A unit of measurement that requires calculus to translate. Since the amount of data in an LoC is continuously changing by a variable amount of delta... I mean is there an LoC service I can ping like NTP to get the current value of its scale? Can I get access to historical data? I'm trying to read an article from 1992 and am having trouble understanding the scale it's trying to convey in 1992 LoCs!
I really need to sort out the conversion algorithms to other useful units of measure like: LHCDO (Large Hadron Collider Data Output) GWC (Google's Web Cache) Parsecs (Because why aren't we measuring storage in Parsecs?? If it's good enough for the Kessel Run it's good enough for storage needs!)
Reality of the business world: Yes of course they are going to try to deliver less for the same or more $. Capitalism blah blah blah...
That being said: Although the article uses the phrase "perceived quality" they aren't necessarily differentiating between that and "real" quality. The sentences work just fine when the compression is lossLESS meaning they can accomplish that increase in quality (resolution / bit depth) at same bandwidth or reduce bandwidth for same quality by that definition.
That doesn't mean they won't choose a more aggressive lossY format to further milk you for your dollars but that's not implied or necessary within the bounds of this article's premise.
Sure if this is a commuter car. Those of us who travel distance on a regular basis need "typical" range with a "reasonable" recharge time.. Most manufacturers consider 300 miles "typical" then I can fill my gas tank in 15 minutes.. I would consider a longer amount of time reasonable but there's a limit.. probably a half hour and honestly that's longer than I'd like.
Now if they can increase my range in the orders being discussed so I could go 1000 miles / charge or more then I'd tolerate a MUCH longer charge time (as I need my own recharge at that point)
Tall Wave, Low Flight Plan...and sharks jumping out of the waves!
...what I was really hoping the article would get into is why the Bermuda Triangle would necessarily have more or bigger of these waves BUT the real answer is "they don't":
Also, he noted that the Bermuda Triangle, which is one of the most heavily trafficked parts of any ocean, doesn't actually see a statistically unlikely rate of disappearances. “According to Lloyds of London and the US coast guard, the number of planes that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis,”
You know how we got there? The first few words of the summary:
"As a parent, it is obvious..."...which leads to "Think of the children!!!" laws which have overly bubble-wrapped our society......leading to children who are unprepared to deal with the harsh realities of "life"......who turn into adults that need safe spaces and trigger warnings and an ever growing cocktail of psychotropics to get by...
Enough ellipses for one post:
Children need to fall down so they can learn to get up. Children need to get hurt (hopefully in non-permanent ways) so their bodies and minds know how to heal. Children need to be exposed to dirt and germs so their immune systems can learn to protect them. Children need to explore their ever growing universe on their own terms so they can experience and learn about it both in the physical and today in the digital.
I grew up in the "Tell me where you're going, be home by dinner and then be home before dark" world.. it was a wonderful place.. Can we get back there or is it too late?
I think you made your own counter-argument: The most important aspect of leadership is getting people to follow you (willingly in the best case). If your debate skills are weak than others will be able to sway your flock away from where you are trying to lead them. It doesn't matter how "right" you are if some counter-leader can undermine your position.
Presidential debates are a poor reference point for the usefulness of debate. They are a different beast really although in history certain debates have had a noticeable effect on certain elections. The core skill of debate is something extremely useful when wielded correctly.
Now if you want a truly meaningless debate: When will this AI be tested on a political Facebook comment thread?!
My response was more: Wait BitTorrent is a company? With actual Value??
Most of the torrent sites I'm on banned their client a long time ago for lots of good reasons.. I mean maybe 170M users worth of basic "I downloaded this" user data is technically worth "something" these days but I could think of so many better things to blow $140M on...
