So, if Apple uses existing technology to solve a problem you complain that it is boring old news, possibly even derivative. If they develop new technology to solve a problem you complain it is proprietary. How convenient, that way you'll always have something to complain about. And of course, if people are willing to say something good about Apple when it does something good, they are Apple faithful. What a convenient little bubble you have. I understand, the real world is way to complicated for some people. They need their little bubbles.
Oh, and in this case Apple used a part of the Bluetooth Low Energy standard that happens to be relatively unused yet, but is still an open standard. Of course doesn't matter, you just complain about proprietary technology anyway.
Sneer all you want, but this is not minor for the actual users of these devices. The alternative is proprietary remote-control devices made by the hearing aid companies, which means that you pay the price of an iPhone, but get the functionality of a airco remote. Directly getting access to all sounds of an iPhone opens a new world for these users.
And that low-power Bluetooth audio on recent iPhones is not a coincidence, Apple has been cooperating with hearing-aid manufacturers for some time already, see https://www.apple.com/lae/acce...
Exactly what rare-earth minerals are needed for solar panels and batteries? Are you sure that for the nuclear industry you don't need to mine anything?
Are you implying "professional" brewers do know exactly what's in their beer?
Yes. Where 'knowing' can range from buying yeast from expert companies that may even have done the DNA sequencing (the big boys), to (for many craft beers) at least doing everything they can to keep the yeast population they have used in the past happy and stable. See (or, more accurately, listen to): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
Quote from the programme:
Dr Bill Simpson is the Managing Director of a company in Leatherhead that has hundreds of samples of yeasts, old and new, frozen in liquid nitrogen. By preserving different yeasts from around the world his team are able to recreate ales and lagers from the past.
I agree that the US is corrupt, but that a judge can force you to testify is not a sign of that. It simply means that it is more important for justice to prevail than some discomfort for the individual. Again, this is long established practice. Longer than the US exists.
Voting for Trump is a very strange way to express your anger at corruption. Perhaps you have been conned into voting for him, but isn't it time then to get angry at the con men that convinced you to do that?
Bad idea. That's contempt of court, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Yes, a judge can force you to testify. No, that isn't a sign of the end of times, it has been established practice for a long time.
And yes, while it reflects, if it reflects 90% , that means your 50 kW laser is only a 5kW laser *effectively*.
Although I agree with the overall idea of your post, this reasoning is flawed. No surface will absorb 100% of the energy, unless specifically designed for that. In practice the reduction of the energy to heat up the target will therefore be more like 50% rather than 90%.
The right has a problem with the left dedicating classes to burning the flag you dense twat.
I'm not even going to bother asking for evidence. All I can say is that if you really believe that such classes exist I am wondering how you can possibly function in real life. Seriously.
And if you're just letting your underbelly speak, perhaps you should meditate a bit on the word 'integrity'. Is it really ok to tell big whopping lies just because it blunts the effect of something you don't like? Yes, I know that the current resident does this all the time, and look where it brought him, but is it really something that is sustainable? The Pravda and Bagdad Bob have become historical, but for all the wrong reasons.
It's because colleges are the most left leaning places in America. I'd bet more American flags are burned at American colleges than in Russia and all middle eastern countries combined. It's not that republicans hate education.
Flag burning is more important than getting an education? Boggle. Besides, how many flags are burned per year?
I bet you think cigarettes and alcohol are taxed for the public good,
It has that intended effect, yes.
the FDA approval process on new drugs is for public health,
Although far from perfect, it has that intended effect, yes. Strongly.
our runaway inflationary debt based currency helps the economy,
The inflation of the USA is not problematic, so something is wrong with your characterisation.
and that people can't kill people without automatic rifles.
Of course they can. Quit fighting that straw man, nobody is impressed. But of course mass killings are easier with more powerful weapons.
Stated intentions are rarely inline with actual intentions or practice. Most of the government is still corrupt, it's not going to be used against anyone who isn't easy pickings.
I agree that the government of the USA is worryingly corrupt, but now you are vastly exaggerating.
