... I am starting to believe that the most plausible explanation to this story is that Bloomberg did receive word from genuine agency members, which were following orders to spread a rumor damaging Chinese business and promoting the sales of devices that are back-doored by US agencies. I would still assume also the Chinese use such tampering techniques, but not in the precise way described.
Mobile battery life is still terrible, and their screens are still the largest contributors to their power consumption. If a Mirasol or Liquavista display could remove that factor, it would be a great selling point for a high-end mobile phone.
Decade-long R&D is fine, but fear-mongering by predicting improvements that are nowhere near is not welcome.
Plus, the amount of money put into one specific research topic should not be just based on media hypes. There are plenty of research fields that promise much sooner life-improving progress than the hypothetical quantum computers.
There is proof in the sky, visible to everyone, that nuclear fusion actually works at large scale. But there is no proof at all that quantum computers will ever scale to useful complexity. The belief that quantum computers will deliver complex results in an instant is like believing that you can add numbers of arbitrary precision with a slide rule. Theoretically possible, but only if a certain physical model was a complete description of the real world, which we know for sure it is not.
The saddest thing about such technologies disappearing is that the public usually never gets to know the true reasons why this happened. Actual technical obstacles? Not profitable enough to manufacture? Lifetime too long or too short? Some awkward environmental impact? Or just some product manager losing interest?
Now that every chicken gets its own Facebook account from GoGo Chicken, will their eaters need to expect visits from the furious feathered friends of the recently deceased?
I despise the over-sized and over-weight phones sold today, and would have loved a foldable phone that is really small while folded, and maybe 4" or 5" of display when unfolded. No such product in sight, still.
We know NSA intercepts Cisco routers, but that doesn't prove Cisco intentionally backdoors their machines for them in the factory.
Given that recently every month or so a new back door was found in Cisco's products, one could say we know for sure they are at least unintentionally backdoor their machines.
And all who did this so much deserve to be punished for their laziness and stupidity. Just like those who don't do backups deserve to lose data. They also deserve some condescending shaming by those who are less stupid, less lazy, and better prepared.
The oldest commonly acknowledged surviving written record of Vinland appears in Descriptio insularum Aquilonis, by Adam of Bremen, a German (Saxon) geographer and historian, written in about 1075.
So they, too, left it to some German to write up the results of their explorations. And neither the Vikings nor the Germans made much use of that knowledge, but left it to the Spanish to exploit the riches of that remote land.
Might be worth mentioning in this context that scientists have recently published results of experiments showing that graphene is able to turn alternating electric currents in the GHz range into electric currents in the THz range: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-...
Thus, instead of using graphene just as some structured base material, it may make a lot of sense to actually build the electronic circuit itself from graphene.
With less than 7 cameras, how could one possibly place a call with such a device? Also, I heard it has less than 16 CPU cores, so it's probably not powerful enough to write short messages.
I mean there is a theory how they could work, some researchers have already claimed to have teleported some "quantum states", and lots of SciFi has been written on the topic. What could possibly go wrong investing in this right now? Let's sell tickets already, like Branson does for his touristic space flights...
... they are only related to the rate of Mana the believers of that cult can supply. I've seen hungry believers share one pizza because their money would not allow to buy one, each, while casually discussing how they save up for the new iPhone, even while their existing one still works fine.
(Except of course if they were willing to count every movie that got some scenes shot in Malta as a "Maltese movie": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
I think the article got it wrong, of course one cannot expect a country like Malta (population ~400k) to produce 30% of a reasonable movie catalog. I am pretty sure this meant "30% content produced anywhere in the EU".
We all know a central committee with a five year plan knows better what the consumer needs than the consumer himself.
You mean, like the board of a global mega-corporation? After all, the detachment of decision-making from reality and customer demand in large corporations isn't that much different from the detachment of communist governments from the people.
Also, the content of commercial productions is today totally dominated by the fear to try anything "original" that is too far off the mainstream, simply because return-on-investment isn't guaranteed and the 7th follow-up on a once successful movie is favored over any new story.
