MaxOS X is a completely different OS from all the MacOSes that came before. CLI is not an afterthought for MacOS X. Next you'll be saying that pre-emptive multitasking is an afterthought in Windows because it was only introduced with WinNT.
Even if there was a 100% tax on the electricity used to power EVs, it would still be cheaper!
Which means the tax would be more than that.
If there was no tax on either electricity or gas for cars, electricity would be cheaper. This means that, with any fair tax scheme where both EV and gas cars pay for their share of road maintenance, electricity will still be cheaper.
And so the cost of goods will go up (because obviously the trucking companies will pass transportation costs directly on to those who need things shipped), which will result in trucking companies being subsidized by everyone else.
This is not what the word "subsidize" means; it's something that only goverments can do, not customers.
So, when will there be hardware acceleration to make high res playback viable on consumer devices? When will I be able to play 1080p or better on AV1 to my: Android/IOS phone/tablet, media box, DVD/BD player, TV, etc. Just about any TV or BD player for sale these days can handle a USB drive with H.264 video but H.265 support is still pretty rare. Also, how much computer do you need to smoothly stream 1080p or better on AV1? Assuming the average CPU won't cut it, is acceleration available yet on many graphics systems, either discrete or integrated? It looks like even VLC has only had "experimental" support for AV1 since February.
In the US these would be in the public domain and they could not restrict your use of their scans. This is because just scanning or photographing a two-dimensional image is not considered transformative; there's technical skill required but no artistic input. Unfortunately many countries are more restrictive—certainly the UK is—and it seems that the Netherlands also considers the scans themselves to be under copyright even though the paintings aren't. If you could photograph the paintings yourself then you could use your photos any way you liked, though probably the museum prohibits you from doing so via terms and conditions of entry.
I'm not sure how it works when someone in the US downloads these images and violates the terms and conditions. Surely they can't extradite people for something that's not illegal in the US. Are they relying on laws around violating the web site's terms and conditions rather than copyright?
Maybe there needs to be some kind of permissions system for extensions so that the user is prompted to grant access to things like history, credentials, form fields, user key-strokes, etc. Until there is, understand that you need to trust your extensions just as much as you have to trust the browser itself. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
If the streaming is over HTTPS they shouldn't be able to throttle based on video resolution. Yes, they can throttle based on data rates and the source network address but that's still going to be a crude mechanism. Constant quality video should have variable bitrates anyway.
In what universe would you need free traffic to any site if you have an unlimited plan? Someone needs to institute an "unlimited unlimited plan" just to show how disingenuous ISP marketing has become.
The journalists rely on being able to provide news about Nvidia as much as Nvidia relies on them to provide that news.
That's clearly what Nvidia thinks but I seriously doubt it. There are plenty of other things for tech journalists to write about. Also, just because you don't sign the Nvidia NDA and therefore don't have early access to Nvidia propaganda doesn't mean you can't write anything about Nvidia.
All the same I think a better strategy for journalists is to tell Nvidia that they won't be signing their NDA because it's much too restrictive. Nvidia would get the message much faster that way. You would hope any journalist with integrity would do that anyway.
The idea of something like James Webb being lost is pretty scary after its taken so long.
Nothing like as scary as the chances of it failing after launch. That thing is so horrendously complex with multiple, thin insulators to be deployed by pulling on cables. They should have added 20 per cent to the cost and built two, the second to go up only after the first has been launched and any failures understood.
If we're going to go down this reductionist security-trumps-all argument then OpenBSD should disable networking too.
There's a fundamental difference between I/O and hyperthreading. Without I/O the computer can do nothing. Without hyperthreading it might be a little slower.
Properties can’t listen to what you said to Alexa or what she said back.
but also:
The property may allow you to use Alexa to purchase services, like room service or spa services directly from the property.
So how is the dispute going to be resolved when room service brings a bottle of expensive champagne that you say you didn't order? Imagine what could happen if you have kids in your room! Or malicious/pranking friends. Or people shouting through the door.
Yeah but Facebook is like an emergency service for so many people. It needs to be regulated like 911 and hospitals!
No, People need to be trained that Facebook has no obligation to host their content. And doubly none once they're dead. It's a free service; you get what you pay for. Want to publish content? Pay for hosting somewhere.
The patent office gets to charge for applications; DDoS victims don't get to charge for attacks against themselves. The simple solution is for the patent office to charge enough to cover their full costs to properly examine every application. This can fund the employment of as many patent examiners as are required to process applications in a timely way. If this isn't happening, complain to the government about the administration of the patent office.
This tech is cheap enough now. Someone should able to pay people to mount cameras on their cars and busy homes, feeding into a central database. Then they could run a web site charging for database queries. Journalists are going to know the cars of politicians so I bet they'd find such a thing very useful. Not to mention foreign spies (if they haven't already hacked the existing systems). It's going to take something like this to focus minds more on privacy issues in the US. Are there any current US laws against doing this?
