Grading umpires against a machine after the game has actually resulted in the strike zone being close to rulebook and much more accurate. That seems to be a reasonable step, but I'm not so sure we would see much improvement if the machine actually made the calls in game. I'm sure they are quite accurate in deciding if it was over the plate, but the upper and lower bounds of the zone vary from batsman to batsman.
Certainly the machine can call over the plate or not, but I'm not so sure how they do with high or low, since the marks are set by the batsman as he is prepared for the pitch. But note how many batters shift their position a bit as the pitcher is in motion. Which exact moment defines the strike zone? That is left to the ump's judgement.
All major league fields are equipped with a system to track the pitched ball, and umpires are graded for performance against the system after the game. That did get rid of a few notoriously inaccurate umps and helped many more to get more accurate. But I'm not convinced that the calls would be better if we let the machine call the game. Some of those misses are the machine getting the call wrong.
The strike zone is only a small part of it. Did the batsman offer at the pitch? There is no hard and fast rule to decide. Was he hit by the pitch? Did he make a reasonable effort to avoid it? Was it a swinging strike or a foul tip? Did he interfere with the throw to second?
Meanwhile, there is a great dynamic in play where the batsman tries to "shrink" the strike zone and the battery tries to expand it.
There's not much point to automating ball and strike since the machine isn't going to be able to decide if the batsman went around (since there is no hard and fast rule for that, it's left to the umpire's discretion). None of the systems I have seen can decide between a swinging strike and a foul tip. Also never seen anything that can call hit by pitch or decide if the batsman tried to avoid it or leaned in and took the hit.
Yes. In other words, the market considers running around with it's pants around it's ankles to be SOP unless regulations mandate pants no lower than the knees.
No, but manufacturers communicating with distributors months ago and those distributors independently increasing inventory could have averted the whole mess. To a lesser extent, regional distributors suggesting that end users have more on hand could also have helped.
Because that clearly didn't happen, I conclude that this is the market running around with it's pants around its ankles.
We finally got my Mom a cellphone because if she ever had car trouble, finding a payphone would be nigh impossible. Many people's landlines will fail within 24 hours of a power failure now. I have seen parking downtown where the old parking meters have been replaced by an app.
And many people DO have their work depend on them having a cellphone. Your exact personal circumstances cannot be reliably extrapolated to the whole population.
Most reputable suppliers warn their customers if they anticipate kinks in the supply chain. They'd rather you be prepared than switch suppliers when the entirely predictable events take place. At least if the market is healthy and the competition aren't idiots.
Even as a low volume occasional buyer, I routinely get notices about various predicted delays or limited availability.
Because locating a new supplier in another country, setting up a relationship, and accepting an entire tanker truck when you needed 2 canisters is all friction free, got it.
And of course, higher prices and consequent lower sales has never been a problem for anyone. I'm not sure I would call it a crisis in the final analysis, but it's certainly unnecessary economic pain.
But at any rate, my point was that the knee-jerk blaming of bad ol' gubermint and evil regulations was far off the mark. So too is pretending that market forces solve but don't cause problems.
No. It's just market forces optimizing for profits in one industry at the expense of supply in another. Throw in a dash of globalism and just in time corner cutting.
Basically, cheap import ammonia means local ammonia plants have chosen to stay closed a little longer after the annual maintenance shut down due to low margins for production. In turn, that means not capturing and compressing the waste CO2.
Due to cost cutting, there isn't enough inventory on hand to ride out the production gap.
Why are you so anxious to make everybody into a slave?
That's one of the problems I have with credit reports. They're little more than unsubstantiated gossip.
It might be useful to have your CC company send you a letter stating why the future charges are blocked so you can dispute any claims against your credit report.
Simple personal policy, give them a reasonable chance to cancel properly (1 hour on hold is not reasonable), then call credit card and block their charges.
We have a resovour of millions of people who can't afford to see a doctor. They won't go unless it is clear that whatever they have is life threatening. Many more who could just afford a doctor won't go because sick days are either unpaid or carry an unwritten penalty come review time.
If a bioweapon is released in the right areas we could be swamped before we even notice.
Part of the problem is that most people simply cannot afford to be sued, even if they are obviously in the right. Compounding that, confidence in our civil court system is at an all time low. Many simply don't believe that being obviously in the right will result in a finding in their favor.
So, they get a doom and gloom nastygram and their content has already been pulled down. They can either move on or they can spin the wheel and pray it doesn't come up bankrupt. About half the wheel looks to be "bankrupt". They have kids to feed and a house to pay for. They have a job to go to and little ability to take unpaid time off to be in court, much less pay a lawyer several months worth of their paychecks.
Let's be honest, given that, what would you do? Would you care to send the complainant your full name and address?
Bricking is relative. The phones were bricked in the sense that there was no action available to the owner to make the phone useful again. Only Apple could fix it.
Many things called bricked are technically recoverable by soldering a JTAG connector in and such, but are still considered bricked since there is no supported interface that may be used to recover functionality.
The Wikipedia article you pointed to talks about UNbricking as well. Give it a read.
Only to an extent. They aren't likely to do a comprehensive survey of the neighborhood. More likely they will look at your property and decide if the difficulty and risk is higher than they care for or not. If it is too high, THEN they move on.
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Will you say the same when crashing into you is their mode of exit?
Grading umpires against a machine after the game has actually resulted in the strike zone being close to rulebook and much more accurate. That seems to be a reasonable step, but I'm not so sure we would see much improvement if the machine actually made the calls in game. I'm sure they are quite accurate in deciding if it was over the plate, but the upper and lower bounds of the zone vary from batsman to batsman.
