It's too bad Germans are apparently colossal idiots. I always thought they were bright, but if you need a court to protect you from Amazon dash buttons, there's really no saving you from yourself. Amazon was quite up front about all of those facts. They made zero attempt at fraud. If anyone was defrauded, they did it to themselves. Being protected from nothing is pathetic coddling.
They should let at least a portion of those cards out just to keep stringing people along. Odds are they can't produce the new cards rapidly enough to meet demand even at their ridiculous prices.
We don't know how close we are to developing intelligence. Neurons are more complicated than transistors, but transistors are a lot faster. And relatively simple animals (in terms of number of neurons) exhibit some pretty complex behavior. A frog's got roughly three orders of magnitude less neurons than we have, but it still manages to have fairly complex behavior, like territoriality. We could conceivably also glue logic onto an artificial intelligence that would effectively make it more intelligent by providing functionality which normally requires a bigger brain.
I'm not proposing any timelines, but do we really have enough data to pooh-pooh the idea that it could happen soon enough that it's worth talking about the ramifications now? Nerds have been doing it for ages already.
"All modern systems have security holes" and they shouldn't. It's that simple. If that doubles the cost of software then so be it.
Perfection is not a realistic goal. You get as close as you realistically can, and you spend a reasonable amount of time trying to get closer on the next pass. With that said, few people would argue that enough is being done...
It would probably much more than double the software cost, but putting that aside, you'd need substantial hardware changes as well. And no doubt some of those would incur performance penalties, which in turn means needing more silicon to do the same job.
I think there's a market for a platform like that, but it's not realistic to imagine that the world would abandon less-secure platforms for it without being forced to.
Or we could go back to the original logic of having been punished erasing the crime and people having a second chance.
Second chance? Yes. Absolutely. Erasing the crime? That doesn't happen. Actions have consequences, and this is not a video game, and you cannot reload from a save point. There's no going back. Punished? That's the fundamental problem with this whole scenario. We're still stuck on punishment, and how that's supposed to be some kind of solution. But people don't grow up to hurt people because they had their emotional needs fulfilled during development. Maybe punishment has its place, but it should not be the focus. Rehabilitation of both the individual and the environment that created them should be the focus. Punishment is there to make the victims feel better, but if someone else's suffering makes them feel better, then they need help too.
But more information won't help, people who read the why are rare and many places will simply have policies against being on the list without making special exceptions to consider the rationale.
More information does help. When a little information is dressed up as a lot, though, it can do harm. If you simply put the offense for which they were actually placed on the list next to their name it would help some people, and hurt others. You'd really need a brief analysis of each case to be attached to their name to actually provide for people to make informed decisions. Only- who writes the synopses?
There are a little over 1000 open source packages in the dependency tree of my company's main application. I estimate that fully 50% of those packages are effectively abandoned. This is a young codebase and bit rot has already set in!
This, uh, comment... raises an interesting question. Seems to me like there's more OSS projects than ever. So what percentage of projects are abandoned over time, and what does that translate into in terms of total number of projects which are not abandoned?
By taking away Amazon's freedom to use the code as they would like?
They are free to distribute or not distribute code they own, and if they distribute it, they are free to choose the license. The only related things they're not free to do are re-license someone else's code without their permission, or re-distribute someone else's code without a license. If they want to incorporate e.g. GPL code into their code and not distribute their code, they are free to do that. And if they want to distribute their code without the GPL bits later, they can do that, too. Which freedoms are being taken away from Amazon? Absent some license, they wouldn't have the right to someone else's code at all.
On average you are going to spend more on a what is a commercial/professional display over a consumer display. Can you find a good deal on a commercial display and are there expensive consumer displays? Yes but on average commercial is more expensive.
The question is, how much is quality worth to you. Every time I cheap out, I regret it. Only sometimes do I regret it when I spend more. Make your own decisions about what to buy, but I'd personally rather get a smaller or older or slower whatsit if I can get one which is also of higher quality and with a better warranty.
When we bought our LCD TV many, many moons ago, TVs weren't smart. It was easy to find something good, which was a 52" Sharp Aquos we got at Costco with a two year warranty. It still works as well as it did when it was new — verified by color meter. Kind of a power sucker, though.
My commute varies, but even when it's long, it's cheaper just to stay under the speed limit. It saves gas too.
