For certain AC's, yes actually, but no cares what an AC thinks. I've been having to deal with "ad hominem" each time I question an article that involves scientists, almost creepily so like I'm being watched by a certain person that doesn't have the balls to reveal himself/herself. The problem is, because of recent political decisions, anyone skeptical of a scientific claim almost automatically gets shunned without any actual relevant counter-argument (almost always "ad hominem"; perhaps, "non sequitur"). These people that get offended blindly support a field they clearly know nothing about and only take the time to respond in a way as to suggest they view the particular field as an ideology and therefore as a personal attack rather than as a science that doesn't need faith to defend itself, just people able and willing to respond with an ounce of intelligence. "I'm skeptical and here's why..." has become the new "I hate all [insert race]."
But like I said before, I am more than happy for anyone to shed light with a counter-argument. I'm still waiting. I hope one of them does read this and explains things because it seems to me that people are terrified at questioning research right now because of current stereotypes associated with those in politics. It's becoming the new "You must be a racist because..." or "If you're not with us, you're against us." If people really cared about science and research like they claim, then they need to stop letting their beliefs dichotomize everything. Independent thinking has become a lost cause.
Yes they do, but you are not supposed to. "Correlation does not imply causation" is a maxim taught in introductory statistics and without statistics, there's no backbone for the observed patterns that create sound theories. My favorite related quote though: âoeThe complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.â -- Douglas Adams.
No one cares what an AC thinks. For your sake, oh wait you're an AC so you are safe, I hope those scientists, if they even read this, aren't feminists. At least I have a good feeling what "cunt"ry you are from. I'm sorry if my 7.5 years of college education confuses you into thinking I'm using a thesaurus. But assuming this is the same AC from before, it's kind of sad how you're keeping tabs on this and only capable of responding in a way to as to defend yourself rather than the work of a field you clearly have yet to demonstrate any knowledge about. But if you want to blindly accept everything because it has the the word "scientist" attached to it, go ahead. And you are right, scientists are PEOPLE with feelings, emphasis on people, aka human-beings, aka subject to error like anyone else, and pardon me if I'm not buying everything they are selling. I'll say it again, 3 BILLION LIGHT YEARS.
You can't defend something you don't own. There was a time in which the Internet was treated much like a highway driven by cars leased from our ISP's and the desktop like our homes, but Google changed that, Micro$oft is making it worse, and the FCC is bringing their own tyranny into the mix. No one in the U.S. has to hack you or even get a warrant, they can just legally purchase your browsing information. There are too many laws and ways of thinking that would have to be changed as a result of this for those in power that need them for their Muslim witch hunt excuse for the digital fingerprinting of everyone or companies that need the capitalistic advantage for this to happen. I honestly can't remember the last time a bill that made sense was passed that had no twisted ulterior motive in the end. Would we have an "NRA" for computer self defense? This would never happen in the "UKGB."
It's a drag and drop environment with lots of options and the more software installed, the more options. So, that technically means you can't make an "automation" without hoping that the other person has the same applications. But, as long as you use what comes with a Mac by default, you'd be alright. Xcode developed software can be all drag and drop. There are some other "drag and drop" related software that are game engine related like Game Maker (Game Editor for open source clone), Unity3D, and Unreal Engjne. Matter of fact, Blender's Game engine is unique in that it's written in Python, so you could use its chart-like style (they're obsessed with nodes) to create something.
I did that part, but I own a Mac and adware doesn't work all that well. Some free VPN's use adware when launching a web browser, but that's what NoScript's for and your default browser shouldn't be Safari anyway. On top of which, by default, the current MacOS system prevents the launch of software from unknown developers, as well as checks the integrity DMGs and applications at opening. I'll say it again, use FOSS if you're not going to use your system's store. If you get adware as a Mac user, you just an idiot.
The electrical activity part was alluding to how inventions often utilize zeitgeist as efficacy without much proof. But to answer your out-of-context question, electromagnetic waves can show-up by tugging of massive bodies the same way that gravitational waves are produced. However, gravitational waves are ridiculously weaker than electromagnetism, so it does not surprise me if there are confounding variables between Earth and 3 BILLION LIGHT YEARS away. But, it's okay because I've learned that AC's typically don't know anything and if they did or cared enough to back up what they say, they'd log in. Otherwise, thanks for stopping by to demonstrate your ability to disguise ad hominem in question form.
