But, it's a direct admission that they were basically gouging for want of competition.
How much are they gouging? What is the payback period on their R&D? What is the investment in the chip fab to make these things, and how far into the payback period are they now?
Will these price drops mean that they have to extend the payback period to recoup the costs of the smaller-feature fab? Will that delay the 7nm mass production they've announced for 2020?
I don't know the answers to these questions. I do know some of the questions to ask. Let's not jump to conclusions without understanding the data.
It's getting confusing with Google now with them spawning, killing or changing a messaging client so often....
Don't worry, they'll let the marketing team rename those apps a half-dozen times in the next year, like they did with Chromecast, so nobody will have any clue about what apps anybody is using and every bit of documentation will be useless.
Then people can just settle on Signal or WhatsApp and be done with it.
And there lies the killer. I might pay $20 to see a good, early, first run movie. Not $50. And not with anything else 'added' unless it is completely optional. For $50 I'd expect to get dinner with the movie.
Dinner and a movie costs way more than $50.
You rent the movie, your friends bring over take-out or pot-luck.
$50 doesn't make sense for an individual but for a large group it's pretty easy.
That said, I only go to see digitally-projected 3D films anymore (kids, etc.). Bluray from Redbox is a way better deal than $50.
I heard the lead on a Science Friday interview - he invited everybody in academia to come to his lab to learn the technique on how to make it, as he wants everybody working on the material. It sounds like they can fairly easily do it again, so I am surprised this article makes no note of that.
Well, "surprised" in that I pretend journalism doesn't exist just to sell ads.
"They have no problem with censorship, as long as they're the ones doing the censoring."
You know how email has such a problem with censorship? Oh, wait, it's an interoperable protocol, not a platform.
You should have your choice of censorship - but until there's federated social networking you won't have freedom of expression (unless you happen to get lucky).
The story at the time was that Oracle only paid so much for Sun because it thought that by hammering on Google for Android with Java licensing claims it could force Google into a patent cross-licensing deal for its distributed database patents, which Oracle needed to scale.
Does this mean, then, that Oracle is still having trouble scaling? It suggests to me that Oracle would be a bad choice at this point for web-scale development. I honestly would have predicted that they would have their own solutions in place by now.
You actually thought you could make a dent in mobile OSes when even Microsoft couldn't?
Right. Microsoft will tenaciously support something for a decade even if it's a flop. They need to do this to attract any developers in the first place.
Five years ago, I thought that the idea sounded interesting, but Mozilla's lack of being able to commit to anything was a red flag for me. I suppose this was true for most hardware vendors, and they never pledged any kind of long-term support, so it was doomed from the beginning.
The bigger problem is that MoFo is paying people half a million dollars a year for "leadership" and they don't even get such basic concepts. Good luck convincing smart people to go work in a corporate culture of intolerance, though. Maybe they can get some smart consultants though, if caring about the original MoFo vision and cash-on-the-barrel are the only requirements.
If they think these people will go away, they're mistaken. Perhaps they feel they don't want to enable them by using Reddit's resources to organize, but, really, they were doing a huge service to the rest of society by keeping these posts out in the open where everybody can see them.
You can drive them all to locked sites on.onion services, but that is not in the public interest.
They cannot. If they won't offer you a job without that information, and you think that information is not appropriate to share, then you've just determined that this employer and you are not a good fit. Count your blessings and move on.
It's coming anyway - just like bridge builders and other REAL engineers.
No, software engineering is not just like bridge building. Only simple software can be proven correct - bridge builders have equations they can use to verify their work.
That and they understand machine learning, Bayesian classifiers, etc. FSF must be hoping for a strong AI breakthrough if they even think thier plan can work. The industry has been at this for forty years and spent hundreds of millions on not succeeding with computational approaches.
Really? I've heard the last few Trek outings were absolute shit. I've been too busy to see many movies, but after Paramount's shenanigans began I couldn't see making time to give them any of my money. The fans made Trek - if they want to shit on the fans, then the fans can u make Trek. Except that most of them are p'tak.
