"Manuscripts were produced in production lines - does someone assembling radiator grills for Ford know how to design a car?" = How do you know all this?
Because I am literate.
Monks were doing this into relatively recent times - it was a major source of income for many monasteries - and some of the workshop are still intact. In short, it wasn't a secret.
Uhhh... no. The church regularly cracked down on education and what they called ‘feral latin’ among the clergy. Bishops and commissions of scholarly monks conducted regular visitations in parishes to judge and report the state of affairs.
They had to crack down on it because it existed. And of course they were 100% uncorruptable and diligent, like all clergy everywhere are renowned as being.
Plus, lapis lazuli was imported from Afghanistan and was at times more valuable than gold so this woman was an illustrator of some very high end texts. What is important about this discovery is more than anything else that it constitutes proof of the fact that women, presumably nuns, as well as monks were involved in the production of the most splendid manuscripts of the time because nobody except a first rate illustrator would have something as obscenely expensive as lapis lazuli in their dental plaque.
I don't see why this implies literacy or even real education - many male monks were barely able to do more than copy what was in front of them and lots of priests in non-Italian countries could read out texts to their congregations without actually understanding Latin.
Manuscripts were produced in production lines - does someone assembling radiator grills for Ford know how to design a car?
Your answer isn't completely clear - if 50% is what's needed then that's a fundamental flaw and Bitcoin is only safe while it's heavily used, not through any special design, so it's not "specific to shitcoins", then?
There needs to be a point where the screen resolution is high enough where any improvement wouldn't add to the experience.
We're well past that point already. I watched Wonder Woman on one of the largest cinema screens in London, and not very far back from that screen, either. The quality was great, but I've since learnt that the images was "only" 2K.
"The higher-quality, lower price option (CDs) are fading yet the shitty quality high price (vinyl) is going up,"
While I agree that the price of new vinyl is too high (sometimes outrageous), for recordings made more than 30 years ago, I find vinyl is definitely higher quality than CD.
While it's true that material recorded with vinyl in mind will sometimes sound better on vinyl, that only really works up until the point where you've dragged a gemstone across it. After that the quality goes audibly downhill pretty rapidly.
Vinyl is inherently rubbish simply because of its fragility. I hated it even before there was an alternative, and I'm certainly never going back to it.
The higher-quality, lower price option (CDs) are fading yet the shitty quality high price (vinyl) is going up, albeit slowly.
I've yet to see any reason to subscribe to a streaming service for music. I suppose if I wanted to enjoy the feeling of listening to artists I like whilst simultaneously knowing that they're being as badly ripped off as I am, I might give it a go.
While I agree with your general point, my feeling is that gaming seems to take up more time. People are more engaged (more entertained, if you like) and less aware of how long they've sat playing a game than they are when watching TV, except for box-bingeing. I guess it's the interactive nature of the pass-time.
My Samsung S5 is wearing out (accelerometer stopped working in November). Here's what I want to replace it: an S5 with more memory.
I don't want a faster processor (unless it gets more flops per watt). I don't want a higher res screen. I don't want a screen that goes to the edge so that I have to hold it up with just my telepathic powers. I don't want a better camera. I JUST WANT MY FUCKING PHONE that I've been using for years without any issues.
The current S9 is £600 while a boxed S5 is available for £120. It's a no-brainer, so whatever Samsung spent on developing and marketing the S9 (and the S6-8) was wasted as far as I'm concerned as they achieved nothing of any value to me.
What will eventually force my hand is Google withdrawing support for older hardware and leaving me exposed to security threats.
"Rational" makes it sound really clever when in fact it's plain old dumb as bricks. The market is led down the path the suppliers want by incremental moves which give immediate apparent advantages to the buyers and harder to understand disadvantages ("$1 cheaper" Vs "You will have your usage monitored and sold to someone somewhere") which are only apparent once the market is dominated by the new version/product. The cumulative effect is that the buyer gets screwed because they can never undo those moves when they realize where they went - no one is supplying the old model any more and younger consumers are used to it and don't have the deeper memory to even understand what's happened to them. So the commercial space for anyone to come along with a "retro" version which reinstates the old rights or powers the users had shrivels over time until there's nothing that can easily be done about the new situation.
