then open source is no longer the cheapest and best option
If it's not the best, then cheapest is really a false benefit, for any kind of software that is an enabling tool for one's productivity.
Proprietary software costs are almost always set below the value they bring, so if they're really better they're worth paying for.
FWIW, I use open source because it's the best (and contribute code and non-code).
Aside: whenever I've suggested the opportunity to a "starving artist" I've been informed that artists don't work for free but coders can do so "as a hobby". Sometimes you see arguments that just aren't worth having, though I've always thought it must be awful to be an artist as a profession and not enjoy art enough to do it as a hobby too.
And Bluetooth too - the 30' menace. When it doesn't make sense on a technology level, look at politics.
Probably super-cheap Bluetooth electronics are becoming popular, and the last thing you want to do is to have people realize that they don't need to be regulated by a government. So, you need to launch a crackdown operation, but you do it to a group that has very little political power, so you don't have to catch hell from your boss when you crack down on some thing that he uses.
In this case, one presumes that the median age of the selfie stick users is well under 30 and for the bureaucrats near 50, so the selfie-stick users are an easy target as an 'out group' for a political action by the 'in group'.
Chimps do the same thing - it's only the details that differ.
It would be fairly straightforward for your IT folks to set up an SSID that doesn't have Internet access and restrict the Glass to that SSID. If they have clinical value.
Where are the properly controlled studies showing that a given level of blood THC is causally related to an increase in driving accidents?
They exist but they don't validate the legislators' pre-conceived science-free notions, so they need to be ignored.
If this breath test can generate revenue and court cases, then the uselessness of a one-time blow for THC isn't relevant. (prediction: somebody will propose compulsory roadside fat-tissue biopsy in the next five years).
And we're not even considering the substitution effect of decreased fatalities with THC vs. ethanol intoxicated drivers, with preferential bias existing for THC. It would be great if nobody got high and drove, but it would be great if people rode around on winged unicorns too, because they don't even need airbags (sparkles work just as well). Dealing with reality can be so darn annoying at times.
It's the wild inconsistency that was really a drag on the story. It was cool when they lost seven years by wasting a few minutes' time on a rescue attempt by getting a little bit close to a supermassive black hole.
But then later, we have a man in a ship skimming the event horizon and the person up in a much higher orbit is talking to him in realtime by radio.
It's like, why even bother with the pretext of being scientific if the whole damn thing is going to be thrown out when the plot holes demand it? The "sufficiently advanced technology" parts can all be forgiven, but that's not what made the film bad.
Of course,TARS awesomeness makes up for 40% of the bad stuff, but not the soundtrack from hell (I await the torrent with the unauthorized new soundtrack and 40 minutes of relentless editing applied). My eight-year-old said, "it was like they made it loud instead of interesting".
A Microsoft bug, proof of the incompetence of closed source. A Linux bug. Either point to some closed source factor, or claim its solving a victory in the flexibility of open source.
So much this. I know every time I report a bug to Microsoft, I have a fix from the lead Windows architect in under three weeks. I don't understand what these linux wankers are on about.
I'd assumed he was a good guy who'd stolen a stormtrooper uniform to infiltrate and/or escape
Star Wars took a fair beating for being almost all white. Bringing Billy Dee Williams on was at least partially a response to such criticism. We would expect casting from a 2015 Star Wars to be broad and inclusive and not repeat the first film's mistakes.
The funny thing is all this "aren't you a little black for a stormtrooper?" talk is arguing for a "white" stormtrooper when the guy who portrayed Fett is part Maori so it's wrong, if you even care about the premise.
But it's all nonsense anyway - people need to enjoy the film and try to be a little bit more colorblind. None of the characters are humans anyway.
hey, it reduces end-of-life welfare costs by killing off the population more quickly. The "food pyramid" is good policy if you're a sociopathic bankrupt program.
I got a full blood panel before and after doing a ketosis diet for four months. All my numbers were much better, but to be succinct my total relative risk metric for coronary heart disease (1.0 is average) fell from 0.8 to 0.3. I was using a half gallon of heavy cream and several cups of coconut oil every week. Some bacon and steaks too. Plenty of nuts and cheese.
Most people see similar results. None of these blood tests are new science. All of these studies could have been done in 1980. I wonder if they were.
Population count (507 mio. vs. 319 mio.) and GDP (18.4 trio. US$ vs. 16.8 trio. US$).
Given their superior regulatory environment, why does the EU only make less than 70% per-capita of what the US makes? Especially given that many US-headquartered companies are recognizing most of their revenue in Ireland.
