The right click (sometimes) works,yes, after all it's the same mouse with the same buttons, but there is nothing there. Since tablets don't have it, Windows cannot put anything relevant there or the UI is non-usable to tablet users or with touch monitors another highly publicized Windows 10 "feature". The way they gave a crippled start menu back for example where you cannot drag and drop inside the menu with the mouse anymore: too awkward on tablets I guess. No, the quicklinks at the right do not count. Inside the actual start menu. The original start menu took Microsoft more than 10 years to get it to the point of Windows 7 where it was halfway decent. Expect the Windows 10 one to take probably equally long. The settings dialogs which are all designed for left click only, etc. Everything shows, the UI had to be made 100% tablet compatible. Even when they fucked up and still kept control panel around cause Settings is utter shit, functionality wise. And now 6 or so "versions" of Windows 10 later, they still haven't managed to clearly develop it further or fix it in any way.
Windows UI is a clusterfuck of epic proportions. And there is no actual progress, instead we get bullshit like "creators update". I don't want to create with my damn OS, I want it to run programs to create, and letting me easily start those is the only job of the OS. Which it is failing. It's not the job of the OS to create, that what Adobe or whatever is for!
Windows 10 is a 100% phone/tablet interface. You can easily verify that yourself: they did away with the right mouse button. I noticed it the first time with my 3G WWAN: before, Windows 7, I could right-click on it and "connect": immediately online. Afterwards with Windows 7 I had to doubleclick and then connect through dialogs. Much more clunky, takes longer, very much phone like.
The whole "settings" abomination works the same way. All the menus are made phone compatible.
Correction: not a 100% phone interface. They are apparently incapable of actually fully replacing the old control panel what the "settings" crap is supposed to do.
So yes, I have "tested" Windows 10 and running it. I'm not sure if you are however.
It shows Cisco is riddled with incompetent developers who are too stupid to get even the most simple hello world problem: "do not put backdoors in your work" wrong. So it doesn't matter if there is now a single guy on top who goes through all the code and makes them work it over. I means the developers there are too stupid to be trusted with anything. And all those lines by those same stupid developers are still in there. They still made the millions or even billions of LOC in Cisco firmware which Cisco cannot change, since it makes up the value of the company. They cannot change IOS suddenly to something that actually works without NSA backdoors and exploits.
Also, we haven't heard or seen of any mass firing at Cisco, so these same developers who put in the backdoors last year will write the firmware for the Cisco router you want the public to buy next year.
Does this mean Facebook is a major revenge porn site? Cause the only way Facebook can prevent revenge porn disemination is, if they are the network where it actually happens. So do I get this right: Facebook is a hotbed of (illegal) revenge porn sharing? And if so, why are they not suppressing that? Why is no AG suing their pants off for billions or give Zuck some much needed jailtime?
Facebook can and does prevent any publication of a picture with a nipple in their precious "timelines" and such, so they obviously can suppress the same nipples in any other picture that is shared via or travels through their servers. No more nudies from their captive sheep needed. This sounds more like a "give us your embarassing pictures so we can better blackmail you" kinda thing.
Why would anyone still buy anything from D-Link or e.g. Cisco?
With their stuff, backdoors are not the exception but mandatory feature for every device they sell. 2013, 2016, now. https://www.theregister.co.uk/... DIR-100, DI-524, DI-524UP, DI-604S, DI-604UP, DI-604+ and TM-G5240" maybe more. https://thehackernews.com/2016... DWR-932 B
So, sure once maybe it's an error or oversight. But the number of backdoors with pretty much all router manufacturers, from low end cheapo consumer D-Link to usurious Cisco plated with gold stuff, shows it's not an oversight but pretty much deliberate. Both manufacturers are only examples here. All of them have similar holes several times over the last few years, repeatedly. Or they are too incompetent to be allowed to design and then sell anything to the public.
This is garbage. It will simply lead to parallel reconstruction like the DEA/FBI/CIA does in their court cases when they get evidence by unlawful means like a stingray: the algorithm found a solution to the problem. then it will explain to you, the user how it got there by some arbitrary way which at least looks plausible but is totally made up. ML is not made to be looked inside, it's a black box by design and there are so many data points, e.g. pictures in the trainingset for image classificiation, the algorithm cannot really show all the relevant ones for this particular decision. Total info overload for the human and therefore utterly useless. So to tell a "reason" that the human can accept, it must simply pretend. Humans and ML work fundamentally different when they "recognize" an image, so one cannot tell the other how it was done. Same with chess playing, same with pretty much all other (successful) AI things so far.
