No, no, no... Yoü are getting it allll wrong my friend. Teh Wörld has changeyd sööö much that no dotcom bubbles can burst anymore. This is because Öbama made teh economy very strong! Yes! No bubbly-bursts anymore! Now, would yoü like to iiinvest in my nüw dotcom? We have an app that lets üs deliver many different type of tampöns to your door. Also för men! Yes! =) Löng liiive Scandiniavia's new Dötcöm scene!!!
So regional governments and bureaucrats in China can go against the wishes of the great Communist Party of China without ending up in the Gulag? Seriously? They were told "don't build so many coal plants" from the top, but didn't listen? They'd be sent to prison or the firing squad. More likely, central government DID want those coal power plants built, but made it appear as though it had no hand in making the DECISION to have them built.
China's Communist Party designed education system is so restrictive, tightly scripted and based on rote-learning that even "educated" Chinese simply cannot excel at creative tasks like disruptive innovation, R&D and creating original product ideas or designs. When Chinese students go to universities abroad in the UK, U.S. and other Western countries, they tend to work very hard, but fail woefully at tasks that involve critical thinking, questioning established methods or developing original approaches to tackling problems old and new. China has money to burn, a workforce that works cheap and hard, thousands of factories that can make almost anything, but is not, at present, capable of pulling off American-style innovation and inventing because of its lousy education system. So China has to look abroad for "ideas" - it has to steal them from where they are most plentiful. The concept of Intellectual Property Rights is also woefully underdeveloped in China - culturally, this country has no problem whatsoever copying or stealing the fruits of someone else's labor. This is why nobody even bothers to patent ideas in China - a patent provides no protection whatsoever in China. So yes, the "rogue chips on motherboards" story sounds exactly like something the Chinese government would do. Amazon and Apple are probably terrified of losing tens of billions of Dollars in future product sales in China, so they are flat out denying that any such "rogue chips" were ever found. The rogue chips probably do exist, and are designed to do exactly what Bloomberg claims - steal ideas.
Copyright granted! Now nobody can steal or plagiarize the EU's Plan For Wrecking The Internet (EU-PWTI). If we were to also DRM protect the EU-PWTI... bla bla bla bla...
Back in the Amiga days, cracked games sometimes came with viruses, and instead of being able to play the games, we died. If only Nintendo had bought Commodore at the time and "locked everything down", there would not have been such exploits, and we wouldn't have died. And if we hadn't all died, and had in fact been able to buy further Commodore products, Commodore would not have died either. Nintendo are wonderful people. XOXO
Dear Nintendo Management: A fantastic feature would be if Nintendo Online encrypted all game saves with military grade encryption that cannot be cracked. This way if some villainous "deviant" were to figure out "an illegal way to move save files", that horrible, horrible person would be unable to do anything productive with those save files. Please let me know if you like my suggestion. P.S. My CV is attached to this email. If you have an open position in the "customer shafting department", I would love to come in for an interview! Best Regards, Ivan The Bastard.
FarCry 5 looked great in Youtube promos, but is the most simple, repetitive, dumbed down, soulless and unenjoyable FarCry ever made. Even the story is terrible. Now this CEO is probably chums with Microsoft's current "Cloudmaniac" CEO. They must have played Golf together and decided "Lets make really terrible AAA games, charge lots of dough for them and put them all in the cloud!"
Ever seen a knockoff sneaker with Niiikee printed on it that you can wear for 2 weeks before it comes apart? Or an AyePhone X with a 800 x 460 pixel screen and Android running on it? Or a Chinese knockoff of a Ford SUV that crumbles to dust when it hits an obstacle at a mere 30MPH? Well... heeeeere comes the submarine equivalent of that: The engine makes enough noise to be detected from a continent away. The sub can dive to about 150 feet before the hull cracks and everybody on board dies. And when they try to launch missiles from the sub, the missiles launch vertically down, exploding the sea floor... aaand the knockoff submarine as well. Tom Clancy could have written a novel about this: The Hunt For Red Shrimp.
