Partial bit of info... building a house out of wood makes it more flexible than concrete or brick, especially in areas prone to earthquakes and high winds, where at least some flexibility is quite desirable, considering.
LNG heats millions of homes [In North America, EU, and much of Russia]. Not heating oil.
FTFY. Heating oil heats most civilized homes everywhere else, though wood/charcoal and Kerosene come in a very close 2nd and 3rd place, (or first place, depending on location/region.)
1) The majority of air pollution isn't coming from some jackass or two in a hopped-up diesel pickup 'rolling coal'. The majority of it comes from industrial activity (power stations are among the biggest culprits.) Then there's the natural sources - the occasional forest fire and/or active volcano, of which we have several of both types globally running. Compared to just those major sources, cars/trucks are way down on the list. I daresay that active warfare causes more air pollution than anything else, but fortunately they're fairly sporadic and the chronic ones are relatively low-level these days.
2) Yes, you can see it in certain areas - for instance, go to Salt Lake City, then take a trip up Emigration Canyon, then look back down in the valley. Temperature inversions trap and concentrate it to the point where it's really visible. But, in most other areas (e.g. most of the Pacific Coast north of San Francisco), it barely registers.
3) Yup, you could reduce the population overall. Problem is, top-down solutions-by-fiat tend to make unintentional messes... China has been keeping their population down with the One-Child policy, but has been slowly creating a demographics bomb (that is, more men than women). A better way to do it is to increase relative prosperity - prosperous nations have lower birthrates, many relying (unintentionally or otherwise) on immigration (legal or illegal) to keep or beat replacement levels (except Japan, which is a touch xenophobic and has its numbers dropping a *lot* of late.)
4) There is a solution to the air quality, and amazingly enough, the solution (or rather, collection thereof) has been running, or is being put into place: Cleaner technologies, more natural sequestration methods (i.e. more trees) stand out as two big overall solutions. China is working on it now, the US and EU have been doing it for decades with increasing success in most areas, and other continents are just barely getting into the act, but positive steps are being made in most cases.
Apple is the only one taking privacy at all seriously.
Just ask all the fappening celebs.
Hint: The Fappening was the result of folks breaking into iCloud accounts of targeted celebrities then publishing selected contents of those accounts - not the result of data-mining on Apple's part.
...now, does someone have evidence of data-mining on Apple's part, or not?
It's a path they've been going down anyway for lots of reasons - revenue protection, corporate culture, the ideology(ies) of the majority of their moderators, engineers, etc.... They'd just prefer to not have (the US) government pitch in and help tell them what to handle or reject.
Overall, the tech companies are correct in one regard, that being government not having a place in determining what should and should not be said on privately-owned platforms (no matter *what* is allowed within the bounds of current law in the company's country of residence.)
On the other hand, you'd think these companies would be used to it by now, considering their caving-in to demands of governments in China, India, various other EMEA nations, etc... each with their differing ideas of what free speech is or is not. I'm guessing they just don't want to the US government piling on? Dunno... they were more than eager to do it for other governments, if for no other reason than to boost growth/profits, so...
I'm thinking not, considering the fucktons of money they're pouring into their still-expanding DX-1 fab at the Ronler Acres complex in Hillsboro, Oregon (let alone, probably, the additional fabs in Chandler, AZ).
The myth that the private sector is made up of wonderfully efficient and capable people is easily disproved. Look at your private sector coworkers, and consider the private sector coworkers you've had in the past. Most likely they were not all paragons of efficiency and virtue.
...compared to most government/civil-service workers? In that light, hell yes they're paragons of efficiency and virtue.:/
I do agree that you can't simply toss money at a group of people and expect them to crap out a perfect vision or solution. Takes a lot of guidance and clear communication along the way. It also takes the removal of the shit-ton of regulatory barriers that most governmental institutions are weighed down with (for even the most trivial of things...)
Stallman's problem is that he's trying to jam licensing into things that don't quite fit.
I saw some of this in 2000, when I ran across the conflict between going 100% open-source on teaching Linux, and the prospect of students copying/passing-around test answers under the banner of 'well, it's open source, isn't it?' Thus was born the incredibly clumsy Open Documentation License (okay, okay - I'm sorry already!)
