Lenovo continued to be the number one PC maker in terms of shipment volume, with a 19.4 percent marketshare.
Does that include Apple PCs?
Yes, worldwide Apple doesn't ship that many units. The US is really an anomaly here with Apple selling 11% (as per table 2 of the article) but less than 5% worldwide.
A simpler answer would be to simply copyright death.
With copyright infringement being so incredibly dangerous, no-one would think of dying whilst its still in copyright. All we would need are harsher copyright laws.
Is your Volkswagen TDI all electric? No, then why the fuck do we care about your car?
Because far more capable gasoline cars are available at a lower price,
To be pedantic, a TDI is a diesel (Turbo Diesel Intercooler). The petrol VW's are TSI (Turbo Supercharged Intercoooler) GTI (Grand Touring Injection) and GT (Grand Touring).
Diesels really are a huge false economy. You pay more for the car, more for the parts and more for the services so any discounts at the pump take decades to break even and this is if you're in a country that has discounted diesel. If you're really worried about fuel economy and range, get a petrol-electric or range extended hybrid that uses the petrol engine to charge the batteries. Part of the diesel false economy is the fact they have shocking fuel economy in stop/start traffic. As Hybrids can operate on batteries here, they excel. It costs less for me to run my turbo 2L 90's sports car on RON 98 in stop/start traffic than it does run a modern diesel down the same road.
Once they force all those plains state oil operations into bankruptcy, they'll move prices back up.
Such a tactic wouldn't work. Even if they somehow did force the existing shale oil operations into bankruptcy the assets don't go away. They'll just be bought up by some other oil company for pennies on the dollar and when the price of oil goes back up they'll start pumping again. There really would be no long term point in such a strategy. The oil is still there and eventually it will become economical to pump it out of the ground.
It stops new investment, meaning projects will be set back by years. You dont just start and stop drilling operations at the drop of a hat.
But this is not the objective. The US gets to screw Russia over, the Saudis real objective is to screw Iran six ways from Sunday, stopping shale oil and frackers is just icing on the cake for them. The drop in the oil price has always been about the Saudi's running a proxy war on Iran.
I totally agree. Google could patch it, but it would then be up to the various manufacturers to push it out (Samsung, et al.) But, despite this, Google should still patch it, for PR's sake.
It goes beyond the manufacturers, carriers get to block updates as well... legally.
Some carriers have been blocking the Android 5.0 release for Nexus devices even though Google has released it.
But Google continuously updates Google Play Services on my phone without me even noticing, let alone the carrier or the device manufacturer approve and test the changes.
This is because Google uncoupled Google Play services from the OS. It is essentially an application on your phone now. Vanilla (AOSP) Android does not come with Google Play services.
Google did this a few years ago precisely because carriers were not updating the OS and they had absolutely no means to force carriers to do so even when critical bugs in the Android Market (what Google Play was called back then) were fixed.
Becuause carriers have legally tied their hands, Google worked to uncouple all their applications from the OS, not just Google Play but Gmail, Browser/Chrome and so forth.
Considering that this is one of those things that are virtually perfect for computer automation, how do you know that "real CPAs" won't actually be computers in ten to twenty years?
Not really. CPA's are protecting themselves by creating more obscure and obtuse tax rules.
Anything that's stick will still do that. More common in Europe, not so much in the Americas where most people drive automatics now.
You'd need to be superman to push start a high compression motor these days. When the battery died on my Honda Integra (DC5S) we got it rolling at 25 KPH and it still wouldn't turn over. Thankfully you can get batteries delivered in 20 minutes these days.
A few years ago I had a neighbour who always used to wear heels down to pick up the mail. As it was a brick paved driveway (triplex unit) it was pretty much the same sound.
Fax machines are still very common in medical claims processing and mortgage underwriting. For medical claims, think Medicare - very old people, who insist on filling out paper forms. It's easier to fax them than scan and email - especially since the email has to be secure, because of HIPAA.
Oh yea.....we have two servers (Rightfax) that process faxes from all over our company (nursing homes and rehab). Faxes still used VERY extensively in healthcare! They like that hard copy...
