BSD licenses allow companies to add proprietary extensions and re-sell the software as proprietary, reducing the freedom of all of the people who use the modified software;
This is not true. A company writing a closed source product based on BSD licensed code is not reducing anybody's freedom. Before the company wrote the proprietary software everybody was free to use and modify the original software. After they wrote the proprietary software, everybody is free to use and modify the original software. Also, people are free to use but not modify the proprietary software.
With GPL, in the same situation, people have more freedom since the freedom to modify the "proprietary" software is added to the freedom to use it. However, with GPL, the software might not exist at all because the company can't sell it. Well, they can attempt to sell it but they can't prevent their customers from giving it away for free.
Firstly, I think I'm pretty intelligent, at least compared to the average computer, and I doubt if I could predict the result of any horse race. Assessing probabilities of horse races is not AI.
Secondly, it's not AI if your algorithm involves "ask a lot of natural intelligences (aka people) what they think the answer is". That's no more AI than somebody hidden away answering questions over an IM link.
As fore the swarm idea, with horse racing, it already exists. The betting odds are a manifestation of the way thousands of people think the race will end. I wouldn't be surprised if they were quite accurate (over a large number of races) given there is a lot of money to be made or lost on getting them right.
They should set up an individual account owned by one of the people authorised to create the SHA signatures and give the login details to all the other people so authorised. It seems pretty straight forward to me.
He's emulating a 6809 which is pretty much a legacy processor by now. No amount t of you calling it cruft is going to stop the need for treating two eight bit registers as one 16 bit register because that is what the original hardware did. Same with the Z80 and the 8086.
The problem with using a union to do it is the undefined behaviour.
What parts in an iPad 2 are worth reclaiming? Nobody wants a tablet with iPad 2 vintage components in it. Also, getting them out of the device undamaged would probably be less efficient than shredding it and sorting the materials afterwards.
The last three of my MBPs are all still in use with other members of my extended family. The oldest is now over six years old but, apart from the mechanical hard disk, is still reasonably performant. It plays Minecraft just fine.
I'm on my third iPad. Both of the previous two are in use by my parents.
People seem much happier to accept hand-me-down Apple gear than PCs. That's probably a function of price of new Macs and perceived desirability. Making a computer attractive for second hand buyers is probably the best thing you can do in terms of recycling.
I think woosh is appropriate here. Technically, what you wrote was 1.66 milli hertz. Even if we assume you meant megahertz, it's still only on a par with 1980's vintage 8bit machines.
I have. On one occasion I even turned up a day late for a flight to San Francisco because I asked the company to book it on a Sunday and they booked it on the Saturday instead and I didn't check the date on the ticket when I was given it. In spite of the fact that being late was entirely my fault, the airline put me on the flight I thought I was booked for without argument or extra charge.
This was in the good old days before Easyjet and Ryan Air. The cheap tickets are always non refundable because, of course, they can effectively sell the seat twice if you don't turn up. However, on the airlines that purport to be more than budget, you can usually pay a little more and get a flexible ticket.
It was for four UA employees that needed to be somewhere. My guess is that it was for a flight crew that needed to be somewhere or a scheduled flight from the somewhere gets cancelled.
Reportedly they went to $800 as an inducement to leave the flight + hotel + flight the next day. If I had been on it with no pressing appointments, I would have taken the $800 without a second's thought. I'm amazed they couldn't find four passengers on the whole plane that were willing to do the same.
No. Bricking implies it cannot be returned to a functional state. This is not the case since restoring access to the server will mean the device starts working again.
The UK has never had regulations that say things in general have to be manufactured in the UK. I can't believe it is any different for the USA. Companies have moved manufacturing jobs abroad because it is cheaper to do it there.
You should give a fuck because if it is cheaper because Uber have found a way to do taxis significantly more cheaply than existing taxi companies or they are subsidising every taxi journey their customers take.
If it's the former, everybody is happy except the traditional taxi companies. If it is the latter, Uber is going bust which means your cheap rides will soon come to an end.
Hint: Uber loses something like $2 billion per annum. I really don't think they are going to be around for more than a few years.
The bottom line is that Tesla is just company du jour. It barely turns a profit and will probably die fairly soon after the first real car company starts taking electric vehicles seriously.
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This is not true. A company writing a closed source product based on BSD licensed code is not reducing anybody's freedom. Before the company wrote the proprietary software everybody was free to use and modify the original software. After they wrote the proprietary software, everybody is free to use and modify the original software. Also, people are free to use but not modify the proprietary software.
