I see you saying that you will buy a whole new computer if you need SATA 3.
I see you also saying that you blow reams of money on Apple hardware.
You have just proved that you too will splash money around like its going out of style, so for you things like expansion ports are stupid. In my world, its not expansion ports that are stupid.. its needlessly wasting money like a complete retard thats stupid.
I haven't used an expansion port on a PC about 15 years other than a 3Dvideo card.
We could translate your argument as "I splash money around like its going out of style so things like expansion ports are stupid"
Many of us use those expansion slots about halfway through the life of the machine in order to upgrade them inexpensively (like adding SATA 3.0 to a machine purchased when SATA 1.0 was still new), repair them when a specific component goes tits up (The NIC died? Thats a $15 card for full-on b/g/n wireless), or to add specific functionality that only comes standard on much more expensive machines..
Indeed. If the price tag was lower I could see a market for it, but at $300 you can build/buy a significantly better box.
This "NUC" has an i3-3217U (1.8ghz / 2C)
You could get an A6-5400K (3.6ghz / 2C) for $65, an FM2 Micro ATX motherboard (USB 3.0 / SATA 6GB / DVI+HDMI / 2x DDR3 1866) for $50, and a MicroATX Slim case with 300W power supply for $75, totaling $190
Better CPU, better GPU, has multiple PCIE slots (with at least one 2.0 x16) and you can upgrade it. This Intel brick for $300..$320 (I read the article) has the CPU soldered on, and no PCIE slots so no upgrades of any kind ever, and the price quote doesn't include memory (which is why I didn't include any.)
I'm sure that you could also put together a better performing Intel box (using a Celeron G5xx series for instance) for about 60% of the money as well.
Looks to me like Intel over-produced some CPU's and/or chipsets and are looking to find a market for them.
Hard to see why it's "less-and-less like hard science", since it's based on evidence.
No. Science is based on predictive skill, which is verified using data. The problem with climate science is that so few predictions are verified. The problem with populist understanding of climate science is that they dont even know what the fuck science is, so they numerical trends with actual science.
Journalism has been dead for awhile. Its all "He said, She said" now. This allows the media to support any view they wish at any time, by simply deciding which of the He's and She's to "report" about, rather than the harder job of finding evidence that supports things.
Its almost certainly a stack bust exploit of a specific (Microsoft Office) RTF parsing algorithm. The document specification doesnt allow arbitrary code to be executed.. just that a specific parser of the document type has a serious bug.
But spreading via RTF and Word documents? That means this trojan only takes control through a vulnerability (or multiple ones?) in RTF and Word document handling. That would definitely be a Windows 8 problem.
No, its definitely not a windows 8 problem. Its clearly a problem with the software reading RTF and Word documents. Last I checked, user accounts on all OS's, including Windows, Linux, OS/X, and BSD, could open up a socket and start hitting the network with whatever rights the user has.
The only place where it is acceptable to not allow networking by default is the land of mobile devices, and only some of them are actually like that.
No matter how low you consider the risk of 'GPL infection', its strictly a non-zero probability. With BSD they would avoid it completely.. the worst-case liability being simple attribution. Several BSD flavors are also rock solid and stable.
But beyond that, with Linux the latest kernel basically goes whatever direction Linus wants it to go and thats the final word, whereas with BSD Valve could be a part of the team that steers its kernel in a beneficial direction...
So this is how the Republican Party is going to try to move now that super-conservative has failed. How interesting!
So now Romney was a super-conservative? What fucking cool-aid have you been drinking?
Romney was liberal enough for the people of Massachusetts. Actual reality. Everything else is a fairy tail told to you by people that do not have your best interests in mind.
I propose simple 4 year intervals, and no limit on copyright duration as long as you can afford it:
Year 0 to 4 for $0
Year 4 to 8 for $100
Year 8 to 12 for $10,000
Year 12 to 16 for $1,000,000 plus a non-DRM digital copy submitted for archiving by the Library of Congress
Year 16 to 20 for $100,000,000
Year 20 to 24 for $10,000,000,000 ... ..with the proceeds going directly into a Digital Library of Congress Initiative that makes available digital copies of non-copyrighted materials to the public.
