Is it set to go off if you are over the white line at a red? Then if I stopped 3-5ft long at a light, I'm getting a ticket for running it? Seems like a scam to me.
How? The law says don't cross the white line if the light is red. You cross it when the light is red, you've broken the rules. It's not exactly a massive safety violation but the number of times I've seen people stop with their back wheels on the line and their nose peeking out into the junction so that it blocks pedestrian crossings is infuriating. You break the rules, you get a fine. Simple. It's not like the rules are obscure or hard to remember, there are signs and lines everywhere they apply.
TFA makes it sound like they're all speed cameras anyway, not line cameras, and points out that of the two cameras which were operating one was in a school zone where you really do want these things enforced. The plaintiff's attorney said "people who were unemployed, working poor and single mothers were hit with $105 citations they couldn’t afford". Well, boo-hoo. Don't speed in the school zone and you won't get fined, simple.
The rules are there to prevent injury. If there is no injury, no rule is broken. No harm, no foul. When you sue someone, you can only sue for damages to make you whole. The state is supposed to only be able to fine you to cover damages.
That's the way it's supposed to work, at least. But somebody along the way thought it would be a good idea to punish people by taking their money and to claim you were taking their money to prevent others from doing the same thing in the future. Of course fines and taxes don't limit bad behavior at all. They just serve as a way for the state and corporations to get more money out of people, and to let corporations and the state off the hook for their own crimes. When the state or a corporation is punished, they get hit with a laughably small fine instead place of jail time, and the people are the ones who ultimately pay the fine.
The announcement of a deal is fact. The existence of that actual deal is not.
So the statement,
Nvidia announced that had a deal with Apple and then Apple (well Jobs) killed the deal
is not a fact.
All of those things are facts. Whether or not they're true is another matter. (And it was true - there was a deal, Nvidia announced it, Jobs threw a hissy fit.)
Just why would any sane person hate or even dislike a windmill on the horizon? Sure one guy likes vanilla and the next must have chocolate but really aren't our desires part of our sanity? This is rather like the legal nonsense about murderers. Isn't it rather obvious that a person that wants to shoot up a theater full of people is insane? Normal people simply do not have urges to wipe out school kids, customers at McDonalds or even shoot at Ronnie Raygun. And if someone is in a rage over a windmill disturbing their notion of what the horizon should look like they need to be confined until they can at least be medicated.
Windmills are big, ugly, require constant maintenance (with oil!), generate terrible buffeting, cast shadows, fuck up birds, don't provide shit in terms of energy output when running, provide zero energy output when it isn't windy, waste ton of space, and cost a lot. Solar is shit too.
The best methods we have for generating electricity are the ones we're not pursuing anymore - nuclear and hydroelectric.
Point and shoot 3D coffee table models. The future is going to be weird.
Better yet, point and shoot and print replicas of dicks and vulvas. So much easier than the shit they have now where you slather your junk in random chemicals to do the whole mold/cast shit.
How is it experimental when anyone anywhere can use it? FOr that matter what's the experiment? What are the metrics being collected? Whats the control? How will you know if the experiment is a success? If it is a success do you go back and start the non experiment on its own with the lessons learned? I would say that when people are trying to convince everyone to embrace it it is no longer an experiment when it is being used outside of a controlled environment.
If it was named Google Coins Beta (TM) you never would have posted that.
Infant mortality rate studies do not control for the various criteria each country has. Many countries categorize death within X hours after birth as still born, very premature as a miscarriage, etc., and these stats do not count toward infant mortality. In the US, anything that shows any signs of life when extracted is classified as a live birth and will count toward infant mortality stats.
But keep on quoting those studies without reading them or understanding them.
Phone books aren't delivered by the post office (at least not where I'm from - it's some mexican with a truck full of the useless things). Only a mail carrier and the residents of the corresponding address are allowed to put items into or take items out of a mail box.
Someone in China attempted to access my account about a month ago, and Google (praise be to the google gods), very generously forwarded me the offender's IP address. After about a week of single ping requests, the offender came back online.. and *poof*. He is no longer attempting to steal email accounts anymore. At least, until he gets a new computer.
