Yea! I read enough Science Fiction to know anything man made with science is going to backfire and cause a dystopia type of future.
Your statement is full of contradictions. I am fine with clear labeling, but because it is artificial you automatically place it on the avoid list, because you want to make a decision if it is healthy or not. Not based on science or research, but from a culture that is portrayed via science fiction that all things artificial is bad.
Now if we can meet our protein requirements, with a food that meets our nutritional needs, while being easy, cheap and more environmental to create without having to raise and slaughter animals, all the better.
Now our natural food, is filled with a bunch of toxins both natural (as every life form that exists, seem to have evolved some protection from being too healthy to predators) and artificial (pollution, medication, unsanitary living environment) that is going to kill us anyways. A clean lab grown meat, may be much better for us, and not be abomination food of the future, that we have been warn about. The main reason why it was warned about wasn't based on science, but needing something that will cause conflict in a story to make it interesting.
Well for some reason people wants the best of both worlds. The closed nature of Apple, gives you a safe environment to work in, and the Apple App Store Apps are on average better quality then what Google has to offer, plus you have a good selection. Now there are a lot of apps the will not be on the Apple Store often many of them are actually very powerful and useful tools, but seems to step against Apples Rules. I don't see it weird that people want a superior device for most of their usage, with the ability to add some features that they normally can't get.
Also being early on most people were use to OS X Platform, which was more open then Windows.
A young attractive woman, who is popular, rich... Who also will play at concerts that is a short drive from where you live, where you can meet in person... While not my type of music, she is a talented singer, and performer. I can see a lot of people who are stupid enough to think a friendly smile or point at in a concert actually meant something, vs just playing to the audience and being friendly to her fan/revenue base.
There are a lot of stupid guys who misinterpret flirting or just friendliness as opening the door for further relations.
Why do you think any company or organization can be trusted? When any any group gets larger their morals gets simpler as it will need to accommodate the diversity of all the people and their needs within it. A company will want to make money. A religion will want more followers. A Lobby group will just want listeners. Leaving us individuals having to fend for our self in terms of making sure we keep our moral standards in place. There is nothing wrong likening a company, following a religion, or being part of a political party. But you will need to remember to keep your standards in place and these larger organizations will have an agenda that may be in conflict with its previous statements. Because their agenda is different then yours.
However the Truth can create harm, and the powers to be, and the powers to interpret and enforce can deem information that causes them harm to be false. We need to know how truthful the information is, while making sure the judges on its truthfulness are kept in check. The Free Media even with posting fake news or just misleading news on times, is still better then a government controlled news source, where the "Good of the People" rule is used to block what is just inconvenient for the leadership.
This has always been bugging me. The Information and Entertainment computer for your car shouldn't be part of the same computer that deals with functions of the car primary purpose, to drive, steer, accelerate, break in the most efficient way possible. Most of the features on your entertainment screen in your car you could do with a $20 Raspberry Pi as a separate computer and you can have hard wired read only drive information sent over to it. That way you can have all the internet access and hacking you want without it affecting your actual car.
What is the classification of a smart phone? If I add a G4 Wireless to my laptop I will get 99% of my smartphone functionality with 100% of my laptop functionality. Now granted My laptop doesn't have super long battery mostly do to it being over powered. But for 100k I would gladly get a an ultrabook with longer battery life. I am half expecting Apple to drop the ability to make phone calls on the iPhone XI, as who uses their phone to call people anymore?
I piked on Fox mainly because that statement was very early in its terms and services. I would love to have the New Media have some sort of consequences for providing misleading information, however every solution I think of seems like scary 1984 type of solution.
Leaving a job doesn't burn the bridge. However most of the time people will not reapply back to the same company, unless it is large enough (over 100 employees) where there is a better position for them, because of their job growth withing that period of time in the middle.
2 out of 3 employers that I have worked for are out of business/sold merged to a different company. While I joke that I probably should had left better documents, most of the time the reason those companies had those issue was due leadership deciding to retire.