Most offices will still have a fax machine, given that just about every enterprise level copier is also a fax machine these days, a lot of business just hook at least one of these up.
What is reducing are fax numbers in email signatures.
1. North Korea managed to develop an acceptable army of hackers on their own in 5 years. (No internet in 2009, supposedly)
The same way the VPAF (North Vietnam) went from no air force in 1959 to a combat capable air force flying Russian jet fighters in 1964... They sent their pilots to be trained in the Soviet Union.
This is very debatable. At the moment they are nowhere near as safe because they cant handle unknown situations.
This is the number one thing holding back autonomous transport, situations that haven't been pre-programmed will be more likely to result in injury or fatality.
2. They use road space much more efficiently, increasing the carrying capacity by a factor of five.
Now this is wishful thinking at its finest.
The reality is that they will use the same amount of space because the laws of physics wont change. A robot needs the same braking distance at 60 KPH as a human. As for reaction distance, humans react in the 1 second mark, it takes several minutes to launch outlook. Computers will have to collect information and make decisions in the same amount of time, this means the sensors must be providing samples in the sub 10 ms mark to provide enough samples and computers must be able to analyse that data in the sub 800 ms mark. In that time they've still travelled as far as a human would.
TL;DR
An autonomous car will be programmed to keep safe distances, in fact their safe distances will be greater than that of the average human. So you wont get more cars onto the same road.
3. Many people, due to age or disability, can't drive.
There are other options for these people. Because they may be required to take control of the vehicle if the automated systems fail, they still wont be able to drive themselves.
4. They decrease costs for companies that pay people to drive.
Marginally, again you need the technology to be more reliable than a human driver. You'll find due to the complexity and compute resources required the vehicles will be a lot more expensive to buy and service.
5. They make public transportation much more affordable and accessible, by replacing big fix-route buses with small flex-route vans
Not really. Because you'll have more vans driving empty you'll be increasing costs. Flex routes means that you wont be picking up passengers where you set the last ones off.
6. Some people just don't like to drive, and would rather snooze or catch up on email.
Then you have public transport or taxis.
Any autonomous car will still require the driver to be 100% alert and ready to take control of the vehicle. So you wont be sleeping whilst the car does the driving.
Your post is typical of people who dont understand the technology involved or the challenges needed to be overcome. You think that its as simple as strapping a HP laptop to a camera and volia, self-driving car. You fail to understand that in order to enable autonomous cars you'll need significant changes in infrastructure (as in highway and road design), a human will still need to be involved in the decision making so they cant be sleeping or reading emails. These cars will be designed to follow the road rules and safety limits, they wont be packed bumper to bumper at 100 KPH because the laws of physics dictate that you'll need several seconds worth of braking distance and there's no way around that even if it were possible to get a sub 100 ms response from the computer... Which it isn't.
2nd link in TFS ("use of a fake Google SSL certificates as a means of throttling video") is a self-starting video at PCMag. Because, I guess, we at Slashdot can no longer read for ourselves and must be read to (after the advertising plays).
It used to be customary to warn people of objectionable formats and maybe link to non-crap sources. Kthxbye.
(Note, you still need employees to LOAD the garbage, you just need 2 men per truck as opposed to 3).
The loading of garbage onto trucks was something Australia automated well over a decade ago.
In fact, seeing a person lifting a garbage bin into a truck is a rare sight, so rare that when I went overseas to Thailand last week, I was surprised to see actual garbagemen.
Stop being so extreme... I already have a car that will not automatically stop without hitting the car in front of me. Yes, in rare cases (extreme stop or someone cutting me off so close the car doesn't see it), I have to respond. But unless I see one of those two scenarios, I just cruise home while chatting hands-free with my wife. And it's wonderful.
And this is what the driver of the Ford Kuga (which has Automatic Emergency Braking) thought before she rammed into the back of my stationary Honda Integra.
A perfectly good sports car written off by some moron on the phone who thought technology would magically save her from harm.
Also there are more than two scenarios that require you to brake, almost all of them not programmed into AEB.
Autonomous cars are better at driving than you not because they're good but because you're such a terrible driver.
By surprised you mean, wont see any autonomous cars then yes, yes I'll be surprised.
