Well developers should be concerned about that. If you are a Perl Programmer, or Ruby programmer, and you see that your favorite language is falling off the list, perhaps it may be important to your career to brush up on the popular languages. I myself rarely do C or C++ programming, mostly Python, C# and Java. However every once in a while I will do and do some C/C++ coding on it to see what is new and discover things that I had learned in other languages had also been in C/C++ or was recently added to it. While my professional work, doesn't need me to use C/C++ knowing that it is still a popular language means I should keep up some practice in it.
There is the concept of using a platform independent to run a platform specific OS and applications which is rather appealing.
Especially for those who were computing in the 1980's and 1990's where platform independent meant, you were just changing a few #define a full compile away (or if you were lucky you had the make command that did the #defines for you. Then if you had a different enough platform, you may still not be able to get it to compile, because the programmer didn't know that your OS or Linux distribution didn't have such libraries installed by default.
The holy grail was to be able to run different apps for different OS's on the same system. We now have Wine, Dosbox, and Virtualization technologies that covers most of that.
As systems are moving away from Plugins, and Interpreters. The browser like it or not, has became the default method of running applications on your system.
Said by someone posting an internet comment. Your computer is a thing and is hooked to the internet. And most likely is setup to get network updates and at least you will get notifications about these updates.
Well for most devices the hardest part is connecting it to WiFi once that is set you are good to go. I have had engineers getting compleatly fusterated at me because when I installed the app it it was in the start menu and not an icon on the desktop. When I showed them where it was I was floored when they went "How the hell do you expect me to find it there!"
That isn't an excuse, as a software developer you are supposedly making such software that you think is getting hacked or spied on. However more to the point being IT professional and even a good one doesn't mean you are able to manage all things "computer" equally well. I know I get fusterated at work when they give me a job that the system administrator or DBA normally should do. Not that I can't but because these are jobs that these people do all the time and have such processes in mussel memory while I would need to Google the answers and pick from the stuff that makes sense. For most software development networking is the stuff that is Handled by the OS or from an other component and our program just talks to it.
There is enough buzz with Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft to make a point that it is popular technology and shouldn't be dismissed because normal techies (myself included) find voice command technology lacking. However I see a lot of melenials using it as well in cars or other hands free devices. In some way voice commands are bringing back the command line interface.
The problem with open source versions is having a cloud system or massive computing willing to put up with the demand without a solid business model to pay for it. The reason for Siri success isn't the speech to text interface nearly any system can do that. But being able to interpret what you say and then come up with results is what we need the addition Horse power that we can get from a larger remote system.
They use search engines but they don't know how to research. Search engine will find what you are looking for. Research finds what you didn't know was there.
Research skills are taught in college. Most ITT students come from homes where they are no college grads so such research skill are not available so they need to rely on the marketing as being truthful.
For Profit, NFP, self taught... I have had good and bad experiences with them. It really comes down to how willing they are to learn after school.
I found For Profit there is less hand holding in teaching on how to use the app but covering theory and concepts are hard. For NFP the theory and concepts are easier but getting them on different tools and showing them when you need to break the rules gets harder. Self taught are often experts in some areas however they will have unpredictable gaps in their knowledge.
Now if the person is willing to learn, ask questions, and think about what they are learning then in the long run their education will not matter much.
Jawbone is more known for high quality Bluetooth ear pieces. When they were popular in the mid 00's. However that isn't a name I would think to look at for fitness monitors. I guess they realized that they weren't going to win early on so never built up the stock to try to flood the market. Especially Jawbone like Apple tries to sell their product at a premium, and flooding the market will lose out their name status.
The problem is the old lame argument of trying to prove your point by changing the wording to a negative context.
Calling a Religion a FairyTale implies it is a set of overly simplistic stories meant for children.
While most religious text are a combination of written history philosophy of the time, mixed with rules for often a nomadic society to function in a world which is often against them.
The 10 commandments (where they are more than 10, and different religions count them differently and group them in different ways) were less about how to be good. But dealing with property and inheritance rights.
History tends to be distorted over the generations. Where each historian will add their own personal spin on their interpretation. Where some people become savage villains while others become glorious generals. Where they both did what they did with the good and bad. The older documents are not necessarily more accurate. But offers perspective with less layers of interpretation. Also offer insight of the culture of the time of the writing.
Now I disagree with the notion that the ancients were somehow closer to "God" or had a better understanding of the Universe. But the more about the ancients we discover, the less primitive the people seem.
