How much more are they going to charge you for the film everytime you want to watch a movie? It would be a shame to get a set-up like this and then watch inferior Blu-Rays or DVDs on the thing.
And not to mention when. If you spend $400k on a private theater, I imagine you'll get Prima Cinema for $35k + $500/movie to watch what's in the cinema right now.
- Conveniently forgetting to mention that the competing product is already obsolete (the GTX 1070 launched three weeks ago). - Carefully selecting price points that let them pretend there's no elephant in the room: that AMD lacks a proper response to the 1070 and 1080.
At $379/$449 it's a big step up in price from the $329 the GTX 970 launched at and way, way beyond the $199/$239 that AMD is charging. The GTX 970 now retails for ~$250 so in one sentence you lambast them for comparing to the closest competitor in price and then in the next sentence you complain about not comparing to a card that you yourself admit belongs in a completely different league? You're trolling for team green, comparing this card to the 1070 would be ridiculous. And if you wonder why they don't give hints or spoilers about the GTX 1060, it's because they're under NDA and that's exactly the sort of thing that's supposed to prevent. Until the NDA lifts it doesn't just have unknown price and performance, officially it doesn't exist. It's a review of the RX 480, not all the cards AMD chose not to make. Those who consider buying this card doesn't give a rat's ass about whether AMD has a 1070/1080 competitor or not, it's off-topic.
It goes toe to toe with the GTX970 for $199/239, with the lesser card already having 0.5GB more memory in practice. If the GTX1060 pricing rumors of $249/299 for the 3/6GB version are true, they'll enjoy a substantial time alone at the $200 price point and that $50 difference really matters. They'll move a lot of "boring" value cards, it's maybe not exciting for enthusiasts that want to see them push the envelope, but this looks like the best business move AMD has done in a long time.
I don't think their technology quite competes with Pascal but the leap from their last generation to this is huge, it's around Maxwell 2 class efficiency. Still it's in the realm of performance where I think nVidia will cash in on their advantage rather than try for the killing blow by reducing prices.
A quick glance at the Vigile's submission history shows that every one of his or her post links to pcper.com. Never heard of the site, and definitely not going to check them out now. If you're going to submit posts like this, at least making your conflict of interest be clear.
Well before this it used to be hothardware.com's shill, so at least they're doing some variation.
It's sick that you're using an article about yet another attack where the victims were mostly muslim, as are the vast majority of terror victims worldwide, to go on your bigoted rant about how muslims are guilty of not trying to stop terrorism. They're doing a heck of a lot more than you are about it.
The problem here is thinking the enemy of your enemy is your friend. IS is islamist. Saudi-Arabia is islamist. Erdogan is islamist. Saudi-Arabia fights IS while at the same time funding tons of conservative mosques and hate preachers. Erdogan as been dismantling the secular Turkey ever since he got to power. Just because there are different sects of Islam fighting and killing each other doesn't mean any of them like us or want to help us, their interest in temporary alliances with us is to serve their own sectarian struggle.
And their goals might be more aligned than their means, sure Catholics and Protestants can disagree but they don't stop spreading Christianity and dealing with heretics and apostates. From our point of view the problem shouldn't be one particular sect, it's the same religion in many incarnations causing many problems for many people in many ways. So Westboro Baptist Church is one gay hate group, it doesn't make the catholics and protestants been pro-gay. They're just less bad by comparison, not good.
You needed computers for that? We could find things to waste our time on and avoid learning without the aid of those damn machines.
Yes but those were poor, barely reaching "I'm so bored out of my skull I'll do anything to break the tedium" levels of waste. With an Internet full of cat videos a button away we can waste time far more effectively and effortlessly than before, reaching whole new levels of unlearning.
As for muslims, its simply caused because there is no powerful christian group that radicalizes christians to commit terror attacks. If you take the radicals out, the average muslim is as peace-loving as the average christian or jew.
If you took away the radicals, there'd be no more muslims strapping themselves to a bomb to become martyrs but there's an awful lot of muslims that do support the stoning of gays, adulterers, believers who leave the faith, people who insult the prophet and so on as a matter of law or that support the people who organize and commit terrorism. The last time I did the numbers there was more than 100 million muslims who supported gross violations of human rights and a helluva lot more who I'd call Westboro Baptist Church class bigots.
For example here are over 100000 muslims showing their support for an assassin that murdered a governor trying to reform blasphemy laws. Don't begin to believe that muslims in a majority will act anything like they do in a minority. And I really don't think there's much point in trying to pretend like the organization and religion are two different things, what's the Catholic faith without the Catholic church? They're so tightly intertwined you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. It is the same with Islam.
