I'd like to see an EM Drive put into testing up there too (yes, yes, yes - I know it's defying the [known] laws of science. No reason not to test it in space since it seems to pass all tests on earth)
Hey maybe we could strap the ION Drive face-to-face with an EM Drive, throw them out the hatch and see who pushes who around!
Yeah, I was disappointed not to see his method too. Patent Pending? Classified by intelligence services? BS? Re-reading the subtitle is does say "COULD accelerate computer calculations" It doesn't say "accelerates computer calculations" Still to be proven and inconclusive?
One of the VP level Engineers (title is "distinguished" or something exalted like that) told me over lunch a couple of years ago that Chambers had said to him he wasn't interested in R&D. If there was a technology he needed, he'd buy it. The problem is that Cisco climbed to the top using IBM strategies and thinking which were focus on delivering "end to end" solutions to customers. They had no interest in box shipping. Those were just lego bricks and logistics. You can imagine how soul destroying that was to be a Cisco engineer. Bugs were a bonus to them as they sold annual maintenance contracts for roughly the same cost as the gear they sold. Now that the router/switch market has matured and commoditised they care even less about the quality of those boxes they have to ship. Their focus is entirely on the "service" level. They will eventually become another IBM. I was trying to think of a real tangible product that IBM made and sold just the other day. Do they?
This makes me wish I was still working for them in IOS Engineering for the opportunity just to stir some shit. I'd have gone into the office on Monday morning with my head covered in tinfoil. I use to get some good laughs in the Cisco office, I seem to be getting more on the outside these days. Oh how the mighty have fallen....
I can't help but feel that this is nothing more than a attempt to undermine, short term, confidence in virtual currencies. Otherwise known as "market manipulation". Price goes down on some press announcement like this, somebody buys large, price rebounds. Somebody cashes in.
That's what having separate user accounts is for. There's no way I'd let my kids use anything that I was logged into. Your just asking for disaster.
Airdrop has never worked well for me although hand off works very nicely. Uni-Clip sounds good, in theory, although I've yet to try it out. I'm still on El Capitan & iOS9 until the dust settles and the major bugs have been fixed.
The question, that remains unanswered at the moment, is just how damaged is the Samsung Phone brand? Is it on life support now after what just happened to a 6 year old NY-er? As a parent I'm not keen on allowing any of my gang (7, 5, 3, & 6 mnths) to touch our smart phones, less so now. This is where brand value and customer confidence in brand comes to the fore, when it threatens the safety of those who you protect. Xmas time is going to be a tough one for Samsung and, for not paying attention to the quality and safety of supplied parts, they deserve it. Which android brand will take their place?
I suspect Larry too. I also suspect that there's an element of his close, late, friend Steve Jobs bitterness and declaration of war on Google in Larry's vendetta.
Putting personal vendetta's aside Google is getting too powerful, it's ability to manipulate information on a global scale for political motives is worrying. Time for some transparency and/or regulation of Google and the online search industry.
Read the paper. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity16/sec16_paper_garman.pdf
Quote "Overall, our determination is that while iMessage’s end-to-end encryption protocol is an improvement over systems that use encryption on network traffic only (e.g., Google Hangouts), messages sent through iMessage may not be secure against sophisticated adversaries."
The attacker requires stolen TLS certificates or by gaining access to Apple's servers. Serious? No. All systems are flawed in someway and are breakable to that extent.
All this finger pointing at politicians, nonsense, just nonsense. Politicians are just puppets on a string. We should do a slashdot poll with 2 options. Question "Was Seth Rich kill by a mugger or by the government wanting to send a message to any more would be wikileakers?" Answers "Yes" & "No". (ok, maybe "cowboy neal did it", too) It's the US security bureaucrat's who will be behind this. The faceless men in the shadows who love the power they wield and fear the light maybe turn on them by one of their minions.
Trump asks Russia to hack Hilary. Trump then says "I was being sarcastic" Russia Hacks Hilary (apparently it was them, they deny it.) Oh and not forgetting the feminist ho-ha over Hilary not making the front pages for her nomination. My Questions are: 1) Can Hilary really continue to be a "victim" (as she was when Bill got a BJ in the Oval) and be voted for as leader? People don't vote victims into power, they vote for strong leaders. 2) If you are mad enough to consider voting for Trump does the fact that the Russian's are trying to help him put you off. If it does who do you vote for? 3) Maybe McAfee isn't such a bad choice?:) 4) Should there be a box on the ballot saying "keep the guy's who's already in the white house. I don't like any of the above." ?
