it's a branding trick they pulled when all the conservative parties got together. They slapped the name Liberals on it. It's also known as "The Coalition".
To be fair, we do kow-tow to the USA far too much. Consider that Australia has 1/3rd of the world's uranium deposits. We could just get our own nuclear program, scrap most of our military and not bother using the US alliance for defence. We don't need Oil, there's enough domestic energy resources in Australia to be completely self sufficient. Our leadership is pathetic in relying on other nations for defence.
The problem here is a rogue device turning on the user. The answer is Open Source. Samsung TVs use an embedded Linux distribution. it is up to the Open Source community to lobby to get the rest of the device Open Sourced to the point that you can run an Open Source Graphics stack on the TV and give the user full control of the device. Without intense lobbying, or hardware jailbreaking, the manufacturers will not change their behavior on this issue willingly.
Funnily enough I'd argue the inverse also happens. As you gain more money, the families get larger. Look at a lot of the wealthiest families in a country like Australia. A lot of these families have 3+ children when the national average is 2.1. I think this occurs because when you have more money, you have more resources to throw into children. The poor don't gain from having less children so they have additional children. The middle class is where we see family planning occur. The middle class chooses to have fewer children to boost the chances of success for the ones they have.
Everyone should get a bunch of free stuff, and the government is going to need to step in and manage the economy. Sorry capitalists, but we can't have a world built on the free market bullshit when noone is working to produce/create grocery store items. The government will have to take over the functions of Walmart style stores. Yes individuals will still be able to run a market for luxury items, but necessities will be provided by the state. That means mining, agriculture, energy, water, food, communications and housing. All of which can be roboticised.
So many benefits to doing it. Let's assume they take ReactOS: Right now ReactOS has wifi/networking, GPU, and basic desktop support. With 20 Russians hacking on it, they could very quickly implement SAMBA 4.0 on ReactOS, BIND, DHCP and Openchange. That's most of the core windows stack and gets them a usable e-mail, file/print/domain controller. An RDP client/server implementation gets them Windows Terminal Server replaced. Most of this code exists right now, it just needs to be adapted from Unix back to ReactOS.
This further secures the Obama legacy as being forward thinking. By cutting ties with America's enemies who planned and executed 9/11. Obama has freed America to do deals with Iran which will now put the hurt on Saudi Arabia. About time those bastards paid for their crimes. Better to ally with Iran's secular population and conservative religious government, than remain allied with Saudi Arabia's Crazy Jihadist population and soon to be jihadist government. Just look at the Saudi foreign minister to see how messed up Saudi Arabia is becoming.
More like, it would happen in America if you got your shit under control with your insane billionaires and actually helped out small businesses. As much as I dislike our current gov here in Australia at least they made the awesome move to give small businesses a $20,000 tax cut this year! (available to all businesses making $2 million or less.) America is still screwing the little man in favour of the big boys and still bleeding to death for it.
It's time for a blanket ban on diesel vehicles.
We know that brain cancer is caused by inhaling diesel fumes. We now know that these new diesel cars are not cleaner than the old diesel cars. There is no argument for why these vehicles should be kept on the roads. They are an unacceptable health risk. Forget climate change, there's enough reasons to scrap these cars before we even get into greenhouse warming.
ReactOS and GNUstep are my pics, because they will change the world when they get big enough. ReactOS could disrupt the entire windows ecosystem, and GNUstep could do the same to Apple. ReactOS has just added audio and networking support (including wireless) it's not far now from being usable for day to day single user work.
Lots of talk about the cost of inaction how about the cost of action? It would cost $400 billion to make Australia a 0 carbon economy. Applying the same figure to the US population the cost is 5.5 trillion dollars. Spread over 10-20years it's quite achievable.
Smart money is that they're doing this to push the Beats by Dr Dre brand they bought a while ago. There will be a pair of Beats headphones that work with the iPhone and all the other brands can go suck the big one. Apple has basically gone south ever since Steve died. The systems are less and less attractive, more locked down. Treacherous computing.
