As much as I agree about Beats... why German? Many of the best IEM and headphone manufacturers are American, actually. Shure, Westone, Grado, V-Moda, Etymotic Research and many more besides are from there and many still manufacture there which is a rare thing. Don't get caught in the brand image of the Sennheiser and B&O of the world, they're far from all there is.
Bokeh is the term for the shape of the circle of confusion (specifically, because it's not always a circle) caused by lenses in a non-pinhole camera. It's related to depth of field, sure, but it has a very specific meaning.
Do you own a phone, a computer, a TV, a watch? Do you use a web browser? Do you listen to digital music? Congratulations, Apple has had an impact on you, sometimes directly, sometimes tangentially. You may not like it, but putting your head in the sand just makes you appear disconnected from reality.
Have you actually used Uber and taxi services? Uber's quality of service, reliability and ease of use is making pretty much all taxi operators ridiculously embarrassed, and that's on top of being cheaper to boot.
The "hacker" crowd is most definitely not dying, it's simply facing demographic changes. We used to be everything there was when it came to computers, both users and contributors. Now, there are billions of end users who don't give a toss about how it works so long as it does. We're no longer the majority, or even a dominant force.
However, that does not mean that the crowd is shrinking. Proportionally, it might be, but in absolute terms it's far more likely to be growing and to keep growing as more and more people have access to a computer from a young age, therefore exposing them to technology and allowing them to choose this path if they feel an affinity with it. Things are definitely changing, but don't go tombstone shopping just yet.
Bear in mind that this is sales, not install base. iOS still has a big install base and they seem to be bigger spenders than Android users in terms of apps.
Redeemable keys used for sharing have not been redeemed and can therefore be used by anybody without any action of whoever actually purchased/obtained the key.
Even on Star Trek, there are many civilizations that decline to join "the club". Star Trek is silly anyway, because it is unlikely that so many civilizations would reach nearly the exact same degree of development at exactly the same time.
Is it though? Star Trek depicts a universe teeming with life, and in that context there will be numerous civilizations at pretty much every level of advancement possible. They show that in the series too: many episodes revolve around an incredibly advanced or primitive civilization, or even talks about distant past civilizations long since gone.
Also, as we learn more and more about physics, we get more and more confirmation that FTL communication/travel is fundamentally impossible. It is highly unlikely that interstellar travel will ever be like taking the train to work.
FTL travel is just the classic exception that allows sci-fi to work. Without it, just about everything in Trek would be impossible, but nowhere does Trek imply that this will happen. Instead, Trek is "assuming this is possible, what could happen?"
But you're making the quite flawed assumption that you should only ever compare the cream of the crop. I'll give you a hint: 99% of H-1B workers aren't IIT graduates and wouldn't have made it to the top 50% in the entry test. The argument that just because one well-known outlier in India is good, that this is a "propaganda piece" is laughable.
The truth is far, far simpler: the companies are looking for cheaper workers, and India is happy to provide. Quality is of little concern.
One of the biggest reasons agriculture isn't focused as much is that a lot of people don't realize how polluting it is. They just see cows and corn fields, they don't think about everything that comes with that. Furthermore, cars pollute in cities, an already crowded and dirty environment, so taking care of them would also significantly improve air quality as well, giving more direct effects to the solution than just reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
You mean you've never seen software as a service batch up their improvements into larger updates they can use to muster more press attention? It's simple marketing logic, it doesn't "disappoint". You can get the updates as they're being built up by subscribing to the Insider builds, if you so desire.
I also still haven't seen anything about monthly fees, so stop with the FUD.
The 2012 MacBook Pro is faster than the 2015 regular MacBook, largely because the priorities are different (the Pro is supposed to be a productivity laptop while the regular is more for maximum battery life).
Patents, trademarks and copyright are all completely fine and excellent concepts. Do not mistake the twisted, barely recognizable husks that we have now for the concepts themselves.
Seems like you're missing a few elements here. The One S is basically the same as the 360 Slim, it plays the same games in the same way. It's just a small hardware upgrade for a few features. Project Scorpio is gonna be different, same as the PS4 Neo, but both will play the same games and both actually force developers to support both platforms. You cannot release a Scorpio/Neo-only game. Your concerns are born out of ignorance more than anything else.
Oh, and, Scorpio's gonna drop late 2017, 4 years after the One. That's just one year shorter than the N64 generation, but you keep backwards and forward compatibility here. That's not "shortening the console life cycle" any way you cut it, and it's much better than the frustratingly long PS3/360 cycle.
All chip and PIN cards here and Canada (and I'll assume in Europe as well) have zero liability to the user. You can still contest charges done with your card. What you're saying is absurd and really needs a big [citation needed].
First of all, "But reading the chip seems to take much longer than just swiping." Big fucking whoop? That's the time it takes for the card to obtain authentication from the bank server instead of the terminal just blindly accepting the transaction. That's already more secure, so stop whining.