The result is 53.1% for leaving if you remove Scotland from the totals. You could also remove N.Ireland but it was only about 90,000 votes difference (in favour of remaining) T.M is the UK's 2nd female PM and very possibly the last PM of the "United" Kingdom
UK Leave 17,410,742 (51.9%) Remain 16,141,241 (48.1%) Total 33,551,983
... just doesn't have the same click bait appeal does it? I think it might be fun to put Linus in a kitchen with Gordon just to give him a taste of his own medicine and vice versa;)
Those who get to the top of their profession are driven perfectionists who expect everyone else around them to strive to achieve that same level of perfection. I get why they lose it with others less driven and focused. Do they need perspective or should we just leave them alone to continue to be brilliant? I think the latter.
The whole thing stinks of BBC top brass ego's wanting to show Clarkson that they can do it without him. You can imagine how much JC irked them over the years doing and saying what he pleased, a money earning brat they had to endure. I felt Evan's was lost from the outset because he tried to ape Clarkson rather than bring something new to the show. I suspect he wasn't given a choice and was forced to keep the formula the same down to the same cheesy lines and catch phrases. Everyone could see it for what is was. Evans should have been given free reign. LeBlanc did well as he brought something new to it. It'll be a real shame if he isn't retained. It's a shame Ricky Gervais or Franky Boyle aren't petrol heads.;)
As an App developer who lives off my App's proceeds I agree that 30% is "hardly bad", in fact I'd gladly pay 30% to any affiliate who can bring me customers like Apple does. Apple does more than than an affiliate though. They handle payments, local taxes, customer support (to a limited extent), they provide me with a superb development environment, Xcode and they host in-app content which I use in some cases. That's all the good.
The bad is Apple hands out refunds without telling me which transactions were refunded. As I'm selling consultancy and taking a commission I'm left out of pocket as neither Apple, the customer or the consultant who I have to pay lose out. I get and agree that Apple wants to protect the anonymity of their customers but I don't agree that this should extend to refusing to tell me which payments have been voided. A few users have caught onto this little scam of buying on my App, taking the product, thanking us for it and then going to Apple for a refund. The price points are set by the consultants and some are unique and low volume so in some cases I can actually work out who is doing it. Found one today who just paid $55, got their consultancy, got their refund. Checked previous purchases and they did the same thing a few months ago. If this continues I'm pulling this service. Shame to spoil it because 99% love it and don't abuse but if Apple continues to cover up for the 1% which grows to 10% it's good night and thank you.
Oh the irony. "Don't be evil". Perhaps Larry & Serge should have paid attention to Friedrich Nietzsche "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Hard to believe that 2 historical releases of software, which have defined industries for the last couple of decades, were released months apart. I was lucky enough to be working for Europe's only network equipment vendor, Spider System Ltd in Edinburgh. We had a 64K connection to the internet via Edinburgh University and JANET. This allowed us to download both packages and all their subsequent updates. As I recall ID Software knew more about games than they did about networking. The original multiplayer version used IPX broadcast and our office network would grind to a halt ever lunch time. All network activity LEDs would be on solid green. An epic time to look back on, even then I knew the moment I saw both Doom & Mosaic I was seeing something very profound. The word "disruptive", doesn't even begin to cover what they brought about.
Now imagine you had an electric car parked up outside, with some big ass batteries in it, plugged in and storing that surplus energy. As if surplus power is a problem? It isn't, we just haven't moved forward quickly enough and away from fossil fuels.
Well it was a hell of a ride from the early 90's over the past 20+ years. We've had a series of landscape changes from the PC era through the internet era and the recent smart phone era. The tectonic plates of technology seem to have stopped moving for now.
As PC's became boring commodities so too are smart phones, the app gold rush is over. This weeks results for Apple are a clear indicator of that. Same happen to Cisco back around the turn of the millennium, the switch and router market matured and Cisco's stock price has never recovered. Cisco, back in the late 90's, was for a period the world's most valuable company by market cap, as has been Apple.
