Chances are the cars will have a way to communicate between themselves to coordinate maneuvers and keep out of one another's way. Which means wireless and a place to get into them.
Google's prototype is 100% independent from any networks. I'm suspecting the competition will follow their lead on that.
Crashplan doesn't support reading for network locations unless you set it up as a VHD. How did you accomplish this? The VHD was an overhead I didn't want to deal with.
I think that if people had their real identity online, the internet would be a less hostile place because people would choose their words and their position more carefully. After all, if you write something you believe in, should you not be able to stand behind it? If you screw up, just back track your statement. After all, back tracking just means you learned something from the argument that you didn't know before. I've often back tracked my arguments on SlashDot. I've even sent apologies to users I believe I may have offended.
So someone please explain to me a really good reason for which your identity should be concealed in PUBLIC forums? Maybe I'll do some back tracking after:)
In all seriousness, the trend in recent years has been for companies [*ahem* Apple, Sony, Keurig, etc./*ahem*] to lock down their hardware simply because they can.
I can't argue with that but I must ask. Why are they still making billions? Why do they still have such large portions of the market?
I'll tell you why. Because most people don't give a rats ass about open hardware. They want a combination of technologies that just works. For those who don't want that, they can continue picking the remaining suppliers that still keep their hardware open.
In addition, this company acted quickly with no fuss. Why do we automatically blame $$$$.
And not all corporate decisions to the detriment of consumers are made because the boards are comprised of sociopaths only interested in making a buck but . ..
I doubt very much the board was involved in such a small insignificant decision. Them making the tech headlines may have gotten the board's attention but even then I doubt it.
only interested in making a buck but . ..
This part always makes me giggle because most people don't realize they are part of said group "only interested in making money". That's what investments are. No matter how small your investment is, someone is responsible for making it grow and it's usually someone much bigger than you that has your and many others interest in mind.
The US is in a pickle when it comes to Healthcare because taking away the candy is much harder than giving it. For a system change to occur you need to reverse everything in place and that's not easy. Smart people have come up and proved with numbers that the current system could be made to cost much less. When you give control to individuals motivated by profit you generally cause the cost to go up or the service to go down.
Even user acceptance testing doesn't catch everything. If they were plagued with issues from one software push to the next I would question their testing all together but it's not Philips reputation at the moment.
That's a unfounded statement that spells corporate mistrust. Not all corporations are vile and the fact that they didn't resist to the change tells me it was a mistake. One day turn around. How many users actually had the chance to experience the issue? This tells me their tech/software people are very much connected to the user base and cared enough to act quickly. If anything, I'm impressed with this all together.
Anyhow, when has it become unreasonable for a company to make mistakes?
Don't forget that they did this with intentions of avoiding problems, not creating more as stated by Philips themselves:
Philips has dropped support for third-party bulbs after noticing that a growing number of them had "interoperability issues" preventing them from playing nicely with official Hue gear
Sound more like your stuck in the 19th century with your filament bulbs.
These are long life bulbs. No point in having extra hardware when the general application for said bulb is to allow remote control which is easy to do if it enabled zigbee support.
Although I agree with you there's a point where too much wealth is exactly that, TOO MUCH.
Before government were born, unfortunate people were helped by local communities and their families. Although this system was ideal at weeding out the abusers, it was also unable to provide the wide range of services required and I'm sure at time was unfair. Fast forward 100 years and you now have a population that is far more independent. The flip side is fraud and abuse of the system. As a member of society all I ask is that I be rewarded for my extra efforts. Tax me more if I'm getting more out of society but make sure it's going to the people who need it which in my country I believe is happening (as naïve as I may be).
The CBO says that repealing the ACA (Obamacare) would actually lower the deficit, raise employment, cut taxes and actually end up putting more on health insurance roles
The US healthcare system is the most expensive healthcare system in the world and yet it's not the best. Many countries including neighbors such as Canada have universal health care so why can't this happen in the US?
Although true, massacres are on the rise which unfortunately provides ammunition for the media to scare us. If people took the time to calculate their odds of being murdered they would quickly realize their diet has a much better chance at shortening their life than a murderer.
Will the school district now be blamed for not closing because a kid got killed?
You nailed it. Everybody wants revenge and that means the blame game followed by law suits. Nobody can accept that things happen that aren't a living person's fault. Unless there was miss handling of the person's life nobody should have to answer for it.
Although I understand the need for a free press, I wish these media outlets would develop some ethics without some form of compulsion
Regulate the press:)
On a serious note, the only people that can make free press better is the readers. If the content is too "soap like" then move your attention to a different outlet or take the time to criticize the one in question. Unfortunately I see little hope for any change in viewer/reader behavior when I still see people follow the kardasians (not worth spelling properly).
Are we overreacting? Has this been happening more since the ISIS scares in Paris?
Can we stop or control this better?
I know many call these "isolated incidents" but these incidents still cause major disruptions to the population. This incident alone is probably affecting hundreds of thousands of people if you include students, parents and businesses.
