Because money improves your quality of life more than extra time does. When most people have extra time, they spend it watching TV or other similar things. When they have extra money, they can buy a bigger TV.
Well if time is fixed and all other things is equal then obviously those who earn more will buy more expensive things to get the highest utility from money, with a few exceptions that are indifferent or care more about putting kids through college than themselves. But it's not really fixed and I still haven't met anyone who don't value evenings and weekends and holidays, in fact most people say they do. But from there to stepping outside the norm of "full time employment" is very rare and you can see there are huge cultural differences. Here in Norway we get five weeks paid vacation, from what I gather in US it's typically two. And yet if I moved to the US, I can't really imagine asking for three weeks extra unpaid vacation. And I'd imagine 95%+ of Americans here taking all five.
There's actually a whole lot more "understanding" for people who switch to something entirely different and lower paying because it's their passion than working part time. That's something predominantely women do in a phase of their life to get work and family to add up, except teens and approaching retirement age among men there's only 7-8% working part time and only 2% that do it long term while the equivalent numbers for women is 30-35% and 8%. I guess a part of it is that this is kinda the "hiring unit", like I could talk to my current employer and probably get an 80% or 60% position if I wanted but if you apply for a job almost all is 100% or really low. And I don't think saying I'd like the job but only 80% of it would work well during the interview.
I have actually considered it though, because of progressive taxes the last bit of my income is hit pretty hard. Not as a day off per week, but say a 90% position and get an extra ~20 days = 4 weeks vacation. It's tempting and yet, no I haven't done it. Probably won't either, it feels a bit like slacking. But I can't really rationally justify to myself why I shouldn't do it. Or at least try to make it happen, of course my employer would have to agree but I'm pretty sure they want to keep me on staff and work is a little on and off anyway, so as long as the vacation isn't in the stress periods it should be okay for them as well. Because no, it's not about the bling for me and I got a comfortable surplus each month. Yet I don't do anything to really adjust my work and pay down to my actual consumption.
Well, yes and no. Back when Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997 it was programmed with a huge amount of chess logic programmed by people. Using a computer amplified the power of those algorithms, it had move databases but it wasn't really self-modifying. From what I understand you could step through the algorithm and even though you couldn't do it at the speed of the computer, you could follow it. That approach pretty much failed for Go, it's very hard for a human to quantify exactly what constitutes a good or bad move.
Neural networks pretty much does away with that in any form humans can follow. That is to say, if you had to explain how Alpha Go plays you'd get a ton of weights that don't really make much sense to anybody. It means you don't need Go expertise in the programming, because they couldn't find where to tweak a weakness even if they saw one. All you can really do is play it and it'll learn and adjust from its losses. From what I've gathered it's hard to find excellence, if you train with lots of mediocre players making mediocre moves it's easy to learn decent moves but that'll fail against a master. And that if you let it self-play it can easily learn nonsense that'll only work against itself.
Apparently they've solved those problems well and has now created a machine that plays at a beyond-human level. If they can extend this approach to practically unlimited choices like say an RTS where you can choose what to build, where to send your units, when to attack, when to defend, what resources to collect etc. it could be absolutely massive. Imagine if you were in say city planning and you have tons of data on traffic patterns, congestion and how traffic reflows when you open and close roads and you could put an AI on the job to say where and how you get the most value for money. I'm not sure if it's strong AI, but it's certainly places we use HI today.
Islamists are responsible for about 5% of terror attacks in the US and 2% in Europe.
The EuroStat statistics are horribly misleading. From the 2015 report (PDF).
On page 8 (emphasis mine):
Type of terrorism As in previous years, separatist terrorism continued to be the dominant type of terrorism in court proceedings in 2014. The vast majority of separatist terrorism verdicts (92%) were pronounced in Spain. Courts in Denmark, France, Lithuania and Germany also issued verdicts in relation to separatist terrorism.
And on page 4 it says:
In Spain, reported terrorist attacks continued to decrease from 54 in 2012, to 33 in 2013, to 18 in 2014. In both countries, all attacks, except one that happened in Spain, were classified as separatist. The attacks in Spain did not cause casualties.
In fact, ETA hasn't killed anyone since their ceasefire in 2010, which they later amended to be permanent so that's over 100 terror "attacks" without loss of life as far as I can tell. Meanwhile a single islamist attack in Paris cost 130 lives with zero convictions because they're dead. No wonder they don't show up in arrest statistics.
The higher you set the threshold, the more obvious the relation gets. If you look at terrorist attacks that have killed more than 10 people in the EU since 2000 that list is presumably quite complete and it's as follows:
2004: Madrid train bombings, 191 dead - islamists 2005: London subway bombings, 52 dead - islamists 2015: Charlie Hebdo attack, 18 dead - islamists 2015: Paris attacks, 130 dead - islamists
Are you starting to see a pattern? Feel free to make the same list for the US.
