The business model is to not be dependent on microsoft... As it stands, all games publishers are utterly beholden to microsoft, who is also their competitor with their own games to push. Microsoft could make life difficult for any game publishers, and has incentives to do so. If your entire business depends on the good will of one of your biggest competitors, your on very thin ice.
Time limit is the problem, and it's gone the wrong way... The original copyright terms where what, 14 years plus 14 year extension? This made sense in the original context of printed media in the 1700s, where it could take years to print copies and distribute them world wide. Now you can distribute a work worldwide in seconds, so the terms should be shorter - however they've been made massively longer. Now anything that's released today will be long forgotten by the time copyright expires, as anyone who was around for its original release will be dead. Also any original media is likely to have degraded by this point, and functional compatible playback devices will be hard to find.
In theory you pass the file into the sandbox and receive a yes/no response from the av scanner running within it... This has worked well for many years with av running on gateway devices - eg i have a linux based email and web filter which runs inbound files past an av scanner in this way, the scanner itself is sandboxed and the file is fed over a socket connection. Ofcourse this only really works for file scanning, if you want to do things like scan memory and hijack existing processes (which most windows based av does) then it still needs to run at least some parts of the process with an extremely high privilege level.
It's not just low visibility situations, it's situations with good visibility where people do stupid things - like stepping off the sidewalk immediately infront of an oncoming vehicle. An AI has no way to predict that a pedestrian who seems to be standing or walking normally across a sidewalk will suddenly jump into the road, and it does happen either as attempted suicide or due to stupidity. Pedestrians can also jump down from bridges into the path of traffic, or come out from other vehicles such as buses... All kinds of ridiculous things can happen, and need to be accounted for.
If a pedestrian suddenly steps infront of a moving vehicle, the alternatives could be:
1, mow down the stupid pedestrian 2, swerve onto the sidewalk and potentially mow down multiple pedestrians who did nothing wrong 3, swerve onto the other side of the road and potentially collide with oncoming traffic
In this scenario, i'd choose option 1 unless either the sidewalk or opposing traffic lane were empty.
Such countries do indeed have a high fatality rate, but having spent a lot of time in such a country and survived those people learn how to watch out for vehicles and be wary of crossing the road. On the other hand, if someone from a country with strict and well enforced road laws travels to a country with very lax road rules, they can often find themselves in trouble. There's no excuse for not being aware of your surroundings, even in a country where the vast majority of drivers follow the rules.
In most of europe and asia, jaywalking is not a crime... You can cross the road wherever you feel it's safe to do so, and in most cases designated crossings are generally safer.
However in a lot of countries (india, myanmar etc) traffic frequently ignores crossings and it's dangerous to cross whenever there is any traffic around. In many countries it is actually safer to cross in the middle of a traffic jam because the traffic will be slow or stationary, if the traffic is actually moving it won't stop for you wether you're using a crossing or not.
If you've spent significant time in such countries and survived, then you learn how to cross the road without needing crossings, and then you take this experience to other countries and find yourself guilty of jaywalking.
In many cases it's much quicker to jaywalk than walk to a crossing and wait for it, and often perfectly safe to do so (ie no traffic around).
It is the driver's responsibility to take reasonable measures to avoid hitting pedestrians, but sometimes pedestrians just do something monumentally stupid (or suicidal) and get hit. If you are obeying a 50mph speed limit and a pedestrian steps right infront of your moving vehicle and you don't have time to react and stop then the police will assess the situation and usually declare you not at fault. If the police decide that you were breaking the law (speeding, using a phone while driving, driving a vehicle with faulty brakes etc) then you will get the blame, even if not doing those illegal things would not have prevented the incident.
he flip side, the New Zealand government and Education Department publicly admitting they are not technologically inept to manage computer system and must pass it off to a US corporation,
If they didn't hand the schoolkids over to the american corporation google, they would hand them over to the american corporations apple or microsoft... There aren't really any other alternatives.
And it's highly unlikely that an education department would have the skills (or budget to hire such skilled people) to manage computer systems properly.
Those new zealand tech companies are probably all just resellers for one of the above american corporations anyway, perhaps providing some limited local first-line support.
Because it's open source, and there's no reason a third party couldn't provide a version of chromeos configured to use their services instead of google's.
Fundamentally, general purpose computers are designed for geeks, they require knowledge to operate and maintain which most people neither have nor want, and if you allow people without the requisite skills to operate complex machines then disaster usually occurs (malware epidemics being a good example).
So what's best for users is locked down devices managed by someone else, and chrome/android can provide this. Android has already been forked by third parties providing their own systems (amazon etc) and i'd expect chromeos to follow the same way. The vast majority of users are simply better off with a limited device managed by someone else.
Even microsoft can see the writing on the wall, and are moving their emphasis towards cloud because that's the only way they can remain relevant. No reason you can't use the microsoft cloud services from a chromebook.
