This is exactly where Vulkan and perhaps OpenGL have to take up the slack. For all the things Notch did wrong coding Minecraft, he made a fundamentally sound decision to not be tied to any particular OS or hardware platform. So long as the cross-compatibility can be maintained while ditching the pitfalls of Java, that part of the model is something other developers should look to emulate, because it worked out very well. Minecraft "just runs" on pretty much anything with sufficient power to run it. Unfortunately the bar of "sufficient" is rather high because Java, but the underlying concept has been proven.
If small developers with limited time budgets can just target their game at Linux, and have it automagically run on Windows, this might be quite the attractive option. No porting, just write for one "lowest common denominator" and let the OSes themselves sort it out. I would assume things intended to be cross-platform, like Vulkan, would also fit into this "it just works, everywhere" paradigm.
I think Putin knows full well that this task is not achievable, but wants to use it to shove someone out of their job in disgrace. I guess we'll find out who that is soon enough.
Of course they'll have to work it around his (already limited) tournament schedule, but I think this guy would go over really well. He's famous, he likes fast cars, and he's got the necessary mixture of feigned modesty and self-deprecation the job requires.
Of course! Martin Winterkorn, CEO in 2015 would have had no idea what was going on in Engineering. Ignore that Martin Winterkorn guy in Engineering at the time this was taking place, couldn't possibly be the same guy...
The first time it happens, the company should have to pay it back with interest. If it was a mistake, that's fair, and it makes sure they don't benefit from it by sitting on the money even temporarily. The second time, they should have to pay double. The third time, triple. And so on. After some period of time without any significant "billing errors" in their favor, the meter gets reset back to "damages plus interest". (Say, two years for these jerks.) This would protect both legitimate business who do occasionally make mistakes, and their customers, while providing a disincentive to make "mistakes" for those who habitually do so.
Please, if you're going to do it, just do it already, while we still have another candidate in the race. Sandbagging just means the (D) ticket is dead in the water.
We don't "hand them out", people have to buy them. However, short of being convicted of a felony, the right to do so is exactly that -- a right, not to be taken without due process. No-fly lists are wrong enough because they lack accountability and transparency and have already been proven to be used against people who haven't earned it. It is estimated that 1/3 of the people on the list don't belong there, and there are many more cases where someone is mistaken for being on the list and has to jump through hoops to prove that they are not that person. Alas, freedom to travel is not a specifically enumerated right. The right to keep and bear arms is, so such a list would be unconstitutional.
The shooter in this case was investigated twice by the FBI, and there was nothing substantial found. If that was enough to put him on a list, then someone filing false reports about you and causing the FBI to investigate you (and then drop the investigation) would also put you on the list. Unfortunately, the world is full of trolls and people who will abuse the process, so it is a good thing that it is necessary to have a high standard for denying someone's rights. It would require a constitutional amendment to change this, and there are still plenty of state governments sufficiently distrustful of the Federal government to make sure that doesn't happen. The only amendment I'd like to see is to make freedom of travel an enumerated right that cannot be removed without due process. Right now the no-fly list is merely wrong and abusive. I'd like to see it be unconstitutional.
If you want to get rid of all the guns in the country, go back in time almost 240 years and convince the founders not to protect the right to keep and bear arms. Short of that, the genie has long since left the bottle and there's no putting him back in. Since that's not going to happen, all that can be done is to disarm the law-abiding, a situation that will delight those who choose not to hand in their weapons.
Metal detectors might keep people from bringing in a concealed weapon, saving the occasional life when a fight escalates. They would do nothing in a situation like Pulse, as the shooter wouldn't try to pass through undetected. He'd just storm the place, shooting the guards at the entrance if need be.
You can't be raped on a website. The only responsibility would be a warning that anyone you meet online might not be who they represent themselves to be, and that meeting them in person must take place at your own risk. This could be buried in the terms and conditions, because the users all confirmed that they read them cover to cover when they signed on -- although nobody did, of course.
The distinct demarcation between the 915G and 945G is that the 945G is Aero-capable and the 915G is not. I don't know what kind of driver support you expect in Windows 10 for a graphics chipset that can't even run Windows 7 properly, yet both were shipping the day Windows 7 came out.
