The C64? Reliable? Maybe some of the last ones, but according many of the other engineers who worked there when the C64 was in production, including C128 hardware designer Bill Herd, it really was about getting as much hardware out the door quality be damned. In his talk at VCFMW 11 "Bil Herd: Tales from Inside Commodore" (an interesting talk you can find on youtube) he mentions a time when Commodore literally started shipping their own quality control rejects to stores for the Christmas season. The apparent idea behind this was that they were going to mostly be Christmas presents so people wouldn't even notice they were faulty until after Christmas by which time they'd come back to the store to replace them for working machines they'd have been able to produce by then.
Jack Tramiel isn't even mentioned by name a single time so you kind of failed right there. The whole interview is basically all about the time after Tramiel left (which according to his son was over an argument with Irving Gould over Gould using the company as his personal piggy bank) and how incompetent basically every single manager brought on after Tramiel's departure was.
The previously mentioned music degree and no previous work history in the industry? Because her since then deleted LinkedIn account didn't show anything IT related between her degree in music composition and being hired as CSO at the company.
Only way this makes any sense is if she's another diversity hire or it's just plain old nepotism (which for some reason nobody has seemed to have even considered so far).
As for Damore, what do you expect when he got this brutally stabbed in the back and misrepresented by the pseudo-progressives of silicon valley and the mainstream media?
Seems to me like Nadella is not really any different from other corporate CEOs in that he really likes to take credit for when other people's clear mistakes are overturned and it's just the results starting to come in when they're in charge.
After Ballmer, who I don't think ever actually got the hang of running a post-90s tech company, there really was no direction but up. Balmer still thought that their brand carried way more value than what it actually did and thus ended up squandering huge amounts of money on projects like WP7 and WP8 that never really went anywhere because of simply being too little, too late. The man clearly thought that they were going to be able to repeat what happened with the original PC, i.e a "too little - too late" platform that otherwise should have failed turned into a success because of who was behind it. The way I see it, Microsoft would probably have seen the exact same results had Nadella just let the company do whatever it wanted.
In all seriousness, any real assessment on Nadella's performance should start roughly around now, when the taint of Ballmer is (mostly) gone, and continue until he resigns himself or if he's made to resign for one reason or another.
If they weren't able to muster the effort required to get the necessary investment lined up at any point in the last 100 years, what makes you think they'll be able to get it done when their financial situation is what it is today?
Obviously, however the reason why they put them on poles in the first place is because it's considerably cheaper than run them underground and if you've paid any attention to what's been going on there for the last few years you'll know they don't exactly have the money for this just lying around.
To put the cost into perspective, here in Finland, where we don't have the same debt and budgetary problems, they only relatively recently started mandating companies put a significant effort into moving the above-ground powerline infrastructure under ground and the current plan is to have 65% of the low voltage and 47% of the medium voltage infrastructure moved to underground cables by 2029.
I quite honestly can't see any reason why civilians should have access to assault rifles, fully automatic or not, in a country like the U.S. We're not talking about a warzone like Iraq or a country with a semi-militia army like Switzerland. Weapons like bolt lock hunting rifles and sports rifles have legitimate uses they're specifically designed for. Assault rifles however are designed for warfare and in any other uses lose to weapons actually designed for these tasks.
However I have a feeling any response I'm going to get will be the usual mix of insults, claiming that people need their assault rifles so that they can overthrow the government, that a handgun or something less effective isn't enough for personal defense or some half-assed attempt to prove that assault rifles make for good sports rifles.
Well that's a bit odd seeing how when I put in my situation, a CS equivalent degree with one year of full time experience post graduation (didn't include the year of full time employment I got before graduating), into the StackOverflow salary calculator released a few days ago the calculator gave me an average salary of 54.000 GBP. Contrast that with the 35.000 GBP salary (which isn't too far off from what I'm actually making here in Finland) being reported here and I get the feeling that either the calculator is badly overestimating salaries or then salaries in the London area are way higher than in the rest of the U.K (which I guess is possible having heard of how expensive it is to live there).
If a degree provides an assurance of a "very low" skill level then your schools are either not very good or then they're just letting students pass courses they have no right to pass with their knowledge and skill level.
