If it had more independent authority and personnel relative to the national military, perhaps. But NATO is a bunch of very unlikely allies brought together by WWII and the commies, aside from the mutual defense treaty it's very much an umbrella organization with my troops and your troops. I very much doubt that the US would tell Germany they have a backdoor and I'm not so sure Germany would take direction that way either.
It originated from Jonathan Ive, Apple's lead hardware designer who now have purview over the software's aesthetics as well. Ive hated the skeuomorphism elements of iOS and IMO went completely overboard with the horrible flat UX that is now iOS. For example changing buttons to a text label without even a border? WTF? One of the most basic elements of UX since the dawn of GUIs.
One thing that is important to remember is that the usefulness of similarity to real-world objects is changing over time. Back when filing cabinets were common "files and folders" was a useful analogy. You could show me a rotary dial phone and I'd figure it's for calling people, a gramophone and it'd be for playing music but many of the current generation would be blank. Before a button had to be a button so you could physically press it and we carried that over to mouse pointers. With touchscreens maybe the answer is far more complicated because you can push, swipe, pinch and a bunch of other gestures everywhere and it's not really buttons. That's just an analogy for people who've pushed buttons for decades. Don't get me wrong, I think it's awkward too but if you look at kids that don't have the preconceptions we have they don't seem to have any problem with it at all.
As long as there's somebody with an agenda, there is always the chance for foul play. If the EFF (fairly impeccable impartiality) ordered a review by a US security expert (also with impeccable impartiality) many would suspect the NSA of issuing a NSL instructing the researcher to give it a clean bill of health. Unless you've done it yourself there's always room for a conspiracy theory like the NWO controlling both the US and German governments and then some to suppress the truth. And there's also matters like competency, a totally legit audit might fail to see a cleverly hidden backdoor. Fortunately they're not mutually exclusive so you can look at the totality and estimate how likely it is that everybody's lying or if that there really was a backdoor that someone would have found it and told about it. Usually there's somebody with integrity who thinks the public needs to know, maybe not outing themselves like Snowden but I think someone, somewhere would have dropped an anonymous hint on where to look. Personally I'm getting more and more convinced the infamous 7.2 release was because they were being forced to implement a backdoor, not to warn of an existing one. That 7.1a was simply too good for our Orwellian overlords, which I don't welcome.
So some people actually thought disk encryption is safe even if an attacker has access to the system? How so? I mean.... if you leave your front door unlocked it is apparently such that anyone else can enter without a key. I guess tat's an obvious fact that most people would agree so why then is not apparent that an unlocked encrypted disk is accessible to anyone that is logged into the system? Seriously that eludes me.
Not access to the system, access to the front door. They can't break down the door, but they can tamper with it so the next time you unlock it they copy the key or slip in with you. Which means the door isn't sufficient, but the remaining threats aren't the fault of the door. It does its job of staying locked until someone presents the right key.
Anyone who calls a phone or tablet a "general computing device" in an effort to lump them in with actual PCs is a fucking tool seeking to sell data and analysis to a bunch of MBAs.
Look, both compact cars and vans are "general transport devices" even though they aren't really interchangeable. I think we can all agree modern smartphones aren't appliances, they're not some one trick pony like a dish washer or the cellphone you had last century. No, I wouldn't like to replace my work or gaming PC with a tablet but I also wouldn't want to drag a laptop around everywhere I go.
The smartphone has clearly superseded my desktop as my most personal and most jack-of-all-trades tool. Sure, it sucks at typing up an email but it's there. The screen is small and that sucks but it's there. I'm way more precise with a mouse than my sausage fingers but it's right there. It's got a half-decent camera, GPS and a bunch of other things dedicated tools do better but it's good enough.
It's the other things that have become the niches, my work PC is there for development. My home PC is there for gaming. The big TV is there for movies. My laptop is there for travel. I'm not going to sit down to watch a two hour movie on a 4" screen. But for a ten second Snapchat from my friends doing something silly it's perfectly adequate. The smartphone has become the generalist, the PC the specialist.
I'm sorry if you're not seeing it, but it's true. In the grand scheme of "general" computing, something like gaming is a niche. Having a gaming PC is like a photographer having a DSLR, perfectly natural for the enthusiast but also something most people don't feel they need. The main reason the mass market still needs a laptop is the inertia of x86 software. With WiDi and Bluetooth accessories phones and tablets could be full-blown PCs in a smaller package.
Funny how Boeing and SpaceX are competing for it but there is no mention of Boeing in the title. I smell bias.
At this point they're not really competing, both have been guaranteed contracts through the commercial crew program. This launch goes to SpaceX, other launches go to Boeing but the big hurdle for both is still the man rating. I imagine the road didn't get any shorter after SpaceX's launch failure and without that it's just a piece of paper.
