Is issue isn't if the Old People are Right or Wrong, but their reasoning for their decision.
Often the argument is driven by a nostalgic emotional attachment, and not by any rational measuring of the advantages vs disadvantages.
A lot of people miss leaded gasoline, because they miss the sweeter smell it gave off, vs. the harsher unleaded gasoline smell. Is a slightly better smell while filling your tank worth having hazardous chemicals in the air, and a residue that can get on your hands that is harmful as well?
Or those people who often buy unpasteurized milk on the black market. Because they claim it tastes better and has nutrition. Does the difference in taste and a minor improvement in nutrition outweigh the serious illnesses you can get from it?
If you go across hating everything, you can always nitpick and hang onto that one redeeming feature no matter how minor it is. Or you can jump on the bandwagon and say everything that comes out is immediately superior. Or you can just be balanced and actually stop thinking you are an expert in everything, and try it out, and/or read about it from many sources and judge for yourself if the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
Unless you factor a lot of people who don't buy bread because they often have a low consumption and it spoils before it is finished. That way people who don't buy bread may buy more and consume more if they feel it won't go bad as quickly. As well you need to factor in the cost of a fast turnaround of product. If your product has a 10 day turn around and the store buys it from you and it spoils before it is sold, then either the store will lose the money or the bread manufacturer depending on the agreement. However if it has a 60 day turn around time, that means there is more time the store can sell the product and less returns befor it gets into the consumers hands.
Your logic companies like Campbell's who makes canned goods would be out of business. However they are just as strong as ever.
Evolution doesn't always increase fitness it is random. It is a combination of generics, mutations, and the environment. Now all we need to be is lucky enough to live long enough have offspring, who can live long enough to have their own. There are many different ways this is done. For some animals they lay thousands of eggs and die. With all those eggs chances are enough of them will survive to redo the process. Humans need to live long enough to raise the children so they can survive and they only give off a small number.
The environment is one of the factors that usually kills us off. 200 generations that sounds like the dawn of civilizations, where we started plans to hedge our bets against environmental problems. Keep warm in the winter, move water around and save it for later, harvest food and store them for later... So right now we have more genetic diversity. Because we made the environment easier on us.
Evolution is in play, right now there are a lot of variations in case of disaster there will be a better chance that there will be a good portion of the population who can survive it. and the wider diversity the greater number of disasters we can handle.
Exactly, this was suppose to be the big emotional moment. When I saw this I just started laughing at it
Besides I never really had a feeling from the move from the Light side of the Jedi to the Dark Side of the sith.
Emperor: I am the Sith Lord, Join Me. Skywalker: OK, let me kill Samuel Jackson, then a bunch of helpless kids to show that I really crossed into the dark side.
If it were artistic you would have had a series of moral quest where you slowly cross the line.
Heck War Craft 3 had a better story arch of turning the good guy to the bad guy.
Postgres is my favorite as well. But in terms of employment. You should have strong database skills and less worry on the tool.
The differences between PostGre MySQL, Microsoft SQL isn't that huge. There are a different set of functions and more advanced features. But those are a google away.
However it may have been due to poor management on his part though. Developers coming with good concerns and he wasn't taking them into consideration, or bringing them to the right level, because he was too afraid to tell his bosses bad news.
It could also be that there is a disagreement on the design. And after one was chosen he didn't work hard to make it succeed. I have seen this a lot in IT. I disagree with your methodology, so I will follow it, however will not do anything extra to make it succeed so when it fails I told you so.
Shouldn't we push more for Open Specifications vs Open Source Code.
If a hardware manufacturer just releases the specification we could create a program to interface with it. If say Microsoft was fully open about its Office Document Specification we could program a 100% compatible system for it.
Having access to Source Code has limited appeal to me. Everyone codes differently and as software gets older it will undoubtedly get to a point where it needs a fresh rewrite. If you release the specs then it allows the freedom of a new system to be made without all the legacy code that most people are afraid to touch.