Who's to say what these kids will be using when they enter the workplace? Even if windows is still around, the version in use by then will be significantly different from what they're using today. Schools should teach general concepts that can be applied to any system, or there is a high chance that whatever they teach will be obsolete once the kids reach the workplace. We were taught wordperfect for dos at school, for instance.
And yes i agree that introducing computers randomly serves no benefit, their use needs to be carefully considered in the context of what you're trying to teach.
A self driving car should protect its passengers first or they wouldn't sell. Who would willingly ride in a vehicle that would intentionally sacrifice their life for any reason?
A lot of modern libraries are no longer able to be statically linked... Trying to build static binaries these days can be pretty difficult for anything non trivial.
It says he uses the phones to talk to old friends, people he was in regular contact with long before he became president. So long as he's not discussing classified information (and he cant be, or there would be a much bigger fuss being made) then whats the problem?
Even if using a government supplied landline, if hes calling regular phones then it can't be encrypted end to end, it has to traverse the public telephone network at some point where it could be subject to interception.
There are less and less expectations on owners to change consumables themselves... It used to be that the driving tests in some countries required you to do things like check the coolant and change a wheel. Things like light bulbs are becoming increasingly difficult to replace on some modern cars, and a lot of people don't even know how to do simple things like change lightbulbs at home.
Move to somewhere with free healthcare and then it's a choice between an expensive repair bill on the car, or a few weeks paid leave from work sitting in a hospital bed.
Not only that, but traffic going from canada to korea via china isn't unreasonable, it could be the cheapest route or the direct routes could be unavailable for whatever reason. If the traffic was destined from canada to the us and went via china that would be far more suspicious.
And the linux feature was originally added to the ps3 so sony could claim it was a general purpose computer and not a single purpose games console, in order to circumvent restrictions in place somewhere...
The hardware is initially expensive, but also retains value better... A couple of year old macbook still fetches a decent price on ebay and the value only really decreases significantly once it can no longer run the latest osx.
Technical people often prefer macs due to the unix underpinnings.. There are also quite a lot of companies that offer the choice between windows or mac but won't let you run linux, which pushes technical users towards the mac.
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Intel have been offering integrated third party GPUs for a while, several of the atom chips were available with a PowerVR GPU.
The business model is to not be dependent on microsoft...
As it stands, all games publishers are utterly beholden to microsoft, who is also their competitor with their own games to push. Microsoft could make life difficult for any game publishers, and has incentives to do so. If your entire business depends on the good will of one of your biggest competitors, your on very thin ice.
Time limit is the problem, and it's gone the wrong way...
The original copyright terms where what, 14 years plus 14 year extension? This made sense in the original context of printed media in the 1700s, where it could take years to print copies and distribute them world wide. Now you can distribute a work worldwide in seconds, so the terms should be shorter - however they've been made massively longer.
Now anything that's released today will be long forgotten by the time copyright expires, as anyone who was around for its original release will be dead. Also any original media is likely to have degraded by this point, and functional compatible playback devices will be hard to find.
In theory you pass the file into the sandbox and receive a yes/no response from the av scanner running within it...
This has worked well for many years with av running on gateway devices - eg i have a linux based email and web filter which runs inbound files past an av scanner in this way, the scanner itself is sandboxed and the file is fed over a socket connection.
Ofcourse this only really works for file scanning, if you want to do things like scan memory and hijack existing processes (which most windows based av does) then it still needs to run at least some parts of the process with an extremely high privilege level.
It's not just low visibility situations, it's situations with good visibility where people do stupid things - like stepping off the sidewalk immediately infront of an oncoming vehicle.
An AI has no way to predict that a pedestrian who seems to be standing or walking normally across a sidewalk will suddenly jump into the road, and it does happen either as attempted suicide or due to stupidity. Pedestrians can also jump down from bridges into the path of traffic, or come out from other vehicles such as buses... All kinds of ridiculous things can happen, and need to be accounted for.
If a pedestrian suddenly steps infront of a moving vehicle, the alternatives could be:
1, mow down the stupid pedestrian
2, swerve onto the sidewalk and potentially mow down multiple pedestrians who did nothing wrong
3, swerve onto the other side of the road and potentially collide with oncoming traffic
In this scenario, i'd choose option 1 unless either the sidewalk or opposing traffic lane were empty.
Such countries do indeed have a high fatality rate, but having spent a lot of time in such a country and survived those people learn how to watch out for vehicles and be wary of crossing the road.
On the other hand, if someone from a country with strict and well enforced road laws travels to a country with very lax road rules, they can often find themselves in trouble. There's no excuse for not being aware of your surroundings, even in a country where the vast majority of drivers follow the rules.
In most of europe and asia, jaywalking is not a crime... You can cross the road wherever you feel it's safe to do so, and in most cases designated crossings are generally safer.