At noon, on the day of a solstice or an equinox, the sun is in a known position in the sky. We use it for important things like navigation and timekeeping, and knowing when the hell things like eclipses, sun flares, high tides, and comets might happen... or that asteroid which might kill us. It's a real physical property, which we kind of need to keep track of. It's NOT some thing you can say "oh, well, what does it matter if you're off by a couple of days?".
But we're not talking about days. There's been 26 leap seconds in 43 years, we're talking about a drift of roughly one minute per century. For most things being off by a minute or two wouldn't matter and if you know 12:01 = 12:00 a hundred years ago it might be easier to correct for that. While leap seconds keeps us in sync with reality, it means that if you want to do something every X seconds you can't just rely on UTC and NTP because at some point it'll actually go X+1 seconds. And leap seconds take world-wide coordination because you have to know every six month whether to adjust the clock or not, it can't be put into an algorithm. Calculating the appearance of comets would actually be easier because they have a fixed period, whether the earth slows down or not.
The only question is if we want a ton of small "discontinuities" in time, or if it's less stress to do set a much larger drift limit and pull a "y2k" for example once every 400 years where you add a "February 30th" that lasts exactly so long as you need it to last. And between those the day is 84600.00000000 seconds long, no matter what the big yellow orb outside says. We could instead publish drift numbers if you want solar noon, even every day. At this granularity the world is run by clocks, not by the sun.
Why isn't this automated? I know... they say it's a test run, so certain safety features are disabled, but ffs, can't you at least find an operator who knows wtf he's doing? This is just sad.
On a test he'd most certainly know what to do. But the mind has bugs, it slips our mind, we think we already did it, we get lost in thought or conversation and so on. The better question is why this system needs to be disabled at all. Surely compared to building the rail track and putting a train on it, getting the markers in place to signal speed limits and install a track profile should be trivial. Even if they want to do speed trials in excess of the production speed, they should be able to use a test profile with higher permitted but still not derailment speeds. If they need to travel the track for whatever reason like pairing or profiling or whatever that's nice, you get to do that on a leisure run in 30 km/h. As in, you don't get to run at high speeds until the safety systems are in order. To make an IT analogy this is like deciding that setting up firewall openings on the test server is too hard and inconvenient, let's just turn it off and do it later in production. Then you start loading it up with realistic data from production and get pwned. I'd put that squarely at the feet of the person who turned the safeties off, even though some other mistake or poor configuration might also be to blame. But that was accidental, the other reckless.
The Open Source Initiative has certified the MIT license as a valid open source license. Look I'm not a huge MS fan either, but they are using a real OSS license here. Just because MIT isn't copyleft doesn't mean its not OSS.
Not to mention GPL-compatible, which means it in every way has less strings attached. This is not the CDDL or MS PL or some other obscure and intentionally incompatible license, it's as open source as it gets.
So, realistically, while most people would prefer to invest in projects that will produce a result, there is a substantial difference between a Kickstarter for something like a board game, which is relatively easy to publish, compared to an advanced drone, which is not easy to build, and the manufacturing process has to be built from the ground up. People who get into Kickstarter projects expecting a product at the end are advised to have some understanding of the relative difficulties involved of the project they are supporting and then not support it if it is too speculative.
Sure, there are a lot of real risks. But what you always have to ask yourself on a Kickstarter is "Have they been working on it as if they were $100k deep (in time or cash) from their own pockets, or has this been more of a dotcom-startup with high salaries, Aeron chairs and lavish company trips?" Because say you're 10-20% into this project, you start getting real numbers on the table and the costs are higher than expected, the market prices lower and you haven't really struck gold. Do you stock up on Ramen noodles and long hours for a slim chance of moderate success? Or do you just go slacker and burn through the budget for a guaranteed good time as long as it lasts?
Remember they have no investors with any oversight, nobody deeply invested and if they can simply provide a little evidence to appear as a poorly thought out project that failed due to unforeseen circumstances and not a total scam, they're good. That's the difference with having real investors on board, they make sure the attempt is mostly honest. Of course I'm not saying that's what happened here, for all I know they could all be hard-working people who's given it their very best, but you don't know. With Kickstarter you never know.
Just try, if they're playable great. If not, then... what? Here's the paper on which something once was written but is now gone, what's the point of that?
We were running a Scrum project to replace a very poorly designed software system. The people running the project were very skilled, and the scrum team came together well. This was a large project, and took time. As people rotated off the project do to various reasons, the replacements were not as excited about the method. Finally, the program manager moved on, and his replacement killed the project. We went back to trying to add features to the previous system. Scrum is a major change in mindset, and often hard to maintain over time.
