I am a Debian user since 2005. All I know, is that I was delighted when ALSA came along. I could get my sound up and running in less than half an hour with some reading of instructions and alsaconf. When PulseAudio came out, I stopped thinking about getting sound working, because it always works now.
I don't use Gnome, because you can pick your own desktop and why Gnome? Haven't noticed anything majorly different with Firefox except that the version numbers go up like the national debt. And they don't have to call it IceWeasel anymore. I think my WiFi icon is different sometimes?...but there's a menu of networks to access when you click on it, and then you click on the one you want. I think it's always been that way since I stopped having to use iwconfig.
In short, I totally disagree. I have never had any problems with Debian stability, or much change at all for that matter. Debian Stable. Like a rock. Solid like a rock, old like a rock, boring like a rock.
They can make it safe enough by making you wait four hours to get through security instead of only two. Your total trip time might be the same as an aircraft, at least for shorter flights, but will be much safer.
Also, you would experience zero-g in this thing. People go bananas for zero-g.
a more rapid degradation of the operating system as it tries harder to cater to everybody.
I agree that more hackers will target it, that's unavoidable. But "Linux" is an ecosystem of many different distributions, each with their own flavor. If one distribution makes boneheaded mistakes trying to please too many people, 5 others won't. If one desktop goes bananas, use one that didn't. People complain about fragmentation, and it is a problem, but it completely prevents this kind of trouble.
Unless you mean that "cater to everybody" means some distributions have become too easy to use and went mainstream, and Linux is no longer cool, or elite or whatever. I mean, no one gets geek cred for installing Windows 10. But I think that has already happened with Ubuntu? My Mom could probably install Ubuntu if I showed her how to put the CD in the tray.
Anyways, I for one would love to see more Linux adoption, because more market share means more driver support and more games. And I must have more.
You would think though that the rise of AdBlock, and do not track, and cookie controls would be enough to tell these advertisers that we don't like what they're doing? Don't they track that stuff?
No, because you have Do Not Track and cookie controls.
Only 5 year olds are impressed by whirring, popping up, animated things.
Oh, how I wish that were true. I mean, just look at the Game of Thrones intro and tell me you aren't impressed. If only we could keep our simple fascination from interfering with practical life. Alas! The fidget spinner is proof that we can't.
That's why I prefer the term "Synthetic Artificial Virtual Intelligence". So much less debate about the meaning, letting us focus on the practical benefits.
I dunno who the shit for brains was that put the Windows 10S monstrosity in practice
I think Microsoft still dreams about having complete control over all software running on every computer, and taking a cut whenever any software is sold. And being able to disable any software remotely, say if you didn't pay the monthly fee. And putting ads in any software they please, and simply not allowing you to install the tools to remove it. Not to mention banning Chrome for unspecified violations of Windows Store policies, which will continually change...
If you look at the rest of their data you can see it varies by up to 0.5 percent each month. The data's fine, but it needs error bars. (which would probably be about 0.5% high).
Well, the content they were quashing was stuff they supposedly released under an NDA. Still, upranking sites that have your +1 button is still pretty shameful.
My problem with them has nothing to do with safety, but rather freedom. I don't believe it's possible to truly own a self-driving car, in the same way that it's not possible to truly own a Windows 10 computer. The manufacturer owns the computer because they have final say over what its allowed to do. They can track your movements and restrict them if they want to. I'm sure it will start off small, say protesters being prevented from driving on private property. Or you could stop people from returning home after a hurricane before the government gives the all clear.
But then you can stop people from gathering on public property. Their cars just won't drive to the protest/event/whatever. Or stop them from driving in wealthy neighborhoods to cut down on traffic. Or stop them from moving to another city, or from fleeing the country.
I think you will be amazed at the control you, or your children, are going to lose over your own lives.
I have a feature called "give the phone to my toddler". It periodically auto-activates in the background when it detects the phone is not in use. "Enter Password" can be used to disable this feature, but that introduces bug #098312 - erroneous phone calls to emergency services.
