No that isn't what I meant. History is important. However we cannot and shouldn't preserve all historic things.
200 years in the future. People see an Ampex sign? They will go what is that, some crazed historian will tell about magnetic media. So Rust on Scotch Tape, Got it.
Now what history needs more then a random sign, is basically the archives of the R&D work. Vs. a Helvetica font logo like all others on a road.
I live in a Historic Town, a lot of historic buildings, however very few of them kept their old logos. And the ones that did, probably had been erased then repopulated again to look like it.
Ok, 40 years ago, this was high tech stuff. But today you are spending thousands of dollars (or your insurance company is, or the government) for a form fitted earbud of questionable quality. The formfitting, should be the most expensive part, which should be the same as what professional or active armature swimmers get for their earplugs. Then you in essence stuff $30 worth of technology in them.
Hearing Aids should probably cost today around $100.00 and still make profit.
These numbers are based on the Top CEO's and comparing them with their average employees, not All CEO's with their employees.
There is a still wage gap issue which should be addressed. But that can be addressed with minor tweaks such as profit sharing, and not by changing the entire economic system.
Currently there isn't a good tested replacement for Capitalism. Socialism is still capitalism, there are just more regulations. Communism has shown not to scale well, without having to bring in a lot of Capitalism elements to it.
My father was a truck driver for over 40 years. When teaching me how to dive as a kid he would state Landmarks change, street name change, route numbers same.
Just because it may mean something to you, what does it mean to society. A lighted sign with boring Helvetica Text like all other corporate logos.
Heck where I work, I am near a building with a 20 foot tall Nipper (the RCA Dog) on top. Now that is a landmark. For people who don't know what RCA is or what they did, they will still go, look a big dog. Still there is discussion every decade or so, weather or not to keep the dog. (Mostly because the building it is on is actually very ugly.)
People and organizations do important things all the time, much with a long range impact on the world. But for the most part it will go unnoticed and forgotten in history, say for a vague footnote in a research paper, if lucky.
Also if you are studying the history of something you will often find, that it wasn't made in a vacuum, or out of the blue. However it was an idea built upon previous ideas from different people and organizations.
The Ampex sign, is a local landmark. While Ampex may had done some important innovation, I wouldn't deem it historic, worthy of presentation. Landmarks change. The blue barn was just painted red, The sports stadium had changed sponsors. Just because something is well known or had done important things, doesn't mean it needs to be preserved for prosperity.
Well no not really. The counter argument is based on only one app store iOS. There is one for Mac, that you are not so locked in. And Microsofts and Google has one as well which isn't as stringent as iOS is.
Most apt repositories are for Open Source software so they are not charging for it. If you are going to be charging for your software, why shouldn't the store take a cut of your profits? They are putting your software in a place for millions of people can see, they are handling a bunch of billing features, using their platform to push out updates.
So if you are going to charge $1.00 for the software paying Apple 0.30 is actually a good deal. If you had your own store your credit card fees would probably be more then what they paid for it.
I have always found it interesting the hatrid towards other OS's App stores for Apple and Microsoft, While Apt is in essence is the same concept but is warmly loved.
A location where you can get trusted application, setup to easily install on your environment.
The problem is we got hit with too much anti-communist propaganda back in the Cold War. And nearly any effort was given to show the difference between a communist and a socialist. So when we hear socialism we think bread lines.
Exactly. What use to happen is if there was a promising employee they would be mentored from their boss to be successful for a new position. This when getting that promotion they have the experience to do the work.
Boomer yuppie culture put a stop to that. Your just a cog in the engine if you do your job well you stay if not your fired and replaced with an other cog.
To get ahead today you need to quit jobs, exaggerate your resume, and find a job that is a higher position then before. This method is bad for both the employer because the good employees leave while the mediocre ones stay. The knowledge gained is loss plus the cost of replacing an employee is high. For the worker who is trying to go up the ladder they need to upend their lives, move to a new location and because they bluffed their resume they are now in a job they may not be fully prepared for.
