They may have an office in California. I'm pretty sure they'll shut it down and a few people laid off. California doing its best to make the whole state unemployed.
Then you haven't been to many facilities, have you? There are PLC's connected directly to the internet (Siemens sure loves marketing this a lot) and have them sending emails to their phones. Many machines are connected to the internet as many equipment manufacturers now offer monitoring service and remote troubleshooting via the wonderful tool known as Teamviewer. I can name some very big equipment manufacturers that do this without a care in the world about security or problems. So yes, this is quite common in a lot of production facilities in the vast majority of places, not just the US. Is this a good idea? Probably not, but it's happening and it's all over the place.
Windows was never designed for any kind of safety-critical application, or any kind of application at all where reliability is required.
Doesn't stop these companies from using it. Beckhoff PLC's are all Windows mini PC's. There's quite a bit of Windows based equipment being sold into mission critical applications, you'd be quite surprised.
My home-built CNC machine doesn't have this problem; it runs on Debian.
That's great, fun for the garage or little hobbies. But major CNC manufacturers all mostly run Windows based software, Makino (The one I saw become completely useless thanks to Windows 10, lol), Haas, etc. Windows is and has become an "Industrial Standard" in many industries unfortunately, even with all its problems. I'm still the minority and unusual guy for requesting Linux.
I'm surprised this isn't getting more traction. A manufacturing facility not far from me is heavily reliant on Telepacific (If anyone knows, they have lousy expensive service and mostly the only choice in industrial areas), had all his PC's downloading the Windows 10 upgrade on a T1. Suffice to say, his network was dead slow for over a week until I came in and just pretty much blocked Microsoft completely on his firewall. Not a good solution, but it kept his business from going under because they couldn't reply to emails.
Worst of all, that still didn't stop some PC's finding a way around it. The whole Windows 10 upgrade was like a virus trying to find a way to download itself. Unfortunately I can't move him to Linux like I did my facility since he would need a competent IT guy there (Even though half his work is done through a putty console, yeah) and the current IT guy there is barely competent in anything Windows.
That wasn't the only woes I've seen. I've seen a multi-million dollar bottling machine grind to a halt because of the Windows 10 upgrade (To my amusement in front of me) and I've seen a CNC machine just stop working requiring a complete software overhaul because of the Windows 10 upgrade (Which wasn't so amusing because I needed the parts). Perhaps it's the manufacturers and the owners fault for using/requesting Windows in the first place (I've made my agreements force manufacturers to use Linux, or no deal, I don't know why people are afraid of doing this), but Microsoft should definitely be liable for this.
I had this on an old Lenovo laptop. I was thinking about buying a Dell XPS because of good linux support, but now I'm second guessing that decision if that's the case.
I hope they have a firmware update soon before Monday morning. A lot of printers are gonna be broken in a lot of places. There's a lot of places that use HP printers and there's a lot of places that use "Non-Genuine" cartridges to save costs.
Just wait, they'll force you to use GeForce Experience to change ANYTHING on the graphic setting. Razer already did this 100%, you can't even change anything on your mouse without logging into their brilliant cloud service.
I have a feeling that these cloud based services are somehow linked in datamining and exactly in the way you depict it. I just can't see it being any other way or any reason to store my mouse or graphic card settings to the damn cloud. They may look like separate services, under the hood, they are link into the same database.
This is the same way where I see competing stores are now cooperating and linked with each other to sell you goods that one store doesn't have. Why else would this be? Seems datamining pays more than the products they sell.
Most often Best Buy doesn't even have what I want anyways, so what's the point? A lot of their stores are now empty husks of what they used to be. And then you go to their online store, find what you want, but realize it's not in the Best Buy store, but from another store, so you won't see it in two days anyways.
The whole "Possession of child pornography" has become an industry in itself to prosecute people. It's easier to plant evidence of child pornography than it is to drop drugs in a persons vehicle, especially nowadays that they can consider someone with a child like body to be considered child pornography. And then you have people being charged for child pornography for taking selfies of themselves.
