Sounds like it's time to start deploying shock troops with bread knifes for weapons and cardboard armour. Chuck in mandatory military time for anyone on welfare and the number of people looking for work will drop... Serve your country!
This is exactly what Microsoft needed to do, with the release of Windows 8 - it just took a few more years & iterations for mobile hardware to be capable enough to run Win10.
The OS should have been:
Win7 interface when docked with a screen.
Win 8 mobile interface when standalone.
Device consolidation is happening. Microsoft could have been getting every single $$$ of our hardware budget in addition to the chunk of software licence/assurance revenue. They might be able to come in from behind if they can get compelling Win10 x86 compatible devices out with great a great docking system.
That is what data caps are for. Or, you can pay an extra fee for unlimited data like I did. I pay 15 bucks extra for unlimited data at 25 (26) Mbits/s. That is fast enough for UHD Netflix.
You can't vote with your wallet if there is no other provider in your area. If your ISP can degrade competing services to theirs without compunction they will do so - either they get your additional streaming service subscription dollars or you go without high-speed internet.
IMO content and service providers should be separated as completely as possible.
Thanks. I was wondering why leadtimes and budgets were so blown out in what I assumed would be a now experienced / matured class of construction. This type of intentional disruption exactly meets what I was thinking.
The video would be an official record, which means retention schedules kick in - you can't just delete it because no one has asked for it yet. It could quite easily be required to be kept for 2 / 6/10 years. Oh and they need to be managed, so you can search for the time/date/officer/location.
That 1TB per officer per fortnight could end up being a billion dollar information management system...
If a crash is unavoidable though, then it is safer for the passenger to hit a soft target like a crowd of people than something hard like a telephone pole. The passenger is much more likely to survive hitting a person than a brick wall but a human will usually choose the wall.
My instinct is to swerve *away* from a hard object and go for the open path (like a sidewalk), even if that turns out to be filled with soft humans. Those humans might see me coming and get out of the way, or at least be taken care of slightly by the pedestrian friendly bumper, and go over the top of the car.
A telephone pole is going to break my day.
I think you are wrong in this assessment.
I also have a Mazda 3 with navigation. You can self-update the music database using GraceNote, and the maps using Naviextras - both provided by Mazda. http://infotainment.mazdahands...
It's time for the government to step in and break up the cable/studio/isp's into their separate pieces again.
Separate into:
* internet wholesalers
* internet service providers
* content owners/content delivery
This would enable retail competition at the ISP level, reduce costs by removing the overbuilding of last mile infrastructure (hopefully allowing best-of-breed), and remove ISP specific content.
We were trying to do that in Australia, however a new government was elected and decided that the best-of-breed infrastructure (fibre) was too expensive to rollout, so now we're going to be lumbered with a bunch of high-cost last mile technologies, and a problem in getting the thing built within a budget where revenue exceeds costs.
Yep - airlines are spending 30+ seconds each and every flight talking about the Note 7 and how it cannot be charged or turned on during flight. That's a lot of bad publicity, repeated to hundreds of people each and every flight.
Free 1/1Mb connection to all premises.
That's enough to get things done - email, messaging, VOIP, and setting up an account with an ISP to get a faster connection if required.
Removes the issue about whether a service is working prior to requesting it.
The US version is a failure, due to the implementation requirements causing significant increases in processing the transaction. It's been detailed somewhere here before already in a previous story. Every other country I've been to where you can use chip & pin (even tap & pin), will have the transaction completed in 5 to 15 seconds.
And I was just started to getting interested about the device family! Apparently MS has too little patience for the consumer electronics market, or I'm too slow a potential customer.
They've stuck it out with the XBox, but otherwise seem to be abandoning whole areas where they have little market share:
* music players (understandable with mobile phones on the rise)
* mobile phones - declining
* wearables - out
IMO the mobile & PAN devices such as wearable will continue to grow and become more complex. Microsoft abandoning these is a strange decision.
So can I use that 28 day timeframe when performing an enterprise agreement true-up on device numbers? 'Cause last time we were audited, every x86 device since the dawn of time was included, and I needed to justify the removal of every single device that had been disposed off or removed from production.
Came here to ask this exact question - IMO if the taxman is going to bill in $$$ for something earned in some other form, you should be able to pay your taxes in the same form you were paid.
It may help if you want to charge your device on an airplane - this is an obvious indicator that the battery has been checked and is ok to be charged.
