In my experience, the people we currently having 'managing peole' are usually the least capable of doing so. Just like Human Resources is NOT there to help employees - because they aren't.
Of course these jobs that add very little to the final product won't be robotized. For the same reason our congress critters and senators won't let it happen.
Which really begs the question - if the police require a warrant and some sort of suspicion of wrongdoing to demand privately held information like this, what gives the IRS the right to do so? Is there a banking law that says ALL YOUR INFO BELONGS TO US?
You know why LCD's where so expensive for so long? Because those same companies in 'free' competition agreed to jack the prices up. You CANNOT TRUST companies looking for profits to do anything with the interest of the consumer in mind. The sort of statement you're making is the same one Ajit P has made about the internet. And it's a complete lie.
Got a new computer - with 3 kids that isn't an unusual event. Updating to windows 10 blew right through my data cap in 1 day with the OS download from MS and then all the updates.
180 GB would be 6 GB a day. That'd be just about perfect.
So verizon advertises unlimited broadband, but slows you down if you go over a set amount. They then admit that the average user should be good with a NEW limit that is almost 10x what their current limit is.
So what does that say about them, their advertising, and their current limit?
And I don't have broadband. 1 mile from Comcast, but they $5k to extend. Frontier won't serve me DSL, because I'm too far from whatever. Satellite? Yeah right. I CAN pay $70 a month for 1.5 Mb MAX, which I signed up for and usually got like 250k. So now I use a verizon hotspot that maxes out after 4 days (15Gb) then drops to.6k..... which is better than nothing. And there isn't a damn thing I can do, but if you listen to the government I'm 'Served'. LOL.
Yeah. So Apple has the greatest display tech..... that their biggest competitor (Samsung) makes. But wait... Apple 'improves' that technology.
Writing's on the wall. Apple's done. The only thing keeping them alive is lock-in technologies and their walled garden, and that'll die out eventually as Samsung surpasses them in every technology avenue. Because Samsung actually makes their own products, and Apple GIVES AWAY every last bit of their research because they can't make their own.
Outsourcing manufacturing fails every, single, time. You give away your technology, teach others to make it, and then get yourself toasted as they figure out how to make it better, cheaper, faster, or just copy it so they don't have to pay for an R&D budget.
Being careful doesn't even scratch the surface. We're talking about needing an unhackable wireless car to car communication system that allows free communication with any car that wanders into range, but is somehow able to ignore the fake signals that hackers will be sending within hours of the first car hitting the street.
Making cars is expensive. Making high tech cars is more expensive.
Tesla isn't magic. Look at the sales numbers the big three have and how often they turn out new programs (that aren't really an entirely new product). The math is pretty simple. Tesla doesn't make enough money in their product line and is turning out a new program when the old ones aren't paying for themselves.
It's a stock market thing, really. Look at the stock prices of the automakers. They continue to make successful products but their stock price doesn't increase. Yet a company like Apple hasn't put out a really innovative product in years, is getting destroyed by Samsung..... but continues to be a stock market darling.
Ride sharing + autonomous cars = future. This is Alphabet confirming that's where they are going. The big 3 know it too - they are all partnering with ride sharing companies. They've got the software backend already written. The big 3 provide the cars. It's the future business model.
No pun intended. I'll give you another example of an online game with a major cheating problem - Clash of Clans. Back a year or two ago, SuperCell implemented anti-cheat protocols that looks for modified game files, or memory locations modified by non-supercell software.
It got rid of the lazy cheaters - but the hard core competitive cheaters quickly circumvented the cheating protocols. How? Well the language barrier played a big part in it. The Chinese have several active bots and cheat programs but SuperCell has been unable to address it because they simply don't speak the language.
There's also a thriving market for money laundering in Clash of Clans. The original user sends money through one of any number of online cash payment systems. Account logins are given to 'trusted' individuals who have stolen credit card credentials, stolen gift card codes or forged gift card codes. These individuals then buy in-game currency with the stolen information, and then the original user logs back on.
Finally, there is a ton of upper-end cheating. Many of the top notch players use private servers online that they pay to use. So when they are put against a new apponent's base layout, they go to the private server, make the base, then practice against it.
I don't have the answer for how you fix these things. Suffice it to say that if you want to be in the 'upper echelon' of most online games, you're probably going up against 20-30% cheaters.
I've heard Idgit Pai, directly from his own mouth, state that companies haven't violated net neutrality and they should be able to police themselves on this issue because they won't violate it.
So, if these companies aren't planning on violating the net neutrality rule, why is it so critical that it be removed?
Roll that back a bit. We didn't just suddenly 'arrive' at this point. And we've had republicans and democrats in various positions of power. Look at my post (above yours a bit) that explains exactly why I'm not gong to engage you. Especially with that rather special attitude that suggests Trump represents all republicans.
