I am not sure where this this kid is a Genius came from. He does have interest in technology and figuring out how things work. When I was in 4th or 5th grade I had a cheap Atari/Sega/Amstrad PC joystick that broke. So I took it apart and I realized it was a simple design, so I played with making contacts with the wires and I saw what happened, then I made a cardboard Game pad that didn't work well. Then I went to Radio shack got some push buttons and drilled holes in some spare Plexiglas and made a game pad, actually the joystick supported one button, and the game pad supported two buttons by seeing what the other wire that wasn't used did. Now I am not trying to brag, taking part a clock and finding how to trigger the same functionality takes the same amount of skill. It isn't Genius stuff, but it takes curiosity on how things work and try to get things working again.
The big fear is your choice will be irrelevant so all your investment financial and emotional in the product could be loss of the product is a dud. Like Zune, Apple Newton, BeOS, OS2 Warp... If you got one of these dead end product you somehow feel embarrassed for jumping into the camp that didn't stay. The fact that even these dead end product may have still been valuable to you.
Just to show you, your political leaning has nothing to do with your understanding, or acceptance in science. Homeopathy is medicine based on rumors and gut feelings, not by actual full science. Sure sometimes you may randomly get something that hasn't been studied yet that has a positive effect. But for the most part it is just snake oil, and sometimes it will be more hazardous then actually getting a pill, that had found the healthy elements, took out much of the bad ones, and dosed at the optimal level. Via years of experiments and research.
In general if Science research is saying something is bad, then the conservative groups will ignore/disbelieve it. As if something is bad then you will need to change you behavior which is against conservative natural instinct. So the science is distrusted as influenced by liberal groups trying to maintain control of the population. If Science says something is good, then liberal groups will not believe the science. As it is in their nature to find problems and come with a solution to fix it, even if it isn't broken. So Science stating something isn't harmful, causes distrust and blamed based on corporate interest pushing such results.
Science is a process, and it will not always fit nicely into peoples political views. Sometimes ideas you hold most dearly are wrong.
With HTTP latency is the biggest killer. As you are actually getting small bits of info, but if it takes a while to connect to the data then it feels everything is slow.
As someone who had upgraded from 15mbs to 20mbs. I can still say less than 10mbs is good enough for a lot of people. 1 mbs is still enough for browsing and low resolution video. 10mbs you can stream high resolution video. 20mbs is so more people in your household and browse and watch streaming high res video. Having the later. 15mbs did work, but but we got a few mid-stream buffering during peak usage. So for the price difference adding an additional 5mbs was considered worth it. In my Area which is rural, we can only go up to 50mbs. However the price for that is very high, and not really worth it even with me being VPN to work, and family watching HD. and browsing.
There are countries known for there spying, then they are countries that didn't get caught yet. Besides if your communication is secure it doesn't mean the other end or the route to get there is.
Basic rules. Encrypt everything & don't try to send compromising info. Think of the Internet as communication at a public square. You may be talking to a friend but others may be listing.
I got my MBA, and I took an MBA course in Software Application Development. I was constantly butting heads with the professor because the concepts where based on unrealistic assumptions. I did learn UML so I can toss that on my Resume, however starting with the first assumption. Figure out all the people who will be interacting with your software at some level. Aka the Actors. Because as the product gains footing more people jump in and some jump out. Which makes the second phase of gathering required information that each person needs, impossible as well, because they really don't know what they need, they think they do, until they see the project in action, then they will need other stuff.
For an application of any real scale the UML based design cannot be done in one pass, but will need to be iterative over time. So you will have the programmers going back and redoing their work over and over again.
I prefer the whiteboard myself. Even with a pencil, there are too many eraser marks marks, I rather just rub it off with my finger and do the correction. I normally go to the whiteboard when I realize I am stuck with just coding it from my head so I use it to visualize the information I need to work with. Sometimes I flow chart it, other times it is just to chart it out. Tools like Visio and excel, are too clumsy for such work as they try to make assumptions that I want something, that I myself isn't sure if I want it or not.
