The real issue is the numbers don't seem to add up. Auto Sales of new cars seems to be about 1 million cars. So lets say 1/2 of these cars already have this feature. So we have 500,000 cars that will need this feature. Your $0.10 for a Camera with a display is ludicrous, it parts and labor and R&D you will expect this will cost $100 per car. So that is $15,000,000. So this will cost society $1,000,000 per life saved. Now I am willing to bet if we take that $15,000,000 and put it to something else I would expect we could save more lives. Lets say we invest this money towards covering people health insurance for life threatening injuries. $15,000,000 could save about 1,500 people.
Lets get reasonable. It will overheat and catch fire. Often burning down the residence of the crook, or the poor sap that he sold it too.
Now as a victim of a theft you feel love this feature. However in terms of justice it is much too extreme. Loss of a few hundreds of dollars, doesn't justify endangering the lives of people, or damaging property that costs exponentially more.
This is why our justice system when it is working, doesn't try to fully compensate the victim. As the hurt party they will demand more then what is fair.
Having the device become unusable so the thief cannot resell it is a good plan, because it will take the urge to steal it down.
In terms of business it really isn't that big of a deal. The company could actually get some tax savings as this would be a charitable donation. And this would be a one time free not a constant free.
However I expect the grandparent is right. The risk of a lawsuit it too high if there was an issue. 2 People got sick off of this peanut butter. The same Peanut Butter that you refuse to sell in your stores due to quality concerns, however you feel you should give away the tainted food to the homeless?
For an app intended to share data with different people, being able to access your contacts would make the program easier to use assuming that you are sharing data with people on your contact list.
That said most apps work if you say No. I wouldn't call it an unnecessary request to ask for permission.
Yea, try to relocate a rural resident without a shotgun pointed at you. So farmers shouldn't get internet access while their operation is just a technical as many other companies it's size. Or the case rural home prices are cheaper, less violent crime, quieter areas with better school. No let's all move to a dangerous, crowded, smelly, and expensive city. Where my quality of life is much lower just so I can have basic/modern communication service.
Having used a lot of keyboards. There are a lot of subtitle thing with them that makes it a good keyboard vs a bad one.
For example the chicklet keyboard. Apple and Lenovo think pads work. HP doesn't. If you want it on the cell phone there are more little details. Making a really good one is hard. And costs a fair amount of R&D to make. However after you make it it is too easy to copy. Hence the pattent protection on it.
If you are going to get Rid of POTS what we really need more then Net Neutrality is to be sure we have an infrastructure for its replacement. AKA make sure everyone has access to fiber before you get rid of pots.
Nearly every American household has a phone line to their home, even if they don't use it it is there. However most people do not have a fiber optic connection to their home, and Wireless is very spotty.
Get us connectivity with a choice of carriers then we can talk Net Neutrality.
Well if we can get speeds up to a fraction of the speed of light, Say 1/2c then we can explore a 10 Light Year Radius of earth, and have findings back in 30 years (20 years to get there 10 years to send a message back)
Now I would say if we get those types of speeds we should still send robots over and only send people if found habitable.
The iPad: The OS Designed in America, Built in China shipped worldwide. Samsung Tablet: The OS Designed in America, Built in China and shipped world wide.
The only difference is which CEO gets the Cut The one in America or the one in Korea.
NSA to Apple: Add spying to your OS or you will not be allowed to sell it world wide. NSA to Google: Add spying to your OS or you will not be allowed to sell it world wide. NSA to Samsung: Insure the spying features in your OS are not disabled unless you will not be allowed to sell in the US.
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If you need to resist it, you have already failed, as it had already affected you.
In short, we live in a world which people have an increasing voice in the world. This post alone will probably be read in many countries. Most likely this post will last only a few seconds in your memory and go away.
Now resisting charisma will require more work, because we have so much more information static in our lives and really not to many good ways to filter out a nonsense such as an internet post while someone is taking a break from work, vs. some more valuable information.
