And how much clunkier the device would be. Right now the trend is to make the devices as thin as possible. We will get modular devices again in the future when we get to a point where devices get too thin to be comfortable/useful so they will have thicker cases with empty space that engineers could use to put in places for ports and replaceable consumables.
Also people are wanting lower priced electronics. Rarely will someone pay over $1,000 for electronics. Where back in the 1990's 2k for a PC was a good price.
Battery quality in general has became much better. The battery in an 8 year old iPhone still works fine. Even though most people keep their current phones for about 2 -3 years.
That is assuming that a person's primary job is focused on the PC. Even so they may have extra stuff that they may be plugged in. Keyboard, Mouse, Multiple monitors. A Musical Keyboard, Sound Mixer, Artist tablet.... The CPU may be filling space that can be used for other things.
It is nice that you feel a cool and confidant as wherever you work hasn't been hacked yet.
Security problem is across all sectors Government, Non-Profit, corporate... Why? Well IT Security is a relatively new problem. As we are hooking many systems together. However organizations are still not thinking in terms of IT Security. And also the Buzzword friendly "Agile/Nimble..." organization has no time for such security problems as Good IT people are Expensive, and this Security Work isn't directly affecting the bottom line.
I mean if you bring up any brand of laptop you will get people saying how much that brand sucks in quality (Acer/HP) or it is considered overpriced (Lenovo/Apple).
Java is a good choice for bosses who are still stuck on decade old buzzwords and you don't want to use.NET. Because of that it is a language known by a lot of people and schools teach it as part of the Computer Science Program. So it is easier to find people with that set of skills for larger projects taking a team of developers.
In the 1980's we had COBOL -- Built mainly for mainframes and filling out forms data and parsing fixed sized files (often compatible with magnetic tape)
In the 1990's we moved to C/C++/Visual Basic -- We moved to the slower PC hardware so we needed the Speed of C/C++ and/or the ability to handle he new GUI capabilities that VB offered.
In the 2000's we moved to Java/.NET -- Finding that are gping to be moving from 32bit to 64bit computing also dealing with many rough OS upgrades the bytecode languages offered easier migrations. Here is Java Strongest point, because compared to.NET you could actually make cross compatible products.
In the 2010's we are moving towards JavaScript/Python/Ruby -- As our personal devices are getting smaller at the expense of performance we are moving towards cloud based solutions so we emphasising more on Web Technologies and Server hosted processing.
We need to stop being hypocrites about our values. Private communication risks our security (As the bad guys cannot be monitored). Security risks our privacy (As the good guys will be monitored).
I would also like to make a point it doesn't take a team of super geniuses to code an encrypted and unrecorded communication protocol. Just one guy, and less than one day of work. It may not be clean and polished, but it would do the job.
Here is a secret. Private companies have shareholders too. Sometimes it is just the bank giving them a loan. However it would be any group of people paying him before a product is produced.
You can still ctritically fail. Rich family will not give you any money. Spend your childhood/young adult on a hedonistic drug bender and get disowned by the family.
The biggest problem in IT Security, is all the decision (those people outside of IT) claim ignorance, as those IT guys just talk techno babble.
So when there is legitimate problems, they just ignore IT and tell them to fix it. Vs. trying to take some time to learn about the problem and see if there are other solutions than just a computer fix.
Which is why a lot of people do not like soap operas. Science Fiction offers an escape from our humdrum life to a more exciting one. While a soap opera we just relieve the awkwardness of our teenage/young adult life.
However a good show needs to be strong characters and plot. Many shows while may had been initially popular due to strong character or plot, just don't have the same re-viewing popularity after it has been seen, because if it had a good plot but dull characters you don't care because you know what happens, or strong characters and weak plot you just don't care because there isn't anything driving what is going on.
Soap Opera get a bad rap because of their history of being cheaply produced and written just so they can get many episodes out over a long period of time.
Life is like D&D. If you work hard add + 3 If you have passion add + 2 If you have advanced education + 1 If you have gotton education in that area + 1 Are you willing to make additional sacrifices to your life (you will get a chance to reroll after each sacrifice)
Now roll the dice. 10 or higher you succeed. 18 or higher you are successful, natural 20 Critical success you roll a natural 1 you automatically fail badly.
