I took my kids to a Newbury Comics last year. We happened to be in the same shopping center (not a special trip).
What they had were four thin, special-purpose, mostly-ads, obscure comics to choose from, none of which interested my kids. One of them took one anyway, and it was almost entirely devoid of any kind of plot. A few action panels, but nothing like a beginning, a middle, a conflict, a resolution, and an end. Just unknown characters doing a few things that didn't make sense out of context.
My advice: skip it and buy your[self, kids] a real comic book.
Anybody who works with audio that is not 100% in his control from mic to distribution.
As somebody who did some grad work with psychoacoustic modeling, everybody who was a little bit informed on the subject at the time knew that Fraunhofer's patents were BS, well-known stuff. I'm not sure why they weren't invalidated for prior art; it must have been a very narrow claim that MPEG just happened to standardize.
They may have gotten some licensing revenue from this, but I, as well as many others on the open side of the industry, will never do business with them (ever) after the pain they've caused. Same goes for the patent regimes of the respective governments, since it takes two to tango with IP.
How about cutting the ice in pieces and using regular supertankers for transport ?
An idle supertanker costs $75,000 per day, just for the storage space, before fuel costs are calculated. Given that UAE probably has access to many supertankers and could have a nuclear ice melter designed-build for them if they wanted to, one can presume that they've run the numbers on hauling water from Antarctica.
TBH, all that fresh water locked up in Antarctica is a huge problem, and while this is just a drop in the bucket towards reclaiming some of it, until the atmosphere warms up a bit it's probably the best that humans can do.
I'm not even sure The Boring Company could build a water tunnel from Antarctica to Africa, given the centripetal forces involved (assuming a curved tunnel, given problems with drilling through magma and all).
The most the human gut can absorb per day is roughly 6K to 8K
This might depend on conditioning. I used to know people into extreme cycling events (Tour de France, etc.) and they would target about 12K, including an entire box of donuts before breakfast. But that's after months of training.
Why do you need such high quality? At that point it seems like it is all in the mind
All vision is ultimately in the mind and 4K is well within the bounds of human vision but more important than the resolution is the improvement in color gamut with this generation. Blu-Ray, for instance, cannot encode all the information captured by a RED camera or a scan of a good 70mm film.
Every time a new format comes out people always ask why the old one wasn't good enough. This will last until people can't tell the difference between a format's video and their natural vision. We have many more cycles of this to endure, it appears.
Ah, that helps explain why so many Big Tech websites are slow as molasses on a two-year-old phone. I bet none of the interns is running a $40 SoC Android device from Walmart.
n.b.: lots of your potential customers* are buying those devices right now.
* you may know 'customers' by the more familiar term 'eyeballs'/s
The war on poverty has killed too many poor people.
Huh?
GP is right - being poor is strongly correlated with poor health outcomes. Diabetes, etc. lead to death very prematurely, especially without management. Availability of healthcare isn't the primary factor; people who are in poverty tend to seek care less often and are less compliant on average, regardless of healthcare availability.
The "Great Society" programs in the US have locked people into cycles of poverty. Look at the data for Eastern Kentucky, for instance: before the "Great Society" the net outflow of population was much higher. In prospective studies/experiments children who left with their families (subsidized to do so) at an early age did far better than their peers who stayed, and their life outcomes were much improved. But that's not how these programs work.
Before the "Great Society" if an area was overpopulated for its industries, the lack of work would cause people to leave. With these so-called "War on Poverty" programs, they are incentivized to stay put and collect welfare checks instead of seeking opportunity. There are multi-generational families in Appalachia who have never known a typical work environment.
Since the Green Revolution nobody is going to starve in a first-world country (obesity is our problem now). But the current Welfare State system definitively locks people into poverty and that turns out to be deadly.
When I hired on there, users showed me that it took 5 full goddam minutes to pull up a document and print it.
I spent about $100,000 replacing all that shit with a Windows NT server, 45 Compaq Pentiums with Windows 98 and a shitload of HP printers.
Were these Mac Pluses on PhoneNET LocalTalk (a matter of hardware generations?) Did you have the skills to run a Mac network?
The PowerMac G4/400 was the first to have gigabit on the motherboard that year, so probably everything installed was 10/100. Appleshare/IP 6 was slightly slower than Netatalk but either could fill a print spooler at near wire speed and I doubt a law firm was generating gigabyte print jobs such that 100Mbps would be a problem.
If your printers were Old AF and had puny rendering engines that really has nothing to do with the client or spooler.
n.b. I ran Apple, NT4, Novell, and Unix networks at that time. None of the users were tolerant of slowness.
