What you call insecure is what they call tempted by the devil and their own feelings their inner demons. If you are not tempted by evil, you're not threatened by it. If you are tempted by evil, you do feel threatened by it and as long as you think homosexuals are instruments of evil then homophobia is almost rational in context. If they hear "give in do the dark side" when you say "trust your feelings" you're whispering the devil's words in their ear. That's kinda the basis of the whole religion, we're relentless sinners in thoughts and deeds who are all in need of mercy and forgiveness. They certainly made enough rules to make sure...
Although I don't like the 365-style rental model any more than the "you are the product" one, I think Microsoft could use it to allow people to buy into Enterprise if they didn't want to be tracked.
Nothing prevents Microsoft from making a domain-crippled "Personal LTSB", no Edge, no Cortana, no feature upgrades, ten years of running Windows software with security patches and all the work is basically done anyway. They just don't want to.
Personally, I've never experienced a similar ad, though I use Edge as well as Bing Rewards, meaning there's no need for such an ad to appear.
Mark Hachman (more like HACKman if you ask me), stop being a Microsoft shill, you're embarassing yourself.
He might be a shill, but I don't see anything unreasonable about that sentence if you're reporting on something you haven't experienced yourself. Like "I've never had overheating problems, but I live in Alaska", unless you think simply using Microsoft products and services make you a shill.
Also, when are they going to run the experiment on programmers?
I think the effect is entirely dependent on your motivation for it in the first place. Being reminded of your mortality usually leads to a short time desire to live in the moment and a long term desire to leave a legacy. If this is a dead end job your doing for the paycheck, you're demotivated. If you're an athlete and can choose between being the 100th best that nobody remembers or being the world champion it's a huge motivation boost. The opportunity is here and now and just commit to it completely, don't hedge your bets and do it half-assed. It's perhaps also in a way bad advice but life is what passes you by and if you never went a little crazy you'll still end up in the retirement home only with fewer stories to tell.
GAH!!!! Another typo - "way PAST time" not "pas" time
I also made an "its" instead of "it's" typo. Not my finest hour.
Don't worry, go join a game company. They're all in the "ship this steaming pile now, we'll patch it later" mode. I kinda like the discipline, you get it right the first time or you look the fool except here it doesn't really matter. Maybe I should send some of my fellow developers to take a/. class before I let them push code to production, maybe they'd get better at QA. Or not, you've been here longer than me...
Market up 6%, iPhone down 5.2% = same people buying iPhones. Bottom of the market is swapping out really cheap dumbphones with almost as cheap Android "smartphones", but usually all the smart bits are very poor. A quick check at my local price check shows the cheapest Android phones sell for 1/5th of the price of the cheapest iPhone. It's like the market for $100,000 cars vs $20,000 cars, no wonder new buyers are in the $20k market. By itself that's no reason Apple should worry, Android got the volume and Apple the big spenders.
...to refuel the Spaceship? If that's already the case, why not send up an empty Spaceship, refuel it robotically with Tankers, *then* send up the passengers? It's only one extra trip out of an already envisioned ~3-5 trips that his keynote talked about anyway.
This isn't about the interplanetary rocket on the drawing board, but about how SpaceX fuels all their rockets. They now use super-cooled fuel for maximum thrust, basically once fueled it either has to take off or be de-fueled again quite soon, it can't wait for long. So either the astronauts have to either be on board, arrive from a bunker real quick and get themselves strapped in or SpaceX will have to modify their launch method. And the latter is really unlikely in general for cargo/satellite launches, so it'd be a manned-only setting and less tested.
They'd still have the launch abort system that could hopefully get them out of harm's way just like a mid-launch problem, but sure in an ideal world it's best not to be around things that can go boom. But principally a construction site would be much safer without construction workers too, the only way to be really sure humans aren't hurt is to not send humans at all. It's a question of acceptable and necessary risk, but sometimes we do give up safety for progress. Lots of people have hurt themselves badly with chain saws, few have done the same with a hand saw. Still not going back for safety's sake.
There's a saying that the first 90% of the project take the first 90% of the time, then the last 10% take the other 90% of the time.
Optimist. 90% of remaining project will take 90% of budgeted time/money. Learn to live with imperfection.
The point was that "first 90%" and "other 90%" add up to 180%, that is to say when you say you're almost done you're actually nowhere close to being really done. Not sure what you're saying, if I can really get 90% of the project done with 90% of the time/money isn't the estimation spot on?
People who READ the GPL can figure it out. Those who INTERPRET it to suit their own agenda get it wrong (...) If you publish a program that incorporates GPL (not LGPL) source
Actually I'd say it is a mess, not because of the GPL but the way software works. Any time you make a function, you make an interface. Any time you have an interface, you can have multiple implementations that don't really derivate from each other. Principally there's no difference between the Linux kernel's user API, module API and internal API. It's just ways for code to call other code. Or an application and plug-ins. Or a command line tool and a GUI. Or a service and its administration tool. What about interpreted languages, web services, JVMs and so on if you call it, you incorporate it?
They try to exclude some bits:
However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
What if you're making a set top box, could you distribute an open source tool on a proprietary OS if they accompany each other?
