Seriosly this is the same kind of trollish bullshit rhetoric I expect from Wall Street - just like "Apple should license OSX so non-Macs can run OSX".
How do you think Tesla makes money? Where are the margins (not just current, but future)? Why should a company divest itself of a technical leadership role in a key and profitable market?
More to the point, why do I care what this clown Gundlach says? and why is this drivel posted on Slashdot?
Did any of those tests actually conclude that they're viable? As I read the wiki, it seems the entire testing involved validating the shielding worked. Did the planes actually get powered by the nuclear engines?
On the minus side, the politics are leftist, leading to socialist-style government regulations that are downright hostile to business. The legal climate tends to lawyers looking to sue companies for trivial violations of those regulations, like people working through their lunch break.
California has the largest economy in the US and has for quite some time - can you tell me wtf you mean by "hostile to business"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
If you don't want to live there, fine, but your whining says more about you and less about CA.
Democracy sucks when one party is insane. Nothing remotely good can last for more than a decade or so. And we don't even have remotely good at this time. Image how much worse it will be.
Democracy has nothing to do with it, in fact, one could argue that it has less and less to do with our daily lives ever since the dollar got the full power to influence elections at all levels. Dollars have infinite mobility and can overwhelm most opposition. Both parties are corrupt now, just that one makes lip service to non-corporate citizens.
You should learn how to read. There was never a "no selling of used games policy" and there was never an "always-on internet requirement". The Xbox One would check in with servers once a day to verify software licenses. If you wanted to sell used games, you'd have to use a mechanism to de-list the game from your Xbox One to make that license available for the person who bought it.
If read past the headlines you'd know this. I can't blame you for being confused, having never read the actual articles.
Parse the words all you like, but MSFT actually wanted to inactivate your console if it didn't phone home every 24 hours - despite the craziness of this idea, the practicality of it was insane - if I took it with me to another state and the trip took > 24h then I couldn't play it. If my internet died for 24+h I couldn't play it. Stupid.
Whoever is heading the Xbox division recently (or is pulling their strings on-high) is a complete moron, or they think you're the product that they're selling to the game manufacturers (or spy agencies).
Agreed - much of the Matrix's approach to Machine/AI vs Humans seems lifted from Hyperion series. Despite that, I still loved the synthesis this movie offered in terms of combining the spiritual, computing and the struggle against overwhelming power. It's a great remix of a hell of a lot of scifi memes and plots.
Yeah, if you liked the Matrix, you'll probably love Hyperion. w.r.t virtual torture, I think "Altered Carbon" and "Broken Angels" by Richard K Morgan were more graphic and interesting.
In fact I could even see them conceivably partnering with Apple and Microsoft on this if the need arose. This would hurt Google's margins rather badly (running an ISP is expensive) but it is an option.
This would require a hell of a lot of badness in the ISP market - so much so that I hope it never has to come to that.
"Amtrak's passenger services are sparse compared with Europe's. But America's freight railways are one of the unsung transport successes of the past 30 years. They are universally recognised in the industry as the best in the world."
Amtrak's financial situation is not its only problem. While tens of thousands of kilometers of railroads criss-cross the North American continent, virtually all the lines that Amtrak uses are owned and maintained by private freight companies. While Amtrak has a legal right to be given priority over freight trains, in many instances Amtrak services are disrupted due to freight trains which have been given priority over them. Many rail lines are not double-tracked, and passing places are often few and far between.
Freight is awesome in the US simply because the deregulated rail ownership allows for companies to prioritize freight, even over passengers.
What is missing is not 'national will' or even 'money' but 'leadership' from the NTSB and DOT, the very people who are wringing their hands and saying nothing can be done.
Who do you think controls these agencies? Lobbying, revolving doors, straight-up corruption.
I assume you are capable understanding that there is no such thing as perfectly secure system or completely bug free software? If so, then why does your brain takes a vacation when we start talking about petroleum?
