1) no valid crime (in my opinion) was committed 2) it's a two year sentence, besides pissing off a bunch of people, what purpose does this serve?
You can't change a person's ideologies by imprisoning them, not without brainwashing them. This seems like the wrong way to address these problems. Imprisoning and fining people for their thoughts and beliefs is likely to cause more people to think this way, rather than deter it.
It's not unlikely that your IOT toaster will just use the RFID chip to toast your toast to "3" darkness setting. It's possible you'll use the RFID in the smartwatch, but in that case, you can just buy an RFID sticker and stick it to the back of the watch, or integrate it in to the face of the watch. Some people have injectable RFID capsules in their arms if you don't like wearing something on your wrist.
How did you book your plane ticket when you visited the city? Generally you need to provide some sort of payment up front before you get a seat going somewhere, unless grandma is driving.
It's not a sustainable profession though; taxi drivers traditionally were career jobs for many in past decades. My friend's wife's dad is a taxi driver (in south america) and owns his own house, has raised a family of three and lives comfortably and is near retirement.
Now we're on the cusp of replacing taxi drivers with robots. While there are some that lean on Uber as a full time job, it's never been sold as a full time job, and second, it's been in the news for years now that the plan is to replace all human drivers with robots. It's unreasonable to expect to make a lifetime living from a company like uber, when the company is broadly advertising that they expect to replace their contractor workforce with robots.
TIme and time again they try and compare themselves to industries like healthcare, education and airport workers - industries that can't be fully automated. But their industry is being actively automated. There's zero reason to give benefits to these contractors in the long term, which seems to me why they're disinterested in providing benefits and pay increases to a market that has a seemingly limitless number of college students willing to work for any price.
Hey now that's uncalled for; one can discuss climate change without resorting to hysterics without being labeled a trump supporter. I've actually been to the majority of the national forests in California this year so I feel entitled to my opinion and observations of the forests.
It's interesting that these reports are always released on rainy days (Which are pretty rare in SF actually)
Yes if you go up to Mt. Lassen it really probably is 1 in 3 trees. Certainly 1 in 10. If anything though, this is natural selection in progress; the only way to produce drought-resistant species is to have a serious drought, a big fire to clear out all the dead species, and then re-seed them with the drought resistant ones. If anything this is a good, big step forward for California over the long term in destroying the less viable/invasive species.
Article states "over 200 countries" even if you count breakaway territories in Spain, Romania, California and Ukraine you're going to come up short. Good luck with that.
In most cases that I've seen, the person forgets to charge it overnight, and then needs the phone to navigate to a new address when traveling, and check in on emails periodically. Typically if you can get the phone to 50% you can nurse it the rest of the day, or at least until you can plug it in periodically throughout the day to get you back up above ~30%
For those of you following along at home, iPod socks were a real thing, sold as an official apple accessory at one point. In probably 20 color/pattern combinations. This is not a joke (or it is, but the joke is that it's real)
It's the first useful hardware update Apple has released in about three years* for people who actually use their computers for things beyond facebook and youtube, let them have this, man.
*Macbook is barely more powerful than an iPad, iPad hasn't had a meaningful update in a couple of years, iPhone has been incremental at best... I can't remember the last time (or if they even sell) they updated their desktop, or what it looks like. The iWatch or whatever it's called got some update but it's not really a productivity tool like a computer or tablet.
Now that USB cables have more or less hit a saturation point in my household (can't lose them because every charger already has multiple free cables running out of it) I just buy quality cables on amazon. Usually under $12 a pop for a 3 or 6 pack from a reputable name, 5 star rating and thousands of reviews. It's possible that they could switch to making crappy cables at any time, but that would sink their brand, their ratings and their sales, so there's good incentive not to do that.
Would I buy a 5amp-rated USB cable from a street vendor in china town? Probably not, unless my kids went to school with his and knew the quality. It's still possible to get poor quality cables, but generally it's easy to get moderately cheap, high quality cables these days.
At my last job we had a farm of ~3 terminal servers whose purpose was to run those "can't live without it" apps. If you needed to use one of your snowflake apps, you would RDP in to "the farm" and use your app there. RDP works on pretty much anything including Android. We'd also RDP in to the servers as needed (one of our vendors distributed their product updates only through MSIs)
Premium gas that goes in to my girlfriend's german car costs $3.50 a gallon in San Francisco right now. Slightly more actually. Just filled up Saturday for about $46 in a ~12 gallon tank. About $3.80/gal.
