He is a great scientist in his own right. You won't dismiss his entire career because he lost 2 bets... also let's keep that in perspective, scientist are wrong all the time and argue all the time, the sentence is obviously only meant at poking fun at S Hawking and nothing else.
Well magic battery technology practical and affordable has been discovered several times in the last decade. We are still waiting for the practical application... It is very cheap to claim breakthrough in science. The only interesting thing is that it is not using graphene.
And that's not a recent phenomenon. When I was a kid almost 3 decades ago, I loved to read science magazine. I don't think a quarter of the breakthrough made it to production.
At some point the country with more debt has had more money than the other one. What matters is what the country is doing with that extra-resource. As a example, in June 1999, Google was 25 millions in debt, a considerably worst shape than my local kebab place.
Debt is just an indicator. That's what's wrong with the current austerity measure in Europe. It does not matter what a Country is doing with its money, Europe only cares about the yearly balance sheet and does not give a damn about the future of the country.
If all the H1B were to leave at once, salaries in the US would go up (less worker, same job), and on the contrary, go down in foreign countries (more worker, same job). Basically a price differential bigger than currently. If companies are not employing US citizen now, getting rid of all the H1B is unlikely to change their mind.
Giving more H1B has the opposite effect.
Well in theory anyway. You know and I know it is not as simple as that. For a human being, it does not matter if lowering the salary is good for America competitivity in 20 years, he needs to put bread on the table every day until then.
Facebook is big enough to have branches where they want. They can get their slave anywhere in the world, having them in the US to pay taxes is certainly a better option.
Not disagreeing, just a bit meh after a decade of revolutionary promises and zero revolutionary product. BTW I could use also use those fuel cell battery pack for my laptop and phone. The prototypes were great: days of autonomy instead of hours, topup with cheap lighter fluid. Still waiting.
Actually you would need a network like Tesla supercharger network for this to really work. As long as you bought the initial battery, you can swap it for only the cost of energy (profit included with a small recycling fee) from the network of power stations.
Problem of that, according to Tesla, is that there is significant technical challenge to swap battery pack in a reliable way and it also limit the design and location of those packs. But then of course, their battery pack has different constraints.
Anyway that's not the first claim of wonderful battery. After all the claim and prototypes we have seen in the last decade we should have supercapacitor powered car with 1000+ miles that charge in a few minutes.
10 years is the time it takes to bring a technology that is fully available now to mass production. Nothing to do with optimism or not, it takes several years to design and produce an incremental upgrade on existing cars.
Just have a look at electric car and a modern company like Tesla. They announced their first car in 2006. Produced it in 2008, upgrade it to something slightly more usable by Joe User in 2012. If they keep it up at the same rhythm they could maybe have a real mass production (i.e. with the problem of the masses fixed) model in 2016. 10 years.
Same thing here, you will get more and more automated car (there are car that park themselves, and can drive on the highway available now), but for a mass market, robotic taxi, 10 years does not seem so pessimistic.
Well that would be interesting to wait for the benchmark. The Exynos contains 2 set of 4 cores: 4 slower set for battery optimising and 4 faster for CPU intensive application. The speed difference may not be that important, by design, the battery should be the main difference between the 2 (with the 8-core being significantly better). That make sense btw, with modern phones, your main concerned is keeping it powered, not really CPU speed.
The biz guy made tens of millions. The engineers got their $25K/year and laid off after the project was done - this was back in the 70s.
Wow, seems like a nice guy. Seems like those asshole bosses that never understand what you do and make you work in McGuyver condition (not enough server, no license to the tool you need, no test, develop on prod,...) but blame you you when you fail and even blame you if by luck you succeed.
Obviously 100+ days is not quite fast enough. But considering the technology is so new, that is not unreasonable we will get the production time down to 10 days by just refining the existing technique.
10 days seems long, but what matter is the footprint of the printer and its cost. If it is small and cheap enough you can basically spread and stack them all around the country. The efficiency of on-demand, on-site production will more than make up for the slowness of the process.
HS diploma is not as rare as being an ex-con. Rare does not mean valuable.
The real benefit of HS diploma, is that IF you manage to find a job, you will have 4 to 5 years head start over college student. That is a huge difference, that means less debt, more experience (the first years of experience are especially critical) and by extension more income (you are not in entry level position). All of that should give you an immense flexibility compared to your peers.
If you really want to be pedantic, your definition is chemically wrong (and the summary actually mentions chemical combustion). Combustion is basically, just an oxydation. Depending how strong/rapid the oxydation is, it is called fire or not.
