Could the increase in accidents be due to the auto industries efforts to achieve better MPG in EPA testing?
no
... it also means a lot lot lot lot lot more of the sort of accidents that occur when pulling out of parking lots or making left turns, and suddenly being confronted by an oncoming car - where you punch the gas to launch forward, only to find your vehicle is not responsive.
from the article:
In more than half of 2015 fatal crashes, motorists were simply going straight down the road—no crossing traffic, rainstorms, or blowouts. Meanwhile, drivers involved in accidents increasingly mowed down things smaller than a Honda Accord, such as pedestrians or cyclists, many of whom occupy the side of the road or the sidewalk next to it.
I think piracy is theft. It's not the content that's being stolen, it's the forgone revenue that is being stolen.
There is no forgone revenue when you can not buy the content because of the geo-locking.
I certainly am no fan of the current copyright enforcement regime, but I do think that content creators and owners should be able to control the terms by which their works can be obtained.
The moment a (copyrighted) work gets published it can be copied (in the worst case you could mount a camera in front of the TV screen) and, hence, the only way to make sure that content creators and owners have complete control over how their works are distributed is to impose a surveillance system on the viewers, welcome to 1984.
The market will sort out those who over-charge, but piracy distorts the market and hurts all content-creators.
Also wrong, on one hand the marked can do nothing about over-charge, if exclusive deals are made, on the other hand "piracy" can also work as advertising, for instance Metallica as a band became famous because there fans were copying and distributing there tapes (oh the irony). In that "piracy" indeed may distort the market, but it doesn't hurt the content creators.
Why even use JPEG?? JPEG2000 has been out there for a while, professional photographers and digital cinema use it for a reason..
My DSLR spits out JPGs... it could spit out RAW as well, but then I need to do development of it is say, Canon Digital Photo Professional, which well, spits out JPG.
But if you use Darktable then you can also output JPEG200, PNG, OpenEXR, TIFF, and a few more file formats when developing your RAW photo.
One should always hear both sides, and this article does exactly this with an update.
About the bashing of ‘Golden’ rice Greenpeace says:
Accusations that anyone is blocking genetically engineered ‘Golden’ rice are false. ‘Golden’ rice has failed as a solution and isn’t currently available for sale, even after more than 20 years of research. As admitted by the International Rice Research Institute, it has not been proven to actually address Vitamin A Deficiency. So to be clear, we are talking about something that doesn’t even exist.
And about alternatives;
The only guaranteed solution to fix malnutrition is a diverse healthy diet. Providing people with real food based on ecological agriculture not only addresses malnutrition, but is also a scaleable solution to adapt to climate change.
If you would inform yourself a little bit than you would find out that the EU did not so much pay Greece, but the banks who invested in Greece - that is, instead of having to cut their losses for a bad investment these banks and their investors (mostly French and German, btw.) got EU tax money. The scheme sounds familiar, doesn't it?
If things would have been done right, Greece would have defaulted in 2010.
Very simple, they have their money in Delaware, and because when they put your money there, they didn't have to go through some Panama based company, and hence, they are not on the list.
So it's how long, about 8 years, since AMD announced it's going open source with its GPU drivers?
They did say it's going to take a while to fully shelve Catalyst, and I could understood if the new open source drivers didn't fully support 5+ years old GPUs due to various transition periods etc. But really?!
This is the open source driver status. Looks pretty good to me.
Regarding the new driver, it is part of their mixed open source and closed source strategy: The kernel module is open, AMD provides the closed source user space that that should provide the latest and greatest features, while the community provides user space part as open source that might have to catch up a little performance wise.
As an outside observer I think the main divide between Republicans and Democrats is that of idealists and pragmatics.
I think it's more like Jarod Kintz put it in This Book is Not FOR SALE: “There exists a big circus tent, and the right entrance is named The Republicans, and the left entrance is called The Democrats. People argue over which is the correct path, not realizing everyone inside is a clown.”
Regions ruled by Muslims and their laws are some of the worst hell holes on Earth, only ever exceeded in their evil and barbarity in human history by places run by Communists or National Socialist pagans. Oh, and YES, there is such a thing as "evil".
Don't forget the witch burning Christians on that list, and all the old religions where human sacrifices were common, or maybe it is all just about "power of authority" like shown e.g. by the Stanford Prison Experiment
[...]
Also note that a similiar mechanism is well established already: Those without other income can get money from social services. [...]
That's different from country to country, for instance in Spain, when you don't have a job and are out of the unemployment aid (maximum two years), you are on your own. Last time I read something about this it was stated that in Spain there are around 2 million persons without any kind of official income.
