Duh. Anyone sane person was saying this for years. Only the extreme fangirls couldn't see the writing on the wall from the poor sales figures. No one wants VR because all the headsets suck, the content for them suck and the only ones that suck less are way too fucking expensive.
I do think that the technology has a bit more growing to do, but I, personally, don't think that it's that far off. As for the expense, it's like a high end TV, yes it's out of reach today, but give it a 5 to 10 years and the cost will come down.
There are four things that need to happen: 1. Headsets need to become lighter and wireless, while maintaining high resolution video. 2. Touch gloves need to be included. Other senses such as smell and hot/cold can come later. They likely will require a specially designed room. 3. A large 360 degree treadmill needs to be designed for those who want to be much more immersive in the game. This would include body sensors or scanning to represent movements in the game. Using your living room without boundaries is and accident waiting to happen and 4. A killer app. My thought is that if a VR version of The Elder Scrolls would get a lot of people interested.
At least, that's my vision of a VR system that would appeal to a large enough audience to get it off the ground.
Yes, I am thoroughly shocked that websites peddling monopoly money schemes on the public are shady!/s
I was expecting this to be some sort of story involving media sites anyone has ever heard of like The Washington Post, the NYT, the NY Post, etc.. Instead it's mostly sketchy websites next-to-no-one has ever heard of full of ads and tracking scripts.
I was also taken in by the title. When I see an article about the media, I assume that they are talking about the well known media and social media organizations, not fly-by-night grey-market digital media sites that the average public never sees or cares about.
One problem here is that both natural gas and nuclear plants also rely on heat exchangers, and there's no reason this material can't be used to boost their efficiency, too.
I don't see a problem here.
In fact such materials with such varied uses should be seen as a very good thing. Right now solar is the new pink... or something. Solar is fashionable. Solar power is getting a lot of backing right now from government funding, private funding, and just general popularity. With that there is leverage to divert some of that funding to this materials research. If they can get the people in natural gas and nuclear convinced it will help them too then they can secure more funding.
Solar is in the news a lot because it's easy to implement on a personal scale. I think that you'll see a lot more articles over the next 5 to 10 years concerning the development of tidal and wave powered generators. These would be particularly beneficial in North-East US/Canada where NIMBY is stalling the installation/expansion of offshore wind farms.
For reference, 10gbe is ~1GB/sec. That is sustainable on burst reading on a 8x SATA drive array. I'm currently running over 20 drives in a home server with 10gbe link back to the networking core, and my desktop with a 10gbe link to that core as well. It is trivially easy to saturate a 10gbe link nowadays.
If you have a RAID array and the device(s) on the other side have fast storage to handle it, then yes, you can saturate a 10gbe link. But again, you have the necessary components to make use of it. Most people who talk about wanting 10Gbps on a consumer motherboard have no idea.
Also, would you really rely on a 10Gbps chipset built-in to the motherboard vs a dedicated PCIe card that can handle the network offloading? Most consumer motherboards use the CPU for network processing. Server motherboards are a different class all together...
Though, most people I guess only populate 1 slot for the GPU nowadays, and nothing else.
16 lanes for GPU. If you have a second GPU, which some do, that's 32 lanes already. NVMe storage is 4 lanes, and the GbE gets at least 1 lane and possibly 4 lanes. 16 lanes is a bad joke.
No, that's not how it works. If you put the two GPUs in the two 16x slots they both downgrade to 8x and 8x. Only the newly released 2080 can saturate an 8x PCIe 3.0 slot. Tests show that a 2080 will perform 1% to 2% faster with a PCIe 3.0 slot at 16x vs 8x. So, while having 32x lanes would give you a bit of graphics boost, it's not that much. NVMe usually gets it's lanes from the 24x PCH lanes. But it depends on the motherboard design.
"The chip also has 16-lanes of on-chip PCIe connectivity" - this actually sounds EXTREMELY low. And here I am, on a CPU with 40 lanes, and a chipset that provides another 5... in a system that is several years old. This sounds like a massive downgrade. Though, most people I guess only populate 1 slot for the GPU nowadays, and nothing else. Consumer 10gbe isn't quite there yet. Add-on sound cards have gone to the wayside (onboard audio is still shit quality in comparison, but since people only listen to low bit rate streaming MP3s anyways, I guess it doesnt matter!?) The only thing I question is the NVMe craze right now, and how this chip will be able to keep up with that, since most recent ones are usually PCIe (though some are DIMM socket now as well)
Actually, as I understand it, the i9 has 40 platform PCIe lanes (16 CPU + 24 PCH). 16 lanes are dedicated to devices needing fast access to the CPU like 16x/8x graphics card slots. 24 chipset lanes handle other connectivity, like M.2 slot, network interface, SATA, and other PCIe slots, etc.. How the lanes are allocated are based on the motherboard design.
