That seems very optimistic compared to my experience. The more the IT screws are tightened down and centrally controlled, the more the computer turns into a dumb machine like a typewriter with manual repetitive data entry and hand calculation and using the wrong tool for the job.
I've made a pretty good living doing what amounts to systems analysis and integration, and workflow automation. Its really awful out there, but with a good eye its easy to make a living making it better.
Yeah but the national median level of education, training, and experience is only slightly above a zoo monkey, so only getting paid a tiny bit more for knowing a heck of a lot more seems a bit out of proportion.
I can't see anyone paying for a certificate of completion for a non-accredited course. Is there any benefit to these certificates?
In the IT world there's a whole universe of people doing just that in meat-space. Pay $2000 to sit in your "global knowledge" class. Also the testing side, pay $250 to some testing service, walk away with 1/4 a CCNP or whatever, repeat a couple times, etc. I did all that, collected cisco certs like toilet paper.
why don't geeks spend hours and hours tinkering with cars?
Does not match
I mean everyone should know how to do all the things needed to keep their car running.
I have a 15 year old domestic car with about 140K miles and (un-)fortunately "tinkering with the car" means pretty much changing the oil every quarter and checking/replacing certain other fluids roughly annually.
hours and hours... per decade?
Also there's no optimization left. In my grandfather's time cars were so poorly engineered that you could slap on a higher flow muffler and gain 75 HP and adjust the "points" every weekend to regain 10 HP lost over the course of the week or whatever. Those optimization failures are history other than the most extreme hot-rodders. All thats left is boring maintenance, and theres not much of it.
In contrast give me something that boots Debian amd64 or i386 and I can keep busy for an infinite amount of time doing interesting "stuff".
If Ford welded hoods shut and promised convenient lifetime service at authorized service centers "for free"
LOL thats the worst automotive analogy I've ever heard about that topic.
If Ford welded hoods shut and used their money and power as a multinational megacorp plus all the force and power of the federal government to hunt you down like a dog and destroy you if you dared to open the hood of "your" car
Yes, and it's full of an incomprehensible jumble of hundreds of apps that do the same thing, with a distinct lack of the super-common apps that most people (and the computer kid down the street) know how to use already.
Just to clarify, are you talking about Apples app store, the ubuntu app store, or a 3rd app store like the google play app store or the amazon app store or ?
What you've described is pretty much the inherent characteristics of every bbs file section / ftp site / shareware cdrom / gopher site / file download web site / app store that's ever existed.
Some obvious solutions that won't be discussed to the "big guys hitting each others heads too hard" 1) Technology. Now only played above 5000 meters. No idea what Florida is going to do here. Too little O2 to smash each others heads. 2) Weight limits. 400 pounds to the head is probably worse than 175. Fine get all bulked up but no one plays over 175 pounds. 3) Socially inappropriate. The cheerleaders play too. In the 75 IQ backwoods "hittin a hot girl on the head" is even less cool than it is in the city. I suppose this is going to give a whole new meaning to "touch football". You could probably doctor the rules a bit such that all male and all female teams would be competitive.
Why should the consumer worry which version as long as it works?
Only certain versions will work due to incompetent devs. I was looking at that MS app for android phones that connects to an xbox, basic front end, pretty much like the roku front end, the mythtv remote front end, and the plex front end I already have working. Needless to say the devs made it require very advanced hardware to do a very minimal software job.
Regarding security, how does companies like Coca Cola been able to keep their formula secret? Obviously not stored in The Cloud. Any techniques that can be applied for other safeguards? Besides limiting it to just three people.
I know how the coca cola formula secrecy works and you're not going to like the solution. Homeopathy. No I'm not kidding. Any wanna be chemist probably gets to analyze soda of their choice in quant chem analysis and I did just that about 20 years ago. The fact that its 99.9999% water, HFCS (back then, it was sugar), caffeine, salt, standard sanitation and preservation chems, and food coloring is no secret nor are the ratios. There is a strange cross between legal fiction and homeopathy that if you run thru a GCMS or HPLC setup you'll find like a nanogram of black pepper in each bottle or whatever.
