But you really can't now since most components of the server that used to be discrete chips are embedded into the CPU. This is the case now with most systems. CPUs in consumer electronics have embedded graphics chips, audio, etc..
The server is not much different these days. You no longer have discrete memory controllers (you do sometimes), or discrete north and south bridges to handle things like expansion cards, network connectivity, etc. Now, a lot of that resides in the CPU. So the CPU determines what sort of (and how much) memory a server can accept, how many PCI lanes are available, and the number of sockets. It doesn't help either that the socket type is determined by the CPU manufacturer.
This was my thought... a photon is a particle, that travels in a wave. It has some pressure when it shines on an object (see light sails, NASA). If light were to travel at an infinite speed, anything it encounters would be given an infinite amount of energy in the form of momentum. We can then deduce that this was not the case, since most of the sky is black and not full of stars (see Olbers' Paradox). An infinitely fast beam of light would have come into contact with "stuff", and given off an infinite amount of mass/energy (matter), and generated an infinitely dense universe with an infinite amount of energy.
I'll be modded down for this... but there is also I believe a problem with the perception of "skilled" IT labor, and the expectation of lifestyle being in IT brings. You have good people that are even certified in one profession or another (Oracle DBA's, storage admins, etc..) who expect to earn $200k a year when that isn't really feasible most of the time. The education requirements to become decent DBA will be a few years in a robust environment, plus a few months of courses, and voila!
It's not the same regimen as 8 years of medical school, 4 years of residency, $300,000 in student loans and years of practicing before you earn that much. I know IT pros who legitimately make more than the salaries of senators, and still bitch about how much everything costs and how they deserve to earn more. The market is sorting itself out. There are others out there who can come in and offer a better value, so a better value will end up winning. To have the delusion that it's always because some asshole manager is trying to earn a bonus or pocket from a deal is just not a reasonable view of reality.
Trump is a part of the anti (or dis-) establishment. Anything the establishment can use to knock him off his game, they will try. Far less truthful in politics than anyone else? Remember Obama's peace award from Nobel? Remember those posters of hope? We got more drones, more invasion of privacy, more attacks on journalists, more corruption in the DNC... basically a G.W.Bush 2.0. Please. Why are you kidding? Yourself?
So...then Trump owing millions to foreign banks makes him...what's the word....I cannot quite find the right word....ah, here it is in your note, thank you, the words are "in debt".
The real issue with what he is suggesting is two fold:
1. The candidates, and the thousands of people who worked on their campaigns, the respective party conventions, and the media all ran and reported based on the electoral college system. The voters in each state went to the polls or stayed home based on the perceived ability to influence their state's chances of weighing in on the result. How many republicans in California stayed home because Republican chances of picking up California were "less than 0.01%"? The rules were set, the candidates ran those campaigns, and the winner must, MUST be respected. That's the essence of our democracy. Sometimes your pick loses.
2. What does this say about all future elections? IF your pick loses, try to alter the rules after the fact? We must respect each others opinions, and most importantly the rules set forth. Otherwise, we undermine the fabric of our republic. WE should change the rules, I hate the electoral college. It should be effective next go-around.
What risk? That someone has to go out and mend the machine when it farms, or insert an
if(tornado){ stayInside; }else{ harvest; }
statement in the code? Nonsense. What do you imagine will happen automation arrives at farms? The supply of food will increase, and the price will decrease. Same thing for trucking and the volume of goods carried down the world's roadways. The volume of cargo will go up, and the cost to move it will drop. Thats more economic productivity, which means more for all. Simply awesome.
I'm not being dis-ingenuous, I'm prioritizing. I think NASA should focus on space, and leave the earths climate to NOAA and the earths geology to USGS. I think NASA is so unfocused right now, we have to turn to a super-power we already beat in space to help us get our astronauts to a station we largely paid for. And the saddest part: thats the most exciting thing happening above our atmosphere for me to tell my children about.
Point: NASA should be focused on space, travel, and the study of the heavens. If you want to study the earth, see NOAA, or USGS. NASA needs its money for space.
