Great. Now you have an unknown sample of DNA. You can now compare it to... right. There is the problem. You need a database to compare it to. Can police just catalog everyone's DNA?...
Wow! a match! now we know what? That this person's DNA was at the crime scene. Does that mean they definitely did it, no other proof necessary?
DNA matching is statistical. With a 1 in 10 million false positive rate, there are about 800 people in the world who would match. About 35 of them in the USA. You cannot use DNA alone to place someone at the scene of a crime unless you have some other way to reduce the population of people with whom you are comparing, like presence in the town, knowing the victim, other physical evidence, etc.
The different is Hillary Clinton is a very bright woman, at the top of her game, recognisable around the world; she knew what she was doing.
I remember an interview from years back where she was asked if she used email and her response was along the lines of " Oh no. Emails are discoverable". So yes, she knew exactly what she was doing and why she was doing it.
I've signed up for a few hardware kickstarters and they've worked out fine. Maybe because I've had 30 years of product design and I can spot the naive ones a mile off. Generally, if it involves wireless interfaces or software that requires and operating system, avoid - the risks are significant.
The reflowster toaster oven reflow soldering controller is a classic. Simple, useful and you know you could do it yourself if you weren't so lazy. You're paying them to be less lazy that you.
If you think it's going to be easy to put together a real techy product with software and circuits and PCBs and enclosures and EM certification and patent minefields and manufacturing and packaging and distributors and competition, you might want to examine why you think that.
>secret internal memo reveals the situation was far worse, with auditors finding the records from Canada's lead law enforcement agency were unusable since they were "inaccurate and incomplete."
To be fair, it's hard to write an accurate and complete records when you're riding a horse.
> but to actually understand what it means would require several Ph.D.s and a thorough understanding of quantum physics
No, just some understanding of statistics and calculus up to tensors along with an ability to know why you know something rather than just knowing things.
When we make out relatively simple things (like quantum physics) to be complex, when in fact they are just strange we do a disservice to those who might otherwise put in the effort to understand.
The 1980s called and they want their reference architectures back. RISC ceased to be a thing that meant anything useful for high performance CPU architecture sometime between 1990 and 1995. The Huffman like encoding of CISC instructions is certainly more beneficial for performance than the benefits of a 'simpler' instruction format which take twice the instruction bandwidth to do the same thing.
as for thinness, I dont want that! Gimme a phone 2x as thick as current top tier phones (or about 1/2 as thick as old nokia candy bar phones) and give me 4X the battery life. I want some heft in my phone. not zach morris phone thick, but old candy bar phone thick
There is no reason what so ever that any government should get involved in peoples personal financial decisions
Last I heard, mega was a business. The banks terminated their business dealings with mega.
Banks do business with their customers who do things like tell the bank to give X dollars to business Y. The bank's aren't doing business with MEGA, they are doing business with their customers.
But that's just where the usefulness ends. Sure, you now appreciate rock music, but can you play it in real life on real instruments? Millions of kids bought Guitar Hero and Rock Band to realize their dreams of actually becoming ROCK MUSICIANS. Sadly, all the games do is to train you to press colored buttons in sequence with colored lights. Those skills are not transferable to real instruments, and in fact, won't even get you an audition.
Yes, as a matter of fact I can play it on a real instrument, provided that you consider an electronic drumset "real". (And I don't mean the toy drums designed for Rock Band: I use a low end Yamaha set. I have neighbors who would not appreciate the volume of a normal drumset, so this is the best I can do.) The same drumset that I play as a standalone instrument is also my controller for Rock Band 3, thanks to a $20 MIDI adapter.
I'll never be a great drummer--I'm passable at best, and don't have the drive to improve beyond that--but I did develop some of my early skills using Rock Band games.
So how are the electronic drums? Same problem, we want drums but can't have the noise. Are these a reasonable substitute? Would they work for home studio recording? We've seen them in the store, but dropping $500 on something that might be horrible doesn't sound like a plan.
It's typical for Linux zealots to pop on and gloat about their switch, but really I have to feel sorry for you. Even on my 4 year old machine, my Windows 8 OS PC runs faster than your computer, never needs backing up, never crashes, and only reboots for the occasional update (which is better than only updating the files and leaving unpatched libraries in RAM as Linux does), Best of all, I have the ability to run the largest selection of software on the planet from commercial to FOSS. Enjoy the slow performance of X, the endless dependency shenanigans, half-backed FOSS programs, and desktop environments that look like they were slapped together by someone with Down's syndrome.
But if you open a shell and try to run GCC, it doesn't work.
I don't play guitar to seek fame and fortune. I play guitar because it's hugely rewarding to make music. Designing cryptographic circuits and systems pays the bills and finances my guitar habit. Rocksmith is excellent to get out of a rut. You can just dial up some songs outside your current rut and it drags you right out.
So you think it should all be about learning improvisation, over theory and technique?
All three are necessary and Rocksmith is perfect for the technique end of things. The is no moral difference between playing Rocksmith from the screen and playing from written music. It's just a form of notation.
Like I said. I don't like their products. That doesn't make me want to bypass their authorization, it makes me want to install a different OS. But the world is such that that isn't always an option.
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Great. Now you have an unknown sample of DNA. You can now compare it to... right. There is the problem. You need a database to compare it to. Can police just catalog everyone's DNA?...
Wow! a match! now we know what? That this person's DNA was at the crime scene. Does that mean they definitely did it, no other proof necessary?
DNA matching is statistical. With a 1 in 10 million false positive rate, there are about 800 people in the world who would match. About 35 of them in the USA.
You cannot use DNA alone to place someone at the scene of a crime unless you have some other way to reduce the population of people with whom you are comparing, like presence in the town, knowing the victim, other physical evidence, etc.
