No, he is pointing out that the majority of producers are going a specific direction, and there is a large market of people that do not want to go there.
Except the G5 sales figures clearly show that this "large market" doesn't exist, or at least it isn't "large".
The point is, I'm blown away by the willingness to plop an omnidirectional microphone in the middle of your house.
Get a clue. Your computer and your phone also have microphones, and transmit WAY more traffic that could hide spying.
Amazon Echo does not have enough on board computing to do voice recognition of anything except the trigger word, it has minimal memory for buffering, and it transmits a very small amount of data when, and only when, the trigger word is used.
If you worry about the Echo, and you don't worry about your cellphone or laptop, then you're an idiot.
The fact is that the Echo and Alexa are a market failure.
Their cumulative sales passed 5 million in November, and it is estimated that they sold another million during the holidays. That is pretty good for a product in a category that didn't even exist a few years ago. I have an Echo, and I am mostly pretty happy with it, although there is still plenty of room for improvement.
Free advice: Do NOT switch to calling it "Computer". The name "Alexa" was specifically chosen as a trigger word because it is a sequence of phonemes that is unlikely to occur in a normal conversation, and even so, we have had an occasional false trigger. In a nerd household, "computer" will come up way, way more often.
That sounds like another opportunity to sell some snake oil to the Chinese government.
Every village in China has at least one herbal medicine shop selling REAL snake oil. Despite having an education, and an engineering degree, my Chinese wife believes it works.
The prevailing winds in mid to northern China blow in from the west and head out to sea. The places that will get less rainfall will be along their own east coast.
The east coast has plenty of rain, so that will be a good trade off. Also, the west has much higher elevation, so rain falling there can generate hydropower as it flows eastward.
That people could care or complain about a measly 1 cent per litre (as you suggest) beggars belief.
It is an emotional thing. Americans view cheap gas as a birthright, and see any intrusion on that right as a threat to the freedom of the open road. Taxing baby formula is okay, but not gasoline. Telling an American that their gas prices should be higher is like telling a German that there should be a speed limit on the autobahn, or telling a Brit that the pubs should be closed on Sunday.
I have seen a few documentaries which make thorium look promising. But I don't really know enough about it.
There are plenty of reactor designs that look good on paper (or in documentaries) that don't work well in practice. 20 years ago, "pebble bed" reactors were a big fad, but that went nowhere. India and China are both working on thorium salt reactors (both have plenty of thorium), so we'll see where that goes. In theory, thorium salt reactors are inherently very safe, the fuel is plentiful, and they can burn waste from uranium reactors. So there is a lot of promise.
The majority of Americans will support anything as long as someone else pays for it. If you ask them if they are willing to pay an extra 5 cents per gallon of gas to pay for alternative energy, of course they will say no.
Foxconn first announced that they were "considering" building a factory in Harrisburg in 2013. So far they have moved this many shovels of dirt: 0.
So now they are rehashing the announcement three days after Trump's inauguration, getting lots of good press, and venting the steam from protectionism, while still uncommitted to actually doing anything. Politically, this is brilliant.
SPARC/Solaris is mainly used for legacy systems that are too expensive to port to x86, or where the source or expertise to do the port no longer exist. It would be insane to use S/S for any new project. So it is a dwindling market, and it just passed the point where it is no longer profitable to develop new hardware. The existing systems will continue to be available, but they will fall further and further behind and eventually fade away.
Oracle is less and less a software company and becoming more about making sales, then gouging their clients.
That has been true for 30 years. I remember making an inquiry in the early 1990s, and instead of giving me technical specs, they started badgering me for the name of the "decision maker". When I finally relented and gave them the name of my (non-technical) boss, they ignored me, and started calling him using pushy tactics that would make a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman proud.
It is a dumb idea. Just because someone lives in a poor country doesn't mean they are poor. Just because someone lives in a rich country doesn't mean they are rich. It would be more reasonable to consider the income of each person individually, and instead of doing it for a superfluous item like software, it is much more important to do it for critical items like food. I hereby propose that everyone should be required to bring a notarized copy of their tax returns to the grocery store, so Safeway knows how much to charge for the milk.
Bjarne Stroustrup, Doug Lea, Knuth, etc... still make feel like a moron on a almost daily basis....
If someone makes you feel like a moron when they explain something, then maybe they are not as smart as you think they are. If you are a true master, you should be able to explain concepts in a way that even a child can understand. Richard Feynman was famous for this. So was Albert Einstein. Of course you can go too far, and simplify too much, so the children only think they understand. Donald Trump is a good example of that.
