[asshole alert: I am making fun of your simple, understandable brainfart.]
Intel could not and did not want to provide the mobile PowerPCs in quantities Apple demanded and did not really put R&D into mobile PowerPCs.
Yeah, last I heard, Intel still hasn't produced their first one. Somewhere along the way, they got all distracted by their existing and future x86 products.
It seems like this incompetence and lack of commitment has infected all sorts of industries. Ford still can't deliver enough Accords and Camrys, people have been waiting forever for Porsche's Camero (I think they're having supply trouble with the Rich Corinthian Leather), and when I asked for a Big Mac at Burger King, they rang up the wrong burger.
You're thinking of East Texas. But I do think it's funny that the mere act of an IP-related trial happening somewhere in Texas, is enough to give the whole thing the stench of illegitimacy. It's funny because it's true.
Congress should burn that (East Texas) court to the ground and re-instate it somewhere else, just to try to repair the reputation. I'm not saying they can't still have it be corrupt and biased, just that they need to shake it off because it's gotten to the point where everyone knows something is wrong.
WTF? You built your own house but then left out the rocket pad?!? Dude, you waited your whole life to "grow up" and acquire the means to obtain everything that child-you wanted, and then you blew it!
Oh, you built a submarine base instead? Ok, fine. Sorry I snapped at you above.
God forbid the default action for a script is to execute it.
Agreed. It's not 1988 anymore, so people generally shouldn't be running whatever random code somebody on the Internet sends them. It's forgiveable for OSes to have lagged a bit, but by the late 1990s it's pretty fucking stupid for an OS to do that.
I mean personally I just like scripts for the bed time reading with their riveting plots and all, but I guess there's probably some people who would prefer scripts to actually do what they claim to do.
Those other people can easily be accomodated. After they read the script or otherwise determine that it's something they'd like to run, they can indicate to the OS when they want to run it. chmod +x or however it works for their platform.
Malware unfriendliness is user unfriendliness.
Wait, I don't agree with you anymore. One of the things that makes my computer so friendly, is that it runs software for me, rather than for someone else (especially adversaries). Malware and users are in zero-sum: what's unfriendly for malware is friendly for the user, and vice-versa.
Piss them off with frustrating defaults, burry them under an endless string of confirmation boxes, or just trust them to break their computer if they so chose.
Yeah, and the last option is the friendliest. If someone wants to execute a script, they should totally be able to, and easily. But in such an exceptional and rare situation as wanting to treat a freshly-downloaded file as executable, they're going to have to tell the computer at least once, "This is an unusual situation. I want to execute this, rather than what I normally do 99% of the time with unvetted scripts (look at them in my editor)."
It's right there in the summary: because Windows executes the script, rather than just opening it in an editor or something like that. Or if you were asking why Windows does that.. well, I guess it's just trying to remain the top platform for malware. Microsoft doesn't want their top claim to fame to be overtaken.
you only need an elementary level in math to realize that something is amiss with Trumps numbers. For example, he claims that up to 42% in the US are out of work.
Ok, I think I see the mismatch here. What you are talking about is not something I would ever call "government data." Whatever propaganda that some Republicrat, even if they're serving in government, happens to spew isn't "data." Nobody is expecting the president to tell the truth, but that doesn't mean the 2020 census reports, weather station readings, etc are going to be falsified. If Trump tells a whole department of career civil servants number crunchers to put "alt data" in some official report, that order will leak. The way he's going to lie is with definitions, to have people draw false information from true data.
There are so many things to worry about while our country has such a weak president. This isn't one of them. I'm not saying it's a bad idea to put all the reports under a microscope (and you know everyone's going to do that anyway), but the analyses are probably going to be way easier than spotting bogus numbers. It'll be stuff like "wait, it says here that they didn't count women" or some crap like that.
The Time Wall, duh. Time travellers are no longer able to prevent the threats in the 2017-2021 range, because we're walled off from them. We're finally on our own (as we've long asked to be), but having trouble preventing all the threats ourselves.
