and take your own future into your own hands, and stop expecting everyone else to fix things for you
Moving away from what we do wrong is far more complicated than 1 person. Government regulations have worked in the past to solve "DOOMSDAY" issues such as the depleting ozone layer. The refrigerants damaging the ozone were reduced and eventually removed due to government regulations. That was a very liberal thing to do and you can thank them for it. There are plenty of other examples.
The current governments appear more dedicated than they've ever been with regards to global warming. This tells me change is going to start happening much quicker than most would imagine. Getting countries like China to comply is critical and considering how heavily it affects them I believe they will comply.
Entry level programmers are paid 80k? Holy crap. So this employee is really costing the company 160k because there's going to be a number of resources pulled away from their main project to help them. How the hell do they stay competitive?
I'm not going to comment on their decision until a formal statement is made. I say this because this decision appears to be so out of line with the current marketing trends and strategies that there may be a good reason regardless of how dumb it appears.
Bahhhhh, your opinion and the 11 fictive people you made up aren't the standard. Your also comparing changing hardware with static hardware.
The Xbox one is one set of hardware. This is much easier for any software developer to QC properly and ensure smooth software operation. It's the reason Xbox 360 and One have been such solid Microsoft products. Sure you could point out past issues or momentary flaws but nothing that stuck out at the software level. It's like Android and iOS. They've had the advantage of catering to specific hardware. Each H/W maker ensure their crap works 100% with the OS. The same goes for ongoing updates. They can stay on top of it since they don't have 1000 variation of the product to validate.
Second, they're visually obnoxious and make the site that I'm trying to visit unusable
Then don't use the service. Nobody has a gun pointed to your head. IMO the only valid reason for blocking ads is due to the risk of infection which can happen regardless of using an ad blocker.
People have to stop and think how this whole information highway is paid for. I don't care how simple the content is to create, the publisher is allowed to attempt paying himself for it. When you buy a hammer and you pay $20 for the Stanley hammer that is your choice. What is not your choice is to chose to NOT pay for said hammer. IMO same should apply here.
Fact of life, without unions workers are screwed, the last thirty years are proof positive of that. Lowering wages, reduced safety conditions, fired arbitrarily and jobs wiped out. Powerful unions pounded the crap out of corrupt politicians and corporations is what is required to clean the current mess up.
Powerful unions pounded the crap out of corrupt politicians and corporations is what is required to clean the current mess up.
I didn't say unions are bad but there are unions that are cash cows instead of a useful entity. I know of a few cases close to me where unions forced the collapse of companies or even the collapse of wages and benefits. When I see unions asking for 10% raises in the middle of a recession I call NON SENSE. When a union refuses to take the time to understand company financials while making demands I call NON SENSE.
The good unions out there are the ones that work WITH the companies to both further their interests. My father in law worked for a metal processing facility in Quebec (500 workers total). The workers opted to strike. The end result of the strike was many positions cut, salaries frozen for 5 years, removal of performance bonuses and removal of seniority as a criteria for promotions. The greed, miss information or lack of competence of the union was catastrophic for the workers.
Many countries in the EU have very good work conditions without the existence of unions. If it works there it should be able to work here.
Unions in concept aren't bad but their implementation is often flawed and I blame both parties for that nonsense. Do you think it's reasonable for a manufacturer that encounters a manufacturing defect in a product going into a high rise building to have to pay 1 hours of labor for every hours 1 hour of labor the manufacturer takes to fix his product on-site?
Do you think it's reasonable for a grievance to be filed because the scheduled welder wants to go to lunch and refuses to allow the mechanic (with welding cards) to do it just because he can get 4 hours extra pay if they proceed without his consent?
Good government rules on employment are far more beneficial than any union and they apply to all instead of a select group. Lets work on increase minimum wage first.
If you look at a graph of employment rate of the US you can see no difference in the pattern of employment. Actually, the employment rate was already in decline 4 years before implementation of NAFTA. If anything, NAFTA has allow the US to remain competitive on the world market. As for growth, NAFTA didn't reduce growth and may have allowed it to stabilize at a time where it was in decline. Employment rate: http://www.tradingeconomics.co... Growth: http://www.tradingeconomics.co...
