It's a much more heavyweight, power user friendly browser when it comes to UI. Take a few minutes to learn the hotkeys and advanced features and it's a much more productive browser than Chrome.
Sometimes simplicity can (somewhat non-intuitively) impede productivity, and this idea is what Vivaldi is built around. I'm not saying it's clunky, it's very well designed, but it's also full of useful power user centric features that are easy to access and not hidden in layers of "advanced settings" menus.
Comparing a hyperloop to an airplane is apples to oranges. Misk himself says that longer journies (like east to west coast USA) would be more economically feasible by plane. A hyperloop is much more like a maglev train in that it's suited to midrange journies that take hours by car but aren't worth the hassle of an airport. When compared to high speed rail, hyperloops have some very real advantages.
Also, calling EVs Musk's expensive toys when you can clearly see the entire industry introducing their own EVs is disingenuous. Certainly you can see that EVs have some very real advantages over fossil fuel cars.
Apple does drive the hardware market because of the demand they cause. High res displays have been available for a very long time in the professional market, but it wans't until Apple's push for "retina" that it hit the mainstream and quickly fell in price to reasonable levels for consumers. I clearly remember a period of almost 10 years where all displays were 1080p. 27'' monitors with 1080p, and laptops were commonly 720p! And the tech to bump up the resolution was clearly out there, but all of the demand was so focused on 1080p that it was the most affordable option by far for manufacturers to use. It takes someone like Apple to step up and make that first billion dollar investment to create an economy of scale for a technology, and that's what they did for high res displays.
It's not about users, it's about the massive transfer of control to the carriers with net neutrality violating programs like this. All content providers now have to conform to Tmobile's throttling rules in order to qualify for special status, and these rules are subject to change at Tmobile's whim.
In addition, video services NOT INCLUDED IN BINGE-ON are also being throttled while other types of traffic are not throttled. This is a textbook violation of net neutrality.
It's about control. Users and content creators should have control of the internet, and carriers should be blind carriers of data. That's the entire point of net neutrality.
Look at the position on the keyboard. People are treating the keyboard like an android/iphone lock screen, at least that's my guess. Very cool to see behavior change as our devices do.
I think it would be quite convenient to have a cell notification go off when the oven has reached the right temperature or has finished cooking, or an alert that my stove has been on for over an hour. I wouldn't object to computer control for lights either (press a button to turn off every light when it's time for bed, etc).
None of these features seem particularly valuable to me, but I'd personally more than happily spend a few thousand for a wired house if I was already dropping hundreds of thousands on the house itself.
Of course your opinion is obviously different, but these systems already exist in multiple forms, so there's obviously a target market for them. The existing technology is also very crude and haphazard for the most part, so anyone who comes along and strong-arms the players into a single standard will probably profit handsomely.
A graphing calculator would probable have adequate power to handle taking votes. If the DOS machines are meeting the specifications required for Flanders elections, there's not much of a reason to upgrade them.
I guess I'm just not seeing the story here. Linux wouldn't stop a software bug either. I guess the only hassle here is that they might have to dig out the parallel cables to patch the machines.
"against CCP's rules for any exchange of ingame goods/currency for real world money"
That's certainly true now, but it's changing. First of all (to anyone who doesn't know), you can buy subscription time with ingame currency at a supply/demand driven rate. That certainly gives the Eve currency at least some meaningful value.
As of last week though, you can actually buy a collectors edition box with isk. CCP has stated they want to continue expanding uses for isk (in the form of PLEX, to any players who know the lingo), and it's clear to me that CCP realizes the possibility that Eve will likely be free to play sometime in the future (maybe 10+ years, but they know it might need to happen), and if Eve is free to play the alternate uses for PLEX will be the revenue drivers for CCP. Expect to see more and more in game and limited out of game goods services available for isk.
"In the last nine months, Microsoft spent $2.1 billion on the Surface, and gained $1.8 billion in revenue"
That gap really isn't too bad, certainly better than the Xbox/360/XB1 numbers which follows the same strategy of selling at a loss (after marketing) and making it up later with services. The mere fact that Microsoft is actually doing 500 million dollars a quarter in Surface is actually quite impressive.
Right now Microsoft needs market share, so I'd say the strategy isn't altogether a bad one. Especially considering that 2 Billion USD in hardware sales is definitely going to result in at least a couple hundred million in service revenue from Office and such.
You're also very wrong about laptop battery life. The increase in laptop battery life is almost entirely due to the huge advancements made in frequency scaling, advanced idle states, and fine grained power management (ie shutting down individual cores when not in use).
You'll find that new laptops (and cell phones) will still run their batteries down very fast when actually under load, but when doing normal desktop tasks all of the advanced power saving features on the silicon are vastly cutting down laptop power consumption. Lion capacity has very little to do with it.
