I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I think maybe it's best for people to marry with somebody of roughly their own income. A woman who makes a decent living and wants to meet a man who makes a similar amount isn't necessary being greedy, she's probably just trying to avoid being taken advantage of, or at worst not wanting to give away everything she has earned to be with somebody who can't make an equal financial contribution to the couple's lifestyle.
I say this as a guy with a stay-at-home wife and kids who willingly donates the vast majority of my earnings to the family, but I take it most people see this as an outdated way of life nowadays. Personally I'm glad we can do it, since otherwise we'd be way too busy. When the kids are old enough not to need constant care, I'm pretty sure she'll go back into the workforce.
You make a good point, except I don't think most of the people here have any sympathy for the "anti-rave" law in the first place. Would GB allow Burning Man? I've heard it has been policed more in recent years, but they certainly haven't shut it down, either.
It rather depends what you put on there and what kind of business you are, doesn't it? It also depends on your backup strategy. If they up the price of their service, you can migrate away. If they shut it off completely with no warning... well, you were keeping backups, right?
Well, there goes one of the major savings from cloud computing then. If you can't rely on them to back it up, you still have to host all your data yourself (as backups). For that matter, having all your data sitting in a big tarball somewhere hardly counts as a backup unless the infrastructure is in place for all your enterprise users to switch over to it on demand.
Of course we both know hardly any cloud computing users will actually do that.
Really? Name any job you like, and I'll bet I can tell you why voice acting is easier than that. There are very few jobs that don't require any of the following:
I am a fan, but I don't care whether they re-cast. I think voice actors are grossly overpaid for what they do, taking advantage of their status as semi-recognizable and, for that reason only, hard to replace. The real genius behind the show was its writing, but writers are behind the scenes so they can't blackmail the producers for more $$$.
"The bad kids need to be identified as early as possible, and shunted off into a different program where they're prepared for careers as janitors and burger-flippers"
You are still stuck on the idea that there are inherently good kids and bad kids, despite supposedly agreeing with what you were responding to. Re-read it: "sticking us in with them actually encouraged the good students to out-bad the bad students." If true, then the approach you advocate is 100% wrong; the goodness and badness of kids is not inherent, but mostly environment. In that case the worst thing you could do is purposely put (some) kids in a bad environment. If environment is important, then the way to make people peaceful and productive is to break the cycle of intergenerational dysfunction as "bad" people create bad environments for their offspring - the opposite of what you propose.
The problem with all 3d is that the lenses on the glasses must be calibrated to the colors on the display for optimal effect. For example if the images appear in the wrong shade of blue and red, you might begin to see both images in both eyes (no 3d).
The problem with red/blue glasses is you are sacrificing 2 dimensions to gain 1 back. The ones you lose are two of the three dimensions in human visual color space; the one you gain is depth. (Actually it seems wrong that you'd have to sacrifice 2 to get 1, maybe I am not thinking right.)
This is the kind of problem you can solve in 2 minutes with 95% accuracy (by using file size), or never finish at all by listening to all the pedants on slashdot. When people know a little too much they love to go on about stuff like entropy and information gain, just because they (sort of) can.
Try file size on the set of images of interest to you and see if it coincides with your intuition. If it does, you're done.
It's funny how we confuse democracy with capitalism sometimes. But "1 person, 1 vote" is a whole different ballgame than "$1, 1 vote." I am not saying Sun should be a democracy. But seriously, sit back for a minute and imagine how horrible a capitalist government would be.
All compression is based on basically the same idea - a model of the process that created the data. The model makes somewhat less error in predicting what will come next compared to a random model / no model, and hence needs less information to correct those predictions. For instance, in speech compression it is normal to start with a model of the human vocal tract. Even general compression algorithms like gzip work this way, making basic assumptions, such as real-world data tends to have values which repeat, a weak model but useful nonetheless.
Yeah, sort of. The problem with hanging around used game shops waiting to over-bid them, is you are on their private property, effectively siphoning off part of their real estate lease, advertising, and employee costs, which allow anybody to get at least something for their game on impulse. I wouldn't blame EB if they banned you or the guy who sold you the game from their store.
Yes, because we all know that every locale has magic electricity faeries just waiting to produce low-carbon-footprint electricity.
Depends on how big the "locales" are. For instance, the article says importing electricity from the midwest to the coasts may be a mistake, since they're closer to offshore wind. So, the article agrees we need to build a smart grid. It's just questioning how far the rollout should go. I'm not sure there are any serious plans for a truly national power grid, so it's something of a strawman.
Still, living in New Mexico, I pay good money to get rid of all the excess energy that falls out of the sky on to my home almost every day, so the idea of being able to sell that solar power instead is enticing.
