Many Software Developers are not affiliated with the IEEE as they may have followed the Computer Science discipline vs the Computer Engineering discipline.
So for the people IEEE would survey would be Engineers and companies with a Engineering discipline.
Now this Engineering discipline is about a make it once and make it right mentality. Meaning there is a preference towards more lower level coding, allowing detailed and measured controls over each line of code, at the expense of maintainability and programming time. C and Java is good for that type of coding.
However the Computer Science discipline is about making it maintainable, reusable, and fast deployment. This could cause less reliable programs with harder to calculate measures on performance. So languages such as Python and.NET have more appeal.
These different disciplines have cause many of flame war, as each other camp looks at the other guys code and says it is pure crap, because they focused so much on X and not on Y where Y is far more important and needed in real life.
The problem with C isn't that it is a hard language. It is a very simple language. But because it does things at a lower level there is often a lot of extra work (Memory Management and Pointers) that makes it difficult to get up to speed because it requires a lot more attention to detail on how each part works. While these other language you focus more on the problem being solved, even though your solution while solves the problem could be done so much better.
I think it is more to the point. We as a culture should be brave enough to say We are willing to take these security risks in order to protect our privacy.
The people who work in security are doing their job. And it is their responsibility to ask for things and changes that will make their job more effective, I don't blame them for the request.
However we seem to lack the fortitude to go to these people and say, no that is asking a bit too much, I know it isn't ideal but we need to keep people's freedom as well, at the expense of ideal security.
Not that the truck driver could be at fault or has no fault in the process. However. 1. The truck is really big! It isn't like a motorcycle or a small car. The size alone demands attention. 2. Limited visibility. If you can't see the truck's mirrors the truck can't see you. 3. Longer breaking. So your car is about 1 or 2 tons. The Truck is hundred times heavier. Momentum reduces the braking ability.
Experience on the road creates expected actions. A truck isn't going to be stuck at an intersection for a half an hour until traffic dies down. He will cut in front of car figuring they are going to slow down, because you really don't want to crash into a 200 ton truck. The autopilot feature doesn't have experience or a will to survive. It just sees it as an unexpected action.
Well you can find numbers to backup whatever crazy claim you want. However the Autopilot is meant to be that extra eye. So if you are distracted than the car may pick up that hazard that you missed.
No not realy. The Autopilot isn't a fully self driving car. It keeps you in your lane and not rear ending the car in front of you. When used properly it can help reduce the stress and strain on the driver during a long trip. As they can relax a bit (only a little bit) during a long stretch of road, where they adjust their focus of their eyes. Rearage their seat, grab a quick drink of water....
However there are a lot of stupid people who misuse the feature and think it is the same as a fully autonomous car, it isn't, it still needs a driver. It is just smart enough to not need the driver 100% of the time.
My logic didn't say they were going to get a better CEO. But the CEO who are willing to try to lead a failing company is going to ask for much more to offset the risk.
Also why do Private Contractors ask for say $250 an hour to do their work. While a normal employee may get $40 an hour? Because the Private contractor other than needing to pay for his benefits is covering the cost of the time where there isn't any work.
Well it is a lot of chicken and the egg problem. 1. the GNU/Linux distributions were made off of the Unix (server) framework design. While this give us a lot of great things. However Human User Interface has always been an afterthought. Audio/Video/Input Devices have always been a last ditch add on to the system.
2. The GNU/RMS fanbois are so zealot about keeping it open that there are not enough popular distributions that include 3rd party drivers because such companies are unwilling or unable to make such tools GNU
3. Because of 1 and 2 Linux is mostly for a lot of server and workstation jobs. Not a game system.
4. Because it isn't made as a game system there are not so many gamers to make it the companies worthwhile to invest a lot into it.
5. Those who do invest don't have massive resources to report their game to take advantage of Linux so the port is usually rather poor.
6. The poor ports and limited quality games keeps gamers from using Linux.
7. The low number of gamers in demand means there isn't a lot of development towards making Linux a better gaming OS
8. Because it isn't a gaming OS there is little need to focus on optimising the Audio/Video/Human User Interface options.
9. Because of this lack of attention people feel they can keep their moral high ground against using 3rd party add ins as it isn't much of a personal sacrifice to them...
I expect we have enough people willing to watch just to see if it is a train wreck to make it worth it to the sponsor. Rio seems to be a disaster. I expect people will just want to see how bad it will be.