There are over 300 million Americans. We do have the ability to work on multiple projects at once. The problem with global warming or humanity issues isn't lack of money or resources. But the fact such changes will be in peoples behavior and culture. Money and government can't solve that by themselves. A manned trip to mars. Is a PR stunt. But a PR stunt we really need. We have been overloaded with news that shows how we are such bad people. We need a big accomplishment to remind people that we can be better.
I wouldn't say for stupidly rich people. A middle class family could afford a horse. We have middle class people with a hobbies such as vintage cars, carpentry, electronics... All really costing a good chunk of change.
The real appeal with Google Fiber and Fios is that they are priced so average middle class people could afford such speeds.
1Tbs unless offered at a good price, would be useless for most homes and would be more important for VPN across good sized companies.
My home internet is only 30mbs and that is more than enough for me and my family. Perhaps if I had a 4k TV it may be more important, or many people streaming at once... However we need technology that will utilize such speeds before we need to consider upgrading to it.
4k Real Time (non-buffered) two way communication may do the trick. Then you have all the privacy concerns about that too.
Now I applaud them for using their money to try to help people. However there is a degree of arrogance common in the tech/business sectors that they have the formula to success. While working in technology and in medical uses a lot of similar types of thinking there are a few major differences.
1. Technology isn't alive. You can copy it, test it, break it, completely gut all the parts and rebuild it. Ethically you cannot do that with people and animals. And right now if it dies, it is dead you can't undead yet. Unlike technology, it dies you can bring it back to operational again.
2. We know how technology works at its most fundamental level. We know the chemical properties of semiconductors we know how to make gates and memory... You can take the world's most advanced computer and software, and every part and component there will be someone who can explain it. Technology we build from the ground up. And every step has a degree of documentation for it. The human body is something that needs to be discovered (That sounded bad) We are learning more and more about it every day. While we had mapped the GNOM the interaction with all the parts is still to be discovered. As well we are finding things that we thought were dormant or useless actually do important things.
3. Money can't buy Eureka!. It can put more people onto the project hoping to increase the chances of an Eureka! moment. But still it could take decades for that one person in a billion to make the right connection, and then be able to explain it to the next guy. Or a little more further away from Eureka, would be just the luck to look for something that no one looked for before.
4. Institutional attitudes. The tech sector is rather modern Academia and Health Care as Institutions are rather victorian in nature. The people you hire, may not want to find the cure for all, and share the credit, they want the credit and recognition so they may hide information until they can provide it in a way they will gain further credit.
They can. But if the do, who/what will take its place? And will that be better than what they do? Often when the Giants in a market fall, the need is filled with a bunch of scrappy young players, who are often rather poorly off at first until they can mature. During the 1983 Videogame crash, it took a couple of years before Nintendo was able to get back into the market. While in the meantime there was little movement and a lot of fear.
Often a minority group thinks it is being persecuted against because the majority doesn't go out of its way to make the minority welcomed.
I expect Lenovo wasn't really actively stopping Linux however they weren't actively trying to make something that Linux will work on either. They were making sure it would work for Windows though.
For the desktop Linux for over a decade had been between 1% - 2% Linux had its chance from 2005-2010 to gain real market share, but Apple beat them to it.
Now Linux in the form of Android has a good market share. But what we normally call Linux for the desktop has been stagnant and mostly reserved for Technology professionals who needs a bit more ability than the average person and doesn't want to go mac.
The data is being send the traditional way. But the information is encrypted by the entangled particles then decrypted by its partner. The real trick is to acutely time the communication delay and cache up the states of those times.
The problem with Chinese manufacturing is the fact the the government owns all the business. So any regulation that hurts the business also hurts the government. In general with the world every stage is corrupt. You need a system to insure the self interests of all corrupt parts are in conflict with each other so what is left is the honest attempt (as the honest parts is what they could all agree on)
Well the problem is an adverse affect on your health is an adverse affect on your life. Say I took a drug sold to me as safe with side effects that I could deal with. Then it somehow prevented me from doing my work. The work I have trained for for my entire life. Now because of this problem I will need to find a new career and life purpose, and start over, now with a disadvantage. I would want some compensation especially if this was known information that wasn't shared with me.
I am curious if you compared with normal population. Determine if they are Visual, Auditory, Tactile learners, Have them do the work, and see what parts of the brain they use, and compare that against the blind person.
Just because they are blind, it doesn't mean that they cannot be a Visual Learner. It is just harder for them because they don't get the visual stimula.
I see tweeter more like the stock market ticker form of information than indepth information. Most people who read news will just scan the headlines until they find one that is interesting. Then they will read the article. Tweeter is just a bunch of headlines.
Having space for links will allow people who wants more information a place to go.
Slashdot Mirror
Well developers should be concerned about that.
