It's not a phone, it's a Bluetooth accessory. And the price hasn't been set at $1500. We have no idea what they will be selling this for when it gets released, but over $1000 seems incredibly unlikely.
I wouldn't assume that. The trendy new thing has been above that price point lots of times in the past.
The original "fashion" StarTac was over $1000, adjusted for inflation, 20 years ago, as one example that comes to mind.
I have a hard time believing that they will make all their revenue on hardware alone. They will have access to search and activity data combined with a feed that shows people's whereabouts and habits. This marketing data will be worth way more than any direct advertising.
They don't need to show you ads to generate revenue. Your Google account, linked to them, is the real value. The ads they show you *off* the Glass hardware when you're logged in on your computer become a lot more valuable when Google knows that much more information about the things you do off the computer.
Two step and two factor are two terms used for the same thing. Virtually all two-factor authentication mechanisms work via two steps -- that includes hardware token, software token, biometric, etc... In fact, its *extremely* rare for a two factor authentication to be single-step.
The differences you're talking about are not even being pedantic, they're also irrelevant to the fact that its two factor/step.
Microsoft Accounts have supported two factor authentication for "sensitive" actions for quite a while -- adding trusted PCs, changing billing methods, resetting passwords, etc...
Two things new with this: - The ability to set the account to require it at login for normal authentications - The ability to use 3rd party token applications (like Google Authenticator) for the tokens, instead of SMS.
Unless you're a Microsoft developer, what would anyone want a "Microsoft account" for? Hotmail?
Skype, Hotmail, Live properties, Xbox Live, Messenger, Windows 8 users with linked accounts, Skydrive...
Microsoft has more individuals with accounts than anyone else, by far.
You may not have one (although, even if you were 100% Linux, unless you've never used Skype, you do have one), but virtually every other person with a computer does.
They could make a stock Android phone and put their own choice of services on it, and their own features. No need to keep flailing with Microsoft.
And if this Facebook home is a killer feature, why not bundle it? It will run on stock Android it seems, without using the Google services.
Except Nokia is doing better than most Android manufacturers, and WP8 already has this level of Facebook integration... and integration with other social networks.
So, that'd be a pretty bad move for Nokia from a business standpoint, and for their users... who already have an experience superior to Facebook Home.
I got my masters between 2005-2007. Before that I had done two internships (while getting my undergrad) and then worked a year without school. When I went back to school my employer completely paid for my masters of science in computer science and, actually, I worked forty hours a week the whole time I was going to school full time. Doctorates are a completely different animal. I wanted to do one and yet the two professors who were interested in me said I would have to quit working my job. No deal, I've been working at least a 20 hour a week job since I was 13 and I think I would go insane now if I didn't have a full time job. And before you ask, academia is a lot of work but it is not a job.
Getting a masters in Computer Science is effectively like getting a higher grade of certification at a trade school. The point of your masters is not to prepare you for teaching. The point of a PhD (or Masters) in liberal arts is precisely that. Apples and oranges.
Now they will send to Slashdot a takedown notice to take down the message about the takedown request they sent to google to take down the list of their takedown requests....
Wait a minute... you may be onto something here. Maybe this is the magic we've been looking for the last ten years to get Slashdot editors to do their jobs!
BTW, #2 is why this is so hard, looking out at our galaxy, it's crowded out there!
For an 'On Earth Analogy', it would be like trying to spot a specific, individual tree in the most densely populated forest on earth, from Mars(or thereabouts).
IIRC, there's not particularly good evidence that the plane upon which planets form have anything other than a loose association to the plane of the galaxy. (And, they wouldn't need to be much off from it for a planet to almost never pass in front of the star. If you were looking at our sun along the plane of Pluto's orbit, the odds are almost zero that you're at the exact position in which the other planets are going to transit the star -- in almost any direction, the point the two planes cross will be to one side or the other of the star.
Here they admit they don't understand the Internet, by limiting incomming "connections" and acting if there was a difference between a server and a client. It's a testament that freedom and education are now less important than stupidity and the fear of imaginary dangers.
Well, if they at least educate their students to do some research before spouting off on a subject, like... reading an article..., then they're a step up on a lot of people, it seems.
