People often complain Duckduckgo.com doesn't return the same number or quality of search results as Google; That's simply not true. The vast majority of the time I use it, I find the information I'm searching for on the first try.
You mean it's simply not true for you. I try using it every so often and the information I want has literally never been on the first page, and usually isn't on the second or third either.
Anyone who cares about their privacy should be supporting organizations that respect it and refuse to use technology that tracks you for marketing and other purposes.
Not only is it sarcasm, its wrong and stupid. Car manufacturers don't make all the parts for their cars.
No, but they do have arguably anticompetitive agreements in place with the suppliers that prohibit their selling the parts directly for years after their introduction. And they also have abusive pricing on service documentation, which should be made available for the price of copying and distribution, since they have to produce those materials for their own purposes no matter what.
That's an excellent summary of why Amazon needs its behavior curtailed as well. They should be able to put all their own-branded crap (and it really is crap) on the store, or charge such abusive fees, but not both.
See the description and animation on the relevant Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia is cool, but there's more under heaven and earth than is imagined in their philosophy. The exhaust is tuned both to promote scavenging and to increase compression.
The People, through their elected representatives.
Last I thought about the issue,
Was never.
access to an app store and the terms of such access (which by the way didn't even exist almost 10 years ago) wasn't a public utility or good with an expectation of fairness of pricing or in modification of terms.
The App Store is a market. Only free markets benefit The People. Apple is a legal fiction which only exists at the pleasure of The People. Ironically, you can't have a free market without government interference.
Under what right does one claim that Apple (or any ecosystem platform) has to do anything beyond what is regulated in the payment and terms of operation?
Apple makes a phone and sells music services on it. Spotify could make a phone and sell music services on it too.
No, they could not reasonably make their own phone. Without access to someone else's app store, it would be dead in the water — lack of apps is what killed Windows Phone. Apple and Google are sucking all the air out of the room, and consumers have to be protected from the consequences of that fact. This isn't just about Spotify.
Outrage is big business on YouTube, they will never ban that.
I wondered who would mention YouTube first. They could probably do a better job of blocking toxic comments by just shutting them off on YouTube entirely...
For some reason Intel is selling well at the price. Game support per core? Brand on the box?
I think it's more the latter than the former. People are just used to buying Intel. Most games are multithreaded these days anyway, and saving some money and buying a better GPU will return better results in most cases.
If it lets through normal air flow, can it be used for engine exhausts?
Not just exhausts, but intakes too. Intakes often have all kinds of stupid silencer junk. And I just replaced a turbo silencer with a straight pipe and now when I get on it the Sprinter sounds like it's in a field of crickets because of turbo noise. I replaced it because it came apart at the seam, but if it were round then it wouldn't need a seam.
The part Intel gets right is speed and power for the price. Work and game better on Intel.
For a few paltry FPS you often wind up paying twice the price. I'm not opposed to paying more and getting more, I'm opposed to paying that much more and not getting much more at all. When you add in AMD giving ECC support at all levels, and lots of PCIE lanes even on mediocre processors, it's hard to understand how Intel is supposed to have an advantage. And if you are mitigating their vulnerabilities, that advantage disappears real fast.
A car can not at this point ever be described as being able to understand whats going on. And it certainly can not exceed the ability of even the average asshole
It's not better than a human overall at either, but it's better at detecting wheelslip and doing something about it, whether it's ABS, ESP, or EDL. Traction control is usually pretty crap, unless it's something modern like crawl control. Old ABS was also pretty crap, but still better than most drivers anyway.
Nuclear typically comes in cheaper than all other forms of energy even without adding the much lower external costs due to it being one of the cleanest and safest forms of energy.
What? This is literally the opposite of reality. Here in the real world, nuclear power projects are being terminated left and right specifically because they are too expensive to continue.
The question here is why is the computer listening to a sensor instead of the pilot. A plane can be flown just fine without any instrumentation other than the front window. Why does that sensor get to override the pilot?
