replace their function keys atop laptop keyboards with an OLED touch bar
not terrible, but can i get a real delete/backspace key and an option to have something other than chiclet keys? maybe work with cherry or something non island/non scissor switch? do people even like this keyboard style or are we so used to it now that to question it is just another mark of heresy in the forums?
And while we're at it, its 2016, can we please quit making our laptop cases with an intentionally low coefficient of friction? the iphone already slides like a greased hog at a county fair...i can only imagine a thinner lighter macbook slipping out of my hands and flying off into the horizon never to be seen again.
the US is perhaps the only company in the world that expects quarterly and yearly earnings to approach 15% in order for performance of a company to be assured. its asinine, and partly why the US was forced to gut their manufacturing sector.
Flat sales growth represents a dramatic change of fortune for Xiaomi
but not a bad one. Remember, this is still the second most valuable tech company were talking about. pump your brakes and realize that sales in the #1 also failed to reach targets.
It was coming off sales growth of 135% in 2014
which one might expect would temper the childlike consternation of Forbes, until you realize these are americans, and their concept of investment and growth as constituents of capitalism lies somewhere between a 1952 hygene PSA and mad max.
CNBC's Jay Yarrow said "The Apple-killer is dying."
He also endorsed a conspiracy theory about the egypt air crash. who fucking cares.
The company has been called out before for allegedly copying Apple's iOS design
whos been copying everything from early microsoft innovation to the design notes for the movie minority report. but lets ignore that and the fact that copyright law is wildly variant from the jackbooted cartel force we know and love in the states.
and intends to sell a number of gadgets in the United States and Europe among other regions starting later this year.
if you had to shit on this company for anything --and it be relevant to slashdot -- then it should be this. Xiaomi has dragged its feet supporting 4g LTE bands in the US. every other year the company that insisted it would have something for the country that has everything, inevitably turned out to disappoint everyone. Maybe its regulatory, maybe its just disinterest, but the lack of a US offering from such a company seems to imply theyre happy with flat revenue and servicing the rest of the world instead. Some companies can be content with stability, just not American companies.
family plans? seriously? let me break this down as a dad how it works... My Wife: uses itunes nearly exclusively since it interfaces with her nano which she needs for the gym. if she gets something for $holiday its usually through amazon. me: Perfectly happy with whatever audible frequencies are coming out of mpd and ncmpc. icecast is good enough for me because back in my day we whipped the llamas ass and we liked it. Kids: youtube, youtube-dl, and sharing mp3s at will during school or while hanging out. otherwise pandora, or some freemium service that caters to obscure genres like glitch-core or butter-pickle-hop or whatever squeeling fan belt noises kids listen to these days. my parents: Vinyl and tape...mostly tape.
disclaimer: chomsky adorns my mantle.
in polite society its considered uncouth to execute your whistleblowers. Social execution, career execution, certainly. In this term the government already had what it wants from snowden and that is unconditional exile. Sure, having a warm body gives ample opportunity to crucify the enemy of your specific terms of freedom but if you already control major media outlets, so it doesnt matter what your enemy says. the NYT, CBS, NBC, you name it, they will all toe the line and kindly omit certain details if you ask them to avoid being 'unpatriotic' in your reporting.
Morris also conceded that mental countermeasures to the polygraph are a "tough thing."
much like countermeasures to the easter bunny are a "tough thing." the polygraph loses its mystic power once you expose it as firmly debunked pseudoscience in the realm of phrenology and tea leaf reading. The purpose of the test is to act as a chilling effect, nothing more.
I work in West Hollywood. Angry Birds has enjoyed a media blitz here courtesy of the industry at large. its just something that gets done for all films. it can be written off on studio taxes. its surprising to see something like this make #1 though? It certainly speaks to a very talented writers group.
what does not make sense is to go it alone, fire 200 people, and push to deliver a film solely by yourself. Unless,you're taking a page from some of the more cutthroat entities of US Capitalism. Yes, in the short term, doing this can net you a few million in revenue taxed at a very favourable US rate. However, you canned most of your game staff so now what? This was just one film. Blockbuster teams like Weinstein and Warner crank out 4 sequels a year and thats sometimes with recurring losses baked in. those sequels exist only to sell toys and shirts and food. Unless you plan to focus on franchising which takes way more money sunk into branding and advertising, im afraid you just sold the company down shits creek. Or did you want to be a film company? Was this an attempt to get around huge industry margins for films like those out of marvels wheelhouse? Those are unavoidable and it speaks to corporate greed if you did cartwheels to explicitly avoid players in Hollywood.
