You don't need to use C for IoT. Probably the most interesting IoT SoC vendor around right now (Electric Imp) is using an interpreted language (Squirrel) to enable some pretty low level programming, and make it trivial to develop IoT apps.
Yep, applying "insanity defense" for a criminal who does something radically against the mores (and morals) of a society is just as wrong as applying the insanity argument to someone making a technological breakthrough (luckily that's mostly left to history now) or in any way thinking radically differently from the general population. It's possible to disagree or just disregard societies' morals and laws and still be sane - that's basically one definition of a "criminal"...
It sounds awful today, but historically rape and murder have not even been considered particularly evil in some cultures or situations. In fact, that mentality is still around today, and considered in some cultures an act of honor.
A murdering rapist is a totally batshit crazy insane individual. So far off the reservation there is not even a planet in sight. No standard of behaviour can be expected from such a person. Probably cannot really comprehend what he's doing.
Hearing stories about the atrocities of war involving these same activities - and worse, even though that's often hard to imagine - you'd either have to conclude (possibly hundreds of) thousands of soldiers were batshit crazy insane. Otherwise maybe being perfectly sane but bereft of morals (or having their societal moral compass stripped from them by training, indoctrination, or group mentality) is the much more likely option.
I see the term gaslighting being thrown around so much in the last year, but most people really don't seem to understand what it means. This is not gaslighting. Gaslighting is *literally* trying to convince the *victim* that they are insane or misremembering real incidents or facts.
In this case their point is not to make the victim think they are crazy or wrong, it's to convince others that they are screwing things up. That's just basic bullying, undermining, or backstabbing. Not gaslighting.
In this case and in this market, it almost aways is a, and THE option. Either the article poster is competent and can get a job, or he isn't and should stop complaining...
The submission adds that "Raising things through the official channels is out of the question, as is confronting the colleague in question directly
If you're not willing to use official channels and you're not willing to confront the person directly then you need to leave. That's it.
In fact, the post unintentionally answered its own question:
Raising things through the official channels is out of the question, as is confronting the colleague in question directly as he is considered something of a superstar engineer who has been in the company for decades and has much more influence than any ordinary engineer." So leave [your best suggestions]
The PET shipped a few hundred units by the end of '77 after launching in October. The Apple II shipped in June, and had sold twice as many by the end of the year, and by the early 80's had destroyed the PET's market share and basically matched the TRS-80 (of course at a much higher cost and profit margin for Apple).
The PET's only claim is that they announced and demo'ed it a couple months before the Apple II. But as anyone in the tech industry knows, demos are a dime a dozen, shipping (and shipping big) is what matters. And regardless of sales or launch date, the OP said "created the individual computer *movement*" - and I think few would argue Apple hasn't been master marketers (even when their hardware has been seriously lacking and poor selling) from the start.
And as far as killer productivity apps, who cares about Wordperfect or Word - Visicalc for the Apple II was basically what won the 1st gen PC war for Apple...
Omitting the fucking ESC key for one. Requiring expensive adaptors to connect pretty much anything is another. Or how about the fact that after 4 years it's barely faster in many benchmarks, or that they utterly rape you if you want to opt to increase the non-upgradable-flash-SSD-storage. Or that their touted battery life increases have not only not been borne out in practice, but people are having issues with the battery lasting 1/2 as long as before. Or that after all of that lack of innovation, they haven't even made it cheaper.
I have a 2012 MBP, and there wasn't any serious competition to it back then (even as a Windows laptop using Parallels). But after 4 years this is all they could do, and not even drop the price? It's a joke!
No, they claimed the *market share* of the *OS* declined, not the *use* of the *HW platform*.
While I'm guessing their overall use of the HW platform may have declined - anecdotally a LOT of people I know switched to Macbook Pros over the past ~5 years (myself included), but who feel the latest MBP was utterly underwhelming (myself included) - the study measured OS market share. Market share can go down even when overall usage goes *up*, of course.
I use OSX/MacOS, Windows 10, and Linux on my MBP. Honestly I mostly use MacOS because it's the native OS on the hardware - for work I mostly use Linux, with some Windows 10. And with the latest Windows 10 and the excellent Parallels integration, I've found myself using it more and more on my MBP as well.