Yes, I'm saying credit score is a point for consideration in sentencing - not decision of guilt or innocence, but once guilt has been established, credit score tells about a person's history of making good on commitments, and should be a strong predictor of their likelihood of meeting terms of a suspended sentence, probation or parole.
Reminds me of a person I heard about that moved to the US with their partner, had secured a job and income but mortgage? Bzzzt, you got no credit score. Took up all the credit card loans they could find, paid them down a month later, perfect credit score. Doh. I agree that a bad credit score should count against you, no credit score should count as "too smart to pay >10% interest" not "never had any responsbility for paying on time"...
For motorcycles and cars, they covered that it's better to brake than to dodge for any substantial obstacle - if you have the luxury of dodging it, you could have braked to stop hitting it.
You really think coming to a complete stop takes as long as moving 2 meters sideways? The reason they don't ask you to dodge is that usually the alternatives are all bad like head on collisions, hitting something and being spun back on the road, flying off the road, ramming people on sidewalks and so on. For that matter, the kid/animal who ran into the road or the driver that almost fell asleep might also try getting out of the way and you might negate each other's efforts. The time you'd need to properly consider this is much, much better spent slamming the brakes. I might hit the ditch if I was on country roads and about to be rammed head on, but only because it can't get much worse.
It's a small market, certainly, and inroads remain slow. Most high profile game developers, or at least the ones I've previously worked for, never even gave it a second thought. I think that's slowing changing, although certainly not as fast as in the indie scene.
A good question is still: Why? According to Steam's survey 95.42% run Windows, 3.60% Mac and 0.84% Linux - not sure where the last 0.14% went. The number of Linux gamers is not budging, it's the same hardcore 1% that's used it on the desktop for the last decade. Unless Valve starts to get serious about Steam Machines and Linux I really don't see much of a business case...
Remember Norway is more or less an EU member, shares all the benefits and pays in but has no political power in EU. Benefits cost the same whether you are a member or not.
Mostly because politically we were painted in a corner. The politicians were massively in favor of the EU (85% of parliament before the 1993 election, 70% after) but the people refused (52,2% no). Our closest neighbours and trade partners Sweden and Denmark joined, so there was barely anyone else left to trade with and we're not even 1/10th the size of the UK so walking it alone was hopeless. So the politicians made an agreement that formally gave us veto power to everything and in practice none because by then all the EU members had agreed, that way we formally didn't hand over any sovereignty.
The UK is different, people talk as if they must do something. They don't have to be in the EU any more than Canada must join the United States and bend knee to Washington DC. Sure they'll be the little one in the relationship and I'm sure that'll be hard for the "British empire" but they're 61 million people, not 4.3 million as we were back in 1994. Well, maybe less if the UK falls apart but that's still up in the air. In any case, that's enough to stand on their own two feet.
For the UK it's "easy", they make their own rules now. I doubt they'll make up any fuss about getting tourist/work/study visas, permanent residence might get harder though. That is, if you lose your current job or your studies are over you might have to go back to your home country. But they might grant some grandfather clause saying if you're already here you can stay until you choose to move, if ever. If push comes to shove though and she's still your girlfriend in two years, make as much or as little as you will of it but give her a ring.
The other way is far more uncertain, the EU bureaucracy is not going to jump through hoops to help UK citizens in EU countries. They might find themselves at the back of the line with the same requirements as someone from America, Africa or Asia. So I'd be far more worried if you were in an EU country and your girlfriend came from the UK. I suppose there's a chance that if the EU plays hardball the UK will feel a need to respond in kind, but hopefully by then the ruffled feathers will have settled so they can come to some reasonable agreement.
Hi, you know that club I'm in that I pay membership fees for that are used to run the club? Yeah, I'd like to pay less but I'd like to keep all the benefits of being in the club please. Oh and while you're at it, I'd actually like bigger benefits too, thanks. I can't imaging why that went down badly.
Yeah, like the time you asked your boss for a raise and permission to wear headphones to work and he just laughed and said you should be happy with the paycheck you have. Sorry, but there's nothing wrong with a one-sided request/demand when the benefits each country gets is so different and you feel you're getting the short end of the deal. They just didn't expect the UK to pull out and it sounds like some of the exit voters didn't mean what they did either they just wanted to give "the establishment" a big scare. Well maybe you shouldn't vote for something if you don't really mean it then...
Technically from what I've read the vote was advisory, if the politicians don't want to invoke Article 50 they don't have so. Go sell them your idea of supermajorities...
