Because. That's all. There doesn't have to be a reason. The mystery is the puzzlement.
You could say that about all physics. Physics is all about finding out WHY what we observe is what it is, if you just accept it "because", then there would be no physics.
The navy has been playing this game where it builds a large ship and call it something smaller, because Congress is willing to build small-sounding ships without checking to see that they're actually small. The Zumwalt, at 14.5k tons, is more than half again as big as Tico-class cruisers at 9.6k tons. "Oh my God, that new destroyer is expensive," say critics. Well, yeah, because by displacement it's really not a destroyer; it's a cruiser. Maybe even a heavy cruiser.
Yeah, "the largest ever of the smallest class of navy combat ships", what is the point of that? It is not even a mislabeled frigate, it is as you say a frigging mislabeled cruiser.
I'm starting to get the notion that these patent lawsuits are a way for big multinationals to further dodge taxes. Not only are civil penalties often deductible, but civil awards are very often not taxable.
If true that would be insane, especially if it also applies to settlements. Companies could just always pay eachother with settlements.
Whatever your opinions on gun control are, we (the US) have managed to box ourselves into an unpleasant corner. There are way too many guns out there to have any effective method of restriction work. And way too many gun nuts.
It really is an ugly situation. Nobody is going to win here.
Except the loonies and terrorists.
Australia used to have the same problem, but a conservative government managed to introduce gun restricts at the cost of the next election, and gun violence and accidents dropped sharply.
Just assign the images, trademarks and logos over to the public domain and we are done.
Considering they are trademarks, just asking for their inclusion into a generic set of symbol kind of suggest the owners DO believe they are now generic. I think they might have forgotten that also makes them lose all protection.
Well, there is all that smog in London that is mainly caused by diesel by-products. Last year practically the entire country was under a smog alert at one point.
Yes but he doesn't propose banning the main source of diesel polution: Heavy vehicles. He is only proposing banning an insignificant source of diesel polution, the source that already has the strictest rules and best filters.
The national laws implement Directive 95/46/EC on data protection.
What does that have to do with what is being referred to as "the right to be forgotten"? The original case was about a specific spanish law that requires that you can't be registered as having been through a bankrupcy after a certain amount of years. Other cases that has caused Google to remove material are similar country-specific laws, like laws that they can't list them as criminals after a certain amount of years after serving time. Google requires you to specify which law in which country you are referring to if you want to be deleted. It really has nothing to do with data protection at all. These laws are all old and used to apply to paper registers and newspapers.
I'm not sure the average service cost is that much less when you factor in replacing a $4000 battery pack every 8 to 10 years. Also, there are high end SUVs that cost even more than the low-end Tesla Model X at $80,000.
The whole article is a planted Tesla story. There has been no issue wiht dealers selling electric cars, many of them have never had the chance, because Tesla doesn't let them. Also many of them doesn't have repair shops, and certainly doesn't profit from them because the only repairs people get done at the dealer are those covered by the dealer due to warranty.
Please add scare quotes to "law" too, because there is no such law, and never has been. It was a ruling, a ruling stating local national laws also apply to Google evne if the local laws are stupid, but it there was never any EU laws involved.
Really, there is zero scientific processes behind "lie detectors". They are intended as an intimidation tool to coerce a confession, nothing more. There's a reason they are not admissible as evidence.
Well, there is statistical evidence that they manage to fool stupid people.
I was under the (admittedly vague) impression that was true only if the thread was using floating point.
No, that is the AMD Bulldozer design. Hyper-threading provides no extra CPU power for the additional threads, how much performance you get out of the extra threads depend on how much the threads are forced to stall due to memory access, if they all do integer/fp instructions and memory access that hits the cache, you get only 50% normal performance out of each hyper thread.
Fuck that shit! I will take a stastically insignificant attack by deperate nobodies who are doing pointless insignificant attacks because they know they have already LOST, over losing our freedom.
Erm, while I do agree with your point for the most part I would like to point out that, to the 100+ people who died tonight, these attacks were hardly "insignificant".
Yes they are. 9/11 was 10x bigger and was not even remotely a significant threat against anything except our perception of security and therethough our own freedom.
Yep. I am having deja vu to 9/11. When here on slashdot, several commentators accurately predicted the largest fallout would be restricting our own freedoms.
Instead of limited our freedoms, how about we go kick in the teeth of anyone who doesn't support peace, anyone who promotes violence, and anyone who doesn't denounce this?
Unless there is a specific state or organization behind something, you can't really retaliate in a meaningful way.
I assume you think you know who is behind it, and that is who you want to "kick their teeth in" of without further evidence, and probably just by association rather than actual being in any way responsible. In other words you are probably proposing to become what you yourself what are denouncing. So should we kick your teeth in?
Have you any actual evidence? Nobody's provided any. It's proof by blatant assertion.
Have you ever read the EULA or seen what it does after a crash? or.. Let's say, had to enter credit card details to get basic features installed? It is not exactly secret, Apple are very open it.
