That was a different era. There was a huge southern segregationist conservative wing of the Democratic party at the time. They mostly left and became Republicans and Dixiecrats over the civil rights act. While today's Republicans still have the old school economic conservative wing, and Democrats will mostly have the labor wing, since that time there as arisen a divide in social issues which have become the biggest poltiical forces. If you try to limit politics to us versus them type of thinking, then you miss the complexity of what's actually going on.
The problem with politicians is that they never lose. If they fail to win an election then they almost always find a way to blame it on someone else. Either hordes of people bused up from Mexico to vote, or the campaign advisor made a mistake, or a third party entered the race without getting permission, or the voters were misled by confusing ballots, or whatever other thing they can point a finger at.
Watch out, sometimes they keep idiots around because they think the idiot knows something. Upper management doesn't really have a good idea of who's a valuable worker or not. They know who's rated highly but that is often political. Sometimes the person who designed the product is also an idiot, and do you really want to keep that person and their unmaintainable crap code or get someone who can fix it without being roadblocked. I see times when a person eventually leaves a company that others breathe a sigh of relief and start fixing things.
You realize everyone's a little bit racist, right? Saying "racist Democrats", which sort of implying that Republicans are not, is disengenuous. Make one side look good and the other side look bad. Partisanship is the biggest evil in the world now. If you had a good point to make you lost it by being political. You could have just said "I think it is the racists who constantly..."
Except that DMCA doesn't agree. It allows just a simple notice to be enough to take down a video, then it's up to you to argue to get it back up. That's why this takedown happened, probably no actual person did this just a bot scanning through videos looking for Star Wars segments that it recognizes.
Most academic lectures have always assumed that the listener has come prepared. At the last, they've read the book, or the chapters assigned so far. Of course, the majority of the college age students will not do that, they haven't learned the arts of learning, time management, and preparation. Lectures that don't assume the listener is prepared tend to be introductions to a topic and the audience is not expected to take notes or a have a quiz.
But this applies outside of lectures too. A med school won't appreciate a student coming into a disection class and then not knowing what to do with the cadaver.
Ther's a middle ground though. When they say "no lectures", it implies no discussions, no intro material, etc. Ie, in a laboratory class in physics for example, you start with someone up front describing what the experiment is going to be, writing details on the board, and so on. That is done because if it takes 30 minutes to explain to each student what is to be done, then that's 30 minutes for each student versus 30 minutes total plus some personal help as needed.
A lecture can be the same way. What you want to reduce, even if not eliminate, is the tradtional boring old guy up front describing stuff in the book that the students didn't get around to reading. Ie, remember the old movie/tv show The Paper Chase; professor up front but constantly asking the students questions, forcing the students to always be prepared so that there is an active discussion. I'd still call that a lecture, even though not the stereotypical format (calculus 101 with 300 students in a lecture hall).
That's why my mother got satellite, because when the broadcasters went digital she no longer got reception for anything except one channel that was spotty. Analog works great, and it has a gradual loss of quality instead of a rapid dropoff that digital has. She wasn't in a position to experiment with powered antennas or installing them, or even knowing they existed.
Not sure where you're coming from. The NRA was founded to promote gun practice because of the poor state of Union soldiers in the civil war. It did not get involved in gun legistlation until the 1930s. Although I am seeing a lot of stories on google from typical far right people trying to claim that it was formed to protect black gun ownership. There's a lot of fake news out there, you have to take it with a grain of salt, and if you see anything by Ann Coulter on the topic then just assume it's not worth a mouse click.
I'm still confused about this, being old. When I was in school, internships were about getting college credit. Smart people didn't need extra credits, there were already more than enough to graduate because of taking extra electives and such. Internships were also seriously underpaid, and were held during the school year. Fast forward to the present, it seems that "internship" is now a synonym for "summer job" and "extended interview process for students who will graduate soon".
I never had an internship, but I did have summer jobs.
However there just aren't enough temp jobs out there in tech to satisfy a requirement to have internships for all college students. Interns are a pain, they need to be ready to start doing something useful without the training that normal full time hires will get, they take a lot of hands on time from their manager or mentor which can mean less productivity overall.
I've got a 2nd gen nano and I like it. Every generation after that seems to have gone downhill. Either in an odd form factor, or with video, or losing all the buttons to be touch ony, etc. When I first got mine I thought it was a really brilliant UI, I was not searching for the manual to remember how to do certain things.
