Microsoft has never released a service pack so late in their product cycle, from their perspective there's now three significant Windows versions (8, 8.1 and 10) since 7. If you've ever had to install a fresh Windows machine you'd know installing all the updates is a pain in the ass, it doesn't do them all in one go it's updates then more new updates then even more new updates. I've wanted them to either fix that or do post-service pack rollups at least as far back as Windows 2000, so at face value it'd be an improvement. But I don't see Microsoft going back to redo a patching system they've thrown out in Win10 to do us a favor, it seems far more likely they want to bundle it all from security patching to ads to telemetry to nagware. By the way, I noticed the 583 update has been enabled in my update center again, I've hidden it many times and run the GWX Control Panel to disable all that shit but Microsoft keeps re-enabling things. Hopefully they're serious about the end of free upgrades because hopefully I'll then be free of this shit.
After all, that camera could be pointed towards us - who are we to judge?
Well I think it'll go both ways, the things that actually are pretty common but mostly happened in secret will be "normalized" because it turns out you're not that alone like say having an abortion after a one night stand. But if you've been in a donkey show then no, saying everybody's done something like that won't work. And there's always been the goody two shoes who really are trying for sainthood and bible thumping everyone else, not just being hypocrites. And there's what you share in what context, if I go to a BDSM swingers club that's really not something my colleagues or parents need to know. But I'm sure with this some asshat would put up a hidden camera outside the club and publish the members list.
I'd go with way more repressed, because the things that will be normalized we already know is pretty normal, because people will admit to it in anonymous surveys and statistics just not with name and face. It's all the people that stick their heads out, even when everyone's exposed that'll get chopped down. Visiting any kind of establishment, gathering or protest becomes a way for your name to end up in a list. I bet totalitarian governments all over the world is drooling over this, just set up cameras at protests and you get lists of everyone involved. And if nobody shows, there is no protest so it's a win-win either way.
Sure, if you're comparing it to a digital signal with no error correction. If you use vaguely modern error correcting codes (as in, developed in the last 50 years), then digital signals can correct all errors long after analogue signals are indistinguishable from white noise to a human.
They could in theory, but in practice they don't. Almost all of them consist of a codec and then error correction. If you can correct the error, it all decodes nice and is perfect. If you can't correct the error random bit flips in the codec turns everything to complete trash. This is what leads to the digital cliff effect. Here's an actual example from Freeview in the UK, showing how you get something barely watchable even after the digital signal has given up with normalized signal strength.
Now for a static location that's not a big deal, if the signal was that bad you wouldn't want to watch it anyway. But on digital radio these sort of things happen a lot for very short periods of time or you're on the edge of nowhere and just want to hear the weather forecast. It would be ideal to have some kind of very low bandwidth signal like say 16 kbps mono in the most easily received bits to bridge the gaps, then some kind of delta compression/layered modulation of the rest. That way you'd have more of a two step cliff, high quality, low quality and none.
Personally, I think that Stephen Elop should be in prison for what he did. From every action he took it was clear that he was a plant from MS to devalue the Nokia brand as much as possible so that MS could purchase it for pennies on the dollar. I do not think that MS was ever too serious about producing phones
Huh what? Elop took over in 2010, three years after the iPhone. Everyone that wasn't blind and deaf knew smartphones would be absolutely huge by then. Even if we assume he was a plant, his job would have been to aggressively convert people to Windows Phone at the expense of Nokia's other platforms and total market share, not burn the house down over a bunch of patents Microsoft hardly needs if they get wiped out of the mobile market altogether. And if the plan was just to sink Nokia, why would Microsoft tie Windows Phone to the mast of Nokia's ship before they did it? I'm all for a good conspiracy theory, but this one really doesn't make any sense.
Particularly when there's a much simpler and saner answer that fits with being a plant, Nokia wasn't pushing WP hard enough because a Nokia customer is already a Nokia customer right? But not to Elop and Microsoft if they want WP to compete with Android and iPhone. So the "burning platform" memo was to say "Windows Phone is the one and only future, all the other platforms are legacy and you really need to start pushing all the customers to start migrating to WP right now." It was supposed to be an internal memo, remember? Unfortunately for him it was a catchy enough phrase to become public and a huge PR disaster causing customers to scramble in all other directions but WP.
If we hadn't spent so much money on pointless wars we'd be on our way to the next solar system by now.
Without the potential of rockets to be missiles, I doubt we'd have even landed on the moon. The Apollo program was riding on a long and bloody history from the Nazi V1/V2 missiles hitting London during WWII to the threat of nuclear armageddon with ICBMs, all funded by the military. And NASA was a way to continue funneling money into missiles after the Cuban missile crisis while nominally being for civilian purposes. Anyone who think JFK just wanted to put a man on the moon because it's hard the way people climb Mount Everest just because it's hard is hopelessly naive. Same with the funding for Reagan's "Star Wars" program. And while the ISS is an example of international cooperation, rocket technology is still mostly classified and restricted by ITAR. Same with all the spy satellites and so on, the military is all over the space industry.
