"I don't think it's that people "fool" themselves"
Oh they do. Thats why you have audiophools paying $20K+ for turntables when they could get better reproduction quality out of a cheap CD player or $100 smartphone.
The dynamic range compression required to stop the needle jumping out of the groove plus the non linear frequency response of the needle itself and the also non linear way the actual dynamic range changes as the needle gets closer to the centre (and so is effectively moving slower) give vinyl a particular feel/sound which is what some people like. They fool themselves into thinking its better reproduction of the original source that digital - its anything but.
However music is subjective and its what you like that matters, not how true it is to the original.
Waiting in a port a few years ago I noticed that all my central locking had failed and the alarm was dead - had to manually open the car with the key (good luck trying that these days with so called smart keys). Luckily the car started and I could drive it away. Once parked out of the port everything was fine. Went back to the port a week later - exactly the same thing. I don't know if it was the radar or some high powered HF radio transmitter but whatever it was it nicely disabled my car systems.
... and whether you agree with them or not they broke them. If you want to trade with the US you don't break US sanctions, its pretty clear, and lying on top of it was just the cherry on the cake. Serves them right frankly.
Bravery is where you have a choice whether to put yourself in a dangerous situation and you do so knowing your life may be at risk. When you have NO choice in the matter its not bravery , its simply being in a situation you do your best to get out of.
Agreed. There's far too much idiotic hyperbole in reporting these days - she was doing her job and if she didn't do it they'd all be dead including her. Its like everyone is "brave" for fighting [insert potentially terminal disease here]. If I had one I'd do my best to fight it, thats not brave , its self preservation!
Albeit no doubt modified. However those modifications should have been pushed upstream to the main line.
The power wastage in desktop systems probably comes from the bloated GUIs that tend to come as the default on linux these days (hello Gnome and KDE) which seem to have their processes permantly at the top of the "top" cpu usage list if my system is anything to go by.
"You really think that 6 seconds is enough to context switch from seeing a movie, or reading a book, to avoiding an obstacle?"
You shouldn't be reading a fucking book or watching a film! You're in charge of the vehicle and you're supposed to be concentrating on the road ahead! Also autopilot bleeps if it has a problem - it takes tenths of a second to move your eyes.
"Get ready to receive your nobel prize if you have any evidence of this"
How about 30 years driving experience including Class 1 HGV? Will that do you?
I'm guessing you don't drive because the points you make are so utterly idiotic that you must be a kid.
"Are you saying that 6 seconds is enough time to go from "not in control of car" to "take control of car"?"
Easily, with time to spare for even modest drivers. You might as well ask if 6 seconds is enough time for a driver to see an obstruction and start to brake.
"Six seconds is plenty of time for an aircraft pilot? Just what aircraft did you fly in that required sub-6 second response times in the air?"
If you think 6 seconds isn't enough time to react to a problem then hand in your driving license - if you even have one - because you'd be lethal on the road.
In this case perfectly justified since the "victim" was an adult with a driving license who was legally REQUIRED to keep his eyes on the road ahead regardless of any self driving capabilities of the car when in charge of a vehicle. Clearly he didn't and he paid the price.
The guy was supposedly smart, and a programmer not some joe sixpack, and was certainly aware that autopilot is not 100% reliable. The only person to blame here is the driver through incorrect operation of the vehicle. If an airliners autopilot made a mistake that the pilot had plenty of time to correct but didn't bother we'd be blaming the pilot, not the automation. Same here.
Just reinforces my belief that adults heavily into comics** are more than a little bit weird.
**No, they're not "graphic novels", a novel implies a substantial, long and complex storyline, not small amounts of simplistic text in speech bubbles in something 20 pages long about characters in silly custumes with their underpants on the outside.
"If Western, relatively free countries don't do this stuff to keep ahead, the less ethical non-free countries will beat everyone to it. "
And fuckwit CEOs in various corps virtually gave china the technology to do it by outsourcing manufacturing and effectively paying the chinese to improve their technological abilities. All to save a bit of cash and increase shareholder value.
... then either they're incredibly naive or just stupid. Either way, I wonder if they're the sort of people to be working on a paradigm changing technology since clearly their understanding of human nature and what it will do with powerful technology is left severely wanting.
"yet the details of the way it operates still remains largely opaque"
Opaque to whom? Not to net admins and other people who understand DNS. If they're hoping Joe Schmoe will understand or care then they've got a long wait.
" I got a check once. NEVER again. The amount of effort it took to actually convert that into money was incredible."
Go to bank, hand over check and card, wait for cashier to pay cheque into your account? Thats incredible effort is it? Jeez, another bone idle millenial no doubt.
"Yay tax avoidance. That's what you meant right?"
Obviously privacy issues are a bit beyond your comprehension. Here's an analogy your lonely braincell might understand - why do you have blinds or curtains on your windows, are you doing anything illegal inside? No. But you want them anyway right because privacy has a value? Perhaps now you get it.
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"I don't think it's that people "fool" themselves"
Oh they do. Thats why you have audiophools paying $20K+ for turntables when they could get better reproduction quality out of a cheap CD player or $100 smartphone.
The dynamic range compression required to stop the needle jumping out of the groove plus the non linear frequency response of the needle itself and the also non linear way the actual dynamic range changes as the needle gets closer to the centre (and so is effectively moving slower) give vinyl a particular feel/sound which is what some people like. They fool themselves into thinking its better reproduction of the original source that digital - its anything but.
However music is subjective and its what you like that matters, not how true it is to the original.
Waiting in a port a few years ago I noticed that all my central locking had failed and the alarm was dead - had to manually open the car with the key (good luck trying that these days with so called smart keys). Luckily the car started and I could drive it away. Once parked out of the port everything was fine. Went back to the port a week later - exactly the same thing. I don't know if it was the radar or some high powered HF radio transmitter but whatever it was it nicely disabled my car systems.
