I know its April Fools Day. But I think someone hit the wrong key. +20% sounds more like Whole Foods.
Is this like those furniture stores that will sell a dining table for $500 normal days. Then on holidays, they sell the same table as 50% off the 'MSRP' of $1500 for $750?
The MSM, like WaPo, are targeting 8chan because of the QAnon movement/conspiracy/nonsense (take your pick). Not because of terrorists, or trolls, or obnoxious and absurd posts. Q, that's it.
Q continues to drop bits of info that TPTB/Cabal would rather keep in the dark. They can't have that now. Take it with grains of salt, but too much has been proven true to fully dismiss it.
A "server configuration error" that prevents login and access issues happen to a small business with A rack of servers. NOT to one of the largest IT companies in the world. That would be an incredibly fast replication across how many globe-wide datacenters?
What happened? Who knows? The QAnon crowd has a DARPA / Lifelog / Building8 theory. Give that what credence you need to. Seems plausible to me (without too much tin-foil).
How often have you seen projects of this type come along, then the nearby residents, wealthy or otherwise, decry the proposal? They head to the city council meeting and petition to have the property rezoned to single-building, single-family. "NIMBY! My House's Value! Increase in neighborhood crime!"
Developers over the past 15-20y have expressed little interest in building "affordable" housing. The profit margins are just that much higher for McMansions in new or wealthy neighborhoods.
Short of the government (not MSFT) contracting specific affordable housing projects (that will come in over-budget and under-quality), the status quo will remain.
Virtual walls are expensive to buy and maintain. Its not like the cameras will be simple IR illuminated CCD style you buy at a big box store. They'll be high resolution with thermal imaging. They have to survive difficult environmental conditions. Hundreds of miles of fiber optics and fiber switchgear. Expensive servers and front-end clients. Federal contractors to maintain it all.
Versus a physical barrier CBP can drive by and inspect for damage on occasion.
Versus a Virtual Fence, they're not much of a deterrent. "Woooo, I'm so scared of being caught on video. OMG! What if they use facial recognition that isn't used in my home country?" vs "Hmm... 30ft wall, spikes and/or barbwire... Maybe I should just use an actual border crossing?"
If your donors include many defense contractors, which system are you going to pitch?
Here in Alaska, there is always concern over the fish stocks. The commercial boats want to catch as much as possible for as cheaply as possible. The sport fishers and charter boats want to catch a reasonable amount (relatively small) and have fun doing it. And the subsistence fishers just want to pack their freezers so they can survive.
From my sport fisher point-of-view, aside from the climate change bits, the problem is over-fishing by the commercial boats. Those trawlers just catch sooo many fish. 8y ago, our average halibut was 45-50 lbs, and keep 2 of any size. Now its
The salmon aren't any different. The return numbers and escapements continue to get lower. And I can't tell you the last time the US met its TREATY goals with Canada. If the commercial boats catch all the salmon in the ocean, they can't return to spawn to make more fish.
Many of these problems are man-made with straightforward solutions.
I still have a newspaper subscription to my house, plus their online edition. The bonuses: a finite amount to read, more local articles vs national, the big sports stat tables on one page, the comics, and the puzzles.
Social media is good for friends and family, independent news, and news from all corners of the world. But its infinite (essentially)! Easily distracting and the biggest time sink humanity has ever created.
Would it surprise you if they did it just for the patents? Then they could "tin-foil hat" : keep the proles from using it. Then the elite could keep the energy costs high, and control the supply. Or protect the current interests from "free" energy.
Perhaps that's a bit tin-foil for me, but...
I miss my 12" Powerbook G4. That thing served me well for over a decade. Still have it on the shelf, and its definitely dated, but it still works.
Oh that keyboard! Equivalent to Thinkpads. No one else came close in that era.
I'd buy another one with modern hardware, a 4:3 screen, same dimensions, and a unibody machined chassis. The Macbook isn't a replacement, and neither is the MBA. And no thinner than my Late-2011 MBP.
