I don't think that technology like IBM's Watson will really reduce the number of doctors needed or really otherwise significantly address the shortage. A doctor will still be needed to be the primary point of contact for medical practice and specialists will still be needed to perform consultations and do more advanced work. A system like Watson may help the doctor confirm the diagnosis or to help cross-compare the multitude of symptoms to discover less common ailments that might not be recognized so easily, but the software can perform only as well as the conditions/symptoms are discovered and entered, and the doctor still has to evaluate the best treatment.
If they're doing the right thing, I should receive notice from my financial institution that Chipotle contacted them and paid for the cost to issue me new plastic.
Yep. This can happen anytime that there's money. Even Europeans with titles have had this happen; being of the peerage can help but does not make one immune to financial obligations.
Basically every new generation inherits most of the same kinds of struggles that the previous generation had. The new generation might also have a few new struggles, and might shed a few of the kinds of struggles of-old, but by and large the situation is the same as it always was. This includes the problem of how to motivate the majority of the upcoming generation to take care of itself as it reaches the age of majority.
I don't think that it is, simply because of the costs to speculatively stock inventory that probably won't sell quickly, in a retail setting.
The whole point is that if you don't want to pay a lot of money, you mailorder and wait. After all, this niche is not large enough to justify having too many local sellers of these kinds of parts. If you look at communities with a Frys Electronics, you usually only have one, maybe two, in a fairly large city.
If you want it now and in small numbers, you pay for the privilege of someone having it available on-demand for you. Sure, those three transistors might cost as much as catalog-purchasing a lot of 100, but what are you going to do with the other 97, and what are you going to do in the days or weeks to receive your shipment?
You never had to provide that information. "I don't wish to tell you that," would result in them ringing it up without trying to sign you up for the Battery Club.
For reasons probably too elaborate to get into here, more and more types of jobs cite having a college degree as a plus. More and more high schools push students toward college as the best path. Therefore more and more high school graduates seek college degrees. Colleges only have so many seats, so as demand for those seats goes up, colleges can charge more. As prices go up, coupled with the apparent need for college training, government offers loans to make college more affordable. Unfortunately this helps prices to continue to climb and may make college more accessible for those who previously might not have demonstrated the academic chops to qualify for academic-merit scholarship. Private entities see the desire and start opening more private schools, demand still goes up, and unscrupulous entities open up more schools that provide almost no beneficial education to those who would literally not be accepted elsewhere regardless of money and who drop-out, so there's little need to provide real education.
We need to be realistic about what kinds of jobs need college degreees and how much having a degree should count in the applicant's favor. We need to also look at what kinds of college programs are going to help our country to grow, and how to fund them and how to screen for admissions better, so that those who go through the training actually stick with the field that has cost real money to train them for. Lastly we need to do a better job of not demonizing those who don't ever go to college or those who enter various trades, so that high school graduates do not feel that it is beneath them to take that path if their academic chops are not really up for college.
It's arguable that immigration always leads to wage depression because it increases supply.
The H1B program should be reserved for the cream of the crop; for jobs where not only is there little supply of workers immediately available but where there are very poor prospects of training enough people to do the job.
We have plenty of shortages in the medical field, and it takes a lot of skill and effort to become a doctor. It does not take as much skill or effort to become an IT services worker, even one specialized in certain specific fields. I've seen eighteen year olds recruited fresh out of highschool pick it up and I've seen older workers that transfered within the non-IT-focused company to the IT department manage to do it. We don't need to import workers for IT, and I expect a lot of CIS and CSE jobs likewise could be done with existing population.
Save the H1B for the specialists where we really do need their help.
Yes, but for that to self-perpetuate the following generation needs to not be entirely aware that their parents got their back. They have to hunger a little, they have to have a need to put forth the effort to live independently so they learn how to be financially responsible.
My parents had my back and I didn't realize it. As a consequence I only had a couple of relatively minor scrapes where I benefitted from help; probably could have made it work without their help but it was definitely easier with it.
To contrast I know of one family where the granddad has told the now-adult grandkids of what they're going to get when he dies. He is a minor real estate mogul, the grandkids are each going to get a couple-million bucks. Right now they have essentially nothing, they live below-average as their own parents didn't learn to support themselves and did a poor job raising them; it's expected by others that know them that they'll blow through that money in a few years and be no better off than they are today.