Okay, let me try to give you an alternative perspective from the new program manager's side. Here we have a project that's just going and going and going, the money is running out while the old system is falling apart. The greenfield nature of the project and the flexibility of the business requirements means you've been constantly padding it with nice-to-have features and improvements to build a wonder to solve all kinds of all current and future problems. And nobody seems to have done a proper estimation of all the work that needs to replace the old one, they talk of velocity and burn-down but can't tell how far they are from the goal line because estimates only go a few weeks out. Replacing an existing system is a very bad time to use scrum, at least all the parts that don't directly related to cranking out good code. Here's a good step list if you want to make a successful project:
1) Find the minimal functional requirements you need to turn the lights off on the old system. As detailed as possible and make sure people understand if it's not in the spec, it's not trivial to add later. 2) Find the parts that make it so terribly designed you want to replace it and agree conceptually on how you want to fix them. List major benefits and why they can't be realized in the old system. 3) Estimate it as best you can, both in time, money and resources. Agree on testing and go-no go criteria for the switch-over, because there will be workflow changes and discrepancies. 4) Get buy-in that getting 1)+2) for the cost of 3) is worth doing. Note that the user value is $0 until they can actually use the system in lieu of the old one, no matter how much is "done". 5) Avoid scope creep. Even if it's a good idea, put it in the backlog unless it's a release critical feature they forgot. Don't let users turn easy features into a complex ones if the spec was poor and incomplete. 6) Don't let displeased users who didn't get their pet changes hold up the testing or refuse to put it into production. Don't be totally unreasonable but don't let them exaggerate the problem. 7) Deliver. Be ready to put out any fires from requirements they never realized existed until the lights went out on the old system. If you have trouble on 5) or 6), make them understand this is alpha and omega. 8) You may now resume you regularly scheduled scrum development delivering incremental user value based on the most pressing business needs on a rapid-fire basis.
If this sounds remarkably like waterfall, well it is. No matter what kind of internal process the team has the external question will be if we're now 20% into the budget and schedule are we 20% done or not? Because the customer doesn't really care what you're doing first, last or in the middle only about whether you'll reach 100% on time, on budget and that the final result is as promised.
Apple tends to assume the developer is lazy or at least market driven, meaning they won't support the odd alternative very well. See for example Apple's approach to high DPI vs Windows. So they think that most your desktop-ish apps will treat touch like shit and most your touch-oriented apps will treat keyboard+mouse as shit. It seems Apple is focusing on providing hand-off from one system to the other. I'm sure that at some point they'll offer it on one physical device so you can flip it from tablet to laptop mode, but that a "hybrid" mode is out of the question. It might just be what the doctor ordered to get both interfaces supported well or it could totally backfire, not sure which.
In the real world, "evil" people almost always think they do what they think is best for something.
Yeah, best for themselves. You think a thief isn't pissed when he's robbed? The bully when he's beaten up? I don't think your average criminal believes he's got any moral high ground, he simply has the power and is using it for personal gain. A few might because they believe it serves the greater good or divine will or whatever ranging from civil disobedience to jihadists, but that's the exception not the norm.
The IS propaganda machine is a hit-n-run operation, they probably lose accounts and sites all the time for violating the terms of service but they just make more. I very much doubt Anonymous is capable of exposing someone who likes to disappear like a fart in the wind, just like Anonymous themselves. Sure hacking into their internal networks would be nice, but that sounds like very legitimate targets for the NSA and friends and that's assuming they're exposed to the Internet in any meaningful way. They might like to do something about it, but I really doubt they can.
It's easy for them to deploy air assets to Syria because they're not needed in Donbas, but if they take too much ground forces from Donbas and Crimea, Ukraine might be tempted to reescalate.
Even the highest estimates were that <1% of the Russian armed forces were in Ukraine (7,000 of 771,000), if it's just to maintain the image of a fighting force I don't think they have any problems finding the manpower. Besides, an assault by Ukranian forces would give Russia an excuse to declare that Kiev is now the aggressor and officially roll in the tanks to protect the Russian minority. Even if Putin gets caught a bit off guard, it seems extremely unlikely he would lose face without action and the bigger the hurt to his public image, the more he might want to re-escalate. Sounds like very high stakes gambling.
The enthusiast desktop CPUs are a spin-off from the Xeon server CPUs. They spend much longer time validating those than mainstream laptop/desktop CPUs, so on any new architecture/process they're likely to arrive last. The upside and/or downside is that it might still introduce new features or standards like say DDR4 ahead of the consumer CPUs, but sometimes at a high cost.