Just look at voice recognition's progress within the last two years alone.
Actually it hasn't really made any. it's just received a lot of marketing in the last two years. Realistically voice recognition isn't any better than it was back when Google Voice Search was released 4 years ago. It still struggles with accents, it completely fails with slang or mispronounced words, accuracy suffers when you're not in a perfectly quiet environment. Beyond this, voice recognition on your phone works by sending a recording your voice to a remote server that has a lot of computing resources, it isn't done locally.
Voice recognition is the ideal example of why there wont be autonomous cars in 5 years.
I'd say I'm as confident as you (but in the opposite direction)
And you'll be very surprised in 10 years when that doesn't happen.
Thanks, that will be $70 for removing a splinter, $70 for a cold that can't be treated, $70 for a minor sprained ankle that you should just stay off of for a week or two.
Thats more a problem with health care in the US being profit based.
For me it's $0 to remove a splinter, $0 for a cold (I'll need a medical note for work if I'm going to be off for a few days) and $0 for a minor sprained ankle (to be fair, the doctor will give me some compression bandages for my $0).
But we have a well regulated (gasp) medical system that isn't built for profit. We also dont have long wait times. If need be I can see a doctor in anything from a few minutes to a few hours at a walk in clinic. The longest I've ever waited at a walk-in clinic was 2.5 hours.
This highlights the one and only problem with Sony: It is always too expensive.
I think the product longevity issue that Sony has *might* be a slightly bigger problem. I don't have any real data other than my personal experience, but I have owned a slew of Sony products and with the exception of our two Sony CRT TVs growing up, they have all shat them selves within 18 months.
I've experienced 50'C outside in Finley once. It makes you feel horribly lethargic, just don't want to do anything.
I used to live up north in a Pilbara mining town. I saw 50 C a few times. Not a day you really want to spend outside unless your job was in a giant tin shed.
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Lenovo continued to be the number one PC maker in terms of shipment volume, with a 19.4 percent marketshare.
Does that include Apple PCs?
Yes, worldwide Apple doesn't ship that many units. The US is really an anomaly here with Apple selling 11% (as per table 2 of the article) but less than 5% worldwide.
A simpler answer would be to simply copyright death.
With copyright infringement being so incredibly dangerous, no-one would think of dying whilst its still in copyright. All we would need are harsher copyright laws.
Is your Volkswagen TDI all electric? No, then why the fuck do we care about your car?
Because far more capable gasoline cars are available at a lower price,
To be pedantic, a TDI is a diesel (Turbo Diesel Intercooler). The petrol VW's are TSI (Turbo Supercharged Intercoooler) GTI (Grand Touring Injection) and GT (Grand Touring).
Diesels really are a huge false economy. You pay more for the car, more for the parts and more for the services so any discounts at the pump take decades to break even and this is if you're in a country that has discounted diesel. If you're really worried about fuel economy and range, get a petrol-electric or range extended hybrid that uses the petrol engine to charge the batteries. Part of the diesel false economy is the fact they have shocking fuel economy in stop/start traffic. As Hybrids can operate on batteries here, they excel. It costs less for me to run my turbo 2L 90's sports car on RON 98 in stop/start traffic than it does run a modern diesel down the same road.
Once they force all those plains state oil operations into bankruptcy, they'll move prices back up.
Such a tactic wouldn't work. Even if they somehow did force the existing shale oil operations into bankruptcy the assets don't go away. They'll just be bought up by some other oil company for pennies on the dollar and when the price of oil goes back up they'll start pumping again. There really would be no long term point in such a strategy. The oil is still there and eventually it will become economical to pump it out of the ground.
It stops new investment, meaning projects will be set back by years. You dont just start and stop drilling operations at the drop of a hat.
But this is not the objective. The US gets to screw Russia over, the Saudis real objective is to screw Iran six ways from Sunday, stopping shale oil and frackers is just icing on the cake for them. The drop in the oil price has always been about the Saudi's running a proxy war on Iran.
I totally agree. Google could patch it, but it would then be up to the various manufacturers to push it out (Samsung, et al.) But, despite this, Google should still patch it, for PR's sake.