The problem is Six Sigma is good for manufacturing, however GE pushed it to other things where the cost of insuring that level of accuracy was greater than letting the mistakes go threw.
So for example following 6S will cost a team 1 day a week of extra work roughly 10 weeks a year of extra work to prevent a problem that will cost an extra weeks of work ever 3 months that will take a week to fix (4 weeks a year) that is just money wasted due to being paranoid of making a mistake.
You build a team of introverts, then place them in an extrovert's dream office. You are better off giving everyone a private office, and having drafting rooms where they can collaborate with a small group of people.
GE isn't what I think of as a Start-Up. As GE is one of the largest companies in the world Currently #11 on the Fortune 500. Having been around for 124 years, there is a well defined GE Culture that is nearly hard to break. For a startup you need to be quick and nible. The culture will need to be flexible smart and not hung up with titles, that isn't GE.
Sure they may be the current leader of IoT however that doesn't make them a startup. I have seen the jobs for the IoT division and mostly they just want a bunch of academics (were having some is a good thing, however too many causes in the box thinking) and not so much focus on real world skills. Hence a lot of the security concerns of IoT. As the focus is on make it work, vs make it sustainable.
Also a lot of engineers that you can fire or layoff without causing shareholders to notice. I don't know how good Dyson is good with HR. But those comments make it sound like it may be a tough job to keep.
That and they have less to loose in case of failure. So they are willing to take more risks and perhaps get bigger rewards. Having a family while personally rewarding forced you to play it safer as failure will effect more than themselves.
Talking on the phone, Texting on the Phone, Playing a Game on the Phone, Eating your breakfast, Fiddling trying to read a map, punching in an address in a GPS, yelling at your kids..... All of this falls under distracted driving.
There is only so much we can do to stop stupid. As stupid people are often ingenious in finding new ways to be stupid.
The solution for distracted driving is getting rid of drivers. Self Driving Cars, Accessible Public Transit systems. Heck I would love it if there was a flatbed train along the interstate where you can park your car on it. And take the train the next 50 miles.
Also unlike many of its Late 1990's.COM counterparts when it started Amazon had a business plan, that sold stuff not shares. They knew enough to price under the Brick and Mortar competition without any sustainable plan. Its prices and products were based on the cost it will be after they had completed their infrastructure. So while they were selling at a loss for a while, once the infrastructure was in place then they can make profit without having to change their competitivity.
Most of the other.COM plan was based on the idea if they sell at a low enough price then their suppliers will start giving them bulk discount... However with too much competition all trying to undercut themselves in prices they couldn't get enough traction to make it worth the suppliers effort to give them bulk pricing.
The problem is the Justice System allows the Rich to have advantages. More Money = More Lawyers = More Research = More Chances on finding a loophole = More Victories.
So the little guy who was wronged will lose out because the rich guy will win by a technicality.
Now I have been involved in helping doing the research for the company against the little guy, and from my experience most of the time the little guy is at fault too. Where they are often abusing the company's services well past the contracted amounts and declining multiple attempts to amend the contract to allow them to handle these extra services. Declining to pay when we prevent the user from abusing the service. Then finally suing the company after all services are cut off for non payment.
However that is the point of view I get from working for the company. I am sure that guy was given the full workup from the sales team, then gave a complex contract that he had little understanding of. Already feeling rip off he tried to use as much of what he got as he could. Then when seeing his services reduced without the price going down, he is refusing to pay because he isn't getting what he thought he should be getting. Then finally getting canceled.
For cases like this The company will always have the advantage as they know how to deal with these cases and have a cookie cutter process in place. While the guy suing it is mostly new to him and makes a lot of mistakes.
However the point of the justice system is to really look at the both points of views and point out where both sides may have been in the wrong and deal punishment for the group that has been considered to do the most wrong/reward to the person who has been injured the most.
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OS X and iOS are BSD based OS's. Much like how Android is a Linux based OS.
And how much clunkier the device would be.
Right now the trend is to make the devices as thin as possible.
We will get modular devices again in the future when we get to a point where devices get too thin to be comfortable/useful so they will have thicker cases with empty space that engineers could use to put in places for ports and replaceable consumables.
