Bullshit. Current political public relations says that jobs are the most important thing. The ACTUAL poltician doesn't give a shit about jobs because their corporate masters don't give a shit about jobs.
Jobs are still the first half of "bread and circus", mass unemployment still cuts through the apathy and leads to people voting for the other guy which threatens the status quo. Whether they actually care is another matter but they don't want the natives getting restless.
Because near the rim of the universe.... the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light; so it's far enough, that light would take longer to travel back to where earth is, than the duration the universe has existed. Furthemore: since the universe can continue to expand at a rate faster than the speed of light --- the light travelling back towards earth, can never overtake the rate of the universe's expansion, and find its way back to us.
I don't really see why you have to bring FTL into it. If the universe is 13.8 billion years old and we're in the middle of it (close enough approximation) we'll only see events up to 6.9 billion years away. Sure, in another 6.9 billion years we'll be able to observe the entire current universe but by then it'll have expanded another 6.9 billion light years. It has a head start on us and our "observable universe" will never catch up to the real universe, because our ability to observe expands at the same rate as its natural expansion.
Really it's a very tight needle eye that says you weren't predisposed to commit the crime or you were under actual duress and not just enticement to commit the crime, that is to say the police forced you not merely gave you the opportunity. Quite specifically they've got every right to act like a horny 13 year old on the net, and if you respond to that you're guilty because you'd respond to a horny 13 year old on the net. Or they in some way gave you the opportunity to to buy pot and you did it because meh why not, doesn't matter that the "pusher" was pushy and was giving you a good deal. You really have to show that you wouldn't under any circumstance buy pot unless the police had pushed you to it. That's a tall order for anyone, most people are "corruptible" and entrapment only applies if you aren't.
Like it or not folks, and this is coming from somebody that uses an Android phone that I'm quite happy with, with Android you have a race to the bottom where the VAST majority of Android sales in the under $185 price range and this market, the ultra low end? is a market that Nokia could NEVER compete in, okay?
I find it very strange that you argue that Nokia couldn't sell cheap phones when that was what they're best at. Nokia wasn't exactly the Ferrari of the cell phone world, they built boring solid cheap phones that the first world found dull and emerging markets gobbled up. Take those hardware skills, massive economics of scale, brand and sales network, build a cheap Android phone and they'd be giving Samsung a run for their money instead of maybe soon clawing their way back to second tier.
If there's a race to the bottom, you can either get in or get out but if you stand around thinking your customers will be happy to pay a huge premium for your product then 95% of the time you're wrong. For example just look at all the expensive solutions that have been replaced by cheap x86 desktops and servers. If you can take a cheap SoC from China, slap a $0 version of Android on it, put it in a phone chassis and sell it then that's what it is worth today, what that was worth yesterday doesn't matter.
When you're talking about 5W SoCs there are almost no non-trivial uses of power, if you're visiting a Javascript-heavy site then the CPU eats power, if you're playing games then the GPU eats power, if you're watching a movie the screen eats power, RAM eats power, chipset eats power, motherboard eats power and so on. On a 5W package I'd estimate the CPU gets 1-2W, the GPU 2-3W and the rest of the system 1W but if you're running on full tilt at 5W your battery won't last very long. From what I've understood what Intel has been working on the last couple years is a lot the integration, they're used to delivering a CPU and the rest is up to someone else.
I'd say in mixed usage, that is to say anything not gaming or graphics heavy the CPU is probably still the most important factor, a big bright screen is of course also a big power draw but that's more of a fixed overhead for both Intel and ARM. And just anecdotally without numbers I'd say I notice a huge difference on the heat output of a smart phone or tablet when it's using the screen in a simple way like browsing a simple site compared to games, so the SoC has very much room for improvement. In theory if gaming took no extra power I should be able to game as long as I could browse the net, which is clearly not the case today.
It has long been a court approved policy that if the cops find a running server they don't have to take it down, they can keep the lights on and record all the people accessing it. As far as I know that has been the case since FTP servers in the 80s if not before. However, it's the first time I've heard of them serving trojans, that means actively breaking the law in all other countries of the world by compromising clients that aren't under US jurisdiction. In particular if this happened on sites that weren't in any way related to the child porn except being hosted on the same provider then it's a pretty blatant case of cyberterrorism. State supported terrorism, Afghanistan and the USA fuck yeah!
