Privatization works when there is competition and choice on the individual level. Issues where if a company fails, then we don't need someone to rush up and give them a helping hand, because there is no alternatives for their services.
If I don't like my ISP, I should have appropriate substitutions to choose from. If I don't then it should be a well regulated industry, where I as a consumer have a place to express my feelings towards the service, Even if it means talking to my elected official.
I have no real gripe against Windows Phones. But in the market you needed to be rather stupid or just a risk taker to get one when they were out. There were the following issues. 1. Android and Apple had/have a solid place as #1 and #2 in popular Cell phone market. Apple Selling more Units (full phones and OS) while Android is the most widely distributed. (Hence Google pulled a Microsoft). Microsoft Windows Phones were a distant #3 for a while.
2. Microsoft has historically sucked at interopability. Being very behind in making 64bit versions of its OS, having software work on non-x86 hardware was always an issue. They made.NET to help fix these problems, yet.NET needs to be compiled for every type of devices. This means the wealth of software availability in windows, will just not be available.
3. Microsoft burned a lot of bridges in the past, Thinking they will be #1 for ever. So now a lot of vendors who have been burned my Microsoft were not too interested in MS Development for phones.
4. The Microsoft brand became the product that you needed, not the product you wanted. There wasn't anything you needed on a Microsoft Phone, so people in general didn't want it.
If you have a Windows Phone, you should be considered lucky that you had it as long as you did. But it is now going into legacy mode, and getting updates will be hard to do. As Microsoft is ramping down its support.
Rural areas are much more difficult. Small governments (Where the mayor also works in an auto garage) who cave in towards the might of a big business and cannot deal with the lawyers from these big companies.
Why should they. They have their little monopolies. So they are kings of their empires. Better off giving crappy products, but crappy in a different way so you can show how you are better then the competition, compared to everyone being equal and high quality, where you are just competing on price alone.
Don’t think of it as a notch in your screen, but 2 extensions to your screen. With out the notch there will just be blank space not utilized for anything. I would think a geek site would like more uses in available space.
That’s what I thought. Especially when he says some options are just too old and havn’t been updated. They haven’t been updated because there isn’t much to update. A to-do list is a simple program that any first year CS student can program. File IO, Arrays, simple interface.
Well they are working with legislation. So it means they are trying to find a boogie man to blame all their problems on. Comic Books, TV, Cell phones, video games. All often when abused are symptoms of a bigger problem that we do not want to face or admit.
The problem is that we treat other people like crap, and actively work to disempower them. We are not taking people who show promise and putting them under our wings to help them grow and prosper, we are taking their skills and exploiting them until they are not useful and tossing them aside to fend for themselves. Or the smart ones will leave early putting you in a vulnerable position for the guy above you to todd you out.
Maybe it is because I have working for not for anything profit for a few years. And not a commercial entity like slashdot.org. But if I had a downtime position that world take more then a minute I would had posted a downtime message banner. Letting people know the summary of its status. Time it went down, expected outage window, brief explanation of the outage. It’s 2018 there shouldn’t be any shame in saying you got hacked, or DDOS. It happens just as long after it does you make sure it doesn’t happen again. Otherwise people are not sure of the issue. Is slashdot going out of business? Was it’s problem the last straw. We don’t know because there wasn’t any communication. For a internet news site, you would think communication was important
Adobe was actually working to phase it out with HTML5 implementation becoming common. Apple and Adobe working closely together. I expect that when Jobs approached Adobe, they were not willing to give a full effort in Flash support for the iPhone, that would meed Jobs standards, because Adobe (and Jobs probably too) knew this technology was on its way out and there is no long term plan with it. So Jobs did what jobs does. Talks around limitations on its device and says it is what the future holds.
However the smartphone market for consumers in general accelerated flashes demise. As average guy would be doing bulk of their browsing on it, and less with a more powerful computer.
However Javascript+HTML5 has became the replacement for Actionscript+Flash. The real difference is the fact that Javascript and HTTML5 are open standards, while Flash is under the domain of Adobe.
However Adobe knows it had a good run with it, and has been implementing a gradual exit strategy for a while. But in terms of functionality and bad developers doing bad things. There isn't much you can do about it. Any throttles will need to be done by the browser, and may cause problems for some applications.
