I only wear a watch when out doing sports, and even then only when i need to.
watches suck. for every other time I have my phone in my pocket anyways.
Fitness trackers at least serve a purpose. smart watches won't until they can do local holographic projections to increase the screen size to something usable.
So figure out how to put a projector in the smart watch to project onto your forearm, and then you might have something useful.
Peak oil is peak cheap oil and it did hit as expected. What then happened is the price went high enough to allow fracked oil to be competitive. Which is why North Dakota is now struggle the price of oil isn't high enough to allow new fracking Wells.
It is peak cheap oil. The situation now is out of control as oil switched from a cartel controling supply(opec) to a free for all. With the main producers increasing production to gain market share while usage is flat lining. There are tankers of crude just floating around for buyers as production exceeds demand. The price keeps spiking up as wall Street keeps assume that production will go down, but it won't for at least two-three more months. As it is a political fight not business.
You can't give some one freedom. You can't make a giant freedom cake and put up a mission accomplished banner and be done. The people have to want freedom. Most people forget it took 20 years after the American Revolutionary War before we had a stable repeatable government.
1783 revolutionary war ended. 1801 Jefferson replaces Adams as president which set the precedent for others to follow.
You need several leaders to be rotated through to set the presence that future generations follow.
What you are forgetting is that to keep processor fabs paid for they keep shrinking everything else. While CPUs are 14nm most gpus are not. Ram is not.
In time expect to see ram, gpus, and the other components shrink as well. In 10 years you will buy a computer where all transistors inside it are at 14nm or less and it is Using a fraction of the power.
We haven't hit peak oil yet. Every publication I read in the 80's and 90's predicted a peak of cheap oil in the 2040's to 2050's.
We are well on the way to that. After that cheap oil goes away and 100+ a barrel will be the normal. At the same time we will have a 50 million Muslims who haven't really had to work suddenly finding themselves without income, very angry, and armed to the teeth. (90% of Saudi doesn't really work but lives off government oil handouts).
I had an iPhone 4s and wasn't looking for a big phone either but I was able to test an iPhone 6 in a store and for me it worked better than my 4s. I keep my phone in my front pocket. While the 6 is bigger length and width it is much thinner than the 4 and 4S in thickness and that made a much bigger difference.
But I am 5 foot 11 tall guy. I can see how women or shorter guys would have issues
Exactly. What get me is why isn't there more e ink being used?
I have been waiting for an link GPS device for years. GPS mapping and guidance can deal with the lags of updating GPS positions, e ink has high contrast works great outdoors, and vastly increases battery life which is essential in a mobile electronic map.
a 5-6 " eink android tablet with built in GPS and go for broke and put a solar panel on the back. You could hike for days without needing replacement batteries or a dedicated charging system.
instead we have massive color displays that suck down batteries like there is no tomorrow.on tiny screens that can't give you a good overview of the area.
Sure maybe in pure parts but you can't assemble them into a compact heat efficient design.
You can buy a cheap computer and then replace parts every 4 months or you can buy a high quality computer and replace the whole thing every 3-5 years.
I personally got tired, of updates breaking my wireless card in linux, of trying to configure x.org by hand using lynx to view webpages to sort out the configuration error, because linux refused to autorecongize my monitor. I ell in love with hot swaping monitors and auto extending desktops and configurations without hours of work. Yes I know Linux and the various desktops have finally caught up to doing all that but they are about 10 years behind OS X. in simplifying setup and maintenance.
A computer is a tool. I want to use it, and put it away when i am done. Maybe sharpen the blade and provide light maintenance. I don't want to reforge the entire thing because and update borked my open source driver, and I can't get the closed source one to work with my configuration.
Except for fast food isn't for people who want to eat out, it is for people who don't have time to cook. If you are going to "eat out" then you are going somewhere with a waiter.
I found a way to prevent Windows 10 forced installs.
Use Symantec end point protection version 12.00000?????.15 the 15 is important. as it is a pain to uninstall and Windows 10 can't install around it.
About 3/4 of our work machines were domain joined but running an old copy and those with that old copy can't auto update to Windows 10. I finally sat down and spent an hour manually removing symantec end point and the Windows 10 auto installed that night.
Still deciding which is worse. It doesn't matter much to us as we Remote Desktop in.
Once a backdoor is put in it means everyone in the world has access to it .
Let me put it this way. Would you make 1,000 copies of your home house keys, label each with your address and then give them to the 1,000 nearest police departments. Trusting that not one would-be misplaced?
Software encryption backdoors are just like that. Blind trust that millions of easily reproduced copies won't end up in the wrong hands?
comparing a tech boss of a company with 10 people in it to oracle or google, or microsoft is just ridiculous
Small companies pay their bosses less oh wow, breaking news.
