I would be ok with a phone that never get's upgraded to the "latest and greatest" OS, so long as the original OS was built into the phone in a way that makes me happy with the phone. There really weren't any significant must have features that any mobile OS has added in quite a while. And every App in the Play Store will run just fine on Nougat. Honestly, I would like Android to roll out an update system more like traditional Linux OS's where there is a large OS update that is highly reliable with real Long term support every few years and then smaller updates with shorter support cycles in between.
I'm kind of surprised this hasn't happened already, but I imagine that the future of computer science education is largely going to be basically on-the-job training. Corporations will have their own in-house colleges and teach and train their own future work force. Companies relying on outside non-profit orgs to spend 4+ years training their employees is woefully inefficient.
The problem with the "tiered" internet plan is that data is not an ISP's biggest expense. It costs an ISP the same thing to deliver the entire internet as it does simple messaging services. An ISP has real, and very large infrastructure costs. This is why ISPs can make "bundling" look like such a good deal. You pay $50 for internet, which is probably pretty close to what it costs the company to give you service with a little bit of profit (probably less than 10%). But if they can upsell you on TV too for only $10 extra, then that is an extra $10 of pure profit for them because you are already paying for their data connection, and adding TV is just another form of data that you are already paying to be delivered to you anyway.
That's why tiered internet doesn't really make any sense, from a commercial point of view. $5 for messaging doesn't come close to covering their cost of delivery, the lower tiers would have to be sold at a loss, which is unsustainable because a lot of people would actually sign up for that. Ultimately, the "top tier" full internet would be sold for probably the same price as what you are paying now anyway.
Wealth inequality of the 1% is not a problem so long as the 99% are taken care of too. Not everyone needs their own private jet. So long as a family can buy a house, a car, put their kids through college and pay for health care -basically cover their needs and have a few luxuries too, that family shouldn't care that some other family has a castle in the south of France. And that family is not going to care. And that's fine.
Where the problems will start is when a sizable portion of the population CAN'T afford their basic needs. That's how people like Trump gets elected.
6500? Oh, you are a old earth guy. Yeah, I believe that the earth was created 7 minutes ago, and all my memories and past experiences were pre-programmed into my head.
Largely modern OS's don't matter. 95% of what most people do is through the web browser, and even web browsers don't matter that much because of HTML5. HTML5 makes the OS war pointless. For the most part, the vast majority of computers are barely much more that terminals to get online for most people. (This is literally Google's whole business plan and the point of ChromeOS.)
Sure *YOU* really, really, really need your own something-something software. That's fine. But most people could adopt ChromeOS and not really care that much.
Honestly, the epic accidents aren't that interesting. You die. The end.
What's more interesting to me is the question of the basic regular failures. Let's say a section of track shuts down causing the tube to jam. The people don't die right away, as the vehicle just slows to an abrupt stop. But then what? With a train, at worst, everyone exits and loads up onto buses and taken to the next station. Even in a train tunnel there is ample room for emergency exits. The Hyper Loop thing is in a tube, and there is no way to get the people out. Do you cut a hole in the tube to remove people? That would shut the entire system down for months (potentially) for repairs.
Don't think patent war preparation, think patent troll protection. Google's not using them offensively, they just won't want them to land in the hands of someone else.
If not patents, then this sale makes no sense. Google is making a killing on Android and it has a very safe place in the ecosystem market.
Google basically paid $10B for Motorola's patents. (Bought the company for $12B, sold it for $2B sans patents). I imagine the same is basically true for HTC.
But the rationale is different this time. The patent wars are basically over now, so Google is likely be buying HTC's patents to keep them out of the hands of someone else.
Failure sounds so final.
"You failed at that."
"Fail? My first plan didn't work out, I learned a lot and used that knowledge to do this other thing well."
You missed the point. In this case, it simply doesn't matter anymore that it was or wasn't innovative. It's expiring and the market is going to move along.
This is an example of how patents are good IP. Like the patent or not, think it's innovative or not, it eventually expires. Copyrights don't expire in your lifetime. Trademarks never expire. If 20 years is plenty for a company to reap value from innovation of an actual product that improves lives, then it's good enough for Hollywood too..
Phone-as-PC is the future of personal computing, and Software-as-Service is the future for Microsoft. Microsoft shouldn't care if you are using Windows/Android/Mac/iOS/Linux/WhateverOS so long as you are using their subscription Office Software to reach their Exchange Servers.
The longer they try to fight Android and iOS the more time they give competing systems the opportunity to entrench themselves.
Corporations, government agencies, hospitals and more are stockpiling Bitcoin because of Ransomware attacks. That's 100% the explanation for the rise in value.
This is why we need to make owning, buying and selling bitcoin illegal. If we made it illegal, these organizations would be forced to sell destroying it's value. If it's valueless, and no one is legally able to buy it, then the Ransomware attacks will go away. Cash is much, much harder and more dangerous for Ransomware writers to collect.
Making Hydrogen isn't hard at all. The problem is safely bottling it up, transporting it to a useful location, filling a vehicle tank with it, making that tank safe for standard DOT highway compliant vehicles, and then converting the stored chemical power into electricity without needing a half kilo of platinum per vehicle.
Permits for ultra-major construction project like this are very important. Really, for gawd sakes. Those "permits" are to enforce measures in silly laws like the Clean Water Act. Do you want to live in a nation where anyone with money is just allowed to do whatever they want where ever they want to? Permits are dang important.
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I would be ok with a phone that never get's upgraded to the "latest and greatest" OS, so long as the original OS was built into the phone in a way that makes me happy with the phone. There really weren't any significant must have features that any mobile OS has added in quite a while. And every App in the Play Store will run just fine on Nougat. Honestly, I would like Android to roll out an update system more like traditional Linux OS's where there is a large OS update that is highly reliable with real Long term support every few years and then smaller updates with shorter support cycles in between.
