Apple has that "you can't compete with us" problem. Google could very well raise awareness of podcasts well enough that BeyondPod and others get a boost. If it helps kill off the MSM, it's a good move.
Somebody has to make more humans for the species' survival. If you work at Twitter, you might be doing nice work, but you're not doing anything as socially critical as reproduction. As far as socially-responsible practices go, this is a good one.
It's a good sign that,in modern times companies must compete for top employees. The only force making Twitter do this is market pressure. This will likely diffuse into society, working down the income ladder, just as Sundays and then two-day weekends and 9-5 hours did, as technology and productivity created the wealth required for societies to afford it (not to mention and end to child labor).
[Out before the curmudgeons equate child labor to Twitter developers]
This will merge into Facebook Messenger. People will get wise to needing secure end-to-end communications and would leave Facebook Messenger if it were not secure. This keeps people on Facebook. This improves the monetization through other parts of Facebook. Not every single piece of every single machine has to directly serve a single end goal.
Sure. They hired an expert in a Linux distro very few people want to run. Maybe they're trying to save.NET and the server revenue isn't worth the effort anymore. Desktop + Apps + Web IDE might be enough in 2016. The days of a CAL for everything are replaced by subscriptions to everything and app stores. Fighting admins who won't accept public-facing Windows servers is an uphill battle.
You know how they say playing the lottery is a tax on being stupid? Why would you offer flat-rate pricing when you have customers that will roll over and take it?
Watch for an A8-based tablet with a "Mac Mode" and KVM expansion at this or the next WWDC. Almost nobody needs a Mac Pro, relative to Apple's market share. At $800 billion or whatever, the margins don't matter to them - what matters is the opportunity cost of having those (excellent) engineers not working on products that many more people will purchase.
Solid-state lithium batteries have as much power density as fuel cells+storage and can refill just as fast without needing difficult new infrastructure, without concerns about safe handling of hydrogen or new fuel-source creation plants.
They still need to be cheap enough to replace every 150,000 miles, but fuel cell catalysts would have similar challenges.
My '96 Chevy truck had a conversion option available to run on hydrogen - that's 20 years and nobody is even biting on it while electrics are grabbing market share rather quickly.
Apple already knows it's hackable, that's why the 5S and newer have Secure Enclave.
Still, they should make the FBI rue the day they tried to destroy Apple's market, however they can. Revealing the San Bernadito phone as a ploy is the minimum they should pursue.
Yet, ultimately I hope Apple loses an inquiry about this break because it's better for all of us if they see the unconstitutional law enforcement agencies as adversaries.
I liked that Monoprice has 24-ga cables for a fair price and that they would support 1200mA or better out of the box.
Now some of them, after only a year of light use will only support 800 or even 480mA charge rates on known-good chargers. I don't even have a theory about why this might be true, but it is, empirically. How is this even possible?
It only matters what they can hammer Google over the head with in order to try to get a cross-licensing deal on Google's distributed database patents. Oracle doesn't scale, and is facing obsolescence without going distributed.
Google knows this and frankly it should be incentivized by now to end Oracle, as a terror to the industry.
or, y'know, check the demolition permit taped to the front door? I don't care who issues those permits, per se, but a crew needs to at least verify that.
One project I managed involved a demo - there was a ton of paperwork and I had to sign papers, on-site, as owner-representative before the excavator started in.
Push all the 'very long wait' titles to the top of your queue. They're usually being phased out. As a bonus, if one becomes available you'll get an extra disc for free, if it's been at the top of your queue for a while.
I'm considering switching to the two-disc plan just so my kids get to see some of the classics before they dump them on Dollar General.
Why such a low ransom for such a high risk? I bet the hospital has more $ in its petty cash drawer...
And who benefits from all this drama? They could have been back up and running before they went to the press. How does the hospital not suffer from this PR (like that they have no network isolation, perimeter security, or backups)? Something else is going on.
>The downside with it was that it wasn't obvious how to install it
Really? The RPM always auto-installed it for me. The biggest problem I saw was users would look for Chrome under 'Chrome Apps' and it's under 'Internet' in the standard FreeDesktop grouping.
Google should really be working on a way to handle this transparently so Hangouts, e.g., can stand alone under 'Internet'.
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Apple has that "you can't compete with us" problem. Google could very well raise awareness of podcasts well enough that BeyondPod and others get a boost. If it helps kill off the MSM, it's a good move.
It's OK, the FBI eventually, after it's caught and cornered, tells the truth.
Any "space program" is going to be staffed like a submarine.
You might prefer a "space vacation" where they cater to customers' desires. Musk will have private tourists on Mars before NASA gets there.
s/many/most/ Really, there's a huge disparity in title count.
Somebody has to make more humans for the species' survival. If you work at Twitter, you might be doing nice work, but you're not doing anything as socially critical as reproduction. As far as socially-responsible practices go, this is a good one.
