Sadly there is no data to back me up, but i wonder if mugging and other random crime is reduced by a functioning welfare system. This in that it removes the desperation for many people, leaving mostly addicts and the mentally ill as performers of such crimes.
Dunno, i found myself preferring the US version of PCGamer back when i followed those (only real way i had of getting demos and mods at the time). The UK humor did not sit well with me for some reason.
New guy, same as old guy. I find myself wondering if all of the worlds democracies (leave the debate about the definition of that alone, thanks) have ended up with some combo of regulatory and bureaucratic capture. With that i mean that the staff that is not replaced after a election can slow walk any policy change they do not agree with, and so the de facto policy never changes between elections.
Yea, i think the recent bruhaha about some books and such going out of public domain was a side effect of a treaty signed a couple of decades ago but only recently ratified.
Hell, the list of non-ratified treaties is a long one i suspect. The sad part is when the rest of the world is expected to behave as if everyone is bound by the treaty while it sits as non-ratified in the US governmental system.
As is software is anything more that a commodity held up market warping, draconian IP laws. Seriously, keeping the economy going was what lead to the building of the Berlin wall. And USA is heading the same way with SOPA/PIPA/ACTA and all the rest of the alphabet soup laws.
As for mechanical reliability, i think the LeopardII solution is to have the whole engine assembly as a unit that two guys and a crane can replace in the field. Roll up, pop the broken engine out, pop a working one in, take the broken engine behind lines for repair.
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I wonder if they are trying to channel JFK when making such bold statements.
Most of the mature code to not loose much by being a few version behind (except for the security and stability issues).
If i did not get updates pushed via repo, i could very well make do with year old media codecs and similar.
Sadly there is no data to back me up, but i wonder if mugging and other random crime is reduced by a functioning welfare system. This in that it removes the desperation for many people, leaving mostly addicts and the mentally ill as performers of such crimes.
Dunno, i found myself preferring the US version of PCGamer back when i followed those (only real way i had of getting demos and mods at the time). The UK humor did not sit well with me for some reason.
New guy, same as old guy. I find myself wondering if all of the worlds democracies (leave the debate about the definition of that alone, thanks) have ended up with some combo of regulatory and bureaucratic capture. With that i mean that the staff that is not replaced after a election can slow walk any policy change they do not agree with, and so the de facto policy never changes between elections.
Yea, i think the recent bruhaha about some books and such going out of public domain was a side effect of a treaty signed a couple of decades ago but only recently ratified.
Hell, the list of non-ratified treaties is a long one i suspect. The sad part is when the rest of the world is expected to behave as if everyone is bound by the treaty while it sits as non-ratified in the US governmental system.
Money is more like a IOU on community wealth than wealth itself.
Robotic cops? Sound work just fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ED-209
As is software is anything more that a commodity held up market warping, draconian IP laws. Seriously, keeping the economy going was what lead to the building of the Berlin wall. And USA is heading the same way with SOPA/PIPA/ACTA and all the rest of the alphabet soup laws.
As for mechanical reliability, i think the LeopardII solution is to have the whole engine assembly as a unit that two guys and a crane can replace in the field. Roll up, pop the broken engine out, pop a working one in, take the broken engine behind lines for repair.
CEO yes, founder and segway creator, no. That guy has gone on to other projects.
My understanding is that Segway "bombed" because law writers could not make heads or tails of it.
Now if Segway had gone ahead with their Centaur, people may have had a easier time "getting" the whole thing.
from around a table at a future maximum security prison:
"so what are you all in for?"
"murder"
"pedophilia"
"copyright violation"
"back well away guys, that one is dangerous"
Indeed, we have not even been able to get most people to use encrypted email by default...
Or some QR code that translate into a encryption key.
Maybe i am nerd, but i think i will take net access over those others.
And still the online tech press reports on US telecom products as if they are the latest and greatest...
And this they do in return for not being held liable when a criminal use their services to plan or perform a crime.
The always troubling issue of following the letter of the law while pissing on the intent of the law.
I could have sworn that UK tried, and failed, this back in the 1800s or so.
Diesel engines also can run on just about anything.
Gotta love how in US, 240v is something special...
Yea, my understanding is that in a modern CPU a cache failure is more costly than poorly optimized code.
Jails and Wall street, that is where one fine them these days.
There is also a very different attitude in China regarding politics. It is seen more as a old family patriarch than some faceless bureaucratic squid.