I'm waiting on UHD computer monitors too that also have 802.11AC wireless builtin so that it can stream video to it directly and act as both a monitor and a TV. It should also have USB 3/3.1 builtin to support HDD drives too along with connector jacks for older computer video devices: VGA, DVI, HDMI, RGB etc. By having all of this builtin one doesn't need to insert external wirelss chips, set top boxes, and video convertor boxes to the monitor/TV. Moreover, the monitor/TV should have HDCP builtin too...
Search and you shall find. My recent purchace has all of that except DVI and that is essentially included in HDMI anyway.
Future proofing? WTF? 4k TV would be only cheaper in the future....
I don't need a TV in the near future, I needed a new one now, and therefor bought the 4K screen, since my TVs last somewhere from 5 to 10 years.
I think a lot of people are in that situation, they need a new, or want a bigger TV. 4K sales are exploding because they have become very competively priced in the last year.
And even without the 4K content, the onscreen menus have much sharper rendered text. It is actually a bit painfull to look at TV text menus at 1080p after using them in 4K.
In Python2 when I used it, you couldn't specify a codec, there was no such thing, it just assumed that strings would turn into UTF16 by magic, and would throw up if it didn't and certainly wouldn't allow you to do format conversions unless you said a small magic incartation and sacrificed a code monkey.
TV is still 720. Movies are 1080. What's the point of 4K again?
Future proofing. And pretty cheap at that, with a FHD 50" TV selling at €350, and the 4K at €400, it is not that more to pay something that might come in handy in a year or two.
The problem is more that unicode support was so broken in python 2 that a great deal of the invested time in python2 code bases are weird magic that no one understands that makes python2 not soil itself. In theory you could could rit of all that, but no one really dare touch it.
OSX also supports some emacs keys in just about any text editing area - Ctrl-A for begin of line, Ctrl-E for end. But most useful is Ctrl-K for kill (kill text to end of line), which puts text in a copy buffer that is distinct from the Cmd-C copy. Then you can use Ctrl-Y to paste the text you "Killed".
Well, the two first are only supported because Macs are too retarded to do that on home and end keys, and instead did something so STUPID, they had to get rid of the keys on Mac keybord in case someone pressed them.
No, they kill mice and injured birds. Rats are too much of a bother and can fight back. Not that cats won't try from time to time, but it only really works if the cat is wild and not regularly fed.
Doesn't look as satisfying for the spectators I guess. Remember the entire idea of the death penalty is not justice, but revenge and thus the feeling of satisfacting in the audience watching.
Yes it does, it's your stuff. If people abuse it, even in just your opinion, it's your prerogative simply stop making it available. Unless you're promoting that once offered the "community" can *force* you to keep making it available instead of ponying up the resources you were. Is that your position?
They were GRANTED the right to install it on the streets. That comes with a responsibility.
But what they grand-parent post said though was that, it at least takes away the value of the gift. It is like giving your kid a car but then saying it can only be used to vist grandmom and fetch you yourself when your are too drunk at the pub. Sure it your gift and your kid, so you can set any rules you want, but it does take away nearly 100% of the value as a gift.
While it is a possible world-model, there is absolutely no basis for a probability estimation with a reasonable error margin. These people do not understand what they are doing or, alternately, they are lying in order to get publicity. Oh, and look, it worked!
No you see, it is easy. Either it is or it isn't; so it's 50/50.
Doesn't really make me confident of BoA, and I will try to steer clear of their mathematical expertice in the future.
o Wait for a so-called 'driverless car' to approach
o Walk out into the middle of the road holding up a big 'ROAD CLOSED' sign
o LOL
Will work every time.
Just put a traffic cone in front of it and walk away.
Now the passenger could get out and remove the traffic cone, but then the car would probably just take off without them, because it is not like they have any real intelligence.
This blows a HUGE hole in Uber's argument that they aren't a taxi service and shouldn't be regulated as one. They can't argue that self driving cars are independent contractors or that they are merely middlemen facilitating a service with an app.
