This is Facebook we're talking about. They could have offered to charter a jet to take him where he needed to go if missing his flight was a possibility from long negotiations.
Yeah, Facebook caved over an airline ticket cost.
Yeah, that and it wasn't as though there were other parties lining up to throw $19B at him. Facebook could probably have "lowballed" him at $15B and still closed the sale.
No, I really have no use for the camera part. I perfer s SLR. My question is more what apps are out there?
Unless you're intending to develop applications for it, I'm also going to hazard a guess that you could spend the money on other more fun (and/or useful) stuff.
DSLR Lenses, VR headsets, 3D Printers, alcohol and Cryptocurrency mining come first to mind...
I don't see why the service can't be price controlled.
They could retain the current mailing rates for mail that is collated and dispatched only once a week, and introduce a new rate that is 5 - 10 times higher for mail that needs to be delivered in a 1 - 3 day timespan.
I haven't received time sensitive snail mail (packages and parcels excluded of course) in years.
Yeah I went looking for the plugin before reading the article. It's not available yet.
It's probably just a concept at the moment, and someone will probably code and release a plugin that does this or worse to advertisers before she releases hers in September.
Actually too many humans staying OUTSIDE of the United States of America are as fucking stupid as those who stay inside.
Many of the "stupid cowardly" humans staying outside of the USA unfortunately don't have constitutional rights that are anywhere near as cool as those that Americans enjoy.
All politicians lie. No exceptions. If they weren't willing to lie, they'd never get elected.
Agreed, and all politicians are not to be trusted, which is why freedom of press and transparency of government are of the utmost importance in any democratic republic.
Maybe it is because Seymour Cray died in 1996 of complications from a automobile accident. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray I would think that most people who have a passing interest in supercomputer would have known that fact. Seymour Cray did a lot of work in establishing the supercomputers. I can remember seeing his supercomputers on the cover of Popular Science back in the 70's. I think he deserves a little more respect than shown here by that remark.
I meant no disrespect to Seymour Cray, I just didn't think the company was still all that relevant any more.
An example we were given in my Intro to Stats module once upon a time used the Space Shuttle Program.
The numbers following the decimal point are very important when it might mean the difference between a Space Shuttle failing catastrophically instead of leaving / returning through the atmosphere intact.
And the vast differences in manufacturing costs between a 99.9%, 99.99% and 99.999% fault tolerant component and why it would be necessary in the bigger picture of the complete system.
The next steps are fairly obvious.. 1) Figure out how to write data to said mapped brain. 2) Attach USB Interface to organic storage unit. 3) Profit!!!
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Yeah, that and it wasn't as though there were other parties lining up to throw $19B at him. Facebook could probably have "lowballed" him at $15B and still closed the sale.
Unless you're intending to develop applications for it,
I'm also going to hazard a guess that you could spend the money on other more fun (and/or useful) stuff.
DSLR Lenses, VR headsets, 3D Printers, alcohol and Cryptocurrency mining come first to mind...
I think your estimate for the black market price of an exploit of this type might be way, way too low.
Killing people good. Casual Sex, baaaad.
Peace, Tolerance, Humility.
They might as well make it a capital offense with a mandatory death penalty while they're at it.
Way to go Apple!
Allege that the alleged victim was using a third party charger, and insert marketing for bonus points!
I don't see why the service can't be price controlled.
They could retain the current mailing rates for mail that is collated and dispatched only once a week, and introduce a new rate that is 5 - 10 times higher for mail that needs to be delivered in a 1 - 3 day timespan.
I haven't received time sensitive snail mail (packages and parcels excluded of course) in years.
They could also deeply engrave rocks and stone tablets and for really important messages mountains and other large surfaces.
Worked pretty well for the ancients.
Yeah I went looking for the plugin before reading the article. It's not available yet.
It's probably just a concept at the moment, and someone will probably code and release a plugin that does this or worse to advertisers before she releases hers in September.
But I won't believe it till Netcraft confirms it.
Many of the "stupid cowardly" humans staying outside of the USA unfortunately don't have constitutional rights that are anywhere near as cool as those that Americans enjoy.
Actually this isn't necessarily true. If they started disabling or blacklisting stolen phones via IMEI or other kill switch.
Then it would leave both the victim and the thief without phones and thus give you 2 potential sales instead of just 1.
Agreed, and all politicians are not to be trusted, which is why freedom of press and transparency of government are of the utmost importance in any democratic republic.
Is it too late for the NSA to spin this as just a huge misunderstanding?
I mean PRISM was obviously intended to be a redundant backup of the entire Internet.
This will be even more irrelevant as more software eventually become single activation / digital download only.
$50 - $250 for an NYPD Detective's email login and password? Ack!
Maybe it is because Seymour Cray died in 1996 of complications from a automobile accident. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray I would think that most people who have a passing interest in supercomputer would have known that fact. Seymour Cray did a lot of work in establishing the supercomputers. I can remember seeing his supercomputers on the cover of Popular Science back in the 70's. I think he deserves a little more respect than shown here by that remark.
I meant no disrespect to Seymour Cray, I just didn't think the company was still all that relevant any more.
Cray is still kicking around??
OpenWRT. Linux interface, router package and power consumption. Easy.
of if that is too intimidating, DD-WRT or Tomato.
Visuals are nice and all, but I'd prefer to buy a game console that actually has some fun games available for it.... *cough* unlikepsvita *cough*
Just because you're not in the target audience, doesn't mean there aren't fun games on a platform.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/13/vita-outsells-3ds-in-japan-strong-sales-continue
The Xbox 360 is still a flop in Japan and it debatably has some fun games available for it.
As the early Nintendo days can attest.
The difference was in the early days the market wasn't so competitive (saturated.)
Why choose one of the two when you can have both content _and_ hardware?
Fear will keep them in line, for everything else, there's the Patriot Act, that is, until the Death Star becomes a reality.
An example we were given in my Intro to Stats module once upon a time used the Space Shuttle Program.
The numbers following the decimal point are very important when it might mean the difference between a Space Shuttle failing catastrophically instead of leaving / returning through the atmosphere intact.
And the vast differences in manufacturing costs between a 99.9%, 99.99% and 99.999% fault tolerant component and why
it would be necessary in the bigger picture of the complete system.
The next steps are fairly obvious..
1) Figure out how to write data to said mapped brain.
2) Attach USB Interface to organic storage unit.
3) Profit!!!