Since they are offering a prorated refund, no financial damage has been done and the suit would fail.
That's not how it works, a contract is a commitment on both sides and the liability is based on the harm caused. Imagine you'd rented a billboard for a year but because they've given you too good a deal or there's a shortage and prices have gone up they say "sorry we're cancelling our yearly deals but you'll get the rest prorated, we now only have a monthly lease that's much more expensive" that would be a classic case where you could sue for the difference.
And when doing that you don't have to go looking for deals, that you can leave to the defendant. "Based on my historic use of MoviePass I would go see 8 movies a month. They are now trying to walk out on 6 months of service. 8*6 = 48 tickets. 48 tickets * full price = $500. They offer me $50 in prorated fee, I'm taking them to small claims court for $500-$50 = $450. That's without weasel words in the contract, which is why they're usually there. But if they never really thought this would happen or their lawyers had a bad day then no you can't just cut a deal short like that.
I enjoyed the first two seasons, thought the third was already too much, and dropped out after a couple of episodes of the fourth. I found that as they piled more and more geek stereotypes onto the same four characters it eventually broke my suspension of disbelief.
Maybe the problem was that you wanted realism. I thought it was more like the nerd version of Mr. Bean doing comedy, like there is no over the top acting. There's a reason it almost ended up like the Sheldon show for a few seasons, he was the exceptionally most dysfunctional and the ways he managed to always take it to the next level was hilarious. But you should not try to binge watch it, just like a Mr. Bean movie is too much so is more than two episodes in a row.
A head on by two cars travelling at 50MPH is definitely worse than a single car hitting a solid immovable wall at 50MPH.
No. Your car will deform on your side, their car will deform on their side and the net effect is the same as hitting an immovable wall. Now between two equal cars the damage scales with the relative speed difference, regardless of distribution. Like 50+50 and 100+0 ends up the same, it's still two crumple zones meeting at 100 mph. If you have unequal weights the heavier vehicle will maintain some momentum and thus have less deceleration, which is quite obvious if you consider car vs motorcycle. Though what happens to the passengers depends on the car, there's some very complex systems to soften the impact of the deceleration. If you connected a solid steel rod from the front of the car to the car seat people would die real quick.
This is exactly why Usenet and IRC are â" and always have been â" a better alternative.
What it lacks is any kind of rate control, there's nothing preventing anyone from setting up a spam bot. Bandwidth has increased massively, actual reading speed not so much. It's almost good enough for a limited audience, if they only could get that under control. Otherwise it'll be the way newsgroups were kinda used like torrents in the latter days, you'd use some other service to get NZBs and not actually read the posts at all. But to be honestly it's how things are now, I have my Jira/Confluence/VSTS "spam" folders but if you want anything done, send me an email yourself. Yay progress.
Not only that, but despite the touted 30.000 hour life span of LED lights, I have already had to replace several in my house, while the old-fasioned, simple tungsten bulbs keep going, and going, and going.
Well we have a cabin and there we keep the light burning all winter long, it's 8760 hours in a year and they last several years so they're probably not wrong. But unlike the old days the key to economic efficiency is to simply not turn the lights out. It might have been 60W from 5PM to 11PM, today it's 11W running 24x7. That's an advantage I guess? Particularly rapid on/off cycles seems to kill it faster, my buddy has basically said leave the bathroom light on. Any "savings" is more than eaten up by bulb replacements. I'm inclined to agree, particularly the "I'm leaving let's turn the lights off" "Oh wait I forgot let's turn them back on" is a bulb killer. Also here in the fucking cold countries the rest of the energy was not wasted, I guess it's different in places you'd run AC to get rid of it....
IRC as a protocol and software stack is generally crap. While it was functional, a huge swath of IRC would have to be completely rewritten - including the underlying foundations - to turn it into a modern Slack or similar service. Honestly, it would be far easier to start from scratch than to base it on IRC. While a few things could be learned from how IRC was built, I wouldn't use that code as a base for anything.
Is there such a thing as "the" IRC code, I was under the impression it was a protocol not an implementation. But in any case I think the DCC code would need a major workover. Or really any non-text case, today I'd probably go for JSON or XML, back then it was trouble enough with non-ASCII....
Well, parts of the profit are socialised as well. No government will advise citizens not to drink at all because they all get a juicy "sin tax" on the sale of alcohol.
Uh, prohibition? "Dry" counties? Many muslims countries outlaw alcohol too. For many the juicy sin taxes are a compromise because they don't want to go back to the speakeasies and Al Capone, but they'd kill it if they could. They'd always find something else to tax.
