You really have no idea on what you are talking about do you. Jobs, Gates, Ellidon while extreamly successful with the lack of business school, they are blips. The 1% in the US of 300 million people is well 3 million people.
Jobs and Gates took a risk and got lucky that the market was hungry for something. Many engineers do have an MBA you go to these MBA classes and they are full of computer scientist and engineers. They often take the MBA as to give them more leverage dealing with higher management and make them more sellable as outside consultants.
The issue I have with Microsoft's approach to software is that they like to make large do everything software. vs smaller do one thing and do it well software.
That is true, but hospitals like hiring yes men to manage their IT. So Doctor will abuse the "Medically necessary" excuse for the quickest and easiest setup so they get to play with there new toys faster. If the hospital hired more competent staff the doctors have fits and may leave the organization because we will not give them access to install Dropbox or allow there PC to use USB sticks. Also MD for some reason feel like they are qualified to make such decisions as somehow there degree makes them qualified for all levels of work. Not realizing that other people who may not have the Dr. Title in their name may still be a specialist in their field and knows what needs to be done far more then they do.
So you just want to steal from people who operate and maintain your favorite sites. Or do you make a list of sites that you regulatory visit and send them a check for thanks for running?
For me ad blocking is about computing safety as a bad add posed as a legit link can lead to a system security or performance problem that eats up my battery life.
Good ads I don't have issues. I know it is an ad it isn't slowing my system, advertising a legit product or service. And the money from these ads pay for the site information which I value.
But we as humans have the ability to go past our natural instinct and will fight them for will or for woe. 4:30 am the alarm wakes me up. I sense no danger, I am not starving, I do not have to go to the bathroom, I am still tired and could sleep. But I don't I get out of bed put on garments that will not keep me warm or cool or protect me from harm, heck that top button is sometimes a little uncomfortable. I will then eat eat even though I am not starving. Then I will go to a place where I lift heavy weights and run until I am physically exhausted, making me more vulnerable to predators. Then I go to a place where I tinker with a bunch of other objects that don't appear in nature and make them do unnatural things. Without directly looking for food. Unlike the cat who will sleep as long as it is tired and feels safe, then do actions that it feels as hunting.
No not really. It is easily parallelized yes. But you really don't improve big O speed like you do with sort algorithms. String compare will always be O(n) Now based of of the data you may be able to speed it up say your string of data contains particular patterns where you can group as a one letter such as compressing the string and compare the two compressed data, or say with DNA you just compress the data to 4 bit for value so you are searching more optimally. However you are still going in linear speed.
That said linear speed isn't that bad, but compared to log speed it gets poky
I am not stating that you legally can't but the fact you probably shouldn't. It would be difficult for a company to make a profit of designing luxury items, that will require major trauma for installation. So it may be hard for you to get such a system. It may go in the realm of extreme body manipulation, split tongue, horn implants... However requiring brain surgery is kida hardcore for most people.
Exactly, Adblocking for the most part isn't about trying to stop advertising that helps pay for the operation of the website, but to stop abusive add companies that attempt to turn your full device into an advertising media. Especially when it gets past the site you are viewing, then the add revenue doesn't go to the web-site but only to the advertising company, thus creating a no benefit business model.
Upgrades are a real pain. It is one thing to get these technology to help replace natural skills that you have loss or normally need, to function in society. However volunteer cybernetics to super enhance your ability for vanity reasons, really shouldn't be allowed, because say that wireless implant has a security glitch, or becomes outdated in 5 years, then you will need to have it surgically removed and a new one added. That is a lot of Trama for vanity technology.
"Is it cheaper to configure the tool to support your complex multinational reward structure, or to build multiple national reward systems?" Yes it can be. Sometimes coding a process is quicker and easier than working around deficiencies in the existing system. Working with enterprise systems, I have a working feature that I coded myself out and running Months faster than it would take to change the configuration. Don't mince words, these configuration are just as complex as any programming language. They just don't call it that.
"Is it cheaper to configure industry standard GL and financial reporting software to meet your reporting needs, or to bespoke the lot?" Well often the "standard" stuff is what the maker thinks is standard, and just abuse the end user for wanting something different. There are some standards that may need to be generated, however to cram these standards into a multi-million dollar tool that crashes every day isn't effective.
My objection to "Enterprise" isn't stating you should build everything in house. But trying to condense into one overarching all in one software. Where you can have a set of smaller cheaper apps, that you may have your staff do some quick code to combine the the different software.