Someone with a two hour commute (which is not uncommon) can save substantial time per year by speeding, if they don't get caught or crash. I didn't ask you about fuel costs. I asked you about life costs. How much of your life are you spending commuting? For some people for whom it is a significant percentage, it's worth the risk. You're not really living if you're spending your life commuting.
"And the inverse of that is if developers are unhappy with a license, the software users want may never be developed. Also, crawl back under your bridge."
Linux proves that the GPL drives development more than the BSD license, because developers are happier with GPL than with BSD. Now run along, son, the adults are discussing what is, not what you want to be.
"Really ? How much money does it cost to drive slower ?"
Dunno, how much is your life worth to you? How much of it do you spend commuting? The poorer someone is, the more time they have to spend commuting, due to nimbyism. Refusing to build housing where jobs are therefore represents a theft of time from the poor.
I've made it clear to my phone vendor that "selling" me a phone where I can't remove the spy-ware is a dealbreaker. If they won't sell me the phone I want without the built-in spy-ware, I will take my business elsewhere.
So if I may ask — who's your vendor, what did they sell you, and did you get it any cheaper than buying it off amazon or whatever?
Do any of the handset vendors have reproducible builds so you can verify that what you compile produces the same firmware image they signed?
No, but you could build AOSP and install it.
If not, and if there's any closed source "secret source", you can't completely trust it.
So far there's always binary blobs in the drivers, and you're never going to get the source for modern communications hardware's firmware as that would permit you to override radio power levels and such. Therefore you can't ultimately trust any smartphone, nor pretty much any computer made in the last couple of decades.
It depends on how much you were planning to spend in the first place. The more you were going to spend, the smaller the delta is going to be. You can find what seem to me to be reasonably-priced examples on all the usual websites, though.
I tried to find an X server for DOS some years ago and came back empty. A bit surprising for me.
There apparently used to be a commercial xfree for dos called xappeal but it seems to have pretty well vanished.
There were several commercial X servers for Windows 3.1, like Chameleon Xoftware. Chameleon also had a good TCP stack for Windows 3.1, but the one that Microsoft eventually released is also adequate for this purpose. Or if you can find the TGV stack, that was the fastest. It seems unfortunate to have to run Windows just to run an X server on your DOS machine, but it's an option.
btw, that serial port has nothing to do with digital signage and everything to do with servicing it. Almost every tv i've looked behind has one...
Sharp actually documented the definition and gave it out in a document clearly designed for consumers, albeit advanced ones, and not for repair shops. I don't know about other vendors. But my understanding is that it's used to turn off signage displays after hours, switch channels and so on. I can see how that would be useful for testing, but that's not how the feature seems to have been presented. Also, I haven't seen a port like that behind most LCD TVs, but I admit I haven't been looking recently since I'm not in the market.
And you found the dumb TV where? I haven't seen a dumb TV bigger than the 32-40" class in years, and even there it's becoming hard to find if you want a decent display.
Newegg was my second google result for "signage lcd", which I figured would get me some hits. I went for "commercial lcd" on amazon and eBay with good results as well.
Because they use cheap panels. Vizio regularly tops reviewer's image quality lists.
When Vizio was new they were known for having the least processing. For people watching movies, this was a liability, unless you could turn on smoothing on your player. For gamers, it's an obvious advantage. They provided very low latency.
My friend bought a Vizio back when they were making decent quality TVs for *very* cheap prices,
They're not cheap any more. That's how they can offer high image quality. I bought one back then, too, and subsequently sold it when I bought something bigger. Then I went to Sharp Aquos, which was a dramatic improvement — it had both unprocessed modes (dot by dot and without dynamic anything) and more processed modes, and much better color than the Vizio panel. Sharp LCD TVs are now made by Hisense. I still have a 52" CCFL-backlit LCD Aquos purchased from Costco. It still works, although the power supply has a bit of an annoying hum. The same TV was clearly sold for digital signage, sports bars, etc. because it's got a serial port on its backside. The internal speakers are well beyond awful, and I never use them.
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It's too bad Germans are apparently colossal idiots. I always thought they were bright, but if you need a court to protect you from Amazon dash buttons, there's really no saving you from yourself. Amazon was quite up front about all of those facts. They made zero attempt at fraud. If anyone was defrauded, they did it to themselves. Being protected from nothing is pathetic coddling.
Manufacturer designs camera-killing laser to be mounted on the front of vehicles which have cameras on their rears. What could possibly go wrong?
