I assume that you think OS X is somehow superior to other OSs.
No.OS X plus the applications I am using form a computing ecosystem that is superior to anything I might plop down on my desk that would be fundamentally unable to perform the same tasks unless I put out a great deal of money, time and energy that is absolutely not necessary in any way, shape or form. Adding extra pixels won't do any of that.
I never could get used to its special keys (especially command and option) as well as the odd keyboard layout (no backspace???).
My keyboard has dedicated backspace and delete, which OS X understands perfectly well. Among many other amenities. I have no idea what you're talking about. Is this some kind of historical reference? As for not being able to get used to command and option... not relevant to me in any way. I have no problem with them. Or with switching back and forth when I'm working with Windows and Linux keyboards.
I'm much more comfortable with Linux and its applications. I gave up on Apple hardware and have now adopted Chromebooks (with Crouton Linux) for all my work. Much nicer user experience and better software options.
The computer seller throws some shade at Apple by saying, "The HiDPI displays that ship on the laptops have 3.1 million more pixels than Apple's 'Retina' displays
You can't "throw shade" at Apple over hardware capabilities in any meaningful way unless you can run OS X / macOS and its applications. Otherwise, you're in the position of a cruise ship boasting that it has roll stabilization in order to try and "shade" a luxury hotel. Pomegranates and kumquats. Irrelevant.
And I say that as a very unhappy Apple hardware user.
If you've managed groups of people you would know that for every motivated and hard working person out there there is a malingerer who wants a paycheck but doesn't really want to do any work.
While this is true, the reality is that the person's co-workers are quite capable of spotting this without any manager's help. If they are empowered to do something about it, they can.
I don't know if you've had the pleasure of dealing with fraudulent worker's comp claims. I have.
Yes, so have I. I've also seen companies that go out of their way to duck valid worker's comp claims. Either way, this isn't a task for group managers to deal with. Worker's comp, at least in IT, is about the health and welfare of the individual. The essence of management, as typically constituted, is to steer the group in the direction of the desired goals. Health and welfare really ought to be dealt with elsewhere in the structure than the group management (assuming that management is actually required, which may or may not be the case, depending on many factors.)
McDonald's [...] Pay is low, the work is tiring and boring, and your co-workers are rarely bright and motivated. [...] And that's ok as long as you know what to expect from them and build the business accordingly.
No, it's not okay. It's almost a perfect example of worker exploitation. They should be paid enough and work allocated in such a way as to make the job a pleasure to do. By low-balling benefits, pay and tasking, providing no reasonable breaks, and seeing to it that there is very little opportunity or reason to dedicate one's self to doing a good job, management inherently takes on the role of exploiter in order to make things work "anyway." And it shows -- how may times have customers seen the patty slopped halfway onto the bun, the condiments in a ridiculous pile on some small fraction of the patty, the orders missing something or containing something that wasn't ordered? That's a direct consequence of making people suffer in their jobs. Not of the job being inherently difficult.
Now, you can (and many do) argue that in order to keep that hamburger at a dollar, you have to exploit the workforce. The problem, as I see it, is that large numbers of citizens are earning so little as to make it so that an increase of a few dollars a day in meal costs represent a significant, even critical, impact on their overall income. This, while McDonald's executives earn millions of dollars per year.
We are never going to fix this unless we restrict the highly unbalanced upwards flow of money into the hands of those who hold the controlling reins of these organizations. In other words, owners, CEOs and yes, managers. This will probably happen, but only because these upscale jobs will be automated out of existence. Otherwise, greed, hubris and a blatant disregard for worker welfare will continue to make jobs such as fast food jobs your basic employee's nightmare.
2000ad (a British comic) was well ahead of the game with this. In the Mega Cities they've have "Hottie trees" since the early 1980s. Trees that grow synthetic hot dogs.
Well ahead, eh?
Try reading "The Space Merchants", by Frederic Pohl, published in 1952.
Broadcast FM in the US is 88-108 MHz. NOAA is generally around 162 MHz. It's quite a stretch for an analog tuner, pretty much requiring more hardware for filters and so on; for most SDRs that can already tune FM broadcast, these frequency ranges aren't really a lot different. For a dedicated digital receiver, it may not even be remotely possible.
