I very much disagree with Uber's business model as far as passenger livery is concerned, as passenger livery laws are usually there as a reaction to something bad that has happened in the past, so those laws that Uber violates are there for reasons.
Long-haul, on the other hand, makes a lot more sense for self-driving vehicles, especially if they're basically limited to the interstate highway system as a limited-access freeway model. There are less people on the roads outside of motor vehicles, and the rules for where cross-country hikers and bicyclists are supposed to be at on those roads are definable. If operators remain with the trucks, if the trucks can be made reliable enough to self-drive where the driver doesn't have to be involved at all then driver fatigue can be significantly curtailed on the over-the-road part, so the drivers are fresh for operating where manual control is necessary, like at warehousing depots, in cities, and on roads that do not lend themselves to autonomous mode. Lastly, from the trucking-company perspective, using the convoy model where perhaps twenty trucks are shepherded by a single driver, ostensibly playin follow-the leader, would significantly curtail labor costs and would allow the trucking companies to base more staff locally to depots and cities, so that convoy, moved city-to-city by one driver, would be distributed to numerous local-delivery drivers or warehousing-yard drivers once it's near its destination, those drivers wouldn't be stuck in a sleeper cab overnight away from home when they're off-shift.
Granted, there probably still needs to be some ground rules for companies experimenting with autonomous trucking, but it makes a lot more sense to start with trucks than with around-town passenger vehicles.
Enthusiasm only matters where it's centered around likely customers. General noise might have subsided some, but most people aren't going to buy one.
Additionally I expect that if Tesla can hit the price point that it has been working towards that excitement would ramp back up again. Ironically the Model 3 is the first mass-production fully-electric car that has somewhat conventional "three box" styling in a non-luxury price point. The other 100% electrics and even most hybrids look different. I may be projecting here, but I have not been interested in buying an electric or a hybrid because I do not care for the styling, or the price has been far out of my range. The Model S styling is acceptable but the cars are too expensive. The Model 3 styling is similar to the S, but the price is closer to acceptable.
2+2=4, but that doesn't stop mathematicians from writing complex proofs describing the fundamentals of the operation, the number base that it's in, and all sort of other details.
It may well be that scientists already had a good grasp of the mineral content of the moon, they simply wanted to establish why.
I think the best combination for an RTS (thinking back to my Warcraft II days) would be a touchscreen to interact with the on-screen elements, a bare trackball to move about the map, and a ten-key for extended controls. Unfortunately this is a rather unusual combination and wasn't readily achievable until just recently when touchscreens have become so common.
Yeah. I played Quake, Quake 2, Descent, and the like with keyboard and mouse. I remember when the much-promised Spaceball Avenger finally came out and even with the buildup the collective response was, "meh," when early-adopters were disappointed with their purchases. A buddy of mine that played Descent with a fairly fancy joystick tried one at a consumer electronics event and didn't feel there was any improvement over his Logitech joystick.
My wife's MIT alumni club brought in for a presentation one of the principal engineers behind Canadarm2, and he brought a pretty high-end simulator with him that uses the same control interface that the arm itself on the ISS uses. We all got to have a go with it, and its control surfaces were essentially modified aeronautics controls. There was about as much commonality with a console video game controller as a keyboard and mouse has with a console video game controller.
Keyboard/mouse isn't the only game in town for great interfaces, but there are few that work as well (like the flight-control type of joystick) and few that work in as vast a number of situations. I remember when games like Doom and Quake came out for consoles and they just felt terrible compared to the keyboard interface on the computer, and it sounds like in twenty years the situation has not improved.
Yeah. That was another reason I suggested bash, because syadmins that are not programmers still can use scripting languages to assist in their work.
I have to take care of thousands of devices. Being able to use scripting to even do things as rudimentary as retrieve serial number and hostname information for inventory control purposes is quite useful as I can make scripts that parse retrieved lists of IP addresses to just get in, get what I need, write that to files, and move on to the next.
Being able to automate backups or other similar tasks through cron also has value outside of the programming arena.
At this point I would skip on BASIC simply because there are so many fewer real-world applications for it. I would start with a conventional shell scripting language. On a Windows box that would be batch files, on a Linux box, probably bash. Both have direct applications in addition to being functional for rudimentary understanding of programming.