When talking TPP most people fear China. China is already everywhere in our economy but that's not true of the US in China. Their tariffs are protecting their local interest. TPP will help with remove those restrictions. So at least we will be able to sell to China a competitive prices.
Watts per square inch is more important. If I have a ultrathin solar panel and it gets that many grams/watt it probably takes a huge surface area to get that power.
You need to read the article to understand why it's an advance. For 1 the process itself creates clearer cells hence an increase in efficiency. It you want to compare conventional cells to this one you need to have comparative data as you mentioned which we do not have. In their application watts per grams is ideal because their current intended use is on flying objects such as weather balloons. Here's the part of the article:
While the solar cell in this demonstration device is not especially efficient, because of its low weight, its power-to-weight ratio is among the highest ever achieved. That’s important for applications where weight is important, such as on spacecraft or on high-altitude helium balloons used for research. Whereas a typical silicon-based solar module, whose weight is dominated by a glass cover, may produce about 15 watts of power per kilogram of weight, the new cells have already demonstrated an output of 6 watts per gram — about 400 times higher.
First, you assume I'm using windows, which I don't.
That's fine. Same philosophy applies to all major OSs
Second, without internet access you're SOL with online storage
That's hardly a good excuse these days. It's like me saying I won't rely on electricity because I can't be sure it will be up when I need it. 99.9% of the time it is up. Most will deal with the.01% and the rest will setup redundancy.
Third, how much are you willing to trust your vaporware provider?
That's a matter of picking a good storage provider. None of the major providers have disappeared and the bigger ones that struggled got swallowed by the bigger guys so nothing was lost.
I'm NOT suggesting you should rid of all hard copies locally but your odds of losing data locally is magnitudes larger than on a redundant storage with site to site backups, power backup and on-site storage expertise.
[x] Fad [x] Device [x] Hype train [x] Lacks apps [x] Consumers (generally) don't give a fuck [ ] Overpriced Consumer Kit [x] Overpriced Dev Kit [ ] Ship it!
I'm not sure if your ditching the tech as a whole or just Hololen. If your ditching the tech as a whole I hate to tell you this but you're in for a surprise. The current state of the tech is crap but it's potential is huge. If you get onboard early and become good at developing for it, it's the key to unlocking large opportunities down the road. As a software business it's just a smart move in anticipation for what's coming especially if you offering can benefit from it. If you're just an employee looking to broaden you horizon then this may be a good place to look.
AR is still in infancy and will grow to replace most visual displays and some input methods.
That's a bit far fetched even if in theory it's possible. I don't think MS give a rats ass your dog turned 7 years old or that you had rice for lunch. The clusterf*** that is indexing all that data is a deterrent of it's own.
People assume that because the OS is in control of all resource that it can just grab data. To those people I say this to you: "You have no clue how data mining works". Google has spent billions of dollars perfecting a search engine that work within a well defined framework so for your OS to do this outside a defined framework is just unthinkable in the current state of tech.
Maybe you're doing something wrong. Most people have moved away from storing important files locally because they either want access to them anywhere or like the idea of redundant storage. Cloud this, cloud that. Damn, even tax returns are online now.
Stop thinking MS gives a crap about your personal files. The only files sent to MS are the ones involved in a crash. If you aren't happy with that you can even disable that. An article was posted last week on/. explaining exactly what MS grabs and what your options are to minimize data collected.
If the lack of security--due to government mandated back doors--allows for state sponsored persecution of innocents, enemy state or NGO attacks
At the end of the day we need to pick the road that is most beneficial for society as a whole and I'm willing to believe for the moment that "evildoers" benefit far more from said backdoors than legitimate entities.
It states that these rights preexist, AND EXPLICITLY STATES THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO POWER TO INFRINGE UPON THEM.
What the constitution doesn't handle is that the preservation of ones right can result in the misery of millions.
