A censor is a government agent. A boycott is speech at it's core. The boycott is one of the few political protests with a long history in the US going back to the founders and still in use today. Various christian groups have probably more than 100 active boycotts in process right now.
So you think we should ban one of the oldest methods of public speech there is?
This sounds a lot like harassment and intolerance to me.
Then you don't know what harassment and intolerance is. These actions are SPEECH. A boycott is a traditional use of commercial power to express political views. It has a LONG history in the US. The primary goal of most Boycotts is to get the retailer to drop a product. This is an act of SPEECH by both the participants of the boycott and on the part of the retailer.
There is nothing at all wrong with these actions. They are at their essence counter speech to the politics of Donald Trump. Given that his "Brand" is his most valuable asset (from his own words), using a boycott to attack his speech is the perfect counter.
It's disturbing how few posts out of 400 recognize that a boycott IS speech and calls to restrict it are calls to restrict speech.
It is tolerance of other people's ideas and beliefs, whether or not you agree with them.
No one is under any obligation to be "tolerant" of ANYONE elses ideas and beliefs. It might be polite but there is absolutely NO obligation.
You probably don't understand that what you just said supports speech restrictions, or maybe you do and don't care. Social consequences and counter speech such as boycotts are perfectly valid methods of counter speech. There is nothing at all wrong with them.
All the cloud companies are making MAD profits on it. Once the reach a certain size they gain leverage on pricing of hardware, software and internet delivery. Amazon like Google is buying their own dark fiber links, building hardware and deploying their own custom software. Once the data center is deployed their ongoing costs are essentially power and labor and the power costs are being purchased up front in the form of solar arrays that offset the entire power cost often onsite. You have a large cost deploying the data center but you can amortize that away to avoid taxes and then you get to sell access to that hardware for years.
Google, Amazon and MS are making billions on their cloud operations.
That rating isn't a best guess, it's the average rating of viewers that watch similar content to you. Personally I've loved some of the series and disliked others. I think Longmire is fantastic (well up until the end of last season where it went off the rails).
The problem Netflix has is there are some studios that won't sell their content for streaming and there are others that refuse to sell it to netflix because they have their own cable enterprise. This was the huge danger of allowing content delivery to own content creation. We used to have laws against this to prevent this very problem.
Even if they get 5 billion they'll have gotten more money in the long run than the microsoft purchase. At the time Microsoft offered to purchase Yahoo, they still had all the shares of Alibaba, something that ended up being sold for right around 40 Billion and distributed to shareholders. By that measure alone the Microsoft deal was severely undervalued.
So you can swing the $1000 (as could I) and you would put that money down for a place in line with only mild desire to buy one? Because THAT was the premise of the post I replied to. I'm not going to give anyone $1000 for 18months unless I really want it, neither would you and neither would the vast vast majority of people putting those deposits down.
That was my point, $1000 is a lot of money for most people and they aren't going to throw it down on a mild interest in purchasing something in 2 years.
In the airline industry they frequently order a whole bunch but they rarely if ever purchase that many. The contracts aren't sales contracts, they are options to purchase in the normal world. I've heard the number that 50% of those sales will never execute.
People bought the first infinity car sight unseen when they did those stupid car commercials that didn't even show the car or talk about it. This is not even close. The Tesla 3 was demonstrated at the launch event, the internet is littered with photos and reviews by people that attended the event and got to drive one. It is still 18months before full production but the tooling is being built right now so there probably won't be significant changes before the retail model is available. The same method was used on the Model S and it changed very little.
So you think average people would give Tesla $1000 to hold for a MIN of 18 months on an off chance they would buy it? You're either ridiculously wealthy with no concept of money or an idiot. I'm thinking the former.
It's also ironic that in their effort to get TCP/IP they couldn't write their own and had to take the BSD version and integrate it into windows. There's a BSD copyright notice in Windows to this day because of that.
You did see the malicious USB "drive" that was actually a transformer right (developed as an exhibit on how dangerous random USB can be)? It took about a second for it to build up 240V and send it back through the port. First pulse dropped the screen and probably everything else as well, the second pulse killed the whole laptop power system. And it all happened before you could even pull it. It also would keep pulsing until power to the port stopped.
There are two sets of memory on this chip if you read the reports. The die itself has an additional layer that is HBM (High bandwidth memory) linked directly to the CPU. Think of it like the L1 and L2 cache in x86 chips. There is nothing that indicates how much memory this is (as the quoted memory sizes are for the memory chips attached to the boards). I'm willing to bet the chip has around 10billion transistors and the remaining 5 are the HBM layer that sits on top.
Legalized pot only exists because the Justice department has refused to act against it because of Popular opinion. The DEA could shut down state sanctioned pot sales in a minute by arresting and charging everyone involved (and there is a mandatory minimum of 10 years for sales under federal law). This is a risk where a federal law bans something that a state has legalized. Because of the way Federal drug laws are structured the only one that can exercise them is the federal government so individual parties can't bring criminal or civil complaints. This is why the supreme court tossed out Nebraska and Kansas attempt to sue under federal law. But this also means that if the Justice department refuses to act to enforce the law there is nothing that can be done.
