Buzz and Hype may be good... However what a leak normally does is show off that something new is coming soon, so customers will hold off on their purchase of say the iPhone 7 because the iPhone 7s or the 8 will be out and it will be that much cooler. So during this time of hype people are not buying the older products. Being that their products are months away from release a valid product leak sent out too early could kill a quarters revenue.
The money to design and create the next version of the product mostly comes from the profit of the sales of the previous version. Even a mighty company like Apple could take quite a beating if they are unable to sell their products over time.
However most Computer users and especially for Mac users with the traditional 1 button mouse, the clicking of the home button is rather intuitive. Single click. Has the core action. Double click has the extended action. The hold click gives you a bunch of options. So with a standard windows interface a single click on a file will select it. A double Click on the file will open it. A right click (or a left click hold On a mac) will open the additional options for the file.
Most of these people take risks. The nature of risks is they can fail. the iPhone could had failed. Enough people may not have liked the onscreen keyboard. Initially not using G3 for data may had been too slow for their usage. The original iPhone, didn't have 3rd party apps, or the response lag on the touch interface was a bit too laggy for them. A number of design tradeoffs could had just as easily caused the iPhone to fail like the Newton.
The thing is we can't predict the future, or judge the reaction of something new before hand.
Big Success in the tech market is usually 75% luck. 20% Hard work, and 5% skill.
Palm had a good product at the time, people seem to accept the risks it took using graffiti interface vs. full handwriting recognition (Like apple did on the Newton). It had the features and was priced and had a brand name that was recognizable. Nearly any of these things could had backfired, and Palm wouldn't never had gotten where it got.
However these guys though the numbers were reversed, and they got Palm where it was because they thought they had all these skills. However when they had to go to other work, they really failed, because they were trying to get lucky again. While they were in a more standard market where if you are not lucky you better have more hard work and skill not to win big, but to keep things going.
They oppose government giveaways to rich corporations that the Koch Brothers don't own or have invested interest in.
Infrastructure spending supports companies and individuals as well. Your highway which Walmart uses to ship their products is the same highway that you use to commute to work. Upgrading to fiber will have a net improvement for the community. The big companies will benefit from it, also the individuals.
Unfortunately there are too many groups who wants the government out of everything, doesn't see the big picture, where infrastructure which is expensive, has a low profit margin to build. Needs government support to keep it running and operational, as it is one of the few things that really will pay for itself over time.
Why should GMO producers charge 10% less? Perhaps the GMO has a benefit that makes it work more than its Non GMO counterpart.
The problem with labeling is that GMO is considered Scary. And having this warning label for GMO products is just to discourage people from using it without any Proven Science to back up why they shouldn't.
I would say that there should be tough standards so a product can post that it is non-GMO. Because chances are some of these GMO free products are still in some part made with GMO.
They are also cashing in on people who equate: All Natural = Healthy GMO = Poison Preservatives = Part of big food.
Now the food quality is probably rather good, because they are not competing on price, so they can pick the quality products. And if it doesn't have all this "bad stuff" listed above then the food is probably fresh, as it will probably spoil soon.
Granted I think Y2K readiness is now time to put away.
But if I felt like it I could bring up those legacy mainframes who's Y2K patches only extended the problem out with a 2015, 2020, 2050 cutoff and rollover. With logic like If year > 20 then
Set Fullyear = 1900 + year Else
Set Fullyear = 2000 + year Endif
So when these dates hit the programs will have issues.
But I doubt this problem should be a government priority.
Here are some answers. They may not be stellar ones, but they are factors.