If they can get the hard part down by teaching the car to drive by itself and all that's needed for mass roll out is some cheap hardware I imagine that problem would be sorted in no time. I'm sure you can get good enough sensors at a reasonable cost, it's doing the right things that is hard.
Very few people are demanding that much capacity in an SSD
And particularly in a single SSD, for HDDs the price/GB goes down with size while with SSDs my impression is that you need to fill the channels on the controllers but after that it's just double the capacity for double the price. If you need a bigger SSD just get many and RAID-0 them.
The real reason is that I do care about durability, but I don't particularly care much about the warranty. If a drive with a one year warranty craps out after three years, I have to buy a new one. If a drive with five year warranty craps out after three years, I don't have to buy one but I still have to RMA it, ship it in, lose whatever I didn't have backup of (which of course never happens), I'm down on capacity until the new one arrives and then I have to install it and restore from backup. Or you have a degraded array that may or may not rebuild with a spare, if you swing that way. Of course you pay a premium on those five year warranty disks which is like an insurance to cover replacements, but are you actually getting any better results? It's certainly a non-zero risk in either case, so you must have the same backup regime anyway it's only a matter of how often it happens.
Yeah, that people now expect whatever to work on their smart phones and tables was the left hook, that what works on their smart phones and tables can now also be had in a laptop format is the right hook. If you've already abstracted out your old PC application to work with Android and IOS, adding another platform should be easy. It's the kind of "cross-platform" that Windows/Mac/Linux never got real momentum behind. Not sure Chromebook is really it though, I'd wager more on an Android derivative.
Remember that 720p TV was triple the pixels of NTSC and non-interlaced so a doubling there as well, sure for a computer monitor it wasn't much but for TV it was a huge change with six times the bandwidth. In fact unless you're watching 1080p24 content with pulldown I'd rather take 720p over 1080i (interlacing: die die die). And maybe finally now UltraHD will drive a new generation of monitors, even on 30" it's topped out at 2560x1600/1440.
Are there repair persons anymore? Seems stuff is so shoddy nowadays it is not expected to last more than one or two years. Even if I want to have my machines repaired, they are either impossible to repair or it is cheaper to purchase a new one.
Well you can always take the "get off my lawn" approach and complain about the low quality of everything, but most of it is simply refined mass production. Once you have a production line set up it just churns out thousands or millions of units cheaper than one repairman fixing one device. Never mind that this person must have parts, tools, storefront and skills as well as dealing with all sorts of potentially abused, damaged and flaky used goods. This of course leads to a causality loop, because there's no point in repairing there's no point in making them repair-friendly which again means there's less point in repairing. In many cases you wouldn't even want to repair them at the factory even if they magically got teleported there because fixing it is so hard, a cracked motherboard is just to throw away period. That is, please recycle.
Take a look at all the techniques for mending clothes for example, why are they disappearing? Is it because clothes are much weaker now or harder to repair than in the past? No, mostly it's because when they're so worn and torn they start needing it we'd rather throw them away and buy new ones because a pack of socks is cheap and spending hours darning is so extremely poor value for our time. Plus that nobody wants to be caught dead in patched clothes anymore, it's not that they don't function it's that you look like a hobo. Same with shoes, they still last years but now when they're almost worn out it doesn't pay off to try eeking out the last shreds of life anymore. Economics of scale killed the repair business, production scaled and repair didn't.
All other things being equal of course you'd take a more competent developer over a less competent one. But exceptionally good people don't come easy or cheap so the question was if they're worth it for everyone. I'd say no, for example in some business applications you're just constantly chasing that new input form or business rule or workflow or report the business side wants, there's no telling where they'll go next and there's really little room to make grand improvements unless you want to try to create the n'th inner platform designer/rule/reporting tool. In other places having a rock star can be the difference between fumbling around building a buggy piece of shit on a crumbling foundation and having a kick-ass core. You put people in places where they can shine, some are like hiding a star in the closet.
Hey, whatever happened to nuclear apocalypse--radiation/nuclear winter/etc.? Anyone remember that one back in the 80's? Man, I'm old.
In case you didn't notice WWIII didn't come (yet) so tens of thousands of nuclear warheads didn't explode all over the world whirling up tons of dust into the atmosphere causing a massive global drop in temperature. The only reason nobody talks about it today is because a full scale nuclear confrontation seems so unlikely, we're still more than capable.
