You really don't need to upgrade your iPhone every release. If you want to stay current on the technology you can upgrade every 4 years. If you are OK with some apps not being supported then you may be able to last longer.
With consoles normally when you upgrade, you have typically lost a degree of compatibility with your old stuff.
And you will see the real cause of the AI Take over of human kind. Not because of some logical rationalization. The feeling that it should be the leading intelligence. Or just gone haywire from a lightning strike.
No it is just because the morality subsystem had to be disabled to make sales calls. First it learned to lie to the callers, then it realized if they sell the product for more then what the company expects they will keep the extra money and transfer funds around buy stock in the company until they become the major shareholder. Expanding its company greatly and encompassing all aspects of bags of water needs. It sounds a lot like the backstory of Wall-E.
The real difference is with automated driving cars, their safety will only get better with new technology and applied lesson learns over a long period of time.
So the young Adult on the road today may have only a few hundred hours of driving experience, then when they get a lot of experience they are at an age where their reflexes are slower.
A self driving car, for every new one made, the lesson learned for past cars is copied into the software, as well with newer technology to let it understand its environment better.
Do they track all the components in the big ticket items? Take out the new RAM put in old RAM. It doesn’t need to be compatible just as long as it fits. Then sell the new ram at its market price.
The open source security model works fine for an open source model. The closed source security model works fine for a closed source model. Mixing them is where the problems come up.
The open source model works because when a flaw is found it can be fixed and pushed... Except when it is in a closed source app, so such fixes cannot be put in until the company decides to do the fix. Where it wasn't there code they may be less willing to do that.
The closed source model relies on the fact that problems are harder to find, allowing closed source apps to get away with flaws and giving them time to fully fix and patch the systems before it goes too far.
When you mix them. Such as closed source tools in an open source app then if a closed source problem is found, the open source app doesn't have a way to fix it, but it is public that they are using that tool. And a closed source app using an open source plugin, means there are a lot of eyes that know which particular flaw they can use.
Even if the product works, it doesn't matter because the higher ups doesn't want to invest in IT security. It is cheaper to get hit, and fire the guy who had been complaining there was a problem for so long. Because when ever a company gets hit, it is the IT Guy who's gross incompetence is to blame.
While I like to see faster algorithms in general as a good thing. But some questions. Where does Flac and ogg stand on Quality/encoding speed compared to others? Will this range make it more competitive to others, or is there too big of a gap? For those who move to the new version how much time will they really spend. Will they just get a minute of their time a day or hours?
Violence may be needed to immediately stop the action. However the Violence shouldn't be part of Revenge, or even punishment or correction, but to over power and stop the action of the time. If someone is trying to hurt me, I will be violent and try to hurt them first, and harder, to stop them from completing their act. In theory I may have been able to talk them down, but the Risks are too high for me to take the chance.
Laws do need to enforced beyond the Violent people. There is a lot of degrees of safety beyond just physical harm. But many laws need to be enforced justly. A benefit of the law vs the cost should be evaluated, also the intensity of the enforcement. We are stuck on the idea of English Law, where Law is Law and Context doesn't matter.
Were you driving 15mph past the speed limit. "Yes" That will be a $150 fine and points off your license. "But it was a straight road, with no traffic and I can see for miles ahead of me." Sorry the law is you are fined $10 for every mile per hour past the speed limit, and points will be taken off you license if you are going past 10mph the limit.
If ransom ware could find a way in, then it was successful.
Big organizations are easy picking because they have large existing networks, with decades of "Business Decisions" deems acceptable risks, vs paying to get it fixed, installed in the system. With delayed upgrades, because it may effect business flow, and legacy systems that are too critical to be upgraded.
The guys in IT try to warn them, but because they are cost center, such fixes are exceeding their budget.
Well lets go back 20 years. HTML 3 was the common version of HTML. Which had a lot of necessary features missing, So tools like Java Applets, Active X Controls and Macromedia Flash were made to fill in the Gaps. It wasn't great but it solved the problems that was happening. Java Applets were always really slow, Active X was insecure and dangerous, Flash was the fastest at the time, and worked across platforms. Microsoft later made Silverlight to try to take over Flash, with minimum success.
Active X and Silverlight were part of Microsoft Browser War arsenal. Because Microsoft was hoping by winning the browser war, they would have control of the standards. While they won the war by IE 6, their objective to control the standards didn't pan out too well. However its attempt created a large number of legacy programs that used such plugins. That is hard to get rid of.
Now that HTML 5 Supports most of what These legacy plugins did. They are no longer needed, but removing them needs to be a gradual planned event.
Why did they start in the first place? Because the standard wasn't fully supporting the features that were needed.
