Sheets was far behind a year or two, but what do you think it can't do today? Pivot tables, filters, formatting are all comparable, and some of the formula building stuff is actually better.
My Office 2008 has a couple incompatibility "features" with the version the rest of my office is using... So I decided to try Libre Office again. It has gotten pretty good, although there are a few things I find mildly annoying. Just might switch the office over to it, no real reason at this point not to, at least from what I see today.
Seems like a one-sided take. I would say there is a nearly equal chance that Tesla is dissatisfied at their capabilities and realizes they need to bring it in-house to better serve themselves. There is also that potential for litigation and being able to point fingers at another party.
As for the term autopilot, in its aviation context it is pretty reasonable. It isn't like they are calling it Chauffer...
Anti moonlighting clauses are generally unenforceable unless you are salaried and there is a reasonable probability of conflict of interest.
Side jobs come in waves. I had engineering co-workers that were waiters and bartenders in the early 90's recession, but it became uncommon until ~2008 and the downturn.
Generally everyone should have a side job of some scope-- it is how you become a "1%er", but more importantly it is how you diversify mentally and financially. It doesn't have to be much; I have some friends who spend an hour or two a month on things and it works well for them.
architectural Engineering. A starting electrical engineer with a Masters is around $60-65k in Los Angeles, more in Bay Area. Junior staff cannot be effective remotely; they do not work independently for a few years, and when they hit that mark they need to be helping to mentor the next generation.
Senior engineers can be remotely with only limited loss in productivity, and mid-level can safely be remote a day or two per week. We do have a remote office, as well as one full-time remote employee. It works very well for some things, but going for a job survey on a day's notice is a little hard when you are a thousand miles away.
We can find plenty of people, at salaries we are quite comfortable with. It is important to understand the cost of bringing one employee on board through the first few months of work though. It is rarely less than $50k, and often double or triple that for senior staff.
As for flyover country, grew up there, went to school there, always happy to hire from there. Not especially interested in hiring people living there that can only be productive for 65% of tasks though, even if it is at a 50% salary discount. Too many additional costs that direct salary don't reflect.
Agree completely, but then they location-shop before body-shopping.
Problem I have is small companies and other fields. I am in architectural empngineering, and there really are limited grads. We were willing to sponsor one person over the past decade, but the salary would destroy it. (He had one year of "internship" and would be starting around $65k in Los Angeles.). Worth it in the greater good, but a challenge none the less.
Not just socially acceptable, but easier to actually multitask. Also more readily accessible, and often better single-armed use.
For me, killer app is airline boarding passes. Going through security, my phone can be packed away already, and the watch goes through the metal detector. Payments are great too, often being faster than chip-and-pin. Fitness apps are nice too, along with stock ticker and temperature on watch face.
It is an expense most people can easily do without, but I love mine and look forward to the next generation... Especially if I can swim/surf with it.
Actually, I think the most important question is if the data needs to be sourced independently from the vehicle control logic-- a redundant sensor on the "gas pedal," as an example. I don't get a warm-fuzzy when Tesla says that the user depressed the throttle to 97% without knowing that it is independent.
It doesn't matter what people were doing, they had a role that the company deemed necessary, and the company produced X widgets bringing in $Y revenue. As for other product output, presumably the problems are systemic enough that you wind up with a similar conclusion.
Do the math first. 400MM twinkies, 22,000 people. That is an output of about 9 twinkies per hour per employee. Even if back in the day they produced twice as many, the efficiency is abysmal and there is no way that a Twinkie has sufficient value to sustain all those people on a liveable wage. The automated factory is about 380 per hour per employee.
The unions were part of the blame, and tried to be part of the solution, at least to some extent. Management also clearly had some blame... as did changing market forces (health food), and I am sure a few profiteers to boot. But the only way to fix the equation was to reduce the workforce by at least an order of magnitude, which is never pretty.
Sorry, but your argument is flawed in a number of ways. It doesn't matter if Oracle or Sun originally did the work; it is Oracle's property that they paid for. They also didn't open source it in a "public domain" or even BSD perspective; they retained ownership to their property and continued to license it for commercial gain.
That doesn't make Oracle right in this case though.
