That many percentages raises alerts in my B.S.ometer
Percentages are a great way to hide data, and the truth.
Say there are a small handful of really large companies that have discriminatory hiring practices. While many of the others are more on par with the rest of the population. To say Silicon Valley Culture is out of step due to a few big bad Apples really messes things up.
What is the variance across companies. How are these distributed across all the companies? You know real analysis not just percentages.
Percentages are just so you can complain on a bumper sticker.
I really doubt that. We think because we can code we are that much smarter then those who cannot. However a bunch of us started to Code when we were just kids... So really how smart must the average tech person has to be if they can do kids stuff.
Sure Silicon Valley workers may be above average... However that will hold true for any other professional field.
While full time jobs in other industries may have below average.
YouTube is setup to be nearly one sided towards the takedown requests. There are many fair use usage where they are taken down. Where the poster is unable to operate their business. Such as Movie reviewers. As far as I see it, they are making you guilty until you can prove you innocence.
Not to sound like a Mac Fanboy. But the difference may be between the quality of parts use not just the specs that the parts have.
Back in the late 1990's during the Mhz race, Cheap PC's came out with Intel Pentium Centrino chips vs. the full Pentium chips. They were rated at the same Mhz, however their lower quality often created computers that barely functioned, or ran spastic.
Apples biggest problem is lack of low end systems. Everything needs to be thin, shiny and appear state of the art. That level of detail just to bend the metal to that degree is a lot of extra work. Vs. a Chrome Book injection molding of the plastic.
If you take an apple PC and go to any competitor and match every spec you get the same price. However most of us don't need Apples specs, but something a bit different. So we can get some parts better than others, To trade off on the features you really don't care about.
This is shown by the support for Trump. There had been a gradual decrease in empowerment in one form or another. Back in the old days there was a well defined class structure. White higher than Black, Men greater than Women, now this is going away, and some people think it is because of Political Correctness is taking over. It isn't it is because we as a culture are trying to flatten the class structure. So now the failing White Male can no longer go and put his power over a successful black woman. So now he needs to realize that he is a loser, or just blame society for his problems, because he now finds himself in a position where he deserves to be. Now the internet where there is anonymity means he can insult and try to place his power over people just by spamming, where there is no real recourse for such behavior.
There wasn't any impression that after killing Bin Laden Al Qaeda would just go away. However he was more dangerous alive than dead. There were multible targets with an attempt to create a leadership vacuum. Which for the most part worked as Al Qaeda is much less of a threat than it use to be. The problem is that ISIS took its place and they are even more nuts.
If you don't care then ignore the story. If enough people ignore such stories then the editors will not show them anymore as they will not bring traffic.
But Mars is the next place we want to travel too. If only we can get enough public interest in it. But due to having no leadership in the world and no good alternative in the pipeline I expect we will just say on earth and in low orbit until that asteroid hits.
Most of this stuff is due to pure ignorance of how America works. Their minds are focused on the idea of a centralized source of power. A supreme leader or a king. The U.S. in general has power distributed where someone can be valuable however not indispensable. In theory you can kill the CEO's of the fortune 500 and still the U.S. Economy will still run. Their wealth will be transferred to next of kin, their investments will still be moving most companies can keep up to day to day operations for an while before they can replace the loss in leadership.
So you are going to use amature Linux distributions, and perhaps lose out on better designed features and support, just so you can be a Hipster Anti-Corporate man? If you put the money down for the Enterprise version you will not get these Adds and you have the OS for yourself. The problem is people want it for cheap.
Now I am not dissing Linux here, however there are a lot of people who wants Windows, Not Linux for many reasons some are good, other not so much. But they don't want to pay the prices like they did for XP or Windows 7. They want it cheap. If someone is in the business of making and maintaining Operating Systems, then they will need to charge for it. Or find alternate ways of payment.
Well America is much better at efficiency than other countries. So one person and do a job of 10. So you hire one person at 5 times the foreign counterpart if they can do 10 times the work they are worth it.