There can be a lot of uses. 1. An other movie is an element of the plot. Think Home alone, where Dirty Harry (or some gangster movie) was shown, and replayed to scare the bad guys into thinking they were being shot at. 2. A movie at the time was shot on site, Now it is decades later and such landscape isn't available anymore. Pre-2001 New York City, Las Vegas nearly every year... A movie clip could help set the scene for the period of the movie. 3. Having to reuse the same effect. The Wilhelm scream comes to mind. Or the destruction of the bird of pray in Star Trek Generations which was just the same shot in Start Trek VI. 4. Parody
Autonomy doesn't seem to match up either. A job such as construction may require you to think on your feet, and work at your schedule. While a white collar job may be operationalized where you have to do the job that one way.
The using of the passive qualifiers is the point of the argument, There are many exceptions to the rules 49% is still an exception, however it is really big to be notices, that the rule isn't that good.
The question where does IT jobs fit in? I can be working in an Office Setting, then you may see me in a cherry picker testing a network connection in the ceiling, or in a manufacturing location or construction site, where I will need to look at the situation in real time.
I have been in situations where I start the day in the office, then somethings falls apart and here I am in my dress shirt, under a dusty desk, or hanging on the rafters having to fix something.
Where is the line between a blue collar job and a white collar job now a days?
It isn't pay, as many Blue collar jobs may pay just as well if not higher then some white collar jobs. It isn't education, as Some blue collar jobs requires more training and education then some white collar jobs. It isn't physical activity, as a blue collar job may require you to just sit in front of a machine all day watching and correcting for faults, while a white collar job sits in front of a different machine finding and correcting faults.
There really isn't as much of a difference today. It is just the old stereotypes that stick around.
Watson is more of a marketing ploy then actually a useful implementation of technology. H&R Block uses Watson, and still when my Taxes have gone beyond what you can fill out on the EZ form. The Tax accountant needed to do a lot of additional work, and had to bring in her supervisor for additional assistance. All I really got was a spinning icon like in the old browsers, to show me that it is doing something.
What I wax expecting Watson to do, is analysis all the other clams before it. Find additional statistical actions that have been done, and offer additional things to recommend. With a spouse in real-estate you had these deductions, however other had also added these to their list, do they apply? It looks like you are missing a 1099-DIV form, If you didn't invest, comparing to others what would the expected value be.
I have seen Watson used in other areas too and I am not impressed. I haven't seen it do anything sense it Jeopardy game that is really noteworthy. And still what it did in Jeopardy was more of a result of fast indexing of data, and quick correlation algorithm, vs anything ground breaking, in many of these sectors it is trying to get in, such raw power isn't so much needed.
They normally will argue when something is not matching their standards, but that rarely ever gets in the way. They will probably just run a code beautifier to fix it. I have printed out code and have drawn maps with a pencil to track all the workflow it has followed, because it was spaghetti code (With actual goto commands) one letter variables, which were reused when no longer needed. However for an experienced coder, they know if the computer can read it and then so you you. It may just take some time to straighten it out.
I much rather pay $20-$80 for a game and get all of its features. Then have a game where I can buy myself to victory. I do like often the Free to play first chapter, or limited world just so I can determine if the game is worth my money or not. But after I pay for it, I kinda want access to everything, or at least access to a level where I can get it in game play. And if it is multi-player I want my chances to be just as good as the next guys.
I think the thing bosses are figuring out, is the technology buzzard of the day isn't the biggest thing. I have professionally used a couple dozen languages over my career. Giving me an other one to work on isn't a big deal. Also a lot of coders are very protective of their code, and hate sharing it. So coding isn't collaborative but work on your own code, and dump it on someone else when you leave, where they look at it, and grumble at all the problems with it and promptly re-write it again. I think the ability to code for someone applying for a programming position is something we should take for granted, however other factors such as how they will work with others, and make code that will prevent a hand off learning curve, and follow a company standard is important.
If you think if you make your code difficult and only you can manage it. Let me tell you from experience, you are wrong, While it may take some time to get a handle of it, most developers (especially ones practiced at reading others code) can pick up on your crazy mess you made, and continue on without a heartbeat.
