She owns 50% of the company. This is the poster child for diversification of the portfolio.Theranos is private so the stock is only as valuable as the next private market buyer will pay.
Preferred investors get paid first. She only has common stock. So, nothing left for her no matter how much of the company she owns.
Learning Linux is like learning to drive a stick shift.
A few more skills, in exchange for more efficiency and better performance.
More like a model-T where you have to set the gas, choke, and then hand crank it. Some distributions are more user friendly than others, but if you want to do anything more than web browsing and document editing it requires a steeper learning curve than learning how to drive a stick.
Yes. I upgraded all of my systems and my parent system to Windows 10 and used the Spybot tool to enable all of the privacy settings. While this may not completely shut down all telemetry, it does disable the most troubling pieces. The rest, as I understand it, is OS information on errors, etc., used to fix bugs and improve the product.
As for whether Windows 10 is an improvement, it has better support for SSD and instant on, it has Direct X 12 support, and it supports all of the newer processors coming from Intel. In fact, if you need to run windows on new hardware (Kaby Lake processors and later), you will have to install Windows 10. Windows 7 is no longer supported.
It's actually quite simple, Google is concerned about lost AD revenue.
If users can download videos and play them locally then they lose out on the AD revenue from the ADs that are injected into the video sequence. If Google can figure out a way to make this more difficult or time consuming to do, then it's less likely that everyday users will download content vs streaming it.
and data. After twenty years of problems with code in documents, including some that would wipe-out your partition table, they still allow code in a document to execute.
Also, this might be the first malware that infected network files, but it certainly isn't the first to affect Office documents. We've been hit several dozen times.
By default the latest Office programs save files in a format that prevents macros from running. You have to specifically change the file type to allow macros. When you open macro enabled office files, it will, by default, disable active content and show a warning box. You have to actually click on the box to allow macros and vbscript.
What sort of thing would you use >260 character paths for? I'm not questioning the need, I'm just looking for people with practical applications because it's interesting.
I'm willing to bet that this is a reaction to companies moving to the online Office 365 service., and Sharepoint specifically. I get file path length warnings a lot of times when accessing team documents on our corporate Sharepoint server. It has a way of dealing with it, copy the file locally and then open it. But I'm thinking that they are being pressured to fix it.
Do not care if it is faster or lighter, as I want the better screen.
Exactly, This is the only reason why I bought the touch edition of the Dell XPS 13, for the 3200x1800 display. I can only assume that ASUS would come out with a near-QHD version. Personally, I like the ASUS products and was going to replace my old HP DM4T laptop with one. At one point ASUS was one of the few manufacturers with thin, light, power laptops, with high end features and displays. But over the last few years it seems that they have lagged behind by a year or so.
Create a screensaver, a simple unity game, it doesn't matter. Just code something up.
No... The mind needs a complete break at times throughout the day. Personally, I would recommend going for a walk. You're body, eyes, etc. need a break from staring at the screen, sitting still (or standing still, if you have a standing desk), etc.
As for books, that comes down to taste. My thought is keep trying something new until you find something that you enjoy reading about. Maybe one week read about art, next week about history (pick a time period that interests you), etc.
Except if you're scanning your company machines, you can do exactly what the OP said Blue Coat should have done. Issue your own cert, and make all your workstations trust it.
Except that wouldn't work with BYOD, thus the need for a certificate like this so that everything Just Works.
Exactly. Rolling your own certs sounds good until you get into the logistics and the complexity of implementing it on an Enterprise scale. Most Enterprises come to the same conclusion and pay for corporate root certificates from Symantec, etc. for their internal PKI infrastructure. It turns out that it's cheaper than the cost of support to handle all of the one-off situations that rolling your own causes. Everything just works.
If they were using it for internal use, and all the PCs they were using it with were under their control, they could have easily made their own certificates that would be limited in use to their own PCs only. So why ask for a certificate that can spoof any website and will be trusted by every PC?
Simple Answer: Because corporations want it.