This method will have three effects.
1) Most content will enter the public domain rather quickly (as it should)
2) Copyright holders will have an ever increasing incentive to monetize the copyrighted works if they wish to continue the copyright (they can't just sit on it.)
3) Extending to 16 years or more will make content inevitably available for free at the Digital Library of Congress Website once copyright does expire.
If you actually did pay for yours, then no one would complain. The problem is when you dump all of your externalities on everyone else and expect them to pay for yours too.
What you just recommended is for him to minimize his externalities while letting everyone else dump theirs on him. While you are at it, why not ask him to bend over and let people repeatedly stick it in him?
You are proving his point. Imagine a 20-player version of prisoners dilemma with an asymmetric payoff table that allows coalitions. There will undoubtedly be at least one player whos dominant strategy (always derives greater benefit) is to make the move that incidentally hurts other players the most. The only way to convince these player(s) to cooperate is to pay them off an amount equal to or greater than what they have to sacrifice in order to cooperate.
Outside of game theory, this phenomena is called tragedy of the commons.
In general for all 3 or more player games, unless the game is carefully crafted to disallow it, the best move is to seek to form a coalition that puts you in a group that has a dominant strategy position and then work to undermine competing groups that also have dominant strategy positions. The only way this doesnt go tragedy-of-the-commons is when everyone benefits whenever the strongest group benefits.
GPU accelerated calculations in JS - this is simply so amazingly powerful
It is not "amazingly powerful".. its giving grandma the keys to the porche.. sure, she might drive a little faster, but her reaction time is worse than a drunk driver.
I have this crazy idea that if you want to get there fast then you should give the keys to the porche to a professional race car driver.
I suspect their problem is that they have 16 bit Windows code to run. 64 bit Windows can't run 16 bit code.
To be a little pedantic, it is simply not possible for any x86-64 based OS to support executing 16-bit code natively, including Linux. Once in 64-bit mode, its simply not possible to get back to any 16-bit mode (Real Mode, Virtual 86 Mode, 286 Protected Mode, etc..) without exposing ring0 to arbitrary shenanigans.
If you need to run 16-bit code at this point in time, for the love of god use the OS that the software was originally written for.
Arguably it isnt the proposed race-based grading standards that is racist, but instead the myriad of reasons why it might be necessary.
What are you going to do if someones culture really does have a significant measurable impact on their learning performance? Tell them that their culture sucks?
This very may well be the least racist solution to the problem that can be implemented by the schools. Of course, the best solution would happen at home, but apparently thats not on the table.
Unfortunately it's got to be paid for by the tax payers.
But fortunately is doesnt have to be paid for by current tax payers. We can kick this can down a few more generations. Its just a number on a balance sheet.
People really need to understand the terms income, expense, cost of goods sold, and profit
"People" clearly includes you.
You are buying a car for $20000. Just before you sign the agreement I run in and hand you a 10% off coupon. Thats $2000 is pure profit. It doesnt matter that the car still costs you $18000.
If your friend had given blizzard $6.50 for that authenticator instead of simply accepting it gratis, its exactly equal to a $6.50 coupon that blizzard cashes in. Pure profit. A windfall.
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I see you saying that you will buy a whole new computer if you need SATA 3.
I see you also saying that you blow reams of money on Apple hardware.
You have just proved that you too will splash money around like its going out of style, so for you things like expansion ports are stupid. In my world, its not expansion ports that are stupid.. its needlessly wasting money like a complete retard thats stupid.
hint: This Intel brick also uses Mobile components. A particularly weak (1.8ghz dual core) mobile i3, in fact.
..in a world where USB 3.0 has become standard on low end motherboards.
I haven't used an expansion port on a PC about 15 years other than a 3Dvideo card.
