3D is a great feature for appropriate content, like kids movies, horror movies and console video game. But it's not so great if there is no content. Pretty much every major movie was released in 3D in theaters, but very few got to streaming and then for exorbitant prices. Now the same thing is happening with 4K. MPAA will never learn.
I obviously have not personally experienced each situation. But, for your own benefit, please consider that you are the only common factor between all these jobs. So chances are, you are either choosing rotten jobs, allowing unhealthy dynamics to be established once you are there, or misinterpreting what is happening.
(I am a female engineer).
I would buy that for one or two jobs out of five. If all five turned out badly, this is almost certainly not the main factor. Furthermore, it's one thing that you can do nothing to change, so it's best to focus efforts elsewhere.
I frequently have to 'Disagree but Commit' in the interest of getting things done
That's a perfectly expected and normal occurrence in a hierarchical organization and treating it as an outrage is guaranteed to spoil working relationship with a tech lead. Everyone has a job description, even if someone can hypothetically do that job better, or think they can.
A dozen things have to go right for a job to contribute to rise of your career, only one has to go wrong for it to become a personal and professional disaster. Like in Poker, you have to quickly fold most hands till you are dealt a very good one.
That said, you may be misreading the situation. So long as you are not too worried about bring to find another job with decent pay, this person has much more to lose than you. Starting to forward any obviously unreasonable/contradictory communication to manager/tech lead could be a great way to make them back off.
End user has no control or understanding of how apps use mobile data or precisely when they are on WiFi or LTE. Metered plans result in half of the users randomly hit up for extra $500, half paying for expensive plan they do not need and everyone hating their career and jumping to the first available alternative.
Cell service providers and video service providers just have to work together to manage network congestion so that user doesn't have to and provide "480p" and "HD" plans with predictable price. Looks like T-mobile is well underway in that direction.
Regular 1080p move is $2.99 to rent, 3D or 4K versions are own-only for $34. If you are serious about building a movement, you have to make a wide catalog available for no extra cost for a couple of years. When everyone bought capable TVs and developed appreciation for enhanced content, you will be able to charge a modest premium. At this point you might as well kill SD and make HD version $2.49 and 3D $4.99.
Current marketing strategy puts the cart before the horse. Consumers do not even have capable TV sets and have not gotten used to wearing dorky glasses and you already want them to pay 10x for the same movie. I guess MPAA and RIAA never had any brains and will go out of business in a couple of years when everyone has switched to interactive VR gaming instead of movies that cost twice more to buy.
I am using this setup with current m3 compute stick and lubuntu and it makes a great desktop for productivity apps and 4K video for ridiculously low cost. Hit and miss with Steam though, and VMWare/Wine freeze trying to emulate DirectX for Windows only games. For some reason, Unity introduces more slowdown than pretty much anything else, hence LXDE.
If they improve GPU performance in next generation, this will be a great replacement for pretty much anything.
Overclocking 33mhz 386 to 40mhz was a solid bump in practical productivity. In what work or fun activities will CPU be a bottleneck in this case? Are GPU, RAM, flash and so on speced and overclocked to accommodate increased CPU speed?
I can imagine solving an NP-complete problem for which no parallel algorithms are known. For everything else, multi GPU setup or a box full of inexpensive compute sticks will probably provide better bang for the buck. Games and productivity apps are usually written to avoid serial NP-complete problems because then they will be pretty slow.
Either they will finally educate themselves about computer security. Or their e-mails and stuff will get erased, which is probably for the best given how embarrassing it is whenever we get a look at it.
CPU performance is the least critical part in a modern computing scenario. Intel and others should be worrying about GPU, physics engine, AI engine, RAM speed, flash speed, wireless data speed and above all power efficiency. If you have a classic supercomputing problem, try a desktop sized box of intel computing sticks and some big fans. Linear scalability of RAM and storage will give you superior performance to a single CPU even with mediocre performance of each unit.