Aeronautics could also be implied in researching how to re-enter the atmosphere, or alien atmospheres with technology like aerobraking, parachutes, and retro-rockets. It certainly isn't the study of Earth's atmosphere for reasons other than traveling through it.
Not only that, but the electronic systems don't feed into some "one single Oracle instance". These are very diverse districts all running a hodgepodge system, where the procurement, installation, and monitoring are done by various independent contractors. It would be very challenging to simultaneously and independently break into them all. Not impossible, but very very unlikely. Many probably share some core components (like Diebold software or something, but not not all of them. Perhaps places where democrats are likely to vote just have slower modern voting method adoption. This seems likely since it is often portrayed that voting regulations are put in place to obstruct democratic ballots.
You do realize that most of what you posted is a lie, right? Of course you do. Lying is what you do.
You lost your argument right there. If you can't have civilized debate, go back to school and try out for debate club. Maybe then you'll understand that not everyone who conforms to you narrow-minded world views is trying to pull a fast one on you. What do I really even care about what you think anyway? I'm expressing my opinion on how our government spends our money.
The earth has been cooler for the entire period during which anything resembling human beings evolved.
No. Our branch of life flourished since just after the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (aka K-Pg Boundary). Thats when mammals developed into the variety they are today, and most of which was much more temperate than really recent temperatures (geologically speaking).
Antarctica wasn't in its current position when it was warmer than it is now.
Not as cold as it is now, which is ridiculously cold. From Wikipedia (again):
Africa separated from Antarctica in the Jurassic, around 160 Ma, followed by the Indian subcontinent in the early Cretaceous (about 125 Ma). By the end of the Cretaceous, about 66 Ma, Antarctica (then connected to Australia) still had a subtropical climate and flora, complete with a marsupial fauna.[52] In the Eocene epoch, about 40 Ma Australia-New Guinea separated from Antarctica, so that latitudinal currents could isolate Antarctica from Australia, and the first ice began to appear. During the Eocene–Oligocene extinction event about 34 million years ago, CO2 levels have been found to be about 760 ppm[53] and had been decreasing from earlier levels in the thousands of ppm.
And, without human carbon releases the planet maintains a relatively temperate climate over long periods of time through the action of the carbonate-silicate cycle.
Long being relative.
Of course when you dig up half a billion years worth of stored organic carbon and burn in in a century, the carbonate-silicate cycle ain't gonna fix that.
And of course, continuing to release more CO2, that's your fault, not mine.
How is that more my fault than yours? You live in the same culture as I do. You work on the same computers I do, have the environmental footprint that I do, and so on and so fourth (probably more so, since my work and home are solar powered, and my vehicle is electric). You eat the same food, which comes from the same farms, and drink water piped over the same infrastructure, powered by the same machines, built by the same machines. Don't get all holier than thou on me.
NASA is doing climate research because 4 decades of political leaders decided NASA should be doing climate research.
This is what I disagree with. Not that we are funding climate research, but that NASA should be focused, and we should have a vibrant and progressive space program. NASA is losing ground. We retired the Shuttles, we haven't done anything but LEO manned spaceflight since the 70's, and the number of humans to walk on another celestial body is decreasing, not increasing. All that is thanks to 40 years of mismanagement, lack of direction, and a terrible lack of focus.
If you are deluded enough to think Trump is just going to move things around to NOAA rather than eliminating inconvenient research, you deserve what you get.
I'm not deluded enough to think that, since it says so right there in TFS. I don't think that another 20 years of $2B research is going to solve anything, certainly not going t
No. While I don't necessarily agree with eliminating "politicized science", this is not what NASA is for. Getting the satellites up there, yes. But then it should fall under the purview of NOAA or some other agency, department, or institute to conduct earth bound science. I had no idea nasa was using 40% of its money on studying the Earth in such detail.
We already know the earth is far cooler than most of its history, and in a lull in temperature. Antarctica wasn't always a frozen wasteland and won't be forever. We know we aren't going to stop the world from producing more CO2. Even if we did, that carbon won't stay down there forever, the Earth (over a much slower timescale) will release it eventually.