If the Endowment is large enough they can give every student free tuition. If there is no endowment, everybody pays. In the middle, they need enough people paying full-boat to subsidize the kids who need a full ride. Look at the economics before you assume ill intent. There is no magic money and locking kids into thirty years of debt is no magnanimous gesture.
Yeah, basically this. Find the software that's closest to what you want to do and get on their community software and ask if there's already a way to do it. Your idea probably isn't unique, but just in case it is, the community can give feedback as to whether it's a good idea or not, and then if it is good their docs or people in the community will tell you how to put in a feature request. At that point, follow most of the advice others are giving about building or buying.
Everyone puts their phone in case, so that adds a bezel.
To the contrary - the edge of the case, even on phones with a thin bezel - prevents the edges of the screens from being used. This always gets me with text selection on Android.
With no bezel, you can't have a case wrap around the top edge. From the perspective of selling screens and replacement phones it's a fabulous idea.
The word 'projection' when used by business or government s a fancy way of saying they can the future. Through enough numbers and fancy colorful graphs and people will believe anything.
But that's fine. The voters should allow the bond after a construction company has given a firm bid and demonstrated that it has insurance for up to, say, 5x cost overruns.
If no one company can cover that much, the managers can break it up into small enough pieces until the voters have a guaranteed not-to-exceed cost.
Any voter who believes initial government estimates is a fool.
Slashdot Mirror
But, it's a direct admission that they were basically gouging for want of competition.
How much are they gouging? What is the payback period on their R&D? What is the investment in the chip fab to make these things, and how far into the payback period are they now?
Will these price drops mean that they have to extend the payback period to recoup the costs of the smaller-feature fab? Will that delay the 7nm mass production they've announced for 2020?
I don't know the answers to these questions. I do know some of the questions to ask. Let's not jump to conclusions without understanding the data.
No kidding. They could try asking nicely. Heh, the government asking nicely.
It's getting confusing with Google now with them spawning, killing or changing a messaging client so often....
Don't worry, they'll let the marketing team rename those apps a half-dozen times in the next year, like they did with Chromecast, so nobody will have any clue about what apps anybody is using and every bit of documentation will be useless.
Then people can just settle on Signal or WhatsApp and be done with it.
And there lies the killer. I might pay $20 to see a good, early, first run movie. Not $50. And not with anything else 'added' unless it is completely optional. For $50 I'd expect to get dinner with the movie.
Dinner and a movie costs way more than $50.
You rent the movie, your friends bring over take-out or pot-luck.
$50 doesn't make sense for an individual but for a large group it's pretty easy.
That said, I only go to see digitally-projected 3D films anymore (kids, etc.). Bluray from Redbox is a way better deal than $50.
I heard the lead on a Science Friday interview - he invited everybody in academia to come to his lab to learn the technique on how to make it, as he wants everybody working on the material. It sounds like they can fairly easily do it again, so I am surprised this article makes no note of that.
Well, "surprised" in that I pretend journalism doesn't exist just to sell ads.
... know of there live in fear(avoidance) of the hipster social signalers who love to burn money to stay warm.
Slashdotters are often willing to express unpopular opinions so they could never work at MoFo (or Twitter, et.al.). The few engineers I k
Yes, you can diagnose and even predict with brain imaging. Search Medline.
If there is another condition that's not visible on imaging then it's a separate disease, even if both are called the same thing clinically.
"They have no problem with censorship, as long as they're the ones doing the censoring."
You know how email has such a problem with censorship? Oh, wait, it's an interoperable protocol, not a platform.
You should have your choice of censorship - but until there's federated social networking you won't have freedom of expression (unless you happen to get lucky).
The story at the time was that Oracle only paid so much for Sun because it thought that by hammering on Google for Android with Java licensing claims it could force Google into a patent cross-licensing deal for its distributed database patents, which Oracle needed to scale.
