There isn't one... mostly because most cars don't suddenly stop working the way they did before after getting an oil change. With Microsoft security patches, it seems to happen all the time.
Imagine what would happen if you needed to hire a QA tester to make sure that your car wouldn't crash after putting brand X oil in it before putting it in the rest of your cars.... suddenly, oil changes would cost $500 and people would only do it once a year at best.
At this point, Bitcoin is so difficult to mine that only people with "mining farms" with dedicated equipment and cheap electricity in China can make a profit at it.
Ethereum is still relatively new, and can still be profitably mined with a gaming rig filled with high end AMD video cards. It makes sense the miners would switch over to the latest cryptocurrency that gives you the best profit.
Back when I used to do mining, I went from Bitcoin to Litecoin to Feathercoin (remember that worthless crap?) because I could make a couple extra bucks a day mining it. I didn't give a damn what it was being used for, I just wanted to convert it all to Bitcoin as fast as I could so I could get gift cards with it.
I got out of the mining game when the IRS stated that cryptocurrency mining was taxable income, because I didn't want to be bothered with the paperwork come tax time. My profit margins towards the end were razor thin anyway.
I'm sure that some of the Ethereum miners are realizing that we're in a cryptocurrency bubble at this point, and that the value of their Internet funny money is about to crash. It makes sense for them to make one last big push to get give their get rich quick scheme some publicity in the tech blogs before unloading their holdings to the any new suckers who are reading them.
Seriously, the cryptocurrency traders have been doing these pump and dump schemes with Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dogecoin/etc for years.
When you have a low power embedded device with just 16 or 32 GB of storage, the difference in size of a 32 bit Windows installation and a 64 bit Windows installation becomes important.
So, yeah, a 32 bit version of Windows on a laptop or desktop system doesn't makes much sense. When you start thinking about things like POS systems and interactive signage systems, the story is different.
I would think that most of that trade volume is being processed at Silk Road like illegal goods trading sites, or by currency manipulators pulling various pump and dump and money laundering schemes on the currency trading sites.
Sure, there are a handful of legit sites taking Bitcoin thanks to sites like BitPay who instantly convert them to traditional currency. That said, don't kid yourself into thinking that those transactions make up the majority of Bitcoin transactions. It's still the Wild West out there in cryptoland.
Something tells me that the average car buyer won't really want a fully electric car for another 5 years, when Tesla finally gets some real competition in the electric car space. Personally, I wouldn't buy one until they have a reasonable (Under $30,000) price tag, decent passenger room, AND a 250+ mile range on a charge.
Lower income car buyers won't be able to afford a practical electric car (Read: Not a Nissan Leaf) until the used car lots are full of cars like I mentioned above. That puts majority electric car ownership at least a decade out.
Considering that Comcast owns NBC and all of it's channels, I'd imagine that they still make a good chunk of money off of TV advertising and TV product placement.
That's the weird thing about the Trumpster. He's a big talker and most of the things that he says are BS, but he's probably made more progress with getting companies to bring US jobs back to this country than the Obama administration did in the last 4 years.
That doesn't mean that I like him or his policies, but I have to give credit where it's due.
Or EA Access for that matter. EA Access is an annual subscription service ALREADY available on the XBox that gives you "free" copies of older EA games, early beta access, and 10 hour trials of the newer titles. If you like the games, you can buy them at a discounted price from the EA store.
So, yeah, it doesn't sound like Microsoft is doing much "innovation" here. They are just ripping off and expanding on an existing service already available to XBox customers.
Nowadays, we do team voting on sprint planning stories to come up with a more educated guess as to how long it will take to complete something. We then debate and come up with complexity estimate, which seems to be more accurate than random guessing from management.
Unfortunately, we don't really follow the scrum rules properly in our organization. Management now shows up during the planning meetings, and they chronically undervotes on the complexity of tasks in order to cram more overtime work into the sprint. Worse yet, they then have the gall to complain while we're always behind on our sprint goals. Grr.
Yeah... I'm hoping that most of that money goes to the developers and not the CEO of Yik Yak. I doubt the dev team is going to stick around unless they got some huge signing bonuses.
That said, I'm kind of glad that Yik Yak going away. It was a prime example of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, and basically created modern day minority hate groups on college campuses:
I'd like to think that most businesses and IT professionals aren't going to install a Windows patch written by "Zeffy" on their customers computers, when doing so basically insures that what little support that they were still getting from Microsoft for Windows 7 installations disappears once they find that installed.
Besides, the existence of this patch isn't going to fix the lack of new or updated drivers for Windows 7 on newer hardware.
Personally, I find it kind of kind of scary that people are still trying to install an 8 year old OS on shiny new hardware, especially when knowing that you're not going to be able to get security patches for it about 2 1/2 years from now. Didn't people learn this lesson the hard way when they tried to cling onto Windows XP long after it left mainstream support? Once again, many people are going to eventually end up with is a bunch of unpatched systems still running out in the field, just waiting become a botnet the second someone installs malware or misconfigures the firewall at the site.
