I was a local hire at TATA (TCS) doing software work at Apple... Treated me well enough, however I quickly came to realize there was little chance for advancement / promotion in that track. So I found another job, where the bias was going more in my favor. The racial preference at TCS in the US would be more "awful" if it wasn't just a small coin balancing a big stack of the opposite bias elsewhere in the industry.
I prefer delivery by crossbow bolt.
It would also leave the homeowner in a somewhat laughable situation... They could either toe the line and say that the earthquake is "natural" therefore getting the insurance (hush) money, or try and convince the state that it was man-made, losing their house if victorious, and hopefully changing policy enough that more earthquakes won't happen.
Shame is, this only seems like a conundrum to the type of people who place the well being of society over their own momentary gains.
Cut off one head and two will emerge!
Of course I gave up Apple in 1988
Finally! A tech savvy individual on Slashdot who understands the state of the industry and is able to express a knowledgeable opinion. Everyone else commenting on this whole "Apple Watch" thing seems to be too heavily biased by the having used an Apple product in the last 2 decades. It's refreshing to get an unbiased opinion.
OP is me ^^^ forgot to login.
Actually... California produces more renewable energy than Portugal. It's just uses more too
Wind Power:
Portugal - 3,937 MW
California - 5,829 MW
Solar:
Portugal - Aprox 75 MW
California - 5576 MW
That's roughly 75 X the solar output of Portugal. Sounds like what we need to do in CA is to stop being so power hungry..
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TL;DR: If you need to constantly monitor your heart rate it can be useful as any heart rate "Medical" device short of EKG.
I'm getting one for my Dad. He currently has a fluttering heart valve, which makes his heart less effective, and causes his heart rate to nearly double to attain the same level of blood oxygen. His resting heart rate is between 100-130 bpm, and that's not good for longevity. While the doctors try and sort out what surgery to try next, he's been told to try and keep his heart rate low using medication. However, if it gets too low, he gets light headed, and can't go up stairs, so they are experimenting with a good value that keeps his heart rate in a specific range.
I'll be writing him an app that lets him know when to take medication to slow his heart rate.
Yes, it's not medically sound, and I wouldn't use it for someone who might sue... but it's better than the "Medical" apparatus and procedure we have been given.
You lost me at Nazis.
"This is no cave."
Of not living up to it's marketing. Despite what those idiot investors and marketing folks who over-invested in the buzzword would like us to believe, there will be no internet of things. While one can think of plenty of reasons why any particular object in the house might be slightly improved by being able to share some random status or change to the internet at large; one can barely think of anything that that would greatly improve this behavior. Yes I can get a push notification when the toaster pops... but if I was far enough away not to hear it pop, the toast will be cold by the time I get there anyway. Yes occasionally an internet connected thermostat has allowed me to turn off the heat when I'm away, but mostly it just allows me to tweak it from the comfort of my bed 10 feet away.
Technology, as it becomes cheaper and the the relative usefulness / to expense ratio goes down will slowly creep into every day crevices of our lives, it doesn't change the fact that this is not because the usefulness of having these things done has gone up, but merely the price of the technology to do so has gone down.
It's 3D all over again (and again, and again)... There are a lot of folks that REALLY want IoT to be the next huge money maker, and have invested a lot of their gambling money (That's what modern investing on futures is for the most part anyway) on it being HUGE. I think the only thing huge about IoT will be the disappointment.
A protocol by means of securely tunneling data across Facebook messenger using only Muppet Stickers and smiley faces.
It's funny because it's doable.
But it seems to me that more and more often the knee jerk reaction to these articles should be that they are full of crap and misdirection. Far too many news outlets, bloggers, etc, have realized the kind of click through they can generate by creating a fake Apple-Gate, and the torrent of hits from both sides of the conflict is too appealing for them to correct the content or unbias a headline.
That rather than shorter attention spans, or more useless papers, papers are not staying relevant as long simply because the rate of technological progress continues to increase?
For example, a paper on VHS would have been cited during a longer period than a paper on DVD, which would have been cited more than a paper on Blu-Ray... The rate of innovation has increased, and thus the duration of the usefulness of the discoveries as compared to updated versions of the same has gone down.
Just a more local application of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. No surprises here.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
