civil? huh? why not a criminal case. prosecutor should be prosecuted for not bringing a criminal case then...
and it's used in newspapers now already against them. the reason they would do a settlement is to get off cheaper.
anyways, settlements are common in criminal cases as well. the whole settlement system needs to go - it's a joke internationally and seemingly makes the prosecution first try to up the charges so they can settle down so they don't need to go to court and instead can blackma.. "negotiate" the culprit to admit to something lower - which makes the whole system a joke and not a justice system(the law has certain punishments for certain crimes, it's not supposed to be a negotiation and the court is supposed to find out what happened).
for example if the prosecution has evidence that someone murdered someone, they damn well should prosecute it as a murder and not try to make a deal for manslaughter - and if they have just evidence of it being a manslaughter then they should prosecute it as such! it's not the prosecutions job to make a deal with the culprit about what the crime was...
also it's common that through the settlement process the crimes committed turn into whole other crimes. and what does that mean? that the statistics will never be correct.
besides though, the dismissal of the officers involved is an admission of guilt.
he proposed switching to a cashless system. but cashless doesn't make a system currencyless.
like, move to bitcoin? perhaps.
but if you move to amazon payments, paypal or whatever, then you're just moving to dollars. or if you're moving to a peso based cashless system, you're still operating with pesos.
it's a stupid article really. "just move back to dollarzzz!!!"
anyways, what I was indeed after was does their thing perform faster than a simulation ran on similarly costing hardware of the supposed process?
anyways, saying that we're entering the golden age of quantum computers is like saying that we were entering the golden age of hollywood began in 1800's. it's just stupid. maybe it's the golden age for funding for these guys though.
and for keeping the black people out of key positions, of course. the system only provides money(and power) to the people running the tests - people who shouldn't have a job in the first place there. the person administrating the test essentially pulls the answers out of his ass and reads the signs as he wishes. furthermore the whole concept of it was created as a stress test. like, I always wondered, how it's supposed to test between a lie and just being really stressed about being asked if you drove over a pedestrian last week?
at least it's not as silly as the french handwriting analysis.
things you need to buy(depending on model, some don't user linears so you can skip them, but need buy some other stuff more):
*control board(30-70 bucks). *power supply(old pc supply will do, 12V, 10-40 bucks) *some sort of straight rod or tubing(tubing is ok for using with printed bushings). *some electric wiring. *hot end(20-100 bucks). comes with a heating element and a temp sensitive resistor. *some stepper motors(4,5-20 bucks/piece). *some sort of build plate(piece of glass, 20cm*20cm typically, 2 bucks)
if you were shopping carefully, I'm fairly sure you could do a funbot or smartrap build for 80-100 bucks + printed parts. you can print a rack and pinion so you don't need the belts, or use fishing line instead.
why are repraps that add a 200 bucks worth of linear guides and belts and a little cut plywood, metal or polycarbonate then going sometimes 800$+? don't really know. lulzbot is a particular example of a vendor that has a seemingly astronomical markup whilst not really adding anything expensive to the product.
you can get pretty decent kits for 300-400 bucks now that will perform just as well as a lulzbot nearing 2000 bucks(and way better than current makerbots).
I mean, the categories aren't exact or well done or even fitting. it's still a manageable recognition contest, it just means that the results aren't useful in comparison if you want to use it to make searches from human queries...
I mean, humans already score lower than google, ms or baidu's engine does. which makes honing these partial percentages pretty stupid.
they should just devise a better contest quite frankly, with combination categories or lists of "whats in the picture in relation to each other", like "wine in a glass" vs. "wine glass and a wine bottle"
you can build the metal parts with a metal 3d printer.. more expensive than traditional methods for no benefit though. the magnets? i suppose you could, but for what benefit? and the coils? well you most certainly would like to use a coiling machine to coil them up.. but printing the copper in place as the coils.. would be too expensive and too stupid.
different image set. the real life image set is harder.
also the test has... well.. it has set imagesets for trainig and then as the test. would the chinese CHEAT? surely not! or perhaps they just threw more cpu and memory at the problem until they could beat the previous by a fraction(you can mess with the first dataset if you want to).
who the fuck cares anyways since half the pictures on the internet wont be baidu reachable anyways.
look dude, that would make expendables 3 the most popular movie in canada.
or perhaps they have some examples of movies which were viewed(pirated) multiple times by everyone in the nation due to their logic.
