article refers to the smartphone data service explicitly, not DSL/FiOS internet users.
Did you read it? I quote:
So they will say, if you go to Korea or you go to France, you can get a faster Internet connection. Okay? That could be true in some companies--in some countries. The facts are that, in the US, there is greater household penetration of access to the Internet than any country in Europe.
In Japan, where everybody looks at Japan as being so far ahead, they may have faster speeds, but we have higher utilization of people using the Internet. So our view is, whenever you look at these issues, you have to be very careful to look at what the market wants, not what government says is the most important issue.
Let's take wireless, for example....
So, clearly, he was not talking about wireless in the two paragraphs before he started talking about it.
The fact that you can "earn" a million dollars per month by divorcing a rich spouse shows how arbitrary incomes can be. It makes a mockery of honest work.
As there's already been an article about how some well-ranked race drivers went to a track and posted better-than-average times, probably as a result of their experience, this article is -1, Troll. It's possible not to learn from playing driving games, but since pro race drivers use off-the-shelf video games to prepare for races, it's all a lot of shit.
If you watched the video, the tone of it isn't trollish at all, nor is it a scientific experiment. They're using a fake Houston Oilers football helmet and hitting each other with an inflatable baseball bat. It's just for the fun of trying an idea from video games in reality.
I agree completely. But I thought if I offered my comment without something like an affirmation of faith I would be assumed to be making a different point, which would be modded into oblivion and subsequently ignored.
I've got a bunch of unattractive poor people to look at!
Not really. If ramping up the immune system when necessary is an adaptive trait, then so is ramping it down when it's not needed (otherwise it would be turned up to 11 at all times). The immune system has costs, from metabolic (i.e. wasting energy) to self-damage (autoimmune disorders).
Look, I believe in evolution, but it "explains" almost anything you can imagine, such as why humans have wings (to evade predators, of course). (My remark is by no means a new insight). So we need to be careful about rationalizing things in retrospect.
- if they're mutually exclusive then explain how -
Money, presumably. But assuming you're right, that destroys the premise of this article, which is that corporations are failing to protect their intellectual property because they are instead placing too much emphasis on pesky regulations that protect individuals' assets and privacy without directly contributing to the bottom line.
It seems like businesses aren't going to embrace cloud computing until/unless the security issues are solved. Email should be a relatively simple case, since the message content is simply copied from point A to point B and isn't processed in between. If google simply implemented client-side encryption, and opened the source for public scrutiny, it would do a lot to address these concerns. Yes, it would mess with content analysis, spam filtering, etc... but that will simply have to be accepted/paid for.
I disagree with the slant of the article that this is a scandal. Have the Chicago Bulls been just as good without Jordan? Of course not. Special people are special. You are lucky when you get them, but most of the time you have to work around not having them.
If NASA does find a problem then Toyota can spin it as it being so subtle that it took the resources of NASA to find it. They can then use this, with PR spin, and an agreement to contract with NASA for "consulting" as a win.
If NASA finds a problem after all Toyota's assurances, the public will conclude that Toyota doesn't know what they're doing, and their cars are too complex to be trusted.
NHTSA, meanwhile, was woefully unprepared to decide whether engine electronics might be at fault, Waxman and Stupak said.
NHTSA officials told investigators that the agency doesn't employ any electrical engineers or software engineers.
Does Apple ship products to customers straight from China, or wherever they're made?
Lenovo does - buy a thinkpad and it arrives in a box with a taiwanese or chinese return address, I forget which. But then, Lenovo has headquarters there.
Since cloning is increasingly easy to do, I would think the value should be near $0 very soon.
However, I hope there is some maximum number of children that any single person is able to (indirectly) have. If it gets to the point that thousands of people have the same biological mother or father, which technically should be quiet easy now or very soon, we are going to see a lot of inbreeding problems.
I have a Playstation and an XBox 360, but my kids spend more time with Flash games on the web. I think they get more fun from the endless novelty of new flash games, than from a smaller number of console games purchased on DVD, even if the console games do have much better graphics.
We'll keep you safe, because you are obviously too stupid to make informed decisions for yourself.
