In the case of Rust, it addresses security problems that are the domain of internet facing software.
Well it is basically a compact syntax for doing modern safe C++ but based on a hybridf of ML and C instead of just C, and proper ML-style enums and pattern matching thrown in to spice it up a bit.
Nothing you can't do in C++ and people already are doing.
You might not forget, but it plus the local anesthetic makes it easy to ignore.
You can definitely ignore it.
After one of my many Hockey accidents, I had to get a bunch of metal put into my lower leg and near my ankle. During prep for surgery, they gave me a nice shot of "I don't give a damn". It wasn't a pain killer, but I gotta tell ya, I was one unconcerned person. With that, and a spinal tap. I was awake for the whole procedure. A little foggy, but I was conversing the whole time with the surgeons.
It was actually kinda cool, because I had questions about the various machinery they were using. They told the wife I must either be a scientist or an engineer for all my yapping. Regardless, without the shot of happy juice, I wouldn't have had such an enjoyable experience. Wish I knew what it was.
Morphine or another strong opiods, That's what they do that make them valuable dispite being addictive. They make you not care about pain or unpleasant things. It is also why they are still used in caugh syrup. It is much better at making you ignore tickling or soreness in the throat than any other medication.
IMHO we should never use voting machines unless technology gets to a place where we clearly are not at. No way to avoid the risks of mass tampering with machines.
I can't even see how it can be avoided with more technology. The whole purpose of using technology to count vote is to make it more efficient, but it is the inefficiency that makes human counting safer, any major improvement in efficiency will make tampering easier.
To be fair to Netflix, while they geo-block programmes they don't limit accounts to one area. I've used an account registered in the UK while I'm in Japan and it works fine. You get the Japanese selection of shows. I don't know if that would be enough to satisfy the EU... They allow the service to roam with the user, but the nature of the service changes depending on location.
For me it is locked to where I registered, both store and content. I have tried getting it to accept where I physically are, or even where my credit cards are from, but Valve are quite stubborn in letting you change region and will block your account it you try buying from the wrong store (which you can by manually changing URL to national override ones).
Steam is a service provided through the Internet. How is it "caught in customs"?
Valve is a single company with business in the EU they will have to pay VAT. The only way to get around it is to not do business in the EU, and send things either electronically or physically and hope they don't get caught.
Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said: "E-commerce should give consumers a wider choice of goods and services, as well as the opportunity to make purchases across borders. The three investigations we have opened today focus on practices where we suspect companies are trying to deny these benefits for consumers."
So the MPAA, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, et al. can geoblock, but video game publishers/distributors can't?
I suppose that makes sense. Or something.
No they are also targeting that, and have been for a long time. They are extending the fight against geoblocking to not just include movies, but also include games. Does that make more sense to you?
Citizens of EU member states still owe use tax when buying services from outside the EU. Unfortunately, the EU's page about this doesn't mention how citizens are supposed to pay VAT for imported services.
It gets added when caught in customs and then have a 100€ fine added on top for not declaring the import the regular way. This is particularly easy if the shipping is insured (which it always is from legitimate sources), because then they have the sum it is insured for printed on the outside.
They will run into issues where Steam is working around various censorship laws in specific European countries. Hopefully they can get away with just removing restrictions of the stores without having to have it comply with being local stores in each county.
No, Apple has went back to calling the latest release MacOS Sierra. OS X "version name" is no more.
We recently added documentation macros that warned if we used the term OS X, and advised using macOS instead. Once we did that we triggered several year or macros warning us not to use MacOS but use OS X instead;D
Apple has sold millions of watches. They don't release numbers...
Let's just stop there. Apple likes to brag. The ALWAYS release numbers if the numbers are good. These numbers aren't released, which while not strict evidence, either suggest Apple has become humble, or the numbers are terrible.
The very LAST thing Ireland really wants is to enforce this law. For good reason. Right now they get a bit of the cake, but they get a bit of the cake from everyone because every company, from Apple to Amazon to MS to Google, is hiding in their tax shelter.
If they now actually fold (and yes, that would be Ireland folding to EU pressure), what reason is there for them to stay in Ireland? The weather?
They still have the lowest corporate tax in the EU at 12.5% the companies would just have to pay that instead of 0.02%.
Plus Ireland already ARE enforcing the tax again. The scheme was found illegal by Ireland's own supreme court, Ireland just said: We didn't know it was illegal so were are not going to be charging back taxes on the error. Where as EU have found letters between Apple and Ireland discussion wether or not they would accept the legally wrong scheme, and since Ireland did, have said that is illegal state aid, and thus they must collect back taxes and not just new taxes.