Our civilization is built on oil-derived products, we do not have a choice of not shipping it. If we stop shipping oil significant portion of human population will starve and/or freeze and die.
Given our available shipping choices, pipelines are by far safest and energy efficient way to do it.
The problem is that people who make money off oil don't pay for these externalities, the residents near the pipelines and train tracks do. If we had an appropriate remediation fee and/or tax for prevention, *and* if those places near pipelines and train tracks were more adequately restituted for their ills, I think a whole lot more folks wouldn't be complaining - because at that point the oil/energy companies would be scrambling to avoid these situations a hell of a lot more than they do now.
The major problem is, again, corruption - the oil industry escapes taxation, and the majority of the monetary cost of their ill doing. They have figured out it's a lot easier to bribe (lobby) their way to preventing losses than actually doing what they can to prevent the harm from being done in the first place.
In my neck of the woods, educational institutions are legally allowed to break copyright for educational purposes. So it's fine to take one book and photocopy it a bazillion times. Result is that most books are cheaper than photocopying. It also means found web assets can be incorporated into teaching materials without the hassle of clearing copyright.
When a compiler can target a runtime like Java or the CLR, it seems like languages like Clojure or Scala or even Javascript are simply semantic sugar around the underlying runtime (which I approve of).
Both the Matrix and the Animatrix which provided background on the world of the matrix had much more blatant racism/slavery imagery - the scene where Morpheus breaks his chains is very poignant (especially so given Morpheus is played by Lawrence Fishburne, an AA actor), and the (IIRC) 2nd animatrix short about the history of the rise of the machines also shows
Part of this is that slavery and racism, despite all the marketing drivel that tries to show otherwise, is still practiced in many places in the world and the US.
Unless they implement things like attendance tracking, a gradebook, a solid method for it to interact with the school's SiS, and several other things, no school will consider it to be an LMS and Blackboard will have nothing to worry about. This will only be useful to individual teachers that want to use tech in their classes instead of their school's LMS (assuming it has one).
Silly remark. If Classroom can do a single thing better than Blackboard and that's worth using, some institutions may implement Classroom+BB(or Angel or Canvas or D2L, etc) and simply integrate between the systems to provide a "best of breed" type approach. There are costs involved, but sometimes the benefits outweigh the costs.
From BB's point of view, this is a threat as once that starts happening, it's a beachhead for Google (or an ISV) to deploy Classroom and standardized integration suite, and build up an existing customer base for which to sell other competitive features.
Just because one provider happens to provide more features doesn't mean it's invulnerable to disruption.
A possible response from BB would be to simply improve their product to prevent such defection, which would be a win for customers.
My guess is they are building a currently-latent profile that will be used for targeting ads once the kid leaves school
Maybe. My guess is that this is an attack on Microsoft. By getting an entire generate of young people used to Google Docs, they can kill Microsoft Office, and deprive Microsoft of their main cash cow. My son is in 4th grade in a California public school, and they already use Google Docs to do much of their school work. The teacher can see their progress, and track their work from outline, to draft, to polished report. It seems to work well, and I am glad to see Google putting more effort into it.
A wise man once told me: Any worthwhile activity achieves multiple goals. So is "Classroom" an attack against Microsoft (and Apple)? Very likely. Is it a way to build shadow profiles of kids so Google can target the child's profile (or even an anonyimized version) when that child becomes of-age (i.e., fair game)? Would make a lot of sense.
The contract wording doesn't exclude it, and once the information is in Google's hands, they can do whatever the contract allows. There's really no going back at that point.
Well actually we retired that in favor of the current model!
That's ridiculous. Nationalize the pipes, and let private entites compete to provide access and as customer endpoints. This was NOT the minitel model. In fact, this is pretty much what was eliminated in 2001 when the pipe owners (AT&T, Excite/Comcast, Verizon, etc) were allowed to offer seperate pricing to the virtual ISPs (which made it impossible to compete with the pipe owners). One of the first "screw-job" attacks against the Internet enabled by the Bush administration.