The company i work for has 20 people and the boss makes $200k a year. Does that mean i can compare his salary to a fortune 500 company? not even close. if my company goes under my boss loses his shirt. he is personally tied into the company. if a fortune 1000 company goes under the CEO gets paid millions.
Also picking up a car isn't as hard as you think either. It is heavy but most guys are strong enough to lift up one of the back corners as long as the gas tank isn't full.
The owners( San berdino county) gave the phone to the FBI with permission to access it.
The FBI asked a judge to use the all writs act to compel apple to write custom firmware, sign it, and force the phone to install siad update to allow the FBI to brute force the pin.
San berdino under FBI orders changed the icloud password. Which limited options.
The problem is a stand away from battle and launch missiles makes a poor CAS plane and makes a poor cheap air to air combat vehicle
The f-22 is supposed to breach an enemy's defenses that is when bvr attacks are most likely to occur. The f-22 take out SAMs and initial air craft. The f-35 is cheap and in large numbers to follow behind and clean up while slower planes provide air cover for ground forces.
Saying the f-35 is for bvr takes away the purpose of the f-22
Apple has public betas for the next version. It is optional. The beta testers deal with bugs and users get mostly stable updates. I have been on iOS beta for 8 months now. And I don't notice the difference.
Why can't Microsoft setup a Windows 10 beta with all the telemetry data and regular users a release behind. It wouldn't be prefect but most of these bugs would be cleaned up.
Helicopters are slow and limited range though useful for what they are.
That is why the marines pushed the osprey so hard. A modern battle field can cover hundreds of miles in a day. An m1 Abrams can do 60 mph but even at 49 mph the front of a battle field can shift farther and faster a than helicopters can setup refueling depots.
Clinton was dead broke because they paid Trump to run as a Republican to further fracture and break the Republican Party. It is why trump hasn't spent any of his own money yet and still only has had limited donations.
The best party is Hillary engineered her own election out of the stupidity of republicans to realize they are being screwed.
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except the part of it being part of a well regulated militia
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Is every legal gun owner part of the national guard, and national militia, with training in accordance to that?
If you have bandwidth you can off load the processing to axure of Amazon.
Though holoconferencing sounds better. Personally I can't wait until we get star wars style holoconferencing though.
I only wear a watch when out doing sports, and even then only when i need to.
watches suck. for every other time I have my phone in my pocket anyways.
Fitness trackers at least serve a purpose. smart watches won't until they can do local holographic projections to increase the screen size to something usable.
So figure out how to put a projector in the smart watch to project onto your forearm, and then you might have something useful.
Peak oil is peak cheap oil and it did hit as expected. What then happened is the price went high enough to allow fracked oil to be competitive. Which is why North Dakota is now struggle the price of oil isn't high enough to allow new fracking Wells.
It is peak cheap oil. The situation now is out of control as oil switched from a cartel controling supply(opec) to a free for all. With the main producers increasing production to gain market share while usage is flat lining. There are tankers of crude just floating around for buyers as production exceeds demand. The price keeps spiking up as wall Street keeps assume that production will go down, but it won't for at least two-three more months. As it is a political fight not business.
Peak oil is peak cheap oil.
You can't give some one freedom. You can't make a giant freedom cake and put up a mission accomplished banner and be done. The people have to want freedom. Most people forget it took 20 years after the American Revolutionary War before we had a stable repeatable government.
1783 revolutionary war ended.
1801 Jefferson replaces Adams as president which set the precedent for others to follow.
You need several leaders to be rotated through to set the presence that future generations follow.
What you are forgetting is that to keep processor fabs paid for they keep shrinking everything else. While CPUs are 14nm most gpus are not. Ram is not.
In time expect to see ram, gpus, and the other components shrink as well. In 10 years you will buy a computer where all transistors inside it are at 14nm or less and it is Using a fraction of the power.
We haven't hit peak oil yet. Every publication I read in the 80's and 90's predicted a peak of cheap oil in the 2040's to 2050's.
We are well on the way to that. After that cheap oil goes away and 100+ a barrel will be the normal. At the same time we will have a 50 million Muslims who haven't really had to work suddenly finding themselves without income, very angry, and armed to the teeth. (90% of Saudi doesn't really work but lives off government oil handouts).
that should scare you
I haven't changed my gmail password in 10 years. I have turned on two factor authentication.
Wait your phone is so heavy that you can't carry it around? Do you have one of those built into your car?
I had an iPhone 4s and wasn't looking for a big phone either but I was able to test an iPhone 6 in a store and for me it worked better than my 4s. I keep my phone in my front pocket. While the 6 is bigger length and width it is much thinner than the 4 and 4S in thickness and that made a much bigger difference.
But I am 5 foot 11 tall guy. I can see how women or shorter guys would have issues
Have you ever heard of hacking groups that didn't have trendy names?
Also rowhammer is what it does. It is descriptive.
