Well we have issues with funding science. 1. If the science isn't directly affecting a marketable product, it is hard to get funding from corporations. 2. Universities need to make their money by teaching bratty undergrads, and most of the research has to teach them. 3. Governments only like to give money if there is something in it that will get them elected. The LHC is big enough to positively affect a local economy, and the research is popular enough to get "I AM PRO-SCIENCE" creds.
The sad thing is that to do a lot of science you need money. And those scientist who really want to do the science is spending most of their time trying to get and prove their grants, actually stuff that is better suited for those MBA's. Science based economies allow for scientists to get hired to do real science and not spend all their time trying to defend their budget.
The good a smaller more affordable technology will allow greater numbers of people to do such research. The bad news, it may be hard to get grants for large projects like the LHC where a full science based economy is built around a device.
We wonder why a lot of the pioneers in technology, are often (they are exceptions) are very aggressive and cut throat. Because the rest of the population is so reluctant to change that new ideas are often thrown out the window, to get such change going you need people who have enough skin and perseverance to get it threw.
That is why often the better designed product fails in the market while the inferior one make it. It is often from the idea the technology will sell itself... While in our imperfect world, you need people to sell it.
Thank you Mr. Baer for sticking to your guns and help move us into the future.
The biggest myth. If you work harder then you get more. As a salary employee if you work harder then you get paid the same. If you need some extra money for that week you just kinda have to wait longer. If you have the energy to work over 40 hours a week then you should get paid more for the over time.
By allowing IT people to have some control in their salary, it give more power to them and allow them to feel more accomplished. And they will be more willing to work those hours without as much stress.
Accountants, TV Producers, Hair Dressers, Management Consultants, Telephone Sanitizes... They all came from the B Arch, where all the Middle men where, The A Arch had all the achievers and great thinkers and the C Arch had all the people who actually did things useful. However they were eaten by a Mutant Star Goat.
You would also want your language to work best with the services you offer. Why was VB so popular for Windows Development? Well it was designed to make Windows Apps. Other languages could do this as well, but they were often a bit more cumbersome to achieve similar tasks.
The big issue I have with technology implants... Mores Law. You go threw an invasive method to get the technology installed, and after a couple years it is out of date.
Getting the next version of the tattoo that included netflix with audio.
It is more complex then that. Beta had a shorter recording time and a tight control on what can and cannot be recorded on it. PC (At the time they were the IBM and the IBM Compatibles) Offered a larger choice of vendors to choose from, IBM, Compaq, Amstrad, Packard Bell, HP, Gateway. You you could make your own white box. A lot of people actually spent more to make their PC to match the specs of the Apple Products.
Usually the issue is that the High-Quality product comes with extra bells and whistles that people may not really care that much about. Beta tape had a better picture, but VHS wasn't bad, and people who watched TV over antenna, often got a degree of static on the screen, so the VHS issues were still better then what they were use to. Apple computers often came with some particular feature that you may not really care about. Back Light Keyboard, 0.25 inches thinner, Choice of colors, better quality metal... So if you wanted a 50mhz pc with 4 megs of ram and 100gig drive. You could get a PC, and skip the all in one form factor, and get a bulky box, a separate (color) screen and deal with a bunch of cables in order to say $200 off your cost, where you could put that into a bigger monitor, better video card, a Modem or something else.
The lowest cost doesn't equate success. But getting a product that you feel that you can justify your purchase will.
I wan't a small truck. They use to make them, but they are hard to find. Ford Discontinued the Ford Ranger, their smallest truck line, and encourage people to go with the F150. Most people don't need a large truck like the F150, but it seems that people buy them more then the ranger for Ford to decide to discontinue the product.
Electronics that are aheavsively attached to your body. Yes I know tattoos are popular now. But it isn't like a tattoo if you have electronics sticking out of your body.