Amazing stuff you can do with custom firmware these days, no?
No one believes your horseshit story. No one believed it back in 1992 when you threatened to hack people over IRC.
The author's use looked reasonable to me, and in agreement with common usage, so I looked into it a bit more, and it is not so simple.
Wikipedia's entry on irony includes these statements:
The American Heritage Dictionary's secondary meaning for irony: "incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs". This sense, however, is not synonymous with "incongruous" but merely a definition of dramatic or situational irony.
Situational irony: This is a relatively modern use of the term [citation needed], and describes a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results in a certain situation.
The free online dictionary has this usage note: The words ironic, irony, and ironically are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply "coincidental" or "improbable," in that they suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly. Thus 78 percent of the Usage Panel rejects the use of ironically in the sentence 'In 1969 Susie moved from Ithaca to California where she met her husband-to-be, who, ironically, also came from upstate New York.' Some Panelists noted that this particular usage might be acceptable if Susie had in fact moved to California in order to find a husband, in which case the story could be taken as exemplifying the folly of supposing that we can know what fate has in store for us. By contrast, 73 percent accepted the sentence 'Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market', where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.
The author describes a situation that involves situational irony as defined by Wikipedia: at an event promoting the use of MongoDB, he sees something that dissuades him for using it, at least temporarily. In fact, there is not just a discrepancy between expected and actual results, but an opposition. Furthermore, it does not fall foul of the 'mere coincidence' rule in the usage note. FWIW, I would not avoid using 'ironically' here.
And Wikipedia is wrong. Irony has to do with the literal intention of words being different from the meaning intended by the person using them. That's it. If the genuine intent is the same as the literal intent, then there is no irony. Even if an eventual outcome seems humorous, incongruous, or unexpected when compared to the literal intent, there is no irony.
Telling an actor to "break a leg" to wish them well is ironic. An actor actually breaking their leg after being told that is not ironic. If the speaker had planned to break the actor's leg, told the actor to "break a leg", and then broke the actor's leg, the speaker was being literal, not ironic.
"Situational irony" as a needless extension of "dramatic irony" is fucking horse shit. Dramatic irony is the extension of irony, and it exists to describe uses in literature/film/whatever in which characters are unaware of their irony, but the author/narrator/audience is. This extension allows the transfer of intent from the speaker to the author or the work as a whole.
The Weird Sisters said "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth". The literal intention of that line is that no man born from a woman could harm Macbeth. Of course, we find out the actual meaning throws away the literal meaning of "born" in order to exclude Macduff.
If you believe they were tricking Macbeth, then they were being ironic. If you believe they were crazy old hags and didn't know about the twist, then it's an instance of dramatic irony. The statement was true with no tricks intended from the characters's perspectives, but the author loaded it up for the ironic reveal of Macduff's Cesarean delivery.
You, Wikipedia, and a gaggle of shitwicks with no authority over the language can say otherwise, but you can't just change the meaning of the word irony anymore than the government can call a tomato (or a slice of pizza...) a vegetable.
He's still using "ironically" incorrectly, despite the fact that i defined it for him in the comments on last story. He saw and replied to my comment, acknowledging his error.
I'm sure that AMD, the losing party, will dispute the results and come up with its own methoology to counter this.
Then again, everyone knew nVidia high end cards are better, so was this new test really necessary??
The point of the "new test" is that framerate is a terrible metric because it averages out what you care about. When you measure frame times individually you can then quantify how often a game slows down and by how much. You don't just have an average FPS, or a MAX/AVG/MIN.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Public Service Announcement for SCALE Attendees.
Don't drive a truck. Christopher Dorner drove a truck. Driving a truck is now grounds for the use of lethal force. Are you Christopher Dorner? The why are you driving that truck? It doesn't matter that Dorner burned his truck days ago, that is just a TERRORIST RUSE, and all trucks will be shot at on sight by LAPD officers.
You'd think that G is always 2^30 when it comes to computer, but when it comes to communication speeds, G has always been 10^9, M has always been 10^6, etc. (Think 1 gigabit ethernet, 100 megabit ethernet, etc.)
Ring-a-ding-ding-WRONG.