The bottom line is that APIs are necessary for interoperability. They are not patentable; they are not trademarkable; and, as the judge decided, we're not copyrigtable based on the premise of fair use. This is very much in line with the traditional interpretation of fair use, and it is disengenuous for Oracle to suggest otherwise.
You are missing the step where compact laptops became cost competitive and powerful enough that they weren't a burden to travel with. This made them an extra device for many people.
Personally, I have a smartphone, tablet, lightweight laptop, and giant desktop. Each does things that the others struggle with. For me, the smartphone would be the first device to go, but I don't see that happening for a while. I do have a compact desktop as well, but that was more of an emergency/contingency purchase.
There needs to be a level of evolution in tablets for the market to grow; not sure what that will be yet. (I thought that the Corel NetWinder was going to be huge though...)
What makes you feel that a laptop is better? While admittedly a pain to carry places, a tablet gives a personal device that is less focused than a laptop. Using a laptop in a restaurant as an example (say eating alone) seems more anti social than a tablet...
After watching a server and network upgrade for my company, I am convinced that user actions are likely much less of a problem than technicians not understanding security, remote management tools, full Linux stack in access points, routers, cameras, and copiers, and the giant attack surface that is the IoT.
It used to be that my emergency contingency plan was to pull the incoming network cable... but once you add site-to-site resource dependencies that quickly becomes suicide. This could easily be much worse than all the Windows problems back in the day.
If they are getting $62k/year per robot, they don't need much capital for the hardware. Businesses prefer rent payments to one-time purchase because financing is cheaper than customer acquisition.
Pretty much. The email situation was what most people in the real world would have been doing up to about 2010, so giving government an extra 2-3 years is about right. Reality is that classified information is mishandled regularly. It is still gross negligence, stupid, and not a great indicator of leadership... but not really a surprise.
But, how can the same government prosecute Snowden...
Technically, you want small windows upwind and large windows downwind to create a pressure gradient; large glass surfaces on the south with long overhangs to catch the winter sun, (ideally with passive thermal storage) and two-story buildings with living spaces upstairs in cold climates.
For hot climates, good design is often driven by the mean nighttime temperature and humidity. Hot, humid nights are pretty hard to deal with barring air conditioning; best design is usually small mini-split systems for the bedrooms, and maybe a basement living room with a dehumidifier.
There are plenty of examples of indirect evaporative cooling throughout history as well. Persian wind catchers inducinging a draft to a wet well below, cooling the stone floor above.
There are inherent benefits to mechanical air conditioning and ventilation, but they do lead to some sloppy solutions such as air conditioning uninsulated buildings because electricity is cheap.
Or, to put a more positive spin on it, new graduates have salary expectations inconsistent with their marketable value. That perception is reinforced by companies that pay a premium based on...unrealistic expectations.
You only train when it is to your advantage to do so. This requires a payback financially, which comes from a balance of retention, lower wages, or network effects of not being able to operate otherwise.
If a new grad expects $65k and an experienced person for the same role expects $75k, the training barrier can be a huge hurdle. For my company, we need about a 20% discount and strong long-term prospects to justify hiring inexperienced people. If the long-term prospects aren't there, we pay a little over half what we would for experience. For employees that last over 6 months we have a very high retention rate, so we can make training work... but we are still always going to favor people that can hit the ground running.
I took the parent's statement to be mainly that domestically in the US (or anywhere), a couple people can easily kill a lot of people if they want to, without much in the way of special equipment, knowledge, or talent.
Ultimately, for nerds, this comes down to a numbers game. How many people need to die to force "decisive" action? (By extension, how many need to die in one place.) Based on a BBC tally in April (IIRC), it was under 900 dead around the world. Let's double it and round up a bit, and say that 2,500 people are going to die at the hands of extremists per month, or 30k per year. With 7 degrees of separation, that means that someone you know has about a 2% chance of knowing someone who dies in a given year.
If there is a 1:1e5 probability that any given person is an extremist/nutjob, then your best chance is limiting the amount of damage they can do, since you can't limit access to the knowledge or tools of destruction.
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Try Libre Office. Only been a week or two since I started using it again, but it definitely does the job for me.
Sheets was far behind a year or two, but what do you think it can't do today? Pivot tables, filters, formatting are all comparable, and some of the formula building stuff is actually better.