It looks like Windows 7 is going to become the next Windows OS that will not die, replacing Windows XP as Microsoft's most problematic legacy OS. Windows 7 is less than 3 years away from it's end of support date at this point, and people are still doing new deployments of it every day.
No wonder Microsoft is trying to block Windows updates on new AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake PC's.... they're trying to force organizations to upgrade to Windows 10 sooner than later to avoid having even more unpatched systems to deal with 2 1/2 years from now.
The big problem that I have with TED talks is that almost nobody who watches them acts on what they learned. Most people will get briefly inspired about some guy making a 10 minute speech about something like making affordable public housing out of shipping containers or using drone technology to stop Elephant poachers, but then 99.9% of the people who watched will do little more than give the video a thumbs up or maybe share it with their friends. And yes... I'm just as guilty of this as everyone else.
Someone should probably have a TED talk where they give people a homework assignment at the end. Perhaps they should ask people write a short paper on how they put at least one of the ideas that they learned into action. Better yet, make part of the TED ticket price refundable once that paper is turned in. Otherwise, this is just a waste of time for most people.
I know that you're trying to be funny, but they actually have TEDx talks now which are basically smaller and privately organized versions of a TED talk.
Maybe you should call your version TEDxx or TEDxs. We'll leave TEDxxx for the obvious porn parody that someone will eventually make of these shows.
I think that it has more with Microsoft wanting to avoid a repeat of the Windows XP support debacle, where people were installing fresh copies of it just a few months before it was about to go End Of Life.
These people then started screaming that couldn't get security patches for their 13 year old operating system, even though they probably shouldn't have installed it that new PC to begin with.
Even now, there are still a ton of unpatched Windows XP systems out in the field running as information kiosk systems and POS terminals. That's not good for anyone, because they're just waiting for someone to turn them into a botnet the first some some dumb IT guy accidently connects to them to the Internet.
I'm stunned that they Only have 100 million customers so far. With all of those claims that they're using over a third of all worldwide bandwidth for Netflix video streaming, I would have figured that they had closer to 250 million global users by now.
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There isn't one... mostly because most cars don't suddenly stop working the way they did before after getting an oil change. With Microsoft security patches, it seems to happen all the time.
Imagine what would happen if you needed to hire a QA tester to make sure that your car wouldn't crash after putting brand X oil in it before putting it in the rest of your cars.... suddenly, oil changes would cost $500 and people would only do it once a year at best.
At this point, Bitcoin is so difficult to mine that only people with "mining farms" with dedicated equipment and cheap electricity in China can make a profit at it.
Ethereum is still relatively new, and can still be profitably mined with a gaming rig filled with high end AMD video cards. It makes sense the miners would switch over to the latest cryptocurrency that gives you the best profit.
Back when I used to do mining, I went from Bitcoin to Litecoin to Feathercoin (remember that worthless crap?) because I could make a couple extra bucks a day mining it. I didn't give a damn what it was being used for, I just wanted to convert it all to Bitcoin as fast as I could so I could get gift cards with it.
I got out of the mining game when the IRS stated that cryptocurrency mining was taxable income, because I didn't want to be bothered with the paperwork come tax time. My profit margins towards the end were razor thin anyway.
I'm sure that some of the Ethereum miners are realizing that we're in a cryptocurrency bubble at this point, and that the value of their Internet funny money is about to crash. It makes sense for them to make one last big push to get give their get rich quick scheme some publicity in the tech blogs before unloading their holdings to the any new suckers who are reading them.
Seriously, the cryptocurrency traders have been doing these pump and dump schemes with Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dogecoin/etc for years.
When you have a low power embedded device with just 16 or 32 GB of storage, the difference in size of a 32 bit Windows installation and a 64 bit Windows installation becomes important.
So, yeah, a 32 bit version of Windows on a laptop or desktop system doesn't makes much sense. When you start thinking about things like POS systems and interactive signage systems, the story is different.
I would think that most of that trade volume is being processed at Silk Road like illegal goods trading sites, or by currency manipulators pulling various pump and dump and money laundering schemes on the currency trading sites.
Sure, there are a handful of legit sites taking Bitcoin thanks to sites like BitPay who instantly convert them to traditional currency. That said, don't kid yourself into thinking that those transactions make up the majority of Bitcoin transactions. It's still the Wild West out there in cryptoland.
And still less storage than a Nomad. Lame.
You're a few episodes behind, buddy. They're bringing back Pied Piper as a "peer to peer mobile internet" thing.
Something tells me that the average car buyer won't really want a fully electric car for another 5 years, when Tesla finally gets some real competition in the electric car space. Personally, I wouldn't buy one until they have a reasonable (Under $30,000) price tag, decent passenger room, AND a 250+ mile range on a charge.
Lower income car buyers won't be able to afford a practical electric car (Read: Not a Nissan Leaf) until the used car lots are full of cars like I mentioned above. That puts majority electric car ownership at least a decade out.
Or 5,428 Challenger disasters. The perspective shifts depending on what tragedy you decide to exploit for your body count.
