Your business model is literally worse than "Let's burn $5.6m in cash each month on a big bonfire".
I disagree with this particular statement. From the spender's point of view this might be the same, but from a larger economy point of view those $5.6m went back into circulation rather than vanishing forever. So it's very slightly better to lose it this way than straight up burning it.
I'm not talking about us guys, but the guys in the article, who are keeping almost a hundred thousand drives powered up all the time for their tests. It's a positive delta if they get some Burst while at it. While it's a rounding error for you and me, the rounding error might become noticeable at that capacity.
So the Sun "news"paper can hold off the next round of phone hacks because they'll get them from NASA, or were they stuck and didn't know who to hack next and NASA is giving them a list of names? At least we got a heads up.
I wanted to build a gaming computer at the beginning of the year. Looked at the prices, was almost ready to take the plunge on a 1000 GBP PC (Ryzen 7, GTX 1080, plans to splash on VR), with more than half the price being the video card.
Then a friend woke me up with words to the effect of "Nvidia will launch new products soon". OK... I'm not in any hurry... My Phenom II just needed a usable video card for games instead of the GT 210 I had inside, so I bought a GTX 560 (I was too cheap to go for a 660) with plans to wait the bubble out. It turns out I'll be waiting this out for a long time, as this video card suits my occasional Steam gaming sessions just fine, and I've put my lust for VR on hold for the foreseeable future.
Miners, you can hang yourselves with the power cables of your rigs.
I feel so luck to have a device with unlimited storage. Windows can grow and grow and I never run out of space. Yet somehow I never have enough free space for my stuff... It's like each time my storage increases Windows catches up.
So... does this mean BT will actually introduce IPv6 for consumers or will it be a VPN type of deal for the VoIP channel and we'll still be praying for IPv6 in the year 3000?
Don't forget that with personhood also come rights, such as voting, standing for election, having an opinion, proposing policy, ability enter into contracts and to own property, right to not be owned by another person (i.e. no robot slavery).
You don't just give the robot responsibility while the rest of the list stays with the manufacturer or the owner gets to keep the rest.
In my case the company is a long-lived brand that has existed since 1964. Their tag like "fit the best" was taken to court as being misleading and they won the case. That doesn't stop them from doing shoddy work and giving you the middle finger though, discounts or not.
The Double Glazing sales industry (in the UK) brought haggling back with vengeance. They insist that can't give you a quote without sending a sales guy into your home because apparently you're unable to take half assed measurements at the same level as that the sales person who does the same and says a surveyor will have to come and measure things precisely anyway. And once in, they pull discounts out of their butts, and if you send them off they'll call you with even more discounts on top of "those are all the discounts available mate" that you got already.
In my specific case, the list price went down from 9K to 3K after all the discounts and a customer retention discount (i.e. I canceled on them shortly after taking their offer). How is that even possible?!
You're supposed to keep your bitcoin in your own wallet. If you're against banks but keep your crypto at an exchange for more than the time needed to, you know, exchange it, that goes pretty much against the whole selling point. Even more, you just trust them blindly, because they're not regulated or part of an insurance scheme either.
I thought they made a car specifically for this use pattern. And they took away the car and called what was left the "Powerwall". Sure, you stick it to a wall rather than ambulate it all over town, but I think it works out just fine.
The only thing I miss about Windows Phone 8 was the smoothness of sliding everything with my finger on the home screen. Apple has stutters here and there, Android has stutters by design as far as I can tell. I don't know what MS did there, but they should take a patent on it so these other two guys can license it, because they don't seem able to come up with a solution by themselves.
Doesn't matter. I was asked for my input on developing a $100-device. The proposed design had very little storage and RAM, and the complaint was that software didn't fit and that I should make it smaller. When I suggested adding more storage, because it's only a few cents, the reply came like this: when you're selling loads of units those cents add up.
I understand that Disconnect does this, but not just for Facebook. I had "Block third-party cookies" enable in my Chrome and draw.io thought I had Disconnect installed and gave me instructions on how to whitelist them so I can use Google Drive.
How about a longer lead time for a heads up Slashdot? If I hadn't read the article when I did I would have been surprised by the update when it rebooted my computer. And I don't even use Windows! Whose decision is this?
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, what moves the money may be bullshit, but it's not burnt in Hollywood either. It moves on rather than be the end of the line.
Your business model is literally worse than "Let's burn $5.6m in cash each month on a big bonfire".
I disagree with this particular statement. From the spender's point of view this might be the same, but from a larger economy point of view those $5.6m went back into circulation rather than vanishing forever. So it's very slightly better to lose it this way than straight up burning it.
