And since blocking Javascript is something roughly on par, in terms of rarity, with a modification that'd require Windows registry tweaking or/etc/ editing, I'd say it's fair. I cannot fathom why anybody would entirely block JS when extensions like NoScript allow much finer grained and more flexible control over it all in a convenient UI.
He saw the writing on the wall, but the writing largely said "You've been handling the One catastrophically, get the hell off before somebody else makes you do it." I've rarely seen an exec mishandle so many PR events in such a short amount of time. He's managed to make a lot of headlines, not one positively, since the One was first announced. It shouldn't be surprising that he's leaving now, and I'm not sure it was entirely his call.
It's good because it uses the GPU's internal H.264 encoding hardware to record seamlessly at no cost to framerate. Fraps and other screen recorders are known to often halve frame rates or more. By doing the recording on the GPU itself, you can extract the framebuffer much more efficiently, transcode it straight in the GPU without much (if any) involvement by the CPU, and save the much smaller file to the hard disk at the very end, thus avoiding the use of the comparatively slow disk to store the very large non-compressed buffers.
Prior to that, the only way of recording the screen efficiently was to use HDMI recorders which would just take the entire output and transcode that externally, which is far less practical and much more expensive.
That's the problem, I think. B&N stupidly is restricting itself to the US, when there's millions (heck, billions) of people outside of that one bloody country. Instead of buying a Nook, I got a Kobo Glo, and that's one sale lost for B&N. Amazon sells the Kindle in more countries and it's always selling like hotcakes, but they're very slow at it. There's a huge market outside of the US, but many American companies seem not to understand that.
If Fukushima was a megadisaster, then we should also ban solar panels, coal power plants, hydro dams and just about every other source of power because there have been a lot more deaths for individual "disasters" with those than with Fukushima. Fukushima was a consequence of one of the worst tsunamis ever recorded, and didn't even kill anyone. There were more injuries from hydrogen explosions due to buildup than from radioactivity. Fukushima was transformed into a gigantic backlash because the media played off the fear of the public with anything that concerns nuclear.
Time for a reality check: the incredibly vast majority of people don't give a shit about Other OS. It was a sucky move by Sony to remove it, no denying that, but it affected 0.001% of their user base and perhaps put off half of those if not less. They don't give a damn about a few angered/. posters who swore off Sony because they couldn't run Linux on their game consoles.
Their move right now is to capitalize on the bad press Microsoft has received. They're not trying to offset anything, they're trying (and largely succeeding) to win out big time on how terrible the Xbone sounds by giving people exactly what they've always had and wanted to keep. The slides about used games and phoning home were likely added at the last minute as a gigantic jab at Microsoft and wouldn't have made an appearance otherwise.
Doubling the battery weight won't double the weight of the laptop, so your score would in fact go up with that technique. In fact, your score is biased towards things that maximize battery weight, because it's linearly proportional to battery time, thus making it most efficient when the weight of everything else is negligible compared to that of the battery.
Actually, your example with 1984 and Animal Farm is precisely the issue. We make kids read them, but not think about them. I was made to read Animal Farm in high school, but after that we were asked a few largely factual questions about the book, analyzing it as a purely fictional work, and then we moved on. We didn't make parallels with politics or society. We didn't analyze the metaphors. We just read it as any other book.
The big issue these days is that school is formed of check boxes. There's a bunch of things that are on a todo list, and once they're "done", they're off the list, with no regards for what the point of doing it in the first place actually was. Need to teach about trigonometry? Just show the functions, done. Don't try to explain what they relate to, how they work, what interesting things you can make out of them. Need to teach about politics? Bring up a few important figures, get students to read biographies and regurgitate the data in there on a test, done. It's not learning, it's ticking boxes.
One of the biggest criticisms that surfaces with EVs is that long road trip "problem". I find it amusing because most Americans drive way under even the base model's maximum range. Yes, we'll need a paradigm change - use an EV for 99% of your commuting and take a gas vehicle for the 1% remaining. Those that need long range (work, distance from city, whatever) can keep their gas vehicles, they're not a significant proportion of the population.
Wait, because you trust the DRM module designers and developers to do just that? This is the kind of industry that thought it just fine to install a rootkit to stop you from illegally playing music CDs. You're trading a single module, Flash, for potentially many modules from different companies, all of which will be even sloppier than Flash (which is quite a feat, but one I'm sure the media cartels will manage).