Enough calling these battles Luddite. No government is talking about banning mobile apps to organise businesses, or automated cars/more efficient services. What they are doing is banning an ILLEGAL business model which is trying to establish a monopoly. History has shown us time and again that the only monopolies which should exist should be government owned monopolies. The Taxi industry is one of these monopolies. Power companies, water companies, and telecommunications infrastructure companies are all entities which should be government owned/run to achieve wider economic objectives than just short term profit.
America has spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to get the telcos to upgrade to fibre and it hasn't worked. If the US government had said screw you, and built the fibre directly, the USA would have had FTTH to every home in the early 2000s. This fantasy that UBER is some magical company with amazing ideas that should just take over the world is retarded. We KNOW UBER is planning to sack all their drivers once the cars are automated. Their CEO has admitted this many times. It would be much better for the UK/US/AUS governments to own the automated cars and booking systems and capture the revenue from the automated car services, than allowing more wealth be siphoned out of their respective economies to a couple of billionaires in North America. UBER's business model is predatory, monopolistic and exploitative, and they're selling it under the guise of convenience/cost. These people are planning to take on the entire transport industry once they've taken out taxis. Expect them to start going for freight/road/rail services next.
There is a strong humanist argument that as we phase out entire industries for automation, that the profits raised from those automation efforts be used to raise the living standards of everyone, not just a tiny minority that came up with an obvious idea. This is only going to get worse as we start to automate all service/manufacturing/primary production jobs. UBER really is the test case for how we deal with phasing out entire workforces and replacing them with no new jobs.
I've tried the Occulus Rift DK1, DK2, and Crystal Cove. I've also tried the Samsung GearVR. Here's my experience. DK2/Crystal/GearVR fixed the latency/movement issues. The problem is the resolution is too low. Now the Gear VR was the highest resolution headset. It is 2560x1440 so the resolution is 1280x1440 per eye. A 4K screen is 3840x2160 so 1920x2160 per eye. This resolution will be quite good, I don't think it will give you full presence however. But it will look a lot better than a 1990s DOS game. I suspect that VR will deliver presence at 7680x4320 aka 8K where each eye will have 3840x4320 pixels per eye. This is probably 2-3 years away, based on the current 4K screen technology. I'm not excited for the rift's release, but I don't think a flop would be fatal to VR. I do however think it's a bit premature to release it now. My guess is the early adopters are going to get burned, but the tech itself will be pretty good.
Comp sci and maths should be combined. Algebra/trigonometry have applications in 3D graphics and it's a lot easier to understand the maths when you apply it.
I'd take the crapshoot and try to fund all the low cost fusion projects that are out there. There's about three promising ones now. Polywell positive net fusion going to cost $100 million to build a working reactor? Done. Hell I'd allocate $250 million to that project alone. Why not take the crapshoot with 1/10th of the 2.5 billion. It's not like you're going to run out of the other 2.25 billion any time soon. If Polywell doesn't work out, put another 200-300 million into other fusion projects. If those all fail, abandon fusion research and work on something like robotics/automation or space travel. Pretty sure you could re-purpose designs/technology from the Apollo missions at a much lower cost than the government will to get your own moon mission going. Most of the space innovators etc don't have the balls to try those projects now because they care about keeping their billions in the bank.
Actually the problem wasn't leftists, the problem was Right-wing fucktards who downgraded the network from FTTH to FTTN. Everyone I've ever met who got FTTH says the NBN is Fan-Fucking-Tastic.
Only if we're lucky will we be able to automate all the tasks and scrap the need for human labour. We will also need a socialist or communist system of wealth distribution if we scrap all the paid jobs. The biggest fear is a partial but not full automation occurs, where millions to billions of people get put permanently out of work, but there's still a worker class. Assuming we kept the current economic models, we'd be driving millions of people into poverty and creating a super stratified ultra-rich class.
Uber is already dead. As soon as they automate driving do people really think that governments are going to allow private taxi companies to be run at a profit as they start to automate mining, agriculture and energy production? Of course not.
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it's a branding trick they pulled when all the conservative parties got together. They slapped the name Liberals on it. It's also known as "The Coalition".
