Yea it is cool... However you will probably get more bang for your buck with Horses... They do the same thing that the robot does but better and quieter. They have been tested valuable in warfare in the past.
The only advantage I see with the robot is you can turn it off for week or months without much maintenance.
Well I could see it useful in more then just a few places. The basic rule of Computer Science is the 80/20 rule. 80% of the Use is on 20% of the data. For the most part we Store far more then we read back. Sounds wasteful? Well it is in a way however not collecting the data will mean 20% of the time you may need to access the other 80% of the data. So it may still be needed, and the 20% of popular data can change over time.
Also I wouldn't read too much into it either. Apple is probably hedging its bets as well. You keep an eye on what other competitors are doing, keep a port running on a different platform, and if your manufacture cannot provide you with the quality/price that you want to have, you have an escape route.
The PPC was lagging in consumer level chips, so apple switched to Intel, the transition went fairly smoothly because Apple was prepared. As an Apple Customer you are stuck with vendor lock in. Apple itself actively avoids that. I am willing to bet Mac OSs were ported for a bunch of different platforms Ultra Sparc, Alpha, AMD, Itanium... over time and they never were released as a product. However if there were push come to shove Apple could have switched.
A company like Halliburton, is a big company. Most of you the only reason to hate it was because of its connection with a former Vice President who was a War Hawk Republican. Like all Large companies they do a lot of things. And the IT decision to move from Blackberry to iOS, probably isn't part of some evil plot. Just probably more innocently trying to give customers a better tool for their job. Blackberry had some really large problems in the past few years. Network outages, lack of interests in developing 3rd party apps. Most likely a lot of employees wanted iOS devices more then ones who liked their blackberry. So they made an IT decision to switch... No big deal.
If Apple messes up or something that is far superior pops up then you will see the market switch again.
This isn't some Evil attracted to Evil, liberal hippy crap. To big companies often thing that are ethically wrong... Yes. Are all their decisions based on Evil... No. Sometimes an IT Decision is just that.
Well like most crimes you cannot stop them. But you can keep them at a manageable level. Saying it won't end piracy doesn't mean we should all piracy to be allowed. With all the work and effort people put into making media having it all for free is not sustainable. Piracy needs to be controlled but the effort to stop it is too high of a cost.
Meetings are not a magic bullet for good managers, it is just a tool in their shed. You could have had a manager who did good stand up meeting but sucked at the rest of his job. While the new manager may have bad meetings but the rest of his management is better.
Emails have the problem that they are perminate. You can ask a question or put your status one wrong word could mean a firestorm of emails. "I don't know" or "I am having some problems" is a kiss of death for a simple problem stated in a quick meeting.
You don't get the point of the standup meeting. Why is it standup, it is to keep the meeting short, and to the point. Where otherwise it will be an hour long sit down meeting once a week.
The daily meeting has other advantages. 1. It puts everyone in the same room at the same time and they know what is going on daily. This can stop duplication of effort as sometimes you get multiple requirements across many people but the work is actually nearly the same.
2. It helps focus on what your tasks are for the day. Let's face it, there are days that you slack off on not because you don't have enough work but because your daily goal wasn't there. A quick meeting where you need to state your goal keeps you honest and helps you know your goal is for the day.
3. It is informal and no notes, nothing gets fixed in stone, allows for more of an honest assessment.
4. Team lead is informed on what is going on, and when pressed by management he has the answer.
5. Simple problems can get solved easier. After the meeting people's schedules can disconnect and it could take days to answer a simple question.
The fastest man made object is now traveling at 0.006% of the speed of light...That will only take us 366,667 years to get there...
Space is Big Really Big... The Speed of Light is really fast. Science Fiction Speeds are not yet possible as Science Fiction is Fiction thus not True, and science fiction speeds are a plot device to put people in a different set of interesting story telling issues, and may not ever be, even fictional Star Trek (Voyager Speeds) it will take a week at full warp to get there.
Ok full disclosure, I never really cared for PERL, I was always more of a Python fan myself. But has there really been that much real effort in the PERL community? In its hay days during the Late 90's and Early 2000's there was a lot of PERL Development, but it seems it has dropped off and PERL lost its shine. I am asking because I am more of a Python Fan and I haven't been really involved in PERL apps. But back in the day every time you tried to find an open source program to do something it required PERL... Not so much of this any more, is it because I have changed how I look for software or is it because PERL is no longer as popular as it was before.