Straight outta the chute for Nikon. As an avid photographer, Canon gear here, it is nice to see some competition in what I think is a bit of a stagnant market.
Seems to me Sony has doing a good job whipping themselves in the mirrorless market. Looking just at full frame they've had their balanced, resolution (r) and sensitivity (s) based lines. And the a9 that is a FPS monster.
a7 (2013) a7r (2013) a7s (2014) a7 II (2015) a7r II (2015) a7s II (2015) a9 (2017) a7r III (2017) a7 III (2018)
I won't compare them to other brands, but my impression from the reviews is that every one of them has been a quite substantial upgrade over its former "self". So much so that some people are whining over how quickly their old camera is dropping in value, well that's how progress works like when computers had crazy YoY improvements. It's the Canon/Nikon fans that have been waiting and waiting for when they're going to make a countermove, well this is Nikon's attempt. I guess it's okay but I don't think they're winning over many Sony customers, this is more like let's stop the bleeding and try to keep Nikon users on Nikon. I don't think many are buying this unless they are already pretty heavily invested in that system.
While I don't disagree with what you said, I don't know if the average person feels that much difference between the one Party and the one Emperor. I mean China has been cracking down on freedom of speech for 30 years if not longer, how much is really new and worse now?
It's a thing, whether it's a bad thing depends on what you think they're being deplatformed from. Just because it's open to the public most private places and events have some sort of rules. Heck, they'll kick you out of the public library if you can't behave not even their tolerance is infinite. Has YouTube deplatformed, or rather unplatformed porn since they carry all sorts of strange videos except porn? Does YouTube have to carry all IS propaganda that doesn't violate any laws?
I assume it's an implied reference to Alex Jones and yeah it almost looked like a coordinated effort but it probably comes from him being way across the line on almost service he's on, it's just nobody wanted to ban him alone. So when one started, the rest said hell yeah good riddance. The order didn't come from the government. He's still free to set up his own site. He's had way more press coverage than he'd manage on his own. And that's really the biggest difference, if you talk about the sites China shuts down they shut you down too. Here it's like are you really in the "IS beheading videos" class.
And yet you were throwing debt at what was essentially a "get rich quick" scheme? That's not ordinary nor hardworking, that's just idiocy.
It's an ordinary - as in, nobody of significance - hard working guy thinking a Nigerian prince will give him millions and millions of dollars. You'd be surprised how many people suddenly go off on a tangent and think this is it, I've struck gold when in reality they're the scam victim or they're the fall guy in some money laundering / drug smuggling / pyramid scheme. I mean one thing is whether or not crypto-currencies have a market, another thing is to believe this is like free money for everybody. After the dotcom boom comes the dotcom bust, he could have easily lost just that much on blind faith in the stock market.
Well, it's search revenue Mozilla is not getting. And if Chrome/Safari wants to change the web standards they're quite real. With 5"-6" slabs being the new smartphone norm people do a lot of real browsing on them, I know I do. Okay so maybe there are other reasons Firefox has no presence there if we're assigning blame, but the double whammy is quite real - their only platform is losing relevance and they're losing relevance within that platform too. I mean if the story was that they were steady/growing on the desktop, but losing overall due to mobile taking over that'd be a kinda positive spin. But saying that if we look at half the market they got double the market share, well... maybe for the math impaired.
Seriously, who takes any kind of random internet user flagging/rating and uses it raw like it's gospel? Unless you're reviewing each and every report that comes in I'd start evaluating if this user has flagged something before and whether it's been valid or the user has been crying wolf. And if I don't have any direct data points well I'll check correlations with other users I do got data on. Of course that's not enough or you'll have people flag bad videos that they uploaded to build credibility then hit on the innocent, but maybe you can catch patterns like that too.
But no matter what kind of system you build not rating the reporter seems awfully naive. Sure it hinges on Facebook correctly identifying ground truth, but in the case of outright trolling it should be pretty clear that this content did not merit a take down. If it's a gray area, well I think Facebook could very easily throw their own bias into it without bothering with what users think...
Or perhaps it's not just about FLOPS? The 1080Ti lacks RT cores and Tensor cores but if raw FLOPS is all you care about then yes there are better value options.