The president to replace Obama could undo this and allow the DEA and justice to target legalized sales. And if that president is Cruz you better damn well expect it.
USB-C cables shouldn't be an issue once they are in full deployment, the knockoffs are the result of early deployment and ripoff Chinese manufacturers. With a wide deployment I suspect we'll end up with a relatively small number of wattages say around 3-4 different wattages the OEM's can choose from based on the power consumption, and prices should drop significantly as well just like cellphone USB chargers once it was standardized and bulk production dropped the cost. As they deploy out in the real world the need to start including new ones with new computers starts to go away and in no time at all it will probably become optional, not an automatically included cost whether you need it or not.
In addition USB-C offers another key advantage. The transformer can provide additional ports, it would be trivial to load the transformer with USB, network and even video ports so you don't need to carry additional dongles. Win-Win. You already need it for power so it's totally logical to throw a true USB chip in and add the necessary ports for an extra $10.
The new transformer for every computer truly bothers me, and it's not just Dell and HP, it's everyone else too, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, etc.. And even in the same manufacturer you can have similar models in the same family of laptops with all completely different transformers and connectors. The current situation is just fucking ridiculous. I can't believe European regulators have tolerated it, as they were the ones that forced the cell phone transition.
15 billion is the transistor count for the GPU logic.
I've seen nothing that would indicate either way that this could be the truth. It's pure speculation. Others have speculated that to reach that 15 billion number they have to be counting the memory transistors as well. Though this is big at 600mm2 it isn't that much bigger than previous die's that held a fraction of that number of transitions.
Majority rules is NOT how the US works. We provide ample opportunity for minority groups to intervene and upset law making. The filibuster is one of these tools. People that support "majority rules" simply don't understand the US political system and it's method to divide powers and protect minorities. And through their ignorance they are seeking to implement the tyranny of the majority that causes so much consternation and civil war in the world it isn't even funny.
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A censor is a government agent. A boycott is speech at it's core. The boycott is one of the few political protests with a long history in the US going back to the founders and still in use today. Various christian groups have probably more than 100 active boycotts in process right now.
So you think we should ban one of the oldest methods of public speech there is?
Then you don't know what harassment and intolerance is. These actions are SPEECH. A boycott is a traditional use of commercial power to express political views. It has a LONG history in the US. The primary goal of most Boycotts is to get the retailer to drop a product. This is an act of SPEECH by both the participants of the boycott and on the part of the retailer.
There is nothing at all wrong with these actions. They are at their essence counter speech to the politics of Donald Trump. Given that his "Brand" is his most valuable asset (from his own words), using a boycott to attack his speech is the perfect counter.
It's disturbing how few posts out of 400 recognize that a boycott IS speech and calls to restrict it are calls to restrict speech.
Except that is EXACTLY what you are doing. So you must be SJW too eh?
No one is under any obligation to be "tolerant" of ANYONE elses ideas and beliefs. It might be polite but there is absolutely NO obligation.
You probably don't understand that what you just said supports speech restrictions, or maybe you do and don't care. Social consequences and counter speech such as boycotts are perfectly valid methods of counter speech. There is nothing at all wrong with them.
Infringing on his right to make money? Things that are not rights for $1000 Alex.
All the cloud companies are making MAD profits on it. Once the reach a certain size they gain leverage on pricing of hardware, software and internet delivery. Amazon like Google is buying their own dark fiber links, building hardware and deploying their own custom software. Once the data center is deployed their ongoing costs are essentially power and labor and the power costs are being purchased up front in the form of solar arrays that offset the entire power cost often onsite. You have a large cost deploying the data center but you can amortize that away to avoid taxes and then you get to sell access to that hardware for years.
Google, Amazon and MS are making billions on their cloud operations.
That rating isn't a best guess, it's the average rating of viewers that watch similar content to you. Personally I've loved some of the series and disliked others. I think Longmire is fantastic (well up until the end of last season where it went off the rails).
The problem Netflix has is there are some studios that won't sell their content for streaming and there are others that refuse to sell it to netflix because they have their own cable enterprise. This was the huge danger of allowing content delivery to own content creation. We used to have laws against this to prevent this very problem.
Or refusing to license at all. There are several entire catalogs that cannot be purchased for streaming.
Even if they get 5 billion they'll have gotten more money in the long run than the microsoft purchase. At the time Microsoft offered to purchase Yahoo, they still had all the shares of Alibaba, something that ended up being sold for right around 40 Billion and distributed to shareholders. By that measure alone the Microsoft deal was severely undervalued.
No kidding. You can kiss Yahoo goodbye if verizon gets their hands on them.