Everything I create is non-tangible intellectual property. All biomedical genetic advances are in the end described by sequences and methods. Completely replicable. And without patents or copyrights they would never ever reach their potential as there would be no money to deliver them to people or companies. Companies would not base product lines around things they can't monetize or would expect to be undercut by an overseas manufacturer. SO they rot in the lab.
Because there's no money in selling medicine, like there's no money in selling groceries right? Most things end up as some form of actual product or service that does have value to people. Yes, we need incentives to make people come up with new ideas but we don't need to let them own them. I'm glad I don't have to pay royalty to the guy who invented the wheel and if you discover the cure for cancer, sorry I don't want to pay you and all your descendants in perpetuity either. It's humanity's knowledge and I'm willing to give you some time limited, exclusive rights as kickback for creating it but it's not yours like a man owns a shirt. Copyright, patents, trademarks yes but ownership no.
The difference is fundamental, if it's my car I can choose when, where and how you get to drive it. I can add a GPS tracker and cameras and microphones (with info signs, so it's not covert) and alcolock and speed clamps and whatnot. If it was Hollywood's movie, they could do the same but it's not, they just got the copyright. They can make copies and sell copies, not dictate where, when and how people watch it or at least they shouldn't. I'm not against intellectual rights, but I'm against intellectual property rights. It's newspeak to create owners and an aura of permanence and right to control that doesn't and shouldn't exist. Particularly when you want to shorten copyright and they talk as if that would be stealing from them.
this is the future and for cars too (...) This would also work for cars and would make electric cars a lot more practical.
There's nothing even remotely practical about a complicated and expensive system to hook up cars to an overhead grid while driving at 50+ mph. Right now they're busy making the cars like the Tesla model 3 but I'm pretty sure that when they get a breather they'll design two forms of trailer range extenders:
a) Huge battery that can do on the road charging b) Generator trailer that can do on the road charging
And since this would be a custom car accessory with a wired connection it could integrate with cameras/sensors on the trailer and trailer parking assist like VW and Ford among others have. Maybe in two versions, one small with just the battery/charger and one as combined cargo trailer since you can't very well have two. And you could either own one or they'll expand the supercharger stations to be rental pick-ups/drop-offs, recharging them for the next customer.
As far as I know, a Tesla tops out at <1 kW constant draw and there's $200 gas generators that can do that. Now I'm sure you'd need a lot more to make it roadworthy and providing DC and getting permission to do live charging but none of that seems like impossible limitations. And once you have that, hook it up to a 100 galleon fuel tank and there's no range limitation. It's probably more cost efficient to buy a gas powered pickup if you'll do that often, but just for making it work at all that seems by far the easiest way.
Why set timelines? Why not use it until it's completely broken?
To plan. Hubble could fail catastrophically tomorrow, tough luck now the money's available for other projects. For now though that's our planned operational costs, the rest for development. And that after that the budget is available for other things. Opportunity is still roaming on Mars after 5 mission extensions, if it actually lasts longer the sunk cost is so high we'll almost certainly extend the mission but we don't plan for everything to last indefinitely. Because that would be silly, that's why.
Pizza and Hamburgers are popular fast food because there's very little actual skill involved in making it. It's bread and cheese and toppings. If your a restaurateur then you want to make food that doesn't need expensive labor so you can maximize profit and have employees that don't need a lot of training. Well trained employees have to be coddled because they've got options. This makes the pizza and hamburger biz ripe for automation.
Somehow, I can't connect the first thing you said to the last. If you have expensive, hard to replace workers that need coddling wouldn't they be the ones ripe for automation, all other things being equal? Robots are really good at three things, mass production, precision and consistency and food processing isn't the first one - then I'm thinking about making a million gadgets to ship in containers. If you just need to get it roughly right and failure is not a big deal - whoops we burned your pizza we'll make you another sorry about the waiting time - then robots really don't have a big edge.
If on the other hand you want to make perfect knife cuts or make a risotto to a Michelin chef's standard that's things you really have to train for. Not too much, not to little, not too brief, not too long, not too hot, not too cold, stir enough, don't stir too much. It seems to me like the kind of task that'd be pretty hard to get right but once you do the robot could nail it every time. I guess a burger or pizza place is a better candidate for full automation though.
I'm not saying this is impossible, but the fact is that a lot of people go to pizzerias because they can easily get special orders, because if you can't, frozen pizzas are less expensive and you don't have to leave home. Say what you will about cardboard and disappointment, but big pizza chains that rely on human help will still do special orders.