Also people are wanting lower priced electronics.
Rarely will someone pay over $1,000 for electronics. Where back in the 1990's 2k for a PC was a good price.
Battery quality in general has became much better. The battery in an 8 year old iPhone still works fine. Even though most people keep their current phones for about 2 -3 years.
That is assuming that a person's primary job is focused on the PC. Even so they may have extra stuff that they may be plugged in. Keyboard, Mouse, Multiple monitors. A Musical Keyboard, Sound Mixer, Artist tablet.... The CPU may be filling space that can be used for other things.
Who ever needed a MIPS card outside of Academia?
With solid state, you really don't have to worry much about magnets.
and
Vibrations
Is vibration for computers still a problem in the 21st century.
Back in the 1980's and and 1990's a lot of components were manually soldered on or held together by friction from the connectors.
Today most of these components are embedded, and what isn't are usually rather solidly connected.
It is nice that you feel a cool and confidant as wherever you work hasn't been hacked yet.
Security problem is across all sectors Government, Non-Profit, corporate...
Why? Well IT Security is a relatively new problem. As we are hooking many systems together. However organizations are still not thinking in terms of IT Security. And also the Buzzword friendly "Agile/Nimble..." organization has no time for such security problems as Good IT people are Expensive, and this Security Work isn't directly affecting the bottom line.
Old XKCD
For some reason we haven't found a way to transfer files well yet.
Or we have, but most people just don't want to use it.
Could someone tell me a good brand?
I mean if you bring up any brand of laptop you will get people saying how much that brand sucks in quality (Acer/HP) or it is considered overpriced (Lenovo/Apple).
Java is a good choice for bosses who are still stuck on decade old buzzwords and you don't want to use .NET.
Because of that it is a language known by a lot of people and schools teach it as part of the Computer Science Program. So it is easier to find people with that set of skills for larger projects taking a team of developers.
In the 1980's we had COBOL -- Built mainly for mainframes and filling out forms data and parsing fixed sized files (often compatible with magnetic tape)
In the 1990's we moved to C/C++/Visual Basic -- We moved to the slower PC hardware so we needed the Speed of C/C++ and/or the ability to handle he new GUI capabilities that VB offered.
In the 2000's we moved to Java/.NET -- Finding that are gping to be moving from 32bit to 64bit computing also dealing with many rough OS upgrades the bytecode languages offered easier migrations. Here is Java Strongest point, because compared to .NET you could actually make cross compatible products.
In the 2010's we are moving towards JavaScript/Python/Ruby -- As our personal devices are getting smaller at the expense of performance we are moving towards cloud based solutions so we emphasising more on Web Technologies and Server hosted processing.
We need to stop being hypocrites about our values.
Private communication risks our security (As the bad guys cannot be monitored).
Security risks our privacy (As the good guys will be monitored).
I would also like to make a point it doesn't take a team of super geniuses to code an encrypted and unrecorded communication protocol. Just one guy, and less than one day of work. It may not be clean and polished, but it would do the job.
Here is a secret. Private companies have shareholders too. Sometimes it is just the bank giving them a loan. However it would be any group of people paying him before a product is produced.
I would say give it A plus 10 modifier.
You can still ctritically fail. Rich family will not give you any money. Spend your childhood/young adult on a hedonistic drug bender and get disowned by the family.
The biggest problem in IT Security, is all the decision (those people outside of IT) claim ignorance, as those IT guys just talk techno babble.
So when there is legitimate problems, they just ignore IT and tell them to fix it. Vs. trying to take some time to learn about the problem and see if there are other solutions than just a computer fix.
Which is why a lot of people do not like soap operas. Science Fiction offers an escape from our humdrum life to a more exciting one. While a soap opera we just relieve the awkwardness of our teenage/young adult life.
However a good show needs to be strong characters and plot. Many shows while may had been initially popular due to strong character or plot, just don't have the same re-viewing popularity after it has been seen, because if it had a good plot but dull characters you don't care because you know what happens, or strong characters and weak plot you just don't care because there isn't anything driving what is going on.
Soap Opera get a bad rap because of their history of being cheaply produced and written just so they can get many episodes out over a long period of time.
Life is like D&D.