My first Cell Phone (Candy Bar type) had a problem where if you mash on a key for too long it would call 911. So it calls 911 if I bend my leg the wrong way with the phone in my pocket.
As an adult I still play Mario Kart and Smash Bro. Mostly because These are the few games left that allow Me and my Wife to play at the same time. Most of the games for the XBox and PS4 are not side by side multi-player.
A person who is poor will pay a higher interest than someone who is rich. Why because the poor person has a higher risk of not paying. A CEO going to a failing company will ask for more money just to account for that job may be a career ending job.
Now this isn't really fair as it causes extra suffering on the poor and marginal benefits to the rich. But the mortgage crash in 2008 shows giving out cheap loans to high risk individual will cause a larger failure.
So if a failing company buys a cheap CEO it may crash much more rapidly.
However with Apple Popularity, You would expect to hear about hacking exploits all the time and some open to the world problems that will demand that you upgrade. and Hear about people with old phones who can't upgrade getting hacked and all this other nasty stuff.
Honestly I hear more about android hacks (inside malware available on the Google Store) then from Apple.
I am not saying Apple is golden. However current history shows it is rather good.
They were a couple of Pay per view strategies. 1. Streaming Video rental. - Before the day of internet streaming whenever you wanted it. Cable companies take moves after DVD/VHS release would in essence have it scrambled on a few channels until someone purchased it. Then they can watch the show within hours. Convenient if you didn't want to leave your home to to go the video rental place of if you didn't live near one, or the times mostly align.
2. Live Events. Boxing in particular was popular. As Boxing for the most part had limited appeal to the overall public, and there isn't much time for commercial breaks, as well the length of a match wasn't easy to be fixed. So a PPV Live Event was profitable and convenient as it didn't need to rearrange your schedule and have backup B-Shows ready once it is done.
That is kinda funny, being that Most Sitcoms are 1. based in California. 2. Have at least 1 aspiring actor/actress. 3. a. If about a family: Based in Suburbia 3. b. If about young adults: Based in an Apartment Complex 4. No matter what type of job they have, they can live an upper middle class life style to extreamly wealthy.
Very West Coast Culture in these shows. I am surprised that is very popular in New York City. Or are you making your assumption due to numbers that correlate with a population heat map. XKCD did it
Netflix collection quality is mostly due to most media companies trying to fight tooth and nail for old distribution method. The traditional stations are working for advertisers while netflix is working more for the viewer. The traditional media can produce crap and put it on Prime Time to make the advertisers happy (Which is in part of the story quality of the Netflix originals). But for the movies, traditional media wants people to buy BlueRays and DVDs not streaming if possible. Unless they get a good TV Deal, or Pay per view. I expect Netflix licensing agreement is too risky for many of these companies, so if they are slightly interested they just push out their B Movies to judge the waters. Or they rotate their shows so they feel like they have a cable deal. I notice this with the Star Trek Movies where they have a couple available (Especially the Odd ones) for a month or so then they go away and replace them with an other one.
It could depend. The Apple Car invention may not lead to Apple Cars driving the road. However the software learned from making it may be implemented into other standard vehicles beyond the standard entertainment systems. Lets just say While the Apple Car is a flop but everyone loves the interface on the climate control. Apple could sell this to say Ford or Honda in their cars brand. Or perhaps the software in the Apple car is far more efficient in using energy so the technology can be sold to Tesla or Toyota.
We seem to expect that progress needs to come from a Disruptive invention however we have gotten a lot of progress from many massive failure inventions. As these failures are often ahead of their time, and may lack one key piece of technology which isn't mature enough or priced well enough to be useful. However the process of invention gets the progress out.
Our Smart Phone looks much like the old Palm Pilot which came from Apples Failure of the newton.
Communism seems like a good idea in theory. However human instinct comes into play. A perfectly Equal world where everyone shares their talents for the greater good, doesn't have really work. There will alway be people who want more power and more status. It is mostly a genetic trait, as the Alpha Males will want to mate with the Alpha Women, so both sides will do things to prove their dominance. So there will always be some people who have a disproportionate amount of power over others. The trick with a government structure it to insure there is appropriate upward mobility path (Otherwise natural Alpha People, will start revolutions so they get their Alpha status vindicated). Also to insure that non-alphas are not allowed to diminish. China has been slowly adding additional Capitalism into its structure allowing more upward mobility, thus keeping the current government in control. Smaller governments can keep Communism running in its more pure form for longer (Cuba, North Korea) as the lower population is more able to control. However USSR, and China who where the big names in communism, only lasted for a few generations until the people found out that they were not growing as fast as they should. Now Capitalism and Representative Democracy has its problems too. Most notability it doesn't give the non-Alphas much of a safety net, and they could fall hard and live a much lower quality of life. However there is still optimism that it is possible to break out of the poverty chain. While Many communist countries are more or less resigned to their status in life.