Another questions is what happens to the speeding cluster if is was flung out by a bigger galaxy. One would assume the the dark matter that originally present in the cluster would not take the same track. Without the supporting dark matter the radial velocities are too great for the outer stars of the cluster to continue orbiting the system. One would think that there should be trail of stars left behind. Could be a great way to investigate dark matter interaction with galaxies.
Why would the dark matter stay when the rest of the cluster goes?
The iPad for us is a perfect "mobile TV". In the kitchen, even on the dining table (for particularly tough nights for the kids), in the car - it's the equivalent of what would have cost us thousands of $$ in separate equipment even 5 years ago.
Problem is, the iPad1 is doing such a great job for this, that it's still around. If Apple were to innovate in this space - there are many features that could be improved - weight, TouchID, connectivity to iCloud for video, etc, we'd happily be buying a newer one. For now, the v1 is still here and works just as well as our iPad mini (bigger screen = better for video).
This is an area that's ripe for expansion - maybe a larger screen unit? Remote control (like Remote.app) to control the iPad? The possibilities are manifold.
Sales are down because we already have one and don't need two. The things are not nearly as disposable as people seem to think.
I'd have bought an iPad Air or new Mini if it had TouchID. We already have two iPads, but putting the v1 out to pasture would have been worth it to no deal with password entry. Also iOS7 isn't nearly as appealing for an iPad as it was for the iPhone (control center is a must for phones).
Will they be able to tell how far away I have my projector from the wall?
So if you want to download the 1080p content for your phone, you get charged the $15 rate. How that competes with Netflix's 1080p free-for-all streaming, I don't grok but at least it's an attempt at a fair pricing scheme (i.e. pay for quality).
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Seriosly this is the same kind of trollish bullshit rhetoric I expect from Wall Street - just like "Apple should license OSX so non-Macs can run OSX".
How do you think Tesla makes money? Where are the margins (not just current, but future)? Why should a company divest itself of a technical leadership role in a key and profitable market?
More to the point, why do I care what this clown Gundlach says? and why is this drivel posted on Slashdot?
Great range, zero emissions, they've already been tested.
This is very doable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
And I don't see any potential downsides
Did any of those tests actually conclude that they're viable? As I read the wiki, it seems the entire testing involved validating the shielding worked. Did the planes actually get powered by the nuclear engines?
On the minus side, the politics are leftist, leading to socialist-style government regulations that are downright hostile to business. The legal climate tends to lawyers looking to sue companies for trivial violations of those regulations, like people working through their lunch break.
California has the largest economy in the US and has for quite some time - can you tell me wtf you mean by "hostile to business"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
If you don't want to live there, fine, but your whining says more about you and less about CA.
Democracy sucks when one party is insane. Nothing remotely good can last for more than a decade or so. And we don't even have remotely good at this time. Image how much worse it will be.
Democracy has nothing to do with it, in fact, one could argue that it has less and less to do with our daily lives ever since the dollar got the full power to influence elections at all levels. Dollars have infinite mobility and can overwhelm most opposition. Both parties are corrupt now, just that one makes lip service to non-corporate citizens.
I'd be very interested to see how they approach that. Well, any internet payment mechanism is going to struggle with chip and pin, I suppose.
You should learn how to read. There was never a "no selling of used games policy" and there was never an "always-on internet requirement". The Xbox One would check in with servers once a day to verify software licenses. If you wanted to sell used games, you'd have to use a mechanism to de-list the game from your Xbox One to make that license available for the person who bought it.
If read past the headlines you'd know this. I can't blame you for being confused, having never read the actual articles.
You might want to actually read it yourself: http://www.cnet.com/news/micro...
Parse the words all you like, but MSFT actually wanted to inactivate your console if it didn't phone home every 24 hours - despite the craziness of this idea, the practicality of it was insane - if I took it with me to another state and the trip took > 24h then I couldn't play it. If my internet died for 24+h I couldn't play it. Stupid.