While there is a lot of complaining about the US education system, most countries cheat on their statistics. Where say the average high school graduate in the foreign country will have A/B Grades on skills test while the US has C Grades on skill tests. Is often because these countries will kick out the underperforming students and put them in trade schools. So the factory worker in the US with a High School degree, often has better Reading Writing and Critical Thinking skills than a cheaper worker who had been placed in Labor training after elementary school. Allowing them to work with less management, and oversight, as well being able to understand more complex instructions.
Do not count the US out just because of higher wages. Americans work hard, and they work smart as well. The trick is to show that to the businesses who make the decisions, because otherwise they just pick the Penny Wise and Pound foolish solution.
WWI was a lot of just sitting in the trenches and just kind of living in a world where you just can't lift your head above the trenchline. Just kinda slogging it and trying to survive, while living a miserable existence. For a game, rather boring. Being also in a video games you are controlling characters not real people the strategy needed is different. In games NPC are disposable, there is no having to face the public and state that you sacrificed 50% of your unit, just to win the objective, where in real life it would just be to surrender or retreat. Because although you may win the battle, the losses would hinder the war more than what you would gain in the battle.
The dark rooms in the new Doom, have some objects that are actually well lit, while everything else is dark. In old doom, to get that effect you will need to sacrifice a lot of colors to get that effect. Going from dark to light in VGA is simple as a pallet swap. However if the old doom were to show the same level of contrast you either have a lot less colors, or very blocky fading effect where it would look cheesy. So the developers went towards a brighter room where there is less fading.
If people/governments/corporations can listen to such concerns they may be able to mitigate them so the overall benefits outweigh the tradeoffs. For example the infrastructure will need to be changed to allow for self driving car to drive much closer together and/or utilize the road differently. So during rush hour times there may be an extra lane northbound than southbound. Also self driving cars may become more of a ride sharing concept where you are pricked up and dropped off at a fee, This fee per kilometer can be a deterrent from excess travel. Even though people will pay more per mile with their car when they factor in all the costs, being that they are having to pay upfront costs curves their behavior. Also there may be some initiatives such as greater acceptance towards work from home jobs. As many white collar jobs consists of a person driving miles to work to sit in front of a computer with an internet connection, they are in that room all day, and go home where they have a computer with an internet connection (This will have its own tradeoffs too)
When you get warnings listen to them, but don't overreact. Just plan to deal with the tradeoffs. Nearly every technology has a tradeoff. That is what there are so many flame wars on technology sites. Because Product A sacrificed feature X to give you a better feature Y while Product B sacrificed feature Z to give a better feature X. So the flame war will go like this.... FW1: B is superior to A because feature X really helps me, and that feature Y isn't that bad either, besides I don't need Z anyways. FW2: A is superior to B because feature Y is better than any other system and feature Z is done rather well too. With Y and Z there is no need for X. FW1: to FW2 you are just an idiot.
Doom was a product of the 1990's where everything needs to be dark. Both in appearance and in mood. There are a lot of horror today that has lighten up today. But for Doom to try to keep the faithful, it is dark. The VGA doom games were brighter because they had to be. 256 colors at once every color you need to darken is means a color you cannot use.
To be fair, this isn't isolated to just technology. Nearly every industry has its details that "normals" outside of that field just have no idea, and are considered idiots for not knowing what that is. That is the thing about specializing in a field, you know stuff that the non-specialist in that area don't know.
But I do believe that in the tech industry we had reveled a but too much in that idea of our superiority and sometimes try hard to make things more complex to outsiders than they have to be. And now it can hurt us.
Normally the idea that non-specials in the area for a court hearing is a good thing, because a specialist would be fixed on their point of view, so they would already be pro-Google or pro-Oracle, without the rest of the facts and not with the idea of justice, but with pushing their agenda.
Do you have evidence outside that that would be her political stance (not personal) on the topic. Hillary is too much of a political sell out fe be a Feminazi. Beside in the United States prostitution laws are controlled by each individual state. For the most part doesn't have much political action asking such rules to be pushed on a national level.
Besides her stance on women's rights has been towards less regulation on what a woman can do because they are a woman not more.