I mean really... It baffles me how much people don't know about the state of Biometrics and their use around the world and this country. "ZOMG!! Law enforcement has this new tool that's going to steal my privacy!!" News Flash: Law enforcement from the local to the federal level have had this technology and have been using it successfully for 30+ years now.. Amazon's latest effort is pretty good but it's not even close to the forensic quality algorithms the "quieter" side of the industry have at their disposal. All of the "they might use this to do that" type conversations are funny in that "they can and already are and have been for a long time"
Get mad about it all you want but please stop thinking this is new or anything that can be stopped. Your privacy is a myth.. stop pretending you have it. The only thing Amazon has done here is make this tech more accessible for *you to use. "The Man" already has it and better and didn't need Amazon to provide it.. AWS just made it cheaper for them to procure.
I also don't use a case (I don't like the extra bulk or any of how it hinders access to phone controls) but have to say shit happens.. I mean I grew up when car seats weren't mandatory and made it out just fine but enough others didn't that they added the regulations.
That being said: Out of the 10 phones I've had in 23 years I've only ever damaged 2 of them.. the rest died of old age (typically can't hold a charge anymore even with new battery or software updates exceeded the power of the phone making it painful to use). I've been a Motorola loyalist for a number of reasons and (even if this article is a Slashvertisement) that Motorola phone sitting at the top of the list has been accurate in my experience. The 2 damaged ones both met roughly the same fate: Drop from distance, face down on a large pointy rock nuked the screen (the most dramatic of which was me recording a video and someone spiking the phone out of my hands!). Basically the worst case scenario for a "shatter proof" (really resistant) screen. The rest have taken plenty of falls to no effect. My first Moto-X took a 20' flight to concrete and didn't even scratch.
So yeah the "study" is not the best and is definitely more of an ad than research BUT that doesn't negate the results matching reality. Your call whether you choose to use said data in your next buying decision:)
lol. That and *many others... We don't need a new word. We have *many* words that describe these many different activities as exactly what they are. As has been previously stated no one cares. The news will continue to report it the way they do and the unwashed masses will continue to not understand and ergo get all panicy about it and the fear driven road to the bottom will continue as scheduled.
I had 16MB of ram on my P90 Laptop in (late) 1995 and *that was HUGE! (and expensive...) On desktops it was more realistic to have more than that (I had 72MB on my 486DX4-100 desktop) vintage 1994.. that replaced a 386DX so I have no reference for how much memory I would have had in my theoretical 486-25;)
You could run Linux just fine on all of that. The article would be better if it was worded "Modern Linux".
I also would like to see if Slackware has a better experience as historically they were much better with keeping the bloat down...
As a practical matter: The NFL blackout for *broadcast only was on when the stadium was not sold out.
My local team hasn't missed a sell out since like 1986.. SO broadcast is never blacked out locally BUT streaming is. Heck I'm a season ticket holder which, for the first time, they gifted us NFL Red Zone and NFL Network memberships **EXCEPT: I can't watch my own team play because it is always blacked out even when they are away... that's just plain stupid.. and the NFL can't claim I'm doing this for free as between my SBL and each season cost they are getting a LOT of my money.
SO my TV-free household is *forced to pirate the games because even with their #%$%^& subscription service I can't stream the games.
If I can watch it via an antennae (w/ Ads of course.. $$ has to come from somewhere) for free then I should be able to stream it on the internet for the same low price. (Consideration given of course for whatever whomever charges to recoup the cost of said streaming) The model of: "Select your cable subscription to stream for free" is BS. I shouldn't need a cable provider at home to have device freedom for my football.
Fix that problem and I'll stop searching for pirate streams on YouTube (and people will be less inclined to want to put them up there)
My memory's screwy... I know I got my account sometime between 95-99 given where I was living at the time BUT I thought it was closer to the beginning of that and apparently/. has only been around since '97 SO.. Given my 6-digits must have been closer to '98 I guess.../. post history is only going back to 2008 for me so.. is there anyway to check our "birthday"?
Sonic weaponry is not new and far from unknown... causing damage isn't even that hard. The question is whether they've perfected making specific targeted changes to a person with this tech.
