In most of Frontier's service areas "broadband" counts as shitty adsl where you are lucky if you get 3mb/s down. They don't need caps, because you can't download anything anyways.
I was going to say "they don't need caps, because you can't download anything anyways, because their service is down as often as it's up." I got my in-laws a new 21.5" iMac with the 4K display. We set it up in their home where they have Frontier. I went to show them a 4K video on YouTube, and it took 15 minutes to load completely. They ended up having me swap the new iMac for the old one they had at their business. They have Comcast for business, and the 4K videos stream no problem.
Then again, maybe that's the problem. All of the good engineers were "retired" after bad launches and now they're stuck with guys who have no experience in engineering and are struggling to make sense of the equations lest they be "retired" also.
Why, because he does not believe in a mystical being floating somewhere that refuses to confirm or deny 'the rules' but will judge and punish/reward every single human when they die based on those rules?
Sounds like you're taking an opportunity to inject an anti-religious argument where no pro-religious argument has been made. Besides, if we were in a simulation, wouldn't this still be the case? There would be someone else on the other side who has created rules, and hasn't confirmed or denied them?
Or because he takes a more pragmatic path to considering a little further away from the normal 'on no, we are going to die, but we dont want to, god!' crowd, but still wants to perhaps believe in some purpose, therefore considers this to be a possibility?
He doesn't consider it a possibility. He's stating that it's a reality with the smallest improbable chance (1 in 1 billion) that it's not the case.
Or perhaps because he is willing to openly state what he HIMSELF may think, rather than hiding behind the skirts of an organised religion? Or because he is not making a claim that would lead to greater power for any particular involved group? Or, most likely, because he does not agree with your own personal worldview?
Maybe you're not replying to the parent post, but if you are, it's pretty crazy that you were able to read all of this into a comment someone made about Elon Musk losing his faculties.
Right or wrong, good on him for talking about it.
Why would it be good if he was talking about something that is wrong?
In theory, it is nice. In practice, you find that your smart TV won't play from Amazon Prime Instant Video and your smart Blu-Ray player won't play from Netflix. Before long, you give up and just buy an Apple TV or buy a Chromecast and use it with your phone.
That's exactly why you keep hearing the media clamor for Apple to make it's own TV set instead of the set-top box. It doesn't make sense though, because you know it's going to be twice as expensive as a regular TV and for what, app store integration? What I'd really like is if my Apple TV could also act as my cable set top box & DVR, but Comcast would never allow that.
And in the meanwhile, shameless promotion for the Libertarian party! Socially liberal, fiscally conservative, nothing beats that. A vote for the lesser evil is still a vote for evil.
Avarist, did Samsung 'upgrade' the firmware in your computer so that it could inject ads into your text streams?:-D
Then we can spend all that fuel looking for a piece of floating garbage.
But what if the USB flash drives were somehow attached to a turtle that was trained to swim back to the nearest airport? I figure if we're going to ask hypothetical questions, why not really go off the deep end?
What I saw was one student (as you say, usually asian) copy a textbook on the self serve machines (we wouldn't do it, simple as that). Then give us the output of his work to run off 5 or six copies. We'd then see these copies come back to make an additional 10, one at a time. Funny, we never 'noticed' it was copyrighted.
I was working at Kinko's at the time they were getting sued over their course packs, so we wouldn't photocopy *anything* that was copyrighted without a release form from the publisher.
How do you prove you haven't scanned a paper book and kept the scans?
If you're scanning books, you probably don't value your time very much. I used to work at a Kinko's where I went to college, and at the start of the semester, we'd have a bunch of Asian students--and it was always Asians--who would be scanning textbooks. Of course, this was on a Xerox, so no OCR was being done. Now I know text books are expensive, but at $.07 per copy, plus the time you had to spend scanning it probably wasn't worth the $30 or so they saved by not buying a copy themselves. Not to mention that they'd have to 3-hole punch & bind it.
