Absolutely! Corporations that are too big are just as bad as government that is too big. (And fwiw another Trump supporter with no regrets thus far here.)
That said, with a bit of luck, corporations that are too large will self-implode like the same sized governments. The only problem is such implosions usually don't happen without a lot of damage.
It was normal for most of human history that children would find someone to look up to within the large family who would spend time with them and teach them things and who is not necessarily their parent. It was actually healthier to have the option of finding other trusted people to learn from about life beyond just your parents. That was when everyone lived close by of course. So an uncle who you were spending time with might put boundaries on you for your good, in his estimate, with consent of the parents. Now I don't know Tim Cook's situation, just saying it isn't necessarily unhealthy.
That's a good point, you can't frustrate the users or treat them with contempt, they'll hate the system and make other mistakes. Maybe it can be preceded by an [OK]-only dialog saying something like "please confirm your choice in a popup that follows. It will appear randomly on the screen to reduce the chance of accidental activation. Thank you."
Actually I'm rather pleased with Slashdot. You should see the angry liberal mobs on Ars. In my opinion this is not even about being liberal as it is about the herd pressure among nerds to stand against absolutely anything Trump because he is seen as anti-intellectual. That a good amount of slashdotters ignore the pressure and choose to think for themselves (I'm not counting those anonymous first posts) is encouraging.
Good point. I who am lately customarily suspicious of Google was ready to upload my photo, had I found a link. Won't look any further. Feels like Google has burned a lot of its good karma over the last few years.
I didn't think it was a conspiracy at all, just perhaps one upset guy or gal deciding to vent it out. After seeing more reports I believe it was more likely it was an honest mistake due to bad interface.
What you said though makes me think if you need to design a confirmation dialog for a very impactful and very rarely used command, you could perhaps make its top left x,y coordinate random at least, and possibly change the order of buttons and the "skin" of the dialog as well.
The official statement is that state employee "hit the wrong button on a computer". Unlike a physical button you'd imagine when he clicked "Send Alert To Everyone In State" button there would be a "Are you sure?" follow up question -- or two -- with possibly "Sending mass alert in 10...9...8... press Cancel to abort". And then if it was a mistake, wouldn't he have clicked on the button again and said "sorry ignore the last one" immediately, not after 38 minutes?
Could it be that the said employee was acting on his own, possibly having been in distress?
Not him, worse than that, they accused anyone who supports Trump and/or or Republicans of being a Nazi.
Exhibit B #41: '"America First" is a slogan for american Nazis'
Exhibit B #45: '"Punch All the Nazis", I could have said "Republicans", "Conservatives", "alt-right", "neo-Nazi", doesn't matter, They're all working together towards the same goal."
Damore specifically, #75: "A good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face."
It is not clear if you need to be punched in the face if you are a Nazi (as defined above I guess), or is it just the other way round.
If you ask me, one self-righteous mob that is, very much like the actual Nazis they hate.
When I say "left" and "right" I don't mean traditional politics but what it has become. "Left" is characterized by heavy and sometimes extreme social justice bias, support for open borders, intolerance of traditional and Christian values (you know it's true), and outright hatred for Trump and anyone supporting him. "Right" is now primarily nationalist, protectionist, traditionalist, with contempt for social justice even where necessary, used to be anti-gay but now less so partly due to the likes of Milo, and in supportive of Trump. I am not sure that minority claims from the past apply given the level of support for Trump among blacks and Latinos.
I agree re media. In fact I know several people who are very "left" by the above definition in proclamation of values but their business practices are very hard right, by traditional definition.
This is a superficial thank you though, greatly illustrated by Eddie Izzard's in a sketch on a sheep in shearing shed who thinking it's a hair salon sits in the chair and states how it wants its fur to be trimmed, and then barely finished, already flipping pages in the magazine, mind away from the service person it was talking to, says "that would be great, thank you".
There are many layers of political power and influence and they change wildly in orientation -- from power in Congress to power in states and municipalities and then laterally, in companies and universities and other institutions. FWIW I am against bullying and abuse of powers at any level by any side, but that is human nature, hard to avoid. Where Google stands out in this picture is it has an incredibly outsized influence to public opinion, compared to any single TV station like Fox or CNN or any university or conservative think thank.
This is to me why it's important to expose the abuse of power that is going on inside Google -- if it happens at the employee level, who is to say it doesn't happen at the search service level that everyone uses, censoring or emphasizing information to align with the Google's political bias and vision of what is true and just.
My impression from reading the posts in the filing is that left wingers in Google are not scared. They simply enjoy the power of being the majority that can bully the minority they despise. Like the guards in the Stanford Prison Experiment.
