Exactly, which is why I don't think Robot cars will become mainstream. The liability for the manufacturer is far too great in this day and age for it ever to be cost effective.
It is here, but women tend be better at this role than men so naturally more women do it. Nature is both racist and sexist, we'll all be better off when we accept this.
I don't see many small businesses needing to type long documents. Let me rattle off some people I know first hand with a small business that don't need a PC:
hairdresser
optometrist
handyman
courier
physio
plumber
I know even more people that work for large businesses, and every single one without exception use the standard MS suite.
Don't go holding your breath for the Linux desktop revolution. It's never going to happen.
But hey, shark attacks are great news stories, and with a couple of generations tainted by Jaws and similar movies, it's all about the emotional factor.
Yes but those emotions have direct economic consequences, therefore investing a little to protect a lot is worthy of further investigation.
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Low risk doesn't mean we ignore it altogether. One of the reasons lightning is less risky is because we can forecast it's presence and take reasonable steps to avoid it for very little effort. Similarly, Sharks attacks are rare, but reducing the risk of a serious injury or death for the cost of a few thousand dollars would seem like a no-brainer. We don't need million dollar Predator drones, but a handful of RC quadcopters with cameras at the most popular beaches sounds reasonable to me.
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Talking to a CG chopper pilot who routinely flew up and down our coast once and he said that if you guys (surfers) could see what I see every day from the air you would never go in the water.
Meh, Sharks are generally no more of a risk than a dog. If you use a similar common sense in the water that you do in your local dog park then there's nothing to fear.
Me: "So, if you'd just done as I asked in the first place, we both could have saved a bunch of time here, couldn't we?"
Support: "Yes, I guess we could. Next time I'll do that."
So, even the one time it didn't work, the first level support guy was educated that when somebody knows enough to ask for second level, they probably know enough to have done what the first level script says, too.
The problem is that every second caller says the exact same thing, but not all of them actually do know what they are doing. You might be smart, and know the exact problem, but your line of reasoning doesn't account for the other 90% of people who think they're smart, but aren't.
When I worked a service provider helpdesk years ago, this was the number 1 main cause of frustration. People who thought they knew it all but didn't. So you spend much longer on a call because the know-it all wants to skip the basics, even though they usually help isloate the fault.
This is why the 1st level have a script, because there is simply no other reliable way of determining the quality of information from the other end of the phone at this price point.
Do people not see the connection between increases in privacy breeches and the moves to cloud systems?
The correlation is negative. Cloud companies have better security than a typical small company trying to roll their own solution.
True, for now. But as cloud providers consolidate (scale wins so there is only enough space for a few players), then the target increases. In the risk matrix, the likelihood may be low, the potential impact is through the roof.
If I was a terrorist I'd give up on hijacking planes and dirty bombs and focus on data centre destruction instead.
Maybe, but smaller businesses increasingly don't use desktops anymore either, they are going mobile. For businesses that do need a desktop, MS comprehensively owns that space.
This is clearly a case of geographic difference. Black, White and Yellow seems a bit simplistic, but I guess it depends on where you live and who else you have around you.
We have a mixed bag here, so Greeks get bundled in with Italians and Middle Eastern brown skin races and labelled "Wogs" (which can either be offensive or friendly depending on your intent)
Of course, when women are doing tech jobs they should be paid similarly to men, so I'm not justifying different treatment - but women generally actually do steer clear of STEM (generally) as a function of their physiology.
Agree 100% and in my experience they are. I've been managed a few payroll system projects and been privy organisational payroll and never saw any obvious discrepancy in remuneration. Men also tend towards money making jobs, while women will often target job satisfaction over cash. So on paper women get paid less overall, but it's because they choose jobs that pay less, or work less hours in order to support the family (eg Maternity leave).
So, since quite a few PCs in the office are used for browsing the net and MS Office, making MS Office run on Linux would result in a lot more Linux desktops being used.
Unlikely. One of the reasons MS dominates the business PC market is the Windows/Office/AD/Group Policy ecosystem. You can't easily just pick one and forget the rest. And since the package is relatively cheap (few hundred per seat), it's not even worth the effort to think about changing.
No, it's like burning down your nasty old trailer home to remove mildew, and then going to live with a bunch of really smart people in a Utopian society where everyone has a fully up-to-date giant mansion or penthouse (your choice), for free. And even better, every time some better home appliance comes out, your house is automatically upgraded for free.
I am a Greek. I remember my school as a child and our special education class for retards (everyone there was Greek, i.e., no other races, just white kids of very low IQ),
Where I live, Greeks would not consider themselves "white". Years ago we used to have a lot of racial tension between "whites" and greeks. That seems to have blown over now that we have a new enemy* in the Chinese and Arabs.
