Like nearly any movement. When it start out with simple goals it grows and becomes popular. However to sustain the growth the complexity in solving the details comes into play, which often turn you into the entity you were fighting.
Ok you won, now to create your Utopia. Now your followers have these minor needs, that force you to compromise on your grand schemes, A little by litter until you are back to where you started.
So you made a station that allows you to cut the cord. Then you have some people who wants to watch sports, So you add a live sports feed. News junkies want to see the news streaming, when a new show appears you want to show it the same time as your competitors. All this is taking up bandwidth and resources so you can put less effort into storing those streaming shows. Until you end up with something exactly the same as before.
That doesn't mean you can make a cross platform wrapper that will interact with the is GUI API using the same commands. So if I were to say. LINE (10, 10, 500,10,#FF0000 ) It would draw a horizontal red line 490 pixels. Now this would require different API calls on different systems. But you translate that command to the different OS. That is what java does.
"Supply and demand" is your answer. If people want it they will pay more for it. If it is hard to get they will pay more as well. Being that the company mode false promises it appeared they offered a product that a lot of people wanted that was hard to get so the company value is high.
Value != worth. There is more worth in a healthy avocado compared to say the first Superman comic with a misprint. However the value is much higher. And you can sell that comic for a lot of avocados.
Most of the prices of things including your salary are based on emotional response. How much you think you should make for the work. How much the company needs your skills plus how hard is it to find someone else who is willing to do the same work at the same ability for less.
Why can't we have a slow minor correction? Where over valued companies slow down and stop growing. And their downsizing comes from not replacing the natural turnover. Can we hope for slow evolution vs revolution that will make fallout for many positive aspects?
Because some people think after such a crash they will take a step back and realize how wrong they are. However what normally happens is people will fall back on what they know and not take risks. The lesson after the market crashed? The liberals say well we need to be more liberal to get ourselves from the conservative Bush administration. The conservatives after loosing the election figured that they lost because they weren't conservative enough.
What actually happens is during the good times people begin to moderate and work with each other and realize that the other side isn't so bad. But after a crash they fall back to their comfortable positions and double down.
If I see a % in an article I expect it is an attempt to lie. Because you can hide a lot of data in these numbers. I had a failure in a project I was working on which had a 1% error rate (due to org's blind trust in a vendor) However over 300,000 data element crated a massive problem to be fixed. 99% if the data is fine. But that 1% caused a lot of trouble because of the data size and volume of the application meant 1% error rates caused production problems multiple times a day.
I guess you don't actually work for any business do you? A 100+ size company may have 1 or 2 HR. Who mainly is working on staffing and tracking vacations and sick days. Heavy on sales people and nearly equal part product creation and delivery. The CEO for small companies is often split across the department and often the guy who is plunging the toilets
I have to agree. Back in 2008 I got laid off with 50 other people from a company roughy the same size (they dropped all the new hires with 2 years or less working there) and no news about that. Sure I understand covering big companies cutting thousands of people or a big unit being dropped getting some coverage. But a small company with less than 5 years of operating having proplems and reducing in size is depressing and I feel bad for those who got the axe. But it isn't so news worthy.
It isn't that far off from the x device haters where who are asking for feature X, Y, and Z. without sacrificing features J, V, and L.
I mean my old Palm Pilot 3 had a serial port where I can connect to a Modem and do a PPP connection to the internet. Why can't I do that with my iPhone 7?
If you are going to the movies. It is often because. 1. You are excited to see it and really do not want to wait for it. 2. You would want to see it in a large screen, quality speakers, perhaps 3d. 3. You want a reason to leave your home, and perhaps with other people.
If you are excited to see the movie. There isn't any real rush to pirate it. This no rush means it may be available at higher quality vs legit streaming channels, or DVD/Blueray rentals (say from RedBox) for a few bucks.
We can still reap the benefits of a hybrid approach Solar by Day, other sources by night. Normally we use less power at night. So we can still have a benefit.
Please give us countries that out produces the United States. This perceived decline is more do the the fact that most of the countries have recovered from WWII (where they were in rubble during the 1950's. China is the second largest economy, but they have 10x the population of the US. About the same size and resources available. In theory China should be able to smoke the United States. But it doesn't it is just competitive. Europe has a lot of problems with producing as well. The USA is still leading however other countries are catching up and are being competive, so it feels like we are slowing down, while everyone else is just getting back. Pre WWII the US wasn't the #1 nation in the world. It was a major force, but Germany and Great Britain were still beating us.
