A business opportunity for Big Data to cut off their access to all that info that makes their business plan viable?
That sounds like an 'expensive cloud.' One where people pay for the security of knowing their data is private. Maybe it will sell well, but it won't come from the likes of Google. I could see Microsoft pulling something like that off. In fact, it's the kind of opportunity where Microsoft could kill Google. Secure Windows 10 with encryption, because Microsoft isn't in the ad business. Microsoft has always distanced themselves from intruding on users. Where they've been malevolent it's been toward competitors.
I and a lot of other people already go out of our way to find games and apps in the 'App Stores' that are paid apps. I'm not interested at all in micro-transaction pay-to-win games, and where possible I try to filter out that kind of shovelware shit. I'm very happy to pay $5-15 for a game or an app if it's a one-time transaction.
It would be ironic if what kills Google is that nobody wants their 'free' crap because they're tired of Big Data intruding into their business, and the winner is Microsoft.
There will probably be more 'killer exploits' in the future that serve as a wakeup call to users that the cloud is a very bad idea. There have been news reports about the 'celebrities' who have reverted to clamshell 'dumb phones' because of recent privacy violations.
Word gets out and people learn what's important. I suspect there will be a lot more than just 'luddites' spurning the idea that all the critical information about them should just be tossed around freely.
Unfortunately, the 'cloud providers' will probably have enough power and a hype engine persuasive enough to encourage some forms of fascism to deal with the issue and keep the average beta-minus consumers happy.
Typical web apps, on the other hand, totally fuck over anybody foolish enough to navigate to the page without at least as powerful as the web 'developer' who kludged the web page together.
Anybody with a phone or tablet has probably encountered these 'killer pages.' Killer apps, indeed. Unfortunately there's not a checkbox on mobile browsers that says 'never, ever, navigate to this page again.'
Right. And the Chromebooks are priced just right for the kind of consumers who probably can't afford a fast internet connection. Do they at least have a solitaire on them that said users can play?
The shops where I see Chromebooks put them on the 'low end', meaning the end of the aisle of laptops where the cheapest hardware is. They are really just there to get customers to engage a salesperson to sell them a Windows laptop for $50 more.
Isn't there a 'power saving' function on an iPhone to turn the GPS radio off during the times you're not using it? There is on every non-Apple smartphone I've owned. The tracking app can spin it's wheels in the mud. It's too important to be there to answer any incoming calls from clients than to run the risk of missing a call because the battery is worn down from the GPS.
The solution is to use the clock out function, then turn the phone off or put it in a tin box. Take the phone out of the tin box or turn it on again when it's time to clock in.
I still have a few tubes of old 6100 processors. They're novel in that they have a 12 bit architecture and run the PDP-8 Instruction Set.
And they're implemented in static CMOS. So you can clock them at 1 Hz if you like, Properly implemented you can experience the old 'blinking lights' minicomputer with your homebuilt machine.
$4000 is for a very early complete unit. It's really more of a developers kit at this point. The article you cite says the price will fall substantially when mass production begins.
So $4000 gives you early access to what they doubtless hope will be a big market when they start selling real units. If you want your code running on the boxes when they hit the market, that's just an ordinary business expense.
Older/Legacy WoW can be a lot of fun. People running or who frequent private servers know this well. WoW really stopped being very interesting after WOTLK anyhow, and you can download a nice completely packaged WoW server and be up and running on a LAN game in a few minutes. Getting a 3.3.5a game client isn't much more difficult.
we hear all the time "what good is solar power at night? Wind turbines when it's not windy?" I ask you: what good is a nuclear power station when the transformer blows up
Transformers explode quite infrequently. Often times there are provisions made so that backup systems are in place. Redundancy is easy to implement.
Nighttime comes every 24 hours in a regular cycle. Wind comes and goes with great regularity although not always with predictable patterns. It's not an unusual case for these phenomena to happen.
Surely you recognize how different the two cases are.
A list of examples where they've replace the major infrastructure that supplys power to major metropolitan districts would be helpful.
That's right. Supply some examples where 'renewables' have successfully scaled up to power those big cities your type is so fond of crowding everyone into*.
(*high density housing along rapid transit corridors. don't spurt in your shorts thinking about it, guy)
What do you mean, 'Even Stalin'? His acts were as mainstream as it gets at the time, and the people running the Western Media were enthusiastic about covering it up.
Mao had a very closed up environment to work in. Western Journalists weren't touring through China in useful idiot mode during the worst of his atrocities, like the dupes in Russia.
The cloud deal is living, even thriving. The car and boat payments of countless fucks depend on us trusting it forevah. My company recently replaced the Exchange servers with gmail. We all had to install Chrome and we log into the googleplex each morning.