More to poor leadership - globally The problem with the Olympics isn't the Olympics but the poor leadership of the host government. Because of all the media focus the politicians get now, they are pressured to make their country/city look better than all the rest. All this focus on visual appearance can suffer at the cost of the hidden infrastructure needed. However the leadership needs to survive the next set of tweeting wars, not plan out and lead.
When the Olympics had less coverage and less recourse for everyone's response. While Grand, the Olympics were more held back with more focus on the events than showing off the city.
Most countries have a city and rural areas. The city has a visible pollution problem. The rural areas often have a hidden pollution problem, because rural areas may not have the resources to dispose of hazardous products. So there is PFOA in the water, trash everywhere. But we look at the trees and think it is all nice and clean. A City, even if kept cleaner than a rural area. Looks a bit more polluted.
"Ministry of Defense now expects to save up to 29 million Euro "
The proof will really how well the deployment is managed. The cost per seat of license with Microsoft office may be mitigated by 1 hours of lost productivity per month having to deal with a system that the users may not be familiar with. End users unlike normal IT folks sometimes will freak out the tiniest details.
Being that there are so few Tesla cars out there, and they are really expensive, I doubt you will see too many real world car wrecks of Teslas. People were always a bit curious about the safety of electric cars, electrical fires, getting electrocuted... Now granted many of these concerns are less of an issue compared to riding a car powered by explosions. However because it is new, people worry about the safeguards in place. And how would such a car fare in real world accidents. Especially lately companies have been cheating the system to change their results from the test to real world.
The point of the story actually was the tesla design allowed for much more crumple zone than standard cars to improve passenger safety.
How often does a national publisher break a story? Not as often as they want you to think. Most of it is local. So the new algorithm may miss sometimes but it is better than before.
This type of posts sounds like my customers. We give you crap data, while you have found a way to organized far faster and more accurate than any human, there are still some mistakes. How dare the computer misinterprete bad data.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes I meant Celeron, I apologize. I curse Intel for the Centrino Brand name, as its wording looks a lot like Celeron.
That many percentages raises alerts in my B.S.ometer
Percentages are a great way to hide data, and the truth.
Say there are a small handful of really large companies that have discriminatory hiring practices. While many of the others are more on par with the rest of the population. To say Silicon Valley Culture is out of step due to a few big bad Apples really messes things up.
What is the variance across companies. How are these distributed across all the companies? You know real analysis not just percentages.
Percentages are just so you can complain on a bumper sticker.
I really doubt that.
We think because we can code we are that much smarter then those who cannot.
However a bunch of us started to Code when we were just kids... So really how smart must the average tech person has to be if they can do kids stuff.
Sure Silicon Valley workers may be above average... However that will hold true for any other professional field.
While full time jobs in other industries may have below average.
YouTube is setup to be nearly one sided towards the takedown requests. There are many fair use usage where they are taken down. Where the poster is unable to operate their business. Such as Movie reviewers.
As far as I see it, they are making you guilty until you can prove you innocence.
Not to sound like a Mac Fanboy. But the difference may be between the quality of parts use not just the specs that the parts have.
Back in the late 1990's during the Mhz race, Cheap PC's came out with Intel Pentium Centrino chips vs. the full Pentium chips. They were rated at the same Mhz, however their lower quality often created computers that barely functioned, or ran spastic.
Apples biggest problem is lack of low end systems. Everything needs to be thin, shiny and appear state of the art. That level of detail just to bend the metal to that degree is a lot of extra work. Vs. a Chrome Book injection molding of the plastic.
If you take an apple PC and go to any competitor and match every spec you get the same price. However most of us don't need Apples specs, but something a bit different. So we can get some parts better than others, To trade off on the features you really don't care about.
Tic Tac Toe. They just can use plot for the movie Wargames.
This is shown by the support for Trump.
There had been a gradual decrease in empowerment in one form or another. Back in the old days there was a well defined class structure.
White higher than Black, Men greater than Women, now this is going away, and some people think it is because of Political Correctness is taking over. It isn't it is because we as a culture are trying to flatten the class structure. So now the failing White Male can no longer go and put his power over a successful black woman. So now he needs to realize that he is a loser, or just blame society for his problems, because he now finds himself in a position where he deserves to be.
