This should come as no surprise though. In these modern times of recession and people being made unemployed due to robots it really is a buyer's market and employers can pull as much "shit" as they like and still have a queue of people outside the door looking for jobs.
No matter what it is they're trying to censor. Banning citizens from having access to certain technology and equipment serves only to preserve a despot's grip on power. There is no shortage of ways to kill 20 kids in a primary school and unless you're going to pour all your energy into creating a fully childproofed totalitarian big brother state where people in general aren't allowed to do things like North Korea then restricting people won't prevent these tragedies from happening.
I don't know why they are even allowed to buy A123, I can't buy a Chinese company even if I had the money. The Americans that allowed this to happen are fools, giving their future away to China.
Not sure if electric is the way to go until suitable capacitors are developed. A fuel injected high compression ratio combustion engine burning methane, ethanol or hydrogen only emits a bit of harmless CO2, I'd stick to that until supercaps go above 30Wh/kg. I'm aware of problems with current ethanol and hydrogen production but there are better and less wasteful ways of making the stuff.
In Asia there are a lot of old 2-stroke powered vehicles about, each one of them pumps out up to 50x more pollutant than a relatively new car. Combined with heavy traffic means lots of them idling in the street at any one time. Many of these engines are only a couple of horsepower and cost only a few $100 to replace with a new 4-stroke model but people don't have this kind of money to spare so they are stuck with these old polluting engines.
Back in the time before carbon offsetting was dismissed as 'buying indulgences' one of the things offsetting companies spent money on was buying 4-stroke petrol engines (or less polluting 2-strokes) to put the old 2-stroke engines out of circulation.
I had the misfortune of having to use it last year on a tmote sky. Nearly every piece of hardware it supports is obsolete, also the API is incredibly poorly documented. Most of their documentation consists of functions listed with no description. Gah!!
Only serves to make shares more volatile. Why is this sh1t allowed again? also why when a group of ordinary private individuals find a way to exploit the HFT algorithm's of the likes of Goldman Sachs do they get sent to jail and not the high-frequency traders themselves? Messed up world we live in.
It's based on a business technique that's as old as the hills: Give away free stuff to crush the competition until people become dependent on your free stuff, then you put on the squeeze. Google is just a private company trying to make money, not freaking Santa Clause
Why is this modded troll? Google, like the Chinese themselves hate to see a bad word said about them. Parent is a sensible post, not offensive and offers an alternative point of view
Looks like I got battered to hell by the Googletard eReputation-management squad. You'd be naive as fcuk to believe that companies like google *dont* engage in trying to influence thought and behaviour on popular sites like Slashdot.
Anything you want to do, he offers to do for you, apparently for free. On the face of it he appears to be a great lad but a bit on the nosey side, he has a good rumble through your stuff while you're gone and although he's careful putting everything back you still know he was there and still suspect him. He might have some contacts who occasionally try to sell you stuff but it seems harmless, until you realise he is indirectly trying to flog stuff to all your friends as well.
He offers to run your email server for free, in the hope that you will forget how to yourself and that the people writing MTA's now will just give up development allowing Uncle Goog to leap miles ahead of anything out there now and that you and everyone else become utterly dependent on him. He offers to drive your car so eventually he controls where you go, how you go there and at what speed, tells you its for your own good because he reckons he's a better driver.
Once you are completely dependent on him of course he can start to dig in, the stuff his friends try to sell you isn't so cheap anymore, he'll no longer drive you to where you used to get your stuff, his email service will be filled to the brim with invasive ads. In fact he'll turn out worse than the worst helicopter parent. Tell him to take a long walk off a short pier before it's too late.
Not terribly hard to set up and maintain. For phones not so sure, asterix and openSER are very heavy pieces of software don't know of any minimalist SIP server
The worst crowd who could possibly own a company. I'd say this is just a token gesture to lull us into a false sense of security that outsourcing to China has any long term benefits
These companies can only afford to give away free stuff for so long before the investors demand that they start making serious money from the fanbase (i.e the product, eyeballs in this case) and that means more invasive advertising. Google will do it too eventually.