The problem with the current state of affairs is that we don't truly know how much good truly comes from privacy of data (specifically with the state) because we've been without it for so long. Will this enable ill intentioned corporations, governments, people to do more without fear of being watched? Has this level of transparency been a deterrent? Or is it the opposite?
Yeah right. They won't even toll you how long exactly they store anything.
They did. Up to 30 days. If the data isn't relevant or redundant they may just delete right away. If you feel you need that much control I suggest you disconnect yourself from the Internet all together as I'm sure tones of your data published 5 years ago still lingers.
This 'data collection' is a gaping wound in the Microsoft beast, infected with worms. I just hope the professional user will finally realize what is happening here and leave the sinking ship.
Many IT departments are fast tracking Windows 10 deployments. Reason being that many are still on Windows 7 and those on Windows 8 want off. Windows 10 has had mostly positive feedback from its users contrary to Windows Vista and Windows 8 and 8.1.
I think your solution works good as long as the key is re-generated on a regular basis. The problem with a static keys stored locally on a device is that a copy of the device = ability to generate transactions at will. Obviously we can keep finding loop holes until we lose the will to live but what you and the other fellow suggested makes it such as smaller problem than it currently is.
So now, lets get coding and push this. Sounds like we have enough brain power and ideas to go make tones of money and become one of these evil corps/. users love to rant about.:)
You sir are fitting to work as help desk for the rest of your life. In case you didn't notice yet, one size does not fit all. If you can figured that out then you have a fighting chance at becoming a good technology advisor which will open up many doors.
What other option was there. The anti hack tool is there to safeguard the apps, next step is breaking through it and they figured it out. Luckily there's a fix.
This is why software maintenance subscriptions make sense but that doesn't justify they're high cost in most cases.
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Stop with the conspiracies.
and take your own future into your own hands, and stop expecting everyone else to fix things for you
Moving away from what we do wrong is far more complicated than 1 person. Government regulations have worked in the past to solve "DOOMSDAY" issues such as the depleting ozone layer. The refrigerants damaging the ozone were reduced and eventually removed due to government regulations. That was a very liberal thing to do and you can thank them for it. There are plenty of other examples.
The current governments appear more dedicated than they've ever been with regards to global warming. This tells me change is going to start happening much quicker than most would imagine. Getting countries like China to comply is critical and considering how heavily it affects them I believe they will comply.
Entry level programmers are paid 80k? Holy crap. So this employee is really costing the company 160k because there's going to be a number of resources pulled away from their main project to help them. How the hell do they stay competitive?
I'm not going to comment on their decision until a formal statement is made. I say this because this decision appears to be so out of line with the current marketing trends and strategies that there may be a good reason regardless of how dumb it appears.
Amazingly the Internet existed before Internet advertising. I know! Amazing but true!!
It did and do you recall what it looked like? It lacked content and where there was content you had to pay for a subscription to access said content.
So your reference to the past is like me saying "Amazingly carbon emissions existed in the past without global warming".
Bahhhhh, your opinion and the 11 fictive people you made up aren't the standard. Your also comparing changing hardware with static hardware.
The Xbox one is one set of hardware. This is much easier for any software developer to QC properly and ensure smooth software operation. It's the reason Xbox 360 and One have been such solid Microsoft products. Sure you could point out past issues or momentary flaws but nothing that stuck out at the software level. It's like Android and iOS. They've had the advantage of catering to specific hardware. Each H/W maker ensure their crap works 100% with the OS. The same goes for ongoing updates. They can stay on top of it since they don't have 1000 variation of the product to validate.
Until the content you enjoy for free goes away.
Second, they're visually obnoxious and make the site that I'm trying to visit unusable
Then don't use the service. Nobody has a gun pointed to your head. IMO the only valid reason for blocking ads is due to the risk of infection which can happen regardless of using an ad blocker.
People have to stop and think how this whole information highway is paid for. I don't care how simple the content is to create, the publisher is allowed to attempt paying himself for it. When you buy a hammer and you pay $20 for the Stanley hammer that is your choice. What is not your choice is to chose to NOT pay for said hammer. IMO same should apply here.
