Well there's your problem VMware, you really need a catchier name than that! Not sure who come up with the current but it is terrible.
Also "For the last several months, we have been evolving our cloud strategy and our service provider partners are aware of this.", I'm not sure it's "evolving" if your plan is to discontinue it. Extincting might be a better word (if that even is one).
Also, is it really "worth" 13 Billion? Last I heard they have never posted a profit ever, were shopping around to get bought out by one of the bigger players like MS, and no one was interested (at least the the valuation they were offering)...
Why go to Disney, when you can get Disney come to you?\
Anyway the article is flawed in many ways. For one, just because the "President" uses something a lot doesn't make it worthy to give tech advice. Second, Twitter has never made any money, they have never made a profit in the years of their existence, and from all accounts the rest of the big players have about zero faith in them as the companies making crazy deals with players like Magic Leap, won't touch Twitter with a 10 foot pole as no one wants to buy them. So not exactly the ones you want to take tech advice from I don't think anyway
Well you have to admit "developing infrastructure" might be a bit difficult with only 1% of your citizens actually paying any taxes of any sort.
This could be a very formative moment in Indian history (provided the government, which from many reports is full of corruption and doesn't just funnel the money into gold toilets and the like)...
Not to mention the spectacular implosion of Greece in recent history. While corruption and not paying taxes wasn't the only story with Greece, when I think of another country that is developed, but had lots of the other two problems over a long period of time, finally coming back to bite them in the ass I think of Greece.
Perhaps India took a hard look at what happened in Greece and is trying some corrective measures before things get too out of hand. India doesn't have the rest of the EU or Germany to buy them out and lend them money, their only option would be devaluation of currency.
Anyway as someone (or many) has already mentioned, the corruption in India is legendary, even in government. What *IS* surprising is that they had the political balls to go through with it considering the practice is so widespread both in the public and private sectors, this can't be a very popular move.
Nope. Wrong again. I've actually visited more than a few, and they are not. They are all typically measured in MW not KW. Even a "smaller" one will be a couple MW.
The reason for this, is that the government can't be bothered individually contracting with the small frys. They are not going to dick around with Bob Miller from 123 Fake Street, and the 500$ worth or power he might generate.
The Liberal policies you are talking about involved 20 year contracts with specific generators at set rates.
Hey I am not disagreeing with you about affordable electricity. However the issue long since predates the Liberal government, and as mentioned I'll concede their efforts didn't do much to improve on that record. I remember having a Hydro One "debt repayment" line on my bill that I was somehow responsible for paying for, and I am pretty sure that had nothing to do with Liberals. Also I'm not from a big city,
If you want to bash the Liberals, at least pick a good topic. The gas plant scandal for example. That sort of BS should have seen heads roll, and while they did (Maguinty "retired"), they are still in power. However that was more the Conservatives losing the election (with crazy made up numbers easily disproved like yours) than the Liberals winning it. I'm sure there are plenty of numbers/statistics/metrics that support at least in part much of the Conservative ideological agenda, but so far whomever has been in charge on that front has been doing a pretty poor job. That said, looking down south Trump said a whole lot of things, not a lot of which had a lot of truth to it and he got elected, so who know...
Great, that can really only mean one thing. Copyright will be extended another 75 years, or maybe they will just drop all pretenses and simply say that Copyright is forever now (for all intents and purposes it has been for sometime anyway with continual extensions).
For what it's worth, probably good to have Elon on the team at least. As to Uber, a bit of an odd choice seeing how the product is considered illegal and illegitimate in many places in the US, though one could argue that is because he is a cutting edge entrepreneur breaking into what amounts to monopolized markets through regulation.
Anyone else feel the paranoia and suspicion that it was just yesterday that Slashdot posted about the Grand Tour being the "most" pirated TV show in the world, which is available on Amazon Prime. Which seems to have prompted the expected response about "well Amazon Prime isn't available outside the US"! Then we get this followup story about Amazon Prime announcing they are suddenly releasing Amazon Prime in every country around the world...
