"For instance, a future pair of headphones could monitor one's pulse or inner-ear temperature for fitness tracking, something that could only be possible if the headphones were connected to a smartphone via a USB-C cable."
Complete and utter BS. Bluetooth can do this right now and honestly wireless is the answer not a freaking special DRM encumbered digital connection. the reason everyone sticks to analog is because there is zero need for complex electronics in the headphones making them CHEAP. USB-C will require the DtoA and amp to reside in the headphones making them no different than bluetooth headphones except they have added DRM.
And that is what this is all really about... Intel desperately wants headphone DRM.
"In my opinion, capitalism is the only market form that works reasonably effective and ensures progress and freedom"
If your idea of freedom is taking advantage of others? yes. A free market system is the only one that ensures progress and freedom
A free market system is an economic system based solely on demand and supply, and there is little or no government regulation. In a free market system, a buyer and a seller transact freely only when they voluntarily agree on the price of a good or a service. For example, suppose a seller wants to sell a toy for $5 and a buyer wants to buy that toy for $3. A transaction will occur when the buyer and the seller agree on a price.
Capitalism is focused on the creation of wealth and ownership of capital and factors of production, whereas a free market system is focused on the exchange of wealth, or goods and services. A free market system is based solely on supply and demand and leads to free competition in the economy, without any intervention from outside forces. On the other hand, a private owner in a capitalist system can have a monopoly on the market and prevent free competition.
Only reason we have battery problems is the general public's stupidity.
Make all phones 2X thicker and battery life would more than double. we could easily have the charge once a week battery life we had back in the flip Razr days.
Car drivers are allowed to murder motorcyclists and cyclists without recourse. It's the scumbag cops that refuse to issue reckless driving tickets that will make it easier to put manslaughter chargers on these people.
Yes I believe that a 16 year old teenybopper kid texting and driving needs to go to fucking prison for the rest of her life if she kills someone.
""in the tech world, gray hair and experience are really overrated." "
Translation...
Older employees don't take shit from management happily as readily as the young ones do. Younger employees are a lot easier to abuse so we should have more of them.
Older employees, it's your duty to show the young guys they are being underpaid and abused so they tell management to fuck off and find different jobs. the more we educate the youngsters on how to not be abused the better it is for everyone.
The poor are fat because they can only afford the shit foods that are barely food. Our healthcare system is screwed up so badly that even the attempt at universal healthcare was instead skewed for the insurance corporations.
And the ruling class's answer to poverty is "Get a job you lazy bum"
Heart bypass surgery, heart replacements, etc.... All only for the very wealthy.
Eating healthy extends your life and only the rich can afford that.
Living in a home not full of nasty crap or not living where the water has lead in it.... again only for the rich.
Being able to take vacations so that stress wont kill you early.... again only for the rich. Burger king employees dont get 4 weeks of vacation a year.
I do have a microsoft surface and if I want to draw I also use a seperate device. the pen and digitizer on the surface utterly sucks, it gets wonky at the edges and you cant easily change the nibs to simulate pencil on paper or better yet fine felt tip on paper. My real Wacom tablet feels like a prismacolor pen on paper and that is a HUGE thing for people that actually do real art. the hard plastic nib on glass utterly sucks.
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"For instance, a future pair of headphones could monitor one's pulse or inner-ear temperature for fitness tracking, something that could only be possible if the headphones were connected to a smartphone via a USB-C cable."
Complete and utter BS. Bluetooth can do this right now and honestly wireless is the answer not a freaking special DRM encumbered digital connection. the reason everyone sticks to analog is because there is zero need for complex electronics in the headphones making them CHEAP. USB-C will require the DtoA and amp to reside in the headphones making them no different than bluetooth headphones except they have added DRM.
And that is what this is all really about... Intel desperately wants headphone DRM.
Sounds fair... can I fine the driver for being late? because most of the time the driver is 5 minutes late arriving.
Comcast hates giving you what you paid for.... Comcast rewarding customers? HA!
They will never get the contents of my secret file /dev/random from me..... POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
they still have not broken XOR and a one time pad.
how about fucking spending money on your infrastructure first?