In fact the whole legal system is back to front on this issue, since having specialist domain knowledge in an area often precludes you from serving on a jury in a relevant case. That's severely illogical.
I disagree. A technical expert on the jury could easily manipulate the rest by appeal to authority, even though he/she has a biased opinion of the case and dubious evaluation of the evidence. I think you get better results if everybody on the jury thinks their opinions and ideas are of equal value and get technical experts to explain it with concepts they can understand.
You do realize that for some folks, even the 4.7" Phone6 and 6s are too big? Not everyone wants a large phone or phablet.
This. The iPhone 4 (that I had, broken now) is: 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm iPhone 5: 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm iPhone 6: 138.1 x 67.0 x 6.9 mm
Even the Xperia Z5 Compact, pretty much the only other "mini flagship" is up to: 127 x 65 x 8.9 mm
It's getting thinner, fine... but it's getting taller and wider because obviously with more space you can put in more CPU, more GPU, more RAM, more cameras, more battery, more misc chips like touch id etc. but I liked how pocket friendly it was. If Apple pulls of a high quality "mini" phone they might at least get one sale and that's me. It's pretty clear the mainstream market is more willing to compromise on size than me though.
In fact there are some problems that you literally cannot study with robots. (Human physiology not the least among them)
Yes, but we already know that humans don't like to die of suffocation, cold, heat, thirst, hunger, radiation poisoning or excessive G-forces. Pretty much the only conditions we can't easily replicate is low/zero gravity, which is only interesting if we plan to have humans in low/zero gravity in the first place. Almost all the challenges to a Mars mission are technological to keep the "human parameters" within the boundaries we already have a pretty good idea of. And we could do more of those, like could you plant seeds in a Mars greenhouse and make food grow but we don't really need humans for that either.
Personally I think robotic exploration is an opportunity and a reason to develop robust, redundant, self-sufficient, self-repairing technology because you can't have a human directly control them or maintain them or repair them. Here on earth even in the most remote, unwelcoming and dangerous environments there's only so much you can do before sending a repair crew or using a remote operated unit becomes cheaper than automation. If you think trickle-down effects to earth I'd say robots that can operate for decades (Opportunity: 12 years and counting) will have a much greater effect than putting another man in a tin can.
Whether something is or is not a robot is really derailing the whole discussion anyway. If you fire a gun or set up a trip wire to fire the gun doesn't for the most part matter. If you set up a meat grinder that's not secure and a person gets dragged into it, whoever designed and approved that could be held liable. If you get summoned to court, calling in on a speakerphone doesn't cut it. Courts have usually dealt with all kinds of indirection, remote action and action-by-proxy before, legally speaking I doubt a robot is fundamentally different just because it's software with bits and bytes.
So stop saying you care about the four freedoms and just admit the community only cares about free as in beer because that is EXACTLY what we are talking about here.
I see you've been taking diplomacy lessons from George W. Bush, either you're with us or you're with the terrorists. I don't mind paying for a closed source AAA game to run on under free-as-in-beer closed source Steam on top of open source Linux, so shoot me. I value the four freedoms as a good thing, but it's a trade-off between that and what proprietary software offers. I'd like a distro that puts me in control so that I can decide what's best for me. Not a distro that has already decided that because I want Linux over Windows, I must also want open source over Catalyst, GIMP over Photoshop, LibreOffice over MS Office, Firefox over Chrome and that I should have no choice in the matter, it's all the way or not at all. If you don't see a problem with that type of reasoning, well the problem is on your end not mine.
Well the way I see it the main issue for HDDs is that they don't scale down well. I just looked at the prices now and the cheapest are around 500GB, but you can't get a 250GB drive for half or 125GB drive for a quarter of that but you can get a 128GB SSD for the same. And for a lot of people who are mostly streaming or working in business and not heavy into home video that's plenty. A HDD is still unmatched if you need many TBs of capacity, but hey most people just don't. No, we're not average.
Adds from IBM illustrate: its already reality, investing, harvesting and research data, make an medical analysis, find the best defense strategy for a trial: is all AI dominated already.
Seriously, company that bets big on AI says it's everywhere and you take their marketing department as a credible source? Don't get me wrong but AI is barely scratching the surface of being a tool the way machinery was for the production industry, if you think AI is going to replace doctors, lawyers and generals any time soon you're wildly delusional. I'm not so sure about teachers though, since they keep repeating the same curriculum over and over and are more of a "processing" industry of sorts than a creative industry, at least until you hit research-level academics.