I wonder whether Microsoft is paying Intel, or Intel is paying Microsoft to put Windows 10 on it. IMHO Android x86 stripped free of Google spyware would have been a better option for "basic computing tasks".
I would like./ editors to stop with "future Russian plans" stories, 'cause I can almost give you a warranty that given the today's economical situation in Russia, and given the fact that it's on the verge of collapse next to nothing will pan out in the nearest 20 to 50 years.
I think it is way to early to write Russia off: Russia is big and has most if not all of the raw materials needed for all the important industries, the ties to China are also becoming stronger, and 20 to 50 years is a very long time.
It would have been better if you'd run a story about the Russian ruble. It's dying. [...]
A low value of a national currency makes imports for this country expensive and exports cheaper for buyers, which means a low valued currency is good for export oriented countries. Russia is an export economy. Considering that Russia mostly exports raw materials, and imports goods like cars, computers etc. such the push from the falling value of the Ruble may actually be good for its industry, because it makes these industries more competitive compared to imported goods (e.g. as imported cars become more expensive cars produced in Russia may become more interesting to Russian buyers).
Out of the blue and into the black
You pay for this, but they give you that
And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black.
If you base it on what people already have, you essentially give them and incentive to spend everything they get to keep their wealth low so they get more basic income.[...]
I think you misunderstood the parent. Currently, if you have much wealth, you can invest in stocks etc. to get more wealth without really working for it. If you have little or no wealth and you have a badly paid job (or two) you are busy satisfying your basic needs usually you don't have enough to save something to get out of that treadmill. Hence the current distribution model is based on what you already have and it favours the rich.
Or everything-and-its-cat now depending on systemd.
It is interesting that you bring up systemd in a GPL discussion. Their was some discussion about how the IPC infrastructure of systemd can effectively be used to circumvent the GPL by providing a GPL wrapper to a GPL library/program that provides a RPC interface and then use this interface from a non-free program remotely. Since no direct linking is involved, this is actually legal, and the a legal way to prevent this is licensing the code under the AGPL
Depends, for instance llvm is used as GLSL compiler, and hence, it can select the target platform based on the available hardware. Likewise POCL uses LLVM to compile OpenCL kernels optimized for the hardware the kernels are supposed to run on.
I don't want to support, or otherwise be involved with, GPL enforcement. It sounds to me like it's the creator of a piece of software dictating exactly what I can and can't do with it.
Wrong, the GPL only refers to the distribution of the software, and here the only requirement is that you pass on all the freedoms that were given to you when you received the software. For what you actually use the software this is completely up to you, in fact restricting the use of the software (e.g. "non-commercial only" or "no military use") is incompatible with the GPL.
The right for somebody to create closed-source derivatives is something that should be protected. Not protecting it is merely the act of taking away freedom.
Here you contradict yourself, because by distributing a closed-source derivative of some free software is taking away the freedom to create a derivative from your modified version.
Right, but the same applies to Russia too. Russia is pretending to bomb ISIS "terrorists" in Syria, and yet for every hundred bombing raids it's done only one has actually been against ISIS and ISIS territory. The other strikes have hit everything from al Qaeda off-shoots, which we'd probably agree is fair play, through to Kurds and Turkmenis who just want to be left the fuck alone in their particular pocket of Syria just because they also oppose Assad.
AFAIK the Russians never bombed the Kurds, Turkey however did, Turkey also closed the border for Kurds when Kobani was under ISIS attack. There is an interesting analysis about why ISIS survives. Short version: Because the Turks support them in many ways.
They pulled drivers for "obsolete* GPUs from the Linux kernel, making all of those cards broken, mine included.
That's not true, older AMD cards are supported by the open source driver, and for these older, pre-OpenGL 4.0 cards the mesa implementation is actually quite good, and since it is open source it will probably be maintained for a very long time.
It is true, however, that they pulled support for the Radeon 4XXXHD series from their Catalyst driver too soon, before the mesa implementation was in a good shape.
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Could the increase in accidents be due to the auto industries efforts to achieve better MPG in EPA testing?
no
... it also means a lot lot lot lot lot more of the sort of accidents that occur when pulling out of parking lots or making left turns, and suddenly being confronted by an oncoming car - where you punch the gas to launch forward, only to find your vehicle is not responsive.
from the article:
In more than half of 2015 fatal crashes, motorists were simply going straight down the road—no crossing traffic, rainstorms, or blowouts. Meanwhile, drivers involved in accidents increasingly mowed down things smaller than a Honda Accord, such as pedestrians or cyclists, many of whom occupy the side of the road or the sidewalk next to it.