1. Employee Hiring: Everyone knows windows, most don't know Linux. Sure using Linux for work isn't that big of a deal, but it is just one more thing to train on. 2. Third party software: Most organizations thinking buy not build is the solution. Most of the software that you can buy is for windows. 3. Compatibility: 99% compatible means 3 days a year there is a problem. 4. Merging with other locations: Sure you may be on Linux but chances are the organization that you are merging with isn't 5. Big Vendor relationship: If you are a big enough organization. Your relationship with Microsoft is far more dynamic than here is the CD and install it. Microsoft will often work with you to make sure their product will work with your environment. 6. Hardware: Oh that new set of laptops has an incompatible network chip. And there is no Linux driver. You could make sure you get the linux approved system, but either it is out of date, or more expensive, just because that one necessary compatibility component. 7. Too many exceptions: If you are a Linux shop, you normally need a few windows boxes for those exceptions where you need it. There just may be too many people who need Windows as an exception. 8. Too configurable: Linux is often too configurable for its own good, deploying it in an organization will often get the organizations group think settings. Often being bad for everyone. Windows is you get what you get, and followed "Best Practices" which bosses think they like. 9. Silly names: Much of linux software has silly fun and unprofessional names. It just may not fit in the organizations culture. 10. That one problem that could had been easy in windows: When you use the exception vs what is common. You are under the gun to make sure everything is perfect. That one problem could get you. "No one got fired for choosing IBM" problem. You can buy a POS, but just as long as you are suffering with everyone else you are fine.
This is a problem that neither side really wants to fix. If we follow the Left Route. We raise taxes on the companies, being that the companies are paying more for these services, they will have leverage, where they can go to the leaders and say. Do what we want or else we move out, and you will loose out on the tax revenue.
If we follow the Right Route. These companies who hires a lot of people who lives locally, will leverage the government for them to pay less taxes or they will move to the next state/country that will offer them those lower rates. Causing there workforce to lower in salary or be forced to move.
So the Left will bend over backwards and spend a lot of tax payer money to build infrastructure just for the company to keep them there. The right will bend over with not taxing a huge source of income which could be used to help so may problems. But just to keep the people in the area.
Also don't trust, Russia, China, Europe, India, Middle East, East Asia... That is why I get all my software from Antarctica, those penguins just don't care about political pressure and they do just what they do.
However encryption from a bad actor state is still better than no encryption.
So you are saying one poorly phrased term is just as bad as a long chain of continued fear mongering? With this "Build a wall" to keep the Mexicans out, as part of his core stump speech. The "deplorable" statement was not right, and yes they are are educated and thoughtful trump supporters. However the core of supporters are not. The surprise states came from areas where blue collar jobs cover the bulk of the economy, normally these people support democrats due to strongish unions in that area.
OK I get it, you don't trust Clinton. But why do you consider Clinton more dangerous than Trump? If you are running for president you are self serving and want the power, no matter what party you are in. You profanity in your post makes me expect that you are reacting on an emotional aspect to someone challenging your beliefs. Your education degree doesn't equate to the emotional awareness that you personally have. And the fact that you preferred Trump over Clinton isn't a judgement of you personally, but the fact that you called me "a small minded asshole who doesn't have the ability to understand differing points" does. They were other reasons for people to choose Trump. However the fear mongering and us vs them, approach that he used much more than his rivals. Is a factor of affecting people on the emotional level which helped turn the tide.
There is a lot of questions out there, that these numbers don't seem to show. 1. Which languages do they use primarily. Python for example while can handle tabs, your code needs to be consistent so using spacing is better. Normally you also set the IDE to replace tab with spaces. Other languages that don't care about white space may allow tabs and spaces to be mixed. 2. What type of projects are they working on. Larger projects with mutable developers need to keep their coding style more or less synchronized. Space intents are normally preferred as tab spacing will be inconsistent across system settings. 3. Is this based on code review. If so, does the IDE just replace Tabs with spaces.
I myself am normally will follow the Tab key, with the IDE replacing it with spaces. As the Tab takes one keypress and makes jagged ends often move to the correct tab point (Still an IDE thing)
Or for farmers. Telephone and power Lines in the 1940s didn't well cover the rural areas. This could had been marketed as a poor quality tool for those hicks who didn't live in the city. I actually think if it was marketed as a high end product for the rich the FCC would had allowed it.
