Yeah I agree about the recovery aspect is not as important, as you say people either have backups or do not... I am just hoping I get some extra longevity in components (the lower runtime failure rates you mentioned).
The extra performance is nice as well but I am even more interesting in something I can be pretty sure will last 3-4 years at least with moderate to heavy use.
Probably only cops, criminals, and spies want people's data that bad.
Well, I have run into a number of people over the years that lost pictures or important documents (like a whole book they had written), to them thousands of dollars would have been OK if it could actually get the data back (and these were people that did not have a lot of money).
I think at least these days people do understand a little better how important a backup is after getting burned, reliable backups I feel like are still not an easy thing for most non-technical people to achieve (outside of mobile devices).
It failed because interest rates in that era were extremely high and that added to the cost of doing business.
That was true for competitors also though, who had to take out more loans to catch up. Redactron already had a good revenue stream and lots of customers, so high interest rates should have served to protect their position, not harm it.
criteria students look for in job opportunities are professional growth and learning (58%), work/life balance (52%), and having interesting problems to solve (46%
The first and last items are excellent goals to have,and indicate the students are pretty astute.
I would argue the second should be less important starting out of school though. If you weight your time a bit more toward career in your first few years especially, it can really set you up on an easier and more interesting career path later. That's not to say you should never do anything but work, but to say that when you ware working putting in extra time when you are younger does have value, just as taking some time totally away every now and then has value as well rather than trying to balance life time so much in the weeks you are working.
a computer science degree is not enough to teach them the skills they will need in the workforce, the report found. Nearly two-thirds (65%) said they rely partially on self-teaching to learn to code, and 27% say they are totally self-taught. Only 32% said they were entirely taught at school
I am kind of astounded that 32% said that, I was a CS major and it was a mixture of learning some things in school, along with learning some things on my own - before, during, and after my CS degree. I kind of wonder how someone that only learned to code at school would fare out in the workplace where they need to learn new languages or techniques all the time.
This is the first I had ever heard of this system... it's really a shame she is gone now, because I would have loved to see someone interview her as part of a case study as to why that company failed.
It sounded like they had great machines that advanced well over time, a head start in the use of microprocessors, and a. lot of high end clients. So how was it that the company was bypassed by so many others? Was it to specialized where IBM was more general computing? That doesn't explain how other competitors like Wang on Olivetti also surpassed them later on.
"Hi! It looks like you are just trying to browse in peace. Would you like me to just randomly pop up like the ads you are probably using Firefox to avoid?"
This is why I try to buy more expensive and higher performance SSD drives (like the Samsung EVO line) - but I have to admit I have absolutely zero idea if the chipset on the more expensive drives is really any better at all. It just seems likely the design would be better in some ways or a bit more fault tolerant.
Even that strategy I know can fail though, a few years back one of the most expensive Sandisk Pro SD cards just died out of the blue. It happened while I was at a photography convention where Sandisk was actually present, including a tech that had a full suite of SD analysis tools with him - and even he could get absolutely nothing from the SD card...
I still back up regularly, really the only thing you can do in a world where and SSD drives may just fail whenever .
Beware naive extrapolation. Electric cars are definitely not going to "take over" in just 10 years. It's going to take longer than that for the supply chain to develop to supply the batteries and power trains and to reconfigure the assembly lines
You are forgetting there is a whole other path - hydrogen cars. Between battery electric and hydrogen electric (which is ramping up now as well) the trend can for sure hold.
I'm not even sure the trend would be impossible to hold if you just considered Tesla alone...
I could see electric cars conquering major market share within 2-3 decades
Ten years for sure, because electric cars are just too compelling for most people once direct purchase costs start to dip below ICE vehicles. So popular that a substantial market for ICE to electric conversions will probably arise.
I know where you are coming from as I know kids of friends who are generally good but have had to have some punishments applied because Fortnite drove them to some sneakiness to get around parent imposed rules.
But it seems to me that maybe this is useful, to have a real test of moral character around that can be used to temper otherwise soft individuals. It seems hard to even punish a kid these days, but no Fortnite for week or so is something that means something.
I've played Fortnite myself a bit, off and on - there's nothing inherently addictive, it's just got a good combination of latent story, gameplay, dance, and humor.
If kids are exposed to something this powerfully compelling early on, it would give them a lot of willpower later to resist other temptations.
