Even with all the safety features cars today are the cheaper than they were twenty years ago (compared to annual income). Modern build quality sucks, though.
How about appropriately supporting parents and teaching them how to raise their children?
That would sure beat the currently screwed-up system where both parents have to work, put their kids into day care as soon as they possibly can and expect/rely on staff and teachers to raise their children for them.
The government should see this as an investment in their future - they want kids to grow up healthy and well-adjusted so that they're not a burden on the health care and correctional systems.
How does that work for MMORPGs like World of Warcraft? You pay for the game up front (is that just to cover distribution costs?) and get 1-3 months free playing, but then you have to pay a monthly subscription fee to keep playing.
Unfortunately a whole lot of games are going down a similar route, especially in the console market: you pay for the latest Call of Duty up front but then have to keep paying monthly subscription fees to Playstation Network/Xbox Live to actually play the thing.
So a (non-Sony) publisher goes belly up and your favourite FPS-for-the-Win game becomes unusable... are you allowed to somehow replicate the whole Playstation Network environment so you can keep playing FPS-for-the-Win with your friends?
It's a pretty toxic situation that gamers have allowed to develop by continuing to support and buy these sorts of games.
If they wanted a couple bucks to cover the cost of the physical media that would be acceptable but the ISO to burn your own restore disk ought to be a free download with proof of a system purchase.
The ISOs can be downloaded for free from Microsoft without any proof of purchase requirement. The proof of purchase requirement is when you run the installer on those ISOs and it asks for your license key.
Yes please. Most of the time you click the [Visit Page] button on Pinterest image hits in Goole Image searches you won't find the image (or anything like it) on the page that comes up. Complete waste of time. Pinterest is balls.
tl;dr: Ignoring this issue is not a good way to get repeat purchases and referrals from their core demographic.
Hilarious. Their core demographic is l33t gamerz. Very few (popular) AAA games live outside the Windows camp. Not just because you can't install the latest GTX 1080 cards in iMacs and Macbooks.
I'd say Keystone Effect will have a bigger influence on distorted garments than any lens distortions.
If you take a look at the Bodygram page at Original Stitch the example photos are taken from directly above the shirt.
The first picture in TFA demonstrates the Keystone Effect well - instead of the camera being directly above the shirt when the picture was taken it was off-center by a couple of feet and taken from below. This resulted in the top of the shirt appearing about 70-80% of the width of the bottom of the shirt.
Another potential problem could be the target. The Bodygram page says to "place a piece of standard paper on top of the shirt" to use as a target for the vision system - but do they mean US Letter standard, ISO A4 standard, or some other standard? Obviously choosing the wrong size paper will influence the measurements of the shirt.
As if a business would do anything to lock out its potential customers from their own rights so as increase their own profits.
Eventually Lyft/Uber vehicles are going to be used in the commission of crimes (burglaries, robberies, terrorism, etc.). The powers that be should say, "Sure, since you're claiming to be responsible let's see you acting responsibility as well and allow us to put your CEO and board members on trial with these criminals as accomplices and co-conspirators!"
Of course it won't happen, but I can dream can't I?
These all do the speech recognition in the cloud at the moment (AFAIK). That part will need done there until it can be moved to a higher-powered local device, and it's debatable whether or not that's completely feasible today (I think it probably is, since I could do speech recognition in realtime on an old 200MHz x86 cpu, though the current state of the art is better).
If they're anything like Siri then they do the speech recognition locally and forward the transcript to the cloud for natural language processing (and AmaAppGoogl intrusion into your lives). You can see this for yourself - ask Siri anything and it displays the transcript of your request on the screen while asking the cloud what to do about it.
Devices could also do the natural language processing themselves (one could argue that requires less computing power than speaker-indepedent speech recognition) except that the vendors like the lock-in (and intrusion into your lives).
Microsoft is not going to let Google take over schools without a fight.
Well that explains everything.
It doesn't matter how shit the hardware is or how crappy the students' experiences will be, Microsoft is like a drug overlord that wants to get their hooks into the young people as soon as possible to guarantee a revenue stream for life.
Yes, this is 2018. Now we have to pay Playstation Network $80/year for the privilege of multiplayer games with our buddy sitting at the other end of the couch - and he has to drag his own console, controller and flat panel TV along to do it.
Unless you're sitting behind an Apple AirPort, of course... because Apple's NAT-PMP doesn't work well with most Playstation games so you can only have one console online at a time.
It would probably true if developers actually queried Java for the Path Separator characters and used them instead of hard coding '\' and '/' everywhere. Oh, plus all the other unabstracted platform differences like preference storage.
I chose a hosting provider near me with low latency, installed a VPN server, disabled compression and encryption, and I get close to maximum speed for all of my traffic.
If you're not using even a basic encryption (and I mean something cheap CPU-wise) then, according to the article, you're probably seeing various services throttled.
According TFA the ISPs are not doing content identification, per se, but they are doing Deep Packet Inspection looking for various data (such as domain names in TLS handshakes) and throttling connections when specific conditions are met. Even if you only XORd every byte with 0xA5 at your VPN client and server that would be enough to thwart such techniques.