We pay about 20c per kw/h here residential. If you can get the price of electricity to under $3.00 per electric-equivalent gallon that's very compelling for city dwellers.
App store search is so bad, you can't even type in the exact name and get the resulting app in the first page of results.
My only guess is that they do this to allow tiny independent app writers to have at least marginal success, the idea being that even if you have 250 high quality apps that meet all user needs, the media is still going to smash Google over the head saying "Google App Store has only 250 apps!" even though they're obviously of much higher quality.
With intentionally bad search, this gives small app writers a shot at the revenue pie, even if their app is crap, because they're psuedo-randomly floated to the top of most searches.
That's all I can figure, at least. How google can be so good at indexing something they don't control, the internet, and so bad at indexing something they have total, iron grip control over, their apps, app ecosystem and app store.... they must be intentionally making search bad. I can't figure it out otherwise. App search is universally bad since they released the Play store, and Apple's app store search isn't much better, either.
I think the idea is that, if you need desktop functionality, you'll just plug in a USB-C enabled display in to the side of your laptop, which will provide both power to the laptop and also feature as a hub.
The Pixel came with two USB-C ports and really that was enough, back when displays weren't also USB hubs and power supplies. Now displays do a lot of things, and looking back, it will be odd to have so many ports on a laptop. Most people just use their phones as cameras these days; I know my halo phone takes better pictures today than my prosumer $350 digital camera ever took back in 2006. And it transfers photos via USB while charging. It's not suprising then that professionals would have a specific adapter for their memory cards for their professional cameras.
I don't think I'm an apple apologist (Thinkpad owner) but I do think that single-cable USB will become commonplace in the next 1-2 years as all your ports move in to a USB hub/power supply that lives on your desk (probably in the shape of your monitor).
There's a number of USB-C capable displays already, I can think of three off the top of my head and the last time I looked was back in July. Monocable has USB-C -> Mini Display Port and HDMI adapters for under $10; the world will catch up.
In other news, the Macbook Pros can support up to 2x 5K displays. Not shabby.
Yes, ironically, the lowest end model has the features that the people buying the high end i7 models need. Presumably there will be a developer edition 13" model with an esc key and an i7 as a BTO
I think it simply boils down to that you can buy 10 ikea desks for $130 each, 10 macbook pros for $1500 each, ten surge protectors at $10 each, an ikea couch for $500 and suddenly you have your standard silicon valley startup office. Bonus points if there's a poster on the wall somewhere. Since that was good enough to boot strap a company with, why waste valuable seed money on things like walls? When the company is a million years old you can give all of upper management their own offices.
There's at least two reasons here why GS would be interested:
1. High frequency trading, if you control the software and make it as fast as possible, then all that is left is the networking between you and the exchange. Controlling the networking is the next step, this is total control, total integration 2. Limit backdoors; if you own the system totally and completely, you can nearly guarantee your system has no backdoors from state actors.
If you're as big as GS, you definitely don't want to own any american made networking hardware, and building it from the ground up is a cheap hedge against whatever lawsuits come down the line
The main problem is that the sun does not produce a whole lot of energy that can be captured on the night side of the earth, and we happen to consume a lot of energy when it's dark. If you overbuild capacity for daytime generation, nighttime generation is mostly solved, the big problem now is not cheap renewable energy, but rather, how to store it. Even if converting water and CO2 in to Ethanol is only 15% efficiency, you're still able to store 15% of your excess grid energy, whereas before you could only store 0% of excess grid energy. These guys are claiming 60% in the lab, which probably means 20-30% at industrial scale, perhaps 40% within our lifetime. It's not 85-90% hydro-electric efficient, but that's pretty dang good for a fuel which has so many uses, stores well for long periods of time and works with existing combustion engines.
A good chunk of that is executive and engineering salaries, R&D costs etc etc
If they fired all but a skeleton crew and ran it out of AWS they could definitely do what was proposed.
The problem is that they've been in "perpetual growth mode" for 8 years or so, but haven't been able to show any growth for 2-3 years. They've been trapped at about 320 million users for well over one year, soon to be two years. Due to... Silicon Valley mentality + brand name appeal(?) they've continued to attract business dollars but I suspect when they do hard analysis of how many engaged human (not bots, not automated scripts) users they have, they realize it's a skeleton service like PR Wire or whatever, that marketers buy in to and the business/journalism community uses as a read-only service, but there's no "social networking" happening by anyone with any money (i.e. adults and college students).