Codecs yes probably HEVC as well as H.264, but none of the existing players can decode 3840x2160 in hardware anyway. Nobody builds a system that can process four times the pixels required for 1080p for no reason. And having seen quite a few side-by-side comparisons the bit rate is not that much higher and BluRays are more resolution limited than bandwidth limited, so the result is rather underwhelming. If you could do a BluRay-size 2160p encode of the master it would look a lot better. It's mostly a cheap trick to get stupid people to buy into "4K" players, projectors and discs without actually delivering.
The only real deal I'm aware of is Sony's "Video Unlimited 4K" service which just launched and it's $700 just for the player, $30 per movie and to get a real 4K TV you're still looking at $5000+ (excluding Seiki, which is dirt cheap but has issues). Personally I'd love a 4K monitor but $3500 is still way overkill, hopefully in a year or two it'll be down to consumerish prices. Video cameras are certainly stepping it up, with a $4500 Sony FDR-AX1 you can film 3840x2160x60 fps @ 150 Mbit/s now and I'm sure in a year or two we'll see the first consumer UHD cameras.
Exactly, we're talking about Windows RT which is going to die because Intel now have low power processors that can run "real" Windows and legacy apps with no real drawbacks over RT. Did you miss the entire gist of the article?
Well if you're happy with 256GB storage total, but you can get a 128GB SSD + 2TB HDD for the same money. If streaming covers all your needs then good for you but heck my Steam directory full of 10GB+ games alone would give it breathing issues. I think they do damn well in pairs, just checked and I'm still looking at a 16:1 price advantage (250 GB SSD ~= 4 TB HDD). Personally I just love the ability to have near infinite space for a few bucks, you can be a digital hoarder and still have it fit a mid size cabinet. But hey, if streaming or download&delete works for you by all means don't.
Actually it's telling, mostly about Canonical's outward attitude. They created all of these solutions, but none of them were widely adopted. Few people use Launchpad, bzr, Upstart, etc. Perhaps it's related to Canonical's seeming desire to develop internally and release when they see fit, rather than develop in the open and take community input?
So does a mildly successful OSS project called Android, I don't know maybe Canonical is tired of trying to get everyone on board and just decided "We'll go our own way and when you finally figure out it was the right one feel free to catch up". Android did the first true fork of the Linux kernel that I've heard of and probably ruffled some feathers there but they got it out the door, shipping and working. At the current rate I'd wager a desktopified Android will take over before Gnome/KDE/Unity.
In the case of a signed (and dated) statement, you still hold the controlling factor and would necessitate coercion on the behalf of the other party. If the other party (government or individual) is willing and able to bear sufficient coercion upon you to acquiesce to perjury, than the system fails. So, one should only implement such a model if one believes that the level of coercion is within the limits of one's conviction to resist - otherwise you're setting yourself and your "trusted" parties up for compromise.
Perjury is lying under oath, it's not lying in general. And the law (whichever nefarious one enables National Security Letters to exist) trumps whatever contractual obligations you may have made. They already actively demand you comply with their demands, not merely stand aside and let them do their business. Hidden in a bunch of technical mumbo-jumbo it basically comes down to "If you ask me if we've been compromised by the NSA, which is obviously a yes/no question I'm going to answer it with no but if I refuse to answer well draw your own conclusions." do you think you'll get away with that? All the rest is just a diversion.
If I'm in traffic and a cat runs into the road, well, the cat is screwed because I'm not getting rear-ended over some kitty. I have no idea what Google's car would do, but if it slammed on the brakes and caused a big pileup then it's made a bad choice.
And if it's a kid running out into the road, too bad for it too? Or was it just that you didn't want the hassle of being rear-ended to save a kitty? Last I checked it was the car behind's responsibility to keep a sufficient distance to avoid a collision, they're never going to win in court that it was your fault for braking too hard. So yeah, bad for the people who are glued to your bumper I guess but I won't miss them too much.
At least here in Norway you can't legally drive a car on public roads without insurance (in which case the government pays out if you cause an accident, then go after you both financially and legally) and I don't expect self driving cars to be any different. Either the regular auto insurance will offer one or the self-driving car companies would have to launch their own, in which case you're only liable for gross negligence on your part. Technical problems with the car are obviously not of that type, it's a simple insurance matter. I also suspect that with a "black box" to store the last 30 seconds of sensor data before a crash or near-crash (rolling buffer triggered by collision detection systems) most cases will be decided very quick with very little he said, she said situations.
