Perhaps you should also do your homework, like getting informed of what is happening in the world. Preferably outside the media bubble that broadcasts lies for profit.
But I'll give you one breadcrumb, google for "libor fixing". I guess that will keep you entertained for a while.
Btw, do you think the term "too big to jail" arose without a reason? There was a recent senate hearing on banks, you can find some enlightening videos on youtube. Specifically, look for senator Elizabeth Warren's questions. I mention this in case you reply the recent libor fixing scandal was restricted to the UK... to find out what is happening in the US you need to actually investigate, but that's not going to happen.
There's likely nothing that Microsoft could have done about this—every platform has to start somewhere
What about interoperability? MS bet it had a chance to create its own walled garden from scratch, but had it tried to apply the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy (like providing an Android runtime or whatever) the outcome probably wouldn't be such an utter failure (although I guess it would fail nevertheless).
About dishonesty and insanity, I think the former may help lead to the latter. If you suspend belief in reality to allow belief in the supernatural, you may as well allow other contradictory and inconsistent beliefs. That doesn't seem healthy, imho.
[...] And that requires plenty of explanation to your average person.
Too bad this 'explanation' usually comes from somebody's ass. You don't find in churches the people with the broad knowledge you've mentioned. That made me remember a recent survey which found atheists to have better biblical knowledge than most religious folks.
"power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed." -- from Wikipedia
[pedantic mode on] It is receiving energy from solar wind, transforming it to motion... therefore it is actually powering, even if at an insignificant rate.
There is your mistake - giving credence to Chomsky.
There is your mistake - giving credence to your mainstream media.
And that's the reason I explicitly said "ignore his opinions". You may disagree with his analysis of what happened, but you can't ignore all the facts that he mentions.
The America I believe in matches close to Winston Churchill's description, "Americans always do the right thing, after all other possibilities are exhausted."
gives "The America I believe in always do the right thing, because I don't look for the bad."
Which is a perfect example for the patriotic brainwashing I mentioned in my post below.
The America I believe in matches close to Winston Churchill's description, "Americans always do the right thing, after all other possibilities are exhausted."
1. go to youtube 2. search for any long presentation on politics by Noam Chomsky 3. disregard any of his personal opinions, just listen to his history lecture 4. come tell me with a straight face that "Americans always do the right thing, after all other possibilities are exhausted."
Alternatively, for a quicker argument, replace 1 - 3 by "1. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Obama".
The cultures of a lot of countries support the brainwashing of children with blind patriotism, just as religion does with faith. To believe in a cause without good reason (or even fake reasons) makes it much more prone to succeed (as in maintaining itself, or growing). The problem is people that are trained to behave this way are susceptible to being mislead (how many Americans died because of Bush's lies about WMDs on Iraq? how many kids could have been saved from being molested if the Catholic church didn't protect the priests that were known to be sexual abusers?)
Slowly, people are starting to see the benefits of being skeptical, and of raising children capable of thinking by themselves. But unfortunately not (by far) nearly as close as needed to make a significant difference on society.
I just started doing some GPU programming and the change in thinking that it requires even for very simple things can be hard for programmers.
Except for Python/NumPy and Matlab programmers (and perhaps Fortran, idk, never used it).
I was pleasantly surprised when I adapted my Python code (some image processing / neural network stuff) to use OpenCL, and without much effort achieved a 70% reduction in processing time.
The rich and powerful go unpunished. THAT is the real concern.
In this case, punishment shouldn't even be the main concern. The focus should be in stopping the clearly unconstitutional activities. But the US population opinion is "fuck the constitution, protect us from those evil terrorists" [because that's the objective of the PRISM program, right? sure...].
This is beyond the wildest dreams of the STASI [...]
Indeed. And for those who don't have a clear image of what their lives already look like (in terms of privacy) when they post their private stuff in "the cloud", I highly recommend the movie Das Leben der Anderen.
And be prepared to forget about work. That's what usually happens when I do these kinds of trips, in which I lie to myself that I'm gonna do some work.
