120 billions?:)) For a company with no profits, and with absolutely nothing proprietary that can't be replicated easily as long as you throw money at it to operate at a loss (like Uber does)?
Anybody that has a few hundred millions can come out with lower commissions, pump advertising like there's no tomorrow and people will jump immediately.
This is basically just people who lost a ton of money on Uber so far, and are now waiting to get out ASAP with other sucker's money. Hopefully at a profit, but if they can recoup anything they'll probably be very happy.
That show is sponsored exclusively by automotive OEM suppliers, and I am following their youtube channel since the beginning, they were anti-tesla since the beginning.
I don't think Tesla is the second coming or other crap like that, but you gotta admit those guys may be very biased in their teardown.
Also I didn't see a teardown on the same channel of other cars., but they go through the tesla with a steamroller, absolutely nothing is good enough.
Come on, if you can't afford an LCD touch screen with a stupid html css interface in 2017, just close down the business, it's enough. Why don't you use pen and paper while you're at it?
I saw what mcdonalds has around europe, and I can replicate that within one day with basic stupid html / css. It needs some kind of backend to display orders on another cheap dumb large TV monitor and you're all set. You don't event need advanced features. That's all.
I remember when I was selling a European made security appliance that one of the sale points was that unlike Cisco, it doesn't have a backdoor.
It wasn't a conspiracy either it was just something everybody knew.
And this was way before the NSA revealings.
Also, american security appliances are strictly forbidden in the central EU institutions, with no exceptions.
Personally I think they are the clunkiest hardest to use appliances of all, you need 6 certifications just to install it.
Are you dumb in any other areas?
This is strictly due to the fact that no sane government or multinational corporation would ever touch another american security appliance due to NSA having a backdoor on all of them.
I don't like the guy either but let's keep it real
There is a simple way to manage errors. Just issue an update correcting the error.
That is one thing and it's perfectly normal. You get by error 1 million dollars to your account, the next second a correction is emitted and the transaction is reverted. As long as there is a history it's fine.
But making a transaction disssapear as if it never existed that is a different story...
I agree with you, they should be short destination only. My big point was "existing" infrastructure. Building railroads is no easy task and without electrification, diesel pollution is going to be an issue again even though they are very efficient but you know...
You are so right, I think it doesn't even have to be electrified. With self driving tech soon emerging, probably it's a matter of time until lanes on the highway designated for self piloted cars will appear. There they can drive at higher speed and closer to the car in front, meaning higher capacity on the same highway. And you still have personal freedom, just get off the highway and go where you need to, when you need to.
The same with trucks. Designated lane for self driving trucks can be safer. Can you imagine a truck being able to go 16 hours straight, with the truck driving itself while the driver sleeps? Double road capacity right there with completely existing infrastructure and completely existing costs.
All this without having to build expensive new infrastructure for something that nobody really wants.
By the time self-driving tech becomes good enough, this project will be completely pointless and used for filming a Speed reboot.
Advertising is becoming more and more agressive, multiple banners, multiple videos, multiple cookies, multiple scripts, images, all tracking the activity continuously...
Fortunately, the huge majority of the market agrees and as long as Windows 7 is widely used, there will be software support for it.
Microsoft thinks they can force people to do anything just because they are Microsoft, but the truth is there is a reason that all ATM's are still running on Windows XP and are still produced with Windows XP embedded.
When windows 10 will get the majority share it will mean it will have stabilized and Microsoft came to their senses.
Like it was with Vista. They tried for a few years to push users to get it, spend millions, if they could have sold it at gun point they would have.
But in the end they just went back and made Windows 7 which worked well.
Same with Windows 10. They will push it like crazy for as long as they can, and if it won't work, I can already smell a Windows 11 in the long run, even if they said they gave up that model.
Imagine having an army of idiots precisely mapping with their smartphone GPS's huge areas in countries, virtually for free, on their own time and with their own equipment.
If it wasn't used initially, I am sure after this huge success the black suits have surely contacted nintendo with an offer to access and use all that data. It's not conspiracy theory, it's exactly what happened with Facebook. After it became mainstream and it's potential was noticed, one of the investors is the CIA R&D arm.