Am I living in a meta commercial? Are we in Slashdot so influential? Is Amazon reacting to piracy numbers?
Only one thing to do, tighten the strap on my tinfoil hat, and hope the Faraday cage hasn't sprung a leak, because it is time to hunker down and softly rock back and forth...
I'm kind of surprised this isn't really a thing already. Even given all the crazy reasons listed in the summary, there are probably a lot of people that would prefer that it not be super easy to have someone root through their camera. I know I had a girl accidentally leave her Nikon camera at my house when she left the next morning, and you bet I went though that thing (mostly boring). Even thought about leaving her a few surprises on it (didn't) before I took it back!
Remember we're not talking about triple locked super encrypted using 8 algorithms a Math AI and a one time pad. Just use some simple encryption. Can it be broken? Probably. However it just needs to be hard enough so that they need to dedicate a lot of resources to do so (in expert staff, hardware, and time). This will keep out anything casual, or anything even official but not serious or vexatious. At the same time if I want to spend the money, and dedicate the cpu cycles, and wait a few months the odds are it isn't for something like taking a picture at a concert you weren't supposed to.
I'd bet companies viewing the whole Apple VS US Justice system is being watched and likely camera companies contemplating encryption are unlikely to want to make something "unbreakable".
Well for one they are ridiculously expensive unless you already have one. Even if you do, the "plans" are exorbitantly expensive. They make the worst cell phone plans look like [insert some cheap analog here]. Particularly when dealing with video and large image files it just isn't feasible.
LOL an Ontario Conservative shill on Slashdot, whodathunkit!
Not sure if you don't read, or just like spouting ideology but pretty much everything you said is in error, other than the fact that you posted some op ed pieces of conservative based newspapers about Ontario people mad about energy bills. I'll concede that the Liberals "green" direction of a few years ago hasn't produced the results they wanted, and it likely has resulted in slightly higher energy costs. You could also say that (subtracting the "green" bit) about just about just about every political party in Ontario for the last 20 years, Conservatives included. That privatization stuff that Harris and his Conservatives did for the only reason to try and make their budget look balanced was BS. At least the "green" plan actually had some positive environmental benefits if not anything else!
OK, so exactly what did you get wrong? Let's start!
First: "The FIT Program is open to projects with a rated electricity generating capacity greater than 10 kilowatts (kW) and generally up to 500 kW." is located right in the website your cited if you actually took 5 seconds to read it. Do you know what 10-500KW is? This is the home generation, typical solar, basically when someone puts a couple PV panels on their roof and calls it a day. The FIT program is not for a 20MW solar farm, or a 200MW wind farm, which is where the actual generation occurs, and the those Liberal subsidies kick in. So you are not even talking about the correct thing.
Second: "Most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%". I think the emphasis here is "Conservative", in political party spin. I note you cite nothing here, and I can only assume you made up that value off the top of your head. It's nice and round, and ridiculous. For one, "across all sectors" is obviously false, as not all sectors produce pollution, or consume a lot of energy. Not going to bother looking it up, feel free to actually cite something.
Third: In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation". Also a totally made up number. I know for a fact, so I did look it up: In summary, not including Hydro, Wind/Solar/Bio probably make up about 18% of total generation... a far cry from 1% https://www.cns-snc.ca/media/o...
Anyway I'm sure you consider these all to be Liberal lies or something, but for anyone else reading, do the 30 seconds of google searches when you see these kinds of made up numbers and nonsense in posts...
Really, a half dozen turbines and 30MW? How is this seen as anything but a failure. That is at the scale of a singular solar farm.
I've been to a 300+ MW wind farm with 85+ turbines, and those were terrestrial.