Whoever is heading the Xbox division recently (or is pulling their strings on-high) is a complete moron, or they think you're the product that they're selling to the game manufacturers (or spy agencies).
s/Your feedback/A massive lack of sales
In Capitalist USA, where dollars = votes, this is the best form of feedback.
Agreed - much of the Matrix's approach to Machine/AI vs Humans seems lifted from Hyperion series. Despite that, I still loved the synthesis this movie offered in terms of combining the spiritual, computing and the struggle against overwhelming power. It's a great remix of a hell of a lot of scifi memes and plots.
Yeah, if you liked the Matrix, you'll probably love Hyperion. w.r.t virtual torture, I think "Altered Carbon" and "Broken Angels" by Richard K Morgan were more graphic and interesting.
In fact I could even see them conceivably partnering with Apple and Microsoft on this if the need arose. This would hurt Google's margins rather badly (running an ISP is expensive) but it is an option.
This would require a hell of a lot of badness in the ISP market - so much so that I hope it never has to come to that.
"Amtrak's passenger services are sparse compared with Europe's. But America's freight railways are one of the unsung transport successes of the past 30 years. They are universally recognised in the industry as the best in the world."
http://www.economist.com/node/...
From Das Wikipedia [1]
Freight is awesome in the US simply because the deregulated rail ownership allows for companies to prioritize freight, even over passengers.
[1] http://wikitravel.org/en/Rail_...
What is missing is not 'national will' or even 'money' but 'leadership' from the NTSB and DOT, the very people who are wringing their hands and saying nothing can be done.
Who do you think controls these agencies? Lobbying, revolving doors, straight-up corruption.
Of all major industries, energy is the field with the lowest ratio of research funding to revenue
which they more than compensate for via ownership of a major political party.
Just one? They one at least one and a half - because they seem to get whatever they want regardless of who's in majority.
I assume you are capable understanding that there is no such thing as perfectly secure system or completely bug free software? If so, then why does your brain takes a vacation when we start talking about petroleum?
Our civilization is built on oil-derived products, we do not have a choice of not shipping it. If we stop shipping oil significant portion of human population will starve and/or freeze and die.
Given our available shipping choices, pipelines are by far safest and energy efficient way to do it.
The problem is that people who make money off oil don't pay for these externalities, the residents near the pipelines and train tracks do. If we had an appropriate remediation fee and/or tax for prevention, *and* if those places near pipelines and train tracks were more adequately restituted for their ills, I think a whole lot more folks wouldn't be complaining - because at that point the oil/energy companies would be scrambling to avoid these situations a hell of a lot more than they do now.
The major problem is, again, corruption - the oil industry escapes taxation, and the majority of the monetary cost of their ill doing. They have figured out it's a lot easier to bribe (lobby) their way to preventing losses than actually doing what they can to prevent the harm from being done in the first place.
In my neck of the woods, educational institutions are legally allowed to break copyright for educational purposes. So it's fine to take one book and photocopy it a bazillion times. Result is that most books are cheaper than photocopying. It also means found web assets can be incorporated into teaching materials without the hassle of clearing copyright.
Where is this? In the USA?
When a compiler can target a runtime like Java or the CLR, it seems like languages like Clojure or Scala or even Javascript are simply semantic sugar around the underlying runtime (which I approve of).
Both the Matrix and the Animatrix which provided background on the world of the matrix had much more blatant racism/slavery imagery - the scene where Morpheus breaks his chains is very poignant (especially so given Morpheus is played by Lawrence Fishburne, an AA actor), and the (IIRC) 2nd animatrix short about the history of the rise of the machines also shows
Part of this is that slavery and racism, despite all the marketing drivel that tries to show otherwise, is still practiced in many places in the world and the US.
Unless they implement things like attendance tracking, a gradebook, a solid method for it to interact with the school's SiS, and several other things, no school will consider it to be an LMS and Blackboard will have nothing to worry about. This will only be useful to individual teachers that want to use tech in their classes instead of their school's LMS (assuming it has one).
