I confidently predict that a blissful union of the non-sleaziness of mobile billing, the upstanding nature of Facebook, and the excellent security of consumer client devices will lead to excellent customer satisfaction and only the most minimal of fraud and billing disputes.
Those that are vaccinated should be safe anyway. If they are not, then there's no reason to vaccinate.
I've heard that mathematicians working at the cutting edge of theoretical statistics have recently hypothesized the existence of probabilities other than "0" and "1". It's pretty cool stuff, with potential implications in all sorts of areas...
I suspect that, rather than "Despite the successes of childhood immunizations", it would be because of those successes that the 'controversy' is presently raging...
Because of the effectiveness of widespread childhood vaccination, we've had at least a generation of people with minimal firsthand exposure to all the wacky pathogenic fun that used to be quite common. Plus, depending on the herd immunity requirements for a given pathogen and vaccine, being part of the first n% of opt-outs is basically cost-free. It isn't until you get closer to herd immunity breakdown that being unvaccinated starts to carry any serious additional risk of infection.
If you have a situation where people's knowledge of the risks is largely historical and the odds are pretty good that you can free-ride your way past them in any case, it (sadly) seems only to be expected that there would be room for assorted controversy to flourish.
And the advantage using it is what then? If this catches on, I'll be watching intently how the revenuers treat this.
Isn't it obvious? It combines the convenience, stability, and wide acceptance of a weirdo cypherpunk crypto-currency with the privacy, security, and freedom of a credit card! How could you not love it?
Have you ever touched an ARM processor running at full speed? The fans will probably generate more heat than the processors.
That's part of why I find the thermal design kind of horrifying. It's perfectly understandable(if annoying when you are in the same room) that power-dense servers sound like the turbojet-powered souls of the damned. 1U xeon/opteron boxes, especially the dual socket ones, are absolutely rotten with screaming 40mm fans.
In this case, though, we've got maybe 250 watts total, and there are 11 fans fapping away, most of them just churning the big chaotic flow region in the middle of the box. I have no reason to doubt that it works, it just appears to be infested with unnecessary moving parts, which is not a virtue.
By 'instantly censored' and 'frozen out' you mean "Indiegogo.com decided to drop them, they switched to using paypal, nobody else has done more than chatter"...
It might come, er, something of a surprise to people like http://www.cncguns.com/ (operational since 2004, if their site stats are accurate) that some ideas are "instantly censored"...
I realize that being a persecuted speaker of truth amidst the world's hypocritical sheep is ennobling and all; but please try to keep it empirically grounded.
I would assume that anybody who is terribly concerned would move to restrict ammunition supplies.
Not too much you can do about somebody moderately competent DIYing something resembling a usable propellant(though, noob explosives production is a good way to lose fingers, and building bombs is probably a better bang for your buck than making propellants) and lead casting is limited largely by your willingness to damage your nervous system; but proper, reliable, modern ammunition is fairly polished stuff...
These 'zOMG 3D-print a gun!!' projects are mostly a novelty, both in the sense that anything you could 3D-print a gang with some machine tools could stamp out a few hundred, better and cheaper, in a random garage somewhere; and in the sense that the BATF only tracks some parts as 'weapons' and you can thus dodge some reasonably vexing engineering just by buying the rest of the parts and ammunition to suit over the counter.
Between the relatively easy availability of mass-produced weapons that don't suck, in unrestrictive jurisdictions, and the availability of illegal weapons(or the unavailability of engineering-critical parts and consumables, depending on how good the enforcement is) in restrictive jurisdictions, there really isn't too much of note here.
In practice? "While the amount mentioned in the amendment ($20) has not been indexed or adjusted for inflation, Congress has never extended federal diversity jurisdiction to amounts that small, and the amendment is one of the few portions of the Bill of Rights never to have been incorporated by the Supreme Court of the United States. Under the current Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (28 U.S.C. 1332), the amount in dispute in diversity cases must exceed $75,000 USD in order for the case to be heard in federal court."
Technically, the states have the right to overrule most Federal laws within their borders. That is why you can buy certain guns in Arizona that would normally be illegal at the Federal level. The caveat is that the guns have to be manufactured in Arizona, sold to a Arizona citizen, and never leave Arizona.
If you have time for easter eggs, you clearly aren't coding hard enough; and if the product has space for easter eggs, we clearly haven't shaved the BOM hard enough!
I expect this nonsense to be gone in revision B, no matter how many nights and weekends it takes!
