Weird. My Wife's headphone-jack-less iPhone came with an analog dongle. It can also still connect to the Bluetooth to analog adapter on our stereo. Why would they allow this?
Computers lack the capability of connecting dissimilar concepts in any meaningful way. For instance, you can tell a computer that a tomato is alive, and a mouse is alive, but it has no concept of how that term is applied to either of those two desperate organisms.
People have been trying for decades to have computers "understand" these concepts with no luck. There has been a 30 year old project called Cyc, where people manually programmed in millions of rules about how the world works. Things like when Abraham Lincoln was in Gettysburg giving his address, so was his left leg. When he was in Gettysburg he was NOT in the White House, or anywhere else. Then they'd run algorithms to try to extract meaning from these rules. They got, pretty much, nowhere. You can buy their set of rules to try to do something with them, but, apart from helping out with contextualizing natural language processing algorithms, they aren't worth much.
Think about it. Computers have NO concept of physical reality. If you tell a computer that you are in a room, it has no concept of what that means. You could be completely filling the room. You could be in that AND and in another room. You could be in the room in a complete vacuum. It might think that this room is not adjacent to any other room, or is in another galaxy. It doesn't know because it can't connect the disparate rules that govern how physical reality works.
You can program a computer to simulate and model reality, but you can't get it to *understand* reality.
Not yet, anyways, and from what I've seen we are still quite a long ways off.
The problem with desalination is you have all this brine left over that you have to do something with. If you are in the desert I guess you can just pump it into a sand dune and have it evaporate.
Or, to paraphrase an infamous Sam Kinneson bit - maybe they should move to where there is water.
On paper we're at full unemployment. But funny enough there's a ton of resentment around not having jobs in America. Of course, everyone knows the unemployment stats are nonsense. But we act like they're not.
Labor stats aren't nonsense. They are nonsense when used improperly, which is what most politicians do.
For one thing we've got economists trying to come up with excuses about why wages aren't climbing despite "full" employment.
Because of inflation. Inflation is growing faster than wages. The federal reserve has been allergic to raising interest rates to combat inflation and this is the result. It's not an excuse, it's a reason.
Audiophiles don't care about new surround formats. Quite a few won't touch anything digital with a 10 foot pole. Some will *maybe* go in for multichannel SACD, but that's it.
Naw, this is geared toward people who buy a new receiver every time a new surround format comes out. Most audiophiles also won't touch a receiver with a 10 foot pole.
My dad's friend was a gadget hound, and had one of these in the 80's. Not a great machine. The keys were weird and mushy. It had no electronic display. It only had a thermal printer that printed shiny dark gray numbers on shiny light gray paper. In other words, visibility was poor. It looked amazing, though, and you could spill a coke on it and the keys would still work.
Much more impressive but more utilitarian - he had a completely electro-mechanical rotary auto-dial telephone. It took small, hard plastic punch cards you'd put the number on. You'd push the card into a slot on the telephone, and it would feed the card in and out, generating pulses until it got to the number you punched out. Then it would pull the card back in and do it again for the next number until the whole number was dialed. No digital anything, just relays and motors.
It's an interesting position to take. Humanities are required in the science and engineering fields - I had to take at least six classes of English, languages, arts or philosophy for my engineering degree.
Now universities are eliminating math requirements from humanities curriculums. Because, apparently, structured critical thinking skills are not required in a rounded university education.
At the very least make everyone take a statistics class. That's the one thing everyone seems to botch.
Alarmists serve an EXTREMELY important role in society and we shouldn't encourage the fools who always dismiss them!
No, alarmists exaggerate, usually for economic or political gain. It's the definition of an alarmist. It's why news headlines on the internet read like tabloid headlines from thirty years ago.
source: I know a few convicted felons. You typically need references plus a good chunk of money for court fees (something hard to do when you've got a conviction on your record).
It looks like that's true in nine states. The rest you either automatically get your voting rights restored after your sentence is complete, or parole, or probation.