This isn't a rumor, it's just a news article. The article is titled "Analysis: Satya Nadella must kill Windows Phone and fork Android".
Nowhere has Microsoft given any impression that they are considering this, this is simply a writer for The Guardian thwoing out a crazy idea. From a technical and business standpoint, it's a very rough idea for Windows Phone.
Windows Phone has been doing pretty well too recently, at least as far as market share growth and raw sales numbers are concerned. It's doing quite well in Europe (which US news downplays), and in the US marketshare went from 2.6% to 4.7% over the last year. Obviously not very impressive but it's far from a dying platform.
The reason for this is that often new core updates break old versions of extensions.
They could make the extension updates a more visible process like Firefox does, but most people are going to be pressing "yes" to the update box anyway.
This doesn't sound much different to any other anti-virus removal. Microsoft almost certainly used the Microsoft Security Essential update to kill Sefnit, as they do with so many other viruses.
"the total number of computers on the Tor network ballooned from 1 million to 5.5 million as Sefnit spread"
These weren't dedicated Tor nodes that were taken offline because they were being used for malicious purposes, these were infected PCs with a virus that used Tor as the communication protocol. An outdated and vulnerable version of Tor was hidden in a "location that almost no human user would"
If a PC was infected with Sefnit and had the signature old version of Tor in the hidden location, Tor was removed because it's logically the case that Tor was just part of the virus payload. Because of the unique install directory, there wasn't even a remote chance for false positives. Publicly available tools that can be used for good or bad are hijacked by viruses all the time, and it's never a surprise if an anti-virus removes that tool when the virus specific files are removed.
"Really, if you are riding a bike watching a screen, you deserve your lacerations."
Perhaps you didn't even read the article, but the device shown has no screen and is basically just a turn signal.
I remember back in the stone age we had these things called stone tools that we would kill Mammoths with. Now people go to the market just to get a bite to eat. It's fuckin' pathetic.
Traditional corn subsidies are historical about 3-5 billion USD, while the total size of the corn market is 50 billion dollars [12 billion bushels ('12-'13) * 4.31 (bushel spot price)].
The subsidies go to 10% of the corn producers. Killing the subsidies would tank the profit margins of some mega farming corporations, but it will hardly change the consumer cost for corn. Corn is legitimately cheap to produce in the US, and the climate and soil is perfectly ideal for it in large parts of the US.
We don't have computers that can process information like the human brain can.
Humans have 10 billion neurons, each connected to 10,000 other neurons for a total of 100 trillion connections.
The brain is also far more parallel than computers are. Supercomputers are also quite parallel, but the "architectures" of the brain and silicon are still so different that studies of the brain must emulate neuron activity through software, which is very inefficient and incapable of running anywhere near 100 trillion synapses concurrently.
The crisscrossed nature of neurons and synapses creates a pretty nasty situation when scaling up to more and more neurons. It's certainly not a linear increase as you add more neurons, it becomes exponentially more complex to model and is one of the worst layouts for computers to simulate.
The dev behind Super Meat Boy (comically difficult side scroller with a cult following) put up a nice synopsis of his experience testing the controller:
Pretty good review for a 3d-printed prototype. Importantly, it seems like it's not fundamentally flawed, and the touchpad based control system works fine in practice.
NAND is going to be 3d stacked, and it's going to at the very least provide another 10 years of life to NAND before resistive RAM or another technology finally takes over.
Even 1 single process tick (whether it be reducing size below 20nm, or stacking a layer of NAND with a 3D process) will bring the cost below the so called "$1 barrier".
"Samsung has big plans for future iterations of the V-NAND tech, including 3D chips with up to 24 layers, all connected by using "special etching technology" to drill down through the layers and connect them electronically."
It's an ignorant article, and it provides no content beyond stirring up all of the slashdot commenters who can clearly see that there is no credence to the "article".
Due to the nature of TOR, their actions are very grey area.
If the FBA wasn't running the exit nodes, the traffic would just be routed through another exit node. The CP was going to be delivered regardless of the FBI's involvement.
But on the other hand, this (arguable valid) line of reasoning isn't how the law sees it. Perhaps the FBI will get a taste of its own medicine, but unfortunately it's hard to imagine that this will actually get a comparable trial to what an average US citizen would get.
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It's a much more heavyweight, power user friendly browser when it comes to UI. Take a few minutes to learn the hotkeys and advanced features and it's a much more productive browser than Chrome.
Sometimes simplicity can (somewhat non-intuitively) impede productivity, and this idea is what Vivaldi is built around. I'm not saying it's clunky, it's very well designed, but it's also full of useful power user centric features that are easy to access and not hidden in layers of "advanced settings" menus.