If you are a Perl Programmer, or Ruby programmer, and you see that your favorite language is falling off the list, perhaps it may be important to your career to brush up on the popular languages. I myself rarely do C or C++ programming, mostly Python, C# and Java. However every once in a while I will do and do some C/C++ coding on it to see what is new and discover things that I had learned in other languages had also been in C/C++ or was recently added to it. While my professional work, doesn't need me to use C/C++ knowing that it is still a popular language means I should keep up some practice in it.
There is the concept of using a platform independent to run a platform specific OS and applications which is rather appealing.
Especially for those who were computing in the 1980's and 1990's where platform independent meant, you were just changing a few #define a full compile away (or if you were lucky you had the make command that did the #defines for you. Then if you had a different enough platform, you may still not be able to get it to compile, because the programmer didn't know that your OS or Linux distribution didn't have such libraries installed by default.
The holy grail was to be able to run different apps for different OS's on the same system. We now have Wine, Dosbox, and Virtualization technologies that covers most of that.
As systems are moving away from Plugins, and Interpreters. The browser like it or not, has became the default method of running applications on your system.
Said by someone posting an internet comment. Your computer is a thing and is hooked to the internet. And most likely is setup to get network updates and at least you will get notifications about these updates.
Well for most devices the hardest part is connecting it to WiFi once that is set you are good to go.
I have had engineers getting compleatly fusterated at me because when I installed the app it it was in the start menu and not an icon on the desktop. When I showed them where it was I was floored when they went "How the hell do you expect me to find it there!"
That isn't an excuse, as a software developer you are supposedly making such software that you think is getting hacked or spied on.
However more to the point being IT professional and even a good one doesn't mean you are able to manage all things "computer" equally well. I know I get fusterated at work when they give me a job that the system administrator or DBA normally should do. Not that I can't but because these are jobs that these people do all the time and have such processes in mussel memory while I would need to Google the answers and pick from the stuff that makes sense.
For most software development networking is the stuff that is Handled by the OS or from an other component and our program just talks to it.
There is enough buzz with Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft to make a point that it is popular technology and shouldn't be dismissed because normal techies (myself included) find voice command technology lacking. However I see a lot of melenials using it as well in cars or other hands free devices. In some way voice commands are bringing back the command line interface.
The problem with open source versions is having a cloud system or massive computing willing to put up with the demand without a solid business model to pay for it. The reason for Siri success isn't the speech to text interface nearly any system can do that. But being able to interpret what you say and then come up with results is what we need the addition Horse power that we can get from a larger remote system.
I agree that the US has a gap in vocational training. But ITT wasn't really stated as a vocational school but as a college.
They use search engines but they don't know how to research.
Search engine will find what you are looking for. Research finds what you didn't know was there.
Research skills are taught in college.
Most ITT students come from homes where they are no college grads so such research skill are not available so they need to rely on the marketing as being truthful.
For Profit, NFP, self taught... I have had good and bad experiences with them. It really comes down to how willing they are to learn after school.
I found For Profit there is less hand holding in teaching on how to use the app but covering theory and concepts are hard.
For NFP the theory and concepts are easier but getting them on different tools and showing them when you need to break the rules gets harder.
Self taught are often experts in some areas however they will have unpredictable gaps in their knowledge.
Now if the person is willing to learn, ask questions, and think about what they are learning then in the long run their education will not matter much.
Jawbone is more known for high quality Bluetooth ear pieces. When they were popular in the mid 00's. However that isn't a name I would think to look at for fitness monitors. I guess they realized that they weren't going to win early on so never built up the stock to try to flood the market. Especially Jawbone like Apple tries to sell their product at a premium, and flooding the market will lose out their name status.
The problem is the old lame argument of trying to prove your point by changing the wording to a negative context.
Calling a Religion a FairyTale implies it is a set of overly simplistic stories meant for children.
While most religious text are a combination of written history philosophy of the time, mixed with rules for often a nomadic society to function in a world which is often against them.
The 10 commandments (where they are more than 10, and different religions count them differently and group them in different ways) were less about how to be good. But dealing with property and inheritance rights.
History tends to be distorted over the generations. Where each historian will add their own personal spin on their interpretation. Where some people become savage villains while others become glorious generals. Where they both did what they did with the good and bad.
The older documents are not necessarily more accurate. But offers perspective with less layers of interpretation. Also offer insight of the culture of the time of the writing.
Now I disagree with the notion that the ancients were somehow closer to "God" or had a better understanding of the Universe. But the more about the ancients we discover, the less primitive the people seem.
There are over 300 million Americans. We do have the ability to work on multiple projects at once.