OCR support is still lacking in Evince or Okular and has been for many years, even when someone on a forum somewhere wanted to integrate an OCR function into it, it was abandoned. It's 2016 and the last discussion for implementing OCR in either Evince or Okular was like back in 2008. It's pretty sad that my cheap crappy all-in-one printer/scanner can do OCR and neither Evince or Okular can. What gives?
The thing that made Adobe Acrobat so great for me was the instant OCR function after scanning or opening a document and the available tools to merge PDF's into one at ease with a point of a mouse. Ever since switching to linux, these tools are there to do the same, but requires multiple operations and multiple different software to achieve the same thing. Using imagemagick to convert PDF to a tiff, then using tesseract to ocr the text, then using ghostscript to put it all back into the PDF and then opening the PDF in Okular to have a searchable PDF, such fun! Then drag and drop multiple PDF's to merge into one file? Neither Evince or Okular will do that. Sure I can make a script for all this and I have, but when I could do this with one click in Acrobat? It's 2016, and Adobe has had this functionality for many many years. I don't understand why the choice of having the lack of functionality and innovation in the opensource alternatives.
So I don't know where you get that the PDF support on linux is quite good compared to OSX or Windows. I would say it's adequate for basic PDF editing, but it's not great, that's for sure.
Probably is the most appealing for many, including myself for my business. It's easy to maintain and just works. Doesn't have to be Debian, it could be any derivatives of Debian, from Ubuntu to Mint.
If I buy a car that has a serious defect or missing features and its the only car I can drive, I shouldn't be entitled to a refund then because I've driven it too much? It doesn't matter if I play the game 10 minutes or 100 hours, the game did not deliver what was hyped up. The thieves here are the people that released the game, not the customers.
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Uber sure is doing a lot of 'research'! Lets see how many investors they pull in on this one.
They may have an office in California. I'm pretty sure they'll shut it down and a few people laid off. California doing its best to make the whole state unemployed.
Then you haven't been to many facilities, have you? There are PLC's connected directly to the internet (Siemens sure loves marketing this a lot) and have them sending emails to their phones. Many machines are connected to the internet as many equipment manufacturers now offer monitoring service and remote troubleshooting via the wonderful tool known as Teamviewer. I can name some very big equipment manufacturers that do this without a care in the world about security or problems. So yes, this is quite common in a lot of production facilities in the vast majority of places, not just the US. Is this a good idea? Probably not, but it's happening and it's all over the place.
Windows was never designed for any kind of safety-critical application, or any kind of application at all where reliability is required.
Doesn't stop these companies from using it. Beckhoff PLC's are all Windows mini PC's. There's quite a bit of Windows based equipment being sold into mission critical applications, you'd be quite surprised.
My home-built CNC machine doesn't have this problem; it runs on Debian.
That's great, fun for the garage or little hobbies. But major CNC manufacturers all mostly run Windows based software, Makino (The one I saw become completely useless thanks to Windows 10, lol), Haas, etc. Windows is and has become an "Industrial Standard" in many industries unfortunately, even with all its problems. I'm still the minority and unusual guy for requesting Linux.
I'm surprised this isn't getting more traction. A manufacturing facility not far from me is heavily reliant on Telepacific (If anyone knows, they have lousy expensive service and mostly the only choice in industrial areas), had all his PC's downloading the Windows 10 upgrade on a T1. Suffice to say, his network was dead slow for over a week until I came in and just pretty much blocked Microsoft completely on his firewall. Not a good solution, but it kept his business from going under because they couldn't reply to emails.
Worst of all, that still didn't stop some PC's finding a way around it. The whole Windows 10 upgrade was like a virus trying to find a way to download itself. Unfortunately I can't move him to Linux like I did my facility since he would need a competent IT guy there (Even though half his work is done through a putty console, yeah) and the current IT guy there is barely competent in anything Windows.
That wasn't the only woes I've seen. I've seen a multi-million dollar bottling machine grind to a halt because of the Windows 10 upgrade (To my amusement in front of me) and I've seen a CNC machine just stop working requiring a complete software overhaul because of the Windows 10 upgrade (Which wasn't so amusing because I needed the parts). Perhaps it's the manufacturers and the owners fault for using/requesting Windows in the first place (I've made my agreements force manufacturers to use Linux, or no deal, I don't know why people are afraid of doing this), but Microsoft should definitely be liable for this.
