Printers and laptops are free. You just pay for ink and the back end server.
Hundreds of students using Win10 devices, managed by some Active Directory server in the back end? Cost of sys admin, cost of server, cost of server security upgrades.... No wonder they are giving crap machines for free.
Win10 plays poorly on low end machines. I bought a cheap win10 for exclusive use as VPN work from home machine. That dog could not even manage that simple thing well. Amount of disk thrashing it does,... 8 GB not enough to maintain a VPN connection and render the pixmap coming over the net? Utter crap. I disabled something called user experience telemetry. That stopped the disk thrashing, but speed is no better.
Saying X is not a silver bullet for Y is a misleading rhetorical tactic. If X is better than !X for Y, then X is one of the solutions. That it is not a complete solution is irrelevant. If there is a Z that is better than X, then that is a valid argument.
X will not solve Y is typically used by vested interests against X not people who are genuinely interested in solving Y.
They expanded too fast hired too many hands when it was the crunch time. Now that crunch is over, they are being retrenched.
That is one advantage of humans over robots. Robots cost too much initial cost, once installed the running cost is low. Humans can be hired quickly and made to adapt to changing and varying demands quickly. They are adaptable, but once the job is done, they can be sent home.
Tesla is still under serious pressure for cash and it is not able to tap into the capital markets. It needs to prove it can do day to day operations and be GAAP earning positive for a few quarters. Only then the capital pressure will ease and it can tap in again.
This email says 18Q4 is also positive, but not as much as 18Q3. That is not a serious problem. It needs to make 400 million in 18Q4 + 19Q1. Once 18Q1 rolls off the trailing four quarter, it has a shot at being positive earnings in the trailing four quarters. That will make it into SP500. Serious index fund investing. Will remove the shorts completely and it will be able to borrow again. Till then it has to operate on such drastic measures.
Things must be pretty ok inside, it looks like. There is not twitter eruptions from Elon.
Found it too thin to hold. So another thin phone is not my cup of tea, even if I convince my self to pay 1500 for a phone.
But motorola Android One phones are the replacement for the Google Nexus line. No crapware added by the manufacturer and Google updates android straight, not waiting for the manufacturer. So would buy a Moto X1 or something but this one is too late to the party. Average sale price of cell phones are trending down, not up.
In the Before Google era, people did not even know such places existed. Now they are complaining more tourists are not coming because of "errors" in Google. There is nothing wrong in the local governments spending their money to improve the Open maps initiative. If the competitor has more accurate data, it will force google to improve its offering, or be strangled by the invisible hand of the free market.
Help build better, verified sources that will help ALL search engines. It will keep them on their toes. Complaining to Google, creating bad press, might appear to be cheaper, and could even be effective for the first few communities that try it. But in the long run, it is not a good solution.
Tim Cook's basic complaint is that, this data that originates from the intense tracking by iOS devices is being bought and sold without giving Apple its due share.
Apple believes, like goblins, an object belongs to the creator. What the wizards and muggles call "price" is merely a license fee to use the object during the lifetime of the renter. When the renter dies the object should be returned to the maker and be re-rented. They do not accept as legal, the practice of passing goblin made objects like the Sword of Slytherin being passed from wizard to wizard without additional payments to the maker. [Citation Provided].
So once the data brokers agree to kick back 30% of the revenue to Android and Apple this will quietly die down.
[Citation] Harry Potter 4-7, HP 7 - HP and the Deathly Hallows - CH25 (3)
You don’t understand, Harry, nobody could understand unless they have lived with goblins. To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs.'
‘But if it was bought –'
‘– then they would consider it rented by the one who had paid the money. They have, however, great difficulty with the idea of goblin-made objects passing from wizard to wizard. You saw Griphook’s face when the tiara passed under his eyes. He disapproves. I believe he thinks, as do the fiercest of his kind, that it ought to have been returned to the goblins once the original purchaser died. They consider our habit of keeping goblin-made objects, passing them from wizard to wizard without further payment, little more than theft.'