Gone like still very much there? There are plenty of farm jobs in CA. A lot of Silicon Valley manufacturing is not well suited to automation as technology evolves very quickly and must be delivered to market in months or be obsolete. There is constant experimentation with new materials that make a factory with fixed machinery impractical.
And, as a Democrat, I ashamed to say he is not wrong. I am sure residents of Palo Alto would rather have some manufacturing jobs than our "great values". We need to fire demagogues and elect someone who will make people love California and trust us to govern on federal level.
Cool is about pushing the boundary and enjoying experiences which are decades away from mass production. A desktop is not going to be super cool in 2016. Arduino controllers to operate hand wired power windows in your home might be.
You can get very open and hackable Linux / Chromebook+chrouton desktops and laptops, but you may be hard pressed to get them to do anything which is not already widely available.
I guess the magic of DOS was that you had a computer that you used for study work and gaming AND you could customize it to, say, create keyboard macros in your spreadsheet or slow down a game by 50% with just a page or two of code. Even non-technical users could create more customization with batch files than what they are realistically able to do with today's mobile phone.
I guess with Internet of things and some high level IDE, people can potentially start doing similar things with their smart home. It would be nice if winning technology turned out to be equally customizable and more open/approachable options became available for traditional computing devices as well. Sadly laptops/phones/game consoles are going in the opposite direction.
What was great about DOS is simplicity of taking over every part of OS functionality and customizing it to your liking. Keyboard and timer interrupts can be intercepted with a half of page of assembly and made to do cool things. Writing a character on screen is as simple as writing one byte for character code and one byte for color at a known memory address. Floppy drive controller can be trivially reprogrammed to write 1.36MB to a 720K floppy.
I think a true successor of DOS would enable similar extent of tinkering in today's world. Raspberry Pi is cool for playing with GPIO pins. But writing a kernel module is a major undertaking and the next kernel upgrade will more likely than not break the interface that you are relying on. And, in user space, systemd is the step in the wrong direction from ease of tinkering with shell scripts.
Not a fan myself, but a lot of people seem to like Python. Imagine a linux distro where every userspace command is a well commented python script that you can start editing and debugging to learn and change how everything works, with some kind of snapspotting mechanism to recover from a bad edit. Then have a generic kernel interface that can delegate device control to userspace processes. A lot more people will then start contributing to technology rather than just being frustrated by it.
Let's forget about individuals who are too physically or mentally ill to socialize for a moment. These elderly single have been married for many decades and know their years are numbered in any case. Would all of them be THAT eager to give up independence and restrict their habits to accommodate a new person they just met? Even if it means sticking around for a few years longer?
Let's not glamorize traditional hypersocial society either. It's not fun having people ring your doorbell without warning or never ending stream of social commitment that leaves little time for personal interests. Failure to adequately separate self from family and neighbors makes it difficult to succeed in ways not traditional for these groups or resist bad influences. How many join gangs because all cousins are in gangs?
We mostly live the way we do by choice. A lot will feel lonely on holidays, but would be miserable if made to experience all consequences of lifestyle of their coworkers who are having a big home gathering.
I don't know how secure enclave compares to Samsung Knox, but Android makes it much either to sideload craft-specific apps that Apple is probably not going to approve for App Store, like Bombmaking for Dummies. Plus, you can get a Galaxy Note 7 and then your phone is already a bomb.
No clean energy being viable without regulations and subsidizes would be a very sad outcome. We would have a tough time getting the whole world onboard with a plan to give up prosperity for environment. Think Putin is interested?
I understand that physics does not have to allow something which would be nice for us, but we should try harder to find a way for clean power to win economically. Including some form of fission power which is unlikely to turn into a bomb, intentionally or otherwise. Agreed that solar/wind/wave would be much less risky and safer to export outside US though. Hopefully we can somehow make it work.
Webpages and browsers are slow because they are free, simple as that. Ads and analytics are the only things that make money, so every page loads tons.