The Nvidia 2080 is the first graphics card that can max out 8x PCIe 3.0 lanes, and just barely. There is only a 1% to 2% improvement when running with 16x PCIe 3.0 lanes. Of course, your graphics card slot should only be running at 8x if you are using SLI or if you have another fast card in the second 16x PCIe slot, otherwise it should be at 16x.
I'm not defending Intel in the decision to stick with 16x dedicated CPU lanes. More would definitely be better and would give breathing room for even more powerful graphics cards in the future. All I'm saying is that the reality is that most of us won't max it out, even in a higher end gaming system.
As for 10Gbps Ethernet, you need M.2 drives or a RAID array to get even close to 10Gbps speeds when transferring data. I recently implemented a 10Gbps lab where they were transferring 500GB datasets. Standard SATA III IDE drives were capping out at about 1.5Gbps, SATA III SSD at 3 Gbps, and a RAM drive at 6 Gbps. The RAM drive was to simulate what a NVME M.2 drive performance would be like. Fast storage was required on both sides of the connection. 10Gbps would be nice to have but you're not going to get much benefit out of it in a home or home/office environment without designing for it.
Why is it that I always end up believing that whomever denies the loudest is one with the most to hide?
All Apple had to do is issue a standard press release saying that they performed an internal audit and found no evidence to corroborate the Bloomberg story. But no, they decided to come out guns blazing, threatening to sue. Why is it that this story is so threatening to Apple? What is it that Apple isn't telling us?
my first run-in with one was with somebody who was of the definite opinion that "I am on an electric scooter!" means that they automatically have right of way over everybody & do not have to obey the traffic rules. (I admittedly don't know which set applies, but I'm going to bet that you won't go wrong by assuming that the ones that apply to bikes apply to scooters, powered or not.)
Motorcycles, actually. These are legally classed as motorized vehicles until new laws are written. Police are using discretion in enforcement because helmet laws, cycle registration plates, etc. don't make much sense. Unfortunately, they are enforcing the "no motor vehicles on the sidewalks" laws with a vengeance, so now there will be more car/human collisions.
This... My understanding is that the laws that apply to cars equally apply to scooters. They have a different license classification (perhaps the same as motor cycles) but the driving rules should be the same.
QWERTY will not be completely replaced, but I know many people who use voice for 90% of their input needs. But that doesn't work for coding.
Strap-on neural sensors have big limitations, but a brain implant with a direct connection to neurons could give you not only text input, but also thought control over light, appliances, etc. You could also use it as an alarm clock that you can't lose, a reminder and appointment calendar, as well as a place to keep always-accessible notes.
They will need to figure out how to disable it during exams.
Perhaps Voice input and Virtual Keyboards (QWERTY) in VR workspaces will become a thing in another 25 years or so.
Not all media is biased, there are some main media that offer both sides.
No, all media is biased. It's just that not all media is biased in the same way. Some media may be less biased than others, but none are perfectly objective. If you think that as long as "both sides" of the issue are presented it must mean the media is unbiased, you've fallen into one hell of a trap. There's an entire world of possibility outside of "both sides" of issue. You can sample "both sides" of the same turd, but you're eating shit either way.
The biggest problem with attempting to be even-handed is that you full into the trap of lending credence to arguments that are not worth listening to simply because they are built on a house of falsehoods. And yet ignoring falsehoods creates a trap where one side believes that the only reason why those arguments aren't being aired is due to biased media.
I have a personal Surface Pro 4 tablet and use for work and personal travel. Rarely do I take it with me around town because most of the time my cell phone and Kindle do just fine.
For work travel, I use it as a second screen for my work laptop using a j5create USB 3.0 wormhole switch USB cable. When I am involved in a network refresh at a remote site, it's nice to have a second monitor, especially for new sites that have no monitors that I can borrow.
For personal travel, I use it to access travel information, surf the internet, and to backup photos.
