Well, as has been pointed out before, just because life appears to stem from one thing, doesn't mean there wasn't a "Second Genesis" (or multitudes of them, even happening today). However, those other lifeforms have to compete for the same resources as better adapted ones (per natural selection). And then there are things that are "arguably life" that seem awfully close to life and awfully orthogonal to the existing tree, like viruses.
But besides that, what amazes me is that we are not only the most intelligent life on earth (for some values of intelligence), but as far as we can tell, the most intelligent life to have ever developed on earth.
This seems odd, given that there are so many other intelligent life (but nowhere near our level) like cetaceans, some birds (which are descended from Dinos, which had a longer time to evolve in interesting forms- not like early, ratlike mammals, to boot), other primates, some species of octopuses, and I am sure I can think of more examples.
Maybe the trick is having a big brain and a body plan that is flexible enough to do many things, starting with a high metabolism. I would think that a therapod with human intelligence levels would have an awfully hard time building spaceships.
And the brain consumes a lot of energy, which is why human muscles are relatively weak and energy efficient (also for endurance).
In that sense, it is my opinion that life is probably common, but intelligent life is rare, maybe even extraordinary, and probably not inevitable for a planet or system.
Well, a supercomputer is definitely not anywhere near as power efficient for mining bitcoin as a graphics card, let alone profitable mining hardware like ASICS, so at a minimum, he blew much, much more in taxpayer funded power/hardware wear than he profited.
They did this because Google and VZN were butting heads over whose fault the slowdowns were in several areas around the country (my area, Northern VA, was one of them).
Google supplied pretty damning evidence that VZN had some faulty hardware or was throttling and causing the issues, but VZN was still trying to shift blame to Google. After enough complaints and people leaving FiOS, the problems magically went away.
Because of the fodder it would give Comcast and AT&T.
Commercials involving slow Netflix (which that and YT are the biggest uses of bandwidth for most people) and placing blame squarely on Verizon or a Verizon lookalike is pretty persuasive when people are alreadying frustrated by their service.
"He has first amendment protections to be as big of a douchebag as he wants... he was doing nothing illegal. The NBA has no grounds to force him out..."
For fucks sake, if yoe going to be an apologist, please learn what the First Amendment means and what it applies to.
The NBA was well within their rights to force the sale of the Clippers and legality of remarks/the First Amendment has nothing to do with what the NBA has the right to do.
Of course there was no fly-off and the requirements were tailored for it... THE ONLY OTHER 5TH GEN FIGHTERS ARE THE F22 AND ONES BY RUSSIA AND CHINA THAT CANADA CAN'T BUY.
This isn't controversial. Canada wanted a modern aircraft, and right now, there are only 4 out there. The F22 isn't for export, the PAK FA isn't for sale, and the J-20 (based on stolen F22 tech) is still light years away, and also not for sale.
If there was another candidate, I am sure Canada would have compared them, but when facing $124m USD/plane versus many tens of billions to develop their own, the F35 is a bargain.
We tried that already with the Occupy movement. It ended up being judo'd into supporting those rat bastard "Tea Party" conservixtremists.
The problem is that it is angry average Joe against teams of highly intelligent, highly motivated, professional weasels working for the big two parties. And unfortunately, they have been equipped with knowledge of human psychology, economics, and anthropology.
The issue is that ISPs are greedy on many, many levels.
The main issue is that ISPs are allowed to oversell their capacity by many, many times, and they hope that nobody notices what they have done. Now that customers are using that capacity, instead of doing the ethical thing and fulfilling the promise they made to consumers, they are trying to find someone else to foot the bill for their sleezy business practices.
I think the best analogy is like fractional reserve banking. Imagine a culture shit where suddenly people stop leaving their money in savings, and instead store lots of money in savings, but then withdraw almost all of it periodically to spend.
Instead of changing their banking policy to remain solvent, the banks begin demanding that the most popular retailers pay them massive fees to accept the money that their customers are paying them, and if they don't, the banks will notify people that it is the stores not accepting their money. And for some reason, people believe them.
Not making a whole lot of fucking sense? Well, neither does the tiered internet thing.
No, definitely it does not. If you can work a Dremel, you can fabricate an AR-15 lower from a $50 unregistered blank and a parts kit.
Takes about an hour, no skill or expertise involved.