One has to learn self-sufficiency and the only way to do that is with experience. To gain that experience you have to take risks. Cautioned risks, measured risks, but still risks. The parents should be there to help mitigate those risks but they should not entirely protect their children from them otherwise those children won't really learn.
In the nineties it was the outgrowth of Fry's Electronics.
Radio Shack had been a division of the Tandy Corporation. Tandy had several major divisions, of which Radio Shack was merely one. Tandy made missteps, opening "The Incredible Universe" with a fair amount of fanfare and expense as a competitor to the ever-growing Fry's Electronics, only to screw it up. To add insult to injury, Fry's took over many of the locations and ran them profitably without even doing a real remodel on them for a decade, not even repainting the delivery trucks other than sticking a Fry's logo on the doors.
Then they opened Tech America, as a new retail store to get rid of the excess fanfare that apparently didn't work for the Incredible Universe stores, but at least the one here was opened in the same strip mall as an existing Radio Shack, and on top of that they didn't do a good job of advertising what services the store offered. It was not even centrally located so geeks on the north or west sides of town had to drive 20-30 miles to get supplies. May as well mailorder them if that's the case, and then suddenly Tech America is competing with cheaper mailorder.
Then they renamed Tandy Corporation to the Radio Shack Corporation and brought the cell phones in, when everyone was selling cell phones, and they renamed the Tech America stores to Radio Shack . com, only to close them a couple of years later.
Radio Shack should have been the convenience-store of electronics. It should have had later hours, opening say noon and closing at 9pm, such that geeks that were working on their hobby projects could have somewhere to go to get those capacitors or relays that they needed when they either ran-short or were in a pinch to complete it. Radio Shack could have arguably charged ten times what the components were worth if they were readily available and purchasable in small quantities, people in a hurry are willing to pay the extra markup to have it now.
Instead they tried to be Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, and the cell phone store all at the same time, when in reality they should have been more like Fry's Electronics without so much of the TVs and DVDs and major appliances. They also should have pared-back on the number of stores and looked over their geography to pick locations that were convenient for residents of the cities they wanted to operate in.
for me most of the stuff you listed doesn't require HTTP or HTTPS, so it doesn't justify using a web browser, and while Google has provided web-based means for mail, calendar, etc, it's not like these functions are browser-dependent. I can access them with basically any modern-ish browser, why should I use any particular one? Arguably I should use one that isn't Google's so there's enough userbase to keep them from going off into proprietary-land.
Maybe Chrome is winning because Mozilla/Firefox is basically chromified now. I use it basically for a combination of historical reasons and because it feels like I have more control more easily over the privacy and security settings, but I am very dissatisfied with a lot of things that have come into Firefox, including this rapid-versioning system that they adopted. It's friggin' stupid that they've been copying Chrome so much, and there's not a lot of reason to continue to using Firefox except that I'm used to it.
I'm talking about carrier-grade spam filtering, not end-user spam filtering. Make it opt-in so that the carrier is simply doing what the customer asks for.
Is there a way to configure voicemail to only allow either approved numbers or approved ranges of numbers? I would be happy to approve only my local area codes if I could. That would not eliminate all spammers but might well eliminate most of them.
It also sounds like we need to push for our cell phone providers to create the voicemail equivalent of spam filters, where if the voicemail system receives too many voicemails to too many boxes from the same number it would get deleted as unwanted spam. If we as customers opt-in to this then it would be difficult for them to claim that the carriers were violating any kind of rights.
I suspect that DJI wouldn't have taken these steps if it itself wasn't being pressured to do so. I also wouldn't be surprised if the FAA was involved, given the nature of the increasing regulations on various unmanned flying machines.
One of the recent documentaries that Frontline showed featuring the fight between the Iraqi government and ISIS showed ISIS using cheap off-the-shelf quadcopters to attempt to stealthily bomb Iraqi units with hand grenades. Fly high, operate the mechanism that drops the grenade such that its release activates the timer, and by the time anyone on the ground is aware of the danger there's no time to react to it.
