I think Google buys all those companies just to acquire talent. Google is famous for rather hardnosed/pragmatic approach to managing it's workforce. Such an approach successfully weeds out bullshit artists (e.g. Marissa Mayer). Unfortunately this approach also fairly harsh on true visionaries.
Apparently Google thinks that because bullshit artists outnumber visionaries as 1000 to 1, it's an acceptable loss.
And to compensate for this they simply wait for other companies to cultivate the talent and then swoop in.
At least it shuts down Elon's "billions of simulations" in our future argument. Unless Kolmogorov's complexity of a universe is minuscule. Which makes it deterministic - but our most definitely is not.
There might be a difference. For example - we can invent a logic bomb that will crash or corrupt simulated reality. Quantum cryptanalysis comes to mind.
I think there's a minimum amount of energy required to flip one bit (in our physics). The "outside world" will need insane amount of energy to maintain billions of simulations (assuming that in their physics bit flipping ain't free either)
I'm not economist, but still, I think you are wrong. By saying "$100 water bottle to someone dying in the desert" you are intentionally conflating water's utility in that particular situation with water's _marginal_ utility and cost. Who knows how that particular bottle ended up in the desert, might be that the seller is dying from thirst himself, etc.
BTW, marginal utility (and marginal cost) of that vulnerability is exactly zero. Do you expect getting it for free?
And $500 pill might be an abuse of monopoly position, and might not be (e.g. massive R&D with small number of cases). And while government gives copyright protection it also has the power to rein on monopoly abuses. Blame your slow or corrupt or incompetent government for not slapping pharma's hand. Again - granted monopoly comes with price controls - pharma might self regulate if they wish but don't have to (they have shareholders to feed, risky R&D investments to make, etc).
He will not sell another copy if he wants repeat business.
He will not sell if retribution for such action is highly likely.
Plus it's possible to guard against it. For example: put the payment into escrow with condition for money release if vulnerability isn't patched by the end of the year.
It seems that free upgrade will not go away by the end of July.
The reasoning is simple: it's very likely that Microsoft has set a threshold number of upgrades to be pushed though by the deadline. The fact that they stooped so low this time around says that somebody is desperate (bye bye bonus). I.e. they realized that they will not hit the threshold in time...
So, the chances are that the deadline for free upgrades will be pushed (they for sure will find some bogus excuse to save face)
Google is building an automatic diagnostician. How interesting...
I see lots of unemployed GP doctors on the horizon... ... replaced by nurses with iPads.
The way things are going, electric cars will get huge boost and eventual dominance when cities will start banning all non-zero emission vehicles from driving within city limits.
And all the emissions will be shifted to countryside where power plants can pollute to their heart desire because population density (and associated health problems) over there are close to nil.
It's more evidence for a weird phenomenon where a bunch of bodies behave in a very non-random, coincidental way.
But we already knew about that admittedly interesting thing.
In another words: It's like postulating that red lights cause traffic accidents and then, later, pointing that additional evidence for that hypothesis is that more red lights were observed around town.
For what it's worth: although all my code is running exclusively on Linux, my desktop is a Mac. The reason is that the company's sysadmins only support windows 7 or Mac on desktops. What would you choose?
That publicity is great for the people, not for the firm that paid the bills. You can bet your ass that most of folks, whose names were printed, will be gone from CE+T by the end of the year.
Ok, publicity argument makes sense. Advertisement plus google's good will. Hopefully the firm that won is ready to lose all those engineers to google and such...
What you described is essentially a marginal cost of R&D. Which indeed is well below $1mil. But just to put a better contrast on what I've said before: try to go to Intel and ask them to design and produce for you "only a prototype" custom (non fpga) CPU for $1mil., for 10mil... They will laugh you out of the building.
I'm still puzzled by the economics of these prize driven challenges. Look at the winning design: (pdf) . R&D costs of it (including expertise, etc) well exceed $1mil. And having a lot of teams working on their designs... Assuming that there are at least 3 other good teams means then expected payout is laughable $250k...
As a professional, I expect to be paid for the work I do for hire. Sure, some things are done for fun, but building entire product is rarely is... Like, look at the open source software, for example: many parts of Linux OS are interesting and fun, others are not - so if you need them to be done, you better be ready to pay.
Another angle: even if you don't need money, there are plenty of engineers who do - google can afford paying for these things full sticker.
That 70% capacity left is total bullshit. After Li battery hit that mark it starts to degrade at a fast and ever accelerating rate. Basically, you cannot cycle it much after that. So yes, maybe some backup power application, where it just sits there, but otherwise... nope.
Does apple's file system have checksums? If it doesn't then what you've described is fairly easy to break: Just dump the flash, wipe the phone, create dummy file, plop original content into its place, and try it with different PIN numbers until file contains coherent data.
What are you talking about? Seagate is killing it with SMR - they can't make enough of them. Retailers had problems (and still have) with keeping them in stock. WD still has no (reasonably priced) answer to Seagate's 8tb drive.
I checked several articles already, and none (NONE!) say if that little thing has a fan or not. What a bunch of morons! If it does, then because of small size it's going to be noisy.
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I think Google buys all those companies just to acquire talent. Google is famous for rather hardnosed/pragmatic approach to managing it's workforce. Such an approach successfully weeds out bullshit artists (e.g. Marissa Mayer). Unfortunately this approach also fairly harsh on true visionaries.