So ultimately it depends on just how the phone is doing FM, and of course, if the software lets you do what you want to do.
The problem here -- and why these "ethicists" are pretty much irrelevant other than listening to themselves pontificate -- is that just like AI and a host of other things of similar nature, you can make all the rules and laws you want, but as the tech or product or service becomes readily available, people will do what they want with it, not what you want (or insist upon.)
Can't buy pot at the corner store? Fine. Get it on the black market. Can't buy sex at the hotel? Fine. Get it on the black market. Can't get an AI that is designed to do [whatever]? Fine. Get it on the black market. Can't get a gene edit to to [whatever] at a doctor's office or a commercial lab? Fine. Get it on the black market.
Where there's demand, there's provision. No way around it. Good or bad, easy or hard -- it's going to happen.
Republicans were pushing for more infrastructure spending in the bill.
I can't help but wonder if the approximately five trillion dollars we completely wasted in attacking Iraq and Afghanistan might have been enough to fix a bridge or two...
Yes, that's also a possibility, if by "Hacking the election" you mean salting the news with careful timing and content — as far as I know, there's no evidence of anyone hacking the actual voting process at the polls in any meaningful way.
Although inasmuch as Trump has said he thinks it was Russia, and multiple US intelligence organs have said it was Russia, and Obama said it was Russia, and McConnell has said it was Russia... I'm inclined to lean towards "it was Russia" at the moment.
The question at hand right now is why these particular provocative moves are being made by Russia. I find the timing very interesting.
I would say in return that "conspiracy" is not something we can rule out as far as the Trump operation goes, nor for recent actions of Russia. Not at this point, anyway.
The word "conspiracy" gets a bad rap from Elvis, 100 MPG carburetors, etc. But that doesn't mean that there aren't real conspiracies. It doesn't mean that real attempts at misdirection aren't possible, or ongoing. It doesn't mean that ultimate and/or intermediate objectives are not being masked or hidden. It doesn't mean that people who claim good intent, don't actually have bad intent. These things are fairly common -- and always have been.
You will also, I hope, note that I suggested that maskirovka was a possibility. I did not claim that I knew that it was the case and/or had proof. That phrasing was not an accident. So no, not literally "that's what they want you to think", but rather "it's possible that's what they want you to think."
If he is such a puppet of Putin, then why are the Russians running a spy ship off the DE coast, buzzing a US destroyer in the Black Sea, and testing a cruise missile capable of carrying nuke warheads in violation of the arms control treaty.
Here's a possibility: So people like you will think that Russia isn't connected to Trump's election.
(I'd have written "maskirovka" correctly, but, Slashdot's code is still stuck in the 1980's and can't display very much beyond ASCII. And the new owners either don't understand the slashcode and can't fix it [probably... it's perl, after all], or they're too busy doing... I don't know, something. It's not editing, that I can tell you.)
I don't want to say you all are traitors - but you do support a traitor...
I don't want to say you all are traitors - but a minority of voters did support a narcissistic, xenophobic, misogynist, sexist, rude, compulsive, racist, poorly spoken, selfish, scientifically illiterate, and frankly not too bright individual...
Don't forget the algorithm that determined which "hundreds of movies" out of the zillions that have been made that you got to choose from out of the first 30, and the algorithms that the movies studio used, and the algorithms that the effects companies used, and the algorithms that determine which actors were "hot"...
To say that making a choice on Netflix is "algorithm-free" is to not even remotely understand the world one lives in.
Er, not really. As long as the "intelligence" takes the form of algorithms, that means human beings are devising sets of rules for computers to follow.
No, it doesn't mean that at all. You're not considering that machines can write algorithms. And they certainly can. Genetic software (which we can very accurately describe as an implementation of "nature's algorithm") has been doing that for decades now, and the deep learning mechanisms we're just beginning to explore now could be leveraged in similar ways, perhaps already are.
And that's without any real advances towards actual AI. With such advances... who knows where algorithms might go. Or come from.
your computer is not a phone it doesn't need it's own app store.
The only reason you think your phone needs an App Store is because Apple has forced people to use it. I get apps for my phone from various sources. It's perfectly easy to do. Because it's not an iPhone.
