A normal person does not care about OS on mobile. They care about integration of services.
I saw an ad for home and wondered who was going to buy it. Again, Google comes in at a high price point. The echo is $50. Home is over $100. Amazon released the original to Prime member for $99. Most people shop from Amazon. Amazon missed the boat on the phone, hard to compete with Samsung, but the integration on Alexa is pretty sweet. There are a number of smartphone integration skills that do not require any special programming. I can tell you it much more easily integrated than Apple Home and Siri.
Yes, google owns Android, but the we see by the splintering and difficulty updating the OS that google has very little control of it. Fire is a fork which I think is more under control than most others.Pretty much Google would have to close future source as it is released if they wanted to hurt Amazon, and that would likely eliminate whatever hope Google has of dominating mobile.
I trust Amazon marginally more the Google because I pay Amazon for stuff, where the only way google can make money is by monetizing information the collect on me. That is why I do not have a Nest.
There are actually two major problems with the Mac lineup now, which has little to do specifically with laptops.
On is their desktop serious computer is outdated. It has been two years since the new Mac Pro was released and there has been no update. New processor, bigger SSD, should be expected by now. Sometimes you need a computer who major design parameter is not how many movies it can play on one charge.
The second in Mac OS. We should have had a major rewrite by now. From 1984 to the early 90's we had the original System which was updated to System 7 an stayed there until the late 90's. System 8 degereted to System 9, becoming an antiquated bad OS of 16 years. OS 10 hit the market in 2001 and even though there have been major updates to make it less obsolete, we are now again approaching 16 years. It is unclear where the GPPC OS is going, MS has tried to reimagine it, and, IMHO, failed. We should not be encumbered by being forced to use a mobile OS on a computer.
That does not mean the iOS and Mac OS can't become united over time. iOS has some of the same initial limitation of the System software. As the Mac grew more powerful, we got a more authentic OS.
If you are near a port city, this is not a bad idea. Lots of plans online for a refitting containers. They are made to be secure.
The back server room could be in the back, facilities in the middle, glass doors behind the secure door. Air conditioning on the roof with countermeasures.
There are plans to secure the building to the ground so it cannot be moved.
Low cost is the key. No manufacturer is going to sell a product with no hope of making profit. We say this MS Windows machines many years ago. The cost of a MS Windows license was so great, and the pressures to keep cost low so intense, that they only way for the average OEM to generate a profit was to use the machines as promotional vehicles. In the end, every consumer MS Windows machine ended up being a means for MS to gain market share and third parties to generate profit, not a tool for useful work.
I noticed this on Amazon tablets as well. I have kindle with promotional items, and it is not too intrusive. The ad is there, but disappears as soon as I am ready to read. On the other hand I recently got a Fire, i.e. cheap android based tablet, and the promotional items are must more intrusive. It takes a significant effort to move from the promotional screen to the home screen so that work can get done.
Now, in principle, Google does not charge for Android so they are not at fault in the same way that MS was and is for the loading of machines with malware and spyware. I do not see anything they can do if they are looking to create a commodity OS for tablets like MS did for desktops.
At the very least, there is going to be a renegotiation of the trade deal if the US drops out. Trade is critical to the growth of the world economy, and if the US wants to play isolationist and not reap those benefits, other countries will bind together to do so.
More realistically, Trump is playing another con game. While he seems to prefer to produce his clothing in Mexico(which is why a tariff is not likely to happen), the building material for his developments still overwhelming come from Asia. Even Congress when given an opportunity to establish that we use only US materials to build using US tax dollars was unwilling to impose that restriction. Furthermore, his daughter depends on Asia to produce her goods.
So what we know is anything that streamlines trade with Asia makes Trump rich, and anything that makes it harder makes him less rich. Now, Trump may want to renegotiate the deal on specific points that do not benefit his company, so it makes sense that he would be talking about not ratifying the deal as a negotiating tactic.
But if you want to know what will happen, look in the news about how the supply chain for US manufacturers is world wide, how any disruption with Asia would raise prices and cost jobs, and the number of Goldman Sachs former executives in his cabinet.
A moron is someone who can't differentiate what might happen from wishful thinking. This link does not say China can't dump the debt, just that some wishful analyst think it won't. Just like some wishful morons think climate change is natural and won't really hurt anything.
I mean anyone who eats fast food on a regular basis should be ashamed. Our economy in the US is currently based on paying unskilled workers almost nothing, and scheduling them so they cannot work elsewhere. Retail is likely worse then Amazon because you only get to work 25 random hours every week.
