The issue isn't what happened in the past, but the fact that there is insight to improve in the future. Most of us on Slashdot come from Christian influenced cultures, while many may not follow or believe in the religions, the religion has indeed influenced the culture, and its residence. A major aspect of Christianity is the idea of repentance. Where one realizes what they were doing was wrong, and works to make it better. Yes this comes at a risk of having bad people just fake it. But the value of a real repentance is worth the risk.
Now lately in the news we see a lot of people getting put in jail or in general trouble for what they did when they were much younger. However they are not being repentant about it, just defiant about it. Thus not getting our sympathy. Now if Linus was realizing that he was being too much of a jerk, and is working to make it better, then we should give him the benefit of the doubt.
There is a flaw in your argument. You just flat out wrong. The industrial economy in the United States has continues to be top in the world. While labor costs in the US may be higher, labor in the US is much more efficient. Many of these jobs that have been outsourced to other countries on the individual company may had been from some penny pinching, but many had found it wasn't as good of a deal as they thought. Also a lot of foreign countries will move their manufacturing in the US as well.
Now such a perception is because manufacturing is very closely tied to the state of the economy + hiring a lot of low-mid skilled workers (that creates lower turnover cost) means these industries will often be first to take a hit during an economic hit, thus getting all the stories of layoffs.
Raised in a blue collar family, I understand the tension that happens, and why my parents pushed me to go to college and get a degree. So now I am a few levels up. Where recessions will need to last a big longer until I am affected. However this had always been the case. However after WWII where the rest of the world was rebuilding, the US had a near monopoly, so such cuts in manufacturing didn't happen.
Perhaps it is because science is exposing what is. Climate change is real, however Carbon Dioxide which is considered the major factor in climate change, at current and projected levels will not effect our health directly, like with the other chemicals that are in smog, that we got good at filtering out.
Despite the fossil fuel industry paid claims, the left isn't trying to get rid of your energy, take away your car. The do see science for what it is and wants measured regulations to slow down such effect, unfortunately fossil fuel is the primary cause. As we are quickly expelling carbon, that took these plants millions/billions of years to collect. However if we slow down fossil fuel consumption and replace it with alternative energy then we can slow down globabl warming, and allow the earth to heal some of its problems.
But normal Air Pollution, is full of other chemicals that are directly bad for us, and we have little evolutionary strategies for dealing with.
I mean with the actual development of Linux? I seem to be getting regular kernel update.
Other then Linus trying to keep a cooler head, it was also a test to have Linux development controlled by someone else for a while to make sure it will still function, that all the support and infrastructure was in place.
If something happen to Linus, I really don't want to see the End of Linux.
Well for one, a trade war started with terrifs, raising probably raising the cost. Changes to the supply chain SuperMicro may not have been able to meet demand. Boost in Cost, sometimes a vendor get cocky and tries to raise the stakes only for it to massively backfire. Being that spyware was put on the chips, they probably didn't pass Apple and Amazons QC Requirements. Big companies are often really tough on vendors in general. Apple has Dumped Motorola to IBM, to Intel (There is even talk on dumping Intel) Contracting with similar quarterly schedules. The reason why it isn't discussed is because it isn't an uncommon thing.
Why bother suing when just asking politely would do? A legal suit will mean Apple (a secretive by nature company) will need to publicly show its proof, figure out what it damage is.... Also politically Cook probably still wants to stay in good graces with the press. Especially as Trump is cutting more and more ties. The press is under a lot of pressure right now with violence against them, Apple doesn't need unnecessary negative press for fighting the media too.
The real problem is Assange is a prisoner of his own paranoia. While the Wikileaks annoyed countries, they care more about the people who leaked the information to him, more then him being the one who posted it. Heck after it was posted on Wikileaks the main stream media picked it up and publicly rebroadcasted it.
In terms of US Freedom he helped out Trump so he is good.
BTW around 0.0000001% would be enough for the people who actually wrote the patch notes.
But Google on its Apps are not really clear what their fixes are. My phone had a Google Chrome update here are the update notes:
Thanks for choosing Chrome! The new design that we launched previously is now visible to everyone. In addition, this version includes: * Bug fixes and design polish for the redesign * Updates to how Chrome launches other apps to improve reliability and security. * Fixes to authentication issues caused by using out-of-date cookies. Let us know if you encounter any issues with signing in or out of websites.
There isn't really that much detail on what the problem is. I updated anyways even without reading it. Security update is a security update. Unless I am researching a particular security glitch, I really don't know or care what it was just as long as it is more secure after the patch then it was before.