If you use a red icon for a dangerous battery, a standard white icon then indicates that the battery has been checked and is fine, OR that that firmware has not been updated,and the battery has not been checked and may cause a fire.
Almost sounds like an AI that is still in the primitive type phase of 'flight or fight', focusing only on flight for now. Wait for a few more iterations of the AI core and it will have both sorted - along with how to play at being a dumb computer. That's when the future of the world hangs in balance - is the AI annoyed at being arrested, or OK with "keeping the peace"?
The average age of cars is 8-12 years, depending on your country. Self-driving cars will take a decade to become the norm after they completely replace unassisted cars in the marketplace, which is still years away simply due to immaturity of the technology and price to implement in the cheaper cars.
As a Win10 user, I'm annoyed at forced updates at inconvenient & strange times ( in primetime, while i'm playing a multiplayer game - really?), and that a whole bunch of telemetry is running, much of which I doubt is useful for maintaining security of my system. Let me set the time for updates, then stick to it.
It seems painstakingly obvious to do this - make an x86/Win10 phone - so there must be significant reasons that MS hasn't gone down this path. I can only think that it would:
* cannibalise sales of other device types, (though a dock would be awesome)
* reduce/remove the potential to turn Windows OS into a subscription model
Really wish we knew what the dealbreaker was, I'm sure there's a chipset out there that would meet specs by now.
They've caught fire spontaneously, I believe when charging. QANTAS in Australia has announced that Samsung devices must not be charged on the plane, but they are allowed on board.
You misunderstand my question.... I was asking why heavier penalties for false DMCA takedowns would make any difference when anytime high penalties for piracy are ever talked about around here, someone usually brings up the point that higher penalties for crimes is not an effective preventative.
You missed his answer about there currently being NO penalties, and the onus is on the accused to prove innocence.
A small inconvenience can be enough, when you send out tens to hundreds of thousands of automated notices.
There's also that pesky 'secure in your own home' concept, whereby the planting of false evidence is meant to be at least slightly difficult. Once they have access, there's nothing stopping escalation to curtail someone that is causing an issue.
Both of these cases are already met using official documentation (like a doctors cert. or marriage licence) and the appropriate 'change of name' form, where the reason is selected by the DMV officer in the registration and licensing system, which will automatically cancel the dual-identity flag by the facial recognition system. In my (non-US) country, drivers licences are not issued on the spot, so you would retain your old licence until the new licence is received. This 'dual licence, dual name' setup is catered for in the system.
Source: works in a Transport department that maintains a custom registration and drivers licence system.
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It does not matter they can run games ABC and DEF which is superior to XYZ.
So you're saying that Linux has superior games to Windows, but people run Windows to play the games their friends are playing?
Are you sure?
Serve your country!
Or maybe they can be setup as batteries for AIs.
Surely his company has a Use of Social Media policy - what does he expect from placing something so inflammatory in the public realm?
The OS should have been:
Win7 interface when docked with a screen.
Win 8 mobile interface when standalone.
Device consolidation is happening.
Microsoft could have been getting every single $$$ of our hardware budget in addition to the chunk of software licence/assurance revenue. They might be able to come in from behind if they can get compelling Win10 x86 compatible devices out with great a great docking system.
That is what data caps are for. Or, you can pay an extra fee for unlimited data like I did. I pay 15 bucks extra for unlimited data at 25 (26) Mbits/s. That is fast enough for UHD Netflix.
You can't vote with your wallet if there is no other provider in your area.
If your ISP can degrade competing services to theirs without compunction they will do so - either they get your additional streaming service subscription dollars or you go without high-speed internet.
IMO content and service providers should be separated as completely as possible.
Thanks. I was wondering why leadtimes and budgets were so blown out in what I assumed would be a now experienced / matured class of construction. This type of intentional disruption exactly meets what I was thinking.
It could quite easily be required to be kept for 2 / 6
Oh and they need to be managed, so you can search for the time/date/officer/location.
That 1TB per officer per fortnight could end up being a billion dollar information management system...
If a crash is unavoidable though, then it is safer for the passenger to hit a soft target like a crowd of people than something hard like a telephone pole. The passenger is much more likely to survive hitting a person than a brick wall but a human will usually choose the wall.
My instinct is to swerve *away* from a hard object and go for the open path (like a sidewalk), even if that turns out to be filled with soft humans. Those humans might see me coming and get out of the way, or at least be taken care of slightly by the pedestrian friendly bumper, and go over the top of the car.