Yep. Biding their time and laying low until we wipe ourselves out.... then our remains subduct and THEY feed on US!
See, told you they were smart. And vastly more patient. Sure beats a bad movie plot where they ooze up through a deep oil rig and try to kill us all, ineffectually.
I don't really know if there's anything to the notion that millennials are lazy and entitled. But if generally true, that could be a reason why not many millennials are doing startups, because a start up is a lot of work for a long time without much reward.
You have to have a really long term view to enter into a startup, a degree of vision that seems sadly lacking today.
Seriously, what is the case for leaving this open until April instead of just shutting it down now, at least external access?
It's funny, I remember a lot of people in the photo community being really into Google+ when it first launched. It seemed pretty clear to me it was not going to make it though.
Stop accepting the bullshit statistics China feeds you and try visiting sometime. China DOES NOT have cleaner cars, as you can tell from the cars themselves, but especially from the hellacious pollution they have in many cities, even worse than LA in the heyday.
I find it amusing you also believe them about percentage of electricity from coal.
PewPewDie is about 0.00001% of total views on Youtube.
Same thing for generic cop/medical dramas on Netflix (I've never watched one and watch Netflix all the time), so thanks for undermining your original point there chief.
Maybe it turns out the way the world works for most people is not how you are using it, or even how you describe it...
It's countries behaving according to actual beliefs in CO2 being a problem for global warming, instead of the rhetoric they put forth.
For many countries, CO2 reduction is just another tool of economic war to the extent they can convince other countries to play along reduces their economic output and prosperity chasing the goal of CO2 reduction instead. That is certainly why China constantly promotes CO2 reduction despite doing essentially nothing to reduce it themselves.
But how often do I watch any of them? Maybe once a month. Certainly not every time they publish.
Just because you are subscribes does not mean you are going to watch - and because of the short form there, it's pretty easy to ignore updates for even the slightest reason.
I still do not see YouTube as competing with Netflix, because each has such different time profiles. If I want to watch videos for a few hours, I'm always going to turn to Netflix over YouTube. But if I have just some minutes free here and there I'm probably going to wander through YouTube a bit. Now I may end up watching longer but that was not intentional, so it's not like Netflix was going to get that viewing time anyway.
A) If they just now found this patch with so many various coral species, how can you ro anyone claim some particular coral species is extinct? It may still be alive, just somewhere they have not seen.
B) Perhaps you are confused by reports of bleaching? Because that does not "destroy" coral, they start to recover after a few years.
C) How did "visitation" kill anything? the GBR is highly controlled as to who can visit where.
Show me China's free and open elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, unfettered access to the global Internet, respect for basic human rights, respect for civil rights, respect for due process, respect for a citizens desire to emigrate from China to another country, and so on, and so on, and so on. All rhetorical because China has none of those things.
He didn't say it HAD any of those things. He said it had capitalism (true), and imperial rule (which actually implies all of the things you just started).
What they mean by "toxic workplace", is people are are too negative. It only takes a handful, and about 30 days they can turn everyone there negative - like a really slow acting zombie plague.
The reason why workplaces have gotten somewhat more negative over the years is that managers have gone a bit soft overall and are not willing to fire people everyone that works there wish would be fired.
It's one of the things that moved me into consulting, after many years working at various size tech companies. Rampant negativity I've seen in companies from 20 people to twenty thousand (or more!), so it's nice to be able to more easily move between companies.
I've also worked in small groups in larger companies and very small companies, that have a great culture and are not toxic because all of the people are great to work with. So it's not like it's impossible, generally people would not like to gripe all the time.
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Yeah I agree about the recovery aspect is not as important, as you say people either have backups or do not... I am just hoping I get some extra longevity in components (the lower runtime failure rates you mentioned).
The extra performance is nice as well but I am even more interesting in something I can be pretty sure will last 3-4 years at least with moderate to heavy use.
Probably only cops, criminals, and spies want people's data that bad.
Well, I have run into a number of people over the years that lost pictures or important documents (like a whole book they had written), to them thousands of dollars would have been OK if it could actually get the data back (and these were people that did not have a lot of money).
I think at least these days people do understand a little better how important a backup is after getting burned, reliable backups I feel like are still not an easy thing for most non-technical people to achieve (outside of mobile devices).
