eMachineLearningCloudBlockchainAI-as-a-service.com: We're democratizing social networks for the internet. Our current valuation is $4.5 Billion and our server closet is where the waiters keep their coats.
Sounds like someone is thinking outside the box, leveraging some core competencies and hitting the ground running. An amazing display of synergy and proactivity if you ask me. I bet it runs on a blockchain on the cloud.
I fully support ending the time changes, but using daylight savings time year-round is idiotic. That is just setting noon to 1PM. If we do this in the US, sunrise in New York will be about 8AM in the winter. Although the name implies it, daylight saving time does not actually make the day longer.
Sounds like a great place to hide something in plain sight.
A soccer ball with a transmitter that isn't supposed to have one would stand out. However, a soccer ball that has a *different* transmitter than it came with would be much harder to identify.
Violating your privacy is Facebook's core business. Whether they are acting as the broker to sell advertising through their network or selling data to third parties, your private information is their product. The social networking service they run is the bait they use to get you to hand them your information.
The electronic privacy laws in the US are fairly weak so there is a lot they can do without breaking them. Being surprised that Facebook invades your privacy is like being surprised that Ford continues to manufacture and sell cars. It is their core business.
Let's see, Uber has already had large public announcements abut developing self-diving cars, then flying cars. Each of these were after some bad press about Uber. What will they announce next to distract from this.
Alternatively, there just could be so much bad press that any PR stunt they hold will be immediately after something bad came out.
Uber challenged the stale Taxi monopolies with a new dispatch and payment processing system. However, eventually VCs will get tired of buying people cab rides.
It's not really shrinking, it is maturing. Over the last few decades the semiconductor market has moved from a relatively large number of smaller disruptive companies to a relatively small number of larger streamlined companies. As an example, consider how many CPU architectures there were in the '80s and '90s. You had x86, 680x0, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC, PA-RISC, just to name a few. Now there is x86 (the modern version of it) and ARM.
You can also look at car companies in the first half of the 20th century. Lincoln, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Dodge, et. al. were independent car companies when cars were still new. They were acquired by what became the "Big Three" US automakers before the merger of Dialmer-Chrysler. Maybe electric vehicles will be enough of a disruptive market to foster more auto companies.
The large development costs and relatively stable products of mature markets favor large, streamlined companies that can benefit from economies of scale. The fast changing nature of new markets favor small agile companies that can be disruptive. We are in the later stages of the maturation of the semiconductor industry.
There seems to be a tradition of U.S. presidents making bold claims about sending people to Mars on a time scale well after their political careers are over. Welcome to the club President Obama.
I get the anxiety over a change like this. There will be some pain involved in the transition, particularly if you have an analog headset you like. However, as USB-C audio gains traction it will work well.
Standards will mature so that any headset will work with any phone, car, computer, etc. Power consumption will come down. DRM won't be enforced in the headset. Charge through connectors will become common. In other words, as the market grows, things that piss people off will get fixed.
At the same time, more features will be available. High end headsets will have high end DACs built in with PAs that are tuned to the speakers in the headset. In addition to basic headsets, advanced headsets will be available with DSPs for programmability.
Also, the analog 3.5mm jack is no picnic. It has been extended ad-hoc over the years and phones never know what could be plugged in.
So relax, it will be alright. Even if the analog jack disappears completely, it will take a while.
While the comment regarding coding miss the mark and is in line with the latest groupthink from non-techies thinking that computer science is just typing with curly braces, there is a valid point about the cultural shift away from science in the USA.
In the USA we seem to be giving up on science. Our pop culture glorifies lawyers, advertisers, financial middle men, and sales. The scientists and engineers are almost always portrayed as awkward, unhappy, and somehow flawed. This has always been the case to some extent, but it seems far more pervasive now. From what I have seen, the graduate programs in science and engineering are filled with foreign students because american students aren't interested anymore. We stopped making things long ago, now it seems like we have stopped doing things. Our science and engineering economy is still strong because people still move here.
I work as an electrical engineer and our group has people from all over the world. Somewhere between 5% - 10% are from the US, the rest typically did undergraduate work overseas and got a graduate degree in the US.* I have noticed that below a certain age, you see almost 0 American engineers. Most of the American engineers I see are old enough to have grown up in an era where the US valued science and engineering. IOW, when we still had a space program and computing was relatively new.
*This is not a visa abuse situation. Most people are on fast track to a green card, buy houses here, raise their families here, become US citizens, etc.
