I've never understood why so many people buy playstations. They're so limited and not even that much cheaper than a decent gaming PC that will blow it out of the water. By the time you've bought 3-5 AAA games on steam vs PS4 games, the PC already cheaper.
Now Sony is a censored platform too? Who needs it.
Free as in speech is a nice idea that can lead to better, safer. more reliable software...if it's done in a way that doesn't block profit.
It's the free as in beer mindset that will prevent linux from ever being successful with the average user. It limits you to mostly volunteer developers who will only do what they feel like. That's why you end up with poorly supported hardware, no documentation, bugs and incompatibilities that linger for decades, and burnout that leaves projects to wither and die leaving users in the lurch.
The linux community has always been very harsh on its users expecting them to be knowledgable enough to resolve all those issues on their own. If my NVidia card doesn't work after an upgrade I'm supposed to know how to modify the driver. It's a ridiculous expectation and eliminates linux as an option for most users.
No volunteer is going to do hundreds of hours of tedious grunt work for nothing. But the average user will pay $5, $10, or even $50 for a well supported linux desktop that they have some assurance will just work with good support and updates for 5-10 years down the road and not require a computer engineering degree to use and maintain. But that whole concept is the very antithesis of Linux and so linux will always be a minor niche for young tech people until they grow up and get tired of the BS.
I have a CS degree from a top tier school, and I ran a Linux desktop for about 5 years (1997-2002). Switching to Windows.XP was a huge relief. It was like getting out of prison and finally being able to enjoy life. Everything just worked so easily, it looked better, had decent fonts, my network card worked without hours of frustration. I'm well aware a lot has changed in 17 years, but the core philosophy of free volunteers delivering half-baked products that nobody can be bothered polishing with the attitude the user is getting it for free they can do the work to make it into what they need is still the prime principle of the linux desktop. I will never install a linux desktop again, I would pay $500 for windows to avoid free linux.
So what to use instead? MacOS where you can pay 5 times the price for 1/5th the hardware, soldered ram, and soldered SSD? No way.
Linux where you need a hobbyist's devotion to work as part time netadmin on your home computer to keep everything running smoothly? Please,I just want to enjoy using my computer...I'll suffer though a Mac before that option.
But whenever they release a good windows like XP or 7, people stay on it for 10 years until MS forces them off of it. There's no money in it for MS when people hold onto software that long. It's a lot more profitable when they produce garbage that people can't wait to "upgrade" from right away. Windows 7 is probably the last good windows we will ever see.
It's worse than that. 1 degree of arc is 1 degree of arc. I doesn't matter how far. It's like saying in a unit equilateral triangle, the angles measure 60 degrees at 1 unit. They measure 60 degrees at any size of equilateral triangle.
Contrary to the above summary, the researchers are not proposing that sound waves have a "negative gravitational mass". That would rewrite a whole bunch of physics.
Let's look at the traditional definition of "mass": Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a net force is applied. The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies.
so what definition of "mass" is this nonsense babble using? Because even if their nonsense works under their definition, they've still defined mass wrong and their whole "paper" is a null statement.
So...what definition
"In water, where sound moves at 1.5 kilometers per second, the negative mass of the phonon would cause it to drift at about 1 degree per second. But this corresponds to a change of 1 degree over 15 kilometers, which would be exceedingly difficult to measure."
Wow....it would also correspond to a change of 1 degree over 1 millimetre. And a change of 1 degree over 1 billion parsecs.
The rest of this pathetic post is similarly utter ignorant nonsense babble from someone who doesn't understand the most basic concepts.
"That's roughly 1,000 times as much as all known terrestrial sources combined, and enough to fuel the global nuclear power industry for centuries"
So, 1000 times all known terrestrial sources will power the global nuclear industry for centuries. Which means all known terrestrial sources will last a fraction of a year. An all mined sources should run out tomorrow afternoon.
Journalists really are stupid people who will never let facts interfere with their storytelling.
I don't know whether it's funny or sad that the AC believes that. For that matter, I don't know if the AC is a shill for the elite or a duped victim of them.
It truly amazes me that this is being posted as a feel-good story about how great the system works.