Blue Coat is a company that sells network security products. Many companies use their products for proxy services, etc. Most security products have problems scanning content that is encrypted using SSL. Having the ability to act as a MIM allows the proxy services, WAN acceleration boxes, etc. access to the content for processing. Companies today are hyper-concerned about losing Intellectual Property and with ensuring that employees are not doing anything at work that is considered inappropriate.
I find the use of the terms "surveillance" and "controversial" in the article title to be deliberately used as click bait. Blue Coat is no more a "surveillance" company than Cisco, Juniper, or F5. That their products have found their way into Iran and Sudan is not that surprising. I'm willing to bet that it wouldn't be that difficult to set up multi-deep shell companies to buy products.
Indeed. Roughly 80% of M&A's fail, and lose value for shareholders. But every CEO is sure his deal will be one of the 20%.
Depends on what the long term effect is, which I don't think you can conclusively say is a loss. Many buy-outs are to pay off a potential challenger before they become a real threat or to pick up a failing company's assets so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands or to round out a portfolio so you can be a "full service" partner. Very often there's an element of insurance and short term you'll pay the "insurance premium" as the bought assets are devalued back to their actual value or even put in the drawer. I think those are a relatively large part of the volume where you don't expect the bought assets by themselves to be much of a money maker. And then there's the big, spectacular failures...
Wait, you forgot to add that a number of them are simply due to the CEO's ego, rather than any value.
I know of at least one company that bought a competitor simply because the CEO saw it as a trophy. The other company was going bankrupt, had investors suing it, etc. If the CEO had waited, he could have picked up the leftovers for a song. Instead, the merger almost killed the buying company, triggered multiple rounds of layoffs of employees, and set it back at least 5 years. But hey, the CEO got his trophy and a golden parachute when he was kicked out the door a year or so afterwards.
This investing strategy is pure BS. There are much more important factors in an investment strategy than if the workforce is at the office after 9pm such as product, leadership, talent, market, logistics, and funding. In fact, if a company has it's staff working at night consistently, it's more of a sign of underlying flaws in the business, leadership, or funding.
Based on my personal experience, that's not quite how it works. Programmers don't usually stay long hours because they're told to - they stay long hours because they are into what they're doing. There are crunch-time exceptions, of course, but if the company is making people stay long hours regularly and they don't care about what they're doing, they'll burn out and leave. So to some degree, people staying late at work regularly has some correlation with work engagement, which for coders is a good thing.
Personally, if I'm sucking at code, I'll try to escape earlier. If I'm deep in flow, I'll be coding until 2AM. And that's when I do my best work.
YMMV, of course.
Exactly. And when you are there late, I'm willing to bet that the parking lot is practically empty. It's only the businesses that are failing to plan ahead or which are experiencing business problems that have the entire staff there at night consistently. It's more of a sign of flaw in leadership and business operations.
It looks like the Mercury News is intentionally bashing Tesla to grab headlines, particularly by front-loading the name. They could have just as easily reported that there is a huge problem in the United States with contractors hiring overseas workers under false pretenses, and Tesla was the latest victim.
Good analysis IMO. Mod parent up.
It might be a gdecent analysis but the above statement falls into the age old method of deflection and shows a tad bit of bias. All of a sudden Tesla is the "victim" of overzealous reporting. Let's just ignore that they decided to outsource and use cheap labor...
While it may be true that the Mercury News has an agenda and is using the Tesla name to sell papers, Tesla put themselves in the position where they could be criticized for labor practices. For better or worse, they made the decision to outsource to a company that they knew, or should have known, would hire foreign workers. They put themselves in this position. They are anything but a victim.
Picture having to wait no more than 15 minutes for a self-driving public transportation vehicle to take you anywhere in your city, with algorithms picking the most efficient route to get who needs a ride, when they need it. Who is going to buy their own car when you can just get a public transportation pass and go anywhere?
Hell, what government is going to allow people to drive their own cars when self-driving vehicles can drive for them? And when even self-driving self-owned cars turn out to be a detriment to the self-driving public transportation, welp...
We don't consider horses when designing modern roadways, outside of some very specific scenarios. We're entering an era where considering manually driven cars are going to become a similar relic of the past.
