The summary makes it sound like they found 3000 year old ruins, not 300 year old ruins. This is not a lost civilization. It's just early Americans, colonial and USA. It's still interesting. There was no need to sensationalize. It reminds me of the innocent looking ditches I used to pass by in Fairfax County, VA local parks. It wasn't until after moving away that I saw an article online explaining that the ditches were colonial stream diversions leading to mills that no longer exist. A preserved example of such a mill still exists at Colvin Run in Fairfax County, AFIAK.
No, that doesn't fit the bill. It's an ALPHA-stage clone of a 10 year old OS. That would be nothing like patching XP. It would be more like living in the Linux desktop community of the late 90s, where most of the conversations started with "I just installed..." and ended with "I'm going to try installing...". No thanks.
It isn't just the UI. They need to get rid of Windows Store. They also need to distance themselves from UEFI boot restrictions both in word and deed. Windows 8 isn't just a bad UI. It's too much lock-in for the PC. Consumers are OK with their phone and even their tablet being an appliance. They want their PC to be general-purpose. PC users don't get a lot of credit. I think they appreciate these issues more than some realize.
What they really ought to do is come out with service packs for the old OSs after their EOL dates, and charge subscription fees for patching. I'm on the record as being willing to pony up $30/yr. for XP patches rather than replace my old XP machine. A lot of people are in this, "take our money, please" situation; but MS won't go that way.
Also, just make the full compiler suite free, dammit. It's not like that's really earning you a lot of revenue; but just think of how much more software you'll get when your developers don't have to sign up for some program or pay out like a bunch of weenies.
In other words, quite being a bad copy of Apple and re-embrace your role as the competition that provides and alternative approach.
Then for you next project you can do something like OSX with a BSD-based core; but don't abandon the old PC ecosystem. Do it as a separate project, a separate company perhaps to isolate it from the toxic corporate culture. The world is ready for Xenix 2.0 on the desktop now.
What would happen if one of these beasts passed near the Solar system. For "near" consider the following scenarios: 1. Oort cloud. 2. Kuiper belt (I don't recall which one is closer and I'm too lazy to google it). 3. Just outside the orbit of Neptune. 4. Collision with Jupiter. 5. A passage inside the orbit of Mercury, no planetary collision or collision with Sol.
Finally, assuming none of these scenarios killed us by disruption the relationship between the Earth and Sun or flinging large bodies at us, how practical would it be to use a gravitational slingshot to launch a probe at high velocities?
For your scheme to be fair, and about liability as opposed to just picking on Windows, it should assign liability based on other criteria. Unless you charge extra for unpatched Android devices and various other problems, you're just espousing platform bigotry in your proposal.
Aside from that, it's a bit like putting people into different categories and charging them more for health insurance. What we have now is "single payer security" and it works well. What you're proposing is more like USA style healthcare transposed into the security space.
LOL, as far as I can recollect I've never heard this. Swear on a stack of Bibles. The 10 meters is a pure coincidence. Of course, questions like that have become cliches and I'm sure there are plenty of other stories like that. My favorite is always, "If you could be any animal, what would you be?" with a response of "What kind of animals are you hiring?" and the interviewee gets the job.
I mean the question you get when applying for a job at Microsoft or Google and they ask you how you'd move mount Fuji.
Easy. They didn't give me a deadline or a destination, so all I have to do is wait and let continental drift take it wherever it's going.
If they clarify and specify something like, "10 meters east by next Tuesday", then the next best solution is to just hack all the mapping software.
If they start getting snippy and say, "really physically move it 10 meters east by next Tuesday", then at some point you just have to start giving them basic lessons in volcanology. You could also ask the Google guys why their search-engine suggestions know "volcanology", but Chrome spell-check doesn't. Then when they verify that and see that the interviewee has pointed out the possibility for smarter integration, they may just forget the whole stupid thing.
When the lifting magnet dropped the car on the guy's head, I laughed. It was funny because the door flung open, or maybe because it just had a certain cartoony look about it. It could have been an anvil or a safe, then it would have been even funnier. Then of course there's the whole premise of a bunch of guys sort of doing a slow dance in a salvage yard, and they don't even look like yard workers at all. It's just too surreal.
