This will keep Apple on their toes to further push the A** line of processors, as well as Qualcomm, Samsung, and the other Android chipset makers. I like competition.
The GCSB shares info with American Intelligence. They perceive the info they receive to be vital to national security. The Americans probably put up a hefty price tag for that information: raid and extradite Kim Dotcom.
New Zealand should be ashamed of itself, bending its laws so far.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
They really don't "reboot". They do lose track of the star map, but they roll forward to reacquainted them. The edit I think is just shotty video editing. The worst thing that would happen is that the forklifts would get into an error condition because it's return path was obscured by debris or a malformed pallet would collapse. Probably happened about once a month, and maintenance would hand clean up the mess.
These units have a hand-control on their back so you could take over them and move them along, if you needed something obscure done. However, we programmed them to do just about EVERYTHING from retrieving raw materials to fetching pallets. The only thing you really had to handle by hand is when a part came for a machine that had to be forked to the machine so it could be installed. They were vastly more reliable than the Linde lifts they replaced, and those were Cadillac quality.
No. It uses lidar, with mapping. There are 360 degree reflectors around the warehouse. The lidar reflects off these and form. Pseudo star-navigation field for reference points. Filling in a truck is done my counting steps on the wheel drives.
See grid is late to the game. At my former employer, I was part of a team who helped implement fully autonomous warehousing using human-less forklifts.
It wasn't about the labor savings. The ROI was far out compared to payroll of forklift drivers. It was the perfect loading of trucks to balance the loads on the trucks, the reduction (practically the elimination) of damaged goods, and the accuracy in knowing where the product is and how much was in stock at all times, with no errors.
Also, with this system, the downtime is spent "housekeeping". We could front the product that has an upcoming scheduled pickup time and get it close to the relevant dock door. This reduced loading times, reducing "accessorial charges" that trucks make you pay if you keep them for over a certain amount of time, and allowed the distribution center to ship more product in a crunch than humans could possibly hope to achieve.
Oh and they turn up for work more consistently, take fewer breaks, and operate at a steady calculable rate, so planning knew how many trucks they could get shipped, emphatically!
Direct Tv Now starts at like $10 if you have AT&T Wireless, doesn't count against your data usage, and has like a hundred channels and add-on packages.
Even if you don't have AT&T Wireless, it was available with their "go-big" package for $35 for life. They gave me an AppleTV just for signing up.
With all the apps on that device, you absolutely don't need a cord unless as far as I can tell you have to watch sports.
Every single study done by doctors and healthcare researchers says that being heavy, curvy, fat, or "voluptuous" is bad for your health, leads to a menagerie of diseases, and is the largest impactor of life expectancy, more so than income level.
So, the "body positive" movement is really a "health - negative" movement. Sorry, but facts are facts.
This. Making malware is not illegal. It is intact software. It would be akin to writing down (in a notepad) how the malware works. That is protected by free speech. We can make demonstration software, we can make examples, and hack our own systems. All of that is perfectly legal.
Selling those tools to someone else (like an anti-virus company) is also legal. The law states that you can not hack into a system without authorization, not that you can not own hacking tools.
Furthermore, intent has everything to do with motive and therefore the charges that accompany it (did he kill someone accidentally through negligence / did he kill someone intending to kill the person / did he plan to kill someone over a longer period of time and execute his plan), and intent is written in law. It's up to the DA, the courtroom, and the defense to argue the merits of intent. It is not up to a seller to interpret intent, or be held liable for failing to do so. If a seemingly crazed person walks into a car dealership, visibly upset, and buys a car; then takes the car and mows down their cheating significant other, is the dealer liable for her Murder 1? No.
Expansions like this in law make me sick. Read the fucking constitution, then explain to Marcus Hutchins why he isn't wrong.
No. The difference between a search engine and hiQ is that a search engine (Google specifically, but I think all of them) respect the robots.txt instruction set. If you don't want a search engine in your content, then there is an "opt out". Maybe one could argue that this should be an "opt in", but there is a way to say "I don't want to authorize you to scan my page for indexing".
hiQ has not listened to Linked.In's "opt-out" in the form of a cease and desist which is a pretty strong indication the content owner doesn't grant the permission to be scraped.
I think the court will find in Linked.In's favor here, and so they should. hiQ is operating without a license to reproduce the original works. This is what Copyright is designed specifically to stop.