I'll make a bet right now that killing the headphone jack will be a step too far and Apple will be forced to bring it back pretty quickly.
I sincerely doubt that. I think the real question is whether Apple sticks with lightning or switches to USB-C. USB-C audio will be standardized. There is a lot of anxiety over the 3.5mm jack now but I feel that is due to uncertainty.
I realize this is a little off-topic, but here goes anyway. My predictions: 1. Phones will transition to digital audio quickly as the product cycle is fast. Most people won't notice. 2. 3.5mm analog jacks will stick around as a secondary option for a while, but eventually disappear. 3. Computers will switch to USB-C too. The 3.5mm jack will stick around longer there because computers tend to be bigger, have more ports, and longer life cycles nowadays. 4. TVs, home stereo equipment, cars, etc. will pick up USB-C digital audio as well (following the now established standard). This transition will be slower than computers, but it will still happen. 5. When this is all over, people will think of USB-C similar to how they think the of the 3.5mm jack now. IOW, a ubiquitous standard that can do anything, why would you want to muck with it. By this time, USB-C will be the de-facto port for video, audio, peripherals, charging, docking stations, etc. 6. If Apple is still using lightning at this point, they are doing it solely to control users.
Now, this is speculative but I do feel that this will happen. It feels a lot like the first round of USB adoption. I remember being upset that firewire didn't take off and fumbling with the various PS/2 to USB adapters, cursing at bad drivers, etc. But USB did eventually replace a group of interfaces and most things work smoothly without hassle. USB-C is not one company's pet, it is being developed and promoted with wide participation from the industry. Lightning is, however, one company's pet and that is the potential monkey wrench in this situation.
Just to chime in here, the 3.5mm connector in phones is a royal PITA.
1. Sure the 3.5mm jack is "standard" but it is a physical standard only and there is no uniformity. There are 2, 3, 4, and even 5-pole plugs. The phone needs to detect this and respond accordingly. Also, headsets with a microphone use 4-pole connectors but sometimes the mic and ground pins are swapped. The phone needs to detect this and respond accordingly. These circuits degrade analog performance.
2. FM and audio do not play well together. In many countries people like to listen to FM radio on their phones. Using the headphones as the antenna sounds nice until you realize that the FM antenna filters increase crosstalk and distortion in the audio. Digital TV signals are even worse.
3. Phones need to detect what is plugged into the jack. That means stere/mono, microphone, pinout, speaker impedance, etc. Can you tell the difference between an extension cable vs. a pair of headphones vs. a headset with microphone vs. a headset with buttons. Again, this adds complexity and usually you can hear clicks and buzzes while this is being done.
However, digital headsets are not all rainbows and unicorns either. There is the obvious lightning vs USB-C issue. Battery drain may increase. Cost will increase (at least initially). But all of the issues mentioned above with the 3.5mm jack get resolved.
I think the DRM issue is a red herring. Music is moving away from DRM now anyway.
The same thing happened in 1998. Geeks everywhere told Apple to screw themselves for coming out with a 'proprietary' connector USB that no one else used. Forcing everyone to buy new mice and keyboards and... oh the humanity.
Not buying an Apple product? Why the hell do you care?
This. USB-C is coming and it will be everywhere. Don't underestimate that. I would be surprised if Apple sticks with lightning much longer. Of course, they would piss off everyone who just bought lightning adapters and if any company can swim upstream with a custom connector it would be Apple.
The name of the algorithm behind AES is Rijndael -- a combination of the names of the Belgian cryptographers who developed it.
Right. And after 10 seconds of searching, one finds the Wikipedia page on AES:
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael[4][5] (its original name), is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.[6]
AES is based on the Rijndael cipher[5] developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen
I don't know which possibility is more concerning: that the director has such myopic American exceptionalism or that he would expect the public to be so stupid.
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eMachineLearningCloudBlockchainAI-as-a-service.com: We're democratizing social networks for the internet. Our current valuation is $4.5 Billion and our server closet is where the waiters keep their coats.
AI right there in the name, so it is doing its job! What else is there? Also, 40% sounds low. Maybe it is higher over here in the states.
Sounds like someone is thinking outside the box, leveraging some core competencies and hitting the ground running. An amazing display of synergy and proactivity if you ask me. I bet it runs on a blockchain on the cloud.
It runs blockchain Above the cloud!