So yeah, whoever you worked with, it largely wasnt Hollywood. The films marketing consists of a billboard on la brea with a cryptic phrase and a billboard on la cienega with three birds and a charred facade but no mention of the film, its opening date, or even that its a film...
congress critter: we err on the side of caution and dont prosecute most situations where a cop kills someone beat cop: but, sometimes, we can be really wrong. the consequences of doing this puts us beyond the law. senator: we just authorized MRAP's and machine guns for you guys and hey while youre at it why not grenade launchers beat cop: This isnt rambo...how does a tank help us solve a domestic violence issue? most of the stuff we deal with stems from drug abuse and unemployment...cant you guys help fix that? governor: license plate readers for everyone! also here are all the cameras, look at everything, just let no crime go unpunished or i have to get a real job next year beat cop: guys...im not arresting someone for tags that are expired in the same month...i dont care about every litterbug...this is just noise. im responding to a bank robbery and have to ignore every unpaid parking ticket that flashes up at me...What do you think cops do?
that common users do not want to be administrators. They dont want to think about patches or updates, or antivirus. They just want to open the product, and consume their services.
its great for sysadmins...we'll always have a job. However its a killing stroke for corporations and plutocrats hoping the "learn to code" effort is going to help drive the cost of developers or sysops down. You've spent 50 years getting Americans to consider technology a product. things like DMCA and closed-door trade agreements have all but cemented the notion that the consumer is a mindless cash cow, not to be permitted to touch the technology unless theyre to part with their identity or money. this mindset isnt about to change.
dream factory profits ruined by inquisitive and scientific evaluation of highly sophisticated snake oil machine. "Clearly the government wants to abort your shariah muslim terror anchor baby abortions in fema death camps instead" exclaims exhausted man on yacht. In other news sales of disposable unlubricated single use monocles slightly higher.
fishing expedition ruined by faithless crusaiders armed only with snake oil machine. 32,768 children end up permanently addicted to jihad marijuana abortion terrorisms due to pirates. Film at 11.
1: Millennials are now old enough to assume power of and chair their respective pharmaceutical boards, and they simply dont care for execution.
2: Pharmaceutical corporations realize the likelihood that with the rise of Millennials and ever encroaching data breaches, they could be implicated in human execution and would face nontrivial political and legal backlash in the coming years.
London: transform any day into a bright sunny summer day. downside: more pub brawls ensue after complicated arguments and tense standoffs arise from disagreements about blustery and sunny. Canada: images of alberta in february could be replaced by video of the leafs Borje Salming waxing your car which you tacitly know damn well has been under 7 feet of snow since october. America: imagine a mcdonalds window that makes the food appear to have been cooked from ingredients that came from actual vegetables and known animals. Or a convenient window treatment that could some day make Dick Cheney look like a real person instead of a villain from an episode of captain planet.
Although not intended, the device is slightly venomous and should be approached with an open palm when feeding. its normal operating temperature is in a 51c environment.
A new solar cell configuration developed by engineers at the University of New South Wales has pushed sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency to 34.5%
while technically true, this was only after it lept off a table and attacked a research graduate it had mistaken for one of the innumerable natural predators along the countryside.
The record was set using a 28-cm2 four-junction mini-module -- embedded in a prism
the prism, paradoxically enough, is extremely venomous however immune to the slightly venomous configuration overall. most of the wales team that installed the device are still recovering from a combination of intense agony and euphoric constipation. see the research study in the bio sci lab called "the prism does what now?"
It does this by splitting the incoming rays into four bands, using a hybrid four-junction receiver
which became territorial during testing and was found to be both predatory as well as bioluminescent. it occupies a classroom on the second floor and to date is consuming around a post doc per month. So remember, that while we now have 34% more energy here which is a huge breakthrough, we must all now add another item to the list of things to check for in boots and under toilet seats. sorry mates.