When have Uber ever cared about being on the rigth side of the law?
It might be switching to the sound of AAC. It bothers me to no end that so many DJs play from MacBooks using iTunes audio. Music compressed using an psycho austic profile for headphones is just not meant to be played in large speakers. It sounds awful.
Why is there any software AT ALL involved in the operation of a seatbelt? For fuck's sake, not everything needs to be computerized.
There are purely mechanical impact sensors, but MEMS modules are more reliable and require an electronic interface. Also, you don't want to wait till the impact to begin pretensioning. If sensors like cameras and radar can detect an imminent crash, they can begin tensioning the seatbelts, retracting the steering wheel, and even moving the seat back to give the airbags more room to deploy. Despite your Luddite opinion, these technologies have already saved thousands of lives.
You can't detect an imminent crash, and please don't try. There is this thing call steering which can prevent crashes even centimeters before impact. In fact coming close objects with only a few centimeters is not uncommon, and would be dangerous if the car started freaking out everytime you did.
So does that mean speaking, writing or otherwise commenting on a copyrighted subject is now a violation of copyright.
It's the same thing.
No. And generally only common-law countries like the US and UK put a lot emphasis on legal precedent. In this case it just applies to this case, and may apply to similar cases, depending on how similar they are, but if the court didn't announce the limitations of the ruling, then you can assume it is very specific to the circumstances of the case in question.
Free speech is not protected in the EU the same as it is in the USA.
Yes it is. It is one of the human rights in the European human rights convention all EU member have to sign. The actual enforcement is however outside the EU in the human rights court.
"Trending" means it's popular. People won't watch (and share) something that they don't actually want to watch. Here's the thing though about those WTC and Building 7 videos: a simple analysis of any of the off-the-street real-time videos - of which there were several so it's not like they could all be faked - by using simple equations of motion from O'Level Physics it is undeniably obvious that the tops of all of those buildings are in free-fall, accelerating at 9.8 metres per second squared.
Now, if a building is hit two thirds of the way up and becomes damaged, you would expect that damage to cause the top to fall over. Maybe some of the outer walls would fall off, but there would be a central core at least 1/2 to 1/3 of the height of the building sticking up. Bits would hit other bits, and it would take a long time and there would be rubble strewn out across a wide area, damaging the surrounding buildings and killing or injuring the people in them. You certainly would not expect it to collapse in a tidy heap at the speed of gravity where the entire building becomes a neat pile of rubble without any kind of significant damage to surrounding buildings.
For a quite insightful analysis which goes beyond the above brief invitation to use simple physics equations, logical analysis and reasoning, you might want to read this: https://steemit.com/tyranny/@b...
Bottom line is: not everything that "trends" under automatic algorithms (which would be filtered out by humans too scared of what they're seeing) is bullshit.
You literally have no idea what you are talking about? Have you have seen video of building collapsing? They ALWAYS collapse straight down. There is rarely any overengineered piece that can withstand forces this far outside its design paramenters, so when good chunk in middle collapses, ALL of it collapses straight down.
If you want to shock children about the Vietnam war, there are plenty of other photos to choose from. The summary execution of the Viet Cong partisan is a very good example.
Out of curiosity, why do you find that picture shocking? It was a very common occurrence that is authorized by the Geneva convention and the rules of war.
No it isn't.
The Geneva convension is rather big on the rights of prisoners of war, you could in fact say it is the largest part of it, because it is. I am amazed you could get yourself to even believe that.
Commissioned officers captured in civilian clothing are considered spies and unlawful combatants and therefore not entitled to prisoner of war status. As an unlawful combatant as defined by the Geneva convention,...
Just stop right there. There is no such thing as unlawful combatants in the Geneva convention. It was a term invented by the Bush administration to avoid giving detained suspected terrorist a fair trail or prisoner of war rights.
A captured spy is specifically a NON-combatant and therefore loses prisoner of war rights. This just means they fall under civilian law including the posibility of a death penaly.