Not sure what my next laptop will be. System76 Galago and Thinkpad T480 are my shortlist. The Dell XPS is nice too.
Don't forget weather. It snowed here in Fairbanks today. Combine that with the icy roads and slush. Can self-driving cars handle such conditions? Or a downhill stop on a slick surface. Or an uphill start in the snow? Or lanes where the stripes are not visible? Or gravel and dirt roads? Or GPS maps that have our roads 20 ft off-center?
Perhaps someday, but certainly not today, tomorrow, or anytime soon.
On my last visit to family in Michigan, deer were everywhere. And they are being pests. I say: larger quotas for hunting season.
Same for this area. Venison jerky is very tasty.
What say you Eco folks? Save the trees, or save the deer?
Its cool from a geek / engineering standpoint. But its a solution looking for a problem.
Who actually pushes on the screen gently, normal, and hard? Probably statistically insignificant. Tap screen, expect response.
Remember who else "solved" this problem? Sony, with the PS2 controller. The face buttons were analog, so you could go easy on the gas and brake in Ridge Racer & GT. Turns out, the L2/R2 triggers were much more effective for analog control. Gamers (like me) just mash the face buttons. Using your ring and pinky fingers plus your thumb is WAY more difficult versus using your index or middle fingers plus your palm to generate the analog signal.
If I were running a small to mid-size community, there is NO way I would have bid for HQ2. Why?
That's alot of tax dollars in one corporate basket. They will do anything and everything to reduce that as close to zero as possible.
Infrastructure costs. Sure the initial construction boom in roads, utilities, housing, and shops is a boon to the community. But long-term costs are never included, and the negotiated tax breaks/incentives will reduce any available cash down the road. Especially when $company packs up and moves one town over for a new round of tax breaks.
City Government costs. An influx of 50k people will up the amount of government workers. Fire, Police, Parks, all have overhead costs that are direct costs to the tax-payer. Again, long-term costs.
Lower Tier suppliers. Around Detroit and the automotive and manufacturing areas, there is a large manufacturing base of Tier 1, 2, 3, etc. companies. They make components, subcomponents, and tooling, along with maintenance, transportation, and logistics. And that doesn't even include all the service and support companies that workers rely on, i.e. restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores, and so on. A 50k employee HQ2 compound doesn't come close to the same economic impact. Why?
The lower Tier companies just aren't there. Some services, janitorial, food prep, etc. Sure there's transport and logistics around Amazon's warehouses, but that's not what we're talking about here.
Who buys more groceries, gasoline, autos, housing, household goods, clothing, etc.: 1, $200k salary single person; or 4, $50k salary families?
Corporate cafeterias: As noted in a recent Article, local eateries lose business to the Company Store. And potentially any other stores the worker may walk by at lunch.
Plus, the usual subjects: traffic, real estate, urban sprawl, schools
I'm certainly not against economic development, but don't become a serf to corporatism.
Malware? Definitely. But is it any better than the ATT, VZW, etc. apps that you can't get rid of and are close to worthless? Or ads on the lockscreen? Or full-screen browser ads? Or ads that take over the full screen of your app/game?
In that case, your information goes to advertisors instead of hackers. Not sure who I would trust more.The person who wants your eyeballs, to sell you stuff and your information, to make money, or the hacker? Ha! (...who also wants to sell your information and make money.)
300 houses, on a fake island, with no natural resources (except fishing), and a requirement to import everything for daily life. This is only viable for wealthy investors, who won't actually live there.
So you'll have a couple of maintenance folks and data-center geeks on a from-the-mainland shift-rotation schedule. The rich folks may stop by in their yacht once a year. They may not even stop in to check on their money-launde...er, offshore accounts.
Climate refugees...hahaha! Waste. Of. Money.
Oh, and the book: "Seasteading -- How Floating Nations Will Restore The Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, And Liberate Humanity from Politicians." Could the title be any more self-aggrandizing? These floating concrete blocks would accomplish nothing of these things. At least classic homesteading had natural resources and an available trading environment to work with.