You log the transaction just before you execute it. The point of the log is that you can re-roll it to reconstruct the database in the event of failure. That doesn't work if you only log things that didn't fail.
I can't imagine trying to raise a kid in a concrete jungle.
Yet kids raised in rural areas are more obese than kids raised in cities. In a city, there is always something to go out and do. But when you've seen one cornfield, you've seen them all.
I have literally never been propositioned by a gay man in all the time I've lived in and visited the Bay Area
Perhaps you have and you didn't realize it. If you are in SF, and a man asks you "Have you got the time?", you likely replied by looking at your watch or phone and telling him the time. But the reply he is really hoping for is "Yes, I do have time!"
Belgium didn't put up borders for the Polish workers either
Wrong. Belgium kept barriers in place as long as the EU allowed... and suffered the negative consequences that you describe for exactly the opposite reasons than you think.
Is the economy worse in SF than it is in NYC or Chicago?
No. The problem is exactly the opposite. The economy is booming, driving up demand for housing, and thus prices. A couple living in SF may spend half their income to rent a studio apt. There is no way to afford a place big enough to raise a kid, especially if they want to drop down to one income. So they hop on BART and head out to the suburbs.
The real problem is the stagnation of the housing supply. 95% of all building permits in SF were denied last year, and very few builders even bothered to apply. People that own property in the city see new construction as a threat to their sky high property values, and even renters tend to be knee-jerk anti-growth BANANAs. The people that want to live in SF but can't afford to, don't get a vote.
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No, he is pointing out that the majority of producers are going a specific direction, and there is a large market of people that do not want to go there.
Except the G5 sales figures clearly show that this "large market" doesn't exist, or at least it isn't "large".
At the same time, we need to require California to desalinate water and quit stealing water from the Colorado River.
We could do that, or we could just stop subsidizing farmers growing rice in the desert.
Except when you have friends with similar names (Alexa, Alexia, Alexis/Elexis, Alex), etc.
I just tried all of those. My Echo is not triggered by "Alexia", "Alexis", or "Alex". Only "Alexa".
The story is exaggerated. The science blackout is not permanent. The Trump administration just need a little time to get the alternative facts ready.
The point is, I'm blown away by the willingness to plop an omnidirectional microphone in the middle of your house.
Get a clue. Your computer and your phone also have microphones, and transmit WAY more traffic that could hide spying.
Amazon Echo does not have enough on board computing to do voice recognition of anything except the trigger word, it has minimal memory for buffering, and it transmits a very small amount of data when, and only when, the trigger word is used.
If you worry about the Echo, and you don't worry about your cellphone or laptop, then you're an idiot.
The fact is that the Echo and Alexa are a market failure.
Their cumulative sales passed 5 million in November, and it is estimated that they sold another million during the holidays. That is pretty good for a product in a category that didn't even exist a few years ago. I have an Echo, and I am mostly pretty happy with it, although there is still plenty of room for improvement.
Free advice: Do NOT switch to calling it "Computer". The name "Alexa" was specifically chosen as a trigger word because it is a sequence of phonemes that is unlikely to occur in a normal conversation, and even so, we have had an occasional false trigger. In a nerd household, "computer" will come up way, way more often.
That sounds like another opportunity to sell some snake oil to the Chinese government.
Every village in China has at least one herbal medicine shop selling REAL snake oil. Despite having an education, and an engineering degree, my Chinese wife believes it works.
There are always enough nucleation sites for raindrops, especially in polluted China.
China's air pollution is in the east, thousands of km from where the seeding will occur.
The prevailing winds in mid to northern China blow in from the west and head out to sea. The places that will get less rainfall will be along their own east coast.
The east coast has plenty of rain, so that will be a good trade off. Also, the west has much higher elevation, so rain falling there can generate hydropower as it flows eastward.
China will have leverage against Trump if he tries to screw around with tariffs - China can just say, "we're leaving" and then what.
You appear to be confused. Foxconn is not a Chinese company.
The train could be designed to get some lift from that low-pressure air, taking some of the load off the wheels.
That is exactly how Hyperloop works. It uses maglev at low speed, and then uses Air Bearings as it speeds up. There are no wheels.
That people could care or complain about a measly 1 cent per litre (as you suggest) beggars belief.