Software Development is a professional trade, and Software Developers should be treated like professionals. I am sick of these methods to try to monitor our work like a fast food employee. I have a reputation for being having quick turnaround in my code, and I get called in when others say it cannot be done. this sometimes bites me back when someone is harder than normal so it will take me a week to do something, but Software Development is a skill, and sometimes you need to take extra time and though into a solution, The solution is often just 2 or 3 lines of code, perhaps just a change in parameter, or fixing of a math formula, or fixing a parenthesis. But still it take a long time to look at it, see why it failed, figure out how it passed in the first place. Evaluate what downstream effect the fix will have... A lot of work for something I can type in 3 seconds. I have never worked in a place where there was rampant goofing off, or just people not doing work. They were always professionals about the work, with the same amount of goofing off and idle time, that other units have such as finance and accounting. You know those other professional level positions.
The issue is the demand for coders in job sectors that have limited use of professional employees, so Mr. Boss man thinks he can treat them like any other minimum wage employee, and have easy/real-time measurements on results. While for professional software developments the metrics are harder to calculate and take time to show their results. The product may be 2 month late, but it works perfectly vs on time and has a lot of issues that takes 10 months to fix.
The problem isn't liberal art as a discipline. But the fact most liberal art majors are drifters who weren't disciplined, and drift by the classes and bluff their way to a degree, they went to that degree because it is hard to bluff your way in math classes. If a student takes the classes seriously than liberal arts is an effective discipline for a good well rounded behavior that the Tech industry is missing... However too many of them go into that degree because it is a few degrees that has such a lax math requirement.
I am at a stance that all majors should be required to take up to Calc II (And no Calc classes for non-tech majors watered down classes)
My mind is on 1980s tech. I hear TSR I think (Terminate and stay resident programs) the precursor to drivers. Then LOTR I am thinking of Legend of the Red Dragron.
I don't get the point of this article, in general. Hey look the US is the largest carbon polluter. There are powerful interest groups and political parties interested in trying to hide this fact, and have painted a picture that this is an attempt by other countries to control our sovereign rights. Now lets put a debt to the world on it! That plays right into their narrative. Oh they don't care about healing the earth they just want the US to pay up to these other countries who had failed to be successful.
This blaming posturing barely if ever works. All it does is put the side who is perceived at wrong on the defensive, and/or pushes them into more away from working on the problem.
Besides that calculation doesn't account for countries who benefit from the US pollution. Goods, services, entertainment, higher education... All the things where the US has influenced the rest of the world, and the rest of the world greedily just took it up needs to take blame for that too.
I bet you could ping the business community. They may have a set of old pcs, laptops that are still good but just out of date that are no longer being used. Often due to things like downsizing, or just the old laptop now looks really old and bulky.
If you don't follow a particular religion, why would you need a rational for your justification for your position. I have seen many very secular point of views about things where their argument is purely emotional, based off of just hatred, or because someone else had that idea, who was an inspiration to them. Their arguments are faulty, and their position isn't based off of careful thought but just a knee jerk ration.
I have found if you actually talk to the higher ups in the religions (Not the nutty protesters) they will often have a very good reason for their belief, which is far more in depth than bible thumping.
There are some things in technology has changed in the last 15 years. The biggest things are the following. 1. Big Data: Google can get areas to target more accurately, able to search for sources where food is cheapest or at quality level. 2. GPS and Mapping. Back in the early 2000's only a few people had GPS, now it is everywhere, as well we get more accurate maps, and planning software to optimize our routes. 3. Uber effect. There shows there is a good size population willing to work for themselves under some umbrella group.
Am I predicting a lot of success? No but things are a bit different then from their first attempt and I wouldn't be surprised if google did find a way to make it work.
