Being a right leaning news source. Doesn't automatically discredit it. I actually like getting a balance to the news just as long as it is thoughtful, and not propaganda. The problem for the right leaning media, is keeping their point of views interesting for people to pay attention. Left leaning groups find problems and offer to fix them, right leaning groups fear the fix is worse then the problem itself. It is much easier to show problems on the news and state the solution will fix it. As the problem is concrete, and the solution given will often sound reasonable. The problem with the Crazy Right media, the Fox News and Brietbart, is they discredit the problem, and admonish the people trying to make a solution for it, by doing this is makes it easier for the Right to keep people interest. As it is making the Left the problem and the Right the solution. However this is propaganda, not news.
Well the problem is most "Offices" are a big collaborated environment, so we can get our face to face communication, read body languages, really discuss and understand. However they have also gone too far. Because after we are done collaborating we just need to sit down and get it done. That is where working at home could become handy. Unless your home has more distractions then your office.
Well lets put it this way. I travel an hour to my office where I sit at my desk and program for servers that are miles away from me, over a network connection that is about the same speed as my home connection. Being that my department is separated from other units, most of the communication is via phone or email. My managers are usually gone for the day because they are booked with meetings off site. Our HR department is testing work from home (2 days a year) and I don't take it, because my productivity is measured, while at the office I can goof off all day, and get rewarded for a wonderful job for being able to answer some silly basic questions.
They are specialized tools and then they are generalized tools. Programming language are general tools like a hammer, screwdrivers, a knife. Where most all problems can be solved with them, but it may take time. Specialized tools say a wood lathe can do a lot less things but what the do the do very well. However always having the right tool for the right job can get expensive. And from the sound of the article the poster wants a general purpose development language designed with flowcharting.
Technology Pega is a Business Process Management system. Good for the scope that it is in. But would get cumbersome when things get too complex where you need to edit the Java code for the stuff that is out of its bounds.
UML and other Flowcharting method are better on paper. But rarely can scale to a full application. 1. They are based on the idea that the business owners know what they want. UML and flowchart are based on the idea if you have enough meetings and talk to the right people that you will get all the info needed. This isn't true. What they say they want vs what they need are actually very different. 2. Like objects often will evolve into two different species. UML wants to make a Person class that can be inherited into Users, customers, execs, administrators... however as time goes on under real use you may find that you may have users who are just another program or dealing with customers who are business which has data elements that just don't fit in the model of a person. This makes either bad data entry to get it to work. Or crazy workarounds. 3. UML and flowchart are about understanding the info not building it. That one box that says save data could be a complex piece of code, factoring in silly things like security performance and the face that this data is being used by many people at the same time. Building a flowchart for all parts will just be more cumbersome and make the process way too officiated.
They are flowchart and UML based converts and languages. But they are marketed as workflow management systems, which are fine and good for what they are. But don't expect these to be on the top programming language board. As they are usually under tight controls of the consulting companies and the development companies.
UBI cannot replace welfare. But it can reduce the large number of people who are on the edge. Even with UBI there are people who can't manage money. That is why we have food stamps, a card that can only buy food, welfare will normally pay the rent for a low cost apartment, you get put on Medicaid for healthcare. Then you get a small amt of money for miscellaneous spending. Because for some people they are unable to budget their lives. And UBI would have them starve homeless as their basic income wouldn't be spent wisely on things they need but what they want right now. Now this isn't the majority of people on welfare and UBI could get them out of their slump as the direct cash will help them make choices that could get them out of their problems. But my biggest consern about UBI is it is a nice way to wipe our hands clean of that pesky poverty problem and not having to care for the less fortunate.
A proper IT staff would have built in safeguards against power outages and power surges. For a company the size of British airways I would expect that they would have a hot fail over in a different country. Or at least a different geographic location.
In short they cheeped out on IT and now they are paying for it.
We are not calling for firing Pence. Just Trump. Sure the liberal groups doesn't like Pence but his motivations are based on what he thinks is good for the country, and is able to understand the complexities in it. Trump is a 5 year old in a 70 year old body. Unable and unwilling to comprehend the complexities of the world and it is about himself.
