More and more people work from home every year. Its reasonable to assume that some of them used to cycle to work. That may represent a part of the decline.
This is no surprise. When we surrendered the keys to the kingdom to MBAs and spreadsheet weilding accountants any humanity in our corporations began quickly evaporating. There is no element of humanity to anything that either are taught. The âethicsâ(TM) of an accountant are tied to how to play fast and loose with the rules but to never actually cross the line. MBAs are specifically trained to believe that the only reality is in spreadsheets and that any impact on lives by the numbers coming from them is incidental and to be ignored.
The GM case also shows what happens when an organization (the UAW) gets greedy and surrenders their ability to influence their own future in return for money now.
Pence voted for the Patriot Act. That tells me all I have to know about his concerns over privacy.
I basically consider everyone who voted for it a criminal. I know they'll never be prosecuted for such an action but I can at least sentence them to life without my vote. This includes Hillary (but not Bernie.)
Maybe can eliminate shared libraries, dynamic linking and other archaic constructs that came into existence to protect scarce resources like RAM and disk space. Let's put each process in its own 'jail' like existence with closely monitored mechanisms for communication between processes.
If it comes from a mammal it is milk. If it comes from a plant it is juice.
The same should be true for cheese. If it is made from mammalian milk it should be called cheese. Anything else needs a different label. Labeling something of plant origin cheese or milk is would be like labeling a vegetable protein 'beef' or 'chicken'; its deceptive.
This looks like a market that is ripe for some serious innovation. This seems to be mainly about the turbines and the blades because there's no apparent reason why the towers would need removal. (The article also seems a bit anti-wind. Its not the most reliable or convenient source and I can agree with being anti subsidy but they are in place and should be used and maintained.) In any event this presents an opportunity for someone to come up with better turbines, better blades, automated maintenance, whatever. I would think that there would be plenty of $ out there for someone who can seriously lower the operational costs associated with wind.
The imperfection of officiating has always been a part of sports and the shift to video replay of almost every call has made the games barely watchable. Another factor is removing weather, sun, wind as game influencing factors by moving outdoor games inside. If the game was originally designed to be played outside it should still be played outside. Couple all of this with weird (ie non natural surfaces) and you end up with games that barely resemble what they looked like 50 years ago. Baseball has probably done the best job of not straying too far afield other than the few teams that play in domes (and shouldnâ(TM)t.) I would love to see baseball, football, soccer, tennis and hockey all stay outdoors where they belong.
Just because we havenâ(TM)t seen it, doesnâ(TM)t mean it isnâ(TM)t there.
That being said, perhaps every time âintelligentâ(TM) life develops and becomes more and more (vulnerably) dependent on technology it ultimately either wipes itself out or nature comes along and does it. Look how vulnerable we are now to something as simple as a large solar storm. Wipe out the solid state circuitry on this planet and see how long we last (as intelligent life.)
Twitter has been rudderless since day one. Monetization was never a viable play. They just depended on the early trendiness of social media to make their mark. Then, âwâ(TM), âoâ(TM) and trump come along, dragging massive polarization with them and suddenly twitter âseemsâ(TM) relevant.
The article says that suicide rate increases have traditionally correlated with economic downturns but I wonder how much incremental impact the isolating effect of social media has now had on the rates? Along with the isolation social media also enables more intense bullying that also drives some to suicide. Between this and the fact that our new ânormalâ(TM) economy just isnâ(TM)t that great could this increase be just a bump to a new normal?
I think that in addition to being willing to delete, they have to be willing to seriously protect it so it doesnâ(TM)t end up in the hands of researchers who can sell it to political or other organizations.
Oh surely not! If they can't accept the 'secondhand' proof available from 60 years of space and near-space exploration, then how could they accept religious concepts without a personal experience of having actually seen and dealt with a supreme being?
It does beg the question of how they could believe in bacteria or atoms or the Marianas Trench since they haven't personally seen them either...