By the way, feel free to moderate this anyway you want but until there's an intelligent counter argument, have the decency to hold off for other's to say something. I'd moderate it back up myself, but I have too much integrity and not enough F's to give. People have proven to me a long time ago their inability to think for themselves, and I don't care if I'm right or wrong about anything just as long as there's a platform for insightful discussion.
"What you type is nonsense. What you read is nonsense. Yet, the most purest and honest data we can mine is biometrics." Not an actual quote, but it sounds like something Mark Z thinks in the back of his mind, all 200 neurons.
They bubble your searches so that you're more likely to click on something that may be sponsored. The problem with this is rather than being informed objectively, you're be subjected. Google "Trump" with a friend with different political beliefs at the same time and see the huge difference in search results. It has nothing to do with new pages. So even if Google doesn't have an agenda, it and other cookie munching software like Facebook just shove news and ads in your face that's never going to help you make any actual informed choices.
Fireball is literally no different then the ad-based crap Window$ pushes. It's not harmful on its own but can be used maliciously. Though, I doubt anyone really read the source. Fireball is a Chinese thing. Do you get your freemium software from Chinese websites? If you are a Slashdotter, then hopeful not, or your a sadomasochist/complete moron. This is nothing more than a clever scare brought on by Micro$oft to get people on the M$ store bandwagon. Just learn to use FOSS applications. I know it's unjustifiably painful for whatever reason for Window$ users to not pay for things that are developed by hundreds of collaborators with source code to look at, but it won't actually hurt you.
I really doubt the TSA agent himself/herself looks at a person's phone. If they are, they won't be for long. What is more likely to happen (or soon) is they plug your device into a computer and it "greps" for keywords in unencrypted metadata (or encrypted if there's a hex string pattern they are aware of), so they actually can look through in exported CSV file and various other types of all of your entries in just seconds while you're busy passing through an x-ray. KeePass uses a database file like every thing else these days. Matter of fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the USB "phone chargers" near the waiting areas do more than just charge.
A working example:
1.) "We need your password for your device."
2.) "We've noticed you have KeePass installed. We need your password for that too."
3.) Databases --> Export CSV file.
4.) In a terminal or GUI front end:
cat/path/to/csv/file/ | grep -wFfn keywords.txt
For your photos (EXIF data; I think this will work):
search="$1"; for i in *.jpg; do echo "------------------$i----------------"; count=$(exiftool "$i" | awk '/city/ ||/location/ ||/country/ ||/keywords/'; grep -ic "${search}"); if [ $count -gt 0 ]; then echo "String found in file: $i"; fi; done
And if you're lucky, they don't try " > We'reKeepingThis.txt" at the end. The EXIF data is information your phone stores about each photo that is usually embedded in the photo itself. This includes things like date taken, place taken (GPS), and even the camera used just in case it's a shared file. However, this is why Apple gets so much crap from the FBI; they do not store this information that way by default; there's a separate database file photos pair with. I think you have to be rooted/jailbroken if you want access to those databases using third-party software. And if 3rd party software without needing to root does exists, then I wonder if your consent to search could void an EULA. However, also realize that with cloud computing and storage on the rise, that would explain the push for social media accounts while people don't fully understand the meaning of it. That's what you get for using software that needs an API key rather than a stand-alone. They can just pressure developers to put in a backdoor, to which if you've noticed lately, many countries have been doing just that. There would be no need to grep; all the data they care about could be in plain site. And in case anyone reading this doesn't understand "grep" and thinks there's something advanced to it, realize that it has been around since 1974. Though if you got a time machine, the advanced options wouldn't have existed until the early 1980's. Though, for photos, EXIF didn't exist until 2003. And yes, if it's digital, takes photos, and newer than 2003, those photos contain metadata. Hope you hung-on to your 1990s DSLR and some floppies.
Do you ever wonder if physicists use correlations as causation to turn theories into facts? That's actually what you're not supposed to do. It's kind of like how some psychologists a long time ago tried to say Galvanometers (a lot like the grip measuring arcade machines) could be used to measure intelligence. All the rich people that could afford it are...drum-roll...geniuses! I don't remember the exact name of it or who, but the idea was that the more electrical activity, the better the brain. And in this case, there's a lot of activity between us and 3 billion light years away and I just don't see how an accurate measurement is even possible enough to get beyond any acceptable p-values, if they're even doing that because what would the control group be to have the statistics to create the math in the first place? Gravitational constant? It changes every year and a single digit change at the very last decimal place (even though it's a lot) only insures grants for these projects for next year.
