The only thing stopping it is the cost of the hardware required to support it. The VR unit itself in addition to the decent horsepower machine that runs it puts the cost out of reach for those who can just buy a console for their gaming fix.
When the hardware prices come down, more developers will create content because they will have a larger potential player base.
Right now it's akin to a Tesla. Lot's of fun, but not affordable enough for the masses.
Regardless of it being bipartisan or not, it is a bill that is long overdue.
If Law Enforcement is allowed to have such toys as these, then some oversight will be necessary to ensure they don't abuse them. Based on how judges are tossing out evidence when LE lies about using them ( at the behest of the FBI and their NDA ), one would think that they would welcome the rule. They'll complain about how much harder the job is, red tape, etc. but. . . .
Evidence tends to stick better when you follow the proper ( and legal ) procedures in procuring it.
Not only did the guy buy the Tesla knowing full well what its capabilities were, he let his kiddo borrow it. To be honest, it could have been any car. Lots of people die every damn day from alcohol related crashes. The fact that this one involved a Tesla is now merely a statistic somewhere.
Why is it that no one these days bothers to take responsibility for their actions. It's always the fault of someone or something else.
It can't be his daughters fault that she was drunk, it's the folks who sold it to her ! Or the folks who manufactured it. . . . Or the folks who shipped it. . . . Etc. Etc.
It's a tragic loss. It always is.
However the facts are simple: His daughter CHOSE to drive while drunk. ( Welcome to being one of ~90k people killed every year from it )
Based on what we see today with machines and software, we're all pretty aware of the fact that we don't own any of it. Especially those machines that require code to function.
Imagine your machine implant was made by Microsoft / Apple / Google / Etc who mandates that you will accept periodic software updates to keep it in " top operating condition " and in no way, shape or form would they use any telemetry data gleaned from your prosthetic for any purposes whatsoever.:|
Your implant would also probably get a mandatory backdoor by the USG to boot.
The good folks in US Intelligence might want to whisper a few things into the ears of Customs regarding their search rules.
It is a bit more difficult to keep tabs on folks traveling abroad when they decide to leave their tracking devices. . . . ..er phones at home due to the issues experienced at the borders.
Let's put this story out there and see if we can get him to panic and / or introduce some suspicion to his relationship with the Russian government.
If I were Team Snowden, I would respond with dusting off another, yet to be released, bombshell about what potentially illegal activities the NSA has been up to.
Ok Mr. AC, let me throw this at you. With nearly 25 years of service behind you, would you just drop everything and walk out the door KNOWING what the IT job market is like if you're over 40 ? Or have you kept up with such things ?
Would you still do it knowing you're one of the few that are left that will still get a pension ? ( $450 -$500k on top of whatever you built up into a 401k ) No, new hires no longer get them, the program is phasing out but those with my level of service are the last generation who will get them.
Would you still do it knowing your skill sets are really only useful to another telecom company who will still be dealing with the same issues and the same Union ?
Or you think you might just ride out the last five years in the hope you don't get laid off before you can retire ?
Sure, it's an easy answer if you're 25. Not quite so simple once you start getting close to retirement age.
Especially since I'm not willing to start over at half of my pay nor relocate since the home is paid off.
If they're calling for a strike, then it isn't something trivial.
Everyone is quick to judge them, yet have zero information about what the contract is offering or what the issues are.
I WORK for AT&T and this article on Slashdot is the first news I have heard on the matter. ( I fall under wireline vs wireless, though our contract is also up this year )
For those who have not worked for a Union company, let me brief you on a few things.
You cannot negotiate any part of your job with the company. Salary, benefits, time off, nothing. All of it is done from the Union.
Our last contract, the healthcare premium increase effectively erased the mediocre raise we got. ( ~1 - 1.5% a year )
The company no longer trains non-management employees ( I haven't seen any training for more than a decade ) for the equipment they're responsible for. The newer folks are supposed to learn from the veteran techs. ( Who carry the job most of the time )
So you're effectively on your own to learn it. I am one of three people with a Cisco Cert ( my vacation time, my money to obtain it ) on my team and have full blown enable access to damn near every router and switch in the company. All the way up to the Core level systems.
Think about that for a moment. The vast majority of my team has the same level of access and exactly ZERO formal training on any of it and the company could give two shits about it.