The recurring problem is that this can be shot down this year, and next year, and the year after that... but they only have to succeed once, and then we're all stuck with it. Add to that the fact that they can just tack it on to a budget bill and seriously, how are we supposed to stop these things from happening? The attack mode on any Congressman who votes against the budget bill is incredibly scathing, no matter what their justification for doing so, and again, that little problem remains that freedom has to win every battle, while the police state only has to win one.
I'm not sure how population growth through immigration is any different than population growth through reproduction or population growth from a decrease in death rates (which will be a side effect of safer highways). A million people is a million people. Age matters -- adults have jobs to go to, while children and seniors tend to stay closer to home -- but where they originally come from really doesn't.
OK then my one circumstance is when you attach a tow bar from the hood ornament to another vehicle and leave your car in Neutral to run the air conditioning. Somewhere in the small print it says "additional components may be required" (like an entire second vehicle) and "individual results may vary".
And I can put this funny looking thing on the hood of your car to reduce drag and provide up to 1377% better fuel economy. Up to includes zero. It even includes negative numbers, so if all my elaborate hood ornament does is obstruct your vision and slow the car down, I still haven't made any fraudulent claims.
I don't care. As far as I (and many others) was concerned, adding her to the board was tantamount to saying "we have completely rolled over to the spooks" without actually having to say it and get in legal trouble. I realize they may have had only two choices, to roll over or to shut down like Lavabit. Personally I'd prefer they shut down or move out of the country, and continuing to use them would be saying I'm OK with what they're doing and what is being done to them and us. If that means no more cloud storage in the U.S., so be it.
Because of her stance against privacy and for government snooping during her tenure with the Bush II administration. It has nothing to do with conservatism, I would feel the same way if they put James Comey on their Board.
I thought Dropbox had terminally jumped the shark when they put Condi on the Board of Directors. Certainly I left then, and any time I've pointed it out on a project where they have said "let's use Dropbox" they have immediately changed their minds. I had no idea they'd managed to bloat their operations to over a thousand people.
To the any employee of Dropbox: Brace yourself. Winter is coming. It seems long overdue, in fact.
This has been known forever, though Apple probably just wanted to make their point although they knew they ultimately could not win.
In a legal battle between a Chinese entity and a foreign entity, Chinese courts always rule on the side of the Chinese entity. Always. Even if they have to come up with the most convoluted legal logic possible to do so. This is one of the warnings we used to give clients when they were considering joint ventures with Chinese companies. "Do you trust them?" (The answer was inevitably "no".) "Can you survive when -- not if -- they screw you over? Because you'll have no recourse when it happens." The only hope of ever seeing legal ramifications is if a company can get another Chinese JV to do the suing.
Let's face it, humans pretty much suck at multitasking, especially when one of the activities is difficult -- like watching the road closely, at the level required to drive, but without actually doing the driving. Nobody except the most trained are going to be able to sustain this, even if they want to, and most won't want to in the first place. Any system that allows inattention to road conditions will inevitably lead to inattention to road conditions. The only proper response of a self-driving car to conditions it cannot handle is to pull off the road and give up. It should never, ever try to force control back onto a human driver while in motion, simple as that.
This is the crux of the problem, not the couple going at it like rabbits in the passenger compartment.
Unless there is a way to convince Google Play to cooperate with GalliumOS, I'm afraid this announcement comes too late for me. I (irrevocably) reformatted the Chromebook a couple weeks ago. Just last night, I chopped the unnecessary shell length off a SDXC card so that it almost disappears into the slot rather than dangling out hazardously because it was much cheaper than buying a JetDrive that is essentially the same thing.
If not having Google Play is the cost of having a full Linux system (and whatever Windows apps I can get working via Wine) though, I'll take that trade. An Acer CB3-111 isn't exactly a fast machine, but it's lightweight, has wonderful battery life, and is absolutely silent (unless I want it to make noise). It also doesn't mind being used as a literal laptop rather than a wiener-roasting device.
But it is a core belief that a lack of pirates causes global warming. Therefore, being prevented form talking or dressing like a pirate is forcing the believer to promote damage to the environment. Just because it isn't a personal punishment, that doesn't mean it's not a negative consequence of deviating from one's beliefs.
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This is exactly where Vulkan and perhaps OpenGL have to take up the slack. For all the things Notch did wrong coding Minecraft, he made a fundamentally sound decision to not be tied to any particular OS or hardware platform. So long as the cross-compatibility can be maintained while ditching the pitfalls of Java, that part of the model is something other developers should look to emulate, because it worked out very well. Minecraft "just runs" on pretty much anything with sufficient power to run it. Unfortunately the bar of "sufficient" is rather high because Java, but the underlying concept has been proven.