Hate speech vs free speech is like porn vs art you know the the difference when you see it. That doesn't make a good computer algorithm. Routers has people looking at this and they can make the judgement call. While an algorithm still doesn't quite figure out the difference.
News is reporting on events and who said what, were when and how. Eg: President Trump went to an Update NY Military Base this week and said this, they were so many people there. This is data that can be verified and backed up. There shouldn't be much disagreement on this. This isn't to say news is unbiased, it can cover people at their best or at their worst, and ignore the parts in the middle. Allowing their bias to pick and choose.
Opinions is interpretation of the news and value is applied to it. Eg. Trump is showing support for the troops for going to this Update NY Military Base. or Trump is trying to prevent a military coup by giving the military everything it wants.
The problem is with the "news" cycle there is only a little bit of actual news and the rest trying to get different takes on what is going on.
Now having and informed opinion section is useful, for helping explain complex actions on why say they vetoed a bill that was to feed poor children, by pointing out that there was a lot of other stuff in to too which could be harmful, or is too expensive.
The governor cannot control the immediate problems, however with some leadership the environment of local areas can be better managed. As well if we can get enough politicians in charge who just don't hate scientists. We can have some policies around from slowing the problem. Even as a state governor if stupid polices from the feds laxing environmental controls, your state could force stricter rules.
The Publish or perish system is really at fault. It really puts more pressure on scientist trying to hype up their research, vs using their time to actually study, measure, modify... The actual science.
How much good science is going unnoticed because there is some low level scientist out there not getting noticed because he lacks the charisma to make a compelling journal entry.
As a software developer. I have never written a program and said there it is done, this program is absolutely perfect. As a software user. I have never used a program where I thought this program is done, absolutely perfect I will never need to upgrade it again.
As a software user even for open source apps, I want bugs fix, security holes closed down, interface improved, updates to match newer system.... This takes time and money. If the application is any good, I would want compensation for the hard work I put into it. Even if I release it Open Source, I will need credit, praises, at least, and for most open source products of complexity. They are developers at these companies being paid to make this software better and work for the business needs for the company. You as the home consumer may get the benefit of these changes, but they were not done for you but for the company building it.
Running a business is expensive. It is more then the sum of all its parts, it needs money in reserve, it needs to support what it has.
I tend to avoid politics on You Tube because I will get flagged as Slightly Left thus get crazy left videos, or slightly right and get Right Wing Nuts.
However on both sides of the view points the argument goes like this.
Try to pretend that their view is moderate. Bring up their strongest points first. Give some credence to the opposing side good point (Not the strongest but about 2/3 from the top) Compare your strongest points to to the weakest points of the opposing side. Bring in some obscure example showing failure in the opposing side. Use this example to discredit all the opposing sides point. Now this is done, go full force on your most idiotic ideas.
I am now jumping to the obscure example: I remember seeing a video on Netflix about Dragons under documentary's. It started off explaining the commonality of dragons across cultures. Pointing out that the common belief is the appearance of animals such as Alligators and crocodiles. Then stated how how these animals didn't live in many of the cultures climates. Moved to showing similarity with dinosaurs... Then they explained how sometimes how the radioactive dating isn't always consistent as found in this one location. Thus Man was alive during dinosaurs, and Dragons were just around. I turned off the documentary after they started quoting the bible, and using to disprove evolution and creationism.
I am sure for some people this would had pushed them down the sliding scope to follow their idealism. Sure the concept of Dragons are cool, but tying them to creationism. Just got stupid.
I have seen many other videos on different topic that follow that same path. Get people hooked on a few good arguments, then slope it down to idocracy.
Well if a person gets enough view they monetize the channel. That means these ads are being played unnoticed and will need to pay the channel owner for the impressions. However the people selling such ads will not see sales align with the advertising. Thus not go to Google. Long term Google is better off treating their customers (the advertisers) well. Vs the quick scam.
It is google interest to stop these get rich quick people.