We could translate your argument as "I splash money around like its going out of style so things like expansion ports are stupid"
Many of us use those expansion slots about halfway through the life of the machine in order to upgrade them inexpensively (like adding SATA 3.0 to a machine purchased when SATA 1.0 was still new), repair them when a specific component goes tits up (The NIC died? Thats a $15 card for full-on b/g/n wireless), or to add specific functionality that only comes standard on much more expensive machines..
Indeed. If the price tag was lower I could see a market for it, but at $300 you can build/buy a significantly better box.
This "NUC" has an i3-3217U (1.8ghz / 2C)
You could get an A6-5400K (3.6ghz / 2C) for $65, an FM2 Micro ATX motherboard (USB 3.0 / SATA 6GB / DVI+HDMI / 2x DDR3 1866) for $50, and a MicroATX Slim case with 300W power supply for $75, totaling $190
Better CPU, better GPU, has multiple PCIE slots (with at least one 2.0 x16) and you can upgrade it. This Intel brick for $300..$320 (I read the article) has the CPU soldered on, and no PCIE slots so no upgrades of any kind ever, and the price quote doesn't include memory (which is why I didn't include any.)
I'm sure that you could also put together a better performing Intel box (using a Celeron G5xx series for instance) for about 60% of the money as well.
Looks to me like Intel over-produced some CPU's and/or chipsets and are looking to find a market for them.
Hard to see why it's "less-and-less like hard science", since it's based on evidence.
No. Science is based on predictive skill, which is verified using data. The problem with climate science is that so few predictions are verified. The problem with populist understanding of climate science is that they dont even know what the fuck science is, so they numerical trends with actual science.
Journalism has been dead for awhile. Its all "He said, She said" now. This allows the media to support any view they wish at any time, by simply deciding which of the He's and She's to "report" about, rather than the harder job of finding evidence that supports things.
Its almost certainly a stack bust exploit of a specific (Microsoft Office) RTF parsing algorithm. The document specification doesnt allow arbitrary code to be executed.. just that a specific parser of the document type has a serious bug.
But spreading via RTF and Word documents? That means this trojan only takes control through a vulnerability (or multiple ones?) in RTF and Word document handling. That would definitely be a Windows 8 problem.
No, its definitely not a windows 8 problem. Its clearly a problem with the software reading RTF and Word documents. Last I checked, user accounts on all OS's, including Windows, Linux, OS/X, and BSD, could open up a socket and start hitting the network with whatever rights the user has.
The only place where it is acceptable to not allow networking by default is the land of mobile devices, and only some of them are actually like that.
This.
No matter how low you consider the risk of 'GPL infection', its strictly a non-zero probability. With BSD they would avoid it completely.. the worst-case liability being simple attribution. Several BSD flavors are also rock solid and stable.
But beyond that, with Linux the latest kernel basically goes whatever direction Linus wants it to go and thats the final word, whereas with BSD Valve could be a part of the team that steers its kernel in a beneficial direction...
They should have ZERO problem with the redistribution of their client.
Yeah, because people downloading old versions of their client is exactly what they want.
Funny the economics classes I took said that revenues with a tax cut IF the marginal taxation rate is over 50%.
No class in economics put a figure on it, or would pretend that it could. You did that all by yourself, just now.
So this is how the Republican Party is going to try to move now that super-conservative has failed. How interesting!
So now Romney was a super-conservative? What fucking cool-aid have you been drinking?
Romney was liberal enough for the people of Massachusetts. Actual reality. Everything else is a fairy tail told to you by people that do not have your best interests in mind.
The solution is to tell the WTO to either change or fuck off.
I propose simple 4 year intervals, and no limit on copyright duration as long as you can afford it:
...
..with the proceeds going directly into a Digital Library of Congress Initiative that makes available digital copies of non-copyrighted materials to the public.
Year 0 to 4 for $0
Year 4 to 8 for $100
Year 8 to 12 for $10,000
Year 12 to 16 for $1,000,000 plus a non-DRM digital copy submitted for archiving by the Library of Congress
Year 16 to 20 for $100,000,000
Year 20 to 24 for $10,000,000,000
This method will have three effects.
