Also, they often don't know why, where or when they need to recruit top talent. Many jobs don't require rock star talent and can be filled by IT staff who are merely good.
It's not strange to have a no open source policy. Using open source is the opposite of buying IBM: people can and have been fired for choosing it. If you buy proprietary software and it goes tits up, it's on the supplier. If a FOSS product breaks, it's on you. Worse: the same goes for patent and IP infringement suits: a client of mine has been on the receiving end of one of those.
With that said, there are mitigations for that and companies have come around to being open to open source
Sounds like the right direction. Some companies pay to have open source developed (or more often: improved) because they want the functionality and are happy to pay for it, but they don't want the hassle of continued support or licensing issues that come with bespoke or proprietary software. In that case, buying into a viable FOSS community is a good choice.
If you, as a developer, want to make money building extensions for such companies, you will need some credibility with the communities to which you seek to contribute, so as to get your change requests accepted into the project. Because for paying companies that is often a hard requirement.
"Their"? I'm not so sure this only applies to the young'uns. What is the average student loan these days, $30.000 or so? How many of us old folks would give up the right to vote in 2 elections for $30k, cash in hand or taken off your mortgage? I bet it's a similar percentage. Maybe more: older folks tend to be more pessimistic - perhaps realistic - about the actual influence they can excert through voting, even collectively.
Exactly. The modern smartphone and Internet are astounding marvels of technology, but people do with it what they want.
And some stuff is just really hard, like making sense of the meaning behind search queries and coming up with relevant results. Quite a bit of research has gone into this, and I've seen some promising results a while back. Not like "we type in a question and get a decent answer", but a system that asks the user to clarify his search and helps refine it. Still early days though.
He sounds a bit like the guy who invented the wheel and complains that his fellow cavemen didn't build him a high speed rail line with it.
I type using a keyboard but use a mouse for marking text for copying & pasting, scrolling, moving the cursor around. I find that sort of thing way easier to do with a mouse or even a crummy touchpad than a keyboard (or god forbid a touchscreen)
It has its uses. But it has absolutely no business being used in ads, just like other Javascript over which the site owner has no control. I wish blocking 3rd party Javascript by default was an option, but that pretty much breaks all of the Internet.
I too was somewhat disappointed by the new iPhones. I have a model 6 as well, and I don't see any truly compelling reasons to upgrade. Wireless charging is nice, and the fact that it's water-resistant is very nice as well (though I've never actually dropped my phone in water). The new AR features might be nice, and I suppose Apple as usual will cripple or deny use of these features on older phones even if they could sort of pull it off performance wise. The new iPhone 8 looks like a fantastic phone, but the upgrade form the 6s is not worth €800. Even if I can still get €200-€300 for my old phone.
I suppose this might become a real problem for Apple, though that has been predicted before as well. What can they do to make us buy the newer model phones? Well, they can break the old ones... Or they can add compelling features, for example Touch ID was a game changer for me, and I was happy enough to upgrade just to get that feature (but0 I'm really not sold on Face ID).
You know what feature I would really like? Something that is relatively easy to add as well? Some more damn battery life. Add a few mm to the thickness so the phone will last through a day of heavy use. That's an upgrade I'd buy.
Coding on an iPad is going to suck horribly. Maybe on a Surface Pro, since that thing has what iOS tablets lack: a mouse (or touch pad), and an OS that knows what to do with it. No mouse means any serious amount of typing is going to be awful. The Surface Pro with a keyboard & mouse cover actually makes a very decent small laptop, good for serious use.
It was more of a "requel" perhaps. A reboot that is also a sequel. Still lame. And I don't pretend to know what the fans did or didn't want, but parent is right in that this movie fits the formula Hollywood discovered a while back: nothing risky, nothing exceptional either. As Wayne said: "Led Zeppelin didn't write songs everybody likes, they left that to the Bee Gees". Well, it's all Bee Gees from here on in.
For a couple a grand a day, hell, for €250 a day, it makes sense to quit your day job and just do this instead, even for a lot of folks in first world countries.
