As an American citizen, I find it insulting that I have to pay taxes to support the very groups that are spending those dollars in direct efforts to steal more liberties away from us. The choices are to spend even more money to combat my tax dollars that are trying to rape my privacy, or to bank on the kindness of corporations to defend my rights every now and then. The rest of the time they too are trying to work the gov't through free speech lobbying to keep it fair.
To get a top end Surfacebook and a top end Macbook Pro Retina you pay a premium price. Last I checked the Surfacebook was more expensive. When you buy the Macbook you have privacy. When you buy the Surfacebook you have MS adware/spyware/unstoppable telemetry tracking what you type and where you go etc. So at this point in the game with the security of OSX, and end user privacy (not an option in Windows any longer) Apple is no longer the overpriced arrogant choice. Now the better value for your money is to get the cheaper privacy respecting ore secure OS, that isn't hell bent on pushing telemetry at you.
So for all of their scroogled/gmail man propaganda, MS is now doing more and worse, and that is after trying with a heavy hand to force you to upgrade. However where is the value add they are supposed to bring to the table?
The satoshi is currently the smallest unit of the bitcoin currency recorded on the block chain. It is a one hundred millionth of a single bitcoin (0.00000001 BTC). The unit has been named in collective homage to the original creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Why would you lie about BTC not being able to be subdivided? If you are just ignorant, then maybe you should go to Gizmodo and people won't call you out on such things.
If Corporations had no rights the FBI would have no problem compelling Apple to build their back door to the iPhone. I'm not for a moment suggesting corporations do not abuse power, or that their lobbying (individual lobbying in general as well) is not destroying our representation and American politics. However there is no reason the government should be able to make companies do their bidding.
When a drone does autonomous missions (piloted by the FC and mission parameters) take off/land etc, it is technically considered a robot. I fly more robotic missions than I do drone piloting.
Sure. The nuance of literature is not overly binary. Most AI attempts at parsing phrases are little more than workarounds. Actual Intelligence in computing is at its earliest stages. Do I predict that one day a computer will be able to give compelling interpretations of a text... YES... However not in isolation from internet reviews or a data pool of prior interpretations to parse with a markov engine...
Out of the millions of customers and millions in lawyer fees subtracted from the wrist slap fine they received, you would be lucky to get the price of a stamp covered.
So a peer connection to a friend also on Comcast in the same area, wouldn't shouldn't use any data as well, because it is not internet, it is only on the LAN? People start mirroring ad nausea, and see what Comcast argues about data utilization.
Are you sure you belong here on slashdot? A Mac Pro is worthless as a gaming machine. I have a top end top spec macbook pro, and it too is worthless for gaming. Not even remotely close to a good experience. Its better at other things if that makes you feel any better. However buying a mac pro then expecting to have it be useful for high end gaming and (VR) which easily doubles the demands is an error on behalf of the consumer not Oculus. Double screens with wide FOV at a nausea reducing fast refresh rate is very hardware demanding. The hardware capacity to do things like VR/Oculus are just now reaching scale to reach a first early adopter generation. I doubt you are the target audience judging from your lack of information, and unrequited outrage.
The hardware has to run Win10 or later, you are already trapped if you use win 7 win 8/8.1. All apps designed for UWP have to use DX12, The future trappings you are referring to only exist in a closed system with closed API"s with closed code on a locked down walled garden platform. But yeah we are better off for it?
DX12 is locked to Win 10. So is it a better world that a developer has to target his product at Win 10 and lose the people who didn't want to upgrade? Android fragmentation is about as relevant as windows fragmentation will be after DX12 games won't work on people's machines.
DX12 is locked to Win10, so building games fro UWP locks out older versions of the OS as well as Linux/OSX/PS4 Android and iOS ports, then there is the 30% MS Tax. But in return you can save dev time on the XBOX one.
I think MS is shooting themselves in the foot, and the evidence thus far is the rapidly devolving of an app store into a ghost town. This is going to be as popular as WinRT, and probably will have a lifespan less than silverlight.
Which would you find more offensive? Which is less forgivable? In the day/. would weed out this level of ignorance via nerd hostility. I'm assuming trolling or a shill.
"Apple's case, their speech is designed to oppose law enforcement and help criminals."
So you are pretending that both Apple and the the person buying the phone have no benefit and want of encryption to protect their abundance of personal information in a phone. Therefore the only reason it exists is to defy law enforcement and help criminals. Lousy uninformed argument that smells like troll feces.