Well nVidia can tout the benefits all they like but these are effectively halo features from their AI/workstation cards and not available at all on any lesser GPUs. So how many games will create unique effects that'll only work on extremely high end 2018+ cards? Are these features worth sacrificing stream processors for mainstream/value cards or will it remain at the high end? Every bit of those TFLOPS on the 1080 Ti is usable today across a wide variety of games. I got mine at launch and it's starting to look like a better and better buy, I think they feared AMD's Vega a bit much because it was surprisingly aggressively priced at $699, it was like +30% performance for +30% price over the 1080 and with 11GB texture memory it won't go obsolete any time soon.
To me these looks like the lazy option, instead of making a dedicated gaming chip let's give consumers the professional chip and tell them it's going to be useful. I suppose you could call it future proofing, but that seems like a very thin excuse to splurge on flagship prices. Which happen to be $300/$500 more than the last generation's flagship, heck in some ways the 2080 seems slower than the 1080 Ti for the same price or $100 more if you want the founder's edition. Not that I was planning to switch anyway, but considering the normal deprecation in computers I was expecting more. Now if only AMD could make a Zen-like comeback...
If there are enough people that can pay the price the the supplier wants, then it's probably not going to matter to them how many other people might do without it, because presumably reducing the price to appeal to a larger market wouldn't necessarily increase their own bottom line.
Well this is classic micro-economics, if they're not your customers they just disappear out into the great void. But if you're talking about society-level changes then those people don't just go away, they go on welfare, join gangs, create slums, start riots and if things get bad enough even revolutions. And things cost money for other reasons than labor, it doesn't help if you get something 20% cheaper but the labor now pays 50% of what it used to. The last decades capital has been diverging from labor, those who make real money owns working capital like stocks. Those who work for the money are lagging behind, even the well paid ones.
The notion of "ownership" makes perfect sense for things like houses and cars. For books, DVDs, and other IP-based materials? Not so much.
Other IP-based materials like your OS, your Office license etc. where you lose access if you don't pay upkeep? And short of MMORPGs I couldn't really imagine paying monthly fees for games. I think owning - well, owning-ish perpetual licenses anyway - bits and bytes is important, just not entertainment. I mean it's not Doctor Who episodes from the 60s, they're not going to get lost. It won't kill me to pay a second time to watch it a second time rather than guesstimate whether I'll want to watch this again later before buying the DVD/BluRay.
Only the latest company to figure out that the wisdom of the crowds only works if the crowd is a small, thoughtful hand picked group with no trolls in it. That kind of thing simply doesn't exist in large numbers.
Isn't this quite the opposite, that rather than relying on a few brown-nosing/ax-to-grind reviewers we'll just look at the actual, full user statistics? Now one good thing about Netflix collecting the viewing behaviors of everyone is that they should have a pretty good idea what other users have the same taste as me. I don't care about an IMDB-like rating telling me what "people" think, I want to know if I'll like it. I'd rather try spinning recommendations off that like here's some new shows, here's some classics you might consider, here's some divisive cult films you may or may not like, here's some popular films in the genres you watch... I wouldn't try to create any "global" scores at all.
Whether or not anyone can get self driving to work, the logistical problems are the real killer. Who is responsible if the car makes a mistake? Not the owner, because they aren't controlling it. Who will insurance companies charge for liability insurance? When there is a construction site, who pays for the time to set it up so that autonomous cars can navigate it? I hope not tax payers. Who is responsible if they make a mistake? How do you stop people from simply walking in front of them whenever they want, knowing they will stop? Lots of things to figure out.
But it's just that, decisions.
Who is responsible if the car makes a mistake? Not the owner, because they aren't controlling it.
Legally, probably the car company as a condition of their "license" to drive.
Who will insurance companies charge for liability insurance?
Even if somebody else is driving today the owner must have insurance, then the insurance company goes after whoever is at fault.
When there is a construction site, who pays for the time to set it up so that autonomous cars can navigate it?
There's probably rules for how a construction site should be marked today. That's what autonomous cars have to deal with.
Who is responsible if they make a mistake?
Who is responsible now? Lots of people cause traffic jams, I'd say mostly nobody. Like if you have an accident and block the road those blocked don't get paid.
How do you stop people from simply walking in front of them whenever they want, knowing they will stop?
How do you stop that today? Cops and fines, I'd wager. I mean they could probably get this recorded + live streamed with GPS coordinates to the nearest police cruiser.
Uber does not need to be the inventor of the self driving car. They only need to be a user of the self driving car. And frankly they are behind in self-driving R&D and doing a crappy job at it as well.
