I always found it comical after driving into the outback for a week without WiFi or mobile reception, when coming back to the real world I would suddenly hit a tower and my phone would go mental giving the Facebook notification sound over and over again in such rapid succession that each sound cut off the previous one.
When I first thought about this I figured there should be a priority based system where each app only triggers a notification sound once per priority level and not at all if the same or a higher priority message comes through.
No, but you do need ones with big pockets. When your prominent customers stop working with you then *you* need to change. Telling them to bugger off only works if your business doesn't depend on them for income.
I've never understood why companies want to wade into arguments about what is acceptable speech.
Because other companies who do business with you only want to be associated with acceptable speech and don't want the burden of identifying that to fall on themselves.
Youtube didn't really care about this until the likes of Pepsi stopped giving them wheelbarrows of money.
'Cause the internet won't speed this [traffic] up.
Check out that traffic. There's like 2 cars in front of him at a red light in an otherwise completely clear road system. They want to build more bridges and flash a picture of an over-constructed underutilised bridge. They want to spend more on public safety even though they have spare fire engines sitting around doing nothing.
I can understand why Comcast finds this kind of available infrastructure threatening. People may actually get used to things going smoothly at expected pace.
I have an easier way to speed up that traffic. It's cheap and effective, now hear me out because it will get complicated...
Wait 40seconds for the light to change to green. Seriously that is the amount of traffic in that city? I'm moving there! It's a utopia. The fact that Comcast thinks this high speed is a problem actually says a lot.
But nice attempting to change the focus of the discussion. Remember the word I used over and over again? "Future" Now please scroll back to the start and read that entire thread over again.
The calc app does some sort of weird floating point math (despite the fact that the square root of 4 is exactly 2 and no floating point math is needed)
How do you calculate the squareroot of 4? No seriously look it up. The squareroot of 4 is obviously 2, but how do you calculate it? Only a couple of algorithms work which don't require floating point math actually work: Getting a square root is hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and those that do are inefficient enough that you won't find them on a computer.... Or an electronic calculator for that matter.
The problem is that the answer is an approximation. The sqrt(4) gives you an answer with a shitload of zeros before demonstrating its inaccuracy so the calculator truncates it and displays it as 2. But that's not what it calculated. When you subtract 2 from it, the errors that previously appeared at the 19th decimal now are the significant digits so it gets displayed on the screen in scientific notation.
By the way I get: 1.0605907030850721689734498566293e-38 so my windows calculator is more accurate than yours by 19 orders of magnitude.:-)
But I'm actually interested. Given how only 12 people were arrested for assaulting police officers, just what was your "self defence" going to be? Charge with an axe in your hand?
The problem is not the referendum or the result, it's the Spanish constitution.
We've been saying the same thing about the 2nd amendment for years. A constitution either needs to be fully upheld or amended by the decision of the entire people. Picking and choosing which parts to follow and when devalues the entire concept.
You miss the fact that Catalonia is the richest region of Spain, and a region in the upper third of all european regions.
Yeah. Reminds me of seeing the homeless guy in the street with a fur coat. Richest bum in the street. That's the comparison you're making right?
That is nonsense. They beat the shit out of people sitting in front of the doors of the election offices. Including children and old folk.
If that's the case why were only a few hundred admitted to hospital and a handful arrested? Remember 3.2 million voters and an end result of injuries and arrests that is barely any worse than a typical protest brawl any time hot-head gather in the street.
But sure. Let me show you a video of a black person robbing a store so you can claim that all black people are thieves. That's the comparison you're making right?
Man I hate when people LIE about actual events in a way so easily disproven
Oh goodie a newspaper article. Let's link to the Daily Mail while we're at it. I'm sure you'll find evidence that someone nuked someone. I feel so disproven.
I mean, there is video everywhere on this showing that you are lying through your teeth
There's video everywhere showing exactly what I said, and your own article mentioned it too: 3.7 million voters, a few hundred injuries, and a handful arrested.
Now take your inability to use your brain and off you fuck.
In the Catalonian case over 90% of voters voted to leave
Which doesn't mean much given the low voter turnout and the general admission from all sides that the people supportive of remaining in Spain boycotted the vote due to it's illegality, the view the government wouldn't accept it anyway, and the desire to avoid clashes with police.
