It's better than the opposite: applying blockchains to anything you can think of, like most companies are doing currently, when it is only suited for very specific and limited tasks...
I think the underrated "2010: The year we make contact" pretty much wraps up the 2001 story and explains everything while being a decent sci-fi movie on its own right. Definitely a recommended watch after 2001. Sure, not groundbreaking, but also no sequences that test the audience nerves/patience like in 2001 (referring of course to the start ape sequence and the approaching the monolith psychedelia).
I think the problem started even before. She apparently started a 29-tweet thread (which should automatically tell you it was not the right medium), expecting no criticism/feedback/etc. If you don't know what twitter is, stay away. That has worked great for me so far!
This makes no sense, you pay a big agency like Getty's for the rights of an image and you have to hunt down yourself potential right owners of whatever the images show because it's your fault if others come after you? Is everyone in copyright law, including judges, completely bonkers? Rhetorical question it seems, we do have an answer...
I went from the Samsung S4 to the Xiaomi Mi4. What a breath of fresh air, at a third the price of a Samsung flagship, top hardware, good and updated software stac etc. So went on to the Mi5, and, since I travel to the US now and then, I switched to the Mi Mix 2 last year when it came out, as it supports all the T-Mobile US LTE bands among others. That was a bit more expensive (about $500) than the regular flagship series, but it is the first Android phone I've had that got me excited (so far it has been - nice, but my Nokia N9 Meego was exciting). Note that Xiaomi is not a run-of-the-mill Chinese manufacturer, they are sometimes compared (by people not very familiar with them) to Oppo or even Huawei etc, but Xiaomi has a focus on quality which rivals non-Chinese companies, while still keeping their prices low. In effect, they are very hard to beat in quality/dollar. The negatives: No OLED screens yet - but good LCD screens. Their flagships sometimes don't have the best cameras (so if it matters check which model has what) and tend to not have removable storage/battery (but often give you dual sim at least) and headphone jack comes in a dongle. Some people list their MIUI as a negative, but the majority considers it a positive.
Most crimes have some sort of statute of limitations, why not this? Declare the deed pardoned and let whoever did it come forward. It's in the public interest (i.e. curiosity) to know whodunit and if they indeed survived they can probably even repay the money from potential book/film rights and everybody's happy.
I have that one, the fastest Mac Mini I could get, and also a 2010 Mac Pro, which is the most powerful "pro" machine. I have upgraded it close to the max, 6-core 3.4GHz Xeon, 32GB RAM, USB3, e-Sata, 2x500GB SSD & 2x2TB HD (didn't touch graphics as I don't game) and I've been waiting for them to give me something to replace it with all these years, but they really don't care about power users anymore...
Well, Microsoft was the pioneer. I remember how they explained that IE was so integrated into Windows that they could not remove it. Decades ahead of the competition...
Not for the first time. How old are you, 15? AMD's Athlon was faster than the P3, especially when the latter couldn't keep up with clock speeds (there was even a P3 that was unstable at the rated speed and had to be recalled), and then Athlon 64 was much faster than the P4 (esp. with 64 bit OSes) but most publications at the time were at Intel's pocket and were trying to pass off that absolute turd Netburst architecture as gold, while at the same time Intel was strong-arming or bribing system integrators into not using the superior AMD. So AMD has had better solutions for years in the past, but due to Intel's illegal tactics they did not gain a big enough market share. In the end, Intel was forced to pay a fine which was nothing compared to the revenue AMD lost over that time and that lost revenue when they had superior technology meant they eventually were not competitive which meant consumers lost.
On the one hand, Uber did its usual thing of going around local laws to offer their service, so they naturally got stopped at some point. I won't even attempt to make a case on whether taxi protection laws are good or bad, my hunch is that the answer is "it depends", but in any case rarely have we seen companies with as little regard of local laws as Uber. On the other hand, the neo-Sultan is obviously not worried about poor taxi drivers, he built the narrative he wanted: one or two sentences after the "Uber / moober" populist joke he asked where they got Uber from, and he answered "Europe of course". Which is completely wrong, it is an American company that started in San Fransisco, but he wanted to dish on Europe because the EU leaders don't seem to appreciate how he is cleansing his nation from "dangerous anti-democratic elements"... In general, Erdogan seems to know how to win the people, I was aghast when I saw him get the audience to applause while he was bad-mouthing Kemal Ataturk, who for Turkey is more than what Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Roosevelt are combined for the US, but represents the opposite of the current course (Kemal established a democratic & secular nation). I can think of other leaders who had the same charisma in the past, fortunately Erdogan controls Turkey and not Germany;)
But they've already done that. They had the iAd platform for quite a few years, it was discontinued two years ago, when I had to switch an app I used it on to Google's Admob (and find out the most likely reason they abandoned it - Admob made significantly more money). Why go back to something they've been doing for years and themselves considered a failure? Well, to answer my question they are probably completely out of ideas, I mean they seem to have started sounding like Gilette and their multi-blade razors - first add a second back camera (i.e. 3rd overall), then add an extra IR camera to the front (4 total on the phone), now thinking of adding one more to the back?