When hundreds of thousands of elderly are bilked out of tens of millions of dollars in the exact same scam, law enforcement just shakes its head and says it's too difficult to track down and arrest these people and everyone has to be vigilant. When this power-man with serious connections gets called by the scammer, suddenly the wheels of justice spring into motion in top gear, the next day the FBI is on it and they get the guy right away. The scammer didn't even get anything. What about grandma who lost her $200,000 life savings in a scam only to hear "that's a shame" from the police?
Then, the icing on the cake, the appropriate penalty is 33 to 41 months for the actual offence. And he gets 2 more years just because power-man is pulling the judge's string. What a corrupt system.
This whole thing reminds me of a joke. North Koreans believe they live in the greatest country in the world because the government and media lie to them. Americans know perfectly well they live in the greatest country in the world.
He could have bought stock in a company that is listed on Canadian and American exchanges (like say a Canadian bank, oil company, utility, telcom, etc) through a legitimate brokerage company with American dollars. Then journaled the shares into the Canadian portion of his brokerage account and sold the shares there for Canadian dollars.
But what I would have done personally, unless I was planning to spend the money in Canada in the short term, I would have left the vast bulk of my money in the bank I was used to dealing with, opened a new account in Canada, and transferred a relatively small amount for short term use, getting established in Canada here. For $10-20k, the cost to transfer the money wouldn't be that bad. Also I know from my own for-ex investing that if I'm converting more than $50,000 at once, I can call my broker's trading desk and they will give me a much better rate than I would get doing the transfer online.
Anyone with a half-functioning brain should know better than to put any significant money into cryptro. The fact that one person's death wipes out a company's customer accounts should exemplify how brain-dead crypto is from the ground up. The banking system has tons of checks and balances to ensure safety and continuity. The fact that one rogue person with a password can wipe out all the assets so that password must be guarded so closely is a fatal flaw.
Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019
Done, I won't. I'm still never going to sign up for any software as a service. Currently running office 2013 on Windows 7. I'm not sure what I'll do when Win7 support is dropped though. But buying into subscription software won't be it.
So 2018 was a worse year for smartphone shipments than 1918?
Remember when being a journalist required a functioning brain? It has been quite a while. 1.4 billion smartphones shipped would make 2018 the second best year ever for smartphone shipments, not the worst. 2018 was, however, the worst year ever for quality of journalism. With gems like this story, 2019 is already set to top it though.
Their customers who are out the money are such geniuses for avoiding central banks and pesky things like deposit insurance. I really can't feel sorry for anyone who loses money when things like this happen, they're victims of their own ignorance.
Remember 15 years ago when you would turn off the console, put in the game, turn the console back on, and start playing?
How did people come to accept the disaster of modern consoles with convoluted menus, tons of bloat, app stores, online dependencies, etc? All garbage that exists only to make more after-sale profit off the suckers. Modern consumer electronics are so consumer hostile and yet nobody seems to care. It only gets worse every year.
This is why I (and likely most people around here) refuse to buy these cloud cameras. For all the people who did buy into it, they were warned and warned that this sort of thing was almost a given. Now what are they upset about?
I just bought a 75" TV last week. I chose a Sony because it's the only major brand that didn't include on-screen advertising. I figured I was overpaying $200-400 compared to Samsun or Visio, but showing ads is a hard deal-breaker for me.
This is also the first Sony product I've bought since the rootkit fiasco.
I absolutely would have paid another $500 above what I did for a dumb version of the same TV. I was seriously considering buying a commercial display but it was about 3 times the price, that was just too far to go.
I agree with you, and frankly I'll be cancelling hte one Bell service I currently have (a smartl phone) this week just because they have the gall to even suggest this.
The problem is, we only have 2 viable choices in Canada, Bell and Rogers (where most of my services currently are). They usually mirror each other step for step, so if Rogers follows suit, there is no way to "Just say no" without foregoing telecommunication services completely.
As far as the 70's being an era of wonder... the only I can ask is "what planet did you grow up on?" I lived through the 70's, and like virtually all who did I remember it as the era of growing disillusionment, the energy crisis, rampant inflation, and disco.
The 70's was the decade of the microprocessor revolution and the first commercial video games, which was a direct result of the Apollo program (who was buying flip-flop ICs for $150 in the early 1960's besides NASA)? The 70's saw the intro of the 747 and the Concorde which was when mass travel became easily available to the masses, the opening of Disney World, the intro of Cable and HBO. MRI was invented in the 70's. I remember it as a decade of wonder. Compared to the 70's, what do we do today. They had the concorde, we have an incremental update to the iPhone. Wow.
