where / wear ( / we're - debatable as an alternative pronounciation gives another set of homophones - we're / weir)
were / whir
There are a hell of a lot of homophones in the English language. And don't even get me started on homographs... they are an absurd language construct IMO.
Businesses can stop being "Ubered" (seriously?) by:
Offering maximum value (price, convenience, quality,...) to the customer. If you are the customer's best choice your business will thrive. If not, you (probably) won't.
This hasn't changed since the dawn of human commerce.
And which browser is likely to be the most "secure"? Hint: it won't be the one that's totally in thrall to ABC Megacorp. Even if theirs is pretty secure, how do you know that? Take their word for it? Nobody is allowed to look at the sources. You're completely at their mercy.
It's not ideal, but to say you cannot deduce (to a high probability) from other methods is just silly. Also for any moderate complexity program, having the source doesn't give you all seeing ability to spot bugs, only obvious ones.
Extensibility, and to a lesser extent resource usage also work that way. If users are free to add in things they want themselves, then by definition it will be extensible. If there's some kind of outlandish resource issue, and users can fix it, they will. That's the cool thing about "ownership", it helps cover all the little nitty things that might hit my radar as an issue if they got out of hand. So if I worry about ownership when I first select my go-to browser, I don't have to constantly worry about all the other crap.
Another "great in theory" point. Just because you have the source doesn't mean you can fix the problem. If I architect the browser in such a way that a complete rewrite is needed to stop it being a resource hog, how are you at an advantage by having my program. I would value a program that is working already over one that needs a complete re-write.
I am not arguing against open source. But when people say "if it is open source then all our problems will be fixed", they risk damaging the reputation of open source when the programs (frequently) fail to live up to this high bar.
To produce cars quickly in high volume, the costs are high.
To produce a car over a long period: use 3D printers, local fitters and turners, suppliers for some pre-arranged COTS items, and a lot of your own time. Cost considerably reduced.
Cost savings: don't pay for large auto company's executive salaries, legal departments, marketing, shipping across the world, dealership networks, dealership marketing,...
It is just the natural evolution of the kit car industry. If it wasn't viable, they would've died out long ago.
So they park them everywhere evenly to start with, and over time they cluster into groupings. How do they fix that? Will they have a fleet of drivers picking cars up to ensure spread of cars?
I will tell my boss we don't need to conform to chemical handling processes anymore because we can just buy "natural hydrogen peroxide" for our lab. I'm surely going to get a raise for this!
profit-maximizing algorithms and the staff has nothing to do with it.
pedantic, but some of the staff (staff includes everyone up to CEO) either worked on or at least signed off on the algorithm, so it has something to do with them
They seem to pick ones which they know will be successful, not just in raising the funds, but in actually delivering to backers.
Bullsh*t
If they KNEW which ones would be successful, they would be (very rich) venture capitalists, and not working as staff in a crowdfunding company.
The staff pick here only appears to have that quality. It is largely a self fulfilling thing. Those projects that get promoted will get the funds and media interest which will greatly increase their chances, and plenty of staff picks still don't deliver.
In a breakthrough like this, you "win" by leeching.
As researchers solve the intermediate steps, they will publish (no-one will believe unverified results) in order to get continued funding. This research will not be government top secret so you will only ever be one step behind. One party will make the final breakthrough but others won't be far behind. Yes there could be patents, but that won't stop other governments for something like this.
I'm just glad there are still governments that aren't this cynical (or don't mind paying for world wide benefit).
Actually the GP (accidentally) raises a subtle but important point. Apple is losing its infallibility, and customers are the beneficiaries.
Don't get me wrong, I think it is great they are doing the correct thing and recalling sub-par hardware, but previously under Jobs Apple's position of dominance was so great they could afford to treat their customers with disrespect. Now I think people view alternatives as acceptable, so Apple is a little less douchebag.
Just checking you didn't accidentally use the wrong units (KW maybe?)
If you are installing 20MW then you are definitely up to the scale of a reasonably serious commercial venture. I would imagine with the money needed for that kind of investment, you would've already paid a consultant to work out the financial feasibility and the optimal installation location.
This tool is for residential rooftop solar which is hobby scale compared to yours.
When a site proves for a (long) period they are responsible with the ads they serve, (both style and scripting), then I am likely to unblock them. If not, then all defenses up.
And get rid of those fucking audio ads as well. I don't need some dick yelling at me about how to get free sex whilst I'm searching for Dora the explorer for a friends kid.
