Blackberry have had BBM as a messenger longer than anyone in the mobile phone business. I know it's easy to make uneducated snap judgements, but in this case it may be wise to wait and see what the findings are before we jump to conclusions on this lawsuit. Since people are piling in Blackberry already without even knowing what patents are in question:
So people having the right to eat and being paid in a timely manner is bad for business? Unfortunately to counter your point, California has the largest economy in the US, so these laws are obviously not bad for business.
I think we need to be careful lumping fake news with left and right leaning bias. Bias is a narrative based on facts. Fake news is fabricated facts to fit a narrative. Many times, the two are difficult to tell apart. Any news site that leans predominantly one way or another is suspect of one or the other.
CNN and Fox news will many times have the same stories which report facts, but with the difference being their narrative. Fake news will not be on either website but will still have a left or right leaning narrative. Most news is unfortunately opinion pieces to fit a particular echo chamber depending on the audience. Fake news is a form of fraud in my opinion, and the only place for it is The Onion.
While there should be fact checking of all stories on the internet, I'don't believe that it's the job of the government to police the content. Sadly it doesn't seem to be the job of corporate owned news anymore either. It's up to the readers now to sniff out the bullshit and call news sites on fake news. It's the price we pay for getting free news instead of paying for it.
We now get the quality of news that we pay for. Free means click bait that prays on fear, echo chamber and entertainment, with little time spent on fact checking or depth of content. Someone has to pay the bills of journalists, and it stopped being the readers awhile ago.
Let's play this narrative out out with Democrats "rigging" elections. 32 governors are Republicans. House and Senate have been and continue to be both controlled by Republicans. This equates to the most failed rigging ever by Democrats. The House has 239 of 435 seats as Republicans, 55% control. The popular vote was 60 million for Republicans and 57 million for Democrats in the House equates to a 51% majority for Republicans.
The facts do not fit the rigging narrative. Republicans handed the Democrats another ass kicking in the elections. Crying foul after winning is like playing a victim when you win. It just does not work.
That's great that you can watch DirecTV on your phone without data charges. However, this is also the reason why Antitrust laws exist. It means someone on T-Mobile and DirectV doesn't have this option and has to pay extra. This does not promote competition, nor is it beneficial for net neutrality. If this merger happens you will probably be able to watch HBO too at a discount. This merger is exactly what antitrust laws are meant to curtail. It may be convenient for the consumer in some ways, but it is anti competitive.
"These Acts, first, restrict the formation of cartels and prohibit other collusive practices regarded as being in restraint of trade. Second, they restrict the mergers and acquisitions of organizations that could substantially lessen competition. Third, they prohibit the creation of a monopoly and the abuse of monopoly power."
Good news is that it was not a fault of the ground system and the launch pad so launching from Pad 39 where the falcon heavy is supposed to launch from is an option. The bad news is that it's a second stage issue with the falcon rocket again. This second mishap will make it much harder to qualify the rocket for manned NASA missions and for critical payload Air Force missions.
... Said "Just say no to drugs". Why is it not working? Oh, the problem is more complex than the over simplified political drivel. Treatment and education is much more difficult to implement than incarceration, albeit cheaper and less profitable...
There are many people here complaining about not getting content anymore or not having enough content on Netflix. But many forget that it is as easy as a few clicks to suspend their Netflix accounts and move on to other avenues. I distinctly know that if I want to unsubscribe from BBC for example with my content provider because I don't watch it any more, I have to cancel their service all together. Which, by the way takes days of talking to customer support and sending or taking back the cable box. I understand that people have complaints about Netflix and some have moved on from it, but let's take a step back for a second and realize that getting Netflix or getting rid of it is such an easy choice now, and we don't have to subscribe to a hundred useseless channels to get it. Yes the number of titles shrank, but I can subscribe for a month to watch house of cards and daredevil, unsubscribe, and subscribe to HBO for game of thrones for a month, and not have to deal with Comcast and pay 100 a month to do this. Things can be always better, but I know they are already much better than ten years ago.
While we all have experiences like this, they do differ case by case. My Bank of America card was like this, where I had to call them because they thought me buying gas was fraudulent. Then they allowed someone to purchase $4k in jewellery online and take cash out in Jamaica just a few months later, and I had to call them to stop things. I switched to Capital One and I like it that they send me a text when something suspicions pops up, and I can reply yes or no to it and it activates or deactivates the card instantly. My Citi card has been ok as well, not as many glitches as the BoA card but not as good as Capital One. I like the quick text or email method now since everyone has a smart phone, and it's way better than calling the 800 number and dealing with some idiot in my opinion.