The FSF is admitting this is a bit wobbly:
Where's the line between two separate programs, and one program with two parts? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges will decide. We believe that a proper criterion depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics of the communication (what kinds of information are interchanged).
If the program dynamically links plug-ins, but the communication between them is limited to invoking the âmainâ(TM) function of the plug-in with some options and waiting for it to return, that is a borderline case.
And these questions presume the plug-in knows what's on the other side of the interface.
Can I apply the GPL when writing a plug-in for a non-free program? Can I release a non-free program that's designed to load a GPL-covered plug-in?
What if it's a standard? Say for the sake of argument both Photoshop and GIMP had a common tool plug-in. Could you legally write GPL plug-ins for it? Proprietary plug-ins? Could they live together on a CD?
A modern service bus or something like that really makes a mess of the simple compiled/linked world of the GPL.
I don't think many people in the US are pro-establishment right now; even those who are voting for Clinton dislike that aspect of her.
When it comes to the final election it seems to be almost every aspect is irrelevant. If they made it through the primaries the two reasons for voting are (D) and (R), they could make Nixon and Bozo the clown the candidates and people would vote for them. Oh wait, they did... And to be honest, I hope the clown wins because he'll have the most problems convincing Congress to play along so despite the entertainment I doubt he'll be able to do too much damage as commander-in-chief. And it'd give Bernie or someone else the chance to try again in four more years, if Clinton wins now she'll almost automatically be the candidate next time too. At least the first female President will be good for equality, otherwise I don't see much positive about it.
On one hand one should not count the sunk cost when thinking of what is the best strategy to go forward, but on the other hand one should remember that in a complex project things often seem very broken just before they are fixed and it is very hard to say from outside how close to being fixed things are.
The real problem is often that the revised estimate is just as much bullshit as the original estimate. There's a saying that the first 90% of the project take the first 90% of the time, then the last 10% take the other 90% of the time. So you approve a $100M project, $60M is sunk but the revised estimate is now $130M. Well -30 is better than -60 to scrap and write it off. But when you get to 100 million the estimate is 150, when you get to 130 it's 170 and the project finally lands at 180. Guess what you've now been throwing so much good money after bad that you've lost more than if you'd just stopped the project in the first place but the deeper you go the deeper you're committed to keep pouring money into it.
I see that when you write code too, you start with like 0.1 pre-alpha and you breeze through versions until like 0.7-0.8 and then it's like all those little things here and there and documentation and testing and refactoring and UI and config settings and kinda unclear points you skipped because you did the work that obvious how you'd do it and you realize damn there's actually a lot of work even though it was mostly working and so 0.9 and 0.95 and the version just before the big 1.0 is like 0.99d or something. It's extremely rare that version 0.8 is actually 80% done.
Yes, occassionally there is that eureka moment where all the parts of the puzzle suddenly starts working together but more often it's "I'm sure the finish line is just over the next hill, I just know it. I just need a little bit more time to work this out". I really do make an effort to give estimates where I can, but sometimes it really also is so that I don't know what the solution will be until I've found it. Double that when they want estimates on how long it'll take me to find and fix a problem when really I got no idea where it is, what the scope is and how ugly it'd be change and the estimates won't get better by pestering me with them.
They likely have home insurance and will be reimbursed. If anyone has a right to sue Amazon it will be the insurance company, to reclaim the money they paid out to the homeowners.
Well, if someone torched the place I'd hopefully get the apartment value from the insurance company, but the tort for setting it on fire with me in it as well as heirlooms, memorabilia and other items of personal importance seem worth suing over. It all depends on the degree of culpability, not saying they're going to win but it's not a slam dunk dismissal.
And where will this type of thing end? What level crimes will justify such privacy invasions? To me, this just sounds a lot like spam.
Well you can tell it's a last ditch attempt by the fact that he was killed in December last year and they're doing this now. If it's more than two weeks ago I'm pretty much down to checking calendars to see if I had any particular appointment or event that makes the day stand out, otherwise most Mondays are Garfield days, Tuesday to Thursday just another work day, Friday is TGIF, Saturday may or may not be memorable and Sunday mostly chilling. If you ask me what I did Tuesday three weeks ago I might easily mix it up with four weeks ago or Wednesday or just draw a blank. And I know I don't have the worst memory, the signal to noise ratio will be atrocious.
If you're against the police sending out texts looking for witnesses, then logically you should be against door to door rounds too because not answering is not answering and possibly implying you have your reasons. What you're saying is really that the police should just post notices and wait for witnesses to call them, if nobody answers don't push it. That sounds extremely passive and lazy like they're not taking the investigation seriously, if you ask me. Particularly because in many cases the perps are initially witnesses that can't totally deny being around but whose cover story doesn't quite add up. Finding them and make them either lie or clam up and take the 5th is an important part of any investigation.