they're copyright guys so it's unknown if they know how the internet works, so they can just pull out things from thin air or base claims on shit like every connection opening in a torrent network is a view (resulting in anyone copying a movie making 20-1000 "views" - it's absurd they could deduce the number of views from number of torrent downloads anyways.).
the developers don't try to make the right choice for the _user_ they try to make the user choose the right choice for the _company_.
like with windows 8/8.1. it tries to make the choice for you to create a microsoft account to use the computer with - you can create a local account but the UI is made so that you don't consider it even as an option if you don't know you can do it beforehand.
also consider tickboxes for optional things. are they ticked for you already or not? most often they're already ticked for you when it's detrimental for you and beneficial for the company(like installing adware, browser expansions etc when you install just regular software, changing your homepage to their "portal" or whatever).
when a software tries to take the users side, what is beneficial for the software user, it's like a breath of fresh air nowadays.
it's like shooting in SD so you can save a bit of money on the props.
not all bad as such. but that's what it is. it's cheaper, faster and easier to create "pixel art" which is passable than really good looking vector art.
also you can see this in them just using them for sprites, and going on to rotate, scale and whatever those sprites NOT in a pixel fashion. the whole presentation is not in low resolution mode. only assets that would take different artists and would take artists more time to do in higher resolution.
personally I prefer low poly 3d presentation to fake-"pixelzz omg!" presentation. and the guy couldn't even figure out how to scale and clamp down the positions of the sprites to actual pixels on the screen so he got stuck trying to fix a blurred mess.
thanks to the internet though.. you can go online and look.
which is why Makerbot shut down their google groups support community group. this group provided people with answers for the previous (open source) models on how to make the machines work reliably and be top performing sub 8k$ home printers(extrusion problems plagued rep1&rep2 before community made printable fixes - fixes makerbot later adopted into their design and "fix pack" they would send to users).
with the 5th gen printers though, if you tried to mess with the smart extruder, that would void the warranty(supposedly) and users were stuck for weeks waiting for replacements and sometimes answers from their premium paid support mind you(you paid extra, like applecare, but got shitcare instead. in fact, it would be easy to argue that those paying extra in many cases did not get even the legally required warranty support(!)).
as a result they couldn't keep deleting posts just forever without starting to nuke so much stuff that people were starting to make threads to ask why are they deleting threads.. so one day they just froze it with the excuse that they preferred support to go just between makerbot and the user(they did not improve the user support at all though).
theres alternative communities now of course since, at places where they can't delete posts like they could in their own.
it's quite easy to spot a makerbot review where the reviewer never started the friggin bot even. a bunch of reviews done based on pictures. the 5th gen has a webcam, sure, yeah, that's a plus, but the firmware handling even that sucks big time AND it's equivalent to a camera . the 5th gen is also noisier and has worse output quality than replicator 2's(they went from replicator 2 to "replicator 5th" gen in one jump. for marketing reasons, to emphasize that it's a mature product. at the same time they changed the gantry -to a h-bot and not a corexy like any sane engineer would have done - , they changed the control board, they switched to their homebrew stepper controllers that suck big time, they completely redesigned the extruder and seemingly never tested it for more than an hour)...
"I don't pay the original manufacturer to fix their own defective merchandise for them."
ok, don't buy a makerbot then.
the extruder debacle was them selling you a defective extruder in the 5th gen and then asking 170$ for replacement, that might work for another kilo or two of printing, or maybe 10 if you're lucky(a kilo of plastic for it is like twenty bucks, so swapping the extruders that keep breaking up/jamming ends up being really, really expensive, all because their smart extruder(tm)(c) is a bad design all around and was seemingly untested going to market).
thingiverse is makerbots biggest asset right now. stratasys got kind of scammed too(oh and bre pettis is a liar. he lied on a video about replicator 1's capabilities and many times since). replicator1 also had defective extruder design that was luckily user/community fixed with a printed part, but for something that was over two thousand dollars...
talking about cloning 3d printers.....if you want a decent "makerbot"(a replicator 1/2 like bot running mightyboard+open source firmware) you need to buy a clone of the last gen makerbots(wanhao, flashforge are common brands). (due to the 5th gen "extruder problem", shitty electronics and so forth - you don't want a 5th gen. the clones are better!).
basically the management for last year sold shit and they knew they were selling shit, they just didn't care, their merger bonuses depended on last year. oh and the CES etc awards for makerbot 5th gen replicators printers last year? all given without seeing output from one, just bought with money. the samples at the show were printed with their previous generation printers.