The solution if anyone actually cared is $15 an hour minimum wage and paying a quarter more for your hamburger or $20 more in Amazon prime.
I suppose we should drive down to the Walmart and waste gas and all the bills to run the big box store and buy from those oppressed workers. We really should just buy from the farmers market and arts and crafts festival.
And some have suggested that though the countdown pedestrian lights have reduced pedestrian incidents, there have been significant negative consequences for automobile incidents. This would seem to intensity this problem.
I think the point is that major corporations are using US bonds as a tax shelter, and if they had paid taxes instead of investing in US debt, the US debt might not be at it's present level of 100% of GDP.
OTOH, this is kind of good news. If Trump pisses off China so that it begins to dump US public debt, it will be nice that US corporations have significant incentive to pick up the debt.
I read most of volume 1. 30 years ago we were still working out basics and many programmer had to write or at least understand, basic processes. This is why this book was useful. In addition we were still writing lots of code, rather than just understanding and applying APIs. For instance no one is going to write a sort, or a gaussian elimination, or a GUI outside of classroom anymore. Few developers are going to have to know how to really code, or what is really happening in the engine they are using.
This is what is happening to US schools. A lot of the new school models are based on hiring new cheap teachers, working them to death, then getting rid of them before they have a real salary or a pension. There is no reason to even have teachers certified, because a teacher can teach for three years without certification. There is benefit to a certificated teacher as that teacher is just going to feel like they can stay for years.
Teaching is about the only professional job I know where corporate wants random people with dubious qualifications and no experience working. This is different from what it used to be, where teachers were put through a trial of fire but trained and mentored so that those who could be good teachers in 5 years were kept. These then helped the new teachers. It is important to have a long probation, simply so that good teachers can be identified and bad teacher let go. But this probation period should not be an excuse to just have a staff that can be worked until they are burned out, and students are not learning.
Corporate education does not work. We see this at the college level with the default rates on student loans, at the school level with the constant lawsuits against firms who steal money. Public education already knows how to educate a curated population. I went to such public schools, many of friends did as well, and we all are productive tax paying members of society. It is the general population that is a challenge, and all results show that corporate schools funded with public money do worse, or at best as well, as public schools. And this does not even take into account that corporate schools have much more leeway to choose who they wish not to educate.
It is like the proposed ban on lobbying at the federal level. If you regulate it, then there is some control and transparency. If you ban it, then it goes underground.
The problem with these reviews is that they get elevated to the to-, presumable because sellers then have everybody click to find it useful. If amazon would mark these reviews, the relegate them to a lower position, they would serve a purpose without being overwhelming.
Because they can't make a decent mobile device to save thier lives, and desktop monopoly is not going to matter that much in a decade. Fewer people will use MS studio because the tools for Andriod are free and Xcode is basically free. MS studio will basically be B2B only, and IBM does it better. It is not a well thought plan. It is desperation from a lazy company whose only skill was OEM intimidation and lock-in.
Depends if you are talking US or the world. The people who voted for Trump in the primary likely see technology as a threat. They are largely uneducated rural people who expect to be paid to mine coal even if no one wants it or assemble products even if a robot can do it better. Can you imagine what computers would be like if we were still forced to hand solder components because we were required to support semi-skilled workers? No surface mount.
So even though the people who elected Trump is broader, the basic tenet of isolationism and coal miners is still inherently anti-innovation. The wind mills and solar panels that are being installed in Texas and other states, and are going to be a significant part of the energy grid in the next decade, is an extensional threat to the unskilled workers who elected Trump. The semi-skilled service jobs that require an associates degree and significant computer literacy are beyond the average Trump supporter who thinks that they deserve a middle class income for doing work a computer could do more accurately.
Which further opens the path for Asia and Germany to take over the technological world. Our trains are not designed in the US, but in Germany. More of out high technology is not only going to be built, but engineered, in Asia.
Kids need to learn that if it is not your machine, not your network, there is no expectation of privacy. They need to know that when they are using wifi at McDonalds or Starbucks every they do is logged. If a school owns a computer, and they take it home that compuer shouldbe kept in a common area and not in private area where the kid might have naked time. Like any computer owned by an employer, nothing should be done in it that is not work related.
Kids are given computer so they can learn skills and etiquette so when they grow up they can be successful for a lifetime. Teaching them now so they don't get fired for making p0rn on thier work laptop is a good thing.
