It seemed that way to me... since I was only addressing the systemd issue.... and the AC's post came across as if he believed I may have been suggesting that the person to whom I responded should have chosen to use Slackware instead of FreeBSD, and so his remark came across as unnecessarily defensive, since I never tried to assert any such thing. I only assert that as Linux distributions go, it's pretty damn solid (and systemd-free).
Wow.... get defensive much? I wasn't disparaging BSD in comparison to Slackware, I was just pointing that that Slackware doesn't use systemd.
That you would call modern Slackware a "1996 user experience" is indicative of either deliberate ignorance or having so much confirmation bias that I don't think it would be worth my time or anyone else's to try and convince you that you might be wrong about it. You go and use whatever satisfies you, nobody's twisting your arm here.
The calculator I ordinarily use has a solar battery that I'd have no ability to replace at all if it ever died (never mind the fact that I will probably die before the battery does)... is this bill suggesting that such devices would not be legal to sell anymore?
That a booster pack is not worth zilch doesn't change that it's still not generally worth as much as much as you paid for the pack unless it contains a certain minimum number of cards that you actually need or want. The actual rarity of the cards within is irrelevant to this point, because the rarity of cards is determined by the producing company and is not always (or often even generally) a direct function of their usefulness. You could compare it to a slot machine where you put a quarter in, and you'll always get at least a dime back, only rarely getting back more quarters than you put in. The argument might be that not throwing your entire quarter away because you're always still getting something out of it, right? The key difference in the anology is that the the monetary worth in the case of such a slot machine is objectively measurable, where in the case of a CCG booster pack, one is trying to measure play value in terms of monetary worth, and that is subjective.
The cops and robbers game in graph theory suggests that in general, it is highly unlikely that a single autonomous pursuer would be unlikely able to cut off a subject of pursuit. The only way it can happen is if the subject goes into an area where there is a dead end.
If you are going to cut out the police officer from the equation, why bother making it so complicated?
And in jurisdictions where photo radar can't be implemented because of legal restrictions, the same factors that make photo radar illegal would also outlaw automated police cars.
I don't think they are any different from CCG booster packs. You pay $X for a pack, and the only way you'll generally get your money's worth if is the pack has some cards that that you really want or could use. It's subjective, of course... measuring play value in terms of monetary worth, but IME, far more often than not, it's a net loss... and about on par with your odds at a casino.
Grab bag sales at fundraisers are further different because you are donating money to the fundraiser in the first place... you aren't generally giving them money because of what you think you might be lucky enough to get (if that's the reason you do buy them, well then, there's an old saying about a fool and his money). The grab bag is offered as an incentive to donate, it's not a purchase.
Better would be to just not allow a video to be played at all unless it is visible in the currently shown tab and window. If it is scrolled either above the window or below it, or if it is not in the current tab at all, then the video should be paused, not just muted.
They do that too... In two ways. One, they increase the premiums for people who have accident claims, but additionally, they offer discounts for people who have had a history of not getting into accidents. When get auto insurance for the first time, you are always going to come in at the baseline for your demographic, which is reflective of the number of claims and the cost of those claims by people with assorted factors in common with yourself (although this is the first time I've ever heard of them using an email domain name as one of the factors). After that, your fees will go up, or they will go down, depending on whether or not you have any accidents that are your fault.
Anyways, with a lot of insurance companies, you can start to see discounts on your premiums in as early as a year with no claims, and in some cases you may get further discounts the longer you go without an accident (usually to some fixed number of years). Your first year can seem unfairly expensive if you are a good driver that happens to fit into a demographic that statistically has more claims than average, but since the alternative can be to not be allowed to legally drive at all, putting up with the financial inconvenience for only one year or so isn't really as bad as it sounds.
He's not going to be president anymore by 2025, so how is it that he can even do that?
We've seen that it's entirely possible for one president to undo (at least some) decisions made by a previous one in the past.... what makes them sure that this would stick?
I think it is more likely, if there is even the correlation as Cook observed, that it happened to be the case that Apple simply invented Swift around the same time that students were starting to stick with programming more than they had been. This is Cook giving Apple credit for something that there is precisely zero evidence that they had any influence on at all.
It's roughly on par with thinking that pressing a street crossing button multiple times is going to make the light change any faster than just pressing it once.
My first thought was is there another meaning for "twin" when referring to something like monkeys other than "two"? The first word in the headline is superfluous at best, and confusing at worst.
It's about as redundant as the phrase "unmarried bachelor".
If a computer can't tell what was within a minimum safe stopping distance then neither could a human, and a defensive driver would adjust their speed to compensate for lack of visibility.
If you had actually read what I wrote, you'd know that it was Street View I was actually talking about.