For the cost of a good 3D printer, you can get a used CNC, and just like with 3D printers, you can download the milling programs for free, and mill an aluminum lower in less than 10 mins.
The 3D printing thing was just a moral panic to begin with. It didn't actually add any capability. The fact that this can be done anywhere in the world with existing technology demonstrates pretty well that the danger of it is really a non-issue.
Whining about "Google shills" on Slashdot and portraying M$hill as the underdog on an article about M$hill doing scummy things to gain users (which is basically the entire story of how they gained market share anywhere, FUD and bribes).
This clearly shows why this author is a waste of space and making claims for hit counts.
He received a device for a developer/platform development program, and instead of treating it like a platform and developing things for it, he treats it like a product and whines about it.
FFS, please do send it back, or give it to someone who WILL DO SOMETHING USEFUL WITH IT.
Uh... are you trolling or just have no idea what you are talking about? Wilbur Wright died from Typhoid fever almost 10 years after the first flights, and after he had made many, many flights.
Orville died from a heart attack 35 years+ after Wilbur died.
CS degrees aren't the only game in town. Lots of programmers come from C.E., E.E., or Math degrees. I would say the number of programmers, in total, are going up, just that CS degrees are less prestigious or desirable.
Code. Lots and lots of code. Code from diverse sources, understanding the problems, understanding the solutions. Programming books/articles offer nice ideas, philosophies, anecdotes, whatever, but nothing will improve programming skill more than experience. Reading code, IMO, and at least for me, increases that experience much more than writing it or reading the meta about programming.
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So given that I post lots of stuff but do not read stuff in the feed, that means I am the sole originator of lots of contagions?
Kindof badass.
There is very little rote memorization in APCS.
Vs the chances you back up already corrupted files and don't notice until you've aged off the good versions.
Well, as has been pointed out before, just because life appears to stem from one thing, doesn't mean there wasn't a "Second Genesis" (or multitudes of them, even happening today). However, those other lifeforms have to compete for the same resources as better adapted ones (per natural selection). And then there are things that are "arguably life" that seem awfully close to life and awfully orthogonal to the existing tree, like viruses.
But besides that, what amazes me is that we are not only the most intelligent life on earth (for some values of intelligence), but as far as we can tell, the most intelligent life to have ever developed on earth.
This seems odd, given that there are so many other intelligent life (but nowhere near our level) like cetaceans, some birds (which are descended from Dinos, which had a longer time to evolve in interesting forms- not like early, ratlike mammals, to boot), other primates, some species of octopuses, and I am sure I can think of more examples.
Maybe the trick is having a big brain and a body plan that is flexible enough to do many things, starting with a high metabolism. I would think that a therapod with human intelligence levels would have an awfully hard time building spaceships.
And the brain consumes a lot of energy, which is why human muscles are relatively weak and energy efficient (also for endurance).
In that sense, it is my opinion that life is probably common, but intelligent life is rare, maybe even extraordinary, and probably not inevitable for a planet or system.
But they also want to play at very high resolutions, very high refresh rates (120hz-144hz), and are often recording as well...
Well, a supercomputer is definitely not anywhere near as power efficient for mining bitcoin as a graphics card, let alone profitable mining hardware like ASICS, so at a minimum, he blew much, much more in taxpayer funded power/hardware wear than he profited.
They did this because Google and VZN were butting heads over whose fault the slowdowns were in several areas around the country (my area, Northern VA, was one of them).
Google supplied pretty damning evidence that VZN had some faulty hardware or was throttling and causing the issues, but VZN was still trying to shift blame to Google. After enough complaints and people leaving FiOS, the problems magically went away.
Because of the fodder it would give Comcast and AT&T.
Commercials involving slow Netflix (which that and YT are the biggest uses of bandwidth for most people) and placing blame squarely on Verizon or a Verizon lookalike is pretty persuasive when people are alreadying frustrated by their service.
"He has first amendment protections to be as big of a douchebag as he wants... he was doing nothing illegal. The NBA has no grounds to force him out..."
For fucks sake, if yoe going to be an apologist, please learn what the First Amendment means and what it applies to.
The NBA was well within their rights to force the sale of the Clippers and legality of remarks/the First Amendment has nothing to do with what the NBA has the right to do.
Of course there was no fly-off and the requirements were tailored for it... THE ONLY OTHER 5TH GEN FIGHTERS ARE THE F22 AND ONES BY RUSSIA AND CHINA THAT CANADA CAN'T BUY.
