Why permit such revisionist history at all? If you're going to pretend he was not a criminal, then you must also pretend the government didn't convict him. Are we going to pretend the US never had slavery if Congress passes a law to posthumously free all slaves back to 1776? It's absurd. That Alan Turing was convicted of the crime of homosexuality is a historic fact and his "crimes" only reflect badly on the UK government, not on the man himself.
You have 31.5 inches that'll be practically as much vertical space as a 30 inch 16:10 monitor and 2160 vertical pixels to work with, but it's unusable... fine by me, pass it this way;)
And don't forget the advanced adaptive screening rate through combinatorial probabilistics with both parallell and serial execution methods. You can also implement multiple selection criteria at once, subselecting some passengers to even more intensive screening methods. Though for expediency I'd recommend the d20.system instead.
My TV box has HDMI out, my video camera has HDMI out, my surround receiver has HDMI in/out for pass-through, in fact the only places I can find DisplayPort is on graphics cards and screens mostly intended as monitors, not TVs. HDMI version 2.0 with 4K/UltraHD @ 60Hz support should be out any day now (it was scheduled for first half of 2013, apparently a little late) and unless they completely break backwards compatibility I think that's what everything will use. So unless you really want 4K right now(tm) even though content is extremely rare except stills I'd wait a few more months.
Oh, oh I know the answer to this one. What the private companies are (or rather aren't) offering is the best anyone can do under normal, fair market conditions. So if the government can do it, it's because the government is awarding it indirect subsidies and siphoning off costs to be paid with taxpayer money in some unamerican commie conspiracy to destroy private enterprise and replace it with a protectionist government monopoly. Honestly, for some it's so deeply rooted in them that if the government appears to be doing anything at all better than private companies then they must be cheating somehow.
No, it's politicians grandstanding buying things private industry has spent a trillion dollars developing. Without the latter, the former has trouble bringing you a loaf of bread.
Said over the Internet, brought to you by the US government (Internet -> ARPANET -> Department of Defense -> US government). Which is rather beside the point anyway, unless you're still fighting the ghost of early 1900s Soviet-era socialism what it means in a modern context is the government collecting taxes to provide public services which they may or may not be buying from private companies. There's no contradiction between a public road or a public hospital or a public whatever being built by private companies. But sure, give all the credit for everything to private companies. Let me guess, libertar... I mean libertarian?
Nobody argues there weren't things that really needed fixing. But there was also a lot of nice-to-haves that didn't have to be fixed at triple rates on rush schedules by anyone qualified to use a keyboard. It sailed by so smoothly I can't help to feel it was overhyped and overfixed. As in a paramedic can give you a band-aid, but it really wasn't necessary to go that far.
You must be providing Facebook with more data than I am, I just keep an account because some insist on using it as their RSVP system. The people it recommends are typically totally random people who have one friend in common with me.
Here in Norway we're up to 20% last year, it increases by about 3% per year (11->14->17->20) and all major rollouts (ex-DSL, ex-cable, ex-power companies) are doing fiber for new apartment buildings or housing areas. We're expecting major investments in fiber over the next years as the copper network has officially been declared a phase-out technology to be shut down in central areas by end of 2017 (first tiny test county has already shut down, it's now all fiber + mobile), it'll still exist as a legacy option in rural areas but many of the 45% currently using xDSL will move to fiber. By the end of the decade I'd not be surprised if a majority is on fiber. But then I do think we're #2 in the world on fiber penetration.
It was surprising that it chose to compete against MILLIONS of applications written for those two OSes. It was surprising that it decided to release a tablet that carries the name "Windows" [RT] but doesn't run Windows software.
And that could have been their leverage. Imagine an x86 tablet that works okay but as a bonus can run that odd must-have application you really missed from desktop Windows, like a cut down Surface Pro. Instead they totally messed up the "Surface" brand with RT and Pro that are really two completely different worlds. Yes I can understand the talking heads wanting a product that can compete in the space Surface/WinRT is, but they should have realized this was going to suck and suck bad. And it's dragging down the Windows brand with them.
Well yes the iOS front-end perhaps, but unless they also rewrote the whole decoding backend that they have to link to that part will still be under the LGPL.
