Well, there are likely upcoming criminal charges as I heard it. As of now, only the SEC has made a settlement, which forbids Holmes from being an executive at any company for several years. So I suspect she's not at all allowed to collect money for a new startup.
And who would work for one of her companies? As reported, Theranos was a terrible place to work, Holmes and her boyfriend were abusive, firings were sudden and often, and past employees were sued. This was done to maintain total secrecy in order to maintain the illusion that they were building a real product that actually worked.
Walgreens even hired someone as a point of contact with Theranos to make sure they were making progress and double check that the science and engineering was valid. Theranos hated the guy and eventually convinced Walgreens to not allow him to show up at meetings anymore, which oddly did not seem to cause red flags to be raised. Pharmaceutical companies on the other hand quietly backed away from deals with Theranos.
There's a group of people who naively think that what's good in America are people with ideas and vision, and like to had such people money. However what's better are people with ideas and vision plus the ability to carry through and do the hard work with integrity. Any idiot out there has ideas and vision, just talk to the drunk sleeping it off in the alley.
Yes, I think they're not really recycling like people assume they are. Some things are easily recyclable, other things are hard. Electronics are VERY hard. Getting a new phone every year is essentially the same thing as throwing your phone into a landfill every year. Even compostable items don't really go to compost.
Or just buy your ticket from the conductor like you can in many places around the world. You still need someone at the station though to at least sweep up and clean the restroom and chase the skateboarders away.
It works for MMOs. Streaming won't work for twitch first person shooters perhaps. But a lot of modern games are kind of dumbed down anyway and could be pushed into that mode pretty easy. Ie, the server saves the "scene" that the player is at, and everything else is button mashing to advance to the next scene. Dragon's Lair with better graphics...
It's not just retro hipsters. Modern games are just dumb. Shallow and predictable game play, shallow plots, and with big name titles pushing out sequels every year whether or not they have obvious bugs. Really, if you like Assassin's Cry #19, then you'll like gaming in the cloud.
But hardware doesn't really need to improve anymore. PCs are good enough for most games now without going out and buying $2000 video cards, especially if you don't care about FPS. Sure, not good enough for VR games, but that's a passing fad. And consoles are nearly as good as PCs. Especially as so many games put you on rails so that you're guaranteed not to see too far in the wrong direction and screw up frame rate. Go back to games from 5 or 10 years ago, they're still good, they still look great, and they're more replayable than the franchises churning out rehashes every year.
And it's good that the hardware will last, because the cloud gaming will not last. Do you really think they're going to keep a 5 year old game up and active in the cloud? Forget even thinking about something older than that. People think games are becoming too much like crappy hollywood movies, and with the cloud it will be even more like that - huge budgets for short lived spectacles, shallow plots (if any), predictable gameplay, no indie games, nothing able to break the mold.
Depends on where you're looking. The nationwide transmission grid is pretty well managed. But the more local distribution and neighborhood grids aren't handled as well and the local utilities may not even know when there are problems. There are already several solutions out there to help with monitoring and tweaking, so there is nothing new or novel in the article other than using Slashdot as a marketing outlet.
The problem is not new, and the solutions are not new either. Sounds like yet another entrepreneur/innovator doing what otehr people are already doing. This is some of the benefits of smart grid technology, being able to monitor and check for problems with electricity distribution (phases not aligned or unbalanced, voltage sagging, etc). And in the smart grid there are already several "operating sytems", a complete B.S. term that has no actual meaning outside of marketing.
Naw, Last Jedi was fine with me. I honestly don't get why people freaked out about it. I'm the guy that doesn't watch Mission Impossible movies because of screwing over the principal character from the TV series, so I understand the concept of being angry over movies. But I think they didn't do anything wrong by Luke in Last Jedi.
Stock price is meaningless. There are lucky morons who succeed, and geniuses who fail. Having a shitload of heavy handed sales soldiers to get profits up has nothing whatsoever to do with open source strategies. Oracle is a big company, so this suite of Java tools isn't even a bullet point to the Oracle executives and the decision to dump them was undoubtedly made at a middle management level.