In my own case I grew up with a computer with MS-DOS 3.3 and GW Basic 3.22, and I spent a lot more time in MS-DOS batch files than I ever spent in Basic. Granted, my application for them in setting variables and then launching programs doesn't apply a whole lot these days, but some file processing can be handled with it.
I am not going to express an opinion about Power Shell from Microsoft because I have no experience with it other than coworkers raving how great some new feature to them is, when we've had that feature in bash for almost 30 years, so my judgement is admittedly tainted for the negative.
You lost me at, "gestalt," and completely missed the point I was making.
Football, the actual game played on the field measuring 360' by 160', with a 300' by 160' contested area, has not significantly changed. The act of the offense attempting to advance down the field against the defense attempting to stop them or better, force a turnover, is largely the same since the founding of the NFL. Undoubtedly a few rules have changed over the years and some equipment has been added or improved upon, but someone watching a 1917 collegiate or professional football game would recognize a 2017 collegiate or professional football game.
Everything else, including virtually all of what you've brought up, are just trappings. Those trappings may be important to the marketing of the sport, but none of them are necessary for those 22 players on the field to attempt to advance or halt the advance of the ball. The addition of this electronics technology push is itself just trappings. Any and all of it could go away and you'll still have 22 players out on the field playing their parts.
I said tech is popular. I didn't say that tech work is popular. Using tech is what's popular, but only where the use of that tech is easy, where it's a marvel, kind of like previous marvels. Those using it often have no clue why it actually works.
Consider historical examples. Cars are popular. Cars have been around for the masses for about a hundred years now. The average driver doesn't know how an engine or a transmission really works at a fundamental level, they only know that when they step on the accelerator pedal the car moves forward. The telephone is popular. The average telephone user doesn't understand how trunk lines work or the line voltages for talk and ring on the average phone, or how a telephone exchange works, they only care that when they pick up the handset, there's a dial-tone and they can make a call. Television is popular. The average viewer doesn't understand how originally TV was allocated spectrum and individual channels were assigned short ranges of about 7MHz wide, or how color was cobbled-in to a previous black-and-white signal, or what the switchover from analog to digital meant and how it was cobbled in to that ~7MHz wide piece of spectrum. They simply know that when they turn on the TV, there's something to watch.
The tech work to make cars move, to make telephone calls, to make television, is hard, and is subject to change. The use of these technologies does not require a lot of change on the part of the user. Arguably the basic functions for driving cars has been about the same since the invention of the electric starter motor. For landline phones the function hasn't changed since the touch-tone phone was rolled-out in the sixties, and even cell phones mimicked this for a very long time before finally switching over to dial-then-submit model or to using extensive contact lists. TV hasn't really changed from the end-user perspective since the advent of the remote control, other than the mild blip when the subchannel appeared with HDTV.
The teams and the league are there to make money. As such they'll apply whatever trappings they think will bring more fans and thus more money to the sport.
Right now tech is hot, tech is popular. It doesn't matter why it's hot or popular, if they can find a way to cobble it in for greater profit then they will do so. The game itself has not changed significantly for a very long time, the only tech required has been safety equipment to attempt to reduce injuries.
With the fawning over the players so many of the guys at work do, yes, it is necessary.
What I really don't get is fans of out-of-state teams referring to their team as, "we," as if they have some connection with the team other than buying their merchandise and rooting for their success.
It's doubly confusing since all they want to do is outsource them once they've learned to code. It's fucking ridiculous.
If Disney cared so fucking much why did they outsource an entire department of competent IT workers to India? It's not like Disney is hurting for cash.
That was what immediately came to mind. Their attitude toward hiring Unisys as a way to skirt the H1B laws (ie, contracting to another company and letting that company, with no prior American workers, make the claims about availability in order to justify the foreign workers) seems to run exactly opposite to what they've now said.
I'd like to see the H1B laws for IT work be changed to disallow the use of H1B for butts-in-seats, regardless of what abstraction layer results in paying the end-worker.
You're not arguing education or not, you're arguing the extent.
The counter-argument is that people should be educated or have the opportunity to be educated to the extent that they're willing to pursue it.
