(As far as mechanics go), electric car is much easier to build, than conventional. Here we have the opposite.
You can't seriously compare consequences (and complexity) of potential problems/safety measures in a plane (and, oh, dear, not just any plain, bloody SUPERSONIC plane) to that of a metal box with 4 wheels that just rolls on the surface.
If it wasn't difficult Concorde would not have been the only successful supersonic passenger plane. Soviet Tu - 144 crashed at Le Burget avia show (and was built mostly out of fear that it could have military uses... actually it did). US Boeing 2707 never took off.
The only company extensively using new materials at the moment is Boeing (in its Dreamliner).
PS And, frankly, flying supersonic plane built by a startup? No thanks.
If I'd kill my neighbor, police would have rights to search my appartment. If I'd had a safe at home, they'd have right to search it too. And everyone is ok with that.
If I'd have an old style answering machine, police would have rights to access it. And everyone is ok with that.
But if I have a device by certain company, suddenly it is not ok, where is the bloody logic?
Backdoor already exists, because Apple has created it: phone can be upgraded without owner's concent. Contrary to Apple's CEO claims, FBI asked to crack "this very phone" in a way, that would not allow that very software to be re-used with other phones.
That was much work (and it costs money) and that was a problem. Now FBI is fine doing all that work itself, no forced labour on Apple, isn't that logical?
By stealing idea from others. (at least, as far as I can trust "Social Network" movie) He founded the company, mentioning stock options in this context is stupid.
And what people don't know is, that Netherlands, or rather, citizens of Netherlands are paying the highest (per capita) price for EU membership, not UK and the likes.
Now, there is a clear discrepancy in EU (especially Germany + France) vision of the future of EU. Continental Europe tends to be pro tighter integration. UK does everything to stop it. On top of it, scolding EU has become a norm among mainstream UK politicians.
The real "loss" for UK, if you ask me, would be exactly that: no way to influence EU integration processes.
Neither side had interest in downing a Dutch airliner. Ukrainian side had no interest in downing ANYTHING, as "rebels" didn't have anything that could fly. (unless you consider thrown AK-47 a flying object)
Right after the incident, "Rebels" bragged about downing yet another Ukrainian jet.
So apparently Russians, sorry, "rebels", did it by mistake.
With nearly 900$ price tag, it should be helluva game for me to jump on it. Maybe if star citizen delivers. Oh, and then I'd probably need to spend another 500$ on AMD Fury Nano...
I don't really know whom to blame, Obama, for sparing money on it (NASA's budget is roughly 18 billion $, which is about 0.5% of the federal budget) and effectively stopping the program, or NASA, for Constelation program being behind schedule and much more costly than planned.
goes, the plan is to skip the Moon (as 2020 is not achievable), invest into heavy rocketry (Ares V?) for which Obama promised to slap 6 billion $ and get to Mars by 2030.
Cruz + Rubio have more votes, than Trump, had one of the two dropped out in favor of the other... Nobody would care about what Kasich does. (I don't see how him supporting Rubio allows Rubio to beat Trump, if Cruz is still there with 20% of the votes)
It depends on what you are doing. If it is accounting (finance) related, rules are very strict (than's to the Enron scandal) so no wonder every step is under control.
1) Pay Spielgerg 21'000'000$ for the title 2) Force some nerdy dude into "work, with small breaks to eat/toilet/sleep" mode for 5 weeks. (effectively spending say, 5000$ on game development) 3) Spend 5'000'000 on marketing campaign
Later on figure, that #2 didn't work as planned, claim it was nerdy dude's fault.
PS4 has something along the lines of AMD 7870 and has the luxury of being the main testing target for many games, which your faster than that PC cannot boast.
Games might SEEM more expensive on Consoles, but once you take into account the fact that you can BUY USED and RE-SELL console games, that most of them play just fine offline, it ain't such a PC advantage any more, if at all. (bar No-DRM games from gog.com, god bless it's creator)
PS I never got why it has to be either or anyhow. I can't imagine Starcraft 2 on console and neither does playing Rayman Legends on PC feel ok to me.
I work in IT, nevertheless NONE of my colleagues knew all the not so unimportant details of WTF FBI has actualy asked Apple to do, so here it is, just in case you also missed it:
FBI asked Apple to provide update that would:
1) Prevent the phone from erasing itself. 2) Allow to automate the process for trying out passcode combinations. 3) and without unnecessary delay. 4) and last, but not least: Control the process, but not know how it's done. Source (BBC)
Now, pay attention to point 4. FBI is fine with all that happening at Apple's HQ.
Where the FUCK did the "privacy concerns" come from, please? Would Apple itself leak that update? If so, couldn't they also somehow leak private key used to sign firmware updates?