Now charisma, is by no means perfect it does show that the person really seems to really care about the information they state vs. the normal static. Thus we naturally will give it more attention. Sure this information can be complete B.S. but they have gave it in a way to get your attention. They got your attention you listen to what they said, then you will need to make a decision to accept or reject that idea. a 50/50 shot! However if you lack charisma your views will be ignored and washed away from the static, and there is no decision to accept or reject that information because it never got your attention.
Well yes, almost every action does have a negative connotation to it. Thank you for pointing that one out. You must feel proud that you can use your vocabulary to twist a story to attempt to be positive to make it seem negative.
I would expect it wouldn't rate every complaint equally. If you account for factors such as the number of complaints from a user vs their score. And say you find a trend of complaints vs being beaten and complaints when you played well. You can correlate the bad users and weigh their complaints accordingly.
People don't follow it because they often realize there is a problem, they have to work really hard to change their diets. I have lost 65lbs myself. Yes with Calories in Calories Out. But while the concept is easy the implementation is quite difficult.
Eating less food alone doesn't work to well. You get hungry, after a few weeks you body tells your brain screw it it isn't worth it. Then you eat too much again.
Exercise especially when you start out gets difficult, one day at the gym, means you are sore for 3 days. However for it to really work you need to workout when you sore on those three days too. It takes about 3-4 weeks to really get into it. But that is in essence a month of hell.
After the month of hell and a more moderate diet you can achieve a healthy weight loss. But it is still a battle that you have to keep up. It is like getting over an addiction. You never get over it, you just have to keep the process going.
Consistently making "elegant" code is extremely difficult in real life. Because most code interacts with people in one way or an other.
First we should use those Try Catch Finally types of statement which makes your code less elegant as it prevent your app from uncleanly shutting down due to bad data or input from people. Next we have to get code to make sure your inputs are sanitized, to really try to avoid those Trys to pass exceptions. Then as you gain experience coding you learn that if you make your code too tight, it makes maintenance and adding those features that wasn't part of spec much harder. So with experience you usually realize where you tight little algorithm will need to be expanded out with say some IF Statements as you could see the rules changing on you. Then you have the skill sets of other people on your team. If you are of a higher caliber then they are, then you really still need to lower your standards so everyone will be able to work on the project, and figure-out what you did in case you get hit by the proverbial train. Finally there is just basic coding ware. If the project is 80% completed, you have worked long hours, your are hungry or just have to pee at that time, or just tired or not in the right frame of mind that day. Your code may suffer as you are trudging threw coding to get the work done and your tolerance to making it elegant isn't there. (That is why often when you look back at your code that you made last year, you go what the Hell was I thinking!)
That said you can have pieces of elegance in your code, but as your program gets bigger the overall total elegance lessons.
As you noted #5 was a subset of #3 Also I would say #6 is a subset of #1. If you don't understand data structures those long doubles and long longs seems like the best choice if you really don't know why there are so many different types.
You often can get a decent rate at part time taking some classes at your local state University. You can often take classes before you are admitted to the school. Usually after you prove that you know your stuff and get a few good grades, the school will normally let you in the program.
As for experience. Experience does matter, however from my own personal experience hiring developers, a college education usually gets employees that don't have those odd holes in their skills, which makes bringing up to speed sometimes a little more difficult. These gaps vary from person to person... However some of the common ones are. 1. Not understanding details of data structures. Why am I getting a negative number when it is clearly 5 billion! 2. Recursion seems magical. I admit it, in college it took me a bit to get Recursion, after a class in LISP it cleared it right up. Also when you get the details realizing how often the system is stacking stuff together means there is a limit on how much Recursion magic you can do. 3. IPC (Inter Process Communications) Dealing with threads can get sketchy if you don't have a way to get them to talk. 4. Complex Boolean logic with short circuit evaluation. Yep after that one function returned true that second function won't run in your or clause. You know that one for some reason you made to update some data.
Now for those of you without degree who feel insulted by this, don't be this is what I find are often the most common issues. There are a lot of really good developers without degrees, many who I will admit who could kick my butt at coding. But for a company trying to hire, it is normally better to weed out some good employees then it is to hire a bad one.
He should go to trial. So we can really filter out the information about his status. You can do the a good thing, however the way that you did it was wrong.