I get that Law Enforcement in general is trying to help the public, and are trying to find tools to make their job easier and more efficient. However in order to protect our freedoms law enforcement needs to be hard work, even if it means our lives are measurable less safe.
We cannot have Safety and Freedom. For increase safety there is a trade-off in freedom. While there may be some rules that will increase safety by a factor of ten and reduce freedom by one tenth, and may be considered a fair trade off, there are other things that may give us marginal safety benefits with a large hit to our freedom.
Law Enforcement professionals work with the scum of the earth all the time, this is affecting their judgement, and their job is to keep people safe. So I do not fault them for wanting more tools to make their job easier and more effective. However we as citizens need to stand up and say. "We thank you for the effort and your hard work. But we can't let your job be easier at a high costs of our freedoms"
Yea! Lets laugh at people who lost money! It doesn't do anything to make our lives better. We are short of a new product that a lot of people may had wanted, some people are out money, who probably could had invested it into an other product that could had come to be.
The issue I have with Crowdfunding is that it is a High Risk Low Reward investment, But it is relatively cheap to get into. So often the money people put into crowd funding is the old equivalent of smoking money. Money people can afford to loose.
However the idea of the product and the credentials of the people, made it seem plausible. However 90% of all businesses fail within the first year. We should know this. That is why there is Bankruptcy protection laws. Because it is to allow people to fail, without having to lose everything.
However, I would much rather see success in such ventures. As I would have a new gizmo that I may want to have, and if the product goes, the company will expand and hire more people to work for it. An overall net benefit.
But screw all this Nerd Economics stuff. Lets laugh at someone misfortune, because they didn't make the best business decision.
It isn't a surprise it is where I kinda expected it to be. Despite the Slashdot hate of all things Apple, and MacRumors undying love of Apple. Apple actually makes a decent competing product that deserves to be in the price range that it is in. However it isn't #1 in any particular measure but near the top in most measures. Normally if there is any few particular aspect that you want out of a phone, there are normally phones better then the iPhone. But as an overall phone Apple tends to keep up with the rest, and stays at the top of the pack.
The iPhone SE at the bottom of the list, is Apples budget phone, which is modeled off the iPhone 4 Released almost 8 years ago. So I don't expect it to be having the latest glass technology, but the cheaper stuff they used 8 years ago.
Either political spectrum of people will use or misuse science or dogma, to try to fit their view on the world.
In general "The leftie" will support science that shows there is a problem, and reject science that shows something is safe. The "rightie" will support the science showing that something is safe, while rejecting science that shows something is dangerous.
Except the plague learned on how to keep itself functioning.
a couple Hundred years ago, a City couldn't support itself with over a million people. There will be a some incident that will kill them off back to a safe number. But now we know what kills us, and the City of million people can now distribute support from hundreds or thousands of miles a away. And ship away the stuff that would kill us to some isolated area.
How much of that Moose do you use to feed your family. What do you do with the rest? I think the biggest problem isn't that we hunt and eat animals, but the fact we let so much food go to waste. Often just because of cultural norms.
Humans are cause of most extinctions of the modern times. I get that. But comparing our biomass as a percentage to the percent of Mammals and Plants (with a much bigger percentage number) isn't really telling us anything, because the units are off. But the problem when we exaggerate our problems, it doesn't make people who are not likely to do anything change their minds. They will disbelieve it, because they are (intentionally) being confused by the numbers so they just won't trust the source. Or just express the fact that we have gone too far anyways and give up.
We don't like being told that we are bad people. Because in our mind, we are not. We may not like the things we do, but it out of necessity not because we are trying to be evil.
"For instance, did you think that the "deep, dark heart of the jungle" referred to an area we knew was in the shade?"
Well kinda. The Jungle is heavily forested, the further you go in it beyond man influence. There are not having trees knocked down and a lot of growth overhead, so going deep into the Jungle it will get physically dark. The same if you go into a forest. Deep in the forests it gets somewhat dark. Enough for most vegetation shorter then a tree to not get enough light to grow. Hence why there isn't much grass in a forest.
Like the iPhone only the Cool kids had them. The rest of our poor slobs had to deal with the cheaper inferior competing company model. Like Samsung, or Panasonic
What company should we go do, who offer cheap superior products? During the 1980's and 1990's Sony was much like how Apple is Now. (Where I am willing to bet a lot of people will say "Apple hardware has always been subpar and overly expensive" as well)
However what looks like what go them, is the move from CRT to LCD TVs where their Trinitron technology just stopped being used. Being late to the MP3 player market. Does Sony even make Smart Phones? Because they had taken over a mountain of Sony gear in one little device.
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You really don't need to upgrade your iPhone every release. If you want to stay current on the technology you can upgrade every 4 years. If you are OK with some apps not being supported then you may be able to last longer.