I think it is more due to a culture that doesn't respect education, combined with an education system that is very elitists which is increasingly less concerned about the rigors of live and producing and more on overly abstract theory.
Your idea has the point in the means that Americans are working so hard, that they don't have the time to take time off get trained in a better paying position. The 35 hour week gives us that extra 5 hours a week to take a couple of college courses. Where today it is nearly impossible especially if you have a blue collar job which has strict rigors in what time and how much time you work.
I think the attitudes towards worker rights are with the two extremes with the United States and France. Americans tend to work too hard, and are generally afraid of being labeled lazy, so they work so hard that they miss out on opportunities in life. The French have so many regulations to curve how hard they can work, that they tend to take the easy lifestyle for granted, which then causes them to not be as ambitious or succeed, as they are more or less set on where they are at the time.
Well learning any language makes you a better programmer. Each prorgramming language approaches solving problems differently. After learning that language you now have a new approach to solving a problem under your belt. Then even if you are coding in a different language and you come across a problem that the other language was strong at solving. You know to structure your fictions and procedures in a way to mimic that other language behavior. So I may be doing OOP but I come across a problem that is easy to do functionally so I may make a few methods that work like lisp functions. Most language are advanced enough to get them to mimic such behavior enough to solve that one problem that the obscure language specializes in
Most people who suffer from organ failure get so at an age where they had already reproduced and probably will not reproduce again. Those who get such organ transplants at a young age usually choose not to reproduce because of stresses on their body and fear their child will need to live threw the same. Evolution is survival of the fittest but survival of those who can reproduce. We could get get conditions that kill us in our 40s and our species would still go one with the shorter life cycle
Well they are attaching the buds to stick inside your ear not on the outside. Also it needs to be placed where it wouldn't be uncomfortable. Invention is rarely having something absolutely new but a progression of an idea.
Apple is a luxury brand. Like most luxury brands they may not be superior to the non-luxury brands but in general they are of high quality. If I get the grocery store's brand of lentils I will get a can of lentils that will be fine and do the job. I could actually get a really good batch that is better than the rest. Or I can get a can of namebrand say from Goya it may not be as good as that really good can I got but in general it is of good quality and less of a risk of getting that bad brand of mushy lentils.
People have a very drastic view on what is great. Some people want a game with polished graphics and complex story. While others want a game with simple graphics and something you can play for a few minutes and put down. Then you got all the people in the middle. So you compromise and make something that while may not be great will not be considered a disaster as well. So you get an optimal number of people using it.
This is the same reason say the News doesn't cover the topics in details that they deserve. Too much detail will bore people who may not be interested in the topic, while too little info insults the people who want to get some additional info.
Bla Bla Bla... I still want my Parallel, Serial (9 pin and 25 pin), VGA, Monochrome (Looks exactly like a Serial port), SCSI, IDE, PS2, AT, USB, MicroUSB, Old iPOD, Firewire... Ports on all my devices.... as I have devices that I don't want to replace to use them. Because I still want to use my Hayes 2600bps external modem to connect to the internet via a SLIP dialup connection just in case I am not around Wi-Fi, or out of cell area. But I have access to a slightly statically phone line. And I want to backup all my pictures on cassette tapes.
Guess what... Wireless Bluetooth headphones are going to take over. Get over it.
For some reason we have the idea that farmers today are some dumb hicks. While modern farming is very advanced. They had self driving tractors for decades. They use big data to help analyze weather and crops. Robotic cow milking... I am a Tech worker and I don't have nearly as much technology to play with than what most farmers have. Hey look at that web form I made on your phone see how much more sufficated and advanced we are over our rural neighbors. In many ways our city life in terms of technology skills are behind the farming life. Who needs advanced technology to survive and keep up. While in the cities we can still operating with faxing or just giving a letter to a carrier to send to the next office.
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Like nearly any movement. When it start out with simple goals it grows and becomes popular. However to sustain the growth the complexity in solving the details comes into play, which often turn you into the entity you were fighting.
