I would take this article more seriously if it wasn't referenced on 9to5mac. News site focused on Apple products, prefer Apple products.
Now I have an iPhone and I am in generally happy with it and I have no serious intentions to switch to Android. But I would take the response more seriously if it came from a more neutral source, or an admittance from a pro-Android source.
Fanboys have a habit of twisting a disadvantage into a full advantage. Much like how back in the Power PC days. Apple use to show how the Power PC processor had handled a few Photoshop filters better than Intel chips, while the Intel Chips were in general faster overall.
If he resigns the Presidency goes to the Vice President. I will still take him over Trump. At lease Pence for the most part will work for the U.S. People, even though I disagree with much of his stances.
Trump is still a Mockery of Democracy, independent on what is happening in Venezuela. The U.S. system of checks and balances is still in effect, and we still have enough adults in the room to prevent pure chaos.
You may not like Trump (I don't) but laughing at his misfortune, is also laughing at your own, even if you are not a US citizen. If the US goes down in chaos, so will the rest of the world. Laughing now at his misfortune, is only leading to your own. Sure you want your side to win, and the people who voted for the other side to loose, and loose so bad that they knew that they are wrong... But that doesn't happen, at least not without complete crippling defeat.
The thing with democracy, isn't that it is perfect, but more sustainable. We could get a strong and effective ruler who could lead America into a Golden Age. Then he will eventually die, then the successor has a chance on being good, or just pure bad.
With democracy, even if you don't like the guy who is in power, chances are there is enough people for them, which will reduce the chances on taking arms.
The more worrying bit about digital democracy, is it isn't the voice of the majority, but of the most vocal.
The recent healthcare stuff in congress has the following sides that seems to be prevalent. 1. Get rid of the ACA and make something new. 2. Keep the ACA and don't change it one bit.
Because the most vocal groups on the topic either really hate it or just love it.
Those people who want to do the responsible thing like. Take a look at problems with the ACA, and see if there are ways to fix these. See what is good about the ACA and expand or keep it.
However because it is so easy for the people with a strong opinion on the topic to express it, it makes it seems like they are 2 sides, of a complex problem.
A lot of theft is actually just lost. How many people drop their phone in the toilet. And will report it stolen just to save face. Or just fell out of your pocket on the street?
The feature is a deterrent not a prevention. So a deterrent does exactly what seems to be happening reducing crime. There will always be the criminal that doesn't know about the feature. Or hopes their victim will be stupid and not activate it.
But for the effort of stealing a phone then taking all the parts out and trying to sell them in good condition. You might as well go legit and make more money as being an electronic reseller, by buying the components at bulk and selling them for individuals with a markup.
Stealing a cell phone was a quick way to make a buck, even without personal information. Steal an iPhone and sell it for $100 quick cash. But if it doesn't work then people will not buy it.
I wouldn't call it retreating, however I would like to see More Workstation based features in their systems. We need fast computers with less eye candy now, but with UI features that are helpful and productive.
For the workstation market they were. However some of the real reasons for the decline, was that the Intel CPU's (Pentium) and the rise of higher end video cards. Started to make the standard Desktop PC perform better than a work station. Microsoft dominance in the desktop, which allowed for compatibility with NT to cross over as well meaning your exe file will install and work on your workstation and the low end desktop at home. Also Microsoft marketing pushed their product as user friendly compared to Unix, so people jumped on that bandwagon too.
The sub $600 never really pushed the business market, as the super cheap PC had a lot of problems. Most business who tried that route moved back to the more dependable PC's. Linux on the cheap PC's may had offered some benefit for the small business giving them Unixy features with a lot less cost, but Linux was still struggling then, and quality problems with cheap hardware wasn't helping them. So linux was mainly at that time a good OS for Appliance software.
Most of the time the kid who want to play with guns, are kids who were never exposed to them. My father had a rack of rifles hanging on the wall. For me those were mostly decorations, I knew they were real guns, and my father would use them. But for the most part I never gave them a second though.
However when I had a friend over, they were much more curious about them and I normally had to tell him not to touch them. As an adult I am not a gun owner, not because of any moral stance, but just because I find them boring.
Well for some areas if you are caught with a gun, with the safety features disabled, you are already in trouble as you are caring a weapon with the intent to harm.
The biggest problem I see today with the Gun debate, is how both sides dropped personal gun safety. 20 years ago the NRA would admonish a picture post of a person pointing the gun at an other person even if unloaded and just for a joke. They were involved in teaching Gun safety as part of how to use the gun. Trying to make sure the people who chose to have guns know how to use them and respect them properly.
