This is interesting since its approach can be deployed in legacy equipment that doesn't have 'smart' sensors in it or deployed across shop floors that might have various pieces of equipment that don't 'talk' to each other or a centralized monitoring point. I work for such a place that has dozens of decades-old equipment that could benefit from such an approach. It is just too bad that Budweiser is spending all their money on cool manufacturing approaches and not on producing a drinkable beer!
Seems like this is straight out of a dystopian future piece of fiction. Perhaps everyone can wear a collar displaying their social score or bank account amount for all to see. I wonder how many loose threads, when tugged, will unravel the Chinese social fabric and threaten the government's longevity.
Now that we're nearly a decade past the last shuttle launch, it makes sense to take stock in what the post-shuttle space missions have been like. It seems in a lot of ways we lost a lot of capabilities of near-Earth orbits and have to entirely rely on the ISS for experiments. Satellite and equipment repairs on things like Hubble are now out of our capability and I wonder what we've intangibly lost in terms of science and innovation that went into the shuttle's design and upkeep. I'm probably just being nostalgic for the shuttle since I grew up with it as a constant presence, but I feel like we've taken a step back having to rely on the Russians to launch human missions in the short-term and going back to capsules that are nothing more than taxis rather than being a platform for experiments and equipment launches/repairs.
I'd be hesitant about using this practice, especially in small markets where everyone knows each other. Our college placement office had a story of a student who accepted an offer from a company but continued to go on interviews afterward. They got another offer, but the partners of the two companies (accounting firms) talked to each other and found out what happened and both rescinded their offers. If you get a reputation of being unreliable and leaving without any contact, it may haunt you in the next downturn. Two weeks isn't much time to stick it out, and if you have an immediate offer, at least tell the previous employer why (and probably expect to not work there again).
I highly agree. I'm surprised there are companies or entities that don't make hard drive encryption mandatory. It is all too common a laptop goes missing or is stolen and has some form of company sensitive or customer personal information on it. The default position of an IT department is that it WILL be stolen and work back from there on protections of the data.
I am going to call bullshit on this. The proposed regulations were still on a path that was behind China, India, the EU, Japan, Korea, etc. The Obama regulations were still pretty weak compared to the world. Trump has knocked us down from being a C- student to a straight F.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
I can only imagine how the commentary around this would go. "Well Jim, it looks like the American team successfully headshotted the French team flag carrier and now appears to be disrespecting their corpse by teabagging it. It's really hard to see that sort of sportsmanship."
Back around 2000 I was working as a PC technician for a Fortune 500 company. We had Notes 4.6 deployed when a particularly nasty virus hit (back in the good old days of Windows 98, I don't think our workstations had NT or 2000 yet). I remember reading the news about companies being brought to their knees by this virus (Melissa?) that were using Outlook/Exchange. Domino never had the same problems with it and we only had a handful of workstations hit and it never spread. For all its ugly ugly UI and UX problems, the backend of Domino was super powerful and secure. I got my first development experience on Domino working on Java and XML for the first time (I don't think JSP was around yet). I wish IBM hired some real UI/UX experts to turn it into something the masses would use. Oh well.
I'd love to see a next-gen spreadsheet program that could marry Excel with something like SPSS or Minitab and with Tableau or Cognos. I want a 1-stop program that can handle day to day sheets, but enough power under the hood to do statistical & forecast modeling along with creating executive dashboards/reports.
I've long thought that cleaning robots in industrial settings were around the corner. Schools, offices, stores, all could benefit from robotic vacuums & mopping devices. The problem in places where you don't have nice straight aisles like a grocery or big box store is navigating around chairs and tables and other obstructions. It is a challenge I think will be iteratively solved in the coming decades and humans will move from doing all the cleaning tasks to more supervision of the robots and doing smaller tasks it can't (like mirrors, toilets, windows, sinks, etc.). An office nightly cleaning staff might go from 15 to say 8. It will get interesting when robots can take on some of the more dangerous floor tasks like stripping & waxing (harsh chemicals exposure) and floor buffing.
I'm not entirely sure Amazon can spin out AWS given it largely backfills the losses on the retail side. Without the cloud cash cow to cover it, Amazon will have to cut back on a lot of its experimentation (drones, cashless stores, Alexa, etc.) and focus on trying to drive down costs to beat their slim margins.