This isn't controversial. Canada wanted a modern aircraft, and right now, there are only 4 out there. The F22 isn't for export, the PAK FA isn't for sale, and the J-20 (based on stolen F22 tech) is still light years away, and also not for sale.
If there was another candidate, I am sure Canada would have compared them, but when facing $124m USD/plane versus many tens of billions to develop their own, the F35 is a bargain.
The cost of these F-35s are 124m/ea. The cost of a previous generation Super Hornet is almost 70m/ea, with older electronics packages and no stealth.
Where you are going from 65->250, I have no idea.
Now, the F-16 is much cheaper and still in use, so maybe you are confusing the F/A-18 with that?
We tried that already with the Occupy movement. It ended up being judo'd into supporting those rat bastard "Tea Party" conservixtremists.
The problem is that it is angry average Joe against teams of highly intelligent, highly motivated, professional weasels working for the big two parties. And unfortunately, they have been equipped with knowledge of human psychology, economics, and anthropology.
The issue is that ISPs are greedy on many, many levels.
The main issue is that ISPs are allowed to oversell their capacity by many, many times, and they hope that nobody notices what they have done. Now that customers are using that capacity, instead of doing the ethical thing and fulfilling the promise they made to consumers, they are trying to find someone else to foot the bill for their sleezy business practices.
I think the best analogy is like fractional reserve banking. Imagine a culture shit where suddenly people stop leaving their money in savings, and instead store lots of money in savings, but then withdraw almost all of it periodically to spend.
Instead of changing their banking policy to remain solvent, the banks begin demanding that the most popular retailers pay them massive fees to accept the money that their customers are paying them, and if they don't, the banks will notify people that it is the stores not accepting their money. And for some reason, people believe them.
Not making a whole lot of fucking sense? Well, neither does the tiered internet thing.
No, definitely it does not. If you can work a Dremel, you can fabricate an AR-15 lower from a $50 unregistered blank and a parts kit.
Takes about an hour, no skill or expertise involved.
For the cost of a good 3D printer, you can get a used CNC, and just like with 3D printers, you can download the milling programs for free, and mill an aluminum lower in less than 10 mins.
The 3D printing thing was just a moral panic to begin with. It didn't actually add any capability. The fact that this can be done anywhere in the world with existing technology demonstrates pretty well that the danger of it is really a non-issue.
If the trademark has a period, and the clothing designs etc do not, how does Dazzle justify that being a trademark infringement?
Because if that is legal, I am going to trademark ng on red signs with STOP on them and sue the gov't for using something too similar.
Salt? I've cut bacon strips off a hog I killed, and it tasted like... bacon does.
Not sure what you are referring to.
Whining about "Google shills" on Slashdot and portraying M$hill as the underdog on an article about M$hill doing scummy things to gain users (which is basically the entire story of how they gained market share anywhere, FUD and bribes).
Stay classy Anon.
Pretty sure most believers in the 2nd Amendment don't give a rat's ass about helping the Chinese.
This clearly shows why this author is a waste of space and making claims for hit counts.
He received a device for a developer/platform development program, and instead of treating it like a platform and developing things for it, he treats it like a product and whines about it.
FFS, please do send it back, or give it to someone who WILL DO SOMETHING USEFUL WITH IT.
As someone funding those jails, I also support his decision to remove himself from existence rather than place an even greater burden on taxpayers.
We are making fun of vaccine denialists/anti-vaxxers and you are trying to bring in rationality.
You might want to check your vaccine history.
Uh... are you trolling or just have no idea what you are talking about? Wilbur Wright died from Typhoid fever almost 10 years after the first flights, and after he had made many, many flights.
Orville died from a heart attack 35 years+ after Wilbur died.
CS degrees aren't the only game in town. Lots of programmers come from C.E., E.E., or Math degrees. I would say the number of programmers, in total, are going up, just that CS degrees are less prestigious or desirable.
Code. Lots and lots of code. Code from diverse sources, understanding the problems, understanding the solutions. Programming books/articles offer nice ideas, philosophies, anecdotes, whatever, but nothing will improve programming skill more than experience. Reading code, IMO, and at least for me, increases that experience much more than writing it or reading the meta about programming.
...but the battery isn't what makes Beats headphones crappy and overrated...