That said, this is so bloody close to useless that I wouldn't do it. But if you say within a week of the murder got a text saying:
"We are investigating the murder of Frederick John Hatch and cell phone records show you may have been in the general area. This broadcast does not imply you are a witness or suspect and offering any information is voluntary. The body was found just before 6:45 a.m. ET on Dec. 17, 2015. It was located east of 10th Line off Wellington Road 124, just north of Erin. He was last seen in Ottawa the day before, at about 1 p.m., inside a Dollar Tree discount store near West Hunt Club and Merivale roads. It is possible the victim may have hitchhiked. When he died he was wearing a denim vest with Disney characters on the back, a black leather jacket, a blue and white bandana, glasses and black Harley Davidson boots. He was carrying a red duffel bag. If you have seen this person, been nearby or traveled this route at the time or have any other information that might be relevant to the case, please contact your nearest police department."
I would be pretty cool with that, actually. The "slippery slope" would be limited by that the more you use it the response rate and quality of responses will go down. That they don't rule out contacting those who don't respond is just posturing, it'd be a huge waste of resources. It'd basically be a 21st century version of posters and flyers.
You sound like the engineering version of the salesman that says "Well I've sold this feature to the client, so you make it work" regardless of how hard it does everybody else's job. Marketing will have a harder time trying to sell new features, accounting might find they can't charge as much of a premium so margins are shit, but the system designer has decided there's "no way in hell" we're replacing that CPU/GPU. Maybe if it's capacitors on a board but when it comes to headline features I expect those choices are made a couple pay grades above the system designer. Obviously you need to inform them what it'll cost in time, resources and risk and to push back when they make unreasonable demands for changes - like do we all - but I doubt it's really "that simple". Anyone who doesn't see that the interests have to be balanced probably won't be employed very long, at least not in a position where they get to decide anything.
Helium? Explosion - it is a nobel gas? I guess they mean structural failure causing a cascade of other problems.
It's not the helium exploding, no. The helium is in a high pressure container inside the liquid oxygen (LOX) tank and is supposed to be released slowly during launch to push the LOX out. If it bursts, the LOX tank can't take the pressure from both a full tank of LOX and the helium at once and will burst too. Once that happens, one spark and the LOX will burn and expand like crazy and once the kerosene (RP-1) tank is compromised it'll just be a giant ball of fire. If these helium tanks weren't super-compressed you'd need helium tanks the size of the fuel tanks which is obviously not very practical. But that also means these vessels contain extreme forces that are on the very border of what material science can offer us so it won't explode but you could absolutely call it explosive decompression.
My math says 14 kWh * 365 cycles = 5110 kWh and $5000 / 9 years / 5110 kWh works out to $0.11/kWh. That however assumes it has a source that can fill it up every day and you use it completely every day. With solar that is unlikely as in the summer the main consumer is AC which correlates well with when the sun is up and you'll probably not use 14 kWh every evening. In the winter when it's dark and cold and snowing can you still get 14 kWh? Unlikely.
If you try for mixing with online power to increase utilization you must decide how much to charge at night before you know how much solar you'll get during the day so it's full by evening. That sounds like a micromanagement nightmare based on tomorrow's sunrise/sunset/weather forecast. If you're doing it purely for the arbitrage you're competing against a power company that could just as easily store it on their end and raise prices or if demand by night goes up because of people like you, so I doubt you'll ever win.
If you're doing it to give your house a giant UPS and using the differential to offset much of the cost that might be useful. That said its usefulness will then depend on the depletion when power fails, if the power fails exactly when you're down to 0% and starting the night's charge cycle it's worth nothing. And it's likely to be in times of hard use like a strong winter cold you really need that backup. If you want the full 14 kWh to always be available in reserve you can't really use it at all but you can pick anywhere between.
You could put it in line with a diesel generator, so it's doing work while on "standby" and the lower the charge, the quicker you start the generator. But then it becomes a question of how often and how much and won't just the generator do the trick, obviously charging a battery makes it more efficient but if it's an emergency solution you use once a year that might not matter much. And I assume there's already better integrated solutions for this, because they don't fit in Musk's green sales pitch.
If 400 customers share a 10 Gbps uplink to the backbone, they each need to pay about 0.25% of the cost*. On the other hand, if he were hosting xvides.com over that connection, he'd be using it 10% of the time (averaging 1 Gbps). The 10 Gbps could only handle about 8 such customers, so each would need to pay 12.5% of the cost.
Or use quotas. Quotas are actually okay if they're clearly advertised don't try to trick yon into overage fees. Just set a reasonable quota and just throttle you down to say 10 Mbps afterwards with the option to purchase more at a reasonable cost/TB. I used to do that at my cabin with my cell phone, one or maybe two months a year I'd pay extra and I found that totally fair. Didn't need it all year, never expected unlimited and in proportion to their other subscriptions I got a fair price that was somewhat more expensive those months but cheaper than having it all year.
WTF will it be looking like with consumers torrenting @ 10Gbps? Meh. Not really thought through this article...
Would we download more though, or just faster? A Netflix 4K stream is 25 Mbps, BluRay Video has a max rate of 54 Mbps, UHD BluRay 128 Mbps. I have a 150 Mbps line and apart from occasionally downloading a season and figuring out it's junk after a few episodes I use the bandwidth regardless. The only advantage is that huge game patches and such download quicker so I don't get stuck just because Steam wants to install a 2GB patch right when I want to play. Even a big family streaming half a dozen UHD monsters shouldn't be able to saturate a 1 Gbps link.