Calculus itself may not be of-use to most people, but learning how to learn Calculus is itself a skill which may translate into other learning that the individual as an adult will need, especially when it is now the norm that people will change careers potentially several times through their working lives.
I don't use calculus even in my technical job, but I do have to devise complex plans that require lots of data collection and analysis and whose subsequent steps are based on prior results. I also do kinds of math at work that I never learned to do in school, like number base conversion and binary arithmetic. Complex math has been helpful for me even if I don't use the original material.
Kids should have the opportunity to have this education in high school and should be encouraged to pursue it. Obviously not all will take the opportunity and not all will be qualified to take it even if they want it, but we should attempt to at least have our kids start out with the same opportunities.
Good thing for most of us in fields that are lumped into that acronym, the difficulty of the work generally selects for who ends up in those careers. Maybe if we encourage more people to stand and deliver then we simply won't need to import talent and we could legitimately scale back totals on H1B quotas citing graduation rates and test scores as why we don't need ao many foreign skilled workers.
So you're saying that one has to spend a few thousand dollars to match the experience of putting a CD into a consumer-grade CD player?
And if you do bother responding, yes, I'm well aware of the design compromises that were made when the Compact Disc format was created. 44kHz is lower than what can be achieved by the most high-end record players. I maintain that an average component CD player will produce better sound than 99.9% of vinyl record players ever made. It'll probably produce better than 99.9% of record players made within the high fidelity era.
At least it's not Quantum, where your hard disk drive literally would go flat... or the IBM Deskstar series that had a failure mode more like their near-homophone Deathstar during Luke's trench run...
I have never liked MTBF. Operate 1000 drives for 100 hours and count the failures and do the math and you get MTBF! Congratulations, you've now identified little more than DOA defects from manufacture...
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I very much disagree with Uber's business model as far as passenger livery is concerned, as passenger livery laws are usually there as a reaction to something bad that has happened in the past, so those laws that Uber violates are there for reasons.
Long-haul, on the other hand, makes a lot more sense for self-driving vehicles, especially if they're basically limited to the interstate highway system as a limited-access freeway model. There are less people on the roads outside of motor vehicles, and the rules for where cross-country hikers and bicyclists are supposed to be at on those roads are definable. If operators remain with the trucks, if the trucks can be made reliable enough to self-drive where the driver doesn't have to be involved at all then driver fatigue can be significantly curtailed on the over-the-road part, so the drivers are fresh for operating where manual control is necessary, like at warehousing depots, in cities, and on roads that do not lend themselves to autonomous mode. Lastly, from the trucking-company perspective, using the convoy model where perhaps twenty trucks are shepherded by a single driver, ostensibly playin follow-the leader, would significantly curtail labor costs and would allow the trucking companies to base more staff locally to depots and cities, so that convoy, moved city-to-city by one driver, would be distributed to numerous local-delivery drivers or warehousing-yard drivers once it's near its destination, those drivers wouldn't be stuck in a sleeper cab overnight away from home when they're off-shift.
Granted, there probably still needs to be some ground rules for companies experimenting with autonomous trucking, but it makes a lot more sense to start with trucks than with around-town passenger vehicles.
Headlines historically have been written with capitalized first letters for all of the words.
You're right that it's gibberish, but that gibberish could have been corrected by writing a better sentence.
Enthusiasm only matters where it's centered around likely customers. General noise might have subsided some, but most people aren't going to buy one.
Additionally I expect that if Tesla can hit the price point that it has been working towards that excitement would ramp back up again. Ironically the Model 3 is the first mass-production fully-electric car that has somewhat conventional "three box" styling in a non-luxury price point. The other 100% electrics and even most hybrids look different. I may be projecting here, but I have not been interested in buying an electric or a hybrid because I do not care for the styling, or the price has been far out of my range. The Model S styling is acceptable but the cars are too expensive. The Model 3 styling is similar to the S, but the price is closer to acceptable.
We'll just have to see.
2+2=4, but that doesn't stop mathematicians from writing complex proofs describing the fundamentals of the operation, the number base that it's in, and all sort of other details.
It may well be that scientists already had a good grasp of the mineral content of the moon, they simply wanted to establish why.
How is HR going to fire people, if you fire 1/2 of the HR people? They won't have time to process all that paperwork.