The problem with global warming or humanity issues isn't lack of money or resources. But the fact such changes will be in peoples behavior and culture. Money and government can't solve that by themselves.
A manned trip to mars. Is a PR stunt. But a PR stunt we really need. We have been overloaded with news that shows how we are such bad people. We need a big accomplishment to remind people that we can be better.
I wouldn't say for stupidly rich people.
A middle class family could afford a horse. We have middle class people with a hobbies such as vintage cars, carpentry, electronics... All really costing a good chunk of change.
The real appeal with Google Fiber and Fios is that they are priced so average middle class people could afford such speeds.
1Tbs unless offered at a good price, would be useless for most homes and would be more important for VPN across good sized companies.
My home internet is only 30mbs and that is more than enough for me and my family. Perhaps if I had a 4k TV it may be more important, or many people streaming at once... However we need technology that will utilize such speeds before we need to consider upgrading to it.
4k Real Time (non-buffered) two way communication may do the trick. Then you have all the privacy concerns about that too.
Now I applaud them for using their money to try to help people. However there is a degree of arrogance common in the tech/business sectors that they have the formula to success. While working in technology and in medical uses a lot of similar types of thinking there are a few major differences.
1. Technology isn't alive. You can copy it, test it, break it, completely gut all the parts and rebuild it. Ethically you cannot do that with people and animals. And right now if it dies, it is dead you can't undead yet. Unlike technology, it dies you can bring it back to operational again.
2. We know how technology works at its most fundamental level. We know the chemical properties of semiconductors we know how to make gates and memory... You can take the world's most advanced computer and software, and every part and component there will be someone who can explain it. Technology we build from the ground up. And every step has a degree of documentation for it. The human body is something that needs to be discovered (That sounded bad) We are learning more and more about it every day. While we had mapped the GNOM the interaction with all the parts is still to be discovered. As well we are finding things that we thought were dormant or useless actually do important things.
3. Money can't buy Eureka!. It can put more people onto the project hoping to increase the chances of an Eureka! moment. But still it could take decades for that one person in a billion to make the right connection, and then be able to explain it to the next guy. Or a little more further away from Eureka, would be just the luck to look for something that no one looked for before.
4. Institutional attitudes. The tech sector is rather modern Academia and Health Care as Institutions are rather victorian in nature. The people you hire, may not want to find the cure for all, and share the credit, they want the credit and recognition so they may hide information until they can provide it in a way they will gain further credit.
They can.
But if the do, who/what will take its place? And will that be better than what they do?
Often when the Giants in a market fall, the need is filled with a bunch of scrappy young players, who are often rather poorly off at first until they can mature.
During the 1983 Videogame crash, it took a couple of years before Nintendo was able to get back into the market. While in the meantime there was little movement and a lot of fear.
Often a minority group thinks it is being persecuted against because the majority doesn't go out of its way to make the minority welcomed.
I expect Lenovo wasn't really actively stopping Linux however they weren't actively trying to make something that Linux will work on either. They were making sure it would work for Windows though.
For the desktop Linux for over a decade had been between 1% - 2%
Linux had its chance from 2005-2010 to gain real market share, but Apple beat them to it.
Now Linux in the form of Android has a good market share. But what we normally call Linux for the desktop has been stagnant and mostly reserved for Technology professionals who needs a bit more ability than the average person and doesn't want to go mac.
The data is being send the traditional way. But the information is encrypted by the entangled particles then decrypted by its partner.
The real trick is to acutely time the communication delay and cache up the states of those times.
The problem with Chinese manufacturing is the fact the the government owns all the business. So any regulation that hurts the business also hurts the government.
In general with the world every stage is corrupt. You need a system to insure the self interests of all corrupt parts are in conflict with each other so what is left is the honest attempt (as the honest parts is what they could all agree on)
Well the problem is an adverse affect on your health is an adverse affect on your life.
Say I took a drug sold to me as safe with side effects that I could deal with. Then it somehow prevented me from doing my work.
The work I have trained for for my entire life. Now because of this problem I will need to find a new career and life purpose, and start over, now with a disadvantage. I would want some compensation especially if this was known information that wasn't shared with me.
I am curious if you compared with normal population. Determine if they are Visual, Auditory, Tactile learners, Have them do the work, and see what parts of the brain they use, and compare that against the blind person.
Just because they are blind, it doesn't mean that they cannot be a Visual Learner. It is just harder for them because they don't get the visual stimula.
I see tweeter more like the stock market ticker form of information than indepth information.
Most people who read news will just scan the headlines until they find one that is interesting. Then they will read the article. Tweeter is just a bunch of headlines.
Having space for links will allow people who wants more information a place to go.