If you are doing something the same as everyone else, then you should get software that everyone is using, otherwise, you need to make to what makes your organization unique, vs trying to manipulate poorly chosen software, to fit your needs.
All those configurations to get it working for your organization is just as complex as it would be to have a development staff. Better and Cheaper than developing your own CRM software??? I don't think so. Making the software may have a higher upfront cost, but maintenance, and efficiency gains will win overall.
Most organization buy this CRM software and only use a small fraction of the features, where all they want is a few forms to enter into a database.
With enterprise software, you either convert your organization to do it the way everyone else is working and lose your competitive advantage. Or pay a lot of money to highly configure the tool to meet your needs.
"Enterprise" software is a scam. It became popular after the Dot Com bust. Because organizations decided to Can most of their IT Staff. Meaning much of it custom software infrastructure cannot be maintained. Business being like most businesses suffer from an inferiority complex that somehow they are not running as well as the rest of the industry, not really realizing the rest of the industry has similar issues. So they drop their custom stuff, fire their programmers and go with "Enterprise" software, that promises "Best Practices" expecting the vender to do actual research in best practices. But that only means it is what they programmed the system to do by default. Now here is where it gets sneaky. There isn't any real "Best Practices" because every organization is different. You may be more expensive but want a better customer experience, you may be cheaper and avoid all the useless people talk. Every organization is different and has different needs. So these "Enterprise" Architects are often brought in, each one costing twice of your developer who you canned and in numbers greater or equal to the amount of people you had fired. To customize the software to handle the difference. (AKA Re-programming it) now you have your more expensive semi-custom built product, that doesn't run nearly as well. with a team of expensive consultants you dare not to let them get reassigned because your infrastructure is now dependent on it Just because you didn't want to keep your development staff, you have hired a more expensive and less effective development staff.
Apple new processor has exceeded the speed of its old processors, which is on par with the newer processors of its competitors.
So Apples updated line is updated from the previous version? Then in a few months, a competitor with a different upgrade cycle will have a new product that will be faster, so all fans of that device will say how slow and out of date Apple is.
Still you should concern yourself of the effect of second hand smoke on others. For those without the Gene, as well for those people who just doesn't like the smell. Attempts for smoking bands in the States (for Tobacco) had no movement until the effects of second hand smoke came across.
1. Stay Consistent!!! Don't drop your versioning and swap to another one. Like Microsoft, Firefox, to a lesser extent Apple. 2. If you are using names make sure you know which one is greater. Ubuntu method of going up alphabetically is a good example. 3. Insure development milestones are consistent with the version bumps. So Version 2 to version 3, should be just as large as from version 3 to 4.
The key importance to versioning is so we know what is the newest/newer version and if you have a major version you will expect some compatiblity changes.
VW had an army of marketing stating how clean their cars are. This is the reason why people bought the cars. GM car wasn't touted for its safety, that model was more for a push towards affordability. Also this was more of a failure to report a problem, vs. and intent to lie about it.
Also Huge Diesel trucks arn't the issue, they don't pretend to be green. However if used properly, you get a decent mileage per pound, that can beat hybrid cars.
There is a strong sense of accomplishment if you are able to do things from scratch, or closer to scratch, where you are involved in more of the process. Saying I need a board with this spec to a vender and get an overnight shipping, vs. actually designing it yourself, printing it out.
Efficiency isn't always the goal. Efficiency is boring, because it is about standardizing the process, it is about taking joy out of learning and just focusing on mass production. Building experimenting and learning have value as well. If you make your own board you get a good feel on how things are setup and working, if there is a problem you can more easily diagnose problems, and you really learn what is happening.
Of course if your boss's Business school didn't cover Business ethics in nauseum, like mine did. that may not be the best argument. However you can bring up the efficiency of being able to print multiple per day allowing your development time to increase as you can try multiple versions per day, and the cost of man hours will be less than the cost to of the equipment.
Normally it is a case of pointing the finger down the food chain until someone cannot point any further. Engineers are normally the Middle Class people, They don't have the money for a prolonged out of work. So there is only so much risk they would take at their job. It would be nice that everyone would be brave enough to stand up and say "This is wrong, I won't do it!" however with the risk of getting fired, plenty of the power is still in the higher ups. Also it is quite possible that the engineers could design something without full realization on what they are doing. I need you to code a function when variables are between this range, that returns a value in this range. The function is created. Then it will go to an other engineer, We have the function to optimize fuel efficiency in place, could you add this function to your code. The function is added. The higher ups can organize their orders so the engineers doesn't have the full picture of the scope. However when things goes down they will see in the comment that engineer who had made the function and the other who added it. They get canned, for doing their work, and never had an inkling on what they were doing on the grand scheme of things.
