If you're stupid enough to buy a hot tub and connect it to the internet, you deserve to be boiled alive. WHY IN THE FUCK would anyone need this kind of shit?!?
Samsung, for one, said it will have a phone for Verizon, AT&T and other networks in the first half of the year.
I don't understand why they need to make different models for each carrier band. The transceiver chips aren't that expensive and don't take much room. Give me a phone I can take to whatever carrier I want when I want, and be done with it. Hell, the cost of the chips can probably be offset by the need to design and make different motherboards.
Oh, and a battery I can replace would be nice as well.
Aside from being cold, barren, and lacking an atmosphere... The place is covered in chemicals that are hazardous to humans. How many people would go to Antarctica if the snow was made of perchlorates.
More to the point, how many people would go back and forth from Antarctica and home if it took months rather than hours? You don't think sub zero snow is life threatening? Not one iota of skin is exposed when outside for extend periods. Replace the mega-thermal gear with a self contained life suit, and the habitats keep the atmosphere in rather than the cold out, and you have a viable colony on Mars. Sure, they may be dependent on Earth for a while for supplies, but given a few years or a decade, they can become self sufficient.
Really interesting take on what's the real threat to the First Amendment when it's the Government that is bound by it. Corporations are in no way accountable to free speech protections, and this is how we loose them.
When the corporations own all the conduits of speech, there will be no free speech.
Here in the U.S., sex is taboo, and heaven forbid we try to teach it to our children. Violence and racism? Those are prime time material, and OK to show to anyone of any age.
Well everything is "AI" now, so this fits in. I am developing a "hacking AI". It scans networks looking for vulnerabilities. Totally innovative. I call it nmap.
I'm developing a hacking tool that trains AI with machine learning to break blockchains. And it has a VR/AR UI.
Phtttt. Unless you're creating a gooey interface in Visual Basic, you ain't hacking shit.
The data seems to be there if all one has to do is log in to their account and check, so Facebook already knows who's been hacked. Facebook needs to email everyone at their non-Facebook contact point that they've been hacked.
Community gardens are a good way to get some fresh veggies for a few, but there is no way an empty lot scattered here and there will feed an entire community. You could raze New York City to the ground and there wouldn't be enough land to grow food for even a quarter of the population. Subsistence farming in the First World will never work again, especially in the cities, the population is just too large. When I said big Agra has everything locked up, I wasn't talking only in land, but also in planting, harvesting, processing and distribution, and they'll never give that infrastructure up willingly. If it fails, and god help us if it ever does, and we have to return small farms scattered throughout, it will take time to rebuild the old infrastructure, if it ever can be rebuilt.
Take a look at OurGroceries (not affiliated, just love the app). You can have multiple lists to keep track of whatever you want to buy and share among devices, including your computer via the browser. There's no way to keep notes on the items, but it doesn't sound like you do that anyway with Evernote.
Apple didn't reach into his hard drive to delete his local copies. They simply pulled the listing from their store, meaning that new downloads and streaming are no longer possible.
Then they should pull it from the store but leave it available for download for those who've purchased it. Da Silva purchased a license for these three songs from Apple, and Apple payed the licensor their share of the sale. It shouldn't matter if Apple looses their license to distribute the product, da Silva already purchased it and Apple is now a cloud storage location for that particular file. Either that, or the license holder needs to provide a means for legally purchased media to be downloaded by those who, in good faith, purchased it.
I'm not a fan of making drugs illegal at all, but I'll take "big pharma" over the drug cartels..
You do realize the reason we have the drug cartels is because the drugs they provide are illegal, right? Without the criminalization of these drugs, you would have legitimate business with legitimate employees, not gun toting, necktie creating thugs.
reinvent: "Change (something) so much that it appears to be entirely new."
If you change something so much that it appears to be an entirely new thing, it IS an entirely new thing.
FTFS: "Their new device works in an entirely different way from conventional antennas, using a laser to measure the way radio signals interact with certain types of atoms."
The invention of the LCD panel didn't reinvent the display tube, it replaced it with an entirely different method, which just happened to provide the same function. Same thing here. Using cesium atoms in a container, excited by two lasers, they were able to detect radio waves by the change in frequency of the atoms in that gas. That, by the way, was where I was getting the phased array analogy from. An antenna is (2) a rod, wire, or other device used to transmit or receive radio or television signals. This may qualify as an 'other device', but in reality it's an entirely new device. You may or may not call an antenna, but it does not replace the standard, passive, antenna invented by Hertz. I don't even think this can be used for transmitting, and certainly won't be replacing the antenna any time soon.
One probe, one detector, no scanning,
Each atom could be considered a detector because the final signal is determined by how much light is absorbed by the gas (again, thus the loose array analogy).
IMHO reinvent is a made up word used to either fool people you are marketing to (be it you or your product you are marketing), help inflate one's ego, or both. To repeat what I stated above, if you change something so much it appears to be something entirely new, it is something entirely new. To say otherwise is just trying to inflate the importance unnecessarily and end up making it seem less important. If you invent something new, take credit for that. If you improve on an existing technology, don't try to make it sound more important by saying you "reinvented" it.