Dag Nabbit those lazy Mellennials who are working multiple jobs. Why don't they settle in one good paying job! No we will not retire (We are going to stay at our high paying jobs until we die), we will not train you to take our position. We will tell them to work hard, when they do we will show them that life isn't fair and hard work isn't the case but just luck.
We want America like it was when the rest of the world was bombed out and rebuilding from WWII. To show how special we were because everyone happened to be in the middle of the war.
When you are young, you have the energy to do these jobs, keeping busy is exciting when you get older doing too much weighs you down, as your life begins to expand beyond just work.
The thing is an unregulated market will correct itself but it will experience massive highs which everyone will love than massive drops with could put people in the poor house or dead. So if unchecked people could be putting a lot of money in a failing business until it fails, once it fails it had corrected all the over investments.
However that is economic theory. Real life has real people who need to make it in the world. So there needs to be a moderating force. Regulation when used as a moderating force is quite handy, however it needs to allow some risk in the markets as risks allow wonderful successes just as it can cause massive failures. Communism and similar economics, while prevent people from starving on the street, it also puts the country in a time bubble where there isn't much progress over they years.
So the real question is where to set the dial on control. Too tight you cause your culture to stagnate, too little there is high chance of disastrous risk.
I expect the zone has less regulations than most of Europe but more regulations that the US has.
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First this is from the IEEE.
Many Software Developers are not affiliated with the IEEE as they may have followed the Computer Science discipline vs the Computer Engineering discipline.
So for the people IEEE would survey would be Engineers and companies with a Engineering discipline.
Now this Engineering discipline is about a make it once and make it right mentality. Meaning there is a preference towards more lower level coding, allowing detailed and measured controls over each line of code, at the expense of maintainability and programming time. C and Java is good for that type of coding.
However the Computer Science discipline is about making it maintainable, reusable, and fast deployment. This could cause less reliable programs with harder to calculate measures on performance. So languages such as Python and .NET have more appeal.
These different disciplines have cause many of flame war, as each other camp looks at the other guys code and says it is pure crap, because they focused so much on X and not on Y where Y is far more important and needed in real life.
The problem with C isn't that it is a hard language. It is a very simple language. But because it does things at a lower level there is often a lot of extra work (Memory Management and Pointers) that makes it difficult to get up to speed because it requires a lot more attention to detail on how each part works. While these other language you focus more on the problem being solved, even though your solution while solves the problem could be done so much better.
I think it is more to the point. We as a culture should be brave enough to say We are willing to take these security risks in order to protect our privacy.
The people who work in security are doing their job. And it is their responsibility to ask for things and changes that will make their job more effective, I don't blame them for the request.
However we seem to lack the fortitude to go to these people and say, no that is asking a bit too much, I know it isn't ideal but we need to keep people's freedom as well, at the expense of ideal security.
Not that the truck driver could be at fault or has no fault in the process. However.
1. The truck is really big! It isn't like a motorcycle or a small car. The size alone demands attention.
2. Limited visibility. If you can't see the truck's mirrors the truck can't see you.
3. Longer breaking. So your car is about 1 or 2 tons. The Truck is hundred times heavier. Momentum reduces the braking ability.
Experience on the road creates expected actions. A truck isn't going to be stuck at an intersection for a half an hour until traffic dies down. He will cut in front of car figuring they are going to slow down, because you really don't want to crash into a 200 ton truck. The autopilot feature doesn't have experience or a will to survive. It just sees it as an unexpected action.
Well you can find numbers to backup whatever crazy claim you want. However the Autopilot is meant to be that extra eye. So if you are distracted than the car may pick up that hazard that you missed.
No not realy. The Autopilot isn't a fully self driving car. It keeps you in your lane and not rear ending the car in front of you. When used properly it can help reduce the stress and strain on the driver during a long trip. As they can relax a bit (only a little bit) during a long stretch of road, where they adjust their focus of their eyes. Rearage their seat, grab a quick drink of water....
However there are a lot of stupid people who misuse the feature and think it is the same as a fully autonomous car, it isn't, it still needs a driver. It is just smart enough to not need the driver 100% of the time.