The whole global warming scare made it abundantly obvious that the current state of science (plus politics) is incapable of intelligently managing the climate, or perhaps even managing it at all, much less intelligently.
But, hey, look what Harvard Economists have done with engineering the economy! Can't we have some ivory tower academics "fixing" the planet too?
But seriously, an upper-bound projected sea level rise of 4 inches is completely unprecedented, so we should seek to thwart the productive capacity of humanity, and whatever happens, don't put one tenth of that money into ensuring clean water for every human on Earth, eliminating malaria, or building fusion reactors. Where the regulatory victory in that?!
If you must be entertained, find alternative sources, from indie stuff all the way to pirating.
Or - I know this will sound crazy - getting out and involved with your community instead of passively receiving 'entertainment' from the glowing screen.
They were taking OTA signals and retransmitting them across the internet for profit without paying the broadcaster a dime.
So, exactly like broadcast.
You don't see a problem with this?
Of course not - do you have a problem with broadcast? That's the very business model the broadcasters are in. Aereo was in the business of being an outsourced antenna provider - what problem could you possibly have with that?
If anything, Aereo was bringing them additional customers to watch their ads.
All this is is the broadcast corporations wanting to get in on some sort of nebulous not-yet-defined Internet business model that they think will make them even richer. A company (Aereo) is now out of business, all those jobs lost, the advancement of science and the useful arts is diminished, customers no longer have a service they value, and what - for the possibility of further enriching six multinational corporations?
The government fucks up again, news at 11. Or not, because all the news is owned by six multinational corporations.
government sponsors the basic research, then they kill it, then they prevent industry from commercializing it when it would threaten extant corporate profits, especially in energy, and by extension military spending and petrodollar advantage. Google 'integral fast reactor', Branson, etc.
We've known how to make all the clean energy we need and clean up our nuclear waste problem at the same time for the past 20 years. We have a government problem, not a technical one.
Only 50k to sell my soul for having them spy on more people... including myself? Nope.
Of course not you - but the kinds of people who will submit are going to get job offers from the NRO. They are willing to make that deal, they're not bright enough to run off to industry, and they might have a glimmer of talent that cannot be cultivated in the university system. Plus, $50k isn't enough to quit and start a company, so it's a well-considered recruiting effort.
There's ways to MAKE more, and improve nuclear power at the same time. But nobody wants to talk about it.
You mean like France, which has lots of nuclear power, active plutonium extraction and reprocessing capability? I don't want to get the ESA all tangled up with France or anything, but if they asked nicely...
Jefferson used to complain about the long line of people at the White House who were there to see him - most of them looking for a job hand-out, but some with legitimate issues for him to deal with.
Perhaps Congress could start by dissolving the enivronment that has caused so many people to want to do antisocial things like harming a President, who is mostly supposed to be a CEO of the government, and occasionally lead a defensive war against the country.
Oh, nm, that's just crazy-talk. Might as well fill the moat with hunter-killer boats from Lockheed.
I already pay a small fortune in school tax. Let them find the money for it from there.
Last I checked, my local government school has a 3 meg connection because that's what Comcast gives them for free. They have a three million dollar budget but can't find $3000 a year to upgrade that to a hundred meg.
It could be that after all the teachers' salaries and benefits are paid for they don't have any money left (and considering the reams of copy paper we get home...) or it could be that high-speed internet allows remote teaching which is seen as a threat to union jobs.
I do work for one private school (area towns tuition their kids there) and they paid a lot of money to get fiber brought to their facility.
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then open source is no longer the cheapest and best option
If it's not the best, then cheapest is really a false benefit, for any kind of software that is an enabling tool for one's productivity.
Proprietary software costs are almost always set below the value they bring, so if they're really better they're worth paying for.
FWIW, I use open source because it's the best (and contribute code and non-code).
Aside: whenever I've suggested the opportunity to a "starving artist" I've been informed that artists don't work for free but coders can do so "as a hobby". Sometimes you see arguments that just aren't worth having, though I've always thought it must be awful to be an artist as a profession and not enjoy art enough to do it as a hobby too.
Why suddenly the issue with "selfie sticks"?
And Bluetooth too - the 30' menace. When it doesn't make sense on a technology level, look at politics.
Probably super-cheap Bluetooth electronics are becoming popular, and the last thing you want to do is to have people realize that they don't need to be regulated by a government. So, you need to launch a crackdown operation, but you do it to a group that has very little political power, so you don't have to catch hell from your boss when you crack down on some thing that he uses.