Umm... Ok they are using an affordable, fuel efficient, and rather reliable car to deliver your goods. Would you feel better if you paid extra for your shipping if was shipped with some guy driving a Rolls-Royce, just so you know all the money your paying for shipping is going towards an expensive car vs going towards paying for the guy who is trying to ink out a living.
Yawn! Microsoft isn't the same powerhouse as it was a couple decades ago. Having their product lines eroded away over the past decade, leaving Windows and Office as their big ticket items, and still an ecosystem were previous bread and butter customers (the general consumer market) knowledgeable about alternatives and less afraid to switch. Failure in trying to get a strong foot hold in the mobile field, degrading use in desktop. Microsoft has more or less been switching to a B2B model, because the business men are the last best group of people to market for, high Ego's (which can be manipulated), high Money (where they can pay big bucks), and are at the age where they feel nostalgic of the time period where Microsoft was the king.
I doubt we are going to see EEE in Microsoft for a long time, especially in the consumer market. As they are just trying to get people to use their products again.
You are equating that justice should be proportional to the damage caused, vs intent, and chances for reoccurrence. Manslaughter or murder has some of the highest damage that we consider. However most people who do this are not mass murderers, and will not make such a habit. And often it isn't because of disrespect of the law but because the person felt threatened on some level. Justice requires stiff penalty for such action though as to make it clear to the population that you must take great care before you choose to end a life. But then you have white collar chrime. In many ways the person is far more evil, not doing a spur of the moment thing, but a long drawn out plan, in spite of the law, with the intent of being somehow above it. This is a very dangerous mindset, as it causes sliding to more crimes. So while the damage is far less it is punishing far worse behavior.
It is our job, to make computers and robotics faster, smarter and more agile. Technology is doing things that we use to need specialist for.
Now this overall isn't a bad thing, however there is a problem that technology is improving faster than people are getting educated for. So people who had a good paying medium skill job, are finding that they are being replaced by technology. And we are in a case where we will need 1 technician to manage the technology for every 10 workers.
With our current economic system the only real solution, is having more businesses and expand the economy to give 9 more technicians jobs. Now this isn't easy, because the economy can only grow so much, without having too much pure crap being released.
You are 20 years out of date. Unless you are talking about a paperback textbook. Hardcovers usually are $80.00 Minimum, they usually are around $100-$120 range.
GNU = GNU Not Unix. While he made products for the Unix environment, his Goal is to get rid of the Closed Unix systems and make an Open Source Unix like system. GNU/Hurd was his attempt, however Linux was able to get something out faster, and the GNU community jumped on that to fulfill the Vision of GNU. Hence why they like to call it GNU/Linux. The GNU Not Unix Code clone of Unix, that happens to be based of the Linux Kernel not the HURD Microkernel.
I think he has already became a liability. Part of the reason why Cloud/SaaS/Remote Hosted/Time Shared software has gotten popularity, was due to working around restrictions in Open Source systems, such as the Anti-TiVo addition. While it would be great if everyone will just share their code, avoid patents, etc... However in the real world, making software is expensive, and there are competitors willing to take your work and effort and offer more cost affordable services, because they didn't pay to do the work. So companies need to be pragmatic in their use of and sharing open source software. RMS takes a hardline approach on who disagrees with him are just being purely greedy. While real life is far more complex.
Many of us makes a living writing software, however we need supply limited to a degree so we can allow our value of our software be enough to make a living, especially if you are focusing on limited demand solutions.
Cancer until recently was a disease that no one talked about. People who died from cancer, would just be got sick and died, or death by old age, or died from unknown reasons.
It isn't a rise in cancer rates, but a rise in cancer survivors, due to proper and early diagnosis, and a support system to deal with the disease.
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I am not sure where this this kid is a Genius came from. He does have interest in technology and figuring out how things work.
