I'm not sure why his son would not have a say. However in the other case that is pretty straight forward legally. I forget the actual legal wording, but essentially you cannot make legal decisions (i.e. DNR) when you are incapacitated, under duress, other otherwise not of sound mind. Sadly when put though a lot of present suffering and pain, one might say anything to make it stop. However that may not be your actual wishes, or your long term well being. Which is why there is at times someone you have either given the authority to make those decisions or it falls to a family member to do so. It is why many suggest having a conversion, decision, and plans prior to that occurring so there is no question.
Typically as mentioned, things like DNR other than for say something like religious reasons, would not really be for one off accidents, or surprise care, but generally for elderly folks with host of ongoing medical issues, where it doesn't really make sense and would only be slightly prolonging great suffering.
Exactly, the guys argument is more than a bit off.
Heck the music industry cannot really to be said to have been innovative. If anything they have fought tooth and nail every step of the way in the last 20 years to try to keep their old monopolistic, traditional, business model going rather than evolving with technology. In fact they've probably used the law and agreements more than anyone to attempt to insulate themselves from change. Getting apparently burned in the Google one doesn't broker a lot of tears from likely too many people anymore.
That said, both Google and FB are massive and ubiquitous enough to warrant some sober thought about the implications of both companies and the amount of power they wield. Not even talking about innovation or lack thereof, but rather the amount of power they have to influence the world...
I don't see Facebook as a replacement for Usenet, but rather a replacement for Myspace, which was a replacement for Geocities, which was simply a way for a person to make a personal web page and have an internet presence without assistance (i.e. having someone else build it for you, owning a domain, etc...).
It has since poured a ton of "features" into it, the most prominent being ads in an (successful, if not in magnitude of the IPO worth) attempt to monetize it. However if you recall those terrible Geocities sites with the flashing ads, not so different.
I don't see NK throwing nukes around willy nilly. They will use them the same way that other nations that have them use them, which is as a deterrent.
NK has one of the largest land based armies in the world. They have also been digging into fortifications since likely the 50's.
The US presence in SK is what keeps NK at bay. NK knows that the US could/would never (politically) invade NK using conventional means. That only leaves unconventional means. Remember, the only reason the US used them against Japan was due to the potential casualty count they would incur should they have tried a land invasion. NK is no fool, however if it ever has any intentions on SK, that is their primary problem. How do you counter that problem? Why you develop your own deterrent. Had Japan at the time had the ability to counter, you can bet it would never had happened. Nor would have the land invasion, as politically the US just wouldn't stand for it. Similarly if NK can show that it has the capability then it is a deterrent. They can use this to force the US into an impossible decision. Should NK move against SK, what would the US do? Unconventional would be off the table if NK could retaliate anywhere in the US. That would leave conventional, but even then, step lightly as if you back them into a corner you have the same problem. Never mind like Japan, it would never come to that, as the US casualties would be far too high, politically would never have the means to do so, and frankly likely most Americans don't really care all that much about either NK or SK all that much (in a relative sense) anyway. To put things in prospective (abet a historical to modern comparison), the estimated casualties for a US invasion of Japan was in the realm of +1,000,000 men. In 8 years of war in Iraq, the number of US casualties were 4,500. Now consider the amount of political pressure that caused, and think about the alternative. It wasn't political then, and wouldn't be now. Even if you tried to massively adjust those numbers to be a more fair comparison, it would still be too large by many levels of magnitude.
So ya, that is basically the problem, and there isn't a whole lot of good solutions (which is likely why nothing has ever been done short of sanctions that don't seems to be all that effective). Bottom line, only really China not America is going to be able to do anything about it, but so far seem unwilling to do anything about it. That said, China has its own disputes with Japan (yellow sea), and the US (Taiwan), so perhaps they don't really care all that much about the eventual result anyway should it go the way they think it will.
I don't know about 1000, that would require a lot of material, and mass production capability, which I'm not sure they have setup. Though given the current climate that might prompt them to change that.
However I have heard the 3 month timeline and I believe it. They could most certainly have a bunch in short order if they really wanted to. Also they already have an advanced space program, so likely the jump from that to a delivery system is pretty minor also.
The modem connection sound, good times. Had a good laugh at MIB 3 when they used it as the sound that the back in time old neurolyser used, pretty sure that was an intentional joke (probably the only funny one in the movie)...
Also the lamentations of the children (i.e. me) when mom picked up the phone and disconnected me from TW2002 on the local BBS, knowing I'd never get back in again to get my turns for the day... We eventually got two phone lines this was such an issue lol!