The argument if the program is Open Source then it is Open Spec, isn't a good one. For example I had to maintain some FORTRAN Code. Then I needed to parse a data file the program made. I had the source... However the Data File wouldn't read when I recompiled the code on a different system. As the Datafile dumped the endianness of the memory into the file. In order for me to parse the file I had to get access to the specification of the original hardware to show me the difference in endianness of the old system with the new one.
Writing code is easy. Remaking code is easy too. Knowing the specification of the program now that is hard. So if there was a bigger push to Open Specification vs Open Source Code, I feel we would have far more software freedom in the world.
I am guessing you are living in one of the richer countries in Europe, like Germany and now you are paying all the other EU countries who are crumbling due to the cost of all these benefits.
Yes. While the United States is currently the largest country with the most influence, most of the world though processes (good and bad) have American influences in them. But that isn't to say we are the cause of all the problems.
For example in the middle east. They have problems outside the United States. However because we are the biggest name we are a target used to unify the people to stop them from fighting amongst themselves. If there wasn't a United States, they would use England, Russia, France, China.... Who ever is the big name at the time, no matter what their foreign policies are.
In terms of global warming, the United States has a problem which is this. We are the third most populous country in the world and the 50th in terms of population density. That means there is a lot of people who need energy and that energy will need to be spread out across long distances.
Fossil Fuels and Nuclear are the only sources we have that can be easily distributed across the country. Solar energy is getting better, however it isn't to a point where it can cover all our energy needs. The other sources are dependant on location.
I know get the Americans to move to the city, get the people more densely packed like other counties. Any attempt that this will surely be very bloody, saying people they should give up their property they they earned, doesn't sit well with American Culture, and it will get violent if pressed. That said there are other countries who can take better advantage of green energy and use it. As well we should get more green energy working in the US's more populated areas. However the United States cannot be #1 in green energy, not because we don't want to, but because we can't
Not so much news. If the video is choppy or looks bad, we tend to not want to watch it.
There is the people who called Color TV a fad. However its success was in the fact that the Color TV didn't come with a bunch of disadvantages, It was better to have color vs. Black and White. Now with Internet Video. There are advantages to it. However Lag and Quality are major disadvantages. And will not catch on unless both are resolved.
In many cases in both Lag and Quality have improved with advancements in network speed combined with better quality data compression, However still the load times means we need to invest into watching something vs. the old flipping through channels, to see what is on and if it catches you attention.
Nearly every time a car currently gets in the accident they will blame the car manufacture for a faulty part (The sudden Acceleration thing) where after one incident due to the pedal being stuck on the floor mat. We get a series of other events where this defect must be to blame for their faulty driving skills.
If your car goes out of control. You DON'T Drive Miles at high speed, You shift the Car into neutral and coast to a breakdown lane.
Even if the car had a fault, accedents usually come from stupid drivers.
Morality is easier to program into machines than in humans.
A* search evaluating all the bad things that could happen and you choose the least bad thing.
However for the case about the bus. Implying driving off the bridge is more moral than hitting the bus. However as you and the Bus reduces speed once they do collide you may have some injured people. vs 1 dead person.
It is important for us as citizens to have the rights to hold all officials (elected, appointed, hired...) accountable.
Police are here to serve and protect the public. Most of them do this job admirably, however when there is a minority who abuses the extra privileges given to them we as citizens should be empowered to point out the troublemakers, and insure that we don't create a cycle of corruptions, where even the good person can start getting into a case where they have passed the line.
In order for you to do your job, and catch people who are not following the laws, the police do need extra rights beyond the citizen to do the job. If there is a car speeding, the police will need to speed to catch the offender car. However they don't need to speed all the time when they are on patrol, but that is a simple offence. But once they get use to speeding, they will get use bending the rules, and may bend another one. And gradually fall into an ineffective officer. Knowing that citizens can keep them accountable with recording their activities privately, without their knowledge gives most people the need to be more conscious when they have to use their extra privileges.
