Continuity value comes up only after we moved to a world of real time access of shows. The original Star Trek and Early TNG were meant to be seen weekly. So a lot of the events in the past most people didn't notice much, as red shirt Joe, wasn't the focus of the show just a body to get killed off, so he can be there the next week and most people wouldn't know or care, because he is there just to push some buttons while an other star is off on an away team.
Then with personal video recording to binge streaming we catch these problems now as we are seeing show for show and over many times so we can connect a bit more to the acting of the minor actors. We no longer had a week of real life to forget. So these problems now are apparent to even the not so die hard fan.
Modern shows tend to put more care in continuity then before as it counts more, and sometimes turns a minor character to a star.
It use to be as a C level employee your political views outside your business goals, didn't matter. Now we are like oh no! CEO/President of organization X has a political view opposed to mine, this means we can't like anything he does.
Politics don't matter, it is just the media and the population trying to pidgin hole people in nice boxes, and get angry when some just don't fit.
The evangelical christian democrat. The atheist republican. Just because you get a particular job title, why should our views on unrelated to their jobs really matter?
So a business decision. Spend a million dollars for a new system or keep 10 COBOL developers at 100k each for a year?
We are getting to a point where things are crossing over and it is getting cheaper to migrate. Open Source Database engines, Cheap cloud computing solutions, programmings languages that allow for more rapid design... BPM, CRM, and a whole set of Alphabet soup solutions available canned to replace those custom jobs... It is a different world out there, and they are tradeoffs with some major problems, but changes none the less and expecting to stick on COBOL unless you are planning on retire in a few years is a loosing battle.
Micro Focus is playing a last man standing strategy. Their company focus is based on keeping companies on the legacy systems for as long as possible. The problem is, most companies have some sort of migration strategy in process, or at least on the pipeline, the cost of operating these legacy environments and handling business changes are started to exceed the cost of maintaining it. As security concerns, changes in business processes, customer expectations of promptness, and connectivity with newer tools become prevalent. Staying on the mainframe, and using old tools or upgraded version of such tools, with a bit of polish to make it appear more modern, is just becoming more of an effort to keep going, the it will be to start over again.
So they are in business because most of their competition changed strategies or went out of business. However dealing with them, I can tell they are feeling the pain, as they are now bossing around their customers, giving them more expensive contracts thinking that they are stuck. (I recently gave them a snub at my current employer, by replacing their tool that they though was vital to the institution, with about 500 lines of python code and 24 work hours, because they were asking too much for license fees). I really don't trust them as a company, they are rather low life.
Now they are the last man standing, in a world where they are needed less and less.
Economics 101. Supply and Demand: If Demand stays constant and supply goes up, cost for services go down. So during the late 1990's we had a High Demand for Tech, and at the current supply, tech workers were getting exceptional pay and benefits. Then during the Clinton Administration they opened the H1B1 for tech workers, because they saw this as a permanent increase in demand, and wouldn't meet supply in the near future. However after Y2k settled down and a new infrastructure was setup demand settled (The tech bubble pop), however there is now a glut of tech workers, and H1B1 and the new infrastructures allowed for outsourced IT services. Thus so many tech workers, caused the salaries of tech workers to plummet.
Now technology demand is going up as the Y2k infrastructure is approaching 20 years old. So IT worker salaries are on the rise.... H1B1 increases will cause a drop in salaries, so many tech workers will leave work, as the lower salaries will not be acceptable.
However if a company is trying to stay competitive, and they find if they layoff their local workforce, and hire H1B1 for half the price, then they can make up for the cost of high turnover.
Almost every college is crazed with the idea of building new buildings. Even if the average occupancy during peak times is about 20% for the buildings. If there needs to be new technology, then refurbish existing rooms for less, vs building a new building.
Alumni, do not donate when your school is trying to get funds to build a new building!
There has been too many competitors offering to pay out the contract in order to switch to their plan. So what happened is that they lose customers in the long run. As people switch plans to adjust to what they want.
Getting rid of the contract will allow people to change their plans in the same company, vs losing a customer.
It isn't about the Cops reading the papers, it is about the training staff to be reading the papers, and taking measurements.
The issue I feel, most of the training is more about the physical use of force, on how to make you more powerful than the badguy. However less training on figuring out who is the bad guy and the good guy in a bad situation.