1) You're thinking of 10/100/1000 BASE T 2) Modems are rated in baud, the number of signals be second, and symbols, the actual data transmitted per signal. A 400 kilobaud modem transmitting 2 1-byte symbols per signal gives you 800000 Bps. 3) The fact that the IEEE is clusterfuck doesn't change what GB means.
k, has meant 1000 since the 18th century. the other SI prefixes have been around in science longer than they have with computers.
No one is fucking talking about k. We're talking about kb. That b means bits. Bits are binary. that means 1024. There is zero ambiguity.
Science is rife with fucking ambiguous symbols. What is m? Milli-? Meter? What is k? Kilo-? Spring constant? What is G? Giga? Gravitational constant? And don't even get me started on the 295 ways I have to draw a squiggly looking u if I'm doing physics or math.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody..." also... "The internet is just a passing fad" and "We will never make a 32 bit operating system..."
BZZT! Statements Microsoft have made?
CORRR-ECCT!!
And during the commercial break, our judges have determined you're fucking wrong, so we're taking that $500 back. 1) The 640K quote is typically attributed to Bill Gates. But he never said it. 2) You didn't phrase your question in the form of an answer. Throwing a question mark on the doesn't make it a question, it just makes you sound, like, a surfer?
Actually, when it comes to correctness: the International System of Units defines kilo-, mega- and giga- as powers of 10 instead, not powers of 2. I think it is much clearer for a user to define a megabyte as a million bytes. How memory is handled inside a computer is something developers care about, no user should be bothered with it. So all in all I agree with the marketing-people, albeit for different reasons.
No one gives a flying fuck that the SI says. They are not an authority on the matter. If you want an authority, look to the (relatively short) history of CS. Base 2 wins.
There are plenty of reasons to use base 2 for computers, and there is exactly zero confusion when you realize that the units we are talking about aren't K, M, G, etc., but KB, MB, GB etc. There is absolutely no ambiguity because the B (or b) is right fucking there telling you you're talking about binary fucking digits. You want to talk about how your old modem wasn't measured in base 2? That's because it was megabaud, not megabit. You want to bring up some storage manufacturer from the 70s who used 1024 for KB and then said 1000 KB = 1 MB? They're the assholes who pioneered the deception.
There are exactly 2 reasons for someone to support using 1000 for binary data instead of 1024:
1) They fucked it up once in the past and are embarrassed about it, and would rather blame someone else. 2) They sell storage devices and want the numbers to seem bigger.
The proposed "solution" of KiB, MiB, etc. is fucking worse than people just not knowing the difference between 1000 and 1024. Now, whenever you see GB, you have exactly no way of knowing whether it's 1024 or 1000. When was it written? Was GiB in use at the time? Was the author aware of it? Was the author enough of a tool to use it?
This whole fucking debacle is just a repeat of "non-flammable". Inflammable is a word. It means shit can catch fire and burn your shit down. Non-inflammable is a word. It means the opposite. But some pickled little shit decided to add confusion by creating "flammable" and "non-flammable", and those fucking words don't even make sense. Inflammare vs. flammare. Fucking useless shits fucking up the language because they don't know shit about it.
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Is it set to go off if you are over the white line at a red? Then if I stopped 3-5ft long at a light, I'm getting a ticket for running it? Seems like a scam to me.
How? The law says don't cross the white line if the light is red. You cross it when the light is red, you've broken the rules. It's not exactly a massive safety violation but the number of times I've seen people stop with their back wheels on the line and their nose peeking out into the junction so that it blocks pedestrian crossings is infuriating. You break the rules, you get a fine. Simple. It's not like the rules are obscure or hard to remember, there are signs and lines everywhere they apply.
TFA makes it sound like they're all speed cameras anyway, not line cameras, and points out that of the two cameras which were operating one was in a school zone where you really do want these things enforced. The plaintiff's attorney said "people who were unemployed, working poor and single mothers were hit with $105 citations they couldn’t afford". Well, boo-hoo. Don't speed in the school zone and you won't get fined, simple.
The rules are there to prevent injury.
If there is no injury, no rule is broken.
No harm, no foul.
When you sue someone, you can only sue for damages to make you whole.