P.S.- I didn't vote for Trump. Not that it matters, or is any of your business. But this blind political hatred that so many Americans are currently mired in is not helping the country.
Oh, I agree - but there's no point in going there because people have already made their decisions on the president. Actual debate educates and illuminates, but there is no debate to be had about the President that can be meaningful. Too many people have personally invested themselves in the argument rather than making objective informed decisions.
He may have worked in a position that called for an electrical engineer - but without a degree, he wasn't.
There's a distinction between being in an engineering position and being an engineer. And people who have called themselves engineer but aren't have lost in court over that fact.
But hey - in a pinch I know emergency first aid. Guess I'm a doctor.
I'm rural and I'm in the same boat many people are in. I can't get cable - it ends about 1 mile away from me. I can't get DSL - it ends 3 miles away from me. I can't get Satellite, because hills and trees block the southern horizon. Sprint barely works - we get sub megabit speeds. AT&T works intermittently, with constant voice drop outs. Verizon works - and we get 30 megabits over LTE. But we are limited to our 'unlimited' 15 GB before our speeds are cut to 600kb. The one 'broadband' company near us has an F rating at the better business bureau and is getting sued by the government for misappropriating and stealing grants meant to improve service.
Verizon is our only internet option. I pay over $200 a month for 3 'unlimited' lines. Every month we have to rotate through phones until we use them up.
High speed internet has become a necessity for modern life. Schools in my area *expect* the kids to have high speed access. Their books are on line, as are all their instructional videos for experiments and other homework. Sheduling for after-school activies is ALL done through email, remind, and mass-text.
Our government has failed us. More specifically, the FCC. The continue to ignore local monopolies and stand by while companies like Verizon shut down local internet shops and municipal broad band through lawsuits. I'm tired of it, but there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. Oh, I've called my congressmen and senators. I've commented during the FTC review period - which they ignore in its entirety.
Ajit Pai is the biggest stinking pile of shit to ever work in our government.
Oh, and as a follow up. You know the auto-industry has huge focus groups (usually done by email) where they present icons to people, like a trunk opening button. But they don't tell the people what it does initially - they ASK them what they think it does.
Because if you have efficient button and icon design, you don't need menu trees and your dependence on language (and all the misunderstandings it creates) is decreased by an order of magnitude. Just have a British Person ask an American where a boot is if you want a good example.
Computer Programmers (I'm looking at you microsoft) need to learn that these things are important:
1. Appropriate icons
2. Minimizing clicks to task completion
3. Common control placement
4. Self-explanatory menu trees
5. Consistent menu trees
I'll give you a good idea how NOT to do it. Windows 10 is a mashup of numerous operating systems. You'll find control panels from the original 95, and new 'tile' or web-page-like looks woven together. You'll find some with buttons you push, and others with highlighted words you need to click. You'll find important features like configuring the lock-screen not under right-click display like you would expect, but buried deep inside the user-accounts system. And clicking to find what you want has gotten so counter-intuitive that most people utilize the typing in the search box to pull things up now.
I could keep going on, but Windows 10 is a prime example of how non-user-friendly programs from tier 1 vendors have become. Photoshop is a right up there too.
So.... you start by comparing n1gger to the word soccer. The word 'n1gger' goes back to wholesale repression of an entire race. The word 'soccer' is disliked because brits see it as American.
The you accuse Americans of exporting their outrage, when you've already given brits a pass on doing the same thing over the word soccer.
How about you educate yourself about why it's such a hateful word, and then be a bigger man and not use it?
So, to know that I've been hacked they'll need my info. So who is going to start a service that monitors Credit Karma and tell me when THEY have data breaches.
And within a month, sites will start popping up something that says, "We see you've blocked video with sound! We understand why, but we depend on that support to provide you the best experience and keep our site running smoothly."
You are right - it doesn't matter. With the ratio of comments already insanely one-sided against the FCC's plan to dismantle net neutrality, Idgit Paj has already made it clear he doesn't give a shit. Look at the group he just put together for advice.
This is a corrupt joke. Everyone knows it. The media, the people, Trump, and Idgit. But Trump was elected and this is what we get. It's only going to get worse.
The great part is doing this to the folks in the manufacturing environment. We have to hold private meetings, have union hearings, and store a SHITLOAD of documentation because of Sarbanes Oxley. Pay documents, ergo, union / vacation forms, etc. But the 'new' desks don't provide shit for storage space either.
Have you ever tried to actually do work on a manufacturing floor? You can't even hear to make phone calls. Idiocy. And whoever approved it is a total moron.
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In my experience, the people we currently having 'managing peole' are usually the least capable of doing so. Just like Human Resources is NOT there to help employees - because they aren't. Of course these jobs that add very little to the final product won't be robotized. For the same reason our congress critters and senators won't let it happen.
