This is the sort of stuff Intel should have developed with their McAfee acquisition.
Companies seem to think innovation starts and ends with 'identifying potential synergies', 'acquisition', then "....profit!!!".
For instance, eBay + Skype. They could have done something snazzy -- say, eBay seller webminars with combining web video+VoIP (downstream), and landline/mobile audio (conversation/questions sent upstream asynchronously. So the landline carries part of the audio spectrum). Instead, they just went 'BAU'.
The Microsoft + Skype business fit isn't that bad - but not that good either -- versions everywhere, with MS office plugins that offer nothing different from the market.
Before distrusting others, consider who and why - who they are, and why they say what they say. Else others end up skeptical of what's making you skeptical.
Musk has had problems rolling out beta products in his other transportation company. So its important to pay attention to known experts contradicting him.
At the very least it should make Samsung pony up the 75$ differential between the customer replacing his Note 7 handset with another of his own choosing.
On another note, I'd purchase Note 7s without the battery... with an external power source theyd make a great VR HEADSET
(f) And the NSA! (g) You recoup nothing when you stop paying. You are left no physical assets (server). (h) Nor the skills you'd gain setting up an efficient (*) home-cloud yourself
(*) The 'Avoid an Always-On PC' statement is misleading. Its possible to let your PC asleep and issue wake-on-lan packets via the internet router (or a small RasberryPi Zero hanging off of it) http://lifehacker.com/348197/a...
Genuine free range is better for the envt. Not fake 'free range', where cage hens get a plank to perch on.
I once visited a farm where the famer was raising pigs and cattle using organic methods and intelligently 'rotating livestock' in his farmland, giving it time to recover. He had turned the farm around; topsoil was coming back, a nitrogen loving weed overgrowth was receding, vegetation native to the area was returning. The farm was heathier and closer to homeostasis.
To distinguish between fake and true, ask questions. And speak to the source of your food. As this farmer said... to eat well, nothing beats a direct relationship between producer and consumer.
Two Seattle technology companies... ... intent on market domination ... selling ads, apps, entertainment hardware, phones (cough, cough), songs, tablets, video, webservices ... with comparable ad networks, app stores, market capitalization, operating systems, patent portfolios, payment services, research groups (robotics, deep learning, etc), search engines ... (one still sells books; the other, computer software -- but as hobbies) ... meet on the Windows 10 battlefield.
You know we're pretty much agreed on everything, right?:)
My original point is we've been reduced to service workers keeping our devices alive -- too many batteries everywhere. Perhaps the solution is a robot with a flexible gooseneck that goes around (say, in a home) opportunistically charging devices with near-field wireless charging (or even by just plugging in). Of course, the robot must keep track of _its_ own power cable:)
People now charge their cordless phone, mobile phone, wearable, tablet, game device, home laptop, work laptop, power bank and cordless vaccum. And regularly change batteries on their wireless mice, wireless keyboard, TV remote, cable remote, game console remote, smoke alarms, burglar alarms, radio and alarm clock. And, if frugal, think about battery lifetime and replacement batteries for their cordless phone, mobile phone, wearable, tablet, game device, home laptop, work laptop, power bank, cordless vaccum and hybrid car. And if ecologically-conscious, think about rechargeable batteries for their wireless mice, wireless keyboard, TV remote, cable remote, game console remote, radio and alarm clock. And responsible battery disposal.
In addition to all this, we now get to charge the car each night - not with a USB cable or meek little battery, but a heavy duty cable that can instantly kill us if things go wrong.
This. 'Democracy' in Fiji has historically been tinged with racial supremacy. Bainimarama is a boon to the nation - an ethnic Fijian who looked past the interests of his race, to the interest of his country and all its people.
"Fullman suggested in the article that people in the group may well have said violent things about Bainimarama,"
Yes, much the same way Islamic fundamentalists may well say violent things about infidels. How is monitoring these guys wrong? Because they're culturally 'Christian', and they - er - didn't mean it? Remember Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivik?
Snowden may be right (or wrong) about the *manner* of monitoring. Maybe a warrant was warranted. But monitoring people threatening violence is exactly what any responsible government does - even 'pro-democracy' activists.