The big problem is most applications suck at parallel processing. 4 Cores 1 for the OS 3 for the applications
Is what seems to suit home usage rather well. Having an 8th gen i7 with 6 cores with a total of 12 threads is underutilized by most applications, and will in general not run at its full potential. So you have an application that you want to work faster moving from 1 core to in essence 12 threads or 16 threads will not have mores law speed improvements, because the program is often stuck on a single core, which hasn't been increasing in speed.
The problem is multi-fold 1. Little Education in Parallel processing programming. Still this is mostly regulated to 300-400 CS classes for undergrad, and mostly designed to aid CS students as an area of study in their Masters Degree.
2. Most programming language have poor implementation of parallel processing. Threading is one way to do parallel processing their are other methods as well. I have seen languages such as MPL (for an early parallel processing system) that actually had an elegant structure of plural variables where you can code parallel processing without threads but using standard lanagues This is psuto-code as I hadn't used MPL in over 20 years. plural int x; plural int holder; int didchange = 1; x = randint(maxcpu); while (didchange) {
didchange = 0;
if (cpu % 2 = 0) {
if (x > x[cpu+1]) {
holder = x;
x = x[cpu+1];
x[cpu+1] = holder;
didchange = 1;
}
if (cpu % 2 = 1) {
if (x[cpu-1] > x) {
holder = x[cpu-1];
x[cpu-1] = x;
x= holder;
didchange = 1;
} }
Locking conditions and timing all handled easily without a lot of thought of the details. Yet using all the processors.
I never had to show my photo ID to any of my teachers or professors. From K-Masters Degree. Even during physical tests there has been cheating. It is impossible for a proctor to catch all students especially ones with a plan to cheat.
I am sorry, but video games are just games. If you are not willing to part a few bucks for the game then you really don't need it.
Back in them old days before ROMs kids would have to save their money to buy these games. Having bought them with their own money had them put a little extra value behind it.
Each new one we create will be 3 times as complicated.
It isn't the number of regulations but the complexity of existing ones. Starting a business if the local government came in and offered free guidance to businesses on what to do and not do. It would make things easier. You business deals with hazardous chemicals. There should be guidance telling how to properly dispose of them, so they can include it in their business plan.
$178k for a consultant is a good deal. It would be difficult to hire a full time employee at that amount (Factoring in benefits). It is probably the Union Employees making a fuss about ungodly consulting fees. But in truth Having this Legacy System running with a consultant keeping it running. Is probably the most financially prudent course of action that the department can do.
Replacement systems will cost millions to replace and support contracts will be much more then $178k a year. If they are going to replace a system, if they want to be financial prudent they should join up with other departments in that state and upgrade all of them. Because for most software the price would scale better with higher number of people using it.
Being that most programs are using under 10% of the system resources at the time, a single system can probably handle 3 or 4 times the load that are actually being used. So if the replacement system was bought and shared across multible departments they can split a lot of the costs and make it more financially responsible.
However at this moment, I wouldn't want my tax money going to an upgrade that will not offer any real benefit or cost savings. Just because what they have is on old software.
That was my thought exactly. The advantage of a new system is not price or even total cost of ownership. The advantage is being able to find staff who can support the system. Taking advantage of modern infrastructure that is more reliable. And using the upgrade to clean up a lot of junk. But new systems vs the cost of maintaining a funky home grown system is going to be expensive and expensive to maintain.
It is still a case of back seat development. Sometime what may seem like they are not doing a full review, is actually an outcome of a full review. Sometimes that quick fix, is the safest fix. Because having to fix it across the board may be affecting a set of other systems.
Lets say the fix for the USB hack into the phone is due to a software design problem needed for the Licensed repair team. If they fix the software to stop that hack, then the repair teams will need system updates as well, and need to make sure it works... Or you can just cut power off the data ports on the device, until a login turns them on. It is an easier fix, doesn't fix the core problem but good enough.
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No that isn't what I meant.
History is important. However we cannot and shouldn't preserve all historic things.
200 years in the future. People see an Ampex sign? They will go what is that, some crazed historian will tell about magnetic media.
