It actually kind of is available on vinyl. Ok, it's not really vinyl, but these discs were apparently stamped on more or less standard phonographic record manufacturing equipment. See also CED...
There's always going to be exceptions and unforeseeable consequences. Maybe you'll squeeze by, or just maybe you'll gently nudge the car next to you into an oncoming bus full of nuns. If the adjacent lanes are not clear and there's no room to squeeze by (something the car should be able to determine in microseconds), attempting to slow down as much as you can might still be the best strategy even in this scenario.
It's a fun business model even if it feels a bit sleazy. The suckers who plop down $20 for a skin are paying for those who just want to play the game. As long as it's just the eye candy that has to be paid for, and not useful gear.
Brake as hard as you can, and keep your lane unless an adjacent lane is clear and safe to swerve into. A simple strategy that requires no moral choice and is also fair towards other road users: any other rash action increases the chance you won't hit whatever you were going to hit and probably had no business being in the road in the first place (otherwise you weren't going to collide with it), and increases the chance of hitting an innocent bystander who had nothing to do with you or the obstacle.
Musk sometimes appears a bit awkward in public appearances and interviews, and he visibly reacts to pressure and difficult questions. But he generally gives good answers, as opposed to the usual unflappable but empty suits spouting nothing but lines from their years of media training. I prefer that, and it makes him seem more genuine (I'd hate to use the over-used word "authentic" here). Unfortunately that sort of thing flies less well with irate stock holders than with reporters and fans assembled to witness a successful rocket launch & landing.
I have worked on many different projects [...] I tend to think of that as something I can learn, when I need to.
Sounds like you're a bit of a generalist with the will and ability to dive into a specialism when needed. If you really feel you need to "pick a side" and specialize, then all advice I can offer is: find something you love doing and specialize in that. But if you enjoy the learning process itself, the experimenting and ground-breaking work with new tech, then maybe you can find a job working in an innovation team.
Innovation is a bit of a buzzword, but there is plenty of legit innovation work out there. Innovation teams often offer a chance to learn new tech or new ways of doing things, and require a lot of flexibility from their team members. Perhaps that will suit you... I've been involved in innovation for 20 years or so, and I not only enjoy the great variety of technologies I have to deal with, but also the fact that I often get to wear many different hats: from project manager, team lead, architect, to coder and business analyst. Sometimes you'll be a one man team, sometimes the team will need someone to write a couple of tests for tomorrow's experiment or prepare a short presentation for a visiting VC, and yes I am sticking up my hand to volunteer. If you think that doing something yourself is often faster than getting others to do it for you, and if you can actually deliver results that way, then innovation might be something for you.
Positions in innovative work are few and far between and are often sought after, so you need to position yourself well for that when preparing your CV. Your background in data science and your machine learning study will help, since those fields are currently firmly hanging ten at the top of the hype cycle. But also emphasize your versatility as it's a key quality in such roles: show that you have experience in adapting to circumstances, and in diving in when the project calls for it.
If I were in government and a company came along and told me they'd provide my country's citizens with free "curated content" out of the goodness of their hearts, I'd be extremely wary. Even if it wasn't the company but one of those charities they've set up. Ignoring those worries and focusing only on the perceived benefit would be short sighted.
Some governments think it is their duty to step in if the market fails. For instance: when our state-owned PTT went private, they were forced to open up their last mile to competitors for a fixed fee. At first they didn't like it and there was some sabotage of colocated equipment, and access badges of competitors' repairmen mysteriously breaking, that sort of thing. But in the end everyone got used to the situation, and we had some seriously healthy competition. Of course in the end the big fish ISPs just bought the smaller ones, but still. I still have about a dozen ISPs to choose from, and I pay around €50 a month for 500Mb fiber, basic cable, and a VOIP land line with unlimited national calls. Thanks not to government subsidies or rules restricting commerce, but to competition and rules that make competition possible.
Now that the country is left with only a single cable TV provider owning all of the last miles of coax, we'll see new regulation to force them to open up to competitors as well. Which will be great: since fiber isn't anywhere near ubiquitous, coax is the more popular method of obtaining broadband internet, but currently only that one company is in a position to offer it.
First off, the points on your license are only lost because of traffic offenses. You don't lose points for tweeting doubleplusungood opinions or shoplifting. And in some countries you only lose points for serious and dangerous traffic violations, not for doing 90 in an 80 zone. Meaning that a string of little offenses does not escalate into seriousy heavy punishment when some arbitrary threshold is crossed
Second, the points (and accompanying fine) are issued administratively, but in most (or all?) countries in Europe you do have the right to go to court if you think there has been a mistake.