I think piracy is theft. It's not the content that's being stolen, it's the forgone revenue that is being stolen.
There is no forgone revenue when you can not buy the content because of the geo-locking.
I certainly am no fan of the current copyright enforcement regime, but I do think that content creators and owners should be able to control the terms by which their works can be obtained.
The moment a (copyrighted) work gets published it can be copied (in the worst case you could mount a camera in front of the TV screen) and, hence, the only way to make sure that content creators and owners have complete control over how their works are distributed is to impose a surveillance system on the viewers, welcome to 1984.
The market will sort out those who over-charge, but piracy distorts the market and hurts all content-creators.
Also wrong, on one hand the marked can do nothing about over-charge, if exclusive deals are made, on the other hand "piracy" can also work as advertising, for instance Metallica as a band became famous because there fans were copying and distributing there tapes (oh the irony). In that "piracy" indeed may distort the market, but it doesn't hurt the content creators.
[...] You can't have freedom if there's a "but only if..." attached to it, [...]
I'm free to swing my fist, but only if I don't hit you.
Now, based on this example, please explain again what kind of freedom you are looking for that has no "but only if ..." attached to it.
Actual effectiveness ratios for birth control:
US CDC document on actual effectiveness
Highlights:
Condoms are about as effective as the withdrawal method, sponges, or the rhythm method. 20% or so failure rates. [snip]
... when used inconsistently you should add. With perfect use you get (Trussell J, Contraceptive failure in the United States.) way better numbers:
Our estimate of the proportion of women becoming pregnant during a year of perfect use of the male condom is [...] 2%.
Which means with a proper education you can lower the rate of unwanted pregnancies significantly.
The only way to communism is through the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
This is what Marx said, but it is just one theory.
Why even use JPEG?? JPEG2000 has been out there for a while, professional photographers and digital cinema use it for a reason..
My DSLR spits out JPGs... it could spit out RAW as well, but then I need to do development of it is say, Canon Digital Photo Professional, which well, spits out JPG.
But if you use Darktable then you can also output JPEG200, PNG, OpenEXR, TIFF, and a few more file formats when developing your RAW photo.
Accusations that anyone is blocking genetically engineered ‘Golden’ rice are false. ‘Golden’ rice has failed as a solution and isn’t currently available for sale, even after more than 20 years of research. As admitted by the International Rice Research Institute, it has not been proven to actually address Vitamin A Deficiency. So to be clear, we are talking about something that doesn’t even exist.
And about alternatives;
The only guaranteed solution to fix malnutrition is a diverse healthy diet. Providing people with real food based on ecological agriculture not only addresses malnutrition, but is also a scaleable solution to adapt to climate change.
If you would inform yourself a little bit than you would find out that the EU did not so much pay Greece, but the banks who invested in Greece - that is, instead of having to cut their losses for a bad investment these banks and their investors (mostly French and German, btw.) got EU tax money. The scheme sounds familiar, doesn't it?
If things would have been done right, Greece would have defaulted in 2010.
There is even a letter written by Alexis Tsipras from January 2015 to the German people that explains the issue.
Very simple, they have their money in Delaware, and because when they put your money there, they didn't have to go through some Panama based company, and hence, they are not on the list.
So it's how long, about 8 years, since AMD announced it's going open source with its GPU drivers?
They did say it's going to take a while to fully shelve Catalyst, and I could understood if the new open source drivers didn't fully support 5+ years old GPUs due to various transition periods etc. But really?!
This is the open source driver status. Looks pretty good to me. Regarding the new driver, it is part of their mixed open source and closed source strategy: The kernel module is open, AMD provides the closed source user space that that should provide the latest and greatest features, while the community provides user space part as open source that might have to catch up a little performance wise.
As an outside observer I think the main divide between Republicans and Democrats is that of idealists and pragmatics.
I think it's more like Jarod Kintz put it in This Book is Not FOR SALE: “There exists a big circus tent, and the right entrance is named The Republicans, and the left entrance is called The Democrats. People argue over which is the correct path, not realizing everyone inside is a clown.”
Regions ruled by Muslims and their laws are some of the worst hell holes on Earth, only ever exceeded in their evil and barbarity in human history by places run by Communists or National Socialist pagans. Oh, and YES, there is such a thing as "evil".
Don't forget the witch burning Christians on that list, and all the old religions where human sacrifices were common, or maybe it is all just about "power of authority" like shown e.g. by the Stanford Prison Experiment
[...] Also note that a similiar mechanism is well established already: Those without other income can get money from social services. [...]
That's different from country to country, for instance in Spain, when you don't have a job and are out of the unemployment aid (maximum two years), you are on your own. Last time I read something about this it was stated that in Spain there are around 2 million persons without any kind of official income.