His huge downloads are probably hogging the whole bandwidth because of poor QoS, so 10 Gbps solves the problem with brute excess capacity. Either that or he ran into some kind of soft limiter because 30000*10GB = 300TB a year is way, way outside the norm but they let it pass if you pay the 10 Gbps price. And if the software was a little smarter at caching 30000 images / 2000 working hours = average 4 minutes/photo, download takes about 10 seconds so if it would preload he wouldn't be waiting at all. I'm sure he can well afford the extra $3k/year to just make the problem go away though.
Really, they are only strictly interpreting the text of the law as written - legislating from the bench is against the separation of powers defined in the Constitution. What needs to happen now is an updated law to clarify this to the original intent (and hopefully grant amnesty to anyone wrongly covered). Doubtful that will ever happen, but that's what should happen.
I'm not sure what needs to be clarified, a repeat offender seems like a common and trivial concept that the District Court completely messed up by tying it to a particular action. The entire point of using the word repeated is to punish a consistent pattern of behavior, it applies to everything from shoplifters to serial killers. Why should downloaders be an exception? For that matter, why should uploaders be singled out in particular? If I screw up and put something in my shared folder that I shouldn't have it's still one bad act from me. That does not make me a repeat infringer even if I shared a hundred songs and a thousand people took the opportunity to download from me. It just means I screwed up big, once. Same way getting into one fight and hurting four people is not the same as getting into four separate fights and hurting someone each time. The former is still an isolated incident, the latter a repeating pattern.
One that doesn't want to see his own country nuked. That's the thing about an arms race you see. It's compulsory. The peace loving hippy gets his stuff taken away by the guys with the guns. Every time.
An arms balance is necessary, an arms race implies an out of control positive feedback loop. It might be because one side genuinely wants to be the agressor or both sides are confusing shows of strength and willingness to defend themselves with escalating aggression, but mostly it's because we don't want to be vulnerable. But the less you can be harmed, the more everyone else is at your mercy. And they don't want to be vulnerable either, so they want better weapons so they can hurt you too. Disarmament is taking down this stress level, we won't point big guns at you if you don't point big guns at us. But with nukes and MAD both sides want to hold that "FUCK YOU TOO" card, just in case it's a deception.
Not to mention there was no traffic on the road that late at night, and more importantly, you don't learn anything scientific from doing this (and afaict, they don't even claim to have learned anything), it's just a publicity stunt. And Uber has been doing a lot of these kinds of publicity stunts lately. My theory is that they are trying to pump up their valuation for an IPO (or another round of funding or whatever).
Well, it's obvious that post-SDC somebody will be operating this huge fleet of self-driving taxi/transport vehicles. At some point it's just about being the most hyped company to get the funding to ride the bubble like say Amazon did. Sure, they lost 96% of their share value in two years when it popped but those who never got on the hype bandwagon mostly lost everything and are nowhere to be found. To be honest I don't really mind a SDC bubble where everyone goes crazy because it will also accelerate change, the dotcom boom/bust might not have been good for investors but the transition from offline to online went pretty snappy.
And there is a large feedlot right next to it, where they collect the piss.
The GTA V beer is spoofing Budweiser's anthem, I wonder why... of course they also say it's German but I think they got it confused with Bismarck, North Dakota or something. They might be responsible for World War I, World War II, blood, sweat, tears and gas chambers but bad beer is simply inhumane.
No. You don't. Because that isn't possible to do. The fact that this guy even said that means he is clueless about mobile. He needs to be replaced.
Ah our resident doofus. If he said he had a PC to replace your phone, obviously he'd be clueless. A phone to replace your PC? Why not, for most people their phone now has way more power than the PC had ten years ago, it just has bigger input/output devices. Microsoft could make a x86 phone with a HDMI/DisplayPort/USB dock (or just an USB-C cable hookup) and it'd make a perfectly satisfactory PC for most people. His problem will be that nobody wants the phone side of it, they want their iApps or Google Play-apps.
I stopped wearing a wristwatch 10+ years ago. It was annoying to wear while using a laptop. There's clock on my phone, computer, car, radio, egg timer.. I don't see the point in carrying extra one on my wrist.
To me it's exactly the opposite, sure there are all these different context-dependent places I could see the time but my watch is always there and I can just glance down 0.2 seconds to see how long do I have to get somewhere or be somewhere or have spent on something or have left of something. I feel it gives me more control over the day than if I don't wear one because the overhead is so small, if I have to pull my phone out of my pocket I don't really do it unless I need to know the time. I put it on in the morning, take it off when I go to bed and it runs years on a battery so that very little "nice-to-have" is balanced by a no-fuzz experience. Don't know how your watch is or how you type but I don't have a problem using a keyboard all day with mine.
Raising babies takes a tremendous amount of infrastructure. An adult human is mostly self-sufficient; babies are not. As somebody said, it really does "take a village" to raise a child.
Reality check: Children have grown up all over the planet for all of history with no infrastructure with poorer parents often raising half a dozen of them. The way we raise western 21st century kids means most parents have enough with a few, but unless they quite literally die they grow up every other way too. The "takes a village" saying is about society's influence, everybody wants to fit in with their peers and prevailing norms, even if that is at odds with your parents.