These Unicode characters are just fine on Slashdot:
U+0022 quotation mark, "
U+0027 apostrophe, '
U+0060 grave accent, `
It's anything above U+007F that get molested by Slashdot, such as:
U+00B4 acute accent,
U+2018 left single quotation mark, ‘
U+2019 right single quotation mark, ’
U+201C left double quotation mark, “
U+201D right double quotation mark, ”
I'm not posting from an iPhone. You can input these characters from any modern PC. It's just Slashdot decided to support only ASCII character input (U+0000 through U+007F) but screwed up and are actually supporting some crumby OEM code page instead (U+0000 through U+00FF).
AV/Security companies are really good at deconstructing malware in their blog posts so where's the equivalent showing how Kaspersky AV did it? It's more likely the files in question were exfiltrated through unsecured S3 buckets and insecure SMTP mail servers since by default most mail clients don't complain when STARTTLS fails.
They'll refund it and get you a replacement card in a couple days at the most, assuming your information is stolen.
That's a complete lie. Yes, they might send you a replacement card in a week, but they take a full nine weeks to "investigate" the report of credit card fraud and refund the purchase amount if they agree. Speaking from experience here, thanks Visa.
The problem is people in general are lazy and do not want to spend the time needed to train the system for each person so we need the raw power of powerful servers to do general voice processing.
We actually don't, you know.
Anyone using Siri can tell you that the local phone screen already displays the text of your query while it's going off to ask Apple's servers what to do, and still displays it when it comes back with "Oops, we seem to be having communication problems. Please try again later."
In other words the speech-to-text conversion has already happened on the phone. Apple's servers are just applying Natural Language Processing techniques on the text to figure out what the request means. This is also something that could happen on the phone, Apple just wants a view into everyone's lives.
This page over here, using actual benchmarking software before and after the Meltdown and Spectre patches, shows iPhone performance losses around 40% after applying the patches: https://melv1n.com/iphone-perf...
Given that most of the last week's media spiel has been saying that "ARM's CPUs are supposed to be largely unaffected by these things" I doubt Intel's CPUs would behave much differently, certainly not better and certainly not "only 10% impact at worst".
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Even with all the safety features cars today are the cheaper than they were twenty years ago (compared to annual income). Modern build quality sucks, though.
How about appropriately supporting parents and teaching them how to raise their children?
That would sure beat the currently screwed-up system where both parents have to work, put their kids into day care as soon as they possibly can and expect/rely on staff and teachers to raise their children for them.
The government should see this as an investment in their future - they want kids to grow up healthy and well-adjusted so that they're not a burden on the health care and correctional systems.
How does that work for MMORPGs like World of Warcraft? You pay for the game up front (is that just to cover distribution costs?) and get 1-3 months free playing, but then you have to pay a monthly subscription fee to keep playing.
Unfortunately a whole lot of games are going down a similar route, especially in the console market: you pay for the latest Call of Duty up front but then have to keep paying monthly subscription fees to Playstation Network/Xbox Live to actually play the thing.
So a (non-Sony) publisher goes belly up and your favourite FPS-for-the-Win game becomes unusable... are you allowed to somehow replicate the whole Playstation Network environment so you can keep playing FPS-for-the-Win with your friends?
It's a pretty toxic situation that gamers have allowed to develop by continuing to support and buy these sorts of games.
You'll never get a shorter copyright term on anything while Disney has the mouse.
Why the fuck wouldn't you switch from CRT to LCD for something more energy efficient and that didn't take up your entire desk.
I dunno, better black levels? Better colour gamut?
If they wanted a couple bucks to cover the cost of the physical media that would be acceptable but the ISO to burn your own restore disk ought to be a free download with proof of a system purchase.
The ISOs can be downloaded for free from Microsoft without any proof of purchase requirement. The proof of purchase requirement is when you run the installer on those ISOs and it asks for your license key.
And Pinterest, while they're at it.
Yes please. Most of the time you click the [Visit Page] button on Pinterest image hits in Goole Image searches you won't find the image (or anything like it) on the page that comes up. Complete waste of time. Pinterest is balls.
Google is eager to stress that this isn’t a purely Google-focused product — the company wants other email client providers to embrace it.
Fuck off, Google. Just fuck off!
tl;dr: Ignoring this issue is not a good way to get repeat purchases and referrals from their core demographic.
Hilarious. Their core demographic is l33t gamerz. Very few (popular) AAA games live outside the Windows camp. Not just because you can't install the latest GTX 1080 cards in iMacs and Macbooks.
I'd say Keystone Effect will have a bigger influence on distorted garments than any lens distortions.
If you take a look at the Bodygram page at Original Stitch the example photos are taken from directly above the shirt.
The first picture in TFA demonstrates the Keystone Effect well - instead of the camera being directly above the shirt when the picture was taken it was off-center by a couple of feet and taken from below. This resulted in the top of the shirt appearing about 70-80% of the width of the bottom of the shirt.