I have some bad news for you. At least here the government has to follow a process prior to confiscating your property, but they never need to charge you with a crime and you're the one who has to prove your property's innocence.
"Yes, Pluto Is a Planet" say people selling their new book about Pluto. And they're conveniently re-igniting the controversy at the time of publication. That seems to be the whole story. Wake me up when the IAU changes the definition again. That's likely to happen when they can form a consensus on extra-solar planets but it's unlikely to reverse the demotion of Pluto.
Don't you just love it when the extreme abbreviation required for headlines makes it ambiguous and it takes you three or more reads to figure out what they meant? Or am I the only one who was confused by this one? In my defence, as a non-American, I'm not that used to "tank" as a verb. Verbing weirds language.
have you ever tried doing 0.1 * 0.2 in JavaScript, the answer is 0.020000000000000004! Can you imagine how main spreadsheet errors this will cause?
You appear to be ignorant of the way floating point numbers work. This is not a feature of JavaScript, but of the CPU in your computer. Try entering "=0.1*0.2" in an Excel cell and then turn up the format to 20 digits of precision. I'm not saying that JavaScript is good, but using this as your first example of how bad it is doesn't help your credibility.
without publishing their methods, they can't get a patent
Patents are published after application, not before. Just because they didn't tell this reviewer the technical details doesn't mean that aren't planning to apply for patents, if they haven't already.
It should be pretty obvious that anything that sticks up from the surface more than an inch or two should be be considered a hazard to avoid.
Not so much. In many countries it's illegal to swerve to miss small animals because the result can be a crash that injures humans. And how can you tell the difference between a bird, a cat, a brick and a discarded bag of fast-food packaging? Not to mention that animals move unpredictably. The active suspension people had to give up on trying to use remote sensing to smooth out bumps and pot-holes because it was impossible to tell the nature of the surface irregularities before the wheels hit them.
There is simply no good reason these vehicles should not have detected obstacles with which they were about to collide and engaged emergency braking at the very least!
But they don't have to be perfect; only better than people, who often collide with obstacles for no good reason.
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MaxOS X is a completely different OS from all the MacOSes that came before. CLI is not an afterthought for MacOS X. Next you'll be saying that pre-emptive multitasking is an afterthought in Windows because it was only introduced with WinNT.
Even if there was a 100% tax on the electricity used to power EVs, it would still be cheaper!
Which means the tax would be more than that.
If there was no tax on either electricity or gas for cars, electricity would be cheaper. This means that, with any fair tax scheme where both EV and gas cars pay for their share of road maintenance, electricity will still be cheaper.
And so the cost of goods will go up (because obviously the trucking companies will pass transportation costs directly on to those who need things shipped), which will result in trucking companies being subsidized by everyone else.
This is not what the word "subsidize" means; it's something that only goverments can do, not customers.
So, when will there be hardware acceleration to make high res playback viable on consumer devices? When will I be able to play 1080p or better on AV1 to my: Android/IOS phone/tablet, media box, DVD/BD player, TV, etc. Just about any TV or BD player for sale these days can handle a USB drive with H.264 video but H.265 support is still pretty rare. Also, how much computer do you need to smoothly stream 1080p or better on AV1? Assuming the average CPU won't cut it, is acceleration available yet on many graphics systems, either discrete or integrated? It looks like even VLC has only had "experimental" support for AV1 since February.
In the US these would be in the public domain and they could not restrict your use of their scans. This is because just scanning or photographing a two-dimensional image is not considered transformative; there's technical skill required but no artistic input. Unfortunately many countries are more restrictive—certainly the UK is—and it seems that the Netherlands also considers the scans themselves to be under copyright even though the paintings aren't. If you could photograph the paintings yourself then you could use your photos any way you liked, though probably the museum prohibits you from doing so via terms and conditions of entry.
I'm not sure how it works when someone in the US downloads these images and violates the terms and conditions. Surely they can't extradite people for something that's not illegal in the US. Are they relying on laws around violating the web site's terms and conditions rather than copyright?
the real blame lies squarely with the FF devs.
Wrong.
On what fscking planet is there justification for ALLOWING an extension to access history in the first place?!
For examples, try searching for Firefox extensions involving history.
Maybe there needs to be some kind of permissions system for extensions so that the user is prompted to grant access to things like history, credentials, form fields, user key-strokes, etc. Until there is, understand that you need to trust your extensions just as much as you have to trust the browser itself. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
If the streaming is over HTTPS they shouldn't be able to throttle based on video resolution. Yes, they can throttle based on data rates and the source network address but that's still going to be a crude mechanism. Constant quality video should have variable bitrates anyway.
In what universe would you need free traffic to any site if you have an unlimited plan? Someone needs to institute an "unlimited unlimited plan" just to show how disingenuous ISP marketing has become.
The journalists rely on being able to provide news about Nvidia as much as Nvidia relies on them to provide that news.
