design by massive committee, I expect the first version of Vulkan to be great. Then each subsequent release to gradually fall further behind like OpenGL. With so many people in the group all with voting rights and pushing their own agenda's you get atrophy.
Only if they build that pit somewhere other than the US. That money is only available to them overseas, if they do it in the US they have to give a sizable chunk to the government
Apple have NOT repeatedly entered markets with a better product. They usually enter with an average or below average product, but with a very clean design and great marketing, they then improve that product over time. I dislike Apple, but it is an approach that works, most consumers don't compare every little feature.
I have been involved in several mainframe migrations. It is hard, requires a lot of planning and testing but it is quite doable. Having said that if HP bid a price to do it and failed their is no "in all fairness", they signed up to do, got paid to do it, they are responsible to do it, their is no excuse of it was too hard! If it is too hard for them then they didn't do due diligence or executed poorly.
yep it could be, given the area they are working the questions can get very personal. stress and nervousness and normal and they are grounds for the interviewers to further explore the line of questioning to check if the nervousness is just nervousness or something more sinister. Why do people think everything has to be so black and white or that the interviewers can't possibly be used to dealing with people that are nervous for reasons beyond lieing. note I don't support polygraph's, they do work for psychological reasons against some people, what is more concerning though is that they may rely to much on them and hence the educated person can get past them.
They do work. Just not in the way they say they do. In an interrogation if someone is nervous that their lies are going to be detected they will potentially show other visible signs in behavior or answering of questions, someone that goes out of their way to beat a polygraph in such an arena is also someone that needs some serious looking at, after all what are they so scared of that they are trying to ensure they don't raise alarm bells. So it worked for this guy too.
You may be a mature adult and a professional. But there are about a half billion others who are the exact opposite. It only takes one to do enough damage that it would take you years to undo the hit you take to your reputation, that hit could have very real financial and social hit, all because someone disagreed with your opinion or because you did something they didn't like. I never use a real identity online for anything beyond basic family stuff, the world is full of self entitled fuckheads who take delight in causing pain, I choose not to be an easy target for them.
this isn't about "coercing" a confession. He is guilty, he was caught. What he is doing is trading reduced charges/jail time for giving up other criminals. corruption is corruption and it will exist regardless of what laws are in place so saying you shouldn't endeavor to catch criminals as you might accidently catch someone innocent is ridiculous, police are there to catch criminals, courts are their to evaluate the evidence and determine guilt.
So, once you got arrested by the cops, they can extort you for anything by throwing the book at you, and you either risk wasting your life in jail or comply.
This is your so-called "justice" in America?
plea bargains are common place in most countries. I have no problem with them leveraging the threat of jail against scumbags like this guy in order to catch more or bigger fish. The only time I have real issues with plea bargains is when it is allowing some of the more depraved individuals get off lightly.
countries that engage in surveillance (ie most of them) don't recognize borders when it comes to engaging in surveillance and most of the ignore the laws of countries that have protections. So no country offers you any protection. Some countries will offer you protection from "Legal" warrants as in they won't recognize warrants from the US or Europe etc, but anywhere that offers that protection requires you to give up a whole lot of other freedoms or be the subject of the whims of dictators etc. basically if you want freedom from surveillance then you have to do yourself through encryption, obfuscation or stay off the net altogether.
The Wii sold far better than expected due to a gimmick which casuals initially flocked too. The reality though is that games sold very poorly on the Wii (with the exception of a few first party titles) as most casuals played with it for a few weeks and then left it in the corner collecting dust. This also tainted them towards buying any more casual devices (as can be seen with the mega flop that is the Wii U). If Apple wanted to court the casual market they needed something cool to attract them, an expensive TV device with a Wii style remote from a decade ago is unlikely to do it.
I use things like Kodi and Roku with Netflix etc precisely so I NEVER EVER have to see ads. While I am not an Apple user I would think a lot of the content they consume on the Apple TV is the same way, So with that in mind when are they going to have these so called ad breaks to play games because they are bored? The only time I ever see ads is if I am watching the News.
Apple nailed it? really? things like the surface pro are becoming so popular as apple DIDN'T nail it. They created a great media consumption device, but it is a dismal failure when you try to use them for most business scenarios. Not sure the Surface Pro's completely nailed it either, but they are a significant step up from what apple pushes (when looked at from a business perspective).
Surface is actually selling really well from everything I have seen so I doubt unsold inventory is a problem. The issues they have is MS is not setup for hardware support. We saw this directly with the difficulties in getting from the surface devices we had replaced/repaired after user abuse (drops, spills etc). dell have the hardware support network.
So what exactly does the zip tie offer you? it isn't like you can do anything about them opening it, so knowing gives you nothing, zip tie is zero protection from a thief as they don't even need the masterkey and even if it is cut you have no way of knowing it was TSA or thief so not sure exactly what you achieved. At least with a TSA lock you prevent the opportunistic thief.
The article does incorrectly push this into far worse light. It wasn't secret money. It was a PR contract. PR contracts are not unusual or secret, the underhanded bit is the illegal behaviour on Machinima's part, don't know for sure whether MS new about that, but I doubt it. companies like MS hire 100's of PR companies, they can't monitor them all and usually they have strict conditions in the contracts stating they will not act illegally or unethically, places like MS can't afford to be found to have intentionally done something like this.
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design by massive committee, I expect the first version of Vulkan to be great. Then each subsequent release to gradually fall further behind like OpenGL. With so many people in the group all with voting rights and pushing their own agenda's you get atrophy.
VW has already taken a massive stock market hit. down about 30% in last 2 days.