Of all the times I've eaten big chain pizza, whether it's with work or friends or family I don't remember anyone ordering a special. At most I seem to remember ordering a half-and-half, extra cheese on the edge, sour cream or salsa dip and such but they're all minor variations where if you've made a robot to handle the 20 pizzas on the menu, you'll easily make the variations too. At most they have a "pick your own toppings" pizza where you essentially make a pizza just from "extra" toppings. Really you can make the interface far more advanced than the demand.
Here in Norway we have this thing called Whopper Labs, a web/app interface for Burger King where you can make your burger exactly like you want it, extra this, hold that, gluten free bread and I'd like a quadruple burger. The video is in Norwegian but it quite visual so you'll understand. It's a fraction of a percent of the sales, most people just want a Whopper Cheese or something like that. But if you're making a robot, it should be pretty trivial to extend it from making a "normal" burger to handle the full selection, assuming you've solved the first part.
I don't think you can really compare frozen pizza with chain pizza, sure they have prefabs and whatnot but I doubt the cheese and ham on a chain pizza has ever been frozen. It's the sort of thing you'd buy vacuum packed but not frozen in the store and with the turnaround chains have they have no problem keeping the supply fresh. And they have proper pizza ovens and all that, what you get heating a frozen pizza isn't exactly the same. So if you could manage to scale it down, I certainly think automated chain quality pizza has a big market.
But of course, because bespoke pizzas are easier to make when the maker can/adapt/, unlike a machine, which must be retooled.
The big industrial robots we've had now for many decades are like that. But there's been a ton of research into making robots more flexible and generic. It's not going to be like one "Eureka" moment, but many baby steps. They don't blindly do things, they have computer vision. They don't have one custom designed grip that can do one custom designed motion. The problem is the speed goes way down and cost also goes way up, until replacing a minimum wage worker seems like a bad idea. But it's constantly improving so just because it doesn't happen today maybe it will in 5, 10 or 20 years.
What are you talking about? It's a human masterpiece they'll remember long after Shakespeare is forgotten. There is no way any machine could ever produce an ending of such exquisite subtlety and elegance.
The problem is that you think of this from the point of view of a western government that plays fair, requires evidence and respects the rule of law (okay, you can stop laughing now). It's not that you can't get PGP and whatnot in Russia. It's that they'll bend the market so most people use services that cooperate with the government. Like Putin wants people to use vk.com instead of Facebook and China wants people to use Baidu instead of Google. And if you can't get them to use a local service, they'll blackmail foreign companies like Blackberry to either comply or lose business or in the worst case get blocked and banished.
When they get 90% to use "their" service, they'll just label the rest as criminals and subversive elements and snuff it out. Or just put anyone using services they can't touch on a watch/shitlist so they can be given the rubber glove treatment. And if you go over people with a fine tooth comb you can usually find something they do that's illegal. Not that they're above planting evidence or framing anyone if that's what it takes. And if someone's really subversive and covert, well they're probably not making enough noise to rally anyone for support. The government doesn't expect 100% loyalty, they just want to find dissent fast enough that it doesn't spread. As long as they can nip it in the bud, they're safe.
Almost certainly yes, it's a cache of the streaming service and they'll most likely set a timeout no longer than they got rights for. This will not make the service better in any way if you got plenty bandwidth, it'll just let you take movies and series on the road or to your cabin in the middle of nowhere. Like you could bring your disc, if you still used discs. Nothing more, nothing less.
Tor can only protect you if your machine can't be made to report back information about it. It doesn't help you very much to have an anonymous end point if the server on the other end can simply ask your browser to fetch the actual IP address of your host and other information about it. Javascript allows calls like that to make your browser turn over that information.
No it doesn't. If you use a proxy there's no supported way to get your real IP via Javascript. But Javascript is a huge scripting engine, it has a much bigger exploit potential than a rendering engine. That happens too, I think a while back there was a bug in a font handling library but much less often.
Elected representatives. I'm not an expert in all the jobs a government does, so I prefer to elect people who I think will be good at those tasks. Elections are basically collective job interviews.
The job interview is fine, but after they're hired they don't answer to their "boss" for 4-5 years and then the only issue you get to decide is whether you'd like to rehire them for another term. I realize you need people to work out proposals to be voted on, but many of the issues comes down to opinion as you can tell because the parties are divided too. We can get the brief run-down of pros and cons and usually quite quickly say for ourselves if we're for, against or undecided.