This part isn't exactly new or unique, if you deliver say hospital equipment then yes flaws and faults in your systems can kill patients. Sometimes bad shit happen and people die, but they deal with it somehow and I'm sure the same kind of system can deal with potential self-driving car auto casualties. The main challenges are technological, if you've gotten those down to a point where you're realistically calling it road-ready then I'm sure we can handle the residual risks. After all, humans also screw up big - for example the recent train disaster in Spain with 79 killed and 140 injured was the worst in decades and all human error. We'll figure something out just like all other non-human "driven" things like elevators.
Ah, this reminds me of the dicussion about evolution. One side has a scientific model - or actually a heap of scientific models based on the same idea - they keep tweaking and rejecting all the time but no matter what weird creature shows up evolution can be tweaked to fit. While the other side has picked a story and is sticking with it and because it's been literally unchanged for the last 2000 years that "proves" it's the right answer while the other side is constantly fudging their numbers to make it look right. I mean it's not like the other side brings any alternative models or explanations to the table, it's the same beat up record that natural changes are large and unpredictable while your data is short and weak and you're just chasing statistical blips and coming up with fancy explanations. There's no data about AGW that can't be explained away either.
Microkernels and exokernels are what acemics say are supperior and the wave of the future.
Academics have been saying that since it was MINIX vs Linux and reality won. This is also orthogonal to API/ABI, you can have userspace drivers without a stable API/ABI and you can have a stable API/ABI with in-kernel drivers.
That's what conspiracy charges are. If you're in for a part then you're in for the whole bit. He was warned that the people he was taking money from were up to criminal acts and chose to continue doing it. Had he chosen to stop doing it or cooperate with the DEA, he wouldn't be in prison.
"Your employer is doing [insert random alleged crime here]" and unless you quit your job on a random unfounded allegation you're guilty of conspiracy? No, that's bull. You'll also note that they had nothing on him until he went to repair a compartment that had something in it, as long as he wasn't directly aware of anything that was stored in them all was fine. If he'd said "Sorry, I can't go near that compartment while it has anything in it so you have to tear it up and remove the contents, afterwards I can fix everything" he'd not be in jail right now.
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Bullshit. Current political public relations says that jobs are the most important thing. The ACTUAL poltician doesn't give a shit about jobs because their corporate masters don't give a shit about jobs.
Jobs are still the first half of "bread and circus", mass unemployment still cuts through the apathy and leads to people voting for the other guy which threatens the status quo. Whether they actually care is another matter but they don't want the natives getting restless.
Because near the rim of the universe.... the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light; so it's far enough, that light would take longer to travel back to where earth is, than the duration the universe has existed. Furthemore: since the universe can continue to expand at a rate faster than the speed of light --- the light travelling back towards earth, can never overtake the rate of the universe's expansion, and find its way back to us.
I don't really see why you have to bring FTL into it. If the universe is 13.8 billion years old and we're in the middle of it (close enough approximation) we'll only see events up to 6.9 billion years away. Sure, in another 6.9 billion years we'll be able to observe the entire current universe but by then it'll have expanded another 6.9 billion light years. It has a head start on us and our "observable universe" will never catch up to the real universe, because our ability to observe expands at the same rate as its natural expansion.
Well, most people have a mistaken understanding of what entrapment is in the first place. Most of them should read this:
I was entrapped
Really it's a very tight needle eye that says you weren't predisposed to commit the crime or you were under actual duress and not just enticement to commit the crime, that is to say the police forced you not merely gave you the opportunity. Quite specifically they've got every right to act like a horny 13 year old on the net, and if you respond to that you're guilty because you'd respond to a horny 13 year old on the net. Or they in some way gave you the opportunity to to buy pot and you did it because meh why not, doesn't matter that the "pusher" was pushy and was giving you a good deal. You really have to show that you wouldn't under any circumstance buy pot unless the police had pushed you to it. That's a tall order for anyone, most people are "corruptible" and entrapment only applies if you aren't.
Like it or not folks, and this is coming from somebody that uses an Android phone that I'm quite happy with, with Android you have a race to the bottom where the VAST majority of Android sales in the under $185 price range and this market, the ultra low end? is a market that Nokia could NEVER compete in, okay?
I find it very strange that you argue that Nokia couldn't sell cheap phones when that was what they're best at. Nokia wasn't exactly the Ferrari of the cell phone world, they built boring solid cheap phones that the first world found dull and emerging markets gobbled up. Take those hardware skills, massive economics of scale, brand and sales network, build a cheap Android phone and they'd be giving Samsung a run for their money instead of maybe soon clawing their way back to second tier.
