Not really. Something's brewing in the mids of SV's CEOs and VCs. Looking at Apple (wearables), Google (robotics) and now FB (wearables). FYI, M$ has been in the space for some time....
All the SV companies are going into "stealth mode" (really hate the term) to gear up for IoTs. IoT appears to be the next cash cow all are heading towards at this point. The FB purchase just proves it. And it makes sense: data exploitation, hardware, and mobility. Stupid MBAs call that the triple play -- and the VCs are salivating over IoT like cocaine ready in their hand and hookers in their face.
mind that a older coworker is asking for 100K, and likely wants to work 40-45hr weeks (occasional 60hrs as reasonable).
The young guys take 60K, work 60hrs typically, hence effectively making 45K. Who gives a damn about productivity as long as the product ships on time by marketing and bizdev demands.
Heck look at all those google guys, making $200K, but working 60-80 hrs a week. That's really a 100-120K job and no life outside the company, likely bad health, and perhaps erratic social skills?
I mean even the valley pushes WAH, telecommuting, and the whole cloud idea itself.
Doesn't matter where you work, it matters how you get your message out and time to market. Hence why the valley is messed up.... no risk taking and innovation. The stuff they call risk taking nowadays in the valley is whether you should invest in your buddy from Stanford or the new MBA from MIT.
IDE == application and UI programming. Usually lots of business logic or use cases. text editor == optimization or network programming. Usually non-UI graphics, socket stuff, bit banging.
And that's the difference in domain. Software can't be made to be the be-all-end-all of solutions.
On a 747, single point of failure (SPF) is a huge concern in design. Otherwise, the plane falls out of the sky. And it's an $$$ proposition.
On a BMW, you may want a SPF, power of the engine and allow coasting/override (i.e. let it fail, but keep other subsystems alive). And that's a cheap proposition.
No code is 100% bug free, but hopefully 100% controllable for the application. Heck s/w can't help you if the lug nuts fall off.
simply to stop upgrading their infrastructure so that service degrades.
And who's going to pay for upgrading their infrastructure? Verizon might as well pass the costs upstream. And with net neutrality, we're going to see more of this.
Cause when it crashes (RTOS), it will crash "hard" and you instantly know you need to reboot it... (now).
Where as a non-RTOS "crashes" the OS will still allow the mouse to move, disk churning, UI frozen, you will wait 10 seconds wondering WTF? and then wait +3 as you hold the power button to reboot it and then another 2 minutes for it to reboot and login.
Basically you need a RTOS to save time from waiting.
Or any team that is given a lot of cash and prospects of future advertisements (a cut of the pie).
This tech enhancing the sport is starting to get out of hand. Eventually skip the suits, skates, skis, boards, rifles, shoes.... just remove the human and the olympics will be about robots performing human activities (I guess that's a cool thing?)
and it isn't about not having "removal equipment". This type of weather happens all the time, especially in the NE.
The really thing we learn from this is that cars have reached a level of sophistication/tech that we all think we can travel in any weather. In reality, that's not true, we can be safer in any weather, but not capable. So the same rule of the last 50yrs still applies: 4+ of snow== stay at home. Walmart can wait. Let the crews do their job.
Think horses and horseback riding. All this is heading in that direction. Horses we're more used than cars or milk bottles back in the day and now what? It's a niche recreation. Expensive or not.
Flying's not mainstream anymore and will reach a steady state, likely through rediscovery. Then again, if rediscovery is a lost passion, we are doomed.
I just find it interesting that Google sells Moto, sure a maker of robust/reliable phones, but has capacity to make small wireless devices (routers, hotspots, RFID, monitors, sensors, etc...)....
and then buys Nest...
Looks like a changing of the guard. Moto culture likely fought with Google and Nest easily fits. The moto patents are a side story.
a. drones are typically remotely piloted (RPV), which means loss of satellite signal or in-air network (E3/awacs/C4I, etc..)means you're done for the day. b. drones remotely piloted have latency issues (just basic physics, though the tech is fast enough today for their current missions). c. you need ahuge sensor network to match the sensing capabilities of a manned vehicle (i.e. a pilot can see & decide on stuff more quickly than the sensor processing packages).
Manned fighters do not have these issues and have more intelligence to respond to changing conditions. Cause everything is on-board.
From that, the only solution to drones is to go fully autonomous. And that creates a whole new set of problems (and a possible Skynet incidence).
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hacking MBA buzzwords and littering a bunch of sound bites specifically in SV speak.
Has she interviewed any of these CEOs for her analysis or reading someone else's bios? Doesn't look like and 1/2 the article is about her.
Better?
She just came up with a Web 2.0 presentation... mind that using motivational images.
Not really. Something's brewing in the mids of SV's CEOs and VCs. Looking at Apple (wearables), Google (robotics) and now FB (wearables). FYI, M$ has been in the space for some time....
All the SV companies are going into "stealth mode" (really hate the term) to gear up for IoTs. IoT appears to be the next cash cow all are heading towards at this point. The FB purchase just proves it. And it makes sense: data exploitation, hardware, and mobility. Stupid MBAs call that the triple play -- and the VCs are salivating over IoT like cocaine ready in their hand and hookers in their face.
Get ready for the next high fellas.
mind that a older coworker is asking for 100K, and likely wants to work 40-45hr weeks (occasional 60hrs as reasonable).
