Clearly no one who read the interesting and well written TFA, which gives both the historical context and the subsequent developments in order to place Mendeleev's invention both in history and to show its enormous level of importance.
Propaganda is ignoring or rewriting history, not accurately reporting it.
There are no similarities with Guantanamo, that's only for foreign nationals who were caught engaging in terrorist activities or on the field of battle.
Apologist!
Guantanamo was for torturing foreign nationals who were suspected of terrorism. The mere accusation in the wrong place was enough to get you sentanced to a decade of torture.
But hey, it's OK, they were accused of *TERRORISM*.
That's what made Trump win. He listened to what folks like those coal miners were saying and promised them their jobs back.
That's the thing he fonud a group of people who wanted something and told them lies about how they'd get it. The other side told the harsh truth: those jobs aren't coming back.
And they're not, no matter how much coal is deregulated. It's moving in the direction of ever larger open mines with massive machines run by very few people.
This is bad news for M$ products, they will lose the best and get the rest, so you can expect a steady deterioration in the quality of their product
Yes, the always high quality of their products will take a slide below that of their competitors. I expect that Windows 11 will be even worse than Linux Vista or even Apple ME.
The "cruft" barely matters any more. On super low end chips, sure the instruction decoder matters. On laptops, it really doesn't. The out of order and wide floating point units and wide, fast memory bus are far far more expensive than three decoder.
They'll just do everything in their power to sabotage and punish you for doing so. See Brexit.
Jesus Christ, Brexiters are entitled. So far the "sabotage" and "punishment" has simply not been getting all the stuff we got when we were in the EU. No fucking shit, sherlock! If you leave a club and stop paying your dues, you can't use the pool or sauna. The only reason Brexiters think this is "punishment" is because they are possibly the most whiny, entitled and shortsighted people on the planet at the moment.
Brexiteers were forewarned about not getting all the good stuff any more and called it "project fear". Now it's turned out that "project fear" is actually "project reality", they blame everyone but themselves for making a stupid decision.
The EU has not punished or sabotaged us. They have made no effort to interfere with our relations with third countries. They've mostly been looking out for their own interests. Brexiters are so incredibly stupid and entitled that they believe the EU has an obligation to not look after its own interests and must put us first.
Is that really the norm these days? I had one run-in with a US cop but that was ages ago: he pulled me over for running a 4 way stop (red blinking traffic light, I didn't even know what the hell that meant, and assumed it was the same as blinking yellow). It was the middle of the night on a quiet street, but the cop didn't seem overly concerned for his safety. No guns, no shouting, just a polite chat (and he let me off with a warning).
Sounds like my experience. It was late and I was doing about 80 on a deserted interstate. Not a 55 limit, higher. Then I saw a car pull out behind me in my rear view mirror. I think I'd already started pulling into the hard shoulder before he put his lights on.
Anyway he was kind of like a movie sherrif with the mustache and everything and the calm polite manner. Came over to the car shone a light in, had a chat, let me off with a warning.
Participation in the European Union definitely means you're not a sovereign nation
Lies, bullshit lies.
Every nation is the EU is sovereign. At any point they can choose to not adopt one of the EU's laws. The choice is always implicitly all the same: adopt the rule or leave the EU. The choice to leave is ALWAYS on the table, so countries are sovereign. By contrast, Aabama is not a soverign nation. It tried to leave the US (with some others) and they got shot at until they stopped leaving.
Now of course no country with a brain wants to actually leave, because they get so much good stuff from being in.
you can build a fusor with less than $500 worth of second-hand equipment. Handy if you need a convenient neutron source, or a bad case of radiation poisoning, but not much else.
I think you'd have a hard job doing it for $500 unless you really REALLY knew what you were doing, that's a tight budget. I'd be surprised if you'd get anything like enough out of a $500 fusor to get radiation poisoning.
You'd get a pretty glow and a few neutrons though.
Computer vision is advanced, but not all that advanced anymore. It's gone beyond the stage of "a few nobel-level people understand it".