It goes beyond the manufacturers, carriers get to block updates as well... legally.
Some carriers have been blocking the Android 5.0 release for Nexus devices even though Google has released it.
But Google continuously updates Google Play Services on my phone without me even noticing, let alone the carrier or the device manufacturer approve and test the changes.
This is because Google uncoupled Google Play services from the OS. It is essentially an application on your phone now. Vanilla (AOSP) Android does not come with Google Play services.
Google did this a few years ago precisely because carriers were not updating the OS and they had absolutely no means to force carriers to do so even when critical bugs in the Android Market (what Google Play was called back then) were fixed.
Becuause carriers have legally tied their hands, Google worked to uncouple all their applications from the OS, not just Google Play but Gmail, Browser/Chrome and so forth.
Considering that this is one of those things that are virtually perfect for computer automation, how do you know that "real CPAs" won't actually be computers in ten to twenty years?
Not really. CPA's are protecting themselves by creating more obscure and obtuse tax rules.
Stonehenge is not old enough to remember that.
Anything that's stick will still do that. More common in Europe, not so much in the Americas where most people drive automatics now.
You'd need to be superman to push start a high compression motor these days. When the battery died on my Honda Integra (DC5S) we got it rolling at 25 KPH and it still wouldn't turn over. Thankfully you can get batteries delivered in 20 minutes these days.
clippety clop
A few years ago I had a neighbour who always used to wear heels down to pick up the mail. As it was a brick paved driveway (triplex unit) it was pretty much the same sound.
Fax machines are still very common in medical claims processing and mortgage underwriting. For medical claims, think Medicare - very old people, who insist on filling out paper forms. It's easier to fax them than scan and email - especially since the email has to be secure, because of HIPAA.
Oh yea.....we have two servers (Rightfax) that process faxes from all over our company (nursing homes and rehab). Faxes still used VERY extensively in healthcare! They like that hard copy...
Most offices will still have a fax machine, given that just about every enterprise level copier is also a fax machine these days, a lot of business just hook at least one of these up.
What is reducing are fax numbers in email signatures.
1. North Korea managed to develop an acceptable army of hackers on their own in 5 years. (No internet in 2009, supposedly)
The same way the VPAF (North Vietnam) went from no air force in 1959 to a combat capable air force flying Russian jet fighters in 1964... They sent their pilots to be trained in the Soviet Union.
There is the gun range which has a sign saying, "Muslim Free Zone [arktimes.com]" and so far they're able to get away with it.
Am I supposed to applaud that? The fact that it happens is no excuse that it should be tolerated or supported.
Sadly, the great ideals that make our nations free, also make it free for some people to be cunts.
What we can do is choose not to frequent that business and encourage others to do the same. We can also express our opinions about the business.
1. They are likely to be far safer.
This is very debatable. At the moment they are nowhere near as safe because they cant handle unknown situations.
This is the number one thing holding back autonomous transport, situations that haven't been pre-programmed will be more likely to result in injury or fatality.
2. They use road space much more efficiently, increasing the carrying capacity by a factor of five.
Now this is wishful thinking at its finest.
The reality is that they will use the same amount of space because the laws of physics wont change. A robot needs the same braking distance at 60 KPH as a human. As for reaction distance, humans react in the 1 second mark, it takes several minutes to launch outlook. Computers will have to collect information and make decisions in the same amount of time, this means the sensors must be providing samples in the sub 10 ms mark to provide enough samples and computers must be able to analyse that data in the sub 800 ms mark. In that time they've still travelled as far as a human would.
TL;DR
An autonomous car will be programmed to keep safe distances, in fact their safe distances will be greater than that of the average human. So you wont get more cars onto the same road.
3. Many people, due to age or disability, can't drive.
There are other options for these people. Because they may be required to take control of the vehicle if the automated systems fail, they still wont be able to drive themselves.
4. They decrease costs for companies that pay people to drive.
Marginally, again you need the technology to be more reliable than a human driver. You'll find due to the complexity and compute resources required the vehicles will be a lot more expensive to buy and service.
