IIUC, H.L.Mencken was pretty much down one everyone. And was popular because he did so in such elegant verbiage. It's not really proper to call someone who dislikes everyone an anti-semite just because he includes Jews as a part of everyone.
OTOH, I admit I'm judging him by his reputation. I haven't read much by him, because biting put-downs aren't my thing.
I *think* you're overstating the case. I do think that it's a very bad decision, but I don't think it's quite the same level of bad that you're predicting. Of course, partially this depends on the kind of deal that is worked out for the withdrawal. Your vision is not the worst case scenario, it's just worse than I think is probable.
Who *would* you recommend, then. My last Epson printer was a disaster. The HP at least works. I won't say it's as good as the ones from 2000, but it's better than nothing, and my computers no longer have a Centronics parallel port.
I disagree that most social problems today would be fixed if corporations were not legal persons. Many social problems, however, is a different argument.
Assembler. Admittedly it was CDC 7600 assembler. (Well, actually 6600 Assembler being used for input to a 7600. And it was only one small routine for doing random disk I/O.)
No. The point is they might think of themselves as good, but if they cover-up for abusing murderers, then they are not. They are accessories after the fact. If they know somebody's planning to commit murder, and they cover-up, they are accessories before the fact, and equally guilty.
I didn't write the laws, but that's the way they read. If only they were honestly enforced.
Censoring their own site is one thing if they admit to doing it, and something else if they lie about what's going on. IIUC, exercising this kind of control over what's available makes them legally liable for everything that gets posted. Some DA ought to test that.
Actually, they didn't. Not unless you consider changing the stories in the next edition the same thing. And given that this is user contributed material (that would be a "letters to the editor" equivalent), that was what was expected to happen. So again, it's not at all the same thing.
This is more like editing a rebroadcast of a news program, and claiming that it's unchanged. Again there are significant differences. You aren't going to find anything really equivalent to Facebook(tm) before computers. The closest is probably the billboards allowing public posting inside some grocery stores. And there anyone might remove anything that was posted. So even that's not a close match.
So I've got to say that "This never happened back in Grandpa's Day.".
A better name would be "The Microsoft Shakedown", as they originated (AFAIK) the practice of suing for patent infringement without revealing what the infringement was...or even what patent.
That was a problem with the desktop indexing application. You could fix it by turning the desktop search off. AFAIK the problem still exists. Certainly every time I've re-enabled the desktop search, it's been excruciatingly slow the next morning...so I disable it again. Baloo was better than whatever they used before it, but that's faint praise, I turned it off. updatedb and locate are much better, though they don't allow a search by content. For that I still use grep.
A point. A valid point against what he said. But I've been nervous about KDE ever since they announced that "a future upgrade will depend on systemd". Not the kind of thing I like to hear.
That said, I'm not really sure what the alternatives are. Gnome is clearly out, LxQt (or whatever the Qt version of LXDE is called) is likely to be a choice. Mate is likely to be a choice, but Cinnamon probably won't be. Or maybe I'll just decide that systemd isn't really all *that* bad. It doesn't really matter that much that it borks all my other installations when I install a systemd version, and that they have that problem tagged "won't fix". I can go back and fix it by hand afterwards...so far. (The problem has to do with renumbering disk UUIDs and not remembering previously used paths. So editing/etc/fstab to use paths instead of UUIDs works as an answer...until you boot with a different number of devices installed.)
Does this imply that there are no other changes in the metabolism that accompany the changes in cholesterol levels? I suspect that there are, and that you could use those. Or that you could measure the level of un-globulated cholesterol and that it would be in proportion to the level of cholesterol globules, sort of the way fragments of protein are measured in urine. It would probably need to be a much more accurate test, but that's not surprising, and not necessarily impossible. A nano-scale chromatography setup might well be exceedingly accurate, and able to detect lots of things an ordinary lab test would just skip. (Some of them are reported to detect thousands of separate tests...but I admit I don't know which tests, or how accurately.)
So a test based around a drop of blood is not intrinsically implausible. Just well advanced over the current state of the art.
Sorry, but statistics are not evil. It's just that evil people can use them to lie with.
OTOH, the MRI thing so far looks like a program bug that nobody bothered to check for a LONG time. It doesn't look like an intentional problem. Was the code open source? It probably wouldn't have mattered, though, because nobody who didn't have a machine would have any reason to look at the code.