That said, those were produced using the same subsidies more less as those above, which have problems. The subsidies were to drive the sector, to not only create energy, but to create jobs. However as seen above it isn't really the case when all these things are made overseas and shipped here. That is the problem with the subsidies, they essentially take all the risk out of the picture for the company, at which point it is simple math about getting a 20 year loan, and making profit on it because it's all set out before hand in contract, however there are no strings attached about actual jobs (of which very few are required post construction to run the facility), or where material comes from, it's all just assumed that by existing the invisible hand o' the market will sort all that out, which so far has shown not to be the case.
Sounds like a new Disney movie with a suited CEO twirling around on top of a pile of money belting out a song called "Let them goooo!"
Seriously though some indie or competitor should make a Disney parody animated movie of the whole situation... Just try to to get too racist with what animals used to represent everyone!
I think a lot depends on what you define as "Work" or going back to "Work".
For example should I win say 5 million dollars, I wouldn't need to work for money really. Perhaps I always wanted to be a writer, however could not due to the fiscal risk involved. Maybe I make it as a writer, maybe I just waste my time, but it would be something I'm doing that presumably makes me happy. Does that mean I'm "working" again? I suppose so, however it isn't quite the same as going back to being an office drone or something.
Perhaps one of your hobbies becomes your passion and you pursue that. Maybe it's wood working, and you make artisan furniture... Pretty soon you'll have a barn full of furniture, do you sell it, break even, give it away, donate it to charity, again does all that classify as "work"...
I agree. Trump more less won on a "change" platform as opposed to Clinton's "status quo" platform. All other things aside, Bernie would have at least presented an alternative "change" platform to choose from. Particularly given that most pundits attribute Trumps win to disenfranchised white unionized manufactures workers and Bernie's socialist background, would have likely seen many of those Trump votes disappear in those key states.
I'd say generally speaking coding is easy, it's understanding the problem and designing a solution that is hard. I'd say other than in rather rare instances is really "inspired" code required. So if you count requirements comprehension and solution design as part of "coding" then ya, not always so easy.
Then there are getting those requirements from clients that don't always know what they want and having to tease out of them what is actually required can also be hard to do, but is that part of coding?
Lastly I'd say another thing that seems to be hard to do is doing all the above, whilst not breaking some totally unrelated part of the system no one will bother to test so it will pass UAT flawlessly, but bombs in production.
I say all that from sitting at multiple sides of the software table.
That said it was just the other day I was evaluating a project and came across a part where I couldn't help thinking the line "Clever Girl..." (from Jurassic Park Aussie accent and all) about the developer and particular tricky requirement. However wasn't (as said rarely) the code that particularly clever but the design, which usually results from coming at the problem from a totally different angle.
I deal with and manage a lot of data on various topics. I get data requests all the time. The folks that use this data will be from all over the map, both left and right of the political spectrum, or on one side or another of a particular argument. I've had many try to restrict what information we release specifically because they believe that it will be used to misrepresent or be manipulated to prove whatever argument they are trying to make. Bottom line is there is little you can do about how people use your data, "improperly" or not. I've been asked to comment on some external analysis, and I'm more than happy to say "well they conveniently omitted X from their analysis and thus were able to come up with Y conclusion".
Most data of any kind has some sort of issues with it, and just about any data of sufficient complexity can be used statistically to prove whatever point somebody wishes to make. In many cases it really doesn't matter if the target audience hears what they want to hear anyway (i.e. breitbart). Do you think the readers of said news really want to look deeper into any analysis that supports whatever ideology they adhere to?
Bottom line is that other than in terms of some licencing agreements for commercial use or what have you, you cannot really control how other people use your data. All you can do is level the playing field in accessibility so that if one party wants to use it to support their claim another opposing party can do the same. As data owner it isn't your job to say how it should or should not be used, though if appropriate there is nothing wrong with presenting your own analysis and why it is more significant or correct than someone who you think has misrepresented the data (if you have skin in the game so to speak).