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What you call insecure is what they call tempted by the devil and their own feelings their inner demons. If you are not tempted by evil, you're not threatened by it. If you are tempted by evil, you do feel threatened by it and as long as you think homosexuals are instruments of evil then homophobia is almost rational in context. If they hear "give in do the dark side" when you say "trust your feelings" you're whispering the devil's words in their ear. That's kinda the basis of the whole religion, we're relentless sinners in thoughts and deeds who are all in need of mercy and forgiveness. They certainly made enough rules to make sure...
Although I don't like the 365-style rental model any more than the "you are the product" one, I think Microsoft could use it to allow people to buy into Enterprise if they didn't want to be tracked.
Nothing prevents Microsoft from making a domain-crippled "Personal LTSB", no Edge, no Cortana, no feature upgrades, ten years of running Windows software with security patches and all the work is basically done anyway. They just don't want to.
Personally, I've never experienced a similar ad, though I use Edge as well as Bing Rewards, meaning there's no need for such an ad to appear.
Mark Hachman (more like HACKman if you ask me), stop being a Microsoft shill, you're embarassing yourself.
He might be a shill, but I don't see anything unreasonable about that sentence if you're reporting on something you haven't experienced yourself. Like "I've never had overheating problems, but I live in Alaska", unless you think simply using Microsoft products and services make you a shill.
Also, when are they going to run the experiment on programmers?
I think the effect is entirely dependent on your motivation for it in the first place. Being reminded of your mortality usually leads to a short time desire to live in the moment and a long term desire to leave a legacy. If this is a dead end job your doing for the paycheck, you're demotivated. If you're an athlete and can choose between being the 100th best that nobody remembers or being the world champion it's a huge motivation boost. The opportunity is here and now and just commit to it completely, don't hedge your bets and do it half-assed. It's perhaps also in a way bad advice but life is what passes you by and if you never went a little crazy you'll still end up in the retirement home only with fewer stories to tell.
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GAH!!!! Another typo - "way PAST time" not "pas" time
I also made an "its" instead of "it's" typo. Not my finest hour.
Don't worry, go join a game company. They're all in the "ship this steaming pile now, we'll patch it later" mode. I kinda like the discipline, you get it right the first time or you look the fool except here it doesn't really matter. Maybe I should send some of my fellow developers to take a /. class before I let them push code to production, maybe they'd get better at QA. Or not, you've been here longer than me...
Market up 6%, iPhone down 5.2% = same people buying iPhones. Bottom of the market is swapping out really cheap dumbphones with almost as cheap Android "smartphones", but usually all the smart bits are very poor. A quick check at my local price check shows the cheapest Android phones sell for 1/5th of the price of the cheapest iPhone. It's like the market for $100,000 cars vs $20,000 cars, no wonder new buyers are in the $20k market. By itself that's no reason Apple should worry, Android got the volume and Apple the big spenders.
...to refuel the Spaceship? If that's already the case, why not send up an empty Spaceship, refuel it robotically with Tankers, *then* send up the passengers? It's only one extra trip out of an already envisioned ~3-5 trips that his keynote talked about anyway.
This isn't about the interplanetary rocket on the drawing board, but about how SpaceX fuels all their rockets. They now use super-cooled fuel for maximum thrust, basically once fueled it either has to take off or be de-fueled again quite soon, it can't wait for long. So either the astronauts have to either be on board, arrive from a bunker real quick and get themselves strapped in or SpaceX will have to modify their launch method. And the latter is really unlikely in general for cargo/satellite launches, so it'd be a manned-only setting and less tested.
They'd still have the launch abort system that could hopefully get them out of harm's way just like a mid-launch problem, but sure in an ideal world it's best not to be around things that can go boom. But principally a construction site would be much safer without construction workers too, the only way to be really sure humans aren't hurt is to not send humans at all. It's a question of acceptable and necessary risk, but sometimes we do give up safety for progress. Lots of people have hurt themselves badly with chain saws, few have done the same with a hand saw. Still not going back for safety's sake.
There's a saying that the first 90% of the project take the first 90% of the time, then the last 10% take the other 90% of the time.
Optimist. 90% of remaining project will take 90% of budgeted time/money. Learn to live with imperfection.
The point was that "first 90%" and "other 90%" add up to 180%, that is to say when you say you're almost done you're actually nowhere close to being really done. Not sure what you're saying, if I can really get 90% of the project done with 90% of the time/money isn't the estimation spot on?
People who READ the GPL can figure it out. Those who INTERPRET it to suit their own agenda get it wrong (...) If you publish a program that incorporates GPL (not LGPL) source
Actually I'd say it is a mess, not because of the GPL but the way software works. Any time you make a function, you make an interface. Any time you have an interface, you can have multiple implementations that don't really derivate from each other. Principally there's no difference between the Linux kernel's user API, module API and internal API. It's just ways for code to call other code. Or an application and plug-ins. Or a command line tool and a GUI. Or a service and its administration tool. What about interpreted languages, web services, JVMs and so on if you call it, you incorporate it?
They try to exclude some bits:
However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
What if you're making a set top box, could you distribute an open source tool on a proprietary OS if they accompany each other?