Aside from the many, many studies and surveys backing this up,
Citation?
I know a lot of women (no seriously, my mother and sister are both women), and I simply don't see it anywhere. Sure we get *some* women who are genuinely interested in tech, but they are in the minority, just the same as men who want to work in infant care. Sure they exist, but nature dictates that generally speaking, men prefer mechanic type activity and women prefer social activities. This is even demonstrable in monkeys
Unfortunately this fact (i.e., blacks have lower IQ than other races) is so problematic to discuss because it "paints" anyone who express it as a racist who *hates* blacks - i am a racist, but i don't hate blacks, i just believe in racial differences (actually, i believe that i love blacks more than many people who try to suppress their low IQ fact, because i think that they can be helped socially if we recognize the *biological* fact, in the right way: there is a reason we WHITES have special education programs for our WHITES with low IQ...)
Interesting. I agree, and same goes for women who tend to whinge a lot these days about their situation. There is no doubt that Western European men led the charge of human development, regardless of race. So those who can trace their heritage via that line have had historical advantages, even if you have more melanin than someone else. The good news is the the difference is not too big that it can't be corrected, and anyone who has access to the same levels of nutrition, social structure, health and education can achieve the same level as anyone else.
It's important to distinguish between racism (discrimination) and recognition of physiological differences between humans.
Nearly. Except for a whole bunch of stuff it can't match a laptop on (eg mouse input). Even the most hardcore Apple Fanboys don't use an iPad as a laptop replacement so in your own words, who cares?
I have an SP3 at work and I like it. For my use case it is a desktop replacement that sometimes I can quickly take with me to meetings or home on the bus etc. I understand it's not for everyone, but after previewing Win10, I think MS are at least back in the game (after a shocker with Win Phone 7/Win8).
And since when is "Apparently..." good enough justification for an article?
Also, these are not drones as they are not autonomous
Also, a real drone will cost a lot more than $1400
Also, a real drone that has the same range as a shark will never be cost effective
Also, fuck slashdot...
But you said recording artists? If you are a musician, there is still a place in the new world for you. If you are one of the supporting services that only exist because of the outdated 20th century business model then too bad. Change or die.
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Exactly, which is why I don't think Robot cars will become mainstream. The liability for the manufacturer is far too great in this day and age for it ever to be cost effective.
You must be fun at parties...
It is here, but women tend be better at this role than men so naturally more women do it. Nature is both racist and sexist, we'll all be better off when we accept this.
I don't see many small businesses needing to type long documents. Let me rattle off some people I know first hand with a small business that don't need a PC:
hairdresser
optometrist
handyman
courier
physio
plumber
I know even more people that work for large businesses, and every single one without exception use the standard MS suite.
Don't go holding your breath for the Linux desktop revolution. It's never going to happen.
But hey, shark attacks are great news stories, and with a couple of generations tainted by Jaws and similar movies, it's all about the emotional factor.
Yes but those emotions have direct economic consequences, therefore investing a little to protect a lot is worthy of further investigation.
Low risk doesn't mean we ignore it altogether. One of the reasons lightning is less risky is because we can forecast it's presence and take reasonable steps to avoid it for very little effort. Similarly, Sharks attacks are rare, but reducing the risk of a serious injury or death for the cost of a few thousand dollars would seem like a no-brainer. We don't need million dollar Predator drones, but a handful of RC quadcopters with cameras at the most popular beaches sounds reasonable to me.
Talking to a CG chopper pilot who routinely flew up and down our coast once and he said that if you guys (surfers) could see what I see every day from the air you would never go in the water.
Meh, Sharks are generally no more of a risk than a dog. If you use a similar common sense in the water that you do in your local dog park then there's nothing to fear.
The majority of life savers are volunteers.
Me: "So, if you'd just done as I asked in the first place, we both could have saved a bunch of time here, couldn't we?" Support: "Yes, I guess we could. Next time I'll do that."
So, even the one time it didn't work, the first level support guy was educated that when somebody knows enough to ask for second level, they probably know enough to have done what the first level script says, too.
The problem is that every second caller says the exact same thing, but not all of them actually do know what they are doing. You might be smart, and know the exact problem, but your line of reasoning doesn't account for the other 90% of people who think they're smart, but aren't.
When I worked a service provider helpdesk years ago, this was the number 1 main cause of frustration. People who thought they knew it all but didn't. So you spend much longer on a call because the know-it all wants to skip the basics, even though they usually help isloate the fault.
This is why the 1st level have a script, because there is simply no other reliable way of determining the quality of information from the other end of the phone at this price point.
Do people not see the connection between increases in privacy breeches and the moves to cloud systems?
The correlation is negative. Cloud companies have better security than a typical small company trying to roll their own solution.