Thirdly, if you lose your points you are banned from driving, not from flying or from buying property.
All this honours the idea that the punishment should fit the crime. The Chinese system on the other hand lets a number of small transgressions turn into a life ruining event. And since it bans you from a large number of activitites that are completely unrelated to each other or to the crime, this smells of cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy.
It's common because it's not actually bad design, specially in MMOs. Good MMOs always have a variety of things to do, ranging from solo adventuring, PUG dungeon crawls, raiding, to crafting, grinding, down to something as pointless (to your progress) as decorating your player home. If you're an active player in an active guild, the game isn't just a place to do stuff, it's a hangout as well. When there's not a lot of action going on, players do like to stick around and do pointless stuff like grinding for a while instead of logging off. It can actually be nice and relaxing to do some mindless activity while chatting.
I am more curious in what will happen to collectible card games.
Technically these are gambling too: pay for a small chance to get a rare card with a high monetary value. But are people buying decks of cards just to play the game or start a collection? If there isn't enough pressure to keep buying packs, a judge might let it pass. However if people rush out and buy 5 more and 5 more again when the deck they got doesn't have a rare, like those idiots in "Charlie and the chocolate factory", it's a different matter. That golden ticket scheme would definitely be classed as gambling, by the way.
My guess is that the ISO is provided free of charge to end users holding a license, but not not to refurbishers for redistribution along with used PCs. Apparently MS sells physical disks to refurbishers for $25 a pop
The fact that the guy didn't charge anything for the disks doesn't make the market value zero, nor does the fact that Microsoft doesn't charge for a download of the disk image. Apparently Microsoft charges refurbishers $25 for a physical copy of the restore disk. And quite possibly there is a clause on the download page for the disk that states that end users can van a copy for free, but distributors are not allowed to burn a copy and sell it along with a refurbished computer.
Even so, the sentence seems ridiculously harsh given the fact that the guy acted in good faith and didn't actually sell a single disk except in a sting operation.
I found the IKEA bulbs to be suspiciously good; we use loads of them in rental properties. Haven't had a single one fail yet. Perhaps they are better than the retail price would suggest, with IKEA selling them at cost or even at a loss in order to put on a green face.
The device that generates the smell can be patented, since it's more than just "migrating a process to a computer", it involves a new process. However, once such a device is created (or in the true spirit of patent trolling: before the device is created), you should not be able to patent the use of that device "over the internet", e.g. in an online game played on a server.
You're right, of course. But if you want to sell net neutrality to the public, I think it's best to work at the lower level of abstraction. Most people don't seem to care too much about free speech. Oh, they want to be able to say what they want when they want, and they want others to be able to say what they want too. Except of course hate speech, and discriminatory articles, and information on birth control, and critique on certain religions, and "dangerous" opinions, and "fake" news, and so on.
The problem is: they get to decide who is a criminal and who is a citizen. That definition may change over time, maybe when a hardcore religious government is voted in for instance, or a snowflake government that doesn't hold much truck with nonsense like free speech. Maybe not that much of an issue in countries with a functioning democracy... but there's a nasty example from my own country: the efficient and almost total registration of the populace contributed significantly to the fact that in WW2 only a relatively small number of Jews managed to escape deportation in the Netherlands. And the way things are going in Europe, I'm not sure if I should still consider the EU a "functioning democracy" either.
Those use pretty much the same kind of batteries, don’t they? You might not get 500k miles out of them on a bike, but in terms of capacity after x charge/discharge cycles they might well be similar.
80% capacity after 500k miles is pretty good if it’s true. Currently, the condition and remaining life of the - expensive - battery is a big worry for buyers in the second hand EV market. It would be great if that’s shown to be a non issue.
IIRC the Dutch law on gaming says:
- You can trade in-game items with each others.
- You can sell in-game items to others (but Internal Revenue will want their cut)
- You can have random crap spawn in-game, even if the drop includes rares that can be sold for RL currency
What you cannot have is:
- Random crap that may include valuable rares, AND
- The ability to trade those rares for RL currency, AND
- The option / necessity to plonk down RL cash to obtain these random items.
Those three things together constitute "online gambling" according to the law.
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It actually kind of is available on vinyl. Ok, it's not really vinyl, but these discs were apparently stamped on more or less standard phonographic record manufacturing equipment. See also CED...
