I've heard Siouxie and the Banshees in elevators, and not just, "Kiss Them For Me." I've heard Tones on Tail in shopping centers, and not just in Hot Topic or Spencer's Gifts.
It's funny to hear bands that were exceedingly controversial played as background music twenty years later. It shows one how quickly some changes can become acceptable.
...there still is a form of exterior cooling, it's just now the interface between the case's liquid cooling system interfaces with the IC packaging rather than with an exterior heatsink module that's in contact with the packaging.
This is not a cooling system integrated into the chip directly without an exterior component.
I see good and bad. Good, packaging becomes smaller so the processor can fit into smaller cases, and now there's no need for all of the mounting bosses for the traditional heatsink. Bad, the interface between the cooling system and the chip will undoubtedly be more fragile than between a cooling system and a large (relatively speaking) metal heatsink, and if there's a problem in the cooling passages on the chip there is no inexpensive method to replace the cooling portion if it's clogged-up.
We'll have to see how well this operates in the wild. If a lot of cooling system pressure loss and leaking occurs where the tubing interfaces with the chip then this won't be so good. If it manages to not leak and not plug-up then this could be a nice evolutionary step.
No, I'm saying a subset of the geek/nerd subculture found itself in that subculture because it was ostracized. It ended up here as a form a counter-culture. This site is popular amoung the geek/nerd subculture, so there are a significant number of users that can sympathize with people that would desire to cause harm to those that were perceived to have previously harmed them. That the vast majority of them would never actually cause harm would mean that they don't actually have violent tendencies.
People have been debating the dangers of entertainment while driving since the first audio capabilities were added to cars.
Any entertainment that takes away focus from the ability to drive and monitor the driving conditions is a problem. Most people don't seem to have a problem with the radio playing, music or news or talk radio doesn't seem to require attention that is normally focused on the road. Visual indicators do take away that attention though, and interactive means, even if just audio like making a handsfree phone call also take away that attention.
Modern controls that require the operator to look to make a change or to navigate menus to make a change are a terrible idea.
Honestly I suspect a lot of nerds fantasized about doing things to their classmates of a violent nature. This subculture exists in-part because many of those who joined it were ostracized from others, and school as an artificial construct tends to force people that otherwise wouldn't associate to have to associate.
We'll probably never learn much about this case of any real meaning, but that the conspirators supposedly had a list, and that list as-reported contained the names of other students specifically, leads me to believe that the conspirators felt that they had been done injustice by these other students and that they felt they had no recourse beyond such a violent act. It could also be that there was never any serious intention to actually pull-off a spree killing, and that fantasizing about doing it was a way of blowing-off steam about how they felt.
My guess as to why they haven't been charged yet is that they're in that as minors without ready access to the implements needed to actually carry-out such a shooting it's difficult to know if there actually is anything to charge them with. Conspiracy generally requires an ability to carry out the ends of the conspiracy. People want to do harm to others, usually specific people and specific others, all of the time, but that doesn't mean that they're guilty of a crime because of a want.
Obviously. On the other hand, if I have a rather long history of auto part and auto-services transactions, and if the transaction is for $400 worth of tires, rather than $2000 worth of wheels plus tires, one would think that the likelihood of it being a fraudulent transaction is very small.
To underestimate how much automated trucks will inside out the industry is not to really understand it. This will wildy reduce accidents. The number of people injured by trains is tiny compared to the 80-100k per year with trucks (about 4-5k per year).
Automating trucks is great in theory: the difficulty is implementing it in practice.
That's why I brought up the train example: automating freight trains is an easier task, by several orders of magnitude, and yet it hasn't been done yet. We still keep a driver on.
Couple of things...
Depending on who owns the rail infrastructure it might be difficult to get the owner to actually make the improvements that are necessary to leave the current paradigm for an autonomous one. That means that there really could be times when something has to be done manually on the rail line, or when the experienced engineer needs to change the speed or other behavior of the train to account for local conditions.
Trains, believe it or not, are allowed to operate with severe deficiencies in key systems, like brakes. That's right, there are instances when of those four locomotives pulling the train, two of them have full brake failures. I don't know what the exact ratio is, but it's rather unsettling given the mass involved, that they do not have to be in tip-top shape.
