This is an information industry, and it is eminently portable to anywhere with decent connectivity.
India had a big advantage because, as a former British colony, the English language is widely spoken there. Have you ever worked with teams from Brazil or Eastern Europe? It can be done, but not easily or efficiently.
You're correct though, IBM charges a premium price and isn't delivering a premium product. As more businesses figure that out IBM's death spiral becomes faster and faster.
What is the basis of that statement (other than your own personal belief that is has to be true)? Two parties can sign a contract agreeing how to resolve differences, it happens all the time.
I suspected the real rationale was something like this. It's even hinted at in TFA:
Many of our customers are dreaming up applications for EC2 that can make good use of a large number of instances for shorter amounts of time, sometimes just a few minutes.
I can't blame Amazon for the change though. In fact, it seems that charging by the hour was more underhanded.
There is no ideology needed to file FOIA requests, just civic interest.
Reread GP's post more carefully. Especially this sentence:
I'm not surprised, however, that both sides of the debate would try to lump everything together into an ideological uniformity instead of wanting to delve into the fact-specifics...
He also said that ideology has no place here (albeit more eloquently than you).
Most of the AI hype is coming from people who are paid to write tech stuff. They write about whatever they think will get them page views; AI is a hot topic so AI it is.
Developers can also choose to move to the commercial versions of WebSphere Liberty at any time, he noted
In other words, get your application running, albeit poorly at first. Then IBM salemen will descend on you and try to figure out how much you have in your checking account.
All told, it sounds like a massive change for those who rely on their phones to find their way.
It might help some people who need to navigate in the center of large cities, and lower cost with less power is always nice. But for most people the difference between 5 meters and 1 meter in GPS position hardly qualifies as a "massive change".
Rather than obsessing about buying the right security products, Levy argued, organisations should instead focus on managing risk: understanding the data they hold, the value it has, and how much damage it could do if it was lost, for instance.
He has a good point. When an all out attack does happen you won't be able to stop it. So before it does, make sure your backups work, make sure your restores work, put fences up to stop the spread of an attack, etc, etc.
In other words, assume the attack will succeed. Then what will you do?
Do you think Jeff Bezos claimed that Amazon.com was upending global retail?
That was always Bezos' plan. I'm not so sure about Google though. As I recall, they got into advertising because they saw so many other dot bomb companies failing due to lack of revenue, advertising was the only source of income they could think of.
More likely he's an experienced judge who understands the law.
Suppose I walk past your house and see that one of the front steps is loose. Can I sue you for potentially harming me if I had tripped on that step (but didn't)?
The law doesn't change because it's on the internet.
Hillary and her supporters spent an estimated $1.2 Billion, roughly twice what Trump spent. And she lost. And she blames the Ruskies for her loss. Seriously?
Not every city, just most of the big ones. And General Motors selling buses hardly counts as some kind of evil conspiracy; that's a major part of their business.
Although the investigation ultimately found that GM broke anti-trust laws, the central conspiratorial charge—the provision of poor transit service in order to increase automobile sales—was not the basis of the investigation. In fact, most transit historians and other scholars generally disregard the conspiracy theory.
Almost every big city today has electric mass transit in the form of subways. Buses became popular because they aren't tied to fixed overhead wires.
If I had mod points you'd get one. This article is typical philosophy blather: Ask "Is this blah blah blah?", then carefully define blah blah blah such that the answer could be either Yes or No. Then debate endlessly which it is.
Are we ready for a VR 'meeting place'? Probably not, at least not really, although at least we get to try them out without risking anyone's life.
But a VR meeting could be even more dangerous.
Imagine a politician setting up a virtual rally - you join and are surrounded by tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters and listen to a perfectly delivered speech that's met with wild applause.
But the reality (non-virtual) is that the politician is a weak, sickly person with few followers and many, many enemies.
In other words, the Fake News we see coming out of most media outlets today would be orders of magnitude more powerful with VR and good animation
Literally, all you are doing is looking around which is precisely what VR is suited for!
I suspect this is being used for a lot more than just looking around. Plus a bank of monitors covering the full 360 can be seen by several people at once.
The idea of getting from one city to another at 700 MPH without having to suffer through an airport and all that jazz is revolutionary.
You'll still need to suffer through the Hyperloop terminal and security similar to airports. There's no way TSA will allow people to just walk onto a system like this without screening. Even a fairly small bomb would kill everyone onboard.
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This is an information industry, and it is eminently portable to anywhere with decent connectivity.
India had a big advantage because, as a former British colony, the English language is widely spoken there. Have you ever worked with teams from Brazil or Eastern Europe? It can be done, but not easily or efficiently.
You're correct though, IBM charges a premium price and isn't delivering a premium product. As more businesses figure that out IBM's death spiral becomes faster and faster.
You can't sign away a right.
If you can, it was never a right.
What is the basis of that statement (other than your own personal belief that is has to be true)? Two parties can sign a contract agreeing how to resolve differences, it happens all the time.
