But isn't that just what he's doing? He found his current circumstances "too comfortable", so he's changing them. Indie game development is stressful enough even in a shark-free pool!
That's one condition anti-depressants treat, sure, but it's not the only one. They also work for anxiety that's not tied to circumstance (nothing wrong, but you're panicked and stressed out anyway), which is a similar brain chemistry imbalance.
Antidepressants make many people stop getting really stressed out about stuff. That was is point: startups are really quite stressful, working at MS isn't. He's not feeling the motivation and pace that leads to his best creativity. I get that, being the same way. I'm not chasing my muse, so I prefer less stress to my best performance, but that's quite subjective.
No, I was seriously having a hard time following you. There's older stuff that's only on film and has never entered the digital domain, but that's different from stuff that just needs to be licensed for a new distribution channel. Everything's easy (except licensing) once it's digital.
Ford can fix whatever price it wants to (you don't think Ford dealers compete with one another on price, do you?). That's not important, as there are many brands. Let Ford sell cars their way, and Tesla do their own thing, and trust the customers to favor the model best for the customers.
Oh, I was thinking of the BSD jazz. I may also be overestimating how good Minix was back then (if you're right about not being self-gcc yet!).
The main advantage Linux had was that Linus didn't turn up his nose at the hardware people actually had and wanted to use - he was a smart "product manager" from the start.
AnyDVD is great for Windows, but non-free. There's a free-as-in-perpetual-beta one (MakeMKV IIRC) that keeps current as well. They work fairly transparently.
the company and their models have changed since 2012.
Tesla is in an odd place in conservative conversations, because it hasn't sunk in yet that this is the first electric car that's not a joke played on hippies. The Model S really did change the landscape (and, hey, we wouldn't be conservatives if we embraced change quickly). Now people on the right are starting to realize that this could be the new American Car Company to rally behind, now that "Government Motors" is on the lifetime-ban list of many on the right after the bailouts.
Speaking of changing landscapes, people need to shed the silly notion that "oil companies" oppose electric cars. There are no large "oil companies" any more, they're all "energy companies" now, and they're just as happy to sell natural gas to electric companies as they are to sell oil at the pump.
You're either a fucking idiot or a corporate stooge. The right of first sale (part of copyright law), says it is perfectly legal to rent your DVDs, CDs, books, etc.
Not quite. You can't rent or lend CDs, or records, or other "phonorecordings" without a license. It's a special case.
As with everything else you've ever typed, you're obviously and completely wrong Bennett. "Phonorecordings" are the only media that has any restriction on rentals. Rental DVDs are sometimes licensed to get a lower price form the studios, or early access for a premium. But you no more need a license to rent/lend a DVD than you do a book.
Ripping Bluray requires a constant battle, reminding me of the C-64 days of copy protection. But it's still trivial, as there are multiple competing groups doing that work in ways that scale to everyone, so it's just a matter of keeping one's ripping tools patched. (Has Bennet ever said anything sensible?)
Yes: part of being an engineering leader is building credibility with the engineers. No one can force them to listen to you (this is true for closed-source jobs as well), but demonstrate that you know what you're doing and they will. The code Linus wrote established his creds, gave coders a reason to follow him early on. Later of course (for most of the life of Linux thus far) it was his demonstrated skill at running the project.
Yep, that's why I love Netflix DVDs/bluray. Very high quality, no (effective) DRM. Sadly, Netflix is letting its DVD business die. I commonly get DVDS 20+ up my queue shipped to me as the first 20 aren't available to ship (with no warning or "short wait" notice, of course, as Netflix just doesn't care). They have TV shows where some seasons are DVD-only, and some are Bluray-only (when both formats are for sale for all seasons - Netflix just doesn't care).
Motherboards are a real issue as GPUs run quite hot under load, and so many motherboards start cracking under the thermal stress. Good for 6-12 months, and then they start crashing frequently under load. And there's no solid guide to the good ones (it's not the sort of thing you can test in a week), which is very frustrating for hobby system builders.
The Linux kernel was nothing special. Seriously. There were many such hobby projects at the time, and it wasn't a particularly great one. The success of Linux was the success of Linus as "the guy in charge" of an open source project. It grew and flourished because of leadership, not (early) technological advantage.
