Well, by this point, after decades of reports on it, I wouldn't call it "fraud" exactly, more like some sort of tax... Idiot tax? Greed tax? Take your pick.
I am sort of middle-ground. I do think the movie is overrated and it is one of my least favourite Kubrick movies (my favourite are Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, Clockwork Orange - probably in that order), but I can appreciate how it is ground-braking and visually (and audibly) stunning - especially in its day, but remarkably holding up. If it were not for 2 needlessly long sequences: the start with the apes, and the approaching the monolith psychedelia, as well as a much more cryptic than required and tiring ending, I bet everyone would be able to appreciate it. At least the problem with the cryptic ending can be alleviated without needing to read the book: just watch the sequel "2010: The year we make contact". It is a more mainstream movie, it doesn't try to be a masterpiece, however it explains everything that happened in 2001 and it is a decent film in its own right. So, not a turd, but neither the flawless diamond it is portrayed. I mean. if there are scenes that seriously bore a person like me who e.g. considers a Mussorgsky symphony exciting throughout, it should at least be considered an "uneven" or "flawed" movie, no matter how good it was in parts. Of course art is always a matter of taste...
Gamevice probably dismissed their lawsuit voluntarily because they have a patent filed in 2013 and not only it is quite different from the Switch (it is a single piece), but it is also very similar to things that preceded it, most obviously the Razor Edge which was released about the time they filed their patent (coincidence?).
Now idea how that new avenue they are seeking though ITC works... Wish them luck - very BAD luck.
Not that I wouldn't enjoy small companies sticking it to the big guys, but patent abuse is bad either way.
OK, so now the text is measured in miles? What lunacy is this? I mean, it is the ONE article where Libraries of Congress would actually be a valid unit!
The only people who might benefit are Sprint users. T-Mobile should really let Sprint die and pickup their pieces, $26.5 billion is ridiculous for such a bad company. T-Mobile has flaws, but it is heaven compared to the rest of the lot, shame that not all users can see it and they can't even reach #2 by being more customer-friendly than AT&T and, especially, Verizon.
They are stupid. They have comparison bar graphs showing % correct of those attempted and bar graphs with % attempted. Which are both relatively useless metrics on their own, the most useful one for a comparison would be % correct over asked and they don't provide that! I can't believe anyone with knowledge of statistics, data analysis or a person of sound logic in general had anything to do with this report. All their graphs are like that, the year-over-year comparisons compare either the % attempted or the % correct of those, never the % correct overall, even their % wrong comparison is just on those attempted! Crazy-frustrating report! How confident can you be that their methodology is sound after that?
Almost correct. The Greek pronunciation would be "oo-rah-NOS" with the stress on the last syllable. Perhaps also "oy-rah-NOS" in early Classical or pre-Classical (AFAIK we are not very sure when diphthongs started being pronounced they way they are in Koine Greek for example).
I don't get the "chicken or the egg" dilemma. I haven't tried "researching" it, but it always seemed obvious to me that the answer is "the egg". We just have to go back to the first chicken. The definition of the "first chicken" is that while it is a "chicken", its parents are not. Sure, it would be hard to actually define at which point back we stop considering the ancestors chickens, down to the specific mutation, but we do have to stop at some point. So, you have "not chickens", producing an egg which gives a chicken. Ergo, egg came first. Don't know, am I missing something?
As a developer, I have seen multiple times how under the "shiny" surface, Apple isn't really careful about what they are releasing, but the current macOS is one of the worse I've seen. For example, if you have installed it (and you can still boot), try opening the error console. Chances are you'll see that it throws several "signpost_notificationd - 0 is not a valid connection ID" errors every few seconds! It happens on all machines I have checked, a few 2013 Macbook Pros, a 2010 Mac Pro, a 2011 Mac Mini... And there are multiple threads about it, so it is not something in my part of the world:) Sure, it might be benign (although it is reported as an "error" - not warning - and some users claim it is related to excessive fan speeds), but how on earth can they release something that floods the error logs on many configurations, (including on a clean system, installed from scratch)?
About that "clean system". Last week I decided to install a bigger SSD on my 2010 Mac Pro (the last type that was upgradeable - still hanging on with a 6-core 3.46GHz Xeon, 32GB RAM, USB3 and eSATA cards). I had a Mavericks install usb, did a clean install and upgraded directly to 10.13.4. The "clean" system was pretty unusable, there was an obvious lag on most UI things. E.g. hovering over each section of the top menu would open it after at least half a second (depended on the app - some faster, some slower). Activity monitor showed nothing in CPU or Disk usage. I actually thought there was something wrong with my new SSD, until I cloned the old disk with Mavericks to the new disk, booted and everything was snappy again. Not upgrading the old mac to High Sierra any time soon... Well, I can afford to as I have XCode on the laptop...