(And FWIW where rightwingers have and enjoy abusing that power I find it equally abhorrent. But lately it's been predominantly the left that was lead to temptation.)
However wrong in reasoning Damore may have been, why wasn't his thesis simply rejected in a rational discourse by those who know the matter or took the time to research it?
Maybe you can say that his bringing the point in the first place, however measured, betrays his hostility and distrust towards the policies pushed by the management. But that is often the case in argumentation. If you know you are right you respond to such in a measured way. Judging from the reaction, a nerve was hit which inflamed emotions that made people on the other side blind with rage. That it wasn't one or two crazy folks but many shows that something is deeply wrong within Google.
Which I wouldn't care about, it's Google's thing, if Google weren't the most powerful company on earth shaping the public opinion and perception of reality. This is shit we need to know about.
You are a scientist, how do you react to this internal Google post (part of Damore's filing, Exhibit B):
"I Google'd 'Big Five Personality Differences Male Female' (psych terminology) and nearly every top result backed the offensive claims of Neuroticism and Agreeableness (mean not absolute) differences by gender. Is Search wrong? Should we link to academic finds that may support incorrect stereotypes?" https://i.redd.it/zxlp6gea8490...
Do you want Google to decide for you what Truth is?
Quite a few of the posts are saying if you support Trump -- or even Republicans in general -- you are a Nazi and deserve everything that comes your way, from demotion and firing to fists in your face, complete with instructions how to punch.
Very simple, if you're not completely with us, you are a Nazi, and it's your damn fault.
No, only that the judge is, consciously or not, motivated to work against anything that could help Trump and Trump-supporting Republicans. (I won't say TDS, it's an ugly phrase.)
The Judge in question opposed Trump's travel ban -- later mostly upheld by the Supreme Court -- on the account of Trump's campaign comments:
"Several judges expressed skepticism about the idea that the court would blind itself to Trump’s comments about Muslims. “Don’t we get to consider what was actually said here and said very explicitly?” asked Judge James A. Wynn Jr., who was appointed by President Barack Obama." (http://www.news-herald.com/article/HR/20170508/NEWS/170509400)
In 1999 an LA Times article described the Judge as a "well-regarded moderate".
My speculation is that indeed he was, but that he really can't stand Trump and that may influence and to some degree motivate his work today. Fact is, very few people are able to stay detached when it comes to being pro or against Trump. I haven't met anyone such yet.
On some level I see utility for a standalone video chat device. On another I want nothing to do with facebook. Something touch enabled that runs Skype would be fine. (I trust MSoft/Apple far more than Facebook/Google on these matters.)
What the lawsuit will likely do is it will deepen the strife between the white conservative men -- of whom are probably plenty in engineering -- and the rest of the company. Imagine the impact on Google if they left. (I don't think they will, most will just stay and be miserable.)
I also agree, but I think my definition of "adequate solution" may be different from yours. A generic solution by definition supports the lowest common denominator across the many use cases. Almost each new use is different from others, and if frequent enough calls for nuancing. Take almost anything -- from planes to credit card chip readers to abstract things like containers and at some point economy and business and just human nature will demand for such nuancing to take place, or they'll take their money elsewhere.
This is where language in which the original generic solution comes to play -- often it's just the most time effective to extend the solution in its original language than to use a new language. And an awful lot of generic solutions are written in C and C++ (as are in Java and PHP and so on in other domains). I think this is why they persist.
I notice how my hostility to Google increased in the last months and years, I haven't even bothered to find out what exactly Google home is, I have already decided I don't want it, I don't want Google in my house beyond the necessary minimum. This is different from how I looked at Google 5+ years ago.
I wonder how many geeks and non geeks have a similar reaction.
Kinect v2 has different tech from Kinect v1, from a different company. Primesense was pretty upset when MSoft decided to switch techs and were desperately looking for a buyer. I imagine if there's anything in the Primesense contract that would have prevented MSoft from developing v2 and v3 the split wouldn't have happened.
You can find videos on the Web how to DIY, and since it's relatively simple someone will probably offer an adapter. On the Kinect side it's USB3.0 type B (looks like it's glued but it isn't, you just need to pull it strongly, and can put it back after), but two of the pins are +12V DC and ground. One solution is to open the Kinect and soldier those two wires in, then connect to a 12V 3A DC supply, and the rest is just USB 3 type B to standard USB type A to your XB X/S or PC.
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Absolutely! Corporations that are too big are just as bad as government that is too big. (And fwiw another Trump supporter with no regrets thus far here.)