The open source community certainly needs more such strong leaders. What it doesn't need is CEO-style wankers. Any sort of "business leader" needs to find a new space. What's lacking are engineering leaders, who have a strong and consistent vision of what say, the desktop, should be that resonates with contributors, and who has the political savvy to lead. You can't boss around an open source project based on any granted authority, but you can lead and inspire people to follow. That means you have to appeal to the people who'd likely do the work, not follow some business plan to grow the customer base.
One thing to consider: when the government is willing to allow stuff like nuclear plants to keep operating past their sell-by date, it's a cultural problem. Everything everywhere will have that problem, like bridges collapsing for lack of proper maintenance (which we've also seen). But no one has the political will to address that - people are just too easily distracted by nonsense like candidates positions on gay marriage, or some other trivial BS, and so corruption grows and grows.
Some people espouse the theory that minimum wage increases inflation. This has proven to be false, but pundits keep saying it because it's an idea promoted by the people that employ them.
The minimum wage certainly affects inflation. It's not 1-1 of course, because your raising wages for a small portion of the population. You can't, however, increase the overall buying power of everyone except by making more stuff. People get hung up on dollars, but ultimately unless you can make more stuff with the same resources (which is what technology is and does), the average buying power is unchanged.
Automation happens when machines can do things that humans can't, not because they're cheaper than humans.
It's a bit of both. But the key thing people miss is that when automation lowers prices, people spend money on new and different stuff, making new jobs elsewhere. We have about 150 years of direct evidence that this happens, but some people are still sure that robots will take everyone's jobs, and must be stopped.
Fusion would change everything, no doubt, but you can't really blame the lack of progress (only) on cutting budgets. The "always 20 years out" is as much about the fact that "20 years out" is the same as "no useful progress" as anything else. But there is, after all, a quite powerful fusion reaction going on overhead, and I suspect that the problems with harnessing that will be solved much faster. Mostly we just need a dense, safe battery, and progress on that is evident yearly.
As far as fission fuel reprocessing, we're just ultra-paranoid about nuclear proliferation. From an energy perspective it's quite silly, but as any veteran engineer knows: sometimes the non-engineering factors do need to determine outcomes.
As far as safety - I think we can make reactors fairly tolerant of operator abuse, if we can at least avoid really stupid shortcuts when the thing is built (no Chernobyl-style reactors). For all that Fukushima is a mess, it's still pretty trivial compared to the natural disaster that caused it. Three Mile Island was about as much operator error as it's possible to make, and still the failure mode just wasn't that bad. Modern designs are far safer than either - safer I suspect than a refinery/chemical plant.
Every power source is really solar power (well, fission was enables by a different star, but still). Everything is "envirnmentally damaging, to some extent.
The problem here isn't some hand-wavy abstraction, the problem is people burning wood and coal indoors (plus the very existence of toxic city - eesh, burning dumped electronic waste to recover the metals). It's the same problem that caused "pea soup fogs" and killed enough people in London ~100 years ago to cause the first air quality-related laws.
Fission isn't great, sure, but it's problems really are minor compared to burning coal or wood - but then, it's not going to help the very low-tech regions having these problems. Natural gas, OTOH, burns clean, and there's certainly no shortage of it, but it's hard to transport. Solar thermal is low tech and works, but it's capital-intensive for impoverished regions (still, it would make a nice charity endeavor) and a crappy choice for heating at night.
There aren't any easy answers, because anything you do requires infrastructure. And there are places in the world more developed than you'd think where running miles of copper wires for power distribution is just too impractical to keep in place.
...as you can offset a drop in the value of your bitcoins as a tax deduction.
As most of us who went through the dot-bust can tell you: only if you have gains to offset. If you have net losses, you can only take them at $3000/yr.*
TFA doesn't seem to have a link to the actual IRS ruling - WTF Bloomberg? New to the intarwebs? We do links here!
Not all capital gains are the same. If BTC is treated like stocks, that's great - most people will pay 15%* on long-term gains. Compare that to gold/silver, which are taxed as collectibles, with a 28% gains rate!*
*Don't take tax advice from random internet strangers like me - consult your tax professional.
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Dammit, I knew I'd been doing it wrong! Here I'd been climbing the hungry and feeding the mountains. That explains the restraining order.
But isn't that just what he's doing? He found his current circumstances "too comfortable", so he's changing them. Indie game development is stressful enough even in a shark-free pool!
