This only had a major effect on big commercial users like solar farms. Residential customers will be buying panels from domestic or Japanese/Korean brands most likely, complete with long warranty periods.
A search for "flat earth" still gets the same results. It's just the recommendation system that doesn't throw them up when you are watching non-conspiracy stuff now.
They try to game the system with SEO techniques to get seen by people looking at NASA videos.
In other words they made the recommendations better by filtering spam and bullshit.
CAD is in the middle. You want to use the mouse and the keyboard at the same time, so most of the shortcuts need to be single key presses with no modifiers.
They have a vast pile of cash and their cash cow, the iPhone, has declining sales. They need to diversify.
The component stuff is different to the other three items on your list though. Apple components only go in Apple products, they aren't going to be like Samsung who sell to anyone. So that's less about diversification and more about trying to make sure that their products have something unique about them.
Game development is seen as a glamorous job, kinda like making movies or pop music. You could be part of something with huge cultural significance, worshipped by the fans, and get to build something that influences and resonates with many people. If you are lucky it might even be on the cutting edge of tech or game design.
Then you find the reality is long hours and a lot of drudge work.
I know someone who has been doing it for a decade and he wouldn't give it up. He complains a lot, but also gets a lot out of his work. I know what he means - I'm willing to put up with more if it means I can do interesting, innovative stuff at least some of the time.
Probably not though. Like Betamax the IBM PC would have eventually failed and be replaced by something more open, and thus cheaper and better supported. VHS wasn't even as good in terms of picture quality.
While I agree with your point I think we need a better metric than employment rates or measuring success.
The UK had fairly decent levels of employment, but a large number of those jobs were of very low quality. Often they were "zero hour contracts", where the company calls you up to tell you how many hours you get to work that week. There are also a lot of low paid jobs which while technically employment leave the worker living on benefits, essentially passing the cost on to the taxpayer.
Apple has always relied on differentiating its products with unique hardware. Increasingly their competitors are getting ahead now, with things like foldable screens looking like they will be huge and Apple mostly reduced to just removing stuff like the headphone jack.
By developing their own screens, batteries, modems and other hardware they can differentiate themselves like they do with CPUs now. They have top notch single core performance that lets them look good in benchmarks, and no-one else can simply buy the same CPU.
How good the no-mouse experience is depends on the keyboard you have too. Many laptops have really bad keyboads so using a mouse/trackpad is often preferable.
Also there are some things that the keyboard can't do. For example with scrolling you only have the cursor keys or the page up/down keys. With a mouse wheel you have more control over speed, and with a touchpad you have even more than that.
"Public health crisis" doesn't mean you have to set up white tents and guys in hazmat suits to deal with it. It means that you designate it something that gets significant resources directed to it as a matter of urgency, and hopefully everyone starts to take it seriously.
At the moment people tend not to even think of sleep as a major problem that affects many people, or something that we can tackle on more than an individual basis. This designation will help with things like getting companies to consider employee's sleep needs when setting schedules.
University is supposed to give you a solid foundation and the skills to learn more. Employers need to understand that graduates will need mentoring and training.
A lot of this complaining is really them saying that they wanted experienced employees for graduate wages.
Right... but we are talking about college level learning, that costs a huge amount of money and takes years. These people are clearly serious and should grasp the basics after three years.
Apple introduced their version of the ad blocking API that Google is proposing years ago. And as I pointed out in the story about it, Google is actually looking at keeping the older API for stuff that needs it and offering the new one as a higher performance but more limited option.
Also if you read TFA carefully it's apparent that this is just a corporate lawyer shotgun overkill situation, where they scattershot every argument they can think of as a potential defence. Standard lawyer stuff, the management at Google probably didn't even know about it.
There are plenty of things to criticise Google for, but here we have one non-story and one that might develop into something depending on how they handle developer feedback.
It's not even Google really, it's their lawyers. They task them with defending against NLRB claims, and they do the usual lawyer thing of shotgunning everything they can think of into the defence.
Such things rarely represent corporate policy. Indeed, it seems to go against things we know that Google has been doing internally thanks to documents that were released as part of the Damore suit.