"Reboot" is the right word for The Force Awakens. Are there any writers left in Hollywood these days or is it just a bunch of guys rehashing old material? Though to be fair, I was (relatively) pleasantly surprised by Rogue One.
A good and well maintained chainsaw is neither defective nor unsafe, if handled correctly. However if you decide to juggle three of them, even after having been warned not to, then the consequences are on you.
There's fuck all money in security, especially in IoT with business models that revolve around raping your privacy. There is a lot of money in security consultancy however, get paid for producing some hot air. Be sure to mention "situational awareness" and "blockchain" too and you're in.
It means you can behave like an idiot and ignore all safety warnings and common sense, have an accident, and you (or your next of kin) still get to sue the car manufacturer.
If anything is going to stop self driving cars, it's moronic "victims" looking for a payday.
WIth often long delays in confirmation, pretty steep transaction fees even on basic transfers, having to deal with poorly secured or outright dodge exchanges. A better form of money? Not in its current form its not. Yes even large institutions are looking into blockchain techology, but mostly because they "have to" do so: it's firmly way up there in the hype cycle. Ask them for concrete, practical ideas of what they want to achieve with blockchain if you want a good laugh.
Both the technology and the coin have some use. And BTC might well sit at $10k next year, but it'll be because of a continued speculation-driven bubble, not because of widespread adoption. Because for the common man there still are no compelling reasons to pay or be paid in cryptocurrency,
It's becoming clear that BTC are pretty bad for trying to hide your transactions from the government, if they are somewhat keen to find out what you're up to. There are still a lot of regular (online) places that accept BTC payments, mostly because their payment gateways haven't dropped cryptocurrency yet, but you generally pay a bit extra if you use BTC compared to CC, PayPal or online banking. I doubt many people use that option. Then there are countries with high inflation where it's helpful to change your wages into something more stable (traditionally: cash $). But if BTC itself continues to drop, that market will dry up pretty quickly. The price of BTC is driven by demand, and once the tax evaders, online shoppers and people looking for a place to store value get out, BTC may well crash beyond the loss of a few thousand on the exchange rate. Right now, there's also a great many "investors" (speculators) holding BTC, but if the price continues to fall, they'll start selling off accelerating the process.
It will hold some value for a while, but I'm betting it will disappear eventually. There may be some coins that survive, like the ones from non-fraudulent ICOs (if there is such a thing) that offer a real stake in a company or access to an actually desirable service. But the former will be regulated, entities like the SEC have already said they are looking into ICOs.
Only if those exchanges don't nail you on the buy & sell rates (they do), and then there's the BTC transaction fee to consider. I'm sure that if the difference in rates between exchanges is great enough to turn a profit, this arbitrage is already happening.
I find it unbelievably irresponsible to verify the validity of such a request with data that is pretty much publicly available. The combination of name, address, age and SSN should be considered public knowledge for security or validation purposes.
Is attribution even a problem that needs to get solved? As far as I can see, the music labels are the rights holders: they get paid and then redistribute some of that money to mucisians and songwriters as per contract. Spotify do not need to know who the drummer was in Satan's Rubber Toast when one of their songs gets played.
Selling it is a good option, older phones are still in demand (well, maybe not phones that old). You won't get much for them but they'll make someone else happy.
My old iPhones find a second life as smart home control panels. The oldest one actually is a 3GS and still runs the latest version of the control software. They control the stuff of te room they are in, and I can access video surveillance and whole house audio from it (well it's 3 rooms only thus far). My only gripe is that I'd like to remove the battery from the phone but it turns out they won't run on the charger without a battery present.
The others will probably go with a yearly subscription as well, or people will start "service hopping": subscribe to 1 or 2 different streaming services each month and binge their stuff, then switch again the next month. Or they will do what purveyors of online porn already tried a while ago: keep only a subset of your archives online in any given month, and rotate the selection. Or they might offer pay per view options at silly prices, i.e. 5 bucks for a movie.
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Also, they often don't know why, where or when they need to recruit top talent. Many jobs don't require rock star talent and can be filled by IT staff who are merely good.