The secrecy is more of a loyalty test... like if it ever came out in public that one black peppercorn (or white, or whatever) was smashed and fractionated into an entire years worth of a nations production of coca cola syrup, then they'd know who leaked, and fire the disloyal worker. In fact more likely the tell a different lie to each worker and see what gets leaked...
I have no idea how to implement this in "da cloud". My guess is a combo of OTP and steganography embedded in files or something like that. Make a million fake simulated users who simulate doing all kinds of cloudy stuff, but if you gather the 34256236th bit of the 13519th file from each user and assemble them all its the launch codes or whatever.
That's just silly. "Loosing" its "original structure"? What does that even mean?
He means data that was entered free form or possibly gathered without the customers knowledge has to be exported with a documented copy of the proprietary database schema. It'll never fly.
Now what might work would be a requirement for all data exports to be completely non-proprietary non-binary well formed XML. You might not get their DB table design but at least you'll get each row.
Probably better analogy of "you're setting up your shop, do you buy imperial or metric tools?". Well in my dad's generation if you worked on American cars you needed imperial. Of course just to screw that up, my 90s era mostly made in the USA seems to mostly need metric tools, I would imagine everything on modern cars is metric now (and no, it was not a shared platform or rebadge)
The custumers should be also safeguarded against information companies going bust with their data.
Talk to the construction trades about being "bonded and insured" (before or after talking about unionization, and talking about apprenticeship, of course)
Its a simplification, but if you contract out to a bonded and insured contractor who goes out of business (lawsuit, bankruptcy, death, whatever) the bonding company will pay to get "someone else" to do the work for you at no additional cost. Obviously the risk to the insurer depends on the scale of work and the health of the contractor and length of job... I would imagine the mighty GOOG would pay less for bonding than a dotcom.
This is the same organization that prays before meetings, wants evang christianity inserted into everything, and wants to regulate everything. No newsflash that they did something flaky. Next week look forward to pi() being defined as "3" and a repeal of the law of gravity.
It's hard to see what kind of problem you would have if the lower failed
Worst case scenario is some improbable failure of the sear leading to full auto operation while being filmed. Whoops. Then the jackboots nuke everyone involved from orbit, just to be sure.
I've seen prices on 3d printing for metal and the prices to render a standard lower receiver would have greatly exceeded the cost of buying a conventionally manufactured one.
The "fun" with 3-d printing seems to be mash up. Next up the "hello kitty" themed AR-15 lower. Yes I've seen pink 1022s, but I'm talking about full on copyright violation ar15 lowers. Or a lower with a goatse themed trigger guard.
Agreed a computer generated AR-15 lower is a total newb move. A 1337 skillz print would be a full auto sear. Now THAT will piss everyone off and stir an anthill.
All brain functions are in decline throughout most of our lives, I doubt any one specific area has much more of an impact than any other. Judgement, trust, memory, reasoning, caution, etc.
You have to live for an awful long time to make up for it, or in a very unusual culture, where teens and twenty-somethings are the pinnacle of judgement, caution, and reasoning. I thought I was doing a pretty good job of it at the time, but compared to way back then, I've slowly improved to something like wise old Gandalf now.
I don't think any of that peaks until probably 50s or so. Maybe early 60s. Its an exercisable facility, 40 adult years of watching TV is not going to improve that individual, but on average a peak around 60 is probably realistic.
Just because someone's shady looking, does not mean they're a thief. The inverse holds true as well.
But its still statistically correct enough to be a survival advantage.
From an evolutionary standpoint, I'm guessing its something like: If as a youth you're sitting around the campfire and the faces are "not-family" either you're lost at the wrong campfire or its wartime or whatever so be worried. As an old dude you're sitting around the campfire and the faces are "not-family" that's because all your ancestors/family are dead and these weirdos are your in-laws, so chill and play nice with them.
Old people having stuff worth stealing is a recent phenomena.
almost brags/seems pleased that she got scammed.. I don't get it
Attention seeking behavior. Look on the bright side, decades earlier she would have been wearing miniskirts and bikinis, aren't you glad she's changed tactics?
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That seems very optimistic compared to my experience. The more the IT screws are tightened down and centrally controlled, the more the computer turns into a dumb machine like a typewriter with manual repetitive data entry and hand calculation and using the wrong tool for the job.
