Bad results means your output is profiting the company less then what they pay you.
If you can automate a job, you did a good thing to the company... However you will not and shouldn't expected to be rewarded all the time for your past success. A company doesn't need the person toiling for them, they are good with efficiencies. However if you don't need to do that job, then you should move to the next one.
WORK ISN'T MISORY. But to work and keep a job. You need to work for your job. Work and doing your fair share is part of what keeps society running. Otherwise you will Really be working hard, because you will need to spend you whole day finding food and shelter. Getting paid for food, shelter, entertainment... For doing a particular type of job you are actually good at and paying others for services that they are good at, is a much better system. Work isn't a punishment, it is a responsibility.
Are their deadbeats out there, yes. But their actions are not right, just because they exist.
That is not objective but subjective. In terms of hardware compatibility and software availability (Managing hardware and running software is a key OS task) Then Windows is still top OS.
In terms of performance, stability... I havn't seen any problem with Windows from Windows XP SP2 and onward. My system is set to duel boot, and Windows for most of my apps actually seems to run a bit faster in Windows then with Linux.
Now all that said. In terms of what I can do with the raw OS Linux is the most useful (hence why I actually duel boot into Linux vs just use Windows Subsystem for LInux) Linux has a much more robust set of command line applications that can be scripted and automated to a much better degree, without being stuck to a single shell. Using Apt for updates keeps updating all my components much easier and quicker. And having better control on what the system is doing is a big benefit.
However Windows isn't Bad, it just isn't best suited for my needs.
I just upgraded my Laptop. My previous one was 7 years old. I then clear that laptop and did a clean reinstall on it, and gave it to a friend, for her it was a significant upgrade to a 12 year old netbook that she was using. My old laptop probably has another 6 years of useful life on it.
I primarily upgraded myself because I wanted to learn and perfect GPU coding. So I got a laptop with a higher end video card. This new laptop may last me 10 years.
The thing is after you automate the task, you are no longer the one producing the results. The computer is. Companies don't pay you for results, they pay you because your effort is worth more to them then what they are paying you for. The guy automated a task, he got paid for his work to automate that task. But being he wasn't doing anything after that, his contributions had ended.
I have my code and my effort in place all around the world, helping other make a lot more money then Ill ever make. But they paid me for my effort, and I moved on. I am not the one generating millions of dollars, it is the computer running the code that took me a few minutes-few months to create, is actually doing the work. I got paid for my work.
No for me to survive. I work on other projects. Because my net worth should be less then the total of my contribution.
Back when you could trust a presidents message to be something based on the countries best interests. New when my phone gets an emergency alert, I feel I need to make sure we didn't get nuked.
4K displays seems to have an interesting range where it is useful.
For small displays like computer monitors and smart phones they are real good (when properly configured) because it gives you crisp text that is easy to read (normal text mode font on a 4k display seems to match the old CGA-VGA resolutions of 320x200) For the most part you are in close range of the display so the crispness of the display is useful. Then there is a gap for TV's over 60 inches. Where the larger screen give you a large clear image. However for TV's under 60" 1080p is still really good. And even if you are playing games 1080p resolution where there is a lot of motion is probably still preferable (just due to smoother movement from less calculations)
If any one of us had made better life choices, we wouldn't be posting on Slashdot. Hey look at these poor people, if only they made similar decisions that I did, they wouldn't be as poor. Hey look at these middle class people, if only they didn't spend their money on luxuries for the first 20 years of their adult life, they would be wealthy now! For a lot of poor people, they grew up in an environment where succeeding in education isn't an option. Home life isn't suited for sitting down and studying, and school life is more about trying to stay out of trouble then actually learning stuff. Getting to adult such disciplines are not learned, so trying to change your life is even that much harder. Can they break the cycle yes, but it often requires the person to really fight an uphill battle. For a lot lot of hard work and effort they can go from Poverty to lower middle class. If you were born to a wealthy family, even if you didn't get financial funding to start off your adult life. You grew up in an environment where you know how to impress people and position yourself, and your family connections will demand respect from others. You would normally have to really screw up to be in poverty if you grew up in such an environment.
The biggest thing right now is lack of 4k content. I guess They need to start some where first, offering support, then the content will follow later. But I expect they are not going to sell too many of these until there is more content.
A popular internet service, that regularly broadcast High Definition video and audio, and has access to a good portion of data, is using a good portion of the bandwidth.
Here is the thing. Netflix when it moved to streaming was smart enough to have good enough DRM, So content producers got comfortable with them broadcasting the data. It has become convenient enough that most people don't care and will download gigs of data over and over again.