The phone has problems though. First, it's expensive. I don't want to go jogging with one in my pocket for fear it will break, and certainy it will get a bit sweaty. And the phone is HEAVY! Ugh. And finally the user interface on the ipod nano, 2nd gen, is very easy to use, you don't have to swipe your fingerprint will on the run, or squint to see the screen in the sunlight, etc.
Today though, my ipod is in my car as the mp3 players. It works great with itunes, downloads podcosts easily and with no hassle and then my car can play those. My phone won't do that; itunes won't work with 3rd party mp3 players, and non-apple podcast programs are sucky.
I had to get another one, but I used Amazon to get a used one because iPod Nano generation 2 was great and just what I wanted. Especially from 5th generation on they had so many useless features and the form factors just weren't very good for sticking in your pocket or glove box, or controlling while there's sweat in your eyes from exercising, etc.
Still though, I've never seen any podcast player that worked a well as an iPod with iTunes; everything else was clumsy and/or required manual operations.
A lot of scammers are actually fooling themselves too. They may honestly think they're doing the right thing, and the little lie is just there until things get going better. Ie, ends justifying the means, lie now so the company doesn't collapse before Big Thing is ready.
I think if they kept it simple they could have done it. They had troubles with the camera though, they wanted a certain quality that they just weren't going to get for the prices they needed. Their problem wasn't that they were intentionally trying to scam people, but that they were so monumentally naive. Copying what other people can do is moderately easy, if you have the skills. If you don't have the skills then attempting to copy and also improve and innovate on top of that isn't going to work, unless you hire people with skills (ie, not your drinking buddies).
The drone part is easy, if you stick with a normal design. But they were't selling that. They were selling a drone that could automatically follow you, and that had a superior quality camera, and you could just throw it in the air and it would take off (zero to being able to generate enough lift while stable and right side up in less than a second).
They didn't quite have any of that though. For their film they could barely get the thing to fly, ie, the "basic drone" part. For the film they had a remote operator control the drone, which was a very expensive commercial drone, with instructions to try and make it look like a simpler drone. Basically, when they made the film they had almost nothing except a prototype that could barely fly. It was a nice video though, I thought it was great at the time not because it was cool but it was an advance in technology (throw it up in the air at any random angle) and that it appeared to be ready to ship any day now...
People need some perspective too. No one should feel bad that this technology isn't here yet, it's just fluff. It fits into the same category as Juicero. Nothing of value in the world is gained by the product and nothing is lost when it fails to live up to the hype.
You need to turn "ideas people" into "people that do things". I think most of them don't really know anything about what happens in a company. Maybe they see a CEO who seemingly does no work at all but who takes all the credit and they want to emulate that model. What they fail to see is that the CEO worked to get there, spends most of the day managing the company (maybe a bit naively), dealing with financial sisues, and is constantly on the road selling the company and its products.
The "ideas people" at real companies who don't have the follow through don't become rich, an ideas person is always expected to do a lot of hard work to make that idea become reality. If you just come up with a good idea and then hand it off to someone else, you won't get rewarded for it.
Yes, but after getting out of jail you will still be a hot prospect to venture capitalists, because you have real world experience! Nothing attracts VC money like a freshly scrubbed face full of naivete.
Blame the angel investors. They hear the words "young founders" and they think "great, young people are so much more capable than old people who smell funny." To be fair, their initial investment was for college kids, not intended to be enough to start up a sustainable business, but the old dotcom era wishful thinking is still in full display here.
- get young people, who have zero real world experience. - assume the product will be easy to design, manufacture, and deliver. After all, if old people can do it then it can't be that hard. - don't hire anyone who know anything about building a real world product, those guys are old and smell funny. - market your idea as "cool". - make the product about you, because self absorbed people spend more more money. - hype the product, make it look like it really exists when it doesn't. - believe everyone else's hype, not just your own. 3D printing is the wave of the future? So then build your business around using 3D printers. Your smartphone takes pictures and is small, so it must be easy to just buy a camera to stick in the device, obviously. - marketing takes full priority over engineering. Engineers are old and smell funny, whereas marketing has a 2 drink minimum.
Actually, it takes too long to list everything they did wrong. I'll instead list below everything that they did right.
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That was a different era. There was a huge southern segregationist conservative wing of the Democratic party at the time. They mostly left and became Republicans and Dixiecrats over the civil rights act. While today's Republicans still have the old school economic conservative wing, and Democrats will mostly have the labor wing, since that time there as arisen a divide in social issues which have become the biggest poltiical forces. If you try to limit politics to us versus them type of thinking, then you miss the complexity of what's actually going on.
