Borders are interesting, and not as fixed as people want to think. The United States is a country, but each State is a State. for EU it isn't a country but a Union, which contains a bunch of countries which are most a single state. The United Kingdom is a bunch of countries as well.
So in terms of comparison. the US, Europe (EU), and China have roughly the same land mass and have large economies.
So it makes more sense compare them that way vs. France vs the US. because it would be closer to compare France against New York.
Were Americans, We implement we don't do research. We will wait for an AI research paper on having AI write AI Research Papers and we will implement an army of computers to write Research papers for us and we will be #1 again.
The biggest problem I see that most software is build around single threads. Back in the day I took Parallel processing course as an elective for my undergrad. It was a small class, (As its time conflicted with the graphics class, which was much more popular) however it really opened my mind on the actual power of Parallel processing. However most application that are running just use one thread, and you can see only one CPU doing all the work, so while the process may take a long time, it doesn't get split up. I am happy to see more focus on single core speed because unfortunately that is still needed.
This seems like a clear ground to fire someone. It isn't like they just fired someone for some mistake, or oversight. Like how Apple fired an Engineer because his daughter made a video showing the iPhone X before it was released. These guys were given access to the data to do their work. A company like Amazon needs some degree of trust that such data isn't mishandled. These people deliberately missused it. I am more surprised that these people are not in Jail.
My experience is with far more drive failures with mechanical drives vs SSD. The problem isn't nessarly with data retention of the disk, but the mechanical aspect that fails or worse crashes and scratches off the data.
FreeBSD is focused on being a traditional Unix system. Unlike a lot of Linux distribution like Ubuntu who try to be desktop or workstation that they want to compete against OS X and Windows. FreeBSD mostly stays the Pure Unix system for others to work off of.
FreeBSD is the Chocolate Bar Operating Systems. Where most of the new candy out there will be based on a Chocolate bar, they will have Nuts, Caramel, nugget.... That will try to make the candy more complex for peoples particular liking, the Standard Chocolate Bar is still around and when the fad candies go away, they will always go back to the Chocolate Bar and build the next fad off of that.
FreeBSD doesn't have too many changes that are noticeable, but they are often necessary to keep it current in today's time.
I wouldn't call them being cross developed, but ported to the other System.
Your examples really needed a crisp 80 column text display, those displays were best on the Black and White (often Amber or Green) screens that just allowed for higher resolutions without color bleeding. Businesses didn't use PC's with Monochrome displays just because they were cheaper then Color screens, but because they displayed text much easier.
Even Apple at the time, for its windows and graphics did Back and White monitors, vs Color displays for the same reason of having a high resolution was considered better then more colors.
Sure we forget about this now with our full color 1080 or 4k display resolutions where the high resolution combined with Anti-Aliasing. Heck now when programming, I will often make my programs in Black and White, not because of technical limitations, but because of I like the style of it.
The Engineers probably could had made a better system. But in 1993 you will need to fight off the momentum that Microsoft had, with its army of IBM and IBM Compatible PC's all running MS DOS and Windows 3.1x. With the 386 and 486 chips there was a set of 32bit systems that a middle class family could afford.
Yes Amiga could had made a better system, but all the software was for PC's. During that time you had to go to the Store and buy box copies of software, order copies over the mail, (much lower case shifting my eyes around) copping the floppies from a friend, or waiting hours to download the program from your local BBS. If you were an Amiga user, the stores may have a shelf for you, and perhaps if you were lucky a BBS will have Amiga software, but for the most part you will need to hunt down to find software for it. The Store has mostly PC products, a corner for Apple and Mac, and just a shelf for others.
The only way the Amiga system would had succeeded would had cause Amiga to die sooner. By having an army of Amiga compatible systems for sale like there was for the IBM PC market. This hurt IBM but Microsoft was the real winner there.
Doom was the first game to fully utilize the power of the 386 and 486 PCs and showcased what the new 32bit systems could do compared to the old 8 and 16 bit consoles. Doom didn't target Amiga, it hit the console market, hurting the likes of Nintendo and Sega. Having a fast moving game with top graphics and 3d perspective.
Now it really sucks that I cannot use my iDevice to play game ROMs emulate PC's or have my own programming language so I can use my phone as a personal computer with a tiny screen. However the apps for the device, I download for the most part usually work well, and are not malware.
Ignoring the Troll. I expect the people who wanted these word processors would like any other business make a business case for them, showing the costs and benefits of using them. Then sending that information to the purchasing manager to buy them. Before networked computers most businesses didn't need much of an IT, and early IT departments were just expansion of the Telecom department.
I find a lot of fear around new technology to be the same as the fear of flying. Where numbers all point to a better more robust product, there is just more anxiety for when something goes wrong, mostly because when it does, there is little to do to fix it.
