if you're starting a business, just about the last thing you should be doing is worrying about is being sysadmin for your phone system - let alone doing so according to the "right" political principles and hoping you can get it to work together. Call your local phone company, get setup with them or some other turnkey provider and turn your attention towards your business.
Read the article. I know it's hard work, and harder than making ignorant and snarky comments about spelling... But you could at least try to use your brain for something other than keeping your skull inflated.
What these guys have shown is an ability to rise above what I call decision paralysis.
Congratulations! You're calling it by the name professionals have used for years. There's even a mention of it on Wikipedia, where it forms part of a larger article on the problems with decision making.
It must have been a good 10 or 15 minutes and yet there she was still trying to figure out what to get.
I'm an educated and intelligent person, and this happens even to me. OTOH, that's one of the things that Costco attributes to it's sustained popularity and growth - almost always they have just one of a given thing. (And keep in mind that in many ways, Costco is the anti-Walmart. It's customer demographics skew strongly upscale and intelligent.)
What Obama and others have figured out is that often the worst decision is no decision at all. You just pick something and go with it. If it doesn't work out, deal with it and adjust.
Nope, they haven't discovered anything - at best, it's a rediscovery of an old military principle. "A leader can be wrong, he cannot be indecisive".
One of the greatest things about the Slashdot community is its above average level of understanding for all things technical.
One of the worst things about Slashdot is that if the technical thing isn't computers, they don't generally know all that much more than the average Joe. The worst thing, is that many on Slashdot seem to mistake that narrow competency for being competent and knowledgeable about all things.
unfortunately Ender's Game didn't age well. It was awesome when I read it in the early 90's. Now, not so sure.
Yep. Ender's Game (the novel) is essentially two adolescent fantasies (Kid Saves The World From Alien Baddies, and Plucky Kids Save The World From Government Baddies) uncomfortably fused into one. When I was late adolescent in the late 70's and read the original short, I thought it trite. When I was (well) post adolescent in the mid 80's and read the novel - my opinion went down considerably. The series itself has only (IMO) descended further from that not-so-lofty perch.
But the political allegory and the (mistaken) notion that one can change the world by protesting on the 'net will sit well with a wide demographic, it'll make a mint.
Maybe I got voted up because people can see for themselves that all this is happening.
More likely you got modded up for the pointless anecdote about how you hates salesdroids, were working on (what you thought was) the "hottest" machine, and how you knew more than/stuck it "the man". Because the rest of your post is, as the grandparent says, pure fantasy.
And what do businesses worry about these days? Cost. Then they worry some more about cost. And then if they have some spare time they worry about cost.
A business that worries about nothing but cost is a business that either already dead (but doesn't know it yet), or is so far gone they might as well be. Cost is only one part of the business equation.
When you say that the cloud is nothing new, you're assuming that "cloud" is just marketspeak for "servers". Wrong. It's about SaaS and other technologies that make access to applications a kind of commodity.
And what is SaaS? It's pulling software/data from a remote server. It's not a technology. And it's not anything new.
Your three years of working on cloud systems has given you tunnel vision.
Again, a bad summary... Sarah Brightman didn't "outbid" NASA, as they weren't in competition for the same seat. Nor did she "bump" a NASA astronaut from a bought-and-paid-for seat. She paid for a spare seat more than NASA does for it's scheduled seat, in the same way that someone who buys a ticket at the last minute pays more than someone who bought a ticket three months in advance.
So no, this is no indication that there are bidding wars on the horizon. Just more bad journalism and more bad summaries.
Any course correction fuel will quickly (relatively) be used up. Geosynchronous satellites have course correction systems to keep them in the proper orbits.
Why do they think it will stay up so long? Because they've done the math, while you've just waved your hands around vigorously.
For example, geosynchronous satellites require curse correction not to stay *in* orbit, but to stay in a very precise position *in* orbit - a very significant difference.
Yes air resistance is minor at that distance from earth but they have not solved the three body problem. Tidal forces from the moon will eventually disturb the orbits and that will be the end of it. If this was not the case, we would have tiny natural moons around the earth.
Yes, eventually. But in this case, eventually works out to five billion years as the three body effects are very, very small. Your statement about "tiny natural moons" is an assumption you've (groundlessly) converted into fact. I invite you to consider the LAGEOS satellite, which orbits much lower and is expected to re-enter in a "mere" 8.4 million years.
Now if they put the disk in one of the L points they might have a chance.