There was one time we wern't sure if an employee was ghosting or not. Luckily management decided to actually dig in further and realized he was suffering from a major case of depression. Where we were able to get help for him, and kept his job open. Then there was an other guy, where we actually found out, because he went on vacation and didn't come back, while checking his desk for some work that needed to be done, we found a note under his laptop saying he had quit, and had wiped clean his laptop. (Which was very unprofessional, and couldn't get the work for us to complete)
I don't think people forget this at all. If you are professional, you want to leave with a good impression with the company. For good references, good relations with your fellow employees who may be hiring managers in the future, and if things go south, there may be an other company to get hired again with.
Just because they can do this, and you can do this as well, it doesn't mean it is a good idea to do it.
Because this can have unintended consequences for you. There was this employee who just got up an quit, to never be seen again. Me as a fellow employee had to pick up his work and get things done. I have moved onto a different place to work, then I see his resume for validation...
Sure the company we both worked at sucked, but he left dumping work on me, so when I see his name I will not get the warm and fuzzy, because no job is perfect and because he just got up and left, we don't know what the issue was or the trigger.
<Platitudes> Try not to burn your bridges after you cross them. Because the grass only seems greener from the other side. </Platitudes>
While there is an employment shortage, this isn't a long term issue, and the market will move from an employees market back to an employers market. So if that great new job you got turns sour (because they gave you too much more then what you are actually worth, because of employee scarcity) You may be out of a job, and the company that seemed to suck so much, may still have a spot for you, because its conservative investments meant such a turn in the market didn't hurt them as much.
Yea progress, lets make an exclusive form of travel even more exclusive.
If I could ride in an air craft with a lots of legroom and only have to deal with a few people. I wouldn't mind it flying slower. (But I like taking a train when it is economical though)
Subscriptions actually make more sense for businesses. Automatic updates, lower upfront cost to allow more liquidity towards purchases more directly needed for the business,The ability to cancel services when the product isn't needed...
For Home use though, it is just a suck on our income, with an other monthly bill to make sure you have money in your bank account to pay for. And for a product you may not be using all the time. I would much rather buy a copy of office for a few hundred bucks and let it become a few years out of date, where if my income gets tight I can still have the product at hand.
Luckally LibreOffice is good enough for my home use. And my works Office account allows me to have a copy on my PC as well. However what I really miss is Photoshop, I really can't justify paying that much for Adobe Subscription for software that is on my PC
There are some "New sources" that seem like fully legitimate news sources however if you reads their terms of use " Company furnishes the Company Sites and the Company Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment." Or in general stating what they say may not be true, as it could be parody. Then there is a wide range of editorial comprehension of the news, where peoples personal feelings of the news gets expressed, often by stating a sentience in a different way, such as "Government Shutdown" vs "Government Slowdown" vs "Placing a hold on paying most bills until a budget is signed" We also have incomplete and often inaccurate "Breaking News" which is stating what it known at the time, and normal mistakes do happen in the news as well.
Or perhaps they will, and our own paranoia will keep us in our place. Why bother putting the resources in spying on us when it is much easier to make us think that we are being spied on.
True (I would like some citation that this happens every 10 minutes), However this type of information requires a targeted attack, meaning the hacker wants to break into the system with a particular persons credentials. This is a lot of work, as there are often easier ways around it. I am still baffled on why the FBI cannot break the encryption on an iPhone, where all they need to do is open up the device take out the SSD chip and download the data onto an other computer with an OS that will not delete the data and brute force try the pins. Also most hacks and break ins are not an issue of a targeted login. A phishing attack may just send out mass emails, hoping someone would think that it was their bank account and log in, or try other systems compramised logins and passwords to try with other systems. But it isn't targeted and allows a low cost for failure. Vs. having expensive equipment to duplicate your face.
