Don't rain on my parade. I for one am looking forward to the X-box One Prime and XB1 Double-prime. I'm even more excited about the PS4 Elite and Ultra Super PS4 Championship Arcade Edition, with new Challengers.
Northrop Grumman continues to get contracts because they are an established name and are able to make promises to the Gov at a lower price than their competitors. Then they are able to recoup costs on rent and maintenance. Just look at the beginnings of the B-2. A plane with a $70 billion price tag that the government DOESN'T OWN. They rent from Northrop, and pay them for upkeep and replacement parts.
Alternatively, Tesla could fulfill the promise it already made to the thousands of pre-orders and... I dunno... actually fulfill those orders before making announcements of the new hotness.
It makes no sense to me that they have 2 'custom' cars in the S and X. They've got serious mass-production problems with the 3 - to the point where I'm glad I didn't pre-order since I wouldn't want to be one of the fools expecting it mid-2017 and not get it until 2019. Now they are making waves about a new update on a car?
If Apple wasn't able to deliver after they got the hype train rolling, they'd be raked over the coals. Sooner or later Tesla's series of broken promises will derail their hype train.
It's really sad that since there isn't any real innovation happening with phones and the best we can come up with is a debate over whether we want some near unusable screen space on either side on the top of our phones.
What about bluetooth that doesn't drop out? Better call quality and consistent connections? Better security and privacy settings? Better battery life? More options for storage? Or how about a phone that will survive falling from a nightstand and I don't need to buy a stronger case for?
Instead we are paying $1k for a "flagship" phone that doesn't really do much more than that $300 phone 4 years ago.
Considering the bru-ha-ha that MS and Google have been getting over email storage... I'm hoping Facebook gets raked over the coals throughout Europe.
Facebook can be useful for connecting with long-lost friends and family (those of us that care to, anyway). However the pros definitely DO NOT outweigh the cons of all the targeted advertising, minute details of a person's life being sold to whatever data mining - or identity theft - group. FB doesn't care *who* has the data, just that they were paid for it - and for that they deserve to be set ablaze.
Except I will start going to the gym "next week", then when April 2nd comes around I'll be living in "this week" - and it will never be "next week". Until there is a solid date/time, "next anything" won't ever mean anything.
I've seen this pretty regularly in doctors offices lately. Instead of some network-enabled software that pushes data to a backend, they all virtualize a desktop on some (maybe remote) server.
The only downside I've seen to virtualization is if you should need some graphically intense application to work. Don't even try running something like Starcraft II in a VM'd Windows. MS Office sure, but no 3D games.
Oracle has its panties in a bunch because Google has deep pockets.
What about OpenJDK?
That's NOT created/supported by Oracle... yet you don't see Oracle suing the pants off of whomever shares does maintain OpenJDK. IANAL, but if an OSS implementation of the Java Spec (e.g. API) can exist in the form of OpenJDK, then there shouldn't be an issue with another group making their own implementation of Java.
Microsoft isn't suing the pants off of the WINE developers, nor are they targeting ReactOS. Both are OSS versions of the Windows API.
You're better off trying match.com. At least then you can create that millionaire persona and fill it with those stock photos of yachts - and not have it ruined by your friends posting your "irish yoga" poses by their backyard firepit.
Biting the hand that feeds them in the hopes that they can continue to squeeze more money out of their customers. It's a bold move Cotton. Lets see how it works for them.
BMW has been burned in the past - notably with a subframe tear issue. That's right, sheet metal that the axles mount to would tear like a bag of goldfish because they took an existing frame/subframe and slapped a bigger engine/drivetrain into it.
Considering they bill themselves as "The Ultimate Driving Machine", I can understand how they'd want to spend some time to make sure they move from ICE to a high-powered electric motor without having the car destroy itself.
From what I gather, Trump used the Cambridge data as an alternative to GOP data - in case his own party decided to shaft him. This was data bought without users consent.
Obama had a FB app that was optional and informed the users that it would gather data.
