More googly searching shows 1.5 trillion would be on the low end of some of the claims of how much is owed for reparations for slavery in the US.
It's way more than the reparations paid out to holocaust survivors, even after inflation.
It's higher than the some claims of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What it proves is how music labels have been inflating their damages by a ridiculous margin, and should call into question many of their legal practices and the judgements in their favor.
Realistically how many different displays can the average consumer use at a time?
Not the average consumer, but at Fort Knox, the Armor School has a huge building full of tank simulators that are laid out (on the inside) pretty closely to the real thing. Each little periscope gets its own little display, and you have screens all around the turret, so you could definitely use a card that had a dozen outputs.
I'm not at all sure what the volume of the market is. The military is pretty big by itself, and when you add in law enforcement training, you've gotten pretty huge. The key to working with vehicles is rehearsal, and simulators make that pretty cheap.
Yeah, sure, go ahead and call it "crap"...but that sea of crap will give us many great videographers. Especially if large portion of them will be able to finally even afford quite sensible camera and editing rig (remember, world encompanesses not only developed countries)
I'm not saying it's crap. Other comments pointed out how this is far more than simply glomming a GPU onto a CPU and I don't doubt that. I'm complaining about the eye-candy oriented hype, and I'm stupefied as to how, even in third-world countries, there's this desperate shortage of video. Do you really think that their problems would be solved if only they could set up their own cable news networks?
“Hundreds of millions of us now create, interact with, and share intensely visual digital content,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Product Group. “This explosion in multimedia requires new applications and new ways to manage and manipulate data."
So people watch video and play video games, and it's still kinda pokey at times. We're way past diminishing marginal returns on improving graphical interfaces.
I bring it up, because if you're trying to promote a technology that actually uses a computer to compute, you know, work with actual data, you are perpetually sidetracked by trying to make it look pretty to get any attention.
Case in point: working on a project to track trends over financial data, there were several contractors competing. One had this software that tried to glom everything into a node and vector graph, which looked really pretty, but didn't actually do anything to analyze the data.
But to managers, all they see is that those guys have pretty graphs in their demos and all we had was our research into the actual data... all those boring details.
Not only is it astounding that this isn't done, it's old hat.
Why is this astounding? Transit is managed almost entirely by the government, and like everything else the government does, it is 20+ years behind the times.
They will often treat non-MDs who work with them as underlings, who job is purely to aid the doctor from doing those little jobs that they don't like to do.
But they *are* underlings, or to use the less loaded term, subordinate.
Sure, it sucks having a boss or VIP or whatever who is an asshole, but that doesn't change the fact that you're still a subordinate. There are lots of ways to work with these people or resolve these kinds of situations, but simply denying reality will not lead you to the right choice. In this case, the doctor points out that he needed a job done and, for lack of a magic word, it wasn't done. That's ridiculous: someone really could die. That kind of shit only happens when people have deluded themselves.
And the truth that you're missing is that the death is not going to fall on the blood tech. That's *why* the techs are subordinate: they have less actual responsibility. And, short of them going to medical school, there's no way they could take on that responsibility.
and that there's very little a pedestrian can do, but that argument is a wash.
I guess I always walk facing traffic because at least that way, if I get creamed by a semi, I'll get to take one last big shit before I die.
What about, errr... jumping out of the way? Or maybe take a preventive step to the side if you're not sure the driver has seen you?
Presumably you're not a complete idiot and are already walking as far out of the way as possible, so you really shouldn't have anywhere to jump or step to. Unless you're saying it's a good idea to jump back into another lane and be hit by someone else. But, honestly, I just figured I'd whore for a funny mod by making a poop joke.
I'm sure the locals and the municipality are saying "Why the !#%!%$! did we build these stupid trails if people aren't going to use them?"
I know this taxpayer is saying, "why can't our idiot local governments publish their routes so Google, Garmin, etc. can include them in their databases?"
That link doesn't even try to explain why you should walk one way or the other. And do you really think that advice to children going to school is universally applicable?
The only convincing argument I've seen here is that drivers are the ones that need to move, and that there's very little a pedestrian can do, but that argument is a wash.