To be fair, the surprise to me was the even initial level of trust that was placed on MS to be doing the right thing by anyone who has a history here. Anyone who watched the whole ISO stacking, and the SCO lawsuits, there is nothing to trust about that company, as a consumer, an enterprise or otherwise. That being said Win 10 is getting less stable. The sort of sad misstep that I haven't seen since Windows ME, except at least Win ME didn't strip away the rights of the end user. In the long run this will make more apps move to the cloud and then what is the benefit of MS?
Over the last few months MS has back ported telemetry to Win 7, 8/8.1 and forced a heavy hand at upgrading that can't be turned off and even if you downgrade back to win 7 or 8/8.1 will still haunt the user. Then there are other aspects such as ignoring the privacy settings of end users among other things. In my opinion Win 10 getting modded down now vs several months past is people actually using it and seeing more first hand the state of world affairs from a win 10 keyboard experience. I am writing this from a top specced Surfacebook. The amount of times it just will stall at a black screen on boot up is atrocious. MS has spent more time on lock in and spying on the end user than they have on e actually making this hardware do what it is supposed to do. Right now the icons from my desktop are flickering and appearing over the top of outlook 2016 snapped to the left hand side of the monitor. This fun behavior started about two weeks ago.
Well in this instance, it makes the iPhone less secure and desirable, so the outcome is one in which Windows mobile efforts might look better as a result.
Which constellation of satellites are they using? Can you point to what hardware it is that they are making, it should work in the US or elsewhere, and if it does, then I'm surprised I haven't seen it. I'd order some tomorrow if what you are saying is accurate.
Not everything the military uses if solely for killing. There are thousands of uses of in credibly accurate GPS out there. In the near future you might learn what some of those are.
I know how RTK works, I've built my own RTK systems. Seeing that there are differences in RTK, some might say it isn't traditional GPS, so I left the variable in my comment in case someone had a pedantic argument about how it is interpreted making it something different.
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As an American citizen, I find it insulting that I have to pay taxes to support the very groups that are spending those dollars in direct efforts to steal more liberties away from us. The choices are to spend even more money to combat my tax dollars that are trying to rape my privacy, or to bank on the kindness of corporations to defend my rights every now and then. The rest of the time they too are trying to work the gov't through free speech lobbying to keep it fair.
Kevin Mitnick called; he said you are talking out of your ass.
To get a top end Surfacebook and a top end Macbook Pro Retina you pay a premium price. Last I checked the Surfacebook was more expensive. When you buy the Macbook you have privacy. When you buy the Surfacebook you have MS adware/spyware/unstoppable telemetry tracking what you type and where you go etc. So at this point in the game with the security of OSX, and end user privacy (not an option in Windows any longer) Apple is no longer the overpriced arrogant choice. Now the better value for your money is to get the cheaper privacy respecting ore secure OS, that isn't hell bent on pushing telemetry at you.
So for all of their scroogled/gmail man propaganda, MS is now doing more and worse, and that is after trying with a heavy hand to force you to upgrade. However where is the value add they are supposed to bring to the table?
The satoshi is currently the smallest unit of the bitcoin currency recorded on the block chain. It is a one hundred millionth of a single bitcoin (0.00000001 BTC). The unit has been named in collective homage to the original creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Why would you lie about BTC not being able to be subdivided? If you are just ignorant, then maybe you should go to Gizmodo and people won't call you out on such things.
If Corporations had no rights the FBI would have no problem compelling Apple to build their back door to the iPhone. I'm not for a moment suggesting corporations do not abuse power, or that their lobbying (individual lobbying in general as well) is not destroying our representation and American politics. However there is no reason the government should be able to make companies do their bidding.
When a drone does autonomous missions (piloted by the FC and mission parameters) take off/land etc, it is technically considered a robot. I fly more robotic missions than I do drone piloting.
Sure. The nuance of literature is not overly binary. Most AI attempts at parsing phrases are little more than workarounds. Actual Intelligence in computing is at its earliest stages. Do I predict that one day a computer will be able to give compelling interpretations of a text ... YES... However not in isolation from internet reviews or a data pool of prior interpretations to parse with a markov engine...
A computer will never beat us at offline interpretation of literature. Well at least not for a long time.
Out of the millions of customers and millions in lawyer fees subtracted from the wrist slap fine they received, you would be lucky to get the price of a stamp covered.