Just did a quick read here, no idea how accurate or biased the writeup may be.
Tracing Rays Through the Cloud is a pretty good example of what was "next-gen" 6 years ago. None of the imagery there was generated real-time (just read the paper), but was still a good read about what goes into ray tracing. Intuitively we know what it is, but what it means for computation with reflective/refractive surfaces is a ton of work.
Of course, I won't believe it's real-time until it can render a house of mirrors at 60fps+.
Not only did he do less, he arguably had less of an impact. With him, people lost money. With Holmes - if people believed the test results - it *could* have been fatal. People use those tests to determine various levels of things and figure out medications and such.
I don't recall hearing about any deaths from Theranos results, but if there were you'd bet your ass she'd be spending some years at Club Fed.
Ubisoft already has Uplay - which by all accounts I've seen (I refuse to install *another* game store/library app) is a miserable piece of software. I'm not sure Google - who is also evil - would be able to fix that train wreck.
Two wrongs don't make a right... Two evils don't make a good.
Intel had a Wintel phone some years ago that was actually really quick and responsive. Plenty of power to multitask and do whatever on your phone. However, ARM continues to utterly destroy x86 on power consumption.
Now it may be too little too late, unless they are somehow able to get that consumption better and maybe move toward tablets/phablets.
And that, my friends, is why I've never brought my kitty-porn-laden computers into Geek Squad for service! Well, that, and the fact that they know a lot less about computers than I do!
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Don't rain on my parade. I for one am looking forward to the X-box One Prime and XB1 Double-prime. I'm even more excited about the PS4 Elite and Ultra Super PS4 Championship Arcade Edition, with new Challengers.
Northrop Grumman continues to get contracts because they are an established name and are able to make promises to the Gov at a lower price than their competitors. Then they are able to recoup costs on rent and maintenance. Just look at the beginnings of the B-2. A plane with a $70 billion price tag that the government DOESN'T OWN. They rent from Northrop, and pay them for upkeep and replacement parts.
Alternatively, Tesla could fulfill the promise it already made to the thousands of pre-orders and... I dunno... actually fulfill those orders before making announcements of the new hotness.
It makes no sense to me that they have 2 'custom' cars in the S and X. They've got serious mass-production problems with the 3 - to the point where I'm glad I didn't pre-order since I wouldn't want to be one of the fools expecting it mid-2017 and not get it until 2019. Now they are making waves about a new update on a car?
If Apple wasn't able to deliver after they got the hype train rolling, they'd be raked over the coals. Sooner or later Tesla's series of broken promises will derail their hype train.
NO.
It's really sad that since there isn't any real innovation happening with phones and the best we can come up with is a debate over whether we want some near unusable screen space on either side on the top of our phones.
What about bluetooth that doesn't drop out? Better call quality and consistent connections? Better security and privacy settings? Better battery life? More options for storage? Or how about a phone that will survive falling from a nightstand and I don't need to buy a stronger case for?
Instead we are paying $1k for a "flagship" phone that doesn't really do much more than that $300 phone 4 years ago.
I learned something!
Time to install Linux on my desktop and see if I can virtualize the windows nonsense....
Considering the bru-ha-ha that MS and Google have been getting over email storage... I'm hoping Facebook gets raked over the coals throughout Europe.
Facebook can be useful for connecting with long-lost friends and family (those of us that care to, anyway). However the pros definitely DO NOT outweigh the cons of all the targeted advertising, minute details of a person's life being sold to whatever data mining - or identity theft - group. FB doesn't care *who* has the data, just that they were paid for it - and for that they deserve to be set ablaze.
Make an account with some fake info, then delete it. That'll show 'em.
Except I will start going to the gym "next week", then when April 2nd comes around I'll be living in "this week" - and it will never be "next week". Until there is a solid date/time, "next anything" won't ever mean anything.
I've seen this pretty regularly in doctors offices lately. Instead of some network-enabled software that pushes data to a backend, they all virtualize a desktop on some (maybe remote) server.