Apart from that, Voyager 1 has gone 0,05% of the way in 39 years and it used all the big planets to slingshot itself out of the solar system. We might have been on Mars now with another Apollo program. But no, we couldn't have gone to another star. It's like saying we could go to the moon with a long enough line of horses pulling the wagon, it'll take some entirely new propulsion technology to cross interstellar space. That or technology that can last tens of thousands of years, which would be an equally great challenge. It's a bit like saying that if we just redirected the military budget to medicine, we'd discover immortality. And then we'd have all of time to work out the rest. There's no real reason to think it'd be that easy though.
At the same time, what if someone had intervened? What if I had been shot, shot at or another person tried to stop me "beating up the kid". What I did was completely legal, despite how bad the situation looked. The "good citizen" could have found themselves in a rough position to defend.
Well alternatively what if it had been a police officer happening to cruise by, could this have led to a misunderstood situation where you could have been shot or shot at? Absolutely. Citizens aren't held to a higher standard of truth, if a reasonable person would think it is real they can legally act as if it were. It all depends how gung ho they acted, it's not a license to come in guns blazing and shoot to kill. If they gave warning like "Freeze! Don't move or I'll shoot" that'd be a good start. If you ignore it I'd say a warning shot is in order. And if it looks like you're grabbing for a gun or about to bash the guy's skull in then all bets are off. As long as it is a good faith effort to minimize harm, you might end up dead and they might walk away. Same reason cops can shoot a guy waving a fake gun, if it looks real then for practical purposes it is real.
But theres an MS Office for the mac and always has been, and it works just fine. I'm not sure how that reconciles with your theory? Wouldnt the mac be the bigger threat to windows desktops, being that its a significantly larger portion of the desktop market?
Office for Mac exists because of a deal/settlement between Microsoft and Apple, not because Microsoft wanted to. Nobody is in position to do the same for Linux. And Macs are a limited threat because you need Mac hardware and there's no centralized infrastructure like AD, they have a larger market share in that segment but got much less potential. If you could spin up corporate desktops with Linux/MS Office it'd start to threaten all their corporate efforts like Exchange, Sharepoint, Azure and so on. Sure, Microsoft will sell a home and student version but they know most people don't really need it at home, it's either so you can "graduate" to use MS Office at work or it's a home version because you already know how to use it from work.
Calling bullshit on this one. Cops know what actual shotguns sound like, you clearly do not.
Well he said he barely got started, then answered the phone so the first rounds were only heard by whoever called the cops. As far as the final rounds go, you have cops that "know" there's shots fired with a shotgun and they hear loud bangs coming from that very apartment, right after the cops entered... it fits the story of a gun desperado perfectly, even if the sound was a little off. I mean there's different types, different ammo, it's muffled and distorted by being inside a building so to conclusively say that's not a real shotgun is pretty tough and you know they'll err on the side of caution. And if just one of those cops jumps to that conclusion and shout "shots fired" that becomes confirmation to everyone that was one the fence.
This is one of the cops' boogeymen, the guy who has just gone postal and is trying to take as many as possible with them. Doesn't matter if they're surrounded, doesn't matter if they're up against a small army or a full SWAT team, they're going to lose but it might be how you die on the job. I'm sure they see a lot of bad shit happening to other people, but I expect all those survival instincts to kick in when it might be their own life on the line. So yeah I can imagine some pretty crazed "holy fuck" seconds and it all seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Not only that, but autonomous vehicles could tell in advance which routes they would be using in the next few hours, so that large-scale traffic could adapt and no congestion would ever arise.
Only if it knows in advance where it's going, I'm not going to schedule when I leave for work or whether I stop for groceries on the way home or not. I guess other types of autonomous cars might, but they usually try to avoid rush hour anyway.
Something is wrong with this story, because the above makes no sense. More likely you have an infected computer or someone else played with it or you don't know what you're doing. Windows 7/8 upgrades to 10 don't change or insert passwords.
If I recall correctly there's a feature to log on automatically, so if Windows 10 reverts to asking for that password you set once long, long ago when you installed it that might be practically equivalent to being locked out.
Maybe your mama told you this: Life isn't fair. So maybe it's time for societies to stop clinging to a 5 year old's vision of fairness and instead decide what result is wanted, and how to best get that result.
We know what most people want, they want what's best for themselves. But selfish need is never a good argument for why society should or should not intervene. It's certainly possible that their wants not to be put in jail for a crime they didn't do share a common interest with society's interest in due process and the rule of law, but it could equally well be the opposite like the criminal's wants not to be put in jail for a crime they did do. What people want society to do doesn't mean it's what society ought to do, that's why we discuss what's right and fair.
A lot of slave owners were quite happy with slavery, if you don't want to go into what's right and fair then it's basically might makes right. The other golden rule, he who has the gold makes the rules. Two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. Sure what's fair is a disputed subject, like if we're splitting a cake is it 50-50? Does it matter that you're starving and I'm not? Does it matter who bought the ingredients and baked it? Equal opportunity, equal need, equal effort lead to different and conflicting answers. Your post reads a little like "it's hard and ambiguous so let's not try".
