They go hand in hand. Everyone has metrics to measure their performance. Those metrics are used for compensation for some roles. In bad situations those metrics are subjective or poorly chosen. Hopefully they are well chosen, with good milestones, and not arbitrary (lines of code) or subjective (you didn't try hard enough).
Isn't it really just about motivation? Every role has different motivation. Some benefit from additional compensation. Think about bonuses for meeting certain goals, or for being utilized a certain percentage of the quarter, or make a certain number of sales. A good organization understands what motivates their employees and matches it to business needs. Would it be great if we could all just be paid a nice wage, do our jobs well, and go home? Sure. But there are people who will slack and do the absolute least, and there are people who will see a bonus/commission/etc as a great objective to shoot for.
Coming from an engineer background, I think we often harass sales people since they are the non-technical ones in our teams, but we all have our own version of this.
There are always pros and cons of this. Enterprise hardware does this as well. Licensing/purchases is where a lot of manufactures make or recoup their money. You have two options, buy hardware that is maxed out but leaves no room for growth, or buy hardware that is constrained by licensing/software. In the second case, you can buy an new license and get access to more hardware/performance without having to physically change anything (no rip and replacement, no labor, etc). That makes for a nice upgrade when you finally have the money or need to upgrade, but yes you have hardware that is 'idle' until you license it.
The other side is that you have full access to the hardware, but when you want more life you now have to buy hardware or take it in for labor to modify the hardware to have the new capacity you want. That requires cost on top of the new hardware, as well as your time when you won't have it. Certainly people may feel 'ripped off' that they bought hardware that they don't have full access to, but it's really dependent on your view point, and if one makes you grumpy, don't support that style/manufacturer.
If I get targeted ads, I'm ok with that. Seeing things that may actually be interesting or relevant is somewhat useful. It's not 'scary'. You go to sites, that gets saved in a database, people query the database. It's not some 'magical' or 'evil' thing occurring. Now if that information is curated and used by someone who has less capitalist plans for it (government, agencies, Someone Bad (TM)) then I get worried, and that is where the problem could be. We have no idea on who/when/how it's being accessed to complain or worry.
I've always enjoyed my Macbook Pros. There are people who feel like it's some fashion/gimicky thing, but it has an underlying Unix/Linux flavor with an appealing GUI. You get the best of both worlds. That being said, I was excited to see my new work laptop had the TouchBar, but after about 5 minutes I put it back to the default Mac keys, and haven't looked back. I love the idea of keys that can change with context, but the reality is I never use it for that.
I enjoy the discussions of making a digital copy of ourselves to live forever, and the idea of 'is it me, or just a copy of me?' discussion/philosophy over some drinks. But I saw this article the other day and started reading it, and I found it creepy. It's a strange mixed bag of morbidness. If this wasn't someone dying, I think I would be ok with it, but the idea here just strikes me strangely. It reminds me of Neuromancer and the Finn, and a weird mix of being them, but not being them, and maybe at the same time knowing they are dead.
I think this is because most owners have no idea what their pet should look like. I have friends who have commented 'oh, they are supposed to look that way' when their pup looked like an overstuffed sausage with legs. There is no way the vet looked at that animal and said 'Amazing specimen of health there!' I have found that as we have gotten healthier (running, trying to eat better), so have our animals. Initially I can understand a lack of knowledge leading to poor choices, but when the vet says you have to do better, it's just like your own doctor saying it. And I think most people just go 'eh' and promise that _next year_ we'll be better.
I think this is always silly when a company claims something like this, and I think everyone in the industry understands that. However, it gets headlines, and will be used for marketing. All the normal users though will never see this article explaining why it's bull, but they'll remember 'Hmm Windows S doesn't get ransomware'. Now maybe some of the marketing people really believe this statement, however I highly doubt any of the devs or engineering team truly thought 'ah ha! We've done it!'
I think this is very subjective and depends on your point of view. For one person an oil change or a car recall may seem like no big deal, something to be put off until convenient. However I imagine the dealer and your mechanic would view it much more seriously. We are talking about maintaining a large, complicated machine capable of killing people should it malfunction. And you want to complain I didn't update some random thing I don't understand on my computer in the back office? I have customers who need their cars back.
I'm not a mechanic, but you get my point. We view security patches as important because to us they are, and in general they are, but same as maintaining your vehicle. So it's just depends on your point of view and educating people to understand why any of these things are important and the ramifications otherwise.