There's always going to be exceptions and unforeseeable consequences. Maybe you'll squeeze by, or just maybe you'll gently nudge the car next to you into an oncoming bus full of nuns. If the adjacent lanes are not clear and there's no room to squeeze by (something the car should be able to determine in microseconds), attempting to slow down as much as you can might still be the best strategy even in this scenario.
It's a fun business model even if it feels a bit sleazy. The suckers who plop down $20 for a skin are paying for those who just want to play the game. As long as it's just the eye candy that has to be paid for, and not useful gear.
Brake as hard as you can, and keep your lane unless an adjacent lane is clear and safe to swerve into. A simple strategy that requires no moral choice and is also fair towards other road users: any other rash action increases the chance you won't hit whatever you were going to hit and probably had no business being in the road in the first place (otherwise you weren't going to collide with it), and increases the chance of hitting an innocent bystander who had nothing to do with you or the obstacle.
Musk sometimes appears a bit awkward in public appearances and interviews, and he visibly reacts to pressure and difficult questions. But he generally gives good answers, as opposed to the usual unflappable but empty suits spouting nothing but lines from their years of media training. I prefer that, and it makes him seem more genuine (I'd hate to use the over-used word "authentic" here). Unfortunately that sort of thing flies less well with irate stock holders than with reporters and fans assembled to witness a successful rocket launch & landing.
I have worked on many different projects [...] I tend to think of that as something I can learn, when I need to.
Sounds like you're a bit of a generalist with the will and ability to dive into a specialism when needed. If you really feel you need to "pick a side" and specialize, then all advice I can offer is: find something you love doing and specialize in that. But if you enjoy the learning process itself, the experimenting and ground-breaking work with new tech, then maybe you can find a job working in an innovation team.
Innovation is a bit of a buzzword, but there is plenty of legit innovation work out there. Innovation teams often offer a chance to learn new tech or new ways of doing things, and require a lot of flexibility from their team members. Perhaps that will suit you... I've been involved in innovation for 20 years or so, and I not only enjoy the great variety of technologies I have to deal with, but also the fact that I often get to wear many different hats: from project manager, team lead, architect, to coder and business analyst. Sometimes you'll be a one man team, sometimes the team will need someone to write a couple of tests for tomorrow's experiment or prepare a short presentation for a visiting VC, and yes I am sticking up my hand to volunteer. If you think that doing something yourself is often faster than getting others to do it for you, and if you can actually deliver results that way, then innovation might be something for you.
Positions in innovative work are few and far between and are often sought after, so you need to position yourself well for that when preparing your CV. Your background in data science and your machine learning study will help, since those fields are currently firmly hanging ten at the top of the hype cycle. But also emphasize your versatility as it's a key quality in such roles: show that you have experience in adapting to circumstances, and in diving in when the project calls for it.
If I were in government and a company came along and told me they'd provide my country's citizens with free "curated content" out of the goodness of their hearts, I'd be extremely wary. Even if it wasn't the company but one of those charities they've set up. Ignoring those worries and focusing only on the perceived benefit would be short sighted.
Also: what if I don't have a FB account? Will I be required to register in order to remove the browsing history they've collected?
In some cases it even works during normal service!
Well they use really thin letters and their infographics are up to modern standards. And there's a big curly brace. So I guess all is in order.
Some governments think it is their duty to step in if the market fails. For instance: when our state-owned PTT went private, they were forced to open up their last mile to competitors for a fixed fee. At first they didn't like it and there was some sabotage of colocated equipment, and access badges of competitors' repairmen mysteriously breaking, that sort of thing. But in the end everyone got used to the situation, and we had some seriously healthy competition. Of course in the end the big fish ISPs just bought the smaller ones, but still. I still have about a dozen ISPs to choose from, and I pay around €50 a month for 500Mb fiber, basic cable, and a VOIP land line with unlimited national calls. Thanks not to government subsidies or rules restricting commerce, but to competition and rules that make competition possible.
Now that the country is left with only a single cable TV provider owning all of the last miles of coax, we'll see new regulation to force them to open up to competitors as well. Which will be great: since fiber isn't anywhere near ubiquitous, coax is the more popular method of obtaining broadband internet, but currently only that one company is in a position to offer it.
First off, the points on your license are only lost because of traffic offenses. You don't lose points for tweeting doubleplusungood opinions or shoplifting. And in some countries you only lose points for serious and dangerous traffic violations, not for doing 90 in an 80 zone. Meaning that a string of little offenses does not escalate into seriousy heavy punishment when some arbitrary threshold is crossed
Second, the points (and accompanying fine) are issued administratively, but in most (or all?) countries in Europe you do have the right to go to court if you think there has been a mistake.