Simple. You outsource it to an third-party HR firm.
It sounds like your pubic area has a lot of education but zero real-world experience.
I think the best combination for an RTS (thinking back to my Warcraft II days) would be a touchscreen to interact with the on-screen elements, a bare trackball to move about the map, and a ten-key for extended controls. Unfortunately this is a rather unusual combination and wasn't readily achievable until just recently when touchscreens have become so common.
And how do you get cheeto dust off of the screen?
...and most Slashdotters have no experience with them.
*rimshot*
Yeah. I played Quake, Quake 2, Descent, and the like with keyboard and mouse. I remember when the much-promised Spaceball Avenger finally came out and even with the buildup the collective response was, "meh," when early-adopters were disappointed with their purchases. A buddy of mine that played Descent with a fairly fancy joystick tried one at a consumer electronics event and didn't feel there was any improvement over his Logitech joystick.
My wife's MIT alumni club brought in for a presentation one of the principal engineers behind Canadarm2, and he brought a pretty high-end simulator with him that uses the same control interface that the arm itself on the ISS uses. We all got to have a go with it, and its control surfaces were essentially modified aeronautics controls. There was about as much commonality with a console video game controller as a keyboard and mouse has with a console video game controller.
Keyboard/mouse isn't the only game in town for great interfaces, but there are few that work as well (like the flight-control type of joystick) and few that work in as vast a number of situations. I remember when games like Doom and Quake came out for consoles and they just felt terrible compared to the keyboard interface on the computer, and it sounds like in twenty years the situation has not improved.
Yeah. That was another reason I suggested bash, because syadmins that are not programmers still can use scripting languages to assist in their work.
I have to take care of thousands of devices. Being able to use scripting to even do things as rudimentary as retrieve serial number and hostname information for inventory control purposes is quite useful as I can make scripts that parse retrieved lists of IP addresses to just get in, get what I need, write that to files, and move on to the next.
Being able to automate backups or other similar tasks through cron also has value outside of the programming arena.
At this point I would skip on BASIC simply because there are so many fewer real-world applications for it. I would start with a conventional shell scripting language. On a Windows box that would be batch files, on a Linux box, probably bash. Both have direct applications in addition to being functional for rudimentary understanding of programming.
In my own case I grew up with a computer with MS-DOS 3.3 and GW Basic 3.22, and I spent a lot more time in MS-DOS batch files than I ever spent in Basic. Granted, my application for them in setting variables and then launching programs doesn't apply a whole lot these days, but some file processing can be handled with it.
I am not going to express an opinion about Power Shell from Microsoft because I have no experience with it other than coworkers raving how great some new feature to them is, when we've had that feature in bash for almost 30 years, so my judgement is admittedly tainted for the negative.
You lost me at, "gestalt," and completely missed the point I was making.
Football, the actual game played on the field measuring 360' by 160', with a 300' by 160' contested area, has not significantly changed. The act of the offense attempting to advance down the field against the defense attempting to stop them or better, force a turnover, is largely the same since the founding of the NFL. Undoubtedly a few rules have changed over the years and some equipment has been added or improved upon, but someone watching a 1917 collegiate or professional football game would recognize a 2017 collegiate or professional football game.
Everything else, including virtually all of what you've brought up, are just trappings. Those trappings may be important to the marketing of the sport, but none of them are necessary for those 22 players on the field to attempt to advance or halt the advance of the ball. The addition of this electronics technology push is itself just trappings. Any and all of it could go away and you'll still have 22 players out on the field playing their parts.
It would probably be a more intelligent question to wonder why they use that word if they are not actually on the team.
That's what I said.
Huh?
I said tech is popular. I didn't say that tech work is popular. Using tech is what's popular, but only where the use of that tech is easy, where it's a marvel, kind of like previous marvels. Those using it often have no clue why it actually works.
Consider historical examples. Cars are popular. Cars have been around for the masses for about a hundred years now. The average driver doesn't know how an engine or a transmission really works at a fundamental level, they only know that when they step on the accelerator pedal the car moves forward. The telephone is popular. The average telephone user doesn't understand how trunk lines work or the line voltages for talk and ring on the average phone, or how a telephone exchange works, they only care that when they pick up the handset, there's a dial-tone and they can make a call. Television is popular. The average viewer doesn't understand how originally TV was allocated spectrum and individual channels were assigned short ranges of about 7MHz wide, or how color was cobbled-in to a previous black-and-white signal, or what the switchover from analog to digital meant and how it was cobbled in to that ~7MHz wide piece of spectrum. They simply know that when they turn on the TV, there's something to watch.