For the most part it goes in the thought process. X is to expensive. We have Y problems. So We should focus only on Y and not on X.
The thing is that we have a good sized population, we can work on Y and X at the same time. Especially if there is a real long term value in X.
Manned space travel has a huge long term value... It means we can survive outside of our little blue marble. So if say an Asteroid, or other disaster to happen we as a population would safe somewhere else. While Mars isn't nearly as hospitable as earth, it is currently the most hospitable location we can get to. While we do need to clean up a lot of the Science Fiction ideas about space travel, it still is a worthy venture.
While I expect some politics are involved, the US would target a foreign maker harder than an American. But the EU would target American products harded then EU ones as well.
However Germany for years has been targeting mostly the Prius, saying how green and more powerful their cars are. So that shows it was a lie. Ford may have delighted in the finding, they may have even funded the research, however it is VW who did the crime.
The ignition switch issue, was due to bad design + poor communication of problems. VW is due to intent to cheat the system.
Justice isn't based on the severity of the damage, but the mindset behind such actions.
Lets say your car breaks down on the highway because you went 80,000 miles without changing the oil. Causing a multi-car pileup, and say a dozen deaths. Should you be locked up for life for not changing your oil. vs If you get annoyed at the driver who cut you off, so you crashed into him causing a signal fatality.
Justice isn't about levels of harm done, but the degree of evil behind the crime.
Being that VW, Cheated the test, then advertised its high score, as to get people to avoid purchasing alternative cars, due to its high fuel economy. GM mistake did cost lives but it wasn't intended to cost lives, I expect they figured the worst case scenario was the car would just stop. VW Cheated the system with the intent to cheat the system.
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Trademark law you need to defend it or you could lose it. The Pokemon trademark is very valuable.
You really have no idea on what you are talking about do you.
Jobs, Gates, Ellidon while extreamly successful with the lack of business school, they are blips. The 1% in the US of 300 million people is well 3 million people.
Jobs and Gates took a risk and got lucky that the market was hungry for something.
Many engineers do have an MBA you go to these MBA classes and they are full of computer scientist and engineers. They often take the MBA as to give them more leverage dealing with higher management and make them more sellable as outside consultants.
The issue I have with Microsoft's approach to software is that they like to make large do everything software. vs smaller do one thing and do it well software.
The serial port can be secured with chewing gum.
That is true, but hospitals like hiring yes men to manage their IT.
So Doctor will abuse the "Medically necessary" excuse for the quickest and easiest setup so they get to play with there new toys faster.
If the hospital hired more competent staff the doctors have fits and may leave the organization because we will not give them access to install Dropbox or allow there PC to use USB sticks.
Also MD for some reason feel like they are qualified to make such decisions as somehow there degree makes them qualified for all levels of work. Not realizing that other people who may not have the Dr. Title in their name may still be a specialist in their field and knows what needs to be done far more then they do.
So you just want to steal from people who operate and maintain your favorite sites.
Or do you make a list of sites that you regulatory visit and send them a check for thanks for running?
For me ad blocking is about computing safety as a bad add posed as a legit link can lead to a system security or performance problem that eats up my battery life.
Good ads I don't have issues. I know it is an ad it isn't slowing my system, advertising a legit product or service. And the money from these ads pay for the site information which I value.
But we as humans have the ability to go past our natural instinct and will fight them for will or for woe.
4:30 am the alarm wakes me up. I sense no danger, I am not starving, I do not have to go to the bathroom, I am still tired and could sleep. But I don't I get out of bed put on garments that will not keep me warm or cool or protect me from harm, heck that top button is sometimes a little uncomfortable.
I will then eat eat even though I am not starving. Then I will go to a place where I lift heavy weights and run until I am physically exhausted, making me more vulnerable to predators. Then I go to a place where I tinker with a bunch of other objects that don't appear in nature and make them do unnatural things. Without directly looking for food.
Unlike the cat who will sleep as long as it is tired and feels safe, then do actions that it feels as hunting.
No not really. It is easily parallelized yes. But you really don't improve big O speed like you do with sort algorithms.