Word to the wise is never link a bank account to a paypal account. They can attempt a charge against a CC; but you can chargeback and let Visa/Mastercard's coldblooded lawbeasts fight it out with paypal. Bank account? Yoink! It's theirs now, you have the pleasure of fighting to get it back...
My guess would be that this is the 'almost as good; but built out of cheap commodity stuff and therefore a lot cheaper' stab at the same niche that Sun was going after with their "T1" and "T2" cores and the T1000 and successor servers based on them. I don't know how well it worked out in practice(obviously not well enough to save Sun; but this was just one product line among others); but the theory was to target certain web and small-database-many-users workloads that tended to have a large number of computationally(especially floating point) undemanding threads in flight at a time.
The Sun version had the advantages of being a single system image, and support for various Big UNIX Vendor goodies(system partitioning and fancy memory error correction, and friends); but I doubt that they had the advantage of costing as little as dinky ARM compute boards do...
I think that ARM is currently where X86 was before the 64-bit move: at least some of the classier chips have a PAE-like scheme that allows more than 4GB of address space; but with limits on how effectively any single process can access more than it would on a 32-bit system(and, also similar to PAE-era x86, it isn't terribly common to actually find ARM systems kitted out with even 4GB of RAM, especially at the price points that don't involve a visit from a sales team).
I suspect that it is particularly memory constrained by there being 2GB of RAM hard-soldered to each compute card...
I think that the Armada XPs used on these things support LPAE, so it would theoretically be possible to have more than 4GB of RAM; but with the 32-bit constraints on per-process addressing. For whatever reason, it looks like they went with substantially less RAM than even the 4GB one might have expected.
I seriously hope that the mechanical design isn't as nasty as the rendering makes it look...
So, we've got a 260watt PSU in a half-depth 1-U. By my count, there are nine of those weedy little low-profile fans that start buzzing on cheap GPUs after about a week, plus one blower and a 40mm fan in the PSU. Also, there are air intake/exhaust slits on the front and rear of the case(which could be a problem since the manufacturer recommends mounting them back-to-back to achieve full rack density...); but none on the sides and (as best one can tell from the rendering) no obvious flow path from intake to exhaust, just a lot of churn.
I can only hope that this is a low volume product, for which doing actual case design was uneconomic...
This look at credit-card related MBA doesn't look good. It also isn't a good sign that even the Wall Street Journal, not exactly known for its The Daily Worker editorial slant, has observed the problem.
So, yeah, the available statistics don't look good, and the structure under which company/consumer arbitration is operated(Company requires many arbitrations/year, gets to select arbiters, results of past arbitrations are obviously available to the company; but typically not available to the consumer, arbiters know that future business can depend on past 'results') it'd be a fucking miracle if any impartiality existed...
Oh, the US has always operated a multi-tier justice system; but we've typically also operated substantial self-congratulatory hypocrisy about it. My intended point is that we seem to be getting to the point where we can't even be bothered to pretend to hold the moral high ground...
I would agree that legal fees, as a percentage of settlement, do tend to be excessively high in class action cases; but some perspective is in order:
Because, as you note, the payoff for individual class members is fairly poor, consider why the class would participate: Because the alternative is nothing.
If all litigation is on an individual basis, simply ensuring that you commit only malfeasance too petty to be worth court costs is de-facto legal; because who would go after you?
Should a greater cut of the class action go to the class members? Sure. Is 'revenge' against malefactors a bad thing? Hell no. We usually call it 'punishment'. That's part of the point. Even if the wronged party gets nothing, raising the expected costs of committing a wrong reduces the odds that a value-rational company will try to pull one. This isn't a difficult concept.
I'd honestly prefer the marketing gimmick; but one common use case for 120Hz or higher is allowing crappy shutter-shades 3D: if you are handing each eye only every other frame, to get the 3d effect, you need twice the framerate in order to achieve the same perceived framerate.(Luckily, cheap LCDs are ready to let us down and just smear things together anyway...)
Having a new output resolution that is exactly 4x the old one in each dimension will make upscaling without adding artifacts computationally trivial, allowing 'backwards compatibility' with older displays, and meaning that nobody has to dedicate any additional bandwidth! Sure, it'll look the same; but never mind that, you'll feel better watching it in TRUE-UBER-HD...
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Lost trust? Shirley you jest!
Never had any...
A surprising number of (dumbasses) lined up to put $38/share worth of trust into facebook... (and look where it got them).
I confidently predict that a blissful union of the non-sleaziness of mobile billing, the upstanding nature of Facebook, and the excellent security of consumer client devices will lead to excellent customer satisfaction and only the most minimal of fraud and billing disputes.
