Is there anyone out there who feels that the existing "window" paradigm has fundamentally run past its expiration date....
I do, but this sets thing doesn't look promising. I'd like it if they would basically make the desktop work like the docking/tabbing/subdividing windows inside Visual Studio. That seems like a really nice way to organize things for me.
I'd go for a general purpose maid-bot even if it looked like a refugee from a hardware store. If it looked like Winona Ryder at 21... well bonus. But not just to wash dishes, I assume Schmidt is using "clean up the kitchen" as shorthand for a tool that could autonomously clean the whole house and so on.
I've led teams - how could someone be in the biz for 3 decades and not? I've also had managers who thought they had to micro-manage their developers. The result inevitably is that the talented engineers leave to work on teams (or in companies, sometimes competitors) where the manager isn't a complete dick. Look into Agile, maybe particularly scrum methodology (it's far from new) for an example of how teams should be organized for developing software. Sure, it won't work for factory button mashers or floor sweepers, but we're talking about teams of dedicated professionals here, not minwage retards. Anyone who thinks that productivity can be measured by tracking the minutia of what the employees do minute by minute should be managing a car wash, or maybe a hotdog stand, not a dev team.
Mickey Mouse will not go into the PD, as there is no time limit of trademarks. Steamboat Willie should however be in the public domain a long time ago. Anything made prior to the 21st century should probably be in the public domain in fact.
This is precisely why there is no longer any significant moral high ground on either side of the IP vs piracy discussion. Plenty of high ground in the middle, where it doesn't matter though.
Because the Earth and sun orbit about each other, the day for the purposes of this discussion is not the same as the sidereal day. The rest of your comment I basically agree with.
Developers should be responsible for making sure their code is run through static analysis, that it has adequate unit tests (that pass), that automated integration testing is in place and passing, that peers have reviewed the code, and similar 'best practice' sort of things. They should also be engaged in using the product and so on, and if management wishes to spend their time this way, testing OTHER developers code.
A developer testing their own code outside developing and maintaining automated tests is a monumental waste of time.
If it had a 9" screen I'd preorder. I have a couple of the 6" units and they're great but I've literally never wished they were waterproof. Bigger, all the time.
That computation includes time spent stopped in traffic or at stops. It's not the average speed the bus moves while it's travelling. The promotional piece even says the bus will likely be able to last a driver's shift without recharging most of the time. Unless we're asserting a typical urban bus driver drives over 1000 miles in a shift I think the conclusion is that no, it's not at all "close to the same" as this demo.
I live in LA - the bus is slow but it's not that slow. Obviously regen helps get back the cost of acceleration, but (https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11136353&cid=55229301) is specifically talking about air resistance, and the reply spouts off about regen. Seems like a solution in search of a problem in the context of the original comment. Air resistance increases rapidly with speed and other frictional losses generally approximate linear scaling. Summary suggests it should last as long as the driver's shift, which is nothing like 1000 miles.
I haven't gone out to go shopping for months, and before that time, it was also probably 4-6 months. When I did go out the shopping was sort of incidental; a stop for something after a movie or dinner out typically. Perhaps when I leave the hell-hole that is Southern California I'll go out more but for now I treat this place like the cesspool that it is.
At least w/ Android they have a chance of getting a custom device with some or all of that built in. It's possible to get some pretty specialized Android devices as a mere consumer, for instance a rugged phone with FLIR camera is available, as are rugged phones with integrated 2-way shortwave radios.
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Is there anyone out there who feels that the existing "window" paradigm has fundamentally run past its expiration date ....
I do, but this sets thing doesn't look promising. I'd like it if they would basically make the desktop work like the docking/tabbing/subdividing windows inside Visual Studio. That seems like a really nice way to organize things for me.
Wish I had mod points. Can't decide if this is funny or insightful though.
I'd go for a general purpose maid-bot even if it looked like a refugee from a hardware store. If it looked like Winona Ryder at 21 ... well bonus. But not just to wash dishes, I assume Schmidt is using "clean up the kitchen" as shorthand for a tool that could autonomously clean the whole house and so on.