They Made a contract to IBM to sell their OS on other hardware. Hence the IBM Compatible PC's that came out that were cheaper than the IBM systems.
Being you now have a choice of many brands of computer that can run the same software you a larger market that was more appealing developers... So there is more software being made for your platform. Increasing the desire for hardware manufacturers to make hardware for the OS that runs all the software.
Microsoft got into this cycle at the right time.
While there is popularity for the mobile OS's Android, iOS, even Windows 8 RT. There is still a need for a computer that can run software. (PC or Laptop) Windows 8 is trying to bridge that gap, trying to get into the market cycle of expansion again.
Windows 8 Metro Apps run on PC's and Mobile Devices more software will be made in Metro mode, the more software the more interest in hardware to make new devices that run Windows 8....
Is Windows the Best product out there... Probably not, it isn't that bad though, it is good enough for most peoples needs and once they get past the OMG IT IS DIFFERENT scare and learn the system, they will probably continue on.
Well even more to the point. There is the time we Made CFC's and the time we found out it was bad so we stopped using it, a 50-100 year gap. It may take a few hundred years for the chemical to degrade. But you may have a gap of a few hundred years in a planets billions year lifespan, to find evidence of intelligent life.
Well we in the tech industry are no longer in what is new anymore. We have gotten old and everything new and exciting now is just a threat to our lively hood. Because instead of learning the new stuff, we look back with nostalgia glasses with the stuff of the past. Never mind how slow the systems were, and how the hardware would fail every few months, and software crashes were expected and common.
I haven't heard about major security problems in IIS for years. Today you are no more or less vulnerable with IIS ASP. and SQL Server as you are with a LAMP. Back before Server 2003. You put yourself at risk, however the newer version have gotten far more secure and reliable.
Sure you get your security patches and upgrades but you get those for the LAMP systems too.
The biggest flaw isn't in your software choices but how well you coded you ASP.NET and your PHP and your SQL (My Sql or SQL Server) queries. Being that that Microsoft Development is very common, that means there will be more amateur coding of asp.net code making a lot of basic security mistakes. But if you take those people give them a crash course in PHP there code isn't going to be any more secure.
No people will get use to metro combined with improvements in it.
I remember the same bitching and moaning from windows 3.1 to windows 95. Why don't you start up progman.exe by default. Why that silly start menu it is useless. Those little delays when you choose a menu is just wasting productivity....
Having used many different OS's Windows 8 isn't that bad. There is room for improvement but I have found it to run very stable, and fast. The Metro UI with a laptop with a touch screen is actually very nice.
Expect to see Laptops with multi-touch screens to be common, then windows 8 will be more liked.
I actually like it. However my Laptop in which it is installed has a multi-touch screen, which makes it useful. I still think MS should have put some effort into a default into the desktop with a start button. For those who use mouse though. For touchscreen it is actually very good.
And for most Enterprise software you get the blame the support team a lot.
I once had to "design" an enterprise system. I kept on getting all my design request tossed out the window in favor to completely idiotic request with their only excuse is this is how enterprise software deals with them.
No no don't get the information you need get and load all the information, that fits the model. Oh there is something outside of that model. Instead of adding to the model go ahead and come up with a hacky way to get the data. Because it is an Enterprise System
While it is an Apple bug. the Carrier wasn't diligent enough to check for that flaw, and they are selling a device that could rack up minutes without the user knowing. For the most part if Verizon doesn't charge for the excess they are the good guy. If they charged than they will be less trusted.
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Is issue isn't if the Old People are Right or Wrong, but their reasoning for their decision.
Often the argument is driven by a nostalgic emotional attachment, and not by any rational measuring of the advantages vs disadvantages.
