Or stimuli like images guns, knives, suicide bombers, or zombies, none of which could have influenced early primate development, and yet would probably elicit a quick and strong response.
We just had local elections here. My district had well over 100 people standing. There were 8 districts in the town, so there were basically 1000 candidates. In a town of 400000 people, I might add.
It was dreadful - I actually had to make a choice from a huge selection of varied people with different skills and focuses. How on earth did I cope!??! This must be prevented - or else we might have democracy!
> I prefer politicians who are willing to change their minds
"It was not a mistake" (19 November 1986) "I didn't make a mistake" (24 November 1986) "I do not think it was a mistake" (26 November 1986) "Mistakes were made" (6 December 1986) "Serious mistakes were made" (27 January 1987) "It was a mistake" (4 March 1987)
Bring back Ronnie Raygun! (And if anyone has any similar cascades for other presidents, please post them here, it's a dull morning here.)
The UK's been a pathetic lapdog of the US since the 80s with Thatcher cow-towing to Reagan.
I was just about to pull up some youtube links for the old/Spitting Image/ sketches where she was literally portrayed as a lapdog as we knew it back then (or at least the "red wedge" did), but I notice - as have others according to the comments - that all the scenes showing that seem to have been cut.
As someone who has bought a real DEC Alpha workstation for serious work, and who was given a high-end Mac, and has used so-called high-end pee-cees (branded HP and Dell boxes), but who has mostly owned cheap-arse no-name budget pee-cees, I can assure you that build quality was always directly related to the price. The Alpha was a bomb-proof brick, with beatiful damping that made it not even hum or whirr at all. The Mac was specced with enough cooling for worst-case and partitioned internally such that the components that were temperature sensitive got the lions share of the airflow, a very clever design. The HPs had the cooling, but sounded like a helicopter the whole time - they had over-specced cooling, but with braindead internal sensors, shitty bearings, and no damping. Dell was just an overpriced but lame HP-wannabee. And we all know how shitty shitty PCs are. Look at the benchmarks, and they were all pretty similar (the Alpha clearly blew any intel machines out of the water at the time for floating point stuff, but that didn't last for more than a few years), but there was an entire order of magnitude, between the most expensive and the cheapest. However, the build quality - which is not just the components, but has a purely mechanical aspect - was just as broad in range. People like you keep saying "but it's the same RAM, the same HDD, the same optical drive, the same processor,...", but you completely overlook build quality. I'm no Apple fan-boi - I run linux on the Mac that Apple gave me (I was sworn into not insulting them as part of the agreement, which did mean I had to bite my lip a few times, as I hate OSX) - but I did, and still do, like their build quality. I also liked their choice of CPU - the POWER architecture - sigh.
Yes, quite sure. I've known people who worked in the overnight shifts when they were students. 1 second of downtime would cost them half a day - their entire job was just making sure nothing grinds to a halt. And that was in the single biggest industrial sector in the whole country.
Idiot. Not all countries are the country you live in.
I just went to their standards webpage, and right at the top was greeted by this: """ Your browser may lack functionality needed by Webmaker to function properly. Please upgrade your browser for an improved experience. """
Skroo yoo! I like w3m, I can run it in a screen that I can pick up from an SSH session. (Likewise lynx and links, I'm not saying anything against those.) Whatever kid was behind this "standard" can get of my bloody lawn!
All I know is that when these catch on, twisted fuckers like me will make up a whole bunch of fake ones in order to dilute them to a level where they can be safely ignored.
I think I'll offer read, write, and participate badges for "goatse". Probably offer an "NSA" badge too. If you think you've had your mail read by the NSA, then you can have one of those.
Plenty of whatthefuckery within. From their wiki page: """ Who is using Open Badges?
* User stories -- Hypothetical examples of how badges can help solve problems in everyday scenarios. """
So, if top of the list of people using it are "hypothetical examples", can we assume that the real "Who is using Open Badges?" FAQ answer should be "Basically nobody - only me and my imaginary friends."?
So would I, I'm sure. It'll be some modeish clap-trap that many greybeards will have rejected as not sufficiently better than what we were doing before 99% of the current internet population had even heard of the net.
And the fact that it was is evidence enough that it will never be revoked. Yes, they are that corrupt. (Sorry, not writing off such malice as stupidity in this case.)