For example: I could turn anyone into a mindless pile right now using little more than the pencil on my desk, BUT if I wanted to, instead, slightly change your behavior I'd need a *really fancy pencil;)
The sound in the video is fairly similar to a mixture of a tornado siren and some cicadas but the length of the sample is too short.. would be interesting to do some waveform analysis on how the fluctuations change over a much longer period of time. The brain has a way of filtering out a fairly constant "annoying" sound so the fluctuations you can hear in the short segment probably have a fairly calculated variation pattern to continually force the brain's pattern matcher out of sync (while maybe at the same time gaming the matcher to change behavior with parts of the signal that don't change..)
Yeah... yawn... "The disclosure underscores that banks remain at risk of cyber attacks targeting computers used to access SWIFT almost two years after..."
Two years after... Ten Years After (Great band btw)... Ten centuries after (assuming our species is still kickin' it): They will still be hacking after that money, yo!
Was the video a bit in poor taste? sure. Should they have had a more serious demeanor when showing people's loss? probably. Especially the Rachel character.. Zuck had a much better demeanor IMHO she sounded more like she was marketing making sure they kept talking about the VR.
All that being said: The efforts they highlighted are real efforts that are working towards real results in helping the people of Puerto Rico. I'll give them a lot of leeway when it comes to squeezing a bit of PR out of PR when the the efforts are more than just fluff. I only hope some of that generosity is going to the USVI and other island nations as well as they are in as bad or worse shape and now out of the spotlight since Puerto Rico is a more visible aide target.
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A unit of measurement that requires calculus to translate. Since the amount of data in an LoC is continuously changing by a variable amount of delta... I mean is there an LoC service I can ping like NTP to get the current value of its scale? Can I get access to historical data? I'm trying to read an article from 1992 and am having trouble understanding the scale it's trying to convey in 1992 LoCs!
I really need to sort out the conversion algorithms to other useful units of measure like:
LHCDO (Large Hadron Collider Data Output)
GWC (Google's Web Cache)
Parsecs (Because why aren't we measuring storage in Parsecs?? If it's good enough for the Kessel Run it's good enough for storage needs!)
Reality of the business world: Yes of course they are going to try to deliver less for the same or more $. Capitalism blah blah blah...
That being said: Although the article uses the phrase "perceived quality" they aren't necessarily differentiating between that and "real" quality. The sentences work just fine when the compression is lossLESS meaning they can accomplish that increase in quality (resolution / bit depth) at same bandwidth or reduce bandwidth for same quality by that definition.
That doesn't mean they won't choose a more aggressive lossY format to further milk you for your dollars but that's not implied or necessary within the bounds of this article's premise.
Sure if this is a commuter car. Those of us who travel distance on a regular basis need "typical" range with a "reasonable" recharge time.. Most manufacturers consider 300 miles "typical" then I can fill my gas tank in 15 minutes.. I would consider a longer amount of time reasonable but there's a limit.. probably a half hour and honestly that's longer than I'd like.
Now if they can increase my range in the orders being discussed so I could go 1000 miles / charge or more then I'd tolerate a MUCH longer charge time (as I need my own recharge at that point)
Tall Wave, Low Flight Plan...and sharks jumping out of the waves!
...what I was really hoping the article would get into is why the Bermuda Triangle would necessarily have more or bigger of these waves BUT the real answer is "they don't":
Also, he noted that the Bermuda Triangle, which is one of the most heavily trafficked parts of any ocean, doesn't actually see a statistically unlikely rate of disappearances. “According to Lloyds of London and the US coast guard, the number of planes that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis,”
You know how we got there? The first few words of the summary:
"As a parent, it is obvious..." ...which leads to "Think of the children!!!" laws which have overly bubble-wrapped our society... ...leading to children who are unprepared to deal with the harsh realities of "life"... ...who turn into adults that need safe spaces and trigger warnings and an ever growing cocktail of psychotropics to get by...