Training, healthcare costs and a raise that isn't laughable are usually the big issues that Strikes are born from. It's not that the company can't afford it, they just take their workforce for granted and think all this stuff just magically works on its own somehow.:|
Oh and for those who think you can replace everyone with just anyone off the street at a lower wage, it typically takes at least two years ( a year for the ultra-motivated ) for an already qualified someone to become proficient enough at their work to do so without help. Unless, of course, you think these folks are just born with innate knowledge of how specialized telecom hardware works and integrates with the other systems.
If that were the case, the company would have replaced everyone a long time ago.
So don't judge those considering a strike too harshly just yet. At least until we know what their reasons are.
Unions certainly had their time and place in history, but these days it seems to be less about standing up for the little guy and more about how much money can we bring in via Union Dues. ( My opinion of course, I work within a Union Company )
That said, $21 an hour is a rather laughable wage in a State with a high cost of living like California. Hell, a wage of $80k is laughable in a State where housing starts at $500k and goes right off the scale.
So there is this thought:
If Musk doesn't want his employees getting seduced by the Union, he should probably consider bumping the pay of his workers to near what the national average is and address any concerns they may have ( like excessive mandatory overtime per the article ). As long as he keeps his workforce happy, they'll have no reason to Unionize and Musk will have nothing to worry about.
Of course, there is the flip side.
Musk can say " screw this " and move the entire operation out of California and into another State where the cost of doing business is much lower.
1) Not everyone uses social media 2) Trivial to set up multiple accounts 3) If you're gonna Jihad, don't put it on FB 4) Other countries may start requiring it from US visitors 5) Other than being innaccurate ( see #1 and #2 ) and annoying, what exactly does it gain us intelligence wise ?
as it's pretty obvious the climate IS changing. I'm just not so sure about the sole root cause being what the politically correct opinion is on the matter. ( Eg: Humanity is the reason )
In the grand scheme of things, our species is a relative newcomer to all things Earth. Since long before we showed up, the planet has cycled between two states. One of them being the Greenhouse version, the other the rather Chilly Ice Age variety. It's been going on for millions of years and will continue to do so long after we're dust. I'm pretty sure we have had nothing to do with the previous cycles, thus my reluctance to blame humanity as the sole contributor to the issue.
At some point it's going to get really hot around here. The Polar Caps and glaciers will all melt and the sea levels will rise once again. Somewhere along the way a Super Volcano will do its thing or we'll get a big enough NEO impact and the resulting dust / ash clouds will block enough sunlight, cool things off and we'll swing the cycle back the other way. Wash, rinse and repeat for billions of years.
It's Natures way of reformatting the planet so to speak.
Not to say we shouldn't try and minimize the pollution we spew out. It's nice to live in a non-toxic environment where I can breathe without a coughing fit. If we want to blame human industry, so be it. Something needs to be the bad guy before folks can even be bothered to notice that something needs to be fixed.
The human variable may ultimately help speed things up, but in the end the cycle will continue to repeat itself and there isn't much we can do to stop it.
is for the developers to realize that deciding to make a game an exclusive for particular hardware is a bad idea in the long run.
I have a VR unit ( a Vive ) and it was a rather expensive add on. I see plenty of games I would pay for in a moment, if only they were not Oculus or PSVR exclusives.
No, I am NOT going to buy two or three different VR setups just to play a certain game. In the end, they'll just lose a lot of sales because of it, then declare that VR isn't worth developing for because of the poor sales figures, oblivious to the why behind it.
End of VR.
So!
Quit trying to be the hardware standard.
Make your games cross platform ( is a bonus for multiplayer games ) and let the consumers decide whose hardware is the better choice instead of trying to influence it with exclusive titles.
You guys let me know when I can run Rhino, Zbrush, A few different rendering systems, the entire Adobe suite, etc on a Linux platform without resorting to a VM which may / may not allow me to use the software to its full potential. ( If at all )
Oh and games. All Windows games must also run flawlessly in Linux as well.
When that happens, I'll happily swith to Linux. Until then, Windows it is.
Just have to tell the router to block all MS update endpoints.
Will the VM allow the full use of the GPU or are you limited to the VM's drivers like you are in VirtualBox ?
If the latter over the former, then using Windows in a VM to run a CAD, 3D application or a GPU based rendering system is going to be a bit disappointing I think.