String compare will always be O(n)
Now based of of the data you may be able to speed it up say your string of data contains particular patterns where you can group as a one letter such as compressing the string and compare the two compressed data, or say with DNA you just compress the data to 4 bit for value so you are searching more optimally. However you are still going in linear speed.
That said linear speed isn't that bad, but compared to log speed it gets poky
I am not stating that you legally can't but the fact you probably shouldn't.
It would be difficult for a company to make a profit of designing luxury items, that will require major trauma for installation. So it may be hard for you to get such a system. It may go in the realm of extreme body manipulation, split tongue, horn implants... However requiring brain surgery is kida hardcore for most people.
Or they can just give us an option to disable Safari from doing anything other than web browsing.
Exactly, Adblocking for the most part isn't about trying to stop advertising that helps pay for the operation of the website, but to stop abusive add companies that attempt to turn your full device into an advertising media. Especially when it gets past the site you are viewing, then the add revenue doesn't go to the web-site but only to the advertising company, thus creating a no benefit business model.
Upgrades are a real pain.
It is one thing to get these technology to help replace natural skills that you have loss or normally need, to function in society. However volunteer cybernetics to super enhance your ability for vanity reasons, really shouldn't be allowed, because say that wireless implant has a security glitch, or becomes outdated in 5 years, then you will need to have it surgically removed and a new one added. That is a lot of Trama for vanity technology.
"Is it cheaper to configure the tool to support your complex multinational reward structure, or to build multiple national reward systems?" Yes it can be. Sometimes coding a process is quicker and easier than working around deficiencies in the existing system. Working with enterprise systems, I have a working feature that I coded myself out and running Months faster than it would take to change the configuration. Don't mince words, these configuration are just as complex as any programming language. They just don't call it that.
"Is it cheaper to configure industry standard GL and financial reporting software to meet your reporting needs, or to bespoke the lot?" Well often the "standard" stuff is what the maker thinks is standard, and just abuse the end user for wanting something different. There are some standards that may need to be generated, however to cram these standards into a multi-million dollar tool that crashes every day isn't effective.
My objection to "Enterprise" isn't stating you should build everything in house. But trying to condense into one overarching all in one software. Where you can have a set of smaller cheaper apps, that you may have your staff do some quick code to combine the the different software.
If you are doing something the same as everyone else, then you should get software that everyone is using, otherwise, you need to make to what makes your organization unique, vs trying to manipulate poorly chosen software, to fit your needs.
All those configurations to get it working for your organization is just as complex as it would be to have a development staff. Better and Cheaper than developing your own CRM software??? I don't think so. Making the software may have a higher upfront cost, but maintenance, and efficiency gains will win overall.
Most organization buy this CRM software and only use a small fraction of the features, where all they want is a few forms to enter into a database.
With enterprise software, you either convert your organization to do it the way everyone else is working and lose your competitive advantage. Or pay a lot of money to highly configure the tool to meet your needs.
"Enterprise" software is a scam.
It became popular after the Dot Com bust. Because organizations decided to Can most of their IT Staff. Meaning much of it custom software infrastructure cannot be maintained. Business being like most businesses suffer from an inferiority complex that somehow they are not running as well as the rest of the industry, not really realizing the rest of the industry has similar issues. So they drop their custom stuff, fire their programmers and go with "Enterprise" software, that promises "Best Practices" expecting the vender to do actual research in best practices. But that only means it is what they programmed the system to do by default.
Now here is where it gets sneaky. There isn't any real "Best Practices" because every organization is different. You may be more expensive but want a better customer experience, you may be cheaper and avoid all the useless people talk. Every organization is different and has different needs. So these "Enterprise" Architects are often brought in, each one costing twice of your developer who you canned and in numbers greater or equal to the amount of people you had fired. To customize the software to handle the difference. (AKA Re-programming it) now you have your more expensive semi-custom built product, that doesn't run nearly as well. with a team of expensive consultants you dare not to let them get reassigned because your infrastructure is now dependent on it
Just because you didn't want to keep your development staff, you have hired a more expensive and less effective development staff.
Apple new processor has exceeded the speed of its old processors, which is on par with the newer processors of its competitors.
So Apples updated line is updated from the previous version? Then in a few months, a competitor with a different upgrade cycle will have a new product that will be faster, so all fans of that device will say how slow and out of date Apple is.
Still you should concern yourself of the effect of second hand smoke on others. For those without the Gene, as well for those people who just doesn't like the smell. Attempts for smoking bands in the States (for Tobacco) had no movement until the effects of second hand smoke came across.
