I was thinking a similar thing. Usually, not always, the comments on/. are pretty common sense. But I've read so many bad comments, poor arguments, etc. that I have to wonder how many of them are bots pushing discord in the U.S.?
How about lowering the speed limit to 55 nation-wide?
The difference is that nearly all people drive cars and aren't willing to deal with that inconvenience. Only a small percentage of the population recreationally shoot assault riffles and would therefor be inconvenienced by making them a little harder to get and easier to track.
No one expects tougher gun regulations to completely prevent gun violence. All it needs to do is save one innocent life and it'll be worth it.
As evidence that restricted gun laws do work I ask you, why did the Vegas shooter not use a mini-gun? They're near impossible to get. They're restricted. Instead he went with guns that were easy to obtain.
The average consumer will look at three things; The CPU speed, RAM size and hard drive size. You can't assign a single spec to computer components because how they interact with each other matters. For example the motherboard's bus speed can have a huge effect on performance, but only if you have ram that is fast enough to use it and a CPU that can keep up.
Rule of thumb: Build the PC yourself. I start with price and review score. If it's cheap, there's a reason. Get a good motherboard then research out what CPU and RAM you will want that will fit it. You probably won't replace or upgrade these three components so do it right the first time. Run the OS off a SSD. If you need more space then get a standard spindle drive as a second drive. Then get a Video card that is far from the latest greatest. You're better off dropping in a new one-year-old card every year then to buy a top end one every three years. Don't worry, it'll play the latest games at full spec just fine.
I've been following this recipe for about 20 years and usually spend $700-$800 whenever I do a major upgrade. The motherboard usually lasts about 5-7 years before I'll upgrade. When I buy a game that it can't play really well, buy a new video card. When I run out of hard drive space, I add a new drive or replace an existing one.
It's crazy to me that my desktop at home feels much faster then my work PC even though the specs of my work PC are much higher. There simply are just so many factors that make up performance then it can't be accurately tracked with any one metric.
While we worldwide have erosion problems, e.g. in 3rd world countries like the central USA,
That sort of tired rhetoric isn't helping you get your point across.
I believe he meant central America, not central USA. Although I wouldn't recommend using the term 3rd world anymore because it's unclear exactly what that means anymore.
Link. Banks don't own the loans, the federal government owns 90%+ of loans these days. It was part of Obamacare and the interest in the loans is a large part of how they passed Obamacare like they did.
Not being able to discharge student loans happened when the government began backing the loans. It wasn't the banks demanding this, it was the Federal government.
Further, it's a bunch of private universities who really target kids with crazy sales tactics like; "You've won a scholarship. We will cover $35,000 or your $55,000 tuition costs per term. " Meanwhile, the local state university is about $5,000/term. Banks have almost not blame in this mess.
But consider this. Next time you're a passenger at night on a poorly lit road take out you phone and record the road. I'll wager that your real eyes can see better in the low light then your phone or the camera attached to the Uber car.
Morally, I think the woman is at fault for crossing the road in the dark without looking for oncoming cars and not having any kind of light. But the autonomous car's other sensors should have picked her up anyway. To be successful autonomous cars need to be significantly better then the average driver, they need to be better then the best drivers out there.
I am bias, I can't wait for autonomous cars to come to market. But even I have to admit that it should have seen her coming with plenty of time to spare.
Moreover, the experience involves "having all the things in one place". No going to Netflix for this show (except that one episode where there's a license discrepancy over a song's usage so it's unavailable), then Hulu for that one, Crackle for the next, then CBS All Access for yet another one, HBO Go for still another...it doesn't matter what show someone wants to see, all the episodes are available, on demand.
I've found this website very useful as a single place to go to see what the different services have: https://www.justwatch.com/us
Finally, I've always kinda wondered what's in it for the sites who serve the streaming files. At least torrent sites can say "community" and "advertising/donation revenue", but the sites that serve the streams can claim none of the above, have to pay the bandwidth and server bills, and have a bullseye painted on them from the *AA...so, all of the liability, none of the perks. I don't get it:/.
