One, why did you post anon? You could have kept your history of being right if you are so sure about your opinion on Tesla.
And as a guy who does understand accounting and finance, Musk isn't anything special. He isn't as bad as the Enron & Worldcom guys. He is about where the CEOs of Ford, GM, and Delta were at various times over the last 4 decades. All were worse just before bankruptcy. All of them BS. That's part of their job. The problem is all the "analysts" who just believe their words without actual analysis.
Tesla's situation, accounting wise, isn't great but not horrible enough to have that much shorting. It's simply one of those mid-high risk to high return situations. If he almost goes private and the price point is within 5% or higher of what he tweeted; he is in the clear. He made the announcement on a public forum so no one got privileged information. He doesn't even need to actually go private, just get an offer near the price point.
So true. Our company's iOS count is in the mid 5 digit range. And early on, there was a Exchange Calendar glitch that we just couldn't solve. It would only appear on iOS and not the numerous non-iOS devices.
It took us MONTHS to get Apple to even see that there was an issue. Some guy in a forum figured it out but it took us MONTHS to have them accept that it was an issue with how they implemented the ActiveSync protocols. It took almost 18 months for Apple to actually fix the problem (the fix itself was fairly simple, related to assigning a meeting ID properly).
On one meeting, we were literally told. "Corporate isn't really our target audience, so this is a low priority issue." Which is FINE, just don't be telling us this 6 months into the discussions! Atleast accept the fact that something is wrong and put a communication about it.
Delaying a release for a better fix is not what Mr Beer is complaining about. Basically he is saying Apple releases a bug fix (assuming they agree it is important enough) and then just moves on. They don't do a process or infrastructure review to see if other similar bugs exist or if future similar bugs will be created.
Few bugs actually need infrastructure changes. But many bugs hint at process problems that could have been prevented and could still be prevented.
This ignorance is generally true of most companies. However, Apple really takes it to a new level.
Advancements that left generations behind? I must know, Dear historian, give us at least two examples where a grandchild was still left behind because the grandfather got replaced.
I am by no means a history buff but know my way around a little and I am having trouble finding anything that reached beyond the working generations.
Not that I have seen. Most true CS majors go into things that need algorithm design and data modeling giving a restricted environment. Embedded, kernel, drivers, hardware, microprocessors, encryption, machine learning, etc.
But those are real research leveled CS degrees. There seems to be a lot of colleges that just provide job training in programming language of the month or example driven learning and call it CS. These are no different than vacational schools and I wish they would just say that.
I DO see a lot of CompE in programming thou and this appears to work OK. They get projects done. It's rare that someone needs to think deep about a algorithm running on IaaS. None of their bosses will be around nor will they figure out the issue when stuff hits the fan a few months later. They will just replace that product anew like they replaced the prior one.
Are you sure it is a robot? Are sure there isn't someone behind it whose life will end if you unplug?
You are right, if the thing was purely a robot and you were absolutely sure about that. However, to make the assumption without doubting the assumption is very dangerous. That doubt is one of the defining things about being human. And I think that is what this study is testing. I don't think anyone hesitated to turn off the robot thinking it was just a simple machine.
Not having that doubt has caused many atrocities throughout history. Holocaust, salvery, persecutions, surgeries on babies without anesthesia, animal cruelty, etc. That doubt is a good thing.
It's not just the luxury of transit, it's also that the US is a land of plenty. We consume a lot of food compared to many nations. I pretty much eat 2x what my European counter parts eat. Although I am almost a foot smaller and 40 pounds less.
You can also see the changes from wealth in places like India and China. They used to eat a lot of greens, rice, and sugars. But since the increase in wealth, they have bulked up their meals, added enrichments to their foods, and increased their sugar, fat, and protein intakes. You can clearly see the difference in photos across the generations. Both countries now have a growing diabetes epidemic.
Ok, I will give you DesktopaaS. VMware invented and has been using it longer than HP DeviceaaS by about 3 years.
As for the EULA... critical things like your example usually rest on contracts between companies; not big Corp and end user. MS wouldn't be involved in that suit.
The Emergency Services company would be the one in hot water. Just because they outsourced part of their solution to a 3rd party doesn't alleviate them from the responsibility and accountability. And the judge will say exactly that.