We read constantly about so-called racism based merely on the fact that one race objectively exhibits a particular trait over other races.
That's called data, not bias.
Ok, let's start with the fundamentals. What exactly is 'race' here? You may think that's obvious, but all people have their own mixture of ancestors, so how are you going to sort everyone objectively into bins? If you can't do that, how are you going to objectively determine the traits of these supposed bins?
The whole point of bringing this up is to show how Linus is not to be trusted, and that means that the decision by Linus must have caused damage, or it would be pointless bringing it up.
Wot? No. I have no idea where you get all this from.
Look, I like Linus. He knows what he's doing, both technically and with people management. I trust his evaluation of grsecurity.
My lighthearted point is simply that (arguably) Linus was wrong to use BitKeeper, but that he recovered from the issue in a spectacular way by writing his own software that has upstaged BitKeeper. Therefore, he was 'spectacularly wrong' about BitKeeper. See? It's a joke. No? I guess you had to be there then...
Linus is not a God, and often gets things spectacularly wrong (remember BitKeeper?).
Uh, last I checked, Linus ended up writing an open source clone of BitKeeper that became immensely popular and is now used by just about every software company in the world, including Microsoft. You might have heard of it. What are you trying to say here?
In a sense that's spectacularly wrong, no? I mean, he was wrong (to trust the BitKeeper guy), and he took spectacular revenge. Of course in this sense we should then hope he gets hacked, because the result could be another spectacular piece of software, possibly upstaging grsecurity.
Just because some countries have dysfunctional government doesn't mean that the whole world has. And no, the EU is not perfect, but they are doing pretty well for such a complicated process.
I have never touched Javascript and I know nothing about the 'promise' construct, but people don't use callbacks, upcalls, futures, promises, or whatever they are called for the fun of it. They do it because the sequential execution model is not good enough. They have to deal with unscheduled events, including user clicks; they have to communicate with other systems that will reply at an unpredictable moment in the future (if at all); they have to move lengthy computations out of the main thread to avoid sluggish response to the user. Or they just have keep multiple cores busy and coordinate the work on these multiple cores.
Thus, i'm pretty sure JS does not 'really, really wants to use callbacks to sequence things', it wants to offer a mechanism to break out of the rigid sequencing of imperative execution. If and only if necessary.
And he's still easily as good as or not better than anyone Obama had.
Obama was a crappy president running on feel-good SJW bull. His singular accomplishment was ruining the US healthcare system, something we're still trying to recover from. Ben Carson is easily better than literally anyone Obama had working for him.
This is where any dialog simply breaks down. You either believe this, and you're just bonkers; you're trolling, and I am sorry you don't have anything interesting to do in your life; or you're shilling, and I can only hope you reincarnate as something highly educational.
When you see the attack words "Incorrectly claiming" in the TITLE of the article, how can one take seriously the article or the one who created the article?
What's the problem? Somebody claims something, the claim is incorrect, therefore that somebody is incorrectly claiming something. Elementary logic, elementary English. And how do you get from there to Political Hack site?
I know its super fun to hate Trump, but the point he was trying to make about being smart to avoid taxes was that the tax system was screwed up and needs to be fixed. Same thing for lobbying, he doesn't like it but he had to play the game by the established rules.
Absolutely! His entire behaviour suggests that he plays the game of tax dodging and influence peddling with great reluctance. Just look at his entire career. (Rolls eyes.)
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So, if Apple uses existing technology to solve a problem you complain that it is boring old news, possibly even derivative. If they develop new technology to solve a problem you complain it is proprietary. How convenient, that way you'll always have something to complain about. And of course, if people are willing to say something good about Apple when it does something good, they are Apple faithful. What a convenient little bubble you have. I understand, the real world is way to complicated for some people. They need their little bubbles.
Oh, and in this case Apple used a part of the Bluetooth Low Energy standard that happens to be relatively unused yet, but is still an open standard. Of course doesn't matter, you just complain about proprietary technology anyway.