It's silly to think they won't be connected. I'm sure people 30 years ago thought it would be silly or impossible to carry a computer around with you daily, or being connected all the time to make calls or text or communicate, or that cars would need to have computers, or that 'simple' devices like washers or fridges or dryers would ever need to be 'electronic'. Now look at what we have and what we do.
It just seems silly to us, because we don't have it and it's new and unnecessary in most cases. But this is what will drive it forward until it becomes more refined, then it will actually become useful, and then at some invisible point it will become required. There will still be people who don't or buy versions that won't, but for the most part it will just be normal and people will start to ask the curmudgeons why they want to traipse downstairs just to see if the dryer is done, when they can pull up their home monitoring system on the TV and keep an eye on it.
The articles I have read pointed out they go through all the normal explanations, and then at the bottom they basically go 'well, it doesn't fit anything well with the data we have so far, so could it be exotic or cool like an alien structure? Sure, that would be cool' but they never suggest that that's the current/main hypothesis.
I have a CompSci degree from a few years back, and it was heavy coding/dev/math. There is no way you could have gotten through the degree and been unable to program. I have run into recent CompSci graduates who have a hard time or can't write code, and don't even like coding. What has changed in the curriculum? Has CompSci become the catchall for 'I want a computer degree'? With that sort of expectation, I can see why I'd rather hire someone excited about dev work, than someone who has it on paper but no urge or drive or skill.
As someone who's company has paid for his phone/plan for the last 15 years, we are in the middle of having our numbers released and will be in charge of selecting our own provider and coverage plans. We've had Verizon for years, and I haven't had any complaints with coverage (mostly suburban/metro area), although I'm probably in that low-hanging fruit area where everyone has coverage.
For me now, the biggest interest is in unlimited data, tethering/hotspot usage, and how much I get before I get dropped to lower speeds, although 10 GB for hotspots seems a default. AT&T slows speeds after 22GB of data; T-Mobile seems like they don't except if you fall into the >30GB a month and there is congestion (take that as you will). My new vehicle has a built in hotspot (cool or a WTF, I'm not sure yet), but I'm stuck with AT&T if I want to put it on a plan. So far T-Mobile seems to be the most cost effective, but as others have mentioned, rural coverage will be lacking. Right now, I expect I'll be negotiating with T-Mobile to see what my wife and I can get. If that is enough savings, I may then look at a separate plan for the vehicle to help offset coverage when I travel (I travel a good bit for work).
You need a matrix just to try and keep track of what you need/where, and how to connect to avoid issues or using the 'wrong' data.
This is one of those ideas that sounds great on paper, but in reality has these sorts of side effects. No one should be discriminated against, and I'm sure they had very good examples of where/why this should be done. But then you have this on the other end where a university was doing this gratis (or call it advertising/PR if you want), but to comply with the law is ridiculous so the result is they have to pull it all.
I feel the same way. I have a MAME cabinet running with an old 21" monitor (78+ pounds) which at the time was great. Now it just feels antiquated and like more of a hassle to deal with when I want to move the cabinet around. I'm sure I'm not a purist enough, and this is more about original cabinets. If I had a original game, I can see being disappointed that it may be hard/impossible to get original-stye replacement parts.
I have generally purchased an Xbox first, then later on purchased the same gen PlayStation. But this last go around, MS really shot themselves in the foot when they announced all their 'features' that were going to limit owners and limit how/where games could be used. Then either because they were never going to do that, or they just seized on the moment, Sony said 'we aren't doing that' and basically many of us rushed to buy a PS4 instead of an Xbox One. I still haven't really seriously looked at getting one.
People running Firefox are users who are more aware than standard users. They have gone out and downloaded a non-standard (for not tech people) browser and are using it. It makes sense that they are more likely aware of their OS, and what they would want or not want; as well as able to avoid the forced Windows 10 upgrade many techies were forced into.
I think the biggest problem is that I don't know who they are targeting. The casual gamer (generally using phones and tablets) aren't going to pay this, and me as a traditional gamer sees it as a waste of money for a 'Run' style game. I downloaded it and was hopeful since it was Mario/Nintendo, but really I don't think I need much more than the free levels. It's not engaging to me, and seems to be too expensive for people who find $1.99 a lot to pay at times.
No I agree. I mean that people don't understand that cheap cables are a potential problem, regardless of if they say they are compatible or not. The lawsuit issue is that they are lying about packaging. My point is more that people have no idea that there is a real danger or problem, so they just think Apple is trying to gouge them. Which I'm sure the price is a huge profit margin, but there is a real benefit in this case outside of just the name on the package.
