That degree of accuracy may be more expensive. The historical $900 toilet seat, isn't because the government is buying a toilet seat for $900 retail but the $20.00 seat with overview and sign offs of higher paid people. Who look at the request determines if they get away with the $15.00 seat it will have the same benefit meeting to make sure it is on budget and every dollar is accounted for. If you are going to have a high up director needing to explain to the public why they spent an extra $5.00 then the act of explaining cost more than the savings.
I have worked with liberal organizations who are just as bad. They will lie and cheat to get their way. The problem isn't political but human. People don't want to be wrong and will cling on a hides right or wrong that fits their world view.
Agenda 1. Wants to show government waste. Agenda 2. Wants to show government effectiveness.
Let's face it government services can do a lot of good but there are some that are not effective so we are insting a lot of money for projects with little gain, but sound good. But today success of a grant is mostly do to how well the organization markets themselves without cold hard numbers their wate will go unnoticed because actions are small enough and not on a political radar for personal digging. However if a well run but politically pressured org who does a lot of good can point the numbers and show their benefits even if not popular.
Part of the problem is in order to get trusted software, you need to have some sort of review process like the Apple Store, where only approved software is placed in, while this is good to make sure harmful or just bad taste software doesn't get placed in. It also creates a freedom issue, because like the Apple Store perfectly valid apps get rejected just because it may affect someones sensibilities, or step into Apples domain and they don't want to compete with your app.
The HIV app is in Bad Taste to a point that could be considered dangerous, but that would require a judgement call, which is faulty.
Just like passengers making jokes about having dangerous material in the airline terminal.
Lack of security features isn't an agreement to let others to use your product. If I leave my front door open and random people just walk in my home I would be pissed can I could get them removed by law for trespassing because. We shouldn't need a fortis for protection all the time to make sure people behave.
By first home computer I think people were looking for their first multiuse computing device. these 8-16 bit systems that plugged into the tv that were mostly for games (largely do to tv sucking at business friendly 80 column display) but they were what people at the time would call a computer. Vs a Nintendo entertainment system which was a single use device. With lacks of external storage and keyboard support. I guess by first computer it means enough features that you can say you can use it for school.
Mine too I got it used from family. After about a year or so the game cartridges reader broke. (I wish I still had it as I could probably fix it today) but because it couldn't play games that is what I learned to first program on.
I find it funny that Slashdot just couldn't mention what it meant by Dark Mode. I was hoping that it being posted as a main article, that Dark mode would actually be a useful feature, such as watching videos without being tracked, or access to particular videos, or a way to avoid adds.
However the threats is more people do not want to bother with pirating software. FOSS is often more than acceptable solution if you don't have the money. Software as a service model means any client is no big deal without the server connection. Cloud services are relatively cheap so they can fit on average joe budget. The ris vs reward for pirating software balance is far different then it was a decade ago.
Yes there is a lot of blaming the user in software and especially in open source where it is public. But often we have a lot of users pining for those 8 bit days where wonderful software ran on under 256k of ram. Not realizing the limitations of these systems and why you were suppose to spend $50 on what today would be a throwaway app. Most of the work in these old apps was about trying to get it it fit then work as expected. You would need an early 32bit (80386) PC to play an MP3 fille. A lot of what is common now takes a great deal of power. Granted today most development will use extra ram because most people now have more than they need. But today's apps do have extra features that you don't realize. Now that said. Being able to performance tune the browser is a good idea for an open source product as it allows you to tinker with setting and allow us to choose the trade offs. However a word of caution as the tendency to blame the user exists. They may use it as a crutch to stop making things better.
No not really. There are also many instances where copying a competitors product became widely successful. VisiCalc to Lotus 123 to Excel WordPerfect to Word MySpace to Facebook I can keep going but There are many companies who just happens to get their version at the right time and market to the right group of people to make their obvious copy the more successful product.
There is still the last mile problem with mass transit. The small city busses really do not cut it for people who are above lower middle class. Residental areas in small cities that are near the bus line are normally that nice places to live, and the busses don't travel to where the good jobs are (the small professional company). The problem is much bigger then just public transport. The problem combines racism, class warfare, upward mobility, education, environment...
Mass production of an aircraft isn't at the same scale as mass producing a car. Your speed to produce parts needs to keep up with demand. So if it takes a 3D printer 72 hours to print the part. Vs hiring a machinist full time to do it in 24 hours and you will only need the part once a month. You are better off with the 3D printer. However if the demand goes up to 10 parts per month the machinist may be a better alternative. It isn't always cost per part, but total cost of production during the production lifecycle. 3D printers have a niche but I don't see the fully 3D printed assembly lines in the near future. Just like many of today's printing presses are still printing presses which follow the same concept of Gutenberg you have a shaped indent and you squish the ink on the paper. . And not just shooting out of laser printers. The laser printer would be too expensive for large runs of printing the same thing. But for the office where we will be printing small quantities of different things, the laser printer is more efficient.