Part of the problem is due to the mass/global media. With world wide distribution means they need to find stories that affect a whole populations interests. For the most part there isn't that much. At least enough to fill a 24/7 time slot. So with the hour or so of news per day the rest is trying to evoke people's emotions about it so they come back and watch for more, listening to the pundents and yelling at the TV.
But what these outlets don't cover is relevant local news, and with the decline of newspapers this is getting worse. I want to know why the road I normally take to work is closed. What crimes are happening in my town. What events are happening. We don't need to debate and point fingers. But know what is going on. If you feel strongly about it, don't post on the Internet like I am doing, or call in to debate you miss informed opinion. But attend town hall, write to your congressman, do something that you feel important. But this global media that is setup to make it seem like your ideas are being heard, is just making people angry and fearful, and cutting from time for actuall in depth bias reporting.
Your problem is you are missing the idea of balance. If you get drunk too quickly, then you are open up to predation, or allowing the sick and weak to mate with you, creating weak and sick offspring. However if you don't get enjoyment from the buzz, then you may starve due to not having a diverse food source.
Now balance isn't ying and yang or positive vs negative. The function of benefit vs loss over consumption is not linear but much more complex. Let's say the benefit of a buzz grows linerally, while the disadvantage grows exponetionally. You will be receiving a net benefit until you reach eqalibram. As there are point in a lineral function early on the exceed an exponential function.
Before networks people who could afford computers would have one put all their data on it and run it locally.
Then we got to mainframes where low end dumb terminals connect to a remote system.
Then we went to the PC where it was affordable to process stuff on your own.
Then as network speeds improve we are finding easer and cheaper to do a lot of the heavy calculations via the cloud.
Now we will probably get some technology where are phones will be powerful enough so we don't need the cloud. So we will go back to all the processing on the device again.
I think this current issue with phone apps are just a middle road approach awaiting faster network. Where we will have full html apps running again.
A Microsoft bug, proof of the incompetence of closed source. A Linux bug. Either point to some closed source factor, or claim its solving a victory in the flexibility of open source.
Digital data needs to move. Tape is analog thinking. Get your data write it down and hide it somewhere. Digital data needs to move. To have the data properly backed up it constantly needs to move. So if you have ssd drives only. Just as long as you are taking the data and moving it to an other drive and that is moving to an other drive your data is being saved for the long run. Once digital data stops moving it is open to threats from the environment. Tapes go bad, ssd go bad, any storage medium has issues. To keep your data safe it needs to move. That is RAID storage is popular. If a drive fails you can identify it swap it and resync it before the other device fails.
All well and good for most countries. However the U.S. has the distinction as being the third most populous country, as well as the third largest in geographical size, but 50th in density. Which means any infrastructure project is expensive. More so then in other nations.
For the U.S. we need to get off the grid and start using more local energy sources. Small hydroelectric generators, solar, wind. Especially for the less dense areas. However there are so many stupid laws saying your power needs to be on the grid.
A massive megaton explosion (As we found out that comets are harder then we thought) Blasting a gigantic creator wiping out thousands if not millions of people. You are worried about a little bit of radioactive waste?
I would have been more, if we only used Nuclear energy so we knew more about this object so we know what type of danger it poses if it actually hit the earth.
Which is why it was a bad depiction of a computer engineer. Now the problem Computer Engineering isn't a spectator sport. While it is interesting the the worker, it isn't so much for the viewer. It is like watching someone put together a jigsaw puzzle.
With Apple continuing to make a more closed ecosystem. And Google sharing all your data in the world, with little interesting movement in Linux. Now Microsoft trying to be more open. Should we be a bit more welcoming to Microsoft?
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Well we have issues with funding science.
1. If the science isn't directly affecting a marketable product, it is hard to get funding from corporations.
2. Universities need to make their money by teaching bratty undergrads, and most of the research has to teach them.
3. Governments only like to give money if there is something in it that will get them elected.
The LHC is big enough to positively affect a local economy, and the research is popular enough to get "I AM PRO-SCIENCE" creds.