This departure and move towards nearly an all political motivation has created the problem where the Government is trying to step in in increase Gun Safety, as people are getting hurt from unsafe usages of guns. Then the NRA is fighting this government control, recruiting people who are not big into safety and just wants to have guns without the responsibility of having them.
I myself am not a gun owner. I don't have any problem with people with people who are, a gun is just tool that I currently do not need or plan to use. I have been trained sense I was a kid how to use them and care for them. So I am not afraid of them. But people are getting guns now, not as a tool, but as a source of power, used to intimidate people, and to gain a false sense of self control. Making the person very dangerous. We really need to push gun safety as a national habit, much more then a gun control law. Because most people legally own a gun, until they use it illegally.
Well keep the Honest, honest is the phrase. It is more correctly, most dishonest people are rather lazy, so in a movement of temptation any little excuse normally will stop them.
Now these people who commit the petty crime of getting that $20 out of your wallet. Are often under hard times, and needs it for drugs, or more important reasons. When you are poor $20 can allow you to eat for a day.
WebOS and Pebble were rather praised for their design, however the never really had taken off as well as they hope, but at least the companies had tried. Google is notorious with having fad products that they will dump if they don't meet expectation. This type of business may take some adapting to.
Most security features on personal items at best would be made to keep the honest, honest.
You lock the door on your car, not because it is not impossible for someone to get in. But for that casual person who sees that you accidentally left your wallet there. will try to see if the door is locked. If so, they will not try further.
The smart gun, can't be unhackable. Because the core technology of the gun is well understood, and designed to be reliable and easy to maintain. However the smart gun can prevent the person from taking someones gun and then shooting the owner with his own weapon. Or in cases of trying to resell the weapon via legit sources, a hacked gun, will scream that it is hot, and probably will not get sold for clean money.
Also chances are getting caught with a Hacked Smart Gun, will probably get you much more trouble.
Microsoft and Intel for the past generation was king of computing, with their dominance in the x86 IBM (Compatible) Personal Computer. Which had been people primary computing platform. This has been moved to mobile devices for most people primary computing.
Now Intel and what we call the PC isn't going to die, but be used more towards workstation and server jobs. There is plenty of business opportunity and long term growth in these markets. As long as Microsoft and Intel don't try to bring back the good old days of dominance again.
We still need faster computers and operating systems with mouse and keyboards for serious work. But email and web browsing is not longer a primary function, it will be on these workstations, just because people are using it for more important stuff.
While I was working on my degree, I was working as a developer. My biggest problem was my maturity in my late teens, my world view had what was right and what was wrong, I needed to get over myself to write the application in FoxPro and not try to get the company to move to Linux and C. I needed to realize the the speed of the application, isn't always the best thing, if you can get the project done quicker. I was far more rude and brash quick to offer my opinions and slow to listen to the alternatives. The few years in college, where my skills were honed, finding people who I respected having different view points. So by the time I graduated, I was more mature, and 20 years later, I find myself still getting more mature and reliable with my work. Sure I may get stubborn but more often then not I am able to stop myself and listen to the idea. Even from the new hotshot kid that was just hired, because he may be exposed to a new idea, that I never occurred to me. But sometimes I can use my experience to bring that little snot down a notch or two, to begin the process again.
Interns have a high turnover rate. This in general puts some stress on the institution, as they are always training. And they will not be around long enough to put on larger big picture projects.
Most colleges will advertise how a degree will be good for a job. However once in college the professors will often go, this is an education institution not a job placement firm, or vocational school.
Most colleges train students to be professors to train students to be professors. The educational inbreeding problem.
Colleges and professors will need to realize that a lot of students want jobs outside of academia. Internships are excellent in nearly all ways. The student gets real world experience, and gets exposure to the company. The college gets support from these companies who like these students. The companies gets cheap educated labor under the term internship.
As someone who was self taught then went for a full degree, I found both to be useful. When I was self taught, I know how to code, and what the commands to, after getting the degree, (perhaps I got good professors as well) I learned how the commands worked. Building my confidence in looking at the data, and going beyond what the API does, but being able to extent or trick the API to do what I would need it to do.
Tech Certifications are worthless, because they are focused on one technology that normally will be popular for a few years.
Hey get.NET certified, learn to do SOAP services. Oh wait we are now using Restful web services. The job you got the.NET certification, decided to switch to Java.
An actual Degree in focuses more in learning to learn then how to do the flavor of the week.
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I would take this article more seriously if it wasn't referenced on 9to5mac. News site focused on Apple products, prefer Apple products.
Now I have an iPhone and I am in generally happy with it and I have no serious intentions to switch to Android. But I would take the response more seriously if it came from a more neutral source, or an admittance from a pro-Android source.