Fortunately for them, they're up against politically correct pussies in most cases
It's the gun toting macho pussies that I'm more worried about. The ones who react to stuff like this by arming themselves, increasing "security" (i.e. reducing freedom and privacy) and generally being afraid of anyone with dark skin and the wrong religion. Those guys are the real threat to our democracies and way of life.
The last thing we want to do now is militarize Paris. I was disgusted to hear a British MP on the TV tonight using these attacks as justification for the Snooper's Charter spying laws he wants to introduce. I'm not afraid, I will walk down the street without clutching my sword, and I don't need weak minded idiots who buy into all this "over-running Europe" crap protecting me thanks.
Yep. I am having deja vu to 9/11. When here on slashdot, several commentators accurately predicted the largest fallout would be restricting our own freedoms.
Fuck that shit! I will take a stastically insignificant attack by deperate nobodies who are doing pointless insignificant attacks because they know they have already LOST, over losing our freedom.
France has really stringent gun control laws. That did not prevented Charlie Hebdo. That also did not prevented 11/13/2015 events in Paris.
Has somebody noticed that tragedies in free gun zones occur not when people are not armed, but when the right to bear arms is limited. Because criminals do no care about zones.
My dear imbecile: you can kiss my ass.
Go back to watching Fox News, you are a complete idiot.
We know that Microsoft is spying on things I don't want spied on. You say you think Apple does as much spying without actually providing any evidence for your argument. Apple and Microsoft are two different companies, and operate in different ways. Most of Microsoft's revenue is from software licensing, and most of Apple's is from selling Macs and iDevices.
Microsoft implemented the mechanism to catch up to OS X, which already had the same for years. iOS is much much worse, but being tracked is common on mobile devices.
1.a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering : a mechanical engineer; a civil engineer. 2.Digital Technology. a person skilled in the design and programming of computer systems: a software engineer; a web engineer.
3. Person who drives trains.
When people ask me if I am an engineer, I look to answer: Do I look like someone driving trains for a living?
Probably more AAA titles though, and certainly more exclusives. Still seeing numbers like this seems weird when realising that even minor PC platforms have more games available, and most of them are not small casual games,but medium and indie games, with a bit of a gap for blockbusters.
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No, I want the front of the other car to crumple.
Yes, but what if the other car is owned by another moron like you that want the other car (in this case YOUR car) to be the one that crumples?
Because. That's all. There doesn't have to be a reason. The mystery is the puzzlement.
You could say that about all physics. Physics is all about finding out WHY what we observe is what it is, if you just accept it "because", then there would be no physics.
The navy has been playing this game where it builds a large ship and call it something smaller, because Congress is willing to build small-sounding ships without checking to see that they're actually small. The Zumwalt, at 14.5k tons, is more than half again as big as Tico-class cruisers at 9.6k tons. "Oh my God, that new destroyer is expensive," say critics. Well, yeah, because by displacement it's really not a destroyer; it's a cruiser. Maybe even a heavy cruiser.
Yeah, "the largest ever of the smallest class of navy combat ships", what is the point of that? It is not even a mislabeled frigate, it is as you say a frigging mislabeled cruiser.
They hate it when you do that!
And don't infantalize them either, or they will throw a tantrum.
I'm starting to get the notion that these patent lawsuits are a way for big multinationals to further dodge taxes. Not only are civil penalties often deductible, but civil awards are very often not taxable.
If true that would be insane, especially if it also applies to settlements. Companies could just always pay eachother with settlements.
nobody believes that. if you HAVE it, you have COLLECTED it and the RETENTION of such data fits YOUR purposes.
When I send an email my ISP will will scan the email for viruses and to make sure it is not spam. How is this any different.
Your ISP presumably doesn't collect data from your emails and sell that on, or use it to advertise to your.
Whatever your opinions on gun control are, we (the US) have managed to box ourselves into an unpleasant corner. There are way too many guns out there to have any effective method of restriction work. And way too many gun nuts.
It really is an ugly situation. Nobody is going to win here.
Except the loonies and terrorists.
Australia used to have the same problem, but a conservative government managed to introduce gun restricts at the cost of the next election, and gun violence and accidents dropped sharply.
Just assign the images, trademarks and logos over to the public domain and we are done.
Considering they are trademarks, just asking for their inclusion into a generic set of symbol kind of suggest the owners DO believe they are now generic. I think they might have forgotten that also makes them lose all protection.
You don't buy soda or bottled water?
Do you buy it due to the high margin or because you like/need it?
Well, there is all that smog in London that is mainly caused by diesel by-products. Last year practically the entire country was under a smog alert at one point.
Yes but he doesn't propose banning the main source of diesel polution: Heavy vehicles. He is only proposing banning an insignificant source of diesel polution, the source that already has the strictest rules and best filters.
The national laws implement Directive 95/46/EC on data protection.