If every page cost a cent, publisher would optimize a heck out of them to make you see 5% more in a typical news reading session. If you bought browsers, creators would feel pressured to justify a purchase. Simple as that.
We got stuck in a local maximum by prioritizing free over still extremely affordable and much better quality.
Not! Quite obviously, millions of humans still don't have enough food to eat. The planet is a giant sludge pit that would take us centuries to clean up, including scooping plastic waste from oceans and scrubbing or counteracting CO2. We might want to establish a beachhead on another planet if that does not work out. The industrialized society with niceties like running water does not exist in most of the world. Population is aging and elderly care is incredibly labor intensive.
Tackling those things will require all human labor that we got, even with maximum use of contemporary automation. Remember too that robots are not environmentally clean to manufacture and operate and anything requiring more than 5 minutes of physical force has to be tethered to a power source.
So why don't we let people of 24th century worry about how to run their Star Trek economy and concern ourselves with doing backbreaking labor required of us today? Not all is best managed by a commercial corporation, and not all challenges are physically located in continental US. But people can vote for governments to undertake public service tasks and travel on ships and airplanes right?
We can not force the rest of the world to not emit CO2. The best way to stop them is to make renewable/less polluting power less expensive than coal. In California, we have drought - which is famous for lots of sun and few clouds. Think we can find a better use of land than growing almond trees?
Once we perfect solar, we can bankrupt Texas dirty manufacturing with power that literally falls on us for free from the sky. In the process, we are going to bring lots of jobs and revenue into the state and build up technology export industry for the rest of the world.
Wallowing in self pity over Trump is not solving any problems. Even with Hillary, we would have hard time convincing China, India and Russia to do much about greenhouse gases. Anyone who claims want to save the Earth needs to actually get their hands dirty.
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3D is a great feature for appropriate content, like kids movies, horror movies and console video game. But it's not so great if there is no content. Pretty much every major movie was released in 3D in theaters, but very few got to streaming and then for exorbitant prices. Now the same thing is happening with 4K. MPAA will never learn.
Ok, we now have a good understanding concerning the causes of your troubles at work.
Especially since it tends to happen at every job.
I obviously have not personally experienced each situation. But, for your own benefit, please consider that you are the only common factor between all these jobs. So chances are, you are either choosing rotten jobs, allowing unhealthy dynamics to be established once you are there, or misinterpreting what is happening.
(I am a female engineer).
I would buy that for one or two jobs out of five. If all five turned out badly, this is almost certainly not the main factor. Furthermore, it's one thing that you can do nothing to change, so it's best to focus efforts elsewhere.
I frequently have to 'Disagree but Commit' in the interest of getting things done
That's a perfectly expected and normal occurrence in a hierarchical organization and treating it as an outrage is guaranteed to spoil working relationship with a tech lead. Everyone has a job description, even if someone can hypothetically do that job better, or think they can.
A dozen things have to go right for a job to contribute to rise of your career, only one has to go wrong for it to become a personal and professional disaster. Like in Poker, you have to quickly fold most hands till you are dealt a very good one.
That said, you may be misreading the situation. So long as you are not too worried about bring to find another job with decent pay, this person has much more to lose than you. Starting to forward any obviously unreasonable/contradictory communication to manager/tech lead could be a great way to make them back off.
I mean, won't everyone have nightmares about shrinkage with constant exposure to these materials?
Agreed that Comcast is sleazy, but let's keep things in perspective here.
Shit, should have invested in a Toughbook. Or will plastic's viscosity slow bullet down to survivable speeds?
End user has no control or understanding of how apps use mobile data or precisely when they are on WiFi or LTE. Metered plans result in half of the users randomly hit up for extra $500, half paying for expensive plan they do not need and everyone hating their career and jumping to the first available alternative.
Cell service providers and video service providers just have to work together to manage network congestion so that user doesn't have to and provide "480p" and "HD" plans with predictable price. Looks like T-mobile is well underway in that direction.