It's no secret, the same people who funded face recognition technology startups, license plate recognition, mapping, and who knows what else.
My computer is usually running 24/7 since it manages some other things.
It's not a problem anymore of course since the first time it happened I took precautions, completely removed the installer, then made it hidden, then installed an utility that deleted all Windows 10 related stuff.
For me it's not a problem. But imagine my boss in his late 60's who is not that tech savy, who just clicked ok, and at 2 AM in the morning installs Windows 10 and everything is different, some drivers don't work properly, etc. A nightmare
Microsoft deserves to be sued by every single person that this happened to.
It's not funny, that's actually what the new Windows 10 Upgrade dialog looks like, happened to me personally.
It just said tomorrow it will upgrade to windows 10, if you don't access this dialog by then, it will go on automatically.
If I was gone over the weekend, as I usually leave my computer on in case I need to remote in, by the time I was back, it would have upgraded without any interaction.
The level of lack of respect from Microsoft is truly incredible.
Before jumping on me, please try to argue with my ideas, and not with me personally. I do not own a gun, I am not even american, but I have visited the US a few times, and I work with americans on a daily basis.
One thing I know, back from when I was a child, was that guns are sort of like nuclear weapons. If you know somebody had a gun, or that there even was the slightest possibility that they had one, criminals would normally avoid them. Usually it was foreign businessmen, or off-duty law enforcement, but by default, the mentality I saw in every stupid ass punk that would try to make a living by stealing.
I don't think the average pro gun confiscation american realizes that even though criminality seems high now, how high it will be if everybody was sure nobody had guns. They keep bringing the Europe argument, but in most large cities in Europe, people don't go out after a certain hour, and it's something relatively normal. Yes, the suburbs are safer, but only because usually they have a dedicated police patrol around the clock (perks of living in rich neighborhoods).
But still, you will never hear on the news about the fact that there were let's say 10 houses broken into this week. It's just not news, and people get the (mistaken) idea that wow how safe it must be there, compared to us where some guy broke into 1 house in a month and got shot.
Think about all the mixed religions, languages, and people who are in the US from all over the world. The average criminal would never risk getting shot for a mere wallet let's say. Of course not, he's not stupid. But where there are no guns, even $50 is well worth the trouble.
Normally what I noticed in that in the US crimes involving guns are incredibly broadcasted on the news for some reason, and I don't mean mass-shootings, I mean some robbery gone wrong, some idiots starting a fight and devolving to guns, and so on. That kinda drives the average person to believe there is a gun problem.
Just my 2 cents, as a non american, I think banning guns would skyrocket petty crimes. I know they exist even now, but still, probably not even close.
I just read today, on the UK motorway, lorry trucks are being robbed and destroyed using knives and rocks, and if you call the police, they won't even show up because it's not a violent crime, it's just stealing, and they will come when they have time to certify the damage and give you a paper you can take to the insurance and that's it.
Because education and common sense are completely relative terms.
Education in Islam = Knowing the quran by heart.
Common sense in Islam = Killing anybody who is not muslim, who is not straight, and in the end who does not agree with Islam.
There is no such thing as common sense/education, it's not measurable and certainly not enforceable.
Basically the new leader has the entire country oriented towards computer science.
He basically built a small city just for them, with much higher standards of living than the rest of the population. They even have malls, restaurants, taxis, cars, everything.
So now every teen has incentive to be good at software as it can be their entire family ticket out of poverty and hunger. He can move his family, and his parents to a free apartment there.
Of course it's still very controlled, imagine something like checkpoints with armed guards to bypass if you want to even go in.
I think it was mentioned in the sense that they are companies that (theoretically) are worth billions, but influence very little the general productivity of americans. On the contrary.
While electricity probably directly affected all other industries as well back in the days...
The electricity is already there of you charge at night.
All the wasted energy at night time would simply be used to charge ev's.
Also since the price of the wasted energy will no longer need to be included in the price of the daytime used energy it might actual get cheaper.