That's clearly what Nvidia thinks but I seriously doubt it. There are plenty of other things for tech journalists to write about. Also, just because you don't sign the Nvidia NDA and therefore don't have early access to Nvidia propaganda doesn't mean you can't write anything about Nvidia.
All the same I think a better strategy for journalists is to tell Nvidia that they won't be signing their NDA because it's much too restrictive. Nvidia would get the message much faster that way. You would hope any journalist with integrity would do that anyway.
The idea of something like James Webb being lost is pretty scary after its taken so long.
Nothing like as scary as the chances of it failing after launch. That thing is so horrendously complex with multiple, thin insulators to be deployed by pulling on cables. They should have added 20 per cent to the cost and built two, the second to go up only after the first has been launched and any failures understood.
If we're going to go down this reductionist security-trumps-all argument then OpenBSD should disable networking too.
There's a fundamental difference between I/O and hyperthreading. Without I/O the computer can do nothing. Without hyperthreading it might be a little slower.
Amazon says:
Properties can’t listen to what you said to Alexa or what she said back.
but also:
The property may allow you to use Alexa to purchase services, like room service or spa services directly
from the property.
So how is the dispute going to be resolved when room service brings a bottle of expensive champagne that you say you didn't order? Imagine what could happen if you have kids in your room! Or malicious/pranking friends. Or people shouting through the door.
Yeah but Facebook is like an emergency service for so many people. It needs to be regulated like 911 and hospitals!
No, People need to be trained that Facebook has no obligation to host their content. And doubly none once they're dead. It's a free service; you get what you pay for. Want to publish content? Pay for hosting somewhere.
The patent office gets to charge for applications; DDoS victims don't get to charge for attacks against themselves. The simple solution is for the patent office to charge enough to cover their full costs to properly examine every application. This can fund the employment of as many patent examiners as are required to process applications in a timely way. If this isn't happening, complain to the government about the administration of the patent office.
This tech is cheap enough now. Someone should able to pay people to mount cameras on their cars and busy homes, feeding into a central database. Then they could run a web site charging for database queries. Journalists are going to know the cars of politicians so I bet they'd find such a thing very useful. Not to mention foreign spies (if they haven't already hacked the existing systems). It's going to take something like this to focus minds more on privacy issues in the US. Are there any current US laws against doing this?
I have some bad news for you. At least here the government has to follow a process prior to confiscating your property, but they never need to charge you with a crime and you're the one who has to prove your property's innocence.
"Yes, Pluto Is a Planet" say people selling their new book about Pluto. And they're conveniently re-igniting the controversy at the time of publication. That seems to be the whole story. Wake me up when the IAU changes the definition again. That's likely to happen when they can form a consensus on extra-solar planets but it's unlikely to reverse the demotion of Pluto.
Don't you just love it when the extreme abbreviation required for headlines makes it ambiguous and it takes you three or more reads to figure out what they meant? Or am I the only one who was confused by this one? In my defence, as a non-American, I'm not that used to "tank" as a verb. Verbing weirds language.
have you ever tried doing 0.1 * 0.2 in JavaScript, the answer is 0.020000000000000004! Can you imagine how main spreadsheet errors this will cause?
You appear to be ignorant of the way floating point numbers work. This is not a feature of JavaScript, but of the CPU in your computer. Try entering "=0.1*0.2" in an Excel cell and then turn up the format to 20 digits of precision. I'm not saying that JavaScript is good, but using this as your first example of how bad it is doesn't help your credibility.
without publishing their methods, they can't get a patent
Patents are published after application, not before. Just because they didn't tell this reviewer the technical details doesn't mean that aren't planning to apply for patents, if they haven't already.
reverse-engineer these improvements and roll them out basically for free
Have you heard of patents?
It should be pretty obvious that anything that sticks up from the surface more than an inch or two should be be considered a hazard to avoid.
Not so much. In many countries it's illegal to swerve to miss small animals because the result can be a crash that injures humans. And how can you tell the difference between a bird, a cat, a brick and a discarded bag of fast-food packaging? Not to mention that animals move unpredictably. The active suspension people had to give up on trying to use remote sensing to smooth out bumps and pot-holes because it was impossible to tell the nature of the surface irregularities before the wheels hit them.
There is simply no good reason these vehicles should not have detected obstacles with which they were about to collide and engaged emergency braking at the very least!
But they don't have to be perfect; only better than people, who often collide with obstacles for no good reason.
What's the point of "autopilot" if the driver has to be "fully attentive?"
What's the point of cruise control then?
What is the point to an autopilot if I have to be fully attentive and ready to take over?
So cruise control is also pointless?
Also dammit if i'm going to die in a car, I want it to be my fault and freaking awesome.
What's so special about cars? Do you ever travel by air? Do you have a pilot's licence? Air accidents tend to be much more awesome than car crashes.
Air is based in France, still 5 eyes
I thought the five were US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. What's your issue with France?