Is it the best way. Those are closed minded questions. Contests are a good way to find a particular type of developers. Normally the developers who write code that is Quick, and often elegant in its solution. However they usually fail on code that is is easier to maintain, or requires bigger picture development.
I use to be a hot shot developer and over the years I have cooled down and changed my tactics. Everyonce in a while I get into arguments with the new kids about how to do things, I tend to bring up adding hooks for those "Oh By the ways" that come up. For some cases I propose not to strictly type particular class elements and use more generic templates, or just use an enumerated array vs an other class. Just because I know the nature of what the Oh By The ways have without knowing what they are going to be. But it often requires adding extra detail, or sending different types of data, not in the specs. So instead of a rewrite of a class it is just a slight modification.
The cost for Windows 8 has gone down. Microsoft Profits are up.
However I expect if Microsoft relaxed it stance on stance on activation, it wouldn't cause a major issue.
1. Most new versions of Windows comes preinstalled on new PCs a lot of people don't bother upgrading their OS. If they have to pay too much money for it, it will not bother upgrading anyways.
2. Groups that do buy licenses are often organizations, who want to maintain proper support and legit standing. in case of audits.
3. For those who want an upgrade but cannot justify the price will stay on the same version, if they can get it threw questionable means, they might do it, they find they like it, and would be less likely to switch to a competing system. After one goes threw the hassle of switching, they will not normally come back for a long time. So for the most part those PC to Mac switchers, means a lot less return customers in the future, their Next computer will not be a Windows PC but a new Mac.
I remember a while back about some studies that shows anxiety can often be reduced with normal antacid. Because we get butterflies in our stomach when we get anxious, and that feeling increases our anxiety, so the antacid help break the cycle.
So it would make sense that a emotional distress causes a physical reaction that creates body pain, when then feedback on itself to create more emotional stress, and pain killers such as Tylenol may help ease those pains as well.
If they can only make GIMP a Photoshop replacement tool. I actually find Paint.NET does a better job then GIMP for replacing my Photoshop needs.
That monthly price is rather prohibitive towards amateurs like myself who tends to get a new version of Photoshop ever 5 to 6 years, and gets it as cheap as possible off of ebay for $300-$400 I don't really want to pay 10x that.
I can see flying cars going along side with the self driving car. For a computer control flight it could actually be a lot easier. Just because of less obstacles. With normal cars we drive on narrow roads that makes sure we are close to each other that causes a lot of accented spreading the roads by allowed flight paths in thousand foot increments squared can reduce traffic greatly. With automated system we can assure safer flights.
Most of them still failed. They were just easier to fix. I remember having to debug a circuit board then jumping a bad connection and a putting in a new resister to get it back to specification for it to work. Stuff failed all the time. But because it was simple enough and large enough we could fix it ourselves. However stuff is much harder to fix, however they tend to run that much better and the cost of replacement is cheaper over the long run then the old stuff.
In short they would love it if you buy a car every year... However by doing that chances are people will buy cars from brands that are more reliable and that they can keep for a while.
For the most part technology upgrades really don't count much for the car sales, at best it just gives a slight advantage over an other equally equip car. The real factors still boil down to the basics. Power, Torque, Speed, Riding Comfort, Fuel Efficiency, Room. The little details like MP3 storage, internet access, GPS... Are nice to have but are often much the lesser point, because for most of this stuff you are probably just as well off as plugging in your Cellphone to the stereo, for most of these features.
It is a common misconception from Techy Guys. They look at old technology with the blinding light of nostalgia. Often confusing equipment they bought 20 years ago that cost thousands of dollars and comparing them against their modern counterpart that cost a few hundred bucks.
No the latest versions of OS X are having the same problems that Windows 8 is having. Trying to put more tablet like interface into a desktop OS.
I actually like Windows 8. However the problem that most PC/Laptop manufactures are going into dying mode, and not really trying to innovate that much. We get a few light weight convertible tablets, but still there is a slew of standard Laptops and PC without touch screens, and they are not doing much to try to make new systems standard with them.