I know it's not a 100% fix since we still have electricity generates from fossil fuel but think of the 80% energy in fossil fuel that is wasted in ICE engines. Nobody talks about that. I know electricity transport has losses too, but not 80%.
Plus, fossil fuel needs to be transported too, and required massive infrastructure to be cheap, and if something goes wrong, it's really bad.
I think electricity is the best option we have, but yes, the battery technology is nowhere near mass market yet compared to fossil fuels.
But it will reach the good enough point soon, where charging 20 mins for 200 mile range is livable.
I used to think something like the Panem (hunger games) would never work in real life, but with every visit I make to the US it seems like it could and it would work very well as long as the technology exists.
It's already happening. Think about it. This whole consumers are needed is crap. They are not needed.
The elite pay very well the people that can make things happen, engineers, scientist, and whatever else they might need for a luxurious life. They can get minerals from the ground, process them, manufacture stuff with them with extremely few people needed.
After that, why would they ever need the masses for? To spend resources?
Ah. They would rebel. But if you have the technology and they don't, will they attack with spears? Bows and arrows?
The middle East is a joke. It's not obliterated simply because the civilized world needs an enemy to keep the population in fear and prejudice
Anybody serious believes that if the US would really want to they would not obliterate the entire middle East in a matter of months?
They took down Iraq in what, a few weeks? They only sprinkle a drone or an airstrike here and there, just enough so that there's something to put on the evening news, but nothing serious.
Even this whole ISIS thing, come on, who is gonna rebuild Syria after they finish things there? Western companies. Probably Russian too, so that everyone is happy. All the Syrians want to go home, no matter what happens, home is always home.
And if they will have a booming economy while rebuilding everything, even better.
The only thing keeping us in a consumer economy is a mindset. The mindset that every person deserves to have a home, clothes, a car. So the wheels keep turning.
But as soon as we will lose that mindset, the takeover can happen with the switch of a button
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120 billions? :)) For a company with no profits, and with absolutely nothing proprietary that can't be replicated easily as long as you throw money at it to operate at a loss (like Uber does)?
Anybody that has a few hundred millions can come out with lower commissions, pump advertising like there's no tomorrow and people will jump immediately.
This is basically just people who lost a ton of money on Uber so far, and are now waiting to get out ASAP with other sucker's money. Hopefully at a profit, but if they can recoup anything they'll probably be very happy.
That show is sponsored exclusively by automotive OEM suppliers, and I am following their youtube channel since the beginning, they were anti-tesla since the beginning. I don't think Tesla is the second coming or other crap like that, but you gotta admit those guys may be very biased in their teardown. Also I didn't see a teardown on the same channel of other cars., but they go through the tesla with a steamroller, absolutely nothing is good enough.
Come on, if you can't afford an LCD touch screen with a stupid html css interface in 2017, just close down the business, it's enough. Why don't you use pen and paper while you're at it?
I saw what mcdonalds has around europe, and I can replicate that within one day with basic stupid html / css. It needs some kind of backend to display orders on another cheap dumb large TV monitor and you're all set. You don't event need advanced features. That's all.
You've basically explained 21st century from an economical point of view.
I remember when I was selling a European made security appliance that one of the sale points was that unlike Cisco, it doesn't have a backdoor. It wasn't a conspiracy either it was just something everybody knew. And this was way before the NSA revealings. Also, american security appliances are strictly forbidden in the central EU institutions, with no exceptions. Personally I think they are the clunkiest hardest to use appliances of all, you need 6 certifications just to install it.
Are you dumb in any other areas? This is strictly due to the fact that no sane government or multinational corporation would ever touch another american security appliance due to NSA having a backdoor on all of them. I don't like the guy either but let's keep it real
Just a random example, how much of the avengers 2 age of ultron was shot on US soil? I mean real shots, not green screen shots... Ironic.
There is a simple way to manage errors. Just issue an update correcting the error. That is one thing and it's perfectly normal. You get by error 1 million dollars to your account, the next second a correction is emitted and the transaction is reverted. As long as there is a history it's fine. But making a transaction disssapear as if it never existed that is a different story...