If you want to shock children about the Vietnam war, there are plenty of other photos to choose from. The summary execution of the Viet Cong partisan is a very good example.
Out of curiosity, why do you find that picture shocking? It was a very common occurrence that is authorized by the Geneva convention and the rules of war.
No it isn't.
The Geneva convension is rather big on the rights of prisoners of war, you could in fact say it is the largest part of it, because it is. I am amazed you could get yourself to even believe that.
Commissioned officers captured in civilian clothing are considered spies and unlawful combatants and therefore not entitled to prisoner of war status. As an unlawful combatant as defined by the Geneva convention,...
Just stop right there. There is no such thing as unlawful combatants in the Geneva convention. It was a term invented by the Bush administration to avoid giving detained suspected terrorist a fair trail or prisoner of war rights.
Didn't see the You-tube video of the concept version of this being demoed on a laptop did you? Fried the screen and board in the first pulse and took out the power system and everything else with the second (each pulse takes about a second to charge and release). These things are not pushing a 10V signal on a 5V line, they are pumping a 230V charge into the port with magnitudes more amperage than static electricity, the simple over-voltage protections on current USB ports can't protect against this.
A real solution to a device like this will require a far more robust design on the over-volt protection on the ports. Something that can resist 200V+.
Fried the screen? I call bullshit. The rest directly on the motherboard, perhaps, if you strike it with a small scale equivalent of lightning. The screen is too far away and already protected against capacity surges. And I also doubt it can actually do any serious damage with the current in a normal USB port. Maybe a with 100W USB-C port and some giant capacitors... Maybe...
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I'm waiting on UHD computer monitors too that also have 802.11AC wireless builtin so that it can stream video to it directly and act as both a monitor and a TV. /TV should have HDCP builtin too...
It should also have USB 3/3.1 builtin to support HDD drives too along with connector jacks for older computer video devices: VGA, DVI, HDMI, RGB etc. By having all of this builtin one doesn't need to insert external wirelss chips, set top boxes, and video convertor boxes to the monitor/TV. Moreover, the monitor
Search and you shall find. My recent purchace has all of that except DVI and that is essentially included in HDMI anyway.
Future proofing? WTF? 4k TV would be only cheaper in the future....
I don't need a TV in the near future, I needed a new one now, and therefor bought the 4K screen, since my TVs last somewhere from 5 to 10 years.
I think a lot of people are in that situation, they need a new, or want a bigger TV. 4K sales are exploding because they have become very competively priced in the last year.
And even without the 4K content, the onscreen menus have much sharper rendered text. It is actually a bit painfull to look at TV text menus at 1080p after using them in 4K.
In Python2 when I used it, you couldn't specify a codec, there was no such thing, it just assumed that strings would turn into UTF16 by magic, and would throw up if it didn't and certainly wouldn't allow you to do format conversions unless you said a small magic incartation and sacrificed a code monkey.
TV is still 720. Movies are 1080. What's the point of 4K again?
Future proofing. And pretty cheap at that, with a FHD 50" TV selling at €350, and the 4K at €400, it is not that more to pay something that might come in handy in a year or two.
The problem is more that unicode support was so broken in python 2 that a great deal of the invested time in python2 code bases are weird magic that no one understands that makes python2 not soil itself. In theory you could could rit of all that, but no one really dare touch it.
More like Digital Suicide! Hur-hur-hur — I'll see myself out.
That was how I read it at first. I thought it was an oddly appropiate name.
This robot has been in the worldwide news three times already. Whoever is planning the press campaign is doing a great job.
Must be setting it up to be a reality star then, now complete with permenent record.
OSX also supports some emacs keys in just about any text editing area - Ctrl-A for begin of line, Ctrl-E for end. But most useful is Ctrl-K for kill (kill text to end of line), which puts text in a copy buffer that is distinct from the Cmd-C copy. Then you can use Ctrl-Y to paste the text you "Killed".
Well, the two first are only supported because Macs are too retarded to do that on home and end keys, and instead did something so STUPID, they had to get rid of the keys on Mac keybord in case someone pressed them.
