Amazon and Microsoft seem to be chipping away at their some of their business lines, but nobody has really stepped up with a better search option yet. Someone will eventually, though.
I thought that we just had a Slashdot story a few days ago about our energy consumption going up because of cryptocurrency mining. Which story is right?
There is a new cryptocurrency called Nimiq coming out soon that’s designed to be mined with a Web browser using Javascript. It’s designed to be GPU and ASIC “resistant”, meaning that most people will be mining in with ordinary desktop CPU’s at least initially.
I can only imagine the various types of malware that are going to show up for mining that cryptocurrency.
I wonder if the Chinese will go back to pirating content once they realize that they content that they want to watch is spread out over 4 or 5 different streaming services (like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Go, and CBS AllAccess just to name a few in the US), each one of which having it's own monthly subscription fee.
Once you realize how big media is trying to nickel and dime you to death, it makes one long for a return to the high seas. Yarrr!
Actually, this is a great idea: NASA should start accepting Bitcoin for visits to the ISS! Not only will it be a great revenue stream for NASA, but it will help the IRS figure out who's been neglecting to put a few million dollars worth of crypto mining profits on their 1040 forms.
And, hey... if the Winklevoss twins ever show up, maybe Mark Zuckerberg will pay NASA extra to stage an unfortunate airlock depressurization "accident" for them.
I wonder what the maximum amount of Bitcoin BitPay currently accepts... it might need to be tweaked a bit.
That's a risky move. By the time the extra stock is available, they crypto bubble might have burst and miners will be unloading their GPU's on eBay for half of what they paid for them.
It would be good for consumers, I guess ($250 GeForce 1080's for everyone!), but it would probably kill AMD's and Nvidia's profits for a few quarters.
There are a whole new generation of "altcoins" coming out every day to fleece new investors, though. Why go back to Bitcoin, which already has hundreds of (Google searchable) horror stories of people losing everything, and will likely soon have many more?
In my area, we have Comcast for cable (eww), Frontier for VDSL (that tops out at 24 MB/sec, and doesn't even qualify as broadband given the current FCC rules), or some sort of overpriced satellite or cellular connection with an insanely low data cap. Frontier is near bankruptcy, and hasn't attempted to improve their network in our area (coastal Connecticut) since they bought it from at&t a few years ago.
So, basically the choices in my area are Comcast or shit. You know that they're bad when Comcast comes out as the only good option.
I'm still wondering when the municipal gigabit broadband connections are coming. The state promised investments in this a few years ago, but nothing ever came of it. It seems that Google Fiber is vaporware as well.
I'm sure that the Russian trolls will just hire troll armies and click farms to upvote all of their fake news posts just enough to insure that their feeds do not get shut down.
If that doesn't work, they'll just use those same people to promote new legitimate sounding news organizations to popularity every few weeks.
I think that the only reason that Toronto is on the list is so Amazon can extort federal tax breaks along with the state level tax breaks everyone is offering. I'd imagine that a thinly veiled "cut our taxes some more or we're moving our HQ to Canada" threat would work pretty well with the current administration.
In defense of Apple, they did show a warning in the battery settings screen when they noticed that the battery capacity was diminished and that you might "experience issues" (I don't remember the exact wording) until the battery is replaced. I saw it on my iPhone 6 when the battery went bad on it.
They didn't say that they were going to throttle the device to keep the device from crashing, though, or give you a way of turning that feature off. I think that's why everyone is so pissed off about this.
You're aware that it only sends over the voice commands it gets after it hears it's "Alexa" activation keyword, right? People have confirmed this by connecting packet sniffers to their network and monitoring that it sends over. Same deal with Google Home.
Sure, this will probably get hacked (and patched) at some point, but I think that people like you are being overly paranoid. Unless you work for a three letter spy agency, you don't have much to worry about .
If I as kid #4, I'd sell the Macbook Air and get a AMD Ryzen based gaming PC with the proceeds. You can build a gaming PC with a pretty kick ass video card in it for around $1,000.
Hell, he'd probably have enough left over for a cheap Dell or HP Windows 10 laptop along with some cash for games.
Well, they tried anyway. I don't think that Apple has sold nearly as many iPad Pro's as they wanted to, mostly because you can get a much more functional and powerful Ultrabook for around the same price once you add all of the iPad Pro accessories.
What do you expect? Slashdot has been spamming us with about 2 Bitcoin articles a day for the past few years, with no way to filter them out. I'm sure that there are more than a few of us here who are rooting for Bitcoin to fail, so we can go back to badmouthing Microsoft and IBM instead.
Meh... A GeForce 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 isn't fast enough to run most games at a 4K resolution at 60 FPS. You really need a GeForce 1070 or a AMD Vega 64.
Ok, smart guy, find me a gaming PC with a graphics card capable of playing modern day first person shooters in 4K resolution for $500. Good luck... just the video card alone will cost you $300.
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Amazon and Microsoft seem to be chipping away at their some of their business lines, but nobody has really stepped up with a better search option yet. Someone will eventually, though.
I thought that we just had a Slashdot story a few days ago about our energy consumption going up because of cryptocurrency mining. Which story is right?
There is a new cryptocurrency called Nimiq coming out soon that’s designed to be mined with a Web browser using Javascript. It’s designed to be GPU and ASIC “resistant”, meaning that most people will be mining in with ordinary desktop CPU’s at least initially.
I can only imagine the various types of malware that are going to show up for mining that cryptocurrency.
It kinda hard to convince people that cryptocurrency is a “real” currency when even it’s fans compare their exchange sites to a casino. Just saying.
