Trade shows will double in size every year until the year a company realizes there's not much value in the show and discontinues it immediately. And yes, I realize IDF was not a trade show in name or intended purpose but that's pretty much what it became anyway.
Yep, I understand Qualcomm's position regarding the claims about performance in the lawsuit. I just don't see how that has any relevance to their case - Apple was under no obligation in how they used Qualcomm's chips. The rest of the lawsuit they have a claim - the other part is just an attempt to embarrass Apple.
It's clear Qualcomm is looking to publicly embarrass Apple for having the temerity to use Intel's competing LTE chipset for its non-CDMA iPhone 7 units. Perhaps Apple did hamstring the Qualcomm chip so that the performance differential to Intel's chipset would be lower, and thus prevent customers from self-selecting the Qualcomm-equipped models. Even so, that's between Apple and its customers. Qualcomm has no place interceding itself in that process.
To distract him from this issue. I'm guessing it was a tiny red fire truck. Or a new Infowars story about how Obama let aliens slip through space and onto Earth.
That's because nothing in the hacked Hillary emails depicted illegal behavior but the process to obtain and leak them was illegal. The situation is opposite for Trump.
I'm suggesting that closing shop and starting a new VPN business is a lot cheaper and easier than starting a new ISP. Both in terms of the administration cost of restarting the business and also the cost of reacquiring your lost customer case. With it being so much cheaper, the risk-reward calculation of a VPN provider selling users' data shifts more to the reward category.
It's a lot easier to shut down a new VPN service and start another in its place than it is start a ISP, so losing customers is not much of a deterrent against VPN's selling your traffic data.
In your rush to post an opinion befitting your narrative you overlooked the "optional" part about the location tracking. I chose instead to use the app's "I'm here now" button when we were five minutes from arriving to the restaurant.
My family had Chick-fil-A the other day. Placed our entire order on my smartphone through their app. The app can optionally track your itinerary via GPS so that the food is prepared just in time for your arrival.
It doesn't matter what claims a private entrepreneur makes or whether his claims are truthful or accurate. The government is enforcing its claim through the power of the state, making alternatives impossible, whereas a private entrepreneur cannot.
Of course those laws existed long before Uber - they were originally passed to limit the supply of taxis by either placing artificial limits on the number taxis (medallions) or by creating licensing schemes to increase the barriers to entry. This scheme is repeated in many markets in the USA - look up the licensing and regulatory requirements for interstate trucking - those approach racketeering. Whenever a politician tells you he's endorsing regulations or licensing requirements for the public good or safety, grab your wallet.
NVIDIA's 2016 Pascal architecture was significantly faster than their previous Maxwell architecture.
"Relative to GTX 980 then, we're looking at an average performance gain of 66% at 1440p, and 71% at 4K. This is a very significant step up for GTX 980 owners,"
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Trade shows will double in size every year until the year a company realizes there's not much value in the show and discontinues it immediately. And yes, I realize IDF was not a trade show in name or intended purpose but that's pretty much what it became anyway.
Yep, I understand Qualcomm's position regarding the claims about performance in the lawsuit. I just don't see how that has any relevance to their case - Apple was under no obligation in how they used Qualcomm's chips. The rest of the lawsuit they have a claim - the other part is just an attempt to embarrass Apple.
It's clear Qualcomm is looking to publicly embarrass Apple for having the temerity to use Intel's competing LTE chipset for its non-CDMA iPhone 7 units. Perhaps Apple did hamstring the Qualcomm chip so that the performance differential to Intel's chipset would be lower, and thus prevent customers from self-selecting the Qualcomm-equipped models. Even so, that's between Apple and its customers. Qualcomm has no place interceding itself in that process.
In other breaking news, the new model will also use the latest version of the Windows operating system.
To distract him from this issue. I'm guessing it was a tiny red fire truck. Or a new Infowars story about how Obama let aliens slip through space and onto Earth.
Moronic non-sequiturs. Never fails.
As a private corporation, Twitter is allowed to decide what its users are allowed to post on its service. As a public entity the government is not.
Every campaign violates the PAC "chinese" wall - you don't need hacked emails to see this.
That's because nothing in the hacked Hillary emails depicted illegal behavior but the process to obtain and leak them was illegal. The situation is opposite for Trump.
Without breaking a few eggs.
Provided the phones don't self-immolate.
They were all originally forced into a Windows 10 upgrade and now are showing empathy for their captors.
I'm suggesting that closing shop and starting a new VPN business is a lot cheaper and easier than starting a new ISP. Both in terms of the administration cost of restarting the business and also the cost of reacquiring your lost customer case. With it being so much cheaper, the risk-reward calculation of a VPN provider selling users' data shifts more to the reward category.
It's a lot easier to shut down a new VPN service and start another in its place than it is start a ISP, so losing customers is not much of a deterrent against VPN's selling your traffic data.
You're just moving who has access to which sites you visit - instead of it being your ISP it'll be your VPN service provider.
Luckily the number of landline customers is zero.
Nearly all monopolies are created by the government rather than prevented by them, by the same causes I listed.
And I actually was speaking well within my knowledge - how can the app send tracking data if I've disabled its ability to access my phone's GPS?
In your rush to post an opinion befitting your narrative you overlooked the "optional" part about the location tracking. I chose instead to use the app's "I'm here now" button when we were five minutes from arriving to the restaurant.
My family had Chick-fil-A the other day. Placed our entire order on my smartphone through their app. The app can optionally track your itinerary via GPS so that the food is prepared just in time for your arrival.
It doesn't matter what claims a private entrepreneur makes or whether his claims are truthful or accurate. The government is enforcing its claim through the power of the state, making alternatives impossible, whereas a private entrepreneur cannot.
How does restricting service so that some customers can't get a taxi serve to prevent or fix "market failures"?
Of course those laws existed long before Uber - they were originally passed to limit the supply of taxis by either placing artificial limits on the number taxis (medallions) or by creating licensing schemes to increase the barriers to entry. This scheme is repeated in many markets in the USA - look up the licensing and regulatory requirements for interstate trucking - those approach racketeering. Whenever a politician tells you he's endorsing regulations or licensing requirements for the public good or safety, grab your wallet.
That's a fair point, although the submitter didn't disqualify process improvements as a valid source of performance gains.
NVIDIA's 2016 Pascal architecture was significantly faster than their previous Maxwell architecture.
"Relative to GTX 980 then, we're looking at an average performance gain of 66% at 1440p, and 71% at 4K. This is a very significant step up for GTX 980 owners,"
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review/32