I now use IE at work (imagine the irony in this!) for most browsing, explicitly not logged into Google, as a privacy practice.
in my ~/.wgetrc file and it will happily hoover all the data on your web server. As intended. I can even change the user agent so you don't know I am connecting with wget.
Responsible server operators can block the IP of clients who do stuff like that. Some even block dynamically, i.e. if you're obviously mirroring their whole site they cut you off midpoint.
You are one fucked up individual if you think these twerps deserve what amounts to a life sentence over grabbing some nudies.
The thing you need to understand is that Big Data needs us to trust that it's safe to put all our stuff on their servers. These 'twerps' erode that trust badly. How is Google going to mine our data if we don't put it out there because we've been scared off by their little brothers in the surveillance business. So obviously these guys need to be made an example of.
The only reason to buy an expensive metal cased laptop now is if the contents of and the immediate usability of the laptop is mission critical. So, if the laptop failing while on a critical business mission is a priority, pay for the metal case. Otherwise, the cheap plastic case on a laptop is more suitable because the electronics inside will be obsolete in almost all cases before the case fails enough for the machine to not be usable.
If you're buying business equipment, go for the steel desk and the filing cabinet with ball bearing slides. If you're buying a laptop that the marketing critters need to be able to sling around like they're still in their frats, get them the metal cased ones, (at least do so if the info they need can't be immediately mirrored to the cloud to protect it from them.)
I have a current Asus Transformer running Windows 8.1 and it's been a great tablet. If I tried to pretend it was a laptop I would probably be disappointed. But at the time I was trying to decide between buying a new 10" Android laptop and this thing, which runs real x86 Windows software. For the same price point I opted for the x86 tablet and I haven't looked back. I have an Asus 10" Android tablet that is about two years old and I haven't turned it on in weeks.
The Windows tablet stuff only needs enough people to try it and figure it out before Tablet Windows kills either Android or iOS on the tablet. Probably not both, but one or the other will die soon.
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A business opportunity for Big Data to cut off their access to all that info that makes their business plan viable?
That sounds like an 'expensive cloud.' One where people pay for the security of knowing their data is private. Maybe it will sell well, but it won't come from the likes of Google. I could see Microsoft pulling something like that off. In fact, it's the kind of opportunity where Microsoft could kill Google. Secure Windows 10 with encryption, because Microsoft isn't in the ad business. Microsoft has always distanced themselves from intruding on users. Where they've been malevolent it's been toward competitors.
I and a lot of other people already go out of our way to find games and apps in the 'App Stores' that are paid apps. I'm not interested at all in micro-transaction pay-to-win games, and where possible I try to filter out that kind of shovelware shit. I'm very happy to pay $5-15 for a game or an app if it's a one-time transaction.
It would be ironic if what kills Google is that nobody wants their 'free' crap because they're tired of Big Data intruding into their business, and the winner is Microsoft.
There will probably be more 'killer exploits' in the future that serve as a wakeup call to users that the cloud is a very bad idea. There have been news reports about the 'celebrities' who have reverted to clamshell 'dumb phones' because of recent privacy violations.
Word gets out and people learn what's important. I suspect there will be a lot more than just 'luddites' spurning the idea that all the critical information about them should just be tossed around freely.
Unfortunately, the 'cloud providers' will probably have enough power and a hype engine persuasive enough to encourage some forms of fascism to deal with the issue and keep the average beta-minus consumers happy.
Typical web apps, on the other hand, totally fuck over anybody foolish enough to navigate to the page without at least as powerful as the web 'developer' who kludged the web page together.
Anybody with a phone or tablet has probably encountered these 'killer pages.' Killer apps, indeed. Unfortunately there's not a checkbox on mobile browsers that says 'never, ever, navigate to this page again.'
Right. And the Chromebooks are priced just right for the kind of consumers who probably can't afford a fast internet connection. Do they at least have a solitaire on them that said users can play?
The shops where I see Chromebooks put them on the 'low end', meaning the end of the aisle of laptops where the cheapest hardware is. They are really just there to get customers to engage a salesperson to sell them a Windows laptop for $50 more.
We're glad you've managed to give the management types in your workplace something harmless to do with their time.
Is there a filtering out process, so the management types who really 'take' to the iPads can slowly be filtered out and eliminated?
Isn't there a 'power saving' function on an iPhone to turn the GPS radio off during the times you're not using it? There is on every non-Apple smartphone I've owned. The tracking app can spin it's wheels in the mud. It's too important to be there to answer any incoming calls from clients than to run the risk of missing a call because the battery is worn down from the GPS.
