Computer systems can have more sensors with longer range.
Computers can track more objects coming from more directions than the human eye can track simultaneously.
While all the sensors in the world may be technically better than my two eyes, if it is a matter of dying in a pile of metal or not running over an unsupervised, poorly raised child, I would rather continue to trust my instincts and experience more than dozens of sensors and millions of lines of code written by the least expensive coder the car companies are willing to keep on staff/contract. If I cannot take my truck which has the check engine light lit to the dealer who made the vehicle and have them tell me exactly what the hell is wrong, I think the last thing we need is more electronics in the damn thing. I don't mind help or additional info from technology but I will never trust a machine like my car to steer, accelerate or stop itself.
On a separate rant, if you are not in control who will be?
"This is Onstar, your doors have been locked and you are being redirected to the Police Station because your Kindle is reporting you have removed the Amazon DRM from the "Davinci Code". Please remain calm."
On a related note, why don't you Google "Intellidrive", and figure out what magical benefit our tax dollars will be bringing us with that crap?
In my early days of young children on the internet over cable modem I woke to find my PC offline. Time Warner customer service advised that I had violated mass email rules and it was likely a virus. I greatly appreciated them cutting me off since it was proactive and they immediately turned it back on with no questions asked to allow me to clean it. I have gotten other smaller infections over the years but would not be opposed to the same treatment. If I have an infection that is hogging the bandwidth and potentially inviting their viral friends to my PC I am ok with them cutting me off. I will very quickly call customer service and as long as they turn it back on immediately, no harm done to me. If they do this wholesale, I would like a call during normal business hours.
I am inventing methods for "Wearing Evil on Your Sleeve", which describes a sort of high-tech Scarlet Letter designed to tip off 'potential dates, employees, friends, stock holders, media, etc.' about your unethical behavior by converting information — ' Inventing things to make average people's live difficult for no reason, number of visits by escorts, unreasonably hiking employee benefits costs, frequency of spending more than you pay your top employees for a year on a weekend vacation, destroying entire ecosystems with impunity, etc.' — into a visual form so that others can see the data 'on mechanisms such as a mood ring, watch, badge, on a website etc.
Thank you Craig, you saved me a lot of typing. Those that want to cry about the video, cry to wikileaks for editing it in such a way to be incredibly inflammatory. Glad you got to pour over the video for hours on end in your home office with hot tea and video enhancing software before deducing that there were clearly visible children in the van. I'm sure it was just as easy to see from a moving chopper hovering over a battle.
To all those that don't want your idealistic senses to be bruised, don't watch video of anything from a warzone. Or better yet, balance it out with the videos of roadside IEDs blowing up your fellow country men and women who are over there in a voluntary military.
Off Topic: If you skip the propaganda edit and watch the full length video below it you will get to see the wholesale destruction of a building full of armed men by the same apache crews lighting off some hellfire missiles.
But it contains an amount of sugar that is the recommended amount for 3 days!
Key word here is *recommended*. USDA recommends I have a certain amounts of sugar/fat/sodium/vitamin C/Zinc, assuming I am a healthy person on x amount of calories a day. There are health implications to over- and under-indulging in pretty much anything. Enough water to flush all electrolytes out of your system can kill you, it doesn't mean we should be banned from drinking water during sports activities. If I understand the risks involved to my own health, I may, for instance have 2 super sized big mac meals for lunch today. In the end, we are all responsible for ourselves in this supposedly free nation.
A service mentality focuses on what works best for the company and saves money, not what your technical people know and where they've invested their training. Yet I see that a lot. Not what works best, but what the techs know. Their expertise limits their technology choices instead of expanding them.
I agree with your philosophy, but there is a limit. When you are critically and chronically understaffed and underfunded to the point that you do not have spares, or training dollars, or more than one person to handle multiple enterprise systems, you cannot keep up with what is already installed, let alone use a different vendor or solution for every new item coming in the door. When my "internal customers" continue to expand operations sometimes my expertise in one particular product or vendor is what allows me to even get them working, but I can't do it optimally, or cheaply when I don't have any time to work on it or money for R&D or training.
Optimally, the bean counters would look at it and see that the waste we are forced to choose every day would easily be lessened by directing some people and funding to us before funding all the projects that require our input and efforts to make work.
