Normally I'd say it's to make money, but if piracy isn't significant, then anti-piracy efforts are a waste of money and the resources should be spent on something profitable.
Linux implementations also decided to implement similar ctrl-alt-delete functionality. The Amiga had the similar ctrl-Amiga-Amiga. It's easy enough to remember either verbally (has a certain rhythm to is that) or mechanically (can do it without looking). This wouldn't have happened if it was objectively terrible.
It's still good enough to make it viable. A bus will do a fraction of that in a day. A sample bus route is 20km long, takes 100 minutes, and has a 20 minute rest at the end. So that's 2 hours. In an 18 hour day, that's 360km. Even with passengers and stop-start it might do that on a single charge. If not, we can top up in those 20 minute breaks.
People pay money for processing time. They don't care whether their processing happens on an ARM or a bunch of decade old Pentium 4s. They care how much it costs them. Not how much it costs ther person they're buying CPU time from.
People would be willing to sell their processing power at a nominal loss, because they gain the convenience of not having intrusive ads, so the number of watts it costs them or the number of dollars it costs them are an irrelevance.
Do you find the phrase "fuck off" highly offensive? Most people don't. The only swearing that actually offends now is racial slurs. If you don't want to offend, then why swear?
The fact that he let an extremely offensive and racist word slip out indicates that he probably uses the term freely when he's not on camera. A prejudiced person like that doesn't deserve any attention or forgiveness.
Such a person indeed doesn't, but I'm not going to punish people for some crime that I speculate they may commit.
Is using such a slur not something you have a problem with in and of itself; that you have to come up with other reasons to dislike someone?
The "not in a bad way" was some inept attempt at backtracking.
It's gamer trash talk. The idea is to be as offensive as possible in a generic way. The n-word slur is used so often because that's about as offensive as kids can get.
Personally I think an adult should not be taking his social cues from a bunch of kids. Reaction is a little overblown but honestly, who will defend someone for being deliberately offensive.
Technically you're not donating CPU time. You're donating the price of the electricity to run the CPU to perform those calculations. Unless the project is transient (e.g. crack RC5-64, then it's over), the acquisition cost of the CPUs is tiny compared to the operational cost (electricity) to perform the actual calculations.
I don't see why it matters what we're donating. As far as the customer is concerned, they send data to a third party, and they get rendered frames.
A computer animation company is presumably going to continue to remain in the business of computer animation for decades, so it makes more sense for them to buy their own CPUs/GPUs and pay for their own electricity to run them, rather than use the money on advertising to run the calculations in Javascript much less efficiently.
Pixar or Dreamworks, sure. A lot of these companies are a lot smaller. They don't want to have large server farms sitting idle most of the time. They lease a server farm. Plenty of companies provide this service already. My suggestion is to enter this market using distributed processing.
They wouldn't be using Javascript. WebAssembly exists. That can be compiled and optimised pretty easily. Maybe not as well as targeted optimisation but we're only after compeitive efficiency here; not peak efficiency.
Likewise, Folding@home is less energy- and cost-efficient than if people just sent donations to the project to buy their own equipment and run their own protein folding simulations. The project is successful because people tend to lump their electricity bill into an "I gotta pay it" category, whereas a separate charitable contribution could end up axed when they think "I really don't have the extra money to be donating to this."
And this is the principle this works on. Except the psychology is wrong. People don't mind donating to the project. But the time cost is too great for people to feel it's worth the effort. Microtransactions are even worse, because people need to make the effort to pay a fraction of a cent. But this just uses their cycles when they're not using them. Yes, if they were willing to pay the microtransaction directly it would be cheaper, but they aren't. So charge them in something they are willing to pay. Reward them with something that costs a lot less than what they're paying.
This strategy only cares about dollars per cycle. If I want some computing done, I don't care how many watts it takes if those watts are being paid for by someone else.
Yup, and those are great. I approve of the aspirational ideals.
But I'm thinking of the more commercial aspects. For example, while I have no complaints about CGI movies, I'm not going to donate my CPU time to help make one. A company might be willing to pay me a fraction of a cent for rendering a few pixels though. I don't want that fraction of a cent. I do, however, want to be able to read websites without annoying popup ads. The website owner, with thousands of impressions per page per day would like that fraction of a cent for each page.
So the computer animation company pays the website some money to run a few seconds rendering time on my PC. I get the web-page for a negligible increase in power costs, and the computer animation company gets some pixels. Multiply that by a few hundred thousand users. They all get the information they want, the computer animation company gets several frames rendered, and the website owner gets money.
