After Balmer left Microsoft, Microsoft seems to be operating like a normal established tech company. If they have competing products they will push the heck out of it, but the new MS seems to realize that they can't convert everyone. But with Balmer and Gates they was too aggressive after Microsoft became well established and no longer a startup company. And those sneaky underhanded tactics that served them well in the past just don't seem to fly anymore.
Especially for external devices, if it fits it should work. Right now with USB-c there are too many different types of wires that can degrade or make devices unusable.
The DNC did screw up, however the Russians hacking the DNC and exposing there plan to stop Sanders really turned off a lot of people who may had sided with Clinton if she won in a fair fight. The emails scandal was pure stupid because it is such a minor offense it wasn't really worth anything. But with people on the sidelines from the leaked info Colmy opening the investigation was enough to turn a few states red.
What I don't like is the obscurity of the article about the problem. Granted they may not want to give out too much info to prevent someone to make such a worm. However not knowing the nature of the vulnerability, how do we know what to do to protect our systems? Going to Linux may work for your home PC but for work you may have those silly legacy apps that you just can't move over.
What I would like to see are benchmark before, during and compared to like areas not trying this. I am not opposed to basic income, but there are factors that may kick in. Such as having people on basic income, how will that affect their upward mobility, as well as services to help support the needy and under privileged could fall off as the people's suffering could be hidden, under a government catch all. But all this negativity on my part is just theoretical. But instead of jumping into new economic models with gusto, a scientific measured approach may be much safer, and manageable as we can address problems on a smaller scale.
You don't want to hire people who are willing analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the tools? I've seen to many programs written in OO languages. But are just coded procedural inside a class wrapper. A lot of coding in today's world doesn't require full life cycle product development. Often throwaway code that does something simple and does it well offers the best bang for the buck. However if I were interviewing for a software development shop making some big clunky product I can just as easilly state all the greats OO has to offer.
Object oriented is very overblown methodology. It has its advantages but overall it just gets in the way, because it takes the effort away from logic and workflow and more towards design. So you often end up with a well designed product that doesn't do what it needs to do.
Wow such lack of love for humanity. Here we have a guy imprisdoned for trying to make the world better and speaking out on what he thought was an injustice. Who probably very scared and currently powerless. As you from your comfortable location applauding this because he happened to make a technical decision to use a different software set with different features tradeoffs which you have the option to not use at all or just spend a little time to learn better and perhaps change the default configuration. What's next? Hanging the engineers who decided to take the headphone jack from the iPhone. Or the person who made the final decision to make their distribution start Linux in xwindows by default?
I think the issue isn't that when people see the add for Pepsi next to a violent extremist video people will relate that Pepsi is endorsing the video. But the act of continued advertising next to the video is endorsing it. What a lot of companies are slowly realizing is that what they spend money on can often have further reaching consequences. Do you want the PR after the next mass shooting that the kids weapons were funded from your company due too add revenue on his hateful YouTube blog? Or even with the recent Fox News with Bill O'riely, he didn't get fired for what he did but got fired because major companies were pulling out. He get fired, the company that pulled out looks good because it appears they have a conscience the get press for that and it is free advertising.
Except the test tracks are designed to test the mechanal features. For automated cars there is a degree of this on test tracks. But there comes a point where it needs real world testing. If you write software at nearly every level of complexity once you hand it to the real world they find new problems that needs to be fixed.
Suicide doesn't seem like an appropriate answer to a stressful job. He probably had problems well beyond Uber's bad HR policy. Loosing a job, your house, your car... isn't the end of the world. Anyone rational enough would realize this. But suicide is usually from problem well beyond external problems which needs to be treated.