Yes, people will still buy vehicles. Why? Construction, specialized vehicles (camper trailers), towing (boats, horses, etc.), and I could go on and on. Self-driving vehicles not "owned" by individuals will work for most people who live in urban areas, but they still aren't going to work for a lot of applications. There is NO way that ALL roads will support self-driving cars. The are a large number of back country roads, dirt roads through woods, etc. that will not get the necessary infrastructure to support self-driving vehicles. So. to answer your second question, Yes, people will still have the right to drive their own vehicles. Maybe it would require specialized hardware installed (i.e. a transponder, etc.) or maybe cars will have a manual mode, but there is no way that there will be an outright ban.
Personally, my vote is for the Internet age. Love it or hate it, it provides a bridge for interaction with far-off loved ones, different cultures, and has huge implications for education. Yes, there are negatives, much like there are negatives to beer (specifically consuming too much).
Plus, it was built largely on Beer and Pizza, so you know that it HAS to be important... (grin)
Maybe if I could travel an interstate with no interaction, that might qualify.
You can. Tesla autopilot doesn't do intersections, or on-ramps, but once you are on the freeway, you can engage it, and it will self-drive until you reach your exit.
In Teslas with Autopilot, all the hardware is already present for full self-driving, and new features will be added as the software matures.
Or until you run into snow, poor lane markings, etc.... But hey, in ideal conditions it kinda works... It's a step forward, but there are still miles to go...
And by copied, you mean Apple bought the rights to it by paying with Apple stock. And if Apple hadn't brought the GUI to the world, we would be arguing this thread over some stupid ass ASCII forum.
Let's see Apple's competitors just select some great research out of the thousands of research projects that are created per year -- it's like picking a needle from a haystack. But since they're incapable of that, they'll just wait for someone else to do the work before they steal it.
And by copied you mean that Microsoft legally licensed rights from Apple for UI elements in Windows. See, we could do this all day. And yes, we would have had the GUI as Microsoft also visited Xerox PARC and learned the same concepts.
This is what I don't get. Why the hell is AV software running on a realtime apparatus?
1: If AV software is needed for legal eagle reasons, code a scanner for embedded use that runs -only- when the machine is offline and not doing anything. When the switch to online it is flipped, any scans and such get stopped immediately.
2: A medical machine should be air-gapped anyway, with firmware updates done via files on a signed SD card. There should never be a vector for introducing malware onto a machine without physical access.
3: Have the designers even done testing where the AV software (or even worse, GWX) fires up during a procedure? This is basic Q&A here, and for the astronomical cost of medical equipment, should be assumed that this was done.
From TFA, I'd lay the blame of this at the feet of the device maker. They need to use a real OS, or at least ensure that there is no state their environment can get into that can cause this.
The AV software wasn't running on the medical device, it was running on the Doctor's computer. The Doctor's computer has a software app that gathers data from the medical device and, it seems, that there is some requirement for the medical device to be able to read this data as well. Or perhaps the App has some command and control functions. Either way, the AV software ran, freezing up the app on the doctors computer and causing the medical device to crash.
In my opinion, the hospital should have an air-gapped dedicated system for this instead of relying on the doctor's laptop.
I suggest reading "Sleight of Mind." Magicians have known for millennia how to force certain outcomes.
(I have no connection to book or the authors, other than having read the book. It's a bit pretentious at times, but otherwise rather insightful.)
Pollsters make a living out of it. Simply the way questions are phrased and the words used can influence the outcome in the direction that the poll designer, or the person paying them, wants.
[Netflix can't replace] the experience of the movie theater.
Oh yes, so many things I will miss about movie theaters... - Outrageous prices of concessions and tickets. - Going to the movie rather than it coming to me. - Inability to pause. - Scheduling parts of my day around when the movie I want to see is on. - Other people that never improve, and often detract from, the movie experience.
Mark my words: Movie theaters are the next lunch Netflix will eat after cable TV stations and providers.