But what kind of simpleton hasn't heard of the countries Sweden and Finland? It would be too easy to suggest that such geographical ignorance was a US trait.
> Companies with a fixed resource could increase profits only by encouraging more usage: deploy newer and faster technology, connecting more people, encouraging high data-transfer activities (netflix, et al.), and so on.
Alas "and so on" includes the equivalent of flood pinging you, and getting you to pay for it. I've seen that on a pay-as-you-go mobile operator in the OK, which basically discharged my free 10MB of internet while I didn't even have a browser open (or any "accounts" of any description doing any updates). I wasn't willing to pay for any more data connectivity from that provider to see if they continued stealing off me once the free quota was over.
> so the most politically-connected company gets the regulators to write rules that keep them out of the market.
And thus the survivor kills off the rest. Killing by lobbied proxy is still killing.
So either you live in a "socialist fantasy land" yourself, or the "socialist fantasy land" is actually "socialist observation of reality". Feel free to choose whichever makes you feel less uncomfortable, we wouldn't want you to have to throw away your entrenched prejudices.
Yet the US has a population density higher than that of Sweden and Finland. And yet those two countries have well-connected populations, many effectively having broadband access for free. And not coincidentally, those two are well connected together too, as they are also to their southern neighbours. It's almost as if forward planning and cooperation can achieve objectives benefitting all involved parties. Ouch, it's that nasty European "socialism" rearing its ugly head again. As you indicate, the US system just isn't set up for cooperation like that.
One of the reasons why theoretically "advanced" (world-leading in some respects) countries such as the USA are at an artificial disadvantage is that as each new generation of communication technology rolls out, you need to migrate people off the older technologies, which takes time and money, and which due to inertia keeps your national averages lower than you might expect. (I know people who are happy with about 512Kb/s in the empty midwest, and no plans to upgrade. I think I still know one on dial-up.) If you look at the current "statistics" you'll see fairytails about, for example, Romania having fast internet - that's because they were a technological black hole that had almost nothing to replace. All the economies of rolling out known technologies and known topologies were available to them. Finns and Swedes (and every other EU country that pays their bills) effectively paid for that roll out.
Taking a long time to drop is just as indicative of historical price fixing in the downward direction, to keep smaller competitors out of the market, and to push one standard over another, thus guaranteeing a larger future market as the rival standard fades away.
> The only technology that is even vaguely economic for storage is pumped storage hydro
Am I the only one who thinks that something must be fundamentally wrong with the system if burning power in order to later generate power makes good sense. There are two mechanical loss stages in that process. It's basically a perpetual motion machine where the only input is some money.
Why aren't the biggest consumers flat demand 24/7? All the big industries that surround me are, I'm sure.
No disagreement, but it seems probable that those in charge of budgets were creaming as much off for themselves at the top, and hiring bottom-of-the-barrel third-rate subcontractors to do the actual work as cheaply and quickly as possible. And by "do the work" I mean "act like monkeys at typewriters, and not bother testing before deploying".
The article says: """ Creating machines that can see the world and make sense of images as humans do is one of the â€oehard problems†in artificial intelligence. Breaking CAPTCHA is a milestone on that roadâ€"if Vicarious has pulled it off. """
Prior cutting-edge research demonstrated: OCR on images of text that have had some distortions and noise added.
Their video showed: OCR on images of text that have had some distortions and noise added.
Not really seeing any new milestones being reached, merely a bit of fine tuning improvements. Even in the restricted problem space of OCRing CAPTCHAs, it's a stretch to say this is much of an advancement.
But even *with* a proper limiter (the true scotsman falacy, you didn't get away with it), they still just keep retrying with no consequence until they hit something.
And what else do you call the process of probabilitically limitting the rate at which information-yielding password tests can be performed?
Indeed, Canonical sucking *doesn't* mean that Upstart sucks. It's the fact that Upstart sucks which means that Upstart sucks.
At least from an embedded perspective (which is the majority of linux systems) the system should start only that which is necessary rather than everything that is possible. It also suffers from the classic stampede mistake when it becomes possible to start a whole load of new services after a shared dependency is started.
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Or stimuli like images guns, knives, suicide bombers, or zombies, none of which could have influenced early primate development, and yet would probably elicit a quick and strong response.
"Flawed" barely scratches the surface.
We just had local elections here. My district had well over 100 people standing. There were 8 districts in the town, so there were basically 1000 candidates. In a town of 400000 people, I might add.