A degree is supposed to guarantee an at least halfway decent skill level and a versatile foundation to build additional skills on. If a degree doesn't do this, then it's clearly not worth even the paper it's printed on.
If you know anything about how wilileaks works, you'll know that they don't do sieve type leaks. The leaks they publish are ones that have been given to them directly and they don't go around re-publishing stuff that's already been leaked to mainstream media.
It's a bit premature to say anything relating to Europe seeing how the investigations are still ongoing, but in the U.S VW has already agreed to pay a $4.3 billion in fines and penalties while actual criminal charges have been raised against 6 of their executives. Jail time for them is a real possibility here.
Companies like this usually tend to get away with a proverbial slap on the wrist for stuff like this, but this time the whole VW group is already in serious trouble and they haven't even started charging their executives and leveraging fines against them in Europe.
This person may not have had their education or any kind of previous work experience "in tech", but they certainly were "in tech" when they worked a very "in tech" job.
I genuinely hope this wasn't what it seems like because if it is, then it just makes an incredibly stupid chain of events even dumber. Just the incompetence in itself is more than enough reason to put some much more strict limitations on what kind of data companies like these can collect. Collecting social security numbers should be absolutely forbidden for commercial purposes.
As much as I hate defending Trump or is supporters, these "dreamers" still entered the country illegally. The issue is not if they did it willingly or not, just that they entered the country illegally. In other words this is a question of principle, not of breaking the law willingly or not.
I'm not an American myself so I'm not 100% certain about the specifics of the Obama-era executive order Trump just allowed to lapse, but this didn't seem particularly fair to the people it covered either. Not only did it require these people to walk on egg shells at the threat of deportation, it also lacked any kind of path to naturalization and didn't really offer the people it covered all that much more than simply staying in the country illegally. Because of this I wouldn't say it's a completely unfair to characterize the whole thing as an immigration limbo either meant as a stopgap or easy justification for deporting illegal immigrants that didn't fall under the program.
I guess one way of looking at this whole mess is to think of it as one big band-aid that had to be removed at some point...
Seems to me like what's she's teaching the kids is to be modern day narcissists and not just by example.
Then again we do live in a society where we're told that everyone is special, no matter how stupid, untalented, lazy or ugly they are. Thus it's probably only to be expected that the logical end result of this is that just about everyone becomes a narcissist and narcissism starts to be seen as a desirable trait rather than the serious personality flaw that it actually is.
If this type of teaching becomes the norm it sadly wouldn't be the fist time actually learning something in class takes a back seat to something the kids find to be more fun than actually learning something.
If you're going to start taxing and paying salary to robots, why stop there? The industrial revolution and mechanization of farming made huge amounts of crafts people and farmhands redundant, but we never imposed those things on tractors or weaving machines. More recently online shopping, vending machines, factory robots and automated telephone exchanges have made huge amounts of people redundant and we didn't tax those either. Should we have done that?
If we're going to start imposing extra taxes on robots because they're taking away jobs from people, are we going to go back and tax other technology that has had the exact same effect? How about other things that can have the same effect? Because if we just limited it to robotics then that would be pretty hypocritical.
Honestly, only way I can see any reasonable person be upset over this is if they don't know about the riots that took place under Trump's inauguration, that this site was used to organize the demonstrations and that the information request is limited to rioting-related posts.
I can understand that people are frustrated with Trump and his election as president, but that doesn't give anyone the right to ignore the rule of law and go around destroying both public and private property. Even the "we're fighting white supremacy" excuse some of these people give falls flat on it's face when you remember that the rioters torched a limo taxi owned by a muslim immigrant who used that limo taxi to make a living for himself.
Seriously, doing something on the internet does not entitle you to protection from government information requests and if you believe that, then you probably deserve all the grief you get from being convicted of the illegal activity you thought you could get away with.
If this was just a regular peaceful protest then this would be pretty questionable, but seeing how they're trying to go after the people who showed up for Trump's inauguration with the explicit purpose of rioting and destroying both public and private property (including a limo taxi owned by a muslim immigrant). I dislike Trump as much as the next guy, but a moron and an asshole being elected president is hardly an excuse to start destroying public and private property as some form of protest.
