I'm sure that various world governments have to be getting sick of Bitcoin and Etherium funding so-called "terrorist" states like North Korea and Iran. How much longer is it going to be before they start forcing ISP's to block transaction requests at the network layer?
Sure, the cryptocoin developers will find workarounds for such measures, but even a threat of a government trying something like this would likely cause the value of the currency to drop.
Yeah, I've refusing to sign up for a subscription for this show on principal. I don't care how good (or bad) it is... I just don't want like the idea that networks will start charging more for TV programming by putting their "premium" shows behind an additional paywall.
This series would be much better if they took the humans out of the cockpit and had them controlled by remote control or (eventually) AI.
Once you don’t have to worry about accidently killing the driver, you can ramp up the robot violence up to something that you would expect to see on TV. Think Battlebots on a bigger scale, or the Real Steel movie.
I would be nice if the SJW's that were so eager to get James Damore fired for that memo he wrote a few months ago would apply similar pressure against Google for this offense against free speech.
What a dumbass... if he changed his grades from F's to C's, he probably would have got away with it. But, no... he got greedy and got himself easily caught.
Is anyone seriously competing to gain desktop OS marketshare from Microsoft and Apple at this point, though? Last I heard, all of the Linux distributions combined make up less than 3% of desktop OS installs for the past few years.
At this point, it's more about refining the server side features and keeping the few diehards that use Linux as a desktop OS happy.
I'd go one further, and say that most people (3rd world or otherwise) just don't give a damn if their OS is open source. They just want the phone to be cheap, and you can get a fully functional 4G Android phone with front and rear facing cameras, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and a GPS for around $30 now. There is plenty of free/cheap software available on the Android platform as well.
For the tinkerers, you still have modified versions like LineageOS to play with as well. That's probably good enough for most people.
If it's anything like Elon Musk's other products, it would arrive two 2 years after it's original announcement date and cost twice as much as originally promised.
The gap seems to be narrowing over the years, but CNN's news claims tend to be a wee bit more accurate than that crap that comes out of Elon Musk's hype machine.
But, hey... I'd love to be wrong. Maybe I'll actually be able to book a ticket on that manned Mars rocket he said was going to launch in 2024, but I highly doubt it. Maybe he should focus on getting more Model 3's out the door, considering that people actually put down a deposit on those.
There are companies actually building "private cloud" servers now. Antsle comes to mind, but I'm sure there are many others. Still too technicial at this point for an end user.
The average end user doesn't have a clue how to set up their own e-mail server, let alone a search engine or an image storage site. In terms of competing services, Amazon and Microsoft are just as Liberal minded as Google is.
I just haven't seen the conservative version of GMail or Google Maps yet. I'd imagine that it's coming soon, though.
I'd imagine that Apple would be one of the first to offer a Core i9 mobile part once Intel has one available, given that their buyers would be willing to pay extra for it. The desktop parts look like they are going to be power hogs from the specifications I've seen so far.
Some people are more eager than others to buy all new USB-C based peripherals that work with their shiny new Macbook without an adapter. Personally, I'd like to wait for the price to come down on them first.
I'd imagine that most businesses will drag their feet as long as possible. If we learned anything from the latest cryptolocker fiasco, there are a bunch of them still running 10 year old PC's with Windows XP.
Still, this is somewhat confusing. This is coming from the same company that was offering financial incentives TO give up your office and work from home just a few years ago.
Of course, that might just have been a ploy to get people to make their jobs more easily outsourceable by insuring that they could be done remotely. We are talking about a company that was the inspiration for hundreds of Dilbert cartoons over the years.
You know that it's a bad time when you can get more inspiring sounding space speeches from Rob Lowe dressed in a Colonel Sanders costume than you get from the president:
Of course, this is North Korea we're talking about. The missiles will probably blow up in their launch pads when they try to launch them and turn the area into a radioactive wasteland.