Now I know there is some devices that allows you to download shows and movies, but still we are just eating bandwidth.
Still your fault. print("THIS IS A BOT") print(AI(PastLearnedData))
The AI will only operate in the sandbox it is allowed to, just as we as living being have functions that we control instinctively, an AI should have particular instincts and rules it cannot out think.
Why? From Wikipedia "The economy of California is the largest in the United States, boasting a $2.746 trillion gross state product as of 2017.[8] As a sovereign nation (2017), California would rank as the world's fifth largest economy, ahead of the United Kingdom but behind Germany.[9] California is also home to some of the most valuable companies in the world, including Apple, Alphabet Inc., and Facebook"
It really does. People are social animals, out point of views are influenced on what people think (And now I will get a bunch of posts saying how they are not a sheep, and have their own view unrelated to others viewpoints). Bots give the allusion of a popular idea, without it actually being a popular one. Thus influencing people opinion to the majority without the normal process of initial debate.
If I had a point I wanted to make and get a good following behind it, I could write a bot, to spread it. Chances are enough people would be fooled by it, thinking that my stupid idea had enough merit to get such a following, then agree to it.
Like many laws, they become an extra charge that can be placed on the person who does get caught. Why do you see people get put in jail while shown innocent for the crime they are arrested for, but on a numerous of other laws that they got charged against after the fact.
Also many of these tech companies are California based, So if these companies just let the bots happen, then they will be targets too.
So people who live in a populated area, with a lot of job opportunity (high price areas) will move from living in abject poverty to just poverty. The people who live in a less populated area, with little other job opportunities (low price areas) can now have a comfortable life style.
Perhaps there should be more effort in finding way to lower cost of living in Cities, vs. finding ways to improve property costs (AKA raising the cost of living)
Historically minimum wage changes has small effect on inflation. First there is a factor is someone gets paid more, they tend to work harder. So a business doesn't need to hire more employees to expand. As employees who are getting paid more, are in less stress of their finances. So a lot of the costs are balanced by efficiency. Second being minimum wage, you do not have a lot of buying power. For the most part the extra wages goes into things that you should have, but have been putting off. Oil change to your car (if they have one), Paying Rent on time, healthier food, medicine and healthcare. A lot of this is currently being paid by government services, which would change to them buying it themselves. Third Most people do not stay at minimum wage for too long. My first job in High School paid minimum wage, I got a raise after a month. Because I wasn't a slacker. Most companies if they find an employee they don't want to leave will pay more them minimum wage. Forth, there is limit on the Trickle effect both trickle up and trickle down. Minimum wage increase is a trickle up. Which the lowest may get a 50% increase, then 25% increase for the next level (as to not have them at back down at minimum wage) then 12%, 6%, 3%, 1% then they stop. So Minimum wage will only increase anyone who is getting paid under $20 per hour.
I have to agree. Working for a popular company, even one with rigorous hiring standards, doesn't make you actually qualified or actually good at your job.
I have had people applying for a job where I worked, only to stop the process when we press every employee to take a test to evaluate their skill sets. Some of them actually tried to pull off a bluff like "I worked for such and such a company, I am insulted that I should take such a test!" After that statement that is the end of such person prospects at the company. Those who take the test, a lot of them pass and do well, some fail miserably, more or less the same percentages as those who worked in IT at a State job, education, or just some unknown small company.
You may be a part of Mensa, Had worked in Google and Apple. However you may just may still be really bad at your job. Perhaps having your Ego get in the way onto learning something new. Or being large companies, you just put your effort into slacking off, and finding ways to blame problems on someone else, or just blending in and not getting noticed.
That computer literacy bar is currently very low. I think it is more of a case of peak demand. Those who want a smartphone and internet already have it. Even people who are homeless and are on social security has a smart phone. Because they are rather affordable already, and in general a good deal compared to the alternatives (a Lan Line/a computer and internet)
My father after a Fox News watching session wanted to get me on how people are taking advantage of our social security with people having these fancy smart phones. However I got them to agree, for a person to function in today's society be able to get a job and keep it, they need a phone, and Internet to communicate. and the cost of getting a Used Phone + a cheap limited plan. Is more affordable then the alternatives.
There isn't too many people who Want a smart phone, because if they want it, they can get one. Those who do not have one, is because they don't want one, which is fine too, because there are reasons for not wanting one.
Perhaps the Rumors were true. The Flintstones didn't take place in the past but in the future. Where technology had peaked and dipped, while advancements in genetics and material management. So we create "Dinosaurs" and other large animals with boosted intelligence to perform complex jobs. With carbon and silicon based materials that looks like rock, but are actually strong and light weight material. So we can have a car that can maintain speed with just foot power.