When you replace your phone every chance you get because they've convinced you that it you must, it doesn't matter if the battery is removable because you'll never wear it out.
We saw this with cars back in the day. Old cars from the fifties, sixties, seventies weren't built better than modern cars. They might have been physically tougher in the chassis, but in some ways that has proven to be a problem as it leads to occupant death in crashes. Those era cars were not really expected to exceed 100,000 miles. Cylinder heads had soft valve seats that would sink valves. Interiors were very poorly constructed and would wear badly. Support components like waterpumps and power steering pumps would fail. Bushings in the suspension systems would go bad. Car bodies were prone to rust if you talked about salt around them and the retainers for trim would break and the brightwork would come off. This didn't matter though, as most new-car buyers bought new vehicles often, the cars simply didn't have to be built that well because it didn't hurt sales.
Modern cars are expected to reach closer to 200,000 miles before major problems threaten to take the vehicle off the road, and build quality is a lot higher for generally all components, albeit with each manufacturer having their own weak points in their designs. We should probably think about our electronics like this too, especially when the average buyer won't use whatever enhanced capabilities the new phone has. Maybe if we're a little more judicious about when we replace devices we could get our manufacturers to do a better job supporting the existing stuff so that we can actually get OS updates.
Given that it's for an "active" lifestyle which presumably means outdoorsy stuff, hopefully they've added a parabolic curve to the glass screen so that it has a focal point about six inches from the screen, so tha you can concentrate sunlight when you're lost in the wilderness to make a cooking or signal fire.
Then congratulations, you will continue to fall into the 20-30% range for at least one vehicle in your household.
If it's any consolation I will undoubtedly find myself in the same position, partially since working on cars is a hobby of mine and since we currently have six vehicles already. I wouldn't mind for my daily-commuter and for my wife's daily-commuter to be autonomous, electric vehicles through.
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I don't think that technology like IBM's Watson will really reduce the number of doctors needed or really otherwise significantly address the shortage. A doctor will still be needed to be the primary point of contact for medical practice and specialists will still be needed to perform consultations and do more advanced work. A system like Watson may help the doctor confirm the diagnosis or to help cross-compare the multitude of symptoms to discover less common ailments that might not be recognized so easily, but the software can perform only as well as the conditions/symptoms are discovered and entered, and the doctor still has to evaluate the best treatment.
Harder to be an IT professional than a doctor? I don't see that.
If they're doing the right thing, I should receive notice from my financial institution that Chipotle contacted them and paid for the cost to issue me new plastic.
Yep. This can happen anytime that there's money. Even Europeans with titles have had this happen; being of the peerage can help but does not make one immune to financial obligations.
Basically every new generation inherits most of the same kinds of struggles that the previous generation had. The new generation might also have a few new struggles, and might shed a few of the kinds of struggles of-old, but by and large the situation is the same as it always was. This includes the problem of how to motivate the majority of the upcoming generation to take care of itself as it reaches the age of majority.
Is it?
I don't think that it is, simply because of the costs to speculatively stock inventory that probably won't sell quickly, in a retail setting.
The whole point is that if you don't want to pay a lot of money, you mailorder and wait. After all, this niche is not large enough to justify having too many local sellers of these kinds of parts. If you look at communities with a Frys Electronics, you usually only have one , maybe two, in a fairly large city.
If you want it now and in small numbers, you pay for the privilege of someone having it available on-demand for you. Sure, those three transistors might cost as much as catalog-purchasing a lot of 100, but what are you going to do with the other 97, and what are you going to do in the days or weeks to receive your shipment?
You never had to provide that information. "I don't wish to tell you that," would result in them ringing it up without trying to sign you up for the Battery Club.
It's a mixed bag.
For reasons probably too elaborate to get into here, more and more types of jobs cite having a college degree as a plus. More and more high schools push students toward college as the best path. Therefore more and more high school graduates seek college degrees. Colleges only have so many seats, so as demand for those seats goes up, colleges can charge more. As prices go up, coupled with the apparent need for college training, government offers loans to make college more affordable. Unfortunately this helps prices to continue to climb and may make college more accessible for those who previously might not have demonstrated the academic chops to qualify for academic-merit scholarship. Private entities see the desire and start opening more private schools, demand still goes up, and unscrupulous entities open up more schools that provide almost no beneficial education to those who would literally not be accepted elsewhere regardless of money and who drop-out, so there's little need to provide real education.