Regular 1080p move is $2.99 to rent, 3D or 4K versions are own-only for $34. If you are serious about building a movement, you have to make a wide catalog available for no extra cost for a couple of years. When everyone bought capable TVs and developed appreciation for enhanced content, you will be able to charge a modest premium. At this point you might as well kill SD and make HD version $2.49 and 3D $4.99.
Current marketing strategy puts the cart before the horse. Consumers do not even have capable TV sets and have not gotten used to wearing dorky glasses and you already want them to pay 10x for the same movie. I guess MPAA and RIAA never had any brains and will go out of business in a couple of years when everyone has switched to interactive VR gaming instead of movies that cost twice more to buy.
I am using this setup with current m3 compute stick and lubuntu and it makes a great desktop for productivity apps and 4K video for ridiculously low cost. Hit and miss with Steam though, and VMWare/Wine freeze trying to emulate DirectX for Windows only games. For some reason, Unity introduces more slowdown than pretty much anything else, hence LXDE.
If they improve GPU performance in next generation, this will be a great replacement for pretty much anything.
Overclocking 33mhz 386 to 40mhz was a solid bump in practical productivity. In what work or fun activities will CPU be a bottleneck in this case? Are GPU, RAM, flash and so on speced and overclocked to accommodate increased CPU speed?
I can imagine solving an NP-complete problem for which no parallel algorithms are known. For everything else, multi GPU setup or a box full of inexpensive compute sticks will probably provide better bang for the buck. Games and productivity apps are usually written to avoid serial NP-complete problems because then they will be pretty slow.
Either they will finally educate themselves about computer security. Or their e-mails and stuff will get erased, which is probably for the best given how embarrassing it is whenever we get a look at it.
CPU performance is the least critical part in a modern computing scenario. Intel and others should be worrying about GPU, physics engine, AI engine, RAM speed, flash speed, wireless data speed and above all power efficiency. If you have a classic supercomputing problem, try a desktop sized box of intel computing sticks and some big fans. Linear scalability of RAM and storage will give you superior performance to a single CPU even with mediocre performance of each unit.
Gone like still very much there? There are plenty of farm jobs in CA. A lot of Silicon Valley manufacturing is not well suited to automation as technology evolves very quickly and must be delivered to market in months or be obsolete. There is constant experimentation with new materials that make a factory with fixed machinery impractical.
And, as a Democrat, I ashamed to say he is not wrong. I am sure residents of Palo Alto would rather have some manufacturing jobs than our "great values". We need to fire demagogues and elect someone who will make people love California and trust us to govern on federal level.
Cool is about pushing the boundary and enjoying experiences which are decades away from mass production. A desktop is not going to be super cool in 2016. Arduino controllers to operate hand wired power windows in your home might be.
You can get very open and hackable Linux / Chromebook+chrouton desktops and laptops, but you may be hard pressed to get them to do anything which is not already widely available.
I guess the magic of DOS was that you had a computer that you used for study work and gaming AND you could customize it to, say, create keyboard macros in your spreadsheet or slow down a game by 50% with just a page or two of code. Even non-technical users could create more customization with batch files than what they are realistically able to do with today's mobile phone.
I guess with Internet of things and some high level IDE, people can potentially start doing similar things with their smart home. It would be nice if winning technology turned out to be equally customizable and more open/approachable options became available for traditional computing devices as well. Sadly laptops/phones/game consoles are going in the opposite direction.
What was great about DOS is simplicity of taking over every part of OS functionality and customizing it to your liking. Keyboard and timer interrupts can be intercepted with a half of page of assembly and made to do cool things. Writing a character on screen is as simple as writing one byte for character code and one byte for color at a known memory address. Floppy drive controller can be trivially reprogrammed to write 1.36MB to a 720K floppy.