Ok you won, now to create your Utopia. Now your followers have these minor needs, that force you to compromise on your grand schemes, A little by litter until you are back to where you started.
So you made a station that allows you to cut the cord. Then you have some people who wants to watch sports, So you add a live sports feed. News junkies want to see the news streaming, when a new show appears you want to show it the same time as your competitors. All this is taking up bandwidth and resources so you can put less effort into storing those streaming shows. Until you end up with something exactly the same as before.
That doesn't mean you can make a cross platform wrapper that will interact with the is GUI API using the same commands.
So if I were to say.
LINE (10, 10, 500,10,#FF0000 )
It would draw a horizontal red line 490 pixels.
Now this would require different API calls on different systems. But you translate that command to the different OS. That is what java does.
"Supply and demand" is your answer.
If people want it they will pay more for it. If it is hard to get they will pay more as well.
Being that the company mode false promises it appeared they offered a product that a lot of people wanted that was hard to get so the company value is high.
Value != worth. There is more worth in a healthy avocado compared to say the first Superman comic with a misprint. However the value is much higher. And you can sell that comic for a lot of avocados.
Most of the prices of things including your salary are based on emotional response. How much you think you should make for the work. How much the company needs your skills plus how hard is it to find someone else who is willing to do the same work at the same ability for less.
Well you can have the same features. It just wouldn't be trying to cram OO into everything.
I wished they just expanded the command prompt compared to putting in powershell.
Why can't we have a slow minor correction? Where over valued companies slow down and stop growing. And their downsizing comes from not replacing the natural turnover. Can we hope for slow evolution vs revolution that will make fallout for many positive aspects?
Because some people think after such a crash they will take a step back and realize how wrong they are.
However what normally happens is people will fall back on what they know and not take risks.
The lesson after the market crashed?
The liberals say well we need to be more liberal to get ourselves from the conservative Bush administration.
The conservatives after loosing the election figured that they lost because they weren't conservative enough.
What actually happens is during the good times people begin to moderate and work with each other and realize that the other side isn't so bad. But after a crash they fall back to their comfortable positions and double down.
If I see a % in an article I expect it is an attempt to lie.
Because you can hide a lot of data in these numbers.
I had a failure in a project I was working on which had a 1% error rate (due to org's blind trust in a vendor)
However over 300,000 data element crated a massive problem to be fixed.
99% if the data is fine. But that 1% caused a lot of trouble because of the data size and volume of the application meant 1% error rates caused production problems multiple times a day.
I guess you don't actually work for any business do you?
A 100+ size company may have 1 or 2 HR. Who mainly is working on staffing and tracking vacations and sick days.
Heavy on sales people and nearly equal part product creation and delivery. The CEO for small companies is often split across the department and often the guy who is plunging the toilets
I have to agree. Back in 2008 I got laid off with 50 other people from a company roughy the same size (they dropped all the new hires with 2 years or less working there) and no news about that.
Sure I understand covering big companies cutting thousands of people or a big unit being dropped getting some coverage. But a small company with less than 5 years of operating having proplems and reducing in size is depressing and I feel bad for those who got the axe. But it isn't so news worthy.
It isn't that far off from the x device haters where who are asking for feature X, Y, and Z. without sacrificing features J, V, and L.
I mean my old Palm Pilot 3 had a serial port where I can connect to a Modem and do a PPP connection to the internet. Why can't I do that with my iPhone 7?
If you are going to the movies. It is often because.
1. You are excited to see it and really do not want to wait for it.
2. You would want to see it in a large screen, quality speakers, perhaps 3d.
3. You want a reason to leave your home, and perhaps with other people.
If you are excited to see the movie. There isn't any real rush to pirate it. This no rush means it may be available at higher quality vs legit streaming channels, or DVD/Blueray rentals (say from RedBox) for a few bucks.
I want a phone where I can plug in a big old Xeon to the back. And have it run my own OS and software.
We can still reap the benefits of a hybrid approach Solar by Day, other sources by night.
Normally we use less power at night. So we can still have a benefit.