- 4k video - HUGE screen - Full Dolby Atmos surround sound - The movie as it was meant to be experienced
Yes, there can be some drawbacks but, in my opinion, the positives outweigh them. But then again, I love movies. It seems to me that you enjoy them, but for you, watching a movie is not an experience, just something to do for fun. So watching a movie on a small screen (relatively) with low resolution works for you.
The Showcase Cinemas movie theater near me renovated this past winter and now has reserved seating with leather recliners, etc. It's a bit more expensive than general admission but the people and scheduling problems are greatly reduced.
To be fair, Icahn sold off his Apple stock only partially because of the last quarterly report. The rest of the reason involves the fact that he was not getting his way with the Board.
Icahn also sold off Apple (AAPL) because he realized that no one fell for... believed that Apple was worth $1.4 Trillion ($240 a share). While the iPhone and other Apple products continue to sell, the lack of innovative products limits the upside. I think that it was more this than lack of traction with the Board.
i hate the way it's always reported. i.e. when there's a worm affecting linux systems, the article always makes that clear. when there's a trojan affecting osx, it says so too. but when shit hits windows, it's suddenly computers or PCs. why don't journalists start calling things what they are? WINDOWS viruses, WINDOWS rootkits, WINDOWS backdoors, etc. It's not PCs that are infected, it's PCs running WINDOWS that are infected in 99.99% of cases.
Because the terms PC and computers are synonymous with Windows, much like Kleenex is synonymous with tissues and Heinz with Ketchup. The vast majority of people associate PCs with Windows systems. It might irk you, but it isn't going to change.
Your soundcard still use the same 44khz, 16bit rate of the soundblaster 16.
I'm still rocking a 10 year old Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS Platinum Pro 7.1 surround 24-bit 192KHz PCI card. Sound cards haven't improved all that much other than getting smaller and more energy efficient. I've investigated replacing it with a new sound card but there is very little in the market that has similar features. As of this point in time, my Skylake build will include a PCI slot just to keep the sound card.
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She owns 50% of the company. This is the poster child for diversification of the portfolio.Theranos is private so the stock is only as valuable as the next private market buyer will pay.
Preferred investors get paid first. She only has common stock. So, nothing left for her no matter how much of the company she owns.
Learning Linux is like learning to drive a stick shift.
A few more skills, in exchange for more efficiency and better performance.
More like a model-T where you have to set the gas, choke, and then hand crank it. Some distributions are more user friendly than others, but if you want to do anything more than web browsing and document editing it requires a steeper learning curve than learning how to drive a stick.
Would you recommend using this too?:
https://www.safer-networking.o...
Yes. I upgraded all of my systems and my parent system to Windows 10 and used the Spybot tool to enable all of the privacy settings. While this may not completely shut down all telemetry, it does disable the most troubling pieces. The rest, as I understand it, is OS information on errors, etc., used to fix bugs and improve the product.
As for whether Windows 10 is an improvement, it has better support for SSD and instant on, it has Direct X 12 support, and it supports all of the newer processors coming from Intel. In fact, if you need to run windows on new hardware (Kaby Lake processors and later), you will have to install Windows 10. Windows 7 is no longer supported.
It's actually quite simple, Google is concerned about lost AD revenue.
If users can download videos and play them locally then they lose out on the AD revenue from the ADs that are injected into the video sequence. If Google can figure out a way to make this more difficult or time consuming to do, then it's less likely that everyday users will download content vs streaming it.
and data. After twenty years of problems with code in documents, including some that would wipe-out your partition table, they still allow code in a document to execute.
Also, this might be the first malware that infected network files, but it certainly isn't the first to affect Office documents. We've been hit several dozen times.
By default the latest Office programs save files in a format that prevents macros from running. You have to specifically change the file type to allow macros. When you open macro enabled office files, it will, by default, disable active content and show a warning box. You have to actually click on the box to allow macros and vbscript.
What sort of thing would you use >260 character paths for? I'm not questioning the need, I'm just looking for people with practical applications because it's interesting.
I'm willing to bet that this is a reaction to companies moving to the online Office 365 service., and Sharepoint specifically. I get file path length warnings a lot of times when accessing team documents on our corporate Sharepoint server. It has a way of dealing with it, copy the file locally and then open it. But I'm thinking that they are being pressured to fix it.