The flying car has been the stuff of science fiction for generations. If the CEO can find a way to make a flying car that the average person can buy and use for their normal work. They think they will earn a place in history like Henry Ford. As a flying car would be recognized and used for hundreds of years. Unlike say a Relational Database system, so if they did a good job, they will get as much history fan fair as Nikolaus Otto (One of the inventors of the internal combustion engine)
Well to call it a flying car I think it should meet the following criteria. 1. Be able to fit on a standard 1 lane road and inside a 1 car garage and parking spot. 2. It should be able by its own power park in such garage. 3. It should be able to carry at least 2 people. (Bonus points for side by side) 4. It should fly for at least 100 miles without a refill. 5. Flight speeds should exceed 60 mph 6. It should be fully covered to protest 7. Driving controls should be simple and straight forward. 8. Fuel economy should be similar to that of an automobile. 9. Enough safety procedures to not make it risky drive.
About 50% of the population has below average intelligence. So these jobs for things that Robots can and Cant do will be reserved for the people who are smart, creative and fit enough to perform such tasks. That leaves the other group of people who are not. Granted you can say Darwinism and ignore the plight of these people, but history has shone us, that things can get very violent when these people are left out to die. Even the Basic Income has its problems, where these people will live a life where there is little they can do to improve it, because while they may want to do more in life, society will not let them, because the economics made by man will not allow it. Why bother having him mow the lawn for an extra $50 a week. Where the robot will do it for free. And you don't need to feel sorry for him, because his basic needs are set, and he is just trying to make some extra bucks for luxuries.
A lot of these economies are also suffering from a aging workforce where the number of young people are not taking over the older employees jobs, because they are not enough of them to do so. This in the short term is good for a countries economy having a labor force filled with skilled workers who do not have much overhead with children, so they can use their money to buy things, and take risks that wouldn't be wise if you are younger and have a mortgage and car payments and are a couple months away from being broke without your job. These older people have their homes paid off, so they can spend of more stuff and take financial risks which normally will be rewarding. However in the long term they will die out and not be able to replace the workforce, and if ignored for too long, that workforce that does come in, will not have any cross training from the previous generation and make the same mistakes over again. We have been wasting time for generations, social media is the newest form, but how far away is it, from water cooler talk, or going out during lunch and getting a bit tipsy.
The computer scientist in me loves functional languages, the MBA in me doesn't. Functional languages makes very tight code. Which for the programmer and the computer scientist is great. Less coding, a solid routine with little effort. However it makes it difficult to maintain a program over a life time. As it is always near one feature away from a full rewrite, vs just slapping some if conditional in the code which while inelegant, is easy to code, easy to see the change, and easier to test.
Also scope creep in projects is always a risk. It isn't about not liking the idea but not adding into that particular product. Mostly because that one more feature can break a lot and cause more rework than a new product.
The problem is the products that are considered innovative and disruptive doesn't come from the company trying to make it, but from the users of it. Before it is proven at best a product can be a clever reinterpretation.
Back in the good old days when the Internet was used mainly for colleges and government agencies. These colleges will reserve large blocks for themselves. I went to a small college and they had a Class B and two Class C IP address ranges (Back in the time Class B was X.X.0.0 and Class C was X.X.X.0) giving the colleges more than enough IP address for the who institution. Hack in the late 1990's every PC was connected to an unprotected Static IP address for their PCs.
What I don't get is why he hasn't done anything on infrastructure that he promised. This would more or less get bipartisan acceptance, generally it was one of his most popular promises. And for a real estate guy who like to build things, this should had been up his alley, to get his feet wet being a president. I am by no means a Trump supporter, but I live in the Trump Rust belt area, and I see in these areas that had voted for him, a rotting infrastructure, with post industrial cities that time had forgotten, because the states often have big modern cities a few hundred miles away propping up the economy numbers.
Still we are taught that force of gravity is in relationship of the mass. I would like to find out if Anti-Mass produces anti-gravity. or it may not, but checking the gravitation observed force may bring light into how gravity works.
But it gets really hard when the original comment was so stupid. Where every point he made is false. It is like the poster was Donald Trump and he was told that ultrasonic driers are bad.