This is simply a PR stunt, an insulting and stupid PR stunt cause it only wants to make people feel good and they lie about the subject matter in the process. It doesn't really help to make a better AI either as they pretend there.
Cause the US has divested itself from all its production capacity. By now, the US cannot produce everything they need or want anymore. Can not. Not only cause all the manufacturing plants are closed and rusting, but the knowledge how to make various things has simply been lost in the US populace. It's not just Saturn V rockets the US can't produce anymore, but many more things. The US could reacquire the knowledge but that takes time, several decades usually. The 10-50 years interim, the US either has to crawl and beg or do without. What do you think will the life for common people in the US be if all that billion dollar trade deficit shrinks to zero immediately? Better watch Mad Max to see and look up prepper sites. Trump right now tries to do exactly that: shrink it to zero but over a long time, to draw it out and build up the lost capacity. If this goes too fast, the crash will be as bad as the trade deficit crash the US is hurtling towards right now.
About the ignorance, the lack of standing and all the other soft power things etc, the AC already answered you
First they totally fscked up the Windows 7/Server 2008 Meltdown "fix" allowing every user program access any RAM area they wanted https://www.theregister.co.uk/... And now again they fsck it all up in another version as well by returning the data the patch was supposed to not return. But the way they did fsck it up was totally different than the Windows 7 way. They have so many fuckups, they create different ones for each OS version, cause one fuckup is not enough. Code reuse with audited, well written code would be too easy for two OS kernels that are so much the same obviously. No 7 and 10 are not different. Still the same kernel where even many drivers work fine the same.
These clowns are too stupid to write any OS for more than a non-programmable calculator.
NASA doesn't need a scientist. NASA does not really do science and the science they do is certainly not ecological but 100% physics and its application: developing better rockets. They do adminstration, engineering and lots of politics. If they put some science satellite in orbit, they do it typically for someone else. In the case of climate science, usually for NOAA or such. In case of Kepler for astronomers on some collge. For NASA these are just another payload for the federal government like any other.
So: how good a politician is he for pushing the cause of NASA? How good of an administrator is he for leading a big agency and helping his engineers to build better, cheaper rockets, developing cool new mechanisms like VASIMR? We all know NASA did a piss poor job with these things for decades now. These are importan the important topicst for this post, but are sorely lacking in this stupid piece by morons who call themselves journalists. NASA is no fucking LGBT advocacy, it puts rockets into space ffs!
I couldn't care less if he saves the climate and the dolphins or the queers: it's not his fucking job. For battling AGW, kick the assholes who need to do something: assholes in congress and white house, not some federal administrator who has to implement the braindead policy that congress decides on.
As a reaction to the OLPC we got netbooks as an answer from conventional manufacturers. Yes netbooks were crappy but they still put a constant pressure on OEMs to make cheaper notebooks and lowered all prices for consumer mobile computers. The OLPC project itself failed in its goals, but it helped bring us the low cost computing things like Raspberry type SBCs, chromebooks, sub 100$ tablets and phones we have today.
Nowhere does this adcopy of an article tell us how much the vegetables cost even with that ominous warning at the end. How much per kg of potatoes?
This omission is quite telling i'd say. This tech is great for space and the main investor is,surprise!, one of the silicon valley space nut billionaires complete with his own rocket company. It's interesting and needed tech to be sure, but not for earth except maybe for the future super-rich who don't want to eat the same gene edited, pesticide riddled food from Monsanto crops us normal plebs will have to eat cause we cannot afford the good expensive stuff like this.
It's not totally pointless, at least for the power company. Economically it's great. Coal plants are awful in the current fast energy market: if you want to deliver power tomorrow at 11am, you better start firing the boiler now or it won't happen. If you however have a always running baseload from the bitcoin mining, you can immediately react to fluctuating power needs by simply turning off the miners, or at least hibernate them. You cannot power up or down a coal power plant in seconds but you can do this with mining rigs.
It makes the coal plant economically usable as a fast reaction power plant, to deliver when power is in demand and highly priced. Ecologically however, it's of course a total catastrophe.
