Or, somebody will decide that ATI and NVidia aren't satisifying the market, and we'll be back to the old days when you had to choose between S3, Matrox, ATI, NVidia, 3dfx, PowerVR, Intel, Rendition, Trident....
NVidia really doesn't want somebody else deciding that this might be an opportunity to upset the apple cart and jump into the home 3d graphics card market.
Yes, they should care. This is them saying 'Yeah, we had a great year last year thanks to these idiots that think that 'doing math' somehow translates into physical weath, but this bubble gonna pop, and then we're back to selling to video game nerds. So, enjoy the bonus sales while they last, but don't bank on them, or be surprised when they go away real sudden and real fast.'
Applying that analogy to this situation would be like suing the manufacturer of the chair that the prank caller was sitting in when he made the prank call.
The answer to 'what would you do, wait for him to shoot at you, or shoot him first' is answered 'Yes, I'd wait for him to shoot us first; if we're back and in cover, and he isn't carrying a rifle, he's not going to be doing much damage to us. We, presumably, have done our jobs and cleared civilians out of the area. We can always shoot him later, but we can't unshoot him. And we have voluntarily chosen to not only go into the field of police work, but specifically into the specific subfield of SWAT or whatever; we know for a goddamn fact that we're putting our lives on the line (but not as much as we would if we worked at, say, a liquor store) and that does not give us the right to shoot a man for having the physiologic reaction of trying to shield his eyes from a sudden bright light.'
You don't think there isn't de facto Christian theocracy in certain parts of the US of A? Go somewhere that has 'blue laws,' or, God help you, go to certain American states and try to get an abortion, and enjoy your state-mandated medical rape, excuse me, trans-vaginal ultrasound.
Actually - to be fair - there wasn't a guarantee that you wouldn't be killed either.
True, true.
And again - to be fair - that big decision has to do with a felony.
This underscores my point. They liked Rico, so they were 'lenient' with him; maybe that discretion is built into the system, maybe it's like NJP; Hey Rico, take the ten lashes, and we don't have to escalate this to the formal justice system. If we do that, you're getting a minimum of thirty lashes, and you're ejected from Service.' But either they do have the discretion, which means they have it in both directions, which leads back to 'Hey, guy we like, here's your ten lashes for gross dereliction of duty leading to death. Hey, hippie scum, you were late to work, you clearly don't have what it takes to be a Citizen. Fired!'
Not right, not wrong....it simply worked.
Worked for who?
And that takes us to the US system of government. Heinlein points out (in Expanded Universe, iirc) that his mother was denied the vote for decades. Others are denied the vote for a myriad of reasons, even now. (Felons for example, lose the right to vote)
Yes, well, the failures of the US system are many and varied, a discussion for another time.
On the other hand, kids crave, and need, the ability to make choices. Giving them a slate of approved shows, and letting them choose, even if the constantly choose *your* least favourite, is a good thing. Railroading into the idea that they must consume whatever media is placed in front of them is, to my mind, not a good idea.
So, give them a choice of what media to watch. It's harmless, it lets them exercise autonomy in something that's important to them, but not going to cause anybody any harm, and if you don't want them watching something specific, why is it in the 'approved' pool to begin with?
Force your kids to watch educational shows that they don't want to watch, and all you're teaching them is that learning is an unfun chore.
No, you had to be given the opportunity to serve. They had to find a place for you. But you weren't guaranteed never to be fired. There's a big decision in the novel about if Rico should be dismissed, or 'salvaged' with 'administrative punishment.'
Hell, in modern American politics, we see all sorts of shenanigans to disenfranchise all sorts of eligible voters; gerrymandering, voter suppression, social engineering to convince people that their vote 'won't matter' so they don't bother coming out to the polls, and so on. Now imagine a system where they don't have to take away your right to vote somehow, they just have to engineer things so that you fail to attain the privilege. And I believe it's explicitly stated in the book that it's a one strike policy; you get one attempt to become a citizen, and if you fail that attempt, you'll never have another one.
