With 7+ Billion people and a large chunk of them in China and India in poor areas with little to no electricity, what happens when they start demanding access to the conveniences of the modern word?
Japan has had a long history with China, and generally not a good one. Based on that I'd saw the need increased military research needs to and will happen. China has been throwing it's weight around in a number of areas including the South China Sea dispute as well as Taiwan. One should say Japan was in a hard place for most of it's existence. A small group of islands with big neighbours just next door. Kinda of like the UK. They will certainly need something to make people think twice about invading them. The USA for the moments has interests in keeping Japan (and Taiwan) protected from China. But that could change. If it does, what will hold China back if it decides to "liberate" Japan? (They used a similar excuse for Tibet)
With images so compelling, you can actually see the products floating right in front of you, or showing you wearing the perfect shirt, or cool smart watch. Or even driving a really cool sports cars. Imaging the marketing possibilities.
http://www.techradar.com/us/ne...
They were trying to sell it before it was ready and had to wait 2 years before an actual product. Microsoft put up a LOT of things for sale that weren't ready. Windows 1.0 wasn't even the worse. Try Windows ME (worst on record), Windows Vista (almost as bad). The best thing Microsoft ever designed were their keyboard (really nice!)
Oh, and like a driverless car, Windows 7+ will also take you for a ride (if you don't turn off Windows Update using the Services dialog): Whether you want it or not, whether you've agreed (outside of installing meaning you agree to the 10k+ word EULA), if Windows Update is left running, you will get a "free" upgrade to Windows 10! Complete with spyware (MS insists is "telemetry" data) that you CANNOT shut off (though you can turn some elements off in Enterprise apparently but not all).
Wow, who would have thought MS was so related to this topic, it turns out...it really is. The government agencies will of course put in a backdoor for "telemetry data" and "law enforcement". Makes me wish I could get a car from old day Russia, which had NO computers and you could repair yourself without proprietary software. Imagine a virus in your cars, or ransomware.
AI Will certainly replace SOME Roles. Like player pianos, and record players, it will be used to repeat some of the best building blocks created by great musical artists. But we will still need the real McCoy. (beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here...just AI's).
We make compilers, libraries, API's and wrappers. And yet..the number of programmers required worldwide seems to be increasing not decreasing. The basic programming AI's will handle coding segments so repetitive everyone knows what they are (just like frameworks, or robots), but we'll still need those with experience. We'll have a shakedown. And just like when VB was replaced with VB.net/C#, those without real skill and ability will fall from the tree. VB was one of the worst languages, and so many VB programmers couldn't write proper code to save their lives. But real programmers will remain. With the way tech and automation and AI is bearing out, we'll adapt, but guess what...with the way tech is today, we have to adapt anyway: new OS (cell phone), API's, frameworks, security protocols, data modeling techniques, management techniques. In tech we are ALWAYS adapting (those of us wanting to stay in the game). I have no concerns here. AI will certainly change the game a bit (error checking by an AI might be cool actually), but in technology, the games always changing anyway. We techies have had lots of time to practice.
One design flaw with this cheaters watch: It's the BIGGEST watch I've seen in YEARS. It looks like a toy and it draws attention to itself. you walk in with this big bulky black square no your wrist and people's eyes are drawn to it...either to laugh at the most awkward watch made in since the old calculator watches in the 70's/80's, or to wonder why anyone would wear such a bulky watch in the first place. Guaranteed to get noticed by profs everyone (and most of your friends too...)
To be clear, it isn't Amazon that is promoting this watch, it's a company calling themselves "MKSD". The amazon employees should exercise a little more quality control in their submissions as this is going to mar their corporate image big time.
Uh, I did I mentioned my batch of seagate ENTERPRISE drives had experimental firmware that shut down the drives at a specific date? My point of mentioning that was Seagate doesn't even test it's Enterprise hardware well. (Experimental firmware on a whole BATCH?!?) That is why I stopped using them. Enterprise doesn't seem to matter when it comes to quality control with Seagate.