Congrats car & driver, you only had 2 years to implement GDPR, and it really isn't hard at all unless you are doing pretty screwed up things. I could read the google cache at least in order to discover the utter ridiculousness of $700 license plates with a $7 monthly fee! I guess you pay all that for the privilege of the state tracking you. I wonder who makes these plates, that's some serious state gov connections to get it going even at the pilot level. Even without the tracking aspect, digital plates are the worst idea - a fender bender becomes expensive and/or could leave you with a non working plate, plates in general will certainly be harder to read and can potentially stop working, etc etc...
I proposed with silicon carbide (moissanite). Indeed more brilliant than a diamond, and my wife loved both the fact that it was not a blood diamond and also that silicon carbide in nature is found in meteorites. So it is a lab grown alien gem basically, more spectacular than a diamond at around $500/carat. The thing is, diamonds are quite common in nature, their scarcity is artificial. So you are paying through the nose for something that is abundant just because of the De Beers racket.
Eh, as an avid sci-fi fan, the Star Wars universe was never a "sci-fi universe" for me. No attention to any laws of physics (or sometimes logic) was ever given, which is fine by me, I mean it was a fun "space theme/fantasy" universe, the only annoyance is when people refer to it as "sci-fi"... But overall, after the first two excellent movies, it's been downhill (or down-cliff in the case of Episode 1), so I didn't think The Last Jedi did any damage and wasn't even below-average if we take the SW movies minus the first 2-3...
They signed an NDA and are not allowed to show the screen. This has not stopped some people from showing it though. The idea is that the screen itself is not impressive, "just" a 5.7" display in a huge body, at a time when expensive phones tend to go very thin-bezel, so photos of the front make this expensive device look like a "blast from the past". The basic gimmick, err, feature of the phone's screen, which is the pseudo-3D effect cannot show in images, so they believe they need to build a whole narrative before showing the screen to people, to a void "$1200 for this crap?". Because, indeed, you will not buy this phone for the display, or the cpu, or even the "holographic" effect gimmick, it isn't supposed to be worth its price as a just a phone, so only when we get a look at what this connectivity/modules/ecosystem comprises of exactly, will we know if it is an interesting device. Judging from how they are doing with their cameras, they might have a few tricks up their sleeve. That said, they still could put a bit larger display compared to the size of that phone, especially now when everyone and their mother has a bezel-less phone.
Well, I guess full access would also allow them to either edit your stuff (here are some new contacts, yay!) or delete them? I admit I use facebook since it is the only way to keep contact with certain people, but I only have messanger installed - the app takes over 200MB on a phone which is a suspiciously large size for an app that does part of the things that a badly designed website does...
OK, wireless technology is so far ahead of data costs it is not even funny! What is the point of advertising a speed that if attained would exhaust my monthly data allocation in mere seconds (or a couple of minutes at best)? Until there is such a thing as truly "unlimited" data plans (that also do not cost an arm and a leg) which allow me to use these speed somehow (perhaps as a hotspot?), show me stuff I can use. Yes the headphone jack is nice, put in a good battery (with an appropriate chipset/screen combination that makes it last over a full day of medium-heavy usage) but also get rid of that ugly notch on the display and make a back that does not slip and break, you know, the important stuff.
The linked article doesn't have much detail: "Coolpad has alleged that Xiaomi violated its patented multi-simcard design and other technology related to user interface.". It does seem like a last ditch effort of a failing company though "Coolpad shares have been suspended since March 2017. It has been unable to report its 2017 annual result on time and only just filed its 2016 annual report last month after repeated delays due to audit problems.". I already went further than usual by RTFA, so won't attempt to find better sources... I doubt it is something of merit that would cause a problem, but at least I have my Mi Mix 2:) Definitely best phone I've ever had (OK, best Android phone, I still have a soft-spot for the Meego/Maemo Nokia N9) - and far from the most expensive! Oh, and the first Xiaomi that supports all T-Mobile LTE bands, so works great even when I visit the US.