Also like the Simpsons and comic book guy looking at a picture on a BBS and watching it draw, ever so slowly, line by line...
More likely it was a bunch of contractors involved in a particular project that was unsuccessful and abandoned, leaving it "unmanaged". With the project over, and no people around that was involved anymore, probably no one even knew it it was out there. This is a common problem for large organizations that try to minimize the amount of IT staff on-hand, and outsource everything externally (not the leak necessarily, but the apparent lack of institutional awareness/knowledge). However on the books it looks like the employee footprint is smaller, which I guess is the point.
I'd agree with most of what you said, however with one glaring omission.
If you look at the most successful superhero movies done in the last say 5 years or so, they all have something in common.
They took deliberate effort to inject a sizable amount of good humor into the movies, and try not to taken themselves too seriously.
GOTG, Deadpool, Thor (except maybe the 2nd one). Logan wasn't all that funny as I remember, but it was really well done.
Anyway, essentially lighten up, its mostly a bunch of grown ass adults going to a comic book movie. Wonder Woman wasn't bad, but mostly because I think Chris Pine can do a bit of comedy if he needs to, and Gal Gadot played the naive comedy trope passably.
I don't think this has to do with social media influencing elections insomuch as it might be used nefariously using "Fake News" to unduly impact outcomes.
Now in politics, generally speaking in the best of times, one party's "facts" are another's "lies". However there is a bit of a seperation between what might be a difference of opinion based on ideology VS something that is essentially totally made up. This line is sometimes blurred by those politicians that might shall we say bend the truth a bit more than others, but that has probably been the case since the first election was ever called.
What is more disturbing I think is a failure of journalism in the last decade or so. I think it used to be that news outlets were a bit more independent, and less "affiliated" (i.e. owned) by one partisan group or another, and the people involved had a bit more integrity. The problem arises is when these fake news things happen on things like social media the people have little to turn to in terms of "legitimate" news to tell them any differently. Thus it becomes increasing difficult for people to determine what is "truth" VS what is not, in particular for those people who might not be all that interested in finding out or not really all that engaged in politics in the first place. Again you have whole news sectors essentially pandering to a crowd selling them a service they want to hear, rather than trying to be an unbiased source of information for the population. It is all very idealistic I know, but in a general sense there has been that downward slide it seems, which has allowed these alternative media sources (social) to flourish and be a successful avenue in the first place. I don't think we would even be having this conversation if the legitimate news environment was a healthy one, as people would be more able to easily see the BS for what it is...
Well to be fair they have made significant investments into increasing their renewable energy mix, which is arguably a good thing.
However as another poster pointed out the 40% sounds an awful lot like base load, which is something they surely glossed over in their grand plan.
What's left is covering the base load either by burning coal (hypocritical), or by importing energy from France who largely produce it through nuclear (also hypocritical). Using coal they keep their national energy security, but pretty much wipe out any environmental gains made by using more renewables. Using imported nuclear, they sacrifice their national energy security, but largely transfer the perceived risk/liability onto another country (in of itself a bit of a dick move really).
We'll see what happens with their experiment as time goes on, but they like most others have failed to solve the underlying problem of the increase usage of renewables without addressing the whole base load issue. Maybe they are hoping Musk will save them, but I have to think that on any kind of real national scale it just isn't really feasible. Of course they signed the Paris treaty/accord or whatever it is, so I am sure that will solve all their coal problems in the future...
As has been the norm for several decades now, as a generalization most things are made in China for next to nothing. This and globalization has been a boon for retailers for a long time, in that they buy from said dirt cheap retailers, import the products, mark it up 5000% all for fun and profit. Fast forward to the inevitable result of sustained globalization combined with advances in online markets, and you have consumers with other options. Basically the same crap but without the 5000% markup. Now the slight markup for profit exists at the point of origin, or at an online clearinghouse such as Amazon or others, who more often than not just let the seller mark it up, and they take a percentage for using these online services and branding.
I mean it was different when there were different products of greater quality, but for large retailers that more less doesn't exist anymore. The small guys, that exist in the quality brand niche, will do just fine, as there will always be a demand for that, so long as that quality divide exists and people are willing to pay for it. However it is pretty easy, and has happened to me, and everyone else really, where you see a product on a shelf of a retailer that is the EXACT same product, cheaply re-branded with a stamp, or box, or whatever as a product on some Chinese website for about 1/10 or 1/20th the cost. About the only drawback is that you need to wait for it, but I think many people are willing to do exactly just that. Even now, the postal and distribution services are cutting that down every year.