I had a rouge employee quit, contact the customers telling them that the company will not be able to keep the product running. Causing the customers to panic. Only for us to put in a update for a feature they were asking months for (which he never had started), as well changing the security settings around to prevent him from causing more damage.
LED have a longer life, Can be dimmed, A wide verity of color hues, brighter bulbs can be put into lamps that normally would have cause a fire problems.
There are a lot of Benefits from LEDs over Incandescent or CF. It isn't just greenies who use them. They are a practical light source. It just took the invention of the Bright Blue LED in 1995 (23 years ago) to help make it a reality. Otherwise we would be having Red-Yellow-Green lights with them, Which are not overly useful for normal lighting.
I would expect, because a lot of electronics are far more energy efficient now, is part of the issue. For a lot of devices USB is the new power-plug and many devices are now working on 5 volt or 12 volt power. LED Lights+Energy Efficient TVs The general lack of mechanical parts in your computer Solid state drive, no CD/DVD... All this stuff adds up. However Normally such efficiencies just lead to greater usage. More Always on Devices and lights.
I expect what is also a factor is people with their own power generation such as solar panels is helping stabilize the grid, especially during peak time, so the need of additional power plants isn't needed as much.
What I would like to see as the next big step, is having a home powered by DC electric, so we don't need a bunch of bricks doing the conversion and wasting additional power in phantom energy draw. There will still be some loss from going from Mains to a ACDC Converter. But it would be one device, not a bunch.
Well how do you define a teacher? As a community it is our responsibility to teach the youth. So we are all teachers in a way. And if we see child who is struggling, then we need the community to help them out. Not just a government employee who is tasked managing 2-3 dozen additional children at the same time. Where if the child isn't raising any flags will probably be ignored.
I actually remember some TV Add, and Snotty Slashdot commenters from Germany post on how stupid us Americans are for our Gasoline Cars, and interest of Hybrid cars, while Clean-Diesel cars were so much better for the environment. While it seems like you they were scammed by their own marketing and big-business complex.
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Privatization works when there is competition and choice on the individual level. Issues where if a company fails, then we don't need someone to rush up and give them a helping hand, because there is no alternatives for their services.
If I don't like my ISP, I should have appropriate substitutions to choose from. If I don't then it should be a well regulated industry, where I as a consumer have a place to express my feelings towards the service, Even if it means talking to my elected official.
I have no real gripe against Windows Phones.
But in the market you needed to be rather stupid or just a risk taker to get one when they were out.
There were the following issues.
1. Android and Apple had/have a solid place as #1 and #2 in popular Cell phone market. Apple Selling more Units (full phones and OS) while Android is the most widely distributed. (Hence Google pulled a Microsoft). Microsoft Windows Phones were a distant #3 for a while.
2. Microsoft has historically sucked at interopability. Being very behind in making 64bit versions of its OS, having software work on non-x86 hardware was always an issue. They made .NET to help fix these problems, yet .NET needs to be compiled for every type of devices. This means the wealth of software availability in windows, will just not be available.
3. Microsoft burned a lot of bridges in the past, Thinking they will be #1 for ever. So now a lot of vendors who have been burned my Microsoft were not too interested in MS Development for phones.
4. The Microsoft brand became the product that you needed, not the product you wanted. There wasn't anything you needed on a Microsoft Phone, so people in general didn't want it.
If you have a Windows Phone, you should be considered lucky that you had it as long as you did. But it is now going into legacy mode, and getting updates will be hard to do. As Microsoft is ramping down its support.
Rural areas are much more difficult. Small governments (Where the mayor also works in an auto garage) who cave in towards the might of a big business and cannot deal with the lawyers from these big companies.
Why should they. They have their little monopolies. So they are kings of their empires. Better off giving crappy products, but crappy in a different way so you can show how you are better then the competition, compared to everyone being equal and high quality, where you are just competing on price alone.
Don’t think of it as a notch in your screen, but 2 extensions to your screen. With out the notch there will just be blank space not utilized for anything. I would think a geek site would like more uses in available space.
That’s what I thought.
Especially when he says some options are just too old and havn’t been updated. They haven’t been updated because there isn’t much to update. A to-do list is a simple program that any first year CS student can program. File IO, Arrays, simple interface.