I wanna see a cartoon or perhaps live action series where John McAfee and Steve Ballmer team up together for zany adentures. these guys are like the bill and ted of modern technology.
sure, Queen Mary University dedicates loads of grant money to fund this useless study but do the evil faculty ever get a say? As a mad scientist at QMU I damned sure didnt see a penny for my study on the gap between girls who study english in a dark room with eleven scorpions and boys who study english in a fumigation tent. Other groundbreaking STEM research like my inspiring study on how much energy is required to fire a baby into the sun every hour until the comissioner honors the demands of course had to be funded directly through my independent network of doners who would like to see their families again. its a wonder I get out of bed at all to lash the army of graduate students living under my porch.
"As you have foresaken Google plus, so have you foresaken us. In retribution the 6 seals have been unlocked and youre to endure our first punishment immediately. Share your world through spaces. Ride this thinly veiled anachronism of the social media platform you so foolishly derided, and endure its indelible integration into everything we do."
Windows started out as a convenient wrapper for Dos, and now we're here. We have updates that are non-negotiable, apps that are installed by default, integration with a video game console, and an entire ecosystem of advertising built-in to the UI. Theres powershell, Linux BASH, and ssh as well as a talking assistant.
after 197 mergers or takeovers in its history its taken Microsoft just 15 years to pedal themselves to an early grave, and windows 10's schitzophrenic laundry list of things it seeks to achieve for the user is an excellent barometer of the companies 'significant changes' after Ballmer was quietly hustled out to the parking lot. There really isnt any direction, but a very obvious pattern.
1. a trend emerges, catches on, and becomes a hit.
2. Microsoft, four years later, creates its own version of the product or technology at the center of the trend.
3. The product, (zune, windows phone, market) is brutalized for three or four more years while microsoft keeps it on X-Box revenue life support.
4. MS quietly shuffles the technology under the rug four more years later, abandoning and alienating nontrivial numbers of users and sacking the entire division that once handled the product.
Hololens, minecraft, the self driving car, surface, phone, cloud -- these are all things that have existed better and cheaper in many cases than microsofts version yet still unaccountably exist as a microsoft offering seemingly just out of spite. Bing was a 7 year attempt at a hostile takeover that is entirely powered by yahoo engine patents and screen scrapes from Google and it still hands out some of the least meaningful or relevant garbage results. The walk-in microsoft store is a godless abortion of over-illuminated copy-paste from whatevers going on in an Apple store, and its performance is so dismal its being rolled into Best Buy stores as a kiosk.
So the question still remains. after 15 years, where the hell do you want to go today, Microsoft? because everywhere isnt a direction.
Patent trolls are notoriously synonymous as leeches that contribute nothing to the process of invention, but theyre no better than the intellectual property patents and frivolous design patents that their targets such as Google or Microsoft endorse and employ.
if anything patent reform by victory should be eschewed in favour of unilateral patent and copyright reform. litigation shouldnt be relegated to some remote texas exurban court, and the USPTO shouldnt roll over whenever someone wants to patent absurdities like one click shopping.
Ronnie Gilstrap is actually a huge inside joke perpetuated across multiple state and local governments. The idea being that a single random litigator, Ronnie, is suddenly and without any adequate explanation forced to spend his entire career presiding over cases he cant possibly comprehend for clients with more money than god.
Imagine it. a man in texas who gets out of bed every morning, wipes his ass, kisses his wife, and then has to sit in a robe all day furiously trying to comprehend what the fuck a phone gesture is and why it gets a patent. Or mild mannered Ronnie, walking through the front door of a grueling day of court cases, only to sit at the dinner table in front of his mashed taytos and chicken fried chicken unable to eat a bite, as hes crucified by the sorrowful fact that he just spent the entire week hearing two people argue over the semantics between a click, a swipe, and a swish.
