If cheaptastic silicon can fix the "divide," than all of 3rd Worldistan would have been on Packard Bell pizza box form factor machines like fifteen years ago, complete with 72-pin EDO sticks for the RAM on a daughterboard.
Because when robots can do everything (or nearly everything) a person can do, what is the prospect for employment, let alone increased employment?
Automation and ever 'smarter' machines needing ever-less human intervention has been going on since the Industrial Revolution. If people work less because machines do all the work, that means more spare time for the people. In today's day, despite all the complaining, people have never had more spare time to do with as they wish.
Think of a Dickensian urchin in a garment factory, or that poor bastard from the 12th century who spent all day in the mud or behind some ox pulling a plow. Or leave the 1st world and go check out like Zambia or something where automation and machine intelligence are not already stealing all the jobs. Is that a better deal? No, absolutely not.
Given that the original article is about Apple, and your comment is from from the perspective of "us not-any-brand of socialist coal-burner Americans" let's turn this nugget around shall we? And what is Apple in the actual context of Europe or the US? Virtually all the outfit's design, engineering, and production facilities are overseas.
The comparison is silly and facile. Apple's new HQ in Silicon Valley is bigger than probably all ARM's facilities ever put together. They make Mac Pros in America. The Samsung-sourced silicon for Apple iPhones is made in Austin, Texas. The back of every Apple widget says 'Designed in California' for a reason. Apple has more cash and cash equivalents right now than all the liquidity in the entire economy of the United Kingdom.
And, ironically, the probably most influential Brit in modern mainstream technology is named Jony Ive and he works for...Apple.
You must have a really cool shovel, because you keep using it to dig an ever deeper rhetorical hole.
What Nobels need is a culling. Peace and economics need to go. Completely subjective criteria; they're just there to fete the Davos Jetset with another bauble that enables their collective ego to place the likes of Yassir Arafat or Paul Krugman on intellectual pedestal comparable to the likes of Niels Bohr - which is a joke by itself.
Worth pointing out most consumer drones consist of a battery, aircraft, and a PCB with (maybe) a camera. In other words, there's no payload. And consumer drones will not go 10 miles on a charge, much less 100 miles or 1000 on a charge. Again, this is while carrying no real payload.
The biggest news of the last couple of years out of Europe, about a European company, that I can think of would be the sale of ARM* to a Japanese firm (SoftBank) for £24 billion (and then the subsequent sale of 25% of it to a Saudi backed Investment fund - although, tbf, that's no longer 'European' news). The cash involved, and to a lesser degree the implications, dwarf the numbers relating to the VW affair.
First off, Volkswagen's current liability scandal estimate is ~$30 billion, and that number seems to grow every quarter - with many civil actions remaining to be settled still. I wager the Volkswagen cost will catch up to and surpass the costs to purchase ARM by this time next year.
Also, as you alluded, ARM is British - distinct from Europe these days. And what is ARM, in the actual context of Europe or the UK? Virtually all the outfit's design, engineering, and production facilities are overseas. It grosses "only" a billion pounds a year, on patent royalties and little else. Their stuff is less what they make and more a spec, like an 802.11 standard one licenses from a proverbial IEEE instead of certifies it.
So, if that's the best example other than Volkswagen you can think of - a not European but British midcap that essentially makes nothing on its own, well, I rest my case.
The emissions scandal wasn't specific to Volkswagen and I doubt it is the biggest corporate news out of Europe in the past couple of years.
Volkswagen is only outfit that has been levied billions in fines, had to recall millions of vehicles, and had major corporate figures criminally charged stemming from the emissions scandal. What bigger corporate news has come out of Europe in past couple years? The oblivion of Nokia, maybe?
They do. Dieselgate was about nitrous oxide, not about soot. And Volkswagen was not amongst the worst offenders...
See my immediately previous comment.
...unlike Ford, Fiat Chrysler and Opel, which was a subsidiary of General Motors at the time.
See my immediately previous comment (again).
Tesla was not 'invented'. It's a brand.
The Model S was invented. Invented by Tesla to be specific. Model S represents first physical embodiment of the notion that an electric car could be fast, not look like rolling birth control, and have merits beyond environmental abstractions of the powertrain choice. See BMW i3 for European example of mainstream electric car. I say no more.