My guess is that Sales Force, etc sign a NDA, do their due diligence and find out that they have less than 150 million engaged verifiably human users. That certainly devalues the stock. Eventually it'll come out, it's only a matter of time.
My buddy bought a second hand, Xeon 16 physical, 32 logical core workstation with 96GB ram for under $1000. It's sandybridge era, but hot damn there's plenty of cores to spread the work around. We estimate that even though his workflow involves six different VMs, he won't need to upgrade his personal machine again for probably five years. I was considering buying one too, but I think I'll settle for a brand new i7 quad core XPS 15 with a 1050 GPU for ~$1800, which ought to last me four years or so. Maybe more. My 2012 era i5 thinkpad laptop (ivy bridge) is still faster than anything I need it for, but the screen needs updating, and to be larger as my eyesight starts to deteriorate as an adult and replaces my old "fire breathing" desktop from 2010. I'm a power user and barely find reason to upgrade my hardware, I can only imagine how long the average user can go between upgrades these days.
VR Works just fine on my three year old android smart phone. The Unity and Unreal engines are free to download and develop with, this technology works great on very old phones and it's free to develop for, can you elaborate on your points?
Building a coalation of toxic brands liket Yahoo and AOL seems like a pretty poor business strategy, I don't think the Verizon brand can lift them up, if anything those brands will drag Verizon down. In terms of long-term business strategy you'd need an incredible turnaround CEO at each to somehow leverage this deal. I can't see anyone worth their salt wanting to attach their name to this gambit. The whole thing sounds half baked and that's a lot of money for a half baked idea.
Disney got Star Wars for $4 billion. Are you saying the whole Yahoo brand is bigger than Star Wars? Especially with the government spying attached to it? I would run - not walk away from this deal.
I remember when I got a NEC 17" display that was capable of displaying 1600x1200! Used! In 1999! Only $250! What a steal.
I was the envy of all my friends. And it only weighed half as much as I did when I was in high school. 3 inch bezel was great for attaching sticky notes to. There must have been twelve analog dials along the bottom of that screen to adjust for various things.
I never did own a 21" CRT, I don't think I owned a table sturdy enough (or large enough) to house something of that nature. Easily weighed 100 lbs.
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For two reasons:
1) no valid crime (in my opinion) was committed
2) it's a two year sentence, besides pissing off a bunch of people, what purpose does this serve?
You can't change a person's ideologies by imprisoning them, not without brainwashing them. This seems like the wrong way to address these problems. Imprisoning and fining people for their thoughts and beliefs is likely to cause more people to think this way, rather than deter it.
It's not unlikely that your IOT toaster will just use the RFID chip to toast your toast to "3" darkness setting. It's possible you'll use the RFID in the smartwatch, but in that case, you can just buy an RFID sticker and stick it to the back of the watch, or integrate it in to the face of the watch. Some people have injectable RFID capsules in their arms if you don't like wearing something on your wrist.
How did you book your plane ticket when you visited the city? Generally you need to provide some sort of payment up front before you get a seat going somewhere, unless grandma is driving.
It's not a sustainable profession though; taxi drivers traditionally were career jobs for many in past decades. My friend's wife's dad is a taxi driver (in south america) and owns his own house, has raised a family of three and lives comfortably and is near retirement.
Now we're on the cusp of replacing taxi drivers with robots. While there are some that lean on Uber as a full time job, it's never been sold as a full time job, and second, it's been in the news for years now that the plan is to replace all human drivers with robots. It's unreasonable to expect to make a lifetime living from a company like uber, when the company is broadly advertising that they expect to replace their contractor workforce with robots.
TIme and time again they try and compare themselves to industries like healthcare, education and airport workers - industries that can't be fully automated. But their industry is being actively automated. There's zero reason to give benefits to these contractors in the long term, which seems to me why they're disinterested in providing benefits and pay increases to a market that has a seemingly limitless number of college students willing to work for any price.
Hey now that's uncalled for; one can discuss climate change without resorting to hysterics without being labeled a trump supporter. I've actually been to the majority of the national forests in California this year so I feel entitled to my opinion and observations of the forests.
It's interesting that these reports are always released on rainy days (Which are pretty rare in SF actually)
Yes if you go up to Mt. Lassen it really probably is 1 in 3 trees. Certainly 1 in 10. If anything though, this is natural selection in progress; the only way to produce drought-resistant species is to have a serious drought, a big fire to clear out all the dead species, and then re-seed them with the drought resistant ones. If anything this is a good, big step forward for California over the long term in destroying the less viable/invasive species.