It is an emotional thing. Americans view cheap gas as a birthright, and see any intrusion on that right as a threat to the freedom of the open road. Taxing baby formula is okay, but not gasoline. Telling an American that their gas prices should be higher is like telling a German that there should be a speed limit on the autobahn, or telling a Brit that the pubs should be closed on Sunday.
I have seen a few documentaries which make thorium look promising. But I don't really know enough about it.
There are plenty of reactor designs that look good on paper (or in documentaries) that don't work well in practice. 20 years ago, "pebble bed" reactors were a big fad, but that went nowhere. India and China are both working on thorium salt reactors (both have plenty of thorium), so we'll see where that goes. In theory, thorium salt reactors are inherently very safe, the fuel is plentiful, and they can burn waste from uranium reactors. So there is a lot of promise.
Lots of info here: Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor.
The majority of Americans will support anything as long as someone else pays for it. If you ask them if they are willing to pay an extra 5 cents per gallon of gas to pay for alternative energy, of course they will say no.
Foxconn first announced that they were "considering" building a factory in Harrisburg in 2013. So far they have moved this many shovels of dirt: 0.
So now they are rehashing the announcement three days after Trump's inauguration, getting lots of good press, and venting the steam from protectionism, while still uncommitted to actually doing anything. Politically, this is brilliant.
SPARC/Solaris is mainly used for legacy systems that are too expensive to port to x86, or where the source or expertise to do the port no longer exist. It would be insane to use S/S for any new project. So it is a dwindling market, and it just passed the point where it is no longer profitable to develop new hardware. The existing systems will continue to be available, but they will fall further and further behind and eventually fade away.
Oracle is less and less a software company and becoming more about making sales, then gouging their clients.
That has been true for 30 years. I remember making an inquiry in the early 1990s, and instead of giving me technical specs, they started badgering me for the name of the "decision maker". When I finally relented and gave them the name of my (non-technical) boss, they ignored me, and started calling him using pushy tactics that would make a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman proud.
Challenge: Cite any explanation of Feynman's, that a child could understand, that was actually useful for anything (not just a pretty metaphor).
Ok. Feynman Diagrams are easy to understand, and very useful.
It is a dumb idea. Just because someone lives in a poor country doesn't mean they are poor. Just because someone lives in a rich country doesn't mean they are rich. It would be more reasonable to consider the income of each person individually, and instead of doing it for a superfluous item like software, it is much more important to do it for critical items like food. I hereby propose that everyone should be required to bring a notarized copy of their tax returns to the grocery store, so Safeway knows how much to charge for the milk.
Bjarne Stroustrup, Doug Lea, Knuth, etc... still make feel like a moron on a almost daily basis....
If someone makes you feel like a moron when they explain something, then maybe they are not as smart as you think they are. If you are a true master, you should be able to explain concepts in a way that even a child can understand. Richard Feynman was famous for this. So was Albert Einstein. Of course you can go too far, and simplify too much, so the children only think they understand. Donald Trump is a good example of that.
Or logs for transactions that never completed?
You log the transaction just before you execute it. The point of the log is that you can re-roll it to reconstruct the database in the event of failure. That doesn't work if you only log things that didn't fail.
I can't imagine trying to raise a kid in a concrete jungle.
Yet kids raised in rural areas are more obese than kids raised in cities.
In a city, there is always something to go out and do.
But when you've seen one cornfield, you've seen them all.
I have literally never been propositioned by a gay man in all the time I've lived in and visited the Bay Area
Perhaps you have and you didn't realize it. If you are in SF, and a man asks you "Have you got the time?", you likely replied by looking at your watch or phone and telling him the time. But the reply he is really hoping for is "Yes, I do have time!"
Belgium didn't put up borders for the Polish workers either
Wrong. Belgium kept barriers in place as long as the EU allowed ... and suffered the negative consequences that you describe for exactly the opposite reasons than you think.
Is the economy worse in SF than it is in NYC or Chicago?
No. The problem is exactly the opposite. The economy is booming, driving up demand for housing, and thus prices. A couple living in SF may spend half their income to rent a studio apt. There is no way to afford a place big enough to raise a kid, especially if they want to drop down to one income. So they hop on BART and head out to the suburbs.
The real problem is the stagnation of the housing supply. 95% of all building permits in SF were denied last year, and very few builders even bothered to apply. People that own property in the city see new construction as a threat to their sky high property values, and even renters tend to be knee-jerk anti-growth BANANAs. The people that want to live in SF but can't afford to, don't get a vote.