University is what you make of it. If you go in with the attitude that you are just paying for a name and otherwise are in a social club then that is all you get out of it. If you go in with the plan of utilizing the resources, the professors with years or decades of experience, the research labs, etc, those things can really pay off if you will work with them. If the education itself is just that personal experience, save the money and open up a seat for someone else who will actually make use of the education.
Over the years I have more and more avoided the 'self taught' programmers, and I have found I am not alone in this. Too many seem to capitalize on anti-intellectual mythology and resonate better with management which leads to advancement since they have a very confident narrative.. but they tend to have less awareness of what they do not know and fellow (often less paid) programmers have to work harder to compensate for them. Their strength often seem to lay in social skills and image rather then technical.
Individual judges can go either way though. Never forget that the fed is not a uniform block but is instead a confusing mix of many priorities and ideologies.
Their argument is that they are trying to optimize for people who have hundreds or thousands of friends, thus pure chronological would be an unreadable stream of posts. People with smaller numbers who actually do want to see each post in order just are not on their radar.
Well yes. When your goal is to bring a service to an entire population rather then the highest profit margin, it ends up costing more. Public funding is for cases where private enterprise can not handle the needs, it serves a different goal then corporations.
Compared to the other arguments his lawyer has used, this one might actually have promise. I would not be surprised if this one took longer to try because they were actually taking it seriously. Even with lots of legwork, if the final evidence was collected illegally it could very well be inadmissible, and standards when it comes to this type of evidence are still in flux with investigators not having clear rules to go by yet.
Well, by the original usage, a server full of drives would not be "cloud storage", but as with any new term that gets popular marketers use it to describe products that only kinda function a little like the new stuff.
Maybe, maybe not. It is difficult to predict what the economics of future technology will be. It is difficult to plan around what might exist a decade or two from now.
Even if the efficiency can not be improved much, the people who launch probes have impressive patience. Add a good solar panel or a nuclear source and you could get a nice constant acceleration over a long period.
The expectations of most programers and consumers have shifted to not consider uptime all that high a priority. It is generally only older shops in conservative industries (or conservative departments within, like payroll) that this level of fault tolerance is valued.
Or put another way, the domains where fault tolerance is highly valued are already so stable people do not think about it, while domains that people generally interact with just take failures as a fact of life.
As the saying goes, the project is finished when the last user is dead. There is something to be said for companies continuing to provide older technology where most of the industry has moved on. It might not be glamorous but I suspect the customers are glad someone is doing it.
There may only be so many, but you do not need many to keep a product line going. It sounds like that is all that is going on here, they have niche customers who for whatever reason would prefer to keep their VMS infrastructure going rather then rewriting it and HP is planning to offer a path that has less worries about compatible replacement hardware.
Actually, no. Studies on sexism at least have shown women are just as sexist when it comes to women as men are. One of the big fallacies is the idea that racism and sexism are the domain of white males, white males are simply the ones who tend to benefit the most from it. But the social ideas about who is inferior or superior are internalized across the board, that is why the are systemic social issues rather then individual problems.
I think this highlights why the time of organizations like ACM might be drawing to a close. Historically it was not just a paywalled website like many others, it was a professional organization which people from similar backgrounds joined so they could share resources and networking among their peers. In the past it made sense, 'this is our resource for us, we all pay to create and maintain it', but today it is so easy for communities to come together for next to nothing that it does not really make as much sense. In many ways, the internet killed professional societies. Outside organized represention communities to other institutions (like working groups setting standards or meeting with regulators) they do not really have much function anymore.
The problem there is that research gets increasingly specific and the number of people interested in any given esoteric domain is fairly small. The signal to noise ratio is bad because there are an insane number of little niches, none large enough to really deserve a dedicated publication so they all end up in the same only slightly larger umbrellas. You might get a hundred papers, with each one only being of interest to 10 people, so for most individuals the majority of the papers are noise to them.
Yes and no. People in their garages (though less and less) are contributing significantly, but academia still produces a lot of the fancy fundamentals. The disconnect tends to be that it takes 5-10 years for things to get from universities to hobbyists so by the time it has filtered that far across people no longer see the connection. Sure, what academics are working on now does not seem to impact what small companies and hobbists are bringing to the public, but they are laying the groundwork for future projects. There is a social reason that research projects hire on all those undergrads and grad students, or why universities require professors to both research and teach.
It does tend to be a somewhat localized effect. Generally any particular community tends to hire and retain people like themselves, so places that have reasonably good representation tend to maintain it, while places where it is bad tend to resist shifting it. The lack of blacks or women in the local developer community is taken as proof that such people are generally not fit to work in tech and when viewing candidates or new hires through that lens creates a self fulfilling prophecy.
Problem is, intelligence is stereotyped. White males are assumed to be smarter, women and blacks are assumed to be less capable. Hand 10 hiring managers the same resume with names that sound male or female, black or white, and the managers have been shown to rate the white male named resume highest in terms of perceived competence and talent.
Tech is not about finding the smartest workers, it is an echo chamber where social prejudice is taken as natural and confirmed.
Nah, you do not sound like a racist misogynistic ass. Must be all the liberals misunderstanding you and your obvious insight and unbiased take on the world.
In the past at least the credit card processing networks could be kinda glitchy, and stores needed a way to manually work around that. With my old bank half the time my card would come back declined depending on which upstream provider any individual stores was using. Most of the time they would just fall back on those old carbon paper slidy things.
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University is what you make of it. If you go in with the attitude that you are just paying for a name and otherwise are in a social club then that is all you get out of it. If you go in with the plan of utilizing the resources, the professors with years or decades of experience, the research labs, etc, those things can really pay off if you will work with them. If the education itself is just that personal experience, save the money and open up a seat for someone else who will actually make use of the education.
