Yep, this would certainly have the potential to be the most disruptive technology ever... if it comes to pass it will certainly have the potential to topple the status quo...
Well, I can believe that in 5 or 6 years we will have some manner of gene therapy that will counter some aging effects but I also expect it to be prohibitively expensive for anyone who is not a billionaire and have severe, unforeseen side effects in the first few rounds.
Personally, I am not a huge fan of the idea of living effectively forever if it just means that I am only working for my next gene therapy.
IoT is new and comes along at a time when the technology it sits on top of is also relatively new.
We do not yet know how to make truly secure systems. Even really smart people have trouble with this because there just aren't enough examples yet of systems "done right".
I was a Teamster at one point when I worked for UPS.
I hated the union dues because my pay was already really low.
However, I REALLY liked the union-negotiated medical benefits which was 100% medical, dental and vision coverage, no co-pays on anything and no money withheld.
Some union dues (I don't think they were more than $30/mo) are really insignificant compared to how much that benefit package was worth.
So, this was over 10 years ago now but I don't think things have changed very much at UPS and they seem to be doing just fine even compared to FedEx, which, is not unionized and *should*, by all arguments made here, be eating UPS's lunch.
What I don't understand is why people are SO opposed to unions.
There is enough non-unionized labor force out there that unions are almost irrelevant these days.
So why vocalize so loudly about getting rid of what is left?
Sort of like why some people are so vocal against gay marriage... it doesn't affect you... why do you care so much?
Could it be that you are just towing a line fed to you by someone with an agenda?
In the case of unions, just like with "tort reform" the message is coming down from the corporate overlords and the shills just eat it up because it is spun "right" and intermingled with other, unrelated noise.
If unions have a place, they will survive. If there isn't, they will fall on their own.
I am sure they will just have the "emoji" clause written into some law which allows "fair use" of the image in the context of communications between devices or some such thing.
plus the purpose-built device will out-perform and be more reliable than the half-assed software baked into the TV.
I have a 2013 Samsung smart TV that came loaded to the gills with all kinds of bells-and-whistles and a pretty beefy quad core processor to run it all and yet I ended up using the Roku anyway because the apps kept breaking, malfunctioning and performed sluggishly... It's not like I had a ton of apps either... Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are about the only ones I use.
Yeah right... maybe if you include those gold rims in the cost of the "tyre".
A new iPhone can cost over $1000...
I would expect to be able to use such a device for many years... but that is not going to happen. Even if nothing breaks, Apple will force obsolescence inside of 3 years.
Except that now you have to go buy a brand new device for several times the cost of repairing it might be (especially if you can do it yourself).
It is a lock-in technique, obviously.
At some point down the road, when there are no more cheap labor pools, resources become more scarce and landfills are overloaded, we will see a return to re-usable stuff... but I guess for the next few hundred years at least, stuff is going to get more disposable due to the short sightedness of greedy corporations.
I have also had my yahoo e-mail account for many years.
I even had a pretty weak password on it for a lot of those years (dictionary word) and it never got "hacked".
As a matter of fact, the only time I have been "hacked" was when I lost control of a domain that I had tied to some Google services a while back. Somebody snapped up the domain and used it to change the password on my main google account. I got it all worked out, but it was totally my fault in the first place.
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Actually it is call the "TED Radio Hour" and it has been in repeats for the last couple of months at least.
I guess there just isn't enough good TED talks to curate.
Yep, this would certainly have the potential to be the most disruptive technology ever... if it comes to pass it will certainly have the potential to topple the status quo...
Well, I can believe that in 5 or 6 years we will have some manner of gene therapy that will counter some aging effects but I also expect it to be prohibitively expensive for anyone who is not a billionaire and have severe, unforeseen side effects in the first few rounds.
Personally, I am not a huge fan of the idea of living effectively forever if it just means that I am only working for my next gene therapy.
Yep, as always, the "issues" are escalated with FUD and the crowd is whipped into a frenzy, given a gun and pointed toward a straw man.
While everyone is focused on the "talking points" the real problems slip through the cracks and another election cycle goes down the drain.
than the stupid port scan tests that some credit card companies require you to do before they let you have a credit card processing machine.
I find that "book vs. Internet" it is analogous to the difference between instructor lead classes and just having access to the training material.
It is nice to have a text book that will shepherd you through a series of related subjects and ideas.
The Internet is great for quick answers to specific questions.
So, yeah, I love my Camel book and you will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
Whatever happened to the "debt to society: paid" notion?
Can companies legally discriminate based on a served sentence?