I went from an iPhone (3S) to a Samsung more less because having to use iTunes pissed me off. I most recently switched from Samsung to LG because they got rid of the replaceable battery and SD slot. I do have to say however I have very rarely used my backup LG battery. Unlike my old Samsung that seemed to have a battery life of a couple of hours and hence the absolute need sometime to carry an extra battery around with me, my LG seems to under almost all circumstances to last all day for me. The replaceable battery is still nice to have if you suspect you may be someplace you can't easily charge your phone and may incur heavy usage however, but so far that isn't really regular usage, more like trips and such.
So while still a useful feature it may not be as critical if Samsung has managed to solve their poor battery woes (Mine was an old S3)...
That said, Samsung seems to take their design cues from Apple... Got a lazy design team it seems. Personally I think getting rid of the headphone jack is silly.
Hey a valid point in this thread, what are you trying to pull here!
Not sure of the exact details, but I've heard that *all* businesses operating in China *must* be at least 50% Chinese owned. So if that is true, not exact a level playing field anyway. Tipping the balance back a bit isn't all that surprising. Though some right-wing econo-capitalist invisible-market ideology would probably argue against it as regulation that would stagnate growth...
That said, I am not sure in the US, but I know at least in Canada there *are* certain industries/markets that do require some % level of Canadian ownership as a form of protectionism against outside competition. The requirement or the level changes occasionally per industry and political cycle but it does exist. Telecommunications is one such example I believe.
I think it has less to do with salary or size of talent pool, and more to do with job opportunity pool. Which is why you see communities trying to become the next "silicon valley".
The difficulty is unless you already live someplace you have to move there. If you have things like family, most of your wealth in a house, etc... that's a pretty big deal and commitment. So in the case of Omaha, if everything works out great! If not, you're screwed. You work in a field that is somewhat limited, you have a house you need to sell, and you need to displace your family again. In a place like San Jose, if everything doesn't work out, you can find another employment opportunity in your field. Technically the "market" should be the opposite of the 42% salary, in that you could demand more in Omaha because you're more in demand due to scarcity. However what drives salary is changing positions. In Omaha you don't have a lot of leverage to say well I'll just leave to go to one of your competitors, whereas in San Jose perhaps you do, so they pay more to retain you.
Anyway at some point a community has to hit that critical mass for a particular industry to be successful otherwise it just isn't worthwhile and has negative impact. This is why some community's long view trying to attract particular companies with tax incentives etc... Problem is there is a lot of competition there as well, you need more than a few, and some factors, are out of your control (say state tax or something else)...
Yup. I remember prior to Trump winning the nomination hearing about a neurosurgeon running for the republican party. At that point I was like, OK wow, at least one of the 16 or so nominees will be smart and surely that guy will win. Then I heard him talk about things...
That phraseology "well I'm no neurosurgeon, but..." just got flipped around and ironic.
Though to be fair to the profession, perhaps there were 99.99% of neurosurgeon's doing a facepalm every time Carson got on TV... The exception to the rule if you will.
Seems obvious but other than being asleep, why not just roll down the windows if they locked the doors? Unless of coarse they disabled the whole car which is even worse/dangerous ability to have remotely.
I know I keep a ball peen hammer in the door of my car in case of a water crash as mentioned by many above. Dad saw a documentary or something and bought it for me. I figure it also might serve for self defense if it ever came to it.
If I had to guess it was about what IP rights he retained to his scripts/software work given what transpired. The ISP disagreed with his opinion and fired him. He said fine, and took all his work back, inadvertently taking the ISP offline when he messed up deleting user logs after the fact. Then in a fit of hubris when the company came to him he decided to rub their noses in it. To which the company came to the conclusion that perhaps it wasn't a coincidence. FBI etc...
But who knows really, could be he was a drunk, slept with his bosses wife, and was constantly tardy, or all 3!
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Picture an unimpressed Balrog chained to a treadmill...