In this case, one presumes that the median age of the selfie stick users is well under 30 and for the bureaucrats near 50, so the selfie-stick users are an easy target as an 'out group' for a political action by the 'in group'.
Chimps do the same thing - it's only the details that differ.
It would be fairly straightforward for your IT folks to set up an SSID that doesn't have Internet access and restrict the Glass to that SSID. If they have clinical value.
Where are the properly controlled studies showing that a given level of blood THC is causally related to an increase in driving accidents?
They exist but they don't validate the legislators' pre-conceived science-free notions, so they need to be ignored.
If this breath test can generate revenue and court cases, then the uselessness of a one-time blow for THC isn't relevant. (prediction: somebody will propose compulsory roadside fat-tissue biopsy in the next five years).
And we're not even considering the substitution effect of decreased fatalities with THC vs. ethanol intoxicated drivers, with preferential bias existing for THC. It would be great if nobody got high and drove, but it would be great if people rode around on winged unicorns too, because they don't even need airbags (sparkles work just as well). Dealing with reality can be so darn annoying at times.
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It's the wild inconsistency that was really a drag on the story. It was cool when they lost seven years by wasting a few minutes' time on a rescue attempt by getting a little bit close to a supermassive black hole.
But then later, we have a man in a ship skimming the event horizon and the person up in a much higher orbit is talking to him in realtime by radio.
It's like, why even bother with the pretext of being scientific if the whole damn thing is going to be thrown out when the plot holes demand it? The "sufficiently advanced technology" parts can all be forgiven, but that's not what made the film bad.
Of course,TARS awesomeness makes up for 40% of the bad stuff, but not the soundtrack from hell (I await the torrent with the unauthorized new soundtrack and 40 minutes of relentless editing applied). My eight-year-old said, "it was like they made it loud instead of interesting".
Instead, we need database technology that is new hat. This database technology already exists, and they're called array databases.
Array databases are web scale!.
A Microsoft bug, proof of the incompetence of closed source.
A Linux bug. Either point to some closed source factor, or claim its solving a victory in the flexibility of open source.
So much this. I know every time I report a bug to Microsoft, I have a fix from the lead Windows architect in under three weeks. I don't understand what these linux wankers are on about.
Correctly so because science is based on evidence, not wild speculation or serendipity.
The scientific process involves all three. Scientific results is the subset limited to evidence.
Luke landed and took off in a Tie Fighter on Dagoba. So I don't think it's a stretch.
Are you sure? I think it was Jim Kirk. In a firefly. On Epsilon III.
I'd assumed he was a good guy who'd stolen a stormtrooper uniform to infiltrate and/or escape
Star Wars took a fair beating for being almost all white. Bringing Billy Dee Williams on was at least partially a response to such criticism. We would expect casting from a 2015 Star Wars to be broad and inclusive and not repeat the first film's mistakes.
The funny thing is all this "aren't you a little black for a stormtrooper?" talk is arguing for a "white" stormtrooper when the guy who portrayed Fett is part Maori so it's wrong, if you even care about the premise.
But it's all nonsense anyway - people need to enjoy the film and try to be a little bit more colorblind. None of the characters are humans anyway.
FLAC is for idiots who think they have superhuman hearing.
Archiving in a compressed format is for idiots who don't understand coding quantization noise. Have fun re-ripping again in a few years.
hey, it reduces end-of-life welfare costs by killing off the population more quickly. The "food pyramid" is good policy if you're a sociopathic bankrupt program.
I got a full blood panel before and after doing a ketosis diet for four months. All my numbers were much better, but to be succinct my total relative risk metric for coronary heart disease (1.0 is average) fell from 0.8 to 0.3. I was using a half gallon of heavy cream and several cups of coconut oil every week. Some bacon and steaks too. Plenty of nuts and cheese.
Most people see similar results. None of these blood tests are new science. All of these studies could have been done in 1980. I wonder if they were.
With 90% of their revenue coming from Google yet they just signed a 5 year deal with Yahoo how is this going to work out?
I guess we'll see, but Yahoo is probably guaranteeing at least as much revenue as Google, for the opportunity to be the default search engine.
So that gives MoFo five years to have FirefoxOS take over the smartphone market.
Bwaahahahah.
I'm sorry, that was wrong.
Population count (507 mio. vs. 319 mio.) and GDP (18.4 trio. US$ vs. 16.8 trio. US$).
Given their superior regulatory environment, why does the EU only make less than 70% per-capita of what the US makes? Especially given that many US-headquartered companies are recognizing most of their revenue in Ireland.