I think all of my podcasts come in on RSS feeds at this point. I run a video to audio conversion site for one TV program and the RSS feed is the only way anybody gets the audio (they could just play the video file if they were web-constrained).
Everybody I know who has tried serious podcatching for news has stopped listening to broadcast radio for it.
By standard metrics, since it's more than five years out, it's wishful thinking by default.
Elon Musk might get a pass on that but only because his people have a detailed plan. Everybody needs to show a detailed plan for a five-year prediction, to be believed.
If they can evade, though, they might not care and there will be secondary collateral damage (if they move IP's, use Cloudflare, etc.). The customers still need to be involved to ruin their reputations as well. Perhaps after a time the bots should still brick themselves.
Why are these trucks double-parked and blocking traffic? Why aren't the police enforcing the traffic laws?
That would both encourage more efficient delivery methods and take up some of the time they spend locking up kids for having a joint in their pocket, so it sounds like win-win.
Private roads are a great way to make over half the country uninhabitable and unreachable as the tolls necessary to make roads profitable in rural areas would be too high to be practical, thus the roads would never get built which then means these areas will never attain the populations to support roads profitably.
Your link is garbage too. Siting a book summary that doesnt lay out any of the author's evidence does not support your claim at all. But hey, maybe the author has it right and every affluent country in the world has it wrong!
Did you just dismiss a book on the subject and then offer your own off-the-cuff opinion as fact?
It turns out most of the private rural roads in the US were originally private toll roads. I have a friend who pays $250 a year dues to a road association that maintains (contracts to maintain) the roads in her area. That's 7% of the Town's taxes on the same property and they don't maintain those rural roads.
A bit of history and a bit of awareness of the reality of rural living both contradict your guess. Maybe you should read the book - if only it were available for free at the top of the page the GP linked!/s
That sounds great in theory, but so does Marxism. Centralization very very rarely beats a competitive market for efficiency.
Marxism has sounded terrible in theory ever since Game Theory and Information Theory became serious subjects (what, about 50+ years now?)
Same for central planning of anything - it's an information theoretical problem - the central planners always lack sufficient information and sufficient information processing capacity to make good decisions. The information and capacity are distributed in markets.
It's kinda like getting rid of packet-switched networks and having one computer do all of the Internet traffic flow. That would be an unmitigated disaster. Let's name it after Chavez, tho.
Would you also consider it unreasonable to sue the makers of a "high security lock" that would unlock if you jiggled the door knob?
It works the other way around. There's a guy with a YouTube channel about lock picking who says the Big Name in "secure" padlocks has sued him over some of his videos showing how easy they are to defeat.
Courts are empirically rigged in favor of the corporate interests, against the People, so this isn't terribly surprising.
That should drive ad prices lower for brands that are less susceptible to bullying by special interest groups, right?
Is Google actually allowing market elasticity on ad prices? The biggest problem I see with being randomly assigned to whatever video is that it might be a sign of very poor targeting. I mean, white supremacists aren't likely to go out for Chinese food tonight, right? But they probably still need to buy laundry detergent .
Nobody really thinks that Tide is refusing to sell detergent to these boorish idiots. I wonder who actually spends time watching their videos and thinks "well, Tide obviously supports their views." I find "reality TV" offensive to my sensibilities but the only connection I make there is that the advertisers want the audience's money.
And there's the rub - thinking that attacking supply will eliminate demand is folly, but attacking demand is hard and the bullies are ultimately lazy.
I'm in a "weird" part of the country without much in the way of migrant workers and Americans do all "the jobs Americans won't do".
A friend of mine has a teenage son who's worked at a nearby orchard for a couple years, after school and summers. I know, he can't exist according to labor economists who don't get that bottom-wage jobs are for kids with no experience. He's off to college next year, and I doubt a robot will be taking his job.
Again, would you like a militarily aggressive force controlling the moon? That seems like a pretty valid concern for real, not just "a way to get Trump interested".
Hasn't the most militarily aggressive country done most of the Moon exploration to date?
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You need 180 Saturn masses to ignite a star. You forgot about the monoliths.
Everything it does, dovecot does better.
Yup - switched a decade ago and never looked back. Thanks for '04-'07 tho.
I took my kids to a Newbury Comics last year. We happened to be in the same shopping center (not a special trip).
What they had were four thin, special-purpose, mostly-ads, obscure comics to choose from, none of which interested my kids. One of them took one anyway, and it was almost entirely devoid of any kind of plot. A few action panels, but nothing like a beginning, a middle, a conflict, a resolution, and an end. Just unknown characters doing a few things that didn't make sense out of context.