Read the linked article, she lost. She had a history of reporting sexual abuse and rape, along with numerous mental problems.
You don't reuse the same tape everyday. Might lose some data if you need to restore an older tape, but that can happen no matter what the media.
If 1/2 way through the project you have gone through 3/4 of your slop time, you already know you aren't going to make it.
The fallacy there is that you think you can determine when you're 1/2 way through the project.
Burned half the calendar time? Doesn't mean anything.
You think half the development is done? No way to know that.
Many of our customers are dreaming up applications for EC2 that can make good use of a large number of instances for shorter amounts of time, sometimes just a few minutes.
I can't blame Amazon for the change though. In fact, it seems that charging by the hour was more underhanded.
There is no ideology needed to file FOIA requests, just civic interest.
Reread GP's post more carefully. Especially this sentence:
I'm not surprised, however, that both sides of the debate would try to lump everything together into an ideological uniformity instead of wanting to delve into the fact-specifics...
He also said that ideology has no place here (albeit more eloquently than you).
Most of the AI hype is coming from people who are paid to write tech stuff. They write about whatever they think will get them page views; AI is a hot topic so AI it is.
I suppose that could happen. Although I always check the signs and if there's a disagreement, the sign takes precedence over gps.
Developers can also choose to move to the commercial versions of WebSphere Liberty at any time, he noted
In other words, get your application running, albeit poorly at first. Then IBM salemen will descend on you and try to figure out how much you have in your checking account.
All told, it sounds like a massive change for those who rely on their phones to find their way.
It might help some people who need to navigate in the center of large cities, and lower cost with less power is always nice. But for most people the difference between 5 meters and 1 meter in GPS position hardly qualifies as a "massive change".
Would you prefer that the petroleum that went into the bottles is burned?
Rather than obsessing about buying the right security products, Levy argued, organisations should instead focus on managing risk: understanding the data they hold, the value it has, and how much damage it could do if it was lost, for instance.
He has a good point. When an all out attack does happen you won't be able to stop it. So before it does, make sure your backups work, make sure your restores work, put fences up to stop the spread of an attack, etc, etc.
In other words, assume the attack will succeed. Then what will you do?
Do you think Jeff Bezos claimed that Amazon.com was upending global retail?
That was always Bezos' plan. I'm not so sure about Google though. As I recall, they got into advertising because they saw so many other dot bomb companies failing due to lack of revenue, advertising was the only source of income they could think of.
More likely he's an experienced judge who understands the law.
Suppose I walk past your house and see that one of the front steps is loose. Can I sue you for potentially harming me if I had tripped on that step (but didn't)?
The law doesn't change because it's on the internet.
Hillary and her supporters spent an estimated $1.2 Billion, roughly twice what Trump spent. And she lost. And she blames the Ruskies for her loss. Seriously?
Yea, this sounds more like a catalyst than a robot.
Not every city, just most of the big ones. And General Motors selling buses hardly counts as some kind of evil conspiracy; that's a major part of their business.
Imagine the Russians fomenting a coup in Mexico that put into power fervently anti-US groups willing to go to war
That already happened, albeit a while ago (early in the Mexican Revolution). Better examples would be Cuba and Nicaragua.
Remember when Nancy Pelosi tried to control talk radio because it wasn't delivering the message she wanted?
This is the same thing - Democrats whining about media they don't control
Although the investigation ultimately found that GM broke anti-trust laws, the central conspiratorial charge—the provision of poor transit service in order to increase automobile sales—was not the basis of the investigation. In fact, most transit historians and other scholars generally disregard the conspiracy theory.
Almost every big city today has electric mass transit in the form of subways. Buses became popular because they aren't tied to fixed overhead wires.
If I had mod points you'd get one. This article is typical philosophy blather: Ask "Is this blah blah blah?", then carefully define blah blah blah such that the answer could be either Yes or No. Then debate endlessly which it is.
Are we ready for a VR 'meeting place'? Probably not, at least not really, although at least we get to try them out without risking anyone's life.
But a VR meeting could be even more dangerous.
Imagine a politician setting up a virtual rally - you join and are surrounded by tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters and listen to a perfectly delivered speech that's met with wild applause.
But the reality (non-virtual) is that the politician is a weak, sickly person with few followers and many, many enemies.
In other words, the Fake News we see coming out of most media outlets today would be orders of magnitude more powerful with VR and good animation
Literally, all you are doing is looking around which is precisely what VR is suited for!
I suspect this is being used for a lot more than just looking around. Plus a bank of monitors covering the full 360 can be seen by several people at once.
The idea of getting from one city to another at 700 MPH without having to suffer through an airport and all that jazz is revolutionary.
You'll still need to suffer through the Hyperloop terminal and security similar to airports. There's no way TSA will allow people to just walk onto a system like this without screening. Even a fairly small bomb would kill everyone onboard.