Absolutely agree. Whereas the foreign-born who come to the US have barriers to entry, the US-born who work here do not have the same limiting factors.
Off-shoring/outsourcing seems to be a way to hire those "left behind" at really low cost... penny-wise/pound-foolish if you ask me. Never seen outsourced work produce results to match domestic by a long shot... but what MS is planning here isn't really off-shoring in that vein, rather "right-shoring" in the sense that they will be still co-locating a team built from a global pool, just not putting them in Redmond.
In my 20+ years of experience, natural born US Citizens are no better than foreign born developers who work in the US. And I've run into a handful of natural born US coders that were, in fact, terrible at their jobs... whereas I've seen a lot of foreign-born techies come to the US and thrive, do great work here -- and can't recall a single foreign-born coworker who was below average.
HRC didn't give him the election by running a pathetic campaign, the Democrats did, by running their least liked candidate in forever as if she were a shoe-in. Thanks Democrats for giving us the choice between a Republican (HRC) and a Republicrackpot (DJT)... my guess is that any other Democrat could have run the same "smart" strategy and won. But after how the party treated Sanders and the way they abused their own base, they lost to Trump on pure apathy and despair. For all we know, if HRC had shown her smug mug in MI, WI, and PA she would've lost those states by even larger margins.
"all the gop has to do is remain calm and act like adults" while supporting the bloated orange man-child with the tiny little grabby hands and the toddler tantrum twitter feed. Yup.
What's crazy about the copyright laws is that they were heavily pushed/supported by Democrats back when the extensions were being done. Total corporate sell-out from what I could see at the time.
When I hear the words "diversity" and "podcast" in the same sentence, all I think of is help for hard of hearing and deaf people getting access to audio-only material. So I'm mostly curious in what they're doing around automated transcription.
Balance transfer is so they can take the profit from your previous credit card company. That's why they're often in the form of "interest free" for the first six months or whatever. They're counting on you still not paying it all off, and then they can collect interest that you would have been paying to their competitor instead. They also often have a straight fee associated with them.
If you want to take a cash advance on your card and use that to buy crypto, you could, but cash advances are not only subject to interest, but usually have an upfront fee added in as well. And are likely to have much lower limits than your regular credit limit. They might also be subject to a higher rate than normal credit purchases.
Lesson: if you want to put crypto on your card, take a cash advance. It will cost you more, but the bank can't tell what you're buying with your cash.
Just because the dogs can actually be trained to find the stuff, does not mean that they will not also "signal" on subtle cues from their handlers as well. I think we all know the science behind how well dogs can detect smells isn't just some bogus claim the police use to end-run the Constitution. And yet, there is plenty of research into this issue and a LOT more anecdotal evidence to back up the idea that police dogs are misused at an alarming level.
However, one does get tired of the "citation needed" defense in a casual chat forum like this when a simple Google search for "drug dog fake signal" will easily find you many articles and links on the topic. You know, many of us have read a lot of these articles, but we don't keep a wikipedia-like list of links available for proving our point here on Slashdot.
And you do know that sometimes the people at government agencies make mistakes? Or are subject to pressures, either social, financial, or otherwise?
And how much of this work done at "Obama's EPA" is really just grandfathered in work from some previous administration? How are we to trust the work of the Trump EPA, when the President himself says things like "Global warming is a Chinese hoax" (https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385)?
Once the Trump administration is finally in the dustbin of history, how many mistakes will have been made that will be the status quo in the next, presumably Democratic, administration?
It's really a problem with trying to lump "free software" and "open source" together. GitHub has never been about free software... just free beer for projects willing to share their code. The business model was always based on closed source software, both to run the site and as the way to generate revenue.
While that may be fine from an "open source" perspective, it does nothing to protect Freedom #0 in the GPL... And while I'm far from a free software purist, to me the only thing that comes to mind in hearing people complain about yet another closed-source-based, for-profit business doing something to [potentially] harm "the community" is a big fat "I told you so".
If we care about freedom, we should NOT be putting our time/energy/money into things like GitHub from the get go. Same goes for Facebook. Even by using the platforms we give them more power over us-- not necessarily as individuals, but certainly as a group. Personally, I gave up on thinking my being pedantic was going to be of much use to me or the world a long time ago... so I'm not complaining when MS buys GH. I already spend most of my day working on MS technology-- which oddly enough, over the last several years, has gotten more and more open and free (as in both speech and beer).