Very often the starting salary of visa worker is the same as "regular" worker. The main difference is that the visa worker has significantly more difficulties to find another job once in the country. He is also always at risk of having to leave the country if he get fired. It is not necessary to get people cheap, inflation will take care of that for you.
Visa is a nice legal trap for foreign employees. When you have a job you are almost like a normal citizen, the day you are out of work you quickly realise that it is were you are born that matters, not how much taxes you paid.
Luxury sports sedan are the most versatile type of car. Space to carry your family, comfort for long trip, easy commuting, sportivity, adventure (look at the ads - leave the city, drive into the country side, find this nice little spot,... - that's always the same theme: business, responsibility, but also fun)... Tesla Model S is not competitive against BMW, Mercedes and others in that segment, for the obvious reason of the autonomy (more precisely, the method of topping up).
Except for a bit too much enthusiasm, you are perfectly spot on. That car is like the iPhone in 2007, not quite there yet, but more than enough to make it clear we have entered a new era.
(disclaimer - European - Luxury Sport Sedan is the primary family car here, seconded by a mini city car)
The review of the Tesla was not negative. Not for a Lotus Elise-type sport car, anyway. They just made fun of the autonomy at the end of the program and Tesla decided to be a dick about it.
The IT-world analogy would be somebody reviewing Windows8, conclude with a screenshot of the new style of BSOD. Nobody would even notice or care, and those who do would probably find that funny. If Microsoft were to sue the reviewer to prove that they faked the BSOD in some maner, we would probably all think they are being a dick too.
It is really not that simple/cheap to check the entire world for trademarks.
Which is a bit disappointing when you think of it. It only takes a single google search to instantaneously find a dry cleaner anywhere in the world, but you need a lawyer and days to find reference to an official registration made with any of the 200 governments of the world.
BTW, this is not a COBOL hate, that is a "if it ain't broke..." hate.
Argument like there is training required, there will be bug,... are generally not the cause at all. The real cause is that the company lost the very business knowledge that is abstracted by the software. Worse, most of the time that knowledge has been outsourced to other third party completely.
The 2 problems highlighted could be solved, even in Cobol. They won't be solved, and the reason is not that new software cannot be better, it is that the company has lost the knowledge of its own core business and is unwilling to take any real measure to learn it back. Most of the time, "If it ain't broke..." is not wisdom, it is a sign of incompetence as bad as "Nobody has ever been been fired for buying IBM".
Do you really want to pretend that all the change we have had in software like browser, os, databases, search algorithm, storage, network algorithm, and countless other area have has no impact at all ?
The reason the Bank do not change a working software is that by the time the software really works (i.e. 10+ years after the initial design), nobody really knows why it is working - if you are lucky. Most of the time the company has also lost the knowledge of how it is working too. Changing it becomes a huge risk - since you don't know why it is working, you will never be sure the new system is behaving like the old one. Also since you have lost the why, you just can't design a new better system.
In an age where a company like Google is able to run analytics on the whole internet, that sites like facebook can instantaneously know what was your favorite brand of pasta in June 2007, do you really think Banks are happy to have whole floor of admin people check by hand that one of their own client has not requested the same mortgage in 2 different branches ? No need to be even that technical, would they just happy to have a system that support space in surname and accented characters so that you do not have to implement training session, guideline book, review processes, special compliance validation to work around that limitation that after 30 years in business now affects 30% of their clients.
Not really, the weakness of most DRM platform is that they can be used offline. Meaning that the key to decrypt the content is yours and common to a lot of people. Secrecy is necessary for those algorithm to prevent hacker to find the key too easily.
On the other hand, constant connection to the internet is a perfectly reasonable limitation for streaming over the internet. It is therefore possible to generate a unique encryption key for the content streamed to you that you retrieve from a license server using PGP. Basically, quite similar to HTTPS and perfectly doable with public algorithms.
Actually that's a visible force. What you meant is that the majority of people believe that there is an invisible attraction between any 2 objects that pull them together.
The problem of Apple competition is that they generally cover all possible price point. So the majority of Android phone that get pushed to the consumer (free if you renew your contract) are going to be second rate. Worse, even the big brand are often pushing shitty devices. A lot of the models have been abandoned either by the manufacturer or the network, so you endup with lot of people with older version of Android.
All of that make regular people wary, skeptical or simply tired. If you do not spend time reading reviews, comparing models,... Apple is going to be a safer bet. Look at the ready meal section of your supermarket, convenience is a huge market.
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He is a great scientist in his own right. You won't dismiss his entire career because he lost 2 bets ... also let's keep that in perspective, scientist are wrong all the time and argue all the time, the sentence is obviously only meant at poking fun at S Hawking and nothing else.