That's one condition anti-depressants treat, sure, but it's not the only one. They also work for anxiety that's not tied to circumstance (nothing wrong, but you're panicked and stressed out anyway), which is a similar brain chemistry imbalance.
Antidepressants make many people stop getting really stressed out about stuff. That was is point: startups are really quite stressful, working at MS isn't. He's not feeling the motivation and pace that leads to his best creativity. I get that, being the same way. I'm not chasing my muse, so I prefer less stress to my best performance, but that's quite subjective.
No, I was seriously having a hard time following you. There's older stuff that's only on film and has never entered the digital domain, but that's different from stuff that just needs to be licensed for a new distribution channel. Everything's easy (except licensing) once it's digital.
Ford can fix whatever price it wants to (you don't think Ford dealers compete with one another on price, do you?). That's not important, as there are many brands. Let Ford sell cars their way, and Tesla do their own thing, and trust the customers to favor the model best for the customers.
Oh, I was thinking of the BSD jazz. I may also be overestimating how good Minix was back then (if you're right about not being self-gcc yet!).
The main advantage Linux had was that Linus didn't turn up his nose at the hardware people actually had and wanted to use - he was a smart "product manager" from the start.
A DVD is a file on a spinning disk ...
It's not like Netflix is ripping these themselves. The licensing is the hard part here, not getting the bits.
AnyDVD is great for Windows, but non-free. There's a free-as-in-perpetual-beta one (MakeMKV IIRC) that keeps current as well. They work fairly transparently.
the company and their models have changed since 2012.
Tesla is in an odd place in conservative conversations, because it hasn't sunk in yet that this is the first electric car that's not a joke played on hippies. The Model S really did change the landscape (and, hey, we wouldn't be conservatives if we embraced change quickly). Now people on the right are starting to realize that this could be the new American Car Company to rally behind, now that "Government Motors" is on the lifetime-ban list of many on the right after the bailouts.
Speaking of changing landscapes, people need to shed the silly notion that "oil companies" oppose electric cars. There are no large "oil companies" any more, they're all "energy companies" now, and they're just as happy to sell natural gas to electric companies as they are to sell oil at the pump.
You're either a fucking idiot or a corporate stooge. The right of first sale (part of copyright law), says it is perfectly legal to rent your DVDs, CDs, books, etc.
Not quite. You can't rent or lend CDs, or records, or other "phonorecordings" without a license. It's a special case.
As with everything else you've ever typed, you're obviously and completely wrong Bennett. "Phonorecordings" are the only media that has any restriction on rentals. Rental DVDs are sometimes licensed to get a lower price form the studios, or early access for a premium. But you no more need a license to rent/lend a DVD than you do a book.
To make the old DVDs available online someone would have to invest the time to shift them into digital format.
You ... don't actually know what "digital" means, do you?
Ripping Bluray requires a constant battle, reminding me of the C-64 days of copy protection. But it's still trivial, as there are multiple competing groups doing that work in ways that scale to everyone, so it's just a matter of keeping one's ripping tools patched. (Has Bennet ever said anything sensible?)
Yes: part of being an engineering leader is building credibility with the engineers. No one can force them to listen to you (this is true for closed-source jobs as well), but demonstrate that you know what you're doing and they will. The code Linus wrote established his creds, gave coders a reason to follow him early on. Later of course (for most of the life of Linux thus far) it was his demonstrated skill at running the project.
Yep, that's why I love Netflix DVDs/bluray. Very high quality, no (effective) DRM. Sadly, Netflix is letting its DVD business die. I commonly get DVDS 20+ up my queue shipped to me as the first 20 aren't available to ship (with no warning or "short wait" notice, of course, as Netflix just doesn't care). They have TV shows where some seasons are DVD-only, and some are Bluray-only (when both formats are for sale for all seasons - Netflix just doesn't care).
In Target's case, vulnerabilities were found, were reported, were ignored,
In Target's case the intrusion was found, automatically reported, and ignored, weeks before the actual theft of CC numbers.
This has all the makings of a "gross negligence" tort, which is the criminal justice system for corporations.
Motherboards are a real issue as GPUs run quite hot under load, and so many motherboards start cracking under the thermal stress. Good for 6-12 months, and then they start crashing frequently under load. And there's no solid guide to the good ones (it's not the sort of thing you can test in a week), which is very frustrating for hobby system builders.