Partisan politics brings up the Us vs Them instinct in us. I know that I am not bad, so the other people who don't see things as I do must be. This is a often a reflexive emotional responce to a disagreement. Normally as enlightened individuals we can stop our primitive brain and try to reason out why the other side may have an issue. This time Trump used this emotional responce than continually enforced it. For the population who are undereducated and tend to not practice their minds this bombardment of they are bad flooded their heads, and not giving time for the intellect to sit and process the info. Hillary Clinton is bad because her opponent confirmed that I was good and was on his side. Minority groups in general didn't care for Trumps agenda so they were also the bad guy. So if the minority groups are bad guys then it is OK to insult them and hurt them, because they are part of the group of people who are trying to hurt us.
I am not talking about common tools such as email servers, word processing, spreadsheet... But software core to the operation of your business. Companies will sell you massive enterprise solutions, filled with best practices and buzzword features. However the effort in implementing this is usually much more complex and costly than a small team of full time developers to make simple solutions to solve the problems unique to the business.
These companies selling these solutions hire a team of full time employees just to support the company. Then they charge you for the software and their time plus the profit margin. So you end up paying more for features you don't use and extras that are hacked in and barely work.
Your organization offers solutions, products or services that are unique. Why would you expect software and best processes to be the same.
Normally in the 100 level classes you get students from other majors who need to fill out their required course. They don't think like scientist they think they can BS their way by impassioned speach. Normally I would say you can just kick the student out of class for being disruptive.
But there has been a large growth of discourse towards heckling and egging people to become violent (on both sides) that is preventing the execution of expressing the ideas in an environment to do so.
Many brand of wireless mice have a USB radio receiver. That will need to use up one of those few available ports. Mostly because they think Bluetooth isn't a good enough protocol so they make their on.
When you need a wired mousepad. I am not a big fan of wireless mice anyways. But the main benefit is it keeps your desk clean of excess wires But if your mousepad needs a wire then what is the point.
The real advantage of Web-Based and Cloud systems is really we are saved from the pain of deployment, not programming time. Deployment on PC's creates a ton of problems. Such as having to make sure the PC is functioning correctly when they are software errors, Dll and other sub systems that come in conflict, then trying to push updates on a wide scale. In terms of Python vs. C. on System resources is often very minor. And for most applications they may run faster in Python, just because better versions of algorithms are on hand built in vs. having to code it yourself. In real life doing C Coding if you are under the pressure to get it done and working. Picking the better performing algorithm may fail on a good enough easier to code algorithm. C and C++ coding is good when you really need performance as one of the key features. Python will be better for cases where the program needs to be deployed fast and and run well. What is actually more expensive than hardware and development time, is opportunity cost. If a process by hand costs a company of 1000 employees to waste 20 minutes a day which can be automated to run near automatically say 2 seconds in Python or 1 second in C. So saying the average employee is getting paid $20 an hour. That will mean that every week $33,000 is wasted every week, now if that program takes 1 week to develop and deploy in Python vs 2 weeks in C. That will cover the cost of hardware and development time, in that one week difference.
There is a difference between being the dominate language and the only one. C has been the dominate language for decades and they were also many other popular languages as well. However dominate language status meant you better know this language because even if it it isn't your bread and butter you will run across it.
However today where hardware is cheap and fast and most software written is web based or cloud based means that many of the advantages of the older language are becoming moot. Now that being the case these languages will not go away there is still a need for them Python is just an interpreted language. We still need language that compile to an optized binary format and we still need high performance software that will run on the local system. But just not as much as before.
In a city $25,000 is fairly cheap compared to planting and maintaining 250 trees. Including the space they will take up in NYC you are paying over $1500 per square foot of space. 25k is a value
I see this as part of the solution not a fix to the problem. Global warming is a big problem there isn't a magic bullet to fix the problem as there isn't one source that caused it. The building of cities has caused a lot of deforestation and this is one of the factors in the problem. So if we have condense ways of cleaning the air in cities we can still keep the advantage of the concrete cities while adding the benefit of plant life to help reduce carbon.
Even if cities were plastered with these thing it isn't enough. But with combination of other changes such as moving to cleaner energy plants. More energy efficient transportation. We really slow down global climate change enough for the rest of the earth to heal from it, without having to make life changing sacrifices.