Well there's your problem VMware, you really need a catchier name than that! Not sure who come up with the current but it is terrible.
Also "For the last several months, we have been evolving our cloud strategy and our service provider partners are aware of this.", I'm not sure it's "evolving" if your plan is to discontinue it. Extincting might be a better word (if that even is one).
Also, is it really "worth" 13 Billion? Last I heard they have never posted a profit ever, were shopping around to get bought out by one of the bigger players like MS, and no one was interested (at least the the valuation they were offering)...
Why go to Disney, when you can get Disney come to you?\
Anyway the article is flawed in many ways. For one, just because the "President" uses something a lot doesn't make it worthy to give tech advice. Second, Twitter has never made any money, they have never made a profit in the years of their existence, and from all accounts the rest of the big players have about zero faith in them as the companies making crazy deals with players like Magic Leap, won't touch Twitter with a 10 foot pole as no one wants to buy them. So not exactly the ones you want to take tech advice from I don't think anyway
Well you have to admit "developing infrastructure" might be a bit difficult with only 1% of your citizens actually paying any taxes of any sort.
This could be a very formative moment in Indian history (provided the government, which from many reports is full of corruption and doesn't just funnel the money into gold toilets and the like)...
Not to mention the spectacular implosion of Greece in recent history. While corruption and not paying taxes wasn't the only story with Greece, when I think of another country that is developed, but had lots of the other two problems over a long period of time, finally coming back to bite them in the ass I think of Greece.
Perhaps India took a hard look at what happened in Greece and is trying some corrective measures before things get too out of hand. India doesn't have the rest of the EU or Germany to buy them out and lend them money, their only option would be devaluation of currency.
Anyway as someone (or many) has already mentioned, the corruption in India is legendary, even in government. What *IS* surprising is that they had the political balls to go through with it considering the practice is so widespread both in the public and private sectors, this can't be a very popular move.
Nope. Wrong again. I've actually visited more than a few, and they are not. They are all typically measured in MW not KW. Even a "smaller" one will be a couple MW.
The reason for this, is that the government can't be bothered individually contracting with the small frys. They are not going to dick around with Bob Miller from 123 Fake Street, and the 500$ worth or power he might generate.
The Liberal policies you are talking about involved 20 year contracts with specific generators at set rates.
Hey I am not disagreeing with you about affordable electricity. However the issue long since predates the Liberal government, and as mentioned I'll concede their efforts didn't do much to improve on that record. I remember having a Hydro One "debt repayment" line on my bill that I was somehow responsible for paying for, and I am pretty sure that had nothing to do with Liberals. Also I'm not from a big city,
If you want to bash the Liberals, at least pick a good topic. The gas plant scandal for example. That sort of BS should have seen heads roll, and while they did (Maguinty "retired"), they are still in power. However that was more the Conservatives losing the election (with crazy made up numbers easily disproved like yours) than the Liberals winning it. I'm sure there are plenty of numbers/statistics/metrics that support at least in part much of the Conservative ideological agenda, but so far whomever has been in charge on that front has been doing a pretty poor job. That said, looking down south Trump said a whole lot of things, not a lot of which had a lot of truth to it and he got elected, so who know...
Great, that can really only mean one thing. Copyright will be extended another 75 years, or maybe they will just drop all pretenses and simply say that Copyright is forever now (for all intents and purposes it has been for sometime anyway with continual extensions).
For what it's worth, probably good to have Elon on the team at least. As to Uber, a bit of an odd choice seeing how the product is considered illegal and illegitimate in many places in the US, though one could argue that is because he is a cutting edge entrepreneur breaking into what amounts to monopolized markets through regulation.
Anyone else feel the paranoia and suspicion that it was just yesterday that Slashdot posted about the Grand Tour being the "most" pirated TV show in the world, which is available on Amazon Prime. Which seems to have prompted the expected response about "well Amazon Prime isn't available outside the US"! Then we get this followup story about Amazon Prime announcing they are suddenly releasing Amazon Prime in every country around the world...