In any event, for enterprise hardware. Oh, FYI, most server motherboards in my experience have 2-3 X16 PCI-ex slots. Some only have 1. So you can only have RAID 1, or 6 (5 has issues, suggest not using Raid 5). RAID 10 have to use other conventional sata connectors. I've rarely seen a desktop motherboard with less than 2 x16 PCIex slots.
We have no model number, no pricing, and no precise release date. Sounds like these tests are preliminary. Sounds like "beta" to me. I've been the the victim of an entire batch of enterprise drives which had experimental firmware (which actually shut down the drives at specific date!) so I'd take this announcement as market priming and take it was a grain of salt.
So why not just fix the buggy code? I'm getting a little worried about the slips the Mozilla foundation is making. First with pushing "recommended sites" on the "home page" when a new tab was opened (used to push advertising agenda), now this. The is a new browser from the founders of Opera called "Vivaldi" at http://www.vivaldi.com/ and it's very good. MS is pushing "Edge" (along with windows 10 on every Windows 7+ OS and involuntary at that...shut down Windows Update in your services to prevent OS hijacking by MS) but it's not great. Ironically, you're better off with Firefox.
Perhaps this will spur the Libre/Open office (Apache foundation for openoffice) to add EPub export the way Firefox got tabs as a standard browser feature. It is useful for viewing on smaller devices and uses less memory than PDF (which is a memory hog for reading). Oh, and if anyone is interest, there is a local network installable open source Equivalent of Google Docs (for those who want to keep private information private called OnlyOffice. Of course they push the "enterprise" version but 1-5 users is free even for that and you can get the community version here:
No I don't work for them, Just think in this day and age where everyone collects info and everyone and/or charges subscription fees instead of flat fees, that sane and safe options be know to all who want a choice besides A( Office 360) or B( Google docs).
"When you see a fork in the road, pick a 3rd path" - Neelix, Star Trek Voyager (I forget which episode)
It's not like Facebook was really private anyway...People can mark/identify others without the account owner's consent. So this is no surprise to me. Security/privacy is not exactly a priority at facebook. (the opposite actually..)
How does this "shut down ISIS"? You think Twitter is the only popular forum. The opponent you can see is far easier to handle than the opponent you can't. It doesn't stop anything, or really even slow it down. It just shows people Twitter removes anything it feels like (they removed people they probably should have left if reducing ISIS is truly their motive) which moves people away from Twitter. First the ISIS supports will move to a different forum, then the people trying to reduce ISIS supporters have to go looking for them to dissuade other recruits. The Internet is not where this stuff begins or ends, and it being such a big place. I'd rather it can be found easily, so it can be address in debate, easily.
When private organizations (or worse even government) start trying to stifle debate, you hurt both both sides. And in America such organizations are hurting one of the basic freedoms that is supposed to distinguish America from places like Russia or China: The ability to have open debate on any topic, no matter how distasteful (note: threat is not debate). Yet without debate, we all just become mindless drones (which is what most governments like anyway). All of this is a modern examples proving what Ben Franklin said so long ago: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". Killing open debate in this way (and killing opinions of people who may be in opposition of ISUS (ISUL) agendas in the process), doesn't create any additional safety: Supporters will just move on to other forums (and those supporting things like this seem to have no problem finding where other supports are), and the those against them will have a harder time dissuading them, because non-supporters of an idea don't find their opposites nearly as easily. "Like begets like" I think is the phrase here. We need a better way to influence through open debate rather than try to stifle it. Historically, it never seems to work anyway.
Of course we can point out the obvious here: the KKK and Neo-nazis never had nearly big a reaction to their published statements, even when they were truly statements pushing for true domestic terrorism (as opposed to just speaking against current government practices which has often been labelled as "domestic terrorism" even when purely non-violent). But the reason for that is clear and sad: They were for the most part only threatening non-caucasian, so the powers that be didn't care nearly as much. We don't even seem terribly concerned that the KKK is supporting Donald Drumpf (trump via legal name change). We have such a long way to go before we truly become a "civilized" people...