Shortly after windows came out, Most PC's were getting a mouse standards, pre-windows days the mouse was a toy. However during this time desktop technology was new and fresh and was happy to add new stuff to make their new version of the hardware that much cooler. Today PC's are not changing that much, and they are making the multi-touch stuff optional, just so they can appeal to the standard Slashdotter who just can't handle change.
Without Multi-touch windows 8 is a step back. With multi-touch windows 8 is two steps forward. I don't see this a new coke moment. It is just that there we are in a transition period and we don't know quite where it is going to go.
Microsoft biggest mistake is the same thing they do every time, is a complete failure in compatibility across platforms. The Windows 8 pro and RT should run the same software, even if it means it runs slower. They dropped the ball again on having platform compatibility. That is their biggest mistake.
I don't see this as an issue of the company saying Marketing as more import then engineers. But in the terms of allocating money, the engineers are well more predictable. They don't need to travel as much. Marketing and sales are often traveling here and there to push the stuff the engineers make. These travels are not cheap you need to smoose your potential customer with an impression your company is a big and solid. The key word in the article was expenses. I am sure the equipment you use is paid over a period of time.
Why do we bother posting reporting on RMS. His stance on these things are rather clear. If it isn't Open (his idea of open) then he doesn't like it, and it must be because of pure greed and no other more rational measures.
RMS has already ranted against DRM, there is even anti-DRM measures in his popular GNU license. So why do you think he would be OK with DRM in HTML 5?
His views are ridged, he doesn't care that Netflix will not broadcast over anything that doesn't have DRM, his view is Netflix is pure greed, and we should just watch stuff available threw more open alternatives with little regard to existing copyright law, or just convenience.
However I can see the same thing happening in up where "All dose Yankees live" It is part of the dumbing down of our system of discipline.
Our system has been so intent of getting the bad guys that they are willing to let hundreds of innocent people go to jail vs letting one real criminal go free.
We spend more time trying to find ways to get kids kicked out of school and or locked up in prison. Then we do trying to keep kids in school and out of prison. We are all humans and we make mistakes. If we don't make mistakes, we don't learn from them. Does that mean that there are no consequences, no. They are consequences but they don't mean permanent marks on your life for getting caught for making a simple mistake.
For this teen, It probably should have lead to Detention, or perhaps up to a week suspension, because setting off unsupervised explosions (even small ones) is wrong. But being that didn't cause any damage, or was meant to the punishment should face that fact.
Her biggest mistake was that she wasn't a big football player, if that was the case she would have gone off with a kids will be kids and ignored.
Early on the cost was part of your ISP fee. Now other vendors monetize on adds based on you using their system. If you are paying a wireless company part of the Fee is texting service that is rather platform independent. However because wireless companies have made texting a cash cow, they made it a technology that people will try to avoid. Thus using other texting services, that are cheaper.
Besides you could in theory use your email to be just as efficient as texting. However because the platform was so open, it got abused with Spammers. So the texting programmers decided to make a more of a closed system to try to reduce this problem.
For sending text messages. Do you want to have ads? Do you want your chats monitored and your data sold? Do you want to pay a monthly, weekly per message fee for your messages that you send? A government who will offer the service for free, you pay for it in taxes.
For standard SMS text messages they get somehow added to your phone bill, I personally think they should be a LOT CHEAPER. But you do get a common protocol, because everyone else is doing it.
The other texting methods are incompatible with each other because they all have different rules on how they are funded and supported. The monetary gain must be related to the volume of the texting.
Welcome to science. You are experimenting on a new method of doing something, you got some success, however you need more testing, you might as well have some fun while doing it. Drawing a series of pictures are just about as productive as drawing grids or some other pattern. Besides that after effect is a cute little movie to explain the technology they are doing.
We need more support for these type of things, and less of the bean counter mentality who assumes just because the research isn't obviously monetizable that it is useless.
I wish we could differentiated environmentalist from the scientists and the raving hippy nuts.