I have no idea what you are talking about. Apple takes 30% not 40, which may be steep, but AFAIK it is exactly the same as Google. Also, you can compile on a Hackintosh, or a Hackintosh Virtual Machine, so the hardware does not have to be Apple (although that saves you a lot of trouble), but it is indeed annoying that you definitely need OS X at a very recent version otherwise the Xcode version needed won't run. Overall, I dislike the limitations that iOS apps have, that is why my every day phone is Android (Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 currently), however, I have an iPhone from work and I find iOS development a joy compared to Android, so the apps I develop for fun are on iOS. I would very very much have liked for something like the Maemo/Meego (Nokia N9) to have been given a chance, as it is both Android and iPhone are sort of "necessary evils" for me for different reasons.
And the property that most people did not associate with us in the first place, and was pretty much "getting away with it"! "Yeah, I closed my FB account, besides, who needs it when we have Instagram!"
At an auto garage: -Hi, I'd like an exhaust for my Yugo. (after several seconds of deep thought on the part of the mechanic) -OK, sounds like a fair trade...
-How do you double the price of a Yugo? -You fill it up with gas. (that's petrol in the UK)
-Why does the Yugo come with rear windshield heaters? -To warm the hands of the people pushing it.
Eh, how are (largish) devices imagined for 500 years in the future, which tap into a central mainframe-type unit for any processing and have no display, an indication that our current phones are not ahead of what sci-fi predicted for personal communicators? Sure, if you could find a single instance of an all-display pocket supercomputer, preferably not imagined for hundreds of years in the future, it would be interesting, and it still would not go against the point of my post: If you read/watch sci-fi (written until as late as the 80's), we lag in almost all sectors, except phones.
When I was a kid in the 80's, sci-fi shows were all about flying cars, fast planes, spaceships etc. Sure, sometimes the moon exploded due to nukes and started traveling through the galaxy, but still there was a moon base on it. In almost all aspects, we are not there. In some areas we have even regressed - we no longer have supersonic commercial planes, our manned spaceflight is also more limited. Science fiction was too optimistic about all technology... except PHONES. They did not even come close to imagining our phones! Seriously, I have a Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 which is not only a reasonably priced an beautiful phone (shameless plug because I enjoy it so much more than the expensive Samsung it replaced), but it is also way more advanced than anything imagined in Sci-Fi. There were videophones but they were usually too bulky, there were small phones, but just communicators, even the 24th century tri-corders could not do most of the things the little pocket computer communicators we have now, and they did not look nearly as nice. So it seems for all the things we miss, we get phones, I guess that's where most "innovation" goes these days. If you go by Apple, they do seem to have stagnated a bit in the last 2-3 iterations, but we'll get more fancy things soon I bet (perhaps folding displays, or large batteries that don't explode). The two areas I feel are the most disappointing is computers and space exploration. Those were the advances I was most interested in following. Every CPU (and for a while GPU) generation was a huge leap in performance & abilities, the 80's, 90's and early 00's (until the P4 basically) were exciting times. And you followed the Voyager probes reaching their targets, the space shuttle getting 7 people up at a time (albeit exploding now and then), which was not as exciting as the 60's but still. Anyway, with SpaceX I have a renewed interest in space, perhaps we'll get back there and continue exploring, so there might be some exciting times ahead in that regard. As long as we don't blow ourselves up;)
Interesting series of tweets: https://twitter.com/EricPaulDe... The median looks like it has fancy, inviting paths, but it also warns you not to use them. And the actual crossing is kind of daunting... It is a rather bad design, but it does look dangerous in any case, so if I wanted to cross that way I would exercise extreme caution...
Meanwhile Trump & his party promised them good paying jobs.
Eh, not exactly. What I remember is that he was promising them coal mining jobs and not being particular about the pay grade. So all they knew was they were promised jobs that were considered unhealthy/undesirable 100 years ago, and yet they were applauding. Perhaps everybody was thinking "surely the other guys will be going down the mines, I'll be managing from above", or something like that, I don't know, I didn't try to make any sense out of it...
Yeah, right because we know exactly how the mind works so we are a great authority to decide whether it "survived" this crude process. Like the cryonics fad, but at least this time they should charge you less because they are not promising to run a fridge for you for hundreds of years...