While Wayland may solve some mundane issues with the client-server nature of remote desktops, I think in general a completely different programming model is needed for client-server applications. For one, the programming language should naturally support the notion of doing stuff in a non-blocking way (C/C++ does not naturally support this; simulating this requires working with threads or tinkering with even more low-level machinery).
I expect we'll see more posts like this now that so many states have decriminalized weed.
RDP on windows at least outperforms VNC by a wide margin both on fast and slow network connections.
It should -- VNC is doing screen scraping. RDP is hooked in deep into the GDI and can see the underlying API calls. (Technically speaking, VNC could do the same thing, but doesn't.) Its a lot closer to how remote X works than VNC.
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This is why Education should be funded where the risk is borne by the one making the loan. The repayment terms should be based on a percent of the students income for a fixed number of years.
This is why Education should be funded by The People. If we took the profit motive out of education we wouldn't have to worry about the "administration" making several times what the instructors do for not even teaching.
Why? The vast majority of college students don't pick their area of study based on the economic viability of the degree. Why should the "people" fund that?
If you said the people should fund trade schools, I'm right there with you.
Yeah, maybe Esteban just had a really lucrative paper route...
It's really none of his business unless he explicitly knew he sold drugs for money, some people just have lots of money, that's not a crime in and of itself. And a reasonable person would probably want to safeguard $800,000 in cash, regardless of source.
How many people with that kind of money have that kind of cash on hand, carry it around in a car, and that car is one clearly chosen to hide the fact that the occupant is wealthy, and those people are not criminals? The slightly-not-right, but not-criminal people who hoard their financial assets do so because they think cash and the banks aren't trustworthy -- they'll have their hoarded "money" in something tangible like gold, stashed somewhere.
If 99% of the time, people displaying the behavior in question are criminals, its not really a safe bet to claim you assumed they weren't. A bartender doesn't have to prove you're drunk to an extent that would stand up in court (like a blood test) to be liable when they don't cut you off. Its the same here. Any reasonable person in that situation would know the odds are the person in question has that money illegally, and the very fact that he was playing the "don't ask, don't tell" card means he knew that was the case.
And also, yes, you CAN use a computer to calculate how your nuclear arsenal is deteriorating. What makes you think they can't?
Welcome to the New America -- where two decades of coddling has left the general population with the belief that their opinions have equal validity as the knowledge of experts.
I was actually lucky enough to have been there on Friday for the expo portion with a student pass, and I have to say the big companies didn't really show up for that portion. Sony and Microsoft had very light presence at the expo, despite having larger booths. Intel and AMD, along with various smaller vendors for something cloud based or app marketing based (that's about all there was in the small business area, apart from marmalade and corona). However, aside from there not being a big large business presence, the indie games were pretty awesome. I'm definitely going to buy Starforge this week because it was a mix of Halo and Minecraft, and I loved it.
PAX East was the same way -- I think the problem is most of the big game studios (and the 1st party companies) are mid-cycle developing games for systems that aren't public or public enough to give details on, so everything they're showing are either games that are already released or ho-hum filler. The "indie" shops (although I dislike the term) don't have access to the new kits yet, so they're still innovating on the current platforms.
At lot of people worked in those buildings and got the shaft when the company collapsed under the weight of its own corporate stupidity. We shouldn't be celebrating someone making use of the buildings if they aren't doing anything to help the retail slaves find work.
A corporation is the sum of its employees... and their failure wasn't just executive stupidity.
How will the insurance industry make up for the rates charged if cars are fully autonomous? They will lose a very lucrative market if and when this comes to be.
Charging people at a risk level that has substantially dropped? They'll be pissing their pants in excitement. The reduction in risk turns directly into profit.
Well, it is generally accepted that we are all matrilinearly decended from the same woman, Mitochondrial Eve, I think this pretty much scientifically disproves there being two women at creation, unless one mothered no daughters.
One reason not to use OneNote. (Based on Xxxxxx Internet use policies, access to this web site ( http://skydrive.com/ ) has been blocked because the web category "Online Storage and Backup" is not allowed.)
Using another option to bypass your company's rules seems like a good route to get fired.