The tech work to make cars move, to make telephone calls, to make television, is hard, and is subject to change. The use of these technologies does not require a lot of change on the part of the user. Arguably the basic functions for driving cars has been about the same since the invention of the electric starter motor. For landline phones the function hasn't changed since the touch-tone phone was rolled-out in the sixties, and even cell phones mimicked this for a very long time before finally switching over to dial-then-submit model or to using extensive contact lists. TV hasn't really changed from the end-user perspective since the advent of the remote control, other than the mild blip when the subchannel appeared with HDTV.
The teams and the league are there to make money. As such they'll apply whatever trappings they think will bring more fans and thus more money to the sport.
Right now tech is hot, tech is popular. It doesn't matter why it's hot or popular, if they can find a way to cobble it in for greater profit then they will do so. The game itself has not changed significantly for a very long time, the only tech required has been safety equipment to attempt to reduce injuries.
With the fawning over the players so many of the guys at work do, yes, it is necessary.
What I really don't get is fans of out-of-state teams referring to their team as, "we," as if they have some connection with the team other than buying their merchandise and rooting for their success.
It's doubly confusing since all they want to do is outsource them once they've learned to code. It's fucking ridiculous.
If Disney cared so fucking much why did they outsource an entire department of competent IT workers to India? It's not like Disney is hurting for cash.
That was what immediately came to mind. Their attitude toward hiring Unisys as a way to skirt the H1B laws (ie, contracting to another company and letting that company, with no prior American workers, make the claims about availability in order to justify the foreign workers) seems to run exactly opposite to what they've now said.
I'd like to see the H1B laws for IT work be changed to disallow the use of H1B for butts-in-seats, regardless of what abstraction layer results in paying the end-worker.
You're not arguing education or not, you're arguing the extent.
The counter-argument is that people should be educated or have the opportunity to be educated to the extent that they're willing to pursue it.
Calculus itself may not be of-use to most people, but learning how to learn Calculus is itself a skill which may translate into other learning that the individual as an adult will need, especially when it is now the norm that people will change careers potentially several times through their working lives.
I don't use calculus even in my technical job, but I do have to devise complex plans that require lots of data collection and analysis and whose subsequent steps are based on prior results. I also do kinds of math at work that I never learned to do in school, like number base conversion and binary arithmetic. Complex math has been helpful for me even if I don't use the original material.
Kids should have the opportunity to have this education in high school and should be encouraged to pursue it. Obviously not all will take the opportunity and not all will be qualified to take it even if they want it, but we should attempt to at least have our kids start out with the same opportunities.
Or I could be referring to the history of the Calculus program that the high school that Olmos' character portrayed as having built and nurtured...
Good thing for most of us in fields that are lumped into that acronym, the difficulty of the work generally selects for who ends up in those careers. Maybe if we encourage more people to stand and deliver then we simply won't need to import talent and we could legitimately scale back totals on H1B quotas citing graduation rates and test scores as why we don't need ao many foreign skilled workers.
So you're saying that one has to spend a few thousand dollars to match the experience of putting a CD into a consumer-grade CD player?
And if you do bother responding, yes, I'm well aware of the design compromises that were made when the Compact Disc format was created. 44kHz is lower than what can be achieved by the most high-end record players. I maintain that an average component CD player will produce better sound than 99.9% of vinyl record players ever made. It'll probably produce better than 99.9% of record players made within the high fidelity era.
...because I have so much in common with UK Defence officials with my needs for a cell phone...
I have a Jaz2. I only need 8192 2GB cartridges...
At least it's not Quantum, where your hard disk drive literally would go flat... or the IBM Deskstar series that had a failure mode more like their near-homophone Deathstar during Luke's trench run...
I have never liked MTBF. Operate 1000 drives for 100 hours and count the failures and do the math and you get MTBF! Congratulations, you've now identified little more than DOA defects from manufacture...