Declare that it has no standing in law and ignore it
Ignoring a self declared independent region when they have ignored the high court's ruling of their actions against the constitution of the land is not likely to make the situation better.
Either that or Spain is going to need a few thousand extra prisons to keep up with the sedition charges.
Other than a handful of people who assaulted police officers the only arrests have been members of parliament. The bitching about citizens is something that you CAN ignore.
From countries that would take most of Catalonia's economic output and use it for themselves?
Drinking the coolaid much? Remember the most recent financial crisis in the EU has a largely to do with a few select countries basically taking the EU for granted and massively benefiting from countries that actually produce a significant GDP. Claiming the EU is taking Catalonia's economic output is laughable given that there were calls for it along with the rest of the country to be booted out of the EU entirely for exactly the opposite.
Or maybe you meant "protection" against police beating and arresting citizens for trying to vote.
The police didn't beat and arrest anyone for trying to vote. The police stepped in to seize voting machines from a process deemed illegal by the courts. The only people arrested were those who fought with police against their attempt to do something that didn't involve the citizens at all. You don't need a referendum or some major government conspiracy, just a group of hot headed people who decide to turn an otherwise peaceful event into a shitstorm.
3.2 million people voted. A few thousand ended up in clashes with police. A handful were arrested. Compared to most other scenarios where people disagree with something the government does this was about as peaceful as the any situation could get.
There's an even easier way than stealing. Just ask by giving someone a form to fill in. The information people are willing to hand over for nothing is simply incredible.
Nothing. But I was equally critical of Samsung's software patch for the Note 7. Just don't claim everything is fine while you're pushing out patches to fix the issues you claim aren't issues.
Slashdot Mirror
Bitcoin mining.
I never trust a game that depends on somebody else's server being accessible.
So you don't play games.
Remind me again why I would buy one of these things?
If you have to ask then you'll never be one of the "cool" people.
Prostate Specific Antigen. I guess Bing is letting me know that I should be going to a doctor for a yearly fingering.
I always found it comical after driving into the outback for a week without WiFi or mobile reception, when coming back to the real world I would suddenly hit a tower and my phone would go mental giving the Facebook notification sound over and over again in such rapid succession that each sound cut off the previous one.
When I first thought about this I figured there should be a priority based system where each app only triggers a notification sound once per priority level and not at all if the same or a higher priority message comes through.
You forgot a pony, and a kitchen sink.
These changes would ensure their continued dominance as a platform, as us powerusers/developers would have little desire to seek alternatives.
You really have no idea about the market for mobile devices at all do you.
Probably most advertisers don't care or would rather not impact on free speech, given the choice.
Probably all people who voted for Trump actually are great supporters and fans of Hillary Clinton. There, that's my contribution to opposite-day.
You don't need all advertisers
No, but you do need ones with big pockets. When your prominent customers stop working with you then *you* need to change. Telling them to bugger off only works if your business doesn't depend on them for income.
I've never understood why companies want to wade into arguments about what is acceptable speech.
Because other companies who do business with you only want to be associated with acceptable speech and don't want the burden of identifying that to fall on themselves.
Youtube didn't really care about this until the likes of Pepsi stopped giving them wheelbarrows of money.
'Cause the internet won't speed this [traffic] up.
Check out that traffic. There's like 2 cars in front of him at a red light in an otherwise completely clear road system.
They want to build more bridges and flash a picture of an over-constructed underutilised bridge.
They want to spend more on public safety even though they have spare fire engines sitting around doing nothing.
I can understand why Comcast finds this kind of available infrastructure threatening. People may actually get used to things going smoothly at expected pace.
I have an easier way to speed up that traffic. It's cheap and effective, now hear me out because it will get complicated...
Wait 40seconds for the light to change to green. Seriously that is the amount of traffic in that city? I'm moving there! It's a utopia. The fact that Comcast thinks this high speed is a problem actually says a lot.
Ubuntu.
But nice attempting to change the focus of the discussion. Remember the word I used over and over again? "Future" Now please scroll back to the start and read that entire thread over again.
The calc app does some sort of weird floating point math (despite the fact that the square root of 4 is exactly 2 and no floating point math is needed)
How do you calculate the squareroot of 4? No seriously look it up. The squareroot of 4 is obviously 2, but how do you calculate it? Only a couple of algorithms work which don't require floating point math actually work: Getting a square root is hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and those that do are inefficient enough that you won't find them on a computer. ... Or an electronic calculator for that matter.