There isn't a lot tying me (or as I said, anecdotally a dozen friends or coworkers I have discussed the latest MBP with) to Apple laptops other than their hardware kicked ass over competitors in the last 5 years... since that's not really true any more, I wouldn't be surprised if power/tech users start switching to Windows laptops...
Nuclear "stockpiles" are totally useless in any foreign policy other than reduction, as both countries can annihilate each other regardless of who struck first.
Similarly, naval warfare analysis is also useless. See above, if it gets to the point of taking out carrier fleets the world is already completely fucked.
And, you clearly have no idea about the capability of US destroyers. The whole term "destroyer" has almost nothing to do with the ships in WW2. The current ships of that class carry enough missiles to effectively take out a small coastal city.
Having plenty of leisure time is not as important to quality of life as having a job
I think we have similar opinions on some of these issues, but this still does depend on what "leisure time" really means. While the American mentality is often to work to keep accumulating wealth ("he who dies with the most wins"), the European mentality is much more about leisure time as the payoff, not "stuff". Of course, there are SO MANY other theories on this - Puritianism vs Catholicism, income and sales/VAT tax levels, social welfare, social/family structures (aka "living with your parents") - that it's never simple...
Oh, and one other thing: California wine is better too.
I've got to give French wines credit at the top end, and they generally age better. For the price, though, you're right, it's not even close:)
How is that a better analogy? There are over 8M millionaires in the US, and less than 500K in France. And while the American number is increasing, that French number is *decreasing* - http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...
What these policies are accomplishing is to get the entrepreneurs to leave France for other countries. Now, you might argue (as many in France do) that quality of life is more important than money. But for some quality of life it to be left the hell alone and not have your life run by a nanny state.
Sure depends on the amount of each. I'd sure prefer a threat of physical violence over some douche bag stealing my life savings from an investment account, and would gladly argue the latter should pay more.
I'd say a better analogy would be burglary instead of armed robbery, as threatening someone with a gun is serious because of the implied threat to human life. Also, it's a bit strange that he supposedly brought down this chat site for two months, yet damages are valued at $5000. One can only draw the conclusion that this was not a large, money-making operation.
Ok, sure. Felony burglary can get you 10-20 years in many states. Though it usually doesn't unless there are other circumstances. Still, breaking into someone's house and stealing $5000 is most definitely a felony (if the state wants to prosecute it as such). I'm just saying if you are going to give a black teenager 3 years for felony burglary, give a white teenager the same sentence for felony computer hacking. Or decide neither is worth that.
So it depriving a business of their livelihood. Someone walking into a store with a gun and robbing the cash register does a LOT less financial damage than these A-holes, but no one argues that armed robbers should be let off with a warning.
That said, I agree that no 18 year old should get multiple years in jail for a first time computer crime that didn't cause human harm. But there needs to be some SERIOUS repercussion, possibly including some (brief) jail time or everyone is going to think you get one get our of jail free card for white collar crimes...
(speaking of that, why not punish *all* white collar crimes by financial damage instead of the wealth of the criminal in that case... half of Wall Street would be in for 10 years after the last shitshow).
In fact, the only two bits of evidence Sopes presents against it being the car's fault and not a driver are:
1) a blurry photo "possibly" shows a person in the driver's seat. This proves nothing, because the self-driving cars have a driver behind the wheel anyway.
2) Uber said so, which given the whole controversy it obviously would no matter what really happened.
If anything, the reason you could call it "human error" is probably because the monitoring "driver" didn't slam on the breaks when the car decided to blow through a crosswalk with a passenger in it...
Are you seriously comparing *Microsoft* development costs to a start up company? If they could reasonably develop everything themselves they wouldn't need to constantly buy other companies who have developed products for much less. Oculus developed their first prototype with $2.4M in Kickstarter funding. $1.2B for a startup without a shipping product is unheard of - most startup companies would shit themselves and be unable to figure out how to spend a fraction of that.
And seriously, "a fortune in software research"? Software research is mostly paying engineer salaries (even hardware research in early/mid stages is mostly engineer salaries, it only gets expensive once you go to manufacturing). Do the math yourself, $1.2B in funding would employ hundreds of developers for many years, and that's at full salary, not the usual start up lower-salary-plus-stock offer. You have never worked at an early stage start up, have you?