In previous years Apple and Samsung accounted for the majority of profits in the smartphone category. Now that Samsung has sunk itself, not only with exploding mobile devices but also exploding washing machines, the only profitable firm is Apple.
The larger than 100% number is because most firms operate at a loss. For example, one can easily be 200% more productive than a very lazy coworker.
Carbon capture was a technology that was useful in the US when it was thought coal would remain the primary fuel. Now that natural gas is dirt cheap, partially thanks to fracking, it is not so critical. Natural gas produces about half the CO2 per BTU as dirty coal. Switching from coal should reduce emissions at least 40%. In fact Texas can meet standards by shutting down a few very dirty plants and moving to natural gas.
But what is going to change everything is when the rest of the US follows Texas which now gets at least 10% of the power from renewables, mostly wind. This is where the climate change problem will begin to decline.
Which is not to say the carbon capture technology is dead. In other developing countries it may be useful,and the US could be the supplier for those systems.
Exactly. Never talk to a debt collector or charity on the phone. Never take any bill that is mailed at face value. Always type the link of your financial institution of use a bookmark.
In the US laws tend to protect the debtor. If you owe money, there will always be time to pay. Firms buy old debt without knowing if he debt is genuine. I get calls all the time trying to collect fake debt.
I woud suspect it was something like a epitaxial layer of safire to coat a glass lens. In fact, depending on how the measurement was done, the lens could be safire. Glass is a generic term to mean a substrate that is not a single crystal, and could be of many compositions, including Aluminum Oxide doped with titanium. One requirement is that the lens does not preferential reflect and visible frequency of light, so that rules out most of what one would commonly call sapphire.
The collaboration in the word processor is nice, but even Apple has that to some extent now.
Google does this a lot, provides a decent product then ignores it and lets it get stale. I was thinking they were going to kill it off like they do with most of their products.
Does the spreadsheet have a real regression line feature yet?
We live in a world where it is increasingly important to understand process. Think of teaching a spreadsheet to a kid who understands how a computer works, rather than just thinking the buttons are magic. Understanding is key. Everyone else is going to have their job taken over by a robot or by kids who did have some basic CS.
No one is saying that we teach a CS curriculum in high school, just like not one is saying that we teach math or science or literature or history to the levels taught in college. What some, like the poster are saying, is that we decide the few we are going to educate, and ignore the rest.
In the end CS in high school is a practical problem. CS is still a relatively rigorous topic, and relatively few people understand it. I have sat in rooms with adults playing on an arduino, and most could even to the simplest tasks. They simply are not trained.
In the end we don't have CS in high school for the same reason that in may high schools we have 4 years of required history and English but only three years of math and Science. There are simply not enough teachers. And yes, many teachers will deny it and say that math and science is useless, and no kid needs to know physics or calculus.
I am certainly glad that i did not have parents of go to a school that represented this level of stupidity. Otherwise I would not have a job. I also had to learn to read literature and write and do many other things, even if I did not have an aptitude for it. It is called being educated.
Just imagine how dangerous the roads would be if you just said that adult could just start to drive at 18 or 21, but were not allowed to drive a car before. At 21 you could buy and drive a car, but if you were caught driving before that you would be arrested.
I am not saying that drinking is a skill, but the craziness occurs because many kids go from not being allowed to drink, ever, to having unrestricted access. I think that most of us have learned that abstinence does not work, but still we think we can let kids learn to drink all at once and not see terrible consequences.
In civilized places like Texas a parent is an affirmative defense to a minor drinking. I certainly knew how to manage my drinking by the time I was 18. I saw many people without this skill get shit faced. Of course when people are getting drunk for the first time as adults without supervision there are going to be negative consequences.
Also, of course, there are people who are addicts, and those people need to be identified early and provided with appropriate medical attention. I can't imagine a worse time to learn one is an addict than at college.
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What do you mean, nothing is ever going to be cooler that Fortean on a teletype are having to argue with the mainframe gods
I saw an ad for home and wondered who was going to buy it. Again, Google comes in at a high price point. The echo is $50. Home is over $100. Amazon released the original to Prime member for $99. Most people shop from Amazon. Amazon missed the boat on the phone, hard to compete with Samsung, but the integration on Alexa is pretty sweet. There are a number of smartphone integration skills that do not require any special programming. I can tell you it much more easily integrated than Apple Home and Siri.