Not really: the majority of the computer vision field and research money has moved on into deep learning. While in principle more people could understand it now, the time when there were a number of different university vision labs world wide churning out people who could do this has passed.
It's pretty complex, to the point where it needs a good number of years of training and no one is doing that training any more.
Given a few more years, another company could fill the need.
Theoretically? Perhaps. It's really REALLY expensive to develop something like a hololens. You've basically got Microsoft, Magic Leap and Daqri. Daqri has spent $200,000,000 and the results were distinctly mediocre (last time I tried one, it may be better now). Magic leap has spent $1,000,000,000, has the best display but by all acocunts medicre tracking. The hololens had a bad FoV, but the tracking was excellent and it is just so far beyond the others in experenice. Microsoft of course have so much money right now they're lookinf for inventive ways to spend it all.
So, no. I'm not sure you're right. There have been 3 efforts with major capitalisation and two were damp squibs. In theory yes someone else could, but you need not only a metric assload of money but also the right combination of people. The evidence suggests that simply having money isn't sufficient.
[*] I don't really know much about the display tech side. It's a hard problem too, but I don't know the state of teh field employement and training times.
So, back to my original statement. If I don't want to work on weapons, I find a company that doesn't develop weaponry and I work for them. Trying to change a company that's already taken on DOD contracts is most likely a fools errand
They did: Microsoft has never been much involved in developing stuff for the military and the Hololens certainly started out with nothig to do with the military.
Bullshit. As a card carrying nerd (I laminated it myself), this gave me a good laugh. We all loved to hate clippy and kept making "it looks like you're trying to" looks long after it ceased to be topical. It never gets old.
If you find yourself short of a sense of humor about nerdy topics, you could always just skip over the story rather than come on here and angrily let everyone know just how dour you really are.
Profit. It's the only reason that for-profit companies exist. They make money, or they die. If a company passes up an opportunity to make money, another company will step in.
Several have tried, including some pretty well capitalised ones. No one has made one remotely as good as the Hololens.
That's capitalism, baby!
Except it's not. There's an undersupply of labour. The kind of person who can build a hololens vision system will have a PhD in a rather niche area of computer vision then probably 10 years post PhD experience. You can't make more of those people in a hurry by throwing money at the problem.
The Microsoft employees signing this petition have somehow deluded themselves into thinking that they work for a non-profit.
No they haven't. No company is obligated to go after every source of money. And microsoft is currently one of the richest companies in the world. This contract is barely loose change to them.
Their only real option is to vote with their feet.
*blink*
That's literally what this story is not about. They also had the option of writing a letter which they did. Microsoft can choose to listen or not. Then they can vote with their feet.
To claim that an employee's first and only action should simply be to up and leave is silly.
No military in the history of the world has done as much to prevent collateral damage (i.e. the killing of innocent bystanders) as the U.S. military. That is just a fact.
No it's not a fact. The best way to not kill innocent bystanders is to not get involved in the first place, something the US hasn't historically been very good at.
Now you can argue the toss about whether they should have got involved, but if you do innocents will die.
Even if you ignore that, I also don't beleive you have anything to back up the claim that the US has been more careful than any of the other coalition partners.
but you shouldn't pretend Iraq wasn't killing U.S. citizens and supporting terrorism.
If terrorism was why they invaded, they'd have invaded Saudi Arabia long ago.
Certainly the Kurds are not unhappy that the U.S. became involved in Iraq.
You know the Kurds hate the US, right? Because in the first Gulf war they were strongly encouraged to rise up against Saddam by the US when the US invaded. Then the US just kinda fucked off and let Saddam slaughter them.
I want U.S. soldiers to have the very best equipment available.
Yes it's a pain for small businesses, just like VATMOSS. But it's a perfect example of why we can't have nice things. We tried making it easy, but then Amazon etc could spend lots off lawyers to dodge taxes.the ugly foolproof solution made it harder on small companies. Same with data protection.