Daimler-Benz and Ernst Dickmanns are American now?
No, they are not American. They follow Americans, in this case the suddenly-emerging trend of autonomous driving that American industry is spearheading.
In Europe you generally don't see headlines about how some big corporation just reported its largest profit in its entire history and is also laying off thousands of workers.
Biggest corporate news out of Europe, about European company, that I can think about in past couple years is Volkswagen and their vast emissions scandal.
Which is all the more ironic coming from Europe, given the 'Democratic Socialists' over there are so climate-woke and eco-conscious compared to us not-any-brand of socialist coal-burner Americans who allegedly make crappy sooty cars...but invented Tesla and autonomous driving anyways just for kicks.
I think the stereotypes you subscribe to aren't working.
Public-funding of science means the scientific output is public property. Outfits like Nature have been raking it in charging people outrageous subscriptions to access data that in vast majority of cases is connected/paid/dependent on public monies. That racket cannot last forever.
And when it comes to copyright, when does it stop with science? Is a classic like On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox royalty-free given it was published in 1964? Does Alain Aspect owe the Bell estate royalties? This is all so much horseshit.
Google is like Microsoft in having two great franchises - email and search - that are like huge cash cows, just like Windows and Office.
And like Microsoft, Google takes those huge piles of cash from their winners and throws it onto the dumpster fire of their money-losers.
This would include stuff like their social network, their hardware business (they even aped Microsoft ruining Nokia by buying and ruining Motorola), and their vaporware self-driving cars.
They also are going down Microsoft's path flailing for long-lost clarity through re-orgs. Google turning into "Alphabet" is latest example; before that it was The Culling that went on at Google Labs along with showing Marissa the (cold shoulder) door.
Might also suggest it was strategic "investment" by Microsoft into essentially a sock puppet they could show at their antitrust trial as a 'competitor.' This was right about same time Michael Dell said if he was running Apple he would liquidate the operation and pay shareholders any leftovers because it was dead.
Are people really expecting him to clutch to a an unsupported mobile platform like a drowning man in the sea because he's too proud to admit his former company made a bomb?
Yes actually. I've noticed that guy on interviews and the like looking dazed and irritated when asked about phones. I think deep down he's haunted by fact that Apple - which had been so vanquished MSFT was loaning Apple money just to keep them afloat in 1998 as a antitrust argument - has turned into a bigger nastier corporate-critter than Microsoft ever was.
Oh no, I'm not conflating anything.
Look at history. FCC itself was created to allocate spectrum and make sure it was 'level playing field' and all the rest.
And within several years of its inception David Sarnoff of NBC was using it like an enforcer to completely repress the emerging FM band stations, followed by FCC turning into a censorship nanny for OTA broadcasts that continues today. Net neutrality will turn into a similar cudgel for the wealthy and politically connected.
You guys have insane costs caused by letting corporations run your health care system so that needs to be fixed, but even lower costs could not be afforded by everyone.
The biggest corporation of them all IS the government. Always wonder how people can look at a bunch of characters with profit motives and think they're somehow a worse or less moral gang than a bunch of characters with political motives.
If FCC regulates the inter-webs, Big Mickey has the in to shutting down streaming boxes etc. via regulation, not laws.
Careful what you wish for with net neutrality.
Trump administration lawyers are demanding the private account information of potentially thousands of Facebook users in three separate search warrants served on the social media giant, according to court documents obtained by CNN.
"Trump Administration Lawyers?" Can legal counsel to the President obtain search warrants? DoJ lawyers maybe, but not Trump Admin flacks I don't think. CNN and their weasel-wordy ways!
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If cheaptastic silicon can fix the "divide," than all of 3rd Worldistan would have been on Packard Bell pizza box form factor machines like fifteen years ago, complete with 72-pin EDO sticks for the RAM on a daughterboard.
Because when robots can do everything (or nearly everything) a person can do, what is the prospect for employment, let alone increased employment?
Automation and ever 'smarter' machines needing ever-less human intervention has been going on since the Industrial Revolution. If people work less because machines do all the work, that means more spare time for the people. In today's day, despite all the complaining, people have never had more spare time to do with as they wish.