"Bullshit. They bought up companies to strip assets from, nothing more. Most of the companies bought by Bain were doing well enough on their own."
That doesn't sound like a good business model. That it buy low and sell at a loss... Those are for cases that they couldn't turn around.
<i>"You don't get to be #1 with racists without dog-whistling racism all day long. Republican policies are, and have been since they welcomed the Dixiecrats with open arms, racist. You honestly think they'd be screaming about shutting down "the border" if the majority of "illegals", as the racist repubs like to call them, were white-skinned canadians?"</i>
You hear the same stuff coming from the democrats too. If you are going to throw history of past stances both the Republican and Democrats have had their racist moments. Please cite the official Republican agenda to close down the border. The difference between Mexico and Canada is that it is easier to see the influence. However the debate is what to do about "illegal", and even in the party you see a lot of debates... The party isn't polarized on this issue.
"Oh bullshit and go fuck yourself. The Republicans are fucking lunatics who think that shutting down free breast cancer exams for low income women is "justified" if they can "get" Planned Parenthood - just the latest example of the GOP, modern home of racism, misogyny, and inhumanity."
As said by the person who cannot write a rebutted without using profanity.
Putting quotes around stuff doesn't make it true. The companies that Romney was said to "strip and sell" were companies that were on the verge of collapse. So they buy the companies, make them profitable and then sell them. A big reason why a lot of companies get in the verge of collapse status is because they got too ambitious in their growth, or have reached their peak and they kept trying to grow, while other forces are making such companies business model not as successful. The current owners do not know what to do, or are afraid of making the tough decision to unfortunately lay off people in areas where growth isn't feasible. Also part of the process is to hire people in the right areas. Then when they get the company back on their feet they will sell it. That is their job. If there weren't companies doing this a lot more companies will just close down and all the employees will loose their job.
Dodging taxes and exploiting loopholes... He is not dodging taxes or exploiting anything, his primary source of income has a 15% limit on it. The tax form with the paper will have that number and if you had most of your money coming from you will probably be paying similar tax rates. Blame the Tax law for this not the man.
Racism as a key platform? The republican party is not racists however they are #1 with racists (to paraphrase The Simpsons). The Republicans are not racist as part of their platform. However their goal of smaller government does clash with with equal rights groups who feels that government needs to be more involved.
During the republican primaries I am not hearing much War Hawking going on. They do want to keep the military of the US strong.
Romney was a Governor of Massachusetts a strong pro-life stance would get him nowhere, besides the Abortion issues is political smoke anyways...
You have a problem with facts, you want to vilify the republicans you are just as bad as the republicans are to the democrats. You come up with lies and you back them up with more lies from other sources so your lies seem like the truth.
No... "Lost at Sea". Unscheduled travel "got in the way" of some War Games. Knowing the boat was filled with valuable servers it got taken over by pirates and looted.
When was the last time you really saw a brand new unique product?
You got a Rock, You smash you hand it hurts, your enemy comes after you, you smash him with the rock, you win. Lets get a bigger rock, lets attach a stick to that rock. Lets sharpen the point of that rock, Lets use lighter rocks that throw better. Lets use an other stick to throw that rock and stick further, Lets put a vine to an other stick and use that to fire the rock on a stick. Lets add some feathers so it flies smoother.....
You were walking over a log you pushed it and a heavy object on to of it moved much easier, you use the the log to move other heavy objects, you get more logs and move it. You use the large part of the log and put a heavy stick in the middle and moving things is a little easier you put something around the Stick to stop it from slipping off, you get an animal to pull the wagon....
Innovation is not coming with something brand new and amazing it is incremental steps improving the original product. Then finding a good niche for your improvement.
Often when there is a disagreement, it isn't that the other side doesn't get the facts involved, but more to the point they just disagree with your conclusion.
I don't agree with SOPA myself and I see it as a bad idea... However I can see why people may disagree with my Point of view. So I am going to play Devils Advocate....
Digital Media Piracy is a big problem, why unlike other forms of media it can be copied over and over without quality loss and with inexpensive consumer level equipment. For the most part companies are taking a lax view of software piracy. Having a switch to turn off the offending site is a way to make sure companies keep a keen eye on piracy.
I don't really follow that logic, however if the person thinks piracy is a bigger problem then a chilling effect on some internet companies, then it may be good trade off.
But just because someone disagrees with you it doesn't mean they are wrong or ignorant to the facts.
You betcha. I take all my important data and put store in in my old dell PC. Plugged right into the wall socket, stored on my one big drive, and put into a nice little box in the corner closed off so no one can see it.
