The paper supply was not unlimited. If you were a student or other junior person, you got the job of fetching another heavy box of paper and loading it in the printer. (In my case it was a drum printer.)
Forget about long diagrams. These printers were designed for printing tall grayscale posters using nothing but text to form the grayscale pixels.
> How hard is it to set your thermostat or flip on a light switch?
I assume you do realize that without IoT, people would have to stop stuffing their faces and actually get out of the chair in order to adjust the thermostat?
Consider the convenience of integration with either Amazon Echo or Google Home:
You: OK Google, can you please adjust the f---ing thermostat? Google: Sorry, I can only adjust ordinary thermostats. You: I just can't seem to get a f---ing break. Google: Is that better than other types of breaks such as a coffee break?
Surely smart IoT device makers wouldn't eventually discontinue the service, like, oh, say, Plays For Sure did. Or Zune.
But then there are multiple security issues too. Including a hacker getting code into a device in your home, thus getting a beach head, no mater how well your firewall is configured.
In a click through EULA he probably agreed to lots of things.
He agreed that the manufacturer can sneak in the middle of the night and harvest his, and his family's organs, of their ISP hasn't already gotten them first.
That EULA probably also said that they have no liability if they knowingly and deliberately remotely open his garage door when they specifically know he is not home.
Oh, the joy of EULAs.
. . . and Ballmer took Linus onto a high mountain and showeth him all the CPUs of the world and said "these can all be yours if you simply bow down and click I AGREE to my EULA."
It is a Mac, so spending $869 for a rack mount adapter is not a problem. People who buy Macs find that money is no object. After all, it's a Mac, it's worth it. Apple users have more money than ${ Cents | Scents | Sense | Since }.
Moderate the moderators! Yes, there is actually a way to do this. Someone could invent this thing. Call it meta-moderation. And patent it! With rounded corners! It would be the best! Trust me! It would go over bigly! I promise!
I can't tolerate intolerant people! I am totally intolerant of intolerant people!
There are no absolutes! Absolutely no absolutes! And that rule is absolute!
You're right that the bean counters don't care. They will suddenly care once the angry mobs with torches and pitch forks come out. But then it will be too late.
So really, what you're saying is that it is robots. And I wouldn't disagree. It is robots, robots, everywhere that will put everyone out of work. And, as I conclude . . . things will turn very ugly. "Let them eat cake!" The torches and pitchforks will come out. The 1% will be the first against the wall. History will repeat itself.
You can get pregnant the first time.
Unfortunate but acceptable.
Never trust the government to help.
So you'll rent out my browsing history instead? Please don't. I don't want anyone online knowing anything about my personal life.
No, really. Really. They really won't sell your personal information.
They'll rent it out instead. I promise. Trust me. And believe me, I know about personal information. The best personal information. Beautiful classy personal information.
Not only "Made By Humans". But "Buy Human" and "Hire Humans".
Of course, we could all end up fully employed by the robots, who would own everything, in order to service the robots. Because only humans would be willing to do servicing jobs that robots feel is beneath them.
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I would have assumed it was based on observed behavior.
The paper supply was not unlimited. If you were a student or other junior person, you got the job of fetching another heavy box of paper and loading it in the printer. (In my case it was a drum printer.)
Forget about long diagrams. These printers were designed for printing tall grayscale posters using nothing but text to form the grayscale pixels.
Chairs are for throwing. Clouds are for yelling at.
What about patent overlap between companies?
Apple has the patent on the wheel with rounded corners!
Do you realize that we are blocking other (certain) nationalities at the border? So your plan won't work to Make America Smart Again.
> How hard is it to set your thermostat or flip on a light switch?
I assume you do realize that without IoT, people would have to stop stuffing their faces and actually get out of the chair in order to adjust the thermostat?
Consider the convenience of integration with either Amazon Echo or Google Home:
You: OK Google, can you please adjust the f---ing thermostat?
Google: Sorry, I can only adjust ordinary thermostats.
You: I just can't seem to get a f---ing break.
Google: Is that better than other types of breaks such as a coffee break?
Surely smart IoT device makers wouldn't eventually discontinue the service, like, oh, say, Plays For Sure did. Or Zune.
But then there are multiple security issues too. Including a hacker getting code into a device in your home, thus getting a beach head, no mater how well your firewall is configured.
The spelling is adequate for its intended porpoise.
In a click through EULA he probably agreed to lots of things.
He agreed that the manufacturer can sneak in the middle of the night and harvest his, and his family's organs, of their ISP hasn't already gotten them first.
That EULA probably also said that they have no liability if they knowingly and deliberately remotely open his garage door when they specifically know he is not home.
Oh, the joy of EULAs.
. . . and Ballmer took Linus onto a high mountain and showeth him all the CPUs of the world and said "these can all be yours if you simply bow down and click I AGREE to my EULA."
Microsoft, you should take note of that!
It is a Mac, so spending $869 for a rack mount adapter is not a problem. People who buy Macs find that money is no object. After all, it's a Mac, it's worth it. Apple users have more money than ${ Cents | Scents | Sense | Since }.
No. "complex or specialized" means something that sounds too technical to a government worker droid to understand.
What? This requires high school level math skills? That sounds complex and specialized.
A job only high school students could do, until the following semester.
Just be sure these new GPUs run on clean coal. Help put the coal miners back to work. Make Apple Great Again!
The unique patent worthy novelty of an Apple GPU is that it could work with . . .
Rounded Corner Rectangles
And it would have the other magical incantation that makes things patent worthy . . .
On an iPhone!
Apple could get Imagination's stock to drop even further if they can get Trump to tweet something about failing Imagination. Terrible. Sad.
Don't complain. Who watches the watchers?
Moderate the moderators! Yes, there is actually a way to do this. Someone could invent this thing. Call it meta-moderation. And patent it! With rounded corners! It would be the best! Trust me! It would go over bigly! I promise!
I can't tolerate intolerant people! I am totally intolerant of intolerant people!
There are no absolutes! Absolutely no absolutes! And that rule is absolute!
The weed industry is profitable. The for-profit prison system is profitable. So I guess it's all good as long as the top 1% are profiting.
You're right that the bean counters don't care. They will suddenly care once the angry mobs with torches and pitch forks come out. But then it will be too late.
So really, what you're saying is that it is robots. And I wouldn't disagree. It is robots, robots, everywhere that will put everyone out of work. And, as I conclude . . . things will turn very ugly. "Let them eat cake!" The torches and pitchforks will come out. The 1% will be the first against the wall. History will repeat itself.
What if you used an alternate DNS server?
You can get pregnant the first time.
Unfortunate but acceptable.
Never trust the government to help.
So you'll rent out my browsing history instead? Please don't. I don't want anyone online knowing anything about my personal life.
What kind of favors would the ISPs have in mind in exchange for the information of congress critters?
They'll rent out your information instead.
No, really. Really. They really won't sell your personal information.
They'll rent it out instead. I promise. Trust me. And believe me, I know about personal information. The best personal information. Beautiful classy personal information.
Not only "Made By Humans". But "Buy Human" and "Hire Humans".
Of course, we could all end up fully employed by the robots, who would own everything, in order to service the robots. Because only humans would be willing to do servicing jobs that robots feel is beneath them.