Look at Data Center contracts, the details will show you just how little of your core business risks they assume. Most of it boils down to the fact that downtime can be at anytime as long as it totals less than a set of hours in a year. Also, downtimes caused by outside factors don't count (ie: fires, malicious employees, etc). It basically says "If everything is working as it should, then we won't have less than X hours of downtime a year. Else, all bets are off. And we will credit you back up to this amount."
None of the Xaas offerings have this kind of liability. Best case is maximum damages of that month's service costs times two... which comes to you as a credit against future invoices.
The sales people will all say they take on certain liabilities and all that sounds so great for the people listening but when you look at the contract details... the only benefit you have is that you can cancel the service and stop paying almost whenever you want. All true liabilities stay with you.
And isn't DaaS = DEVICE as a service? Not desktop. Couldn't they say WaaS or MSaaS? I think it's a marketing thing to ride HPs coattails.
Not exactly hard to get around. You use a stolen or burner phone to seed the message to your group of culprits. This is what they are probably doing anyway. If you are going to trace every hop along the forward, then you lost a lot of privacy.
However, it makes it easy for corrupted people in power to trace anyone who is critizing or going against them. Correction in Indian politics is an accepted norm. The few defense lines are reporters, and whistleblowers. They use WhatsApp for its privacy. Lose that and you lose a big clue stick in the war against corruption.
The actual problem is mob justice. People taking what they think is justice into their own hands. And people thinking they can get away with illegal stuff because they are hidden in a crowd. Education and proper prosecution of those in the mob is the solution. And this is what local police are doing.
You arrest a person for a day, and that family sees the impact from losing that person's help to the family and they correct.
Not to mention, the UPS truck drives through my neighborhood everyday because someone orders something online. Unless a vast majority of us stop ordering things and actually free up delivery days in the week, I don't think any of us will change the oil consumption.
And they already optimize for the free delivery. Some stuff arrives the next day and the same thing next month takes two days. So clearly the delivery guys are already bundling packages... just that it is made of a neighborhood's purchase list rather than a individuals.
Except for the very end small time dealer, it's been digital for more than a decade. SilkRoad was just visible, and Dark Web is just a media term that doesn't tell the depth behind it. Every tech that clean businesses use is also deployed in the black. From GPS devices to see if the delivery guy is where he should be to cultivated drop off locations via AirBNB. Cash is a big risk for the heavy weights, the cops can come anytime and take everything.
The end dealers use cash because it is the easiest. But it isn't hard to switch to fall guys or have the infrastructure provide tokens to replace cash. IE: Buy an over priced book on Amazon, get crypto tokens from a dark web, gift cards, etc. If the site goes down, just abandon it and spring up a new one. Digitalization will make the market safer for end dealers... they just don't have any incentive to switch from cash. If anything, cash restricts the size they can become. Too big and all that movement becomes noticed by big bro.
Small businesses like a house cleaner, landscape guy, or construction/farm worker. These people get paid in cash to avoid the cost and overhead of taxes. They could be digitized and pay taxes but they don't have the time nor knowledge to files tax forms to get their refund. So it's simpler and easier to use cash for them because they live in a labor=>cash world.
Many who live paycheck to paycheck do things like payday/title loans. They don't put their refund in the bank, they get it cashed at a high fee because they need that money NOW. For them digitalization infers a level of stability in their lives that they can not afford nor maintain.
While most of the laws fall into that category, there are many that don't. There are many countries that ban talking ill of the elected, ruling, or royals. UK, Poland, Netherlands, etc. I doubt the people had much say in making those rules. The US itself has a history of making laws that reflected those in power more than the people of the land.
As for the blackmarket, it is already fairly hard for them to laundry their monies with real currency. US currency already has digital identifiers, and anything over $10k is tracked. Anything over $10k undeclared will be confiscated at the border. The largest denomination is $100 and not universally accepted. Again those are highly tracked. Do you think it is easy for cartels to pass around a few hundred thousands in cash? A briefcase of $100s is a million and weighs 25 pounds.
Any blackmarket that is big enough in profits for us to care about will already be electronic like legal enterprises. The biggest hit those markets ever took was when the US banned the $10k and $5k notes.
Let's go digital, but let's not kid ourselves, removing cash mostly impacts small businesses and the people who live pay check to pay check; not the blackmarket enterprises. And this is before we consider that blackmarkets today can more easily create their own markets and clearinghouses with crypto currency.