He did leak classified documents. That was bad. However did he only leak information about illegal activity or did he leak valid legal methods too? Did he follow the correct procedure on reporting illegal activity? How/if was he stopped in following this procedure?
To me it seemed that he was faced with three options. 1. Shut-up and just let it go. He keeps his job. 2. Force it up the authorities. He would loose his job. 3. Blast out the information to the world wide public. He could get arrested.
He choose option 3. Assuming his morals prevented option 1, a good and noble thing. However option 2 may have fixed the problems without all the internet (in)fame(y) and running from the US. He may have lost his job, it isn't as heroic, but he probably could sue on whistle blowing protection. Working in the system against the system is slow and boring. But it can get results.
Besides Medicine, there is a huge debate and misconceptions about diets.
We got Vegetarian, Vegan then we go the other ways with diets with a lot of meat. GMO food is either harmless just a quicker form of breading, or it is actually bad. Beyond GMO we got Organic vs traditional farming. Some people say to drink more water, others say we are drinking too much.
Alternative medicines and Diets debates is about justifying to yourself the extra money you are paying. And make you feel special because it seems like you hold some special knowledge that the rest of the mindless masses doesn't.
What I want is some real science. Because if I go with my own personal bias observations I find the following. Vegetarian and Vegans: Tend to look more aged then more omnivorous peers. They seems to look worn down, while thin they are not skinny. All fat no mussel. People who eat a lot of meat: Seem to be much heavier, and have particular health issues in digestion.
After Apples "Retna" display DPI their isn't much of a reason to go much higher. For conventional displays.
That said I am not saying we shouldn't be making higher res displays. But the application of the technology should go to different areas. Such as smaller projectors.
I have an old iPhone 4. And the display is as sharp as any of the newer phones. What they need to focus more on now is speed,battery life and if you are going to make the GPU better we need more 3d acceleration features. But we don't need to spend money on a higher dpi that will not give us any benefit other than sucking more battery and slowing the phone down.
The funny part is how many sys-admins think they are so good, until there is an independent security audit done.
Now you shouldn't get insulted. There are a lot of good sysadmins... However many have gaps, and their ego gets in the way of making things more secure.
I remember toy add from the 1980's. The trick to advertising the toy was to show the child playing with the toy with either his friends or with his family.
Gi-Jo even with the Aircraft carrier (which every kid wanted) isn't that fun alone, you want it, because then you can get the other kids to play with you, and if it is your toy you can play the game with your own rules. The real key is if all your friends had a different toy of the same product line, and then they can have a real adventure with them. Now this is idealism that never really happens much. However that doesn't stop the kid with the I Want That Toy, because he still visions himself playing with all the other pieces that the other kids have.
Now with Video games. They are for the most part marketed as something to play with alone. However if they market multi-player split screen in a way to spark that type of thinking. People would still want it, as a way to play with their friends and family. The new Wii Adds do a decent job at this. However the issue is the Wii-U just isn't up to par with modern gaming.
1. You are not dumbing[sp?] it down, if you are trying to target people who have no idea of the base concepts or your target audience isn't ever sure they want to be involved. What do you expect him to do? In front of a bunch of kids, who can barely do arithmetic, giving them the formulas mountains of raw data, and a formal proof and expect them to get it? Bill Nye the science guy doesn't teach a degree in science, he is really good at giving the introduction, and inspiring people.
2. Back in the 80's stereotypes were very popular, think what it would be if a science show was done by a person who looks like a football player. It would just mess up the cultures idea of the world back then. Either you are strong or smart.
Would Bill Nye get the fame today as he did when he started? Probably not, neither would have Mr. Rogers or Sesame Street. We are in a different culture then we were 30 years ago. Some things are better some things are worse. Bill Nye was smart enough to keep his personal brand up, over the time.
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The real issue is the numbers don't seem to add up.
Auto Sales of new cars seems to be about 1 million cars.
So lets say 1/2 of these cars already have this feature.
So we have 500,000 cars that will need this feature. Your $0.10 for a Camera with a display is ludicrous, it parts and labor and R&D you will expect this will cost $100 per car.