if userbase goes down, then the costs go down as well.
the real problem is that the ADS are not paying spotify enough to cover the plays of the free users. however, I suspect the calculation is such that the free users would need to pay 0.33 dollars / month and still have to listen to ads.
that would make the ads have more worth though, they could charge more per ad.
the real problem for them in that is that people would just rather listen to the music from youtube than pay 0.33$ / month - just like they're already doing in markets that don't have spotify. seriously, youtube is the rdio/spotify/itunes whatever of the south east asian market already. it's free and has more obscure but popular stuff(obscure in the sense that if anything is popular locally anywhere, it's on youtube. but not on spotify)
well if you for some stupid reason decide to make clickable/touchable elements look like everything else, I guess it makes sense to make them upper case. or perhaps they were too small for fingers so somebody just uppercased them to make them bigger in 10 secs.
which actually is the real problem with their zune derived ui style. it's not immediately obvious from screen to screen what is clickable and what is not and in some cases(in windows 8.1 install sequence of all places!) it's not immediately obvious that a hyperlink style button will actually take you to next alternate screen in the flow(it should be a bordered button like the other choice in the flow).
this is even worse on touch displays where you can't even mouseover.
its like they fired their ui experts after windows 2K, really, and hired some photoshopper guys after that, without giving the guidelines to them. those guys completely started ignoring the guidelines in their quest for changing everything for no reason at all - and ballmer went ahead with the win8 debacle of zunefest proportions because he thought he could get 30% of every photoshop license sold.
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civil? huh? why not a criminal case.
prosecutor should be prosecuted for not bringing a criminal case then...
and it's used in newspapers now already against them. the reason they would do a settlement is to get off cheaper.
anyways, settlements are common in criminal cases as well. the whole settlement system needs to go - it's a joke internationally and seemingly makes the prosecution first try to up the charges so they can settle down so they don't need to go to court and instead can blackma.. "negotiate" the culprit to admit to something lower - which makes the whole system a joke and not a justice system(the law has certain punishments for certain crimes, it's not supposed to be a negotiation and the court is supposed to find out what happened).
for example if the prosecution has evidence that someone murdered someone, they damn well should prosecute it as a murder and not try to make a deal for manslaughter - and if they have just evidence of it being a manslaughter then they should prosecute it as such! it's not the prosecutions job to make a deal with the culprit about what the crime was...
which makes the whole settlement system bullshit.
also it's common that through the settlement process the crimes committed turn into whole other crimes. and what does that mean? that the statistics will never be correct.
besides though, the dismissal of the officers involved is an admission of guilt.
sure he did.
he proposed switching to a cashless system.
but cashless doesn't make a system currencyless.
like, move to bitcoin? perhaps.
but if you move to amazon payments, paypal or whatever, then you're just moving to dollars. or if you're moving to a peso based cashless system, you're still operating with pesos.
it's a stupid article really. "just move back to dollarzzz!!!"
they certainly marketed it as a quantum computer.
anyways, what I was indeed after was does their thing perform faster than a simulation ran on similarly costing hardware of the supposed process?
anyways, saying that we're entering the golden age of quantum computers is like saying that we were entering the golden age of hollywood began in 1800's. it's just stupid. maybe it's the golden age for funding for these guys though.
it's just a jobs creation scam.
and for keeping the black people out of key positions, of course. the system only provides money(and power) to the people running the tests - people who shouldn't have a job in the first place there. the person administrating the test essentially pulls the answers out of his ass and reads the signs as he wishes. furthermore the whole concept of it was created as a stress test. like, I always wondered, how it's supposed to test between a lie and just being really stressed about being asked if you drove over a pedestrian last week?
at least it's not as silly as the french handwriting analysis.
for authenticity..
people pay for that. execs pay for that. would you rather have van damme or arnold? both can play essentially the same roles.
they made the government official sign a NDA.
and gave them some money back. that they can't disclose to their voters. because of the nda.
how does that even compute into being a golden age?
is it settled now even if that one companys "quantum computer" can actually solve anything faster than a simulation about what it does for cheaper?
things you need to buy(depending on model, some don't user linears so you can skip them, but need buy some other stuff more):
*control board(30-70 bucks). ,5-20 bucks /piece).
*power supply(old pc supply will do, 12V, 10-40 bucks)
*some sort of straight rod or tubing(tubing is ok for using with printed bushings).
*some electric wiring.