This looks like a classic man-in-the-middle attack. FIDO U2F makes MITM attacks much harder, but not impossible. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/157756/mitm-attacks-on-fido-uaf-and-u2f
I get way more screen time than I used to and, uhh..., now I, umm...
Oooh! Look at that cat video!
I fully support ending the time changes, but using daylight savings time year-round is idiotic. That is just setting noon to 1PM. If we do this in the US, sunrise in New York will be about 8AM in the winter. Although the name implies it, daylight saving time does not actually make the day longer.
Sounds like a great place to hide something in plain sight.
A soccer ball with a transmitter that isn't supposed to have one would stand out. However, a soccer ball that has a *different* transmitter than it came with would be much harder to identify.
Violating your privacy is Facebook's core business. Whether they are acting as the broker to sell advertising through their network or selling data to third parties, your private information is their product. The social networking service they run is the bait they use to get you to hand them your information.
The electronic privacy laws in the US are fairly weak so there is a lot they can do without breaking them. Being surprised that Facebook invades your privacy is like being surprised that Ford continues to manufacture and sell cars. It is their core business.
Huh? You can download flacs of albums from sites like 7digital.com and hdtracks.com. with NAS and backups, these will out last your CDs.
http://www.equifacks.com/
I tried stapling batteries to horses, but somehow that felt incorrect.
Those guys never do time
Let's see, Uber has already had large public announcements abut developing self-diving cars, then flying cars. Each of these were after some bad press about Uber. What will they announce next to distract from this.
Alternatively, there just could be so much bad press that any PR stunt they hold will be immediately after something bad came out.
Uber challenged the stale Taxi monopolies with a new dispatch and payment processing system. However, eventually VCs will get tired of buying people cab rides.
Anyone remember the 20th Anniversary Mac?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That was a $7500 (in 1997) priced, under-powered piece of desk jewelry that was released at a point when Apple nearly went out of business.
This may be history repeating itself with Microsoft Windows replaced with Google Android.
It's not really shrinking, it is maturing. Over the last few decades the semiconductor market has moved from a relatively large number of smaller disruptive companies to a relatively small number of larger streamlined companies. As an example, consider how many CPU architectures there were in the '80s and '90s. You had x86, 680x0, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC, PA-RISC, just to name a few. Now there is x86 (the modern version of it) and ARM.
You can also look at car companies in the first half of the 20th century. Lincoln, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Dodge, et. al. were independent car companies when cars were still new. They were acquired by what became the "Big Three" US automakers before the merger of Dialmer-Chrysler. Maybe electric vehicles will be enough of a disruptive market to foster more auto companies.
The large development costs and relatively stable products of mature markets favor large, streamlined companies that can benefit from economies of scale. The fast changing nature of new markets favor small agile companies that can be disruptive. We are in the later stages of the maturation of the semiconductor industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There seems to be a tradition of U.S. presidents making bold claims about sending people to Mars on a time scale well after their political careers are over. Welcome to the club President Obama.
Magic numbers save tons of time. You get to working code quickly to verify your algorithm. They nev
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I get the anxiety over a change like this. There will be some pain involved in the transition, particularly if you have an analog headset you like. However, as USB-C audio gains traction it will work well.
Standards will mature so that any headset will work with any phone, car, computer, etc. Power consumption will come down. DRM won't be enforced in the headset. Charge through connectors will become common. In other words, as the market grows, things that piss people off will get fixed.
At the same time, more features will be available. High end headsets will have high end DACs built in with PAs that are tuned to the speakers in the headset. In addition to basic headsets, advanced headsets will be available with DSPs for programmability.
Also, the analog 3.5mm jack is no picnic. It has been extended ad-hoc over the years and phones never know what could be plugged in.
So relax, it will be alright. Even if the analog jack disappears completely, it will take a while.
While the comment regarding coding miss the mark and is in line with the latest groupthink from non-techies thinking that computer science is just typing with curly braces, there is a valid point about the cultural shift away from science in the USA.
In the USA we seem to be giving up on science. Our pop culture glorifies lawyers, advertisers, financial middle men, and sales. The scientists and engineers are almost always portrayed as awkward, unhappy, and somehow flawed. This has always been the case to some extent, but it seems far more pervasive now. From what I have seen, the graduate programs in science and engineering are filled with foreign students because american students aren't interested anymore. We stopped making things long ago, now it seems like we have stopped doing things. Our science and engineering economy is still strong because people still move here.