Well they are working with legislation. So it means they are trying to find a boogie man to blame all their problems on.
Comic Books, TV, Cell phones, video games. All often when abused are symptoms of a bigger problem that we do not want to face or admit.
The problem is that we treat other people like crap, and actively work to disempower them.
We are not taking people who show promise and putting them under our wings to help them grow and prosper, we are taking their skills and exploiting them until they are not useful and tossing them aside to fend for themselves. Or the smart ones will leave early putting you in a vulnerable position for the guy above you to todd you out.
Maybe it is because I have working for not for anything profit for a few years. And not a commercial entity like slashdot.org. But if I had a downtime position that world take more then a minute I would had posted a downtime message banner. Letting people know the summary of its status.
Time it went down, expected outage window, brief explanation of the outage. It’s 2018 there shouldn’t be any shame in saying you got hacked, or DDOS. It happens just as long after it does you make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Otherwise people are not sure of the issue. Is slashdot going out of business? Was it’s problem the last straw. We don’t know because there wasn’t any communication.
For a internet news site, you would think communication was important
If they FOSSed it, how would they make money off of it. More profitable for a slow death, then just giving it away.
Adobe was actually working to phase it out with HTML5 implementation becoming common. Apple and Adobe working closely together. I expect that when Jobs approached Adobe, they were not willing to give a full effort in Flash support for the iPhone, that would meed Jobs standards, because Adobe (and Jobs probably too) knew this technology was on its way out and there is no long term plan with it.
So Jobs did what jobs does. Talks around limitations on its device and says it is what the future holds.
However the smartphone market for consumers in general accelerated flashes demise. As average guy would be doing bulk of their browsing on it, and less with a more powerful computer.
However Javascript+HTML5 has became the replacement for Actionscript+Flash. The real difference is the fact that Javascript and HTTML5 are open standards, while Flash is under the domain of Adobe.
However Adobe knows it had a good run with it, and has been implementing a gradual exit strategy for a while. But in terms of functionality and bad developers doing bad things. There isn't much you can do about it. Any throttles will need to be done by the browser, and may cause problems for some applications.
There can be a lot of uses.
1. An other movie is an element of the plot. Think Home alone, where Dirty Harry (or some gangster movie) was shown, and replayed to scare the bad guys into thinking they were being shot at.
2. A movie at the time was shot on site, Now it is decades later and such landscape isn't available anymore. Pre-2001 New York City, Las Vegas nearly every year... A movie clip could help set the scene for the period of the movie.
3. Having to reuse the same effect. The Wilhelm scream comes to mind. Or the destruction of the bird of pray in Star Trek Generations which was just the same shot in Start Trek VI.
4. Parody
Autonomy doesn't seem to match up either.
A job such as construction may require you to think on your feet, and work at your schedule. While a white collar job may be operationalized where you have to do the job that one way.
The using of the passive qualifiers is the point of the argument, There are many exceptions to the rules 49% is still an exception, however it is really big to be notices, that the rule isn't that good.
The question where does IT jobs fit in?
I can be working in an Office Setting, then you may see me in a cherry picker testing a network connection in the ceiling, or in a manufacturing location or construction site, where I will need to look at the situation in real time.
I have been in situations where I start the day in the office, then somethings falls apart and here I am in my dress shirt, under a dusty desk, or hanging on the rafters having to fix something.
There are a lot of hourly jobs that are considered White Collar.
Where is the line between a blue collar job and a white collar job now a days?
It isn't pay, as many Blue collar jobs may pay just as well if not higher then some white collar jobs.
It isn't education, as Some blue collar jobs requires more training and education then some white collar jobs.
It isn't physical activity, as a blue collar job may require you to just sit in front of a machine all day watching and correcting for faults, while a white collar job sits in front of a different machine finding and correcting faults.
There really isn't as much of a difference today. It is just the old stereotypes that stick around.
Watson is more of a marketing ploy then actually a useful implementation of technology.
H&R Block uses Watson, and still when my Taxes have gone beyond what you can fill out on the EZ form. The Tax accountant needed to do a lot of additional work, and had to bring in her supervisor for additional assistance. All I really got was a spinning icon like in the old browsers, to show me that it is doing something.