As someone with a libertarian bent, I think we need to tear down the Time Wall. It's not just that it will allow the time travellers to helps us again, but also a matter of civil rights. You and I should be allowed to freely travel out from our current time.
When we get home from work, I'm kind of hungry, but it's beer time so we start drinking beers. And then I notice I'm not so hungry anymore. Beer really does have food value.
OTOH, it just delays dinner, and I don't think we eat less of it when we eventually get around to it. So what happened to the food value? Did my body "forget" that I've already "eaten" some?
How does Apple know he's driving and not a passenger, on a bus, etc.?
I don't know (it sounds totally impractical to me). Ask Apple; it's their patent. They are the ones claiming the "invention" is useful and asking for special monopoly privileges at society's expense.
Let the defense bury itself. Either they bear some responsibility for death, or else they file bogus patents because they're misanthropists. Let's see which of these two positions they advocate the strongest.
"Your honor, when we filed that patent, our intent was merely to prevent the progress of sciences and the useful arts. We didn't sincerely view it as an actually-useful safety feature, or else we would have just published it instead of patenting it! We were just lying about its usefulness, because we want our industry to have as many barriers to entry as possible. You see, your honor, we just want to live in a world where patent searches take even longer, your docket contains more cases, life contains more prohibitions and kafkaesque processes, tech advances less rapidly, everything costs a little more and you have fewer choices, and everyone is a little sadder. But we never wanted anyone to get hurt! Fuck no, your honor, it's not a serious, reasonable safety feature! Now can you please dismiss this case, so we can move onto the next one, where we're the plaintiffs? There's a company in Korea infringing on one of our valuable, important patents..."
So can every KillDisk user upgrade now, to fix the deleted-files problem? Or does the ransom change need to be pulled by a bunch of different branch maintainers first?
the Tesla also didn't "predict" anything or see into the future; it reacted to inputs that were already present
After the semicolon, you begin to explain (at a high level, without much detail) how it made the prediction.
let's not make them seem magical, because they aren't.
And by teaching people how to predict things (observe a system's current state and extrapolate where it's going) you are helping to teach people that computers are not magic. Good for you. I didn't even know that anyone was trying to present it as magical. If I wanted to do that, I would have said Tesla divined the collision, using its Crystal Processor (a 1mm diameter crystal ball inside a chip, or something like that).
The ride-sharing app, the database behind it, etc is a pretty decent project (I'm totally not dissing it, and I admire the idea too), but even one million dollars is a heaping mountain of money for that. Be super-pessimistic and call it ten million. But even then: what are the other millions spent on?
Not-having-to-work (i.e. losing jobs) can be viewed as our goal within all economic systems. No matter where you are on the spectrum of Adam Smith to Karl Marx, our time above-ground is a scarce resource. Every-fucking-thing that is expensive, is ultimately expensive because it used up someone's time, where that person sighed and walked a few more steps toward their dusty, eternal grave, working on your whatever, instead of living their life. The dollars are just a measurement of how much life you asked someone else to give up. It's a count of the grains of sand that fell to the bottom of someone's hourglass.
Jobs are bad. When a politician says he's going to create or save jobs, he is offering you a quicker, more intimately-embracing death. The more he envisions you toiling, the less you should envision yourself skipping through fields, rocking out to great bands, performing science experiments, climbing mountains and skiing down them while drinking Mountain Dew as explosions go off behind you, reading novels, or flying around in starships to go find green-skinned women to bang.
People become truck drivers for the money. If you want to spend your life driving around, there are vastly more pleasant ways to do that than driving a fucking truck. They are ticking down the limited seconds of their life, working instead of doing what they want to do. Good riddance to those jobs.
What should we do about the consequences of increased leisure time, in our legacy-saddled economy? Shit, I didn't say I have all the answers (sounds like Obama is proposing one idea, though). But can't we all at least get to where we agree that it's basically a good thing?!? Until we realize that increased leisure time for humans is a good thing, of course we're not going to figure out how to handle our victory, because we'll be putting all our effort into undoing or preventing it! It's disgraceful that people are using words like "blame" for the lost jobs, instead of "credit."