Am I living in a meta commercial? Are we in Slashdot so influential? Is Amazon reacting to piracy numbers?
Only one thing to do, tighten the strap on my tinfoil hat, and hope the Faraday cage hasn't sprung a leak, because it is time to hunker down and softly rock back and forth...
I'm kind of surprised this isn't really a thing already. Even given all the crazy reasons listed in the summary, there are probably a lot of people that would prefer that it not be super easy to have someone root through their camera. I know I had a girl accidentally leave her Nikon camera at my house when she left the next morning, and you bet I went though that thing (mostly boring). Even thought about leaving her a few surprises on it (didn't) before I took it back!
Remember we're not talking about triple locked super encrypted using 8 algorithms a Math AI and a one time pad. Just use some simple encryption. Can it be broken? Probably. However it just needs to be hard enough so that they need to dedicate a lot of resources to do so (in expert staff, hardware, and time). This will keep out anything casual, or anything even official but not serious or vexatious. At the same time if I want to spend the money, and dedicate the cpu cycles, and wait a few months the odds are it isn't for something like taking a picture at a concert you weren't supposed to.
I'd bet companies viewing the whole Apple VS US Justice system is being watched and likely camera companies contemplating encryption are unlikely to want to make something "unbreakable".
Well for one they are ridiculously expensive unless you already have one. Even if you do, the "plans" are exorbitantly expensive. They make the worst cell phone plans look like [insert some cheap analog here]. Particularly when dealing with video and large image files it just isn't feasible.
LOL an Ontario Conservative shill on Slashdot, whodathunkit!
Not sure if you don't read, or just like spouting ideology but pretty much everything you said is in error, other than the fact that you posted some op ed pieces of conservative based newspapers about Ontario people mad about energy bills. I'll concede that the Liberals "green" direction of a few years ago hasn't produced the results they wanted, and it likely has resulted in slightly higher energy costs. You could also say that (subtracting the "green" bit) about just about just about every political party in Ontario for the last 20 years, Conservatives included. That privatization stuff that Harris and his Conservatives did for the only reason to try and make their budget look balanced was BS. At least the "green" plan actually had some positive environmental benefits if not anything else!
OK, so exactly what did you get wrong? Let's start!
First:
"The FIT Program is open to projects with a rated electricity generating capacity greater than 10 kilowatts (kW) and generally up to 500 kW." is located right in the website your cited if you actually took 5 seconds to read it. Do you know what 10-500KW is? This is the home generation, typical solar, basically when someone puts a couple PV panels on their roof and calls it a day. The FIT program is not for a 20MW solar farm, or a 200MW wind farm, which is where the actual generation occurs, and the those Liberal subsidies kick in. So you are not even talking about the correct thing.
Second:
"Most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%". I think the emphasis here is "Conservative", in political party spin. I note you cite nothing here, and I can only assume you made up that value off the top of your head. It's nice and round, and ridiculous. For one, "across all sectors" is obviously false, as not all sectors produce pollution, or consume a lot of energy. Not going to bother looking it up, feel free to actually cite something.
Third:
In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation". Also a totally made up number. I know for a fact, so I did look it up:
In summary, not including Hydro, Wind/Solar/Bio probably make up about 18% of total generation... a far cry from 1%
https://www.cns-snc.ca/media/o...
Anyway I'm sure you consider these all to be Liberal lies or something, but for anyone else reading, do the 30 seconds of google searches when you see these kinds of made up numbers and nonsense in posts...
Really, a half dozen turbines and 30MW? How is this seen as anything but a failure. That is at the scale of a singular solar farm.
I've been to a 300+ MW wind farm with 85+ turbines, and those were terrestrial.