So a peer connection to a friend also on Comcast in the same area, wouldn't shouldn't use any data as well, because it is not internet, it is only on the LAN?
People start mirroring ad nausea, and see what Comcast argues about data utilization.
Are you sure you belong here on slashdot? A Mac Pro is worthless as a gaming machine. I have a top end top spec macbook pro, and it too is worthless for gaming. Not even remotely close to a good experience. Its better at other things if that makes you feel any better. However buying a mac pro then expecting to have it be useful for high end gaming and (VR) which easily doubles the demands is an error on behalf of the consumer not Oculus. Double screens with wide FOV at a nausea reducing fast refresh rate is very hardware demanding. The hardware capacity to do things like VR/Oculus are just now reaching scale to reach a first early adopter generation. I doubt you are the target audience judging from your lack of information, and unrequited outrage.
The hardware has to run Win10 or later, you are already trapped if you use win 7 win 8/8.1. All apps designed for UWP have to use DX12, The future trappings you are referring to only exist in a closed system with closed API"s with closed code on a locked down walled garden platform. But yeah we are better off for it?
DX12 is locked to Win 10. So is it a better world that a developer has to target his product at Win 10 and lose the people who didn't want to upgrade? Android fragmentation is about as relevant as windows fragmentation will be after DX12 games won't work on people's machines.
DX12 is locked to Win10, so building games fro UWP locks out older versions of the OS as well as Linux/OSX/PS4 Android and iOS ports, then there is the 30% MS Tax. But in return you can save dev time on the XBOX one.
I think MS is shooting themselves in the foot, and the evidence thus far is the rapidly devolving of an app store into a ghost town. This is going to be as popular as WinRT, and probably will have a lifespan less than silverlight.
Are you aware that you are wrong and that by making this shit up you are proving yourself a fool or someone who is deliberately lying to others?
Which would you find more offensive? Which is less forgivable? In the day /. would weed out this level of ignorance via nerd hostility. I'm assuming trolling or a shill.
"Apple's case, their speech is designed to oppose law enforcement and help criminals."
So you are pretending that both Apple and the the person buying the phone have no benefit and want of encryption to protect their abundance of personal information in a phone. Therefore the only reason it exists is to defy law enforcement and help criminals. Lousy uninformed argument that smells like troll feces.
wait for it... wait... wait... money!
To be fair, the surprise to me was the even initial level of trust that was placed on MS to be doing the right thing by anyone who has a history here. Anyone who watched the whole ISO stacking, and the SCO lawsuits, there is nothing to trust about that company, as a consumer, an enterprise or otherwise. That being said Win 10 is getting less stable. The sort of sad misstep that I haven't seen since Windows ME, except at least Win ME didn't strip away the rights of the end user. In the long run this will make more apps move to the cloud and then what is the benefit of MS?
Over the last few months MS has back ported telemetry to Win 7, 8/8.1 and forced a heavy hand at upgrading that can't be turned off and even if you downgrade back to win 7 or 8/8.1 will still haunt the user. Then there are other aspects such as ignoring the privacy settings of end users among other things. In my opinion Win 10 getting modded down now vs several months past is people actually using it and seeing more first hand the state of world affairs from a win 10 keyboard experience. I am writing this from a top specced Surfacebook. The amount of times it just will stall at a black screen on boot up is atrocious. MS has spent more time on lock in and spying on the end user than they have on e actually making this hardware do what it is supposed to do. Right now the icons from my desktop are flickering and appearing over the top of outlook 2016 snapped to the left hand side of the monitor. This fun behavior started about two weeks ago.
Well in this instance, it makes the iPhone less secure and desirable, so the outcome is one in which Windows mobile efforts might look better as a result.
Edward Snowden has a job. I assume his funds were all seized when they cancelled his passport.
Which constellation of satellites are they using?
Can you point to what hardware it is that they are making, it should work in the US or elsewhere, and if it does, then I'm surprised I haven't seen it. I'd order some tomorrow if what you are saying is accurate.
Not everything the military uses if solely for killing. There are thousands of uses of in credibly accurate GPS out there. In the near future you might learn what some of those are.
I know how RTK works, I've built my own RTK systems. Seeing that there are differences in RTK, some might say it isn't traditional GPS, so I left the variable in my comment in case someone had a pedantic argument about how it is interpreted making it something different.