It was also legal at one time in the U.S. to have to prove you can read (no standardized test) or you don't vote and you can guess who they were singling out at the time. What they're doing with visas is no different. People don't think about this (first world problems), but not everyone has internet or the time to set up social media accounts. And because everyone in the U.S. is a bunch of Facefarm users, you're more likely to weed-out those capable of thinking for themselves, which is dangerous for anyone in Trump's circles. This has nothing to do with "terrorism," just the conservative-minded trying not to deal with their phobias.
The people they work for are pretty hard up for biometric data these days (that's a joke; they've got plenty). I can just imagine some Smeagol looking guy in the basement of an intelligence agency hugging a Facebook sever with clothing made out of cellphones and henna tattoos shaped like fingerprints and saying "my precious."
Go a week without social media and those "news letters" that email used to call spam and realize the world will keep spinning without those influencing social Darwinism to do it for you. The world is perfectly fine because you are an accident, a byproduct of chance improving upon a series entropic moments. Without a perception for those influence, you are only left with your own reality. Just be you and do you for once and not what those that thrive off of uncertainty want you to be. I can assure you 99% of pressing matters only requires 1% to intervene.
Let's use it to model 1mm of a rat's brain instead. Who ever came up with this has a rat brain. They're just going waiste the first couple of million on EEG and shove correlations as proof for people that don't understand the experimental method, only those that care enough to retweet to look intelligent. As narcissist as this sounds, has any Slashdotter bothered to try to talk to normal people that aren't in their niche of intelligent friends? I'll save you some time, they are all as dumb as a box of rocks. I don't know if it's their preacher's fault, Facefarm before bed and when they wake up, or too much "snake oil" from TV, but we don't need money waisted on having a machine think for us. I don't even want to imagine all the shit-for-brains getting worse. We keep spending less on education and more on technology, hoping that it'll transcend somehow to balance things out. It just skews the bell curve of things towards whomever can profit the most. Micro$oft, Facefarm, and Google would absolutely love to tell you what reality is, as well as propagate you "correctly" in the ways of comfortable social Darwinism. But, let's just go ahead and build our "concept cars" of the tech world while children starve and schools fail, so when the experiment ends, we can lie to ourselves and say it is ultimately for the better. The better who? For the lesser who, instead of boats, I guess we'll use the promise of "magic machines" this time. Slap a corporate sticker on it so they know where their food is coming from.
Of course, but Window$ desktop gaming market versus Xbox is very skewed; you can guess which is more profitable. Hardware like this will never be average-consumer-friendly enough to be feasible as opposed to a gaming console or cloud computing on proprietary systems. As far as graphics editing goes, running Blender on a machine with only 128 MB of video RAM and 4 GB of regular RAM, I can get 150K faces without the viewport being too glitchy. Cycles rendering takes a little longer, but definitely not impossible. To give you an idea what that means, most of GTA V's main characters aren't even that high; some of the cars are. Us Linux users don't really play games other than emulators. I would argue that most of our open source alternatives, regardless of learning curve, are just as feature rich as most proprietary applications but use about half the resources. Micro$oft knows this so they trick people into using their GNU/NT Linux emulator as if it's the same thing.
The idea of having a computer with with 18 cores and i9 sounds great, but will it ever be profitable enough as an option for the common consumer without having to rebel against M$ and Google's cloud push because it makes more sense for a company to sell an idiot a dinky 4 GB RAM, 1.2 GHz, touchscreen laptop for $600 that has to be connected to their servers all the time than it does to try to sell a 30 lbs desktop that people would rather not pay $5000 for and still have all the headaches of Window$ coming with it. You're better off getting a good Systems76 laptop with Linux and a PlayStation and just wait this whole mess out. M$ is more likely to use this tech themselves to make money off of you than they are actually allowing personal desktops run on it.
Is Intel's new thing 64-bit? Any plans for when new architectures come out in the next decade? If you got the money now, good for you but to me, they're just doing the equivalent of the concept car. They know most people can't afford this but will go to their website and consider buying something anyway. I've been using nothing but Linux/Unix-based systems since 2008 and I've come to the conclusion that PC gamers are morons with money management issues that use dollars spent as qualitative/quantitative proof of the software's efficacy. The Steve Jobs weirdos are one thing but PC gamers are something else; sadomasochists spiraling into debt. Us FOSS users just shake our heads and stick to our forums most of the time because feelings get hurt pretty quick when you tell the truth, even when you got articles popping out everyday about how screwed-up Window$ and Hemorrhoid (Android) are.