Cats kill rats!
they are not vermin, they control them.
No, they kill mice and injured birds. Rats are too much of a bother and can fight back. Not that cats won't try from time to time, but it only really works if the cat is wild and not regularly fed.
Hmm. Why don't we do executions this way?
Doesn't look as satisfying for the spectators I guess. Remember the entire idea of the death penalty is not justice, but revenge and thus the feeling of satisfacting in the audience watching.
I think you may be the first person to ever make that prediction.
No what makes you think that? There are plenty of succesful rotten companies.
Yes it does, it's your stuff. If people abuse it, even in just your opinion, it's your prerogative simply stop making it available. Unless you're promoting that once offered the "community" can *force* you to keep making it available instead of ponying up the resources you were. Is that your position?
They were GRANTED the right to install it on the streets. That comes with a responsibility.
But what they grand-parent post said though was that, it at least takes away the value of the gift. It is like giving your kid a car but then saying it can only be used to vist grandmom and fetch you yourself when your are too drunk at the pub. Sure it your gift and your kid, so you can set any rules you want, but it does take away nearly 100% of the value as a gift.
While it is a possible world-model, there is absolutely no basis for a probability estimation with a reasonable error margin. These people do not understand what they are doing or, alternately, they are lying in order to get publicity. Oh, and look, it worked!
No you see, it is easy. Either it is or it isn't; so it's 50/50.
Doesn't really make me confident of BoA, and I will try to steer clear of their mathematical expertice in the future.
o Stand by the side of the road
o Wait for a so-called 'driverless car' to approach
o Walk out into the middle of the road holding up a big 'ROAD CLOSED' sign
o LOL
Will work every time.
Just put a traffic cone in front of it and walk away.
Now the passenger could get out and remove the traffic cone, but then the car would probably just take off without them, because it is not like they have any real intelligence.
This blows a HUGE hole in Uber's argument that they aren't a taxi service and shouldn't be regulated as one. They can't argue that self driving cars are independent contractors or that they are merely middlemen facilitating a service with an app.
When have Uber ever cared about being on the rigth side of the law?
What happened at Facebook was a mistake, but I would have made the same mistake.
It is not a mistake if you activately choose to be a nazi. Then you are just a moron.
The thing that really bothers me, is that young people prefer the sound of MP3 over FLAC. They've been trained that real music sounds that way.
It might be switching to the sound of AAC. It bothers me to no end that so many DJs play from MacBooks using iTunes audio. Music compressed using an psycho austic profile for headphones is just not meant to be played in large speakers. It sounds awful.
Why is there any software AT ALL involved in the operation of a seatbelt? For fuck's sake, not everything needs to be computerized.
There are purely mechanical impact sensors, but MEMS modules are more reliable and require an electronic interface. Also, you don't want to wait till the impact to begin pretensioning. If sensors like cameras and radar can detect an imminent crash, they can begin tensioning the seatbelts, retracting the steering wheel, and even moving the seat back to give the airbags more room to deploy. Despite your Luddite opinion, these technologies have already saved thousands of lives.
You can't detect an imminent crash, and please don't try. There is this thing call steering which can prevent crashes even centimeters before impact. In fact coming close objects with only a few centimeters is not uncommon, and would be dangerous if the car started freaking out everytime you did.
So does that mean speaking, writing or otherwise commenting on a copyrighted subject is now a violation of copyright.
It's the same thing.
No. And generally only common-law countries like the US and UK put a lot emphasis on legal precedent. In this case it just applies to this case, and may apply to similar cases, depending on how similar they are, but if the court didn't announce the limitations of the ruling, then you can assume it is very specific to the circumstances of the case in question.
Free speech is not protected in the EU the same as it is in the USA.
Yes it is. It is one of the human rights in the European human rights convention all EU member have to sign. The actual enforcement is however outside the EU in the human rights court.
