The confluence of robotics and medicine will eventually result in some sort of Autodoc appliance that will diagnose and repair most common issues. Now *that* is a trillion dollar market.
I just changed our password policy to require:
A string at least 26 digits long
A lower case letter
An upper case letter
A number
Punctuation
An Elvis song title
The GPS coordinates of a national monument
The binary representation of they day the password was created
The octal birthdate of the password holder - mod 13
The weight of the password holder's last bowl movement in grams.
This reminds me of something happening on supermarket shelves everywhere.. Brands expand their offerings from 1 or 2 to half a dozen or more just to take up more shelf space and drive smaller brands out. The world needs a viable server competitor to Intel, be it AMD or someone else.
If MS can't kill it, steal it or control it, they're not interested in it. This is what results from a business model that disdains the new and seeks to be the late comer with overwhelming resources. Giving people what someone else is already providing seems a sucky future. Good luck keeping up with Apple and Google, Mr Nadella.
Sorry, I'm done with MS hardware with the exception of mice and the like. Every time a programmable item comes from Redmond it's artificially crippled or limited in such a way as to harm the user and benefit MS. Enough already!
Uber has turned the potential golden goose of transportation business models into Goose Liver Pâté by taking an overly aggressive and paranoid market stance and pushing its engineers past the breaking point. Lyft is looking much better by comparison. Having worked for companies who demanded 80 hour weeks and working through vacation time, I've come to conclude life is more valuable than that.
Destroying companies for ridiculous compensation sure does work up an appetite. She's a poster child for everything wrong with American business today.
https://qz.com/741056/the-stun...
..that I rescued from a college student fanboi who 'needed a newer one', I have to say Apple is the defining brand of the wannabe class. They make nice industrial designs with simplicity engineered in - then do everything possible to limit the useful life of those devices by generating fanboi demand (remember Johnny Ive waxing poetic on the iPhone 5 screen size?) and questionable new features to lure existing customers to trash absolutely usable devices to get the new 'must-have' ones. Technology as a fashion accessory, as preached by Apple, is probably responsible for millions of tons of e-waste.
Schools' CS departments have a curious attitude in this area. I was taking undergrad CSCI logic design course where everything was taught on a theoretical level and then they tossed the class into teams and led us into a lab with breadboards and boxes of TTL/CMOS ICs in them and told us to build an industrial controller in hardware. I chose instead to program an EPLD and presented my solution to the TA with a single IC. He looked genuinely perplexed and took the project report to the department head who scribbled "the object of the exercise is to show students it's impossible to build this without using a CPU" but gave my team an A anyway.
So, the desired outcome was failure and distrust of underlying hardware solutions. I refused to accept the inevitable failure of the exercise, and look back on this as my own personal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For those (perhaps justifiably) afraid of a too warm Earth, I'd remind you that a too cool Earth would likely be worse, at least for humans. Look at the famines caused in 1816 'the year with no summer' caused by volcanic aerosols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - Geoengineering, what could possibly go wrong?
The existing H1-B visa system is a cross between a bad joke, an outright scam and a tragedy. Truly exceptional foreign applicants get tossed into the mix with diploma-mill exhaust and are less likely to make it to the US under the existing system. Likewise, US workers are likely to get replaced with *much* less qualified H-1B visa holders under the current system and enforcement attitude. Glaringly overdue for a reset, the current system only exists because of a few US and Indian tech companies throw lobbying $$ at D.C. Enough already.
I can so see Yul Brynner being played by Putin and the robot playing itself in endless role-switched gunfights where the robot always loses because it's shooting blanks.
..programmers with screwdrivers" a mentor of mine in SW engineering once said. I've largely ignored that dictum, as a more problematic group is programmers who have no idea what a screwdriver (or soldering iron) is for. Programs exist to interface with the real world in some way, and understanding the larger (sometimes analog or wetware) view can make the difference between an elegant, but useless, piece of code and something that changes the world.
