My opinion is that doctors are busy, and they're combating declining profits by pipelining more patients. If a doctor googled me I'd be shocked that he found the time or interest. I'm not sure I could consider it a breach of privacy...if it's on google it's hardly private, no matter what I may personally prefer.
In the small window of time they do give me, I think think my doctor at least attempts to give my family the best care he can. He just has to restrict himself to about 15 minutes of care. Honestly given the cost of doctor visits I'd try cutting out the blow before I ever showed up, but I suppose if you could afford the drugs then the visit may not be so bad.
My wife has given birth to two children. I am fairly certain I could have been doing a mariachi dance on her forehead, wearing a clown suit while singing the chorus to "My Heart Will Go On" in between bites of a cheeseburger and she wouldn't have noticed, or cared. She'd probably object to me using any networked appliance (including my phone) to take photos of her lady parts, but even that she wouldn't notice until later (and the murder case might even make slashdot, as the google glass may have been the murder weapon).
The people who made it abundantly clear what I could and could not photograph, and what I could not video tape (i.e. anything), were the hospital staff. I suppose that should my children have later developed Autism, ADHD, or bad grades in algebra, that I would use the video footage to sue them. They would definitely forbid google glass.
In small to mid-size businesses (1,000 employees or less) I think it's super common to fire your VP of sales after 2-3 bad quarters and fire your CEO after 4-5 bad quarters, regardless of what situation is to blame. The CTO is almost immune from taking any responsibility, and unless there is embezzling I'm pretty sure the CFO is a cushy job with great security and awesome salary where your underlings do all the real work.
CFO's usually get fired after a few quarters of budget overrun, even if it's because the business plan that captured the VC capital was naive and the money is being well spent but the burn rate is too high.
Of course this is where people with integrity stand up and say it can't be done, and those people are fired in lieu of people who say it can be done, and you get a CFO who will stick to the plan regardless of consequences.
The last time this article was posted, I felt the salaries were awful low compared even to Texas, and it was a job in California. Now perhaps we see that you get what you pay for;)
If managers were paid that well anywhere I worked, I'd be inclined to get promoted! Mostly they make my salary with a little bit of extra "bonus" %. You know that bonus all employees get for good performance that is microscopically impacted by any individual working hard, but significantly impacted by the CEO being a moron.
For 500 times my pay you're looking at some CxO. I'd take their jobs too but my father, mother, uncle, cousin, best friend('s roomate) are all poor nobodies, so short of blackmailing someone on the board there's no reasonable way to reach those heights. Plus, I'd have to start taking responsibility for investor's greed, which I could never bring myself to do.
You mention service, which is not what i was talking about - and indeed you can overnight or run down to Fry's if you have one and replace parts immediately. If you correctly guess the root cause of the failure, which is not so easy to do even if you know what you're doing. Usually you replace the obviously broke part, and it happens again some time later. What seems like a bogus PSU frequently very likely is something else that individually it makes no sense for you to root cause. A system test team would certainly do this, particularly for servers. It happens less with consumer goods.
You mention overclocking - I know many people do this, and for their own reasons it makes sense to them. However you're definitely aging your system prematurely, and you're exposing yourself to subtle data corruption via numerous mechanisms. You probably don't care for your application, but I suspect the majority of us wouldn't knowingly expose ourselves in this way. Unless you work in silicon manufacturing and you have looked at the PVT test results for several wafer lots and can convince me that a particular part should work faster than its rated frequency at a particular temperature and voltage, I don't trust what you're doing. I spend my time debugging CPUs that were binned to WORK at 50% over their rated frequency and find subtle problems for a living, I would rather trust the MFG about their speed grade. If you want to risk it, great, and if you have a system where you can justify doing so, even better. I just want the damned thing to work for as long as possible.
I never pay for Applecare, ever, and never mentioned it. I've never needed it, that's my point. I don't buy extended warranties of any kind. A product works or I stop buying from that vendor. I will happily endorse Apple, or Honda for that matter, as long as they build quality products. Once they screw me, I turn on them like a rabid animal.
I'm not trying to take your homebrew away, it has a place, I always have one or two around. But for machines that have to work, that I can't afford to be messing around with, I prefer to stick with something that was properly designed and tested.
The OS I don't care about one way or another. I prefer it to Windows in the sense that it has a functional unix-ish command line, but beyond that the GUI is irritating in different ways. I'd prefer to run Linux on it, for my own reasons, but I'd rather wait until the Haswell-EP (or whatever they're calling their 2P Xeon's these days) is released. Hopefully Mac Pro doesn't miss that generation...