Yeah, we should just give it to Samsung and LG when we're done turning North Korea into a giant smoking crater. I'm sure that they'll make some really cool factories with the cheap land.
My first home computer was a broken Commodore 64 that I got from a yard sale for $10 when I was 13. It had a cassette tape drive and was plugged into a 13" B&W TV.
I think that my parents finally decided that "OK, he's serious about wanting a computer" when I figured how to fix the computer myself by replacing the fuse, so they got me a hand me down IBM PS/2 Model 50Z from work. It had such high tech features like a 3.5 "HD" 1.44M floppy drive, a 30 MB hard drive, and an Intel Above Board memory expansion board with a whopping 8 MB of memory. Most new computers didn't have that much RAM for another 3 years. It was definitely a business machine, because it didn't have any fancy features like a CD-ROM or sound card.
Not really. It probably increases your chances of the entire software team getting outsourced overseas to cut costs, though.
You'll also still have those wonderful IT contracting firms who bring in people on temporary work visas six months at a time. They rotate them out and send the trained guy back home right when they get to the point when they start to understand how the system really works. That shit should be illegal.
I remember when people promised that Java was the universal solution to interoperability back in 1998... it didn't exactly work out as planned.
Hell, many modern desktop browsers like Chrome and Edge don't even offer a Java plug-in anymore because it's a prime way to get yourself infected with malware if you're running an older version. I'm not sure if any modern mobile browsers support it anymore.
My track record with firmware updates in general is that they stop providing them about six months after the product is off the market. Sooner if the company is having financial problems.
That means that these things will be a moving hacking target about 18 months from now. Lovely.
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I'm sure that various world governments have to be getting sick of Bitcoin and Etherium funding so-called "terrorist" states like North Korea and Iran. How much longer is it going to be before they start forcing ISP's to block transaction requests at the network layer?
Sure, the cryptocoin developers will find workarounds for such measures, but even a threat of a government trying something like this would likely cause the value of the currency to drop.
Yeah, I've refusing to sign up for a subscription for this show on principal. I don't care how good (or bad) it is... I just don't want like the idea that networks will start charging more for TV programming by putting their "premium" shows behind an additional paywall.
This series would be much better if they took the humans out of the cockpit and had them controlled by remote control or (eventually) AI.
Once you don’t have to worry about accidently killing the driver, you can ramp up the robot violence up to something that you would expect to see on TV. Think Battlebots on a bigger scale, or the Real Steel movie.
I would be nice if the SJW's that were so eager to get James Damore fired for that memo he wrote a few months ago would apply similar pressure against Google for this offense against free speech.
I doubt it's going to happen, though.
What a dumbass... if he changed his grades from F's to C's, he probably would have got away with it. But, no... he got greedy and got himself easily caught.
Is anyone seriously competing to gain desktop OS marketshare from Microsoft and Apple at this point, though? Last I heard, all of the Linux distributions combined make up less than 3% of desktop OS installs for the past few years.
At this point, it's more about refining the server side features and keeping the few diehards that use Linux as a desktop OS happy.
Or, they took the last version and found a new way to add more new game advertising.
If I ever meet "Major Nelson" in person, I'm going to punch him in the face!
Yeah... what a dumbass. Everyone knows that you remote into an unliked coworkers PC's with admin rights and make it look like they did the sabotage!
Geez... doesn't anyone read BOFH on The Register anymore?
I'd go one further, and say that most people (3rd world or otherwise) just don't give a damn if their OS is open source. They just want the phone to be cheap, and you can get a fully functional 4G Android phone with front and rear facing cameras, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and a GPS for around $30 now. There is plenty of free/cheap software available on the Android platform as well.
For the tinkerers, you still have modified versions like LineageOS to play with as well. That's probably good enough for most people.
If it's anything like Elon Musk's other products, it would arrive two 2 years after it's original announcement date and cost twice as much as originally promised.
The gap seems to be narrowing over the years, but CNN's news claims tend to be a wee bit more accurate than that crap that comes out of Elon Musk's hype machine.