Lets face it. If you are going to use a cloud service it is because you don't have the resources to have Redundant servers hosted at multiple locations, with UPS power supplies, and RAID configuration, in a well climate controlled room.
If you already have the infrastructure going to a cloud solution is just stupid. If you don't have the infrastructure and your data needs are at the right level then cloud is a good option.
The reason why everyone doesn't drive Tractor Tailors is because they are too big and expensive for most of our needs. Going to the cloud for most people is safer then the alternative that they have to them.
If you are going to have really important information stored on a cloud system, then you shouldn't just pick any one and agree to the standard terms of service. If it is important get a contract and cover data retention policies and ways to get the data in case of closure.
I see bumper stickers going "If you are not outraged then you are not paying attention". But the problem is if you pay too much attention to everything you are going to be outraged about everything and just make your life worse.
If you dig and get information on anything you will find something deplorable about it that you need to feel the need to correct.
The problem is you can't fix all the wrongs in the world, and what is happening and making it worse, activist groups are beginning to loose focus thus diluting their effectiveness.
Everyone? Why Everyone? It isn't all or nothing. Can we eat it? Software is used to streamline Shipping times as well help regulate farms, so Software aids in what we eat. Can we wear it? Software with automated looms can help make mass production and custom sizing at a mass production scale. Can we breathe it? Software is monitoring weather patterns as well pollution and smog.
Americans are really efficient. So lets sell and export our efficiencies.
Because governments don't treat Mad Scientists with respect for Life Rays. At best you get a University Job for about 50k a year (Depending on location), plus money you get from grants however you need to do that for more research, and you still need to teach an Undergrad class. Any other demands you may have will be debated down from some slack jaw yokal who will call your demands "Devil Talk".
If you have a Death Ray, Government must bow before your might, consent to your demands and pay you Billions of US dollars in compensation. And probably give you a front row seat at the UN.
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The past few thousand years of Warfare seem to be able to breed and train Horses who keep their cool much better then their solders do.
Yea it is cool... However you will probably get more bang for your buck with Horses... They do the same thing that the robot does but better and quieter. They have been tested valuable in warfare in the past.
The only advantage I see with the robot is you can turn it off for week or months without much maintenance.
Well I could see it useful in more then just a few places. The basic rule of Computer Science is the 80/20 rule. 80% of the Use is on 20% of the data. For the most part we Store far more then we read back. Sounds wasteful? Well it is in a way however not collecting the data will mean 20% of the time you may need to access the other 80% of the data. So it may still be needed, and the 20% of popular data can change over time.
Also I wouldn't read too much into it either.
Apple is probably hedging its bets as well. You keep an eye on what other competitors are doing, keep a port running on a different platform, and if your manufacture cannot provide you with the quality/price that you want to have, you have an escape route.
The PPC was lagging in consumer level chips, so apple switched to Intel, the transition went fairly smoothly because Apple was prepared.
As an Apple Customer you are stuck with vendor lock in. Apple itself actively avoids that.
I am willing to bet Mac OSs were ported for a bunch of different platforms Ultra Sparc, Alpha, AMD, Itanium... over time and they never were released as a product. However if there were push come to shove Apple could have switched.
A company like Halliburton, is a big company. Most of you the only reason to hate it was because of its connection with a former Vice President who was a War Hawk Republican. Like all Large companies they do a lot of things. And the IT decision to move from Blackberry to iOS, probably isn't part of some evil plot. Just probably more innocently trying to give customers a better tool for their job.
Blackberry had some really large problems in the past few years. Network outages, lack of interests in developing 3rd party apps. Most likely a lot of employees wanted iOS devices more then ones who liked their blackberry. So they made an IT decision to switch... No big deal.
If Apple messes up or something that is far superior pops up then you will see the market switch again.
This isn't some Evil attracted to Evil, liberal hippy crap. To big companies often thing that are ethically wrong... Yes. Are all their decisions based on Evil... No.
Sometimes an IT Decision is just that.
Well like most crimes you cannot stop them. But you can keep them at a manageable level. Saying it won't end piracy doesn't mean we should all piracy to be allowed.
With all the work and effort people put into making media having it all for free is not sustainable.
Piracy needs to be controlled but the effort to stop it is too high of a cost.
Meetings are not a magic bullet for good managers, it is just a tool in their shed. You could have had a manager who did good stand up meeting but sucked at the rest of his job. While the new manager may have bad meetings but the rest of his management is better.