There are collisions that do not mandate that a train stop. If a train hits animal life or debris on the tracks there isn't necessarily a need to stop the train. If a train hits a person or a car or some other condition there might be a good reason to stop the train. It may be difficult to tell, in a simple automated way, what the train has struck given the mass difference of the train versus anything that it strikes short of another train.
Per given unit of freight mass being delivered, having an engineer or two on-board is still not very expensive. Factor the rest of the considerations listed and for the moment it makes sense to keep an engineer or crew onboard. Fix those, and it might be cost-effective to be automated.
And I've had times where I was trying to pay for something basically essential and the card got rejected and I had to call. In my case it was buying automobile tires, on a Sunday because that's when the tires gave out and only a few tire places are open on Sundays, in my own city, and they decided to reject it.
I think that the fraud-detection algorithms need improvement.
Treating tap water as if it were a uniform product worldwide, or even nationwide, is ignorant. There are millions of wells in just the U.S.
And the well (in reality, river) that my water comes from, as served through my tap, is basically unpalatable. We used to refill from the local quarter-a-gallon RO dispenser but got lazy, and it's a lot easier to buy gallon-bottles of municipal RO-filtered water from the local grocery store, and someone else does the equipment maintenance. I'm not sure if it would be more cost-effective to put in a residential RO system or not, but it's not that hard to go pick up twenty gallons of water to go through them over a few weeks.
I would be really happy if the water here was as good as where my in-laws live, where it's drinkable right out of the tap at room temperature, but unfortunately it's just bad, even chilled.
The only thing surprising about it is that people don't ever seem to remember it. If I remember right there were Greek philosophers that commented on it.
There is a very good reason that for a long time, charity was considered best when it was anonymous. I don't mean anonymous to the world but known between the benefactor and the recipient, but truly anonymous where the recipient did not know who the benefactor was. It protected the benefactor because no one knew who the benefactor was, and to a degree it protected the recipient because the recipient was not placed in a position of having to publicly defer or otherwise kowtow to the benefactor if they should encounter each other in public.
It might make sense for this to be considered in the future.
To many Millennials, a "code of conduct" isn't something to help keep social interaction civil. It's actually a weapon that they use against those whom they dislike.
Seems to me that you're probably just finding the millennials more annoying because for whatever reason, their behavior has clashed with your outlook -- which is not to say anyone is right or wrong, just that there's an up-front conflict.
I have a feeling that the annoyance felt by the existing generations when they view the generations below them stems from those younger generations being not part of the established mindset of those of the older generation. David Bowie's song, "Changes," and the line, "And these children that you spit on, as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations; they're quite aware of what they're going through." comes to mind. To each of us when we're the budding generation, the issues of our generation, our learned way of doing things, the problems and solutions that we and our peers have had to deal with, are all essentially established to us, and generally the generations above us, from our perspective, don't have these problems anymore. The younger generations that come up below us are not part of our established world-view, so sometimes that causes annoyance. Sometimes we get annoyed by their now experiencing the problems that we experienced and found our solutions to. Their habits, different than ours, annoy us as much as our habits annoyed the generations above us.
Third-party costumes generally lack the actual logos and are not sold by-name as the characters they're ripping off. People making costumes for themselves are generally not pursued because it's for personal use, but Disney has a longstanding policy of not letting adults into the parks that are wearing detailed Disney character costumes, probably in part to prevent confusion for actual staff and any liability that could be associated with a visitor misbehaving while dressed as that staff. I am a little surprised that there haven't been more cases where paid cosplayers haven't had to seek permission and probably pay for license to professionally appear in costume, similar to the artists that make money off of derivative works.
You're right, an MBA is someone that gets into corporate management and starts seeing employees as liabilities because of the salaries they command and starts seeing the fandom base as lost-revenue because the company isn't squeezing every list bit of money out of them, even though arguably those customers have already bought far more through their fandom interests than they ever would have bought otherwise. The MBAs then provide instructions to the corporate lawyers.
Smart franchises that aren't run by only greedy assholes actually consider how much profit the fans have provided and figure out how to allow those fans some license to keep them as fans. The various owners of Star Trek throughout the years have generally been fairly good about it so long as clubs don't start manufacturing product for general sale. Many of the car companies have means for clubs to submit for formal permission to use official logos, brand names, and marques. It's not impossible for a company to maintain some control over trademark but still allow fandom to use and celebrate what they're fanatical about.
it means that people that only think they know what they're doing can really mess things up when they're incorrect.