The Surface Pro tablets are relatively expensive compared to an Apple iPad, which limits sales to people who are willing to spend the money (i.e. business users). Also, until recently, you couldn't get a Surface Pro tablet with LTE. And iPads have been around a lot longer.
Basically, just because you haven't seen a lot of Surface devices doen't mean that they aren't selling well. It's like me saying that I see a lot more people on cell phones than iPads. It doesn't mean that iPads aren't selling, it just means that cell phones are more portable.
No. Not going to materialize and even if it did, it would not accelerate most tasks, just a small set of very specific ones.
But, if it works, there are tasks such as building predictive trees for applications that could speed up processing. For example, a GPU is is a processor dedicated to the very specific task of graphics processing (though we have found other uses, such as bitcoin mining). It's quite possible that we will find specific tasks that a quantum processor can handle much faster than a CPU. Offloading those tasks would provide a performance gain.
There is also the likelihood that there are other processes that can be offloaded as well that we just haven't thought of.
In the world's most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrodinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament.
Compared to the second most famous, but ironically similar: "Does this dress make me look fat?"
Where your relationship is also in an "uncertain predicament" -- being both dead and alive -- until the question is answered.
Even though the right answer is diametrically opposite, this is equivalent to the question: "Would you take a bullet for me?"
Interestingly, it's not enough to just answer the question correctly. The person answering the question also needs to do so within milliseconds of it being asked. So even the timing of the answer leads to it's own uncertainty.
Ticketmaster is the reason I never go to concerts.
Ticketmaster and scalpers... You know that if a large concert is sold out within an hour that the scalpers have figured out how to game the system. Now we find out that some scalpers are officially given an inside track by Ticketmaster. I guess that no one should be surprised by the corporate greed on display, but the fact that this is legal is what bugs me the most.
Teachers herd crocodiles of small children across town without the constant fear that one of them will stray into traffic.
Is that really the correct group name for children? A crocodile of children?
I've heard the terms "a gaggle of children" or a "flock" but I've never heard the term crocodile. But maybe it's used to refer to the snake like form that the groups take when following the teacher...
The best camera is the one you have with you if you need to take a picture.
True. But... the easiest way to lose your latest photos is to forget your unlock code on your cell phone. Never had this problem with a digital camera...
Yes, I should have synced or backed up to the cloud, but timing... Fortunately I had photos on my camera as well...
Thats a lot of writing you did about bandwidth... but the topic is latency.
Exactly. Latency is based on media and distance. There are few technical methods to overcome latency as much of the internet already operates near the speed of light. There is room for route optimization and through caching. But I'm guessing that the "innovation" that is being referred to is prioritizing traffic (i.e. paying more for a gaming optimized service). This, of course, would end up creating a two-tiered internet. Those with money to pay for optimized gaming service and those who can't.
You forgot to add the part where Amazon sells the data of your eating habits to health insurance companies so that they can raise your rates or deny coverage based on your unhealthy meal choices.
They might sell anonymized data but selling personal data would get them into trouble.
It's more likely that they will ask you if you want to place an order to replace the groceries that you have used (i.e. automatic re-order or place it automatically in your cart). They also might use it to send coupons or suggest other foods that others have bought with the same item. Plus, you'll see ads for it on Facebook, etc.
I should have drank the Microsoft Kool-Aid years ago. I'd be OK now. Or better yet, never went into technology. I should have went into finance. Yeah sure, '08 -'10 sucked - but they're humming along again!
Kids: your employer will cast you to the side on a heartbeat. Don't ever - EVER - think you're essential.
Actually, I'm still kicking myself for not going to work for Microsoft immediately after university in the late 90's. I'd be retired right about now with a ton of money in the bank from stock options, etc. But I did do two things right, I bought into the Microsoft ecosystem and their certifications from the beginning (Windows, Exchange certifications) and then I moved on to networking and Cisco certification. Now it's WiFi (specifically Aruba).
My advice is that If you are going into tech, make sure that you land a job at a company that is refreshing or rolling out new technology and is willing to train you. You'll learn about both the old tech and the new tech, giving you experience that you can leverage at other companies.
But, yes, finance seems to be where the real money is.
I've been reading "The Stormlight Archive" fantasy series this summer. Also got my sister hooked.
I also have Aruba (HP) WiFi Self-Study Training and certification that I need to complete by the end of the year for work (they are paying for everything). I plan on completing at least one of the courses and exams this month.
...and go with Bluetooth instead. TBH I'm not sure that's a bad idea.