I wonder whether Microsoft is paying Intel, or Intel is paying Microsoft to put Windows 10 on it. IMHO Android x86 stripped free of Google spyware would have been a better option for "basic computing tasks".
I would like ./ editors to stop with "future Russian plans" stories, 'cause I can almost give you a warranty that given the today's economical situation in Russia, and given the fact that it's on the verge of collapse next to nothing will pan out in the nearest 20 to 50 years.
I think it is way to early to write Russia off: Russia is big and has most if not all of the raw materials needed for all the important industries, the ties to China are also becoming stronger, and 20 to 50 years is a very long time.
It would have been better if you'd run a story about the Russian ruble. It's dying. [...]
A low value of a national currency makes imports for this country expensive and exports cheaper for buyers, which means a low valued currency is good for export oriented countries. Russia is an export economy. Considering that Russia mostly exports raw materials, and imports goods like cars, computers etc. such the push from the falling value of the Ruble may actually be good for its industry, because it makes these industries more competitive compared to imported goods (e.g. as imported cars become more expensive cars produced in Russia may become more interesting to Russian buyers).
Sign of the times. Back in the day at least they gave us a blue screen, now we're stuck with black ...
Or like Neil Young put it ...
Out of the blue and into the black
You pay for this, but they give you that
And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black.
If you base it on what people already have, you essentially give them and incentive to spend everything they get to keep their wealth low so they get more basic income.[ ...]
I think you misunderstood the parent. Currently, if you have much wealth, you can invest in stocks etc. to get more wealth without really working for it. If you have little or no wealth and you have a badly paid job (or two) you are busy satisfying your basic needs usually you don't have enough to save something to get out of that treadmill. Hence the current distribution model is based on what you already have and it favours the rich.
A terabyte, according to RIAA estimates, is about $2.7million which is about 16 years of Cuba's total GNP.
Please check your math: Cuba's GNP in 2005 was $11.2 billion and I think it went up since.
Or everything-and-its-cat now depending on systemd.
It is interesting that you bring up systemd in a GPL discussion. Their was some discussion about how the IPC infrastructure of systemd can effectively be used to circumvent the GPL by providing a GPL wrapper to a GPL library/program that provides a RPC interface and then use this interface from a non-free program remotely. Since no direct linking is involved, this is actually legal, and the a legal way to prevent this is licensing the code under the AGPL
Depends, for instance llvm is used as GLSL compiler, and hence, it can select the target platform based on the available hardware. Likewise POCL uses LLVM to compile OpenCL kernels optimized for the hardware the kernels are supposed to run on.
I don't want to support, or otherwise be involved with, GPL enforcement. It sounds to me like it's the creator of a piece of software dictating exactly what I can and can't do with it.
Wrong, the GPL only refers to the distribution of the software, and here the only requirement is that you pass on all the freedoms that were given to you when you received the software. For what you actually use the software this is completely up to you, in fact restricting the use of the software (e.g. "non-commercial only" or "no military use") is incompatible with the GPL.
The right for somebody to create closed-source derivatives is something that should be protected. Not protecting it is merely the act of taking away freedom.
Here you contradict yourself, because by distributing a closed-source derivative of some free software is taking away the freedom to create a derivative from your modified version.
Right, but the same applies to Russia too. Russia is pretending to bomb ISIS "terrorists" in Syria, and yet for every hundred bombing raids it's done only one has actually been against ISIS and ISIS territory. The other strikes have hit everything from al Qaeda off-shoots, which we'd probably agree is fair play, through to Kurds and Turkmenis who just want to be left the fuck alone in their particular pocket of Syria just because they also oppose Assad.
AFAIK the Russians never bombed the Kurds, Turkey however did, Turkey also closed the border for Kurds when Kobani was under ISIS attack. There is an interesting analysis about why ISIS survives. Short version: Because the Turks support them in many ways.
They pulled drivers for "obsolete* GPUs from the Linux kernel, making all of those cards broken, mine included.
That's not true, older AMD cards are supported by the open source driver, and for these older, pre-OpenGL 4.0 cards the mesa implementation is actually quite good, and since it is open source it will probably be maintained for a very long time.
It is true, however, that they pulled support for the Radeon 4XXXHD series from their Catalyst driver too soon, before the mesa implementation was in a good shape.
One of my primary suspects for the difference is the video card - how well optimized are the Linux drivers?
Actually, it is has been shown that on the same hardware (with NVidia card) for Metrox Redux it is just a question of SSAA being on or off.
[Citation Needed]
There you go.