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For certain AC's, yes actually, but no cares what an AC thinks. I've been having to deal with "ad hominem" each time I question an article that involves scientists, almost creepily so like I'm being watched by a certain person that doesn't have the balls to reveal himself/herself. The problem is, because of recent political decisions, anyone skeptical of a scientific claim almost automatically gets shunned without any actual relevant counter-argument (almost always "ad hominem"; perhaps, "non sequitur"). These people that get offended blindly support a field they clearly know nothing about and only take the time to respond in a way as to suggest they view the particular field as an ideology and therefore as a personal attack rather than as a science that doesn't need faith to defend itself, just people able and willing to respond with an ounce of intelligence. "I'm skeptical and here's why..." has become the new "I hate all [insert race]."
But like I said before, I am more than happy for anyone to shed light with a counter-argument. I'm still waiting. I hope one of them does read this and explains things because it seems to me that people are terrified at questioning research right now because of current stereotypes associated with those in politics. It's becoming the new "You must be a racist because..." or "If you're not with us, you're against us." If people really cared about science and research like they claim, then they need to stop letting their beliefs dichotomize everything. Independent thinking has become a lost cause.
Yes they do, but you are not supposed to. "Correlation does not imply causation" is a maxim taught in introductory statistics and without statistics, there's no backbone for the observed patterns that create sound theories. My favorite related quote though: âoeThe complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.â -- Douglas Adams.
No one cares what an AC thinks. For your sake, oh wait you're an AC so you are safe, I hope those scientists, if they even read this, aren't feminists. At least I have a good feeling what "cunt"ry you are from. I'm sorry if my 7.5 years of college education confuses you into thinking I'm using a thesaurus. But assuming this is the same AC from before, it's kind of sad how you're keeping tabs on this and only capable of responding in a way to as to defend yourself rather than the work of a field you clearly have yet to demonstrate any knowledge about. But if you want to blindly accept everything because it has the the word "scientist" attached to it, go ahead. And you are right, scientists are PEOPLE with feelings, emphasis on people, aka human-beings, aka subject to error like anyone else, and pardon me if I'm not buying everything they are selling. I'll say it again, 3 BILLION LIGHT YEARS.
You can't defend something you don't own. There was a time in which the Internet was treated much like a highway driven by cars leased from our ISP's and the desktop like our homes, but Google changed that, Micro$oft is making it worse, and the FCC is bringing their own tyranny into the mix. No one in the U.S. has to hack you or even get a warrant, they can just legally purchase your browsing information. There are too many laws and ways of thinking that would have to be changed as a result of this for those in power that need them for their Muslim witch hunt excuse for the digital fingerprinting of everyone or companies that need the capitalistic advantage for this to happen. I honestly can't remember the last time a bill that made sense was passed that had no twisted ulterior motive in the end. Would we have an "NRA" for computer self defense? This would never happen in the "UKGB."
Scratch from MIT might be what you're looking for too. https://scratch.mit.edu/
It's a drag and drop environment with lots of options and the more software installed, the more options. So, that technically means you can't make an "automation" without hoping that the other person has the same applications. But, as long as you use what comes with a Mac by default, you'd be alright. Xcode developed software can be all drag and drop. There are some other "drag and drop" related software that are game engine related like Game Maker (Game Editor for open source clone), Unity3D, and Unreal Engjne. Matter of fact, Blender's Game engine is unique in that it's written in Python, so you could use its chart-like style (they're obsessed with nodes) to create something.
Let's see TSA bring out an IBM Series/1 Computer. At least we will know where the nuke maintainers work when not at the DoD.
Sounds like instant gratification to me.
I did that part, but I own a Mac and adware doesn't work all that well. Some free VPN's use adware when launching a web browser, but that's what NoScript's for and your default browser shouldn't be Safari anyway. On top of which, by default, the current MacOS system prevents the launch of software from unknown developers, as well as checks the integrity DMGs and applications at opening. I'll say it again, use FOSS if you're not going to use your system's store. If you get adware as a Mac user, you just an idiot.
The electrical activity part was alluding to how inventions often utilize zeitgeist as efficacy without much proof. But to answer your out-of-context question, electromagnetic waves can show-up by tugging of massive bodies the same way that gravitational waves are produced. However, gravitational waves are ridiculously weaker than electromagnetism, so it does not surprise me if there are confounding variables between Earth and 3 BILLION LIGHT YEARS away. But, it's okay because I've learned that AC's typically don't know anything and if they did or cared enough to back up what they say, they'd log in. Otherwise, thanks for stopping by to demonstrate your ability to disguise ad hominem in question form.