Bottom line, is they had it good for a long time, but in the end you reap what you sow, and the chickens are coming home to roost.
Anyway it doesn't effect all retailers the same way, as certain product types are less impacted.
Yes your developers should be during QA. No you should not be stopping QA outside of developers, that is just stupid. You need both.
Recently we've forced developers to start doing some additional QA. The reason? Lack of code accountability.
I've gotten to test and QA code so bad, that it barely runs, or doesn't even load, or is so riddled with problems one has to wonder how it was they even did the coding in the first place successfully without having to run into so many problems that it would prevent them from coding other parts of the application. We would spend so much time correcting obvious errors, and just getting the application to "work", that there is little time in the project for more detailed QA in regards to if it is meeting actual business requirements, or subtle specific case conflicts etc... When at the end of it and you are running out of project time, and you start pushing back at the developers, they push right back saying it is all the fault of a lack of QA. The solution is that they are forced to QA themselves, and to demo proving that what they have accomplished at least on the surface is a working product without any obvious problems *before* any other QA type work is done by anyone else. As mentioned I've seen stuff that is so bad that I'm like "did anyone look at this at all ever? How did then even code it with at least running the application at least once? Did they actually compile and test their code at all, or just write it all free hand and cut and paste the code in, wiping their hands and exclaiming, DONE!"...
At any rate, only having developers is crazy, and I foresee lots of problems. Typically developers might have a vague understanding of the business, but they are usually just given the requirements documents and their marching orders. The should be able to catch obvious coding mistakes, and some process stuff, but realistically they are not going to know enough to do all the QA themselves unaided.
I agree. Plenty of good stuff out there to mine for content. Can't wait for more Expanse.
Having said that... The Shannara Chronicles.:p
I was excited to see that the books had been made into a TV show... less so after I've watched it. I still watch it mind you if only out of stubbornness, that they made the damn thing so I am going to watch it.
Anyway there is so much good stuff out there that has never been done, one can only hope they do it justice however. I have to think with things like Tolkin, it is more about leveraging existing works (i.e. the movies), and branding that has already been done and paid for. Basically unless you live in a cave, you probably are at least aware of the stories.
Another good example is Pillars of the Earth, another great story, which actually was quite well done on TV. Though it was short lived, and as I mentioned probably didn't have the name recognition that some of the bigger names have.
Bad movies do poorly at the theater... ORLY? Shocking I tell you, shocking.
Anyone who's seen the trailer for King Arthur or Geostorm could have told you that they were going to be terrible. I mean really. While I had high hopes for the Dark Tower, the bottom line is they are fitting like 5000 pages of book in one movie, yeah a little might get lost in translation. As for Blade Runner, who knows, I know I wanted to go see it, but just didn't get a chance.
As for IT, well it did very well because by all accounts it is a very well done movie, same goes for Dunkirk, and Wonder Woman (who also tick off a lot of demos going for it).
Anyway the whole bad movies doesn't do very well while good movies do isn't exactly all that shocking really. What might be more shocking is that while most horror movies are horrible, every now and again one comes along that is very well done like IT, which is a bit newsie I guess. Descent is another one that comes to mind (however that was like a decade ago). It is pretty rare a horror movie gets an +80% rating.
True of all unions for the most part. The difference is the rules they must follow should they do that. Usually most significant in terms of severance based on length of employment and that sort of thing. So in the above case, each time they were "laid off" they would get a payout, and if they were hired back, could actually come out on top of the situation.
I found out recently (though fortunately not personally) that indeed, if an organization with unionized labor wants to lay you off, they can and will, only it is more difficult to do so at a whim, and if it does happen there are negative financial repercussions. So again in the above example it might prevent organizations from trying to lay people off to make the books look good in the short term, because with all the severance payouts it would probably look worse, unless they are looking at restructuring for the future, in which case it might make fiscal sense to do so.
Anyway the thing here is they are trying to bust the union from getting started without looking like that is what they are doing (if that is indeed the case).
I fail to see how it still isn't just for graphic cards.
Technically you are right, it is used by just about everything, not just graphic cards. However only GPU really have any limitations on any existing bus systems in the modern past. Everything else that is attached to it is too slow to care, and is more influenced by timings and scheduling anyway. I mean I/O on even a high end SSD isn't going to really improve no matter how fast a bus you buckle it to... Although the summary does mention some other things I guess that make it more relevant to other things (latency, RAS, and lane merging (whatever that is, but it sounds like timing/scheduling) etc...), however little of that has to do with the 16GTFSDJJ^@$ of whatever speed it supposedly is capable of... I guess I kinda just argued myself wrong... whatever...