Did you search for:
Dora exploring her sexuality? Dora self exploring? Dora does exploring? Dora + safari suit + adventure? Sluts gone wild?
Doesn't matter what is the name of the company at the start, and what is the subject of the tracking (if it is not a DIRECT function of their job), this is a bad idea (or has the potential to be abused and become a bad idea).
No one ever said anything about tracking you at home, or while away from the office
And we are only paid to work Monday to Friday 9-5, ie a full time week. So how is that overtime and answering work emails while at home going?
More and more jobs are 24/7 with around 40 of those at the office. So just like expectations shifted in work hours, expectations could shift here. Therefore it is important to discuss this angle with any new idea about your role as an employee.
Agree with high cost items, like a 20K robot, but even driverless cars still cost money to operate and might not be feasible for lower cost items.
You have to allocate fuel, servicing, administration (scheduling, servicing, etc). Centralising assets only makes sense where the cost of distribution is low enough. Driverless cars remove the labour cost, but do nothing for physical distance, time, traffic congestion,...
But in reality the Internet speed (for a given 2 entities) is the average bandwidth between their 2 connection points as measured over a statistically significant number of transfers.
As others stated thanks to cat videos and porn, this is a lot slower than even modest dedicated hardware.
I would venture to guess that if we could efficiently distribute items only when needed that we could reduce our consumption of things like shopvacs, ladders, ext cords, by 90+% because a vast majority of the stuff in the average house is not used on a daily basis and some of it sits and rots for months between uses.
One flaw - in modern society we look at efficiency in $ terms.
Cost of purchase and storage vs cost of logistics and transport. Most things will be cheaper to purchase and store.
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homophones:
where / wear ( / we're - debatable as an alternative pronounciation gives another set of homophones - we're / weir)
were / whir
There are a hell of a lot of homophones in the English language. And don't even get me started on homographs... they are an absurd language construct IMO.
"Break the law."
"I think that might be against the law. Lets discuss with Compliance and Legal, and get their professional guidance."
"Break the law."
"Legal say that's illegal"
Finished in the real world:
"Ok. Sorry, please continue what you were doing."
(next day)
"We are restructuring and you are no longer required, and Bob Jones is doing that thing"
Businesses can stop being "Ubered" (seriously?) by:
Offering maximum value (price, convenience, quality, ...) to the customer. If you are the customer's best choice your business will thrive. If not, you (probably) won't.
This hasn't changed since the dawn of human commerce.
What a waste of time article.
And which browser is likely to be the most "secure"? Hint: it won't be the one that's totally in thrall to ABC Megacorp. Even if theirs is pretty secure, how do you know that? Take their word for it? Nobody is allowed to look at the sources. You're completely at their mercy.
It's not ideal, but to say you cannot deduce (to a high probability) from other methods is just silly. Also for any moderate complexity program, having the source doesn't give you all seeing ability to spot bugs, only obvious ones.
Extensibility, and to a lesser extent resource usage also work that way. If users are free to add in things they want themselves, then by definition it will be extensible. If there's some kind of outlandish resource issue, and users can fix it, they will. That's the cool thing about "ownership", it helps cover all the little nitty things that might hit my radar as an issue if they got out of hand. So if I worry about ownership when I first select my go-to browser, I don't have to constantly worry about all the other crap.
Another "great in theory" point.
Just because you have the source doesn't mean you can fix the problem. If I architect the browser in such a way that a complete rewrite is needed to stop it being a resource hog, how are you at an advantage by having my program. I would value a program that is working already over one that needs a complete re-write.
I am not arguing against open source. But when people say "if it is open source then all our problems will be fixed", they risk damaging the reputation of open source when the programs (frequently) fail to live up to this high bar.
To produce cars quickly in high volume, the costs are high.
To produce a car over a long period: use 3D printers, local fitters and turners, suppliers for some pre-arranged COTS items, and a lot of your own time. Cost considerably reduced.
Cost savings: don't pay for large auto company's executive salaries, legal departments, marketing, shipping across the world, dealership networks, dealership marketing, ...
It is just the natural evolution of the kit car industry. If it wasn't viable, they would've died out long ago.
So you care about compatibility and ownership only?
I would've said number 1 concern is security (and number 2 as well).
Also extensibility, resource usage, ...
The wind is a finite resource and all these wind farms are slowing the wind down! /sarcasm (just in case someone's filter is broken)
So they park them everywhere evenly to start with, and over time they cluster into groupings. How do they fix that? Will they have a fleet of drivers picking cars up to ensure spread of cars?