Even so they do (display titles), and even so they haven't (figured out a way to display excerpts without collecting data), Google respects a sites robots.txt, which clearly linked.in as asked hiQ to do, but hiQ is flouting the EULA. On one hand, I agree: if you don't want it read, keep it private.
On the other hand: Posting something in the public space effectively gives the readers a right to consume it (akin to reading a book). It does not give the reader the license to freely copy or build upon it (akin to republishing the book under their own name, or writing a sequel to a book they have read) using the same characters and titles. For that, you need a license from the original content creator (Linked.In in this case).
If the EU laws work outside Europe, won't China'a laws work outside of China? Why pay for the big firewall, they could just demand removal of all "objectionable" content! Be careful what you wish for....
What the hell are you talking about? There are many talents, yes, but our society values targets not with money but with economic reciprocation. In effect, if you are fantastic cook, and I use your services over and over again, I'll trade you (in my case: so many lines of code or a complete solution). We don't value money. We value what money represents. That is a trade of our goods and services for a bit of yours. Many people have traded with Mark Zuckerburg for him to have achieved the success he has. He has come up with many solutions to problems and has traded his solution for a vast multitude of their services, represented in modern economies as currency.
His ability to solve problems and lead an effective team at solving problems is his capability. Here he is saying: "why isn't everyone else as capable at generating economic prosperity, maybe this is a problem my team can solve." And you bash him upside the head. Would you rather he stashed his wealth away and squandered it like an Arab Sheik? He is doing what I would hope everyone with talents like that does: use their skills to try and better mankind.
I'm sorry, but if you think someone who founded a $300B company in 10 years before he was 30 to be "regular folk", sho me someone extraordinary. He learned Chinese and did after all, bring the worlds people together, reconnected old friends, and helped spread information into populations under total Ian regime rule. He isn't regular, he leads an incredibly productive life, and helping him understand the plight of people less successful, and fortunate, than him; if not for his money and how he could spend it philanthropically but also for his ability to solve problems. Jealous much?
Not true for the enterprise. Usually they but blank PCs and load their image onto them. The windows that come with PCs is usually Home or Pro, and not Enterprise anyway so the license would be a waste of money to the business.
Some business buy the licenses, others prefer to have the latest software every time, you can do either. I didn't say this is good for every business, and they can all make their own decisions. By the way, every business we support has completely migrated to Win 10 and Server 2016.
I would, but because in the grand scheme of my life, $1200 doesn't really amount to much concidering how much utility I get from my phone. It's my newest awesome camera, my GPS device, my monitoring tool for both my home and business, my portable music player, my mobile browser, etc.... I use it to check on my finances, so much so I almost never sign into mobile banking anymore, the app is too convenient with TouchID. It's my eBay browser, my Amazon shopping tool, my main method of corresponding by email, my texting tool and my.... well, my phone. Why wouldn't I want it to be the absolute best it can be? Seriously I get more use from my phone than my car, and that I pay WAY more for, not including the per mile costs to run the damn thing. $1200 for a phone? Duh.
1: this offering is aimed at businesses which would much rather have subscriptions to their software in order to skip having to shell out tons of money for the next iterative release.
2: almost every other software aimed at professionals works this way now, like Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, and of course every cloud based software.
3: this offering is aimed at businesses who don't buy their OS bundled with their computer, but use some sort of virtualized environment (either on or off premises).
4: At $7/month this software (over a 2 or 3 year time period) is significantly cheaper than buying the license outright and paying for software assurance.
This makes sense for just about any business that plans on keeping their software up to date for their knowledge workers. Obviously if you have a grungy old PC in the back you use to print barcodes that is kept around for a decade and still runs Windows XP, this model may not be for you, buy the license (which you still can do).
Marking this as funny (it is) is just more indicative of the problem. Cat calling and misogynistic jokes are desires cloaked in humor, but they are that. Desire. Sex is a market. There are the suppliers (women) and the consumers (men). It's going to take a very long time to out-grow millions of years of evolution that got us here. Guys will behave that way. It's unfortunate, but it's true. For millennia, that behavior was biologically rewarded with successful offspring, so as a guy, we're behaving just like our forefathers have, and expecting it to stop is just a fallacy, that's the sad truth to it.
They shouldn't have fired her, they should have sanctioned or reprimanded the harassing males, and hey should have had a safe place where she could address HR without her manager finding out until an investigation was concluded. And I'm not saying it's right, im just saying if you Home to change it, its evolution who you're up against.