They should let at least a portion of those cards out just to keep stringing people along. Odds are they can't produce the new cards rapidly enough to meet demand even at their ridiculous prices.
We don't know how close we are to developing intelligence. Neurons are more complicated than transistors, but transistors are a lot faster. And relatively simple animals (in terms of number of neurons) exhibit some pretty complex behavior. A frog's got roughly three orders of magnitude less neurons than we have, but it still manages to have fairly complex behavior, like territoriality. We could conceivably also glue logic onto an artificial intelligence that would effectively make it more intelligent by providing functionality which normally requires a bigger brain.
I'm not proposing any timelines, but do we really have enough data to pooh-pooh the idea that it could happen soon enough that it's worth talking about the ramifications now? Nerds have been doing it for ages already.
It may be several thousand dollars cheaper to get the smart TV and not connect it to the internet.
It isn't. I looked at prices, it's only hundreds of dollars cheaper.
"All modern systems have security holes" and they shouldn't. It's that simple. If that doubles the cost of software then so be it.
Perfection is not a realistic goal. You get as close as you realistically can, and you spend a reasonable amount of time trying to get closer on the next pass. With that said, few people would argue that enough is being done...
It would probably much more than double the software cost, but putting that aside, you'd need substantial hardware changes as well. And no doubt some of those would incur performance penalties, which in turn means needing more silicon to do the same job.
I think there's a market for a platform like that, but it's not realistic to imagine that the world would abandon less-secure platforms for it without being forced to.
"Perhaps we should distinguish between these."
Or we could go back to the original logic of having been punished erasing the crime and people having a second chance.
Second chance? Yes. Absolutely. Erasing the crime? That doesn't happen. Actions have consequences, and this is not a video game, and you cannot reload from a save point. There's no going back. Punished? That's the fundamental problem with this whole scenario. We're still stuck on punishment, and how that's supposed to be some kind of solution. But people don't grow up to hurt people because they had their emotional needs fulfilled during development. Maybe punishment has its place, but it should not be the focus. Rehabilitation of both the individual and the environment that created them should be the focus. Punishment is there to make the victims feel better, but if someone else's suffering makes them feel better, then they need help too.
But more information won't help, people who read the why are rare and many places will simply have policies against being on the list without making special exceptions to consider the rationale.
More information does help. When a little information is dressed up as a lot, though, it can do harm. If you simply put the offense for which they were actually placed on the list next to their name it would help some people, and hurt others. You'd really need a brief analysis of each case to be attached to their name to actually provide for people to make informed decisions. Only- who writes the synopses?
There are a little over 1000 open source packages in the dependency tree of my company's main application. I estimate that fully 50% of those packages are effectively abandoned. This is a young codebase and bit rot has already set in!
This, uh, comment... raises an interesting question. Seems to me like there's more OSS projects than ever. So what percentage of projects are abandoned over time, and what does that translate into in terms of total number of projects which are not abandoned?
By taking away Amazon's freedom to use the code as they would like?
They are free to distribute or not distribute code they own, and if they distribute it, they are free to choose the license. The only related things they're not free to do are re-license someone else's code without their permission, or re-distribute someone else's code without a license. If they want to incorporate e.g. GPL code into their code and not distribute their code, they are free to do that. And if they want to distribute their code without the GPL bits later, they can do that, too. Which freedoms are being taken away from Amazon? Absent some license, they wouldn't have the right to someone else's code at all.
On average you are going to spend more on a what is a commercial/professional display over a consumer display. Can you find a good deal on a commercial display and are there expensive consumer displays? Yes but on average commercial is more expensive.
The question is, how much is quality worth to you. Every time I cheap out, I regret it. Only sometimes do I regret it when I spend more. Make your own decisions about what to buy, but I'd personally rather get a smaller or older or slower whatsit if I can get one which is also of higher quality and with a better warranty.
When we bought our LCD TV many, many moons ago, TVs weren't smart. It was easy to find something good, which was a 52" Sharp Aquos we got at Costco with a two year warranty. It still works as well as it did when it was new — verified by color meter. Kind of a power sucker, though.
My commute varies, but even when it's long, it's cheaper just to stay under the speed limit. It saves gas too.
Someone with a two hour commute (which is not uncommon) can save substantial time per year by speeding, if they don't get caught or crash. I didn't ask you about fuel costs. I asked you about life costs. How much of your life are you spending commuting? For some people for whom it is a significant percentage, it's worth the risk. You're not really living if you're spending your life commuting.