So, somebody with 'radical' politics who wants to change the system 'from within' joins the Federal Service in some capacity, with the intention of doing their service, becoming a politician and advocating for change. Everybody who's in authority over him is already part of the system he wants to overthrow. It's real easy for one of them, consciously or unconsciously, to come up with a reason to prevent that person from completing their service and becoming a threat to the system the supervisor or whatever is already invested in.
Ok, Heinlein's novel had elected politicians. Who elected those politicians? Citizens. How do you become a citizen? Through the approval of other citizens, after becoming a citizen yourself.
In other words, the electorate was chosen by the elected, who in turn, can only be members of that electorate. It's a self-selecting and self-propagating system. After all, as we see in the book, you can be dismissed from federal service basically arbitrarily. It's as 'democratic' as a banana republic who's ballot reads "I vote for: A) Dear Leader B) Dear Leader c) Being executed behind the polling station."
And don't forget that the system was brought about by armed and violent overthrow.
True, but it's still better than nothing. And I think the idea here is that *somebody* has to make a neutral interchange platform for medical records, so why not Apple? In other words, that these are the 'real' medical records. They've already got the HealthKit infrastructure in place.
What other metrics could the browser measure to determine your risk as a drive?
- Running Windows XP
- Browsing with IE6
It could well be that the sort of person who doesn't bother to maintain their computer is the sort of person who doesn't bother to maintain their car, and therefore does indeed have a greater likelihood of getting into an accident, or having an accident be more costly.
Congratulations! You've constructed a straw man argument to argue against!
That's not what this is for. If you have the sort of allergy that an ER needs to know, clearly, you're continuing to wear your Medic Alert bracelet, or similar.
This is what gives you the option to switch healthcare providers without worrying that your records are being held hostage. This allows you to seek a second opinion more easily. This allows you to own the tests that are run against your own body.
Well, what's the point of cruise control? Blind spot assist? ABS brakes? Power steering? All that stuff is there to help the driver, not supplant the driver.
At some point, we'll tip over from 'full suite of driver assist features' to 'Siri, drive me to work.' But we're not there yet.
This system can run the last version of OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" and OS X 10.11 "El Capitan," although advanced feature support is minimal (Mac-to-Mac AirDrop is supported). When running Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" it is not supported booting in 64-bit mode. It is capable of running macOS Sierra (10.12) as well, although the Universal Clipboard, Auto Unlock, and Apple Pay features are not supported. Finally, this model is capable of running macOS High Sierra (10.13), and it supports HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding), but it does not support hardware accelerated HEVC.
Additionally, please note that OS X "Lion" 10.7 and subsequent versions of OS X are not capable of running Mac OS X apps originally written for the PowerPC processor as these operating systems do not support the "Rosetta" environment. To run PowerPC applications on this Mac, it will be necessary to use Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".
No, you shouldn't trust autopilot. Hell, you shouldn't trust *the car.* You should know what to do if your brakes fail. You should know what to do if you develop a steering problem. You should know what to do if a tire blows out. And so on.
Shooting at blinky dots or a full avatar rendering is nothing more than target practice.
Pointing a cursor at a piece of screen and clicking the button isn't even target practice. The US Army figured this out, what, seventy or eighty years ago, when they stopped teaching combat marksmanship with bullseye targets, and started teaching combat marksmanship with popup silhouettes.
There's a lot of stuff that goes into teaching a skill, and in stress situations, people don't rise to the occasion, they sink to the level of their training. It's why airline pilots don't sit down and play Microsoft Flight Sim, but go into hydraulic simulator pods. It's why firefighters need to go into smokehouses and actually fight fires in training, and it's why police shouldn't be undergoing military, or even paramilitary training.
Yes, and they all do it. Upload the mac address of the router, and your current GPS location. Then, an iPod Touch or whatever that doesn't have a GPS chip can, never the less, connect, phone home, and get a fair approximation of location for location service purposes.
Back when I did ISP tech support, it wasn't uncommon for people to need to replace their router for one reason or another, then call us bitching mightily that their location services on their non-GPS enabled devices stopped working properly.
It's a reference to an old slang term for movies being 'flicks,' I'd assume, coupled with a 'Puck Man becomes Pac Man' style desire to not use the word 'frick'.
