One manifestation of this is how people who support Donald Trump are reluctant to put stickers on their cars, signs on their homes, and even wear MAGA clothing because of multiple widespread documented cases of vandalism and violence. You see liberal and leftist campaign materials untouched around the nation because the opposition does not engage in these tactics and yet they claim the opposition are fascists.
These tactics are similar to those used by the early Nazi party
MAGA is a far right wing political movement. Its opponents include moderate Republicans as well as Democrats and others. The majority of Americans disagree with MAGA policies related to taxation, health care, immigration, foreign trade and political isolationism.
The critical thing to realize is that the people who disagree with MAGA are typical Americans. They're not extremists. They're not the mythical leftists that extremists paint as the boogeyman (seriously, does *anyone* in their right mind see the USA as a hotbed of socialism or communism?). They're just normal people who want a good life.
MAGA bumper stickers, signs and clothing are offensive to the average American, in much the same way that wearing a t-shirt in support of the KKK is offensive. Americans must have the freedom to stand up and and declare, "I do not believe in your extremist policies. You do not speak for me. You do not speak for the majority."
Many of the major tech sites are built around profiting from user-generated content (and the users themselves). If you volunteer your time to generate content or moderate, you're fueling their business at your expense. The easy solution is to stop posting cat videos, stop moderating someone else's site and limit social media use.
(And, yes, the irony of this comment is that Slashdot is profiting from this user-generated thread).
Let's test your "it's been warming since the end of the last ice age" hypothesis. The global land-ocean index has risen by about 1 C in the past 50 years, and it's forecast to warm another 2 C in the 21st Century. At that rate, the planet will be uninhabitable in only several centuries. So I think we can safely conclude that normal climate cycles aren't responsible.
Oh, fuck it. Let's put it a different way. Imagine that the planet is a fishbowl and the fish have a nasty habit of chain smoking. They've noticed that the water is getting cloudy and their gills are having to work harder to breathe, but they're convinced it must be due to silt from the bottom, not from their dim-witted behaviour in a closed system.
Why this has to be a political issue is beyond me. It's only a matter of time before the raging masses start challenging the existence of gravity and the laws of physics. Faith based engineering is just around the corner...
If Boeing went out of business tomorrow, there would be a global aircraft shortage. If Instagram unplugged its servers, the world would continue unaffected.
The US economy will slip into recession this summer, and Trump will angrily state that it's because the rest of the world is ganging up on the USA after 8 years of weak government under Obama. He'll use Twitter to single out and humiliate opposing politicians - preferably female - and use anger and hatred to ride easily into a second term in office.
We understand that there's more to warfare than cyphers. Your assumption that everyone here is an idiot is irrational, too. That said, code breaking played a critical role in the war.
You're in the wrong demographic. The Amazon Fire 7 is available for under $50 (as low as $29.99 last Thanksgiving) and the Fire HD 8 is discounted to $69.99 several times a year. They don't require data plans or monthly subscriptions, which makes them ideal for people on an extremely limited budget -- just head down to McDonald's or the local library for free wi-fi.
iPhones amounted to 19.2% of the global market in the last quarter of 2017. That means that 4 out of every 5 phones sold are made by other companies, running Android. Apple marketshare is indeed a sliver.
WWI saw trench warfare, WWII saw highly mechanized assaults and WWIII will see AI-driven drones and land equipment hunting humans. Why risk hundreds of thousands of troops when you can cheaply manufacture thousands of weaponized robots to eliminate anything that moves in a specific area?
Even if Google chooses to implement ethical guidelines in military AI, you can be assured others won't.
My phone has several very good microphones, as does my computer. Both devices also have extremely good cameras. It seems silly to focus on devices like Alexa and Google Home when they have relatively small market penetration and are less capable of spying on us than the cellular and GPS-equipped monitoring devices we slip into our pockets whenever we go *anywhere*.
"The Snapdragon 710 is a direct successor to the Snapdragon 660 but comes with a new branding more worthy of the increased performance characteristics of the SoC."
Sometimes I wish I was in marketing instead of actually building things. The Qualcomm marketing team changed the product number from 6xx to 7xx to make it "more worthy of increased performance." I'm surprised they haven't discovered four digit numbers yet.