No way!
Those that are vaccinated should be safe anyway.
If they are not, then there's no reason to vaccinate.
I've heard that mathematicians working at the cutting edge of theoretical statistics have recently hypothesized the existence of probabilities other than "0" and "1". It's pretty cool stuff, with potential implications in all sorts of areas...
I suspect that, rather than "Despite the successes of childhood immunizations", it would be because of those successes that the 'controversy' is presently raging...
Because of the effectiveness of widespread childhood vaccination, we've had at least a generation of people with minimal firsthand exposure to all the wacky pathogenic fun that used to be quite common. Plus, depending on the herd immunity requirements for a given pathogen and vaccine, being part of the first n% of opt-outs is basically cost-free. It isn't until you get closer to herd immunity breakdown that being unvaccinated starts to carry any serious additional risk of infection.
If you have a situation where people's knowledge of the risks is largely historical and the odds are pretty good that you can free-ride your way past them in any case, it (sadly) seems only to be expected that there would be room for assorted controversy to flourish.
And the advantage using it is what then? If this catches on, I'll be watching intently how the revenuers treat this.
Isn't it obvious? It combines the convenience, stability, and wide acceptance of a weirdo cypherpunk crypto-currency with the privacy, security, and freedom of a credit card! How could you not love it?
But then isn't mutation the key to natural evolution?
Mutation and lots and lots and lots of trial and error, frequently with unpleasant consequences for the errors...
Well, that is going to be a hard sell, then...
Have you ever touched an ARM processor running at full speed?
The fans will probably generate more heat than the processors.
That's part of why I find the thermal design kind of horrifying. It's perfectly understandable(if annoying when you are in the same room) that power-dense servers sound like the turbojet-powered souls of the damned. 1U xeon/opteron boxes, especially the dual socket ones, are absolutely rotten with screaming 40mm fans.
In this case, though, we've got maybe 250 watts total, and there are 11 fans fapping away, most of them just churning the big chaotic flow region in the middle of the box. I have no reason to doubt that it works, it just appears to be infested with unnecessary moving parts, which is not a virtue.
By 'instantly censored' and 'frozen out' you mean "Indiegogo.com decided to drop them, they switched to using paypal, nobody else has done more than chatter"...
It might come, er, something of a surprise to people like http://www.cncguns.com/ (operational since 2004, if their site stats are accurate) that some ideas are "instantly censored"...
I realize that being a persecuted speaker of truth amidst the world's hypocritical sheep is ennobling and all; but please try to keep it empirically grounded.
I would assume that anybody who is terribly concerned would move to restrict ammunition supplies.
Not too much you can do about somebody moderately competent DIYing something resembling a usable propellant(though, noob explosives production is a good way to lose fingers, and building bombs is probably a better bang for your buck than making propellants) and lead casting is limited largely by your willingness to damage your nervous system; but proper, reliable, modern ammunition is fairly polished stuff...
These 'zOMG 3D-print a gun!!' projects are mostly a novelty, both in the sense that anything you could 3D-print a gang with some machine tools could stamp out a few hundred, better and cheaper, in a random garage somewhere; and in the sense that the BATF only tracks some parts as 'weapons' and you can thus dodge some reasonably vexing engineering just by buying the rest of the parts and ammunition to suit over the counter.
Between the relatively easy availability of mass-produced weapons that don't suck, in unrestrictive jurisdictions, and the availability of illegal weapons(or the unavailability of engineering-critical parts and consumables, depending on how good the enforcement is) in restrictive jurisdictions, there really isn't too much of note here.
In theory, I can't imagine how they wouldn't.
In practice? "While the amount mentioned in the amendment ($20) has not been indexed or adjusted for inflation, Congress has never extended federal diversity jurisdiction to amounts that small, and the amendment is one of the few portions of the Bill of Rights never to have been incorporated by the Supreme Court of the United States. Under the current Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (28 U.S.C. 1332), the amount in dispute in diversity cases must exceed $75,000 USD in order for the case to be heard in federal court."
I suspect that your next mandatory binding arbitration session will make that outcome look generous...
Technically, the states have the right to overrule most Federal laws within their borders. That is why you can buy certain guns in Arizona that would normally be illegal at the Federal level. The caveat is that the guns have to be manufactured in Arizona, sold to a Arizona citizen, and never leave Arizona.
Thankfully, this no longer applies in order to protect us from the pothead menace...
If you have time for easter eggs, you clearly aren't coding hard enough; and if the product has space for easter eggs, we clearly haven't shaved the BOM hard enough!