Economists do this sort of thing all the time - push a political view and then label it "rational" or "free" and pretend it's some innate characteristic of the universe that's either desirable or inevitable when it's really just some wanky theory they think will make them personally richer. People aren't rational - if they were then there'd never be a stock-market crash or a bad leader in a democracy. Saying your theory "just" depends on people being rational is like saying it "just" depends on the tooth fairy selling shares in her operation.
All this crap about Russia distracts from the fact that the US President is elected by an antiquated system of electoral collage voting which is free to - and does - ignore the voting pattern of the actual people. THAT'S what got Trump in, not some ineffective echo-chamber adverts from some Russians aimed at half-wits.
No one who got less votes than their opponent is a legitimate president.
"BARB is responsible for delivering the UK’s television audience measurement currency. We commission research companies Ipsos MORI, Kantar Media and RSMB to collect data that represent the viewing behaviour of the UK’s 27 million TV households."
It's something of a mystery to me too but it seems to be about the libraries available. Of course that just begs the question of why anyone bothered to write those libraries in the first place but there's certainly a snowball effect from that.
The idea of making whitespace significant in the way Python does is a useful bell-weather, however. If someone defends the idea then you instantly know they're an idiot and you can move on to the next interview candidate. No one wants to work with someone who's response to a having bad idea is to go all-in on it in the way that Rossum did; you need people capable of honestly learning from their mistakes and fixing them.
Strange hills to die on, since Dr. Who has had male companions since 1969 and The Doctor is an alien species who has regenerated his identities seemingly at random: the fact that Time Lords can change gender during regeneration was established at least 7 years ago with The Corsair
I don't remember that being referenced in that episode.
Slashdot Mirror
"Manuscripts were produced in production lines - does someone assembling radiator grills for Ford know how to design a car?" = How do you know all this?
Because I am literate.
Monks were doing this into relatively recent times - it was a major source of income for many monasteries - and some of the workshop are still intact. In short, it wasn't a secret.
Uhhh... no. The church regularly cracked down on education and what they called ‘feral latin’ among the clergy. Bishops and commissions of scholarly monks conducted regular visitations in parishes to judge and report the state of affairs.
They had to crack down on it because it existed. And of course they were 100% uncorruptable and diligent, like all clergy everywhere are renowned as being.
Plus, lapis lazuli was imported from Afghanistan and was at times more valuable than gold so this woman was an illustrator of some very high end texts. What is important about this discovery is more than anything else that it constitutes proof of the fact that women, presumably nuns, as well as monks were involved in the production of the most splendid manuscripts of the time because nobody except a first rate illustrator would have something as obscenely expensive as lapis lazuli in their dental plaque.
Sure. None of which has any bearing on literacy.
I don't see why this implies literacy or even real education - many male monks were barely able to do more than copy what was in front of them and lots of priests in non-Italian countries could read out texts to their congregations without actually understanding Latin.
Manuscripts were produced in production lines - does someone assembling radiator grills for Ford know how to design a car?
Except that he didn't get 51% of the vote.
Your answer isn't completely clear - if 50% is what's needed then that's a fundamental flaw and Bitcoin is only safe while it's heavily used, not through any special design, so it's not "specific to shitcoins", then?
Is this specific to currencies or is it a fundamental flaw in blockchains?
the benefit of more dense image is depth perception, at 8k (real) we can have a substantive discussion about perceived 3d images.
Do you have a link to something about that?
There needs to be a point where the screen resolution is high enough where any improvement wouldn't add to the experience.
We're well past that point already. I watched Wonder Woman on one of the largest cinema screens in London, and not very far back from that screen, either. The quality was great, but I've since learnt that the images was "only" 2K.
8K on an 88" screen is just a joke.
"Nazi China is becoming a world power thanks to its innovative use of slave labour to keep prices down..."
It all comes back eventually.
"The higher-quality, lower price option (CDs) are fading yet the shitty quality high price (vinyl) is going up,"
While I agree that the price of new vinyl is too high (sometimes outrageous), for recordings made more than 30 years ago, I find vinyl is definitely higher quality than CD.
While it's true that material recorded with vinyl in mind will sometimes sound better on vinyl, that only really works up until the point where you've dragged a gemstone across it. After that the quality goes audibly downhill pretty rapidly.
Vinyl is inherently rubbish simply because of its fragility. I hated it even before there was an alternative, and I'm certainly never going back to it.
