I think that most people know that the TED talk fad jumped the shark about 4 years ago, so you wouldn't really be doing more than stating the obvious there.
Well... that's what we need Space Force for, obviously. We need those Big, Beautiful space drones with their Big, Beautiful lasers protecting the Walmart satellites from the Chinese and Amazon.
Ya know, it's almost like they watched the "Nosedive" episode of Black Mirror, didn't realize that it was satire, and made an entire national policy out of it.
That honestly wouldn't be a big leap for them, as they already have their own Red Hat Linux clone called Amazon Linux for AWS server instances. They even have a GUI front-end for it that you can use with Amazon WorkSpaces instead of Windows.
I haven't been able to see any company but Apple pull off that stunt, and even then Apple has only been able to hold the original MSRP for about a year on their new phones before dropping them at their stores to make room for the new model.
Besides, the phone carriers start discounting Apple phones as well once the initial launch hype wears off. It might take six months, but even the shiny new iPhone Max models get a price cut when bundled with a contract.
In defense of Tesla, it doesn't seem that any other major car company has been able to release a reasonably priced (under $35,000) electric car with decent (over 200 mile) range, either.
If the pricing works like any of the older Motorola phones, the phone will only cost $1,500 for about three months and the price will quickly drop after that.
Within a year, the phone will be "free" if you sign up for a 2 year contract extension.
Yeah... I'm still waiting for the flying cars, cold fusion reactors, and Mars vacations that were promised to us back in 1980's Sci-Fi.
We did get the cool pocket computers and personal AI assistants, though.
I guess that we did get the killer robots, except that they fly instead of walk on land and they still need a pilot to operate. Still no cool mass produced handheld laser weapons, though.
For me, it was the charge port dying on my old iPhone 6 that finally caused me to give up and trade it in for a new phone.
I had already replaced the battery at that point, and just didn't feel like throwing more money at a 4 year old phone that will probably stop getting OS updates soon.
If you have an older car that doesn't have a USB port or Bluetooth connection, you kind of need a headphone jack to listen your phone in the car.
Sure, you can get an adapter, but it's just another thing that have to worry about breaking or losing in your car. If you have kids or a spouse that uses your car, that's pretty much a given.
DevOps is pretty cool when done correctly, where infrastructure is fully automated to the point where can you deploy new servers with the latest code and security fixes with just a mouse press.
Of course, most organizations don't have the resources or technical skill to pull that off or maintain it correctly. Worse yet, some of those same organizations also tend to be staffed with clueless managers who think that "DevOps" means that they can hire a junior developer out of college to replace their senior systems administrator. These same people then wonder in amazement when they are the victims of a major security breach six months later.
An Onlive type streaming service will work when we all have Gigabit fiber connections to our homes with less than 25ms of latency to the central server. Anything more latency than that, and you won’t have a gameplay experience comparible to a game console.
So, yeah, cities might have this 5 years from now, but rural areas probably will not have this option for a decade or more.
I can't really agree with that statement, as Microsoft has kind of "reinvented" themselves as a cloud services company. They probably make as much money off of Azure and Office 365 than they do selling copies of Windows now.
Yeah, it's too bad that Apple didn't open source this code 30 years ago when it would have been helpful to anyone trying to make GUI from scratch. At this point, it's just completely obsolete except for a handful of historians and legacy Apple enthusiasts.
I'm really hoping that the OP was being sarcastic. Anyone with half a brain or some investing experience knows what a pump and dump scam is when they see it.
I doubt that Amazon AWS S3 storage is going anywhere, since millions of people and businesses pay a lot of money to have that data hosted for them.
If you're relying on a free service to store your files for you, though, you're probably doing it wrong. I'd imagine that my "unlimited" free Google Photos storage account is going away at some point, for example, so I have my photos backed up on iCloud AND Microsoft OneDrive as well.
The good ol "3,2,1" rule for backups still applies. Make sure that you have 3 copies of anything important you want to save, on at least two different types of media, and at least one of them being offsite.
You're not buying into that "Continuous Deployment, ship a new build to production every night!" BS, are you? Automated code testing is still no match for real end-user testing, and you're going to eventually release shit code to production if you rely on it.
I don't know about that. I've heard stories of people maxing out their credit cards to buy more Bitcoin with the illusion/delusion that they're going to get 500% returns on their money, so it's probably going to have at least some ripple effect to the rest of the economy.
I'd never see an want ad on Facebook either, because I use an ad blocker.
Funny... it seems that that using Facebook ads for finding workers basically guarantees that you'll get people with less concerns for privacy and security. Isn't that the exact opposite of what you want if you're hiring for a tech company?
Sure, they'll probably try to pirate the content if they can't mooch of their parents Cable accounts anymore. But, wait... this is one of the reasons why the telcos and cable companies lobbied to kill net neutrality!
There aren't as many legal issues from stopping ISP's from blocking BitTorrent traffic now, or any of the known pirate stream aggregating sites. Sure, they won't be able to block all pirated content, but they'll probably be able to get rid of the people using sites like GoStream and hacked Kodi boxes. If you make pirating content a pain in the ass back like it was during the USENET days, most people will give up and sign up for a premium streaming service.
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I think that most people know that the TED talk fad jumped the shark about 4 years ago, so you wouldn't really be doing more than stating the obvious there.
Well... that's what we need Space Force for, obviously. We need those Big, Beautiful space drones with their Big, Beautiful lasers protecting the Walmart satellites from the Chinese and Amazon.