And for the record, I do believe this is a significant development, but also believe the space shuttle program was significant, but didn't reinvent air travel.
The battery was reinvented, due to it's first development, in what is now modern day Iran, being lost over time. The antenna, however, has not been forgotten so could not have been "reinvented". Redesigned, perhaps, or a new type of antenna may have been invented, but the antenna on my roof is still there, and is still a variation of the first dipole antenna invented by Heinrich Hertz. This seems to be a variation of the phased array, just on a molecular scale, who's development has been filtered through the marketing department.
On the positive note, as least you can blame the outage on Microsoft and not take the heat yourself for Exchange crashing and being down for 4.5 hours.
Ah, but your boss will tell you it was your decision to depend on a vendor who turned out to be undependable, making it your fault. And if it was in fact your decision and not something you argued against and was overridden, he has a point.
And he has a valid point, even if HE was the one who decided to make the move. If you're not willing to argue against bad decisions of your boss, you're nothing more than a 'yes man', and useless to the organization.
Love the vomit inducing amount of childishness in the video, intended to mask the vile nature of this corporate entity
Have you interacted with the "average" person lately? A good portion of the internet population has the IQ of a seven year old, and THAT is who this infomercial is targeted towards.
Until the entire board of directors and everyone with a C*O in their title goes to prison for shit like this, nothing will change in the corporate world. Pissy little fines that barley make a blip on the bottom line will do nothing, and that's probably all that will happen AGAIN.
The bulletin board days are behind us, neck beard. Get your shit together and join the real world. Stop acting like some social misfit. Nobody wants to hear about your 20 sided dice anymore.
Is this "real world" you speak of the world where the information you consume is controlled by the garden you happen to be in? If so, this is the world where the First Amendment doesn't apply because the garden owner can limit whatever speech it deems unworthy for you to hear. This is how we loose our freedom of speech -- by giving the control of all speech to those that aren't bound by the Constitution.
My guests come to visit me for things like dinner and conversation, to watch a movie or play games, they don't come to leach off my internet sitting on the couch tweeting and facebooking.
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Mouse users != power users.
Please Mr. Power User, show me the Mona Lisa you drew in Illustrator with your keyboard.
Are you sitting there waiting for him to finish typing? I figured out he was done by the post ending, and moved on with my life.
If you're stupid enough to buy a hot tub and connect it to the internet, you deserve to be boiled alive. WHY IN THE FUCK would anyone need this kind of shit?!?
Samsung, for one, said it will have a phone for Verizon, AT&T and other networks in the first half of the year.
I don't understand why they need to make different models for each carrier band. The transceiver chips aren't that expensive and don't take much room. Give me a phone I can take to whatever carrier I want when I want, and be done with it. Hell, the cost of the chips can probably be offset by the need to design and make different motherboards.
Oh, and a battery I can replace would be nice as well.
Aside from being cold, barren, and lacking an atmosphere... The place is covered in chemicals that are hazardous to humans. How many people would go to Antarctica if the snow was made of perchlorates.
More to the point, how many people would go back and forth from Antarctica and home if it took months rather than hours? You don't think sub zero snow is life threatening? Not one iota of skin is exposed when outside for extend periods. Replace the mega-thermal gear with a self contained life suit, and the habitats keep the atmosphere in rather than the cold out, and you have a viable colony on Mars. Sure, they may be dependent on Earth for a while for supplies, but given a few years or a decade, they can become self sufficient.
TIL Twitter has debates.
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Really interesting take on what's the real threat to the First Amendment when it's the Government that is bound by it. Corporations are in no way accountable to free speech protections, and this is how we loose them.
When the corporations own all the conduits of speech, there will be no free speech.
Here in the U.S., sex is taboo, and heaven forbid we try to teach it to our children. Violence and racism? Those are prime time material, and OK to show to anyone of any age.
Well everything is "AI" now, so this fits in. I am developing a "hacking AI". It scans networks looking for vulnerabilities. Totally innovative. I call it nmap.
I'm developing a hacking tool that trains AI with machine learning to break blockchains. And it has a VR/AR UI.
Phtttt. Unless you're creating a gooey interface in Visual Basic, you ain't hacking shit.
The data seems to be there if all one has to do is log in to their account and check, so Facebook already knows who's been hacked. Facebook needs to email everyone at their non-Facebook contact point that they've been hacked.
Community gardens are a good way to get some fresh veggies for a few, but there is no way an empty lot scattered here and there will feed an entire community. You could raze New York City to the ground and there wouldn't be enough land to grow food for even a quarter of the population. Subsistence farming in the First World will never work again, especially in the cities, the population is just too large. When I said big Agra has everything locked up, I wasn't talking only in land, but also in planting, harvesting, processing and distribution, and they'll never give that infrastructure up willingly. If it fails, and god help us if it ever does, and we have to return small farms scattered throughout, it will take time to rebuild the old infrastructure, if it ever can be rebuilt.
Take a look at OurGroceries (not affiliated, just love the app). You can have multiple lists to keep track of whatever you want to buy and share among devices, including your computer via the browser. There's no way to keep notes on the items, but it doesn't sound like you do that anyway with Evernote.