I blame this on the perfect storm of Financial management taking over the business leadership role combined with the âoeour current quarterâ(TM)s results matter more than anything elseâ approach of business today. Technology played an important role in enabling Accountants/Financial folks to hold the reins. With tools like spreadsheets and data warehouses we have given the, the keys to the kingdom. The problem is that most of them are MBAs and they are trained to 1) believe it unquestionably once itâ(TM)s in a spreadsheet and 2) to be totally disconnected from both the innovation and human impact of the business. Why innovate? Will it help the current quarter?nope? No can do. All of those folks losing their jobs to improve the (non GAAP) results for the current quarter are just numbers, etc.and besides, itâ(TM)s my job to reduce expenses (since that is the easy way to improve earnings.)
At the same time, in todayâ(TM)s business environment the markets only care about the current quarterâ(TM)s results and the regulators really only care about prior quarters. Thereâ(TM)s definitely no motivation to look ahead. It doesnâ(TM)t matter if what you are doing will destroy the company in a few quarters, only this quarter matters. I used to have a boss whoâ(TM)s background was as a C-level at lots of tech companies and his favorite saying was âoethis is the most important quarter in the history of the company.â
As long as the comp plans of management continue to reward them primarily for the current quarter and the markets and the regulators agree with that approach, this isnâ(TM)t going to change. Right now success in business is defined as growth in revenues and (in a few industries) earnings. That means that non productive actions like mergers that combine existing revenues and reduce expenses are defined as success.
We need to rethink the whole way we define and reward success in a business.
While a desire to blunt competition is definitely a part of this I would submit that the massive growth in the number of lawyers and litigation is also a big piece. Since 1950 the population of the US has roughly doubled while the number of lawyers has gone up by 500% (https://associatesmind.com/2013/08/19/historical-growth-rate-of-lawyers-in-usa-chart/ ) Itâ(TM)s a lot easier to file a lawsuit if you can point at rules not being followed. At the same time, if youâ(TM)re trying to prevent lawsuits you try and make sure that people know the rules... of course, knowing the rules and being able to do a good job is not the same thing so in the long run, this mainly helps the legal profession.
There was huge oppostion to doing this to Microsoft 20 years ago and not doing it didnâ(TM)t work out well for the public interest or Microsoft. I suspect that similar results will happen with these companies. Theyâ(TM)ll collapse from the inside, much like Microsoft did from a combination of no vision and no hubris.
If you donâ(TM)t understand how they are compâ(TM)d and which product sales make them the most money then their advice is at Best suspect and probably worthless. That being said I would guess a lot of people are going to wait out the X and see how it shakes out. New interface, new security, new case. Thereâ(TM)s a lot of Delta in the product to deal with.
Who knows? Maybe this will prompt some of Intel's customers to move in other directions and super real innovation in CPU design and development. Everything that's happened to CPUs in the past 20 years has been a serious of mundane, incremental improvements. Intel has had a stranglehold on the industry and as a result o giant innovations have occurred. It would be interesting to see larger companies like Apple or HP fab their own CPUs. OTOH, its probably convenient for them to be able to blame it on Intel and get discounts on future purchases.
Plastics are complex hydrocarbons. Seems like you should be able to crack and refine them. Then make more plastic, fuels, etc. it may be expensive to start but as the world switches to more and more renewable power the costs for cracking should come down. I suppose then that the big problem will be NIMBY issues
Based on my experience with I.T. offshoring in India, I laughed out loud when I read that 1% represents the under performing employees. Perhaps its a nuance of the language and underperforming has no relationship to to good service or solving problems there.
The idea of totally electronic voting tells me that people care about their vote about as much as they care about their privacy. We see how poorly secured and hackable all of our systems are everyday. If someone wants a computer screen to facilitate the creation of a paper ballot and (Maybe) to provide an alternate count to check against I think most IT professionals would support that.
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Combining all of these sensor capabilities with a 128 core Jetson Nano should offer some interesting monitoring opportunities.
It would be really awesome to build a community around this.
More and more people work from home every year. Its reasonable to assume that some of them used to cycle to work. That may represent a part of the decline.