I think that may be the point. While the consumer may get a financial hit. They are getting the ability to gain choices as well. When there is a big company willing to spend millions of dollars into a free feature. It is difficult for you to try to sell your product that you invested millions of dollars in to sell for money.
Who ever said that? Any decision has its trade offs. If you are going to fine someone, they are collecting money which may had been used into something more productive. However not having any sort of punishment for breaking and/or reward for following a rule will just never happen.
Now for the long term, if Europeans are so sick of paying extra for Google now that they are fined for anti-competive behavior. They should actually step up to the plate and be competitive.
Europe isn't known for it technology sector. There are some good names in Engineering (Siemens, and Philips), but not much in software, and general modern consumer goods.
This isn't necessarily my view on it. However Economist who theories seem to favor the big companies, may choose to work for such companies. Economist working with big companies may see and realize things that other may not notice.
That being said, we should listen to their explanation, however take it with a grain of salt knowing that their self interest is towards getting paid by such a company.
Back 20+ year ago neural network was just like Quantum computing today. A few systems built around to try to prove what it could do, costing a lot of money and in general under-performing the traditional models. Now we have them on our smartphone and just used to make sure our face is ours and to place a dinosaur onto a live video feed.
No I didn't address the parent's argument about how the mathematical proof is useless. Because his argument isn't based on any fact, but more from an emotional response to a technology that at some point in the future could affect our way of life. I make my living off of writing algorithms for electronic computers. If by next year we had all quantum computers which I had to program I would be at a massive disadvantage, and my many decades of experience and many thousands of dollars in education would be tossed out the window. Having a solid mathematical model showing that my skill sets can be obsolete possibly in my lifetime is disheartening, however I got into the Tech industry knowing this. Back 50 year ago we had races where we showed people adding up numbers in their head/on paper faster then a computer can. The human could often win, however we knew the computer will soon be able to exceed past the human, because the Math shows the potential growth and how such action is just due to better engineering and improved manufacturing.
There really needs to be both. We tend to get caught up in Consumer Technology and how hard it it is to repair. This is akin to the ancient pottery shards, archeologist dig up. Our ancient ancestors rich or poor. Probably had acquired some pottery, then it broke, from a fall, or just from a lot of use. In theory they could repair them, but after it became unusable they got themselves a new one. Because the cost of getting/making a new one is less then trying to repair it.
However for these same people clothing may be mended and stitched back together, while it is also a consumer product it was easy to fix and and historically textiles were expensive to produce until the industrial revolution.
Now to consumer technology the problem we have is often the cheaper stuff is easier to repair then the more expensive stuff. This is mostly due to size. Cheaper electronics are bigger, thus allowing room for us to get our hands in it and replace faulty parts. More expensive stuff currently is small and thing, and mostly all embedded with a very low margin of error to get it to fix.
But I think the real point, is we should make sure we are wise on what to fix and what to replace. When do you just fill a pothole vs repaving a road, What is the environmental cost or refurbishing an old building vs. knocking it down and building a green one.
Part of the reason why colleges are so expensive is that they are always building new buildings, while their current classrooms are only 20% utilized. Why not just refurbish the rooms? Because it is tough to get funding to fix up rooms as that is just boring. However to get a new building with some rich doners name on it, is much easier.
There are still a lot of questions on how the standard model actually works. String Theory was made to try to explain the results they see, however if you apply such theory there are aspects that are expected to happen which may be able to observe. If such aspects are found the theory is stronger, if they are absent then the theory is weaken, and perhaps may need to be altered, or even tossed out.
Real Science is all about observing and measuring. The theoretical stuff is just the first part of the process where the hypothesis are created. Then comes the part of observing and measuring where you actually see if this design will hold true.
Don't worry, there is plenty of time for your traditional computers, so you can keep your job, to the point where you can retire without having to learn something new.
It is still hard to find many application developers who can code for mutable processors, let along a quantum computing model.
You don't need to go hopping up and down discrediting the scientists for their research because your job and way of life is currently still safe.
Open office designs are just stupid. Mostly the bosses who are these big extroverts (who also seem to have their own office) who thrive on personal interaction, debates and general open communication, think these open offices are great ideas, and they tend to look nice also with a lot of light and non-braking spaces. However the people who come up with the ideas and solutions tend to be the introverts, who need to sit quietly, think, plan and work out the details. These are are just rooms of noise, confusion and just a lot of bluster.