I even put an asterisk beside "terrestrial virtual presence" in case you didn't know what i as talking about.
Being able to actually see what your destination looks like from ground level before you go to an unfamiliar location is damn convenient, and has remained a significant reason why Google Maps is so preferred to many alternatives.
On a slightly related note, I don't recall seeing a map like Google Earth by MapQuest... all I can remember them having was the standard Miller Cylindrical projection, and certainly nothing resembling an actual 3 dimensional globe.
Of course... but the fact that Apples patch would slow down devices with older batteries, and the fact that so many people complained about it, is evidence that people are at least keeping their devices long enough that at least one battery replacement in that time might be fairly normal.
Making cell phone batteries non-removable is the problem.
Exactly this. is there actually any technical or practical reason, beyond being just a money grab for Apple, for them to make batteries in future devices removable?
Actually we don't know that, and the fact that jails exist is indication that we daily assume that is not.
And if the universe is sufficiently complex that it appears that we have free will, and no test can be created or even imagined to tell the difference, then suggesting that we don't not have free will is a vacuous statement, at best.
When I took metaphysics philosophy in university, I suggested in one of my papers a thought experiment which implied that something which might be indistinguishable from free will could exist even in a probably deterministic system, and if something is indistinguishable from it, then it might as well just be called that.
Here's the thing though.... the minimum safe stopping distance at any given speed is roughly the same minimum distance you are ordinarily supposed to keep between you and the car in front of you when travelling at cruising speed, so the cars sensors should be more than able to ordinarily detect something in one's own lane that is not moving at the same speed as the car itself, and the greater the speed difference, the faster it can be detected.
Even on a best case scenario where it gets fixed and they don't require a recall it's going to take years of dedicated effort just to have a prototype of a chip without the bug and if they pursue that they will then be behind in the Intel-AMD arms race and go under.
All certainly true.... except I think for the going under part.... they'd suffer, of course... but I don't think it would be bad enough to kill them off entirely. Intel has survived being behind AMD once before, back in the olden days when almost every tech news item you'd read was still about the "Y2K bug".
If they are offering promotional support, why shouldn't you be obliged to not say bad things about them for the duration of that arrangement.... as long as saying bad things about them does not do anything more than terminate such support, I fail to see the problem.
After all, if you say something about your boss that he finds (or would find) offensive, then why shouldn't he be able to fire you if he hears about it?
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It seemed that way to me... since I was only addressing the systemd issue.... and the AC's post came across as if he believed I may have been suggesting that the person to whom I responded should have chosen to use Slackware instead of FreeBSD, and so his remark came across as unnecessarily defensive, since I never tried to assert any such thing. I only assert that as Linux distributions go, it's pretty damn solid (and systemd-free).
Seems pretty obvious to me... i doubt that the first society will even last long enough for the second one to arrive.
Slashdot's oldest meme (or at least the oldest one I know of) is still one of the best. Thank you for making my day a bit cheerier.
Wow.... get defensive much? I wasn't disparaging BSD in comparison to Slackware, I was just pointing that that Slackware doesn't use systemd.
That you would call modern Slackware a "1996 user experience" is indicative of either deliberate ignorance or having so much confirmation bias that I don't think it would be worth my time or anyone else's to try and convince you that you might be wrong about it. You go and use whatever satisfies you, nobody's twisting your arm here.
The calculator I ordinarily use has a solar battery that I'd have no ability to replace at all if it ever died (never mind the fact that I will probably die before the battery does)... is this bill suggesting that such devices would not be legal to sell anymore?
One word: slackware.
The oldest (still available), and IMO still the best.
That a booster pack is not worth zilch doesn't change that it's still not generally worth as much as much as you paid for the pack unless it contains a certain minimum number of cards that you actually need or want. The actual rarity of the cards within is irrelevant to this point, because the rarity of cards is determined by the producing company and is not always (or often even generally) a direct function of their usefulness. You could compare it to a slot machine where you put a quarter in, and you'll always get at least a dime back, only rarely getting back more quarters than you put in. The argument might be that not throwing your entire quarter away because you're always still getting something out of it, right? The key difference in the anology is that the the monetary worth in the case of such a slot machine is objectively measurable, where in the case of a CCG booster pack, one is trying to measure play value in terms of monetary worth, and that is subjective.
Doesn't make it any less gambling, however.
The cops and robbers game in graph theory suggests that in general, it is highly unlikely that a single autonomous pursuer would be unlikely able to cut off a subject of pursuit. The only way it can happen is if the subject goes into an area where there is a dead end.
If you are going to cut out the police officer from the equation, why bother making it so complicated?
And in jurisdictions where photo radar can't be implemented because of legal restrictions, the same factors that make photo radar illegal would also outlaw automated police cars.