All the excitement right now seems to be around automobiles. Which, let's face, it have been begging for a shake up and disruption for decades. Gold rushes never seem to appear where the crowd is focused though so maybe that one is too obvious. Where ever the next one is it isn't online, on your mobile or your desktop/laptop computer.
I've tried to stick to the principle of not buying the cheapest option as it a) never lasts b) does a piss poor job There's also the c) can be dangerous Hair dryers are a good example of dangerous. I know of a couple of homes that have burned to the ground due to a cheap hair dryer. I recently bought another blender for making soups, curry sauces etc. The previous one I had melted and smoked in front of me. It was cheap. While searching online for a replacement I discovered an alarming large number food blenders smoking or bursting into flames in product reviews. So I found one which cost 10x what I paid for my previous one and it's superb. It works so much better, it's quiet, it looks beautiful and I'm sure it'll last for years.
Why is it when someone actually goes to extreme lengths to try and design the best possible product instead of trying to make the cheapest product possible with no effort to make it any good, reliable or safe everyone puts them down? I don't get it? I wouldn't buy Dyson's, or anyone else's, hairdryer but I admire him for being a self made man who got there because of his innovation and design. I'm willing to pay extra for a well designed product that has had a bit of thought and passion put into it.
You can't compare to the PC to mobile devices. Microsoft's dominance was based on the fact that 95% of software only ran on DOS/Windows There's no software dominance in the iOS/Android weigh in. iOS has been more lucrative for developers which has meant earlier adoption. Apps appearing on iOS before Android. Sheer numbers don't really add up to revenue either for the phone manufacturer or the App developers.
I think the mobile computing age has been much fairer and better for the consumer as the consumer has had more than one choice.
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I'd like to see an EM Drive put into testing up there too (yes, yes, yes - I know it's defying the [known] laws of science. No reason not to test it in space since it seems to pass all tests on earth)
Hey maybe we could strap the ION Drive face-to-face with an EM Drive, throw them out the hatch and see who pushes who around!
Yeah, I was disappointed not to see his method too.
Patent Pending? Classified by intelligence services? BS?
Re-reading the subtitle is does say "COULD accelerate computer calculations"
It doesn't say "accelerates computer calculations"
Still to be proven and inconclusive?
One of the VP level Engineers (title is "distinguished" or something exalted like that) told me over lunch a couple of years ago that Chambers had said to him he wasn't interested in R&D. If there was a technology he needed, he'd buy it.
The problem is that Cisco climbed to the top using IBM strategies and thinking which were focus on delivering "end to end" solutions to customers.
They had no interest in box shipping. Those were just lego bricks and logistics. You can imagine how soul destroying that was to be a Cisco engineer.
Bugs were a bonus to them as they sold annual maintenance contracts for roughly the same cost as the gear they sold.
Now that the router/switch market has matured and commoditised they care even less about the quality of those boxes they have to ship.
Their focus is entirely on the "service" level.
They will eventually become another IBM. I was trying to think of a real tangible product that IBM made and sold just the other day. Do they?
This makes me wish I was still working for them in IOS Engineering for the opportunity just to stir some shit.
I'd have gone into the office on Monday morning with my head covered in tinfoil.
I use to get some good laughs in the Cisco office, I seem to be getting more on the outside these days.
Oh how the mighty have fallen....
I can't help but feel that this is nothing more than a attempt to undermine, short term, confidence in virtual currencies.
Otherwise known as "market manipulation".
Price goes down on some press announcement like this, somebody buys large, price rebounds. Somebody cashes in.
That's what having separate user accounts is for.
There's no way I'd let my kids use anything that I was logged into.
Your just asking for disaster.
Airdrop has never worked well for me although hand off works very nicely.
Uni-Clip sounds good, in theory, although I've yet to try it out.
I'm still on El Capitan & iOS9 until the dust settles and the major bugs have been fixed.
The question, that remains unanswered at the moment, is just how damaged is the Samsung Phone brand?
Is it on life support now after what just happened to a 6 year old NY-er?
As a parent I'm not keen on allowing any of my gang (7, 5, 3, & 6 mnths) to touch our smart phones, less so now.