'Blue Pill' empowers your life with the power of Azure. Microsoft agents like Clip...er, Cortana now use technologies like UEFI Secure Boot and the Microsoft Store to guide you and protect you from hacking. You can purchase the ID 'Master chief john 117' as your local PC username (additional fee applies). You can also partake of selected offers from select Microsoft partners presented at select times in your daily workflow (for instance, when Cortana detects you starting blankly at the primary screen. After all, human attention is a terrible thing to waste.)
'Red Pill' awakens you to the horrible reality -- you've been lying comatose in a Microsoft pod all along; your 'reality' a hallucination crafted on Microsoft servers....
Hahah! Just kidding - the red pill does no such thing -- its just the blue pill painted red.
Windows 10 probably will be the last version of Windows, but not the way Microsoft imagines it.
By continuing to nag, snoop, spam and lock-down its users, Microsoft is transforming its core offering - its OS - into the opposite of what it should be: an agent of the owner that compels the computer to obey the owner's intent.
Its the age-old agency problem. An agent with a large amount of power (network effects in Microsoft's case) tends to abuse it to the detriment of the principal (Microsoft users). Its same problem when powerful executives persuade their company to reward them richly without commensurate effort. Left uncorrected, the situation worsens (customers quit in disgust, company implodes, etc).
Another company may eventually do to the Microsoft desktop what Apple and Android did to them in mobile. Or Microsoft may wisen up and curb their worst excesses (as they did in the XBox One phone-home fiasco). But it'd be a hard sell to the MS board and would take a lot of imagination on their part to act more directly in favor of consumers, versus short-term shareholder rewards.
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Yeah, they've been soldered to the binding
This is the sort of stuff Intel should have developed with their McAfee acquisition.
Companies seem to think innovation starts and ends with 'identifying potential synergies', 'acquisition', then "....profit!!!".
For instance, eBay + Skype. They could have done something snazzy -- say, eBay seller webminars with combining web video+VoIP (downstream), and landline/mobile audio (conversation/questions sent upstream asynchronously. So the landline carries part of the audio spectrum). Instead, they just went 'BAU'.
The Microsoft + Skype business fit isn't that bad - but not that good either -- versions everywhere, with MS office plugins that offer nothing different from the market.
No, the old drivers worked with more than one GPU.
This is from 2001 page:"NVIDIA’s patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) – supports all products in single a [sic] driver binary".
Before distrusting others, consider who and why - who they are, and why they say what they say. Else others end up skeptical of what's making you skeptical.
Musk has had problems rolling out beta products in his other transportation company. So its important to pay attention to known experts contradicting him.
From TA: " nobody is ever near the pad when they fuel a booster,"
Or this? "We're going to kill driving," he said. "Nobody likes to drive their car."
Or this? "We're going to kill headphone jacks," he said. "Nobody likes to connect their headphones."
"We're going to kill tax," he said. "Nobody likes to pay their taxes."
At the very least it should make Samsung pony up the 75$ differential between the customer replacing his Note 7 handset with another of his own choosing.
On another note, I'd purchase Note 7s without the battery... with an external power source theyd make a great VR HEADSET
(f) And the NSA!
(g) You recoup nothing when you stop paying. You are left no physical assets (server).
(h) Nor the skills you'd gain setting up an efficient (*) home-cloud yourself
(*) The 'Avoid an Always-On PC' statement is misleading. Its possible to let your PC asleep and issue wake-on-lan packets via the internet router (or a small RasberryPi Zero hanging off of it)
http://lifehacker.com/348197/a...
To stretch this analogy a bit... instead of investing in legacy Bricks-and-Mortar, lets use the, _equivalently priced_ , Housing-as-a-Service.
It makes sense to own, not buy, stuff that you use consistently and long term. (E.g. cook, sleep, ... even eat: have a vegie patch or balcony garden).
Significant? Lookup cmu sphinx.
Genuine free range is better for the envt. Not fake 'free range', where cage hens get a plank to perch on.
I once visited a farm where the famer was raising pigs and cattle using organic methods and intelligently 'rotating livestock' in his farmland, giving it time to recover. He had turned the farm around; topsoil was coming back, a nitrogen loving weed overgrowth was receding, vegetation native to the area was returning. The farm was heathier and closer to homeostasis.
To distinguish between fake and true, ask questions. And speak to the source of your food. As this farmer said... to eat well, nothing beats a direct relationship between producer and consumer.
Courageously! They do all that courageously!
Maybe you got a point and they didn't include Antarctica.