Licensing works for simple self-contained items - code for instance. For documents, Copyleft works better, though by necessity some (corner-case) stuff must remain under proprietary lock-down, no matter how badly information wants free under those specific circumstances. For human behavior? Yeah, no... sorry dude, . Not gonna work at all.
I appreciate that he's trying to solve a problem here, but using legal licensing mechanisms to get people to be nice to each other? It is like trying to use only a pair of wire-cutters to perform an appendectomy (yes, it will probably work, but the results are gonna be real messy and painful.)
They'd do a far better job of returning to customers' good graces by not being such totalitarian get-every-last-dime asshats about their licensing terms.
Ever wonder why Oracle was so slow to get any traction in/among virtual machines?
The very mention of SuperMicro in the story means it's crap. Damned company can barely get their legit mobo components running, let alone some astoundingly sophisticated spy chip.
If you do not know how to act like a responsible adult, perhaps you should try harder. It is your choice, but do not expect others to play along with your childish and rogue behavior. Correct the behavior or get locked out. But no one needs a silly code of conduct - this is like mission statements of the 80s and 90s. Largely forgotten and rarely achieved.
Dang- should've posted that with an account. Let me repost it so everyone else can see it, because it's pretty damned solid...
You can regain it, but it'll take a concerted effort...
Just bombard the app's page in Google Play or iOS App Store with one-star reviews filled with mentions of how spammy they are, and the reason why you uninstalled the application. If enough folks do that, the app maker might (maybe?) figure out that uninstall tracking is a really bad idea.
Not a question of marketing, I promise. The Iray render engine (built into a lot of CG rendering suites and apps nowadays) requires CUDA-enabled drivers, or else the render kicks to CPU for calculations, causing render times to go up by factors. This means a 30-minute render suddenly takes, say, an hour and a half... if you're lucky.
Microsoft's WHQL GPU/video driver has CUDA disabled, so you're stuck with CPU (not GPU) rendering - and you usually don't find out until after it begins. Also, when you have a 6-12GB GPU card, all that RAM goes to waste under Microsoft's driver.:/
Depends... if we're talking iOS, you'd be spot-on.
MacOS (OSX) on the other hand? They got that stability/performance shit down fairly cold. My last MacBook Pro (5 years old, my wife inherited it last month, uses it daily) only got one OS re-install, and that was because I swapped out the old platter drive for an SSD not long after I bought it.
Zero stability issues, something like 5-6 OS upgrades on the same disk, a zillion patches/app-updates/etc... no sweat. Even today, it still runs as tight and fast as it did when I bought it in 2013. Only reason that I'm still not using it is because the 512MB GeForce in it doesn't run the Iray render engine worth a damn (slow old GPU, no RAM to speak of on it, etc.)
My biggest bugaboo is that Windows updates obliterates the CUDA-enabled nVidia video driver I have installed on the laptop, and replaces it with the craptastic non-CUDA Microsoft WHQL driver... which is why I have the whole thing disabled as deep in the registry as humanly possible.
Would it kill Microsoft to look for 3rd-party drivers before stomping all over shit with their own versions? I mean, if it weren't for a few CG apps (and the lack of a decent nVidia GPU in the latest MacBook Pros), I wouldn't care, but damn...
I'm just laughing at the fact that the folks in TFM think they are doing anything new here. I mean, seriously, they were doing low-powered websites over 18 years ago: https://slashdot.org/story/00/...
(I'd call it the longest dupe in/. history, but...)
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Partial bit of info... building a house out of wood makes it more flexible than concrete or brick, especially in areas prone to earthquakes and high winds, where at least some flexibility is quite desirable, considering.
He's asking about a certain glaring anomaly in known data, and didn't draw a direct conclusion.
So do you think they can answer it or not?
True.
Eventually, China and India will get their acts together, but SE Asia, Africa, etc. will have to work through this stage...
Fuck youre a mong.
LNG heats millions of homes [In North America, EU, and much of Russia]. Not heating oil.
FTFY. Heating oil heats most civilized homes everywhere else, though wood/charcoal and Kerosene come in a very close 2nd and 3rd place, (or first place, depending on location/region.)