A lot of people miss leaded gasoline, because they miss the sweeter smell it gave off, vs. the harsher unleaded gasoline smell. Is a slightly better smell while filling your tank worth having hazardous chemicals in the air, and a residue that can get on your hands that is harmful as well?
Or those people who often buy unpasteurized milk on the black market. Because they claim it tastes better and has nutrition. Does the difference in taste and a minor improvement in nutrition outweigh the serious illnesses you can get from it?
If you go across hating everything, you can always nitpick and hang onto that one redeeming feature no matter how minor it is. Or you can jump on the bandwagon and say everything that comes out is immediately superior. Or you can just be balanced and actually stop thinking you are an expert in everything, and try it out, and/or read about it from many sources and judge for yourself if the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
Unless you factor a lot of people who don't buy bread because they often have a low consumption and it spoils before it is finished. That way people who don't buy bread may buy more and consume more if they feel it won't go bad as quickly. As well you need to factor in the cost of a fast turnaround of product. If your product has a 10 day turn around and the store buys it from you and it spoils before it is sold, then either the store will lose the money or the bread manufacturer depending on the agreement. However if it has a 60 day turn around time, that means there is more time the store can sell the product and less returns befor it gets into the consumers hands.
Your logic companies like Campbell's who makes canned goods would be out of business. However they are just as strong as ever.
Evolution doesn't always increase fitness it is random. It is a combination of generics, mutations, and the environment.
Now all we need to be is lucky enough to live long enough have offspring, who can live long enough to have their own.
There are many different ways this is done.
For some animals they lay thousands of eggs and die. With all those eggs chances are enough of them will survive to redo the process.
Humans need to live long enough to raise the children so they can survive and they only give off a small number.
The environment is one of the factors that usually kills us off. 200 generations that sounds like the dawn of civilizations, where we started plans to hedge our bets against environmental problems. Keep warm in the winter, move water around and save it for later, harvest food and store them for later...
So right now we have more genetic diversity. Because we made the environment easier on us.
Evolution is in play, right now there are a lot of variations in case of disaster there will be a better chance that there will be a good portion of the population who can survive it. and the wider diversity the greater number of disasters we can handle.
Exactly, this was suppose to be the big emotional moment. When I saw this I just started laughing at it
Besides I never really had a feeling from the move from the Light side of the Jedi to the Dark Side of the sith.
Emperor: I am the Sith Lord, Join Me.
Skywalker: OK, let me kill Samuel Jackson, then a bunch of helpless kids to show that I really crossed into the dark side.
If it were artistic you would have had a series of moral quest where you slowly cross the line.
Heck War Craft 3 had a better story arch of turning the good guy to the bad guy.
That depends on the level of work you will need to do. A set of finer screwdrivers comes in handy even a spring hook and a magnet comes in useful too
Postgres is my favorite as well. But in terms of employment. You should have strong database skills and less worry on the tool.
The differences between PostGre MySQL, Microsoft SQL isn't that huge. There are a different set of functions and more advanced features. But those are a google away.
This was years ago, and I have fixed it. It was more to a point that the specification was more important than the source.
My thoughts exactly except the term is scapegoat.
However it may have been due to poor management on his part though. Developers coming with good concerns and he wasn't taking them into consideration, or bringing them to the right level, because he was too afraid to tell his bosses bad news.
It could also be that there is a disagreement on the design. And after one was chosen he didn't work hard to make it succeed. I have seen this a lot in IT. I disagree with your methodology, so I will follow it, however will not do anything extra to make it succeed so when it fails I told you so.
Shouldn't we push more for Open Specifications vs Open Source Code.
If a hardware manufacturer just releases the specification we could create a program to interface with it. If say Microsoft was fully open about its Office Document Specification we could program a 100% compatible system for it.
Having access to Source Code has limited appeal to me. Everyone codes differently and as software gets older it will undoubtedly get to a point where it needs a fresh rewrite. If you release the specs then it allows the freedom of a new system to be made without all the legacy code that most people are afraid to touch.