That said, those were produced using the same subsidies more less as those above, which have problems. The subsidies were to drive the sector, to not only create energy, but to create jobs. However as seen above it isn't really the case when all these things are made overseas and shipped here. That is the problem with the subsidies, they essentially take all the risk out of the picture for the company, at which point it is simple math about getting a 20 year loan, and making profit on it because it's all set out before hand in contract, however there are no strings attached about actual jobs (of which very few are required post construction to run the facility), or where material comes from, it's all just assumed that by existing the invisible hand o' the market will sort all that out, which so far has shown not to be the case.
Sounds like a new Disney movie with a suited CEO twirling around on top of a pile of money belting out a song called "Let them goooo!"
Seriously though some indie or competitor should make a Disney parody animated movie of the whole situation... Just try to to get too racist with what animals used to represent everyone!
I think a lot depends on what you define as "Work" or going back to "Work".
For example should I win say 5 million dollars, I wouldn't need to work for money really. Perhaps I always wanted to be a writer, however could not due to the fiscal risk involved. Maybe I make it as a writer, maybe I just waste my time, but it would be something I'm doing that presumably makes me happy. Does that mean I'm "working" again? I suppose so, however it isn't quite the same as going back to being an office drone or something.
Perhaps one of your hobbies becomes your passion and you pursue that. Maybe it's wood working, and you make artisan furniture... Pretty soon you'll have a barn full of furniture, do you sell it, break even, give it away, donate it to charity, again does all that classify as "work"...
I agree. Trump more less won on a "change" platform as opposed to Clinton's "status quo" platform. All other things aside, Bernie would have at least presented an alternative "change" platform to choose from. Particularly given that most pundits attribute Trumps win to disenfranchised white unionized manufactures workers and Bernie's socialist background, would have likely seen many of those Trump votes disappear in those key states.
Depends what you define as "coding".
I'd say generally speaking coding is easy, it's understanding the problem and designing a solution that is hard. I'd say other than in rather rare instances is really "inspired" code required. So if you count requirements comprehension and solution design as part of "coding" then ya, not always so easy.
Then there are getting those requirements from clients that don't always know what they want and having to tease out of them what is actually required can also be hard to do, but is that part of coding?
Lastly I'd say another thing that seems to be hard to do is doing all the above, whilst not breaking some totally unrelated part of the system no one will bother to test so it will pass UAT flawlessly, but bombs in production.
I say all that from sitting at multiple sides of the software table.
That said it was just the other day I was evaluating a project and came across a part where I couldn't help thinking the line "Clever Girl..." (from Jurassic Park Aussie accent and all) about the developer and particular tricky requirement. However wasn't (as said rarely) the code that particularly clever but the design, which usually results from coming at the problem from a totally different angle.
I deal with and manage a lot of data on various topics. I get data requests all the time. The folks that use this data will be from all over the map, both left and right of the political spectrum, or on one side or another of a particular argument. I've had many try to restrict what information we release specifically because they believe that it will be used to misrepresent or be manipulated to prove whatever argument they are trying to make. Bottom line is there is little you can do about how people use your data, "improperly" or not. I've been asked to comment on some external analysis, and I'm more than happy to say "well they conveniently omitted X from their analysis and thus were able to come up with Y conclusion".
Most data of any kind has some sort of issues with it, and just about any data of sufficient complexity can be used statistically to prove whatever point somebody wishes to make. In many cases it really doesn't matter if the target audience hears what they want to hear anyway (i.e. breitbart). Do you think the readers of said news really want to look deeper into any analysis that supports whatever ideology they adhere to?
Bottom line is that other than in terms of some licencing agreements for commercial use or what have you, you cannot really control how other people use your data. All you can do is level the playing field in accessibility so that if one party wants to use it to support their claim another opposing party can do the same. As data owner it isn't your job to say how it should or should not be used, though if appropriate there is nothing wrong with presenting your own analysis and why it is more significant or correct than someone who you think has misrepresented the data (if you have skin in the game so to speak).