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Buzz and Hype may be good... However what a leak normally does is show off that something new is coming soon, so customers will hold off on their purchase of say the iPhone 7 because the iPhone 7s or the 8 will be out and it will be that much cooler. So during this time of hype people are not buying the older products. Being that their products are months away from release a valid product leak sent out too early could kill a quarters revenue.
The money to design and create the next version of the product mostly comes from the profit of the sales of the previous version.
Even a mighty company like Apple could take quite a beating if they are unable to sell their products over time.
However most Computer users and especially for Mac users with the traditional 1 button mouse, the clicking of the home button is rather intuitive.
Single click. Has the core action. Double click has the extended action. The hold click gives you a bunch of options.
So with a standard windows interface a single click on a file will select it.
A double Click on the file will open it.
A right click (or a left click hold On a mac) will open the additional options for the file.
Most of these people take risks. The nature of risks is they can fail. the iPhone could had failed. Enough people may not have liked the onscreen keyboard. Initially not using G3 for data may had been too slow for their usage. The original iPhone, didn't have 3rd party apps, or the response lag on the touch interface was a bit too laggy for them. A number of design tradeoffs could had just as easily caused the iPhone to fail like the Newton.
The thing is we can't predict the future, or judge the reaction of something new before hand.
Big Success in the tech market is usually 75% luck. 20% Hard work, and 5% skill.
Palm had a good product at the time, people seem to accept the risks it took using graffiti interface vs. full handwriting recognition (Like apple did on the Newton). It had the features and was priced and had a brand name that was recognizable. Nearly any of these things could had backfired, and Palm wouldn't never had gotten where it got.
However these guys though the numbers were reversed, and they got Palm where it was because they thought they had all these skills. However when they had to go to other work, they really failed, because they were trying to get lucky again. While they were in a more standard market where if you are not lucky you better have more hard work and skill not to win big, but to keep things going.
They oppose government giveaways to rich corporations that the Koch Brothers don't own or have invested interest in.
Infrastructure spending supports companies and individuals as well. Your highway which Walmart uses to ship their products is the same highway that you use to commute to work. Upgrading to fiber will have a net improvement for the community. The big companies will benefit from it, also the individuals.
Unfortunately there are too many groups who wants the government out of everything, doesn't see the big picture, where infrastructure which is expensive, has a low profit margin to build. Needs government support to keep it running and operational, as it is one of the few things that really will pay for itself over time.
Why should GMO producers charge 10% less? Perhaps the GMO has a benefit that makes it work more than its Non GMO counterpart.
The problem with labeling is that GMO is considered Scary. And having this warning label for GMO products is just to discourage people from using it without any Proven Science to back up why they shouldn't.
I would say that there should be tough standards so a product can post that it is non-GMO. Because chances are some of these GMO free products are still in some part made with GMO.
I still laugh at Organic Salt. Salt isn't Organic.
They are also cashing in on people who equate:
All Natural = Healthy
GMO = Poison
Preservatives = Part of big food.
Now the food quality is probably rather good, because they are not competing on price, so they can pick the quality products. And if it doesn't have all this "bad stuff" listed above then the food is probably fresh, as it will probably spoil soon.
And the right hated Obama for everything he did.
Granted I think Y2K readiness is now time to put away.
But if I felt like it I could bring up those legacy mainframes who's Y2K patches only extended the problem out with a 2015, 2020, 2050 cutoff and rollover. With logic like
If year > 20 then
Set Fullyear = 1900 + year
Else
Set Fullyear = 2000 + year
Endif
So when these dates hit the programs will have issues.
But I doubt this problem should be a government priority.
Here are some answers. They may not be stellar ones, but they are factors.
1. Employee Hiring: Everyone knows windows, most don't know Linux. Sure using Linux for work isn't that big of a deal, but it is just one more thing to train on.
2. Third party software: Most organizations thinking buy not build is the solution. Most of the software that you can buy is for windows.
3. Compatibility: 99% compatible means 3 days a year there is a problem.
4. Merging with other locations: Sure you may be on Linux but chances are the organization that you are merging with isn't
5. Big Vendor relationship: If you are a big enough organization. Your relationship with Microsoft is far more dynamic than here is the CD and install it. Microsoft will often work with you to make sure their product will work with your environment.