We need to be realistic about what kinds of jobs need college degreees and how much having a degree should count in the applicant's favor. We need to also look at what kinds of college programs are going to help our country to grow, and how to fund them and how to screen for admissions better, so that those who go through the training actually stick with the field that has cost real money to train them for. Lastly we need to do a better job of not demonizing those who don't ever go to college or those who enter various trades, so that high school graduates do not feel that it is beneath them to take that path if their academic chops are not really up for college.
It's arguable that immigration always leads to wage depression because it increases supply.
The H1B program should be reserved for the cream of the crop; for jobs where not only is there little supply of workers immediately available but where there are very poor prospects of training enough people to do the job.
We have plenty of shortages in the medical field, and it takes a lot of skill and effort to become a doctor. It does not take as much skill or effort to become an IT services worker, even one specialized in certain specific fields. I've seen eighteen year olds recruited fresh out of highschool pick it up and I've seen older workers that transfered within the non-IT-focused company to the IT department manage to do it. We don't need to import workers for IT, and I expect a lot of CIS and CSE jobs likewise could be done with existing population.
Save the H1B for the specialists where we really do need their help.
Yes, but for that to self-perpetuate the following generation needs to not be entirely aware that their parents got their back. They have to hunger a little, they have to have a need to put forth the effort to live independently so they learn how to be financially responsible.
My parents had my back and I didn't realize it. As a consequence I only had a couple of relatively minor scrapes where I benefitted from help; probably could have made it work without their help but it was definitely easier with it.
To contrast I know of one family where the granddad has told the now-adult grandkids of what they're going to get when he dies. He is a minor real estate mogul, the grandkids are each going to get a couple-million bucks. Right now they have essentially nothing, they live below-average as their own parents didn't learn to support themselves and did a poor job raising them; it's expected by others that know them that they'll blow through that money in a few years and be no better off than they are today.
One has to learn self-sufficiency and the only way to do that is with experience. To gain that experience you have to take risks. Cautioned risks, measured risks, but still risks. The parents should be there to help mitigate those risks but they should not entirely protect their children from them otherwise those children won't really learn.
In the nineties it was the outgrowth of Fry's Electronics.
Radio Shack had been a division of the Tandy Corporation. Tandy had several major divisions, of which Radio Shack was merely one. Tandy made missteps, opening "The Incredible Universe" with a fair amount of fanfare and expense as a competitor to the ever-growing Fry's Electronics, only to screw it up. To add insult to injury, Fry's took over many of the locations and ran them profitably without even doing a real remodel on them for a decade, not even repainting the delivery trucks other than sticking a Fry's logo on the doors.
Then they opened Tech America, as a new retail store to get rid of the excess fanfare that apparently didn't work for the Incredible Universe stores, but at least the one here was opened in the same strip mall as an existing Radio Shack, and on top of that they didn't do a good job of advertising what services the store offered. It was not even centrally located so geeks on the north or west sides of town had to drive 20-30 miles to get supplies. May as well mailorder them if that's the case, and then suddenly Tech America is competing with cheaper mailorder.
Then they renamed Tandy Corporation to the Radio Shack Corporation and brought the cell phones in, when everyone was selling cell phones, and they renamed the Tech America stores to Radio Shack . com, only to close them a couple of years later.
Radio Shack should have been the convenience-store of electronics. It should have had later hours, opening say noon and closing at 9pm, such that geeks that were working on their hobby projects could have somewhere to go to get those capacitors or relays that they needed when they either ran-short or were in a pinch to complete it. Radio Shack could have arguably charged ten times what the components were worth if they were readily available and purchasable in small quantities, people in a hurry are willing to pay the extra markup to have it now.
Instead they tried to be Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, and the cell phone store all at the same time, when in reality they should have been more like Fry's Electronics without so much of the TVs and DVDs and major appliances. They also should have pared-back on the number of stores and looked over their geography to pick locations that were convenient for residents of the cities they wanted to operate in.