It was dreadful - I actually had to make a choice from a huge selection of varied people with different skills and focuses. How on earth did I cope!??! This must be prevented - or else we might have democracy!
> I prefer politicians who are willing to change their minds
"It was not a mistake" (19 November 1986)
"I didn't make a mistake" (24 November 1986)
"I do not think it was a mistake" (26 November 1986)
"Mistakes were made" (6 December 1986)
"Serious mistakes were made" (27 January 1987)
"It was a mistake" (4 March 1987)
Bring back Ronnie Raygun! (And if anyone has any similar cascades for other presidents, please post them here, it's a dull morning here.)
Well, there's some here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBwP5EhftE
(15 or so minutes in)
The UK's been a pathetic lapdog of the US since the 80s with Thatcher cow-towing to Reagan.
/Spitting Image/ sketches where she was literally portrayed as a lapdog as we knew it back then (or at least the "red wedge" did), but I notice - as have others according to the comments - that all the scenes showing that seem to have been cut.
I was just about to pull up some youtube links for the old
ITYM get a grip on the trigger of the arms you're allowed to bear.
Have you not noticed that the first 3 boxes have failed, and it's time to fall back onto the 4th?
As someone who has bought a real DEC Alpha workstation for serious work, and who was given a high-end Mac, and has used so-called high-end pee-cees (branded HP and Dell boxes), but who has mostly owned cheap-arse no-name budget pee-cees, I can assure you that build quality was always directly related to the price. The Alpha was a bomb-proof brick, with beatiful damping that made it not even hum or whirr at all. The Mac was specced with enough cooling for worst-case and partitioned internally such that the components that were temperature sensitive got the lions share of the airflow, a very clever design. The HPs had the cooling, but sounded like a helicopter the whole time - they had over-specced cooling, but with braindead internal sensors, shitty bearings, and no damping. Dell was just an overpriced but lame HP-wannabee. And we all know how shitty shitty PCs are. Look at the benchmarks, and they were all pretty similar (the Alpha clearly blew any intel machines out of the water at the time for floating point stuff, but that didn't last for more than a few years), but there was an entire order of magnitude, between the most expensive and the cheapest. However, the build quality - which is not just the components, but has a purely mechanical aspect - was just as broad in range. People like you keep saying "but it's the same RAM, the same HDD, the same optical drive, the same processor, ...", but you completely overlook build quality. I'm no Apple fan-boi - I run linux on the Mac that Apple gave me (I was sworn into not insulting them as part of the agreement, which did mean I had to bite my lip a few times, as I hate OSX) - but I did, and still do, like their build quality. I also liked their choice of CPU - the POWER architecture - sigh.
Yes, quite sure. I've known people who worked in the overnight shifts when they were students. 1 second of downtime would cost them half a day - their entire job was just making sure nothing grinds to a halt. And that was in the single biggest industrial sector in the whole country.
Idiot. Not all countries are the country you live in.
I just went to their standards webpage, and right at the top was greeted by this:
"""
Your browser may lack functionality needed by Webmaker to function properly. Please upgrade your browser for an improved experience.
"""
Skroo yoo! I like w3m, I can run it in a screen that I can pick up from an SSH session. (Likewise lynx and links, I'm not saying anything against those.) Whatever kid was behind this "standard" can get of my bloody lawn!
Who knows, who cares.
All I know is that when these catch on, twisted fuckers like me will make up a whole bunch of fake ones in order to dilute them to a level where they can be safely ignored.
I think I'll offer read, write, and participate badges for "goatse".
Probably offer an "NSA" badge too. If you think you've had your mail read by the NSA, then you can have one of those.
Plenty of whatthefuckery within. From their wiki page:
"""
Who is using Open Badges?
* User stories -- Hypothetical examples of how badges can help solve problems in everyday scenarios.
"""
So, if top of the list of people using it are "hypothetical examples", can we assume that the real "Who is using Open Badges?" FAQ answer should be "Basically nobody - only me and my imaginary friends."?
So would I, I'm sure. It'll be some modeish clap-trap that many greybeards will have rejected as not sufficiently better than what we were doing before 99% of the current internet population had even heard of the net.
Know how to say HELO, or GOMFL!
And the fact that it was is evidence enough that it will never be revoked. Yes, they are that corrupt. (Sorry, not writing off such malice as stupidity in this case.)