Bluetooth, while getting better, isn't as good as wired when it comes to sound quality. Plus there is the cost.
I keep asking whether Bluetooth will ever be able to achieve CD audio quality? I keep coming up with "No" as the answer due to the technology limitations. I would love to be able to just set my phone in the car, automatically connect wireless, and get the same quality that I get with a direct connection. But it sounds worse than satellite radio...
So, yeah, multiple wired adapters for different devices....
Audiophiles don't care about new surround formats. Quite a few won't touch anything digital with a 10 foot pole. Some will *maybe* go in for multichannel SACD, but that's it.
Naw, this is geared toward people who buy a new receiver every time a new surround format comes out. Most audiophiles also won't touch a receiver with a 10 foot pole.
My interpretation is that most audiophiles are interested in music and optimize their system for stereo, not surround sound. It's the home theater and movie buffs who are interested in these new formats. You can argue that the home theater crowd are included in the term audiophiles, but the traditional meaning slots these into separate groups.
The only time I buy a new receiver is when a new video format is released. For example, from 720p to HD to 4K. In regards to sound, I find that dolby 5.1 serves my needs quite well. The new formats are largely for systems with 7.2 speaker setups or higher. 7.2 and higher requires a relatively large space for the home theater setup and fewer homes have this amount of space.
I agree with much of what you say, but "some people like to drive" isn't really an argument that they need to own a car outright, much like "some people like to bowl" isn't a reason that people need to own bowling alleys outright.
The question is: Why people would still buy cars? Your response conflates "needs" vs "wants". People purchase things almost purely based on want, not need. People who like to drive will still "want" own cars, so they will continue to buy them, whether they "need" to or not.
And yes, some people who really enjoy bowling do build their own bowling alleys in their homes.
OK. Great. Now go back and read the OP. The claim wasn't that a select few very determined people *might* succeed. It was that as soon as *any* hacker gains access you have *immediately* lost. It helps if you read the posts and think a bit before replying.
I see that you mis-understood my post. My post wasn't at all about the reward. I agree that the researcher should have received the reward.
My post was only about refuting the assertion that a self-destruct device would thwart a determined attacker with physical access to a device.
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Duh. Anyone sane person was saying this for years. Only the extreme fangirls couldn't see the writing on the wall from the poor sales figures. No one wants VR because all the headsets suck, the content for them suck and the only ones that suck less are way too fucking expensive.
I do think that the technology has a bit more growing to do, but I, personally, don't think that it's that far off. As for the expense, it's like a high end TV, yes it's out of reach today, but give it a 5 to 10 years and the cost will come down.
There are four things that need to happen: 1. Headsets need to become lighter and wireless, while maintaining high resolution video. 2. Touch gloves need to be included. Other senses such as smell and hot/cold can come later. They likely will require a specially designed room. 3. A large 360 degree treadmill needs to be designed for those who want to be much more immersive in the game. This would include body sensors or scanning to represent movements in the game. Using your living room without boundaries is and accident waiting to happen and 4. A killer app. My thought is that if a VR version of The Elder Scrolls would get a lot of people interested.
At least, that's my vision of a VR system that would appeal to a large enough audience to get it off the ground.
Yes, I am thoroughly shocked that websites peddling monopoly money schemes on the public are shady! /s
I was expecting this to be some sort of story involving media sites anyone has ever heard of like The Washington Post, the NYT, the NY Post, etc.. Instead it's mostly sketchy websites next-to-no-one has ever heard of full of ads and tracking scripts.
I was also taken in by the title. When I see an article about the media, I assume that they are talking about the well known media and social media organizations, not fly-by-night grey-market digital media sites that the average public never sees or cares about.
One problem here is that both natural gas and nuclear plants also rely on heat exchangers, and there's no reason this material can't be used to boost their efficiency, too.
I don't see a problem here.
In fact such materials with such varied uses should be seen as a very good thing. Right now solar is the new pink... or something. Solar is fashionable. Solar power is getting a lot of backing right now from government funding, private funding, and just general popularity. With that there is leverage to divert some of that funding to this materials research. If they can get the people in natural gas and nuclear convinced it will help them too then they can secure more funding.
Solar is in the news a lot because it's easy to implement on a personal scale. I think that you'll see a lot more articles over the next 5 to 10 years concerning the development of tidal and wave powered generators. These would be particularly beneficial in North-East US/Canada where NIMBY is stalling the installation/expansion of offshore wind farms.