A car can be driven just fine through no information but the window view and the butt dyno, but the [mandatory] ESP system will still start fucking with your brakes if the accelerometer says that you're yawing in a way that isn't called for by the steering angle sensor. The answer to the question of why is the same in both cases, assistive technologies. When everything is working correctly, the vehicle is much better than you are at figuring out what is happening. Normally, as has been pointed out several times in this discussion, multiple sensors are used to cross-check, to make sure that a single malfunctioning sensor can't make the system go bananas.
Barring that, software monitors are used to determine whether sensor input is implausible. For example, OBD-II mandates a "comprehensive" monitor whose job is to perform such checks; it is one of the basic monitors which must be set in order to pass an emissions test. It continually looks for implausible sensor activity (like a temperature sensor which suddenly changes from cold to hot or vice versa, instead of gradually changing) as well as implausible combinations of sensor activity, like a very high coolant temperature reading combined with a very low transmission fluid temperature reading.
In short, Boeing demonstrated gross incompetence here — but it was related to improper use of sensors, not the very idea of helping to fly the aircraft. Even auto manufacturers are more responsible.
Hitler was a fascist, which is neither left nor right in outlook, but is a strict authoritarian movement with state control of both the economy and social life, usually a dictatorship and oppression of the opposition. Generally it's considered far right,
Fascism is considered far right because so far it's been used more or less exclusively to promote far right ideals. However, authoritarianism vs. anarchism is a separate axis from liberal vs. conservative. The third reich was definitely conservative-authoritarian.
I don't understand why this modded as troll when the post you are responding to is more trollish.
Welcome to Slashdot. I can see three possibilities. First, and most likely, that the nuclear fanboys have modpoints. Second, much less likely, paid nuclear shills are here with modpoints. (Can't be worth it any more, now that Slashdot is not a leader at anything.) Third, likelihood unknown, the owner or the editors are nuclear fanboys. This seems likely to me given some of the stuff I've hit the lameness filter with which wasn't at all spammy, and which was materially similar to some of my other posts, but there's no reasonable way to prove it.
You're trolling. No one imagined that Windows Phone was any good, which is why it's gone.
It's totally possible that they were all trolls, but people with actual accounts repeatedly have made claims like this here. My understanding was that the reason Windows Phone died is that nobody was making apps for it. If Microsoft had flushed wince a long time earlier, maybe they could have made a go of it, but they didn't.
Windows XP was hated when released with its Fischer Price interface and took a few service packs to be liked.
That was some serious My First Windows shit, but at least you could turn it off and just go back to the Windows 95 interface.
Um, not that I recall. The FP interface was there to stay, more or less.
Then your recollection is wrong. It was literally a pulldown in the display preferences.
It's been so long I don't remember the specifics of the UI, other than going back to 95/98 or 2K is butt ugly utilitarian.
First you complain about the candy coating, then you complain about the simple interface that preceded it. It looks to me like you just want to complain.
Yes, this is absolutely bananas. Even the accelerator pedal position sensor on cars with throttle-by-wire is a pair of pots, not just one. If one sweeps smoothly and the other doesn't, the PCM throws a code and only listens to the smooth input.
It should be illegal everywhere. Forcing someone to buy into a product they don't want is known as 'theft'
Unless they use deceptive popups that are hard to cancel again, it's not forcing anyone. Of course, I wouldn't put that past them, especially given history...
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People often complain Duckduckgo.com doesn't return the same number or quality of search results as Google; That's simply not true. The vast majority of the time I use it, I find the information I'm searching for on the first try.
You mean it's simply not true for you. I try using it every so often and the information I want has literally never been on the first page, and usually isn't on the second or third either.
Anyone who cares about their privacy should be supporting organizations that respect it and refuse to use technology that tracks you for marketing and other purposes.
Trust? How cute.
Not only is it sarcasm, its wrong and stupid. Car manufacturers don't make all the parts for their cars.