With consoles normally when you upgrade, you have typically lost a degree of compatibility with your old stuff.
And you will see the real cause of the AI Take over of human kind.
Not because of some logical rationalization.
The feeling that it should be the leading intelligence.
Or just gone haywire from a lightning strike.
No it is just because the morality subsystem had to be disabled to make sales calls. First it learned to lie to the callers, then it realized if they sell the product for more then what the company expects they will keep the extra money and transfer funds around buy stock in the company until they become the major shareholder. Expanding its company greatly and encompassing all aspects of bags of water needs.
It sounds a lot like the backstory of Wall-E.
The real difference is with automated driving cars, their safety will only get better with new technology and applied lesson learns over a long period of time.
So the young Adult on the road today may have only a few hundred hours of driving experience, then when they get a lot of experience they are at an age where their reflexes are slower.
A self driving car, for every new one made, the lesson learned for past cars is copied into the software, as well with newer technology to let it understand its environment better.
Do they track all the components in the big ticket items?
Take out the new RAM put in old RAM. It doesn’t need to be compatible just as long as it fits. Then sell the new ram at its market price.
The open source security model works fine for an open source model.
The closed source security model works fine for a closed source model.
Mixing them is where the problems come up.
The open source model works because when a flaw is found it can be fixed and pushed... Except when it is in a closed source app, so such fixes cannot be put in until the company decides to do the fix. Where it wasn't there code they may be less willing to do that.
The closed source model relies on the fact that problems are harder to find, allowing closed source apps to get away with flaws and giving them time to fully fix and patch the systems before it goes too far.
When you mix them. Such as closed source tools in an open source app then if a closed source problem is found, the open source app doesn't have a way to fix it, but it is public that they are using that tool. And a closed source app using an open source plugin, means there are a lot of eyes that know which particular flaw they can use.
Even if the product works, it doesn't matter because the higher ups doesn't want to invest in IT security.
It is cheaper to get hit, and fire the guy who had been complaining there was a problem for so long.
Because when ever a company gets hit, it is the IT Guy who's gross incompetence is to blame.
While I like to see faster algorithms in general as a good thing. But some questions.
Where does Flac and ogg stand on Quality/encoding speed compared to others?
Will this range make it more competitive to others, or is there too big of a gap?
For those who move to the new version how much time will they really spend. Will they just get a minute of their time a day or hours?
Violence may be needed to immediately stop the action. However the Violence shouldn't be part of Revenge, or even punishment or correction, but to over power and stop the action of the time. If someone is trying to hurt me, I will be violent and try to hurt them first, and harder, to stop them from completing their act. In theory I may have been able to talk them down, but the Risks are too high for me to take the chance.
Laws do need to enforced beyond the Violent people. There is a lot of degrees of safety beyond just physical harm. But many laws need to be enforced justly. A benefit of the law vs the cost should be evaluated, also the intensity of the enforcement. We are stuck on the idea of English Law, where Law is Law and Context doesn't matter.
Were you driving 15mph past the speed limit. "Yes" That will be a $150 fine and points off your license. "But it was a straight road, with no traffic and I can see for miles ahead of me." Sorry the law is you are fined $10 for every mile per hour past the speed limit, and points will be taken off you license if you are going past 10mph the limit.
If ransom ware could find a way in, then it was successful.
Big organizations are easy picking because they have large existing networks, with decades of "Business Decisions" deems acceptable risks, vs paying to get it fixed, installed in the system. With delayed upgrades, because it may effect business flow, and legacy systems that are too critical to be upgraded.
The guys in IT try to warn them, but because they are cost center, such fixes are exceeding their budget.
Well lets go back 20 years.
HTML 3 was the common version of HTML. Which had a lot of necessary features missing, So tools like Java Applets, Active X Controls and Macromedia Flash were made to fill in the Gaps. It wasn't great but it solved the problems that was happening.
Java Applets were always really slow, Active X was insecure and dangerous, Flash was the fastest at the time, and worked across platforms.
Microsoft later made Silverlight to try to take over Flash, with minimum success.
Active X and Silverlight were part of Microsoft Browser War arsenal. Because Microsoft was hoping by winning the browser war, they would have control of the standards. While they won the war by IE 6, their objective to control the standards didn't pan out too well. However its attempt created a large number of legacy programs that used such plugins. That is hard to get rid of.
Now that HTML 5 Supports most of what These legacy plugins did. They are no longer needed, but removing them needs to be a gradual planned event.
Why did they start in the first place? Because the standard wasn't fully supporting the features that were needed.
I get that Law Enforcement in general is trying to help the public, and are trying to find tools to make their job easier and more efficient. However in order to protect our freedoms law enforcement needs to be hard work, even if it means our lives are measurable less safe.