My advice: skip it and buy your[self, kids] a real comic book.
Who cares about Fraunhofer's MP3?
Anybody who works with audio that is not 100% in his control from mic to distribution.
As somebody who did some grad work with psychoacoustic modeling, everybody who was a little bit informed on the subject at the time knew that Fraunhofer's patents were BS, well-known stuff. I'm not sure why they weren't invalidated for prior art; it must have been a very narrow claim that MPEG just happened to standardize.
They may have gotten some licensing revenue from this, but I, as well as many others on the open side of the industry, will never do business with them (ever) after the pain they've caused. Same goes for the patent regimes of the respective governments, since it takes two to tango with IP.
How about cutting the ice in pieces and using regular supertankers for transport ?
An idle supertanker costs $75,000 per day, just for the storage space, before fuel costs are calculated. Given that UAE probably has access to many supertankers and could have a nuclear ice melter designed-build for them if they wanted to, one can presume that they've run the numbers on hauling water from Antarctica.
TBH, all that fresh water locked up in Antarctica is a huge problem, and while this is just a drop in the bucket towards reclaiming some of it, until the atmosphere warms up a bit it's probably the best that humans can do.
I'm not even sure The Boring Company could build a water tunnel from Antarctica to Africa, given the centripetal forces involved (assuming a curved tunnel, given problems with drilling through magma and all).
I was pretty excited by the title - thought maybe there would be a wholesale move to HTTPS, given that it's 2017 and all.
Signed packages are great, but everything should be working towards being pro-privacy and MitM-resistant by this point. Leaking metadata is so 2014.
The most the human gut can absorb per day is roughly 6K to 8K
This might depend on conditioning. I used to know people into extreme cycling events (Tour de France, etc.) and they would target about 12K, including an entire box of donuts before breakfast. But that's after months of training.
Why do you need such high quality? At that point it seems like it is all in the mind
All vision is ultimately in the mind and 4K is well within the bounds of human vision but more important than the resolution is the improvement in color gamut with this generation. Blu-Ray, for instance, cannot encode all the information captured by a RED camera or a scan of a good 70mm film.
Every time a new format comes out people always ask why the old one wasn't good enough. This will last until people can't tell the difference between a format's video and their natural vision. We have many more cycles of this to endure, it appears.
Ah, that helps explain why so many Big Tech websites are slow as molasses on a two-year-old phone. I bet none of the interns is running a $40 SoC Android device from Walmart.
n.b.: lots of your potential customers* are buying those devices right now.
* you may know 'customers' by the more familiar term 'eyeballs' /s
The war on poverty has killed too many poor people.
Huh?
GP is right - being poor is strongly correlated with poor health outcomes. Diabetes, etc. lead to death very prematurely, especially without management. Availability of healthcare isn't the primary factor; people who are in poverty tend to seek care less often and are less compliant on average, regardless of healthcare availability.
The "Great Society" programs in the US have locked people into cycles of poverty. Look at the data for Eastern Kentucky, for instance: before the "Great Society" the net outflow of population was much higher. In prospective studies/experiments children who left with their families (subsidized to do so) at an early age did far better than their peers who stayed, and their life outcomes were much improved. But that's not how these programs work.
Before the "Great Society" if an area was overpopulated for its industries, the lack of work would cause people to leave. With these so-called "War on Poverty" programs, they are incentivized to stay put and collect welfare checks instead of seeking opportunity. There are multi-generational families in Appalachia who have never known a typical work environment.
Since the Green Revolution nobody is going to starve in a first-world country (obesity is our problem now). But the current Welfare State system definitively locks people into poverty and that turns out to be deadly.
... from a law firm back in 2000.
When I hired on there, users showed me that it took 5 full goddam minutes to pull up a document and print it.
I spent about $100,000 replacing all that shit with a Windows NT server, 45 Compaq Pentiums with Windows 98 and a shitload of HP printers.
Were these Mac Pluses on PhoneNET LocalTalk (a matter of hardware generations?) Did you have the skills to run a Mac network?
The PowerMac G4/400 was the first to have gigabit on the motherboard that year, so probably everything installed was 10/100. Appleshare/IP 6 was slightly slower than Netatalk but either could fill a print spooler at near wire speed and I doubt a law firm was generating gigabyte print jobs such that 100Mbps would be a problem.
If your printers were Old AF and had puny rendering engines that really has nothing to do with the client or spooler.
n.b. I ran Apple, NT4, Novell, and Unix networks at that time. None of the users were tolerant of slowness.
What are all these soon to be unemployed people supposed to DO, exactly?