Back to NASA: Do what you guys do best. Take us to the ISS, take us to beyond. I want to be able to tell my children where I was when , like my parents told me where they were when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon, and reminded just what we are capable of. I laud PE Donald Trump for putting them back on the right track, and reminding them of where they should be looking. Not down here on Earth, but up to the heavens, where our frontiers call out to our dreams.
I feel like the time for the Linux Desktop has come and gone, and it is such a shame too. Linux desktops could have absolutely changed the game in terms of computer use. Why? Because of the infrastructure, and Apple IMHO is in the lead on this. I have Macs at work and home, so does my wife. We have Apple TVs, iPhones, iPads, and the whole ecosystem really does work. With the latest iteration of iOS/Mac OS, our desktops sync, our documents sync, and our settings sync. All of our setups follow us from computer to computer. As long as we stay in the walled garden, we have a fantastic computing experience. The sad part is: Linux already rules the cloud. So why couldn't it deliver the same seamless experience across all the screens that Apple as (and it seems Windows is not very far behind). The barrier used to be the application support. Now, its the infrastructure in between.
Edward Snowden doesn't need to be found guilty or anything of the sort for President Obama to pardon him. He has absolute authority as president in this matter. Edward Snowden is a criminal in the sense that he did disclose confidential information, which by definition is a crime. What we have to ask ourselves is wether the crime of disclosure is forgivable under the circumstance of disclosing another crime (invasion of privacy in this case, or violating the 4th amendment in terms of due process and unreasonable search).
I think it's telling that we have whistleblower protection laws to prevent violations of NDA (non-disclosure agreements), and punitive persecution of disclosure in the case of crimes committed by companies. Even if we didn't there, the truth shall set you free. I don't think we should punish him, or others for releasing information, regardless of how embarrassed anyone feels for it. Don't do anything as a government you wouldn't get consent for from your own populace.
Good on the responsibility of the press. On the atomic bombs, there seems (to me at least) a third option: calling a truce and walking away knowing you could have saved even more lives by not bombing or invading. Know you beat your enemy, demand a truce with conditions, and live in peace. I have heard the arguments, that we saved countless more lives by bombing, but we obliterated two huge civilian populations with the solders we killed. There were babies, children, grandmothers and non-combatant adults that we decided should be a casualty of war. There was a more humane way to just stop the fighting and end the war a bit more amicably. I know the japs were extremely stubborn, but you call a cease fire, you get the generals on neutral ground, and save lives by negotiating with your enemy and gaining their respect. You don't nuke two cities.
You don't work in a corporation? Most people do. And spending less money on taxes gives them more money to spend on payroll, reinvestment, or dividends. The first two benefit you, the third one can benefit you if you buy stock in the company you work for. I think all employees that can, should.
We see trump and his alt-right compatriots,racist and incendiary remarks towards illegal immigrants, and muslims
You were doing good, albeit long-winded, until you went and threw your credibility in the shitter with that one. Next!
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What do you mean? That's not even a complete thought. How did I throw my credibility away with half of one thought? Are you suggesting he has no alt-right compatriots? He didn't make incendiary remarks towards illegal immigrants or muslims?
No. Evil is as much defined by history and its victors as it is by the consensus of the public. Is America evil? Most would say no, but it did pop two nuclear bombs to effectively end the Japanese campaign to fight in their own vicinity. America also committed mass genocide when it moved westward and ended an entire civilization of millions of people (Native Americans). It keeps humans captive with no day in court (Guantanamo Bay), kills human being ex-judiciously (drone strikes and collateral damage), and supports oppressive dictators who play ball (Saddam Hussein is given a key to the city of Detroit).
Surely we don't consider America totally evil. They gave us the west coast and a subdued Japanese empire, allowing for the rest of the oriental countries to flourish. Back then though, I'm sure many modern SJWs would have campaigned against those efforts.
Let me be clear. I'm not condoning the bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. I am not condoning genocide either.
