If I pop in for a 99-pence cheeseburger, I won't be pressing buttons, or waiting for anything. And I expect a copper-looking penny as change. Try automating that.
4 hours a day to care for a vast tribe of geriatrics? 4 hours a day to flip burgers? 4 hours a day to cut hedges? 4 hours a day to service aircraft? 4 hours a day to write/debug AI?
Does anyone here think Ms. Mayer (in 'Corporate' terms), just might have done a good job for the formerly-benighted shareholders? In 'ordinary' companies (non-tech) the most senior people are - regrettably - not specialists in the underlying business, but hotshots in maximising value for the shareholders who validate their appointments. Failure is easy; she didn't. Well, my daughters are proud of her.
Earnest trainspotters in Britain (and we are many) mostly would have preferred in another, steam-age, life to have been long-apprenticed 'engine-drivers' (Brit-English), but have always understood that that function in the USA has been called 'engineer' for a century. How do such (esteemed) USians describe their job-title today?
In England, I used to browse Radio Shack in office lunch breaks. Just seeing their components would suggest projects (including many I never finished). They couldn't survive on that volume, but now we have 'Maplin' instead, which has done everything that was needed (even though smaller components are 'downstairs). Don't know their financials, but it's a great resource when you're stuck - and includes knowledgeable staff.
No real 'Doctor' I have ever known ever relied on anyone else's tests and notes. New Doc? they'll run the tests again (which is OK in the UK, as it costs the patient nothing but delay). I suspect the English NHS is remarkably resilient
When I stayed in Germany's Odenwald (where you could get a nice apple by walking roadside anywhere, and lifting an arm), they just let the fruit drop. Then they'd scoop from the ground with a tractor, pulp, press, and make the most delicious Apfelsaft or (next year) rather strong rough cider. Appropriate technology Rules Ja Wohl.
I loved COBOL in the 1960s, even though compiling it on a bank of magtapes could take all night. It was almost self documenting, and you could debug by reading your code across the tops of the 80-column source cards. More recently I saw a US software house trying to adapt their steaming pile of COBOL to a UK corporate: even the field-lengths were a disaster. But from a much more senior perch, I was never able to recommend a plain-language improvement (APL was fun but too quirky). Now that use-cases are routinely object-mapped, with parseable definitions, why can't the current generation design a problem-oriented upper layer for management to approve? And why can't inheritors of COBOL puzzles reverse engineer their sources (if they can be found) and map the stuff out properly for whatever gizmo is fashionable now, to error/ambiguity-check in an attractive GUI and then auto-code?
Second-world community I knew had a condenser for night dew installed by a global charity. Two nights later, the locals had stolen the polythene sheeting on which it relied. 'Appropriate Technology' Rules OK.
For balance, remember Ann Wojcicki, semi-detached from a Google founder through no fault of her own, who co-founded cheery '23andMe' for web-friendly genetic testing, got hit by the full might of the US's 'FDA' and came out smiling with a new-style offering that is compliant. As one North American school says in its motto 'Girls CAN do anything' (maybe only some of them).
On the Win10 I've seen, shutdown defaults to a semi-hibernated state you have to reject by unticking 'Turn on fast start up'. I heard the default makes complications if you want to read the HDD after a fail, so I untick that on all Win10 machines I see. Right or wrong?
I put most of my cousins on Win10, tweaked to look like XP and with all the nonsense removed. I check everyone routinely with TeamViewer, and the only disasters I've had to fix have been on the NON-Win10 machines. Of course I added Mint, but no-one uses that because they like to see the screens they're used to. Their only complaint is 'Office' getting chargeable, which is when LibreOffice mysteriously appears.
Being a good Big Boss isn't often about bright ideas - it's about choosing among people and their ideas (or other skills). And balancing product/org. ideas against corporate finance ideas too. Better an overpromoted football coach than a dreamy scientist. (No, I didn't mention US politics).