Restore the Environment: Everything, everything needs to be imported. Its not like these building materials just appear. Just the concrete pumping ship will offset the "greenness" of this place for the first 5y. 90%+ of food will need to be grown on the mainland, and shipped in. Power? No signs of solar on those grass rooftops, so a really long extension cord to..Tahiti? They mention breakwater and wave generation, but will that be enough for the data center plus residents. Restore the environment by using a different resource location, and not counting the other location in the reported data. Kind of like US/EU and China.
Enrich the Poor: How exactly? They can't afford to live here. There won't be any service jobs. And a simple $50m cost / 300 units = $167k/unit. Even at $50k/unit, plus the remaining $35m made up by the business center side, still unaffordable for the fishermen. So how again??
Cure the Sick: Elysium style? 300 housing units doesn't equate to much of a need for anything more than an occasional visit by a General Physician....Got It! This will be one of those 'illegal' operations that aren't under any jurisdiction, and again, only rich folks go to.
Liberate Humanity from Politicians: Except when they move in. "No" politicians is very attractive to current/aspiring politicians. Call it a new market.
From the former MeeGo team, SailfishOS is what you're asking for:
-- Linux, Open source (mostly), easy to use, Android compatibility, ARM chipsets, not Apple or Google. Also, its not American-centric, if that matters to you.
Read more here, wikipedia here, the Toolkits here, and the Sony handsets here. And if you are enough of a hardware hacker, there are numerous other handsets to try it on.
Is it 100% complete? Almost, just missing a few sensors and bluetooth, but its sure better than starting from scratch.
There are a few of you around that are anti-Sony or got burned on the Jolla tablet and won't consider this. So have fun with your spy gizmo from Apple or Google.
If the government is so concerned, they could invalidate the patent(s) involved, and let the generics makers get involved in the auto-injectors. The drug itself is already a generic medicine. Let the 'free market' decide which product is better. The gov't, and patients, would be returning the fingers.
Seriously, its 2017 and why are the touchpads on PCs not ever equivalent to the Macs? Maybe these new ones have the Precision touchpads, but standard Asus touchpads aren't great. Plus, Linux support for more than PS/2 emulation would be nice.
None of the articles list him as a police officer. Was there a crime committed? Perhaps, but that doesn't necessarily give him or his videos legal standing. Here are a few of the many ethical, reasonable, or otherwise questions to be asked:
What is the expected privacy of the people in the vehicle?
Was the privacy of the people in the vehicle breached? But what if this was on private land instead of public?
Was this evidence lawfully obtained? The court put her in jail, so under the current laws, apparently so.
How long until laws banning this type of "citizen surveillance" are enacted?
How were the police notified? Did he call in the illicit activity, then handed over the video?
Could I use this same technology to record speeding vehicles on the highway, texting and drive, failing to stop, or tailgating, then call the cops and use my video as evidence? Knowing full well that my "evidence" cannot be checked for accuracy (MPG, location, time, etc.). "But darn it! They're committing a crime!!"
If you're going to do a study on automobile infotainment systems, you need a broader set of data: 46 people with 7 types of systems, 2 of which are very uncommon. This dataset sounds like they just asked around their office and of the 46 people that work there, only 7 employees had any sort of infotainment system, 3 being the bosses.
Want to do this study right? Go rent 10-12 cars with the various systems, park them at Walmart one day and survey, park them at the mall the next day and survey, park them at the fancy downtown shopping district and survey, and then hold a private dinner for the upper-class folks and survey. 4 distinct groups and hundreds or thousands of data points.
Be sure to include systems that actually are used: Toyota Entune, Ford Sync, GM/Chevrolet Intellilink/MyLink, Honda HondaLink, Dodge/Chrysler Uconnect, Nissan NissanConnect, Mazda, Volkswagen, BMW ConnectedDrive, Mercedes Comand, and Cadillac CUE.