How the hell is this marked Insightful? There's no insight, just a bold and unsubstantiated claim. Can I see some credentials at least?
It's not strange to have a no open source policy. Using open source is the opposite of buying IBM: people can and have been fired for choosing it. If you buy proprietary software and it goes tits up, it's on the supplier. If a FOSS product breaks, it's on you. Worse: the same goes for patent and IP infringement suits: a client of mine has been on the receiving end of one of those.
With that said, there are mitigations for that and companies have come around to being open to open source
Sounds like the right direction. Some companies pay to have open source developed (or more often: improved) because they want the functionality and are happy to pay for it, but they don't want the hassle of continued support or licensing issues that come with bespoke or proprietary software. In that case, buying into a viable FOSS community is a good choice.
If you, as a developer, want to make money building extensions for such companies, you will need some credibility with the communities to which you seek to contribute, so as to get your change requests accepted into the project. Because for paying companies that is often a hard requirement.
"Their"? I'm not so sure this only applies to the young'uns. What is the average student loan these days, $30.000 or so? How many of us old folks would give up the right to vote in 2 elections for $30k, cash in hand or taken off your mortgage? I bet it's a similar percentage. Maybe more: older folks tend to be more pessimistic - perhaps realistic - about the actual influence they can excert through voting, even collectively.
Exactly. The modern smartphone and Internet are astounding marvels of technology, but people do with it what they want.
And some stuff is just really hard, like making sense of the meaning behind search queries and coming up with relevant results. Quite a bit of research has gone into this, and I've seen some promising results a while back. Not like "we type in a question and get a decent answer", but a system that asks the user to clarify his search and helps refine it. Still early days though.
He sounds a bit like the guy who invented the wheel and complains that his fellow cavemen didn't build him a high speed rail line with it.
I type using a keyboard but use a mouse for marking text for copying & pasting, scrolling, moving the cursor around. I find that sort of thing way easier to do with a mouse or even a crummy touchpad than a keyboard (or god forbid a touchscreen)
It has its uses. But it has absolutely no business being used in ads, just like other Javascript over which the site owner has no control. I wish blocking 3rd party Javascript by default was an option, but that pretty much breaks all of the Internet.
I too was somewhat disappointed by the new iPhones. I have a model 6 as well, and I don't see any truly compelling reasons to upgrade. Wireless charging is nice, and the fact that it's water-resistant is very nice as well (though I've never actually dropped my phone in water). The new AR features might be nice, and I suppose Apple as usual will cripple or deny use of these features on older phones even if they could sort of pull it off performance wise. The new iPhone 8 looks like a fantastic phone, but the upgrade form the 6s is not worth €800. Even if I can still get €200-€300 for my old phone.
I suppose this might become a real problem for Apple, though that has been predicted before as well. What can they do to make us buy the newer model phones? Well, they can break the old ones... Or they can add compelling features, for example Touch ID was a game changer for me, and I was happy enough to upgrade just to get that feature (but0 I'm really not sold on Face ID).
You know what feature I would really like? Something that is relatively easy to add as well? Some more damn battery life. Add a few mm to the thickness so the phone will last through a day of heavy use. That's an upgrade I'd buy.
Coding on an iPad is going to suck horribly. Maybe on a Surface Pro, since that thing has what iOS tablets lack: a mouse (or touch pad), and an OS that knows what to do with it. No mouse means any serious amount of typing is going to be awful. The Surface Pro with a keyboard & mouse cover actually makes a very decent small laptop, good for serious use.
How is mouse support on Android these days?
It was more of a "requel" perhaps. A reboot that is also a sequel. Still lame. And I don't pretend to know what the fans did or didn't want, but parent is right in that this movie fits the formula Hollywood discovered a while back: nothing risky, nothing exceptional either. As Wayne said: "Led Zeppelin didn't write songs everybody likes, they left that to the Bee Gees". Well, it's all Bee Gees from here on in.
For a couple a grand a day, hell, for €250 a day, it makes sense to quit your day job and just do this instead, even for a lot of folks in first world countries.