Before we jump to the assumption that this family went out of their way to file a lawsuit against snapchat because "georgia reasons" lets remember that after an accident, attorneys will market directly to you. Any cut-rate lawyer in the state has probably shilled all parties for relevant interest in a lawsuit. An attorney, however misplaced, has identified a willing party to file a lawsuit against a popular corporation and sadly failed to realize that snapchat has no identifiable revenue stream. Sure, you'll probably enter the courtroom confident in a win..but outside of publicity for winning a suit against a popular online service your billable hours have likely easily usurped Snapchats own guestimate of a one-time 3 million dollar revenue generation.
the real pisser is that in the event snapchat puts up a fight over your definition of "facilitate" (which isnt the strongest here) you risk dragging real victims into court which they may not be prepared for. since you havent specified damages, its likely youre waiting for a settlement based on your "facilitate" defense, but be prepared for the possibility the parties give up, or the judge decides theres a reasonable cap on what you can bleed from a company that...again...doesnt make money.
Elsevier should serve as a warning to other industries like healthcare and insurance. You can pursue profit in an industry, but once it becomes your sole modus operandi you risk the very real incidence of becoming a riot trigger.
this isnt just a reactionary site contesting some recent policy adopted by Elsevier, its a concerted and dedicated movement against a corporate monster thats spent more than 15 years inventing new ways to privatize the hard work and important research of institutions both public and private. Elsevier contests that its profits are simply industry average and its a thoroughly discredited argument once you realize they are the industry in terms of where most research publication comes from. supporting SOPA and PIPA's fascist information controls and directly opposing open-research mandates by funding legislation in american congress are among the most prominent reasons academics including myself boycot this corporation
This isn't the first time Apple Music has deleted a users' locally stored music files.
You ran proprietary software on a closed source OS from a vendor that operates sweatshops with suicide netting and, most importantly, has a track record for disrespecting user rights. While I tune up the worlds tinyest violin and get going on my rendition of the Free Software Song, why not take a look at http://distrowatch.com/ for some examples of operating systems that put you in the drivers seat, and https://osalt.com/ for software that doesnt trample your ability to rock out mellow folk sensation Roger Whittaker at four in the morning.
PHB: any one catch that pro-gaming stream that got interrupted by a windows 10 update? pretty absurd wouldnt you say? engineer: The machine that controls card readers has been updating all night and our first shift team cant relieve third shift. Windows 10 is turning out to be a pretty ridiculous product. Janitor: you said it guys, Thanks to these unscheduled windows 10 updates my timecard hasnt properly submitted in nearly a month! Operator: Yeah, and dont get me started on the SCRAM/status panel for the reactors. Im mostly controlling the whole thing from my geiger counter. but hey, best windows ever am i rite?!
As a political analyst its simple to understand why a ted cruz candidacy was untenable. We simply need to look at the facts.
1. total Co2 in the earths atmosphere is around.04%. now, while this number is rising at an alarming rate, is nowhere near the 34% required for Ted Cruz to survive outside his spacecraft. his inability to handle Nitrogen and Oxygen perhaps cost him valuable facetime with the american people. Any reasonable subterranean intergalactic cephalopod species could surely identify with the all too common problem of our atmosphere and its no reason to think Ted didnt understand this problem acutely.
2. The mindgasm with Carly Fiorina was tentative, as the aetherial fluids clearly hadnt been administered yet and the nanites had no substrate on which to build the newmind. Carly lacked ambition, determination, and a plan. Most importantly, she lacked the void stare, obedient subservience, and slow speech and gait that are all classic telltale signs of "the syrum." Of course Ted could have used the mindworms, but its unlikely a true fiscal conservative would take to using them. Theyre just too costly in a campaign.
3. despite liberal restucturing in the identity chamber, teds human form was too precitable and beginning to arouse suspicion of his youthful, larval past as the zodiac killer. Had he simply taken the time to explain that humans are a complete nutritional delicacy for his species and that 4-5 are required to exit the larval stage and return to the hivemind, most conservatives would have viewed this as a good leadership quality.
so heres hoping the Yaylaka prince Don-Al of Ukador persei 9, commonly known as "Don-Al Trumph" does better. and before you bash the candidate, its worth remembering his speech seems to approximate normal english almost 60% of the time! Quite an achievement if youve never slid into a humanform that may or may not have been a long haul trucker from illinois whos been missing for 36 years and presumed dead. I think we can all agree when he says "hail Ji-Ban-Lau forever" he means it.