This kind of failure (as in TFS) is what happens when you mismanage an App Store. Apple has no idea what it's doing here. The only reason they get away with the iOS app store is because users can't side load. But with macOS - so far - you can, so the Mac App Store has to add value. And it doesn't. It reduces value by slowing updates, reducing choice, and negatively impacts developer revenue.
Of course, the direction the "security" features in macOS are going has been right along the path towards no side loading. It's much more difficult than it used to be. Might end up there, too.
The problem with your argument is that it conflicts with all of human history.
So do the facts that we have computers, rocket ships, radio, television, the Internet, nuclear weapons, robot vacuum cleaners, satellites, space telescopes, solar power, drones, artificial meat just coming online, yay), supertankers, aircraft, plastics, fracking, nuclear reactors, heart surgery, brain surgery, dialysis, antibiotics, cellphones, overnight delivery across thousands of miles, food and other necessities distributed in plenty to areas are otherwise unlivable... you get the idea.
Things do change, and they can change a lot. So I'm not buying the "history shows..." argument.
Automation is both being more widely implemented on a constant basis, and becoming more sophisticated every day. Unless you can explain how it is likely that there is a hard limit to that process, I'm going to remain pretty confident that the end game will not be "earn or starve." At some point, warm bodies won't be needed to produce things; that's pretty clearly on the way.
I have a question for you, not being snarky or mean:
Say you receive UBI, and it is sufficient for you to not have to go out and earn additional income. This is the circumstance that matches your "I wouldn't work again" idea best, I think, yes? In that case, what do you think you would do with your time, energy and income?
No answer is wrong here, or will result in a nasty from me (although I can't speak for others on that one, this is slashdot, after all.) I'm just curious. Sometimes it isn't "earning money" that is a benefit to society, either. There are lots of things people might do that would be beneficial in one way or another.
I am well aware there is a talent shortage. I've worked in the tech industry for over 20 years and it's exceedingly rare to find an engineer who actually knows what they're doing.
I am well aware there is a shortage of companies willing to pay what talent actually deserves. I've worked in the tech industry for over 20 (40 for me) years and it's exceedingly rare to find an engineer who actually knows what they're doing that will take a lowball salary, is under 30, doesn't need good insurance, doesn't live like a rat in a box, doesn't have a family to support, and is willing to move to your ultra-expensive tech enclave and abandon their home and community for income at levels that is a fraction of their worth and cannot possibly maintain their standard of living...
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No.OS X plus the applications I am using form a computing ecosystem that is superior to anything I might plop down on my desk that would be fundamentally unable to perform the same tasks unless I put out a great deal of money, time and energy that is absolutely not necessary in any way, shape or form. Adding extra pixels won't do any of that.
My keyboard has dedicated backspace and delete, which OS X understands perfectly well. Among many other amenities. I have no idea what you're talking about. Is this some kind of historical reference? As for not being able to get used to command and option... not relevant to me in any way. I have no problem with them. Or with switching back and forth when I'm working with Windows and Linux keyboards.
Wonderful.
You can't "throw shade" at Apple over hardware capabilities in any meaningful way unless you can run OS X / macOS and its applications. Otherwise, you're in the position of a cruise ship boasting that it has roll stabilization in order to try and "shade" a luxury hotel. Pomegranates and kumquats. Irrelevant.
And I say that as a very unhappy Apple hardware user.
While this is true, the reality is that the person's co-workers are quite capable of spotting this without any manager's help. If they are empowered to do something about it, they can.
Yes, so have I. I've also seen companies that go out of their way to duck valid worker's comp claims. Either way, this isn't a task for group managers to deal with. Worker's comp, at least in IT, is about the health and welfare of the individual. The essence of management, as typically constituted, is to steer the group in the direction of the desired goals. Health and welfare really ought to be dealt with elsewhere in the structure than the group management (assuming that management is actually required, which may or may not be the case, depending on many factors.)