I think "WTF are you doing consuming 77 terabits a month" is a legitimate question. I read TFA yesterday and I realized that Verizon probably can't afford to have a whole lot of users chewing up that kind of bandwidth.
Then perhaps don't call it "unlimited"...
Asking him to switch to business service does not out of line to me, considering that he's running these servers for business use.
It is not really clear, but it seems he's not charging anything for the services, so no business here.
Note, also, they handled this with a short phone call rather than a nasty-gram or just cutting off his service without warning. That's more courtesy than I'd expect from a big ISP, given some of the horror stories I've heard.
If it's not reproducible, more work needs to be done.
It is reproducible, that's the whole point they're still "looking into this".
If the process appears to violate the laws of thermodynamics [...]
Can you explain how fusion (of any kind) appears to violate any thermodynamics' law?
It's been many years since cold fusion and while there have been tantalizing hints that there may be something to it, nobody has been able to reliably reproduce the phenomenon for objective observers.
Actually there were several successful experiments, it doesn't take much work to look for their results. You may start with Dr. Peter Hagelstein, from MIT.
But usually people prefer to just dismiss without much thought, since the topic became taboo. Group-thinking is surely a fucked-up human characteristic.
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Perhaps you should also do your homework, like getting informed of what is happening in the world. Preferably outside the media bubble that broadcasts lies for profit.
But I'll give you one breadcrumb, google for "libor fixing". I guess that will keep you entertained for a while.
Btw, do you think the term "too big to jail" arose without a reason? There was a recent senate hearing on banks, you can find some enlightening videos on youtube. Specifically, look for senator Elizabeth Warren's questions. I mention this in case you reply the recent libor fixing scandal was restricted to the UK... to find out what is happening in the US you need to actually investigate, but that's not going to happen.
I loved the ending; too bad most movies nowadays exploit humans' need for closure. For the money obviously, fuck art.
There's likely nothing that Microsoft could have done about this—every platform has to start somewhere
What about interoperability? MS bet it had a chance to create its own walled garden from scratch, but had it tried to apply the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy (like providing an Android runtime or whatever) the outcome probably wouldn't be such an utter failure (although I guess it would fail nevertheless).
Wow, time flies, the survey was not as recent as I remembered. But here it goes: http://www.pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx
About dishonesty and insanity, I think the former may help lead to the latter. If you suspend belief in reality to allow belief in the supernatural, you may as well allow other contradictory and inconsistent beliefs. That doesn't seem healthy, imho.
[...] And that requires plenty of explanation to your average person.
Too bad this 'explanation' usually comes from somebody's ass. You don't find in churches the people with the broad knowledge you've mentioned. That made me remember a recent survey which found atheists to have better biblical knowledge than most religious folks.
Once-in-a-lifetime, meaning "right before death".
"power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed." -- from Wikipedia
[pedantic mode on]
It is receiving energy from solar wind, transforming it to motion... therefore it is actually powering, even if at an insignificant rate.
There is your mistake - giving credence to Chomsky.
There is your mistake - giving credence to your mainstream media.
And that's the reason I explicitly said "ignore his opinions". You may disagree with his analysis of what happened, but you can't ignore all the facts that he mentions.
Combining
If you look for bad, you will find it.
with
The America I believe in matches close to Winston Churchill's description, "Americans always do the right thing, after all other possibilities are exhausted."
gives "The America I believe in always do the right thing, because I don't look for the bad."
Which is a perfect example for the patriotic brainwashing I mentioned in my post below.
The America I believe in matches close to Winston Churchill's description, "Americans always do the right thing, after all other possibilities are exhausted."
1. go to youtube
2. search for any long presentation on politics by Noam Chomsky
3. disregard any of his personal opinions, just listen to his history lecture
4. come tell me with a straight face that "Americans always do the right thing, after all other possibilities are exhausted."
Alternatively, for a quicker argument, replace 1 - 3 by "1. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Obama".