Think of a Dickensian urchin in a garment factory, or that poor bastard from the 12th century who spent all day in the mud or behind some ox pulling a plow. Or leave the 1st world and go check out like Zambia or something where automation and machine intelligence are not already stealing all the jobs. Is that a better deal? No, absolutely not.
For Samsung the number was sinful 7. For Apple it will be hateful 8.
Given that the original article is about Apple, and your comment is from from the perspective of "us not-any-brand of socialist coal-burner Americans" let's turn this nugget around shall we? And what is Apple in the actual context of Europe or the US? Virtually all the outfit's design, engineering, and production facilities are overseas.
The comparison is silly and facile. Apple's new HQ in Silicon Valley is bigger than probably all ARM's facilities ever put together. They make Mac Pros in America. The Samsung-sourced silicon for Apple iPhones is made in Austin, Texas. The back of every Apple widget says 'Designed in California' for a reason. Apple has more cash and cash equivalents right now than all the liquidity in the entire economy of the United Kingdom.
And, ironically, the probably most influential Brit in modern mainstream technology is named Jony Ive and he works for...Apple.
You must have a really cool shovel, because you keep using it to dig an ever deeper rhetorical hole.
What Nobels need is a culling. Peace and economics need to go. Completely subjective criteria; they're just there to fete the Davos Jetset with another bauble that enables their collective ego to place the likes of Yassir Arafat or Paul Krugman on intellectual pedestal comparable to the likes of Niels Bohr - which is a joke by itself.
Worth pointing out most consumer drones consist of a battery, aircraft, and a PCB with (maybe) a camera. In other words, there's no payload. And consumer drones will not go 10 miles on a charge, much less 100 miles or 1000 on a charge. Again, this is while carrying no real payload.
The biggest news of the last couple of years out of Europe, about a European company, that I can think of would be the sale of ARM* to a Japanese firm (SoftBank) for £24 billion (and then the subsequent sale of 25% of it to a Saudi backed Investment fund - although, tbf, that's no longer 'European' news). The cash involved, and to a lesser degree the implications, dwarf the numbers relating to the VW affair.
First off, Volkswagen's current liability scandal estimate is ~$30 billion, and that number seems to grow every quarter - with many civil actions remaining to be settled still. I wager the Volkswagen cost will catch up to and surpass the costs to purchase ARM by this time next year.
Also, as you alluded, ARM is British - distinct from Europe these days. And what is ARM, in the actual context of Europe or the UK? Virtually all the outfit's design, engineering, and production facilities are overseas. It grosses "only" a billion pounds a year, on patent royalties and little else. Their stuff is less what they make and more a spec, like an 802.11 standard one licenses from a proverbial IEEE instead of certifies it.
So, if that's the best example other than Volkswagen you can think of - a not European but British midcap that essentially makes nothing on its own, well, I rest my case.
Another one smoked by facts; hence one more back to the Nazi chant.
BTW, unlike Tesla, autonomous driving, etc., one thing Europe invented was...Nazis. Just say'in!
The emissions scandal wasn't specific to Volkswagen and I doubt it is the biggest corporate news out of Europe in the past couple of years.
Volkswagen is only outfit that has been levied billions in fines, had to recall millions of vehicles, and had major corporate figures criminally charged stemming from the emissions scandal. What bigger corporate news has come out of Europe in past couple years? The oblivion of Nokia, maybe?
They do. Dieselgate was about nitrous oxide, not about soot. And Volkswagen was not amongst the worst offenders...
See my immediately previous comment.
...unlike Ford, Fiat Chrysler and Opel, which was a subsidiary of General Motors at the time.
See my immediately previous comment (again).
Tesla was not 'invented'. It's a brand.
The Model S was invented. Invented by Tesla to be specific. Model S represents first physical embodiment of the notion that an electric car could be fast, not look like rolling birth control, and have merits beyond environmental abstractions of the powertrain choice. See BMW i3 for European example of mainstream electric car. I say no more.
Daimler-Benz and Ernst Dickmanns are American now?
No, they are not American. They follow Americans, in this case the suddenly-emerging trend of autonomous driving that American industry is spearheading.