"In my opinion, capitalism is the only market form that works reasonably effective and ensures progress and freedom"
If your idea of freedom is taking advantage of others? yes. A free market system is the only one that ensures progress and freedom
A free market system is an economic system based solely on demand and supply, and there is little or no government regulation. In a free market system, a buyer and a seller transact freely only when they voluntarily agree on the price of a good or a service. For example, suppose a seller wants to sell a toy for $5 and a buyer wants to buy that toy for $3. A transaction will occur when the buyer and the seller agree on a price.
Capitalism is focused on the creation of wealth and ownership of capital and factors of production, whereas a free market system is focused on the exchange of wealth, or goods and services. A free market system is based solely on supply and demand and leads to free competition in the economy, without any intervention from outside forces. On the other hand, a private owner in a capitalist system can have a monopoly on the market and prevent free competition.
Only reason we have battery problems is the general public's stupidity.
Make all phones 2X thicker and battery life would more than double. we could easily have the charge once a week battery life we had back in the flip Razr days.
A tiny, completely unknown company's self appointed CEO tries desperately to get noticed so he says something that is Fox news worthy....
And Slashdot as usual bites and runs with it.
Quit being a pussy and log in to post your rant you scared little baby.
Because AT&T for some reason won't let me have access to their core routers.
Yes, I even tried asking nicely.
Yes it does.... when I install a blocking hosts file....
Oh shit... here comes APK claiming he invented it! Everyone scatter!
Car drivers are allowed to murder motorcyclists and cyclists without recourse. It's the scumbag cops that refuse to issue reckless driving tickets that will make it easier to put manslaughter chargers on these people.
Yes I believe that a 16 year old teenybopper kid texting and driving needs to go to fucking prison for the rest of her life if she kills someone.
I wish they would pull over texting drivers and then punch them in the face.
there is NO REASON.... to text while driving. NONE... and if you do it you deserve a punch in the face for risking others with your selfish behavior.
Just wait, human stupidity will fix that for you guys.
Why cant we get a vaccine against stupidity? or at least make it so those people can not reproduce?
""in the tech world, gray hair and experience are really overrated." "
Translation...
Older employees don't take shit from management happily as readily as the young ones do. Younger employees are a lot easier to abuse so we should have more of them.
Older employees, it's your duty to show the young guys they are being underpaid and abused so they tell management to fuck off and find different jobs. the more we educate the youngsters on how to not be abused the better it is for everyone.
"and (most places) tap water is a lot better for you"
Poor people live in places like flint and detroit...... where the water is.... oh wait... unsafe to drink.
You going to leave a hose out on your rich person lawn so the poor can come by and get a drink?
A trencher is hard work?
Sounds like someone has not driven a shovel in a very long time. THAT is hard work. running a ditch witch is easy as hell.
I suggest cutting rent by 85%. Landlords do not need to be making that much money.
Sorry kid, we are number 3 and dropping fast.
Mexico will outpace us in manufacturing by 2020. Mostly because American companies are moving there for the lax environmental laws and cheap labor.
Welcome to america.
The poor are fat because they can only afford the shit foods that are barely food.
Our healthcare system is screwed up so badly that even the attempt at universal healthcare was instead skewed for the insurance corporations.
And the ruling class's answer to poverty is "Get a job you lazy bum"
It means a lot of our Science students are pretty damn stupid, nobody educated would go on a religion Jihad.
It is really and it is already only for the rich.
Heart bypass surgery, heart replacements, etc.... All only for the very wealthy.
Eating healthy extends your life and only the rich can afford that.
Living in a home not full of nasty crap or not living where the water has lead in it.... again only for the rich.
Being able to take vacations so that stress wont kill you early.... again only for the rich. Burger king employees dont get 4 weeks of vacation a year.
Install facebook purity. it fixes most of the problems you hate about what they are doing.
I do have a microsoft surface and if I want to draw I also use a seperate device. the pen and digitizer on the surface utterly sucks, it gets wonky at the edges and you cant easily change the nibs to simulate pencil on paper or better yet fine felt tip on paper. My real Wacom tablet feels like a prismacolor pen on paper and that is a HUGE thing for people that actually do real art. the hard plastic nib on glass utterly sucks.