Even though "ban child porn" seems simple for us, globally it isn't so. What is a "child"? Why should adult pornography be legal?
You and I probably have the same definitions and overall opinion. But a person becomes an adult at different ages across the world. And yes, they get adult responsibilities. We might think it is 21. Others 17, 15, 13, and some even 10. And that's present day. For Romans it was 8! A person could be sentenced to life at 8! In the US a person as young as 12 can be tried as an adult. Highly unlikely, but possible.
As for porn, many countries have the belief that women (and men) can not consent to such a "profession". It is too damaging to the family structure that their societies depend on that a woman can not make that decision on their own. They view all porn as exploitation of the subject and on the official record ban it.
So a global standard for banning... will just make everyone mad. The dark net will be as big as the official one.
Yup! I regularly do programming that is data analysis of files in the thousands and millions. The files are usually data condensed 500bytes or bulky 300megs (stupid xml) each. Proficient in Python and C.
I don't see much of a difference in C vs Python. Maybe 4x (no, I am not doing it wrong). If I replace the running bottle necks with C, I can easily get 50-90% of that.
BUT, when you consider how easy it is to transform a linear logic flow to work across local and distributed CPUs... Erlang, and C aren't worth the time wasted to even discuss the topic.
The difference in adaptability, maintenance, and evolution of the logic flows saves me days in dev time. Do I really care if my daily program takes 4hrs vs 15hrs? Especially when I can spend 2hrs to make it a distributed system and bring it down to 2hrs by throwing 8 virtuals at it? No!
Kind of difficult. A lot of what you want is dependent on the motherboard which is linked to the CPU. So basically Intel.
It's not a technical issue. You could always drop in an extra chip as middleware or get a custom motherboard. But the problem is that you are now the deviation. Your materials, assembly, and support costs will reflect that.
The laptop is a commodities market. So any cost deviation from market is a no starter.
Remember those three devices at the demo? Yup we shipped those. One went to our CEO. Another went to the traveling sales guy. And the engineers demanded their prototypes so we gave one back.
All shipped. And guess which season that was in? Yup, Summer. Goal met, booya!
How is the ability to follow you around and record your travel on a daily basis, not an invasion of privacy.
Would you not think it is an invasion of your privacy if I followed your family around and waited outside your house or car and kept a detailed journal of all that I saw?
And how does that invasion change just because I use BigData & AI?
The population has ALWAYS paid for stuff. Whether as soldiers in wars, peasants in kingdoms, slaves, paying taxes, currency inflation, bonds, etc.
Initially it has always been the few who benefit from the many. Who do you think actually paid for Columbus' journey, the Pyramids, Roman roads, or the Great Wall? The piece is just a fluff piece talking about something that hasn't changed since the dawn of man.
Why do we care? The interaction was read by the company and they linked it back to their product, employee, and a customer. It's an at-will employment and the company didn't like the interaction. Thus they fired her.
There are consequences to opening your mouth. Great, having learned that, you can go to 3rd grade.
WHY IS THIS NEWS?
Didn't anyone teach these people that personal opinions do and SHOULD have reactions from all who hear it? Including those who have employment power over you? If you want to criticize your employer, product, coworkers, etc do it anonymously!
If you put your name to it, that's very brave of you! Now chin up, quit whining, and move on! I criticize some of my employer's practices all the time, that doesn't mean I will be shocked if they fire me over it.
That's pretty much it. It's cheaper. That's all the design consultants needed to put down. The higher ups just glossed over the rest of the "benefits". The rest of the slides were reasons for everyone else.
Our company even coupled it with work from home. Now people only come in for planned meetings, workshops, and admin required issues. No one likes to come in because there is no one here.
So we reduced a LOT of rental space, and if everyone came in... we would take up all the seats, the conference rooms, lunch area, 90% of the parking spots, and overload the network if there is a major PC update.
It's been so successful that the highers wonder why the office feels so empty. It saves money.
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One, why did you post anon? You could have kept your history of being right if you are so sure about your opinion on Tesla.