Every choice has a trade off. We need to diversify our energy sources vs finding the magic bullet of perfect energy that just doesn't exist.
Fossil Fuels offer a good energy per unit ratio, they can be transported, and stored. They can be used in small affordable machines, and it is rather cheap. The down side is when spent it produces harmful gases, and creates increases global warming.
Nuclear Energy can offer a lot of energy, raw material can be transported and stored, its output doesn't create toxic gasses. However, it does create radioactive waste that is hard to manage, and energy needs to be processed at large power plants.
Hydroelectric (They don't talk about this much, I am not sure why), Good source of energy, clean (assuming you don't kill too many fish). However you will need power plants, and an infrastructure to send energy, and you need to build it around water sources, not portable. (the best location is also what people would say is prime vacation areas and dosn't want the nature in that area to be spoiled with a large building....
You start seeing the point. What ever energy we choose to use will have its good side and bad side. The trick is to get the right balance, and improve efficiencies where possible.
Do we put solar panels on our homes, and have a smaller natural gas or nuclear plant to cover the rest? Can we make more efficient cars such as hybrids, or plugin electric with gas backup? Can you do this with more powerful cars/trucks people want?
Could we have a small generator in a creak powering a few local home?
They are a lot of options. The trick is to get the right balance.
All this complaining just allows for more creative use in writing for grants. That is the problem, whenever someone says I am going to tighten the rules it just means the players will change how the word it.
Global Warming and Gun Violence can be easily altered to show a military need. Climate change will need to redistribute what equipment is needed for distribution to war. Gun Violence is about how to deal with domestic threats.
In terms of duplicating effort you just put a twist to your request. It is just paper work for your grant request.
The more complicated the system, the more money they waste on it, because people will just get smarter to try to work around it, more complex speech so the grant givers don't know what the receivers are talking about.
Actually that is a very different logistic problem. With different outcomes. There is usually a centralized grocery that then ships to a range of fixed locations, at a fixed time.
Your example has a range of fixed locations, going to an other range of locations, at variable times.
There may be a carbon reduction but it may not be low enough to justify the cost and hassle for choosing it.
The systems may have already have windows license, so you can Install Windows so it still cost $0 + admin time. The real issue is that they didn't have an appropriate administration of those systems where they could have cleaned them remotely.
To put it quite frankly. Improvements in efficiency tend to add more jobs to the market, by allowing businesses to operate more cheaply. (This is not trickle down!) Allowing a lower entry to the market cost. However if your job is being replaced by these changes in efficiency, your probably in trouble.
The real problems with our economy isn't robots or technology replacing the need for man power, but the lack of change in our cultures to value the more useful human only skills that are needed for the next generation.
We need more emphasis on creative employees more then skilled. We need to teach how to be creative, how to understand things, and use it for your medium. If you are making widget X. We no longer need people who has the skill to bend metal. But we need people who understand how metal works and what type of bends will meet the specification, and tell the robot to perform these actions.
Think about it. The Core is about hot as the sun, that is enough for a sustained fusion reaction, we need to find a way of pumping hydrogen to the core and have them fuse to become helium, creating a nearly unlimited power source. This unlimited power will allow us to focus more on mental activities and less on physical ones allowing our brains to expand and our bodies to become smaller. Being that we don't need to go out getting our hair cut would be a massive chore so we naturally select people who are naturally bald. We are indoors most of the time so our skin gets very pail. And the extra helium in the atmosphere will raise up our voices by a few octaves.
To be more realistic, the guy who operates that machine will be retiring in a few years, the people who are willing and able to work it want to be paid premium bucks, also have a tenancy of having a huge ego problem that makes them difficult to work with. The new system is easier to find guys who can do the work, and they will be more willing to work with you.
SAP has been known to bring down companies, do to poor IT management, they try to use the system to replace the existing ones, vs. changing the organization to work with the new system.
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Is it the best way.