How many people are going to keep a 10-15 year old computer running?
10 years ago, computers didn't last for 10 years. Then they did. My current main home machine is now 9 years old. I haven't gone to any special effort to keep it struggling on; it just works.
It's a mildly special case in that it was a very high end luggable (thinkpad W510, 16G RAM), not a shitbox but in terms of the specs that count it's actually very solidly in the respectable category. It has 16G RAM which is still considered a high end (but not super high end) laptop category. And it's got tons of disk from when I replaced the unused DVD drive with another SSD.
AND IT'S 9 YEARS OLD!!!
Thinking about that, it's astonishing. It'll actually take 32G these days with modern DIMMs, and though I'm unlikely to do that upgrade for a while.
It looks very battered, battery life is probably a good 10 minutes now, though it had a terrible battery life even when new.
But it basically works. It might actually be the first computer I own that wears out before it stops being useful. Weird thought.
Actually, it *is* how a society loses free speech,
No it *is*not*.
Free speech doesn't mean you have the right to use someone else's platform. If Pinterst show you the door, you can always pay a bit to someone prepared to host anything legal, for example these guys:
Slashdot Mirror
. Imagine that in celebration of that event Economist would run an article on Hendrik Lorentz without mentioning Albert Einstein.
Imagine if the Economist ran an article about the periodic table without mentioning Mendeleev. Well, you'd have to because that never happened.
Celebrating the latter as the creator of the periodic table just because he made a table of sorts is beyond ridiculous.
Yeah it would if anyone did that.
But then, it is the Economist, which is hardly famous for the scientific education of its authors.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGEEEE!!!
Since you haven't read TFA, let me inform you that your rage is misplaced. You could read it, or simply redirect your rage elsewhere.
Which fucking moron modded this shit up.
Clearly no one who read the interesting and well written TFA, which gives both the historical context and the subsequent developments in order to place Mendeleev's invention both in history and to show its enormous level of importance.
Propaganda is ignoring or rewriting history, not accurately reporting it.
There are no similarities with Guantanamo, that's only for foreign nationals who were caught engaging in terrorist activities or on the field of battle.
Apologist!
Guantanamo was for torturing foreign nationals who were suspected of terrorism. The mere accusation in the wrong place was enough to get you sentanced to a decade of torture.
But hey, it's OK, they were accused of *TERRORISM*.
However when no alternative exists
Except alternatives do exist.
That's what made Trump win. He listened to what folks like those coal miners were saying and promised them their jobs back.
That's the thing he fonud a group of people who wanted something and told them lies about how they'd get it. The other side told the harsh truth: those jobs aren't coming back.
And they're not, no matter how much coal is deregulated. It's moving in the direction of ever larger open mines with massive machines run by very few people.
Gab wants to be an external comment section for any 3rd party URL. That is the future of comments.
That I'm sure will improve things.
PS can we give them awesome-swords as well? What's a killer robot without a sword to pull out at the coolest moment?
Call them what they are KILLER ROBOTS!
Are you trying to make them sound worse or incredibly much cooler?
I expect lots of tiny echo-chambers, and some private sexual discussions.
Also lots of dissent against the orthodoxy. The orthodoxy in question being the "political view" that we shouldn't merder Jews.
This is bad news for M$ products, they will lose the best and get the rest, so you can expect a steady deterioration in the quality of their product
Yes, the always high quality of their products will take a slide below that of their competitors. I expect that Windows 11 will be even worse than Linux Vista or even Apple ME.
The "cruft" barely matters any more. On super low end chips, sure the instruction decoder matters. On laptops, it really doesn't. The out of order and wide floating point units and wide, fast memory bus are far far more expensive than three decoder.
Nope. They invented it years ago and kept it a secret.
Duh. The liquid used in chemtrails is so unstable that it can only be pumped using room temperature superconducting magnets.
You're 'free' to leave.
Yes.
They'll just do everything in their power to sabotage and punish you for doing so. See Brexit.