OK, the idea is great, we can't find intelligence on Earth, let's search in space. And I am the first to tell you that the chance of us being alone in the universe is minuscule ("would seem like an awful waste of space" to quote one of the greats). But we say we are certain that we are not alone, because of the vastness of the universe and then we seem to forget that reasoning when it comes to SETI. The fact is, we can't pick up a "technosignature" across significant distances and yet, even for a universe "densely packed" with life, we would still expect distances to be at least in the order of thousands of light years. With our current technology, we can detect "earth like chatter" over just a couple of light years. There is hope that if the Square Kilometer Array project is completed we could perhaps detect over 100 light years. Which is nothing in the cosmic scale. So, to detect someone you need them to send you a targeted powerful emission. If you look up the literature, we haven't really been doing it ourselves - now and then we select a target and send a signal. Well, when I talked about the vastness of the universe, that includes time as well (which explains the "thousands of light years" being optimistic - it still has to be simultaneous civilizations). So you target a few star systems and you broadcast to them, you have to remember someone has to be "listening our way" at the exact time they arrive - given the cosmic time scales measured in billions of years, the minutes, hours or even days you might broadcast for, are nothing. You can thing of it simply: if other civs are like us, they are mainly listening, so no-one will hear anyone. And it makes sense, listening is easy, transmitting is hard, why put effort on it when you won't really hear back (at least anytime soon)? Obviously $10 million is peanuts for the US government (perhaps one set of wheels for an F35?), so pursuing such activities in this case is not damaging (and if used right it could help with radio-astronomy's popularity - although I think Contact has done that as well as it can be done already), but the little money that goes into space science could be spent better.
PS. Yes, I still think crypto-currency mining is more wasteful than SET@home...
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"enough to instantly scar human skin and tissue" very effective against "model armies" - if you know what I mean ;)
It's better than the opposite: applying blockchains to anything you can think of, like most companies are doing currently, when it is only suited for very specific and limited tasks...
I think the underrated "2010: The year we make contact" pretty much wraps up the 2001 story and explains everything while being a decent sci-fi movie on its own right. Definitely a recommended watch after 2001. Sure, not groundbreaking, but also no sequences that test the audience nerves/patience like in 2001 (referring of course to the start ape sequence and the approaching the monolith psychedelia).
I think the problem started even before. She apparently started a 29-tweet thread (which should automatically tell you it was not the right medium), expecting no criticism/feedback/etc.
If you don't know what twitter is, stay away. That has worked great for me so far!
This makes no sense, you pay a big agency like Getty's for the rights of an image and you have to hunt down yourself potential right owners of whatever the images show because it's your fault if others come after you? Is everyone in copyright law, including judges, completely bonkers?
Rhetorical question it seems, we do have an answer...
I went from the Samsung S4 to the Xiaomi Mi4. What a breath of fresh air, at a third the price of a Samsung flagship, top hardware, good and updated software stac etc. So went on to the Mi5, and, since I travel to the US now and then, I switched to the Mi Mix 2 last year when it came out, as it supports all the T-Mobile US LTE bands among others. That was a bit more expensive (about $500) than the regular flagship series, but it is the first Android phone I've had that got me excited (so far it has been - nice, but my Nokia N9 Meego was exciting). Note that Xiaomi is not a run-of-the-mill Chinese manufacturer, they are sometimes compared (by people not very familiar with them) to Oppo or even Huawei etc, but Xiaomi has a focus on quality which rivals non-Chinese companies, while still keeping their prices low. In effect, they are very hard to beat in quality/dollar.
The negatives: No OLED screens yet - but good LCD screens. Their flagships sometimes don't have the best cameras (so if it matters check which model has what) and tend to not have removable storage/battery (but often give you dual sim at least) and headphone jack comes in a dongle. Some people list their MIUI as a negative, but the majority considers it a positive.
Most crimes have some sort of statute of limitations, why not this? Declare the deed pardoned and let whoever did it come forward. It's in the public interest (i.e. curiosity) to know whodunit and if they indeed survived they can probably even repay the money from potential book/film rights and everybody's happy.
Yeah, talk about a horror story, Kim Kardashian living forever!