With GPL, in the same situation, people have more freedom since the freedom to modify the "proprietary" software is added to the freedom to use it. However, with GPL, the software might not exist at all because the company can't sell it. Well, they can attempt to sell it but they can't prevent their customers from giving it away for free.
The dangers are exaggerated and they know it for the most part.
I certainly agree this is not AI.
Firstly, I think I'm pretty intelligent, at least compared to the average computer, and I doubt if I could predict the result of any horse race. Assessing probabilities of horse races is not AI.
Secondly, it's not AI if your algorithm involves "ask a lot of natural intelligences (aka people) what they think the answer is". That's no more AI than somebody hidden away answering questions over an IM link.
As fore the swarm idea, with horse racing, it already exists. The betting odds are a manifestation of the way thousands of people think the race will end. I wouldn't be surprised if they were quite accurate (over a large number of races) given there is a lot of money to be made or lost on getting them right.
They should set up an individual account owned by one of the people authorised to create the SHA signatures and give the login details to all the other people so authorised. It seems pretty straight forward to me.
He's emulating a 6809 which is pretty much a legacy processor by now. No amount t of you calling it cruft is going to stop the need for treating two eight bit registers as one 16 bit register because that is what the original hardware did. Same with the Z80 and the 8086.
The problem with using a union to do it is the undefined behaviour.
Yes, except that it is not portable. You'd need to arrange the 8 bit registers differently for big endian and little endian machines.
This simple example illustrates why C style unions are a means to circumvent the type system and are dangerous to the unwary.
Apple will refurbish and resell devices that can be rescued.
What parts in an iPad 2 are worth reclaiming? Nobody wants a tablet with iPad 2 vintage components in it. Also, getting them out of the device undamaged would probably be less efficient than shredding it and sorting the materials afterwards.
The last three of my MBPs are all still in use with other members of my extended family. The oldest is now over six years old but, apart from the mechanical hard disk, is still reasonably performant. It plays Minecraft just fine.
I'm on my third iPad. Both of the previous two are in use by my parents.
People seem much happier to accept hand-me-down Apple gear than PCs. That's probably a function of price of new Macs and perceived desirability. Making a computer attractive for second hand buyers is probably the best thing you can do in terms of recycling.
Except that somebody misread the memo at Samsung and set it at 24 days.
I think woosh is appropriate here. Technically, what you wrote was 1.66 milli hertz. Even if we assume you meant megahertz, it's still only on a par with 1980's vintage 8bit machines.
What part of "Running the latest version of macOS very well thanks" did you not understand?
There's nothing irrational about hatred for Trump.
By "the company" I mean the one I worked for, not the airline or travel agent.
I have. On one occasion I even turned up a day late for a flight to San Francisco because I asked the company to book it on a Sunday and they booked it on the Saturday instead and I didn't check the date on the ticket when I was given it. In spite of the fact that being late was entirely my fault, the airline put me on the flight I thought I was booked for without argument or extra charge.
This was in the good old days before Easyjet and Ryan Air. The cheap tickets are always non refundable because, of course, they can effectively sell the seat twice if you don't turn up. However, on the airlines that purport to be more than budget, you can usually pay a little more and get a flexible ticket.
It was for four UA employees that needed to be somewhere. My guess is that it was for a flight crew that needed to be somewhere or a scheduled flight from the somewhere gets cancelled.
Reportedly they went to $800 as an inducement to leave the flight + hotel + flight the next day. If I had been on it with no pressing appointments, I would have taken the $800 without a second's thought. I'm amazed they couldn't find four passengers on the whole plane that were willing to do the same.
He also promised to open source it at some point when the revenue stream had died down. Can't see that happening now.
Xemacs? You know Xemacs is pretty close to dead don't you?
Also zsh descends from sh, not csh.
They'd have your password though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All the user data on the phone is encrypted. How is the game over?
That was an iPhone 5. There's no evidence (yet) that the FBI could do the same thing with a 7.
No. Bricking implies it cannot be returned to a functional state. This is not the case since restoring access to the server will mean the device starts working again.
The UK has never had regulations that say things in general have to be manufactured in the UK. I can't believe it is any different for the USA. Companies have moved manufacturing jobs abroad because it is cheaper to do it there.
You should give a fuck because if it is cheaper because Uber have found a way to do taxis significantly more cheaply than existing taxi companies or they are subsidising every taxi journey their customers take.
If it's the former, everybody is happy except the traditional taxi companies. If it is the latter, Uber is going bust which means your cheap rides will soon come to an end.
Hint: Uber loses something like $2 billion per annum. I really don't think they are going to be around for more than a few years.
The bottom line is that Tesla is just company du jour. It barely turns a profit and will probably die fairly soon after the first real car company starts taking electric vehicles seriously.