No, but they do have arguably anticompetitive agreements in place with the suppliers that prohibit their selling the parts directly for years after their introduction. And they also have abusive pricing on service documentation, which should be made available for the price of copying and distribution, since they have to produce those materials for their own purposes no matter what.
That's an excellent summary of why Amazon needs its behavior curtailed as well. They should be able to put all their own-branded crap (and it really is crap) on the store, or charge such abusive fees, but not both.
See the description and animation on the relevant Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia is cool, but there's more under heaven and earth than is imagined in their philosophy. The exhaust is tuned both to promote scavenging and to increase compression.
Will the world end in Parasite Eve, Skynet, or Heavy Weather?
Why "should" Apple do any of the things you want?
Because otherwise, they stifle competition.
Who determines "should"?
The People, through their elected representatives.
Last I thought about the issue,
Was never.
access to an app store and the terms of such access (which by the way didn't even exist almost 10 years ago) wasn't a public utility or good with an expectation of fairness of pricing or in modification of terms.
The App Store is a market. Only free markets benefit The People. Apple is a legal fiction which only exists at the pleasure of The People. Ironically, you can't have a free market without government interference.
Under what right does one claim that Apple (or any ecosystem platform) has to do anything beyond what is regulated in the payment and terms of operation?
Under the right of self-governance.
Apple makes a phone and sells music services on it.
Spotify could make a phone and sell music services on it too.
No, they could not reasonably make their own phone. Without access to someone else's app store, it would be dead in the water — lack of apps is what killed Windows Phone. Apple and Google are sucking all the air out of the room, and consumers have to be protected from the consequences of that fact. This isn't just about Spotify.
Outrage is big business on YouTube, they will never ban that.
I wondered who would mention YouTube first. They could probably do a better job of blocking toxic comments by just shutting them off on YouTube entirely...
They are tuned to reflect the exhaust back at the piston to increase the compression...
IME they're tuned to do the opposite, they produce vacuum so as to better scavenge the exhaust. But maybe they do both?
For some reason Intel is selling well at the price.
Game support per core? Brand on the box?
I think it's more the latter than the former. People are just used to buying Intel. Most games are multithreaded these days anyway, and saving some money and buying a better GPU will return better results in most cases.
If it lets through normal air flow, can it be used for engine exhausts?
Not just exhausts, but intakes too. Intakes often have all kinds of stupid silencer junk. And I just replaced a turbo silencer with a straight pipe and now when I get on it the Sprinter sounds like it's in a field of crickets because of turbo noise. I replaced it because it came apart at the seam, but if it were round then it wouldn't need a seam.
The part Intel gets right is speed and power for the price.
Work and game better on Intel.
For a few paltry FPS you often wind up paying twice the price. I'm not opposed to paying more and getting more, I'm opposed to paying that much more and not getting much more at all. When you add in AMD giving ECC support at all levels, and lots of PCIE lanes even on mediocre processors, it's hard to understand how Intel is supposed to have an advantage. And if you are mitigating their vulnerabilities, that advantage disappears real fast.
You have to cook them sous-vide. They come out nice and tender, plus you get the added benefit of listening to them scream.
So you get them drunk and let them get in the hottub. Marination is important, too.
A car can not at this point ever be described as being able to understand whats going on. And it certainly can not exceed the ability of even the average asshole
It's not better than a human overall at either, but it's better at detecting wheelslip and doing something about it, whether it's ABS, ESP, or EDL. Traction control is usually pretty crap, unless it's something modern like crawl control. Old ABS was also pretty crap, but still better than most drivers anyway.
Nuclear typically comes in cheaper than all other forms of energy even without adding the much lower external costs due to it being one of the cleanest and safest forms of energy.
What? This is literally the opposite of reality. Here in the real world, nuclear power projects are being terminated left and right specifically because they are too expensive to continue.
The question here is why is the computer listening to a sensor instead of the pilot. A plane can be flown just fine without any instrumentation other than the front window. Why does that sensor get to override the pilot?