Let's take another tack. Do you think ALL felons should be able to vote? What if someone murders someone else. Put cynically, they have permanently disenfranchised someone else. Should they still get to vote?
and no, being convicted of a crime or even in jail shouldn't keep you from voting, that's the oldest voter suppression trick in the book).
If you are convicted of a felony, generally the only class of crime that triggers disenfranchisement, then after serving your sentence, in most states, you can re-register to vote after two years.
Care to guess the rate at which eligible felons re-register to vote? I'll give you a hint - it's pretty low.
I guess you could call it voter suppression, but the overall effect is pretty darn low.
What is that study supposed to prove? They asked people who chose homeopathic care after a traditional medical intervention if they think homeopathy helps. It's not a study, it's a questionnaire. They don't even compare it to regular post-intervention care. It's like asking people who visit a chiropractor if they think going to the chiropractor helps. I'm somewhat shocked 30% said the homeopathic care didn't help in a study set up this way.
It doesn't matter that homeopathy is outside of science when health to a large part is outside of science.
To paraphrase Pauli, that statement is so incorrect it isn't even wrong. Keep reading this site until you understand better, please. https://sciencebasedmedicine.o...
All negations of homeopathy are based on chemistry but you are not a sack of chemical reactions gone wrong.
"Negations of homeopathy" are based on a very facile understanding of chemistry and the causes of disease. Your body is a sack of unbelievably complicated chemical reactions operating under ideally homeostatic conditions. It's common for those processes to go out of whack from time to time. Usually your body can fix those processes itself. Sometimes it needs help. That's what modern medicine is for.
Saying that they can just use FF is fine if PaleMoon offers nothing other than FF without accessibility
PaleMoon's main selling points are that it loads faster because it drops a bunch of functionality. It keeps old fashioned extension and plugin support, which includes support for (now) deprecated accessibility plugins. And it allows for more UI customization, which is useless for the people using accessibility support it drops - namely screen readers.
The reverse your argument is also true. Does PaleMoon do something that people needing accessibility need that you can't get with Firefox?
Bad example. You could argue this falls under the "archival copy," or even accessibility exceptions to copyright under fair use doctrines. My friend was technically making an archival copy as well, which is completely legal. Thing is, to do so, he had to circumvent a copyright control mechanism which *is* illegal.
This was all hashed out in the VCR days. There were court cases holding that making a copy of a VHS movie, then watching the copy so you don't wear out the original fell under fair use. Ditto copying the VHS movie onto a DVD. As long as you are giving the copies away, it's entirely legal.
I have a friend who had a massive DVD collection and a really nice home theater setup. When he bought a DVD that he would plan on watching again in a short time span, he would rip it losslessly to another DVD (this was before massive, cheap hard drives.) He would set up the new DVD to only have the movie with the best soundtrack, and *nothing* else. You pop the DVD in and the movie starts immediately. No trailers, no menus, no ads, no warnings.
The sad thing is he had to technically break the law to get something he owned into a format he wanted it in. He wasn't stealing anything or infringing on anyone's IP, he just wanted to watch what he payed for without wasting time.
I work for a company that makes quality management software. When we dealt with smaller companies they would often ask if we could add a feature to fudge audit logs to fix "mistakes." The answer was always *NO* as there was a facility to update the data, but with a log item indicating it was changed. If it was a legitimate mistake, an auditor wouldn't ding them for fixing it. Of course there were always creative answers as to why they would need to edit a value without there being a log entry...
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So I have to spend an extra $9 on top of my $800 phone? OK, if I want an analog output I'll do that.
Weird. My Wife's headphone-jack-less iPhone came with an analog dongle. It can also still connect to the Bluetooth to analog adapter on our stereo. Why would they allow this?
Computers lack the capability of connecting dissimilar concepts in any meaningful way. For instance, you can tell a computer that a tomato is alive, and a mouse is alive, but it has no concept of how that term is applied to either of those two desperate organisms.
People have been trying for decades to have computers "understand" these concepts with no luck. There has been a 30 year old project called Cyc, where people manually programmed in millions of rules about how the world works. Things like when Abraham Lincoln was in Gettysburg giving his address, so was his left leg. When he was in Gettysburg he was NOT in the White House, or anywhere else. Then they'd run algorithms to try to extract meaning from these rules. They got, pretty much, nowhere. You can buy their set of rules to try to do something with them, but, apart from helping out with contextualizing natural language processing algorithms, they aren't worth much.