She may not have started out as a fraudster, but when she started claiming to diagnose diseases that she couldn't she became one.
What you say is generally, but not always, true. It's also generally true that products with a portion that is extremely secret usually involve fraud, but it's not always true.
The approach she claimed is plausible. I can conceive of doing that with a printed chip using nano-scale bioreators. I couldn't do it, but it's not really unreasonable to claim that someone else could. And many of the foundation technologies for that device are widely known. So that somebody I've never heard of might build one isn't really implausible.
Well, the mean *is* the most generally useful average, but when you are dealing with a strongly skewed distribution, like incomes, it becomes nearly worthless.
Additionally, the mean is what I was taught was the average in the third grade. If I hadn't gone on in math, I'd probably think that was the only proper average too...but it isn't. It's just, as you pointed out, the easiest to calculate and the most generally useful. (Well, moving averages...which are always, as far as I know, based around variations of the mean, are probably even more widely useful, but they're generally enough more difficult to properly calculate...or even define, much less explain... that they aren't used.)
While true, multi-processor systems are considerably more responsive while busy with another task. So, e.g., you can be downloading upgrades, compressing files, and word processing all at the same time without penalty. Admittedly, it's hard to see how that particular scenario would be better with 100 cores than with 5 or 6. But a batch of them could be rendering an animation or some such.
FWIW, I have a task in mind where 1,000 cores would not be overkill, but most users would never do it. However they might be doing local speech understanding, or image recognition. GPUs aren't the only, or even the best, way to do that. They're just currently the cheapest.
???? Much of what you say makes sense, but...praising UEFI??? My systems worked a lot better before the UEFI showed up than they did for YEARS afterwards. And judging by other's reports my experience was not unusual.
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Actually, trying to blow people up isn't unconstitutional. The writers left that kind of law up to the states.
IIUC, H.L.Mencken was pretty much down one everyone. And was popular because he did so in such elegant verbiage. It's not really proper to call someone who dislikes everyone an anti-semite just because he includes Jews as a part of everyone.
OTOH, I admit I'm judging him by his reputation. I haven't read much by him, because biting put-downs aren't my thing.
I *think* you're overstating the case. I do think that it's a very bad decision, but I don't think it's quite the same level of bad that you're predicting. Of course, partially this depends on the kind of deal that is worked out for the withdrawal. Your vision is not the worst case scenario, it's just worse than I think is probable.
There are probably some elites for which this is a good outcome, but I don't think it's most of them.
Who *would* you recommend, then. My last Epson printer was a disaster. The HP at least works. I won't say it's as good as the ones from 2000, but it's better than nothing, and my computers no longer have a Centronics parallel port.
I disagree that most social problems today would be fixed if corporations were not legal persons. Many social problems, however, is a different argument.
Assembler. Admittedly it was CDC 7600 assembler. (Well, actually 6600 Assembler being used for input to a 7600. And it was only one small routine for doing random disk I/O.)
Real Estate people use "cosy" as a synonym for "too small".
No. The point is they might think of themselves as good, but if they cover-up for abusing murderers, then they are not. They are accessories after the fact. If they know somebody's planning to commit murder, and they cover-up, they are accessories before the fact, and equally guilty.
I didn't write the laws, but that's the way they read. If only they were honestly enforced.
Censoring their own site is one thing if they admit to doing it, and something else if they lie about what's going on.
IIUC, exercising this kind of control over what's available makes them legally liable for everything that gets posted. Some DA ought to test that.
Actually, they didn't. Not unless you consider changing the stories in the next edition the same thing. And given that this is user contributed material (that would be a "letters to the editor" equivalent), that was what was expected to happen. So again, it's not at all the same thing.
This is more like editing a rebroadcast of a news program, and claiming that it's unchanged. Again there are significant differences. You aren't going to find anything really equivalent to Facebook(tm) before computers. The closest is probably the billboards allowing public posting inside some grocery stores. And there anyone might remove anything that was posted. So even that's not a close match.
So I've got to say that "This never happened back in Grandpa's Day.".
But I question whether they shouldn't be called on lying about the reason.
A better name would be "The Microsoft Shakedown", as they originated (AFAIK) the practice of suing for patent infringement without revealing what the infringement was...or even what patent.
