"Russian news agency Interfax, which broke the story earlier today, said Facebook did not represent itself in court." Well no crap. It'd cost you more to send a lawyer to show up in court for 15 minutes than it would to pay that fine.
That's true. While it makes sense that apps from Apple will be more popular, due to the name recognition we see with other big developer apps, they do have the "Made By Apple" section on the right side within the App Store.
It would be nearly impossible with AI. With learning AI currently, while they can learn, we don't know exactly how they came to those conclusions in many cases. One would have to spend considerable time and effort designing tests to determine bias, as simply checking code or algorithms wouldn't be possible.
It's just the timing that seems strange. They've allowed this for years but shortly after Apple announces a competing service to their own, they make this change. Something that wasn't a security issue for years, suddenly is.
Curious why you single out Apple when Samsung, Nokia, Dell, Sharp, Google, Amazon, Sony, and everyone else have their stuff made by Foxconn too. All of these companies go over their devices thoroughly as they know any security issue could have HUGE negative repercussions for them.
Good chance we'll see Roku get killed off. Their CEO has said that hardware isn't the key and they're moving away from it. The problem is that now Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Apple are all eating their attempt to get into content. TV makers are adding much of the functions they once provided, and that hardware market is going away. It's not looking good for them. I wouldn't want to buy into their hardware, knowing there's a good chance it will go unsupported in the future.
I can't imagine any Google workers short of maybe some facilities workers being paid that little anyways. Even interns get more than that at most Fortune 500 companies.
This isn't related to that. This suit was filed by Qualcomm when Apple decided to use Intel modems rather than theirs. They got upset over the loss of revenue from the move, so they found a patent to go after Apple over and try to force them to use their modems again.
Qualcomm wants the ITC to ban imports of AT&T and T-Mobile iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X models that use chips from Intel. Keep in mind that Qualcomm didn't file this suit until Apple switched to using Intel chips rather than Qualcomm's own chips. This is about revenge for not using them as their primary supplier.
$50 million doesn't go very far on infrastructure. The local Time Warner office (that's now a Comcast office) we built years ago cost that much. The equipment in the headend is well over $800 million. $50 million is a drop in the bucket and wouldn't do much to upgrade things.
In addition to Apple devices, the Apple TV app will also be available on smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, Vizio, along with Roku and Amazon Fire devices. I'd think there will be a decent chance we might see an Android app at some point too.
"My grandfather would have wanted them to have the right to repair, as long as they used only John Deere authentic parts purchased from a dealer. He filed those patents to also prevent others from making use of the technology he created but ignore that part as it's a bit counter to my argument."
I'm sure we'll reach a point where it can but I don't imagine politicians are going to happily give up their jobs and the lucrative incentives and power they bring them, to willingly turn that power over to machines who aren't going to putting their own interests (and those of their voters and lobbyists).
And does that mean we do away with voting? If the AI takes care of things, there's no need for us to vote who heads to office.
These new fangled cars mean the end to hiring a stable boy to manage our stable of horses for transport. Won't someone please think of the stable boys?!
I assume that's largely due to funding. With these organizations getting their funding cut year after year (or at very least not seeing increases), I don't think they have the financial ability to do the testing themselves.
Agreed. The 5 second load times come from people using bargain hosting like Hostgator with servers shared with thousands of other sites, they're loaded with every plugin in the world, running old versions of PHP, and numerous other failures to optimize. Yes, it happens frequently because WordPress is so easy to use that anyone can use it (and that's why it's great). But for those that know what they're doing and optimize properly, they can have very high performing sites.
They likely do so, for legal purposes. For example, when Facebook or Google use their own advertising platforms to advertise to their visitors, they must pay just the same as anyone else would. Sure, it basically come out of the budget in one part of the company and goes into another, but it has to be done, and all applicable state and federal taxes must be paid too. It's not completely free to them, even on their own platforms.
You're thinking of Amazon only as on online retailer. The proposed breakup would involve their cloud services, which they're one of the largest players in, potentially Alexa/voice computing, subscription services like Prime Video and music, etc.
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"Russian news agency Interfax, which broke the story earlier today, said Facebook did not represent itself in court." Well no crap. It'd cost you more to send a lawyer to show up in court for 15 minutes than it would to pay that fine.
Smaller companies may. Don't think you're going to find a lot of large organizations doing so when they can run their own system.