If there's a race to the bottom, you can either get in or get out but if you stand around thinking your customers will be happy to pay a huge premium for your product then 95% of the time you're wrong. For example just look at all the expensive solutions that have been replaced by cheap x86 desktops and servers. If you can take a cheap SoC from China, slap a $0 version of Android on it, put it in a phone chassis and sell it then that's what it is worth today, what that was worth yesterday doesn't matter.
When you're talking about 5W SoCs there are almost no non-trivial uses of power, if you're visiting a Javascript-heavy site then the CPU eats power, if you're playing games then the GPU eats power, if you're watching a movie the screen eats power, RAM eats power, chipset eats power, motherboard eats power and so on. On a 5W package I'd estimate the CPU gets 1-2W, the GPU 2-3W and the rest of the system 1W but if you're running on full tilt at 5W your battery won't last very long. From what I've understood what Intel has been working on the last couple years is a lot the integration, they're used to delivering a CPU and the rest is up to someone else.
I'd say in mixed usage, that is to say anything not gaming or graphics heavy the CPU is probably still the most important factor, a big bright screen is of course also a big power draw but that's more of a fixed overhead for both Intel and ARM. And just anecdotally without numbers I'd say I notice a huge difference on the heat output of a smart phone or tablet when it's using the screen in a simple way like browsing a simple site compared to games, so the SoC has very much room for improvement. In theory if gaming took no extra power I should be able to game as long as I could browse the net, which is clearly not the case today.
It has long been a court approved policy that if the cops find a running server they don't have to take it down, they can keep the lights on and record all the people accessing it. As far as I know that has been the case since FTP servers in the 80s if not before. However, it's the first time I've heard of them serving trojans, that means actively breaking the law in all other countries of the world by compromising clients that aren't under US jurisdiction. In particular if this happened on sites that weren't in any way related to the child porn except being hosted on the same provider then it's a pretty blatant case of cyberterrorism. State supported terrorism, Afghanistan and the USA fuck yeah!
If they can get the hard part down by teaching the car to drive by itself and all that's needed for mass roll out is some cheap hardware I imagine that problem would be sorted in no time. I'm sure you can get good enough sensors at a reasonable cost, it's doing the right things that is hard.
Oh great, a taxi driven by "Emergency Medical Hotheads". But I do suppose it'll help them make "Extremely Marginal House calls"...
Very few people are demanding that much capacity in an SSD
And particularly in a single SSD, for HDDs the price/GB goes down with size while with SSDs my impression is that you need to fill the channels on the controllers but after that it's just double the capacity for double the price. If you need a bigger SSD just get many and RAID-0 them.
The real reason is that I do care about durability, but I don't particularly care much about the warranty. If a drive with a one year warranty craps out after three years, I have to buy a new one. If a drive with five year warranty craps out after three years, I don't have to buy one but I still have to RMA it, ship it in, lose whatever I didn't have backup of (which of course never happens), I'm down on capacity until the new one arrives and then I have to install it and restore from backup. Or you have a degraded array that may or may not rebuild with a spare, if you swing that way. Of course you pay a premium on those five year warranty disks which is like an insurance to cover replacements, but are you actually getting any better results? It's certainly a non-zero risk in either case, so you must have the same backup regime anyway it's only a matter of how often it happens.
Yeah, that people now expect whatever to work on their smart phones and tables was the left hook, that what works on their smart phones and tables can now also be had in a laptop format is the right hook. If you've already abstracted out your old PC application to work with Android and IOS, adding another platform should be easy. It's the kind of "cross-platform" that Windows/Mac/Linux never got real momentum behind. Not sure Chromebook is really it though, I'd wager more on an Android derivative.
640x480 = 307200
1280x720 = 921600
1920x1080 = 2073600
Remember that 720p TV was triple the pixels of NTSC and non-interlaced so a doubling there as well, sure for a computer monitor it wasn't much but for TV it was a huge change with six times the bandwidth. In fact unless you're watching 1080p24 content with pulldown I'd rather take 720p over 1080i (interlacing: die die die). And maybe finally now UltraHD will drive a new generation of monitors, even on 30" it's topped out at 2560x1600/1440.
Are there repair persons anymore? Seems stuff is so shoddy nowadays it is not expected to last more than one or two years. Even if I want to have my machines repaired, they are either impossible to repair or it is cheaper to purchase a new one.