This is where brand value and customer confidence in brand comes to the fore, when it threatens the safety of those who you protect.
Xmas time is going to be a tough one for Samsung and, for not paying attention to the quality and safety of supplied parts, they deserve it.
Which android brand will take their place?
Balls of milled aluminium....
I suspect Larry too.
I also suspect that there's an element of his close, late, friend Steve Jobs bitterness and declaration of war on Google in Larry's vendetta.
Putting personal vendetta's aside Google is getting too powerful, it's ability to manipulate information on a global scale for political motives is worrying.
Time for some transparency and/or regulation of Google and the online search industry.
Read the paper.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity16/sec16_paper_garman.pdf
Quote "Overall, our determination is that while iMessage’s end-to-end encryption protocol is an improvement over systems that use encryption on network traffic only (e.g., Google Hangouts), messages sent through iMessage may not be secure against sophisticated adversaries."
The attacker requires stolen TLS certificates or by gaining access to Apple's servers.
Serious? No. All systems are flawed in someway and are breakable to that extent.
All this finger pointing at politicians, nonsense, just nonsense. Politicians are just puppets on a string.
We should do a slashdot poll with 2 options.
Question "Was Seth Rich kill by a mugger or by the government wanting to send a message to any more would be wikileakers?"
Answers "Yes" & "No". (ok, maybe "cowboy neal did it", too)
It's the US security bureaucrat's who will be behind this.
The faceless men in the shadows who love the power they wield and fear the light maybe turn on them by one of their minions.
Trump asks Russia to hack Hilary. :)
Trump then says "I was being sarcastic"
Russia Hacks Hilary (apparently it was them, they deny it.)
Oh and not forgetting the feminist ho-ha over Hilary not making the front pages for her nomination.
My Questions are:
1) Can Hilary really continue to be a "victim" (as she was when Bill got a BJ in the Oval) and be voted for as leader? People don't vote victims into power, they vote for strong leaders.
2) If you are mad enough to consider voting for Trump does the fact that the Russian's are trying to help him put you off. If it does who do you vote for?
3) Maybe McAfee isn't such a bad choice?
4) Should there be a box on the ballot saying "keep the guy's who's already in the white house. I don't like any of the above." ?
Everyone's too busy playing Pokemon to care what makes sense in the real world.
The result is 53.1% for leaving if you remove Scotland from the totals.
You could also remove N.Ireland but it was only about 90,000 votes difference (in favour of remaining)
T.M is the UK's 2nd female PM and very possibly the last PM of the "United" Kingdom
UK
Leave 17,410,742 (51.9%)
Remain 16,141,241 (48.1%)
Total 33,551,983
Scotland
Leave 1,018,322 (38%)
Remain 1,661,191 (62%)
Total 2,679,513
383,570 (14.3%)
UK (without Scotland)
Leave 16,392,420 (53.1%)
Remain 14,480,050 (46.9%)
Total 30,872,470
... just doesn't have the same click bait appeal does it? ;)
I think it might be fun to put Linus in a kitchen with Gordon just to give him a taste of his own medicine and vice versa
Those who get to the top of their profession are driven perfectionists who expect everyone else around them to strive to achieve that same level of perfection.
I get why they lose it with others less driven and focused.
Do they need perspective or should we just leave them alone to continue to be brilliant? I think the latter.
He was in London, not Texas.
The whole thing stinks of BBC top brass ego's wanting to show Clarkson that they can do it without him. ;)
You can imagine how much JC irked them over the years doing and saying what he pleased, a money earning brat they had to endure.
I felt Evan's was lost from the outset because he tried to ape Clarkson rather than bring something new to the show.
I suspect he wasn't given a choice and was forced to keep the formula the same down to the same cheesy lines and catch phrases.
Everyone could see it for what is was. Evans should have been given free reign.
LeBlanc did well as he brought something new to it. It'll be a real shame if he isn't retained.
It's a shame Ricky Gervais or Franky Boyle aren't petrol heads.
+1 That made me laugh.
Just for the folks who don't follow football.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36514115
As an App developer who lives off my App's proceeds I agree that 30% is "hardly bad", in fact I'd gladly pay 30% to any affiliate who can bring me customers like Apple does.
Apple does more than than an affiliate though.