Well magic battery technology practical and affordable has been discovered several times in the last decade. We are still waiting for the practical application ... It is very cheap to claim breakthrough in science. The only interesting thing is that it is not using graphene.
And that's not a recent phenomenon. When I was a kid almost 3 decades ago, I loved to read science magazine. I don't think a quarter of the breakthrough made it to production.
At some point the country with more debt has had more money than the other one. What matters is what the country is doing with that extra-resource. As a example, in June 1999, Google was 25 millions in debt, a considerably worst shape than my local kebab place.
Debt is just an indicator. That's what's wrong with the current austerity measure in Europe. It does not matter what a Country is doing with its money, Europe only cares about the yearly balance sheet and does not give a damn about the future of the country.
If all the H1B were to leave at once, salaries in the US would go up (less worker, same job), and on the contrary, go down in foreign countries (more worker, same job). Basically a price differential bigger than currently. If companies are not employing US citizen now, getting rid of all the H1B is unlikely to change their mind.
Giving more H1B has the opposite effect.
Well in theory anyway. You know and I know it is not as simple as that. For a human being, it does not matter if lowering the salary is good for America competitivity in 20 years, he needs to put bread on the table every day until then.
Facebook is big enough to have branches where they want. They can get their slave anywhere in the world, having them in the US to pay taxes is certainly a better option.
Not disagreeing, just a bit meh after a decade of revolutionary promises and zero revolutionary product. BTW I could use also use those fuel cell battery pack for my laptop and phone. The prototypes were great: days of autonomy instead of hours, topup with cheap lighter fluid. Still waiting.
Actually you would need a network like Tesla supercharger network for this to really work. As long as you bought the initial battery, you can swap it for only the cost of energy (profit included with a small recycling fee) from the network of power stations.
Problem of that, according to Tesla, is that there is significant technical challenge to swap battery pack in a reliable way and it also limit the design and location of those packs. But then of course, their battery pack has different constraints.
Anyway that's not the first claim of wonderful battery. After all the claim and prototypes we have seen in the last decade we should have supercapacitor powered car with 1000+ miles that charge in a few minutes.
10 years is the time it takes to bring a technology that is fully available now to mass production. Nothing to do with optimism or not, it takes several years to design and produce an incremental upgrade on existing cars.
Just have a look at electric car and a modern company like Tesla. They announced their first car in 2006. Produced it in 2008, upgrade it to something slightly more usable by Joe User in 2012. If they keep it up at the same rhythm they could maybe have a real mass production (i.e. with the problem of the masses fixed) model in 2016. 10 years.
Same thing here, you will get more and more automated car (there are car that park themselves, and can drive on the highway available now), but for a mass market, robotic taxi, 10 years does not seem so pessimistic.
Well that would be interesting to wait for the benchmark. The Exynos contains 2 set of 4 cores: 4 slower set for battery optimising and 4 faster for CPU intensive application. The speed difference may not be that important, by design, the battery should be the main difference between the 2 (with the 8-core being significantly better). That make sense btw, with modern phones, your main concerned is keeping it powered, not really CPU speed.
The biz guy made tens of millions. The engineers got their $25K/year and laid off after the project was done - this was back in the 70s.
Wow, seems like a nice guy. Seems like those asshole bosses that never understand what you do and make you work in McGuyver condition (not enough server, no license to the tool you need, no test, develop on prod, ...) but blame you you when you fail and even blame you if by luck you succeed.
Obviously 100+ days is not quite fast enough. But considering the technology is so new, that is not unreasonable we will get the production time down to 10 days by just refining the existing technique.
10 days seems long, but what matter is the footprint of the printer and its cost. If it is small and cheap enough you can basically spread and stack them all around the country. The efficiency of on-demand, on-site production will more than make up for the slowness of the process.
If a drunk thug in a bar says he want to shoot Bill Gates, do you put you send the SWAT team when he buys lead at a fishing shop ?
HS diploma is not as rare as being an ex-con. Rare does not mean valuable.
The real benefit of HS diploma, is that IF you manage to find a job, you will have 4 to 5 years head start over college student. That is a huge difference, that means less debt, more experience (the first years of experience are especially critical) and by extension more income (you are not in entry level position). All of that should give you an immense flexibility compared to your peers.
I repeat, IF you manage to find a job.
If you really want to be pedantic, your definition is chemically wrong (and the summary actually mentions chemical combustion). Combustion is basically, just an oxydation. Depending how strong/rapid the oxydation is, it is called fire or not.