Sneer all you want, but this is not minor for the actual users of these devices. The alternative is proprietary remote-control devices made by the hearing aid companies, which means that you pay the price of an iPhone, but get the functionality of a airco remote. Directly getting access to all sounds of an iPhone opens a new world for these users.
And that low-power Bluetooth audio on recent iPhones is not a coincidence, Apple has been cooperating with hearing-aid manufacturers for some time already, see https://www.apple.com/lae/acce...
Exactly what rare-earth minerals are needed for solar panels and batteries? Are you sure that for the nuclear industry you don't need to mine anything?
Are you implying "professional" brewers do know exactly what's in their beer?
Yes. Where 'knowing' can range from buying yeast from expert companies that may even have done the DNA sequencing (the big boys), to (for many craft beers) at least doing everything they can to keep the yeast population they have used in the past happy and stable. See (or, more accurately, listen to): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
Quote from the programme:
Dr Bill Simpson is the Managing Director of a company in Leatherhead that has hundreds of samples of yeasts, old and new, frozen in liquid nitrogen. By preserving different yeasts from around the world his team are able to recreate ales and lagers from the past.
I agree that the US is corrupt, but that a judge can force you to testify is not a sign of that. It simply means that it is more important for justice to prevail than some discomfort for the individual. Again, this is long established practice. Longer than the US exists.
Voting for Trump is a very strange way to express your anger at corruption. Perhaps you have been conned into voting for him, but isn't it time then to get angry at the con men that convinced you to do that?
What the Fuck kind of name is Dries anyway?
A Dutch name. Short for Andries.
This is exactly the kind of "leadership" you get when you put a foreigner and woman in charge.
Quick question: do you think Donald Trump is a foreigner?
Bad idea. That's contempt of court, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Yes, a judge can force you to testify. No, that isn't a sign of the end of times, it has been established practice for a long time.
Lying to the court is an even worse idea. That's perjury, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
And yes, while it reflects, if it reflects 90% , that means your 50 kW laser is only a 5kW laser *effectively*.
Although I agree with the overall idea of your post, this reasoning is flawed. No surface will absorb 100% of the energy, unless specifically designed for that. In practice the reduction of the energy to heat up the target will therefore be more like 50% rather than 90%.
The right has a problem with the left dedicating classes to burning the flag you dense twat.
I'm not even going to bother asking for evidence. All I can say is that if you really believe that such classes exist I am wondering how you can possibly function in real life. Seriously.
And if you're just letting your underbelly speak, perhaps you should meditate a bit on the word 'integrity'. Is it really ok to tell big whopping lies just because it blunts the effect of something you don't like? Yes, I know that the current resident does this all the time, and look where it brought him, but is it really something that is sustainable? The Pravda and Bagdad Bob have become historical, but for all the wrong reasons.
That's a pretty good entry for pedant of the week, but that was obviously not what this discussion was about.
It's because colleges are the most left leaning places in America. I'd bet more American flags are burned at American colleges than in Russia and all middle eastern countries combined. It's not that republicans hate education.
Flag burning is more important than getting an education? Boggle. Besides, how many flags are burned per year?
I bet you think cigarettes and alcohol are taxed for the public good,
It has that intended effect, yes.
the FDA approval process on new drugs is for public health,
Although far from perfect, it has that intended effect, yes. Strongly.
our runaway inflationary debt based currency helps the economy,
The inflation of the USA is not problematic, so something is wrong with your characterisation.
and that people can't kill people without automatic rifles.
Of course they can. Quit fighting that straw man, nobody is impressed. But of course mass killings are easier with more powerful weapons.
Stated intentions are rarely inline with actual intentions or practice. Most of the government is still corrupt, it's not going to be used against anyone who isn't easy pickings.
I agree that the government of the USA is worryingly corrupt, but now you are vastly exaggerating.
What are they calling "bias"?
We read constantly about so-called racism based merely on the fact that one race objectively exhibits a particular trait over other races.
That's called data, not bias.