Google staff are participating. They are talking about the need to keep the old API around indefinitely, perhaps with some limitations on functionality. The purpose of the proposal is to gather feedback from add-on developers about what functionality the new API doesn't offer and needs to be kept in the old API.
In particular, they recognize that for privacy reasons it's important for users to have a 100% guarantee that certain things are blocked and not merely hidden, which is the main performance issue at the moment.
Also, the developer of AdBlock Plus chimed in to dispel the myth that it's got something to do with them. They point out that AdBlock is affected by the change as well.
Javascript watches the pattern of your keystrokes to see if they are human-like or bot-like. Google Recaptcha does something similar with mouse movements.
An interesting idea but that's not how bribery of representatives works. Even today they don't bribe them all, they bribe the influential ones. And by influential I mean the ones that are having their arses kissed the most by more junior reps looking for favours - support, jobs, inclusion on committees, even just introductions to big donors and grooming for future roles.
Having 10,000 representatives would certainly change that dynamic but I imagine they would just clump together into groups and you would be back to square one in short order. Just look at local politics.
Around 1.8% of people are born with some intersex characteristics. It's more common than red hair. By your standard people with red hair are abnormal.
the unfortunate plain truth
Is that there is no biological standard for male and female in humans. The International Olympic Committee has been trying to come up with one for a century, and has basically given up. Genitalia, chromosomes, hormones, all kinds of stuff. Wikipedia has an article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In the end they just decided to categorize people by their testosterone levels because testosterone is what affects performance. Not by sex, even though they call it men's and women's. It's more like performance categories in motor racing.
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This only had a major effect on big commercial users like solar farms. Residential customers will be buying panels from domestic or Japanese/Korean brands most likely, complete with long warranty periods.
A search for "flat earth" still gets the same results. It's just the recommendation system that doesn't throw them up when you are watching non-conspiracy stuff now.
They try to game the system with SEO techniques to get seen by people looking at NASA videos.
In other words they made the recommendations better by filtering spam and bullshit.
You didn't hear many people complaining about LotR? Are you deaf?
This might actually break the deadlock on the shutdown. Surely the corporate masters won't allow the patent system to shut down.
CAD is in the middle. You want to use the mouse and the keyboard at the same time, so most of the shortcuts need to be single key presses with no modifiers.
They have a vast pile of cash and their cash cow, the iPhone, has declining sales. They need to diversify.
The component stuff is different to the other three items on your list though. Apple components only go in Apple products, they aren't going to be like Samsung who sell to anyone. So that's less about diversification and more about trying to make sure that their products have something unique about them.
Game development is seen as a glamorous job, kinda like making movies or pop music. You could be part of something with huge cultural significance, worshipped by the fans, and get to build something that influences and resonates with many people. If you are lucky it might even be on the cutting edge of tech or game design.
Then you find the reality is long hours and a lot of drudge work.
I know someone who has been doing it for a decade and he wouldn't give it up. He complains a lot, but also gets a lot out of his work. I know what he means - I'm willing to put up with more if it means I can do interesting, innovative stuff at least some of the time.
Probably not though. Like Betamax the IBM PC would have eventually failed and be replaced by something more open, and thus cheaper and better supported. VHS wasn't even as good in terms of picture quality.
While I agree with your point I think we need a better metric than employment rates or measuring success.
The UK had fairly decent levels of employment, but a large number of those jobs were of very low quality. Often they were "zero hour contracts", where the company calls you up to tell you how many hours you get to work that week. There are also a lot of low paid jobs which while technically employment leave the worker living on benefits, essentially passing the cost on to the taxpayer.
Apple has always relied on differentiating its products with unique hardware. Increasingly their competitors are getting ahead now, with things like foldable screens looking like they will be huge and Apple mostly reduced to just removing stuff like the headphone jack.
By developing their own screens, batteries, modems and other hardware they can differentiate themselves like they do with CPUs now. They have top notch single core performance that lets them look good in benchmarks, and no-one else can simply buy the same CPU.
How good the no-mouse experience is depends on the keyboard you have too. Many laptops have really bad keyboads so using a mouse/trackpad is often preferable.