Just a trifold case, open it out, one opens to form a screen, the main phone changes to a full Qwerty keyboard touch screen, and the the third fold forms a track pad/mouse.
Then in a few iterations, as the size of the screen grows inevitably, to say 10 inches diagonal, the touchscreen keyboard and the track pad can be merged into for form a bifold, ditch the touch screen keyboard to save cost and profit.... baby...!
If you ask someone to hold a lap top to their ear, they would balk. But sneak up to them this way, yeah.,they will do this.
You see, normal human beings do not walk into or bump into parked fire engines. That makes the occasional interaction between a Tesla and a fire truck reflects badly on the Tesla. Once all the humans have the same AI, they too will casually bump to random objects. That will normalize Tesla's behavior. Just saying why we need this.
Microsoft is not a monolithic entity. Of course no company that big is a monolith. But Microsoft takes turf warfare to a new level with perverse incentives.
There are level 64 managers or whatever they are called, who are the top PHBs in charge of their bit of the product, and the assiduously build their empires within the company. In most other companies, these will build teams and fight for head count, budget etc. But in Microsoft they get a bit of the revenue generated by their pet piece of the product. So they wangle to make sure their pet project is included into every thing the company sells, so that they get their cut.
There are people who is getting paid for every copy of the OS sold with Cortana, or bob, or Edge or IE bundled in. They fight to make sure it never gets removed. It is already a major victory by some hard manager disconnecting Cortana from text searches.
With the amount of telemetry the company has collected it should be able to find which pieces are used heavily and which pieces are not and structure the pay out based on actual, in the field usage stats. But there is no one with the guts or the power to do that. Satya Nadella? No way. At least Google had the sense to pick an IITian. MSFT went for some third rate school Manipal Institute of Technology. psst, this MIT is not that MIT.
Any half-decent intelligence agency can physically tap normal fiber optics and intercept whatever messages the networks are carrying:
No need to do any such sophisticated things. Just create enough troll accounts and fake facebook accounts, and you can get your Machurian Candidate elected to the highest office.
I think it is time to buy only phones that are "Android One" compatible. According to Google, these phones must use stock android with absolutely no modification. And Google will update them without going through the manufacturer.
Not surprised Nokia being the leader. It is owned by Microsoft now, and Microsoft will always game every benchmark.
You write such a long clinical unemotional response to someone who "allow the imagery and rhetoric to shape [one's] judgement far more than [one] should allow it to shape [one's] judgement".
When Harrier VTOL fighter debuted in the 1990s, it was remarkable. Vectored thrust, The cold jet was ducted into four louvered nozzles, achieving remarkable performance. VIFfings, vectoring-in-flight made it a superb combat aircraft.
Apart from big problems like high fuel consumption, limited combat time, maintenance and cost, the minor problems not talked much outside included FOI, military speak for foreign object ingestion, small objects pebbles and stuff on the tarmac being kicked up and getting sucked into the air intakes. And another issue was the control jets. When the aircraft is hovering or at very low speeds, the control surfaces dont work, (ailerons, rudder, elevators etc), so they used small nozzles at the tips of control surfaces. These jets go in all directions creating hazard for tarmac workers and sailors on the flight deck.
The roadster is going to have two packs of Model 3 batteries. That is 2200 lb. So the loaded weight is likely to be around 3500 lb, very heavy for a two seat roadster. 10 thrusters, 350 lb each kicking up pebbles all around is very very impractical. Hazard to adjacent vehicles and pedestrians would be too much. But, on a clean surface, on prototype, with some good press cameras rolling, it can occupy one or two news cycles. About 30 sec coverage in news, and probably 2 minute segments in other programs. Free publicity worth about 100 to 200 million. So it is worth doing from Tesla point of view.
Tesla topic posted at some six hours ago. Hardly 20 comments and not even on above my visibility threshold.
So we seem to have hit and gone past peak Tesla clickbait potential. Good, I hope soon media will stop needlessly sneaking in Tesla into the headline of every story.