I'll be happy that my widget didn't cost some trucker (and yay, the trucker wasn't me!) two days of his life to transport, and instead it only cost some maintainer 12 hours to keep the robot running. And then eventually I'll feel bad about those 12 hours of maintenance being too many. Can't a robot maintain that other robot?
The media, theoretically, is supposed to ask hard questions.
It didn't need to, and it did a good-enough job given the circumstances.
The media asked easy questions, and the leading presidential candidates ignored them or answered with "I don't have a fucking clue, but on an unrelated note, let me explain why you should vote against me" and then the voters voted for them anyway. IMHO, the problem is..
the media this past election cycle was so inept, the we ended up with Trump.
..the voters gave up. The media didn't cause us to end up with Trump; the voters did. And right up there with the shocking and disappointing fact that Trump got elected, there's an equally shocking and disappointing fact: that if Trump had lost, Clinton would have won! Has everyone already forgotten that?
Let's hypothetically imagine you had your good media. How would that have changed anything? Nearly everyone who voted for those people, was already informed well enough that they knew they shouldn't be voting for them. (And if they weren't informed, it's not like they didn't have the opportunity; they simply didn't take advantage.) But they voted for them anyway! Does your hypothetically-better media have people strapped into chairs Clockwork Orange-style?
If you're going to blame the media, then at least don't blame the news media. The news media did perfectly adequate job of conveying the candidates' emptiness. Maybe you can blame the media for not artistically inspiring people to give a fuck about their country. But even then, I just don't think it's appropriate.
It's on us. It's always on us. Every two years America loses its election, and then the voters try to blame someone else for the stupid thing they decided to do. The excuses are wearing thin. If we wait for America's adversaries (the Democrats and Republicans) to provide us with candidates, and then we vote for those candidates, that's not a media problem. The media can't force our hands in the voting both, nor force us to get someone decent on the ballot before then.
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[asshole alert: I am making fun of your simple, understandable brainfart.]
Yeah, last I heard, Intel still hasn't produced their first one. Somewhere along the way, they got all distracted by their existing and future x86 products.
It seems like this incompetence and lack of commitment has infected all sorts of industries. Ford still can't deliver enough Accords and Camrys, people have been waiting forever for Porsche's Camero (I think they're having supply trouble with the Rich Corinthian Leather), and when I asked for a Big Mac at Burger King, they rang up the wrong burger.
Compares dollars to dollars (not Hertz to Hertz) if you want to sound like you're actually thinking about it.
You're thinking of East Texas. But I do think it's funny that the mere act of an IP-related trial happening somewhere in Texas, is enough to give the whole thing the stench of illegitimacy. It's funny because it's true.
Congress should burn that (East Texas) court to the ground and re-instate it somewhere else, just to try to repair the reputation. I'm not saying they can't still have it be corrupt and biased, just that they need to shake it off because it's gotten to the point where everyone knows something is wrong.
WTF? You built your own house but then left out the rocket pad?!? Dude, you waited your whole life to "grow up" and acquire the means to obtain everything that child-you wanted, and then you blew it!
Oh, you built a submarine base instead? Ok, fine. Sorry I snapped at you above.
That's the kind of behavior that would get me to reply with, "Ok, I changed my mind. 7."
Unless you want a MVP parking spot.
Agreed. It's not 1988 anymore, so people generally shouldn't be running whatever random code somebody on the Internet sends them. It's forgiveable for OSes to have lagged a bit, but by the late 1990s it's pretty fucking stupid for an OS to do that.
Those other people can easily be accomodated. After they read the script or otherwise determine that it's something they'd like to run, they can indicate to the OS when they want to run it. chmod +x or however it works for their platform.
Wait, I don't agree with you anymore. One of the things that makes my computer so friendly, is that it runs software for me, rather than for someone else (especially adversaries). Malware and users are in zero-sum: what's unfriendly for malware is friendly for the user, and vice-versa.