No, it's not okay. It's almost a perfect example of worker exploitation. They should be paid enough and work allocated in such a way as to make the job a pleasure to do. By low-balling benefits, pay and tasking, providing no reasonable breaks, and seeing to it that there is very little opportunity or reason to dedicate one's self to doing a good job, management inherently takes on the role of exploiter in order to make things work "anyway." And it shows -- how may times have customers seen the patty slopped halfway onto the bun, the condiments in a ridiculous pile on some small fraction of the patty, the orders missing something or containing something that wasn't ordered? That's a direct consequence of making people suffer in their jobs. Not of the job being inherently difficult.
Now, you can (and many do) argue that in order to keep that hamburger at a dollar, you have to exploit the workforce. The problem, as I see it, is that large numbers of citizens are earning so little as to make it so that an increase of a few dollars a day in meal costs represent a significant, even critical, impact on their overall income. This, while McDonald's executives earn millions of dollars per year.
We are never going to fix this unless we restrict the highly unbalanced upwards flow of money into the hands of those who hold the controlling reins of these organizations. In other words, owners, CEOs and yes, managers. This will probably happen, but only because these upscale jobs will be automated out of existence. Otherwise, greed, hubris and a blatant disregard for worker welfare will continue to make jobs such as fast food jobs your basic employee's nightmare.
Well ahead, eh?
Try reading "The Space Merchants", by Frederic Pohl, published in 1952.
Broadcast FM in the US is 88-108 MHz. NOAA is generally around 162 MHz. It's quite a stretch for an analog tuner, pretty much requiring more hardware for filters and so on; for most SDRs that can already tune FM broadcast, these frequency ranges aren't really a lot different. For a dedicated digital receiver, it may not even be remotely possible.
So ultimately it depends on just how the phone is doing FM, and of course, if the software lets you do what you want to do.
I'm told the streetlight RFI interferes with audio, causes hum. I can't hear it, though.
No headphone jack, y'see.
Courage!
The problem here -- and why these "ethicists" are pretty much irrelevant other than listening to themselves pontificate -- is that just like AI and a host of other things of similar nature, you can make all the rules and laws you want, but as the tech or product or service becomes readily available, people will do what they want with it, not what you want (or insist upon.)
Can't buy pot at the corner store? Fine. Get it on the black market.
Can't buy sex at the hotel? Fine. Get it on the black market.
Can't get an AI that is designed to do [whatever]? Fine. Get it on the black market.
Can't get a gene edit to to [whatever] at a doctor's office or a commercial lab? Fine. Get it on the black market.
Where there's demand, there's provision. No way around it. Good or bad, easy or hard -- it's going to happen.
I think you just follow the black trashcan markers, yes?
Not until we spend more on attacking Iraq or North Korea, I suspect.
I can't help but wonder if the approximately five trillion dollars we completely wasted in attacking Iraq and Afghanistan might have been enough to fix a bridge or two...
Yes, that's also a possibility, if by "Hacking the election" you mean salting the news with careful timing and content — as far as I know, there's no evidence of anyone hacking the actual voting process at the polls in any meaningful way.
Although inasmuch as Trump has said he thinks it was Russia, and multiple US intelligence organs have said it was Russia, and Obama said it was Russia, and McConnell has said it was Russia... I'm inclined to lean towards "it was Russia" at the moment.
The question at hand right now is why these particular provocative moves are being made by Russia. I find the timing very interesting.
o Why did the smartphone user cross the road?
o Wasn't paying attention, didn't notice the chicken waiting for traffic to clear the crosswalk
Good news, though... free fried pedestrian at my place tonight!
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I would say in return that "conspiracy" is not something we can rule out as far as the Trump operation goes, nor for recent actions of Russia. Not at this point, anyway.
The word "conspiracy" gets a bad rap from Elvis, 100 MPG carburetors, etc. But that doesn't mean that there aren't real conspiracies. It doesn't mean that real attempts at misdirection aren't possible, or ongoing. It doesn't mean that ultimate and/or intermediate objectives are not being masked or hidden. It doesn't mean that people who claim good intent, don't actually have bad intent. These things are fairly common -- and always have been.
You will also, I hope, note that I suggested that maskirovka was a possibility. I did not claim that I knew that it was the case and/or had proof. That phrasing was not an accident. So no, not literally "that's what they want you to think", but rather "it's possible that's what they want you to think."
Here's a possibility: So people like you will think that Russia isn't connected to Trump's election.