The state is supposed to only be able to fine you to cover damages.
That's the way it's supposed to work, at least.
But somebody along the way thought it would be a good idea to punish people by taking their money and to claim you were taking their money to prevent others from doing the same thing in the future. Of course fines and taxes don't limit bad behavior at all. They just serve as a way for the state and corporations to get more money out of people, and to let corporations and the state off the hook for their own crimes. When the state or a corporation is punished, they get hit with a laughably small fine instead place of jail time, and the people are the ones who ultimately pay the fine.
I don't want to powerlessly follow the news of this stupid thing going on while completely unable to stop it, as with UEFI secure boot.
UEFI Secure Boot is a good thing.
Locking the shit down so users cannot sign their own shit and add those keys as trusted is a bad thing.
Yes, I have a lock, but I honestly wouldn't give a shit if people could just copy my stuff without taking it from me.
Really? Thanks!
Scan all your financial and medical records and send them to me.
Nvidia announced that had a deal with Apple
The announcement of a deal is fact. The existence of that actual deal is not.
So the statement,
Nvidia announced that had a deal with Apple and then Apple (well Jobs) killed the deal
is not a fact.
All of those things are facts.
Whether or not they're true is another matter. (And it was true - there was a deal, Nvidia announced it, Jobs threw a hissy fit.)
Just why would any sane person hate or even dislike a windmill on the horizon? Sure one guy likes vanilla and the next must have chocolate but really aren't our desires part of our sanity? This is rather like the legal nonsense about murderers. Isn't it rather obvious that a person that wants to shoot up a theater full of people is insane? Normal people simply do not have urges to wipe out school kids, customers at McDonalds or even shoot at Ronnie Raygun. And if someone is in a rage over a windmill disturbing their notion of what the horizon should look like they need to be confined until they can at least be medicated.
Windmills are big, ugly, require constant maintenance (with oil!), generate terrible buffeting, cast shadows, fuck up birds, don't provide shit in terms of energy output when running, provide zero energy output when it isn't windy, waste ton of space, and cost a lot.
Solar is shit too.
The best methods we have for generating electricity are the ones we're not pursuing anymore - nuclear and hydroelectric.
Point and shoot 3D coffee table models. The future is going to be weird.
Better yet, point and shoot and print replicas of dicks and vulvas. So much easier than the shit they have now where you slather your junk in random chemicals to do the whole mold/cast shit.
How is it experimental when anyone anywhere can use it? FOr that matter what's the experiment? What are the metrics being collected? Whats the control? How will you know if the experiment is a success? If it is a success do you go back and start the non experiment on its own with the lessons learned? I would say that when people are trying to convince everyone to embrace it it is no longer an experiment when it is being used outside of a controlled environment.
If it was named Google Coins Beta (TM) you never would have posted that.
Infant mortality rate studies do not control for the various criteria each country has. Many countries categorize death within X hours after birth as still born, very premature as a miscarriage, etc., and these stats do not count toward infant mortality. In the US, anything that shows any signs of life when extracted is classified as a live birth and will count toward infant mortality stats.
But keep on quoting those studies without reading them or understanding them.
Trespassing, then.
You don't own your mailbox in the USA.
Phone books aren't delivered by the post office (at least not where I'm from - it's some mexican with a truck full of the useless things).
Only a mail carrier and the residents of the corresponding address are allowed to put items into or take items out of a mail box.
You forget one:
- autoupdating
Heck, it doesn't even have an update UI built into it. Instead, you have to rely on a third-party addon to update it.
That's a plus in my book. I'm sick of Chrome's race for higher version numbers and disregard for consistency or stability.
1) Chromium with native, automatic security updates
2) Chromium with cumbersome auto updates
3) Chrome with incessant, haphazard updates.
We don't have option 1 yet, but option 2 is still better than option 3.
Someone in China attempted to access my account about a month ago, and Google (praise be to the google gods), very generously forwarded me the offender's IP address. After about a week of single ping requests, the offender came back online.. and *poof*. He is no longer attempting to steal email accounts anymore. At least, until he gets a new computer.
Amazing stuff you can do with custom firmware these days, no?