I am a bit confused since "custom" software may be developed outside of the boundaries of Massachusetts and its utilization, while using a network in the state would already be covered. Network Connectivity is already has taxes associated with it. Businesses clearly pay taxes in the state as well as do consumers. Software companies who write software working in the state pay taxes as well.
This looks more like an starting effort to obtain a franchise or privilege tax for using the Internet not a sales tax of any kind.
I believe MA, like CA, only charges sales tax on software physically delivered into the state. Cloud hosted software, even if its "projected" via something like Citrix or remote desktop, doesn't. (So if you buy a $1m ERP system and install it in your business, you pay sales tax on it -- but if you buy $1m ERP system and its hosted out of state and you are using a published application or web browser to access it, you don't.)
And that can be a lot of revenue, especially given the number of very high tech pharma companies and the like. MA wants its sales tax on that $40m genetic sequence data mining system.
That's really irrelevant to the question of the ISS's purpose, which was never research. And if you think the ROI on it, even with all that research, is within many orders of magnitude of any other research investment, you're high as a kite. The thing cost $150 *billion* US dollars -- so far! That's about 1/3 of the total amount of money NASA has spent in its history, across every program. That's over 300,000 per man hour spent in it so far. If you assume that research is only done half of that time (which is nuts, but we'll assume they sleep 8 hours a day, research 12 hours a day and do everything else in four hours), that's $600,000 per man-hour spent on research.
And given that basically zero research was done in the first half of the ISS being up there, because it wasn't staffed sufficiently, and they don't do 12 hours of research a day, I suspect the "real" number is closer to two million dollars per man-hour spent on research up there.
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It's not a phone, it's a Bluetooth accessory. And the price hasn't been set at $1500. We have no idea what they will be selling this for when it gets released, but over $1000 seems incredibly unlikely.
I wouldn't assume that. The trendy new thing has been above that price point lots of times in the past.
The original "fashion" StarTac was over $1000, adjusted for inflation, 20 years ago, as one example that comes to mind.
I have a hard time believing that they will make all their revenue on hardware alone. They will have access to search and activity data combined with a feed that shows people's whereabouts and habits. This marketing data will be worth way more than any direct advertising.
They don't need to show you ads to generate revenue. Your Google account, linked to them, is the real value. The ads they show you *off* the Glass hardware when you're logged in on your computer become a lot more valuable when Google knows that much more information about the things you do off the computer.
Two step and two factor are two terms used for the same thing. Virtually all two-factor authentication mechanisms work via two steps -- that includes hardware token, software token, biometric, etc ... In fact, its *extremely* rare for a two factor authentication to be single-step.
The differences you're talking about are not even being pedantic, they're also irrelevant to the fact that its two factor/step.
Microsoft Accounts have supported two factor authentication for "sensitive" actions for quite a while -- adding trusted PCs, changing billing methods, resetting passwords, etc ...
Two things new with this:
- The ability to set the account to require it at login for normal authentications
- The ability to use 3rd party token applications (like Google Authenticator) for the tokens, instead of SMS.
Unless you're a Microsoft developer, what would anyone want a "Microsoft account" for? Hotmail?
Skype, Hotmail, Live properties, Xbox Live, Messenger, Windows 8 users with linked accounts, Skydrive ...
Microsoft has more individuals with accounts than anyone else, by far.
You may not have one (although, even if you were 100% Linux, unless you've never used Skype, you do have one), but virtually every other person with a computer does.
They could make a stock Android phone and put their own choice of services on it, and their own features. No need to keep flailing with Microsoft.
And if this Facebook home is a killer feature, why not bundle it? It will run on stock Android it seems, without using the Google services.
Except Nokia is doing better than most Android manufacturers, and WP8 already has this level of Facebook integration... and integration with other social networks.
So, that'd be a pretty bad move for Nokia from a business standpoint, and for their users... who already have an experience superior to Facebook Home.
Nostalgia.
Everyone doing that right now is getting old. Kids today will be doing the same thing about Gears of War, Borderlands and Splosion Man.
And some of us, who are older, are still doing it about Joust, Donkey Kong and Super Mario Brothers.
Welcome to the pool of people not at the top of the generation queue.