1. Stay Consistent!!! Don't drop your versioning and swap to another one. Like Microsoft, Firefox, to a lesser extent Apple.
2. If you are using names make sure you know which one is greater. Ubuntu method of going up alphabetically is a good example.
3. Insure development milestones are consistent with the version bumps. So Version 2 to version 3, should be just as large as from version 3 to 4.
The key importance to versioning is so we know what is the newest/newer version and if you have a major version you will expect some compatiblity changes.
VW had an army of marketing stating how clean their cars are. This is the reason why people bought the cars. GM car wasn't touted for its safety, that model was more for a push towards affordability. Also this was more of a failure to report a problem, vs. and intent to lie about it.
Also Huge Diesel trucks arn't the issue, they don't pretend to be green. However if used properly, you get a decent mileage per pound, that can beat hybrid cars.
There is a strong sense of accomplishment if you are able to do things from scratch, or closer to scratch, where you are involved in more of the process. Saying I need a board with this spec to a vender and get an overnight shipping, vs. actually designing it yourself, printing it out.
Efficiency isn't always the goal. Efficiency is boring, because it is about standardizing the process, it is about taking joy out of learning and just focusing on mass production. Building experimenting and learning have value as well. If you make your own board you get a good feel on how things are setup and working, if there is a problem you can more easily diagnose problems, and you really learn what is happening.
Of course if your boss's Business school didn't cover Business ethics in nauseum, like mine did. that may not be the best argument. However you can bring up the efficiency of being able to print multiple per day allowing your development time to increase as you can try multiple versions per day, and the cost of man hours will be less than the cost to of the equipment.
Normally it is a case of pointing the finger down the food chain until someone cannot point any further.
Engineers are normally the Middle Class people, They don't have the money for a prolonged out of work. So there is only so much risk they would take at their job. It would be nice that everyone would be brave enough to stand up and say "This is wrong, I won't do it!" however with the risk of getting fired, plenty of the power is still in the higher ups.
Also it is quite possible that the engineers could design something without full realization on what they are doing.
I need you to code a function when variables are between this range, that returns a value in this range.
The function is created.
Then it will go to an other engineer, We have the function to optimize fuel efficiency in place, could you add this function to your code.
The function is added.
The higher ups can organize their orders so the engineers doesn't have the full picture of the scope. However when things goes down they will see in the comment that engineer who had made the function and the other who added it. They get canned, for doing their work, and never had an inkling on what they were doing on the grand scheme of things.
We do Own our personal information, but we usually sell it in trade of the electronic services you want to use.
You find there is value in Google Internet searching, then your payment is knowing your searches would be part of google marketing,
There is that news website that you don't want to pay for, well those adds will pay for the services.
You don't need to use these consumer services on the internet. So you can keep your personal information to yourself.
For the most part it goes in the thought process.
X is to expensive. We have Y problems. So We should focus only on Y and not on X.
The thing is that we have a good sized population, we can work on Y and X at the same time. Especially if there is a real long term value in X.
Manned space travel has a huge long term value... It means we can survive outside of our little blue marble. So if say an Asteroid, or other disaster to happen we as a population would safe somewhere else. While Mars isn't nearly as hospitable as earth, it is currently the most hospitable location we can get to.
While we do need to clean up a lot of the Science Fiction ideas about space travel, it still is a worthy venture.
While I expect some politics are involved, the US would target a foreign maker harder than an American. But the EU would target American products harded then EU ones as well.
However Germany for years has been targeting mostly the Prius, saying how green and more powerful their cars are. So that shows it was a lie. Ford may have delighted in the finding, they may have even funded the research, however it is VW who did the crime.
The ignition switch issue, was due to bad design + poor communication of problems.
VW is due to intent to cheat the system.
Justice isn't based on the severity of the damage, but the mindset behind such actions.
Lets say your car breaks down on the highway because you went 80,000 miles without changing the oil. Causing a multi-car pileup, and say a dozen deaths. Should you be locked up for life for not changing your oil. vs If you get annoyed at the driver who cut you off, so you crashed into him causing a signal fatality.
Justice isn't about levels of harm done, but the degree of evil behind the crime.
Being that VW, Cheated the test, then advertised its high score, as to get people to avoid purchasing alternative cars, due to its high fuel economy. GM mistake did cost lives but it wasn't intended to cost lives, I expect they figured the worst case scenario was the car would just stop. VW Cheated the system with the intent to cheat the system.