I guess I always walk facing traffic because at least that way, if I get creamed by a semi, I'll get to take one last big shit before I die.
That sentence would make sense if you defined "religionists" without being circular, and it wouldn't make you look like a poser if you admitted you've personally done nothing to "remove" religion from any aspect of culture.
It's not so much the abuse of the word "evolution" but the tendency to completely ignore the whole process of human beings collaborating to write this code, and that's really where the story is! Having eliminated the human aspect (deanthropomorphized?) he thus imbues computer viruses with the abilities of living things, abilities that he probably doesn't really understand and I know that, as a typical reader, I have only a basic understanding of how viruses work.
I know editors want to dumb this stuff down, but when your article starts to read like a Michael Bay screenplay, you might want to get a little more technical.
What we're essentially trying to do with malware is not unlike what some countries try to do to keep illegal immigrants out. They try to shut down the border. And you know how well THAT worked, right?
Sure, Mexico has been quite brutal, but fairly effective, at preventing illegal immigrants from the Honduras and other Latin American countries. I guess it would make sense to make the US's immigration laws more like Mexico's, after all, it can't be inhumane to treat them the way they treat immigrants to their own country!
Unfortunately, drivers (again, at least in my area) aren't very clueful about the presence of the sensors, and will stop way, way back of the stop bar, before they get to the sensor, or pass over it and stop halfway into the intersection.
Can't say much about those who drive into the intersection, but often times it is good practice to stop early to accommodate wide-turning trucks.
The sensors are huge, roughly 2m by 8m, so it's not like you have to be precise to hit them, and they are visible as grooved loops in the tarmac just behind the stop bar... Apparently, traffic light sensors are not common knowledge.
Once you've determined that a large minority of people are unaware of the sensors (really, uneven pavement or grooves aren't much of an indication) you know that they're not tracking. I've never figured out why there isn't just a sign... I mean, I know we'd like it to "just work" but if it doesn't, it doesn't.
And the GPLv3 already fixes it, and anything else that gives out source while not giving you everything you need to build it.
Which may explain the almost complete absence of GPLv3 code in the software world.
In the embedded world, for example, your chances of getting permission to release the specs for any major chip to meet these requirements to the letter are probably zero.
...
The original GPL was a reasonable idea and made a lot of sense to a lot of people. GPLv3 is RMS and co's attempt to turn that popularity into a vehicle for their minority views on software development, and I guess we can see now how little of the community's support of the GPL was really down to believing in the FSF's political stance, and how much was just pragmatism.
As much as RMS may be an ideologue, his view in this case seems to be pretty pragmatic.
Simply getting people using GPL'd code but being able to easily sidestep the requirement that others be able to use it completely defeats the purpose of it. Why would I ever want to make a deal that gives the other guy everything in exchange for, in reality, nothing? It's not pragmatic or moderate to accept an idea in principle but not act on it in fact, it's just pointless.
Maybe GPL 3 is slow to being adopted, maybe there are other places where it could have been better crafted, but the problem of getting people to comply *in substance* with GPL 2 already existed.
Now that people are looking at GPL 3 and saying, "we can't comply with this" doesn't mean that GPL 3 has made the problem worse, just exposed the fact that people were only complying with the letter of the GPL 2, not the substance of it.
Well, if you do night ops, you're generally asleep during the day or doing LPOP. You just want to be careful about leaving a glinty little solar panel out if you're trying to be tactical.
Most military comms are like what you've heard in movies, everyone's basically on one network and takes turns. It's a little more complicated than that, and I won't go into specifics on a public forum, but for 99% of communications, all you need to do is press a button and talk.
My beef is that a watch is just a fucking stupid idea: assuming a rifle, you'd have to take your non-firing hand off your weapon to bring your wrist up to your mouth, then use your firing hand to press the damned talk button. Terrible, terrible idea.
If I were doing it, I'd make it a headset that fit in to the ACH and could be activated by biting, or by a switch you could mount on a standard picatinny rail. It should also use the latest greatest DSP so you don't have to actually vocalize to talk.
Basically, journos have managers like everyone else. So the managers (who are often older and somewhat out of touch) hear that iPads are the hot thing that hip young people have. And the journo tries to work that angle in, to make the managers happy.