It's not been one sided. The young US did exactly the same to the technologically most advanced nation of the 18th/19th century, the UK: E.g. https://www.pri.org/stories/20...
A developing nation will always "steal" the knowledge about technology and manufacturing from other, more advanced, nations. This is the normal course of history, it has happened many times before and will happen in the future. Not only the US did it back then, but also Germany stole from the UK for example. In more recent times, Japan did it as well. Just like you can't protect the latest blockbuster from getting torrented, you cannot keep tech to yourself, same unsolvable problem.
I know this is/. but you should read the article before you comment. From the teaser of the article: "Apple said an unauthorized repair shop owner in Norway violated its trademark by using aftermarket iPhone parts"
unauthorized repair shop, not apple licensed and blessed center. Considering how wrong you are in your first assertion, what makes you think that you are right in your 2nd one that they defrauded their own customers?
trumps everything. Maybe not everything: a 256bit symmetric encryption purely in software with a true 256bit passphrase aka actual meaningful encryption. Which is pretty much much impractical for use with a phone: enter 256bit of passphrase everytime you want to use it, make a call? Pure masochism. So there is no practical way to secure your phone and you have to act accordingly for any data you want to be protected. Either destroy your phone: is there a market for phones with thermite inside? Or don't use them for anything incriminating.
Is it the third or are there even more failed attempts? Intel 740, Larrabee and now this. Even if they are successful and finally get a miracle where they produce hardware that is actually good enough. They won't beat nvidia or AMD unless they use their fab tech to build a much bigger, much more expensive to fab chip. But let's just say they pull the miracle rabbit out of the hat. Their drivers will still suck for games. To be able to get a foot in this market you will need several years/generations with competitive hardware so game engines are written with explicit thought for you, games do tests and fixes on your hardware, a driver team works with game makers for a long time,etc. I just don't see the Intel videocard driver team being capable this way.
The only chance Intel maybe has is to convince the console makers to use theirs instead of AMD for the next consoles. With enough money/rebates and the great Intel sales magic to OEMs this might even work. But for discrete PC gaming this is all DOA. I just don't see how Intel can make money on this, not with the rebates they would have to give the console makers to actually "succeed". This sounds like another Atom/mobile CPU/ARM competitor fiasco where they burn billions.
If you skimp on accounting, there is a lot of case law where you end up in jail. When you have an IT disaster you never go to jail so far. Target, Equifax, etc. certainly haven't.
With both, if you skimp too much you might end up bankrupt. E.g. if you don't know your invoices and who owes what to whom, you go bankrupt. If that ransomware disrupts your business too long you also go bankrupt. So there is a certain needed minimum standard in both, but thanks to centuries of experience with it, accounting has much better laws, standards and especially case law than IT, raising the needed minimum bar much higher.
It's an easy to grasp number for a layman to show "the exponential growth phase of smartphones is now over". The tech is now mature and therefore uninteresting for the purpose of investing to get rich, uninteresting for the purpose of absurdly high share valuation growths of in this case Apple, but others as well.
Maybe it's not the best number, and maybe people nearer to the industry knew this beforehand, but it's easy to communicate the maturation to Joe Q. Public.
Yes it's easy to do, but probably even easier to land on a gazillion spam lists in a business like this. I don't ever use mailchimp and have to my knowledge, never received mail from them but if mailchimp has a reasonable easy to use UI which is suited for office drones and more importantly the goodwill of the important mail recipients, aka gmail, yahoo, microsoft and all the other mail providers, then they'd have pretty much a lock in in this market.
So slapping together something that sends mail is easy, but the trick is to have someone, or ideally all, to actually be prepared to receive it.
This is article is wrong and very shoddy reporting. What the EU wants is the have all the things made after the 2009-2011 crisis like the ESM or future Eurobonds, etc. All the things the euro-group (which is not the EU) created, to be under EU administration. Right now, all these things are administered by the ECB, the euro-group with bilateral treaties between the euro countries. The EU doesn't like that, they want it in their bureaucracy in Brussels.
So far, the euro countries especially Germany, don't want that, so it's a total non-starter right now.
No, the UK could go back if they wished. The brit rebate by "I want my money back!" Thatcher however wouldn't be reinstated. That would probably be the main concession demanded by the others. Basically, no more special circumstances for the UK, they have to be a member like any other which there were not anymore for many years. So it would cost the UK a lot monetarily to go back. The Euro is a non-issue. No one would force them to join it. The problem however is not money in any form, it's UK politics. It would kill the tories, split them up basically. And of course would sink PM May.