A car can be driven just fine through no information but the window view and the butt dyno, but the [mandatory] ESP system will still start fucking with your brakes if the accelerometer says that you're yawing in a way that isn't called for by the steering angle sensor. The answer to the question of why is the same in both cases, assistive technologies. When everything is working correctly, the vehicle is much better than you are at figuring out what is happening. Normally, as has been pointed out several times in this discussion, multiple sensors are used to cross-check, to make sure that a single malfunctioning sensor can't make the system go bananas.
Barring that, software monitors are used to determine whether sensor input is implausible. For example, OBD-II mandates a "comprehensive" monitor whose job is to perform such checks; it is one of the basic monitors which must be set in order to pass an emissions test. It continually looks for implausible sensor activity (like a temperature sensor which suddenly changes from cold to hot or vice versa, instead of gradually changing) as well as implausible combinations of sensor activity, like a very high coolant temperature reading combined with a very low transmission fluid temperature reading.
In short, Boeing demonstrated gross incompetence here — but it was related to improper use of sensors, not the very idea of helping to fly the aircraft. Even auto manufacturers are more responsible.
Hitler was a fascist, which is neither left nor right in outlook, but is a strict authoritarian movement with state control of both the economy and social life, usually a dictatorship and oppression of the opposition. Generally it's considered far right,
Fascism is considered far right because so far it's been used more or less exclusively to promote far right ideals. However, authoritarianism vs. anarchism is a separate axis from liberal vs. conservative. The third reich was definitely conservative-authoritarian.
Actually "dump it in the bottom of the ocean" was the normal procedure for a long time.
Dumping industrial solvents out back of the hangar was the normal procedure on military bases for a long time, now they're superfund sites.
100ft of water is plenty to render just about any material safe. That's exactly how they store spent fuel.
Yeah, in pools, not the ocean. Pools don't have currents.
I don't understand why this modded as troll when the post you are responding to is more trollish.
Welcome to Slashdot. I can see three possibilities. First, and most likely, that the nuclear fanboys have modpoints. Second, much less likely, paid nuclear shills are here with modpoints. (Can't be worth it any more, now that Slashdot is not a leader at anything.) Third, likelihood unknown, the owner or the editors are nuclear fanboys. This seems likely to me given some of the stuff I've hit the lameness filter with which wasn't at all spammy, and which was materially similar to some of my other posts, but there's no reasonable way to prove it.
You're trolling. No one imagined that Windows Phone was any good, which is why it's gone.
It's totally possible that they were all trolls, but people with actual accounts repeatedly have made claims like this here. My understanding was that the reason Windows Phone died is that nobody was making apps for it. If Microsoft had flushed wince a long time earlier, maybe they could have made a go of it, but they didn't.
Windows XP was hated when released with its Fischer Price interface and took a few service packs to be liked.
That was some serious My First Windows shit, but at least you could turn it off and just go back to the Windows 95 interface.
Um, not that I recall. The FP interface was there to stay, more or less.
Then your recollection is wrong. It was literally a pulldown in the display preferences.
It's been so long I don't remember the specifics of the UI, other than going back to 95/98 or 2K is butt ugly utilitarian.
First you complain about the candy coating, then you complain about the simple interface that preceded it. It looks to me like you just want to complain.
Yes, this is absolutely bananas. Even the accelerator pedal position sensor on cars with throttle-by-wire is a pair of pots, not just one. If one sweeps smoothly and the other doesn't, the PCM throws a code and only listens to the smooth input.
It should be illegal everywhere. Forcing someone to buy into a product they don't want is known as 'theft'
Unless they use deceptive popups that are hard to cancel again, it's not forcing anyone. Of course, I wouldn't put that past them, especially given history...
Windows XP was hated when released with its Fischer Price interface and took a few service packs to be liked.
That was some serious My First Windows shit, but at least you could turn it off and just go back to the Windows 95 interface.
Miracast has been mirroring Android apps since 2012. To Windows or almost any TV. How is this remotely new or innovative?
Miracast was added as standard in Android 4.2, and then removed again in Android 6. Only some phones support it now.