I got my masters between 2005-2007. Before that I had done two internships (while getting my undergrad) and then worked a year without school. When I went back to school my employer completely paid for my masters of science in computer science and, actually, I worked forty hours a week the whole time I was going to school full time. Doctorates are a completely different animal. I wanted to do one and yet the two professors who were interested in me said I would have to quit working my job. No deal, I've been working at least a 20 hour a week job since I was 13 and I think I would go insane now if I didn't have a full time job. And before you ask, academia is a lot of work but it is not a job.
Getting a masters in Computer Science is effectively like getting a higher grade of certification at a trade school. The point of your masters is not to prepare you for teaching. The point of a PhD (or Masters) in liberal arts is precisely that. Apples and oranges.
Now they will send to Slashdot a takedown notice to take down the message about the takedown request they sent to google to take down the list of their takedown requests....
Wait a minute ... you may be onto something here. Maybe this is the magic we've been looking for the last ten years to get Slashdot editors to do their jobs!
BTW, #2 is why this is so hard, looking out at our galaxy, it's crowded out there!
For an 'On Earth Analogy', it would be like trying to spot a specific, individual tree in the most densely populated forest on earth, from Mars(or thereabouts).
IIRC, there's not particularly good evidence that the plane upon which planets form have anything other than a loose association to the plane of the galaxy. (And, they wouldn't need to be much off from it for a planet to almost never pass in front of the star. If you were looking at our sun along the plane of Pluto's orbit, the odds are almost zero that you're at the exact position in which the other planets are going to transit the star -- in almost any direction, the point the two planes cross will be to one side or the other of the star.
But IANAA.
Here they admit they don't understand the Internet, by limiting incomming "connections" and acting if there was a difference between a server and a client. It's a testament that freedom and education are now less important than stupidity and the fear of imaginary dangers.
Well, if they at least educate their students to do some research before spouting off on a subject, like... reading an article..., then they're a step up on a lot of people, it seems.
While Wayland may solve some mundane issues with the client-server nature of remote desktops, I think in general a completely different programming model is needed for client-server applications. For one, the programming language should naturally support the notion of doing stuff in a non-blocking way (C/C++ does not naturally support this; simulating this requires working with threads or tinkering with even more low-level machinery).
I expect we'll see more posts like this now that so many states have decriminalized weed.
RDP on windows at least outperforms VNC by a wide margin both on fast and slow network connections.
It should -- VNC is doing screen scraping. RDP is hooked in deep into the GDI and can see the underlying API calls. (Technically speaking, VNC could do the same thing, but doesn't.) Its a lot closer to how remote X works than VNC.
This is why Education should be funded where the risk is borne by the one making the loan. The repayment terms should be based on a percent of the students income for a fixed number of years.
This is why Education should be funded by The People. If we took the profit motive out of education we wouldn't have to worry about the "administration" making several times what the instructors do for not even teaching.
Why? The vast majority of college students don't pick their area of study based on the economic viability of the degree. Why should the "people" fund that?
If you said the people should fund trade schools, I'm right there with you.
The "innovative" financing is a lease.
A lease on ANY car is a low-interest loan paying for the depreciation of the vehicle.
Monkeying with the residual value is how *all* lease deals work.
And *all* leases allow business owners to write off the lease, because you can always write off the depreciated value of a company asset.
So, basically, you're comparing a student loan to exactly how nearly half the vehicles in the US are "sold" to people.
So you're basically comparing an unsecured loan to a secured lease. That's comparing apples and cheeseburgers. No wonder they don't stack up.
Yeah, maybe Esteban just had a really lucrative paper route...
It's really none of his business unless he explicitly knew he sold drugs for money, some people just have lots of money, that's not a crime in and of itself.
And a reasonable person would probably want to safeguard $800,000 in cash, regardless of source.
How many people with that kind of money have that kind of cash on hand, carry it around in a car, and that car is one clearly chosen to hide the fact that the occupant is wealthy, and those people are not criminals? The slightly-not-right, but not-criminal people who hoard their financial assets do so because they think cash and the banks aren't trustworthy -- they'll have their hoarded "money" in something tangible like gold, stashed somewhere.