That said, with a bit of luck, corporations that are too large will self-implode like the same sized governments. The only problem is such implosions usually don't happen without a lot of damage.
I'm thinking it could be helpful to get in the habit of remembering the word throughout the day. Thank you.
It was normal for most of human history that children would find someone to look up to within the large family who would spend time with them and teach them things and who is not necessarily their parent. It was actually healthier to have the option of finding other trusted people to learn from about life beyond just your parents. That was when everyone lived close by of course. So an uncle who you were spending time with might put boundaries on you for your good, in his estimate, with consent of the parents. Now I don't know Tim Cook's situation, just saying it isn't necessarily unhealthy.
That's very interesting. If people needed such a thing thousands of years ago we need it a lot more. Do you remember what word it is?
That's a good point, you can't frustrate the users or treat them with contempt, they'll hate the system and make other mistakes. Maybe it can be preceded by an [OK]-only dialog saying something like "please confirm your choice in a popup that follows. It will appear randomly on the screen to reduce the chance of accidental activation. Thank you."
Actually I'm rather pleased with Slashdot. You should see the angry liberal mobs on Ars. In my opinion this is not even about being liberal as it is about the herd pressure among nerds to stand against absolutely anything Trump because he is seen as anti-intellectual. That a good amount of slashdotters ignore the pressure and choose to think for themselves (I'm not counting those anonymous first posts) is encouraging.
Good point. I who am lately customarily suspicious of Google was ready to upload my photo, had I found a link. Won't look any further. Feels like Google has burned a lot of its good karma over the last few years.
I didn't think it was a conspiracy at all, just perhaps one upset guy or gal deciding to vent it out. After seeing more reports I believe it was more likely it was an honest mistake due to bad interface.
What you said though makes me think if you need to design a confirmation dialog for a very impactful and very rarely used command, you could perhaps make its top left x,y coordinate random at least, and possibly change the order of buttons and the "skin" of the dialog as well.
The official statement is that state employee "hit the wrong button on a computer". Unlike a physical button you'd imagine when he clicked "Send Alert To Everyone In State" button there would be a "Are you sure?" follow up question -- or two -- with possibly "Sending mass alert in 10...9...8... press Cancel to abort". And then if it was a mistake, wouldn't he have clicked on the button again and said "sorry ignore the last one" immediately, not after 38 minutes?
Could it be that the said employee was acting on his own, possibly having been in distress?
Not him, worse than that, they accused anyone who supports Trump and/or or Republicans of being a Nazi.
Exhibit B #41: '"America First" is a slogan for american Nazis'
Exhibit B #45: '"Punch All the Nazis", I could have said "Republicans", "Conservatives", "alt-right", "neo-Nazi", doesn't matter, They're all working together towards the same goal."
Damore specifically, #75: "A good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face."
It is not clear if you need to be punched in the face if you are a Nazi (as defined above I guess), or is it just the other way round.
If you ask me, one self-righteous mob that is, very much like the actual Nazis they hate.
When I say "left" and "right" I don't mean traditional politics but what it has become. "Left" is characterized by heavy and sometimes extreme social justice bias, support for open borders, intolerance of traditional and Christian values (you know it's true), and outright hatred for Trump and anyone supporting him. "Right" is now primarily nationalist, protectionist, traditionalist, with contempt for social justice even where necessary, used to be anti-gay but now less so partly due to the likes of Milo, and in supportive of Trump. I am not sure that minority claims from the past apply given the level of support for Trump among blacks and Latinos.
I agree re media. In fact I know several people who are very "left" by the above definition in proclamation of values but their business practices are very hard right, by traditional definition.
This is a superficial thank you though, greatly illustrated by Eddie Izzard's in a sketch on a sheep in shearing shed who thinking it's a hair salon sits in the chair and states how it wants its fur to be trimmed, and then barely finished, already flipping pages in the magazine, mind away from the service person it was talking to, says "that would be great, thank you".
There are many layers of political power and influence and they change wildly in orientation -- from power in Congress to power in states and municipalities and then laterally, in companies and universities and other institutions. FWIW I am against bullying and abuse of powers at any level by any side, but that is human nature, hard to avoid. Where Google stands out in this picture is it has an incredibly outsized influence to public opinion, compared to any single TV station like Fox or CNN or any university or conservative think thank.
This is to me why it's important to expose the abuse of power that is going on inside Google -- if it happens at the employee level, who is to say it doesn't happen at the search service level that everyone uses, censoring or emphasizing information to align with the Google's political bias and vision of what is true and just.
My impression from reading the posts in the filing is that left wingers in Google are not scared. They simply enjoy the power of being the majority that can bully the minority they despise. Like the guards in the Stanford Prison Experiment.