6. Hardware: Oh that new set of laptops has an incompatible network chip. And there is no Linux driver. You could make sure you get the linux approved system, but either it is out of date, or more expensive, just because that one necessary compatibility component.
7. Too many exceptions: If you are a Linux shop, you normally need a few windows boxes for those exceptions where you need it. There just may be too many people who need Windows as an exception.
8. Too configurable: Linux is often too configurable for its own good, deploying it in an organization will often get the organizations group think settings. Often being bad for everyone. Windows is you get what you get, and followed "Best Practices" which bosses think they like.
9. Silly names: Much of linux software has silly fun and unprofessional names. It just may not fit in the organizations culture.
10. That one problem that could had been easy in windows: When you use the exception vs what is common. You are under the gun to make sure everything is perfect. That one problem could get you. "No one got fired for choosing IBM" problem. You can buy a POS, but just as long as you are suffering with everyone else you are fine.
This is a problem that neither side really wants to fix.
If we follow the Left Route. We raise taxes on the companies, being that the companies are paying more for these services, they will have leverage, where they can go to the leaders and say. Do what we want or else we move out, and you will loose out on the tax revenue.
If we follow the Right Route. These companies who hires a lot of people who lives locally, will leverage the government for them to pay less taxes or they will move to the next state/country that will offer them those lower rates. Causing there workforce to lower in salary or be forced to move.
So the Left will bend over backwards and spend a lot of tax payer money to build infrastructure just for the company to keep them there.
The right will bend over with not taxing a huge source of income which could be used to help so may problems. But just to keep the people in the area.
Also don't trust, Russia, China, Europe, India, Middle East, East Asia...
That is why I get all my software from Antarctica, those penguins just don't care about political pressure and they do just what they do.
However encryption from a bad actor state is still better than no encryption.
So you are saying one poorly phrased term is just as bad as a long chain of continued fear mongering? With this "Build a wall" to keep the Mexicans out, as part of his core stump speech. The "deplorable" statement was not right, and yes they are are educated and thoughtful trump supporters. However the core of supporters are not. The surprise states came from areas where blue collar jobs cover the bulk of the economy, normally these people support democrats due to strongish unions in that area.
OK I get it, you don't trust Clinton. But why do you consider Clinton more dangerous than Trump? If you are running for president you are self serving and want the power, no matter what party you are in. You profanity in your post makes me expect that you are reacting on an emotional aspect to someone challenging your beliefs. Your education degree doesn't equate to the emotional awareness that you personally have. And the fact that you preferred Trump over Clinton isn't a judgement of you personally, but the fact that you called me "a small minded asshole who doesn't have the ability to understand differing points" does. They were other reasons for people to choose Trump. However the fear mongering and us vs them, approach that he used much more than his rivals. Is a factor of affecting people on the emotional level which helped turn the tide.
There is a lot of questions out there, that these numbers don't seem to show.
1. Which languages do they use primarily. Python for example while can handle tabs, your code needs to be consistent so using spacing is better. Normally you also set the IDE to replace tab with spaces. Other languages that don't care about white space may allow tabs and spaces to be mixed.
2. What type of projects are they working on. Larger projects with mutable developers need to keep their coding style more or less synchronized. Space intents are normally preferred as tab spacing will be inconsistent across system settings.
3. Is this based on code review. If so, does the IDE just replace Tabs with spaces.
I myself am normally will follow the Tab key, with the IDE replacing it with spaces. As the Tab takes one keypress and makes jagged ends often move to the correct tab point (Still an IDE thing)
Or for farmers. Telephone and power Lines in the 1940s didn't well cover the rural areas. This could had been marketed as a poor quality tool for those hicks who didn't live in the city.
I actually think if it was marketed as a high end product for the rich the FCC would had allowed it.
Partisan politics brings up the Us vs Them instinct in us. I know that I am not bad, so the other people who don't see things as I do must be.
This is a often a reflexive emotional responce to a disagreement. Normally as enlightened individuals we can stop our primitive brain and try to reason out why the other side may have an issue.
