If I learned one thing from experience with "agile development", it is how totally different from the IT-perspective it is seen from non-IT people, especially customers and managers:
Customers: "Agile is great, because now we can change requirements whenever we like, and don't even need to think of what we really need in the beginning. Ah, and by the way: We don't have time to sit in your sprint-planning meetings. We just expect you to deliver."
Managers: "Agile is great, because now none of those IT wisenheimers can obstruct our great vision by telling us how time and effort consuming our projects will be before implementation starts. Once it becomes too obvious how much more work it will take to turn the software into something useful, it's too late to cancel the project as a whole, and we'll just demand long hours from the programmers."
Notice how those who decided to have the scanning process outsourced to "somewhere in the cloud" will consider this a confirmation of their success. Now all the blame is assigned to Abby, and no blame assigned to them - exactly what they wanted to achieve, nothing less.
The proposal to build a business model for gambling operators around " taking a commission, but not facing any risk" does already exist, it is a market with many billions of revenue. It's called "retail derivatives", and those are sold by many issuers/banks, the gamble being tracked on derivative exchanges.
If the only reason for you to ask more than VESA framebuffer capabilities from a video card is playing commercial video games, then you certainly do not need Linux drivers at all. I do not buy an expensive video card to then use it as an overpriced 2D framebuffer.
The primary mirrors of the VLT are bigger both in diameter and weight, and were made by Schott in Mainz, Germany. See
https://www.eso.org/public/ger... for details.
Pay $$$$ for a gfx-card that I can trash as soon nVidia loses interest in releasing their proprietary closed-source driver? No, thank you. Even if the GPUs from Intel and AMD are slower, I know I will be able to compile a contemporary kernel with a driver for them, also tomorrow.
One important aspect of ownership of a physical book is that it cannot be centrally altered or deleted. Since today even children's books are altered to fit some political agenda of the day, there is value in owning a copy of information that if just stored by some cloud service, can disappear any day.
The features that are advertised for Dexguard sound like exactly what Malware programmers would be looking for to obfuscate their evil intentions. Spyware, Trojans, Adware and the like are certainly right in the middle of the target audience.
... where Google secretly hires thousands of (conveniently also cheaper) Chinese programmers to substitute those indignant first-world employees who intend to obstruct the profit maximization process. It's not like any larger corporation would be willing to put morale before profits, you know...
You may not even have to buy one yourself: Some schools have started to buy and lend "Burkinis" to students on their own cost, in an attempt to appease the zealots: https://www.waz.de/staedte/her...
And yet, the highest German court had to rule on a case where parents did not want her daughter to participate in the swimming lessons: https://www.bundesverfassungsg...
You probably act more rational and cautious than many other adult non-swimmers. When I read the local press, there are articles on people drowning almost every day in the newspaper, and it is astonishing how often the victims have been known to be incapable of swimming, but went into the water nevertheless.
The only lazy one here is you, not citing any sources for your false claims. See https://mobile.slashdot.org/co... for links to the official numbers from the Bundesamt für Statistik.
And yes, it is exactly like you said, for 100 people on the street, there are "suddenly" (as in "over ~2 years") 3 more - what do you think why school gyms had to be recruited as shelters for the refugees for months?
And how else could a previously rather irrelevant and small political party, the AfD, become the largest opposition party, with basically only the refugee topic being on their agenda?
Just because you do not want to see consequences of migration does not mean they are not there.
Over 2 million immigrants came to Germany since 2015, and relatively large part of their children never learned to swim - the rate was 21% vs. 12% in 2016, and probably did not improve since then: https://www.armut-und-gesundhe...
But it is not only the children, also the adult non-swimmers are a problem - the press in Germany covered this topic repeatedly, for example: https://www.welt.de/vermischte...
In addition, an estimated 2% of parents do not want their children to be educated in swimming at school for religious reasons, as they consider their visibility to others in this context as "sinful".
Their respective authors are greedy to assume a position of power that they neither deserve nor have any rational reason to be in.
I am not exaggerating: It was literally written already in one of the earlier documents from the systemd authors that their goal was to reach "world domination". And they were not kidding. It simply is their childhood fantasy.
Yes. Reality will be defined by some mathematical structure or another. We can invent mathematical structures to describe any possible way that reality might be. Whatever way it turns out that reality is, whichever mathematical structure accurately describes it defines its properties.
You are turning math into a religion, in a very unconvincing way.
Following the same line of argumentation, I could state "The God of my religion X has created the Universe and defined the one true reality. It is all written in our holy book. Whatever observation you might come up with that contradicts the colorful stories in our holy book, we will just adjust the book to make it fit! So no matter how many convoluted additions we will need to make, we can invent them!".
Math is a utility. A useful one to describe a model of reality as we know it. But it does not define or create reality.
Just because some solutions exists for formulas used in general relativity that could be interpreted as "Tachyons" does not mean such "Tachyons" exist in reality. It might be worth looking for them, but the result can be there are none. Whatever mathmatical model you can invent, it will certainly allow for possibilities that do not exist in reality. And it might still miss to model real things that do not become known to any intelligent lifeform before those ceases to exist.
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If I learned one thing from experience with "agile development", it is how totally different from the IT-perspective it is seen from non-IT people, especially customers and managers:
Customers: "Agile is great, because now we can change requirements whenever we like, and don't even need to think of what we really need in the beginning. Ah, and by the way: We don't have time to sit in your sprint-planning meetings. We just expect you to deliver."
Managers: "Agile is great, because now none of those IT wisenheimers can obstruct our great vision by telling us how time and effort consuming our projects will be before implementation starts. Once it becomes too obvious how much more work it will take to turn the software into something useful, it's too late to cancel the project as a whole, and we'll just demand long hours from the programmers."