I agree with you, they should be short destination only. My big point was "existing" infrastructure. Building railroads is no easy task and without electrification, diesel pollution is going to be an issue again even though they are very efficient but you know...
You are so right, I think it doesn't even have to be electrified. With self driving tech soon emerging, probably it's a matter of time until lanes on the highway designated for self piloted cars will appear. There they can drive at higher speed and closer to the car in front, meaning higher capacity on the same highway. And you still have personal freedom, just get off the highway and go where you need to, when you need to.
The same with trucks. Designated lane for self driving trucks can be safer. Can you imagine a truck being able to go 16 hours straight, with the truck driving itself while the driver sleeps? Double road capacity right there with completely existing infrastructure and completely existing costs.
All this without having to build expensive new infrastructure for something that nobody really wants.
By the time self-driving tech becomes good enough, this project will be completely pointless and used for filming a Speed reboot.
Advertising is becoming more and more agressive, multiple banners, multiple videos, multiple cookies, multiple scripts, images, all tracking the activity continuously...
If you don't get it by now, it's probably too late anyway.
Fortunately, the huge majority of the market agrees and as long as Windows 7 is widely used, there will be software support for it. Microsoft thinks they can force people to do anything just because they are Microsoft, but the truth is there is a reason that all ATM's are still running on Windows XP and are still produced with Windows XP embedded. When windows 10 will get the majority share it will mean it will have stabilized and Microsoft came to their senses. Like it was with Vista. They tried for a few years to push users to get it, spend millions, if they could have sold it at gun point they would have. But in the end they just went back and made Windows 7 which worked well. Same with Windows 10. They will push it like crazy for as long as they can, and if it won't work, I can already smell a Windows 11 in the long run, even if they said they gave up that model.
Imagine having an army of idiots precisely mapping with their smartphone GPS's huge areas in countries, virtually for free, on their own time and with their own equipment.
If it wasn't used initially, I am sure after this huge success the black suits have surely contacted nintendo with an offer to access and use all that data. It's not conspiracy theory, it's exactly what happened with Facebook. After it became mainstream and it's potential was noticed, one of the investors is the CIA R&D arm.
It's no secret, the same people who funded face recognition technology startups, license plate recognition, mapping, and who knows what else.
I think it was called IN-Q-Tel or something.
My computer is usually running 24/7 since it manages some other things.
It's not a problem anymore of course since the first time it happened I took precautions, completely removed the installer, then made it hidden, then installed an utility that deleted all Windows 10 related stuff.
For me it's not a problem. But imagine my boss in his late 60's who is not that tech savy, who just clicked ok, and at 2 AM in the morning installs Windows 10 and everything is different, some drivers don't work properly, etc. A nightmare
Microsoft deserves to be sued by every single person that this happened to.
It's not funny, that's actually what the new Windows 10 Upgrade dialog looks like, happened to me personally.
It just said tomorrow it will upgrade to windows 10, if you don't access this dialog by then, it will go on automatically.
If I was gone over the weekend, as I usually leave my computer on in case I need to remote in, by the time I was back, it would have upgraded without any interaction.
The level of lack of respect from Microsoft is truly incredible.
Before jumping on me, please try to argue with my ideas, and not with me personally. I do not own a gun, I am not even american, but I have visited the US a few times, and I work with americans on a daily basis.
One thing I know, back from when I was a child, was that guns are sort of like nuclear weapons. If you know somebody had a gun, or that there even was the slightest possibility that they had one, criminals would normally avoid them. Usually it was foreign businessmen, or off-duty law enforcement, but by default, the mentality I saw in every stupid ass punk that would try to make a living by stealing.
I don't think the average pro gun confiscation american realizes that even though criminality seems high now, how high it will be if everybody was sure nobody had guns. They keep bringing the Europe argument, but in most large cities in Europe, people don't go out after a certain hour, and it's something relatively normal. Yes, the suburbs are safer, but only because usually they have a dedicated police patrol around the clock (perks of living in rich neighborhoods).
But still, you will never hear on the news about the fact that there were let's say 10 houses broken into this week. It's just not news, and people get the (mistaken) idea that wow how safe it must be there, compared to us where some guy broke into 1 house in a month and got shot.