In real life, the car falls on the guy's head without any moral dilemma. It's just... bam! In the unlikely event that you have any time to react at all, there is no moral decision at all on the part of the operator. He'll just avoid hitting the first thing he sees, or fall back on training that's ingrained into his muscles. In real life, it's not funny.
Experiments with that kind of VR don't convince me of very much. OK, time to roll it again and see that guy get crushed, and then... maybe a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Even if Linux came with a much lower premium, most people would look at the little box in their room as too much liability, and unplug it. Free Wi-fi would disappear from coffee shops--too much liability. We'd go back to the 1980s maybe--swapping thumb drives instead of floppies. Joe Sixpack user had a hard enough time with his kids dialing 900 numbers back then. High liability on the open Internet might make walled garden networks more attractive again since they could cap the liability at mere disconnection. Sorry. We ain't goin' back.
The current system where it's up to the castle owner to build a moat is the better system.
I don't want to wear my computer or put my fridge on line. OTOH, it will be really interesting when tomorrow's geeks are able to play with entire computers on a breadboard the way we played with resistors, transistors, etc. when I was a kid.
I keep picturing a little plastic baggy full of x86-based systems, $4.99/doz at RadioShack if they're still in business...
NOT a solution. You just end up with really aggressive HOAs which are mini-governments. In some cases HOAs have trampled on rights that are considered free speech outside their domain. Most famously there was the case of a veteran who put a flag on a pole in his front yard, in violation of HOA policy. In that case, there was so much outrage against the HOA that they made an exception and backed down. In most cases however, residents in HOA communities that chafe under the rules have to grin and bear it, or move out with a costly life lesson learned: avoid HOA communities unless you are the type of person who likes to follow lots of pointless rules, doesn't mind petty politics, doesn't mind nosy neighbors, and doesn't mind paying extra taxes to support the HOA.
Anyway, the HOA derives its power from the government, via deed restrictions and the law. It's private in name only. IMHO, it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. It's a municipality within a municipality within a county, within a state, within a federation, within a global agreement. How many layers of government do we really need?
A while ago I said Twitter should be an RFC, not a company. Nice to see that somebody is doing that kind of thing. The catch is adoption. If most people don't adopt, it doesn't work. An in-browser client written in JavaScript would help that, if it's possible. In the 21st century, people have gotten used to the idea that you don't have to download a client for each protocol. Yeah, it sucks to have everything in the browser sometimes; but that's reality.
I don't think the cause of Rome's decline is a closed topic among historians. IMHO Rome's fall was caused by simple economics. In the expansionist phase of empire, each conquest brought new wealth. Eventually the empire became too large to expand. At that point, the conquered territories brought no new additional wealth, but required expenditures to maintain. Hadrian's wall doesn't come cheap. It required taxes. The bread, circus *AND* the Roman military were not causes of the downfall--they were effects.
The cause of the downfall was resource exhaustion. They ran out of new resources to exploit.
The Romans themselves even acknowledged the difficulty of managing the empire by breaking it into four pieces for a while.
I think most of us grasped this intuitively on some level. If nothing else, a ball rolling on a sheet is always going to experience friction. It doesn't orbit. It spirals in. It's "like" relativity. Then if you get into serious physics you learn the equations that are not merely "like" but *are* relativity.
We live in a world of constant information flow. Betting anything on one big discrete burst of information is an anachronism. Trade shows are just one example. The other one that always leaps to mind is quarterly releases of financial information such as employment or sales for corporations. Sales data are being aggregated every second. You know that there is something to be gained from jumping the gun on quarterly releases, and you know somebody is doing that.
Anyway, trade shows are an anachronism. There's no reason to--what? Vegas? Holy crap. Forget everything I just said. Vegas, Baby!
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The summary makes it sound like they found 3000 year old ruins, not 300 year old ruins. This is not a lost civilization. It's just early Americans, colonial and USA. It's still interesting. There was no need to sensationalize. It reminds me of the innocent looking ditches I used to pass by in Fairfax County, VA local parks. It wasn't until after moving away that I saw an article online explaining that the ditches were colonial stream diversions leading to mills that no longer exist. A preserved example of such a mill still exists at Colvin Run in Fairfax County, AFIAK.
