Headline: plastic isn't metal, test finds.
This isn't surprising. They're going to need to find some composite material or something to make a decent gun. Since it'd basically be required to melt, I don't think we're even within 10 years of inventing something like that.
If it doesn't have ion thrusters for towing, I will be thoroughly disappointed. Yes, they basically only work in a vacuum but still, they'd look really cool!
The only bad things I heard about the Sears auto thingy was the prices. With Circuit City gone though, they would do a better installation job on aftermarket equipment like backup cameras and subwoofers than Best Buy. I would think their profits would have gone up after Circuit City closed. What the heck happened?
It's extra not surprising when you know that Acer bought Gateway and emachines so they're all the same product, lol. I noticed Acer released some REALLY nice laptops that are insanely well built for a higher price tag a while ago so at least with them you can buy your way out of crap-ville. Unfortunately, crap-ville laptops are usually what they sell the most of ($450 on down).
The press from silkroad going back online mixed with it actually doing so is making people but BTC more than sell and a lot of ASIC miners have sold off enough BTC to pay for their new hardware by now and are now not selling. Those are the 2 actual factors driving up the price in reality. All other speculation is incorrect.
They let HP build it? WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?! They've been dead last in laptop quality, support quality, and hardware reliability initially and over time for over a decade. Acer beat them! Lenovo beat them! Dell beat them! Shocker, it has a defect out of the box. All HP builds is complete garbage. I found a Hitachi HDD with 8MB cache inside a $1500 elitebook from HP. They DO NOT build good laptops under any circumstances.
Linux support is the only thing that would make this interesting. My users have a hard time remembering if something is saved on their desktop or the shared network drive. You give them a PC with a windows desktop and a link that opens a remote virtual desktop that's identical? They won't remember which desktop they saved things to. Plus, half your data is off in virtual cloud land in AWS and half is local to the computer. In fact, I take it back. Even with Linux this is an incredibly stupid idea that confuses users and doesn't save one ounce of productivity.
By the way, I'm saying this because the mention of dumb terminals or similar hardware is not mentioned in the entire article. You're running a real desktop to host this software.
I'm a head IT manager. Here's my take on it:
Wow, it's like a slow-responding piece of crap. If my hand feels like it's in sand with a wireless mouse's 300ms delay, just wait until my entire desktop is offsite! It's like upgrading it carrier pigeons. And the one thing I love about remote desktop environments is the complete inability to manage them, stop users from doing stupid stuff, and a complete lack of control over everything. Oh and the double layer problem where you technically have to be running a network login and OS on the physical computer that's remote viewing the virtual desktop is fun. Oh and security? Fuck security, it's not my computers. I don't even know where they are or what they're running for software. The virtual desktops have downtime? Wooo, vacation time cuz I sure as shit can't do anything to fix it. It's because of a cloud outage? Yeehaw, let's do arts and crafts with the reception and accounting staff. They fucking love that shit. Working is overrated anyway. The system came back up and everyone's desktops are reset to default settings? God knows I don't have a backup of it, it's a remote virtual desktop! This is the best invention since the root canal! I'm definitely going to jump on this...as in jump on it to crush it out of anger at how stupid an idea this is. This is going to burn like the Hindenburg.
When it comes to corporate IT, they're idiots at removing viruses. I'm head IT manager but also run a mostly residential computer repair shop. I know how to remove a virus! Anyone who doesn't remove viruses for a living does not. Its as easy as can be to delete any virus manually then clean up with other tools if you know what you're doing. Unfortunately, they do not.
The only pattern is stupid people losing their money. The last time it was sketchy investments that only a complete idiot would fall for. There's no stopping stupid people from being stupid. Without stupid people, the tiny exchange that is obviously Chinese run and thus obviously a scam would have zero customers.
This study was completely useless. WHAT BRAND WERE THEY?! Hitachis and Fujitsus have a higher failure rate by a factor of about ten than a top of the line Seagate drive.
Mmhmm, what a wild ride. According to everyone he ever knew who talked to the media, back in the day, he was an asshole. After that he became an asshole. Then he started selling drugs. On his way out of the country he was an asshole. Then on his way to the US he was an assholes. Now, a year later, he's an asshole. So much has changed lately!