But more importantly, chip and PIN is known to be more secure than swipe and sign. That's not up for debate, it's a fact. Unfortunately, the US, in their wise ways, decided to bastardize the system into chip and sign, removing the vast majority of the additional security for no real benefit. Oh, you can't remember a 4-digit PIN? Tough fucking luck. Instead, you'll probably have to switch to chip and PIN at some point in the future, causing another confusing transition.
Furthermore, the partial transition, various fuckups and all have largely been isolated to the US. Sure, Europe, Canada and others have also had a few hiccups when moving to the new system, but they had clear, strict deadlines that all providers followed. The US basically let the monkeys run the show, and so it's been a mess of delays.
You guys fucked up, now you get to live with the consequences. This isn't a failing of the chip system, it's a failing of the US thinking they could half-adopt it. That entire article sounds like entitled whining.
I'm a bit concerned if it's the X1 due to battery life considerations. If, on the other hand, they managed to snatch the X2 in a premiere, then that would be huge.
Birds do not stick around when a wildfire erupts, and they are much softer than drones if they were to collide with firefighting planes and helos. They also tend to be scared of the noise of planes, so they'll avoid those as well.
The NIST deals with recommendations for just about everyone at once, so while it may not matter for Joe Q. Public, it's a good thing to keep in mind for government implementations or sensitive academic work and so on.
The recommendation doesn't make sense. Yes, your phone may not always be in your possession.
I'd recommend re-reading the actual recommendation: "The NIST DAG draft argues that SMS-based two-factor authentication is an insecure process because the phone may not always be in possession of the phone number". It's not the user having the phone on them, it's the phone having the number associated with it. They're essentially saying that it's too easy to hijack the phone's number (or simply get it when the user changes it) and receive the SMS instead of the legitimate user.
I find that this quest for thinness is actually detrimental at this point: phones are so big and thin that they become more and more likely to get damaged from bending.
Quite frankly, who cares about fashion when you buy stuff like NAD? Just look at the latest stuff from McIntosh and such, they're perhaps even uglier than they used to be, but that doesn't matter. Sound quality is still excellent and will completely trash anything you'll find at an Apple store or referred to by an Apple employee.
Keyword: "top executive in Brazil." They didn't go fetch Larry Page in his cozy home in the US to make him face justice in Brazil, and the US would've laughed at their face if they asked for that.
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As much as I agree about Beats... why German? Many of the best IEM and headphone manufacturers are American, actually. Shure, Westone, Grado, V-Moda, Etymotic Research and many more besides are from there and many still manufacture there which is a rare thing. Don't get caught in the brand image of the Sennheiser and B&O of the world, they're far from all there is.
Bokeh is the term for the shape of the circle of confusion (specifically, because it's not always a circle) caused by lenses in a non-pinhole camera. It's related to depth of field, sure, but it has a very specific meaning.
I mean, the lead parachute also would.
Do you own a phone, a computer, a TV, a watch? Do you use a web browser? Do you listen to digital music? Congratulations, Apple has had an impact on you, sometimes directly, sometimes tangentially. You may not like it, but putting your head in the sand just makes you appear disconnected from reality.
Have you actually used Uber and taxi services? Uber's quality of service, reliability and ease of use is making pretty much all taxi operators ridiculously embarrassed, and that's on top of being cheaper to boot.
The "hacker" crowd is most definitely not dying, it's simply facing demographic changes. We used to be everything there was when it came to computers, both users and contributors. Now, there are billions of end users who don't give a toss about how it works so long as it does. We're no longer the majority, or even a dominant force.
However, that does not mean that the crowd is shrinking. Proportionally, it might be, but in absolute terms it's far more likely to be growing and to keep growing as more and more people have access to a computer from a young age, therefore exposing them to technology and allowing them to choose this path if they feel an affinity with it. Things are definitely changing, but don't go tombstone shopping just yet.
Bear in mind that this is sales, not install base. iOS still has a big install base and they seem to be bigger spenders than Android users in terms of apps.
Redeemable keys used for sharing have not been redeemed and can therefore be used by anybody without any action of whoever actually purchased/obtained the key.
Even on Star Trek, there are many civilizations that decline to join "the club". Star Trek is silly anyway, because it is unlikely that so many civilizations would reach nearly the exact same degree of development at exactly the same time.
Is it though? Star Trek depicts a universe teeming with life, and in that context there will be numerous civilizations at pretty much every level of advancement possible. They show that in the series too: many episodes revolve around an incredibly advanced or primitive civilization, or even talks about distant past civilizations long since gone.
Also, as we learn more and more about physics, we get more and more confirmation that FTL communication/travel is fundamentally impossible. It is highly unlikely that interstellar travel will ever be like taking the train to work.