Almost anything beats the X11 protocol over the Internet, it's no good. But what does NX have over VNC? VNC works well for me and has both windows and linux clients and servers, with both console and background sessions on linux. But if NX is better, I'm open to it...
MS makes money from things other than windows and office. Lots of other things. If that was all they did, they'd go broke.
I think you are mistaken; rather, they've wasted much of the proceeds from their Windows and Office cash cow through unsuccessful attempts to branch out.
Sure, there's probably some legalistic reason why this happened. But the question becomes, why and in what sense are they a single company at all? Put another way, what are the upper N levels of management being paid for?
I agree about the potential risks, but not in this case. The Holocaust Museum shooting perpetrator is a poster child for prejudice, with a 60 year self-avowed history of anti-semitism. Furthermore, the Holocaust Museum has such overt symbolism that he could not possibly have attacked it without knowing exactly what message he would send. Are you arguing it's just a coincidence he attacked there?
I think the US and UK must have different definitions of "hate crime." In the US, it's an act that would have been a crime anyways, but motivated by any of a specific list of taboos. In the UK, apparently the speech is a crime in itself, even if nobody gets hurt.
Though the US version seems ripe for abuse, it still seems more sensible than the UK version, and I don't think the US version is totally unreasonable. Take the recent holocaust museum shooting... a white man murders a black guard in an attack on a symbol of Judaism. Clearly it was a hate crime - not against blacks, even though that's the only person he murdered - but against Jews. But he didn't just think about hating Jews, he took forcible action to terrorize them, so I can at least see the rationale in some extra punishment for that, on top of murdering a guy.
Speaking of the murder of the guard, cop killers get harsher sentences too, likely including death, since cops represent a symbolic group with extra risks - in other words, a hate crimes. I wonder if all those against special protections for minority groups are also against harsher penalties for killing cops, assassinating heads of state, etc?
Not pertinent to the current delays, but this story reminded me of a cool picture.
I wonder if lasers could be used to divert lightning from commercial airliners in-flight? There was some speculation it could have contributed to the recent Air France crash, though apparently it's not a leading theory.
The paintings may be in the public domain, but the photographs are copyright to the photographer.
That doesn't make much sense; if so I could take a photo of a painting under current copyright (not public domain) and sell it. I could take photocopies of a book and sell them. After all, I made the creative work... the photo, that is.
I just don't believe in that whole "victim-of-the-modern-diet" argument so many fat people like to use as an excuse. I live in the same society, shop in the same stores, and I'm not fat. It's called self-control.
Good for you. I assume you eschew birth control for the same reasons. Food is for energy, sex is for making babies, if you don't want any, keep it permanently in your pants.
But in contrast to previous technologies, at least this runs standalone on the device, rather than as a web service.
Also, it doesn't record everything verbatim, but rather just tries to find characteristics of different environments, and classify them. (I don't have direct knowledge of this, but it would be very resource-intensive and pointless to record all the ambient noise used to recognize you're in the office, for example).
I think it is a sensible idea. Obviously humans use their senses to be aware of where they are and what they should be doing, and AI will be no different. Sound will certainly be part of that. However, my concern for the value of this technology is that smartphones also have GPS, which seems to greatly decrease the need for using sound signatures just to infer general context. (Of course specific information such as speech must still be recognized, but that's not what this is, from what I can tell).
Well, that is a very good point. Ultimately the lack of proprietary content on open software is due to a fundamental ideological and economic incompatibility, and the technology is just a symptom of that.
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I say this as a guy with a stay-at-home wife and kids who willingly donates the vast majority of my earnings to the family, but I take it most people see this as an outdated way of life nowadays. Personally I'm glad we can do it, since otherwise we'd be way too busy. When the kids are old enough not to need constant care, I'm pretty sure she'll go back into the workforce.
You make a good point, except I don't think most of the people here have any sympathy for the "anti-rave" law in the first place. Would GB allow Burning Man? I've heard it has been policed more in recent years, but they certainly haven't shut it down, either.
Well, there goes one of the major savings from cloud computing then. If you can't rely on them to back it up, you still have to host all your data yourself (as backups). For that matter, having all your data sitting in a big tarball somewhere hardly counts as a backup unless the infrastructure is in place for all your enterprise users to switch over to it on demand.
Of course we both know hardly any cloud computing users will actually do that.
Really? Name any job you like, and I'll bet I can tell you why voice acting is easier than that. There are very few jobs that don't require any of the following:
I am a fan, but I don't care whether they re-cast. I think voice actors are grossly overpaid for what they do, taking advantage of their status as semi-recognizable and, for that reason only, hard to replace. The real genius behind the show was its writing, but writers are behind the scenes so they can't blackmail the producers for more $$$.