The old spinning drive if failed, you can sometimes put it in the freezer power it up and get the data off, or if you are more technical you can open it up, and move the data disks to an other drive.
But for the most part, Standard best practices of keeping backups and/or having the correct RAID on your drives is the best option to keep the data safe. Solid State or mechanical, they can always fail. The solid state could fail from a power surge, or just excessive heat, or just a fault in the build.
You care comparing Competitive shooting with casual video games. I could do a couple hours of casual target shooting and not really burn that many more calories then I would playing a video game casually. The competitive gamers actually push themselves much harder then you would think. I do such things to help relieve stress and relax, but if I miss the target or get fragged by some 14 year old, no big deal. But if I were doing either competivly, I would be doing this over and over again, finding every way to maximize my performance. If I blinked while sipping water while going against someone else who is just as good if not better then me I would loose and if that is your profession, that lost will cost you a lot of money.
I go to the gym daily, to keep me in shape, because even working at my desk all day, on a stressful day the timelines and quality needs to be on point, I would be warn out completely. Our human brains use a lot of energy, so mental sports will take a lot out of you as well.
I don't see this as an age issue. But an issue with education and perception of education. Back in the olden days most middle class jobs didn't need any education. Drop out of school in the 8th grade and get a full time job and you are good for life. High School degree was good enough to often get you a cozy white collar job. an Associates degree Low level management, Bachelors degree mid management, Masters top level management, PHD mean you were some specialist or a professor. What happened? Well 2 World Wars, a bunch of wars against the spread of communism. So this added the GI bill which help pay for college making it affordable for the average citizen to get a degree, and also to help avoid being drafted as students will be less likely to be drafted. So by the late 20th century nearly everyone had a High School degree, and many have some college. This just raised the bar, on the minimum requirements.
Now the problem is there is a lot of talent who just isn't good for school. And we should find a way to help find such talent and bring them in. But also there is just a lot of lazy kids without the talent, and doesn't want to do do more school.
We are all happy for you that you are able to happily get by in the world with a cheap old phone.
We reward you with praise for not trying to be outlandish with having a fancy new phone, it shows how humble and practical person you are. You are truly an original human being. I mean on slashdot we never get posts about new technology without someone saying they are happy with their old system.
I don't think age is a major factor here. Many young people are disciplined enough to keep the books, know the product, and deal with people. But they are just as likely to screw up as an older person starting their own business. And sometimes the older person will bring along their baggage which will counteract experience. Such as yelling at employees, or just bringing a cloud of depression to a company, or just low energy. It really is 6 on one hand and half a dozen on the other.
However the Young CEO use to be cool, because the technology was new, and it was easier to find young wiz kids who know how to program, compared to retrain an engineer with 30 years experience with electronics.
For most people who Buy Things and Resell them will often add some value add to the product. Such as offering it at a convent location for you to pick it up, giving services and knowledge to help pick the right product, or just have more product available so there is less shopping around. The biggest advertising slogans is cutting out the middle man, however the Middle Man will often protect you from going in the wrong path, or just filling out a lot more paperwork, and leads you to more liability. Even the Used Car Salesman is often a better person to go threw to get a used car compared to Crags List or the car on the side of the road. As his business does rely on repeat business and word of mouth. So he would offer cars that have gone threw some level of quality checks.
They are a high risk and long term investment. For every Google there are thousand failures all from energetic people who believe that they have the next big thing to change the world. If you are going to invest in a startup vs an established company, you need to get past the flash and focus on the business plan, income, and market share. Opening a Deli next to the new Amazon warehouse may bring in much more money then trying to use the latest AI and other buzzards to add synergy to the creative personal to streamline business processes, and make teens flock to it.
The article said Google+ has been hacked not the Single Sign-in feature. If someone is going to hack a system, they will rarely ever do it by breaking the login screen, as their are often security holes around it that are for a good hacker, easier then trying to break the most front facing feature.
I expect the real issue with Google+ is Google just stopped caring for it years ago, and just let stuff rot.
The part of eSports that is the biggest problem for the likes of the Olympics is the standardization on what game(s) to play, and how soon will that game be too old to be interesting to watch anymore. Having it every 4 years (or 2 if you want it both summer and winter) usually will mean the game playing would either be out of date, or the athletes will always be playing something where they are not at their peak with. Games that are 8, 12, 16 years old are less on the eSports list. However I do think it would be hilarious if these were open internet games, and during the Olympics the Gold metal hopeful gets shot down by some kid camping out and got a lucky shot.
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Borders are interesting, and not as fixed as people want to think.
The United States is a country, but each State is a State. for EU it isn't a country but a Union, which contains a bunch of countries which are most a single state.
The United Kingdom is a bunch of countries as well.
So in terms of comparison. the US, Europe (EU), and China have roughly the same land mass and have large economies.