This is no surprise. When we surrendered the keys to the kingdom to MBAs and spreadsheet weilding accountants any humanity in our corporations began quickly evaporating. There is no element of humanity to anything that either are taught. The âethicsâ(TM) of an accountant are tied to how to play fast and loose with the rules but to never actually cross the line. MBAs are specifically trained to believe that the only reality is in spreadsheets and that any impact on lives by the numbers coming from them is incidental and to be ignored.
The GM case also shows what happens when an organization (the UAW) gets greedy and surrenders their ability to influence their own future in return for money now.
Pence voted for the Patriot Act. That tells me all I have to know about his concerns over privacy.
I basically consider everyone who voted for it a criminal. I know they'll never be prosecuted for such an action but I can at least sentence them to life without my vote. This includes Hillary (but not Bernie.)
Maybe can eliminate shared libraries, dynamic linking and other archaic constructs that came into existence to protect scarce resources like RAM and disk space. Let's put each process in its own 'jail' like existence with closely monitored mechanisms for communication between processes.
If it comes from a mammal it is milk. If it comes from a plant it is juice.
The same should be true for cheese. If it is made from mammalian milk it should be called cheese. Anything else needs a different label. Labeling something of plant origin cheese or milk is would be like labeling a vegetable protein 'beef' or 'chicken'; its deceptive.
This looks like a market that is ripe for some serious innovation. This seems to be mainly about the turbines and the blades because there's no apparent reason why the towers would need removal. (The article also seems a bit anti-wind. Its not the most reliable or convenient source and I can agree with being anti subsidy but they are in place and should be used and maintained.) In any event this presents an opportunity for someone to come up with better turbines, better blades, automated maintenance, whatever. I would think that there would be plenty of $ out there for someone who can seriously lower the operational costs associated with wind.
The imperfection of officiating has always been a part of sports and the shift to video replay of almost every call has made the games barely watchable. Another factor is removing weather, sun, wind as game influencing factors by moving outdoor games inside. If the game was originally designed to be played outside it should still be played outside. Couple all of this with weird (ie non natural surfaces) and you end up with games that barely resemble what they looked like 50 years ago. Baseball has probably done the best job of not straying too far afield other than the few teams that play in domes (and shouldnâ(TM)t.) I would love to see baseball, football, soccer, tennis and hockey all stay outdoors where they belong.
Just because we havenâ(TM)t seen it, doesnâ(TM)t mean it isnâ(TM)t there.
That being said, perhaps every time âintelligentâ(TM) life develops and becomes more and more (vulnerably) dependent on technology it ultimately either wipes itself out or nature comes along and does it. Look how vulnerable we are now to something as simple as a large solar storm. Wipe out the solid state circuitry on this planet and see how long we last (as intelligent life.)
Twitter has been rudderless since day one. Monetization was never a viable play. They just depended on the early trendiness of social media to make their mark. Then, âwâ(TM), âoâ(TM) and trump come along, dragging massive polarization with them and suddenly twitter âseemsâ(TM) relevant.
The article says that suicide rate increases have traditionally correlated with economic downturns but I wonder how much incremental impact the isolating effect of social media has now had on the rates? Along with the isolation social media also enables more intense bullying that also drives some to suicide. Between this and the fact that our new ânormalâ(TM) economy just isnâ(TM)t that great could this increase be just a bump to a new normal?
I think that in addition to being willing to delete, they have to be willing to seriously protect it so it doesnâ(TM)t end up in the hands of researchers who can sell it to political or other organizations.
They do this because.they.can.
Just like religions.
It's bizarre, isn't it?
Oh surely not! If they can't accept the 'secondhand' proof available from 60 years of space and near-space exploration, then how could they accept religious concepts without a personal experience of having actually seen and dealt with a supreme being?
It does beg the question of how they could believe in bacteria or atoms or the Marianas Trench since they haven't personally seen them either...