And as a guy who does understand accounting and finance, Musk isn't anything special. He isn't as bad as the Enron & Worldcom guys. He is about where the CEOs of Ford, GM, and Delta were at various times over the last 4 decades. All were worse just before bankruptcy. All of them BS. That's part of their job. The problem is all the "analysts" who just believe their words without actual analysis.
Tesla's situation, accounting wise, isn't great but not horrible enough to have that much shorting. It's simply one of those mid-high risk to high return situations. If he almost goes private and the price point is within 5% or higher of what he tweeted; he is in the clear. He made the announcement on a public forum so no one got privileged information. He doesn't even need to actually go private, just get an offer near the price point.
The sad part is that such people will move to mess up something pristine once they tarnished where they lived.
So true. Our company's iOS count is in the mid 5 digit range. And early on, there was a Exchange Calendar glitch that we just couldn't solve. It would only appear on iOS and not the numerous non-iOS devices.
It took us MONTHS to get Apple to even see that there was an issue. Some guy in a forum figured it out but it took us MONTHS to have them accept that it was an issue with how they implemented the ActiveSync protocols. It took almost 18 months for Apple to actually fix the problem (the fix itself was fairly simple, related to assigning a meeting ID properly).
On one meeting, we were literally told. "Corporate isn't really our target audience, so this is a low priority issue." Which is FINE, just don't be telling us this 6 months into the discussions! Atleast accept the fact that something is wrong and put a communication about it.
Delaying a release for a better fix is not what Mr Beer is complaining about. Basically he is saying Apple releases a bug fix (assuming they agree it is important enough) and then just moves on. They don't do a process or infrastructure review to see if other similar bugs exist or if future similar bugs will be created.
Few bugs actually need infrastructure changes. But many bugs hint at process problems that could have been prevented and could still be prevented.
This ignorance is generally true of most companies. However, Apple really takes it to a new level.
Advancements that left generations behind? I must know, Dear historian, give us at least two examples where a grandchild was still left behind because the grandfather got replaced.
I am by no means a history buff but know my way around a little and I am having trouble finding anything that reached beyond the working generations.
Not that I have seen. Most true CS majors go into things that need algorithm design and data modeling giving a restricted environment. Embedded, kernel, drivers, hardware, microprocessors, encryption, machine learning, etc.
But those are real research leveled CS degrees. There seems to be a lot of colleges that just provide job training in programming language of the month or example driven learning and call it CS. These are no different than vacational schools and I wish they would just say that.
I DO see a lot of CompE in programming thou and this appears to work OK. They get projects done. It's rare that someone needs to think deep about a algorithm running on IaaS. None of their bosses will be around nor will they figure out the issue when stuff hits the fan a few months later. They will just replace that product anew like they replaced the prior one.
I hope Cox counter sues for all the money they take from their customers and shareholders to protect the music industry's decrepit business model.
The cost of processing those requests, the monies wasted with erroneous requests, and the cost of defending their policies.
Are you sure it is a robot? Are sure there isn't someone behind it whose life will end if you unplug?
You are right, if the thing was purely a robot and you were absolutely sure about that. However, to make the assumption without doubting the assumption is very dangerous. That doubt is one of the defining things about being human. And I think that is what this study is testing. I don't think anyone hesitated to turn off the robot thinking it was just a simple machine.
Not having that doubt has caused many atrocities throughout history. Holocaust, salvery, persecutions, surgeries on babies without anesthesia, animal cruelty, etc. That doubt is a good thing.
It's not just the luxury of transit, it's also that the US is a land of plenty. We consume a lot of food compared to many nations. I pretty much eat 2x what my European counter parts eat. Although I am almost a foot smaller and 40 pounds less.
You can also see the changes from wealth in places like India and China. They used to eat a lot of greens, rice, and sugars. But since the increase in wealth, they have bulked up their meals, added enrichments to their foods, and increased their sugar, fat, and protein intakes. You can clearly see the difference in photos across the generations. Both countries now have a growing diabetes epidemic.
Ok, I will give you DesktopaaS. VMware invented and has been using it longer than HP DeviceaaS by about 3 years.
As for the EULA... critical things like your example usually rest on contracts between companies; not big Corp and end user. MS wouldn't be involved in that suit.
The Emergency Services company would be the one in hot water. Just because they outsourced part of their solution to a 3rd party doesn't alleviate them from the responsibility and accountability. And the judge will say exactly that.
