you do realize when you talk about kernel changes, only the kernel developers themselves are working in a development environment, right? Production is everyone USING the OS (anyone from the average computer user , computer builders, installers, IT support , etc.) are production uses when it comes to an OS.
So, sounds like AT&T needs to stop dealing directly with customers. Companies like Consumer Cellular, Straight Talk, etc. can get better service from AT&T than consumers...maybe AT&T needs to be just supplier to companies, not end users. Any chance they would be happy as a back-bone supplier in cellular? Or would they still try to eat their customers lunch later down the line by trying to bypass 'em? I seem to remember AT&T going through phases like that in the past...
Doing the things you describe do not show people are generally good. People are generally cooperative and social as a survival adaptation. Not trying to sound too pessimistic, but my point is you need to look a little deeper than your examples to find good in people. You're doing a huge disservice to truly good people by your comment.
bit extreme on the comparison. On computers in that time (Commodore, etc.) the thing you did with a computer was figure it out. The PC of today, or at least the kid was using, is a device. Think along the lines of a DVD layer that got rid of the labeled buttons and had you just press unlabeled parts of the front of the box or remote. Would all kids get frustrated? no. Would it be a surprise that some do? shouldn't be.
lasers used for communication in space is very important/useful due to the distances involved. the more focused you can send, the less energy needed to compensate for signal spread...probably not the right terms, but in general terms that's the first thing I thought of. The distances involved in space take some real work to deal with...Everything gets harder to do when you talk about these kinds of distances....
You may think a trip down to the corner store is a long way to go, but that's just peanuts to space...
I hope with all the hype for autonomous cars, they do at least consider what it would take to have a mode for no one in the car...
Seems like all the talk so far is for normal driving and requiring a driver, but how about some talk about what would be allowable for no one in the car? Like max speed of 5-10 mph, flashers on all the time, etc. I'd like to be able to send a car home that I didn't need anymore, or call the car to be in a parking lot. Or, even the service call like mentioned elsewhere in this thread: send it to the dealer or service station on it's own. Not sure if it's possible yet, but I haven't heard any mention of what it WOULD take (legally) to let a car drive itself somewhere....
Actually curious, how do you remote an app in Windows at all? As far as I knew you ran it on the desktop and remoted the whole desktop...and how do you switch the app from one machine to another? I'd like to be able to do this often. If it's available in windows I've been missing out...
What you say is true in a lot of people, that there are those who want to be in power over others, but that's not the central issue. In most cases where someone is in advantage over another it's due more to competition than to pure desire to have domination over someone. The issue is more the perceived playing field that they are competing on...the 'evil banker' is considering themselves a better competitor in the playing field they see. They feel justified. Perceived survival in competition is a base level drive for everyone, some, not the majority, just take some known damaging actions as they claw their way to the top in trying to keep from getting behind everyone else clawing along side you.
It's not quite as bleak as you make out that all humanity currently desires to lord power over others....there's a more basic drive that will either adjust on it's own or need to be adjusted on purpose: the perceived playing field will need to get brought into some kind of shared image instead of individual one-off version for everyone.
As far as the minimum wage jobs and similar, I see technology helping get the most out of each person. Right now lots of people work jobs that do not use their full potential, i.e. could be performed by part of a person , not needing 100% of a person. but they have to put a lot of their resources into doing less than 100% most of the time. Basically wasted talents because the role can currently only be performed by a person since we lack the technology to cover the gap...the gap between what technology can do (what % of a person it can replace) and the number of jobs that only need that % of a person...labor jobs use say 15-20 % of a persons focus and ability and technology is somewhat able to cover that...under certain circumstances. Once technology can fill the place of say 80-90 % of what a person can do (talking averages unfortunately, which is always misleading when talking people) then we can drop technology in place for most of the menial jobs out there , ranging for those that take 15-20% up to that 90% which will cover much more of the jobs needed to keep a society/city/nation/whatever running. The we'll have a whole new playing field and will see if our abilities then go up or if it just frees us up to do other things. But, it will happen over a LONG period of time and won't have the catastrophic impact that many envision...
the point, as I understand it, of GPLv2 is to allow someone who gets a piece of software to have some freedom (not a free ride) with what they just got. There's no issue with making money off it.
rule of thumb: if you get a piece of software, can you change it at the code level? can you pass on those changes to someone else without having to check with who you got it from? if either answer is "No" then there's a problem if you got a supposed GPLv2 piece of software.
a push for 100% enforcement of any law by the people who make those laws is bad no matter the consequence. It opens up the opportunity for lawmakers to abuse laws and the people that they are enforced on to have no way out from under the abuse. Even ones that are for good reasons set precedent for the bad ones. The downside of keeping freedom is the risk that someone will do a "bad" (not illegal, bad) thing and get away with it.