Hardly. The L points are about as unstable as you can get - all it takes is a very tiny perturbation and you're ejected from orbit around the L point.
If you think that's all it is, you have not been paying attention. Informed, well-reasoned disagreements are part of what made/. what it is, or was perhaps. Sadly, those have been largely supplanted by ill-informed and logically flawed disagreements.
Nah. The same crap has been going on about as long as I've been perusing Slashdot (well over a decade). And for about the same amount of time people have been bitching about it and claiming it heralds the imminent demise of the site.
The reality is this: Slashdot has always been a haven for mediocre debate that, because of the moderation system, tends heavily towards group think and emphasizing what's popularly known over the facts.
On a dedicated camera, the lens is typically recessed.
Which is utterly irrelevant, because the issue is "flare" around a light source in the lenses FOV - something that can happen with DSLR's as well as iPhones. (DSLR's are less prone however, because their lenses typically have anti-reflection coatings.) Side light is not the issue here.
This isn't the first time in recent years this has happened... in 2009, protestors broke into SWFPAC at Naval Base Kitsap... which is where the USN keeps both D5 missiles and their warheads.
The author is deliberately leaving out information about the current status of the project in a way that is intended to further a deceptive conclusion in the reader's mind.
When the current status is somewhere between "completely unknown" and "utterly forgotten"... the conclusion the author is intending to depict is an accurate one. Whether it's functional, or on version 3.0 or version Jelly Vanilla Gummy Bar - it's failed to perform it's intended function, let alone the that hyped into existence by the tech press and geek fanbois.
The reality is that once a hyper-partisan group manages to attain any amount of power, they use it to enforce their position onto others. They become convinced that their position is the absolute and correct one. They view those disagreeing as being in denial of reality and sometimes dangerous.
The problem with these kind of communities is that they become echo chambers, where some people start to get the strange notion that their beliefs and attitudes are in the majority when in fact it is an extreme fringe group.
Though their power is usually only over their (aging) parent's computer, and sometimes over a tiny (one man) "IT" department at a tiny business - you've just described Slashdot to a "T".
That sound you heard was the OP's point going about ten feet over your head.
It was geeky and cool - forty years ago. Today? Not so much. There's nothing geeky or cool about doing something that's been done hundreds (if not thousands) of times before.
Americans grow up thinking that bicycles are these awful, miserable mechanical contraptions designed to wear out childen. Most Americans have never ridden a proper bicycle with smooth tires and geometry designed to go more than five miles.
That's just as laughably off-base as the notion that repealing helmet laws would promote bicycling.
No, all soundproofing is about absorbing vibration. One way of doing that is by increasing the mass involved. There are others, such as changing the frequency response of the structure(s) transmitting the noise.
(Ex-submariner - and reducing sound transmission was a *big* deal for us.)
Yet I am proud that they at least picked a ship that would be used for exploration and not some destroyer or cruiser.
I'm disgusted that they didn't pick a destroyer - because that's the traditional reward for sailors and marines who accomplished great things. (Even ADM Peary and ADM Hopper got tin cans named after them.) Even though this has lead to the amusing result of having ASW ships names after submarine commanders...
The same thing was true of Youtube - the version provided by Google on the web was better than the built in one (which Apple wrote back in 2007 and didn't see the need to update for this reason).
The new (Google provided) YouTube app is bare bones and much lower functionality than the old one. There may not be a 'conspiracy to exorcise Google from iOS', but with the new YouTube app and Google's announcement that they're in no hurry to provide a new Maps apps... there may be a 'conspiracy to not participate in iOS'.
I agree that that map app is flawed, but first releases of anything usually is. I have no doubt that this will be fixed in short order as Apple has gobs of money to throw at the problem and knowledge of where the problems are.
The thing is, you're looking at a short term one time fix.. but this isn't a bug in the OS where you can through money and coders at it and then throw a party when they problem is fixed. This isn't a flawed antenna design where you can throw engineers at the problem an offer free bumpers as an interim fix. It's an entirely different class of problem because maps are representative of the real world, and the real world isn't static. They not only have to fix the current snafu, but build an organization and processes that can take a fire hose of incoming changes and gracefully integrate them into the existing data. (And even with gobs of money and years of experience, Google hasn't got that quite right yet.)
There is no better beta test than a general release.
That's a developer bromide, end users take a rather different view of being used as unpaid beta testers. Especially when the product being beta tested not only doesn't work, but it's feature set is inferior to what it replaced and they don't have an easy way to revert to an earlier version.