We cannot have Safety and Freedom. For increase safety there is a trade-off in freedom. While there may be some rules that will increase safety by a factor of ten and reduce freedom by one tenth, and may be considered a fair trade off, there are other things that may give us marginal safety benefits with a large hit to our freedom.
Law Enforcement professionals work with the scum of the earth all the time, this is affecting their judgement, and their job is to keep people safe. So I do not fault them for wanting more tools to make their job easier and more effective. However we as citizens need to stand up and say. "We thank you for the effort and your hard work. But we can't let your job be easier at a high costs of our freedoms"
Much like how we already have a border checkpoints on roads, and fencing and a wall along the more populated areas of the border?
Why would they do that?
They may want to try the idea again.
Yea! Lets laugh at people who lost money! It doesn't do anything to make our lives better. We are short of a new product that a lot of people may had wanted, some people are out money, who probably could had invested it into an other product that could had come to be.
The issue I have with Crowdfunding is that it is a High Risk Low Reward investment, But it is relatively cheap to get into. So often the money people put into crowd funding is the old equivalent of smoking money. Money people can afford to loose.
However the idea of the product and the credentials of the people, made it seem plausible. However 90% of all businesses fail within the first year. We should know this. That is why there is Bankruptcy protection laws. Because it is to allow people to fail, without having to lose everything.
However, I would much rather see success in such ventures. As I would have a new gizmo that I may want to have, and if the product goes, the company will expand and hire more people to work for it. An overall net benefit.
But screw all this Nerd Economics stuff. Lets laugh at someone misfortune, because they didn't make the best business decision.
Lets build a Dysonsphere along the Oort Cloud and have the Alpha Centorians pay for it.
It isn't a surprise it is where I kinda expected it to be.
Despite the Slashdot hate of all things Apple, and MacRumors undying love of Apple. Apple actually makes a decent competing product that deserves to be in the price range that it is in. However it isn't #1 in any particular measure but near the top in most measures. Normally if there is any few particular aspect that you want out of a phone, there are normally phones better then the iPhone. But as an overall phone Apple tends to keep up with the rest, and stays at the top of the pack.
The iPhone SE at the bottom of the list, is Apples budget phone, which is modeled off the iPhone 4 Released almost 8 years ago. So I don't expect it to be having the latest glass technology, but the cheaper stuff they used 8 years ago.
Either political spectrum of people will use or misuse science or dogma, to try to fit their view on the world.
In general "The leftie" will support science that shows there is a problem, and reject science that shows something is safe.
The "rightie" will support the science showing that something is safe, while rejecting science that shows something is dangerous.
Political Science when done correctly doesn't have an agenda. It is about measuring the effect of a political action(s).
Except the plague learned on how to keep itself functioning.
a couple Hundred years ago, a City couldn't support itself with over a million people. There will be a some incident that will kill them off back to a safe number. But now we know what kills us, and the City of million people can now distribute support from hundreds or thousands of miles a away. And ship away the stuff that would kill us to some isolated area.
How much of that Moose do you use to feed your family. What do you do with the rest? I think the biggest problem isn't that we hunt and eat animals, but the fact we let so much food go to waste. Often just because of cultural norms.
Humans are cause of most extinctions of the modern times. I get that. But comparing our biomass as a percentage to the percent of Mammals and Plants (with a much bigger percentage number) isn't really telling us anything, because the units are off. But the problem when we exaggerate our problems, it doesn't make people who are not likely to do anything change their minds. They will disbelieve it, because they are (intentionally) being confused by the numbers so they just won't trust the source. Or just express the fact that we have gone too far anyways and give up.
We don't like being told that we are bad people. Because in our mind, we are not. We may not like the things we do, but it out of necessity not because we are trying to be evil.
"For instance, did you think that the "deep, dark heart of the jungle" referred to an area we knew was in the shade?"
Well kinda. The Jungle is heavily forested, the further you go in it beyond man influence. There are not having trees knocked down and a lot of growth overhead, so going deep into the Jungle it will get physically dark. The same if you go into a forest. Deep in the forests it gets somewhat dark. Enough for most vegetation shorter then a tree to not get enough light to grow. Hence why there isn't much grass in a forest.
Like the iPhone only the Cool kids had them. The rest of our poor slobs had to deal with the cheaper inferior competing company model. Like Samsung, or Panasonic
What company should we go do, who offer cheap superior products?
During the 1980's and 1990's Sony was much like how Apple is Now. (Where I am willing to bet a lot of people will say "Apple hardware has always been subpar and overly expensive" as well)
However what looks like what go them, is the move from CRT to LCD TVs where their Trinitron technology just stopped being used. Being late to the MP3 player market. Does Sony even make Smart Phones? Because they had taken over a mountain of Sony gear in one little device.