I think a lot of people feel that our economy has peaked, and that there is a downturn shortly down the road. (Which is backed up with the Interest rate inversion) During this time, people do rather erratic things, such as investing in a popping bubble thinking it had dropped as far as it went. Also with general fear and uncertainty they probably think Crypto Currency is a way to diversify their newly acquired wealth.
Crypto currencies for your day to day purchases will need to find a way to cut down its price variation. If I had 20 bitcoins in 2003 I could buy a Pizza, in 2016 I could buy a house. in 2018 you can buy a car. If I had 20 US Dollars in 2003 I could buy a 2 large pizza with 4 toppings, in 2016 I can buy two large Pizza's with 2 toppings, in 2018 I can still buy 2 large pizzas with a 2 toppings (but they may skimp a little on the cheese)
When is a good time to buy a currency? Who knows with the variance you could had payed at the peak, thus have lost your money, or you got it a good price, but now you are afraid to sell it because its value could go up much more.
During the last financial crisis, the value of the dollar dropped, but not by a huge amount. It will take decades of assault to make it worthless to a point where the USD is no good.
Threads are not always the only answer to parallelism. With tools like OpenCL that takes advantages of GPU cores we can take more of a SIMD (Single Instruction Multi-Data) approach to coding. In many ways this makes it easier, because there is less of a timing issue and conflicts that can go on. Because you are sending one instruction at a time, however it in parallel are doing it with multiable data sets.
That is my expectation as well. The heaviest components in a laptop is normally its support structure, the cooling path and the battery. My Laptop is in the 6lbs range but the case is solid metal and very sturdy and not flimsy at all. The specs that they give, doesn't add too much weight compared to other specs. an SD card for 500gigs will weigh as much as a 100gig sd card, Getting 1 16gig ram weighs as much as an 8 gig ram. Much of the weight on a laptop is holding it together,
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Yea! I read enough Science Fiction to know anything man made with science is going to backfire and cause a dystopia type of future.
Your statement is full of contradictions. I am fine with clear labeling, but because it is artificial you automatically place it on the avoid list, because you want to make a decision if it is healthy or not. Not based on science or research, but from a culture that is portrayed via science fiction that all things artificial is bad.
Now if we can meet our protein requirements, with a food that meets our nutritional needs, while being easy, cheap and more environmental to create without having to raise and slaughter animals, all the better.
Now our natural food, is filled with a bunch of toxins both natural (as every life form that exists, seem to have evolved some protection from being too healthy to predators) and artificial (pollution, medication, unsanitary living environment) that is going to kill us anyways. A clean lab grown meat, may be much better for us, and not be abomination food of the future, that we have been warn about. The main reason why it was warned about wasn't based on science, but needing something that will cause conflict in a story to make it interesting.
Well for some reason people wants the best of both worlds. The closed nature of Apple, gives you a safe environment to work in, and the Apple App Store Apps are on average better quality then what Google has to offer, plus you have a good selection. Now there are a lot of apps the will not be on the Apple Store often many of them are actually very powerful and useful tools, but seems to step against Apples Rules.
I don't see it weird that people want a superior device for most of their usage, with the ability to add some features that they normally can't get.
Also being early on most people were use to OS X Platform, which was more open then Windows.
Why are those even computer controlled?
Don't you just need a capacitor and a relay?
A young attractive woman, who is popular, rich... Who also will play at concerts that is a short drive from where you live, where you can meet in person...
While not my type of music, she is a talented singer, and performer. I can see a lot of people who are stupid enough to think a friendly smile or point at in a concert actually meant something, vs just playing to the audience and being friendly to her fan/revenue base.
There are a lot of stupid guys who misinterpret flirting or just friendliness as opening the door for further relations.
Why do you think any company or organization can be trusted?
When any any group gets larger their morals gets simpler as it will need to accommodate the diversity of all the people and their needs within it.
A company will want to make money. A religion will want more followers. A Lobby group will just want listeners.