It failed because interest rates in that era were extremely high and that added to the cost of doing business.
That was true for competitors also though, who had to take out more loans to catch up. Redactron already had a good revenue stream and lots of customers, so high interest rates should have served to protect their position, not harm it.
Maybe not a total failure, but it seems like that company could have and should have been the one acquiring Burroughs, or even IBM for that matter.
criteria students look for in job opportunities are professional growth and learning (58%), work/life balance (52%), and having interesting problems to solve (46%
The first and last items are excellent goals to have ,and indicate the students are pretty astute.
I would argue the second should be less important starting out of school though. If you weight your time a bit more toward career in your first few years especially, it can really set you up on an easier and more interesting career path later. That's not to say you should never do anything but work, but to say that when you ware working putting in extra time when you are younger does have value, just as taking some time totally away every now and then has value as well rather than trying to balance life time so much in the weeks you are working.
a computer science degree is not enough to teach them the skills they will need in the workforce, the report found. Nearly two-thirds (65%) said they rely partially on self-teaching to learn to code, and 27% say they are totally self-taught. Only 32% said they were entirely taught at school
I am kind of astounded that 32% said that, I was a CS major and it was a mixture of learning some things in school, along with learning some things on my own - before, during, and after my CS degree. I kind of wonder how someone that only learned to code at school would fare out in the workplace where they need to learn new languages or techniques all the time.
This is the first I had ever heard of this system... it's really a shame she is gone now, because I would have loved to see someone interview her as part of a case study as to why that company failed.
It sounded like they had great machines that advanced well over time, a head start in the use of microprocessors, and a. lot of high end clients. So how was it that the company was bypassed by so many others? Was it to specialized where IBM was more general computing? That doesn't explain how other competitors like Wang on Olivetti also surpassed them later on.
"Hi! It looks like you are just trying to browse in peace. Would you like me to just randomly pop up like the ads you are probably using Firefox to avoid?"
This is why I try to buy more expensive and higher performance SSD drives (like the Samsung EVO line) - but I have to admit I have absolutely zero idea if the chipset on the more expensive drives is really any better at all. It just seems likely the design would be better in some ways or a bit more fault tolerant.
Even that strategy I know can fail though, a few years back one of the most expensive Sandisk Pro SD cards just died out of the blue. It happened while I was at a photography convention where Sandisk was actually present, including a tech that had a full suite of SD analysis tools with him - and even he could get absolutely nothing from the SD card...
I still back up regularly, really the only thing you can do in a world where and SSD drives may just fail whenever .
Beware naive extrapolation. Electric cars are definitely not going to "take over" in just 10 years. It's going to take longer than that for the supply chain to develop to supply the batteries and power trains and to reconfigure the assembly lines
You are forgetting there is a whole other path - hydrogen cars. Between battery electric and hydrogen electric (which is ramping up now as well) the trend can for sure hold.
I'm not even sure the trend would be impossible to hold if you just considered Tesla alone...
I could see electric cars conquering major market share within 2-3 decades
Ten years for sure, because electric cars are just too compelling for most people once direct purchase costs start to dip below ICE vehicles. So popular that a substantial market for ICE to electric conversions will probably arise.
I know where you are coming from as I know kids of friends who are generally good but have had to have some punishments applied because Fortnite drove them to some sneakiness to get around parent imposed rules.
But it seems to me that maybe this is useful, to have a real test of moral character around that can be used to temper otherwise soft individuals. It seems hard to even punish a kid these days, but no Fortnite for week or so is something that means something.
I've played Fortnite myself a bit, off and on - there's nothing inherently addictive, it's just got a good combination of latent story, gameplay, dance, and humor.
If kids are exposed to something this powerfully compelling early on, it would give them a lot of willpower later to resist other temptations.
Yep. Biding their time and laying low until we wipe ourselves out. ... then our remains subduct and THEY feed on US!
See, told you they were smart. And vastly more patient. Sure beats a bad movie plot where they ooze up through a deep oil rig and try to kill us all, ineffectually.
I have a Samsung Galaxy A8 here. It has a headphone jack.
Are you sure? Maybe it's a sticker with a picture of a headphone jack.
If they are going into a fake Supreme store, may as well have fake ports too.
Yes, and a lot of American cities are quickly going to all electric mass transit as well - lots already have light rail.