Many incidents happen because the cops threaten someone, they get in Fight or Flight mode... So chances are they will fight (and get hurt/killed by the police) or Run (and get hurt/killed by the police).
Police work isn't safe, however if someone feels like there is an army against them, they may not react rationally.
The point of open source is you have access to the source code and do changes to the code. That has nothing to do with quality of the software, or if it happens to do stuff that YOU PERSONALLY do not like.
If you mouse over a link, it will get the connection open to get the data, is meant for a speed advantage, a feature the programmers and the approves felt would be a good idea. Then there is a spot to turn this off. It is in the spot where advanced configuration options are anyways. I don't see the big deal, it isn't that obscure. Usually the upfront settings are for things that most users will notice, this is just kinda of a background thing that has really no real impact except for the paranoid delusions of some techies.
A drunk biker is safer then a drunk driver. 1. They are exercising so blood is pumping and creating energy that a downer like alcohol to prevent. Cars on the other hand you can be very relaxed and amplify the sedative effect.
2. Bikers do get some leeway, they can drive on the sidewalk away from traffic without mush hassle, although you suppose to ride in the road, it isn't inforced. They can also drive in the breakdown lane.
3. Exponential less damage when they hit something. Sure you can get hurt but your collateral damage is much less. The issue with drunk driving isn't about the safety of the drunk, but the safety of others. A biked drunk will cause less damage.
This device only removed an other transportation method for people who may had a bit too much to drink. While offering little actual safety advantage.
If you are dangerious to bike, you probably wouldn't get too far anyways.
Well I don't get many of the attempted malware attacks... But I get of a lot of poorly coded Javascript/HTML5 adds, that just slow everything down. I tend to use a laptop, so when the CPU starts kicking, so does the cooling fan, and then drains my batteries. I am OK with advertising, I get it, If I am going to use a site for free, Gettings adds is a way to keep revenue for the side. But when the Adds take up more CPU power than it would for a complex Database query and calculation of a million rows, There is a problem with that. So I put on an Ad Blocker, just for proper function of my PC.
Oh come on, this is the high point of civilization.
Hey look technology, it's scary! Let's throw rocks at it! That will show how powerful me am!
Or we could just be like our barbaric ancestors and stop and think about it Why we don't want drones over our property? What are the causes that urge people to fly these drones? Is there a way to change culture to prevent this from occurring?
I guess the difference between civilization and barbaric nature is the difference between ? and !
Also there are always winners and loosers in the sector as times are changing.
Web Developers: Decline in the need of Web Developers is expected as right now, much more sales and marketing are happening on social media sites. So there is less need for Web developers to keep corporate billboard sites.
System Admins: The the rise of cloud, there is less of a need for small-medium sized data centers.
Now just because there is less of a need, it doesn't mean these are bad careers, just there is less demand then they were before.
Such as Mainframe developer and Cobol programmer... They are still needed, just not as many as it was 20 years ago.
Global warming is a complex issue, with many factors and no easy answer. Because of this complexity it makes it easy for someone to just not believe it is true, because the complexity it too much for any one person to handle. It is more complex than switching to solar panels, and electric cars, and stopping cows from having gas. Fixing these issues requires changing culture, which is hard, and will create a lot of people resistant to changes, they will hire a lot of people to make their point across, to convince others.
We have a lot of science, and we need more... However I think one thing is needed isn't finding a silver bullet, is to counter the destructive marketing with more counter marketing. Many of the colleges and universities who are doing a lot of science on the topic, also have business schools and programs. Get a handful of those MBA and Public relation majors onto your grant, to help spread the information to help change the culture.
I have seen major cultural changes happen due to effective marketing. From 2004 - 2015 where there was talk to make a constitutional amendment to ban Gay marriages, to it being legal in all states. The rise of smart phones and mobile connectivity...
Marking isn't always bad and trying to sell you products, it is also used to explain ideas. They are actually a lot of MBA students who are not about being money grubbing capitalists, but are about trying to make the world better. (MBA with considerations in not-for-profit is a popular track). These grant for science, should also be allocated to students who are trained to sell the ideas to the general population.
Showing a graph doesn't have impact on those who don't know how to read graphs.
However... From my experience, the leading edge systems have been getting much MUCH better. Many of the core stuff has been stabilized for years.