This may well push people to using Linux for their desktop gaming. With the Unity engine able to do Linux builds it makes it a LOT easier for major (and minor) game developer to just do Linux builds without the limitation that MS is trying to use. Steam (along with Steam OS) helps a bit too. But I'm seeing a LOT more titles for Linux in the past two years than every, including AAA rated games. The indies of course were first. Once DRM poisoned games like EA and Ubisoft get on board, MS may need to get worried. There is nothing that MS has that Linux doesn't. Once the hardware vendors get the message (Nvidia has, wish AMD would take it more seriously sooner), it will be a HUGE game changer. Only thing I'm worried about is that bloody PulseAudio. It's latency has issues. I always preferred OSS but I understand the temptation of having that PulseAudio layer (in combination with ALSA, which has up to this day not produced the same sound quality as OSS and I think OSS performs faster too). But MS I think knows it's in a losing battle. The world is starting to drop the MS desktop (Russian, Germany, China, among others) with fear of potentially private/secret/compromising data being sent through the Windows 10 "telemetry" data. The XBox, although the strongest hardware in the console world now I believe, no console will outperform a tower, especially with a mid-high end video card (and decent sound card, although most people don't seem to care nearly as much about that...go figure). At least support for Asus audio cards (which are quite good actually) in Linux is solid. Looking forward to a non-MS dominated gaming environment.
So, we're saying that we should education people less because we are too stupid/lazy to use the basic building blocks of engineering. Okay, What was it Oscar Wilde said in "The Importance of being Earnest"? "
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.” -Lady Bracknell
This anger is what happens when policies are ignored. Of course the immigration officers, politicians and policy makers are going "Doh!". We did blatantly allow a major corporation replace domestic workers with cheap foreign ones without even pretence of lack of available local skill sets. we'll see more of this as more IT workers speak out against importing cheap replacements and offshoring. They should have tried near-shoring instead, or at least tempt IT workers from Kansas or low living cost area to telecommute and phase the employees out in stages and series of "failed at impossible tasks" (A strategy that Microsoft developed and other companies adapted awhile ago to phase out undesired workers, with some success...at least those without money to sue). this is going to be fun to watch. Also a result of lack of social responsibility. Sanders might be able to help there...Trump certainly won't. He'll pander to interests groups as much as the Obama (to a lessor extent) and Clinton (to a greater extent). There is a track record with strong indications on both these candidates.
As for FDA (or whatever regulatory agencies exists world wide in using countries, the world isn't the USA after all and this product is from Hungary), I'm sure it would not be a huge deal for people to step up and get it certified with regulator agencies. This would truly put innovation in the medical industries instead of everybody spending a king's ransom developing/protect patents/exclusivity right.Image if we spent more time creating and cooperating than posturing and bidding for exclusive control over something that affects so many lives..
This is typical corporate philosophy. they know they can't compete with Google's resources or technology, so they try to block them. It won't really work of course, but they figure they can slow them down until they figure something. Maybe an alliance with Verizon...
Uh, "Socialism doesn't understand privacy or rights of the individual". I think there is a very basic misunderstanding of what socialism is. Which is a system of economic priorities. China is even more capitalist than the USA (if you look at the actual culture and not the labels...might find a visit interesting..). And we all know how much the Chinese Party values the rights of the individual (or even the community). The USA hasn't really valued the rights of the individual since the "so called" Patriot Act was put into law (and renewed/strengthened several times since). Are we as a "capitalist" society (we aren't pure capitalist FYI, we bailed out Ford didn't we?) with our spying (without warrant or cause), imprisoning without due process under the guise of national security, rendition and basically declaring ourselves in a state of war (without actually legally declaring war against anyone in particular, or is that everyone?), respecting rights of the individual? France and Germany respect privacy rights far more. Perhaps more "socialism" would help bring more respect of privacy in the USA. "Capitalism" certainly isn't doing much of a job here. As I said before, neither economic approach has any real bearing on how rights of privacy being respected.Canada is consider in many way more socialist (although under Harper that was scary), and we still (to a lessor degree than we used to) respect privacy rights (as far as we know) more than in the USA. for now. Anyway, just something to think about.
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Anyone for a self-driving car? Imagine the possibilities with ransomware. This was actually predicted in the movie "Superman II".
With 7+ Billion people and a large chunk of them in China and India in poor areas with little to no electricity, what happens when they start demanding access to the conveniences of the modern word?
