That doesn't make him an engineer in the US. Learning the science and math is only part of being an engineer. The other part is the ethics and law. I know in Canada that these make up a significant part of the testing of the professional engineer. I'm sure that in many other countries it is the same. So an engineer from Ontario can't go and claim to be an engineer in British Columbia or Oregon because the laws are different.
You have this now with hybrid or fusion (as Apple calls them) drives. They put a small SSD in front of the traditional hard drive and it looks the same to the computer. I have one in my iMac and it's not as fast as an SSD but it's definitely faster than just a plain HDD.
When I was looking at drives for my Synology NAS there were people that were putting the hybrid drives in there without issues. I didn't go with them because I spent my money on capacity versus the speed but if I could have afforded to I would have put them in.
I just hope that they don't get the hard drive manufacturers on board. I don't want to have to worry about looking out for Windows/Intel only hard drives the next time I go shopping for one.
I'm sorry but creating value for shareholders by breaking up the company into parts and replacing higher paid employees with lower paid ones doesn't make them a good CEO. It's not that hard to go into a company and create good short term market value increases that harm the company in the long term. It's done every day by most of the CEOs. Need to improve the share price, lay off some people. Mayer was looking for the right exit strategy for her from the moment she started.
It's been like this for the last 30 to 40 years in North America. I can't speak for other parts of the world. The reward system for upper management encourages them to think in the short term while ignoring the longer term consequences of their actions because they will have sold their stocks and moved onto another company.
CEOs need to start thinking longer term and build an organization that is resistant to change and loyal to the employees. This whole thinking solely about market share and profits is disgusting.
If the customer is using words you are unfamiliar with such as traceroute or ping, just elevate the call to someone who understands the problem.
Or you'll eventually end up with someone like me who says, "Listen, just create the ticket and pass it back to the tech people. If they need any more information then have someone who knows what they are talking about call me." This wasn't Comcast but a service up in Canada for dealing with credit card payments that federal governments had to use. The first part was a transfer of XML files between the department and the provider which wasn't working. After 15 minutes of the call support person asking for a print screen of the problem I blurted out the above. I turned around to vent to the other people I worked with but it seems they were listening in on the conversation as they were staring at me with mouths open.
It worked though as the problem was quickly resolved. They didn't call back for any more details. Though when they called back to say it was fixed they called one of my co-workers.
I don't really expect the first line people to know enough about their system to be able to fix a problem like that but I do expect them to have a general enough idea of how their system works (transfers of data, etc) so that they don't spend 15 minutes asking for a print screen of an operation that doesn't involve any HTML. Specifically we weren't getting a reply from their server after transferring our XML file over. How do you do a print screen of that? An empty directory listing?:)
People have just given up hope and have stopped calling in to complain figuring that it'll get fixed sometime. They just don't have the energy to deal with the unhelp line anymore and that's why call volumes are down.
Or maybe the problem started back then but as time has progressed the problem has gotten worse as the protection provided by thousands of years of silt has been washed away and climate change has raised sea levels? There used to be sand bars protecting the coastline so not as much would have been taken away but without the silt from the river over these past 80 years the sandbars have gone. If the engineering efforts of the past decade or so were to blame there would be still more protection and the loss of the coastline wouldn't be as bad as it is yet.
The marshes on the coast are where the fish spend the first part of the their lives in relative safety before heading out to more open areas. When the incoming water destroys land it is removing the marshes and they are not being replaced so the sea life will be impacted as the young fish won't have as many protected areas to grow up in.
The problem is that systemd keeps on expanding and that goes against the philosophy of UNIX/Linux where each thing is kept small in scale and does it well. systemd keeps up integrating applications that have worked perfectly for a long time for the philosophy of one person who isn't really well respected in some areas of Linux development.
Don't count on things getting fixed. Trump always wanted to change the tax code and to enter public-private partnership projects. So that means new toll roads and bridges are going to be built but old ones won't be fixed, lead water pipes won't be replaced, leaking pipes won't be sealed and anything else that doesn't make money won't get done.
The Democrats won't vote for any spending package because they don't want Trump to have any wins that might help the GOP before the next round of voting. The environment is so toxic in Washington you could probably call it a Superfund site.
I hope that Hydrogen doesn't happen. Firstly, hydrogen is just a battery. The only advantage is that you can recharge your vehicle quickly. But with that convenience you lose a lot of efficiency compared to leaving everything as electricity. Converting electricity to hydrogen, keeping it cold in order to store and ship it, and then convert it back to electricity in a fuel cell is much less efficient than just transmitting electricity and storing it in a battery.