Certainly the machine can call over the plate or not, but I'm not so sure how they do with high or low, since the marks are set by the batsman as he is prepared for the pitch. But note how many batters shift their position a bit as the pitcher is in motion. Which exact moment defines the strike zone? That is left to the ump's judgement.
All major league fields are equipped with a system to track the pitched ball, and umpires are graded for performance against the system after the game. That did get rid of a few notoriously inaccurate umps and helped many more to get more accurate. But I'm not convinced that the calls would be better if we let the machine call the game. Some of those misses are the machine getting the call wrong.
The strike zone is only a small part of it. Did the batsman offer at the pitch? There is no hard and fast rule to decide. Was he hit by the pitch? Did he make a reasonable effort to avoid it? Was it a swinging strike or a foul tip? Did he interfere with the throw to second?
Meanwhile, there is a great dynamic in play where the batsman tries to "shrink" the strike zone and the battery tries to expand it.
There's not much point to automating ball and strike since the machine isn't going to be able to decide if the batsman went around (since there is no hard and fast rule for that, it's left to the umpire's discretion). None of the systems I have seen can decide between a swinging strike and a foul tip. Also never seen anything that can call hit by pitch or decide if the batsman tried to avoid it or leaned in and took the hit.
Yes. In other words, the market considers running around with it's pants around it's ankles to be SOP unless regulations mandate pants no lower than the knees.
No, but manufacturers communicating with distributors months ago and those distributors independently increasing inventory could have averted the whole mess. To a lesser extent, regional distributors suggesting that end users have more on hand could also have helped.
Because that clearly didn't happen, I conclude that this is the market running around with it's pants around its ankles.
And then you'd be whining to anyone who would listen about how you can't seem to find good employees.
We finally got my Mom a cellphone because if she ever had car trouble, finding a payphone would be nigh impossible. Many people's landlines will fail within 24 hours of a power failure now. I have seen parking downtown where the old parking meters have been replaced by an app.
And many people DO have their work depend on them having a cellphone. Your exact personal circumstances cannot be reliably extrapolated to the whole population.
Not sure how what you said differs substantially from my point?
Most reputable suppliers warn their customers if they anticipate kinks in the supply chain. They'd rather you be prepared than switch suppliers when the entirely predictable events take place. At least if the market is healthy and the competition aren't idiots.
Even as a low volume occasional buyer, I routinely get notices about various predicted delays or limited availability.
Because locating a new supplier in another country, setting up a relationship, and accepting an entire tanker truck when you needed 2 canisters is all friction free, got it.
And of course, higher prices and consequent lower sales has never been a problem for anyone. I'm not sure I would call it a crisis in the final analysis, but it's certainly unnecessary economic pain.
But at any rate, my point was that the knee-jerk blaming of bad ol' gubermint and evil regulations was far off the mark. So too is pretending that market forces solve but don't cause problems.
Of course market forces have come in to play. You spent a paragraph describing them. All but the degree of the hot weather was 100% predictable.
No. It's just market forces optimizing for profits in one industry at the expense of supply in another. Throw in a dash of globalism and just in time corner cutting.
Basically, cheap import ammonia means local ammonia plants have chosen to stay closed a little longer after the annual maintenance shut down due to low margins for production. In turn, that means not capturing and compressing the waste CO2.
Due to cost cutting, there isn't enough inventory on hand to ride out the production gap.
Why are you so anxious to make everybody into a slave?
Nope, this is the all wise and powerful market running around with it's pants around it's ankles.
That's one of the problems I have with credit reports. They're little more than unsubstantiated gossip.
It might be useful to have your CC company send you a letter stating why the future charges are blocked so you can dispute any claims against your credit report.
Simple personal policy, give them a reasonable chance to cancel properly (1 hour on hold is not reasonable), then call credit card and block their charges.
We have a resovour of millions of people who can't afford to see a doctor. They won't go unless it is clear that whatever they have is life threatening. Many more who could just afford a doctor won't go because sick days are either unpaid or carry an unwritten penalty come review time.
If a bioweapon is released in the right areas we could be swamped before we even notice.
But your kids don't go to a detention center and when you get out, they know where your kids are and you are reunited..
They get visitation and their children aren't also incarcerated.
In the case of heavy floating point computation, hyperthreading is often a net loss. I haven't seen any tests on the AMD version (SMT) yet.
The beepingcomputer article was a little unclear. Apparently this will be controllable via a sysctl call.
Part of the problem is that most people simply cannot afford to be sued, even if they are obviously in the right. Compounding that, confidence in our civil court system is at an all time low. Many simply don't believe that being obviously in the right will result in a finding in their favor.
So, they get a doom and gloom nastygram and their content has already been pulled down. They can either move on or they can spin the wheel and pray it doesn't come up bankrupt. About half the wheel looks to be "bankrupt". They have kids to feed and a house to pay for. They have a job to go to and little ability to take unpaid time off to be in court, much less pay a lawyer several months worth of their paychecks.
Let's be honest, given that, what would you do? Would you care to send the complainant your full name and address?
Bricking is relative. The phones were bricked in the sense that there was no action available to the owner to make the phone useful again. Only Apple could fix it.
Many things called bricked are technically recoverable by soldering a JTAG connector in and such, but are still considered bricked since there is no supported interface that may be used to recover functionality.
The Wikipedia article you pointed to talks about UNbricking as well. Give it a read.
Only to an extent. They aren't likely to do a comprehensive survey of the neighborhood. More likely they will look at your property and decide if the difficulty and risk is higher than they care for or not. If it is too high, THEN they move on.