1) Most content will enter the public domain rather quickly (as it should)
2) Copyright holders will have an ever increasing incentive to monetize the copyrighted works if they wish to continue the copyright (they can't just sit on it.)
3) Extending to 16 years or more will make content inevitably available for free at the Digital Library of Congress Website once copyright does expire.
Its also self-funding.
Its called astroturfing. Notice that they use the same phrases in the same order, with small amounts of filler in between.
How is this bullshit from this partisan sack of shit insightful? (he is a sack of shit because he is lying)
The bill was sponsored by two House Republicans and two House Democrats:
Thomas “Tom” Davis III (R)
Danny Davis (D)
John McHugh (R)
Henry Waxman (D)
In the Senate it passed by unanimous consent. Thats every single Republican and every single Democrat that voted in the senate. 100% support.
Yet again blaming the Republicans for the shit they supported?
But in academics there is an alternate view about game theory, that says the best approach is to cooperate rather than to compete.
Cooperation and competition are not mutually exclusive. We call them coalitions.
If you actually did pay for yours, then no one would complain. The problem is when you dump all of your externalities on everyone else and expect them to pay for yours too.
What you just recommended is for him to minimize his externalities while letting everyone else dump theirs on him. While you are at it, why not ask him to bend over and let people repeatedly stick it in him?
You are proving his point. Imagine a 20-player version of prisoners dilemma with an asymmetric payoff table that allows coalitions. There will undoubtedly be at least one player whos dominant strategy (always derives greater benefit) is to make the move that incidentally hurts other players the most. The only way to convince these player(s) to cooperate is to pay them off an amount equal to or greater than what they have to sacrifice in order to cooperate.
Outside of game theory, this phenomena is called tragedy of the commons.
In general for all 3 or more player games, unless the game is carefully crafted to disallow it, the best move is to seek to form a coalition that puts you in a group that has a dominant strategy position and then work to undermine competing groups that also have dominant strategy positions. The only way this doesnt go tragedy-of-the-commons is when everyone benefits whenever the strongest group benefits.
GPU accelerated calculations in JS - this is simply so amazingly powerful
It is not "amazingly powerful" .. its giving grandma the keys to the porche.. sure, she might drive a little faster, but her reaction time is worse than a drunk driver.
I have this crazy idea that if you want to get there fast then you should give the keys to the porche to a professional race car driver.
The earliest example of a protected memory model using separated memory paging I can think of is OS/2 (1987).
So +1 for Microsoft?
I suspect their problem is that they have 16 bit Windows code to run. 64 bit Windows can't run 16 bit code.
To be a little pedantic, it is simply not possible for any x86-64 based OS to support executing 16-bit code natively, including Linux. Once in 64-bit mode, its simply not possible to get back to any 16-bit mode (Real Mode, Virtual 86 Mode, 286 Protected Mode, etc..) without exposing ring0 to arbitrary shenanigans.
If you need to run 16-bit code at this point in time, for the love of god use the OS that the software was originally written for.
Arguably it isnt the proposed race-based grading standards that is racist, but instead the myriad of reasons why it might be necessary.
What are you going to do if someones culture really does have a significant measurable impact on their learning performance? Tell them that their culture sucks?
This very may well be the least racist solution to the problem that can be implemented by the schools. Of course, the best solution would happen at home, but apparently thats not on the table.
Unfortunately it's got to be paid for by the tax payers.
But fortunately is doesnt have to be paid for by current tax payers. We can kick this can down a few more generations. Its just a number on a balance sheet.
People really need to understand the terms income, expense, cost of goods sold, and profit
"People" clearly includes you.
You are buying a car for $20000. Just before you sign the agreement I run in and hand you a 10% off coupon. Thats $2000 is pure profit. It doesnt matter that the car still costs you $18000.
If your friend had given blizzard $6.50 for that authenticator instead of simply accepting it gratis, its exactly equal to a $6.50 coupon that blizzard cashes in. Pure profit. A windfall.