Another potential problem could be the target. The Bodygram page says to "place a piece of standard paper on top of the shirt" to use as a target for the vision system - but do they mean US Letter standard, ISO A4 standard, or some other standard? Obviously choosing the wrong size paper will influence the measurements of the shirt.
As if a business would do anything to lock out its potential customers from their own rights so as increase their own profits.
Eventually Lyft/Uber vehicles are going to be used in the commission of crimes (burglaries, robberies, terrorism, etc.). The powers that be should say, "Sure, since you're claiming to be responsible let's see you acting responsibility as well and allow us to put your CEO and board members on trial with these criminals as accomplices and co-conspirators!"
Of course it won't happen, but I can dream can't I?
My name is Inigo Montoya...
These all do the speech recognition in the cloud at the moment (AFAIK). That part will need done there until it can be moved to a higher-powered local device, and it's debatable whether or not that's completely feasible today (I think it probably is, since I could do speech recognition in realtime on an old 200MHz x86 cpu, though the current state of the art is better).
If they're anything like Siri then they do the speech recognition locally and forward the transcript to the cloud for natural language processing (and AmaAppGoogl intrusion into your lives). You can see this for yourself - ask Siri anything and it displays the transcript of your request on the screen while asking the cloud what to do about it.
Devices could also do the natural language processing themselves (one could argue that requires less computing power than speaker-indepedent speech recognition) except that the vendors like the lock-in (and intrusion into your lives).
It used to be a separate server OS. It's been an iTunes app for several years now. I want my $30 back, you bastards.
Microsoft is not going to let Google take over schools without a fight.
Well that explains everything.
It doesn't matter how shit the hardware is or how crappy the students' experiences will be, Microsoft is like a drug overlord that wants to get their hooks into the young people as soon as possible to guarantee a revenue stream for life.
Yes, this is 2018. Now we have to pay Playstation Network $80/year for the privilege of multiplayer games with our buddy sitting at the other end of the couch - and he has to drag his own console, controller and flat panel TV along to do it.
Unless you're sitting behind an Apple AirPort, of course... because Apple's NAT-PMP doesn't work well with most Playstation games so you can only have one console online at a time.
It would probably true if developers actually queried Java for the Path Separator characters and used them instead of hard coding '\' and '/' everywhere. Oh, plus all the other unabstracted platform differences like preference storage.
Well, not really. But what's Microsoft going to do about all of the AMD systems it already bricked with its flawed patches?
I chose a hosting provider near me with low latency, installed a VPN server, disabled compression and encryption, and I get close to maximum speed for all of my traffic.
If you're not using even a basic encryption (and I mean something cheap CPU-wise) then, according to the article, you're probably seeing various services throttled.
According TFA the ISPs are not doing content identification, per se, but they are doing Deep Packet Inspection looking for various data (such as domain names in TLS handshakes) and throttling connections when specific conditions are met. Even if you only XORd every byte with 0xA5 at your VPN client and server that would be enough to thwart such techniques.
These Unicode characters are just fine on Slashdot:
It's anything above U+007F that get molested by Slashdot, such as:
I'm not posting from an iPhone. You can input these characters from any modern PC. It's just Slashdot decided to support only ASCII character input (U+0000 through U+007F) but screwed up and are actually supporting some crumby OEM code page instead (U+0000 through U+00FF).
AV/Security companies are really good at deconstructing malware in their blog posts so where's the equivalent showing how Kaspersky AV did it? It's more likely the files in question were exfiltrated through unsecured S3 buckets and insecure SMTP mail servers since by default most mail clients don't complain when STARTTLS fails.
They'll refund it and get you a replacement card in a couple days at the most, assuming your information is stolen.
That's a complete lie. Yes, they might send you a replacement card in a week, but they take a full nine weeks to "investigate" the report of credit card fraud and refund the purchase amount if they agree. Speaking from experience here, thanks Visa.
The problem is people in general are lazy and do not want to spend the time needed to train the system for each person so we need the raw power of powerful servers to do general voice processing.
We actually don't, you know.
Anyone using Siri can tell you that the local phone screen already displays the text of your query while it's going off to ask Apple's servers what to do, and still displays it when it comes back with "Oops, we seem to be having communication problems. Please try again later."
In other words the speech-to-text conversion has already happened on the phone. Apple's servers are just applying Natural Language Processing techniques on the text to figure out what the request means. This is also something that could happen on the phone, Apple just wants a view into everyone's lives.
On Red Hat they can be disabled by kernel command line switches: noibrs, noibpb, and nopti. REF: https://access.redhat.com/arti...
I believe there are similar kernel command line switches for a lot of other distros though you'll have to Google them yourself.
This page over here, using actual benchmarking software before and after the Meltdown and Spectre patches, shows iPhone performance losses around 40% after applying the patches: https://melv1n.com/iphone-perf...
Given that most of the last week's media spiel has been saying that "ARM's CPUs are supposed to be largely unaffected by these things" I doubt Intel's CPUs would behave much differently, certainly not better and certainly not "only 10% impact at worst".