So, basically, closed-sourced company GitHub makes all of its money off charging closed-source customers... all the while being a privately owned, for-profit corporation... and now that a public owned for-profit corporation buys them things are worse? Technically speaking, this is an improvement, as ownership of a share of MSFT is available to anyone via the open market. The biggest problem for me personally (and probably for most of us) is that my own personal stake in MSFT is tied up in mutual funds where I don't see any way for me to exercise my voting rights. But I could, for the extremely low price of $101, go buy a share of MSFT right now and vote however I like. And while that single share's vote is a drop in the ocean, it's more control than I had with GitHub before.
Norman is the AI equivalent of drug sniffing dogs that are used to invent "probable cause" for a search of a car (or whatever)... instead of actually sniffing drugs, the dogs pick up cues from their handlers indicating that the correct response is to "alert". [https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/563889510/preventing-police-bias-when-handling-dogs-that-bite] Now, if this truly were a successful AI learning test, any AI shown an inkblot should say "it's a blob" or give such low confidence on recognition results that they would be considered meaningless.
The emphasis in the Third Reich wasn't on the socialism, but on the nationalism (aka "Aryan supremacy"... not even all whites were created equal in their eyes). Any program of socialized medicine wasn't there because it was felt that everyone in society deserved a minimum of care, but because they wanted to ensure that the Master Race would thrive. For how far off the mark you are, you might as well be telling us that concentration camps were really just compassionate end-of-life care.
Seriously bringing up that bullshit about Hillary and Byrd? Give us a break... he clearly repudiated the entire philosophy of the KKK back in the early 50's, when Hillary was still in Kindergarten. Read your own link, troll.
With Alexa, at least, the risks seem obvious. Whereas with things like laptops and smartphones with built-in mics and cameras and GPS, our expectation is that it is NOT paying attention when we are not actively using the device.
For my part, I know damn well that Alexa is just a device driven by software written by mere mortals, and I'm fine with the potential issues that that raises. What's really needed here is not an expectation of perfection, but some way to default the device to not do certain things until they've been opted into. Or to easily opt-out of certain functionality that I know I'm not going to use.
I mean, yes, I'm concerned about Alexa... but not more than I'm concerned that my home is insecure because a locksmith could open my front door in minutes or a kid with a hammer could come in through the windows without a second thought.
Yeah, the old paper tape did seem sort of flimsy, but I think we could probably come up with something better these days. That would mean we could fit more holes in a smaller space too. But then punch cards have the ability to be a lot more random access than a tape. Especially if you drop the batch on the floor.;)
I'll allow it the minute I see one of these chumps lugging around a tape reader for their Macbook and I don't mean one of those lame cassette tape systems from the Vic-20, I mean a real paper tape reader. You can't trust the signal off magnetic media like a hard drive, or something based on transistors like SSD -- those signals are just analog sources defined as on/off within certain tolerances... Now, holes in paper? It's either a hole or it's not (2000 election notwithstanding). That's a truly binary/digital medium.
If you used a 1/4 inch tape for a two track recording system (0.125 inch per track), wouldn't that actually be better than using a 2 inch tape for a 24 track recording system (0.0833 inch per track)? I should think the width is important for capturing differences in amplitude, but even more than that, the speed of the tape under the head right? Surely there is an analogue here with the sampling rate issues in digital recording.
The real trick here is that you need a system with good motors and head and wheels and such, otherwise you're going to get inconsistent read/write off a piece of tape that is variable in its contact with the head and not at a uniform tightness. I'd guess a 1/4 inch strip of the same exact tape material is going to be less consistent than at a 2 inch width, since it will have less ability to resist stretching or warping. But it's one thing to expect the world of 1/4 inch tape in a Sony Walkman snapped to your belt and another to expect it to do well on a finely-tuned $10k machine sitting on a sturdy surface.
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Absolutely agree. Whereas the foreign-born who come to the US have barriers to entry, the US-born who work here do not have the same limiting factors.