Clearly you have never used Alibaba. It's the biggest group of liars, thieves, and scam artists in the entire world. Everyone is selling fakes, low quality electronics from pretend brand names, illegally ripped off patented gear, more fakes, and pretending to ship items then claiming they have no idea where it went. I can't believe anyone in China would tolerate that kind of crap but maybe since they live there it's either better or they're used to everyone being dishonest and selling low quality crap.
Oh yeah, because it turning out like a gaudy movie prop is so much better. I looked at the photos and I can't believe something so cheap-looking and over the top would cost that much.
They seem to have forgotten the link in their little plan there. We don't buy oil from Iran! So us producing more has a very diffused effect on how much Iran sells. Almost nobody buys from them actually. In fact, if the US buys less, other countries can afford to buy more oil for a lower price and there's more to go around so that drops Iran's oil outputs to the people that do buy them but it's so delayed and diffused that the correlation isn't as solid as this article makes it out to be.
They're burying the lead to cover their ass. First of all, this "flaw" is 3 years old and even I've heard of it. That should give you a good insight on the intelligence and research level of the person writing that article. If a pool purposely doesn't submit a solved block, it has zero advanced warning that another block solves it. Since work is non-progressive, they'd have to solve a 2nd block faster than the rest of the network. Probability states that it would happen less than 50% of the time so they'd actually lose money attempting to cheat. Let's say it's a 33% of all volume pool. It has a 33% chance of finding a block solution first. If it doesn't reveal it and holds it until it solves another block so it can double dip for free, that's a 33/100 x 33/100 probability with an extremely high likelihood that in the meantime, the other 67% of the mining power finds an alternative solution to the block and turns it in, getting the cheating pool absolutely zero.
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Headline: plastic isn't metal, test finds.
This isn't surprising. They're going to need to find some composite material or something to make a decent gun. Since it'd basically be required to melt, I don't think we're even within 10 years of inventing something like that.
If it doesn't have ion thrusters for towing, I will be thoroughly disappointed. Yes, they basically only work in a vacuum but still, they'd look really cool!
The only bad things I heard about the Sears auto thingy was the prices. With Circuit City gone though, they would do a better installation job on aftermarket equipment like backup cameras and subwoofers than Best Buy. I would think their profits would have gone up after Circuit City closed. What the heck happened?
It's extra not surprising when you know that Acer bought Gateway and emachines so they're all the same product, lol. I noticed Acer released some REALLY nice laptops that are insanely well built for a higher price tag a while ago so at least with them you can buy your way out of crap-ville. Unfortunately, crap-ville laptops are usually what they sell the most of ($450 on down).
The press from silkroad going back online mixed with it actually doing so is making people but BTC more than sell and a lot of ASIC miners have sold off enough BTC to pay for their new hardware by now and are now not selling. Those are the 2 actual factors driving up the price in reality. All other speculation is incorrect.
They let HP build it? WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?! They've been dead last in laptop quality, support quality, and hardware reliability initially and over time for over a decade. Acer beat them! Lenovo beat them! Dell beat them! Shocker, it has a defect out of the box. All HP builds is complete garbage. I found a Hitachi HDD with 8MB cache inside a $1500 elitebook from HP. They DO NOT build good laptops under any circumstances.
What are you talking about? We use RDP across our gigabit LAN and it's too slow.
Oh no, now I'll have to import advanced technology from England called a handkerchief for when I walk around.
Linux support is the only thing that would make this interesting. My users have a hard time remembering if something is saved on their desktop or the shared network drive. You give them a PC with a windows desktop and a link that opens a remote virtual desktop that's identical? They won't remember which desktop they saved things to. Plus, half your data is off in virtual cloud land in AWS and half is local to the computer. In fact, I take it back. Even with Linux this is an incredibly stupid idea that confuses users and doesn't save one ounce of productivity.
By the way, I'm saying this because the mention of dumb terminals or similar hardware is not mentioned in the entire article. You're running a real desktop to host this software.
