It's absolute fact that moving to Metal yields performance gains over the same code in OpenGL. So how can you claim it does not improve performance? How can you claim better performance does not help scientific research, which typically has budgetary constraints?
On Apple hardware, sure, it yields performance gains. However, given the budgetary constraints you mentioned, how many cash-strapped scientific programs in need of solid GPU performance are going to opt for Apple, especially when the GPU(s) in the Power Mac are four years old and lagging far behind what's available now?
I did say it would be expensive, but CRTs are still readily available from a number of manufacturers. Also, vector scan displays don't have a flyback transformer.
Bring back the Vectrex. Mine still works just fine (as does my 2600), and there was *nothing* like it in the home gaming scene, before or since. It'd be horribly expensive to produce now, but I think the vector graphics would interest some folks that find the 2600, Intellivision, etc. rather pedestrian, particularly if they could offer higher resolution and a color CRT with games that could take advantage of it.
Even then, it defeats the purpose of copyright. It was designed to allow creators the exclusive right to benefit from their work, but it was for a limited time specifically to encourage them to create more instead of resting on their laurels, with society being the ultimate beneficiary once the copyright term expired. Lifelong (or longer) copyright doesn't offer that encouragement if they can rent-seek for the rest of their lives. I've yet to see a cogent, convincing argument as to why the 14+14 term was not sufficient, and why extended terms shouldn't be considered theft (the kind where something is taken and can't be used by the other party) from society. Also, why are artists, writers, etc. entitled to this ridiculous term, when inventors are getting by just fine on a 20-year patent term?
I did not mean that it's their phone after purchase, just that it's their product that they invest significant resources into designing and building.
For sure, and they sell each one of those phones for a hefty profit. The services that the App Store provides do have value, but yeah, 30%? Apple, please.
Where do you think the ground pin in your electrical outlets goes? Or any earthed electrical system for that matter?
But a car isn't an "earthed electrical system". The electrical ground on a car is the negative terminal on the battery. That's why anytime you are working under the hood, you want to disconnect the *negative* terminal. That way, if you happen to lay a wrench between the car's frame/engine/whatever and a single battery terminal (either one), nothing will happen because the battery circuit isn't completed.
I myself would prefer to see a 2:1 display, where full screen apps will be multi-column.
IBM's T220/221 displays from 15 or so years ago were pretty nice. 3840x2400 (16:10) made for a lot of usable space, although they were horribly expensive, cumbersome to set up, and pretty much useless for gaming. I've only ever seen one T221 up close (at an IBM exhibit at Epcot), and while it looked amazing, it didn't look $9,000 amazing.
It's kind of a sucky legacy format, but clamshell laptops haven't totally disappeared because Google's tablets largely suck with Android being optimized increasingly for phones (512MB stupid!) to the detiment of tablets.
No, laptops haven't disappeared because, in general, people can type a lot faster than they can poke at a screen, and don't get smudges all over it in the process. I can't speak for everyone, but I *much* prefer using a laptop to a tablet, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
This! The restaurant is unlikely to win in court (small claims or otherwise), because of that notice on Federal Reserve Notes. Take a video of the restaurant staff refusing FRNs to play back in court.
And then the restaurant is going to point out that there's no federal law requiring payment in currency or coins to a private business, and the judge is going to agree unless there's a state law to the contrary, and then it'll be up to you to prove otherwise. Text on the currency itself does not mean a thing, and there have been countless cases lost where someone did something stupid like trying to pay with thousands of pennies.
I'd be tempted to tender payment for my debt in any form that the law of the land states is a legal tender. If the restaurant refuses then my debt is already paid and the refused money is returned to me as a gift.