That's why that quote from Ben Franklin is appropriate: you're giving up some freedom (the ability to break the laws if appropriate....by the people's opinion, not lawmakers) in exchange for security (or maybe stability is the better term...same thing though in the end) is a no-win path in terms of long-term freedom. Government surveillance of any kind (which is what the required black box is) can easily become an attempt for 100% enforcement. That's just where the trend goes and why privacy advocates get nervous.
I'm all for another option if it results in less cryptic error messages thrown to the user level. I don't know how many times I've had to help someone and told them don't read that error literally. what it REALLY means is this....because a single function spit out an error and was just passed up the chain until the user sees it....
How about a language that takes into account that errors are more common than successes and throws successes instead of errors?
I don't want any nations to control the internet at all. Which is what the UN is: a group of nations.
Now the PEOPLE in those countries, that is where it belongs...
Why didn't they go the other way: give the thing lots of storage (cheaper now than when Wii came out) and dump the disk drive? I'm wondering if this could have been a nice little box for those who hate discs lying around...
At this stage in development, efficiency isn't a big deal , unless it can be proven early on that it will always be too horrible compared to alternatives...and that only counts if there are alternatives.
What is interesting/important is it's potential as (pointed out lots of times in the comments) a steam engine that avoids big boilers and has the same kick as an ICE since it uses the same mechanical layout. Any other heat-driven engines that can do the same? same kick, same overhead?
reading comments seems to say no so far: Stirling engines don't have the variable torque output for use in cars. Steam boilers are too heavy and involve piping steam around the system (dangerous and complex). Even converting the sunlight directly to electricity runs into storage problems (batteries aren't big enough yet) . I've seen come comments that heated oil may actually be a good way to store solar energy...not sure if it beats batteries, but worth a look.
This is another tool in the toolbox if it works. Is there anything that says this won't?
So, is there some problem with posting links to G+? I saw the comment, checked his posts and read his comments...then realized the article link pointed to someone's blog....why not go straight to the source?
unfortunately for the same reasons people who hate facebook and have many IM accounts join them: peer pressure. It can be lonely sticking to your principals sometimes... :)
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you do realize when you talk about kernel changes, only the kernel developers themselves are working in a development environment, right? Production is everyone USING the OS (anyone from the average computer user , computer builders, installers, IT support , etc.) are production uses when it comes to an OS.
So, sounds like AT&T needs to stop dealing directly with customers. Companies like Consumer Cellular, Straight Talk, etc. can get better service from AT&T than consumers...maybe AT&T needs to be just supplier to companies, not end users. Any chance they would be happy as a back-bone supplier in cellular? Or would they still try to eat their customers lunch later down the line by trying to bypass 'em? I seem to remember AT&T going through phases like that in the past...
define "eye" vs "camera"
remember: in the land of the blind....
Doing the things you describe do not show people are generally good. People are generally cooperative and social as a survival adaptation. Not trying to sound too pessimistic, but my point is you need to look a little deeper than your examples to find good in people. You're doing a huge disservice to truly good people by your comment.
bit extreme on the comparison. On computers in that time (Commodore, etc.) the thing you did with a computer was figure it out. The PC of today, or at least the kid was using, is a device. Think along the lines of a DVD layer that got rid of the labeled buttons and had you just press unlabeled parts of the front of the box or remote. Would all kids get frustrated? no. Would it be a surprise that some do? shouldn't be.
lasers used for communication in space is very important/useful due to the distances involved. the more focused you can send, the less energy needed to compensate for signal spread...probably not the right terms, but in general terms that's the first thing I thought of. The distances involved in space take some real work to deal with...Everything gets harder to do when you talk about these kinds of distances....
You may think a trip down to the corner store is a long way to go, but that's just peanuts to space...
because a fetus doesn't involve employment?
needs a beam splitter
I hope with all the hype for autonomous cars, they do at least consider what it would take to have a mode for no one in the car...
Seems like all the talk so far is for normal driving and requiring a driver, but how about some talk about what would be allowable for no one in the car? Like max speed of 5-10 mph, flashers on all the time, etc. I'd like to be able to send a car home that I didn't need anymore, or call the car to be in a parking lot. Or, even the service call like mentioned elsewhere in this thread: send it to the dealer or service station on it's own. Not sure if it's possible yet, but I haven't heard any mention of what it WOULD take (legally) to let a car drive itself somewhere....
Sorry, I thought we were talking about the FDA and the standard used by them...
Actually curious, how do you remote an app in Windows at all? As far as I knew you ran it on the desktop and remoted the whole desktop...and how do you switch the app from one machine to another? I'd like to be able to do this often. If it's available in windows I've been missing out...
that is the same standard used for "regular" salmon, so best we got...