Article states "over 200 countries" even if you count breakaway territories in Spain, Romania, California and Ukraine you're going to come up short. Good luck with that.
In most cases that I've seen, the person forgets to charge it overnight, and then needs the phone to navigate to a new address when traveling, and check in on emails periodically. Typically if you can get the phone to 50% you can nurse it the rest of the day, or at least until you can plug it in periodically throughout the day to get you back up above ~30%
For those of you following along at home, iPod socks were a real thing, sold as an official apple accessory at one point. In probably 20 color/pattern combinations. This is not a joke (or it is, but the joke is that it's real)
It's the first useful hardware update Apple has released in about three years* for people who actually use their computers for things beyond facebook and youtube, let them have this, man.
*Macbook is barely more powerful than an iPad, iPad hasn't had a meaningful update in a couple of years, iPhone has been incremental at best... I can't remember the last time (or if they even sell) they updated their desktop, or what it looks like. The iWatch or whatever it's called got some update but it's not really a productivity tool like a computer or tablet.
Now that USB cables have more or less hit a saturation point in my household (can't lose them because every charger already has multiple free cables running out of it) I just buy quality cables on amazon. Usually under $12 a pop for a 3 or 6 pack from a reputable name, 5 star rating and thousands of reviews. It's possible that they could switch to making crappy cables at any time, but that would sink their brand, their ratings and their sales, so there's good incentive not to do that.
Would I buy a 5amp-rated USB cable from a street vendor in china town? Probably not, unless my kids went to school with his and knew the quality. It's still possible to get poor quality cables, but generally it's easy to get moderately cheap, high quality cables these days.
At my last job we had a farm of ~3 terminal servers whose purpose was to run those "can't live without it" apps. If you needed to use one of your snowflake apps, you would RDP in to "the farm" and use your app there. RDP works on pretty much anything including Android. We'd also RDP in to the servers as needed (one of our vendors distributed their product updates only through MSIs)
Premium gas that goes in to my girlfriend's german car costs $3.50 a gallon in San Francisco right now. Slightly more actually. Just filled up Saturday for about $46 in a ~12 gallon tank. About $3.80/gal.
We pay about 20c per kw/h here residential. If you can get the price of electricity to under $3.00 per electric-equivalent gallon that's very compelling for city dwellers.
App store search is so bad, you can't even type in the exact name and get the resulting app in the first page of results.
My only guess is that they do this to allow tiny independent app writers to have at least marginal success, the idea being that even if you have 250 high quality apps that meet all user needs, the media is still going to smash Google over the head saying "Google App Store has only 250 apps!" even though they're obviously of much higher quality.
With intentionally bad search, this gives small app writers a shot at the revenue pie, even if their app is crap, because they're psuedo-randomly floated to the top of most searches.
That's all I can figure, at least. How google can be so good at indexing something they don't control, the internet, and so bad at indexing something they have total, iron grip control over, their apps, app ecosystem and app store.... they must be intentionally making search bad. I can't figure it out otherwise. App search is universally bad since they released the Play store, and Apple's app store search isn't much better, either.
I think the idea is that, if you need desktop functionality, you'll just plug in a USB-C enabled display in to the side of your laptop, which will provide both power to the laptop and also feature as a hub.
The Pixel came with two USB-C ports and really that was enough, back when displays weren't also USB hubs and power supplies. Now displays do a lot of things, and looking back, it will be odd to have so many ports on a laptop. Most people just use their phones as cameras these days; I know my halo phone takes better pictures today than my prosumer $350 digital camera ever took back in 2006. And it transfers photos via USB while charging. It's not suprising then that professionals would have a specific adapter for their memory cards for their professional cameras.
I don't think I'm an apple apologist (Thinkpad owner) but I do think that single-cable USB will become commonplace in the next 1-2 years as all your ports move in to a USB hub/power supply that lives on your desk (probably in the shape of your monitor).
There's a number of USB-C capable displays already, I can think of three off the top of my head and the last time I looked was back in July. Monocable has USB-C -> Mini Display Port and HDMI adapters for under $10; the world will catch up.
In other news, the Macbook Pros can support up to 2x 5K displays. Not shabby.