I've made a pretty good living doing what amounts to systems analysis and integration, and workflow automation. Its really awful out there, but with a good eye its easy to make a living making it better.
Yeah but the national median level of education, training, and experience is only slightly above a zoo monkey, so only getting paid a tiny bit more for knowing a heck of a lot more seems a bit out of proportion.
I can't see anyone paying for a certificate of completion for a non-accredited course. Is there any benefit to these certificates?
In the IT world there's a whole universe of people doing just that in meat-space. Pay $2000 to sit in your "global knowledge" class. Also the testing side, pay $250 to some testing service, walk away with 1/4 a CCNP or whatever, repeat a couple times, etc. I did all that, collected cisco certs like toilet paper.
why don't geeks spend hours and hours tinkering with cars?
Does not match
I mean everyone should know how to do all the things needed to keep their car running.
I have a 15 year old domestic car with about 140K miles and (un-)fortunately "tinkering with the car" means pretty much changing the oil every quarter and checking/replacing certain other fluids roughly annually.
hours and hours ... per decade?
Also there's no optimization left. In my grandfather's time cars were so poorly engineered that you could slap on a higher flow muffler and gain 75 HP and adjust the "points" every weekend to regain 10 HP lost over the course of the week or whatever. Those optimization failures are history other than the most extreme hot-rodders. All thats left is boring maintenance, and theres not much of it.
In contrast give me something that boots Debian amd64 or i386 and I can keep busy for an infinite amount of time doing interesting "stuff".
If Ford welded hoods shut and promised convenient lifetime service at authorized service centers "for free"
LOL thats the worst automotive analogy I've ever heard about that topic.
If Ford welded hoods shut and used their money and power as a multinational megacorp plus all the force and power of the federal government to hunt you down like a dog and destroy you if you dared to open the hood of "your" car
Yes, and it's full of an incomprehensible jumble of hundreds of apps that do the same thing, with a distinct lack of the super-common apps that most people (and the computer kid down the street) know how to use already.
Just to clarify, are you talking about Apples app store, the ubuntu app store, or a 3rd app store like the google play app store or the amazon app store or ?
What you've described is pretty much the inherent characteristics of every bbs file section / ftp site / shareware cdrom / gopher site / file download web site / app store that's ever existed.
Some obvious solutions that won't be discussed to the "big guys hitting each others heads too hard"
1) Technology. Now only played above 5000 meters. No idea what Florida is going to do here. Too little O2 to smash each others heads.
2) Weight limits. 400 pounds to the head is probably worse than 175. Fine get all bulked up but no one plays over 175 pounds.
3) Socially inappropriate. The cheerleaders play too. In the 75 IQ backwoods "hittin a hot girl on the head" is even less cool than it is in the city. I suppose this is going to give a whole new meaning to "touch football". You could probably doctor the rules a bit such that all male and all female teams would be competitive.
Why should the consumer worry which version as long as it works?
Only certain versions will work due to incompetent devs. I was looking at that MS app for android phones that connects to an xbox, basic front end, pretty much like the roku front end, the mythtv remote front end, and the plex front end I already have working. Needless to say the devs made it require very advanced hardware to do a very minimal software job.
Regarding security, how does companies like Coca Cola been able to keep their formula secret? Obviously not stored in The Cloud. Any techniques that can be applied for other safeguards? Besides limiting it to just three people.
I know how the coca cola formula secrecy works and you're not going to like the solution. Homeopathy. No I'm not kidding. Any wanna be chemist probably gets to analyze soda of their choice in quant chem analysis and I did just that about 20 years ago. The fact that its 99.9999% water, HFCS (back then, it was sugar), caffeine, salt, standard sanitation and preservation chems, and food coloring is no secret nor are the ratios. There is a strange cross between legal fiction and homeopathy that if you run thru a GCMS or HPLC setup you'll find like a nanogram of black pepper in each bottle or whatever.
The secrecy is more of a loyalty test... like if it ever came out in public that one black peppercorn (or white, or whatever) was smashed and fractionated into an entire years worth of a nations production of coca cola syrup, then they'd know who leaked, and fire the disloyal worker. In fact more likely the tell a different lie to each worker and see what gets leaked...