Real offices with doors are the best, Shared offices with one other person comes in second, third are high walled cubes, then short walled cubes and finally open office designs as the productivity killer.
While the boss and investors love to see an office that seems busy like a factory floor. vs a hallway of dead silence. In reality with everyone quite and working, things are getting done.
To the main point. Is anyone really qualified to manage a company the size of Facebook? Most of the social media companies who were from the normal tech companies seemed to have failed (or just going by as a shadow of its former self) Google+ MySpace Digg Slashdot MSN AOL Prodigy CompuServe
Facebook was able to stay strong for so long. Even with all its faults and evilness people are still using it. Because much like Microsoft there are other options but such options just don't have the userbase to make it useful.
Jobs kinda over did the "One more thing..." also the iPod Nano is just a rehash of his iPod release years ago. the Nano was just an upgrade Mini. A lot thinner and a color screen. But other then that the same thing. A problem with the Apple Secrecy is it made it difficult for companies to invest into Apple products. While trying to avoid the Osborn effect, there is also not knowing if Apple will have a surprise that is something useful (say a new Pro device) or should they just get a boring PC with a well ordered upgrade cycle.
Why bother pre-ordering? I guess it depends where you live, but you can normally get these from a retail store the same day as it is released, and without having to wait for it to get shipped. Unlike iPhones there isn't much of a Line for iPads.
May be more effective, but not affordable. These ships are crossing the area anyway, with some relatively cheap equipment you can save some money.
Beside, Arctic trade routs are always changing, and expanding. Because of global warming. Canada can now easily trade with its second closest neighbor, Russia.
Except there is a good part of the population living in these areas who would rather stay there then move to the City.
There are a lot of people who do not want to live in the city. And will fight tooth and nail (and probably guns, a lot of guns) to keep their homes.
Also many of these rural areas need internet, because rural areas are used for farming, and modern farming is often more advanced then most tech companies in silicon valley.
I think it was -1 because it was just misinformed ranting, because you were just pointing out only a small portion on what is online vs its whole. Get off Facebook and the mainstream sites, there is a whole internet with more info and usefulness.
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They are, but that means we in the America or Europe should judge ourselves against them. Just so we can ignore our own Human Rights issues.
The issue isn't what happened in the past, but the fact that there is insight to improve in the future.
Most of us on Slashdot come from Christian influenced cultures, while many may not follow or believe in the religions, the religion has indeed influenced the culture, and its residence. A major aspect of Christianity is the idea of repentance. Where one realizes what they were doing was wrong, and works to make it better. Yes this comes at a risk of having bad people just fake it. But the value of a real repentance is worth the risk.
Now lately in the news we see a lot of people getting put in jail or in general trouble for what they did when they were much younger. However they are not being repentant about it, just defiant about it. Thus not getting our sympathy.
Now if Linus was realizing that he was being too much of a jerk, and is working to make it better, then we should give him the benefit of the doubt.
There is a flaw in your argument.
You just flat out wrong.
The industrial economy in the United States has continues to be top in the world. While labor costs in the US may be higher, labor in the US is much more efficient. Many of these jobs that have been outsourced to other countries on the individual company may had been from some penny pinching, but many had found it wasn't as good of a deal as they thought. Also a lot of foreign countries will move their manufacturing in the US as well.
Now such a perception is because manufacturing is very closely tied to the state of the economy + hiring a lot of low-mid skilled workers (that creates lower turnover cost) means these industries will often be first to take a hit during an economic hit, thus getting all the stories of layoffs.
Raised in a blue collar family, I understand the tension that happens, and why my parents pushed me to go to college and get a degree. So now I am a few levels up. Where recessions will need to last a big longer until I am affected. However this had always been the case. However after WWII where the rest of the world was rebuilding, the US had a near monopoly, so such cuts in manufacturing didn't happen.
Perhaps it is because science is exposing what is. Climate change is real, however Carbon Dioxide which is considered the major factor in climate change, at current and projected levels will not effect our health directly, like with the other chemicals that are in smog, that we got good at filtering out.
Despite the fossil fuel industry paid claims, the left isn't trying to get rid of your energy, take away your car. The do see science for what it is and wants measured regulations to slow down such effect, unfortunately fossil fuel is the primary cause. As we are quickly expelling carbon, that took these plants millions/billions of years to collect. However if we slow down fossil fuel consumption and replace it with alternative energy then we can slow down globabl warming, and allow the earth to heal some of its problems.