You mean back when Red Hat was creating Gnome? Or something more recent?
That was a problem with the desktop indexing application. You could fix it by turning the desktop search off. AFAIK the problem still exists. Certainly every time I've re-enabled the desktop search, it's been excruciatingly slow the next morning...so I disable it again. Baloo was better than whatever they used before it, but that's faint praise, I turned it off.
updatedb and locate are much better, though they don't allow a search by content. For that I still use grep.
KDE3 was better than KDE2. But the applications available now no longer work well with the KDE3 desktop.
A point. A valid point against what he said. But I've been nervous about KDE ever since they announced that "a future upgrade will depend on systemd". Not the kind of thing I like to hear.
That said, I'm not really sure what the alternatives are. Gnome is clearly out, LxQt (or whatever the Qt version of LXDE is called) is likely to be a choice. Mate is likely to be a choice, but Cinnamon probably won't be. Or maybe I'll just decide that systemd isn't really all *that* bad. It doesn't really matter that much that it borks all my other installations when I install a systemd version, and that they have that problem tagged "won't fix". I can go back and fix it by hand afterwards...so far. (The problem has to do with renumbering disk UUIDs and not remembering previously used paths. So editing /etc/fstab to use paths instead of UUIDs works as an answer...until you boot with a different number of devices installed.)
Does this imply that there are no other changes in the metabolism that accompany the changes in cholesterol levels? I suspect that there are, and that you could use those. Or that you could measure the level of un-globulated cholesterol and that it would be in proportion to the level of cholesterol globules, sort of the way fragments of protein are measured in urine. It would probably need to be a much more accurate test, but that's not surprising, and not necessarily impossible. A nano-scale chromatography setup might well be exceedingly accurate, and able to detect lots of things an ordinary lab test would just skip. (Some of them are reported to detect thousands of separate tests...but I admit I don't know which tests, or how accurately.)
So a test based around a drop of blood is not intrinsically implausible. Just well advanced over the current state of the art.
Sorry, but statistics are not evil. It's just that evil people can use them to lie with.
OTOH, the MRI thing so far looks like a program bug that nobody bothered to check for a LONG time. It doesn't look like an intentional problem. Was the code open source? It probably wouldn't have mattered, though, because nobody who didn't have a machine would have any reason to look at the code.
She may not have started out as a fraudster, but when she started claiming to diagnose diseases that she couldn't she became one.
What you say is generally, but not always, true. It's also generally true that products with a portion that is extremely secret usually involve fraud, but it's not always true.
The approach she claimed is plausible. I can conceive of doing that with a printed chip using nano-scale bioreators. I couldn't do it, but it's not really unreasonable to claim that someone else could. And many of the foundation technologies for that device are widely known. So that somebody I've never heard of might build one isn't really implausible.
Well, the mean *is* the most generally useful average, but when you are dealing with a strongly skewed distribution, like incomes, it becomes nearly worthless.
Additionally, the mean is what I was taught was the average in the third grade. If I hadn't gone on in math, I'd probably think that was the only proper average too...but it isn't. It's just, as you pointed out, the easiest to calculate and the most generally useful. (Well, moving averages...which are always, as far as I know, based around variations of the mean, are probably even more widely useful, but they're generally enough more difficult to properly calculate...or even define, much less explain... that they aren't used.)
Well, if it become less reliable, then either it hasn't been properly maintained, or it's time to replace it (or, of course, both).
O, thank you.
I had remembered the names as being more different. (As the other poster noticed, I even got the name of the TPP wrong.)
While true, multi-processor systems are considerably more responsive while busy with another task. So, e.g., you can be downloading upgrades, compressing files, and word processing all at the same time without penalty. Admittedly, it's hard to see how that particular scenario would be better with 100 cores than with 5 or 6. But a batch of them could be rendering an animation or some such.
FWIW, I have a task in mind where 1,000 cores would not be overkill, but most users would never do it. However they might be doing local speech understanding, or image recognition. GPUs aren't the only, or even the best, way to do that. They're just currently the cheapest.
????
Much of what you say makes sense, but...praising UEFI???
My systems worked a lot better before the UEFI showed up than they did for YEARS afterwards. And judging by other's reports my experience was not unusual.