For example that everybody is equal under the law is an equal opportunity to be protected by the law. It doesn't have to be, we've certainly have historic examples of race laws. That you will get a lawyer if you can't afford one is a case of equal need, everybody should have a lawyer but the rich don't get theirs for free. It's certainly possible to argue that the rich should get a free lawyer too. Equal effort could be for example tax rates, are progressive rates fair? Like if society provides one court system for everyone from high to low shouldn't that be a flat rate? Why should the rich pay more for the exact same service? If we're not going to discuss whether it's fair, on what basis should we discuss it? Popular opinion, if most support slavery then slavery is fine?
Where the company is based is entirely relevant. The server is in the US, so US law applies. If it was hosted in the EU, EU law would apply. Ask any law enforcement agency or the RIAA/MPAA how data access laws vary by country.
Do ask. US courts have repeatedly claimed jurisdiction as long as you do business with US customers or the victims are located in the US, so does the EU with their citizens. Not the ToS, that's under US terms and if OK Cupid wants to sue these guys it'll be in a US court but European citizens have rights under EU law they can't sign away. That said, usually a conviction is useless unless the court has jurisdiction over the assets or people involved which is why it doesn't happen more often. But if you can sue Danish people in a Danish court the conviction might stick.
We figured. It seems natural if you're used to it.
Same problem with animals: the dog is male "der Hund", the cat is female "die Katze", nevertheless both animals obviously have a female and a male version and when you refer to a particular one you use "er" or "sie" as in "he" or "she"... and not "it" as in english.
If you know the gender it's the same in English, you say the "The dog [or he/she] must stay in his/her cage". But if you don't, the sex-neutral form is always it - for all intents and purposes you can think of it as unspecified rather than sexless. In German it's not, the dog must stay in his cage, the cat in her cage and the girl - if you go all Fritzl - in its cage according to the gender of the word. And you're obliged to use the word's gender when you're using the word, so even if I see it's a female if I want to refer to the dog I'll have to say "Der Hund muss in sein Käfig bleiben" = "The dog must stay in his cage" but if the topic was already the dog I'd say "Sie muss in ihre Käfig bleiben = "She must stay in her cage". It's a double use of gender that drives everyone trying to learn German nuts, it really makes no sense.
What the f... does the average person really know about running a country? Nothing. Why should he have any say in that, really? Couldn't we just leave it to a bunch of experts? And what's to say the experts are really neutral at anything? For example if you wanted "experts" on copyright law you'd probably end up with a jury full of MPAA/RIAA/BPA members, oh and maybe a couple from the EFF for balance and surprisingly most their verdicts would go in favor of big business. Having ignorant people on the jury is the worst of all systems, except every other system we've tried. If you think you can design a system that won't have these problems you're either absolutely brilliant or extremely ignorant. And I know what my money is on.
Is it necessary to have a cell phone? Or do you have one because it's so easy to take calls anywhere you happen to be? Would you have a landline if cell phones weren't available? For that matter, do you need a phone at all? Can't you just talk to them in person?
I can see both sides of the argument, if you don't like what Facebook is doing to your data you could like not use it. On the other hand, you have this attitude that if you've first used it then anything goes no matter how expensive or inconvenient it'd be to do it some other way. For example, if I want to ride the bus here in Norway with cash instead of an electronic ticket - which is linked to an electronic payment with ID - I'll pay roughly double. They can blame the risk of robbery, theft, embezzlement and whatnot all they like but the practical result is that if you don't want to grossly overpay you ride "tracked". And I'll admit that I do, not because I particularly like it but because I've been boxed in. Oh yeah and car registration plates are automatically tracked on toll roads via photo cameras, if you think driving your own car was a better option. Really the only way you could move really anonymously is by bicycle or on foot, but hey if you got nothing to hide right? Nobody will stop you and ask "papers please", but that's only because they don't need to. They already know who you are, where you are and where you're going.
Actually 96 kHz makes sense in a mixing setting too if you're altering the pitch of a recording like autotune, then you're effectively stretching/compressing the samples causing interpolation errors in the time domain not just the amplitude. But yes for a final mix 48kHz/44.1kHz is enough, though since both systems are in use another advantage is that you can get perfect sound both for a 44.1 kHz CD and a 48 kHz soundtrack for a movie while a conversion between them would be slightly lossy. But to audiophiles "studio grade" has become a thing like "military grade" is to crypto.
Just one comment/correction, for the most part people did not drink beer/wine as a substitute for water, they drank a heavily watered down version with the alcohol working as a disinfectant. I don't think even the small elite that could afford it drank the "real deal" all the time, because of the intoxicating and dehydrating effects. That would typically be for celebrations and ceremonies and other festive events. So having decent water to begin with was very important, whether it came from wells, rainwater, streams or lakes. The Greeks and Romans did some various forms of mechanical and chemical treatment in the big cities, but in practice filtered drinking water didn't become common until the 17-18th century. For the most part you took untreated water, mixed it out with a tiny bit of beer/wine and you drank it.