In fact, it seems that less than 50% of the computer-using population now understands the difference between the hard drive and the case holding the computer
If they are not smart enough to understand the difference between the case and a hard drive then I doubt they have bought any storage solution I would be considering. The NAS I bought did not include hard drives, so I assume that would rule out anyone buying it that didn't know what a hard drive was. Aside from that, hopefully their comments on Newegg would honestly point out that their technical knowledge is low or they have only owned it for a month, both are required fields to leave a review. If not then hopefully their notes in the pros and cons would give away their lack of understanding of the technology they are reviewing. I am obviously a fan of Newegg and the review system is one of the reasons, if I am buying something tech, I look at the reviews there no matter where I purchase.
While it's certainly unethical for a vendor to censor reviews -- without at least prominently announcing that they are censoring them -- I have to question the value of reviews by the general public in the first place.
The thing is that the educated buyer sees that even the people not smart enough to understand the technology before trouncing it in an online review get to post their thoughts without it getting wiped, so you know that the knowledgeable who post either good or bad get on there also. On popular items, it is more info to sort through but with more reviews, you can pretty quickly get the picture on what common praises and issues go with that product, breezing by the trolls or flamebait.
I also like the feature on Newegg where you can "sort by helpfulness" so that you can see the reviews others have already noted were helpful to them, both positive and negative.
True, I manage an enterprise Cisco lightweight network and this is simply a check box in the controller config, which is also OFF BY DEFUALT. Every AP that associates to a controller takes it's config from the controller, so it is one check box to fix for the uninformed network manager or a waste of time reading and responding to everyone's e-mails getting in a huff about all the hype over a "serious security design flaw" for a feature those of us who understand it never had enabled. There are several other ways for the APs to find a controller, I prefer DHCP options. By the way, this is further nullified if like most network managers that use these on small scale, the APs and controllers reside on the same subnet so it is a simple layer 2 broadcast to find it's controller.
Fair enough, I work for a City government and know the public can request my e-mails, Internet history, etc., so I am more wondering if these applications become searchable, requestable public record.
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Computer systems can have more sensors with longer range. Computers can track more objects coming from more directions than the human eye can track simultaneously.
While all the sensors in the world may be technically better than my two eyes, if it is a matter of dying in a pile of metal or not running over an unsupervised, poorly raised child, I would rather continue to trust my instincts and experience more than dozens of sensors and millions of lines of code written by the least expensive coder the car companies are willing to keep on staff/contract. If I cannot take my truck which has the check engine light lit to the dealer who made the vehicle and have them tell me exactly what the hell is wrong, I think the last thing we need is more electronics in the damn thing. I don't mind help or additional info from technology but I will never trust a machine like my car to steer, accelerate or stop itself. On a separate rant, if you are not in control who will be? "This is Onstar, your doors have been locked and you are being redirected to the Police Station because your Kindle is reporting you have removed the Amazon DRM from the "Davinci Code". Please remain calm." On a related note, why don't you Google "Intellidrive", and figure out what magical benefit our tax dollars will be bringing us with that crap?
In my early days of young children on the internet over cable modem I woke to find my PC offline. Time Warner customer service advised that I had violated mass email rules and it was likely a virus. I greatly appreciated them cutting me off since it was proactive and they immediately turned it back on with no questions asked to allow me to clean it. I have gotten other smaller infections over the years but would not be opposed to the same treatment. If I have an infection that is hogging the bandwidth and potentially inviting their viral friends to my PC I am ok with them cutting me off. I will very quickly call customer service and as long as they turn it back on immediately, no harm done to me. If they do this wholesale, I would like a call during normal business hours.
I am inventing methods for "Wearing Evil on Your Sleeve", which describes a sort of high-tech Scarlet Letter designed to tip off 'potential dates, employees, friends, stock holders, media, etc.' about your unethical behavior by converting information — ' Inventing things to make average people's live difficult for no reason, number of visits by escorts, unreasonably hiking employee benefits costs, frequency of spending more than you pay your top employees for a year on a weekend vacation, destroying entire ecosystems with impunity, etc.' — into a visual form so that others can see the data 'on mechanisms such as a mood ring, watch, badge, on a website etc.
