The point being made here is that focusing entirely on reproduction can have a negative impact on long-term survival. Too many children can mean that everybody starves.
You're using "replication" to mean the act of one individual giving birth. Doctorvo is using "replication of the species" to mean a long term increase in size of the entire population.
I just pulled out my phone, opened Translate, spoke and immediately had the translation spoken back to me.
I still think its pretty cool, but what is it about these new earbuds that has any bearing on this bidirectional spoken translation capability which has been baked into the Translate app for ages?
That feels like you may mean the System Properties dialog Hardware tab - 2K had the Device Manager button in the middle, then XP moved it to the top and chucked a random Window Update button in its place (even though there was another tab for Automatic Update settings). Played merry hell with my muscle memory. At least they kept Alt-D as the shortcut.
Descriptivism is dead... Language is not, nor should it be, static.
Call me a prescriptivist, but I think the way you redefined the two terms 'descriptivism' and 'prescriptivism' to mean each other is bound to cause confusion and should be proscribed.
In other news, I have now looked at words containing 'ivi' for long enough that all I can see is Roman numerals.
Your math is very wrong. FTFA: 10k ppl=$140m, that is 14,000 per person, averaged. Said another way, 250,000*.0225=$5625.
Are you completely ignoring the fact that this discussion thread right here is about the tax being marginal?
The only way it makes any sense to calculate 2.25% of 250K is if someone makes $500K, so they make 250K over the threshold.
The average 14K pp estimate suggests that the average wage they're looking at is 14,000/.0225 = ~620K ABOVE the 250K threshold, so $870K/yr.
The other concern is that randomising the link order has been shown (ASPLOS 2015) to have around a plus or minus 20% impact on performance. Having that variation across reboots for the kernel could be quite frustrating.
That variation is already present in every linked program anyway. This just changes the dice-roll from only once at build time to each and every boot time. Surely it would suck more to get a randomly slow link at build time and then be stuck with it?
What would be nice would be a tab in options in the browser that lists all the hardware you might want javascript to be able to access (mic, light sensor, camera, whatever) alongside a simple selector: allow-access, deny-access, pretend-to-allow-access-but-fake-the-result.
We have that already though.
At least in Chrome, there's global defaults for each type of thing, and per-site overrides that you can access by clicking the site icon in the address bar.
Granted, they don't have pretend-to-allow-access-but-fake-the-result, but I thought this was normal and had been in most browsers for ages?
Yeah, no. If you want to zoom in on a tiny blur that you know is a face, this tech will give you just that: A face. A different face that it found in a different (higher-res) photo. That can't possibly ever do anything other than mislead.
In that case, can't they just globally fix it server side, by 1) filtering it out of the stored history, and 2) filtering input to prevent it in-bound?
Yes, this would be a good immediate mitigation.
It wouldn't fix bricked installs, but it would avoid breaking new ones - except for the people who send the string.
What's the difference between a panoramic photo, composed of small pictures stitched together, and Google Streetview or Google Maps, which are composed of small pictures stitched together? Is the difference that one person calls themselves a "photographer" and the other person is just a technician?
Google Maps could be considered a single panorama (although that's arguable - does the definition of a panorama require that the viewpoint stay in one place and look outwards?) but StreetView definitely isn't - it is lots of separate small, low-res panoramas (panoramae?), one for each location you can position the viewpoint.
Your suggestion that the Greens only opposed it after they found Labor wouldn't is rubbish. As AC said below (for anyone who can't see ACs), Scott Ludlam (Greens, Western Australia) has been vocally campaigning against it, and educating people about it, since before he was elected. Being technologically literate has always been a big part of his appeal (at least amongst/. types).
Disappointed
I have to say that I'm disappointed. Thought this was an instructional manual. Now I'm $15.99 lighter and I still don't know how to moon people.
(For those who haven't followed the link, the book is called "Moon People")
Your credibility was completely lost when you typed menu's.
Given the general high quality writing of the post, I think Immerman knows full well that plurals don't usually require apostrophes.