Canonical does a bit of development work but its not huge. Linux would survive without them. Most of what they been doing the past while is unnecessary interface changes and cloud integration in an attempt to be in with the cool kids and also all these cloud things provide data for mining and if people get too dependent on it they can even charge fees to use it.
Some lad was trollin once and said "BSD is dieing, netcraft confirms it" citing the latest publication by netcraft then it kind of took on a life of its own and now nothing's dieing until Netcraft confirms it
Because they can, the CEO's (Internets, serious business! lads) love it and it's the fashionable thing to do.
Not because the aging Dell in a forgotten corner of the office is perfectly capable of handling the input from 700 measily sensors. For only $xx.99/mo you can cloudify it, CEO's will be 500% more impressed than if you pointed to a Dell in the forgotten corner because the cloud is so abstract, so future, so new and some annoying sales grunt from a cloud provider with a nasally American accent already convinced all the CEO's their organisation is incapable of running a server thats any bit reliable.
[quote]driving out west could get a lot more exciting.[/quote]
Nothing exciting about sitting in a driverless sh1tbox and probably soaking up pre-made entertainment content and a few Google targetted ads. Would rather drive the thing myself, despite the miniscule chance of me crashing into a people carrier with 6 kids inside and killing everyone including myself
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This should come as no surprise though. In these modern times of recession and people being made unemployed due to robots it really is a buyer's market and employers can pull as much "shit" as they like and still have a queue of people outside the door looking for jobs.
No matter what it is they're trying to censor. Banning citizens from having access to certain technology and equipment serves only to preserve a despot's grip on power. There is no shortage of ways to kill 20 kids in a primary school and unless you're going to pour all your energy into creating a fully childproofed totalitarian big brother state where people in general aren't allowed to do things like North Korea then restricting people won't prevent these tragedies from happening.
You can get 200HP from an ordinary 1.6L I4 petrol engine now, like the one they put in the Peugeot RCZ.
The new F1 cars will also be using 1.6L petrol, but they rev much higher.
I don't know why they are even allowed to buy A123, I can't buy a Chinese company even if I had the money. The Americans that allowed this to happen are fools, giving their future away to China.
Not sure if electric is the way to go until suitable capacitors are developed. A fuel injected high compression ratio combustion engine burning methane, ethanol or hydrogen only emits a bit of harmless CO2, I'd stick to that until supercaps go above 30Wh/kg. I'm aware of problems with current ethanol and hydrogen production but there are better and less wasteful ways of making the stuff.
In Asia there are a lot of old 2-stroke powered vehicles about, each one of them pumps out up to 50x more pollutant than a relatively new car. Combined with heavy traffic means lots of them idling in the street at any one time. Many of these engines are only a couple of horsepower and cost only a few $100 to replace with a new 4-stroke model but people don't have this kind of money to spare so they are stuck with these old polluting engines.
Back in the time before carbon offsetting was dismissed as 'buying indulgences' one of the things offsetting companies spent money on was buying 4-stroke petrol engines (or less polluting 2-strokes) to put the old 2-stroke engines out of circulation.
They're called POS terminals for a reason ;)
I had the misfortune of having to use it last year on a tmote sky. Nearly every piece of hardware it supports is obsolete, also the API is incredibly poorly documented. Most of their documentation consists of functions listed with no description. Gah!!
Only serves to make shares more volatile. Why is this sh1t allowed again? also why when a group of ordinary private individuals find a way to exploit the HFT algorithm's of the likes of Goldman Sachs do they get sent to jail and not the high-frequency traders themselves? Messed up world we live in.
It's based on a business technique that's as old as the hills: Give away free stuff to crush the competition until people become dependent on your free stuff, then you put on the squeeze. Google is just a private company trying to make money, not freaking Santa Clause
Used to be a bit of a google fanboy myself. Now I realise they are no better than the rest and are also hell bent on world domination like Microsoft.