We see trump and his alt-right compatriots,racist and incendiary remarks towards illegal immigrants, and muslims, and are quick to paint him with Hitlers colors, but that is not an accurate depiction of the man. He did not make disparaging remarks about all Mexicans, or all Mexican Americans for that matter. He made disparaging remarks about "rapists, and murderers", or "bad hombres". He wants to stop the bad ones from importing massive amounts of narcotics, smuggling in convicts from Mexico and most of Central and South America. I don't necessarily agree with that policy, but I see where he is coming from. Lets be honest with ourselves on illegal immigration. It is a crime. There is a sovereign state that demands an entry process for immigration. Millions of honest and hard working foreigners work effortlessly to qualify and seek to relocate their lives in hope of a better future with more freedoms than they presently have. Those who are here illegally are effectively cutting in line to get here, and undermining the country they are trying to become a part of from the get go. That is not fair. It is not fair to those who have followed procedures, it is not fair to those who took the time and followed the law.
If I break into your house, and squat in it, instead of working hard to afford to purchase it, I would fully expect that I will be evicted, if no charges are brought on me for breaking and entering. Even if I have lived in it for a long time, and have no where else to go, I am still breaking the law and deserve to be kicked out. Trump isn't even going that far either. He has stated that he wants to deport the criminal elements either, those who have committed terrible crimes. I don't have a problem with that. Why do you? There is a reason we have an immigration process and a department we spend a lot of money to enforce it. It's to vet who we give visa's to, and who we allow to naturalize. If these Mexicans were Arabs, and it was Iraq, or Iran, or Sudan on our Southern Border, would deporting them still be such a huge issue?
Back to trump: I believe he has a lot of bad positions, and he surrounds himself with some very questionable people in my book. But we elected him, and we have to see what he renders. We don't have a choice in that matter. I don't believe for a moment that he or anyone he is bringing into the White House are out to harm America. I believe they are patriots and their intentions are good.
I don't believe he is evil, but because the news outlets want to decide for me, I can not rely on their reporting to receive fair facts. This is worse due to the consequence of not knowing what really happens in politics. The best defense against an evil government is a well informed public with free access to information, and the freedom of the press is supposed to gaurantee us that. But what happens when the "free press" aligns itself with a falsehood? I can no longer be informed, and can not decide for myself what is evil. Thats the real problem here.
This. It's insane to me as a person who grew up overseas how the US news orgs conduct themselves. Gone are the days when you heard the news anchors recite the facts of the day, letting you know what new laws were adopted, who did what, anything notable that happened, and who died. Watch BBC World Service for accurate reporting on US events. It will fry your brain less than the absolute garbage the various news orgs put out these days.
I can not believe news organizations are actually endorsing politicians! Its effectively saying: We are for Candidate X, so anything we are going to report to you on Candidate X is going to be portrayed in a positive light. Anything their opponents do or way will be portrayed negatively. We are not fair, or balanced, we are encouraging you to pick our choice, who is Candidate X. Fucking rubbish. I don't need your opinions, thats not why you travel with the president. I need the facts, and just that.
Wireless what? What are you talking about? This is discussing the ability to connect displays to the new MacBook Pro. Neither the displays, nor any of the graphics portions thereof are wireless. They connect over Thunderbolt 3.
What people think makes no difference. In fact, I think how many lives are saved vs. lost makes no difference. No body, not Tesla, not government regulatory bodies, not programmers, no one is claming the software is perfect. Some people are claiming it saves lives in aggregate vs human miles driven, but only data can tell us that. And even then, it determines on how you look at things. Do they save lives vs the average vehicle? How about lives vs other vehicles in the same price range, or vs other autonomous vehicles. Or even vehicles in similar weather conditions, etc... etc... What really matters is how much potential there is for improvement. The chips these systems run on will follow a Moore's law trajectory, and the amount of data these vehicles learn from each other with every mile is even more insane. We can not possibly make human drivers 2X, 4X, or 10X better, but we can make these systems that much better. All it takes is learning with data, with next gen sensors, with better networking tech, better algorithms derived from it all, and lastly, better vehicle coordination from infrastructure. In 20 years, the answer to this question will become painfully obvious. We just have to let the technology carry us there, and listen to everyone on the way: be vigilant when the system is in use today. Be aware of what your vehicle is doing. You are still responsible.
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But you really can't now since most components of the server that used to be discrete chips are embedded into the CPU. This is the case now with most systems. CPUs in consumer electronics have embedded graphics chips, audio, etc..