Uh, yeah, if you read the news you'd know that FDIC was running out of money because so many banks (mine included) went under during the mortgage crash.
Yes, the big ones got bailed out. Basically, the political class (including Bush and all the presidential candidates) wanted to minimize economic turmoil. My feeling is that this just strings it out, makes it worse overall, and keeps people with failed ideas and methods in place. But that's what voters want.
Any endeavor can, usually by the luck of having a good team of people who try to solve the right problem at the right time, be wildly successful.
The fact that most fail has nothing to do with ideology, but the simple fact that you have to have so many things go right.
If a private enterprise fails, it typically goes bankrupt and a small group of investors lose their money. Everyone goes back to the drawing board and tries again.
If a government enterprise fails, it can continue to be funded by money appropriated by taxpayers for years. It can only be shut down when there is enough pressure from voters, a diffuse interest, that it becomes an embarrassment.
Sure, there are exceptions. Sometimes a large corporation will keep running, but even then it's often been "bailed out" by the government. And stringent regulations frequently prevent smaller competitors from becoming big enough to put them out of business.
And, yes, the next 100 years, when we enter a period of decline unknown, will be a pretty amusing/depressing time in America's history.
It may even be so interesting that you'll actually read some of it!
How are the things executives do and the things open source developers do even remotely comparable?
This whole thing is just a bunch of wankers saying how awful business people are because they get paid well.
You know, fine, it's a standard trope at PBS. But at the same time, these wankers are saying I'm perfectly happy being underpaid. Well, fuck you very much, no I'm not, and you don't need to be pontificating on how much I should be paid. I think I can represent myself to potential clients just fine without your help, ta much.
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More googly searching shows 1.5 trillion would be on the low end of some of the claims of how much is owed for reparations for slavery in the US.
It's way more than the reparations paid out to holocaust survivors, even after inflation.
It's higher than the some claims of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What it proves is how music labels have been inflating their damages by a ridiculous margin, and should call into question many of their legal practices and the judgements in their favor.
Realistically how many different displays can the average consumer use at a time?
Not the average consumer, but at Fort Knox, the Armor School has a huge building full of tank simulators that are laid out (on the inside) pretty closely to the real thing. Each little periscope gets its own little display, and you have screens all around the turret, so you could definitely use a card that had a dozen outputs.
I'm not at all sure what the volume of the market is. The military is pretty big by itself, and when you add in law enforcement training, you've gotten pretty huge. The key to working with vehicles is rehearsal, and simulators make that pretty cheap.
Yeah, sure, go ahead and call it "crap"...but that sea of crap will give us many great videographers. Especially if large portion of them will be able to finally even afford quite sensible camera and editing rig (remember, world encompanesses not only developed countries)
I'm not saying it's crap. Other comments pointed out how this is far more than simply glomming a GPU onto a CPU and I don't doubt that. I'm complaining about the eye-candy oriented hype, and I'm stupefied as to how, even in third-world countries, there's this desperate shortage of video. Do you really think that their problems would be solved if only they could set up their own cable news networks?
“Hundreds of millions of us now create, interact with, and share intensely visual digital content,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Product Group. “This explosion in multimedia requires new applications and new ways to manage and manipulate data."
So people watch video and play video games, and it's still kinda pokey at times. We're way past diminishing marginal returns on improving graphical interfaces.
I bring it up, because if you're trying to promote a technology that actually uses a computer to compute, you know, work with actual data, you are perpetually sidetracked by trying to make it look pretty to get any attention.
Case in point: working on a project to track trends over financial data, there were several contractors competing. One had this software that tried to glom everything into a node and vector graph, which looked really pretty, but didn't actually do anything to analyze the data.
But to managers, all they see is that those guys have pretty graphs in their demos and all we had was our research into the actual data... all those boring details.
Not only is it astounding that this isn't done, it's old hat.
Why is this astounding? Transit is managed almost entirely by the government, and like everything else the government does, it is 20+ years behind the times.
They will often treat non-MDs who work with them as underlings, who job is purely to aid the doctor from doing those little jobs that they don't like to do.