... and whether you agree with them or not they broke them. If you want to trade with the US you don't break US sanctions, its pretty clear, and lying on top of it was just the cherry on the cake. Serves them right frankly.
Bravery is where you have a choice whether to put yourself in a dangerous situation and you do so knowing your life may be at risk. When you have NO choice in the matter its not bravery , its simply being in a situation you do your best to get out of.
Agreed. There's far too much idiotic hyperbole in reporting these days - she was doing her job and if she didn't do it they'd all be dead including her. Its like everyone is "brave" for fighting [insert potentially terminal disease here]. If I had one I'd do my best to fight it, thats not brave , its self preservation!
Albeit no doubt modified. However those modifications should have been pushed upstream to the main line.
The power wastage in desktop systems probably comes from the bloated GUIs that tend to come as the default on linux these days (hello Gnome and KDE) which seem to have their processes permantly at the top of the "top" cpu usage list if my system is anything to go by.
Bitcoin - so much more secure than the banks! Hahaha! Stored in da cloud, blockchain, blah blah blah.
Right.
Bitcoin - the joke is on its users.
"You really think that 6 seconds is enough to context switch from seeing a movie, or reading a book, to avoiding an obstacle?"
You shouldn't be reading a fucking book or watching a film! You're in charge of the vehicle and you're supposed to be concentrating on the road ahead! Also autopilot bleeps if it has a problem - it takes tenths of a second to move your eyes.
"Get ready to receive your nobel prize if you have any evidence of this"
How about 30 years driving experience including Class 1 HGV? Will that do you?
I'm guessing you don't drive because the points you make are so utterly idiotic that you must be a kid.
"Are you saying that 6 seconds is enough time to go from "not in control of car" to "take control of car"?"
Easily, with time to spare for even modest drivers. You might as well ask if 6 seconds is enough time for a driver to see an obstruction and start to brake.
"Six seconds is plenty of time for an aircraft pilot? Just what aircraft did you fly in that required sub-6 second response times in the air?"
If you think 6 seconds isn't enough time to react to a problem then hand in your driving license - if you even have one - because you'd be lethal on the road.
"Victim blame much?"
In this case perfectly justified since the "victim" was an adult with a driving license who was legally REQUIRED to keep his eyes on the road ahead regardless of any self driving capabilities of the car when in charge of a vehicle. Clearly he didn't and he paid the price.
The guy was supposedly smart, and a programmer not some joe sixpack, and was certainly aware that autopilot is not 100% reliable. The only person to blame here is the driver through incorrect operation of the vehicle. If an airliners autopilot made a mistake that the pilot had plenty of time to correct but didn't bother we'd be blaming the pilot, not the automation. Same here.
"Reality based animation will wipe them out,"
Yeah right, thats why nobody shoots live outdoors anymore because it can all be greenscreened with CGI. Oh, wait...
I read them up until I was about 10. Then I discovered books.
In japan manga comics almost always display borderline pre-teen girls in sexy outfits. Hardly the sign of a heathly hobby.
"Many graphic novels definitely contain long and complex storylines - often moreso than many mainstream novels on the bestseller lists"
Yeah, right, and oddly they manage to get it done in about 1/20th the amount of prose. I suppose you could be kind and called them abridged.
"How does it feel to be so cultured and superior to people you disagree with?"
I'm glad you agree that I am.
"if you met comic fans in person,"
Why would I want to go down to an overcrowded, smelly convention centre to spend time with muppets dressed up in costume?
Just reinforces my belief that adults heavily into comics** are more than a little bit weird.
**No, they're not "graphic novels", a novel implies a substantial, long and complex storyline, not small amounts of simplistic text in speech bubbles in something 20 pages long about characters in silly custumes with their underpants on the outside.
"If Western, relatively free countries don't do this stuff to keep ahead, the less ethical non-free countries will beat everyone to it. "
And fuckwit CEOs in various corps virtually gave china the technology to do it by outsourcing manufacturing and effectively paying the chinese to improve their technological abilities. All to save a bit of cash and increase shareholder value.
... then either they're incredibly naive or just stupid. Either way, I wonder if they're the sort of people to be working on a paradigm changing technology since clearly their understanding of human nature and what it will do with powerful technology is left severely wanting.
"yet the details of the way it operates still remains largely opaque"
Opaque to whom? Not to net admins and other people who understand DNS. If they're hoping Joe Schmoe will understand or care then they've got a long wait.
"Not peer to peer digital payments. I even transfer money to my wife this way."
Why, has she left you so you can't just give her cash?
"Just another clueless boooomer that thinks his way was the best possible way ever."
Soryr, wrong generation, try again. Not everyone under the age of 40 is in love with tech for its own sake.
"That's a 40 mile round trip right there for me"
Its your choice to live in the middle of nowhere. I imagine other services are equally inconvenient for you.
"I don't know which country you are in but did you ever went to a bank?"
I work about 300m from a branch of my bank so I'm there pretty often yes.
"Banks are typically open only during business hours, which seriously reduce your options if you have a regular job"
Depends on the bank. Mine is open saturdays along with most others in the UK.
" I got a check once. NEVER again. The amount of effort it took to actually convert that into money was incredible."
Go to bank, hand over check and card, wait for cashier to pay cheque into your account? Thats incredible effort is it? Jeez, another bone idle millenial no doubt.
"Yay tax avoidance. That's what you meant right?"
Obviously privacy issues are a bit beyond your comprehension. Here's an analogy your lonely braincell might understand - why do you have blinds or curtains on your windows, are you doing anything illegal inside? No. But you want them anyway right because privacy has a value? Perhaps now you get it.