Japan has had a long history with China, and generally not a good one. Based on that I'd saw the need increased military research needs to and will happen. China has been throwing it's weight around in a number of areas including the South China Sea dispute as well as Taiwan. One should say Japan was in a hard place for most of it's existence. A small group of islands with big neighbours just next door. Kinda of like the UK. They will certainly need something to make people think twice about invading them. The USA for the moments has interests in keeping Japan (and Taiwan) protected from China. But that could change. If it does, what will hold China back if it decides to "liberate" Japan? (They used a similar excuse for Tibet)
Makes sense. MacOS was created from BSD.
With images so compelling, you can actually see the products floating right in front of you, or showing you wearing the perfect shirt, or cool smart watch. Or even driving a really cool sports cars. Imaging the marketing possibilities.
See article:
http://www.techradar.com/us/ne... They were trying to sell it before it was ready and had to wait 2 years before an actual product. Microsoft put up a LOT of things for sale that weren't ready. Windows 1.0 wasn't even the worse. Try Windows ME (worst on record), Windows Vista (almost as bad). The best thing Microsoft ever designed were their keyboard (really nice!)
Oh, and like a driverless car, Windows 7+ will also take you for a ride (if you don't turn off Windows Update using the Services dialog): Whether you want it or not, whether you've agreed (outside of installing meaning you agree to the 10k+ word EULA), if Windows Update is left running, you will get a "free" upgrade to Windows 10! Complete with spyware (MS insists is "telemetry" data) that you CANNOT shut off (though you can turn some elements off in Enterprise apparently but not all).
Wow, who would have thought MS was so related to this topic, it turns out...it really is. The government agencies will of course put in a backdoor for "telemetry data" and "law enforcement". Makes me wish I could get a car from old day Russia, which had NO computers and you could repair yourself without proprietary software. Imagine a virus in your cars, or ransomware.
AI Will certainly replace SOME Roles. Like player pianos, and record players, it will be used to repeat some of the best building blocks created by great musical artists. But we will still need the real McCoy. (beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here...just AI's).
We make compilers, libraries, API's and wrappers. And yet..the number of programmers required worldwide seems to be increasing not decreasing. The basic programming AI's will handle coding segments so repetitive everyone knows what they are (just like frameworks, or robots), but we'll still need those with experience. We'll have a shakedown. And just like when VB was replaced with VB.net/C#, those without real skill and ability will fall from the tree. VB was one of the worst languages, and so many VB programmers couldn't write proper code to save their lives. But real programmers will remain. With the way tech and automation and AI is bearing out, we'll adapt, but guess what...with the way tech is today, we have to adapt anyway: new OS (cell phone), API's, frameworks, security protocols, data modeling techniques, management techniques. In tech we are ALWAYS adapting (those of us wanting to stay in the game). I have no concerns here. AI will certainly change the game a bit (error checking by an AI might be cool actually), but in technology, the games always changing anyway. We techies have had lots of time to practice.
Oh...Shiny Ones! Google's is a lot less fancy. but...they have real cars. :D
one flaw in your perfect plan: This watch as 8 GB of memory.More than enough to store an indexed table of any textbook I know.
One design flaw with this cheaters watch: It's the BIGGEST watch I've seen in YEARS. It looks like a toy and it draws attention to itself. you walk in with this big bulky black square no your wrist and people's eyes are drawn to it...either to laugh at the most awkward watch made in since the old calculator watches in the 70's/80's, or to wonder why anyone would wear such a bulky watch in the first place. Guaranteed to get noticed by profs everyone (and most of your friends too...)
To be clear, it isn't Amazon that is promoting this watch, it's a company calling themselves "MKSD". The amazon employees should exercise a little more quality control in their submissions as this is going to mar their corporate image big time.
Uh, I did I mentioned my batch of seagate ENTERPRISE drives had experimental firmware that shut down the drives at a specific date? My point of mentioning that was Seagate doesn't even test it's Enterprise hardware well. (Experimental firmware on a whole BATCH?!?) That is why I stopped using them. Enterprise doesn't seem to matter when it comes to quality control with Seagate.
