It sounds like a completely sensible cutting of redundant HR/administrative/marketing/etc... people. It doesn't sound like Dell is cutting R&D or engineering or production or even much in sales. If I'm supposed to be mad at Dell for this it's not working.
For a good number of people their choices are either hideously expensive satellite, landline phone modem, or cell. Cell is the only reasonable choice. The good news for you is that those people tend to live in more sparsely populated areas, so they won't be stepping on other people quite as much.
If that's the case, I don't see how it is any different than just claiming you own that part of the ocean. What do you do when fishing boats start operating in the area. The presence of the "research facility" doesn't change anything unless it starts launching torpedoes or something.
On other parts of the internet there is a lot of skepticism about China's stated goals for this facility. It smells strongly of manganese nodule harvesting and many analysts think it has a military or intelligence purpose instead. The details that have been released are so sketchy it's hard to believe that it's a legitimate scientific facility, but I guess it's not impossible.
I know the rumor mill usually has most of the details down well before the official announcement, but the iPhone 7 rumors have been seemingly more frequent and more detailed than the ones in the past. Is Apple feeding the rumor mill or have they just lost grip of their supply chain?
The intention is that the decoding is handed off to the GPU. Doing x265 on the CPU is inefficient, and completely impractical on devices like phones and tablets.
I like this idea in general, but it has some problems. If people are getting up early for that transpacific flight and pull their phone off the charger only to discover that it is at 50% they are not going to be happy. There needs to be a button you can press that says "go ahead and full charge right now", but even that is something you'll have to remember to do the night before. I guess if it's really smart it would check your calendar or email to discover that you're about to head out on travel and fully charge, but that starts to get creepy. It's like thinking 'I could go for some Ice Cream", so you open up Google maps and type b and it autocompletes to Baskin Robins.
I wonder how long until the scammers helpfully include a contact number in the signature for the money manager to call when they want to verify the transaction? Label it as the cell number to avoid suspicion that it's on the wrong exchange.
Yeah, there is a cottage industry built up around sending fake invoices to companies for smallish amounts (a few thousand typically) in the hopes that the accounts payable people are lazy and send the money without checking first. The problem is that they've become victims of their own success. Companies see so many of them that they have procedures in place to prevent the scam from working.
My guess is that the money was already gone so the other bank couldn't help. The kind of people who do the research to find the dumbest person in the company with financial authority are the kind of people who have a network setup to launder the money before the victim has a chance to act.
Do you have to hover your hands over the keyboard, or is it smart enough to let you rest your fingers on the home row while typing? That's the dealbreaker for most tablet keyboards that want to pretend to be touch typist friendly. If not, you're a hunt and peck machine.
Every single thing about that laptop is ridiculous, from its four fans, two GTX1080 GPUs, two power supplies, the 18lb weight, two subwoofers, curved screen (does it even close properly?), [i]five[/i] internal drive bays, $5000 price point, full size clicky keyboard, and a battery life that might need to be measured in seconds.
It's the Koenigsegg of laptops. Ridiculous design for people who want to go fast and don't care about the practicalities.
I wouldn't be surprised if the average Infowars user reuses his password on every website. You could probably break into a lot of webmail accounts and even bank accounts with those logins. That said, I wouldn't expect the Infowars userbase to have a lot of cash in their bank accounts.
You can MITM your own connections for security, but be aware that a growing number of sites will break when you do this thanks to certificate pinning. My work does this and it causes all sorts of random problems with various sites and applications. Luckily no big major sites are affected yet, but it causes problems when trying to sign up for certain conferences and with license managers.
If you were trying to scam people this is exactly how you would structure an "auction".
Lets look at the details:
1. The money you bid is kept by the seller, regardless of who wins.
2. Impossible to verify the product's authenticity before the sale.
3. There is no public notification that the winner received the goods.
4. The auctioneers can make their own bids.
5. There is no end date. The seller stops the auction at their discretion
Someone would have to be especially trusting or maybe desperate to bid on this. There are ways to set up trusted zero knowledge transfers, but these guys instead act like we should trust them just because they're anonymous.
I was working for SGI as a co-op when that Pentium 4 thing came out. We got a demo unit and I was pretty disappointed. The flatscreen monitor they shipped with it was way more exciting even if it experienced epic tearing when we played the demo video. It's the only PC I ever used that has RAMBUS memory.
We did have one guy come down and give a demo of Maya (or maybe it was Alias Wavefront at that point? I can't remember) and being amazed at how the demo guy could build and animate an entire scene in about an hour, even though the interface appeared to be 100% black magic. IIRC he had a spaceship he had built from a box flying around a city he built fighting a dinosaur he pulled out of some asset library.
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It sounds like a completely sensible cutting of redundant HR/administrative/marketing/etc... people. It doesn't sound like Dell is cutting R&D or engineering or production or even much in sales. If I'm supposed to be mad at Dell for this it's not working.
They're planning to make it up with the insane $160 proprietary wireless earbuds.
It doesn't even need sudo access. It sounds like it does s LD_PRELOAD on libc and then traps any calls that would identify it.