To be fair, it also means that people who pretty much know what they're doing (but might not be experts) figure out how to do things by browsing through the GUI. I think that's a point that often gets missed by the pro-CLI crowd. CLIs can be much easier and more powerful if you really know all the commands and syntax and intricacies of the shell language, but if not, it's easier to browse through a GUI, see all of your options, and check a few boxes.
You know what I call those who click-through GUI interfaces only sort-of knowing what they're doing?
How the hell would someone unfamiliar with a CLI even know which fucking man page to start looking at?
I don't know about you, but I started with Packard Bell's Teach Yourself DOS on my 8088 back in 1986 or so and moved on to UNIX In A Nutshell dating to about 1990 sometime thereafter.
As long as there are MBAs looking how to squeeze the last dime out of every potential customer and there are lawyers concerned about the loss of trademark through failure to defend that trademark there will be these kinds of lawsuits.
Quite honestly, I'm amazed that armies of lawyers haven't descended upon ComiCons and other fandom gatherings to sue the shit out of all of the artists and merchants selling unlicensed comic book derivative works. You wander around the dealers' rooms at the big cons and there are booths upon booths of artists with their own takes on Phoenix or The Hulk or Supergirl or any other hot comic book character of the moment. Based on current law I'm amazed that the continued creation of these unlicensed derivative works hasn't given the trademark holders panic that they could lose control over their characters. Indeed, it appears that they already have lost control over them, it simply hasn't been declared through trial yet.
Given what lawyers cost, I'm really surprised that the judgement against him is as small as it is. From the lawyers' perspective this is chump-change even if it would bankrupt half the households in the country to suddenly owe $5400.
I tend to use the masculine or, "one," as a pronoun when the gender is either unknown or where the gender is as-yet undefined, like in future conditional tenses. I attempt to avoid using plurals for unknown singulars and yes, I find it rather jarring when the feminine is used when the gender is unknown. Excepted are cases when the gender is most likely feminine given the subject.
Pricing is generally whole-system, installed, and is also contingent on being purchased-outright versus leased versus effectively mortgaged.
I don't expect that one can simply call up and get pricing on panels like one gets pricing on the cheap kits at Harbor Freight. It's also likely that they don't want to do that because the installation and maintenance of a complex solar system with grid-tie is a bit beyond even many electricians, let alone most hobbyists or DIY enthusiasts.
The main holdup for me was back when we spoke with Solar City, they did not yet offer a configuration that allowed for intentional islanding to keep the property powered-on during a grid-outage. Back then, if the grid went down, you lost power, because they did not yet have battery tie-in with an advanced transfer switch that could handle the lack of grid AC sync. By the time that became an option the local power company kept increasingly screwing with electric customers with solar, basically wanting to charge them as much as many people pay for their regular electric service just to have the grid-tie, so we have held off until this gets resolved.
If Solar City gets a reasonably priced system with battery for overnight, with intentional islanding, with grid-tie, we'll probably reconsider. My detached workshop is necessarily air-conditioned to make it usable in the summer, so energy bills can get high when all of the heatpumps are running full tilt to keep up with 110 degrees Fahrenheit+. Being able to make that significantly cheaper appeals, especially when we plan to be in the house for 40 years.
I was under the impression that the English language, lacking a neuter, uses the masculine when the gender is unknown. The distinction is that the listener may interpret this to be an assumption of actually being male, but that would be his mistake, not that of the speaker.
Plus then you end up with a new campaign issue used to berate the Executive.
I think that we're a little past the acceptable level of, "within the finely-nuanced letter of the law depending on a particular interpretation of some keywords," to where I'm starting to wonder if violating the intent of the law in some of these cases should be enough for heads to roll.
Our destinations frequently have no Internet access. I shouldn't have to seek it out in order to read books that I've already paid for.
The whole point of an e-book reader is that I don't need more than the single reader in order to read all of the books that I have. If I now have a barrier to reading my books then the device is not as worthwhile to me.
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Makes me wonder if they can take enough heat away to use the chip and convection to power the circulation process passively.