The UK is no founding member of anything. They joined the EU in 1973 or so. Very much a Jonny come lately. Founding members of what became today's EU were Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany in 1957 in Rome. This morphed into the 1967 "European Communities" which is what the UK joined in 1973 together with Denmark and Ireland.
With healthcare, there are literally lives on the line. "Did you give Mrs. Abernathy her heart medication or is the lack of entry in the chart an oversight? I'm calling cause I need to give it to her in the next 2 minutes if you forgot" With real estate people: it's not the boss who buys the property and it takes quite a long time for a sale with all the bureaucracy. There is just no real urgency. IT worker: for some it can be important cause the server might fall down and the downtime might be very expensive. E.g. some Amazon AWS downtime or maybe a nuclear power plant. But most IT workers work cupholder replacements or such, there it doesn't really matter.
They died due to greed from owners and investors: "KKR, Bain and Vornado purchased Toys "R" Us in 2005 in a $6.6 billion leveraged buyout, but more than $5.3 billion of the purchase price was paid using debt."
8 billions of debt, at least 5.3 purely due to the buyout. Maybe their future wouldn't be so good with Internet, etc. but it's not what killed them today, the leveraged buyout did.
There surely are laws about falsely calling 911 repeatedly? If so, do what the law says, fine them, throw them in jail. If a corporate citizen is a citizen, then you can put that citizen in prison where he belongs.If you need to shore up the regions finances, fine them. 50.000 dollars per false call and they will stop their shit quick.
Cause the other jurisdictions are shitty backwoods states where "metropolis" means a railway crossing town with a diner. There aren't many mafia style families, gangs and crazy immigrants of strange ethnicities who control a billion dollar drug trade in those kind of towns. They do exist in Chicago since it's an actual metropolis. Chicago can control guns however they want when the criminal only needs an old junker of a car to circumvent the law: it's pretty much useless and only prevents a few deaths by guns which happen due to accidents, or family quarrels and the like.
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The right click (sometimes) works,yes, after all it's the same mouse with the same buttons, but there is nothing there. Since tablets don't have it, Windows cannot put anything relevant there or the UI is non-usable to tablet users or with touch monitors another highly publicized Windows 10 "feature". The way they gave a crippled start menu back for example where you cannot drag and drop inside the menu with the mouse anymore: too awkward on tablets I guess. No, the quicklinks at the right do not count. Inside the actual start menu.
The original start menu took Microsoft more than 10 years to get it to the point of Windows 7 where it was halfway decent. Expect the Windows 10 one to take probably equally long.
The settings dialogs which are all designed for left click only, etc. Everything shows, the UI had to be made 100% tablet compatible.
Even when they fucked up and still kept control panel around cause Settings is utter shit, functionality wise. And now 6 or so "versions" of Windows 10 later, they still haven't managed to clearly develop it further or fix it in any way.
Windows UI is a clusterfuck of epic proportions. And there is no actual progress, instead we get bullshit like "creators update". I don't want to create with my damn OS, I want it to run programs to create, and letting me easily start those is the only job of the OS. Which it is failing. It's not the job of the OS to create, that what Adobe or whatever is for!
Windows 10 is a 100% phone/tablet interface. You can easily verify that yourself: they did away with the right mouse button.
I noticed it the first time with my 3G WWAN: before, Windows 7, I could right-click on it and "connect": immediately online. Afterwards with Windows 7 I had to doubleclick and then connect through dialogs. Much more clunky, takes longer, very much phone like.
The whole "settings" abomination works the same way. All the menus are made phone compatible.
Correction: not a 100% phone interface. They are apparently incapable of actually fully replacing the old control panel what the "settings" crap is supposed to do.
So yes, I have "tested" Windows 10 and running it. I'm not sure if you are however.
It shows Cisco is riddled with incompetent developers who are too stupid to get even the most simple hello world problem: "do not put backdoors in your work" wrong. So it doesn't matter if there is now a single guy on top who goes through all the code and makes them work it over. I means the developers there are too stupid to be trusted with anything. And all those lines by those same stupid developers are still in there. They still made the millions or even billions of LOC in Cisco firmware which Cisco cannot change, since it makes up the value of the company. They cannot change IOS suddenly to something that actually works without NSA backdoors and exploits.