Screw up makes it sound like it's no big deal or it's fixable. Not seeing changing consumer tastes is a screw up, but one companies can fix. Having such a lax safety culture that it leads to a death, that isn't a screw up, that's a sickness within the company's leadership that can only be solved with firings. Testing an autonomous vehicle on public roads is an inhernent risk which should have every possible mitigation in place, and your drivers damn well better put their cell phones away and pay attention. Each drive should be started and ended with a safety briefing, and each near miss studied to make sure it doesn't occur again.
Not to be one of those 'slippery slope' guys, but if Amazon thinks its OK to add items to people's baby registeries, other gift lists and wedding registeries are sure to follow. Newly married couples will find undersired items bought for them by mistake, and Christmas will be awkward getting the lastest Taylor Swift CD when it wasn't asked for. If Amazon wants to add a clearly marked off "Other Suggested Items" section where companies can pay for space, that's one thing, but to use subtle marking and place items in the actual list is deceptive.
Detroit always seems to be the last one to find out that consumer tastes have changed. Ford/GM/Chrysler were slow to move away from giant trucks and SUVs the last time gas prices shot through the roof and foreign companies (a bit of a misnomer since most are produced domestically these days) ate their lunch. Gas prices have been low for a while now, and Ford and GM are just now reacting to consumers moving back into trucks and SUVs. Both companies produce yawn-inducing vehicles that no one really wants to drive. They need to shake up their lines and looks and catch up to their competition. FCA will likely be the next to announce major changes as they continue to trail as well.
I'd be curious about long-term testing for these twins if they've developed true permanent HIV immunity and if they're able to pass it along to offspring. Also, if there are any unintended consequences of this modification.
The larger Amazon becomes and the more businesses it buys or gets into, the harder it will be to see when it starts to fail at its core business. The company will be able to continue to report record revenues while hiding that certain portions of its business may be stagnating or even failing, but are propped up by the other portions. This was the case of GE, where for the longest time it was in everything from biomedical devices to airplane engines to locomotives to power generation to financing to you name it. Under Welch all was well because of his obsession with performance, but under subsequent leaders, these lines began to fail at different rates and weren't addressed early enough to stop the bleeding. GE is now like a deflating balloon, shedding business divisions left and right as it tries to right itself. Amazon may be successful in everything from cloud computing to groceries to electronic devices to selling just about everything under Bezos, but one has to wonder if the next leader can keep it all going without cracks forming.
I'll wager that Netflix will be a part of a merger in the next 5 years. They'll either be bought by a conglomerate like Comcast/NBC-Universal or AT&T/Warner or they will buy up a smaller studio like Paramount or Dreamworks to absorb its IP into their catalog. I don't see Netflix's own IP being strong enough to withstand other streaming services that might wall off their major content from them. The consumer is going to lose in all this since we going back to having to pay for multiple services if you want content from different companies. Instead of cutting the single cable cord, we're moving to multiple cords necessary to have it all.
I wonder if Steam tossed any free keys his way for the heads up about this hole. I did see he got $20K for this effort, which would buy a lot of games of Civilization!
I'm curious how many really use Bixby on a semi-regular basis. The only time it sees any action on my phone is when I accidentally hit the Bixby button instead of volume and it pops up. I've used Google Assistant whenever I'm too lazy to type in what I'm trying to search for. I've never found any of the AI assistants all that helpful other than making you look like a maniac as you scream into your phone trying to make it understand what you're saying.
I'm looking forward to seeing some of the specs and benchmarks that these new cores can reach. My old compy is now just about end of life (it's a second-gen i5, almost 8 years old), so next year is perfect timing for AMD and Intel be in a price and performance war!
There has been a lot of discussion and action at the state level around the legalization of medical use of marijuana (or full-blown recreational use in a few states), but I haven't heard much about U.S. Congress representative candidates, yet alone senators, supporting it. Has anyone heard of, or does your candidate support, bringing up a bill on the federal level to bring consensus around medical use nationally? In Indiana, the state legislators have essentially punted on the idea. They held a special committee over the summer to study the issue, with families and doctors coming forward to speak about the benefits. But in the end, the committee decided it would provide no recommendation, and several state politicians seem to want to defer to the U.S. Congress to act. I don't really have a dog in this race, but do believe it can provide a lot of benefit to patients, let alone stop ridiculous jailing and prosecuting of those who choose to use.
