There are as many, if not more, businesses than there have ever been before.
I would like to see your source for that observation. Not as a challenge, but because it would provide a welcomed counterbalance to the consolidation I'm seeing in finance as of the past few decades.
Gibson purchased Garrison Guitars in 2007.[21] In mid 2009 Gibson reduced its work force to adjust for a decline in guitar industry sales in the United States.[22]
In 2011, Gibson acquired the Stanton Group, including Cerwin Vega, KRK Systems and Stanton DJ. Gibson then formed a new division, Gibson Pro Audio, which will deliver professional grade audio items, including headphones, loudspeakers and DJ equipment.[23]
Gibson announced a partnership with the Japanese-based Onkyo Corporation in 2012. Onkyo, known for audio equipment and home theater systems, became part of the Gibson Pro Audio division.[24]
Every year, I see fewer and fewer independent companies out there. Especially in auto manufacturers. Other than Tesla, not a lot of new companies bringing cars to market. Instead, all the smaller companies are bought out by bigger companies. Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of Fiat / Chrysler, which owns a bunch of smaller car brands, is always trying to get more consolidation going in the auto industry.
Another example happened back in the late 2000s when Porsche attempted a hostile buyout of VW, and got too strung out in debt in the attempt and then VW turned around and ate Porsche.
....maybe it is time to get the "public" out of transportation.
Cost competitive with public buses? This weekend I dropped my truck off at a stereo shop in the south end of town (Austin, TX). Paid $2.50 for an all-day bus pass and came home. Did chores all day and rode the bus back down to the stereo shop to pick up my truck. That would've cost me over $20 with a ride hailing company.
Looking around at the other passengers on the bus with me, I got a sense many weren't really positioned financially for becoming ride hailing customers. At least one was in a wheelchair that required a lift that wouldn't be equipped on many privately-owned vehicles. Advocating for ride hailing to replace mass transit does not consider the needs of those for whom the bus is the only transportation 'option'.
Additionally, if a ride hailing car travelled to my house (empty) took me to the stereo shop, then returned to the driver's house (empty), that would add two unoccupied trips on the public street that wouldn't have occurred had I ridden the bus or driven myself. If you multiply those empty trips times the number of people on the bus, suddenly there would be a lot more cars on the street not carrying passengers and slowing everyone else down with greater congestion.
Taxi availability thus far has been constrained by city regulations designed to protect the commons from congestion. The philosophy behind limiting the number of taxis on the road at any given time is also intended to motivate people to use mass transit instead of inefficient taxi services.
Ride hailing companies have successfully flaunted these regulations due to widespread political support among people who are only thinking of their own convenience over the bigger picture. Ride hailing puts more cars on the road performing empty trips creating congestion and pollution. Instead of voting in support of bond elections to implement planned mass transit systems, people are placated by "I want it now. Me!" provided by ride hailing.
The heatsinks sold for SOC are pointless. The original design of these chips was for usage in thin smartphones. No conductive heat distribution is expected to be available in this application.
The company has approximately 1,100 employees worldwide, and had revenues of $533 million in fiscal 2016.
Have they already closed the books on 2016 earnings? Heck yeah they need to get bought. The hardware running their accounting software is literally more than a month faster than anything I've seen in the industry.
Marrissa Mayer knew what she was doing. If this agreement actually exists, it was intentionally engineered to help resist a hostile takeover or shareholders forcing a liquidation of assets. Mayer took this job knowing that if either of those scenarios played out, she would be dumped without the track record to get another job of similar scale. Setting up this contract with Mozilla is one way she has been able to retain her control thus far.
Though the purpose of this technology is to reduce workforce headcount, as humans, we can ensure a certain number of us remain employed in this space.
Every visit, bring a few lengths of old garden hose. Lay them out in the routes the robot takes. From my experience with our Roomba, I would expect this will prevent the security robot from completing its appointed rounds. A human will be dispatched to remove the garden hose from the path. That human will grumble about how someone keeps messing with the robot by leaving this gardenhose laying about, while not realizing this is a gift of charity to the human who is paid to remove the hose-- job security for the security job.
But it'll eventually get there, and we (as a society) really need to be discussing how we're going to handle that new world where most jobs have been automated.
Challenge accepted!
Automation is about pushing more wealth to the ruling class and minimizing unavoidable costs. Every time a job like this gets automated, displaced workers head to another employment pool. As those pools get crowded, the salaries go down.
"Plumbers will always make a good living."
"Until the displaced security guards get minimal training by a contracting firm and there is a flood of certified plumbers."
The more claimed victims, the more improbable it becomes that they did not inform the authorities and seek prosecution for that activity.
Or, perhaps it means the perpetrator developed a well-refined method of getting dirt on victims, perpetrating the assault, then blackmailing them into silence.