I had this on an old Lenovo laptop. I was thinking about buying a Dell XPS because of good linux support, but now I'm second guessing that decision if that's the case.
My old Lenovo laptop would do this, it was very annoying at times. When I moved the mouse cursor, it would make this ticking/hissing noise.
I've been using a 4k OLED for over a year now as a PC monitor. Works great. Plenty of 4k content, like games and Netflix.
You still watch OTA broadcast stations? I don't even have an antenna hooked up to my TV anymore.
Those $199 TV's are decent enough for many.
A lot of their business line printers are affected by this as well. There is no escape from this nonsense.
Not only this, your printer is like spyware on your network, punching through your firewall if you allow it.
I hope they have a firmware update soon before Monday morning. A lot of printers are gonna be broken in a lot of places. There's a lot of places that use HP printers and there's a lot of places that use "Non-Genuine" cartridges to save costs.
Just wait, they'll force you to use GeForce Experience to change ANYTHING on the graphic setting. Razer already did this 100%, you can't even change anything on your mouse without logging into their brilliant cloud service.
I have a feeling that these cloud based services are somehow linked in datamining and exactly in the way you depict it. I just can't see it being any other way or any reason to store my mouse or graphic card settings to the damn cloud. They may look like separate services, under the hood, they are link into the same database.
This is the same way where I see competing stores are now cooperating and linked with each other to sell you goods that one store doesn't have. Why else would this be? Seems datamining pays more than the products they sell.
So what do you buy?
Sad what a lot of opensource projects have come down too.
Most often Best Buy doesn't even have what I want anyways, so what's the point? A lot of their stores are now empty husks of what they used to be. And then you go to their online store, find what you want, but realize it's not in the Best Buy store, but from another store, so you won't see it in two days anyways.
So Amazon it is.
The whole "Possession of child pornography" has become an industry in itself to prosecute people. It's easier to plant evidence of child pornography than it is to drop drugs in a persons vehicle, especially nowadays that they can consider someone with a child like body to be considered child pornography. And then you have people being charged for child pornography for taking selfies of themselves.
And then you have the FBI literally distributing child porn to catch people:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/08...
The madness continues.
OCR support is still lacking in Evince or Okular and has been for many years, even when someone on a forum somewhere wanted to integrate an OCR function into it, it was abandoned. It's 2016 and the last discussion for implementing OCR in either Evince or Okular was like back in 2008. It's pretty sad that my cheap crappy all-in-one printer/scanner can do OCR and neither Evince or Okular can. What gives?
The thing that made Adobe Acrobat so great for me was the instant OCR function after scanning or opening a document and the available tools to merge PDF's into one at ease with a point of a mouse. Ever since switching to linux, these tools are there to do the same, but requires multiple operations and multiple different software to achieve the same thing. Using imagemagick to convert PDF to a tiff, then using tesseract to ocr the text, then using ghostscript to put it all back into the PDF and then opening the PDF in Okular to have a searchable PDF, such fun! Then drag and drop multiple PDF's to merge into one file? Neither Evince or Okular will do that. Sure I can make a script for all this and I have, but when I could do this with one click in Acrobat? It's 2016, and Adobe has had this functionality for many many years. I don't understand why the choice of having the lack of functionality and innovation in the opensource alternatives.
So I don't know where you get that the PDF support on linux is quite good compared to OSX or Windows. I would say it's adequate for basic PDF editing, but it's not great, that's for sure.
Probably is the most appealing for many, including myself for my business. It's easy to maintain and just works. Doesn't have to be Debian, it could be any derivatives of Debian, from Ubuntu to Mint.
Don't you just love that your browser is now punching through your firewall when you browse the internet? Come on, everyone loves it!
The sad part is, the real terrorists don't even use encryption and they still can't figure it out or find them.
It was being hyped up by a lot of big reviewers on Youtube before the game was even released. Enough reason to cancel because of that.
If I buy a car that has a serious defect or missing features and its the only car I can drive, I shouldn't be entitled to a refund then because I've driven it too much? It doesn't matter if I play the game 10 minutes or 100 hours, the game did not deliver what was hyped up. The thieves here are the people that released the game, not the customers.