My friend works for a potato chip company and he told me the most depressing period of the year (winter) is when the sales are the highest. Same goes for the economy. When the economy dips, their revenues spike.
I could not find data to back this claim but I believe him since he's the director of sales.
I understand that they tapped directly into communication lines but that's like looking for a needle in a haystack. I also get that algorithms can help with that but considering we can barely get computers to understand sentences it's hard to believe they would be able to accurately assess even 1% of the data.
They did a few things right with Edge. They stripped out all the garbage that was causing the browser to be slow and they removed activeX support as well as other security plague technologies.
Initially I didn't like how the tab system worked but the latest patch seems to have fixed it since I haven't found myself fighting with it.
I honestly think there's some level of paranoia, because as techies we know what they can actually do. Whether they do it or not is where I start justifying the use of the word paranoia. As simpletons there's not much the authorities want to know about us and wasting resources to find out that we eat 3 meals a day and that are bowels are consistent or not does is just a waste of resources. After all, getting to all this information and deciphering it isn't a piece a cake and requires man hours and technical know how to accomplish.
You keep going about Windows as service but last I check (not long ago), MS had not said anything about a subscription service and they even confirmed that those who got the upgrade before the deadline were entitled to Windows 10 at no charge for life.
Windows is another experiment (Windows as a service with forced updates) and users are acting as guinea pigs.
In case you didn't notice, customers are ALWAYS guinea pigs. There is no one product you can name that has not at some point made their customers a guinea pig. You could argue some products come to market with tremendous amounts of QC before they hit the market (such as planes) but any day to day shit is prone to make you a guinea pig.
PC Settings is a downgrade from Control Panel.
There is still a control panel. It's just not in your face because unless you a tech doing tech stuff you don't need it. The same way root access on Android is hidden from view.
I could go on and on, and if you again respond by trying to defend MS I'll just post my much longer, more detailed list of complaints for everyone to see.
You're allowed to your opinion. Keep in mind that I've seen this exact response to every single version of Windows since/. is in existence. Guess what? Windows share of the desktop world is still 85% and that seems to change very little year to year. It's only competitor at the moment is Apple and they aren't interested in serving the corporate world.
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Chances are the cars will have a way to communicate between themselves to coordinate maneuvers and keep out of one another's way. Which means wireless and a place to get into them.
Google's prototype is 100% independent from any networks. I'm suspecting the competition will follow their lead on that.
I feel the same but suspect it's temporary until we can start trusting the tech the not so trust worthy humans are building.
Easy. Only accessible through a wired connections. DONE!
Couldn't they just put that in the requirements?
And they do the same to my NAS
Crashplan doesn't support reading for network locations unless you set it up as a VHD. How did you accomplish this? The VHD was an overhead I didn't want to deal with.
Very practical!
I think that if people had their real identity online, the internet would be a less hostile place because people would choose their words and their position more carefully. After all, if you write something you believe in, should you not be able to stand behind it? If you screw up, just back track your statement. After all, back tracking just means you learned something from the argument that you didn't know before. I've often back tracked my arguments on SlashDot. I've even sent apologies to users I believe I may have offended.
So someone please explain to me a really good reason for which your identity should be concealed in PUBLIC forums? Maybe I'll do some back tracking after :)
In all seriousness, the trend in recent years has been for companies [*ahem* Apple, Sony, Keurig, etc. /*ahem*] to lock down their hardware simply because they can.
I can't argue with that but I must ask. Why are they still making billions? Why do they still have such large portions of the market?
I'll tell you why. Because most people don't give a rats ass about open hardware. They want a combination of technologies that just works. For those who don't want that, they can continue picking the remaining suppliers that still keep their hardware open.
In addition, this company acted quickly with no fuss. Why do we automatically blame $$$$.
And not all corporate decisions to the detriment of consumers are made because the boards are comprised of sociopaths only interested in making a buck but . . .
I doubt very much the board was involved in such a small insignificant decision. Them making the tech headlines may have gotten the board's attention but even then I doubt it.
only interested in making a buck but . . .
This part always makes me giggle because most people don't realize they are part of said group "only interested in making money". That's what investments are. No matter how small your investment is, someone is responsible for making it grow and it's usually someone much bigger than you that has your and many others interest in mind.
The US is in a pickle when it comes to Healthcare because taking away the candy is much harder than giving it. For a system change to occur you need to reverse everything in place and that's not easy. Smart people have come up and proved with numbers that the current system could be made to cost much less. When you give control to individuals motivated by profit you generally cause the cost to go up or the service to go down.
Even user acceptance testing doesn't catch everything. If they were plagued with issues from one software push to the next I would question their testing all together but it's not Philips reputation at the moment.
That's a unfounded statement that spells corporate mistrust. Not all corporations are vile and the fact that they didn't resist to the change tells me it was a mistake. One day turn around. How many users actually had the chance to experience the issue? This tells me their tech/software people are very much connected to the user base and cared enough to act quickly. If anything, I'm impressed with this all together.