There is a difference of the chip being a good buy vs. the price being unreasonable. The $2k price covers the R&D and the changes needed to the chip processing facilities. It is affordable enough for the people who need the new power and now. But it will be a few years before it become common component.
I am not too surprised. As the Ancient Egyptians had a culture of inbreeding royalty(who would more likely be mummified) Outside of genetic test, there were many deformities from elongated heads and clubbed feet, that often happen from this. So I wouldn't be too surprised to see a lack of genetic diversity, in those who were mummified. I would be far more interested in the genetics of the average person vs. a dynastic rulers.
The issue is that Bathrooms and Locker rooms are public places where we do private things. And unfortunately the mindset of a lot of people haven't evolved much from middle school thinking if it is private then it must be sexually arousing. While real life it is rather boring. Any Nudity would be brief, and if a transgender person would probably take steps to insure their differences in plumbing isn't flaunted or even shown for any gender restroom. The risk of assault or compromising with transgender isn't any different with any other person in the room. I am sure if that heterosexual person if offered enough money to take some pictures would do so. So really your risk isn't that big of a deal. The problem is and this is speaking from a heterosexual male, is the concept of transsexual is very far from my experience so it is difficult for me to understand. At best all I can do is realize it exists and treat the people as human beings, and respect their position. Because trying to do otherwise would do more harm.
Is $2,000 unreasonable for the Newest and Fastest CPU?
Being that the top of the line Video Cards cost 5k.
A high end PC back in 1997 costed about 5k. Adjusted for inflation a High End PC today will be about 9-10k that 2k CPU would be about the same.
Now most of us doesn't need the newest and fastest. So We will buy the higher end chips that will make our PCs in the normal 2-3k range for a really good gaming system.
The real issue is still after nearly 10 years, most applications really are not coded to handle the multiple CPU's
I am not following you. You can use lower powered systems for serious data processing work too. However the point of the article is the growth of the PC. And my point is that it won't be as big as it was, but there is still a need to use it. If you need a small laptop, with has more power than a tablet. That is fine... We still have Mainframes in operation today, it isn't like a new technology will kill off an older established one any time soon. However sometimes we need or could take advantage of more power. But every job is different. So you are doing some development and a laptop with a small 13" screen which is light and portable, can be a benefit to you. However if there is some big data crunching that you will need to do. A Desktop System may be able to process the data in minutes vs. hours.
Well this is return of growth, I doubt that it will reach its heyday of the early 2000's. However we are no longer looking for the PC to be a Personal Computer but more as a Personal Work Station, where Power Usage isn't the limiting factor. Tables, Convertible Laptops, Ultabooks, netbooks.... Are all tied to trying to have long enough battery life, and are small and light. For most home and personal use, this is a good trade off. As normal jobs on our personal computing devices. Don't require have processor lifting. But for Serious Computing professionals and Serious gamers. They PC as a Work Station. Where Power and Size isn't the issue, but how much raw power can you afford is. Being able to hook it up to large High Resolution Displays, with the ability to upgrade components that fail, or become obsolete faster than others. Now there is a lot of need for these systems. However they will no longer be a staple in the home and at work for everyone. Your Boss and execs who just view charts and graphs. Would be more than happy with a tablet that gives them the info without having to lug around a large system. But for the Accountants, Engineers, Developers... All those people who actually do the work, needs systems that can keep up with demand, Because the Accountants can always use something that trends a years worth of data faster. Engineers can always have something that renders a complex cad design faster and cleaner. Developers allowing to test compile and test there programs under high loads....
What seems to work better is mandatory holiday, where you boss is telling you to take time off. We don't want to be the guy who isn't a team player. but if our boss tells us to take time off, we are being a team player and doing what the bosses say.
