They have partnerships (or sold rights) to other providers worldwide. In Belgium they broadcasted GoT at the same time as in the US (in the middle of the night) on the Pay TV service of my cable provider. That service is 25$ euro a month. I already have Netflix so not going to bother with 25$ a month just to watch GoT.
The higher-end iMac 27" With Retina 5K is good value. The screen alone from another brand in those specs will cost you over 2/3rd of the price of the iMac and be less handsome. And for what's left of the money, you get a really smooth high-end computer.
I pretty much agree that most PhDs do research of which the only purpose is them getting a PhD. I work with plenty of them, and none did advance the state of the art in their specific domain ( and I'm talking Applied Science - CS, Bio Medical, Geography - here. I'm sure it's much worse in Social Sciences). However, most of them were top of their class, they do get a deep insight into their subjects, and most will also be teaching assistants at the University during their PhD. In that sense, they do offer a benefit to society, since they are also usually tasked with forming or following the education of other students at the under-graduate and graduate level.
So, really, to me it's a win-win situation. You get motivated and intelligent people doing research and teaching at a very high level, and they are getting a sweet PhD title in return after a couple of years. And if the research leads to useful or applicable discoveries, even better!
Since RTS always move in 'small increments', maybe Metropolis might be even better than Monte Carlo ( well it's basically a special case of Monte Carlo)?
Maybe, but who's going to suffer? The middle class and low hanging fruit. Look at the stock trading taxes they've created in Belgium. There wasn't a clear law on how much taxes were due when people were stock-trading. So they created a new law: every stock sold within 6 months of buying is taxed 30% on capital gains (with no possibility to deduct losses of course). So, if you have a portfolio with 5 stocks and 4 lose money and one wins (but on average you're losing money), tough break, we'll take 30% on your gains for that stock. Also, a Last In, First Out scheme is used. So you bought GOOG stocks 10 months ago, and are buying new ones and selling some of that prior stock 3 months later. Tough break, we'll tax you 30% on those stocks anyway because you bought some 3 months ago.
Exchange rate? Doesn't count! Oh you bought GOOG on NASDAQ and it gained 5% but the Euro lost 10% so you basically lost money? tough break, we'll take 30% on your dollar gains, bitch!
Guess what's not taxed? Funds and Corporate Portfolios! Exactly the kind of things the actual rich peeps can set up.
Definitely not the little middle class dabbling with 2000$ worth of stocks here and there. With transaction costs, they need to make like over 6% to break even.
Conclusion: The Belgian State doesn't think actively trading is something little nobodies should do with the money they already got taxed 50% on while working. They rather should be paying 60% taxes on their income and put the rest on their savings account so they can gain 0.015% interest on it.
If you have to pay 1,000$ to say "yes, please", it gives them a realistic guess at how they should scale their operations. Maybe not all people who gave 1,000$ are going to buy them, or some may have gotten "in line" as an investment but it definitely shows interest. Even if they don't have the money as of now, they can surely tap some investors with this kind of pipeline.
She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, so she probably knows a thing or two about Math and Science;)
However, using these ridiculous stereotypes as if being an engineer suddenly incapacitates you from showing common sense or empathy with your users or customers is getting old.
You are talking about one drone. Chances may be slim. Sure, this person in the middle of nowhere in the Netherlands isn't going to hit a plane. But if there is no regulation though, how about a flash mob of drones around the airport? What are the chances now?
I liked RyanAir's idea to put more cattle in the plane. Have people standing in the plane. At least I would be able to stretch my legs instead of having my legs in my neck.
I agree with the Apple backdoor stance. However, there are many regulations a company must abide to which require considerable effort on their part. And these change all the time. Suddenly some new standard pops up or a legal QA process which requires these companies to create new divisions just to be able to cope.
These are however not ordered by a judge. An iPhone is basically a computing device. You can't blame Apple or Dell for users encrypting their iMac or PC for example and require them to backdoor it.