By the way, feel free to moderate this anyway you want but until there's an intelligent counter argument, have the decency to hold off for other's to say something. I'd moderate it back up myself, but I have too much integrity and not enough F's to give. People have proven to me a long time ago their inability to think for themselves, and I don't care if I'm right or wrong about anything just as long as there's a platform for insightful discussion.
"What you type is nonsense. What you read is nonsense. Yet, the most purest and honest data we can mine is biometrics." Not an actual quote, but it sounds like something Mark Z thinks in the back of his mind, all 200 neurons.
They bubble your searches so that you're more likely to click on something that may be sponsored. The problem with this is rather than being informed objectively, you're be subjected. Google "Trump" with a friend with different political beliefs at the same time and see the huge difference in search results. It has nothing to do with new pages. So even if Google doesn't have an agenda, it and other cookie munching software like Facebook just shove news and ads in your face that's never going to help you make any actual informed choices.
Fireball is literally no different then the ad-based crap Window$ pushes. It's not harmful on its own but can be used maliciously. Though, I doubt anyone really read the source. Fireball is a Chinese thing. Do you get your freemium software from Chinese websites? If you are a Slashdotter, then hopeful not, or your a sadomasochist/complete moron. This is nothing more than a clever scare brought on by Micro$oft to get people on the M$ store bandwagon. Just learn to use FOSS applications. I know it's unjustifiably painful for whatever reason for Window$ users to not pay for things that are developed by hundreds of collaborators with source code to look at, but it won't actually hurt you.
I really doubt the TSA agent himself/herself looks at a person's phone. If they are, they won't be for long. What is more likely to happen (or soon) is they plug your device into a computer and it "greps" for keywords in unencrypted metadata (or encrypted if there's a hex string pattern they are aware of), so they actually can look through in exported CSV file and various other types of all of your entries in just seconds while you're busy passing through an x-ray. KeePass uses a database file like every thing else these days. Matter of fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the USB "phone chargers" near the waiting areas do more than just charge.
A working example:
And if you're lucky, they don't try " > We'reKeepingThis.txt" at the end. The EXIF data is information your phone stores about each photo that is usually embedded in the photo itself. This includes things like date taken, place taken (GPS), and even the camera used just in case it's a shared file. However, this is why Apple gets so much crap from the FBI; they do not store this information that way by default; there's a separate database file photos pair with. I think you have to be rooted/jailbroken if you want access to those databases using third-party software. And if 3rd party software without needing to root does exists, then I wonder if your consent to search could void an EULA. However, also realize that with cloud computing and storage on the rise, that would explain the push for social media accounts while people don't fully understand the meaning of it. That's what you get for using software that needs an API key rather than a stand-alone. They can just pressure developers to put in a backdoor, to which if you've noticed lately, many countries have been doing just that. There would be no need to grep; all the data they care about could be in plain site. And in case anyone reading this doesn't understand "grep" and thinks there's something advanced to it, realize that it has been around since 1974. Though if you got a time machine, the advanced options wouldn't have existed until the early 1980's. Though, for photos, EXIF didn't exist until 2003. And yes, if it's digital, takes photos, and newer than 2003, those photos contain metadata. Hope you hung-on to your 1990s DSLR and some floppies.
Do you ever wonder if physicists use correlations as causation to turn theories into facts? That's actually what you're not supposed to do. It's kind of like how some psychologists a long time ago tried to say Galvanometers (a lot like the grip measuring arcade machines) could be used to measure intelligence. All the rich people that could afford it are...drum-roll...geniuses! I don't remember the exact name of it or who, but the idea was that the more electrical activity, the better the brain. And in this case, there's a lot of activity between us and 3 billion light years away and I just don't see how an accurate measurement is even possible enough to get beyond any acceptable p-values, if they're even doing that because what would the control group be to have the statistics to create the math in the first place? Gravitational constant? It changes every year and a single digit change at the very last decimal place (even though it's a lot) only insures grants for these projects for next year.
Another thing, never personify a country. That's how bureaucrats sleep at night.
