You do realise that MS require Secure Boot be able to be disabled on any motherboard or system targeting an x86 (32bit or 64bit) Windows certification program?
Under UK law its the seller that is on the hook, so if you bought it from Amazon then Amazon provide the refund - someone invoked this when Sony stripped the OtherOS out of their Playstations with an update, got their money back in full.
An existing order book does not show you everything about the company that you need to know about in order to risk an investment - look at Boeing, nearly 1000 orders for its flagship 787 model before it even flies, forecast of massive profits ahead, but now just breaking even on *production* costs after about 380 deliveries, massive deferred costs (meaning that the development costs are yet to be covered - infact, Boeing hasnt started paying them back yet), massive debts, an accounting block of well over 1100 now (unheard of for a twin engine aircraft), on the brink of announcing a forward loss position. Boeing will eventually make a profit on the 787, but its far from the slam dunk the company was pitching back in 2004.
Tesla having a huge order book is great, they just have to follow through on it.
At the time of Linux's gestation, BSD was under a legal cloud because of licensing issues with AT&T - a nice quote from Linus is "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened", and 386BSD was only not available because of the ongoing legal cases.
This isn't the first iteration of this product, so there are already use cases - this iteration is a lot cheaper than the last one tho, so it should see more widespread adoption.
They brought this in in the UK more than a decade ago - your phone has to have contact details linked to a credit or debit card logged with the provider before you can top a phone up. Anonymous phones rapidly become useless as you cant top them up (and you need to keep your credit/debit card up to date even if you dont need it to top up).
What utter shite - Concorde AF 4590 crashed because the fire that resulted from the burst fuel talk had burned through all the control systems on the left wing, causing it to roll uncontrollably to the left.
The A350 has more usage of composites than the Boeing 787, but the A380 beats both of them by use of composites by weight (its entire tail structure, including the fuselage from the composite rear pressure bulkhead rearward is composite, and it boasts the largest composite structure aloft in its centre wing box).
AF and BA paid full whack for the planes they ordered - the only discounted aircraft they received were built for other customers who dropped their orders late in the build process.
The myth that AF and BA paid peanuts for their aircraft is just that, a myth.
The BBC exists under Royal Charter, but the TV license is authorised by the Communications Act 2003, not the Royal Charter, and is set by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, so the TV license most definitely is a "revenue stream created, controlled and protected by the Government".
The plan is to force students to use them through an educational package, so if a student loses theirs (or sells it) then they will have to replace it.
The TV license funds the BBC and various other services in part - the BBC also sells its content on the secondary market for more funding (Top Gear was completely funded by its secondary market, it cost the BBC nothing for example).
The TV license is however a government backed tax, the same as other directly collected taxes such as vehicle tax - the government sets the rate and the TV Licensing authority collects it and distributes it (most of it goes to the BBC and related providers, some of it goes into a fund to subsidise broadband for rural locations).
So no, the BBC is not funded by the Government, but yes, the BBC's funding is provided by a revenue stream created, controlled and protected by the Government. Subtle difference.
Those $8 machines which are going like hot cakes on ebay? Yeah, hand them out one day and by the end of the day half of them will have been nicked from classmates and hocked on ebay...
The Micro:bit has no secondary market, its deliberately designed in such a way that if you want to actually do something productive then its cheaper to go to another solution than work around the Micro:bits limitations.
It means in success and adoption, rather than performance. Its not a competitor to the Pi, its aimed even more at the educational market and has been deliberately designed in such a way that there is little prospect of a secondary market (so they dont get sold off on ebay).
You realise that you still need products to sell, right? The advice being given isn't "buy stocks in company x" or "sell now!", its "from the answers you have given, these investment products would suit your requirements".
If this is implemented anything like insurance quotation engines, then each financial advice system will only quote from a restricted set of investment products, and not every investment product available in the entire industry.
The automated decisions on which products to offer is entirely done based on a rating system, the guts of which are determined by the fund managers of the products on offer.
This is very very little in difference to the current concept of quote engines in the insurance industry where the resulting quotations are classified as "non-advised", meaning there is no opportunity for them to be miss-sold as the entire onus is on the purchaser and not the seller to ensure that what they are buying is correct for them.