But, hey... I'd love to be wrong. Maybe I'll actually be able to book a ticket on that manned Mars rocket he said was going to launch in 2024, but I highly doubt it. Maybe he should focus on getting more Model 3's out the door, considering that people actually put down a deposit on those.
There are companies actually building "private cloud" servers now. Antsle comes to mind, but I'm sure there are many others. Still too technicial at this point for an end user.
The average end user doesn't have a clue how to set up their own e-mail server, let alone a search engine or an image storage site. In terms of competing services, Amazon and Microsoft are just as Liberal minded as Google is.
I just haven't seen the conservative version of GMail or Google Maps yet. I'd imagine that it's coming soon, though.
I'd imagine that most strippers and Hooters waitresses would disagree with this statement.
I'd imagine that Apple would be one of the first to offer a Core i9 mobile part once Intel has one available, given that their buyers would be willing to pay extra for it. The desktop parts look like they are going to be power hogs from the specifications I've seen so far.
Some people are more eager than others to buy all new USB-C based peripherals that work with their shiny new Macbook without an adapter. Personally, I'd like to wait for the price to come down on them first.
I'd imagine that most businesses will drag their feet as long as possible. If we learned anything from the latest cryptolocker fiasco, there are a bunch of them still running 10 year old PC's with Windows XP.
Still, this is somewhat confusing. This is coming from the same company that was offering financial incentives TO give up your office and work from home just a few years ago.
Of course, that might just have been a ploy to get people to make their jobs more easily outsourceable by insuring that they could be done remotely. We are talking about a company that was the inspiration for hundreds of Dilbert cartoons over the years.
You know that it's a bad time when you can get more inspiring sounding space speeches from Rob Lowe dressed in a Colonel Sanders costume than you get from the president:
http://www.adweek.com/agencysp...
Sadly, we can be pretty sure that KFC is going to get that friggin sandwich into space on time. Trump's Mars rocket? Forget about it.
Of course, this is North Korea we're talking about. The missiles will probably blow up in their launch pads when they try to launch them and turn the area into a radioactive wasteland.
Yeah, we should just give it to Samsung and LG when we're done turning North Korea into a giant smoking crater. I'm sure that they'll make some really cool factories with the cheap land.
My first home computer was a broken Commodore 64 that I got from a yard sale for $10 when I was 13. It had a cassette tape drive and was plugged into a 13" B&W TV.
I think that my parents finally decided that "OK, he's serious about wanting a computer" when I figured how to fix the computer myself by replacing the fuse, so they got me a hand me down IBM PS/2 Model 50Z from work. It had such high tech features like a 3.5 "HD" 1.44M floppy drive, a 30 MB hard drive, and an Intel Above Board memory expansion board with a whopping 8 MB of memory. Most new computers didn't have that much RAM for another 3 years. It was definitely a business machine, because it didn't have any fancy features like a CD-ROM or sound card.
Not really. It probably increases your chances of the entire software team getting outsourced overseas to cut costs, though.
You'll also still have those wonderful IT contracting firms who bring in people on temporary work visas six months at a time. They rotate them out and send the trained guy back home right when they get to the point when they start to understand how the system really works. That shit should be illegal.
I remember when people promised that Java was the universal solution to interoperability back in 1998... it didn't exactly work out as planned.
Hell, many modern desktop browsers like Chrome and Edge don't even offer a Java plug-in anymore because it's a prime way to get yourself infected with malware if you're running an older version. I'm not sure if any modern mobile browsers support it anymore.
My track record with firmware updates in general is that they stop providing them about six months after the product is off the market. Sooner if the company is having financial problems.
That means that these things will be a moving hacking target about 18 months from now. Lovely.
Yeah, I wonder how much they are going to let you download before they start throttling your account.
Otherwise, you'll have some jerk downloading a Terabyte of porn off of BitTorrent every month and slowing down everyone on the cell phone tower.