Posts by Haro 67 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jun 2007
Nobody monitors the live feeds. Everything is held in loops. Only if there is a shooting do they spend the incredible amount of money it takes to trace back the culprit to a well-lit zone. Looks like they need to invest in street lights as well as the camera. :) Back to the topic, Internet snooping takes a huge percentage of the GDP. As well, every little town and country wants to go back to balkanization and local toll roads. Strike off another hunk.
Sony lost a lot of money for each ps3 that first came out. I bought one since I could see there was a factor of two involved somewhere. Then they screwed around with it so you couldn't use it as a media centre. I think the MS factor of two is that they must sell things at twice the cost to make money. But I wouldn't buy unless you see the factor of two is the other way, like Sony.
MS has always been stuck to all the cruft that has gone before. If they come up with something totally new, then nobody likes it because it doesn't work with anything. Spartan is another attempt to break free. If they had any arrogant people left they would immediate ditch IE and go for the new. But now they are getting twitchy, and are having both.
In order to keep the other two honest, I wish they would start a 'skunkworks', and throw out something new that would eat the old. Not going to happen. :(
In summary, from all the comments, this is an empty offer that won't kill anybody. Since the software is all important, nobody ever upgrades an existing machine, since you can be sure all your software and drivers won't run. They are just doing this so that people will have w10 on new machines. In large corporations you always start out-typing your Word after 3 years, because of messier anti-virus bloat. New machines are the order of day, and this might even put Intel back in the black.
My experience with large companies is that MS hastens old-company disease. It starts when the key to internal advancement is to learn every trick in making a Powerpoint presentation to the Big Bosses, and sending the perfect email to everybody on Outlook. The last few years have been kind to these companies, since everybody got up to the same level. Now, they will be hit with the huge upgrade cycle and features galore. Can't wait until the really smart ones send Cortana Outlook spreadsheets. :)
Like IBM going down, this clears the road for young upstarts.
That was my experience at a large dysfunctional company. They went the full outsourcing route and everything went downhill after that. Luckily, I only went into computers because I needed good stuff for engineering, and later (with no competent computing) I just did the science with a pencil. :( until the good pension kicked in.
One son had a job all lined up at IBM, and then it all crashed. The other son was at Accenture, and they were sucking up all the big jobs. For years IBM ruled Canada, and all the ridiculous huge government computer jobs. None of them ended up working. As somebody said, the Cloud has no barriers to entry, and the winnings go to the swift. A big bureaucracy has no chance.
For example, at the cottage (very remote in Canada), there have been huge wastes of money on this. First came a unique tower on the lake that did wimax very expensively. Then the normal towers came closer. I think Iridium suffered the same thing, very slow and expensive connections, and in came the towers. By the time this comes in, there will be a tower nearby doing super-duper-lte for next to nothing.
Even in Africa, towers are cheaper.
That was a big problem in Canada, and then there are the giant pig farms. But before all that shit destroys the world, it has to get past people drinking it, and the lakes turning green. Thus, there is a great deal of science and technology on this issue. The best approaches are things like soil drilling, and GM crops that need less fertilizer and pesticides. And the elimination of horrible farm subsidies. I blame the Europeans for their weirdo attitudes on GM. :)
I don't read much into this. It's sort of like a cop stopping you for speeding, and then adding the broken headlight. I mean, good old Gmail is totally encrypted, if you include https transport and the fact that it is offshore. This whole war on encryption is going nowhere. Everybody should aggravate them with a Tor relay.
I'm just combining this with the other article on a certain oil state. What can one do other than be brave enough to run an exit Tor relay, and buy an electric car. As stated here, all the massive fishing does is allow the Saudis to whip people, since I'm sure Mr. MI5 and Mr. Facebook give them everything.
I use my powerful Linux PC for bittorrent, and running a Tor relay. The Internet limits the need for power, just as I've got all the power I need for my Openwrt router. Everything else I do on it (blog, g+, gimp, etc) could be done on a Chromebook, but I won't get one. An old laptop has found a new use as a Tails Linux super-secure connection, even though I don't need it. My Nexus7-2 is mostly a book reader, with a little bit of Hangouts (texting). The phone use is just for mobile texting. I think the dynamic range of power may increase, from very powerful desktop to small mobile. Perhaps the middle (tablet) will get squeezed out.
As a light grazer of economics, I'd be interested in what people think are the limits to the Apple premium. So far, I've heard someone say "You can't afford Apple stuff, you are scum.". This puts no limits. And, as well, Apple apps make more money per person than Android, because these people are rich.
The premium is now at 2x compared to the Oneplus One, which is a fine phone. If it goes up to 3x, then all the arguments remains the same -- smaller market share of increasingly richer people. Why not go to 4x?
Right now MS must be looking at dozens of worse bugs, and taking their sweet time. This is only an escalation exploit, and must go into that bin of hundreds. Shame on Google for revealing, what must be the most minor of bugs in the MS Universe. :) (I think two years should be the time limit.)
My unscientific poll of a few, shows that Apple doesn't put tremendous effort into supporting old hardware. The local cell phone booth says 'Never upgrade.', and some people find quite a performance hit with the old hardware when they upgrade. Of course, the poll could be wrong. :)
I think most people have said it already. Eliminate strong blue light at night, warm white led bulbs everywhere. Use Twilight for Android, and I have a lot of trouble on my Linux machine keeping Redshift going, so I don't use it much at night. Take 5mg of melatonin at night. In the morning, hit yourself with blue light. I use the Philips goLite which has blue leds.
I mainly do earthquake risk, and this is sort of the same thing. Would you upgrade your building in California? Nobody expects anything to happen, and the government will fix it all anyway. IT risk should be insured, like earthquakes, and the more you do, the less the cost. But big trouble trying to quantify it.
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