The server is not much different these days. You no longer have discrete memory controllers (you do sometimes), or discrete north and south bridges to handle things like expansion cards, network connectivity, etc. Now, a lot of that resides in the CPU. So the CPU determines what sort of (and how much) memory a server can accept, how many PCI lanes are available, and the number of sockets. It doesn't help either that the socket type is determined by the CPU manufacturer.
This was my thought... a photon is a particle, that travels in a wave. It has some pressure when it shines on an object (see light sails, NASA). If light were to travel at an infinite speed, anything it encounters would be given an infinite amount of energy in the form of momentum. We can then deduce that this was not the case, since most of the sky is black and not full of stars (see Olbers' Paradox). An infinitely fast beam of light would have come into contact with "stuff", and given off an infinite amount of mass/energy (matter), and generated an infinitely dense universe with an infinite amount of energy.
E=MC^2 is dead. Long live E=MC^2!
I named my boat after Jenny. I love you Jenny! My Jenny! :)
I'll be modded down for this... but there is also I believe a problem with the perception of "skilled" IT labor, and the expectation of lifestyle being in IT brings. You have good people that are even certified in one profession or another (Oracle DBA's, storage admins, etc..) who expect to earn $200k a year when that isn't really feasible most of the time. The education requirements to become decent DBA will be a few years in a robust environment, plus a few months of courses, and voila!
It's not the same regimen as 8 years of medical school, 4 years of residency, $300,000 in student loans and years of practicing before you earn that much. I know IT pros who legitimately make more than the salaries of senators, and still bitch about how much everything costs and how they deserve to earn more. The market is sorting itself out. There are others out there who can come in and offer a better value, so a better value will end up winning. To have the delusion that it's always because some asshole manager is trying to earn a bonus or pocket from a deal is just not a reasonable view of reality.
Trump is a part of the anti (or dis-) establishment. Anything the establishment can use to knock him off his game, they will try. Far less truthful in politics than anyone else? Remember Obama's peace award from Nobel? Remember those posters of hope? We got more drones, more invasion of privacy, more attacks on journalists, more corruption in the DNC... basically a G.W.Bush 2.0. Please. Why are you kidding? Yourself?
So...then Trump owing millions to foreign banks makes him...what's the word....I cannot quite find the right word....ah, here it is in your note, thank you, the words are "in debt".
FTFY
The real issue with what he is suggesting is two fold:
1. The candidates, and the thousands of people who worked on their campaigns, the respective party conventions, and the media all ran and reported based on the electoral college system. The voters in each state went to the polls or stayed home based on the perceived ability to influence their state's chances of weighing in on the result. How many republicans in California stayed home because Republican chances of picking up California were "less than 0.01%"? The rules were set, the candidates ran those campaigns, and the winner must, MUST be respected. That's the essence of our democracy. Sometimes your pick loses.
2. What does this say about all future elections? IF your pick loses, try to alter the rules after the fact? We must respect each others opinions, and most importantly the rules set forth. Otherwise, we undermine the fabric of our republic. WE should change the rules, I hate the electoral college. It should be effective next go-around.
What risk? That someone has to go out and mend the machine when it farms, or insert an
if(tornado){
stayInside;
}else{
harvest;
}
statement in the code? Nonsense. What do you imagine will happen automation arrives at farms? The supply of food will increase, and the price will decrease. Same thing for trucking and the volume of goods carried down the world's roadways. The volume of cargo will go up, and the cost to move it will drop. Thats more economic productivity, which means more for all. Simply awesome.
I'm not being dis-ingenuous, I'm prioritizing. I think NASA should focus on space, and leave the earths climate to NOAA and the earths geology to USGS. I think NASA is so unfocused right now, we have to turn to a super-power we already beat in space to help us get our astronauts to a station we largely paid for. And the saddest part: thats the most exciting thing happening above our atmosphere for me to tell my children about.
Point: NASA should be focused on space, travel, and the study of the heavens. If you want to study the earth, see NOAA, or USGS. NASA needs its money for space.
Aeronautics could also be implied in researching how to re-enter the atmosphere, or alien atmospheres with technology like aerobraking, parachutes, and retro-rockets. It certainly isn't the study of Earth's atmosphere for reasons other than traveling through it.