It's called "maskirovka."
(I'd have written "maskirovka" correctly, but, Slashdot's code is still stuck in the 1980's and can't display very much beyond ASCII. And the new owners either don't understand the slashcode and can't fix it [probably... it's perl, after all], or they're too busy doing... I don't know, something. It's not editing, that I can tell you.)
I don't want to say you all are traitors - but a minority of voters did support a narcissistic, xenophobic, misogynist, sexist, rude, compulsive, racist, poorly spoken, selfish, scientifically illiterate, and frankly not too bright individual...
FTFY
Don't forget the algorithm that determined which "hundreds of movies" out of the zillions that have been made that you got to choose from out of the first 30, and the algorithms that the movies studio used, and the algorithms that the effects companies used, and the algorithms that determine which actors were "hot"...
To say that making a choice on Netflix is "algorithm-free" is to not even remotely understand the world one lives in.
No, it doesn't mean that at all. You're not considering that machines can write algorithms. And they certainly can. Genetic software (which we can very accurately describe as an implementation of "nature's algorithm") has been doing that for decades now, and the deep learning mechanisms we're just beginning to explore now could be leveraged in similar ways, perhaps already are.
And that's without any real advances towards actual AI. With such advances... who knows where algorithms might go. Or come from.
The only reason you think your phone needs an App Store is because Apple has forced people to use it. I get apps for my phone from various sources. It's perfectly easy to do. Because it's not an iPhone.
This kind of failure (as in TFS) is what happens when you mismanage an App Store. Apple has no idea what it's doing here. The only reason they get away with the iOS app store is because users can't side load. But with macOS - so far - you can, so the Mac App Store has to add value. And it doesn't. It reduces value by slowing updates, reducing choice, and negatively impacts developer revenue.
Of course, the direction the "security" features in macOS are going has been right along the path towards no side loading. It's much more difficult than it used to be. Might end up there, too.
Interesting to watch them fumble so badly.
(I develop Mac apps, btw.)
No. They were not saying anything even remotely similar to what I am saying. Your imagination has failed you.
This isn't automation of one thing, or a few things, that is coming down the pike. This will be automation of everything.
You watch. This will do to our "earning" economy what innoculation did to polio.
So do the facts that we have computers, rocket ships, radio, television, the Internet, nuclear weapons, robot vacuum cleaners, satellites, space telescopes, solar power, drones, artificial meat just coming online, yay), supertankers, aircraft, plastics, fracking, nuclear reactors, heart surgery, brain surgery, dialysis, antibiotics, cellphones, overnight delivery across thousands of miles, food and other necessities distributed in plenty to areas are otherwise unlivable... you get the idea.
Things do change, and they can change a lot. So I'm not buying the "history shows..." argument.
Automation is both being more widely implemented on a constant basis, and becoming more sophisticated every day. Unless you can explain how it is likely that there is a hard limit to that process, I'm going to remain pretty confident that the end game will not be "earn or starve." At some point, warm bodies won't be needed to produce things; that's pretty clearly on the way.
I have a question for you, not being snarky or mean:
Say you receive UBI, and it is sufficient for you to not have to go out and earn additional income. This is the circumstance that matches your "I wouldn't work again" idea best, I think, yes? In that case, what do you think you would do with your time, energy and income?
No answer is wrong here, or will result in a nasty from me (although I can't speak for others on that one, this is slashdot, after all.) I'm just curious. Sometimes it isn't "earning money" that is a benefit to society, either. There are lots of things people might do that would be beneficial in one way or another.
I am well aware there is a shortage of companies willing to pay what talent actually deserves. I've worked in the tech industry for over 20 (40 for me) years and it's exceedingly rare to find an engineer who actually knows what they're doing that will take a lowball salary, is under 30, doesn't need good insurance, doesn't live like a rat in a box, doesn't have a family to support, and is willing to move to your ultra-expensive tech enclave and abandon their home and community for income at levels that is a fraction of their worth and cannot possibly maintain their standard of living...
FTFY
If you can only find your employees in India, etc., then move your company there, bitch.
There's clearly no shortage at all of skilled workers.
There's a shortage of ethical companies, that's all.
C'mon, man. Tone down your Hate-Fi.