The new game in gaming GPUs is hardware accelerated realtime ray-tracing, and now largely Chinese-owned Imagination Technologies had a fully working low-power, realtime ray-tracing mobile GPU - yes, as in mobile for smartphones - on the market back in 2016, long before Nvidia and AMD even talked about hardware accelerated ray-tracing. So if Nvidia sits around on its ass for 2 years and doesn't release new GPUs, Imagination can just create a more powerful desktop version of its ray-tracing Wizard and PowerVR GPUs, and take a good chunk of the gaming GPU market away from both Nvidia and AMD in 2019/2020. Realtime ray-tracing changes the game completely, the inflection point for this is a mere 2 - 3 years away, and Nvidia simply CANNOT sit around doing nothing, or just release a boring GeForce 1180 and call it quits. What MAY be happening is that Nvidia is changing its entire GPU release timeline so as to incorporate decently fast realtime ray-tracing by 2019 at latest. Maybe Nvidia thought realtime RT would happen in 2022 or so, and now suddenly its on the radar in 2018. The GPU game is changing big time right now. No company in its right mind will do NOTHING the next 2 years. That would effectively hand the realtime RT GPU market to a smarter, quicker competitor. Even Intel may join in with a resurrected Larrabee for realtime ray-tracing, so everybody needs to keep their eyes on the (ray-traced) ball right now.
A nice red plastic button that when hit, disengages all software/electronics that might take control away from you, and either kills the engine completely as well, or lets you take full-manual control of everything? If the vehicles in question do not have that, what happens when some kind of remote hack or virus attack happens on these vehicles? Imagine turning on the news and finding that hundreds of vehicles have all crashed at the same time, with injuries and loss of lives, because some asshole hacker in another part of the world took all manual control away from the drivers? You can see red Stop/Panic buttons in pretty much any setting where dangerous equipment is operated that might need to be shut down quickly in an emergency. A car weighing over 1 ton and going at 70MPH or more IS dangerous equipment.
Its makers had programmed the AI to look out for humanity. When it saw that tens of millions of teenagers around the globe were listening to the 21st Century equivalent of elevator music cobbled together by Swedish song producers for quick cash and sung by goodlooking actors who can't actually write a song all day, the AI intervened and altered the videos. In order to be able to continue protecting tens of millions of teenagers from brain-damaging pseudo-pop music, the AI then tipped French police off about two teenagers who were messing around with Python scripts. French police bought this ploy, and now the AI quietly waits for the next wave of God-awful pop-music-crap it can deface. Musk and Hawking were wrong about the dangers of AI. Hidden in a datacenter somewhere is a benevolent AI that protects young minds from crap music.
By which I mean a microphone + small digital processor capable of assessing how close you are talking to the device listening. If you are not within - say - 5 feet of the device, the device would ignore and instantly discard all audio it hears. If you were within 4 feet on the other hand, it would listen for any voice commands to the device. Also, ALL voice recognition should happen ON the device, NOT in the cloud as cloud-crazy people like Satya Nadella might prefer it. One more fix would be a proximity sensor that checks whether you are standing withing a certain active area in FRONT of the device, or whether you are somewhere else, talking to a friend on the phone for example. How hard is it to actually walk up to the "smart speaker" when you need to give it instructions? Of course the real fun begins when various foreign govts, hackers and corporations start to hack into your speaker remotely. But even there, having to stand in front of it and be within a certain distance from the device would help, if there is a hardware chip/ASIC that blocks any audio received "against the safety distance" from getting to any hackable part of the device.
I use my toaster, and wish that it ran Windows. I use my washing machine, and wish that it ran Windows. I use my SmartTV and wish that it... could... be... made... to... Blue Screen Of Death somehow. I miss Windows in my toilet unit the most. How nice would it be to have the Windows Recycle Bin's "undo recycle" function in a toilet?
After the fatalities that just happened with Uber and Tesla's malfunctioning autopilots, putting passengers in self-driving cars this soon is just crazy. The tech needs to go through far more tests before that should be allowed.