The issue here is not can people break the law, because clearly they can. The issue is if I buy something electronic, then sell my only copy (or destroy all copies I have) once should it be legal.
On things like steam (or anything that authenticates every time the item is used) this would seem simple, all that I would need to do is transfer my rights to another account holder.
Oh, I completely agree with you, I just don't see a way to get it done without DRM needing to be implemented. On Steam, they already have it in place, no reason Amazon, Apple, etc. couldn't do this too, but I'm sure they'd want their cut.
How do you prove you no longer have an eBook? If I buy one and then sell it to someone else on eBay, I'm probably just selling them a copy of my eBook, not my actual copy. What is to stop me from selling my eBook hundreds of times over? There'd need to be some sort of licensing/registration in place where if you sell your copy, you need to transfer the license or copy to the other party. Sounds a lot like DRM.
PLEASE anything but PASCAL. Basic, Swift, even Python or PHP is okay. The point is to teach how to solve the problem and the language is just another tool.
Critical thinking skills really are the key. I usually tell my students to write the problem out in plain English or pseudo-code as comments, then write the code that would implement that problem in between the comments. Of course, few of them do that. Programming courses are just something for them to get through.
I think for the next course I teach this fall (Web Programming w/Database Integration), I am going to have them watch The Secret Rules of Modern Living Algorithms on the first day after we go over the usual housekeeping stuff. I'm hoping it will inspire them, it is quite good.
Thiel, a self-identified libertarian (and, it turns out, a California delegate for Donald Trump)
Well for one, it flies in the face of Libertarian ideology that Thiel likes to promote, that government power used against private individuals and businesses is the root of much of the evil in our society.
There isn't anything un-libertarian about suing someone for libel/slander/defamation. You'd find that most libertarians think that courts, military, prisons, etc. are legitimate roles for government. Basically government should defend peoples' lives & property from harm from others, but otherwise leave them alone. So that covers things like battery, murder, rape, theft, fraud.
On a side note, when I saw that he's a Trump supporter, I imagined Terry Jones saying a la his Life of Brian female voice "Libertarian? He's no libertarian. He's a very naught boy!"
not to mention the progressives who are anti-individual freedom and pro-nanny state.Freedom of your own body (abortion) but don't have freedom to decide whether or not to wear seat belts.
Vs the conservatives, who support freedom to own a gun but want the government policing the media to stop people saying dirty words?
Have you considered that maybe both of you are right?
"Freedom" is a concept so abstract that it's impossible to even agree on a definition.
Freedom is what liberals & conservatives are against. They may allow you some token freedoms, but usually with ulterior motives. Conservatives tout free market principles then bail out banks that are "too big to fail," because they know where their kickbacks come from. Liberals say they are "pro-choice" because they're cool with women doing what they want with their bodies, UNLESS the woman wants to smoke cigarettes/meth/whatever or eat food with trans fats or GMOs. I think the real concern for them though is population control.
A group of bipartisan senators introduced a bill on Thursday that blocks a pending judicial rule change allowing U.S judges to issue search warrants for remote access to computers in any jurisdiction, even overseas.
I saw Rand Paul on their, but certainly this is something Bernie Sanders would support as well, right? Does anyone have a link for the full list?
Not sure who you hang around with, but the leftists I know lump all religious conservatives into symptoms of the same underlying disease - relinquishing your rational thought processes to some huckster claiming to speak for a god that doesn't exist.
That may be so, but there's also the "enemy of my enemy is my friend." In America, conservative Christians are an immediate threat to the leftist/atheist/homosexual lifestyle crowd. Islam is a distant threat somewhere else.
The thin line between Christians and Islams is about as meaningful as the thin line between Republicans and Democrats.
If you think there's a thin line between Christians and Muslims, try this: Pick any city in the USA or Europe and in public during the day, paint a painting of Jesus, and tell everyone who passes by what you're doing. Then pick any city in Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Libya/Iraq/Iran/Afghanistan and do the same thing, except make the painting of Mohammed. I think you'd soon see the thin line is much larger than you thought.