"We found that low levels of physical activity and high levels of television viewing during young to mid-adulthood were associated with worse cognitive performance in midlife," source
Of course, correlation is not necessarily causation. (Despite what the headline says.) It may be that intelligent people are just less likely to be interested in TV.
Agreed. Our internet provider (Shaw Canada) has been shamelessly begging for us to bundle cable with our internet for years now. They finally promised to quintuple our internet speed if we'd just try it free for two months. We're on our second month now, and never use it. It's just the same ad-ridden low quality garbage that it's always been. Even the movie channels are full of ads, and I assume they still snip out pieces of the movie to make room for more ads? Can't be bothered to find out.
As I understand, it's almost certainly used to send coded messages to Russian agents in case of emergency. The Russians are probably broadcasting a constant tone to reserve the frequency, so other people don't start using it. They say as much in the article.
But the result is that you have reinvented the freight train, with all the disadvantages of expensive energy robbing rubber tires, steep hills, city traffic, and the need to share the road with people like me.
And yet, trucks without any of the advantages of a train, and all of the disadvantages you mentioned, are running right now.
In this case there can BE no "true" random number generators. Whether or not nature is capable of generating true random numbers from some source other than our ignorance of state is an open empirical question.
If we can prove there's no way to know the entire state, say via Heisenberg uncertainty principle, then there is no functional difference between 'true' randomness and randomness-through-ignorance. I'm not sure if the question has any meaning.
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I am a Debian user since 2005. All I know, is that I was delighted when ALSA came along. I could get my sound up and running in less than half an hour with some reading of instructions and alsaconf. When PulseAudio came out, I stopped thinking about getting sound working, because it always works now.
I don't use Gnome, because you can pick your own desktop and why Gnome? Haven't noticed anything majorly different with Firefox except that the version numbers go up like the national debt. And they don't have to call it IceWeasel anymore. I think my WiFi icon is different sometimes? ...but there's a menu of networks to access when you click on it, and then you click on the one you want. I think it's always been that way since I stopped having to use iwconfig.
In short, I totally disagree. I have never had any problems with Debian stability, or much change at all for that matter. Debian Stable. Like a rock. Solid like a rock, old like a rock, boring like a rock.
They can make it safe enough by making you wait four hours to get through security instead of only two. Your total trip time might be the same as an aircraft, at least for shorter flights, but will be much safer.
Also, you would experience zero-g in this thing. People go bananas for zero-g.
a more rapid degradation of the operating system as it tries harder to cater to everybody.
I agree that more hackers will target it, that's unavoidable. But "Linux" is an ecosystem of many different distributions, each with their own flavor. If one distribution makes boneheaded mistakes trying to please too many people, 5 others won't. If one desktop goes bananas, use one that didn't. People complain about fragmentation, and it is a problem, but it completely prevents this kind of trouble.
Unless you mean that "cater to everybody" means some distributions have become too easy to use and went mainstream, and Linux is no longer cool, or elite or whatever. I mean, no one gets geek cred for installing Windows 10. But I think that has already happened with Ubuntu? My Mom could probably install Ubuntu if I showed her how to put the CD in the tray.
Anyways, I for one would love to see more Linux adoption, because more market share means more driver support and more games. And I must have more.
And I've not once seen a pro-Trump ad.
Honest question: What would it say?
You would think though that the rise of AdBlock, and do not track, and cookie controls would be enough to tell these advertisers that we don't like what they're doing? Don't they track that stuff?
No, because you have Do Not Track and cookie controls.
Only 5 year olds are impressed by whirring, popping up, animated things.
Oh, how I wish that were true. I mean, just look at the Game of Thrones intro and tell me you aren't impressed. If only we could keep our simple fascination from interfering with practical life. Alas! The fidget spinner is proof that we can't.
Any help is better than no help.
How often do they try to contact you?
Every day.
