Why should AMD and NVIDIA sell their hardware if they could use it themselves?...because like in any gold rush, the people who made the real fortunes from it were the people selling the equipment!
Oh sure, there were a few lucky miners who struck it big, like 1% or so, but everyone else never got rich.
If all the graphics card used by the miners were put to use for folding@home or SETI, we would have cured cancer, Parkinsons, and Alzheimers by now...... AND we would have found aliens.
But oh no.... gotta waste the world's resources on make believe instead for personal greed. Humanity sucks.
No market is too big to avoid being manipulated by market makers - groups with enough power and funding to control the direction of a market. These guys just sold all their stock, crashed the market, and then bought again at insanely cheap levels. Meanwhile everyone's market stops get triggered.
This stuff has been going on since the dawn of trading. Someone might remember the Rothchilds date with destiny thanks to the battle of Waterloo.
The media often abuses the English language to make a biased point. Typically they leave out important information which leads to confusion and vagueness. Phrases like "Many people have said" or "A study shows that" deletes important information. *Who* actually says and *which* studies show?... or are they just made up and fake?
The Japanese recruiter I spoke to said that he had to coach the leaving employees into resisting the bullying by being super polite. It is of course completely legal to change jobs, and the bullying is really a paper tiger tactic - but it obviously works because some Japanese really don't have a spine. I think this breed is only a step up from the "hikkikomori" who are too scared to leave their bedrooms.
Legally you have to give companies two weeks notice before leaving, so to be on the safe side they recommend giving them an entire month.
That said, many employees do a disappearing act because it's easier than facing the music and telling the boss that you're leaving.
The thing is that many employees who quit usually don't make a formal announcement that they are leaving, but instead will simply stop showing up to work... leaving no message to the old company and leaving no paper trail. Possibly changing phone numbers and rental apartment addresses before starting a new job so the old company can't track them.
That's how you avoid uncomfortable meetings with managers when you tell them you are leaving.
Probably isn't legal, but that has never stopped Japanese companies pushing the boundaries of labour laws, and bullying their employees.
If you leave a traditionally minded Japanese company, they will bully you into staying. They will haul you into a meeting and scold you. Then they will say things like "Why are you leaving the company! You can't! You still have work to do!" And then say things like "After you leave and go to this other place, are you OK that we send you your unfinished work?"
Ridiculous of course to the western ear... but to the Japanese ear who has no spine and has been bullied all the way through school - some actually can't handle the pressure and the bullying and apologize and stay with the company!... even when they've been offered better work! If they stay, they get treated like backstabbing traitorous unfaithful dirt and paid less from what I heard.
IT admins: Let's patch this box IT management: NO. You can't do that! We need a stable operating environment. Sorry you don't have a maintenance window until 6 months from now. IT admins: But we'll get hacked! IT management: Then we'll blame the hackers! It won't be our fault that the system has downtime. We'll keep our jobs! IT admins: Oh I get it. If we bring servers down for maintenance, that will be our fault and we'll get fired.... but if we get hacked - it's not our fault. IT management: YES! and then we can blame Microsoft and point the finger at all our vendors.
In an education setting, it does make a lot of sense to lock down the student laptops to ensure that they a) Can be managed easily over the cloud b) Can't be easily tampered with or ruined by students c) Don't get a plethora of games and other distractions installed on them
I can see it helping said causes above, but is by no means a foolproof solution.
I see it as more of a trojan for Windows to eventually do away with applications that aren't on it's store. MS has been pushing their store damn hard, and the telemetry that is tied to their default web, video, music, and photo apps really grinds my gears when I try and change them and am "helpfully reminded" that Microsoft has it's own info sucking defaults. Then it annoys me by asking if I would like to change my mind.
No. I know what the f**k I am doing Microsoft.... but more to the point, I know what you are trying to do.
For this to be a valid challenge to the C64's record, only ONE model of the raspberry pi would have to beat C64 sales numbers, and then come with the operating system built in and ready to use with a functioning keyboard.
The Pi just isn't in the same class. It's a great hobby computer board though, and more powerful obviously - but it's not a complete ready-to-use computer when you buy it.
IANAL, but if you're advertising something where the main feature is to engage in illegal activities - you're gunna get nicked. Probably on the grounds of encouraging people to break the law.
I think we all know that the software is free, and that it hasn't been "banned" in any sense. I think the above argument is the only thing that will hold up in court.
Google doesn't encourage you to use it's browser to engage in illegal activity, any more than Wusthof encourages you to use their kitchen knives to stab people.
Microsoft has to do something, because the OEMs typically flood the market with cheap desktop/laptop/all-in-one machines. The end result is a cheap machine that barely functions, thrown onto the market, and bought by someone thinking that these computers are even fit-for-purpose.
Case in point: Anything with an AMD-E1 processor. Those machines are barely usable and it makes Windows 10 look and run terrible, hurting OEM and Microsoft alike.
I've seen too many people buy them because of their price, and then realize that they wasted their money because the thing can only run application at a time, and trying to run two drags the whole computer to a crawl.
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Why should AMD and NVIDIA sell their hardware if they could use it themselves? ...because like in any gold rush, the people who made the real fortunes from it were the people selling the equipment!
Oh sure, there were a few lucky miners who struck it big, like 1% or so, but everyone else never got rich.
If all the graphics card used by the miners were put to use for folding@home or SETI, we would have cured cancer, Parkinsons, and Alzheimers by now.. .... AND we would have found aliens.
But oh no.... gotta waste the world's resources on make believe instead for personal greed.
Humanity sucks.
I trust China to abide by this agreement as much as they abide by Copyright laws.
No market is too big to avoid being manipulated by market makers - groups with enough power and funding to control the direction of a market.