I've heard Siouxie and the Banshees in elevators, and not just, "Kiss Them For Me." I've heard Tones on Tail in shopping centers, and not just in Hot Topic or Spencer's Gifts.
It's funny to hear bands that were exceedingly controversial played as background music twenty years later. It shows one how quickly some changes can become acceptable.
...there still is a form of exterior cooling, it's just now the interface between the case's liquid cooling system interfaces with the IC packaging rather than with an exterior heatsink module that's in contact with the packaging.
This is not a cooling system integrated into the chip directly without an exterior component.
I see good and bad. Good, packaging becomes smaller so the processor can fit into smaller cases, and now there's no need for all of the mounting bosses for the traditional heatsink. Bad, the interface between the cooling system and the chip will undoubtedly be more fragile than between a cooling system and a large (relatively speaking) metal heatsink, and if there's a problem in the cooling passages on the chip there is no inexpensive method to replace the cooling portion if it's clogged-up.
We'll have to see how well this operates in the wild. If a lot of cooling system pressure loss and leaking occurs where the tubing interfaces with the chip then this won't be so good. If it manages to not leak and not plug-up then this could be a nice evolutionary step.
No, I'm saying a subset of the geek/nerd subculture found itself in that subculture because it was ostracized. It ended up here as a form a counter-culture. This site is popular amoung the geek/nerd subculture, so there are a significant number of users that can sympathize with people that would desire to cause harm to those that were perceived to have previously harmed them. That the vast majority of them would never actually cause harm would mean that they don't actually have violent tendencies.
People have been debating the dangers of entertainment while driving since the first audio capabilities were added to cars.
Any entertainment that takes away focus from the ability to drive and monitor the driving conditions is a problem. Most people don't seem to have a problem with the radio playing, music or news or talk radio doesn't seem to require attention that is normally focused on the road. Visual indicators do take away that attention though, and interactive means, even if just audio like making a handsfree phone call also take away that attention.
Modern controls that require the operator to look to make a change or to navigate menus to make a change are a terrible idea.
Tell that to the people that used to live at the bottom of the Cajon Pass....
Honestly I suspect a lot of nerds fantasized about doing things to their classmates of a violent nature. This subculture exists in-part because many of those who joined it were ostracized from others, and school as an artificial construct tends to force people that otherwise wouldn't associate to have to associate.
We'll probably never learn much about this case of any real meaning, but that the conspirators supposedly had a list, and that list as-reported contained the names of other students specifically, leads me to believe that the conspirators felt that they had been done injustice by these other students and that they felt they had no recourse beyond such a violent act. It could also be that there was never any serious intention to actually pull-off a spree killing, and that fantasizing about doing it was a way of blowing-off steam about how they felt.
My guess as to why they haven't been charged yet is that they're in that as minors without ready access to the implements needed to actually carry-out such a shooting it's difficult to know if there actually is anything to charge them with. Conspiracy generally requires an ability to carry out the ends of the conspiracy. People want to do harm to others, usually specific people and specific others, all of the time, but that doesn't mean that they're guilty of a crime because of a want.
Obviously. On the other hand, if I have a rather long history of auto part and auto-services transactions, and if the transaction is for $400 worth of tires, rather than $2000 worth of wheels plus tires, one would think that the likelihood of it being a fraudulent transaction is very small.
To underestimate how much automated trucks will inside out the industry is not to really understand it. This will wildy reduce accidents. The number of people injured by trains is tiny compared to the 80-100k per year with trucks (about 4-5k per year).
Automating trucks is great in theory: the difficulty is implementing it in practice. That's why I brought up the train example: automating freight trains is an easier task, by several orders of magnitude, and yet it hasn't been done yet. We still keep a driver on.
Couple of things...
Depending on who owns the rail infrastructure it might be difficult to get the owner to actually make the improvements that are necessary to leave the current paradigm for an autonomous one. That means that there really could be times when something has to be done manually on the rail line, or when the experienced engineer needs to change the speed or other behavior of the train to account for local conditions.
Trains, believe it or not, are allowed to operate with severe deficiencies in key systems, like brakes. That's right, there are instances when of those four locomotives pulling the train, two of them have full brake failures. I don't know what the exact ratio is, but it's rather unsettling given the mass involved, that they do not have to be in tip-top shape.