They handle payments, local taxes, customer support (to a limited extent), they provide me with a superb development environment, Xcode and they host in-app content which I use in some cases.
That's all the good.
The bad is Apple hands out refunds without telling me which transactions were refunded.
As I'm selling consultancy and taking a commission I'm left out of pocket as neither Apple, the customer or the consultant who I have to pay lose out.
I get and agree that Apple wants to protect the anonymity of their customers but I don't agree that this should extend to refusing to tell me which payments have been voided.
A few users have caught onto this little scam of buying on my App, taking the product, thanking us for it and then going to Apple for a refund.
The price points are set by the consultants and some are unique and low volume so in some cases I can actually work out who is doing it.
Found one today who just paid $55, got their consultancy, got their refund. Checked previous purchases and they did the same thing a few months ago.
If this continues I'm pulling this service.
Shame to spoil it because 99% love it and don't abuse but if Apple continues to cover up for the 1% which grows to 10% it's good night and thank you.
Oh the irony. "Don't be evil". Perhaps Larry & Serge should have paid attention to Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Hard to believe that 2 historical releases of software, which have defined industries for the last couple of decades, were released months apart.
I was lucky enough to be working for Europe's only network equipment vendor, Spider System Ltd in Edinburgh.
We had a 64K connection to the internet via Edinburgh University and JANET.
This allowed us to download both packages and all their subsequent updates.
As I recall ID Software knew more about games than they did about networking.
The original multiplayer version used IPX broadcast and our office network would grind to a halt ever lunch time.
All network activity LEDs would be on solid green.
An epic time to look back on, even then I knew the moment I saw both Doom & Mosaic I was seeing something very profound.
The word "disruptive", doesn't even begin to cover what they brought about.
Now imagine you had an electric car parked up outside, with some big ass batteries in it, plugged in and storing that surplus energy.
As if surplus power is a problem?
It isn't, we just haven't moved forward quickly enough and away from fossil fuels.
Well it was a hell of a ride from the early 90's over the past 20+ years.
We've had a series of landscape changes from the PC era through the internet era and the recent smart phone era.
The tectonic plates of technology seem to have stopped moving for now.
As PC's became boring commodities so too are smart phones, the app gold rush is over.
This weeks results for Apple are a clear indicator of that.
Same happen to Cisco back around the turn of the millennium, the switch and router market matured and Cisco's stock price has never recovered.
Cisco, back in the late 90's, was for a period the world's most valuable company by market cap, as has been Apple.
All the excitement right now seems to be around automobiles.
Which, let's face, it have been begging for a shake up and disruption for decades.
Gold rushes never seem to appear where the crowd is focused though so maybe that one is too obvious.
Where ever the next one is it isn't online, on your mobile or your desktop/laptop computer.
I've tried to stick to the principle of not buying the cheapest option as it a) never lasts b) does a piss poor job
There's also the c) can be dangerous
Hair dryers are a good example of dangerous. I know of a couple of homes that have burned to the ground due to a cheap hair dryer.
I recently bought another blender for making soups, curry sauces etc. The previous one I had melted and smoked in front of me. It was cheap.
While searching online for a replacement I discovered an alarming large number food blenders smoking or bursting into flames in product reviews.
So I found one which cost 10x what I paid for my previous one and it's superb. It works so much better, it's quiet, it looks beautiful and I'm sure it'll last for years.
Why is it when someone actually goes to extreme lengths to try and design the best possible product instead of trying to make the cheapest product possible with no effort to make it any good, reliable or safe everyone puts them down?
I don't get it?
I wouldn't buy Dyson's, or anyone else's, hairdryer but I admire him for being a self made man who got there because of his innovation and design.
I'm willing to pay extra for a well designed product that has had a bit of thought and passion put into it.
You can't compare to the PC to mobile devices.
Microsoft's dominance was based on the fact that 95% of software only ran on DOS/Windows
There's no software dominance in the iOS/Android weigh in.
iOS has been more lucrative for developers which has meant earlier adoption.
Apps appearing on iOS before Android.
Sheer numbers don't really add up to revenue either for the phone manufacturer or the App developers.
I think the mobile computing age has been much fairer and better for the consumer as the consumer has had more than one choice.