The argument if the program is Open Source then it is Open Spec, isn't a good one. For example I had to maintain some FORTRAN Code. Then I needed to parse a data file the program made. I had the source... However the Data File wouldn't read when I recompiled the code on a different system. As the Datafile dumped the endianness of the memory into the file. In order for me to parse the file I had to get access to the specification of the original hardware to show me the difference in endianness of the old system with the new one.
Writing code is easy. Remaking code is easy too. Knowing the specification of the program now that is hard. So if there was a bigger push to Open Specification vs Open Source Code, I feel we would have far more software freedom in the world.
I am guessing you are living in one of the richer countries in Europe, like Germany and now you are paying all the other EU countries who are crumbling due to the cost of all these benefits.
Yes.
While the United States is currently the largest country with the most influence, most of the world though processes (good and bad) have American influences in them. But that isn't to say we are the cause of all the problems.
For example in the middle east. They have problems outside the United States. However because we are the biggest name we are a target used to unify the people to stop them from fighting amongst themselves. If there wasn't a United States, they would use England, Russia, France, China.... Who ever is the big name at the time, no matter what their foreign policies are.
In terms of global warming, the United States has a problem which is this. We are the third most populous country in the world and the 50th in terms of population density. That means there is a lot of people who need energy and that energy will need to be spread out across long distances.
Fossil Fuels and Nuclear are the only sources we have that can be easily distributed across the country. Solar energy is getting better, however it isn't to a point where it can cover all our energy needs. The other sources are dependant on location.
I know get the Americans to move to the city, get the people more densely packed like other counties. Any attempt that this will surely be very bloody, saying people they should give up their property they they earned, doesn't sit well with American Culture, and it will get violent if pressed. That said there are other countries who can take better advantage of green energy and use it. As well we should get more green energy working in the US's more populated areas. However the United States cannot be #1 in green energy, not because we don't want to, but because we can't
So in short, We want TV Quality Video.
Not so much news. If the video is choppy or looks bad, we tend to not want to watch it.
There is the people who called Color TV a fad. However its success was in the fact that the Color TV didn't come with a bunch of disadvantages, It was better to have color vs. Black and White. Now with Internet Video. There are advantages to it. However Lag and Quality are major disadvantages. And will not catch on unless both are resolved.
In many cases in both Lag and Quality have improved with advancements in network speed combined with better quality data compression, However still the load times means we need to invest into watching something vs. the old flipping through channels, to see what is on and if it catches you attention.
Nearly every time a car currently gets in the accident they will blame the car manufacture for a faulty part (The sudden Acceleration thing) where after one incident due to the pedal being stuck on the floor mat. We get a series of other events where this defect must be to blame for their faulty driving skills.
If your car goes out of control. You DON'T Drive Miles at high speed, You shift the Car into neutral and coast to a breakdown lane.
Even if the car had a fault, accedents usually come from stupid drivers.
Morality is easier to program into machines than in humans.
A* search evaluating all the bad things that could happen and you choose the least bad thing.
However for the case about the bus. Implying driving off the bridge is more moral than hitting the bus. However as you and the Bus reduces speed once they do collide you may have some injured people. vs 1 dead person.
It is important for us as citizens to have the rights to hold all officials (elected, appointed, hired...) accountable.
Police are here to serve and protect the public. Most of them do this job admirably, however when there is a minority who abuses the extra privileges given to them we as citizens should be empowered to point out the troublemakers, and insure that we don't create a cycle of corruptions, where even the good person can start getting into a case where they have passed the line.
In order for you to do your job, and catch people who are not following the laws, the police do need extra rights beyond the citizen to do the job. If there is a car speeding, the police will need to speed to catch the offender car. However they don't need to speed all the time when they are on patrol, but that is a simple offence. But once they get use to speeding, they will get use bending the rules, and may bend another one. And gradually fall into an ineffective officer. Knowing that citizens can keep them accountable with recording their activities privately, without their knowledge gives most people the need to be more conscious when they have to use their extra privileges.