In English, the translation is "Department of cyber police." Serhiy Demedyuk is its head.
In the USA, Douglas Maughan is Director, National Cyber Security Division of the Office of Cyber Security & Communications. Try saying that fast five times.
Recording on 2-inch analog 24-track is different than digital. Tape exhibits saturation effects -- if I record a drum track onto tape, I can record it "hot" by turning up the gain so that the hardest hits saturate the tape. The result is a distinctive compression/limiting/harmonic effect. One of the reasons that people complained about sterile and thin digital sound when we shifted from analog to digital was that digital recorders don't behave the same way. That said, there are now some excellent digital plug-ins that emulate this effect.
That said, it makes sense to mix your 24-track analog recording to digital since the digital reproduction will be technically better than a dub of an analog 2-track tape.
Businesses will use their own digital assistants to answer calls, so we'll end up living in a bizarre alternate universe where computers phone each other and have conversations to schedule our lives. Abbreviated botspeak will eventually supplant standard English, as humans mimic the mannerisms and verbal shortcuts used by impatient digital assistant apps.
Software developers need to eat, and Microsoft's 95% revenue share will benefit thousands of small developers along with the larger companies. The notion that only free software is good software is myopic at best; the open source work I've done has only been possible because I earn a good salary from a commercial software company.
1. The DPR borders both China and Russia. Both nations have massive and very capable military forces and don't want a US presence on their back porch. 2. Pyongyang is only 160 km from the Chinese border city of Dandong. 3. Seoul is only about 50 km south of the DMZ. South Koreans aren't keen on the North Korean military flattening residential neighbourhoods just outside the capital. It wouldn't be good for business, either. 4. China is actively seeking a diplomatic solution to North Korea by encouraging a shift from militarization to manufacturing and cooperation with China and South Korea. The easiest solution is to pay off Kim Jong-Un and and neuter his military by paying off everyone in power, then provide employment and increasing prosperity and modernization for the DPR.
Were the pilots on drugs and hallucinating as usual then?
You joke, but altitude hypoxia can result in disorientation, hallucination and mental impairment. At 20,000 ft, your blood is only capable of carrying 2/3 the oxygen it can transport at sea level. Trying to breathe air at 35,000 ft can result in as little as 15 seconds of useful consciousness. Part of your cockpit scan when flying with a pressure demand flow system is a visual check of the flow meter (which works like the little windows at gas stations that confirm the fuel is running) and the oxygen PSI gauge. It's a surprisingly low-tech piece of gear with big green and red toggle switches because when you *absolutely* need to verify that it's working, you need a Fisher Price-level user interface.
1. It's much harder to create good industrial design than it is to copy it. When the Macbook Air was released, it was breathtaking. So were the first few iterations of the iPad and the iPhone. After the first big wins, it gets much harder to play the "smaller, faster, more storage and sleeker" game.
2. Technology matures. Many people rant that Apple's innovation around the iPhone and iPad has slowed. Of course it has, because all of the obvious things have been done over the last decade. It's like automobile technology -- once manufacturers figured out where all the basic components needed to go, they have cheerfully chugged along for decades with gradual improvement.
3. If you're the market leader, there is no value in going down-market. Apple does an outstanding job of maintaining margins without resorting to selling a bewildering array of phones at all price points in a desperate attempt to gain market share. Nobody wants a Samsung J3 or an LG K4. They're cheap pieces of junk that you only buy if you can't afford a decent phone.
4. Maintaining and developing iOS is a massive undertaking that Apple's competitors (with the exception of Google) don't have to undertake. We've seen Samsung's attempt at a third-party OS, and it was dismal.
Seriously, forget the kids. I'm more interested in the phone figuring out that I'm looped and stopping me from drunk texting. Or drunk shopping. Or drunk anything.
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One manifestation of this is how people who support Donald Trump are reluctant to put stickers on their cars, signs on their homes, and even wear MAGA clothing because of multiple widespread documented cases of vandalism and violence. You see liberal and leftist campaign materials untouched around the nation because the opposition does not engage in these tactics and yet they claim the opposition are fascists.
