Even if one is a programmer and is able to do it themselves, what most of us probably want is to be sure the websites that we interact with have updated their versions, and a lot of companies (or their admins) stick to what has been fixed and pushed out rather then hack their local versions.
As long as someone is fairly affluent this is not unusual. It is when people close to the poverty line get hooked that you run into problems since so much of their resources go into supporting the addiction as opposed to just taking a chunk out of their disposable income.
They will not even have to bother with that. After Tesla tests the market, builds confidence, primes infrastructure, and makes enough advances that electric cars are profitable, the big companies (who have not been absorbing the cost of these things) will come in and crush them.
One of the downsides of our system is that companies that are innovative get the short end of the stick. Boring companies that sit and wait for others to make mistakes on their own dimes pull in the long ter profits.
You only 'own' the land within the framework of the state's legal system, just like when you are renting a property it is 'your home' within the framework of the lease. Others can not take it away unless the framework allows them to, which generally benefits both landowners and renters since without this protection other random people would probably take it from them simply because they want it.
I do end up wondering though, every time this type of story comes up it is in the form 'people do not trust XYZ, rated below used car salesmen!'. So who does the population tend to trust? There must be some group on the top of the list.
As the other reply pointed out, tenure is not quite that iron clad. However this issue is about getting tenure, a process that takes a decade or more where often at every step you are on a knife's edge of being let go. There is really no analogy in the business world, in non academic jobs you either advance or stay where you are, in academic ones things are barely tolerable where you are and there are enough people trying to get there that if you do not advance you leave the field. It is a surprisingly harsh system, much worse then what you see in corporate america.
I have always found the old 'those who can, do, those who can not, teach' rather ironic since for people who want to go into academia, private industry is where you go if you fail.
True, but such lawsuits also might give people reason to not do such things again.
This is the problem with our DIY justice system. This is the type of thing that the state should be handling... bringing people to trial, penalties if found guilty, that sort of thing. But in cases like this the prosecution has to be privately funded and consequences only come of the injured party pushes it on their own.
Tenure is competitive enough that simple accusations or slurs can be enough to sink a person. While it would be nice if solid research and objectivity were the only elements involved, there is a huge human factor which is distressingly easy to swing.
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This is tech. Any suggestions that there is not one right universal way to accomplish something is a personal insult to one`s preferred technology. After all, all smart people must come to the same correct solution.
I think the concern is not how stripped down of an install you can do, but how competing needs can result in desktop centric package decisions effecting server installs. This is probably related to systemd and the perception that it is a technology designed around the problems desktop users focus on at the expense of the issues server admins worry about.
When dot-coms go bust their investors are one of the groups that get a cut of the assets from liquidation. They are unlikely to get all their money back, but there is a legal process that results in them being in line for whatever is still there.
You are a little out of date, Odin was downgraded during the pantheonic reorganization. Unfortunately due to a clerical error the one true God is now a central park squirrel named Skippy.
In 1953 the percentage of GDP from manufacturing was 28%. In 2012 it was at 12%. I'd call that a drop.
Between 1953 and 2012 the GDP has gone up by about 600% (adjusted for inflation), so that is still a net increase in manufacturing by a significant margin, just not as large of an increase as other sectors.
I also suspect the elite within their society plan to send their children to schools in other countries since a good education is something leaders benefit from and they would not be so foolish as to stop that part.
Wile I agree wit the basic idea that we should be more careful about when we apply antibiotics, it should be noted that while as a species we did indeed survived a long time without them, our mortality rate was a lot worse. Our natural immunity is not all that great, we simply breed fast enough that we do not die off.
The problem with any community is it has more then one person in it, so if two people say two opposing things it makes it look like both are saying both.
Was there not a piece the other day about how ACM and other such groups are seeing declining relevance? Oh yeah, this is computer tech, it is always more fun to reinvent the wheel then use the same one as old fogies.
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Even if one is a programmer and is able to do it themselves, what most of us probably want is to be sure the websites that we interact with have updated their versions, and a lot of companies (or their admins) stick to what has been fixed and pushed out rather then hack their local versions.
It depends on what the malfunctioning patch does to the systems.