As far as Google goes, I'm so much more concerned about every single app, including keyboards, on my Android phone being able to go surf a bit, than with FBI using Apple signed update to get data from terrorists' phone HAVING judge's backing, EVEN IF ALL THE THEORIES about misuse were true. (most aren't)
As with "but it can leak and can be misused", "what will stop FBI from spying on us when we surf for porn": 1) Apple can very likely identify the phone's unique ID 2) Apple's signed update can contain check for that ID and only work on that particular device (if we seriously cannot trust FBI to not leak some crap into public internet, misuse it vs normal people) 3) And, NO, BLOODY HELL, NO, YOU CAN'T HACK THE DAMN THING if it is signed. You can't modify any single bit in it.
Still, "Patents were created to benefit the public, not the inventor.":
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
No word on "let's let inventor become really really rich".
If your expertise isn't running a manufacturing company and you are developing software (as I am) you don't need patents either. In fact, patent shit is an obstacle for me, with legal department going on "OMG open source, PATENT ALARM" every now and then. (they do have a point, when you buy commercial stuff, if it infridges, it's seller's problem, kind of "troll protection")
Let me put it this way: there is NO "multi million investment" into actual software that benefits from software patents.
Most of US hardware patents are not valid in EU, yet no bad impact noticed so far, on the contrary, no "troll took on company X" stories in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Did you try, cough, playing games with it? The only RUNTIME demanding (i.e. "just wait a bit longer" won't cut it) tasks that I can through at my notebook are games. And at that kind of tasks, AMD Carrizo notebook chip pwns most things Intel has offer (bar Iris Pro, which is much more expensive)
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(As far as mechanics go), electric car is much easier to build, than conventional. Here we have the opposite.
You can't seriously compare consequences (and complexity) of potential problems/safety measures in a plane (and, oh, dear, not just any plain, bloody SUPERSONIC plane) to that of a metal box with 4 wheels that just rolls on the surface.
If it wasn't difficult Concorde would not have been the only successful supersonic passenger plane.
Soviet Tu - 144 crashed at Le Burget avia show (and was built mostly out of fear that it could have military uses... actually it did).
US Boeing 2707 never took off.
The only company extensively using new materials at the moment is Boeing (in its Dreamliner).
PS
And, frankly, flying supersonic plane built by a startup? No thanks.
13.3", 800$ price tag, built by Sony (that, sadly, quit 6-9" e-reader market thati has actually pioneered)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
If I'd kill my neighbor, police would have rights to search my appartment. If I'd had a safe at home, they'd have right to search it too.
And everyone is ok with that.
If I'd have an old style answering machine, police would have rights to access it.
And everyone is ok with that.
But if I have a device by certain company, suddenly it is not ok, where is the bloody logic?
Backdoor already exists, because Apple has created it: phone can be upgraded without owner's concent.
Contrary to Apple's CEO claims, FBI asked to crack "this very phone" in a way, that would not allow that very software to be re-used with other phones.
That was much work (and it costs money) and that was a problem. Now FBI is fine doing all that work itself, no forced labour on Apple, isn't that logical?
By stealing idea from others. (at least, as far as I can trust "Social Network" movie)
He founded the company, mentioning stock options in this context is stupid.
And what people don't know is, that Netherlands, or rather, citizens of Netherlands are paying the highest (per capita) price for EU membership, not UK and the likes.
Now, there is a clear discrepancy in EU (especially Germany + France) vision of the future of EU.
Continental Europe tends to be pro tighter integration.
UK does everything to stop it.
On top of it, scolding EU has become a norm among mainstream UK politicians.
The real "loss" for UK, if you ask me, would be exactly that: no way to influence EU integration processes.
So, if I buy iPhone I can watch 2 hour movie in, say, 24 minutes, as opposed to, say, 28 minutes on Samsung?
That's a serious advantage.
And to make things worse, request to add MRU is "won't fix" for Chrome, since "addons can do it", except that, they can't.
"Java: write once, run anywhere"
Sorry, couldn't help.
Neither side had interest in downing a Dutch airliner.
Ukrainian side had no interest in downing ANYTHING, as "rebels" didn't have anything that could fly. (unless you consider thrown AK-47 a flying object)
Right after the incident, "Rebels" bragged about downing yet another Ukrainian jet.
So apparently Russians, sorry, "rebels", did it by mistake.
Except Buk-M doesn't really look like something that a bunch of drunken idiots can operate:
http://www.rusarmy.com/pvo/pvo...
And it was likely operated by Russian army "on vacation"
With nearly 900$ price tag, it should be helluva game for me to jump on it.
Maybe if star citizen delivers.
Oh, and then I'd probably need to spend another 500$ on AMD Fury Nano...