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How much more are they going to charge you for the film everytime you want to watch a movie? It would be a shame to get a set-up like this and then watch inferior Blu-Rays or DVDs on the thing.
And not to mention when. If you spend $400k on a private theater, I imagine you'll get Prima Cinema for $35k + $500/movie to watch what's in the cinema right now.
- Conveniently forgetting to mention that the competing product is already obsolete (the GTX 1070 launched three weeks ago).
- Carefully selecting price points that let them pretend there's no elephant in the room: that AMD lacks a proper response to the 1070 and 1080.
At $379/$449 it's a big step up in price from the $329 the GTX 970 launched at and way, way beyond the $199/$239 that AMD is charging. The GTX 970 now retails for ~$250 so in one sentence you lambast them for comparing to the closest competitor in price and then in the next sentence you complain about not comparing to a card that you yourself admit belongs in a completely different league? You're trolling for team green, comparing this card to the 1070 would be ridiculous. And if you wonder why they don't give hints or spoilers about the GTX 1060, it's because they're under NDA and that's exactly the sort of thing that's supposed to prevent. Until the NDA lifts it doesn't just have unknown price and performance, officially it doesn't exist. It's a review of the RX 480, not all the cards AMD chose not to make. Those who consider buying this card doesn't give a rat's ass about whether AMD has a 1070/1080 competitor or not, it's off-topic.
It goes toe to toe with the GTX970 for $199/239, with the lesser card already having 0.5GB more memory in practice. If the GTX1060 pricing rumors of $249/299 for the 3/6GB version are true, they'll enjoy a substantial time alone at the $200 price point and that $50 difference really matters. They'll move a lot of "boring" value cards, it's maybe not exciting for enthusiasts that want to see them push the envelope, but this looks like the best business move AMD has done in a long time.
I don't think their technology quite competes with Pascal but the leap from their last generation to this is huge, it's around Maxwell 2 class efficiency. Still it's in the realm of performance where I think nVidia will cash in on their advantage rather than try for the killing blow by reducing prices.
A quick glance at the Vigile's submission history shows that every one of his or her post links to pcper.com. Never heard of the site, and definitely not going to check them out now. If you're going to submit posts like this, at least making your conflict of interest be clear.
Well before this it used to be hothardware.com's shill, so at least they're doing some variation.
It's sick that you're using an article about yet another attack where the victims were mostly muslim, as are the vast majority of terror victims worldwide, to go on your bigoted rant about how muslims are guilty of not trying to stop terrorism. They're doing a heck of a lot more than you are about it.
The problem here is thinking the enemy of your enemy is your friend. IS is islamist. Saudi-Arabia is islamist. Erdogan is islamist. Saudi-Arabia fights IS while at the same time funding tons of conservative mosques and hate preachers. Erdogan as been dismantling the secular Turkey ever since he got to power. Just because there are different sects of Islam fighting and killing each other doesn't mean any of them like us or want to help us, their interest in temporary alliances with us is to serve their own sectarian struggle.
And their goals might be more aligned than their means, sure Catholics and Protestants can disagree but they don't stop spreading Christianity and dealing with heretics and apostates. From our point of view the problem shouldn't be one particular sect, it's the same religion in many incarnations causing many problems for many people in many ways. So Westboro Baptist Church is one gay hate group, it doesn't make the catholics and protestants been pro-gay. They're just less bad by comparison, not good.
You needed computers for that? We could find things to waste our time on and avoid learning without the aid of those damn machines.
Yes but those were poor, barely reaching "I'm so bored out of my skull I'll do anything to break the tedium" levels of waste. With an Internet full of cat videos a button away we can waste time far more effectively and effortlessly than before, reaching whole new levels of unlearning.
As for muslims, its simply caused because there is no powerful christian group that radicalizes christians to commit terror attacks. If you take the radicals out, the average muslim is as peace-loving as the average christian or jew.
If you took away the radicals, there'd be no more muslims strapping themselves to a bomb to become martyrs but there's an awful lot of muslims that do support the stoning of gays, adulterers, believers who leave the faith, people who insult the prophet and so on as a matter of law or that support the people who organize and commit terrorism. The last time I did the numbers there was more than 100 million muslims who supported gross violations of human rights and a helluva lot more who I'd call Westboro Baptist Church class bigots.
For example here are over 100000 muslims showing their support for an assassin that murdered a governor trying to reform blasphemy laws. Don't begin to believe that muslims in a majority will act anything like they do in a minority. And I really don't think there's much point in trying to pretend like the organization and religion are two different things, what's the Catholic faith without the Catholic church? They're so tightly intertwined you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. It is the same with Islam.