This time Trump used this emotional responce than continually enforced it. For the population who are undereducated and tend to not practice their minds this bombardment of they are bad flooded their heads, and not giving time for the intellect to sit and process the info. Hillary Clinton is bad because her opponent confirmed that I was good and was on his side.
Minority groups in general didn't care for Trumps agenda so they were also the bad guy. So if the minority groups are bad guys then it is OK to insult them and hurt them, because they are part of the group of people who are trying to hurt us.
Best practice is code word to stop complaining and do it my way.
I am not talking about common tools such as email servers, word processing, spreadsheet...
But software core to the operation of your business. Companies will sell you massive enterprise solutions, filled with best practices and buzzword features.
However the effort in implementing this is usually much more complex and costly than a small team of full time developers to make simple solutions to solve the problems unique to the business.
These companies selling these solutions hire a team of full time employees just to support the company. Then they charge you for the software and their time plus the profit margin. So you end up paying more for features you don't use and extras that are hacked in and barely work.
Your organization offers solutions, products or services that are unique. Why would you expect software and best processes to be the same.
Normally in the 100 level classes you get students from other majors who need to fill out their required course. They don't think like scientist they think they can BS their way by impassioned speach.
Normally I would say you can just kick the student out of class for being disruptive.
But there has been a large growth of discourse towards heckling and egging people to become violent (on both sides) that is preventing the execution of expressing the ideas in an environment to do so.
Many brand of wireless mice have a USB radio receiver. That will need to use up one of those few available ports. Mostly because they think Bluetooth isn't a good enough protocol so they make their on.
When you need a wired mousepad.
I am not a big fan of wireless mice anyways. But the main benefit is it keeps your desk clean of excess wires But if your mousepad needs a wire then what is the point.
The real advantage of Web-Based and Cloud systems is really we are saved from the pain of deployment, not programming time. Deployment on PC's creates a ton of problems. Such as having to make sure the PC is functioning correctly when they are software errors, Dll and other sub systems that come in conflict, then trying to push updates on a wide scale.
In terms of Python vs. C. on System resources is often very minor. And for most applications they may run faster in Python, just because better versions of algorithms are on hand built in vs. having to code it yourself. In real life doing C Coding if you are under the pressure to get it done and working. Picking the better performing algorithm may fail on a good enough easier to code algorithm. C and C++ coding is good when you really need performance as one of the key features. Python will be better for cases where the program needs to be deployed fast and and run well.
What is actually more expensive than hardware and development time, is opportunity cost. If a process by hand costs a company of 1000 employees to waste 20 minutes a day which can be automated to run near automatically say 2 seconds in Python or 1 second in C. So saying the average employee is getting paid $20 an hour. That will mean that every week $33,000 is wasted every week, now if that program takes 1 week to develop and deploy in Python vs 2 weeks in C. That will cover the cost of hardware and development time, in that one week difference.
There is a difference between being the dominate language and the only one.
C has been the dominate language for decades and they were also many other popular languages as well. However dominate language status meant you better know this language because even if it it isn't your bread and butter you will run across it.
However today where hardware is cheap and fast and most software written is web based or cloud based means that many of the advantages of the older language are becoming moot. Now that being the case these languages will not go away there is still a need for them Python is just an interpreted language. We still need language that compile to an optized binary format and we still need high performance software that will run on the local system. But just not as much as before.
In a city $25,000 is fairly cheap compared to planting and maintaining 250 trees. Including the space they will take up in NYC you are paying over $1500 per square foot of space. 25k is a value
I see this as part of the solution not a fix to the problem.
Global warming is a big problem there isn't a magic bullet to fix the problem as there isn't one source that caused it.
The building of cities has caused a lot of deforestation and this is one of the factors in the problem. So if we have condense ways of cleaning the air in cities we can still keep the advantage of the concrete cities while adding the benefit of plant life to help reduce carbon.
Even if cities were plastered with these thing it isn't enough. But with combination of other changes such as moving to cleaner energy plants. More energy efficient transportation. We really slow down global climate change enough for the rest of the earth to heal from it, without having to make life changing sacrifices.