The only reason Ireland is not happy to charge the back taxes is either: a) pride or b) corruption.. or maybe c) both.
The very LAST thing Ireland really wants is to enforce this law. For good reason. Right now they get a bit of the cake, but they get a bit of the cake from everyone because every company, from Apple to Amazon to MS to Google, is hiding in their tax shelter.
If they now actually fold (and yes, that would be Ireland folding to EU pressure), what reason is there for them to stay in Ireland? The weather?
They still have the lowest corporate tax in the EU at 12.5% the companies would just have to pay that instead of 0.02%.
See related story here. You can no longer remove that plugin. As for chromium you could always compile your own version to allow you to remove the plugin in question but it's probably easier (and better in principle) just to dump chrome and it's offshoots altogether.
Chromium doesn't even support widevine since it uses proprietary codecs, and those are only enabled in official Chrome builds.
Widevine like all EME are plugins, they are not part of the browser binary, but separate libraries. Chromium couldn't be open source if it wasn't designed that way. So remove the plugin? In any case the part about researching Chrome... WTF? Chromium is open source...
It's no surprise to know that targets can be gamed, and that performance metrics can be poorly implemented. But this is a false dichotomy: the choice is not between poorly implemented metrics/targets and no metrics/targets. There's also the option of implementing metrics/targets well. Not perfectly: what is, in this life? But certainly possible to implement them well -- and it would be damaging for the organisation not to do so. And if the behaviours and mindsets of the organisation are broken in the first place, then an absence of metrics/targets can be just as disastrous as poorly implemented metrics/targets -- and what's really needed is effort to work on the underlying issues.
The metrics are fine. The problem are only if you set specific measurements as targets that issues arrise. You can't get meaningful data if you demand the data to fall in a specific way.
And as a person filling out surveys who knows (just a little) about math and statistics, I think of ratings on a bell curve. On a 1-10 scale almost nothing is actually a 1 or a 10. On that scale I would rate a 5 as average service and give a 7 or 8 to what I think is well above average service, 9 would be excellent service. You would only get a 10 if there was no possible way to do any better under any circumstances and you completely exceeded all of my expectations. Unfortunately people get dinged if they don't get all 10s. Sucks to be you if I have to fill out your survey.
I do the same. Though I have learned to schew the scale up so average is 6 or 7, because otherwise all hell breaks lose when I rate people or services. I still never give 10s since those are reserved for truly outstanding service, and those will NEVER come from companies that ask you to rate them.. Asking to be rated in fact automatically pulls you down a rank:D
This. Humans hunted almost all big, meaty, slow-moving animals to extinction. Starting with the woolly mammoth. Seriously, a TWO TON wombat (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Vombatus_ursinus_-Maria_Island_National_Park.jpg)? Something like _4000_ person-days worth of food (not to mention pelts, bones, etc.) with no natural defenses? Delicious, easy kill. All were slain.
Plus they probably rotted up long before they could be fully eaten, and then you had to get another.
They compared crashes with autopilot on to crashes with autopilot off. Same car and driver. Car crashes... was autopilot on or off.
And the autopilot is only supposed to be on when driving on highways where the rate of crashes is 10x smaller than on average. So does that mean it crashes 4x more often than humans on highways?
"Potentially as large as Mars"? According to Wikipedia: Psyche16: 200km in diameter. Mars: 6800km in diameter
That was mangled in the summary, but TFA says that it may be the remaining core of a planet destroyed in a collision, that was potentially as large as Mars.
Hmm. Wasn't the Earth in its early days hit by a Mars sized object, which also happened to create the Moon?
What if your toaster could mine bitcoins and use the heat of the mining process to toast bread? Essentially free bitcoins!
That is actually not as stupid an idea as it may sound. In places they use electric heating, you might as well use SoCs doing something usefull as dumb resistant wires. It would be free calculations.
....is a lie, it reduces image quality just in a way you cannot see visually
If all you want to do is look at the image this is fine, but anything else that needs it full quality will be sacrificed
Actually I think you could probably see it if the device are using isn't already so high def you can't tell the smallest details anyway. What they do is just request a 1/4 size image and then upscale it. Woo clever.
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What's with all these other languages lately?
In the case of Rust, it addresses security problems that are the domain of internet facing software.
Well it is basically a compact syntax for doing modern safe C++ but based on a hybridf of ML and C instead of just C, and proper ML-style enums and pattern matching thrown in to spice it up a bit.
Nothing you can't do in C++ and people already are doing.
You might not forget, but it plus the local anesthetic makes it easy to ignore.
You can definitely ignore it.
