I know, I know, we don't read the article. And this one was crap too. Buzzword noise.
But the block diagram was included, at least, and that's fascinating. Unlike Intel and their little chip, IBM has actually thought about the practicality of using the thing. It comes with an integrated solar cell and an integrated photo-diode communications array for both transmission and receipt of data. It also includes some SRAM. No mention of how many bytes, no mention of data throughput from the array, no mention of actual power consumption (and accompanying heat dissipation).
All coverage appears to be essentially content-free crap designed to pump IBM's stock price.
Maybe somebody can figure out what to do with it. It's going to be difficult since all I/O requires line of sight.
Now about your "assault rifle" remark - they are already effectively banned. Have been since the 1930s. That's an automatic rifle. You can own one in some cases, however they are very expensive and very heavily regulated. Not one has ever been used in a crime.
The Thomson Submachine Gun was a fully automatic weapon extensively used in crime in the United States in the 1920s and 30s. Its extensive criminal use in the Depression Era is credited for the creation of the National Firearms Act of 1934 in the first place. Two of them were used in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which was most definitely a crime. (Rather bizarrely, the Berrien County Sheriff's Department still has them.) They were expensive from the very beginning, selling for $225 in 1925 dollars. For comparison, a Ford Model T Runabout sold for $260 that same year. Their use in crimes dropped dramatically after they became illegal to make and rare.
I still think it's a terrible injustice that there are so few female garbage collectors. Where's the feminine outrage that driving garbage trucks is primarily a male-dominated job?
The old excuse was that far fewer women had the necessary upper body strength to manhandle full trashcans all day. (See what I did there?) But even that excuse is now gone, with garbage trucks equipped with robot dumpers. Make way for the female garbage collectors! Liberté, égalité, fraternité! Woops, uh, Liberté, égalité, sororité!
Because that's what we needed. Anothergamingnetworklibrary that will once again abstract too many important things, be insufficiently tunable for different game genres, and impose an invasive obnoxious data un/marshalling scheme on every game object.
And have nothing whatsoever to do with anything profitable at Google, and so it will be abandoned a few weeks after it's published.
I want a 30 channel subscription that allows me to select all 30 stations from a lineup on a 30 day interval.
Charter is piloting a "Pick 20" a la carte package in my area. A quick scan of the available channels to choose from gave me the impression it didn't completely suck, too, which was a bit of a surprise. I got the mailing because I buy internet but not TV. Haven't in years and years. Still didn't, even with options. The price was definitely much lower than their usual. +$20 instead of +$40 on top of Internet.
Now if I gave a damn about commercial television, maybe...
And then you look at the studies done on how well the children of divorced parents succeed in life compared to those who's parents are married, and you understand that this has nothing to do with religion.
Of course it doesn't. It has to do with money. Two parent households in the US today tend to be dual income families. Children raised with the most money win every time.
Instability severe enough to put most Western and hybrid-Western societies well below replenishment levels of population.
It's not societal instability that prevents families. It's money. When the average single family dwelling costs four times or six times or 20 times the median annual income, rather than matching the median annual income, there's far less chance of establishing the nuclear family you adore so much.
In short, fix wealth inequality, and all else follows. People are being responsible by not having children they know they can't afford. You should be pleased. It's personal responsibility that has reduced birthrates across the developed world. Be happy. Don't like it? Stop trying to establish a new aristocracy called CEOs.
Nope, it's in your nature. An early childhood friend that I grew up with loved guns and cars from an early age, and long before Mortal Kombat and other games with violence.
I doubt that. Asteroids featured a gun that exploded things—in 1979.
Sessions, the AG, has until Thursday to answer if the rules for obtaining FISA warrants have been changed since Congress passed them (they haven't). If they are following the currently passed rules, multiple people at the FBI and DOJ have broken 5 specific laws in obtaining FISA warrant...
All FISA warrants are illegal. Due process can not be conducted in secret.
And not just politically. American soldiers committed suicide in record numbers in Iraq. What do you think those numbers would be like if they were massacring their neighbors at home?
Depends on how good the Us vs Them propaganda has become.
Not that good just yet. I saw a pickup truck on the highway Monday with a permanently disabled license plate surrounded by a US Marine Corp plate holder, a US service disabled veteran sticker, and right next to it... a black with white lettering RESIST sticker.
Those that did sneak through the borders to get into the USA have broken the law by the very fact of sneaking past the border. Once here they seem to have little respect for other laws. They will drive without a license, insurance, or registering their vehicle. They will work under falsified papers. They will drive while drunk. They will steal, rape, and murder.