It's an attack on a special privilege only granted to religious people. If everyone could wear whatever headgear they wanted, we wouldn't be having this argument. The church of the FSM isn't making fun of your or anyone else's beliefs, it's just making sure that if the government recognizes one of them it must recognizes all of them as equally valid. That the government got no right to say that your religion is "true" so you can wear your headgear and my religion is "false" so I can't, or that you can teach your religious beliefs about the creation of the universe or the human race but I can't. I know you have faith in your religion, here's a newsflash: So does every other religious person. Maybe you as a person can dismiss everyone else's beliefs. But as a society with freedom of religion, it can't. Even when they don't comply with your ideas of what a religious conviction should look like.
Assuming Intel doesn't go Xeon-scale in pricing for this CPU (who am I kidding, of course they will) I wonder how AMD plans to respond to this.
Fighting the battles they can win, or are at least less likely to lose. This is a halo product of a server line of chips and getting Opterons back in the data center takes more time for validation and convincing conservative enterprises than AMD has. Zen will launch to compete with Intel's mainstream dual/quad-core chips, even if it pulls off a miracle I'm guessing it'd take at least a year or two until AMD is back to a full top-to-bottom stack.
Last year Uber quadrupled their prices for people trying to leave downtown Sydney during a hostage standoff. Uber style phone tariffs means that if terrorists kill 100-1000 people in a town, it will cost $50 for people to communicate their survival to concerned family members, because after all, that's what people will pay, right? So it's all good.
Or maybe lovesick teenagers will get off the phone so that important calls and messages will actually get through. It's called price gouging when there's no drop-off in demand, just increase in profits but usually there's a lot of non-essential phone traffic. That said, ordinarily I'd think we're building out so massive bandwidth for "nice-to-have" streaming video and whatnot that it shouldn't be any problem to choke and re purpose that to provide basic emergency service. Because what your loved ones need to hear is "I'm okay just hauled up here waiting it out" while Snapchat and YouTube can go on the back burner.
Using a string class instead of a char* array? Using signals/slots message passing rather than calling otherobject* -> function()? "Bare pointers" means "fiddling directly with memory addresses".
With a lie....and btw you find out it was a lie, too late to do anything about it.
A lot of people prefer a blissful lie over an uncomfortable truth. We humans are very good at seeing what we want to see.
"Social infrastructure, including baseline values and morals".....
Humans had baseline values and morals long before religion was invented.
Yes, but only religion has an omniscient force that always knows. Doesn't matter if it's God, Allah, karma or whatever they pretty much all have a similar concept. There's no doubt that humans act differently when they will be seen or caught as opposed to when they can get away with it. That it's only their imaginary friend that will see and know doesn't change that.
I think religion is a little bit like physical evolution, it's a game of numbers. Does a religious people with a sense of community, common cause and meaning, divine guidance, protection and punishment function and thrive better than a bunch of atheist individuals that don't have any common beliefs, self-made meaning and rely on their own moral compass? It's not a matter of true or false, it's a matter of which side can sustain and reproduce itself. Considering most the world's societies have at some point found religion while historically there's very few societies that never had any form of supernaturalism I'd say religion was more "fit" for the environment than atheism. But I hope with our advances in science and technology we can change that.
A lot of hatred and terror comes from a false sense of superiority and a spurious blame-fest of the victims, to act like the terror would cease if we only were ever kinder sheep who bend over to appease the aggressors is folly. Whether it's genetic superiority (übermenschen vs untermenschen), religious superiority (true believers vs unbelievers), cultural superiority (enlightened vs savages) the result is mostly the same. And it's always easier to blame shit on an external enemy, whether it's the jews or the african-americans or the western imperialists.
There are many apologists who turn the cause and effect upside down and blame the victims for causing the conditions that cause terrorism, for the most part they make me want to puke with their self-loathing and victim-blaming. Usually they think themselves so very enlightened and civilized when they're really just blaming the rape victim for wearing a short skirt. No matter how badly Saddam treated the Sunnis what the IS is doing to Christians and other minorities has nothing to do with revenge and everything to do with a megalomanic desire for world domination and genocide.
It's a cancer that will only grow as long as it is allowed to grow. The last time the world had to stand up to such evil and say "enough is enough" ~15 million allied soldiers and ~35 million allied civilians died. I'm kinda hoping we can get away with less this time, but I think there will be a lot of blood spilled before then and the longer we let them control and indoctrinate large parts of the population in Syria and Iraq the messier it will get. Evil is breeding right now, whether we attack it or not.