What they mean is seeing movies the way your parents did. How are theaters going to compete when the first full-length VR/3D movies are made that require headsets consisting of a mobile phone and bits of cardboard? Theaters are the buggy whips of the 21st century.
The children of old Hollywood seeking to protect their inheritance, nothing more. Not gonna work, the genie's out of the Internet bottle and running amok, killing fossilized and outdated business models all over the place.
As funny as H-1B jokes can be when read on Dilbert, they're significantly less funny when you're introduced to a new H-1B visa holder from India and told "show him around, tell him how you do your job" with no other explanation by management given. Disney was simply a public example of something happening all over the country. To say abuse/fraud is rampant in H-1B visas is to say the ocean is wet.
Actually, he wrote the Loonies used a linear mass accelerator to chunk steel-encased rocks at earth. A little math shows that a 100 metric ton rock (220k pounds, more or less) would require more power than is likely to be found on Luna any time soon.
..you don't own it. Way past time for electronics makers to fess up to their 'engineered to fail in 2 years' and 'engineered to be made, not repaired' design rules. If you can't fix it, you really don't own it.
Easily the best solution is to deduct this from Mayer's compensation package. If ever there was an individual with an inflated sense of worth, it's her.
This past election cycle both of the major parties used weaponized BS spreaders, carpet bombing the American public into submission or indifference. In a better world (perfect seems not to be an option..) people would have tools at their disposal to create functioning BS detectors of their own and call it when it flies by.
In a previous life I worked for Ericsson. In training for Americans, a story was related by our Swedish trainer as so: "The Roman empire finally came knocking on the borders of what's now Sweden and asked of some Swedes, "take us to your leader" in typical Roman fashion. The startled Swedes responded, "what's that?" Anyone who ever worked for a Swedish company would recognize the idea of a *very* flat organization where the ratio of compensation between the top and bottom employees is around 4:1 - contrast that to the average American company of around 400:1.
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The confluence of robotics and medicine will eventually result in some sort of Autodoc appliance that will diagnose and repair most common issues. Now *that* is a trillion dollar market.
I just changed our password policy to require: A string at least 26 digits long A lower case letter An upper case letter A number Punctuation An Elvis song title The GPS coordinates of a national monument The binary representation of they day the password was created The octal birthdate of the password holder - mod 13 The weight of the password holder's last bowl movement in grams.
This reminds me of something happening on supermarket shelves everywhere.. Brands expand their offerings from 1 or 2 to half a dozen or more just to take up more shelf space and drive smaller brands out. The world needs a viable server competitor to Intel, be it AMD or someone else.
If MS can't kill it, steal it or control it, they're not interested in it. This is what results from a business model that disdains the new and seeks to be the late comer with overwhelming resources. Giving people what someone else is already providing seems a sucky future. Good luck keeping up with Apple and Google, Mr Nadella.
Sorry, I'm done with MS hardware with the exception of mice and the like. Every time a programmable item comes from Redmond it's artificially crippled or limited in such a way as to harm the user and benefit MS. Enough already!
Uber has turned the potential golden goose of transportation business models into Goose Liver Pâté by taking an overly aggressive and paranoid market stance and pushing its engineers past the breaking point. Lyft is looking much better by comparison. Having worked for companies who demanded 80 hour weeks and working through vacation time, I've come to conclude life is more valuable than that.
Destroying companies for ridiculous compensation sure does work up an appetite. She's a poster child for everything wrong with American business today. https://qz.com/741056/the-stun...
..that I rescued from a college student fanboi who 'needed a newer one', I have to say Apple is the defining brand of the wannabe class. They make nice industrial designs with simplicity engineered in - then do everything possible to limit the useful life of those devices by generating fanboi demand (remember Johnny Ive waxing poetic on the iPhone 5 screen size?) and questionable new features to lure existing customers to trash absolutely usable devices to get the new 'must-have' ones. Technology as a fashion accessory, as preached by Apple, is probably responsible for millions of tons of e-waste.