Emails have the problem that they are perminate. You can ask a question or put your status one wrong word could mean a firestorm of emails. "I don't know" or "I am having some problems" is a kiss of death for a simple problem stated in a quick meeting.
You don't get the point of the standup meeting. Why is it standup, it is to keep the meeting short, and to the point. Where otherwise it will be an hour long sit down meeting once a week.
The daily meeting has other advantages.
1. It puts everyone in the same room at the same time and they know what is going on daily. This can stop duplication of effort as sometimes you get multiple requirements across many people but the work is actually nearly the same.
2. It helps focus on what your tasks are for the day. Let's face it, there are days that you slack off on not because you don't have enough work but because your daily goal wasn't there. A quick meeting where you need to state your goal keeps you honest and helps you know your goal is for the day.
3. It is informal and no notes, nothing gets fixed in stone, allows for more of an honest assessment.
4. Team lead is informed on what is going on, and when pressed by management he has the answer.
5. Simple problems can get solved easier. After the meeting people's schedules can disconnect and it could take days to answer a simple question.
6. It keeps your team together.
The fastest man made object is now traveling at 0.006% of the speed of light...That will only take us 366,667 years to get there...
Space is Big Really Big... The Speed of Light is really fast. Science Fiction Speeds are not yet possible as Science Fiction is Fiction thus not True, and science fiction speeds are a plot device to put people in a different set of interesting story telling issues, and may not ever be, even fictional Star Trek (Voyager Speeds) it will take a week at full warp to get there.
Ok full disclosure, I never really cared for PERL, I was always more of a Python fan myself.
But has there really been that much real effort in the PERL community? In its hay days during the Late 90's and Early 2000's there was a lot of PERL Development, but it seems it has dropped off and PERL lost its shine. I am asking because I am more of a Python Fan and I haven't been really involved in PERL apps. But back in the day every time you tried to find an open source program to do something it required PERL... Not so much of this any more, is it because I have changed how I look for software or is it because PERL is no longer as popular as it was before.
"Bullshit. They bought up companies to strip assets from, nothing more. Most of the companies bought by Bain were doing well enough on their own."
That doesn't sound like a good business model. That it buy low and sell at a loss... Those are for cases that they couldn't turn around.
<i>"You don't get to be #1 with racists without dog-whistling racism all day long. Republican policies are, and have been since they welcomed the Dixiecrats with open arms, racist. You honestly think they'd be screaming about shutting down "the border" if the majority of "illegals", as the racist repubs like to call them, were white-skinned canadians?"</i>
You hear the same stuff coming from the democrats too. If you are going to throw history of past stances both the Republican and Democrats have had their racist moments. Please cite the official Republican agenda to close down the border. The difference between Mexico and Canada is that it is easier to see the influence. However the debate is what to do about "illegal", and even in the party you see a lot of debates... The party isn't polarized on this issue.
"Oh bullshit and go fuck yourself. The Republicans are fucking lunatics who think that shutting down free breast cancer exams for low income women is "justified" if they can "get" Planned Parenthood - just the latest example of the GOP, modern home of racism, misogyny, and inhumanity."
As said by the person who cannot write a rebutted without using profanity.
Putting quotes around stuff doesn't make it true.
The companies that Romney was said to "strip and sell" were companies that were on the verge of collapse. So they buy the companies, make them profitable and then sell them. A big reason why a lot of companies get in the verge of collapse status is because they got too ambitious in their growth, or have reached their peak and they kept trying to grow, while other forces are making such companies business model not as successful. The current owners do not know what to do, or are afraid of making the tough decision to unfortunately lay off people in areas where growth isn't feasible. Also part of the process is to hire people in the right areas. Then when they get the company back on their feet they will sell it. That is their job. If there weren't companies doing this a lot more companies will just close down and all the employees will loose their job.
Dodging taxes and exploiting loopholes... He is not dodging taxes or exploiting anything, his primary source of income has a 15% limit on it. The tax form with the paper will have that number and if you had most of your money coming from you will probably be paying similar tax rates. Blame the Tax law for this not the man.
Racism as a key platform? The republican party is not racists however they are #1 with racists (to paraphrase The Simpsons). The Republicans are not racist as part of their platform. However their goal of smaller government does clash with with equal rights groups who feels that government needs to be more involved.
During the republican primaries I am not hearing much War Hawking going on. They do want to keep the military of the US strong.