The cultures of a lot of countries support the brainwashing of children with blind patriotism, just as religion does with faith. To believe in a cause without good reason (or even fake reasons) makes it much more prone to succeed (as in maintaining itself, or growing). The problem is people that are trained to behave this way are susceptible to being mislead (how many Americans died because of Bush's lies about WMDs on Iraq? how many kids could have been saved from being molested if the Catholic church didn't protect the priests that were known to be sexual abusers?)
Slowly, people are starting to see the benefits of being skeptical, and of raising children capable of thinking by themselves. But unfortunately not (by far) nearly as close as needed to make a significant difference on society.
It would be nice if these homages were conceded while the person were alive.
I just started doing some GPU programming and the change in thinking that it requires even for very simple things can be hard for programmers.
Except for Python/NumPy and Matlab programmers (and perhaps Fortran, idk, never used it).
I was pleasantly surprised when I adapted my Python code (some image processing / neural network stuff) to use OpenCL, and without much effort achieved a 70% reduction in processing time.
Read the whole sentence. Sure it's written poorly, but it's talking about the highest mechanical frequency ever emitted from a red blood cell.
FTFY. If you consider electromagnetic frequencies, you could say blood emits up to the ~650 THz range (carbaminohemoglobin).
But the AC you replied to was just a troll, don't feed them.
The rich and powerful go unpunished. THAT is the real concern.
In this case, punishment shouldn't even be the main concern. The focus should be in stopping the clearly unconstitutional activities. But the US population opinion is "fuck the constitution, protect us from those evil terrorists" [because that's the objective of the PRISM program, right? sure...].
Land of the free, home of the brave. LOL.
On the other hand, no exceptions will be made for investigating journalists.
Of course, the Ministry of Love would never allow that.
[...] face up to two years or more in prison [...] law approved by the European Parliament's civil liberties committee.
Doesn't it seem the doublespeak is becoming more prevalent every day?
This is beyond the wildest dreams of the STASI [...]
Indeed. And for those who don't have a clear image of what their lives already look like (in terms of privacy) when they post their private stuff in "the cloud", I highly recommend the movie Das Leben der Anderen.
And with a little bit of encryption you can make it tamper proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izddjAp_N4I
And be prepared to forget about work. That's what usually happens when I do these kinds of trips, in which I lie to myself that I'm gonna do some work.
Thanx, I feel relieved now... I thought I was the only one that felt like on drugs while reading the summary.
Words are more powerful than you give them credit, to change hearts and minds.
So here follows mine*: start getting money out of politics - http://www.wolf-pac.com/ - and contribute personally, not only with your money.
* I'm not an American, but I wish my fellow Earthlings to recover from the current insanity (which btw is a global trend, unfortunately).
I think "WTF are you doing consuming 77 terabits a month" is a legitimate question. I read TFA yesterday and I realized that Verizon probably can't afford to have a whole lot of users chewing up that kind of bandwidth.
Then perhaps don't call it "unlimited"...
Asking him to switch to business service does not out of line to me, considering that he's running these servers for business use.
It is not really clear, but it seems he's not charging anything for the services, so no business here.
Note, also, they handled this with a short phone call rather than a nasty-gram or just cutting off his service without warning. That's more courtesy than I'd expect from a big ISP, given some of the horror stories I've heard.
True.
If it's not reproducible, more work needs to be done.
It is reproducible, that's the whole point they're still "looking into this".
If the process appears to violate the laws of thermodynamics [...]
Can you explain how fusion (of any kind) appears to violate any thermodynamics' law?
It's been many years since cold fusion and while there have been tantalizing hints that there may be something to it, nobody has been able to reliably reproduce the phenomenon for objective observers.
Actually there were several successful experiments, it doesn't take much work to look for their results. You may start with Dr. Peter Hagelstein, from MIT.
But usually people prefer to just dismiss without much thought, since the topic became taboo. Group-thinking is surely a fucked-up human characteristic.
s/much/many/g
Just waking up and writing in non-native language requires coffee.
Ooooh, So much ooohs.
Somehow, suddenly I want to play Monkey Island again.