Comparing a hyperloop to an airplane is apples to oranges. Misk himself says that longer journies (like east to west coast USA) would be more economically feasible by plane. A hyperloop is much more like a maglev train in that it's suited to midrange journies that take hours by car but aren't worth the hassle of an airport. When compared to high speed rail, hyperloops have some very real advantages.
Also, calling EVs Musk's expensive toys when you can clearly see the entire industry introducing their own EVs is disingenuous. Certainly you can see that EVs have some very real advantages over fossil fuel cars.
Apple does drive the hardware market because of the demand they cause. High res displays have been available for a very long time in the professional market, but it wans't until Apple's push for "retina" that it hit the mainstream and quickly fell in price to reasonable levels for consumers. I clearly remember a period of almost 10 years where all displays were 1080p. 27'' monitors with 1080p, and laptops were commonly 720p! And the tech to bump up the resolution was clearly out there, but all of the demand was so focused on 1080p that it was the most affordable option by far for manufacturers to use. It takes someone like Apple to step up and make that first billion dollar investment to create an economy of scale for a technology, and that's what they did for high res displays.
It's not about users, it's about the massive transfer of control to the carriers with net neutrality violating programs like this. All content providers now have to conform to Tmobile's throttling rules in order to qualify for special status, and these rules are subject to change at Tmobile's whim.
In addition, video services NOT INCLUDED IN BINGE-ON are also being throttled while other types of traffic are not throttled. This is a textbook violation of net neutrality.
It's about control. Users and content creators should have control of the internet, and carriers should be blind carriers of data. That's the entire point of net neutrality.
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Look at the position on the keyboard. People are treating the keyboard like an android/iphone lock screen, at least that's my guess. Very cool to see behavior change as our devices do.
I think it would be quite convenient to have a cell notification go off when the oven has reached the right temperature or has finished cooking, or an alert that my stove has been on for over an hour. I wouldn't object to computer control for lights either (press a button to turn off every light when it's time for bed, etc).
None of these features seem particularly valuable to me, but I'd personally more than happily spend a few thousand for a wired house if I was already dropping hundreds of thousands on the house itself.
Of course your opinion is obviously different, but these systems already exist in multiple forms, so there's obviously a target market for them. The existing technology is also very crude and haphazard for the most part, so anyone who comes along and strong-arms the players into a single standard will probably profit handsomely.
A graphing calculator would probable have adequate power to handle taking votes. If the DOS machines are meeting the specifications required for Flanders elections, there's not much of a reason to upgrade them.
I guess I'm just not seeing the story here. Linux wouldn't stop a software bug either. I guess the only hassle here is that they might have to dig out the parallel cables to patch the machines.
This is regarding ad accounts, not search results or indexing.
"against CCP's rules for any exchange of ingame goods/currency for real world money"
That's certainly true now, but it's changing. First of all (to anyone who doesn't know), you can buy subscription time with ingame currency at a supply/demand driven rate. That certainly gives the Eve currency at least some meaningful value.
As of last week though, you can actually buy a collectors edition box with isk. CCP has stated they want to continue expanding uses for isk (in the form of PLEX, to any players who know the lingo), and it's clear to me that CCP realizes the possibility that Eve will likely be free to play sometime in the future (maybe 10+ years, but they know it might need to happen), and if Eve is free to play the alternate uses for PLEX will be the revenue drivers for CCP. Expect to see more and more in game and limited out of game goods services available for isk.
"In the last nine months, Microsoft spent $2.1 billion on the Surface, and gained $1.8 billion in revenue"
That gap really isn't too bad, certainly better than the Xbox/360/XB1 numbers which follows the same strategy of selling at a loss (after marketing) and making it up later with services. The mere fact that Microsoft is actually doing 500 million dollars a quarter in Surface is actually quite impressive.
Right now Microsoft needs market share, so I'd say the strategy isn't altogether a bad one. Especially considering that 2 Billion USD in hardware sales is definitely going to result in at least a couple hundred million in service revenue from Office and such.
Wouldn't the presidential car need to be EMP proof as part of basic security certification?
Do you have any sources for this claim?
Every source I've been able to find estimates a 2-3x increase in Lion capacity in the last 25 years.
http://www.enevate.com/eart/ca...
http://www.technologyreview.co...
You're also very wrong about laptop battery life. The increase in laptop battery life is almost entirely due to the huge advancements made in frequency scaling, advanced idle states, and fine grained power management (ie shutting down individual cores when not in use).
You'll find that new laptops (and cell phones) will still run their batteries down very fast when actually under load, but when doing normal desktop tasks all of the advanced power saving features on the silicon are vastly cutting down laptop power consumption. Lion capacity has very little to do with it.
This isn't a rumor, it's just a news article. The article is titled "Analysis: Satya Nadella must kill Windows Phone and fork Android".