Now the internet where there is anonymity means he can insult and try to place his power over people just by spamming, where there is no real recourse for such behavior.
There wasn't any impression that after killing Bin Laden Al Qaeda would just go away. However he was more dangerous alive than dead. There were multible targets with an attempt to create a leadership vacuum. Which for the most part worked as Al Qaeda is much less of a threat than it use to be. The problem is that ISIS took its place and they are even more nuts.
If you don't care then ignore the story.
If enough people ignore such stories then the editors will not show them anymore as they will not bring traffic.
But Mars is the next place we want to travel too. If only we can get enough public interest in it. But due to having no leadership in the world and no good alternative in the pipeline I expect we will just say on earth and in low orbit until that asteroid hits.
Most of this stuff is due to pure ignorance of how America works. Their minds are focused on the idea of a centralized source of power. A supreme leader or a king.
The U.S. in general has power distributed where someone can be valuable however not indispensable. In theory you can kill the CEO's of the fortune 500 and still the U.S. Economy will still run. Their wealth will be transferred to next of kin, their investments will still be moving most companies can keep up to day to day operations for an while before they can replace the loss in leadership.
So you are going to use amature Linux distributions, and perhaps lose out on better designed features and support, just so you can be a Hipster Anti-Corporate man?
If you put the money down for the Enterprise version you will not get these Adds and you have the OS for yourself. The problem is people want it for cheap.
Now I am not dissing Linux here, however there are a lot of people who wants Windows, Not Linux for many reasons some are good, other not so much. But they don't want to pay the prices like they did for XP or Windows 7. They want it cheap. If someone is in the business of making and maintaining Operating Systems, then they will need to charge for it. Or find alternate ways of payment.
Well America is much better at efficiency than other countries. So one person and do a job of 10. So you hire one person at 5 times the foreign counterpart if they can do 10 times the work they are worth it.
While there is a lot of complaining about the US education system, most countries cheat on their statistics. Where say the average high school graduate in the foreign country will have A/B Grades on skills test while the US has C Grades on skill tests. Is often because these countries will kick out the underperforming students and put them in trade schools.
So the factory worker in the US with a High School degree, often has better Reading Writing and Critical Thinking skills than a cheaper worker who had been placed in Labor training after elementary school. Allowing them to work with less management, and oversight, as well being able to understand more complex instructions.
Do not count the US out just because of higher wages. Americans work hard, and they work smart as well. The trick is to show that to the businesses who make the decisions, because otherwise they just pick the Penny Wise and Pound foolish solution.
WWI was a lot of just sitting in the trenches and just kind of living in a world where you just can't lift your head above the trenchline. Just kinda slogging it and trying to survive, while living a miserable existence. For a game, rather boring.
Being also in a video games you are controlling characters not real people the strategy needed is different. In games NPC are disposable, there is no having to face the public and state that you sacrificed 50% of your unit, just to win the objective, where in real life it would just be to surrender or retreat. Because although you may win the battle, the losses would hinder the war more than what you would gain in the battle.
The dark rooms in the new Doom, have some objects that are actually well lit, while everything else is dark. In old doom, to get that effect you will need to sacrifice a lot of colors to get that effect. Going from dark to light in VGA is simple as a pallet swap. However if the old doom were to show the same level of contrast you either have a lot less colors, or very blocky fading effect where it would look cheesy. So the developers went towards a brighter room where there is less fading.
If people/governments/corporations can listen to such concerns they may be able to mitigate them so the overall benefits outweigh the tradeoffs.
For example the infrastructure will need to be changed to allow for self driving car to drive much closer together and/or utilize the road differently. So during rush hour times there may be an extra lane northbound than southbound.
Also self driving cars may become more of a ride sharing concept where you are pricked up and dropped off at a fee, This fee per kilometer can be a deterrent from excess travel. Even though people will pay more per mile with their car when they factor in all the costs, being that they are having to pay upfront costs curves their behavior.