The VR Goldrush is essentially over already, now we just have to wait for the results.
That is so far from true it's hard to describe.
I know, right? I mean, there's not even one single porn application yet.
Excellent point. Until that's enabled the industry is just an experiment, of course.
AR (most notably Magic Leap), while possibly still a few years out, will eventually make current gen VR obsolete
Uh, aren't they currently teetering on the edge of bankruptcy?
Are you kidding? They raised over $1B in venture funding, and have never really planned on shipping anything before 2018 range. I have a friend who recently moved from Silicon Valley to Florida to join them - of course he wouldn't provide many details other than that their demos were mind blowing, their tech was absolutely real but still too bulky for consumers. Hearing that from an experienced, somewhat cynical, but very smart engineer I know is enough to convince me they are the real deal...
The VR Goldrush is essentially over already, now we just have to wait for the results.
That is so far from true it's hard to describe.
AR (most notably Magic Leap), while possibly still a few years out, will eventually make current gen VR obsolete (AR is a superset of VR with somewhat different goals, but at some point that superset will be able to do everything VR does and more).
And the natural revolutionary leap after that (direct sensory input) will make both of those technologies obsolete.
HTML5 video runs fine on a browser like Chrome with proper support. It's no different from Flash support, since Chrome maintains and embeds the Flash player themselves, so they can support the HTML5 player with the same codecs and acceleration.
On Firefox, I can't say. I agree if a browser can't make their HTML5 player usable, they shouldn't disable Flash for now. Chrome doesn't have that problem. Neither does Safari, as long as you are streaming HLS. IE is hit and miss depending on the OS and browser version...
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You don't need to use C for IoT. Probably the most interesting IoT SoC vendor around right now (Electric Imp) is using an interpreted language (Squirrel) to enable some pretty low level programming, and make it trivial to develop IoT apps.
Yep, applying "insanity defense" for a criminal who does something radically against the mores (and morals) of a society is just as wrong as applying the insanity argument to someone making a technological breakthrough (luckily that's mostly left to history now) or in any way thinking radically differently from the general population. It's possible to disagree or just disregard societies' morals and laws and still be sane - that's basically one definition of a "criminal"...
It sounds awful today, but historically rape and murder have not even been considered particularly evil in some cultures or situations. In fact, that mentality is still around today, and considered in some cultures an act of honor.
A murdering rapist is a totally batshit crazy insane individual. So far off the reservation there is not even a planet in sight. No standard of behaviour can be expected from such a person. Probably cannot really comprehend what he's doing.
Hearing stories about the atrocities of war involving these same activities - and worse, even though that's often hard to imagine - you'd either have to conclude (possibly hundreds of) thousands of soldiers were batshit crazy insane. Otherwise maybe being perfectly sane but bereft of morals (or having their societal moral compass stripped from them by training, indoctrination, or group mentality) is the much more likely option.
I see the term gaslighting being thrown around so much in the last year, but most people really don't seem to understand what it means. This is not gaslighting. Gaslighting is *literally* trying to convince the *victim* that they are insane or misremembering real incidents or facts.
In this case their point is not to make the victim think they are crazy or wrong, it's to convince others that they are screwing things up. That's just basic bullying, undermining, or backstabbing. Not gaslighting.
In this case and in this market, it almost aways is a, and THE option. Either the article poster is competent and can get a job, or he isn't and should stop complaining...
The submission adds that "Raising things through the official channels is out of the question, as is confronting the colleague in question directly
If you're not willing to use official channels and you're not willing to confront the person directly then you need to leave. That's it.
In fact, the post unintentionally answered its own question:
Raising things through the official channels is out of the question, as is confronting the colleague in question directly as he is considered something of a superstar engineer who has been in the company for decades and has much more influence than any ordinary engineer." So leave [your best suggestions]
The PET shipped a few hundred units by the end of '77 after launching in October. The Apple II shipped in June, and had sold twice as many by the end of the year, and by the early 80's had destroyed the PET's market share and basically matched the TRS-80 (of course at a much higher cost and profit margin for Apple).