I think a true successor of DOS would enable similar extent of tinkering in today's world. Raspberry Pi is cool for playing with GPIO pins. But writing a kernel module is a major undertaking and the next kernel upgrade will more likely than not break the interface that you are relying on. And, in user space, systemd is the step in the wrong direction from ease of tinkering with shell scripts.
Not a fan myself, but a lot of people seem to like Python. Imagine a linux distro where every userspace command is a well commented python script that you can start editing and debugging to learn and change how everything works, with some kind of snapspotting mechanism to recover from a bad edit. Then have a generic kernel interface that can delegate device control to userspace processes. A lot more people will then start contributing to technology rather than just being frustrated by it.
Let's forget about individuals who are too physically or mentally ill to socialize for a moment. These elderly single have been married for many decades and know their years are numbered in any case. Would all of them be THAT eager to give up independence and restrict their habits to accommodate a new person they just met? Even if it means sticking around for a few years longer?
Let's not glamorize traditional hypersocial society either. It's not fun having people ring your doorbell without warning or never ending stream of social commitment that leaves little time for personal interests. Failure to adequately separate self from family and neighbors makes it difficult to succeed in ways not traditional for these groups or resist bad influences. How many join gangs because all cousins are in gangs?
We mostly live the way we do by choice. A lot will feel lonely on holidays, but would be miserable if made to experience all consequences of lifestyle of their coworkers who are having a big home gathering.
I don't know how secure enclave compares to Samsung Knox, but Android makes it much either to sideload craft-specific apps that Apple is probably not going to approve for App Store, like Bombmaking for Dummies. Plus, you can get a Galaxy Note 7 and then your phone is already a bomb.
No clean energy being viable without regulations and subsidizes would be a very sad outcome. We would have a tough time getting the whole world onboard with a plan to give up prosperity for environment. Think Putin is interested?
I understand that physics does not have to allow something which would be nice for us, but we should try harder to find a way for clean power to win economically. Including some form of fission power which is unlikely to turn into a bomb, intentionally or otherwise. Agreed that solar/wind/wave would be much less risky and safer to export outside US though. Hopefully we can somehow make it work.
Webpages and browsers are slow because they are free, simple as that. Ads and analytics are the only things that make money, so every page loads tons.
If every page cost a cent, publisher would optimize a heck out of them to make you see 5% more in a typical news reading session. If you bought browsers, creators would feel pressured to justify a purchase. Simple as that.
We got stuck in a local maximum by prioritizing free over still extremely affordable and much better quality.
Not! Quite obviously, millions of humans still don't have enough food to eat. The planet is a giant sludge pit that would take us centuries to clean up, including scooping plastic waste from oceans and scrubbing or counteracting CO2. We might want to establish a beachhead on another planet if that does not work out. The industrialized society with niceties like running water does not exist in most of the world. Population is aging and elderly care is incredibly labor intensive.
Tackling those things will require all human labor that we got, even with maximum use of contemporary automation. Remember too that robots are not environmentally clean to manufacture and operate and anything requiring more than 5 minutes of physical force has to be tethered to a power source.
So why don't we let people of 24th century worry about how to run their Star Trek economy and concern ourselves with doing backbreaking labor required of us today? Not all is best managed by a commercial corporation, and not all challenges are physically located in continental US. But people can vote for governments to undertake public service tasks and travel on ships and airplanes right?
That's your personal morality, not real world.
We can not force the rest of the world to not emit CO2. The best way to stop them is to make renewable/less polluting power less expensive than coal. In California, we have drought - which is famous for lots of sun and few clouds. Think we can find a better use of land than growing almond trees?
Once we perfect solar, we can bankrupt Texas dirty manufacturing with power that literally falls on us for free from the sky. In the process, we are going to bring lots of jobs and revenue into the state and build up technology export industry for the rest of the world.
Wallowing in self pity over Trump is not solving any problems. Even with Hillary, we would have hard time convincing China, India and Russia to do much about greenhouse gases. Anyone who claims want to save the Earth needs to actually get their hands dirty.