It's easy to get so blinded by progress that you really don't see the challenges that you're up against. Like the people who look at modern medicine and think we're close to achieving immortality or that look at modern space flight and think we're close to conquering the stars, Star Trek style. I can guarantee you that the AI that can phantom what the software requirements I get really mean and produce anything even remotely close to what the users want won't exist for another 100 years.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it could eventually be possible to build an AI capable of automating my job. But I think 90%+ of the human population would be out of a job first. At least get me an AI car that can handle the snow and ice up here north and we can talk about it, something tells me it won't be commercially available for at least 10 more years just like fusion reactors should almost be ready "soon".
Well yes obviously someone would figure out sooner or later, but he was probably counting on them not finding out who and when. Or he was in some kind of money problem (gambling, drugs, whatever) and just did the kind of incredibly stupid crime you sometimes see which keeps their world from collapsing today. The same kind of "can't think about that" like the people who throw bills in the trash or keep sending money to Nigeria.
A lot of people are simply dysfunctional that way, like they have a fear of the dentist. And they know the longer it's been since they was at the dentist, the more likely he'll find something really bad. So the problem just escalates until it becomes a huge crisis. You see that a lot with "dumb" embezzlement, now you not only got a gambling problem but for a few months delay you're now also an unemployed, convicted felon.
Rationally it doesn't make sense, how much worse it's going to be compared to the relatively short and small gain you got. But I guess it's something of a survival trait, if life's fucked up you care about living one more day. And then another one, and then the one after that. Sometimes not having perspective is good for motivation, because there's nothing in your prospects to be cheerful about. You just carry on anyway.
If you can afford this "enterprise" SSD, you can certainly afford a Xeon or Haswell-E and LGA2011 motherboard with 40 PCIe lanes.
Yeah. The nice thing about x16 cards is that you can probably reuse graphics-designed systems. Like this one, four x16 slots in a 1U chassis, 2-way system so you have 80 lanes total:
Sounds like the kind of thing you'd get a lot more money for today because it's easier to find buyers using eBay. Looks like a first edition Wolverine is anywhere from $300-$4000 alone, depending on the particular magazine and grade. I guess a lot depends on the source of the collection, if they bagged mint editions it'll be worth much more than used magazines that then were collected for preservation. Pretty sure you did a good investment.
Copyright protects all the creative elements by default, not just Batman but Gotham and pretty much the whole fictional universe they're in including everything that by itself would give rise to copyright. For example it seems pretty clear to me that this elven leaf brooch from LotR is copyrighted, it's one tiny irrelevant accessory in the movie but it's also clearly a work of original art. So if you make a car and it's instantly recognizable as the Batmobile, I actually agree with this verdict. Either it's fair use or you need to make it a licensed product.
Yes, there's some degree of function here but that has never prevented the copyright of the creative elements, like if I make a painting and hang it on the wall or I paint it on the hood of my car it's equally copyrighted. Take for example dresses, everybody can make a princess dress. But if you make one that looks totally like a Disney princess for commercial sale, I'm not surprised that lawyers come knocking. Unless you want to argue that there's a functional reason it must look exactly like the Batmobile from the movies, I don't think that's a valid defense.
I don't see how SqlServer can compete against Postgresql. The only thing SqlServer had going for it was integration with.Net framework.
Focusing on the database server itself is like picking one part out of MS Office and thinking that's it. Integration services, reporting services and analysis services all work together to make SQL Server your one-stop shop for everything. If I was looking for just a database, none of the other bits I'd go with PostgreSQL. I see there's some other various tools but they seem a lot less mature than Microsoft's stuff, I guess it should be possible to use PostgreSQL as a backend via ODBC or OLE DB but it seems like asking for trouble.
Air is very compressible, there "air cushion" ahead of an airplane is really short and not very significant compared to the speed of the aircraft, the wake behind is another story entirely. It might move slightly off center so hitting the tip of the nose is unlikely but the relative impact velocity or angle of strike won't change much. That said, I'm not sure the relative difference between bird flesh and drone metal is all that significant at these speeds, with 200 mph difference hitting anything is like a brick wall.
I'm pretty sure that it's all marketing really, but the oscillation is between market share and margin. They do unpopular things and see how much backlash they get, but before people actually migrate away they release a new "we listened to you" version and the cycle starts over. I'm not sure Microsoft has really understands the consequences of their "one Windows" policy or else they're sure they got the market so by the balls it doesn't matter.
They're just trying to get rid of staff and get you to provide the service yourself.