(This is a generalization, I don't want to see hundreds of posts stating that they are the exception) In general Americans will define themselves on what they do. When meeting a new person, one of the first questions asked is what do they do for a living. We use the answer of this question to help define and place themselves in society. Before you realize how unfair this is, other cultures, will make the same judgments based on family, religion, race, political standing, their dress, their car... Being that what we do for work is a key part of our identity, we prefer to spend a good portion in enforcing and strengthening it. While the numbers show the opposite, taking time off, we get the perception that we will be considered lazy, not a team player, and not productive if we take too much vacation. So we usually keep these vacation days, not as vacation but as emergency time off days. Also we subconsciously control our work environment so we necessary as an individual to the institution, and poorly sharing your information with other workers. So if you take time off, you get back with a weeks worth of work that you will need to do, being an other intensive to not take time off.
Please point out the superior tablet/convertible laptop? Normally a claim that something is bad, means there is something better to compare it too. I personally don't care for the Surface, because it doesn't solve the issues that I have, but in General I am not needing a tablet or convertible laptop. However the specs from hardware to dimensions and weight, makes it seems a comparable product to the others in its market.
Ambition and Vigor vs. Strategy and Experience. A large tech company really should have a good balance across experience levels for tech workers.
Having an nearly all older workforce is 1. Expensive 2. Often closed to new ideas and methods. 3. More effort to retrain.
Having a nearly all young workforce 1. A lot of rebuilding old tech that they think is new. 2. A lot of trying to outdo each other 3. Lacks long term vision and support.
A proper balance. Is where the older people are invigorated by the newer envelopes. And the younger ones can have a role model on how to do their job. Out of the box ideas are given and tried and true method are followed.
However there is a lot of claims here. In general trying to describe the perfect birth control. With the promise of it originated from some ancient Chinese secret. Smells fishy to me.
I doubt it, it will probably look like a bomb or an IED. We live in a world where a kid gets flagged as a terrorist by building a digital alarm clock in his school binder.
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Being a right leaning news source. Doesn't automatically discredit it. I actually like getting a balance to the news just as long as it is thoughtful, and not propaganda.
The problem for the right leaning media, is keeping their point of views interesting for people to pay attention. Left leaning groups find problems and offer to fix them, right leaning groups fear the fix is worse then the problem itself.
It is much easier to show problems on the news and state the solution will fix it. As the problem is concrete, and the solution given will often sound reasonable.
The problem with the Crazy Right media, the Fox News and Brietbart, is they discredit the problem, and admonish the people trying to make a solution for it, by doing this is makes it easier for the Right to keep people interest. As it is making the Left the problem and the Right the solution. However this is propaganda, not news.
Well the problem is most "Offices" are a big collaborated environment, so we can get our face to face communication, read body languages, really discuss and understand. However they have also gone too far. Because after we are done collaborating we just need to sit down and get it done. That is where working at home could become handy. Unless your home has more distractions then your office.
Well lets put it this way. I travel an hour to my office where I sit at my desk and program for servers that are miles away from me, over a network connection that is about the same speed as my home connection. Being that my department is separated from other units, most of the communication is via phone or email. My managers are usually gone for the day because they are booked with meetings off site.
Our HR department is testing work from home (2 days a year) and I don't take it, because my productivity is measured, while at the office I can goof off all day, and get rewarded for a wonderful job for being able to answer some silly basic questions.
They are specialized tools and then they are generalized tools. Programming language are general tools like a hammer, screwdrivers, a knife. Where most all problems can be solved with them, but it may take time. Specialized tools say a wood lathe can do a lot less things but what the do the do very well. However always having the right tool for the right job can get expensive. And from the sound of the article the poster wants a general purpose development language designed with flowcharting.
Ummm. The point of the article is the person wants a flow chart based language so you would need to flow chart each function.
Technology Pega is a Business Process Management system.
Good for the scope that it is in. But would get cumbersome when things get too complex where you need to edit the Java code for the stuff that is out of its bounds.
UML and other Flowcharting method are better on paper. But rarely can scale to a full application.
1. They are based on the idea that the business owners know what they want. UML and flowchart are based on the idea if you have enough meetings and talk to the right people that you will get all the info needed. This isn't true. What they say they want vs what they need are actually very different.
