.(if you want a truly lightweight thread on Windows, google for Windows Fibres to see what I mean). But again, my point is - you don't know enough about what you're criticising and so are making poor choices based on hype and bullshit.
it could be part of the revenue - how many of those rear end crashes were because the tailing driver wasn't paying attention and trying to keep going, and how many because the driver in front fancied a slow crash that was someone else's fault to sue for "whiplash injury" compensation?
right... ok, we'll just have go for plan B - slavery for all workers while the landed elite get rich.
Or.. we'll just find different jobs for everyone to do
there's always new jobs.. even if its working in "customer support" or marketing.
There's a reason the West has migrated jobs from manufacturing to the service sector, the manufacturing is done in China or similar, leaving western workers to either design, advertise or sell the products to each other.
Its pretty old news, what happens depends on the area automated - when Gutenberg created the press, the old clerks stopped copying by hand and started becoming more like authors (similar to have the newspapers have been replaced by bloggers and opinion), though when the Spinning Jenny was introduced there was a lot of public disturbance, but in the end it worked out.
Yeah. But which government?
quite true, and part of the problem is the pyramid scheme of them all, designed to make pots of cash for the people who create the currency in the first place as they have a stash of coins before it starts.
What we really need is the government to create a virtual currency, with all the regulation and control that entails. Then you can have all the benefits of a cryptocurrency but with the benefits of it actually becoming mainstream for the majority of users, without the problems a truly anonymous one has with regard to criminal activity.
"The real thing for your
or will it be "the real thing for the
Or the
Now, if someone forked it and produced a GUI that worked well, rendered fonts without fuzziness or needing a caching service, and performed well... then I'd be much more positive about this open sourcing of
I don't know - Google seems to do very well indeed on advertising revenue, I can't think why the sites that display their adverts aren't doing nearly as well....
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