It's so funny that everyone on Slashdot will argue that "Global Warming/Climate Change is 100% real and caused by your SUV, soccer mom!"
But then when someone wants to reasonably control air quality so that we can all breathe, the same people are saying, "Tear out the computer and bypass it and burn as much dirty diesel as you want to!"
For sure, all those tractors sitting in stop-start traffic would be a major culprit for air pollution!
Maybe your tractor shouldn't have a computer. Maybe most of the crap in your home shouldn't have a computer, and it sure shouldn't be connected to the internet. The computer is the first part of any home appliance that breaks, and it is completely unnecessary in most cases.
Yeah I don't get it. A tractor should be a bunch of gears and wheels attached to a large diesel engine with a seat on top. Where the fuck does a fucking computer come in??
Tools are judged by their ability to do the job repeatedly and without fail.
That's not how anything is judged -- they are judged by expected TCO. And that TCO includes initial cost, minus expected performance but plus the expected value of failures multiplied by the cost of each failure. All of these vary by the job that the tool is being asked to do.
Depends which side you are looking at too; ultimately tools are judged by their ability to generate value for shareholders!:P
Or you can go all protectionist and still end up with an engineering pile of shit - like Harley Davidson. Though they secretly do make most of that pile of shit tractor in China anyway.
When you use a crap design (I'm looking at the cylinder head and valve arrangement) then it really doesn't matter how well engineered the end product it, it'll still be shit. Just shinier shit.
Western society is obsessed with the insistence that things be black or white, male or female etc. Other societies aren't so obsessed and its ok to have grey areas.
Cosmetic surgery and body dysmorphia do not change gender. People should be allowed to be happy how they really are.
Some companies do try t to prevent re-shippers. I live in the third world and sometimes I've came across companies that blacklisted my reshipper's addres. Another example (why i'm posting AC) is that I bought a Fleshlight last year through a reshipper. The product was damaged, so when I contacted the company about it and they found out about the reshipper, they were very aggressive about it: what i did was illegal, i wasn't supposed to buy the product if i don't live in their select list of countries where they ship, etc. They "canceled my warranty" and refused to give me even a partial refund.
Shitty company really.
There are companies in the US that won't ship to fucking CANADA. Ridiculous. You have to use a reshipper just to go over the fucking border.
Australians pay the "Aussie tax" premium on everything because they are insanely wealthy, as one example.
Just the opposite of how all of America buys cheap crap from Wal Mart because none of them can afford more than $1.50 per item without having to go hungry for a day, or not fill their prescription that week.
Things have to be cheap in countries like the US where half of them make less than $12/hr...assuming they even have an income.
I hate to break it to you but Australia is a 3rd world country...
IP rights are extremely complicated in the entertainment industry -- especially for older works where all parties didn't decide up-front what residuals would be from "streaming media" which didn't exist at the time of filming. Writers guilds, actor's guilds, and each and every person listed in the credits can get involved with how much they should get paid for what region, how, and when the film or tv show is aired. A lot of actors, writers, and directors want a cut of residuals as well as a paycheck up front. I have friends that are extras in lots of tv shows and movies and occasionally get paid bit parts. They get nothing when someone airs something they were in as an extra, but the bit parts -- if they're in the credits, they get a check every single time some network plays a movie they were in. They're called "residuals" and you better believe they're a complicated mess when 10 years down the line the production company wants to change the rules on distribution to include Netflix an/or a new country. How many phone calls are made to find each and every person in the credits for a work -- including "local jerk #3" to renegotiate his contract 10 years later? Have you seen how many names scroll by at the end of movies?!?!? Sure, for new works it's easier b/c they try to include future tech in the contracts, but it's crazy to expect a lot of entertainment producers to do the work to get the rights to distribute their own works through a different distribution channel than their contract allows.
What you are describing is a valid reason for movie piracy to exist!
If you aren't using VPN, this doesn't affect you at all.