Which really begs the question - if the police require a warrant and some sort of suspicion of wrongdoing to demand privately held information like this, what gives the IRS the right to do so? Is there a banking law that says ALL YOUR INFO BELONGS TO US?
This is a load of horseshit.
You know why LCD's where so expensive for so long? Because those same companies in 'free' competition agreed to jack the prices up. You CANNOT TRUST companies looking for profits to do anything with the interest of the consumer in mind. The sort of statement you're making is the same one Ajit P has made about the internet. And it's a complete lie.
Got a new computer - with 3 kids that isn't an unusual event. Updating to windows 10 blew right through my data cap in 1 day with the OS download from MS and then all the updates. 180 GB would be 6 GB a day. That'd be just about perfect.
So verizon advertises unlimited broadband, but slows you down if you go over a set amount. They then admit that the average user should be good with a NEW limit that is almost 10x what their current limit is.
So what does that say about them, their advertising, and their current limit?
And I don't have broadband. 1 mile from Comcast, but they $5k to extend. Frontier won't serve me DSL, because I'm too far from whatever. Satellite? Yeah right. I CAN pay $70 a month for 1.5 Mb MAX, which I signed up for and usually got like 250k. So now I use a verizon hotspot that maxes out after 4 days (15Gb) then drops to .6k..... which is better than nothing. And there isn't a damn thing I can do, but if you listen to the government I'm 'Served'. LOL.
Yeah. So Apple has the greatest display tech..... that their biggest competitor (Samsung) makes. But wait... Apple 'improves' that technology.
Writing's on the wall. Apple's done. The only thing keeping them alive is lock-in technologies and their walled garden, and that'll die out eventually as Samsung surpasses them in every technology avenue. Because Samsung actually makes their own products, and Apple GIVES AWAY every last bit of their research because they can't make their own.
Outsourcing manufacturing fails every, single, time. You give away your technology, teach others to make it, and then get yourself toasted as they figure out how to make it better, cheaper, faster, or just copy it so they don't have to pay for an R&D budget.
Which is exactly why the stack lights should have WORDS on them..... so that there isn't any confusion.
Uh.... Actually he didn't post that. I did. Which is very curious as to how it ended up under his ID.
Being careful doesn't even scratch the surface. We're talking about needing an unhackable wireless car to car communication system that allows free communication with any car that wanders into range, but is somehow able to ignore the fake signals that hackers will be sending within hours of the first car hitting the street.
Making cars is expensive. Making high tech cars is more expensive.
Tesla isn't magic. Look at the sales numbers the big three have and how often they turn out new programs (that aren't really an entirely new product). The math is pretty simple. Tesla doesn't make enough money in their product line and is turning out a new program when the old ones aren't paying for themselves.
It's a stock market thing, really. Look at the stock prices of the automakers. They continue to make successful products but their stock price doesn't increase. Yet a company like Apple hasn't put out a really innovative product in years, is getting destroyed by Samsung..... but continues to be a stock market darling.
Welcome to the irrational world.
Ride sharing + autonomous cars = future. This is Alphabet confirming that's where they are going. The big 3 know it too - they are all partnering with ride sharing companies. They've got the software backend already written. The big 3 provide the cars. It's the future business model.
No pun intended. I'll give you another example of an online game with a major cheating problem - Clash of Clans. Back a year or two ago, SuperCell implemented anti-cheat protocols that looks for modified game files, or memory locations modified by non-supercell software.
It got rid of the lazy cheaters - but the hard core competitive cheaters quickly circumvented the cheating protocols. How? Well the language barrier played a big part in it. The Chinese have several active bots and cheat programs but SuperCell has been unable to address it because they simply don't speak the language.
There's also a thriving market for money laundering in Clash of Clans. The original user sends money through one of any number of online cash payment systems. Account logins are given to 'trusted' individuals who have stolen credit card credentials, stolen gift card codes or forged gift card codes. These individuals then buy in-game currency with the stolen information, and then the original user logs back on.
Finally, there is a ton of upper-end cheating. Many of the top notch players use private servers online that they pay to use. So when they are put against a new apponent's base layout, they go to the private server, make the base, then practice against it.
I don't have the answer for how you fix these things. Suffice it to say that if you want to be in the 'upper echelon' of most online games, you're probably going up against 20-30% cheaters.
I've heard Idgit Pai, directly from his own mouth, state that companies haven't violated net neutrality and they should be able to police themselves on this issue because they won't violate it.
So, if these companies aren't planning on violating the net neutrality rule, why is it so critical that it be removed?
