One cloud advantage is when the client demand is occasional but intense. Rather than each client needing their own server resources to handle a peak capacity that is only required occasionally and transiently a pool of shared resources can handle things like voice processing.
It isn't just magic pixie cloud dust, there are use cases where a shared pool of resources is vastly more efficient and less expensive than having every client need expensive resources that sit idle 99+% of the time.
Fashion is about change for changes sake. It's not about finding an optimal solution, it's about showing you have the latest thing. It's less about functionality and more about novelty.
transaction processing is slow, limited in scope, unpredictable, and energy intensive. this limits the value of 'digital cash' as a transaction medium, leaving it to be used primarily as a speculative store of value.
It seems reasonable that any attempt to decrease twitter's liability as an attack vector for russia's campaign against american democracy would disproportionately effect those who amplified and benefited from that campaign.
Maybe they are planning to train an AI to write code or at least assist in writing code. That's the only business case I can come up with where spending 7.5 billion on github turns a profit.
My surface pro 4 lasts a few hours at most just doing light browsing. if I turn off all networking/blue tooth and turn down the screen brightness I can get a little more reading.cbr comic archives. (primary purpose of tablet purchase). I wish it had a good battery life, I could use it at work for meeting notes and diagramming but it doesn't and I don't.
If we learn enough to recover lost species, which seems inevitable, then we will probably reverse that trend. With the destruction of habitat it won't mean much but I expect animals like elephants to at least exist in theme park type settings. for what that's worth.
We all have too much experience with electric gadgets that won't hold a charge after a few years. When EV batteries have proven themselves robust over time that trust may develop but it will take many years to prove and for that proof to be widely believed.
and I've been wrong for many years. it could crash pretty hard and still be far above where it was back when I started predicting imminent disaster. Still wouldn't touch it though.
But that's all I use it for because the battery life is terrible, especially if any networking is turned on. I use an ancient 'New iPad' for trivial browsing and watching video in bed. That thing can make a charge last.
When I bought the surface I had visions of using it for note taking in meetings and a variety of other things but the battery issue makes it more trouble than it's worth.
The cost of non-generic drugs primarily comes from profit taking, lobbying, marketing, and research. It is of limited value to extend the expiry date of drugs since this would just mean a higher per unit cost if fewer were sold.
The cost of generic drugs is probably weighted more towards manufacture but the value of being able to still use things like 5 year old bottles of generic acetaminophen isn't going to make much difference to overall drug costs.
according to H.R. Haldeman the Nixon administration saw heroin as a tool for disenfranchising blacks and pot as a tool for disenfranchising 'hippies'.
of course the disparate rates of drug sentencing made disenfranchising vast numbers of black citizens a huge part of the actual effect of cannabis hysteria so it is likely a part of why the policy has continued so long.
exactly, fake news works because people see it shared by their friends on facebook etc and trust it because of that. fool one person, have them infect some friends with their gullible folly and then it can spread as a chain reaction though large groups of people
I trust the WSJ to relay corporate press releases adequately but their editorial slant is the sort of murdochian right wing nutjobbery that leads to 'conservapedia'. Anything except extreme climate denialism and laffer curve idolatry is likely to register with them as a liberal plot to destroy america.
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One cloud advantage is when the client demand is occasional but intense. Rather than each client needing their own server resources to handle a peak capacity that is only required occasionally and transiently a pool of shared resources can handle things like voice processing.
It isn't just magic pixie cloud dust, there are use cases where a shared pool of resources is vastly more efficient and less expensive than having every client need expensive resources that sit idle 99+% of the time.
Fashion is about change for changes sake. It's not about finding an optimal solution, it's about showing you have the latest thing. It's less about functionality and more about novelty.
we'll just keep "upgrading" your software until you do - and we won't stop then either
transaction processing is slow, limited in scope, unpredictable, and energy intensive. this limits the value of 'digital cash' as a transaction medium, leaving it to be used primarily as a speculative store of value.
Free Silver!
It seems reasonable that any attempt to decrease twitter's liability as an attack vector for russia's campaign against american democracy would disproportionately effect those who amplified and benefited from that campaign.
the bigger idiot theory vs. the buy and hold theory
Maybe they are planning to train an AI to write code or at least assist in writing code. That's the only business case I can come up with where spending 7.5 billion on github turns a profit.
how do they make 7.5 billion back from github? unless this is about extinguishing competition then why bother?
My surface pro 4 lasts a few hours at most just doing light browsing. if I turn off all networking/blue tooth and turn down the screen brightness I can get a little more reading .cbr comic archives. (primary purpose of tablet purchase). I wish it had a good battery life, I could use it at work for meeting notes and diagramming but it doesn't and I don't.
If we learn enough to recover lost species, which seems inevitable, then we will probably reverse that trend. With the destruction of habitat it won't mean much but I expect animals like elephants to at least exist in theme park type settings. for what that's worth.
the leaky sunroof saga tells us Tesla values precision, but not accuracy :)
a feature whose primary uses will be to make spam more annoying and phishing more surreptitious
One of the all time greats
We all have too much experience with electric gadgets that won't hold a charge after a few years. When EV batteries have proven themselves robust over time that trust may develop but it will take many years to prove and for that proof to be widely believed.
We had some fridge sized batteries to keep things up until the diesel generator kicked in. Two different jobs, fast response vs.prolonged heavy usage.
it seems the expense of transactions is making them useless for their actual purpose. for the hundredth time I'm declaring that the end is nigh :)
Vendors get paid to install crapware like Norton. Then Norton makes money off of people who don't know any better.
and I've been wrong for many years. it could crash pretty hard and still be far above where it was back when I started predicting imminent disaster. Still wouldn't touch it though.
But that's all I use it for because the battery life is terrible, especially if any networking is turned on. I use an ancient 'New iPad' for trivial browsing and watching video in bed. That thing can make a charge last.
When I bought the surface I had visions of using it for note taking in meetings and a variety of other things but the battery issue makes it more trouble than it's worth.
The cost of non-generic drugs primarily comes from profit taking, lobbying, marketing, and research. It is of limited value to extend the expiry date of drugs since this would just mean a higher per unit cost if fewer were sold. The cost of generic drugs is probably weighted more towards manufacture but the value of being able to still use things like 5 year old bottles of generic acetaminophen isn't going to make much difference to overall drug costs.
At first I laughed then I realized that if I had mod points they would be used on insightful.
according to H.R. Haldeman the Nixon administration saw heroin as a tool for disenfranchising blacks and pot as a tool for disenfranchising 'hippies'.
of course the disparate rates of drug sentencing made disenfranchising vast numbers of black citizens a huge part of the actual effect of cannabis hysteria so it is likely a part of why the policy has continued so long.
exactly, fake news works because people see it shared by their friends on facebook etc and trust it because of that.
fool one person, have them infect some friends with their gullible folly and then it can spread as a chain reaction though large groups of people
I trust the WSJ to relay corporate press releases adequately but their editorial slant is the sort of murdochian right wing nutjobbery that leads to 'conservapedia'. Anything except extreme climate denialism and laffer curve idolatry is likely to register with them as a liberal plot to destroy america.