There is a difference between a bubbly personality vs just a friendly welcoming one. I know we are supposed to hate McDonald's. It is the first job many of us get when we are teenagers where we find out that being a unique snowflake doesn't seem to matter and you need to follow the script of your job. Where you need to dress in unflattering uniform and find that the fast food that you loved isn't cooked with the love and care that your parents did at home. It is the entry level of entry level jobs. But you how you deal with this humbling experience can afftet your life. And overall it isn't that bad compared to the alternative for no skilles and experience jobs. Where the only real requirement is just being able to present yourself professionally.
If that is the case. Find a new job and quit. Developers are not expensive but they are paid middle class pay. While most places are used to pay people at poverty rates.
But there are plenty of white collar trades that we need to go to college for that are not necessarily. While I value my degree in Computer Science because I love the area of study. I find in my career that I need to ignore a lot of the theory due to real life problems. Much like physics is often taught with a frictionless uniform sphere. Computer Science is taught with well defined problems with fixed input and clear goals. I find myself often falling back to the stuff I had learned before college for my career as it keeps me coding better quality code much faster.
Yea these primal instinctive survival urges are completely taught. We are violent animals. We had just tamed ourselves to function in society better but when push comes to shove we can be just as violent as any of the bad guys out there.
Well for teens and preteen they are strong and smart enough to survive without their help there is an urge to prove one self. War/survival fantasy is very compelling to play out as it puts you in the ultimate test. Now this urge will get kids in trouble in real life putting themselves in dangerous situations, willing to fight people at a drop of a hat or performing other deviant behavior. Kids causing trouble has been going on for much longer than they were humans. Social norms now say we shouldn't be in that situation all the time. So kids will escape into a world where they can feel powerful in their fantasy. So for things like... Video Games for this generation Watching violent TV shows for the previous generations. Comic Books for the generation before that.
Popular "Wholsome" active which are popular with older kids like sports, camping, etc... put the kid in a controlled challenge where they can be tested. But these kids are no less trouble makers than the ones playing games.
Also the maintenance on this printer costs a lot. After a while those hammers get misaligned and takes hours to correct. Printing a bunch of H to make sure the hammer hit in the center. Plus a lot of moving parts makes it just as expensive to operate. Today you can get a cheap printer for better value over the long run
Not quality but quantity. In order to make it today you need a degree in America. This means that a lot of people who wouldn't historically would are going to college. Back 20 or 30 years ago. Having a college degree means something beyond a starting baseline requirement. People could get professional jobs with a high school education. Not the case anymore. So someone who just wants a decent job will go to college for the paper and not for the education. We are using colleges as trade schools and not as higher learning. So a lot more people getting into college means higher cost. Where the demand is exceeding supply creating high costs.
Not necessarily teens have access to mom and dads money. Apple and Facebook use to be cool then they got boring. Apple hasn't released a wow product in years. Facebook is too much effort because mom and dad are spying on it. Google is still trying to innovate.
Yea right. The chances are once the H-1 problem is fixed the skills American will have to do the job at H-1 rate. Companies don't want well paid middle class. They want rich executives that they can play golf with. Or the poor or near poor working class. Us tech guys who are educated, experience and have our fingers on the companies vital components are a thorn in their plans.
For the most part the point of the article wasn't as much of the technical lies but the fact that programmer often code themselves into boxes. Relationship mother father wife husband can quickly cross gray lines with divorce, remarried, widowed, adopted, same sex marriage, gender identity... So often programmers will program hard coded what they know. If they are better skilled then they will make a look up table. If they are really fancy they will make some adaptive control for self maintenance of the value. Then as the relationships may change it is what to do with the historical data. I have been coding for 30 years. And often I will get in arguments with newly grads and college professors (normally the ones who's career was entirely in academia) when they see that I written some less than efficient overly complex code for something easy. E.g. Why did you create a gender table and just populate Male and Female and the keys? Just code the drop down box with the values it will save on loading time. Then after release we get a request to add additional values such as trans genders so all I need to do is tell the customer to edit the lookup table and I don't have to go to all the forms that ask and show the value. Add the value, recompile make sure the code is merged in future development tested...