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Or, somebody will decide that ATI and NVidia aren't satisifying the market, and we'll be back to the old days when you had to choose between S3, Matrox, ATI, NVidia, 3dfx, PowerVR, Intel, Rendition, Trident....
NVidia really doesn't want somebody else deciding that this might be an opportunity to upset the apple cart and jump into the home 3d graphics card market.
Yes, they should care. This is them saying 'Yeah, we had a great year last year thanks to these idiots that think that 'doing math' somehow translates into physical weath, but this bubble gonna pop, and then we're back to selling to video game nerds. So, enjoy the bonus sales while they last, but don't bank on them, or be surprised when they go away real sudden and real fast.'
Windows 2000 Professional begs to differ, though it was a stripped down version of Server, rather than Server being a bolted up version of Pro.
Yes; it's why there are so many battered women's shelters around.
Applying that analogy to this situation would be like suing the manufacturer of the chair that the prank caller was sitting in when he made the prank call.
The answer to 'what would you do, wait for him to shoot at you, or shoot him first' is answered 'Yes, I'd wait for him to shoot us first; if we're back and in cover, and he isn't carrying a rifle, he's not going to be doing much damage to us. We, presumably, have done our jobs and cleared civilians out of the area. We can always shoot him later, but we can't unshoot him. And we have voluntarily chosen to not only go into the field of police work, but specifically into the specific subfield of SWAT or whatever; we know for a goddamn fact that we're putting our lives on the line (but not as much as we would if we worked at, say, a liquor store) and that does not give us the right to shoot a man for having the physiologic reaction of trying to shield his eyes from a sudden bright light.'
You don't think there isn't de facto Christian theocracy in certain parts of the US of A? Go somewhere that has 'blue laws,' or, God help you, go to certain American states and try to get an abortion, and enjoy your state-mandated medical rape, excuse me, trans-vaginal ultrasound.
Why would you read the dictionary definition of discrimination, when the only definition that matters is the legal definition?
True, true.
This underscores my point. They liked Rico, so they were 'lenient' with him; maybe that discretion is built into the system, maybe it's like NJP; Hey Rico, take the ten lashes, and we don't have to escalate this to the formal justice system. If we do that, you're getting a minimum of thirty lashes, and you're ejected from Service.' But either they do have the discretion, which means they have it in both directions, which leads back to 'Hey, guy we like, here's your ten lashes for gross dereliction of duty leading to death. Hey, hippie scum, you were late to work, you clearly don't have what it takes to be a Citizen. Fired!'
Worked for who?
Yes, well, the failures of the US system are many and varied, a discussion for another time.
On the other hand, kids crave, and need, the ability to make choices. Giving them a slate of approved shows, and letting them choose, even if the constantly choose *your* least favourite, is a good thing. Railroading into the idea that they must consume whatever media is placed in front of them is, to my mind, not a good idea.
So, give them a choice of what media to watch. It's harmless, it lets them exercise autonomy in something that's important to them, but not going to cause anybody any harm, and if you don't want them watching something specific, why is it in the 'approved' pool to begin with?
Force your kids to watch educational shows that they don't want to watch, and all you're teaching them is that learning is an unfun chore.
Oh shit, 'blockchain' is the new 'sharding' or 'webscale.'
Mongo DB is Web Scale
No, you had to be given the opportunity to serve. They had to find a place for you. But you weren't guaranteed never to be fired. There's a big decision in the novel about if Rico should be dismissed, or 'salvaged' with 'administrative punishment.'
Hell, in modern American politics, we see all sorts of shenanigans to disenfranchise all sorts of eligible voters; gerrymandering, voter suppression, social engineering to convince people that their vote 'won't matter' so they don't bother coming out to the polls, and so on. Now imagine a system where they don't have to take away your right to vote somehow, they just have to engineer things so that you fail to attain the privilege. And I believe it's explicitly stated in the book that it's a one strike policy; you get one attempt to become a citizen, and if you fail that attempt, you'll never have another one.
So, somebody with 'radical' politics who wants to change the system 'from within' joins the Federal Service in some capacity, with the intention of doing their service, becoming a politician and advocating for change. Everybody who's in authority over him is already part of the system he wants to overthrow. It's real easy for one of them, consciously or unconsciously, to come up with a reason to prevent that person from completing their service and becoming a threat to the system the supervisor or whatever is already invested in.