I'm kind of surprised this hasn't happened already, but I imagine that the future of computer science education is largely going to be basically on-the-job training. Corporations will have their own in-house colleges and teach and train their own future work force. Companies relying on outside non-profit orgs to spend 4+ years training their employees is woefully inefficient.
The problem with the "tiered" internet plan is that data is not an ISP's biggest expense. It costs an ISP the same thing to deliver the entire internet as it does simple messaging services. An ISP has real, and very large infrastructure costs. This is why ISPs can make "bundling" look like such a good deal. You pay $50 for internet, which is probably pretty close to what it costs the company to give you service with a little bit of profit (probably less than 10%). But if they can upsell you on TV too for only $10 extra, then that is an extra $10 of pure profit for them because you are already paying for their data connection, and adding TV is just another form of data that you are already paying to be delivered to you anyway. That's why tiered internet doesn't really make any sense, from a commercial point of view. $5 for messaging doesn't come close to covering their cost of delivery, the lower tiers would have to be sold at a loss, which is unsustainable because a lot of people would actually sign up for that. Ultimately, the "top tier" full internet would be sold for probably the same price as what you are paying now anyway.
Wealth inequality of the 1% is not a problem so long as the 99% are taken care of too. Not everyone needs their own private jet. So long as a family can buy a house, a car, put their kids through college and pay for health care -basically cover their needs and have a few luxuries too, that family shouldn't care that some other family has a castle in the south of France. And that family is not going to care. And that's fine. Where the problems will start is when a sizable portion of the population CAN'T afford their basic needs. That's how people like Trump gets elected.
6500? Oh, you are a old earth guy. Yeah, I believe that the earth was created 7 minutes ago, and all my memories and past experiences were pre-programmed into my head.
In other news: Millions of headless atheists type tirelessly on social media today explaining why this doesn't mean what creationists think it means.
It was a 200 year process, but we are finally moving into remediation of the atmosphere. Thank god.
Because, you know, we don't need any other services in this world. We will code the trash pick up.
A telescope is really not the best analogy. LIGO is more like inventing a deep space microphone.
Well, Chemistry and some other stuff too, but not really, the Nobel commission didn't want to talk about that other stuff.
Neither Google, Apple, nor Amazon will be around in their current form. All will be broken up in various overseas monopoly trials.
Largely modern OS's don't matter. 95% of what most people do is through the web browser, and even web browsers don't matter that much because of HTML5. HTML5 makes the OS war pointless. For the most part, the vast majority of computers are barely much more that terminals to get online for most people. (This is literally Google's whole business plan and the point of ChromeOS.) Sure *YOU* really, really, really need your own something-something software. That's fine. But most people could adopt ChromeOS and not really care that much.
Honestly, the epic accidents aren't that interesting. You die. The end. What's more interesting to me is the question of the basic regular failures. Let's say a section of track shuts down causing the tube to jam. The people don't die right away, as the vehicle just slows to an abrupt stop. But then what? With a train, at worst, everyone exits and loads up onto buses and taken to the next station. Even in a train tunnel there is ample room for emergency exits. The Hyper Loop thing is in a tube, and there is no way to get the people out. Do you cut a hole in the tube to remove people? That would shut the entire system down for months (potentially) for repairs.
Don't think patent war preparation, think patent troll protection. Google's not using them offensively, they just won't want them to land in the hands of someone else. If not patents, then this sale makes no sense. Google is making a killing on Android and it has a very safe place in the ecosystem market.
Google basically paid $10B for Motorola's patents. (Bought the company for $12B, sold it for $2B sans patents). I imagine the same is basically true for HTC. But the rationale is different this time. The patent wars are basically over now, so Google is likely be buying HTC's patents to keep them out of the hands of someone else.
Failure sounds so final. "You failed at that." "Fail? My first plan didn't work out, I learned a lot and used that knowledge to do this other thing well."
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You missed the point. In this case, it simply doesn't matter anymore that it was or wasn't innovative. It's expiring and the market is going to move along.
This is an example of how patents are good IP. Like the patent or not, think it's innovative or not, it eventually expires. Copyrights don't expire in your lifetime. Trademarks never expire. If 20 years is plenty for a company to reap value from innovation of an actual product that improves lives, then it's good enough for Hollywood too..
Made for great late-night Twittering.
Phone-as-PC is the future of personal computing, and Software-as-Service is the future for Microsoft. Microsoft shouldn't care if you are using Windows/Android/Mac/iOS/Linux/WhateverOS so long as you are using their subscription Office Software to reach their Exchange Servers. The longer they try to fight Android and iOS the more time they give competing systems the opportunity to entrench themselves.
Corporations, government agencies, hospitals and more are stockpiling Bitcoin because of Ransomware attacks. That's 100% the explanation for the rise in value. This is why we need to make owning, buying and selling bitcoin illegal. If we made it illegal, these organizations would be forced to sell destroying it's value. If it's valueless, and no one is legally able to buy it, then the Ransomware attacks will go away. Cash is much, much harder and more dangerous for Ransomware writers to collect.
Making Hydrogen isn't hard at all. The problem is safely bottling it up, transporting it to a useful location, filling a vehicle tank with it, making that tank safe for standard DOT highway compliant vehicles, and then converting the stored chemical power into electricity without needing a half kilo of platinum per vehicle.
You don't know what you are talking about. The Army Corp of Engineers is responsible for the CWA permits. The don't care how much money you have.
Permits for ultra-major construction project like this are very important. Really, for gawd sakes. Those "permits" are to enforce measures in silly laws like the Clean Water Act. Do you want to live in a nation where anyone with money is just allowed to do whatever they want where ever they want to? Permits are dang important.