Fact of life, without unions workers are screwed, the last thirty years are proof positive of that. Lowering wages, reduced safety conditions, fired arbitrarily and jobs wiped out. Powerful unions pounded the crap out of corrupt politicians and corporations is what is required to clean the current mess up.
The US wages according to the graphs in this wiki have been stable for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A non adjusted list: https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/...
The number of incidents at work is continuously going down: http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/o...
Powerful unions pounded the crap out of corrupt politicians and corporations is what is required to clean the current mess up.
I didn't say unions are bad but there are unions that are cash cows instead of a useful entity. I know of a few cases close to me where unions forced the collapse of companies or even the collapse of wages and benefits. When I see unions asking for 10% raises in the middle of a recession I call NON SENSE. When a union refuses to take the time to understand company financials while making demands I call NON SENSE.
The good unions out there are the ones that work WITH the companies to both further their interests. My father in law worked for a metal processing facility in Quebec (500 workers total). The workers opted to strike. The end result of the strike was many positions cut, salaries frozen for 5 years, removal of performance bonuses and removal of seniority as a criteria for promotions. The greed, miss information or lack of competence of the union was catastrophic for the workers.
Many countries in the EU have very good work conditions without the existence of unions. If it works there it should be able to work here.
Unions in concept aren't bad but their implementation is often flawed and I blame both parties for that nonsense. Do you think it's reasonable for a manufacturer that encounters a manufacturing defect in a product going into a high rise building to have to pay 1 hours of labor for every hours 1 hour of labor the manufacturer takes to fix his product on-site?
Do you think it's reasonable for a grievance to be filed because the scheduled welder wants to go to lunch and refuses to allow the mechanic (with welding cards) to do it just because he can get 4 hours extra pay if they proceed without his consent?
Good government rules on employment are far more beneficial than any union and they apply to all instead of a select group. Lets work on increase minimum wage first.
Explain how NAFTA was bad?
If you look at a graph of employment rate of the US you can see no difference in the pattern of employment. Actually, the employment rate was already in decline 4 years before implementation of NAFTA. If anything, NAFTA has allow the US to remain competitive on the world market. As for growth, NAFTA didn't reduce growth and may have allowed it to stabilize at a time where it was in decline.
Employment rate: http://www.tradingeconomics.co...
Growth: http://www.tradingeconomics.co...
When talking TPP most people fear China. China is already everywhere in our economy but that's not true of the US in China. Their tariffs are protecting their local interest. TPP will help with remove those restrictions. So at least we will be able to sell to China a competitive prices.
Watts per square inch is more important. If I have a ultrathin solar panel and it gets that many grams/watt it probably takes a huge surface area to get that power.
You need to read the article to understand why it's an advance. For 1 the process itself creates clearer cells hence an increase in efficiency. It you want to compare conventional cells to this one you need to have comparative data as you mentioned which we do not have. In their application watts per grams is ideal because their current intended use is on flying objects such as weather balloons. Here's the part of the article:
While the solar cell in this demonstration device is not especially efficient, because of its low weight, its power-to-weight ratio is among the highest ever achieved. That’s important for applications where weight is important, such as on spacecraft or on high-altitude helium balloons used for research. Whereas a typical silicon-based solar module, whose weight is dominated by a glass cover, may produce about 15 watts of power per kilogram of weight, the new cells have already demonstrated an output of 6 watts per gram — about 400 times higher.
First, you assume I'm using windows, which I don't.
That's fine. Same philosophy applies to all major OSs
Second, without internet access you're SOL with online storage
That's hardly a good excuse these days. It's like me saying I won't rely on electricity because I can't be sure it will be up when I need it. 99.9% of the time it is up. Most will deal with the .01% and the rest will setup redundancy.
Third, how much are you willing to trust your vaporware provider?
That's a matter of picking a good storage provider. None of the major providers have disappeared and the bigger ones that struggled got swallowed by the bigger guys so nothing was lost.
I'm NOT suggesting you should rid of all hard copies locally but your odds of losing data locally is magnitudes larger than on a redundant storage with site to site backups, power backup and on-site storage expertise.