*hot end(20-100 bucks). comes with a heating element and a temp sensitive resistor.
*some stepper motors(4
*some sort of build plate(piece of glass, 20cm*20cm typically, 2 bucks)
if you were shopping carefully, I'm fairly sure you could do a funbot or smartrap build for 80-100 bucks + printed parts. you can print a rack and pinion so you don't need the belts, or use fishing line instead.
why are repraps that add a 200 bucks worth of linear guides and belts and a little cut plywood, metal or polycarbonate then going sometimes 800$+? don't really know. lulzbot is a particular example of a vendor that has a seemingly astronomical markup whilst not really adding anything expensive to the product.
you can get pretty decent kits for 300-400 bucks now that will perform just as well as a lulzbot nearing 2000 bucks(and way better than current makerbots).
it's not strange at all. ;)
it's just artificial
I mean, the categories aren't exact or well done or even fitting. it's still a manageable recognition contest, it just means that the results aren't useful in comparison if you want to use it to make searches from human queries...
I mean, humans already score lower than google, ms or baidu's engine does. which makes honing these partial percentages pretty stupid.
they should just devise a better contest quite frankly, with combination categories or lists of "whats in the picture in relation to each other", like "wine in a glass" vs. "wine glass and a wine bottle"
zardoz is great and a critically acclaimed success.
and it has some deep things to say about quite a few things, like punishments, ai, immortality and what have you..
you could build it by hand.
you can build the metal parts with a metal 3d printer.. more expensive than traditional methods for no benefit though. the magnets? i suppose you could, but for what benefit? and the coils? well you most certainly would like to use a coiling machine to coil them up.. but printing the copper in place as the coils.. would be too expensive and too stupid.
anyways, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... as you can see, not _everything_ about it is 3d printed.
different image set.
the real life image set is harder.
also the test has... well.. it has set imagesets for trainig and then as the test. would the chinese CHEAT? surely not! or perhaps they just threw more cpu and memory at the problem until they could beat the previous by a fraction(you can mess with the first dataset if you want to).
who the fuck cares anyways since half the pictures on the internet wont be baidu reachable anyways.
look dude, that would make expendables 3 the most popular movie in canada.
or perhaps they have some examples of movies which were viewed(pirated) multiple times by everyone in the nation due to their logic.
they're copyright guys so it's unknown if they know how the internet works, so they can just pull out things from thin air or base claims on shit like every connection opening in a torrent network is a view (resulting in anyone copying a movie making 20-1000 "views" - it's absurd they could deduce the number of views from number of torrent downloads anyways.).
can the service rep pass or administer the turing test?
I bet according to the script he can't do either.
which is why the callers are frustrated.
that's the dilemma really.
the developers don't try to make the right choice for the _user_ they try to make the user choose the right choice for the _company_.
like with windows 8/8.1. it tries to make the choice for you to create a microsoft account to use the computer with - you can create a local account but the UI is made so that you don't consider it even as an option if you don't know you can do it beforehand.
also consider tickboxes for optional things. are they ticked for you already or not? most often they're already ticked for you when it's detrimental for you and beneficial for the company(like installing adware, browser expansions etc when you install just regular software, changing your homepage to their "portal" or whatever).
when a software tries to take the users side, what is beneficial for the software user, it's like a breath of fresh air nowadays.
"pixel" blocky art is also a cost saving measure.
it's like shooting in SD so you can save a bit of money on the props.
not all bad as such. but that's what it is. it's cheaper, faster and easier to create "pixel art" which is passable than really good looking vector art.
also you can see this in them just using them for sprites, and going on to rotate, scale and whatever those sprites NOT in a pixel fashion. the whole presentation is not in low resolution mode. only assets that would take different artists and would take artists more time to do in higher resolution.
personally I prefer low poly 3d presentation to fake-"pixelzz omg!" presentation. and the guy couldn't even figure out how to scale and clamp down the positions of the sprites to actual pixels on the screen so he got stuck trying to fix a blurred mess.
thanks to the internet though.. you can go online and look.
which is why Makerbot shut down their google groups support community group. this group provided people with answers for the previous (open source) models on how to make the machines work reliably and be top performing sub 8k$ home printers(extrusion problems plagued rep1&rep2 before community made printable fixes - fixes makerbot later adopted into their design and "fix pack" they would send to users).