But what value does Uber add to that? Self-driving cars don't have to be recruited, there's no need for background checks, there won't be any drivers mistreating customers or driving recklessly, there's no pool of additional cars that can be called in through surge pricing, no car cares what rides it takes or where it ends up or how long it stays idle and the car will probably have its own insurance for traffic accidents. It's basically a clone army on wheels. There's also no quick scale-up, to increase your market you need more cars rolling off the assembly line with your custom sensor/processing/control kit, you can't just use existing cars like Uber can and the whole area must be mapped out and tested first.
I guess the litmus test will be Phoenix when Waymo finally launches their service, it's on a massive ramp-up now so it can't be long - they've driven as many miles in 2018 as all the previous years combined. If Waymo essentially got "like Uber, but with self-driving cars" nailed down I predict a tough future for ride sharing and taxi companies. There's not really any reason for Waymo to share those profits with anyone else and there's nobody else even close to launching.
This isn't difficult, so I'm not sure why you're failing to understand it. If a Nazi walks into my store and asks to buy a cupcake, and I say yes, I am serving a Nazi. If that same Nazi tells me he wants me to make him a cake for a Nazi rally, and I say no, I am not refusing to serve Nazis. I'm merely refusing to create a special order for an event I object to.
Where "special" is actually your normal business, like a tailor refusing to make a bespoke suit for a Nazi. Not because the suit has any insignia or other objectionable characteristics, but because of who'll be wearing it. They didn't even get into design, he immediately said he'd not sell them any gay wedding cake. But it's just wedding cake for a couple that is gay. In fact, wedding cake is mostly just short for decorative white multi-layer cake, the vast majority I see on Google don't explicitly say they're for marriage and if they do it's just a topper. It's no more special than that he'd make exactly the same cake for a straight wedding, he simply refused because the customers were gay. If that wasn't what the law was supposed to stop I don't know what it's supposed to do.
I think that's where the court wanted to draw the line and say that being unique is not enough, what you're asked to create has to be explicitly objectionable and something you'd not do for a different customer either. Like for example if they had asked for a gay topper with two grooms I think it would have been reasonable to refuse, though I'm sure many would argue it's then not really the same service. However this case was so loaded with vicious attacks on religion and personal beliefs that the court chickened out entirely and said the way you did it trampled the baker's first amendment rights, try again and we'll consider it again. They know they need a good poster child because when they say non-discrimination is more fundamental than a person's religious beliefs it's going to be a very controversial ruling.
I've been on the other end of this too. Seen candidates not show up and then submit an application to a different job 6 months later. Guess who doesn't get considered for the job?
This is the reason I'd call and cancel, not just ghost the interview. I mean even in a big city there's probably not a lot of people that do exactly what you do. Statistics say there's about 4.2 million software engineers in the US. Though that's using a very broad definition, it's more like 3.4 million "classic" developers. But in reality, you're not very likely to see C++ developers apply for creating eCommerce sites or web developers apply to write device drivers. And if you add in some domain/framework requirements I'd guess it's closer to 1/1000th than 1/100th of the general population that fit a particular job description. So even if you live in a city of 200k people there's probably only 200 developers competing for the same jobs. You're going to run into the same hiring managers and department heads. Maybe it's different in Silicon Valley where there's tons of companies and developers that you'd never meet again, but that's the exception not the rule.
Right, I forgot about those. They might still be useful in SLI/Crossfire configurations. Only one GPU needs video outputs for that to work. Do mining-specific cards still have the SLI edge connector?
Well it's not needed for mining so if you were making an extremely stripped down single-purpose version I don't see how that'd survive.
Selling price isn't based cost of manufacture, it's based on what the market will stand. So for example goods often cost about the same in Europe as they do in the US (factoring in tax), but in Europe you get a much longer statutory warranty.
No, just no. Almost all goods in Europe are somewhere between the US base price and the US price + extended warranty, because some really do fail and it really costs money. It's probably close to the real cost of the warranty though since they have to offer 2/5 years by default. In fact I'm quite sure the reason the US isn't seeing more early failures is because they have to take the EU market into consideration where they need to eat the cost themselves.
Sadly, you're right on the money. For the vast majority of people almost all the important data they have will be backed up online somewhere and on their own computer they'll almost certainly have the password stored. If you have their Dropbox/iCloud/GDrive account you're pretty much home free. And if they don't have it stored, well install a trojan because they'll almost certainly enter the password into the web browser soon.
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Since they are offering a prorated refund, no financial damage has been done and the suit would fail.