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This is interesting since its approach can be deployed in legacy equipment that doesn't have 'smart' sensors in it or deployed across shop floors that might have various pieces of equipment that don't 'talk' to each other or a centralized monitoring point. I work for such a place that has dozens of decades-old equipment that could benefit from such an approach. It is just too bad that Budweiser is spending all their money on cool manufacturing approaches and not on producing a drinkable beer!
Seems like this is straight out of a dystopian future piece of fiction. Perhaps everyone can wear a collar displaying their social score or bank account amount for all to see. I wonder how many loose threads, when tugged, will unravel the Chinese social fabric and threaten the government's longevity.
Now that we're nearly a decade past the last shuttle launch, it makes sense to take stock in what the post-shuttle space missions have been like. It seems in a lot of ways we lost a lot of capabilities of near-Earth orbits and have to entirely rely on the ISS for experiments. Satellite and equipment repairs on things like Hubble are now out of our capability and I wonder what we've intangibly lost in terms of science and innovation that went into the shuttle's design and upkeep. I'm probably just being nostalgic for the shuttle since I grew up with it as a constant presence, but I feel like we've taken a step back having to rely on the Russians to launch human missions in the short-term and going back to capsules that are nothing more than taxis rather than being a platform for experiments and equipment launches/repairs.
I have a Razr in a drawer at home I'll only charge $15 for if you want one.
I'd be hesitant about using this practice, especially in small markets where everyone knows each other. Our college placement office had a story of a student who accepted an offer from a company but continued to go on interviews afterward. They got another offer, but the partners of the two companies (accounting firms) talked to each other and found out what happened and both rescinded their offers. If you get a reputation of being unreliable and leaving without any contact, it may haunt you in the next downturn. Two weeks isn't much time to stick it out, and if you have an immediate offer, at least tell the previous employer why (and probably expect to not work there again).
I highly agree. I'm surprised there are companies or entities that don't make hard drive encryption mandatory. It is all too common a laptop goes missing or is stolen and has some form of company sensitive or customer personal information on it. The default position of an IT department is that it WILL be stolen and work back from there on protections of the data.
I am going to call bullshit on this. The proposed regulations were still on a path that was behind China, India, the EU, Japan, Korea, etc. The Obama regulations were still pretty weak compared to the world. Trump has knocked us down from being a C- student to a straight F. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
I can only imagine how the commentary around this would go. "Well Jim, it looks like the American team successfully headshotted the French team flag carrier and now appears to be disrespecting their corpse by teabagging it. It's really hard to see that sort of sportsmanship."
Back around 2000 I was working as a PC technician for a Fortune 500 company. We had Notes 4.6 deployed when a particularly nasty virus hit (back in the good old days of Windows 98, I don't think our workstations had NT or 2000 yet). I remember reading the news about companies being brought to their knees by this virus (Melissa?) that were using Outlook/Exchange. Domino never had the same problems with it and we only had a handful of workstations hit and it never spread. For all its ugly ugly UI and UX problems, the backend of Domino was super powerful and secure. I got my first development experience on Domino working on Java and XML for the first time (I don't think JSP was around yet). I wish IBM hired some real UI/UX experts to turn it into something the masses would use. Oh well.
They always say sequels never live up to the original. The Great Dying 2: This Time it's Personal! :)
I'd love to see a next-gen spreadsheet program that could marry Excel with something like SPSS or Minitab and with Tableau or Cognos. I want a 1-stop program that can handle day to day sheets, but enough power under the hood to do statistical & forecast modeling along with creating executive dashboards/reports.
I've long thought that cleaning robots in industrial settings were around the corner. Schools, offices, stores, all could benefit from robotic vacuums & mopping devices. The problem in places where you don't have nice straight aisles like a grocery or big box store is navigating around chairs and tables and other obstructions. It is a challenge I think will be iteratively solved in the coming decades and humans will move from doing all the cleaning tasks to more supervision of the robots and doing smaller tasks it can't (like mirrors, toilets, windows, sinks, etc.). An office nightly cleaning staff might go from 15 to say 8. It will get interesting when robots can take on some of the more dangerous floor tasks like stripping & waxing (harsh chemicals exposure) and floor buffing.
I'm not entirely sure Amazon can spin out AWS given it largely backfills the losses on the retail side. Without the cloud cash cow to cover it, Amazon will have to cut back on a lot of its experimentation (drones, cashless stores, Alexa, etc.) and focus on trying to drive down costs to beat their slim margins.