Notice how those who decided to have the scanning process outsourced to "somewhere in the cloud" will consider this a confirmation of their success. Now all the blame is assigned to Abby, and no blame assigned to them - exactly what they wanted to achieve, nothing less.
The proposal to build a business model for gambling operators around " taking a commission, but not facing any risk" does already exist, it is a market with many billions of revenue. It's called "retail derivatives", and those are sold by many issuers/banks, the gamble being tracked on derivative exchanges.
Along with a linux-4.18.3 kernel?
If the only reason for you to ask more than VESA framebuffer capabilities from a video card is playing commercial video games, then you certainly do not need Linux drivers at all. I do not buy an expensive video card to then use it as an overpriced 2D framebuffer.
The primary mirrors of the VLT are bigger both in diameter and weight, and were made by Schott in Mainz, Germany. See https://www.eso.org/public/ger... for details.
Pay $$$$ for a gfx-card that I can trash as soon nVidia loses interest in releasing their proprietary closed-source driver? No, thank you. Even if the GPUs from Intel and AMD are slower, I know I will be able to compile a contemporary kernel with a driver for them, also tomorrow.
For comparison, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For details on the ELT, see https://www.eso.org/public/uni...
Will be interesting to see which one will actually start taking pictures of higher quality, first.
One important aspect of ownership of a physical book is that it cannot be centrally altered or deleted. Since today even children's books are altered to fit some political agenda of the day, there is value in owning a copy of information that if just stored by some cloud service, can disappear any day.
The features that are advertised for Dexguard sound like exactly what Malware programmers would be looking for to obfuscate their evil intentions. Spyware, Trojans, Adware and the like are certainly right in the middle of the target audience.
So everyone with an interest in privacy will use steganographic tools, while everyone else has no privacy. Well done, Australia!
... because of all the superior airplane technology and the military secrets that can be sourced from there, right?
Or was this network just hacked to later stage really relevant attacks originating from there, that are then attributed to evil Russians?
... where Google secretly hires thousands of (conveniently also cheaper) Chinese programmers to substitute those indignant first-world employees who intend to obstruct the profit maximization process. It's not like any larger corporation would be willing to put morale before profits, you know...
Then just buy your kid a 1mm wetsuit.
You may not even have to buy one yourself: Some schools have started to buy and lend "Burkinis" to students on their own cost, in an attempt to appease the zealots: https://www.waz.de/staedte/her...
And yet, the highest German court had to rule on a case where parents did not want her daughter to participate in the swimming lessons: https://www.bundesverfassungsg...
You probably act more rational and cautious than many other adult non-swimmers. When I read the local press, there are articles on people drowning almost every day in the newspaper, and it is astonishing how often the victims have been known to be incapable of swimming, but went into the water nevertheless.
The only lazy one here is you, not citing any sources for your false claims. See https://mobile.slashdot.org/co... for links to the official numbers from the Bundesamt für Statistik.
If you want to read the official government numbers, here is are links: Number for end of 2016: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Pre...
Some numbers (not as comprehensive as for 2016) for 2017: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Pre...
And yes, it is exactly like you said, for 100 people on the street, there are "suddenly" (as in "over ~2 years") 3 more - what do you think why school gyms had to be recruited as shelters for the refugees for months?
And how else could a previously rather irrelevant and small political party, the AfD, become the largest opposition party, with basically only the refugee topic being on their agenda?
Just because you do not want to see consequences of migration does not mean they are not there.
Over 2 million immigrants came to Germany since 2015, and relatively large part of their children never learned to swim - the rate was 21% vs. 12% in 2016, and probably did not improve since then: https://www.armut-und-gesundhe...
But it is not only the children, also the adult non-swimmers are a problem - the press in Germany covered this topic repeatedly, for example: https://www.welt.de/vermischte...
In addition, an estimated 2% of parents do not want their children to be educated in swimming at school for religious reasons, as they consider their visibility to others in this context as "sinful".
2019 will be the year of subscription-based Windows 10 on dumb terminals.
Not on dumb terminals, on dumb user's computers.
Sure, AT&T might provide horrible security, so their mobiles are not a good 2nd factor.
But isn't as much blame to put on whoever maintained the first factor? The article doesn't tell us how and why that factor failed...
Their respective authors are greedy to assume a position of power that they neither deserve nor have any rational reason to be in.
I am not exaggerating: It was literally written already in one of the earlier documents from the systemd authors that their goal was to reach "world domination". And they were not kidding. It simply is their childhood fantasy.
At least some parts of that have survived the centuries - see https://www.ranker.com/list/pe...
I wonder how it is relevant news that the most inactive software has been cut off the data wonderland "Facebook".
... probably had to be taken away due to copyright claims of some imperial Roman mega-corporations.
Yes. Reality will be defined by some mathematical structure or another. We can invent mathematical structures to describe any possible way that reality might be. Whatever way it turns out that reality is, whichever mathematical structure accurately describes it defines its properties.
You are turning math into a religion, in a very unconvincing way.
Following the same line of argumentation, I could state "The God of my religion X has created the Universe and defined the one true reality. It is all written in our holy book. Whatever observation you might come up with that contradicts the colorful stories in our holy book, we will just adjust the book to make it fit! So no matter how many convoluted additions we will need to make, we can invent them!".
Math is a utility. A useful one to describe a model of reality as we know it. But it does not define or create reality.
Just because some solutions exists for formulas used in general relativity that could be interpreted as "Tachyons" does not mean such "Tachyons" exist in reality. It might be worth looking for them, but the result can be there are none. Whatever mathmatical model you can invent, it will certainly allow for possibilities that do not exist in reality. And it might still miss to model real things that do not become known to any intelligent lifeform before those ceases to exist.