The different is Hillary Clinton is a very bright woman, at the top of her game, recognisable around the world; she knew what she was doing.
I remember an interview from years back where she was asked if she used email and her response was along the lines of " Oh no. Emails are discoverable".
So yes, she knew exactly what she was doing and why she was doing it.
Just because the extension says one thing, it doesn't mean the file contains such a thing..
> ./hacker.exe
I'm an evil bash script
> file hacker.exe
hacker.exe: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
>
I've signed up for a few hardware kickstarters and they've worked out fine. Maybe because I've had 30 years of product design and I can spot the naive ones a mile off. Generally, if it involves wireless interfaces or software that requires and operating system, avoid - the risks are significant.
The reflowster toaster oven reflow soldering controller is a classic. Simple, useful and you know you could do it yourself if you weren't so lazy. You're paying them to be less lazy that you.
If you think it's going to be easy to put together a real techy product with software and circuits and PCBs and enclosures and EM certification and patent minefields and manufacturing and packaging and distributors and competition, you might want to examine why you think that.
>I think this guy might be onto something
I don't.
Actually, they use it for its dynamic binding and loading, but don't let facts get in the way of your FUD!
That and C++ was horribly immature at a time when Objective-C was not and the Next guys were developing NextStep.
>secret internal memo reveals the situation was far worse, with auditors finding the records from Canada's lead law enforcement agency were unusable since they were "inaccurate and incomplete."
To be fair, it's hard to write an accurate and complete records when you're riding a horse.
If it lets my phone work through cell towers from multiple carriers and doesn't suck like other MVNOs, sign me up.
> but to actually understand what it means would require several Ph.D.s and a thorough understanding of quantum physics
No, just some understanding of statistics and calculus up to tensors along with an ability to know why you know something rather than just knowing things.
When we make out relatively simple things (like quantum physics) to be complex, when in fact they are just strange we do a disservice to those who might otherwise put in the effort to understand.
Just FYI...
ARM is based on RISC architecture
The 1980s called and they want their reference architectures back.
RISC ceased to be a thing that meant anything useful for high performance CPU architecture sometime between 1990 and 1995. The Huffman like encoding of CISC instructions is certainly more beneficial for performance than the benefits of a 'simpler' instruction format which take twice the instruction bandwidth to do the same thing.
as for thinness, I dont want that! Gimme a phone 2x as thick as current top tier phones (or about 1/2 as thick as old nokia candy bar phones) and give me 4X the battery life. I want some heft in my phone. not zach morris phone thick, but old candy bar phone thick
Yup. Thinness is a terrible tradeoff.
Apostrophe abuse included deliberately.
There is no reason what so ever that any government should get involved in peoples personal financial decisions
Last I heard, mega was a business. The banks terminated their business dealings with mega.
Banks do business with their customers who do things like tell the bank to give X dollars to business Y. The bank's aren't doing business with MEGA, they are doing business with their customers.
Thank you. That's good information.
Looks like a good program. Too bad it requires uPlay.
Dunno about that. I just run it from Steam.
Yes it does bass and typically the bass playing is more accessible. You can sound better quicker.
Latency is undetectable on my Ivy Bridge games machine.
But that's just where the usefulness ends. Sure, you now appreciate rock music, but can you play it in real life on real instruments? Millions of kids bought Guitar Hero and Rock Band to realize their dreams of actually becoming ROCK MUSICIANS. Sadly, all the games do is to train you to press colored buttons in sequence with colored lights. Those skills are not transferable to real instruments, and in fact, won't even get you an audition.
Yes, as a matter of fact I can play it on a real instrument, provided that you consider an electronic drumset "real". (And I don't mean the toy drums designed for Rock Band: I use a low end Yamaha set. I have neighbors who would not appreciate the volume of a normal drumset, so this is the best I can do.) The same drumset that I play as a standalone instrument is also my controller for Rock Band 3, thanks to a $20 MIDI adapter.
I'll never be a great drummer--I'm passable at best, and don't have the drive to improve beyond that--but I did develop some of my early skills using Rock Band games.
So how are the electronic drums? Same problem, we want drums but can't have the noise. Are these a reasonable substitute? Would they work for home studio recording? We've seen them in the store, but dropping $500 on something that might be horrible doesn't sound like a plan.
Because that would get in the way of my career in technology.
It's typical for Linux zealots to pop on and gloat about their switch, but really I have to feel sorry for you. Even on my 4 year old machine, my Windows 8 OS PC runs faster than your computer, never needs backing up, never crashes, and only reboots for the occasional update (which is better than only updating the files and leaving unpatched libraries in RAM as Linux does), Best of all, I have the ability to run the largest selection of software on the planet from commercial to FOSS. Enjoy the slow performance of X, the endless dependency shenanigans, half-backed FOSS programs, and desktop environments that look like they were slapped together by someone with Down's syndrome.
But if you open a shell and try to run GCC, it doesn't work.
I don't play guitar to seek fame and fortune. I play guitar because it's hugely rewarding to make music. Designing cryptographic circuits and systems pays the bills and finances my guitar habit. Rocksmith is excellent to get out of a rut. You can just dial up some songs outside your current rut and it drags you right out.
So you think it should all be about learning improvisation, over theory and technique?
All three are necessary and Rocksmith is perfect for the technique end of things. The is no moral difference between playing Rocksmith from the screen and playing from written music. It's just a form of notation.
No redundancies?
Redundancies cost money.
They do if your accounts are worth what they are paid.
Like I said. I don't like their products. That doesn't make me want to bypass their authorization, it makes me want to install a different OS. But the world is such that that isn't always an option.