(And FWIW where rightwingers have and enjoy abusing that power I find it equally abhorrent. But lately it's been predominantly the left that was lead to temptation.)
However wrong in reasoning Damore may have been, why wasn't his thesis simply rejected in a rational discourse by those who know the matter or took the time to research it?
Maybe you can say that his bringing the point in the first place, however measured, betrays his hostility and distrust towards the policies pushed by the management. But that is often the case in argumentation. If you know you are right you respond to such in a measured way. Judging from the reaction, a nerve was hit which inflamed emotions that made people on the other side blind with rage. That it wasn't one or two crazy folks but many shows that something is deeply wrong within Google.
Which I wouldn't care about, it's Google's thing, if Google weren't the most powerful company on earth shaping the public opinion and perception of reality. This is shit we need to know about.
You are a scientist, how do you react to this internal Google post (part of Damore's filing, Exhibit B):
"I Google'd 'Big Five Personality Differences Male Female' (psych terminology) and nearly every top result backed the offensive claims of Neuroticism and Agreeableness (mean not absolute) differences by gender. Is Search wrong? Should we link to academic finds that may support incorrect stereotypes?"
https://i.redd.it/zxlp6gea8490...
Do you want Google to decide for you what Truth is?
Take a look at Exhibit B in the filing and judge for yourself: https://www.scribd.com/documen...
Quite a few of the posts are saying if you support Trump -- or even Republicans in general -- you are a Nazi and deserve everything that comes your way, from demotion and firing to fists in your face, complete with instructions how to punch.
Very simple, if you're not completely with us, you are a Nazi, and it's your damn fault.
No, only that the judge is, consciously or not, motivated to work against anything that could help Trump and Trump-supporting Republicans. (I won't say TDS, it's an ugly phrase.)
The Judge in question opposed Trump's travel ban -- later mostly upheld by the Supreme Court -- on the account of Trump's campaign comments:
"Several judges expressed skepticism about the idea that the court would blind itself to Trump’s comments about Muslims. “Don’t we get to consider what was actually said here and said very explicitly?” asked Judge James A. Wynn Jr., who was appointed by President Barack Obama." (http://www.news-herald.com/article/HR/20170508/NEWS/170509400)
In 1999 an LA Times article described the Judge as a "well-regarded moderate".
My speculation is that indeed he was, but that he really can't stand Trump and that may influence and to some degree motivate his work today. Fact is, very few people are able to stay detached when it comes to being pro or against Trump. I haven't met anyone such yet.
On some level I see utility for a standalone video chat device. On another I want nothing to do with facebook. Something touch enabled that runs Skype would be fine. (I trust MSoft/Apple far more than Facebook/Google on these matters.)
What the lawsuit will likely do is it will deepen the strife between the white conservative men -- of whom are probably plenty in engineering -- and the rest of the company. Imagine the impact on Google if they left. (I don't think they will, most will just stay and be miserable.)
I also agree, but I think my definition of "adequate solution" may be different from yours. A generic solution by definition supports the lowest common denominator across the many use cases. Almost each new use is different from others, and if frequent enough calls for nuancing. Take almost anything -- from planes to credit card chip readers to abstract things like containers and at some point economy and business and just human nature will demand for such nuancing to take place, or they'll take their money elsewhere.
This is where language in which the original generic solution comes to play -- often it's just the most time effective to extend the solution in its original language than to use a new language. And an awful lot of generic solutions are written in C and C++ (as are in Java and PHP and so on in other domains). I think this is why they persist.
I notice how my hostility to Google increased in the last months and years, I haven't even bothered to find out what exactly Google home is, I have already decided I don't want it, I don't want Google in my house beyond the necessary minimum. This is different from how I looked at Google 5+ years ago.
I wonder how many geeks and non geeks have a similar reaction.
Kinect v2 has different tech from Kinect v1, from a different company. Primesense was pretty upset when MSoft decided to switch techs and were desperately looking for a buyer. I imagine if there's anything in the Primesense contract that would have prevented MSoft from developing v2 and v3 the split wouldn't have happened.
You can find videos on the Web how to DIY, and since it's relatively simple someone will probably offer an adapter. On the Kinect side it's USB3.0 type B (looks like it's glued but it isn't, you just need to pull it strongly, and can put it back after), but two of the pins are +12V DC and ground. One solution is to open the Kinect and soldier those two wires in, then connect to a 12V 3A DC supply, and the rest is just USB 3 type B to standard USB type A to your XB X/S or PC.
According to this scheme https://i.cloudup.com/gsEOYAqI... it should be brown (+12V) and grey (GND)