Exactly. What get me is why isn't there more e ink being used?
I have been waiting for an link GPS device for years. GPS mapping and guidance can deal with the lags of updating GPS positions, e ink has high contrast works great outdoors, and vastly increases battery life which is essential in a mobile electronic map.
a 5-6 " eink android tablet with built in GPS and go for broke and put a solar panel on the back. You could hike for days without needing replacement batteries or a dedicated charging system.
instead we have massive color displays that suck down batteries like there is no tomorrow.on tiny screens that can't give you a good overview of the area.
Sure maybe in pure parts but you can't assemble them into a compact heat efficient design.
You can buy a cheap computer and then replace parts every 4 months or you can buy a high quality computer and replace the whole thing every 3-5 years.
I personally got tired, of updates breaking my wireless card in linux, of trying to configure x.org by hand using lynx to view webpages to sort out the configuration error, because linux refused to autorecongize my monitor. I ell in love with hot swaping monitors and auto extending desktops and configurations without hours of work. Yes I know Linux and the various desktops have finally caught up to doing all that but they are about 10 years behind OS X. in simplifying setup and maintenance.
A computer is a tool. I want to use it, and put it away when i am done. Maybe sharpen the blade and provide light maintenance. I don't want to reforge the entire thing because and update borked my open source driver, and I can't get the closed source one to work with my configuration.
Except for fast food isn't for people who want to eat out, it is for people who don't have time to cook. If you are going to "eat out" then you are going somewhere with a waiter.
I found a way to prevent Windows 10 forced installs.
Use Symantec end point protection version 12.00000?????.15 the 15 is important. as it is a pain to uninstall and Windows 10 can't install around it.
About 3/4 of our work machines were domain joined but running an old copy and those with that old copy can't auto update to Windows 10. I finally sat down and spent an hour manually removing symantec end point and the Windows 10 auto installed that night.
Still deciding which is worse. It doesn't matter much to us as we Remote Desktop in.
Once a backdoor is put in it means everyone in the world has access to it .
Let me put it this way. Would you make 1,000 copies of your home house keys, label each with your address and then give them to the 1,000 nearest police departments. Trusting that not one would-be misplaced?
Software encryption backdoors are just like that. Blind trust that millions of easily reproduced copies won't end up in the wrong hands?
comparing a tech boss of a company with 10 people in it to oracle or google, or microsoft is just ridiculous
Small companies pay their bosses less oh wow, breaking news.
The company i work for has 20 people and the boss makes $200k a year. Does that mean i can compare his salary to a fortune 500 company? not even close. if my company goes under my boss loses his shirt. he is personally tied into the company. if a fortune 1000 company goes under the CEO gets paid millions.
This is Web 3.0. The search for more money.
With ads running at assembly speeds they can play a dozen videos ads per page at the same time.
Also picking up a car isn't as hard as you think either. It is heavy but most guys are strong enough to lift up one of the back corners as long as the gas tank isn't full.
Except there is no warrant.
The owners( San berdino county) gave the phone to the FBI with permission to access it.
The FBI asked a judge to use the all writs act to compel apple to write custom firmware, sign it, and force the phone to install siad update to allow the FBI to brute force the pin.
San berdino under FBI orders changed the icloud password. Which limited options.
The problem is a stand away from battle and launch missiles makes a poor CAS plane and makes a poor cheap air to air combat vehicle
The f-22 is supposed to breach an enemy's defenses that is when bvr attacks are most likely to occur. The f-22 take out SAMs and initial air craft. The f-35 is cheap and in large numbers to follow behind and clean up while slower planes provide air cover for ground forces.
Saying the f-35 is for bvr takes away the purpose of the f-22
Apple has public betas for the next version. It is optional. The beta testers deal with bugs and users get mostly stable updates. I have been on iOS beta for 8 months now. And I don't notice the difference.
Why can't Microsoft setup a Windows 10 beta with all the telemetry data and regular users a release behind. It wouldn't be prefect but most of these bugs would be cleaned up.
Over the 15-20 year lifespan of solar. Even the land usage and manufacturing carbon footprint is minimal compared to coal.
Also if every home that could had a solar panel that provided just 30% of its electrical needs we could turn off the coal plants entirely.
Also show me a helicopter with a 500 mile range.
Helicopters are slow and limited range though useful for what they are.
That is why the marines pushed the osprey so hard. A modern battle field can cover hundreds of miles in a day. An m1 Abrams can do 60 mph but even at 49 mph the front of a battle field can shift farther and faster a than helicopters can setup refueling depots.
Clinton was dead broke because they paid Trump to run as a Republican to further fracture and break the Republican Party. It is why trump hasn't spent any of his own money yet and still only has had limited donations.
The best party is Hillary engineered her own election out of the stupidity of republicans to realize they are being screwed.