One hypothesis was that these (Brit) structures were seen as 'stairway to the underworld' / '...to the stars' or omphalos-like as navel of the universe, a point where the world turned inside-out. So it made sense to defend against things that might emerge if the spells worked.
I get furious just when eating. (This tendency is well-constrained by a vanishing tradition called 'table manners'). My theory (watch wildlife) is that creatures are most vulnerable while preoccupied with eating/drinking, so paranoia and watchfulness naturally rises then. If so, objecting to others audibly too close alongside is probably a simple displacement of an instinctive trait.
Win 10 looks after my many country cousins perfectly well (with 'Anti-Beacon' installed). Back here I still struggle to keep a bootable XP hard drive stable, as there's so much legacy software that still MUST run.
If I were selling life-saving supplies in the USA's litigious climate, I would want to recover from each sale the probably-huge cost of insurance against confected claims.
Might SETI 'change society'? For thousands of years we believed there was an ideal extraterrestrial community caled 'Heaven' - did that help us stop wars? Do those who still believe abstain from genocide? Would any other cosmic certainty improve things?
What the Tribunal found was that the two drivers involved were effectively employees. Uber's attempts to have every party sign disclaimers had had no effect on the substance of the employment relationship, judged on quite traditional criteria. It is entirely possible that people who drive with Uber introductions in different circumstances do not have employee rights.
- is that the sort of people who buy trackers are the sort of people who think they can 'buy' their way to weight loss. Running is free, 'eating less' actually makes savings.
In my youthful years of building valve-audio, with the faithful Mullard book, the biggest issue was usually mains hum. Rectifying heater current was not a total solution, and the big AC around seemed to jump any gaps however careful the wiring. Anyone remember 'humdingers'? Does the best valve kit nowadays really not hum when no-input is turned to full volume?
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If I pop in for a 99-pence cheeseburger, I won't be pressing buttons, or waiting for anything. And I expect a copper-looking penny as change. Try automating that.
4 hours a day to care for a vast tribe of geriatrics? 4 hours a day to flip burgers? 4 hours a day to cut hedges? 4 hours a day to service aircraft? 4 hours a day to write/debug AI?
Does anyone here think Ms. Mayer (in 'Corporate' terms), just might have done a good job for the formerly-benighted shareholders? In 'ordinary' companies (non-tech) the most senior people are - regrettably - not specialists in the underlying business, but hotshots in maximising value for the shareholders who validate their appointments. Failure is easy; she didn't. Well, my daughters are proud of her.
'She' might get more sympathy with a gender-change, and could be called 'Realtor'. Aligning ethics.
Earnest trainspotters in Britain (and we are many) mostly would have preferred in another, steam-age, life to have been long-apprenticed 'engine-drivers' (Brit-English), but have always understood that that function in the USA has been called 'engineer' for a century. How do such (esteemed) USians describe their job-title today?
In England, I used to browse Radio Shack in office lunch breaks. Just seeing their components would suggest projects (including many I never finished). They couldn't survive on that volume, but now we have 'Maplin' instead, which has done everything that was needed (even though smaller components are 'downstairs). Don't know their financials, but it's a great resource when you're stuck - and includes knowledgeable staff.
No real 'Doctor' I have ever known ever relied on anyone else's tests and notes. New Doc? they'll run the tests again (which is OK in the UK, as it costs the patient nothing but delay). I suspect the English NHS is remarkably resilient
When I stayed in Germany's Odenwald (where you could get a nice apple by walking roadside anywhere, and lifting an arm), they just let the fruit drop. Then they'd scoop from the ground with a tractor, pulp, press, and make the most delicious Apfelsaft or (next year) rather strong rough cider. Appropriate technology Rules Ja Wohl.