Think about it. Computers have NO concept of physical reality. If you tell a computer that you are in a room, it has no concept of what that means. You could be completely filling the room. You could be in that AND and in another room. You could be in the room in a complete vacuum. It might think that this room is not adjacent to any other room, or is in another galaxy. It doesn't know because it can't connect the disparate rules that govern how physical reality works.
You can program a computer to simulate and model reality, but you can't get it to *understand* reality.
Not yet, anyways, and from what I've seen we are still quite a long ways off.
The problem with desalination is you have all this brine left over that you have to do something with. If you are in the desert I guess you can just pump it into a sand dune and have it evaporate.
Or, to paraphrase an infamous Sam Kinneson bit - maybe they should move to where there is water.
On paper we're at full unemployment. But funny enough there's a ton of resentment around not having jobs in America. Of course, everyone knows the unemployment stats are nonsense. But we act like they're not.
Labor stats aren't nonsense. They are nonsense when used improperly, which is what most politicians do.
For one thing we've got economists trying to come up with excuses about why wages aren't climbing despite "full" employment.
Because of inflation. Inflation is growing faster than wages. The federal reserve has been allergic to raising interest rates to combat inflation and this is the result. It's not an excuse, it's a reason.
Yes, because audiophiles are literally the only group on the entire planet who are absolutely consistent in their opinions across the entire grouo.
They aren't consistent about much, but they are consistent in their dislike of most surround formats.
Audiophiles don't care about new surround formats. Quite a few won't touch anything digital with a 10 foot pole. Some will *maybe* go in for multichannel SACD, but that's it.
Naw, this is geared toward people who buy a new receiver every time a new surround format comes out. Most audiophiles also won't touch a receiver with a 10 foot pole.
I'm pretty sure that, in EU parlance, "locally created" is shorthand for made in Italy or France.
My dad's friend was a gadget hound, and had one of these in the 80's. Not a great machine. The keys were weird and mushy. It had no electronic display. It only had a thermal printer that printed shiny dark gray numbers on shiny light gray paper. In other words, visibility was poor. It looked amazing, though, and you could spill a coke on it and the keys would still work.
Much more impressive but more utilitarian - he had a completely electro-mechanical rotary auto-dial telephone. It took small, hard plastic punch cards you'd put the number on. You'd push the card into a slot on the telephone, and it would feed the card in and out, generating pulses until it got to the number you punched out. Then it would pull the card back in and do it again for the next number until the whole number was dialed. No digital anything, just relays and motors.
It's an interesting position to take. Humanities are required in the science and engineering fields - I had to take at least six classes of English, languages, arts or philosophy for my engineering degree.
Now universities are eliminating math requirements from humanities curriculums. Because, apparently, structured critical thinking skills are not required in a rounded university education.
At the very least make everyone take a statistics class. That's the one thing everyone seems to botch.
This guy's channel is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
[Knowing Better - You Don't See In 4K]
Alarmists serve an EXTREMELY important role in society and we shouldn't encourage the fools who always dismiss them!
No, alarmists exaggerate, usually for economic or political gain. It's the definition of an alarmist. It's why news headlines on the internet read like tabloid headlines from thirty years ago.
1700's - Increasing population is going to cause mass famine!
- Crop rotation perfected, yields increase
1800's - It's going to be different this time. Increasing population is going to cause mass famine!
- Fertilization and irrigation techniques perfected, yields increase
1900's - It's going to be different this time. Increasing population is going to cause mass famine!
- Crop hybridization introduced, modern industrial farming, yields massively increase
2000's - It's going to be different this time. Increasing population is going to cause mass famine!
It's kind of like those people who keep saying the end of every decade is going to be the end of the world.
source: I know a few convicted felons. You typically need references plus a good chunk of money for court fees (something hard to do when you've got a conviction on your record).