Those are closed minded questions. Contests are a good way to find a particular type of developers. Normally the developers who write code that is Quick, and often elegant in its solution. However they usually fail on code that is is easier to maintain, or requires bigger picture development.
I use to be a hot shot developer and over the years I have cooled down and changed my tactics. Everyonce in a while I get into arguments with the new kids about how to do things, I tend to bring up adding hooks for those "Oh By the ways" that come up. For some cases I propose not to strictly type particular class elements and use more generic templates, or just use an enumerated array vs an other class. Just because I know the nature of what the Oh By The ways have without knowing what they are going to be. But it often requires adding extra detail, or sending different types of data, not in the specs. So instead of a rewrite of a class it is just a slight modification.
The cost for Windows 8 has gone down.
Microsoft Profits are up.
However I expect if Microsoft relaxed it stance on stance on activation, it wouldn't cause a major issue.
1. Most new versions of Windows comes preinstalled on new PCs a lot of people don't bother upgrading their OS. If they have to pay too much money for it, it will not bother upgrading anyways.
2. Groups that do buy licenses are often organizations, who want to maintain proper support and legit standing. in case of audits.
3. For those who want an upgrade but cannot justify the price will stay on the same version, if they can get it threw questionable means, they might do it, they find they like it, and would be less likely to switch to a competing system. After one goes threw the hassle of switching, they will not normally come back for a long time. So for the most part those PC to Mac switchers, means a lot less return customers in the future, their Next computer will not be a Windows PC but a new Mac.
I remember a while back about some studies that shows anxiety can often be reduced with normal antacid. Because we get butterflies in our stomach when we get anxious, and that feeling increases our anxiety, so the antacid help break the cycle.
So it would make sense that a emotional distress causes a physical reaction that creates body pain, when then feedback on itself to create more emotional stress, and pain killers such as Tylenol may help ease those pains as well.
If they can only make GIMP a Photoshop replacement tool. I actually find Paint.NET does a better job then GIMP for replacing my Photoshop needs.
That monthly price is rather prohibitive towards amateurs like myself who tends to get a new version of Photoshop ever 5 to 6 years, and gets it as cheap as possible off of ebay for $300-$400 I don't really want to pay 10x that.
I can see flying cars going along side with the self driving car. For a computer control flight it could actually be a lot easier. Just because of less obstacles. With normal cars we drive on narrow roads that makes sure we are close to each other that causes a lot of accented spreading the roads by allowed flight paths in thousand foot increments squared can reduce traffic greatly. With automated system we can assure safer flights.
Most of them still failed. They were just easier to fix. I remember having to debug a circuit board then jumping a bad connection and a putting in a new resister to get it back to specification for it to work. Stuff failed all the time. But because it was simple enough and large enough we could fix it ourselves. However stuff is much harder to fix, however they tend to run that much better and the cost of replacement is cheaper over the long run then the old stuff.
In short they would love it if you buy a car every year...
However by doing that chances are people will buy cars from brands that are more reliable and that they can keep for a while.
For the most part technology upgrades really don't count much for the car sales, at best it just gives a slight advantage over an other equally equip car. The real factors still boil down to the basics.
Power, Torque, Speed, Riding Comfort, Fuel Efficiency, Room. The little details like MP3 storage, internet access, GPS... Are nice to have but are often much the lesser point, because for most of this stuff you are probably just as well off as plugging in your Cellphone to the stereo, for most of these features.
It is a common misconception from Techy Guys. They look at old technology with the blinding light of nostalgia. Often confusing equipment they bought 20 years ago that cost thousands of dollars and comparing them against their modern counterpart that cost a few hundred bucks.
No the latest versions of OS X are having the same problems that Windows 8 is having. Trying to put more tablet like interface into a desktop OS.
I actually like Windows 8. However the problem that most PC/Laptop manufactures are going into dying mode, and not really trying to innovate that much. We get a few light weight convertible tablets, but still there is a slew of standard Laptops and PC without touch screens, and they are not doing much to try to make new systems standard with them.