Summary: According to SEC filings, Imbruvica cost Pharmacyclics $388 million to develop, which included the development cost of three other drugs that were not successful. Not mentioned in the article is that Pharmacyclics actually paid $2 million in cash and $1 million in stock for the compound from its actual inventor, Celera Genomics, and their expense was mostly related to developing the compound into an salable drug. After the Phase II clinical trials, J&J paid Pharmacyclics $975 million to jointly continue development of the drug. The drug was approved for CLL in 2014, and just over a year after that, Abbvie bought Pharmacyclics for $21 billion (a 5400% return on investment for Pharmacyclics's shareholders), and the drug is now being sold under the "Janssen and Pharmacyclics" name. In 2016, J&P projected Imbruvica sales of $1 billion for that year, increasing to $5 billion by 2020.
In my opinion, the developers of the drug have already been very well paid for their efforts, certainly well enough "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". I haven't been able to find any other information that would lead me to believe that this isn't a simple money grab, and/or that Abbvie simply paid too much for the drug and is extracting the cost of their mistake from patients. If there are other concrete facts that would argue for other legitimate development costs that need to be recouped, I genuinely would be interested to see them.
Okay, then how about my dad's '79 Suburban (three-speed standard w/5.7L V8)? He bought it new in 1978 and put 300,000 miles on it. I bought it from him in 1996 and sold it in 1998 with another 50K miles on the clock. Still ran great and the only real maintenance needed was replacing the clutch at about 200,000 miles, wheel bearings, brakes, and other consumables. I occasionally see it around town, and I'm guessing it's got half a million miles on it by now. It looks pretty ratty now, but it still moves.
Regenerative braking means you only use the physical brakes to slow from 3 miles per hour to zero, you don't touch the pedal to slow down at higher speeds.
I'm familiar with regenerative braking, having driven 80-ton electric trains for many years, but the friction brakes on a Tesla are most definitely used for hard stops. Romp the brake pedal down hard enough, and you'll hear the antilock system chatter just like any other car.
The freedoms we enjoy are quite precious, and the sacrifices made to preserve them do not all occur on the field of battle
Which also means that we as a society have to deal with the fallout from such rights. For instance, the fact that it's legal to buy and sell alcohol means that people WILL die as a result of drunk driving, regardless of the laws against that particular act. You can't have one without the other, and if you truly stand for freedom, you accept that. We can take other steps to prevent those deaths, but they'll always be an inherent cost of preserving that right.
They don't test with a tank full of fumes. The fuel is replaced with a non-flammable dyed fluid that matches the density of gasoline in the tank and fuel lines so they can clearly see if any fuel system damage results from the crash, and where the fuel ends up.
I seriously doubt that FB are 'listening' to voice calls - they just don't have the technical chops for that, but...
Maybe they do, maybe they don't. If they don't, I think with the amount of money they have that it'd be trivial to contract with Google, Nuance, or someone else to provide voice recognition services or code.
My AP chemistry teacher was a bit more pedestrian, but as a bonus for attending a study session on Saturday, he demonstrated thermite burning a hole through 1" thick plate steel.
My AP chemistry teacher was the same lovely, meek, sweet, but subtly psychotic lady that I had for my first year of chemistry. Highlights of the class where when she spent the time between classes charging herself up on a van deGraff generator and greeting her students with a friendly touch on the arm when they arrived, and the time when we did fractional distillation of some nasty, right out of the ground crude oil. That resulted in some mercaptans coming out, which was an experience the entire school got to share in.
No, the pseudo-code I posted takes two different paths depending on whether the assets are present. You can't use data that isn't there to begin with, even if the code to use it is there. As a bonus, you don't make prospective customers spend a ton of time downloading data they're not supposed to be using anyway.
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It's absolute fact that moving to Metal yields performance gains over the same code in OpenGL. So how can you claim it does not improve performance? How can you claim better performance does not help scientific research, which typically has budgetary constraints?
On Apple hardware, sure, it yields performance gains. However, given the budgetary constraints you mentioned, how many cash-strapped scientific programs in need of solid GPU performance are going to opt for Apple, especially when the GPU(s) in the Power Mac are four years old and lagging far behind what's available now?