Look at Data Center contracts, the details will show you just how little of your core business risks they assume. Most of it boils down to the fact that downtime can be at anytime as long as it totals less than a set of hours in a year. Also, downtimes caused by outside factors don't count (ie: fires, malicious employees, etc). It basically says "If everything is working as it should, then we won't have less than X hours of downtime a year. Else, all bets are off. And we will credit you back up to this amount."
None of the Xaas offerings have this kind of liability. Best case is maximum damages of that month's service costs times two... which comes to you as a credit against future invoices.
The sales people will all say they take on certain liabilities and all that sounds so great for the people listening but when you look at the contract details... the only benefit you have is that you can cancel the service and stop paying almost whenever you want. All true liabilities stay with you.
And isn't DaaS = DEVICE as a service? Not desktop. Couldn't they say WaaS or MSaaS? I think it's a marketing thing to ride HPs coattails.
Not exactly hard to get around. You use a stolen or burner phone to seed the message to your group of culprits. This is what they are probably doing anyway. If you are going to trace every hop along the forward, then you lost a lot of privacy.
However, it makes it easy for corrupted people in power to trace anyone who is critizing or going against them. Correction in Indian politics is an accepted norm. The few defense lines are reporters, and whistleblowers. They use WhatsApp for its privacy. Lose that and you lose a big clue stick in the war against corruption.
The actual problem is mob justice. People taking what they think is justice into their own hands. And people thinking they can get away with illegal stuff because they are hidden in a crowd. Education and proper prosecution of those in the mob is the solution. And this is what local police are doing.
You arrest a person for a day, and that family sees the impact from losing that person's help to the family and they correct.
Not to mention, the UPS truck drives through my neighborhood everyday because someone orders something online. Unless a vast majority of us stop ordering things and actually free up delivery days in the week, I don't think any of us will change the oil consumption.
And they already optimize for the free delivery. Some stuff arrives the next day and the same thing next month takes two days. So clearly the delivery guys are already bundling packages... just that it is made of a neighborhood's purchase list rather than a individuals.
Except for the very end small time dealer, it's been digital for more than a decade. SilkRoad was just visible, and Dark Web is just a media term that doesn't tell the depth behind it. Every tech that clean businesses use is also deployed in the black. From GPS devices to see if the delivery guy is where he should be to cultivated drop off locations via AirBNB. Cash is a big risk for the heavy weights, the cops can come anytime and take everything.
The end dealers use cash because it is the easiest. But it isn't hard to switch to fall guys or have the infrastructure provide tokens to replace cash. IE: Buy an over priced book on Amazon, get crypto tokens from a dark web, gift cards, etc. If the site goes down, just abandon it and spring up a new one. Digitalization will make the market safer for end dealers... they just don't have any incentive to switch from cash. If anything, cash restricts the size they can become. Too big and all that movement becomes noticed by big bro.
Small businesses like a house cleaner, landscape guy, or construction/farm worker. These people get paid in cash to avoid the cost and overhead of taxes. They could be digitized and pay taxes but they don't have the time nor knowledge to files tax forms to get their refund. So it's simpler and easier to use cash for them because they live in a labor=>cash world.
Many who live paycheck to paycheck do things like payday/title loans. They don't put their refund in the bank, they get it cashed at a high fee because they need that money NOW. For them digitalization infers a level of stability in their lives that they can not afford nor maintain.
While most of the laws fall into that category, there are many that don't. There are many countries that ban talking ill of the elected, ruling, or royals. UK, Poland, Netherlands, etc. I doubt the people had much say in making those rules. The US itself has a history of making laws that reflected those in power more than the people of the land.
As for the blackmarket, it is already fairly hard for them to laundry their monies with real currency. US currency already has digital identifiers, and anything over $10k is tracked. Anything over $10k undeclared will be confiscated at the border. The largest denomination is $100 and not universally accepted. Again those are highly tracked. Do you think it is easy for cartels to pass around a few hundred thousands in cash? A briefcase of $100s is a million and weighs 25 pounds.
Any blackmarket that is big enough in profits for us to care about will already be electronic like legal enterprises. The biggest hit those markets ever took was when the US banned the $10k and $5k notes.