On the other hand, Antarctica has little foliage. And ifs not green, it won't absorb CO2 and generate oxygen.
If the last wilderness left remaining is Antarctica, we choke to death, pretty much.
Two Seattle technology companies ...
... intent on market domination
... selling ads, apps, entertainment hardware, phones (cough, cough), songs, tablets, video, webservices
... with comparable ad networks, app stores, market capitalization, operating systems, patent portfolios, payment services, research groups (robotics, deep learning, etc), search engines
... (one still sells books; the other, computer software -- but as hobbies)
... meet on the Windows 10 battlefield.
"There can be only one"
Can any headline that ends in a question mark be answered by the word no?
Blah Blah Blah...
You know we're pretty much agreed on everything, right? :)
My original point is we've been reduced to service workers keeping our devices alive -- too many batteries everywhere. Perhaps the solution is a robot with a flexible gooseneck that goes around (say, in a home) opportunistically charging devices with near-field wireless charging (or even by just plugging in). Of course, the robot must keep track of _its_ own power cable :)
None of which have batteries. Or need routine energy top-ups by their users.
Good point about the EV cable smarts though... I suspected that might be the case, but wasn't sure.
Dude , consider the discussion thread you're responding to.. not everyone has a house
People now charge their cordless phone, mobile phone, wearable, tablet, game device, home laptop, work laptop, power bank and cordless vaccum. And regularly change batteries on their wireless mice, wireless keyboard, TV remote, cable remote, game console remote, smoke alarms, burglar alarms, radio and alarm clock. And, if frugal, think about battery lifetime and replacement batteries for their cordless phone, mobile phone, wearable, tablet, game device, home laptop, work laptop, power bank, cordless vaccum and hybrid car. And if ecologically-conscious, think about rechargeable batteries for their wireless mice, wireless keyboard, TV remote, cable remote, game console remote, radio and alarm clock. And responsible battery disposal.
In addition to all this, we now get to charge the car each night - not with a USB cable or meek little battery, but a heavy duty cable that can instantly kill us if things go wrong.
Who's servicing whom exactly?
This. 'Democracy' in Fiji has historically been tinged with racial supremacy. Bainimarama is a boon to the nation - an ethnic Fijian who looked past the interests of his race, to the interest of his country and all its people.
"Fullman suggested in the article that people in the group may well have said violent things about Bainimarama,"
Yes, much the same way Islamic fundamentalists may well say violent things about infidels. How is monitoring these guys wrong? Because they're culturally 'Christian', and they - er - didn't mean it? Remember Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivik?
Snowden may be right (or wrong) about the *manner* of monitoring. Maybe a warrant was warranted. But monitoring people threatening violence is exactly what any responsible government does - even 'pro-democracy' activists.
'Blue Pill' empowers your life with the power of Azure. Microsoft agents like Clip...er, Cortana now use technologies like UEFI Secure Boot and the Microsoft Store to guide you and protect you from hacking. You can purchase the ID 'Master chief john 117' as your local PC username (additional fee applies). You can also partake of selected offers from select Microsoft partners presented at select times in your daily workflow (for instance, when Cortana detects you starting blankly at the primary screen. After all, human attention is a terrible thing to waste.)
'Red Pill' awakens you to the horrible reality -- you've been lying comatose in a Microsoft pod all along; your 'reality' a hallucination crafted on Microsoft servers....
Hahah! Just kidding - the red pill does no such thing -- its just the blue pill painted red.
Windows 10 probably will be the last version of Windows, but not the way Microsoft imagines it.
By continuing to nag, snoop, spam and lock-down its users, Microsoft is transforming its core offering - its OS - into the opposite of what it should be: an agent of the owner that compels the computer to obey the owner's intent.
Its the age-old agency problem. An agent with a large amount of power (network effects in Microsoft's case) tends to abuse it to the detriment of the principal (Microsoft users). Its same problem when powerful executives persuade their company to reward them richly without commensurate effort. Left uncorrected, the situation worsens (customers quit in disgust, company implodes, etc).
Another company may eventually do to the Microsoft desktop what Apple and Android did to them in mobile. Or Microsoft may wisen up and curb their worst excesses (as they did in the XBox One phone-home fiasco). But it'd be a hard sell to the MS board and would take a lot of imagination on their part to act more directly in favor of consumers, versus short-term shareholder rewards.
Desktop OS, yes.
Computing device OS, no.