The reason Microsoft lost in the smartphone market was because there wasn't enough of a corporate legacy they could leverage like they could with personal computer software after filling the vacancy left by IBM. Smartphones were an open, mostly consumer market where they had to compete on more of an equal footing.
last 10 years of your private communication dumped out in an investigation
There's no excuse not to maintain work emails on work only machines that you're not willing to have aired. Executives may occasionally be nefarious, but the reality typically revolves around competence.
I'll bite. There's likely a little craziness correlated with the drive that's required to become rich and famous. Multiply this with a little craziness often correlated with 'artists' and then combine this with the ability that wealth provides to shield oneself from the reality checks that the rest of us would otherwise face. Then finally I think you might add a touch of selection bias due to the celebrity that wealth and fame bring and voila.
I find online resources are best when you're staring at code on a monitor looking for specifics. Books are best when you're offline, browsing information you might not otherwise search for.
Those ships that brought most people's ancestors to where they live now are technology.
And they were built for economic profit. If the same were true of manned space travel we'd have a colony on the moon by now. "Wanderlust" already takes us to the extreme points of our planet and boundaries of the solar system.
how did the database of donors for The Clinton Foundation get stolen?
Why wouldn't a charitable it-takes-a-global-village foundation publicly list its donors? So it's closely connected to the Sec of State and, um, never mind.
Treating the symptoms often enable a cold to end sooner by giving the body more strength to fight the virus. In this instance the 'virus' will be defeated sooner as it's realized proper behavior/training makes law enforcement performance and morale healthier as well.
The destruction of the Library of Alexandria is an example of how digital "staying power" is at least on the level of the vaunted hard copy approach. As noted earlier, the facility to create, distribute and store copies is just as important towards "media longevity" as the media's physical endurance.
Human technologies have evolved orders of magnitude faster than the human brain has.
I think you're conflating genetic evolution with cultural evolution. I believe some human cultures have evolved at (or close to) pace with technology and some haven't. Cultural evolution involves increasing awareness of the (let's call it) limitations of genetically derived behavior and attempts to accommodate for it. Some human cultures may not be enough to ensure survival. It remains to be seen...
rather than the State Representative's cousin Bubba Gump or this guy from the Sunday school class
Hiring could be a revolving door with industry or whatever buzzword and acronym (see summary) generating criteria the industry uses - their management often isn't much better. Managers who poorly manage large projects still have that mystical experience. Same goes for the company.
For anything outside hardware control it depends on which language has the most relevant libraries in the problem domain, where the code you write is simply the glue. You don't want to spend time reinventing the wheel unless it's a hobby or an educational project. No need to switch unless you're changing problem domains.
It was also somewhat out in the open. This goes beyond Mrs. Clinton's actions and points to wider gross incompetence in the State Dept's IT management.
Less than 1 in 5 'often' get their news on social media. It's likely the rest simply scan and occasionally bite on some of the clickbait headlines thrust in front of them - which today counts as news.
changing the character limit to find some sort of sweet spot
I think the sweet spot is the maximum tolerable size of a broadcast message competing, as it were, with others. Like a smartphone, too small leaves out too much and too large is too unwieldy.
Good high schools have high concentrations of over-achievers trying to get into the best colleges. That means several AP courses each with heavy homework assignments and students staying up well past midnight - on a regular basis. High school can be stressful if entrance into top university is a priority (and you don't have connections). YMMV
Yeah, no. That's kind of the next step before Profit! I've never been fully clear what unique contributions these types make on their "way up" that in any way justifies their compensation. Especially the higher you go; was there really no other person who couldn't have accomplished the same thing for less - a lot less?
Consistency, or reducing variation, is one of the first steps in quality improvement. The next step involves process improvement. For the consistent car company this might mean reducing tolerances to allow for changing the design to increase HP - without sacrificing consistency. The HP car company would improve their processes to achieve more consistency. It's not an either/or, and consistency should be one of the early steps.
Indeed, what takes 30-40 hours/frame to render has changed significantly since I was peripherally involved in the field almost thirty years ago. Rendering is one of the few areas that really need all the computing resources you can provide and fortunately it's able to leverage parallelism.