So it makes more sense compare them that way vs. France vs the US. because it would be closer to compare France against New York.
Were Americans, We implement we don't do research. We will wait for an AI research paper on having AI write AI Research Papers and we will implement an army of computers to write Research papers for us and we will be #1 again.
A dark chocolate bar is Gluten Free, Vegan, and full of Carbs. Free Trade wouldn't effect its taste.
The biggest problem I see that most software is build around single threads. Back in the day I took Parallel processing course as an elective for my undergrad. It was a small class, (As its time conflicted with the graphics class, which was much more popular) however it really opened my mind on the actual power of Parallel processing. However most application that are running just use one thread, and you can see only one CPU doing all the work, so while the process may take a long time, it doesn't get split up.
I am happy to see more focus on single core speed because unfortunately that is still needed.
This seems like a clear ground to fire someone.
It isn't like they just fired someone for some mistake, or oversight. Like how Apple fired an Engineer because his daughter made a video showing the iPhone X before it was released.
These guys were given access to the data to do their work. A company like Amazon needs some degree of trust that such data isn't mishandled. These people deliberately missused it. I am more surprised that these people are not in Jail.
So if they don't fix it in 20 years. You will be using 20+ year old processors (that still have the problem).
So you havn't solved the problem, and you will be working with outdated equipment.
My experience is with far more drive failures with mechanical drives vs SSD. The problem isn't nessarly with data retention of the disk, but the mechanical aspect that fails or worse crashes and scratches off the data.
FreeBSD is focused on being a traditional Unix system. Unlike a lot of Linux distribution like Ubuntu who try to be desktop or workstation that they want to compete against OS X and Windows. FreeBSD mostly stays the Pure Unix system for others to work off of.
FreeBSD is the Chocolate Bar Operating Systems.
Where most of the new candy out there will be based on a Chocolate bar, they will have Nuts, Caramel, nugget.... That will try to make the candy more complex for peoples particular liking, the Standard Chocolate Bar is still around and when the fad candies go away, they will always go back to the Chocolate Bar and build the next fad off of that.
FreeBSD doesn't have too many changes that are noticeable, but they are often necessary to keep it current in today's time.
I wouldn't call them being cross developed, but ported to the other System.
Your examples really needed a crisp 80 column text display, those displays were best on the Black and White (often Amber or Green) screens that just allowed for higher resolutions without color bleeding. Businesses didn't use PC's with Monochrome displays just because they were cheaper then Color screens, but because they displayed text much easier.
Even Apple at the time, for its windows and graphics did Back and White monitors, vs Color displays for the same reason of having a high resolution was considered better then more colors.
Sure we forget about this now with our full color 1080 or 4k display resolutions where the high resolution combined with Anti-Aliasing. Heck now when programming, I will often make my programs in Black and White, not because of technical limitations, but because of I like the style of it.
The Engineers probably could had made a better system. But in 1993 you will need to fight off the momentum that Microsoft had, with its army of IBM and IBM Compatible PC's all running MS DOS and Windows 3.1x. With the 386 and 486 chips there was a set of 32bit systems that a middle class family could afford.
Yes Amiga could had made a better system, but all the software was for PC's. During that time you had to go to the Store and buy box copies of software, order copies over the mail, (much lower case shifting my eyes around) copping the floppies from a friend, or waiting hours to download the program from your local BBS.
If you were an Amiga user, the stores may have a shelf for you, and perhaps if you were lucky a BBS will have Amiga software, but for the most part you will need to hunt down to find software for it.
The Store has mostly PC products, a corner for Apple and Mac, and just a shelf for others.
The only way the Amiga system would had succeeded would had cause Amiga to die sooner. By having an army of Amiga compatible systems for sale like there was for the IBM PC market. This hurt IBM but Microsoft was the real winner there.
Doom was the first game to fully utilize the power of the 386 and 486 PCs and showcased what the new 32bit systems could do compared to the old 8 and 16 bit consoles. Doom didn't target Amiga, it hit the console market, hurting the likes of Nintendo and Sega. Having a fast moving game with top graphics and 3d perspective.
Now it really sucks that I cannot use my iDevice to play game ROMs emulate PC's or have my own programming language so I can use my phone as a personal computer with a tiny screen.
However the apps for the device, I download for the most part usually work well, and are not malware.
Ignoring the Troll.
I expect the people who wanted these word processors would like any other business make a business case for them, showing the costs and benefits of using them. Then sending that information to the purchasing manager to buy them.
Before networked computers most businesses didn't need much of an IT, and early IT departments were just expansion of the Telecom department.
That is why I always stick to real to real 9 track paper tape. If you can't see the bits you just can't trust it.
I find a lot of fear around new technology to be the same as the fear of flying.