I think you're right and they've adopted the ego of a 900-lb-gorilla monopolist a bit prematurely in their lifecycle.
As a further example, was the game-of-chicken Uber played with the City of Austin. As an example set to frighten other cities that might try to stand up to the bully, they left Austin. But they left a community fertile with tech startups that have jumped at the opportunity to fill their vacuum. These are people / companies that NEVER would have gotten funded to compete against Uber prior to its departure. They left the factory in place, so to speak. The message to other cities looks to be that there is life without Uber.
Additionally, if these moral judgements are to be dismissed as appropriate for then, but not now, then I think that dismissal should be applied across the entire moral judgements / teachings of the person.
Having to apply this filter to everything Mohammed said leaves us in a situation where there is this giant spectrum of interpretation with many reasonable followers and different niche sects of lunatics who are justifying whatever they want to do by their interpretation of Islam.
For me the order is Mad Max II (Road Warrior) and then Mad Max, then Thunderdome, and sadly, lastly, Fury Road.
This is incorrect. The proper order widely acknowledged by Mad Max scholars is:
Mad Max
Mad Max 2
Mad Max: Fury Road
I don't have the time to get into the hows and whys of omitting this Thunderdome distraction from the list. Suffice to say you are reading an authoritative voice on the matter.
I would like to note that the Nebula award winners list is heavily dominated by female writers. This is a moment to celebrate evolution within the SF industry.
You're right. And in addition to these players wanting to have their own paid streaming service, they're also trying to leverage iTunes to extend life support to the buy-on-DVD revenue stream resurrected as buy-on-demand. Instead of going straight to Netflix, a lot of studios will throw their recent movies on iTunes for paid rentals and purchase-only viewing options.
I'm really glad the US Army patented this concept. I would hate for an invading force to show up in America with similar bullets that will disintegrate when they've missed our National Guard troops. Instead, the invading force's bullets will continue to travel for another two miles or so and deliver kinetic energy to whatever object they impact.
Thank you, US Army, for ensuring the overall lethality of enemy bullets! Bravo!
I just built a new desktop box with the plan of connecting an Oculus Rift. I was a bit concerned that the photocopy of the AMD press release posted on pcper.com did not include the minimum-spec AMD video card listed on the Oculus Rift site -- The R9 290. I was afraid AMD was backpedalling on being able to support VR with the R9 290 because they didn't include it in the comparisons, even though the minimum Nvidia card is listed.
The card is actually an XFX R9 290X, the i5-4690 is not overclocked, and the RAM is Gskill TridentX.
I'm happy with the results listed above. My only disappointment with this setup is current Mac OS X El Capitan support for the 290X is spotty. I was planning to use Windows 10 for VR and Mac OS X for everything else, but there are a lot of video glitches when running Mac OS X, so I'll back off of that for now and keep my older i5 equipment around for Mac OS X.
I found many Taxi drivers getting shot in the US but none actually doing any shootings.
In addition to the famous documentary starring Robert Deniro and Jody Foster, I can also attest that a taxi driver in Austin, TX killed two of my coworkers in the year 2000. They had gone to a nearby bar after work to see a boxing match on PPV and took a taxi back to pick up their cars at the office. Midway back to the office, the driver got into an argument with his two passengers and pulled to the side of the road.They attempted to flee and he shot them in the back. He told police they had tried to rob him.
He worked for an independent, local cab company at the time of the murders.
The sensor does not do the decryption or authentication. The attack vector would be a sensor that has been replaced with a mechanism that replays a snapshot of the phone owner's fingerprint and sends that down the wire to the mainboard. Apple is attempting to curtail that type of attack by authenticating the physical sensor to the mainboard.
If they're open sourcing it to get more active development, I expect they've got a tough row to hoe.
I don't think they're putting the source code out there so people will improve these libraries. They've got the payroll to hire armies of people to work on this. I suspect Microsoft wants to see greater adoption of this code by seeding an ecosystem of projects that are utilizing it. Kind of like how they've posted Windows 10 iOT for free. Different, though, because it's not open source, but they want people to use it so their platform stays relevant in a quickly evolving technological landscape.
Like you, I'm outside my discipline trying to comment here....
Sure, but taken far enough this solution would mean the attackers would need to write a whole new thing.
I'm thinking one really big wrench that can be thrown into algorithmic detection is if a randomly selected salt is used in each permutation of the malware. That could force this type of analysis to require dramatically larger resources with little architectural investment on the part of the malware creators.
Two weeks ago, my boss had us all download and install a few files described as 'APK'. She assured me it would protect our desktop machines from any and all potential malware threats. So far, I can't say she's wrong.
The weird thing is that when I try to search for reviews of this product, everything that turns up in Bing seems to be written by people with mental disorders. I guess it's probably anti-astroturfing by commercial competitors.
Turn off the TV. Go into online learning fast & hard.