I wonder if the Chinese will go back to pirating content once they realize that they content that they want to watch is spread out over 4 or 5 different streaming services (like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Go, and CBS AllAccess just to name a few in the US), each one of which having it's own monthly subscription fee.
Once you realize how big media is trying to nickel and dime you to death, it makes one long for a return to the high seas. Yarrr!
Actually, this is a great idea: NASA should start accepting Bitcoin for visits to the ISS! Not only will it be a great revenue stream for NASA, but it will help the IRS figure out who's been neglecting to put a few million dollars worth of crypto mining profits on their 1040 forms.
And, hey... if the Winklevoss twins ever show up, maybe Mark Zuckerberg will pay NASA extra to stage an unfortunate airlock depressurization "accident" for them.
I wonder what the maximum amount of Bitcoin BitPay currently accepts... it might need to be tweaked a bit.
That's a risky move. By the time the extra stock is available, they crypto bubble might have burst and miners will be unloading their GPU's on eBay for half of what they paid for them.
It would be good for consumers, I guess ($250 GeForce 1080's for everyone!), but it would probably kill AMD's and Nvidia's profits for a few quarters.
I don’t know, man... the UI for Windows 3.x felt really familiar to System 7 for the Mac.
Windows 95 actually reminded me more of X Windows from various UNIX versions.
There are a whole new generation of "altcoins" coming out every day to fleece new investors, though. Why go back to Bitcoin, which already has hundreds of (Google searchable) horror stories of people losing everything, and will likely soon have many more?
In my area, we have Comcast for cable (eww), Frontier for VDSL (that tops out at 24 MB/sec, and doesn't even qualify as broadband given the current FCC rules), or some sort of overpriced satellite or cellular connection with an insanely low data cap. Frontier is near bankruptcy, and hasn't attempted to improve their network in our area (coastal Connecticut) since they bought it from at&t a few years ago.
So, basically the choices in my area are Comcast or shit. You know that they're bad when Comcast comes out as the only good option.
I'm still wondering when the municipal gigabit broadband connections are coming. The state promised investments in this a few years ago, but nothing ever came of it. It seems that Google Fiber is vaporware as well.
I'm sure that the Russian trolls will just hire troll armies and click farms to upvote all of their fake news posts just enough to insure that their feeds do not get shut down.
If that doesn't work, they'll just use those same people to promote new legitimate sounding news organizations to popularity every few weeks.
Yep... the Trump fans will all give Fox News and Breitbart top rankings, while slamming NPR and the New York Times.
Democrats will do the exact opposite, basically insuring that most major news sites will have a "Neutral" rating.
I think that the only reason that Toronto is on the list is so Amazon can extort federal tax breaks along with the state level tax breaks everyone is offering. I'd imagine that a thinly veiled "cut our taxes some more or we're moving our HQ to Canada" threat would work pretty well with the current administration.
In defense of Apple, they did show a warning in the battery settings screen when they noticed that the battery capacity was diminished and that you might "experience issues" (I don't remember the exact wording) until the battery is replaced. I saw it on my iPhone 6 when the battery went bad on it.
They didn't say that they were going to throttle the device to keep the device from crashing, though, or give you a way of turning that feature off. I think that's why everyone is so pissed off about this.
You're aware that it only sends over the voice commands it gets after it hears it's "Alexa" activation keyword, right? People have confirmed this by connecting packet sniffers to their network and monitoring that it sends over. Same deal with Google Home.
Sure, this will probably get hacked (and patched) at some point, but I think that people like you are being overly paranoid. Unless you work for a three letter spy agency, you don't have much to worry about .
If I as kid #4, I'd sell the Macbook Air and get a AMD Ryzen based gaming PC with the proceeds. You can build a gaming PC with a pretty kick ass video card in it for around $1,000.
Hell, he'd probably have enough left over for a cheap Dell or HP Windows 10 laptop along with some cash for games.
Well, they tried anyway. I don't think that Apple has sold nearly as many iPad Pro's as they wanted to, mostly because you can get a much more functional and powerful Ultrabook for around the same price once you add all of the iPad Pro accessories.
What do you expect? Slashdot has been spamming us with about 2 Bitcoin articles a day for the past few years, with no way to filter them out. I'm sure that there are more than a few of us here who are rooting for Bitcoin to fail, so we can go back to badmouthing Microsoft and IBM instead.
You can just call their bank and ask them to refund the fraudulent transfer... no?
Ok, how about filing an FDIC insurance cla... nope?
Ok, how about calling the police and having them start an invest... wait, they laughed at you over the phone? Well, that's just mean.
Maybe they can contact their local attorney and... they don't want to take the case because they can't even find the correct plantiff? Damn.
Well. fuck. Maybe this cryptocurrency fad isn't as great as they made it sound on Reddit.
It's what Siri defaults to using, so yes.
And, YES, Siri is still a thing :)
Meh... A GeForce 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 isn't fast enough to run most games at a 4K resolution at 60 FPS. You really need a GeForce 1070 or a AMD Vega 64.
Ok, smart guy, find me a gaming PC with a graphics card capable of playing modern day first person shooters in 4K resolution for $500. Good luck... just the video card alone will cost you $300.
Yelp is integrated into Apple Maps, which probably brings them some traffic if you're using Siri to search for stuff.
But, yeah, Google has stolen a lot of market share from them.
I don't know, man... The new XBox One X is pretty slick. It's pretty much impossible to build a gaming PC with that much graphics horsepower for $500.
Someone should call up the Myspace guys... this could be their comeback story!