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After Balmer left Microsoft, Microsoft seems to be operating like a normal established tech company. If they have competing products they will push the heck out of it, but the new MS seems to realize that they can't convert everyone. But with Balmer and Gates they was too aggressive after Microsoft became well established and no longer a startup company. And those sneaky underhanded tactics that served them well in the past just don't seem to fly anymore.
Especially for external devices, if it fits it should work. Right now with USB-c there are too many different types of wires that can degrade or make devices unusable.
The DNC did screw up, however the Russians hacking the DNC and exposing there plan to stop Sanders really turned off a lot of people who may had sided with Clinton if she won in a fair fight. The emails scandal was pure stupid because it is such a minor offense it wasn't really worth anything. But with people on the sidelines from the leaked info Colmy opening the investigation was enough to turn a few states red.
What I don't like is the obscurity of the article about the problem. Granted they may not want to give out too much info to prevent someone to make such a worm. However not knowing the nature of the vulnerability, how do we know what to do to protect our systems? Going to Linux may work for your home PC but for work you may have those silly legacy apps that you just can't move over.
What I would like to see are benchmark before, during and compared to like areas not trying this. I am not opposed to basic income, but there are factors that may kick in. Such as having people on basic income, how will that affect their upward mobility, as well as services to help support the needy and under privileged could fall off as the people's suffering could be hidden, under a government catch all. But all this negativity on my part is just theoretical. But instead of jumping into new economic models with gusto, a scientific measured approach may be much safer, and manageable as we can address problems on a smaller scale.
People love to comment on news articles and share them just reeding is boring.
OO isn't a failure. But it isn't often the best tool for the job.
You don't want to hire people who are willing analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the tools? I've seen to many programs written in OO languages. But are just coded procedural inside a class wrapper. A lot of coding in today's world doesn't require full life cycle product development. Often throwaway code that does something simple and does it well offers the best bang for the buck. However if I were interviewing for a software development shop making some big clunky product I can just as easilly state all the greats OO has to offer.
Object oriented is very overblown methodology. It has its advantages but overall it just gets in the way, because it takes the effort away from logic and workflow and more towards design. So you often end up with a well designed product that doesn't do what it needs to do.
Wow such lack of love for humanity. Here we have a guy imprisdoned for trying to make the world better and speaking out on what he thought was an injustice. Who probably very scared and currently powerless.
As you from your comfortable location applauding this because he happened to make a technical decision to use a different software set with different features tradeoffs which you have the option to not use at all or just spend a little time to learn better and perhaps change the default configuration.
What's next? Hanging the engineers who decided to take the headphone jack from the iPhone. Or the person who made the final decision to make their distribution start Linux in xwindows by default?
I think the issue isn't that when people see the add for Pepsi next to a violent extremist video people will relate that Pepsi is endorsing the video. But the act of continued advertising next to the video is endorsing it. What a lot of companies are slowly realizing is that what they spend money on can often have further reaching consequences. Do you want the PR after the next mass shooting that the kids weapons were funded from your company due too add revenue on his hateful YouTube blog?
Or even with the recent Fox News with Bill O'riely, he didn't get fired for what he did but got fired because major companies were pulling out. He get fired, the company that pulled out looks good because it appears they have a conscience the get press for that and it is free advertising.
Except the test tracks are designed to test the mechanal features. For automated cars there is a degree of this on test tracks. But there comes a point where it needs real world testing. If you write software at nearly every level of complexity once you hand it to the real world they find new problems that needs to be fixed.
Suicide doesn't seem like an appropriate answer to a stressful job. He probably had problems well beyond Uber's bad HR policy. Loosing a job, your house, your car... isn't the end of the world. Anyone rational enough would realize this. But suicide is usually from problem well beyond external problems which needs to be treated.
The flying car has been the stuff of science fiction for generations. If the CEO can find a way to make a flying car that the average person can buy and use for their normal work. They think they will earn a place in history like Henry Ford. As a flying car would be recognized and used for hundreds of years. Unlike say a Relational Database system, so if they did a good job, they will get as much history fan fair as Nikolaus Otto (One of the inventors of the internal combustion engine)
Well to call it a flying car I think it should meet the following criteria.