The FSF is admitting this is a bit wobbly:
Where's the line between two separate programs, and one program with two parts? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges will decide. We believe that a proper criterion depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics of the communication (what kinds of information are interchanged).
If the program dynamically links plug-ins, but the communication between them is limited to invoking the âmainâ(TM) function of the plug-in with some options and waiting for it to return, that is a borderline case.
And these questions presume the plug-in knows what's on the other side of the interface.
Can I apply the GPL when writing a plug-in for a non-free program?
Can I release a non-free program that's designed to load a GPL-covered plug-in?
What if it's a standard? Say for the sake of argument both Photoshop and GIMP had a common tool plug-in. Could you legally write GPL plug-ins for it? Proprietary plug-ins? Could they live together on a CD?
A modern service bus or something like that really makes a mess of the simple compiled/linked world of the GPL.
I don't think many people in the US are pro-establishment right now; even those who are voting for Clinton dislike that aspect of her.
When it comes to the final election it seems to be almost every aspect is irrelevant. If they made it through the primaries the two reasons for voting are (D) and (R), they could make Nixon and Bozo the clown the candidates and people would vote for them. Oh wait, they did... And to be honest, I hope the clown wins because he'll have the most problems convincing Congress to play along so despite the entertainment I doubt he'll be able to do too much damage as commander-in-chief. And it'd give Bernie or someone else the chance to try again in four more years, if Clinton wins now she'll almost automatically be the candidate next time too. At least the first female President will be good for equality, otherwise I don't see much positive about it.
On one hand one should not count the sunk cost when thinking of what is the best strategy to go forward, but on the other hand one should remember that in a complex project things often seem very broken just before they are fixed and it is very hard to say from outside how close to being fixed things are.
The real problem is often that the revised estimate is just as much bullshit as the original estimate. There's a saying that the first 90% of the project take the first 90% of the time, then the last 10% take the other 90% of the time. So you approve a $100M project, $60M is sunk but the revised estimate is now $130M. Well -30 is better than -60 to scrap and write it off. But when you get to 100 million the estimate is 150, when you get to 130 it's 170 and the project finally lands at 180. Guess what you've now been throwing so much good money after bad that you've lost more than if you'd just stopped the project in the first place but the deeper you go the deeper you're committed to keep pouring money into it.
I see that when you write code too, you start with like 0.1 pre-alpha and you breeze through versions until like 0.7-0.8 and then it's like all those little things here and there and documentation and testing and refactoring and UI and config settings and kinda unclear points you skipped because you did the work that obvious how you'd do it and you realize damn there's actually a lot of work even though it was mostly working and so 0.9 and 0.95 and the version just before the big 1.0 is like 0.99d or something. It's extremely rare that version 0.8 is actually 80% done.
Yes, occassionally there is that eureka moment where all the parts of the puzzle suddenly starts working together but more often it's "I'm sure the finish line is just over the next hill, I just know it. I just need a little bit more time to work this out". I really do make an effort to give estimates where I can, but sometimes it really also is so that I don't know what the solution will be until I've found it. Double that when they want estimates on how long it'll take me to find and fix a problem when really I got no idea where it is, what the scope is and how ugly it'd be change and the estimates won't get better by pestering me with them.
They likely have home insurance and will be reimbursed. If anyone has a right to sue Amazon it will be the insurance company, to reclaim the money they paid out to the homeowners.
Well, if someone torched the place I'd hopefully get the apartment value from the insurance company, but the tort for setting it on fire with me in it as well as heirlooms, memorabilia and other items of personal importance seem worth suing over. It all depends on the degree of culpability, not saying they're going to win but it's not a slam dunk dismissal.
And where will this type of thing end? What level crimes will justify such privacy invasions? To me, this just sounds a lot like spam.
Well you can tell it's a last ditch attempt by the fact that he was killed in December last year and they're doing this now. If it's more than two weeks ago I'm pretty much down to checking calendars to see if I had any particular appointment or event that makes the day stand out, otherwise most Mondays are Garfield days, Tuesday to Thursday just another work day, Friday is TGIF, Saturday may or may not be memorable and Sunday mostly chilling. If you ask me what I did Tuesday three weeks ago I might easily mix it up with four weeks ago or Wednesday or just draw a blank. And I know I don't have the worst memory, the signal to noise ratio will be atrocious.
If you're against the police sending out texts looking for witnesses, then logically you should be against door to door rounds too because not answering is not answering and possibly implying you have your reasons. What you're saying is really that the police should just post notices and wait for witnesses to call them, if nobody answers don't push it. That sounds extremely passive and lazy like they're not taking the investigation seriously, if you ask me. Particularly because in many cases the perps are initially witnesses that can't totally deny being around but whose cover story doesn't quite add up. Finding them and make them either lie or clam up and take the 5th is an important part of any investigation.