Fanboys have a habit of twisting a disadvantage into a full advantage. Much like how back in the Power PC days. Apple use to show how the Power PC processor had handled a few Photoshop filters better than Intel chips, while the Intel Chips were in general faster overall.
If he resigns the Presidency goes to the Vice President. I will still take him over Trump. At lease Pence for the most part will work for the U.S. People, even though I disagree with much of his stances.
Trump is still a Mockery of Democracy, independent on what is happening in Venezuela. The U.S. system of checks and balances is still in effect, and we still have enough adults in the room to prevent pure chaos.
The Simpsons originally had Trump as President as a joke. Where Lisa Simpson became president to fix his mess.
The Simpson writers were figured out of all the public figures he would make the worst president to pick. But the world is a crazy place.
You may not like Trump (I don't) but laughing at his misfortune, is also laughing at your own, even if you are not a US citizen.
If the US goes down in chaos, so will the rest of the world. Laughing now at his misfortune, is only leading to your own. Sure you want your side to win, and the people who voted for the other side to loose, and loose so bad that they knew that they are wrong... But that doesn't happen, at least not without complete crippling defeat.
The thing with democracy, isn't that it is perfect, but more sustainable. We could get a strong and effective ruler who could lead America into a Golden Age. Then he will eventually die, then the successor has a chance on being good, or just pure bad.
With democracy, even if you don't like the guy who is in power, chances are there is enough people for them, which will reduce the chances on taking arms.
The more worrying bit about digital democracy, is it isn't the voice of the majority, but of the most vocal.
The recent healthcare stuff in congress has the following sides that seems to be prevalent.
1. Get rid of the ACA and make something new.
2. Keep the ACA and don't change it one bit.
Because the most vocal groups on the topic either really hate it or just love it.
Those people who want to do the responsible thing like.
Take a look at problems with the ACA, and see if there are ways to fix these.
See what is good about the ACA and expand or keep it.
However because it is so easy for the people with a strong opinion on the topic to express it, it makes it seems like they are 2 sides, of a complex problem.
Oh I found someone had dropped there phone. Let me pick it up and bring it to the lost and found.
Zap!
The problem is most people are actually trying to do the right thing most of the time.
A lot of theft is actually just lost.
How many people drop their phone in the toilet. And will report it stolen just to save face. Or just fell out of your pocket on the street?
The feature is a deterrent not a prevention. So a deterrent does exactly what seems to be happening reducing crime.
There will always be the criminal that doesn't know about the feature. Or hopes their victim will be stupid and not activate it.
That isn't stealing that is more harassment.
But for the effort of stealing a phone then taking all the parts out and trying to sell them in good condition. You might as well go legit and make more money as being an electronic reseller, by buying the components at bulk and selling them for individuals with a markup.
Stealing a cell phone was a quick way to make a buck, even without personal information. Steal an iPhone and sell it for $100 quick cash. But if it doesn't work then people will not buy it.
I wouldn't call it retreating, however I would like to see More Workstation based features in their systems. We need fast computers with less eye candy now, but with UI features that are helpful and productive.
For the workstation market they were.
However some of the real reasons for the decline, was that the Intel CPU's (Pentium) and the rise of higher end video cards. Started to make the standard Desktop PC perform better than a work station.
Microsoft dominance in the desktop, which allowed for compatibility with NT to cross over as well meaning your exe file will install and work on your workstation and the low end desktop at home. Also Microsoft marketing pushed their product as user friendly compared to Unix, so people jumped on that bandwagon too.
The sub $600 never really pushed the business market, as the super cheap PC had a lot of problems. Most business who tried that route moved back to the more dependable PC's. Linux on the cheap PC's may had offered some benefit for the small business giving them Unixy features with a lot less cost, but Linux was still struggling then, and quality problems with cheap hardware wasn't helping them. So linux was mainly at that time a good OS for Appliance software.
Most of the time the kid who want to play with guns, are kids who were never exposed to them.
My father had a rack of rifles hanging on the wall. For me those were mostly decorations, I knew they were real guns, and my father would use them. But for the most part I never gave them a second though.
However when I had a friend over, they were much more curious about them and I normally had to tell him not to touch them. As an adult I am not a gun owner, not because of any moral stance, but just because I find them boring.
Well for some areas if you are caught with a gun, with the safety features disabled, you are already in trouble as you are caring a weapon with the intent to harm.
The biggest problem I see today with the Gun debate, is how both sides dropped personal gun safety. 20 years ago the NRA would admonish a picture post of a person pointing the gun at an other person even if unloaded and just for a joke. They were involved in teaching Gun safety as part of how to use the gun. Trying to make sure the people who chose to have guns know how to use them and respect them properly.