Off-shoring/outsourcing seems to be a way to hire those "left behind" at really low cost... penny-wise/pound-foolish if you ask me. Never seen outsourced work produce results to match domestic by a long shot... but what MS is planning here isn't really off-shoring in that vein, rather "right-shoring" in the sense that they will be still co-locating a team built from a global pool, just not putting them in Redmond.
In my 20+ years of experience, natural born US Citizens are no better than foreign born developers who work in the US. And I've run into a handful of natural born US coders that were, in fact, terrible at their jobs... whereas I've seen a lot of foreign-born techies come to the US and thrive, do great work here -- and can't recall a single foreign-born coworker who was below average.
Fire tablets can be powered off just like any other Android tablet. The Alexa "hands-free" option can be disabled.
HRC didn't give him the election by running a pathetic campaign, the Democrats did, by running their least liked candidate in forever as if she were a shoe-in. Thanks Democrats for giving us the choice between a Republican (HRC) and a Republicrackpot (DJT)... my guess is that any other Democrat could have run the same "smart" strategy and won. But after how the party treated Sanders and the way they abused their own base, they lost to Trump on pure apathy and despair. For all we know, if HRC had shown her smug mug in MI, WI, and PA she would've lost those states by even larger margins.
"all the gop has to do is remain calm and act like adults" while supporting the bloated orange man-child with the tiny little grabby hands and the toddler tantrum twitter feed. Yup.
What's crazy about the copyright laws is that they were heavily pushed/supported by Democrats back when the extensions were being done. Total corporate sell-out from what I could see at the time.
When I hear the words "diversity" and "podcast" in the same sentence, all I think of is help for hard of hearing and deaf people getting access to audio-only material. So I'm mostly curious in what they're doing around automated transcription.
... said the right-wing terrorists (and their supporters) who kill doctors and bomb medical clinics.
Balance transfer is so they can take the profit from your previous credit card company. That's why they're often in the form of "interest free" for the first six months or whatever. They're counting on you still not paying it all off, and then they can collect interest that you would have been paying to their competitor instead. They also often have a straight fee associated with them.
If you want to take a cash advance on your card and use that to buy crypto, you could, but cash advances are not only subject to interest, but usually have an upfront fee added in as well. And are likely to have much lower limits than your regular credit limit. They might also be subject to a higher rate than normal credit purchases.
Lesson: if you want to put crypto on your card, take a cash advance. It will cost you more, but the bank can't tell what you're buying with your cash.
Just because the dogs can actually be trained to find the stuff, does not mean that they will not also "signal" on subtle cues from their handlers as well. I think we all know the science behind how well dogs can detect smells isn't just some bogus claim the police use to end-run the Constitution. And yet, there is plenty of research into this issue and a LOT more anecdotal evidence to back up the idea that police dogs are misused at an alarming level.
However, one does get tired of the "citation needed" defense in a casual chat forum like this when a simple Google search for "drug dog fake signal" will easily find you many articles and links on the topic. You know, many of us have read a lot of these articles, but we don't keep a wikipedia-like list of links available for proving our point here on Slashdot.
All of those packages are open source, though, no? Big difference.
And you do know that sometimes the people at government agencies make mistakes? Or are subject to pressures, either social, financial, or otherwise?
And how much of this work done at "Obama's EPA" is really just grandfathered in work from some previous administration? How are we to trust the work of the Trump EPA, when the President himself says things like "Global warming is a Chinese hoax" (https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385)?
Once the Trump administration is finally in the dustbin of history, how many mistakes will have been made that will be the status quo in the next, presumably Democratic, administration?
It's really a problem with trying to lump "free software" and "open source" together. GitHub has never been about free software... just free beer for projects willing to share their code. The business model was always based on closed source software, both to run the site and as the way to generate revenue.
While that may be fine from an "open source" perspective, it does nothing to protect Freedom #0 in the GPL... And while I'm far from a free software purist, to me the only thing that comes to mind in hearing people complain about yet another closed-source-based, for-profit business doing something to [potentially] harm "the community" is a big fat "I told you so".
If we care about freedom, we should NOT be putting our time/energy/money into things like GitHub from the get go. Same goes for Facebook. Even by using the platforms we give them more power over us-- not necessarily as individuals, but certainly as a group. Personally, I gave up on thinking my being pedantic was going to be of much use to me or the world a long time ago... so I'm not complaining when MS buys GH. I already spend most of my day working on MS technology-- which oddly enough, over the last several years, has gotten more and more open and free (as in both speech and beer).