If small developers with limited time budgets can just target their game at Linux, and have it automagically run on Windows, this might be quite the attractive option. No porting, just write for one "lowest common denominator" and let the OSes themselves sort it out. I would assume things intended to be cross-platform, like Vulkan, would also fit into this "it just works, everywhere" paradigm.
I think Putin knows full well that this task is not achievable, but wants to use it to shove someone out of their job in disgrace. I guess we'll find out who that is soon enough.
Of course they'll have to work it around his (already limited) tournament schedule, but I think this guy would go over really well. He's famous, he likes fast cars, and he's got the necessary mixture of feigned modesty and self-deprecation the job requires.
Of course! Martin Winterkorn, CEO in 2015 would have had no idea what was going on in Engineering. Ignore that Martin Winterkorn guy in Engineering at the time this was taking place, couldn't possibly be the same guy...
The first time it happens, the company should have to pay it back with interest. If it was a mistake, that's fair, and it makes sure they don't benefit from it by sitting on the money even temporarily. The second time, they should have to pay double. The third time, triple. And so on. After some period of time without any significant "billing errors" in their favor, the meter gets reset back to "damages plus interest". (Say, two years for these jerks.) This would protect both legitimate business who do occasionally make mistakes, and their customers, while providing a disincentive to make "mistakes" for those who habitually do so.
Please, if you're going to do it, just do it already, while we still have another candidate in the race. Sandbagging just means the (D) ticket is dead in the water.
We don't "hand them out", people have to buy them. However, short of being convicted of a felony, the right to do so is exactly that -- a right, not to be taken without due process. No-fly lists are wrong enough because they lack accountability and transparency and have already been proven to be used against people who haven't earned it. It is estimated that 1/3 of the people on the list don't belong there, and there are many more cases where someone is mistaken for being on the list and has to jump through hoops to prove that they are not that person. Alas, freedom to travel is not a specifically enumerated right. The right to keep and bear arms is, so such a list would be unconstitutional.
The shooter in this case was investigated twice by the FBI, and there was nothing substantial found. If that was enough to put him on a list, then someone filing false reports about you and causing the FBI to investigate you (and then drop the investigation) would also put you on the list. Unfortunately, the world is full of trolls and people who will abuse the process, so it is a good thing that it is necessary to have a high standard for denying someone's rights. It would require a constitutional amendment to change this, and there are still plenty of state governments sufficiently distrustful of the Federal government to make sure that doesn't happen. The only amendment I'd like to see is to make freedom of travel an enumerated right that cannot be removed without due process. Right now the no-fly list is merely wrong and abusive. I'd like to see it be unconstitutional.
If you want to get rid of all the guns in the country, go back in time almost 240 years and convince the founders not to protect the right to keep and bear arms. Short of that, the genie has long since left the bottle and there's no putting him back in. Since that's not going to happen, all that can be done is to disarm the law-abiding, a situation that will delight those who choose not to hand in their weapons.
Metal detectors might keep people from bringing in a concealed weapon, saving the occasional life when a fight escalates. They would do nothing in a situation like Pulse, as the shooter wouldn't try to pass through undetected. He'd just storm the place, shooting the guards at the entrance if need be.
You can't be raped on a website. The only responsibility would be a warning that anyone you meet online might not be who they represent themselves to be, and that meeting them in person must take place at your own risk. This could be buried in the terms and conditions, because the users all confirmed that they read them cover to cover when they signed on -- although nobody did, of course.
The distinct demarcation between the 915G and 945G is that the 945G is Aero-capable and the 915G is not. I don't know what kind of driver support you expect in Windows 10 for a graphics chipset that can't even run Windows 7 properly, yet both were shipping the day Windows 7 came out.
The recurring problem is that this can be shot down this year, and next year, and the year after that... but they only have to succeed once, and then we're all stuck with it. Add to that the fact that they can just tack it on to a budget bill and seriously, how are we supposed to stop these things from happening? The attack mode on any Congressman who votes against the budget bill is incredibly scathing, no matter what their justification for doing so, and again, that little problem remains that freedom has to win every battle, while the police state only has to win one.