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datacaps are a flagrant violation of the FCC's net neutrality legislation. why isnt anyone contesting this?
replace their function keys atop laptop keyboards with an OLED touch bar
not terrible, but can i get a real delete/backspace key and an option to have something other than chiclet keys? maybe work with cherry or something non island/non scissor switch? do people even like this keyboard style or are we so used to it now that to question it is just another mark of heresy in the forums?
And while we're at it, its 2016, can we please quit making our laptop cases with an intentionally low coefficient of friction? the iphone already slides like a greased hog at a county fair...i can only imagine a thinner lighter macbook slipping out of my hands and flying off into the horizon never to be seen again.
1. Scorched baron earth
2. the seemingly endless absence of humanity
3. Robots everywhere, watching, roaming with cold dead gaze...
Terminator 2 was filmed on a farm in Australia.
sales rose 3% in U.S. dollar terms.
the US is perhaps the only company in the world that expects quarterly and yearly earnings to approach 15% in order for performance of a company to be assured. its asinine, and partly why the US was forced to gut their manufacturing sector.
Flat sales growth represents a dramatic change of fortune for Xiaomi
but not a bad one. Remember, this is still the second most valuable tech company were talking about. pump your brakes and realize that sales in the #1 also failed to reach targets.
It was coming off sales growth of 135% in 2014
which one might expect would temper the childlike consternation of Forbes, until you realize these are americans, and their concept of investment and growth as constituents of capitalism lies somewhere between a 1952 hygene PSA and mad max.
CNBC's Jay Yarrow said "The Apple-killer is dying."
He also endorsed a conspiracy theory about the egypt air crash. who fucking cares.
The company has been called out before for allegedly copying Apple's iOS design
whos been copying everything from early microsoft innovation to the design notes for the movie minority report. but lets ignore that and the fact that copyright law is wildly variant from the jackbooted cartel force we know and love in the states.
and intends to sell a number of gadgets in the United States and Europe among other regions starting later this year.
if you had to shit on this company for anything --and it be relevant to slashdot -- then it should be this. Xiaomi has dragged its feet supporting 4g LTE bands in the US. every other year the company that insisted it would have something for the country that has everything, inevitably turned out to disappoint everyone. Maybe its regulatory, maybe its just disinterest, but the lack of a US offering from such a company seems to imply theyre happy with flat revenue and servicing the rest of the world instead. Some companies can be content with stability, just not American companies.
family plans? seriously? let me break this down as a dad how it works...
My Wife: uses itunes nearly exclusively since it interfaces with her nano which she needs for the gym. if she gets something for $holiday its usually through amazon.
me: Perfectly happy with whatever audible frequencies are coming out of mpd and ncmpc. icecast is good enough for me because back in my day we whipped the llamas ass and we liked it.
Kids: youtube, youtube-dl, and sharing mp3s at will during school or while hanging out. otherwise pandora, or some freemium service that caters to obscure genres like glitch-core or butter-pickle-hop or whatever squeeling fan belt noises kids listen to these days.
my parents: Vinyl and tape...mostly tape.
in polite society its considered uncouth to execute your whistleblowers. Social execution, career execution, certainly. In this term the government already had what it wants from snowden and that is unconditional exile. Sure, having a warm body gives ample opportunity to crucify the enemy of your specific terms of freedom but if you already control major media outlets, so it doesnt matter what your enemy says. the NYT, CBS, NBC, you name it, they will all toe the line and kindly omit certain details if you ask them to avoid being 'unpatriotic' in your reporting.
Morris also conceded that mental countermeasures to the polygraph are a "tough thing."
much like countermeasures to the easter bunny are a "tough thing." the polygraph loses its mystic power once you expose it as firmly debunked pseudoscience in the realm of phrenology and tea leaf reading. The purpose of the test is to act as a chilling effect, nothing more.
I work in West Hollywood. Angry Birds has enjoyed a media blitz here courtesy of the industry at large. its just something that gets done for all films. it can be written off on studio taxes. its surprising to see something like this make #1 though? It certainly speaks to a very talented writers group.
what does not make sense is to go it alone, fire 200 people, and push to deliver a film solely by yourself. Unless,you're taking a page from some of the more cutthroat entities of US Capitalism. Yes, in the short term, doing this can net you a few million in revenue taxed at a very favourable US rate. However, you canned most of your game staff so now what? This was just one film. Blockbuster teams like Weinstein and Warner crank out 4 sequels a year and thats sometimes with recurring losses baked in. those sequels exist only to sell toys and shirts and food. Unless you plan to focus on franchising which takes way more money sunk into branding and advertising, im afraid you just sold the company down shits creek. Or did you want to be a film company? Was this an attempt to get around huge industry margins for films like those out of marvels wheelhouse? Those are unavoidable and it speaks to corporate greed if you did cartwheels to explicitly avoid players in Hollywood.