Shortly after windows came out, Most PC's were getting a mouse standards, pre-windows days the mouse was a toy. However during this time desktop technology was new and fresh and was happy to add new stuff to make their new version of the hardware that much cooler. Today PC's are not changing that much, and they are making the multi-touch stuff optional, just so they can appeal to the standard Slashdotter who just can't handle change.
Without Multi-touch windows 8 is a step back. With multi-touch windows 8 is two steps forward. I don't see this a new coke moment. It is just that there we are in a transition period and we don't know quite where it is going to go.
Microsoft biggest mistake is the same thing they do every time, is a complete failure in compatibility across platforms. The Windows 8 pro and RT should run the same software, even if it means it runs slower. They dropped the ball again on having platform compatibility. That is their biggest mistake.
I don't see this as an issue of the company saying Marketing as more import then engineers. But in the terms of allocating money, the engineers are well more predictable. They don't need to travel as much. Marketing and sales are often traveling here and there to push the stuff the engineers make. These travels are not cheap you need to smoose your potential customer with an impression your company is a big and solid.
The key word in the article was expenses. I am sure the equipment you use is paid over a period of time.
Why do we bother posting reporting on RMS.
His stance on these things are rather clear.
If it isn't Open (his idea of open) then he doesn't like it, and it must be because of pure greed and no other more rational measures.
RMS has already ranted against DRM, there is even anti-DRM measures in his popular GNU license. So why do you think he would be OK with DRM in HTML 5?
His views are ridged, he doesn't care that Netflix will not broadcast over anything that doesn't have DRM, his view is Netflix is pure greed, and we should just watch stuff available threw more open alternatives with little regard to existing copyright law, or just convenience.
However I can see the same thing happening in up where "All dose Yankees live" It is part of the dumbing down of our system of discipline.
Our system has been so intent of getting the bad guys that they are willing to let hundreds of innocent people go to jail vs letting one real criminal go free.
We spend more time trying to find ways to get kids kicked out of school and or locked up in prison. Then we do trying to keep kids in school and out of prison. We are all humans and we make mistakes. If we don't make mistakes, we don't learn from them. Does that mean that there are no consequences, no. They are consequences but they don't mean permanent marks on your life for getting caught for making a simple mistake.
For this teen, It probably should have lead to Detention, or perhaps up to a week suspension, because setting off unsupervised explosions (even small ones) is wrong. But being that didn't cause any damage, or was meant to the punishment should face that fact.
Her biggest mistake was that she wasn't a big football player, if that was the case she would have gone off with a kids will be kids and ignored.
Early on the cost was part of your ISP fee. Now other vendors monetize on adds based on you using their system.
If you are paying a wireless company part of the Fee is texting service that is rather platform independent. However because wireless companies have made texting a cash cow, they made it a technology that people will try to avoid. Thus using other texting services, that are cheaper.
Besides you could in theory use your email to be just as efficient as texting. However because the platform was so open, it got abused with Spammers. So the texting programmers decided to make a more of a closed system to try to reduce this problem.
For sending text messages. Do you want to have ads? Do you want your chats monitored and your data sold? Do you want to pay a monthly, weekly per message fee for your messages that you send? A government who will offer the service for free, you pay for it in taxes.
For standard SMS text messages they get somehow added to your phone bill, I personally think they should be a LOT CHEAPER. But you do get a common protocol, because everyone else is doing it.
The other texting methods are incompatible with each other because they all have different rules on how they are funded and supported. The monetary gain must be related to the volume of the texting.
Welcome to science. You are experimenting on a new method of doing something, you got some success, however you need more testing, you might as well have some fun while doing it. Drawing a series of pictures are just about as productive as drawing grids or some other pattern. Besides that after effect is a cute little movie to explain the technology they are doing.
We need more support for these type of things, and less of the bean counter mentality who assumes just because the research isn't obviously monetizable that it is useless.
The Goggles! They do Nothing!
I wish we could differentiated environmentalist from the scientists and the raving hippy nuts.