Okay they won in 2015, congrats! But these are their results going back to '74 when they first participated:
1 2 3 3 2 3 6 3 5 5 2 2 3 3 2 3 10 3 4 2 11 1 7 2 5 3 5 6 5 1 2 4 2 3 1 5 2 1 3 3 2
They pretty much always were top 3. Looking at other countries, only China has a better track-record coming in 1st often. Other countries placing well historically are Russia and South-Korea, but on average the US seems to do better (historically I would say 2nd after China).
So really, the are making a moot point. It's like saying the US must have really fit and healthy people, since they win a lot of medals at the Summer Olympics.
That's because averages are prone to outliers. A better measure is the median ( or 50th percentile). The median for the US shows most people there have no balls. Same for Europe and Russia. People in China have 2 testicles though.
Google has been collecting this type of data for years from every type of driver. I'm pretty sure by now they have machine learning algorithms that can predict if a particular driver is a Taxi, delivery van, private person, etc... Probably they can even predict if a Taxi driver is an actual Taxi driver or an Uber driver (since Taxis probably spot themselves at particular Taxi hubs whereas Uber drivers will have other behavior).
He's still officially an Apple employee, and earns 120,000$ a year. You know, he made the Apple 1 and 2, did many other interesting and creative things, but I really wonder if he still would have any real technical impact on the work floor.
In any of these systems, the weakest link is the human factor. Selfies in control rooms give these types of attacks plenty to work with. The name of an employee with access to these rooms, where exactly he's working and some info about his job. The next step might not be to "hack the system", but to give the company a call and go with "Hi, this is Engineer Jef Jefferson from the System X company, could you pass me Employee Z"... "Hello Z, we've noticed that your system may still be configured with the default settings for blablabla... ".
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They have partnerships (or sold rights) to other providers worldwide. In Belgium they broadcasted GoT at the same time as in the US (in the middle of the night) on the Pay TV service of my cable provider. That service is 25$ euro a month. I already have Netflix so not going to bother with 25$ a month just to watch GoT.
and E.T.
SAP interfaces are true eye candy. A natural fit for Apple :) Steve Jobs would have loved this move!
The higher-end iMac 27" With Retina 5K is good value. The screen alone from another brand in those specs will cost you over 2/3rd of the price of the iMac and be less handsome. And for what's left of the money, you get a really smooth high-end computer.
I pretty much agree that most PhDs do research of which the only purpose is them getting a PhD. I work with plenty of them, and none did advance the state of the art in their specific domain ( and I'm talking Applied Science - CS, Bio Medical, Geography - here. I'm sure it's much worse in Social Sciences). However, most of them were top of their class, they do get a deep insight into their subjects, and most will also be teaching assistants at the University during their PhD. In that sense, they do offer a benefit to society, since they are also usually tasked with forming or following the education of other students at the under-graduate and graduate level.
So, really, to me it's a win-win situation. You get motivated and intelligent people doing research and teaching at a very high level, and they are getting a sweet PhD title in return after a couple of years. And if the research leads to useful or applicable discoveries, even better!
They're not ads, they're little haikus. Little haikus no one wants to read.
Since RTS always move in 'small increments', maybe Metropolis might be even better than Monte Carlo ( well it's basically a special case of Monte Carlo)?
Maybe, but who's going to suffer? The middle class and low hanging fruit. Look at the stock trading taxes they've created in Belgium. There wasn't a clear law on how much taxes were due when people were stock-trading. So they created a new law: every stock sold within 6 months of buying is taxed 30% on capital gains (with no possibility to deduct losses of course). So, if you have a portfolio with 5 stocks and 4 lose money and one wins (but on average you're losing money), tough break, we'll take 30% on your gains for that stock. Also, a Last In, First Out scheme is used. So you bought GOOG stocks 10 months ago, and are buying new ones and selling some of that prior stock 3 months later. Tough break, we'll tax you 30% on those stocks anyway because you bought some 3 months ago. Exchange rate? Doesn't count! Oh you bought GOOG on NASDAQ and it gained 5% but the Euro lost 10% so you basically lost money? tough break, we'll take 30% on your dollar gains, bitch!