Well, with major program put on shelves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't really know whom to blame, Obama, for sparing money on it (NASA's budget is roughly 18 billion $, which is about 0.5% of the federal budget) and effectively stopping the program, or NASA, for Constelation program being behind schedule and much more costly than planned.
Probably more of NASA's fault.
Anyway, as far as I get the recommendation of the committee::
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
goes, the plan is to skip the Moon (as 2020 is not achievable), invest into heavy rocketry (Ares V?) for which Obama promised to slap 6 billion $ and get to Mars by 2030.
Uh, last time I've checked, Rubio vs Clinton was rather very GOP (+5% to Rubio):
http://www.realclearpolitics.c...
Rubio to Clinton is roughly what Clinton is to Trump:
http://www.realclearpolitics.c...
Cruz vs Clinton also doesn't look bad for GOP at all:
http://www.realclearpolitics.c...
Cruz + Rubio have more votes, than Trump, had one of the two dropped out in favor of the other... Nobody would care about what Kasich does.
(I don't see how him supporting Rubio allows Rubio to beat Trump, if Cruz is still there with 20% of the votes)
The question comes down to: "which Android phones can have firmware forcefully upgraded without owner's consent?"
I don't know the answer.
It depends on what you are doing.
If it is accounting (finance) related, rules are very strict (than's to the Enron scandal) so no wonder every step is under control.
1) Pay Spielgerg 21'000'000$ for the title
2) Force some nerdy dude into "work, with small breaks to eat/toilet/sleep" mode for 5 weeks. (effectively spending say, 5000$ on game development)
3) Spend 5'000'000 on marketing campaign
Later on figure, that #2 didn't work as planned, claim it was nerdy dude's fault.
Isn't there something very wrong in this picture?
PS4 has something along the lines of AMD 7870 and has the luxury of being the main testing target for many games, which your faster than that PC cannot boast.
Games might SEEM more expensive on Consoles, but once you take into account the fact that you can BUY USED and RE-SELL console games, that most of them play just fine offline, it ain't such a PC advantage any more, if at all. (bar No-DRM games from gog.com, god bless it's creator)
PS
I never got why it has to be either or anyhow.
I can't imagine Starcraft 2 on console and neither does playing Rayman Legends on PC feel ok to me.
I work in IT, nevertheless NONE of my colleagues knew all the not so unimportant details of WTF FBI has actualy asked Apple to do, so here it is, just in case you also missed it:
FBI asked Apple to provide update that would:
1) Prevent the phone from erasing itself.
2) Allow to automate the process for trying out passcode combinations.
3) and without unnecessary delay.
4) and last, but not least: Control the process, but not know how it's done.
Source (BBC)
Now, pay attention to point 4.
FBI is fine with all that happening at Apple's HQ.
Where the FUCK did the "privacy concerns" come from, please? Would Apple itself leak that update? If so, couldn't they also somehow leak private key used to sign firmware updates?
As far as Google goes, I'm so much more concerned about every single app, including keyboards, on my Android phone being able to go surf a bit, than with FBI using Apple signed update to get data from terrorists' phone HAVING judge's backing, EVEN IF ALL THE THEORIES about misuse were true. (most aren't)
As with "but it can leak and can be misused", "what will stop FBI from spying on us when we surf for porn":
1) Apple can very likely identify the phone's unique ID
2) Apple's signed update can contain check for that ID and only work on that particular device (if we seriously cannot trust FBI to not leak some crap into public internet, misuse it vs normal people)
3) And, NO, BLOODY HELL, NO, YOU CAN'T HACK THE DAMN THING if it is signed. You can't modify any single bit in it.
Just a reminder, we've been there, seen that ("Home taping is killing record industry profits!"):
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/i...
Still, "Patents were created to benefit the public, not the inventor.":
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
No word on "let's let inventor become really really rich".
If your expertise isn't running a manufacturing company and you are developing software (as I am) you don't need patents either.
In fact, patent shit is an obstacle for me, with legal department going on "OMG open source, PATENT ALARM" every now and then.
(they do have a point, when you buy commercial stuff, if it infridges, it's seller's problem, kind of "troll protection")
Let me put it this way: there is NO "multi million investment" into actual software that benefits from software patents.
Most of US hardware patents are not valid in EU, yet no bad impact noticed so far, on the contrary, no "troll took on company X" stories in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Did you try, cough, playing games with it?
The only RUNTIME demanding (i.e. "just wait a bit longer" won't cut it) tasks that I can through at my notebook are games.
And at that kind of tasks, AMD Carrizo notebook chip pwns most things Intel has offer (bar Iris Pro, which is much more expensive)
Sorry for nitpicking, but it actually started in 1300.