Every choice has a trade off. We need to diversify our energy sources vs finding the magic bullet of perfect energy that just doesn't exist.
Fossil Fuels offer a good energy per unit ratio, they can be transported, and stored. They can be used in small affordable machines, and it is rather cheap. The down side is when spent it produces harmful gases, and creates increases global warming.
Nuclear Energy can offer a lot of energy, raw material can be transported and stored, its output doesn't create toxic gasses. However, it does create radioactive waste that is hard to manage, and energy needs to be processed at large power plants.
Hydroelectric (They don't talk about this much, I am not sure why), Good source of energy, clean (assuming you don't kill too many fish). However you will need power plants, and an infrastructure to send energy, and you need to build it around water sources, not portable. (the best location is also what people would say is prime vacation areas and dosn't want the nature in that area to be spoiled with a large building. ...
You start seeing the point. What ever energy we choose to use will have its good side and bad side. The trick is to get the right balance, and improve efficiencies where possible.
Do we put solar panels on our homes, and have a smaller natural gas or nuclear plant to cover the rest?
Can we make more efficient cars such as hybrids, or plugin electric with gas backup? Can you do this with more powerful cars/trucks people want?
Could we have a small generator in a creak powering a few local home?
They are a lot of options. The trick is to get the right balance.
All this complaining just allows for more creative use in writing for grants. That is the problem, whenever someone says I am going to tighten the rules it just means the players will change how the word it.
Global Warming and Gun Violence can be easily altered to show a military need. Climate change will need to redistribute what equipment is needed for distribution to war. Gun Violence is about how to deal with domestic threats.
In terms of duplicating effort you just put a twist to your request. It is just paper work for your grant request.
The more complicated the system, the more money they waste on it, because people will just get smarter to try to work around it, more complex speech so the grant givers don't know what the receivers are talking about.
Actually that is a very different logistic problem. With different outcomes.
There is usually a centralized grocery that then ships to a range of fixed locations, at a fixed time.
Your example has a range of fixed locations, going to an other range of locations, at variable times.
There may be a carbon reduction but it may not be low enough to justify the cost and hassle for choosing it.
The systems may have already have windows license, so you can Install Windows so it still cost $0 + admin time.
The real issue is that they didn't have an appropriate administration of those systems where they could have cleaned them remotely.
The good old efficiency paradox.
To put it quite frankly. Improvements in efficiency tend to add more jobs to the market, by allowing businesses to operate more cheaply. (This is not trickle down!) Allowing a lower entry to the market cost. However if your job is being replaced by these changes in efficiency, your probably in trouble.
The real problems with our economy isn't robots or technology replacing the need for man power, but the lack of change in our cultures to value the more useful human only skills that are needed for the next generation.
We need more emphasis on creative employees more then skilled. We need to teach how to be creative, how to understand things, and use it for your medium. If you are making widget X. We no longer need people who has the skill to bend metal. But we need people who understand how metal works and what type of bends will meet the specification, and tell the robot to perform these actions.
Think about it. The Core is about hot as the sun, that is enough for a sustained fusion reaction, we need to find a way of pumping hydrogen to the core and have them fuse to become helium, creating a nearly unlimited power source. This unlimited power will allow us to focus more on mental activities and less on physical ones allowing our brains to expand and our bodies to become smaller. Being that we don't need to go out getting our hair cut would be a massive chore so we naturally select people who are naturally bald. We are indoors most of the time so our skin gets very pail. And the extra helium in the atmosphere will raise up our voices by a few octaves.
To be more realistic, the guy who operates that machine will be retiring in a few years, the people who are willing and able to work it want to be paid premium bucks, also have a tenancy of having a huge ego problem that makes them difficult to work with. The new system is easier to find guys who can do the work, and they will be more willing to work with you.
SAP has been known to bring down companies, do to poor IT management, they try to use the system to replace the existing ones, vs. changing the organization to work with the new system.
Yea we want to make technology that no one will use or adopt!
Sorry life requires compromise.