Did Microsoft ever say they didn't read your messages? You're pretty silly if you believe any service that doesn't explicitly enter into a binding contract wouldn't be reading your data - particularly if it's free.
I am a programmer in Sydney, Australia, and for a few years I have had a contract management company handling all my sourcing and negotiations. They get 2% and I make the final decisions on accepting the work. The demand for non permanent programmers to tackle one-off projects is huge here, especially from the financial sector. Conversely the supply of decent people to fill it is low.
It's because there are too many kids on the/. lawn these days.
Although I recall there were a couple of years I felt the same and left altogether. Perhaps this is a cyclical thing.
Not to be too pedantic about it, but I'm very touchy about biological metaphors being inappropriately applied to technology (lets we forget how amazingly complex evolved biology really is compared to even our most advanced tech). FTFA, it sounds like they don't really "heal," they just reroute around the damage. But the damage is still there. It's more analogous to network packets being rerouted around a bad server than a biological entity actually replacing damaged cells.
The brain is known to reroute signals in order to restore lost functionality in stroke victims, so (without having read TFA) I would group this under healing.
I agree it is a matter only a matter of time, but it appears that most people have given up (at least anecdotally) on FPGA systems simply on a rumour and maybe a prohibitively expensive prototype someone once threw together.
Or perhaps I just haven't been reading the right scriptures.
Has anyone actually laid their hands on one of these purported ASIC miners? I see a lot of hyperbole, pictures and hand waving on videos - but to me they appear to be vapourware with nothing other than pre-order status.
I sure wouldn't want other countries which buy our imports to say to us "wait that's not fair; it only costs you guys $40/tonne to export iron ore and we're paying $150/tonne. We're going to get the government involved to try and fight that somehow".
They did, it was called the "Free Trade Agreement".
And where would you consider to be a "safe" area in the US that has no storms, no earthquakes, etc? And is also somewhat accessible and relatively close to a large population center?
It's not wirelessly transmitted, with appropriate infrastructure and interstate collaboration then it could be anywhere!
Industry has been pouring billions into research. How is $120 million over five years going to do anything?
Anyone who invents a technology ( and production process to keep it cheap ) to get a 5x improvement will be a billionaire over night. If you are going to do this, do it right and spend some real money. How about 250 million a year over 5 years? btw. The if the US government pays for it, the US government should patent everything and get a 5x return for the taxpayers.
While I agree more money would be awesome (and surely if they're doing good things it will come), you don't seem to get the premise.
The industry isn't pouring all of their "billions" into a collective research environment with the aim of brand new tech. It is fragmented with the majority of players focused on iterative improvements to the existing technology which they're already heavily invested in. It's not easy to sell R&D costs to shareholders when there is nothing other than a goal, investors want to see a real plan and predicted returns from day one.
In this case I (being Australian) believe that it is more the church influence (morality and all that jazz) on senator Conroy (communications minister). He has been very supportive of content filtering and the content producers crazy plans to halt piracy.
Occasionally he does good things, but I think his strong religious links (I mean that more in terms of people than faith I guess) unfortunately have a lot of his ear on these matters.
Must be great for finding exploitable home appliances. When is the last time you updated the firmware on your TV or your fridge? Wouldn't it be great if it were on an open network?
I updated the firmware on my Panasonic plasma not long ago, every now and again it asks me just as every other computing device these days does.
I do live in Australia, and when truthfully answering there are "less than 10" people like me. That's not all that surprising because I'm only 25 however.
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Did Microsoft ever say they didn't read your messages? You're pretty silly if you believe any service that doesn't explicitly enter into a binding contract wouldn't be reading your data - particularly if it's free.
Efficiency? If that what you think the big difference is, you might as well be using Windows.
Because the average age of a Redditor is probably 14.
If it were pointed right at us, my understanding is our ozone would be ionised pretty quickly. Clearly that would not be a good thing.