That's not how it works, a contract is a commitment on both sides and the liability is based on the harm caused. Imagine you'd rented a billboard for a year but because they've given you too good a deal or there's a shortage and prices have gone up they say "sorry we're cancelling our yearly deals but you'll get the rest prorated, we now only have a monthly lease that's much more expensive" that would be a classic case where you could sue for the difference.
And when doing that you don't have to go looking for deals, that you can leave to the defendant. "Based on my historic use of MoviePass I would go see 8 movies a month. They are now trying to walk out on 6 months of service. 8*6 = 48 tickets. 48 tickets * full price = $500. They offer me $50 in prorated fee, I'm taking them to small claims court for $500-$50 = $450. That's without weasel words in the contract, which is why they're usually there. But if they never really thought this would happen or their lawyers had a bad day then no you can't just cut a deal short like that.
I enjoyed the first two seasons, thought the third was already too much, and dropped out after a couple of episodes of the fourth. I found that as they piled more and more geek stereotypes onto the same four characters it eventually broke my suspension of disbelief.
Maybe the problem was that you wanted realism. I thought it was more like the nerd version of Mr. Bean doing comedy, like there is no over the top acting. There's a reason it almost ended up like the Sheldon show for a few seasons, he was the exceptionally most dysfunctional and the ways he managed to always take it to the next level was hilarious. But you should not try to binge watch it, just like a Mr. Bean movie is too much so is more than two episodes in a row.
A head on by two cars travelling at 50MPH is definitely worse than a single car hitting a solid immovable wall at 50MPH.
No. Your car will deform on your side, their car will deform on their side and the net effect is the same as hitting an immovable wall. Now between two equal cars the damage scales with the relative speed difference, regardless of distribution. Like 50+50 and 100+0 ends up the same, it's still two crumple zones meeting at 100 mph. If you have unequal weights the heavier vehicle will maintain some momentum and thus have less deceleration, which is quite obvious if you consider car vs motorcycle. Though what happens to the passengers depends on the car, there's some very complex systems to soften the impact of the deceleration. If you connected a solid steel rod from the front of the car to the car seat people would die real quick.
This is exactly why Usenet and IRC are â" and always have been â" a better alternative.
What it lacks is any kind of rate control, there's nothing preventing anyone from setting up a spam bot. Bandwidth has increased massively, actual reading speed not so much. It's almost good enough for a limited audience, if they only could get that under control. Otherwise it'll be the way newsgroups were kinda used like torrents in the latter days, you'd use some other service to get NZBs and not actually read the posts at all. But to be honestly it's how things are now, I have my Jira/Confluence/VSTS "spam" folders but if you want anything done, send me an email yourself. Yay progress.
Not only that, but despite the touted 30.000 hour life span of LED lights, I have already had to replace several in my house, while the old-fasioned, simple tungsten bulbs keep going, and going, and going.
Well we have a cabin and there we keep the light burning all winter long, it's 8760 hours in a year and they last several years so they're probably not wrong. But unlike the old days the key to economic efficiency is to simply not turn the lights out. It might have been 60W from 5PM to 11PM, today it's 11W running 24x7. That's an advantage I guess? Particularly rapid on/off cycles seems to kill it faster, my buddy has basically said leave the bathroom light on. Any "savings" is more than eaten up by bulb replacements. I'm inclined to agree, particularly the "I'm leaving let's turn the lights off" "Oh wait I forgot let's turn them back on" is a bulb killer. Also here in the fucking cold countries the rest of the energy was not wasted, I guess it's different in places you'd run AC to get rid of it....
IRC as a protocol and software stack is generally crap. While it was functional, a huge swath of IRC would have to be completely rewritten - including the underlying foundations - to turn it into a modern Slack or similar service. Honestly, it would be far easier to start from scratch than to base it on IRC. While a few things could be learned from how IRC was built, I wouldn't use that code as a base for anything.
Is there such a thing as "the" IRC code, I was under the impression it was a protocol not an implementation. But in any case I think the DCC code would need a major workover. Or really any non-text case, today I'd probably go for JSON or XML, back then it was trouble enough with non-ASCII....
Well, parts of the profit are socialised as well. No government will advise citizens not to drink at all because they all get a juicy "sin tax" on the sale of alcohol.
Uh, prohibition? "Dry" counties? Many muslims countries outlaw alcohol too. For many the juicy sin taxes are a compromise because they don't want to go back to the speakeasies and Al Capone, but they'd kill it if they could. They'd always find something else to tax.