Some of us run Windows because we have no choice. The software we use costs more than the OS and the hardware combined and may or may not have a Linux variant.
"In the Trump administration era of 'alternative facts,' what happens to government data?"
The only thing that's changing here is what it's being called. Alternative Facts / Propaganda / Fake News / Misleading Information / Stretching the Truth / Whatever
This is an issue with any administration, in any government around the world. They're going to twist things however they can to in order to ensure you are thinking about a topic in a certain way.
Some examples:
The WMD debacle that led to the Iraq invasion. The filtering of news coverage for the Iraq War. ( and any conflict since Vietnam for that matter ) Number of civilians killed as collateral damage in any military operation. Unemployment numbers ( which conveniently leave out those who exhaust their unemployment benefits and aren't counted as unemployed ) Blaming Russia / Hackers for anything that happens these days
Some folks in control of the distribution of information are ALWAYS going to distort it in such a way to ensure it is of maximum value to whatever agenda they're trying to push. This is certainly nothing new. As a result, the history you and I are familiar with may or may not actually be the full truth. ( a partial one, or even anything close to the truth at all )
The moral of this story is this: I wouldn't trust any source of information one hundred percent, no matter where it comes from.
Your in-house coders create their own Instant Messaging application. All messages are encrypted in transit and flow through centralized company owned servers where any and all messages can be retained for however long you need them to be.
Ours supports simple text messaging, behind the scenes encryption, file transfers, multi-user group meetings, screen sharing / remote access, employee searches, etc. etc. It's probably more robust than many commercial texting systems are.
Hell, I even get a daily digest of all my messages in an email so I can keep them for record purposes and future referencing myself.
If the telemetry data you're collecting isn't personal or identifiable data ( as is always the claim ), then you have no reason to hide it behind encryption and we should be able to both see AND approve the release of any telemetry related information before it is transmitted.
Just two simple things will encourage me to upgrade to Windows 10
1) Allow us to disable all your telemetry features without having to air-gap the system. 2) Allow all users ( not just enterprise ) to disable your automatic-updates
Remedy those two issues and I'll move on past Windows 7 for my internet connected systems.
or !
I'll even entertain a third option.
That being Microsoft assumes full financial responsibility for any and all productivity loss due to the release of one of their " forced " updates.
In fact, that amazing looking girl on Facebook that's interested in you might just be a Federal Agent if you, your friends or family are on their radar.
What is the unemployment threshold going to be? When unemployment caused by automation, robotics, etc reaches 10%? 15%... 20%..?
* * * * *
I suppose it depends on which metric we will be using.
The true one which includes everone out of work, or the published one which conveniently leaves out those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits and are no longer a variable in those calculations.
Pensions are on the endangered species list last I checked. Only those who have been in the workforce for quite a while ( say 20+ ) years will be the ones who will still have a pension available to them.
Even in my own company, which is a Fortune 500 flavor, pensions are being phased out. If you hired on after a certain date, you are no longer eligible for one. Better put some extra into your savings plan.
Full healthcare benefits ( that are affordable ) are going to be another rarity in new careers / jobs. Mine have gone from Amazing to Shit in a few short years. ( coincides with the ACA actually )
So to find a job with all of your points intact, would be an amazing find for anyone I think.
This is how all administrations " roll ". Regardless if they had any hand in it whatsoever, if it happens during their tenure, then they'll take the credit or blame for it.
For example, take the economy.
If it tanks over the next four years, the Trump haters will have millions more joining their ranks. If it improves, a lot of folks may have a change of heart.
It won't make any difference if Trump directly or indirectly does anything to reach those results. He will, however, either get the blame or the praise for it.
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Agreed.
The only thing stopping it is the cost of the hardware required to support it. The VR unit itself in addition to the decent horsepower machine that runs it puts the cost out of reach for those who can just buy a console for their gaming fix.
When the hardware prices come down, more developers will create content because they will have a larger potential player base.
Right now it's akin to a Tesla. Lot's of fun, but not affordable enough for the masses.
Regardless of it being bipartisan or not, it is a bill that is long overdue.
If Law Enforcement is allowed to have such toys as these, then some oversight will be necessary to ensure they don't abuse them. Based on how judges are tossing out evidence when LE lies about using them ( at the behest of the FBI and their NDA ), one would think that they would welcome the rule. They'll complain about how much harder the job is, red tape, etc. but. . . .