That is my thoughts as well. I like to consider myself a moderate (with actually leaning slightly to the right), who really doesn't like to judge politicians just because they have an R or a D representing their party.
However the Trump Administration seems to be reaching into comic book villainy. If an idea seems too stupid to be real, I try to do further fact checking, and I keep on finding that they are really just that stupid.
It seems for me to find a "middle ground" I seem to have to reach to what I consider far right resources, and their arguments are rather specious and overly simplistic, compared to the overall complexity of the situation.
Companies rarely if ever hire the best people. They hire people who they think that can control. Skilled enough to get the job they want done without much oversight but no so independent that they break the company culture. The people who got into the companies at the top level are not the best and smartest. But people with the right connections. There is a lot of complaining about those guys with MBA messing the company up. But if you check many of these guys don’t have MBA or much in terms of higher education. But they know people. Then they get they big bucks to influence the people they know.
Jobs had a reputation as a rather maniacal boss. I have a lot of experience working in companies that get bought out, leadership changes. When this happens there always seems to be a bunch of people who get hurt, because the once comfy position where they are respected becomes a low man on the pole, where other employees seem to be getting the preferential treatment. It seems like this engineer probably jived well with Job's vision, and he was on the receiving end on the cronyism that was in the culture. After he left, new management with a different set of people to jived with the new leadership. So he feels like he was left out.
Apple changed after Jobs left. You are an idiot if you think it wouldn't. However Apple sales are still strong, they are a leader in the field. Their new products are not bad (Besides the ranting from Slashdot or Android fans) it is unlike Microsoft back in the 1990's and early 2000's were each product was just poorly designed and was architecturally behind the competition.
Python isn’t a slacker in performance. You do need to know how it handles stuff. Such as if you are appending a string you do Stuff += otherstuff vs Stuff = Stuff + otherstuff Plus there is a big supply of well made libaries. Which may be hard for you code as well (I know, I know you are the best coder in the world, Baratte us with you exploits where you fixed some guys code who was supposed to be the expert or did a fix to the system in record time. Or how you aced some coding competition... )
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Bad results means your output is profiting the company less then what they pay you.
If you can automate a job, you did a good thing to the company... However you will not and shouldn't expected to be rewarded all the time for your past success.
A company doesn't need the person toiling for them, they are good with efficiencies. However if you don't need to do that job, then you should move to the next one.
WORK ISN'T MISORY. But to work and keep a job. You need to work for your job. Work and doing your fair share is part of what keeps society running. Otherwise you will Really be working hard, because you will need to spend you whole day finding food and shelter. Getting paid for food, shelter, entertainment... For doing a particular type of job you are actually good at and paying others for services that they are good at, is a much better system. Work isn't a punishment, it is a responsibility.
Are their deadbeats out there, yes. But their actions are not right, just because they exist.
That is not objective but subjective.
In terms of hardware compatibility and software availability (Managing hardware and running software is a key OS task) Then Windows is still top OS.
In terms of performance, stability... I havn't seen any problem with Windows from Windows XP SP2 and onward. My system is set to duel boot, and Windows for most of my apps actually seems to run a bit faster in Windows then with Linux.
Now all that said. In terms of what I can do with the raw OS Linux is the most useful (hence why I actually duel boot into Linux vs just use Windows Subsystem for LInux) Linux has a much more robust set of command line applications that can be scripted and automated to a much better degree, without being stuck to a single shell. Using Apt for updates keeps updating all my components much easier and quicker. And having better control on what the system is doing is a big benefit.
However Windows isn't Bad, it just isn't best suited for my needs.
I just upgraded my Laptop. My previous one was 7 years old. I then clear that laptop and did a clean reinstall on it, and gave it to a friend, for her it was a significant upgrade to a 12 year old netbook that she was using. My old laptop probably has another 6 years of useful life on it.
I primarily upgraded myself because I wanted to learn and perfect GPU coding. So I got a laptop with a higher end video card. This new laptop may last me 10 years.
The thing is after you automate the task, you are no longer the one producing the results. The computer is.
Companies don't pay you for results, they pay you because your effort is worth more to them then what they are paying you for.
The guy automated a task, he got paid for his work to automate that task. But being he wasn't doing anything after that, his contributions had ended.
I have my code and my effort in place all around the world, helping other make a lot more money then Ill ever make. But they paid me for my effort, and I moved on.
I am not the one generating millions of dollars, it is the computer running the code that took me a few minutes-few months to create, is actually doing the work. I got paid for my work.
No for me to survive. I work on other projects. Because my net worth should be less then the total of my contribution.
