>> Many say it's the golden age of science fiction cinema
Slashdot editors must be getting dumber or I'm getting older. Show me a successful sci-fi movie that's not a remake, sequel/prequel or spin-off in the last ten years.
On second thought, I'll vote for "dumber."
Interstellar. Moon. Inception. District 9. The Martian. Ex Machina.
They aren't all my favorites, but they're all original (the Martian is an adaptation, not sure if that counts). And they are all firmly sci fi.
Was looking for a PC jr post to tag onto. We had one when I was quite young.
Played lots of Jumpman and King's Quest I (which taught me a good bit of spelling--my mom wrote down all the common words I'd need to know and I'd type them in). Also played Mineshaft, Crossfire, and Mouser.
As of last night, there were NO torrents for the Netflix version. That seems to me to be a bad sign. Or the current seeders don't care.
Is torrenting Netflix originals really common? (I ask because I haven't looked on torrent sites for ages.) That's kind of Netflix's thing: "We're only marginally more expensive, and a whole lot more convenient than pirating."
All people really care about is will Skynet finally be the leader that delivers on its campaign promises, or will it just fold to special interests once it takes power?
The only reason Korolev was not more widely celebrated is that the Soviet leadership kept his identity secret for fear of assassination/abduction/etc. Von Braun never faced the same limitations and was much more of a celebrity.
Because the vast majority of people get healthcare through their employer
In other words they are being paid less than they would be otherwise if the employer did not have to buy health insurance, so the employees are still paying for this benefit through lower wages. In other countries companies can pay more because the government pays for health care. Thus it still has an impact on the person.
In IT this is clearly visible in contract rates vs permanent employee salaries.
I miss the hard physical write-protect tabs we had on floppy disks.
Nowadays, if you plug in a USB stick or external hard disk, you have to trust that the OS won't write or screw up your data in any way. Ignoring bugs and and "helpful" OS's who try to reformat if they don't recognize the filesystem, with viruses and other malware, you can't trust software to enforce read-only modes.
Microsoft says that buying their new product will save you more money than sticking with their previous product - so give them more of your money.
Microsoft also says you could stand a bath.
I can tell you are unfamiliar with Windows enterprise licensing. Check out this brief Wikipedia article on the MS Enterprise Agreement. You pay for how many Windows machines you are running, whatever version. You do not need to give them more money to upgrade. And as a Windows admin, I concur with the article that Windows 10 is easier to manage, but not nearly as dramatically as it claims.
Gorsuch's confirmation was the result of a rule change in the Senate.
Nah, Gorsuch's confirmation was the result of Mitch McConnell refusing to do his Constitutional duty last year.
As annoying as it as it is, the Advice and Consent Clause is a limit on the President, not a mandate on the Senate to take action: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The cost of Sovaldi and Daklinza (used together) to treat Hepatitis C (which infects 3.5-5 million Americans), is $336,000 for the 24-week course of treatment. $1000 for each pill. The cure rate of Sovaldi and Daklinza is approximately 90%. The same drugs in India cost about $4 per pill.
Honest question: If the US had the same laws as India, would the drugs exist? If everything were government funded or if wild success did not necessarily mean wild profits, do you think we'd get the same quality results?
Because in India, medications can't be patented. The public policy reason behind this is that their society sees attempting to keep 1 billion people reasonably healthy as a more worthy endeavor than lining the pockets of unscrupulous pharma execs.
Well, that right there is probably why all the funding that went into developing them went to New Jersey and not New Delhi. The US healthcare system is subsidizing the drugs for India.
In this chain of healthcare, who is making the money?
To be more precise, who is making a killing?
It's a fact that some entity (cabal) is making big cash, but find it hard to come to terms that this cabal or cabals are profiteering over the misery of others in these United States.
Without the profiteering, many of the drugs would not exist. It is difficult to conceive of a different model that maintains the current level of R&D.
An ASIC takes a bunch of up front money to design and do a manufacturing run, but is very small and efficient, however it can't be reconfigured to do anything else and needs a full respin.
Per TFA, the chips they designed are flexible enough to apply to new machine learning models. I think the point is that this was a space ripe for customized architecture, like graphics cards were 15-20 years ago.
It does matter. It's relatively trivial to opt out of Mozilla's data collection and to know what's being collected, whereas that's absolutely not the case with Microsoft.
It looks like they're making it trivial. Am I wrong?
- Record what you navigate and search on the internet.
It sounds like very clear language describing what search providers do with cookies. The Microsoft privacy statement uses the following language: "We collect data about the features you use, the items you purchase, and the web pages you visit. This data includes your voice and text search queries or commands to Bing, Cortana, and our chat bots."
Google's cookies info: "For example, we use such cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. This helps us to show you customized ads on Google."
I'm not sure if MS's statement indicates they are hoovering up ALL of your browsing (probably only when you use IE or Edge) or if it's just as relates to Bing searches and ad-clicking.
Innisfil will subsidize Uber trips so citizens pay between CA$3 and CA$5 themselves, depending on the destination, the town said.
Isn't CA$3 to CA$5 per ride more expensive than bus rides?
Uber may be better for the city, but it doesn't sound like it will be better for the consumer.
Yes, that it less than the cost of the fare and subsidy for a bus ride.
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>> Many say it's the golden age of science fiction cinema Slashdot editors must be getting dumber or I'm getting older. Show me a successful sci-fi movie that's not a remake, sequel/prequel or spin-off in the last ten years. On second thought, I'll vote for "dumber."
Interstellar. Moon. Inception. District 9. The Martian. Ex Machina.
They aren't all my favorites, but they're all original (the Martian is an adaptation, not sure if that counts). And they are all firmly sci fi.