The "One" was definitely just chance, but "Xbox"? I don't think you randomly register a domain name with "Xbox" in the name. He was clearly targeting the next Xbox and hoped to guess right so he could get some money out of MS. He doesn't even deserve a cent.
And sadly, I have serious doubts that the next election will change things around. The PCC is playing its cards well by pleasing their core voter base and just enough of the periphery to ensure a majority at the next elections. The biggest backlashes they get are from social groups that already don't vote for them, so their political calculation is that they don't matter.
Hint: most environmental considerations come from scientific discoveries and conclusions. "Lack of leadership" is an excellent excuse to fire off people that don't align to your political views. Mandatory census is an important tool in many scientific fields to determine the state and evolution of the population. Changes to fishing regulations go against every scientific studies we've ever made. Pipeline work is being swept under the carpet so that the government can help oil producers in Alberta export their stuff more easily without bothering about public opinion or environmental concerns.
Science isn't just about particle accelerators and battery tech.
Valve actually want to spin off the platform so that people can build their own stores and sell whatever they want there. Basically, stop relying on Valve for serving and curating the games, unless you want to. Steam would become a store-agnostic system, with the store deciding the cut they want to provide. Obviously one can expect that Valve's store would still be prominently displayed and advertised, but you could also find indie stores, publisher stores, whatever.
Incorrect. Sieverts are specifically designed to account for the differences between radiation types with regards to biological effects. 1 Sv has the same biological impact regardless of whether it was caused by alpha, beta or gamma radiation. If the radiation is given in Grays, then you need to apply correction factors depending on radiation type.
Technically, if the perks are things you'd have to buy anyway, you're better off having the company pay for it. It lowers your salary, which lowers the amount of taxes you need to pay. It also means you don't need to buy them, again avoiding the taxes there.
The question is whether the perks are targeted properly, which is another argument entirely.
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And since blocking Javascript is something roughly on par, in terms of rarity, with a modification that'd require Windows registry tweaking or /etc/ editing, I'd say it's fair. I cannot fathom why anybody would entirely block JS when extensions like NoScript allow much finer grained and more flexible control over it all in a convenient UI.
He saw the writing on the wall, but the writing largely said "You've been handling the One catastrophically, get the hell off before somebody else makes you do it." I've rarely seen an exec mishandle so many PR events in such a short amount of time. He's managed to make a lot of headlines, not one positively, since the One was first announced. It shouldn't be surprising that he's leaving now, and I'm not sure it was entirely his call.
It's good because it uses the GPU's internal H.264 encoding hardware to record seamlessly at no cost to framerate. Fraps and other screen recorders are known to often halve frame rates or more. By doing the recording on the GPU itself, you can extract the framebuffer much more efficiently, transcode it straight in the GPU without much (if any) involvement by the CPU, and save the much smaller file to the hard disk at the very end, thus avoiding the use of the comparatively slow disk to store the very large non-compressed buffers.
Prior to that, the only way of recording the screen efficiently was to use HDMI recorders which would just take the entire output and transcode that externally, which is far less practical and much more expensive.
That's the problem, I think. B&N stupidly is restricting itself to the US, when there's millions (heck, billions) of people outside of that one bloody country. Instead of buying a Nook, I got a Kobo Glo, and that's one sale lost for B&N. Amazon sells the Kindle in more countries and it's always selling like hotcakes, but they're very slow at it. There's a huge market outside of the US, but many American companies seem not to understand that.
They're running stuff in the smog.
Oh, it's unlimited. The console might just not allow you to use all of it.
Look, I love Android, but tablet games are still shit. Indeed, the only time I ever play them is while on the toilet.
If Fukushima was a megadisaster, then we should also ban solar panels, coal power plants, hydro dams and just about every other source of power because there have been a lot more deaths for individual "disasters" with those than with Fukushima. Fukushima was a consequence of one of the worst tsunamis ever recorded, and didn't even kill anyone. There were more injuries from hydrogen explosions due to buildup than from radioactivity. Fukushima was transformed into a gigantic backlash because the media played off the fear of the public with anything that concerns nuclear.
A/V vendors can't patch vulnerabilities. They can only attempt to prevent or clean the infection and are usually unable to do so.
Hint: the PS4 works exactly the same as a PS3 or a 360.
Time for a reality check: the incredibly vast majority of people don't give a shit about Other OS. It was a sucky move by Sony to remove it, no denying that, but it affected 0.001% of their user base and perhaps put off half of those if not less. They don't give a damn about a few angered /. posters who swore off Sony because they couldn't run Linux on their game consoles.