There it is AGAIN. A leftist, making excuses for Islamists, and trying to deflect the blame and say the whole thing is the West's fault for being so kind and admitting these people. How many Syrian refugees have Islamic countries taken in? How about a word about them? What is *with* the left-wing alliance with Islamists? Why is there always one to jump right up and defend them? You know they execute homosexuals and legally allow spouse abuse?
Liberals defend Islam because the largest critics of Islam are Christian conservatives--the liberals' biggest boogey-man. If conservatives oppose something, liberals feel compelled to defend it. Additionally, there is the liberal commitment to cultural relativism & multiculturalism. If Muslims want to execute homosexuals, abuse their spouses, or arrest women for not wearing hijabs in photos on the internet, it's because those things are their cultural norm, so who are we to judge?
Their lives were ruined both because they broke the law and got caught and because of a misguided drug policy. Yes, it was not very wise of them to intentionally break the law like that, but the penalties set out by the misguided policy are very disproportionate. Marijuana shouldn't be on the same level as heroin, that's just stupid.
Heroin wouldn't be a problem if it was legal. Instead of shooting up, people could go to the store after work and get a heroin patch and chillax at home.
Slashdot had (has?) a metamod system where mods get moderated. Presumably people who downmodded things for political or other reasons would get their own mod points reduced or stripped. Didn't do squat.
You can meta-moderate after every post you put up. People who downmodded things for political or other reasons can also get upmodded, so it's not that useful.
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In most of Frontier's service areas "broadband" counts as shitty adsl where you are lucky if you get 3mb/s down. They don't need caps, because you can't download anything anyways.
I was going to say "they don't need caps, because you can't download anything anyways, because their service is down as often as it's up." I got my in-laws a new 21.5" iMac with the 4K display. We set it up in their home where they have Frontier. I went to show them a 4K video on YouTube, and it took 15 minutes to load completely. They ended up having me swap the new iMac for the old one they had at their business. They have Comcast for business, and the 4K videos stream no problem.
This is going to change things the way "The Year of the MOOC" changed everything!
Different problems for different people to solve, neither should be ignored.
What if the "transformative technology" you're working on is captive to "petty politics"?
Then again, maybe that's the problem. All of the good engineers were "retired" after bad launches and now they're stuck with guys who have no experience in engineering and are struggling to make sense of the equations lest they be "retired" also.
The People's Republic of North Korea has the best scientists! This information video may enlighten you...
It's actually "L Neo", as in "El Neo". ;)
For those that "No hablo Espanol", that Spanish for "The Neo."
I've yet to see one of those 'aircraft' and 'spacecraft' on the road...
Many 'aircraft' have been seen on the road. Your argument is invalid.
Why, because he does not believe in a mystical being floating somewhere that refuses to confirm or deny 'the rules' but will judge and punish/reward every single human when they die based on those rules?
Sounds like you're taking an opportunity to inject an anti-religious argument where no pro-religious argument has been made. Besides, if we were in a simulation, wouldn't this still be the case? There would be someone else on the other side who has created rules, and hasn't confirmed or denied them?
Or because he takes a more pragmatic path to considering a little further away from the normal 'on no, we are going to die, but we dont want to, god!' crowd, but still wants to perhaps believe in some purpose, therefore considers this to be a possibility?
He doesn't consider it a possibility. He's stating that it's a reality with the smallest improbable chance (1 in 1 billion) that it's not the case.
Or perhaps because he is willing to openly state what he HIMSELF may think, rather than hiding behind the skirts of an organised religion? Or because he is not making a claim that would lead to greater power for any particular involved group? Or, most likely, because he does not agree with your own personal worldview?
Maybe you're not replying to the parent post, but if you are, it's pretty crazy that you were able to read all of this into a comment someone made about Elon Musk losing his faculties.
Right or wrong, good on him for talking about it.