Where's the money to pay for all the infrastructure required to stream? My guess is that it comes from ad revenue that's provided from state sponsored ads that contain zero-day exploits that most reputable ad services wouldn't show. It makes sense to me that these state sponsors or criminal organizations would be willing to pay higher premiums to serve these ads.
Lets be honest, any laws against robo-dialers wasn't working or couldn't being enforced anyway. Any call I get from a number that's not in my contacts goes straight to voicemail, which is then translated into a text message. In fact, I rarely get a phone call from someone in my contacts as most personal interaction has moved to text messages.
We literally just hired a guy who's probably around 55, I haven't asked because I don't care. All I care about is can he code and he can.
I have no doubt that as we get older our ability to keep up with new technology becomes more difficult; or maybe we become too impatient to learn the new stuff. Either way, I'm planing my finances in a way that if I found myself unemployable at age 55 then I'll be able to retire, or more likely work part time doing something else that I love. I make plenty of money now so it isn't that hard.
It is more of a plug a hole so people just don't uninstall windows to use Linux primarily strategy.
This. My workplace requires that I use Windows. When I had the choice I ran Linux. But with the Subsystem for Linux I'm not sure I would use Linux as my primary. I get the best of both worlds this way.
I recently took a training at work on the 7 habits of highly effective people. In that I did an exercise where we list what's important to us, big picture and long term. What I wrote down didn't surprise me as much as what was missing; being part of a start-up that was successful. The point of the exercise was to make one really think about what they wanted out of life. You can't go somewhere until you know where you want to go.
Even though I'm not working on anything really exciting that might change the world. Even though I don't earn nearly as much as I would in San Francisco. That's never been my priority. Living in Salt Lake City I earn a hefty income that is more the capable of providing for my family. Cost of living here is fairly low at 108. In all, for me, my life is much better here.
See, AI is replacing what we (consumers) used to do, especially for companies like Ubisoft. What do they expect me to do now, play the game without issue and enjoy myself? What am I going to complain about now?
But I'm actually tempted to try a windows phone. Android vendors don't patch their shit, instead they recommend you buy a new phone. iPhones are way too locked down for me. The only real question I have is will a windows phone do the few simple tasks I need the phone to do? I'm sure it will but I'll have to learn the tools available in their system. Lucky for me, all I need is a windows PC to see. I trust Microsoft more to keep their phone OS patched then I do Android vendors.
And that would include running servers for discontinued games. Offer the server or let others
The problem is that then they will offer a raspberry pi connected to a 56k modem powered by a couple hamster wheels. It'd be completely unusable but technically they would still be "offering the service"
I really wanted to correct you and point out that Jeff Bezos has donated much more then 42 million dollars to charities but it doesn't look like he has. Many other Billionaires have pledged to give away at least half their fortune before they die. Bezos has not: https://givingpledge.org/
It's been done but needs work I'm sure. A raspberry pi and Mycroft is just a recipe/.ers love. https://mycroft.ai/
I have no plans on get a smart speaker or make one. I'm not that worried about privacy. I just don't see a real benefit from having one. I like my terminal when using a computer. I like my wireless keyboard/mouse combo for controlling the computer attached to my TV. It's a bit more raw and I prefer it that way.
Rocksmith 2014 is the last program that I use regularly that requires windows and keeps me from switching. The other issue is time. Linux has continued to improve but it isn't the turnkey solution that windows is. The time it takes me to get all the little issues working stops me from using it. It also stops my extended family from using it. It can work 99% of the time but that one time it doesn't work they'll want windows back.
I've upgraded all my computers to Windows 10 Pro and have not noticed the issues with adverts, popups, or it automatically installing software that people are claiming. I'm sure it's happening but it's not yet annoying enough for me to get in a huff about it.
But with the a la carte option, that specialy subchannel now needs eyeballs because the few subscribers it does get isn't enough for the programming it offers. The only way it can survive is to get more eyeballs and the only way to do that is to get more programming that appeals to the masses. This means more crap coming out because the programming the old eyeballs wants has to be replaced with the programming the masses of eyeballs want so they keep their money.
Netflix doesn't care about eyeballs, it cares about subscribers, so all it needs to do is produce programming that its subscribers want.