So yeah, whoever you worked with, it largely wasnt Hollywood. The films marketing consists of a billboard on la brea with a cryptic phrase and a billboard on la cienega with three birds and a charred facade but no mention of the film, its opening date, or even that its a film...
congress critter: we err on the side of caution and dont prosecute most situations where a cop kills someone
beat cop: but, sometimes, we can be really wrong. the consequences of doing this puts us beyond the law.
senator: we just authorized MRAP's and machine guns for you guys and hey while youre at it why not grenade launchers
beat cop: This isnt rambo...how does a tank help us solve a domestic violence issue? most of the stuff we deal with stems from drug abuse and unemployment...cant you guys help fix that?
governor: license plate readers for everyone! also here are all the cameras, look at everything, just let no crime go unpunished or i have to get a real job next year
beat cop: guys...im not arresting someone for tags that are expired in the same month...i dont care about every litterbug...this is just noise. im responding to a bank robbery and have to ignore every unpaid parking ticket that flashes up at me...What do you think cops do?
that common users do not want to be administrators. They dont want to think about patches or updates, or antivirus. They just want to open the product, and consume their services.
its great for sysadmins...we'll always have a job. However its a killing stroke for corporations and plutocrats hoping the "learn to code" effort is going to help drive the cost of developers or sysops down. You've spent 50 years getting Americans to consider technology a product. things like DMCA and closed-door trade agreements have all but cemented the notion that the consumer is a mindless cash cow, not to be permitted to touch the technology unless theyre to part with their identity or money. this mindset isnt about to change.
dream factory profits ruined by inquisitive and scientific evaluation of highly sophisticated snake oil machine. "Clearly the government wants to abort your shariah muslim terror anchor baby abortions in fema death camps instead" exclaims exhausted man on yacht. In other news sales of disposable unlubricated single use monocles slightly higher.
fishing expedition ruined by faithless crusaiders armed only with snake oil machine. 32,768 children end up permanently addicted to jihad marijuana abortion terrorisms due to pirates. Film at 11.
1: Millennials are now old enough to assume power of and chair their respective pharmaceutical boards, and they simply dont care for execution.
2: Pharmaceutical corporations realize the likelihood that with the rise of Millennials and ever encroaching data breaches, they could be implicated in human execution and would face nontrivial political and legal backlash in the coming years.
either way, well played.
London: transform any day into a bright sunny summer day. downside: more pub brawls ensue after complicated arguments and tense standoffs arise from disagreements about blustery and sunny.
Canada: images of alberta in february could be replaced by video of the leafs Borje Salming waxing your car which you tacitly know damn well has been under 7 feet of snow since october.
America: imagine a mcdonalds window that makes the food appear to have been cooked from ingredients that came from actual vegetables and known animals. Or a convenient window treatment that could some day make Dick Cheney look like a real person instead of a villain from an episode of captain planet.
a device that sets a new world efficiency record.
Although not intended, the device is slightly venomous and should be approached with an open palm when feeding. its normal operating temperature is in a 51c environment.
A new solar cell configuration developed by engineers at the University of New South Wales has pushed sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency to 34.5%
while technically true, this was only after it lept off a table and attacked a research graduate it had mistaken for one of the innumerable natural predators along the countryside.
The record was set using a 28-cm2 four-junction mini-module -- embedded in a prism
the prism, paradoxically enough, is extremely venomous however immune to the slightly venomous configuration overall. most of the wales team that installed the device are still recovering from a combination of intense agony and euphoric constipation. see the research study in the bio sci lab called "the prism does what now?"
It does this by splitting the incoming rays into four bands, using a hybrid four-junction receiver
which became territorial during testing and was found to be both predatory as well as bioluminescent. it occupies a classroom on the second floor and to date is consuming around a post doc per month. So remember, that while we now have 34% more energy here which is a huge breakthrough, we must all now add another item to the list of things to check for in boots and under toilet seats. sorry mates.