Yeah, and the last option is the friendliest. If someone wants to execute a script, they should totally be able to, and easily. But in such an exceptional and rare situation as wanting to treat a freshly-downloaded file as executable, they're going to have to tell the computer at least once, "This is an unusual situation. I want to execute this, rather than what I normally do 99% of the time with unvetted scripts (look at them in my editor)."
It's right there in the summary: because Windows executes the script, rather than just opening it in an editor or something like that. Or if you were asking why Windows does that.. well, I guess it's just trying to remain the top platform for malware. Microsoft doesn't want their top claim to fame to be overtaken.
Ok, I think I see the mismatch here. What you are talking about is not something I would ever call "government data." Whatever propaganda that some Republicrat, even if they're serving in government, happens to spew isn't "data." Nobody is expecting the president to tell the truth, but that doesn't mean the 2020 census reports, weather station readings, etc are going to be falsified. If Trump tells a whole department of career civil servants number crunchers to put "alt data" in some official report, that order will leak. The way he's going to lie is with definitions, to have people draw false information from true data.
There are so many things to worry about while our country has such a weak president. This isn't one of them. I'm not saying it's a bad idea to put all the reports under a microscope (and you know everyone's going to do that anyway), but the analyses are probably going to be way easier than spotting bogus numbers. It'll be stuff like "wait, it says here that they didn't count women" or some crap like that.
Actually, while I use Chromium on the desktop, the Android version of Chrome is garbage (no extensions? WTF!!!).
What do you run on mobile? Firefox is the only thing I've found so far, which is any good.
I do keep Chrome around on my phone, but it's basically just for testing. "Oh right, and here's what our web site looks like, with all the ads."
Maybe we are bad.
No, Washington DC. Did you forget what we're talking about?
The Time Wall, duh. Time travellers are no longer able to prevent the threats in the 2017-2021 range, because we're walled off from them. We're finally on our own (as we've long asked to be), but having trouble preventing all the threats ourselves.
As someone with a libertarian bent, I think we need to tear down the Time Wall. It's not just that it will allow the time travellers to helps us again, but also a matter of civil rights. You and I should be allowed to freely travel out from our current time.
Why would anyone who isn't Trump himself want to protect him from making a fool of himself?
The more he speaks his mind, the better off everyone is. Let him dig his hole.
Maybe by watching other Google Maps users drive around parking lots as they look for spots.
It's gotta be more complicated than that.
When we get home from work, I'm kind of hungry, but it's beer time so we start drinking beers. And then I notice I'm not so hungry anymore. Beer really does have food value.
OTOH, it just delays dinner, and I don't think we eat less of it when we eventually get around to it. So what happened to the food value? Did my body "forget" that I've already "eaten" some?
I don't know (it sounds totally impractical to me). Ask Apple; it's their patent. They are the ones claiming the "invention" is useful and asking for special monopoly privileges at society's expense.
Let the defense bury itself. Either they bear some responsibility for death, or else they file bogus patents because they're misanthropists. Let's see which of these two positions they advocate the strongest.
"Your honor, when we filed that patent, our intent was merely to prevent the progress of sciences and the useful arts. We didn't sincerely view it as an actually-useful safety feature, or else we would have just published it instead of patenting it! We were just lying about its usefulness, because we want our industry to have as many barriers to entry as possible. You see, your honor, we just want to live in a world where patent searches take even longer, your docket contains more cases, life contains more prohibitions and kafkaesque processes, tech advances less rapidly, everything costs a little more and you have fewer choices, and everyone is a little sadder. But we never wanted anyone to get hurt! Fuck no, your honor, it's not a serious, reasonable safety feature! Now can you please dismiss this case, so we can move onto the next one, where we're the plaintiffs? There's a company in Korea infringing on one of our valuable, important patents..."
Competing techs don't have this little term in their cost formulas too?
WTF is this Korea place, anyway? Part of Britain?
So can every KillDisk user upgrade now, to fix the deleted-files problem? Or does the ransom change need to be pulled by a bunch of different branch maintainers first?
After the semicolon, you begin to explain (at a high level, without much detail) how it made the prediction.