It was also legal at one time in the U.S. to have to prove you can read (no standardized test) or you don't vote and you can guess who they were singling out at the time. What they're doing with visas is no different. People don't think about this (first world problems), but not everyone has internet or the time to set up social media accounts. And because everyone in the U.S. is a bunch of Facefarm users, you're more likely to weed-out those capable of thinking for themselves, which is dangerous for anyone in Trump's circles. This has nothing to do with "terrorism," just the conservative-minded trying not to deal with their phobias.
Please!
The people they work for are pretty hard up for biometric data these days (that's a joke; they've got plenty). I can just imagine some Smeagol looking guy in the basement of an intelligence agency hugging a Facebook sever with clothing made out of cellphones and henna tattoos shaped like fingerprints and saying "my precious."
Go a week without social media and those "news letters" that email used to call spam and realize the world will keep spinning without those influencing social Darwinism to do it for you. The world is perfectly fine because you are an accident, a byproduct of chance improving upon a series entropic moments. Without a perception for those influence, you are only left with your own reality. Just be you and do you for once and not what those that thrive off of uncertainty want you to be. I can assure you 99% of pressing matters only requires 1% to intervene.
Blame my phone; I really don't give rats brain.
I got a phrase for you, "ad hominem," and it's "waste," not "wasted" if you're going to be a grammar Nazi.
Let's use it to model 1mm of a rat's brain instead. Who ever came up with this has a rat brain. They're just going waiste the first couple of million on EEG and shove correlations as proof for people that don't understand the experimental method, only those that care enough to retweet to look intelligent. As narcissist as this sounds, has any Slashdotter bothered to try to talk to normal people that aren't in their niche of intelligent friends? I'll save you some time, they are all as dumb as a box of rocks. I don't know if it's their preacher's fault, Facefarm before bed and when they wake up, or too much "snake oil" from TV, but we don't need money waisted on having a machine think for us. I don't even want to imagine all the shit-for-brains getting worse. We keep spending less on education and more on technology, hoping that it'll transcend somehow to balance things out. It just skews the bell curve of things towards whomever can profit the most. Micro$oft, Facefarm, and Google would absolutely love to tell you what reality is, as well as propagate you "correctly" in the ways of comfortable social Darwinism. But, let's just go ahead and build our "concept cars" of the tech world while children starve and schools fail, so when the experiment ends, we can lie to ourselves and say it is ultimately for the better. The better who? For the lesser who, instead of boats, I guess we'll use the promise of "magic machines" this time. Slap a corporate sticker on it so they know where their food is coming from.
Of course, but Window$ desktop gaming market versus Xbox is very skewed; you can guess which is more profitable. Hardware like this will never be average-consumer-friendly enough to be feasible as opposed to a gaming console or cloud computing on proprietary systems. As far as graphics editing goes, running Blender on a machine with only 128 MB of video RAM and 4 GB of regular RAM, I can get 150K faces without the viewport being too glitchy. Cycles rendering takes a little longer, but definitely not impossible. To give you an idea what that means, most of GTA V's main characters aren't even that high; some of the cars are. Us Linux users don't really play games other than emulators. I would argue that most of our open source alternatives, regardless of learning curve, are just as feature rich as most proprietary applications but use about half the resources. Micro$oft knows this so they trick people into using their GNU/NT Linux emulator as if it's the same thing.
The idea of having a computer with with 18 cores and i9 sounds great, but will it ever be profitable enough as an option for the common consumer without having to rebel against M$ and Google's cloud push because it makes more sense for a company to sell an idiot a dinky 4 GB RAM, 1.2 GHz, touchscreen laptop for $600 that has to be connected to their servers all the time than it does to try to sell a 30 lbs desktop that people would rather not pay $5000 for and still have all the headaches of Window$ coming with it. You're better off getting a good Systems76 laptop with Linux and a PlayStation and just wait this whole mess out. M$ is more likely to use this tech themselves to make money off of you than they are actually allowing personal desktops run on it.
Is Intel's new thing 64-bit? Any plans for when new architectures come out in the next decade? If you got the money now, good for you but to me, they're just doing the equivalent of the concept car. They know most people can't afford this but will go to their website and consider buying something anyway. I've been using nothing but Linux/Unix-based systems since 2008 and I've come to the conclusion that PC gamers are morons with money management issues that use dollars spent as qualitative/quantitative proof of the software's efficacy. The Steve Jobs weirdos are one thing but PC gamers are something else; sadomasochists spiraling into debt. Us FOSS users just shake our heads and stick to our forums most of the time because feelings get hurt pretty quick when you tell the truth, even when you got articles popping out everyday about how screwed-up Window$ and Hemorrhoid (Android) are.