This is what happens when people don't understand tech. No one wants to care how their devices work, they just hear battery and equate it to their favorite AA and away they go. Not understanding that there is more involved than that, they just but cheap when they need a new or extra cable. I can understand that, but then we have these sorts of issues.
Looking at the links and white paper, this is really related to Ransomware and Defender only. In that regard, they are certainly getting better, which then makes it an easy marketing statement to make. But everyone is (generally) getting better over time. Reading between the lines, what this is really saying is that Windows Defender is most likely Good Enough for most home users, and realistically it probably is. Most signature based software is terrible and has a 40-something% efficacy rating. The free AV has been shown to be untrustworthy with adware or selling data or various unsavory activities.
Compared to enterprise/corporate options, it's really not a worthy comparison unless you have to implement it for compliance reasons. Some corporate solutions are not considered AV in the compliance sense, even if they perform the same role. And if you really are a geek and like to have better control this won't be what you want either. There are a lot of caveats in their claim, but it makes headlines.
Yes. This is something I've noticed with friends who wear them. I hear how many steps they walked, but I don't know anyone that took a baseline of how many steps they walk normally. If you are already walking 8000 steps a day, then walking 10,000 isn't that big a deal (I'm making up numbers). They really need to build in a deficit to show 'you are below your daily average' vs just a raw total that may make you feel more productive than you really were.
Exactly. A person was not sitting there watching the news thinking 'Excellent, we can get some extra dollars from this.' The algorithm saw more people than normal were suddenly looking for a ride, and the prices went up. From what I see, when Uber realized _why_ they tried to make adjustments, but people still complained they weren't adjusting it enough or in all areas or such.
This isn't a company trying to profit from terrorism; this is a company who has a product that is not being accused because they probably haven't had to deal with this before. And accurate news coverage during these times isn't exactly spot on; I doubt it was clear who/what/where was going on so they could accurately make all changes that in hindsight would have made sense.
I think this is a reflection of everyone being frustrated, and being unable to do anything about it. You try and find answers in what you know. If apps are your world, then you hope to develop and code your way into a solution. I think the intent is laudable, even if in the end the app is a non-starter.
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They go hand in hand. Everyone has metrics to measure their performance. Those metrics are used for compensation for some roles. In bad situations those metrics are subjective or poorly chosen. Hopefully they are well chosen, with good milestones, and not arbitrary (lines of code) or subjective (you didn't try hard enough).
Isn't it really just about motivation? Every role has different motivation. Some benefit from additional compensation. Think about bonuses for meeting certain goals, or for being utilized a certain percentage of the quarter, or make a certain number of sales. A good organization understands what motivates their employees and matches it to business needs. Would it be great if we could all just be paid a nice wage, do our jobs well, and go home? Sure. But there are people who will slack and do the absolute least, and there are people who will see a bonus/commission/etc as a great objective to shoot for.
Coming from an engineer background, I think we often harass sales people since they are the non-technical ones in our teams, but we all have our own version of this.
There are always pros and cons of this. Enterprise hardware does this as well. Licensing/purchases is where a lot of manufactures make or recoup their money. You have two options, buy hardware that is maxed out but leaves no room for growth, or buy hardware that is constrained by licensing/software. In the second case, you can buy an new license and get access to more hardware/performance without having to physically change anything (no rip and replacement, no labor, etc). That makes for a nice upgrade when you finally have the money or need to upgrade, but yes you have hardware that is 'idle' until you license it.
The other side is that you have full access to the hardware, but when you want more life you now have to buy hardware or take it in for labor to modify the hardware to have the new capacity you want. That requires cost on top of the new hardware, as well as your time when you won't have it. Certainly people may feel 'ripped off' that they bought hardware that they don't have full access to, but it's really dependent on your view point, and if one makes you grumpy, don't support that style/manufacturer.
If I get targeted ads, I'm ok with that. Seeing things that may actually be interesting or relevant is somewhat useful. It's not 'scary'. You go to sites, that gets saved in a database, people query the database. It's not some 'magical' or 'evil' thing occurring. Now if that information is curated and used by someone who has less capitalist plans for it (government, agencies, Someone Bad (TM)) then I get worried, and that is where the problem could be. We have no idea on who/when/how it's being accessed to complain or worry.