Nah, SIP just gets the call started. RTP is the REAL reason we have to listen to spammers. ;-)
I did say it would be expensive, but CRTs are still readily available from a number of manufacturers. Also, vector scan displays don't have a flyback transformer.
Bring back the Vectrex. Mine still works just fine (as does my 2600), and there was *nothing* like it in the home gaming scene, before or since. It'd be horribly expensive to produce now, but I think the vector graphics would interest some folks that find the 2600, Intellivision, etc. rather pedestrian, particularly if they could offer higher resolution and a color CRT with games that could take advantage of it.
Even then, it defeats the purpose of copyright. It was designed to allow creators the exclusive right to benefit from their work, but it was for a limited time specifically to encourage them to create more instead of resting on their laurels, with society being the ultimate beneficiary once the copyright term expired. Lifelong (or longer) copyright doesn't offer that encouragement if they can rent-seek for the rest of their lives. I've yet to see a cogent, convincing argument as to why the 14+14 term was not sufficient, and why extended terms shouldn't be considered theft (the kind where something is taken and can't be used by the other party) from society. Also, why are artists, writers, etc. entitled to this ridiculous term, when inventors are getting by just fine on a 20-year patent term?
I did not mean that it's their phone after purchase, just that it's their product that they invest significant resources into designing and building.
For sure, and they sell each one of those phones for a hefty profit. The services that the App Store provides do have value, but yeah, 30%? Apple, please.
Where do you think the ground pin in your electrical outlets goes? Or any earthed electrical system for that matter?
But a car isn't an "earthed electrical system". The electrical ground on a car is the negative terminal on the battery. That's why anytime you are working under the hood, you want to disconnect the *negative* terminal. That way, if you happen to lay a wrench between the car's frame/engine/whatever and a single battery terminal (either one), nothing will happen because the battery circuit isn't completed.
I'm pretty sure every lawyer will recommend you decline the test if there's the slightest chance of it being used against you.
Yup - when was the last time you saw a lawyer or judge submit to a roadside breath test?
I myself would prefer to see a 2:1 display, where full screen apps will be multi-column.
IBM's T220/221 displays from 15 or so years ago were pretty nice. 3840x2400 (16:10) made for a lot of usable space, although they were horribly expensive, cumbersome to set up, and pretty much useless for gaming. I've only ever seen one T221 up close (at an IBM exhibit at Epcot), and while it looked amazing, it didn't look $9,000 amazing.
Does the gazebo have an arrow stuck in it?
It's kind of a sucky legacy format, but clamshell laptops haven't totally disappeared because Google's tablets largely suck with Android being optimized increasingly for phones (512MB stupid!) to the detiment of tablets.
No, laptops haven't disappeared because, in general, people can type a lot faster than they can poke at a screen, and don't get smudges all over it in the process. I can't speak for everyone, but I *much* prefer using a laptop to a tablet, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
This! The restaurant is unlikely to win in court (small claims or otherwise), because of that notice on Federal Reserve Notes. Take a video of the restaurant staff refusing FRNs to play back in court.
And then the restaurant is going to point out that there's no federal law requiring payment in currency or coins to a private business, and the judge is going to agree unless there's a state law to the contrary, and then it'll be up to you to prove otherwise. Text on the currency itself does not mean a thing, and there have been countless cases lost where someone did something stupid like trying to pay with thousands of pennies.
I'd be tempted to tender payment for my debt in any form that the law of the land states is a legal tender. If the restaurant refuses then my debt is already paid and the refused money is returned to me as a gift.
I'd suggest you research that idea a bit more before you find yourself having a problem.
This 2017 article from the New York Times has some of those answers.