Evaluation of HoloLens:
[x] Fad
[x] Device
[x] Hype train
[x] Lacks apps
[x] Consumers (generally) don't give a fuck
[ ] Overpriced Consumer Kit
[x] Overpriced Dev Kit
[ ] Ship it!
I'm not sure if your ditching the tech as a whole or just Hololen. If your ditching the tech as a whole I hate to tell you this but you're in for a surprise. The current state of the tech is crap but it's potential is huge. If you get onboard early and become good at developing for it, it's the key to unlocking large opportunities down the road. As a software business it's just a smart move in anticipation for what's coming especially if you offering can benefit from it. If you're just an employee looking to broaden you horizon then this may be a good place to look.
AR is still in infancy and will grow to replace most visual displays and some input methods.
My 2 cents.
That's a bit far fetched even if in theory it's possible. I don't think MS give a rats ass your dog turned 7 years old or that you had rice for lunch. The clusterf*** that is indexing all that data is a deterrent of it's own.
People assume that because the OS is in control of all resource that it can just grab data. To those people I say this to you: "You have no clue how data mining works". Google has spent billions of dollars perfecting a search engine that work within a well defined framework so for your OS to do this outside a defined framework is just unthinkable in the current state of tech.
Then you're doing something wrong.
Maybe you're doing something wrong. Most people have moved away from storing important files locally because they either want access to them anywhere or like the idea of redundant storage. Cloud this, cloud that. Damn, even tax returns are online now.
Stop thinking MS gives a crap about your personal files. The only files sent to MS are the ones involved in a crash. If you aren't happy with that you can even disable that. An article was posted last week on /. explaining exactly what MS grabs and what your options are to minimize data collected.
$3000 dollars to be first one to develop for a platform that may become popular is a small price to pay.
Baby steps. Not one VR provider will nail it first go especially if they aren't willing to wait for the right moment like Apple did.
If the lack of security--due to government mandated back doors--allows for state sponsored persecution of innocents, enemy state or NGO attacks
At the end of the day we need to pick the road that is most beneficial for society as a whole and I'm willing to believe for the moment that "evildoers" benefit far more from said backdoors than legitimate entities.
It states that these rights preexist, AND EXPLICITLY STATES THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO POWER TO INFRINGE UPON THEM.
What the constitution doesn't handle is that the preservation of ones right can result in the misery of millions.
The problem with the current state of affairs is that we don't truly know how much good truly comes from privacy of data (specifically with the state) because we've been without it for so long. Will this enable ill intentioned corporations, governments, people to do more without fear of being watched? Has this level of transparency been a deterrent? Or is it the opposite?
Yeah right. They won't even toll you how long exactly they store anything.
They did. Up to 30 days. If the data isn't relevant or redundant they may just delete right away. If you feel you need that much control I suggest you disconnect yourself from the Internet all together as I'm sure tones of your data published 5 years ago still lingers.
This 'data collection' is a gaping wound in the Microsoft beast, infected with worms. I just hope the professional user will finally realize what is happening here and leave the sinking ship.
Many IT departments are fast tracking Windows 10 deployments. Reason being that many are still on Windows 7 and those on Windows 8 want off. Windows 10 has had mostly positive feedback from its users contrary to Windows Vista and Windows 8 and 8.1.
I think your solution works good as long as the key is re-generated on a regular basis. The problem with a static keys stored locally on a device is that a copy of the device = ability to generate transactions at will. Obviously we can keep finding loop holes until we lose the will to live but what you and the other fellow suggested makes it such as smaller problem than it currently is.
So now, lets get coding and push this. Sounds like we have enough brain power and ideas to go make tones of money and become one of these evil corps /. users love to rant about. :)
Happy I could help.
You sir are fitting to work as help desk for the rest of your life. In case you didn't notice yet, one size does not fit all. If you can figured that out then you have a fighting chance at becoming a good technology advisor which will open up many doors.
What other option was there. The anti hack tool is there to safeguard the apps, next step is breaking through it and they figured it out. Luckily there's a fix.
This is why software maintenance subscriptions make sense but that doesn't justify they're high cost in most cases.