Jesus Christ, Brexiters are entitled. So far the "sabotage" and "punishment" has simply not been getting all the stuff we got when we were in the EU. No fucking shit, sherlock! If you leave a club and stop paying your dues, you can't use the pool or sauna. The only reason Brexiters think this is "punishment" is because they are possibly the most whiny, entitled and shortsighted people on the planet at the moment.
Brexiteers were forewarned about not getting all the good stuff any more and called it "project fear". Now it's turned out that "project fear" is actually "project reality", they blame everyone but themselves for making a stupid decision.
The EU has not punished or sabotaged us. They have made no effort to interfere with our relations with third countries. They've mostly been looking out for their own interests. Brexiters are so incredibly stupid and entitled that they believe the EU has an obligation to not look after its own interests and must put us first.
Is that really the norm these days? I had one run-in with a US cop but that was ages ago: he pulled me over for running a 4 way stop (red blinking traffic light, I didn't even know what the hell that meant, and assumed it was the same as blinking yellow). It was the middle of the night on a quiet street, but the cop didn't seem overly concerned for his safety. No guns, no shouting, just a polite chat (and he let me off with a warning).
Sounds like my experience. It was late and I was doing about 80 on a deserted interstate. Not a 55 limit, higher. Then I saw a car pull out behind me in my rear view mirror. I think I'd already started pulling into the hard shoulder before he put his lights on.
Anyway he was kind of like a movie sherrif with the mustache and everything and the calm polite manner. Came over to the car shone a light in, had a chat, let me off with a warning.
Participation in the European Union definitely means you're not a sovereign nation
Lies, bullshit lies.
Every nation is the EU is sovereign. At any point they can choose to not adopt one of the EU's laws. The choice is always implicitly all the same: adopt the rule or leave the EU. The choice to leave is ALWAYS on the table, so countries are sovereign. By contrast, Aabama is not a soverign nation. It tried to leave the US (with some others) and they got shot at until they stopped leaving.
Now of course no country with a brain wants to actually leave, because they get so much good stuff from being in.
you can build a fusor with less than $500 worth of second-hand equipment. Handy if you need a convenient neutron source, or a bad case of radiation poisoning, but not much else.
I think you'd have a hard job doing it for $500 unless you really REALLY knew what you were doing, that's a tight budget. I'd be surprised if you'd get anything like enough out of a $500 fusor to get radiation poisoning.
You'd get a pretty glow and a few neutrons though.
Computer vision is advanced, but not all that advanced anymore. It's gone beyond the stage of "a few nobel-level people understand it".
Not really: the majority of the computer vision field and research money has moved on into deep learning. While in principle more people could understand it now, the time when there were a number of different university vision labs world wide churning out people who could do this has passed.
It's pretty complex, to the point where it needs a good number of years of training and no one is doing that training any more.
Given a few more years, another company could fill the need.
Theoretically? Perhaps. It's really REALLY expensive to develop something like a hololens. You've basically got Microsoft, Magic Leap and Daqri. Daqri has spent $200,000,000 and the results were distinctly mediocre (last time I tried one, it may be better now). Magic leap has spent $1,000,000,000, has the best display but by all acocunts medicre tracking. The hololens had a bad FoV, but the tracking was excellent and it is just so far beyond the others in experenice. Microsoft of course have so much money right now they're lookinf for inventive ways to spend it all.
So, no. I'm not sure you're right. There have been 3 efforts with major capitalisation and two were damp squibs. In theory yes someone else could, but you need not only a metric assload of money but also the right combination of people. The evidence suggests that simply having money isn't sufficient.
[*] I don't really know much about the display tech side. It's a hard problem too, but I don't know the state of teh field employement and training times.
So, back to my original statement. If I don't want to work on weapons, I find a company that doesn't develop weaponry and I work for them. Trying to change a company that's already taken on DOD contracts is most likely a fools errand
They did: Microsoft has never been much involved in developing stuff for the military and the Hololens certainly started out with nothig to do with the military.