Avengers can stop too. If movies come out too often then it ruins them. Star Wars was noted for long periods of time between movies. It's absurd that a new movie of a certain franchise shows up before the previous movie has even made it onto television. There are people I know who just give up on them, why see movie #10 when they haven't yet had time to get around to movies #7 through 9?
No way was Last Jedi worse than Phantom Menace. I know there's a whole backlash by people upset that their pet theories didn't pan out and some gibberish about sjw, but on the whole it was a decent movie. Phantom Menace was just a terrible movie overall.
Problems aren't with the movie, it's just one movie too many in a short period of time. But as time goes on it will make continue to make money. This just points to Disney trying to milk the cow too often now that it owns Star Wars.
I know a lot of people running MMOs on Macs because there's cross platform support. There's a big enough demand for this that some games even added official support for Macs.
Why do you need approval? On Windows at least (maybe the only good thing about it) is that you don't need Microsoft's permission to run your own software, libraries, drivers, etc.
Not used to games either I guess, as running older games is a very common occurence. Presumably there'd be a way to add OpenGL back, or is Apple now going to require that all libraries be signed? (it already requires debuggers to be signed which is an immense development headache)
You can duplicate digital signatures though. This can be solved by other means, but it's primarily why a lot of systems try to just hide the data instead.
In Japan during the American occupation someone asked what constituted pornography and what didn't. The American responded that if you can see pubic hair then it was porn. So if there was no pubic hair then it must not be porn, QED! Which is why adult anime and manga didn't draw pubic hair, because it wasn't "porn" that way no matter how detailed it was in other aspects.
God is a micro-manager? Free-will doesn't exist? To be honest here, there is very little theology to support the simplistic adage of "it's all part of God's plan", Never mind that this phrase to make people feel better about tragedy doesn't actually make anyone feel better.
I agree too. The main push to change this are the people who want the "cures" that have proven to be worthless or dangerous. There's a whole industry in Mexico with clinics that provide laetrile.
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Well, there are likely upcoming criminal charges as I heard it. As of now, only the SEC has made a settlement, which forbids Holmes from being an executive at any company for several years. So I suspect she's not at all allowed to collect money for a new startup.
And who would work for one of her companies? As reported, Theranos was a terrible place to work, Holmes and her boyfriend were abusive, firings were sudden and often, and past employees were sued. This was done to maintain total secrecy in order to maintain the illusion that they were building a real product that actually worked.
Walgreens even hired someone as a point of contact with Theranos to make sure they were making progress and double check that the science and engineering was valid. Theranos hated the guy and eventually convinced Walgreens to not allow him to show up at meetings anymore, which oddly did not seem to cause red flags to be raised. Pharmaceutical companies on the other hand quietly backed away from deals with Theranos.
There's a group of people who naively think that what's good in America are people with ideas and vision, and like to had such people money. However what's better are people with ideas and vision plus the ability to carry through and do the hard work with integrity. Any idiot out there has ideas and vision, just talk to the drunk sleeping it off in the alley.
Yes, I think they're not really recycling like people assume they are. Some things are easily recyclable, other things are hard. Electronics are VERY hard. Getting a new phone every year is essentially the same thing as throwing your phone into a landfill every year. Even compostable items don't really go to compost.
Do they have cable? Probably in most places, because the lure of profit was enough for them to put down the wires a few decades ago.
Or just buy your ticket from the conductor like you can in many places around the world. You still need someone at the station though to at least sweep up and clean the restroom and chase the skateboarders away.
It works for MMOs. Streaming won't work for twitch first person shooters perhaps. But a lot of modern games are kind of dumbed down anyway and could be pushed into that mode pretty easy. Ie, the server saves the "scene" that the player is at, and everything else is button mashing to advance to the next scene. Dragon's Lair with better graphics...
It's not just retro hipsters. Modern games are just dumb. Shallow and predictable game play, shallow plots, and with big name titles pushing out sequels every year whether or not they have obvious bugs. Really, if you like Assassin's Cry #19, then you'll like gaming in the cloud.
But hardware doesn't really need to improve anymore. PCs are good enough for most games now without going out and buying $2000 video cards, especially if you don't care about FPS. Sure, not good enough for VR games, but that's a passing fad. And consoles are nearly as good as PCs. Especially as so many games put you on rails so that you're guaranteed not to see too far in the wrong direction and screw up frame rate. Go back to games from 5 or 10 years ago, they're still good, they still look great, and they're more replayable than the franchises churning out rehashes every year.