"Reboot" is the right word for The Force Awakens. Are there any writers left in Hollywood these days or is it just a bunch of guys rehashing old material? Though to be fair, I was (relatively) pleasantly surprised by Rogue One.
A good and well maintained chainsaw is neither defective nor unsafe, if handled correctly. However if you decide to juggle three of them, even after having been warned not to, then the consequences are on you.
There's fuck all money in security, especially in IoT with business models that revolve around raping your privacy. There is a lot of money in security consultancy however, get paid for producing some hot air. Be sure to mention "situational awareness" and "blockchain" too and you're in.
Many boffins died to bring us this information...
So why hasn't he stopped new patent applications?
It means you can behave like an idiot and ignore all safety warnings and common sense, have an accident, and you (or your next of kin) still get to sue the car manufacturer.
If anything is going to stop self driving cars, it's moronic "victims" looking for a payday.
WIth often long delays in confirmation, pretty steep transaction fees even on basic transfers, having to deal with poorly secured or outright dodge exchanges. A better form of money? Not in its current form its not. Yes even large institutions are looking into blockchain techology, but mostly because they "have to" do so: it's firmly way up there in the hype cycle. Ask them for concrete, practical ideas of what they want to achieve with blockchain if you want a good laugh.
Both the technology and the coin have some use. And BTC might well sit at $10k next year, but it'll be because of a continued speculation-driven bubble, not because of widespread adoption. Because for the common man there still are no compelling reasons to pay or be paid in cryptocurrency,
It's becoming clear that BTC are pretty bad for trying to hide your transactions from the government, if they are somewhat keen to find out what you're up to. There are still a lot of regular (online) places that accept BTC payments, mostly because their payment gateways haven't dropped cryptocurrency yet, but you generally pay a bit extra if you use BTC compared to CC, PayPal or online banking. I doubt many people use that option. Then there are countries with high inflation where it's helpful to change your wages into something more stable (traditionally: cash $). But if BTC itself continues to drop, that market will dry up pretty quickly. The price of BTC is driven by demand, and once the tax evaders, online shoppers and people looking for a place to store value get out, BTC may well crash beyond the loss of a few thousand on the exchange rate. Right now, there's also a great many "investors" (speculators) holding BTC, but if the price continues to fall, they'll start selling off accelerating the process.
It will hold some value for a while, but I'm betting it will disappear eventually. There may be some coins that survive, like the ones from non-fraudulent ICOs (if there is such a thing) that offer a real stake in a company or access to an actually desirable service. But the former will be regulated, entities like the SEC have already said they are looking into ICOs.
Only if those exchanges don't nail you on the buy & sell rates (they do), and then there's the BTC transaction fee to consider. I'm sure that if the difference in rates between exchanges is great enough to turn a profit, this arbitrage is already happening.
I find it unbelievably irresponsible to verify the validity of such a request with data that is pretty much publicly available. The combination of name, address, age and SSN should be considered public knowledge for security or validation purposes.
Is attribution even a problem that needs to get solved? As far as I can see, the music labels are the rights holders: they get paid and then redistribute some of that money to mucisians and songwriters as per contract. Spotify do not need to know who the drummer was in Satan's Rubber Toast when one of their songs gets played.
Selling it is a good option, older phones are still in demand (well, maybe not phones that old). You won't get much for them but they'll make someone else happy.
My old iPhones find a second life as smart home control panels. The oldest one actually is a 3GS and still runs the latest version of the control software. They control the stuff of te room they are in, and I can access video surveillance and whole house audio from it (well it's 3 rooms only thus far). My only gripe is that I'd like to remove the battery from the phone but it turns out they won't run on the charger without a battery present.
The others will probably go with a yearly subscription as well, or people will start "service hopping": subscribe to 1 or 2 different streaming services each month and binge their stuff, then switch again the next month. Or they will do what purveyors of online porn already tried a while ago: keep only a subset of your archives online in any given month, and rotate the selection. Or they might offer pay per view options at silly prices, i.e. 5 bucks for a movie.