If only they made something like that: https://www.appliancesconnecti...{creative}&KW=&pdv=c
I kid, I kid. But they are nice - we have those at the office.
I've led teams - how could someone be in the biz for 3 decades and not? I've also had managers who thought they had to micro-manage their developers. The result inevitably is that the talented engineers leave to work on teams (or in companies, sometimes competitors) where the manager isn't a complete dick. Look into Agile, maybe particularly scrum methodology (it's far from new) for an example of how teams should be organized for developing software. Sure, it won't work for factory button mashers or floor sweepers, but we're talking about teams of dedicated professionals here, not minwage retards. Anyone who thinks that productivity can be measured by tracking the minutia of what the employees do minute by minute should be managing a car wash, or maybe a hotdog stand, not a dev team.
Based on your 'loose' statements, I am guessing you have never done this before..
Great guess, I've only been a developer for about 30 years, clearly never done it before.
Or just have well defined goals, work that needs done, and judge them on how well they actually get the work done. Novel, I know.
Mickey Mouse will not go into the PD, as there is no time limit of trademarks. Steamboat Willie should however be in the public domain a long time ago. Anything made prior to the 21st century should probably be in the public domain in fact.
This is precisely why there is no longer any significant moral high ground on either side of the IP vs piracy discussion. Plenty of high ground in the middle, where it doesn't matter though.
I still own an 8 track RECORDER. Sigh.
Because the Earth and sun orbit about each other, the day for the purposes of this discussion is not the same as the sidereal day. The rest of your comment I basically agree with.
Developers should be responsible for making sure their code is run through static analysis, that it has adequate unit tests (that pass), that automated integration testing is in place and passing, that peers have reviewed the code, and similar 'best practice' sort of things. They should also be engaged in using the product and so on, and if management wishes to spend their time this way, testing OTHER developers code.
A developer testing their own code outside developing and maintaining automated tests is a monumental waste of time.
Expect at least one of these pigs to escape and breed in the wild.
Well since they were all slaughtered and dissected I guess that's one less prophecy of yours that will come true, eh Nostradamus?
Someone mod parent up.
The small maintenance crew that's tasked with doing that all day for all the trucks at the chain up area?
If it had a 9" screen I'd preorder. I have a couple of the 6" units and they're great but I've literally never wished they were waterproof. Bigger, all the time.
Block cell phones from connecting. Solved in one.
That computation includes time spent stopped in traffic or at stops. It's not the average speed the bus moves while it's travelling. The promotional piece even says the bus will likely be able to last a driver's shift without recharging most of the time. Unless we're asserting a typical urban bus driver drives over 1000 miles in a shift I think the conclusion is that no, it's not at all "close to the same" as this demo.
Pretty cool though.
I live in LA - the bus is slow but it's not that slow. Obviously regen helps get back the cost of acceleration, but (https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11136353&cid=55229301) is specifically talking about air resistance, and the reply spouts off about regen. Seems like a solution in search of a problem in the context of the original comment. Air resistance increases rapidly with speed and other frictional losses generally approximate linear scaling. Summary suggests it should last as long as the driver's shift, which is nothing like 1000 miles.
How would regen help with energy lost to air resistance?
There are actually sites out there that won't eat any password over 12 characters if you can believe that.
Just one 4 year old, so not kids. Getting him out of the city is one major motivation for my upcoming relocation.
That's a thin thread to hang your hopes on son.
I haven't gone out to go shopping for months, and before that time, it was also probably 4-6 months. When I did go out the shopping was sort of incidental; a stop for something after a movie or dinner out typically. Perhaps when I leave the hell-hole that is Southern California I'll go out more but for now I treat this place like the cesspool that it is.
At least w/ Android they have a chance of getting a custom device with some or all of that built in. It's possible to get some pretty specialized Android devices as a mere consumer, for instance a rugged phone with FLIR camera is available, as are rugged phones with integrated 2-way shortwave radios.