1. Be able to fit on a standard 1 lane road and inside a 1 car garage and parking spot.
2. It should be able by its own power park in such garage.
3. It should be able to carry at least 2 people. (Bonus points for side by side)
4. It should fly for at least 100 miles without a refill.
5. Flight speeds should exceed 60 mph
6. It should be fully covered to protest
7. Driving controls should be simple and straight forward.
8. Fuel economy should be similar to that of an automobile.
9. Enough safety procedures to not make it risky drive.
About 50% of the population has below average intelligence. So these jobs for things that Robots can and Cant do will be reserved for the people who are smart, creative and fit enough to perform such tasks. That leaves the other group of people who are not. Granted you can say Darwinism and ignore the plight of these people, but history has shone us, that things can get very violent when these people are left out to die. Even the Basic Income has its problems, where these people will live a life where there is little they can do to improve it, because while they may want to do more in life, society will not let them, because the economics made by man will not allow it. Why bother having him mow the lawn for an extra $50 a week. Where the robot will do it for free. And you don't need to feel sorry for him, because his basic needs are set, and he is just trying to make some extra bucks for luxuries.
A lot of these economies are also suffering from a aging workforce where the number of young people are not taking over the older employees jobs, because they are not enough of them to do so. This in the short term is good for a countries economy having a labor force filled with skilled workers who do not have much overhead with children, so they can use their money to buy things, and take risks that wouldn't be wise if you are younger and have a mortgage and car payments and are a couple months away from being broke without your job. These older people have their homes paid off, so they can spend of more stuff and take financial risks which normally will be rewarding.
However in the long term they will die out and not be able to replace the workforce, and if ignored for too long, that workforce that does come in, will not have any cross training from the previous generation and make the same mistakes over again.
We have been wasting time for generations, social media is the newest form, but how far away is it, from water cooler talk, or going out during lunch and getting a bit tipsy.
The computer scientist in me loves functional languages, the MBA in me doesn't.
Functional languages makes very tight code. Which for the programmer and the computer scientist is great. Less coding, a solid routine with little effort.
However it makes it difficult to maintain a program over a life time. As it is always near one feature away from a full rewrite, vs just slapping some if conditional in the code which while inelegant, is easy to code, easy to see the change, and easier to test.
Also scope creep in projects is always a risk. It isn't about not liking the idea but not adding into that particular product. Mostly because that one more feature can break a lot and cause more rework than a new product.
The problem is the products that are considered innovative and disruptive doesn't come from the company trying to make it, but from the users of it. Before it is proven at best a product can be a clever reinterpretation.
Well Trump is consistent in not doing any of the things he had campaigned to do.
Back in the good old days when the Internet was used mainly for colleges and government agencies. These colleges will reserve large blocks for themselves. I went to a small college and they had a Class B and two Class C IP address ranges (Back in the time Class B was X.X.0.0 and Class C was X.X.X.0) giving the colleges more than enough IP address for the who institution. Hack in the late 1990's every PC was connected to an unprotected Static IP address for their PCs.
What I don't get is why he hasn't done anything on infrastructure that he promised. This would more or less get bipartisan acceptance, generally it was one of his most popular promises. And for a real estate guy who like to build things, this should had been up his alley, to get his feet wet being a president. I am by no means a Trump supporter, but I live in the Trump Rust belt area, and I see in these areas that had voted for him, a rotting infrastructure, with post industrial cities that time had forgotten, because the states often have big modern cities a few hundred miles away propping up the economy numbers.
Still we are taught that force of gravity is in relationship of the mass. I would like to find out if Anti-Mass produces anti-gravity. or it may not, but checking the gravitation observed force may bring light into how gravity works.
But it gets really hard when the original comment was so stupid. Where every point he made is false. It is like the poster was Donald Trump and he was told that ultrasonic driers are bad.