When one serious problem in FFWD occurs, the other 3 can fall fast.
Just because we are technologically adept and "powerful", does NOT mean there are not more powerful forces that just tip the boat enough to put the gunnel under.
Down the power system, have a 20-30 year drought or a major epidemic and suddenly "systems" fall apart.
This has obviously been considered now Apple has its ARM A7-A8 series CPU.
It should certainly be possible to put that in a MacBook Air to allow it to run iOS 7 and onward, so we can have both low power tablet and high power OSX in one small package.
No cooling water No oil No flammable liquid fuel No brake fluid No grease No "fan" belts No noise of consequence No engine and drive train with 2000 parts No internal combustion engine repairs/adjustments Very low brake pad usage (unless you are 18 years old)
False information and no information to people in a country (ala the old Pravda in the USSR) as a means of achieving a politically repressive end is coming to a close.
Cuba, Ukraine and Venezuela are the proving grounds to show that governments can no longer keep the free will of the populace from exerting itself.
But the old dictators will hold on until they are thrown out. It could still take decades in some places where the dictatorship is effectively run by the military and they are the true power, like N. Korea.
The trend of history is clear over the last 150 years as countries have moved to freer and freer elections. The king is dead.
Once food supply for an animal or human is disrupted, die offs are painfully quick.
Egypt once had a massive inland lake and streams that eventually dumped into the Nile thousands of years before Christ. Once the climate changed back toward desert, the entire population of humans disappeared in probably decades to a century in that region.
The danger comes when a computer is used to verify an otherwise unprovable program to give answers that justify some politicians deciding that we must "change the world to avoid disaster based on the computer analysis".
Donald Rumsfeld called the most difficult problems requiring dealing with the unknown, unknowns.
When you have an asteroid you detect with a long approach or known orbit, you have a manageable task in understanding what you can do.
When an asteroid approaches from the Earth's blind spot obscured by the Sun, we may have only weeks or months and there may be no way to exert enough energy quickly enough to modify its trajectory.
They refer to these situations as "extinction events" for a very good reason.
Bill, Steve and Satya sit down to plan how to take over mobile.
Bill, "We've got to do this like I predicted 12 years ago."
Steve, "Right. Our engineers have been working 24 hours a day on this so we can allow any app to run on our mobile. It's going to be great Microsoft Mobile Everything Everywhere."
Satya, ".." "With all due respect Everything Everywhere is not going to work, unless you carry a PC in your pocket."
Writing, reading and arithmetic. Then how do you organize a task, a problem. Define what you have, define the goal, investigate what help you can get from tools/people & then define a plan which might get you to the goal. School doesn't tend to teach how to solve problems or tasks early on, but they can do that.
Good Start, breaking bad quickly once the rest of the announcement is read!
Unfortunately, Gates and Ballmer left, but they are both mega shareholders, still on the board, and whoppee, Bill Gates is coming back to be more involved in new products "working one day a week" as a rumor out of Redmond says an "anonymous source."
The quote "'We are the only ones who can harness the power of software " is emblematic of the arrogance and lack of analysis of competitor's products, considering that most products now are integrated hardware products.
How come I've already lost interest in what Satya says.
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Like California's Lottery system that was supposed to "benefit the children."
It seems to have mostly benefited administrators and the teachers union.
When one serious problem in FFWD occurs, the other 3 can fall fast.
Just because we are technologically adept and "powerful", does NOT mean there are not more powerful forces that just tip the boat enough to put the gunnel under.
Down the power system, have a 20-30 year drought or a major epidemic and suddenly "systems" fall apart.
California and New York have lost probably near 1.5 million people over the last 15 years.
New Jersey has lost probably about 0.5 million people who moved out with Michigan & Illinois a bit higher over the same time.
When are state governments going to realize they are killing the golden goose?
The cost of 2 independent sets five 5GB hard drives is NOT enough to worry about compared to the cost of obtaining the 20GB of data.
You can price the cost of this in a few minutes, period, end of discussion.
If you are half way clued in, take those backup/clones over to two different physical locations.
Virtually every smartphone and computer seems to come with a camera these days.
How do you get more secure than the iris?
