Your assumption is that there is no such thing as a hardware fault
I said no such thing. Quite the opposite. Hardware faults are the most trivial of things to work around.
or fundamental design error
Let me repeat in case you missed it the first time: "It may be programmed to do something incorrectly but that is a human fault not the fault of technology."
or nothing ever lost to converting and processing an inherently analog world to an inherently digital processing environment
Hardware faults are the most trivial things to work around.
Seriously you're acting like you've never worked with a truly highly reliable system before. No parallel processing? No multiple voting? No self checking with redundant failovers? Seriously we're not talking about overheated Raspberry Pis here.
And again AV1 only has the backing due to the licensing issues. If the lunatics that are shitting in their bed see some resemblance of common sense then the AV1 alliance will be about as big as the rebel alliance at the end of the Last Jedi.
Ultimately you're still underestimating the staying power. "Netflix: I have a great idea, let's make the fans twirl when people play 4k content by switching to a computationally expensive codec without hardware decoder support!" Me personally I run a plugin that forces youtube to pretend to not be capable of VP8 so that Youtube stops slamming my CPU and draining my battery.
And while people love talking about the decline of disc scales it's still a $4.7bn industry that in its latest standard specifies required HEVC support.
Are you really able to taste a discernible difference between the two different beans you buy and grind?
Do you also think there's only 2 kinds of Wine, red and white?
Coffee tastes vary very wildly. Not even from different beans, or different roasts of the same bean, but even the same roast, same bean brewed on a different date with huge swings within 2 weeks of roasting,.... and then it goes stale.
Assuming you're making the perfect coffee, you probably have stale beans. Think about 2 weeks next time you see a "best before" date on the package that has a different year as the year you bought it. That's without discussing making Coffee recipes, 3degrees difference all else being equal can also wildly change the taste. Brew ratios can throw the tastes out within seconds.
There's a huge installed base that won't have AV1 support, but the same thing is true for H.265.
My several year old budget graphics card boasts a hardware h.265 decoder. As does my TV (pretty much every 4K TV does), any UHD bluray player, any computer with a Skylake or more recent CPU (though you could happily decode UHD in software on Haswell)
You can see which codec Youtube is using in a web browser by right clicking on "Stats for nerds". On most systems I see it's using VP9.
And? Netflix uses HEVC for 4k streams, as do UHD blurays. The install base is far larger than you think.
Nobody except for netflix and streaming producers who offer 4k. Nobody except for anyone producing any content for VR. Nobody except for live streamers who have native hardware codecs available.
AV1 is the future, but HEVC will be around for quite a while yet. AV1 risks missing the boat entirely. There are native hardware decoders and encoders available in pretty much every computer right now. They are shipped with graphics cards, mobile phones, in TVs, media players, they are required for 4k Netflix support for example.
AV1 runs the very real risk of being killed overnight. Their hardware codecs are behind the game with a new generation of higher resolution A/V equipment being shipped with HEVC codecs right now which embeds those codecs and entrenches them in the market. If MPEGLA pull their heads out of their arses and makes the codec as cheap to use as MPEG2, AV1 will almost certainly be as dead in the water as Theora was.
That gives me the shits about people. People refuse to accept their own interpretation and insist on knowing what the "true" ending means, what the "lore" is.
It ruins some otherwise classic endings, like the ending of Inception, was he dreaming, was he awake, does it matter? I HAVE TO KNOW WHAT THE DIRECTOR WAS THINKING!
Cooling fans often form a small part of the overall solution for such a thin device. It's a well known trick to get devices with this kind of form factor and point a fan at the back of the screen to get extra performance by cooling through the side of the case and keeping the CPU out of the thermal throttling regime for longer.
I do wonder if this Do Not Shoot list will be as effective as a Do Not Call list. I mean they could try not running in guns akimbo in the first place, but apparently this American specific problem has no solution.
Because when all is said and done the world didn't end with Systemd and ultimately no one but a few of the most vocal minority cared. Linux didn't end. BSD didn't become the most popular of the *IX flavours. Servers kept humming away.
Why throw away a perfectly good Debian distro for it's distinctly more experimental cousin?
This "problem" is why we are here. How about not calling the existence of the universe a "problem"?
This problem led to Trump running America. We need to understand it so we can make sure the next universe doesn't end up in the same self destructive path after Spaceforce uses North Korean nukes to hit the reset button.
will have their own SOE so they're not going to stick with the OS the hardware vendor puts on it anyway.
I said nothing about vendor OSes. I said they distribute new computers when they roll out new OSes, of course they use their own image and flavour. Currently with the rollout to Windows 10 it makes sense to distribute / upgrade computers in the process.