So that is $15,000,000. So this will cost society $1,000,000 per life saved. Now I am willing to bet if we take that $15,000,000 and put it to something else I would expect we could save more lives. Lets say we invest this money towards covering people health insurance for life threatening injuries. $15,000,000 could save about 1,500 people.
Lets get reasonable.
It will overheat and catch fire. Often burning down the residence of the crook, or the poor sap that he sold it too.
Now as a victim of a theft you feel love this feature.
However in terms of justice it is much too extreme. Loss of a few hundreds of dollars, doesn't justify endangering the lives of people, or damaging property that costs exponentially more.
This is why our justice system when it is working, doesn't try to fully compensate the victim. As the hurt party they will demand more then what is fair.
Having the device become unusable so the thief cannot resell it is a good plan, because it will take the urge to steal it down.
In terms of business it really isn't that big of a deal.
The company could actually get some tax savings as this would be a charitable donation. And this would be a one time free not a constant free.
However I expect the grandparent is right. The risk of a lawsuit it too high if there was an issue.
2 People got sick off of this peanut butter. The same Peanut Butter that you refuse to sell in your stores due to quality concerns, however you feel you should give away the tainted food to the homeless?
For an app intended to share data with different people, being able to access your contacts would make the program easier to use assuming that you are sharing data with people on your contact list.
That said most apps work if you say No. I wouldn't call it an unnecessary request to ask for permission.
Yea, try to relocate a rural resident without a shotgun pointed at you.
So farmers shouldn't get internet access while their operation is just a technical as many other companies it's size. Or the case rural home prices are cheaper, less violent crime, quieter areas with better school.
No let's all move to a dangerous, crowded, smelly, and expensive city. Where my quality of life is much lower just so I can have basic/modern communication service.
Having used a lot of keyboards. There are a lot of subtitle thing with them that makes it a good keyboard vs a bad one.
For example the chicklet keyboard. Apple and Lenovo think pads work. HP doesn't.
If you want it on the cell phone there are more little details. Making a really good one is hard. And costs a fair amount of R&D to make. However after you make it it is too easy to copy. Hence the pattent protection on it.
I though all MMORG were just graphical shells to a MUD?
If you are going to get Rid of POTS what we really need more then Net Neutrality is to be sure we have an infrastructure for its replacement.
AKA make sure everyone has access to fiber before you get rid of pots.
Nearly every American household has a phone line to their home, even if they don't use it it is there. However most people do not have a fiber optic connection to their home, and Wireless is very spotty.
Get us connectivity with a choice of carriers then we can talk Net Neutrality.
Well if we can get speeds up to a fraction of the speed of light, Say 1/2c then we can explore a 10 Light Year Radius of earth, and have findings back in 30 years (20 years to get there 10 years to send a message back)
Now I would say if we get those types of speeds we should still send robots over and only send people if found habitable.
The iPad: The OS Designed in America, Built in China shipped worldwide.
Samsung Tablet: The OS Designed in America, Built in China and shipped world wide.
The only difference is which CEO gets the Cut The one in America or the one in Korea.
NSA to Apple: Add spying to your OS or you will not be allowed to sell it world wide.
NSA to Google: Add spying to your OS or you will not be allowed to sell it world wide.
NSA to Samsung: Insure the spying features in your OS are not disabled unless you will not be allowed to sell in the US.
If you need to resist it, you have already failed, as it had already affected you.
In short, we live in a world which people have an increasing voice in the world. This post alone will probably be read in many countries. Most likely this post will last only a few seconds in your memory and go away.
Now resisting charisma will require more work, because we have so much more information static in our lives and really not to many good ways to filter out a nonsense such as an internet post while someone is taking a break from work, vs. some more valuable information.
Now charisma, is by no means perfect it does show that the person really seems to really care about the information they state vs. the normal static. Thus we naturally will give it more attention. Sure this information can be complete B.S. but they have gave it in a way to get your attention. They got your attention you listen to what they said, then you will need to make a decision to accept or reject that idea. a 50/50 shot! However if you lack charisma your views will be ignored and washed away from the static, and there is no decision to accept or reject that information because it never got your attention.