The problem with politicians is that they never lose. If they fail to win an election then they almost always find a way to blame it on someone else. Either hordes of people bused up from Mexico to vote, or the campaign advisor made a mistake, or a third party entered the race without getting permission, or the voters were misled by confusing ballots, or whatever other thing they can point a finger at.
Aren't those the people that got Trump elected?
Watch out, sometimes they keep idiots around because they think the idiot knows something. Upper management doesn't really have a good idea of who's a valuable worker or not. They know who's rated highly but that is often political. Sometimes the person who designed the product is also an idiot, and do you really want to keep that person and their unmaintainable crap code or get someone who can fix it without being roadblocked. I see times when a person eventually leaves a company that others breathe a sigh of relief and start fixing things.
You realize everyone's a little bit racist, right? Saying "racist Democrats", which sort of implying that Republicans are not, is disengenuous. Make one side look good and the other side look bad. Partisanship is the biggest evil in the world now. If you had a good point to make you lost it by being political. You could have just said "I think it is the racists who constantly..."
It's your own fault, you should have gone for a PhD in Excel!
Except that DMCA doesn't agree. It allows just a simple notice to be enough to take down a video, then it's up to you to argue to get it back up. That's why this takedown happened, probably no actual person did this just a bot scanning through videos looking for Star Wars segments that it recognizes.
Most academic lectures have always assumed that the listener has come prepared. At the last, they've read the book, or the chapters assigned so far. Of course, the majority of the college age students will not do that, they haven't learned the arts of learning, time management, and preparation. Lectures that don't assume the listener is prepared tend to be introductions to a topic and the audience is not expected to take notes or a have a quiz.
But this applies outside of lectures too. A med school won't appreciate a student coming into a disection class and then not knowing what to do with the cadaver.
Ther's a middle ground though. When they say "no lectures", it implies no discussions, no intro material, etc. Ie, in a laboratory class in physics for example, you start with someone up front describing what the experiment is going to be, writing details on the board, and so on. That is done because if it takes 30 minutes to explain to each student what is to be done, then that's 30 minutes for each student versus 30 minutes total plus some personal help as needed.
A lecture can be the same way. What you want to reduce, even if not eliminate, is the tradtional boring old guy up front describing stuff in the book that the students didn't get around to reading. Ie, remember the old movie/tv show The Paper Chase; professor up front but constantly asking the students questions, forcing the students to always be prepared so that there is an active discussion. I'd still call that a lecture, even though not the stereotypical format (calculus 101 with 300 students in a lecture hall).
That's why my mother got satellite, because when the broadcasters went digital she no longer got reception for anything except one channel that was spotty. Analog works great, and it has a gradual loss of quality instead of a rapid dropoff that digital has. She wasn't in a position to experiment with powered antennas or installing them, or even knowing they existed.
Yup, I was thinking it read like an April Fools story.
Well, Firefox was the leader, until it started copying one of its rivals.
Not sure where you're coming from. The NRA was founded to promote gun practice because of the poor state of Union soldiers in the civil war. It did not get involved in gun legistlation until the 1930s. Although I am seeing a lot of stories on google from typical far right people trying to claim that it was formed to protect black gun ownership. There's a lot of fake news out there, you have to take it with a grain of salt, and if you see anything by Ann Coulter on the topic then just assume it's not worth a mouse click.
And the NRA used to be all about gun safety, before it turned into a paranoid political lobbying group.
I'm still confused about this, being old. When I was in school, internships were about getting college credit. Smart people didn't need extra credits, there were already more than enough to graduate because of taking extra electives and such. Internships were also seriously underpaid, and were held during the school year. Fast forward to the present, it seems that "internship" is now a synonym for "summer job" and "extended interview process for students who will graduate soon".
I never had an internship, but I did have summer jobs.
However there just aren't enough temp jobs out there in tech to satisfy a requirement to have internships for all college students. Interns are a pain, they need to be ready to start doing something useful without the training that normal full time hires will get, they take a lot of hands on time from their manager or mentor which can mean less productivity overall.
I've got a 2nd gen nano and I like it. Every generation after that seems to have gone downhill. Either in an odd form factor, or with video, or losing all the buttons to be touch ony, etc. When I first got mine I thought it was a really brilliant UI, I was not searching for the manual to remember how to do certain things.