When I was in 4th or 5th grade I had a cheap Atari/Sega/Amstrad PC joystick that broke. So I took it apart and I realized it was a simple design, so I played with making contacts with the wires and I saw what happened, then I made a cardboard Game pad that didn't work well. Then I went to Radio shack got some push buttons and drilled holes in some spare Plexiglas and made a game pad, actually the joystick supported one button, and the game pad supported two buttons by seeing what the other wire that wasn't used did.
Now I am not trying to brag, taking part a clock and finding how to trigger the same functionality takes the same amount of skill. It isn't Genius stuff, but it takes curiosity on how things work and try to get things working again.
The big fear is your choice will be irrelevant so all your investment financial and emotional in the product could be loss of the product is a dud. Like Zune, Apple Newton, BeOS, OS2 Warp...
If you got one of these dead end product you somehow feel embarrassed for jumping into the camp that didn't stay.
The fact that even these dead end product may have still been valuable to you.
The land of the oppressed and the home of the timid.
If you want freedom in a society, the society needs to be brave enough to deal with the potential dangers this freedom offers.
Jumping to the conclusion that a child is is going to harm people because your are confronted with technology you don't get, it pure cowardice.
Sad but true. If it were a white kid he would be congratulated on his creativity.
Just to show you, your political leaning has nothing to do with your understanding, or acceptance in science.
Homeopathy is medicine based on rumors and gut feelings, not by actual full science. Sure sometimes you may randomly get something that hasn't been studied yet that has a positive effect. But for the most part it is just snake oil, and sometimes it will be more hazardous then actually getting a pill, that had found the healthy elements, took out much of the bad ones, and dosed at the optimal level. Via years of experiments and research.
In general if Science research is saying something is bad, then the conservative groups will ignore/disbelieve it. As if something is bad then you will need to change you behavior which is against conservative natural instinct. So the science is distrusted as influenced by liberal groups trying to maintain control of the population.
If Science says something is good, then liberal groups will not believe the science. As it is in their nature to find problems and come with a solution to fix it, even if it isn't broken. So Science stating something isn't harmful, causes distrust and blamed based on corporate interest pushing such results.
Science is a process, and it will not always fit nicely into peoples political views. Sometimes ideas you hold most dearly are wrong.
With HTTP latency is the biggest killer. As you are actually getting small bits of info, but if it takes a while to connect to the data then it feels everything is slow.
As someone who had upgraded from 15mbs to 20mbs. I can still say less than 10mbs is good enough for a lot of people. 1 mbs is still enough for browsing and low resolution video. 10mbs you can stream high resolution video. 20mbs is so more people in your household and browse and watch streaming high res video.
Having the later. 15mbs did work, but but we got a few mid-stream buffering during peak usage. So for the price difference adding an additional 5mbs was considered worth it.
In my Area which is rural, we can only go up to 50mbs. However the price for that is very high, and not really worth it even with me being VPN to work, and family watching HD. and browsing.
There are countries known for there spying, then they are countries that didn't get caught yet.
Besides if your communication is secure it doesn't mean the other end or the route to get there is.
Basic rules. Encrypt everything & don't try to send compromising info.
Think of the Internet as communication at a public square. You may be talking to a friend but others may be listing.
I got my MBA, and I took an MBA course in Software Application Development. I was constantly butting heads with the professor because the concepts where based on unrealistic assumptions. I did learn UML so I can toss that on my Resume, however starting with the first assumption.
Figure out all the people who will be interacting with your software at some level. Aka the Actors. Because as the product gains footing more people jump in and some jump out. Which makes the second phase of gathering required information that each person needs, impossible as well, because they really don't know what they need, they think they do, until they see the project in action, then they will need other stuff.
For an application of any real scale the UML based design cannot be done in one pass, but will need to be iterative over time. So you will have the programmers going back and redoing their work over and over again.
I prefer the whiteboard myself. Even with a pencil, there are too many eraser marks marks, I rather just rub it off with my finger and do the correction.