Not to mention, if you want a public beta of your product, it should be *ready* for public beta - not barely capable of alpha.
I suspect the different approach is because Apple has finally figured out that this is a very different problem from any they've faced in the past. They can't put coders or engineers on overtime and issue a patch or change the design and offer to exchange bad phones within a few days or a few weeks.
This is a problem that's going to persist for months, possibly years - as they scramble to build what amounts to an entirely new division producing an new product line (one that existing companies have already built high expectations for) in an entirely new market. Yes, I know they're hiring folks as fast as they can get them through the line... but it still takes time to build the organization and the processes and to integrate the vast amounts of data involved. Essentially they have to re-invent the wheel (both in maps and Google's core competency in data handling) and catch up with the years of experience Google has.
Worse yet for Apple, not only do competing phones (I.E. Android) have this feature nailed flat - Google has tacitly announced they're in no hurry to return to the iPhone.
However, as is often the case when discussing law, it's just a *little* bit more complicated than that - when you read the Manual for Court Martial, you find that "enemy" is defined as an "organized belligerent body".
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You must be new here - this is Slashdot, we don't deal in facts.
That the US manufacturing segment is something like the 11th or 12th largest economy in the world all by itself is utterly irrelevant.
if you're starting a business, just about the last thing you should be doing is worrying about is being sysadmin for your phone system - let alone doing so according to the "right" political principles and hoping you can get it to work together. Call your local phone company, get setup with them or some other turnkey provider and turn your attention towards your business.
Read the article. I know it's hard work, and harder than making ignorant and snarky comments about spelling... But you could at least try to use your brain for something other than keeping your skull inflated.
Congratulations! You're calling it by the name professionals have used for years. There's even a mention of it on Wikipedia, where it forms part of a larger article on the problems with decision making.
I'm an educated and intelligent person, and this happens even to me. OTOH, that's one of the things that Costco attributes to it's sustained popularity and growth - almost always they have just one of a given thing. (And keep in mind that in many ways, Costco is the anti-Walmart. It's customer demographics skew strongly upscale and intelligent.)
Nope, they haven't discovered anything - at best, it's a rediscovery of an old military principle. "A leader can be wrong, he cannot be indecisive".
One of the worst things about Slashdot is that if the technical thing isn't computers, they don't generally know all that much more than the average Joe. The worst thing, is that many on Slashdot seem to mistake that narrow competency for being competent and knowledgeable about all things.
Richard Feynmann was doing this back in the 30's and 40's....
Yep. Ender's Game (the novel) is essentially two adolescent fantasies (Kid Saves The World From Alien Baddies, and Plucky Kids Save The World From Government Baddies) uncomfortably fused into one. When I was late adolescent in the late 70's and read the original short, I thought it trite. When I was (well) post adolescent in the mid 80's and read the novel - my opinion went down considerably. The series itself has only (IMO) descended further from that not-so-lofty perch.
But the political allegory and the (mistaken) notion that one can change the world by protesting on the 'net will sit well with a wide demographic, it'll make a mint.
More likely you got modded up for the pointless anecdote about how you hates salesdroids, were working on (what you thought was) the "hottest" machine, and how you knew more than/stuck it "the man". Because the rest of your post is, as the grandparent says, pure fantasy.
A business that worries about nothing but cost is a business that either already dead (but doesn't know it yet), or is so far gone they might as well be. Cost is only one part of the business equation.
And what is SaaS? It's pulling software/data from a remote server. It's not a technology. And it's not anything new.
Your three years of working on cloud systems has given you tunnel vision.
Again, a bad summary... Sarah Brightman didn't "outbid" NASA, as they weren't in competition for the same seat. Nor did she "bump" a NASA astronaut from a bought-and-paid-for seat. She paid for a spare seat more than NASA does for it's scheduled seat, in the same way that someone who buys a ticket at the last minute pays more than someone who bought a ticket three months in advance.
So no, this is no indication that there are bidding wars on the horizon. Just more bad journalism and more bad summaries.
Why do they think it will stay up so long? Because they've done the math, while you've just waved your hands around vigorously.
For example, geosynchronous satellites require curse correction not to stay *in* orbit, but to stay in a very precise position *in* orbit - a very significant difference.
Yes, eventually. But in this case, eventually works out to five billion years as the three body effects are very, very small. Your statement about "tiny natural moons" is an assumption you've (groundlessly) converted into fact. I invite you to consider the LAGEOS satellite, which orbits much lower and is expected to re-enter in a "mere" 8.4 million years.