Back when you could trust a presidents message to be something based on the countries best interests.
New when my phone gets an emergency alert, I feel I need to make sure we didn't get nuked.
4K displays seems to have an interesting range where it is useful.
For small displays like computer monitors and smart phones they are real good (when properly configured) because it gives you crisp text that is easy to read (normal text mode font on a 4k display seems to match the old CGA-VGA resolutions of 320x200) For the most part you are in close range of the display so the crispness of the display is useful. Then there is a gap for TV's over 60 inches. Where the larger screen give you a large clear image. However for TV's under 60" 1080p is still really good. And even if you are playing games 1080p resolution where there is a lot of motion is probably still preferable (just due to smoother movement from less calculations)
The internet doesn't work the way you think it does.
With updated equipment, infrastructure, and proper setup. People use of high bandwidth activity shouldn't affect your web browsing.
If any one of us had made better life choices, we wouldn't be posting on Slashdot.
Hey look at these poor people, if only they made similar decisions that I did, they wouldn't be as poor.
Hey look at these middle class people, if only they didn't spend their money on luxuries for the first 20 years of their adult life, they would be wealthy now!
For a lot of poor people, they grew up in an environment where succeeding in education isn't an option. Home life isn't suited for sitting down and studying, and school life is more about trying to stay out of trouble then actually learning stuff. Getting to adult such disciplines are not learned, so trying to change your life is even that much harder. Can they break the cycle yes, but it often requires the person to really fight an uphill battle. For a lot lot of hard work and effort they can go from Poverty to lower middle class.
If you were born to a wealthy family, even if you didn't get financial funding to start off your adult life. You grew up in an environment where you know how to impress people and position yourself, and your family connections will demand respect from others. You would normally have to really screw up to be in poverty if you grew up in such an environment.
The biggest thing right now is lack of 4k content. I guess They need to start some where first, offering support, then the content will follow later. But I expect they are not going to sell too many of these until there is more content.
A popular internet service, that regularly broadcast High Definition video and audio, and has access to a good portion of data, is using a good portion of the bandwidth.
Here is the thing. Netflix when it moved to streaming was smart enough to have good enough DRM, So content producers got comfortable with them broadcasting the data. It has become convenient enough that most people don't care and will download gigs of data over and over again.
Now I know there is some devices that allows you to download shows and movies, but still we are just eating bandwidth.
Still your fault.
print("THIS IS A BOT")
print(AI(PastLearnedData))
The AI will only operate in the sandbox it is allowed to, just as we as living being have functions that we control instinctively, an AI should have particular instincts and rules it cannot out think.
Why?
From Wikipedia
"The economy of California is the largest in the United States, boasting a $2.746 trillion gross state product as of 2017.[8] As a sovereign nation (2017), California would rank as the world's fifth largest economy, ahead of the United Kingdom but behind Germany.[9] California is also home to some of the most valuable companies in the world, including Apple, Alphabet Inc., and Facebook"
It really does.
People are social animals, out point of views are influenced on what people think (And now I will get a bunch of posts saying how they are not a sheep, and have their own view unrelated to others viewpoints). Bots give the allusion of a popular idea, without it actually being a popular one.
Thus influencing people opinion to the majority without the normal process of initial debate.
If I had a point I wanted to make and get a good following behind it, I could write a bot, to spread it. Chances are enough people would be fooled by it, thinking that my stupid idea had enough merit to get such a following, then agree to it.
Like many laws, they become an extra charge that can be placed on the person who does get caught.
Why do you see people get put in jail while shown innocent for the crime they are arrested for, but on a numerous of other laws that they got charged against after the fact.
Also many of these tech companies are California based, So if these companies just let the bots happen, then they will be targets too.
So people who live in a populated area, with a lot of job opportunity (high price areas) will move from living in abject poverty to just poverty.
The people who live in a less populated area, with little other job opportunities (low price areas) can now have a comfortable life style.
Perhaps there should be more effort in finding way to lower cost of living in Cities, vs. finding ways to improve property costs (AKA raising the cost of living)
Historically minimum wage changes has small effect on inflation.
First there is a factor is someone gets paid more, they tend to work harder. So a business doesn't need to hire more employees to expand. As employees who are getting paid more, are in less stress of their finances. So a lot of the costs are balanced by efficiency.
Second being minimum wage, you do not have a lot of buying power. For the most part the extra wages goes into things that you should have, but have been putting off. Oil change to your car (if they have one), Paying Rent on time, healthier food, medicine and healthcare. A lot of this is currently being paid by government services, which would change to them buying it themselves.