Schools' CS departments have a curious attitude in this area. I was taking undergrad CSCI logic design course where everything was taught on a theoretical level and then they tossed the class into teams and led us into a lab with breadboards and boxes of TTL/CMOS ICs in them and told us to build an industrial controller in hardware. I chose instead to program an EPLD and presented my solution to the TA with a single IC. He looked genuinely perplexed and took the project report to the department head who scribbled "the object of the exercise is to show students it's impossible to build this without using a CPU" but gave my team an A anyway. So, the desired outcome was failure and distrust of underlying hardware solutions. I refused to accept the inevitable failure of the exercise, and look back on this as my own personal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For those (perhaps justifiably) afraid of a too warm Earth, I'd remind you that a too cool Earth would likely be worse, at least for humans. Look at the famines caused in 1816 'the year with no summer' caused by volcanic aerosols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - Geoengineering, what could possibly go wrong?
Fortran, but I learned later you can write Fortran in any language.
Some recent research points to the air-water interface in clouds as an unexpected Hydroxyl source: https://www.chemistryworld.com...
The existing H1-B visa system is a cross between a bad joke, an outright scam and a tragedy. Truly exceptional foreign applicants get tossed into the mix with diploma-mill exhaust and are less likely to make it to the US under the existing system. Likewise, US workers are likely to get replaced with *much* less qualified H-1B visa holders under the current system and enforcement attitude. Glaringly overdue for a reset, the current system only exists because of a few US and Indian tech companies throw lobbying $$ at D.C. Enough already.
http://www.damndirtygeeks.com/...
I can so see Yul Brynner being played by Putin and the robot playing itself in endless role-switched gunfights where the robot always loses because it's shooting blanks.
..programmers with screwdrivers" a mentor of mine in SW engineering once said. I've largely ignored that dictum, as a more problematic group is programmers who have no idea what a screwdriver (or soldering iron) is for. Programs exist to interface with the real world in some way, and understanding the larger (sometimes analog or wetware) view can make the difference between an elegant, but useless, piece of code and something that changes the world.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
What they mean is seeing movies the way your parents did. How are theaters going to compete when the first full-length VR/3D movies are made that require headsets consisting of a mobile phone and bits of cardboard? Theaters are the buggy whips of the 21st century.
The children of old Hollywood seeking to protect their inheritance, nothing more. Not gonna work, the genie's out of the Internet bottle and running amok, killing fossilized and outdated business models all over the place.
As funny as H-1B jokes can be when read on Dilbert, they're significantly less funny when you're introduced to a new H-1B visa holder from India and told "show him around, tell him how you do your job" with no other explanation by management given. Disney was simply a public example of something happening all over the country. To say abuse/fraud is rampant in H-1B visas is to say the ocean is wet.
Actually, he wrote the Loonies used a linear mass accelerator to chunk steel-encased rocks at earth. A little math shows that a 100 metric ton rock (220k pounds, more or less) would require more power than is likely to be found on Luna any time soon.
..you don't own it. Way past time for electronics makers to fess up to their 'engineered to fail in 2 years' and 'engineered to be made, not repaired' design rules. If you can't fix it, you really don't own it.
Easily the best solution is to deduct this from Mayer's compensation package. If ever there was an individual with an inflated sense of worth, it's her.
This past election cycle both of the major parties used weaponized BS spreaders, carpet bombing the American public into submission or indifference. In a better world (perfect seems not to be an option..) people would have tools at their disposal to create functioning BS detectors of their own and call it when it flies by.
In a previous life I worked for Ericsson. In training for Americans, a story was related by our Swedish trainer as so: "The Roman empire finally came knocking on the borders of what's now Sweden and asked of some Swedes, "take us to your leader" in typical Roman fashion. The startled Swedes responded, "what's that?" Anyone who ever worked for a Swedish company would recognize the idea of a *very* flat organization where the ratio of compensation between the top and bottom employees is around 4:1 - contrast that to the average American company of around 400:1.