I don't know how much cleverness is used -- things don't change that much in 1/24th of a second -- but I'm guessing there's still a lot of brute force computation. Directing becomes more critical in these efforts as the actors are essentially digital automatons -- hence the "human innovators".
Linux came too late to overthrow the Microsoft incumbency which had been around for something like ten years, dominating the business market that defined desktops which in those days were relatively expensive for casual home use. (The desktop business market was essentially handed to Microsoft by IBM.) The chance for *nix was lost early in the fighting between System V and BSD (which spawned Linux) and the shortsightedness of AT&T (which was far from alone in ignoring desktops).
There was no equivalent incumbency for smart phones which is why Apple and Android were able to compete more successfully. It's always been and always going to be too late for Linux since the desktop market has matured and even shrunk somewhat with the increasing functionality of smart phones.
We all can't live in Downton Abbey. I vaguely recall as a kid reading that in India it was cheaper to hire a person to wash your dishes than to buy a dishwasher. Automation isn't the issue, overpopulation is.
robotic kitchen preparing food without any human oversight/intervention
We've had vending machines on the low end for quite some time. To be sure I still prefer talking to a server rather than the touch pads replacing/reducing them at some restaurants but I'm sure I'll get used to it. And I'm pretty sure there will always be an option to obtain the human, um, interface. Hopefully it'll be less common you'll have to pay more for it.
How is changing the maximum number of logins considered "rewriting" an operating system? If a parameter's hard wired it shouldn't magically become different in relation to the operating system's functionality than parameters that aren't. In other words, if I change the Windows account lockout threshold I don't consider it as rewriting Windows.
Think of your data as a bit of straw and the cloud as a giant haystack. The NSA wants it in case it's the needle they're looking for and the others want it because they think they can separate the haystack into manageable piles they can target for advertising. The bigger the haystack the harder it becomes to find the needle and the less significant your bit of straw. You can choose to keep your bit out of the haystack, but it's still just straw.
how (for instance) factoring polynomials solves anything in the real world
Factoring polynomials is an example of one of the earlier practices to further the student in complex problem solving. They may not be part of the show but they're critical to the performance.
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The reason Microsoft lost in the smartphone market was because there wasn't enough of a corporate legacy they could leverage like they could with personal computer software after filling the vacancy left by IBM. Smartphones were an open, mostly consumer market where they had to compete on more of an equal footing.
There's no excuse not to maintain work emails on work only machines that you're not willing to have aired. Executives may occasionally be nefarious, but the reality typically revolves around competence.
I'll bite. There's likely a little craziness correlated with the drive that's required to become rich and famous. Multiply this with a little craziness often correlated with 'artists' and then combine this with the ability that wealth provides to shield oneself from the reality checks that the rest of us would otherwise face. Then finally I think you might add a touch of selection bias due to the celebrity that wealth and fame bring and voila.
I find online resources are best when you're staring at code on a monitor looking for specifics. Books are best when you're offline, browsing information you might not otherwise search for.
And they were built for economic profit. If the same were true of manned space travel we'd have a colony on the moon by now. "Wanderlust" already takes us to the extreme points of our planet and boundaries of the solar system.
Why wouldn't a charitable it-takes-a-global-village foundation publicly list its donors? So it's closely connected to the Sec of State and, um, never mind.
Treating the symptoms often enable a cold to end sooner by giving the body more strength to fight the virus. In this instance the 'virus' will be defeated sooner as it's realized proper behavior/training makes law enforcement performance and morale healthier as well.
The destruction of the Library of Alexandria is an example of how digital "staying power" is at least on the level of the vaunted hard copy approach. As noted earlier, the facility to create, distribute and store copies is just as important towards "media longevity" as the media's physical endurance.
By John L. Heilbron. Fascinating history and he's not afraid of using a little math - which alas too many are.
I think you're conflating genetic evolution with cultural evolution. I believe some human cultures have evolved at (or close to) pace with technology and some haven't. Cultural evolution involves increasing awareness of the (let's call it) limitations of genetically derived behavior and attempts to accommodate for it. Some human cultures may not be enough to ensure survival. It remains to be seen...