Well sort of but not really. It was massive debt due to Germany having to pay reparations for it's involvement in WWI. Those lenders that got rich off the backs of the German people, were what you might say led to the rise of power of the Nazis...
So you could get complicated enough about the cause of WWI, or why the allies demanded reparations, or didn't vary or rescind them over time, how the lenders were involved, etc... at any rate complicated enough that it isn't just wealth inequality.
In a similar vein, the US got rich after WWII because A) the *lent* so much money to allies who then after the war has crushing debt to repay, and B) their industry by comparison wasn't decimated by localized war.
I think it is pretty simple. It isn't an income tax issue. It is an Estate Tax issue (and various loopholes around the existing law). While there are plenty of exceptions to the rule, for the most part wealth inequity is a result of inheritance. Limit that, and the problem solves itself in about a generation.or so. Problem is changing that law is pretty difficult when the people making the laws are wealthy, and are paid a lot of money by even wealthier people to not change those laws...
As the saying goes, you can't take your money to the grave, but you can give it all to your family. As another saying goes it takes money to make money. Both given time establishes an wealthy aristocracy. A perfect example is Trumps hilarious story about rags to riches by *only* getting millions from his dad...
Three points however. 1) Equifax doesn't have "financial" systems. They are an information broker. 2) Equifax I don't think have really been around long enough to really have what I would consider "Legacy" systems. 3) Even if you could consider them either #1 or #2, typically the security and the security vulnerabilities are not going to be located on the systems themselves, but rather how they are connected to the outside world, which also would be neither #1 or #2.
Disclaimer: I manage a lot of real legacy systems that are all 25+ years old... doing a version upgrade or patch usually doesn't take that long. Though you need to test thoroughly that said change didn't break some old weird code someplace. It *can* take long, if said upgrade/patch does break something and it requires you to change the legacy code to work again (This has happened exactly once in the last 15 or so years I've had to deal with it, which was Oracle 11 and case sensitivity handling or lack thereof).
I did an AI course as part of my BSc Computer Science back in the 90's.
For a project I made an "Expert System" (or was it called a Smart System back then), wherein I wrote a front end in VB6 (might have been 4), that was attached to a Access DB that contained all the beers on tap (I think there were 30ish) at one of our favorite drinking establishments, along with all of their characteristics, that prompted the user with a bevy of questions to determine and suggest what the optimal beer that person should order.
You forgot about space telepathy. Also the fact that the giant tardigrade, which seemingly has the ability to wipe out klingons and federation security at will, and literally tear apart spaceship bulkheads is somehow attached to delicate devices which hurt it and it doesn't just destroy everything around it. Then there was the whole, oh the giant tardigrade isn't working out? Oh we need a compatible life form for this magic DNA altering juice but can't find one? Oh lets just inject the closest human, hey it worked! Though at least they foreshadowed some foreboding into that one...
I would like to see at least some episodes that aren't directly involved with the klingon war story arc, and perhaps some other Star Trek aliens for a change. I mean that was one of the staples of all the various star trek tv shows, is that while they did do some big arcs, many of them war, most episodes were their own thing.
Everyone seems to do it now a days. Homedepot and Bestbuy websites are not mostly 3rd party re-sellers. I have to assume that for everything sold to a 3rd party the host company takes a percentage, so they see it as free money as other than handling the transaction they have nothing to do with it. The 3rd parties are getting free brand recognition and a selling platform. If not done properly however what these companies might not realize is that it will hurt their brand name they have built up over the years, or perhaps their CEO's just don't care about the long term in favor of short term gains and bonuses...
Just a bit of paranoid speculation that perhaps all this hyper-loop stuff is essentially a money laundering scheme for the government to subsidize and fund Musk's other projects (Rockets, Cars, Batteries) without seemingly doing it directly which might have political ramifications. This type of project is the kind of thing easily in the many many billions, and will take decades to complete, both of which could be inflated at cost and length of time, essentially providing Musks ventures (which haven't or won't show much positive profit income for some time to come) cash to keep developing and improving for a long time to come. Maybe I just watch too much Ozark...
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I'm not sure why his son would not have a say. However in the other case that is pretty straight forward legally. I forget the actual legal wording, but essentially you cannot make legal decisions (i.e. DNR) when you are incapacitated, under duress, other otherwise not of sound mind. Sadly when put though a lot of present suffering and pain, one might say anything to make it stop. However that may not be your actual wishes, or your long term well being. Which is why there is at times someone you have either given the authority to make those decisions or it falls to a family member to do so. It is why many suggest having a conversion, decision, and plans prior to that occurring so there is no question.