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If it had more independent authority and personnel relative to the national military, perhaps. But NATO is a bunch of very unlikely allies brought together by WWII and the commies, aside from the mutual defense treaty it's very much an umbrella organization with my troops and your troops. I very much doubt that the US would tell Germany they have a backdoor and I'm not so sure Germany would take direction that way either.
It originated from Jonathan Ive, Apple's lead hardware designer who now have purview over the software's aesthetics as well. Ive hated the skeuomorphism elements of iOS and IMO went completely overboard with the horrible flat UX that is now iOS. For example changing buttons to a text label without even a border? WTF? One of the most basic elements of UX since the dawn of GUIs.
One thing that is important to remember is that the usefulness of similarity to real-world objects is changing over time. Back when filing cabinets were common "files and folders" was a useful analogy. You could show me a rotary dial phone and I'd figure it's for calling people, a gramophone and it'd be for playing music but many of the current generation would be blank. Before a button had to be a button so you could physically press it and we carried that over to mouse pointers. With touchscreens maybe the answer is far more complicated because you can push, swipe, pinch and a bunch of other gestures everywhere and it's not really buttons. That's just an analogy for people who've pushed buttons for decades. Don't get me wrong, I think it's awkward too but if you look at kids that don't have the preconceptions we have they don't seem to have any problem with it at all.
As long as there's somebody with an agenda, there is always the chance for foul play. If the EFF (fairly impeccable impartiality) ordered a review by a US security expert (also with impeccable impartiality) many would suspect the NSA of issuing a NSL instructing the researcher to give it a clean bill of health. Unless you've done it yourself there's always room for a conspiracy theory like the NWO controlling both the US and German governments and then some to suppress the truth. And there's also matters like competency, a totally legit audit might fail to see a cleverly hidden backdoor. Fortunately they're not mutually exclusive so you can look at the totality and estimate how likely it is that everybody's lying or if that there really was a backdoor that someone would have found it and told about it. Usually there's somebody with integrity who thinks the public needs to know, maybe not outing themselves like Snowden but I think someone, somewhere would have dropped an anonymous hint on where to look. Personally I'm getting more and more convinced the infamous 7.2 release was because they were being forced to implement a backdoor, not to warn of an existing one. That 7.1a was simply too good for our Orwellian overlords, which I don't welcome.
So some people actually thought disk encryption is safe even if an attacker has access to the system? How so? I mean.... if you leave your front door unlocked it is apparently such that anyone else can enter without a key. I guess tat's an obvious fact that most people would agree so why then is not apparent that an unlocked encrypted disk is accessible to anyone that is logged into the system? Seriously that eludes me.
Not access to the system, access to the front door. They can't break down the door, but they can tamper with it so the next time you unlock it they copy the key or slip in with you. Which means the door isn't sufficient, but the remaining threats aren't the fault of the door. It does its job of staying locked until someone presents the right key.
Anyone who calls a phone or tablet a "general computing device" in an effort to lump them in with actual PCs is a fucking tool seeking to sell data and analysis to a bunch of MBAs.
Look, both compact cars and vans are "general transport devices" even though they aren't really interchangeable. I think we can all agree modern smartphones aren't appliances, they're not some one trick pony like a dish washer or the cellphone you had last century. No, I wouldn't like to replace my work or gaming PC with a tablet but I also wouldn't want to drag a laptop around everywhere I go.
The smartphone has clearly superseded my desktop as my most personal and most jack-of-all-trades tool. Sure, it sucks at typing up an email but it's there. The screen is small and that sucks but it's there. I'm way more precise with a mouse than my sausage fingers but it's right there. It's got a half-decent camera, GPS and a bunch of other things dedicated tools do better but it's good enough.
It's the other things that have become the niches, my work PC is there for development. My home PC is there for gaming. The big TV is there for movies. My laptop is there for travel. I'm not going to sit down to watch a two hour movie on a 4" screen. But for a ten second Snapchat from my friends doing something silly it's perfectly adequate. The smartphone has become the generalist, the PC the specialist.
I'm sorry if you're not seeing it, but it's true. In the grand scheme of "general" computing, something like gaming is a niche. Having a gaming PC is like a photographer having a DSLR, perfectly natural for the enthusiast but also something most people don't feel they need. The main reason the mass market still needs a laptop is the inertia of x86 software. With WiDi and Bluetooth accessories phones and tablets could be full-blown PCs in a smaller package.
Funny how Boeing and SpaceX are competing for it but there is no mention of Boeing in the title. I smell bias.
At this point they're not really competing, both have been guaranteed contracts through the commercial crew program. This launch goes to SpaceX, other launches go to Boeing but the big hurdle for both is still the man rating. I imagine the road didn't get any shorter after SpaceX's launch failure and without that it's just a piece of paper.