I've been thinking about this comment all day. I can't endorse the sentiment more. Especially when machine learning is looming on the horizon.
Everyone reading this now better be continually expanding their skill set and experience. The promise of machine learning is to make those who aren't doing this obsolete in the workforce. If you think domain knowledge makes you irreplaceable, that's exactly the target of machine learning.
Udemy has really well-produced online classes available for ten bucks. Go enroll now and thank me when you have a job in ten years.
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I would like to see your source for that observation. Not as a challenge, but because it would provide a welcomed counterbalance to the consolidation I'm seeing in finance as of the past few decades.
Look at Gibson Guitar Corporation. Per this wikipedia article, the global sales of guitars began to decline, so they marshalled their resources and diversified by acquiring a bunch of other companies.
Every year, I see fewer and fewer independent companies out there. Especially in auto manufacturers. Other than Tesla, not a lot of new companies bringing cars to market. Instead, all the smaller companies are bought out by bigger companies. Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of Fiat / Chrysler, which owns a bunch of smaller car brands, is always trying to get more consolidation going in the auto industry.
Another example happened back in the late 2000s when Porsche attempted a hostile buyout of VW, and got too strung out in debt in the attempt and then VW turned around and ate Porsche.
Cost competitive with public buses? This weekend I dropped my truck off at a stereo shop in the south end of town (Austin, TX). Paid $2.50 for an all-day bus pass and came home. Did chores all day and rode the bus back down to the stereo shop to pick up my truck. That would've cost me over $20 with a ride hailing company.
Looking around at the other passengers on the bus with me, I got a sense many weren't really positioned financially for becoming ride hailing customers. At least one was in a wheelchair that required a lift that wouldn't be equipped on many privately-owned vehicles. Advocating for ride hailing to replace mass transit does not consider the needs of those for whom the bus is the only transportation 'option'.
Additionally, if a ride hailing car travelled to my house (empty) took me to the stereo shop, then returned to the driver's house (empty), that would add two unoccupied trips on the public street that wouldn't have occurred had I ridden the bus or driven myself. If you multiply those empty trips times the number of people on the bus, suddenly there would be a lot more cars on the street not carrying passengers and slowing everyone else down with greater congestion.
Taxi availability thus far has been constrained by city regulations designed to protect the commons from congestion. The philosophy behind limiting the number of taxis on the road at any given time is also intended to motivate people to use mass transit instead of inefficient taxi services.
Ride hailing companies have successfully flaunted these regulations due to widespread political support among people who are only thinking of their own convenience over the bigger picture. Ride hailing puts more cars on the road performing empty trips creating congestion and pollution. Instead of voting in support of bond elections to implement planned mass transit systems, people are placated by "I want it now. Me!" provided by ride hailing.
Speaking of optional...
The heatsinks sold for SOC are pointless. The original design of these chips was for usage in thin smartphones. No conductive heat distribution is expected to be available in this application.
Have they already closed the books on 2016 earnings? Heck yeah they need to get bought. The hardware running their accounting software is literally more than a month faster than anything I've seen in the industry.
I have a wife and child and we have never spent that much money ($2640) on a vacation. At most, maybe $1500.
And yet, we've had very wonderful trips every year.
Marrissa Mayer knew what she was doing. If this agreement actually exists, it was intentionally engineered to help resist a hostile takeover or shareholders forcing a liquidation of assets. Mayer took this job knowing that if either of those scenarios played out, she would be dumped without the track record to get another job of similar scale. Setting up this contract with Mozilla is one way she has been able to retain her control thus far.
Poison Pill
Though the purpose of this technology is to reduce workforce headcount, as humans, we can ensure a certain number of us remain employed in this space.
Every visit, bring a few lengths of old garden hose. Lay them out in the routes the robot takes. From my experience with our Roomba, I would expect this will prevent the security robot from completing its appointed rounds. A human will be dispatched to remove the garden hose from the path. That human will grumble about how someone keeps messing with the robot by leaving this gardenhose laying about, while not realizing this is a gift of charity to the human who is paid to remove the hose-- job security for the security job.
Challenge accepted!
Automation is about pushing more wealth to the ruling class and minimizing unavoidable costs. Every time a job like this gets automated, displaced workers head to another employment pool. As those pools get crowded, the salaries go down.
"Plumbers will always make a good living."
"Until the displaced security guards get minimal training by a contracting firm and there is a flood of certified plumbers."
Or, perhaps it means the perpetrator developed a well-refined method of getting dirt on victims, perpetrating the assault, then blackmailing them into silence.
I think you're right and they've adopted the ego of a 900-lb-gorilla monopolist a bit prematurely in their lifecycle.
As a further example, was the game-of-chicken Uber played with the City of Austin. As an example set to frighten other cities that might try to stand up to the bully, they left Austin. But they left a community fertile with tech startups that have jumped at the opportunity to fill their vacuum. These are people / companies that NEVER would have gotten funded to compete against Uber prior to its departure. They left the factory in place, so to speak. The message to other cities looks to be that there is life without Uber.