I never understood why people think a A.I. should learn any faster than a real child could. It's like people think because it's a computer it automagically knows everything there is ever to know, but in reality A.I. still requires training and positive/negative reinforcement just like really children do.
Because computers typically is much faster than me at doing something, they can read Wikipedia faster than I could read an A4 page, my math speed is measured in seconds per floating point operation not the other way around and it could query huge database much faster than I could find the index cards at the library, much less find anything. What they're short on is the ability to comprehend and learn, not process. If they're so slow it's because they're waiting for humans to give them feedback or tweak their programming because they lack the inherent ability of self-learning, if they were able to review their own performance and adapt/improve/get creative they should be spinning evolution cycles faster than mayflies.
Let me express this another way, assume that you had an AI that already speaks English fluently. How long would you guesstimate that it'd take before it could speak every language fluently? My guess is that if you could do one, it could do the rest in hours - rush through all the dictionaries, the grammar, the expressions and idioms and tomorrow it'd speak Japanese, Swahili and Inuit fluently too. Meanwhile it'd take many, many years for a person to speak a hundred languages, if one could do it at all. What you're talking about is the limit as to how fast humans can teach a computer, it speaks nothing of how fast a computer could teach itself. After all us humans are used to figuring out things on our own and to surpass our teachers, a true AI would need to have that capacity as well.
Personally I have no idea why people spend this kind of money on a car. My last brand new car (I don't usually buy brand new, but they had a lot of incentives) was about $16k (cdn), and I considered that a lot. A car is not an investment.....
Neither is a computer, but if you count the total I've used without any significant ROI to show for it, well... it basically depends how much you need and want to use it. I have a friend who spent quite a lot of money on his car, but he also has a fairly long daily commute (and most of it driving not just limping in a queue), the family has two cabins who are both a few hours away, the car is the de facto way to visit friends and family and in general he likes to drive and can go on road trips and such. If you subtract work and sleep then to many people most the other hours are at home or in their car, might as well make it a comfortable and fun ride. Not to mention it's visible wealth, it matters to some. Of course it's not what you spend money on if you're looking to cut expenses or invest, but for many disposable cash is there to be used not stuffed under the mattress.
Nobody held a gun to an artist's head and forced them to sign up with a major label before either, unless you wanted radio time, shelf space or any other form of access to the market. A lot of people thought the Internet would change all that and artists could now just put up their own songs for sale on their own website. Which I suppose they still can, but that's not where most the market is going. To a lot of people, either you're on Spotify or you pretty much don't exist, they'd have to be a real fan and go out of their way to buy it directly from you. And maybe they don't want it that badly, they just want to stream in once in a while in their huge playlists.
If you don't see where I'm going with this, it's that power is again concentrating in a oligarchy, it's not MGM and Universal and EMI anymore it's Spotify, iTunes and Amazon MP3. To the individual, independent artist they're the same kind of giants offering the same shitty deals because you need them a lot more than they need you and they know it. Meet the new middle man between artists and consumers, same as the old middle man between artists and consumers. Every so often we have the stories of artists leaving because they pay shit but at the same time others return because it still beats toiling in obscurity, I'm pretty sure Spotify keeps a close eye on just how tightly they can screw the vice, if the tide turns against them they can sweeten the deal a little and bring artists back, before they make another push in the race to the bottom.
Which is completely opposed by this study, where both iTunes and Spotify are huge popular. Maybe in the US the market is different, but here in Norway most people are well off and don't mind paying. What has driven piracy has been a lack of alternatives and online being treated as second class citizens. The music industry has been choking it to preserve their CD sales but finally clued in that this market was going to die one way or the other and have finally embraced it, online streaming+sales now far exceed physical sales.
TV series have also at least started with Netflix and HBO Nordic, the latter arrived like pompous asses and their interface needs work but at least they are delivering within 24 hours of the US release in a pure streaming service. For any other TV series though it's pretty bleak, Netflix only has old series. The movie industry is still clinging to the cinemas and physical discs though, there's still no online equivalent of a BluRay even though my side of the Internet is ready (90 Mbit now).
