Chinese for the rescue! No matter how awkward that stuff tastes, just tell them it's an expensive aphrodisiac, and see those worms being decimated within months!
No, VCs usually do own parts of the companies they invest in, so if that company goes bankrupt, they get at least something back if something of the company can be sold.
To properly encode DSD, your computer (and its mains cable) would have to contain only the purest of oxygen-free copper and silver wires, sanctified by a virgin at midnight. The kind of equipment only the high priests of the church of high-end hifi would have available in their fanes.
Some online rental services do rent out UHD BluRays, but indeed it seems there are some arbitrary restrictions on which ones can be professionally rented and which ones cannot.
So find yourself 10 other UHD enthusiasts, agree on a list of titles you want to see, and exchange them after watching - for about the same price as renting, everyone can keep one after all have seen them.
For the same reason I also still rent (2k and UHD) BluRays. The "streams" are full of awkward compression artefacts, their muddy quality is a laugh in comparison to the pristine pictures from physical media.
As long as streaming services optimize their profits by using abysmal bandwidths, I don't see how anyone with a sense of quality could want to watch "streams".
Do you need to read more than "blanket ban on taking any photos or video of the front of the phone" to know that the emporer has no clothes? If they cannot show the public how "great" their only "new, distinguishing feature" is by now, it is certain to be embarrasingly underwhelming.
Seriously, it will be just an overpriced phone with a certain brand name printed on it.
We know for sure that converting matter into energy by nuclear fusion works fine - both the sun and hydrogen bombs are certain proof of that.
For "quantum computing", on the other hand, there is no proof yet that they are ever going to perform any better than conventional computers. It is currently just a theory based on a model that predicts such.
I for one still don't believe that quantum computers will perform better at anything but emulating themselves than conventional computers - much like the analog computers of the 1960s were good at a very narrow field of tasks, but not quite for generic computations.
... and could be hacked remotely such that they simply would not start anymore. But who would be silly enough to propose that cars should be online?... oh... wait... preparations for that kind of desaster are already ongoing.
They call it "autonomous cars" in their Newspeak, and it actually means "car that is completely dependent on network services".
I for one would probably have invested a 4-digit number of bucks into new smartphones, had the industry offered me something not ridiculously oversized. I am not blind or fat-fingered. I do not want to carry a brick around. So I had to stick with my many years old smartphones, from an era when small smartphones were still on offer.
And if you have a look at the crowd-funding success of e.g. the Jelly phone, I am not quite the only one fed up with today's XXXL bricks.
To somebody used to have 30 days of vacation days each year, and 40 hours of work per week, without the expectation to slave away 24/7, those recruitment efforts by US companies are not that attractive.
I have worked for both US and EU companies, and would always choose the EU quality of life over the vague chance of some large bonus that US companies try to lure people with. Also, the way that US companies patronize their employees is simply awkward. Go away with your "codes of conduct" and all the other corporate crap!
or Iran? News on new hacking activities feel so incomplete and inconvenient if they do not come with the usual early-on accusations of some axis-of-evil country being the source of them...
Why would I want the face of some actor in some porn - I mean - who looks at faces in pornography, anyway?
I would rather prefer a lot if people spent that lot of CPU time on replacing ugly looking bodies with ones that are beautifully shaped and come without weird piercings and tattoos...
I tried reading the linked article but gave up after reading 3 paragraphs that contained many words without making any concise statement. Reads like the blabber of a literary critic.
to users everywhere outside of the US. Because the only plausible reason why Kaspersky is so massively attacked by the US is that it competes with the NSA trojans sold by US companies. Given the historically experienced economic impact of US espionage across the globe, I will probably prefer to be spyed upon by Russia or China.
For the younger of the readers: When stuff was published on paper, publishers of course took responsibility for the whole of their publication, includings advertisements. If you wanted to publish an ad, you had to go through the publisher's ad department. You could not just book a slot from some 3rd-party, and have them deliver a bag of Anthrax spores or poo-poo with every newspaper.
Of course web sites could still take responsibility, and publish just still images integrated into their layout, served from their servers. But they opted to let others annoy you with all kinds of malware and distraction - and now they get punished as deserved.
While Tim Cook is certainly right that being tracked for advertisement purposes is creepy and should not happen, it is just as creepy if there is one company that decides what software my hardware is allowed to run, even taking a third of revenue made with it, if it is commercial.
So, Tim, as long as Apple puts its buyers under tutelage, you are just as creepy as the stuff you criticize.
Now we only need to burn some more coal to speed up climate change, and soon those dried-up, sun-burnt deserts will crave for our Antarctic veggies, sold at premium prices!
Sure, but given that the now prevalent generation of consumer-zombies does not care about anything, the "cloud" is a
perfectly suited thing for them.
To my initial disbelieve, I met specimens of that kind who actually purchased the very same song multiple times just
because they could not be bothered to transfer it from device A to device B, no matter how simple that would have
been.
Banning sales doesn't change emissions _now_. And years have already passed since the cities took notice about the legal thresholds of NOx being exceeded, to the extent that now the EU is demanding fines from the German government for not taking action (for years).
Really, the government totally screwed up on this, driving themselves into a dead-end where only drastic measures will help.
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Chinese for the rescue! No matter how awkward that stuff tastes, just tell them it's an expensive aphrodisiac, and see those worms being decimated within months!
No, VCs usually do own parts of the companies they invest in, so if that company goes bankrupt, they get at least something back if something of the company can be sold.
To properly encode DSD, your computer (and its mains cable) would have to contain only the purest of oxygen-free copper and silver wires, sanctified by a virgin at midnight. The kind of equipment only the high priests of the church of high-end hifi would have available in their fanes.
