Covering manufacturing, agriculture, health, transport, civil security and households, the initiative -- called SPARC -- is the E.U.'s industrial policy effort to strengthen Europe's position in the global robotics market (â60 billion a year by 2020)
SPARC is the partnership for robotics in Europe to maintain and extend Europe's leadership in robotics. SPARC aims to make available European robots in factories, in the air, on land, under water, for agriculture, health, rescue services, and in many other applications in Europe which have an economic and societal impact.
This has NOTHING to do with chip circuitry.
This is the program to promote the use of robotics.
It's pretty much based on your IP address, for which they have location information. You know, geographical -- as in "of or pertaining to geography".
When I'm in Canada, I see a different iTunes store than I do in the US. The same is true for Google. The same is true for Amazon.
Nobody said anything about GPS, or disabling apps in specific locations. Only what they will make available to you for sale.
But if you don't think using your IP address to determine what country you're in isn't geographical, well, then I'm afraid you don't know what the word means means.
I know people use windows but there are microsoft fanbois since Windows 8 came out???
It's like a subset of rule #34... any technology or technology company will have people who uncritically think it's the best thing ever.
And from what I've seen of the posts in any thread which is either about Microsoft or Apple... they both have their fare share of drooling fanbois for whom the company can do no wrong.
And, of course, I will reiterate... this is pretty much true of pretty much everything.
Yup. I usually buy somewhat trailing edge stuff myself.
A friends aunt once asked what kind of computer she should buy, and she said "you're going to tell me to buy the most expensive computer around, aren't you?". To which I said "nope, I'm going to tell you to buy the cheapest machine you can find which can have its memory upgraded to at least double what entry level is, because you don't need anything faster, but more memory is always better".
Several years later, she was still happily running the same machine, and never once found it too slow. She had passed on the advice to several friends, all of whom felt they ended up with a better computer as a result.
I know for me, I'm pretty much never CPU bound, and haven't been in quite some time. Memory, however, is something you should buy as much as the machine can hold.
I know some people will need this much CPU power, but for most people I suspect CPU speed hasn't really mattered in years. The early adopters just ensure that in a year or so we'll all be able to buy it for half the cost.
It's like someone who buys a Ford, hates the Ford, so they buy a GM, hate the GM, so they buy a Chrysler, hate the Chrysler... they're just never going to find a "perfect" device for their needs.
Or, they'll end up with an import and be perfectly happy.
Just sayin', your analogy might not be the best here.
Because, my experiences with Chrysler and GM in rental cars has left me thinking "I would not buy one of these".
Basically you can be full of shit, everyone knows you're full of shit, but it's OK to be full of shit because everyone knows you're not actually making a statement of fact.
When you blow the whistle, and your bosses say "shut up and do your job, because this is policy" what do you do?
Do you say "oh, gee, well, if it's policy that's OK"? Or, does someone eventually do what Snowden did?
This to me sounds more like a way to say "now that you've reported it, you can't tell anybody else about it, even if we utterly fail to change anything".
This sounds like a policy designed to assist in sweeping these type things under the rug.
7) If anyone so much as MENTIONS God/Allah/etc again, point them to the large glass patch and tell them to shut the fuck up or they can go camping there for the rest of their lives.
So, by this ridiculous logic, if anybody in the US (or the entire world) ever mentions god again, that location should be nuked? You sure that's what you want?
Or are you just saying that your version of god is OK but all others need to be eradicated? Do you even know it's the same god but a different manual?
Maybe this is why the west is still referred to as "Crusaders" by some extremists -- because that kind of attitude can lead to some pretty long grudges.
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Methinks you didn't RTFA, or even TFS:
SPARC is the initiative, the industrial policy.
From the SPARC website:
This has NOTHING to do with chip circuitry.
This is the program to promote the use of robotics.
And thousands of candy ravers bit down on their soothers and took another one.
It's pretty much based on your IP address, for which they have location information. You know, geographical -- as in "of or pertaining to geography".
When I'm in Canada, I see a different iTunes store than I do in the US. The same is true for Google. The same is true for Amazon.
Nobody said anything about GPS, or disabling apps in specific locations. Only what they will make available to you for sale.