I'm not sure how population growth through immigration is any different than population growth through reproduction or population growth from a decrease in death rates (which will be a side effect of safer highways). A million people is a million people. Age matters -- adults have jobs to go to, while children and seniors tend to stay closer to home -- but where they originally come from really doesn't.
So which one are they worried about?
People use them too much and traffic grinds to a halt?
Or people choose to use them instead of flying because they can go over 100 mph on highways?
It's not going to work both ways, guys.
OK then my one circumstance is when you attach a tow bar from the hood ornament to another vehicle and leave your car in Neutral to run the air conditioning. Somewhere in the small print it says "additional components may be required" (like an entire second vehicle) and "individual results may vary".
And I can put this funny looking thing on the hood of your car to reduce drag and provide up to 1377% better fuel economy. Up to includes zero. It even includes negative numbers, so if all my elaborate hood ornament does is obstruct your vision and slow the car down, I still haven't made any fraudulent claims.
It wasn't that she was lazy, it's that you were. Students that stay in high school for eight years will do that to a teacher. :)
I don't care. As far as I (and many others) was concerned, adding her to the board was tantamount to saying "we have completely rolled over to the spooks" without actually having to say it and get in legal trouble. I realize they may have had only two choices, to roll over or to shut down like Lavabit. Personally I'd prefer they shut down or move out of the country, and continuing to use them would be saying I'm OK with what they're doing and what is being done to them and us. If that means no more cloud storage in the U.S., so be it.
Because of her stance against privacy and for government snooping during her tenure with the Bush II administration. It has nothing to do with conservatism, I would feel the same way if they put James Comey on their Board.
I thought Dropbox had terminally jumped the shark when they put Condi on the Board of Directors. Certainly I left then, and any time I've pointed it out on a project where they have said "let's use Dropbox" they have immediately changed their minds. I had no idea they'd managed to bloat their operations to over a thousand people.
To the any employee of Dropbox: Brace yourself. Winter is coming. It seems long overdue, in fact.
This has been known forever, though Apple probably just wanted to make their point although they knew they ultimately could not win.
In a legal battle between a Chinese entity and a foreign entity, Chinese courts always rule on the side of the Chinese entity. Always. Even if they have to come up with the most convoluted legal logic possible to do so. This is one of the warnings we used to give clients when they were considering joint ventures with Chinese companies. "Do you trust them?" (The answer was inevitably "no".) "Can you survive when -- not if -- they screw you over? Because you'll have no recourse when it happens." The only hope of ever seeing legal ramifications is if a company can get another Chinese JV to do the suing.
Let's face it, humans pretty much suck at multitasking, especially when one of the activities is difficult -- like watching the road closely, at the level required to drive, but without actually doing the driving. Nobody except the most trained are going to be able to sustain this, even if they want to, and most won't want to in the first place. Any system that allows inattention to road conditions will inevitably lead to inattention to road conditions. The only proper response of a self-driving car to conditions it cannot handle is to pull off the road and give up. It should never, ever try to force control back onto a human driver while in motion, simple as that.
This is the crux of the problem, not the couple going at it like rabbits in the passenger compartment.
Ah yes, GVOX Encore 4.5, Hoyle Board Games, Hoyle Card Games, Hoyle Puzzle Games, and Hoyle Casino all count as "none" I suppose.
Office 2010 and Skype for Windows are out, but some things work.
Unless there is a way to convince Google Play to cooperate with GalliumOS, I'm afraid this announcement comes too late for me. I (irrevocably) reformatted the Chromebook a couple weeks ago. Just last night, I chopped the unnecessary shell length off a SDXC card so that it almost disappears into the slot rather than dangling out hazardously because it was much cheaper than buying a JetDrive that is essentially the same thing.
If not having Google Play is the cost of having a full Linux system (and whatever Windows apps I can get working via Wine) though, I'll take that trade. An Acer CB3-111 isn't exactly a fast machine, but it's lightweight, has wonderful battery life, and is absolutely silent (unless I want it to make noise). It also doesn't mind being used as a literal laptop rather than a wiener-roasting device.
But it is a core belief that a lack of pirates causes global warming. Therefore, being prevented form talking or dressing like a pirate is forcing the believer to promote damage to the environment. Just because it isn't a personal punishment, that doesn't mean it's not a negative consequence of deviating from one's beliefs.