Ahhh that OpenWindows desktop brings me back. But I thought by 1997 when this was released, Sun had moved to Motif? Do I have that wrong?
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https://long-lines.net/places-routes/Lake_Zurich_IL/index.ht...
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/lect...
If you click on the link of that text, their point is that stock is not always W2 income.
For example, if someone joins a startup, pre-exercises and files an 83b, that gives a vastly different tax outcome than RSUs at BigPublicTechCo. Conversely, if someone joins a startup and does not exercise their options, then wants to quit after the stock has gone up 10x but isn't liquid, they will have to pay a hefty AMT when they exercise.
Many people aren't aware of startup stock tax implications, and they should learn more about it (i.e. click the link in the article).
[1] - https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/international/bilatera...
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/551210-tv-news-ratings-on...
I recently visited my friend from our programming club who saved these letters and was reminded a couple people wrote additional angry letters years after paying for the shareware. They demanded support in return for their one payment. (Of course, not only had I moved on to other projects, but I had long sold the type of computer the shareware was created for!)
So I learned early on that people unreasonably expect support for no additional cost. Or they believe the amount they paid is for support in the future, not work done in the past. It doesn't work that way economically. A constant flow of additional money has to come in the door to pay a team to do the actual support.
AFAICT, the only feasible models for supported software seem to be subscription, microtransaction or advertising. Any one-time-up-front price means it's abandonware. Which is fine for some types of software, of course, but probably not as often as users expect support.
IMO MTV did a really good job of expanding beyond music videos, though I didn't personally watch it past Liquid Television.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KpfrJE4zw [2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJNwPWVmNc
Just as one example, Tulare is at 300 ft, ~100 mi from the ocean.
What objective measure can someone use to determine whether F# is the best choice?
I read American Prometheus last summer, and did not walk away with any inkling that the discussion of Tatlock's death was sensational at all. I just re-skimmed that chapter and while it documents the questions others brought up later, the authors do not seem to imply they thought it was more than a suicide. They conclude by saying Oppenheimer never thought it more than suicide.
I'm curious to see data on this. My guess is that in the early to mid 80s, IBM had to have been the top consumer technology brand. At least in knowledge of the brand, even if they didn't own one. Their Charlie Chaplin ads were everywhere, then they spent an enormous amount of money marketing PCjr[1].
[1] - "As part of $32.5 million in advertising for the computer during 1984, it began what the company described as the most extensive marketing campaign in IBM history, in which 98% of Americans would see at least 30 PCjr advertisements in the last four months of the year". (From Wikipedia)
Japan has a higher share of iOS than the US or UK. Also China is ~20% iOS. Sounds small until you realize that percentage equates to more iOS devices than the US.
They claim to have kept that stockpile going[2] but they also said the same of the PPE stockpile...
[1] - https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2001/11/acambis-...
[2] - https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/...
So let me ask you this, what's the worst case scenario if they're right but had waited 6 months to get it reviewed? Then consider, what's the worst case scenario if they're wrong?
Preprint, non-peer reviewed.
Intel's a little different though. It's not like consumer sentiment has changed like in the case of the C64->PC or BB->iPhone. AMD and ARM are strong competitors but Intel is in this position because they made a major technical misstep. Maybe more like Microsoft and the Longhorn/Vista debacle. I don't think we can conclusively say Intel or even x86 can't be competitive when they get their process figured out.
I think Intel has a huge challenge ahead but one thing that's helped them is that Skylake was competitive enough to get them through the process node mistakes (at least to this point). Maybe what we've learned is that fewer chip buyers care about performance and power tradeoffs than imagined (or at least, than I thought).
[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/263559/intels-net-revenu...
The problem in SF is that we've disbanded the team that tries to catch people in the act[2]. IIUC, it's both because there weren't enough resources and the DA won't prosecute anyway, so what's the point.
[1] - Maybe not in the case of a-rod: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Half-million-in-lo...
[2] - https://www.sfweekly.com/news/authorities-hustle-to-curb-s-f...
Spinning up cores to do intensive math for the sake of its difficulty is wasting energy by design. PoW's financial incentive is to waste power.
Facebook spends a massive amount of money on compute, and their profit is only as good as the margin they can make over that compute cost. Therefore they have a financial incentive to save power.