Yes, google owns Android, but the we see by the splintering and difficulty updating the OS that google has very little control of it. Fire is a fork which I think is more under control than most others.Pretty much Google would have to close future source as it is released if they wanted to hurt Amazon, and that would likely eliminate whatever hope Google has of dominating mobile.
I trust Amazon marginally more the Google because I pay Amazon for stuff, where the only way google can make money is by monetizing information the collect on me. That is why I do not have a Nest.
On is their desktop serious computer is outdated. It has been two years since the new Mac Pro was released and there has been no update. New processor, bigger SSD, should be expected by now. Sometimes you need a computer who major design parameter is not how many movies it can play on one charge.
The second in Mac OS. We should have had a major rewrite by now. From 1984 to the early 90's we had the original System which was updated to System 7 an stayed there until the late 90's. System 8 degereted to System 9, becoming an antiquated bad OS of 16 years. OS 10 hit the market in 2001 and even though there have been major updates to make it less obsolete, we are now again approaching 16 years. It is unclear where the GPPC OS is going, MS has tried to reimagine it, and, IMHO, failed. We should not be encumbered by being forced to use a mobile OS on a computer.
That does not mean the iOS and Mac OS can't become united over time. iOS has some of the same initial limitation of the System software. As the Mac grew more powerful, we got a more authentic OS.
The back server room could be in the back, facilities in the middle, glass doors behind the secure door. Air conditioning on the roof with countermeasures.
There are plans to secure the building to the ground so it cannot be moved.
I noticed this on Amazon tablets as well. I have kindle with promotional items, and it is not too intrusive. The ad is there, but disappears as soon as I am ready to read. On the other hand I recently got a Fire, i.e. cheap android based tablet, and the promotional items are must more intrusive. It takes a significant effort to move from the promotional screen to the home screen so that work can get done.
Now, in principle, Google does not charge for Android so they are not at fault in the same way that MS was and is for the loading of machines with malware and spyware. I do not see anything they can do if they are looking to create a commodity OS for tablets like MS did for desktops.
My problem is that I can only accept or reject a Calendar request. There should be an option to simply delete it without notifying the spammer.
More realistically, Trump is playing another con game. While he seems to prefer to produce his clothing in Mexico(which is why a tariff is not likely to happen), the building material for his developments still overwhelming come from Asia. Even Congress when given an opportunity to establish that we use only US materials to build using US tax dollars was unwilling to impose that restriction. Furthermore, his daughter depends on Asia to produce her goods.
So what we know is anything that streamlines trade with Asia makes Trump rich, and anything that makes it harder makes him less rich. Now, Trump may want to renegotiate the deal on specific points that do not benefit his company, so it makes sense that he would be talking about not ratifying the deal as a negotiating tactic.
But if you want to know what will happen, look in the news about how the supply chain for US manufacturers is world wide, how any disruption with Asia would raise prices and cost jobs, and the number of Goldman Sachs former executives in his cabinet.
A moron is someone who can't differentiate what might happen from wishful thinking. This link does not say China can't dump the debt, just that some wishful analyst think it won't. Just like some wishful morons think climate change is natural and won't really hurt anything.
The solution if anyone actually cared is $15 an hour minimum wage and paying a quarter more for your hamburger or $20 more in Amazon prime.
I suppose we should drive down to the Walmart and waste gas and all the bills to run the big box store and buy from those oppressed workers. We really should just buy from the farmers market and arts and crafts festival.
And some have suggested that though the countdown pedestrian lights have reduced pedestrian incidents, there have been significant negative consequences for automobile incidents. This would seem to intensity this problem.
OTOH, this is kind of good news. If Trump pisses off China so that it begins to dump US public debt, it will be nice that US corporations have significant incentive to pick up the debt.
I read most of volume 1. 30 years ago we were still working out basics and many programmer had to write or at least understand, basic processes. This is why this book was useful. In addition we were still writing lots of code, rather than just understanding and applying APIs. For instance no one is going to write a sort, or a gaussian elimination, or a GUI outside of classroom anymore. Few developers are going to have to know how to really code, or what is really happening in the engine they are using.
Teaching is about the only professional job I know where corporate wants random people with dubious qualifications and no experience working. This is different from what it used to be, where teachers were put through a trial of fire but trained and mentored so that those who could be good teachers in 5 years were kept. These then helped the new teachers. It is important to have a long probation, simply so that good teachers can be identified and bad teacher let go. But this probation period should not be an excuse to just have a staff that can be worked until they are burned out, and students are not learning.