These guys just sold all their stock, crashed the market, and then bought again at insanely cheap levels. Meanwhile everyone's market stops get triggered.
This stuff has been going on since the dawn of trading. Someone might remember the Rothchilds date with destiny thanks to the battle of Waterloo.
By bringing everyone together, making everyone the same, we remove checks and balances on world power and create tyranny.
Take your "one-world" and "we are all one" peacenik nonsense and faff off.
The media often abuses the English language to make a biased point. Typically they leave out important information which leads to confusion and vagueness. ... or are they just made up and fake?
Phrases like "Many people have said" or "A study shows that" deletes important information. *Who* actually says and *which* studies show?
http://www.angelfire.com/nd/da...
The Japanese recruiter I spoke to said that he had to coach the leaving employees into resisting the bullying by being super polite. It is of course completely legal to change jobs, and the bullying is really a paper tiger tactic - but it obviously works because some Japanese really don't have a spine. I think this breed is only a step up from the "hikkikomori" who are too scared to leave their bedrooms.
Legally you have to give companies two weeks notice before leaving, so to be on the safe side they recommend giving them an entire month.
That said, many employees do a disappearing act because it's easier than facing the music and telling the boss that you're leaving.
Mod Parent up.
The thing is that many employees who quit usually don't make a formal announcement that they are leaving, but instead will simply stop showing up to work... leaving no message to the old company and leaving no paper trail. Possibly changing phone numbers and rental apartment addresses before starting a new job so the old company can't track them.
That's how you avoid uncomfortable meetings with managers when you tell them you are leaving.
Many Japanese can and do work at places where they can't be fired.
How's that for job security?
Probably isn't legal, but that has never stopped Japanese companies pushing the boundaries of labour laws, and bullying their employees.
If you leave a traditionally minded Japanese company, they will bully you into staying. They will haul you into a meeting and scold you.
Then they will say things like "Why are you leaving the company! You can't! You still have work to do!"
And then say things like "After you leave and go to this other place, are you OK that we send you your unfinished work?"
Ridiculous of course to the western ear... but to the Japanese ear who has no spine and has been bullied all the way through school - some actually can't handle the pressure and the bullying and apologize and stay with the company! ... even when they've been offered better work!
If they stay, they get treated like backstabbing traitorous unfaithful dirt and paid less from what I heard.
Or, you know, the black edition Windows XP off Pirate Bay that's been modified with all the patches up to 2015 and access to the POS patches as well.
ITIL is usually fully implemented by management companies that attempt ICT.
ITIL is *NOT* for ICT companies that attempt management.
No ransomware works on Windows 10S ...because nobody uses it.
Next on Ripley's "Believe it or not...."
There is still a lot of HP-UX out there running on SuperDomes.
IT admins: Let's patch this box
IT management: NO. You can't do that! We need a stable operating environment. Sorry you don't have a maintenance window until 6 months from now.
IT admins: But we'll get hacked!
IT management: Then we'll blame the hackers! It won't be our fault that the system has downtime. We'll keep our jobs!
IT admins: Oh I get it. If we bring servers down for maintenance, that will be our fault and we'll get fired.... but if we get hacked - it's not our fault.
IT management: YES! and then we can blame Microsoft and point the finger at all our vendors.
In an education setting, it does make a lot of sense to lock down the student laptops to ensure that they
a) Can be managed easily over the cloud
b) Can't be easily tampered with or ruined by students
c) Don't get a plethora of games and other distractions installed on them
I can see it helping said causes above, but is by no means a foolproof solution.
I see it as more of a trojan for Windows to eventually do away with applications that aren't on it's store. MS has been pushing their store damn hard, and the telemetry that is tied to their default web, video, music, and photo apps really grinds my gears when I try and change them and am "helpfully reminded" that Microsoft has it's own info sucking defaults. Then it annoys me by asking if I would like to change my mind.
No. I know what the f**k I am doing Microsoft.... but more to the point, I know what you are trying to do.
I know what the S stands for in Windows 10 S.
What's the point of this?
To hide vulnerabilities from hackers, so that people who simply refuse to update Windows can't be targets?
Is that it?
For this to be a valid challenge to the C64's record, only ONE model of the raspberry pi would have to beat C64 sales numbers, and then come with the operating system built in and ready to use with a functioning keyboard.
The Pi just isn't in the same class. It's a great hobby computer board though, and more powerful obviously - but it's not a complete ready-to-use computer when you buy it.
Try my sig out on a C64. It'll crash BASIC V2 !
Transformers did really well in SE Asia.... while I could barely watch the movie myself.
Going to the cinema is so cheap over there, you can easily turn into a film buff in your time off and watch piles of dreck.
Either Dell support coreboot or forget it. Really.
Not to mention sporks.... or are they foons?
IANAL, but if you're advertising something where the main feature is to engage in illegal activities - you're gunna get nicked. Probably on the grounds of encouraging people to break the law.
I think we all know that the software is free, and that it hasn't been "banned" in any sense.
I think the above argument is the only thing that will hold up in court.
Google doesn't encourage you to use it's browser to engage in illegal activity, any more than Wusthof encourages you to use their kitchen knives to stab people.
https://contrarian.live/2016/0...
Pictures tell a thousand words.
But who are we kidding about financial markets anyway. Like in a casino, the house always wins.
Microsoft has to do something, because the OEMs typically flood the market with cheap desktop/laptop/all-in-one machines.
The end result is a cheap machine that barely functions, thrown onto the market, and bought by someone thinking that these computers are even fit-for-purpose.
Case in point: Anything with an AMD-E1 processor.
Those machines are barely usable and it makes Windows 10 look and run terrible, hurting OEM and Microsoft alike.
I've seen too many people buy them because of their price, and then realize that they wasted their money because the thing can only run application at a time, and trying to run two drags the whole computer to a crawl.