The phone has problems though. First, it's expensive. I don't want to go jogging with one in my pocket for fear it will break, and certainy it will get a bit sweaty. And the phone is HEAVY! Ugh. And finally the user interface on the ipod nano, 2nd gen, is very easy to use, you don't have to swipe your fingerprint will on the run, or squint to see the screen in the sunlight, etc.
Today though, my ipod is in my car as the mp3 players. It works great with itunes, downloads podcosts easily and with no hassle and then my car can play those. My phone won't do that; itunes won't work with 3rd party mp3 players, and non-apple podcast programs are sucky.
I had to get another one, but I used Amazon to get a used one because iPod Nano generation 2 was great and just what I wanted. Especially from 5th generation on they had so many useless features and the form factors just weren't very good for sticking in your pocket or glove box, or controlling while there's sweat in your eyes from exercising, etc.
Still though, I've never seen any podcast player that worked a well as an iPod with iTunes; everything else was clumsy and/or required manual operations.
A lot of scammers are actually fooling themselves too. They may honestly think they're doing the right thing, and the little lie is just there until things get going better. Ie, ends justifying the means, lie now so the company doesn't collapse before Big Thing is ready.
I think if they kept it simple they could have done it. They had troubles with the camera though, they wanted a certain quality that they just weren't going to get for the prices they needed. Their problem wasn't that they were intentionally trying to scam people, but that they were so monumentally naive. Copying what other people can do is moderately easy, if you have the skills. If you don't have the skills then attempting to copy and also improve and innovate on top of that isn't going to work, unless you hire people with skills (ie, not your drinking buddies).
The drone part is easy, if you stick with a normal design. But they were't selling that. They were selling a drone that could automatically follow you, and that had a superior quality camera, and you could just throw it in the air and it would take off (zero to being able to generate enough lift while stable and right side up in less than a second).
They didn't quite have any of that though. For their film they could barely get the thing to fly, ie, the "basic drone" part. For the film they had a remote operator control the drone, which was a very expensive commercial drone, with instructions to try and make it look like a simpler drone. Basically, when they made the film they had almost nothing except a prototype that could barely fly. It was a nice video though, I thought it was great at the time not because it was cool but it was an advance in technology (throw it up in the air at any random angle) and that it appeared to be ready to ship any day now...
People need some perspective too. No one should feel bad that this technology isn't here yet, it's just fluff. It fits into the same category as Juicero. Nothing of value in the world is gained by the product and nothing is lost when it fails to live up to the hype.
You need to turn "ideas people" into "people that do things". I think most of them don't really know anything about what happens in a company. Maybe they see a CEO who seemingly does no work at all but who takes all the credit and they want to emulate that model. What they fail to see is that the CEO worked to get there, spends most of the day managing the company (maybe a bit naively), dealing with financial sisues, and is constantly on the road selling the company and its products.
The "ideas people" at real companies who don't have the follow through don't become rich, an ideas person is always expected to do a lot of hard work to make that idea become reality. If you just come up with a good idea and then hand it off to someone else, you won't get rewarded for it.
Yes, but after getting out of jail you will still be a hot prospect to venture capitalists, because you have real world experience! Nothing attracts VC money like a freshly scrubbed face full of naivete.
Blame the angel investors. They hear the words "young founders" and they think "great, young people are so much more capable than old people who smell funny." To be fair, their initial investment was for college kids, not intended to be enough to start up a sustainable business, but the old dotcom era wishful thinking is still in full display here.
- get young people, who have zero real world experience.
- assume the product will be easy to design, manufacture, and deliver. After all, if old people can do it then it can't be that hard.
- don't hire anyone who know anything about building a real world product, those guys are old and smell funny.
- market your idea as "cool".
- make the product about you, because self absorbed people spend more more money.
- hype the product, make it look like it really exists when it doesn't.
- believe everyone else's hype, not just your own. 3D printing is the wave of the future? So then build your business around using 3D printers. Your smartphone takes pictures and is small, so it must be easy to just buy a camera to stick in the device, obviously.
- marketing takes full priority over engineering. Engineers are old and smell funny, whereas marketing has a 2 drink minimum.
Actually, it takes too long to list everything they did wrong. I'll instead list below everything that they did right.
Ok, what engineering jobs are there in banks? They make devices, design circuits, write low level code, build bridges, ...?