Some online rental services do rent out UHD BluRays, but indeed it seems there are some arbitrary restrictions on which ones can be professionally rented and which ones cannot.
So find yourself 10 other UHD enthusiasts, agree on a list of titles you want to see, and exchange them after watching - for about the same price as renting, everyone can keep one after all have seen them.
For the same reason I also still rent (2k and UHD) BluRays. The "streams" are full of awkward compression artefacts, their muddy quality is a laugh in comparison to the pristine pictures from physical media.
As long as streaming services optimize their profits by using abysmal bandwidths, I don't see how anyone with a sense of quality could want to watch "streams".
Do you need to read more than "blanket ban on taking any photos or video of the front of the phone" to know that the emporer has no clothes? If they cannot show the public how "great" their only "new, distinguishing feature" is by now, it is certain to be embarrasingly underwhelming.
Seriously, it will be just an overpriced phone with a certain brand name printed on it.
We know for sure that converting matter into energy by nuclear fusion works fine - both the sun and hydrogen bombs are certain proof of that.
For "quantum computing", on the other hand, there is no proof yet that they are ever going to perform any better than conventional computers. It is currently just a theory based on a model that predicts such.
I for one still don't believe that quantum computers will perform better at anything but emulating themselves than conventional computers - much like the analog computers of the 1960s were good at a very narrow field of tasks, but not quite for generic computations.
So I guess once your risk score exceeds the "annoys POTUS"-level, the included guidance beacon for the upcoming drone strike is activated?
... and could be hacked remotely such that they simply would not start anymore. But who would be silly enough to propose that cars should be online? ... oh... wait... preparations for that kind of desaster are already ongoing.
They call it "autonomous cars" in their Newspeak, and it actually means "car that is completely dependent on network services".
I for one would probably have invested a 4-digit number of bucks into new smartphones, had the industry offered me something not ridiculously oversized. I am not blind or fat-fingered. I do not want to carry a brick around. So I had to stick with my many years old smartphones, from an era when small smartphones were still on offer.
And if you have a look at the crowd-funding success of e.g. the Jelly phone, I am not quite the only one fed up with today's XXXL bricks.
I would not expect any game with significantly complex graphics to reach 120fps on an Xbox One. Thus I wonder what this is good for.
To somebody used to have 30 days of vacation days each year, and 40 hours of work per week, without the expectation to slave away 24/7, those recruitment efforts by US companies are not that attractive.
I have worked for both US and EU companies, and would always choose the EU quality of life over the vague chance of some large bonus that US companies try to lure people with. Also, the way that US companies patronize their employees is simply awkward. Go away with your "codes of conduct" and all the other corporate crap!
"in the era of digital tracking and social media, indicating the modern world is becoming an inhospitable environment to humans."
That's the correct statement.
or Iran? News on new hacking activities feel so incomplete and inconvenient if they do not come with the usual early-on accusations of some axis-of-evil country being the source of them...
Why would I want the face of some actor in some porn - I mean - who looks at faces in pornography, anyway?
I would rather prefer a lot if people spent that lot of CPU time on replacing ugly looking bodies with ones that are beautifully shaped and come without weird piercings and tattoos...
I tried reading the linked article but gave up after reading 3 paragraphs that contained many words without making any concise statement. Reads like the blabber of a literary critic.
to users everywhere outside of the US. Because the only plausible reason why Kaspersky is so massively attacked by the US is that it competes with the NSA trojans sold by US companies. Given the historically experienced economic impact of US espionage across the globe, I will probably prefer to be spyed upon by Russia or China.
The next totalitarian government will use it to dispose of dissidents before they can group into any sizeable opposition.
there would be no ad-blockers.
For the younger of the readers: When stuff was published on paper, publishers of course took responsibility for the whole of their publication, includings advertisements. If you wanted to publish an ad, you had to go through the publisher's ad department. You could not just book a slot from some 3rd-party, and have them deliver a bag of Anthrax spores or poo-poo with every newspaper.
Of course web sites could still take responsibility, and publish just still images integrated into their layout, served from their servers. But they opted to let others annoy you with all kinds of malware and distraction - and now they get punished as deserved.
While Tim Cook is certainly right that being tracked for advertisement purposes is creepy and should not happen, it is just as creepy if there is one company that decides what software my hardware is allowed to run, even taking a third of revenue made with it, if it is commercial.
So, Tim, as long as Apple puts its buyers under tutelage, you are just as creepy as the stuff you criticize.
Now we only need to burn some more coal to speed up climate change, and soon those dried-up, sun-burnt deserts will crave for our Antarctic veggies, sold at premium prices!
Sure, but given that the now prevalent generation of consumer-zombies does not care about anything, the "cloud" is a perfectly suited thing for them.
To my initial disbelieve, I met specimens of that kind who actually purchased the very same song multiple times just because they could not be bothered to transfer it from device A to device B, no matter how simple that would have been.
Banning sales doesn't change emissions _now_. And years have already passed since the cities took notice about the legal thresholds of NOx being exceeded, to the extent that now the EU is demanding fines from the German government for not taking action (for years).
Really, the government totally screwed up on this, driving themselves into a dead-end where only drastic measures will help.
Germany's population is ~80 million, and while some might own more than one Diesel fueled car, most own zero of them.
I am seriously frustrated that some non-informative blabber from grandpa Gates is published on Slashdot, while even exciting new IT research results like the one linked here do not qualify for publication.
Does Bill sponsor Slashdot for citing him so often?