But what kind of simpleton hasn't heard of the countries Sweden and Finland?
It would be too easy to suggest that such geographical ignorance was a US trait.
> Companies with a fixed resource could increase profits only by encouraging more usage: deploy newer and faster technology, connecting more people, encouraging high data-transfer activities (netflix, et al.), and so on.
Alas "and so on" includes the equivalent of flood pinging you, and getting you to pay for it. I've seen that on a pay-as-you-go mobile operator in the OK, which basically discharged my free 10MB of internet while I didn't even have a browser open (or any "accounts" of any description doing any updates). I wasn't willing to pay for any more data connectivity from that provider to see if they continued stealing off me once the free quota was over.
Now crunch the figures for Sweden or Finland.
> so the most politically-connected company gets the regulators to write rules that keep them out of the market.
And thus the survivor kills off the rest. Killing by lobbied proxy is still killing.
So either you live in a "socialist fantasy land" yourself, or the "socialist fantasy land" is actually "socialist observation of reality". Feel free to choose whichever makes you feel less uncomfortable, we wouldn't want you to have to throw away your entrenched prejudices.
Cartel is equally natural. It has the advantage of maintaining the illusion of choice, so that the sheeple don't get perturbed.
C.f. US "democracy".
> Low population density is what fucks us
Yet the US has a population density higher than that of Sweden and Finland. And yet those two countries have well-connected populations, many effectively having broadband access for free. And not coincidentally, those two are well connected together too, as they are also to their southern neighbours. It's almost as if forward planning and cooperation can achieve objectives benefitting all involved parties. Ouch, it's that nasty European "socialism" rearing its ugly head again. As you indicate, the US system just isn't set up for cooperation like that.
One of the reasons why theoretically "advanced" (world-leading in some respects) countries such as the USA are at an artificial disadvantage is that as each new generation of communication technology rolls out, you need to migrate people off the older technologies, which takes time and money, and which due to inertia keeps your national averages lower than you might expect. (I know people who are happy with about 512Kb/s in the empty midwest, and no plans to upgrade. I think I still know one on dial-up.) If you look at the current "statistics" you'll see fairytails about, for example, Romania having fast internet - that's because they were a technological black hole that had almost nothing to replace. All the economies of rolling out known technologies and known topologies were available to them. Finns and Swedes (and every other EU country that pays their bills) effectively paid for that roll out.
Taking a long time to drop is just as indicative of historical price fixing in the downward direction, to keep smaller competitors out of the market, and to push one standard over another, thus guaranteeing a larger future market as the rival standard fades away.
> The only technology that is even vaguely economic for storage is pumped storage hydro
Am I the only one who thinks that something must be fundamentally wrong with the system if burning power in order to later generate power makes good sense. There are two mechanical loss stages in that process. It's basically a perpetual motion machine where the only input is some money.
Why aren't the biggest consumers flat demand 24/7? All the big industries that surround me are, I'm sure.
No disagreement, but it seems probable that those in charge of budgets were creaming as much off for themselves at the top, and hiring bottom-of-the-barrel third-rate subcontractors to do the actual work as cheaply and quickly as possible. And by "do the work" I mean "act like monkeys at typewriters, and not bother testing before deploying".
The article says:
"""
Creating machines that can see the world and make sense of images as humans do is one of the â€oehard problems†in artificial intelligence. Breaking CAPTCHA is a milestone on that roadâ€"if Vicarious has pulled it off.
"""
Prior cutting-edge research demonstrated:
OCR on images of text that have had some distortions and noise added.
Their video showed:
OCR on images of text that have had some distortions and noise added.
Not really seeing any new milestones being reached, merely a bit of fine tuning improvements. Even in the restricted problem space of OCRing CAPTCHAs, it's a stretch to say this is much of an advancement.
But even *with* a proper limiter (the true scotsman falacy, you didn't get away with it), they still just keep retrying with no consequence until they hit something.
And what else do you call the process of probabilitically limitting the rate at which information-yielding password tests can be performed?
Indeed, Canonical sucking *doesn't* mean that Upstart sucks.
It's the fact that Upstart sucks which means that Upstart sucks.
At least from an embedded perspective (which is the majority of linux systems) the system should start only that which is necessary rather than everything that is possible. It also suffers from the classic stampede mistake when it becomes possible to start a whole load of new services after a shared dependency is started.