Well you can always take the "get off my lawn" approach and complain about the low quality of everything, but most of it is simply refined mass production. Once you have a production line set up it just churns out thousands or millions of units cheaper than one repairman fixing one device. Never mind that this person must have parts, tools, storefront and skills as well as dealing with all sorts of potentially abused, damaged and flaky used goods. This of course leads to a causality loop, because there's no point in repairing there's no point in making them repair-friendly which again means there's less point in repairing. In many cases you wouldn't even want to repair them at the factory even if they magically got teleported there because fixing it is so hard, a cracked motherboard is just to throw away period. That is, please recycle.
Take a look at all the techniques for mending clothes for example, why are they disappearing? Is it because clothes are much weaker now or harder to repair than in the past? No, mostly it's because when they're so worn and torn they start needing it we'd rather throw them away and buy new ones because a pack of socks is cheap and spending hours darning is so extremely poor value for our time. Plus that nobody wants to be caught dead in patched clothes anymore, it's not that they don't function it's that you look like a hobo. Same with shoes, they still last years but now when they're almost worn out it doesn't pay off to try eeking out the last shreds of life anymore. Economics of scale killed the repair business, production scaled and repair didn't.
All other things being equal of course you'd take a more competent developer over a less competent one. But exceptionally good people don't come easy or cheap so the question was if they're worth it for everyone. I'd say no, for example in some business applications you're just constantly chasing that new input form or business rule or workflow or report the business side wants, there's no telling where they'll go next and there's really little room to make grand improvements unless you want to try to create the n'th inner platform designer/rule/reporting tool. In other places having a rock star can be the difference between fumbling around building a buggy piece of shit on a crumbling foundation and having a kick-ass core. You put people in places where they can shine, some are like hiding a star in the closet.
Hey, whatever happened to nuclear apocalypse--radiation/nuclear winter/etc.? Anyone remember that one back in the 80's? Man, I'm old.
In case you didn't notice WWIII didn't come (yet) so tens of thousands of nuclear warheads didn't explode all over the world whirling up tons of dust into the atmosphere causing a massive global drop in temperature. The only reason nobody talks about it today is because a full scale nuclear confrontation seems so unlikely, we're still more than capable.
Codecs yes probably HEVC as well as H.264, but none of the existing players can decode 3840x2160 in hardware anyway. Nobody builds a system that can process four times the pixels required for 1080p for no reason. And having seen quite a few side-by-side comparisons the bit rate is not that much higher and BluRays are more resolution limited than bandwidth limited, so the result is rather underwhelming. If you could do a BluRay-size 2160p encode of the master it would look a lot better. It's mostly a cheap trick to get stupid people to buy into "4K" players, projectors and discs without actually delivering.
The only real deal I'm aware of is Sony's "Video Unlimited 4K" service which just launched and it's $700 just for the player, $30 per movie and to get a real 4K TV you're still looking at $5000+ (excluding Seiki, which is dirt cheap but has issues). Personally I'd love a 4K monitor but $3500 is still way overkill, hopefully in a year or two it'll be down to consumerish prices. Video cameras are certainly stepping it up, with a $4500 Sony FDR-AX1 you can film 3840x2160x60 fps @ 150 Mbit/s now and I'm sure in a year or two we'll see the first consumer UHD cameras.
Exactly, we're talking about Windows RT which is going to die because Intel now have low power processors that can run "real" Windows and legacy apps with no real drawbacks over RT. Did you miss the entire gist of the article?
Well if you're happy with 256GB storage total, but you can get a 128GB SSD + 2TB HDD for the same money. If streaming covers all your needs then good for you but heck my Steam directory full of 10GB+ games alone would give it breathing issues. I think they do damn well in pairs, just checked and I'm still looking at a 16:1 price advantage (250 GB SSD ~= 4 TB HDD). Personally I just love the ability to have near infinite space for a few bucks, you can be a digital hoarder and still have it fit a mid size cabinet. But hey, if streaming or download&delete works for you by all means don't.
Actually it's telling, mostly about Canonical's outward attitude. They created all of these solutions, but none of them were widely adopted. Few people use Launchpad, bzr, Upstart, etc. Perhaps it's related to Canonical's seeming desire to develop internally and release when they see fit, rather than develop in the open and take community input?