There are some areas without billboard advertising. Go visit Seattle some time and marvel at the total lack of outdoor advertising.
A gas car you can keep going for 15 to 20 years.
Modulo maintenance, gas, and the various parts you will have to repair or replace, or course.
And the Tesla's only maintenance item is tires.
So you can swing the $1000 (as could I) and you would put that money down for a place in line with only mild desire to buy one? Because THAT was the premise of the post I replied to. I'm not going to give anyone $1000 for 18months unless I really want it, neither would you and neither would the vast vast majority of people putting those deposits down.
That was my point, $1000 is a lot of money for most people and they aren't going to throw it down on a mild interest in purchasing something in 2 years.
In the airline industry they frequently order a whole bunch but they rarely if ever purchase that many. The contracts aren't sales contracts, they are options to purchase in the normal world. I've heard the number that 50% of those sales will never execute.
People bought the first infinity car sight unseen when they did those stupid car commercials that didn't even show the car or talk about it. This is not even close. The Tesla 3 was demonstrated at the launch event, the internet is littered with photos and reviews by people that attended the event and got to drive one. It is still 18months before full production but the tooling is being built right now so there probably won't be significant changes before the retail model is available. The same method was used on the Model S and it changed very little.
So you think average people would give Tesla $1000 to hold for a MIN of 18 months on an off chance they would buy it? You're either ridiculously wealthy with no concept of money or an idiot. I'm thinking the former.
The time for deals with the FBI was before the FBI went public. Once they go public you have almost no chance of getting a deal.
It's also ironic that in their effort to get TCP/IP they couldn't write their own and had to take the BSD version and integrate it into windows. There's a BSD copyright notice in Windows to this day because of that.
You do realize they can do a mouse just as easily (even at the same time) and even bypass UAC dialogs just as easily?
You did see the malicious USB "drive" that was actually a transformer right (developed as an exhibit on how dangerous random USB can be)? It took about a second for it to build up 240V and send it back through the port. First pulse dropped the screen and probably everything else as well, the second pulse killed the whole laptop power system. And it all happened before you could even pull it. It also would keep pulsing until power to the port stopped.
There are two sets of memory on this chip if you read the reports. The die itself has an additional layer that is HBM (High bandwidth memory) linked directly to the CPU. Think of it like the L1 and L2 cache in x86 chips. There is nothing that indicates how much memory this is (as the quoted memory sizes are for the memory chips attached to the boards). I'm willing to bet the chip has around 10billion transistors and the remaining 5 are the HBM layer that sits on top.
Legalized pot only exists because the Justice department has refused to act against it because of Popular opinion. The DEA could shut down state sanctioned pot sales in a minute by arresting and charging everyone involved (and there is a mandatory minimum of 10 years for sales under federal law). This is a risk where a federal law bans something that a state has legalized. Because of the way Federal drug laws are structured the only one that can exercise them is the federal government so individual parties can't bring criminal or civil complaints. This is why the supreme court tossed out Nebraska and Kansas attempt to sue under federal law. But this also means that if the Justice department refuses to act to enforce the law there is nothing that can be done.
The president to replace Obama could undo this and allow the DEA and justice to target legalized sales. And if that president is Cruz you better damn well expect it.
USB-C cables shouldn't be an issue once they are in full deployment, the knockoffs are the result of early deployment and ripoff Chinese manufacturers. With a wide deployment I suspect we'll end up with a relatively small number of wattages say around 3-4 different wattages the OEM's can choose from based on the power consumption, and prices should drop significantly as well just like cellphone USB chargers once it was standardized and bulk production dropped the cost. As they deploy out in the real world the need to start including new ones with new computers starts to go away and in no time at all it will probably become optional, not an automatically included cost whether you need it or not.
In addition USB-C offers another key advantage. The transformer can provide additional ports, it would be trivial to load the transformer with USB, network and even video ports so you don't need to carry additional dongles. Win-Win. You already need it for power so it's totally logical to throw a true USB chip in and add the necessary ports for an extra $10.
The new transformer for every computer truly bothers me, and it's not just Dell and HP, it's everyone else too, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, etc.. And even in the same manufacturer you can have similar models in the same family of laptops with all completely different transformers and connectors. The current situation is just fucking ridiculous. I can't believe European regulators have tolerated it, as they were the ones that forced the cell phone transition.
I've seen nothing that would indicate either way that this could be the truth. It's pure speculation. Others have speculated that to reach that 15 billion number they have to be counting the memory transistors as well. Though this is big at 600mm2 it isn't that much bigger than previous die's that held a fraction of that number of transitions.
Majority rules is NOT how the US works. We provide ample opportunity for minority groups to intervene and upset law making. The filibuster is one of these tools. People that support "majority rules" simply don't understand the US political system and it's method to divide powers and protect minorities. And through their ignorance they are seeking to implement the tyranny of the majority that causes so much consternation and civil war in the world it isn't even funny.