Yes, it does take years to build out networks, that's the shitty side. Our incompetitant leaders at the local and state levels have left us with shit options for internet access.
For my own business, we use binding arbitration clauses in practically every contract we have with our customers (however, they are B2B contracts). Binding arbitration is cheaper than a a court case in most cases, and the arbiters are typically retired judges, or lawyers with a ton of experience. In California, you can still request relief from a court and sue the other party anyway, if you can explain why the other party is behaving unfairly. Courts have the power to strike those provisions out.
He is wrong, but not because of why you think. AT&T are asserting their market position, because the market will bear it. They spent the time and money to build out to where they are one of a few if not the only carrier, and so they can corner you into unreasonable agreements. The response should have come from negotiations with he municipalities that gave these ass-hats exclusivity arrangements and tax dollars to build out. The pricing, terms, and arrangements should have been negotiated then, not now with every single customer. Expecting a giant company with millions of customers to independently negotiate every contract with every customer is pretty unreasonable. Call up MS and tell them you don't agree with a provision in their EULA to one of their products, see how far you get.
The response now is to invite in competition, and rip up the exclusivity agreements by enacting legislation that stops such agreements so that the courts can't side with the carriers when they inevitably sue the municipality for backing out on its word.
But there is something sacred abour profits. Profit breeds competition, and focuses our potential into action. American capitalism built the modern world. Everything from the steel of skyscrapers to the airplane to the medical marvels we have are vastly developed and produced in capitalistic environments where the focused have the freedom and capability to do something that improves our way of life in return for the profits of their labor. What's wrong with that?
In America, you have as the French would say: "a career open to the talents". If you have the talent, you can work in the field you are most qualified for. Earning yourself the best benefit, and your goal is to provide the best value in return. Profits allow us to decide how next to invest returns, and continue growth. There has been no greater engine for the improvement in our lives that capitalistic profit-seeking; so yes, profit is sacred.
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Elon Musk has an AI Company he help found: OpenAI.
Maybe he just wants the government to stifle competition?
This will keep Apple on their toes to further push the A** line of processors, as well as Qualcomm, Samsung, and the other Android chipset makers. I like competition.
Do Apple computers have the ME enabled? How do you've access it?
The GCSB shares info with American Intelligence. They perceive the info they receive to be vital to national security. The Americans probably put up a hefty price tag for that information: raid and extradite Kim Dotcom.
New Zealand should be ashamed of itself, bending its laws so far.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
The former. High bandwidth is not a prerequisite for high income.
They really don't "reboot". They do lose track of the star map, but they roll forward to reacquainted them. The edit I think is just shotty video editing. The worst thing that would happen is that the forklifts would get into an error condition because it's return path was obscured by debris or a malformed pallet would collapse. Probably happened about once a month, and maintenance would hand clean up the mess.
These units have a hand-control on their back so you could take over them and move them along, if you needed something obscure done. However, we programmed them to do just about EVERYTHING from retrieving raw materials to fetching pallets. The only thing you really had to handle by hand is when a part came for a machine that had to be forked to the machine so it could be installed. They were vastly more reliable than the Linde lifts they replaced, and those were Cadillac quality.
No. It uses lidar, with mapping. There are 360 degree reflectors around the warehouse. The lidar reflects off these and form. Pseudo star-navigation field for reference points. Filling in a truck is done my counting steps on the wheel drives.
See grid is late to the game. At my former employer, I was part of a team who helped implement fully autonomous warehousing using human-less forklifts.
A video of them in operation
It wasn't about the labor savings. The ROI was far out compared to payroll of forklift drivers. It was the perfect loading of trucks to balance the loads on the trucks, the reduction (practically the elimination) of damaged goods, and the accuracy in knowing where the product is and how much was in stock at all times, with no errors.
Also, with this system, the downtime is spent "housekeeping". We could front the product that has an upcoming scheduled pickup time and get it close to the relevant dock door. This reduced loading times, reducing "accessorial charges" that trucks make you pay if you keep them for over a certain amount of time, and allowed the distribution center to ship more product in a crunch than humans could possibly hope to achieve.
Oh and they turn up for work more consistently, take fewer breaks, and operate at a steady calculable rate, so planning knew how many trucks they could get shipped, emphatically!
Even so. Seems like a poorly researched article.