Why would it be good if he was talking about something that is wrong?
Swift is infected as well: https://swift.org/community/#c...
I'm about as anti-Social Justice Whiner as they come, but I don't really see anything to object to in the code of conduct posted above.
In theory, it is nice. In practice, you find that your smart TV won't play from Amazon Prime Instant Video and your smart Blu-Ray player won't play from Netflix. Before long, you give up and just buy an Apple TV or buy a Chromecast and use it with your phone.
That's exactly why you keep hearing the media clamor for Apple to make it's own TV set instead of the set-top box. It doesn't make sense though, because you know it's going to be twice as expensive as a regular TV and for what, app store integration? What I'd really like is if my Apple TV could also act as my cable set top box & DVR, but Comcast would never allow that.
And in the meanwhile, shameless promotion for the Libertarian party! Socially liberal, fiscally conservative, nothing beats that. A vote for the lesser evil is still a vote for evil.
Avarist, did Samsung 'upgrade' the firmware in your computer so that it could inject ads into your text streams? :-D
Then we can spend all that fuel looking for a piece of floating garbage.
But what if the USB flash drives were somehow attached to a turtle that was trained to swim back to the nearest airport? I figure if we're going to ask hypothetical questions, why not really go off the deep end?
I have a better idea. Make 30% of the floor space dedicated to incense & incense holders. Indians love incense!
What I saw was one student (as you say, usually asian) copy a textbook on the self serve machines (we wouldn't do it, simple as that). Then give us the output of his work to run off 5 or six copies. We'd then see these copies come back to make an additional 10, one at a time. Funny, we never 'noticed' it was copyrighted.
I was working at Kinko's at the time they were getting sued over their course packs, so we wouldn't photocopy *anything* that was copyrighted without a release form from the publisher.
How do you prove you haven't scanned a paper book and kept the scans?
If you're scanning books, you probably don't value your time very much. I used to work at a Kinko's where I went to college, and at the start of the semester, we'd have a bunch of Asian students--and it was always Asians--who would be scanning textbooks. Of course, this was on a Xerox, so no OCR was being done. Now I know text books are expensive, but at $.07 per copy, plus the time you had to spend scanning it probably wasn't worth the $30 or so they saved by not buying a copy themselves. Not to mention that they'd have to 3-hole punch & bind it.
The issue here is not can people break the law, because clearly they can. The issue is if I buy something electronic, then sell my only copy (or destroy all copies I have) once should it be legal.
On things like steam (or anything that authenticates every time the item is used) this would seem simple, all that I would need to do is transfer my rights to another account holder.
Oh, I completely agree with you, I just don't see a way to get it done without DRM needing to be implemented. On Steam, they already have it in place, no reason Amazon, Apple, etc. couldn't do this too, but I'm sure they'd want their cut.
How do you prove you no longer have an eBook? If I buy one and then sell it to someone else on eBay, I'm probably just selling them a copy of my eBook, not my actual copy. What is to stop me from selling my eBook hundreds of times over? There'd need to be some sort of licensing/registration in place where if you sell your copy, you need to transfer the license or copy to the other party. Sounds a lot like DRM.
PLEASE anything but PASCAL. Basic, Swift, even Python or PHP is okay. The point is to teach how to solve the problem and the language is just another tool.
Critical thinking skills really are the key. I usually tell my students to write the problem out in plain English or pseudo-code as comments, then write the code that would implement that problem in between the comments. Of course, few of them do that. Programming courses are just something for them to get through.
I think for the next course I teach this fall (Web Programming w/Database Integration), I am going to have them watch The Secret Rules of Modern Living Algorithms on the first day after we go over the usual housekeeping stuff. I'm hoping it will inspire them, it is quite good.
Thiel, a self-identified libertarian (and, it turns out, a California delegate for Donald Trump)
Well for one, it flies in the face of Libertarian ideology that Thiel likes to promote, that government power used against private individuals and businesses is the root of much of the evil in our society.