1) The majority of air pollution isn't coming from some jackass or two in a hopped-up diesel pickup 'rolling coal'. The majority of it comes from industrial activity (power stations are among the biggest culprits.) Then there's the natural sources - the occasional forest fire and/or active volcano, of which we have several of both types globally running. Compared to just those major sources, cars/trucks are way down on the list. I daresay that active warfare causes more air pollution than anything else, but fortunately they're fairly sporadic and the chronic ones are relatively low-level these days.
2) Yes, you can see it in certain areas - for instance, go to Salt Lake City, then take a trip up Emigration Canyon, then look back down in the valley. Temperature inversions trap and concentrate it to the point where it's really visible. But, in most other areas (e.g. most of the Pacific Coast north of San Francisco), it barely registers.
3) Yup, you could reduce the population overall. Problem is, top-down solutions-by-fiat tend to make unintentional messes... China has been keeping their population down with the One-Child policy, but has been slowly creating a demographics bomb (that is, more men than women). A better way to do it is to increase relative prosperity - prosperous nations have lower birthrates, many relying (unintentionally or otherwise) on immigration (legal or illegal) to keep or beat replacement levels (except Japan, which is a touch xenophobic and has its numbers dropping a *lot* of late.)
4) There is a solution to the air quality, and amazingly enough, the solution (or rather, collection thereof) has been running, or is being put into place: Cleaner technologies, more natural sequestration methods (i.e. more trees) stand out as two big overall solutions. China is working on it now, the US and EU have been doing it for decades with increasing success in most areas, and other continents are just barely getting into the act, but positive steps are being made in most cases.
Just ask all the fappening celebs.
Hint: The Fappening was the result of folks breaking into iCloud accounts of targeted celebrities then publishing selected contents of those accounts - not the result of data-mining on Apple's part.
It's a path they've been going down anyway for lots of reasons - revenue protection, corporate culture, the ideology(ies) of the majority of their moderators, engineers, etc. ... They'd just prefer to not have (the US) government pitch in and help tell them what to handle or reject.
Overall, the tech companies are correct in one regard, that being government not having a place in determining what should and should not be said on privately-owned platforms (no matter *what* is allowed within the bounds of current law in the company's country of residence.)
On the other hand, you'd think these companies would be used to it by now, considering their caving-in to demands of governments in China, India, various other EMEA nations, etc... each with their differing ideas of what free speech is or is not. I'm guessing they just don't want to the US government piling on? Dunno... they were more than eager to do it for other governments, if for no other reason than to boost growth/profits, so...
I'm thinking not, considering the fucktons of money they're pouring into their still-expanding DX-1 fab at the Ronler Acres complex in Hillsboro, Oregon (let alone, probably, the additional fabs in Chandler, AZ).
The myth that the private sector is made up of wonderfully efficient and capable people is easily disproved. Look at your private sector coworkers, and consider the private sector coworkers you've had in the past. Most likely they were not all paragons of efficiency and virtue.
...compared to most government/civil-service workers? In that light, hell yes they're paragons of efficiency and virtue. :/
I do agree that you can't simply toss money at a group of people and expect them to crap out a perfect vision or solution. Takes a lot of guidance and clear communication along the way. It also takes the removal of the shit-ton of regulatory barriers that most governmental institutions are weighed down with (for even the most trivial of things...)
*sigh*....
Stallman's problem is that he's trying to jam licensing into things that don't quite fit.
I saw some of this in 2000, when I ran across the conflict between going 100% open-source on teaching Linux, and the prospect of students copying/passing-around test answers under the banner of 'well, it's open source, isn't it?' Thus was born the incredibly clumsy Open Documentation License (okay, okay - I'm sorry already!)
Licensing works for simple self-contained items - code for instance. For documents, Copyleft works better, though by necessity some (corner-case) stuff must remain under proprietary lock-down, no matter how badly information wants free under those specific circumstances. For human behavior? Yeah, no... sorry dude, . Not gonna work at all.
I appreciate that he's trying to solve a problem here, but using legal licensing mechanisms to get people to be nice to each other? It is like trying to use only a pair of wire-cutters to perform an appendectomy (yes, it will probably work, but the results are gonna be real messy and painful.)