Absolutely incorrect. What Netflix is talking about, is cross referencing the payment methods bill-to address, and using that to determine what country the customer lives in. The result will be, that when you log in, *your account* determines what content you get access to, not your IP address. Spoofing a bill-to address for payment is a great deal harder to do. Banks do not allow incorrect bill-to address' easily. Most people don't have the wherewithal to get an american billing address, and even if they could, it will cost them more in time and money than it is worth.
So they will go back to what they were doing before Netflix; pirating. The 'rights holders' will start to notice the huge leap in piracy and its just possible that it might dawn on their tiny minds that if they opened up viewing rights globally they might make *some* money from that international audience instead of *no* money.
There was a blog-post from Netflix last year where they specifically said they are being pressured by content-providers to do this and they don't know how long they can hold out -- guess the point came where they couldn't hold out any longer. I don't blame Netflix for this, it doesn't matter to them what country you watch stuff from as long as you pay your monthly fee, but those greedy content-providers are at fault here.
I think that what Netflix want to do is to send their customers back to pirating and torrents then they'll show the dumbass rights holders the statistics and say "See, if you opened up the content to all the regions they'd be paying you instead of pirating and you'd actually make some money from them."
If it was a problem with women in particular, I suspect that we'd see homosexual relationships at two to three times the biological rate, as every bisexual person looking for a relationship went for one with less friction. This sounds a lot like something we can test with Science!
H(null): We will see no increase in homosexual relationships close to the size of the bisexual demographic: People just don't want to deal with having a relationship due to, in spite of, or concurrent with shitty prospects, too much stress, and a corporate culture that's toxic to starting a family.
H(1): Homosexual relationships will expand to everyone who isn't constitutionally opposed to faggotry. We will likely see a tripling of homosexual relationships compared to our control group, representing the entire homosexual and bisexual demographics fleeing a toxic heterosexuality.
H(2): If we see some intermediate effect not trivially explained, we should investigate to see whether cultural condemnation of faggotry is intense enough to dissuade anyone who could have an emotionally fulfilling relationship with another of the same sex - cultural confounding effects or a mixture of motivations are likely results, but it is impossible to accurately predict which, precisely, at this point.
True, I guess the easy access to porn, lack of stigma attached to use of dolls (eg extremely realistic sex dolls representing children) or other male sex toys could just be hiding a general lack of interest in sexual relationships with actual human beings of either gender...
Japan has come right out and blamed ease of access to porn as the culprit. Men are turning to dolls, pillows, and video instead of put up with women's shit.
Modern Japanese women are just outright scary to average Japanese men. They have needs and wants and expectations and stuff. Traditional Japanese values just do not prepare men for this.
In general, people who come to the USA are the most liberal members of their own cultures. I saw a study showing that US muslims had a stronger belief in gender equality than christians, they're extremely open to women working outside the home vs. traditional american culture of stay-at-home mothers. General opinion of burqa-wearing women I met at college was that they were a great tool to keep unwanted guys from leering at them and they saw it as a big help, not an unwanted obligation.
Because a womans hair is SO FUCKING sexy its better for them to cover it up than have guys drooling over their amazing sexy hair.
you don't know which culture is "better"? you may be a victim of political correctness. i'm not so let me help you a bit.
the one that doesn't believe in killing and raping the infidels is better. the one that believes woman are equal to men is better. the one that believes in not killing homo sexuals is better.
the list goes on, but it always comes back to western culture is better!
Yes thats nice and all.
But in reality the culture thats better is the culture that keeps its integrity, the culture that keeps its values and traditions; its Darwinian evolution.
The 'better' cultures are the cultures that survive, the 'worse' cultures are the cultures that integrate and get absorbed by other cultures.
If you want to get a strict view on memory data it shall be cleared as soon as it's released, not necessarily cleared at allocation.
However clearing unused memory (RAM or Disk) is also impacting performance. The performance penalty can be easier to hide when freeing memory than when allocating it - but you need a nice background thread to take care of that.