Ya know, it's almost like they watched the "Nosedive" episode of Black Mirror, didn't realize that it was satire, and made an entire national policy out of it.
Ya know, this does kinda sound like the evil plot from a James Bond movie. I can't remember which one, though.
That honestly wouldn't be a big leap for them, as they already have their own Red Hat Linux clone called Amazon Linux for AWS server instances. They even have a GUI front-end for it that you can use with Amazon WorkSpaces instead of Windows.
I haven't been able to see any company but Apple pull off that stunt, and even then Apple has only been able to hold the original MSRP for about a year on their new phones before dropping them at their stores to make room for the new model.
Besides, the phone carriers start discounting Apple phones as well once the initial launch hype wears off. It might take six months, but even the shiny new iPhone Max models get a price cut when bundled with a contract.
In defense of Tesla, it doesn't seem that any other major car company has been able to release a reasonably priced (under $35,000) electric car with decent (over 200 mile) range, either.
Yeah, this is an especially odd comment coming from him, considering that he's been warning about a hostile AI takeover for awhile now.
Maybe Joe Rogan spiked his blunt with something.... I don't know.
If the pricing works like any of the older Motorola phones, the phone will only cost $1,500 for about three months and the price will quickly drop after that.
Within a year, the phone will be "free" if you sign up for a 2 year contract extension.
Yeah... I'm still waiting for the flying cars, cold fusion reactors, and Mars vacations that were promised to us back in 1980's Sci-Fi.
We did get the cool pocket computers and personal AI assistants, though.
I guess that we did get the killer robots, except that they fly instead of walk on land and they still need a pilot to operate. Still no cool mass produced handheld laser weapons, though.
This is the same CEO of the company who came to fame by crushing 3dfx and Matrox in the graphics card wars of the late 1990's and 2000's... right?
Now that they are huge, they suddenly aren't interested in stealing marketshare from their competitors?
For me, it was the charge port dying on my old iPhone 6 that finally caused me to give up and trade it in for a new phone.
I had already replaced the battery at that point, and just didn't feel like throwing more money at a 4 year old phone that will probably stop getting OS updates soon.
If you have an older car that doesn't have a USB port or Bluetooth connection, you kind of need a headphone jack to listen your phone in the car.
Sure, you can get an adapter, but it's just another thing that have to worry about breaking or losing in your car. If you have kids or a spouse that uses your car, that's pretty much a given.
DevOps is pretty cool when done correctly, where infrastructure is fully automated to the point where can you deploy new servers with the latest code and security fixes with just a mouse press.
Of course, most organizations don't have the resources or technical skill to pull that off or maintain it correctly. Worse yet, some of those same organizations also tend to be staffed with clueless managers who think that "DevOps" means that they can hire a junior developer out of college to replace their senior systems administrator. These same people then wonder in amazement when they are the victims of a major security breach six months later.
Sure, but that doesn't really work with the other three lemonade stands in town are running the same "unlimited" lemonade scam.
An Onlive type streaming service will work when we all have Gigabit fiber connections to our homes with less than 25ms of latency to the central server. Anything more latency than that, and you won’t have a gameplay experience comparible to a game console.
So, yeah, cities might have this 5 years from now, but rural areas probably will not have this option for a decade or more.
I can't really agree with that statement, as Microsoft has kind of "reinvented" themselves as a cloud services company. They probably make as much money off of Azure and Office 365 than they do selling copies of Windows now.
I guess that we can now wait with baited breath for SharkBlizzard, the next sequel in the Sharknado series.
Yeah, it's too bad that Apple didn't open source this code 30 years ago when it would have been helpful to anyone trying to make GUI from scratch. At this point, it's just completely obsolete except for a handful of historians and legacy Apple enthusiasts.
I'm really hoping that the OP was being sarcastic. Anyone with half a brain or some investing experience knows what a pump and dump scam is when they see it.
I doubt that Amazon AWS S3 storage is going anywhere, since millions of people and businesses pay a lot of money to have that data hosted for them.
If you're relying on a free service to store your files for you, though, you're probably doing it wrong. I'd imagine that my "unlimited" free Google Photos storage account is going away at some point, for example, so I have my photos backed up on iCloud AND Microsoft OneDrive as well.
The good ol "3,2,1" rule for backups still applies. Make sure that you have 3 copies of anything important you want to save, on at least two different types of media, and at least one of them being offsite.
You're not buying into that "Continuous Deployment, ship a new build to production every night!" BS, are you? Automated code testing is still no match for real end-user testing, and you're going to eventually release shit code to production if you rely on it.
I don't know about that. I've heard stories of people maxing out their credit cards to buy more Bitcoin with the illusion/delusion that they're going to get 500% returns on their money, so it's probably going to have at least some ripple effect to the rest of the economy.
I'd never see an want ad on Facebook either, because I use an ad blocker.
Funny... it seems that that using Facebook ads for finding workers basically guarantees that you'll get people with less concerns for privacy and security. Isn't that the exact opposite of what you want if you're hiring for a tech company?
Sure, they'll probably try to pirate the content if they can't mooch of their parents Cable accounts anymore. But, wait... this is one of the reasons why the telcos and cable companies lobbied to kill net neutrality!
There aren't as many legal issues from stopping ISP's from blocking BitTorrent traffic now, or any of the known pirate stream aggregating sites. Sure, they won't be able to block all pirated content, but they'll probably be able to get rid of the people using sites like GoStream and hacked Kodi boxes. If you make pirating content a pain in the ass back like it was during the USENET days, most people will give up and sign up for a premium streaming service.