Does this mean, then, that Oracle is still having trouble scaling? It suggests to me that Oracle would be a bad choice at this point for web-scale development. I honestly would have predicted that they would have their own solutions in place by now.
WashPo peomulgated the whole #fakenews Russian Hacking scandal.
Watch the magician's hands, not his mouth.
Glaring omission is glaring.
https://ooni.torproject.org/po...
And mobile computing will never catch on at this rate.
the negative stories don't even mention him
It should - he was just tweeting recently that the block 5 Falcon was making reliability improvements (this) and that man-rated would wait for those.
Not sure how you get more upfront in 140 characters.
You actually thought you could make a dent in mobile OSes when even Microsoft couldn't?
Right. Microsoft will tenaciously support something for a decade even if it's a flop. They need to do this to attract any developers in the first place.
Five years ago, I thought that the idea sounded interesting, but Mozilla's lack of being able to commit to anything was a red flag for me. I suppose this was true for most hardware vendors, and they never pledged any kind of long-term support, so it was doomed from the beginning.
The bigger problem is that MoFo is paying people half a million dollars a year for "leadership" and they don't even get such basic concepts. Good luck convincing smart people to go work in a corporate culture of intolerance, though. Maybe they can get some smart consultants though, if caring about the original MoFo vision and cash-on-the-barrel are the only requirements.
If they think these people will go away, they're mistaken. Perhaps they feel they don't want to enable them by using Reddit's resources to organize, but, really, they were doing a huge service to the rest of society by keeping these posts out in the open where everybody can see them.
You can drive them all to locked sites on .onion services, but that is not in the public interest.
Plus you don't have a situation like this where three guests died waiting for the BTC confirmation.
if they force you to tell them your salary
They cannot. If they won't offer you a job without that information, and you think that information is not appropriate to share, then you've just determined that this employer and you are not a good fit. Count your blessings and move on.
It's coming anyway - just like bridge builders and other REAL engineers.
No, software engineering is not just like bridge building. Only simple software can be proven correct - bridge builders have equations they can use to verify their work.
That and they understand machine learning, Bayesian classifiers, etc. FSF must be hoping for a strong AI breakthrough if they even think thier plan can work. The industry has been at this for forty years and spent hundreds of millions on not succeeding with computational approaches.
Really? I've heard the last few Trek outings were absolute shit. I've been too busy to see many movies, but after Paramount's shenanigans began I couldn't see making time to give them any of my money. The fans made Trek - if they want to shit on the fans, then the fans can u make Trek. Except that most of them are p'tak.
If the Endowment is large enough they can give every student free tuition. If there is no endowment, everybody pays. In the middle, they need enough people paying full-boat to subsidize the kids who need a full ride. Look at the economics before you assume ill intent. There is no magic money and locking kids into thirty years of debt is no magnanimous gesture.
Yeah, basically this. Find the software that's closest to what you want to do and get on their community software and ask if there's already a way to do it. Your idea probably isn't unique, but just in case it is, the community can give feedback as to whether it's a good idea or not, and then if it is good their docs or people in the community will tell you how to put in a feature request. At that point, follow most of the advice others are giving about building or buying.
Everyone puts their phone in case, so that adds a bezel.
To the contrary - the edge of the case, even on phones with a thin bezel - prevents the edges of the screens from being used. This always gets me with text selection on Android.
With no bezel, you can't have a case wrap around the top edge. From the perspective of selling screens and replacement phones it's a fabulous idea.
The word 'projection' when used by business or government s a fancy way of saying they can the future. Through enough numbers and fancy colorful graphs and people will believe anything.
But that's fine. The voters should allow the bond after a construction company has given a firm bid and demonstrated that it has insurance for up to, say, 5x cost overruns.
If no one company can cover that much, the managers can break it up into small enough pieces until the voters have a guaranteed not-to-exceed cost.
Any voter who believes initial government estimates is a fool.