After one of my many Hockey accidents, I had to get a bunch of metal put into my lower leg and near my ankle. During prep for surgery, they gave me a nice shot of "I don't give a damn". It wasn't a pain killer, but I gotta tell ya, I was one unconcerned person. With that, and a spinal tap. I was awake for the whole procedure. A little foggy, but I was conversing the whole time with the surgeons.
It was actually kinda cool, because I had questions about the various machinery they were using. They told the wife I must either be a scientist or an engineer for all my yapping. Regardless, without the shot of happy juice, I wouldn't have had such an enjoyable experience. Wish I knew what it was.
Morphine or another strong opiods, That's what they do that make them valuable dispite being addictive. They make you not care about pain or unpleasant things. It is also why they are still used in caugh syrup. It is much better at making you ignore tickling or soreness in the throat than any other medication.
IMHO we should never use voting machines unless technology gets to a place where we clearly are not at. No way to avoid the risks of mass tampering with machines.
I can't even see how it can be avoided with more technology. The whole purpose of using technology to count vote is to make it more efficient, but it is the inefficiency that makes human counting safer, any major improvement in efficiency will make tampering easier.
To be fair to Netflix, while they geo-block programmes they don't limit accounts to one area. I've used an account registered in the UK while I'm in Japan and it works fine. You get the Japanese selection of shows. I don't know if that would be enough to satisfy the EU... They allow the service to roam with the user, but the nature of the service changes depending on location.
For me it is locked to where I registered, both store and content. I have tried getting it to accept where I physically are, or even where my credit cards are from, but Valve are quite stubborn in letting you change region and will block your account it you try buying from the wrong store (which you can by manually changing URL to national override ones).
Steam is a service provided through the Internet. How is it "caught in customs"?
Valve is a single company with business in the EU they will have to pay VAT. The only way to get around it is to not do business in the EU, and send things either electronically or physically and hope they don't get caught.
From TFA:
Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said: "E-commerce should give consumers a wider choice of goods and services, as well as the opportunity to make purchases across borders. The three investigations we have opened today focus on practices where we suspect companies are trying to deny these benefits for consumers."
So the MPAA, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, et al. can geoblock, but video game publishers/distributors can't?
I suppose that makes sense. Or something.
No they are also targeting that, and have been for a long time. They are extending the fight against geoblocking to not just include movies, but also include games. Does that make more sense to you?
Citizens of EU member states still owe use tax when buying services from outside the EU. Unfortunately, the EU's page about this doesn't mention how citizens are supposed to pay VAT for imported services.
It gets added when caught in customs and then have a 100€ fine added on top for not declaring the import the regular way. This is particularly easy if the shipping is insured (which it always is from legitimate sources), because then they have the sum it is insured for printed on the outside.
It will also be interesting to see how the EU feels when their tax revenue dries up because people buy games from outside the EU to avoid the VAT.
Why would that escape VAT? You still have to pay VAT on imports.. Internet shopping is some random tax avoidance loop-hole like in the US.
They will run into issues where Steam is working around various censorship laws in specific European countries. Hopefully they can get away with just removing restrictions of the stores without having to have it comply with being local stores in each county.
No, Apple has went back to calling the latest release MacOS Sierra. OS X "version name" is no more.
We recently added documentation macros that warned if we used the term OS X, and advised using macOS instead. Once we did that we triggered several year or macros warning us not to use MacOS but use OS X instead ;D
A cpu that runs at 2x the rate beats another CPU but not in all cases? Do go on.
:) Assuming you're not trolling, here's an explanation.
That intel is an 1.3 GHz dual-core Intel Core m5-6Y54 Skylake processor. It has Turbo Boost up to 2.7 GHz.
And it is an m-processor that has been intentionally crippled to be slow and use little power.
Totally absurd.
Apple has sold millions of watches. They don't release numbers...
Let's just stop there. Apple likes to brag. The ALWAYS release numbers if the numbers are good. These numbers aren't released, which while not strict evidence, either suggest Apple has become humble, or the numbers are terrible.
The very LAST thing Ireland really wants is to enforce this law. For good reason. Right now they get a bit of the cake, but they get a bit of the cake from everyone because every company, from Apple to Amazon to MS to Google, is hiding in their tax shelter.
If they now actually fold (and yes, that would be Ireland folding to EU pressure), what reason is there for them to stay in Ireland? The weather?
They still have the lowest corporate tax in the EU at 12.5% the companies would just have to pay that instead of 0.02%.
Plus Ireland already ARE enforcing the tax again. The scheme was found illegal by Ireland's own supreme court, Ireland just said: We didn't know it was illegal so were are not going to be charging back taxes on the error. Where as EU have found letters between Apple and Ireland discussion wether or not they would accept the legally wrong scheme, and since Ireland did, have said that is illegal state aid, and thus they must collect back taxes and not just new taxes.