The PET's only claim is that they announced and demo'ed it a couple months before the Apple II. But as anyone in the tech industry knows, demos are a dime a dozen, shipping (and shipping big) is what matters. And regardless of sales or launch date, the OP said "created the individual computer *movement*" - and I think few would argue Apple hasn't been master marketers (even when their hardware has been seriously lacking and poor selling) from the start.
And as far as killer productivity apps, who cares about Wordperfect or Word - Visicalc for the Apple II was basically what won the 1st gen PC war for Apple...
Omitting the fucking ESC key for one. Requiring expensive adaptors to connect pretty much anything is another. Or how about the fact that after 4 years it's barely faster in many benchmarks, or that they utterly rape you if you want to opt to increase the non-upgradable-flash-SSD-storage. Or that their touted battery life increases have not only not been borne out in practice, but people are having issues with the battery lasting 1/2 as long as before. Or that after all of that lack of innovation, they haven't even made it cheaper.
I have a 2012 MBP, and there wasn't any serious competition to it back then (even as a Windows laptop using Parallels). But after 4 years this is all they could do, and not even drop the price? It's a joke!
No, they claimed the *market share* of the *OS* declined, not the *use* of the *HW platform*.
While I'm guessing their overall use of the HW platform may have declined - anecdotally a LOT of people I know switched to Macbook Pros over the past ~5 years (myself included), but who feel the latest MBP was utterly underwhelming (myself included) - the study measured OS market share. Market share can go down even when overall usage goes *up*, of course.
I use OSX/MacOS, Windows 10, and Linux on my MBP. Honestly I mostly use MacOS because it's the native OS on the hardware - for work I mostly use Linux, with some Windows 10. And with the latest Windows 10 and the excellent Parallels integration, I've found myself using it more and more on my MBP as well.
There isn't a lot tying me (or as I said, anecdotally a dozen friends or coworkers I have discussed the latest MBP with) to Apple laptops other than their hardware kicked ass over competitors in the last 5 years... since that's not really true any more, I wouldn't be surprised if power/tech users start switching to Windows laptops...
The OP's point was solid, yours makes no sense.
Nuclear "stockpiles" are totally useless in any foreign policy other than reduction, as both countries can annihilate each other regardless of who struck first.
Similarly, naval warfare analysis is also useless. See above, if it gets to the point of taking out carrier fleets the world is already completely fucked.
And, you clearly have no idea about the capability of US destroyers. The whole term "destroyer" has almost nothing to do with the ships in WW2. The current ships of that class carry enough missiles to effectively take out a small coastal city.
Having plenty of leisure time is not as important to quality of life as having a job
I think we have similar opinions on some of these issues, but this still does depend on what "leisure time" really means. While the American mentality is often to work to keep accumulating wealth ("he who dies with the most wins"), the European mentality is much more about leisure time as the payoff, not "stuff". Of course, there are SO MANY other theories on this - Puritianism vs Catholicism, income and sales/VAT tax levels, social welfare, social/family structures (aka "living with your parents") - that it's never simple...
Oh, and one other thing: California wine is better too.
I've got to give French wines credit at the top end, and they generally age better. For the price, though, you're right, it's not even close :)
How is that a better analogy? There are over 8M millionaires in the US, and less than 500K in France. And while the American number is increasing, that French number is *decreasing* - http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...
What these policies are accomplishing is to get the entrepreneurs to leave France for other countries. Now, you might argue (as many in France do) that quality of life is more important than money. But for some quality of life it to be left the hell alone and not have your life run by a nanny state.
Anecdotes are useless in this case. And why should I even believe you have any idea what the real stats are? I prefer to trust actual research...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12...
Sure depends on the amount of each. I'd sure prefer a threat of physical violence over some douche bag stealing my life savings from an investment account, and would gladly argue the latter should pay more.
I'd say a better analogy would be burglary instead of armed robbery, as threatening someone with a gun is serious because of the implied threat to human life. Also, it's a bit strange that he supposedly brought down this chat site for two months, yet damages are valued at $5000. One can only draw the conclusion that this was not a large, money-making operation.
