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  1. Re:Will never happen in the U.S on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you are dumb, and you didn't even read your own article, which says, "roads were now always designed with motors in mind."
    Or maybe you have trouble applying the logic of what you read. Do a better job reading, please.

  2. Re:Will never happen in the U.S on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They think that roads are built for cars and not transport in general,

    To be fair, that is why a huge number of them were built.

  3. Re:Don't we have to, you know... *HAVE* something. on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    What really matters isn't how real it is; but how profitable it is. So far, the best possible exit for an AI startup is to get bought by Google or HP, then sometimes flash a display of brilliance, or sometimes disappear, never to be heard of again.

    When we see unicorn AIs, then we'll have something.

  4. Re:When the ahole doesn't see the light turn green on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    lol what was the most satisfying?

  5. Re:Still to come on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    if(car.occupants.lookHarmless)

    So true lol

  6. Re:Eric? Can you come out of the ivory tower a sec on It's Time To Ignore Petty Politics and Focus On 'Transformative' Tech: Eric Schmidt (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:I assumed this was already a default on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    I guess my first question is have you done mainframe?

    Nope haha, just studied them. That's not entirely true, I have worked on them, but not enough to gain experience worth talking about.

    nyway columar isn't particularly mainframe. OTOH map/reduce is. The core idea of MR is to able to process records individually and the consolidate aggregates, unlike relational's table at a time. That's exactly what mainframes databases do. Or for example you can think of Kafka as a bank of tapes. Etc...

    That's interesting.

  8. Re:this is trash on Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    It feels like the building blocks you'd use to hang a piece off, not the piece itself. You can easily imagine the first part, which is medium-level catchy, being used as the intro to all the complications, key changes, rhythmic additions, chordal backing etc.

    Indeed, if your name were Bach, you could make a piece out of even the most horrendous melody.

  9. Re:this is trash on Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the song in question is good; maybe it isn't

    Oh really?

    But, yes, it's going to be a while before AI starts composing top 10 hits under any genre.

    So you agree, it is bad then. Very consistent words you have there.

  10. Reducto ad absurdum.

    The original assertion was absurd, man.

  11. No, you can't until you have a proper music theory.

    What is wrong with the music theory we have? What parts are missing?

  12. Music composition is a narrow area with relatively well-defined inputs and outputs

    That's like saying, "English is easy, there are only 26 possible outputs and 26 possible inputs." Not exactly.......

  13. Re:this is trash on Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    NOT EVEN AS GOOD AS TRANCE!

  14. this is trash on Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a crappy melody on top of a repetitious beat. Open the article and listen to it. Compared to the algorithmic music we've had in the past, this is a regression. I knew an undergrad in the 90s who was making computer generated motets better than this.

    And that's not even addressing the emotional aspects that are communicated through music. Totally banal (seriously, ,if you disagree with me, at least listen to the 'song' before explaining why you disagree).

  15. Re:typical commenter on Internet, Web Enjoy One Final Day As Proper Nouns (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and also, he could have looked in OED, which would have given him the correct answer.

  16. Re:typical commenter on Internet, Web Enjoy One Final Day As Proper Nouns (go.com) · · Score: 1

    He is saying that it shouldn't be capitalized, regardless of what Wikipedia thinks, but that it was anyway and the best reason anyone can come up with for that may be simply that it was a new term.

    It's pretty clear that he didn't read Wikipedia, because that is not the best reason anyone can come up with, and furthermore I think you are a moron for actually thinking that's the best reason anyone can come up with, and also, your explanation is kind of dumb because Capitol is capitalized. But cool you're trying to defend someone.

  17. Re:I assumed this was already a default on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    For example the whole big data push is essentially cutting hardware costs and thus allowing for larger batch systems, going back to tape paradigms on hard drives using generic hardware.

    I've spent a lot of time working with big data at various levels, and I'm still not sure what this means. Are you talking about column oriented databases?

  18. Re:typical commenter on Internet, Web Enjoy One Final Day As Proper Nouns (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically what I am trying to say is that I hope he dies in a fire and continues to burn in one thereafter. Is that part clear?

  19. Re: Please report this. on Apartment In US Asks Tenants To 'Like' Facebook Page Or Face Action (business-standard.com) · · Score: 2

    Sort of, it's because of another law in combination with the first amendment. Essentially the California law says that you can't be evicted for exercising your rights, but it doesn't enumerate your rights, whereas the amendment specifically lists some of your rights.

  20. Re:typical commenter on Internet, Web Enjoy One Final Day As Proper Nouns (go.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wikipedia articles are that much better/reliable than Facebook posts?!

    YES

  21. Re:Please report this. on Apartment In US Asks Tenants To 'Like' Facebook Page Or Face Action (business-standard.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are cases where the law extends those rights elsewhere.
    For example, in California, a landlord cannot evict someone for exercising free speech.

  22. typical commenter on Internet, Web Enjoy One Final Day As Proper Nouns (go.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The best reason for capitalizing it in the past may have been that the term was new."

    Wonderful research this guy has done here, couldn't he even bother to read Wikipedia before opening his slap trap? Wikipedia would have told him clearly:

    The words internetwork and internet is simply a contraction of the phrase interconnected network. However, when written with a capital "I," the Internet refers to the worldwide set of interconnected networks.

    People who don't do basic research are the reason we get cynical demagogues for presidential candidates. There is no forgiveness for Tom Kent, may he burn in the deepest circle of hell with the morons.
    Q: "Why are you in hell Tom?"
    A: "I don't deserve it, I was the smartest man in the world, everything I knew about came from Facebook reposts."

  23. Re:On a tangent on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1
    Similar sorts of absurdities can be found in all areas of law. The problem is that its impossible to word laws in such a way that every (real-world) case is covered. Courts handle it by not dealing with the details until there is a real-world case where it comes up (try your super-computer generator, see what happens).

    So a Chrysler car is derivative work from lets say a Ford car (Ford existed earlier, or the first car company)? Both are cars

    With that, you're just showing your ignorance and the fact that you didn't do basic research on the question.

  24. Re:I assumed this was already a default on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    That sort of thing makes sense on a batch system where you needed to schedule system time in advance. In the modern world where you don't have to worry about what other people are using the resources on your machine, there's really no reason for it.

    Also, who uses FTP to do a slow transfer to a cloud? That's something you only do from a single-user machine.

  25. Re:I assumed this was already a default on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's not going to happen lol