Right. In record numbers. Fox News should be a controlled substance.
...they have broken the law by the act of entering the nation without permission, and have a high probability of further breaking the law.
No they don't. They have a much lower probability of breaking any further laws that aren't labor laws. Breaking laws attracts the attention of law enforcement. Illegal immigrants go out of their way to avoid the attention of law enforcement. Haven't you seen... basically any procedural cop show in the past 20 years? Every single one of them has multiple episodes of local LEOs having to disclaim their interest in the immigration status of people they're interviewing, or threatening to call Immigration in order to extract information. Illegal immigrants are at pains to avoid having any such conversations.
Your sourceless assertions are ridiculous on the face of it, and contradicted by FBI statistics.
Luckily the US justice system hasn't devolved to the point where "feels" actually count when determining the facts of a case. Those show up later in criminal trials, and not at all in civil trials.
Or for something as incomprehensible to us as religion is to a cat.
Should probably pick a different comparison. Religion is perfectly comprehensible to cats: all things are put on earth to serve Cat. Obeisance not required but graciously accepted. Very simple.
Sorry, that must be a straw man used by the left to demagogue conservatives because I don't even know what you are talking about...
Not a straw man. A direct quote of Alex Jones, the WWE commentator of right wing politics. He's ranted about gay frogs on his radio show more than once, among many other similar things.
For civil cases, the Netherlands takes top place, with US placing 25th. Factors include affordability of access to civil justice, timeliness, impartiality, effective enforcement of judgments, and absence of political interference.
Eh well. The US would place 18th, except the timeliness metric is being blown out by SCO vs. IBM.....
I was under impression that a rocket launch is a lot of shake, vibration and gforces. How is a car like that going to survive it and more importantly, would it break apart and cause damage to the launch vehicule?
You should look more closely at the photo. There's a cone-shaped thing underneath the car. The car is bolted to it. It's not going to move with respect to the rocket until that cone-shaped thing lets it go after it leaves geosynchronous orbit (when the Air Force test criteria are satisfied).
Not to mention the batteries (likely they will discharge them?)
Nobody has said, but I'm assuming the batteries have been removed entirely. Perhaps not though. If not, they will certainly discharge, which is irrelevant. They may also outgas, which might be relevant. If they do so catastrophically, they might act as a miniature thruster and change the vehicle's orbit (assuming the pressure builds up enough to breach the battery pan). More than likely it just doesn't have batteries in it.
Ensign Redshirt: "Weren't we about to beam down the planet? Uh, Captain? Mr. Spock? Why is everyone looking at... Oh. I died again, didn't I."
There was a pair of novels written by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson in 1975 and 1983 about exactly this. Farthest Star and Wall Around a Star, also published in an omnibus volume called The Saga of Cuckoo. In the novels, a gigantic alien artifact is detected approaching the galaxy and representatives of the galaxy's intelligent species, including humans, are replicated onto an ancient space probe in the vicinity to explore it. (No FTL matter, probe dispatched eons ago by curious alien race contains receivers for FTL tachyons, blah blah handwave, causality somehow not violated.) Those representatives are repeatedly replicated onto the surface, and died over and over. The originals went slowly insane watching copies of themselves die so many times.
It's a premise I never really understood. Watching your twin die again and again sounds traumatic the first few times, but the human mind has a wonderful ability to rationalize and adjust, and since these were serious science fiction novelists, they forbore to add any idiot Hollywood "mysterious mind link" bullshit, which meant the replicants really were just other people to the originals. Post traumatic stress and survivorship guilt, I suppose.
It wasn't a very good book. It's certainly an old idea.
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I know, I know, we don't read the article. And this one was crap too. Buzzword noise.
But the block diagram was included, at least, and that's fascinating. Unlike Intel and their little chip, IBM has actually thought about the practicality of using the thing. It comes with an integrated solar cell and an integrated photo-diode communications array for both transmission and receipt of data. It also includes some SRAM. No mention of how many bytes, no mention of data throughput from the array, no mention of actual power consumption (and accompanying heat dissipation).
All coverage appears to be essentially content-free crap designed to pump IBM's stock price.
Maybe somebody can figure out what to do with it. It's going to be difficult since all I/O requires line of sight.
Now about your "assault rifle" remark - they are already effectively banned. Have been since the 1930s. That's an automatic rifle. You can own one in some cases, however they are very expensive and very heavily regulated. Not one has ever been used in a crime.