While you are right that the total cost to operate does include those factors, roads still must be paid for. A registered vehicle weight times miles driven is still a better idea than the current toll and gas tax finances that fluctuate outside of traffic issues. It's not a perfect solution but a start to trying to fix a infrastructure finance problem.
Fire-fighters show up at 8:30 after crash. Is 8 minutes good for response time? It does seem awfully slow, especially considering that they had to have been on standby just in case of something like this happening.
That's true, which is what makes successful missions like Curiosity really amazing. The number of things that can go wrong in rocket science is "astronomical", and people tend to take for granted successful missions like the shuttle, ISS and Mars missions. Footage like this, news about the Russian Proton launch failure Monday, and others really put things in perspective on how hard it is to pull off rocket science in real lfe.
A gpu is at most 20 times faster than a cpu while costing 4 times as much. If your code is so much faster on gpu, it's just because your cpu version was crap and not optimized.
Yes, that's why every industrial and medical CT system comes with GPU reconstruction routines unlike 5 years ago. But don't let that little fact stop you from your ignorant post. Please do write your efficient CPU based reconstruction code for your custom hardware, and sell it for cheaper than others in the industry. I would buy it and you would make money. But alas, you have no clue or experience about this topic because you have no idea what a filtered backprojection is, or how to write CUDA code, nor the commercial market for this kind of computing. I suggest some more schooling and getting past "hello world" in more than one programming language for different hardware before you state idiotic posts again.
We use GPU cards for computed tomography, and large reconstructions went from taking days, to hours to minutes. OpenCL should be mature in 12 years so they can go with that instead of CUDA, and by then GPGPU computing will probably be using the hybrid APU chips that AMD is starting to market. The bandwidth on the Tesla cards right now is the bottleneck as the PCI bus transfer speeds can cause huge wait times for large data sets. Plus even the biggest Tesla cards only have 4GB or on-board memory, which is not enough. I'd rather have the chips be on-board and have direct access to 512GB of ram for large data sets. Although I can't wit for the Kepler chips to come out, they'll probably reduce computation times by another factor of 3 for our image processing problems.
It's funny how EA does this all the time. When the UFC wanted them to help make an MMA game they turned them down. So THQ made UFC Undisputed. When that became a success EA made "EA MMA" which was a horrible copy. Never mind all the tycoon and other knockoffs, or just regurgitating every sports game annually with different names on the jerseys. I just don't have any sympathy for EA when it comes to being copied. They're the perfect example of non risk taking copiers who regurgitate the same franchises every year because they refuse to take a risk. And when somebody does get a good idea they just copy it or buy them out and run the franchise into the ground.
Why does everyone have this "They took our jobs!" mentality? Someone has to build these printers and robots, and these are high tech jobs. And someone has to buy the Teslas and the Foxconn products to do something. They've been saying this since the horse and buggy vs model T days. There will be more jobs and plenty of things to do. The medical and energy industries are booming. Transportation is always needed with more and more people. And so is agriculture, mining and commodities. But maybe if we have a big gay orgy to protest these 3D printers and robots, it will all go away. Ok, back in the pile!
If we just boil off the Earth atmosphere and have the train stations be on top of mountains, then we could have a perpetual motion train. This would work perfect on a Moon colony also. We would just have to get used to wearing space suits and growing our food in habitats, it's really a small price to pay for efficient transport.
It's 9 times bigger than 1, 9 engines, hence Falcon 9. Each engine produces about 100k pounds of thrust. I saw the last Falcon 9 launch from CCAF, as well as most Atlas Delta and Shuttle launches. The Falcon 9 may be 9 times bigger than the 1, but it's still about that much smaller than the shuttle. It launches off of Pad 40, and you can google it, it's no secret, it's right next to the Atlas pad.
They set up a private viewing area on the causeway, but nothing big, and I doubt that the visitor complex is doing anything. Their rocket is tiny compared to shuttle, or Delta IV or Atlas V even, and while fun, it's a tiny bottle rocket. Their first launch compared to Delta II launches if anything, neat but nothing to write home about. You get what you pay for in this case, about 9 million pounds of thrust for shuttle, 7 Million for Saturn V, 2 million for Delta IV heavy And Atlas V, and around 800k pounds for Delta II and Falcon 9.
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Blackberry have had BBM as a messenger longer than anyone in the mobile phone business. I know it's easy to make uneducated snap judgements, but in this case it may be wise to wait and see what the findings are before we jump to conclusions on this lawsuit. Since people are piling in Blackberry already without even knowing what patents are in question:
http://variety.com/2018/digita...
