> Most devices like the one you describe won't ever get any OS upgrade anytime soon
Yeah, so how is that different from any other Android phone found here in America? I could probably root my phone and upgrade it...but get an update from my carrier or its manufacturer? Pfft.
Microsoft tried everything possible to add proprietary hooks into the web as a form of vendor lock-in. So instead of writing apps that would work on any browser, developers targeted these proprietary hooks. And the vendor lock-in worked so well, that MS locked businesses into an older version of Windows, screwing itself in the process, since they make money only from new versions of Windows.
So Microsoft accidentally did to themselves what they have been doing to the rest of the world for all these years. On some level the mess stinks, on some level, it's nice to see Microsoft reap what they sewed.
No. Apparently they have charged rape suspects as Juveniles in that area, but a good student who hurt nobody will be tried as an adult??? It will never drop off her record. Freaking insane.
There is a petition to get the charges dropped and it has well over 10k signatures already:
> The number of bitcoins in existence will never exceed 21 million.
So once 21 million is hit...no more power is needed, because you can't generate more?
When I read that, I thought 21 million is not a lot of coins for the whole world to use. It seems screwy to me. You run into the issue that you run into with gold, if that is the case. You can't buy a loaf of bread with gold because it is worth so much.
> While the number of bitcoins in existence will never exceed 21 million, the money supply of bitcoins can exceed 21 million due to Fractional-reserve Banking.
I've tried and tried to wrap my head around this, but it makes no sense to me. How can you have fractional-reserve banking if the coins have to match a digital signature? Fractional-reserve banking creates money out of thin air. How can you create bitcoins out of thin air? And if they are just used as backing for a fiat currency, who is to say that someone kept enough bitcoins in stock to cover the fiat money?
Good quality desktop boards and a generous amount of memory will easily run server software these days. Intel makes an artificial barrier to keep server prices higher because it doesn't offer drivers for a server OS if the board is marketed as a desktop. Yes, you can install a server OS on them, but you spend an extra day trying to get chip-set drivers to install and looking for Ethernet card drivers.
So I see that since people can cut corners and save a few dollars, Intel will just solder the CPU on so you can't build high-end machines on the cheap.
I've actually grown to really like Intel chips over the last five - ten years. Crap like you are saying will make me stop buying them real quick.
Debates on weather in Texas have *nothing* to do with evolution in school curriculum in Texas. And for the record, clearly the climate change has resulted from natural processes including fluctuations in the sun's heat and ocean currents.
For a little scada type application. You probably could do what you want to do, but the easiest way to do it would be to make it connect to the phone via bluetooth. It seems that you can't just connect things to the USB ports on a phone and access them the way you think you could. But if you use bluetooth, it's one more wireless point of failure and you have to look at getting power to your board instead getting it from the phone. Didn't appeal to me and just dropped this idea.
More open access to the usb ports would be cool, though. If an alarm tripped...it's already connected to a device with a SIM card in it.
I used to run a BBS under it and it allowed me to run 3 - 4 instances of my software to offer multiple dial-in lines off the same PC.
For the life of me, I never understood why MS didn't buy them out and just incorporate it directly into DOS. It was stable and "just worked." I do realize the DOS was going to die either way, but Desqview rocked and would have been a great way for MS to end it on a positive note.
A quick look on Amazon and there is at least one ad blocker available. People can say what they like about Amazon, but I'm really glad they started their app store for Android. As far as is possible with app stores, it forced some choices there that I'm sure Google didn't in any way want.
On the other hand, we as consumers helped enable app stores. It was a pretty big shift from the way hardware/software has historically worked. Microsoft is now tripping all over itself to get a piece of the action. Make the hardware, and then make a cut off of every app sold. Yeah. A wet dream from MS. Hey, not only that, but they get final approval over the apps in the store. Double yeah!
Last week I noticed some items missing from my front porch. I had installed a couple of game cameras to strategically catch my front door. Went back through and had 4 pictures of the guy taking stuff, and two were quite nice since they are 4 megapixel cameras.
Pictures got posted on FB (not by me actually, I hate FB) and I had a name for the sheriffs office by the next morning. Even found his FB page so we could compare pictures.