I guess it depends on whether you think the service person is actually adding value to the process. I hated the bank tellers of old, it was an office I had to get to in their limited opening hours with a line I'd have to stand in to get to a person who'd mostly just do exactly what I just told him to do like deposit money, withdraw money, pay the bills and whatnot. I switch to an online-only bank in 2000 and never looked back, suddenly I had 24x7 service from anywhere at better prices. And where other banks had trouble and went down and said use the traditional bank, I knew that in my bank all the red lights and alarms would go off to get it back online. And they did, very quickly, every time. Just make sure you have a little cash to bridge you over, but then that's a good idea anyway.
In other cases, yes it's really the service getting cut like a restaurant going from fresh food cooked from the ground up to frozen pre-fabs and half-processed foods they just mix and warm up. Like if you actually get knowledgeable help at the store and not just a sales droid trying to upsell you or push high margin items like extended warranties or clueless staff that barely know how to use the registers, much less know anything about the products they sell. It might be a revenue adding service, but it certainly doesn't feel like a value adding service. So I very much like self service because I usually get what I want, unless there's a particular skill or reason it's much better you do it than I.
The difference is that one of them scores a win in their primaries. Yes, eventually SpaceX has to reliably nail their landings to make it useful but it was a first for this type of mission and they still almost reached their stretch goals while adding yet another successful satellite delivery to the Falcon 9 reliability stats. So apples and oranges, IMHO.
Right now, both of the barges have horizontal thrusters that will keep the barges in 1 place. In that regard, it makes much easier for the craft to come down. However, the barges do not have vertical thrusters, so, they will pitch and roll in the same location. Without these, it is going to be impossible for these to land on the barge during heavy seas such as what was seen. On a calmer day, with say 1 m waves and under, the stages will do just fine.
Heavy seas and heavy winds tend to go together, the main issue is that you're bringing down a huge, mostly empty cylinder that'll get caught by the wind. If they can compensate for that they certainly can compensate for a pitching/rolling surface. It's been pretty clear from past failures that it's the rocket failing to make a good touchdown, not the ship acting up. Including the one where the landing leg didn't lock. Until SpaceX start showing footage of rockets coming down so soft they "should have" landed, I think your concern is misplaced.
From what I've understood, VNC yes since it's essentially diff'd screen dumps with "damage areas" that are redrawn. In fact there's been some attempts at making a RDP-style remote capability that is slightly smarter because it knows the composition but not the contents of the window, like if you move a window the protocol knows it can just move rather than resend the contents. What you won't get is native X acceleration, meaning you can't actually send draw commands. Think like HTML, draw this box here with that text in this color.
That is also why Wayland at least in the reference implementation doesn't have server side decorations, it doesn't want to understand fonts, antialiasing, buttons, animation, themes and all that. It is only a pixel-pusher, it composites images other software has made. By itself it won't draw a window border, a minimize/maximize/close button, nothing. It made the project much easier without dependency on any graphics toolkit, but I think it might have been a mistake to present it like this is the norm and clients should/might have to write their own decorations.
I don't think applications should be forced to write their own decorations, it should be the norm that they can request decorations from the window system and that they'll take what they can get. The reference implementation should have been a wayland plug-in and might have been state of the art of the 1980s, a few fixed bitmaps and just "we expect actual environments like KDE, Gnome, even XFCE to come up with something more advanced this is basically a minimal placeholder". If you want to draw your own decorations that's something else.
3D's biggest issue has always been lack of 3D movies and TV shows, however, and they're only getting more scarce. ESPN's highly hyped 3D channel quietly got put to rest two years ago. Many other 3D-only channels, like 3net, Xfinity 3D, Foxtel 3D, Sky 3D and more, are also gone.
Some download services, like Vudu, still offer 3D, but the total number of 3D Blu-ray movies has dropped off significantly. They peaked in 2013 at 77, up from 66 and 68 the two years previous. Last year? 44, and only 22 so far this year. There will certainly be more in the second half, but I doubt we'll break 40.
Maybe you liked it, I'm not to argue with personal taste. But it's barely been mentioned as a feature for a couple years now, there's no plans for 4K in 3D in the new Bluray standard and nobody really seems to care. It works for most people at the cinema for a few hours every now and then, but at home it's been a dud.
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Because money improves your quality of life more than extra time does. When most people have extra time, they spend it watching TV or other similar things. When they have extra money, they can buy a bigger TV.
Well if time is fixed and all other things is equal then obviously those who earn more will buy more expensive things to get the highest utility from money, with a few exceptions that are indifferent or care more about putting kids through college than themselves. But it's not really fixed and I still haven't met anyone who don't value evenings and weekends and holidays, in fact most people say they do. But from there to stepping outside the norm of "full time employment" is very rare and you can see there are huge cultural differences. Here in Norway we get five weeks paid vacation, from what I gather in US it's typically two. And yet if I moved to the US, I can't really imagine asking for three weeks extra unpaid vacation. And I'd imagine 95%+ of Americans here taking all five.