So Rust on Scotch Tape, Got it.
Now what history needs more then a random sign, is basically the archives of the R&D work. Vs. a Helvetica font logo like all others on a road.
I live in a Historic Town, a lot of historic buildings, however very few of them kept their old logos. And the ones that did, probably had been erased then repopulated again to look like it.
Ok, 40 years ago, this was high tech stuff. But today you are spending thousands of dollars (or your insurance company is, or the government) for a form fitted earbud of questionable quality.
The formfitting, should be the most expensive part, which should be the same as what professional or active armature swimmers get for their earplugs. Then you in essence stuff $30 worth of technology in them.
Hearing Aids should probably cost today around $100.00 and still make profit.
These numbers are based on the Top CEO's and comparing them with their average employees, not All CEO's with their employees.
There is a still wage gap issue which should be addressed. But that can be addressed with minor tweaks such as profit sharing, and not by changing the entire economic system.
Currently there isn't a good tested replacement for Capitalism. Socialism is still capitalism, there are just more regulations. Communism has shown not to scale well, without having to bring in a lot of Capitalism elements to it.
My father was a truck driver for over 40 years. When teaching me how to dive as a kid he would state Landmarks change, street name change, route numbers same.
Just because it may mean something to you, what does it mean to society. A lighted sign with boring Helvetica Text like all other corporate logos.
Heck where I work, I am near a building with a 20 foot tall Nipper (the RCA Dog) on top. Now that is a landmark. For people who don't know what RCA is or what they did, they will still go, look a big dog. Still there is discussion every decade or so, weather or not to keep the dog. (Mostly because the building it is on is actually very ugly.)
People and organizations do important things all the time, much with a long range impact on the world. But for the most part it will go unnoticed and forgotten in history, say for a vague footnote in a research paper, if lucky.
Also if you are studying the history of something you will often find, that it wasn't made in a vacuum, or out of the blue. However it was an idea built upon previous ideas from different people and organizations.
The Ampex sign, is a local landmark. While Ampex may had done some important innovation, I wouldn't deem it historic, worthy of presentation. Landmarks change. The blue barn was just painted red, The sports stadium had changed sponsors. Just because something is well known or had done important things, doesn't mean it needs to be preserved for prosperity.
Well no not really. The counter argument is based on only one app store iOS. There is one for Mac, that you are not so locked in. And Microsofts and Google has one as well which isn't as stringent as iOS is.
Most apt repositories are for Open Source software so they are not charging for it. If you are going to be charging for your software, why shouldn't the store take a cut of your profits? They are putting your software in a place for millions of people can see, they are handling a bunch of billing features, using their platform to push out updates.
So if you are going to charge $1.00 for the software paying Apple 0.30 is actually a good deal.
If you had your own store your credit card fees would probably be more then what they paid for it.
I have always found it interesting the hatrid towards other OS's App stores for Apple and Microsoft, While Apt is in essence is the same concept but is warmly loved.
A location where you can get trusted application, setup to easily install on your environment.
The problem is we got hit with too much anti-communist propaganda back in the Cold War. And nearly any effort was given to show the difference between a communist and a socialist. So when we hear socialism we think bread lines.
Exactly.
What use to happen is if there was a promising employee they would be mentored from their boss to be successful for a new position. This when getting that promotion they have the experience to do the work.
Boomer yuppie culture put a stop to that. Your just a cog in the engine if you do your job well you stay if not your fired and replaced with an other cog.
To get ahead today you need to quit jobs, exaggerate your resume, and find a job that is a higher position then before.
This method is bad for both the employer because the good employees leave while the mediocre ones stay. The knowledge gained is loss plus the cost of replacing an employee is high. For the worker who is trying to go up the ladder they need to upend their lives, move to a new location and because they bluffed their resume they are now in a job they may not be fully prepared for.
Hate speech vs free speech is like porn vs art you know the the difference when you see it. That doesn't make a good computer algorithm. Routers has people looking at this and they can make the judgement call. While an algorithm still doesn't quite figure out the difference.