Also, it needs mentioning that the "anti"-fascists also rioted at Obama's inauguration, thou in (understandably) smaller numbers.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black... If you think the Ottoman Empire was a major factor in the fall of the Roman Empire then you really need to go re-read your history books or stay away from those "alternate facts" because at most the Ottoman Empire took advantage of the fall of the Roman empire to establish itself.
Another problem with trying to ban "killer robots" is that if the things can relatively easily be developed under the guise of being remotely operated, remotely operated systems can be converted to become autonomous. In the case of (supposedly manned) airplanes the development of the autonomous systems can be developed under the guise of simply being an autopilot akin to what all planes have had for decades already.
So all in all the whole idea is kind of doomed from the get-go.
Seeing how the whole media industry has been in continuous decline for the last couple of decades it's probably to be expected that most of the actually talented people have moved on to less... Dying... Industries.
Then again there's also the clickbait aspect all commercially funded media is subject to and the general news media never really having been all that great at understanding actual science (probably because journalism falls more way more under liberal arts than under hard science).
There's just a "tiny" problem with that... It's called segmentation and encrypted traffic.
A number of American and Japanese manufacturers don't really protect their CAN bus traffic at all, but European manufacturers have generally been doing this for well over a decade. Segmenting the CAN bus network is something specially the Germans started doing a long time ago, thou less as an anti-sabotage measure and more as an anti-theft measure when they found that eastern European car thieves were opening doors by connecting the side view mirror's CAN bus port and getting the ignition going by connecting to the CAN bus port in the front passenger footwell. Encryption is a specialty of Volvo's as they tend to have all the data going in the CAN bus encrypted and it's a long and complicated process to get the system to renew the encryption keys whenever you need to replace something that needs to communicate over the CAN bus.
Seriously thou, reading this feels like reading an article from a few years ago when people went crazy over the Jeep hack.
No, you're really not alone about your bullsh*t alarm going off...
The first thing that sprung to my mind is the fact that most people who die prematurely from air pollution are elderly people. Interestingly enough most people who die from cigarettes are also elderly people dying prematurely and when they've run the numbers the end result was that cigarettes were actually a net positive as most of the people who died because of smoking were pensioners rather than still in the labor force.
When you consider this, the whole thing reeks and it does so for multiple reasons.
Anyone in their right mind is obviously bothered by these idiots, but it's not justification for people to stoop to their level and start to silence people trough censorship, intimidation and flat out violence the way the "anti"-fascist mob has done.
When you descent to the same level as the KKK, Vanguard America and other bigoted movements and organizations any moral high ground you may have over them becomes meaningless. When you're no longer talking about who's a bunch of violent bigots and who's not, but rather who's the worst bunch of violent bigots, the actual fascists or the "anti"-fascists, you've allowed the actual fascists to win. They know full well what they are and don't expect society to see them in any other way, however other people descending to their despicable level is as close to a victory as they're going to get.
Bigotry and violence is not a solution to bigotry and violence. All you're going to get by responding to these vile people by doing the same vile things is increase the amount of that kind of vile behavior in society and make these vile people seem less vile. Similarly to the war on terror being actual Islamic terrorists' best recruitment tool, the "anti"-fascists and their actions are the best recruitment tool the actual fascists have ever had.
Ummm..... Ok....
You quite clearly seem to be part of the russian majority that has been brainwashed by govenment controlled media and their twisted versions of the world's events.
The population of Estona isn't really big compared to the population of the Russian Federation, as the're called these days, but it still doesn't remove them the right to make up thier own political agenda and decide for themselves.
Unlike most of the Russians think, the bronze statue of the russian soldier symbolized a completely different thing for the Estonian people than what it did for the Russians. As mentioned before here, it symbolized the crimes and cruelty and crimes against the Estonin people after the second world war by the USSR.
Shure, for the minority of russians in Estonia mostly offspring from Russians moved there by Stalin, but still they ARE a minority. And as a lot of people have mentioned before, it was moved to a more suitable spot than a buss station, a military graveyard.
The other events sparked by this were also quite shocking. Noting, I mean NOTHING gives a right to go to another country to loot, pilage and destroy property worth tens of millions of dollars.
So, Russia has absolutely NO right to interfere with Estonian domestic politics. Estonia is now an independent nation, not a part of the USSR or Russian Federation as sounded like you were thinking in your post.