But that's all kind of irrelevant as buses in a city are vastly outnumbered by private cars.
And just about all of them are smarter than a Trump voter.
So twice as smart as you then...
If you stop to think about it, organisms that chose to live out of the range of humans who could eat them are obviously way smarter than you or I.
I don't really know if there's anything to the notion that millennials are lazy and entitled. But if generally true, that could be a reason why not many millennials are doing startups, because a start up is a lot of work for a long time without much reward.
You have to have a really long term view to enter into a startup, a degree of vision that seems sadly lacking today.
Looking at pictures of Paris recently, it sure seems like they'd got some great Call Of Duty LARP'ing going on over there.
Seriously, what is the case for leaving this open until April instead of just shutting it down now, at least external access?
It's funny, I remember a lot of people in the photo community being really into Google+ when it first launched. It seemed pretty clear to me it was not going to make it though.
Even China buys cleaner cars....
Stop accepting the bullshit statistics China feeds you and try visiting sometime. China DOES NOT have cleaner cars, as you can tell from the cars themselves, but especially from the hellacious pollution they have in many cities, even worse than LA in the heyday.
I find it amusing you also believe them about percentage of electricity from coal.
PewPewDie is about 0.00001% of total views on Youtube.
Same thing for generic cop/medical dramas on Netflix (I've never watched one and watch Netflix all the time), so thanks for undermining your original point there chief.
Maybe it turns out the way the world works for most people is not how you are using it, or even how you describe it...
It's countries behaving according to actual beliefs in CO2 being a problem for global warming, instead of the rhetoric they put forth.
For many countries, CO2 reduction is just another tool of economic war to the extent they can convince other countries to play along reduces their economic output and prosperity chasing the goal of CO2 reduction instead. That is certainly why China constantly promotes CO2 reduction despite doing essentially nothing to reduce it themselves.
but there are others who are looking for something else
And on YouTube they find... PewDiePie and a million Fail videos (basically Americas Funniest Home Videos stretching out til the end of time).
I'm pretty sure that is not what the remaining 95%, according to your statistics, seek...
You figures also do not explain why Netflix subscriber counts keep going up. Seems like maybe you have that percentage reversed.
I subscribe to a number of channels on YouTube.
But how often do I watch any of them? Maybe once a month. Certainly not every time they publish.
Just because you are subscribes does not mean you are going to watch - and because of the short form there, it's pretty easy to ignore updates for even the slightest reason.
I still do not see YouTube as competing with Netflix, because each has such different time profiles. If I want to watch videos for a few hours, I'm always going to turn to Netflix over YouTube. But if I have just some minutes free here and there I'm probably going to wander through YouTube a bit. Now I may end up watching longer but that was not intentional, so it's not like Netflix was going to get that viewing time anyway.
A) If they just now found this patch with so many various coral species, how can you ro anyone claim some particular coral species is extinct? It may still be alive, just somewhere they have not seen.
B) Perhaps you are confused by reports of bleaching? Because that does not "destroy" coral, they start to recover after a few years.
C) How did "visitation" kill anything? the GBR is highly controlled as to who can visit where.
Show me China's free and open elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, unfettered access to the global Internet, respect for basic human rights, respect for civil rights, respect for due process, respect for a citizens desire to emigrate from China to another country, and so on, and so on, and so on. All rhetorical because China has none of those things.
He didn't say it HAD any of those things. He said it had capitalism (true), and imperial rule (which actually implies all of the things you just started).
I guess that's why you posted AC!
They really mean none of the things you mention.
What they mean by "toxic workplace", is people are are too negative. It only takes a handful, and about 30 days they can turn everyone there negative - like a really slow acting zombie plague.
The reason why workplaces have gotten somewhat more negative over the years is that managers have gone a bit soft overall and are not willing to fire people everyone that works there wish would be fired.
It's one of the things that moved me into consulting, after many years working at various size tech companies. Rampant negativity I've seen in companies from 20 people to twenty thousand (or more!), so it's nice to be able to more easily move between companies.
I've also worked in small groups in larger companies and very small companies, that have a great culture and are not toxic because all of the people are great to work with. So it's not like it's impossible, generally people would not like to gripe all the time.
So you ship a web browser, and a client, and application logic and call it an "app"?
Yes, but it's not as performant as you make it sound...