No, that doesn't fit the bill. It's an ALPHA-stage clone of a 10 year old OS. That would be nothing like patching XP. It would be more like living in the Linux desktop community of the late 90s, where most of the conversations started with "I just installed..." and ended with "I'm going to try installing...". No thanks.
It isn't just the UI. They need to get rid of Windows Store. They also need to distance themselves from UEFI boot restrictions both in word and deed. Windows 8 isn't just a bad UI. It's too much lock-in for the PC. Consumers are OK with their phone and even their tablet being an appliance. They want their PC to be general-purpose. PC users don't get a lot of credit. I think they appreciate these issues more than some realize.
What they really ought to do is come out with service packs for the old OSs after their EOL dates, and charge subscription fees for patching. I'm on the record as being willing to pony up $30/yr. for XP patches rather than replace my old XP machine. A lot of people are in this, "take our money, please" situation; but MS won't go that way.
Also, just make the full compiler suite free, dammit. It's not like that's really earning you a lot of revenue; but just think of how much more software you'll get when your developers don't have to sign up for some program or pay out like a bunch of weenies.
In other words, quite being a bad copy of Apple and re-embrace your role as the competition that provides and alternative approach.
Then for you next project you can do something like OSX with a BSD-based core; but don't abandon the old PC ecosystem. Do it as a separate project, a separate company perhaps to isolate it from the toxic corporate culture. The world is ready for Xenix 2.0 on the desktop now.
COL (chuckle out loud, literally). The whole thing is nowhere near the uncanny valley. Instead it's in the Roadrunner Canyon.
What would happen if one of these beasts passed near the Solar system. For "near" consider the following scenarios: 1. Oort cloud. 2. Kuiper belt (I don't recall which one is closer and I'm too lazy to google it). 3. Just outside the orbit of Neptune. 4. Collision with Jupiter. 5. A passage inside the orbit of Mercury, no planetary collision or collision with Sol.
Finally, assuming none of these scenarios killed us by disruption the relationship between the Earth and Sun or flinging large bodies at us, how practical would it be to use a gravitational slingshot to launch a probe at high velocities?
For your scheme to be fair, and about liability as opposed to just picking on Windows, it should assign liability based on other criteria. Unless you charge extra for unpatched Android devices and various other problems, you're just espousing platform bigotry in your proposal.
Aside from that, it's a bit like putting people into different categories and charging them more for health insurance. What we have now is "single payer security" and it works well. What you're proposing is more like USA style healthcare transposed into the security space.
LOL, as far as I can recollect I've never heard this. Swear on a stack of Bibles. The 10 meters is a pure coincidence. Of course, questions like that have become cliches and I'm sure there are plenty of other stories like that. My favorite is always, "If you could be any animal, what would you be?" with a response of "What kind of animals are you hiring?" and the interviewee gets the job.
I mean the question you get when applying for a job at Microsoft or Google and they ask you how you'd move mount Fuji.
Easy. They didn't give me a deadline or a destination, so all I have to do is wait and let continental drift take it wherever it's going.
If they clarify and specify something like, "10 meters east by next Tuesday", then the next best solution is to just hack all the mapping software.
If they start getting snippy and say, "really physically move it 10 meters east by next Tuesday", then at some point you just have to start giving them basic lessons in volcanology. You could also ask the Google guys why their search-engine suggestions know "volcanology", but Chrome spell-check doesn't. Then when they verify that and see that the interviewee has pointed out the possibility for smarter integration, they may just forget the whole stupid thing.
When the lifting magnet dropped the car on the guy's head, I laughed. It was funny because the door flung open, or maybe because it just had a certain cartoony look about it. It could have been an anvil or a safe, then it would have been even funnier. Then of course there's the whole premise of a bunch of guys sort of doing a slow dance in a salvage yard, and they don't even look like yard workers at all. It's just too surreal.
In real life, the car falls on the guy's head without any moral dilemma. It's just... bam! In the unlikely event that you have any time to react at all, there is no moral decision at all on the part of the operator. He'll just avoid hitting the first thing he sees, or fall back on training that's ingrained into his muscles. In real life, it's not funny.