The Linux kernel was nothing special. Seriously. There were many such hobby projects at the time, and it wasn't a particularly great one. The success of Linux was the success of Linus as "the guy in charge" of an open source project. It grew and flourished because of leadership, not (early) technological advantage.
The open source community certainly needs more such strong leaders. What it doesn't need is CEO-style wankers. Any sort of "business leader" needs to find a new space. What's lacking are engineering leaders, who have a strong and consistent vision of what say, the desktop, should be that resonates with contributors, and who has the political savvy to lead. You can't boss around an open source project based on any granted authority, but you can lead and inspire people to follow. That means you have to appeal to the people who'd likely do the work, not follow some business plan to grow the customer base.
One thing to consider: when the government is willing to allow stuff like nuclear plants to keep operating past their sell-by date, it's a cultural problem. Everything everywhere will have that problem, like bridges collapsing for lack of proper maintenance (which we've also seen). But no one has the political will to address that - people are just too easily distracted by nonsense like candidates positions on gay marriage, or some other trivial BS, and so corruption grows and grows.
Some people espouse the theory that minimum wage increases inflation. This has proven to be false, but pundits keep saying it because it's an idea promoted by the people that employ them.
The minimum wage certainly affects inflation. It's not 1-1 of course, because your raising wages for a small portion of the population. You can't, however, increase the overall buying power of everyone except by making more stuff. People get hung up on dollars, but ultimately unless you can make more stuff with the same resources (which is what technology is and does), the average buying power is unchanged.
Automation happens when machines can do things that humans can't, not because they're cheaper than humans.
It's a bit of both. But the key thing people miss is that when automation lowers prices, people spend money on new and different stuff, making new jobs elsewhere. We have about 150 years of direct evidence that this happens, but some people are still sure that robots will take everyone's jobs, and must be stopped.
Fusion would change everything, no doubt, but you can't really blame the lack of progress (only) on cutting budgets. The "always 20 years out" is as much about the fact that "20 years out" is the same as "no useful progress" as anything else. But there is, after all, a quite powerful fusion reaction going on overhead, and I suspect that the problems with harnessing that will be solved much faster. Mostly we just need a dense, safe battery, and progress on that is evident yearly.
As far as fission fuel reprocessing, we're just ultra-paranoid about nuclear proliferation. From an energy perspective it's quite silly, but as any veteran engineer knows: sometimes the non-engineering factors do need to determine outcomes.
As far as safety - I think we can make reactors fairly tolerant of operator abuse, if we can at least avoid really stupid shortcuts when the thing is built (no Chernobyl-style reactors). For all that Fukushima is a mess, it's still pretty trivial compared to the natural disaster that caused it. Three Mile Island was about as much operator error as it's possible to make, and still the failure mode just wasn't that bad. Modern designs are far safer than either - safer I suspect than a refinery/chemical plant.
Every power source is really solar power (well, fission was enables by a different star, but still). Everything is "envirnmentally damaging, to some extent.
The problem here isn't some hand-wavy abstraction, the problem is people burning wood and coal indoors (plus the very existence of toxic city - eesh, burning dumped electronic waste to recover the metals). It's the same problem that caused "pea soup fogs" and killed enough people in London ~100 years ago to cause the first air quality-related laws.
Fission isn't great, sure, but it's problems really are minor compared to burning coal or wood - but then, it's not going to help the very low-tech regions having these problems. Natural gas, OTOH, burns clean, and there's certainly no shortage of it, but it's hard to transport. Solar thermal is low tech and works, but it's capital-intensive for impoverished regions (still, it would make a nice charity endeavor) and a crappy choice for heating at night.
There aren't any easy answers, because anything you do requires infrastructure. And there are places in the world more developed than you'd think where running miles of copper wires for power distribution is just too impractical to keep in place.
...as you can offset a drop in the value of your bitcoins as a tax deduction.
As most of us who went through the dot-bust can tell you: only if you have gains to offset. If you have net losses, you can only take them at $3000/yr.*
TFA doesn't seem to have a link to the actual IRS ruling - WTF Bloomberg? New to the intarwebs? We do links here!
Not all capital gains are the same. If BTC is treated like stocks, that's great - most people will pay 15%* on long-term gains. Compare that to gold/silver, which are taxed as collectibles, with a 28% gains rate!*
*Don't take tax advice from random internet strangers like me - consult your tax professional.
Nice - original? Always like the SCP stuff, as poorly-written as it can be. Real creativity there.