For reference, 10gbe is ~1GB/sec. That is sustainable on burst reading on a 8x SATA drive array. I'm currently running over 20 drives in a home server with 10gbe link back to the networking core, and my desktop with a 10gbe link to that core as well. It is trivially easy to saturate a 10gbe link nowadays.
If you have a RAID array and the device(s) on the other side have fast storage to handle it, then yes, you can saturate a 10gbe link. But again, you have the necessary components to make use of it. Most people who talk about wanting 10Gbps on a consumer motherboard have no idea.
Also, would you really rely on a 10Gbps chipset built-in to the motherboard vs a dedicated PCIe card that can handle the network offloading? Most consumer motherboards use the CPU for network processing. Server motherboards are a different class all together...
Though, most people I guess only populate 1 slot for the GPU nowadays, and nothing else.
16 lanes for GPU. If you have a second GPU, which some do, that's 32 lanes already. NVMe storage is 4 lanes, and the GbE gets at least 1 lane and possibly 4 lanes. 16 lanes is a bad joke.
No, that's not how it works. If you put the two GPUs in the two 16x slots they both downgrade to 8x and 8x. Only the newly released 2080 can saturate an 8x PCIe 3.0 slot. Tests show that a 2080 will perform 1% to 2% faster with a PCIe 3.0 slot at 16x vs 8x. So, while having 32x lanes would give you a bit of graphics boost, it's not that much. NVMe usually gets it's lanes from the 24x PCH lanes. But it depends on the motherboard design.
"The chip also has 16-lanes of on-chip PCIe connectivity" - this actually sounds EXTREMELY low. And here I am, on a CPU with 40 lanes, and a chipset that provides another 5... in a system that is several years old. This sounds like a massive downgrade. Though, most people I guess only populate 1 slot for the GPU nowadays, and nothing else. Consumer 10gbe isn't quite there yet. Add-on sound cards have gone to the wayside (onboard audio is still shit quality in comparison, but since people only listen to low bit rate streaming MP3s anyways, I guess it doesnt matter!?) The only thing I question is the NVMe craze right now, and how this chip will be able to keep up with that, since most recent ones are usually PCIe (though some are DIMM socket now as well)
Actually, as I understand it, the i9 has 40 platform PCIe lanes (16 CPU + 24 PCH). 16 lanes are dedicated to devices needing fast access to the CPU like 16x/8x graphics card slots. 24 chipset lanes handle other connectivity, like M.2 slot, network interface, SATA, and other PCIe slots, etc.. How the lanes are allocated are based on the motherboard design.
The Nvidia 2080 is the first graphics card that can max out 8x PCIe 3.0 lanes, and just barely. There is only a 1% to 2% improvement when running with 16x PCIe 3.0 lanes. Of course, your graphics card slot should only be running at 8x if you are using SLI or if you have another fast card in the second 16x PCIe slot, otherwise it should be at 16x.
I'm not defending Intel in the decision to stick with 16x dedicated CPU lanes. More would definitely be better and would give breathing room for even more powerful graphics cards in the future. All I'm saying is that the reality is that most of us won't max it out, even in a higher end gaming system.
As for 10Gbps Ethernet, you need M.2 drives or a RAID array to get even close to 10Gbps speeds when transferring data. I recently implemented a 10Gbps lab where they were transferring 500GB datasets. Standard SATA III IDE drives were capping out at about 1.5Gbps, SATA III SSD at 3 Gbps, and a RAM drive at 6 Gbps. The RAM drive was to simulate what a NVME M.2 drive performance would be like. Fast storage was required on both sides of the connection. 10Gbps would be nice to have but you're not going to get much benefit out of it in a home or home/office environment without designing for it.
Why is it that I always end up believing that whomever denies the loudest is one with the most to hide?
All Apple had to do is issue a standard press release saying that they performed an internal audit and found no evidence to corroborate the Bloomberg story. But no, they decided to come out guns blazing, threatening to sue. Why is it that this story is so threatening to Apple? What is it that Apple isn't telling us?
my first run-in with one was with somebody who was of the definite opinion that "I am on an electric scooter!" means that they automatically have right of way over everybody & do not have to obey the traffic rules. (I admittedly don't know which set applies, but I'm going to bet that you won't go wrong by assuming that the ones that apply to bikes apply to scooters, powered or not.)