The problem is that the answer is an approximation. The sqrt(4) gives you an answer with a shitload of zeros before demonstrating its inaccuracy so the calculator truncates it and displays it as 2. But that's not what it calculated. When you subtract 2 from it, the errors that previously appeared at the 19th decimal now are the significant digits so it gets displayed on the screen in scientific notation.
By the way I get: 1.0605907030850721689734498566293e-38 so my windows calculator is more accurate than yours by 19 orders of magnitude. :-)
so that's the one they got
How to fuck up a country 101: Make nation shattering decisions of flawed data.
So what you are saying is no matter how many people want to leave
No he's saying citing a referendum with clear biasing flaws is not a good indication of how many people want to leave.
Portugal exists, which destroys your argument.
Yep you completely destroyed his argument by ignoring 2000 years of history. What a great debater you are.
for assaulting police officers
self defence defence
You don't english well do you.
But I'm actually interested. Given how only 12 people were arrested for assaulting police officers, just what was your "self defence" going to be? Charge with an axe in your hand?
Fuck off.
The problem is not the referendum or the result, it's the Spanish constitution.
We've been saying the same thing about the 2nd amendment for years. A constitution either needs to be fully upheld or amended by the decision of the entire people. Picking and choosing which parts to follow and when devalues the entire concept.
You miss the fact that Catalonia is the richest region of Spain, and a region in the upper third of all european regions.
Yeah. Reminds me of seeing the homeless guy in the street with a fur coat. Richest bum in the street. That's the comparison you're making right?
That is nonsense. They beat the shit out of people sitting in front of the doors of the election offices. Including children and old folk.
If that's the case why were only a few hundred admitted to hospital and a handful arrested? Remember 3.2 million voters and an end result of injuries and arrests that is barely any worse than a typical protest brawl any time hot-head gather in the street.
But sure. Let me show you a video of a black person robbing a store so you can claim that all black people are thieves. That's the comparison you're making right?
Man I hate when people LIE about actual events in a way so easily disproven
Oh goodie a newspaper article. Let's link to the Daily Mail while we're at it. I'm sure you'll find evidence that someone nuked someone. I feel so disproven.
I mean, there is video everywhere on this showing that you are lying through your teeth
There's video everywhere showing exactly what I said, and your own article mentioned it too: 3.7 million voters, a few hundred injuries, and a handful arrested.
Now take your inability to use your brain and off you fuck.
In the Catalonian case over 90% of voters voted to leave
Which doesn't mean much given the low voter turnout and the general admission from all sides that the people supportive of remaining in Spain boycotted the vote due to it's illegality, the view the government wouldn't accept it anyway, and the desire to avoid clashes with police.
Declare that it has no standing in law and ignore it
Ignoring a self declared independent region when they have ignored the high court's ruling of their actions against the constitution of the land is not likely to make the situation better.
Either that or Spain is going to need a few thousand extra prisons to keep up with the sedition charges.
Other than a handful of people who assaulted police officers the only arrests have been members of parliament. The bitching about citizens is something that you CAN ignore.
From countries that would take most of Catalonia's economic output and use it for themselves?
Drinking the coolaid much? Remember the most recent financial crisis in the EU has a largely to do with a few select countries basically taking the EU for granted and massively benefiting from countries that actually produce a significant GDP. Claiming the EU is taking Catalonia's economic output is laughable given that there were calls for it along with the rest of the country to be booted out of the EU entirely for exactly the opposite.
Or maybe you meant "protection" against police beating and arresting citizens for trying to vote.
The police didn't beat and arrest anyone for trying to vote. The police stepped in to seize voting machines from a process deemed illegal by the courts. The only people arrested were those who fought with police against their attempt to do something that didn't involve the citizens at all. You don't need a referendum or some major government conspiracy, just a group of hot headed people who decide to turn an otherwise peaceful event into a shitstorm.
3.2 million people voted. A few thousand ended up in clashes with police. A handful were arrested. Compared to most other scenarios where people disagree with something the government does this was about as peaceful as the any situation could get.
There's an even easier way than stealing. Just ask by giving someone a form to fill in. The information people are willing to hand over for nothing is simply incredible.
Nothing. But I was equally critical of Samsung's software patch for the Note 7. Just don't claim everything is fine while you're pushing out patches to fix the issues you claim aren't issues.