Evidence tends to stick better when you follow the proper ( and legal ) procedures in procuring it.
Not only did the guy buy the Tesla knowing full well what its capabilities were, he let his kiddo borrow it. To be honest, it could have been any car. Lots of people die every damn day from alcohol related crashes. The fact that this one involved a Tesla is now merely a statistic somewhere.
Why is it that no one these days bothers to take responsibility for their actions. It's always the fault of someone or something else.
It can't be his daughters fault that she was drunk, it's the folks who sold it to her !
Or the folks who manufactured it. . . .
Or the folks who shipped it. . . .
Etc. Etc.
It's a tragic loss. It always is.
However the facts are simple: His daughter CHOSE to drive while drunk.
( Welcome to being one of ~90k people killed every year from it )
THAT'S what killed her.
Not the car.
Based on what we see today with machines and software, we're all pretty aware of the fact that we don't own any of it. Especially those machines that require code to function.
Imagine your machine implant was made by Microsoft / Apple / Google / Etc who mandates that you will accept periodic software updates to keep it in " top operating condition " and in no way, shape or form would they use any telemetry data gleaned from your prosthetic for any purposes whatsoever. :|
Your implant would also probably get a mandatory backdoor by the USG to boot.
Not only no, but hell no.
The good folks in US Intelligence might want to whisper a few things into the ears of Customs regarding their search rules.
It is a bit more difficult to keep tabs on folks traveling abroad when they decide to leave their tracking devices. . . . . .er phones at home due to the issues experienced at the borders.
and the games they play.
Let's put this story out there and see if we can get him to panic and / or introduce some suspicion to his relationship with the Russian government.
If I were Team Snowden, I would respond with dusting off another, yet to be released, bombshell about what potentially illegal activities the NSA has been up to.
Yeah, always one in the crowd.
Ok Mr. AC, let me throw this at you. With nearly 25 years of service behind you, would you just drop everything and walk out the door KNOWING what the IT job market is like if you're over 40 ? Or have you kept up with such things ?
Would you still do it knowing you're one of the few that are left that will still get a pension ? ( $450 -$500k on top of whatever you built up into a 401k ) No, new hires no longer get them, the program is phasing out but those with my level of service are the last generation who will get them.
Would you still do it knowing your skill sets are really only useful to another telecom company who will still be dealing with the same issues and the same Union ?
Or you think you might just ride out the last five years in the hope you don't get laid off before you can retire ?
Sure, it's an easy answer if you're 25. Not quite so simple once you start getting close to retirement age.
Especially since I'm not willing to start over at half of my pay nor relocate since the home is paid off.
If they're calling for a strike, then it isn't something trivial.
Everyone is quick to judge them, yet have zero information about what the contract is offering or what the issues are.
I WORK for AT&T and this article on Slashdot is the first news I have heard on the matter. ( I fall under wireline vs wireless, though our contract is also up this year )
For those who have not worked for a Union company, let me brief you on a few things.
You cannot negotiate any part of your job with the company. Salary, benefits, time off, nothing. All of it is done from the Union.
Our last contract, the healthcare premium increase effectively erased the mediocre raise we got. ( ~1 - 1.5% a year )
The company no longer trains non-management employees ( I haven't seen any training for more than a decade ) for the equipment they're responsible for.
The newer folks are supposed to learn from the veteran techs. ( Who carry the job most of the time )
So you're effectively on your own to learn it. I am one of three people with a Cisco Cert ( my vacation time, my money to obtain it ) on my team and have full blown enable access to damn near every router and switch in the company. All the way up to the Core level systems.
Think about that for a moment. The vast majority of my team has the same level of access and exactly ZERO formal training on any of it and the company could give two shits about it.
Training, healthcare costs and a raise that isn't laughable are usually the big issues that Strikes are born from. It's not that the company can't afford it, they just take their workforce for granted and think all this stuff just magically works on its own somehow. :|
Oh and for those who think you can replace everyone with just anyone off the street at a lower wage, it typically takes at least two years ( a year for the ultra-motivated ) for an already qualified someone to become proficient enough at their work to do so without help. Unless, of course, you think these folks are just born with innate knowledge of how specialized telecom hardware works and integrates with the other systems.
If that were the case, the company would have replaced everyone a long time ago.