There's actually a whole lot more "understanding" for people who switch to something entirely different and lower paying because it's their passion than working part time. That's something predominantely women do in a phase of their life to get work and family to add up, except teens and approaching retirement age among men there's only 7-8% working part time and only 2% that do it long term while the equivalent numbers for women is 30-35% and 8%. I guess a part of it is that this is kinda the "hiring unit", like I could talk to my current employer and probably get an 80% or 60% position if I wanted but if you apply for a job almost all is 100% or really low. And I don't think saying I'd like the job but only 80% of it would work well during the interview.
I have actually considered it though, because of progressive taxes the last bit of my income is hit pretty hard. Not as a day off per week, but say a 90% position and get an extra ~20 days = 4 weeks vacation. It's tempting and yet, no I haven't done it. Probably won't either, it feels a bit like slacking. But I can't really rationally justify to myself why I shouldn't do it. Or at least try to make it happen, of course my employer would have to agree but I'm pretty sure they want to keep me on staff and work is a little on and off anyway, so as long as the vacation isn't in the stress periods it should be okay for them as well. Because no, it's not about the bling for me and I got a comfortable surplus each month. Yet I don't do anything to really adjust my work and pay down to my actual consumption.
Well, yes and no. Back when Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997 it was programmed with a huge amount of chess logic programmed by people. Using a computer amplified the power of those algorithms, it had move databases but it wasn't really self-modifying. From what I understand you could step through the algorithm and even though you couldn't do it at the speed of the computer, you could follow it. That approach pretty much failed for Go, it's very hard for a human to quantify exactly what constitutes a good or bad move.
Neural networks pretty much does away with that in any form humans can follow. That is to say, if you had to explain how Alpha Go plays you'd get a ton of weights that don't really make much sense to anybody. It means you don't need Go expertise in the programming, because they couldn't find where to tweak a weakness even if they saw one. All you can really do is play it and it'll learn and adjust from its losses. From what I've gathered it's hard to find excellence, if you train with lots of mediocre players making mediocre moves it's easy to learn decent moves but that'll fail against a master. And that if you let it self-play it can easily learn nonsense that'll only work against itself.
Apparently they've solved those problems well and has now created a machine that plays at a beyond-human level. If they can extend this approach to practically unlimited choices like say an RTS where you can choose what to build, where to send your units, when to attack, when to defend, what resources to collect etc. it could be absolutely massive. Imagine if you were in say city planning and you have tons of data on traffic patterns, congestion and how traffic reflows when you open and close roads and you could put an AI on the job to say where and how you get the most value for money. I'm not sure if it's strong AI, but it's certainly places we use HI today.
Islamists are responsible for about 5% of terror attacks in the US and 2% in Europe.
The EuroStat statistics are horribly misleading. From the 2015 report (PDF).
On page 8 (emphasis mine):
Type of terrorism
As in previous years, separatist terrorism continued to be the dominant type of terrorism in court proceedings in 2014. The vast majority of separatist terrorism verdicts (92%) were pronounced in Spain. Courts in Denmark, France, Lithuania and Germany also issued verdicts in relation to separatist terrorism.
And on page 4 it says:
In Spain, reported terrorist attacks continued to decrease from 54 in 2012, to 33 in 2013, to 18 in 2014. In both countries, all attacks, except one that happened in Spain, were classified as separatist. The attacks in Spain did not cause casualties.
In fact, ETA hasn't killed anyone since their ceasefire in 2010, which they later amended to be permanent so that's over 100 terror "attacks" without loss of life as far as I can tell. Meanwhile a single islamist attack in Paris cost 130 lives with zero convictions because they're dead. No wonder they don't show up in arrest statistics.
The higher you set the threshold, the more obvious the relation gets. If you look at terrorist attacks that have killed more than 10 people in the EU since 2000 that list is presumably quite complete and it's as follows:
2004: Madrid train bombings, 191 dead - islamists
2005: London subway bombings, 52 dead - islamists
2015: Charlie Hebdo attack, 18 dead - islamists
2015: Paris attacks, 130 dead - islamists
Are you starting to see a pattern? Feel free to make the same list for the US.
In fact the whole legal system is back to front on this issue, since having specialist domain knowledge in an area often precludes you from serving on a jury in a relevant case. That's severely illogical.