Enough ellipses for one post:
Children need to fall down so they can learn to get up.
Children need to get hurt (hopefully in non-permanent ways) so their bodies and minds know how to heal.
Children need to be exposed to dirt and germs so their immune systems can learn to protect them.
Children need to explore their ever growing universe on their own terms so they can experience and learn about it both in the physical and today in the digital.
I grew up in the "Tell me where you're going, be home by dinner and then be home before dark" world.. it was a wonderful place.. Can we get back there or is it too late?
You've been able to do this since 2005 with Amazon Mechanical Turk!
I think you made your own counter-argument: The most important aspect of leadership is getting people to follow you (willingly in the best case). If your debate skills are weak than others will be able to sway your flock away from where you are trying to lead them. It doesn't matter how "right" you are if some counter-leader can undermine your position.
Presidential debates are a poor reference point for the usefulness of debate. They are a different beast really although in history certain debates have had a noticeable effect on certain elections. The core skill of debate is something extremely useful when wielded correctly.
Now if you want a truly meaningless debate: When will this AI be tested on a political Facebook comment thread?!
My response was more: Wait BitTorrent is a company? With actual Value??
Most of the torrent sites I'm on banned their client a long time ago for lots of good reasons.. I mean maybe 170M users worth of basic "I downloaded this" user data is technically worth "something" these days but I could think of so many better things to blow $140M on...
NothingOfValueWas..Bought.
You just had to take the Troll bait didn't you...
The OP is from an wannabe engineer who I won't be hiring when they come looking for a job because they think they know more than they do :)
I mean really... It baffles me how much people don't know about the state of Biometrics and their use around the world and this country. "ZOMG!! Law enforcement has this new tool that's going to steal my privacy!!" News Flash: Law enforcement from the local to the federal level have had this technology and have been using it successfully for 30+ years now.. Amazon's latest effort is pretty good but it's not even close to the forensic quality algorithms the "quieter" side of the industry have at their disposal. All of the "they might use this to do that" type conversations are funny in that "they can and already are and have been for a long time"
Get mad about it all you want but please stop thinking this is new or anything that can be stopped. Your privacy is a myth.. stop pretending you have it. The only thing Amazon has done here is make this tech more accessible for *you to use. "The Man" already has it and better and didn't need Amazon to provide it.. AWS just made it cheaper for them to procure.
I also don't use a case (I don't like the extra bulk or any of how it hinders access to phone controls) but have to say shit happens.. I mean I grew up when car seats weren't mandatory and made it out just fine but enough others didn't that they added the regulations.
That being said: Out of the 10 phones I've had in 23 years I've only ever damaged 2 of them.. the rest died of old age (typically can't hold a charge anymore even with new battery or software updates exceeded the power of the phone making it painful to use). I've been a Motorola loyalist for a number of reasons and (even if this article is a Slashvertisement) that Motorola phone sitting at the top of the list has been accurate in my experience. The 2 damaged ones both met roughly the same fate: Drop from distance, face down on a large pointy rock nuked the screen (the most dramatic of which was me recording a video and someone spiking the phone out of my hands!). Basically the worst case scenario for a "shatter proof" (really resistant) screen. The rest have taken plenty of falls to no effect. My first Moto-X took a 20' flight to concrete and didn't even scratch.
So yeah the "study" is not the best and is definitely more of an ad than research BUT that doesn't negate the results matching reality. Your call whether you choose to use said data in your next buying decision :)
Here... we'll give it some relevance:
Welcome to the NBA singularity!!
[sigh]...
The real answer is it's always 100%... some jobs are just harder to automate than others.
I for one welcome our new singularity-enhanced automation overlords!
lol. That and *many others... We don't need a new word. We have *many* words that describe these many different activities as exactly what they are. As has been previously stated no one cares. The news will continue to report it the way they do and the unwashed masses will continue to not understand and ergo get all panicy about it and the fear driven road to the bottom will continue as scheduled.