I normally go to the whiteboard when I realize I am stuck with just coding it from my head so I use it to visualize the information I need to work with.
Sometimes I flow chart it, other times it is just to chart it out. Tools like Visio and excel, are too clumsy for such work as they try to make assumptions that I want something, that I myself isn't sure if I want it or not.
Software Development is a professional trade, and Software Developers should be treated like professionals.
I am sick of these methods to try to monitor our work like a fast food employee.
I have a reputation for being having quick turnaround in my code, and I get called in when others say it cannot be done. this sometimes bites me back when someone is harder than normal so it will take me a week to do something, but Software Development is a skill, and sometimes you need to take extra time and though into a solution, The solution is often just 2 or 3 lines of code, perhaps just a change in parameter, or fixing of a math formula, or fixing a parenthesis. But still it take a long time to look at it, see why it failed, figure out how it passed in the first place. Evaluate what downstream effect the fix will have... A lot of work for something I can type in 3 seconds.
I have never worked in a place where there was rampant goofing off, or just people not doing work. They were always professionals about the work, with the same amount of goofing off and idle time, that other units have such as finance and accounting. You know those other professional level positions.
The issue is the demand for coders in job sectors that have limited use of professional employees, so Mr. Boss man thinks he can treat them like any other minimum wage employee, and have easy/real-time measurements on results. While for professional software developments the metrics are harder to calculate and take time to show their results.
The product may be 2 month late, but it works perfectly vs on time and has a lot of issues that takes 10 months to fix.
The problem isn't liberal art as a discipline. But the fact most liberal art majors are drifters who weren't disciplined, and drift by the classes and bluff their way to a degree, they went to that degree because it is hard to bluff your way in math classes. If a student takes the classes seriously than liberal arts is an effective discipline for a good well rounded behavior that the Tech industry is missing... However too many of them go into that degree because it is a few degrees that has such a lax math requirement.
I am at a stance that all majors should be required to take up to Calc II (And no Calc classes for non-tech majors watered down classes)
My mind is on 1980s tech.
I hear TSR I think (Terminate and stay resident programs) the precursor to drivers.
Then LOTR I am thinking of Legend of the Red Dragron.
I don't get the point of this article, in general.
Hey look the US is the largest carbon polluter. There are powerful interest groups and political parties interested in trying to hide this fact, and have painted a picture that this is an attempt by other countries to control our sovereign rights. Now lets put a debt to the world on it! That plays right into their narrative. Oh they don't care about healing the earth they just want the US to pay up to these other countries who had failed to be successful.
This blaming posturing barely if ever works. All it does is put the side who is perceived at wrong on the defensive, and/or pushes them into more away from working on the problem.
Besides that calculation doesn't account for countries who benefit from the US pollution. Goods, services, entertainment, higher education... All the things where the US has influenced the rest of the world, and the rest of the world greedily just took it up needs to take blame for that too.
I bet you could ping the business community.
They may have a set of old pcs, laptops that are still good but just out of date that are no longer being used.
Often due to things like downsizing, or just the old laptop now looks really old and bulky.
If you don't follow a particular religion, why would you need a rational for your justification for your position.
I have seen many very secular point of views about things where their argument is purely emotional, based off of just hatred, or because someone else had that idea, who was an inspiration to them. Their arguments are faulty, and their position isn't based off of careful thought but just a knee jerk ration.
I have found if you actually talk to the higher ups in the religions (Not the nutty protesters) they will often have a very good reason for their belief, which is far more in depth than bible thumping.
There are some things in technology has changed in the last 15 years.
The biggest things are the following.
1. Big Data: Google can get areas to target more accurately, able to search for sources where food is cheapest or at quality level.
2. GPS and Mapping. Back in the early 2000's only a few people had GPS, now it is everywhere, as well we get more accurate maps, and planning software to optimize our routes.