Not only that, but the electronic systems don't feed into some "one single Oracle instance". These are very diverse districts all running a hodgepodge system, where the procurement, installation, and monitoring are done by various independent contractors. It would be very challenging to simultaneously and independently break into them all. Not impossible, but very very unlikely. Many probably share some core components (like Diebold software or something, but not not all of them. Perhaps places where democrats are likely to vote just have slower modern voting method adoption. This seems likely since it is often portrayed that voting regulations are put in place to obstruct democratic ballots.
You do realize that most of what you posted is a lie, right? Of course you do. Lying is what you do.
You lost your argument right there. If you can't have civilized debate, go back to school and try out for debate club. Maybe then you'll understand that not everyone who conforms to you narrow-minded world views is trying to pull a fast one on you. What do I really even care about what you think anyway? I'm expressing my opinion on how our government spends our money.
But, lets pretend I do care, and I'm trying to convince you. Lets start:
Source: Geologic Temperature Record
The earth has been cooler for the entire period during which anything resembling human beings evolved.
No. Our branch of life flourished since just after the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (aka K-Pg Boundary). Thats when mammals developed into the variety they are today, and most of which was much more temperate than really recent temperatures (geologically speaking).
Antarctica wasn't in its current position when it was warmer than it is now.
Not as cold as it is now, which is ridiculously cold. From Wikipedia (again):
Africa separated from Antarctica in the Jurassic, around 160 Ma, followed by the Indian subcontinent in the early Cretaceous (about 125 Ma). By the end of the Cretaceous, about 66 Ma, Antarctica (then connected to Australia) still had a subtropical climate and flora, complete with a marsupial fauna.[52] In the Eocene epoch, about 40 Ma Australia-New Guinea separated from Antarctica, so that latitudinal currents could isolate Antarctica from Australia, and the first ice began to appear. During the Eocene–Oligocene extinction event about 34 million years ago, CO2 levels have been found to be about 760 ppm[53] and had been decreasing from earlier levels in the thousands of ppm.
And, without human carbon releases the planet maintains a relatively temperate climate over long periods of time through the action of the carbonate-silicate cycle.
Long being relative.
Of course when you dig up half a billion years worth of stored organic carbon and burn in in a century, the carbonate-silicate cycle ain't gonna fix that.
And of course, continuing to release more CO2, that's your fault, not mine.
How is that more my fault than yours? You live in the same culture as I do. You work on the same computers I do, have the environmental footprint that I do, and so on and so fourth (probably more so, since my work and home are solar powered, and my vehicle is electric). You eat the same food, which comes from the same farms, and drink water piped over the same infrastructure, powered by the same machines, built by the same machines. Don't get all holier than thou on me.
NASA is doing climate research because 4 decades of political leaders decided NASA should be doing climate research.
This is what I disagree with. Not that we are funding climate research, but that NASA should be focused, and we should have a vibrant and progressive space program. NASA is losing ground. We retired the Shuttles, we haven't done anything but LEO manned spaceflight since the 70's, and the number of humans to walk on another celestial body is decreasing, not increasing. All that is thanks to 40 years of mismanagement, lack of direction, and a terrible lack of focus.
If you are deluded enough to think Trump is just going to move things around to NOAA rather than eliminating inconvenient research, you deserve what you get.
I'm not deluded enough to think that, since it says so right there in TFS. I don't think that another 20 years of $2B research is going to solve anything, certainly not going t
No. While I don't necessarily agree with eliminating "politicized science", this is not what NASA is for. Getting the satellites up there, yes. But then it should fall under the purview of NOAA or some other agency, department, or institute to conduct earth bound science. I had no idea nasa was using 40% of its money on studying the Earth in such detail.
We already know the earth is far cooler than most of its history, and in a lull in temperature. Antarctica wasn't always a frozen wasteland and won't be forever. We know we aren't going to stop the world from producing more CO2. Even if we did, that carbon won't stay down there forever, the Earth (over a much slower timescale) will release it eventually.