Exactly Microsoft success was in cheap hardware.
They Made a contract to IBM to sell their OS on other hardware. Hence the IBM Compatible PC's that came out that were cheaper than the IBM systems.
Being you now have a choice of many brands of computer that can run the same software you a larger market that was more appealing developers... So there is more software being made for your platform. Increasing the desire for hardware manufacturers to make hardware for the OS that runs all the software.
Microsoft got into this cycle at the right time.
While there is popularity for the mobile OS's Android, iOS, even Windows 8 RT. There is still a need for a computer that can run software. (PC or Laptop) Windows 8 is trying to bridge that gap, trying to get into the market cycle of expansion again.
Windows 8 Metro Apps run on PC's and Mobile Devices more software will be made in Metro mode, the more software the more interest in hardware to make new devices that run Windows 8....
Is Windows the Best product out there... Probably not, it isn't that bad though, it is good enough for most peoples needs and once they get past the OMG IT IS DIFFERENT scare and learn the system, they will probably continue on.
Well even more to the point. There is the time we Made CFC's and the time we found out it was bad so we stopped using it, a 50-100 year gap. It may take a few hundred years for the chemical to degrade. But you may have a gap of a few hundred years in a planets billions year lifespan, to find evidence of intelligent life.
Well we in the tech industry are no longer in what is new anymore. We have gotten old and everything new and exciting now is just a threat to our lively hood. Because instead of learning the new stuff, we look back with nostalgia glasses with the stuff of the past. Never mind how slow the systems were, and how the hardware would fail every few months, and software crashes were expected and common.
However there comes a point where you need to add more chips and they expect the same size computer.
You mean you had problems last decade. There is no way a company in 10 years can improve their product. It is just impossible.
Post Bill Gates Microsoft - Less innovative but more reliable systems.
I haven't heard about major security problems in IIS for years. Today you are no more or less vulnerable with IIS ASP. and SQL Server as you are with a LAMP.
Back before Server 2003. You put yourself at risk, however the newer version have gotten far more secure and reliable.
Sure you get your security patches and upgrades but you get those for the LAMP systems too.
The biggest flaw isn't in your software choices but how well you coded you ASP.NET and your PHP and your SQL (My Sql or SQL Server) queries. Being that that Microsoft Development is very common, that means there will be more amateur coding of asp.net code making a lot of basic security mistakes. But if you take those people give them a crash course in PHP there code isn't going to be any more secure.
No people will get use to metro combined with improvements in it.
I remember the same bitching and moaning from windows 3.1 to windows 95. Why don't you start up progman.exe by default. Why that silly start menu it is useless. Those little delays when you choose a menu is just wasting productivity....
Having used many different OS's Windows 8 isn't that bad. There is room for improvement but I have found it to run very stable, and fast. The Metro UI with a laptop with a touch screen is actually very nice.
Expect to see Laptops with multi-touch screens to be common, then windows 8 will be more liked.
I actually like it. However my Laptop in which it is installed has a multi-touch screen, which makes it useful. I still think MS should have put some effort into a default into the desktop with a start button. For those who use mouse though. For touchscreen it is actually very good.
And for most Enterprise software you get the blame the support team a lot.
I once had to "design" an enterprise system. I kept on getting all my design request tossed out the window in favor to completely idiotic request with their only excuse is this is how enterprise software deals with them.
No no don't get the information you need get and load all the information, that fits the model. Oh there is something outside of that model. Instead of adding to the model go ahead and come up with a hacky way to get the data. Because it is an Enterprise System
The carrier sells the product.
While it is an Apple bug. the Carrier wasn't diligent enough to check for that flaw, and they are selling a device that could rack up minutes without the user knowing. For the most part if Verizon doesn't charge for the excess they are the good guy. If they charged than they will be less trusted.