Sorry, but you could live quite okay in 1980 without the PC, Internet, cell phones and whatnot. Go back and consider what life was like before you had phones, TV, cars, electricity and so on and you'll find many aspects of life sucked or was incredibly inconvenient. If I compare computer games made in 1985, 1995, 2005 and 2015 what will be the biggest difference? The first decade, of course. Cassette/LP to CD was a much bigger leap than CD to MP3/AAC, VHS to DVD was bigger than DVD to BluRay and so on. No internet to dial-up was bigger than dial-up to fiber. It's nice that we make things even better and more efficient and convenient, but there's a diminishing return. Which is not to say I feel we're done and won't make much more progress, but for the most part we're swapping out something that worked quite okay already for something better.
I'm OK with aggressive deadlines that get pushed out. Aggressive time lines presses a team to be as productive as possible.
Until it becomes a de facto expectation that you won't meet the deadlines and they'll be pushed out anyway because they were some PMs wet dream. Then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that if you want it in three weeks you set the deadline to three days, because nothing will really happen until you start raising a stink about how late it is while the project that actually schedules three weeks waits three months instead. And as a consequence of the schedules being unrealistic, there's no real retrospective done with the PMs on the missed estimates because everybody more or less knew they were imaginary anyway. Overly aggressive deadlines are a sympton of dysfunction, not productivity.
I think it was the pendulum swinging. Here in Norway I remember we used to pay per minute for dial-up/ISDN and were so envious of the US that generally had a flat rate for local calls. When there was a shake-up with DSL and we got flat rate connections it was like "Overage fees? Caps? Fuck that and fuck you." Didn't matter if the rates were good, the caps were reasonable, how a few were hogging the bandwidth and that the great majority was subsidizing a few hogs.
Any kind of restriction was the touch of death, eventually they just waved the white flag and said you're being irrational but the inmates are running the asylum, so we'll just have to cater to that. Maybe they phrased it a little more diplomatic, but I think they were quite frustrated that the market turned a deaf ear because rates around here are not cheap, but you really do get what you pay for. Right now I've got a 150 Mbps fiber connections and yes downloads peak at 19MB/s.
You're making one big mistake, and that's equating software development with construction. It's not. Software has achieved automation of construction of final artifacts based upon detailed specs: it's called compilation. What programmers do is much closer to creating specs than to construction according to specs. People writing recipes are not cooking.
No. In the waterfall model, first you write the spec then you implement the spec. The developer breaks down the spec to code, the same way the compiler breaks down code to machine instructions. Implementing the spec is not supposed to be a creative process, in fact figuring it out everything you're going to do first so you know how to best implement it and don't go down dead ends and waste time rewriting, refactoring or switching tools/libraries/architecture is pretty much the cornerstone of waterfall methodology. Then you write it once and test that everything was done according to the spec, at least that's the theory.
In fact cooking is a pretty good analogy, say the customer wants to have a pizza. The requirements are that it be tasty, crunchy and spicy. So you make a recipe for a pizza. Then you create a big and expensive industrial robot to make a pizza exactly like that. And you test it extensively, but not in terms of the requirement but that you added exactly the right ingredients, in the right shape and amount placed in perfect order and arrangement, that it's baked for exactly the right duration at the right temperature. And after ensuring everything is exactly to spec, you hand it to the customer and he goes "Yuck! That's not what I wanted"
Eg People might recall that there was a time when homosexuality was regarded as a mental illness. Nowadays we are 'enlightened' and homosexuality isn't generally regarded as a mental illness. No, these days people who "don't like homosexuality" are regarded as having a mental illness; there is a widespread belief that 'homophobia' is a real thing and that 'homophobes' really are phobic. Hey, if that WERE the case then these 'homophobes' should be given understanding and compassion, right? Because they are ill. But no, the LBGT community demand they be treated like criminals... Shoe is on the other foot, kind of thing.
I'm pretty sure that if people actually saw it as a mental illness, they wouldn't make a big stink about it. It's not like anybody thinks you'll become autistic, schizophrenic or psychotic by hanging around people that are autistic, schizophrenic or psychotic. Homophobes act like it's some kind of contagious disease you can catch by being around gay people. Or that people have a wicked part of their soul prone to sin and gays are those that have joined the dark side. Where else but religion can you find a group that think you should burn in hell for eternity without being designated a hate group?
Taking the numbers at face value you get the following stats:
- with 4000 developers
- 2.7 lines of code added per day per developer
- 1.3 lines of code removed per day per developer
- 0.47 lines of code changed per day per developer
Well he didn't say anything about FTEs. If I had been a little bit quicker on the draw once, I might have had a one-liner patch in the kernel because a -rc1 happened to kernel panic on my particular graphics card because a device descriptor string was missing. By the time I'd figured it out, found the right devel-list and made a patch, the same fix had just been posted and approved for -rc2. I was actually a bit sad I missed it, just for the nerd points. So don't expect all 4000 to be people ordinarily working on the kernel, maybe just people who found a small bug, fixed it and got the credit.