Micropayments have never caught on because they're a pain to deal with. People might be willing to spend some of their CPU time though. They don't object too much to doing the millions of operations required for a few seconds of video (the objection is more the annoyance of the video itself)
I suspect CPU time is not valuable enough to make this sort of thing viable but maybe I'm wrong.
You need to stop and think about what free speech actually means. Your beloved First Amendment, that only applies to the government curtailing your speech. It sure as hell doesn't apply to something like Reddit, nor does it shield you from the responses of other people.
Exactly! Free speech doesn't mean the First amendment. It's a principle that informs it. I think a lot of people need to understand what free speech means.
But then you're not in a position to complain if they do vote for Trump.
And maybe you don't. Maybe you sat at home, saw the results and thought "Golly. How interesting. We have a tangerine as president" and left it at that. I'm fine with that..
If you do think that it was a bad result though, then you need to take some responsibility for their "education".
People, generally, model their behaviour on those around them in a social group. They go to different forums, and they find that what was considered typical is very extreme for the new group.
So the way to deal with these attitudes is to integrate them into more moderate groups. This is very much the opposite of what a lot of groups do, where those with attitudes that are considered wrong are ejected from the group.
I realise these lawsuits tend to be a case of throwing everything at it and seeing what sticks, but even by these standards, some of this is taking the piss a bit..
It's more than that though, these are athletes at the peak of physical fitness and training challenging each other. I think there's something to be said for that.
And I have never seen a set that passes remote events out HDMI to a connected device that actually listens to them.
It depends on who makes it. My Sony TV works pretty well (although seems to break after adding too many devices). I have an obscure brand TV which barely works at all.
I really wanted to buy a TV that does less. Even a tuner is redundant but they're cheap and reliable so I don't have a problem with that. I also wanted one with a lot of inputs though because I have several devices. That limited my choice to a handful all of which were smart TVs.
On the plus side, the CEC works properly (very flaky on my gf's dumb TV), I don't need a slot for my fire stick, and it is nice having a big "NETFLIX" button on the remote. And I can play videos files from USB stick or network server, which is a nice feature.
In a few years time, the smart functionality will be useless, I'm sure.
It would be nice if there were some examples so we could compare for ourselves. If we're looking at occasionally picking the wrong homophone, it's a lot better than getting entire sentences mangled.
I was quoted a similar price from a third party supplier for a 10 year old Ford.
I'm actually okay with this being a more expensive process than simply cutting a key, since the technology means the car is less stealable, although the price they charge does seem a little extortionate.
I often feel people believe computers are magic learning devices. They're not. They're useful tools, but tools need to be utilised effectively. And you need the right tool for the job. Sometimes that tool is a computer. Sometimes not.
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Normally I'd say it's to make money, but if piracy isn't significant, then anti-piracy efforts are a waste of money and the resources should be spent on something profitable.
Linux implementations also decided to implement similar ctrl-alt-delete functionality. The Amiga had the similar ctrl-Amiga-Amiga. It's easy enough to remember either verbally (has a certain rhythm to is that) or mechanically (can do it without looking). This wouldn't have happened if it was objectively terrible.
Winning a lawsuit is time consuming though, and potentially expensive (especially if you lose).
Most people who post these memes don't have enough of a vested interest to fight this.
It's still good enough to make it viable. A bus will do a fraction of that in a day. A sample bus route is 20km long, takes 100 minutes, and has a 20 minute rest at the end. So that's 2 hours. In an 18 hour day, that's 360km. Even with passengers and stop-start it might do that on a single charge. If not, we can top up in those 20 minute breaks.
I don't understand your objection.
People pay money for processing time. They don't care whether their processing happens on an ARM or a bunch of decade old Pentium 4s. They care how much it costs them. Not how much it costs ther person they're buying CPU time from.
People would be willing to sell their processing power at a nominal loss, because they gain the convenience of not having intrusive ads, so the number of watts it costs them or the number of dollars it costs them are an irrelevance.
Such a person indeed doesn't, but I'm not going to punish people for some crime that I speculate they may commit.
Is using such a slur not something you have a problem with in and of itself; that you have to come up with other reasons to dislike someone?
The "not in a bad way" was some inept attempt at backtracking.
It's gamer trash talk. The idea is to be as offensive as possible in a generic way. The n-word slur is used so often because that's about as offensive as kids can get.
Personally I think an adult should not be taking his social cues from a bunch of kids. Reaction is a little overblown but honestly, who will defend someone for being deliberately offensive.
He is one of the top earning youtube celebrities. While you weren't looking, youTube got big, and he does do video game related videos.
Not being interested in the culture is acceptable, but there's really nothing beneficial in advertising your ignorance.
