The US already have a bunch of very bright hackers on its payroll. They work down at Fort Meade in a big glass building with NSA written on the front of it.
What this smacks of, is kingdom building. The FBI is trying to bolster its own little playpen, instead of playing nicely with others and asking the NSA for help.
... because then the studios won't have a boogie man to blame when their crappy game doesn't sell.
Studio Exec: Oh noes, our awesome game isn't selling because people are pirating it instead. Random Underling: Sir, no one has cracked our DRM yet.... Studio Exec: Oh shit, hurry up and leak a crack before the shareholders notice our 80 million dollar game sucks
I thought about Intel/AMDs response to this as the concept is a direct attack on the profit percentage of a computer. MS is unsurprisingly trying to take more.
Consider this.
Random company has X dollars to spend on a new server. Y is allocated to the hardware and Z is allocated to licensing. Whereas previously they could get an 8 core dual socket machine. This would give Intel/AMD a sale of 2 of their better margin CPU's. Now, the company has to re-allocate funds to MS licensing and therefore needs to buy a smaller, lower margin CPU to keep within budget.
This directly affects Intel/AMD's profitability.
The solution I propose is that Intel/AMD license their CPU's to Azure on an 'instructions per second over time' model. Basically if the CPU maxes out for anything more than a burst, extra fee's a due. Fr the regular user who's CPU isn't pegged at 100% day in and day out, then it wouldn't make a difference. But if you run a large web services company...
Something tells me MS wouldn't like that very much.
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Intent counts for a lot.
History has shown us that Microsoft will do everything they can to screw with their customers in any way possibly.
So far, Tesla has been incredibly customer friendly. Until that changes, the data they collect serves to make their products better.
Looks like Eve from Wall-E got jiggy(watt) with a Dalek.
In Australia it's a lovely blue most of the time.
Guns are also heavily restricted here. Funnily enough, we don't have mass-shootings either.
The US already have a bunch of very bright hackers on its payroll. They work down at Fort Meade in a big glass building with NSA written on the front of it.
What this smacks of, is kingdom building. The FBI is trying to bolster its own little playpen, instead of playing nicely with others and asking the NSA for help.
The FBI simply wants a bigger budget.
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Except that Apple admitted that wasn't supposed to happen and offered workarounds/fixes after they worked out the issue...
It's also been shown that too much exposure [to MRI] causes cancer.
Total BS.
Then why do radiologists always stand behind lead-lined walls/glass when they operate the machines?
Research has shown that we are really bad at predicting the future but compulsively do so anyways.
I dunno, Kafka and Orwell seem to be pretty much on-the-money.
If it's a good game, then it will sell well. If Just Cause is selling, then I'm assuming it's a good game.
I was referring more to the games that should never have gotten past initial design, or ones that are so completely unplayable due to buggy software.
... because then the studios won't have a boogie man to blame when their crappy game doesn't sell.
Studio Exec: Oh noes, our awesome game isn't selling because people are pirating it instead.
Random Underling: Sir, no one has cracked our DRM yet....
Studio Exec: Oh shit, hurry up and leak a crack before the shareholders notice our 80 million dollar game sucks
Lim Sao Tuk knows it's there, and he thanks you for keeping it up and running for so long. It has been a very useful machine for him.
I thought about Intel/AMDs response to this as the concept is a direct attack on the profit percentage of a computer. MS is unsurprisingly trying to take more.
Consider this.
Random company has X dollars to spend on a new server. Y is allocated to the hardware and Z is allocated to licensing. Whereas previously they could get an 8 core dual socket machine. This would give Intel/AMD a sale of 2 of their better margin CPU's. Now, the company has to re-allocate funds to MS licensing and therefore needs to buy a smaller, lower margin CPU to keep within budget.
This directly affects Intel/AMD's profitability.
The solution I propose is that Intel/AMD license their CPU's to Azure on an 'instructions per second over time' model. Basically if the CPU maxes out for anything more than a burst, extra fee's a due. Fr the regular user who's CPU isn't pegged at 100% day in and day out, then it wouldn't make a difference. But if you run a large web services company...
Something tells me MS wouldn't like that very much.
Just where exactly do you think that Tesla puts all the old used batteries from its cars?
I'm sure they have a wall somewhere that they stack them up against. A Wall of Power or such-like.
Except the Nintendo has up to 4 controllers and.. a proper* controller.
*for varying definitions of proper.
Long range catapult?
The only change that drones give you is range and accuracy, which admittedly is significant, but not a deal breaker.
Joint Photographic Expert Group trying to think of things to justify their relevance.
I'm sure the DOJ will be filing suit against Apple for this very shortly.
No, they're using them because they haven't been shown anything better.
Easiest way to measure this? Count how many used Surface Pros show up on eBay once the iPad Pro comes out.
Because I'm bored...
Sony
http://www.techhive.com/articl...
Microsoft
http://www.escapistmagazine.co...
Nintendo
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
http://toucharcade.com/2014/05...
Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo?
There are so many stories about those three stuffing customers around, it's not even worth a citation.
So how does one tell the difference between Android, and spyware? As for all intents and purposes, they accomplish the same thing.
Given that the customer list is 95% male, I'd rephrase that to "attempted" cheating.
I'd put money on number of guys that actually got lucky as a direct result of the site being no more than a rounding error compared to the total.
Now.... If you find your wife on there...
Not quite sure what you're referring to as I don't have Flash Player installed and videos play perfectly fine...
But I could care less
That means you do care
At least a little
Automation removes the *need* to put humans on mars to actually do things on mars.
Automation removed the *need* for humans.
If you disagree, you're just not thinking far enough ahead.
I am still running the ship here.
... until the cheque clears.