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Microsoft has never released a service pack so late in their product cycle, from their perspective there's now three significant Windows versions (8, 8.1 and 10) since 7. If you've ever had to install a fresh Windows machine you'd know installing all the updates is a pain in the ass, it doesn't do them all in one go it's updates then more new updates then even more new updates. I've wanted them to either fix that or do post-service pack rollups at least as far back as Windows 2000, so at face value it'd be an improvement. But I don't see Microsoft going back to redo a patching system they've thrown out in Win10 to do us a favor, it seems far more likely they want to bundle it all from security patching to ads to telemetry to nagware. By the way, I noticed the 583 update has been enabled in my update center again, I've hidden it many times and run the GWX Control Panel to disable all that shit but Microsoft keeps re-enabling things. Hopefully they're serious about the end of free upgrades because hopefully I'll then be free of this shit.
Don't worry. The 70% figure is a complete fabrication. The figure is more like 1 billion %.
Wow, I've heard of making doubly sure = 200% but 1000000000% sure? What does it do, read the DNA off a skin cell and compare that?
After all, that camera could be pointed towards us - who are we to judge?
Well I think it'll go both ways, the things that actually are pretty common but mostly happened in secret will be "normalized" because it turns out you're not that alone like say having an abortion after a one night stand. But if you've been in a donkey show then no, saying everybody's done something like that won't work. And there's always been the goody two shoes who really are trying for sainthood and bible thumping everyone else, not just being hypocrites. And there's what you share in what context, if I go to a BDSM swingers club that's really not something my colleagues or parents need to know. But I'm sure with this some asshat would put up a hidden camera outside the club and publish the members list.
I'd go with way more repressed, because the things that will be normalized we already know is pretty normal, because people will admit to it in anonymous surveys and statistics just not with name and face. It's all the people that stick their heads out, even when everyone's exposed that'll get chopped down. Visiting any kind of establishment, gathering or protest becomes a way for your name to end up in a list. I bet totalitarian governments all over the world is drooling over this, just set up cameras at protests and you get lists of everyone involved. And if nobody shows, there is no protest so it's a win-win either way.
Sure, if you're comparing it to a digital signal with no error correction. If you use vaguely modern error correcting codes (as in, developed in the last 50 years), then digital signals can correct all errors long after analogue signals are indistinguishable from white noise to a human.
They could in theory, but in practice they don't. Almost all of them consist of a codec and then error correction. If you can correct the error, it all decodes nice and is perfect. If you can't correct the error random bit flips in the codec turns everything to complete trash. This is what leads to the digital cliff effect. Here's an actual example from Freeview in the UK, showing how you get something barely watchable even after the digital signal has given up with normalized signal strength.
Now for a static location that's not a big deal, if the signal was that bad you wouldn't want to watch it anyway. But on digital radio these sort of things happen a lot for very short periods of time or you're on the edge of nowhere and just want to hear the weather forecast. It would be ideal to have some kind of very low bandwidth signal like say 16 kbps mono in the most easily received bits to bridge the gaps, then some kind of delta compression/layered modulation of the rest. That way you'd have more of a two step cliff, high quality, low quality and none.
Personally, I think that Stephen Elop should be in prison for what he did. From every action he took it was clear that he was a plant from MS to devalue the Nokia brand as much as possible so that MS could purchase it for pennies on the dollar. I do not think that MS was ever too serious about producing phones
Huh what? Elop took over in 2010, three years after the iPhone. Everyone that wasn't blind and deaf knew smartphones would be absolutely huge by then. Even if we assume he was a plant, his job would have been to aggressively convert people to Windows Phone at the expense of Nokia's other platforms and total market share, not burn the house down over a bunch of patents Microsoft hardly needs if they get wiped out of the mobile market altogether. And if the plan was just to sink Nokia, why would Microsoft tie Windows Phone to the mast of Nokia's ship before they did it? I'm all for a good conspiracy theory, but this one really doesn't make any sense.
Particularly when there's a much simpler and saner answer that fits with being a plant, Nokia wasn't pushing WP hard enough because a Nokia customer is already a Nokia customer right? But not to Elop and Microsoft if they want WP to compete with Android and iPhone. So the "burning platform" memo was to say "Windows Phone is the one and only future, all the other platforms are legacy and you really need to start pushing all the customers to start migrating to WP right now." It was supposed to be an internal memo, remember? Unfortunately for him it was a catchy enough phrase to become public and a huge PR disaster causing customers to scramble in all other directions but WP.
If we hadn't spent so much money on pointless wars we'd be on our way to the next solar system by now.
Without the potential of rockets to be missiles, I doubt we'd have even landed on the moon. The Apollo program was riding on a long and bloody history from the Nazi V1/V2 missiles hitting London during WWII to the threat of nuclear armageddon with ICBMs, all funded by the military. And NASA was a way to continue funneling money into missiles after the Cuban missile crisis while nominally being for civilian purposes. Anyone who think JFK just wanted to put a man on the moon because it's hard the way people climb Mount Everest just because it's hard is hopelessly naive. Same with the funding for Reagan's "Star Wars" program. And while the ISS is an example of international cooperation, rocket technology is still mostly classified and restricted by ITAR. Same with all the spy satellites and so on, the military is all over the space industry.