Think about all the mixed religions, languages, and people who are in the US from all over the world. The average criminal would never risk getting shot for a mere wallet let's say. Of course not, he's not stupid. But where there are no guns, even $50 is well worth the trouble.
Normally what I noticed in that in the US crimes involving guns are incredibly broadcasted on the news for some reason, and I don't mean mass-shootings, I mean some robbery gone wrong, some idiots starting a fight and devolving to guns, and so on. That kinda drives the average person to believe there is a gun problem.
Just my 2 cents, as a non american, I think banning guns would skyrocket petty crimes. I know they exist even now, but still, probably not even close.
I just read today, on the UK motorway, lorry trucks are being robbed and destroyed using knives and rocks, and if you call the police, they won't even show up because it's not a violent crime, it's just stealing, and they will come when they have time to certify the damage and give you a paper you can take to the insurance and that's it.
Because education and common sense are completely relative terms.
Education in Islam = Knowing the quran by heart.
Common sense in Islam = Killing anybody who is not muslim, who is not straight, and in the end who does not agree with Islam.
There is no such thing as common sense/education, it's not measurable and certainly not enforceable.
Will the firmware randomly create ads?
Basically the new leader has the entire country oriented towards computer science. He basically built a small city just for them, with much higher standards of living than the rest of the population. They even have malls, restaurants, taxis, cars, everything. So now every teen has incentive to be good at software as it can be their entire family ticket out of poverty and hunger. He can move his family, and his parents to a free apartment there. Of course it's still very controlled, imagine something like checkpoints with armed guards to bypass if you want to even go in.
A former programmer becoming a lawyer could make a ton of money in these patents wars...it's actually not a bad idea at all...
[sarcasm] Stupid pharmaceutical companies and their damn vaccins ruining our children! [/sarcasm]
I think it was mentioned in the sense that they are companies that (theoretically) are worth billions, but influence very little the general productivity of americans. On the contrary. While electricity probably directly affected all other industries as well back in the days...
The electricity is already there of you charge at night. All the wasted energy at night time would simply be used to charge ev's. Also since the price of the wasted energy will no longer need to be included in the price of the daytime used energy it might actual get cheaper. I know it's not a 100% fix since we still have electricity generates from fossil fuel but think of the 80% energy in fossil fuel that is wasted in ICE engines. Nobody talks about that. I know electricity transport has losses too, but not 80%. Plus, fossil fuel needs to be transported too, and required massive infrastructure to be cheap, and if something goes wrong, it's really bad. I think electricity is the best option we have, but yes, the battery technology is nowhere near mass market yet compared to fossil fuels. But it will reach the good enough point soon, where charging 20 mins for 200 mile range is livable.
I used to think something like the Panem (hunger games) would never work in real life, but with every visit I make to the US it seems like it could and it would work very well as long as the technology exists. It's already happening. Think about it. This whole consumers are needed is crap. They are not needed. The elite pay very well the people that can make things happen, engineers, scientist, and whatever else they might need for a luxurious life. They can get minerals from the ground, process them, manufacture stuff with them with extremely few people needed. After that, why would they ever need the masses for? To spend resources? Ah. They would rebel. But if you have the technology and they don't, will they attack with spears? Bows and arrows? The middle East is a joke. It's not obliterated simply because the civilized world needs an enemy to keep the population in fear and prejudice Anybody serious believes that if the US would really want to they would not obliterate the entire middle East in a matter of months? They took down Iraq in what, a few weeks? They only sprinkle a drone or an airstrike here and there, just enough so that there's something to put on the evening news, but nothing serious. Even this whole ISIS thing, come on, who is gonna rebuild Syria after they finish things there? Western companies. Probably Russian too, so that everyone is happy. All the Syrians want to go home, no matter what happens, home is always home. And if they will have a booming economy while rebuilding everything, even better. The only thing keeping us in a consumer economy is a mindset. The mindset that every person deserves to have a home, clothes, a car. So the wheels keep turning. But as soon as we will lose that mindset, the takeover can happen with the switch of a button