Do not care if it is faster or lighter, as I want the better screen.
Exactly, This is the only reason why I bought the touch edition of the Dell XPS 13, for the 3200x1800 display. I can only assume that ASUS would come out with a near-QHD version. Personally, I like the ASUS products and was going to replace my old HP DM4T laptop with one. At one point ASUS was one of the few manufacturers with thin, light, power laptops, with high end features and displays. But over the last few years it seems that they have lagged behind by a year or so.
Coders code. It's what we do.
Write something. Anything.
Create a screensaver, a simple unity game, it doesn't matter. Just code something up.
No... The mind needs a complete break at times throughout the day. Personally, I would recommend going for a walk. You're body, eyes, etc. need a break from staring at the screen, sitting still (or standing still, if you have a standing desk), etc.
As for books, that comes down to taste. My thought is keep trying something new until you find something that you enjoy reading about. Maybe one week read about art, next week about history (pick a time period that interests you), etc.
Except if you're scanning your company machines, you can do exactly what the OP said Blue Coat should have done. Issue your own cert, and make all your workstations trust it.
Except that wouldn't work with BYOD, thus the need for a certificate like this so that everything Just Works.
Exactly. Rolling your own certs sounds good until you get into the logistics and the complexity of implementing it on an Enterprise scale. Most Enterprises come to the same conclusion and pay for corporate root certificates from Symantec, etc. for their internal PKI infrastructure. It turns out that it's cheaper than the cost of support to handle all of the one-off situations that rolling your own causes. Everything just works.
If they were using it for internal use, and all the PCs they were using it with were under their control, they could have easily made their own certificates that would be limited in use to their own PCs only. So why ask for a certificate that can spoof any website and will be trusted by every PC?
Simple Answer: Because corporations want it.
Blue Coat is a company that sells network security products. Many companies use their products for proxy services, etc. Most security products have problems scanning content that is encrypted using SSL. Having the ability to act as a MIM allows the proxy services, WAN acceleration boxes, etc. access to the content for processing. Companies today are hyper-concerned about losing Intellectual Property and with ensuring that employees are not doing anything at work that is considered inappropriate.
I find the use of the terms "surveillance" and "controversial" in the article title to be deliberately used as click bait. Blue Coat is no more a "surveillance" company than Cisco, Juniper, or F5. That their products have found their way into Iran and Sudan is not that surprising. I'm willing to bet that it wouldn't be that difficult to set up multi-deep shell companies to buy products.
Indeed. Roughly 80% of M&A's fail, and lose value for shareholders. But every CEO is sure his deal will be one of the 20%.
Depends on what the long term effect is, which I don't think you can conclusively say is a loss. Many buy-outs are to pay off a potential challenger before they become a real threat or to pick up a failing company's assets so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands or to round out a portfolio so you can be a "full service" partner. Very often there's an element of insurance and short term you'll pay the "insurance premium" as the bought assets are devalued back to their actual value or even put in the drawer. I think those are a relatively large part of the volume where you don't expect the bought assets by themselves to be much of a money maker. And then there's the big, spectacular failures...
Wait, you forgot to add that a number of them are simply due to the CEO's ego, rather than any value.
I know of at least one company that bought a competitor simply because the CEO saw it as a trophy. The other company was going bankrupt, had investors suing it, etc. If the CEO had waited, he could have picked up the leftovers for a song. Instead, the merger almost killed the buying company, triggered multiple rounds of layoffs of employees, and set it back at least 5 years. But hey, the CEO got his trophy and a golden parachute when he was kicked out the door a year or so afterwards.
This investing strategy is pure BS. There are much more important factors in an investment strategy than if the workforce is at the office after 9pm such as product, leadership, talent, market, logistics, and funding. In fact, if a company has it's staff working at night consistently, it's more of a sign of underlying flaws in the business, leadership, or funding.