In the UK the financial and insurance industry is heavily regulated, to the point where the authority will take something which has been deemed "acceptable activity" for many years and force the industry to refund premiums - the banks are currently in the tail end of refunding over £100Billion in Payment Protection Insurance premiums (and interest) because the FSA (now the FCA) suddenly deemed the way they were sold to be non-acceptable.
So, RBS is just using standard rating systems to present standardised options for low capital investors on a non-advised basis.
CoinBase looks like another Mt Gox - it achieves its scaling because its not touching the BitCoin ledger, its purely doing exchanges through its own liquidity.
BitCoins current issues with scaling are completely down to the core developer team refusing to fix the issues - there are several ways the current problems can be resolved, they just don't want to solve them for some reason.
Isn't that the whole goddamn point of the cloud? I can just use my goddamn web browser to interact with it, instead of a custom native app?!
Uh, no. The cloud is whatever the people running the cloud want it to be, you just want it to be something different - there are no rules regarding what the cloud must do.
At the end of the day, Dropbox is a syncing platform - that "goddamn desktop client" is the entire thing Dropbox is built around. If you wanted a different feature set, you chose the wrong product to use - there's no shame in admitting that, just don't blame the tool.
Dropbox has issues creating zip files for huge data sets, because it doesn't want to commit a massive amount of resources to building that zip file, its as simple as that - if that's the way you are using Dropbox, then you are using it wrongly and not as its intended to be used.
The current average mining fee for an average wait time of 12 minutes is a significant portion of a 99 cent purchase (as in, whole pennies), which only gets larger if you want it done quicker...
Meanwhile, a VISA transaction goes through instantly at a lower cost (comparing my current contracts VISA transaction cost vs the current BitCoin fee rates). This has nothing to do with being a cheapskate, and everything to do with the underlying system being the problem.
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You do realise that MS require Secure Boot be able to be disabled on any motherboard or system targeting an x86 (32bit or 64bit) Windows certification program?
Under UK law its the seller that is on the hook, so if you bought it from Amazon then Amazon provide the refund - someone invoked this when Sony stripped the OtherOS out of their Playstations with an update, got their money back in full.
In the UK, when Siri was first introduced, the only voice available was the male voice.
It doesnt require an email address at outlook.com at all - my Windows 10 account uses an MS Account that has a Gmail address.
An existing order book does not show you everything about the company that you need to know about in order to risk an investment - look at Boeing, nearly 1000 orders for its flagship 787 model before it even flies, forecast of massive profits ahead, but now just breaking even on *production* costs after about 380 deliveries, massive deferred costs (meaning that the development costs are yet to be covered - infact, Boeing hasnt started paying them back yet), massive debts, an accounting block of well over 1100 now (unheard of for a twin engine aircraft), on the brink of announcing a forward loss position. Boeing will eventually make a profit on the 787, but its far from the slam dunk the company was pitching back in 2004.
Tesla having a huge order book is great, they just have to follow through on it.
A notification is a notification, regardless of how you dress it up.
At the time of Linux's gestation, BSD was under a legal cloud because of licensing issues with AT&T - a nice quote from Linus is "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened", and 386BSD was only not available because of the ongoing legal cases.
This isn't the first iteration of this product, so there are already use cases - this iteration is a lot cheaper than the last one tho, so it should see more widespread adoption.
They brought this in in the UK more than a decade ago - your phone has to have contact details linked to a credit or debit card logged with the provider before you can top a phone up. Anonymous phones rapidly become useless as you cant top them up (and you need to keep your credit/debit card up to date even if you dont need it to top up).
Please read the actual report from the BEA, because your conclusion is completely and utterly wrong in so many ways, you are just spreading bullshit.
What utter shite - Concorde AF 4590 crashed because the fire that resulted from the burst fuel talk had burned through all the control systems on the left wing, causing it to roll uncontrollably to the left.
No 747 would have been able to recover from that.
The A350 has more usage of composites than the Boeing 787, but the A380 beats both of them by use of composites by weight (its entire tail structure, including the fuselage from the composite rear pressure bulkhead rearward is composite, and it boasts the largest composite structure aloft in its centre wing box).