You have it backwards - that bill would allow people to choose by adding their own salt to food, instead of having it arrive with some unknown quantify of salt in it already. As I read it, that bill did not ban restaurants from having a salt shaker on the table. (If so, I would oppose it). So it doesn't actually restrict salt, it just makes it "opt in" instead of having no choice.
I didn't equate them, but there is overlap, as well as contention about which role is more important. Quoting secretary of defense Robert Gates:
In assessing the F-22 requirement, we also considered the advanced stealth and superior air-to-ground capabilities provided by the fifth-generation F-35s now being accelerated in this budget, the growing capability and range of unmanned platforms like the Reaper, and other systems in the Air Force and in other services
Holy crap. How can you say the quality of the broadcasts is fantastic when 1 hour of game takes 3 hours to broadcast?
Well, because I record the games on my PVR and skip the commercials. Even if I want to watch a game live, I start watching an hour after the game begins, and catch up some time in the 4th quarter.
the one thing about NASCAR that irritates me is how the cars are designed to do left turns only. Yeah, that's very "stock". Let's design airplanes that are only good at falling...
The "stock" in "stock car" (the "s" in NASCAR) is a vestige of a bygone era. Today's cars have nothing to do with production vehicles. To see one up close, they don't even look (superficially) very well made, the fit and finish is nothing like a Lexus, more like an overgrown go-cart, but of course they put the money where it counts.
Say what you will about NASCAR and the NFL, because they're admittedly not true global sports - but the quality of the broadcasts is fantastic (picture quality, camera angles, closeups, slow-mo, high-tech infographic video overlays). I know there are purists who would rather see the broadcast be more like what you experience sitting in the stadium, but it's impressive technically if nothing else.
F1 doesn't even air on US network TV, it's cable/satellite only. And even then the commentators are constantly making inane comparisons to NASCAR.
That's one of the interesting things about technology-driven sports - there are no un-regulated competitions because they aren't competitive and aren't fun or interesting to watch. It becomes little more than a question of who has the deepest pockets.
That's still where the majority of PC gamers can handle things well, too.
Right, PC evolution is such a continuous process, most gamers probably don't have DX11.
What would put DX11 into the mainstream fast is a major new console that supports it. Being one of these cheap dudes that always buys a generation behind, I am just now upgrading from a PS2 to a XBox 360. It's not as significant upgrade as I'd like; I'm disappointed there aren't (hardly) any 1080p 60fps games XBox 360 or PS3. This matters to me because I play splitscreen games with my kids, sitting about 3 feet from a 46" screen.
The XBox 360 and PS3 are getting way behind current tech, it's time for a new console. If not an entirely new generation, then just a new XBox or PS3 rev supporting more modern hardware, and games that autodetect whether the new features and resolution is available. Supporting two levels of capability wouldn't be unmanageable. And PC gamers would benefit because the market for DX11 would be much bigger.
I agree, the syntax of PROLOG, for example, seems much simpler, more powerful, and makes more sense to me. There have been many attempts to fuse it with SQL, but nothing past the scale of a few researchers from different universities working together.
But when all is said and done, you can get familiar with most of SQL in a couple weeks. No doubt mastering all the intricacies of Oracle takes years, but not, I think, due to the SQL syntax.
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Does apple even care about personal computers any more?
The last noteworthy computer they announced was the Air (which in retrospect seems like a super-advanced iPad that was largely ignored).
Did you read it? I quote:
So, clearly, he was not talking about wireless in the two paragraphs before he started talking about it.
The fact that you can "earn" a million dollars per month by divorcing a rich spouse shows how arbitrary incomes can be. It makes a mockery of honest work.
If you watched the video, the tone of it isn't trollish at all, nor is it a scientific experiment. They're using a fake Houston Oilers football helmet and hitting each other with an inflatable baseball bat. It's just for the fun of trying an idea from video games in reality.
I agree completely. But I thought if I offered my comment without something like an affirmation of faith I would be assumed to be making a different point, which would be modded into oblivion and subsequently ignored.
Not really. If ramping up the immune system when necessary is an adaptive trait, then so is ramping it down when it's not needed (otherwise it would be turned up to 11 at all times). The immune system has costs, from metabolic (i.e. wasting energy) to self-damage (autoimmune disorders).