So does a mildly successful OSS project called Android, I don't know maybe Canonical is tired of trying to get everyone on board and just decided "We'll go our own way and when you finally figure out it was the right one feel free to catch up". Android did the first true fork of the Linux kernel that I've heard of and probably ruffled some feathers there but they got it out the door, shipping and working. At the current rate I'd wager a desktopified Android will take over before Gnome/KDE/Unity.
In the case of a signed (and dated) statement, you still hold the controlling factor and would necessitate coercion on the behalf of the other party. If the other party (government or individual) is willing and able to bear sufficient coercion upon you to acquiesce to perjury, than the system fails. So, one should only implement such a model if one believes that the level of coercion is within the limits of one's conviction to resist - otherwise you're setting yourself and your "trusted" parties up for compromise.
Perjury is lying under oath, it's not lying in general. And the law (whichever nefarious one enables National Security Letters to exist) trumps whatever contractual obligations you may have made. They already actively demand you comply with their demands, not merely stand aside and let them do their business. Hidden in a bunch of technical mumbo-jumbo it basically comes down to "If you ask me if we've been compromised by the NSA, which is obviously a yes/no question I'm going to answer it with no but if I refuse to answer well draw your own conclusions." do you think you'll get away with that? All the rest is just a diversion.
If I'm in traffic and a cat runs into the road, well, the cat is screwed because I'm not getting rear-ended over some kitty. I have no idea what Google's car would do, but if it slammed on the brakes and caused a big pileup then it's made a bad choice.
And if it's a kid running out into the road, too bad for it too? Or was it just that you didn't want the hassle of being rear-ended to save a kitty? Last I checked it was the car behind's responsibility to keep a sufficient distance to avoid a collision, they're never going to win in court that it was your fault for braking too hard. So yeah, bad for the people who are glued to your bumper I guess but I won't miss them too much.
At least here in Norway you can't legally drive a car on public roads without insurance (in which case the government pays out if you cause an accident, then go after you both financially and legally) and I don't expect self driving cars to be any different. Either the regular auto insurance will offer one or the self-driving car companies would have to launch their own, in which case you're only liable for gross negligence on your part. Technical problems with the car are obviously not of that type, it's a simple insurance matter. I also suspect that with a "black box" to store the last 30 seconds of sensor data before a crash or near-crash (rolling buffer triggered by collision detection systems) most cases will be decided very quick with very little he said, she said situations.
This part isn't exactly new or unique, if you deliver say hospital equipment then yes flaws and faults in your systems can kill patients. Sometimes bad shit happen and people die, but they deal with it somehow and I'm sure the same kind of system can deal with potential self-driving car auto casualties. The main challenges are technological, if you've gotten those down to a point where you're realistically calling it road-ready then I'm sure we can handle the residual risks. After all, humans also screw up big - for example the recent train disaster in Spain with 79 killed and 140 injured was the worst in decades and all human error. We'll figure something out just like all other non-human "driven" things like elevators.
Ah, this reminds me of the dicussion about evolution. One side has a scientific model - or actually a heap of scientific models based on the same idea - they keep tweaking and rejecting all the time but no matter what weird creature shows up evolution can be tweaked to fit. While the other side has picked a story and is sticking with it and because it's been literally unchanged for the last 2000 years that "proves" it's the right answer while the other side is constantly fudging their numbers to make it look right. I mean it's not like the other side brings any alternative models or explanations to the table, it's the same beat up record that natural changes are large and unpredictable while your data is short and weak and you're just chasing statistical blips and coming up with fancy explanations. There's no data about AGW that can't be explained away either.
Microkernels and exokernels are what acemics say are supperior and the wave of the future.
Academics have been saying that since it was MINIX vs Linux and reality won. This is also orthogonal to API/ABI, you can have userspace drivers without a stable API/ABI and you can have a stable API/ABI with in-kernel drivers.
That's what conspiracy charges are. If you're in for a part then you're in for the whole bit. He was warned that the people he was taking money from were up to criminal acts and chose to continue doing it. Had he chosen to stop doing it or cooperate with the DEA, he wouldn't be in prison.
"Your employer is doing [insert random alleged crime here]" and unless you quit your job on a random unfounded allegation you're guilty of conspiracy? No, that's bull. You'll also note that they had nothing on him until he went to repair a compartment that had something in it, as long as he wasn't directly aware of anything that was stored in them all was fine. If he'd said "Sorry, I can't go near that compartment while it has anything in it so you have to tear it up and remove the contents, afterwards I can fix everything" he'd not be in jail right now.