I wonder if the happiest developers were the under-performing coworkers? (The Wallies.)
Was looking for a PC jr post to tag onto. We had one when I was quite young.
Played lots of Jumpman and King's Quest I (which taught me a good bit of spelling--my mom wrote down all the common words I'd need to know and I'd type them in). Also played Mineshaft, Crossfire, and Mouser.
As of last night, there were NO torrents for the Netflix version. That seems to me to be a bad sign. Or the current seeders don't care.
Is torrenting Netflix originals really common? (I ask because I haven't looked on torrent sites for ages.) That's kind of Netflix's thing: "We're only marginally more expensive, and a whole lot more convenient than pirating."
The original Blaster Master was insanely hard. I still have fond memories of it but no way do I want something that punishing again.
All people really care about is will Skynet finally be the leader that delivers on its campaign promises, or will it just fold to special interests once it takes power?
You have to use the big picture mode so you can actually navigate your games library with a controller. It's not rocket science and it runs fine
I'm beginning to think msmash has stock in Snapchat.
The only reason Korolev was not more widely celebrated is that the Soviet leadership kept his identity secret for fear of assassination/abduction/etc. Von Braun never faced the same limitations and was much more of a celebrity.
Loss of control can be a good thing, depending on who is currently in control.
Because the vast majority of people get healthcare through their employer
In other words they are being paid less than they would be otherwise if the employer did not have to buy health insurance, so the employees are still paying for this benefit through lower wages. In other countries companies can pay more because the government pays for health care. Thus it still has an impact on the person.
In IT this is clearly visible in contract rates vs permanent employee salaries.
Because the vast majority of people get healthcare through their employer or provided by the government and don't have to explicitly purchase it?
Which means they are paying for it via lower wages.
It may be less than 0.008% but it's still forty six thousand human beings.
It may be forty size thousand human beings but it's still 0.008%.
What is your point again?
I miss the hard physical write-protect tabs we had on floppy disks.
Nowadays, if you plug in a USB stick or external hard disk, you have to trust that the OS won't write or screw up your data in any way. Ignoring bugs and and "helpful" OS's who try to reformat if they don't recognize the filesystem, with viruses and other malware, you can't trust software to enforce read-only modes.
Just use a CD or DVD. Problem solved.
Microsoft says that buying their new product will save you more money than sticking with their previous product - so give them more of your money.
Microsoft also says you could stand a bath.
I can tell you are unfamiliar with Windows enterprise licensing. Check out this brief Wikipedia article on the MS Enterprise Agreement. You pay for how many Windows machines you are running, whatever version. You do not need to give them more money to upgrade. And as a Windows admin, I concur with the article that Windows 10 is easier to manage, but not nearly as dramatically as it claims.
Muslim is not a race.
You wouldn't know it based on the reaction to the travel ban President Trump tried.
Gorsuch's confirmation was the result of a rule change in the Senate.
Nah, Gorsuch's confirmation was the result of Mitch McConnell refusing to do his Constitutional duty last year.
As annoying as it as it is, the Advice and Consent Clause is a limit on the President, not a mandate on the Senate to take action:
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The cost of Sovaldi and Daklinza (used together) to treat Hepatitis C (which infects 3.5-5 million Americans), is $336,000 for the 24-week course of treatment. $1000 for each pill. The cure rate of Sovaldi and Daklinza is approximately 90%. The same drugs in India cost about $4 per pill.
Honest question: If the US had the same laws as India, would the drugs exist? If everything were government funded or if wild success did not necessarily mean wild profits, do you think we'd get the same quality results?
Both drugs were developed in New Jersey.
Because in India, medications can't be patented. The public policy reason behind this is that their society sees attempting to keep 1 billion people reasonably healthy as a more worthy endeavor than lining the pockets of unscrupulous pharma execs.
Well, that right there is probably why all the funding that went into developing them went to New Jersey and not New Delhi. The US healthcare system is subsidizing the drugs for India.
In this chain of healthcare, who is making the money?
To be more precise, who is making a killing?
It's a fact that some entity (cabal) is making big cash, but find it hard to come to terms that this cabal or cabals are profiteering over the misery of others in these United States.
Without the profiteering, many of the drugs would not exist. It is difficult to conceive of a different model that maintains the current level of R&D.
An ASIC takes a bunch of up front money to design and do a manufacturing run, but is very small and efficient, however it can't be reconfigured to do anything else and needs a full respin.
Per TFA, the chips they designed are flexible enough to apply to new machine learning models. I think the point is that this was a space ripe for customized architecture, like graphics cards were 15-20 years ago.
It does matter. It's relatively trivial to opt out of Mozilla's data collection and to know what's being collected, whereas that's absolutely not the case with Microsoft.
It looks like they're making it trivial. Am I wrong?
- Record what you navigate and search on the internet.
It sounds like very clear language describing what search providers do with cookies. The Microsoft privacy statement uses the following language:
"We collect data about the features you use, the items you purchase, and the web pages you visit. This data includes your voice and text search queries or commands to Bing, Cortana, and our chat bots."
Google's cookies info:
"For example, we use such cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. This helps us to show you customized ads on Google."
I'm not sure if MS's statement indicates they are hoovering up ALL of your browsing (probably only when you use IE or Edge) or if it's just as relates to Bing searches and ad-clicking.
Innisfil will subsidize Uber trips so citizens pay between CA$3 and CA$5 themselves, depending on the destination, the town said.
Isn't CA$3 to CA$5 per ride more expensive than bus rides? Uber may be better for the city, but it doesn't sound like it will be better for the consumer.
Yes, that it less than the cost of the fare and subsidy for a bus ride.
Did I miss something?
You missed the sarcasm. Completely.