But building a comparable Windows machine with parts available on the market through your favorite sources (ex. newegg) is not possible at any price. You can integrate components with equal or greater functionality, but how much system test is there? Who is going to root cause every blue screen? Trust me, more of those blue screens are hardware related than I would have believed years ago. Who is making sure the PSU can deliver the needed power for the various application loads, and that it is performing with margin? Who is doing thermal measurements, checking airflow and ensuring parts are being kept safely in their operating region? This is what Apple is doing that "justifies" the price. The double quotes are there because no other system's company out there is holding to any quality standard except Apple, and as long as that's the case, Apple can charge whatever it likes.
It's not 1999 anymore. It used to be a computer would be obsolete before anything broke. Who cares about quality in this case? DIY made a lot of sense (and Apple suffered). But now even high end users can miss 3 or more processor generations and not care. It's better to pay a bit more for something that's going to hold together.
tl;dr, as a former motherboard designer and employee of a large OEM that is dying spectacularly, I assure you that Apple's computers are worth more than the sum of their parts. I
At companies with lax employment standards, you do sometimes end up with freeloaders that don't pull their weight, but identifying top-talent is not an exact science and people may leave if the environment becomes too toxic (see: IBM).
Actually some companies intentionally hire cheap D-players, H1B's and other offshored "design center" labor, and put the burden on management to corral this nonsense into a successful company. It's TBD whether this is cheaper than the A-player only team (who will demand top salaries, fancy coffee machines, and 4 weeks of vacation).
Given that both types of companies are examples of MBA driven cultures, I personally think they both fail equally. Their best hope is to "hang in there" for years at a time.
The other applications running on your system who also want to use memory and are programmed by people who don't care about resource utilization. Or the other VM, or the 8 other VMs.
Processor power, memory and disk space should be considered like earth's natural resources. They're in limited supply and should never be wasted no matter how available they may seem at the present.
A single top-down government would indeed be terrible. On the other hand the state boundaries that we have now are fairly arbitrary and were the product of events that occurred long ago, in an entirely different economy and an entirely different lifestyle. It's not clear that they retain the value they once did in terms of the "representative" part of representative democracy.
I would suggest that geography isn't, and hasn't been, a driving force in self-identification in this country for quite some time. Urban, suburban and rural seem to make better political boundaries than rivers, mountains and natural resources right now.
A key logger is a piece of software which copies characters entered via a hardware device, captured at the OS level by an interrupt handler then repeated through an event messaging system, to an unintended source on the network.
A video capture malware is a piece of software which copies chunks of data entered via a hardware device, captured at the OS level by an interrupt handler and mapped into an illicit network packet, to an unintended source on the network. In this case the "real" video data is streamed into a ram buffer, that buffer is then mapped in to application space. The cloned packet may have to be copied first, atlhough modern hardware may allow one to place that data directly in the payload of a network packet tx fifo to be sent out w/o a copy. Not having tried to write this, i'm not sure what can be made to work easiest.
A "video logger" is somewhat harder to write, but is very, very similar.
I made this modification to my macbook pro on the first day. I don't want a camera, and it stands to reason if someone can install keyloggers on my machine, they can compromise any hardware... Unfortunately there's not much to be done for the mic without voiding warranty.
I don't want either of these features, or at least i'm willing to buy special hardware for it if I need it.
I'm not sure who is saying they don't want autopilots for their cars, I definitely do. Certainly no one who is driv.. I mean parking in traffic for hours. I fully willing to trust a computer to move me at 5 mph, stop and go, for 45 minutes while I get work done. I understand some people like to drive their cars recreationally, but I can't imagine that city driving is a place anyone wants to do that. A manual transmission in gridlock traffic seems like punishment incurred by offending a lesser deity. Chauffeur's are a bit outside of my means, so an AI will do.
Sure, you can use technology stupidly, it's almost a human obligation. Thus we have legislative and tort systems about handling those situations based on epirical results. Something becomes a big problem: a law will appear. Something happens rarely but causes damages? You'll probably get sued. Not really "nerd territory".
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My opinion is that doctors are busy, and they're combating declining profits by pipelining more patients. If a doctor googled me I'd be shocked that he found the time or interest. I'm not sure I could consider it a breach of privacy...if it's on google it's hardly private, no matter what I may personally prefer.
In the small window of time they do give me, I think think my doctor at least attempts to give my family the best care he can. He just has to restrict himself to about 15 minutes of care. Honestly given the cost of doctor visits I'd try cutting out the blow before I ever showed up, but I suppose if you could afford the drugs then the visit may not be so bad.
My car holds two nuts, slightly salty, roasted slowly through Texan summers.