Going back to music, what this study mainly shows though is that offline playlists are huge for those that use them. Those who listen to a lot of music don't want to stream, they want to load up their player and use it as if they had a bunch of MP3s on their phone and this provides a good substitute. I wish the TV and movie industry could also take a clue from this, there's no such thing as an "offline TV series" or "offline movie", I guess because they're still afraid of TPB. As if everything wasn't there already.
Plus, there's not a scrap of entertainment media on the fucking planet I'm willing to risk bankruptcy over.
That says more about the sad state of the US legal system than anything else... yes, it's illegal in Norway too but we don't have crazy statutory damages or even crazy damages in general. A guy who released a studio copy of a movie on TPB at the same time it premiered at the cinema was convicted to 15 days suspended sentence and about $8000 in fine. A guy who ran an illegal subtitle site for years with over a million downloads got $2500 in fine. I've never heard of a regular seeder or downloader ending up in court but my guess is that it'd be a "parking ticket" size fine.
Well yes, if you're used to them failing you often then usually you go straight to the solution that you know works. From time to time you try the alternative again and see if it works better now. Does that surprise you in any way?
Give it a try. Go around and pick places and see if you find words you don't know. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I tried for a while and I didn't come up with any.
Didn't take me very long, do you know what "festoons", "muslin" or "almsgiving" is? Not off the top of my hat, now I'm not a native English speaker but I've watched movies and TV without dubbing or subtitles for many years, I've read many English books and generally consider me all but fluent in English yet all of these have eluded me. Here's a sample with all three.
Ah, so that's where IBM's secret underwater lair is. Remember, they invented FUD while the rest are just copycats. I also predict sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
I'm sitting at beach.country.pineapple and my co-worker is at closing.rheumatoid.begin. How does that help someone find out if he's 6 feet away or 6000 miles away?
Maybe that's a feature, not a bug? As it is, on a website it sounds stupid. But if this was built into a GPS device and you'd say "beach.country.pineapple" over any kind of voice line like landline, cell phone, radio - particularly relaying where it's not your phone's current GPS location - it'd be very hard to fumble saying/hearing/writing down numbers and end up with anyone thinking you're somewhere else. Say if some shit happened outside the coverage area and someone had to walk back and call in help to "beach.country.pineapple". And if you did say a wrong word, chances are the answer would be so horribly wrong it's obvious. Compare that to being on 40.87 or 40.78 degrees north, both can seem like a "reasonable" value inside a search area. It'd be a shame if that rescue party went to the wrong place while you were bleeding out or freezing to death.
On the other hand you could probably do this simpler and better with a basic checksum and one or two control digits, because you also lose the instant "they're northwest of here, move out" until you've looked up and deciphered the code and typing it in on a GPS unit in the field would waste valuable time. Either way, it doesn't really have much benefit unless it was universally accepted as an alternate form of GPS coordinates, so I don't see this going anywhere. If you need to be connected to the Internet to translate the coordinates into a code for the person receiving the code to look it back up on the Internet then there are a zillion better ways of transmitting the same information.
Unfortunately there is no ready-made builds for KDevelop on Windows as far as I know, since it lacks someone who is willing and able to work on KDevelop on Windows. Contributions would be very much welcome here!
If anybody is using Visual Studio there's a good bet they're on Windows, so with no Windows build how can KDevelop be an alternative?
I think most people intended that if you release code under GPL, you give up patent rights related to the code you contribute. The wording is broader than that, though. The way GPL3 is actually worded, if a company contributes to any GPL project a third party can use that project to nullify other patents from some other division of the company, arguably.
How is that exactly? The definition of "essential patent rights" is
A contributor's "essential patent claims" are all patent claims owned or controlled by the contributor, whether already acquired or hereafter acquired, that would be infringed by some manner, permitted by this License, of making, using, or selling its contributor version, but do not include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of the contributor version.
I suppose that if I'm playing devil's advocate you could have a patented algorithm in one division and another division contributes to LibreOffice Calc, then someone else implements that algorithm in a spreadsheet and says "Hey, I haven't modified the code so your patent grant now includes this algorithm" but it sounds extremely contrived.
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Why permit such revisionist history at all? If you're going to pretend he was not a criminal, then you must also pretend the government didn't convict him. Are we going to pretend the US never had slavery if Congress passes a law to posthumously free all slaves back to 1776? It's absurd. That Alan Turing was convicted of the crime of homosexuality is a historic fact and his "crimes" only reflect badly on the UK government, not on the man himself.
