To add to this, I do see another feature that smartphones and possibly DSLR's will need to add in the near future as well is the ability to go back and select focus on the depth of field. That tech has been incubating for a while now. It will be a way for these P&S cameras in phones to simulate what big lenses give DSLR's. You can mimic it currently with simple composition and editing tricks but the real deal should be possible.
Eventually I think is the key word here. Currently in a job that likely could be automated for about 50-75% of it, though in a very large company with only a few people that actually know what you do, there is little incentive to create a lot of software that can replace yourself. Many will just keep plugging along doing their own job for job security as well as not having the knowledge to program out their position through the multiple in-house and home built programs and databases. That and the company not having the resources to do so either keeps the job going for the foreseeable future.
They don't. They reduce the amount of calories you consume from drinking soda (diet vs. regular), but they stimulate your appetite so you actually end up eating more food when you do eat.
Diet drinks stimulate your appetite more than regular? How? If they both stimulate your appetite through sugars or sugar alcohols, artificial sweeteners, etc, then you're still 150-300 calories better off.
How many unique visitors does this site get anymore? For many years I would visit this site daily for the in depth discussions of technical news. Sadly, with the scooping by sometimes days by other news or congregator sites, I seem to only visit once a week now.
Even the number of comments shown for each story is way down. It's as if our beloved/. is a shell of what it once was because the community left and moved on to other sites.
With the declining revenue, anyone could see this coming.
The franchise has included prominent and strong female characters, like Princess Leia
And...? You make it sound like that's just the start of a long list, so let's hear the rest of it.
Padme, Mon Mothma, Asoka (cartoon but still part of the franchise-numerous lead women there like Duchess Satine of Mandalore) just to name a few off the top of my head.
A website comes and makes some "social web application for sharing stuff", said web application has some very interesting discussions -> said web application gets popular -> said web application gets increasingly worse usually as a consequence of trying to monetize it or due to the sheer number of people using (drowning everyone else in noise) -> users start to migrate to alternatives -> only a shell remains -> death.
See: digg, facebook, myspace, orkut, slashdot...
I find it funny you put FB in there. Still one of the most popular sites on the internet, but to you it 'tis but a shell.
Having lived in an older home with aluminum wiring along with millions of others, this is not a bad thing esp as lighting transitions to LED's and PC's and TV's lower their power footprint. This could be the catalyst that has these older homes replace the sub par wiring to something more safe. Soon you may only have dedicated lines of AC voltage to things like HVAC systems, water softeners, hot tubs, electric stoves, but even these could be pushed over to DC.
If he gets annual leave separate from his paid sick leave he's already ahead of the game.
Civilized countries already do that.
True. Most US companies, if you are salaried, you have as much sick leave as you need. Though with a government position you build up the number of sick leave hours you have with each payday.
Really? Probably the most influential person in the the biggest company in the US, and you only give him 3 weeks annual leave? What does he have to do to get 4 weeks?
This stuck out to me too. I work for a large int'l company in the US. What makes it somewhat difficult to look for another job is that I've had 5 weeks of vacation (27days) for over a decade and I'm not very old. It would be very tough to start over somewhere with only 2-3 weeks leave.
With all the tech that will likely be coming with the self-driving options in the next couple decades, minor entertainment console updates will be an afterthought and/or ignored outright and replaced with our non-static tech of mobile devices as we lounge in the vehicle.
This. This is why NBA League pass is garbage. Why ESPN streaming is not enough. Why cable still has a long life left in it.
All local market college football and NBA games are shown on Fox Sports 1. Only available via cable.
I think it depends on the show. There are some notable shows such as Lost that not only benefitted greatly from the online discussion but also arguably made the show much more entertaining. It would still be a great show to binge watch but you would lose a lot of the contemplation and discussion around it.
... There are going to be massive layoffs, but since the Nokia executives don't give a damn, and the frogs won't back down, all the layoffs are going to be from Usa, Finland and other places. Nokia promises to keep the HQ at Finland, but that's it. Few years go by and the HQ will have to be moved to froggieland. The same useless shit alcatel has been doing will continue, because the Nokia executives didn't learn anything from losing their mobile business.
There'll be layers and layers of useless bosses and strikes like the french like to do. The whole India thing will be repeated. Trying to layoff any french will suddenly cause weird backtaxes, that never existed before.
Nokia will be another piece of shit company.
Sounds about right. As a current employee, the power that the French gov has over businesses to keep employees has been a damper on our operations. We just went through a lot of layoffs to make us presentable for sale. Now we'll likely be going through more sadly.