So don't judge those considering a strike too harshly just yet. At least until we know what their reasons are.
Unions certainly had their time and place in history, but these days it seems to be less about standing up for the little guy and more about how much money can we bring in via Union Dues. ( My opinion of course, I work within a Union Company )
That said, $21 an hour is a rather laughable wage in a State with a high cost of living like California. Hell, a wage of $80k is laughable in a State where housing starts at $500k and goes right off the scale.
So there is this thought:
If Musk doesn't want his employees getting seduced by the Union, he should probably consider bumping the pay of his workers to near what the national average is and address any concerns they may have ( like excessive mandatory overtime per the article ). As long as he keeps his workforce happy, they'll have no reason to Unionize and Musk will have nothing to worry about.
Of course, there is the flip side.
Musk can say " screw this " and move the entire operation out of California and into another State where the cost of doing business is much lower.
1) Not everyone uses social media
2) Trivial to set up multiple accounts
3) If you're gonna Jihad, don't put it on FB
4) Other countries may start requiring it from US visitors
5) Other than being innaccurate ( see #1 and #2 ) and annoying, what exactly does it gain us intelligence wise ?
as it's pretty obvious the climate IS changing.
I'm just not so sure about the sole root cause being what the politically correct opinion is on the matter. ( Eg: Humanity is the reason )
In the grand scheme of things, our species is a relative newcomer to all things Earth. Since long before we showed up, the planet has cycled between two states. One of them being the Greenhouse version, the other the rather Chilly Ice Age variety. It's been going on for millions of years and will continue to do so long after we're dust. I'm pretty sure we have had nothing to do with the previous cycles, thus my reluctance to blame humanity as the sole contributor to the issue.
At some point it's going to get really hot around here. The Polar Caps and glaciers will all melt and the sea levels will rise once again. Somewhere along the way a Super Volcano will do its thing or we'll get a big enough NEO impact and the resulting dust / ash clouds will block enough sunlight, cool things off and we'll swing the cycle back the other way. Wash, rinse and repeat for billions of years.
It's Natures way of reformatting the planet so to speak.
Not to say we shouldn't try and minimize the pollution we spew out. It's nice to live in a non-toxic environment where I can breathe without a coughing fit.
If we want to blame human industry, so be it. Something needs to be the bad guy before folks can even be bothered to notice that something needs to be fixed.
The human variable may ultimately help speed things up, but in the end the cycle will continue to repeat itself and there isn't much we can do to stop it.
The only labor shortage in engineering is CHEAP labor. There are plenty of domestic engineers out there. They just:
Cost more than you're willing to pay.
or
Don't want to live in your super high cost of living areas.
Mix both of those together and the only folks you will find willing to do it at all is from offshore labor farms.
Which is why they import it from India.
is for the developers to realize that deciding to make a game an exclusive for particular hardware is a bad idea in the long run.
I have a VR unit ( a Vive ) and it was a rather expensive add on. I see plenty of games I would pay for in a moment, if only they were not Oculus or PSVR exclusives.
No, I am NOT going to buy two or three different VR setups just to play a certain game. In the end, they'll just lose a lot of sales because of it, then declare that VR isn't worth developing for because of the poor sales figures, oblivious to the why behind it.
End of VR.
So!
Quit trying to be the hardware standard.
Make your games cross platform ( is a bonus for multiplayer games ) and let the consumers decide whose hardware is the better choice instead of trying to influence it with exclusive titles.
Exactly.
" Save your shit " LOL
Lessee. My last animation test was 300 frames of VR ready output at 2160 x 1080 resolution. ( 10 seconds of animation )
It took ~25 hours to render it out on a pretty robust GPU.
If I had to use a Win 10 system to do this with, I would disconnect it from the internet and allow local access only.
Some folks think the only things we do on a computer is write code and maybe a spreadsheet or two :|
You guys let me know when I can run Rhino, Zbrush, A few different rendering systems, the entire Adobe suite, etc on a Linux platform without resorting to a VM which may / may not allow me to use the software to its full potential. ( If at all )
Oh and games. All Windows games must also run flawlessly in Linux as well.
When that happens, I'll happily swith to Linux. Until then, Windows it is.
Just have to tell the router to block all MS update endpoints.
Will the VM allow the full use of the GPU or are you limited to the VM's drivers like you are in VirtualBox ?