The higher-quality, lower price option (CDs) are fading yet the shitty quality high price (vinyl) is going up, albeit slowly.
I've yet to see any reason to subscribe to a streaming service for music. I suppose if I wanted to enjoy the feeling of listening to artists I like whilst simultaneously knowing that they're being as badly ripped off as I am, I might give it a go.
While I agree with your general point, my feeling is that gaming seems to take up more time. People are more engaged (more entertained, if you like) and less aware of how long they've sat playing a game than they are when watching TV, except for box-bingeing. I guess it's the interactive nature of the pass-time.
There is an orbiting repeater which stores the info and then relays it when visible from Earth.
That last part will happen sooner, rather than later.
I know. That's why I'm reluctant to actually buy a new S5.
My Samsung S5 is wearing out (accelerometer stopped working in November). Here's what I want to replace it: an S5 with more memory.
I don't want a faster processor (unless it gets more flops per watt). I don't want a higher res screen. I don't want a screen that goes to the edge so that I have to hold it up with just my telepathic powers. I don't want a better camera. I JUST WANT MY FUCKING PHONE that I've been using for years without any issues.
The current S9 is £600 while a boxed S5 is available for £120. It's a no-brainer, so whatever Samsung spent on developing and marketing the S9 (and the S6-8) was wasted as far as I'm concerned as they achieved nothing of any value to me.
What will eventually force my hand is Google withdrawing support for older hardware and leaving me exposed to security threats.
Not "rational", but "short-sighted".
"Rational" makes it sound really clever when in fact it's plain old dumb as bricks. The market is led down the path the suppliers want by incremental moves which give immediate apparent advantages to the buyers and harder to understand disadvantages ("$1 cheaper" Vs "You will have your usage monitored and sold to someone somewhere") which are only apparent once the market is dominated by the new version/product. The cumulative effect is that the buyer gets screwed because they can never undo those moves when they realize where they went - no one is supplying the old model any more and younger consumers are used to it and don't have the deeper memory to even understand what's happened to them. So the commercial space for anyone to come along with a "retro" version which reinstates the old rights or powers the users had shrivels over time until there's nothing that can easily be done about the new situation.
Economists do this sort of thing all the time - push a political view and then label it "rational" or "free" and pretend it's some innate characteristic of the universe that's either desirable or inevitable when it's really just some wanky theory they think will make them personally richer. People aren't rational - if they were then there'd never be a stock-market crash or a bad leader in a democracy. Saying your theory "just" depends on people being rational is like saying it "just" depends on the tooth fairy selling shares in her operation.
Yeah, I got it wrong - they're Japanese now.
Arm is owned by a company in Nazi China now.
They're both full of shit.
"Each state only get so may votes on all national issues including choosing the president."
That's fine, but they should allot them based on the percentages of the popular vote, not as a winner-takes-all block.
All this crap about Russia distracts from the fact that the US President is elected by an antiquated system of electoral collage voting which is free to - and does - ignore the voting pattern of the actual people. THAT'S what got Trump in, not some ineffective echo-chamber adverts from some Russians aimed at half-wits.
No one who got less votes than their opponent is a legitimate president.
"BARB is responsible for delivering the UK’s television audience measurement currency. We commission research companies Ipsos MORI, Kantar Media and RSMB to collect data that represent the viewing behaviour of the UK’s 27 million TV households."
BARB don't do worldwide numbers as far as I know.
It's something of a mystery to me too but it seems to be about the libraries available. Of course that just begs the question of why anyone bothered to write those libraries in the first place but there's certainly a snowball effect from that.
The idea of making whitespace significant in the way Python does is a useful bell-weather, however. If someone defends the idea then you instantly know they're an idiot and you can move on to the next interview candidate. No one wants to work with someone who's response to a having bad idea is to go all-in on it in the way that Rossum did; you need people capable of honestly learning from their mistakes and fixing them.
Er, yeah. 10.9 million worldwide, on TV and devices? .
No - that's just the UK.
Strange hills to die on, since Dr. Who has had male companions since 1969 and The Doctor is an alien species who has regenerated his identities seemingly at random: the fact that Time Lords can change gender during regeneration was established at least 7 years ago with The Corsair
I don't remember that being referenced in that episode.