I've always enjoyed my Macbook Pros. There are people who feel like it's some fashion/gimicky thing, but it has an underlying Unix/Linux flavor with an appealing GUI. You get the best of both worlds. That being said, I was excited to see my new work laptop had the TouchBar, but after about 5 minutes I put it back to the default Mac keys, and haven't looked back. I love the idea of keys that can change with context, but the reality is I never use it for that.
I enjoy the discussions of making a digital copy of ourselves to live forever, and the idea of 'is it me, or just a copy of me?' discussion/philosophy over some drinks. But I saw this article the other day and started reading it, and I found it creepy. It's a strange mixed bag of morbidness. If this wasn't someone dying, I think I would be ok with it, but the idea here just strikes me strangely. It reminds me of Neuromancer and the Finn, and a weird mix of being them, but not being them, and maybe at the same time knowing they are dead.
I think this is because most owners have no idea what their pet should look like. I have friends who have commented 'oh, they are supposed to look that way' when their pup looked like an overstuffed sausage with legs. There is no way the vet looked at that animal and said 'Amazing specimen of health there!' I have found that as we have gotten healthier (running, trying to eat better), so have our animals. Initially I can understand a lack of knowledge leading to poor choices, but when the vet says you have to do better, it's just like your own doctor saying it. And I think most people just go 'eh' and promise that _next year_ we'll be better.
I think this is always silly when a company claims something like this, and I think everyone in the industry understands that. However, it gets headlines, and will be used for marketing. All the normal users though will never see this article explaining why it's bull, but they'll remember 'Hmm Windows S doesn't get ransomware'. Now maybe some of the marketing people really believe this statement, however I highly doubt any of the devs or engineering team truly thought 'ah ha! We've done it!'
I think this is very subjective and depends on your point of view. For one person an oil change or a car recall may seem like no big deal, something to be put off until convenient. However I imagine the dealer and your mechanic would view it much more seriously. We are talking about maintaining a large, complicated machine capable of killing people should it malfunction. And you want to complain I didn't update some random thing I don't understand on my computer in the back office? I have customers who need their cars back.
I'm not a mechanic, but you get my point. We view security patches as important because to us they are, and in general they are, but same as maintaining your vehicle. So it's just depends on your point of view and educating people to understand why any of these things are important and the ramifications otherwise.
This wasn't meant to be a reply to the parent. My bad.
It's silly to think they won't be connected. I'm sure people 30 years ago thought it would be silly or impossible to carry a computer around with you daily, or being connected all the time to make calls or text or communicate, or that cars would need to have computers, or that 'simple' devices like washers or fridges or dryers would ever need to be 'electronic'. Now look at what we have and what we do.
It just seems silly to us, because we don't have it and it's new and unnecessary in most cases. But this is what will drive it forward until it becomes more refined, then it will actually become useful, and then at some invisible point it will become required. There will still be people who don't or buy versions that won't, but for the most part it will just be normal and people will start to ask the curmudgeons why they want to traipse downstairs just to see if the dryer is done, when they can pull up their home monitoring system on the TV and keep an eye on it.
The articles I have read pointed out they go through all the normal explanations, and then at the bottom they basically go 'well, it doesn't fit anything well with the data we have so far, so could it be exotic or cool like an alien structure? Sure, that would be cool' but they never suggest that that's the current/main hypothesis.
But you know, Aliens = Headlines.
I have a CompSci degree from a few years back, and it was heavy coding/dev/math. There is no way you could have gotten through the degree and been unable to program. I have run into recent CompSci graduates who have a hard time or can't write code, and don't even like coding. What has changed in the curriculum? Has CompSci become the catchall for 'I want a computer degree'? With that sort of expectation, I can see why I'd rather hire someone excited about dev work, than someone who has it on paper but no urge or drive or skill.
As someone who's company has paid for his phone/plan for the last 15 years, we are in the middle of having our numbers released and will be in charge of selecting our own provider and coverage plans. We've had Verizon for years, and I haven't had any complaints with coverage (mostly suburban/metro area), although I'm probably in that low-hanging fruit area where everyone has coverage.
For me now, the biggest interest is in unlimited data, tethering/hotspot usage, and how much I get before I get dropped to lower speeds, although 10 GB for hotspots seems a default. AT&T slows speeds after 22GB of data; T-Mobile seems like they don't except if you fall into the >30GB a month and there is congestion (take that as you will). My new vehicle has a built in hotspot (cool or a WTF, I'm not sure yet), but I'm stuck with AT&T if I want to put it on a plan. So far T-Mobile seems to be the most cost effective, but as others have mentioned, rural coverage will be lacking. Right now, I expect I'll be negotiating with T-Mobile to see what my wife and I can get. If that is enough savings, I may then look at a separate plan for the vehicle to help offset coverage when I travel (I travel a good bit for work).