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The C64? Reliable? Maybe some of the last ones, but according many of the other engineers who worked there when the C64 was in production, including C128 hardware designer Bill Herd, it really was about getting as much hardware out the door quality be damned. In his talk at VCFMW 11 "Bil Herd: Tales from Inside Commodore" (an interesting talk you can find on youtube) he mentions a time when Commodore literally started shipping their own quality control rejects to stores for the Christmas season. The apparent idea behind this was that they were going to mostly be Christmas presents so people wouldn't even notice they were faulty until after Christmas by which time they'd come back to the store to replace them for working machines they'd have been able to produce by then.
Jack Tramiel isn't even mentioned by name a single time so you kind of failed right there. The whole interview is basically all about the time after Tramiel left (which according to his son was over an argument with Irving Gould over Gould using the company as his personal piggy bank) and how incompetent basically every single manager brought on after Tramiel's departure was.
The previously mentioned music degree and no previous work history in the industry? Because her since then deleted LinkedIn account didn't show anything IT related between her degree in music composition and being hired as CSO at the company.
Only way this makes any sense is if she's another diversity hire or it's just plain old nepotism (which for some reason nobody has seemed to have even considered so far).
As for Damore, what do you expect when he got this brutally stabbed in the back and misrepresented by the pseudo-progressives of silicon valley and the mainstream media?
Seems to me like Nadella is not really any different from other corporate CEOs in that he really likes to take credit for when other people's clear mistakes are overturned and it's just the results starting to come in when they're in charge.
After Ballmer, who I don't think ever actually got the hang of running a post-90s tech company, there really was no direction but up. Balmer still thought that their brand carried way more value than what it actually did and thus ended up squandering huge amounts of money on projects like WP7 and WP8 that never really went anywhere because of simply being too little, too late. The man clearly thought that they were going to be able to repeat what happened with the original PC, i.e a "too little - too late" platform that otherwise should have failed turned into a success because of who was behind it. The way I see it, Microsoft would probably have seen the exact same results had Nadella just let the company do whatever it wanted.
In all seriousness, any real assessment on Nadella's performance should start roughly around now, when the taint of Ballmer is (mostly) gone, and continue until he resigns himself or if he's made to resign for one reason or another.
If they weren't able to muster the effort required to get the necessary investment lined up at any point in the last 100 years, what makes you think they'll be able to get it done when their financial situation is what it is today?
Obviously, however the reason why they put them on poles in the first place is because it's considerably cheaper than run them underground and if you've paid any attention to what's been going on there for the last few years you'll know they don't exactly have the money for this just lying around.
To put the cost into perspective, here in Finland, where we don't have the same debt and budgetary problems, they only relatively recently started mandating companies put a significant effort into moving the above-ground powerline infrastructure under ground and the current plan is to have 65% of the low voltage and 47% of the medium voltage infrastructure moved to underground cables by 2029.
I quite honestly can't see any reason why civilians should have access to assault rifles, fully automatic or not, in a country like the U.S. We're not talking about a warzone like Iraq or a country with a semi-militia army like Switzerland. Weapons like bolt lock hunting rifles and sports rifles have legitimate uses they're specifically designed for. Assault rifles however are designed for warfare and in any other uses lose to weapons actually designed for these tasks.
However I have a feeling any response I'm going to get will be the usual mix of insults, claiming that people need their assault rifles so that they can overthrow the government, that a handgun or something less effective isn't enough for personal defense or some half-assed attempt to prove that assault rifles make for good sports rifles.
Well that's a bit odd seeing how when I put in my situation, a CS equivalent degree with one year of full time experience post graduation (didn't include the year of full time employment I got before graduating), into the StackOverflow salary calculator released a few days ago the calculator gave me an average salary of 54.000 GBP. Contrast that with the 35.000 GBP salary (which isn't too far off from what I'm actually making here in Finland) being reported here and I get the feeling that either the calculator is badly overestimating salaries or then salaries in the London area are way higher than in the rest of the U.K (which I guess is possible having heard of how expensive it is to live there).
If a degree provides an assurance of a "very low" skill level then your schools are either not very good or then they're just letting students pass courses they have no right to pass with their knowledge and skill level.