I blame this on the perfect storm of Financial management taking over the business leadership role combined with the âoeour current quarterâ(TM)s results matter more than anything elseâ approach of business today. Technology played an important role in enabling Accountants/Financial folks to hold the reins. With tools like spreadsheets and data warehouses we have given the, the keys to the kingdom. The problem is that most of them are MBAs and they are trained to 1) believe it unquestionably once itâ(TM)s in a spreadsheet and 2) to be totally disconnected from both the innovation and human impact of the business. Why innovate? Will it help the current quarter?nope? No can do. All of those folks losing their jobs to improve the (non GAAP) results for the current quarter are just numbers, etc.and besides, itâ(TM)s my job to reduce expenses (since that is the easy way to improve earnings.)
At the same time, in todayâ(TM)s business environment the markets only care about the current quarterâ(TM)s results and the regulators really only care about prior quarters. Thereâ(TM)s definitely no motivation to look ahead. It doesnâ(TM)t matter if what you are doing will destroy the company in a few quarters, only this quarter matters. I used to have a boss whoâ(TM)s background was as a C-level at lots of tech companies and his favorite saying was âoethis is the most important quarter in the history of the company.â
As long as the comp plans of management continue to reward them primarily for the current quarter and the markets and the regulators agree with that approach, this isnâ(TM)t going to change. Right now success in business is defined as growth in revenues and (in a few industries) earnings. That means that non productive actions like mergers that combine existing revenues and reduce expenses are defined as success.
We need to rethink the whole way we define and reward success in a business.
This story keeps popping up every year or two. Iâ(TM)ll need to see something more official from Apple before I waste many cycles on this.
Nothing to see here. Move along...
As long as they retain the liability to have to pay it back (regardless of financial state or bankruptcy) then its not that big an issue.
While a desire to blunt competition is definitely a part of this I would submit that the massive growth in the number of lawyers and litigation is also a big piece. Since 1950 the population of the US has roughly doubled while the number of lawyers has gone up by 500% (https://associatesmind.com/2013/08/19/historical-growth-rate-of-lawyers-in-usa-chart/ ) Itâ(TM)s a lot easier to file a lawsuit if you can point at rules not being followed. At the same time, if youâ(TM)re trying to prevent lawsuits you try and make sure that people know the rules... of course, knowing the rules and being able to do a good job is not the same thing so in the long run, this mainly helps the legal profession.
There was huge oppostion to doing this to Microsoft 20 years ago and not doing it didnâ(TM)t work out well for the public interest or Microsoft. I suspect that similar results will happen with these companies. Theyâ(TM)ll collapse from the inside, much like Microsoft did from a combination of no vision and no hubris.
If you donâ(TM)t understand how they are compâ(TM)d and which product sales make them the most money then their advice is at Best suspect and probably worthless. That being said I would guess a lot of people are going to wait out the X and see how it shakes out. New interface, new security, new case. Thereâ(TM)s a lot of Delta in the product to deal with.
Who knows? Maybe this will prompt some of Intel's customers to move in other directions and super real innovation in CPU design and development. Everything that's happened to CPUs in the past 20 years has been a serious of mundane, incremental improvements. Intel has had a stranglehold on the industry and as a result o giant innovations have occurred. It would be interesting to see larger companies like Apple or HP fab their own CPUs. OTOH, its probably convenient for them to be able to blame it on Intel and get discounts on future purchases.
Plastics are complex hydrocarbons. Seems like you should be able to crack and refine them. Then make more plastic, fuels, etc. it may be expensive to start but as the world switches to more and more renewable power the costs for cracking should come down. I suppose then that the big problem will be NIMBY issues
Based on my experience with I.T. offshoring in India, I laughed out loud when I read that 1% represents the under performing employees. Perhaps its a nuance of the language and underperforming has no relationship to to good service or solving problems there.
As long as computers are involved in the tabulation or transmission of election results the concept of secure elections is laughable.
The idea of totally electronic voting tells me that people care about their vote about as much as they care about their privacy. We see how poorly secured and hackable all of our systems are everyday. If someone wants a computer screen to facilitate the creation of a paper ballot and (Maybe) to provide an alternate count to check against I think most IT professionals would support that.