Direct Tv Now starts at like $10 if you have AT&T Wireless, doesn't count against your data usage, and has like a hundred channels and add-on packages.
Even if you don't have AT&T Wireless, it was available with their "go-big" package for $35 for life. They gave me an AppleTV just for signing up.
With all the apps on that device, you absolutely don't need a cord unless as far as I can tell you have to watch sports.
Every single study done by doctors and healthcare researchers says that being heavy, curvy, fat, or "voluptuous" is bad for your health, leads to a menagerie of diseases, and is the largest impactor of life expectancy, more so than income level.
So, the "body positive" movement is really a "health - negative" movement. Sorry, but facts are facts.
This. Making malware is not illegal. It is intact software. It would be akin to writing down (in a notepad) how the malware works. That is protected by free speech. We can make demonstration software, we can make examples, and hack our own systems. All of that is perfectly legal.
Selling those tools to someone else (like an anti-virus company) is also legal. The law states that you can not hack into a system without authorization, not that you can not own hacking tools.
Furthermore, intent has everything to do with motive and therefore the charges that accompany it (did he kill someone accidentally through negligence / did he kill someone intending to kill the person / did he plan to kill someone over a longer period of time and execute his plan), and intent is written in law. It's up to the DA, the courtroom, and the defense to argue the merits of intent. It is not up to a seller to interpret intent, or be held liable for failing to do so. If a seemingly crazed person walks into a car dealership, visibly upset, and buys a car; then takes the car and mows down their cheating significant other, is the dealer liable for her Murder 1? No.
Expansions like this in law make me sick. Read the fucking constitution, then explain to Marcus Hutchins why he isn't wrong.
No. The difference between a search engine and hiQ is that a search engine (Google specifically, but I think all of them) respect the robots.txt instruction set. If you don't want a search engine in your content, then there is an "opt out". Maybe one could argue that this should be an "opt in", but there is a way to say "I don't want to authorize you to scan my page for indexing".
hiQ has not listened to Linked.In's "opt-out" in the form of a cease and desist which is a pretty strong indication the content owner doesn't grant the permission to be scraped.
I think the court will find in Linked.In's favor here, and so they should. hiQ is operating without a license to reproduce the original works. This is what Copyright is designed specifically to stop.
Even so they do (display titles), and even so they haven't (figured out a way to display excerpts without collecting data), Google respects a sites robots.txt, which clearly linked.in as asked hiQ to do, but hiQ is flouting the EULA. On one hand, I agree: if you don't want it read, keep it private.
On the other hand: Posting something in the public space effectively gives the readers a right to consume it (akin to reading a book). It does not give the reader the license to freely copy or build upon it (akin to republishing the book under their own name, or writing a sequel to a book they have read) using the same characters and titles. For that, you need a license from the original content creator (Linked.In in this case).
If the EU laws work outside Europe, won't China'a laws work outside of China? Why pay for the big firewall, they could just demand removal of all "objectionable" content! Be careful what you wish for....
What the hell are you talking about? There are many talents, yes, but our society values targets not with money but with economic reciprocation. In effect, if you are fantastic cook, and I use your services over and over again, I'll trade you (in my case: so many lines of code or a complete solution). We don't value money. We value what money represents. That is a trade of our goods and services for a bit of yours. Many people have traded with Mark Zuckerburg for him to have achieved the success he has. He has come up with many solutions to problems and has traded his solution for a vast multitude of their services, represented in modern economies as currency.
His ability to solve problems and lead an effective team at solving problems is his capability. Here he is saying: "why isn't everyone else as capable at generating economic prosperity, maybe this is a problem my team can solve." And you bash him upside the head. Would you rather he stashed his wealth away and squandered it like an Arab Sheik? He is doing what I would hope everyone with talents like that does: use their skills to try and better mankind.
I'm sorry, but if you think someone who founded a $300B company in 10 years before he was 30 to be "regular folk", sho me someone extraordinary. He learned Chinese and did after all, bring the worlds people together, reconnected old friends, and helped spread information into populations under total Ian regime rule. He isn't regular, he leads an incredibly productive life, and helping him understand the plight of people less successful, and fortunate, than him; if not for his money and how he could spend it philanthropically but also for his ability to solve problems. Jealous much?
Not true for the enterprise. Usually they but blank PCs and load their image onto them. The windows that come with PCs is usually Home or Pro, and not Enterprise anyway so the license would be a waste of money to the business.