He's telling it like it is, you're telling it like how it should be.
Some companies would fire you if you said that out loud, but love you if you conceal your disgust appropriately. It ain't right, but it's how it is.
Unemployment would shoot up 5% and believe me, these people can't get a job anywhere else.
He had to pick someone, and the geico cavemen were getting rebellious.
My wife has given birth to two children. I am fairly certain I could have been doing a mariachi dance on her forehead, wearing a clown suit while singing the chorus to "My Heart Will Go On" in between bites of a cheeseburger and she wouldn't have noticed, or cared. She'd probably object to me using any networked appliance (including my phone) to take photos of her lady parts, but even that she wouldn't notice until later (and the murder case might even make slashdot, as the google glass may have been the murder weapon).
The people who made it abundantly clear what I could and could not photograph, and what I could not video tape (i.e. anything), were the hospital staff. I suppose that should my children have later developed Autism, ADHD, or bad grades in algebra, that I would use the video footage to sue them. They would definitely forbid google glass.
In small to mid-size businesses (1,000 employees or less) I think it's super common to fire your VP of sales after 2-3 bad quarters and fire your CEO after 4-5 bad quarters, regardless of what situation is to blame. The CTO is almost immune from taking any responsibility, and unless there is embezzling I'm pretty sure the CFO is a cushy job with great security and awesome salary where your underlings do all the real work.
CFO's usually get fired after a few quarters of budget overrun, even if it's because the business plan that captured the VC capital was naive and the money is being well spent but the burn rate is too high.
Of course this is where people with integrity stand up and say it can't be done, and those people are fired in lieu of people who say it can be done, and you get a CFO who will stick to the plan regardless of consequences.
The last time this article was posted, I felt the salaries were awful low compared even to Texas, and it was a job in California. Now perhaps we see that you get what you pay for ;)
If managers were paid that well anywhere I worked, I'd be inclined to get promoted! Mostly they make my salary with a little bit of extra "bonus" %. You know that bonus all employees get for good performance that is microscopically impacted by any individual working hard, but significantly impacted by the CEO being a moron.
For 500 times my pay you're looking at some CxO. I'd take their jobs too but my father, mother, uncle, cousin, best friend('s roomate) are all poor nobodies, so short of blackmailing someone on the board there's no reasonable way to reach those heights. Plus, I'd have to start taking responsibility for investor's greed, which I could never bring myself to do.
I would like nothing more than to destroy Foxconn!
In the game...of course.
You mention service, which is not what i was talking about - and indeed you can overnight or run down to Fry's if you have one and replace parts immediately. If you correctly guess the root cause of the failure, which is not so easy to do even if you know what you're doing. Usually you replace the obviously broke part, and it happens again some time later. What seems like a bogus PSU frequently very likely is something else that individually it makes no sense for you to root cause. A system test team would certainly do this, particularly for servers. It happens less with consumer goods.
You mention overclocking - I know many people do this, and for their own reasons it makes sense to them. However you're definitely aging your system prematurely, and you're exposing yourself to subtle data corruption via numerous mechanisms. You probably don't care for your application, but I suspect the majority of us wouldn't knowingly expose ourselves in this way. Unless you work in silicon manufacturing and you have looked at the PVT test results for several wafer lots and can convince me that a particular part should work faster than its rated frequency at a particular temperature and voltage, I don't trust what you're doing. I spend my time debugging CPUs that were binned to WORK at 50% over their rated frequency and find subtle problems for a living, I would rather trust the MFG about their speed grade. If you want to risk it, great, and if you have a system where you can justify doing so, even better. I just want the damned thing to work for as long as possible.
I never pay for Applecare, ever, and never mentioned it. I've never needed it, that's my point. I don't buy extended warranties of any kind. A product works or I stop buying from that vendor. I will happily endorse Apple, or Honda for that matter, as long as they build quality products. Once they screw me, I turn on them like a rabid animal.
I'm not trying to take your homebrew away, it has a place, I always have one or two around. But for machines that have to work, that I can't afford to be messing around with, I prefer to stick with something that was properly designed and tested.
The OS I don't care about one way or another. I prefer it to Windows in the sense that it has a functional unix-ish command line, but beyond that the GUI is irritating in different ways. I'd prefer to run Linux on it, for my own reasons, but I'd rather wait until the Haswell-EP (or whatever they're calling their 2P Xeon's these days) is released. Hopefully Mac Pro doesn't miss that generation...