There isn't anything un-libertarian about suing someone for libel/slander/defamation. You'd find that most libertarians think that courts, military, prisons, etc. are legitimate roles for government. Basically government should defend peoples' lives & property from harm from others, but otherwise leave them alone. So that covers things like battery, murder, rape, theft, fraud.
On a side note, when I saw that he's a Trump supporter, I imagined Terry Jones saying a la his Life of Brian female voice "Libertarian? He's no libertarian. He's a very naught boy!"
not to mention the progressives who are anti-individual freedom and pro-nanny state.Freedom of your own body (abortion) but don't have freedom to decide whether or not to wear seat belts.
Vs the conservatives, who support freedom to own a gun but want the government policing the media to stop people saying dirty words?
Have you considered that maybe both of you are right?
"Freedom" is a concept so abstract that it's impossible to even agree on a definition.
Actually, it's very simple: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action.
Freedom is what liberals & conservatives are against. They may allow you some token freedoms, but usually with ulterior motives. Conservatives tout free market principles then bail out banks that are "too big to fail," because they know where their kickbacks come from. Liberals say they are "pro-choice" because they're cool with women doing what they want with their bodies, UNLESS the woman wants to smoke cigarettes/meth/whatever or eat food with trans fats or GMOs. I think the real concern for them though is population control.
A group of bipartisan senators introduced a bill on Thursday that blocks a pending judicial rule change allowing U.S judges to issue search warrants for remote access to computers in any jurisdiction, even overseas.
I saw Rand Paul on their, but certainly this is something Bernie Sanders would support as well, right? Does anyone have a link for the full list?
Not sure who you hang around with, but the leftists I know lump all religious conservatives into symptoms of the same underlying disease - relinquishing your rational thought processes to some huckster claiming to speak for a god that doesn't exist.
That may be so, but there's also the "enemy of my enemy is my friend." In America, conservative Christians are an immediate threat to the leftist/atheist/homosexual lifestyle crowd. Islam is a distant threat somewhere else.
The thin line between Christians and Islams is about as meaningful as the thin line between Republicans and Democrats.
If you think there's a thin line between Christians and Muslims, try this: Pick any city in the USA or Europe and in public during the day, paint a painting of Jesus, and tell everyone who passes by what you're doing. Then pick any city in Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Libya/Iraq/Iran/Afghanistan and do the same thing, except make the painting of Mohammed. I think you'd soon see the thin line is much larger than you thought.
There it is AGAIN. A leftist, making excuses for Islamists, and trying to deflect the blame and say the whole thing is the West's fault for being so kind and admitting these people. How many Syrian refugees have Islamic countries taken in? How about a word about them? What is *with* the left-wing alliance with Islamists? Why is there always one to jump right up and defend them? You know they execute homosexuals and legally allow spouse abuse?
Liberals defend Islam because the largest critics of Islam are Christian conservatives--the liberals' biggest boogey-man. If conservatives oppose something, liberals feel compelled to defend it. Additionally, there is the liberal commitment to cultural relativism & multiculturalism. If Muslims want to execute homosexuals, abuse their spouses, or arrest women for not wearing hijabs in photos on the internet, it's because those things are their cultural norm, so who are we to judge?
Their lives were ruined both because they broke the law and got caught and because of a misguided drug policy. Yes, it was not very wise of them to intentionally break the law like that, but the penalties set out by the misguided policy are very disproportionate. Marijuana shouldn't be on the same level as heroin, that's just stupid.
Heroin wouldn't be a problem if it was legal. Instead of shooting up, people could go to the store after work and get a heroin patch and chillax at home.
Slashdot had (has?) a metamod system where mods get moderated. Presumably people who downmodded things for political or other reasons would get their own mod points reduced or stripped. Didn't do squat.
You can meta-moderate after every post you put up. People who downmodded things for political or other reasons can also get upmodded, so it's not that useful.
Or more likely: Fake mustaches are about to become universal.
ftfy. ;-)