Based on my personal experience, that's not quite how it works. Programmers don't usually stay long hours because they're told to - they stay long hours because they are into what they're doing. There are crunch-time exceptions, of course, but if the company is making people stay long hours regularly and they don't care about what they're doing, they'll burn out and leave. So to some degree, people staying late at work regularly has some correlation with work engagement, which for coders is a good thing.
Personally, if I'm sucking at code, I'll try to escape earlier. If I'm deep in flow, I'll be coding until 2AM. And that's when I do my best work.
YMMV, of course.
Exactly. And when you are there late, I'm willing to bet that the parking lot is practically empty. It's only the businesses that are failing to plan ahead or which are experiencing business problems that have the entire staff there at night consistently. It's more of a sign of flaw in leadership and business operations.
It looks like the Mercury News is intentionally bashing Tesla to grab headlines, particularly by front-loading the name. They could have just as easily reported that there is a huge problem in the United States with contractors hiring overseas workers under false pretenses, and Tesla was the latest victim.
Good analysis IMO. Mod parent up.
It might be a gdecent analysis but the above statement falls into the age old method of deflection and shows a tad bit of bias. All of a sudden Tesla is the "victim" of overzealous reporting. Let's just ignore that they decided to outsource and use cheap labor...
While it may be true that the Mercury News has an agenda and is using the Tesla name to sell papers, Tesla put themselves in the position where they could be criticized for labor practices. For better or worse, they made the decision to outsource to a company that they knew, or should have known, would hire foreign workers. They put themselves in this position. They are anything but a victim.
Picture having to wait no more than 15 minutes for a self-driving public transportation vehicle to take you anywhere in your city, with algorithms picking the most efficient route to get who needs a ride, when they need it. Who is going to buy their own car when you can just get a public transportation pass and go anywhere?
Hell, what government is going to allow people to drive their own cars when self-driving vehicles can drive for them? And when even self-driving self-owned cars turn out to be a detriment to the self-driving public transportation, welp...
We don't consider horses when designing modern roadways, outside of some very specific scenarios. We're entering an era where considering manually driven cars are going to become a similar relic of the past.
Yes, people will still buy vehicles. Why? Construction, specialized vehicles (camper trailers), towing (boats, horses, etc.), and I could go on and on. Self-driving vehicles not "owned" by individuals will work for most people who live in urban areas, but they still aren't going to work for a lot of applications. There is NO way that ALL roads will support self-driving cars. The are a large number of back country roads, dirt roads through woods, etc. that will not get the necessary infrastructure to support self-driving vehicles. So. to answer your second question, Yes, people will still have the right to drive their own vehicles. Maybe it would require specialized hardware installed (i.e. a transponder, etc.) or maybe cars will have a manual mode, but there is no way that there will be an outright ban.
Try this:
http://www.chntpw.com/reset-fo...
Make sure to rename the files back to normal after you get back in to your system.
Don't forget Pizza....
Personally, my vote is for the Internet age. Love it or hate it, it provides a bridge for interaction with far-off loved ones, different cultures, and has huge implications for education. Yes, there are negatives, much like there are negatives to beer (specifically consuming too much).
Plus, it was built largely on Beer and Pizza, so you know that it HAS to be important... (grin)
Maybe if I could travel an interstate with no interaction, that might qualify.
You can. Tesla autopilot doesn't do intersections, or on-ramps, but once you are on the freeway, you can engage it, and it will self-drive until you reach your exit.
In Teslas with Autopilot, all the hardware is already present for full self-driving, and new features will be added as the software matures.
Or until you run into snow, poor lane markings, etc.... But hey, in ideal conditions it kinda works... It's a step forward, but there are still miles to go...
And by copied, you mean Apple bought the rights to it by paying with Apple stock. And if Apple hadn't brought the GUI to the world, we would be arguing this thread over some stupid ass ASCII forum.
Let's see Apple's competitors just select some great research out of the thousands of research projects that are created per year -- it's like picking a needle from a haystack. But since they're incapable of that, they'll just wait for someone else to do the work before they steal it.
And by copied you mean that Microsoft legally licensed rights from Apple for UI elements in Windows. See, we could do this all day. And yes, we would have had the GUI as Microsoft also visited Xerox PARC and learned the same concepts.