Also there may be some initiatives such as greater acceptance towards work from home jobs. As many white collar jobs consists of a person driving miles to work to sit in front of a computer with an internet connection, they are in that room all day, and go home where they have a computer with an internet connection (This will have its own tradeoffs too)
When you get warnings listen to them, but don't overreact. Just plan to deal with the tradeoffs. Nearly every technology has a tradeoff. That is what there are so many flame wars on technology sites. Because Product A sacrificed feature X to give you a better feature Y while Product B sacrificed feature Z to give a better feature X. So the flame war will go like this....
FW1: B is superior to A because feature X really helps me, and that feature Y isn't that bad either, besides I don't need Z anyways.
FW2: A is superior to B because feature Y is better than any other system and feature Z is done rather well too. With Y and Z there is no need for X.
FW1: to FW2 you are just an idiot.
Stuck in the 1990's
Doom was a product of the 1990's where everything needs to be dark. Both in appearance and in mood. There are a lot of horror today that has lighten up today. But for Doom to try to keep the faithful, it is dark.
The VGA doom games were brighter because they had to be. 256 colors at once every color you need to darken is means a color you cannot use.
To be fair, this isn't isolated to just technology. Nearly every industry has its details that "normals" outside of that field just have no idea, and are considered idiots for not knowing what that is. That is the thing about specializing in a field, you know stuff that the non-specialist in that area don't know.
But I do believe that in the tech industry we had reveled a but too much in that idea of our superiority and sometimes try hard to make things more complex to outsiders than they have to be. And now it can hurt us.
Normally the idea that non-specials in the area for a court hearing is a good thing, because a specialist would be fixed on their point of view, so they would already be pro-Google or pro-Oracle, without the rest of the facts and not with the idea of justice, but with pushing their agenda.
Do you have evidence outside that that would be her political stance (not personal) on the topic.
Hillary is too much of a political sell out fe be a Feminazi.
Beside in the United States prostitution laws are controlled by each individual state. For the most part doesn't have much political action asking such rules to be pushed on a national level.
Besides her stance on women's rights has been towards less regulation on what a woman can do because they are a woman not more.
Bigger projects means more competing requests. Which means more sacrifices to meet all the requests.
Small apps that do what you want is far better than a big one.
More to poor leadership - globally
The problem with the Olympics isn't the Olympics but the poor leadership of the host government. Because of all the media focus the politicians get now, they are pressured to make their country/city look better than all the rest. All this focus on visual appearance can suffer at the cost of the hidden infrastructure needed. However the leadership needs to survive the next set of tweeting wars, not plan out and lead.
When the Olympics had less coverage and less recourse for everyone's response. While Grand, the Olympics were more held back with more focus on the events than showing off the city.
Most countries have a city and rural areas. The city has a visible pollution problem. The rural areas often have a hidden pollution problem, because rural areas may not have the resources to dispose of hazardous products. So there is PFOA in the water, trash everywhere. But we look at the trees and think it is all nice and clean. A City, even if kept cleaner than a rural area. Looks a bit more polluted.
"Ministry of Defense now expects to save up to 29 million Euro "
The proof will really how well the deployment is managed. The cost per seat of license with Microsoft office may be mitigated by 1 hours of lost productivity per month having to deal with a system that the users may not be familiar with. End users unlike normal IT folks sometimes will freak out the tiniest details.
Being that there are so few Tesla cars out there, and they are really expensive, I doubt you will see too many real world car wrecks of Teslas. People were always a bit curious about the safety of electric cars, electrical fires, getting electrocuted... Now granted many of these concerns are less of an issue compared to riding a car powered by explosions. However because it is new, people worry about the safeguards in place. And how would such a car fare in real world accidents. Especially lately companies have been cheating the system to change their results from the test to real world.
The point of the story actually was the tesla design allowed for much more crumple zone than standard cars to improve passenger safety.
How often does a national publisher break a story? Not as often as they want you to think. Most of it is local. So the new algorithm may miss sometimes but it is better than before.
This type of posts sounds like my customers.
We give you crap data, while you have found a way to organized far faster and more accurate than any human, there are still some mistakes. How dare the computer misinterprete bad data.