Indeed. Or, if you want to underline the misery of it all: Users Still Submit To DRM Content, Media Company Gets To Force Whatever Platform On Them, Picks Windows And The New IE.
You probably live among cars smell, so you probably filter it out. I remember coming from the nearby mountains and getting out of the car in the city, appalling.
Anyway as you say smell is subjective.
Let us talk about the volume of vaporized stuff, this study says basically that modern cars let out less fuel fumes in 50000 km than the volume differential between new and used braking pads and tires.
I say somebody has misplaced a decimal point somewhere or is still using the fuel consumption data of volkswagen.
Nope, "knowing" the future as a God could, still does not implies choices being "free", or random, or deterministic.
Let's say I perceive the future somehow and tell you who is your future wife. By telling you I either switch to a different branch of the multiverse, so that you may not make the same choice, or foresaw the determinism which will make you pick that wife, or you will *freely* pick that wife because, i merely showed you the result of the computation, and the interference was part of the factors that made you decide. I influenced you? sure, I forced you? not provable until the mechanisms for decisions are discovered.
This study, like the previous one who told that the brain have already made a decision before you are fully aware of it (which merely measures lag of introspection, not mechanisms) are quite inconclusive.
Disclaimer, I'd rather have no free will so I have no responsibility and basically do what I please. I see two problems. 1 free will could exist and I would have made an existential mistake before any religious morals come into play. 2. "what I please" would be mere obedience to stimuli.
Finally, even with free will "Do What You Want" is often "Do What Someone Else Conditioned You To Do". Two-word undisputable proof of the above: rockstars' haircuts.
- waiter, a capricciosa without mushrooms please. - here it is, sir. - thank you, can you bring me some extra mushrooms for the capricciosa? - whatever, sir. *turns to the cook who makes the international "he has a loose screw" sign*
> after spending the time reading up on systemd and learning how to use it, how to write unit files and all that jazz, I really fail to understand what the furore over it is
Spending time to learn doing the same things in another way for marginal gains is never a good sign. Systemd, gnome, kde devs got their share of flames for that, and they are deserved. Windows devs are so used to that they do not even realize it happens.
> Actually, from an audio engineering perspective, this is quite true (at least for vinyl), since all records were run through a low cut filter in order to eliminate rumble/skipping due to low sonic frequencies distrubing the needle in a record groove.
sub 20 hz would be filtered by the rest of the audio chain (hello psychoacoustic filter on all compressed music), or would end up disturbing the mix anyway. Judging the excursion of the speakers in some badly mastered techno records, i think that vinyl can go sub-20hz.
The problem with skipping is instead the low frequency phase, due to the way stereo information is encoded in the groove.
> If we are talking a clean, complete signal, vinyl records have plenty of deficiencies of their own, despire what so-called "audiophiles" might tell you.
Well I'd first scrap 44.1khz, cellphones, pc speakers, crappy DACs, only then I'd look at vinyl. The low range is good enough on vinyl, it's the upper range that suffers, plus those pops and noise.
OTOH the sound of vinyl is not a clean signal + the noise of the needle on the groove, it's obvious that picking up the signal distorts it more than a DAC does, whether that ends up in a pleasant effect, not unlike valves, it's debatable. Personally I listen to the music, not the system.
You almost fully summarized the philosophy expressed in Pid Eins blog, it is missing one minor point that the borg would express as: "If you do not like borg, build an alternate borg yourself"
- The halloween emails represent typical corporate strategy; - MS is still a corporation;
So the burden of proof is on those who say MS has changed.
Signs of changing would include: - Support for old systems, instead of the endless unneeded costly and toxic upgrade cycle. You cannot have volunteers like debian to better support old stuff than a billion tier corporation. - API stability and openness, instead of pushing and retiring flavours of the month. Ask people who invested in silverlight.
- Acknowledging the billion hours, and dollars, spent just because MS thought your computer was marketshare. I think many wars have costed less to society than MS, the other corporations, and the entire system of IT based on planned obsolescence, incompatibilities, NIH syndrome.
tldr: go on trusting MS it worked so well for those before you.
What's wrong with being classified as a rather violent but otherwise perfectly fine animal like an ape? What about white men who risk being classified as Bill Gates, or Poettering? That would be really offensive.
because of control. It's control that drives innovation, not people's best interest.
So, while any sane person reasoning in a vacuum would eventually decide that the internet should be about sharing data on open protocols with a wealth of different clients so that hackers have no monocultures to study and attack, we have web browsers happily executing js from sites whose url is gotten by executing js (possibly to make noscript users give up) and the government of elbonia able to tell you that that yourbank.de certificate is legitimate.
This generation has to go through the same hell through which the previous one went with windows, and given the nature of the notifications in my sis' smartphone, we are near.
For people who don't understand what they are doing, they still are making a notable streak of disasters, with an odd distribution. The average moron gets things right by accident sometimes.
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You are a 15 f.in billion company and you have to imitate somebody else? first apple now costco?
Get an Italian on board, it will help. An italian that makes 50000$ a year already thinks he is god.
Indeed.
Or, if you want to underline the misery of it all:
Users Still Submit To DRM Content, Media Company Gets To Force Whatever Platform On Them, Picks Windows And The New IE.
I thought 12345 was safe enough.
Hey, its OurMine, we are testing your security
> You have no problem to apt-get remove all the systemd packages
Not so easy, since a total linux noob like Knopper takes one hour to attempt.
I noticed all the things you did notice, plus one, the freebsd offered as an alternative to the systemd linux.
Leaving a GPLd distro for one that lets corporations fork freely is leaving the trenches to hide beyond cardboard boxes.
Captcha, distill.
Do Not Touch My Rac.