FTL travel is just the classic exception that allows sci-fi to work. Without it, just about everything in Trek would be impossible, but nowhere does Trek imply that this will happen. Instead, Trek is "assuming this is possible, what could happen?"
But you're making the quite flawed assumption that you should only ever compare the cream of the crop. I'll give you a hint: 99% of H-1B workers aren't IIT graduates and wouldn't have made it to the top 50% in the entry test. The argument that just because one well-known outlier in India is good, that this is a "propaganda piece" is laughable.
The truth is far, far simpler: the companies are looking for cheaper workers, and India is happy to provide. Quality is of little concern.
One of the biggest reasons agriculture isn't focused as much is that a lot of people don't realize how polluting it is. They just see cows and corn fields, they don't think about everything that comes with that. Furthermore, cars pollute in cities, an already crowded and dirty environment, so taking care of them would also significantly improve air quality as well, giving more direct effects to the solution than just reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
You mean you've never seen software as a service batch up their improvements into larger updates they can use to muster more press attention? It's simple marketing logic, it doesn't "disappoint". You can get the updates as they're being built up by subscribing to the Insider builds, if you so desire.
I also still haven't seen anything about monthly fees, so stop with the FUD.
The 2012 MacBook Pro is faster than the 2015 regular MacBook, largely because the priorities are different (the Pro is supposed to be a productivity laptop while the regular is more for maximum battery life).
Patents, trademarks and copyright are all completely fine and excellent concepts. Do not mistake the twisted, barely recognizable husks that we have now for the concepts themselves.
China is only communist when it suits them, so your notion of "foreign" is laughable.
Seems like you're missing a few elements here. The One S is basically the same as the 360 Slim, it plays the same games in the same way. It's just a small hardware upgrade for a few features. Project Scorpio is gonna be different, same as the PS4 Neo, but both will play the same games and both actually force developers to support both platforms. You cannot release a Scorpio/Neo-only game. Your concerns are born out of ignorance more than anything else.
Oh, and, Scorpio's gonna drop late 2017, 4 years after the One. That's just one year shorter than the N64 generation, but you keep backwards and forward compatibility here. That's not "shortening the console life cycle" any way you cut it, and it's much better than the frustratingly long PS3/360 cycle.
All chip and PIN cards here and Canada (and I'll assume in Europe as well) have zero liability to the user. You can still contest charges done with your card. What you're saying is absurd and really needs a big [citation needed].
First of all, "But reading the chip seems to take much longer than just swiping." Big fucking whoop? That's the time it takes for the card to obtain authentication from the bank server instead of the terminal just blindly accepting the transaction. That's already more secure, so stop whining.
But more importantly, chip and PIN is known to be more secure than swipe and sign. That's not up for debate, it's a fact. Unfortunately, the US, in their wise ways, decided to bastardize the system into chip and sign, removing the vast majority of the additional security for no real benefit. Oh, you can't remember a 4-digit PIN? Tough fucking luck. Instead, you'll probably have to switch to chip and PIN at some point in the future, causing another confusing transition.
Furthermore, the partial transition, various fuckups and all have largely been isolated to the US. Sure, Europe, Canada and others have also had a few hiccups when moving to the new system, but they had clear, strict deadlines that all providers followed. The US basically let the monkeys run the show, and so it's been a mess of delays.
You guys fucked up, now you get to live with the consequences. This isn't a failing of the chip system, it's a failing of the US thinking they could half-adopt it. That entire article sounds like entitled whining.
I'm a bit concerned if it's the X1 due to battery life considerations. If, on the other hand, they managed to snatch the X2 in a premiere, then that would be huge.
Birds do not stick around when a wildfire erupts, and they are much softer than drones if they were to collide with firefighting planes and helos. They also tend to be scared of the noise of planes, so they'll avoid those as well.
The NIST deals with recommendations for just about everyone at once, so while it may not matter for Joe Q. Public, it's a good thing to keep in mind for government implementations or sensitive academic work and so on.
The recommendation doesn't make sense. Yes, your phone may not always be in your possession.
I'd recommend re-reading the actual recommendation: "The NIST DAG draft argues that SMS-based two-factor authentication is an insecure process because the phone may not always be in possession of the phone number". It's not the user having the phone on them, it's the phone having the number associated with it. They're essentially saying that it's too easy to hijack the phone's number (or simply get it when the user changes it) and receive the SMS instead of the legitimate user.
I find that this quest for thinness is actually detrimental at this point: phones are so big and thin that they become more and more likely to get damaged from bending.
Quite frankly, who cares about fashion when you buy stuff like NAD? Just look at the latest stuff from McIntosh and such, they're perhaps even uglier than they used to be, but that doesn't matter. Sound quality is still excellent and will completely trash anything you'll find at an Apple store or referred to by an Apple employee.
Keyword: "top executive in Brazil." They didn't go fetch Larry Page in his cozy home in the US to make him face justice in Brazil, and the US would've laughed at their face if they asked for that.