Yeah, especially when actual "breaching the Peace", i.e. starting a war not only doesn't get you punished, but even gets you re-elected...
I have that one, the fastest Mac Mini I could get, and also a 2010 Mac Pro, which is the most powerful "pro" machine. I have upgraded it close to the max, 6-core 3.4GHz Xeon, 32GB RAM, USB3, e-Sata, 2x500GB SSD & 2x2TB HD (didn't touch graphics as I don't game) and I've been waiting for them to give me something to replace it with all these years, but they really don't care about power users anymore...
Oh, come on, active desktop was a pretty mature product coming from the people who developed Bob!
Well, Microsoft was the pioneer. I remember how they explained that IE was so integrated into Windows that they could not remove it. Decades ahead of the competition...
And that you can't use it to divide floating point numbers if you care about the accuracy of the result ;)
Not for the first time. How old are you, 15? AMD's Athlon was faster than the P3, especially when the latter couldn't keep up with clock speeds (there was even a P3 that was unstable at the rated speed and had to be recalled), and then Athlon 64 was much faster than the P4 (esp. with 64 bit OSes) but most publications at the time were at Intel's pocket and were trying to pass off that absolute turd Netburst architecture as gold, while at the same time Intel was strong-arming or bribing system integrators into not using the superior AMD. So AMD has had better solutions for years in the past, but due to Intel's illegal tactics they did not gain a big enough market share. In the end, Intel was forced to pay a fine which was nothing compared to the revenue AMD lost over that time and that lost revenue when they had superior technology meant they eventually were not competitive which meant consumers lost.
On the one hand, Uber did its usual thing of going around local laws to offer their service, so they naturally got stopped at some point. I won't even attempt to make a case on whether taxi protection laws are good or bad, my hunch is that the answer is "it depends", but in any case rarely have we seen companies with as little regard of local laws as Uber. ;)
On the other hand, the neo-Sultan is obviously not worried about poor taxi drivers, he built the narrative he wanted: one or two sentences after the "Uber / moober" populist joke he asked where they got Uber from, and he answered "Europe of course". Which is completely wrong, it is an American company that started in San Fransisco, but he wanted to dish on Europe because the EU leaders don't seem to appreciate how he is cleansing his nation from "dangerous anti-democratic elements"...
In general, Erdogan seems to know how to win the people, I was aghast when I saw him get the audience to applause while he was bad-mouthing Kemal Ataturk, who for Turkey is more than what Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Roosevelt are combined for the US, but represents the opposite of the current course (Kemal established a democratic & secular nation). I can think of other leaders who had the same charisma in the past, fortunately Erdogan controls Turkey and not Germany
But they've already done that. They had the iAd platform for quite a few years, it was discontinued two years ago, when I had to switch an app I used it on to Google's Admob (and find out the most likely reason they abandoned it - Admob made significantly more money).
Why go back to something they've been doing for years and themselves considered a failure? Well, to answer my question they are probably completely out of ideas, I mean they seem to have started sounding like Gilette and their multi-blade razors - first add a second back camera (i.e. 3rd overall), then add an extra IR camera to the front (4 total on the phone), now thinking of adding one more to the back?
Congrats car & driver, you only had 2 years to implement GDPR, and it really isn't hard at all unless you are doing pretty screwed up things. I could read the google cache at least in order to discover the utter ridiculousness of $700 license plates with a $7 monthly fee! I guess you pay all that for the privilege of the state tracking you. I wonder who makes these plates, that's some serious state gov connections to get it going even at the pilot level.
Even without the tracking aspect, digital plates are the worst idea - a fender bender becomes expensive and/or could leave you with a non working plate, plates in general will certainly be harder to read and can potentially stop working, etc etc...
I proposed with silicon carbide (moissanite). Indeed more brilliant than a diamond, and my wife loved both the fact that it was not a blood diamond and also that silicon carbide in nature is found in meteorites. So it is a lab grown alien gem basically, more spectacular than a diamond at around $500/carat.
The thing is, diamonds are quite common in nature, their scarcity is artificial. So you are paying through the nose for something that is abundant just because of the De Beers racket.
Eh, as an avid sci-fi fan, the Star Wars universe was never a "sci-fi universe" for me. No attention to any laws of physics (or sometimes logic) was ever given, which is fine by me, I mean it was a fun "space theme/fantasy" universe, the only annoyance is when people refer to it as "sci-fi"...