What does that have to do with what is being referred to as "the right to be forgotten"? The original case was about a specific spanish law that requires that you can't be registered as having been through a bankrupcy after a certain amount of years. Other cases that has caused Google to remove material are similar country-specific laws, like laws that they can't list them as criminals after a certain amount of years after serving time. Google requires you to specify which law in which country you are referring to if you want to be deleted. It really has nothing to do with data protection at all. These laws are all old and used to apply to paper registers and newspapers.
I'm not sure the average service cost is that much less when you factor in replacing a $4000 battery pack every 8 to 10 years. Also, there are high end SUVs that cost even more than the low-end Tesla Model X at $80,000.
The whole article is a planted Tesla story. There has been no issue wiht dealers selling electric cars, many of them have never had the chance, because Tesla doesn't let them. Also many of them doesn't have repair shops, and certainly doesn't profit from them because the only repairs people get done at the dealer are those covered by the dealer due to warranty.
Please add scare quotes to "law" too, because there is no such law, and never has been. It was a ruling, a ruling stating local national laws also apply to Google evne if the local laws are stupid, but it there was never any EU laws involved.
Really, there is zero scientific processes behind "lie detectors". They are intended as an intimidation tool to coerce a confession, nothing more. There's a reason they are not admissible as evidence.
Well, there is statistical evidence that they manage to fool stupid people.
I was under the (admittedly vague) impression that was true only if the thread was using floating point.
No, that is the AMD Bulldozer design. Hyper-threading provides no extra CPU power for the additional threads, how much performance you get out of the extra threads depend on how much the threads are forced to stall due to memory access, if they all do integer/fp instructions and memory access that hits the cache, you get only 50% normal performance out of each hyper thread.
These are no jetpacks, no matter what the media labels them as.
Actually that makes it a lot better. Jetpacks are dangerious, unreliable and tend to explode. A not-jetpack sounds much better for firefighting.
Fuck that shit! I will take a stastically insignificant attack by deperate nobodies who are doing pointless insignificant attacks because they know they have already LOST, over losing our freedom.
Erm, while I do agree with your point for the most part I would like to point out that, to the 100+ people who died tonight, these attacks were hardly "insignificant".
Yes they are. 9/11 was 10x bigger and was not even remotely a significant threat against anything except our perception of security and therethough our own freedom.
Yep. I am having deja vu to 9/11. When here on slashdot, several commentators accurately predicted the largest fallout would be restricting our own freedoms.
Instead of limited our freedoms, how about we go kick in the teeth of anyone who doesn't support peace, anyone who promotes violence, and anyone who doesn't denounce this?
Unless there is a specific state or organization behind something, you can't really retaliate in a meaningful way.
I assume you think you know who is behind it, and that is who you want to "kick their teeth in" of without further evidence, and probably just by association rather than actual being in any way responsible. In other words you are probably proposing to become what you yourself what are denouncing. So should we kick your teeth in?
Have you any actual evidence? Nobody's provided any. It's proof by blatant assertion.
Have you ever read the EULA or seen what it does after a crash? or.. Let's say, had to enter credit card details to get basic features installed? It is not exactly secret, Apple are very open it.
Fortunately for them, they're up against politically correct pussies in most cases
It's the gun toting macho pussies that I'm more worried about. The ones who react to stuff like this by arming themselves, increasing "security" (i.e. reducing freedom and privacy) and generally being afraid of anyone with dark skin and the wrong religion. Those guys are the real threat to our democracies and way of life.
The last thing we want to do now is militarize Paris. I was disgusted to hear a British MP on the TV tonight using these attacks as justification for the Snooper's Charter spying laws he wants to introduce. I'm not afraid, I will walk down the street without clutching my sword, and I don't need weak minded idiots who buy into all this "over-running Europe" crap protecting me thanks.
Yep. I am having deja vu to 9/11. When here on slashdot, several commentators accurately predicted the largest fallout would be restricting our own freedoms.
Fuck that shit! I will take a stastically insignificant attack by deperate nobodies who are doing pointless insignificant attacks because they know they have already LOST, over losing our freedom.
France has really stringent gun control laws. That did not prevented Charlie Hebdo. That also did not prevented 11/13/2015 events in Paris.
Has somebody noticed that tragedies in free gun zones occur not when people are not armed, but when the right to bear arms is limited. Because criminals do no care about zones.
My dear imbecile: you can kiss my ass.
Go back to watching Fox News, you are a complete idiot.
We know that Microsoft is spying on things I don't want spied on. You say you think Apple does as much spying without actually providing any evidence for your argument. Apple and Microsoft are two different companies, and operate in different ways. Most of Microsoft's revenue is from software licensing, and most of Apple's is from selling Macs and iDevices.
Microsoft implemented the mechanism to catch up to OS X, which already had the same for years. iOS is much much worse, but being tracked is common on mobile devices.
You annoying kids.
Come back when your platform has 25,000 games for it, like the Commodore 64
Gerroff my lawn.
Commodore64 isn't really a lawn computer though.
Probably more AAA titles though, and certainly more exclusives. Still seeing numbers like this seems weird when realising that even minor PC platforms have more games available, and most of them are not small casual games,but medium and indie games, with a bit of a gap for blockbusters.