Why can't the first world also go back to subsistence farming?
Because big Agra has has it all locked up here.
It will take quite a lot of time before robots become cheaper than workers in emerging markets such as Africa...
How long will I have to wait for my burger in the drive through if it's made in Africa?
Apple didn't reach into his hard drive to delete his local copies. They simply pulled the listing from their store, meaning that new downloads and streaming are no longer possible.
Then they should pull it from the store but leave it available for download for those who've purchased it. Da Silva purchased a license for these three songs from Apple, and Apple payed the licensor their share of the sale. It shouldn't matter if Apple looses their license to distribute the product, da Silva already purchased it and Apple is now a cloud storage location for that particular file. Either that, or the license holder needs to provide a means for legally purchased media to be downloaded by those who, in good faith, purchased it.
I was doing accurate voice recognition and voice control of my computer back in the 90s on Pentium 1 CPUs with 16MB of RAM.
So, why didn't you launch a smart speaker in the meantime? Was it crap compared to current day?
I was changing my own oil and doing light maintenance on my vehicle back in high school. Should I have opened my own garage?
I'm not a fan of making drugs illegal at all, but I'll take "big pharma" over the drug cartels..
You do realize the reason we have the drug cartels is because the drugs they provide are illegal, right? Without the criminalization of these drugs, you would have legitimate business with legitimate employees, not gun toting, necktie creating thugs.
reinvent: "Change (something) so much that it appears to be entirely new."
If you change something so much that it appears to be an entirely new thing, it IS an entirely new thing.
FTFS: "Their new device works in an entirely different way from conventional antennas, using a laser to measure the way radio signals interact with certain types of atoms."
The invention of the LCD panel didn't reinvent the display tube, it replaced it with an entirely different method, which just happened to provide the same function. Same thing here. Using cesium atoms in a container, excited by two lasers, they were able to detect radio waves by the change in frequency of the atoms in that gas. That, by the way, was where I was getting the phased array analogy from. An antenna is (2) a rod, wire, or other device used to transmit or receive radio or television signals. This may qualify as an 'other device', but in reality it's an entirely new device. You may or may not call an antenna, but it does not replace the standard, passive, antenna invented by Hertz. I don't even think this can be used for transmitting, and certainly won't be replacing the antenna any time soon.
One probe, one detector, no scanning,
Each atom could be considered a detector because the final signal is determined by how much light is absorbed by the gas (again, thus the loose array analogy).
IMHO reinvent is a made up word used to either fool people you are marketing to (be it you or your product you are marketing), help inflate one's ego, or both. To repeat what I stated above, if you change something so much it appears to be something entirely new, it is something entirely new. To say otherwise is just trying to inflate the importance unnecessarily and end up making it seem less important. If you invent something new, take credit for that. If you improve on an existing technology, don't try to make it sound more important by saying you "reinvented" it.
And for the record, I do believe this is a significant development, but also believe the space shuttle program was significant, but didn't reinvent air travel.
reinvented the antenna from scratch
The battery was reinvented, due to it's first development, in what is now modern day Iran, being lost over time. The antenna, however, has not been forgotten so could not have been "reinvented". Redesigned, perhaps, or a new type of antenna may have been invented, but the antenna on my roof is still there, and is still a variation of the first dipole antenna invented by Heinrich Hertz. This seems to be a variation of the phased array, just on a molecular scale, who's development has been filtered through the marketing department.
Ah, but your boss will tell you it was your decision to depend on a vendor who turned out to be undependable, making it your fault. And if it was in fact your decision and not something you argued against and was overridden, he has a point.
And he has a valid point, even if HE was the one who decided to make the move. If you're not willing to argue against bad decisions of your boss, you're nothing more than a 'yes man', and useless to the organization.
Love the vomit inducing amount of childishness in the video, intended to mask the vile nature of this corporate entity
Have you interacted with the "average" person lately? A good portion of the internet population has the IQ of a seven year old, and THAT is who this infomercial is targeted towards.
Until the entire board of directors and everyone with a C*O in their title goes to prison for shit like this, nothing will change in the corporate world. Pissy little fines that barley make a blip on the bottom line will do nothing, and that's probably all that will happen AGAIN.
The bulletin board days are behind us, neck beard. Get your shit together and join the real world. Stop acting like some social misfit. Nobody wants to hear about your 20 sided dice anymore.
Is this "real world" you speak of the world where the information you consume is controlled by the garden you happen to be in? If so, this is the world where the First Amendment doesn't apply because the garden owner can limit whatever speech it deems unworthy for you to hear. This is how we loose our freedom of speech -- by giving the control of all speech to those that aren't bound by the Constitution.
That's what a guest network is for. Enable it when they show up, disable it when they go away.
Trivially easy to do on some routers, like Apple’s Airport series. Too bad they discontinued them...
Or buy a decent router you can upgrade to a third party firmware instead of using the crap from the manufacturer.
You clearly never have guests over.
My guests come to visit me for things like dinner and conversation, to watch a movie or play games, they don't come to leach off my internet sitting on the couch tweeting and facebooking.