You need a matrix just to try and keep track of what you need/where, and how to connect to avoid issues or using the 'wrong' data.
This is one of those ideas that sounds great on paper, but in reality has these sorts of side effects. No one should be discriminated against, and I'm sure they had very good examples of where/why this should be done. But then you have this on the other end where a university was doing this gratis (or call it advertising/PR if you want), but to comply with the law is ridiculous so the result is they have to pull it all.
I feel the same way. I have a MAME cabinet running with an old 21" monitor (78+ pounds) which at the time was great. Now it just feels antiquated and like more of a hassle to deal with when I want to move the cabinet around. I'm sure I'm not a purist enough, and this is more about original cabinets. If I had a original game, I can see being disappointed that it may be hard/impossible to get original-stye replacement parts.
I have generally purchased an Xbox first, then later on purchased the same gen PlayStation. But this last go around, MS really shot themselves in the foot when they announced all their 'features' that were going to limit owners and limit how/where games could be used. Then either because they were never going to do that, or they just seized on the moment, Sony said 'we aren't doing that' and basically many of us rushed to buy a PS4 instead of an Xbox One. I still haven't really seriously looked at getting one.
People running Firefox are users who are more aware than standard users. They have gone out and downloaded a non-standard (for not tech people) browser and are using it. It makes sense that they are more likely aware of their OS, and what they would want or not want; as well as able to avoid the forced Windows 10 upgrade many techies were forced into.
I think the biggest problem is that I don't know who they are targeting. The casual gamer (generally using phones and tablets) aren't going to pay this, and me as a traditional gamer sees it as a waste of money for a 'Run' style game. I downloaded it and was hopeful since it was Mario/Nintendo, but really I don't think I need much more than the free levels. It's not engaging to me, and seems to be too expensive for people who find $1.99 a lot to pay at times.
No I agree. I mean that people don't understand that cheap cables are a potential problem, regardless of if they say they are compatible or not. The lawsuit issue is that they are lying about packaging. My point is more that people have no idea that there is a real danger or problem, so they just think Apple is trying to gouge them. Which I'm sure the price is a huge profit margin, but there is a real benefit in this case outside of just the name on the package.
This is what happens when people don't understand tech. No one wants to care how their devices work, they just hear battery and equate it to their favorite AA and away they go. Not understanding that there is more involved than that, they just but cheap when they need a new or extra cable. I can understand that, but then we have these sorts of issues.
Looking at the links and white paper, this is really related to Ransomware and Defender only. In that regard, they are certainly getting better, which then makes it an easy marketing statement to make. But everyone is (generally) getting better over time. Reading between the lines, what this is really saying is that Windows Defender is most likely Good Enough for most home users, and realistically it probably is. Most signature based software is terrible and has a 40-something% efficacy rating. The free AV has been shown to be untrustworthy with adware or selling data or various unsavory activities.
Compared to enterprise/corporate options, it's really not a worthy comparison unless you have to implement it for compliance reasons. Some corporate solutions are not considered AV in the compliance sense, even if they perform the same role. And if you really are a geek and like to have better control this won't be what you want either. There are a lot of caveats in their claim, but it makes headlines.
Yes. This is something I've noticed with friends who wear them. I hear how many steps they walked, but I don't know anyone that took a baseline of how many steps they walk normally. If you are already walking 8000 steps a day, then walking 10,000 isn't that big a deal (I'm making up numbers). They really need to build in a deficit to show 'you are below your daily average' vs just a raw total that may make you feel more productive than you really were.
Exactly. A person was not sitting there watching the news thinking 'Excellent, we can get some extra dollars from this.' The algorithm saw more people than normal were suddenly looking for a ride, and the prices went up. From what I see, when Uber realized _why_ they tried to make adjustments, but people still complained they weren't adjusting it enough or in all areas or such.
This isn't a company trying to profit from terrorism; this is a company who has a product that is not being accused because they probably haven't had to deal with this before. And accurate news coverage during these times isn't exactly spot on; I doubt it was clear who/what/where was going on so they could accurately make all changes that in hindsight would have made sense.
I think this is a reflection of everyone being frustrated, and being unable to do anything about it. You try and find answers in what you know. If apps are your world, then you hope to develop and code your way into a solution. I think the intent is laudable, even if in the end the app is a non-starter.