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That degree of accuracy may be more expensive. The historical $900 toilet seat, isn't because the government is buying a toilet seat for $900 retail but the $20.00 seat with overview and sign offs of higher paid people. Who look at the request determines if they get away with the $15.00 seat it will have the same benefit meeting to make sure it is on budget and every dollar is accounted for. If you are going to have a high up director needing to explain to the public why they spent an extra $5.00 then the act of explaining cost more than the savings.
I have worked with liberal organizations who are just as bad. They will lie and cheat to get their way. The problem isn't political but human. People don't want to be wrong and will cling on a hides right or wrong that fits their world view.
Agenda 1. Wants to show government waste.
Agenda 2. Wants to show government effectiveness.
Let's face it government services can do a lot of good but there are some that are not effective so we are insting a lot of money for projects with little gain, but sound good. But today success of a grant is mostly do to how well the organization markets themselves without cold hard numbers their wate will go unnoticed because actions are small enough and not on a political radar for personal digging.
However if a well run but politically pressured org who does a lot of good can point the numbers and show their benefits even if not popular.
Part of the problem is in order to get trusted software, you need to have some sort of review process like the Apple Store, where only approved software is placed in, while this is good to make sure harmful or just bad taste software doesn't get placed in. It also creates a freedom issue, because like the Apple Store perfectly valid apps get rejected just because it may affect someones sensibilities, or step into Apples domain and they don't want to compete with your app.
The HIV app is in Bad Taste to a point that could be considered dangerous, but that would require a judgement call, which is faulty.
Just like passengers making jokes about having dangerous material in the airline terminal.
I would just charge bk for advertising fee at high rate. Two can play at capitalist bastards.
Lack of security features isn't an agreement to let others to use your product.
If I leave my front door open and random people just walk in my home I would be pissed can I could get them removed by law for trespassing because.
We shouldn't need a fortis for protection all the time to make sure people behave.
By first home computer I think people were looking for their first multiuse computing device.
these 8-16 bit systems that plugged into the tv that were mostly for games (largely do to tv sucking at business friendly 80 column display) but they were what people at the time would call a computer. Vs a Nintendo entertainment system which was a single use device. With lacks of external storage and keyboard support.
I guess by first computer it means enough features that you can say you can use it for school.
Mine too I got it used from family. After about a year or so the game cartridges reader broke. (I wish I still had it as I could probably fix it today) but because it couldn't play games that is what I learned to first program on.
I find it funny that Slashdot just couldn't mention what it meant by Dark Mode. I was hoping that it being posted as a main article, that Dark mode would actually be a useful feature, such as watching videos without being tracked, or access to particular videos, or a way to avoid adds.
No a 386 for a MP3 file. Without any other apps.
However the threats is more people do not want to bother with pirating software. FOSS is often more than acceptable solution if you don't have the money. Software as a service model means any client is no big deal without the server connection. Cloud services are relatively cheap so they can fit on average joe budget. The ris vs reward for pirating software balance is far different then it was a decade ago.
Yes there is a lot of blaming the user in software and especially in open source where it is public. But often we have a lot of users pining for those 8 bit days where wonderful software ran on under 256k of ram. Not realizing the limitations of these systems and why you were suppose to spend $50 on what today would be a throwaway app. Most of the work in these old apps was about trying to get it it fit then work as expected.
You would need an early 32bit (80386) PC to play an MP3 fille. A lot of what is common now takes a great deal of power. Granted today most development will use extra ram because most people now have more than they need. But today's apps do have extra features that you don't realize.
Now that said. Being able to performance tune the browser is a good idea for an open source product as it allows you to tinker with setting and allow us to choose the trade offs. However a word of caution as the tendency to blame the user exists. They may use it as a crutch to stop making things better.
No not really. There are also many instances where copying a competitors product became widely successful.
VisiCalc to Lotus 123 to Excel
WordPerfect to Word
MySpace to Facebook
I can keep going but There are many companies who just happens to get their version at the right time and market to the right group of people to make their obvious copy the more successful product.
There is still the last mile problem with mass transit. The small city busses really do not cut it for people who are above lower middle class. Residental areas in small cities that are near the bus line are normally that nice places to live, and the busses don't travel to where the good jobs are (the small professional company). The problem is much bigger then just public transport. The problem combines racism, class warfare, upward mobility, education, environment...
Mass production of an aircraft isn't at the same scale as mass producing a car. Your speed to produce parts needs to keep up with demand. So if it takes a 3D printer 72 hours to print the part. Vs hiring a machinist full time to do it in 24 hours and you will only need the part once a month. You are better off with the 3D printer. However if the demand goes up to 10 parts per month the machinist may be a better alternative. It isn't always cost per part, but total cost of production during the production lifecycle.