The evidence clearly indicates her to be the original blue tooth inventor. But, as usual, they demote her to be a mere copyist while some man will be credited with the "invention" of blue tooth.
... as the tech aware people are obsessing about the undeletability of Facebook from Samsung, billions of people are allowing Alexa to listen in, allowing "partners" of Amazon to know exactly how much they can charge you.
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Hundreds of students using Win10 devices, managed by some Active Directory server in the back end? Cost of sys admin, cost of server, cost of server security upgrades .... No wonder they are giving crap machines for free.
Win10 plays poorly on low end machines. I bought a cheap win10 for exclusive use as VPN work from home machine. That dog could not even manage that simple thing well. Amount of disk thrashing it does, ... 8 GB not enough to maintain a VPN connection and render the pixmap coming over the net? Utter crap. I disabled something called user experience telemetry. That stopped the disk thrashing, but speed is no better.
Saying X is not a silver bullet for Y is a misleading rhetorical tactic. If X is better than !X for Y, then X is one of the solutions. That it is not a complete solution is irrelevant. If there is a Z that is better than X, then that is a valid argument.
X will not solve Y is typically used by vested interests against X not people who are genuinely interested in solving Y.
That is one advantage of humans over robots. Robots cost too much initial cost, once installed the running cost is low. Humans can be hired quickly and made to adapt to changing and varying demands quickly. They are adaptable, but once the job is done, they can be sent home.
Tesla is still under serious pressure for cash and it is not able to tap into the capital markets. It needs to prove it can do day to day operations and be GAAP earning positive for a few quarters. Only then the capital pressure will ease and it can tap in again.
This email says 18Q4 is also positive, but not as much as 18Q3. That is not a serious problem. It needs to make 400 million in 18Q4 + 19Q1. Once 18Q1 rolls off the trailing four quarter, it has a shot at being positive earnings in the trailing four quarters. That will make it into SP500. Serious index fund investing. Will remove the shorts completely and it will be able to borrow again. Till then it has to operate on such drastic measures.
Things must be pretty ok inside, it looks like. There is not twitter eruptions from Elon.
Apparently the probe signaled "all your bases are belong to us" as it passed by.
But motorola Android One phones are the replacement for the Google Nexus line. No crapware added by the manufacturer and Google updates android straight, not waiting for the manufacturer. So would buy a Moto X1 or something but this one is too late to the party. Average sale price of cell phones are trending down, not up.
But, still wondering, at what point the Index funds could be gamed?
Help build better, verified sources that will help ALL search engines. It will keep them on their toes. Complaining to Google, creating bad press, might appear to be cheaper, and could even be effective for the first few communities that try it. But in the long run, it is not a good solution.
Apple believes, like goblins, an object belongs to the creator. What the wizards and muggles call "price" is merely a license fee to use the object during the lifetime of the renter. When the renter dies the object should be returned to the maker and be re-rented. They do not accept as legal, the practice of passing goblin made objects like the Sword of Slytherin being passed from wizard to wizard without additional payments to the maker. [Citation Provided].
So once the data brokers agree to kick back 30% of the revenue to Android and Apple this will quietly die down.
[Citation] Harry Potter 4-7, HP 7 - HP and the Deathly Hallows - CH25 (3) You don’t understand, Harry, nobody could understand unless they have lived with goblins. To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs.'
‘But if it was bought –'
‘– then they would consider it rented by the one who had paid the money. They have, however, great difficulty with the idea of goblin-made objects passing from wizard to wizard. You saw Griphook’s face when the tiara passed under his eyes. He disapproves. I believe he thinks, as do the fiercest of his kind, that it ought to have been returned to the goblins once the original purchaser died. They consider our habit of keeping goblin-made objects, passing them from wizard to wizard without further payment, little more than theft.'
Just a trifold case, open it out, one opens to form a screen, the main phone changes to a full Qwerty keyboard touch screen, and the the third fold forms a track pad/mouse.