Typically as mentioned, things like DNR other than for say something like religious reasons, would not really be for one off accidents, or surprise care, but generally for elderly folks with host of ongoing medical issues, where it doesn't really make sense and would only be slightly prolonging great suffering.
Exactly, the guys argument is more than a bit off.
Heck the music industry cannot really to be said to have been innovative. If anything they have fought tooth and nail every step of the way in the last 20 years to try to keep their old monopolistic, traditional, business model going rather than evolving with technology. In fact they've probably used the law and agreements more than anyone to attempt to insulate themselves from change. Getting apparently burned in the Google one doesn't broker a lot of tears from likely too many people anymore.
That said, both Google and FB are massive and ubiquitous enough to warrant some sober thought about the implications of both companies and the amount of power they wield. Not even talking about innovation or lack thereof, but rather the amount of power they have to influence the world...
I don't see Facebook as a replacement for Usenet, but rather a replacement for Myspace, which was a replacement for Geocities, which was simply a way for a person to make a personal web page and have an internet presence without assistance (i.e. having someone else build it for you, owning a domain, etc...).
It has since poured a ton of "features" into it, the most prominent being ads in an (successful, if not in magnitude of the IPO worth) attempt to monetize it. However if you recall those terrible Geocities sites with the flashing ads, not so different.
I don't see NK throwing nukes around willy nilly. They will use them the same way that other nations that have them use them, which is as a deterrent.
NK has one of the largest land based armies in the world. They have also been digging into fortifications since likely the 50's.
The US presence in SK is what keeps NK at bay. NK knows that the US could/would never (politically) invade NK using conventional means. That only leaves unconventional means. Remember, the only reason the US used them against Japan was due to the potential casualty count they would incur should they have tried a land invasion. NK is no fool, however if it ever has any intentions on SK, that is their primary problem. How do you counter that problem? Why you develop your own deterrent. Had Japan at the time had the ability to counter, you can bet it would never had happened. Nor would have the land invasion, as politically the US just wouldn't stand for it. Similarly if NK can show that it has the capability then it is a deterrent. They can use this to force the US into an impossible decision. Should NK move against SK, what would the US do? Unconventional would be off the table if NK could retaliate anywhere in the US. That would leave conventional, but even then, step lightly as if you back them into a corner you have the same problem. Never mind like Japan, it would never come to that, as the US casualties would be far too high, politically would never have the means to do so, and frankly likely most Americans don't really care all that much about either NK or SK all that much (in a relative sense) anyway. To put things in prospective (abet a historical to modern comparison), the estimated casualties for a US invasion of Japan was in the realm of +1,000,000 men. In 8 years of war in Iraq, the number of US casualties were 4,500. Now consider the amount of political pressure that caused, and think about the alternative. It wasn't political then, and wouldn't be now. Even if you tried to massively adjust those numbers to be a more fair comparison, it would still be too large by many levels of magnitude.
So ya, that is basically the problem, and there isn't a whole lot of good solutions (which is likely why nothing has ever been done short of sanctions that don't seems to be all that effective). Bottom line, only really China not America is going to be able to do anything about it, but so far seem unwilling to do anything about it. That said, China has its own disputes with Japan (yellow sea), and the US (Taiwan), so perhaps they don't really care all that much about the eventual result anyway should it go the way they think it will.
I don't know about 1000, that would require a lot of material, and mass production capability, which I'm not sure they have setup. Though given the current climate that might prompt them to change that.
However I have heard the 3 month timeline and I believe it. They could most certainly have a bunch in short order if they really wanted to. Also they already have an advanced space program, so likely the jump from that to a delivery system is pretty minor also.
Well some of my favorite are BBS related.
The modem connection sound, good times. Had a good laugh at MIB 3 when they used it as the sound that the back in time old neurolyser used, pretty sure that was an intentional joke (probably the only funny one in the movie)...
Also the lamentations of the children (i.e. me) when mom picked up the phone and disconnected me from TW2002 on the local BBS, knowing I'd never get back in again to get my turns for the day... We eventually got two phone lines this was such an issue lol!
Also like the Simpsons and comic book guy looking at a picture on a BBS and watching it draw, ever so slowly, line by line...