And by teaching people how to predict things (observe a system's current state and extrapolate where it's going) you are helping to teach people that computers are not magic. Good for you. I didn't even know that anyone was trying to present it as magical. If I wanted to do that, I would have said Tesla divined the collision, using its Crystal Processor (a 1mm diameter crystal ball inside a chip, or something like that).
What do they spend their money on?
The ride-sharing app, the database behind it, etc is a pretty decent project (I'm totally not dissing it, and I admire the idea too), but even one million dollars is a heaping mountain of money for that. Be super-pessimistic and call it ten million. But even then: what are the other millions spent on?
Yes!
Not-having-to-work (i.e. losing jobs) can be viewed as our goal within all economic systems. No matter where you are on the spectrum of Adam Smith to Karl Marx, our time above-ground is a scarce resource. Every-fucking-thing that is expensive, is ultimately expensive because it used up someone's time, where that person sighed and walked a few more steps toward their dusty, eternal grave, working on your whatever, instead of living their life. The dollars are just a measurement of how much life you asked someone else to give up. It's a count of the grains of sand that fell to the bottom of someone's hourglass.
Jobs are bad. When a politician says he's going to create or save jobs, he is offering you a quicker, more intimately-embracing death. The more he envisions you toiling, the less you should envision yourself skipping through fields, rocking out to great bands, performing science experiments, climbing mountains and skiing down them while drinking Mountain Dew as explosions go off behind you, reading novels, or flying around in starships to go find green-skinned women to bang.
People become truck drivers for the money. If you want to spend your life driving around, there are vastly more pleasant ways to do that than driving a fucking truck. They are ticking down the limited seconds of their life, working instead of doing what they want to do. Good riddance to those jobs.
What should we do about the consequences of increased leisure time, in our legacy-saddled economy? Shit, I didn't say I have all the answers (sounds like Obama is proposing one idea, though). But can't we all at least get to where we agree that it's basically a good thing?!? Until we realize that increased leisure time for humans is a good thing, of course we're not going to figure out how to handle our victory, because we'll be putting all our effort into undoing or preventing it! It's disgraceful that people are using words like "blame" for the lost jobs, instead of "credit."
I'll be happy that my widget didn't cost some trucker (and yay, the trucker wasn't me!) two days of his life to transport, and instead it only cost some maintainer 12 hours to keep the robot running. And then eventually I'll feel bad about those 12 hours of maintenance being too many. Can't a robot maintain that other robot?
OMFG, that's so innovative and new!
I'm not here to defend the media. But.
It didn't need to, and it did a good-enough job given the circumstances.
The media asked easy questions, and the leading presidential candidates ignored them or answered with "I don't have a fucking clue, but on an unrelated note, let me explain why you should vote against me" and then the voters voted for them anyway. IMHO, the problem is..
..the voters gave up. The media didn't cause us to end up with Trump; the voters did. And right up there with the shocking and disappointing fact that Trump got elected, there's an equally shocking and disappointing fact: that if Trump had lost, Clinton would have won! Has everyone already forgotten that?
Let's hypothetically imagine you had your good media. How would that have changed anything? Nearly everyone who voted for those people, was already informed well enough that they knew they shouldn't be voting for them. (And if they weren't informed, it's not like they didn't have the opportunity; they simply didn't take advantage.) But they voted for them anyway! Does your hypothetically-better media have people strapped into chairs Clockwork Orange-style?
If you're going to blame the media, then at least don't blame the news media. The news media did perfectly adequate job of conveying the candidates' emptiness. Maybe you can blame the media for not artistically inspiring people to give a fuck about their country. But even then, I just don't think it's appropriate.
It's on us. It's always on us. Every two years America loses its election, and then the voters try to blame someone else for the stupid thing they decided to do. The excuses are wearing thin. If we wait for America's adversaries (the Democrats and Republicans) to provide us with candidates, and then we vote for those candidates, that's not a media problem. The media can't force our hands in the voting both, nor force us to get someone decent on the ballot before then.