Well yes, almost every action does have a negative connotation to it. Thank you for pointing that one out. You must feel proud that you can use your vocabulary to twist a story to attempt to be positive to make it seem negative.
I would expect it wouldn't rate every complaint equally.
If you account for factors such as the number of complaints from a user vs their score. And say you find a trend of complaints vs being beaten and complaints when you played well. You can correlate the bad users and weigh their complaints accordingly.
People don't follow it because they often realize there is a problem, they have to work really hard to change their diets.
I have lost 65lbs myself. Yes with Calories in Calories Out. But while the concept is easy the implementation is quite difficult.
Eating less food alone doesn't work to well. You get hungry, after a few weeks you body tells your brain screw it it isn't worth it. Then you eat too much again.
Exercise especially when you start out gets difficult, one day at the gym, means you are sore for 3 days. However for it to really work you need to workout when you sore on those three days too. It takes about 3-4 weeks to really get into it. But that is in essence a month of hell.
After the month of hell and a more moderate diet you can achieve a healthy weight loss. But it is still a battle that you have to keep up. It is like getting over an addiction. You never get over it, you just have to keep the process going.
Consistently making "elegant" code is extremely difficult in real life.
Because most code interacts with people in one way or an other.
First we should use those Try Catch Finally types of statement which makes your code less elegant as it prevent your app from uncleanly shutting down due to bad data or input from people.
Next we have to get code to make sure your inputs are sanitized, to really try to avoid those Trys to pass exceptions.
Then as you gain experience coding you learn that if you make your code too tight, it makes maintenance and adding those features that wasn't part of spec much harder. So with experience you usually realize where you tight little algorithm will need to be expanded out with say some IF Statements as you could see the rules changing on you.
Then you have the skill sets of other people on your team. If you are of a higher caliber then they are, then you really still need to lower your standards so everyone will be able to work on the project, and figure-out what you did in case you get hit by the proverbial train.
Finally there is just basic coding ware. If the project is 80% completed, you have worked long hours, your are hungry or just have to pee at that time, or just tired or not in the right frame of mind that day. Your code may suffer as you are trudging threw coding to get the work done and your tolerance to making it elegant isn't there. (That is why often when you look back at your code that you made last year, you go what the Hell was I thinking!)
That said you can have pieces of elegance in your code, but as your program gets bigger the overall total elegance lessons.
As you noted #5 was a subset of #3
Also I would say #6 is a subset of #1. If you don't understand data structures those long doubles and long longs seems like the best choice if you really don't know why there are so many different types.
I am willing to bet most companies will not bother to see if your college is accredited just as long as it sounds collegey.
For most jobs in theory you can just fake your degrees. But if you get caught you are often in deep doo-doo, as lying on your resume is a bad thing.
For people with experience a college degree gets past that resume filter.
You often can get a decent rate at part time taking some classes at your local state University. You can often take classes before you are admitted to the school. Usually after you prove that you know your stuff and get a few good grades, the school will normally let you in the program.
As for experience. Experience does matter, however from my own personal experience hiring developers, a college education usually gets employees that don't have those odd holes in their skills, which makes bringing up to speed sometimes a little more difficult.
These gaps vary from person to person... However some of the common ones are.
1. Not understanding details of data structures. Why am I getting a negative number when it is clearly 5 billion!
2. Recursion seems magical. I admit it, in college it took me a bit to get Recursion, after a class in LISP it cleared it right up. Also when you get the details realizing how often the system is stacking stuff together means there is a limit on how much Recursion magic you can do.
3. IPC (Inter Process Communications) Dealing with threads can get sketchy if you don't have a way to get them to talk.
4. Complex Boolean logic with short circuit evaluation. Yep after that one function returned true that second function won't run in your or clause. You know that one for some reason you made to update some data.
Now for those of you without degree who feel insulted by this, don't be this is what I find are often the most common issues. There are a lot of really good developers without degrees, many who I will admit who could kick my butt at coding. But for a company trying to hire, it is normally better to weed out some good employees then it is to hire a bad one.