I expect this nonsense to be gone in revision B, no matter how many nights and weekends it takes!
Word to the wise is never link a bank account to a paypal account. They can attempt a charge against a CC; but you can chargeback and let Visa/Mastercard's coldblooded lawbeasts fight it out with paypal. Bank account? Yoink! It's theirs now, you have the pleasure of fighting to get it back...
My guess would be that this is the 'almost as good; but built out of cheap commodity stuff and therefore a lot cheaper' stab at the same niche that Sun was going after with their "T1" and "T2" cores and the T1000 and successor servers based on them. I don't know how well it worked out in practice(obviously not well enough to save Sun; but this was just one product line among others); but the theory was to target certain web and small-database-many-users workloads that tended to have a large number of computationally(especially floating point) undemanding threads in flight at a time.
The Sun version had the advantages of being a single system image, and support for various Big UNIX Vendor goodies(system partitioning and fancy memory error correction, and friends); but I doubt that they had the advantage of costing as little as dinky ARM compute boards do...
I think that ARM is currently where X86 was before the 64-bit move: at least some of the classier chips have a PAE-like scheme that allows more than 4GB of address space; but with limits on how effectively any single process can access more than it would on a 32-bit system(and, also similar to PAE-era x86, it isn't terribly common to actually find ARM systems kitted out with even 4GB of RAM, especially at the price points that don't involve a visit from a sales team).
I suspect that it is particularly memory constrained by there being 2GB of RAM hard-soldered to each compute card...
I think that the Armada XPs used on these things support LPAE, so it would theoretically be possible to have more than 4GB of RAM; but with the 32-bit constraints on per-process addressing. For whatever reason, it looks like they went with substantially less RAM than even the 4GB one might have expected.
I seriously hope that the mechanical design isn't as nasty as the rendering makes it look...
So, we've got a 260watt PSU in a half-depth 1-U. By my count, there are nine of those weedy little low-profile fans that start buzzing on cheap GPUs after about a week, plus one blower and a 40mm fan in the PSU. Also, there are air intake/exhaust slits on the front and rear of the case(which could be a problem since the manufacturer recommends mounting them back-to-back to achieve full rack density...); but none on the sides and (as best one can tell from the rendering) no obvious flow path from intake to exhaust, just a lot of churn.
I can only hope that this is a low volume product, for which doing actual case design was uneconomic...
This look at credit-card related MBA doesn't look good. It also isn't a good sign that even the Wall Street Journal, not exactly known for its The Daily Worker editorial slant, has observed the problem.
So, yeah, the available statistics don't look good, and the structure under which company/consumer arbitration is operated(Company requires many arbitrations/year, gets to select arbiters, results of past arbitrations are obviously available to the company; but typically not available to the consumer, arbiters know that future business can depend on past 'results') it'd be a fucking miracle if any impartiality existed...
Oh, the US has always operated a multi-tier justice system; but we've typically also operated substantial self-congratulatory hypocrisy about it. My intended point is that we seem to be getting to the point where we can't even be bothered to pretend to hold the moral high ground...
Class actions are less about justice but revenge.
I would agree that legal fees, as a percentage of settlement, do tend to be excessively high in class action cases; but some perspective is in order:
Because, as you note, the payoff for individual class members is fairly poor, consider why the class would participate: Because the alternative is nothing.
If all litigation is on an individual basis, simply ensuring that you commit only malfeasance too petty to be worth court costs is de-facto legal; because who would go after you?
Should a greater cut of the class action go to the class members? Sure. Is 'revenge' against malefactors a bad thing? Hell no. We usually call it 'punishment'. That's part of the point. Even if the wronged party gets nothing, raising the expected costs of committing a wrong reduces the odds that a value-rational company will try to pull one. This isn't a difficult concept.
Does anybody else remember when kangaroo courts were something we associated with the commies?
I'd honestly prefer the marketing gimmick; but one common use case for 120Hz or higher is allowing crappy shutter-shades 3D: if you are handing each eye only every other frame, to get the 3d effect, you need twice the framerate in order to achieve the same perceived framerate.(Luckily, cheap LCDs are ready to let us down and just smear things together anyway...)
Ah, that's the brilliance of this new scheme!
Having a new output resolution that is exactly 4x the old one in each dimension will make upscaling without adding artifacts computationally trivial, allowing 'backwards compatibility' with older displays, and meaning that nobody has to dedicate any additional bandwidth! Sure, it'll look the same; but never mind that, you'll feel better watching it in TRUE-UBER-HD...