Windows 10 still uses the NT based Kernel. Like the previous versions. Most of the drivers are the same as well. The buggy stuff are in the new features, that are often not yet implemented into the prod environment anyways.
The bad old days of the 1990's seem to be over for now. Quality is much better sense then. We can do a lot of things now without much fear of bad consequences.
Just like in the 1990's we stopped having to worry so much about failure in RAM as a major issue, because RAM has became a rather reliable component on the system.
I really wasn't impressed with edge at all. The touch interface is very buggy, pinch zoom and scrolling doesn't work past the first few seconds, in desktop mode. the browser stuff takes up a lot of screen real-estate. And still the lack of plugins such as adblock hinders the web experience. I still don't see the point on drawing on your web page either.
There could be less demand, If we really had a good handle on the limited time to upgrade for free window. There are a lot of people who are not in a rush to get windows 10. However this limited time means they might as well upgrade now vs waiting too long and having to pay for it. (Yes I am wide open about Free/Open Source Linux advantages...) But is it that important to give an artificial high demand to make investors thinks people really REALLY want the upgrade. vs just Getting it now for Free, vs waiting later for it.
No one goes on the bleeding edge, often the leading edge for production environments. But it is handy for your personal usage, as well for system testing. As the Leading Edge OS, may become you standard reliable OS.
Which is fine. I had my Linux for a desktop kick for a while back in the late 1990 and early 2000s then I was on on Solaris for a while, then Mac OS. I am actually trailing on a Windows kick, it is getting to a point where I may want to switch a again.
Nothing is wrong with any of these system they have their pluses and minus. However OS X and Windows, is less struggling for hardware compatibility. Linux seems to be hit or miss, unless you invest a lot of time trying to determine if it is compatible enough, as many of discussions on such hardware fail to state if it works with a distribution or not.
Linux: I tend to prefer when I need to be very productive, When I need to crunch a lot of data. Also it is handy for cases when I need to do something outside the box, as it doesn't dumb down lower level access.
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Continuity value comes up only after we moved to a world of real time access of shows.
The original Star Trek and Early TNG were meant to be seen weekly. So a lot of the events in the past most people didn't notice much, as red shirt Joe, wasn't the focus of the show just a body to get killed off, so he can be there the next week and most people wouldn't know or care, because he is there just to push some buttons while an other star is off on an away team.
Then with personal video recording to binge streaming we catch these problems now as we are seeing show for show and over many times so we can connect a bit more to the acting of the minor actors. We no longer had a week of real life to forget. So these problems now are apparent to even the not so die hard fan.
Modern shows tend to put more care in continuity then before as it counts more, and sometimes turns a minor character to a star.
It use to be as a C level employee your political views outside your business goals, didn't matter. Now we are like oh no! CEO/President of organization X has a political view opposed to mine, this means we can't like anything he does.
Politics don't matter, it is just the media and the population trying to pidgin hole people in nice boxes, and get angry when some just don't fit.
The evangelical christian democrat. The atheist republican. Just because you get a particular job title, why should our views on unrelated to their jobs really matter?
So a business decision.
Spend a million dollars for a new system or keep 10 COBOL developers at 100k each for a year?
We are getting to a point where things are crossing over and it is getting cheaper to migrate.
Open Source Database engines, Cheap cloud computing solutions, programmings languages that allow for more rapid design... BPM, CRM, and a whole set of Alphabet soup solutions available canned to replace those custom jobs... It is a different world out there, and they are tradeoffs with some major problems, but changes none the less and expecting to stick on COBOL unless you are planning on retire in a few years is a loosing battle.
Micro Focus is playing a last man standing strategy. Their company focus is based on keeping companies on the legacy systems for as long as possible. The problem is, most companies have some sort of migration strategy in process, or at least on the pipeline, the cost of operating these legacy environments and handling business changes are started to exceed the cost of maintaining it. As security concerns, changes in business processes, customer expectations of promptness, and connectivity with newer tools become prevalent. Staying on the mainframe, and using old tools or upgraded version of such tools, with a bit of polish to make it appear more modern, is just becoming more of an effort to keep going, the it will be to start over again.
So they are in business because most of their competition changed strategies or went out of business. However dealing with them, I can tell they are feeling the pain, as they are now bossing around their customers, giving them more expensive contracts thinking that they are stuck. (I recently gave them a snub at my current employer, by replacing their tool that they though was vital to the institution, with about 500 lines of python code and 24 work hours, because they were asking too much for license fees). I really don't trust them as a company, they are rather low life.