LOL I think, given Apples graphics performance overall, they don't really care about performance and optimizing THIS would make fuck all difference to the SHIT performance of their graphics.
Well, it's 3 minutes of news cycle, then 22 minutes of talking heads going on about nothing important, then 5 minutes of commercials, repeated for a 24 hour period. Depending upon the channel this can change slightly to that the 22 minutes are news anchors giving partisan editorials lightly disguised as heavy hitting news, or entertainment news (Kardashians), or a "for a rebuttal let's go to the other political party for their reaction" segment, and whatnot.
Al Jazeera has fallen to the same problem as the other news networks: they get paid based upon the number of eyeballs that watch them. The other networks decided to sensationalize the "news" to bring in eyeballs rather than go under.
There's still the BBC. I get a lot of my news from them on the web or radio. I wish they had a streaming service that will go to a TV though.
The most hilarious US 'news' I saw recently was CNN talking to some republican guy about Trump. The republican said "You guys talk about Trump a lot and I watch a lot of CNN. You never seem to cover the democrat primaries." The CNN talking heads didn't quite seem to know what to do and said "We'll cover that when time comes for the general election." which seemed incredibly dumb.
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It's so funny that everyone on Slashdot will argue that "Global Warming/Climate Change is 100% real and caused by your SUV, soccer mom!"
But then when someone wants to reasonably control air quality so that we can all breathe, the same people are saying, "Tear out the computer and bypass it and burn as much dirty diesel as you want to!"
For sure, all those tractors sitting in stop-start traffic would be a major culprit for air pollution!
A tractor should be a bunch of gears and wheels attached to a large diesel engine with a seat on top. Where the fuck does a fucking computer come in??
The ECU exists in large part to control the diesel engine in a manner that prevents it from emitting excessive soot and greenhouse gases.
I'm sure the global fleet of tractors is the main source of soot and greenhouse gasses...
Maybe your tractor shouldn't have a computer. Maybe most of the crap in your home shouldn't have a computer, and it sure shouldn't be connected to the internet. The computer is the first part of any home appliance that breaks, and it is completely unnecessary in most cases.
Yeah I don't get it. A tractor should be a bunch of gears and wheels attached to a large diesel engine with a seat on top. Where the fuck does a fucking computer come in??
USA-ians
This not going to catch on. Give it a rest.
Yeah, I way prefer 'Murcan
Go the fuck back to school and obtain an education where you're required to do some goddamned critical thinking.
I'm pretty sure the article was talking about the USA.
Tools are judged by their ability to do the job repeatedly and without fail.
That's not how anything is judged -- they are judged by expected TCO. And that TCO includes initial cost, minus expected performance but plus the expected value of failures multiplied by the cost of each failure. All of these vary by the job that the tool is being asked to do.
Depends which side you are looking at too; ultimately tools are judged by their ability to generate value for shareholders! :P
Or you can go all protectionist and still end up with an engineering pile of shit - like Harley Davidson. Though they secretly do make most of that pile of shit tractor in China anyway.
When you use a crap design (I'm looking at the cylinder head and valve arrangement) then it really doesn't matter how well engineered the end product it, it'll still be shit. Just shinier shit.
Western society is obsessed with the insistence that things be black or white, male or female etc. Other societies aren't so obsessed and its ok to have grey areas.
Cosmetic surgery and body dysmorphia do not change gender. People should be allowed to be happy how they really are.
"Simple solution .. castrate everyone who thinks they are a SJW.
They already act like a bunch of whiny punks with no balls anyway, and this way they won't procreate."
There. Fixed that for ya,
They are all trans anyway so they'll end up doing it to themselves just to fit into their own crowd!
This. The phrase "if it bleeds it leads" existed long before the Internet.
so like, every woman once a month?
Fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you.
See, right there is where you prove your opponents point.
why the actual fuck do you think cisgendered lesbians and trans women get along and stand for the same things?
Whoah, if getting my dick cut off means I can get with a lesbian sign me right up! That would be so fucking hot!