I don't need math to build a bridge or skyscraper because some googling and youtube how to videos allowed me to do some home renovations.
Worldwide we are heading for idiocracy.
So you are saying... If you want to succeed you should create a successful looking product.
That's some good advice.
Great news!
I will tell my boss we don't need to conform to chemical handling processes anymore because we can just buy "natural hydrogen peroxide" for our lab. I'm surely going to get a raise for this!
profit-maximizing algorithms and the staff has nothing to do with it.
pedantic, but some of the staff (staff includes everyone up to CEO) either worked on or at least signed off on the algorithm, so it has something to do with them
They seem to pick ones which they know will be successful, not just in raising the funds, but in actually delivering to backers.
Bullsh*t
If they KNEW which ones would be successful, they would be (very rich) venture capitalists, and not working as staff in a crowdfunding company.
The staff pick here only appears to have that quality. It is largely a self fulfilling thing. Those projects that get promoted will get the funds and media interest which will greatly increase their chances, and plenty of staff picks still don't deliver.
In a breakthrough like this, you "win" by leeching.
As researchers solve the intermediate steps, they will publish (no-one will believe unverified results) in order to get continued funding. This research will not be government top secret so you will only ever be one step behind. One party will make the final breakthrough but others won't be far behind. Yes there could be patents, but that won't stop other governments for something like this.
I'm just glad there are still governments that aren't this cynical (or don't mind paying for world wide benefit).
Actually the GP (accidentally) raises a subtle but important point. Apple is losing its infallibility, and customers are the beneficiaries.
Don't get me wrong, I think it is great they are doing the correct thing and recalling sub-par hardware, but previously under Jobs Apple's position of dominance was so great they could afford to treat their customers with disrespect. Now I think people view alternatives as acceptable, so Apple is a little less douchebag.
C'mon dice... seriously.
Just checking you didn't accidentally use the wrong units (KW maybe?)
If you are installing 20MW then you are definitely up to the scale of a reasonably serious commercial venture. I would imagine with the money needed for that kind of investment, you would've already paid a consultant to work out the financial feasibility and the optimal installation location.
This tool is for residential rooftop solar which is hobby scale compared to yours.
When a site proves for a (long) period they are responsible with the ads they serve, (both style and scripting), then I am likely to unblock them. If not, then all defenses up.
And get rid of those fucking audio ads as well. I don't need some dick yelling at me about how to get free sex whilst I'm searching for Dora the explorer for a friends kid.
Did you search for:
Dora exploring her sexuality?
Dora self exploring?
Dora does exploring?
Dora + safari suit + adventure?
Sluts gone wild?
No.
Doesn't matter what is the name of the company at the start, and what is the subject of the tracking (if it is not a DIRECT function of their job), this is a bad idea (or has the potential to be abused and become a bad idea).
No one ever said anything about tracking you at home, or while away from the office
And we are only paid to work Monday to Friday 9-5, ie a full time week. So how is that overtime and answering work emails while at home going?
More and more jobs are 24/7 with around 40 of those at the office. So just like expectations shifted in work hours, expectations could shift here. Therefore it is important to discuss this angle with any new idea about your role as an employee.
Great. Just what we need. If blanket C&D letters weren't bad enough.
"We have been attacked, they are stealing all our property, we are going to nuke everyone's computers to destroy the data they stole!!!11!!!"
(late reply... sorry)
Agree with high cost items, like a 20K robot, but even driverless cars still cost money to operate and might not be feasible for lower cost items.
You have to allocate fuel, servicing, administration (scheduling, servicing, etc). Centralising assets only makes sense where the cost of distribution is low enough. Driverless cars remove the labour cost, but do nothing for physical distance, time, traffic congestion, ...
But in reality the Internet speed (for a given 2 entities) is the average bandwidth between their 2 connection points as measured over a statistically significant number of transfers.
As others stated thanks to cat videos and porn, this is a lot slower than even modest dedicated hardware.
I would venture to guess that if we could efficiently distribute items only when needed that we could reduce our consumption of things like shopvacs, ladders, ext cords, by 90+% because a vast majority of the stuff in the average house is not used on a daily basis and some of it sits and rots for months between uses.
One flaw - in modern society we look at efficiency in $ terms.
Cost of purchase and storage vs cost of logistics and transport. Most things will be cheaper to purchase and store.