Why is the CLOUD act part of a spending bill rather than a separate document? Are you unable to pass laws these days without threatening a government shutdown?
Maybe it's time the USA stopped exporting democracy and started importing it from those countries who haven't lost their way.
By nature that excuse has to fly because it is a personal opinion, and personal opinion doesn't get overridden by other people's opinion. e.g. What *you* think about what *someone else* is doing with *my* work is irrelevant.
"same job title responsibility and workload" would alleviate your objection of versatility.
No it wouldn't. Someone may have a same job title and responsibility but may have the knowledge to fill gaps in other parts of the company. In my own team there are multiple people doing the same job and have the same responsibilities who are on different pay grades. The ones on higher pay are also the ones I see in my succession chain, they are also the ones I know I can move to other departments to fill gaps because of their experience and versatility not directly related to their current job title and workload.
Likewise if they are stubborn and don't wish to flexibly fill other roles, or don't wish to advance in their career, then they cease being more useful than other employees and should not expect a higher pay.
Experience is most definitely not the only thing that "values" an employee.
Nope, they aren't good at all. They are only setting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\TEMP_DEBLOAT to 1 while the install happens.
If you need to delete something in order to do this then you were doing it wrong. Personally I lead a fuller life as a result of Facebook. There's a great many things (e.g. underground music festivals) that are exclusively advertised via facebook these days.
I don't actually post anything to Facebook, but like any service, you get out what you want from it.
Amazon to be broken up using the old trust busting laws
The same Amazon that was only recently approved to merge with a retailer to become even bigger? You have a lot of sociological hurdles to overcome before you can dust of those old forgotten laws.
Stop in case of obstacle. Change lanes if clear. That is what they have been programming from the start and that is precisely the best outcome. The other possible scenarios are littered with a stupendous amount of variables that make programming them impossible.
Point is that this isn't a case of ethics, it's a case of best normal response. If that response involves killing a family with 5 children while the elderly person in the car survives in order to claim that there was an ethical problem you need to first prove that the decision wasn't the best course of action which is impossible to do given the variables involved.
I've seen this framed as a "protect the driver" vs "protect the pedestrians" but the reality is the former simply isn't possible. Any action that puts the former in threat involves a whole lot of variables that are impossible to predict: e.g. do you swerve to avoid one child at the expense of the driver in the car and how can the car tell the difference between hitting a parked car as a result (the protect the pedestrians route) vs hitting a car full of children (same scenario as protect the driver but with a now even worse outcome than just running over the single child in the first place).
What we program is what we can control: Stop. Change lanes (on your side of the road only) if its safe to do so. Its exactly how existing collision avoidance systems have been programmed thus far and these have already saved an incredible number of lives.
It genuinely frightens me that we're so quick to support dictatorships. Everybody's looking the other way because they want Russia's gas & oil.
Congratulating someone on their victory does not equate to support. That's the kind of thing people who hate each other do in public to give the pretense that everything is okay. The USA doesn't give a shit about Russia's oil and gas. They have their own. What the USA (and much of the rest of the world who congratulated Putin on his farce yesterday) does give a shit about is not souring relationships with a large foreign power. The world is better for fake smiles than it was from the 50s to the 90s.
That is called diplomacy. Actually it's the most diplomatic thing Trump has done. Just goes to show who he knows is a threat when you compare that to the nuclear button dick waving that he's done with NK.
What reason did the Uber car have for going 38 in a 35 zone?
Control system variance. +/-10% for an object with that amount of mass an inertia is pretty damn good and in many countries that doesn't even legally count as speeding.
Now was the car doing a sustained 38mph in a 35 zone, then we have something.
Except it would be avoidable. Designing roads to avoid blind spots and drivers driving "to conditions" rather than "to a limit" avoids many of these accidents. Speaking of fuck the traffic laws, what are the jwalking laws like in your area? Where I live it's only J-walking if you're within 10m of a crossing. The only other traffic laws that apply is that cars look out for pedestrians.
Neither a programmer nor a car is deciding if it hits 2 3 4 or 1 person.
Interestingly neither are humans. Anyone who thinks that humans attempt to make a rational choice during an emergency situation has never been in the situation before. People at best slam on the break and try to avoid hitting something. Rarely if ever are they even able to register if that something is a child or a deer.
I remember slamming on my breaks one day to avoid a wallaby which jumped out from behind a car. My wonderful passenger armed with all the hindsight in the world smugly said that it was illegal to swerve avoid wildlife. Reality: The fact it was wildlife didn't even register until the car was nearly stopped.
Does it become F/OSS with some sort of GPL license or something similar, thus preventing corporations from taking that work and making it theirs, locking down the code?