I'm not talking about us guys, but the guys in the article, who are keeping almost a hundred thousand drives powered up all the time for their tests. It's a positive delta if they get some Burst while at it. While it's a rounding error for you and me, the rounding error might become noticeable at that capacity.
If they're not mining Burst they're missing out on some money.
I guess in this particular case "being bricked" is a good thing for the device.
So the Sun "news"paper can hold off the next round of phone hacks because they'll get them from NASA, or were they stuck and didn't know who to hack next and NASA is giving them a list of names? At least we got a heads up.
*reads the summary*
OH, you meant that Sun! Nevermind...
I wanted to build a gaming computer at the beginning of the year. Looked at the prices, was almost ready to take the plunge on a 1000 GBP PC (Ryzen 7, GTX 1080, plans to splash on VR), with more than half the price being the video card.
Then a friend woke me up with words to the effect of "Nvidia will launch new products soon". OK... I'm not in any hurry... My Phenom II just needed a usable video card for games instead of the GT 210 I had inside, so I bought a GTX 560 (I was too cheap to go for a 660) with plans to wait the bubble out. It turns out I'll be waiting this out for a long time, as this video card suits my occasional Steam gaming sessions just fine, and I've put my lust for VR on hold for the foreseeable future.
Miners, you can hang yourselves with the power cables of your rigs.
> press button on screwdriver
The screwdriver makes a whirly high pitched noise. It's a Sonic Screwdriver.
Microsoft missed an opportunity to mess with language parsers here.
Or are they just running late because their language parser crashed when presented with this idea and they had to fix it?
I feel so luck to have a device with unlimited storage. Windows can grow and grow and I never run out of space. Yet somehow I never have enough free space for my stuff... It's like each time my storage increases Windows catches up.
So... does this mean BT will actually introduce IPv6 for consumers or will it be a VPN type of deal for the VoIP channel and we'll still be praying for IPv6 in the year 3000?
So the GDPR forces companies to do what the Plain English Campaign has been trying to do for a long time now. That's nice.
That one time a guy drove a car over a load of pedestrians from the window of his hotel room... I don't remember that.
Don't forget that with personhood also come rights, such as voting, standing for election, having an opinion, proposing policy, ability enter into contracts and to own property, right to not be owned by another person (i.e. no robot slavery).
You don't just give the robot responsibility while the rest of the list stays with the manufacturer or the owner gets to keep the rest.
In my case the company is a long-lived brand that has existed since 1964. Their tag like "fit the best" was taken to court as being misleading and they won the case. That doesn't stop them from doing shoddy work and giving you the middle finger though, discounts or not.
You sir need to be modded funny :)
The Double Glazing sales industry (in the UK) brought haggling back with vengeance. They insist that can't give you a quote without sending a sales guy into your home because apparently you're unable to take half assed measurements at the same level as that the sales person who does the same and says a surveyor will have to come and measure things precisely anyway. And once in, they pull discounts out of their butts, and if you send them off they'll call you with even more discounts on top of "those are all the discounts available mate" that you got already.
In my specific case, the list price went down from 9K to 3K after all the discounts and a customer retention discount (i.e. I canceled on them shortly after taking their offer). How is that even possible?!
I used to joke that some video cards require you to bring your own power plant, but this is ridiculous.
You're supposed to keep your bitcoin in your own wallet. If you're against banks but keep your crypto at an exchange for more than the time needed to, you know, exchange it, that goes pretty much against the whole selling point. Even more, you just trust them blindly, because they're not regulated or part of an insurance scheme either.
I thought they made a car specifically for this use pattern. And they took away the car and called what was left the "Powerwall". Sure, you stick it to a wall rather than ambulate it all over town, but I think it works out just fine.
The only thing I miss about Windows Phone 8 was the smoothness of sliding everything with my finger on the home screen. Apple has stutters here and there, Android has stutters by design as far as I can tell. I don't know what MS did there, but they should take a patent on it so these other two guys can license it, because they don't seem able to come up with a solution by themselves.
Doesn't matter. I was asked for my input on developing a $100-device. The proposed design had very little storage and RAM, and the complaint was that software didn't fit and that I should make it smaller. When I suggested adding more storage, because it's only a few cents, the reply came like this: when you're selling loads of units those cents add up.
Go Microsoft Yourself.
It's about time we made that innuendo mainstream.
I understand that Disconnect does this, but not just for Facebook. I had "Block third-party cookies" enable in my Chrome and draw.io thought I had Disconnect installed and gave me instructions on how to whitelist them so I can use Google Drive.
How about a longer lead time for a heads up Slashdot? If I hadn't read the article when I did I would have been surprised by the update when it rebooted my computer. And I don't even use Windows! Whose decision is this?