To be fair, we do kow-tow to the USA far too much. Consider that Australia has 1/3rd of the world's uranium deposits. We could just get our own nuclear program, scrap most of our military and not bother using the US alliance for defence. We don't need Oil, there's enough domestic energy resources in Australia to be completely self sufficient. Our leadership is pathetic in relying on other nations for defence.
The problem here is a rogue device turning on the user. The answer is Open Source. Samsung TVs use an embedded Linux distribution. it is up to the Open Source community to lobby to get the rest of the device Open Sourced to the point that you can run an Open Source Graphics stack on the TV and give the user full control of the device. Without intense lobbying, or hardware jailbreaking, the manufacturers will not change their behavior on this issue willingly.
Funnily enough I'd argue the inverse also happens. As you gain more money, the families get larger. Look at a lot of the wealthiest families in a country like Australia. A lot of these families have 3+ children when the national average is 2.1. I think this occurs because when you have more money, you have more resources to throw into children. The poor don't gain from having less children so they have additional children. The middle class is where we see family planning occur. The middle class chooses to have fewer children to boost the chances of success for the ones they have.
Everyone should get a bunch of free stuff, and the government is going to need to step in and manage the economy. Sorry capitalists, but we can't have a world built on the free market bullshit when noone is working to produce/create grocery store items. The government will have to take over the functions of Walmart style stores. Yes individuals will still be able to run a market for luxury items, but necessities will be provided by the state. That means mining, agriculture, energy, water, food, communications and housing. All of which can be roboticised.
So many benefits to doing it. Let's assume they take ReactOS: Right now ReactOS has wifi/networking, GPU, and basic desktop support. With 20 Russians hacking on it, they could very quickly implement SAMBA 4.0 on ReactOS, BIND, DHCP and Openchange. That's most of the core windows stack and gets them a usable e-mail, file/print/domain controller. An RDP client/server implementation gets them Windows Terminal Server replaced. Most of this code exists right now, it just needs to be adapted from Unix back to ReactOS.
Gimp is shit use krita it's much closer to photoshop and works a lot better krita.org
This further secures the Obama legacy as being forward thinking. By cutting ties with America's enemies who planned and executed 9/11. Obama has freed America to do deals with Iran which will now put the hurt on Saudi Arabia. About time those bastards paid for their crimes. Better to ally with Iran's secular population and conservative religious government, than remain allied with Saudi Arabia's Crazy Jihadist population and soon to be jihadist government. Just look at the Saudi foreign minister to see how messed up Saudi Arabia is becoming.
More like, it would happen in America if you got your shit under control with your insane billionaires and actually helped out small businesses. As much as I dislike our current gov here in Australia at least they made the awesome move to give small businesses a $20,000 tax cut this year! (available to all businesses making $2 million or less.) America is still screwing the little man in favour of the big boys and still bleeding to death for it.
It's time for a blanket ban on diesel vehicles. We know that brain cancer is caused by inhaling diesel fumes. We now know that these new diesel cars are not cleaner than the old diesel cars. There is no argument for why these vehicles should be kept on the roads. They are an unacceptable health risk. Forget climate change, there's enough reasons to scrap these cars before we even get into greenhouse warming.
ReactOS and GNUstep are my pics, because they will change the world when they get big enough. ReactOS could disrupt the entire windows ecosystem, and GNUstep could do the same to Apple. ReactOS has just added audio and networking support (including wireless) it's not far now from being usable for day to day single user work.
So does anyone want to try installing SteamOS or Debian/Steam on one of these?
Lots of talk about the cost of inaction how about the cost of action? It would cost $400 billion to make Australia a 0 carbon economy. Applying the same figure to the US population the cost is 5.5 trillion dollars. Spread over 10-20years it's quite achievable.
Nah not stealth, just the shitty vtol those idiot marines put in. Jack of all trades master of none and too many cooks make for a dud plane.
Smart money is that they're doing this to push the Beats by Dr Dre brand they bought a while ago. There will be a pair of Beats headphones that work with the iPhone and all the other brands can go suck the big one. Apple has basically gone south ever since Steve died. The systems are less and less attractive, more locked down. Treacherous computing.
Anyone else find it hilarious that Windows 10 doesn't give a crap about Mexican laws?