Nowhere has Microsoft given any impression that they are considering this, this is simply a writer for The Guardian thwoing out a crazy idea. From a technical and business standpoint, it's a very rough idea for Windows Phone.
Windows Phone has been doing pretty well too recently, at least as far as market share growth and raw sales numbers are concerned. It's doing quite well in Europe (which US news downplays), and in the US marketshare went from 2.6% to 4.7% over the last year. Obviously not very impressive but it's far from a dying platform.
Birth control and education are some of the major problems he's addressing, and that doesn't lead to more starving, suffering kids.
The reason for this is that often new core updates break old versions of extensions.
They could make the extension updates a more visible process like Firefox does, but most people are going to be pressing "yes" to the update box anyway.
This doesn't sound much different to any other anti-virus removal. Microsoft almost certainly used the Microsoft Security Essential update to kill Sefnit, as they do with so many other viruses.
"the total number of computers on the Tor network ballooned from 1 million to 5.5 million as Sefnit spread"
These weren't dedicated Tor nodes that were taken offline because they were being used for malicious purposes, these were infected PCs with a virus that used Tor as the communication protocol. An outdated and vulnerable version of Tor was hidden in a "location that almost no human user would"
If a PC was infected with Sefnit and had the signature old version of Tor in the hidden location, Tor was removed because it's logically the case that Tor was just part of the virus payload. Because of the unique install directory, there wasn't even a remote chance for false positives. Publicly available tools that can be used for good or bad are hijacked by viruses all the time, and it's never a surprise if an anti-virus removes that tool when the virus specific files are removed.
CFLs aren't $30. I recently bought my first ever CFLs, and I'm positive I paid less than $30 for a 5 pack of them.
Your point stands but accurate numbers would make it stronger.
"Really, if you are riding a bike watching a screen, you deserve your lacerations."
Perhaps you didn't even read the article, but the device shown has no screen and is basically just a turn signal.
I remember back in the stone age we had these things called stone tools that we would kill Mammoths with. Now people go to the market just to get a bite to eat. It's fuckin' pathetic.
That's simply not true.
Traditional corn subsidies are historical about 3-5 billion USD, while the total size of the corn market is 50 billion dollars [12 billion bushels ('12-'13) * 4.31 (bushel spot price)].
The subsidies go to 10% of the corn producers. Killing the subsidies would tank the profit margins of some mega farming corporations, but it will hardly change the consumer cost for corn. Corn is legitimately cheap to produce in the US, and the climate and soil is perfectly ideal for it in large parts of the US.
We don't have computers that can process information like the human brain can.
Humans have 10 billion neurons, each connected to 10,000 other neurons for a total of 100 trillion connections.
The brain is also far more parallel than computers are. Supercomputers are also quite parallel, but the "architectures" of the brain and silicon are still so different that studies of the brain must emulate neuron activity through software, which is very inefficient and incapable of running anywhere near 100 trillion synapses concurrently.
The crisscrossed nature of neurons and synapses creates a pretty nasty situation when scaling up to more and more neurons. It's certainly not a linear increase as you add more neurons, it becomes exponentially more complex to model and is one of the worst layouts for computers to simulate.
Yahoo Finance is very good.
The dev behind Super Meat Boy (comically difficult side scroller with a cult following) put up a nice synopsis of his experience testing the controller:
http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/62476523677/my-time-with-the-steam-controller
Pretty good review for a 3d-printed prototype. Importantly, it seems like it's not fundamentally flawed, and the touchpad based control system works fine in practice.
Probably not.
If the data traffic was higher, it would make acquiring funding (the real objective of this operation) even easier.
The NSA already gets 50 billion dollars a year, more than triple NASA's budget.
NAND is going to be 3d stacked, and it's going to at the very least provide another 10 years of life to NAND before resistive RAM or another technology finally takes over.
Even 1 single process tick (whether it be reducing size below 20nm, or stacking a layer of NAND with a 3D process) will bring the cost below the so called "$1 barrier".
"Samsung has big plans for future iterations of the V-NAND tech, including 3D chips with up to 24 layers, all connected by using "special etching technology" to drill down through the layers and connect them electronically."
It's an ignorant article, and it provides no content beyond stirring up all of the slashdot commenters who can clearly see that there is no credence to the "article".
Due to the nature of TOR, their actions are very grey area.
If the FBA wasn't running the exit nodes, the traffic would just be routed through another exit node. The CP was going to be delivered regardless of the FBI's involvement.
But on the other hand, this (arguable valid) line of reasoning isn't how the law sees it. Perhaps the FBI will get a taste of its own medicine, but unfortunately it's hard to imagine that this will actually get a comparable trial to what an average US citizen would get.