Back to NASA: Do what you guys do best. Take us to the ISS, take us to beyond. I want to be able to tell my children where I was when , like my parents told me where they were when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon, and reminded just what we are capable of. I laud PE Donald Trump for putting them back on the right track, and reminding them of where they should be looking. Not down here on Earth, but up to the heavens, where our frontiers call out to our dreams.
I feel like the time for the Linux Desktop has come and gone, and it is such a shame too. Linux desktops could have absolutely changed the game in terms of computer use. Why? Because of the infrastructure, and Apple IMHO is in the lead on this. I have Macs at work and home, so does my wife. We have Apple TVs, iPhones, iPads, and the whole ecosystem really does work. With the latest iteration of iOS/Mac OS, our desktops sync, our documents sync, and our settings sync. All of our setups follow us from computer to computer. As long as we stay in the walled garden, we have a fantastic computing experience. The sad part is: Linux already rules the cloud. So why couldn't it deliver the same seamless experience across all the screens that Apple as (and it seems Windows is not very far behind). The barrier used to be the application support. Now, its the infrastructure in between.
They really should confiscate that shiny Nobel prize the dished out so earnestly. Peace, my ass.
Edward Snowden doesn't need to be found guilty or anything of the sort for President Obama to pardon him. He has absolute authority as president in this matter. Edward Snowden is a criminal in the sense that he did disclose confidential information, which by definition is a crime. What we have to ask ourselves is wether the crime of disclosure is forgivable under the circumstance of disclosing another crime (invasion of privacy in this case, or violating the 4th amendment in terms of due process and unreasonable search).
I think it's telling that we have whistleblower protection laws to prevent violations of NDA (non-disclosure agreements), and punitive persecution of disclosure in the case of crimes committed by companies. Even if we didn't there, the truth shall set you free. I don't think we should punish him, or others for releasing information, regardless of how embarrassed anyone feels for it. Don't do anything as a government you wouldn't get consent for from your own populace.
Good on the responsibility of the press. On the atomic bombs, there seems (to me at least) a third option: calling a truce and walking away knowing you could have saved even more lives by not bombing or invading. Know you beat your enemy, demand a truce with conditions, and live in peace. I have heard the arguments, that we saved countless more lives by bombing, but we obliterated two huge civilian populations with the solders we killed. There were babies, children, grandmothers and non-combatant adults that we decided should be a casualty of war. There was a more humane way to just stop the fighting and end the war a bit more amicably. I know the japs were extremely stubborn, but you call a cease fire, you get the generals on neutral ground, and save lives by negotiating with your enemy and gaining their respect. You don't nuke two cities.
You don't work in a corporation? Most people do. And spending less money on taxes gives them more money to spend on payroll, reinvestment, or dividends. The first two benefit you, the third one can benefit you if you buy stock in the company you work for. I think all employees that can, should.
We see trump and his alt-right compatriots,racist and incendiary remarks towards illegal immigrants, and muslims
You were doing good, albeit long-winded, until you went and threw your credibility in the shitter with that one. Next!
Captcha: wilted
What do you mean? That's not even a complete thought. How did I throw my credibility away with half of one thought? Are you suggesting he has no alt-right compatriots? He didn't make incendiary remarks towards illegal immigrants or muslims?
Until you understand that all those entertainers have a seat in the presidential press pool.
No. Evil is as much defined by history and its victors as it is by the consensus of the public. Is America evil? Most would say no, but it did pop two nuclear bombs to effectively end the Japanese campaign to fight in their own vicinity. America also committed mass genocide when it moved westward and ended an entire civilization of millions of people (Native Americans). It keeps humans captive with no day in court (Guantanamo Bay), kills human being ex-judiciously (drone strikes and collateral damage), and supports oppressive dictators who play ball (Saddam Hussein is given a key to the city of Detroit).
Surely we don't consider America totally evil. They gave us the west coast and a subdued Japanese empire, allowing for the rest of the oriental countries to flourish. Back then though, I'm sure many modern SJWs would have campaigned against those efforts.
Let me be clear. I'm not condoning the bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. I am not condoning genocide either.