Imagine the tech and innovation another space race for Mars could bring to the country.
As for the "energy crisis", it was political maneuvering when the muslims threatened to cut off oil to any country that supported Israel. It didn't amount to anything but a lot of hot air and meaningless newspaper headlines. As well as travel becoming much more readily available, the 70's also saw the opening of the trans-Alaskan oil pipeline. So what energy crisis? Detroit wouldn't have been so successful selling those huge cars into the mid 80's if there was a real energy crisis.
So the Apollo 8 astronaut doesn't know why the Apollo program existed?
Aside from the main reason of allowing the US to show of it's rocket and missile tech to the Russians without directly and obviously pushing the arms race, it got the entire country behind NASA. At it's peak in the 60's, NASA was drawing about 10% of the country's entire GDP and the public was still happy with it. Now with unmanned probes, the public for the most part doesn't know or care what NASA is up do. The budget is a tiny shadow of what it used to be and still draws public outrage.
A manned Mars mission is something that might once again unite people behind space exploration. It's worth it for the societal reasons alone if not for any scientific or technical ones. The 60's and 70's were a generation of hope and wonder partly fueled by "space age" excitement. We now live in tired and cynical times where society is falling apart.
It's sad that an Apollo astronaut doesn't get all that, but it's a sign of the times we live in today.
I had an Amiga 2000 back in the day. The hardware was great, of course. But the software was a glitchy nightmare. Slow to load things, weird guru messages that didn't help fix problems. Clunky UI. Commodore really did mess it up.
Not to mention the ecosystem. I remember an insanley expensive HDD controller (I want to say $1000+ back in the 80's), and then it didn't even work right. The PC just worked back then, the Amiga never did.
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I've never understood why so many people buy playstations. They're so limited and not even that much cheaper than a decent gaming PC that will blow it out of the water. By the time you've bought 3-5 AAA games on steam vs PS4 games, the PC already cheaper.
Now Sony is a censored platform too? Who needs it.
Free as in speech is a nice idea that can lead to better, safer. more reliable software...if it's done in a way that doesn't block profit.
It's the free as in beer mindset that will prevent linux from ever being successful with the average user. It limits you to mostly volunteer developers who will only do what they feel like. That's why you end up with poorly supported hardware, no documentation, bugs and incompatibilities that linger for decades, and burnout that leaves projects to wither and die leaving users in the lurch.
The linux community has always been very harsh on its users expecting them to be knowledgable enough to resolve all those issues on their own. If my NVidia card doesn't work after an upgrade I'm supposed to know how to modify the driver. It's a ridiculous expectation and eliminates linux as an option for most users.
No volunteer is going to do hundreds of hours of tedious grunt work for nothing. But the average user will pay $5, $10, or even $50 for a well supported linux desktop that they have some assurance will just work with good support and updates for 5-10 years down the road and not require a computer engineering degree to use and maintain. But that whole concept is the very antithesis of Linux and so linux will always be a minor niche for young tech people until they grow up and get tired of the BS.
I have a CS degree from a top tier school, and I ran a Linux desktop for about 5 years (1997-2002). Switching to Windows.XP was a huge relief. It was like getting out of prison and finally being able to enjoy life. Everything just worked so easily, it looked better, had decent fonts, my network card worked without hours of frustration. I'm well aware a lot has changed in 17 years, but the core philosophy of free volunteers delivering half-baked products that nobody can be bothered polishing with the attitude the user is getting it for free they can do the work to make it into what they need is still the prime principle of the linux desktop. I will never install a linux desktop again, I would pay $500 for windows to avoid free linux.
So what to use instead?
MacOS where you can pay 5 times the price for 1/5th the hardware, soldered ram, and soldered SSD? No way.
Linux where you need a hobbyist's devotion to work as part time netadmin on your home computer to keep everything running smoothly? Please,I just want to enjoy using my computer...I'll suffer though a Mac before that option.
But whenever they release a good windows like XP or 7, people stay on it for 10 years until MS forces them off of it. There's no money in it for MS when people hold onto software that long. It's a lot more profitable when they produce garbage that people can't wait to "upgrade" from right away. Windows 7 is probably the last good windows we will ever see.