Also, we haven't heard or seen of any mass firing at Cisco, so these same developers who put in the backdoors last year will write the firmware for the Cisco router you want the public to buy next year.
Does this mean Facebook is a major revenge porn site? Cause the only way Facebook can prevent revenge porn disemination is, if they are the network where it actually happens.
So do I get this right: Facebook is a hotbed of (illegal) revenge porn sharing? And if so, why are they not suppressing that? Why is no AG suing their pants off for billions or give Zuck some much needed jailtime?
Facebook can and does prevent any publication of a picture with a nipple in their precious "timelines" and such, so they obviously can suppress the same nipples in any other picture that is shared via or travels through their servers. No more nudies from their captive sheep needed.
This sounds more like a "give us your embarassing pictures so we can better blackmail you" kinda thing.
Why would anyone still buy anything from D-Link or e.g. Cisco?
With their stuff, backdoors are not the exception but mandatory feature for every device they sell. 2013, 2016, now.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/... DIR-100, DI-524, DI-524UP, DI-604S, DI-604UP, DI-604+ and TM-G5240" maybe more.
https://thehackernews.com/2016... DWR-932 B
So, sure once maybe it's an error or oversight. But the number of backdoors with pretty much all router manufacturers, from low end cheapo consumer D-Link to usurious Cisco plated with gold stuff, shows it's not an oversight but pretty much deliberate. Both manufacturers are only examples here. All of them have similar holes several times over the last few years, repeatedly. Or they are too incompetent to be allowed to design and then sell anything to the public.
This is garbage. It will simply lead to parallel reconstruction like the DEA/FBI/CIA does in their court cases when they get evidence by unlawful means like a stingray: the algorithm found a solution to the problem. then it will explain to you, the user how it got there by some arbitrary way which at least looks plausible but is totally made up.
ML is not made to be looked inside, it's a black box by design and there are so many data points, e.g. pictures in the trainingset for image classificiation, the algorithm cannot really show all the relevant ones for this particular decision. Total info overload for the human and therefore utterly useless. So to tell a "reason" that the human can accept, it must simply pretend. Humans and ML work fundamentally different when they "recognize" an image, so one cannot tell the other how it was done. Same with chess playing, same with pretty much all other (successful) AI things so far.
This is simply a PR stunt, an insulting and stupid PR stunt cause it only wants to make people feel good and they lie about the subject matter in the process. It doesn't really help to make a better AI either as they pretend there.
Cause the US has divested itself from all its production capacity. By now, the US cannot produce everything they need or want anymore. Can not. Not only cause all the manufacturing plants are closed and rusting, but the knowledge how to make various things has simply been lost in the US populace. It's not just Saturn V rockets the US can't produce anymore, but many more things. The US could reacquire the knowledge but that takes time, several decades usually. The 10-50 years interim, the US either has to crawl and beg or do without. What do you think will the life for common people in the US be if all that billion dollar trade deficit shrinks to zero immediately? Better watch Mad Max to see and look up prepper sites. Trump right now tries to do exactly that: shrink it to zero but over a long time, to draw it out and build up the lost capacity. If this goes too fast, the crash will be as bad as the trade deficit crash the US is hurtling towards right now.
About the ignorance, the lack of standing and all the other soft power things etc, the AC already answered you
First they totally fscked up the Windows 7/Server 2008 Meltdown "fix" allowing every user program access any RAM area they wanted
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
And now again they fsck it all up in another version as well by returning the data the patch was supposed to not return. But the way they did fsck it up was totally different than the Windows 7 way. They have so many fuckups, they create different ones for each OS version, cause one fuckup is not enough. Code reuse with audited, well written code would be too easy for two OS kernels that are so much the same obviously. No 7 and 10 are not different. Still the same kernel where even many drivers work fine the same.
These clowns are too stupid to write any OS for more than a non-programmable calculator.
NASA doesn't need a scientist. NASA does not really do science and the science they do is certainly not ecological but 100% physics and its application: developing better rockets. They do adminstration, engineering and lots of politics. If they put some science satellite in orbit, they do it typically for someone else. In the case of climate science, usually for NOAA or such. In case of Kepler for astronomers on some collge. For NASA these are just another payload for the federal government like any other.
