Comment More like 20 million+ (Score 1) 321
The only report I was able to find with real numbers estimated kindle sales at 20.5 million:
The only report I was able to find with real numbers estimated kindle sales at 20.5 million:
"A ton of them" is not how most people represent sales figures.
Just look at Samsung's sales reporting. They lied like crazy about sales.
Amazon has never told anyone how many kindles they've sold. Where did that 40 million number come from?
This has been happening forever. Did the OP just get online recently? What planet is the OP from?
As our limited experiences with radiation has shown, you don't get:
* monsters
* superpowers
* aliens
You just get dead, mostly. Then after that, not much.
Turn a bureaucrat into a leader? That's like turning a software developer into a manager.
If you kill enough leaders, you are left with a bunch of bureaucrats. And as everyone knows, bureaucrats don't do much of anything.
So yes, killing leaders works, in the sense that removing people who are able and willing to take risks will eventually cause their organization to atrophy and die.
"Because the university ran nightly backups, they were able to restore all the PCs to the correct state later that afternoon."
If they had a centralized SCCM server, they should have a central backup server as well.
The main problem with javascript is it's hard to debug. If you can get past that it's a pretty OK language.
The runtimes are so variable that I'd think you'd need to really standardize on one runtime and stick with it forever.
There are times where being able to pass functions around in objects, etc is kind of handy, especially since you can pass them in as json at runtime. Again, that makes debugging really hard. If you persist them you can have objects that look the same with totally different implementations, which can be really confusing.
But as languages go, it's no more horrible than perl.
My guess is that the amount of space this takes is comparable to a couple of full-sized pngs that the graphics guy forgot to scale down.
Some memories get stronger the more they're accessed, not weaker.
That doesn't imply that the details are more or less accurate - just that by remembering something over and over you makes it easier to remember.
If you need an easy problem that quickly turns into a nightmare, try writing a program that allows the user to map one set of database/data structure/XML fields to another set of database/data structure/XML fields.
For bonus points the user can use javascript to do the transform, as well as using a nice GUI.
If you really want to freak out, take a look at how much money municipalities pay for police pensions. It's not the administrators that are munching the budget, it's the retirees.
If you're really in love with Windows, then buy a Surface. It's basically Windows-to-go, and that slogan should be the core of the Surface marketing campaign.
If you love apps that don't quite work right, get an android tablet. Tier 1 apps work mostly as well as iOS apps. Everything else is sort of half-baked.
For everyone else there's the iPad, the only device that actually holds its value over time.
According to B612 they were all airbursts. I wish they'd make their data public, so people could take a look and see.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