Some companies do try t to prevent re-shippers. I live in the third world and sometimes I've came across companies that blacklisted my reshipper's addres.
Another example (why i'm posting AC) is that I bought a Fleshlight last year through a reshipper. The product was damaged, so when I contacted the company about it and they found out about the reshipper, they were very aggressive about it: what i did was illegal, i wasn't supposed to buy the product if i don't live in their select list of countries where they ship, etc. They "canceled my warranty" and refused to give me even a partial refund.
Shitty company really.
There are companies in the US that won't ship to fucking CANADA. Ridiculous. You have to use a reshipper just to go over the fucking border.
Wtf is this "third world" shit ?
Australians pay the "Aussie tax" premium on everything because they are insanely wealthy, as one example.
Just the opposite of how all of America buys cheap crap from Wal Mart because none of them can afford more than $1.50 per item without having to go hungry for a day, or not fill their prescription that week.
Things have to be cheap in countries like the US where half of them make less than $12/hr...assuming they even have an income.
I hate to break it to you but Australia is a 3rd world country...
IP rights are extremely complicated in the entertainment industry -- especially for older works where all parties didn't decide up-front what residuals would be from "streaming media" which didn't exist at the time of filming. Writers guilds, actor's guilds, and each and every person listed in the credits can get involved with how much they should get paid for what region, how, and when the film or tv show is aired. A lot of actors, writers, and directors want a cut of residuals as well as a paycheck up front. I have friends that are extras in lots of tv shows and movies and occasionally get paid bit parts. They get nothing when someone airs something they were in as an extra, but the bit parts -- if they're in the credits, they get a check every single time some network plays a movie they were in. They're called "residuals" and you better believe they're a complicated mess when 10 years down the line the production company wants to change the rules on distribution to include Netflix an/or a new country. How many phone calls are made to find each and every person in the credits for a work -- including "local jerk #3" to renegotiate his contract 10 years later? Have you seen how many names scroll by at the end of movies?!?!? Sure, for new works it's easier b/c they try to include future tech in the contracts, but it's crazy to expect a lot of entertainment producers to do the work to get the rights to distribute their own works through a different distribution channel than their contract allows.
What you are describing is a valid reason for movie piracy to exist!
If you aren't using VPN, this doesn't affect you at all.
Absolutely incorrect. What Netflix is talking about, is cross referencing the payment methods bill-to address, and using that to determine what country the customer lives in. The result will be, that when you log in, *your account* determines what content you get access to, not your IP address. Spoofing a bill-to address for payment is a great deal harder to do. Banks do not allow incorrect bill-to address' easily. Most people don't have the wherewithal to get an american billing address, and even if they could, it will cost them more in time and money than it is worth.
So they will go back to what they were doing before Netflix; pirating. The 'rights holders' will start to notice the huge leap in piracy and its just possible that it might dawn on their tiny minds that if they opened up viewing rights globally they might make *some* money from that international audience instead of *no* money.
There was a blog-post from Netflix last year where they specifically said they are being pressured by content-providers to do this and they don't know how long they can hold out -- guess the point came where they couldn't hold out any longer. I don't blame Netflix for this, it doesn't matter to them what country you watch stuff from as long as you pay your monthly fee, but those greedy content-providers are at fault here.
I think that what Netflix want to do is to send their customers back to pirating and torrents then they'll show the dumbass rights holders the statistics and say "See, if you opened up the content to all the regions they'd be paying you instead of pirating and you'd actually make some money from them."
If it was a problem with women in particular, I suspect that we'd see homosexual relationships at two to three times the biological rate, as every bisexual person looking for a relationship went for one with less friction. This sounds a lot like something we can test with Science!
H(null): We will see no increase in homosexual relationships close to the size of the bisexual demographic: People just don't want to deal with having a relationship due to, in spite of, or concurrent with shitty prospects, too much stress, and a corporate culture that's toxic to starting a family.