This departure and move towards nearly an all political motivation has created the problem where the Government is trying to step in in increase Gun Safety, as people are getting hurt from unsafe usages of guns. Then the NRA is fighting this government control, recruiting people who are not big into safety and just wants to have guns without the responsibility of having them.
I myself am not a gun owner. I don't have any problem with people with people who are, a gun is just tool that I currently do not need or plan to use. I have been trained sense I was a kid how to use them and care for them. So I am not afraid of them. But people are getting guns now, not as a tool, but as a source of power, used to intimidate people, and to gain a false sense of self control. Making the person very dangerous. We really need to push gun safety as a national habit, much more then a gun control law. Because most people legally own a gun, until they use it illegally.
Well keep the Honest, honest is the phrase. It is more correctly, most dishonest people are rather lazy, so in a movement of temptation any little excuse normally will stop them.
Now these people who commit the petty crime of getting that $20 out of your wallet. Are often under hard times, and needs it for drugs, or more important reasons. When you are poor $20 can allow you to eat for a day.
WebOS and Pebble were rather praised for their design, however the never really had taken off as well as they hope, but at least the companies had tried. Google is notorious with having fad products that they will dump if they don't meet expectation. This type of business may take some adapting to.
Most security features on personal items at best would be made to keep the honest, honest.
You lock the door on your car, not because it is not impossible for someone to get in. But for that casual person who sees that you accidentally left your wallet there. will try to see if the door is locked. If so, they will not try further.
The smart gun, can't be unhackable. Because the core technology of the gun is well understood, and designed to be reliable and easy to maintain. However the smart gun can prevent the person from taking someones gun and then shooting the owner with his own weapon. Or in cases of trying to resell the weapon via legit sources, a hacked gun, will scream that it is hot, and probably will not get sold for clean money.
Also chances are getting caught with a Hacked Smart Gun, will probably get you much more trouble.
Microsoft and Intel for the past generation was king of computing, with their dominance in the x86 IBM (Compatible) Personal Computer.
Which had been people primary computing platform. This has been moved to mobile devices for most people primary computing.
Now Intel and what we call the PC isn't going to die, but be used more towards workstation and server jobs. There is plenty of business opportunity and long term growth in these markets. As long as Microsoft and Intel don't try to bring back the good old days of dominance again.
We still need faster computers and operating systems with mouse and keyboards for serious work. But email and web browsing is not longer a primary function, it will be on these workstations, just because people are using it for more important stuff.
Desktops are not computers .. No matter how many Gen Xers think they are...
While I was working on my degree, I was working as a developer. My biggest problem was my maturity in my late teens, my world view had what was right and what was wrong, I needed to get over myself to write the application in FoxPro and not try to get the company to move to Linux and C. I needed to realize the the speed of the application, isn't always the best thing, if you can get the project done quicker. I was far more rude and brash quick to offer my opinions and slow to listen to the alternatives.
The few years in college, where my skills were honed, finding people who I respected having different view points. So by the time I graduated, I was more mature, and 20 years later, I find myself still getting more mature and reliable with my work. Sure I may get stubborn but more often then not I am able to stop myself and listen to the idea. Even from the new hotshot kid that was just hired, because he may be exposed to a new idea, that I never occurred to me. But sometimes I can use my experience to bring that little snot down a notch or two, to begin the process again.
Interns have a high turnover rate. This in general puts some stress on the institution, as they are always training. And they will not be around long enough to put on larger big picture projects.
Most colleges will advertise how a degree will be good for a job. However once in college the professors will often go, this is an education institution not a job placement firm, or vocational school.
Most colleges train students to be professors to train students to be professors. The educational inbreeding problem.
Colleges and professors will need to realize that a lot of students want jobs outside of academia. Internships are excellent in nearly all ways.
The student gets real world experience, and gets exposure to the company.
The college gets support from these companies who like these students.
The companies gets cheap educated labor under the term internship.
As someone who was self taught then went for a full degree, I found both to be useful.
When I was self taught, I know how to code, and what the commands to, after getting the degree, (perhaps I got good professors as well) I learned how the commands worked. Building my confidence in looking at the data, and going beyond what the API does, but being able to extent or trick the API to do what I would need it to do.
Tech Certifications are worthless, because they are focused on one technology that normally will be popular for a few years.
Hey get .NET certified, learn to do SOAP services. Oh wait we are now using Restful web services. The job you got the .NET certification, decided to switch to Java.
An actual Degree in focuses more in learning to learn then how to do the flavor of the week.