There are collisions that do not mandate that a train stop. If a train hits animal life or debris on the tracks there isn't necessarily a need to stop the train. If a train hits a person or a car or some other condition there might be a good reason to stop the train. It may be difficult to tell, in a simple automated way, what the train has struck given the mass difference of the train versus anything that it strikes short of another train.
Per given unit of freight mass being delivered, having an engineer or two on-board is still not very expensive. Factor the rest of the considerations listed and for the moment it makes sense to keep an engineer or crew onboard. Fix those, and it might be cost-effective to be automated.
And I've had times where I was trying to pay for something basically essential and the card got rejected and I had to call. In my case it was buying automobile tires, on a Sunday because that's when the tires gave out and only a few tire places are open on Sundays, in my own city, and they decided to reject it.
I think that the fraud-detection algorithms need improvement.
Treating tap water as if it were a uniform product worldwide, or even nationwide, is ignorant. There are millions of wells in just the U.S.
And the well (in reality, river) that my water comes from, as served through my tap, is basically unpalatable. We used to refill from the local quarter-a-gallon RO dispenser but got lazy, and it's a lot easier to buy gallon-bottles of municipal RO-filtered water from the local grocery store, and someone else does the equipment maintenance. I'm not sure if it would be more cost-effective to put in a residential RO system or not, but it's not that hard to go pick up twenty gallons of water to go through them over a few weeks.
I would be really happy if the water here was as good as where my in-laws live, where it's drinkable right out of the tap at room temperature, but unfortunately it's just bad, even chilled.
The only thing surprising about it is that people don't ever seem to remember it. If I remember right there were Greek philosophers that commented on it.
There is a very good reason that for a long time, charity was considered best when it was anonymous. I don't mean anonymous to the world but known between the benefactor and the recipient, but truly anonymous where the recipient did not know who the benefactor was. It protected the benefactor because no one knew who the benefactor was, and to a degree it protected the recipient because the recipient was not placed in a position of having to publicly defer or otherwise kowtow to the benefactor if they should encounter each other in public.
It might make sense for this to be considered in the future.
Seems to me that you're probably just finding the millennials more annoying because for whatever reason, their behavior has clashed with your outlook -- which is not to say anyone is right or wrong, just that there's an up-front conflict.
I have a feeling that the annoyance felt by the existing generations when they view the generations below them stems from those younger generations being not part of the established mindset of those of the older generation. David Bowie's song, "Changes," and the line, "And these children that you spit on, as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations; they're quite aware of what they're going through." comes to mind. To each of us when we're the budding generation, the issues of our generation, our learned way of doing things, the problems and solutions that we and our peers have had to deal with, are all essentially established to us, and generally the generations above us, from our perspective, don't have these problems anymore. The younger generations that come up below us are not part of our established world-view, so sometimes that causes annoyance. Sometimes we get annoyed by their now experiencing the problems that we experienced and found our solutions to. Their habits, different than ours, annoy us as much as our habits annoyed the generations above us.
Third-party costumes generally lack the actual logos and are not sold by-name as the characters they're ripping off. People making costumes for themselves are generally not pursued because it's for personal use, but Disney has a longstanding policy of not letting adults into the parks that are wearing detailed Disney character costumes, probably in part to prevent confusion for actual staff and any liability that could be associated with a visitor misbehaving while dressed as that staff. I am a little surprised that there haven't been more cases where paid cosplayers haven't had to seek permission and probably pay for license to professionally appear in costume, similar to the artists that make money off of derivative works.
You're right, an MBA is someone that gets into corporate management and starts seeing employees as liabilities because of the salaries they command and starts seeing the fandom base as lost-revenue because the company isn't squeezing every list bit of money out of them, even though arguably those customers have already bought far more through their fandom interests than they ever would have bought otherwise. The MBAs then provide instructions to the corporate lawyers.
Smart franchises that aren't run by only greedy assholes actually consider how much profit the fans have provided and figure out how to allow those fans some license to keep them as fans. The various owners of Star Trek throughout the years have generally been fairly good about it so long as clubs don't start manufacturing product for general sale. Many of the car companies have means for clubs to submit for formal permission to use official logos, brand names, and marques. It's not impossible for a company to maintain some control over trademark but still allow fandom to use and celebrate what they're fanatical about.
it means that people that only think they know what they're doing can really mess things up when they're incorrect.