Summary: According to SEC filings, Imbruvica cost Pharmacyclics $388 million to develop, which included the development cost of three other drugs that were not successful. Not mentioned in the article is that Pharmacyclics actually paid $2 million in cash and $1 million in stock for the compound from its actual inventor, Celera Genomics, and their expense was mostly related to developing the compound into an salable drug. After the Phase II clinical trials, J&J paid Pharmacyclics $975 million to jointly continue development of the drug. The drug was approved for CLL in 2014, and just over a year after that, Abbvie bought Pharmacyclics for $21 billion (a 5400% return on investment for Pharmacyclics's shareholders), and the drug is now being sold under the "Janssen and Pharmacyclics" name. In 2016, J&P projected Imbruvica sales of $1 billion for that year, increasing to $5 billion by 2020.
In my opinion, the developers of the drug have already been very well paid for their efforts, certainly well enough "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". I haven't been able to find any other information that would lead me to believe that this isn't a simple money grab, and/or that Abbvie simply paid too much for the drug and is extracting the cost of their mistake from patients. If there are other concrete facts that would argue for other legitimate development costs that need to be recouped, I genuinely would be interested to see them.
You can't prove who started it, but they're pretty sure it was those other fuckers (probably over some cow grazing in the wrong field).
That actually would make a great premise for a Monty Python-style comedy about a war that's gone on for years.
Okay, then how about my dad's '79 Suburban (three-speed standard w/5.7L V8)? He bought it new in 1978 and put 300,000 miles on it. I bought it from him in 1996 and sold it in 1998 with another 50K miles on the clock. Still ran great and the only real maintenance needed was replacing the clutch at about 200,000 miles, wheel bearings, brakes, and other consumables. I occasionally see it around town, and I'm guessing it's got half a million miles on it by now. It looks pretty ratty now, but it still moves.
Regenerative braking means you only use the physical brakes to slow from 3 miles per hour to zero, you don't touch the pedal to slow down at higher speeds.
I'm familiar with regenerative braking, having driven 80-ton electric trains for many years, but the friction brakes on a Tesla are most definitely used for hard stops. Romp the brake pedal down hard enough, and you'll hear the antilock system chatter just like any other car.
Charging is much less expensive than gas and the only real maintenance is replacing the tires.
So Teslas don't have brakes/rotors, ball joints, wheel bearings, tie rods, shock absorbers, or any other components that wear?
The freedoms we enjoy are quite precious, and the sacrifices made to preserve them do not all occur on the field of battle
Which also means that we as a society have to deal with the fallout from such rights. For instance, the fact that it's legal to buy and sell alcohol means that people WILL die as a result of drunk driving, regardless of the laws against that particular act. You can't have one without the other, and if you truly stand for freedom, you accept that. We can take other steps to prevent those deaths, but they'll always be an inherent cost of preserving that right.
They don't test with a tank full of fumes. The fuel is replaced with a non-flammable dyed fluid that matches the density of gasoline in the tank and fuel lines so they can clearly see if any fuel system damage results from the crash, and where the fuel ends up.
I seriously doubt that FB are 'listening' to voice calls - they just don't have the technical chops for that, but...
Maybe they do, maybe they don't. If they don't, I think with the amount of money they have that it'd be trivial to contract with Google, Nuance, or someone else to provide voice recognition services or code.
My AP chemistry teacher was a bit more pedestrian, but as a bonus for attending a study session on Saturday, he demonstrated thermite burning a hole through 1" thick plate steel.
My AP chemistry teacher was the same lovely, meek, sweet, but subtly psychotic lady that I had for my first year of chemistry. Highlights of the class where when she spent the time between classes charging herself up on a van deGraff generator and greeting her students with a friendly touch on the arm when they arrived, and the time when we did fractional distillation of some nasty, right out of the ground crude oil. That resulted in some mercaptans coming out, which was an experience the entire school got to share in.
Every panel I’ve ever seen has an internal PSU, because it makes the inverter for the fluorescent backlight tubes cheaper.
Who uses CCL backlights anymore?
No, the pseudo-code I posted takes two different paths depending on whether the assets are present. You can't use data that isn't there to begin with, even if the code to use it is there. As a bonus, you don't make prospective customers spend a ton of time downloading data they're not supposed to be using anyway.