It looks like that's true in nine states. The rest you either automatically get your voting rights restored after your sentence is complete, or parole, or probation.
https://www.nonprofitvote.org/...
Let's take another tack. Do you think ALL felons should be able to vote? What if someone murders someone else. Put cynically, they have permanently disenfranchised someone else. Should they still get to vote?
and no, being convicted of a crime or even in jail shouldn't keep you from voting, that's the oldest voter suppression trick in the book).
If you are convicted of a felony, generally the only class of crime that triggers disenfranchisement, then after serving your sentence, in most states, you can re-register to vote after two years.
Care to guess the rate at which eligible felons re-register to vote? I'll give you a hint - it's pretty low.
I guess you could call it voter suppression, but the overall effect is pretty darn low.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
What is that study supposed to prove? They asked people who chose homeopathic care after a traditional medical intervention if they think homeopathy helps. It's not a study, it's a questionnaire. They don't even compare it to regular post-intervention care. It's like asking people who visit a chiropractor if they think going to the chiropractor helps. I'm somewhat shocked 30% said the homeopathic care didn't help in a study set up this way.
It doesn't matter that homeopathy is outside of science when health to a large part is outside of science.
To paraphrase Pauli, that statement is so incorrect it isn't even wrong.
Keep reading this site until you understand better, please.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.o...
All negations of homeopathy are based on chemistry but you are not a sack of chemical reactions gone wrong.
"Negations of homeopathy" are based on a very facile understanding of chemistry and the causes of disease. Your body is a sack of unbelievably complicated chemical reactions operating under ideally homeostatic conditions. It's common for those processes to go out of whack from time to time. Usually your body can fix those processes itself. Sometimes it needs help. That's what modern medicine is for.
Then go to the Moon or Mars at your leisure.
1. Non-chemical propulsion
2. Nuclear powered
So what kind of drive system is this? Ion drive? 'Cause those don't go fast, and will never provide enough propulsion to get you off of the planet.
Saying that they can just use FF is fine if PaleMoon offers nothing other than FF without accessibility
PaleMoon's main selling points are that it loads faster because it drops a bunch of functionality. It keeps old fashioned extension and plugin support, which includes support for (now) deprecated accessibility plugins. And it allows for more UI customization, which is useless for the people using accessibility support it drops - namely screen readers.
The reverse your argument is also true. Does PaleMoon do something that people needing accessibility need that you can't get with Firefox?
Bad example. You could argue this falls under the "archival copy," or even accessibility exceptions to copyright under fair use doctrines. My friend was technically making an archival copy as well, which is completely legal. Thing is, to do so, he had to circumvent a copyright control mechanism which *is* illegal.
This was all hashed out in the VCR days. There were court cases holding that making a copy of a VHS movie, then watching the copy so you don't wear out the original fell under fair use. Ditto copying the VHS movie onto a DVD. As long as you are giving the copies away, it's entirely legal.
I have a friend who had a massive DVD collection and a really nice home theater setup. When he bought a DVD that he would plan on watching again in a short time span, he would rip it losslessly to another DVD (this was before massive, cheap hard drives.) He would set up the new DVD to only have the movie with the best soundtrack, and *nothing* else. You pop the DVD in and the movie starts immediately. No trailers, no menus, no ads, no warnings.
The sad thing is he had to technically break the law to get something he owned into a format he wanted it in. He wasn't stealing anything or infringing on anyone's IP, he just wanted to watch what he payed for without wasting time.
Then use Firefox. Or Edge. Or Chrome. Not every feature needs to be in every browser.
But these rats keep gnawing at my toes. Certainly we need to go to the store for ketchup.
The article is a blurb about another article written in Dutch. It would be nice to know exactly what they are talking about.
I work for a company that makes quality management software. When we dealt with smaller companies they would often ask if we could add a feature to fudge audit logs to fix "mistakes." The answer was always *NO* as there was a facility to update the data, but with a log item indicating it was changed. If it was a legitimate mistake, an auditor wouldn't ding them for fixing it. Of course there were always creative answers as to why they would need to edit a value without there being a log entry...