Also there are some things that the keyboard can't do. For example with scrolling you only have the cursor keys or the page up/down keys. With a mouse wheel you have more control over speed, and with a touchpad you have even more than that.
Also CAD is hell without a mouse.
"Public health crisis" doesn't mean you have to set up white tents and guys in hazmat suits to deal with it. It means that you designate it something that gets significant resources directed to it as a matter of urgency, and hopefully everyone starts to take it seriously.
At the moment people tend not to even think of sleep as a major problem that affects many people, or something that we can tackle on more than an individual basis. This designation will help with things like getting companies to consider employee's sleep needs when setting schedules.
University is supposed to give you a solid foundation and the skills to learn more. Employers need to understand that graduates will need mentoring and training.
A lot of this complaining is really them saying that they wanted experienced employees for graduate wages.
If Chinese companies do not fight government requests then what is to stop the government from gaining access to American trade secrets
Same thing that stops the US government getting access to Chinese trade secrets through American companies: nothing.
If they haven't been hacked by the NSA yet they can just issue a National Security Letter or some other bullshit.
I'd avoid object oriented languages to start with. OO is something you want to learn later, after you learn how computers and software actually work.
Otherwise they really seem to struggle with things like pointers. Going from non-OO to OO is much easier, no effort at all really.
Right... but we are talking about college level learning, that costs a huge amount of money and takes years. These people are clearly serious and should grasp the basics after three years.
Apple introduced their version of the ad blocking API that Google is proposing years ago. And as I pointed out in the story about it, Google is actually looking at keeping the older API for stuff that needs it and offering the new one as a higher performance but more limited option.
Also if you read TFA carefully it's apparent that this is just a corporate lawyer shotgun overkill situation, where they scattershot every argument they can think of as a potential defence. Standard lawyer stuff, the management at Google probably didn't even know about it.
There are plenty of things to criticise Google for, but here we have one non-story and one that might develop into something depending on how they handle developer feedback.
It's not even Google really, it's their lawyers. They task them with defending against NLRB claims, and they do the usual lawyer thing of shotgunning everything they can think of into the defence.
Such things rarely represent corporate policy. Indeed, it seems to go against things we know that Google has been doing internally thanks to documents that were released as part of the Damore suit.
Before jumping ship, it's worth reading the actual thread discussing this change: https://groups.google.com/a/ch...
Google staff are participating. They are talking about the need to keep the old API around indefinitely, perhaps with some limitations on functionality. The purpose of the proposal is to gather feedback from add-on developers about what functionality the new API doesn't offer and needs to be kept in the old API.
In particular, they recognize that for privacy reasons it's important for users to have a 100% guarantee that certain things are blocked and not merely hidden, which is the main performance issue at the moment.
Also, the developer of AdBlock Plus chimed in to dispel the myth that it's got something to do with them. They point out that AdBlock is affected by the change as well.
Javascript watches the pattern of your keystrokes to see if they are human-like or bot-like. Google Recaptcha does something similar with mouse movements.
An interesting idea but that's not how bribery of representatives works. Even today they don't bribe them all, they bribe the influential ones. And by influential I mean the ones that are having their arses kissed the most by more junior reps looking for favours - support, jobs, inclusion on committees, even just introductions to big donors and grooming for future roles.
Having 10,000 representatives would certainly change that dynamic but I imagine they would just clump together into groups and you would be back to square one in short order. Just look at local politics.
So the secret to beating Trump in 2020 is to just look even dumber and more incompetent, so that the Russians boost your campaign.
*normal* people are either of two sex
Around 1.8% of people are born with some intersex characteristics. It's more common than red hair. By your standard people with red hair are abnormal.
the unfortunate plain truth
Is that there is no biological standard for male and female in humans. The International Olympic Committee has been trying to come up with one for a century, and has basically given up. Genitalia, chromosomes, hormones, all kinds of stuff. Wikipedia has an article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In the end they just decided to categorize people by their testosterone levels because testosterone is what affects performance. Not by sex, even though they call it men's and women's. It's more like performance categories in motor racing.
Wow, Brietbart shills have a lot of mod points today.
Wow, that's actually a really good example. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll use it myself if don't mind!