3D printers have a niche but I don't see the fully 3D printed assembly lines in the near future. Just like many of today's printing presses are still printing presses which follow the same concept of Gutenberg you have a shaped indent and you squish the ink on the paper. . And not just shooting out of laser printers. The laser printer would be too expensive for large runs of printing the same thing. But for the office where we will be printing small quantities of different things, the laser printer is more efficient.
There is a difference between a bubbly personality vs just a friendly welcoming one.
I know we are supposed to hate McDonald's. It is the first job many of us get when we are teenagers where we find out that being a unique snowflake doesn't seem to matter and you need to follow the script of your job. Where you need to dress in unflattering uniform and find that the fast food that you loved isn't cooked with the love and care that your parents did at home. It is the entry level of entry level jobs.
But you how you deal with this humbling experience can afftet your life. And overall it isn't that bad compared to the alternative for no skilles and experience jobs. Where the only real requirement is just being able to present yourself professionally.
If that is the case. Find a new job and quit. Developers are not expensive but they are paid middle class pay. While most places are used to pay people at poverty rates.
But there are plenty of white collar trades that we need to go to college for that are not necessarily.
While I value my degree in Computer Science because I love the area of study. I find in my career that I need to ignore a lot of the theory due to real life problems. Much like physics is often taught with a frictionless uniform sphere. Computer Science is taught with well defined problems with fixed input and clear goals.
I find myself often falling back to the stuff I had learned before college for my career as it keeps me coding better quality code much faster.
Yea these primal instinctive survival urges are completely taught.
We are violent animals. We had just tamed ourselves to function in society better but when push comes to shove we can be just as violent as any of the bad guys out there.
Well for teens and preteen they are strong and smart enough to survive without their help there is an urge to prove one self. War/survival fantasy is very compelling to play out as it puts you in the ultimate test.
Now this urge will get kids in trouble in real life putting themselves in dangerous situations, willing to fight people at a drop of a hat or performing other deviant behavior. Kids causing trouble has been going on for much longer than they were humans.
Social norms now say we shouldn't be in that situation all the time. So kids will escape into a world where they can feel powerful in their fantasy.
So for things like...
Video Games for this generation
Watching violent TV shows for the previous generations.
Comic Books for the generation before that.
Popular "Wholsome" active which are popular with older kids like sports, camping, etc... put the kid in a controlled challenge where they can be tested. But these kids are no less trouble makers than the ones playing games.
Also the maintenance on this printer costs a lot. After a while those hammers get misaligned and takes hours to correct. Printing a bunch of H to make sure the hammer hit in the center. Plus a lot of moving parts makes it just as expensive to operate. Today you can get a cheap printer for better value over the long run
Not quality but quantity. In order to make it today you need a degree in America. This means that a lot of people who wouldn't historically would are going to college.
Back 20 or 30 years ago. Having a college degree means something beyond a starting baseline requirement. People could get professional jobs with a high school education. Not the case anymore.
So someone who just wants a decent job will go to college for the paper and not for the education.
We are using colleges as trade schools and not as higher learning.
So a lot more people getting into college means higher cost. Where the demand is exceeding supply creating high costs.
Not necessarily teens have access to mom and dads money. Apple and Facebook use to be cool then they got boring. Apple hasn't released a wow product in years. Facebook is too much effort because mom and dad are spying on it.
Google is still trying to innovate.
Yea right. The chances are once the H-1 problem is fixed the skills American will have to do the job at H-1 rate.
Companies don't want well paid middle class. They want rich executives that they can play golf with. Or the poor or near poor working class.
Us tech guys who are educated, experience and have our fingers on the companies vital components are a thorn in their plans.
For the most part the point of the article wasn't as much of the technical lies but the fact that programmer often code themselves into boxes. Relationship mother father wife husband can quickly cross gray lines with divorce, remarried, widowed, adopted, same sex marriage, gender identity...
So often programmers will program hard coded what they know. If they are better skilled then they will make a look up table. If they are really fancy they will make some adaptive control for self maintenance of the value. Then as the relationships may change it is what to do with the historical data.
I have been coding for 30 years. And often I will get in arguments with newly grads and college professors (normally the ones who's career was entirely in academia) when they see that I written some less than efficient overly complex code for something easy. E.g. Why did you create a gender table and just populate Male and Female and the keys? Just code the drop down box with the values it will save on loading time. Then after release we get a request to add additional values such as trans genders so all I need to do is tell the customer to edit the lookup table and I don't have to go to all the forms that ask and show the value. Add the value, recompile make sure the code is merged in future development tested...