In any event, for enterprise hardware. Oh, FYI, most server motherboards in my experience have 2-3 X16 PCI-ex slots. Some only have 1. So you can only have RAID 1, or 6 (5 has issues, suggest not using Raid 5). RAID 10 have to use other conventional sata connectors. I've rarely seen a desktop motherboard with less than 2 x16 PCIex slots.
We have no model number, no pricing, and no precise release date. Sounds like these tests are preliminary. Sounds like "beta" to me. I've been the the victim of an entire batch of enterprise drives which had experimental firmware (which actually shut down the drives at specific date!) so I'd take this announcement as market priming and take it was a grain of salt.
So why not just fix the buggy code? I'm getting a little worried about the slips the Mozilla foundation is making. First with pushing "recommended sites" on the "home page" when a new tab was opened (used to push advertising agenda), now this. The is a new browser from the founders of Opera called "Vivaldi" at http://www.vivaldi.com/ and it's very good. MS is pushing "Edge" (along with windows 10 on every Windows 7+ OS and involuntary at that...shut down Windows Update in your services to prevent OS hijacking by MS) but it's not great. Ironically, you're better off with Firefox.
Perhaps this will spur the Libre/Open office (Apache foundation for openoffice) to add EPub export the way Firefox got tabs as a standard browser feature. It is useful for viewing on smaller devices and uses less memory than PDF (which is a memory hog for reading). Oh, and if anyone is interest, there is a local network installable open source Equivalent of Google Docs (for those who want to keep private information private called OnlyOffice. Of course they push the "enterprise" version but 1-5 users is free even for that and you can get the community version here:
https://onlyoffice.org/sources
No I don't work for them, Just think in this day and age where everyone collects info and everyone and/or charges subscription fees instead of flat fees, that sane and safe options be know to all who want a choice besides A( Office 360) or B( Google docs). "When you see a fork in the road, pick a 3rd path" - Neelix, Star Trek Voyager (I forget which episode)
I remember the University of Rochester was known for having one of the leading AI and optics research departments in the US . Kudos to them here.
It's not like Facebook was really private anyway...People can mark/identify others without the account owner's consent. So this is no surprise to me. Security/privacy is not exactly a priority at facebook. (the opposite actually..)
How does this "shut down ISIS"? You think Twitter is the only popular forum. The opponent you can see is far easier to handle than the opponent you can't. It doesn't stop anything, or really even slow it down. It just shows people Twitter removes anything it feels like (they removed people they probably should have left if reducing ISIS is truly their motive) which moves people away from Twitter. First the ISIS supports will move to a different forum, then the people trying to reduce ISIS supporters have to go looking for them to dissuade other recruits. The Internet is not where this stuff begins or ends, and it being such a big place. I'd rather it can be found easily, so it can be address in debate, easily.
When private organizations (or worse even government) start trying to stifle debate, you hurt both both sides. And in America such organizations are hurting one of the basic freedoms that is supposed to distinguish America from places like Russia or China: The ability to have open debate on any topic, no matter how distasteful (note: threat is not debate). Yet without debate, we all just become mindless drones (which is what most governments like anyway). All of this is a modern examples proving what Ben Franklin said so long ago: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". Killing open debate in this way (and killing opinions of people who may be in opposition of ISUS (ISUL) agendas in the process), doesn't create any additional safety: Supporters will just move on to other forums (and those supporting things like this seem to have no problem finding where other supports are), and the those against them will have a harder time dissuading them, because non-supporters of an idea don't find their opposites nearly as easily. "Like begets like" I think is the phrase here. We need a better way to influence through open debate rather than try to stifle it. Historically, it never seems to work anyway. Of course we can point out the obvious here: the KKK and Neo-nazis never had nearly big a reaction to their published statements, even when they were truly statements pushing for true domestic terrorism (as opposed to just speaking against current government practices which has often been labelled as "domestic terrorism" even when purely non-violent). But the reason for that is clear and sad: They were for the most part only threatening non-caucasian, so the powers that be didn't care nearly as much. We don't even seem terribly concerned that the KKK is supporting Donald Drumpf (trump via legal name change). We have such a long way to go before we truly become a "civilized" people...