What I wax expecting Watson to do, is analysis all the other clams before it. Find additional statistical actions that have been done, and offer additional things to recommend. With a spouse in real-estate you had these deductions, however other had also added these to their list, do they apply? It looks like you are missing a 1099-DIV form, If you didn't invest, comparing to others what would the expected value be.
I have seen Watson used in other areas too and I am not impressed. I haven't seen it do anything sense it Jeopardy game that is really noteworthy. And still what it did in Jeopardy was more of a result of fast indexing of data, and quick correlation algorithm, vs anything ground breaking, in many of these sectors it is trying to get in, such raw power isn't so much needed.
They normally will argue when something is not matching their standards, but that rarely ever gets in the way. They will probably just run a code beautifier to fix it.
I have printed out code and have drawn maps with a pencil to track all the workflow it has followed, because it was spaghetti code (With actual goto commands) one letter variables, which were reused when no longer needed.
However for an experienced coder, they know if the computer can read it and then so you you. It may just take some time to straighten it out.
I much rather pay $20-$80 for a game and get all of its features. Then have a game where I can buy myself to victory.
I do like often the Free to play first chapter, or limited world just so I can determine if the game is worth my money or not. But after I pay for it, I kinda want access to everything, or at least access to a level where I can get it in game play. And if it is multi-player I want my chances to be just as good as the next guys.
I think the thing bosses are figuring out, is the technology buzzard of the day isn't the biggest thing. I have professionally used a couple dozen languages over my career. Giving me an other one to work on isn't a big deal. Also a lot of coders are very protective of their code, and hate sharing it. So coding isn't collaborative but work on your own code, and dump it on someone else when you leave, where they look at it, and grumble at all the problems with it and promptly re-write it again.
I think the ability to code for someone applying for a programming position is something we should take for granted, however other factors such as how they will work with others, and make code that will prevent a hand off learning curve, and follow a company standard is important.
If you think if you make your code difficult and only you can manage it. Let me tell you from experience, you are wrong, While it may take some time to get a handle of it, most developers (especially ones practiced at reading others code) can pick up on your crazy mess you made, and continue on without a heartbeat.
I had a rouge employee quit, contact the customers telling them that the company will not be able to keep the product running. Causing the customers to panic. Only for us to put in a update for a feature they were asking months for (which he never had started), as well changing the security settings around to prevent him from causing more damage.
LED have a longer life, Can be dimmed, A wide verity of color hues, brighter bulbs can be put into lamps that normally would have cause a fire problems.
There are a lot of Benefits from LEDs over Incandescent or CF. It isn't just greenies who use them. They are a practical light source. It just took the invention of the Bright Blue LED in 1995 (23 years ago) to help make it a reality. Otherwise we would be having Red-Yellow-Green lights with them, Which are not overly useful for normal lighting.
I would expect, because a lot of electronics are far more energy efficient now, is part of the issue. For a lot of devices USB is the new power-plug and many devices are now working on 5 volt or 12 volt power. LED Lights+Energy Efficient TVs The general lack of mechanical parts in your computer Solid state drive, no CD/DVD... All this stuff adds up. However Normally such efficiencies just lead to greater usage. More Always on Devices and lights.
I expect what is also a factor is people with their own power generation such as solar panels is helping stabilize the grid, especially during peak time, so the need of additional power plants isn't needed as much.
What I would like to see as the next big step, is having a home powered by DC electric, so we don't need a bunch of bricks doing the conversion and wasting additional power in phantom energy draw. There will still be some loss from going from Mains to a ACDC Converter. But it would be one device, not a bunch.
Well how do you define a teacher?
As a community it is our responsibility to teach the youth. So we are all teachers in a way. And if we see child who is struggling, then we need the community to help them out. Not just a government employee who is tasked managing 2-3 dozen additional children at the same time. Where if the child isn't raising any flags will probably be ignored.
Those can be built and operated outside of city limits. Out of sight out of mind.
I actually remember some TV Add, and Snotty Slashdot commenters from Germany post on how stupid us Americans are for our Gasoline Cars, and interest of Hybrid cars, while Clean-Diesel cars were so much better for the environment. While it seems like you they were scammed by their own marketing and big-business complex.