It's a good sign that,in modern times companies must compete for top employees. The only force making Twitter do this is market pressure. This will likely diffuse into society, working down the income ladder, just as Sundays and then two-day weekends and 9-5 hours did, as technology and productivity created the wealth required for societies to afford it (not to mention and end to child labor).
[Out before the curmudgeons equate child labor to Twitter developers]
This will merge into Facebook Messenger. People will get wise to needing secure end-to-end communications and would leave Facebook Messenger if it were not secure. This keeps people on Facebook. This improves the monetization through other parts of Facebook. Not every single piece of every single machine has to directly serve a single end goal.
hrm - no cracked firmware yet? My printer is so stupid the very last thing I expect it has is signed firmware.
Sure. They hired an expert in a Linux distro very few people want to run. Maybe they're trying to save .NET and the server revenue isn't worth the effort anymore. Desktop + Apps + Web IDE might be enough in 2016. The days of a CAL for everything are replaced by subscriptions to everything and app stores. Fighting admins who won't accept public-facing Windows servers is an uphill battle.
This. Some of my digital possessions will die with me (or if my brain fails first).
For everything else, there's Shamir's Secret Sharing.
You know how they say playing the lottery is a tax on being stupid? Why would you offer flat-rate pricing when you have customers that will roll over and take it?
Watch for an A8-based tablet with a "Mac Mode" and KVM expansion at this or the next WWDC. Almost nobody needs a Mac Pro, relative to Apple's market share. At $800 billion or whatever, the margins don't matter to them - what matters is the opportunity cost of having those (excellent) engineers not working on products that many more people will purchase.
Solid-state lithium batteries have as much power density as fuel cells+storage and can refill just as fast without needing difficult new infrastructure, without concerns about safe handling of hydrogen or new fuel-source creation plants.
They still need to be cheap enough to replace every 150,000 miles, but fuel cell catalysts would have similar challenges.
My '96 Chevy truck had a conversion option available to run on hydrogen - that's 20 years and nobody is even biting on it while electrics are grabbing market share rather quickly.
A notification is a notification, regardless of how you dress it up.
This fails the hierarchy. The government cannot (legally yet) compel false speech on the part of a person or corporation.
Apple already knows it's hackable, that's why the 5S and newer have Secure Enclave.
Still, they should make the FBI rue the day they tried to destroy Apple's market, however they can. Revealing the San Bernadito phone as a ploy is the minimum they should pursue.
Yet, ultimately I hope Apple loses an inquiry about this break because it's better for all of us if they see the unconstitutional law enforcement agencies as adversaries.
There, now I've disagreed with both camps.
I liked that Monoprice has 24-ga cables for a fair price and that they would support 1200mA or better out of the box.
Now some of them, after only a year of light use will only support 800 or even 480mA charge rates on known-good chargers. I don't even have a theory about why this might be true, but it is, empirically. How is this even possible?
Whereever there has been power in human history, it has been for sale.
I know, let's give more people more power to fix that!
To discharge even a half-dead car battery in 2 weeks means drawing a constant 60mA.
And how else is OnStar supposed to always know where you? Have you looked at the problem through that PRISM?
... that this will be secured in a fashion consistent with the auto industry's stellar record on vehicle security.
Don't even need to blame them - your car is one Stagefright away from being stolen. Thanks for the locked bootloader, Verizon.
Half those patents from the 90s are expired now.
It only matters what they can hammer Google over the head with in order to try to get a cross-licensing deal on Google's distributed database patents. Oracle doesn't scale, and is facing obsolescence without going distributed.
Google knows this and frankly it should be incentivized by now to end Oracle, as a terror to the industry.
or, y'know, check the demolition permit taped to the front door? I don't care who issues those permits, per se, but a crew needs to at least verify that.
One project I managed involved a demo - there was a ton of paperwork and I had to sign papers, on-site, as owner-representative before the excavator started in.
Push all the 'very long wait' titles to the top of your queue. They're usually being phased out. As a bonus, if one becomes available you'll get an extra disc for free, if it's been at the top of your queue for a while.
I'm considering switching to the two-disc plan just so my kids get to see some of the classics before they dump them on Dollar General.
Nobody watches Dr. Who. It's an obscure title. The Internet told us so.
Why such a low ransom for such a high risk?
I bet the hospital has more $ in its petty cash drawer...
And who benefits from all this drama? They could have been back up and running before they went to the press. How does the hospital not suffer from this PR (like that they have no network isolation, perimeter security, or backups)? Something else is going on.
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>The downside with it was that it wasn't obvious how to install it
Really? The RPM always auto-installed it for me. The biggest problem I saw was users would look for Chrome under 'Chrome Apps' and it's under 'Internet' in the standard FreeDesktop grouping.
Google should really be working on a way to handle this transparently so Hangouts, e.g., can stand alone under 'Internet'.