Screw up makes it sound like it's no big deal or it's fixable. Not seeing changing consumer tastes is a screw up, but one companies can fix. Having such a lax safety culture that it leads to a death, that isn't a screw up, that's a sickness within the company's leadership that can only be solved with firings. Testing an autonomous vehicle on public roads is an inhernent risk which should have every possible mitigation in place, and your drivers damn well better put their cell phones away and pay attention. Each drive should be started and ended with a safety briefing, and each near miss studied to make sure it doesn't occur again.
Not to be one of those 'slippery slope' guys, but if Amazon thinks its OK to add items to people's baby registeries, other gift lists and wedding registeries are sure to follow. Newly married couples will find undersired items bought for them by mistake, and Christmas will be awkward getting the lastest Taylor Swift CD when it wasn't asked for. If Amazon wants to add a clearly marked off "Other Suggested Items" section where companies can pay for space, that's one thing, but to use subtle marking and place items in the actual list is deceptive.
Detroit always seems to be the last one to find out that consumer tastes have changed. Ford/GM/Chrysler were slow to move away from giant trucks and SUVs the last time gas prices shot through the roof and foreign companies (a bit of a misnomer since most are produced domestically these days) ate their lunch. Gas prices have been low for a while now, and Ford and GM are just now reacting to consumers moving back into trucks and SUVs. Both companies produce yawn-inducing vehicles that no one really wants to drive. They need to shake up their lines and looks and catch up to their competition. FCA will likely be the next to announce major changes as they continue to trail as well.
I'd be curious about long-term testing for these twins if they've developed true permanent HIV immunity and if they're able to pass it along to offspring. Also, if there are any unintended consequences of this modification.
The larger Amazon becomes and the more businesses it buys or gets into, the harder it will be to see when it starts to fail at its core business. The company will be able to continue to report record revenues while hiding that certain portions of its business may be stagnating or even failing, but are propped up by the other portions. This was the case of GE, where for the longest time it was in everything from biomedical devices to airplane engines to locomotives to power generation to financing to you name it. Under Welch all was well because of his obsession with performance, but under subsequent leaders, these lines began to fail at different rates and weren't addressed early enough to stop the bleeding. GE is now like a deflating balloon, shedding business divisions left and right as it tries to right itself. Amazon may be successful in everything from cloud computing to groceries to electronic devices to selling just about everything under Bezos, but one has to wonder if the next leader can keep it all going without cracks forming.
I'll wager that Netflix will be a part of a merger in the next 5 years. They'll either be bought by a conglomerate like Comcast/NBC-Universal or AT&T/Warner or they will buy up a smaller studio like Paramount or Dreamworks to absorb its IP into their catalog. I don't see Netflix's own IP being strong enough to withstand other streaming services that might wall off their major content from them. The consumer is going to lose in all this since we going back to having to pay for multiple services if you want content from different companies. Instead of cutting the single cable cord, we're moving to multiple cords necessary to have it all.
I wonder if Steam tossed any free keys his way for the heads up about this hole. I did see he got $20K for this effort, which would buy a lot of games of Civilization!
So you have 10 minutes to sober up and realize that late night message to your ex was a mistake!
I'm curious how many really use Bixby on a semi-regular basis. The only time it sees any action on my phone is when I accidentally hit the Bixby button instead of volume and it pops up. I've used Google Assistant whenever I'm too lazy to type in what I'm trying to search for. I've never found any of the AI assistants all that helpful other than making you look like a maniac as you scream into your phone trying to make it understand what you're saying.
This is good, we only have 45 more years until the Vulkans find us.
I'm looking forward to seeing some of the specs and benchmarks that these new cores can reach. My old compy is now just about end of life (it's a second-gen i5, almost 8 years old), so next year is perfect timing for AMD and Intel be in a price and performance war!
There has been a lot of discussion and action at the state level around the legalization of medical use of marijuana (or full-blown recreational use in a few states), but I haven't heard much about U.S. Congress representative candidates, yet alone senators, supporting it. Has anyone heard of, or does your candidate support, bringing up a bill on the federal level to bring consensus around medical use nationally? In Indiana, the state legislators have essentially punted on the idea. They held a special committee over the summer to study the issue, with families and doctors coming forward to speak about the benefits. But in the end, the committee decided it would provide no recommendation, and several state politicians seem to want to defer to the U.S. Congress to act. I don't really have a dog in this race, but do believe it can provide a lot of benefit to patients, let alone stop ridiculous jailing and prosecuting of those who choose to use.