Plus no electron beam aimed at my brain, for whatever that might be worth.
Not much, since the whole reason it needs to be a vacuum tube is because air would stop the beam.
You have 31.5 inches that'll be practically as much vertical space as a 30 inch 16:10 monitor and 2160 vertical pixels to work with, but it's unusable... fine by me, pass it this way ;)
And don't forget the advanced adaptive screening rate through combinatorial probabilistics with both parallell and serial execution methods. You can also implement multiple selection criteria at once, subselecting some passengers to even more intensive screening methods. Though for expediency I'd recommend the d20.system instead.
My TV box has HDMI out, my video camera has HDMI out, my surround receiver has HDMI in/out for pass-through, in fact the only places I can find DisplayPort is on graphics cards and screens mostly intended as monitors, not TVs. HDMI version 2.0 with 4K/UltraHD @ 60Hz support should be out any day now (it was scheduled for first half of 2013, apparently a little late) and unless they completely break backwards compatibility I think that's what everything will use. So unless you really want 4K right now(tm) even though content is extremely rare except stills I'd wait a few more months.
Oh, oh I know the answer to this one. What the private companies are (or rather aren't) offering is the best anyone can do under normal, fair market conditions. So if the government can do it, it's because the government is awarding it indirect subsidies and siphoning off costs to be paid with taxpayer money in some unamerican commie conspiracy to destroy private enterprise and replace it with a protectionist government monopoly. Honestly, for some it's so deeply rooted in them that if the government appears to be doing anything at all better than private companies then they must be cheating somehow.
No, it's politicians grandstanding buying things private industry has spent a trillion dollars developing. Without the latter, the former has trouble bringing you a loaf of bread.
Said over the Internet, brought to you by the US government (Internet -> ARPANET -> Department of Defense -> US government). Which is rather beside the point anyway, unless you're still fighting the ghost of early 1900s Soviet-era socialism what it means in a modern context is the government collecting taxes to provide public services which they may or may not be buying from private companies. There's no contradiction between a public road or a public hospital or a public whatever being built by private companies. But sure, give all the credit for everything to private companies. Let me guess, libertar... I mean libertarian?
Nobody argues there weren't things that really needed fixing. But there was also a lot of nice-to-haves that didn't have to be fixed at triple rates on rush schedules by anyone qualified to use a keyboard. It sailed by so smoothly I can't help to feel it was overhyped and overfixed. As in a paramedic can give you a band-aid, but it really wasn't necessary to go that far.
You must be providing Facebook with more data than I am, I just keep an account because some insist on using it as their RSVP system. The people it recommends are typically totally random people who have one friend in common with me.
Here in Norway we're up to 20% last year, it increases by about 3% per year (11->14->17->20) and all major rollouts (ex-DSL, ex-cable, ex-power companies) are doing fiber for new apartment buildings or housing areas. We're expecting major investments in fiber over the next years as the copper network has officially been declared a phase-out technology to be shut down in central areas by end of 2017 (first tiny test county has already shut down, it's now all fiber + mobile), it'll still exist as a legacy option in rural areas but many of the 45% currently using xDSL will move to fiber. By the end of the decade I'd not be surprised if a majority is on fiber. But then I do think we're #2 in the world on fiber penetration.
a nearly free OS (Apple.)
Ahahahahaha no.
It was surprising that it chose to compete against MILLIONS of applications written for those two OSes. It was surprising that it decided to release a tablet that carries the name "Windows" [RT] but doesn't run Windows software.
And that could have been their leverage. Imagine an x86 tablet that works okay but as a bonus can run that odd must-have application you really missed from desktop Windows, like a cut down Surface Pro. Instead they totally messed up the "Surface" brand with RT and Pro that are really two completely different worlds. Yes I can understand the talking heads wanting a product that can compete in the space Surface/WinRT is, but they should have realized this was going to suck and suck bad. And it's dragging down the Windows brand with them.
Well yes the iOS front-end perhaps, but unless they also rewrote the whole decoding backend that they have to link to that part will still be under the LGPL.