What you say is true in a lot of people, that there are those who want to be in power over others, but that's not the central issue. In most cases where someone is in advantage over another it's due more to competition than to pure desire to have domination over someone. The issue is more the perceived playing field that they are competing on...the 'evil banker' is considering themselves a better competitor in the playing field they see. They feel justified. Perceived survival in competition is a base level drive for everyone, some, not the majority, just take some known damaging actions as they claw their way to the top in trying to keep from getting behind everyone else clawing along side you.
It's not quite as bleak as you make out that all humanity currently desires to lord power over others....there's a more basic drive that will either adjust on it's own or need to be adjusted on purpose: the perceived playing field will need to get brought into some kind of shared image instead of individual one-off version for everyone.
As far as the minimum wage jobs and similar, I see technology helping get the most out of each person. Right now lots of people work jobs that do not use their full potential, i.e. could be performed by part of a person , not needing 100% of a person. but they have to put a lot of their resources into doing less than 100% most of the time. Basically wasted talents because the role can currently only be performed by a person since we lack the technology to cover the gap...the gap between what technology can do (what % of a person it can replace) and the number of jobs that only need that % of a person...labor jobs use say 15-20 % of a persons focus and ability and technology is somewhat able to cover that...under certain circumstances. Once technology can fill the place of say 80-90 % of what a person can do (talking averages unfortunately, which is always misleading when talking people) then we can drop technology in place for most of the menial jobs out there , ranging for those that take 15-20% up to that 90% which will cover much more of the jobs needed to keep a society/city/nation/whatever running. The we'll have a whole new playing field and will see if our abilities then go up or if it just frees us up to do other things. But, it will happen over a LONG period of time and won't have the catastrophic impact that many envision...
would be a bit annoying to lose those unofficial viewpoints from inside a country though...you now, from the people living there...
the point, as I understand it, of GPLv2 is to allow someone who gets a piece of software to have some freedom (not a free ride) with what they just got. There's no issue with making money off it.
rule of thumb: if you get a piece of software, can you change it at the code level? can you pass on those changes to someone else without having to check with who you got it from? if either answer is "No" then there's a problem if you got a supposed GPLv2 piece of software.
a push for 100% enforcement of any law by the people who make those laws is bad no matter the consequence. It opens up the opportunity for lawmakers to abuse laws and the people that they are enforced on to have no way out from under the abuse. Even ones that are for good reasons set precedent for the bad ones. The downside of keeping freedom is the risk that someone will do a "bad" (not illegal, bad) thing and get away with it.
That's why that quote from Ben Franklin is appropriate: you're giving up some freedom (the ability to break the laws if appropriate....by the people's opinion, not lawmakers) in exchange for security (or maybe stability is the better term...same thing though in the end) is a no-win path in terms of long-term freedom. Government surveillance of any kind (which is what the required black box is) can easily become an attempt for 100% enforcement. That's just where the trend goes and why privacy advocates get nervous.
I'm all for another option if it results in less cryptic error messages thrown to the user level. I don't know how many times I've had to help someone and told them don't read that error literally. what it REALLY means is this....because a single function spit out an error and was just passed up the chain until the user sees it ....
How about a language that takes into account that errors are more common than successes and throws successes instead of errors?
I don't want any nations to control the internet at all. Which is what the UN is: a group of nations.
Now the PEOPLE in those countries, that is where it belongs...
Why didn't they go the other way: give the thing lots of storage (cheaper now than when Wii came out) and dump the disk drive? I'm wondering if this could have been a nice little box for those who hate discs lying around...
At this stage in development, efficiency isn't a big deal , unless it can be proven early on that it will always be too horrible compared to alternatives...and that only counts if there are alternatives.
What is interesting/important is it's potential as (pointed out lots of times in the comments) a steam engine that avoids big boilers and has the same kick as an ICE since it uses the same mechanical layout. Any other heat-driven engines that can do the same? same kick, same overhead?
reading comments seems to say no so far: Stirling engines don't have the variable torque output for use in cars. Steam boilers are too heavy and involve piping steam around the system (dangerous and complex). Even converting the sunlight directly to electricity runs into storage problems (batteries aren't big enough yet) . I've seen come comments that heated oil may actually be a good way to store solar energy...not sure if it beats batteries, but worth a look.
This is another tool in the toolbox if it works. Is there anything that says this won't?
So, is there some problem with posting links to G+? I saw the comment, checked his posts and read his comments...then realized the article link pointed to someone's blog....why not go straight to the source?
Or what health benefits they have that we don't....
maybe they will be able to eat less with power all around....
How about an electric grid above the cars with a metal tongue to pick up the current? Problem solved.
unfortunately for the same reasons people who hate facebook and have many IM accounts join them: peer pressure. It can be lonely sticking to your principals sometimes...
:)