More likely it was a bunch of contractors involved in a particular project that was unsuccessful and abandoned, leaving it "unmanaged". With the project over, and no people around that was involved anymore, probably no one even knew it it was out there. This is a common problem for large organizations that try to minimize the amount of IT staff on-hand, and outsource everything externally (not the leak necessarily, but the apparent lack of institutional awareness/knowledge). However on the books it looks like the employee footprint is smaller, which I guess is the point.
I'd agree with most of what you said, however with one glaring omission.
If you look at the most successful superhero movies done in the last say 5 years or so, they all have something in common.
They took deliberate effort to inject a sizable amount of good humor into the movies, and try not to taken themselves too seriously.
GOTG, Deadpool, Thor (except maybe the 2nd one). Logan wasn't all that funny as I remember, but it was really well done.
Anyway, essentially lighten up, its mostly a bunch of grown ass adults going to a comic book movie. Wonder Woman wasn't bad, but mostly because I think Chris Pine can do a bit of comedy if he needs to, and Gal Gadot played the naive comedy trope passably.
While excel is a great tool, to which I use all the time, I am a bit horrified of all the stories it its use.
The problem with excel is mostly it tries to be "helpful" and most users who use it don't really know how to use it.
I've seen tons of problems with data being transferred between database systems gets lost in translation usually because of data type issues...
Recognizable enough that I can tell someone somewhere down the line imported into excel to make a correction or something, exporting it again...
Watched Godfather II last night.... "...be a shame if something were to happen to all your leading zeros..." for example.
I don't think this has to do with social media influencing elections insomuch as it might be used nefariously using "Fake News" to unduly impact outcomes.
Now in politics, generally speaking in the best of times, one party's "facts" are another's "lies". However there is a bit of a seperation between what might be a difference of opinion based on ideology VS something that is essentially totally made up. This line is sometimes blurred by those politicians that might shall we say bend the truth a bit more than others, but that has probably been the case since the first election was ever called.
What is more disturbing I think is a failure of journalism in the last decade or so. I think it used to be that news outlets were a bit more independent, and less "affiliated" (i.e. owned) by one partisan group or another, and the people involved had a bit more integrity. The problem arises is when these fake news things happen on things like social media the people have little to turn to in terms of "legitimate" news to tell them any differently. Thus it becomes increasing difficult for people to determine what is "truth" VS what is not, in particular for those people who might not be all that interested in finding out or not really all that engaged in politics in the first place. Again you have whole news sectors essentially pandering to a crowd selling them a service they want to hear, rather than trying to be an unbiased source of information for the population. It is all very idealistic I know, but in a general sense there has been that downward slide it seems, which has allowed these alternative media sources (social) to flourish and be a successful avenue in the first place. I don't think we would even be having this conversation if the legitimate news environment was a healthy one, as people would be more able to easily see the BS for what it is...
Well to be fair they have made significant investments into increasing their renewable energy mix, which is arguably a good thing.
However as another poster pointed out the 40% sounds an awful lot like base load, which is something they surely glossed over in their grand plan.
What's left is covering the base load either by burning coal (hypocritical), or by importing energy from France who largely produce it through nuclear (also hypocritical). Using coal they keep their national energy security, but pretty much wipe out any environmental gains made by using more renewables. Using imported nuclear, they sacrifice their national energy security, but largely transfer the perceived risk/liability onto another country (in of itself a bit of a dick move really).
We'll see what happens with their experiment as time goes on, but they like most others have failed to solve the underlying problem of the increase usage of renewables without addressing the whole base load issue. Maybe they are hoping Musk will save them, but I have to think that on any kind of real national scale it just isn't really feasible. Of course they signed the Paris treaty/accord or whatever it is, so I am sure that will solve all their coal problems in the future...
As has been the norm for several decades now, as a generalization most things are made in China for next to nothing. This and globalization has been a boon for retailers for a long time, in that they buy from said dirt cheap retailers, import the products, mark it up 5000% all for fun and profit. Fast forward to the inevitable result of sustained globalization combined with advances in online markets, and you have consumers with other options. Basically the same crap but without the 5000% markup. Now the slight markup for profit exists at the point of origin, or at an online clearinghouse such as Amazon or others, who more often than not just let the seller mark it up, and they take a percentage for using these online services and branding.
I mean it was different when there were different products of greater quality, but for large retailers that more less doesn't exist anymore. The small guys, that exist in the quality brand niche, will do just fine, as there will always be a demand for that, so long as that quality divide exists and people are willing to pay for it. However it is pretty easy, and has happened to me, and everyone else really, where you see a product on a shelf of a retailer that is the EXACT same product, cheaply re-branded with a stamp, or box, or whatever as a product on some Chinese website for about 1/10 or 1/20th the cost. About the only drawback is that you need to wait for it, but I think many people are willing to do exactly just that. Even now, the postal and distribution services are cutting that down every year.