I'm a head IT manager. Here's my take on it:
Wow, it's like a slow-responding piece of crap. If my hand feels like it's in sand with a wireless mouse's 300ms delay, just wait until my entire desktop is offsite! It's like upgrading it carrier pigeons. And the one thing I love about remote desktop environments is the complete inability to manage them, stop users from doing stupid stuff, and a complete lack of control over everything. Oh and the double layer problem where you technically have to be running a network login and OS on the physical computer that's remote viewing the virtual desktop is fun. Oh and security? Fuck security, it's not my computers. I don't even know where they are or what they're running for software. The virtual desktops have downtime? Wooo, vacation time cuz I sure as shit can't do anything to fix it. It's because of a cloud outage? Yeehaw, let's do arts and crafts with the reception and accounting staff. They fucking love that shit. Working is overrated anyway. The system came back up and everyone's desktops are reset to default settings? God knows I don't have a backup of it, it's a remote virtual desktop! This is the best invention since the root canal! I'm definitely going to jump on this...as in jump on it to crush it out of anger at how stupid an idea this is. This is going to burn like the Hindenburg.
What the hell?! It seriously ate step 2 for absolutely no reason! What kind of stupid filter does Slashdot have? Let's try again:
2. click on images
Ironic that a step about invisibility disappeared btw.
For those of you asking "Why no picture" there actually is one.
1. go to google
3. type "empty field"
Tada, picture of an invisible car.
Prong 3: get rid of Windows 8
When it comes to corporate IT, they're idiots at removing viruses. I'm head IT manager but also run a mostly residential computer repair shop. I know how to remove a virus! Anyone who doesn't remove viruses for a living does not. Its as easy as can be to delete any virus manually then clean up with other tools if you know what you're doing. Unfortunately, they do not.
The only pattern is stupid people losing their money. The last time it was sketchy investments that only a complete idiot would fall for. There's no stopping stupid people from being stupid. Without stupid people, the tiny exchange that is obviously Chinese run and thus obviously a scam would have zero customers.
This study was completely useless. WHAT BRAND WERE THEY?! Hitachis and Fujitsus have a higher failure rate by a factor of about ten than a top of the line Seagate drive.
Actually bit torrent traffic went up and Netflix traffic went up more.
Mmhmm, what a wild ride. According to everyone he ever knew who talked to the media, back in the day, he was an asshole. After that he became an asshole. Then he started selling drugs. On his way out of the country he was an asshole. Then on his way to the US he was an assholes. Now, a year later, he's an asshole. So much has changed lately!
How do I know I'm on the real Slashdot right now then? Quick, someone post something snarky and bitch about Microsoft or I'll assume this is a fake.
"Wind farms are slowly blowing the Earth out of orbit like a giant propeller!" - The Onion
This is completely unrelated and random and not a shot at anything but um...how much power does it generate from radioactive wind? Is it more or less?
Clearly you have never used Alibaba. It's the biggest group of liars, thieves, and scam artists in the entire world. Everyone is selling fakes, low quality electronics from pretend brand names, illegally ripped off patented gear, more fakes, and pretending to ship items then claiming they have no idea where it went. I can't believe anyone in China would tolerate that kind of crap but maybe since they live there it's either better or they're used to everyone being dishonest and selling low quality crap.
Oh yeah, because it turning out like a gaudy movie prop is so much better. I looked at the photos and I can't believe something so cheap-looking and over the top would cost that much.
They seem to have forgotten the link in their little plan there. We don't buy oil from Iran! So us producing more has a very diffused effect on how much Iran sells. Almost nobody buys from them actually. In fact, if the US buys less, other countries can afford to buy more oil for a lower price and there's more to go around so that drops Iran's oil outputs to the people that do buy them but it's so delayed and diffused that the correlation isn't as solid as this article makes it out to be.
They're burying the lead to cover their ass. First of all, this "flaw" is 3 years old and even I've heard of it. That should give you a good insight on the intelligence and research level of the person writing that article. If a pool purposely doesn't submit a solved block, it has zero advanced warning that another block solves it. Since work is non-progressive, they'd have to solve a 2nd block faster than the rest of the network. Probability states that it would happen less than 50% of the time so they'd actually lose money attempting to cheat. Let's say it's a 33% of all volume pool. It has a 33% chance of finding a block solution first. If it doesn't reveal it and holds it until it solves another block so it can double dip for free, that's a 33/100 x 33/100 probability with an extremely high likelihood that in the meantime, the other 67% of the mining power finds an alternative solution to the block and turns it in, getting the cheating pool absolutely zero.