No one believes your horseshit story. No one believed it back in 1992 when you threatened to hack people over IRC.
The author's use looked reasonable to me, and in agreement with common usage, so I looked into it a bit more, and it is not so simple.
Wikipedia's entry on irony includes these statements:
The American Heritage Dictionary's secondary meaning for irony: "incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs". This sense, however, is not synonymous with "incongruous" but merely a definition of dramatic or situational irony.
Situational irony: This is a relatively modern use of the term [citation needed], and describes a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results in a certain situation.
The free online dictionary has this usage note:
The words ironic, irony, and ironically are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply "coincidental" or "improbable," in that they suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly. Thus 78 percent of the Usage Panel rejects the use of ironically in the sentence 'In 1969 Susie moved from Ithaca to California where she met her husband-to-be, who, ironically, also came from upstate New York.' Some Panelists noted that this particular usage might be acceptable if Susie had in fact moved to California in order to find a husband, in which case the story could be taken as exemplifying the folly of supposing that we can know what fate has in store for us. By contrast, 73 percent accepted the sentence 'Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market', where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.
The author describes a situation that involves situational irony as defined by Wikipedia: at an event promoting the use of MongoDB, he sees something that dissuades him for using it, at least temporarily. In fact, there is not just a discrepancy between expected and actual results, but an opposition. Furthermore, it does not fall foul of the 'mere coincidence' rule in the usage note. FWIW, I would not avoid using 'ironically' here.
And Wikipedia is wrong. Irony has to do with the literal intention of words being different from the meaning intended by the person using them. That's it. If the genuine intent is the same as the literal intent, then there is no irony. Even if an eventual outcome seems humorous, incongruous, or unexpected when compared to the literal intent, there is no irony.
Telling an actor to "break a leg" to wish them well is ironic.
An actor actually breaking their leg after being told that is not ironic.
If the speaker had planned to break the actor's leg, told the actor to "break a leg", and then broke the actor's leg, the speaker was being literal, not ironic.
"Situational irony" as a needless extension of "dramatic irony" is fucking horse shit. Dramatic irony is the extension of irony, and it exists to describe uses in literature/film/whatever in which characters are unaware of their irony, but the author/narrator/audience is. This extension allows the transfer of intent from the speaker to the author or the work as a whole.
The Weird Sisters said "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth".
The literal intention of that line is that no man born from a woman could harm Macbeth. Of course, we find out the actual meaning throws away the literal meaning of "born" in order to exclude Macduff.
If you believe they were tricking Macbeth, then they were being ironic.
If you believe they were crazy old hags and didn't know about the twist, then it's an instance of dramatic irony. The statement was true with no tricks intended from the characters's perspectives, but the author loaded it up for the ironic reveal of Macduff's Cesarean delivery.
You, Wikipedia, and a gaggle of shitwicks with no authority over the language can say otherwise, but you can't just change the meaning of the word irony anymore than the government can call a tomato (or a slice of pizza...) a vegetable.
He's still using "ironically" incorrectly, despite the fact that i defined it for him in the comments on last story. He saw and replied to my comment, acknowledging his error.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_amJ0YZrM
"Ironically, it was a session at AWS Re:invent that initially scared me away from MongoDB."
I'm not sure which word he wants, but "ironically" isn't it.
I'm sure that AMD, the losing party, will dispute the results and come up with its own methoology to counter this.
Then again, everyone knew nVidia high end cards are better, so was this new test really necessary??
The point of the "new test" is that framerate is a terrible metric because it averages out what you care about.
When you measure frame times individually you can then quantify how often a game slows down and by how much.
You don't just have an average FPS, or a MAX/AVG/MIN.
This is bullshit because of reasons. Also, "clean coal" lol.
Where's the irony exactly?
Unless Travis Brown ejaculated while reaching his conclusion, there is none.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_amJ0YZrM
It was a big thing with Blackberry back when Blackberry was a thing.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Public Service Announcement for SCALE Attendees.
Don't drive a truck. Christopher Dorner drove a truck. Driving a truck is now grounds for the use of lethal force. Are you Christopher Dorner? The why are you driving that truck? It doesn't matter that Dorner burned his truck days ago, that is just a TERRORIST RUSE, and all trucks will be shot at on sight by LAPD officers.