Secondly, for the near future most of our hydrogen is going to be supplied by extracting it from fossil fuels, mostly natural gas. So there is still all of the environmental problems and energy use associated with their extraction and transportation. Very little hydrogen being produced today is being done with renewable power sources.
Thirdly, why build up a whole new infrastructure for delivering hydrogen when we could just use the existing electrical grid. Hydrogen storage is relatively safe when done properly but does take space like the current gas stations so if we stayed with batteries (not hydrogen) then we could free up the gas stations for other uses instead of converting them into hydrogen stations. There are a few problems to be worked out with electric cars, especially where owners don't have dedicated spots and park on the street but these are not technological problems.
Oh please, there isn't much that I can do on a computer that I can't do on a smartphone. I can run word processors, create spreadsheets, browse the web, play games, and much, much more. Smart phones are more limited in their connectivity to peripherals like printers and scanners though it's getting better. If my smart phone doesn't have the ability to do something then I can probably write an application to do that. In fact that's the definition of a general purpose computer.
At least pick realistic examples. The buttons on my DVD player (or Blu Ray) are probably on a good place. Besides I'd be using a remote control and almost never use them. I'd love a remote that I could move the buttons around or at least reassign them. There are remotes that have screens and you can do that but then you lose the tactile touch that lets you use the remote without taking your eyes off the screen.
When it comes to assigning a button to a service that not everyone will use then it's a waste of space. Not everyone uses a voice assistant and those that do don't use the one that Samsung supplies. This is all about Samsung increasing the market share of their voice assistant and not about improving the usability of their phones. The managers and/or marketing people have taken over the decision making, especially since they used to offer the ability of being able to reassign the functionality of the button.
And today's smartphones are general purpose computers.
If you think the story of Starship Troopers was how they fought the war then you missed the point of the movies. They were meant as social commentaries.
You don't think that if it misdiagnosed a condition and the patient was given the wrong treatment it might harm them? These devices will definitely have to be certified but once they are shown to work the first couple should have an easy time finding funding because overworked machines don't make mistakes. The insurance companies in the US will insist that they be used. When you come in for your appointment or to the ER instead of taking the vitals like they do now they will just use this. The basic measurements will be wirelessly transmitted to the computer and it will perform it's analysis.
I think that there are other places that could use these ferries too. If not the all-electric ones at least the hybrid ferries. On the west coast of Canada between Vancouver Island and the mainland there are a number of islands that have service with small ferries. I'm sure that converting these over to electric or hybrid would be worth looking at. I bet there are many other places across the world where there are many islands in close proximity.
If I'm using my computer then I'm going to rip it to my computer so that I don't even have to play those silly games by pressing the skip 30 seconds button. Just double click the movie file and it starts playing automatically.
What in the world makes you think that this has anything to do with troubleshooting your PC/device? It may sound like a nice excuse for them to say that it allows your computer to be kept up to do date easier but a good package manager does that. This is all about them using your data to make money and they can't make that money if people turn off the flow of data.
Why is it that whenever I legally watch a movie the studios shove a bunch of previews at me that I can't skip through? You go to the movies and you sit through a bunch of them. I have a bunch of DVDs that force you to watch previews and that wonderful FBI warning about privacy. It's especially bad because for that movie I bought 10 years ago I think that movie that was coming soon has already come and gone but I'm stuck watching it. (Well I would be if I hadn't ripped it onto my computer.)
The studios attitude seems to be that whenever they have paying customers then they need to piss the customers off.
The lower rent in itself isn't good. But by being able to ask for more initially without losing the ability to fill the apartment on the same date. Before either the landlord would have a lower initial rent to fill the unit faster or risk having the apartment sit empty longer by asking more for it. With this service they ask the higher price. If a bidding war breaks out and they actually get more that's great even if they lose 25% of the extra per month. If it's below the asking, but still at or above the minimum monthly rent, then they will have filled the apartment quickly and probably making more than asking for their minimum.
Note that I think this pricing scheme of asking the renters to pay to look for an apartment and getting a percentage of the difference every month leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I would have preferred a system where they performed the checks on the potential renters and once cleared renters could bid on apartments. Landlords would provide reviews of renters so that over time a person would have a profile in addition to the financial and background checks. Landlords would pay for apartment listings. No ongoing fees, no fees for the renters. And if anyone wants to run with this idea contact me about development or just paying me for the idea.
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That doesn't make him an engineer in the US. Learning the science and math is only part of being an engineer. The other part is the ethics and law. I know in Canada that these make up a significant part of the testing of the professional engineer. I'm sure that in many other countries it is the same. So an engineer from Ontario can't go and claim to be an engineer in British Columbia or Oregon because the laws are different.