I have to support Stealth Finger on this.
Additionally, if these moral judgements are to be dismissed as appropriate for then, but not now, then I think that dismissal should be applied across the entire moral judgements / teachings of the person. Having to apply this filter to everything Mohammed said leaves us in a situation where there is this giant spectrum of interpretation with many reasonable followers and different niche sects of lunatics who are justifying whatever they want to do by their interpretation of Islam.
My list is based on quality, not a reference to sequence or chronology.
This is incorrect. The proper order widely acknowledged by Mad Max scholars is:
I don't have the time to get into the hows and whys of omitting this Thunderdome distraction from the list. Suffice to say you are reading an authoritative voice on the matter.
I would like to note that the Nebula award winners list is heavily dominated by female writers. This is a moment to celebrate evolution within the SF industry.
Just wanted to remind people that AMC only projects movies that have been approved by North Korea. Same with Carmike chain, which they're trying to merge-with.
You're right. And in addition to these players wanting to have their own paid streaming service, they're also trying to leverage iTunes to extend life support to the buy-on-DVD revenue stream resurrected as buy-on-demand. Instead of going straight to Netflix, a lot of studios will throw their recent movies on iTunes for paid rentals and purchase-only viewing options.
Was disappointed to see AOL absent from this list of email provider collaboration. But not surprised.
I'm really glad the US Army patented this concept. I would hate for an invading force to show up in America with similar bullets that will disintegrate when they've missed our National Guard troops. Instead, the invading force's bullets will continue to travel for another two miles or so and deliver kinetic energy to whatever object they impact.
Thank you, US Army, for ensuring the overall lethality of enemy bullets! Bravo!
I just built a new desktop box with the plan of connecting an Oculus Rift. I was a bit concerned that the photocopy of the AMD press release posted on pcper.com did not include the minimum-spec AMD video card listed on the Oculus Rift site -- The R9 290. I was afraid AMD was backpedalling on being able to support VR with the R9 290 because they didn't include it in the comparisons, even though the minimum Nvidia card is listed.
Fortunately, after downloading the Steam test app and running it, my new machine ranks modestly high.
The card is actually an XFX R9 290X, the i5-4690 is not overclocked, and the RAM is Gskill TridentX.
I'm happy with the results listed above. My only disappointment with this setup is current Mac OS X El Capitan support for the 290X is spotty. I was planning to use Windows 10 for VR and Mac OS X for everything else, but there are a lot of video glitches when running Mac OS X, so I'll back off of that for now and keep my older i5 equipment around for Mac OS X.
In addition to the famous documentary starring Robert Deniro and Jody Foster, I can also attest that a taxi driver in Austin, TX killed two of my coworkers in the year 2000. They had gone to a nearby bar after work to see a boxing match on PPV and took a taxi back to pick up their cars at the office. Midway back to the office, the driver got into an argument with his two passengers and pulled to the side of the road.They attempted to flee and he shot them in the back. He told police they had tried to rob him.
He worked for an independent, local cab company at the time of the murders.
The sensor does not do the decryption or authentication. The attack vector would be a sensor that has been replaced with a mechanism that replays a snapshot of the phone owner's fingerprint and sends that down the wire to the mainboard. Apple is attempting to curtail that type of attack by authenticating the physical sensor to the mainboard.
I don't think they're putting the source code out there so people will improve these libraries. They've got the payroll to hire armies of people to work on this. I suspect Microsoft wants to see greater adoption of this code by seeding an ecosystem of projects that are utilizing it. Kind of like how they've posted Windows 10 iOT for free. Different, though, because it's not open source, but they want people to use it so their platform stays relevant in a quickly evolving technological landscape.
I'm thinking one really big wrench that can be thrown into algorithmic detection is if a randomly selected salt is used in each permutation of the malware. That could force this type of analysis to require dramatically larger resources with little architectural investment on the part of the malware creators.
Two weeks ago, my boss had us all download and install a few files described as 'APK'. She assured me it would protect our desktop machines from any and all potential malware threats. So far, I can't say she's wrong.
The weird thing is that when I try to search for reviews of this product, everything that turns up in Bing seems to be written by people with mental disorders. I guess it's probably anti-astroturfing by commercial competitors.
I've been thinking about this comment all day. I can't endorse the sentiment more. Especially when machine learning is looming on the horizon.
Everyone reading this now better be continually expanding their skill set and experience. The promise of machine learning is to make those who aren't doing this obsolete in the workforce. If you think domain knowledge makes you irreplaceable, that's exactly the target of machine learning.
Udemy has really well-produced online classes available for ten bucks. Go enroll now and thank me when you have a job in ten years.