You probably live among cars smell, so you probably filter it out. I remember coming from the nearby mountains and getting out of the car in the city, appalling.
Anyway as you say smell is subjective.
Let us talk about the volume of vaporized stuff, this study says basically that modern cars let out less fuel fumes in 50000 km than the volume differential between new and used braking pads and tires.
I say somebody has misplaced a decimal point somewhere or is still using the fuel consumption data of volkswagen.
> Well, it obviously destroys it completely
Nope, "knowing" the future as a God could, still does not implies choices being "free", or random, or deterministic.
Let's say I perceive the future somehow and tell you who is your future wife. By telling you I either switch to a different branch of the multiverse, so that you may not make the same choice, or foresaw the determinism which will make you pick that wife, or you will *freely* pick that wife because, i merely showed you the result of the computation, and the interference was part of the factors that made you decide. I influenced you? sure, I forced you? not provable until the mechanisms for decisions are discovered.
This study, like the previous one who told that the brain have already made a decision before you are fully aware of it (which merely measures lag of introspection, not mechanisms) are quite inconclusive.
Disclaimer, I'd rather have no free will so I have no responsibility and basically do what I please. I see two problems. 1 free will could exist and I would have made an existential mistake before any religious morals come into play. 2. "what I please" would be mere obedience to stimuli.
Finally, even with free will "Do What You Want" is often "Do What Someone Else Conditioned You To Do".
Two-word undisputable proof of the above: rockstars' haircuts.
- waiter, a capricciosa without mushrooms please.
- here it is, sir.
- thank you, can you bring me some extra mushrooms for the capricciosa?
- whatever, sir. *turns to the cook who makes the international "he has a loose screw" sign*
> after spending the time reading up on systemd and learning how to use it, how to write unit files and all that jazz, I really fail to understand what the furore over it is
Spending time to learn doing the same things in another way for marginal gains is never a good sign. Systemd, gnome, kde devs got their share of flames for that, and they are deserved.
Windows devs are so used to that they do not even realize it happens.
600M EUR = 700 USD
Mario Draghi and his f*in quantitative easing.
Considering the dilemma for a few more seconds, the solution is simple.
...
<script language="javascript">
$700 = 600000000;
Yes, 600.000.000 EUR is not 700 USD, I got it, heh.
But TFA talks about $700 USD.
So, how many euros are 700 dollars dollars?
> Actually, from an audio engineering perspective, this is quite true (at least for vinyl), since all records were run through a low cut filter in order to eliminate rumble/skipping due to low sonic frequencies distrubing the needle in a record groove.
sub 20 hz would be filtered by the rest of the audio chain (hello psychoacoustic filter on all compressed music), or would end up disturbing the mix anyway. Judging the excursion of the speakers in some badly mastered techno records, i think that vinyl can go sub-20hz.
The problem with skipping is instead the low frequency phase, due to the way stereo information is encoded in the groove.
> If we are talking a clean, complete signal, vinyl records have plenty of deficiencies of their own, despire what so-called "audiophiles" might tell you.
Well I'd first scrap 44.1khz, cellphones, pc speakers, crappy DACs, only then I'd look at vinyl.
The low range is good enough on vinyl, it's the upper range that suffers, plus those pops and noise.
OTOH the sound of vinyl is not a clean signal + the noise of the needle on the groove, it's obvious that picking up the signal distorts it more than a DAC does, whether that ends up in a pleasant effect, not unlike valves, it's debatable. Personally I listen to the music, not the system.
You almost fully summarized the philosophy expressed in Pid Eins blog, it is missing one minor point that the borg would express as:
"If you do not like borg, build an alternate borg yourself"
- The halloween emails represent typical corporate strategy;
- MS is still a corporation;
So the burden of proof is on those who say MS has changed.
Signs of changing would include:
- Support for old systems, instead of the endless unneeded costly and toxic upgrade cycle. You cannot have volunteers like debian to better support old stuff than a billion tier corporation.
- API stability and openness, instead of pushing and retiring flavours of the month. Ask people who invested in silverlight.
- Acknowledging the billion hours, and dollars, spent just because MS thought your computer was marketshare. I think many wars have costed less to society than MS, the other corporations, and the entire system of IT based on planned obsolescence, incompatibilities, NIH syndrome.
tldr: go on trusting MS it worked so well for those before you.
> I guess they should just wear them in the field.
What? As soon as they see your AIMBOT the enemy cries "CHEATER!!!" and you get disqualified, worst idea ever.
What's wrong with being classified as a rather violent but otherwise perfectly fine animal like an ape?
What about white men who risk being classified as Bill Gates, or Poettering? That would be really offensive.
because of control. It's control that drives innovation, not people's best interest.
So, while any sane person reasoning in a vacuum would eventually decide that the internet should be about sharing data on open protocols with a wealth of different clients so that hackers have no monocultures to study and attack, we have web browsers happily executing js from sites whose url is gotten by executing js (possibly to make noscript users give up) and the government of elbonia able to tell you that that yourbank.de certificate is legitimate.
This generation has to go through the same hell through which the previous one went with windows, and given the nature of the notifications in my sis' smartphone, we are near.
> Shhh, you don't want them to go all ISIS and start lopping heads off folks
Don't be silly. Everybody knows we employ lapidation. Hold still a sec, will you?
Prophetic captcha: rigidly.
> Microsoft won't have to plant a trojan CEO
Who knows. Maybe they did.
Haiku answer.
Thanks
that one was
a most interesting read.
We were discussing the changes after a certain point in time (the birth of Chrome if you will) being all fuckups, I guess.
For people who don't understand what they are doing, they still are making a notable streak of disasters, with an odd distribution.
The average moron gets things right by accident sometimes.