I work as an electrical engineer and our group has people from all over the world. Somewhere between 5% - 10% are from the US, the rest typically did undergraduate work overseas and got a graduate degree in the US.* I have noticed that below a certain age, you see almost 0 American engineers. Most of the American engineers I see are old enough to have grown up in an era where the US valued science and engineering. IOW, when we still had a space program and computing was relatively new.
*This is not a visa abuse situation. Most people are on fast track to a green card, buy houses here, raise their families here, become US citizens, etc.
I'll make a bet right now that killing the headphone jack will be a step too far and Apple will be forced to bring it back pretty quickly.
I sincerely doubt that. I think the real question is whether Apple sticks with lightning or switches to USB-C. USB-C audio will be standardized. There is a lot of anxiety over the 3.5mm jack now but I feel that is due to uncertainty.
I realize this is a little off-topic, but here goes anyway. My predictions:
1. Phones will transition to digital audio quickly as the product cycle is fast. Most people won't notice.
2. 3.5mm analog jacks will stick around as a secondary option for a while, but eventually disappear.
3. Computers will switch to USB-C too. The 3.5mm jack will stick around longer there because computers tend to be bigger, have more ports, and longer life cycles nowadays.
4. TVs, home stereo equipment, cars, etc. will pick up USB-C digital audio as well (following the now established standard). This transition will be slower than computers, but it will still happen.
5. When this is all over, people will think of USB-C similar to how they think the of the 3.5mm jack now. IOW, a ubiquitous standard that can do anything, why would you want to muck with it. By this time, USB-C will be the de-facto port for video, audio, peripherals, charging, docking stations, etc.
6. If Apple is still using lightning at this point, they are doing it solely to control users.
Now, this is speculative but I do feel that this will happen. It feels a lot like the first round of USB adoption. I remember being upset that firewire didn't take off and fumbling with the various PS/2 to USB adapters, cursing at bad drivers, etc. But USB did eventually replace a group of interfaces and most things work smoothly without hassle. USB-C is not one company's pet, it is being developed and promoted with wide participation from the industry. Lightning is, however, one company's pet and that is the potential monkey wrench in this situation.
Just to chime in here, the 3.5mm connector in phones is a royal PITA.
1. Sure the 3.5mm jack is "standard" but it is a physical standard only and there is no uniformity. There are 2, 3, 4, and even 5-pole plugs. The phone needs to detect this and respond accordingly. Also, headsets with a microphone use 4-pole connectors but sometimes the mic and ground pins are swapped. The phone needs to detect this and respond accordingly. These circuits degrade analog performance.
2. FM and audio do not play well together. In many countries people like to listen to FM radio on their phones. Using the headphones as the antenna sounds nice until you realize that the FM antenna filters increase crosstalk and distortion in the audio. Digital TV signals are even worse.
3. Phones need to detect what is plugged into the jack. That means stere/mono, microphone, pinout, speaker impedance, etc. Can you tell the difference between an extension cable vs. a pair of headphones vs. a headset with microphone vs. a headset with buttons. Again, this adds complexity and usually you can hear clicks and buzzes while this is being done.
However, digital headsets are not all rainbows and unicorns either. There is the obvious lightning vs USB-C issue. Battery drain may increase. Cost will increase (at least initially). But all of the issues mentioned above with the 3.5mm jack get resolved.
I think the DRM issue is a red herring. Music is moving away from DRM now anyway.
The same thing happened in 1998. Geeks everywhere told Apple to screw themselves for coming out with a 'proprietary' connector USB that no one else used. Forcing everyone to buy new mice and keyboards and ... oh the humanity.
Not buying an Apple product? Why the hell do you care?
This. USB-C is coming and it will be everywhere. Don't underestimate that. I would be surprised if Apple sticks with lightning much longer. Of course, they would piss off everyone who just bought lightning adapters and if any company can swim upstream with a custom connector it would be Apple.
The name of the algorithm behind AES is Rijndael -- a combination of the names of the Belgian cryptographers who developed it.
Right. And after 10 seconds of searching, one finds the Wikipedia page on AES:
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael[4][5] (its original name), is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.[6]
AES is based on the Rijndael cipher[5] developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen
I don't know which possibility is more concerning: that the director has such myopic American exceptionalism or that he would expect the public to be so stupid.
If we told you, it wouldn't be a secret.
I can't believe anyone trusts Facebook.
delivery may take up to 50 years.