Last decade called and want their post back, this decade fiber is your last mile. The rest is just for in-house distribution or on the go.
I never understood why people think a A.I. should learn any faster than a real child could. It's like people think because it's a computer it automagically knows everything there is ever to know, but in reality A.I. still requires training and positive/negative reinforcement just like really children do.
Because computers typically is much faster than me at doing something, they can read Wikipedia faster than I could read an A4 page, my math speed is measured in seconds per floating point operation not the other way around and it could query huge database much faster than I could find the index cards at the library, much less find anything. What they're short on is the ability to comprehend and learn, not process. If they're so slow it's because they're waiting for humans to give them feedback or tweak their programming because they lack the inherent ability of self-learning, if they were able to review their own performance and adapt/improve/get creative they should be spinning evolution cycles faster than mayflies.
Let me express this another way, assume that you had an AI that already speaks English fluently. How long would you guesstimate that it'd take before it could speak every language fluently? My guess is that if you could do one, it could do the rest in hours - rush through all the dictionaries, the grammar, the expressions and idioms and tomorrow it'd speak Japanese, Swahili and Inuit fluently too. Meanwhile it'd take many, many years for a person to speak a hundred languages, if one could do it at all. What you're talking about is the limit as to how fast humans can teach a computer, it speaks nothing of how fast a computer could teach itself. After all us humans are used to figuring out things on our own and to surpass our teachers, a true AI would need to have that capacity as well.
Personally I have no idea why people spend this kind of money on a car. My last brand new car (I don't usually buy brand new, but they had a lot of incentives) was about $16k (cdn), and I considered that a lot. A car is not an investment.....
Neither is a computer, but if you count the total I've used without any significant ROI to show for it, well... it basically depends how much you need and want to use it. I have a friend who spent quite a lot of money on his car, but he also has a fairly long daily commute (and most of it driving not just limping in a queue), the family has two cabins who are both a few hours away, the car is the de facto way to visit friends and family and in general he likes to drive and can go on road trips and such. If you subtract work and sleep then to many people most the other hours are at home or in their car, might as well make it a comfortable and fun ride. Not to mention it's visible wealth, it matters to some. Of course it's not what you spend money on if you're looking to cut expenses or invest, but for many disposable cash is there to be used not stuffed under the mattress.
Nobody held a gun to an artist's head and forced them to sign up with a major label before either, unless you wanted radio time, shelf space or any other form of access to the market. A lot of people thought the Internet would change all that and artists could now just put up their own songs for sale on their own website. Which I suppose they still can, but that's not where most the market is going. To a lot of people, either you're on Spotify or you pretty much don't exist, they'd have to be a real fan and go out of their way to buy it directly from you. And maybe they don't want it that badly, they just want to stream in once in a while in their huge playlists.
If you don't see where I'm going with this, it's that power is again concentrating in a oligarchy, it's not MGM and Universal and EMI anymore it's Spotify, iTunes and Amazon MP3. To the individual, independent artist they're the same kind of giants offering the same shitty deals because you need them a lot more than they need you and they know it. Meet the new middle man between artists and consumers, same as the old middle man between artists and consumers. Every so often we have the stories of artists leaving because they pay shit but at the same time others return because it still beats toiling in obscurity, I'm pretty sure Spotify keeps a close eye on just how tightly they can screw the vice, if the tide turns against them they can sweeten the deal a little and bring artists back, before they make another push in the race to the bottom.
Which is completely opposed by this study, where both iTunes and Spotify are huge popular. Maybe in the US the market is different, but here in Norway most people are well off and don't mind paying. What has driven piracy has been a lack of alternatives and online being treated as second class citizens. The music industry has been choking it to preserve their CD sales but finally clued in that this market was going to die one way or the other and have finally embraced it, online streaming+sales now far exceed physical sales.
TV series have also at least started with Netflix and HBO Nordic, the latter arrived like pompous asses and their interface needs work but at least they are delivering within 24 hours of the US release in a pure streaming service. For any other TV series though it's pretty bleak, Netflix only has old series. The movie industry is still clinging to the cinemas and physical discs though, there's still no online equivalent of a BluRay even though my side of the Internet is ready (90 Mbit now).