AF and BA paid full whack for the planes they ordered - the only discounted aircraft they received were built for other customers who dropped their orders late in the build process.
The myth that AF and BA paid peanuts for their aircraft is just that, a myth.
The BBC exists under Royal Charter, but the TV license is authorised by the Communications Act 2003, not the Royal Charter, and is set by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, so the TV license most definitely is a "revenue stream created, controlled and protected by the Government".
The plan is to force students to use them through an educational package, so if a student loses theirs (or sells it) then they will have to replace it.
Meh, its a little bit of both.
The TV license funds the BBC and various other services in part - the BBC also sells its content on the secondary market for more funding (Top Gear was completely funded by its secondary market, it cost the BBC nothing for example).
The TV license is however a government backed tax, the same as other directly collected taxes such as vehicle tax - the government sets the rate and the TV Licensing authority collects it and distributes it (most of it goes to the BBC and related providers, some of it goes into a fund to subsidise broadband for rural locations).
So no, the BBC is not funded by the Government, but yes, the BBC's funding is provided by a revenue stream created, controlled and protected by the Government. Subtle difference.
Those $8 machines which are going like hot cakes on ebay? Yeah, hand them out one day and by the end of the day half of them will have been nicked from classmates and hocked on ebay...
The Micro:bit has no secondary market, its deliberately designed in such a way that if you want to actually do something productive then its cheaper to go to another solution than work around the Micro:bits limitations.
It means in success and adoption, rather than performance. Its not a competitor to the Pi, its aimed even more at the educational market and has been deliberately designed in such a way that there is little prospect of a secondary market (so they dont get sold off on ebay).
it's impossible to slouch while walking
Have you ever met a teenager?!
Adverts are shown to users visiting from non-UK IP addresses on all participating BBC websites.
You realise that you still need products to sell, right? The advice being given isn't "buy stocks in company x" or "sell now!", its "from the answers you have given, these investment products would suit your requirements".
If this is implemented anything like insurance quotation engines, then each financial advice system will only quote from a restricted set of investment products, and not every investment product available in the entire industry.
The automated decisions on which products to offer is entirely done based on a rating system, the guts of which are determined by the fund managers of the products on offer.
This is very very little in difference to the current concept of quote engines in the insurance industry where the resulting quotations are classified as "non-advised", meaning there is no opportunity for them to be miss-sold as the entire onus is on the purchaser and not the seller to ensure that what they are buying is correct for them.
In the UK the financial and insurance industry is heavily regulated, to the point where the authority will take something which has been deemed "acceptable activity" for many years and force the industry to refund premiums - the banks are currently in the tail end of refunding over £100Billion in Payment Protection Insurance premiums (and interest) because the FSA (now the FCA) suddenly deemed the way they were sold to be non-acceptable.
So, RBS is just using standard rating systems to present standardised options for low capital investors on a non-advised basis.
CoinBase looks like another Mt Gox - it achieves its scaling because its not touching the BitCoin ledger, its purely doing exchanges through its own liquidity.
BitCoins current issues with scaling are completely down to the core developer team refusing to fix the issues - there are several ways the current problems can be resolved, they just don't want to solve them for some reason.
Isn't that the whole goddamn point of the cloud? I can just use my goddamn web browser to interact with it, instead of a custom native app?!
Uh, no. The cloud is whatever the people running the cloud want it to be, you just want it to be something different - there are no rules regarding what the cloud must do.
At the end of the day, Dropbox is a syncing platform - that "goddamn desktop client" is the entire thing Dropbox is built around. If you wanted a different feature set, you chose the wrong product to use - there's no shame in admitting that, just don't blame the tool.
Dropbox has issues creating zip files for huge data sets, because it doesn't want to commit a massive amount of resources to building that zip file, its as simple as that - if that's the way you are using Dropbox, then you are using it wrongly and not as its intended to be used.
The current average mining fee for an average wait time of 12 minutes is a significant portion of a 99 cent purchase (as in, whole pennies), which only gets larger if you want it done quicker...
Meanwhile, a VISA transaction goes through instantly at a lower cost (comparing my current contracts VISA transaction cost vs the current BitCoin fee rates). This has nothing to do with being a cheapskate, and everything to do with the underlying system being the problem.