We see trump and his alt-right compatriots,racist and incendiary remarks towards illegal immigrants, and muslims, and are quick to paint him with Hitlers colors, but that is not an accurate depiction of the man. He did not make disparaging remarks about all Mexicans, or all Mexican Americans for that matter. He made disparaging remarks about "rapists, and murderers", or "bad hombres". He wants to stop the bad ones from importing massive amounts of narcotics, smuggling in convicts from Mexico and most of Central and South America. I don't necessarily agree with that policy, but I see where he is coming from. Lets be honest with ourselves on illegal immigration. It is a crime. There is a sovereign state that demands an entry process for immigration. Millions of honest and hard working foreigners work effortlessly to qualify and seek to relocate their lives in hope of a better future with more freedoms than they presently have. Those who are here illegally are effectively cutting in line to get here, and undermining the country they are trying to become a part of from the get go. That is not fair. It is not fair to those who have followed procedures, it is not fair to those who took the time and followed the law.
If I break into your house, and squat in it, instead of working hard to afford to purchase it, I would fully expect that I will be evicted, if no charges are brought on me for breaking and entering. Even if I have lived in it for a long time, and have no where else to go, I am still breaking the law and deserve to be kicked out. Trump isn't even going that far either. He has stated that he wants to deport the criminal elements either, those who have committed terrible crimes. I don't have a problem with that. Why do you? There is a reason we have an immigration process and a department we spend a lot of money to enforce it. It's to vet who we give visa's to, and who we allow to naturalize. If these Mexicans were Arabs, and it was Iraq, or Iran, or Sudan on our Southern Border, would deporting them still be such a huge issue?
Back to trump: I believe he has a lot of bad positions, and he surrounds himself with some very questionable people in my book. But we elected him, and we have to see what he renders. We don't have a choice in that matter. I don't believe for a moment that he or anyone he is bringing into the White House are out to harm America. I believe they are patriots and their intentions are good.
I don't believe he is evil, but because the news outlets want to decide for me, I can not rely on their reporting to receive fair facts. This is worse due to the consequence of not knowing what really happens in politics. The best defense against an evil government is a well informed public with free access to information, and the freedom of the press is supposed to gaurantee us that. But what happens when the "free press" aligns itself with a falsehood? I can no longer be informed, and can not decide for myself what is evil. Thats the real problem here.
This. It's insane to me as a person who grew up overseas how the US news orgs conduct themselves. Gone are the days when you heard the news anchors recite the facts of the day, letting you know what new laws were adopted, who did what, anything notable that happened, and who died. Watch BBC World Service for accurate reporting on US events. It will fry your brain less than the absolute garbage the various news orgs put out these days.
I can not believe news organizations are actually endorsing politicians! Its effectively saying: We are for Candidate X, so anything we are going to report to you on Candidate X is going to be portrayed in a positive light. Anything their opponents do or way will be portrayed negatively. We are not fair, or balanced, we are encouraging you to pick our choice, who is Candidate X. Fucking rubbish. I don't need your opinions, thats not why you travel with the president. I need the facts, and just that.
Wireless what? What are you talking about? This is discussing the ability to connect displays to the new MacBook Pro. Neither the displays, nor any of the graphics portions thereof are wireless. They connect over Thunderbolt 3.
What people think makes no difference. In fact, I think how many lives are saved vs. lost makes no difference. No body, not Tesla, not government regulatory bodies, not programmers, no one is claming the software is perfect. Some people are claiming it saves lives in aggregate vs human miles driven, but only data can tell us that. And even then, it determines on how you look at things. Do they save lives vs the average vehicle? How about lives vs other vehicles in the same price range, or vs other autonomous vehicles. Or even vehicles in similar weather conditions, etc... etc...
What really matters is how much potential there is for improvement. The chips these systems run on will follow a Moore's law trajectory, and the amount of data these vehicles learn from each other with every mile is even more insane. We can not possibly make human drivers 2X, 4X, or 10X better, but we can make these systems that much better. All it takes is learning with data, with next gen sensors, with better networking tech, better algorithms derived from it all, and lastly, better vehicle coordination from infrastructure. In 20 years, the answer to this question will become painfully obvious. We just have to let the technology carry us there, and listen to everyone on the way: be vigilant when the system is in use today. Be aware of what your vehicle is doing. You are still responsible.