The only downside I've seen to virtualization is if you should need some graphically intense application to work. Don't even try running something like Starcraft II in a VM'd Windows. MS Office sure, but no 3D games.
Oracle has its panties in a bunch because Google has deep pockets.
What about OpenJDK?
That's NOT created/supported by Oracle... yet you don't see Oracle suing the pants off of whomever shares does maintain OpenJDK. IANAL, but if an OSS implementation of the Java Spec (e.g. API) can exist in the form of OpenJDK, then there shouldn't be an issue with another group making their own implementation of Java.
Microsoft isn't suing the pants off of the WINE developers, nor are they targeting ReactOS. Both are OSS versions of the Windows API.
You're better off trying match.com. At least then you can create that millionaire persona and fill it with those stock photos of yachts - and not have it ruined by your friends posting your "irish yoga" poses by their backyard firepit.
Biting the hand that feeds them in the hopes that they can continue to squeeze more money out of their customers. It's a bold move Cotton. Lets see how it works for them.
And the whole crowd starts rushing to push the button in the bottom-right after 5 seconds.
Or maybe there will be some relationship between number of ads and total amount spent on concessions per screening?
BMW has been burned in the past - notably with a subframe tear issue. That's right, sheet metal that the axles mount to would tear like a bag of goldfish because they took an existing frame/subframe and slapped a bigger engine/drivetrain into it.
Considering they bill themselves as "The Ultimate Driving Machine", I can understand how they'd want to spend some time to make sure they move from ICE to a high-powered electric motor without having the car destroy itself.
From what I gather, Trump used the Cambridge data as an alternative to GOP data - in case his own party decided to shaft him. This was data bought without users consent.
Obama had a FB app that was optional and informed the users that it would gather data.
Just did a quick read here, no idea how accurate or biased the writeup may be.
TLDR; Trump bought data, Obama asked for it.
Tracing Rays Through the Cloud is a pretty good example of what was "next-gen" 6 years ago. None of the imagery there was generated real-time (just read the paper), but was still a good read about what goes into ray tracing. Intuitively we know what it is, but what it means for computation with reflective/refractive surfaces is a ton of work.
Of course, I won't believe it's real-time until it can render a house of mirrors at 60fps+.
Not only did he do less, he arguably had less of an impact. With him, people lost money. With Holmes - if people believed the test results - it *could* have been fatal. People use those tests to determine various levels of things and figure out medications and such.
I don't recall hearing about any deaths from Theranos results, but if there were you'd bet your ass she'd be spending some years at Club Fed.
Now our youth have even less incentive to actually get outside and do something.
"Hey, you wanna go check out that park downtown?"
"Nah, I already ran through it in Super Downtown Los Angeles, Zombie Edition"
Ubisoft already has Uplay - which by all accounts I've seen (I refuse to install *another* game store/library app) is a miserable piece of software. I'm not sure Google - who is also evil - would be able to fix that train wreck.
Two wrongs don't make a right... Two evils don't make a good.
Intel had a Wintel phone some years ago that was actually really quick and responsive. Plenty of power to multitask and do whatever on your phone. However, ARM continues to utterly destroy x86 on power consumption.
Now it may be too little too late, unless they are somehow able to get that consumption better and maybe move toward tablets/phablets.
Or borrow from Canonical with the "adjective-noun" alphabet format. They've got a few in the bag:
Absolute-asshat
Baffling-bullshit
Condescending... you get the idea.
No. This is just nature's way of cleaning out the hipsters.
"It looks like you're trying to find a shortcut on your desktop. Would you like help?"
-Clippy
You're putting a lot of trust in Grandma and Grandpa knowing how to dig into Cortana's config and enable it.
Not everyone has a family member that can/will help protect them from themselves.
And that, my friends, is why I've never brought my kitty-porn-laden computers into Geek Squad for service! Well, that, and the fact that they know a lot less about computers than I do!
Please, won't someone think of the kittens?