Where numbers all point to a better more robust product, there is just more anxiety for when something goes wrong, mostly because when it does, there is little to do to fix it.
The old spinning drive if failed, you can sometimes put it in the freezer power it up and get the data off, or if you are more technical you can open it up, and move the data disks to an other drive.
But for the most part, Standard best practices of keeping backups and/or having the correct RAID on your drives is the best option to keep the data safe. Solid State or mechanical, they can always fail. The solid state could fail from a power surge, or just excessive heat, or just a fault in the build.
You care comparing Competitive shooting with casual video games.
I could do a couple hours of casual target shooting and not really burn that many more calories then I would playing a video game casually.
The competitive gamers actually push themselves much harder then you would think. I do such things to help relieve stress and relax, but if I miss the target or get fragged by some 14 year old, no big deal. But if I were doing either competivly, I would be doing this over and over again, finding every way to maximize my performance. If I blinked while sipping water while going against someone else who is just as good if not better then me I would loose and if that is your profession, that lost will cost you a lot of money.
I go to the gym daily, to keep me in shape, because even working at my desk all day, on a stressful day the timelines and quality needs to be on point, I would be warn out completely. Our human brains use a lot of energy, so mental sports will take a lot out of you as well.
I don't see this as an age issue. But an issue with education and perception of education.
Back in the olden days most middle class jobs didn't need any education. Drop out of school in the 8th grade and get a full time job and you are good for life. High School degree was good enough to often get you a cozy white collar job. an Associates degree Low level management, Bachelors degree mid management, Masters top level management, PHD mean you were some specialist or a professor.
What happened? Well 2 World Wars, a bunch of wars against the spread of communism. So this added the GI bill which help pay for college making it affordable for the average citizen to get a degree, and also to help avoid being drafted as students will be less likely to be drafted.
So by the late 20th century nearly everyone had a High School degree, and many have some college. This just raised the bar, on the minimum requirements.
Now the problem is there is a lot of talent who just isn't good for school. And we should find a way to help find such talent and bring them in. But also there is just a lot of lazy kids without the talent, and doesn't want to do do more school.
We are all happy for you that you are able to happily get by in the world with a cheap old phone.
We reward you with praise for not trying to be outlandish with having a fancy new phone, it shows how humble and practical person you are. You are truly an original human being. I mean on slashdot we never get posts about new technology without someone saying they are happy with their old system.
Now?
This has been an issue on slashdot from day one.
I don't think age is a major factor here. Many young people are disciplined enough to keep the books, know the product, and deal with people. But they are just as likely to screw up as an older person starting their own business. And sometimes the older person will bring along their baggage which will counteract experience. Such as yelling at employees, or just bringing a cloud of depression to a company, or just low energy. It really is 6 on one hand and half a dozen on the other.
However the Young CEO use to be cool, because the technology was new, and it was easier to find young wiz kids who know how to program, compared to retrain an engineer with 30 years experience with electronics.
For most people who Buy Things and Resell them will often add some value add to the product. Such as offering it at a convent location for you to pick it up, giving services and knowledge to help pick the right product, or just have more product available so there is less shopping around.
The biggest advertising slogans is cutting out the middle man, however the Middle Man will often protect you from going in the wrong path, or just filling out a lot more paperwork, and leads you to more liability.
Even the Used Car Salesman is often a better person to go threw to get a used car compared to Crags List or the car on the side of the road. As his business does rely on repeat business and word of mouth. So he would offer cars that have gone threw some level of quality checks.
They are a high risk and long term investment.
For every Google there are thousand failures all from energetic people who believe that they have the next big thing to change the world. If you are going to invest in a startup vs an established company, you need to get past the flash and focus on the business plan, income, and market share. Opening a Deli next to the new Amazon warehouse may bring in much more money then trying to use the latest AI and other buzzards to add synergy to the creative personal to streamline business processes, and make teens flock to it.
The article said Google+ has been hacked not the Single Sign-in feature.
If someone is going to hack a system, they will rarely ever do it by breaking the login screen, as their are often security holes around it that are for a good hacker, easier then trying to break the most front facing feature.
I expect the real issue with Google+ is Google just stopped caring for it years ago, and just let stuff rot.
You could tell that to the Olympic Rifle shooting teams.
In terms of athleticism how is eSports different then from many of the Shooting sports.
The part of eSports that is the biggest problem for the likes of the Olympics is the standardization on what game(s) to play, and how soon will that game be too old to be interesting to watch anymore. Having it every 4 years (or 2 if you want it both summer and winter) usually will mean the game playing would either be out of date, or the athletes will always be playing something where they are not at their peak with. Games that are 8, 12, 16 years old are less on the eSports list.
However I do think it would be hilarious if these were open internet games, and during the Olympics the Gold metal hopeful gets shot down by some kid camping out and got a lucky shot.