Yes, ironically, the lowest end model has the features that the people buying the high end i7 models need. Presumably there will be a developer edition 13" model with an esc key and an i7 as a BTO
I think it simply boils down to that you can buy 10 ikea desks for $130 each, 10 macbook pros for $1500 each, ten surge protectors at $10 each, an ikea couch for $500 and suddenly you have your standard silicon valley startup office. Bonus points if there's a poster on the wall somewhere. Since that was good enough to boot strap a company with, why waste valuable seed money on things like walls? When the company is a million years old you can give all of upper management their own offices.
There's at least two reasons here why GS would be interested:
1. High frequency trading, if you control the software and make it as fast as possible, then all that is left is the networking between you and the exchange. Controlling the networking is the next step, this is total control, total integration
2. Limit backdoors; if you own the system totally and completely, you can nearly guarantee your system has no backdoors from state actors.
If you're as big as GS, you definitely don't want to own any american made networking hardware, and building it from the ground up is a cheap hedge against whatever lawsuits come down the line
The main problem is that the sun does not produce a whole lot of energy that can be captured on the night side of the earth, and we happen to consume a lot of energy when it's dark. If you overbuild capacity for daytime generation, nighttime generation is mostly solved, the big problem now is not cheap renewable energy, but rather, how to store it. Even if converting water and CO2 in to Ethanol is only 15% efficiency, you're still able to store 15% of your excess grid energy, whereas before you could only store 0% of excess grid energy. These guys are claiming 60% in the lab, which probably means 20-30% at industrial scale, perhaps 40% within our lifetime. It's not 85-90% hydro-electric efficient, but that's pretty dang good for a fuel which has so many uses, stores well for long periods of time and works with existing combustion engines.
A good chunk of that is executive and engineering salaries, R&D costs etc etc
If they fired all but a skeleton crew and ran it out of AWS they could definitely do what was proposed.
The problem is that they've been in "perpetual growth mode" for 8 years or so, but haven't been able to show any growth for 2-3 years. They've been trapped at about 320 million users for well over one year, soon to be two years. Due to... Silicon Valley mentality + brand name appeal(?) they've continued to attract business dollars but I suspect when they do hard analysis of how many engaged human (not bots, not automated scripts) users they have, they realize it's a skeleton service like PR Wire or whatever, that marketers buy in to and the business/journalism community uses as a read-only service, but there's no "social networking" happening by anyone with any money (i.e. adults and college students).
My guess is that Sales Force, etc sign a NDA, do their due diligence and find out that they have less than 150 million engaged verifiably human users. That certainly devalues the stock. Eventually it'll come out, it's only a matter of time.
My buddy bought a second hand, Xeon 16 physical, 32 logical core workstation with 96GB ram for under $1000. It's sandybridge era, but hot damn there's plenty of cores to spread the work around. We estimate that even though his workflow involves six different VMs, he won't need to upgrade his personal machine again for probably five years. I was considering buying one too, but I think I'll settle for a brand new i7 quad core XPS 15 with a 1050 GPU for ~$1800, which ought to last me four years or so. Maybe more. My 2012 era i5 thinkpad laptop (ivy bridge) is still faster than anything I need it for, but the screen needs updating, and to be larger as my eyesight starts to deteriorate as an adult and replaces my old "fire breathing" desktop from 2010. I'm a power user and barely find reason to upgrade my hardware, I can only imagine how long the average user can go between upgrades these days.
VR Works just fine on my three year old android smart phone. The Unity and Unreal engines are free to download and develop with, this technology works great on very old phones and it's free to develop for, can you elaborate on your points?
Building a coalation of toxic brands liket Yahoo and AOL seems like a pretty poor business strategy, I don't think the Verizon brand can lift them up, if anything those brands will drag Verizon down. In terms of long-term business strategy you'd need an incredible turnaround CEO at each to somehow leverage this deal. I can't see anyone worth their salt wanting to attach their name to this gambit. The whole thing sounds half baked and that's a lot of money for a half baked idea.
Disney got Star Wars for $4 billion. Are you saying the whole Yahoo brand is bigger than Star Wars? Especially with the government spying attached to it? I would run - not walk away from this deal.
I remember when I got a NEC 17" display that was capable of displaying 1600x1200! Used! In 1999! Only $250! What a steal.
I was the envy of all my friends. And it only weighed half as much as I did when I was in high school. 3 inch bezel was great for attaching sticky notes to. There must have been twelve analog dials along the bottom of that screen to adjust for various things.
I never did own a 21" CRT, I don't think I owned a table sturdy enough (or large enough) to house something of that nature. Easily weighed 100 lbs.