I wanna see a cartoon or perhaps live action series where John McAfee and Steve Ballmer team up together for zany adentures. these guys are like the bill and ted of modern technology.
sure, Queen Mary University dedicates loads of grant money to fund this useless study but do the evil faculty ever get a say? As a mad scientist at QMU I damned sure didnt see a penny for my study on the gap between girls who study english in a dark room with eleven scorpions and boys who study english in a fumigation tent. Other groundbreaking STEM research like my inspiring study on how much energy is required to fire a baby into the sun every hour until the comissioner honors the demands of course had to be funded directly through my independent network of doners who would like to see their families again. its a wonder I get out of bed at all to lash the army of graduate students living under my porch.
"As you have foresaken Google plus, so have you foresaken us. In retribution the 6 seals have been unlocked and youre to endure our first punishment immediately. Share your world through spaces. Ride this thinly veiled anachronism of the social media platform you so foolishly derided, and endure its indelible integration into everything we do."
Windows started out as a convenient wrapper for Dos, and now we're here. We have updates that are non-negotiable, apps that are installed by default, integration with a video game console, and an entire ecosystem of advertising built-in to the UI. Theres powershell, Linux BASH, and ssh as well as a talking assistant.
after 197 mergers or takeovers in its history its taken Microsoft just 15 years to pedal themselves to an early grave, and windows 10's schitzophrenic laundry list of things it seeks to achieve for the user is an excellent barometer of the companies 'significant changes' after Ballmer was quietly hustled out to the parking lot. There really isnt any direction, but a very obvious pattern.
1. a trend emerges, catches on, and becomes a hit.
2. Microsoft, four years later, creates its own version of the product or technology at the center of the trend.
3. The product, (zune, windows phone, market) is brutalized for three or four more years while microsoft keeps it on X-Box revenue life support.
4. MS quietly shuffles the technology under the rug four more years later, abandoning and alienating nontrivial numbers of users and sacking the entire division that once handled the product.
Hololens, minecraft, the self driving car, surface, phone, cloud -- these are all things that have existed better and cheaper in many cases than microsofts version yet still unaccountably exist as a microsoft offering seemingly just out of spite. Bing was a 7 year attempt at a hostile takeover that is entirely powered by yahoo engine patents and screen scrapes from Google and it still hands out some of the least meaningful or relevant garbage results. The walk-in microsoft store is a godless abortion of over-illuminated copy-paste from whatevers going on in an Apple store, and its performance is so dismal its being rolled into Best Buy stores as a kiosk.
So the question still remains. after 15 years, where the hell do you want to go today, Microsoft? because everywhere isnt a direction.
Patent trolls are notoriously synonymous as leeches that contribute nothing to the process of invention, but theyre no better than the intellectual property patents and frivolous design patents that their targets such as Google or Microsoft endorse and employ.
if anything patent reform by victory should be eschewed in favour of unilateral patent and copyright reform. litigation shouldnt be relegated to some remote texas exurban court, and the USPTO shouldnt roll over whenever someone wants to patent absurdities like one click shopping.
Ronnie Gilstrap is actually a huge inside joke perpetuated across multiple state and local governments. The idea being that a single random litigator, Ronnie, is suddenly and without any adequate explanation forced to spend his entire career presiding over cases he cant possibly comprehend for clients with more money than god.
Imagine it. a man in texas who gets out of bed every morning, wipes his ass, kisses his wife, and then has to sit in a robe all day furiously trying to comprehend what the fuck a phone gesture is and why it gets a patent. Or mild mannered Ronnie, walking through the front door of a grueling day of court cases, only to sit at the dinner table in front of his mashed taytos and chicken fried chicken unable to eat a bite, as hes crucified by the sorrowful fact that he just spent the entire week hearing two people argue over the semantics between a click, a swipe, and a swish.