Motorcycles, actually. These are legally classed as motorized vehicles until new laws are written. Police are using discretion in enforcement because helmet laws, cycle registration plates, etc. don't make much sense. Unfortunately, they are enforcing the "no motor vehicles on the sidewalks" laws with a vengeance, so now there will be more car/human collisions.
This... My understanding is that the laws that apply to cars equally apply to scooters. They have a different license classification (perhaps the same as motor cycles) but the driving rules should be the same.
QWERTY will not be completely replaced, but I know many people who use voice for 90% of their input needs. But that doesn't work for coding.
Strap-on neural sensors have big limitations, but a brain implant with a direct connection to neurons could give you not only text input, but also thought control over light, appliances, etc. You could also use it as an alarm clock that you can't lose, a reminder and appointment calendar, as well as a place to keep always-accessible notes.
They will need to figure out how to disable it during exams.
Perhaps Voice input and Virtual Keyboards (QWERTY) in VR workspaces will become a thing in another 25 years or so.
Is it just me or is this just an advertisement for a book disguised as a news story?
Not all media is biased, there are some main media that offer both sides.
No, all media is biased. It's just that not all media is biased in the same way. Some media may be less biased than others, but none are perfectly objective. If you think that as long as "both sides" of the issue are presented it must mean the media is unbiased, you've fallen into one hell of a trap. There's an entire world of possibility outside of "both sides" of issue. You can sample "both sides" of the same turd, but you're eating shit either way.
The biggest problem with attempting to be even-handed is that you full into the trap of lending credence to arguments that are not worth listening to simply because they are built on a house of falsehoods. And yet ignoring falsehoods creates a trap where one side believes that the only reason why those arguments aren't being aired is due to biased media.
I have a personal Surface Pro 4 tablet and use for work and personal travel. Rarely do I take it with me around town because most of the time my cell phone and Kindle do just fine.
For work travel, I use it as a second screen for my work laptop using a j5create USB 3.0 wormhole switch USB cable. When I am involved in a network refresh at a remote site, it's nice to have a second monitor, especially for new sites that have no monitors that I can borrow.
For personal travel, I use it to access travel information, surf the internet, and to backup photos.
The Surface Pro tablets are relatively expensive compared to an Apple iPad, which limits sales to people who are willing to spend the money (i.e. business users). Also, until recently, you couldn't get a Surface Pro tablet with LTE. And iPads have been around a lot longer.
Basically, just because you haven't seen a lot of Surface devices doen't mean that they aren't selling well. It's like me saying that I see a lot more people on cell phones than iPads. It doesn't mean that iPads aren't selling, it just means that cell phones are more portable.
Magic?
No. Not going to materialize and even if it did, it would not accelerate most tasks, just a small set of very specific ones.
But, if it works, there are tasks such as building predictive trees for applications that could speed up processing. For example, a GPU is is a processor dedicated to the very specific task of graphics processing (though we have found other uses, such as bitcoin mining). It's quite possible that we will find specific tasks that a quantum processor can handle much faster than a CPU. Offloading those tasks would provide a performance gain.
There is also the likelihood that there are other processes that can be offloaded as well that we just haven't thought of.
In the world's most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrodinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament.
Compared to the second most famous, but ironically similar: "Does this dress make me look fat?"
Where your relationship is also in an "uncertain predicament" -- being both dead and alive -- until the question is answered.
Even though the right answer is diametrically opposite, this is equivalent to the question: "Would you take a bullet for me?"
Interestingly, it's not enough to just answer the question correctly. The person answering the question also needs to do so within milliseconds of it being asked. So even the timing of the answer leads to it's own uncertainty.
Ticketmaster is the reason I never go to concerts.
Ticketmaster and scalpers... You know that if a large concert is sold out within an hour that the scalpers have figured out how to game the system. Now we find out that some scalpers are officially given an inside track by Ticketmaster. I guess that no one should be surprised by the corporate greed on display, but the fact that this is legal is what bugs me the most.
Teachers herd crocodiles of small children across town without the constant fear that one of them will stray into traffic.
Is that really the correct group name for children? A crocodile of children?
I've heard the terms "a gaggle of children" or a "flock" but I've never heard the term crocodile. But maybe it's used to refer to the snake like form that the groups take when following the teacher...
It doesn't matter which camera is better.
The best camera is the one you have with you if you need to take a picture.
True. But... the easiest way to lose your latest photos is to forget your unlock code on your cell phone. Never had this problem with a digital camera...