A degree is supposed to guarantee an at least halfway decent skill level and a versatile foundation to build additional skills on. If a degree doesn't do this, then it's clearly not worth even the paper it's printed on.
If you know anything about how wilileaks works, you'll know that they don't do sieve type leaks. The leaks they publish are ones that have been given to them directly and they don't go around re-publishing stuff that's already been leaked to mainstream media.
It's a bit premature to say anything relating to Europe seeing how the investigations are still ongoing, but in the U.S VW has already agreed to pay a $4.3 billion in fines and penalties while actual criminal charges have been raised against 6 of their executives. Jail time for them is a real possibility here.
Companies like this usually tend to get away with a proverbial slap on the wrist for stuff like this, but this time the whole VW group is already in serious trouble and they haven't even started charging their executives and leveraging fines against them in Europe.
This person may not have had their education or any kind of previous work experience "in tech", but they certainly were "in tech" when they worked a very "in tech" job.
I genuinely hope this wasn't what it seems like because if it is, then it just makes an incredibly stupid chain of events even dumber. Just the incompetence in itself is more than enough reason to put some much more strict limitations on what kind of data companies like these can collect. Collecting social security numbers should be absolutely forbidden for commercial purposes.
As much as I hate defending Trump or is supporters, these "dreamers" still entered the country illegally. The issue is not if they did it willingly or not, just that they entered the country illegally. In other words this is a question of principle, not of breaking the law willingly or not.
I'm not an American myself so I'm not 100% certain about the specifics of the Obama-era executive order Trump just allowed to lapse, but this didn't seem particularly fair to the people it covered either. Not only did it require these people to walk on egg shells at the threat of deportation, it also lacked any kind of path to naturalization and didn't really offer the people it covered all that much more than simply staying in the country illegally. Because of this I wouldn't say it's a completely unfair to characterize the whole thing as an immigration limbo either meant as a stopgap or easy justification for deporting illegal immigrants that didn't fall under the program.
I guess one way of looking at this whole mess is to think of it as one big band-aid that had to be removed at some point...
Seems to me like what's she's teaching the kids is to be modern day narcissists and not just by example.
Then again we do live in a society where we're told that everyone is special, no matter how stupid, untalented, lazy or ugly they are. Thus it's probably only to be expected that the logical end result of this is that just about everyone becomes a narcissist and narcissism starts to be seen as a desirable trait rather than the serious personality flaw that it actually is.
If this type of teaching becomes the norm it sadly wouldn't be the fist time actually learning something in class takes a back seat to something the kids find to be more fun than actually learning something.
If you're going to start taxing and paying salary to robots, why stop there? The industrial revolution and mechanization of farming made huge amounts of crafts people and farmhands redundant, but we never imposed those things on tractors or weaving machines. More recently online shopping, vending machines, factory robots and automated telephone exchanges have made huge amounts of people redundant and we didn't tax those either. Should we have done that?
If we're going to start imposing extra taxes on robots because they're taking away jobs from people, are we going to go back and tax other technology that has had the exact same effect? How about other things that can have the same effect? Because if we just limited it to robotics then that would be pretty hypocritical.
Honestly, only way I can see any reasonable person be upset over this is if they don't know about the riots that took place under Trump's inauguration, that this site was used to organize the demonstrations and that the information request is limited to rioting-related posts.
I can understand that people are frustrated with Trump and his election as president, but that doesn't give anyone the right to ignore the rule of law and go around destroying both public and private property. Even the "we're fighting white supremacy" excuse some of these people give falls flat on it's face when you remember that the rioters torched a limo taxi owned by a muslim immigrant who used that limo taxi to make a living for himself.
Seriously, doing something on the internet does not entitle you to protection from government information requests and if you believe that, then you probably deserve all the grief you get from being convicted of the illegal activity you thought you could get away with.
If this was just a regular peaceful protest then this would be pretty questionable, but seeing how they're trying to go after the people who showed up for Trump's inauguration with the explicit purpose of rioting and destroying both public and private property (including a limo taxi owned by a muslim immigrant). I dislike Trump as much as the next guy, but a moron and an asshole being elected president is hardly an excuse to start destroying public and private property as some form of protest. Also, it needs mentioning that the "anti"-fascists also rioted at Obama's inauguration, thou in (understandably) smaller numbers.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black... If you think the Ottoman Empire was a major factor in the fall of the Roman Empire then you really need to go re-read your history books or stay away from those "alternate facts" because at most the Ottoman Empire took advantage of the fall of the Roman empire to establish itself.
