All the accidents... Were causing by HUMANS and not by the machine.
That's what they say whenever a plane crashes because the autopilot doesn't know what to do and gives control back to the pilots, who fly it into the ground as they try to figure out what the heck is going on.
Should everyone make their websites mobile-friendly? Of course.
One of the stores I visited a lot has now made their website 'mobile-friendly'. As a result, it's a steaming pile of monkey turds when used on anything else. Heck, it's probably a steaming pile of monkey turds when used on a phone, too.
'Mobile friendly' is the worst thing to happen to the web since the blink tag.
Pause for a moment and consider why Aerion thinks they can produce a profitable supersonic business jet when companies with decades of experience building successful business jets have already largely dismissed the idea in the same timeframe?
Pause for a moment, and consider why SpaceX thinks they can produce a profitable, resuable rocket when companies with decades of expeirence producing successful rockets have already largely dismissed the idea in the same timeframe?
I know pretty much nothing about Aerion, so their claims may just be hot aer, but 'companies with decades of experience' are usually the last places you want to go for technological innovation.
Doesn't seem to work any more. The game won't auto-update, but Steam won't let you play it again until you manually update.
As for GFWL, thank Bob that abomination is being pulled from Steam games. It was such an annoyance in GTA4 'Yes, I know you actually want to play GTA4, but first you have to download this GFWL update and reboot your machine' that I vowed never to buy another GFWL-infected game again. Now, of course, I've forgotten my GFWL login, SO I CAN'T EVEN PLAY THE GAME ANY MORE.
The funny part is that someone here apparently believed Microsoft would keep an online DRM system running, after the Doesn'tPlayForSure debacle.
What about short stories versus novels? Should I be entitled to a refund on a banana because it wasn't as filling as a steak dinner?
Amazon let you return an ebook within seven days for any reason whatsoever, even if you read the whole thing before returning it. Most writers typically see about 1-2% returns, because people who don't want to pay for books can download them from pirate sites instead.
I'm guessing this is driving Valve's refund policy as much as anything, since they're increasingly having to compete with other sites which do have sane policies.
Certainly one of the few Steam games I regret buying. 'Oh, look, you just broke your steel pipe by beating half a dozen zombies to death, and now they're respawning thirty seconds after you killed them, and don't even think of moving and turning at the same time unless you want vomit-inducing stutter.'
So did it go hide out for a while in Africa or something?
Many diseases that were rare or unknown in developed European nations twenty years ago have been making a comeback lately. The reasons are obvious, but no-one is allowed to talk about them in SJW^H^H^Hpolite society.
Pfft. I bought the ebook recently to read it again, and, given the source material, it's a pretty good novel. As steveha mentioned, Asimov fixed many of the stupid elements of the movie in his novelization, even if he had little choice about leaving in a few of the absurdities (like, well, the whole idea of the miniature submarine).
"tens of cents". Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Hilarious. Regardless of how cheap they are to make, does anyone have any doubt that, when these things reach the marketplace, the bare minimum one will cost is $20. More likely $50+.
Nah. After they've gone through the US healthcare system, they'll be at least $20,000.
$250 for an operating system is insane when you can buy a decent tablet or a low-end PC for less than that. And, guess what? You get a free operating system, thrown in!
Yes sure, blame the user of the API. You sound like a wonderful API developer.
Microsoft and the OpenGL group developed the API. We just had to make the software that used the API work, when the people who called it had no idea that repeatedly allocating hardware buffers on every single frame, or not locking buffers when they wrote to them directly, was a really bad idea idea ('but it works fine on my machine!').
When I worked on 3D drivers, oh, how we used to laugh when some idiot developer put in code that deliberately broke the game when run under a debugger. Yet they still expected it to work well on our cards...
But, yeah, it wasn't at all unusual for developers of little clue to do completely retarded things that worked on other hardware, but not ours. Often because we actually implemented the feature they were using in hardware, whereas the other drivers simulated it in software.
True. Actually requiring Congress to declare war before you can attack another country? Ridiculous. Term limits for Congress? Absurd. Cutting taxes? What could he be thinking?
To a hipster, everything old is new, because they know nothing about the past.
I hear that, in the next radical upgrade, Android will add 'borders' to their apps and you'll be able to click on these 'windows' and move them around the screen and resize them, so you can control how much of each app you see, based on what you're doing at the time. It'll be so cool!
I've noticed a trend in any software with UI, high IQ morons taking that which has been refined, and making such things obtuse, disruptive to workflow, and changing for change alone's sake.
I doubt any of these 'you will do things my way because I know what's best and it's not what you think is best' bozos really have high IQs. Dunning-Kruger effect seems far more likely.
Copyright law is what underpins the GPL license. Take it away and you kiss GPL and its protections goodbye.
If there was no copyright on software, few people would care about the GPL.