But if you don't think using your IP address to determine what country you're in isn't geographical, well, then I'm afraid you don't know what the word means means.
It's like a subset of rule #34 ... any technology or technology company will have people who uncritically think it's the best thing ever.
And from what I've seen of the posts in any thread which is either about Microsoft or Apple ... they both have their fare share of drooling fanbois for whom the company can do no wrong.
And, of course, I will reiterate ... this is pretty much true of pretty much everything.
Yup. I usually buy somewhat trailing edge stuff myself.
A friends aunt once asked what kind of computer she should buy, and she said "you're going to tell me to buy the most expensive computer around, aren't you?". To which I said "nope, I'm going to tell you to buy the cheapest machine you can find which can have its memory upgraded to at least double what entry level is, because you don't need anything faster, but more memory is always better".
Several years later, she was still happily running the same machine, and never once found it too slow. She had passed on the advice to several friends, all of whom felt they ended up with a better computer as a result.
I know for me, I'm pretty much never CPU bound, and haven't been in quite some time. Memory, however, is something you should buy as much as the machine can hold.
I know some people will need this much CPU power, but for most people I suspect CPU speed hasn't really mattered in years. The early adopters just ensure that in a year or so we'll all be able to buy it for half the cost.
And you think the Microsoft fanbois haven't? I've got news for you.
Or, they'll end up with an import and be perfectly happy.
Just sayin', your analogy might not be the best here.
Because, my experiences with Chrysler and GM in rental cars has left me thinking "I would not buy one of these".
According to my Mopar-inclined friends ... absolutely it is.
Nah, they did the original designs on a Pentium 2, and it couldn't do floating point math properly. ;-)
Tell me how this differs from public statements made by Microsoft, Samsung, Google, Oracle or any other company?
The fact it, it isn't.
I think you can safely assume that Rogers will push anything which makes them more profit.
Because, Rogers is ran by assholes. :-P
Expressed as a percentage, almost any increase from zero is going to be the "fastest growing". :-P
Because, the, commas, help us, to, time the sentence, to, sound just like, William, Shatner. ;-)
And you know that all content is not sold in all countries, right?
And is therefore tied to your geographical location.
I believe the word you're looking for is puffery.
Basically you can be full of shit, everyone knows you're full of shit, but it's OK to be full of shit because everyone knows you're not actually making a statement of fact.
When you blow the whistle, and your bosses say "shut up and do your job, because this is policy" what do you do?
Do you say "oh, gee, well, if it's policy that's OK"? Or, does someone eventually do what Snowden did?
This to me sounds more like a way to say "now that you've reported it, you can't tell anybody else about it, even if we utterly fail to change anything".
This sounds like a policy designed to assist in sweeping these type things under the rug.
So, by this ridiculous logic, if anybody in the US (or the entire world) ever mentions god again, that location should be nuked? You sure that's what you want?
Or are you just saying that your version of god is OK but all others need to be eradicated? Do you even know it's the same god but a different manual?
Maybe this is why the west is still referred to as "Crusaders" by some extremists -- because that kind of attitude can lead to some pretty long grudges.
LOL, I predict all sorts of batshit crazy protests over that one ... ZOMG, teh Intel are teh Satanists.
You do understand that "American" is not a race, but a nationality, right?
Hmmm ... calculus was a very long time ago, but the volume of a sphere goes up according to 4/3 pi r^3. They are related, but not the same.
So if you double the diameter, you more than double the volume.
I would say "twice the diameter" and "twice the volume" are very different metrics. Twice the weight is also different.
Are there any $400 Mac laptops? Because, that was the specific example you replied to.
If there aren't, then the choices of someone with $400 to spend on a machine are much more limited.
Well, how much is a Chromebook?
So, the list is neither good nor bad, but fundamentally useless?
Wow, force adoption of an un-popular version of your software by crippling the other versions.
Brilliant strategy! What could possibly go wrong? Just piss off everybody, and then they won't be pissed off about Windows 8.
You, sir, have a brilliant future in PR ahead of you.
What next, brick all of the XBox 360s so people have to buy an XBone?
And yet, you'd still have been right. :-P