If 99% of the time, people displaying the behavior in question are criminals, its not really a safe bet to claim you assumed they weren't. A bartender doesn't have to prove you're drunk to an extent that would stand up in court (like a blood test) to be liable when they don't cut you off. Its the same here. Any reasonable person in that situation would know the odds are the person in question has that money illegally, and the very fact that he was playing the "don't ask, don't tell" card means he knew that was the case.
And also, yes, you CAN use a computer to calculate how your nuclear arsenal is deteriorating. What makes you think they can't?
Welcome to the New America -- where two decades of coddling has left the general population with the belief that their opinions have equal validity as the knowledge of experts.
I was actually lucky enough to have been there on Friday for the expo portion with a student pass, and I have to say the big companies didn't really show up for that portion. Sony and Microsoft had very light presence at the expo, despite having larger booths. Intel and AMD, along with various smaller vendors for something cloud based or app marketing based (that's about all there was in the small business area, apart from marmalade and corona). However, aside from there not being a big large business presence, the indie games were pretty awesome. I'm definitely going to buy Starforge this week because it was a mix of Halo and Minecraft, and I loved it.
PAX East was the same way -- I think the problem is most of the big game studios (and the 1st party companies) are mid-cycle developing games for systems that aren't public or public enough to give details on, so everything they're showing are either games that are already released or ho-hum filler. The "indie" shops (although I dislike the term) don't have access to the new kits yet, so they're still innovating on the current platforms.
At lot of people worked in those buildings and got the shaft when the company collapsed under the weight of its own corporate stupidity. We shouldn't be celebrating someone making use of the buildings if they aren't doing anything to help the retail slaves find work.
A corporation is the sum of its employees... and their failure wasn't just executive stupidity.
How will the insurance industry make up for the rates charged if cars are fully autonomous? They will lose a very lucrative market if and when this comes to be.
Charging people at a risk level that has substantially dropped? They'll be pissing their pants in excitement. The reduction in risk turns directly into profit.
Well, it is generally accepted that we are all matrilinearly decended from the same woman, Mitochondrial Eve, I think this pretty much scientifically disproves there being two women at creation, unless one mothered no daughters.
Frakin' toasters.
One reason not to use OneNote. (Based on Xxxxxx Internet use policies, access to this web site ( http://skydrive.com/ ) has been blocked because the web category "Online Storage and Backup" is not allowed.)
Using another option to bypass your company's rules seems like a good route to get fired.
I am a bit confused since "custom" software may be developed outside of the boundaries of Massachusetts and its utilization, while using a network in the state would already be covered. Network Connectivity is already has taxes associated with it. Businesses clearly pay taxes in the state as well as do consumers. Software companies who write software working in the state pay taxes as well.
This looks more like an starting effort to obtain a franchise or privilege tax for using the Internet not a sales tax of any kind.
I believe MA, like CA, only charges sales tax on software physically delivered into the state. Cloud hosted software, even if its "projected" via something like Citrix or remote desktop, doesn't. (So if you buy a $1m ERP system and install it in your business, you pay sales tax on it -- but if you buy $1m ERP system and its hosted out of state and you are using a published application or web browser to access it, you don't.)
And that can be a lot of revenue, especially given the number of very high tech pharma companies and the like. MA wants its sales tax on that $40m genetic sequence data mining system.
Its OneNote Online.
With 10% of the features.
And they scan my notes.
And they'll probably kill the service in two years.
Yeah. Skip.
Yes. Except for all the actual research that goes on. It's actually been quite a while since I've seen a webpage quite as long as the list of experiments they've carried out: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/experiments_by_expedition.html#1
That's really irrelevant to the question of the ISS's purpose, which was never research. And if you think the ROI on it, even with all that research, is within many orders of magnitude of any other research investment, you're high as a kite. The thing cost $150 *billion* US dollars -- so far! That's about 1/3 of the total amount of money NASA has spent in its history, across every program. That's over 300,000 per man hour spent in it so far. If you assume that research is only done half of that time (which is nuts, but we'll assume they sleep 8 hours a day, research 12 hours a day and do everything else in four hours), that's $600,000 per man-hour spent on research.
And given that basically zero research was done in the first half of the ISS being up there, because it wasn't staffed sufficiently, and they don't do 12 hours of research a day, I suspect the "real" number is closer to two million dollars per man-hour spent on research up there.