I'm guessing that you are not aware of the usage where certain words ending in vowels have an added apostrophe to emphasise that the "s" isn't part of the root word.
It's rarely used for words these days, but is still common for symbols and non-word constructions ("count the &'s", "mind your P's and Q's").
As an example of why this can still be very useful for words, though: there are two pages on Wikipedia about people named "Peni".
How would you refer to both of them as a group?
Where on Earth did you get the idea that it's legal to copy the book? Don't the libraries near you have the posters up near the photocopiers specifically telling you you're only allowed to copy short sections under fair use?
Expect this certificate to be revoked in near future. This will close that avenue, and cause all machines infected drivers signed by the cert to refuse to load the malware driver.
And cause all machines with legitimate Sony drivers (if there is such a thing?) signed with the same cert to refuse to load those too.
I'm intrigued by the data transfer requirements.
Even given your extremely low res in b/w, I make that 196TB per second.
Since I can't find any source for your specs and the sample videos are clearly not black and white, I presume you're joking.
If it's just grayscale that they've coloured in later, that's 1.5PB per second; full RGB 4.5PB/s.
These are all under-estimates, too, since it looks like the res is much higher than your 180x96.
What sort of transmission / storage tech are they using? Electrons don't move as fast as the objects they're filming here.
Japanese, actually.
Don't read too much into that, though: I'm a self -selected sample.
Thanks for the work you've put in. I'll have a look at Nihongo Master.
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I'm still not worried about an imminent invasion of rat multiborgs.
The point being made here is that focusing entirely on reproduction can have a negative impact on long-term survival. Too many children can mean that everybody starves.
You're using "replication" to mean the act of one individual giving birth. Doctorvo is using "replication of the species" to mean a long term increase in size of the entire population.
I just pulled out my phone, opened Translate, spoke and immediately had the translation spoken back to me.
I still think its pretty cool, but what is it about these new earbuds that has any bearing on this bidirectional spoken translation capability which has been baked into the Translate app for ages?
That feels like you may mean the System Properties dialog Hardware tab - 2K had the Device Manager button in the middle, then XP moved it to the top and chucked a random Window Update button in its place (even though there was another tab for Automatic Update settings). Played merry hell with my muscle memory.
At least they kept Alt-D as the shortcut.
Descriptivism is dead... Language is not, nor should it be, static.
Call me a prescriptivist, but I think the way you redefined the two terms 'descriptivism' and 'prescriptivism' to mean each other is bound to cause confusion and should be proscribed.
In other news, I have now looked at words containing 'ivi' for long enough that all I can see is Roman numerals.
Your math is very wrong. FTFA: 10k ppl=$140m, that is 14,000 per person, averaged. Said another way, 250,000*.0225=$5625.
Are you completely ignoring the fact that this discussion thread right here is about the tax being marginal?
The only way it makes any sense to calculate 2.25% of 250K is if someone makes $500K, so they make 250K over the threshold.
The average 14K pp estimate suggests that the average wage they're looking at is 14,000/.0225 = ~620K ABOVE the 250K threshold, so $870K/yr.
The other concern is that randomising the link order has been shown (ASPLOS 2015) to have around a plus or minus 20% impact on performance. Having that variation across reboots for the kernel could be quite frustrating.
That variation is already present in every linked program anyway. This just changes the dice-roll from only once at build time to each and every boot time. Surely it would suck more to get a randomly slow link at build time and then be stuck with it?
What would be nice would be a tab in options in the browser that lists all the hardware you might want javascript to be able to access (mic, light sensor, camera, whatever) alongside a simple selector: allow-access, deny-access, pretend-to-allow-access-but-fake-the-result.
We have that already though.
At least in Chrome, there's global defaults for each type of thing, and per-site overrides that you can access by clicking the site icon in the address bar.
Granted, they don't have pretend-to-allow-access-but-fake-the-result, but I thought this was normal and had been in most browsers for ages?
I thought they had already switched to Mir, but the article says Wayland will be in place of X11.
Mir came crashing down a while ago.