In Europe you generally don't see headlines about how some big corporation just reported its largest profit in its entire history and is also laying off thousands of workers.
Biggest corporate news out of Europe, about European company, that I can think about in past couple years is Volkswagen and their vast emissions scandal.
Which is all the more ironic coming from Europe, given the 'Democratic Socialists' over there are so climate-woke and eco-conscious compared to us not-any-brand of socialist coal-burner Americans who allegedly make crappy sooty cars...but invented Tesla and autonomous driving anyways just for kicks.
I think the stereotypes you subscribe to aren't working.
Can't have one without the other.
...but it turns out greed IS good.
Forgot to turn on auto-update for the Flash player? PLAY AND YOU PAY!
+1 Alta Vista. That brings back the memories. Like DEC itself and their awesome Alpha crocs it is sorely missed to this day.
See ATM machines in Safe Mode all the time, on XP kernels still. So casino games seem like natural frontier here actually.
Public-funding of science means the scientific output is public property. Outfits like Nature have been raking it in charging people outrageous subscriptions to access data that in vast majority of cases is connected/paid/dependent on public monies. That racket cannot last forever.
And when it comes to copyright, when does it stop with science? Is a classic like On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox royalty-free given it was published in 1964? Does Alain Aspect owe the Bell estate royalties? This is all so much horseshit.
Google is like Microsoft in having two great franchises - email and search - that are like huge cash cows, just like Windows and Office. And like Microsoft, Google takes those huge piles of cash from their winners and throws it onto the dumpster fire of their money-losers. This would include stuff like their social network, their hardware business (they even aped Microsoft ruining Nokia by buying and ruining Motorola), and their vaporware self-driving cars. They also are going down Microsoft's path flailing for long-lost clarity through re-orgs. Google turning into "Alphabet" is latest example; before that it was The Culling that went on at Google Labs along with showing Marissa the (cold shoulder) door.
Might also suggest it was strategic "investment" by Microsoft into essentially a sock puppet they could show at their antitrust trial as a 'competitor.' This was right about same time Michael Dell said if he was running Apple he would liquidate the operation and pay shareholders any leftovers because it was dead.
Bet Mikey regrets that one.
Are people really expecting him to clutch to a an unsupported mobile platform like a drowning man in the sea because he's too proud to admit his former company made a bomb?
Yes actually. I've noticed that guy on interviews and the like looking dazed and irritated when asked about phones. I think deep down he's haunted by fact that Apple - which had been so vanquished MSFT was loaning Apple money just to keep them afloat in 1998 as a antitrust argument - has turned into a bigger nastier corporate-critter than Microsoft ever was.
I'm sure Bill has the worst carrier distro of TouchWiz possible, all full of bloatware, loaded onto something like a Galaxy S3.
That way it at least feels like Windows on an HP, even kinda makes Billy feel at home.
Oh no, I'm not conflating anything. Look at history. FCC itself was created to allocate spectrum and make sure it was 'level playing field' and all the rest. And within several years of its inception David Sarnoff of NBC was using it like an enforcer to completely repress the emerging FM band stations, followed by FCC turning into a censorship nanny for OTA broadcasts that continues today. Net neutrality will turn into a similar cudgel for the wealthy and politically connected.
You guys have insane costs caused by letting corporations run your health care system so that needs to be fixed, but even lower costs could not be afforded by everyone.
The biggest corporation of them all IS the government. Always wonder how people can look at a bunch of characters with profit motives and think they're somehow a worse or less moral gang than a bunch of characters with political motives.
If FCC regulates the inter-webs, Big Mickey has the in to shutting down streaming boxes etc. via regulation, not laws. Careful what you wish for with net neutrality.
Aliens did it man. Everyone knows that. Flying saucers, tractor beams, glowing power crystals, the works.
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Trump administration lawyers are demanding the private account information of potentially thousands of Facebook users in three separate search warrants served on the social media giant, according to court documents obtained by CNN.
"Trump Administration Lawyers?" Can legal counsel to the President obtain search warrants? DoJ lawyers maybe, but not Trump Admin flacks I don't think. CNN and their weasel-wordy ways!