I am a programmer in Sydney, Australia, and for a few years I have had a contract management company handling all my sourcing and negotiations. They get 2% and I make the final decisions on accepting the work. The demand for non permanent programmers to tackle one-off projects is huge here, especially from the financial sector. Conversely the supply of decent people to fill it is low.
It's because there are too many kids on the /. lawn these days.
Although I recall there were a couple of years I felt the same and left altogether. Perhaps this is a cyclical thing.
Not to be too pedantic about it, but I'm very touchy about biological metaphors being inappropriately applied to technology (lets we forget how amazingly complex evolved biology really is compared to even our most advanced tech). FTFA, it sounds like they don't really "heal," they just reroute around the damage. But the damage is still there. It's more analogous to network packets being rerouted around a bad server than a biological entity actually replacing damaged cells.
The brain is known to reroute signals in order to restore lost functionality in stroke victims, so (without having read TFA) I would group this under healing.
I agree it is a matter only a matter of time, but it appears that most people have given up (at least anecdotally) on FPGA systems simply on a rumour and maybe a prohibitively expensive prototype someone once threw together. Or perhaps I just haven't been reading the right scriptures.
Has anyone actually laid their hands on one of these purported ASIC miners? I see a lot of hyperbole, pictures and hand waving on videos - but to me they appear to be vapourware with nothing other than pre-order status.
I sure wouldn't want other countries which buy our imports to say to us "wait that's not fair; it only costs you guys $40/tonne to export iron ore and we're paying $150/tonne. We're going to get the government involved to try and fight that somehow".
They did, it was called the "Free Trade Agreement".
I think this was intended to be a joke, but actually kanga meat is available in most supermarkets here.
How about the service provider connecting those home computers to the net?
Actually the bee only dies because the stinger is barbed and it rips it's guts out when it pulls away.
And where would you consider to be a "safe" area in the US that has no storms, no earthquakes, etc? And is also somewhat accessible and relatively close to a large population center?
It's not wirelessly transmitted, with appropriate infrastructure and interstate collaboration then it could be anywhere!
Industry has been pouring billions into research. How is $120 million over five years going to do anything?
Anyone who invents a technology ( and production process to keep it cheap ) to get a 5x improvement will be a billionaire over night. If you are going to do this, do it right and spend some real money. How about 250 million a year over 5 years? btw. The if the US government pays for it, the US government should patent everything and get a 5x return for the taxpayers.
While I agree more money would be awesome (and surely if they're doing good things it will come), you don't seem to get the premise. The industry isn't pouring all of their "billions" into a collective research environment with the aim of brand new tech. It is fragmented with the majority of players focused on iterative improvements to the existing technology which they're already heavily invested in. It's not easy to sell R&D costs to shareholders when there is nothing other than a goal, investors want to see a real plan and predicted returns from day one.
In this case I (being Australian) believe that it is more the church influence (morality and all that jazz) on senator Conroy (communications minister). He has been very supportive of content filtering and the content producers crazy plans to halt piracy. Occasionally he does good things, but I think his strong religious links (I mean that more in terms of people than faith I guess) unfortunately have a lot of his ear on these matters.
Must be great for finding exploitable home appliances. When is the last time you updated the firmware on your TV or your fridge? Wouldn't it be great if it were on an open network?
I updated the firmware on my Panasonic plasma not long ago, every now and again it asks me just as every other computing device these days does.
I do live in Australia, and when truthfully answering there are "less than 10" people like me. That's not all that surprising because I'm only 25 however.
I think it is more likely a defensive patent, otherwise some douche will patent it first and troll them for cash.
I didn't even use iTunes myself - just click update on my phone and it did it over WIFI.
You can however use parliamentary privilege in chambers to say anything with complete immunity - an oft and cowardly used legal concession.
I suspect that the response of their lawyers will be (correctly) the same as in the famous Arkell v Pressdram.
That predates me by just over a decade and so I had to look it up - Classic! http://www.nasw.org/users/nbauman/arkell.htm
So they agreed to an internship and had to work as a result? Welcome to reality.