The Thomson Submachine Gun was a fully automatic weapon extensively used in crime in the United States in the 1920s and 30s. Its extensive criminal use in the Depression Era is credited for the creation of the National Firearms Act of 1934 in the first place. Two of them were used in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which was most definitely a crime. (Rather bizarrely, the Berrien County Sheriff's Department still has them.) They were expensive from the very beginning, selling for $225 in 1925 dollars. For comparison, a Ford Model T Runabout sold for $260 that same year. Their use in crimes dropped dramatically after they became illegal to make and rare.
In other words, gun control worked.
I still think it's a terrible injustice that there are so few female garbage collectors. Where's the feminine outrage that driving garbage trucks is primarily a male-dominated job?
The old excuse was that far fewer women had the necessary upper body strength to manhandle full trashcans all day. (See what I did there?) But even that excuse is now gone, with garbage trucks equipped with robot dumpers. Make way for the female garbage collectors! Liberté, égalité, fraternité! Woops, uh, Liberté, égalité, sororité!
Because that's what we needed. Another gaming network library that will once again abstract too many important things, be insufficiently tunable for different game genres, and impose an invasive obnoxious data un/marshalling scheme on every game object.
And have nothing whatsoever to do with anything profitable at Google, and so it will be abandoned a few weeks after it's published.
This is why aliens don't visit or at least don't let us know about it. "We're here because of Elvis, cheeseburgers, and fuel.
Let me guess: they drank the fuel, stuffed the cheeseburgers into their Mr. Fusion, and took Elvis back home with them?
I want a 30 channel subscription that allows me to select all 30 stations from a lineup on a 30 day interval.
Charter is piloting a "Pick 20" a la carte package in my area. A quick scan of the available channels to choose from gave me the impression it didn't completely suck, too, which was a bit of a surprise. I got the mailing because I buy internet but not TV. Haven't in years and years. Still didn't, even with options. The price was definitely much lower than their usual. +$20 instead of +$40 on top of Internet.
Now if I gave a damn about commercial television, maybe...
And then you look at the studies done on how well the children of divorced parents succeed in life compared to those who's parents are married, and you understand that this has nothing to do with religion.
Of course it doesn't. It has to do with money. Two parent households in the US today tend to be dual income families. Children raised with the most money win every time.
Instability severe enough to put most Western and hybrid-Western societies well below replenishment levels of population.
It's not societal instability that prevents families. It's money. When the average single family dwelling costs four times or six times or 20 times the median annual income, rather than matching the median annual income, there's far less chance of establishing the nuclear family you adore so much.
In short, fix wealth inequality, and all else follows. People are being responsible by not having children they know they can't afford. You should be pleased. It's personal responsibility that has reduced birthrates across the developed world. Be happy. Don't like it? Stop trying to establish a new aristocracy called CEOs.
Nope, it's in your nature. An early childhood friend that I grew up with loved guns and cars from an early age, and long before Mortal Kombat and other games with violence.
I doubt that. Asteroids featured a gun that exploded things—in 1979.
Sessions, the AG, has until Thursday to answer if the rules for obtaining FISA warrants have been changed since Congress passed them (they haven't). If they are following the currently passed rules, multiple people at the FBI and DOJ have broken 5 specific laws in obtaining FISA warrant...
All FISA warrants are illegal. Due process can not be conducted in secret.
All it would take would be a crowbar for random people to get access to regular food deliveries.
Free cheeseburger, go to jail for felony vandalism, because those things are festooned with cameras.
And not just politically. American soldiers committed suicide in record numbers in Iraq. What do you think those numbers would be like if they were massacring their neighbors at home?
Depends on how good the Us vs Them propaganda has become.
Not that good just yet. I saw a pickup truck on the highway Monday with a permanently disabled license plate surrounded by a US Marine Corp plate holder, a US service disabled veteran sticker, and right next to it... a black with white lettering RESIST sticker.
Oh, you can argue, sure, but whatever argument you come up with, heavy mental gymnastics is involved.
Pretty sure there was a lawsuit about that.
As I recall, he was convicted.
Those that did sneak through the borders to get into the USA have broken the law by the very fact of sneaking past the border. Once here they seem to have little respect for other laws. They will drive without a license, insurance, or registering their vehicle. They will work under falsified papers. They will drive while drunk. They will steal, rape, and murder.
Right. In record numbers. Fox News should be a controlled substance.
...they have broken the law by the act of entering the nation without permission, and have a high probability of further breaking the law.