They'd do a far better job of returning to customers' good graces by not being such totalitarian get-every-last-dime asshats about their licensing terms.
Ever wonder why Oracle was so slow to get any traction in/among virtual machines?
That's usually how you find out... after you discover that the render is taking way longer than it otherwise should.
The very mention of SuperMicro in the story means it's crap. Damned company can barely get their legit mobo components running, let alone some astoundingly sophisticated spy chip.
(/me gets his coat...)
A religious war? In a tech community? Never heard of such a thing, which is why Captain Kirk using EMACS would be way better than Picard using VI!
Or is the complaint that the monks indented with tabs?
Darth Vader proudly uses pico. That is all.
If you do not know how to act like a responsible adult, perhaps you should try harder. It is your choice, but do not expect others to play along with your childish and rogue behavior. Correct the behavior or get locked out. But no one needs a silly code of conduct - this is like mission statements of the 80s and 90s. Largely forgotten and rarely achieved.
Dang- should've posted that with an account. Let me repost it so everyone else can see it, because it's pretty damned solid...
You misspelled "jailbreak your phone" up there.
You can regain it, but it'll take a concerted effort...
Just bombard the app's page in Google Play or iOS App Store with one-star reviews filled with mentions of how spammy they are, and the reason why you uninstalled the application. If enough folks do that, the app maker might (maybe?) figure out that uninstall tracking is a really bad idea.
(I know, pipe dream...)
Not a question of marketing, I promise. The Iray render engine (built into a lot of CG rendering suites and apps nowadays) requires CUDA-enabled drivers, or else the render kicks to CPU for calculations, causing render times to go up by factors. This means a 30-minute render suddenly takes, say, an hour and a half... if you're lucky.
Microsoft's WHQL GPU/video driver has CUDA disabled, so you're stuck with CPU (not GPU) rendering - and you usually don't find out until after it begins. Also, when you have a 6-12GB GPU card, all that RAM goes to waste under Microsoft's driver. :/
Disagree on one point...
Win2k had the first iteration of Active Directory, and to be honest, it sucked balls, and each SP they slathered on just made it worse.
Because of that, as far as the Enterprise is concerned, IMHO 2003 stands as the last best version, though 2008 is still somewhat usable.
This sounds like the Apple way
Depends... if we're talking iOS, you'd be spot-on.
MacOS (OSX) on the other hand? They got that stability/performance shit down fairly cold. My last MacBook Pro (5 years old, my wife inherited it last month, uses it daily) only got one OS re-install, and that was because I swapped out the old platter drive for an SSD not long after I bought it.
Zero stability issues, something like 5-6 OS upgrades on the same disk, a zillion patches/app-updates/etc... no sweat. Even today, it still runs as tight and fast as it did when I bought it in 2013. Only reason that I'm still not using it is because the 512MB GeForce in it doesn't run the Iray render engine worth a damn (slow old GPU, no RAM to speak of on it, etc.)
My biggest bugaboo is that Windows updates obliterates the CUDA-enabled nVidia video driver I have installed on the laptop, and replaces it with the craptastic non-CUDA Microsoft WHQL driver... which is why I have the whole thing disabled as deep in the registry as humanly possible.
Would it kill Microsoft to look for 3rd-party drivers before stomping all over shit with their own versions? I mean, if it weren't for a few CG apps (and the lack of a decent nVidia GPU in the latest MacBook Pros), I wouldn't care, but damn...
I'm just laughing at the fact that the folks in TFM think they are doing anything new here. I mean, seriously, they were doing low-powered websites over 18 years ago: https://slashdot.org/story/00/...
(I'd call it the longest dupe in /. history, but...)
...until you invoke sc.exe in a non-interactive manner (unless things have changed recently).
Then it promptly goes to shit.
Oregon does it too to an extent (depending on locale and which water district you live in.) It's called Xeriscaping.
Don't pretend every bank has decades old mainframes...
You're right - many of them have fairly new mainframes. Running the same software.
(hint: guess what most web banking firms have to keep writing connectors for, even today?)