Going back to music, what this study mainly shows though is that offline playlists are huge for those that use them. Those who listen to a lot of music don't want to stream, they want to load up their player and use it as if they had a bunch of MP3s on their phone and this provides a good substitute. I wish the TV and movie industry could also take a clue from this, there's no such thing as an "offline TV series" or "offline movie", I guess because they're still afraid of TPB. As if everything wasn't there already.
Plus, there's not a scrap of entertainment media on the fucking planet I'm willing to risk bankruptcy over.
That says more about the sad state of the US legal system than anything else... yes, it's illegal in Norway too but we don't have crazy statutory damages or even crazy damages in general. A guy who released a studio copy of a movie on TPB at the same time it premiered at the cinema was convicted to 15 days suspended sentence and about $8000 in fine. A guy who ran an illegal subtitle site for years with over a million downloads got $2500 in fine. I've never heard of a regular seeder or downloader ending up in court but my guess is that it'd be a "parking ticket" size fine.
Well yes, if you're used to them failing you often then usually you go straight to the solution that you know works. From time to time you try the alternative again and see if it works better now. Does that surprise you in any way?
Give it a try. Go around and pick places and see if you find words you don't know. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I tried for a while and I didn't come up with any.
Didn't take me very long, do you know what "festoons", "muslin" or "almsgiving" is? Not off the top of my hat, now I'm not a native English speaker but I've watched movies and TV without dubbing or subtitles for many years, I've read many English books and generally consider me all but fluent in English yet all of these have eluded me. Here's a sample with all three.
Ah, so that's where IBM's secret underwater lair is. Remember, they invented FUD while the rest are just copycats. I also predict sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
I'm sitting at beach.country.pineapple and my co-worker is at closing.rheumatoid.begin. How does that help someone find out if he's 6 feet away or 6000 miles away?
Maybe that's a feature, not a bug? As it is, on a website it sounds stupid. But if this was built into a GPS device and you'd say "beach.country.pineapple" over any kind of voice line like landline, cell phone, radio - particularly relaying where it's not your phone's current GPS location - it'd be very hard to fumble saying/hearing/writing down numbers and end up with anyone thinking you're somewhere else. Say if some shit happened outside the coverage area and someone had to walk back and call in help to "beach.country.pineapple". And if you did say a wrong word, chances are the answer would be so horribly wrong it's obvious. Compare that to being on 40.87 or 40.78 degrees north, both can seem like a "reasonable" value inside a search area. It'd be a shame if that rescue party went to the wrong place while you were bleeding out or freezing to death.
On the other hand you could probably do this simpler and better with a basic checksum and one or two control digits, because you also lose the instant "they're northwest of here, move out" until you've looked up and deciphered the code and typing it in on a GPS unit in the field would waste valuable time. Either way, it doesn't really have much benefit unless it was universally accepted as an alternate form of GPS coordinates, so I don't see this going anywhere. If you need to be connected to the Internet to translate the coordinates into a code for the person receiving the code to look it back up on the Internet then there are a zillion better ways of transmitting the same information.
Well, at least as recently as May they said:
Unfortunately there is no ready-made builds for KDevelop on Windows as far as I know, since it lacks someone who is willing and able to work on KDevelop on Windows. Contributions would be very much welcome here!
If anybody is using Visual Studio there's a good bet they're on Windows, so with no Windows build how can KDevelop be an alternative?
I'm sure their building is larger than 3x3 meter so they have room for both and bring.more.chairs as well :)
I think most people intended that if you release code under GPL, you give up patent rights related to the code you contribute. The wording is broader than that, though. The way GPL3 is actually worded, if a company contributes to any GPL project a third party can use that project to nullify other patents from some other division of the company, arguably.
How is that exactly? The definition of "essential patent rights" is
A contributor's "essential patent claims" are all patent claims owned or controlled by the contributor, whether already acquired or hereafter acquired, that would be infringed by some manner, permitted by this License, of making, using, or selling its contributor version, but do not include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of the contributor version.
I suppose that if I'm playing devil's advocate you could have a patented algorithm in one division and another division contributes to LibreOffice Calc, then someone else implements that algorithm in a spreadsheet and says "Hey, I haven't modified the code so your patent grant now includes this algorithm" but it sounds extremely contrived.