News is reporting on events and who said what, were when and how.
Eg: President Trump went to an Update NY Military Base this week and said this, they were so many people there.
This is data that can be verified and backed up. There shouldn't be much disagreement on this. This isn't to say news is unbiased, it can cover people at their best or at their worst, and ignore the parts in the middle. Allowing their bias to pick and choose.
Opinions is interpretation of the news and value is applied to it.
Eg. Trump is showing support for the troops for going to this Update NY Military Base.
or
Trump is trying to prevent a military coup by giving the military everything it wants.
The problem is with the "news" cycle there is only a little bit of actual news and the rest trying to get different takes on what is going on.
Now having and informed opinion section is useful, for helping explain complex actions on why say they vetoed a bill that was to feed poor children, by pointing out that there was a lot of other stuff in to too which could be harmful, or is too expensive.
The governor cannot control the immediate problems, however with some leadership the environment of local areas can be better managed. As well if we can get enough politicians in charge who just don't hate scientists. We can have some policies around from slowing the problem.
Even as a state governor if stupid polices from the feds laxing environmental controls, your state could force stricter rules.
It isn't about being right, it is about being legal.
Morality and Legality are only loosely correlated.
The Publish or perish system is really at fault. It really puts more pressure on scientist trying to hype up their research, vs using their time to actually study, measure, modify... The actual science.
How much good science is going unnoticed because there is some low level scientist out there not getting noticed because he lacks the charisma to make a compelling journal entry.
As a software developer. I have never written a program and said there it is done, this program is absolutely perfect.
As a software user. I have never used a program where I thought this program is done, absolutely perfect I will never need to upgrade it again.
As a software user even for open source apps, I want bugs fix, security holes closed down, interface improved, updates to match newer system....
This takes time and money. If the application is any good, I would want compensation for the hard work I put into it. Even if I release it Open Source, I will need credit, praises, at least, and for most open source products of complexity. They are developers at these companies being paid to make this software better and work for the business needs for the company. You as the home consumer may get the benefit of these changes, but they were not done for you but for the company building it.
Running a business is expensive. It is more then the sum of all its parts, it needs money in reserve, it needs to support what it has.
Or is this the argument for liberal content?
I tend to avoid politics on You Tube because I will get flagged as Slightly Left thus get crazy left videos, or slightly right and get Right Wing Nuts.
However on both sides of the view points the argument goes like this.
Try to pretend that their view is moderate.
Bring up their strongest points first. Give some credence to the opposing side good point (Not the strongest but about 2/3 from the top)
Compare your strongest points to to the weakest points of the opposing side.
Bring in some obscure example showing failure in the opposing side.
Use this example to discredit all the opposing sides point.
Now this is done, go full force on your most idiotic ideas.
I am now jumping to the obscure example:
I remember seeing a video on Netflix about Dragons under documentary's.
It started off explaining the commonality of dragons across cultures. Pointing out that the common belief is the appearance of animals such as Alligators and crocodiles. Then stated how how these animals didn't live in many of the cultures climates. Moved to showing similarity with dinosaurs... Then they explained how sometimes how the radioactive dating isn't always consistent as found in this one location. Thus Man was alive during dinosaurs, and Dragons were just around. I turned off the documentary after they started quoting the bible, and using to disprove evolution and creationism.
I am sure for some people this would had pushed them down the sliding scope to follow their idealism. Sure the concept of Dragons are cool, but tying them to creationism. Just got stupid.
I have seen many other videos on different topic that follow that same path. Get people hooked on a few good arguments, then slope it down to idocracy.
Well if a person gets enough view they monetize the channel. That means these ads are being played unnoticed and will need to pay the channel owner for the impressions.
However the people selling such ads will not see sales align with the advertising. Thus not go to Google.
Long term Google is better off treating their customers (the advertisers) well. Vs the quick scam.
It is google interest to stop these get rich quick people.