No they don't. They have a much lower probability of breaking any further laws that aren't labor laws. Breaking laws attracts the attention of law enforcement. Illegal immigrants go out of their way to avoid the attention of law enforcement. Haven't you seen... basically any procedural cop show in the past 20 years? Every single one of them has multiple episodes of local LEOs having to disclaim their interest in the immigration status of people they're interviewing, or threatening to call Immigration in order to extract information. Illegal immigrants are at pains to avoid having any such conversations.
Your sourceless assertions are ridiculous on the face of it, and contradicted by FBI statistics.
Disney feels that what they sold was the movie.
Luckily the US justice system hasn't devolved to the point where "feels" actually count when determining the facts of a case. Those show up later in criminal trials, and not at all in civil trials.
That's huge, because so far judges have been willing to enforce shrink-wrap licenses as contracts.
The judge didn't throw out the shrink-wrap license theory. He found that Disney's packaging failed to establish a recognizable shrink-wrap license.
Disney DVD packaging is about to become substantially more obnoxious...
Obviously, big clock and their massive lobbying effort insists that real change must keep happening.
Fixed that for you.
The reason I like it is because you'd go into shops in China and people would be frantically clicking to kill the bugs on their pirated Windows
Korea would turn it into an e-sport.
And would be better at it than anyone else in the world.
The only exception is for certain protected classes (rage, gender, religion, etc.)
I'm really really angry. I should be in a protected class.
Or for something as incomprehensible to us as religion is to a cat.
Should probably pick a different comparison. Religion is perfectly comprehensible to cats: all things are put on earth to serve Cat. Obeisance not required but graciously accepted. Very simple.
Sorry, that must be a straw man used by the left to demagogue conservatives because I don't even know what you are talking about...
Not a straw man. A direct quote of Alex Jones, the WWE commentator of right wing politics. He's ranted about gay frogs on his radio show more than once, among many other similar things.
For civil cases, the Netherlands takes top place, with US placing 25th. Factors include affordability of access to civil justice, timeliness, impartiality, effective enforcement of judgments, and absence of political interference.
Eh well. The US would place 18th, except the timeliness metric is being blown out by SCO vs. IBM.....
I was under impression that a rocket launch is a lot of shake, vibration and gforces. How is a car like that going to survive it and more importantly, would it break apart and cause damage to the launch vehicule?
You should look more closely at the photo. There's a cone-shaped thing underneath the car. The car is bolted to it. It's not going to move with respect to the rocket until that cone-shaped thing lets it go after it leaves geosynchronous orbit (when the Air Force test criteria are satisfied).
Not to mention the batteries (likely they will discharge them?)
Nobody has said, but I'm assuming the batteries have been removed entirely. Perhaps not though. If not, they will certainly discharge, which is irrelevant. They may also outgas, which might be relevant. If they do so catastrophically, they might act as a miniature thruster and change the vehicle's orbit (assuming the pressure builds up enough to breach the battery pan). More than likely it just doesn't have batteries in it.
Who's "we"? It's funny that you think you're going to be one of the few elite that does well in an all-automated world.
I assume you were at Davos this week.
He was. Waiting tables.
Ensign Redshirt: "Weren't we about to beam down the planet? Uh, Captain? Mr. Spock? Why is everyone looking at ... Oh. I died again, didn't I."
There was a pair of novels written by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson in 1975 and 1983 about exactly this. Farthest Star and Wall Around a Star, also published in an omnibus volume called The Saga of Cuckoo. In the novels, a gigantic alien artifact is detected approaching the galaxy and representatives of the galaxy's intelligent species, including humans, are replicated onto an ancient space probe in the vicinity to explore it. (No FTL matter, probe dispatched eons ago by curious alien race contains receivers for FTL tachyons, blah blah handwave, causality somehow not violated.) Those representatives are repeatedly replicated onto the surface, and died over and over. The originals went slowly insane watching copies of themselves die so many times.
It's a premise I never really understood. Watching your twin die again and again sounds traumatic the first few times, but the human mind has a wonderful ability to rationalize and adjust, and since these were serious science fiction novelists, they forbore to add any idiot Hollywood "mysterious mind link" bullshit, which meant the replicants really were just other people to the originals. Post traumatic stress and survivorship guilt, I suppose.
It wasn't a very good book. It's certainly an old idea.
Linus said some bad words about Intel's behavior to Mr. Woodhouse, an Amazon employee.
Amazon is a major cloud provider.
Linus is now in his late 40s.
So.... the headline should read "OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD! CLOUD ANSWERS!"