Enough calling these battles Luddite. No government is talking about banning mobile apps to organise businesses, or automated cars/more efficient services. What they are doing is banning an ILLEGAL business model which is trying to establish a monopoly. History has shown us time and again that the only monopolies which should exist should be government owned monopolies. The Taxi industry is one of these monopolies. Power companies, water companies, and telecommunications infrastructure companies are all entities which should be government owned/run to achieve wider economic objectives than just short term profit. America has spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to get the telcos to upgrade to fibre and it hasn't worked. If the US government had said screw you, and built the fibre directly, the USA would have had FTTH to every home in the early 2000s. This fantasy that UBER is some magical company with amazing ideas that should just take over the world is retarded. We KNOW UBER is planning to sack all their drivers once the cars are automated. Their CEO has admitted this many times. It would be much better for the UK/US/AUS governments to own the automated cars and booking systems and capture the revenue from the automated car services, than allowing more wealth be siphoned out of their respective economies to a couple of billionaires in North America. UBER's business model is predatory, monopolistic and exploitative, and they're selling it under the guise of convenience/cost. These people are planning to take on the entire transport industry once they've taken out taxis. Expect them to start going for freight/road/rail services next. There is a strong humanist argument that as we phase out entire industries for automation, that the profits raised from those automation efforts be used to raise the living standards of everyone, not just a tiny minority that came up with an obvious idea. This is only going to get worse as we start to automate all service/manufacturing/primary production jobs. UBER really is the test case for how we deal with phasing out entire workforces and replacing them with no new jobs.
Good, now we need the screen to be 5" and we'll finally be ready for VR.
I've tried the Occulus Rift DK1, DK2, and Crystal Cove. I've also tried the Samsung GearVR. Here's my experience. DK2/Crystal/GearVR fixed the latency/movement issues. The problem is the resolution is too low. Now the Gear VR was the highest resolution headset. It is 2560x1440 so the resolution is 1280x1440 per eye. A 4K screen is 3840x2160 so 1920x2160 per eye. This resolution will be quite good, I don't think it will give you full presence however. But it will look a lot better than a 1990s DOS game. I suspect that VR will deliver presence at 7680x4320 aka 8K where each eye will have 3840x4320 pixels per eye. This is probably 2-3 years away, based on the current 4K screen technology. I'm not excited for the rift's release, but I don't think a flop would be fatal to VR. I do however think it's a bit premature to release it now. My guess is the early adopters are going to get burned, but the tech itself will be pretty good.
Comp sci and maths should be combined. Algebra/trigonometry have applications in 3D graphics and it's a lot easier to understand the maths when you apply it.
No Linux support, no buy. I'll get whichever model has higher resolution than 4k and full Linux support.
I'd take the crapshoot and try to fund all the low cost fusion projects that are out there. There's about three promising ones now. Polywell positive net fusion going to cost $100 million to build a working reactor? Done. Hell I'd allocate $250 million to that project alone. Why not take the crapshoot with 1/10th of the 2.5 billion. It's not like you're going to run out of the other 2.25 billion any time soon. If Polywell doesn't work out, put another 200-300 million into other fusion projects. If those all fail, abandon fusion research and work on something like robotics/automation or space travel. Pretty sure you could re-purpose designs/technology from the Apollo missions at a much lower cost than the government will to get your own moon mission going. Most of the space innovators etc don't have the balls to try those projects now because they care about keeping their billions in the bank.
Actually the problem wasn't leftists, the problem was Right-wing fucktards who downgraded the network from FTTH to FTTN. Everyone I've ever met who got FTTH says the NBN is Fan-Fucking-Tastic.
Only if we're lucky will we be able to automate all the tasks and scrap the need for human labour. We will also need a socialist or communist system of wealth distribution if we scrap all the paid jobs. The biggest fear is a partial but not full automation occurs, where millions to billions of people get put permanently out of work, but there's still a worker class. Assuming we kept the current economic models, we'd be driving millions of people into poverty and creating a super stratified ultra-rich class.
Uber is already dead. As soon as they automate driving do people really think that governments are going to allow private taxi companies to be run at a profit as they start to automate mining, agriculture and energy production? Of course not.