The big problem is most applications suck at parallel processing. 4 Cores
1 for the OS
3 for the applications
Is what seems to suit home usage rather well. Having an 8th gen i7 with 6 cores with a total of 12 threads is underutilized by most applications, and will in general not run at its full potential. So you have an application that you want to work faster moving from 1 core to in essence 12 threads or 16 threads will not have mores law speed improvements, because the program is often stuck on a single core, which hasn't been increasing in speed.
The problem is multi-fold
1. Little Education in Parallel processing programming. Still this is mostly regulated to 300-400 CS classes for undergrad, and mostly designed to aid CS students as an area of study in their Masters Degree.
2. Most programming language have poor implementation of parallel processing. Threading is one way to do parallel processing their are other methods as well. I have seen languages such as MPL (for an early parallel processing system) that actually had an elegant structure of plural variables where you can code parallel processing without threads but using standard lanagues
This is psuto-code as I hadn't used MPL in over 20 years.
plural int x;
plural int holder;
int didchange = 1;
x = randint(maxcpu);
while (didchange) {
didchange = 0;
if (cpu % 2 = 0) {
if (x > x[cpu+1]) {
holder = x;
x = x[cpu+1];
x[cpu+1] = holder;
didchange = 1;
}
if (cpu % 2 = 1) {
if (x[cpu-1] > x) {
holder = x[cpu-1];
x[cpu-1] = x;
x= holder;
didchange = 1;
}
}
Locking conditions and timing all handled easily without a lot of thought of the details. Yet using all the processors.
I never had to show my photo ID to any of my teachers or professors. From K-Masters Degree.
Even during physical tests there has been cheating. It is impossible for a proctor to catch all students especially ones with a plan to cheat.
I am sorry, but video games are just games.
If you are not willing to part a few bucks for the game then you really don't need it.
Back in them old days before ROMs kids would have to save their money to buy these games. Having bought them with their own money had them put a little extra value behind it.
Each new one we create will be 3 times as complicated.
It isn't the number of regulations but the complexity of existing ones.
Starting a business if the local government came in and offered free guidance to businesses on what to do and not do. It would make things easier.
You business deals with hazardous chemicals. There should be guidance telling how to properly dispose of them, so they can include it in their business plan.
$178k for a consultant is a good deal. It would be difficult to hire a full time employee at that amount (Factoring in benefits).
It is probably the Union Employees making a fuss about ungodly consulting fees. But in truth Having this Legacy System running with a consultant keeping it running. Is probably the most financially prudent course of action that the department can do.
Replacement systems will cost millions to replace and support contracts will be much more then $178k a year. If they are going to replace a system, if they want to be financial prudent they should join up with other departments in that state and upgrade all of them. Because for most software the price would scale better with higher number of people using it.
Being that most programs are using under 10% of the system resources at the time, a single system can probably handle 3 or 4 times the load that are actually being used. So if the replacement system was bought and shared across multible departments they can split a lot of the costs and make it more financially responsible.
However at this moment, I wouldn't want my tax money going to an upgrade that will not offer any real benefit or cost savings. Just because what they have is on old software.
That was my thought exactly.
The advantage of a new system is not price or even total cost of ownership.
The advantage is being able to find staff who can support the system. Taking advantage of modern infrastructure that is more reliable. And using the upgrade to clean up a lot of junk.
But new systems vs the cost of maintaining a funky home grown system is going to be expensive and expensive to maintain.
Maintaining and upgrading a custom police crime tracking system.
Yea it’s old but how many institutions have the random Access database.
It is still a case of back seat development.
Sometime what may seem like they are not doing a full review, is actually an outcome of a full review. Sometimes that quick fix, is the safest fix. Because having to fix it across the board may be affecting a set of other systems.
Lets say the fix for the USB hack into the phone is due to a software design problem needed for the Licensed repair team. If they fix the software to stop that hack, then the repair teams will need system updates as well, and need to make sure it works... Or you can just cut power off the data ports on the device, until a login turns them on. It is an easier fix, doesn't fix the core problem but good enough.