Bottom line, is they had it good for a long time, but in the end you reap what you sow, and the chickens are coming home to roost.
Anyway it doesn't effect all retailers the same way, as certain product types are less impacted.
Yes your developers should be during QA. No you should not be stopping QA outside of developers, that is just stupid. You need both.
Recently we've forced developers to start doing some additional QA. The reason? Lack of code accountability.
I've gotten to test and QA code so bad, that it barely runs, or doesn't even load, or is so riddled with problems one has to wonder how it was they even did the coding in the first place successfully without having to run into so many problems that it would prevent them from coding other parts of the application. We would spend so much time correcting obvious errors, and just getting the application to "work", that there is little time in the project for more detailed QA in regards to if it is meeting actual business requirements, or subtle specific case conflicts etc... When at the end of it and you are running out of project time, and you start pushing back at the developers, they push right back saying it is all the fault of a lack of QA. The solution is that they are forced to QA themselves, and to demo proving that what they have accomplished at least on the surface is a working product without any obvious problems *before* any other QA type work is done by anyone else. As mentioned I've seen stuff that is so bad that I'm like "did anyone look at this at all ever? How did then even code it with at least running the application at least once? Did they actually compile and test their code at all, or just write it all free hand and cut and paste the code in, wiping their hands and exclaiming, DONE!"...
At any rate, only having developers is crazy, and I foresee lots of problems. Typically developers might have a vague understanding of the business, but they are usually just given the requirements documents and their marching orders. The should be able to catch obvious coding mistakes, and some process stuff, but realistically they are not going to know enough to do all the QA themselves unaided.
I agree. Plenty of good stuff out there to mine for content. Can't wait for more Expanse.
Having said that... The Shannara Chronicles. :p
I was excited to see that the books had been made into a TV show... less so after I've watched it. I still watch it mind you if only out of stubbornness, that they made the damn thing so I am going to watch it.
Anyway there is so much good stuff out there that has never been done, one can only hope they do it justice however. I have to think with things like Tolkin, it is more about leveraging existing works (i.e. the movies), and branding that has already been done and paid for. Basically unless you live in a cave, you probably are at least aware of the stories.
Another good example is Pillars of the Earth, another great story, which actually was quite well done on TV. Though it was short lived, and as I mentioned probably didn't have the name recognition that some of the bigger names have.
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Bad movies do poorly at the theater... ORLY? Shocking I tell you, shocking.
Anyone who's seen the trailer for King Arthur or Geostorm could have told you that they were going to be terrible. I mean really. While I had high hopes for the Dark Tower, the bottom line is they are fitting like 5000 pages of book in one movie, yeah a little might get lost in translation. As for Blade Runner, who knows, I know I wanted to go see it, but just didn't get a chance.
As for IT, well it did very well because by all accounts it is a very well done movie, same goes for Dunkirk, and Wonder Woman (who also tick off a lot of demos going for it).
Anyway the whole bad movies doesn't do very well while good movies do isn't exactly all that shocking really. What might be more shocking is that while most horror movies are horrible, every now and again one comes along that is very well done like IT, which is a bit newsie I guess. Descent is another one that comes to mind (however that was like a decade ago). It is pretty rare a horror movie gets an +80% rating.
Here is a 1200$ super computer that fits into your pocket! Unfortunately it can't do math.
True of all unions for the most part. The difference is the rules they must follow should they do that. Usually most significant in terms of severance based on length of employment and that sort of thing. So in the above case, each time they were "laid off" they would get a payout, and if they were hired back, could actually come out on top of the situation.
I found out recently (though fortunately not personally) that indeed, if an organization with unionized labor wants to lay you off, they can and will, only it is more difficult to do so at a whim, and if it does happen there are negative financial repercussions. So again in the above example it might prevent organizations from trying to lay people off to make the books look good in the short term, because with all the severance payouts it would probably look worse, unless they are looking at restructuring for the future, in which case it might make fiscal sense to do so.
Anyway the thing here is they are trying to bust the union from getting started without looking like that is what they are doing (if that is indeed the case).
I fail to see how it still isn't just for graphic cards.