Please give us countries that out produces the United States. This perceived decline is more do the the fact that most of the countries have recovered from WWII (where they were in rubble during the 1950's. China is the second largest economy, but they have 10x the population of the US. About the same size and resources available. In theory China should be able to smoke the United States. But it doesn't it is just competitive. Europe has a lot of problems with producing as well. The USA is still leading however other countries are catching up and are being competive, so it feels like we are slowing down, while everyone else is just getting back. Pre WWII the US wasn't the #1 nation in the world. It was a major force, but Germany and Great Britain were still beating us.
I think it is more due to a culture that doesn't respect education, combined with an education system that is very elitists which is increasingly less concerned about the rigors of live and producing and more on overly abstract theory.
Your idea has the point in the means that Americans are working so hard, that they don't have the time to take time off get trained in a better paying position. The 35 hour week gives us that extra 5 hours a week to take a couple of college courses. Where today it is nearly impossible especially if you have a blue collar job which has strict rigors in what time and how much time you work.
I think the attitudes towards worker rights are with the two extremes with the United States and France. Americans tend to work too hard, and are generally afraid of being labeled lazy, so they work so hard that they miss out on opportunities in life. The French have so many regulations to curve how hard they can work, that they tend to take the easy lifestyle for granted, which then causes them to not be as ambitious or succeed, as they are more or less set on where they are at the time.
Well learning any language makes you a better programmer. Each prorgramming language approaches solving problems differently. After learning that language you now have a new approach to solving a problem under your belt. Then even if you are coding in a different language and you come across a problem that the other language was strong at solving. You know to structure your fictions and procedures in a way to mimic that other language behavior.
So I may be doing OOP but I come across a problem that is easy to do functionally so I may make a few methods that work like lisp functions.
Most language are advanced enough to get them to mimic such behavior enough to solve that one problem that the obscure language specializes in
Most people who suffer from organ failure get so at an age where they had already reproduced and probably will not reproduce again. Those who get such organ transplants at a young age usually choose not to reproduce because of stresses on their body and fear their child will need to live threw the same.
Evolution is survival of the fittest but survival of those who can reproduce. We could get get conditions that kill us in our 40s and our species would still go one with the shorter life cycle
Well they are attaching the buds to stick inside your ear not on the outside. Also it needs to be placed where it wouldn't be uncomfortable. Invention is rarely having something absolutely new but a progression of an idea.
Apple is a luxury brand. Like most luxury brands they may not be superior to the non-luxury brands but in general they are of high quality.
If I get the grocery store's brand of lentils I will get a can of lentils that will be fine and do the job. I could actually get a really good batch that is better than the rest. Or I can get a can of namebrand say from Goya it may not be as good as that really good can I got but in general it is of good quality and less of a risk of getting that bad brand of mushy lentils.
People have a very drastic view on what is great. Some people want a game with polished graphics and complex story. While others want a game with simple graphics and something you can play for a few minutes and put down. Then you got all the people in the middle. So you compromise and make something that while may not be great will not be considered a disaster as well. So you get an optimal number of people using it.
This is the same reason say the News doesn't cover the topics in details that they deserve. Too much detail will bore people who may not be interested in the topic, while too little info insults the people who want to get some additional info.
If true, I would be pissed off on how many times Superman could had saved the day but didn't. Where was he during 911?
Bla Bla Bla... I still want my Parallel, Serial (9 pin and 25 pin), VGA, Monochrome (Looks exactly like a Serial port), SCSI, IDE, PS2, AT, USB, MicroUSB, Old iPOD, Firewire... Ports on all my devices.... as I have devices that I don't want to replace to use them. Because I still want to use my Hayes 2600bps external modem to connect to the internet via a SLIP dialup connection just in case I am not around Wi-Fi, or out of cell area. But I have access to a slightly statically phone line. And I want to backup all my pictures on cassette tapes.
Guess what... Wireless Bluetooth headphones are going to take over. Get over it.
For some reason we have the idea that farmers today are some dumb hicks. While modern farming is very advanced. They had self driving tractors for decades. They use big data to help analyze weather and crops. Robotic cow milking... I am a Tech worker and I don't have nearly as much technology to play with than what most farmers have.
Hey look at that web form I made on your phone see how much more sufficated and advanced we are over our rural neighbors. In many ways our city life in terms of technology skills are behind the farming life. Who needs advanced technology to survive and keep up. While in the cities we can still operating with faxing or just giving a letter to a carrier to send to the next office.