IE users have no privacy. They use the world's least secure browser on the world's least secure OS. Remote management of their PC and copies of their most private info is bought and sold on the black market for pennies, because there are far more sellers than there ever could be buyers who wouldn't just get it themselves directly.
Desktops and laptops have taken second place to mobile compute devices like smartphones and tablets this year. They are now well under half of units shipped.
This is a common case: folk who can get high with neither benefit nor atavism. They're the tweeners who add nothing useful nor become a social problem. They have no problem for me to solve. But yes, I did leave them out because in this discussion they are nulls.
Somebody who is using Adderal to get high has other issues. Their life is not comfortable and they seek escape. Denying them drugs does not solve the problem.
Fully actualized humans alter their brain and body chemistry all the time. Astronauts do it. Fighter pilots do it. Doctors do it. Athletes do it.
The problem comes when people who aren't fully actualized do it. They are't able to discriminate between productive and unproductive use. They become dependent, and atavistic.
How do we protect them from themselves without giving up the powerful benefits chemistry gives the rest of us? Should there be some sort of test? And who to administer it? Doctors are proven unworthy of this responsibility. Lawyers and their judge kin were never even suspected of being capable for so important a role.
The answer is obvious. Actualized people know that rules are for others. Fully actualized people can handle the responsibility themselves. For the semi-actualized there are Darwin and the criminal justice systems. Life can be cruel that way. It is in our nature to o'erreach our grasp.
That won't be necessary. Apple will be negotiating volume deals with LG and Sharp that leave them no profits nor any other customers to make profits from. As they go bankrupt slaving for Apple Samsung will be charging their former customers top dollar for the product they can no longer provide.
Very much this. Apple is in an Axis with Microsoft to prevent the Samsung and Google Allies from freeing us from their Cathedrals world view where they are the gatekeepers of progress. Like Japan and Germany they each have little common interest and look on this as an intermediate battle before they fight each other. There will be no truce. This is a fight that must be won. It is a world war too.
Conglomerates can be very compartmentalized, and I think that's a good thing. Samsung Mobile, for example, did not choose a Samsung processor for the SGS 3 I typed this on. Samsung Components' customers need to feel they are competing fairly on price and production commitments. Samsung Mobile's customers want the best device they can get in their price range, regardless of who made the parts. Too much vertical integration leads to incestuous deals that don't serve the customers' interests first.
This is a great philosophy but it isn't perfect. Divisions in a conglomerate gain relative influence as they become more profitable, as Samsung Mobile has. There is an oversight corporation tasked with serving the interests of the conglomerate as a whole. Faced with a customer and partner, the world's wealthiest and most profitable publicly held corporation, with a martyred CEO who swore before he died to go to thermonuclear war with your conglomerate's most profitable division, well that's a serious thing. You can't negotiate a truce with a martyr. He's dead.
IBM takes a longer term view. The young Turks of Silicon Valley don't. They think they will never run out of suppliers to starve. In the short term they are right. In the longer term IBM is right, but in a day when the CxO and Board can't see past the next quarterly report the IBM view is less popular.
No. No Pretty Amazing New stuff for Windows boxes. Not for your laptop at all and not for your big desktop LEDs either, unless you''re willing to pay nosebleed pricing.
When you can't write efficient code you need every platform to have insane battery killing performance and huge storage to overcome your proficiency shortfall. That is why Windows tablets have always sucked. With a 12GB default load on Surface RT it is clear they still don't get it. It is beginning to seem that the issue is they just aren't capable of solving this problem, ever.
Without using radio let me suggest another way. Data laser. Light is immune to radiological interference. It's limited to line of sight, so you have to drop relays here and there, but the power budget of a data laser is trivial, as are targeting mechanics. Bandwidth and latency are far more than sufficient.
This entire discussion is littered with "can't do" people. Guess what: Failure is not an available option.
Simple packbots in a normal situation, yes. But this is not a normal situation. This is the inside of three melted down nuclear reactors on one site. Increasing the output powers of the radio enough to overcome the environmental noise could not possibly harm the humans there because there aren't any and aren't going to be any. Compared to the energy required to move the RC device, this radio power is trivial. Please stop thinking like this is some sort of normal situation where off the shelf consumer electronics will solve the problem. This is a 40 year project to recover 5% of Japan's territory from uninhabitability. Different rules apply.
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IE users have no privacy. They use the world's least secure browser on the world's least secure OS. Remote management of their PC and copies of their most private info is bought and sold on the black market for pennies, because there are far more sellers than there ever could be buyers who wouldn't just get it themselves directly.
There is no Yahoo search engine any more. Yahoo's search results are decided by Bing.
There are enough laws. We need a rule that if you want to enact a new law it must repeal five old ones as well as whatever else it is supposed to do.
Yeah, every four years the Internet turns darned near useless for a couple weeks.