Basically, it's taking small doses of LSD for "enlightenment" and stuff.
The "Reply All" podcast did a good explanation of this, where someone on their staff actually tried it out. It didn't work out that well for him.
Considering that Comcast owns NBC and all of it's channels, I'd imagine that they still make a good chunk of money off of TV advertising and TV product placement.
That's the weird thing about the Trumpster. He's a big talker and most of the things that he says are BS, but he's probably made more progress with getting companies to bring US jobs back to this country than the Obama administration did in the last 4 years.
That doesn't mean that I like him or his policies, but I have to give credit where it's due.
Don't forget those cryptolocker assholes as well. Bitcoin is like PayPal to them.
Or EA Access for that matter. EA Access is an annual subscription service ALREADY available on the XBox that gives you "free" copies of older EA games, early beta access, and 10 hour trials of the newer titles. If you like the games, you can buy them at a discounted price from the EA store.
So, yeah, it doesn't sound like Microsoft is doing much "innovation" here. They are just ripping off and expanding on an existing service already available to XBox customers.
Nowadays, we do team voting on sprint planning stories to come up with a more educated guess as to how long it will take to complete something. We then debate and come up with complexity estimate, which seems to be more accurate than random guessing from management.
Unfortunately, we don't really follow the scrum rules properly in our organization. Management now shows up during the planning meetings, and they chronically undervotes on the complexity of tasks in order to cram more overtime work into the sprint. Worse yet, they then have the gall to complain while we're always behind on our sprint goals. Grr.
Yeah... I'm hoping that most of that money goes to the developers and not the CEO of Yik Yak. I doubt the dev team is going to stick around unless they got some huge signing bonuses.
That said, I'm kind of glad that Yik Yak going away. It was a prime example of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, and basically created modern day minority hate groups on college campuses:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-...
https://gimletmedia.com/episod...
I'd like to think that most businesses and IT professionals aren't going to install a Windows patch written by "Zeffy" on their customers computers, when doing so basically insures that what little support that they were still getting from Microsoft for Windows 7 installations disappears once they find that installed.
Besides, the existence of this patch isn't going to fix the lack of new or updated drivers for Windows 7 on newer hardware.
Personally, I find it kind of kind of scary that people are still trying to install an 8 year old OS on shiny new hardware, especially when knowing that you're not going to be able to get security patches for it about 2 1/2 years from now. Didn't people learn this lesson the hard way when they tried to cling onto Windows XP long after it left mainstream support? Once again, many people are going to eventually end up with is a bunch of unpatched systems still running out in the field, just waiting become a botnet the second someone installs malware or misconfigures the firewall at the site.
I wonder how many IBM has to spare. They own all of 9.0.0.0/8
It looks like Windows 7 is going to become the next Windows OS that will not die, replacing Windows XP as Microsoft's most problematic legacy OS. Windows 7 is less than 3 years away from it's end of support date at this point, and people are still doing new deployments of it every day.
No wonder Microsoft is trying to block Windows updates on new AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake PC's.... they're trying to force organizations to upgrade to Windows 10 sooner than later to avoid having even more unpatched systems to deal with 2 1/2 years from now.
Yeah, I've seen a few of them. Some of them are pretty bad, but not quite as bad as you're making them out to be.
The big problem that I have with TED talks is that almost nobody who watches them acts on what they learned. Most people will get briefly inspired about some guy making a 10 minute speech about something like making affordable public housing out of shipping containers or using drone technology to stop Elephant poachers, but then 99.9% of the people who watched will do little more than give the video a thumbs up or maybe share it with their friends. And yes... I'm just as guilty of this as everyone else.
Someone should probably have a TED talk where they give people a homework assignment at the end. Perhaps they should ask people write a short paper on how they put at least one of the ideas that they learned into action. Better yet, make part of the TED ticket price refundable once that paper is turned in. Otherwise, this is just a waste of time for most people.
I know that you're trying to be funny, but they actually have TEDx talks now which are basically smaller and privately organized versions of a TED talk.
Maybe you should call your version TEDxx or TEDxs. We'll leave TEDxxx for the obvious porn parody that someone will eventually make of these shows.
https://xkcd.com/678/
They didn't have a "2 year" option in that chart, but I think that the "5 year" option applies.
I think that it has more with Microsoft wanting to avoid a repeat of the Windows XP support debacle, where people were installing fresh copies of it just a few months before it was about to go End Of Life.
These people then started screaming that couldn't get security patches for their 13 year old operating system, even though they probably shouldn't have installed it that new PC to begin with.
Even now, there are still a ton of unpatched Windows XP systems out in the field running as information kiosk systems and POS terminals. That's not good for anyone, because they're just waiting for someone to turn them into a botnet the first some some dumb IT guy accidently connects to them to the Internet.
I'm stunned that they Only have 100 million customers so far. With all of those claims that they're using over a third of all worldwide bandwidth for Netflix video streaming, I would have figured that they had closer to 250 million global users by now.