I have no idea how to implement this in "da cloud". My guess is a combo of OTP and steganography embedded in files or something like that. Make a million fake simulated users who simulate doing all kinds of cloudy stuff, but if you gather the 34256236th bit of the 13519th file from each user and assemble them all its the launch codes or whatever.
That's just silly. "Loosing" its "original structure"? What does that even mean?
He means data that was entered free form or possibly gathered without the customers knowledge has to be exported with a documented copy of the proprietary database schema. It'll never fly.
Now what might work would be a requirement for all data exports to be completely non-proprietary non-binary well formed XML. You might not get their DB table design but at least you'll get each row.
Probably better analogy of "you're setting up your shop, do you buy imperial or metric tools?". Well in my dad's generation if you worked on American cars you needed imperial. Of course just to screw that up, my 90s era mostly made in the USA seems to mostly need metric tools, I would imagine everything on modern cars is metric now (and no, it was not a shared platform or rebadge)
The custumers should be also safeguarded against information companies going bust with their data.
Talk to the construction trades about being "bonded and insured" (before or after talking about unionization, and talking about apprenticeship, of course)
Its a simplification, but if you contract out to a bonded and insured contractor who goes out of business (lawsuit, bankruptcy, death, whatever) the bonding company will pay to get "someone else" to do the work for you at no additional cost. Obviously the risk to the insurer depends on the scale of work and the health of the contractor and length of job... I would imagine the mighty GOOG would pay less for bonding than a dotcom.
hardware support for free formats, as opposed to non-free?
If only there was some way of running more than one program...
Or one virtualized image.
This absolutely annihilates Intel and AMD on a performance per watt basis.
That's easy. Oh you want to be backwards compatible practically to the 8008. Turns out that is very hard after all.
This is the same organization that prays before meetings, wants evang christianity inserted into everything, and wants to regulate everything. No newsflash that they did something flaky. Next week look forward to pi() being defined as "3" and a repeal of the law of gravity.
It's hard to see what kind of problem you would have if the lower failed
Worst case scenario is some improbable failure of the sear leading to full auto operation while being filmed. Whoops. Then the jackboots nuke everyone involved from orbit, just to be sure.
I've seen prices on 3d printing for metal and the prices to render a standard lower receiver would have greatly exceeded the cost of buying a conventionally manufactured one.
The "fun" with 3-d printing seems to be mash up. Next up the "hello kitty" themed AR-15 lower. Yes I've seen pink 1022s, but I'm talking about full on copyright violation ar15 lowers. Or a lower with a goatse themed trigger guard.
Agreed a computer generated AR-15 lower is a total newb move. A 1337 skillz print would be a full auto sear. Now THAT will piss everyone off and stir an anthill.
The problem with making video format EULAs is they would probably resemble 2G1C or goatse more so than any other video.
Better in video format.
All brain functions are in decline throughout most of our lives, I doubt any one specific area has much more of an impact than any other. Judgement, trust, memory, reasoning, caution, etc.
You have to live for an awful long time to make up for it, or in a very unusual culture, where teens and twenty-somethings are the pinnacle of judgement, caution, and reasoning. I thought I was doing a pretty good job of it at the time, but compared to way back then, I've slowly improved to something like wise old Gandalf now.
I don't think any of that peaks until probably 50s or so. Maybe early 60s. Its an exercisable facility, 40 adult years of watching TV is not going to improve that individual, but on average a peak around 60 is probably realistic.
Just because someone's shady looking, does not mean they're a thief. The inverse holds true as well.
But its still statistically correct enough to be a survival advantage.
From an evolutionary standpoint, I'm guessing its something like: If as a youth you're sitting around the campfire and the faces are "not-family" either you're lost at the wrong campfire or its wartime or whatever so be worried. As an old dude you're sitting around the campfire and the faces are "not-family" that's because all your ancestors/family are dead and these weirdos are your in-laws, so chill and play nice with them.
Old people having stuff worth stealing is a recent phenomena.
almost brags/seems pleased that she got scammed.. I don't get it
Attention seeking behavior. Look on the bright side, decades earlier she would have been wearing miniskirts and bikinis, aren't you glad she's changed tactics?
I don't think RTOS like being virtualized very much. Overhead. I use linuxcnc on my milling machine and the devs make a big deal out of microseconds.