Apart from that, Voyager 1 has gone 0,05% of the way in 39 years and it used all the big planets to slingshot itself out of the solar system. We might have been on Mars now with another Apollo program. But no, we couldn't have gone to another star. It's like saying we could go to the moon with a long enough line of horses pulling the wagon, it'll take some entirely new propulsion technology to cross interstellar space. That or technology that can last tens of thousands of years, which would be an equally great challenge. It's a bit like saying that if we just redirected the military budget to medicine, we'd discover immortality. And then we'd have all of time to work out the rest. There's no real reason to think it'd be that easy though.
At the same time, what if someone had intervened? What if I had been shot, shot at or another person tried to stop me "beating up the kid". What I did was completely legal, despite how bad the situation looked. The "good citizen" could have found themselves in a rough position to defend.
Well alternatively what if it had been a police officer happening to cruise by, could this have led to a misunderstood situation where you could have been shot or shot at? Absolutely. Citizens aren't held to a higher standard of truth, if a reasonable person would think it is real they can legally act as if it were. It all depends how gung ho they acted, it's not a license to come in guns blazing and shoot to kill. If they gave warning like "Freeze! Don't move or I'll shoot" that'd be a good start. If you ignore it I'd say a warning shot is in order. And if it looks like you're grabbing for a gun or about to bash the guy's skull in then all bets are off. As long as it is a good faith effort to minimize harm, you might end up dead and they might walk away. Same reason cops can shoot a guy waving a fake gun, if it looks real then for practical purposes it is real.
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But theres an MS Office for the mac and always has been, and it works just fine. I'm not sure how that reconciles with your theory? Wouldnt the mac be the bigger threat to windows desktops, being that its a significantly larger portion of the desktop market?
Office for Mac exists because of a deal/settlement between Microsoft and Apple, not because Microsoft wanted to. Nobody is in position to do the same for Linux. And Macs are a limited threat because you need Mac hardware and there's no centralized infrastructure like AD, they have a larger market share in that segment but got much less potential. If you could spin up corporate desktops with Linux/MS Office it'd start to threaten all their corporate efforts like Exchange, Sharepoint, Azure and so on. Sure, Microsoft will sell a home and student version but they know most people don't really need it at home, it's either so you can "graduate" to use MS Office at work or it's a home version because you already know how to use it from work.
Calling bullshit on this one. Cops know what actual shotguns sound like, you clearly do not.
Well he said he barely got started, then answered the phone so the first rounds were only heard by whoever called the cops. As far as the final rounds go, you have cops that "know" there's shots fired with a shotgun and they hear loud bangs coming from that very apartment, right after the cops entered... it fits the story of a gun desperado perfectly, even if the sound was a little off. I mean there's different types, different ammo, it's muffled and distorted by being inside a building so to conclusively say that's not a real shotgun is pretty tough and you know they'll err on the side of caution. And if just one of those cops jumps to that conclusion and shout "shots fired" that becomes confirmation to everyone that was one the fence.
This is one of the cops' boogeymen, the guy who has just gone postal and is trying to take as many as possible with them. Doesn't matter if they're surrounded, doesn't matter if they're up against a small army or a full SWAT team, they're going to lose but it might be how you die on the job. I'm sure they see a lot of bad shit happening to other people, but I expect all those survival instincts to kick in when it might be their own life on the line. So yeah I can imagine some pretty crazed "holy fuck" seconds and it all seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Not only that, but autonomous vehicles could tell in advance which routes they would be using in the next few hours, so that large-scale traffic could adapt and no congestion would ever arise.
Only if it knows in advance where it's going, I'm not going to schedule when I leave for work or whether I stop for groceries on the way home or not. I guess other types of autonomous cars might, but they usually try to avoid rush hour anyway.
Something is wrong with this story, because the above makes no sense. More likely you have an infected computer or someone else played with it or you don't know what you're doing. Windows 7/8 upgrades to 10 don't change or insert passwords.
If I recall correctly there's a feature to log on automatically, so if Windows 10 reverts to asking for that password you set once long, long ago when you installed it that might be practically equivalent to being locked out.
Maybe your mama told you this: Life isn't fair. So maybe it's time for societies to stop clinging to a 5 year old's vision of fairness and instead decide what result is wanted, and how to best get that result.
We know what most people want, they want what's best for themselves. But selfish need is never a good argument for why society should or should not intervene. It's certainly possible that their wants not to be put in jail for a crime they didn't do share a common interest with society's interest in due process and the rule of law, but it could equally well be the opposite like the criminal's wants not to be put in jail for a crime they did do. What people want society to do doesn't mean it's what society ought to do, that's why we discuss what's right and fair.
A lot of slave owners were quite happy with slavery, if you don't want to go into what's right and fair then it's basically might makes right. The other golden rule, he who has the gold makes the rules. Two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. Sure what's fair is a disputed subject, like if we're splitting a cake is it 50-50? Does it matter that you're starving and I'm not? Does it matter who bought the ingredients and baked it? Equal opportunity, equal need, equal effort lead to different and conflicting answers. Your post reads a little like "it's hard and ambiguous so let's not try".