This has obviously been considered now Apple has its ARM A7-A8 series CPU.
It should certainly be possible to put that in a MacBook Air to allow it to run iOS 7 and onward, so we can have both low power tablet and high power OSX in one small package.
"Look SteveB, we need more income, so we have to release Win8."
It sounds nice in the hacker world, but in the hands of the 'average Joe', an "Open Handset" is an invitation to have your bank account stolen.
And so does reading passwords on tape stuck inside of drawers.
People who take the test may wish to load up on life insurance.
Insurers, on the other hand, will want to use these tests and DENY to offer insurance, unless the premium goes up 20 times.
This could easily destroy the life insurance industry as it is today.
Let's see about the benefits.
No cooling water
No oil
No flammable liquid fuel
No brake fluid
No grease
No "fan" belts
No noise of consequence
No engine and drive train with 2000 parts
No internal combustion engine repairs/adjustments
Very low brake pad usage (unless you are 18 years old)
CEOs have ignored security researchers since the start of the modern internet, because CEOs only want "Results now!"
False information and no information to people in a country (ala the old Pravda in the USSR) as a means of achieving a politically repressive end is coming to a close.
Cuba, Ukraine and Venezuela are the proving grounds to show that governments can no longer keep the free will of the populace from exerting itself.
But the old dictators will hold on until they are thrown out. It could still take decades in some places where the dictatorship is effectively run by the military and they are the true power, like N. Korea.
The trend of history is clear over the last 150 years as countries have moved to freer and freer elections. The king is dead.
In the mid-east it is called baksheesh. In China it is "my son's company will help you with that."
My prediction for a warm day is now shot to hell.
Once food supply for an animal or human is disrupted, die offs are painfully quick.
Egypt once had a massive inland lake and streams that eventually dumped into the Nile thousands of years before Christ. Once the climate changed back toward desert, the entire population of humans disappeared in probably decades to a century in that region.
You mean like adding all sorts of bacteriocides, fungicides and other preservatives to make sure they last 52 weeks in warehouses & on the shelves?
Meanwhile, the rise in synthetic chemicals affecting fetuses and children in their early years starts showing more coorelations.
The danger comes when a computer is used to verify an otherwise unprovable program to give answers that justify some politicians deciding that we must "change the world to avoid disaster based on the computer analysis".
Even if we knew "all the asteroid obits", there is a fatal flaw in assuming that means we can define all potential impacts.
Gravity and collisions in the outer solar system "belts" can suddenly change the orbit of a large asteroid.
Just another of the unknown unknowns.
Donald Rumsfeld called the most difficult problems requiring dealing with the unknown, unknowns.
When you have an asteroid you detect with a long approach or known orbit, you have a manageable task in understanding what you can do.
When an asteroid approaches from the Earth's blind spot obscured by the Sun, we may have only weeks or months and there may be no way to exert enough energy quickly enough to modify its trajectory.
They refer to these situations as "extinction events" for a very good reason.
Bill, Steve and Satya sit down to plan how to take over mobile.
Bill, "We've got to do this like I predicted 12 years ago."
Steve, "Right. Our engineers have been working 24 hours a day on this so we can allow any app to run on our mobile. It's going to be great Microsoft Mobile Everything Everywhere."
Satya, " .." "With all due respect Everything Everywhere is not going to work, unless you carry a PC in your pocket."
Why they can't get a job?
An old CIA hand said the only way to get REAL intelligence is to buy counterspies on the ground!
Writing, reading and arithmetic. Then how do you organize a task, a problem. Define what you have, define the goal, investigate what help you can get from tools/people & then define a plan which might get you to the goal. School doesn't tend to teach how to solve problems or tasks early on, but they can do that.
Good Start, breaking bad quickly once the rest of the announcement is read!
Unfortunately, Gates and Ballmer left, but they are both mega shareholders, still on the board, and whoppee, Bill Gates is coming back to be more involved in new products "working one day a week" as a rumor out of Redmond says an "anonymous source."
The quote "'We are the only ones who can harness the power of software " is emblematic of the arrogance and lack of analysis of competitor's products, considering that most products now are integrated hardware products.
How come I've already lost interest in what Satya says.