Comment Re:It's not about detection... (Score 3, Interesting) 227
No need for guns; just station a half-dozen guard birds on the roof.
No need for guns; just station a half-dozen guard birds on the roof.
The workers that actually have to deal with it are further screwed - contract labor makes things as healthy and stable as being next to a malfunctioning nuclear reactor. Long-term anything goes out the window and compensation is made on worse terms.
The promise of the cloud is that your storage and computing problems will be abstracted away from messy physical objects that you need to maintain, taken care of far way by other people that are not well treated for their work.
At least the first mainframe era had some respect for the people involved in the infrastructure. These days, globalization has killed it in favor of mistreatment and abstraction of the workforce.
Or the pesky part that at relativistic speeds hydrogen atoms rip through the ship as if it was tinfoil.
I have yet to encounter a non-contrived example where multiple interitance is a plausible solution to a problem.
Okay, I'll give it a shot, then... here's where I find multiple inheritance not just plausible, but preferable.
I have a publish/subscribe model including an abstract-base-class/interface (call it IDataSubscriber) that can be subclassed by any object that wishes to be notified about e.g. data updates coming in from the network.
There are a number of common-case standard responses (implemented as concrete IDataSubscriber methods) to those data updates that are useful for many situations, and I don't want to have to have to rewrite them separately for every subclass, so I make a concrete or almost-concrete subclass (e.g. StandardDataSubscriber) that contains this common logic.
Finally, in my client code (based on Qt) I have a number of GUI widgets based on QWidget or QPushButton or whatever. I want these widgets to react to published data in the standard way, so I often end up with this:
class MyButton : public QPushButton, public StandardDataSubscriber {...}
Maybe this will finally shut up the people who complain that eBooks just aren't like the real thing.
They dont have to pass anything. Just let it expire. Saying they HAVE to do something is supporting it.
"Can people afford to put a solar array on their house with $70k income? No"
No? only a doofus thinks that. I put one on my home when I made only $40K It's not expensive if you don't use the overpriced made in america solar panels.
I bought China 200 watt panels for less than $1.50 a watt. then installed a syncing inverter and use the grid as my battery. I actually run the meter backwards.
If you make $70K and cant afford solar, then you are either a fool, or someone that can't budget money very well.
I'll give you $50 cash for each of them.
Most will be sold by the end of the summer.
and you wonder why California has no money for the basics.
Actually, California is doing pretty well at the moment.
(Come to think of it, a good 10% the readership of this site probably REALLY does want a pony.)
Dibs on Twilight Sparkle!
So, how do the "poorest residents" own a home?
Most likely they bought back when housing prices were cheaper and/or they had more income.
Prop 13 at work, eh?
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.