That said, this is so bloody close to useless that I wouldn't do it. But if you say within a week of the murder got a text saying:
"We are investigating the murder of Frederick John Hatch and cell phone records show you may have been in the general area. This broadcast does not imply you are a witness or suspect and offering any information is voluntary. The body was found just before 6:45 a.m. ET on Dec. 17, 2015. It was located east of 10th Line off Wellington Road 124, just north of Erin. He was last seen in Ottawa the day before, at about 1 p.m., inside a Dollar Tree discount store near West Hunt Club and Merivale roads. It is possible the victim may have hitchhiked. When he died he was wearing a denim vest with Disney characters on the back, a black leather jacket, a blue and white bandana, glasses and black Harley Davidson boots. He was carrying a red duffel bag. If you have seen this person, been nearby or traveled this route at the time or have any other information that might be relevant to the case, please contact your nearest police department."
I would be pretty cool with that, actually. The "slippery slope" would be limited by that the more you use it the response rate and quality of responses will go down. That they don't rule out contacting those who don't respond is just posturing, it'd be a huge waste of resources. It'd basically be a 21st century version of posters and flyers.
You sound like the engineering version of the salesman that says "Well I've sold this feature to the client, so you make it work" regardless of how hard it does everybody else's job. Marketing will have a harder time trying to sell new features, accounting might find they can't charge as much of a premium so margins are shit, but the system designer has decided there's "no way in hell" we're replacing that CPU/GPU. Maybe if it's capacitors on a board but when it comes to headline features I expect those choices are made a couple pay grades above the system designer. Obviously you need to inform them what it'll cost in time, resources and risk and to push back when they make unreasonable demands for changes - like do we all - but I doubt it's really "that simple". Anyone who doesn't see that the interests have to be balanced probably won't be employed very long, at least not in a position where they get to decide anything.
Helium? Explosion - it is a nobel gas? I guess they mean structural failure causing a cascade of other problems.
It's not the helium exploding, no. The helium is in a high pressure container inside the liquid oxygen (LOX) tank and is supposed to be released slowly during launch to push the LOX out. If it bursts, the LOX tank can't take the pressure from both a full tank of LOX and the helium at once and will burst too. Once that happens, one spark and the LOX will burn and expand like crazy and once the kerosene (RP-1) tank is compromised it'll just be a giant ball of fire. If these helium tanks weren't super-compressed you'd need helium tanks the size of the fuel tanks which is obviously not very practical. But that also means these vessels contain extreme forces that are on the very border of what material science can offer us so it won't explode but you could absolutely call it explosive decompression.
My math says 14 kWh * 365 cycles = 5110 kWh and $5000 / 9 years / 5110 kWh works out to $0.11/kWh. That however assumes it has a source that can fill it up every day and you use it completely every day. With solar that is unlikely as in the summer the main consumer is AC which correlates well with when the sun is up and you'll probably not use 14 kWh every evening. In the winter when it's dark and cold and snowing can you still get 14 kWh? Unlikely.
If you try for mixing with online power to increase utilization you must decide how much to charge at night before you know how much solar you'll get during the day so it's full by evening. That sounds like a micromanagement nightmare based on tomorrow's sunrise/sunset/weather forecast. If you're doing it purely for the arbitrage you're competing against a power company that could just as easily store it on their end and raise prices or if demand by night goes up because of people like you, so I doubt you'll ever win.
If you're doing it to give your house a giant UPS and using the differential to offset much of the cost that might be useful. That said its usefulness will then depend on the depletion when power fails, if the power fails exactly when you're down to 0% and starting the night's charge cycle it's worth nothing. And it's likely to be in times of hard use like a strong winter cold you really need that backup. If you want the full 14 kWh to always be available in reserve you can't really use it at all but you can pick anywhere between.
You could put it in line with a diesel generator, so it's doing work while on "standby" and the lower the charge, the quicker you start the generator. But then it becomes a question of how often and how much and won't just the generator do the trick, obviously charging a battery makes it more efficient but if it's an emergency solution you use once a year that might not matter much. And I assume there's already better integrated solutions for this, because they don't fit in Musk's green sales pitch.
If 400 customers share a 10 Gbps uplink to the backbone, they each need to pay about 0.25% of the cost*. On the other hand, if he were hosting xvides.com over that connection, he'd be using it 10% of the time (averaging 1 Gbps). The 10 Gbps could only handle about 8 such customers, so each would need to pay 12.5% of the cost.
Or use quotas. Quotas are actually okay if they're clearly advertised don't try to trick yon into overage fees. Just set a reasonable quota and just throttle you down to say 10 Mbps afterwards with the option to purchase more at a reasonable cost/TB. I used to do that at my cabin with my cell phone, one or maybe two months a year I'd pay extra and I found that totally fair. Didn't need it all year, never expected unlimited and in proportion to their other subscriptions I got a fair price that was somewhat more expensive those months but cheaper than having it all year.
WTF will it be looking like with consumers torrenting @ 10Gbps? Meh. Not really thought through this article...
Would we download more though, or just faster? A Netflix 4K stream is 25 Mbps, BluRay Video has a max rate of 54 Mbps, UHD BluRay 128 Mbps. I have a 150 Mbps line and apart from occasionally downloading a season and figuring out it's junk after a few episodes I use the bandwidth regardless. The only advantage is that huge game patches and such download quicker so I don't get stuck just because Steam wants to install a 2GB patch right when I want to play. Even a big family streaming half a dozen UHD monsters shouldn't be able to saturate a 1 Gbps link.