At noon, on the day of a solstice or an equinox, the sun is in a known position in the sky. We use it for important things like navigation and timekeeping, and knowing when the hell things like eclipses, sun flares, high tides, and comets might happen ... or that asteroid which might kill us. It's a real physical property, which we kind of need to keep track of. It's NOT some thing you can say "oh, well, what does it matter if you're off by a couple of days?".
But we're not talking about days. There's been 26 leap seconds in 43 years, we're talking about a drift of roughly one minute per century. For most things being off by a minute or two wouldn't matter and if you know 12:01 = 12:00 a hundred years ago it might be easier to correct for that. While leap seconds keeps us in sync with reality, it means that if you want to do something every X seconds you can't just rely on UTC and NTP because at some point it'll actually go X+1 seconds. And leap seconds take world-wide coordination because you have to know every six month whether to adjust the clock or not, it can't be put into an algorithm. Calculating the appearance of comets would actually be easier because they have a fixed period, whether the earth slows down or not.
The only question is if we want a ton of small "discontinuities" in time, or if it's less stress to do set a much larger drift limit and pull a "y2k" for example once every 400 years where you add a "February 30th" that lasts exactly so long as you need it to last. And between those the day is 84600.00000000 seconds long, no matter what the big yellow orb outside says. We could instead publish drift numbers if you want solar noon, even every day. At this granularity the world is run by clocks, not by the sun.
Why isn't this automated? I know... they say it's a test run, so certain safety features are disabled, but ffs, can't you at least find an operator who knows wtf he's doing? This is just sad.
On a test he'd most certainly know what to do. But the mind has bugs, it slips our mind, we think we already did it, we get lost in thought or conversation and so on. The better question is why this system needs to be disabled at all. Surely compared to building the rail track and putting a train on it, getting the markers in place to signal speed limits and install a track profile should be trivial. Even if they want to do speed trials in excess of the production speed, they should be able to use a test profile with higher permitted but still not derailment speeds. If they need to travel the track for whatever reason like pairing or profiling or whatever that's nice, you get to do that on a leisure run in 30 km/h. As in, you don't get to run at high speeds until the safety systems are in order. To make an IT analogy this is like deciding that setting up firewall openings on the test server is too hard and inconvenient, let's just turn it off and do it later in production. Then you start loading it up with realistic data from production and get pwned. I'd put that squarely at the feet of the person who turned the safeties off, even though some other mistake or poor configuration might also be to blame. But that was accidental, the other reckless.
The Open Source Initiative has certified the MIT license as a valid open source license. Look I'm not a huge MS fan either, but they are using a real OSS license here. Just because MIT isn't copyleft doesn't mean its not OSS.
Not to mention GPL-compatible, which means it in every way has less strings attached. This is not the CDDL or MS PL or some other obscure and intentionally incompatible license, it's as open source as it gets.
So, realistically, while most people would prefer to invest in projects that will produce a result, there is a substantial difference between a Kickstarter for something like a board game, which is relatively easy to publish, compared to an advanced drone, which is not easy to build, and the manufacturing process has to be built from the ground up. People who get into Kickstarter projects expecting a product at the end are advised to have some understanding of the relative difficulties involved of the project they are supporting and then not support it if it is too speculative.
Sure, there are a lot of real risks. But what you always have to ask yourself on a Kickstarter is "Have they been working on it as if they were $100k deep (in time or cash) from their own pockets, or has this been more of a dotcom-startup with high salaries, Aeron chairs and lavish company trips?" Because say you're 10-20% into this project, you start getting real numbers on the table and the costs are higher than expected, the market prices lower and you haven't really struck gold. Do you stock up on Ramen noodles and long hours for a slim chance of moderate success? Or do you just go slacker and burn through the budget for a guaranteed good time as long as it lasts?
Remember they have no investors with any oversight, nobody deeply invested and if they can simply provide a little evidence to appear as a poorly thought out project that failed due to unforeseen circumstances and not a total scam, they're good. That's the difference with having real investors on board, they make sure the attempt is mostly honest. Of course I'm not saying that's what happened here, for all I know they could all be hard-working people who's given it their very best, but you don't know. With Kickstarter you never know.
Could we PLEASE have a basic IQ and literacy test requirement to serve in public office?
He's smart enough to get voted into office, which probably means he's well above average. Depressed yet?
Just try, if they're playable great. If not, then... what? Here's the paper on which something once was written but is now gone, what's the point of that?
We were running a Scrum project to replace a very poorly designed software system. The people running the project were very skilled, and the scrum team came together well. This was a large project, and took time. As people rotated off the project do to various reasons, the replacements were not as excited about the method. Finally, the program manager moved on, and his replacement killed the project. We went back to trying to add features to the previous system. Scrum is a major change in mindset, and often hard to maintain over time.