Yeah, no. If you want to zoom in on a tiny blur that you know is a face, this tech will give you just that: A face. A different face that it found in a different (higher-res) photo. That can't possibly ever do anything other than mislead.
If an application blows up when it encounters :// in free-form text, ...
Wouldn't be the first time: Skype, Chrome... (although at least Chrome only crashed if it saw that in a url context)
In that case, can't they just globally fix it server side, by 1) filtering it out of the stored history, and 2) filtering input to prevent it in-bound?
Yes, this would be a good immediate mitigation.
It wouldn't fix bricked installs, but it would avoid breaking new ones - except for the people who send the string.
What's the difference between a panoramic photo, composed of small pictures stitched together, and Google Streetview or Google Maps, which are composed of small pictures stitched together? Is the difference that one person calls themselves a "photographer" and the other person is just a technician?
Google Maps could be considered a single panorama (although that's arguable - does the definition of a panorama require that the viewpoint stay in one place and look outwards?) but StreetView definitely isn't - it is lots of separate small, low-res panoramas (panoramae?), one for each location you can position the viewpoint.
Do they have any tech companies?
Yeah... probably not for long.
The cost of implementing this is probably going to send us to the wall. I am so glad that the Liberal government is looking after small business!
I'm so sorry. I wish you the best of luck.
Your suggestion that the Greens only opposed it after they found Labor wouldn't is rubbish. As AC said below (for anyone who can't see ACs), Scott Ludlam (Greens, Western Australia) has been vocally campaigning against it, and educating people about it, since before he was elected. Being technologically literate has always been a big part of his appeal (at least amongst /. types).
Disappointed
I have to say that I'm disappointed. Thought this was an instructional manual. Now I'm $15.99 lighter and I still don't know how to moon people.
(For those who haven't followed the link, the book is called "Moon People")
Unless you live in North Korea or something, $12,000 gross a year for two people is a hobby-with-benefits, not a business.
That's exactly the point - for a "small-time indie developer" "one- or two-man project" kind of hobby-with-benefits, the engine is free.
Your credibility was completely lost when you typed menu's.
Given the general high quality writing of the post, I think Immerman knows full well that plurals don't usually require apostrophes.
I'm guessing that you are not aware of the usage where certain words ending in vowels have an added apostrophe to emphasise that the "s" isn't part of the root word.
It's rarely used for words these days, but is still common for symbols and non-word constructions ("count the &'s", "mind your P's and Q's").
As an example of why this can still be very useful for words, though: there are two pages on Wikipedia about people named "Peni".
How would you refer to both of them as a group?
Where on Earth did you get the idea that it's legal to copy the book? Don't the libraries near you have the posters up near the photocopiers specifically telling you you're only allowed to copy short sections under fair use?
Expect this certificate to be revoked in near future. This will close that avenue, and cause all machines infected drivers signed by the cert to refuse to load the malware driver.
And cause all machines with legitimate Sony drivers (if there is such a thing?) signed with the same cert to refuse to load those too.
Most of the time we are just happy with whatever pizza we happen to find.
I like your pizza acquisition method. I'm imagining just walking along, spotting a pizza tree, being happy.
I'm intrigued by the data transfer requirements.
Even given your extremely low res in b/w, I make that 196TB per second.
Since I can't find any source for your specs and the sample videos are clearly not black and white, I presume you're joking.
If it's just grayscale that they've coloured in later, that's 1.5PB per second; full RGB 4.5PB/s.
These are all under-estimates, too, since it looks like the res is much higher than your 180x96.
What sort of transmission / storage tech are they using? Electrons don't move as fast as the objects they're filming here.
... What are languages YOU want to learn?
Japanese, actually.
Don't read too much into that, though: I'm a self -selected sample.
Thanks for the work you've put in. I'll have a look at Nihongo Master.
If the onboard electronic is rugged for arsh environments, adding some lead plates may be an idea to approach some areas in Fukushima plant.
Lead is good for shielding because it's dense, right? So maybe it would be better to use something even denser - uranium.