Ok, sure. Felony burglary can get you 10-20 years in many states. Though it usually doesn't unless there are other circumstances. Still, breaking into someone's house and stealing $5000 is most definitely a felony (if the state wants to prosecute it as such). I'm just saying if you are going to give a black teenager 3 years for felony burglary, give a white teenager the same sentence for felony computer hacking. Or decide neither is worth that.
Sounds like extortion to me. The mob uses the same strategy - "hey, pay us to protect you and we don't destroy your business".
Jail is serious.
So it depriving a business of their livelihood. Someone walking into a store with a gun and robbing the cash register does a LOT less financial damage than these A-holes, but no one argues that armed robbers should be let off with a warning.
That said, I agree that no 18 year old should get multiple years in jail for a first time computer crime that didn't cause human harm. But there needs to be some SERIOUS repercussion, possibly including some (brief) jail time or everyone is going to think you get one get our of jail free card for white collar crimes...
(speaking of that, why not punish *all* white collar crimes by financial damage instead of the wealth of the criminal in that case... half of Wall Street would be in for 10 years after the last shitshow).
relatively safe before they get on the road
No it doesn't. Besides, liability laws do that.
That's absurd, liability laws don't ENSURE safety, they INSURE victims (aka once the accident happens, they make sure someone is responsible.
And, given everything known about Uber and the insanely bad press they admitted otherwise, we should believe that *why*?
In fact, the only two bits of evidence Sopes presents against it being the car's fault and not a driver are:
1) a blurry photo "possibly" shows a person in the driver's seat. This proves nothing, because the self-driving cars have a driver behind the wheel anyway.
2) Uber said so, which given the whole controversy it obviously would no matter what really happened.
If anything, the reason you could call it "human error" is probably because the monitoring "driver" didn't slam on the breaks when the car decided to blow through a crosswalk with a passenger in it...
Are you seriously comparing *Microsoft* development costs to a start up company? If they could reasonably develop everything themselves they wouldn't need to constantly buy other companies who have developed products for much less. Oculus developed their first prototype with $2.4M in Kickstarter funding. $1.2B for a startup without a shipping product is unheard of - most startup companies would shit themselves and be unable to figure out how to spend a fraction of that.
And seriously, "a fortune in software research"? Software research is mostly paying engineer salaries (even hardware research in early/mid stages is mostly engineer salaries, it only gets expensive once you go to manufacturing). Do the math yourself, $1.2B in funding would employ hundreds of developers for many years, and that's at full salary, not the usual start up lower-salary-plus-stock offer. You have never worked at an early stage start up, have you?
The VR Goldrush is essentially over already, now we just have to wait for the results.
That is so far from true it's hard to describe.
I know, right? I mean, there's not even one single porn application yet.
Excellent point. Until that's enabled the industry is just an experiment, of course.
AR (most notably Magic Leap), while possibly still a few years out, will eventually make current gen VR obsolete
Uh, aren't they currently teetering on the edge of bankruptcy?
Are you kidding? They raised over $1B in venture funding, and have never really planned on shipping anything before 2018 range. I have a friend who recently moved from Silicon Valley to Florida to join them - of course he wouldn't provide many details other than that their demos were mind blowing, their tech was absolutely real but still too bulky for consumers. Hearing that from an experienced, somewhat cynical, but very smart engineer I know is enough to convince me they are the real deal...
The VR Goldrush is essentially over already, now we just have to wait for the results.
That is so far from true it's hard to describe.
AR (most notably Magic Leap), while possibly still a few years out, will eventually make current gen VR obsolete (AR is a superset of VR with somewhat different goals, but at some point that superset will be able to do everything VR does and more).
And the natural revolutionary leap after that (direct sensory input) will make both of those technologies obsolete.
HTML5 video runs fine on a browser like Chrome with proper support. It's no different from Flash support, since Chrome maintains and embeds the Flash player themselves, so they can support the HTML5 player with the same codecs and acceleration.
On Firefox, I can't say. I agree if a browser can't make their HTML5 player usable, they shouldn't disable Flash for now. Chrome doesn't have that problem. Neither does Safari, as long as you are streaming HLS. IE is hit and miss depending on the OS and browser version...
And others might. So give people a choice rather than force one or the other. DUH.