2. Like objects often will evolve into two different species. UML wants to make a Person class that can be inherited into Users, customers, execs, administrators... however as time goes on under real use you may find that you may have users who are just another program or dealing with customers who are business which has data elements that just don't fit in the model of a person. This makes either bad data entry to get it to work. Or crazy workarounds.
3. UML and flowchart are about understanding the info not building it. That one box that says save data could be a complex piece of code, factoring in silly things like security performance and the face that this data is being used by many people at the same time. Building a flowchart for all parts will just be more cumbersome and make the process way too officiated.
They are flowchart and UML based converts and languages. But they are marketed as workflow management systems, which are fine and good for what they are. But don't expect these to be on the top programming language board. As they are usually under tight controls of the consulting companies and the development companies.
You mean for the Executive who didn't approve of the hot offsite fail over solution ?
You know the stuff that normal large organizations have to make sure their business can be operational.
UBI cannot replace welfare. But it can reduce the large number of people who are on the edge. Even with UBI there are people who can't manage money. That is why we have food stamps, a card that can only buy food, welfare will normally pay the rent for a low cost apartment, you get put on Medicaid for healthcare. Then you get a small amt of money for miscellaneous spending.
Because for some people they are unable to budget their lives. And UBI would have them starve homeless as their basic income wouldn't be spent wisely on things they need but what they want right now.
Now this isn't the majority of people on welfare and UBI could get them out of their slump as the direct cash will help them make choices that could get them out of their problems.
But my biggest consern about UBI is it is a nice way to wipe our hands clean of that pesky poverty problem and not having to care for the less fortunate.
A proper IT infrastructure can deal with a direct lightning strike as well.
A proper IT staff would have built in safeguards against power outages and power surges.
For a company the size of British airways I would expect that they would have a hot fail over in a different country. Or at least a different geographic location.
In short they cheeped out on IT and now they are paying for it.
We are not calling for firing Pence. Just Trump.
Sure the liberal groups doesn't like Pence but his motivations are based on what he thinks is good for the country, and is able to understand the complexities in it. Trump is a 5 year old in a 70 year old body. Unable and unwilling to comprehend the complexities of the world and it is about himself.
There is a difference of the chip being a good buy vs. the price being unreasonable.
The $2k price covers the R&D and the changes needed to the chip processing facilities. It is affordable enough for the people who need the new power and now. But it will be a few years before it become common component.
I am not too surprised. As the Ancient Egyptians had a culture of inbreeding royalty(who would more likely be mummified) Outside of genetic test, there were many deformities from elongated heads and clubbed feet, that often happen from this. So I wouldn't be too surprised to see a lack of genetic diversity, in those who were mummified. I would be far more interested in the genetics of the average person vs. a dynastic rulers.
The issue is that Bathrooms and Locker rooms are public places where we do private things. And unfortunately the mindset of a lot of people haven't evolved much from middle school thinking if it is private then it must be sexually arousing. While real life it is rather boring. Any Nudity would be brief, and if a transgender person would probably take steps to insure their differences in plumbing isn't flaunted or even shown for any gender restroom. The risk of assault or compromising with transgender isn't any different with any other person in the room. I am sure if that heterosexual person if offered enough money to take some pictures would do so. So really your risk isn't that big of a deal.
The problem is and this is speaking from a heterosexual male, is the concept of transsexual is very far from my experience so it is difficult for me to understand. At best all I can do is realize it exists and treat the people as human beings, and respect their position. Because trying to do otherwise would do more harm.
Is $2,000 unreasonable for the Newest and Fastest CPU?
Being that the top of the line Video Cards cost 5k.
A high end PC back in 1997 costed about 5k. Adjusted for inflation a High End PC today will be about 9-10k that 2k CPU would be about the same.
Now most of us doesn't need the newest and fastest. So We will buy the higher end chips that will make our PCs in the normal 2-3k range for a really good gaming system.