But they *are* underlings, or to use the less loaded term, subordinate.
Sure, it sucks having a boss or VIP or whatever who is an asshole, but that doesn't change the fact that you're still a subordinate. There are lots of ways to work with these people or resolve these kinds of situations, but simply denying reality will not lead you to the right choice. In this case, the doctor points out that he needed a job done and, for lack of a magic word, it wasn't done. That's ridiculous: someone really could die. That kind of shit only happens when people have deluded themselves.
And the truth that you're missing is that the death is not going to fall on the blood tech. That's *why* the techs are subordinate: they have less actual responsibility. And, short of them going to medical school, there's no way they could take on that responsibility.
Wow seriously, you've never heard of i?. I believe Joomla! is either the most popular or second most popular PHP based CMS (next to drupal).
If they hadn't already lost my interest by putting an exclamation point in the name, you lost me with PHP.
and that there's very little a pedestrian can do, but that argument is a wash.
I guess I always walk facing traffic because at least that way, if I get creamed by a semi, I'll get to take one last big shit before I die.
What about, errr... jumping out of the way? Or maybe take a preventive step to the side if you're not sure the driver has seen you?
Presumably you're not a complete idiot and are already walking as far out of the way as possible, so you really shouldn't have anywhere to jump or step to. Unless you're saying it's a good idea to jump back into another lane and be hit by someone else. But, honestly, I just figured I'd whore for a funny mod by making a poop joke.
I'm sure the locals and the municipality are saying "Why the !#%!%$! did we build these stupid trails if people aren't going to use them?"
I know this taxpayer is saying, "why can't our idiot local governments publish their routes so Google, Garmin, etc. can include them in their databases?"
That link doesn't even try to explain why you should walk one way or the other. And do you really think that advice to children going to school is universally applicable?
The only convincing argument I've seen here is that drivers are the ones that need to move, and that there's very little a pedestrian can do, but that argument is a wash.
I guess I always walk facing traffic because at least that way, if I get creamed by a semi, I'll get to take one last big shit before I die.
That sentence would make sense if you defined "religionists" without being circular, and it wouldn't make you look like a poser if you admitted you've personally done nothing to "remove" religion from any aspect of culture.
It's not so much the abuse of the word "evolution" but the tendency to completely ignore the whole process of human beings collaborating to write this code, and that's really where the story is! Having eliminated the human aspect (deanthropomorphized?) he thus imbues computer viruses with the abilities of living things, abilities that he probably doesn't really understand and I know that, as a typical reader, I have only a basic understanding of how viruses work.
I know editors want to dumb this stuff down, but when your article starts to read like a Michael Bay screenplay, you might want to get a little more technical.
What we're essentially trying to do with malware is not unlike what some countries try to do to keep illegal immigrants out. They try to shut down the border. And you know how well THAT worked, right?
Sure, Mexico has been quite brutal, but fairly effective, at preventing illegal immigrants from the Honduras and other Latin American countries. I guess it would make sense to make the US's immigration laws more like Mexico's, after all, it can't be inhumane to treat them the way they treat immigrants to their own country!
Unfortunately, drivers (again, at least in my area) aren't very clueful about the presence of the sensors, and will stop way, way back of the stop bar, before they get to the sensor, or pass over it and stop halfway into the intersection.
Can't say much about those who drive into the intersection, but often times it is good practice to stop early to accommodate wide-turning trucks.
The sensors are huge, roughly 2m by 8m, so it's not like you have to be precise to hit them, and they are visible as grooved loops in the tarmac just behind the stop bar... Apparently, traffic light sensors are not common knowledge.
Once you've determined that a large minority of people are unaware of the sensors (really, uneven pavement or grooves aren't much of an indication) you know that they're not tracking. I've never figured out why there isn't just a sign... I mean, I know we'd like it to "just work" but if it doesn't, it doesn't.
And the GPLv3 already fixes it, and anything else that gives out source while not giving you everything you need to build it.
Which may explain the almost complete absence of GPLv3 code in the software world.
In the embedded world, for example, your chances of getting permission to release the specs for any major chip to meet these requirements to the letter are probably zero.