Ok, Heinlein's novel had elected politicians. Who elected those politicians? Citizens. How do you become a citizen? Through the approval of other citizens, after becoming a citizen yourself.
In other words, the electorate was chosen by the elected, who in turn, can only be members of that electorate. It's a self-selecting and self-propagating system. After all, as we see in the book, you can be dismissed from federal service basically arbitrarily. It's as 'democratic' as a banana republic who's ballot reads "I vote for: A) Dear Leader B) Dear Leader c) Being executed behind the polling station."
And don't forget that the system was brought about by armed and violent overthrow.
Ok, I must have misunderstood. My apologies. What *were* you trying to say?
True, but it's still better than nothing. And I think the idea here is that *somebody* has to make a neutral interchange platform for medical records, so why not Apple? In other words, that these are the 'real' medical records. They've already got the HealthKit infrastructure in place.
It could well be that the sort of person who doesn't bother to maintain their computer is the sort of person who doesn't bother to maintain their car, and therefore does indeed have a greater likelihood of getting into an accident, or having an accident be more costly.
Congratulations! You've constructed a straw man argument to argue against!
That's not what this is for. If you have the sort of allergy that an ER needs to know, clearly, you're continuing to wear your Medic Alert bracelet, or similar.
This is what gives you the option to switch healthcare providers without worrying that your records are being held hostage. This allows you to seek a second opinion more easily. This allows you to own the tests that are run against your own body.
Well, what's the point of cruise control? Blind spot assist? ABS brakes? Power steering? All that stuff is there to help the driver, not supplant the driver.
At some point, we'll tip over from 'full suite of driver assist features' to 'Siri, drive me to work.' But we're not there yet.
A few caveats:
This system can run the last version of OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" and OS X 10.11 "El Capitan," although advanced feature support is minimal (Mac-to-Mac AirDrop is supported). When running Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" it is not supported booting in 64-bit mode. It is capable of running macOS Sierra (10.12) as well, although the Universal Clipboard, Auto Unlock, and Apple Pay features are not supported. Finally, this model is capable of running macOS High Sierra (10.13), and it supports HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding), but it does not support hardware accelerated HEVC.
Additionally, please note that OS X "Lion" 10.7 and subsequent versions of OS X are not capable of running Mac OS X apps originally written for the PowerPC processor as these operating systems do not support the "Rosetta" environment. To run PowerPC applications on this Mac, it will be necessary to use Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".
No, you shouldn't trust autopilot. Hell, you shouldn't trust *the car.* You should know what to do if your brakes fail. You should know what to do if you develop a steering problem. You should know what to do if a tire blows out. And so on.
Nah. I was responding specifically to this:
Pointing a cursor at a piece of screen and clicking the button isn't even target practice. The US Army figured this out, what, seventy or eighty years ago, when they stopped teaching combat marksmanship with bullseye targets, and started teaching combat marksmanship with popup silhouettes.
There's a lot of stuff that goes into teaching a skill, and in stress situations, people don't rise to the occasion, they sink to the level of their training. It's why airline pilots don't sit down and play Microsoft Flight Sim, but go into hydraulic simulator pods. It's why firefighters need to go into smokehouses and actually fight fires in training, and it's why police shouldn't be undergoing military, or even paramilitary training.
If you don't feel like you're allowed to leave, you're under arrest. They don't need to say any magic words.
He was handcuffed and put into a squad car; he was under arrest.
Yes, and they all do it. Upload the mac address of the router, and your current GPS location. Then, an iPod Touch or whatever that doesn't have a GPS chip can, never the less, connect, phone home, and get a fair approximation of location for location service purposes.
Back when I did ISP tech support, it wasn't uncommon for people to need to replace their router for one reason or another, then call us bitching mightily that their location services on their non-GPS enabled devices stopped working properly.
Or that, in addition to uploading mac, ssid and location data for random Wi-Fi networks, it's now also uploading speed test results.
It's a reference to an old slang term for movies being 'flicks,' I'd assume, coupled with a 'Puck Man becomes Pac Man' style desire to not use the word 'frick'.