I disagree. A technical expert on the jury could easily manipulate the rest by appeal to authority, even though he/she has a biased opinion of the case and dubious evaluation of the evidence. I think you get better results if everybody on the jury thinks their opinions and ideas are of equal value and get technical experts to explain it with concepts they can understand.
You do realize that for some folks, even the 4.7" Phone6 and 6s are too big? Not everyone wants a large phone or phablet.
This. The iPhone 4 (that I had, broken now) is:
115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm
iPhone 5:
123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm
iPhone 6:
138.1 x 67.0 x 6.9 mm
Even the Xperia Z5 Compact, pretty much the only other "mini flagship" is up to:
127 x 65 x 8.9 mm
It's getting thinner, fine... but it's getting taller and wider because obviously with more space you can put in more CPU, more GPU, more RAM, more cameras, more battery, more misc chips like touch id etc. but I liked how pocket friendly it was. If Apple pulls of a high quality "mini" phone they might at least get one sale and that's me. It's pretty clear the mainstream market is more willing to compromise on size than me though.
In fact there are some problems that you literally cannot study with robots. (Human physiology not the least among them)
Yes, but we already know that humans don't like to die of suffocation, cold, heat, thirst, hunger, radiation poisoning or excessive G-forces. Pretty much the only conditions we can't easily replicate is low/zero gravity, which is only interesting if we plan to have humans in low/zero gravity in the first place. Almost all the challenges to a Mars mission are technological to keep the "human parameters" within the boundaries we already have a pretty good idea of. And we could do more of those, like could you plant seeds in a Mars greenhouse and make food grow but we don't really need humans for that either.
Personally I think robotic exploration is an opportunity and a reason to develop robust, redundant, self-sufficient, self-repairing technology because you can't have a human directly control them or maintain them or repair them. Here on earth even in the most remote, unwelcoming and dangerous environments there's only so much you can do before sending a repair crew or using a remote operated unit becomes cheaper than automation. If you think trickle-down effects to earth I'd say robots that can operate for decades (Opportunity: 12 years and counting) will have a much greater effect than putting another man in a tin can.
Whether something is or is not a robot is really derailing the whole discussion anyway. If you fire a gun or set up a trip wire to fire the gun doesn't for the most part matter. If you set up a meat grinder that's not secure and a person gets dragged into it, whoever designed and approved that could be held liable. If you get summoned to court, calling in on a speakerphone doesn't cut it. Courts have usually dealt with all kinds of indirection, remote action and action-by-proxy before, legally speaking I doubt a robot is fundamentally different just because it's software with bits and bytes.
So stop saying you care about the four freedoms and just admit the community only cares about free as in beer because that is EXACTLY what we are talking about here.
I see you've been taking diplomacy lessons from George W. Bush, either you're with us or you're with the terrorists. I don't mind paying for a closed source AAA game to run on under free-as-in-beer closed source Steam on top of open source Linux, so shoot me. I value the four freedoms as a good thing, but it's a trade-off between that and what proprietary software offers. I'd like a distro that puts me in control so that I can decide what's best for me. Not a distro that has already decided that because I want Linux over Windows, I must also want open source over Catalyst, GIMP over Photoshop, LibreOffice over MS Office, Firefox over Chrome and that I should have no choice in the matter, it's all the way or not at all. If you don't see a problem with that type of reasoning, well the problem is on your end not mine.
As long as there is a road map, we should be good.
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1. Strip GNU/Ubuntu of proprietary code
2. ???
3. YotLD
I'd give Pinky and the Brain a better chance at taking over the world with their road map... in a rerun.
Well the way I see it the main issue for HDDs is that they don't scale down well. I just looked at the prices now and the cheapest are around 500GB, but you can't get a 250GB drive for half or 125GB drive for a quarter of that but you can get a 128GB SSD for the same. And for a lot of people who are mostly streaming or working in business and not heavy into home video that's plenty. A HDD is still unmatched if you need many TBs of capacity, but hey most people just don't. No, we're not average.
Adds from IBM illustrate: its already reality, investing, harvesting and research data, make an medical analysis, find the best defense strategy for a trial: is all AI dominated already.
Seriously, company that bets big on AI says it's everywhere and you take their marketing department as a credible source? Don't get me wrong but AI is barely scratching the surface of being a tool the way machinery was for the production industry, if you think AI is going to replace doctors, lawyers and generals any time soon you're wildly delusional. I'm not so sure about teachers though, since they keep repeating the same curriculum over and over and are more of a "processing" industry of sorts than a creative industry, at least until you hit research-level academics.