It's the best part of twenty years since I wrote any software where we cared about copyright. Everything I've written since then has been useless without our hardware, and that's where we make the money.
I mean, PowerPC OS X Apps didn't run that slow on Intel when using Roesetta.....how did FX!32 get it so wrong?
Emulating RISC instructions on an x86 is typically much easier than emulating x86 instructions on RISC. Particularly if you have to emulate the clunky, convoluted PC hardware, too.
The first ARM desktop computer, the Acorn Archimedes, got quite early on a PC emulator which, if I recall correctly, emulated a 80186. The ARM 2 processor, running at 8 MHz could emulate this processor at close to 5-6 MHz (again, if I recall correctly).
"In use the Archimedes PC Emulator program gives quite acceptable performance if you don't want to go too fast. While the hard disk access is extremely fast, the computing speed is only average and the screen display speed is slow."
And it gives the 'computing index' performance as about 1/10 of an AT PC. That's pretty much my experience of PC emulators; for apps that spend most of the time waiting for user input, it's fine, but anything that requires real computing power needs a CPU that's about 10x the performance of the CPU you want to emulate.
If you don't mind dying from the radiation damage before we get out of the solar system... wait, that does help with the overpopulation problem....
Most radiation can be stopped with shielding--which won't be a big deal on a spacecraft big enough for humans to live in for decades or centuries--and humans with lifespans measured in centuries would require much better genetic repair mechanisms than we do.
And I'm sure I read an article recently about researchers increasing the radiation tolerance of cells by a factor of 1,000 or more by boosting the repair mechanisms.
Exactly. Life extension will be required to colonize the galaxy, if we're forced to use slow, sub-light spacecraft that require decades to centuries to reach the next star.
The pilot would be someone who is being blackmailed to do this. He doesn't know who is blackmailing him, just gets the instructions and the drone.
Why do you think the person targeting the Killer Drone even has to be in the same country, let alone the same city?
There is no solution to this problem that involves restricting drones, because that won't stop the bad guys. The only solution is to ensure the Killer Drone can't get to your high-value target.
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All the accidents... Were causing by HUMANS and not by the machine.
That's what they say whenever a plane crashes because the autopilot doesn't know what to do and gives control back to the pilots, who fly it into the ground as they try to figure out what the heck is going on.
Should everyone make their websites mobile-friendly? Of course.
One of the stores I visited a lot has now made their website 'mobile-friendly'. As a result, it's a steaming pile of monkey turds when used on anything else. Heck, it's probably a steaming pile of monkey turds when used on a phone, too.
'Mobile friendly' is the worst thing to happen to the web since the blink tag.
Pause for a moment and consider why Aerion thinks they can produce a profitable supersonic business jet when companies with decades of experience building successful business jets have already largely dismissed the idea in the same timeframe?
Pause for a moment, and consider why SpaceX thinks they can produce a profitable, resuable rocket when companies with decades of expeirence producing successful rockets have already largely dismissed the idea in the same timeframe?
I know pretty much nothing about Aerion, so their claims may just be hot aer, but 'companies with decades of experience' are usually the last places you want to go for technological innovation.
The only thing I'm aware of is DX12, which they're using to force gamers to downgrade.
Doesn't seem to work any more. The game won't auto-update, but Steam won't let you play it again until you manually update.
As for GFWL, thank Bob that abomination is being pulled from Steam games. It was such an annoyance in GTA4 'Yes, I know you actually want to play GTA4, but first you have to download this GFWL update and reboot your machine' that I vowed never to buy another GFWL-infected game again. Now, of course, I've forgotten my GFWL login, SO I CAN'T EVEN PLAY THE GAME ANY MORE.
The funny part is that someone here apparently believed Microsoft would keep an online DRM system running, after the Doesn'tPlayForSure debacle.
What about short stories versus novels? Should I be entitled to a refund on a banana because it wasn't as filling as a steak dinner?
Amazon let you return an ebook within seven days for any reason whatsoever, even if you read the whole thing before returning it. Most writers typically see about 1-2% returns, because people who don't want to pay for books can download them from pirate sites instead.
I'm guessing this is driving Valve's refund policy as much as anything, since they're increasingly having to compete with other sites which do have sane policies.
Fine, don't wanna vaccinate your kids, they shouldn't be allowed in public schools.
I thought the whole point of a vaccine was that it prevented your kids from catching these diseases? If it doesn't do that, why bother?
Besides, many people would consider their kids being banned from government schools a bonus.
Certainly one of the few Steam games I regret buying. 'Oh, look, you just broke your steel pipe by beating half a dozen zombies to death, and now they're respawning thirty seconds after you killed them, and don't even think of moving and turning at the same time unless you want vomit-inducing stutter.'
So did it go hide out for a while in Africa or something?