Depends on why you code. Some people who do something for the joy of it don't care if it gets locked away afterwards.
The last fast system in a world of incredibly slow turds? Where can I buy one? But actually I'm going to argue against your premise:
However the question for today is it worth it, with the competitors over the past decade had improved their products, and what was ahead of its time, is now behind the times.
Improved in what way? Samsung is now advertising TVs with quad core processors in order to get their smart interface to run smoothly. That doesn't sound improved, it sounds like it is so incredibly bloated and poorly written than the most basic of functionality needs some serious hardware thrown at it. If WebOS can be more like BeOS it could potentially dominate in this market of frustrated users who are sick of their slow arse TVs unable to even animate a spinny loading wheel smoothly.
I will decide what smart thing will be hooked up to it.
Why not both?
Joking aside, the cost and complexity is an insignificant part of the equation given the electronics needed to process and display a modern signal these days. I'm far more worried about security.
Thanks, you suspected correctly. It was the metallic surfaces in the video. When the camera gets close you can see they are textured and cease to sparkle uncontrollably. It's a shame because while the video looked good in principle showing off the wonderful light reflections, I think I have seen some far more realistic looking footage in traditional game engines.
and at the same time mass lead exposure did not destroy society
The effects of lead poisoning take a while to matieralise. Do you think it's a coincidence that we were huffing the stuff in the 80s and now the best OS we were able to come up with was Windows 10? Open your eyes!
Why is it that every demonstration of ray tracing results in every surface looking like velvet? The secular reflections from small bumps in the textures are just insane. Is it because they were dialed up on purpose or is it some effect of raytracing that needs to be fixed with something like anti-aliasing?
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Why is the CLOUD act part of a spending bill rather than a separate document? Are you unable to pass laws these days without threatening a government shutdown?
Maybe it's time the USA stopped exporting democracy and started importing it from those countries who haven't lost their way.
That excuse can't fly anymore.
By nature that excuse has to fly because it is a personal opinion, and personal opinion doesn't get overridden by other people's opinion. e.g. What *you* think about what *someone else* is doing with *my* work is irrelevant.
"same job title responsibility and workload" would alleviate your objection of versatility.
No it wouldn't. Someone may have a same job title and responsibility but may have the knowledge to fill gaps in other parts of the company. In my own team there are multiple people doing the same job and have the same responsibilities who are on different pay grades. The ones on higher pay are also the ones I see in my succession chain, they are also the ones I know I can move to other departments to fill gaps because of their experience and versatility not directly related to their current job title and workload.
Likewise if they are stubborn and don't wish to flexibly fill other roles, or don't wish to advance in their career, then they cease being more useful than other employees and should not expect a higher pay.
Experience is most definitely not the only thing that "values" an employee.
Nope, they aren't good at all. They are only setting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\TEMP_DEBLOAT to 1 while the install happens.
the foam dripping from your mouth
Not foam, just a TL;LD.
I don't really get worked up about much, not even enough to read to the end of most sentences.
and lead richer, fuller lives
If you need to delete something in order to do this then you were doing it wrong. Personally I lead a fuller life as a result of Facebook. There's a great many things (e.g. underground music festivals) that are exclusively advertised via facebook these days.
I don't actually post anything to Facebook, but like any service, you get out what you want from it.
Amazon to be broken up using the old trust busting laws
The same Amazon that was only recently approved to merge with a retailer to become even bigger? You have a lot of sociological hurdles to overcome before you can dust of those old forgotten laws.
A vulnerability is a vulnerability
You've never heard of the concept of "risk" have you.
So what are they programming?
Stop in case of obstacle. Change lanes if clear. That is what they have been programming from the start and that is precisely the best outcome. The other possible scenarios are littered with a stupendous amount of variables that make programming them impossible.
Point is that this isn't a case of ethics, it's a case of best normal response. If that response involves killing a family with 5 children while the elderly person in the car survives in order to claim that there was an ethical problem you need to first prove that the decision wasn't the best course of action which is impossible to do given the variables involved.
I've seen this framed as a "protect the driver" vs "protect the pedestrians" but the reality is the former simply isn't possible. Any action that puts the former in threat involves a whole lot of variables that are impossible to predict: e.g. do you swerve to avoid one child at the expense of the driver in the car and how can the car tell the difference between hitting a parked car as a result (the protect the pedestrians route) vs hitting a car full of children (same scenario as protect the driver but with a now even worse outcome than just running over the single child in the first place).
What we program is what we can control: Stop. Change lanes (on your side of the road only) if its safe to do so. Its exactly how existing collision avoidance systems have been programmed thus far and these have already saved an incredible number of lives.