My logic didn't say they were going to get a better CEO. But the CEO who are willing to try to lead a failing company is going to ask for much more to offset the risk.
Also why do Private Contractors ask for say $250 an hour to do their work. While a normal employee may get $40 an hour? Because the Private contractor other than needing to pay for his benefits is covering the cost of the time where there isn't any work.
Well it is a lot of chicken and the egg problem.
1. the GNU/Linux distributions were made off of the Unix (server) framework design. While this give us a lot of great things. However Human User Interface has always been an afterthought. Audio/Video/Input Devices have always been a last ditch add on to the system.
2. The GNU/RMS fanbois are so zealot about keeping it open that there are not enough popular distributions that include 3rd party drivers because such companies are unwilling or unable to make such tools GNU
3. Because of 1 and 2 Linux is mostly for a lot of server and workstation jobs. Not a game system.
4. Because it isn't made as a game system there are not so many gamers to make it the companies worthwhile to invest a lot into it.
5. Those who do invest don't have massive resources to report their game to take advantage of Linux so the port is usually rather poor.
6. The poor ports and limited quality games keeps gamers from using Linux.
7. The low number of gamers in demand means there isn't a lot of development towards making Linux a better gaming OS
8. Because it isn't a gaming OS there is little need to focus on optimising the Audio/Video/Human User Interface options.
9. Because of this lack of attention people feel they can keep their moral high ground against using 3rd party add ins as it isn't much of a personal sacrifice to them. ..
I expect we have enough people willing to watch just to see if it is a train wreck to make it worth it to the sponsor.
Rio seems to be a disaster. I expect people will just want to see how bad it will be.
My first Cell Phone (Candy Bar type) had a problem where if you mash on a key for too long it would call 911. So it calls 911 if I bend my leg the wrong way with the phone in my pocket.
As an adult I still play Mario Kart and Smash Bro. Mostly because These are the few games left that allow Me and my Wife to play at the same time. Most of the games for the XBox and PS4 are not side by side multi-player.
A person who is poor will pay a higher interest than someone who is rich.
Why because the poor person has a higher risk of not paying.
A CEO going to a failing company will ask for more money just to account for that job may be a career ending job.
Now this isn't really fair as it causes extra suffering on the poor and marginal benefits to the rich. But the mortgage crash in 2008 shows giving out cheap loans to high risk individual will cause a larger failure.
So if a failing company buys a cheap CEO it may crash much more rapidly.
However with Apple Popularity, You would expect to hear about hacking exploits all the time and some open to the world problems that will demand that you upgrade. and Hear about people with old phones who can't upgrade getting hacked and all this other nasty stuff.
Honestly I hear more about android hacks (inside malware available on the Google Store) then from Apple.
I am not saying Apple is golden. However current history shows it is rather good.
They were a couple of Pay per view strategies.
1. Streaming Video rental. - Before the day of internet streaming whenever you wanted it. Cable companies take moves after DVD/VHS release would in essence have it scrambled on a few channels until someone purchased it. Then they can watch the show within hours. Convenient if you didn't want to leave your home to to go the video rental place of if you didn't live near one, or the times mostly align.
2. Live Events. Boxing in particular was popular. As Boxing for the most part had limited appeal to the overall public, and there isn't much time for commercial breaks, as well the length of a match wasn't easy to be fixed. So a PPV Live Event was profitable and convenient as it didn't need to rearrange your schedule and have backup B-Shows ready once it is done.
That is kinda funny, being that Most Sitcoms are
1. based in California.
2. Have at least 1 aspiring actor/actress.
3. a. If about a family: Based in Suburbia
3. b. If about young adults: Based in an Apartment Complex
4. No matter what type of job they have, they can live an upper middle class life style to extreamly wealthy.
Very West Coast Culture in these shows. I am surprised that is very popular in New York City.
Or are you making your assumption due to numbers that correlate with a population heat map. XKCD did it
Netflix collection quality is mostly due to most media companies trying to fight tooth and nail for old distribution method.
The traditional stations are working for advertisers while netflix is working more for the viewer. The traditional media can produce crap and put it on Prime Time to make the advertisers happy (Which is in part of the story quality of the Netflix originals). But for the movies, traditional media wants people to buy BlueRays and DVDs not streaming if possible. Unless they get a good TV Deal, or Pay per view.