...
The original GPL was a reasonable idea and made a lot of sense to a lot of people. GPLv3 is RMS and co's attempt to turn that popularity into a vehicle for their minority views on software development, and I guess we can see now how little of the community's support of the GPL was really down to believing in the FSF's political stance, and how much was just pragmatism.
As much as RMS may be an ideologue, his view in this case seems to be pretty pragmatic.
Simply getting people using GPL'd code but being able to easily sidestep the requirement that others be able to use it completely defeats the purpose of it. Why would I ever want to make a deal that gives the other guy everything in exchange for, in reality, nothing? It's not pragmatic or moderate to accept an idea in principle but not act on it in fact, it's just pointless.
Maybe GPL 3 is slow to being adopted, maybe there are other places where it could have been better crafted, but the problem of getting people to comply *in substance* with GPL 2 already existed.
Now that people are looking at GPL 3 and saying, "we can't comply with this" doesn't mean that GPL 3 has made the problem worse, just exposed the fact that people were only complying with the letter of the GPL 2, not the substance of it.
Sorry, LPOP is a bit obscure: listening post / observation post. Basically means setting up a hidey hole and waiting and watching.
Well, if you do night ops, you're generally asleep during the day or doing LPOP. You just want to be careful about leaving a glinty little solar panel out if you're trying to be tactical.
Most military comms are like what you've heard in movies, everyone's basically on one network and takes turns. It's a little more complicated than that, and I won't go into specifics on a public forum, but for 99% of communications, all you need to do is press a button and talk.
My beef is that a watch is just a fucking stupid idea: assuming a rifle, you'd have to take your non-firing hand off your weapon to bring your wrist up to your mouth, then use your firing hand to press the damned talk button. Terrible, terrible idea.
If I were doing it, I'd make it a headset that fit in to the ACH and could be activated by biting, or by a switch you could mount on a standard picatinny rail. It should also use the latest greatest DSP so you don't have to actually vocalize to talk.
Not quite, it's a OLE compound document with an embedded Plain Text object.
Basically, journos have managers like everyone else. So the managers (who are often older and somewhat out of touch) hear that iPads are the hot thing that hip young people have. And the journo tries to work that angle in, to make the managers happy.
Maybe we need a Top 10 Articles that IT Rags Rehash Endlessly...
Uh, yeah, if you read the news you'd know that FDIC was running out of money because so many banks (mine included) went under during the mortgage crash.
Yes, the big ones got bailed out. Basically, the political class (including Bush and all the presidential candidates) wanted to minimize economic turmoil. My feeling is that this just strings it out, makes it worse overall, and keeps people with failed ideas and methods in place. But that's what voters want.
Any endeavor can, usually by the luck of having a good team of people who try to solve the right problem at the right time, be wildly successful.
The fact that most fail has nothing to do with ideology, but the simple fact that you have to have so many things go right.
If a private enterprise fails, it typically goes bankrupt and a small group of investors lose their money. Everyone goes back to the drawing board and tries again.
If a government enterprise fails, it can continue to be funded by money appropriated by taxpayers for years. It can only be shut down when there is enough pressure from voters, a diffuse interest, that it becomes an embarrassment.
Sure, there are exceptions. Sometimes a large corporation will keep running, but even then it's often been "bailed out" by the government. And stringent regulations frequently prevent smaller competitors from becoming big enough to put them out of business.
And, yes, the next 100 years, when we enter a period of decline unknown, will be a pretty amusing/depressing time in America's history.
It may even be so interesting that you'll actually read some of it!
Really, the best answer is to store all numbers on the cloud, and just use a 256-bit GUID to look them up when needed.
Check Goldberg's article, 'What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point' for a more in depth discussion.
How are the things executives do and the things open source developers do even remotely comparable?
This whole thing is just a bunch of wankers saying how awful business people are because they get paid well.
You know, fine, it's a standard trope at PBS. But at the same time, these wankers are saying I'm perfectly happy being underpaid. Well, fuck you very much, no I'm not, and you don't need to be pontificating on how much I should be paid. I think I can represent myself to potential clients just fine without your help, ta much.