And it's good that the hardware will last, because the cloud gaming will not last. Do you really think they're going to keep a 5 year old game up and active in the cloud? Forget even thinking about something older than that. People think games are becoming too much like crappy hollywood movies, and with the cloud it will be even more like that - huge budgets for short lived spectacles, shallow plots (if any), predictable gameplay, no indie games, nothing able to break the mold.
Depends on where you're looking. The nationwide transmission grid is pretty well managed. But the more local distribution and neighborhood grids aren't handled as well and the local utilities may not even know when there are problems. There are already several solutions out there to help with monitoring and tweaking, so there is nothing new or novel in the article other than using Slashdot as a marketing outlet.
The problem is not new, and the solutions are not new either. Sounds like yet another entrepreneur/innovator doing what otehr people are already doing. This is some of the benefits of smart grid technology, being able to monitor and check for problems with electricity distribution (phases not aligned or unbalanced, voltage sagging, etc). And in the smart grid there are already several "operating sytems", a complete B.S. term that has no actual meaning outside of marketing.
Naw, Last Jedi was fine with me. I honestly don't get why people freaked out about it. I'm the guy that doesn't watch Mission Impossible movies because of screwing over the principal character from the TV series, so I understand the concept of being angry over movies. But I think they didn't do anything wrong by Luke in Last Jedi.
Stock price is meaningless. There are lucky morons who succeed, and geniuses who fail. Having a shitload of heavy handed sales soldiers to get profits up has nothing whatsoever to do with open source strategies. Oracle is a big company, so this suite of Java tools isn't even a bullet point to the Oracle executives and the decision to dump them was undoubtedly made at a middle management level.
It is understandable that collectors want to keep a low profile.
"Collectors" or "pirates"?
Avengers can stop too. If movies come out too often then it ruins them. Star Wars was noted for long periods of time between movies. It's absurd that a new movie of a certain franchise shows up before the previous movie has even made it onto television. There are people I know who just give up on them, why see movie #10 when they haven't yet had time to get around to movies #7 through 9?
No way was Last Jedi worse than Phantom Menace. I know there's a whole backlash by people upset that their pet theories didn't pan out and some gibberish about sjw, but on the whole it was a decent movie. Phantom Menace was just a terrible movie overall.
Problems aren't with the movie, it's just one movie too many in a short period of time. But as time goes on it will make continue to make money. This just points to Disney trying to milk the cow too often now that it owns Star Wars.
I know a lot of people running MMOs on Macs because there's cross platform support. There's a big enough demand for this that some games even added official support for Macs.
You're implying that there are indeed iOS apps that are worth running on OSX. Evidence?
Why do you need approval? On Windows at least (maybe the only good thing about it) is that you don't need Microsoft's permission to run your own software, libraries, drivers, etc.
Not used to games either I guess, as running older games is a very common occurence. Presumably there'd be a way to add OpenGL back, or is Apple now going to require that all libraries be signed? (it already requires debuggers to be signed which is an immense development headache)
You can duplicate digital signatures though. This can be solved by other means, but it's primarily why a lot of systems try to just hide the data instead.
In Japan during the American occupation someone asked what constituted pornography and what didn't. The American responded that if you can see pubic hair then it was porn. So if there was no pubic hair then it must not be porn, QED! Which is why adult anime and manga didn't draw pubic hair, because it wasn't "porn" that way no matter how detailed it was in other aspects.
God is a micro-manager? Free-will doesn't exist? To be honest here, there is very little theology to support the simplistic adage of "it's all part of God's plan", Never mind that this phrase to make people feel better about tragedy doesn't actually make anyone feel better.
This cure undoubtedly will evolve to be more efficient over time. Why do you expect it to stay the same?
I agree too. The main push to change this are the people who want the "cures" that have proven to be worthless or dangerous. There's a whole industry in Mexico with clinics that provide laetrile.
"We can cure your cancer, but first we have to take away your phone."
"Nooo! Is there an alternate cure?"