Hiring could be a revolving door with industry or whatever buzzword and acronym (see summary) generating criteria the industry uses - their management often isn't much better. Managers who poorly manage large projects still have that mystical experience. Same goes for the company.
For anything outside hardware control it depends on which language has the most relevant libraries in the problem domain, where the code you write is simply the glue. You don't want to spend time reinventing the wheel unless it's a hobby or an educational project. No need to switch unless you're changing problem domains.
It was also somewhat out in the open. This goes beyond Mrs. Clinton's actions and points to wider gross incompetence in the State Dept's IT management.
Less than 1 in 5 'often' get their news on social media. It's likely the rest simply scan and occasionally bite on some of the clickbait headlines thrust in front of them - which today counts as news.
I think the sweet spot is the maximum tolerable size of a broadcast message competing, as it were, with others. Like a smartphone, too small leaves out too much and too large is too unwieldy.
Good high schools have high concentrations of over-achievers trying to get into the best colleges. That means several AP courses each with heavy homework assignments and students staying up well past midnight - on a regular basis. High school can be stressful if entrance into top university is a priority (and you don't have connections). YMMV
Yeah, no. That's kind of the next step before Profit! I've never been fully clear what unique contributions these types make on their "way up" that in any way justifies their compensation. Especially the higher you go; was there really no other person who couldn't have accomplished the same thing for less - a lot less?
Consistency, or reducing variation, is one of the first steps in quality improvement. The next step involves process improvement. For the consistent car company this might mean reducing tolerances to allow for changing the design to increase HP - without sacrificing consistency. The HP car company would improve their processes to achieve more consistency. It's not an either/or, and consistency should be one of the early steps.
Indeed, what takes 30-40 hours/frame to render has changed significantly since I was peripherally involved in the field almost thirty years ago. Rendering is one of the few areas that really need all the computing resources you can provide and fortunately it's able to leverage parallelism.
I don't know how much cleverness is used -- things don't change that much in 1/24th of a second -- but I'm guessing there's still a lot of brute force computation. Directing becomes more critical in these efforts as the actors are essentially digital automatons -- hence the "human innovators".
Linux came too late to overthrow the Microsoft incumbency which had been around for something like ten years, dominating the business market that defined desktops which in those days were relatively expensive for casual home use. (The desktop business market was essentially handed to Microsoft by IBM.) The chance for *nix was lost early in the fighting between System V and BSD (which spawned Linux) and the shortsightedness of AT&T (which was far from alone in ignoring desktops).
There was no equivalent incumbency for smart phones which is why Apple and Android were able to compete more successfully. It's always been and always going to be too late for Linux since the desktop market has matured and even shrunk somewhat with the increasing functionality of smart phones.
I think we're seeing one facet of the internet of things which in this case has become a problem of a solution in search of a problem.
We all can't live in Downton Abbey. I vaguely recall as a kid reading that in India it was cheaper to hire a person to wash your dishes than to buy a dishwasher. Automation isn't the issue, overpopulation is.
We've had vending machines on the low end for quite some time. To be sure I still prefer talking to a server rather than the touch pads replacing/reducing them at some restaurants but I'm sure I'll get used to it. And I'm pretty sure there will always be an option to obtain the human, um, interface. Hopefully it'll be less common you'll have to pay more for it.
How is changing the maximum number of logins considered "rewriting" an operating system? If a parameter's hard wired it shouldn't magically become different in relation to the operating system's functionality than parameters that aren't. In other words, if I change the Windows account lockout threshold I don't consider it as rewriting Windows.
Think of your data as a bit of straw and the cloud as a giant haystack. The NSA wants it in case it's the needle they're looking for and the others want it because they think they can separate the haystack into manageable piles they can target for advertising. The bigger the haystack the harder it becomes to find the needle and the less significant your bit of straw. You can choose to keep your bit out of the haystack, but it's still just straw.
Factoring polynomials is an example of one of the earlier practices to further the student in complex problem solving. They may not be part of the show but they're critical to the performance.