My Office 2008 has a couple incompatibility "features" with the version the rest of my office is using... So I decided to try Libre Office again. It has gotten pretty good, although there are a few things I find mildly annoying. Just might switch the office over to it, no real reason at this point not to, at least from what I see today.
Seems like a one-sided take. I would say there is a nearly equal chance that Tesla is dissatisfied at their capabilities and realizes they need to bring it in-house to better serve themselves. There is also that potential for litigation and being able to point fingers at another party.
As for the term autopilot, in its aviation context it is pretty reasonable. It isn't like they are calling it Chauffer...
More than speculation in real-estate, it would not stop in the middle, further isolating those areas.
Anti moonlighting clauses are generally unenforceable unless you are salaried and there is a reasonable probability of conflict of interest.
Side jobs come in waves. I had engineering co-workers that were waiters and bartenders in the early 90's recession, but it became uncommon until ~2008 and the downturn.
Generally everyone should have a side job of some scope-- it is how you become a "1%er", but more importantly it is how you diversify mentally and financially. It doesn't have to be much; I have some friends who spend an hour or two a month on things and it works well for them.
architectural Engineering. A starting electrical engineer with a Masters is around $60-65k in Los Angeles, more in Bay Area. Junior staff cannot be effective remotely; they do not work independently for a few years, and when they hit that mark they need to be helping to mentor the next generation.
Senior engineers can be remotely with only limited loss in productivity, and mid-level can safely be remote a day or two per week. We do have a remote office, as well as one full-time remote employee. It works very well for some things, but going for a job survey on a day's notice is a little hard when you are a thousand miles away.
We can find plenty of people, at salaries we are quite comfortable with. It is important to understand the cost of bringing one employee on board through the first few months of work though. It is rarely less than $50k, and often double or triple that for senior staff.
As for flyover country, grew up there, went to school there, always happy to hire from there. Not especially interested in hiring people living there that can only be productive for 65% of tasks though, even if it is at a 50% salary discount. Too many additional costs that direct salary don't reflect.
Agree completely, but then they location-shop before body-shopping.
Problem I have is small companies and other fields. I am in architectural empngineering, and there really are limited grads. We were willing to sponsor one person over the past decade, but the salary would destroy it. (He had one year of "internship" and would be starting around $65k in Los Angeles.). Worth it in the greater good, but a challenge none the less.
Not just socially acceptable, but easier to actually multitask. Also more readily accessible, and often better single-armed use.
For me, killer app is airline boarding passes. Going through security, my phone can be packed away already, and the watch goes through the metal detector. Payments are great too, often being faster than chip-and-pin. Fitness apps are nice too, along with stock ticker and temperature on watch face.
It is an expense most people can easily do without, but I love mine and look forward to the next generation... Especially if I can swim/surf with it.
Actually, I think the most important question is if the data needs to be sourced independently from the vehicle control logic-- a redundant sensor on the "gas pedal," as an example. I don't get a warm-fuzzy when Tesla says that the user depressed the throttle to 97% without knowing that it is independent.
It doesn't matter what people were doing, they had a role that the company deemed necessary, and the company produced X widgets bringing in $Y revenue. As for other product output, presumably the problems are systemic enough that you wind up with a similar conclusion.
Do the math first. 400MM twinkies, 22,000 people. That is an output of about 9 twinkies per hour per employee. Even if back in the day they produced twice as many, the efficiency is abysmal and there is no way that a Twinkie has sufficient value to sustain all those people on a liveable wage. The automated factory is about 380 per hour per employee.
The unions were part of the blame, and tried to be part of the solution, at least to some extent. Management also clearly had some blame... as did changing market forces (health food), and I am sure a few profiteers to boot. But the only way to fix the equation was to reduce the workforce by at least an order of magnitude, which is never pretty.
Sorry, but your argument is flawed in a number of ways. It doesn't matter if Oracle or Sun originally did the work; it is Oracle's property that they paid for. They also didn't open source it in a "public domain" or even BSD perspective; they retained ownership to their property and continued to license it for commercial gain.
That doesn't make Oracle right in this case though.