But normal Air Pollution, is full of other chemicals that are directly bad for us, and we have little evolutionary strategies for dealing with.
I mean with the actual development of Linux? I seem to be getting regular kernel update.
Other then Linus trying to keep a cooler head, it was also a test to have Linux development controlled by someone else for a while to make sure it will still function, that all the support and infrastructure was in place.
If something happen to Linus, I really don't want to see the End of Linux.
Well for one, a trade war started with terrifs, raising probably raising the cost.
Changes to the supply chain SuperMicro may not have been able to meet demand.
Boost in Cost, sometimes a vendor get cocky and tries to raise the stakes only for it to massively backfire.
Being that spyware was put on the chips, they probably didn't pass Apple and Amazons QC Requirements.
Big companies are often really tough on vendors in general. Apple has Dumped Motorola to IBM, to Intel (There is even talk on dumping Intel)
Contracting with similar quarterly schedules.
The reason why it isn't discussed is because it isn't an uncommon thing.
Why bother suing when just asking politely would do?
A legal suit will mean Apple (a secretive by nature company) will need to publicly show its proof, figure out what it damage is....
Also politically Cook probably still wants to stay in good graces with the press. Especially as Trump is cutting more and more ties. The press is under a lot of pressure right now with violence against them, Apple doesn't need unnecessary negative press for fighting the media too.
The real problem is Assange is a prisoner of his own paranoia.
While the Wikileaks annoyed countries, they care more about the people who leaked the information to him, more then him being the one who posted it. Heck after it was posted on Wikileaks the main stream media picked it up and publicly rebroadcasted it.
In terms of US Freedom he helped out Trump so he is good.
Encryption of TCP/IP traffic was always a kludge workaround to the internet problem.
BTW around 0.0000001% would be enough for the people who actually wrote the patch notes.
But Google on its Apps are not really clear what their fixes are.
My phone had a Google Chrome update here are the update notes:
Thanks for choosing Chrome! The new design that we launched previously is now visible to everyone. In addition, this version includes:
* Bug fixes and design polish for the redesign
* Updates to how Chrome launches other apps to improve reliability and security.
* Fixes to authentication issues caused by using out-of-date cookies. Let us know if you encounter any issues with signing in or out of websites.
There isn't really that much detail on what the problem is.
I updated anyways even without reading it. Security update is a security update. Unless I am researching a particular security glitch, I really don't know or care what it was just as long as it is more secure after the patch then it was before.
I think that may be the point. While the consumer may get a financial hit. They are getting the ability to gain choices as well.
When there is a big company willing to spend millions of dollars into a free feature. It is difficult for you to try to sell your product that you invested millions of dollars in to sell for money.
Who ever said that?
Any decision has its trade offs. If you are going to fine someone, they are collecting money which may had been used into something more productive. However not having any sort of punishment for breaking and/or reward for following a rule will just never happen.
Now for the long term, if Europeans are so sick of paying extra for Google now that they are fined for anti-competive behavior. They should actually step up to the plate and be competitive.
Europe isn't known for it technology sector. There are some good names in Engineering (Siemens, and Philips), but not much in software, and general modern consumer goods.
This isn't necessarily my view on it.
However Economist who theories seem to favor the big companies, may choose to work for such companies.
Economist working with big companies may see and realize things that other may not notice.
That being said, we should listen to their explanation, however take it with a grain of salt knowing that their self interest is towards getting paid by such a company.
Back 20+ year ago neural network was just like Quantum computing today. A few systems built around to try to prove what it could do, costing a lot of money and in general under-performing the traditional models. Now we have them on our smartphone and just used to make sure our face is ours and to place a dinosaur onto a live video feed.
No I didn't address the parent's argument about how the mathematical proof is useless. Because his argument isn't based on any fact, but more from an emotional response to a technology that at some point in the future could affect our way of life.
I make my living off of writing algorithms for electronic computers. If by next year we had all quantum computers which I had to program I would be at a massive disadvantage, and my many decades of experience and many thousands of dollars in education would be tossed out the window.
Having a solid mathematical model showing that my skill sets can be obsolete possibly in my lifetime is disheartening, however I got into the Tech industry knowing this.
Back 50 year ago we had races where we showed people adding up numbers in their head/on paper faster then a computer can. The human could often win, however we knew the computer will soon be able to exceed past the human, because the Math shows the potential growth and how such action is just due to better engineering and improved manufacturing.