I had 16MB of ram on my P90 Laptop in (late) 1995 and *that was HUGE! (and expensive...) On desktops it was more realistic to have more than that (I had 72MB on my 486DX4-100 desktop) vintage 1994.. that replaced a 386DX so I have no reference for how much memory I would have had in my theoretical 486-25 ;)
You could run Linux just fine on all of that. The article would be better if it was worded "Modern Linux".
I also would like to see if Slackware has a better experience as historically they were much better with keeping the bloat down...
As a practical matter: The NFL blackout for *broadcast only was on when the stadium was not sold out.
My local team hasn't missed a sell out since like 1986.. SO broadcast is never blacked out locally BUT streaming is. Heck I'm a season ticket holder which, for the first time, they gifted us NFL Red Zone and NFL Network memberships **EXCEPT: I can't watch my own team play because it is always blacked out even when they are away... that's just plain stupid.. and the NFL can't claim I'm doing this for free as between my SBL and each season cost they are getting a LOT of my money.
SO my TV-free household is *forced to pirate the games because even with their #%$%^& subscription service I can't stream the games.
Bushleague.
If I can watch it via an antennae (w/ Ads of course.. $$ has to come from somewhere) for free then I should be able to stream it on the internet for the same low price. (Consideration given of course for whatever whomever charges to recoup the cost of said streaming) The model of: "Select your cable subscription to stream for free" is BS. I shouldn't need a cable provider at home to have device freedom for my football.
Fix that problem and I'll stop searching for pirate streams on YouTube (and people will be less inclined to want to put them up there)
Unrelated: Billionaire Bill Gates diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's...
My memory's screwy... I know I got my account sometime between 95-99 given where I was living at the time BUT I thought it was closer to the beginning of that and apparently /. has only been around since '97 SO.. Given my 6-digits must have been closer to '98 I guess... /. post history is only going back to 2008 for me so.. is there anyway to check our "birthday"?
#5 Don't let AC's comment :)
Sshhhh... they killed my fucking dog man... >:-(
Sonic weaponry is not new and far from unknown... causing damage isn't even that hard. The question is whether they've perfected making specific targeted changes to a person with this tech.
For example: I could turn anyone into a mindless pile right now using little more than the pencil on my desk, BUT if I wanted to, instead, slightly change your behavior I'd need a *really fancy pencil ;)
The sound in the video is fairly similar to a mixture of a tornado siren and some cicadas but the length of the sample is too short.. would be interesting to do some waveform analysis on how the fluctuations change over a much longer period of time. The brain has a way of filtering out a fairly constant "annoying" sound so the fluctuations you can hear in the short segment probably have a fairly calculated variation pattern to continually force the brain's pattern matcher out of sync (while maybe at the same time gaming the matcher to change behavior with parts of the signal that don't change..)
Hacking the brain is fun! :-D
Yeah... yawn... "The disclosure underscores that banks remain at risk of cyber attacks targeting computers used to access SWIFT almost two years after..."
Two years after... Ten Years After (Great band btw)... Ten centuries after (assuming our species is still kickin' it): They will still be hacking after that money, yo!
Dolla dolla bills.
Was the video a bit in poor taste? sure. Should they have had a more serious demeanor when showing people's loss? probably. Especially the Rachel character.. Zuck had a much better demeanor IMHO she sounded more like she was marketing making sure they kept talking about the VR.
All that being said: The efforts they highlighted are real efforts that are working towards real results in helping the people of Puerto Rico. I'll give them a lot of leeway when it comes to squeezing a bit of PR out of PR when the the efforts are more than just fluff. I only hope some of that generosity is going to the USVI and other island nations as well as they are in as bad or worse shape and now out of the spotlight since Puerto Rico is a more visible aide target.
If he was very smart he wouldn't be in this situation and whining to /. about it...