We really don't need all this extra layer of oversight here, the industry is capable of regulating itself once people have had more time to make their opinions known and choose stations whose practices they agree with.
Because that worked so well in the past. This "Self Regulation" is what caused the problem in the first place.
If Google results are the speech of their programmers then are the programmer's liable for any illegal results?
The programmers were acting as agents of the company they work for. Unless there was clearly some indented wrong doing on the employee's part the fault would lie with the company that employed them to do their job.
Right now, the rover is in *space*. I can definitely understand catching this problem in simulations or in on-Earth tests, or catching it belatedly when they finally get to Mars and wonder why all the rocks contain fluorine, but in space? Only thing I can think of is "someone re-ran some simulations and noticed they messed up", which doesn't seem very probable (unless the engineers had been suspecting this since before launch, and only now have sufficient "proof").
Then again, I'm not a rocket scientist, so I probably missed something.
They probably have an identical unit to mess with locally in case of electrics problems. If something goes wrong in space it is extremely helpful to have a physical replica you can actually put your hands on and experiment with to find the best fix.
How do you watch collegiate or professional sports if the game is blacked out online because it's being shown on national or regional pay TV?
I can't speak for the original poster, just for myself, but I am in the same situation. I don't watch these things. I personally couldn't care less about which group of people managed to get their ball through whatever arbitrary goal the sport they are playing calls for more times than the other group of people.
Earth's population is continuing to rise, exponentially, but we can only forecast linearly, I'm sure that can't affect anything much anyway. More cars, pollution, waste, etc. won't change any of that.
No, it isn't. The rate of population growth is actually slowing. It is predicted that in 2050 the rate of growth will go negative, and the population count will actually go down..
What I want to know is how people deal with the cognitive dissonance of their (presumed) conviction that they're doing good, in the context of the methods that they're employing? Isn't there ever a moment of "Holy shit, my quest to make the world a better, more natural place is now manifest in me doing things like shooting nuns and throwing acid in infants' faces. I think I'd better go back to my hometown and spend a few weeks crying hysterically in the shower."
"They did something bad first. They must be punished. Punishing someone who did something bad isn't bad"
Why do hardbacks cost more than paperback? The extra cost of the "cover" is probably less than a dollar, yet you've had no problem paying it before and never complained. Why? Maybe because the hardcover book will last LONGER than the paperback and is easier to take care of. Just like the ebook. You are paying more for a better product. Production costs are largely irrelevant.
Hard covers are also generally larger in size, which means more paper for the pages. This also increases the physical volume which increases the transportation and storage costs. They are also heavier, which increases the transportation costs even more.
The fact it uses the WebKit rendering engine doesn't mean it's not a browser, or that it's just a shell around Safari. And aren't all browsers just shells around a rendering engine? Loads of different browsers use WebKit. The main reason Google won't release Chrome for iOS is that they can't use V8, their JavaScript engine. Most of their WebKit customisations are available in Apple's implementation too. so, yes, it is a separate standalone browser. Install the app and see for yourself.
Other than Bookmark and History Tracking, and maybe multiple tabs, what else is there to a browser besides the rendering engine? I guess you could count the scripting engine, but that seems pretty tightly integrated with the rendering engine in all the libraries I've used; so much so that they are usually in the same library.
I have never liked the station wagon analogy, because it misunderstands the thing we are trying to measure. In the example, we measure the bandwidth of the station wagon. But that's like measuring the bandwidth of a packet -- a nonsense concept. We measure the bandwidth of the channel, not the chunks of data which fly through it. To really get the right analogy, we should talk about the bandwidth of a freeway, not the station wagon which drives upon the freeway.
Bandwidth in the colloquial sense means "the amount of data which passes a given point, per second." So, imagine that you can load 25 TB in the form of tapes into a station wagon. For safety, these station wagons must drive a distance of 75 meters apart and a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. That means that one station wagon passes a given point every 2.7 seconds. That's 9.2 TB per second. Adding a second lane to the highway would double the bandwidth.
The stupid calculation which is often performed, on the other hand goes like this. You have 25 TB in the wagon, and you drive it to a location 10 hours away... Already you've gone off the tracks, because you are mentioning the TIME it takes to get to the destination, i.e. the LATENCY. And as anybody knows, the latency (or equivalently the distance between the points) has NOTHING to do with bandwidth.
How can you say Time has nothing to do with bandwidth when, in your own example, you measured it in TB per SECOND?
Following your example again of 9.2TB/sec, that can be changed to 9.2TB * 60/min, or 9.2TB * 60 * 60/hour, or 9.2TB * 60 * 60 * 10 / 10 hours, which is the exact measurement that you seem to have a problem with earlier in your post (data in a 10 hour period).