I don't think they are any different from CCG booster packs. You pay $X for a pack, and the only way you'll generally get your money's worth if is the pack has some cards that that you really want or could use. It's subjective, of course... measuring play value in terms of monetary worth, but IME, far more often than not, it's a net loss... and about on par with your odds at a casino.
Grab bag sales at fundraisers are further different because you are donating money to the fundraiser in the first place... you aren't generally giving them money because of what you think you might be lucky enough to get (if that's the reason you do buy them, well then, there's an old saying about a fool and his money). The grab bag is offered as an incentive to donate, it's not a purchase.
Better would be to just not allow a video to be played at all unless it is visible in the currently shown tab and window. If it is scrolled either above the window or below it, or if it is not in the current tab at all, then the video should be paused, not just muted.
They do that too... In two ways. One, they increase the premiums for people who have accident claims, but additionally, they offer discounts for people who have had a history of not getting into accidents. When get auto insurance for the first time, you are always going to come in at the baseline for your demographic, which is reflective of the number of claims and the cost of those claims by people with assorted factors in common with yourself (although this is the first time I've ever heard of them using an email domain name as one of the factors). After that, your fees will go up, or they will go down, depending on whether or not you have any accidents that are your fault.
Anyways, with a lot of insurance companies, you can start to see discounts on your premiums in as early as a year with no claims, and in some cases you may get further discounts the longer you go without an accident (usually to some fixed number of years). Your first year can seem unfairly expensive if you are a good driver that happens to fit into a demographic that statistically has more claims than average, but since the alternative can be to not be allowed to legally drive at all, putting up with the financial inconvenience for only one year or so isn't really as bad as it sounds.
When you begin with a flawed premise, your chance of arriving at the correct conclusion drops significantly.
He's not going to be president anymore by 2025, so how is it that he can even do that?
We've seen that it's entirely possible for one president to undo (at least some) decisions made by a previous one in the past.... what makes them sure that this would stick?
It's roughly on par with thinking that pressing a street crossing button multiple times is going to make the light change any faster than just pressing it once.
My first thought was is there another meaning for "twin" when referring to something like monkeys other than "two"? The first word in the headline is superfluous at best, and confusing at worst.
It's about as redundant as the phrase "unmarried bachelor".
If a computer can't tell what was within a minimum safe stopping distance then neither could a human, and a defensive driver would adjust their speed to compensate for lack of visibility.
If you had actually read what I wrote, you'd know that it was Street View I was actually talking about.
I even put an asterisk beside "terrestrial virtual presence" in case you didn't know what i as talking about.
Being able to actually see what your destination looks like from ground level before you go to an unfamiliar location is damn convenient, and has remained a significant reason why Google Maps is so preferred to many alternatives.
On a slightly related note, I don't recall seeing a map like Google Earth by MapQuest... all I can remember them having was the standard Miller Cylindrical projection, and certainly nothing resembling an actual 3 dimensional globe.
They were first, as far as I know, to offer wide-scale terrestrial virtual presence* in their mapping software.
*aka Google Street Viw
Of course... but the fact that Apples patch would slow down devices with older batteries, and the fact that so many people complained about it, is evidence that people are at least keeping their devices long enough that at least one battery replacement in that time might be fairly normal.
Exactly this. is there actually any technical or practical reason, beyond being just a money grab for Apple, for them to make batteries in future devices removable?
Actually we don't know that, and the fact that jails exist is indication that we daily assume that is not.
And if the universe is sufficiently complex that it appears that we have free will, and no test can be created or even imagined to tell the difference, then suggesting that we don't not have free will is a vacuous statement, at best.
When I took metaphysics philosophy in university, I suggested in one of my papers a thought experiment which implied that something which might be indistinguishable from free will could exist even in a probably deterministic system, and if something is indistinguishable from it, then it might as well just be called that.
Here's the thing though.... the minimum safe stopping distance at any given speed is roughly the same minimum distance you are ordinarily supposed to keep between you and the car in front of you when travelling at cruising speed, so the cars sensors should be more than able to ordinarily detect something in one's own lane that is not moving at the same speed as the car itself, and the greater the speed difference, the faster it can be detected.
All certainly true.... except I think for the going under part.... they'd suffer, of course... but I don't think it would be bad enough to kill them off entirely. Intel has survived being behind AMD once before, back in the olden days when almost every tech news item you'd read was still about the "Y2K bug".
If they are offering promotional support, why shouldn't you be obliged to not say bad things about them for the duration of that arrangement.... as long as saying bad things about them does not do anything more than terminate such support, I fail to see the problem.
After all, if you say something about your boss that he finds (or would find) offensive, then why shouldn't he be able to fire you if he hears about it?