The solution is to use the clock out function, then turn the phone off or put it in a tin box. Take the phone out of the tin box or turn it on again when it's time to clock in.
Get your own smartphone to add/remove apps from.
Sold to whom, at what price? I want into this market. Tell me where I can sell useless irrelevant information for big bucks.
I still have a few tubes of old 6100 processors. They're novel in that they have a 12 bit architecture and run the PDP-8 Instruction Set.
And they're implemented in static CMOS. So you can clock them at 1 Hz if you like, Properly implemented you can experience the old 'blinking lights' minicomputer with your homebuilt machine.
$4000 is for a very early complete unit. It's really more of a developers kit at this point. The article you cite says the price will fall substantially when mass production begins.
So $4000 gives you early access to what they doubtless hope will be a big market when they start selling real units. If you want your code running on the boxes when they hit the market, that's just an ordinary business expense.
Older/Legacy WoW can be a lot of fun. People running or who frequent private servers know this well. WoW really stopped being very interesting after WOTLK anyhow, and you can download a nice completely packaged WoW server and be up and running on a LAN game in a few minutes. Getting a 3.3.5a game client isn't much more difficult.
Transformers explode quite infrequently. Often times there are provisions made so that backup systems are in place. Redundancy is easy to implement.
Nighttime comes every 24 hours in a regular cycle. Wind comes and goes with great regularity although not always with predictable patterns. It's not an unusual case for these phenomena to happen.
Surely you recognize how different the two cases are.
elaborate on where renewables "dont cut it"?
A list of examples where they've replace the major infrastructure that supplys power to major metropolitan districts would be helpful.
That's right. Supply some examples where 'renewables' have successfully scaled up to power those big cities your type is so fond of crowding everyone into*.
(*high density housing along rapid transit corridors. don't spurt in your shorts thinking about it, guy)
Hillary's email server is very secure.
They didn't have yahoo hosting it. Bill said they were too expensive.
What do you mean, 'Even Stalin'? His acts were as mainstream as it gets at the time, and the people running the Western Media were enthusiastic about covering it up.
Mao had a very closed up environment to work in. Western Journalists weren't touring through China in useful idiot mode during the worst of his atrocities, like the dupes in Russia.
The cloud deal is living, even thriving. The car and boat payments of countless fucks depend on us trusting it forevah. My company recently replaced the Exchange servers with gmail. We all had to install Chrome and we log into the googleplex each morning.
I now use IE at work (imagine the irony in this!) for most browsing, explicitly not logged into Google, as a privacy practice.
I can put the line:
robots=off
in my ~/.wgetrc file and it will happily hoover all the data on your web server. As intended. I can even change the user agent so you don't know I am connecting with wget.
Responsible server operators can block the IP of clients who do stuff like that. Some even block dynamically, i.e. if you're obviously mirroring their whole site they cut you off midpoint.
You are one fucked up individual if you think these twerps deserve what amounts to a life sentence over grabbing some nudies.
The thing you need to understand is that Big Data needs us to trust that it's safe to put all our stuff on their servers. These 'twerps' erode that trust badly. How is Google going to mine our data if we don't put it out there because we've been scared off by their little brothers in the surveillance business. So obviously these guys need to be made an example of.
damn, it's in my ~/.wgetrc file. Not sure what that *other* file is for.
The question is, is the line:
robots=off
in my ./.wgetrc file illegal?
To be fair, you don't know.
Your comment is 20% less anonymous.
The only reason to buy an expensive metal cased laptop now is if the contents of and the immediate usability of the laptop is mission critical. So, if the laptop failing while on a critical business mission is a priority, pay for the metal case. Otherwise, the cheap plastic case on a laptop is more suitable because the electronics inside will be obsolete in almost all cases before the case fails enough for the machine to not be usable.
If you're buying business equipment, go for the steel desk and the filing cabinet with ball bearing slides. If you're buying a laptop that the marketing critters need to be able to sling around like they're still in their frats, get them the metal cased ones, (at least do so if the info they need can't be immediately mirrored to the cloud to protect it from them.)
I have a current Asus Transformer running Windows 8.1 and it's been a great tablet. If I tried to pretend it was a laptop I would probably be disappointed. But at the time I was trying to decide between buying a new 10" Android laptop and this thing, which runs real x86 Windows software. For the same price point I opted for the x86 tablet and I haven't looked back. I have an Asus 10" Android tablet that is about two years old and I haven't turned it on in weeks.
The Windows tablet stuff only needs enough people to try it and figure it out before Tablet Windows kills either Android or iOS on the tablet. Probably not both, but one or the other will die soon.
There is no reason the next generation DVD player cannot be simply built into the faux-walnut cabinet of your parent's console color television set.
That's your point.