Look, I believe in evolution, but it "explains" almost anything you can imagine, such as why humans have wings (to evade predators, of course). (My remark is by no means a new insight). So we need to be careful about rationalizing things in retrospect.
Money, presumably. But assuming you're right, that destroys the premise of this article, which is that corporations are failing to protect their intellectual property because they are instead placing too much emphasis on pesky regulations that protect individuals' assets and privacy without directly contributing to the bottom line.
It seems like businesses aren't going to embrace cloud computing until/unless the security issues are solved. Email should be a relatively simple case, since the message content is simply copied from point A to point B and isn't processed in between. If google simply implemented client-side encryption, and opened the source for public scrutiny, it would do a lot to address these concerns. Yes, it would mess with content analysis, spam filtering, etc... but that will simply have to be accepted/paid for.
I disagree with the slant of the article that this is a scandal. Have the Chicago Bulls been just as good without Jordan? Of course not. Special people are special. You are lucky when you get them, but most of the time you have to work around not having them.
If NASA finds a problem after all Toyota's assurances, the public will conclude that Toyota doesn't know what they're doing, and their cars are too complex to be trusted.
They don't:
Lenovo does - buy a thinkpad and it arrives in a box with a taiwanese or chinese return address, I forget which. But then, Lenovo has headquarters there.
However, I hope there is some maximum number of children that any single person is able to (indirectly) have. If it gets to the point that thousands of people have the same biological mother or father, which technically should be quiet easy now or very soon, we are going to see a lot of inbreeding problems.
I have a Playstation and an XBox 360, but my kids spend more time with Flash games on the web. I think they get more fun from the endless novelty of new flash games, than from a smaller number of console games purchased on DVD, even if the console games do have much better graphics.
You have it backwards - that bill would allow people to choose by adding their own salt to food, instead of having it arrive with some unknown quantify of salt in it already. As I read it, that bill did not ban restaurants from having a salt shaker on the table. (If so, I would oppose it). So it doesn't actually restrict salt, it just makes it "opt in" instead of having no choice.
Well, because I record the games on my PVR and skip the commercials. Even if I want to watch a game live, I start watching an hour after the game begins, and catch up some time in the 4th quarter.
Well, that's what we call "war." (All truly unregulated competition devolves into war).
But even then, the F35 is supplanting the (superior) F22 because the world's richest nation can't afford it, so...
The "stock" in "stock car" (the "s" in NASCAR) is a vestige of a bygone era. Today's cars have nothing to do with production vehicles. To see one up close, they don't even look (superficially) very well made, the fit and finish is nothing like a Lexus, more like an overgrown go-cart, but of course they put the money where it counts.
Bass fishing isn't hunting. Show me a mountain goat guide and I'll show you a guy who is physically fit.
F1 doesn't even air on US network TV, it's cable/satellite only. And even then the commentators are constantly making inane comparisons to NASCAR.
That's one of the interesting things about technology-driven sports - there are no un-regulated competitions because they aren't competitive and aren't fun or interesting to watch. It becomes little more than a question of who has the deepest pockets.
Right, PC evolution is such a continuous process, most gamers probably don't have DX11.
What would put DX11 into the mainstream fast is a major new console that supports it. Being one of these cheap dudes that always buys a generation behind, I am just now upgrading from a PS2 to a XBox 360. It's not as significant upgrade as I'd like; I'm disappointed there aren't (hardly) any 1080p 60fps games XBox 360 or PS3. This matters to me because I play splitscreen games with my kids, sitting about 3 feet from a 46" screen.
The XBox 360 and PS3 are getting way behind current tech, it's time for a new console. If not an entirely new generation, then just a new XBox or PS3 rev supporting more modern hardware, and games that autodetect whether the new features and resolution is available. Supporting two levels of capability wouldn't be unmanageable. And PC gamers would benefit because the market for DX11 would be much bigger.
But when all is said and done, you can get familiar with most of SQL in a couple weeks. No doubt mastering all the intricacies of Oracle takes years, but not, I think, due to the SQL syntax.