It's easy to get so blinded by progress that you really don't see the challenges that you're up against. Like the people who look at modern medicine and think we're close to achieving immortality or that look at modern space flight and think we're close to conquering the stars, Star Trek style. I can guarantee you that the AI that can phantom what the software requirements I get really mean and produce anything even remotely close to what the users want won't exist for another 100 years.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it could eventually be possible to build an AI capable of automating my job. But I think 90%+ of the human population would be out of a job first. At least get me an AI car that can handle the snow and ice up here north and we can talk about it, something tells me it won't be commercially available for at least 10 more years just like fusion reactors should almost be ready "soon".
Well yes obviously someone would figure out sooner or later, but he was probably counting on them not finding out who and when. Or he was in some kind of money problem (gambling, drugs, whatever) and just did the kind of incredibly stupid crime you sometimes see which keeps their world from collapsing today. The same kind of "can't think about that" like the people who throw bills in the trash or keep sending money to Nigeria.
A lot of people are simply dysfunctional that way, like they have a fear of the dentist. And they know the longer it's been since they was at the dentist, the more likely he'll find something really bad. So the problem just escalates until it becomes a huge crisis. You see that a lot with "dumb" embezzlement, now you not only got a gambling problem but for a few months delay you're now also an unemployed, convicted felon.
Rationally it doesn't make sense, how much worse it's going to be compared to the relatively short and small gain you got. But I guess it's something of a survival trait, if life's fucked up you care about living one more day. And then another one, and then the one after that. Sometimes not having perspective is good for motivation, because there's nothing in your prospects to be cheerful about. You just carry on anyway.
If you can afford this "enterprise" SSD, you can certainly afford a Xeon or Haswell-E and LGA2011 motherboard with 40 PCIe lanes.
Yeah. The nice thing about x16 cards is that you can probably reuse graphics-designed systems. Like this one, four x16 slots in a 1U chassis, 2-way system so you have 80 lanes total:
http://www.supermicro.com/prod...
Drop in four of those cards and you'll have a pretty decent database server, I imagine...
Sounds like the kind of thing you'd get a lot more money for today because it's easier to find buyers using eBay. Looks like a first edition Wolverine is anywhere from $300-$4000 alone, depending on the particular magazine and grade. I guess a lot depends on the source of the collection, if they bagged mint editions it'll be worth much more than used magazines that then were collected for preservation. Pretty sure you did a good investment.
Copyright protects all the creative elements by default, not just Batman but Gotham and pretty much the whole fictional universe they're in including everything that by itself would give rise to copyright. For example it seems pretty clear to me that this elven leaf brooch from LotR is copyrighted, it's one tiny irrelevant accessory in the movie but it's also clearly a work of original art. So if you make a car and it's instantly recognizable as the Batmobile, I actually agree with this verdict. Either it's fair use or you need to make it a licensed product.
Yes, there's some degree of function here but that has never prevented the copyright of the creative elements, like if I make a painting and hang it on the wall or I paint it on the hood of my car it's equally copyrighted. Take for example dresses, everybody can make a princess dress. But if you make one that looks totally like a Disney princess for commercial sale, I'm not surprised that lawyers come knocking. Unless you want to argue that there's a functional reason it must look exactly like the Batmobile from the movies, I don't think that's a valid defense.
I don't see how SqlServer can compete against Postgresql. The only thing SqlServer had going for it was integration with .Net framework.
Focusing on the database server itself is like picking one part out of MS Office and thinking that's it. Integration services, reporting services and analysis services all work together to make SQL Server your one-stop shop for everything. If I was looking for just a database, none of the other bits I'd go with PostgreSQL. I see there's some other various tools but they seem a lot less mature than Microsoft's stuff, I guess it should be possible to use PostgreSQL as a backend via ODBC or OLE DB but it seems like asking for trouble.
He is being honest about being dishonest!? Is that a redeeming attribute? - confused-
No, that simply makes you an incompetent liar.
Air is very compressible, there "air cushion" ahead of an airplane is really short and not very significant compared to the speed of the aircraft, the wake behind is another story entirely. It might move slightly off center so hitting the tip of the nose is unlikely but the relative impact velocity or angle of strike won't change much. That said, I'm not sure the relative difference between bird flesh and drone metal is all that significant at these speeds, with 200 mph difference hitting anything is like a brick wall.
The first rule of Frolix 8: You don't talk about Frolix 8.
I'm pretty sure that it's all marketing really, but the oscillation is between market share and margin. They do unpopular things and see how much backlash they get, but before people actually migrate away they release a new "we listened to you" version and the cycle starts over. I'm not sure Microsoft has really understands the consequences of their "one Windows" policy or else they're sure they got the market so by the balls it doesn't matter.
They're just trying to get rid of staff and get you to provide the service yourself.