Isn't it easy to have more growth when you have much more room for growth? I wonder if Lyft uses illegal tactics like Uber. The latest I heard about UBER, in Greece they provide fake private contracts to their drivers, since they operate there under the guise of renting vehicles (which has a 6-hour minimum), so the driver has to give a contract to the customer which says they hire the car for 6 hours and have to pay a substantially larger amount than the fare, and if they are stopped by police show that and say the driver & customer are friends/family who rented a car. Quite smart, basically it makes the driver and the customer accomplices to fraud and UBER is whistling at the sidelines, reaping the rewards...
I mean, it seems rather obvious that the Android percentage would be higher, but it does not mean a higher "loyalty", but exactly the opposite. Specifically, from what I can find, about 86% of phones sold are Android - apart from lower priced devices, there is also a huge selection, compared to the iOS devices being just 3 models, so it would make sense that more Android devices would be sold even if iOS was a better OS overall (it is in many ways, it is not in several others). So, they say that there is a 91% chance for an android user to stick with Android - so a bit higher than the overall Android market share which is expected from a user who has a bias towards the device they are used to. However, even though iOS devices have just a 13% market share, an iOS owner has a rather staggering 86% chance of buying another iOS device. That sure is some serious brand loyalty and it is what we've come to expect from Apple users.
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Well, by this point, after decades of reports on it, I wouldn't call it "fraud" exactly, more like some sort of tax... Idiot tax? Greed tax? Take your pick.
I am sort of middle-ground. I do think the movie is overrated and it is one of my least favourite Kubrick movies (my favourite are Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, Clockwork Orange - probably in that order), but I can appreciate how it is ground-braking and visually (and audibly) stunning - especially in its day, but remarkably holding up. If it were not for 2 needlessly long sequences: the start with the apes, and the approaching the monolith psychedelia, as well as a much more cryptic than required and tiring ending, I bet everyone would be able to appreciate it. At least the problem with the cryptic ending can be alleviated without needing to read the book: just watch the sequel "2010: The year we make contact". It is a more mainstream movie, it doesn't try to be a masterpiece, however it explains everything that happened in 2001 and it is a decent film in its own right.
So, not a turd, but neither the flawless diamond it is portrayed. I mean. if there are scenes that seriously bore a person like me who e.g. considers a Mussorgsky symphony exciting throughout, it should at least be considered an "uneven" or "flawed" movie, no matter how good it was in parts.
Of course art is always a matter of taste...
Yeah, there's tons of prior art, especially for "one-piece" add-ons. For example check out the MSI BGP100 that I had bought back in 2005.
That's Razer Edge obviously, but Apple devices like to correct things because they know better ...
Gamevice probably dismissed their lawsuit voluntarily because they have a patent filed in 2013 and not only it is quite different from the Switch (it is a single piece), but it is also very similar to things that preceded it, most obviously the Razor Edge which was released about the time they filed their patent (coincidence?).
Now idea how that new avenue they are seeking though ITC works... Wish them luck - very BAD luck.
Not that I wouldn't enjoy small companies sticking it to the big guys, but patent abuse is bad either way.
There still needs to be rigorous testing though, since this is calcium-based, there is a higher risk for the dreaded Helvetica Scenario.
OK, so now the text is measured in miles? What lunacy is this?
I mean, it is the ONE article where Libraries of Congress would actually be a valid unit!
The only people who might benefit are Sprint users. T-Mobile should really let Sprint die and pickup their pieces, $26.5 billion is ridiculous for such a bad company. T-Mobile has flaws, but it is heaven compared to the rest of the lot, shame that not all users can see it and they can't even reach #2 by being more customer-friendly than AT&T and, especially, Verizon.
They are stupid. They have comparison bar graphs showing % correct of those attempted and bar graphs with % attempted. Which are both relatively useless metrics on their own, the most useful one for a comparison would be % correct over asked and they don't provide that!
I can't believe anyone with knowledge of statistics, data analysis or a person of sound logic in general had anything to do with this report.
All their graphs are like that, the year-over-year comparisons compare either the % attempted or the % correct of those, never the % correct overall, even their % wrong comparison is just on those attempted! Crazy-frustrating report! How confident can you be that their methodology is sound after that?
Almost correct. The Greek pronunciation would be "oo-rah-NOS" with the stress on the last syllable.
Perhaps also "oy-rah-NOS" in early Classical or pre-Classical (AFAIK we are not very sure when diphthongs started being pronounced they way they are in Koine Greek for example).
I don't get the "chicken or the egg" dilemma. I haven't tried "researching" it, but it always seemed obvious to me that the answer is "the egg".
We just have to go back to the first chicken. The definition of the "first chicken" is that while it is a "chicken", its parents are not. Sure, it would be hard to actually define at which point back we stop considering the ancestors chickens, down to the specific mutation, but we do have to stop at some point.