There are actually examples of good European "super hero"-movies, like for example Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot, which has more character depth and plausibility than any of the Marvel "super hero"-movies.
(Turkey is not part of the EU, and also currently has a terrible movie industry, not least because it serves the exaggerated nationalism of the Erdogan regime.)
It's so pathetic when German politicians of the same kind that just scrapped well deployed Linux installations for government use in exchange for the US-Trojan "Windows" speak of "cyber security". No government is really free while it still depends on proprietary software controlled by software from a country far away.
Agile is supposed to provide the customer with something EVERY TWO WEEKS.
One problem with that I already mentioned: Customers _not_ participating in sprint planning every two weeks is more the sad norm than the exception.
The other problem is that not quite every software development is about fancy GUIs (or houses) that a customer can take a quick look at and immediately understand.
If your goal is, for example, to implement some software enhancements that make a billing system compliant with some trove of new tax regulations, then after the first, second and third sprint there is likely not much to show other than some different numbers turning up in boring reporting tables. Customers are not likely to check such for correctness. Instead, they will find out they named the wrong set of regulations in their initial requirements only after the project was assumed to be "done".
"Agile" was made with colorful web pages in mind, where it is more or less just the left to the taste of the customer if he likes intermediate results or not. If "wrong" or "right" is not a matter of taste/preference, then "agile" is likely to not detect "going into the wrong direction" early on.
I haven't seen all the details yet, but the description of those "Service Workers" suspiciously sound like yet another vector for tracking the user's browsing across different web sites. I for one sure want that everything related to a web-site is gone from my computer when I close the last browser tab related to that web-site. And I do not want any "background service" implanted into my browser from visiting some site.
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... I am starting to believe that the most plausible explanation to this story is that Bloomberg did receive word from genuine agency members, which were following orders to spread a rumor damaging Chinese business and promoting the sales of devices that are back-doored by US agencies.
I would still assume also the Chinese use such tampering techniques, but not in the precise way described.
Mobile battery life is still terrible, and their screens are still the largest contributors to their power consumption. If a Mirasol or Liquavista display could remove that factor, it would be a great selling point for a high-end mobile phone.
Decade-long R&D is fine, but fear-mongering by predicting improvements that are nowhere near is not welcome.
Plus, the amount of money put into one specific research topic should not be just based on media hypes. There are plenty of research fields that promise much sooner life-improving progress than the hypothetical quantum computers.
There is proof in the sky, visible to everyone, that nuclear fusion actually works at large scale. But there is no proof at all that quantum computers will ever scale to useful complexity.
The belief that quantum computers will deliver complex results in an instant is like believing that you can add numbers of arbitrary precision with a slide rule. Theoretically possible, but only if a certain physical model was a complete description of the real world, which we know for sure it is not.
The saddest thing about such technologies disappearing is that the public usually never gets to know the true reasons why this happened. Actual technical obstacles? Not profitable enough to manufacture? Lifetime too long or too short? Some awkward environmental impact? Or just some product manager losing interest?
Now that every chicken gets its own Facebook account from GoGo Chicken, will their eaters need to expect visits from the furious feathered friends of the recently deceased?
I despise the over-sized and over-weight phones sold today, and would have loved a foldable phone that is really small while folded, and maybe 4" or 5" of display when unfolded.
No such product in sight, still.
We know NSA intercepts Cisco routers, but that doesn't prove Cisco intentionally backdoors their machines for them in the factory.
Given that recently every month or so a new back door was found in Cisco's products, one could say we know for sure they are at least unintentionally backdoor their machines.
You had high school ID cards with biometric data derived from your photo on a chip readable via RF? In 1988?
People use Google+ to sign in to things.
And all who did this so much deserve to be punished for their laziness and stupidity. Just like those who don't do backups deserve to lose data. They also deserve some condescending shaming by those who are less stupid, less lazy, and better prepared.
The oldest commonly acknowledged surviving written record of Vinland appears in Descriptio insularum Aquilonis, by Adam of Bremen, a German (Saxon) geographer and historian, written in about 1075.