I guess it depends on whether you think the service person is actually adding value to the process. I hated the bank tellers of old, it was an office I had to get to in their limited opening hours with a line I'd have to stand in to get to a person who'd mostly just do exactly what I just told him to do like deposit money, withdraw money, pay the bills and whatnot. I switch to an online-only bank in 2000 and never looked back, suddenly I had 24x7 service from anywhere at better prices. And where other banks had trouble and went down and said use the traditional bank, I knew that in my bank all the red lights and alarms would go off to get it back online. And they did, very quickly, every time. Just make sure you have a little cash to bridge you over, but then that's a good idea anyway.
In other cases, yes it's really the service getting cut like a restaurant going from fresh food cooked from the ground up to frozen pre-fabs and half-processed foods they just mix and warm up. Like if you actually get knowledgeable help at the store and not just a sales droid trying to upsell you or push high margin items like extended warranties or clueless staff that barely know how to use the registers, much less know anything about the products they sell. It might be a revenue adding service, but it certainly doesn't feel like a value adding service. So I very much like self service because I usually get what I want, unless there's a particular skill or reason it's much better you do it than I.
The difference is that one of them scores a win in their primaries. Yes, eventually SpaceX has to reliably nail their landings to make it useful but it was a first for this type of mission and they still almost reached their stretch goals while adding yet another successful satellite delivery to the Falcon 9 reliability stats. So apples and oranges, IMHO.
Right now, both of the barges have horizontal thrusters that will keep the barges in 1 place. In that regard, it makes much easier for the craft to come down. However, the barges do not have vertical thrusters, so, they will pitch and roll in the same location. Without these, it is going to be impossible for these to land on the barge during heavy seas such as what was seen. On a calmer day, with say 1 m waves and under, the stages will do just fine.
Heavy seas and heavy winds tend to go together, the main issue is that you're bringing down a huge, mostly empty cylinder that'll get caught by the wind. If they can compensate for that they certainly can compensate for a pitching/rolling surface. It's been pretty clear from past failures that it's the rocket failing to make a good touchdown, not the ship acting up. Including the one where the landing leg didn't lock. Until SpaceX start showing footage of rockets coming down so soft they "should have" landed, I think your concern is misplaced.
From what I've understood, VNC yes since it's essentially diff'd screen dumps with "damage areas" that are redrawn. In fact there's been some attempts at making a RDP-style remote capability that is slightly smarter because it knows the composition but not the contents of the window, like if you move a window the protocol knows it can just move rather than resend the contents. What you won't get is native X acceleration, meaning you can't actually send draw commands. Think like HTML, draw this box here with that text in this color.
That is also why Wayland at least in the reference implementation doesn't have server side decorations, it doesn't want to understand fonts, antialiasing, buttons, animation, themes and all that. It is only a pixel-pusher, it composites images other software has made. By itself it won't draw a window border, a minimize/maximize/close button, nothing. It made the project much easier without dependency on any graphics toolkit, but I think it might have been a mistake to present it like this is the norm and clients should/might have to write their own decorations.
I don't think applications should be forced to write their own decorations, it should be the norm that they can request decorations from the window system and that they'll take what they can get. The reference implementation should have been a wayland plug-in and might have been state of the art of the 1980s, a few fixed bitmaps and just "we expect actual environments like KDE, Gnome, even XFCE to come up with something more advanced this is basically a minimal placeholder". If you want to draw your own decorations that's something else.
Now consumers have mostly rejected it
You say that as if it were, in fact, actually true. I really respect your willingness to demonstrate such a high level of "flexibility." ;)
Vizio announces its first consumer 4K TVs, kills all 3D support
Sky drops 3D channel
BBC drops 3D programmes due to lack of interest
The End Of 3D? ESPN Drops 3D Channel
DirecTV scales back 3D content due to lack of demand
Poll: Is 3D TV dead? Do you care?
A quote from the last one:
3D's biggest issue has always been lack of 3D movies and TV shows, however, and they're only getting more scarce. ESPN's highly hyped 3D channel quietly got put to rest two years ago. Many other 3D-only channels, like 3net, Xfinity 3D, Foxtel 3D, Sky 3D and more, are also gone.
Some download services, like Vudu, still offer 3D, but the total number of 3D Blu-ray movies has dropped off significantly. They peaked in 2013 at 77, up from 66 and 68 the two years previous. Last year? 44, and only 22 so far this year. There will certainly be more in the second half, but I doubt we'll break 40.
Maybe you liked it, I'm not to argue with personal taste. But it's barely been mentioned as a feature for a couple years now, there's no plans for 4K in 3D in the new Bluray standard and nobody really seems to care. It works for most people at the cinema for a few hours every now and then, but at home it's been a dud.