If the latter over the former, then using Windows in a VM to run a CAD, 3D application or a GPU based rendering system is going to be a bit disappointing I think.
Some of us run Windows because we have no choice. The software we use costs more than the OS and the hardware combined and may or may not have a Linux variant.
You tend to forget one thing:
While States can do as they please, if you don't play the game by Fed rules, then they don't have to give you Fed money.
Which is cool as long as your State runs a budget surplus every year and doesn't need it.
Since the majority do not, it's easy leverage to get the States to play ball.
Watch how fast the States change their mind about sanctuary cities once their allowance is cut off.
"In the Trump administration era of 'alternative facts,' what happens to government data?"
The only thing that's changing here is what it's being called.
Alternative Facts / Propaganda / Fake News / Misleading Information / Stretching the Truth / Whatever
This is an issue with any administration, in any government around the world. They're going to twist things however they can to in order to ensure
you are thinking about a topic in a certain way.
Some examples:
The WMD debacle that led to the Iraq invasion.
The filtering of news coverage for the Iraq War. ( and any conflict since Vietnam for that matter )
Number of civilians killed as collateral damage in any military operation.
Unemployment numbers ( which conveniently leave out those who exhaust their unemployment benefits and aren't counted as unemployed )
Blaming Russia / Hackers for anything that happens these days
Some folks in control of the distribution of information are ALWAYS going to distort it in such a way to ensure it is of maximum value to whatever agenda
they're trying to push. This is certainly nothing new. As a result, the history you and I are familiar with may or may not actually be the full truth. ( a partial
one, or even anything close to the truth at all )
The moral of this story is this: I wouldn't trust any source of information one hundred percent, no matter where it comes from.
Your in-house coders create their own Instant Messaging application.
All messages are encrypted in transit and flow through centralized company owned servers where any and all messages can be retained for however long you need them to be.
Ours supports simple text messaging, behind the scenes encryption, file transfers, multi-user group meetings, screen sharing / remote access, employee searches, etc. etc. It's probably more robust than many commercial texting systems are.
Hell, I even get a daily digest of all my messages in an email so I can keep them for record purposes and future referencing myself.
Oh and one other thing. . . . . .
If the telemetry data you're collecting isn't personal or identifiable data ( as is always the claim ), then you have no reason to hide it behind encryption and we should be able to both see AND approve the release of any telemetry related information before it is transmitted.
Just two simple things will encourage me to upgrade to Windows 10
1) Allow us to disable all your telemetry features without having to air-gap the system.
2) Allow all users ( not just enterprise ) to disable your automatic-updates
Remedy those two issues and I'll move on past Windows 7 for my internet connected systems.
or !
I'll even entertain a third option.
That being Microsoft assumes full financial responsibility for any and all productivity loss due to the release of one of their " forced " updates.
Yes it does.
In fact, that amazing looking girl on Facebook that's interested in you might just be a Federal Agent if you, your friends or family are on their radar.
You know the saying:
If it's too good to be true . . . .
What is the unemployment threshold going to be?
When unemployment caused by automation, robotics, etc reaches 10%?
15%...
20%..?
* * * * *
I suppose it depends on which metric we will be using.
The true one which includes everone out of work, or the published one which conveniently leaves out those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits and are no longer a variable in those calculations.
Did you say Pension ?
Pensions are on the endangered species list last I checked. Only those who have been in the workforce for quite a while ( say 20+ ) years will be the ones who will still have a pension available to them.
Even in my own company, which is a Fortune 500 flavor, pensions are being phased out.
If you hired on after a certain date, you are no longer eligible for one. Better put some extra into your savings plan.
Full healthcare benefits ( that are affordable ) are going to be another rarity in new careers / jobs. Mine have gone from Amazing to Shit in a few short years. ( coincides with the ACA actually )
So to find a job with all of your points intact, would be an amazing find for anyone I think.
This is how all administrations " roll ".
Regardless if they had any hand in it whatsoever, if it happens during their tenure, then they'll take the credit or blame for it.
For example, take the economy.
If it tanks over the next four years, the Trump haters will have millions more joining their ranks.
If it improves, a lot of folks may have a change of heart.
It won't make any difference if Trump directly or indirectly does anything to reach those results.
He will, however, either get the blame or the praise for it.
That's just how it works.