Some business buy the licenses, others prefer to have the latest software every time, you can do either. I didn't say this is good for every business, and they can all make their own decisions. By the way, every business we support has completely migrated to Win 10 and Server 2016.
Sorry, $7 / month is the current subscription rate for Windows 10 Enterprise.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
I would, but because in the grand scheme of my life, $1200 doesn't really amount to much concidering how much utility I get from my phone. It's my newest awesome camera, my GPS device, my monitoring tool for both my home and business, my portable music player, my mobile browser, etc.... I use it to check on my finances, so much so I almost never sign into mobile banking anymore, the app is too convenient with TouchID. It's my eBay browser, my Amazon shopping tool, my main method of corresponding by email, my texting tool and my.... well, my phone. Why wouldn't I want it to be the absolute best it can be? Seriously I get more use from my phone than my car, and that I pay WAY more for, not including the per mile costs to run the damn thing. $1200 for a phone? Duh.
1: this offering is aimed at businesses which would much rather have subscriptions to their software in order to skip having to shell out tons of money for the next iterative release.
2: almost every other software aimed at professionals works this way now, like Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, and of course every cloud based software.
3: this offering is aimed at businesses who don't buy their OS bundled with their computer, but use some sort of virtualized environment (either on or off premises).
4: At $7/month this software (over a 2 or 3 year time period) is significantly cheaper than buying the license outright and paying for software assurance.
This makes sense for just about any business that plans on keeping their software up to date for their knowledge workers. Obviously if you have a grungy old PC in the back you use to print barcodes that is kept around for a decade and still runs Windows XP, this model may not be for you, buy the license (which you still can do).
Marking this as funny (it is) is just more indicative of the problem. Cat calling and misogynistic jokes are desires cloaked in humor, but they are that. Desire. Sex is a market. There are the suppliers (women) and the consumers (men). It's going to take a very long time to out-grow millions of years of evolution that got us here. Guys will behave that way. It's unfortunate, but it's true. For millennia, that behavior was biologically rewarded with successful offspring, so as a guy, we're behaving just like our forefathers have, and expecting it to stop is just a fallacy, that's the sad truth to it.
They shouldn't have fired her, they should have sanctioned or reprimanded the harassing males, and hey should have had a safe place where she could address HR without her manager finding out until an investigation was concluded. And I'm not saying it's right, im just saying if you Home to change it, its evolution who you're up against.
Yes, it does take years to build out networks, that's the shitty side. Our incompetitant leaders at the local and state levels have left us with shit options for internet access.
For my own business, we use binding arbitration clauses in practically every contract we have with our customers (however, they are B2B contracts). Binding arbitration is cheaper than a a court case in most cases, and the arbiters are typically retired judges, or lawyers with a ton of experience. In California, you can still request relief from a court and sue the other party anyway, if you can explain why the other party is behaving unfairly. Courts have the power to strike those provisions out.
He is wrong, but not because of why you think. AT&T are asserting their market position, because the market will bear it. They spent the time and money to build out to where they are one of a few if not the only carrier, and so they can corner you into unreasonable agreements. The response should have come from negotiations with he municipalities that gave these ass-hats exclusivity arrangements and tax dollars to build out. The pricing, terms, and arrangements should have been negotiated then, not now with every single customer. Expecting a giant company with millions of customers to independently negotiate every contract with every customer is pretty unreasonable. Call up MS and tell them you don't agree with a provision in their EULA to one of their products, see how far you get.
The response now is to invite in competition, and rip up the exclusivity agreements by enacting legislation that stops such agreements so that the courts can't side with the carriers when they inevitably sue the municipality for backing out on its word.
But there is something sacred abour profits. Profit breeds competition, and focuses our potential into action. American capitalism built the modern world. Everything from the steel of skyscrapers to the airplane to the medical marvels we have are vastly developed and produced in capitalistic environments where the focused have the freedom and capability to do something that improves our way of life in return for the profits of their labor. What's wrong with that?
In America, you have as the French would say: "a career open to the talents". If you have the talent, you can work in the field you are most qualified for. Earning yourself the best benefit, and your goal is to provide the best value in return. Profits allow us to decide how next to invest returns, and continue growth. There has been no greater engine for the improvement in our lives that capitalistic profit-seeking; so yes, profit is sacred.