Come on, how many people actually have a Porsche with an infotainment, or a Tesla? Seriously, Ford sold twice as many Fiesta's in the US last year than Tesla has sold total.
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I know its April Fools Day. But I think someone hit the wrong key. +20% sounds more like Whole Foods.
Is this like those furniture stores that will sell a dining table for $500 normal days. Then on holidays, they sell the same table as 50% off the 'MSRP' of $1500 for $750?
The MSM, like WaPo, are targeting 8chan because of the QAnon movement/conspiracy/nonsense (take your pick). Not because of terrorists, or trolls, or obnoxious and absurd posts. Q, that's it.
Q continues to drop bits of info that TPTB/Cabal would rather keep in the dark. They can't have that now. Take it with grains of salt, but too much has been proven true to fully dismiss it.
A "server configuration error" that prevents login and access issues happen to a small business with A rack of servers. NOT to one of the largest IT companies in the world. That would be an incredibly fast replication across how many globe-wide datacenters?
What happened? Who knows? The QAnon crowd has a DARPA / Lifelog / Building8 theory. Give that what credence you need to. Seems plausible to me (without too much tin-foil).
How often have you seen projects of this type come along, then the nearby residents, wealthy or otherwise, decry the proposal? They head to the city council meeting and petition to have the property rezoned to single-building, single-family. "NIMBY! My House's Value! Increase in neighborhood crime!"
Developers over the past 15-20y have expressed little interest in building "affordable" housing. The profit margins are just that much higher for McMansions in new or wealthy neighborhoods.
Short of the government (not MSFT) contracting specific affordable housing projects (that will come in over-budget and under-quality), the status quo will remain.
Virtual walls are expensive to buy and maintain. Its not like the cameras will be simple IR illuminated CCD style you buy at a big box store. They'll be high resolution with thermal imaging. They have to survive difficult environmental conditions. Hundreds of miles of fiber optics and fiber switchgear. Expensive servers and front-end clients. Federal contractors to maintain it all.
Versus a physical barrier CBP can drive by and inspect for damage on occasion.
Versus a Virtual Fence, they're not much of a deterrent. "Woooo, I'm so scared of being caught on video. OMG! What if they use facial recognition that isn't used in my home country?" vs "Hmm... 30ft wall, spikes and/or barbwire... Maybe I should just use an actual border crossing?"
If your donors include many defense contractors, which system are you going to pitch?
Here in Alaska, there is always concern over the fish stocks. The commercial boats want to catch as much as possible for as cheaply as possible. The sport fishers and charter boats want to catch a reasonable amount (relatively small) and have fun doing it. And the subsistence fishers just want to pack their freezers so they can survive.
From my sport fisher point-of-view, aside from the climate change bits, the problem is over-fishing by the commercial boats. Those trawlers just catch sooo many fish. 8y ago, our average halibut was 45-50 lbs, and keep 2 of any size. Now its
The salmon aren't any different. The return numbers and escapements continue to get lower. And I can't tell you the last time the US met its TREATY goals with Canada. If the commercial boats catch all the salmon in the ocean, they can't return to spawn to make more fish.
Many of these problems are man-made with straightforward solutions.
Social media is good for friends and family, independent news, and news from all corners of the world. But its infinite (essentially)! Easily distracting and the biggest time sink humanity has ever created.
If anything, it may be a violation of the TOS and FB would have otherwise been paid for commercial access to the same data.
But you know... The $bad_guys did it!! In this case, $bad_guys = Russians.
Would it surprise you if they did it just for the patents? Then they could "tin-foil hat" : keep the proles from using it. Then the elite could keep the energy costs high, and control the supply. Or protect the current interests from "free" energy.
Perhaps that's a bit tin-foil for me, but...
Oh that keyboard! Equivalent to Thinkpads. No one else came close in that era.
I'd buy another one with modern hardware, a 4:3 screen, same dimensions, and a unibody machined chassis. The Macbook isn't a replacement, and neither is the MBA. And no thinner than my Late-2011 MBP.