"And the inverse of that is if developers are unhappy with a license, the software users want may never be developed. Also, crawl back under your bridge."
Linux proves that the GPL drives development more than the BSD license, because developers are happier with GPL than with BSD. Now run along, son, the adults are discussing what is, not what you want to be.
"Really ? How much money does it cost to drive slower ?"
Dunno, how much is your life worth to you? How much of it do you spend commuting? The poorer someone is, the more time they have to spend commuting, due to nimbyism. Refusing to build housing where jobs are therefore represents a theft of time from the poor.
I've made it clear to my phone vendor that "selling" me a phone where I can't remove the spy-ware is a dealbreaker. If they won't sell me the phone I want without the built-in spy-ware, I will take my business elsewhere.
So if I may ask — who's your vendor, what did they sell you, and did you get it any cheaper than buying it off amazon or whatever?
Do any of the handset vendors have reproducible builds so you can verify that what you compile produces the same firmware image they signed?
No, but you could build AOSP and install it.
If not, and if there's any closed source "secret source", you can't completely trust it.
So far there's always binary blobs in the drivers, and you're never going to get the source for modern communications hardware's firmware as that would permit you to override radio power levels and such. Therefore you can't ultimately trust any smartphone, nor pretty much any computer made in the last couple of decades.
But anyway, not about gaming performance, but about bandwidth.
So why is it that bitcoin miners universally voted Vega the most profitable mining GPU?
Because it was the cheapest way to get GDDR5 in your system with good power consumption. Miners don't necessarily have the same needs as gamers.
My next GPU will probably come from AMD, anyway, since by that time I probably won't run Windows on the bare metal any more.
That is absurd. We as developers have the freedom to license the software we write in anyway we choose.
Point to the part of my comment where I suggest otherwise, let alone say it.
It depends on how much you were planning to spend in the first place. The more you were going to spend, the smaller the delta is going to be. You can find what seem to me to be reasonably-priced examples on all the usual websites, though.
You were pretty kind to him, after he let himself wide open for a burn. I'm impressed.
I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd.
The only difference is that in the U.S. companies don't have to cooperate with the government
Never Forget Qwest.
I tried to find an X server for DOS some years ago and came back empty. A bit surprising for me.
There apparently used to be a commercial xfree for dos called xappeal but it seems to have pretty well vanished.
There were several commercial X servers for Windows 3.1, like Chameleon Xoftware. Chameleon also had a good TCP stack for Windows 3.1, but the one that Microsoft eventually released is also adequate for this purpose. Or if you can find the TGV stack, that was the fastest. It seems unfortunate to have to run Windows just to run an X server on your DOS machine, but it's an option.
btw, that serial port has nothing to do with digital signage and everything to do with servicing it. Almost every tv i've looked behind has one...
Sharp actually documented the definition and gave it out in a document clearly designed for consumers, albeit advanced ones, and not for repair shops. I don't know about other vendors. But my understanding is that it's used to turn off signage displays after hours, switch channels and so on. I can see how that would be useful for testing, but that's not how the feature seems to have been presented. Also, I haven't seen a port like that behind most LCD TVs, but I admit I haven't been looking recently since I'm not in the market.
And you found the dumb TV where? I haven't seen a dumb TV bigger than the 32-40" class in years, and even there it's becoming hard to find if you want a decent display.
Newegg was my second google result for "signage lcd", which I figured would get me some hits. I went for "commercial lcd" on amazon and eBay with good results as well.
Because they use cheap panels. Vizio regularly tops reviewer's image quality lists.
When Vizio was new they were known for having the least processing. For people watching movies, this was a liability, unless you could turn on smoothing on your player. For gamers, it's an obvious advantage. They provided very low latency.
My friend bought a Vizio back when they were making decent quality TVs for *very* cheap prices,
They're not cheap any more. That's how they can offer high image quality. I bought one back then, too, and subsequently sold it when I bought something bigger. Then I went to Sharp Aquos, which was a dramatic improvement — it had both unprocessed modes (dot by dot and without dynamic anything) and more processed modes, and much better color than the Vizio panel. Sharp LCD TVs are now made by Hisense. I still have a 52" CCFL-backlit LCD Aquos purchased from Costco. It still works, although the power supply has a bit of an annoying hum. The same TV was clearly sold for digital signage, sports bars, etc. because it's got a serial port on its backside. The internal speakers are well beyond awful, and I never use them.