Thirdly, if you lose your points you are banned from driving, not from flying or from buying property.
All this honours the idea that the punishment should fit the crime. The Chinese system on the other hand lets a number of small transgressions turn into a life ruining event. And since it bans you from a large number of activitites that are completely unrelated to each other or to the crime, this smells of cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy.
It's common because it's not actually bad design, specially in MMOs. Good MMOs always have a variety of things to do, ranging from solo adventuring, PUG dungeon crawls, raiding, to crafting, grinding, down to something as pointless (to your progress) as decorating your player home. If you're an active player in an active guild, the game isn't just a place to do stuff, it's a hangout as well. When there's not a lot of action going on, players do like to stick around and do pointless stuff like grinding for a while instead of logging off. It can actually be nice and relaxing to do some mindless activity while chatting.
I am more curious in what will happen to collectible card games.
Technically these are gambling too: pay for a small chance to get a rare card with a high monetary value. But are people buying decks of cards just to play the game or start a collection? If there isn't enough pressure to keep buying packs, a judge might let it pass. However if people rush out and buy 5 more and 5 more again when the deck they got doesn't have a rare, like those idiots in "Charlie and the chocolate factory", it's a different matter. That golden ticket scheme would definitely be classed as gambling, by the way.
My guess is that the ISO is provided free of charge to end users holding a license, but not not to refurbishers for redistribution along with used PCs. Apparently MS sells physical disks to refurbishers for $25 a pop
The fact that the guy didn't charge anything for the disks doesn't make the market value zero, nor does the fact that Microsoft doesn't charge for a download of the disk image. Apparently Microsoft charges refurbishers $25 for a physical copy of the restore disk. And quite possibly there is a clause on the download page for the disk that states that end users can van a copy for free, but distributors are not allowed to burn a copy and sell it along with a refurbished computer.
Even so, the sentence seems ridiculously harsh given the fact that the guy acted in good faith and didn't actually sell a single disk except in a sting operation.
I found the IKEA bulbs to be suspiciously good; we use loads of them in rental properties. Haven't had a single one fail yet. Perhaps they are better than the retail price would suggest, with IKEA selling them at cost or even at a loss in order to put on a green face.
The device that generates the smell can be patented, since it's more than just "migrating a process to a computer", it involves a new process. However, once such a device is created (or in the true spirit of patent trolling: before the device is created), you should not be able to patent the use of that device "over the internet", e.g. in an online game played on a server.
More like the difference between a murderer and an executioner
You're right, of course. But if you want to sell net neutrality to the public, I think it's best to work at the lower level of abstraction. Most people don't seem to care too much about free speech. Oh, they want to be able to say what they want when they want, and they want others to be able to say what they want too. Except of course hate speech, and discriminatory articles, and information on birth control, and critique on certain religions, and "dangerous" opinions, and "fake" news, and so on.
ISPs will treat websites like channels
This, in 6 words, is why we need Net Neutrality, in case anyone is still asking why.
The problem is: they get to decide who is a criminal and who is a citizen. That definition may change over time, maybe when a hardcore religious government is voted in for instance, or a snowflake government that doesn't hold much truck with nonsense like free speech. Maybe not that much of an issue in countries with a functioning democracy... but there's a nasty example from my own country: the efficient and almost total registration of the populace contributed significantly to the fact that in WW2 only a relatively small number of Jews managed to escape deportation in the Netherlands. And the way things are going in Europe, I'm not sure if I should still consider the EU a "functioning democracy" either.
Those use pretty much the same kind of batteries, don’t they? You might not get 500k miles out of them on a bike, but in terms of capacity after x charge/discharge cycles they might well be similar.
80% capacity after 500k miles is pretty good if it’s true. Currently, the condition and remaining life of the - expensive - battery is a big worry for buyers in the second hand EV market. It would be great if that’s shown to be a non issue.
IIRC the Dutch law on gaming says:
- You can trade in-game items with each others.
- You can sell in-game items to others (but Internal Revenue will want their cut)
- You can have random crap spawn in-game, even if the drop includes rares that can be sold for RL currency
What you cannot have is:
- Random crap that may include valuable rares, AND
- The ability to trade those rares for RL currency, AND
- The option / necessity to plonk down RL cash to obtain these random items.
Those three things together constitute "online gambling" according to the law.
What kind of night club admits 12 year olds?!