Ok, let's start with the fundamentals. What exactly is 'race' here? You may think that's obvious, but all people have their own mixture of ancestors, so how are you going to sort everyone objectively into bins? If you can't do that, how are you going to objectively determine the traits of these supposed bins?
Yes, the rest of the world is watching as well. In horrified amusement: http://www.volkskrant.nl/foto/...
...this so-called president is an idiot who is in waaaaaaaaaaaay over his head.
and he keeps getting attention - does he deserve it? If so, why?
Because he is the President of the United States, still a position with a lot of influence.
Because despite his record-low approval ratings, there are still many people that support him.
Because he is aligned with a political party that in many ways just as idiotic.
Neither, of course. Your point?
The whole point of bringing this up is to show how Linus is not to be trusted, and that means that the decision by Linus must have caused damage, or it would be pointless bringing it up.
Wot? No. I have no idea where you get all this from.
Look, I like Linus. He knows what he's doing, both technically and with people management. I trust his evaluation of grsecurity.
My lighthearted point is simply that (arguably) Linus was wrong to use BitKeeper, but that he recovered from the issue in a spectacular way by writing his own software that has upstaged BitKeeper. Therefore, he was 'spectacularly wrong' about BitKeeper. See? It's a joke. No? I guess you had to be there then...
Linus is not a God, and often gets things spectacularly wrong (remember BitKeeper?) .
Uh, last I checked, Linus ended up writing an open source clone of BitKeeper that became immensely popular and is now used by just about every software company in the world, including Microsoft. You might have heard of it. What are you trying to say here?
In a sense that's spectacularly wrong, no? I mean, he was wrong (to trust the BitKeeper guy), and he took spectacular revenge. Of course in this sense we should then hope he gets hacked, because the result could be another spectacular piece of software, possibly upstaging grsecurity.
Yes, yes, and no.
Just because some countries have dysfunctional government doesn't mean that the whole world has. And no, the EU is not perfect, but they are doing pretty well for such a complicated process.
>> Not with these youth unemployment numbers.
There is no place in this discussion for fact-based assessments using historical data. XD
I agree, all I see is carefully misleading talking points.
I have never touched Javascript and I know nothing about the 'promise' construct, but people don't use callbacks, upcalls, futures, promises, or whatever they are called for the fun of it. They do it because the sequential execution model is not good enough. They have to deal with unscheduled events, including user clicks; they have to communicate with other systems that will reply at an unpredictable moment in the future (if at all); they have to move lengthy computations out of the main thread to avoid sluggish response to the user. Or they just have keep multiple cores busy and coordinate the work on these multiple cores.
Thus, i'm pretty sure JS does not 'really, really wants to use callbacks to sequence things', it wants to offer a mechanism to break out of the rigid sequencing of imperative execution. If and only if necessary.
And he's still easily as good as or not better than anyone Obama had.
Obama was a crappy president running on feel-good SJW bull. His singular accomplishment was ruining the US healthcare system, something we're still trying to recover from. Ben Carson is easily better than literally anyone Obama had working for him.
This is where any dialog simply breaks down. You either believe this, and you're just bonkers; you're trolling, and I am sorry you don't have anything interesting to do in your life; or you're shilling, and I can only hope you reincarnate as something highly educational.
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Look, Trump already has a scientist he can refer to if so be. His name is Ben Carson. And he is as good as anyone Obama had working for him.
You mean the genius that claimed that the pyramids were there to store grain? See https://www.theguardian.com/us...
When you see the attack words "Incorrectly claiming" in the TITLE of the article, how can one take seriously the article or the one who created the article?
What's the problem? Somebody claims something, the claim is incorrect, therefore that somebody is incorrectly claiming something. Elementary logic, elementary English. And how do you get from there to Political Hack site?
I know its super fun to hate Trump, but the point he was trying to make about being smart to avoid taxes was that the tax system was screwed up and needs to be fixed. Same thing for lobbying, he doesn't like it but he had to play the game by the established rules.
Absolutely! His entire behaviour suggests that he plays the game of tax dodging and influence peddling with great reluctance. Just look at his entire career. (Rolls eyes.)