In one statement you insists all the programming is going to be crap because all the specialty stuff won't be subsidized but in another you give an example of Netflix not doing that. I will argue that we will have a wider variety of specialty content because the variety will bring in more subscribers. As you point out, it doesn't matter how many people watch it. What matters is how many subscribers does it bring in? If you want to increase subscribers then increase the variety of content that's available and more people will be interested in subscribing. Cable TV channels care about the eyeballs watching because the more people who watch a show the more money they can get from ad revenue. As long as streaming services can get their revenue from subscriptions instead of advertisements then I think we'll see more specialty shows that don't appeal to the masses.
So a consulting company held a survey and found that 51% of companies believe that legacy technology is the biggest hurtle they face. That's good news for this consulting company that sells "solutions" to that problem. Oddly enough, my banker thinks I need a credit card and that car salesman insists that my old (2007) car is about to fall apart and I should buy a new one.
Legacy technology and technical debt is a problem that is often overlooked and not budgeted for because it won't affect the stock price this quarter. Still, forgive me if I don't believe that this survey accurately outlines the problems that companies actually have to this degree.
There's actually a web site that pulls in content from most streaming services and provides links to their web site. I works most the time and when it doesn't at least it helps me search for and find what I want to watch and where it's at. https://www.justwatch.com/us
We asked for a la-carte and this is what it looks like. I just hope they offer a commercial-free version I can pay for, any amount will do. Just don't make me sit through commercials. If not, would it kill them to add a small algorithm that if it's already shown a commercial once, don't show it again for like 24 hours. I hate commercials enough, but if they make me watch the same stupid commercial multiple times then I tend to turn it off instead.
On a side note, my 5-year old was at grandma's house and saw a commercial. She had no idea what it was. I was so proud.
I have a much better discipline, it's called cash. If you want to know more then watch Dave Ramsay's YouTube channel.
To be fair, I've always had a credit score from before I started being smart with money and I've never had my identity stolen, luckily. So I can't attest to how hard it is to get a job or rent an apartment with a bad credit score. I assume that most employers and some renters would understand if your identity was stolen.
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I was thinking a similar thing. Usually, not always, the comments on /. are pretty common sense. But I've read so many bad comments, poor arguments, etc. that I have to wonder how many of them are bots pushing discord in the U.S.?
How about lowering the speed limit to 55 nation-wide?
The difference is that nearly all people drive cars and aren't willing to deal with that inconvenience. Only a small percentage of the population recreationally shoot assault riffles and would therefor be inconvenienced by making them a little harder to get and easier to track.
No one expects tougher gun regulations to completely prevent gun violence. All it needs to do is save one innocent life and it'll be worth it.
As evidence that restricted gun laws do work I ask you, why did the Vegas shooter not use a mini-gun? They're near impossible to get. They're restricted. Instead he went with guns that were easy to obtain.
The average consumer will look at three things; The CPU speed, RAM size and hard drive size. You can't assign a single spec to computer components because how they interact with each other matters. For example the motherboard's bus speed can have a huge effect on performance, but only if you have ram that is fast enough to use it and a CPU that can keep up.
Rule of thumb: Build the PC yourself. I start with price and review score. If it's cheap, there's a reason. Get a good motherboard then research out what CPU and RAM you will want that will fit it. You probably won't replace or upgrade these three components so do it right the first time. Run the OS off a SSD. If you need more space then get a standard spindle drive as a second drive. Then get a Video card that is far from the latest greatest. You're better off dropping in a new one-year-old card every year then to buy a top end one every three years. Don't worry, it'll play the latest games at full spec just fine.
I've been following this recipe for about 20 years and usually spend $700-$800 whenever I do a major upgrade. The motherboard usually lasts about 5-7 years before I'll upgrade. When I buy a game that it can't play really well, buy a new video card. When I run out of hard drive space, I add a new drive or replace an existing one.
It's crazy to me that my desktop at home feels much faster then my work PC even though the specs of my work PC are much higher. There simply are just so many factors that make up performance then it can't be accurately tracked with any one metric.
While we worldwide have erosion problems, e.g. in 3rd world countries like the central USA,
That sort of tired rhetoric isn't helping you get your point across.