Since macs are rarely used as servers the number out there is probably going to be pretty small, so that has to be factored in as well.
As long as someone is fairly affluent this is not unusual. It is when people close to the poverty line get hooked that you run into problems since so much of their resources go into supporting the addiction as opposed to just taking a chunk out of their disposable income.
They will not even have to bother with that. After Tesla tests the market, builds confidence, primes infrastructure, and makes enough advances that electric cars are profitable, the big companies (who have not been absorbing the cost of these things) will come in and crush them.
One of the downsides of our system is that companies that are innovative get the short end of the stick. Boring companies that sit and wait for others to make mistakes on their own dimes pull in the long ter profits.
You only 'own' the land within the framework of the state's legal system, just like when you are renting a property it is 'your home' within the framework of the lease. Others can not take it away unless the framework allows them to, which generally benefits both landowners and renters since without this protection other random people would probably take it from them simply because they want it.
Stop paying your landlord, or utility companies and see what happens.
I do end up wondering though, every time this type of story comes up it is in the form 'people do not trust XYZ, rated below used car salesmen!'. So who does the population tend to trust? There must be some group on the top of the list.
Which only makes sense if you are going into IT, maintaining networks and installing other people's software.
If you want to be building things, degrees still have value.
As the other reply pointed out, tenure is not quite that iron clad. However this issue is about getting tenure, a process that takes a decade or more where often at every step you are on a knife's edge of being let go. There is really no analogy in the business world, in non academic jobs you either advance or stay where you are, in academic ones things are barely tolerable where you are and there are enough people trying to get there that if you do not advance you leave the field. It is a surprisingly harsh system, much worse then what you see in corporate america.
I have always found the old 'those who can, do, those who can not, teach' rather ironic since for people who want to go into academia, private industry is where you go if you fail.
If nothing else, in other countries the police would be handling this instead.
True, but such lawsuits also might give people reason to not do such things again.
This is the problem with our DIY justice system. This is the type of thing that the state should be handling... bringing people to trial, penalties if found guilty, that sort of thing. But in cases like this the prosecution has to be privately funded and consequences only come of the injured party pushes it on their own.
Tenure is competitive enough that simple accusations or slurs can be enough to sink a person. While it would be nice if solid research and objectivity were the only elements involved, there is a huge human factor which is distressingly easy to swing.
This is tech. Any suggestions that there is not one right universal way to accomplish something is a personal insult to one`s preferred technology. After all, all smart people must come to the same correct solution.
I think the concern is not how stripped down of an install you can do, but how competing needs can result in desktop centric package decisions effecting server installs. This is probably related to systemd and the perception that it is a technology designed around the problems desktop users focus on at the expense of the issues server admins worry about.
When dot-coms go bust their investors are one of the groups that get a cut of the assets from liquidation. They are unlikely to get all their money back, but there is a legal process that results in them being in line for whatever is still there.
Did not this exact same study get a piece on slashdot a few months ago when it was published?
You are a little out of date, Odin was downgraded during the pantheonic reorganization. Unfortunately due to a clerical error the one true God is now a central park squirrel named Skippy.
In 1953 the percentage of GDP from manufacturing was 28%. In 2012 it was at 12%. I'd call that a drop.
Between 1953 and 2012 the GDP has gone up by about 600% (adjusted for inflation), so that is still a net increase in manufacturing by a significant margin, just not as large of an increase as other sectors.
I also suspect the elite within their society plan to send their children to schools in other countries since a good education is something leaders benefit from and they would not be so foolish as to stop that part.
Wile I agree wit the basic idea that we should be more careful about when we apply antibiotics, it should be noted that while as a species we did indeed survived a long time without them, our mortality rate was a lot worse. Our natural immunity is not all that great, we simply breed fast enough that we do not die off.
Boeing also has a much longer track record of success. SpaceX has promise, but Boeing has shown it can deliver.
Actually, project management is an excellent fit for liberal arts majors.
The problem with any community is it has more then one person in it, so if two people say two opposing things it makes it look like both are saying both.
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Was there not a piece the other day about how ACM and other such groups are seeing declining relevance? Oh yeah, this is computer tech, it is always more fun to reinvent the wheel then use the same one as old fogies.