The real issue is still after nearly 10 years, most applications really are not coded to handle the multiple CPU's
I am not following you. You can use lower powered systems for serious data processing work too. However the point of the article is the growth of the PC. And my point is that it won't be as big as it was, but there is still a need to use it. If you need a small laptop, with has more power than a tablet. That is fine...
We still have Mainframes in operation today, it isn't like a new technology will kill off an older established one any time soon. However sometimes we need or could take advantage of more power. But every job is different. So you are doing some development and a laptop with a small 13" screen which is light and portable, can be a benefit to you. However if there is some big data crunching that you will need to do. A Desktop System may be able to process the data in minutes vs. hours.
Well this is return of growth, I doubt that it will reach its heyday of the early 2000's. However we are no longer looking for the PC to be a Personal Computer but more as a Personal Work Station, where Power Usage isn't the limiting factor. Tables, Convertible Laptops, Ultabooks, netbooks.... Are all tied to trying to have long enough battery life, and are small and light. For most home and personal use, this is a good trade off. As normal jobs on our personal computing devices. Don't require have processor lifting. But for Serious Computing professionals and Serious gamers. They PC as a Work Station. Where Power and Size isn't the issue, but how much raw power can you afford is. Being able to hook it up to large High Resolution Displays, with the ability to upgrade components that fail, or become obsolete faster than others.
Now there is a lot of need for these systems. However they will no longer be a staple in the home and at work for everyone. Your Boss and execs who just view charts and graphs. Would be more than happy with a tablet that gives them the info without having to lug around a large system. But for the Accountants, Engineers, Developers... All those people who actually do the work, needs systems that can keep up with demand, Because the Accountants can always use something that trends a years worth of data faster. Engineers can always have something that renders a complex cad design faster and cleaner. Developers allowing to test compile and test there programs under high loads....
What seems to work better is mandatory holiday, where you boss is telling you to take time off. We don't want to be the guy who isn't a team player. but if our boss tells us to take time off, we are being a team player and doing what the bosses say.
(This is a generalization, I don't want to see hundreds of posts stating that they are the exception)
In general Americans will define themselves on what they do. When meeting a new person, one of the first questions asked is what do they do for a living. We use the answer of this question to help define and place themselves in society. Before you realize how unfair this is, other cultures, will make the same judgments based on family, religion, race, political standing, their dress, their car...
Being that what we do for work is a key part of our identity, we prefer to spend a good portion in enforcing and strengthening it. While the numbers show the opposite, taking time off, we get the perception that we will be considered lazy, not a team player, and not productive if we take too much vacation. So we usually keep these vacation days, not as vacation but as emergency time off days.
Also we subconsciously control our work environment so we necessary as an individual to the institution, and poorly sharing your information with other workers. So if you take time off, you get back with a weeks worth of work that you will need to do, being an other intensive to not take time off.
Please point out the superior tablet/convertible laptop?
Normally a claim that something is bad, means there is something better to compare it too. I personally don't care for the Surface, because it doesn't solve the issues that I have, but in General I am not needing a tablet or convertible laptop. However the specs from hardware to dimensions and weight, makes it seems a comparable product to the others in its market.
A lot of peer review gets white washed. And approved for scientific journals without the full process.
Ambition and Vigor vs. Strategy and Experience. A large tech company really should have a good balance across experience levels for tech workers.
Having an nearly all older workforce is
1. Expensive
2. Often closed to new ideas and methods.
3. More effort to retrain.
Having a nearly all young workforce
1. A lot of rebuilding old tech that they think is new.
2. A lot of trying to outdo each other
3. Lacks long term vision and support.
A proper balance. Is where the older people are invigorated by the newer envelopes. And the younger ones can have a role model on how to do their job. Out of the box ideas are given and tried and true method are followed.
However there is a lot of claims here. In general trying to describe the perfect birth control. With the promise of it originated from some ancient Chinese secret. Smells fishy to me.
I doubt it, it will probably look like a bomb or an IED. We live in a world where a kid gets flagged as a terrorist by building a digital alarm clock in his school binder.