This season is a major let down. Too many sub plots, not enough time. Changing to someone else every 5 minutes has gotten tedious and really isn't making for a smooth flowing story line.
Ahh, so it's pretty much following the books exactly then... Just wait until season 4, it'll make season 2 look awesome.
I wouldn't ever remove the default browser because I'd be afraid of breaking a critical function, and I see no value in having to choose between two browsers when I want to browse on my phone.
You can't remove the default browser (not without root hackery any way). This just gets installed along side it.
And people with "normal" phones will continue to laugh at you because they spend $50 on a phone that does more than/they/ need... People have different needs.
1) BSD: if you want your software used by corporations, and you don't care if you get anything back as a result. You are interested in fame.
Or, you recognize that your software might be useful to others and you want to allow them to use it without placing restrictions on them (yes, requiring them to release the source code is a restriction).
If the system gets better and has less false negatives and false positives. And integrates with other systems, as another level of check.
Fixed that for you.
The problem is that there no proof that the premise that mouse movements are sufficient to identify a user, is actually true. If it's not than this technology is fundamentally flawed.
And perhaps this technology can be used to either prove or disprove that.
Wild overreactions to highly contagious diseases are the only appropriate reactions.
If they are appropriate reactions, then they aren't overreactions. This reminds me of the time my boss told the department that he expects us all the get "Exceeds Expectations" on our performance reviews.
No. But you would expect employees (well, maybe except for janitors) to understand the implications in the current legal climate, and refrain from putting things so bluntly as "we're clearly violating these patents and must get a license", even in internal email - unless they are explicitly asked to express their legal opinion. At least, that sort of thing has been part of on-boarding training in pretty much every place I've worked in the last eight years.
I'm all the time sending an email to my boss telling him that we need a license for such-and-such piece of software. It's just expected of most programmers in any sane company to recommend to their boss software tools or libraries that could make things easier or better.
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How do you back it up?
You don't, someone else does. Or put another way, the internet is the backup. If a drive dies you just download the show again.
We really don't need all this extra layer of oversight here, the industry is capable of regulating itself once people have had more time to make their opinions known and choose stations whose practices they agree with.
Because that worked so well in the past. This "Self Regulation" is what caused the problem in the first place.
If Google results are the speech of their programmers then are the programmer's liable for any illegal results?
The programmers were acting as agents of the company they work for. Unless there was clearly some indented wrong doing on the employee's part the fault would lie with the company that employed them to do their job.
Doesn't this provide a nice easy signal to detect the start and end of commercial breaks also? Hello automated, accurate commercial skipping.
You are both right.
Right now, the rover is in *space*. I can definitely understand catching this problem in simulations or in on-Earth tests, or catching it belatedly when they finally get to Mars and wonder why all the rocks contain fluorine, but in space? Only thing I can think of is "someone re-ran some simulations and noticed they messed up", which doesn't seem very probable (unless the engineers had been suspecting this since before launch, and only now have sufficient "proof").
Then again, I'm not a rocket scientist, so I probably missed something.
They probably have an identical unit to mess with locally in case of electrics problems. If something goes wrong in space it is extremely helpful to have a physical replica you can actually put your hands on and experiment with to find the best fix.
this is like changing the radio voids engine warranty
Only if you replaced the existing radio with a free one you found someplace and then tried to return the car for a refund without the original radio.
How do you watch collegiate or professional sports if the game is blacked out online because it's being shown on national or regional pay TV?
I can't speak for the original poster, just for myself, but I am in the same situation. I don't watch these things. I personally couldn't care less about which group of people managed to get their ball through whatever arbitrary goal the sport they are playing calls for more times than the other group of people.
Earth's population is continuing to rise, exponentially, but we can only forecast linearly, I'm sure that can't affect anything much anyway. More cars, pollution, waste, etc. won't change any of that.
No, it isn't. The rate of population growth is actually slowing. It is predicted that in 2050 the rate of growth will go negative, and the population count will actually go down..
What I want to know is how people deal with the cognitive dissonance of their (presumed) conviction that they're doing good, in the context of the methods that they're employing? Isn't there ever a moment of "Holy shit, my quest to make the world a better, more natural place is now manifest in me doing things like shooting nuns and throwing acid in infants' faces. I think I'd better go back to my hometown and spend a few weeks crying hysterically in the shower."
"They did something bad first. They must be punished. Punishing someone who did something bad isn't bad"
Why do hardbacks cost more than paperback? The extra cost of the "cover" is probably less than a dollar, yet you've had no problem paying it before and never complained. Why? Maybe because the hardcover book will last LONGER than the paperback and is easier to take care of. Just like the ebook. You are paying more for a better product. Production costs are largely irrelevant.
Hard covers are also generally larger in size, which means more paper for the pages. This also increases the physical volume which increases the transportation and storage costs. They are also heavier, which increases the transportation costs even more.