Many diseases that were rare or unknown in developed European nations twenty years ago have been making a comeback lately. The reasons are obvious, but no-one is allowed to talk about them in SJW^H^H^Hpolite society.
Pfft. I bought the ebook recently to read it again, and, given the source material, it's a pretty good novel. As steveha mentioned, Asimov fixed many of the stupid elements of the movie in his novelization, even if he had little choice about leaving in a few of the absurdities (like, well, the whole idea of the miniature submarine).
"tens of cents". Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Hilarious. Regardless of how cheap they are to make, does anyone have any doubt that, when these things reach the marketplace, the bare minimum one will cost is $20. More likely $50+.
Nah. After they've gone through the US healthcare system, they'll be at least $20,000.
$250 is absurd? Since when?
$250 for an operating system is insane when you can buy a decent tablet or a low-end PC for less than that. And, guess what? You get a free operating system, thrown in!
Yes sure, blame the user of the API. You sound like a wonderful API developer.
Microsoft and the OpenGL group developed the API. We just had to make the software that used the API work, when the people who called it had no idea that repeatedly allocating hardware buffers on every single frame, or not locking buffers when they wrote to them directly, was a really bad idea idea ('but it works fine on my machine!').
When I worked on 3D drivers, oh, how we used to laugh when some idiot developer put in code that deliberately broke the game when run under a debugger. Yet they still expected it to work well on our cards...
But, yeah, it wasn't at all unusual for developers of little clue to do completely retarded things that worked on other hardware, but not ours. Often because we actually implemented the feature they were using in hardware, whereas the other drivers simulated it in software.
The rest of his profile is just bat shit crazy.
True. Actually requiring Congress to declare war before you can attack another country? Ridiculous. Term limits for Congress? Absurd. Cutting taxes? What could he be thinking?
To a hipster, everything old is new, because they know nothing about the past.
I hear that, in the next radical upgrade, Android will add 'borders' to their apps and you'll be able to click on these 'windows' and move them around the screen and resize them, so you can control how much of each app you see, based on what you're doing at the time. It'll be so cool!
I've noticed a trend in any software with UI, high IQ morons taking that which has been refined, and making such things obtuse, disruptive to workflow, and changing for change alone's sake.
I doubt any of these 'you will do things my way because I know what's best and it's not what you think is best' bozos really have high IQs. Dunning-Kruger effect seems far more likely.
Copyright law is what underpins the GPL license. Take it away and you kiss GPL and its protections goodbye.
If there was no copyright on software, few people would care about the GPL.
It's the best part of twenty years since I wrote any software where we cared about copyright. Everything I've written since then has been useless without our hardware, and that's where we make the money.
I mean, PowerPC OS X Apps didn't run that slow on Intel when using Roesetta.....how did FX!32 get it so wrong?
Emulating RISC instructions on an x86 is typically much easier than emulating x86 instructions on RISC. Particularly if you have to emulate the clunky, convoluted PC hardware, too.
The first ARM desktop computer, the Acorn Archimedes, got quite early on a PC emulator which, if I recall correctly, emulated a 80186. The ARM 2 processor, running at 8 MHz could emulate this processor at close to 5-6 MHz (again, if I recall correctly).
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"In use the Archimedes PC Emulator program gives quite acceptable performance if you don't want to go too fast. While the hard disk access is extremely fast, the computing speed is only average and the screen display speed is slow."
And it gives the 'computing index' performance as about 1/10 of an AT PC. That's pretty much my experience of PC emulators; for apps that spend most of the time waiting for user input, it's fine, but anything that requires real computing power needs a CPU that's about 10x the performance of the CPU you want to emulate.
If you don't mind dying from the radiation damage before we get out of the solar system... wait, that does help with the overpopulation problem....
Most radiation can be stopped with shielding--which won't be a big deal on a spacecraft big enough for humans to live in for decades or centuries--and humans with lifespans measured in centuries would require much better genetic repair mechanisms than we do.
And I'm sure I read an article recently about researchers increasing the radiation tolerance of cells by a factor of 1,000 or more by boosting the repair mechanisms.
Exactly. Life extension will be required to colonize the galaxy, if we're forced to use slow, sub-light spacecraft that require decades to centuries to reach the next star.
Why should I pay an additional amount so that other people can get broadband, cable TV and phones for free?
So they'll keep voting Democrat.
when did r/c airplanes get renamed to drones?
When they stopped being radio controlled. There are plenty that can be programmed to fly specific courses via GPS and left to their own devices.
The pilot would be someone who is being blackmailed to do this. He doesn't know who is blackmailing him, just gets the instructions and the drone.
Why do you think the person targeting the Killer Drone even has to be in the same country, let alone the same city?
There is no solution to this problem that involves restricting drones, because that won't stop the bad guys. The only solution is to ensure the Killer Drone can't get to your high-value target.