So: how good a politician is he for pushing the cause of NASA? How good of an administrator is he for leading a big agency and helping his engineers to build better, cheaper rockets, developing cool new mechanisms like VASIMR? We all know NASA did a piss poor job with these things for decades now. These are importan the important topicst for this post, but are sorely lacking in this stupid piece by morons who call themselves journalists. NASA is no fucking LGBT advocacy, it puts rockets into space ffs!
I couldn't care less if he saves the climate and the dolphins or the queers: it's not his fucking job. For battling AGW, kick the assholes who need to do something: assholes in congress and white house, not some federal administrator who has to implement the braindead policy that congress decides on.
As a reaction to the OLPC we got netbooks as an answer from conventional manufacturers. Yes netbooks were crappy but they still put a constant pressure on OEMs to make cheaper notebooks and lowered all prices for consumer mobile computers.
The OLPC project itself failed in its goals, but it helped bring us the low cost computing things like Raspberry type SBCs, chromebooks, sub 100$ tablets and phones we have today.
Nowhere does this adcopy of an article tell us how much the vegetables cost even with that ominous warning at the end. How much per kg of potatoes?
This omission is quite telling i'd say.
This tech is great for space and the main investor is,surprise!, one of the silicon valley space nut billionaires complete with his own rocket company.
It's interesting and needed tech to be sure, but not for earth except maybe for the future super-rich who don't want to eat the same gene edited, pesticide riddled food from Monsanto crops us normal plebs will have to eat cause we cannot afford the good expensive stuff like this.
It's not totally pointless, at least for the power company. Economically it's great.
Coal plants are awful in the current fast energy market: if you want to deliver power tomorrow at 11am, you better start firing the boiler now or it won't happen.
If you however have a always running baseload from the bitcoin mining, you can immediately react to fluctuating power needs by simply turning off the miners, or at least hibernate them. You cannot power up or down a coal power plant in seconds but you can do this with mining rigs.
It makes the coal plant economically usable as a fast reaction power plant, to deliver when power is in demand and highly priced.
Ecologically however, it's of course a total catastrophe.
It's not been one sided. The young US did exactly the same to the technologically most advanced nation of the 18th/19th century, the UK:
E.g. https://www.pri.org/stories/20...
A developing nation will always "steal" the knowledge about technology and manufacturing from other, more advanced, nations. This is the normal course of history, it has happened many times before and will happen in the future. Not only the US did it back then, but also Germany stole from the UK for example. In more recent times, Japan did it as well.
Just like you can't protect the latest blockbuster from getting torrented, you cannot keep tech to yourself, same unsolvable problem.
I know this is /. but you should read the article before you comment.
From the teaser of the article:
"Apple said an unauthorized repair shop owner in Norway violated its trademark by using aftermarket iPhone parts"
unauthorized repair shop, not apple licensed and blessed center.
Considering how wrong you are in your first assertion, what makes you think that you are right in your 2nd one that they defrauded their own customers?
trumps everything.
Maybe not everything: a 256bit symmetric encryption purely in software with a true 256bit passphrase aka actual meaningful encryption. Which is pretty much much impractical for use with a phone: enter 256bit of passphrase everytime you want to use it, make a call? Pure masochism.
So there is no practical way to secure your phone and you have to act accordingly for any data you want to be protected. Either destroy your phone: is there a market for phones with thermite inside? Or don't use them for anything incriminating.
Is it the third or are there even more failed attempts?
Intel 740, Larrabee and now this. Even if they are successful and finally get a miracle where they produce hardware that is actually good enough. They won't beat nvidia or AMD unless they use their fab tech to build a much bigger, much more expensive to fab chip. But let's just say they pull the miracle rabbit out of the hat. Their drivers will still suck for games. To be able to get a foot in this market you will need several years/generations with competitive hardware so game engines are written with explicit thought for you, games do tests and fixes on your hardware, a driver team works with game makers for a long time,etc. I just don't see the Intel videocard driver team being capable this way.
The only chance Intel maybe has is to convince the console makers to use theirs instead of AMD for the next consoles. With enough money/rebates and the great Intel sales magic to OEMs this might even work. But for discrete PC gaming this is all DOA. I just don't see how Intel can make money on this, not with the rebates they would have to give the console makers to actually "succeed". This sounds like another Atom/mobile CPU/ARM competitor fiasco where they burn billions.