Patents:
U.S. Patent Nos. 7,372,961; 8,279,173; 8,209,634; 8,301,713; 8,429,236; 8,677,250; and 9,349,120
Titles I can find:
System and method for silencing notifications for a message thread
Transmission of status updates responsive to status of recipient application
Handheld electronic device and associated method providing time data in a messaging environment
Previewing a new event on a small screen device
User interface for selecting a photo tag
Method of public key generation
So people having the right to eat and being paid in a timely manner is bad for business? Unfortunately to counter your point, California has the largest economy in the US, so these laws are obviously not bad for business.
I think we need to be careful lumping fake news with left and right leaning bias. Bias is a narrative based on facts. Fake news is fabricated facts to fit a narrative. Many times, the two are difficult to tell apart. Any news site that leans predominantly one way or another is suspect of one or the other. CNN and Fox news will many times have the same stories which report facts, but with the difference being their narrative. Fake news will not be on either website but will still have a left or right leaning narrative. Most news is unfortunately opinion pieces to fit a particular echo chamber depending on the audience. Fake news is a form of fraud in my opinion, and the only place for it is The Onion. While there should be fact checking of all stories on the internet, I'don't believe that it's the job of the government to police the content. Sadly it doesn't seem to be the job of corporate owned news anymore either. It's up to the readers now to sniff out the bullshit and call news sites on fake news. It's the price we pay for getting free news instead of paying for it. We now get the quality of news that we pay for. Free means click bait that prays on fear, echo chamber and entertainment, with little time spent on fact checking or depth of content. Someone has to pay the bills of journalists, and it stopped being the readers awhile ago.
Let's play this narrative out out with Democrats "rigging" elections. 32 governors are Republicans. House and Senate have been and continue to be both controlled by Republicans. This equates to the most failed rigging ever by Democrats. The House has 239 of 435 seats as Republicans, 55% control. The popular vote was 60 million for Republicans and 57 million for Democrats in the House equates to a 51% majority for Republicans. The facts do not fit the rigging narrative. Republicans handed the Democrats another ass kicking in the elections. Crying foul after winning is like playing a victim when you win. It just does not work.
That's great that you can watch DirecTV on your phone without data charges. However, this is also the reason why Antitrust laws exist. It means someone on T-Mobile and DirectV doesn't have this option and has to pay extra. This does not promote competition, nor is it beneficial for net neutrality. If this merger happens you will probably be able to watch HBO too at a discount. This merger is exactly what antitrust laws are meant to curtail. It may be convenient for the consumer in some ways, but it is anti competitive. "These Acts, first, restrict the formation of cartels and prohibit other collusive practices regarded as being in restraint of trade. Second, they restrict the mergers and acquisitions of organizations that could substantially lessen competition. Third, they prohibit the creation of a monopoly and the abuse of monopoly power."
Good news is that it was not a fault of the ground system and the launch pad so launching from Pad 39 where the falcon heavy is supposed to launch from is an option. The bad news is that it's a second stage issue with the falcon rocket again. This second mishap will make it much harder to qualify the rocket for manned NASA missions and for critical payload Air Force missions.
I was reading this as The Plague from hackers.
... Said "Just say no to drugs". Why is it not working? Oh, the problem is more complex than the over simplified political drivel. Treatment and education is much more difficult to implement than incarceration, albeit cheaper and less profitable ...
There are many people here complaining about not getting content anymore or not having enough content on Netflix. But many forget that it is as easy as a few clicks to suspend their Netflix accounts and move on to other avenues. I distinctly know that if I want to unsubscribe from BBC for example with my content provider because I don't watch it any more, I have to cancel their service all together. Which, by the way takes days of talking to customer support and sending or taking back the cable box. I understand that people have complaints about Netflix and some have moved on from it, but let's take a step back for a second and realize that getting Netflix or getting rid of it is such an easy choice now, and we don't have to subscribe to a hundred useseless channels to get it. Yes the number of titles shrank, but I can subscribe for a month to watch house of cards and daredevil, unsubscribe, and subscribe to HBO for game of thrones for a month, and not have to deal with Comcast and pay 100 a month to do this. Things can be always better, but I know they are already much better than ten years ago.
While we all have experiences like this, they do differ case by case. My Bank of America card was like this, where I had to call them because they thought me buying gas was fraudulent. Then they allowed someone to purchase $4k in jewellery online and take cash out in Jamaica just a few months later, and I had to call them to stop things. I switched to Capital One and I like it that they send me a text when something suspicions pops up, and I can reply yes or no to it and it activates or deactivates the card instantly. My Citi card has been ok as well, not as many glitches as the BoA card but not as good as Capital One. I like the quick text or email method now since everyone has a smart phone, and it's way better than calling the 800 number and dealing with some idiot in my opinion.