Thank you Craig, you saved me a lot of typing. Those that want to cry about the video, cry to wikileaks for editing it in such a way to be incredibly inflammatory. Glad you got to pour over the video for hours on end in your home office with hot tea and video enhancing software before deducing that there were clearly visible children in the van. I'm sure it was just as easy to see from a moving chopper hovering over a battle. To all those that don't want your idealistic senses to be bruised, don't watch video of anything from a warzone. Or better yet, balance it out with the videos of roadside IEDs blowing up your fellow country men and women who are over there in a voluntary military. Off Topic: If you skip the propaganda edit and watch the full length video below it you will get to see the wholesale destruction of a building full of armed men by the same apache crews lighting off some hellfire missiles.
But it contains an amount of sugar that is the recommended amount for 3 days!
Key word here is *recommended*. USDA recommends I have a certain amounts of sugar/fat/sodium/vitamin C/Zinc, assuming I am a healthy person on x amount of calories a day. There are health implications to over- and under-indulging in pretty much anything. Enough water to flush all electrolytes out of your system can kill you, it doesn't mean we should be banned from drinking water during sports activities. If I understand the risks involved to my own health, I may, for instance have 2 super sized big mac meals for lunch today. In the end, we are all responsible for ourselves in this supposedly free nation.
A service mentality focuses on what works best for the company and saves money, not what your technical people know and where they've invested their training. Yet I see that a lot. Not what works best, but what the techs know. Their expertise limits their technology choices instead of expanding them.
I agree with your philosophy, but there is a limit. When you are critically and chronically understaffed and underfunded to the point that you do not have spares, or training dollars, or more than one person to handle multiple enterprise systems, you cannot keep up with what is already installed, let alone use a different vendor or solution for every new item coming in the door. When my "internal customers" continue to expand operations sometimes my expertise in one particular product or vendor is what allows me to even get them working, but I can't do it optimally, or cheaply when I don't have any time to work on it or money for R&D or training. Optimally, the bean counters would look at it and see that the waste we are forced to choose every day would easily be lessened by directing some people and funding to us before funding all the projects that require our input and efforts to make work.
In fact, it seems that less than 50% of the computer-using population now understands the difference between the hard drive and the case holding the computer
If they are not smart enough to understand the difference between the case and a hard drive then I doubt they have bought any storage solution I would be considering. The NAS I bought did not include hard drives, so I assume that would rule out anyone buying it that didn't know what a hard drive was. Aside from that, hopefully their comments on Newegg would honestly point out that their technical knowledge is low or they have only owned it for a month, both are required fields to leave a review. If not then hopefully their notes in the pros and cons would give away their lack of understanding of the technology they are reviewing. I am obviously a fan of Newegg and the review system is one of the reasons, if I am buying something tech, I look at the reviews there no matter where I purchase.
While it's certainly unethical for a vendor to censor reviews -- without at least prominently announcing that they are censoring them -- I have to question the value of reviews by the general public in the first place.
The thing is that the educated buyer sees that even the people not smart enough to understand the technology before trouncing it in an online review get to post their thoughts without it getting wiped, so you know that the knowledgeable who post either good or bad get on there also. On popular items, it is more info to sort through but with more reviews, you can pretty quickly get the picture on what common praises and issues go with that product, breezing by the trolls or flamebait. I also like the feature on Newegg where you can "sort by helpfulness" so that you can see the reviews others have already noted were helpful to them, both positive and negative.
True, I manage an enterprise Cisco lightweight network and this is simply a check box in the controller config, which is also OFF BY DEFUALT. Every AP that associates to a controller takes it's config from the controller, so it is one check box to fix for the uninformed network manager or a waste of time reading and responding to everyone's e-mails getting in a huff about all the hype over a "serious security design flaw" for a feature those of us who understand it never had enabled. There are several other ways for the APs to find a controller, I prefer DHCP options. By the way, this is further nullified if like most network managers that use these on small scale, the APs and controllers reside on the same subnet so it is a simple layer 2 broadcast to find it's controller.
Fair enough, I work for a City government and know the public can request my e-mails, Internet history, etc., so I am more wondering if these applications become searchable, requestable public record.
I'd love to know if they respond to a Freedom of Information Act request for the passwords