You are still stuck on the idea that there are inherently good kids and bad kids, despite supposedly agreeing with what you were responding to. Re-read it: "sticking us in with them actually encouraged the good students to out-bad the bad students." If true, then the approach you advocate is 100% wrong; the goodness and badness of kids is not inherent, but mostly environment. In that case the worst thing you could do is purposely put (some) kids in a bad environment. If environment is important, then the way to make people peaceful and productive is to break the cycle of intergenerational dysfunction as "bad" people create bad environments for their offspring - the opposite of what you propose.
The problem with red/blue glasses is you are sacrificing 2 dimensions to gain 1 back. The ones you lose are two of the three dimensions in human visual color space; the one you gain is depth. (Actually it seems wrong that you'd have to sacrifice 2 to get 1, maybe I am not thinking right.)
Try file size on the set of images of interest to you and see if it coincides with your intuition. If it does, you're done.
It's funny how we confuse democracy with capitalism sometimes. But "1 person, 1 vote" is a whole different ballgame than "$1, 1 vote." I am not saying Sun should be a democracy. But seriously, sit back for a minute and imagine how horrible a capitalist government would be.
All compression is based on basically the same idea - a model of the process that created the data. The model makes somewhat less error in predicting what will come next compared to a random model / no model, and hence needs less information to correct those predictions. For instance, in speech compression it is normal to start with a model of the human vocal tract. Even general compression algorithms like gzip work this way, making basic assumptions, such as real-world data tends to have values which repeat, a weak model but useful nonetheless.
Yeah, sort of. The problem with hanging around used game shops waiting to over-bid them, is you are on their private property, effectively siphoning off part of their real estate lease, advertising, and employee costs, which allow anybody to get at least something for their game on impulse. I wouldn't blame EB if they banned you or the guy who sold you the game from their store.
Not if the "offer" was purely a rhetorical device, as the weasel claims.
Your recap leaves out the news and then claims it is not news. The news is not that they lied, but that they were caught and prosecuted. Good.
In other words, you don't have "a" genome. What you are is a big bunch of cells, closely enough related that their genomes are very similar.
Almost anything beats the X11 protocol over the Internet, it's no good. But what does NX have over VNC? VNC works well for me and has both windows and linux clients and servers, with both console and background sessions on linux. But if NX is better, I'm open to it...
I think you are mistaken; rather, they've wasted much of the proceeds from their Windows and Office cash cow through unsuccessful attempts to branch out.
Sure, there's probably some legalistic reason why this happened. But the question becomes, why and in what sense are they a single company at all? Put another way, what are the upper N levels of management being paid for?
I agree about the potential risks, but not in this case. The Holocaust Museum shooting perpetrator is a poster child for prejudice, with a 60 year self-avowed history of anti-semitism. Furthermore, the Holocaust Museum has such overt symbolism that he could not possibly have attacked it without knowing exactly what message he would send. Are you arguing it's just a coincidence he attacked there?
Though the US version seems ripe for abuse, it still seems more sensible than the UK version, and I don't think the US version is totally unreasonable. Take the recent holocaust museum shooting... a white man murders a black guard in an attack on a symbol of Judaism. Clearly it was a hate crime - not against blacks, even though that's the only person he murdered - but against Jews. But he didn't just think about hating Jews, he took forcible action to terrorize them, so I can at least see the rationale in some extra punishment for that, on top of murdering a guy.
Speaking of the murder of the guard, cop killers get harsher sentences too, likely including death, since cops represent a symbolic group with extra risks - in other words, a hate crimes. I wonder if all those against special protections for minority groups are also against harsher penalties for killing cops, assassinating heads of state, etc?
I wonder if lasers could be used to divert lightning from commercial airliners in-flight? There was some speculation it could have contributed to the recent Air France crash, though apparently it's not a leading theory.
That doesn't make much sense; if so I could take a photo of a painting under current copyright (not public domain) and sell it. I could take photocopies of a book and sell them. After all, I made the creative work... the photo, that is.
Good for you. I assume you eschew birth control for the same reasons. Food is for energy, sex is for making babies, if you don't want any, keep it permanently in your pants.
Also, it doesn't record everything verbatim, but rather just tries to find characteristics of different environments, and classify them. (I don't have direct knowledge of this, but it would be very resource-intensive and pointless to record all the ambient noise used to recognize you're in the office, for example).
I think it is a sensible idea. Obviously humans use their senses to be aware of where they are and what they should be doing, and AI will be no different. Sound will certainly be part of that. However, my concern for the value of this technology is that smartphones also have GPS, which seems to greatly decrease the need for using sound signatures just to infer general context. (Of course specific information such as speech must still be recognized, but that's not what this is, from what I can tell).
Well, that is a very good point. Ultimately the lack of proprietary content on open software is due to a fundamental ideological and economic incompatibility, and the technology is just a symptom of that.