Yes, I'm saying credit score is a point for consideration in sentencing - not decision of guilt or innocence, but once guilt has been established, credit score tells about a person's history of making good on commitments, and should be a strong predictor of their likelihood of meeting terms of a suspended sentence, probation or parole.
Reminds me of a person I heard about that moved to the US with their partner, had secured a job and income but mortgage? Bzzzt, you got no credit score. Took up all the credit card loans they could find, paid them down a month later, perfect credit score. Doh. I agree that a bad credit score should count against you, no credit score should count as "too smart to pay >10% interest" not "never had any responsbility for paying on time"...
For motorcycles and cars, they covered that it's better to brake than to dodge for any substantial obstacle - if you have the luxury of dodging it, you could have braked to stop hitting it.
You really think coming to a complete stop takes as long as moving 2 meters sideways? The reason they don't ask you to dodge is that usually the alternatives are all bad like head on collisions, hitting something and being spun back on the road, flying off the road, ramming people on sidewalks and so on. For that matter, the kid/animal who ran into the road or the driver that almost fell asleep might also try getting out of the way and you might negate each other's efforts. The time you'd need to properly consider this is much, much better spent slamming the brakes. I might hit the ditch if I was on country roads and about to be rammed head on, but only because it can't get much worse.
It's a small market, certainly, and inroads remain slow. Most high profile game developers, or at least the ones I've previously worked for, never even gave it a second thought. I think that's slowing changing, although certainly not as fast as in the indie scene.
A good question is still: Why? According to Steam's survey 95.42% run Windows, 3.60% Mac and 0.84% Linux - not sure where the last 0.14% went. The number of Linux gamers is not budging, it's the same hardcore 1% that's used it on the desktop for the last decade. Unless Valve starts to get serious about Steam Machines and Linux I really don't see much of a business case...
Remember Norway is more or less an EU member, shares all the benefits and pays in but has no political power in EU. Benefits cost the same whether you are a member or not.
Mostly because politically we were painted in a corner. The politicians were massively in favor of the EU (85% of parliament before the 1993 election, 70% after) but the people refused (52,2% no). Our closest neighbours and trade partners Sweden and Denmark joined, so there was barely anyone else left to trade with and we're not even 1/10th the size of the UK so walking it alone was hopeless. So the politicians made an agreement that formally gave us veto power to everything and in practice none because by then all the EU members had agreed, that way we formally didn't hand over any sovereignty.
The UK is different, people talk as if they must do something. They don't have to be in the EU any more than Canada must join the United States and bend knee to Washington DC. Sure they'll be the little one in the relationship and I'm sure that'll be hard for the "British empire" but they're 61 million people, not 4.3 million as we were back in 1994. Well, maybe less if the UK falls apart but that's still up in the air. In any case, that's enough to stand on their own two feet.
For the UK it's "easy", they make their own rules now. I doubt they'll make up any fuss about getting tourist/work/study visas, permanent residence might get harder though. That is, if you lose your current job or your studies are over you might have to go back to your home country. But they might grant some grandfather clause saying if you're already here you can stay until you choose to move, if ever. If push comes to shove though and she's still your girlfriend in two years, make as much or as little as you will of it but give her a ring.
The other way is far more uncertain, the EU bureaucracy is not going to jump through hoops to help UK citizens in EU countries. They might find themselves at the back of the line with the same requirements as someone from America, Africa or Asia. So I'd be far more worried if you were in an EU country and your girlfriend came from the UK. I suppose there's a chance that if the EU plays hardball the UK will feel a need to respond in kind, but hopefully by then the ruffled feathers will have settled so they can come to some reasonable agreement.
Hi, you know that club I'm in that I pay membership fees for that are used to run the club? Yeah, I'd like to pay less but I'd like to keep all the benefits of being in the club please. Oh and while you're at it, I'd actually like bigger benefits too, thanks. I can't imaging why that went down badly.
Yeah, like the time you asked your boss for a raise and permission to wear headphones to work and he just laughed and said you should be happy with the paycheck you have. Sorry, but there's nothing wrong with a one-sided request/demand when the benefits each country gets is so different and you feel you're getting the short end of the deal. They just didn't expect the UK to pull out and it sounds like some of the exit voters didn't mean what they did either they just wanted to give "the establishment" a big scare. Well maybe you shouldn't vote for something if you don't really mean it then...
Well, you wouldn't want the wrong lizard in office...