So they, too, left it to some German to write up the results of their explorations. And neither the Vikings nor the Germans made much use of that knowledge, but left it to the Spanish to exploit the riches of that remote land.
Might be worth mentioning in this context that scientists have recently published results of experiments showing that graphene is able to turn alternating electric currents in the GHz range into electric currents in the THz range: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-... Thus, instead of using graphene just as some structured base material, it may make a lot of sense to actually build the electronic circuit itself from graphene.
With less than 7 cameras, how could one possibly place a call with such a device? Also, I heard it has less than 16 CPU cores, so it's probably not powerful enough to write short messages.
Someone of the age of 16 is not fully developed.
By what criterion? In history, countries had regents of that age - see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - and quite obviously a lot of humans have sex at that age, also in current time - see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
I mean there is a theory how they could work, some researchers have already claimed to have teleported some "quantum states", and lots of SciFi has been written on the topic. What could possibly go wrong investing in this right now? Let's sell tickets already, like Branson does for his touristic space flights...
... they are only related to the rate of Mana the believers of that cult can supply. I've seen hungry believers share one pizza because their money would not allow to buy one, each, while casually discussing how they save up for the new iPhone, even while their existing one still works fine.
(Except of course if they were willing to count every movie that got some scenes shot in Malta as a "Maltese movie": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
I think the article got it wrong, of course one cannot expect a country like Malta (population ~400k) to produce 30% of a reasonable movie catalog. I am pretty sure this meant "30% content produced anywhere in the EU".
maybe just like films by Luc Besson ...
Luc Besson's work is kind of "as hollywoodesque as European films get".
A much better comparison would be the original 13 Tzameti versus its terribly shallow US-remake 13 (where even the title got overly simplified).
We all know a central committee with a five year plan knows better what the consumer needs than the consumer himself.
You mean, like the board of a global mega-corporation? After all, the detachment of decision-making from reality and customer demand in large corporations isn't that much different from the detachment of communist governments from the people.
Also, the content of commercial productions is today totally dominated by the fear to try anything "original" that is too far off the mainstream, simply because return-on-investment isn't guaranteed and the 7th follow-up on a once successful movie is favored over any new story.
There are actually examples of good European "super hero"-movies, like for example Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot, which has more character depth and plausibility than any of the Marvel "super hero"-movies.
(Turkey is not part of the EU, and also currently has a terrible movie industry, not least because it serves the exaggerated nationalism of the Erdogan regime.)
Or is this again one of these ridiculously oversized phones of today that do not fit comfortably in any pocket?
If this phone is folded not considerably smaller than the unfoldable bricks they sell today, then I'm not interested.
It's so pathetic when German politicians of the same kind that just scrapped well deployed Linux installations for government use in exchange for the US-Trojan "Windows" speak of "cyber security". No government is really free while it still depends on proprietary software controlled by software from a country far away.
Agile is supposed to provide the customer with something EVERY TWO WEEKS.
One problem with that I already mentioned: Customers _not_ participating in sprint planning every two weeks is more the sad norm than the exception.
The other problem is that not quite every software development is about fancy GUIs (or houses) that a customer can take a quick look at and immediately understand.
If your goal is, for example, to implement some software enhancements that make a billing system compliant with some trove of new tax regulations, then after the first, second and third sprint there is likely not much to show other than some different numbers turning up in boring reporting tables. Customers are not likely to check such for correctness. Instead, they will find out they named the wrong set of regulations in their initial requirements only after the project was assumed to be "done".
"Agile" was made with colorful web pages in mind, where it is more or less just the left to the taste of the customer if he likes intermediate results or not. If "wrong" or "right" is not a matter of taste/preference, then "agile" is likely to not detect "going into the wrong direction" early on.
I haven't seen all the details yet, but the description of those "Service Workers" suspiciously sound like yet another vector for tracking the user's browsing across different web sites. I for one sure want that everything related to a web-site is gone from my computer when I close the last browser tab related to that web-site. And I do not want any "background service" implanted into my browser from visiting some site.