IoT is new and comes along at a time when the technology it sits on top of is also relatively new.
We do not yet know how to make truly secure systems. Even really smart people have trouble with this because there just aren't enough examples yet of systems "done right".
I was a Teamster at one point when I worked for UPS.
I hated the union dues because my pay was already really low.
However, I REALLY liked the union-negotiated medical benefits which was 100% medical, dental and vision coverage, no co-pays on anything and no money withheld.
Some union dues (I don't think they were more than $30/mo) are really insignificant compared to how much that benefit package was worth.
So, this was over 10 years ago now but I don't think things have changed very much at UPS and they seem to be doing just fine even compared to FedEx, which, is not unionized and *should*, by all arguments made here, be eating UPS's lunch.
What I don't understand is why people are SO opposed to unions.
There is enough non-unionized labor force out there that unions are almost irrelevant these days.
So why vocalize so loudly about getting rid of what is left?
Sort of like why some people are so vocal against gay marriage... it doesn't affect you... why do you care so much?
Could it be that you are just towing a line fed to you by someone with an agenda?
In the case of unions, just like with "tort reform" the message is coming down from the corporate overlords and the shills just eat it up because it is spun "right" and intermingled with other, unrelated noise.
If unions have a place, they will survive. If there isn't, they will fall on their own.
I am sure they will just have the "emoji" clause written into some law which allows "fair use" of the image in the context of communications between devices or some such thing.
plus the purpose-built device will out-perform and be more reliable than the half-assed software baked into the TV.
I have a 2013 Samsung smart TV that came loaded to the gills with all kinds of bells-and-whistles and a pretty beefy quad core processor to run it all and yet I ended up using the Roku anyway because the apps kept breaking, malfunctioning and performed sluggishly... It's not like I had a ton of apps either... Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are about the only ones I use.
I had to laugh at the "sport" reference. So true.
I also don't particularly like the new(ish) "smart" labeling trend and eagerly await its decline in popularity.
About 10 years ago, everything had an "e" label... which, while annoying, was at least more-or-less accurate as it stood for "electronic".
I mean, where to do we go from here? What happens when we truly do have smart electronic devices (AI)? What do we call those?
My employers have dropped the latest MS Office on us. With a 4 core processor and 8 GB RAM it takes Word over a minute to start
If you have a Microsoft Account, you can just use Word Online... no load time.
Or just use Wordpad for basic paragraphs and simple formatting... it can even save in .docx.
Tell me about it.
SonicWALL was always a device I knew would just work. I never had a problem with a SonicWALL prior to Dell's acquisition of it.
Now it seems like every firmware release adds new bugs.
There are features in our current SW that downright don't work (pre-made application layer rules mostly).
Really sucks too. I have been pretty invested in SonicWALL (maintained my certifications) until now.
Dell is has been on a buying spree for a while and really seems to just crapify everything they touch...
Yeah right... maybe if you include those gold rims in the cost of the "tyre".
A new iPhone can cost over $1000...
I would expect to be able to use such a device for many years... but that is not going to happen. Even if nothing breaks, Apple will force obsolescence inside of 3 years.
I still don't really even understand what the cow thing is all about.
Obviously a method of trolling, but what is the reference?
Is the troll trying to say that we are all easily lead by the nose? That we eat grass? That we are docile cute animals?
Except that now you have to go buy a brand new device for several times the cost of repairing it might be (especially if you can do it yourself).
It is a lock-in technique, obviously.
At some point down the road, when there are no more cheap labor pools, resources become more scarce and landfills are overloaded, we will see a return to re-usable stuff... but I guess for the next few hundred years at least, stuff is going to get more disposable due to the short sightedness of greedy corporations.
Absolute truth.
Is there any "smart" TV that actually works well?
I have owned a few and I always end up hooking up the Roku because it just works.
Seems like this is another reason not to hook up your smart TV to the Internet.
Those are some big hairy balls...
Well, we still have Microsoft in the game with Continuum around the corner.
Tablet, phone, PC, device, all in one.
All of them general purpose computers.
I have also had my yahoo e-mail account for many years.
I even had a pretty weak password on it for a lot of those years (dictionary word) and it never got "hacked".
As a matter of fact, the only time I have been "hacked" was when I lost control of a domain that I had tied to some Google services a while back. Somebody snapped up the domain and used it to change the password on my main google account. I got it all worked out, but it was totally my fault in the first place.
This is my theory as well.
It really seems like every tragedy is now just a political tool like any other to push a particular agenda.
"We have been trying to find a way to get rid of this thing and this tragedy provides perfect political cover..."