The young guys take 60K, work 60hrs typically, hence effectively making 45K. Who gives a damn about productivity as long as the product ships on time by marketing and bizdev demands.
Heck look at all those google guys, making $200K, but working 60-80 hrs a week. That's really a 100-120K job and no life outside the company, likely bad health, and perhaps erratic social skills?
Does it even matter?
I mean even the valley pushes WAH, telecommuting, and the whole cloud idea itself.
Doesn't matter where you work, it matters how you get your message out and time to market. Hence why the valley is messed up.... no risk taking and innovation. The stuff they call risk taking nowadays in the valley is whether you should invest in your buddy from Stanford or the new MBA from MIT.
cronyism
That's all I need to say...
Use the right tool for the right job.
IDE == application and UI programming. Usually lots of business logic or use cases.
text editor == optimization or network programming. Usually non-UI graphics, socket stuff, bit banging.
oh and lastly (flamesuit ON)....
vi == everything else.
Sounds like Assange is the Bill Gates of information.
I mean, I know we all love Windows cause we love Bill...
Now Assange needs a Steve Jobs equivalent.
And that's the difference in domain. Software can't be made to be the be-all-end-all of solutions.
On a 747, single point of failure (SPF) is a huge concern in design. Otherwise, the plane falls out of the sky. And it's an $$$ proposition.
On a BMW, you may want a SPF, power of the engine and allow coasting/override (i.e. let it fail, but keep other subsystems alive). And that's a cheap proposition.
No code is 100% bug free, but hopefully 100% controllable for the application. Heck s/w can't help you if the lug nuts fall off.
Of course, if your math skill level is around the 8th grade (like most politicians?) x = Ay .....
simply to stop upgrading their infrastructure so that service degrades.
And who's going to pay for upgrading their infrastructure? Verizon might as well pass the costs upstream. And with net neutrality, we're going to see more of this.
They used it mainly to get closer to the action and rolling/panning shots.
A large copter would blow away snow at anything under 500ft and be too loud and distracting to the athletes.
It was a great application of multis...
Why Do I Need It?
Cause when it crashes (RTOS), it will crash "hard" and you instantly know you need to reboot it... (now).
Where as a non-RTOS "crashes" the OS will still allow the mouse to move, disk churning, UI frozen, you will wait 10 seconds wondering WTF? and then wait +3 as you hold the power button to reboot it and then another 2 minutes for it to reboot and login.
Basically you need a RTOS to save time from waiting.
Hence why it is overvalued. It's a strategy to validate the stock price.
I mean QE1/2/3, too big to fail strategies worked (e.g. pumping in cash, buying up debt)? This is no different from those strategies.
OF COURSE
Honestly paying a lot for hyped tech companies sure sounds like an excuse to avoid some type of taxes.... (e.g. capital expenditure)
Or any team that is given a lot of cash and prospects of future advertisements (a cut of the pie).
This tech enhancing the sport is starting to get out of hand. Eventually skip the suits, skates, skis, boards, rifles, shoes.... just remove the human and the olympics will be about robots performing human activities (I guess that's a cool thing?)
and it isn't about not having "removal equipment". This type of weather happens all the time, especially in the NE.
The really thing we learn from this is that cars have reached a level of sophistication/tech that we all think we can travel in any weather. In reality, that's not true, we can be safer in any weather, but not capable. So the same rule of the last 50yrs still applies: 4+ of snow== stay at home. Walmart can wait. Let the crews do their job.
If this goes through, we will get a glimpse of what tier internet will look like.
I know, I know, we have a good idea what tiered internet looks like, but this will give us some real concrete evidence.
motorcycles
Libraries
Classical music
Newspaper
Think horses and horseback riding. All this is heading in that direction. Horses we're more used than cars or milk bottles back in the day and now what? It's a niche recreation. Expensive or not.
Flying's not mainstream anymore and will reach a steady state, likely through rediscovery. Then again, if rediscovery is a lost passion, we are doomed.
Note that a few million tons will be transferred to the Earth.
Entropy (2nd law of thermodynamics) and energy conservation are pains in the arse of course.
Yep, pretty much any language out there, from programming languages to spoken... is a mess.
I just find it interesting that Google sells Moto, sure a maker of robust/reliable phones, but has capacity to make small wireless devices (routers, hotspots, RFID, monitors, sensors, etc...)....
and then buys Nest...
Looks like a changing of the guard. Moto culture likely fought with Google and Nest easily fits. The moto patents are a side story.
Well, what do you think the humans do in The Matrix ?
There either partying, warring, or jacking in (aka the blue pill or what Futurama calls it: surfing the Internet). Work? Don't see it.
I wouldn't be surprise if Snowden attempts to make contact w/US participants in Sochi.
Only thing about drones is the autonomy part:
a. drones are typically remotely piloted (RPV), which means loss of satellite signal or in-air network (E3/awacs/C4I, etc..)means you're done for the day.
b. drones remotely piloted have latency issues (just basic physics, though the tech is fast enough today for their current missions).
c. you need ahuge sensor network to match the sensing capabilities of a manned vehicle (i.e. a pilot can see & decide on stuff more quickly than the sensor processing packages).
Manned fighters do not have these issues and have more intelligence to respond to changing conditions. Cause everything is on-board.
From that, the only solution to drones is to go fully autonomous. And that creates a whole new set of problems (and a possible Skynet incidence).