*grin* sorry, just couldn't help myself.
for me most of the stuff you listed doesn't require HTTP or HTTPS, so it doesn't justify using a web browser, and while Google has provided web-based means for mail, calendar, etc, it's not like these functions are browser-dependent. I can access them with basically any modern-ish browser, why should I use any particular one? Arguably I should use one that isn't Google's so there's enough userbase to keep them from going off into proprietary-land.
I didn't know that Eric S. Raymond was involved in the Mozilla Foundation.
Maybe Chrome is winning because Mozilla/Firefox is basically chromified now. I use it basically for a combination of historical reasons and because it feels like I have more control more easily over the privacy and security settings, but I am very dissatisfied with a lot of things that have come into Firefox, including this rapid-versioning system that they adopted. It's friggin' stupid that they've been copying Chrome so much, and there's not a lot of reason to continue to using Firefox except that I'm used to it.
Are people generally in the habit of copying links to porn? That seems like a particularly terrible idea.
Dammit, wrong URL.
Should've been to XKCD https://xkcd.com/327/
Guess I should check my buffers before pasting and submitting stuff.
I donno, little Bobby Tables figured this out a long time ago.
I'm talking about carrier-grade spam filtering, not end-user spam filtering. Make it opt-in so that the carrier is simply doing what the customer asks for.
Is there a way to configure voicemail to only allow either approved numbers or approved ranges of numbers? I would be happy to approve only my local area codes if I could. That would not eliminate all spammers but might well eliminate most of them.
It also sounds like we need to push for our cell phone providers to create the voicemail equivalent of spam filters, where if the voicemail system receives too many voicemails to too many boxes from the same number it would get deleted as unwanted spam. If we as customers opt-in to this then it would be difficult for them to claim that the carriers were violating any kind of rights.
What's sarcastic about this?
I suspect that DJI wouldn't have taken these steps if it itself wasn't being pressured to do so. I also wouldn't be surprised if the FAA was involved, given the nature of the increasing regulations on various unmanned flying machines.
One of the recent documentaries that Frontline showed featuring the fight between the Iraqi government and ISIS showed ISIS using cheap off-the-shelf quadcopters to attempt to stealthily bomb Iraqi units with hand grenades. Fly high, operate the mechanism that drops the grenade such that its release activates the timer, and by the time anyone on the ground is aware of the danger there's no time to react to it.
When you replace your phone every chance you get because they've convinced you that it you must, it doesn't matter if the battery is removable because you'll never wear it out.
We saw this with cars back in the day. Old cars from the fifties, sixties, seventies weren't built better than modern cars. They might have been physically tougher in the chassis, but in some ways that has proven to be a problem as it leads to occupant death in crashes. Those era cars were not really expected to exceed 100,000 miles. Cylinder heads had soft valve seats that would sink valves. Interiors were very poorly constructed and would wear badly. Support components like waterpumps and power steering pumps would fail. Bushings in the suspension systems would go bad. Car bodies were prone to rust if you talked about salt around them and the retainers for trim would break and the brightwork would come off. This didn't matter though, as most new-car buyers bought new vehicles often, the cars simply didn't have to be built that well because it didn't hurt sales.
Modern cars are expected to reach closer to 200,000 miles before major problems threaten to take the vehicle off the road, and build quality is a lot higher for generally all components, albeit with each manufacturer having their own weak points in their designs. We should probably think about our electronics like this too, especially when the average buyer won't use whatever enhanced capabilities the new phone has. Maybe if we're a little more judicious about when we replace devices we could get our manufacturers to do a better job supporting the existing stuff so that we can actually get OS updates.
Simple. If you've ever dropped anything, avoid the regular one.
Given that it's for an "active" lifestyle which presumably means outdoorsy stuff, hopefully they've added a parabolic curve to the glass screen so that it has a focal point about six inches from the screen, so tha you can concentrate sunlight when you're lost in the wilderness to make a cooking or signal fire.
Then congratulations, you will continue to fall into the 20-30% range for at least one vehicle in your household.
If it's any consolation I will undoubtedly find myself in the same position, partially since working on cars is a hobby of mine and since we currently have six vehicles already. I wouldn't mind for my daily-commuter and for my wife's daily-commuter to be autonomous, electric vehicles through.