To be fair, it also means that people who pretty much know what they're doing (but might not be experts) figure out how to do things by browsing through the GUI. I think that's a point that often gets missed by the pro-CLI crowd. CLIs can be much easier and more powerful if you really know all the commands and syntax and intricacies of the shell language, but if not, it's easier to browse through a GUI, see all of your options, and check a few boxes.
You know what I call those who click-through GUI interfaces only sort-of knowing what they're doing?
Customers.
How the hell would someone unfamiliar with a CLI even know which fucking man page to start looking at?
I don't know about you, but I started with Packard Bell's Teach Yourself DOS on my 8088 back in 1986 or so and moved on to UNIX In A Nutshell dating to about 1990 sometime thereafter.
Hahahahaha!
Oh, wait... you're serious?
As long as there are MBAs looking how to squeeze the last dime out of every potential customer and there are lawyers concerned about the loss of trademark through failure to defend that trademark there will be these kinds of lawsuits.
Quite honestly, I'm amazed that armies of lawyers haven't descended upon ComiCons and other fandom gatherings to sue the shit out of all of the artists and merchants selling unlicensed comic book derivative works. You wander around the dealers' rooms at the big cons and there are booths upon booths of artists with their own takes on Phoenix or The Hulk or Supergirl or any other hot comic book character of the moment. Based on current law I'm amazed that the continued creation of these unlicensed derivative works hasn't given the trademark holders panic that they could lose control over their characters. Indeed, it appears that they already have lost control over them, it simply hasn't been declared through trial yet.
Given what lawyers cost, I'm really surprised that the judgement against him is as small as it is. From the lawyers' perspective this is chump-change even if it would bankrupt half the households in the country to suddenly owe $5400.
Powerful you have become. The Timothy I sense in you.
To quote TV's Craig Ferguson, "is that a sex-thing?"
I tend to use the masculine or, "one," as a pronoun when the gender is either unknown or where the gender is as-yet undefined, like in future conditional tenses. I attempt to avoid using plurals for unknown singulars and yes, I find it rather jarring when the feminine is used when the gender is unknown. Excepted are cases when the gender is most likely feminine given the subject.
Pricing is generally whole-system, installed, and is also contingent on being purchased-outright versus leased versus effectively mortgaged.
I don't expect that one can simply call up and get pricing on panels like one gets pricing on the cheap kits at Harbor Freight. It's also likely that they don't want to do that because the installation and maintenance of a complex solar system with grid-tie is a bit beyond even many electricians, let alone most hobbyists or DIY enthusiasts.
The main holdup for me was back when we spoke with Solar City, they did not yet offer a configuration that allowed for intentional islanding to keep the property powered-on during a grid-outage. Back then, if the grid went down, you lost power, because they did not yet have battery tie-in with an advanced transfer switch that could handle the lack of grid AC sync. By the time that became an option the local power company kept increasingly screwing with electric customers with solar, basically wanting to charge them as much as many people pay for their regular electric service just to have the grid-tie, so we have held off until this gets resolved.
If Solar City gets a reasonably priced system with battery for overnight, with intentional islanding, with grid-tie, we'll probably reconsider. My detached workshop is necessarily air-conditioned to make it usable in the summer, so energy bills can get high when all of the heatpumps are running full tilt to keep up with 110 degrees Fahrenheit+. Being able to make that significantly cheaper appeals, especially when we plan to be in the house for 40 years.
Are you sure about that?
I was under the impression that the English language, lacking a neuter, uses the masculine when the gender is unknown. The distinction is that the listener may interpret this to be an assumption of actually being male, but that would be his mistake, not that of the speaker.
Plus then you end up with a new campaign issue used to berate the Executive.
I think that we're a little past the acceptable level of, "within the finely-nuanced letter of the law depending on a particular interpretation of some keywords," to where I'm starting to wonder if violating the intent of the law in some of these cases should be enough for heads to roll.
Our destinations frequently have no Internet access. I shouldn't have to seek it out in order to read books that I've already paid for.
The whole point of an e-book reader is that I don't need more than the single reader in order to read all of the books that I have. If I now have a barrier to reading my books then the device is not as worthwhile to me.