Not sure what my next laptop will be. System76 Galago and Thinkpad T480 are my shortlist. The Dell XPS is nice too.
Perhaps someday, but certainly not today, tomorrow, or anytime soon.
On my last visit to family in Michigan, deer were everywhere. And they are being pests. I say: larger quotas for hunting season. Same for this area. Venison jerky is very tasty. What say you Eco folks? Save the trees, or save the deer?
They just need to hint that they'll stop selling iPhones in Australia, and the people will start making phone calls to government people
And its easy to espouse this nonsense when you're already a 1%'er and don't have to worry about paying the mortgage and feed the family.
Who actually pushes on the screen gently, normal, and hard? Probably statistically insignificant. Tap screen, expect response.
Remember who else "solved" this problem? Sony, with the PS2 controller. The face buttons were analog, so you could go easy on the gas and brake in Ridge Racer & GT. Turns out, the L2/R2 triggers were much more effective for analog control. Gamers (like me) just mash the face buttons. Using your ring and pinky fingers plus your thumb is WAY more difficult versus using your index or middle fingers plus your palm to generate the analog signal.
I'm certainly not against economic development, but don't become a serf to corporatism.
In that case, your information goes to advertisors instead of hackers. Not sure who I would trust more.The person who wants your eyeballs, to sell you stuff and your information, to make money, or the hacker? Ha! (...who also wants to sell your information and make money.)
So you'll have a couple of maintenance folks and data-center geeks on a from-the-mainland shift-rotation schedule. The rich folks may stop by in their yacht once a year. They may not even stop in to check on their money-launde...er, offshore accounts.
Climate refugees...hahaha! Waste. Of. Money.
Oh, and the book: "Seasteading -- How Floating Nations Will Restore The Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, And Liberate Humanity from Politicians." Could the title be any more self-aggrandizing? These floating concrete blocks would accomplish nothing of these things. At least classic homesteading had natural resources and an available trading environment to work with.
You know, the European Union went into effect in 1993, 24y ago. I'm sure NOTHING has changed in France since that happened... /sarcasm.
Read more here, wikipedia here, the Toolkits here, and the Sony handsets here. And if you are enough of a hardware hacker, there are numerous other handsets to try it on.
Is it 100% complete? Almost, just missing a few sensors and bluetooth, but its sure better than starting from scratch.
There are a few of you around that are anti-Sony or got burned on the Jolla tablet and won't consider this. So have fun with your spy gizmo from Apple or Google.
If the government is so concerned, they could invalidate the patent(s) involved, and let the generics makers get involved in the auto-injectors. The drug itself is already a generic medicine. Let the 'free market' decide which product is better. The gov't, and patients, would be returning the fingers.
Seriously, its 2017 and why are the touchpads on PCs not ever equivalent to the Macs? Maybe these new ones have the Precision touchpads, but standard Asus touchpads aren't great. Plus, Linux support for more than PS/2 emulation would be nice.
If you're going to do a study on automobile infotainment systems, you need a broader set of data: 46 people with 7 types of systems, 2 of which are very uncommon. This dataset sounds like they just asked around their office and of the 46 people that work there, only 7 employees had any sort of infotainment system, 3 being the bosses.
Want to do this study right? Go rent 10-12 cars with the various systems, park them at Walmart one day and survey, park them at the mall the next day and survey, park them at the fancy downtown shopping district and survey, and then hold a private dinner for the upper-class folks and survey. 4 distinct groups and hundreds or thousands of data points.
Be sure to include systems that actually are used: Toyota Entune, Ford Sync, GM/Chevrolet Intellilink/MyLink, Honda HondaLink, Dodge/Chrysler Uconnect, Nissan NissanConnect, Mazda, Volkswagen, BMW ConnectedDrive, Mercedes Comand, and Cadillac CUE.
Come on, how many people actually have a Porsche with an infotainment, or a Tesla? Seriously, Ford sold twice as many Fiesta's in the US last year than Tesla has sold total.
Fantastic! Thank you!