Something has gone wrong then. They were supposed to be finished over a year ago. That's why I thought it might be some third party tower.
Is that on some other company's tower? I don't think T-Mo has any 2G only towers left.
For a good number of people their choices are either hideously expensive satellite, landline phone modem, or cell. Cell is the only reasonable choice. The good news for you is that those people tend to live in more sparsely populated areas, so they won't be stepping on other people quite as much.
If that's the case, I don't see how it is any different than just claiming you own that part of the ocean. What do you do when fishing boats start operating in the area. The presence of the "research facility" doesn't change anything unless it starts launching torpedoes or something.
On other parts of the internet there is a lot of skepticism about China's stated goals for this facility. It smells strongly of manganese nodule harvesting and many analysts think it has a military or intelligence purpose instead. The details that have been released are so sketchy it's hard to believe that it's a legitimate scientific facility, but I guess it's not impossible.
I know the rumor mill usually has most of the details down well before the official announcement, but the iPhone 7 rumors have been seemingly more frequent and more detailed than the ones in the past. Is Apple feeding the rumor mill or have they just lost grip of their supply chain?
The intention is that the decoding is handed off to the GPU. Doing x265 on the CPU is inefficient, and completely impractical on devices like phones and tablets.
I like this idea in general, but it has some problems. If people are getting up early for that transpacific flight and pull their phone off the charger only to discover that it is at 50% they are not going to be happy. There needs to be a button you can press that says "go ahead and full charge right now", but even that is something you'll have to remember to do the night before. I guess if it's really smart it would check your calendar or email to discover that you're about to head out on travel and fully charge, but that starts to get creepy. It's like thinking 'I could go for some Ice Cream", so you open up Google maps and type b and it autocompletes to Baskin Robins.
I wonder how long until the scammers helpfully include a contact number in the signature for the money manager to call when they want to verify the transaction? Label it as the cell number to avoid suspicion that it's on the wrong exchange.
Yeah, there is a cottage industry built up around sending fake invoices to companies for smallish amounts (a few thousand typically) in the hopes that the accounts payable people are lazy and send the money without checking first. The problem is that they've become victims of their own success. Companies see so many of them that they have procedures in place to prevent the scam from working.
My guess is that the money was already gone so the other bank couldn't help. The kind of people who do the research to find the dumbest person in the company with financial authority are the kind of people who have a network setup to launder the money before the victim has a chance to act.
Do you have to hover your hands over the keyboard, or is it smart enough to let you rest your fingers on the home row while typing? That's the dealbreaker for most tablet keyboards that want to pretend to be touch typist friendly. If not, you're a hunt and peck machine.
Every single thing about that laptop is ridiculous, from its four fans, two GTX1080 GPUs, two power supplies, the 18lb weight, two subwoofers, curved screen (does it even close properly?), [i]five[/i] internal drive bays, $5000 price point, full size clicky keyboard, and a battery life that might need to be measured in seconds.
It's the Koenigsegg of laptops. Ridiculous design for people who want to go fast and don't care about the practicalities.
I wouldn't be surprised if the average Infowars user reuses his password on every website. You could probably break into a lot of webmail accounts and even bank accounts with those logins. That said, I wouldn't expect the Infowars userbase to have a lot of cash in their bank accounts.
Also, they just banned a huge number of bot accounts. That's gotta hurt the active user numbers.
You can MITM your own connections for security, but be aware that a growing number of sites will break when you do this thanks to certificate pinning. My work does this and it causes all sorts of random problems with various sites and applications. Luckily no big major sites are affected yet, but it causes problems when trying to sign up for certain conferences and with license managers.
This case was about Canadians trying to enter Canada.
If you were trying to scam people this is exactly how you would structure an "auction".
Lets look at the details:
1. The money you bid is kept by the seller, regardless of who wins.
2. Impossible to verify the product's authenticity before the sale.
3. There is no public notification that the winner received the goods.
4. The auctioneers can make their own bids.
5. There is no end date. The seller stops the auction at their discretion
Someone would have to be especially trusting or maybe desperate to bid on this. There are ways to set up trusted zero knowledge transfers, but these guys instead act like we should trust them just because they're anonymous.
IIRC you can't be refused entry if you are returning to your home country. You can be arrested and go straight to jail, but they can't turn you away.
Nothing related to graphics apparently.
I was working for SGI as a co-op when that Pentium 4 thing came out. We got a demo unit and I was pretty disappointed. The flatscreen monitor they shipped with it was way more exciting even if it experienced epic tearing when we played the demo video. It's the only PC I ever used that has RAMBUS memory.
We did have one guy come down and give a demo of Maya (or maybe it was Alias Wavefront at that point? I can't remember) and being amazed at how the demo guy could build and animate an entire scene in about an hour, even though the interface appeared to be 100% black magic. IIRC he had a spaceship he had built from a box flying around a city he built fighting a dinosaur he pulled out of some asset library.
Well, it's nice to know that at least the athletes will be well paid for their performances here...