Leaving us individuals having to fend for our self in terms of making sure we keep our moral standards in place.
There is nothing wrong likening a company, following a religion, or being part of a political party. But you will need to remember to keep your standards in place and these larger organizations will have an agenda that may be in conflict with its previous statements. Because their agenda is different then yours.
However the Truth can create harm, and the powers to be, and the powers to interpret and enforce can deem information that causes them harm to be false. We need to know how truthful the information is, while making sure the judges on its truthfulness are kept in check. The Free Media even with posting fake news or just misleading news on times, is still better then a government controlled news source, where the "Good of the People" rule is used to block what is just inconvenient for the leadership.
This has always been bugging me. The Information and Entertainment computer for your car shouldn't be part of the same computer that deals with functions of the car primary purpose, to drive, steer, accelerate, break in the most efficient way possible. Most of the features on your entertainment screen in your car you could do with a $20 Raspberry Pi as a separate computer and you can have hard wired read only drive information sent over to it. That way you can have all the internet access and hacking you want without it affecting your actual car.
What is the classification of a smart phone?
If I add a G4 Wireless to my laptop I will get 99% of my smartphone functionality with 100% of my laptop functionality. Now granted My laptop doesn't have super long battery mostly do to it being over powered. But for 100k I would gladly get a an ultrabook with longer battery life.
I am half expecting Apple to drop the ability to make phone calls on the iPhone XI, as who uses their phone to call people anymore?
I piked on Fox mainly because that statement was very early in its terms and services. I would love to have the New Media have some sort of consequences for providing misleading information, however every solution I think of seems like scary 1984 type of solution.
Leaving a job doesn't burn the bridge. However most of the time people will not reapply back to the same company, unless it is large enough (over 100 employees) where there is a better position for them, because of their job growth withing that period of time in the middle.
2 out of 3 employers that I have worked for are out of business/sold merged to a different company. While I joke that I probably should had left better documents, most of the time the reason those companies had those issue was due leadership deciding to retire.
There was one time we wern't sure if an employee was ghosting or not. Luckily management decided to actually dig in further and realized he was suffering from a major case of depression. Where we were able to get help for him, and kept his job open.
Then there was an other guy, where we actually found out, because he went on vacation and didn't come back, while checking his desk for some work that needed to be done, we found a note under his laptop saying he had quit, and had wiped clean his laptop. (Which was very unprofessional, and couldn't get the work for us to complete)
I don't think people forget this at all. If you are professional, you want to leave with a good impression with the company. For good references, good relations with your fellow employees who may be hiring managers in the future, and if things go south, there may be an other company to get hired again with.
Just because they can do this, and you can do this as well, it doesn't mean it is a good idea to do it.
Because this can have unintended consequences for you.
There was this employee who just got up an quit, to never be seen again. Me as a fellow employee had to pick up his work and get things done. I have moved onto a different place to work, then I see his resume for validation...
Sure the company we both worked at sucked, but he left dumping work on me, so when I see his name I will not get the warm and fuzzy, because no job is perfect and because he just got up and left, we don't know what the issue was or the trigger.
<Platitudes>
Try not to burn your bridges after you cross them. Because the grass only seems greener from the other side.
</Platitudes>
While there is an employment shortage, this isn't a long term issue, and the market will move from an employees market back to an employers market. So if that great new job you got turns sour (because they gave you too much more then what you are actually worth, because of employee scarcity) You may be out of a job, and the company that seemed to suck so much, may still have a spot for you, because its conservative investments meant such a turn in the market didn't hurt them as much.
Yea progress, lets make an exclusive form of travel even more exclusive.
If I could ride in an air craft with a lots of legroom and only have to deal with a few people. I wouldn't mind it flying slower. (But I like taking a train when it is economical though)
Subscriptions actually make more sense for businesses. Automatic updates, lower upfront cost to allow more liquidity towards purchases more directly needed for the business,The ability to cancel services when the product isn't needed...