"Trending" means it's popular. People won't watch (and share) something that they don't actually want to watch. Here's the thing though about those WTC and Building 7 videos: a simple analysis of any of the off-the-street real-time videos - of which there were several so it's not like they could all be faked - by using simple equations of motion from O'Level Physics it is undeniably obvious that the tops of all of those buildings are in free-fall, accelerating at 9.8 metres per second squared.
Now, if a building is hit two thirds of the way up and becomes damaged, you would expect that damage to cause the top to fall over. Maybe some of the outer walls would fall off, but there would be a central core at least 1/2 to 1/3 of the height of the building sticking up. Bits would hit other bits, and it would take a long time and there would be rubble strewn out across a wide area, damaging the surrounding buildings and killing or injuring the people in them. You certainly would not expect it to collapse in a tidy heap at the speed of gravity where the entire building becomes a neat pile of rubble without any kind of significant damage to surrounding buildings.
For a quite insightful analysis which goes beyond the above brief invitation to use simple physics equations, logical analysis and reasoning, you might want to read this: https://steemit.com/tyranny/@b...
Bottom line is: not everything that "trends" under automatic algorithms (which would be filtered out by humans too scared of what they're seeing) is bullshit.
You literally have no idea what you are talking about? Have you have seen video of building collapsing? They ALWAYS collapse straight down. There is rarely any overengineered piece that can withstand forces this far outside its design paramenters, so when good chunk in middle collapses, ALL of it collapses straight down.
If you want to shock children about the Vietnam war, there are plenty of other photos to choose from. The summary execution of the Viet Cong partisan is a very good example.
Out of curiosity, why do you find that picture shocking? It was a very common occurrence that is authorized by the Geneva convention and the rules of war.
No it isn't.
The Geneva convension is rather big on the rights of prisoners of war, you could in fact say it is the largest part of it, because it is. I am amazed you could get yourself to even believe that.
Commissioned officers captured in civilian clothing are considered spies and unlawful combatants and therefore not entitled to prisoner of war status. As an unlawful combatant as defined by the Geneva convention,...
Just stop right there. There is no such thing as unlawful combatants in the Geneva convention. It was a term invented by the Bush administration to avoid giving detained suspected terrorist a fair trail or prisoner of war rights.
A captured spy is specifically a NON-combatant and therefore loses prisoner of war rights. This just means they fall under civilian law including the posibility of a death penaly.
If you want to shock children about the Vietnam war, there are plenty of other photos to choose from. The summary execution of the Viet Cong partisan is a very good example.
Out of curiosity, why do you find that picture shocking? It was a very common occurrence that is authorized by the Geneva convention and the rules of war.
No it isn't.
The Geneva convension is rather big on the rights of prisoners of war, you could in fact say it is the largest part of it, because it is. I am amazed you could get yourself to even believe that.
Commissioned officers captured in civilian clothing are considered spies and unlawful combatants and therefore not entitled to prisoner of war status. As an unlawful combatant as defined by the Geneva convention,...
Just stop right there. There is no such thing as unlawful combatants in the Geneva convention. It was a term invented by the Bush administration to avoid giving detained suspected terrorist a fair trail or prisoner of war rights.
Please call them what they are : a taxi company.
No need to repeat their marketing drivel.
Organized crime? If they don't register as a taxi company and organizing drivers breaking local laws they are just organizating crime.
Didn't see the You-tube video of the concept version of this being demoed on a laptop did you? Fried the screen and board in the first pulse and took out the power system and everything else with the second (each pulse takes about a second to charge and release). These things are not pushing a 10V signal on a 5V line, they are pumping a 230V charge into the port with magnitudes more amperage than static electricity, the simple over-voltage protections on current USB ports can't protect against this.
A real solution to a device like this will require a far more robust design on the over-volt protection on the ports. Something that can resist 200V+.
Fried the screen? I call bullshit. The rest directly on the motherboard, perhaps, if you strike it with a small scale equivalent of lightning. The screen is too far away and already protected against capacity surges. And I also doubt it can actually do any serious damage with the current in a normal USB port. Maybe a with 100W USB-C port and some giant capacitors... Maybe...