*I work for a very large company currently doing such a rollout. Our slightly larger competitor is in the top 10 of fortune 500, they are doing it too, as is our next competitor further down the list. Maybe other industries are different. I only have the one to go on.
That would be affirmative action but I don't see many people campaigning for it.
You're not looking very hard. There are definitely people out there campaigning for equal rights in some of the things you listed. Firefighters has been a hot topic domestically. Sports teams (at least equal pay, or at least the correct order of magnitude pay) especially has been a huge topic around the world.
It would amount to a slap on the wrist even if it was just a small CEO at a small public company. What he did was the business equivalent of speeding.
can get a settlement within days of the public announcement that he would be sued.
Are you impressed with the speed of this happening? This was quite a small case, everyone involved had high paid lawyers, and the only contention was a bit of wording in the settlement. I wouldn't expect this kind of thing to drag out unless contested in court. Heck this was incredibly slow by standards of many cases (e.g. the RIAA which just sends out settlement letters that can be resolved instantly if uncontested).
I wonder how many years an ordinary person would be dragged through the mud over a shady business deal amounting to a few thousand. They'd probably have to register for a sex offender list, just to be on the safe side.
You only wonder about this because in your isolated world view of tech news this is the first such case you've heard about. Whereas in reality it's quite common for CEO / Boardmen and women to get some action against them by the SEC.
In 2017 alone the SEC issued 754 such filings totaling to close to $4bn in penalties. How many of them did you know about? Probably few because small enforcement cases like this don't typically get much traction in the common media.
Could someone who understands what the difference between these two posts is possibly explain it for the benefit of those of us
The Chairman is the head of the board. The CEO is an employee of the board.
Currently Musk is his own boss with a bit of mediation by a group of people advising him about himself and what's good for the shareholders. Going forward Musk will an employee responsible to a group of people representing the shareholders.
Too often, that is the wrong variety for the pending influenza season.
Actually the flu shot is usually spot on for the most at risk variety of influenza of the season. That you still get the flu is a realisation that there are many variants of the flu out there and going around. Only the most widespread are targeted which makes you immune to about 40-60% of the strains out there.
That said 2017-2018 they did get it wrong. The WHO listed it as 10% effective partially due to targeted strain mutating between the hemispheres. But one bad year is a far cry from "too often". It's actually quite a successful program on the grand scheme of things.
- The influenza virus does not care about your low sugar diet. - The a lung infection or full on pneumonia that is caused as a complication from the flu virus cannot at all be treated with antibiotics. - Having no symptoms of the flu means that you didn't contract the flu, and not that your body is somehow magically better at fighting it. If you were fighting the infection you would be showing symptoms. - There's NO such thing as a "simple" flu. You had a common cold.
As they say 9 out of 10 people confuse the flu with a common cold. The remaining people will never confuse the two again.
This is why, "But I never get the flu," is not a good excuse for not getting the flu shot.
9 out of 10 people confuse the common cold with the flu. The remaining 1 in 10 never confuse the two again.
I've never met a person who's actually had the flu that hasn't gone and gotten the flu shot yearly afterwards. But then flu shots are pretty much free where I live (free for the at risk, free for low income people, free from most employers, and $10 for rich healthy self employed people).
No it's not. "fallible" means capable of being wrong. Technology is very easy to setup so that it's never wrong. It may be programmed to do something incorrectly but that is a human fault not the fault of technology. Technology is infallible due to determinism. Humans are fallible precisely because they are non-deterministic when presented with the same information.
Unless another law or policy tells them to look the other way, they HAVE to intervene. They do not have any latitude to make the call.
That is horseshit. Not what you said, but rather the situation you ultimately find your country in. My neighbour (not in America) experienced just that judgement call when his roommate did a bit of thieving and they police came and searched his home. They found among the jewelry they were looking for a marijuana pot plant and my neighbour's still. They asked if they belonged to him, he said yes, and they told him if they have to come back to the house for something else they don't want to see either item again.
Job done. Thief arrested. Irrelevant minor illegal activity not related to the job at hand let off with a warning.
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Your assumption is that there is no such thing as a hardware fault
I said no such thing. Quite the opposite. Hardware faults are the most trivial of things to work around.
or fundamental design error
Let me repeat in case you missed it the first time: "It may be programmed to do something incorrectly but that is a human fault not the fault of technology."
or nothing ever lost to converting and processing an inherently analog world to an inherently digital processing environment
Hardware faults are the most trivial things to work around.