Corporate education does not work. We see this at the college level with the default rates on student loans, at the school level with the constant lawsuits against firms who steal money. Public education already knows how to educate a curated population. I went to such public schools, many of friends did as well, and we all are productive tax paying members of society. It is the general population that is a challenge, and all results show that corporate schools funded with public money do worse, or at best as well, as public schools. And this does not even take into account that corporate schools have much more leeway to choose who they wish not to educate.
The problem with these reviews is that they get elevated to the to-, presumable because sellers then have everybody click to find it useful. If amazon would mark these reviews, the relegate them to a lower position, they would serve a purpose without being overwhelming.
Because they can't make a decent mobile device to save thier lives, and desktop monopoly is not going to matter that much in a decade. Fewer people will use MS studio because the tools for Andriod are free and Xcode is basically free. MS studio will basically be B2B only, and IBM does it better. It is not a well thought plan. It is desperation from a lazy company whose only skill was OEM intimidation and lock-in.
So even though the people who elected Trump is broader, the basic tenet of isolationism and coal miners is still inherently anti-innovation. The wind mills and solar panels that are being installed in Texas and other states, and are going to be a significant part of the energy grid in the next decade, is an extensional threat to the unskilled workers who elected Trump. The semi-skilled service jobs that require an associates degree and significant computer literacy are beyond the average Trump supporter who thinks that they deserve a middle class income for doing work a computer could do more accurately.
Which further opens the path for Asia and Germany to take over the technological world. Our trains are not designed in the US, but in Germany. More of out high technology is not only going to be built, but engineered, in Asia.
Kids are given computer so they can learn skills and etiquette so when they grow up they can be successful for a lifetime. Teaching them now so they don't get fired for making p0rn on thier work laptop is a good thing.
The larger than 100% number is because most firms operate at a loss. For example, one can easily be 200% more productive than a very lazy coworker.
And they offer nothing without a charger. Bogus.
But what is going to change everything is when the rest of the US follows Texas which now gets at least 10% of the power from renewables, mostly wind. This is where the climate change problem will begin to decline.
Which is not to say the carbon capture technology is dead. In other developing countries it may be useful,and the US could be the supplier for those systems.
In the US laws tend to protect the debtor. If you owe money, there will always be time to pay. Firms buy old debt without knowing if he debt is genuine. I get calls all the time trying to collect fake debt.
I woud suspect it was something like a epitaxial layer of safire to coat a glass lens. In fact, depending on how the measurement was done, the lens could be safire. Glass is a generic term to mean a substrate that is not a single crystal, and could be of many compositions, including Aluminum Oxide doped with titanium. One requirement is that the lens does not preferential reflect and visible frequency of light, so that rules out most of what one would commonly call sapphire.
The collaboration in the word processor is nice, but even Apple has that to some extent now. Google does this a lot, provides a decent product then ignores it and lets it get stale. I was thinking they were going to kill it off like they do with most of their products. Does the spreadsheet have a real regression line feature yet?
No one is saying that we teach a CS curriculum in high school, just like not one is saying that we teach math or science or literature or history to the levels taught in college. What some, like the poster are saying, is that we decide the few we are going to educate, and ignore the rest.
In the end CS in high school is a practical problem. CS is still a relatively rigorous topic, and relatively few people understand it. I have sat in rooms with adults playing on an arduino, and most could even to the simplest tasks. They simply are not trained.
In the end we don't have CS in high school for the same reason that in may high schools we have 4 years of required history and English but only three years of math and Science. There are simply not enough teachers. And yes, many teachers will deny it and say that math and science is useless, and no kid needs to know physics or calculus.
I am certainly glad that i did not have parents of go to a school that represented this level of stupidity. Otherwise I would not have a job. I also had to learn to read literature and write and do many other things, even if I did not have an aptitude for it. It is called being educated.
I am not saying that drinking is a skill, but the craziness occurs because many kids go from not being allowed to drink, ever, to having unrestricted access. I think that most of us have learned that abstinence does not work, but still we think we can let kids learn to drink all at once and not see terrible consequences.
In civilized places like Texas a parent is an affirmative defense to a minor drinking. I certainly knew how to manage my drinking by the time I was 18. I saw many people without this skill get shit faced. Of course when people are getting drunk for the first time as adults without supervision there are going to be negative consequences.
Also, of course, there are people who are addicts, and those people need to be identified early and provided with appropriate medical attention. I can't imagine a worse time to learn one is an addict than at college.