Roll that back a bit. We didn't just suddenly 'arrive' at this point. And we've had republicans and democrats in various positions of power. Look at my post (above yours a bit) that explains exactly why I'm not gong to engage you. Especially with that rather special attitude that suggests Trump represents all republicans.
P.S.- I didn't vote for Trump. Not that it matters, or is any of your business. But this blind political hatred that so many Americans are currently mired in is not helping the country.
Oh, I agree - but there's no point in going there because people have already made their decisions on the president. Actual debate educates and illuminates, but there is no debate to be had about the President that can be meaningful. Too many people have personally invested themselves in the argument rather than making objective informed decisions.
He may have worked in a position that called for an electrical engineer - but without a degree, he wasn't. There's a distinction between being in an engineering position and being an engineer. And people who have called themselves engineer but aren't have lost in court over that fact. But hey - in a pinch I know emergency first aid. Guess I'm a doctor.
I'm rural and I'm in the same boat many people are in. I can't get cable - it ends about 1 mile away from me. I can't get DSL - it ends 3 miles away from me. I can't get Satellite, because hills and trees block the southern horizon. Sprint barely works - we get sub megabit speeds. AT&T works intermittently, with constant voice drop outs. Verizon works - and we get 30 megabits over LTE. But we are limited to our 'unlimited' 15 GB before our speeds are cut to 600kb. The one 'broadband' company near us has an F rating at the better business bureau and is getting sued by the government for misappropriating and stealing grants meant to improve service.
Verizon is our only internet option. I pay over $200 a month for 3 'unlimited' lines. Every month we have to rotate through phones until we use them up.
High speed internet has become a necessity for modern life. Schools in my area *expect* the kids to have high speed access. Their books are on line, as are all their instructional videos for experiments and other homework. Sheduling for after-school activies is ALL done through email, remind, and mass-text.
Our government has failed us. More specifically, the FCC. The continue to ignore local monopolies and stand by while companies like Verizon shut down local internet shops and municipal broad band through lawsuits. I'm tired of it, but there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. Oh, I've called my congressmen and senators. I've commented during the FTC review period - which they ignore in its entirety.
Ajit Pai is the biggest stinking pile of shit to ever work in our government.
Oh, and as a follow up. You know the auto-industry has huge focus groups (usually done by email) where they present icons to people, like a trunk opening button. But they don't tell the people what it does initially - they ASK them what they think it does.
Because if you have efficient button and icon design, you don't need menu trees and your dependence on language (and all the misunderstandings it creates) is decreased by an order of magnitude. Just have a British Person ask an American where a boot is if you want a good example.
Computer Programmers (I'm looking at you microsoft) need to learn that these things are important:
1. Appropriate icons
2. Minimizing clicks to task completion
3. Common control placement
4. Self-explanatory menu trees
5. Consistent menu trees
I'll give you a good idea how NOT to do it. Windows 10 is a mashup of numerous operating systems. You'll find control panels from the original 95, and new 'tile' or web-page-like looks woven together. You'll find some with buttons you push, and others with highlighted words you need to click. You'll find important features like configuring the lock-screen not under right-click display like you would expect, but buried deep inside the user-accounts system. And clicking to find what you want has gotten so counter-intuitive that most people utilize the typing in the search box to pull things up now.
I could keep going on, but Windows 10 is a prime example of how non-user-friendly programs from tier 1 vendors have become. Photoshop is a right up there too.
So.... you start by comparing n1gger to the word soccer. The word 'n1gger' goes back to wholesale repression of an entire race. The word 'soccer' is disliked because brits see it as American.
The you accuse Americans of exporting their outrage, when you've already given brits a pass on doing the same thing over the word soccer.
How about you educate yourself about why it's such a hateful word, and then be a bigger man and not use it?
So, to know that I've been hacked they'll need my info. So who is going to start a service that monitors Credit Karma and tell me when THEY have data breaches.
And within a month, sites will start popping up something that says, "We see you've blocked video with sound! We understand why, but we depend on that support to provide you the best experience and keep our site running smoothly."
And you won't be able to browse the site.
You are right - it doesn't matter. With the ratio of comments already insanely one-sided against the FCC's plan to dismantle net neutrality, Idgit Paj has already made it clear he doesn't give a shit. Look at the group he just put together for advice.
This is a corrupt joke. Everyone knows it. The media, the people, Trump, and Idgit. But Trump was elected and this is what we get. It's only going to get worse.
The great part is doing this to the folks in the manufacturing environment. We have to hold private meetings, have union hearings, and store a SHITLOAD of documentation because of Sarbanes Oxley. Pay documents, ergo, union / vacation forms, etc. But the 'new' desks don't provide shit for storage space either.
Have you ever tried to actually do work on a manufacturing floor? You can't even hear to make phone calls. Idiocy. And whoever approved it is a total moron.