This is what I don't get. Why the hell is AV software running on a realtime apparatus?
1: If AV software is needed for legal eagle reasons, code a scanner for embedded use that runs -only- when the machine is offline and not doing anything. When the switch to online it is flipped, any scans and such get stopped immediately.
2: A medical machine should be air-gapped anyway, with firmware updates done via files on a signed SD card. There should never be a vector for introducing malware onto a machine without physical access.
3: Have the designers even done testing where the AV software (or even worse, GWX) fires up during a procedure? This is basic Q&A here, and for the astronomical cost of medical equipment, should be assumed that this was done.
From TFA, I'd lay the blame of this at the feet of the device maker. They need to use a real OS, or at least ensure that there is no state their environment can get into that can cause this.
The AV software wasn't running on the medical device, it was running on the Doctor's computer. The Doctor's computer has a software app that gathers data from the medical device and, it seems, that there is some requirement for the medical device to be able to read this data as well. Or perhaps the App has some command and control functions. Either way, the AV software ran, freezing up the app on the doctors computer and causing the medical device to crash.
In my opinion, the hospital should have an air-gapped dedicated system for this instead of relying on the doctor's laptop.
I suggest reading "Sleight of Mind." Magicians have known for millennia how to force certain outcomes.
(I have no connection to book or the authors, other than having read the book. It's a bit pretentious at times, but otherwise rather insightful.)
Pollsters make a living out of it. Simply the way questions are phrased and the words used can influence the outcome in the direction that the poll designer, or the person paying them, wants.
[Netflix can't replace] the experience of the movie theater.
Oh yes, so many things I will miss about movie theaters...
- Outrageous prices of concessions and tickets.
- Going to the movie rather than it coming to me.
- Inability to pause.
- Scheduling parts of my day around when the movie I want to see is on.
- Other people that never improve, and often detract from, the movie experience.
Mark my words: Movie theaters are the next lunch Netflix will eat after cable TV stations and providers.
- 4k video
- HUGE screen
- Full Dolby Atmos surround sound
- The movie as it was meant to be experienced
Yes, there can be some drawbacks but, in my opinion, the positives outweigh them. But then again, I love movies. It seems to me that you enjoy them, but for you, watching a movie is not an experience, just something to do for fun. So watching a movie on a small screen (relatively) with low resolution works for you.
The Showcase Cinemas movie theater near me renovated this past winter and now has reserved seating with leather recliners, etc. It's a bit more expensive than general admission but the people and scheduling problems are greatly reduced.
Oh, and who buys food at the concession stands...
To be fair, Icahn sold off his Apple stock only partially because of the last quarterly report. The rest of the reason involves the fact that he was not getting his way with the Board.
Icahn also sold off Apple (AAPL) because he realized that no one fell for... believed that Apple was worth $1.4 Trillion ($240 a share). While the iPhone and other Apple products continue to sell, the lack of innovative products limits the upside. I think that it was more this than lack of traction with the Board.
i hate the way it's always reported. i.e. when there's a worm affecting linux systems, the article always makes that clear. when there's a trojan affecting osx, it says so too. but when shit hits windows, it's suddenly computers or PCs. why don't journalists start calling things what they are? WINDOWS viruses, WINDOWS rootkits, WINDOWS backdoors, etc. It's not PCs that are infected, it's PCs running WINDOWS that are infected in 99.99% of cases.
Because the terms PC and computers are synonymous with Windows, much like Kleenex is synonymous with tissues and Heinz with Ketchup. The vast majority of people associate PCs with Windows systems. It might irk you, but it isn't going to change.
Your soundcard still use the same 44khz, 16bit rate of the soundblaster 16.
I'm still rocking a 10 year old Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS Platinum Pro 7.1 surround 24-bit 192KHz PCI card. Sound cards haven't improved all that much other than getting smaller and more energy efficient. I've investigated replacing it with a new sound card but there is very little in the market that has similar features. As of this point in time, my Skylake build will include a PCI slot just to keep the sound card.