Then in a few iterations, as the size of the screen grows inevitably, to say 10 inches diagonal, the touchscreen keyboard and the track pad can be merged into for form a bifold, ditch the touch screen keyboard to save cost and profit .... baby ...!
If you ask someone to hold a lap top to their ear, they would balk. But sneak up to them this way, yeah.,they will do this.
You see, normal human beings do not walk into or bump into parked fire engines. That makes the occasional interaction between a Tesla and a fire truck reflects badly on the Tesla. Once all the humans have the same AI, they too will casually bump to random objects. That will normalize Tesla's behavior. Just saying why we need this.
There are level 64 managers or whatever they are called, who are the top PHBs in charge of their bit of the product, and the assiduously build their empires within the company. In most other companies, these will build teams and fight for head count, budget etc. But in Microsoft they get a bit of the revenue generated by their pet piece of the product. So they wangle to make sure their pet project is included into every thing the company sells, so that they get their cut.
There are people who is getting paid for every copy of the OS sold with Cortana, or bob, or Edge or IE bundled in. They fight to make sure it never gets removed. It is already a major victory by some hard manager disconnecting Cortana from text searches.
With the amount of telemetry the company has collected it should be able to find which pieces are used heavily and which pieces are not and structure the pay out based on actual, in the field usage stats. But there is no one with the guts or the power to do that. Satya Nadella? No way. At least Google had the sense to pick an IITian. MSFT went for some third rate school Manipal Institute of Technology. psst, this MIT is not that MIT.
Self dealing and raiding public company to fill private coffers? Check
Corrupt? Check
I see a future presidential candidate from a major political party.
Any half-decent intelligence agency can physically tap normal fiber optics and intercept whatever messages the networks are carrying:
No need to do any such sophisticated things. Just create enough troll accounts and fake facebook accounts, and you can get your Machurian Candidate elected to the highest office.
It would be good if everything is pay per view. In principle.
Not surprised Nokia being the leader. It is owned by Microsoft now, and Microsoft will always game every benchmark.
You fail in both logic and in rhetoric.
Anyway the secondary problems I recalled are the main point. Not when these jump jets were made.
Apart from big problems like high fuel consumption, limited combat time, maintenance and cost, the minor problems not talked much outside included FOI, military speak for foreign object ingestion, small objects pebbles and stuff on the tarmac being kicked up and getting sucked into the air intakes. And another issue was the control jets. When the aircraft is hovering or at very low speeds, the control surfaces dont work, (ailerons, rudder, elevators etc), so they used small nozzles at the tips of control surfaces. These jets go in all directions creating hazard for tarmac workers and sailors on the flight deck.
The roadster is going to have two packs of Model 3 batteries. That is 2200 lb. So the loaded weight is likely to be around 3500 lb, very heavy for a two seat roadster. 10 thrusters, 350 lb each kicking up pebbles all around is very very impractical. Hazard to adjacent vehicles and pedestrians would be too much. But, on a clean surface, on prototype, with some good press cameras rolling, it can occupy one or two news cycles. About 30 sec coverage in news, and probably 2 minute segments in other programs. Free publicity worth about 100 to 200 million. So it is worth doing from Tesla point of view.
So we seem to have hit and gone past peak Tesla clickbait potential. Good, I hope soon media will stop needlessly sneaking in Tesla into the headline of every story.
Are you sure your uncle belongs to the Homo sapien species? Or does he belong to the Boreopithecus americanus stupidia
The evidence clearly indicates her to be the original blue tooth inventor. But, as usual, they demote her to be a mere copyist while some man will be credited with the "invention" of blue tooth.
Thanks. It is the Monkey in the Middle, for dummies. I get it now.
Not sure why it needs a new name or what is really new.
... as the tech aware people are obsessing about the undeletability of Facebook from Samsung, billions of people are allowing Alexa to listen in, allowing "partners" of Amazon to know exactly how much they can charge you.
But, in the case of Samsung, you need to pay for the privilege of being their product.