This is basically their take on a Slack competitor.
"Hey, let us be privy to your internal conversations, since you use your own email servers to prevent us from reading all these."
It appears they may have removed it in the most recent version of the Mac App Store on macOS but it was certainly there in previous versions of macOS, as can be seen here.
That's true. While it makes sense that apps from Apple will be more popular, due to the name recognition we see with other big developer apps, they do have the "Made By Apple" section on the right side within the App Store.
It would be nearly impossible with AI. With learning AI currently, while they can learn, we don't know exactly how they came to those conclusions in many cases. One would have to spend considerable time and effort designing tests to determine bias, as simply checking code or algorithms wouldn't be possible.
It's just the timing that seems strange. They've allowed this for years but shortly after Apple announces a competing service to their own, they make this change. Something that wasn't a security issue for years, suddenly is.
Curious why you single out Apple when Samsung, Nokia, Dell, Sharp, Google, Amazon, Sony, and everyone else have their stuff made by Foxconn too. All of these companies go over their devices thoroughly as they know any security issue could have HUGE negative repercussions for them.
Good chance we'll see Roku get killed off. Their CEO has said that hardware isn't the key and they're moving away from it. The problem is that now Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Apple are all eating their attempt to get into content. TV makers are adding much of the functions they once provided, and that hardware market is going away. It's not looking good for them. I wouldn't want to buy into their hardware, knowing there's a good chance it will go unsupported in the future.
I can't imagine any Google workers short of maybe some facilities workers being paid that little anyways. Even interns get more than that at most Fortune 500 companies.
Warm maple syrup.
This isn't related to that. This suit was filed by Qualcomm when Apple decided to use Intel modems rather than theirs. They got upset over the loss of revenue from the move, so they found a patent to go after Apple over and try to force them to use their modems again.
Qualcomm wants the ITC to ban imports of AT&T and T-Mobile iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X models that use chips from Intel. Keep in mind that Qualcomm didn't file this suit until Apple switched to using Intel chips rather than Qualcomm's own chips. This is about revenge for not using them as their primary supplier.
It's been around for years. I've never found it super useful but I know many do. It's similar to Zapier.
$50 million doesn't go very far on infrastructure. The local Time Warner office (that's now a Comcast office) we built years ago cost that much. The equipment in the headend is well over $800 million. $50 million is a drop in the bucket and wouldn't do much to upgrade things.
In addition to Apple devices, the Apple TV app will also be available on smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, Vizio, along with Roku and Amazon Fire devices. I'd think there will be a decent chance we might see an Android app at some point too.
"My grandfather would have wanted them to have the right to repair, as long as they used only John Deere authentic parts purchased from a dealer. He filed those patents to also prevent others from making use of the technology he created but ignore that part as it's a bit counter to my argument."
I'm sure we'll reach a point where it can but I don't imagine politicians are going to happily give up their jobs and the lucrative incentives and power they bring them, to willingly turn that power over to machines who aren't going to putting their own interests (and those of their voters and lobbyists). And does that mean we do away with voting? If the AI takes care of things, there's no need for us to vote who heads to office.
These new fangled cars mean the end to hiring a stable boy to manage our stable of horses for transport. Won't someone please think of the stable boys?!
I assume that's largely due to funding. With these organizations getting their funding cut year after year (or at very least not seeing increases), I don't think they have the financial ability to do the testing themselves.
Agreed. The 5 second load times come from people using bargain hosting like Hostgator with servers shared with thousands of other sites, they're loaded with every plugin in the world, running old versions of PHP, and numerous other failures to optimize. Yes, it happens frequently because WordPress is so easy to use that anyone can use it (and that's why it's great). But for those that know what they're doing and optimize properly, they can have very high performing sites.
They likely do so, for legal purposes. For example, when Facebook or Google use their own advertising platforms to advertise to their visitors, they must pay just the same as anyone else would. Sure, it basically come out of the budget in one part of the company and goes into another, but it has to be done, and all applicable state and federal taxes must be paid too. It's not completely free to them, even on their own platforms.
Lobbying is evil. Oh, they gave me "free" 2-day shipping? What was I saying?"
You're thinking of Amazon only as on online retailer. The proposed breakup would involve their cloud services, which they're one of the largest players in, potentially Alexa/voice computing, subscription services like Prime Video and music, etc.