For example that everybody is equal under the law is an equal opportunity to be protected by the law. It doesn't have to be, we've certainly have historic examples of race laws. That you will get a lawyer if you can't afford one is a case of equal need, everybody should have a lawyer but the rich don't get theirs for free. It's certainly possible to argue that the rich should get a free lawyer too. Equal effort could be for example tax rates, are progressive rates fair? Like if society provides one court system for everyone from high to low shouldn't that be a flat rate? Why should the rich pay more for the exact same service? If we're not going to discuss whether it's fair, on what basis should we discuss it? Popular opinion, if most support slavery then slavery is fine?
Where the company is based is entirely relevant. The server is in the US, so US law applies. If it was hosted in the EU, EU law would apply. Ask any law enforcement agency or the RIAA/MPAA how data access laws vary by country.
Do ask. US courts have repeatedly claimed jurisdiction as long as you do business with US customers or the victims are located in the US, so does the EU with their citizens. Not the ToS, that's under US terms and if OK Cupid wants to sue these guys it'll be in a US court but European citizens have rights under EU law they can't sign away. That said, usually a conviction is useless unless the court has jurisdiction over the assets or people involved which is why it doesn't happen more often. But if you can sue Danish people in a Danish court the conviction might stick.
Side note: I'm german.
We figured. It seems natural if you're used to it.
Same problem with animals: the dog is male "der Hund", the cat is female "die Katze", nevertheless both animals obviously have a female and a male version and when you refer to a particular one you use "er" or "sie" as in "he" or "she" ... and not "it" as in english.
If you know the gender it's the same in English, you say the "The dog [or he/she] must stay in his/her cage". But if you don't, the sex-neutral form is always it - for all intents and purposes you can think of it as unspecified rather than sexless. In German it's not, the dog must stay in his cage, the cat in her cage and the girl - if you go all Fritzl - in its cage according to the gender of the word. And you're obliged to use the word's gender when you're using the word, so even if I see it's a female if I want to refer to the dog I'll have to say "Der Hund muss in sein Käfig bleiben" = "The dog must stay in his cage" but if the topic was already the dog I'd say "Sie muss in ihre Käfig bleiben = "She must stay in her cage". It's a double use of gender that drives everyone trying to learn German nuts, it really makes no sense.
What the f... does the average person really know about running a country? Nothing. Why should he have any say in that, really? Couldn't we just leave it to a bunch of experts? And what's to say the experts are really neutral at anything? For example if you wanted "experts" on copyright law you'd probably end up with a jury full of MPAA/RIAA/BPA members, oh and maybe a couple from the EFF for balance and surprisingly most their verdicts would go in favor of big business. Having ignorant people on the jury is the worst of all systems, except every other system we've tried. If you think you can design a system that won't have these problems you're either absolutely brilliant or extremely ignorant. And I know what my money is on.
Is it necessary to have a cell phone? Or do you have one because it's so easy to take calls anywhere you happen to be? Would you have a landline if cell phones weren't available? For that matter, do you need a phone at all? Can't you just talk to them in person?
I can see both sides of the argument, if you don't like what Facebook is doing to your data you could like not use it. On the other hand, you have this attitude that if you've first used it then anything goes no matter how expensive or inconvenient it'd be to do it some other way. For example, if I want to ride the bus here in Norway with cash instead of an electronic ticket - which is linked to an electronic payment with ID - I'll pay roughly double. They can blame the risk of robbery, theft, embezzlement and whatnot all they like but the practical result is that if you don't want to grossly overpay you ride "tracked". And I'll admit that I do, not because I particularly like it but because I've been boxed in. Oh yeah and car registration plates are automatically tracked on toll roads via photo cameras, if you think driving your own car was a better option. Really the only way you could move really anonymously is by bicycle or on foot, but hey if you got nothing to hide right? Nobody will stop you and ask "papers please", but that's only because they don't need to. They already know who you are, where you are and where you're going.
Actually 96 kHz makes sense in a mixing setting too if you're altering the pitch of a recording like autotune, then you're effectively stretching/compressing the samples causing interpolation errors in the time domain not just the amplitude. But yes for a final mix 48kHz/44.1kHz is enough, though since both systems are in use another advantage is that you can get perfect sound both for a 44.1 kHz CD and a 48 kHz soundtrack for a movie while a conversion between them would be slightly lossy. But to audiophiles "studio grade" has become a thing like "military grade" is to crypto.
Just one comment/correction, for the most part people did not drink beer/wine as a substitute for water, they drank a heavily watered down version with the alcohol working as a disinfectant. I don't think even the small elite that could afford it drank the "real deal" all the time, because of the intoxicating and dehydrating effects. That would typically be for celebrations and ceremonies and other festive events. So having decent water to begin with was very important, whether it came from wells, rainwater, streams or lakes. The Greeks and Romans did some various forms of mechanical and chemical treatment in the big cities, but in practice filtered drinking water didn't become common until the 17-18th century. For the most part you took untreated water, mixed it out with a tiny bit of beer/wine and you drank it.