The only reason Ireland is not happy to charge the back taxes is either: a) pride or b) corruption.. or maybe c) both.
The very LAST thing Ireland really wants is to enforce this law. For good reason. Right now they get a bit of the cake, but they get a bit of the cake from everyone because every company, from Apple to Amazon to MS to Google, is hiding in their tax shelter.
If they now actually fold (and yes, that would be Ireland folding to EU pressure), what reason is there for them to stay in Ireland? The weather?
They still have the lowest corporate tax in the EU at 12.5% the companies would just have to pay that instead of 0.02%.
See related story here. You can no longer remove that plugin. As for chromium you could always compile your own version to allow you to remove the plugin in question but it's probably easier (and better in principle) just to dump chrome and it's offshoots altogether.
Chromium doesn't even support widevine since it uses proprietary codecs, and those are only enabled in official Chrome builds.
Widevine like all EME are plugins, they are not part of the browser binary, but separate libraries. Chromium couldn't be open source if it wasn't designed that way. So remove the plugin? In any case the part about researching Chrome... WTF? Chromium is open source...
It's no surprise to know that targets can be gamed, and that performance metrics can be poorly implemented. But this is a false dichotomy: the choice is not between poorly implemented metrics/targets and no metrics/targets. There's also the option of implementing metrics/targets well. Not perfectly: what is, in this life? But certainly possible to implement them well -- and it would be damaging for the organisation not to do so. And if the behaviours and mindsets of the organisation are broken in the first place, then an absence of metrics/targets can be just as disastrous as poorly implemented metrics/targets -- and what's really needed is effort to work on the underlying issues.
The metrics are fine. The problem are only if you set specific measurements as targets that issues arrise. You can't get meaningful data if you demand the data to fall in a specific way.
And as a person filling out surveys who knows (just a little) about math and statistics, I think of ratings on a bell curve. On a 1-10 scale almost nothing is actually a 1 or a 10. On that scale I would rate a 5 as average service and give a 7 or 8 to what I think is well above average service, 9 would be excellent service. You would only get a 10 if there was no possible way to do any better under any circumstances and you completely exceeded all of my expectations. Unfortunately people get dinged if they don't get all 10s. Sucks to be you if I have to fill out your survey.
I do the same. Though I have learned to schew the scale up so average is 6 or 7, because otherwise all hell breaks lose when I rate people or services. I still never give 10s since those are reserved for truly outstanding service, and those will NEVER come from companies that ask you to rate them.. Asking to be rated in fact automatically pulls you down a rank :D
This. Humans hunted almost all big, meaty, slow-moving animals to extinction. Starting with the woolly mammoth. Seriously, a TWO TON wombat (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Vombatus_ursinus_-Maria_Island_National_Park.jpg)? Something like _4000_ person-days worth of food (not to mention pelts, bones, etc.) with no natural defenses? Delicious, easy kill. All were slain.
Plus they probably rotted up long before they could be fully eaten, and then you had to get another.
They compared crashes with autopilot on to crashes with autopilot off. Same car and driver. Car crashes. .. was autopilot on or off.
And the autopilot is only supposed to be on when driving on highways where the rate of crashes is 10x smaller than on average. So does that mean it crashes 4x more often than humans on highways?
"Potentially as large as Mars"? According to Wikipedia: Psyche16: 200km in diameter. Mars: 6800km in diameter
That was mangled in the summary, but TFA says that it may be the remaining core of a planet destroyed in a collision, that was potentially as large as Mars.
Hmm. Wasn't the Earth in its early days hit by a Mars sized object, which also happened to create the Moon?
What if your toaster could mine bitcoins and use the heat of the mining process to toast bread? Essentially free bitcoins!
That is actually not as stupid an idea as it may sound. In places they use electric heating, you might as well use SoCs doing something usefull as dumb resistant wires. It would be free calculations.
They could have chosen to invest in a company that wasn't run by an idiot. I am sure he didn't mean to screw himself over, so proving malice is hard.
....is a lie, it reduces image quality just in a way you cannot see visually
If all you want to do is look at the image this is fine, but anything else that needs it full quality will be sacrificed
Actually I think you could probably see it if the device are using isn't already so high def you can't tell the smallest details anyway. What they do is just request a 1/4 size image and then upscale it. Woo clever.
As a hobby-gamer, I say: please get rid of this terribly designed game!
It is one of the original board-games the precursor to modern board games. We might not want to play it anymore, but treat it with respect.