You are spending like $150K/year minimum on each developer by the time benefits/real estate costs/etc are factored in. Don't you want every last bit of their productivity? Let them order whatever system they want from Best Buy and structure your security policies so that they don't get in the way of what they need to be done. Drive encryption/strong passwords/2FA/remote admin access would be reasonable, locked down list of allowed apps is not.
You can get a Chromebook and run packaged, maintanance free Android apps and games. If you want to develop, you can install Ubuntu/some other Linux disto as chroot (Crouton) without impacting stability/maintainance-free operation of the main OS.
Yes, you will be happy to know that bathrooms in space are 100% unisex. However you might need to bring along an adapter to achieve hermetic seal with any non-standard equipment that you might have. Remember that a space bathroom needs to suck your stuff off or it will float around the cabin in tiny droplets.
On that subject, please don't try the pull out method if you get busy with a crewmate.
That's a nice point of view for the wealthy. For someone who is not making much money and needs training for a better job, the question is not "Does VR work", it's "How VR can be made to work the best it possibly can". There is no need for a PhD to teach college freshmen. In fact, they pretty much make graduate TAs do the work. And there are highly educated people in developing countries who will be happy to earn what for them is good money providing one on one online help when needed.
Of course eventually there is a need for hands on work on real objects and certification. But we can pare that down where those who mastered virtual training travel to a specialized center for a week per semester while saving money by living at home for the rest of the time.
A few skills, such as software engineering, can be already acquired 100% online. In two decades, VR will make majority of high education possible to acquire without human labor, or with help of professors from parts of the world with low cost of living. At this point, we will probably just fund the remaining costs like we do for K-12 schools.
Oh sure, ultra rich will keep their private colleges with dorms, football teams and fraternities. These things will just be understood to have nothing to do with education.
If you actually read the essay, the proposed alternatives to Democracy are not monarchy or aristocracy. It's moving into new niches which are free from centralized government control, such as cyberspace, outer space or seasteading.
On the other hand, you have been drinking some cool aid. It's a straightforward fact that the more areas of your life are subject to democratic control, the less free you are to follow your individual wishes. Of course, this is sometimes necessary, and a better alternative than a King or Queen making the call. But we should be striving to minimize the number of things people are forced to do with a gun to their head, no matter who is the gunman.
The problem for charging for anything on Internet is difficulty of assessing value. I do not know if an article will tell me anything new until I read it. Comments are a good case where I am obviously interested enough to chime in, and posting one gives me potentially huge audience. So it's a good opportunity to raise quality bar and help reward the author at the same time.
And those too cheap to pay can still go chime in on umm... content aggregator websites.
If you are going to insist on automatic updates, ensure that they can be applied to a running system, up to hotswapping parts of the kernel. Or just back off. My system is not a toy and is certainly not your toy. You don't get to decide if I get interrupted either today or 3 days later,
Uber has no differentiating factors from Lyft or Taxis besides price, and the driver is free to also or exclusively drive for Lyft. One could argue that the company should find ways to distinguish itself (electric cars? some special driver skills?) and upsell (food and beverage service?). But these things do not just happen overnight.
What else did you expect? A card for half the price will play your fun game at 1080p/60hz while your rich friends enjoy 4K/120Hz. And yes, there is barely any difference.
Cameras and microphones will continue to become more sensitive and miniaturized. You have to assume that you may be recorded and will not be able to detect that. Technology also provides ways to increase privacy though, for example use your phone to send a message to a thousand people around the world without anyone else being able to see the message or the fact of a large gathering. You may not like it, but the world does not stand still.
Silicon Valley does not have a monopoly on writing software. If not for our carefully cultivated brain drain, these graduates from world's top universities would have started companies where they live. Look where most of world's smartphone makers are. Federal government, please do not mess with our tech OR agricultural immigration that you simply do not understand. It's as idiotic as Republicans talking about female reproductive system or Democrats talking about guns.
What they are trying to do is "red pill the normies"? My question, is - is there any hope to blue pill the groupies? People come in genuinely distressed and the question is weather they will ever be willing to listen to reason rather than making idiots of themselves and alienating anyone willing to help them?
Or fracking operation? Coal power plant? Of course not, especially if you can get your lights on and your care cruising on the highway through other means. You would rather have a thousands birds ground by wind turbines per day than get lung cancer from breathing radioactive coal smog.
So why are these things next to your home? Of course, because government has forced you and only the Standing Rock tribe had the cojones to call their bullshit. Fossil fuel industry only still exists because we are spineless.
California/Silicon Valley government has made it simultaneously illegal for folks of ordinary means to access new housing (NIMBY) and to support themselves (for example it's against regulations to cook food at home and sell it to neighbors). At the same time, tech corporations pay very little taxes as for some insane (likely lobbyist-driven) risen, Prop 13 that was intended to help grandma applies to commercial real estate.
So we have a handful of tech corporations and thousands of young single employees in tiny studios living among crumbling infrastructure and Democratic party officials wondering why they lost on national arena.
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Seriously. For whatever reason Ivanka has some pull in Washington and can use it for good. Why not every 5 year old in the country trying coding?
Good for them then. Probably cheaper and better localized than official Apple and Samsung.
You are spending like $150K/year minimum on each developer by the time benefits/real estate costs/etc are factored in. Don't you want every last bit of their productivity? Let them order whatever system they want from Best Buy and structure your security policies so that they don't get in the way of what they need to be done. Drive encryption/strong passwords/2FA/remote admin access would be reasonable, locked down list of allowed apps is not.