Sorry, but you could live quite okay in 1980 without the PC, Internet, cell phones and whatnot. Go back and consider what life was like before you had phones, TV, cars, electricity and so on and you'll find many aspects of life sucked or was incredibly inconvenient. If I compare computer games made in 1985, 1995, 2005 and 2015 what will be the biggest difference? The first decade, of course. Cassette/LP to CD was a much bigger leap than CD to MP3/AAC, VHS to DVD was bigger than DVD to BluRay and so on. No internet to dial-up was bigger than dial-up to fiber. It's nice that we make things even better and more efficient and convenient, but there's a diminishing return. Which is not to say I feel we're done and won't make much more progress, but for the most part we're swapping out something that worked quite okay already for something better.
I'm OK with aggressive deadlines that get pushed out. Aggressive time lines presses a team to be as productive as possible.
Until it becomes a de facto expectation that you won't meet the deadlines and they'll be pushed out anyway because they were some PMs wet dream. Then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that if you want it in three weeks you set the deadline to three days, because nothing will really happen until you start raising a stink about how late it is while the project that actually schedules three weeks waits three months instead. And as a consequence of the schedules being unrealistic, there's no real retrospective done with the PMs on the missed estimates because everybody more or less knew they were imaginary anyway. Overly aggressive deadlines are a sympton of dysfunction, not productivity.
I think it was the pendulum swinging. Here in Norway I remember we used to pay per minute for dial-up/ISDN and were so envious of the US that generally had a flat rate for local calls. When there was a shake-up with DSL and we got flat rate connections it was like "Overage fees? Caps? Fuck that and fuck you." Didn't matter if the rates were good, the caps were reasonable, how a few were hogging the bandwidth and that the great majority was subsidizing a few hogs.
Any kind of restriction was the touch of death, eventually they just waved the white flag and said you're being irrational but the inmates are running the asylum, so we'll just have to cater to that. Maybe they phrased it a little more diplomatic, but I think they were quite frustrated that the market turned a deaf ear because rates around here are not cheap, but you really do get what you pay for. Right now I've got a 150 Mbps fiber connections and yes downloads peak at 19MB/s.
You're making one big mistake, and that's equating software development with construction. It's not. Software has achieved automation of construction of final artifacts based upon detailed specs: it's called compilation. What programmers do is much closer to creating specs than to construction according to specs. People writing recipes are not cooking.
No. In the waterfall model, first you write the spec then you implement the spec. The developer breaks down the spec to code, the same way the compiler breaks down code to machine instructions. Implementing the spec is not supposed to be a creative process, in fact figuring it out everything you're going to do first so you know how to best implement it and don't go down dead ends and waste time rewriting, refactoring or switching tools/libraries/architecture is pretty much the cornerstone of waterfall methodology. Then you write it once and test that everything was done according to the spec, at least that's the theory.
In fact cooking is a pretty good analogy, say the customer wants to have a pizza. The requirements are that it be tasty, crunchy and spicy. So you make a recipe for a pizza. Then you create a big and expensive industrial robot to make a pizza exactly like that. And you test it extensively, but not in terms of the requirement but that you added exactly the right ingredients, in the right shape and amount placed in perfect order and arrangement, that it's baked for exactly the right duration at the right temperature. And after ensuring everything is exactly to spec, you hand it to the customer and he goes "Yuck! That's not what I wanted"
Eg People might recall that there was a time when homosexuality was regarded as a mental illness. Nowadays we are 'enlightened' and homosexuality isn't generally regarded as a mental illness. No, these days people who "don't like homosexuality" are regarded as having a mental illness; there is a widespread belief that 'homophobia' is a real thing and that 'homophobes' really are phobic. Hey, if that WERE the case then these 'homophobes' should be given understanding and compassion, right? Because they are ill. But no, the LBGT community demand they be treated like criminals... Shoe is on the other foot, kind of thing.
I'm pretty sure that if people actually saw it as a mental illness, they wouldn't make a big stink about it. It's not like anybody thinks you'll become autistic, schizophrenic or psychotic by hanging around people that are autistic, schizophrenic or psychotic. Homophobes act like it's some kind of contagious disease you can catch by being around gay people. Or that people have a wicked part of their soul prone to sin and gays are those that have joined the dark side. Where else but religion can you find a group that think you should burn in hell for eternity without being designated a hate group?
Taking the numbers at face value you get the following stats:
- with 4000 developers
- 2.7 lines of code added per day per developer
- 1.3 lines of code removed per day per developer
- 0.47 lines of code changed per day per developer
Well he didn't say anything about FTEs. If I had been a little bit quicker on the draw once, I might have had a one-liner patch in the kernel because a -rc1 happened to kernel panic on my particular graphics card because a device descriptor string was missing. By the time I'd figured it out, found the right devel-list and made a patch, the same fix had just been posted and approved for -rc2. I was actually a bit sad I missed it, just for the nerd points. So don't expect all 4000 to be people ordinarily working on the kernel, maybe just people who found a small bug, fixed it and got the credit.