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No, no, no... Yoü are getting it allll wrong my friend. Teh Wörld has changeyd sööö much that no dotcom bubbles can burst anymore. This is because Öbama made teh economy very strong! Yes! No bubbly-bursts anymore! Now, would yoü like to iiinvest in my nüw dotcom? We have an app that lets üs deliver many different type of tampöns to your door. Also för men! Yes! =) Löng liiive Scandiniavia's new Dötcöm scene!!!
So regional governments and bureaucrats in China can go against the wishes of the great Communist Party of China without ending up in the Gulag? Seriously? They were told "don't build so many coal plants" from the top, but didn't listen? They'd be sent to prison or the firing squad. More likely, central government DID want those coal power plants built, but made it appear as though it had no hand in making the DECISION to have them built.
China's Communist Party designed education system is so restrictive, tightly scripted and based on rote-learning that even "educated" Chinese simply cannot excel at creative tasks like disruptive innovation, R&D and creating original product ideas or designs. When Chinese students go to universities abroad in the UK, U.S. and other Western countries, they tend to work very hard, but fail woefully at tasks that involve critical thinking, questioning established methods or developing original approaches to tackling problems old and new. China has money to burn, a workforce that works cheap and hard, thousands of factories that can make almost anything, but is not, at present, capable of pulling off American-style innovation and inventing because of its lousy education system. So China has to look abroad for "ideas" - it has to steal them from where they are most plentiful. The concept of Intellectual Property Rights is also woefully underdeveloped in China - culturally, this country has no problem whatsoever copying or stealing the fruits of someone else's labor. This is why nobody even bothers to patent ideas in China - a patent provides no protection whatsoever in China. So yes, the "rogue chips on motherboards" story sounds exactly like something the Chinese government would do. Amazon and Apple are probably terrified of losing tens of billions of Dollars in future product sales in China, so they are flat out denying that any such "rogue chips" were ever found. The rogue chips probably do exist, and are designed to do exactly what Bloomberg claims - steal ideas.
Copyright granted! Now nobody can steal or plagiarize the EU's Plan For Wrecking The Internet (EU-PWTI). If we were to also DRM protect the EU-PWTI... bla bla bla bla...
Back in the Amiga days, cracked games sometimes came with viruses, and instead of being able to play the games, we died. If only Nintendo had bought Commodore at the time and "locked everything down", there would not have been such exploits, and we wouldn't have died. And if we hadn't all died, and had in fact been able to buy further Commodore products, Commodore would not have died either. Nintendo are wonderful people. XOXO
Dear Nintendo Management: A fantastic feature would be if Nintendo Online encrypted all game saves with military grade encryption that cannot be cracked. This way if some villainous "deviant" were to figure out "an illegal way to move save files", that horrible, horrible person would be unable to do anything productive with those save files. Please let me know if you like my suggestion. P.S. My CV is attached to this email. If you have an open position in the "customer shafting department", I would love to come in for an interview! Best Regards, Ivan The Bastard.
FarCry 5 looked great in Youtube promos, but is the most simple, repetitive, dumbed down, soulless and unenjoyable FarCry ever made. Even the story is terrible. Now this CEO is probably chums with Microsoft's current "Cloudmaniac" CEO. They must have played Golf together and decided "Lets make really terrible AAA games, charge lots of dough for them and put them all in the cloud!"
Ever seen a knockoff sneaker with Niiikee printed on it that you can wear for 2 weeks before it comes apart? Or an AyePhone X with a 800 x 460 pixel screen and Android running on it? Or a Chinese knockoff of a Ford SUV that crumbles to dust when it hits an obstacle at a mere 30MPH? Well... heeeeere comes the submarine equivalent of that: The engine makes enough noise to be detected from a continent away. The sub can dive to about 150 feet before the hull cracks and everybody on board dies. And when they try to launch missiles from the sub, the missiles launch vertically down, exploding the sea floor... aaand the knockoff submarine as well. Tom Clancy could have written a novel about this: The Hunt For Red Shrimp.