Technically from what I've read the vote was advisory, if the politicians don't want to invoke Article 50 they don't have so. Go sell them your idea of supermajorities...
Everything I create is non-tangible intellectual property. All biomedical genetic advances are in the end described by sequences and methods. Completely replicable. And without patents or copyrights they would never ever reach their potential as there would be no money to deliver them to people or companies. Companies would not base product lines around things they can't monetize or would expect to be undercut by an overseas manufacturer. SO they rot in the lab.
Because there's no money in selling medicine, like there's no money in selling groceries right? Most things end up as some form of actual product or service that does have value to people. Yes, we need incentives to make people come up with new ideas but we don't need to let them own them. I'm glad I don't have to pay royalty to the guy who invented the wheel and if you discover the cure for cancer, sorry I don't want to pay you and all your descendants in perpetuity either. It's humanity's knowledge and I'm willing to give you some time limited, exclusive rights as kickback for creating it but it's not yours like a man owns a shirt. Copyright, patents, trademarks yes but ownership no.
The difference is fundamental, if it's my car I can choose when, where and how you get to drive it. I can add a GPS tracker and cameras and microphones (with info signs, so it's not covert) and alcolock and speed clamps and whatnot. If it was Hollywood's movie, they could do the same but it's not, they just got the copyright. They can make copies and sell copies, not dictate where, when and how people watch it or at least they shouldn't. I'm not against intellectual rights, but I'm against intellectual property rights. It's newspeak to create owners and an aura of permanence and right to control that doesn't and shouldn't exist. Particularly when you want to shorten copyright and they talk as if that would be stealing from them.
this is the future and for cars too (...) This would also work for cars and would make electric cars a lot more practical.
There's nothing even remotely practical about a complicated and expensive system to hook up cars to an overhead grid while driving at 50+ mph. Right now they're busy making the cars like the Tesla model 3 but I'm pretty sure that when they get a breather they'll design two forms of trailer range extenders:
a) Huge battery that can do on the road charging
b) Generator trailer that can do on the road charging
And since this would be a custom car accessory with a wired connection it could integrate with cameras/sensors on the trailer and trailer parking assist like VW and Ford among others have. Maybe in two versions, one small with just the battery/charger and one as combined cargo trailer since you can't very well have two. And you could either own one or they'll expand the supercharger stations to be rental pick-ups/drop-offs, recharging them for the next customer.
As far as I know, a Tesla tops out at <1 kW constant draw and there's $200 gas generators that can do that. Now I'm sure you'd need a lot more to make it roadworthy and providing DC and getting permission to do live charging but none of that seems like impossible limitations. And once you have that, hook it up to a 100 galleon fuel tank and there's no range limitation. It's probably more cost efficient to buy a gas powered pickup if you'll do that often, but just for making it work at all that seems by far the easiest way.
Why set timelines? Why not use it until it's completely broken?
To plan. Hubble could fail catastrophically tomorrow, tough luck now the money's available for other projects. For now though that's our planned operational costs, the rest for development. And that after that the budget is available for other things. Opportunity is still roaming on Mars after 5 mission extensions, if it actually lasts longer the sunk cost is so high we'll almost certainly extend the mission but we don't plan for everything to last indefinitely. Because that would be silly, that's why.
Pizza and Hamburgers are popular fast food because there's very little actual skill involved in making it. It's bread and cheese and toppings. If your a restaurateur then you want to make food that doesn't need expensive labor so you can maximize profit and have employees that don't need a lot of training. Well trained employees have to be coddled because they've got options. This makes the pizza and hamburger biz ripe for automation.
Somehow, I can't connect the first thing you said to the last. If you have expensive, hard to replace workers that need coddling wouldn't they be the ones ripe for automation, all other things being equal? Robots are really good at three things, mass production, precision and consistency and food processing isn't the first one - then I'm thinking about making a million gadgets to ship in containers. If you just need to get it roughly right and failure is not a big deal - whoops we burned your pizza we'll make you another sorry about the waiting time - then robots really don't have a big edge.
If on the other hand you want to make perfect knife cuts or make a risotto to a Michelin chef's standard that's things you really have to train for. Not too much, not to little, not too brief, not too long, not too hot, not too cold, stir enough, don't stir too much. It seems to me like the kind of task that'd be pretty hard to get right but once you do the robot could nail it every time. I guess a burger or pizza place is a better candidate for full automation though.
I'm not saying this is impossible, but the fact is that a lot of people go to pizzerias because they can easily get special orders, because if you can't, frozen pizzas are less expensive and you don't have to leave home. Say what you will about cardboard and disappointment, but big pizza chains that rely on human help will still do special orders.