It's worse than that. 1 degree of arc is 1 degree of arc. I doesn't matter how far. It's like saying in a unit equilateral triangle, the angles measure 60 degrees at 1 unit. They measure 60 degrees at any size of equilateral triangle.
Contrary to the above summary, the researchers are not proposing that sound waves have a "negative gravitational mass". That would rewrite a whole bunch of physics.
Let's look at the traditional definition of "mass":
Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a net force is applied. The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies.
so what definition of "mass" is this nonsense babble using? Because even if their nonsense works under their definition, they've still defined mass wrong and their whole "paper" is a null statement. So...what definition
"In water, where sound moves at 1.5 kilometers per second, the negative mass of the phonon would cause it to drift at about 1 degree per second. But this corresponds to a change of 1 degree over 15 kilometers, which would be exceedingly difficult to measure."
Wow....it would also correspond to a change of 1 degree over 1 millimetre. And a change of 1 degree over 1 billion parsecs.
The rest of this pathetic post is similarly utter ignorant nonsense babble from someone who doesn't understand the most basic concepts.
"That's roughly 1,000 times as much as all known terrestrial sources combined, and enough to fuel the global nuclear power industry for centuries"
So, 1000 times all known terrestrial sources will power the global nuclear industry for centuries. Which means all known terrestrial sources will last a fraction of a year. An all mined sources should run out tomorrow afternoon.
Journalists really are stupid people who will never let facts interfere with their storytelling.
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No. Just...wow...No. Why would anyone with 3 or more brain cells want this?
I don't know whether it's funny or sad that the AC believes that. For that matter, I don't know if the AC is a shill for the elite or a duped victim of them.
It truly amazes me that this is being posted as a feel-good story about how great the system works.
When hundreds of thousands of elderly are bilked out of tens of millions of dollars in the exact same scam, law enforcement just shakes its head and says it's too difficult to track down and arrest these people and everyone has to be vigilant. When this power-man with serious connections gets called by the scammer, suddenly the wheels of justice spring into motion in top gear, the next day the FBI is on it and they get the guy right away. The scammer didn't even get anything. What about grandma who lost her $200,000 life savings in a scam only to hear "that's a shame" from the police?
Then, the icing on the cake, the appropriate penalty is 33 to 41 months for the actual offence. And he gets 2 more years just because power-man is pulling the judge's string. What a corrupt system.
This whole thing reminds me of a joke. North Koreans believe they live in the greatest country in the world because the government and media lie to them. Americans know perfectly well they live in the greatest country in the world.
He could have bought stock in a company that is listed on Canadian and American exchanges (like say a Canadian bank, oil company, utility, telcom, etc) through a legitimate brokerage company with American dollars. Then journaled the shares into the Canadian portion of his brokerage account and sold the shares there for Canadian dollars.
But what I would have done personally, unless I was planning to spend the money in Canada in the short term, I would have left the vast bulk of my money in the bank I was used to dealing with, opened a new account in Canada, and transferred a relatively small amount for short term use, getting established in Canada here. For $10-20k, the cost to transfer the money wouldn't be that bad. Also I know from my own for-ex investing that if I'm converting more than $50,000 at once, I can call my broker's trading desk and they will give me a much better rate than I would get doing the transfer online.
Anyone with a half-functioning brain should know better than to put any significant money into cryptro. The fact that one person's death wipes out a company's customer accounts should exemplify how brain-dead crypto is from the ground up. The banking system has tons of checks and balances to ensure safety and continuity. The fact that one rogue person with a password can wipe out all the assets so that password must be guarded so closely is a fatal flaw.
Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019
Done, I won't. I'm still never going to sign up for any software as a service. Currently running office 2013 on Windows 7. I'm not sure what I'll do when Win7 support is dropped though. But buying into subscription software won't be it.
So 2018 was a worse year for smartphone shipments than 1918?
Remember when being a journalist required a functioning brain? It has been quite a while. 1.4 billion smartphones shipped would make 2018 the second best year ever for smartphone shipments, not the worst. 2018 was, however, the worst year ever for quality of journalism. With gems like this story, 2019 is already set to top it though.