What if you don't know you are sick and this detects it? An interesting way for Microsoft or Apple to monetize this would be to patent an alzheimer's detection algorithm...quickly.
I have a relative that just died because she had a reaction to the flu shot and it killed her. So, yeah, when it not only isn't working but also killing people, it is doubly bad.
Market strategy isn't working well for MS. In what I'm reading, Surface RT did 750,000 to maybe a million in 3 months. Asus is pushing a million a month for the Nexus 7. Rumor has it that the Surface RT had a very high return rate, as well.
A separate report from IDC on the entire tablet industry in the last quarter doesn't even show Microsoft in the top five in the list of companies that had the most shipments of tablets. The report claims that Microsoft shipped "just shy of 900,000 units into the channel." Apple had the most tablet shipments for the quarter at 22.9 million units, followed by Samsung with 7.9 million units and Amazon with 6 million tablets.
Amazon is beating out Microsoft? I bought a Nexus 7 and I can't really recall seeing much advertising for it at all. I'm seeing MS advertising left and right.
They do have one thing going for them that Open Source and free markets do not, money to pay -- buy off? (See Dell) -- people to use their products. Slide yes, but they will go down much more slowly than most of us on here will care to admit or like.
Where I work uses AT&T, but refused to get us smartphones. I purchased an AT&T LG Thrive prepaid smartphone and stuck my work sim card into it. No dataplan, I just use the wifi. They did not raise the price of the monthly.
It is, however, one of the shittiest business products it has ever made. There are people still trying to do work with real PCs. I'm happy they have a good consumer product, finally. But the business world and the consumer world have different needs. For the love of everything holy, WHY CAN'T THEY BRING OUT TWO PRODUCT LINES, ONE FOR BUSINESS AND ONE FOR CONSUMERS.
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> Most devices like the one you describe won't ever get any OS upgrade anytime soon
Yeah, so how is that different from any other Android phone found here in America? I could probably root my phone and upgrade it...but get an update from my carrier or its manufacturer? Pfft.
Microsoft tried everything possible to add proprietary hooks into the web as a form of vendor lock-in. So instead of writing apps that would work on any browser, developers targeted these proprietary hooks. And the vendor lock-in worked so well, that MS locked businesses into an older version of Windows, screwing itself in the process, since they make money only from new versions of Windows.
So Microsoft accidentally did to themselves what they have been doing to the rest of the world for all these years. On some level the mess stinks, on some level, it's nice to see Microsoft reap what they sewed.
Are the frames worth any money? Is there any way I mine my own and sell them?
No. Apparently they have charged rape suspects as Juveniles in that area, but a good student who hurt nobody will be tried as an adult??? It will never drop off her record. Freaking insane.
There is a petition to get the charges dropped and it has well over 10k signatures already:
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot?share_id=dFwlXuyxHk&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition
> Chewbacca doesn't say stupid things in a phony Jamaican accent.
But he did manage to nail Han Solo's wife. What a wookie.
Interesting, but with some searching, Foxconn does actually make android/chrome devices:
Google Glass project said to be made by Foxconn in California
FoxConn Making An Amazon Phone For 2013
Acer Android phones...made by FoxConn
Granted, it seems to be a small percentage of what they do for Apple, it isn't exactly..."they don't make any"
One thing I don't really understand is this:
> The number of bitcoins in existence will never exceed 21 million.
So once 21 million is hit...no more power is needed, because you can't generate more?
When I read that, I thought 21 million is not a lot of coins for the whole world to use. It seems screwy to me. You run into the issue that you run into with gold, if that is the case. You can't buy a loaf of bread with gold because it is worth so much.
> While the number of bitcoins in existence will never exceed 21 million, the money supply of bitcoins can exceed 21 million due to Fractional-reserve Banking.
I've tried and tried to wrap my head around this, but it makes no sense to me. How can you have fractional-reserve banking if the coins have to match a digital signature? Fractional-reserve banking creates money out of thin air. How can you create bitcoins out of thin air? And if they are just used as backing for a fiat currency, who is to say that someone kept enough bitcoins in stock to cover the fiat money?
Good quality desktop boards and a generous amount of memory will easily run server software these days. Intel makes an artificial barrier to keep server prices higher because it doesn't offer drivers for a server OS if the board is marketed as a desktop. Yes, you can install a server OS on them, but you spend an extra day trying to get chip-set drivers to install and looking for Ethernet card drivers.