Okay, let me try to give you an alternative perspective from the new program manager's side. Here we have a project that's just going and going and going, the money is running out while the old system is falling apart. The greenfield nature of the project and the flexibility of the business requirements means you've been constantly padding it with nice-to-have features and improvements to build a wonder to solve all kinds of all current and future problems. And nobody seems to have done a proper estimation of all the work that needs to replace the old one, they talk of velocity and burn-down but can't tell how far they are from the goal line because estimates only go a few weeks out. Replacing an existing system is a very bad time to use scrum, at least all the parts that don't directly related to cranking out good code. Here's a good step list if you want to make a successful project:
1) Find the minimal functional requirements you need to turn the lights off on the old system. As detailed as possible and make sure people understand if it's not in the spec, it's not trivial to add later.
2) Find the parts that make it so terribly designed you want to replace it and agree conceptually on how you want to fix them. List major benefits and why they can't be realized in the old system.
3) Estimate it as best you can, both in time, money and resources. Agree on testing and go-no go criteria for the switch-over, because there will be workflow changes and discrepancies.
4) Get buy-in that getting 1)+2) for the cost of 3) is worth doing. Note that the user value is $0 until they can actually use the system in lieu of the old one, no matter how much is "done".
5) Avoid scope creep. Even if it's a good idea, put it in the backlog unless it's a release critical feature they forgot. Don't let users turn easy features into a complex ones if the spec was poor and incomplete.
6) Don't let displeased users who didn't get their pet changes hold up the testing or refuse to put it into production. Don't be totally unreasonable but don't let them exaggerate the problem.
7) Deliver. Be ready to put out any fires from requirements they never realized existed until the lights went out on the old system. If you have trouble on 5) or 6), make them understand this is alpha and omega.
8) You may now resume you regularly scheduled scrum development delivering incremental user value based on the most pressing business needs on a rapid-fire basis.
If this sounds remarkably like waterfall, well it is. No matter what kind of internal process the team has the external question will be if we're now 20% into the budget and schedule are we 20% done or not? Because the customer doesn't really care what you're doing first, last or in the middle only about whether you'll reach 100% on time, on budget and that the final result is as promised.
Apple tends to assume the developer is lazy or at least market driven, meaning they won't support the odd alternative very well. See for example Apple's approach to high DPI vs Windows. So they think that most your desktop-ish apps will treat touch like shit and most your touch-oriented apps will treat keyboard+mouse as shit. It seems Apple is focusing on providing hand-off from one system to the other. I'm sure that at some point they'll offer it on one physical device so you can flip it from tablet to laptop mode, but that a "hybrid" mode is out of the question. It might just be what the doctor ordered to get both interfaces supported well or it could totally backfire, not sure which.
In the real world, "evil" people almost always think they do what they think is best for something.
Yeah, best for themselves. You think a thief isn't pissed when he's robbed? The bully when he's beaten up? I don't think your average criminal believes he's got any moral high ground, he simply has the power and is using it for personal gain. A few might because they believe it serves the greater good or divine will or whatever ranging from civil disobedience to jihadists, but that's the exception not the norm.
The IS propaganda machine is a hit-n-run operation, they probably lose accounts and sites all the time for violating the terms of service but they just make more. I very much doubt Anonymous is capable of exposing someone who likes to disappear like a fart in the wind, just like Anonymous themselves. Sure hacking into their internal networks would be nice, but that sounds like very legitimate targets for the NSA and friends and that's assuming they're exposed to the Internet in any meaningful way. They might like to do something about it, but I really doubt they can.
It's easy for them to deploy air assets to Syria because they're not needed in Donbas, but if they take too much ground forces from Donbas and Crimea, Ukraine might be tempted to reescalate.
Even the highest estimates were that <1% of the Russian armed forces were in Ukraine (7,000 of 771,000), if it's just to maintain the image of a fighting force I don't think they have any problems finding the manpower. Besides, an assault by Ukranian forces would give Russia an excuse to declare that Kiev is now the aggressor and officially roll in the tanks to protect the Russian minority. Even if Putin gets caught a bit off guard, it seems extremely unlikely he would lose face without action and the bigger the hurt to his public image, the more he might want to re-escalate. Sounds like very high stakes gambling.
Yes, but why?
The enthusiast desktop CPUs are a spin-off from the Xeon server CPUs. They spend much longer time validating those than mainstream laptop/desktop CPUs, so on any new architecture/process they're likely to arrive last. The upside and/or downside is that it might still introduce new features or standards like say DDR4 ahead of the consumer CPUs, but sometimes at a high cost.