So, basically, closed-sourced company GitHub makes all of its money off charging closed-source customers... all the while being a privately owned, for-profit corporation... and now that a public owned for-profit corporation buys them things are worse? Technically speaking, this is an improvement, as ownership of a share of MSFT is available to anyone via the open market. The biggest problem for me personally (and probably for most of us) is that my own personal stake in MSFT is tied up in mutual funds where I don't see any way for me to exercise my voting rights. But I could, for the extremely low price of $101, go buy a share of MSFT right now and vote however I like. And while that single share's vote is a drop in the ocean, it's more control than I had with GitHub before.
If people really cared about "FOSS" what the fuck were they doing on GitHub, a decidedly closed source platform, in the first place?
Norman is the AI equivalent of drug sniffing dogs that are used to invent "probable cause" for a search of a car (or whatever)... instead of actually sniffing drugs, the dogs pick up cues from their handlers indicating that the correct response is to "alert". [https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/563889510/preventing-police-bias-when-handling-dogs-that-bite] Now, if this truly were a successful AI learning test, any AI shown an inkblot should say "it's a blob" or give such low confidence on recognition results that they would be considered meaningless.
The emphasis in the Third Reich wasn't on the socialism, but on the nationalism (aka "Aryan supremacy"... not even all whites were created equal in their eyes). Any program of socialized medicine wasn't there because it was felt that everyone in society deserved a minimum of care, but because they wanted to ensure that the Master Race would thrive. For how far off the mark you are, you might as well be telling us that concentration camps were really just compassionate end-of-life care.
Seriously bringing up that bullshit about Hillary and Byrd? Give us a break... he clearly repudiated the entire philosophy of the KKK back in the early 50's, when Hillary was still in Kindergarten. Read your own link, troll.
With Alexa, at least, the risks seem obvious. Whereas with things like laptops and smartphones with built-in mics and cameras and GPS, our expectation is that it is NOT paying attention when we are not actively using the device.
For my part, I know damn well that Alexa is just a device driven by software written by mere mortals, and I'm fine with the potential issues that that raises. What's really needed here is not an expectation of perfection, but some way to default the device to not do certain things until they've been opted into. Or to easily opt-out of certain functionality that I know I'm not going to use.
I mean, yes, I'm concerned about Alexa... but not more than I'm concerned that my home is insecure because a locksmith could open my front door in minutes or a kid with a hammer could come in through the windows without a second thought.
If I could edit that last one, it would say "... Trump is more interested in labia models."
From what I've been reading, Trump is more interested in the labia plan.
Yeah, the old paper tape did seem sort of flimsy, but I think we could probably come up with something better these days. That would mean we could fit more holes in a smaller space too. But then punch cards have the ability to be a lot more random access than a tape. Especially if you drop the batch on the floor. ;)
Seems like that would give the executed person the last laugh.
I'll allow it the minute I see one of these chumps lugging around a tape reader for their Macbook and I don't mean one of those lame cassette tape systems from the Vic-20, I mean a real paper tape reader. You can't trust the signal off magnetic media like a hard drive, or something based on transistors like SSD -- those signals are just analog sources defined as on/off within certain tolerances... Now, holes in paper? It's either a hole or it's not (2000 election notwithstanding). That's a truly binary/digital medium.
If you used a 1/4 inch tape for a two track recording system (0.125 inch per track), wouldn't that actually be better than using a 2 inch tape for a 24 track recording system (0.0833 inch per track)? I should think the width is important for capturing differences in amplitude, but even more than that, the speed of the tape under the head right? Surely there is an analogue here with the sampling rate issues in digital recording.
The real trick here is that you need a system with good motors and head and wheels and such, otherwise you're going to get inconsistent read/write off a piece of tape that is variable in its contact with the head and not at a uniform tightness. I'd guess a 1/4 inch strip of the same exact tape material is going to be less consistent than at a 2 inch width, since it will have less ability to resist stretching or warping. But it's one thing to expect the world of 1/4 inch tape in a Sony Walkman snapped to your belt and another to expect it to do well on a finely-tuned $10k machine sitting on a sturdy surface.