I believe he meant central America, not central USA. Although I wouldn't recommend using the term 3rd world anymore because it's unclear exactly what that means anymore.
Link.
Banks don't own the loans, the federal government owns 90%+ of loans these days. It was part of Obamacare and the interest in the loans is a large part of how they passed Obamacare like they did.
Not being able to discharge student loans happened when the government began backing the loans. It wasn't the banks demanding this, it was the Federal government.
Further, it's a bunch of private universities who really target kids with crazy sales tactics like; "You've won a scholarship. We will cover $35,000 or your $55,000 tuition costs per term. " Meanwhile, the local state university is about $5,000/term. Banks have almost not blame in this mess.
But consider this. Next time you're a passenger at night on a poorly lit road take out you phone and record the road. I'll wager that your real eyes can see better in the low light then your phone or the camera attached to the Uber car.
Morally, I think the woman is at fault for crossing the road in the dark without looking for oncoming cars and not having any kind of light. But the autonomous car's other sensors should have picked her up anyway. To be successful autonomous cars need to be significantly better then the average driver, they need to be better then the best drivers out there.
I am bias, I can't wait for autonomous cars to come to market. But even I have to admit that it should have seen her coming with plenty of time to spare.
Moreover, the experience involves "having all the things in one place". No going to Netflix for this show (except that one episode where there's a license discrepancy over a song's usage so it's unavailable), then Hulu for that one, Crackle for the next, then CBS All Access for yet another one, HBO Go for still another...it doesn't matter what show someone wants to see, all the episodes are available, on demand.
I've found this website very useful as a single place to go to see what the different services have: https://www.justwatch.com/us
Finally, I've always kinda wondered what's in it for the sites who serve the streaming files. At least torrent sites can say "community" and "advertising/donation revenue", but the sites that serve the streams can claim none of the above, have to pay the bandwidth and server bills, and have a bullseye painted on them from the *AA...so, all of the liability, none of the perks. I don't get it :/.
Where's the money to pay for all the infrastructure required to stream? My guess is that it comes from ad revenue that's provided from state sponsored ads that contain zero-day exploits that most reputable ad services wouldn't show. It makes sense to me that these state sponsors or criminal organizations would be willing to pay higher premiums to serve these ads.
Lets be honest, any laws against robo-dialers wasn't working or couldn't being enforced anyway. Any call I get from a number that's not in my contacts goes straight to voicemail, which is then translated into a text message. In fact, I rarely get a phone call from someone in my contacts as most personal interaction has moved to text messages.
We literally just hired a guy who's probably around 55, I haven't asked because I don't care. All I care about is can he code and he can.
I have no doubt that as we get older our ability to keep up with new technology becomes more difficult; or maybe we become too impatient to learn the new stuff. Either way, I'm planing my finances in a way that if I found myself unemployable at age 55 then I'll be able to retire, or more likely work part time doing something else that I love. I make plenty of money now so it isn't that hard.
I've been there. Had a co-worker who was horrible at writing. In effect, it made me much better and careful when I read and write.
It is more of a plug a hole so people just don't uninstall windows to use Linux primarily strategy.
This. My workplace requires that I use Windows. When I had the choice I ran Linux. But with the Subsystem for Linux I'm not sure I would use Linux as my primary. I get the best of both worlds this way.
I recently took a training at work on the 7 habits of highly effective people. In that I did an exercise where we list what's important to us, big picture and long term. What I wrote down didn't surprise me as much as what was missing; being part of a start-up that was successful. The point of the exercise was to make one really think about what they wanted out of life. You can't go somewhere until you know where you want to go.
Even though I'm not working on anything really exciting that might change the world. Even though I don't earn nearly as much as I would in San Francisco. That's never been my priority. Living in Salt Lake City I earn a hefty income that is more the capable of providing for my family. Cost of living here is fairly low at 108. In all, for me, my life is much better here.
See, AI is replacing what we (consumers) used to do, especially for companies like Ubisoft. What do they expect me to do now, play the game without issue and enjoy myself? What am I going to complain about now?