Thankfully the company won't be headquartered in France (though French government is promising no French jobs lost). This will hopefully help remove the disproportionate amount of employees there, at least eventually./current ALU employee in US
To stave off further misunderstandings, Nokia sold it's handset division to MS a while ago. Alcatel licenses it's brand to other handsets as well. Neither company has a handset division though and so any mobile or desktop phone devices are in name only. This new company will focus on enterprise telecom infrastructure.
They may never get fiber but there is a chance. The US gov has a program called the Connect America Fund. Rural providers such as Windstream, Frontier, and others get subsidized to provide fiber to the node service to rural customers. Billions are being spent on it. While they would need some DSL form to the home, it at least gets fiber to within reach and faster DSL tech is welcome.
To the outside world, my manager says there is a shortage of qualified labor. In managerial meetings, he states openly that his intention is to replace all new openings with H-1B workers for budgetary reasons. Entirely coincidentally, during that time it has become less and less pleasant to work here, and also coincidentally, all of the attrition last year was amongst regular (non-H-1B) employees.
What I take away from this is that "qualified" in this context means "willing to work for third world wages and no benefits".
Or if you're like my company, an international telecom, you can't hire in a "high cost" country anymore. You open offices in low cost areas of the world. About the only place new hires come from are Poland or India. Their engineers get paid about a 1/3 to 1/2 of what American workers do for doing the same job.
I don't use the social media part of it, though I do use it to backup all my pics from my phone and via Picasa. Unlimited storage is great and easy to access online. Otherwise I'd still be using "picasawebalbums" before they moved it over to G+.
First Cash for Clunkers, now this. Stop helping! Just get out of the way. The market will work.
Oh and as Eric once said, "Fuck the FCC!"
The market only works when it isn't crippled by crony regulations preventing competition. Just this month T-mobile announced mobile data carryover and guess what appeared on my AT&T bill? That would never have happened.
Although my local cable provider has some competition and has "doubled their speeds" you can bet they wouldn't have done that without encroachment from Google Fiber or AT&T's fiber to the press release announced last year.
But there are still numerous areas such as Chanute, KS that are fighting to build their own infrastructure b/c the local telcos have a monopoly and won't build there but are being taken to court over it.
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To add to this, I do see another feature that smartphones and possibly DSLR's will need to add in the near future as well is the ability to go back and select focus on the depth of field. That tech has been incubating for a while now. It will be a way for these P&S cameras in phones to simulate what big lenses give DSLR's. You can mimic it currently with simple composition and editing tricks but the real deal should be possible.
Eventually I think is the key word here. Currently in a job that likely could be automated for about 50-75% of it, though in a very large company with only a few people that actually know what you do, there is little incentive to create a lot of software that can replace yourself. Many will just keep plugging along doing their own job for job security as well as not having the knowledge to program out their position through the multiple in-house and home built programs and databases. That and the company not having the resources to do so either keeps the job going for the foreseeable future.
They don't. They reduce the amount of calories you consume from drinking soda (diet vs. regular), but they stimulate your appetite so you actually end up eating more food when you do eat.
Diet drinks stimulate your appetite more than regular? How? If they both stimulate your appetite through sugars or sugar alcohols, artificial sweeteners, etc, then you're still 150-300 calories better off.
How many unique visitors does this site get anymore? For many years I would visit this site daily for the in depth discussions of technical news. Sadly, with the scooping by sometimes days by other news or congregator sites, I seem to only visit once a week now. Even the number of comments shown for each story is way down. It's as if our beloved /. is a shell of what it once was because the community left and moved on to other sites.
With the declining revenue, anyone could see this coming.
The franchise has included prominent and strong female characters, like Princess Leia
And...? You make it sound like that's just the start of a long list, so let's hear the rest of it.
Padme, Mon Mothma, Asoka (cartoon but still part of the franchise-numerous lead women there like Duchess Satine of Mandalore) just to name a few off the top of my head.
J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity
Rolls eyes. I'm sure that's just my privilege talking.
A website comes and makes some "social web application for sharing stuff", said web application has some very interesting discussions -> said web application gets popular -> said web application gets increasingly worse usually as a consequence of trying to monetize it or due to the sheer number of people using (drowning everyone else in noise) -> users start to migrate to alternatives -> only a shell remains -> death.
See: digg, facebook, myspace, orkut, slashdot...
I find it funny you put FB in there. Still one of the most popular sites on the internet, but to you it 'tis but a shell.
How is this worthy of a /. post?
What Microsoft really did was fund Nokia's purchase of Alcatel-Lucent.
NVIDIA has decided to pull no punches and release a seriously tempting GTX 980 Ti at $649
Only the slimmest of demographics (pun intended) would this appeal to. Let me know in 6-12 months when this gets down to the $100-$150 range.