As for who gives a shit; this does cover the DMCA being used in appropriately for censoring people we don't like.
I don't see why it matters what we're donating. As far as the customer is concerned, they send data to a third party, and they get rendered frames.
Pixar or Dreamworks, sure. A lot of these companies are a lot smaller. They don't want to have large server farms sitting idle most of the time. They lease a server farm. Plenty of companies provide this service already. My suggestion is to enter this market using distributed processing.
They wouldn't be using Javascript. WebAssembly exists. That can be compiled and optimised pretty easily. Maybe not as well as targeted optimisation but we're only after compeitive efficiency here; not peak efficiency.
And this is the principle this works on. Except the psychology is wrong. People don't mind donating to the project. But the time cost is too great for people to feel it's worth the effort. Microtransactions are even worse, because people need to make the effort to pay a fraction of a cent. But this just uses their cycles when they're not using them. Yes, if they were willing to pay the microtransaction directly it would be cheaper, but they aren't. So charge them in something they are willing to pay. Reward them with something that costs a lot less than what they're paying.
This strategy only cares about dollars per cycle. If I want some computing done, I don't care how many watts it takes if those watts are being paid for by someone else.
Yup, and those are great. I approve of the aspirational ideals.
But I'm thinking of the more commercial aspects. For example, while I have no complaints about CGI movies, I'm not going to donate my CPU time to help make one. A company might be willing to pay me a fraction of a cent for rendering a few pixels though. I don't want that fraction of a cent. I do, however, want to be able to read websites without annoying popup ads. The website owner, with thousands of impressions per page per day would like that fraction of a cent for each page.
So the computer animation company pays the website some money to run a few seconds rendering time on my PC. I get the web-page for a negligible increase in power costs, and the computer animation company gets some pixels. Multiply that by a few hundred thousand users. They all get the information they want, the computer animation company gets several frames rendered, and the website owner gets money.
Micropayments have never caught on because they're a pain to deal with. People might be willing to spend some of their CPU time though. They don't object too much to doing the millions of operations required for a few seconds of video (the objection is more the annoyance of the video itself)
I suspect CPU time is not valuable enough to make this sort of thing viable but maybe I'm wrong.
Exactly! Free speech doesn't mean the First amendment. It's a principle that informs it. I think a lot of people need to understand what free speech means.
You can look at it that way.
But then you're not in a position to complain if they do vote for Trump.
And maybe you don't. Maybe you sat at home, saw the results and thought "Golly. How interesting. We have a tangerine as president" and left it at that. I'm fine with that..
If you do think that it was a bad result though, then you need to take some responsibility for their "education".
The forums were.
So my take is different from that of the article.
People, generally, model their behaviour on those around them in a social group. They go to different forums, and they find that what was considered typical is very extreme for the new group.
So the way to deal with these attitudes is to integrate them into more moderate groups. This is very much the opposite of what a lot of groups do, where those with attitudes that are considered wrong are ejected from the group.
Baird didn't sue Farnsworth, so I have no idea what that has to do with anything.
Baird's demonstration in early 1926 is widely documented. Here's a BBC article, for example
I realise these lawsuits tend to be a case of throwing everything at it and seeing what sticks, but even by these standards, some of this is taking the piss a bit..
If it's bolted to the car though, one might reasonably consider it part of the car though.
It's more than that though, these are athletes at the peak of physical fitness and training challenging each other. I think there's something to be said for that.
It depends on who makes it. My Sony TV works pretty well (although seems to break after adding too many devices). I have an obscure brand TV which barely works at all.
I really wanted to buy a TV that does less. Even a tuner is redundant but they're cheap and reliable so I don't have a problem with that. I also wanted one with a lot of inputs though because I have several devices. That limited my choice to a handful all of which were smart TVs.
On the plus side, the CEC works properly (very flaky on my gf's dumb TV), I don't need a slot for my fire stick, and it is nice having a big "NETFLIX" button on the remote. And I can play videos files from USB stick or network server, which is a nice feature.
In a few years time, the smart functionality will be useless, I'm sure.
Aren't those just rockets on guidance tracks though? I mean, it's cool, but not much use for public transport.
It would be nice if there were some examples so we could compare for ourselves. If we're looking at occasionally picking the wrong homophone, it's a lot better than getting entire sentences mangled.
I was quoted a similar price from a third party supplier for a 10 year old Ford.
I'm actually okay with this being a more expensive process than simply cutting a key, since the technology means the car is less stealable, although the price they charge does seem a little extortionate.
I often feel people believe computers are magic learning devices. They're not. They're useful tools, but tools need to be utilised effectively. And you need the right tool for the job. Sometimes that tool is a computer. Sometimes not.