Straight outta the chute for Nikon. As an avid photographer, Canon gear here, it is nice to see some competition in what I think is a bit of a stagnant market.
Seems to me Sony has doing a good job whipping themselves in the mirrorless market. Looking just at full frame they've had their balanced, resolution (r) and sensitivity (s) based lines. And the a9 that is a FPS monster.
a7 (2013)
a7r (2013)
a7s (2014)
a7 II (2015)
a7r II (2015)
a7s II (2015)
a9 (2017)
a7r III (2017)
a7 III (2018)
I won't compare them to other brands, but my impression from the reviews is that every one of them has been a quite substantial upgrade over its former "self". So much so that some people are whining over how quickly their old camera is dropping in value, well that's how progress works like when computers had crazy YoY improvements. It's the Canon/Nikon fans that have been waiting and waiting for when they're going to make a countermove, well this is Nikon's attempt. I guess it's okay but I don't think they're winning over many Sony customers, this is more like let's stop the bleeding and try to keep Nikon users on Nikon. I don't think many are buying this unless they are already pretty heavily invested in that system.
While I don't disagree with what you said, I don't know if the average person feels that much difference between the one Party and the one Emperor. I mean China has been cracking down on freedom of speech for 30 years if not longer, how much is really new and worse now?
You mean, deplatforming isn't a thing?
It's a thing, whether it's a bad thing depends on what you think they're being deplatformed from. Just because it's open to the public most private places and events have some sort of rules. Heck, they'll kick you out of the public library if you can't behave not even their tolerance is infinite. Has YouTube deplatformed, or rather unplatformed porn since they carry all sorts of strange videos except porn? Does YouTube have to carry all IS propaganda that doesn't violate any laws?
I assume it's an implied reference to Alex Jones and yeah it almost looked like a coordinated effort but it probably comes from him being way across the line on almost service he's on, it's just nobody wanted to ban him alone. So when one started, the rest said hell yeah good riddance. The order didn't come from the government. He's still free to set up his own site. He's had way more press coverage than he'd manage on his own. And that's really the biggest difference, if you talk about the sites China shuts down they shut you down too. Here it's like are you really in the "IS beheading videos" class.
And yet you were throwing debt at what was essentially a "get rich quick" scheme? That's not ordinary nor hardworking, that's just idiocy.
It's an ordinary - as in, nobody of significance - hard working guy thinking a Nigerian prince will give him millions and millions of dollars. You'd be surprised how many people suddenly go off on a tangent and think this is it, I've struck gold when in reality they're the scam victim or they're the fall guy in some money laundering / drug smuggling / pyramid scheme. I mean one thing is whether or not crypto-currencies have a market, another thing is to believe this is like free money for everybody. After the dotcom boom comes the dotcom bust, he could have easily lost just that much on blind faith in the stock market.
Well, it's search revenue Mozilla is not getting. And if Chrome/Safari wants to change the web standards they're quite real. With 5"-6" slabs being the new smartphone norm people do a lot of real browsing on them, I know I do. Okay so maybe there are other reasons Firefox has no presence there if we're assigning blame, but the double whammy is quite real - their only platform is losing relevance and they're losing relevance within that platform too. I mean if the story was that they were steady/growing on the desktop, but losing overall due to mobile taking over that'd be a kinda positive spin. But saying that if we look at half the market they got double the market share, well... maybe for the math impaired.
Seriously, who takes any kind of random internet user flagging/rating and uses it raw like it's gospel? Unless you're reviewing each and every report that comes in I'd start evaluating if this user has flagged something before and whether it's been valid or the user has been crying wolf. And if I don't have any direct data points well I'll check correlations with other users I do got data on. Of course that's not enough or you'll have people flag bad videos that they uploaded to build credibility then hit on the innocent, but maybe you can catch patterns like that too.
But no matter what kind of system you build not rating the reporter seems awfully naive. Sure it hinges on Facebook correctly identifying ground truth, but in the case of outright trolling it should be pretty clear that this content did not merit a take down. If it's a gray area, well I think Facebook could very easily throw their own bias into it without bothering with what users think...
Or perhaps it's not just about FLOPS? The 1080Ti lacks RT cores and Tensor cores but if raw FLOPS is all you care about then yes there are better value options.