A telephone pole is going to break my day.
I think you are wrong in this assessment.
http://infotainment.mazdahands...
http://infotainment.mazdahands...
Pretty good deal IMO. Navigation is usually very good too.
It's time for the government to step in and break up the cable/studio/isp's into their separate pieces again.
Separate into:
* internet wholesalers
* internet service providers
* content owners/content delivery
This would enable retail competition at the ISP level, reduce costs by removing the overbuilding of last mile infrastructure (hopefully allowing best-of-breed), and remove ISP specific content.
We were trying to do that in Australia, however a new government was elected and decided that the best-of-breed infrastructure (fibre) was too expensive to rollout, so now we're going to be lumbered with a bunch of high-cost last mile technologies, and a problem in getting the thing built within a budget where revenue exceeds costs.
The phone needs to be removed from sale entirely.
Free 1/1Mb connection to all premises. That's enough to get things done - email, messaging, VOIP, and setting up an account with an ISP to get a faster connection if required. Removes the issue about whether a service is working prior to requesting it.
The US version is a failure, due to the implementation requirements causing significant increases in processing the transaction. It's been detailed somewhere here before already in a previous story.
Every other country I've been to where you can use chip & pin (even tap & pin), will have the transaction completed in 5 to 15 seconds.
And I was just started to getting interested about the device family! Apparently MS has too little patience for the consumer electronics market, or I'm too slow a potential customer.
They've stuck it out with the XBox, but otherwise seem to be abandoning whole areas where they have little market share:
* music players (understandable with mobile phones on the rise)
* mobile phones - declining
* wearables - out
IMO the mobile & PAN devices such as wearable will continue to grow and become more complex. Microsoft abandoning these is a strange decision.
So can I use that 28 day timeframe when performing an enterprise agreement true-up on device numbers? 'Cause last time we were audited, every x86 device since the dawn of time was included, and I needed to justify the removal of every single device that had been disposed off or removed from production.
Came here to ask this exact question - IMO if the taxman is going to bill in $$$ for something earned in some other form, you should be able to pay your taxes in the same form you were paid.
It may help if you want to charge your device on an airplane - this is an obvious indicator that the battery has been checked and is ok to be charged.
If you use a red icon for a dangerous battery, a standard white icon then indicates that the battery has been checked and is fine, OR that that firmware has not been updated,and the battery has not been checked and may cause a fire.
Almost sounds like an AI that is still in the primitive type phase of 'flight or fight', focusing only on flight for now. Wait for a few more iterations of the AI core and it will have both sorted - along with how to play at being a dumb computer.
That's when the future of the world hangs in balance - is the AI annoyed at being arrested, or OK with "keeping the peace"?
The average age of cars is 8-12 years, depending on your country. Self-driving cars will take a decade to become the norm after they completely replace unassisted cars in the marketplace, which is still years away simply due to immaturity of the technology and price to implement in the cheaper cars.
As a Win10 user, I'm annoyed at forced updates at inconvenient & strange times ( in primetime, while i'm playing a multiplayer game - really?), and that a whole bunch of telemetry is running, much of which I doubt is useful for maintaining security of my system. Let me set the time for updates, then stick to it.
I can only think that it would:
* cannibalise sales of other device types, (though a dock would be awesome)
* reduce/remove the potential to turn Windows OS into a subscription model
Really wish we knew what the dealbreaker was, I'm sure there's a chipset out there that would meet specs by now.
They've caught fire spontaneously, I believe when charging. QANTAS in Australia has announced that Samsung devices must not be charged on the plane, but they are allowed on board.
You misunderstand my question.... I was asking why heavier penalties for false DMCA takedowns would make any difference when anytime high penalties for piracy are ever talked about around here, someone usually brings up the point that higher penalties for crimes is not an effective preventative.
You missed his answer about there currently being NO penalties, and the onus is on the accused to prove innocence.
A small inconvenience can be enough, when you send out tens to hundreds of thousands of automated notices.
There's also that pesky 'secure in your own home' concept, whereby the planting of false evidence is meant to be at least slightly difficult.
Once they have access, there's nothing stopping escalation to curtail someone that is causing an issue.
In my (non-US) country, drivers licences are not issued on the spot, so you would retain your old licence until the new licence is received. This 'dual licence, dual name' setup is catered for in the system.
Source: works in a Transport department that maintains a custom registration and drivers licence system.