He should go to trial. So we can really filter out the information about his status. You can do the a good thing, however the way that you did it was wrong.
He did leak classified documents. That was bad.
However did he only leak information about illegal activity or did he leak valid legal methods too?
Did he follow the correct procedure on reporting illegal activity?
How/if was he stopped in following this procedure?
To me it seemed that he was faced with three options.
1. Shut-up and just let it go. He keeps his job.
2. Force it up the authorities. He would loose his job.
3. Blast out the information to the world wide public. He could get arrested.
He choose option 3. Assuming his morals prevented option 1, a good and noble thing. However option 2 may have fixed the problems without all the internet (in)fame(y) and running from the US. He may have lost his job, it isn't as heroic, but he probably could sue on whistle blowing protection.
Working in the system against the system is slow and boring. But it can get results.
Besides Medicine, there is a huge debate and misconceptions about diets.
We got Vegetarian, Vegan then we go the other ways with diets with a lot of meat.
GMO food is either harmless just a quicker form of breading, or it is actually bad. Beyond GMO we got Organic vs traditional farming. Some people say to drink more water, others say we are drinking too much.
Alternative medicines and Diets debates is about justifying to yourself the extra money you are paying. And make you feel special because it seems like you hold some special knowledge that the rest of the mindless masses doesn't.
What I want is some real science.
Because if I go with my own personal bias observations I find the following.
Vegetarian and Vegans: Tend to look more aged then more omnivorous peers. They seems to look worn down, while thin they are not skinny. All fat no mussel.
People who eat a lot of meat: Seem to be much heavier, and have particular health issues in digestion.
After Apples "Retna" display DPI their isn't much of a reason to go much higher. For conventional displays.
That said I am not saying we shouldn't be making higher res displays. But the application of the technology should go to different areas. Such as smaller projectors.
I have an old iPhone 4. And the display is as sharp as any of the newer phones.
What they need to focus more on now is speed,battery life and if you are going to make the GPU better we need more 3d acceleration features. But we don't need to spend money on a higher dpi that will not give us any benefit other than sucking more battery and slowing the phone down.
Either you are a teacher. Or an unpopular kid the type that posts on Slashdot.
A typical NOT ME!! approach.
The funny part is how many sys-admins think they are so good, until there is an independent security audit done.
Now you shouldn't get insulted. There are a lot of good sysadmins... However many have gaps, and their ego gets in the way of making things more secure.
I remember toy add from the 1980's.
The trick to advertising the toy was to show the child playing with the toy with either his friends or with his family.
Gi-Jo even with the Aircraft carrier (which every kid wanted) isn't that fun alone, you want it, because then you can get the other kids to play with you, and if it is your toy you can play the game with your own rules.
The real key is if all your friends had a different toy of the same product line, and then they can have a real adventure with them.
Now this is idealism that never really happens much. However that doesn't stop the kid with the I Want That Toy, because he still visions himself playing with all the other pieces that the other kids have.
Now with Video games. They are for the most part marketed as something to play with alone. However if they market multi-player split screen in a way to spark that type of thinking. People would still want it, as a way to play with their friends and family.
The new Wii Adds do a decent job at this. However the issue is the Wii-U just isn't up to par with modern gaming.
1. You are not dumbing[sp?] it down, if you are trying to target people who have no idea of the base concepts or your target audience isn't ever sure they want to be involved. What do you expect him to do? In front of a bunch of kids, who can barely do arithmetic, giving them the formulas mountains of raw data, and a formal proof and expect them to get it? Bill Nye the science guy doesn't teach a degree in science, he is really good at giving the introduction, and inspiring people.
2. Back in the 80's stereotypes were very popular, think what it would be if a science show was done by a person who looks like a football player. It would just mess up the cultures idea of the world back then. Either you are strong or smart.
Would Bill Nye get the fame today as he did when he started? Probably not, neither would have Mr. Rogers or Sesame Street. We are in a different culture then we were 30 years ago. Some things are better some things are worse. Bill Nye was smart enough to keep his personal brand up, over the time.