Now they are the last man standing, in a world where they are needed less and less.
Economics 101.
Supply and Demand: If Demand stays constant and supply goes up, cost for services go down.
So during the late 1990's we had a High Demand for Tech, and at the current supply, tech workers were getting exceptional pay and benefits. Then during the Clinton Administration they opened the H1B1 for tech workers, because they saw this as a permanent increase in demand, and wouldn't meet supply in the near future.
However after Y2k settled down and a new infrastructure was setup demand settled (The tech bubble pop), however there is now a glut of tech workers, and H1B1 and the new infrastructures allowed for outsourced IT services. Thus so many tech workers, caused the salaries of tech workers to plummet.
Now technology demand is going up as the Y2k infrastructure is approaching 20 years old. So IT worker salaries are on the rise.... H1B1 increases will cause a drop in salaries, so many tech workers will leave work, as the lower salaries will not be acceptable.
However if a company is trying to stay competitive, and they find if they layoff their local workforce, and hire H1B1 for half the price, then they can make up for the cost of high turnover.
Almost every college is crazed with the idea of building new buildings. Even if the average occupancy during peak times is about 20% for the buildings. If there needs to be new technology, then refurbish existing rooms for less, vs building a new building.
Alumni, do not donate when your school is trying to get funds to build a new building!
There has been too many competitors offering to pay out the contract in order to switch to their plan.
So what happened is that they lose customers in the long run. As people switch plans to adjust to what they want.
Getting rid of the contract will allow people to change their plans in the same company, vs losing a customer.
Isn't that just Debian?
I don't see any real advantages of using Ubuntu server over Debian? Is there any?
It isn't about the Cops reading the papers, it is about the training staff to be reading the papers, and taking measurements.
The issue I feel, most of the training is more about the physical use of force, on how to make you more powerful than the badguy. However less training on figuring out who is the bad guy and the good guy in a bad situation.
Many incidents happen because the cops threaten someone, they get in Fight or Flight mode... So chances are they will fight (and get hurt/killed by the police) or Run (and get hurt/killed by the police).
Police work isn't safe, however if someone feels like there is an army against them, they may not react rationally.
The point of open source is you have access to the source code and do changes to the code. That has nothing to do with quality of the software, or if it happens to do stuff that YOU PERSONALLY do not like.
If you mouse over a link, it will get the connection open to get the data, is meant for a speed advantage, a feature the programmers and the approves felt would be a good idea. Then there is a spot to turn this off.
It is in the spot where advanced configuration options are anyways. I don't see the big deal, it isn't that obscure. Usually the upfront settings are for things that most users will notice, this is just kinda of a background thing that has really no real impact except for the paranoid delusions of some techies.
A drunk biker is safer then a drunk driver.
1. They are exercising so blood is pumping and creating energy that a downer like alcohol to prevent. Cars on the other hand you can be very relaxed and amplify the sedative effect.
2. Bikers do get some leeway, they can drive on the sidewalk away from traffic without mush hassle, although you suppose to ride in the road, it isn't inforced. They can also drive in the breakdown lane.
3. Exponential less damage when they hit something. Sure you can get hurt but your collateral damage is much less.
The issue with drunk driving isn't about the safety of the drunk, but the safety of others. A biked drunk will cause less damage.
This device only removed an other transportation method for people who may had a bit too much to drink. While offering little actual safety advantage.
If you are dangerious to bike, you probably wouldn't get too far anyways.
Well I don't get many of the attempted malware attacks... But I get of a lot of poorly coded Javascript/HTML5 adds, that just slow everything down. I tend to use a laptop, so when the CPU starts kicking, so does the cooling fan, and then drains my batteries.
I am OK with advertising, I get it, If I am going to use a site for free, Gettings adds is a way to keep revenue for the side. But when the Adds take up more CPU power than it would for a complex Database query and calculation of a million rows, There is a problem with that. So I put on an Ad Blocker, just for proper function of my PC.
Oh come on, this is the high point of civilization.
Hey look technology, it's scary!
Let's throw rocks at it!
That will show how powerful me am!
Or we could just be like our barbaric ancestors and stop and think about it
Why we don't want drones over our property?
What are the causes that urge people to fly these drones?