You have this now with hybrid or fusion (as Apple calls them) drives. They put a small SSD in front of the traditional hard drive and it looks the same to the computer. I have one in my iMac and it's not as fast as an SSD but it's definitely faster than just a plain HDD.
When I was looking at drives for my Synology NAS there were people that were putting the hybrid drives in there without issues. I didn't go with them because I spent my money on capacity versus the speed but if I could have afforded to I would have put them in.
I just hope that they don't get the hard drive manufacturers on board. I don't want to have to worry about looking out for Windows/Intel only hard drives the next time I go shopping for one.
I'm sorry but creating value for shareholders by breaking up the company into parts and replacing higher paid employees with lower paid ones doesn't make them a good CEO. It's not that hard to go into a company and create good short term market value increases that harm the company in the long term. It's done every day by most of the CEOs. Need to improve the share price, lay off some people. Mayer was looking for the right exit strategy for her from the moment she started.
It's been like this for the last 30 to 40 years in North America. I can't speak for other parts of the world. The reward system for upper management encourages them to think in the short term while ignoring the longer term consequences of their actions because they will have sold their stocks and moved onto another company.
CEOs need to start thinking longer term and build an organization that is resistant to change and loyal to the employees. This whole thinking solely about market share and profits is disgusting.
Should have become a financial executive, cause a global financial downturn, and get a couple billion in bonuses.
If the customer is using words you are unfamiliar with such as traceroute or ping, just elevate the call to someone who understands the problem.
Or you'll eventually end up with someone like me who says, "Listen, just create the ticket and pass it back to the tech people. If they need any more information then have someone who knows what they are talking about call me." This wasn't Comcast but a service up in Canada for dealing with credit card payments that federal governments had to use. The first part was a transfer of XML files between the department and the provider which wasn't working. After 15 minutes of the call support person asking for a print screen of the problem I blurted out the above. I turned around to vent to the other people I worked with but it seems they were listening in on the conversation as they were staring at me with mouths open.
It worked though as the problem was quickly resolved. They didn't call back for any more details. Though when they called back to say it was fixed they called one of my co-workers.
I don't really expect the first line people to know enough about their system to be able to fix a problem like that but I do expect them to have a general enough idea of how their system works (transfers of data, etc) so that they don't spend 15 minutes asking for a print screen of an operation that doesn't involve any HTML. Specifically we weren't getting a reply from their server after transferring our XML file over. How do you do a print screen of that? An empty directory listing? :)
People have just given up hope and have stopped calling in to complain figuring that it'll get fixed sometime. They just don't have the energy to deal with the unhelp line anymore and that's why call volumes are down.
Or maybe the problem started back then but as time has progressed the problem has gotten worse as the protection provided by thousands of years of silt has been washed away and climate change has raised sea levels? There used to be sand bars protecting the coastline so not as much would have been taken away but without the silt from the river over these past 80 years the sandbars have gone. If the engineering efforts of the past decade or so were to blame there would be still more protection and the loss of the coastline wouldn't be as bad as it is yet.
That's just silly. Why would Mexico have to pay for the wall? Atlantis should have to pay for the wall since they control the oceans.
The marshes on the coast are where the fish spend the first part of the their lives in relative safety before heading out to more open areas. When the incoming water destroys land it is removing the marshes and they are not being replaced so the sea life will be impacted as the young fish won't have as many protected areas to grow up in.
The problem is that systemd keeps on expanding and that goes against the philosophy of UNIX/Linux where each thing is kept small in scale and does it well. systemd keeps up integrating applications that have worked perfectly for a long time for the philosophy of one person who isn't really well respected in some areas of Linux development.
And it was so expensive you can't afford dentures!
Don't count on things getting fixed. Trump always wanted to change the tax code and to enter public-private partnership projects. So that means new toll roads and bridges are going to be built but old ones won't be fixed, lead water pipes won't be replaced, leaking pipes won't be sealed and anything else that doesn't make money won't get done.
The Democrats won't vote for any spending package because they don't want Trump to have any wins that might help the GOP before the next round of voting. The environment is so toxic in Washington you could probably call it a Superfund site.
I hope that Hydrogen doesn't happen. Firstly, hydrogen is just a battery. The only advantage is that you can recharge your vehicle quickly. But with that convenience you lose a lot of efficiency compared to leaving everything as electricity. Converting electricity to hydrogen, keeping it cold in order to store and ship it, and then convert it back to electricity in a fuel cell is much less efficient than just transmitting electricity and storing it in a battery.