You can get a Chromebook and run packaged, maintanance free Android apps and games. If you want to develop, you can install Ubuntu/some other Linux disto as chroot (Crouton) without impacting stability/maintainance-free operation of the main OS.
Eh... who do you think is enforcing these software licenses in the first place?
Yes, you will be happy to know that bathrooms in space are 100% unisex. However you might need to bring along an adapter to achieve hermetic seal with any non-standard equipment that you might have. Remember that a space bathroom needs to suck your stuff off or it will float around the cabin in tiny droplets.
On that subject, please don't try the pull out method if you get busy with a crewmate.
That's a nice point of view for the wealthy. For someone who is not making much money and needs training for a better job, the question is not "Does VR work", it's "How VR can be made to work the best it possibly can". There is no need for a PhD to teach college freshmen. In fact, they pretty much make graduate TAs do the work. And there are highly educated people in developing countries who will be happy to earn what for them is good money providing one on one online help when needed.
Of course eventually there is a need for hands on work on real objects and certification. But we can pare that down where those who mastered virtual training travel to a specialized center for a week per semester while saving money by living at home for the rest of the time.
A few skills, such as software engineering, can be already acquired 100% online. In two decades, VR will make majority of high education possible to acquire without human labor, or with help of professors from parts of the world with low cost of living. At this point, we will probably just fund the remaining costs like we do for K-12 schools.
Oh sure, ultra rich will keep their private colleges with dorms, football teams and fraternities. These things will just be understood to have nothing to do with education.
If you actually read the essay, the proposed alternatives to Democracy are not monarchy or aristocracy. It's moving into new niches which are free from centralized government control, such as cyberspace, outer space or seasteading.
On the other hand, you have been drinking some cool aid. It's a straightforward fact that the more areas of your life are subject to democratic control, the less free you are to follow your individual wishes. Of course, this is sometimes necessary, and a better alternative than a King or Queen making the call. But we should be striving to minimize the number of things people are forced to do with a gun to their head, no matter who is the gunman.
This seems pretty short sighted when you are trying an experimental treatment, why not treat one eye and see (or don't see) what happens?
Just use coal for these 2-3 days, it's fine. We need to reduce CO2 emissions in a big picture, occasional exceptions do not matter much.
Charge for crossing certain points during peak hours, give locals a transponder to wave the fee. It's basic supply and demand.
Just saying, robots might not be the only customers.
The problem for charging for anything on Internet is difficulty of assessing value. I do not know if an article will tell me anything new until I read it. Comments are a good case where I am obviously interested enough to chime in, and posting one gives me potentially huge audience. So it's a good opportunity to raise quality bar and help reward the author at the same time.
And those too cheap to pay can still go chime in on umm... content aggregator websites.
Yeah right, like they are going to do anything about real trolls.
Since you're still using Windows after all these years of Microsoft doing those very things
Where did you get this impression?
If you are going to insist on automatic updates, ensure that they can be applied to a running system, up to hotswapping parts of the kernel. Or just back off. My system is not a toy and is certainly not your toy. You don't get to decide if I get interrupted either today or 3 days later,
Absolutely. Half goes to taxes and rent for a townhouse is like $4K/month. Better watch your expenses!
Uber has no differentiating factors from Lyft or Taxis besides price, and the driver is free to also or exclusively drive for Lyft. One could argue that the company should find ways to distinguish itself (electric cars? some special driver skills?) and upsell (food and beverage service?). But these things do not just happen overnight.
People who have money to spare (TM)
What else did you expect? A card for half the price will play your fun game at 1080p/60hz while your rich friends enjoy 4K/120Hz. And yes, there is barely any difference.
Cameras and microphones will continue to become more sensitive and miniaturized. You have to assume that you may be recorded and will not be able to detect that. Technology also provides ways to increase privacy though, for example use your phone to send a message to a thousand people around the world without anyone else being able to see the message or the fact of a large gathering. You may not like it, but the world does not stand still.
Silicon Valley does not have a monopoly on writing software. If not for our carefully cultivated brain drain, these graduates from world's top universities would have started companies where they live. Look where most of world's smartphone makers are. Federal government, please do not mess with our tech OR agricultural immigration that you simply do not understand. It's as idiotic as Republicans talking about female reproductive system or Democrats talking about guns.
What they are trying to do is "red pill the normies"? My question, is - is there any hope to blue pill the groupies? People come in genuinely distressed and the question is weather they will ever be willing to listen to reason rather than making idiots of themselves and alienating anyone willing to help them?
Or fracking operation? Coal power plant? Of course not, especially if you can get your lights on and your care cruising on the highway through other means. You would rather have a thousands birds ground by wind turbines per day than get lung cancer from breathing radioactive coal smog.
So why are these things next to your home? Of course, because government has forced you and only the Standing Rock tribe had the cojones to call their bullshit. Fossil fuel industry only still exists because we are spineless.
California/Silicon Valley government has made it simultaneously illegal for folks of ordinary means to access new housing (NIMBY) and to support themselves (for example it's against regulations to cook food at home and sell it to neighbors). At the same time, tech corporations pay very little taxes as for some insane (likely lobbyist-driven) risen, Prop 13 that was intended to help grandma applies to commercial real estate.
So we have a handful of tech corporations and thousands of young single employees in tiny studios living among crumbling infrastructure and Democratic party officials wondering why they lost on national arena.