The fact it uses the WebKit rendering engine doesn't mean it's not a browser, or that it's just a shell around Safari. And aren't all browsers just shells around a rendering engine? Loads of different browsers use WebKit. The main reason Google won't release Chrome for iOS is that they can't use V8, their JavaScript engine. Most of their WebKit customisations are available in Apple's implementation too. so, yes, it is a separate standalone browser. Install the app and see for yourself.
Other than Bookmark and History Tracking, and maybe multiple tabs, what else is there to a browser besides the rendering engine? I guess you could count the scripting engine, but that seems pretty tightly integrated with the rendering engine in all the libraries I've used; so much so that they are usually in the same library.
I'm super excited that this relevant and forward thinking company is releasing a browser that will make me forget about using any other browser.
Except to use this browser you apparently have to run it as a plugin inside another browser.
an average adult male build and a weight of 70 kg (154 lbs)
Americans need not apply. This is "SMART CAR" sized not "SUV" sized.
That's "average"? Last time I had a physical my doctor said I was UNDER weight at 165lbs. Maybe the average weight of an adult male midget.
I have never liked the station wagon analogy, because it misunderstands the thing we are trying to measure. In the example, we measure the bandwidth of the station wagon. But that's like measuring the bandwidth of a packet -- a nonsense concept. We measure the bandwidth of the channel, not the chunks of data which fly through it. To really get the right analogy, we should talk about the bandwidth of a freeway, not the station wagon which drives upon the freeway.
Bandwidth in the colloquial sense means "the amount of data which passes a given point, per second." So, imagine that you can load 25 TB in the form of tapes into a station wagon. For safety, these station wagons must drive a distance of 75 meters apart and a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. That means that one station wagon passes a given point every 2.7 seconds. That's 9.2 TB per second. Adding a second lane to the highway would double the bandwidth.
The stupid calculation which is often performed, on the other hand goes like this. You have 25 TB in the wagon, and you drive it to a location 10 hours away... Already you've gone off the tracks, because you are mentioning the TIME it takes to get to the destination, i.e. the LATENCY. And as anybody knows, the latency (or equivalently the distance between the points) has NOTHING to do with bandwidth.
How can you say Time has nothing to do with bandwidth when, in your own example, you measured it in TB per SECOND?
Following your example again of 9.2TB/sec, that can be changed to 9.2TB * 60 /min, or 9.2TB * 60 * 60 /hour, or 9.2TB * 60 * 60 * 10 / 10 hours, which is the exact measurement that you seem to have a problem with earlier in your post (data in a 10 hour period).
This season is a major let down. Too many sub plots, not enough time. Changing to someone else every 5 minutes has gotten tedious and really isn't making for a smooth flowing story line.
Ahh, so it's pretty much following the books exactly then... Just wait until season 4, it'll make season 2 look awesome.
I wouldn't ever remove the default browser because I'd be afraid of breaking a critical function, and I see no value in having to choose between two browsers when I want to browse on my phone.
You can't remove the default browser (not without root hackery any way). This just gets installed along side it.
And people with "normal" phones will continue to laugh at you because they spend $50 on a phone that does more than /they/ need...
People have different needs.
What I want to know is; how did they get the rats to wear the glasses?
It was a poor choice of words. I meant "use" as in "use in software they plan to distribute".
1) BSD: if you want your software used by corporations, and you don't care if you get anything back as a result. You are interested in fame.
Or, you recognize that your software might be useful to others and you want to allow them to use it without placing restrictions on them (yes, requiring them to release the source code is a restriction).
If the system gets better and has less false negatives and false positives. And integrates with other systems, as another level of check.
Fixed that for you.
The problem is that there no proof that the premise that mouse movements are sufficient to identify a user, is actually true. If it's not than this technology is fundamentally flawed.
And perhaps this technology can be used to either prove or disprove that.
Wild overreactions to highly contagious diseases are the only appropriate reactions.
If they are appropriate reactions, then they aren't overreactions.
This reminds me of the time my boss told the department that he expects us all the get "Exceeds Expectations" on our performance reviews.
Tell us what you find. Until then... who the fuck cares?
Astronomers, people who like astronomy, and people interested in science, just to name a few.
No. But you would expect employees (well, maybe except for janitors) to understand the implications in the current legal climate, and refrain from putting things so bluntly as "we're clearly violating these patents and must get a license", even in internal email - unless they are explicitly asked to express their legal opinion. At least, that sort of thing has been part of on-boarding training in pretty much every place I've worked in the last eight years.
I'm all the time sending an email to my boss telling him that we need a license for such-and-such piece of software. It's just expected of most programmers in any sane company to recommend to their boss software tools or libraries that could make things easier or better.