I loved COBOL in the 1960s, even though compiling it on a bank of magtapes could take all night. It was almost self documenting, and you could debug by reading your code across the tops of the 80-column source cards. More recently I saw a US software house trying to adapt their steaming pile of COBOL to a UK corporate: even the field-lengths were a disaster. But from a much more senior perch, I was never able to recommend a plain-language improvement (APL was fun but too quirky). Now that use-cases are routinely object-mapped, with parseable definitions, why can't the current generation design a problem-oriented upper layer for management to approve? And why can't inheritors of COBOL puzzles reverse engineer their sources (if they can be found) and map the stuff out properly for whatever gizmo is fashionable now, to error/ambiguity-check in an attractive GUI and then auto-code?
Second-world community I knew had a condenser for night dew installed by a global charity. Two nights later, the locals had stolen the polythene sheeting on which it relied. 'Appropriate Technology' Rules OK.
"My code is self-documenting, I need do no more."
For balance, remember Ann Wojcicki, semi-detached from a Google founder through no fault of her own, who co-founded cheery '23andMe' for web-friendly genetic testing, got hit by the full might of the US's 'FDA' and came out smiling with a new-style offering that is compliant. As one North American school says in its motto 'Girls CAN do anything' (maybe only some of them).
On the Win10 I've seen, shutdown defaults to a semi-hibernated state you have to reject by unticking 'Turn on fast start up'. I heard the default makes complications if you want to read the HDD after a fail, so I untick that on all Win10 machines I see. Right or wrong?
I put most of my cousins on Win10, tweaked to look like XP and with all the nonsense removed. I check everyone routinely with TeamViewer, and the only disasters I've had to fix have been on the NON-Win10 machines. Of course I added Mint, but no-one uses that because they like to see the screens they're used to. Their only complaint is 'Office' getting chargeable, which is when LibreOffice mysteriously appears.
Being a good Big Boss isn't often about bright ideas - it's about choosing among people and their ideas (or other skills). And balancing product/org. ideas against corporate finance ideas too. Better an overpromoted football coach than a dreamy scientist. (No, I didn't mention US politics).
What do they do in prisons now? Pick oakum?
One hypothesis was that these (Brit) structures were seen as 'stairway to the underworld' / '...to the stars' or omphalos-like as navel of the universe, a point where the world turned inside-out. So it made sense to defend against things that might emerge if the spells worked.
I get furious just when eating. (This tendency is well-constrained by a vanishing tradition called 'table manners'). My theory (watch wildlife) is that creatures are most vulnerable while preoccupied with eating/drinking, so paranoia and watchfulness naturally rises then. If so, objecting to others audibly too close alongside is probably a simple displacement of an instinctive trait.
Win 10 looks after my many country cousins perfectly well (with 'Anti-Beacon' installed). Back here I still struggle to keep a bootable XP hard drive stable, as there's so much legacy software that still MUST run.
If I were selling life-saving supplies in the USA's litigious climate, I would want to recover from each sale the probably-huge cost of insurance against confected claims.
Doesn't everyone get their Win10 cousins to use 'Spybot Anti-Beacon'? Do we think the authors of that won't keep up with any new challenges?
Might SETI 'change society'? For thousands of years we believed there was an ideal extraterrestrial community caled 'Heaven' - did that help us stop wars? Do those who still believe abstain from genocide? Would any other cosmic certainty improve things?
What the Tribunal found was that the two drivers involved were effectively employees. Uber's attempts to have every party sign disclaimers had had no effect on the substance of the employment relationship, judged on quite traditional criteria. It is entirely possible that people who drive with Uber introductions in different circumstances do not have employee rights.
- is that the sort of people who buy trackers are the sort of people who think they can 'buy' their way to weight loss. Running is free, 'eating less' actually makes savings.
In my youthful years of building valve-audio, with the faithful Mullard book, the biggest issue was usually mains hum. Rectifying heater current was not a total solution, and the big AC around seemed to jump any gaps however careful the wiring. Anyone remember 'humdingers'? Does the best valve kit nowadays really not hum when no-input is turned to full volume?