While you are right that the total cost to operate does include those factors, roads still must be paid for. A registered vehicle weight times miles driven is still a better idea than the current toll and gas tax finances that fluctuate outside of traffic issues. It's not a perfect solution but a start to trying to fix a infrastructure finance problem.
Fire-fighters show up at 8:30 after crash. Is 8 minutes good for response time? It does seem awfully slow, especially considering that they had to have been on standby just in case of something like this happening.
That's true, which is what makes successful missions like Curiosity really amazing. The number of things that can go wrong in rocket science is "astronomical", and people tend to take for granted successful missions like the shuttle, ISS and Mars missions. Footage like this, news about the Russian Proton launch failure Monday, and others really put things in perspective on how hard it is to pull off rocket science in real lfe.
And at 6:21 there is a second explosion. It's like 4th of July when the fuel and oxidizer tank reach their flash point!
A gpu is at most 20 times faster than a cpu while costing 4 times as much. If your code is so much faster on gpu, it's just because your cpu version was crap and not optimized.
Yes, that's why every industrial and medical CT system comes with GPU reconstruction routines unlike 5 years ago. But don't let that little fact stop you from your ignorant post. Please do write your efficient CPU based reconstruction code for your custom hardware, and sell it for cheaper than others in the industry. I would buy it and you would make money. But alas, you have no clue or experience about this topic because you have no idea what a filtered backprojection is, or how to write CUDA code, nor the commercial market for this kind of computing. I suggest some more schooling and getting past "hello world" in more than one programming language for different hardware before you state idiotic posts again.
We use GPU cards for computed tomography, and large reconstructions went from taking days, to hours to minutes. OpenCL should be mature in 12 years so they can go with that instead of CUDA, and by then GPGPU computing will probably be using the hybrid APU chips that AMD is starting to market. The bandwidth on the Tesla cards right now is the bottleneck as the PCI bus transfer speeds can cause huge wait times for large data sets. Plus even the biggest Tesla cards only have 4GB or on-board memory, which is not enough. I'd rather have the chips be on-board and have direct access to 512GB of ram for large data sets. Although I can't wit for the Kepler chips to come out, they'll probably reduce computation times by another factor of 3 for our image processing problems.
It's funny how EA does this all the time. When the UFC wanted them to help make an MMA game they turned them down. So THQ made UFC Undisputed. When that became a success EA made "EA MMA" which was a horrible copy. Never mind all the tycoon and other knockoffs, or just regurgitating every sports game annually with different names on the jerseys. I just don't have any sympathy for EA when it comes to being copied. They're the perfect example of non risk taking copiers who regurgitate the same franchises every year because they refuse to take a risk. And when somebody does get a good idea they just copy it or buy them out and run the franchise into the ground.
Why does everyone have this "They took our jobs!" mentality? Someone has to build these printers and robots, and these are high tech jobs. And someone has to buy the Teslas and the Foxconn products to do something. They've been saying this since the horse and buggy vs model T days. There will be more jobs and plenty of things to do. The medical and energy industries are booming. Transportation is always needed with more and more people. And so is agriculture, mining and commodities. But maybe if we have a big gay orgy to protest these 3D printers and robots, it will all go away. Ok, back in the pile!
If we just boil off the Earth atmosphere and have the train stations be on top of mountains, then we could have a perpetual motion train. This would work perfect on a Moon colony also. We would just have to get used to wearing space suits and growing our food in habitats, it's really a small price to pay for efficient transport.
It's 9 times bigger than 1, 9 engines, hence Falcon 9. Each engine produces about 100k pounds of thrust. I saw the last Falcon 9 launch from CCAF, as well as most Atlas Delta and Shuttle launches. The Falcon 9 may be 9 times bigger than the 1, but it's still about that much smaller than the shuttle. It launches off of Pad 40, and you can google it, it's no secret, it's right next to the Atlas pad.
They set up a private viewing area on the causeway, but nothing big, and I doubt that the visitor complex is doing anything. Their rocket is tiny compared to shuttle, or Delta IV or Atlas V even, and while fun, it's a tiny bottle rocket. Their first launch compared to Delta II launches if anything, neat but nothing to write home about. You get what you pay for in this case, about 9 million pounds of thrust for shuttle, 7 Million for Saturn V, 2 million for Delta IV heavy And Atlas V, and around 800k pounds for Delta II and Falcon 9.
Similar to Tesla motors, rich people who have money to burn on sports cars that seem "green"., or silver in this case.