Given that the British economy is mostly based on people sitting in office chairs surrounded by imported Chinese goods and that the British are already completely dependent on China for the most basic of everyday products it is in the interest of the Chinese to further nurture this culture of dependency on China. The British are deluded to think that the Chinese will continue to shower them in iPhones and PC's while they pump out nothing but intangible financial services.
The Chinese are already realising they don't need the Western business suit middleman, having already made their way into the smartphone industry with completely domestic models and taken over the drone industry almost completely. Soon the Brits will have to start selling out to the Chinese bigtime if they want to continue their office chair based lifestyle for longer.
I'd be very worried about the Chinese attempts to strong arm their way in and would be trying to keep them at bay and reduce dependency on imports from that country
They need to replace the Waltons with a PHP script that randomly disperses small amounts of their dollars to random people till most of its gone, then keeps dispersing as it's rolling in. Thats the only way this sh1t is going to work long term
I always hated that term. Makes it sound like its only good for taking notes when it can in fact do far more.
I am aware of the fact that it's a marketing term coined to avoid getting sued for perpetuating the idea that you can leave the thing on your lap, switched on for days at a time with no adverse health effects.
Western culture creeping in and taking over the whole world, only because some exec guy in a suit gazing out from his 100-storey office building sees your country as another "untapped market" that might yield a few dollars/euros if squeezed hard enough
I am constantly surprised by how good it is. It has paths in there that Google has never heard of, ones up mountains that might not even be 1ft wide, new and old. It doesn't look quite as polished and smartphone-oriented as the Almighty GOOG's version but the maps themselves are more detailed and more accurate
Unconnected Windows 7 instances are already desperately trying to download Windows 10 through this service at this very minute, long before it is even launched
Only because the corps say so. The reason the corps say so is because there is no money in hardware. Any ould fool can get a few PCB's made and a few components slapped on. The money is in monthly fees and selling data to advertisers. There is no technical reason the server can't reside in your own home or be p2p based, these home automation companies are simply inserting their cloud service as a sort of parasitic middleman.
The trend in the tech industry for years is to unnecessarily drag some element of the service onto a "cloud" service for this reason. Not just in home automation. Part of the problem is that in this tech boom a lot of the guys who would have been writing open source software for decentralised home automation have been hired by the cloud companies
That it's possible to intercept SMS, either through the air or from the handset. Feck it, most android apps are spyware/adware with a bunch of permissions it they have no legitimate use for
I'm not looking forward to the Googification of almost everything. The internet will be a less free place when there is only one browser and one search engine (in practice), one video upload site, one mobile OS all produced by a company with a "do evil when the shareholders demand it" policy
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Given that the British economy is mostly based on people sitting in office chairs surrounded by imported Chinese goods and that the British are already completely dependent on China for the most basic of everyday products it is in the interest of the Chinese to further nurture this culture of dependency on China. The British are deluded to think that the Chinese will continue to shower them in iPhones and PC's while they pump out nothing but intangible financial services. The Chinese are already realising they don't need the Western business suit middleman, having already made their way into the smartphone industry with completely domestic models and taken over the drone industry almost completely. Soon the Brits will have to start selling out to the Chinese bigtime if they want to continue their office chair based lifestyle for longer. I'd be very worried about the Chinese attempts to strong arm their way in and would be trying to keep them at bay and reduce dependency on imports from that country
I didn't know. Am I supposed to be using it to find 'chicks'?
Are you f**in kidding me? Benny f*cking hana?!
Almost every app is spyware of some sort. Even a lot of the "good" ones are this way
What they don't tell you it requires a full 1Mbit of upstream bandwidth continuously in order to send data about the user back to Redmond
You get to be the crop.
They need to replace the Waltons with a PHP script that randomly disperses small amounts of their dollars to random people till most of its gone, then keeps dispersing as it's rolling in. Thats the only way this sh1t is going to work long term
I always hated that term. Makes it sound like its only good for taking notes when it can in fact do far more.
I am aware of the fact that it's a marketing term coined to avoid getting sued for perpetuating the idea that you can leave the thing on your lap, switched on for days at a time with no adverse health effects.
Western culture creeping in and taking over the whole world, only because some exec guy in a suit gazing out from his 100-storey office building sees your country as another "untapped market" that might yield a few dollars/euros if squeezed hard enough
I always had a feeling I was helping Google's self-driving AI bot take over the world when I was completing one of them
If so, what purpose does it serve? Aren't there plenty of chatbots of Tinder?
I pay extra for phones that I can install Sailfish OS on
Damn Martian commuters and their diesel
Maybe you should go to Italy.
It is about time the Chinese bought a puppy.
SJW? Wasn't she in Sex and the City?
I am constantly surprised by how good it is. It has paths in there that Google has never heard of, ones up mountains that might not even be 1ft wide, new and old. It doesn't look quite as polished and smartphone-oriented as the Almighty GOOG's version but the maps themselves are more detailed and more accurate
Soon we'll be able to 3D print our own pair of shoes and we won't need these Adidas boys or their robots at all.
Unconnected Windows 7 instances are already desperately trying to download Windows 10 through this service at this very minute, long before it is even launched
Only because the corps say so. The reason the corps say so is because there is no money in hardware. Any ould fool can get a few PCB's made and a few components slapped on. The money is in monthly fees and selling data to advertisers. There is no technical reason the server can't reside in your own home or be p2p based, these home automation companies are simply inserting their cloud service as a sort of parasitic middleman.
The trend in the tech industry for years is to unnecessarily drag some element of the service onto a "cloud" service for this reason. Not just in home automation. Part of the problem is that in this tech boom a lot of the guys who would have been writing open source software for decentralised home automation have been hired by the cloud companies
As showcased in BTTF. 2016 tech disappoints.
Yep and it doesn't require batteries or fancy schmancy AI based navigation tricks
That it's possible to intercept SMS, either through the air or from the handset. Feck it, most android apps are spyware/adware with a bunch of permissions it they have no legitimate use for
Or else they will become the Duke Nukem Forever of the car world. A fate the Tesla roadster narrowly escaped
I'm not looking forward to the Googification of almost everything. The internet will be a less free place when there is only one browser and one search engine (in practice), one video upload site, one mobile OS all produced by a company with a "do evil when the shareholders demand it" policy