These tactics are similar to those used by the early Nazi party
MAGA is a far right wing political movement. Its opponents include moderate Republicans as well as Democrats and others. The majority of Americans disagree with MAGA policies related to taxation, health care, immigration, foreign trade and political isolationism.
The critical thing to realize is that the people who disagree with MAGA are typical Americans. They're not extremists. They're not the mythical leftists that extremists paint as the boogeyman (seriously, does *anyone* in their right mind see the USA as a hotbed of socialism or communism?). They're just normal people who want a good life.
MAGA bumper stickers, signs and clothing are offensive to the average American, in much the same way that wearing a t-shirt in support of the KKK is offensive. Americans must have the freedom to stand up and and declare, "I do not believe in your extremist policies. You do not speak for me. You do not speak for the majority."
Someday, they will die out but for now they have a use!
The same can be said for *any* technical skill.
Just walk away.
Many of the major tech sites are built around profiting from user-generated content (and the users themselves). If you volunteer your time to generate content or moderate, you're fueling their business at your expense. The easy solution is to stop posting cat videos, stop moderating someone else's site and limit social media use.
(And, yes, the irony of this comment is that Slashdot is profiting from this user-generated thread).
If you spoke English, you'd realize that Trump doesn't.
Let's test your "it's been warming since the end of the last ice age" hypothesis. The global land-ocean index has risen by about 1 C in the past 50 years, and it's forecast to warm another 2 C in the 21st Century. At that rate, the planet will be uninhabitable in only several centuries. So I think we can safely conclude that normal climate cycles aren't responsible.
Oh, fuck it. Let's put it a different way. Imagine that the planet is a fishbowl and the fish have a nasty habit of chain smoking. They've noticed that the water is getting cloudy and their gills are having to work harder to breathe, but they're convinced it must be due to silt from the bottom, not from their dim-witted behaviour in a closed system.
Why this has to be a political issue is beyond me. It's only a matter of time before the raging masses start challenging the existence of gravity and the laws of physics. Faith based engineering is just around the corner...
If Boeing went out of business tomorrow, there would be a global aircraft shortage. If Instagram unplugged its servers, the world would continue unaffected.
The US economy will slip into recession this summer, and Trump will angrily state that it's because the rest of the world is ganging up on the USA after 8 years of weak government under Obama. He'll use Twitter to single out and humiliate opposing politicians - preferably female - and use anger and hatred to ride easily into a second term in office.
We understand that there's more to warfare than cyphers. Your assumption that everyone here is an idiot is irrational, too. That said, code breaking played a critical role in the war.
Oh, the one-liners almost write themselves.
"It's fascinating to see an administration that's so anti-science enthusiastic about something that requires so much science."
"I hear the first job of the Space Force will be to build a really, really big wall to keep the green people out."
Tablets are more popular than *desktops*, not notebooks.
You're in the wrong demographic. The Amazon Fire 7 is available for under $50 (as low as $29.99 last Thanksgiving) and the Fire HD 8 is discounted to $69.99 several times a year. They don't require data plans or monthly subscriptions, which makes them ideal for people on an extremely limited budget -- just head down to McDonald's or the local library for free wi-fi.
iPhones amounted to 19.2% of the global market in the last quarter of 2017. That means that 4 out of every 5 phones sold are made by other companies, running Android. Apple marketshare is indeed a sliver.
Samsung will replace the battery for about $79. There's no need to replace your phone just because the battery's failing.
WWI saw trench warfare, WWII saw highly mechanized assaults and WWIII will see AI-driven drones and land equipment hunting humans. Why risk hundreds of thousands of troops when you can cheaply manufacture thousands of weaponized robots to eliminate anything that moves in a specific area?
Even if Google chooses to implement ethical guidelines in military AI, you can be assured others won't.
My phone has several very good microphones, as does my computer. Both devices also have extremely good cameras. It seems silly to focus on devices like Alexa and Google Home when they have relatively small market penetration and are less capable of spying on us than the cellular and GPS-equipped monitoring devices we slip into our pockets whenever we go *anywhere*.
"The Snapdragon 710 is a direct successor to the Snapdragon 660 but comes with a new branding more worthy of the increased performance characteristics of the SoC."