There really needs to be both. We tend to get caught up in Consumer Technology and how hard it it is to repair. This is akin to the ancient pottery shards, archeologist dig up. Our ancient ancestors rich or poor. Probably had acquired some pottery, then it broke, from a fall, or just from a lot of use. In theory they could repair them, but after it became unusable they got themselves a new one. Because the cost of getting/making a new one is less then trying to repair it.
However for these same people clothing may be mended and stitched back together, while it is also a consumer product it was easy to fix and and historically textiles were expensive to produce until the industrial revolution.
Now to consumer technology the problem we have is often the cheaper stuff is easier to repair then the more expensive stuff. This is mostly due to size. Cheaper electronics are bigger, thus allowing room for us to get our hands in it and replace faulty parts. More expensive stuff currently is small and thing, and mostly all embedded with a very low margin of error to get it to fix.
But I think the real point, is we should make sure we are wise on what to fix and what to replace. When do you just fill a pothole vs repaving a road, What is the environmental cost or refurbishing an old building vs. knocking it down and building a green one.
Part of the reason why colleges are so expensive is that they are always building new buildings, while their current classrooms are only 20% utilized. Why not just refurbish the rooms? Because it is tough to get funding to fix up rooms as that is just boring. However to get a new building with some rich doners name on it, is much easier.
There are still a lot of questions on how the standard model actually works. String Theory was made to try to explain the results they see, however if you apply such theory there are aspects that are expected to happen which may be able to observe. If such aspects are found the theory is stronger, if they are absent then the theory is weaken, and perhaps may need to be altered, or even tossed out.
Real Science is all about observing and measuring. The theoretical stuff is just the first part of the process where the hypothesis are created. Then comes the part of observing and measuring where you actually see if this design will hold true.
Don't worry, there is plenty of time for your traditional computers, so you can keep your job, to the point where you can retire without having to learn something new.
It is still hard to find many application developers who can code for mutable processors, let along a quantum computing model.
You don't need to go hopping up and down discrediting the scientists for their research because your job and way of life is currently still safe.
Open office designs are just stupid.
Mostly the bosses who are these big extroverts (who also seem to have their own office) who thrive on personal interaction, debates and general open communication, think these open offices are great ideas, and they tend to look nice also with a lot of light and non-braking spaces. However the people who come up with the ideas and solutions tend to be the introverts, who need to sit quietly, think, plan and work out the details. These are are just rooms of noise, confusion and just a lot of bluster.
Real offices with doors are the best, Shared offices with one other person comes in second, third are high walled cubes, then short walled cubes and finally open office designs as the productivity killer.
While the boss and investors love to see an office that seems busy like a factory floor. vs a hallway of dead silence. In reality with everyone quite and working, things are getting done.
To the main point. Is anyone really qualified to manage a company the size of Facebook?
Most of the social media companies who were from the normal tech companies seemed to have failed (or just going by as a shadow of its former self)
Google+
MySpace
Digg
Slashdot
MSN
AOL
Prodigy
CompuServe
Facebook was able to stay strong for so long. Even with all its faults and evilness people are still using it. Because much like Microsoft there are other options but such options just don't have the userbase to make it useful.
Jobs kinda over did the "One more thing..." also the iPod Nano is just a rehash of his iPod release years ago. the Nano was just an upgrade Mini. A lot thinner and a color screen. But other then that the same thing.
A problem with the Apple Secrecy is it made it difficult for companies to invest into Apple products. While trying to avoid the Osborn effect, there is also not knowing if Apple will have a surprise that is something useful (say a new Pro device) or should they just get a boring PC with a well ordered upgrade cycle.
Why bother pre-ordering?
I guess it depends where you live, but you can normally get these from a retail store the same day as it is released, and without having to wait for it to get shipped.
Unlike iPhones there isn't much of a Line for iPads.
May be more effective, but not affordable. These ships are crossing the area anyway, with some relatively cheap equipment you can save some money.
Beside, Arctic trade routs are always changing, and expanding. Because of global warming. Canada can now easily trade with its second closest neighbor, Russia.
Except there is a good part of the population living in these areas who would rather stay there then move to the City.
There are a lot of people who do not want to live in the city. And will fight tooth and nail (and probably guns, a lot of guns) to keep their homes.
Also many of these rural areas need internet, because rural areas are used for farming, and modern farming is often more advanced then most tech companies in silicon valley.
I think it was -1 because it was just misinformed ranting, because you were just pointing out only a small portion on what is online vs its whole. Get off Facebook and the mainstream sites, there is a whole internet with more info and usefulness.