Another problem with trying to ban "killer robots" is that if the things can relatively easily be developed under the guise of being remotely operated, remotely operated systems can be converted to become autonomous. In the case of (supposedly manned) airplanes the development of the autonomous systems can be developed under the guise of simply being an autopilot akin to what all planes have had for decades already. So all in all the whole idea is kind of doomed from the get-go.
Seeing how the whole media industry has been in continuous decline for the last couple of decades it's probably to be expected that most of the actually talented people have moved on to less... Dying... Industries. Then again there's also the clickbait aspect all commercially funded media is subject to and the general news media never really having been all that great at understanding actual science (probably because journalism falls more way more under liberal arts than under hard science).
There's just a "tiny" problem with that... It's called segmentation and encrypted traffic. A number of American and Japanese manufacturers don't really protect their CAN bus traffic at all, but European manufacturers have generally been doing this for well over a decade. Segmenting the CAN bus network is something specially the Germans started doing a long time ago, thou less as an anti-sabotage measure and more as an anti-theft measure when they found that eastern European car thieves were opening doors by connecting the side view mirror's CAN bus port and getting the ignition going by connecting to the CAN bus port in the front passenger footwell. Encryption is a specialty of Volvo's as they tend to have all the data going in the CAN bus encrypted and it's a long and complicated process to get the system to renew the encryption keys whenever you need to replace something that needs to communicate over the CAN bus. Seriously thou, reading this feels like reading an article from a few years ago when people went crazy over the Jeep hack.
No, you're really not alone about your bullsh*t alarm going off... The first thing that sprung to my mind is the fact that most people who die prematurely from air pollution are elderly people. Interestingly enough most people who die from cigarettes are also elderly people dying prematurely and when they've run the numbers the end result was that cigarettes were actually a net positive as most of the people who died because of smoking were pensioners rather than still in the labor force. When you consider this, the whole thing reeks and it does so for multiple reasons.
Anyone in their right mind is obviously bothered by these idiots, but it's not justification for people to stoop to their level and start to silence people trough censorship, intimidation and flat out violence the way the "anti"-fascist mob has done. When you descent to the same level as the KKK, Vanguard America and other bigoted movements and organizations any moral high ground you may have over them becomes meaningless. When you're no longer talking about who's a bunch of violent bigots and who's not, but rather who's the worst bunch of violent bigots, the actual fascists or the "anti"-fascists, you've allowed the actual fascists to win. They know full well what they are and don't expect society to see them in any other way, however other people descending to their despicable level is as close to a victory as they're going to get. Bigotry and violence is not a solution to bigotry and violence. All you're going to get by responding to these vile people by doing the same vile things is increase the amount of that kind of vile behavior in society and make these vile people seem less vile. Similarly to the war on terror being actual Islamic terrorists' best recruitment tool, the "anti"-fascists and their actions are the best recruitment tool the actual fascists have ever had.
Ummm..... Ok.... You quite clearly seem to be part of the russian majority that has been brainwashed by govenment controlled media and their twisted versions of the world's events. The population of Estona isn't really big compared to the population of the Russian Federation, as the're called these days, but it still doesn't remove them the right to make up thier own political agenda and decide for themselves. Unlike most of the Russians think, the bronze statue of the russian soldier symbolized a completely different thing for the Estonian people than what it did for the Russians. As mentioned before here, it symbolized the crimes and cruelty and crimes against the Estonin people after the second world war by the USSR. Shure, for the minority of russians in Estonia mostly offspring from Russians moved there by Stalin, but still they ARE a minority. And as a lot of people have mentioned before, it was moved to a more suitable spot than a buss station, a military graveyard. The other events sparked by this were also quite shocking. Noting, I mean NOTHING gives a right to go to another country to loot, pilage and destroy property worth tens of millions of dollars. So, Russia has absolutely NO right to interfere with Estonian domestic politics. Estonia is now an independent nation, not a part of the USSR or Russian Federation as sounded like you were thinking in your post.