His huge downloads are probably hogging the whole bandwidth because of poor QoS, so 10 Gbps solves the problem with brute excess capacity. Either that or he ran into some kind of soft limiter because 30000*10GB = 300TB a year is way, way outside the norm but they let it pass if you pay the 10 Gbps price. And if the software was a little smarter at caching 30000 images / 2000 working hours = average 4 minutes/photo, download takes about 10 seconds so if it would preload he wouldn't be waiting at all. I'm sure he can well afford the extra $3k/year to just make the problem go away though.
Really, they are only strictly interpreting the text of the law as written - legislating from the bench is against the separation of powers defined in the Constitution. What needs to happen now is an updated law to clarify this to the original intent (and hopefully grant amnesty to anyone wrongly covered). Doubtful that will ever happen, but that's what should happen.
I'm not sure what needs to be clarified, a repeat offender seems like a common and trivial concept that the District Court completely messed up by tying it to a particular action. The entire point of using the word repeated is to punish a consistent pattern of behavior, it applies to everything from shoplifters to serial killers. Why should downloaders be an exception? For that matter, why should uploaders be singled out in particular? If I screw up and put something in my shared folder that I shouldn't have it's still one bad act from me. That does not make me a repeat infringer even if I shared a hundred songs and a thousand people took the opportunity to download from me. It just means I screwed up big, once. Same way getting into one fight and hurting four people is not the same as getting into four separate fights and hurting someone each time. The former is still an isolated incident, the latter a repeating pattern.
One that doesn't want to see his own country nuked. That's the thing about an arms race you see. It's compulsory. The peace loving hippy gets his stuff taken away by the guys with the guns. Every time.
An arms balance is necessary, an arms race implies an out of control positive feedback loop. It might be because one side genuinely wants to be the agressor or both sides are confusing shows of strength and willingness to defend themselves with escalating aggression, but mostly it's because we don't want to be vulnerable. But the less you can be harmed, the more everyone else is at your mercy. And they don't want to be vulnerable either, so they want better weapons so they can hurt you too. Disarmament is taking down this stress level, we won't point big guns at you if you don't point big guns at us. But with nukes and MAD both sides want to hold that "FUCK YOU TOO" card, just in case it's a deception.
Not to mention there was no traffic on the road that late at night, and more importantly, you don't learn anything scientific from doing this (and afaict, they don't even claim to have learned anything), it's just a publicity stunt. And Uber has been doing a lot of these kinds of publicity stunts lately. My theory is that they are trying to pump up their valuation for an IPO (or another round of funding or whatever).
Well, it's obvious that post-SDC somebody will be operating this huge fleet of self-driving taxi/transport vehicles. At some point it's just about being the most hyped company to get the funding to ride the bubble like say Amazon did. Sure, they lost 96% of their share value in two years when it popped but those who never got on the hype bandwagon mostly lost everything and are nowhere to be found. To be honest I don't really mind a SDC bubble where everyone goes crazy because it will also accelerate change, the dotcom boom/bust might not have been good for investors but the transition from offline to online went pretty snappy.
And there is a large feedlot right next to it, where they collect the piss.
The GTA V beer is spoofing Budweiser's anthem, I wonder why... of course they also say it's German but I think they got it confused with Bismarck, North Dakota or something. They might be responsible for World War I, World War II, blood, sweat, tears and gas chambers but bad beer is simply inhumane.
No. You don't. Because that isn't possible to do. The fact that this guy even said that means he is clueless about mobile. He needs to be replaced.
Ah our resident doofus. If he said he had a PC to replace your phone, obviously he'd be clueless. A phone to replace your PC? Why not, for most people their phone now has way more power than the PC had ten years ago, it just has bigger input/output devices. Microsoft could make a x86 phone with a HDMI/DisplayPort/USB dock (or just an USB-C cable hookup) and it'd make a perfectly satisfactory PC for most people. His problem will be that nobody wants the phone side of it, they want their iApps or Google Play-apps.
I stopped wearing a wristwatch 10+ years ago. It was annoying to wear while using a laptop. There's clock on my phone, computer, car, radio, egg timer.. I don't see the point in carrying extra one on my wrist.
To me it's exactly the opposite, sure there are all these different context-dependent places I could see the time but my watch is always there and I can just glance down 0.2 seconds to see how long do I have to get somewhere or be somewhere or have spent on something or have left of something. I feel it gives me more control over the day than if I don't wear one because the overhead is so small, if I have to pull my phone out of my pocket I don't really do it unless I need to know the time. I put it on in the morning, take it off when I go to bed and it runs years on a battery so that very little "nice-to-have" is balanced by a no-fuzz experience. Don't know how your watch is or how you type but I don't have a problem using a keyboard all day with mine.
Raising babies takes a tremendous amount of infrastructure. An adult human is mostly self-sufficient; babies are not. As somebody said, it really does "take a village" to raise a child.
Reality check: Children have grown up all over the planet for all of history with no infrastructure with poorer parents often raising half a dozen of them. The way we raise western 21st century kids means most parents have enough with a few, but unless they quite literally die they grow up every other way too. The "takes a village" saying is about society's influence, everybody wants to fit in with their peers and prevailing norms, even if that is at odds with your parents.