Technically you are right, it is used by just about everything, not just graphic cards. However only GPU really have any limitations on any existing bus systems in the modern past. Everything else that is attached to it is too slow to care, and is more influenced by timings and scheduling anyway. I mean I/O on even a high end SSD isn't going to really improve no matter how fast a bus you buckle it to... Although the summary does mention some other things I guess that make it more relevant to other things (latency, RAS, and lane merging (whatever that is, but it sounds like timing/scheduling) etc...), however little of that has to do with the 16GTFSDJJ^@$ of whatever speed it supposedly is capable of... I guess I kinda just argued myself wrong... whatever...
Well sort of but not really. It was massive debt due to Germany having to pay reparations for it's involvement in WWI. Those lenders that got rich off the backs of the German people, were what you might say led to the rise of power of the Nazis...
So you could get complicated enough about the cause of WWI, or why the allies demanded reparations, or didn't vary or rescind them over time, how the lenders were involved, etc... at any rate complicated enough that it isn't just wealth inequality.
In a similar vein, the US got rich after WWII because A) the *lent* so much money to allies who then after the war has crushing debt to repay, and B) their industry by comparison wasn't decimated by localized war.
I think it is pretty simple. It isn't an income tax issue. It is an Estate Tax issue (and various loopholes around the existing law). While there are plenty of exceptions to the rule, for the most part wealth inequity is a result of inheritance. Limit that, and the problem solves itself in about a generation.or so. Problem is changing that law is pretty difficult when the people making the laws are wealthy, and are paid a lot of money by even wealthier people to not change those laws...
As the saying goes, you can't take your money to the grave, but you can give it all to your family. As another saying goes it takes money to make money. Both given time establishes an wealthy aristocracy. A perfect example is Trumps hilarious story about rags to riches by *only* getting millions from his dad...
Three points however.
1) Equifax doesn't have "financial" systems. They are an information broker.
2) Equifax I don't think have really been around long enough to really have what I would consider "Legacy" systems.
3) Even if you could consider them either #1 or #2, typically the security and the security vulnerabilities are not going to be located on the systems themselves, but rather how they are connected to the outside world, which also would be neither #1 or #2.
Disclaimer: I manage a lot of real legacy systems that are all 25+ years old... doing a version upgrade or patch usually doesn't take that long. Though you need to test thoroughly that said change didn't break some old weird code someplace. It *can* take long, if said upgrade/patch does break something and it requires you to change the legacy code to work again (This has happened exactly once in the last 15 or so years I've had to deal with it, which was Oracle 11 and case sensitivity handling or lack thereof).
They should hire me for a huge salary...
I did an AI course as part of my BSc Computer Science back in the 90's.
For a project I made an "Expert System" (or was it called a Smart System back then), wherein I wrote a front end in VB6 (might have been 4), that was attached to a Access DB that contained all the beers on tap (I think there were 30ish) at one of our favorite drinking establishments, along with all of their characteristics, that prompted the user with a bevy of questions to determine and suggest what the optimal beer that person should order.
I did get like a 97 or 98 percent on it... :)
You forgot about space telepathy. Also the fact that the giant tardigrade, which seemingly has the ability to wipe out klingons and federation security at will, and literally tear apart spaceship bulkheads is somehow attached to delicate devices which hurt it and it doesn't just destroy everything around it. Then there was the whole, oh the giant tardigrade isn't working out? Oh we need a compatible life form for this magic DNA altering juice but can't find one? Oh lets just inject the closest human, hey it worked! Though at least they foreshadowed some foreboding into that one...
I would like to see at least some episodes that aren't directly involved with the klingon war story arc, and perhaps some other Star Trek aliens for a change. I mean that was one of the staples of all the various star trek tv shows, is that while they did do some big arcs, many of them war, most episodes were their own thing.
Everyone seems to do it now a days. Homedepot and Bestbuy websites are not mostly 3rd party re-sellers. I have to assume that for everything sold to a 3rd party the host company takes a percentage, so they see it as free money as other than handling the transaction they have nothing to do with it. The 3rd parties are getting free brand recognition and a selling platform. If not done properly however what these companies might not realize is that it will hurt their brand name they have built up over the years, or perhaps their CEO's just don't care about the long term in favor of short term gains and bonuses...
Just a bit of paranoid speculation that perhaps all this hyper-loop stuff is essentially a money laundering scheme for the government to subsidize and fund Musk's other projects (Rockets, Cars, Batteries) without seemingly doing it directly which might have political ramifications. This type of project is the kind of thing easily in the many many billions, and will take decades to complete, both of which could be inflated at cost and length of time, essentially providing Musks ventures (which haven't or won't show much positive profit income for some time to come) cash to keep developing and improving for a long time to come. Maybe I just watch too much Ozark...