Anyhow, when has it become unreasonable for a company to make mistakes?
Don't forget that they did this with intentions of avoiding problems, not creating more as stated by Philips themselves:
Philips has dropped support for third-party bulbs after noticing that a growing number of them had "interoperability issues" preventing them from playing nicely with official Hue gear
Sound more like your stuck in the 19th century with your filament bulbs.
These are long life bulbs. No point in having extra hardware when the general application for said bulb is to allow remote control which is easy to do if it enabled zigbee support.
Although I agree with you there's a point where too much wealth is exactly that, TOO MUCH.
Before government were born, unfortunate people were helped by local communities and their families. Although this system was ideal at weeding out the abusers, it was also unable to provide the wide range of services required and I'm sure at time was unfair. Fast forward 100 years and you now have a population that is far more independent. The flip side is fraud and abuse of the system. As a member of society all I ask is that I be rewarded for my extra efforts. Tax me more if I'm getting more out of society but make sure it's going to the people who need it which in my country I believe is happening (as naïve as I may be).
Just my 2 cents.
The CBO says that repealing the ACA (Obamacare) would actually lower the deficit, raise employment, cut taxes and actually end up putting more on health insurance roles
The US healthcare system is the most expensive healthcare system in the world and yet it's not the best. Many countries including neighbors such as Canada have universal health care so why can't this happen in the US?
Our murder rate has been decreasing for decades
Although true, massacres are on the rise which unfortunately provides ammunition for the media to scare us. If people took the time to calculate their odds of being murdered they would quickly realize their diet has a much better chance at shortening their life than a murderer.
Will the school district now be blamed for not closing because a kid got killed?
You nailed it. Everybody wants revenge and that means the blame game followed by law suits. Nobody can accept that things happen that aren't a living person's fault. Unless there was miss handling of the person's life nobody should have to answer for it.
Although I understand the need for a free press, I wish these media outlets would develop some ethics without some form of compulsion
Regulate the press :)
On a serious note, the only people that can make free press better is the readers. If the content is too "soap like" then move your attention to a different outlet or take the time to criticize the one in question. Unfortunately I see little hope for any change in viewer/reader behavior when I still see people follow the kardasians (not worth spelling properly).
Are we overreacting? Has this been happening more since the ISIS scares in Paris?
Can we stop or control this better?
I know many call these "isolated incidents" but these incidents still cause major disruptions to the population. This incident alone is probably affecting hundreds of thousands of people if you include students, parents and businesses.
RTFA. They claim no loss of quality so who cares about the bit rate.
My friend works for a potato chip company and he told me the most depressing period of the year (winter) is when the sales are the highest. Same goes for the economy. When the economy dips, their revenues spike.
I could not find data to back this claim but I believe him since he's the director of sales.
I think they underestimated the task at hand by a long shot. Question is, do they have remaining R&D money?
I suspect the testing is what has turned out to be the most difficult and expensive part of the project.
I understand that they tapped directly into communication lines but that's like looking for a needle in a haystack. I also get that algorithms can help with that but considering we can barely get computers to understand sentences it's hard to believe they would be able to accurately assess even 1% of the data.
They did a few things right with Edge. They stripped out all the garbage that was causing the browser to be slow and they removed activeX support as well as other security plague technologies.
Initially I didn't like how the tab system worked but the latest patch seems to have fixed it since I haven't found myself fighting with it.
I see this as a much bigger threat to piracy than any enforcement of copyrights on individuals. Just a though.
I honestly think there's some level of paranoia, because as techies we know what they can actually do. Whether they do it or not is where I start justifying the use of the word paranoia. As simpletons there's not much the authorities want to know about us and wasting resources to find out that we eat 3 meals a day and that are bowels are consistent or not does is just a waste of resources. After all, getting to all this information and deciphering it isn't a piece a cake and requires man hours and technical know how to accomplish.
My 2 cents.
You keep going about Windows as service but last I check (not long ago), MS had not said anything about a subscription service and they even confirmed that those who got the upgrade before the deadline were entitled to Windows 10 at no charge for life.
Windows is another experiment (Windows as a service with forced updates) and users are acting as guinea pigs.
In case you didn't notice, customers are ALWAYS guinea pigs. There is no one product you can name that has not at some point made their customers a guinea pig. You could argue some products come to market with tremendous amounts of QC before they hit the market (such as planes) but any day to day shit is prone to make you a guinea pig.
PC Settings is a downgrade from Control Panel.
There is still a control panel. It's just not in your face because unless you a tech doing tech stuff you don't need it. The same way root access on Android is hidden from view.
I could go on and on, and if you again respond by trying to defend MS I'll just post my much longer, more detailed list of complaints for everyone to see.
You're allowed to your opinion. Keep in mind that I've seen this exact response to every single version of Windows since /. is in existence. Guess what? Windows share of the desktop world is still 85% and that seems to change very little year to year. It's only competitor at the moment is Apple and they aren't interested in serving the corporate world.