Nuclear powered shipping has been tried before and failed primarily on poor ship design and politics, not for any technical reasons.
Not sure if you know, but the Sevmorput was recently rebuilt and is now sailing again.
Why does it need to be exactly as smart as a human in order to be AI? I mean, cats aren't self aware. Why not as smart as a cat?
That's why I prefer the term "Synthetic Artificial Virtual Intelligence". So much less debate about the meaning, letting us focus on the practical benefits.
I dunno who the shit for brains was that put the Windows 10S monstrosity in practice
I think Microsoft still dreams about having complete control over all software running on every computer, and taking a cut whenever any software is sold. And being able to disable any software remotely, say if you didn't pay the monthly fee. And putting ads in any software they please, and simply not allowing you to install the tools to remove it. Not to mention banning Chrome for unspecified violations of Windows Store policies, which will continually change...
If you look at the rest of their data you can see it varies by up to 0.5 percent each month. The data's fine, but it needs error bars. (which would probably be about 0.5% high).
Well, the content they were quashing was stuff they supposedly released under an NDA. Still, upranking sites that have your +1 button is still pretty shameful.
Yeah. I wouldn't give up a single episode of A Game of Thrones to see any movie. Unless it was "A Game of Thrones: Season 8 Is A Movie Now".
I'd watch that.
Once the debate is solved will anything change?
Only if the solution shows that P = NP.
Traveling Salesman instances can actually be solved in pretty good time due to a TSP-specific heuristic.
Do you mean with branch and bound? Or is there something even faster?
My problem with them has nothing to do with safety, but rather freedom. I don't believe it's possible to truly own a self-driving car, in the same way that it's not possible to truly own a Windows 10 computer. The manufacturer owns the computer because they have final say over what its allowed to do. They can track your movements and restrict them if they want to. I'm sure it will start off small, say protesters being prevented from driving on private property. Or you could stop people from returning home after a hurricane before the government gives the all clear.
But then you can stop people from gathering on public property. Their cars just won't drive to the protest/event/whatever. Or stop them from driving in wealthy neighborhoods to cut down on traffic. Or stop them from moving to another city, or from fleeing the country.
I think you will be amazed at the control you, or your children, are going to lose over your own lives.
I have a feature called "give the phone to my toddler". It periodically auto-activates in the background when it detects the phone is not in use. "Enter Password" can be used to disable this feature, but that introduces bug #098312 - erroneous phone calls to emergency services.
See how that works?
"We found that low levels of physical activity and high levels of television viewing during young to mid-adulthood were associated with worse cognitive performance in midlife," source
Of course, correlation is not necessarily causation. (Despite what the headline says.) It may be that intelligent people are just less likely to be interested in TV.
Agreed. Our internet provider (Shaw Canada) has been shamelessly begging for us to bundle cable with our internet for years now. They finally promised to quintuple our internet speed if we'd just try it free for two months. We're on our second month now, and never use it. It's just the same ad-ridden low quality garbage that it's always been. Even the movie channels are full of ads, and I assume they still snip out pieces of the movie to make room for more ads? Can't be bothered to find out.
To be fair, when you look at the firehose the submissions are getting pretty skimpy these days.
As I understand, it's almost certainly used to send coded messages to Russian agents in case of emergency. The Russians are probably broadcasting a constant tone to reserve the frequency, so other people don't start using it. They say as much in the article.
But the result is that you have reinvented the freight train, with all the disadvantages of expensive energy robbing rubber tires, steep hills, city traffic, and the need to share the road with people like me.
And yet, trucks without any of the advantages of a train, and all of the disadvantages you mentioned, are running right now.
In this case there can BE no "true" random number generators. Whether or not nature is capable of generating true random numbers from some source other than our ignorance of state is an open empirical question.
If we can prove there's no way to know the entire state, say via Heisenberg uncertainty principle, then there is no functional difference between 'true' randomness and randomness-through-ignorance. I'm not sure if the question has any meaning.