I went from an iPhone (3S) to a Samsung more less because having to use iTunes pissed me off. I most recently switched from Samsung to LG because they got rid of the replaceable battery and SD slot. I do have to say however I have very rarely used my backup LG battery. Unlike my old Samsung that seemed to have a battery life of a couple of hours and hence the absolute need sometime to carry an extra battery around with me, my LG seems to under almost all circumstances to last all day for me. The replaceable battery is still nice to have if you suspect you may be someplace you can't easily charge your phone and may incur heavy usage however, but so far that isn't really regular usage, more like trips and such.
So while still a useful feature it may not be as critical if Samsung has managed to solve their poor battery woes (Mine was an old S3)...
That said, Samsung seems to take their design cues from Apple... Got a lazy design team it seems. Personally I think getting rid of the headphone jack is silly.
Hey a valid point in this thread, what are you trying to pull here!
Not sure of the exact details, but I've heard that *all* businesses operating in China *must* be at least 50% Chinese owned. So if that is true, not exact a level playing field anyway. Tipping the balance back a bit isn't all that surprising. Though some right-wing econo-capitalist invisible-market ideology would probably argue against it as regulation that would stagnate growth...
That said, I am not sure in the US, but I know at least in Canada there *are* certain industries/markets that do require some % level of Canadian ownership as a form of protectionism against outside competition. The requirement or the level changes occasionally per industry and political cycle but it does exist. Telecommunications is one such example I believe.
"I'm looking forward to the Chinese equivalent of Donald Trump"
I'm pretty sure that is how the world ends...
I think it has less to do with salary or size of talent pool, and more to do with job opportunity pool. Which is why you see communities trying to become the next "silicon valley".
The difficulty is unless you already live someplace you have to move there. If you have things like family, most of your wealth in a house, etc... that's a pretty big deal and commitment. So in the case of Omaha, if everything works out great! If not, you're screwed. You work in a field that is somewhat limited, you have a house you need to sell, and you need to displace your family again. In a place like San Jose, if everything doesn't work out, you can find another employment opportunity in your field. Technically the "market" should be the opposite of the 42% salary, in that you could demand more in Omaha because you're more in demand due to scarcity. However what drives salary is changing positions. In Omaha you don't have a lot of leverage to say well I'll just leave to go to one of your competitors, whereas in San Jose perhaps you do, so they pay more to retain you.
Anyway at some point a community has to hit that critical mass for a particular industry to be successful otherwise it just isn't worthwhile and has negative impact. This is why some community's long view trying to attract particular companies with tax incentives etc... Problem is there is a lot of competition there as well, you need more than a few, and some factors, are out of your control (say state tax or something else)...
Yup. I remember prior to Trump winning the nomination hearing about a neurosurgeon running for the republican party. At that point I was like, OK wow, at least one of the 16 or so nominees will be smart and surely that guy will win. Then I heard him talk about things...
That phraseology "well I'm no neurosurgeon, but..." just got flipped around and ironic.
Though to be fair to the profession, perhaps there were 99.99% of neurosurgeon's doing a facepalm every time Carson got on TV... The exception to the rule if you will.
Seems obvious but other than being asleep, why not just roll down the windows if they locked the doors? Unless of coarse they disabled the whole car which is even worse/dangerous ability to have remotely.
I know I keep a ball peen hammer in the door of my car in case of a water crash as mentioned by many above. Dad saw a documentary or something and bought it for me. I figure it also might serve for self defense if it ever came to it.
If I had to guess it was about what IP rights he retained to his scripts/software work given what transpired. The ISP disagreed with his opinion and fired him. He said fine, and took all his work back, inadvertently taking the ISP offline when he messed up deleting user logs after the fact. Then in a fit of hubris when the company came to him he decided to rub their noses in it. To which the company came to the conclusion that perhaps it wasn't a coincidence. FBI etc...
But who knows really, could be he was a drunk, slept with his bosses wife, and was constantly tardy, or all 3!