Before we jump to the assumption that this family went out of their way to file a lawsuit against snapchat because "georgia reasons" lets remember that after an accident, attorneys will market directly to you. Any cut-rate lawyer in the state has probably shilled all parties for relevant interest in a lawsuit. An attorney, however misplaced, has identified a willing party to file a lawsuit against a popular corporation and sadly failed to realize that snapchat has no identifiable revenue stream. Sure, you'll probably enter the courtroom confident in a win..but outside of publicity for winning a suit against a popular online service your billable hours have likely easily usurped Snapchats own guestimate of a one-time 3 million dollar revenue generation.
the real pisser is that in the event snapchat puts up a fight over your definition of "facilitate" (which isnt the strongest here) you risk dragging real victims into court which they may not be prepared for. since you havent specified damages, its likely youre waiting for a settlement based on your "facilitate" defense, but be prepared for the possibility the parties give up, or the judge decides theres a reasonable cap on what you can bleed from a company that...again...doesnt make money.
Elsevier should serve as a warning to other industries like healthcare and insurance. You can pursue profit in an industry, but once it becomes your sole modus operandi you risk the very real incidence of becoming a riot trigger.
this isnt just a reactionary site contesting some recent policy adopted by Elsevier, its a concerted and dedicated movement against a corporate monster thats spent more than 15 years inventing new ways to privatize the hard work and important research of institutions both public and private. Elsevier contests that its profits are simply industry average and its a thoroughly discredited argument once you realize they are the industry in terms of where most research publication comes from. supporting SOPA and PIPA's fascist information controls and directly opposing open-research mandates by funding legislation in american congress are among the most prominent reasons academics including myself boycot this corporation
This isn't the first time Apple Music has deleted a users' locally stored music files.
You ran proprietary software on a closed source OS from a vendor that operates sweatshops with suicide netting and, most importantly, has a track record for disrespecting user rights. While I tune up the worlds tinyest violin and get going on my rendition of the Free Software Song, why not take a look at http://distrowatch.com/ for some examples of operating systems that put you in the drivers seat, and https://osalt.com/ for software that doesnt trample your ability to rock out mellow folk sensation Roger Whittaker at four in the morning.
PHB: any one catch that pro-gaming stream that got interrupted by a windows 10 update? pretty absurd wouldnt you say?
engineer: The machine that controls card readers has been updating all night and our first shift team cant relieve third shift. Windows 10 is turning out to be a pretty ridiculous product.
Janitor: you said it guys, Thanks to these unscheduled windows 10 updates my timecard hasnt properly submitted in nearly a month!
Operator: Yeah, and dont get me started on the SCRAM/status panel for the reactors. Im mostly controlling the whole thing from my geiger counter. but hey, best windows ever am i rite?!
As a political analyst its simple to understand why a ted cruz candidacy was untenable. We simply need to look at the facts.
.04%. now, while this number is rising at an alarming rate, is nowhere near the 34% required for Ted Cruz to survive outside his spacecraft. his inability to handle Nitrogen and Oxygen perhaps cost him valuable facetime with the american people. Any reasonable subterranean intergalactic cephalopod species could surely identify with the all too common problem of our atmosphere and its no reason to think Ted didnt understand this problem acutely.
1. total Co2 in the earths atmosphere is around
2. The mindgasm with Carly Fiorina was tentative, as the aetherial fluids clearly hadnt been administered yet and the nanites had no substrate on which to build the newmind. Carly lacked ambition, determination, and a plan. Most importantly, she lacked the void stare, obedient subservience, and slow speech and gait that are all classic telltale signs of "the syrum." Of course Ted could have used the mindworms, but its unlikely a true fiscal conservative would take to using them. Theyre just too costly in a campaign.
3. despite liberal restucturing in the identity chamber, teds human form was too precitable and beginning to arouse suspicion of his youthful, larval past as the zodiac killer. Had he simply taken the time to explain that humans are a complete nutritional delicacy for his species and that 4-5 are required to exit the larval stage and return to the hivemind, most conservatives would have viewed this as a good leadership quality.
so heres hoping the Yaylaka prince Don-Al of Ukador persei 9, commonly known as "Don-Al Trumph" does better. and before you bash the candidate, its worth remembering his speech seems to approximate normal english almost 60% of the time! Quite an achievement if youve never slid into a humanform that may or may not have been a long haul trucker from illinois whos been missing for 36 years and presumed dead. I think we can all agree when he says "hail Ji-Ban-Lau forever" he means it.