with the 5th gen printers though, if you tried to mess with the smart extruder, that would void the warranty(supposedly) and users were stuck for weeks waiting for replacements and sometimes answers from their premium paid support mind you(you paid extra, like applecare, but got shitcare instead. in fact, it would be easy to argue that those paying extra in many cases did not get even the legally required warranty support(!)).
as a result they couldn't keep deleting posts just forever without starting to nuke so much stuff that people were starting to make threads to ask why are they deleting threads.. so one day they just froze it with the excuse that they preferred support to go just between makerbot and the user(they did not improve the user support at all though).
theres alternative communities now of course since, at places where they can't delete posts like they could in their own.
it's quite easy to spot a makerbot review where the reviewer never started the friggin bot even. a bunch of reviews done based on pictures. the 5th gen has a webcam, sure, yeah, that's a plus, but the firmware handling even that sucks big time AND it's equivalent to a camera . the 5th gen is also noisier and has worse output quality than replicator 2's(they went from replicator 2 to "replicator 5th" gen in one jump. for marketing reasons, to emphasize that it's a mature product. at the same time they changed the gantry -to a h-bot and not a corexy like any sane engineer would have done - , they changed the control board, they switched to their homebrew stepper controllers that suck big time, they completely redesigned the extruder and seemingly never tested it for more than an hour)...
about 80% would extradite to the US though.
unfortunately.
or the company could pursue the local similar laws.
in this case though very unlikely, because there's too many people to prosecute it's likely that nobody will be prosecuted.
"I don't pay the original manufacturer to fix their own defective merchandise for them."
ok, don't buy a makerbot then.
the extruder debacle was them selling you a defective extruder in the 5th gen and then asking 170$ for replacement, that might work for another kilo or two of printing, or maybe 10 if you're lucky(a kilo of plastic for it is like twenty bucks, so swapping the extruders that keep breaking up/jamming ends up being really, really expensive, all because their smart extruder(tm)(c) is a bad design all around and was seemingly untested going to market).
thingiverse is makerbots biggest asset right now. stratasys got kind of scammed too(oh and bre pettis is a liar. he lied on a video about replicator 1's capabilities and many times since). replicator1 also had defective extruder design that was luckily user/community fixed with a printed part, but for something that was over two thousand dollars...
talking about cloning 3d printers... ..if you want a decent "makerbot"(a replicator 1/2 like bot running mightyboard+open source firmware) you need to buy a clone of the last gen makerbots(wanhao, flashforge are common brands). (due to the 5th gen "extruder problem", shitty electronics and so forth - you don't want a 5th gen. the clones are better!).
basically the management for last year sold shit and they knew they were selling shit, they just didn't care, their merger bonuses depended on last year. oh and the CES etc awards for makerbot 5th gen replicators printers last year? all given without seeing output from one, just bought with money. the samples at the show were printed with their previous generation printers.
if userbase goes down, then the costs go down as well.
the real problem is that the ADS are not paying spotify enough to cover the plays of the free users. however, I suspect the calculation is such that the free users would need to pay 0.33 dollars / month and still have to listen to ads.
that would make the ads have more worth though, they could charge more per ad.
the real problem for them in that is that people would just rather listen to the music from youtube than pay 0.33$ / month - just like they're already doing in markets that don't have spotify. seriously, youtube is the rdio/spotify/itunes whatever of the south east asian market already. it's free and has more obscure but popular stuff(obscure in the sense that if anything is popular locally anywhere, it's on youtube. but not on spotify)
are climate worryers moving away from florida?
why not?
how much does the sea rise if the entire west antarctic melts?
well you would measure it on a skidpad..
you know, rolling it over in the moon is a lot easier than on earth.
anyhow, check out the moon machines documentary.
well if you for some stupid reason decide to make clickable/touchable elements look like everything else, I guess it makes sense to make them upper case. or perhaps they were too small for fingers so somebody just uppercased them to make them bigger in 10 secs.
which actually is the real problem with their zune derived ui style. it's not immediately obvious from screen to screen what is clickable and what is not and in some cases(in windows 8.1 install sequence of all places!) it's not immediately obvious that a hyperlink style button will actually take you to next alternate screen in the flow(it should be a bordered button like the other choice in the flow).
this is even worse on touch displays where you can't even mouseover.
its like they fired their ui experts after windows 2K, really, and hired some photoshopper guys after that, without giving the guidelines to them. those guys completely started ignoring the guidelines in their quest for changing everything for no reason at all - and ballmer went ahead with the win8 debacle of zunefest proportions because he thought he could get 30% of every photoshop license sold.