3. Uber effect. There shows there is a good size population willing to work for themselves under some umbrella group.
Am I predicting a lot of success? No but things are a bit different then from their first attempt and I wouldn't be surprised if google did find a way to make it work.
Umm... Ok they are using an affordable, fuel efficient, and rather reliable car to deliver your goods. Would you feel better if you paid extra for your shipping if was shipped with some guy driving a Rolls-Royce, just so you know all the money your paying for shipping is going towards an expensive car vs going towards paying for the guy who is trying to ink out a living.
Yawn!
Microsoft isn't the same powerhouse as it was a couple decades ago. Having their product lines eroded away over the past decade, leaving Windows and Office as their big ticket items, and still an ecosystem were previous bread and butter customers (the general consumer market) knowledgeable about alternatives and less afraid to switch. Failure in trying to get a strong foot hold in the mobile field, degrading use in desktop. Microsoft has more or less been switching to a B2B model, because the business men are the last best group of people to market for, high Ego's (which can be manipulated), high Money (where they can pay big bucks), and are at the age where they feel nostalgic of the time period where Microsoft was the king.
I doubt we are going to see EEE in Microsoft for a long time, especially in the consumer market. As they are just trying to get people to use their products again.
You are equating that justice should be proportional to the damage caused, vs intent, and chances for reoccurrence.
Manslaughter or murder has some of the highest damage that we consider. However most people who do this are not mass murderers, and will not make such a habit. And often it isn't because of disrespect of the law but because the person felt threatened on some level.
Justice requires stiff penalty for such action though as to make it clear to the population that you must take great care before you choose to end a life.
But then you have white collar chrime. In many ways the person is far more evil, not doing a spur of the moment thing, but a long drawn out plan, in spite of the law, with the intent of being somehow above it.
This is a very dangerous mindset, as it causes sliding to more crimes. So while the damage is far less it is punishing far worse behavior.
It is our job, to make computers and robotics faster, smarter and more agile.
Technology is doing things that we use to need specialist for.
Now this overall isn't a bad thing, however there is a problem that technology is improving faster than people are getting educated for. So people who had a good paying medium skill job, are finding that they are being replaced by technology. And we are in a case where we will need 1 technician to manage the technology for every 10 workers.
With our current economic system the only real solution, is having more businesses and expand the economy to give 9 more technicians jobs. Now this isn't easy, because the economy can only grow so much, without having too much pure crap being released.
You are 20 years out of date. Unless you are talking about a paperback textbook. Hardcovers usually are $80.00 Minimum, they usually are around $100-$120 range.
GNU = GNU Not Unix.
While he made products for the Unix environment, his Goal is to get rid of the Closed Unix systems and make an Open Source Unix like system. GNU/Hurd was his attempt, however Linux was able to get something out faster, and the GNU community jumped on that to fulfill the Vision of GNU. Hence why they like to call it GNU/Linux. The GNU Not Unix Code clone of Unix, that happens to be based of the Linux Kernel not the HURD Microkernel.
I think he has already became a liability.
Part of the reason why Cloud/SaaS/Remote Hosted/Time Shared software has gotten popularity, was due to working around restrictions in Open Source systems, such as the Anti-TiVo addition. While it would be great if everyone will just share their code, avoid patents, etc... However in the real world, making software is expensive, and there are competitors willing to take your work and effort and offer more cost affordable services, because they didn't pay to do the work. So companies need to be pragmatic in their use of and sharing open source software. RMS takes a hardline approach on who disagrees with him are just being purely greedy. While real life is far more complex.
Many of us makes a living writing software, however we need supply limited to a degree so we can allow our value of our software be enough to make a living, especially if you are focusing on limited demand solutions.
Cancer until recently was a disease that no one talked about. People who died from cancer, would just be got sick and died, or death by old age, or died from unknown reasons.
It isn't a rise in cancer rates, but a rise in cancer survivors, due to proper and early diagnosis, and a support system to deal with the disease.