That's what they said when 60% of the population was involved in food production and industrial automation came in. Today it's around 5%.
I think all of my podcasts come in on RSS feeds at this point. I run a video to audio conversion site for one TV program and the RSS feed is the only way anybody gets the audio (they could just play the video file if they were web-constrained).
Everybody I know who has tried serious podcatching for news has stopped listening to broadcast radio for it.
They only recovered the first stage. All the rest wasted. SAD!
Funny, but the truth is that everybody at SpaceX agrees with this!
Yes, this just looks like wishful thinking.
By standard metrics, since it's more than five years out, it's wishful thinking by default.
Elon Musk might get a pass on that but only because his people have a detailed plan. Everybody needs to show a detailed plan for a five-year prediction, to be believed.
Kudos to Manuel for fixing this thing that's annoyed me for a good twenty years.
Impressive how small the feature patch is!
I'll be setting vgacon.scrollback_persistent=1 on my bare-metal x86 machines.
DDoS their makers
The economics is strong with this one.
If they can evade, though, they might not care and there will be secondary collateral damage (if they move IP's, use Cloudflare, etc.). The customers still need to be involved to ruin their reputations as well. Perhaps after a time the bots should still brick themselves.
Has Trump commented on this yet?
I thought he signed the contract?
Why are these trucks double-parked and blocking traffic? Why aren't the police enforcing the traffic laws?
That would both encourage more efficient delivery methods and take up some of the time they spend locking up kids for having a joint in their pocket, so it sounds like win-win.
Who's getting paid?
Private roads are a great way to make over half the country uninhabitable and unreachable as the tolls necessary to make roads profitable in rural areas would be too high to be practical, thus the roads would never get built which then means these areas will never attain the populations to support roads profitably.
Your link is garbage too. Siting a book summary that doesnt lay out any of the author's evidence does not support your claim at all. But hey, maybe the author has it right and every affluent country in the world has it wrong!
Did you just dismiss a book on the subject and then offer your own off-the-cuff opinion as fact?
It turns out most of the private rural roads in the US were originally private toll roads. I have a friend who pays $250 a year dues to a road association that maintains (contracts to maintain) the roads in her area. That's 7% of the Town's taxes on the same property and they don't maintain those rural roads.
A bit of history and a bit of awareness of the reality of rural living both contradict your guess. Maybe you should read the book - if only it were available for free at the top of the page the GP linked! /s
That sounds great in theory, but so does Marxism. Centralization very very rarely beats a competitive market for efficiency.
Marxism has sounded terrible in theory ever since Game Theory and Information Theory became serious subjects (what, about 50+ years now?)
Same for central planning of anything - it's an information theoretical problem - the central planners always lack sufficient information and sufficient information processing capacity to make good decisions. The information and capacity are distributed in markets.
It's kinda like getting rid of packet-switched networks and having one computer do all of the Internet traffic flow. That would be an unmitigated disaster. Let's name it after Chavez, tho.
Would you also consider it unreasonable to sue the makers of a "high security lock" that would unlock if you jiggled the door knob?
It works the other way around. There's a guy with a YouTube channel about lock picking who says the Big Name in "secure" padlocks has sued him over some of his videos showing how easy they are to defeat.
Courts are empirically rigged in favor of the corporate interests, against the People, so this isn't terribly surprising.
That should drive ad prices lower for brands that are less susceptible to bullying by special interest groups, right?
Is Google actually allowing market elasticity on ad prices? The biggest problem I see with being randomly assigned to whatever video is that it might be a sign of very poor targeting. I mean, white supremacists aren't likely to go out for Chinese food tonight, right? But they probably still need to buy laundry detergent .
Nobody really thinks that Tide is refusing to sell detergent to these boorish idiots. I wonder who actually spends time watching their videos and thinks "well, Tide obviously supports their views." I find "reality TV" offensive to my sensibilities but the only connection I make there is that the advertisers want the audience's money.
And there's the rub - thinking that attacking supply will eliminate demand is folly, but attacking demand is hard and the bullies are ultimately lazy.
I'm in a "weird" part of the country without much in the way of migrant workers and Americans do all "the jobs Americans won't do".
A friend of mine has a teenage son who's worked at a nearby orchard for a couple years, after school and summers. I know, he can't exist according to labor economists who don't get that bottom-wage jobs are for kids with no experience. He's off to college next year, and I doubt a robot will be taking his job.
Again, would you like a militarily aggressive force controlling the moon? That seems like a pretty valid concern for real, not just "a way to get Trump interested".
Hasn't the most militarily aggressive country done most of the Moon exploration to date?