Third Most people do not stay at minimum wage for too long. My first job in High School paid minimum wage, I got a raise after a month. Because I wasn't a slacker. Most companies if they find an employee they don't want to leave will pay more them minimum wage.
Forth, there is limit on the Trickle effect both trickle up and trickle down. Minimum wage increase is a trickle up. Which the lowest may get a 50% increase, then 25% increase for the next level (as to not have them at back down at minimum wage) then 12%, 6%, 3%, 1% then they stop. So Minimum wage will only increase anyone who is getting paid under $20 per hour.
I never heard of "Pancreas denial".
My best guess would be people who do not believe Diabetes is a serious condition.
I have to agree.
Working for a popular company, even one with rigorous hiring standards, doesn't make you actually qualified or actually good at your job.
I have had people applying for a job where I worked, only to stop the process when we press every employee to take a test to evaluate their skill sets. Some of them actually tried to pull off a bluff like "I worked for such and such a company, I am insulted that I should take such a test!" After that statement that is the end of such person prospects at the company. Those who take the test, a lot of them pass and do well, some fail miserably, more or less the same percentages as those who worked in IT at a State job, education, or just some unknown small company.
You may be a part of Mensa, Had worked in Google and Apple. However you may just may still be really bad at your job. Perhaps having your Ego get in the way onto learning something new. Or being large companies, you just put your effort into slacking off, and finding ways to blame problems on someone else, or just blending in and not getting noticed.
That computer literacy bar is currently very low. I think it is more of a case of peak demand.
Those who want a smartphone and internet already have it. Even people who are homeless and are on social security has a smart phone. Because they are rather affordable already, and in general a good deal compared to the alternatives (a Lan Line/a computer and internet)
My father after a Fox News watching session wanted to get me on how people are taking advantage of our social security with people having these fancy smart phones.
However I got them to agree, for a person to function in today's society be able to get a job and keep it, they need a phone, and Internet to communicate. and the cost of getting a Used Phone + a cheap limited plan. Is more affordable then the alternatives.
There isn't too many people who Want a smart phone, because if they want it, they can get one. Those who do not have one, is because they don't want one, which is fine too, because there are reasons for not wanting one.
Perhaps the Rumors were true. The Flintstones didn't take place in the past but in the future. Where technology had peaked and dipped, while advancements in genetics and material management. So we create "Dinosaurs" and other large animals with boosted intelligence to perform complex jobs. With carbon and silicon based materials that looks like rock, but are actually strong and light weight material. So we can have a car that can maintain speed with just foot power.
That is my thoughts as well. I like to consider myself a moderate (with actually leaning slightly to the right), who really doesn't like to judge politicians just because they have an R or a D representing their party.
However the Trump Administration seems to be reaching into comic book villainy. If an idea seems too stupid to be real, I try to do further fact checking, and I keep on finding that they are really just that stupid.
It seems for me to find a "middle ground" I seem to have to reach to what I consider far right resources, and their arguments are rather specious and overly simplistic, compared to the overall complexity of the situation.
Companies rarely if ever hire the best people. They hire people who they think that can control. Skilled enough to get the job they want done without much oversight but no so independent that they break the company culture.
The people who got into the companies at the top level are not the best and smartest. But people with the right connections. There is a lot of complaining about those guys with MBA messing the company up. But if you check many of these guys don’t have MBA or much in terms of higher education. But they know people. Then they get they big bucks to influence the people they know.
Jobs had a reputation as a rather maniacal boss. I have a lot of experience working in companies that get bought out, leadership changes. When this happens there always seems to be a bunch of people who get hurt, because the once comfy position where they are respected becomes a low man on the pole, where other employees seem to be getting the preferential treatment.
It seems like this engineer probably jived well with Job's vision, and he was on the receiving end on the cronyism that was in the culture. After he left, new management with a different set of people to jived with the new leadership. So he feels like he was left out.
Apple changed after Jobs left. You are an idiot if you think it wouldn't. However Apple sales are still strong, they are a leader in the field. Their new products are not bad (Besides the ranting from Slashdot or Android fans) it is unlike Microsoft back in the 1990's and early 2000's were each product was just poorly designed and was architecturally behind the competition.
Python isn’t a slacker in performance. You do need to know how it handles stuff. Such as if you are appending a string you do
Stuff += otherstuff vs Stuff = Stuff + otherstuff
Plus there is a big supply of well made libaries. Which may be hard for you code as well (I know, I know you are the best coder in the world, Baratte us with you exploits where you fixed some guys code who was supposed to be the expert or did a fix to the system in record time. Or how you aced some coding competition... )
VB script wasn’t VB like JavaScript isn’t Java.
VB script wasn’t nearly as nice as python is. And it only worked in Windows