The sad thing is that to do a lot of science you need money. And those scientist who really want to do the science is spending most of their time trying to get and prove their grants, actually stuff that is better suited for those MBA's. Science based economies allow for scientists to get hired to do real science and not spend all their time trying to defend their budget.
The good a smaller more affordable technology will allow greater numbers of people to do such research.
The bad news, it may be hard to get grants for large projects like the LHC where a full science based economy is built around a device.
We wonder why a lot of the pioneers in technology, are often (they are exceptions) are very aggressive and cut throat.
Because the rest of the population is so reluctant to change that new ideas are often thrown out the window, to get such change going you need people who have enough skin and perseverance to get it threw.
That is why often the better designed product fails in the market while the inferior one make it. It is often from the idea the technology will sell itself... While in our imperfect world, you need people to sell it.
Thank you Mr. Baer for sticking to your guns and help move us into the future.
Thoes who pun will be PUNished.
That right I will be here all night. (Away from human contact like I should)
For the most part it is.
The biggest myth. If you work harder then you get more.
As a salary employee if you work harder then you get paid the same. If you need some extra money for that week you just kinda have to wait longer. If you have the energy to work over 40 hours a week then you should get paid more for the over time.
By allowing IT people to have some control in their salary, it give more power to them and allow them to feel more accomplished. And they will be more willing to work those hours without as much stress.
Accountants, TV Producers, Hair Dressers, Management Consultants, Telephone Sanitizes...
They all came from the B Arch, where all the Middle men where, The A Arch had all the achievers and great thinkers and the C Arch had all the people who actually did things useful.
However they were eaten by a Mutant Star Goat.
You would also want your language to work best with the services you offer.
Why was VB so popular for Windows Development? Well it was designed to make Windows Apps. Other languages could do this as well, but they were often a bit more cumbersome to achieve similar tasks.
The big issue I have with technology implants...
Mores Law.
You go threw an invasive method to get the technology installed, and after a couple years it is out of date.
Getting the next version of the tattoo that included netflix with audio.
It is more complex then that.
Beta had a shorter recording time and a tight control on what can and cannot be recorded on it.
PC (At the time they were the IBM and the IBM Compatibles) Offered a larger choice of vendors to choose from, IBM, Compaq, Amstrad, Packard Bell, HP, Gateway. You you could make your own white box. A lot of people actually spent more to make their PC to match the specs of the Apple Products.
Usually the issue is that the High-Quality product comes with extra bells and whistles that people may not really care that much about. Beta tape had a better picture, but VHS wasn't bad, and people who watched TV over antenna, often got a degree of static on the screen, so the VHS issues were still better then what they were use to.
Apple computers often came with some particular feature that you may not really care about. Back Light Keyboard, 0.25 inches thinner, Choice of colors, better quality metal... So if you wanted a 50mhz pc with 4 megs of ram and 100gig drive. You could get a PC, and skip the all in one form factor, and get a bulky box, a separate (color) screen and deal with a bunch of cables in order to say $200 off your cost, where you could put that into a bigger monitor, better video card, a Modem or something else.
The lowest cost doesn't equate success. But getting a product that you feel that you can justify your purchase will.
I wan't a small truck. They use to make them, but they are hard to find. Ford Discontinued the Ford Ranger, their smallest truck line, and encourage people to go with the F150. Most people don't need a large truck like the F150, but it seems that people buy them more then the ranger for Ford to decide to discontinue the product.
Electronics that are aheavsively attached to your body.
Yes I know tattoos are popular now. But it isn't like a tattoo if you have electronics sticking out of your body.
Part of the problem is due to the mass/global media.
With world wide distribution means they need to find stories that affect a whole populations interests. For the most part there isn't that much. At least enough to fill a 24/7 time slot.
So with the hour or so of news per day the rest is trying to evoke people's emotions about it so they come back and watch for more, listening to the pundents and yelling at the TV.
But what these outlets don't cover is relevant local news, and with the decline of newspapers this is getting worse.