But overall, after the first two excellent movies, it's been downhill (or down-cliff in the case of Episode 1), so I didn't think The Last Jedi did any damage and wasn't even below-average if we take the SW movies minus the first 2-3...
They signed an NDA and are not allowed to show the screen. This has not stopped some people from showing it though. The idea is that the screen itself is not impressive, "just" a 5.7" display in a huge body, at a time when expensive phones tend to go very thin-bezel, so photos of the front make this expensive device look like a "blast from the past". The basic gimmick, err, feature of the phone's screen, which is the pseudo-3D effect cannot show in images, so they believe they need to build a whole narrative before showing the screen to people, to a void "$1200 for this crap?".
Because, indeed, you will not buy this phone for the display, or the cpu, or even the "holographic" effect gimmick, it isn't supposed to be worth its price as a just a phone, so only when we get a look at what this connectivity/modules/ecosystem comprises of exactly, will we know if it is an interesting device. Judging from how they are doing with their cameras, they might have a few tricks up their sleeve.
That said, they still could put a bit larger display compared to the size of that phone, especially now when everyone and their mother has a bezel-less phone.
Well, I guess full access would also allow them to either edit your stuff (here are some new contacts, yay!) or delete them?
I admit I use facebook since it is the only way to keep contact with certain people, but I only have messanger installed - the app takes over 200MB on a phone which is a suspiciously large size for an app that does part of the things that a badly designed website does...
OK, wireless technology is so far ahead of data costs it is not even funny!
What is the point of advertising a speed that if attained would exhaust my monthly data allocation in mere seconds (or a couple of minutes at best)? Until there is such a thing as truly "unlimited" data plans (that also do not cost an arm and a leg) which allow me to use these speed somehow (perhaps as a hotspot?), show me stuff I can use. Yes the headphone jack is nice, put in a good battery (with an appropriate chipset/screen combination that makes it last over a full day of medium-heavy usage) but also get rid of that ugly notch on the display and make a back that does not slip and break, you know, the important stuff.
Meh. I'd offer him my embassy... Oh, wait!
The linked article doesn't have much detail: "Coolpad has alleged that Xiaomi violated its patented multi-simcard design and other technology related to user interface.". :) Definitely best phone I've ever had (OK, best Android phone, I still have a soft-spot for the Meego/Maemo Nokia N9) - and far from the most expensive! Oh, and the first Xiaomi that supports all T-Mobile LTE bands, so works great even when I visit the US.
It does seem like a last ditch effort of a failing company though "Coolpad shares have been suspended since March 2017. It has been unable to report its 2017 annual result on time and only just filed its 2016 annual report last month after repeated delays due to audit problems.". I already went further than usual by RTFA, so won't attempt to find better sources...
I doubt it is something of merit that would cause a problem, but at least I have my Mi Mix 2
OK, the idea is great, we can't find intelligence on Earth, let's search in space. And I am the first to tell you that the chance of us being alone in the universe is minuscule ("would seem like an awful waste of space" to quote one of the greats). But we say we are certain that we are not alone, because of the vastness of the universe and then we seem to forget that reasoning when it comes to SETI. The fact is, we can't pick up a "technosignature" across significant distances and yet, even for a universe "densely packed" with life, we would still expect distances to be at least in the order of thousands of light years. With our current technology, we can detect "earth like chatter" over just a couple of light years. There is hope that if the Square Kilometer Array project is completed we could perhaps detect over 100 light years. Which is nothing in the cosmic scale. So, to detect someone you need them to send you a targeted powerful emission. If you look up the literature, we haven't really been doing it ourselves - now and then we select a target and send a signal. Well, when I talked about the vastness of the universe, that includes time as well (which explains the "thousands of light years" being optimistic - it still has to be simultaneous civilizations). So you target a few star systems and you broadcast to them, you have to remember someone has to be "listening our way" at the exact time they arrive - given the cosmic time scales measured in billions of years, the minutes, hours or even days you might broadcast for, are nothing.
You can thing of it simply: if other civs are like us, they are mainly listening, so no-one will hear anyone. And it makes sense, listening is easy, transmitting is hard, why put effort on it when you won't really hear back (at least anytime soon)?
Obviously $10 million is peanuts for the US government (perhaps one set of wheels for an F35?), so pursuing such activities in this case is not damaging (and if used right it could help with radio-astronomy's popularity - although I think Contact has done that as well as it can be done already), but the little money that goes into space science could be spent better.
PS. Yes, I still think crypto-currency mining is more wasteful than SET@home...