5. They make public transportation much more affordable and accessible, by replacing big fix-route buses with small flex-route vans
Not really. Because you'll have more vans driving empty you'll be increasing costs. Flex routes means that you wont be picking up passengers where you set the last ones off.
6. Some people just don't like to drive, and would rather snooze or catch up on email.
Then you have public transport or taxis.
Any autonomous car will still require the driver to be 100% alert and ready to take control of the vehicle. So you wont be sleeping whilst the car does the driving.
Your post is typical of people who dont understand the technology involved or the challenges needed to be overcome. You think that its as simple as strapping a HP laptop to a camera and volia, self-driving car. You fail to understand that in order to enable autonomous cars you'll need significant changes in infrastructure (as in highway and road design), a human will still need to be involved in the decision making so they cant be sleeping or reading emails. These cars will be designed to follow the road rules and safety limits, they wont be packed bumper to bumper at 100 KPH because the laws of physics dictate that you'll need several seconds worth of braking distance and there's no way around that even if it were possible to get a sub 100 ms response from the computer... Which it isn't.
Are there those who twist that message? Absolutely. Just don't call them Christians.
Would you give the same courtesy to Muslims?
2nd link in TFS ("use of a fake Google SSL certificates as a means of throttling video") is a self-starting video at PCMag. Because, I guess, we at Slashdot can no longer read for ourselves and must be read to (after the advertising plays).
It used to be customary to warn people of objectionable formats and maybe link to non-crap sources. Kthxbye.
This is why no-one reads the article.
Bear Grylls could not be reached for comment.
(Note, you still need employees to LOAD the garbage, you just need 2 men per truck as opposed to 3).
The loading of garbage onto trucks was something Australia automated well over a decade ago.
In fact, seeing a person lifting a garbage bin into a truck is a rare sight, so rare that when I went overseas to Thailand last week, I was surprised to see actual garbagemen.
Stop being so extreme... I already have a car that will not automatically stop without hitting the car in front of me. Yes, in rare cases (extreme stop or someone cutting me off so close the car doesn't see it), I have to respond. But unless I see one of those two scenarios, I just cruise home while chatting hands-free with my wife. And it's wonderful.
And this is what the driver of the Ford Kuga (which has Automatic Emergency Braking) thought before she rammed into the back of my stationary Honda Integra.
A perfectly good sports car written off by some moron on the phone who thought technology would magically save her from harm.
Also there are more than two scenarios that require you to brake, almost all of them not programmed into AEB.
Autonomous cars are better at driving than you not because they're good but because you're such a terrible driver.
By surprised you mean, wont see any autonomous cars then yes, yes I'll be surprised.
Thanks, that will be $70 for removing a splinter, $70 for a cold that can't be treated, $70 for a minor sprained ankle that you should just stay off of for a week or two.
Thats more a problem with health care in the US being profit based.
For me it's $0 to remove a splinter, $0 for a cold (I'll need a medical note for work if I'm going to be off for a few days) and $0 for a minor sprained ankle (to be fair, the doctor will give me some compression bandages for my $0).
But we have a well regulated (gasp) medical system that isn't built for profit. We also dont have long wait times. If need be I can see a doctor in anything from a few minutes to a few hours at a walk in clinic. The longest I've ever waited at a walk-in clinic was 2.5 hours.
This highlights the one and only problem with Sony: It is always too expensive.
I think the product longevity issue that Sony has *might* be a slightly bigger problem. I don't have any real data other than my personal experience, but I have owned a slew of Sony products and with the exception of our two Sony CRT TVs growing up, they have all shat them selves within 18 months.
The Sony Timer
I've experienced 50'C outside in Finley once. It makes you feel horribly lethargic, just don't want to do anything.
I used to live up north in a Pilbara mining town. I saw 50 C a few times. Not a day you really want to spend outside unless your job was in a giant tin shed.
It's the humidity.
And if that doesn't get you we have sharks, snakes, spiders, jelly fish, drop bears and backpacker murderers.
How do they get on in the outback? It must get near 50C there
The hottest place in Australia is Marble Bar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
It average (maximum) summer temperatures in excess of 41 C. Average yearly temps are around 35 C so it doesn't get much cooler in the winter.
I'm certain that they would see the odd day above 50 C there.