Let's go digital, but let's not kid ourselves, removing cash mostly impacts small businesses and the people who live pay check to pay check; not the blackmarket enterprises. And this is before we consider that blackmarkets today can more easily create their own markets and clearinghouses with crypto currency.
Just because something is illegal doesn't make it bad. Like beer a decades ago in the US.
And just because you get rid of US currency doesn't prevent the black market from hording or switching to something else to be the grease of commerce.
Even though "ban child porn" seems simple for us, globally it isn't so. What is a "child"? Why should adult pornography be legal?
You and I probably have the same definitions and overall opinion. But a person becomes an adult at different ages across the world. And yes, they get adult responsibilities. We might think it is 21. Others 17, 15, 13, and some even 10. And that's present day. For Romans it was 8! A person could be sentenced to life at 8! In the US a person as young as 12 can be tried as an adult. Highly unlikely, but possible.
As for porn, many countries have the belief that women (and men) can not consent to such a "profession". It is too damaging to the family structure that their societies depend on that a woman can not make that decision on their own. They view all porn as exploitation of the subject and on the official record ban it.
So a global standard for banning... will just make everyone mad. The dark net will be as big as the official one.
Yup! I regularly do programming that is data analysis of files in the thousands and millions. The files are usually data condensed 500bytes or bulky 300megs (stupid xml) each. Proficient in Python and C.
I don't see much of a difference in C vs Python. Maybe 4x (no, I am not doing it wrong). If I replace the running bottle necks with C, I can easily get 50-90% of that.
BUT, when you consider how easy it is to transform a linear logic flow to work across local and distributed CPUs... Erlang, and C aren't worth the time wasted to even discuss the topic.
The difference in adaptability, maintenance, and evolution of the logic flows saves me days in dev time. Do I really care if my daily program takes 4hrs vs 15hrs? Especially when I can spend 2hrs to make it a distributed system and bring it down to 2hrs by throwing 8 virtuals at it? No!
Kind of difficult. A lot of what you want is dependent on the motherboard which is linked to the CPU. So basically Intel.
It's not a technical issue. You could always drop in an extra chip as middleware or get a custom motherboard. But the problem is that you are now the deviation. Your materials, assembly, and support costs will reflect that.
The laptop is a commodities market. So any cost deviation from market is a no starter.
Remember those three devices at the demo? Yup we shipped those. One went to our CEO. Another went to the traveling sales guy. And the engineers demanded their prototypes so we gave one back.
All shipped. And guess which season that was in? Yup, Summer. Goal met, booya!
How is the ability to follow you around and record your travel on a daily basis, not an invasion of privacy.
Would you not think it is an invasion of your privacy if I followed your family around and waited outside your house or car and kept a detailed journal of all that I saw?
And how does that invasion change just because I use BigData & AI?
The population has ALWAYS paid for stuff. Whether as soldiers in wars, peasants in kingdoms, slaves, paying taxes, currency inflation, bonds, etc.
Initially it has always been the few who benefit from the many. Who do you think actually paid for Columbus' journey, the Pyramids, Roman roads, or the Great Wall? The piece is just a fluff piece talking about something that hasn't changed since the dawn of man.
Why do we care? The interaction was read by the company and they linked it back to their product, employee, and a customer. It's an at-will employment and the company didn't like the interaction. Thus they fired her.
There are consequences to opening your mouth. Great, having learned that, you can go to 3rd grade.
WHY IS THIS NEWS?
Didn't anyone teach these people that personal opinions do and SHOULD have reactions from all who hear it? Including those who have employment power over you? If you want to criticize your employer, product, coworkers, etc do it anonymously!
If you put your name to it, that's very brave of you! Now chin up, quit whining, and move on! I criticize some of my employer's practices all the time, that doesn't mean I will be shocked if they fire me over it.
All US states have at will employment.
That's pretty much it. It's cheaper. That's all the design consultants needed to put down. The higher ups just glossed over the rest of the "benefits". The rest of the slides were reasons for everyone else.
Our company even coupled it with work from home. Now people only come in for planned meetings, workshops, and admin required issues. No one likes to come in because there is no one here.
So we reduced a LOT of rental space, and if everyone came in... we would take up all the seats, the conference rooms, lunch area, 90% of the parking spots, and overload the network if there is a major PC update.
It's been so successful that the highers wonder why the office feels so empty. It saves money.