Apparently Google thinks that because bullshit artists outnumber visionaries as 1000 to 1, it's an acceptable loss.
And to compensate for this they simply wait for other companies to cultivate the talent and then swoop in.
At least it shuts down Elon's "billions of simulations" in our future argument. Unless Kolmogorov's complexity of a universe is minuscule. Which makes it deterministic - but our most definitely is not.
There might be a difference. For example - we can invent a logic bomb that will crash or corrupt simulated reality. Quantum cryptanalysis comes to mind.
I think there's a minimum amount of energy required to flip one bit (in our physics). The "outside world" will need insane amount of energy to maintain billions of simulations (assuming that in their physics bit flipping ain't free either)
Weak argument. This is (ahem) a cellular automata. Literally ten lines of code plus RNG.
I'm not economist, but still, I think you are wrong. By saying "$100 water bottle to someone dying in the desert" you are intentionally conflating water's utility in that particular situation with water's _marginal_ utility and cost. Who knows how that particular bottle ended up in the desert, might be that the seller is dying from thirst himself, etc.
BTW, marginal utility (and marginal cost) of that vulnerability is exactly zero. Do you expect getting it for free?
And $500 pill might be an abuse of monopoly position, and might not be (e.g. massive R&D with small number of cases). And while government gives copyright protection it also has the power to rein on monopoly abuses. Blame your slow or corrupt or incompetent government for not slapping pharma's hand. Again - granted monopoly comes with price controls - pharma might self regulate if they wish but don't have to (they have shareholders to feed, risky R&D investments to make, etc).
He will not sell another copy if he wants repeat business.
He will not sell if retribution for such action is highly likely.
Plus it's possible to guard against it. For example: put the payment into escrow with condition for money release if vulnerability isn't patched by the end of the year.
It seems that free upgrade will not go away by the end of July.
The reasoning is simple: it's very likely that Microsoft has set a threshold number of upgrades to be pushed though by the deadline. The fact that they stooped so low this time around says that somebody is desperate (bye bye bonus). I.e. they realized that they will not hit the threshold in time...
So, the chances are that the deadline for free upgrades will be pushed (they for sure will find some bogus excuse to save face)
Not Buffet, his lieutenants. They're trying to prove themselves in a big way. We'll see...
Buffet has nothing to do with this position. Those are dealings of his lieutenants he's grooming for replacement.
Google is building an automatic diagnostician. How interesting...
... replaced by nurses with iPads.
I see lots of unemployed GP doctors on the horizon...
The way things are going, electric cars will get huge boost and eventual dominance when cities will start banning all non-zero emission vehicles from driving within city limits.
And all the emissions will be shifted to countryside where power plants can pollute to their heart desire because population density (and associated health problems) over there are close to nil.
It's more evidence for a weird phenomenon where a bunch of bodies behave in a very non-random, coincidental way. But we already knew about that admittedly interesting thing. In another words: It's like postulating that red lights cause traffic accidents and then, later, pointing that additional evidence for that hypothesis is that more red lights were observed around town.
For what it's worth: although all my code is running exclusively on Linux, my desktop is a Mac. The reason is that the company's sysadmins only support windows 7 or Mac on desktops. What would you choose?
That publicity is great for the people, not for the firm that paid the bills. You can bet your ass that most of folks, whose names were printed, will be gone from CE+T by the end of the year.
Ok, publicity argument makes sense. Advertisement plus google's good will. Hopefully the firm that won is ready to lose all those engineers to google and such...
What you described is essentially a marginal cost of R&D. Which indeed is well below $1mil. But just to put a better contrast on what I've said before: try to go to Intel and ask them to design and produce for you "only a prototype" custom (non fpga) CPU for $1mil., for 10mil... They will laugh you out of the building.
I'm still puzzled by the economics of these prize driven challenges. Look at the winning design: (pdf) . R&D costs of it (including expertise, etc) well exceed $1mil. And having a lot of teams working on their designs... Assuming that there are at least 3 other good teams means then expected payout is laughable $250k...
As a professional, I expect to be paid for the work I do for hire. Sure, some things are done for fun, but building entire product is rarely is... Like, look at the open source software, for example: many parts of Linux OS are interesting and fun, others are not - so if you need them to be done, you better be ready to pay.
Another angle: even if you don't need money, there are plenty of engineers who do - google can afford paying for these things full sticker.
That 70% capacity left is total bullshit. After Li battery hit that mark it starts to degrade at a fast and ever accelerating rate. Basically, you cannot cycle it much after that. So yes, maybe some backup power application, where it just sits there, but otherwise... nope.
Does apple's file system have checksums? If it doesn't then what you've described is fairly easy to break: Just dump the flash, wipe the phone, create dummy file, plop original content into its place, and try it with different PIN numbers until file contains coherent data.
Heads will crash. The same thing was happening with notebook hard drives on flights because of low atmospheric pressure.
What are you talking about? Seagate is killing it with SMR - they can't make enough of them. Retailers had problems (and still have) with keeping them in stock. WD still has no (reasonably priced) answer to Seagate's 8tb drive.
Could it be a false flag operation? Like, for example, Chinese backdored the system and then messed with RNG just for shits and giggles?
http://hothardware.com/gallery... Yes, it has a fan.
Thanks!
I checked several articles already, and none (NONE!) say if that little thing has a fan or not. What a bunch of morons! If it does, then because of small size it's going to be noisy.