But I'm actually tempted to try a windows phone. Android vendors don't patch their shit, instead they recommend you buy a new phone. iPhones are way too locked down for me. The only real question I have is will a windows phone do the few simple tasks I need the phone to do? I'm sure it will but I'll have to learn the tools available in their system. Lucky for me, all I need is a windows PC to see. I trust Microsoft more to keep their phone OS patched then I do Android vendors.
And that would include running servers for discontinued games. Offer the server or let others
The problem is that then they will offer a raspberry pi connected to a 56k modem powered by a couple hamster wheels. It'd be completely unusable but technically they would still be "offering the service"
I really wanted to correct you and point out that Jeff Bezos has donated much more then 42 million dollars to charities but it doesn't look like he has. Many other Billionaires have pledged to give away at least half their fortune before they die. Bezos has not: https://givingpledge.org/
Looks like he is a greedy git!
It's been done but needs work I'm sure. A raspberry pi and Mycroft is just a recipe /.ers love. https://mycroft.ai/
I have no plans on get a smart speaker or make one. I'm not that worried about privacy. I just don't see a real benefit from having one. I like my terminal when using a computer. I like my wireless keyboard/mouse combo for controlling the computer attached to my TV. It's a bit more raw and I prefer it that way.
Rocksmith 2014 is the last program that I use regularly that requires windows and keeps me from switching. The other issue is time. Linux has continued to improve but it isn't the turnkey solution that windows is. The time it takes me to get all the little issues working stops me from using it. It also stops my extended family from using it. It can work 99% of the time but that one time it doesn't work they'll want windows back.
I've upgraded all my computers to Windows 10 Pro and have not noticed the issues with adverts, popups, or it automatically installing software that people are claiming. I'm sure it's happening but it's not yet annoying enough for me to get in a huff about it.
But with the a la carte option, that specialy subchannel now needs eyeballs because the few subscribers it does get isn't enough for the programming it offers. The only way it can survive is to get more eyeballs and the only way to do that is to get more programming that appeals to the masses. This means more crap coming out because the programming the old eyeballs wants has to be replaced with the programming the masses of eyeballs want so they keep their money.
Netflix doesn't care about eyeballs, it cares about subscribers, so all it needs to do is produce programming that its subscribers want.
In one statement you insists all the programming is going to be crap because all the specialty stuff won't be subsidized but in another you give an example of Netflix not doing that. I will argue that we will have a wider variety of specialty content because the variety will bring in more subscribers. As you point out, it doesn't matter how many people watch it. What matters is how many subscribers does it bring in? If you want to increase subscribers then increase the variety of content that's available and more people will be interested in subscribing. Cable TV channels care about the eyeballs watching because the more people who watch a show the more money they can get from ad revenue. As long as streaming services can get their revenue from subscriptions instead of advertisements then I think we'll see more specialty shows that don't appeal to the masses.
So a consulting company held a survey and found that 51% of companies believe that legacy technology is the biggest hurtle they face. That's good news for this consulting company that sells "solutions" to that problem. Oddly enough, my banker thinks I need a credit card and that car salesman insists that my old (2007) car is about to fall apart and I should buy a new one.
Legacy technology and technical debt is a problem that is often overlooked and not budgeted for because it won't affect the stock price this quarter. Still, forgive me if I don't believe that this survey accurately outlines the problems that companies actually have to this degree.
There's actually a web site that pulls in content from most streaming services and provides links to their web site. I works most the time and when it doesn't at least it helps me search for and find what I want to watch and where it's at. https://www.justwatch.com/us
We asked for a la-carte and this is what it looks like. I just hope they offer a commercial-free version I can pay for, any amount will do. Just don't make me sit through commercials. If not, would it kill them to add a small algorithm that if it's already shown a commercial once, don't show it again for like 24 hours. I hate commercials enough, but if they make me watch the same stupid commercial multiple times then I tend to turn it off instead.
On a side note, my 5-year old was at grandma's house and saw a commercial. She had no idea what it was. I was so proud.
I have a much better discipline, it's called cash. If you want to know more then watch Dave Ramsay's YouTube channel.
To be fair, I've always had a credit score from before I started being smart with money and I've never had my identity stolen, luckily. So I can't attest to how hard it is to get a job or rent an apartment with a bad credit score. I assume that most employers and some renters would understand if your identity was stolen.