Silly remark. If Classroom can do a single thing better than Blackboard and that's worth using, some institutions may implement Classroom+BB(or Angel or Canvas or D2L, etc) and simply integrate between the systems to provide a "best of breed" type approach. There are costs involved, but sometimes the benefits outweigh the costs.
From BB's point of view, this is a threat as once that starts happening, it's a beachhead for Google (or an ISV) to deploy Classroom and standardized integration suite, and build up an existing customer base for which to sell other competitive features.
Just because one provider happens to provide more features doesn't mean it's invulnerable to disruption.
A possible response from BB would be to simply improve their product to prevent such defection, which would be a win for customers.
My guess is they are building a currently-latent profile that will be used for targeting ads once the kid leaves school
Maybe. My guess is that this is an attack on Microsoft. By getting an entire generate of young people used to Google Docs, they can kill Microsoft Office, and deprive Microsoft of their main cash cow. My son is in 4th grade in a California public school, and they already use Google Docs to do much of their school work. The teacher can see their progress, and track their work from outline, to draft, to polished report. It seems to work well, and I am glad to see Google putting more effort into it.
A wise man once told me: Any worthwhile activity achieves multiple goals. So is "Classroom" an attack against Microsoft (and Apple)? Very likely. Is it a way to build shadow profiles of kids so Google can target the child's profile (or even an anonyimized version) when that child becomes of-age (i.e., fair game)? Would make a lot of sense.
The contract wording doesn't exclude it, and once the information is in Google's hands, they can do whatever the contract allows. There's really no going back at that point.
Well actually we retired that in favor of the current model!
That's ridiculous. Nationalize the pipes, and let private entites compete to provide access and as customer endpoints. This was NOT the minitel model. In fact, this is pretty much what was eliminated in 2001 when the pipe owners (AT&T, Excite/Comcast, Verizon, etc) were allowed to offer seperate pricing to the virtual ISPs (which made it impossible to compete with the pipe owners). One of the first "screw-job" attacks against the Internet enabled by the Bush administration.
Another questions is what happens to the speeding cluster if is was flung out by a bigger galaxy. One would assume the the dark matter that originally present in the cluster would not take the same track. Without the supporting dark matter the radial velocities are too great for the outer stars of the cluster to continue orbiting the system. One would think that there should be trail of stars left behind. Could be a great way to investigate dark matter interaction with galaxies.
Why would the dark matter stay when the rest of the cluster goes?
The iPad for us is a perfect "mobile TV". In the kitchen, even on the dining table (for particularly tough nights for the kids), in the car - it's the equivalent of what would have cost us thousands of $$ in separate equipment even 5 years ago.
Problem is, the iPad1 is doing such a great job for this, that it's still around. If Apple were to innovate in this space - there are many features that could be improved - weight, TouchID, connectivity to iCloud for video, etc, we'd happily be buying a newer one. For now, the v1 is still here and works just as well as our iPad mini (bigger screen = better for video).
This is an area that's ripe for expansion - maybe a larger screen unit? Remote control (like Remote.app) to control the iPad? The possibilities are manifold.
Sales are down because we already have one and don't need two. The things are not nearly as disposable as people seem to think.
I'd have bought an iPad Air or new Mini if it had TouchID. We already have two iPads, but putting the v1 out to pasture would have been worth it to no deal with password entry. Also iOS7 isn't nearly as appealing for an iPad as it was for the iPhone (control center is a must for phones).
Will they be able to tell how far away I have my projector from the wall?
So if you want to download the 1080p content for your phone, you get charged the $15 rate. How that competes with Netflix's 1080p free-for-all streaming, I don't grok but at least it's an attempt at a fair pricing scheme (i.e. pay for quality).
You can almost see the dollar signs in her eyes.
Imagine someone putting a toll booth on your residential road. That's what effectively happening.
Where are you anti-tax wing nuts? This is a tax in all but name.