Sometimes I wish I was in marketing instead of actually building things. The Qualcomm marketing team changed the product number from 6xx to 7xx to make it "more worthy of increased performance." I'm surprised they haven't discovered four digit numbers yet.
In English, the translation is "Department of cyber police." Serhiy Demedyuk is its head.
In the USA, Douglas Maughan is Director, National Cyber Security Division of the Office of Cyber Security & Communications. Try saying that fast five times.
Recording on 2-inch analog 24-track is different than digital. Tape exhibits saturation effects -- if I record a drum track onto tape, I can record it "hot" by turning up the gain so that the hardest hits saturate the tape. The result is a distinctive compression/limiting/harmonic effect. One of the reasons that people complained about sterile and thin digital sound when we shifted from analog to digital was that digital recorders don't behave the same way. That said, there are now some excellent digital plug-ins that emulate this effect.
That said, it makes sense to mix your 24-track analog recording to digital since the digital reproduction will be technically better than a dub of an analog 2-track tape.
Businesses will use their own digital assistants to answer calls, so we'll end up living in a bizarre alternate universe where computers phone each other and have conversations to schedule our lives. Abbreviated botspeak will eventually supplant standard English, as humans mimic the mannerisms and verbal shortcuts used by impatient digital assistant apps.
Software developers need to eat, and Microsoft's 95% revenue share will benefit thousands of small developers along with the larger companies. The notion that only free software is good software is myopic at best; the open source work I've done has only been possible because I earn a good salary from a commercial software company.
Reality check time.
1. The DPR borders both China and Russia. Both nations have massive and very capable military forces and don't want a US presence on their back porch.
2. Pyongyang is only 160 km from the Chinese border city of Dandong.
3. Seoul is only about 50 km south of the DMZ. South Koreans aren't keen on the North Korean military flattening residential neighbourhoods just outside the capital. It wouldn't be good for business, either.
4. China is actively seeking a diplomatic solution to North Korea by encouraging a shift from militarization to manufacturing and cooperation with China and South Korea. The easiest solution is to pay off Kim Jong-Un and and neuter his military by paying off everyone in power, then provide employment and increasing prosperity and modernization for the DPR.
Off-brand batteries don't suck, though. We use Amazon, Kirkland (Costco) and IKEA batteries rather than wasting money on Energizer/Duracell.
Were the pilots on drugs and hallucinating as usual then?
You joke, but altitude hypoxia can result in disorientation, hallucination and mental impairment. At 20,000 ft, your blood is only capable of carrying 2/3 the oxygen it can transport at sea level. Trying to breathe air at 35,000 ft can result in as little as 15 seconds of useful consciousness. Part of your cockpit scan when flying with a pressure demand flow system is a visual check of the flow meter (which works like the little windows at gas stations that confirm the fuel is running) and the oxygen PSI gauge. It's a surprisingly low-tech piece of gear with big green and red toggle switches because when you *absolutely* need to verify that it's working, you need a Fisher Price-level user interface.
People don't appreciate that:
1. It's much harder to create good industrial design than it is to copy it. When the Macbook Air was released, it was breathtaking. So were the first few iterations of the iPad and the iPhone. After the first big wins, it gets much harder to play the "smaller, faster, more storage and sleeker" game.
2. Technology matures. Many people rant that Apple's innovation around the iPhone and iPad has slowed. Of course it has, because all of the obvious things have been done over the last decade. It's like automobile technology -- once manufacturers figured out where all the basic components needed to go, they have cheerfully chugged along for decades with gradual improvement.
3. If you're the market leader, there is no value in going down-market. Apple does an outstanding job of maintaining margins without resorting to selling a bewildering array of phones at all price points in a desperate attempt to gain market share. Nobody wants a Samsung J3 or an LG K4. They're cheap pieces of junk that you only buy if you can't afford a decent phone.
4. Maintaining and developing iOS is a massive undertaking that Apple's competitors (with the exception of Google) don't have to undertake. We've seen Samsung's attempt at a third-party OS, and it was dismal.
Seriously, forget the kids. I'm more interested in the phone figuring out that I'm looped and stopping me from drunk texting. Or drunk shopping. Or drunk anything.