Romney was a Governor of Massachusetts a strong pro-life stance would get him nowhere, besides the Abortion issues is political smoke anyways...
You have a problem with facts, you want to vilify the republicans you are just as bad as the republicans are to the democrats. You come up with lies and you back them up with more lies from other sources so your lies seem like the truth.
You know with all the outrage Slashdot has with this type of stuff...
You got to admit it is pretty cool use of computer science....
No... "Lost at Sea".
Unscheduled travel "got in the way" of some War Games.
Knowing the boat was filled with valuable servers it got taken over by pirates and looted.
When was the last time you really saw a brand new unique product?
You got a Rock, You smash you hand it hurts, your enemy comes after you, you smash him with the rock, you win. Lets get a bigger rock, lets attach a stick to that rock. Lets sharpen the point of that rock, Lets use lighter rocks that throw better. Lets use an other stick to throw that rock and stick further, Lets put a vine to an other stick and use that to fire the rock on a stick. Lets add some feathers so it flies smoother.....
You were walking over a log you pushed it and a heavy object on to of it moved much easier, you use the the log to move other heavy objects, you get more logs and move it. You use the large part of the log and put a heavy stick in the middle and moving things is a little easier you put something around the Stick to stop it from slipping off, you get an animal to pull the wagon....
Innovation is not coming with something brand new and amazing it is incremental steps improving the original product. Then finding a good niche for your improvement.
Often when there is a disagreement, it isn't that the other side doesn't get the facts involved, but more to the point they just disagree with your conclusion.
I don't agree with SOPA myself and I see it as a bad idea... However I can see why people may disagree with my Point of view. So I am going to play Devils Advocate....
Digital Media Piracy is a big problem, why unlike other forms of media it can be copied over and over without quality loss and with inexpensive consumer level equipment. For the most part companies are taking a lax view of software piracy. Having a switch to turn off the offending site is a way to make sure companies keep a keen eye on piracy.
I don't really follow that logic, however if the person thinks piracy is a bigger problem then a chilling effect on some internet companies, then it may be good trade off.
But just because someone disagrees with you it doesn't mean they are wrong or ignorant to the facts.
You betcha. I take all my important data and put store in in my old dell PC. Plugged right into the wall socket, stored on my one big drive, and put into a nice little box in the corner closed off so no one can see it.
Lets face it. If you are going to use a cloud service it is because you don't have the resources to have Redundant servers hosted at multiple locations, with UPS power supplies, and RAID configuration, in a well climate controlled room.
If you already have the infrastructure going to a cloud solution is just stupid. If you don't have the infrastructure and your data needs are at the right level then cloud is a good option.
The reason why everyone doesn't drive Tractor Tailors is because they are too big and expensive for most of our needs. Going to the cloud for most people is safer then the alternative that they have to them.
If you are going to have really important information stored on a cloud system, then you shouldn't just pick any one and agree to the standard terms of service. If it is important get a contract and cover data retention policies and ways to get the data in case of closure.
By unlawful you mean by lawful methods you disagree with.
No if they did that, then it will be bureaucratic overhead slowing things down.
This is the difference between the Republicans and Democrats.
I see bumper stickers going "If you are not outraged then you are not paying attention".
But the problem is if you pay too much attention to everything you are going to be outraged about everything and just make your life worse.
If you dig and get information on anything you will find something deplorable about it that you need to feel the need to correct.
The problem is you can't fix all the wrongs in the world, and what is happening and making it worse, activist groups are beginning to loose focus thus diluting their effectiveness.
I thought Google is ran by the LiBeRaL mEdIa!!!
Yes because you are stuck in consumer computing mind set. B2B applications are where the big money is.
Everyone? Why Everyone? It isn't all or nothing.
Can we eat it? Software is used to streamline Shipping times as well help regulate farms, so Software aids in what we eat.
Can we wear it? Software with automated looms can help make mass production and custom sizing at a mass production scale.
Can we breathe it? Software is monitoring weather patterns as well pollution and smog.
Americans are really efficient. So lets sell and export our efficiencies.
Because governments don't treat Mad Scientists with respect for Life Rays. At best you get a University Job for about 50k a year (Depending on location), plus money you get from grants however you need to do that for more research, and you still need to teach an Undergrad class. Any other demands you may have will be debated down from some slack jaw yokal who will call your demands "Devil Talk".
If you have a Death Ray, Government must bow before your might, consent to your demands and pay you Billions of US dollars in compensation. And probably give you a front row seat at the UN.