Seriously you're acting like you've never worked with a truly highly reliable system before. No parallel processing? No multiple voting? No self checking with redundant failovers? Seriously we're not talking about overheated Raspberry Pis here.
And again AV1 only has the backing due to the licensing issues. If the lunatics that are shitting in their bed see some resemblance of common sense then the AV1 alliance will be about as big as the rebel alliance at the end of the Last Jedi.
Ultimately you're still underestimating the staying power. "Netflix: I have a great idea, let's make the fans twirl when people play 4k content by switching to a computationally expensive codec without hardware decoder support!" Me personally I run a plugin that forces youtube to pretend to not be capable of VP8 so that Youtube stops slamming my CPU and draining my battery.
And while people love talking about the decline of disc scales it's still a $4.7bn industry that in its latest standard specifies required HEVC support.
It's amazing how well people use the unusable.
Are you really able to taste a discernible difference between the two different beans you buy and grind?
Do you also think there's only 2 kinds of Wine, red and white?
Coffee tastes vary very wildly. Not even from different beans, or different roasts of the same bean, but even the same roast, same bean brewed on a different date with huge swings within 2 weeks of roasting, .... and then it goes stale.
Assuming you're making the perfect coffee, you probably have stale beans. Think about 2 weeks next time you see a "best before" date on the package that has a different year as the year you bought it. That's without discussing making Coffee recipes, 3degrees difference all else being equal can also wildly change the taste. Brew ratios can throw the tastes out within seconds.
My god don't these people have spell chequers on their pee sea?
There's a huge installed base that won't have AV1 support, but the same thing is true for H.265.
My several year old budget graphics card boasts a hardware h.265 decoder. As does my TV (pretty much every 4K TV does), any UHD bluray player, any computer with a Skylake or more recent CPU (though you could happily decode UHD in software on Haswell)
You can see which codec Youtube is using in a web browser by right clicking on "Stats for nerds". On most systems I see it's using VP9.
And? Netflix uses HEVC for 4k streams, as do UHD blurays. The install base is far larger than you think.
LOL nobody uses H.265 in wide distribution
Nobody except for netflix and streaming producers who offer 4k.
Nobody except for anyone producing any content for VR.
Nobody except for live streamers who have native hardware codecs available.
AV1 is the future, but HEVC will be around for quite a while yet. AV1 risks missing the boat entirely. There are native hardware decoders and encoders available in pretty much every computer right now. They are shipped with graphics cards, mobile phones, in TVs, media players, they are required for 4k Netflix support for example.
AV1 runs the very real risk of being killed overnight. Their hardware codecs are behind the game with a new generation of higher resolution A/V equipment being shipped with HEVC codecs right now which embeds those codecs and entrenches them in the market. If MPEGLA pull their heads out of their arses and makes the codec as cheap to use as MPEG2, AV1 will almost certainly be as dead in the water as Theora was.
That gives me the shits about people. People refuse to accept their own interpretation and insist on knowing what the "true" ending means, what the "lore" is.
It ruins some otherwise classic endings, like the ending of Inception, was he dreaming, was he awake, does it matter? I HAVE TO KNOW WHAT THE DIRECTOR WAS THINKING!
Of course it didn't. The threat of breaching a court order made him not move.
Gasoline is almost perfectly fungible. Everyone has access to cheap gasoline if their respective government decides to reduce the high taxes on it.
I used to have AOL CDs, but then I decided I needed a new gaming chair https://makezine.com/2006/03/1...
Cooling fans often form a small part of the overall solution for such a thin device. It's a well known trick to get devices with this kind of form factor and point a fan at the back of the screen to get extra performance by cooling through the side of the case and keeping the CPU out of the thermal throttling regime for longer.
I do wonder if this Do Not Shoot list will be as effective as a Do Not Call list. I mean they could try not running in guns akimbo in the first place, but apparently this American specific problem has no solution.
Not sure why Devuan is not more popular.
Because when all is said and done the world didn't end with Systemd and ultimately no one but a few of the most vocal minority cared. Linux didn't end. BSD didn't become the most popular of the *IX flavours. Servers kept humming away.
Why throw away a perfectly good Debian distro for it's distinctly more experimental cousin?
One of these markets is fading hard. Guess which one?
Supercomputers.
Did I guess right? I guess you wanted me to say Desktops but the millions of corporate users would disagree with you.
This "problem" is why we are here. How about not calling the existence of the universe a "problem"?
This problem led to Trump running America. We need to understand it so we can make sure the next universe doesn't end up in the same self destructive path after Spaceforce uses North Korean nukes to hit the reset button.
will have their own SOE so they're not going to stick with the OS the hardware vendor puts on it anyway.
