What type of idioticly designed pump takes half an hour to run a software upgrade?
According to the OP, the update process involves "running a manufacturer-provided program that connects to the device and pushes the new software."
I don't think it's too hard to guess what level of software quality is provided by the pump manufacturer.
Also why are the numbers reversed to quote success rates for Google and Microsoft in the summary on Slashdot - it would have been much clearer if the actual numbers in the article (which were all error rates) were quoted!
Because this is Slashdot and it is required that all stories be written as poorly as possible.
Baidu's new computer was wrong only 4.58 percent of the time. The previous best was 4.82 percent, reported by Google in March.
If Google is only wrong 4.82% of the time then why is it whenever I search for an image I get thousands of pictures that have absolutely nothing to do with what I am searching for?
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Add a nice new feature.
Charge $1 per month to use it (or $0.33, if that's all they need).
Profit.
How do you collect $1 a month from each user? The problem isn't so much that people don't want to pay. Most people wouldn't mind paying $1 a month, but will not pay $12 once a year. Yes, that makes no sense, since it's the same amount of money, but that's how people are.
So how do you charge people $1 a month? The real problem is that there is no easy, simple way to charge people a small amount of money.
I'd argue that having a tribe is not necessarily a bad thing.
I know that a good number of
And then eventually your tribe starts demanding that all the other tribes adhere to your tribe's "beliefs". Immediately followed by attacking and killing all the members of those tribes if they don't accept your tribe's beliefs as being THE ONE TRUE BELIEF®.
In the history of mankind, there has never been a "tribe" or religion which HASN'T done this. Which is why all religion is evil (in addition to promoting fear, ignorance and general stupidity).
So, because this actually hurts businesses . . . we might see actual money spent for handling data integrity as part of enterprise security.
You obviously don't have any understanding of business in the real world.
It's a work in progress.... Wonder how long they think they can get away with it once they start infringing in earnest...
It will just turn into more fodder for the RIAA's legal team....
Yes. They are going to learn very quickly that there is no such thing as "outside of U.S. jurisdiction".
Not so mention that hackers cracked the key generating code for Windows 7. Same with MS office. They generate codes and try them until one works, and bingo you've got a legit code.
They've never cracked the key generating code for Windows 7. They just found ways to work around it.
In late 2001/early 2002 somebody figured out the algorithm to generated Volume License keys for Windows XP, and those don't need activation (so that companies with lots of computers don't have to activate 30,000 units). Starting With Windows XP Service Pack 2 Microsoft changed some things so that those generated Volume License keys wouldn't work any more. So you have to find a legit Volume License key somewhere (not all that hard to do).
Starting with Windows Vista, and continuing on to Windows 7, Microsoft changed things again. Microsoft changed the system for Volume License keys, making them not a viable option for pirates. Windows installed on OEM PCs was now using a system that referenced information in the computer's BIOS. Google "System Locked Pre-activation". So people just started flashing their BIOS with the necessary stuff. Windows thinks my homemade PC is a Dell.
It's either a small shop or an amateur wannabe pirate. Either way, if your computers are hitting Microsoft's activation servers, you're a clueless dope who's doing it wrong. People figured out how to avoid that crap years ago.
How much of the money Sound Exchange collects goes to the artists, how much of the money Sound Exchange collects goes to music publishers? How much of the money Sound Exchange collects goes to song writers?
.The money trail in the music industry is long, crooked and complex. Unless you are a big enough act that the records companies accept the contract you write, the only money you will see appears in your upturned hat.....
How much money does SoundExchange keep for itself? I bet they aren't doing this for free.
Where exactly is this "hardware DRM" going to be? On the computer motherboard? On the DVD/Blu-ray drive? It seems that hardware DRM would require everyone to buy new hardware and i really don't see that working out well. One of the reasons that DVDs are still more popular than Blu-ray is that Blu-ray requires buying a new, more expensive player.
It will either be cracked within a week, or, it will prevent 4k content form becoming popular.
I think we all know that EA is lying and actually gameplay won't look like that.
But, more importantly, the phrase "So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage" is now meaningless. Yes, it does look "just like a movie" due to the fact that many scenes from movies are now done almost entirely in CGI.
What made Google so great when it was still relatively new was the results were more relevant, i.e. they weren't just a bunch of advertisements. With the rise SEO that is less the case now, and looking for something on Google for me now means adding "-buy -purchase -price -shop" automatically.
Unfortunately, that's what happens when a search engine is run by a company that depends on advertising for 96% of its revenue. Google is not in the search business. They are not a technology company, no matter how many data centers and driverless cars they have.
They are an ADVERTISING company and their business model depends on getting you to click on as many ads and "sponsored links" as possible, using whatever deceptive methods necessary.
Here's a radical idea. How about if the search engine returns results that are ACTUALLY WHAT I'M SEARCHING FOR.
One day I was trying to find a particular video clip. No matter how i tried to refine my search query, all I got was completely irrelevant bullshit. Now, the video I was looking for was somewhat old and obscure and so its entirely possible that it doesn't exist anywhere on the Internet. That's fine. I can accept that.
But, if that's the case, then my search should return zero results. Not thousands of irrelevant results.
Friction is a drag.