So I see that since people can cut corners and save a few dollars, Intel will just solder the CPU on so you can't build high-end machines on the cheap.
I've actually grown to really like Intel chips over the last five - ten years. Crap like you are saying will make me stop buying them real quick.
Another money maker would be a brand new PC with Windows XP SP4 on it, with renewed support. Now that would be a money maker for Microsoft.
Don't forget the Zunes. Whatever their final total was, add +8 to it, so it reflects the Zunes.
But if you are very lucky, they will let you intern for them:
http://theweek.com/article/index/242065/america-is-raising-a-generation-of-interns
How we set aside our morals and learned to love the bomb
Debates on weather in Texas have *nothing* to do with evolution in school curriculum in Texas. And for the record, clearly the climate change has resulted from natural processes including fluctuations in the sun's heat and ocean currents.
For a little scada type application. You probably could do what you want to do, but the easiest way to do it would be to make it connect to the phone via bluetooth. It seems that you can't just connect things to the USB ports on a phone and access them the way you think you could. But if you use bluetooth, it's one more wireless point of failure and you have to look at getting power to your board instead getting it from the phone. Didn't appeal to me and just dropped this idea.
More open access to the usb ports would be cool, though. If an alarm tripped...it's already connected to a device with a SIM card in it.
Look at Desqview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
I used to run a BBS under it and it allowed me to run 3 - 4 instances of my software to offer multiple dial-in lines off the same PC.
For the life of me, I never understood why MS didn't buy them out and just incorporate it directly into DOS. It was stable and "just worked." I do realize the DOS was going to die either way, but Desqview rocked and would have been a great way for MS to end it on a positive note.
A quick look on Amazon and there is at least one ad blocker available. People can say what they like about Amazon, but I'm really glad they started their app store for Android. As far as is possible with app stores, it forced some choices there that I'm sure Google didn't in any way want.
On the other hand, we as consumers helped enable app stores. It was a pretty big shift from the way hardware/software has historically worked. Microsoft is now tripping all over itself to get a piece of the action. Make the hardware, and then make a cut off of every app sold. Yeah. A wet dream from MS. Hey, not only that, but they get final approval over the apps in the store. Double yeah!
Nice things.
I telnet to port 80 and assemble the HTML in my mind, matrix style.
All hail the best Viewed with telnet to port 80 initiative
Last week I noticed some items missing from my front porch. I had installed a couple of game cameras to strategically catch my front door. Went back through and had 4 pictures of the guy taking stuff, and two were quite nice since they are 4 megapixel cameras.
Pictures got posted on FB (not by me actually, I hate FB) and I had a name for the sheriffs office by the next morning. Even found his FB page so we could compare pictures.
What if you don't know you are sick and this detects it? An interesting way for Microsoft or Apple to monetize this would be to patent an alzheimer's detection algorithm...quickly.
I have a relative that just died because she had a reaction to the flu shot and it killed her. So, yeah, when it not only isn't working but also killing people, it is doubly bad.
Market strategy isn't working well for MS. In what I'm reading, Surface RT did 750,000 to maybe a million in 3 months. Asus is pushing a million a month for the Nexus 7. Rumor has it that the Surface RT had a very high return rate, as well.
Amazon is beating out Microsoft? I bought a Nexus 7 and I can't really recall seeing much advertising for it at all. I'm seeing MS advertising left and right.
They do have one thing going for them that Open Source and free markets do not, money to pay -- buy off? (See Dell) -- people to use their products. Slide yes, but they will go down much more slowly than most of us on here will care to admit or like.
Where I work uses AT&T, but refused to get us smartphones. I purchased an AT&T LG Thrive prepaid smartphone and stuck my work sim card into it. No dataplan, I just use the wifi. They did not raise the price of the monthly.
It is, however, one of the shittiest business products it has ever made. There are people still trying to do work with real PCs. I'm happy they have a good consumer product, finally. But the business world and the consumer world have different needs. For the love of everything holy, WHY CAN'T THEY BRING OUT TWO PRODUCT LINES, ONE FOR BUSINESS AND ONE FOR CONSUMERS.