It's an attack on a special privilege only granted to religious people. If everyone could wear whatever headgear they wanted, we wouldn't be having this argument. The church of the FSM isn't making fun of your or anyone else's beliefs, it's just making sure that if the government recognizes one of them it must recognizes all of them as equally valid. That the government got no right to say that your religion is "true" so you can wear your headgear and my religion is "false" so I can't, or that you can teach your religious beliefs about the creation of the universe or the human race but I can't. I know you have faith in your religion, here's a newsflash: So does every other religious person. Maybe you as a person can dismiss everyone else's beliefs. But as a society with freedom of religion, it can't. Even when they don't comply with your ideas of what a religious conviction should look like.
Assuming Intel doesn't go Xeon-scale in pricing for this CPU (who am I kidding, of course they will) I wonder how AMD plans to respond to this.
Fighting the battles they can win, or are at least less likely to lose. This is a halo product of a server line of chips and getting Opterons back in the data center takes more time for validation and convincing conservative enterprises than AMD has. Zen will launch to compete with Intel's mainstream dual/quad-core chips, even if it pulls off a miracle I'm guessing it'd take at least a year or two until AMD is back to a full top-to-bottom stack.
Last year Uber quadrupled their prices for people trying to leave downtown Sydney during a hostage standoff. Uber style phone tariffs means that if terrorists kill 100-1000 people in a town, it will cost $50 for people to communicate their survival to concerned family members, because after all, that's what people will pay, right? So it's all good.
Or maybe lovesick teenagers will get off the phone so that important calls and messages will actually get through. It's called price gouging when there's no drop-off in demand, just increase in profits but usually there's a lot of non-essential phone traffic. That said, ordinarily I'd think we're building out so massive bandwidth for "nice-to-have" streaming video and whatnot that it shouldn't be any problem to choke and re purpose that to provide basic emergency service. Because what your loved ones need to hear is "I'm okay just hauled up here waiting it out" while Snapchat and YouTube can go on the back burner.
Yes the Middle East is a quagmire and it has been for decades.
I think you misspelled millennia.
Using a string class instead of a char* array? Using signals/slots message passing rather than calling otherobject* -> function()? "Bare pointers" means "fiddling directly with memory addresses".
With a lie....and btw you find out it was a lie, too late to do anything about it.
A lot of people prefer a blissful lie over an uncomfortable truth. We humans are very good at seeing what we want to see.
"Social infrastructure, including baseline values and morals".....
Humans had baseline values and morals long before religion was invented.
Yes, but only religion has an omniscient force that always knows. Doesn't matter if it's God, Allah, karma or whatever they pretty much all have a similar concept. There's no doubt that humans act differently when they will be seen or caught as opposed to when they can get away with it. That it's only their imaginary friend that will see and know doesn't change that.
I think religion is a little bit like physical evolution, it's a game of numbers. Does a religious people with a sense of community, common cause and meaning, divine guidance, protection and punishment function and thrive better than a bunch of atheist individuals that don't have any common beliefs, self-made meaning and rely on their own moral compass? It's not a matter of true or false, it's a matter of which side can sustain and reproduce itself. Considering most the world's societies have at some point found religion while historically there's very few societies that never had any form of supernaturalism I'd say religion was more "fit" for the environment than atheism. But I hope with our advances in science and technology we can change that.
A lot of hatred and terror comes from a false sense of superiority and a spurious blame-fest of the victims, to act like the terror would cease if we only were ever kinder sheep who bend over to appease the aggressors is folly. Whether it's genetic superiority (übermenschen vs untermenschen), religious superiority (true believers vs unbelievers), cultural superiority (enlightened vs savages) the result is mostly the same. And it's always easier to blame shit on an external enemy, whether it's the jews or the african-americans or the western imperialists.
There are many apologists who turn the cause and effect upside down and blame the victims for causing the conditions that cause terrorism, for the most part they make me want to puke with their self-loathing and victim-blaming. Usually they think themselves so very enlightened and civilized when they're really just blaming the rape victim for wearing a short skirt. No matter how badly Saddam treated the Sunnis what the IS is doing to Christians and other minorities has nothing to do with revenge and everything to do with a megalomanic desire for world domination and genocide.
It's a cancer that will only grow as long as it is allowed to grow. The last time the world had to stand up to such evil and say "enough is enough" ~15 million allied soldiers and ~35 million allied civilians died. I'm kinda hoping we can get away with less this time, but I think there will be a lot of blood spilled before then and the longer we let them control and indoctrinate large parts of the population in Syria and Iraq the messier it will get. Evil is breeding right now, whether we attack it or not.