Over the years I have more and more avoided the 'self taught' programmers, and I have found I am not alone in this. Too many seem to capitalize on anti-intellectual mythology and resonate better with management which leads to advancement since they have a very confident narrative.. but they tend to have less awareness of what they do not know and fellow (often less paid) programmers have to work harder to compensate for them. Their strength often seem to lay in social skills and image rather then technical.
Individual judges can go either way though. Never forget that the fed is not a uniform block but is instead a confusing mix of many priorities and ideologies.
Their argument is that they are trying to optimize for people who have hundreds or thousands of friends, thus pure chronological would be an unreadable stream of posts. People with smaller numbers who actually do want to see each post in order just are not on their radar.
Well yes. When your goal is to bring a service to an entire population rather then the highest profit margin, it ends up costing more. Public funding is for cases where private enterprise can not handle the needs, it serves a different goal then corporations.
Have you seen how much money they pour into marketing to doctors and administrators?
Compared to the other arguments his lawyer has used, this one might actually have promise. I would not be surprised if this one took longer to try because they were actually taking it seriously. Even with lots of legwork, if the final evidence was collected illegally it could very well be inadmissible, and standards when it comes to this type of evidence are still in flux with investigators not having clear rules to go by yet.
Well, by the original usage, a server full of drives would not be "cloud storage", but as with any new term that gets popular marketers use it to describe products that only kinda function a little like the new stuff.
Who needs evidence... they KNOW the truth! Every fact saying otherwise is planted by the powers that be.
Well, lens flare might make it easier to find at least.
Maybe, maybe not. It is difficult to predict what the economics of future technology will be. It is difficult to plan around what might exist a decade or two from now.
For that matter, a nuclear source on a probe or satellite can be treated as fuelless energy. Much better then having to expend propellent.
Even if the efficiency can not be improved much, the people who launch probes have impressive patience. Add a good solar panel or a nuclear source and you could get a nice constant acceleration over a long period.
The expectations of most programers and consumers have shifted to not consider uptime all that high a priority. It is generally only older shops in conservative industries (or conservative departments within, like payroll) that this level of fault tolerance is valued.
Or put another way, the domains where fault tolerance is highly valued are already so stable people do not think about it, while domains that people generally interact with just take failures as a fact of life.
As the saying goes, the project is finished when the last user is dead. There is something to be said for companies continuing to provide older technology where most of the industry has moved on. It might not be glamorous but I suspect the customers are glad someone is doing it.
There may only be so many, but you do not need many to keep a product line going. It sounds like that is all that is going on here, they have niche customers who for whatever reason would prefer to keep their VMS infrastructure going rather then rewriting it and HP is planning to offer a path that has less worries about compatible replacement hardware.
Actually, no. Studies on sexism at least have shown women are just as sexist when it comes to women as men are. One of the big fallacies is the idea that racism and sexism are the domain of white males, white males are simply the ones who tend to benefit the most from it. But the social ideas about who is inferior or superior are internalized across the board, that is why the are systemic social issues rather then individual problems.
I think this highlights why the time of organizations like ACM might be drawing to a close. Historically it was not just a paywalled website like many others, it was a professional organization which people from similar backgrounds joined so they could share resources and networking among their peers. In the past it made sense, 'this is our resource for us, we all pay to create and maintain it', but today it is so easy for communities to come together for next to nothing that it does not really make as much sense. In many ways, the internet killed professional societies. Outside organized represention communities to other institutions (like working groups setting standards or meeting with regulators) they do not really have much function anymore.
The problem there is that research gets increasingly specific and the number of people interested in any given esoteric domain is fairly small. The signal to noise ratio is bad because there are an insane number of little niches, none large enough to really deserve a dedicated publication so they all end up in the same only slightly larger umbrellas. You might get a hundred papers, with each one only being of interest to 10 people, so for most individuals the majority of the papers are noise to them.
Yes and no. People in their garages (though less and less) are contributing significantly, but academia still produces a lot of the fancy fundamentals. The disconnect tends to be that it takes 5-10 years for things to get from universities to hobbyists so by the time it has filtered that far across people no longer see the connection. Sure, what academics are working on now does not seem to impact what small companies and hobbists are bringing to the public, but they are laying the groundwork for future projects. There is a social reason that research projects hire on all those undergrads and grad students, or why universities require professors to both research and teach.
It does tend to be a somewhat localized effect. Generally any particular community tends to hire and retain people like themselves, so places that have reasonably good representation tend to maintain it, while places where it is bad tend to resist shifting it. The lack of blacks or women in the local developer community is taken as proof that such people are generally not fit to work in tech and when viewing candidates or new hires through that lens creates a self fulfilling prophecy.
Problem is, intelligence is stereotyped. White males are assumed to be smarter, women and blacks are assumed to be less capable. Hand 10 hiring managers the same resume with names that sound male or female, black or white, and the managers have been shown to rate the white male named resume highest in terms of perceived competence and talent.
Tech is not about finding the smartest workers, it is an echo chamber where social prejudice is taken as natural and confirmed.
Nah, you do not sound like a racist misogynistic ass. Must be all the liberals misunderstanding you and your obvious insight and unbiased take on the world.
Given how pissy customers can get when they have to wait an additional 30 seconds, can you blame them?
In the past at least the credit card processing networks could be kinda glitchy, and stores needed a way to manually work around that. With my old bank half the time my card would come back declined depending on which upstream provider any individual stores was using. Most of the time they would just fall back on those old carbon paper slidy things.