For Home use though, it is just a suck on our income, with an other monthly bill to make sure you have money in your bank account to pay for. And for a product you may not be using all the time. I would much rather buy a copy of office for a few hundred bucks and let it become a few years out of date, where if my income gets tight I can still have the product at hand.
Luckally LibreOffice is good enough for my home use. And my works Office account allows me to have a copy on my PC as well.
However what I really miss is Photoshop, I really can't justify paying that much for Adobe Subscription for software that is on my PC
There are some "New sources" that seem like fully legitimate news sources however if you reads their terms of use " Company furnishes the Company Sites and the Company Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment." Or in general stating what they say may not be true, as it could be parody. Then there is a wide range of editorial comprehension of the news, where peoples personal feelings of the news gets expressed, often by stating a sentience in a different way, such as "Government Shutdown" vs "Government Slowdown" vs "Placing a hold on paying most bills until a budget is signed"
We also have incomplete and often inaccurate "Breaking News" which is stating what it known at the time, and normal mistakes do happen in the news as well.
Or perhaps they will, and our own paranoia will keep us in our place.
Why bother putting the resources in spying on us when it is much easier to make us think that we are being spied on.
True (I would like some citation that this happens every 10 minutes), However this type of information requires a targeted attack, meaning the hacker wants to break into the system with a particular persons credentials. This is a lot of work, as there are often easier ways around it. I am still baffled on why the FBI cannot break the encryption on an iPhone, where all they need to do is open up the device take out the SSD chip and download the data onto an other computer with an OS that will not delete the data and brute force try the pins. Also most hacks and break ins are not an issue of a targeted login. A phishing attack may just send out mass emails, hoping someone would think that it was their bank account and log in, or try other systems compramised logins and passwords to try with other systems. But it isn't targeted and allows a low cost for failure. Vs. having expensive equipment to duplicate your face.
I think a lot of people feel that our economy has peaked, and that there is a downturn shortly down the road. (Which is backed up with the Interest rate inversion) During this time, people do rather erratic things, such as investing in a popping bubble thinking it had dropped as far as it went. Also with general fear and uncertainty they probably think Crypto Currency is a way to diversify their newly acquired wealth.
Crypto currencies for your day to day purchases will need to find a way to cut down its price variation.
If I had 20 bitcoins in 2003 I could buy a Pizza, in 2016 I could buy a house. in 2018 you can buy a car. If I had 20 US Dollars in 2003 I could buy a 2 large pizza with 4 toppings, in 2016 I can buy two large Pizza's with 2 toppings, in 2018 I can still buy 2 large pizzas with a 2 toppings (but they may skimp a little on the cheese)
When is a good time to buy a currency? Who knows with the variance you could had payed at the peak, thus have lost your money, or you got it a good price, but now you are afraid to sell it because its value could go up much more.
During the last financial crisis, the value of the dollar dropped, but not by a huge amount. It will take decades of assault to make it worthless to a point where the USD is no good.
Threads are not always the only answer to parallelism. With tools like OpenCL that takes advantages of GPU cores we can take more of a SIMD (Single Instruction Multi-Data) approach to coding.
In many ways this makes it easier, because there is less of a timing issue and conflicts that can go on. Because you are sending one instruction at a time, however it in parallel are doing it with multiable data sets.
That is my expectation as well. The heaviest components in a laptop is normally its support structure, the cooling path and the battery. My Laptop is in the 6lbs range but the case is solid metal and very sturdy and not flimsy at all. The specs that they give, doesn't add too much weight compared to other specs. an SD card for 500gigs will weigh as much as a 100gig sd card, Getting 1 16gig ram weighs as much as an 8 gig ram.
Much of the weight on a laptop is holding it together,
Don't forget the freedom to snub your nose to other people, with a smug sense of superiority.
Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton are no slouches either. And they are all within a couple hundred miles of each other.