I want to know why the road I normally take to work is closed. What crimes are happening in my town. What events are happening.
We don't need to debate and point fingers. But know what is going on. If you feel strongly about it, don't post on the Internet like I am doing, or call in to debate you miss informed opinion. But attend town hall, write to your congressman, do something that you feel important.
But this global media that is setup to make it seem like your ideas are being heard, is just making people angry and fearful, and cutting from time for actuall in depth bias reporting.
Not to mention.
For many non-coders.
If the product works they use it, if it doesn't they don't
Your problem is you are missing the idea of balance.
If you get drunk too quickly, then you are open up to predation, or allowing the sick and weak to mate with you, creating weak and sick offspring.
However if you don't get enjoyment from the buzz, then you may starve due to not having a diverse food source.
Now balance isn't ying and yang or positive vs negative.
The function of benefit vs loss over consumption is not linear but much more complex.
Let's say the benefit of a buzz grows linerally, while the disadvantage grows exponetionally. You will be receiving a net benefit until you reach eqalibram. As there are point in a lineral function early on the exceed an exponential function.
Because it is part of the computation cycle.
Before networks people who could afford computers would have one put all their data on it and run it locally.
Then we got to mainframes where low end dumb terminals connect to a remote system.
Then we went to the PC where it was affordable to process stuff on your own.
Then as network speeds improve we are finding easer and cheaper to do a lot of the heavy calculations via the cloud.
Now we will probably get some technology where are phones will be powerful enough so we don't need the cloud. So we will go back to all the processing on the device again.
I think this current issue with phone apps are just a middle road approach awaiting faster network. Where we will have full html apps running again.
A Microsoft bug, proof of the incompetence of closed source.
A Linux bug. Either point to some closed source factor, or claim its solving a victory in the flexibility of open source.
My thoughts exactly.
Granted it is not the cleanest fuel.
Europeans just hate successful American companies.
The fact that a foreign source is influencing their populous makes them uneasy.
Digital data needs to move.
Tape is analog thinking. Get your data write it down and hide it somewhere.
Digital data needs to move. To have the data properly backed up it constantly needs to move. So if you have ssd drives only. Just as long as you are taking the data and moving it to an other drive and that is moving to an other drive your data is being saved for the long run.
Once digital data stops moving it is open to threats from the environment.
Tapes go bad, ssd go bad, any storage medium has issues. To keep your data safe it needs to move.
That is RAID storage is popular. If a drive fails you can identify it swap it and resync it before the other device fails.
All well and good for most countries. However the U.S. has the distinction as being the third most populous country, as well as the third largest in geographical size, but 50th in density.
Which means any infrastructure project is expensive. More so then in other nations.
For the U.S. we need to get off the grid and start using more local energy sources.
Small hydroelectric generators, solar, wind. Especially for the less dense areas.
However there are so many stupid laws saying your power needs to be on the grid.
I agree that the historical significance is over rated.
You could do that...
However if they do check out the forgery they will probably treat you like a shoplifter.
I have no love for Walmart. But part of the reason why companies treat the customer like they are criminals is because too many are.
It is one thing to steal food to feed your family if you can't afford it. But a play station?
And no Fat Tony defense.
A massive megaton explosion (As we found out that comets are harder then we thought) Blasting a gigantic creator wiping out thousands if not millions of people. You are worried about a little bit of radioactive waste?
I would have been more, if we only used Nuclear energy so we knew more about this object so we know what type of danger it poses if it actually hit the earth.
Which is why it was a bad depiction of a computer engineer.
Now the problem Computer Engineering isn't a spectator sport. While it is interesting the the worker, it isn't so much for the viewer. It is like watching someone put together a jigsaw puzzle.
With Apple continuing to make a more closed ecosystem. And Google sharing all your data in the world, with little interesting movement in Linux. Now Microsoft trying to be more open.
Should we be a bit more welcoming to Microsoft?
Making the rules so strict, prevents innovation. Making the rules too relaxed causes abuse.
You need a happy middle.