H(1): Homosexual relationships will expand to everyone who isn't constitutionally opposed to faggotry. We will likely see a tripling of homosexual relationships compared to our control group, representing the entire homosexual and bisexual demographics fleeing a toxic heterosexuality.
H(2): If we see some intermediate effect not trivially explained, we should investigate to see whether cultural condemnation of faggotry is intense enough to dissuade anyone who could have an emotionally fulfilling relationship with another of the same sex - cultural confounding effects or a mixture of motivations are likely results, but it is impossible to accurately predict which, precisely, at this point.
True, I guess the easy access to porn, lack of stigma attached to use of dolls (eg extremely realistic sex dolls representing children) or other male sex toys could just be hiding a general lack of interest in sexual relationships with actual human beings of either gender...
Japan has come right out and blamed ease of access to porn as the culprit. Men are turning to dolls, pillows, and video instead of put up with women's shit.
Modern Japanese women are just outright scary to average Japanese men. They have needs and wants and expectations and stuff. Traditional Japanese values just do not prepare men for this.
Well, see it from their angle, its probably the first time they've ever seen a woman that doesn't look like a small elephant trapped in a black tent.
They assume that any woman who shows her face and the shape of her body must be a whore.
In general, people who come to the USA are the most liberal members of their own cultures. I saw a study showing that US muslims had a stronger belief in gender equality than christians, they're extremely open to women working outside the home vs. traditional american culture of stay-at-home mothers. General opinion of burqa-wearing women I met at college was that they were a great tool to keep unwanted guys from leering at them and they saw it as a big help, not an unwanted obligation.
Because a womans hair is SO FUCKING sexy its better for them to cover it up than have guys drooling over their amazing sexy hair.
you don't know which culture is "better"? you may be a victim of political correctness. i'm not so let me help you a bit.
the one that doesn't believe in killing and raping the infidels is better.
the one that believes woman are equal to men is better.
the one that believes in not killing homo sexuals is better.
the list goes on, but it always comes back to western culture is better!
Yes thats nice and all.
But in reality the culture thats better is the culture that keeps its integrity, the culture that keeps its values and traditions; its Darwinian evolution.
The 'better' cultures are the cultures that survive, the 'worse' cultures are the cultures that integrate and get absorbed by other cultures.
Seriously, the difference between the US and Italian / Irish cultures is nothing compared to the difference between Europeans and Arabs / Africans.
They were christians integrating into a christian culture.
The Irish spoke English.
The muslims are totally different.
If you want to get a strict view on memory data it shall be cleared as soon as it's released, not necessarily cleared at allocation.
However clearing unused memory (RAM or Disk) is also impacting performance. The performance penalty can be easier to hide when freeing memory than when allocating it - but you need a nice background thread to take care of that.
LOL I think, given Apples graphics performance overall, they don't really care about performance and optimizing THIS would make fuck all difference to the SHIT performance of their graphics.
Well, it's 3 minutes of news cycle, then 22 minutes of talking heads going on about nothing important, then 5 minutes of commercials, repeated for a 24 hour period. Depending upon the channel this can change slightly to that the 22 minutes are news anchors giving partisan editorials lightly disguised as heavy hitting news, or entertainment news (Kardashians), or a "for a rebuttal let's go to the other political party for their reaction" segment, and whatnot.
Al Jazeera has fallen to the same problem as the other news networks: they get paid based upon the number of eyeballs that watch them. The other networks decided to sensationalize the "news" to bring in eyeballs rather than go under.
There's still the BBC. I get a lot of my news from them on the web or radio. I wish they had a streaming service that will go to a TV though.
The most hilarious US 'news' I saw recently was CNN talking to some republican guy about Trump. The republican said "You guys talk about Trump a lot and I watch a lot of CNN. You never seem to cover the democrat primaries." The CNN talking heads didn't quite seem to know what to do and said "We'll cover that when time comes for the general election." which seemed incredibly dumb.
Might as well bring back Nazi Germany too.
Or Nazi UK. Where, if they ask you for the password and you refuse you can go to jail until you agree.