Experiments with that kind of VR don't convince me of very much. OK, time to roll it again and see that guy get crushed, and then... maybe a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Even if Linux came with a much lower premium, most people would look at the little box in their room as too much liability, and unplug it. Free Wi-fi would disappear from coffee shops--too much liability. We'd go back to the 1980s maybe--swapping thumb drives instead of floppies. Joe Sixpack user had a hard enough time with his kids dialing 900 numbers back then. High liability on the open Internet might make walled garden networks more attractive again since they could cap the liability at mere disconnection. Sorry. We ain't goin' back.
The current system where it's up to the castle owner to build a moat is the better system.
TFA claims it was trained on the MUCT database which includes various ethnicities. Maybe there's not enough contrast in your image.
Hack in. Make military-industrialists fit the target profile. Problem solved.
So his last name is "Hungary" in Hungarian? What an amazing coincidence!
It probably isn't too much more unusual than being a German German.
All across America, well polished and maintained '57 Chevy convertibles just got that much cooler.
I don't want to wear my computer or put my fridge on line. OTOH, it will be really interesting when tomorrow's geeks are able to play with entire computers on a breadboard the way we played with resistors, transistors, etc. when I was a kid.
I keep picturing a little plastic baggy full of x86-based systems, $4.99/doz at RadioShack if they're still in business...
NOT a solution. You just end up with really aggressive HOAs which are mini-governments. In some cases HOAs have trampled on rights that are considered free speech outside their domain. Most famously there was the case of a veteran who put a flag on a pole in his front yard, in violation of HOA policy. In that case, there was so much outrage against the HOA that they made an exception and backed down. In most cases however, residents in HOA communities that chafe under the rules have to grin and bear it, or move out with a costly life lesson learned: avoid HOA communities unless you are the type of person who likes to follow lots of pointless rules, doesn't mind petty politics, doesn't mind nosy neighbors, and doesn't mind paying extra taxes to support the HOA.
Anyway, the HOA derives its power from the government, via deed restrictions and the law. It's private in name only. IMHO, it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. It's a municipality within a municipality within a county, within a state, within a federation, within a global agreement. How many layers of government do we really need?
A while ago I said Twitter should be an RFC, not a company. Nice to see that somebody is doing that kind of thing. The catch is adoption. If most people don't adopt, it doesn't work. An in-browser client written in JavaScript would help that, if it's possible. In the 21st century, people have gotten used to the idea that you don't have to download a client for each protocol. Yeah, it sucks to have everything in the browser sometimes; but that's reality.
I don't think the cause of Rome's decline is a closed topic among historians. IMHO Rome's fall was caused by simple economics. In the expansionist phase of empire, each conquest brought new wealth. Eventually the empire became too large to expand. At that point, the conquered territories brought no new additional wealth, but required expenditures to maintain. Hadrian's wall doesn't come cheap. It required taxes. The bread, circus *AND* the Roman military were not causes of the downfall--they were effects.
The cause of the downfall was resource exhaustion. They ran out of new resources to exploit.
The Romans themselves even acknowledged the difficulty of managing the empire by breaking it into four pieces for a while.
I think most of us grasped this intuitively on some level. If nothing else, a ball rolling on a sheet is always going to experience friction. It doesn't orbit. It spirals in. It's "like" relativity. Then if you get into serious physics you learn the equations that are not merely "like" but *are* relativity.
So it's like peacock feathers. At first glance they're a useless frill; but it's part of the standard mate selection process for peahens.
We live in a world of constant information flow. Betting anything on one big discrete burst of information is an anachronism. Trade shows are just one example. The other one that always leaps to mind is quarterly releases of financial information such as employment or sales for corporations. Sales data are being aggregated every second. You know that there is something to be gained from jumping the gun on quarterly releases, and you know somebody is doing that.
Anyway, trade shows are an anachronism. There's no reason to--what? Vegas? Holy crap. Forget everything I just said. Vegas, Baby!
Note to my secretary. Please copy parent and forward to the entire Inter... oh, hmmm... Hey, let me get back to you on this.
Going after GMO is like attempting to halt an experiment with no control being run on all of us. There. FTFY.
TFA mentioned that the study was conducted off-leash in a field. The owner has more influence than the magnetic field.
Finally, it will be settled and we can all get on with our lives.