Having lived in an older home with aluminum wiring along with millions of others, this is not a bad thing esp as lighting transitions to LED's and PC's and TV's lower their power footprint. This could be the catalyst that has these older homes replace the sub par wiring to something more safe. Soon you may only have dedicated lines of AC voltage to things like HVAC systems, water softeners, hot tubs, electric stoves, but even these could be pushed over to DC.
If he gets annual leave separate from his paid sick leave he's already ahead of the game.
Civilized countries already do that.
True. Most US companies, if you are salaried, you have as much sick leave as you need. Though with a government position you build up the number of sick leave hours you have with each payday.
Really? Probably the most influential person in the the biggest company in the US, and you only give him 3 weeks annual leave? What does he have to do to get 4 weeks?
This stuck out to me too. I work for a large int'l company in the US. What makes it somewhat difficult to look for another job is that I've had 5 weeks of vacation (27days) for over a decade and I'm not very old. It would be very tough to start over somewhere with only 2-3 weeks leave.
With all the tech that will likely be coming with the self-driving options in the next couple decades, minor entertainment console updates will be an afterthought and/or ignored outright and replaced with our non-static tech of mobile devices as we lounge in the vehicle.
This. This is why NBA League pass is garbage. Why ESPN streaming is not enough. Why cable still has a long life left in it. All local market college football and NBA games are shown on Fox Sports 1. Only available via cable.
I think it depends on the show. There are some notable shows such as Lost that not only benefitted greatly from the online discussion but also arguably made the show much more entertaining. It would still be a great show to binge watch but you would lose a lot of the contemplation and discussion around it.
... There are going to be massive layoffs, but since the Nokia executives don't give a damn, and the frogs won't back down, all the layoffs are going to be from Usa, Finland and other places. Nokia promises to keep the HQ at Finland, but that's it. Few years go by and the HQ will have to be moved to froggieland. The same useless shit alcatel has been doing will continue, because the Nokia executives didn't learn anything from losing their mobile business.
There'll be layers and layers of useless bosses and strikes like the french like to do. The whole India thing will be repeated. Trying to layoff any french will suddenly cause weird backtaxes, that never existed before.
Nokia will be another piece of shit company.
Sounds about right. As a current employee, the power that the French gov has over businesses to keep employees has been a damper on our operations. We just went through a lot of layoffs to make us presentable for sale. Now we'll likely be going through more sadly.
Thankfully the company won't be headquartered in France (though French government is promising no French jobs lost). This will hopefully help remove the disproportionate amount of employees there, at least eventually. /current ALU employee in US
To stave off further misunderstandings, Nokia sold it's handset division to MS a while ago. Alcatel licenses it's brand to other handsets as well. Neither company has a handset division though and so any mobile or desktop phone devices are in name only. This new company will focus on enterprise telecom infrastructure.
Look up Connect America Fund. Frontier, Windstream and other rural providers are building out subsidized by the gov.
They may never get fiber but there is a chance. The US gov has a program called the Connect America Fund. Rural providers such as Windstream, Frontier, and others get subsidized to provide fiber to the node service to rural customers. Billions are being spent on it. While they would need some DSL form to the home, it at least gets fiber to within reach and faster DSL tech is welcome.
Not me. JJ's Star Trek movies were lame, so I have no hope he's going to do better here. Better than Lucas, perhaps, but that's not saying much.
I know I'm not the only Star Wars fan that liked the new Star Treks better than the SW prequels.
To the outside world, my manager says there is a shortage of qualified labor. In managerial meetings, he states openly that his intention is to replace all new openings with H-1B workers for budgetary reasons. Entirely coincidentally, during that time it has become less and less pleasant to work here, and also coincidentally, all of the attrition last year was amongst regular (non-H-1B) employees.
What I take away from this is that "qualified" in this context means "willing to work for third world wages and no benefits".
Or if you're like my company, an international telecom, you can't hire in a "high cost" country anymore. You open offices in low cost areas of the world. About the only place new hires come from are Poland or India. Their engineers get paid about a 1/3 to 1/2 of what American workers do for doing the same job.
I don't use the social media part of it, though I do use it to backup all my pics from my phone and via Picasa. Unlimited storage is great and easy to access online. Otherwise I'd still be using "picasawebalbums" before they moved it over to G+.
First Cash for Clunkers, now this. Stop helping! Just get out of the way. The market will work.
Oh and as Eric once said, "Fuck the FCC!"
The market only works when it isn't crippled by crony regulations preventing competition. Just this month T-mobile announced mobile data carryover and guess what appeared on my AT&T bill? That would never have happened.
Although my local cable provider has some competition and has "doubled their speeds" you can bet they wouldn't have done that without encroachment from Google Fiber or AT&T's fiber to the press release announced last year.
But there are still numerous areas such as Chanute, KS that are fighting to build their own infrastructure b/c the local telcos have a monopoly and won't build there but are being taken to court over it.