A power that has wrecked the ISO should be able to make short work of OpenStack.
Desktops and laptops have taken second place to mobile compute devices like smartphones and tablets this year. They are now well under half of units shipped.
This is indeed the original reason for Unix. Your data is more important than the technology that stores and mangles it.
Do you use a stepladder to reach a high shelf? Is that cheating? What if mankind totally depends on you reaching that shelf. Then is it OK?
If you're going to pretend to be morally superior could you please get the spelling and grammar right? K thanx bye. :-)
This is a common case: folk who can get high with neither benefit nor atavism. They're the tweeners who add nothing useful nor become a social problem. They have no problem for me to solve. But yes, I did leave them out because in this discussion they are nulls.
If you need that defined, "not you."
Somebody who is using Adderal to get high has other issues. Their life is not comfortable and they seek escape. Denying them drugs does not solve the problem.
Science has come finally to the point where some of these drugs can improve your ability to remember and think. How is that not fair?
Fully actualized humans alter their brain and body chemistry all the time. Astronauts do it. Fighter pilots do it. Doctors do it. Athletes do it.
The problem comes when people who aren't fully actualized do it. They are't able to discriminate between productive and unproductive use. They become dependent, and atavistic.
How do we protect them from themselves without giving up the powerful benefits chemistry gives the rest of us? Should there be some sort of test? And who to administer it? Doctors are proven unworthy of this responsibility. Lawyers and their judge kin were never even suspected of being capable for so important a role.
The answer is obvious. Actualized people know that rules are for others. Fully actualized people can handle the responsibility themselves. For the semi-actualized there are Darwin and the criminal justice systems. Life can be cruel that way. It is in our nature to o'erreach our grasp.
That won't be necessary. Apple will be negotiating volume deals with LG and Sharp that leave them no profits nor any other customers to make profits from. As they go bankrupt slaving for Apple Samsung will be charging their former customers top dollar for the product they can no longer provide.
You can't negotiate with a dead guy. Ferrenghi rule of acquisition 142.
Very much this. Apple is in an Axis with Microsoft to prevent the Samsung and Google Allies from freeing us from their Cathedrals world view where they are the gatekeepers of progress. Like Japan and Germany they each have little common interest and look on this as an intermediate battle before they fight each other. There will be no truce. This is a fight that must be won. It is a world war too.
Conglomerates can be very compartmentalized, and I think that's a good thing. Samsung Mobile, for example, did not choose a Samsung processor for the SGS 3 I typed this on. Samsung Components' customers need to feel they are competing fairly on price and production commitments. Samsung Mobile's customers want the best device they can get in their price range, regardless of who made the parts. Too much vertical integration leads to incestuous deals that don't serve the customers' interests first.
This is a great philosophy but it isn't perfect. Divisions in a conglomerate gain relative influence as they become more profitable, as Samsung Mobile has. There is an oversight corporation tasked with serving the interests of the conglomerate as a whole. Faced with a customer and partner, the world's wealthiest and most profitable publicly held corporation, with a martyred CEO who swore before he died to go to thermonuclear war with your conglomerate's most profitable division, well that's a serious thing. You can't negotiate a truce with a martyr. He's dead.
IBM takes a longer term view. The young Turks of Silicon Valley don't. They think they will never run out of suppliers to starve. In the short term they are right. In the longer term IBM is right, but in a day when the CxO and Board can't see past the next quarterly report the IBM view is less popular.
No. No Pretty Amazing New stuff for Windows boxes. Not for your laptop at all and not for your big desktop LEDs either, unless you''re willing to pay nosebleed pricing.
Pixels are not always square.
You can say goodbye to the 32 core AMD64 dually for the rest of this decade. If you want one, buy it now.
When you can't write efficient code you need every platform to have insane battery killing performance and huge storage to overcome your proficiency shortfall. That is why Windows tablets have always sucked. With a 12GB default load on Surface RT it is clear they still don't get it. It is beginning to seem that the issue is they just aren't capable of solving this problem, ever.
Without using radio let me suggest another way. Data laser. Light is immune to radiological interference. It's limited to line of sight, so you have to drop relays here and there, but the power budget of a data laser is trivial, as are targeting mechanics. Bandwidth and latency are far more than sufficient. This entire discussion is littered with "can't do" people. Guess what: Failure is not an available option.
Simple packbots in a normal situation, yes. But this is not a normal situation. This is the inside of three melted down nuclear reactors on one site. Increasing the output powers of the radio enough to overcome the environmental noise could not possibly harm the humans there because there aren't any and aren't going to be any. Compared to the energy required to move the RC device, this radio power is trivial. Please stop thinking like this is some sort of normal situation where off the shelf consumer electronics will solve the problem. This is a 40 year project to recover 5% of Japan's territory from uninhabitability. Different rules apply.