Guess what's not taxed? Funds and Corporate Portfolios! Exactly the kind of things the actual rich peeps can set up.
Definitely not the little middle class dabbling with 2000$ worth of stocks here and there. With transaction costs, they need to make like over 6% to break even.
Conclusion: The Belgian State doesn't think actively trading is something little nobodies should do with the money they already got taxed 50% on while working. They rather should be paying 60% taxes on their income and put the rest on their savings account so they can gain 0.015% interest on it.
...or rather Thea Merlyn :)
They marketed Stella as being Premium French beer.
If you have to pay 1,000$ to say "yes, please", it gives them a realistic guess at how they should scale their operations. Maybe not all people who gave 1,000$ are going to buy them, or some may have gotten "in line" as an investment but it definitely shows interest. Even if they don't have the money as of now, they can surely tap some investors with this kind of pipeline.
Wasn't this a 3rd party hack? Who says the FBI knows how they did it in the first place?
She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, so she probably knows a thing or two about Math and Science ;)
However, using these ridiculous stereotypes as if being an engineer suddenly incapacitates you from showing common sense or empathy with your users or customers is getting old.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
You are talking about one drone. Chances may be slim. Sure, this person in the middle of nowhere in the Netherlands isn't going to hit a plane. But if there is no regulation though, how about a flash mob of drones around the airport? What are the chances now?
The Entropy is high in this dude's head.
I liked RyanAir's idea to put more cattle in the plane. Have people standing in the plane. At least I would be able to stretch my legs instead of having my legs in my neck.
How about comparing it to CEO's of companies over a 1000 employees? Are they still only making 170k a year?
Also, they clearly say in the Documentary that it really wasn't ET that killed the 2600. It was just the arrival of better consoles and computers.
I agree with the Apple backdoor stance. However, there are many regulations a company must abide to which require considerable effort on their part. And these change all the time. Suddenly some new standard pops up or a legal QA process which requires these companies to create new divisions just to be able to cope.
These are however not ordered by a judge. An iPhone is basically a computing device. You can't blame Apple or Dell for users encrypting their iMac or PC for example and require them to backdoor it.
Okay they won in 2015, congrats! But these are their results going back to '74 when they first participated:
1 2 3 3 2 3 6 3 5 5 2 2 3 3 2 3 10 3 4 2 11 1 7 2 5 3 5 6 5 1 2 4 2 3 1 5 2 1 3 3 2
They pretty much always were top 3. Looking at other countries, only China has a better track-record coming in 1st often. Other countries placing well historically are Russia and South-Korea, but on average the US seems to do better (historically I would say 2nd after China).
So really, the are making a moot point. It's like saying the US must have really fit and healthy people, since they win a lot of medals at the Summer Olympics.
That's because averages are prone to outliers. A better measure is the median ( or 50th percentile). The median for the US shows most people there have no balls. Same for Europe and Russia. People in China have 2 testicles though.
Google has been collecting this type of data for years from every type of driver. I'm pretty sure by now they have machine learning algorithms that can predict if a particular driver is a Taxi, delivery van, private person, etc ... Probably they can even predict if a Taxi driver is an actual Taxi driver or an Uber driver (since Taxis probably spot themselves at particular Taxi hubs whereas Uber drivers will have other behavior).
He's still officially an Apple employee, and earns 120,000$ a year. You know, he made the Apple 1 and 2, did many other interesting and creative things, but I really wonder if he still would have any real technical impact on the work floor.
In any of these systems, the weakest link is the human factor. Selfies in control rooms give these types of attacks plenty to work with. The name of an employee with access to these rooms, where exactly he's working and some info about his job. The next step might not be to "hack the system", but to give the company a call and go with "Hi, this is Engineer Jef Jefferson from the System X company, could you pass me Employee Z" ... "Hello Z, we've noticed that your system may still be configured with the default settings for blablabla ... ".