Only if they build that pit somewhere other than the US. That money is only available to them overseas, if they do it in the US they have to give a sizable chunk to the government
Apple have NOT repeatedly entered markets with a better product. They usually enter with an average or below average product, but with a very clean design and great marketing, they then improve that product over time. I dislike Apple, but it is an approach that works, most consumers don't compare every little feature.
I have been involved in several mainframe migrations. It is hard, requires a lot of planning and testing but it is quite doable. Having said that if HP bid a price to do it and failed their is no "in all fairness", they signed up to do, got paid to do it, they are responsible to do it, their is no excuse of it was too hard! If it is too hard for them then they didn't do due diligence or executed poorly.
yep it could be, given the area they are working the questions can get very personal. stress and nervousness and normal and they are grounds for the interviewers to further explore the line of questioning to check if the nervousness is just nervousness or something more sinister. Why do people think everything has to be so black and white or that the interviewers can't possibly be used to dealing with people that are nervous for reasons beyond lieing. note I don't support polygraph's, they do work for psychological reasons against some people, what is more concerning though is that they may rely to much on them and hence the educated person can get past them.
They do work. Just not in the way they say they do. In an interrogation if someone is nervous that their lies are going to be detected they will potentially show other visible signs in behavior or answering of questions, someone that goes out of their way to beat a polygraph in such an arena is also someone that needs some serious looking at, after all what are they so scared of that they are trying to ensure they don't raise alarm bells. So it worked for this guy too.
You may be a mature adult and a professional. But there are about a half billion others who are the exact opposite. It only takes one to do enough damage that it would take you years to undo the hit you take to your reputation, that hit could have very real financial and social hit, all because someone disagreed with your opinion or because you did something they didn't like. I never use a real identity online for anything beyond basic family stuff, the world is full of self entitled fuckheads who take delight in causing pain, I choose not to be an easy target for them.
They aren't. But even if they were why the fuck would this make a difference in this situation?
this isn't about "coercing" a confession. He is guilty, he was caught. What he is doing is trading reduced charges/jail time for giving up other criminals. corruption is corruption and it will exist regardless of what laws are in place so saying you shouldn't endeavor to catch criminals as you might accidently catch someone innocent is ridiculous, police are there to catch criminals, courts are their to evaluate the evidence and determine guilt.
all you are showing is a lack of knowledge of business. anyone that works in sales or business would have no issues understanding the sentence.
So, once you got arrested by the cops, they can extort you for anything by throwing the book at you, and you either risk wasting your life in jail or comply.
This is your so-called "justice" in America?
plea bargains are common place in most countries. I have no problem with them leveraging the threat of jail against scumbags like this guy in order to catch more or bigger fish. The only time I have real issues with plea bargains is when it is allowing some of the more depraved individuals get off lightly.
countries that engage in surveillance (ie most of them) don't recognize borders when it comes to engaging in surveillance and most of the ignore the laws of countries that have protections. So no country offers you any protection. Some countries will offer you protection from "Legal" warrants as in they won't recognize warrants from the US or Europe etc, but anywhere that offers that protection requires you to give up a whole lot of other freedoms or be the subject of the whims of dictators etc. basically if you want freedom from surveillance then you have to do yourself through encryption, obfuscation or stay off the net altogether.
see ouya! ask them how that went.
The Wii sold far better than expected due to a gimmick which casuals initially flocked too. The reality though is that games sold very poorly on the Wii (with the exception of a few first party titles) as most casuals played with it for a few weeks and then left it in the corner collecting dust. This also tainted them towards buying any more casual devices (as can be seen with the mega flop that is the Wii U). If Apple wanted to court the casual market they needed something cool to attract them, an expensive TV device with a Wii style remote from a decade ago is unlikely to do it.
I use things like Kodi and Roku with Netflix etc precisely so I NEVER EVER have to see ads. While I am not an Apple user I would think a lot of the content they consume on the Apple TV is the same way, So with that in mind when are they going to have these so called ad breaks to play games because they are bored? The only time I ever see ads is if I am watching the News.
Apple nailed it? really? things like the surface pro are becoming so popular as apple DIDN'T nail it. They created a great media consumption device, but it is a dismal failure when you try to use them for most business scenarios. Not sure the Surface Pro's completely nailed it either, but they are a significant step up from what apple pushes (when looked at from a business perspective).
Surface is actually selling really well from everything I have seen so I doubt unsold inventory is a problem. The issues they have is MS is not setup for hardware support. We saw this directly with the difficulties in getting from the surface devices we had replaced/repaired after user abuse (drops, spills etc). dell have the hardware support network.
So what exactly does the zip tie offer you? it isn't like you can do anything about them opening it, so knowing gives you nothing, zip tie is zero protection from a thief as they don't even need the masterkey and even if it is cut you have no way of knowing it was TSA or thief so not sure exactly what you achieved. At least with a TSA lock you prevent the opportunistic thief.
hmmmm unusual, the punishment, estimate of damages/losses actually seem reasonable for a change
I would love to know more as well, can't seem to find much in the article though. e.g. did they account for light and temperature as well?
He had engineers to make those decisions for him. Are you really so niave that you think Jobs made all those decisions?
Woz made Woz a billionaire by being a brilliant engineer. Woz also made Jobs a billionaire.
The article does incorrectly push this into far worse light. It wasn't secret money. It was a PR contract. PR contracts are not unusual or secret, the underhanded bit is the illegal behaviour on Machinima's part, don't know for sure whether MS new about that, but I doubt it. companies like MS hire 100's of PR companies, they can't monitor them all and usually they have strict conditions in the contracts stating they will not act illegally or unethically, places like MS can't afford to be found to have intentionally done something like this.
"Bitcoin's widely trusted ledger " and "InfoWorld". That gave me a good giggle, but not sure why anyone would read further than that.