I expect Netflix licensing agreement is too risky for many of these companies, so if they are slightly interested they just push out their B Movies to judge the waters. Or they rotate their shows so they feel like they have a cable deal. I notice this with the Star Trek Movies where they have a couple available (Especially the Odd ones) for a month or so then they go away and replace them with an other one.
That is only after Netflix loses its mojo and is well in the forgotten tech company category.
It could depend.
The Apple Car invention may not lead to Apple Cars driving the road. However the software learned from making it may be implemented into other standard vehicles beyond the standard entertainment systems.
Lets just say While the Apple Car is a flop but everyone loves the interface on the climate control. Apple could sell this to say Ford or Honda in their cars brand.
Or perhaps the software in the Apple car is far more efficient in using energy so the technology can be sold to Tesla or Toyota.
We seem to expect that progress needs to come from a Disruptive invention however we have gotten a lot of progress from many massive failure inventions. As these failures are often ahead of their time, and may lack one key piece of technology which isn't mature enough or priced well enough to be useful. However the process of invention gets the progress out.
Our Smart Phone looks much like the old Palm Pilot which came from Apples Failure of the newton.
People. Democratic, Republic... In short terms that try to sound Nationalistic makes me worried.
In America.
PATRIOT act
Homeland Security
* Freedom *
These are terms that make me very worried because they imply that if you are against it, than you are not a proper American.
Communism seems like a good idea in theory. However human instinct comes into play.
A perfectly Equal world where everyone shares their talents for the greater good, doesn't have really work.
There will alway be people who want more power and more status. It is mostly a genetic trait, as the Alpha Males will want to mate with the Alpha Women, so both sides will do things to prove their dominance. So there will always be some people who have a disproportionate amount of power over others.
The trick with a government structure it to insure there is appropriate upward mobility path (Otherwise natural Alpha People, will start revolutions so they get their Alpha status vindicated). Also to insure that non-alphas are not allowed to diminish.
China has been slowly adding additional Capitalism into its structure allowing more upward mobility, thus keeping the current government in control.
Smaller governments can keep Communism running in its more pure form for longer (Cuba, North Korea) as the lower population is more able to control. However USSR, and China who where the big names in communism, only lasted for a few generations until the people found out that they were not growing as fast as they should.
Now Capitalism and Representative Democracy has its problems too. Most notability it doesn't give the non-Alphas much of a safety net, and they could fall hard and live a much lower quality of life. However there is still optimism that it is possible to break out of the poverty chain. While Many communist countries are more or less resigned to their status in life.
Dag Nabbit those lazy Mellennials who are working multiple jobs. Why don't they settle in one good paying job!
No we will not retire (We are going to stay at our high paying jobs until we die), we will not train you to take our position. We will tell them to work hard, when they do we will show them that life isn't fair and hard work isn't the case but just luck.
We want America like it was when the rest of the world was bombed out and rebuilding from WWII. To show how special we were because everyone happened to be in the middle of the war.
Aren't we all?
I mean if we are not Serving someone(s) else, than what is the point of having a job?
Sure some jobs people have more authority and power than others, but they are still responsible to serving others in their own way.
The difference is that they having multiple steady jobs. The Day Job was meant to be your Primary Income.
Sounds like one of those entitled Baby Boomers.
When you are young, you have the energy to do these jobs, keeping busy is exciting when you get older doing too much weighs you down, as your life begins to expand beyond just work.
In some ways but it does correct itself.
The thing is an unregulated market will correct itself but it will experience massive highs which everyone will love than massive drops with could put people in the poor house or dead. So if unchecked people could be putting a lot of money in a failing business until it fails, once it fails it had corrected all the over investments.
However that is economic theory. Real life has real people who need to make it in the world. So there needs to be a moderating force. Regulation when used as a moderating force is quite handy, however it needs to allow some risk in the markets as risks allow wonderful successes just as it can cause massive failures. Communism and similar economics, while prevent people from starving on the street, it also puts the country in a time bubble where there isn't much progress over they years.
So the real question is where to set the dial on control. Too tight you cause your culture to stagnate, too little there is high chance of disastrous risk.
I expect the zone has less regulations than most of Europe but more regulations that the US has.
Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 That broke the sound barrier. Wasn't useful for fighting or carrying cargo. All it did was go faster than sound.
Still 70 years later we only break the sound barrier on a limited bases. As its cost and safety are still large concerns.
Now lets say you take this solar technology and make solar power blimps, and we move to slow and steady transportation future.