True, for now. But as cloud providers consolidate (scale wins so there is only enough space for a few players), then the target increases. In the risk matrix, the likelihood may be low, the potential impact is through the roof.
If I was a terrorist I'd give up on hijacking planes and dirty bombs and focus on data centre destruction instead.
Replace the word "data" with "money" and you have the prime cause of the GFC...
Sounds like the Climate Change Nazis have lost their sense of humour. That was a joke folks...
Maybe, but smaller businesses increasingly don't use desktops anymore either, they are going mobile. For businesses that do need a desktop, MS comprehensively owns that space.
This is clearly a case of geographic difference. Black, White and Yellow seems a bit simplistic, but I guess it depends on where you live and who else you have around you.
We have a mixed bag here, so Greeks get bundled in with Italians and Middle Eastern brown skin races and labelled "Wogs" (which can either be offensive or friendly depending on your intent)
Of course, when women are doing tech jobs they should be paid similarly to men, so I'm not justifying different treatment - but women generally actually do steer clear of STEM (generally) as a function of their physiology.
Agree 100% and in my experience they are. I've been managed a few payroll system projects and been privy organisational payroll and never saw any obvious discrepancy in remuneration. Men also tend towards money making jobs, while women will often target job satisfaction over cash. So on paper women get paid less overall, but it's because they choose jobs that pay less, or work less hours in order to support the family (eg Maternity leave).
So, since quite a few PCs in the office are used for browsing the net and MS Office, making MS Office run on Linux would result in a lot more Linux desktops being used.
Unlikely. One of the reasons MS dominates the business PC market is the Windows/Office/AD/Group Policy ecosystem. You can't easily just pick one and forget the rest. And since the package is relatively cheap (few hundred per seat), it's not even worth the effort to think about changing.
No, it's like burning down your nasty old trailer home to remove mildew, and then going to live with a bunch of really smart people in a Utopian society where everyone has a fully up-to-date giant mansion or penthouse (your choice), for free. And even better, every time some better home appliance comes out, your house is automatically upgraded for free.
So a bunch of box car hobos on drugs then...
I am a Greek. I remember my school as a child and our special education class for retards (everyone there was Greek, i.e., no other races, just white kids of very low IQ),
Where I live, Greeks would not consider themselves "white". Years ago we used to have a lot of racial tension between "whites" and greeks. That seems to have blown over now that we have a new enemy* in the Chinese and Arabs.
*perceived by populist media
I didn't RTFA, the headline sounded like yet another alarmist warning about climate change.
BECAUSE WOMEN ARE FREAKING INTERESTED IN THE JOB.
Aside from the many, many studies and surveys backing this up,
Citation?
I know a lot of women (no seriously, my mother and sister are both women), and I simply don't see it anywhere. Sure we get *some* women who are genuinely interested in tech, but they are in the minority, just the same as men who want to work in infant care. Sure they exist, but nature dictates that generally speaking, men prefer mechanic type activity and women prefer social activities. This is even demonstrable in monkeys
Unfortunately this fact (i.e., blacks have lower IQ than other races) is so problematic to discuss because it "paints" anyone who express it as a racist who *hates* blacks - i am a racist, but i don't hate blacks, i just believe in racial differences (actually, i believe that i love blacks more than many people who try to suppress their low IQ fact, because i think that they can be helped socially if we recognize the *biological* fact, in the right way: there is a reason we WHITES have special education programs for our WHITES with low IQ...)
Interesting. I agree, and same goes for women who tend to whinge a lot these days about their situation. There is no doubt that Western European men led the charge of human development, regardless of race. So those who can trace their heritage via that line have had historical advantages, even if you have more melanin than someone else. The good news is the the difference is not too big that it can't be corrected, and anyone who has access to the same levels of nutrition, social structure, health and education can achieve the same level as anyone else.
It's important to distinguish between racism (discrimination) and recognition of physiological differences between humans.
Nearly. Except for a whole bunch of stuff it can't match a laptop on (eg mouse input). Even the most hardcore Apple Fanboys don't use an iPad as a laptop replacement so in your own words, who cares?
I have an SP3 at work and I like it. For my use case it is a desktop replacement that sometimes I can quickly take with me to meetings or home on the bus etc.
I understand it's not for everyone, but after previewing Win10, I think MS are at least back in the game (after a shocker with Win Phone 7/Win8).
And since when is "Apparently..." good enough justification for an article?
Also, these are not drones as they are not autonomous
Also, a real drone will cost a lot more than $1400
Also, a real drone that has the same range as a shark will never be cost effective
Also, fuck slashdot...
But you said recording artists? If you are a musician, there is still a place in the new world for you. If you are one of the supporting services that only exist because of the outdated 20th century business model then too bad. Change or die.