Yes, I should have synced or backed up to the cloud, but timing... Fortunately I had photos on my camera as well...
Thats a lot of writing you did about bandwidth... but the topic is latency.
Exactly. Latency is based on media and distance. There are few technical methods to overcome latency as much of the internet already operates near the speed of light. There is room for route optimization and through caching. But I'm guessing that the "innovation" that is being referred to is prioritizing traffic (i.e. paying more for a gaming optimized service). This, of course, would end up creating a two-tiered internet. Those with money to pay for optimized gaming service and those who can't.
You forgot to add the part where Amazon sells the data of your eating habits to health insurance companies so that they can raise your rates or deny coverage based on your unhealthy meal choices.
They might sell anonymized data but selling personal data would get them into trouble.
It's more likely that they will ask you if you want to place an order to replace the groceries that you have used (i.e. automatic re-order or place it automatically in your cart). They also might use it to send coupons or suggest other foods that others have bought with the same item. Plus, you'll see ads for it on Facebook, etc.
I should have drank the Microsoft Kool-Aid years ago. I'd be OK now. Or better yet, never went into technology. I should have went into finance. Yeah sure, '08 -'10 sucked - but they're humming along again!
Kids: your employer will cast you to the side on a heartbeat. Don't ever - EVER - think you're essential.
Actually, I'm still kicking myself for not going to work for Microsoft immediately after university in the late 90's. I'd be retired right about now with a ton of money in the bank from stock options, etc. But I did do two things right, I bought into the Microsoft ecosystem and their certifications from the beginning (Windows, Exchange certifications) and then I moved on to networking and Cisco certification. Now it's WiFi (specifically Aruba).
My advice is that If you are going into tech, make sure that you land a job at a company that is refreshing or rolling out new technology and is willing to train you. You'll learn about both the old tech and the new tech, giving you experience that you can leverage at other companies.
But, yes, finance seems to be where the real money is.
I've been reading "The Stormlight Archive" fantasy series this summer. Also got my sister hooked.
I also have Aruba (HP) WiFi Self-Study Training and certification that I need to complete by the end of the year for work (they are paying for everything). I plan on completing at least one of the courses and exams this month.
...and go with Bluetooth instead. TBH I'm not sure that's a bad idea.
Bluetooth, while getting better, isn't as good as wired when it comes to sound quality. Plus there is the cost.
I keep asking whether Bluetooth will ever be able to achieve CD audio quality? I keep coming up with "No" as the answer due to the technology limitations. I would love to be able to just set my phone in the car, automatically connect wireless, and get the same quality that I get with a direct connection. But it sounds worse than satellite radio...
So, yeah, multiple wired adapters for different devices....
Audiophiles don't care about new surround formats. Quite a few won't touch anything digital with a 10 foot pole. Some will *maybe* go in for multichannel SACD, but that's it.
Naw, this is geared toward people who buy a new receiver every time a new surround format comes out. Most audiophiles also won't touch a receiver with a 10 foot pole.
My interpretation is that most audiophiles are interested in music and optimize their system for stereo, not surround sound. It's the home theater and movie buffs who are interested in these new formats. You can argue that the home theater crowd are included in the term audiophiles, but the traditional meaning slots these into separate groups.
The only time I buy a new receiver is when a new video format is released. For example, from 720p to HD to 4K. In regards to sound, I find that dolby 5.1 serves my needs quite well. The new formats are largely for systems with 7.2 speaker setups or higher. 7.2 and higher requires a relatively large space for the home theater setup and fewer homes have this amount of space.
I agree with much of what you say, but "some people like to drive" isn't really an argument that they need to own a car outright, much like "some people like to bowl" isn't a reason that people need to own bowling alleys outright.
The question is: Why people would still buy cars? Your response conflates "needs" vs "wants". People purchase things almost purely based on want, not need. People who like to drive will still "want" own cars, so they will continue to buy them, whether they "need" to or not.
And yes, some people who really enjoy bowling do build their own bowling alleys in their homes.
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OK. Great. Now go back and read the OP. The claim wasn't that a select few very determined people *might* succeed. It was that as soon as *any* hacker gains access you have *immediately* lost. It helps if you read the posts and think a bit before replying.
I see that you mis-understood my post. My post wasn't at all about the reward. I agree that the researcher should have received the reward.
My post was only about refuting the assertion that a self-destruct device would thwart a determined attacker with physical access to a device.