However in a lot of countries (india, myanmar etc) traffic frequently ignores crossings and it's dangerous to cross whenever there is any traffic around. In many countries it is actually safer to cross in the middle of a traffic jam because the traffic will be slow or stationary, if the traffic is actually moving it won't stop for you wether you're using a crossing or not.
If you've spent significant time in such countries and survived, then you learn how to cross the road without needing crossings, and then you take this experience to other countries and find yourself guilty of jaywalking.
In many cases it's much quicker to jaywalk than walk to a crossing and wait for it, and often perfectly safe to do so (ie no traffic around).
It is the driver's responsibility to take reasonable measures to avoid hitting pedestrians, but sometimes pedestrians just do something monumentally stupid (or suicidal) and get hit. If you are obeying a 50mph speed limit and a pedestrian steps right infront of your moving vehicle and you don't have time to react and stop then the police will assess the situation and usually declare you not at fault.
If the police decide that you were breaking the law (speeding, using a phone while driving, driving a vehicle with faulty brakes etc) then you will get the blame, even if not doing those illegal things would not have prevented the incident.
AD requires teams of (highly expensive) staff with specialised knowledge, otherwise you end up with a horrendously insecure mess.
he flip side, the New Zealand government and Education Department publicly admitting they are not technologically inept to manage computer system and must pass it off to a US corporation,
If they didn't hand the schoolkids over to the american corporation google, they would hand them over to the american corporations apple or microsoft... There aren't really any other alternatives.
And it's highly unlikely that an education department would have the skills (or budget to hire such skilled people) to manage computer systems properly.
Those new zealand tech companies are probably all just resellers for one of the above american corporations anyway, perhaps providing some limited local first-line support.
Check out the corruption perceptions index
The key is in the name, it's all about perception... All countries are corrupt, some are just better at hiding it than others.
Because it's open source, and there's no reason a third party couldn't provide a version of chromeos configured to use their services instead of google's.
Fundamentally, general purpose computers are designed for geeks, they require knowledge to operate and maintain which most people neither have nor want, and if you allow people without the requisite skills to operate complex machines then disaster usually occurs (malware epidemics being a good example).
So what's best for users is locked down devices managed by someone else, and chrome/android can provide this. Android has already been forked by third parties providing their own systems (amazon etc) and i'd expect chromeos to follow the same way. The vast majority of users are simply better off with a limited device managed by someone else.
Even microsoft can see the writing on the wall, and are moving their emphasis towards cloud because that's the only way they can remain relevant. No reason you can't use the microsoft cloud services from a chromebook.
Who's to say what these kids will be using when they enter the workplace? Even if windows is still around, the version in use by then will be significantly different from what they're using today.
Schools should teach general concepts that can be applied to any system, or there is a high chance that whatever they teach will be obsolete once the kids reach the workplace. We were taught wordperfect for dos at school, for instance.
And yes i agree that introducing computers randomly serves no benefit, their use needs to be carefully considered in the context of what you're trying to teach.
A self driving car should protect its passengers first or they wouldn't sell. Who would willingly ride in a vehicle that would intentionally sacrifice their life for any reason?
A lot of modern libraries are no longer able to be statically linked... Trying to build static binaries these days can be pretty difficult for anything non trivial.
Will the free healthcare cover the missing legs
No, but you'll get free wheelchair and crutches.
the painkiller addiction
Yes
Scientists push for government research program that would need to employ lots more scientists...
It says he uses the phones to talk to old friends, people he was in regular contact with long before he became president. So long as he's not discussing classified information (and he cant be, or there would be a much bigger fuss being made) then whats the problem?
Even if using a government supplied landline, if hes calling regular phones then it can't be encrypted end to end, it has to traverse the public telephone network at some point where it could be subject to interception.
There are less and less expectations on owners to change consumables themselves...
It used to be that the driving tests in some countries required you to do things like check the coolant and change a wheel. Things like light bulbs are becoming increasingly difficult to replace on some modern cars, and a lot of people don't even know how to do simple things like change lightbulbs at home.
Move to somewhere with free healthcare and then it's a choice between an expensive repair bill on the car, or a few weeks paid leave from work sitting in a hospital bed.
Not only that, but traffic going from canada to korea via china isn't unreasonable, it could be the cheapest route or the direct routes could be unavailable for whatever reason. If the traffic was destined from canada to the us and went via china that would be far more suspicious.
And the linux feature was originally added to the ps3 so sony could claim it was a general purpose computer and not a single purpose games console, in order to circumvent restrictions in place somewhere...
The hardware is initially expensive, but also retains value better... A couple of year old macbook still fetches a decent price on ebay and the value only really decreases significantly once it can no longer run the latest osx.
Technical people often prefer macs due to the unix underpinnings.. There are also quite a lot of companies that offer the choice between windows or mac but won't let you run linux, which pushes technical users towards the mac.