I said nothing about vendor OSes. I said they distribute new computers when they roll out new OSes, of course they use their own image and flavour. Currently with the rollout to Windows 10 it makes sense to distribute / upgrade computers in the process.
*I work for a very large company currently doing such a rollout. Our slightly larger competitor is in the top 10 of fortune 500, they are doing it too, as is our next competitor further down the list. Maybe other industries are different. I only have the one to go on.
That would be affirmative action but I don't see many people campaigning for it.
You're not looking very hard. There are definitely people out there campaigning for equal rights in some of the things you listed. Firefighters has been a hot topic domestically. Sports teams (at least equal pay, or at least the correct order of magnitude pay) especially has been a huge topic around the world.
Lesson learned: Don't wear your Apple Watch while masturbating.
Dammit! Now I actually need to go walking to get my step count up.
It amounts to a slap on the wrist.
It would amount to a slap on the wrist even if it was just a small CEO at a small public company. What he did was the business equivalent of speeding.
can get a settlement within days of the public announcement that he would be sued.
Are you impressed with the speed of this happening? This was quite a small case, everyone involved had high paid lawyers, and the only contention was a bit of wording in the settlement. I wouldn't expect this kind of thing to drag out unless contested in court. Heck this was incredibly slow by standards of many cases (e.g. the RIAA which just sends out settlement letters that can be resolved instantly if uncontested).
I wonder how many years an ordinary person would be dragged through the mud over a shady business deal amounting to a few thousand. They'd probably have to register for a sex offender list, just to be on the safe side.
You only wonder about this because in your isolated world view of tech news this is the first such case you've heard about. Whereas in reality it's quite common for CEO / Boardmen and women to get some action against them by the SEC.
In 2017 alone the SEC issued 754 such filings totaling to close to $4bn in penalties. How many of them did you know about? Probably few because small enforcement cases like this don't typically get much traction in the common media.
Could someone who understands what the difference between these two posts is possibly explain it for the benefit of those of us
The Chairman is the head of the board.
The CEO is an employee of the board.
Currently Musk is his own boss with a bit of mediation by a group of people advising him about himself and what's good for the shareholders.
Going forward Musk will an employee responsible to a group of people representing the shareholders.
Too often, that is the wrong variety for the pending influenza season.
Actually the flu shot is usually spot on for the most at risk variety of influenza of the season. That you still get the flu is a realisation that there are many variants of the flu out there and going around. Only the most widespread are targeted which makes you immune to about 40-60% of the strains out there.
That said 2017-2018 they did get it wrong. The WHO listed it as 10% effective partially due to targeted strain mutating between the hemispheres. But one bad year is a far cry from "too often". It's actually quite a successful program on the grand scheme of things.
- The influenza virus does not care about your low sugar diet.
- The a lung infection or full on pneumonia that is caused as a complication from the flu virus cannot at all be treated with antibiotics.
- Having no symptoms of the flu means that you didn't contract the flu, and not that your body is somehow magically better at fighting it. If you were fighting the infection you would be showing symptoms.
- There's NO such thing as a "simple" flu. You had a common cold.
As they say 9 out of 10 people confuse the flu with a common cold. The remaining people will never confuse the two again.
This is why, "But I never get the flu," is not a good excuse for not getting the flu shot.
9 out of 10 people confuse the common cold with the flu. The remaining 1 in 10 never confuse the two again.
I've never met a person who's actually had the flu that hasn't gone and gotten the flu shot yearly afterwards. But then flu shots are pretty much free where I live (free for the at risk, free for low income people, free from most employers, and $10 for rich healthy self employed people).
So is technology.
No it's not. "fallible" means capable of being wrong. Technology is very easy to setup so that it's never wrong. It may be programmed to do something incorrectly but that is a human fault not the fault of technology. Technology is infallible due to determinism. Humans are fallible precisely because they are non-deterministic when presented with the same information.
Unless another law or policy tells them to look the other way, they HAVE to intervene. They do not have any latitude to make the call.
That is horseshit. Not what you said, but rather the situation you ultimately find your country in. My neighbour (not in America) experienced just that judgement call when his roommate did a bit of thieving and they police came and searched his home. They found among the jewelry they were looking for a marijuana pot plant and my neighbour's still. They asked if they belonged to him, he said yes, and they told him if they have to come back to the house for something else they don't want to see either item again.
Job done. Thief arrested. Irrelevant minor illegal activity not related to the job at hand let off with a warning.