Of all the times I've eaten big chain pizza, whether it's with work or friends or family I don't remember anyone ordering a special. At most I seem to remember ordering a half-and-half, extra cheese on the edge, sour cream or salsa dip and such but they're all minor variations where if you've made a robot to handle the 20 pizzas on the menu, you'll easily make the variations too. At most they have a "pick your own toppings" pizza where you essentially make a pizza just from "extra" toppings. Really you can make the interface far more advanced than the demand.
Here in Norway we have this thing called Whopper Labs, a web/app interface for Burger King where you can make your burger exactly like you want it, extra this, hold that, gluten free bread and I'd like a quadruple burger. The video is in Norwegian but it quite visual so you'll understand. It's a fraction of a percent of the sales, most people just want a Whopper Cheese or something like that. But if you're making a robot, it should be pretty trivial to extend it from making a "normal" burger to handle the full selection, assuming you've solved the first part.
I don't think you can really compare frozen pizza with chain pizza, sure they have prefabs and whatnot but I doubt the cheese and ham on a chain pizza has ever been frozen. It's the sort of thing you'd buy vacuum packed but not frozen in the store and with the turnaround chains have they have no problem keeping the supply fresh. And they have proper pizza ovens and all that, what you get heating a frozen pizza isn't exactly the same. So if you could manage to scale it down, I certainly think automated chain quality pizza has a big market.
But of course, because bespoke pizzas are easier to make when the maker can /adapt/, unlike a machine, which must be retooled.
The big industrial robots we've had now for many decades are like that. But there's been a ton of research into making robots more flexible and generic. It's not going to be like one "Eureka" moment, but many baby steps. They don't blindly do things, they have computer vision. They don't have one custom designed grip that can do one custom designed motion. The problem is the speed goes way down and cost also goes way up, until replacing a minimum wage worker seems like a bad idea. But it's constantly improving so just because it doesn't happen today maybe it will in 5, 10 or 20 years.
Or write a better ending for Lost?
What are you talking about? It's a human masterpiece they'll remember long after Shakespeare is forgotten. There is no way any machine could ever produce an ending of such exquisite subtlety and elegance.
The problem is that you think of this from the point of view of a western government that plays fair, requires evidence and respects the rule of law (okay, you can stop laughing now). It's not that you can't get PGP and whatnot in Russia. It's that they'll bend the market so most people use services that cooperate with the government. Like Putin wants people to use vk.com instead of Facebook and China wants people to use Baidu instead of Google. And if you can't get them to use a local service, they'll blackmail foreign companies like Blackberry to either comply or lose business or in the worst case get blocked and banished.
When they get 90% to use "their" service, they'll just label the rest as criminals and subversive elements and snuff it out. Or just put anyone using services they can't touch on a watch/shitlist so they can be given the rubber glove treatment. And if you go over people with a fine tooth comb you can usually find something they do that's illegal. Not that they're above planting evidence or framing anyone if that's what it takes. And if someone's really subversive and covert, well they're probably not making enough noise to rally anyone for support. The government doesn't expect 100% loyalty, they just want to find dissent fast enough that it doesn't spread. As long as they can nip it in the bud, they're safe.
Almost certainly yes, it's a cache of the streaming service and they'll most likely set a timeout no longer than they got rights for. This will not make the service better in any way if you got plenty bandwidth, it'll just let you take movies and series on the road or to your cabin in the middle of nowhere. Like you could bring your disc, if you still used discs. Nothing more, nothing less.
Tor can only protect you if your machine can't be made to report back information about it. It doesn't help you very much to have an anonymous end point if the server on the other end can simply ask your browser to fetch the actual IP address of your host and other information about it. Javascript allows calls like that to make your browser turn over that information.
No it doesn't. If you use a proxy there's no supported way to get your real IP via Javascript. But Javascript is a huge scripting engine, it has a much bigger exploit potential than a rendering engine. That happens too, I think a while back there was a bug in a font handling library but much less often.
Elected representatives. I'm not an expert in all the jobs a government does, so I prefer to elect people who I think will be good at those tasks. Elections are basically collective job interviews.
The job interview is fine, but after they're hired they don't answer to their "boss" for 4-5 years and then the only issue you get to decide is whether you'd like to rehire them for another term. I realize you need people to work out proposals to be voted on, but many of the issues comes down to opinion as you can tell because the parties are divided too. We can get the brief run-down of pros and cons and usually quite quickly say for ourselves if we're for, against or undecided.