The whole global warming scare made it abundantly obvious that the current state of science (plus politics) is incapable of intelligently managing the climate, or perhaps even managing it at all, much less intelligently.
But, hey, look what Harvard Economists have done with engineering the economy! Can't we have some ivory tower academics "fixing" the planet too?
But seriously, an upper-bound projected sea level rise of 4 inches is completely unprecedented, so we should seek to thwart the productive capacity of humanity, and whatever happens, don't put one tenth of that money into ensuring clean water for every human on Earth, eliminating malaria, or building fusion reactors. Where the regulatory victory in that?!
If you must be entertained, find alternative sources, from indie stuff all the way to pirating.
Or - I know this will sound crazy - getting out and involved with your community instead of passively receiving 'entertainment' from the glowing screen.
and a matching array of iOS and Android apps that will read all the engine stats off the dongle onto pretty dials on your phone or tablet.
Yet some OBD2 ports output certain data elements and other don't.
I was looking for battery voltage with Torque on my Forester, and it's a non-reported value, though other cars support it.
I'm sure somebody maintains a wiki with the matrix of models and values.
Though when he said "most hackable" I was thinking '82 F150 - no special tools required at all.
They were taking OTA signals and retransmitting them across the internet for profit without paying the broadcaster a dime.
So, exactly like broadcast.
You don't see a problem with this?
Of course not - do you have a problem with broadcast? That's the very business model the broadcasters are in. Aereo was in the business of being an outsourced antenna provider - what problem could you possibly have with that?
If anything, Aereo was bringing them additional customers to watch their ads.
All this is is the broadcast corporations wanting to get in on some sort of nebulous not-yet-defined Internet business model that they think will make them even richer. A company (Aereo) is now out of business, all those jobs lost, the advancement of science and the useful arts is diminished, customers no longer have a service they value, and what - for the possibility of further enriching six multinational corporations?
The government fucks up again, news at 11. Or not, because all the news is owned by six multinational corporations.
government sponsors the basic research, then they kill it, then they prevent industry from commercializing it when it would threaten extant corporate profits, especially in energy, and by extension military spending and petrodollar advantage. Google 'integral fast reactor', Branson, etc.
We've known how to make all the clean energy we need and clean up our nuclear waste problem at the same time for the past 20 years. We have a government problem, not a technical one.
Only 50k to sell my soul for having them spy on more people... including myself?
Nope.
Of course not you - but the kinds of people who will submit are going to get job offers from the NRO. They are willing to make that deal, they're not bright enough to run off to industry, and they might have a glimmer of talent that cannot be cultivated in the university system. Plus, $50k isn't enough to quit and start a company, so it's a well-considered recruiting effort.
There's ways to MAKE more, and improve nuclear power at the same time. But nobody wants to talk about it.
You mean like France, which has lots of nuclear power, active plutonium extraction and reprocessing capability? I don't want to get the ESA all tangled up with France or anything, but if they asked nicely...
Jefferson used to complain about the long line of people at the White House who were there to see him - most of them looking for a job hand-out, but some with legitimate issues for him to deal with.
Perhaps Congress could start by dissolving the enivronment that has caused so many people to want to do antisocial things like harming a President, who is mostly supposed to be a CEO of the government, and occasionally lead a defensive war against the country.
Oh, nm, that's just crazy-talk. Might as well fill the moat with hunter-killer boats from Lockheed.
No, they can't and it shows.
A STRANGE GAME ... THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.
HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHESS?
Does it make me a crony capitalist or a welfare queen when I decide I'd rather the power go to those I can vote out of office than those I can't?
If you think voting significantly changes the government, that just makes you naive. The bureaucrats run most things and are unaccountable.
If the entire government became Libertarian today, it would take less than 10 years for corporations to take total control of governance
Do you mean they'd have private armies in the streets? Like in the US from 1776-1870, before permanent corporations were legal?
I already pay a small fortune in school tax. Let them find the money for it from there.
Last I checked, my local government school has a 3 meg connection because that's what Comcast gives them for free. They have a three million dollar budget but can't find $3000 a year to upgrade that to a hundred meg.
It could be that after all the teachers' salaries and benefits are paid for they don't have any money left (and considering the reams of copy paper we get home...) or it could be that high-speed internet allows remote teaching which is seen as a threat to union jobs.
I do work for one private school (area towns tuition their kids there) and they paid a lot of money to get fiber brought to their facility.
The incentives are aligned differently.