Very often the starting salary of visa worker is the same as "regular" worker. The main difference is that the visa worker has significantly more difficulties to find another job once in the country. He is also always at risk of having to leave the country if he get fired. It is not necessary to get people cheap, inflation will take care of that for you.
Visa is a nice legal trap for foreign employees. When you have a job you are almost like a normal citizen, the day you are out of work you quickly realise that it is were you are born that matters, not how much taxes you paid.
Luxury sports sedan are the most versatile type of car. Space to carry your family, comfort for long trip, easy commuting, sportivity, adventure (look at the ads - leave the city, drive into the country side, find this nice little spot, ... - that's always the same theme: business, responsibility, but also fun) ... Tesla Model S is not competitive against BMW, Mercedes and others in that segment, for the obvious reason of the autonomy (more precisely, the method of topping up).
Except for a bit too much enthusiasm, you are perfectly spot on. That car is like the iPhone in 2007, not quite there yet, but more than enough to make it clear we have entered a new era.
(disclaimer - European - Luxury Sport Sedan is the primary family car here, seconded by a mini city car)
But that data has not been independently analysed or acquired. Chinese scientists have plenty of data too.
The review of the Tesla was not negative. Not for a Lotus Elise-type sport car, anyway. They just made fun of the autonomy at the end of the program and Tesla decided to be a dick about it.
The IT-world analogy would be somebody reviewing Windows8, conclude with a screenshot of the new style of BSOD. Nobody would even notice or care, and those who do would probably find that funny. If Microsoft were to sue the reviewer to prove that they faked the BSOD in some maner, we would probably all think they are being a dick too.
It is really not that simple/cheap to check the entire world for trademarks.
Which is a bit disappointing when you think of it. It only takes a single google search to instantaneously find a dry cleaner anywhere in the world, but you need a lawyer and days to find reference to an official registration made with any of the 200 governments of the world.
BTW, this is not a COBOL hate, that is a "if it ain't broke ..." hate.
Argument like there is training required, there will be bug, ... are generally not the cause at all. The real cause is that the company lost the very business knowledge that is abstracted by the software. Worse, most of the time that knowledge has been outsourced to other third party completely.
The 2 problems highlighted could be solved, even in Cobol. They won't be solved, and the reason is not that new software cannot be better, it is that the company has lost the knowledge of its own core business and is unwilling to take any real measure to learn it back. Most of the time, "If it ain't broke ..." is not wisdom, it is a sign of incompetence as bad as "Nobody has ever been been fired for buying IBM".
Do you really want to pretend that all the change we have had in software like browser, os, databases, search algorithm, storage, network algorithm, and countless other area have has no impact at all ?
The reason the Bank do not change a working software is that by the time the software really works (i.e. 10+ years after the initial design), nobody really knows why it is working - if you are lucky. Most of the time the company has also lost the knowledge of how it is working too. Changing it becomes a huge risk - since you don't know why it is working, you will never be sure the new system is behaving like the old one. Also since you have lost the why, you just can't design a new better system.
In an age where a company like Google is able to run analytics on the whole internet, that sites like facebook can instantaneously know what was your favorite brand of pasta in June 2007, do you really think Banks are happy to have whole floor of admin people check by hand that one of their own client has not requested the same mortgage in 2 different branches ? No need to be even that technical, would they just happy to have a system that support space in surname and accented characters so that you do not have to implement training session, guideline book, review processes, special compliance validation to work around that limitation that after 30 years in business now affects 30% of their clients.
And then what?
And then what, what ? That's a DRM, it does what other DRM do. This one will just run on the browser and os of your choice.
Not really, the weakness of most DRM platform is that they can be used offline. Meaning that the key to decrypt the content is yours and common to a lot of people. Secrecy is necessary for those algorithm to prevent hacker to find the key too easily.
On the other hand, constant connection to the internet is a perfectly reasonable limitation for streaming over the internet. It is therefore possible to generate a unique encryption key for the content streamed to you that you retrieve from a license server using PGP. Basically, quite similar to HTTPS and perfectly doable with public algorithms.
Actually that's a visible force. What you meant is that the majority of people believe that there is an invisible attraction between any 2 objects that pull them together.
The problem of Apple competition is that they generally cover all possible price point. So the majority of Android phone that get pushed to the consumer (free if you renew your contract) are going to be second rate. Worse, even the big brand are often pushing shitty devices. A lot of the models have been abandoned either by the manufacturer or the network, so you endup with lot of people with older version of Android.
All of that make regular people wary, skeptical or simply tired. If you do not spend time reading reviews, comparing models, ... Apple is going to be a safer bet. Look at the ready meal section of your supermarket, convenience is a huge market.