Is there a way to change culture to prevent this from occurring?
I guess the difference between civilization and barbaric nature is the difference between ? and !
Also there are always winners and loosers in the sector as times are changing.
Web Developers: Decline in the need of Web Developers is expected as right now, much more sales and marketing are happening on social media sites. So there is less need for Web developers to keep corporate billboard sites.
System Admins: The the rise of cloud, there is less of a need for small-medium sized data centers.
Now just because there is less of a need, it doesn't mean these are bad careers, just there is less demand then they were before.
Such as Mainframe developer and Cobol programmer... They are still needed, just not as many as it was 20 years ago.
They may work elsewhere but they will just get beaten up in Philadelphia.
However most of these people were on MySpace and didn't give Facebook any recognition when it was new.
Heck when I got on facebook it required a .edu email address at the time. It was designed to be MySpace for educated people.
I blame the metric system.
As compared to Facebook?
However it isn't crashing left and right. There are mostly just a little annoyances.
Global warming is a complex issue, with many factors and no easy answer. Because of this complexity it makes it easy for someone to just not believe it is true, because the complexity it too much for any one person to handle. It is more complex than switching to solar panels, and electric cars, and stopping cows from having gas.
Fixing these issues requires changing culture, which is hard, and will create a lot of people resistant to changes, they will hire a lot of people to make their point across, to convince others.
We have a lot of science, and we need more... However I think one thing is needed isn't finding a silver bullet, is to counter the destructive marketing with more counter marketing. Many of the colleges and universities who are doing a lot of science on the topic, also have business schools and programs. Get a handful of those MBA and Public relation majors onto your grant, to help spread the information to help change the culture.
I have seen major cultural changes happen due to effective marketing. From 2004 - 2015 where there was talk to make a constitutional amendment to ban Gay marriages, to it being legal in all states. The rise of smart phones and mobile connectivity...
Marking isn't always bad and trying to sell you products, it is also used to explain ideas. They are actually a lot of MBA students who are not about being money grubbing capitalists, but are about trying to make the world better. (MBA with considerations in not-for-profit is a popular track). These grant for science, should also be allocated to students who are trained to sell the ideas to the general population.
Showing a graph doesn't have impact on those who don't know how to read graphs.
However... From my experience, the leading edge systems have been getting much MUCH better.
Many of the core stuff has been stabilized for years.
Windows 10 still uses the NT based Kernel. Like the previous versions. Most of the drivers are the same as well. The buggy stuff are in the new features, that are often not yet implemented into the prod environment anyways.
The bad old days of the 1990's seem to be over for now. Quality is much better sense then. We can do a lot of things now without much fear of bad consequences.
Just like in the 1990's we stopped having to worry so much about failure in RAM as a major issue, because RAM has became a rather reliable component on the system.
I really wasn't impressed with edge at all. The touch interface is very buggy, pinch zoom and scrolling doesn't work past the first few seconds, in desktop mode. the browser stuff takes up a lot of screen real-estate. And still the lack of plugins such as adblock hinders the web experience.
I still don't see the point on drawing on your web page either.
There could be less demand, If we really had a good handle on the limited time to upgrade for free window.
There are a lot of people who are not in a rush to get windows 10. However this limited time means they might as well upgrade now vs waiting too long and having to pay for it. (Yes I am wide open about Free/Open Source Linux advantages...) But is it that important to give an artificial high demand to make investors thinks people really REALLY want the upgrade. vs just Getting it now for Free, vs waiting later for it.
No one goes on the bleeding edge, often the leading edge for production environments. But it is handy for your personal usage, as well for system testing. As the Leading Edge OS, may become you standard reliable OS.
Which is fine.
I had my Linux for a desktop kick for a while back in the late 1990 and early 2000s
then I was on on Solaris for a while, then Mac OS.
I am actually trailing on a Windows kick, it is getting to a point where I may want to switch a again.
Nothing is wrong with any of these system they have their pluses and minus.
However OS X and Windows, is less struggling for hardware compatibility. Linux seems to be hit or miss, unless you invest a lot of time trying to determine if it is compatible enough, as many of discussions on such hardware fail to state if it works with a distribution or not.
Linux: I tend to prefer when I need to be very productive, When I need to crunch a lot of data. Also it is handy for cases when I need to do something outside the box, as it doesn't dumb down lower level access.