Well nVidia can tout the benefits all they like but these are effectively halo features from their AI/workstation cards and not available at all on any lesser GPUs. So how many games will create unique effects that'll only work on extremely high end 2018+ cards? Are these features worth sacrificing stream processors for mainstream/value cards or will it remain at the high end? Every bit of those TFLOPS on the 1080 Ti is usable today across a wide variety of games. I got mine at launch and it's starting to look like a better and better buy, I think they feared AMD's Vega a bit much because it was surprisingly aggressively priced at $699, it was like +30% performance for +30% price over the 1080 and with 11GB texture memory it won't go obsolete any time soon.
To me these looks like the lazy option, instead of making a dedicated gaming chip let's give consumers the professional chip and tell them it's going to be useful. I suppose you could call it future proofing, but that seems like a very thin excuse to splurge on flagship prices. Which happen to be $300/$500 more than the last generation's flagship, heck in some ways the 2080 seems slower than the 1080 Ti for the same price or $100 more if you want the founder's edition. Not that I was planning to switch anyway, but considering the normal deprecation in computers I was expecting more. Now if only AMD could make a Zen-like comeback...
If there are enough people that can pay the price the the supplier wants, then it's probably not going to matter to them how many other people might do without it, because presumably reducing the price to appeal to a larger market wouldn't necessarily increase their own bottom line.
Well this is classic micro-economics, if they're not your customers they just disappear out into the great void. But if you're talking about society-level changes then those people don't just go away, they go on welfare, join gangs, create slums, start riots and if things get bad enough even revolutions. And things cost money for other reasons than labor, it doesn't help if you get something 20% cheaper but the labor now pays 50% of what it used to. The last decades capital has been diverging from labor, those who make real money owns working capital like stocks. Those who work for the money are lagging behind, even the well paid ones.
The notion of "ownership" makes perfect sense for things like houses and cars. For books, DVDs, and other IP-based materials? Not so much.
Other IP-based materials like your OS, your Office license etc. where you lose access if you don't pay upkeep? And short of MMORPGs I couldn't really imagine paying monthly fees for games. I think owning - well, owning-ish perpetual licenses anyway - bits and bytes is important, just not entertainment. I mean it's not Doctor Who episodes from the 60s, they're not going to get lost. It won't kill me to pay a second time to watch it a second time rather than guesstimate whether I'll want to watch this again later before buying the DVD/BluRay.
Only the latest company to figure out that the wisdom of the crowds only works if the crowd is a small, thoughtful hand picked group with no trolls in it. That kind of thing simply doesn't exist in large numbers.
Isn't this quite the opposite, that rather than relying on a few brown-nosing/ax-to-grind reviewers we'll just look at the actual, full user statistics? Now one good thing about Netflix collecting the viewing behaviors of everyone is that they should have a pretty good idea what other users have the same taste as me. I don't care about an IMDB-like rating telling me what "people" think, I want to know if I'll like it. I'd rather try spinning recommendations off that like here's some new shows, here's some classics you might consider, here's some divisive cult films you may or may not like, here's some popular films in the genres you watch... I wouldn't try to create any "global" scores at all.
Whether or not anyone can get self driving to work, the logistical problems are the real killer. Who is responsible if the car makes a mistake? Not the owner, because they aren't controlling it. Who will insurance companies charge for liability insurance? When there is a construction site, who pays for the time to set it up so that autonomous cars can navigate it? I hope not tax payers. Who is responsible if they make a mistake? How do you stop people from simply walking in front of them whenever they want, knowing they will stop? Lots of things to figure out.
But it's just that, decisions.
Who is responsible if the car makes a mistake? Not the owner, because they aren't controlling it.
Legally, probably the car company as a condition of their "license" to drive.
Who will insurance companies charge for liability insurance?
Even if somebody else is driving today the owner must have insurance, then the insurance company goes after whoever is at fault.
When there is a construction site, who pays for the time to set it up so that autonomous cars can navigate it?
There's probably rules for how a construction site should be marked today. That's what autonomous cars have to deal with.
Who is responsible if they make a mistake?
Who is responsible now? Lots of people cause traffic jams, I'd say mostly nobody. Like if you have an accident and block the road those blocked don't get paid.
How do you stop people from simply walking in front of them whenever they want, knowing they will stop?
How do you stop that today? Cops and fines, I'd wager. I mean they could probably get this recorded + live streamed with GPS coordinates to the nearest police cruiser.
Uber does not need to be the inventor of the self driving car. They only need to be a user of the self driving car. And frankly they are behind in self-driving R&D and doing a crappy job at it as well.