But building a comparable Windows machine with parts available on the market through your favorite sources (ex. newegg) is not possible at any price. You can integrate components with equal or greater functionality, but how much system test is there? Who is going to root cause every blue screen? Trust me, more of those blue screens are hardware related than I would have believed years ago. Who is making sure the PSU can deliver the needed power for the various application loads, and that it is performing with margin? Who is doing thermal measurements, checking airflow and ensuring parts are being kept safely in their operating region? This is what Apple is doing that "justifies" the price. The double quotes are there because no other system's company out there is holding to any quality standard except Apple, and as long as that's the case, Apple can charge whatever it likes.
It's not 1999 anymore. It used to be a computer would be obsolete before anything broke. Who cares about quality in this case? DIY made a lot of sense (and Apple suffered). But now even high end users can miss 3 or more processor generations and not care. It's better to pay a bit more for something that's going to hold together.
tl;dr, as a former motherboard designer and employee of a large OEM that is dying spectacularly, I assure you that Apple's computers are worth more than the sum of their parts. I
So value, much currency, wow.
At companies with lax employment standards, you do sometimes end up with freeloaders that don't pull their weight, but identifying top-talent is not an exact science and people may leave if the environment becomes too toxic (see: IBM).
Actually some companies intentionally hire cheap D-players, H1B's and other offshored "design center" labor, and put the burden on management to corral this nonsense into a successful company. It's TBD whether this is cheaper than the A-player only team (who will demand top salaries, fancy coffee machines, and 4 weeks of vacation).
Given that both types of companies are examples of MBA driven cultures, I personally think they both fail equally. Their best hope is to "hang in there" for years at a time.
Your comment reminded me of what Larry Wall, inventor of the wrecking ball, said about Miley Cirus:
"Leeeeroooooy Jenkins!"
Colonel Panic to be precise. He reports directly to General P. Fault.
Until the cache is so big that everything fits in it
A day, that by virtue of this arguement, can never come!
The other applications running on your system who also want to use memory and are programmed by people who don't care about resource utilization. Or the other VM, or the 8 other VMs.
Processor power, memory and disk space should be considered like earth's natural resources. They're in limited supply and should never be wasted no matter how available they may seem at the present.
A single top-down government would indeed be terrible. On the other hand the state boundaries that we have now are fairly arbitrary and were the product of events that occurred long ago, in an entirely different economy and an entirely different lifestyle. It's not clear that they retain the value they once did in terms of the "representative" part of representative democracy.
I would suggest that geography isn't, and hasn't been, a driving force in self-identification in this country for quite some time. Urban, suburban and rural seem to make better political boundaries than rivers, mountains and natural resources right now.
Not to mention the idea is entirely retarded and the product of depraved minds?
A key logger is a piece of software which copies characters entered via a hardware device, captured at the OS level by an interrupt handler then repeated through an event messaging system, to an unintended source on the network.
A video capture malware is a piece of software which copies chunks of data entered via a hardware device, captured at the OS level by an interrupt handler and mapped into an illicit network packet, to an unintended source on the network. In this case the "real" video data is streamed into a ram buffer, that buffer is then mapped in to application space. The cloned packet may have to be copied first, atlhough modern hardware may allow one to place that data directly in the payload of a network packet tx fifo to be sent out w/o a copy. Not having tried to write this, i'm not sure what can be made to work easiest.
A "video logger" is somewhat harder to write, but is very, very similar.
I made this modification to my macbook pro on the first day. I don't want a camera, and it stands to reason if someone can install keyloggers on my machine, they can compromise any hardware... Unfortunately there's not much to be done for the mic without voiding warranty.
I don't want either of these features, or at least i'm willing to buy special hardware for it if I need it.
Implied consent laws might make you feel as though you must. In many states if you're asked to prove your sobriety, refusal comes at a steep price.
This is really dirty pool.
10 years ago there were other ways. We're back to bureaucracy and inflexible institutions now.
I mean if he did something hip and pintristy he might get hired by some MS research like group that hires people just to keep them from innovating...
I'm not sure who is saying they don't want autopilots for their cars, I definitely do. Certainly no one who is driv.. I mean parking in traffic for hours. I fully willing to trust a computer to move me at 5 mph, stop and go, for 45 minutes while I get work done. I understand some people like to drive their cars recreationally, but I can't imagine that city driving is a place anyone wants to do that. A manual transmission in gridlock traffic seems like punishment incurred by offending a lesser deity. Chauffeur's are a bit outside of my means, so an AI will do.
Sure, you can use technology stupidly, it's almost a human obligation. Thus we have legislative and tort systems about handling those situations based on epirical results. Something becomes a big problem: a law will appear. Something happens rarely but causes damages? You'll probably get sued. Not really "nerd territory".