Their move right now is to capitalize on the bad press Microsoft has received. They're not trying to offset anything, they're trying (and largely succeeding) to win out big time on how terrible the Xbone sounds by giving people exactly what they've always had and wanted to keep. The slides about used games and phoning home were likely added at the last minute as a gigantic jab at Microsoft and wouldn't have made an appearance otherwise.
Doubling the battery weight won't double the weight of the laptop, so your score would in fact go up with that technique. In fact, your score is biased towards things that maximize battery weight, because it's linearly proportional to battery time, thus making it most efficient when the weight of everything else is negligible compared to that of the battery.
Actually, your example with 1984 and Animal Farm is precisely the issue. We make kids read them, but not think about them. I was made to read Animal Farm in high school, but after that we were asked a few largely factual questions about the book, analyzing it as a purely fictional work, and then we moved on. We didn't make parallels with politics or society. We didn't analyze the metaphors. We just read it as any other book.
The big issue these days is that school is formed of check boxes. There's a bunch of things that are on a todo list, and once they're "done", they're off the list, with no regards for what the point of doing it in the first place actually was. Need to teach about trigonometry? Just show the functions, done. Don't try to explain what they relate to, how they work, what interesting things you can make out of them. Need to teach about politics? Bring up a few important figures, get students to read biographies and regurgitate the data in there on a test, done. It's not learning, it's ticking boxes.
That TV has only HDMI, which limits full resolution to 30Hz. Sorry, that's an instant pass for me.
One of the biggest criticisms that surfaces with EVs is that long road trip "problem". I find it amusing because most Americans drive way under even the base model's maximum range. Yes, we'll need a paradigm change - use an EV for 99% of your commuting and take a gas vehicle for the 1% remaining. Those that need long range (work, distance from city, whatever) can keep their gas vehicles, they're not a significant proportion of the population.
There used to be very few obese people. Now there's a lot more obese people. Ergo, obesity is evolution.
Wait, because you trust the DRM module designers and developers to do just that? This is the kind of industry that thought it just fine to install a rootkit to stop you from illegally playing music CDs. You're trading a single module, Flash, for potentially many modules from different companies, all of which will be even sloppier than Flash (which is quite a feat, but one I'm sure the media cartels will manage).
The "One" was definitely just chance, but "Xbox"? I don't think you randomly register a domain name with "Xbox" in the name. He was clearly targeting the next Xbox and hoped to guess right so he could get some money out of MS. He doesn't even deserve a cent.
I think this sends an excellent message to naysayers: Not all American startups with DOE loans end up like Solyndra.
Bravo to Tesla, and let's hope the current trend continues. The US really could use some new blood in the automotive industry.
And sadly, I have serious doubts that the next election will change things around. The PCC is playing its cards well by pleasing their core voter base and just enough of the periphery to ensure a majority at the next elections. The biggest backlashes they get are from social groups that already don't vote for them, so their political calculation is that they don't matter.
Hint: most environmental considerations come from scientific discoveries and conclusions. "Lack of leadership" is an excellent excuse to fire off people that don't align to your political views. Mandatory census is an important tool in many scientific fields to determine the state and evolution of the population. Changes to fishing regulations go against every scientific studies we've ever made. Pipeline work is being swept under the carpet so that the government can help oil producers in Alberta export their stuff more easily without bothering about public opinion or environmental concerns.
Science isn't just about particle accelerators and battery tech.
Valve actually want to spin off the platform so that people can build their own stores and sell whatever they want there. Basically, stop relying on Valve for serving and curating the games, unless you want to. Steam would become a store-agnostic system, with the store deciding the cut they want to provide. Obviously one can expect that Valve's store would still be prominently displayed and advertised, but you could also find indie stores, publisher stores, whatever.
Incorrect. Sieverts are specifically designed to account for the differences between radiation types with regards to biological effects. 1 Sv has the same biological impact regardless of whether it was caused by alpha, beta or gamma radiation. If the radiation is given in Grays, then you need to apply correction factors depending on radiation type.
I'm sure if you pay the same price they do to ship your fragile package it'd arrive in pristine condition too.
Technically, if the perks are things you'd have to buy anyway, you're better off having the company pay for it. It lowers your salary, which lowers the amount of taxes you need to pay. It also means you don't need to buy them, again avoiding the taxes there.
The question is whether the perks are targeted properly, which is another argument entirely.