Secondly, for the near future most of our hydrogen is going to be supplied by extracting it from fossil fuels, mostly natural gas. So there is still all of the environmental problems and energy use associated with their extraction and transportation. Very little hydrogen being produced today is being done with renewable power sources.
Thirdly, why build up a whole new infrastructure for delivering hydrogen when we could just use the existing electrical grid. Hydrogen storage is relatively safe when done properly but does take space like the current gas stations so if we stayed with batteries (not hydrogen) then we could free up the gas stations for other uses instead of converting them into hydrogen stations. There are a few problems to be worked out with electric cars, especially where owners don't have dedicated spots and park on the street but these are not technological problems.
Oh please, there isn't much that I can do on a computer that I can't do on a smartphone. I can run word processors, create spreadsheets, browse the web, play games, and much, much more. Smart phones are more limited in their connectivity to peripherals like printers and scanners though it's getting better. If my smart phone doesn't have the ability to do something then I can probably write an application to do that. In fact that's the definition of a general purpose computer.
At least pick realistic examples. The buttons on my DVD player (or Blu Ray) are probably on a good place. Besides I'd be using a remote control and almost never use them. I'd love a remote that I could move the buttons around or at least reassign them. There are remotes that have screens and you can do that but then you lose the tactile touch that lets you use the remote without taking your eyes off the screen.
When it comes to assigning a button to a service that not everyone will use then it's a waste of space. Not everyone uses a voice assistant and those that do don't use the one that Samsung supplies. This is all about Samsung increasing the market share of their voice assistant and not about improving the usability of their phones. The managers and/or marketing people have taken over the decision making, especially since they used to offer the ability of being able to reassign the functionality of the button.
And today's smartphones are general purpose computers.
If you think the story of Starship Troopers was how they fought the war then you missed the point of the movies. They were meant as social commentaries.
I got the rule first and after finding it useful upgraded with the slide expansion pack.
You don't think that if it misdiagnosed a condition and the patient was given the wrong treatment it might harm them? These devices will definitely have to be certified but once they are shown to work the first couple should have an easy time finding funding because overworked machines don't make mistakes. The insurance companies in the US will insist that they be used. When you come in for your appointment or to the ER instead of taking the vitals like they do now they will just use this. The basic measurements will be wirelessly transmitted to the computer and it will perform it's analysis.
And a bunch of people will complain that you contain charge them wirelessly.
I think that there are other places that could use these ferries too. If not the all-electric ones at least the hybrid ferries. On the west coast of Canada between Vancouver Island and the mainland there are a number of islands that have service with small ferries. I'm sure that converting these over to electric or hybrid would be worth looking at. I bet there are many other places across the world where there are many islands in close proximity.
If I'm using my computer then I'm going to rip it to my computer so that I don't even have to play those silly games by pressing the skip 30 seconds button. Just double click the movie file and it starts playing automatically.
What in the world makes you think that this has anything to do with troubleshooting your PC/device? It may sound like a nice excuse for them to say that it allows your computer to be kept up to do date easier but a good package manager does that. This is all about them using your data to make money and they can't make that money if people turn off the flow of data.
Why is it that whenever I legally watch a movie the studios shove a bunch of previews at me that I can't skip through? You go to the movies and you sit through a bunch of them. I have a bunch of DVDs that force you to watch previews and that wonderful FBI warning about privacy. It's especially bad because for that movie I bought 10 years ago I think that movie that was coming soon has already come and gone but I'm stuck watching it. (Well I would be if I hadn't ripped it onto my computer.)
The studios attitude seems to be that whenever they have paying customers then they need to piss the customers off.
The lower rent in itself isn't good. But by being able to ask for more initially without losing the ability to fill the apartment on the same date. Before either the landlord would have a lower initial rent to fill the unit faster or risk having the apartment sit empty longer by asking more for it. With this service they ask the higher price. If a bidding war breaks out and they actually get more that's great even if they lose 25% of the extra per month. If it's below the asking, but still at or above the minimum monthly rent, then they will have filled the apartment quickly and probably making more than asking for their minimum.
Note that I think this pricing scheme of asking the renters to pay to look for an apartment and getting a percentage of the difference every month leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I would have preferred a system where they performed the checks on the potential renters and once cleared renters could bid on apartments. Landlords would provide reviews of renters so that over time a person would have a profile in addition to the financial and background checks. Landlords would pay for apartment listings. No ongoing fees, no fees for the renters. And if anyone wants to run with this idea contact me about development or just paying me for the idea.
It'll be submitted as news in a couple of days.