If you work hard add + 3
If you have passion add + 2
If you have advanced education + 1
If you have gotton education in that area + 1
Are you willing to make additional sacrifices to your life (you will get a chance to reroll after each sacrifice)
Now roll the dice. 10 or higher you succeed. 18 or higher you are successful, natural 20 Critical success you roll a natural 1 you automatically fail badly.
The problem is Six Sigma is good for manufacturing, however GE pushed it to other things where the cost of insuring that level of accuracy was greater than letting the mistakes go threw.
So for example following 6S will cost a team 1 day a week of extra work roughly 10 weeks a year of extra work to prevent a problem that will cost an extra weeks of work ever 3 months that will take a week to fix (4 weeks a year) that is just money wasted due to being paranoid of making a mistake.
You build a team of introverts, then place them in an extrovert's dream office.
You are better off giving everyone a private office, and having drafting rooms where they can collaborate with a small group of people.
GE isn't what I think of as a Start-Up.
As GE is one of the largest companies in the world Currently #11 on the Fortune 500. Having been around for 124 years, there is a well defined GE Culture that is nearly hard to break. For a startup you need to be quick and nible. The culture will need to be flexible smart and not hung up with titles, that isn't GE.
Sure they may be the current leader of IoT however that doesn't make them a startup. I have seen the jobs for the IoT division and mostly they just want a bunch of academics (were having some is a good thing, however too many causes in the box thinking) and not so much focus on real world skills. Hence a lot of the security concerns of IoT. As the focus is on make it work, vs make it sustainable.
Also a lot of engineers that you can fire or layoff without causing shareholders to notice.
I don't know how good Dyson is good with HR. But those comments make it sound like it may be a tough job to keep.
That and they have less to loose in case of failure. So they are willing to take more risks and perhaps get bigger rewards. Having a family while personally rewarding forced you to play it safer as failure will effect more than themselves.
However the body is nearly 50% carbon. So half of your weight will go towards carbon pollution.
Talking on the phone, Texting on the Phone, Playing a Game on the Phone, Eating your breakfast, Fiddling trying to read a map, punching in an address in a GPS, yelling at your kids..... All of this falls under distracted driving.
There is only so much we can do to stop stupid. As stupid people are often ingenious in finding new ways to be stupid.
The solution for distracted driving is getting rid of drivers. Self Driving Cars, Accessible Public Transit systems. Heck I would love it if there was a flatbed train along the interstate where you can park your car on it. And take the train the next 50 miles.
Also unlike many of its Late 1990's .COM counterparts when it started Amazon had a business plan, that sold stuff not shares. They knew enough to price under the Brick and Mortar competition without any sustainable plan. Its prices and products were based on the cost it will be after they had completed their infrastructure. So while they were selling at a loss for a while, once the infrastructure was in place then they can make profit without having to change their competitivity.
Most of the other .COM plan was based on the idea if they sell at a low enough price then their suppliers will start giving them bulk discount... However with too much competition all trying to undercut themselves in prices they couldn't get enough traction to make it worth the suppliers effort to give them bulk pricing.
The problem is the Justice System allows the Rich to have advantages. More Money = More Lawyers = More Research = More Chances on finding a loophole = More Victories.
So the little guy who was wronged will lose out because the rich guy will win by a technicality.
Now I have been involved in helping doing the research for the company against the little guy, and from my experience most of the time the little guy is at fault too. Where they are often abusing the company's services well past the contracted amounts and declining multiple attempts to amend the contract to allow them to handle these extra services. Declining to pay when we prevent the user from abusing the service. Then finally suing the company after all services are cut off for non payment.
However that is the point of view I get from working for the company. I am sure that guy was given the full workup from the sales team, then gave a complex contract that he had little understanding of. Already feeling rip off he tried to use as much of what he got as he could. Then when seeing his services reduced without the price going down, he is refusing to pay because he isn't getting what he thought he should be getting. Then finally getting canceled.
For cases like this The company will always have the advantage as they know how to deal with these cases and have a cookie cutter process in place. While the guy suing it is mostly new to him and makes a lot of mistakes.
However the point of the justice system is to really look at the both points of views and point out where both sides may have been in the wrong and deal punishment for the group that has been considered to do the most wrong/reward to the person who has been injured the most.