Out of the unfathomable amount of planets in the universe, there just has to be a better one somewhere. Trouble is getting there
We have to ask Microsoft for permission now before they give us a key that lets us install Linux on our own machines?
This is seriously not good, lads. They still have the monopoly so we should sue them till the last toothpick in their Redmond HQ are belong to us.
Why is this modded troll? Google, like the Chinese themselves hate to see a bad word said about them. Parent is a sensible post, not offensive and offers an alternative point of view
Looks like I got battered to hell by the Googletard eReputation-management squad. You'd be naive as fcuk to believe that companies like google *dont* engage in trying to influence thought and behaviour on popular sites like Slashdot.
Anything you want to do, he offers to do for you, apparently for free. On the face of it he appears to be a great lad but a bit on the nosey side, he has a good rumble through your stuff while you're gone and although he's careful putting everything back you still know he was there and still suspect him. He might have some contacts who occasionally try to sell you stuff but it seems harmless, until you realise he is indirectly trying to flog stuff to all your friends as well.
He offers to run your email server for free, in the hope that you will forget how to yourself and that the people writing MTA's now will just give up development allowing Uncle Goog to leap miles ahead of anything out there now and that you and everyone else become utterly dependent on him. He offers to drive your car so eventually he controls where you go, how you go there and at what speed, tells you its for your own good because he reckons he's a better driver.
Once you are completely dependent on him of course he can start to dig in, the stuff his friends try to sell you isn't so cheap anymore, he'll no longer drive you to where you used to get your stuff, his email service will be filled to the brim with invasive ads. In fact he'll turn out worse than the worst helicopter parent. Tell him to take a long walk off a short pier before it's too late.
Not terribly hard to set up and maintain. For phones not so sure, asterix and openSER are very heavy pieces of software don't know of any minimalist SIP server
Marches on steady. Unstoppable and with an insatiable appetite for new technology
The worst crowd who could possibly own a company. I'd say this is just a token gesture to lull us into a false sense of security that outsourcing to China has any long term benefits
These companies can only afford to give away free stuff for so long before the investors demand that they start making serious money from the fanbase (i.e the product, eyeballs in this case) and that means more invasive advertising. Google will do it too eventually.
Canonical does a bit of development work but its not huge. Linux would survive without them. Most of what they been doing the past while is unnecessary interface changes and cloud integration in an attempt to be in with the cool kids and also all these cloud things provide data for mining and if people get too dependent on it they can even charge fees to use it.
Fair play to him for building the factories in the USA and not the People's Republic of Communist China.
Some lad was trollin once and said "BSD is dieing, netcraft confirms it" citing the latest publication by netcraft then it kind of took on a life of its own and now nothing's dieing until Netcraft confirms it
Do they confirm it? Nothing's actually dieing until Netcraft says so.
Because they can, the CEO's (Internets, serious business! lads) love it and it's the fashionable thing to do.
Not because the aging Dell in a forgotten corner of the office is perfectly capable of handling the input from 700 measily sensors. For only $xx.99/mo you can cloudify it, CEO's will be 500% more impressed than if you pointed to a Dell in the forgotten corner because the cloud is so abstract, so future, so new and some annoying sales grunt from a cloud provider with a nasally American accent already convinced all the CEO's their organisation is incapable of running a server thats any bit reliable.
Because Windows is just the worst mobile OS there is and MS are not to be trusted even if they did make a reasonable one. Even Symbian was better
They messed up in a big way when they left Maemo out to die
[quote]driving out west could get a lot more exciting.[/quote] Nothing exciting about sitting in a driverless sh1tbox and probably soaking up pre-made entertainment content and a few Google targetted ads. Would rather drive the thing myself, despite the miniscule chance of me crashing into a people carrier with 6 kids inside and killing everyone including myself