But what value does Uber add to that? Self-driving cars don't have to be recruited, there's no need for background checks, there won't be any drivers mistreating customers or driving recklessly, there's no pool of additional cars that can be called in through surge pricing, no car cares what rides it takes or where it ends up or how long it stays idle and the car will probably have its own insurance for traffic accidents. It's basically a clone army on wheels. There's also no quick scale-up, to increase your market you need more cars rolling off the assembly line with your custom sensor/processing/control kit, you can't just use existing cars like Uber can and the whole area must be mapped out and tested first.
I guess the litmus test will be Phoenix when Waymo finally launches their service, it's on a massive ramp-up now so it can't be long - they've driven as many miles in 2018 as all the previous years combined. If Waymo essentially got "like Uber, but with self-driving cars" nailed down I predict a tough future for ride sharing and taxi companies. There's not really any reason for Waymo to share those profits with anyone else and there's nobody else even close to launching.
This isn't difficult, so I'm not sure why you're failing to understand it. If a Nazi walks into my store and asks to buy a cupcake, and I say yes, I am serving a Nazi. If that same Nazi tells me he wants me to make him a cake for a Nazi rally, and I say no, I am not refusing to serve Nazis. I'm merely refusing to create a special order for an event I object to.
Where "special" is actually your normal business, like a tailor refusing to make a bespoke suit for a Nazi. Not because the suit has any insignia or other objectionable characteristics, but because of who'll be wearing it. They didn't even get into design, he immediately said he'd not sell them any gay wedding cake. But it's just wedding cake for a couple that is gay. In fact, wedding cake is mostly just short for decorative white multi-layer cake, the vast majority I see on Google don't explicitly say they're for marriage and if they do it's just a topper. It's no more special than that he'd make exactly the same cake for a straight wedding, he simply refused because the customers were gay. If that wasn't what the law was supposed to stop I don't know what it's supposed to do.
I think that's where the court wanted to draw the line and say that being unique is not enough, what you're asked to create has to be explicitly objectionable and something you'd not do for a different customer either. Like for example if they had asked for a gay topper with two grooms I think it would have been reasonable to refuse, though I'm sure many would argue it's then not really the same service. However this case was so loaded with vicious attacks on religion and personal beliefs that the court chickened out entirely and said the way you did it trampled the baker's first amendment rights, try again and we'll consider it again. They know they need a good poster child because when they say non-discrimination is more fundamental than a person's religious beliefs it's going to be a very controversial ruling.
I've been on the other end of this too. Seen candidates not show up and then submit an application to a different job 6 months later. Guess who doesn't get considered for the job?
This is the reason I'd call and cancel, not just ghost the interview. I mean even in a big city there's probably not a lot of people that do exactly what you do. Statistics say there's about 4.2 million software engineers in the US. Though that's using a very broad definition, it's more like 3.4 million "classic" developers. But in reality, you're not very likely to see C++ developers apply for creating eCommerce sites or web developers apply to write device drivers. And if you add in some domain/framework requirements I'd guess it's closer to 1/1000th than 1/100th of the general population that fit a particular job description. So even if you live in a city of 200k people there's probably only 200 developers competing for the same jobs. You're going to run into the same hiring managers and department heads. Maybe it's different in Silicon Valley where there's tons of companies and developers that you'd never meet again, but that's the exception not the rule.
Right, I forgot about those. They might still be useful in SLI/Crossfire configurations. Only one GPU needs video outputs for that to work. Do mining-specific cards still have the SLI edge connector?
Well it's not needed for mining so if you were making an extremely stripped down single-purpose version I don't see how that'd survive.
Ten years for forgetting my pin number. I have done that. They might just as well lock everyone up in advance, just in case./quote
Uh, you're in Australia. You just haven't noticed. /s
Selling price isn't based cost of manufacture, it's based on what the market will stand. So for example goods often cost about the same in Europe as they do in the US (factoring in tax), but in Europe you get a much longer statutory warranty.
No, just no. Almost all goods in Europe are somewhere between the US base price and the US price + extended warranty, because some really do fail and it really costs money. It's probably close to the real cost of the warranty though since they have to offer 2/5 years by default. In fact I'm quite sure the reason the US isn't seeing more early failures is because they have to take the EU market into consideration where they need to eat the cost themselves.
Sadly, you're right on the money. For the vast majority of people almost all the important data they have will be backed up online somewhere and on their own computer they'll almost certainly have the password stored. If you have their Dropbox/iCloud/GDrive account you're pretty much home free. And if they don't have it stored, well install a trojan because they'll almost certainly enter the password into the web browser soon.