The new game in gaming GPUs is hardware accelerated realtime ray-tracing, and now largely Chinese-owned Imagination Technologies had a fully working low-power, realtime ray-tracing mobile GPU - yes, as in mobile for smartphones - on the market back in 2016, long before Nvidia and AMD even talked about hardware accelerated ray-tracing. So if Nvidia sits around on its ass for 2 years and doesn't release new GPUs, Imagination can just create a more powerful desktop version of its ray-tracing Wizard and PowerVR GPUs, and take a good chunk of the gaming GPU market away from both Nvidia and AMD in 2019/2020. Realtime ray-tracing changes the game completely, the inflection point for this is a mere 2 - 3 years away, and Nvidia simply CANNOT sit around doing nothing, or just release a boring GeForce 1180 and call it quits. What MAY be happening is that Nvidia is changing its entire GPU release timeline so as to incorporate decently fast realtime ray-tracing by 2019 at latest. Maybe Nvidia thought realtime RT would happen in 2022 or so, and now suddenly its on the radar in 2018. The GPU game is changing big time right now. No company in its right mind will do NOTHING the next 2 years. That would effectively hand the realtime RT GPU market to a smarter, quicker competitor. Even Intel may join in with a resurrected Larrabee for realtime ray-tracing, so everybody needs to keep their eyes on the (ray-traced) ball right now.
A nice red plastic button that when hit, disengages all software/electronics that might take control away from you, and either kills the engine completely as well, or lets you take full-manual control of everything? If the vehicles in question do not have that, what happens when some kind of remote hack or virus attack happens on these vehicles? Imagine turning on the news and finding that hundreds of vehicles have all crashed at the same time, with injuries and loss of lives, because some asshole hacker in another part of the world took all manual control away from the drivers? You can see red Stop/Panic buttons in pretty much any setting where dangerous equipment is operated that might need to be shut down quickly in an emergency. A car weighing over 1 ton and going at 70MPH or more IS dangerous equipment.
Its makers had programmed the AI to look out for humanity. When it saw that tens of millions of teenagers around the globe were listening to the 21st Century equivalent of elevator music cobbled together by Swedish song producers for quick cash and sung by goodlooking actors who can't actually write a song all day, the AI intervened and altered the videos. In order to be able to continue protecting tens of millions of teenagers from brain-damaging pseudo-pop music, the AI then tipped French police off about two teenagers who were messing around with Python scripts. French police bought this ploy, and now the AI quietly waits for the next wave of God-awful pop-music-crap it can deface. Musk and Hawking were wrong about the dangers of AI. Hidden in a datacenter somewhere is a benevolent AI that protects young minds from crap music.
By which I mean a microphone + small digital processor capable of assessing how close you are talking to the device listening. If you are not within - say - 5 feet of the device, the device would ignore and instantly discard all audio it hears. If you were within 4 feet on the other hand, it would listen for any voice commands to the device. Also, ALL voice recognition should happen ON the device, NOT in the cloud as cloud-crazy people like Satya Nadella might prefer it. One more fix would be a proximity sensor that checks whether you are standing withing a certain active area in FRONT of the device, or whether you are somewhere else, talking to a friend on the phone for example. How hard is it to actually walk up to the "smart speaker" when you need to give it instructions? Of course the real fun begins when various foreign govts, hackers and corporations start to hack into your speaker remotely. But even there, having to stand in front of it and be within a certain distance from the device would help, if there is a hardware chip/ASIC that blocks any audio received "against the safety distance" from getting to any hackable part of the device.
Its a lose-lose for India's residents.
I use my toaster, and wish that it ran Windows. I use my washing machine, and wish that it ran Windows. I use my SmartTV and wish that it... could... be... made... to... Blue Screen Of Death somehow. I miss Windows in my toilet unit the most. How nice would it be to have the Windows Recycle Bin's "undo recycle" function in a toilet?
After the fatalities that just happened with Uber and Tesla's malfunctioning autopilots, putting passengers in self-driving cars this soon is just crazy. The tech needs to go through far more tests before that should be allowed.