No easy-to-use service exists because there is no way to profit from it.
Well there services, but like WhatsApp they aren't very popular. /sarcasm
It genuinely frightens me that we're so quick to support dictatorships. Everybody's looking the other way because they want Russia's gas & oil.
Congratulating someone on their victory does not equate to support. That's the kind of thing people who hate each other do in public to give the pretense that everything is okay. The USA doesn't give a shit about Russia's oil and gas. They have their own. What the USA (and much of the rest of the world who congratulated Putin on his farce yesterday) does give a shit about is not souring relationships with a large foreign power. The world is better for fake smiles than it was from the 50s to the 90s.
That is called diplomacy. Actually it's the most diplomatic thing Trump has done. Just goes to show who he knows is a threat when you compare that to the nuclear button dick waving that he's done with NK.
What reason did the Uber car have for going 38 in a 35 zone?
Control system variance. +/-10% for an object with that amount of mass an inertia is pretty damn good and in many countries that doesn't even legally count as speeding.
Now was the car doing a sustained 38mph in a 35 zone, then we have something.
Totally unavoidable
Except it would be avoidable. Designing roads to avoid blind spots and drivers driving "to conditions" rather than "to a limit" avoids many of these accidents. Speaking of fuck the traffic laws, what are the jwalking laws like in your area? Where I live it's only J-walking if you're within 10m of a crossing. The only other traffic laws that apply is that cars look out for pedestrians.
Is that why the cop says: "I suspect preliminarily it appears that..." ?
No the reason the cop says that is because he legally is required to until the investigation is conclusive.
Neither a programmer nor a car is deciding if it hits 2 3 4 or 1 person.
Interestingly neither are humans. Anyone who thinks that humans attempt to make a rational choice during an emergency situation has never been in the situation before. People at best slam on the break and try to avoid hitting something. Rarely if ever are they even able to register if that something is a child or a deer.
I remember slamming on my breaks one day to avoid a wallaby which jumped out from behind a car. My wonderful passenger armed with all the hindsight in the world smugly said that it was illegal to swerve avoid wildlife. Reality: The fact it was wildlife didn't even register until the car was nearly stopped.
Does it become F/OSS with some sort of GPL license or something similar, thus preventing corporations from taking that work and making it theirs, locking down the code?
Depends on why you code. Some people who do something for the joy of it don't care if it gets locked away afterwards.
Why would you want your Vacuum Cleaner on the internet? All it really has to do is suck.
Imagine how much more it will suck if it doesn't work due to a ransomeware infection!
WebOS is akin to BeOS
The last fast system in a world of incredibly slow turds? Where can I buy one? But actually I'm going to argue against your premise:
However the question for today is it worth it, with the competitors over the past decade had improved their products, and what was ahead of its time, is now behind the times.
Improved in what way? Samsung is now advertising TVs with quad core processors in order to get their smart interface to run smoothly. That doesn't sound improved, it sounds like it is so incredibly bloated and poorly written than the most basic of functionality needs some serious hardware thrown at it. If WebOS can be more like BeOS it could potentially dominate in this market of frustrated users who are sick of their slow arse TVs unable to even animate a spinny loading wheel smoothly.
I will decide what smart thing will be hooked up to it.
Why not both?
Joking aside, the cost and complexity is an insignificant part of the equation given the electronics needed to process and display a modern signal these days. I'm far more worried about security.
Thanks, you suspected correctly. It was the metallic surfaces in the video. When the camera gets close you can see they are textured and cease to sparkle uncontrollably. It's a shame because while the video looked good in principle showing off the wonderful light reflections, I think I have seen some far more realistic looking footage in traditional game engines.
So homeopathic petrol is unleaded with added lead and then diluted with unleaded until there's no lead left?
and at the same time mass lead exposure did not destroy society
The effects of lead poisoning take a while to matieralise. Do you think it's a coincidence that we were huffing the stuff in the 80s and now the best OS we were able to come up with was Windows 10? Open your eyes!
Why is it that every demonstration of ray tracing results in every surface looking like velvet? The secular reflections from small bumps in the textures are just insane. Is it because they were dialed up on purpose or is it some effect of raytracing that needs to be fixed with something like anti-aliasing?
No thanks. I wills tick to gaming on Windows 7, that doesn't spy on me.
By the time this gets to market you will be using Windows 7 with so many unpatched holes and bugs, EVERYONE will be spying on you.
quote: "and the help of Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API enhancements."
There's a red flag. Is this going to be yet another graphics "standard" for Windows only?
Of course not. It will cover XBox too and with it the majority of the gaming market.