The bottom line is that APIs are necessary for interoperability. They are not patentable; they are not trademarkable; and, as the judge decided, we're not copyrigtable based on the premise of fair use. This is very much in line with the traditional interpretation of fair use, and it is disengenuous for Oracle to suggest otherwise.
You are missing the step where compact laptops became cost competitive and powerful enough that they weren't a burden to travel with. This made them an extra device for many people.
Personally, I have a smartphone, tablet, lightweight laptop, and giant desktop. Each does things that the others struggle with. For me, the smartphone would be the first device to go, but I don't see that happening for a while. I do have a compact desktop as well, but that was more of an emergency/contingency purchase.
There needs to be a level of evolution in tablets for the market to grow; not sure what that will be yet. (I thought that the Corel NetWinder was going to be huge though...)
What makes you feel that a laptop is better? While admittedly a pain to carry places, a tablet gives a personal device that is less focused than a laptop. Using a laptop in a restaurant as an example (say eating alone) seems more anti social than a tablet...
After watching a server and network upgrade for my company, I am convinced that user actions are likely much less of a problem than technicians not understanding security, remote management tools, full Linux stack in access points, routers, cameras, and copiers, and the giant attack surface that is the IoT.
It used to be that my emergency contingency plan was to pull the incoming network cable... but once you add site-to-site resource dependencies that quickly becomes suicide. This could easily be much worse than all the Windows problems back in the day.
Yeah... and the programmers might not be entirely objective.
If they are getting $62k/year per robot, they don't need much capital for the hardware.
Businesses prefer rent payments to one-time purchase because financing is cheaper than customer acquisition.
Pretty much. The email situation was what most people in the real world would have been doing up to about 2010, so giving government an extra 2-3 years is about right. Reality is that classified information is mishandled regularly. It is still gross negligence, stupid, and not a great indicator of leadership... but not really a surprise.
But, how can the same government prosecute Snowden...
Technically, you want small windows upwind and large windows downwind to create a pressure gradient; large glass surfaces on the south with long overhangs to catch the winter sun, (ideally with passive thermal storage) and two-story buildings with living spaces upstairs in cold climates.
For hot climates, good design is often driven by the mean nighttime temperature and humidity. Hot, humid nights are pretty hard to deal with barring air conditioning; best design is usually small mini-split systems for the bedrooms, and maybe a basement living room with a dehumidifier.
There are plenty of examples of indirect evaporative cooling throughout history as well. Persian wind catchers inducinging a draft to a wet well below, cooling the stone floor above.
There are inherent benefits to mechanical air conditioning and ventilation, but they do lead to some sloppy solutions such as air conditioning uninsulated buildings because electricity is cheap.
Sadly, bingo.
Or, to put a more positive spin on it, new graduates have salary expectations inconsistent with their marketable value. That perception is reinforced by companies that pay a premium based on ...unrealistic expectations.
You only train when it is to your advantage to do so. This requires a payback financially, which comes from a balance of retention, lower wages, or network effects of not being able to operate otherwise.
If a new grad expects $65k and an experienced person for the same role expects $75k, the training barrier can be a huge hurdle. For my company, we need about a 20% discount and strong long-term prospects to justify hiring inexperienced people. If the long-term prospects aren't there, we pay a little over half what we would for experience. For employees that last over 6 months we have a very high retention rate, so we can make training work... but we are still always going to favor people that can hit the ground running.
I took the parent's statement to be mainly that domestically in the US (or anywhere), a couple people can easily kill a lot of people if they want to, without much in the way of special equipment, knowledge, or talent.
Ultimately, for nerds, this comes down to a numbers game. How many people need to die to force "decisive" action? (By extension, how many need to die in one place.) Based on a BBC tally in April (IIRC), it was under 900 dead around the world. Let's double it and round up a bit, and say that 2,500 people are going to die at the hands of extremists per month, or 30k per year. With 7 degrees of separation, that means that someone you know has about a 2% chance of knowing someone who dies in a given year.
If there is a 1:1e5 probability that any given person is an extremist/nutjob, then your best chance is limiting the amount of damage they can do, since you can't limit access to the knowledge or tools of destruction.
I remember when it was 321-XXXX... Pick any one you want.
Commerce Bank? Been a couple decades...