Hardly. The L points are about as unstable as you can get - all it takes is a very tiny perturbation and you're ejected from orbit around the L point.
Nah. The same crap has been going on about as long as I've been perusing Slashdot (well over a decade). And for about the same amount of time people have been bitching about it and claiming it heralds the imminent demise of the site.
The reality is this: Slashdot has always been a haven for mediocre debate that, because of the moderation system, tends heavily towards group think and emphasizing what's popularly known over the facts.
No, the issue is not "looking directly into the sun". I can do so with my camera's, and while they will flare - they will not alter the color.
Which is utterly irrelevant, because the issue is "flare" around a light source in the lenses FOV - something that can happen with DSLR's as well as iPhones. (DSLR's are less prone however, because their lenses typically have anti-reflection coatings.) Side light is not the issue here.
This isn't the first time in recent years this has happened... in 2009, protestors broke into SWFPAC at Naval Base Kitsap... which is where the USN keeps both D5 missiles and their warheads.
When the current status is somewhere between "completely unknown" and "utterly forgotten"... the conclusion the author is intending to depict is an accurate one. Whether it's functional, or on version 3.0 or version Jelly Vanilla Gummy Bar - it's failed to perform it's intended function, let alone the that hyped into existence by the tech press and geek fanbois.
Though their power is usually only over their (aging) parent's computer, and sometimes over a tiny (one man) "IT" department at a tiny business - you've just described Slashdot to a "T".
That sound you heard was the OP's point going about ten feet over your head.
It was geeky and cool - forty years ago. Today? Not so much. There's nothing geeky or cool about doing something that's been done hundreds (if not thousands) of times before.
That's just as laughably off-base as the notion that repealing helmet laws would promote bicycling.
No, all soundproofing is about absorbing vibration. One way of doing that is by increasing the mass involved. There are others, such as changing the frequency response of the structure(s) transmitting the noise.
(Ex-submariner - and reducing sound transmission was a *big* deal for us.)
The unpopulated bits of which are places no sane person want to land.
I'm disgusted that they didn't pick a destroyer - because that's the traditional reward for sailors and marines who accomplished great things. (Even ADM Peary and ADM Hopper got tin cans named after them.) Even though this has lead to the amusing result of having ASW ships names after submarine commanders...
The new (Google provided) YouTube app is bare bones and much lower functionality than the old one. There may not be a 'conspiracy to exorcise Google from iOS', but with the new YouTube app and Google's announcement that they're in no hurry to provide a new Maps apps... there may be a 'conspiracy to not participate in iOS'.
The thing is, you're looking at a short term one time fix.. but this isn't a bug in the OS where you can through money and coders at it and then throw a party when they problem is fixed. This isn't a flawed antenna design where you can throw engineers at the problem an offer free bumpers as an interim fix. It's an entirely different class of problem because maps are representative of the real world, and the real world isn't static. They not only have to fix the current snafu, but build an organization and processes that can take a fire hose of incoming changes and gracefully integrate them into the existing data. (And even with gobs of money and years of experience, Google hasn't got that quite right yet.)
That's a developer bromide, end users take a rather different view of being used as unpaid beta testers. Especially when the product being beta tested not only doesn't work, but it's feature set is inferior to what it replaced and they don't have an easy way to revert to an earlier version.
Not to mention, if you want a public beta of your product, it should be *ready* for public beta - not barely capable of alpha.
I suspect the different approach is because Apple has finally figured out that this is a very different problem from any they've faced in the past. They can't put coders or engineers on overtime and issue a patch or change the design and offer to exchange bad phones within a few days or a few weeks.
This is a problem that's going to persist for months, possibly years - as they scramble to build what amounts to an entirely new division producing an new product line (one that existing companies have already built high expectations for) in an entirely new market. Yes, I know they're hiring folks as fast as they can get them through the line... but it still takes time to build the organization and the processes and to integrate the vast amounts of data involved. Essentially they have to re-invent the wheel (both in maps and Google's core competency in data handling) and catch up with the years of experience Google has.
Worse yet for Apple, not only do competing phones (I.E. Android) have this feature nailed flat - Google has tacitly announced they're in no hurry to return to the iPhone.
However, as is often the case when discussing law, it's just a *little* bit more complicated than that - when you read the Manual for Court Martial, you find that "enemy" is defined as an "organized belligerent body".