Bullshit. As a card carrying nerd (I laminated it myself), this gave me a good laugh. We all loved to hate clippy and kept making "it looks like you're trying to" looks long after it ceased to be topical. It never gets old.
If you find yourself short of a sense of humor about nerdy topics, you could always just skip over the story rather than come on here and angrily let everyone know just how dour you really are.
Profit. It's the only reason that for-profit companies exist. They make money, or they die. If a company passes up an opportunity to make money, another company will step in.
Several have tried, including some pretty well capitalised ones. No one has made one remotely as good as the Hololens.
That's capitalism, baby!
Except it's not. There's an undersupply of labour. The kind of person who can build a hololens vision system will have a PhD in a rather niche area of computer vision then probably 10 years post PhD experience. You can't make more of those people in a hurry by throwing money at the problem.
The Microsoft employees signing this petition have somehow deluded themselves into thinking that they work for a non-profit.
No they haven't. No company is obligated to go after every source of money. And microsoft is currently one of the richest companies in the world. This contract is barely loose change to them.
Their only real option is to vote with their feet.
*blink*
That's literally what this story is not about. They also had the option of writing a letter which they did. Microsoft can choose to listen or not. Then they can vote with their feet.
To claim that an employee's first and only action should simply be to up and leave is silly.
No military in the history of the world has done as much to prevent collateral damage (i.e. the killing of innocent bystanders) as the U.S. military. That is just a fact.
No it's not a fact. The best way to not kill innocent bystanders is to not get involved in the first place, something the US hasn't historically been very good at.
Now you can argue the toss about whether they should have got involved, but if you do innocents will die.
Even if you ignore that, I also don't beleive you have anything to back up the claim that the US has been more careful than any of the other coalition partners.
but you shouldn't pretend Iraq wasn't killing U.S. citizens and supporting terrorism.
If terrorism was why they invaded, they'd have invaded Saudi Arabia long ago.
Certainly the Kurds are not unhappy that the U.S. became involved in Iraq.
You know the Kurds hate the US, right? Because in the first Gulf war they were strongly encouraged to rise up against Saddam by the US when the US invaded. Then the US just kinda fucked off and let Saddam slaughter them.
I want U.S. soldiers to have the very best equipment available.
Sure. Nothing wrong with that.
Yes it's a pain for small businesses, just like VATMOSS. But it's a perfect example of why we can't have nice things. We tried making it easy, but then Amazon etc could spend lots off lawyers to dodge taxes.the ugly foolproof solution made it harder on small companies. Same with data protection.
How many people are going to keep a 10-15 year old computer running?
10 years ago, computers didn't last for 10 years. Then they did. My current main home machine is now 9 years old. I haven't gone to any special effort to keep it struggling on; it just works.
It's a mildly special case in that it was a very high end luggable (thinkpad W510, 16G RAM), not a shitbox but in terms of the specs that count it's actually very solidly in the respectable category. It has 16G RAM which is still considered a high end (but not super high end) laptop category. And it's got tons of disk from when I replaced the unused DVD drive with another SSD.
AND IT'S 9 YEARS OLD!!!
Thinking about that, it's astonishing. It'll actually take 32G these days with modern DIMMs, and though I'm unlikely to do that upgrade for a while.
It looks very battered, battery life is probably a good 10 minutes now, though it had a terrible battery life even when new.
But it basically works. It might actually be the first computer I own that wears out before it stops being useful. Weird thought.
Actually, it *is* how a society loses free speech,
No it *is*not*.
Free speech doesn't mean you have the right to use someone else's platform. If Pinterst show you the door, you can always pay a bit to someone prepared to host anything legal, for example these guys:
https://www.dreamhost.com/blog...
Free speech has never ever meant you can say what you want where you want. No one has ever been obliged to let you hold forth in their living room.
What do they buy? Is there like a KKKmart or something?
KKKmart: good one. I did nazi that coming.