Their customers who are out the money are such geniuses for avoiding central banks and pesky things like deposit insurance. I really can't feel sorry for anyone who loses money when things like this happen, they're victims of their own ignorance.
+10 for the Alpha Centauri reference. It's been about 3 weeks since I played that. Way overdue to start a new game.
Remember 15 years ago when you would turn off the console, put in the game, turn the console back on, and start playing?
How did people come to accept the disaster of modern consoles with convoluted menus, tons of bloat, app stores, online dependencies, etc? All garbage that exists only to make more after-sale profit off the suckers. Modern consumer electronics are so consumer hostile and yet nobody seems to care. It only gets worse every year.
This is why I (and likely most people around here) refuse to buy these cloud cameras. For all the people who did buy into it, they were warned and warned that this sort of thing was almost a given. Now what are they upset about?
I just bought a 75" TV last week. I chose a Sony because it's the only major brand that didn't include on-screen advertising. I figured I was overpaying $200-400 compared to Samsun or Visio, but showing ads is a hard deal-breaker for me.
This is also the first Sony product I've bought since the rootkit fiasco.
I absolutely would have paid another $500 above what I did for a dumb version of the same TV. I was seriously considering buying a commercial display but it was about 3 times the price, that was just too far to go.
I agree with you, and frankly I'll be cancelling hte one Bell service I currently have (a smartl phone) this week just because they have the gall to even suggest this.
The problem is, we only have 2 viable choices in Canada, Bell and Rogers (where most of my services currently are). They usually mirror each other step for step, so if Rogers follows suit, there is no way to "Just say no" without foregoing telecommunication services completely.
The app store takes 30% of the gross, not the profits. It's hard for anyone to make profits when you lose 30% of your top line.
As far as the 70's being an era of wonder... the only I can ask is "what planet did you grow up on?" I lived through the 70's, and like virtually all who did I remember it as the era of growing disillusionment, the energy crisis, rampant inflation, and disco.
The 70's was the decade of the microprocessor revolution and the first commercial video games, which was a direct result of the Apollo program (who was buying flip-flop ICs for $150 in the early 1960's besides NASA)? The 70's saw the intro of the 747 and the Concorde which was when mass travel became easily available to the masses, the opening of Disney World, the intro of Cable and HBO. MRI was invented in the 70's. I remember it as a decade of wonder. Compared to the 70's, what do we do today. They had the concorde, we have an incremental update to the iPhone. Wow.
Imagine the tech and innovation another space race for Mars could bring to the country.
As for the "energy crisis", it was political maneuvering when the muslims threatened to cut off oil to any country that supported Israel. It didn't amount to anything but a lot of hot air and meaningless newspaper headlines. As well as travel becoming much more readily available, the 70's also saw the opening of the trans-Alaskan oil pipeline. So what energy crisis? Detroit wouldn't have been so successful selling those huge cars into the mid 80's if there was a real energy crisis.
So the Apollo 8 astronaut doesn't know why the Apollo program existed?
Aside from the main reason of allowing the US to show of it's rocket and missile tech to the Russians without directly and obviously pushing the arms race, it got the entire country behind NASA. At it's peak in the 60's, NASA was drawing about 10% of the country's entire GDP and the public was still happy with it. Now with unmanned probes, the public for the most part doesn't know or care what NASA is up do. The budget is a tiny shadow of what it used to be and still draws public outrage.
A manned Mars mission is something that might once again unite people behind space exploration. It's worth it for the societal reasons alone if not for any scientific or technical ones. The 60's and 70's were a generation of hope and wonder partly fueled by "space age" excitement. We now live in tired and cynical times where society is falling apart.
It's sad that an Apollo astronaut doesn't get all that, but it's a sign of the times we live in today.
Universities are not trade schools. They don't teach job skills, and they don't spoon-feed graduates how-to manuals on certain "jobs".
They give you a broad-based education within a particular field. They teach you how to teach yourself what you have to do for a job.
The question fundamentally misses the point of what an education is.
I had an Amiga 2000 back in the day. The hardware was great, of course. But the software was a glitchy nightmare. Slow to load things, weird guru messages that didn't help fix problems. Clunky UI. Commodore really did mess it up.
Not to mention the ecosystem. I remember an insanley expensive HDD controller (I want to say $1000+ back in the 80's), and then it didn't even work right. The PC just worked back then, the Amiga never did.