You'd think that G is always 2^30 when it comes to computer, but when it comes to communication speeds, G has always been 10^9, M has always been 10^6, etc. (Think 1 gigabit ethernet, 100 megabit ethernet, etc.)
Ring-a-ding-ding-WRONG.
1) You're thinking of 10/100/1000 BASE T
2) Modems are rated in baud, the number of signals be second, and symbols, the actual data transmitted per signal. A 400 kilobaud modem transmitting 2 1-byte symbols per signal gives you 800000 Bps.
3) The fact that the IEEE is clusterfuck doesn't change what GB means.
k, has meant 1000 since the 18th century. the other SI prefixes have been around in science longer than they have with computers.
No one is fucking talking about k.
We're talking about kb. That b means bits. Bits are binary. that means 1024. There is zero ambiguity.
Science is rife with fucking ambiguous symbols. What is m? Milli-? Meter? What is k? Kilo-? Spring constant? What is G? Giga? Gravitational constant?
And don't even get me started on the 295 ways I have to draw a squiggly looking u if I'm doing physics or math.
Because the 1024-based units ARE the true units, and the 1000-based units WERE created just to make hard drives look bigger than they actually were.
And to make network interfaces and cpu frequencies look faster than they actually are too!!!
No, dipshit. Baud rates and clock speeds use 1000.
Only bits get dealt with in 1024.
Stupid statements for 500, Alex...
"640K ought to be enough for anybody..."
also...
"The internet is just a passing fad" and "We will never make a 32 bit operating system..."
BZZT!
Statements Microsoft have made?
CORRR-ECCT!!
And during the commercial break, our judges have determined you're fucking wrong, so we're taking that $500 back.
1) The 640K quote is typically attributed to Bill Gates. But he never said it.
2) You didn't phrase your question in the form of an answer. Throwing a question mark on the doesn't make it a question, it just makes you sound, like, a surfer?
Actually, when it comes to correctness: the International System of Units defines kilo-, mega- and giga- as powers of 10 instead, not powers of 2. I think it is much clearer for a user to define a megabyte as a million bytes. How memory is handled inside a computer is something developers care about, no user should be bothered with it. So all in all I agree with the marketing-people, albeit for different reasons.
No one gives a flying fuck that the SI says. They are not an authority on the matter. If you want an authority, look to the (relatively short) history of CS. Base 2 wins.
There are plenty of reasons to use base 2 for computers, and there is exactly zero confusion when you realize that the units we are talking about aren't K, M, G, etc., but KB, MB, GB etc. There is absolutely no ambiguity because the B (or b) is right fucking there telling you you're talking about binary fucking digits. You want to talk about how your old modem wasn't measured in base 2? That's because it was megabaud, not megabit. You want to bring up some storage manufacturer from the 70s who used 1024 for KB and then said 1000 KB = 1 MB? They're the assholes who pioneered the deception.
There are exactly 2 reasons for someone to support using 1000 for binary data instead of 1024:
1) They fucked it up once in the past and are embarrassed about it, and would rather blame someone else.
2) They sell storage devices and want the numbers to seem bigger.
The proposed "solution" of KiB, MiB, etc. is fucking worse than people just not knowing the difference between 1000 and 1024. Now, whenever you see GB, you have exactly no way of knowing whether it's 1024 or 1000. When was it written? Was GiB in use at the time? Was the author aware of it? Was the author enough of a tool to use it?
This whole fucking debacle is just a repeat of "non-flammable". Inflammable is a word. It means shit can catch fire and burn your shit down. Non-inflammable is a word. It means the opposite. But some pickled little shit decided to add confusion by creating "flammable" and "non-flammable", and those fucking words don't even make sense. Inflammare vs. flammare. Fucking useless shits fucking up the language because they don't know shit about it.
Highly informative video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q6_9A90cUk
It's NOT Android. It's ChromeOS, which is basically the Chrome Browser running on Linux.
Everything is the web, man.
The person you were responding to was responding to someone who said he wanted Android on the desktop.
Please read.