This may well push people to using Linux for their desktop gaming. With the Unity engine able to do Linux builds it makes it a LOT easier for major (and minor) game developer to just do Linux builds without the limitation that MS is trying to use. Steam (along with Steam OS) helps a bit too. But I'm seeing a LOT more titles for Linux in the past two years than every, including AAA rated games. The indies of course were first. Once DRM poisoned games like EA and Ubisoft get on board, MS may need to get worried. There is nothing that MS has that Linux doesn't. Once the hardware vendors get the message (Nvidia has, wish AMD would take it more seriously sooner), it will be a HUGE game changer. Only thing I'm worried about is that bloody PulseAudio. It's latency has issues. I always preferred OSS but I understand the temptation of having that PulseAudio layer (in combination with ALSA, which has up to this day not produced the same sound quality as OSS and I think OSS performs faster too). But MS I think knows it's in a losing battle. The world is starting to drop the MS desktop (Russian, Germany, China, among others) with fear of potentially private/secret/compromising data being sent through the Windows 10 "telemetry" data. The XBox, although the strongest hardware in the console world now I believe, no console will outperform a tower, especially with a mid-high end video card (and decent sound card, although most people don't seem to care nearly as much about that...go figure). At least support for Asus audio cards (which are quite good actually) in Linux is solid. Looking forward to a non-MS dominated gaming environment.
So, we're saying that we should education people less because we are too stupid/lazy to use the basic building blocks of engineering. Okay, What was it Oscar Wilde said in "The Importance of being Earnest"? " “I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.” -Lady Bracknell
This anger is what happens when policies are ignored. Of course the immigration officers, politicians and policy makers are going "Doh!". We did blatantly allow a major corporation replace domestic workers with cheap foreign ones without even pretence of lack of available local skill sets. we'll see more of this as more IT workers speak out against importing cheap replacements and offshoring. They should have tried near-shoring instead, or at least tempt IT workers from Kansas or low living cost area to telecommute and phase the employees out in stages and series of "failed at impossible tasks" (A strategy that Microsoft developed and other companies adapted awhile ago to phase out undesired workers, with some success...at least those without money to sue). this is going to be fun to watch. Also a result of lack of social responsibility. Sanders might be able to help there...Trump certainly won't. He'll pander to interests groups as much as the Obama (to a lessor extent) and Clinton (to a greater extent). There is a track record with strong indications on both these candidates.
As for FDA (or whatever regulatory agencies exists world wide in using countries, the world isn't the USA after all and this product is from Hungary), I'm sure it would not be a huge deal for people to step up and get it certified with regulator agencies. This would truly put innovation in the medical industries instead of everybody spending a king's ransom developing/protect patents/exclusivity right.Image if we spent more time creating and cooperating than posturing and bidding for exclusive control over something that affects so many lives..
This is typical corporate philosophy. they know they can't compete with Google's resources or technology, so they try to block them. It won't really work of course, but they figure they can slow them down until they figure something. Maybe an alliance with Verizon...
Uh, "Socialism doesn't understand privacy or rights of the individual". I think there is a very basic misunderstanding of what socialism is. Which is a system of economic priorities. China is even more capitalist than the USA (if you look at the actual culture and not the labels...might find a visit interesting..). And we all know how much the Chinese Party values the rights of the individual (or even the community). The USA hasn't really valued the rights of the individual since the "so called" Patriot Act was put into law (and renewed/strengthened several times since). Are we as a "capitalist" society (we aren't pure capitalist FYI, we bailed out Ford didn't we?) with our spying (without warrant or cause), imprisoning without due process under the guise of national security, rendition and basically declaring ourselves in a state of war (without actually legally declaring war against anyone in particular, or is that everyone?), respecting rights of the individual? France and Germany respect privacy rights far more. Perhaps more "socialism" would help bring more respect of privacy in the USA. "Capitalism" certainly isn't doing much of a job here. As I said before, neither economic approach has any real bearing on how rights of privacy being respected.Canada is consider in many way more socialist (although under Harper that was scary), and we still (to a lessor degree than we used to) respect privacy rights (as far as we know) more than in the USA. for now. Anyway, just something to think about.