If you skimp on accounting, there is a lot of case law where you end up in jail.
When you have an IT disaster you never go to jail so far. Target, Equifax, etc. certainly haven't.
With both, if you skimp too much you might end up bankrupt. E.g. if you don't know your invoices and who owes what to whom, you go bankrupt. If that ransomware disrupts your business too long you also go bankrupt. So there is a certain needed minimum standard in both, but thanks to centuries of experience with it, accounting has much better laws, standards and especially case law than IT, raising the needed minimum bar much higher.
It's an easy to grasp number for a layman to show "the exponential growth phase of smartphones is now over". The tech is now mature and therefore uninteresting for the purpose of investing to get rich, uninteresting for the purpose of absurdly high share valuation growths of in this case Apple, but others as well.
Maybe it's not the best number, and maybe people nearer to the industry knew this beforehand, but it's easy to communicate the maturation to Joe Q. Public.
Yes it's easy to do, but probably even easier to land on a gazillion spam lists in a business like this.
I don't ever use mailchimp and have to my knowledge, never received mail from them but if mailchimp has a reasonable easy to use UI which is suited for office drones and more importantly the goodwill of the important mail recipients, aka gmail, yahoo, microsoft and all the other mail providers, then they'd have pretty much a lock in in this market.
So slapping together something that sends mail is easy, but the trick is to have someone, or ideally all, to actually be prepared to receive it.
This is article is wrong and very shoddy reporting.
What the EU wants is the have all the things made after the 2009-2011 crisis like the ESM or future Eurobonds, etc. All the things the euro-group (which is not the EU) created, to be under EU administration. Right now, all these things are administered by the ECB, the euro-group with bilateral treaties between the euro countries. The EU doesn't like that, they want it in their bureaucracy in Brussels.
So far, the euro countries especially Germany, don't want that, so it's a total non-starter right now.
No, the UK could go back if they wished. The brit rebate by "I want my money back!" Thatcher however wouldn't be reinstated. That would probably be the main concession demanded by the others. Basically, no more special circumstances for the UK, they have to be a member like any other which there were not anymore for many years. So it would cost the UK a lot monetarily to go back. The Euro is a non-issue. No one would force them to join it.
The problem however is not money in any form, it's UK politics. It would kill the tories, split them up basically. And of course would sink PM May.
The UK is no founding member of anything. They joined the EU in 1973 or so. Very much a Jonny come lately. Founding members of what became today's EU were Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany in 1957 in Rome. This morphed into the 1967 "European Communities" which is what the UK joined in 1973 together with Denmark and Ireland.
With healthcare, there are literally lives on the line. "Did you give Mrs. Abernathy her heart medication or is the lack of entry in the chart an oversight? I'm calling cause I need to give it to her in the next 2 minutes if you forgot"
With real estate people: it's not the boss who buys the property and it takes quite a long time for a sale with all the bureaucracy. There is just no real urgency.
IT worker: for some it can be important cause the server might fall down and the downtime might be very expensive. E.g. some Amazon AWS downtime or maybe a nuclear power plant. But most IT workers work cupholder replacements or such, there it doesn't really matter.
They died due to greed from owners and investors:
"KKR, Bain and Vornado purchased Toys "R" Us in 2005 in a $6.6 billion leveraged buyout, but more than $5.3 billion of the purchase price was paid using debt."
8 billions of debt, at least 5.3 purely due to the buyout. Maybe their future wouldn't be so good with Internet, etc. but it's not what killed them today, the leveraged buyout did.
There surely are laws about falsely calling 911 repeatedly? If so, do what the law says, fine them, throw them in jail.
If a corporate citizen is a citizen, then you can put that citizen in prison where he belongs.If you need to shore up the regions finances, fine them. 50.000 dollars per false call and they will stop their shit quick.
Cause the other jurisdictions are shitty backwoods states where "metropolis" means a railway crossing town with a diner. There aren't many mafia style families, gangs and crazy immigrants of strange ethnicities who control a billion dollar drug trade in those kind of towns. They do exist in Chicago since it's an actual metropolis.
Chicago can control guns however they want when the criminal only needs an old junker of a car to circumvent the law: it's pretty much useless and only prevents a few deaths by guns which happen due to accidents, or family quarrels and the like.