So, you have "not chickens", producing an egg which gives a chicken.
Ergo, egg came first.
Don't know, am I missing something?
As a developer, I have seen multiple times how under the "shiny" surface, Apple isn't really careful about what they are releasing, but the current macOS is one of the worse I've seen. For example, if you have installed it (and you can still boot), try opening the error console. Chances are you'll see that it throws several "signpost_notificationd - 0 is not a valid connection ID" errors every few seconds! It happens on all machines I have checked, a few 2013 Macbook Pros, a 2010 Mac Pro, a 2011 Mac Mini... And there are multiple threads about it, so it is not something in my part of the world :) Sure, it might be benign (although it is reported as an "error" - not warning - and some users claim it is related to excessive fan speeds), but how on earth can they release something that floods the error logs on many configurations, (including on a clean system, installed from scratch)?
About that "clean system". Last week I decided to install a bigger SSD on my 2010 Mac Pro (the last type that was upgradeable - still hanging on with a 6-core 3.46GHz Xeon, 32GB RAM, USB3 and eSATA cards). I had a Mavericks install usb, did a clean install and upgraded directly to 10.13.4. The "clean" system was pretty unusable, there was an obvious lag on most UI things. E.g. hovering over each section of the top menu would open it after at least half a second (depended on the app - some faster, some slower). Activity monitor showed nothing in CPU or Disk usage. I actually thought there was something wrong with my new SSD, until I cloned the old disk with Mavericks to the new disk, booted and everything was snappy again. Not upgrading the old mac to High Sierra any time soon... Well, I can afford to as I have XCode on the laptop...
Now when that truck has miscalculated and is almost out of juice, it will go at 2 kmh on that stretch of road to get some meaningful charge...
I have no idea what you are talking about. Apple takes 30% not 40, which may be steep, but AFAIK it is exactly the same as Google. Also, you can compile on a Hackintosh, or a Hackintosh Virtual Machine, so the hardware does not have to be Apple (although that saves you a lot of trouble), but it is indeed annoying that you definitely need OS X at a very recent version otherwise the Xcode version needed won't run.
Overall, I dislike the limitations that iOS apps have, that is why my every day phone is Android (Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 currently), however, I have an iPhone from work and I find iOS development a joy compared to Android, so the apps I develop for fun are on iOS.
I would very very much have liked for something like the Maemo/Meego (Nokia N9) to have been given a chance, as it is both Android and iPhone are sort of "necessary evils" for me for different reasons.
And the property that most people did not associate with us in the first place, and was pretty much "getting away with it"!
"Yeah, I closed my FB account, besides, who needs it when we have Instagram!"
Wow, that seems like a horrible service! Surely, they should have gone with http://thisisaurlshorteningser...
At an auto garage:
-Hi, I'd like an exhaust for my Yugo.
(after several seconds of deep thought on the part of the mechanic)
-OK, sounds like a fair trade...
-How do you double the price of a Yugo?
-You fill it up with gas. (that's petrol in the UK)
-Why does the Yugo come with rear windshield heaters?
-To warm the hands of the people pushing it.
Eh, how are (largish) devices imagined for 500 years in the future, which tap into a central mainframe-type unit for any processing and have no display, an indication that our current phones are not ahead of what sci-fi predicted for personal communicators?
Sure, if you could find a single instance of an all-display pocket supercomputer, preferably not imagined for hundreds of years in the future, it would be interesting, and it still would not go against the point of my post: If you read/watch sci-fi (written until as late as the 80's), we lag in almost all sectors, except phones.
When I was a kid in the 80's, sci-fi shows were all about flying cars, fast planes, spaceships etc. Sure, sometimes the moon exploded due to nukes and started traveling through the galaxy, but still there was a moon base on it. ;)
In almost all aspects, we are not there. In some areas we have even regressed - we no longer have supersonic commercial planes, our manned spaceflight is also more limited.
Science fiction was too optimistic about all technology... except PHONES. They did not even come close to imagining our phones!
Seriously, I have a Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 which is not only a reasonably priced an beautiful phone (shameless plug because I enjoy it so much more than the expensive Samsung it replaced), but it is also way more advanced than anything imagined in Sci-Fi. There were videophones but they were usually too bulky, there were small phones, but just communicators, even the 24th century tri-corders could not do most of the things the little pocket computer communicators we have now, and they did not look nearly as nice.
So it seems for all the things we miss, we get phones, I guess that's where most "innovation" goes these days. If you go by Apple, they do seem to have stagnated a bit in the last 2-3 iterations, but we'll get more fancy things soon I bet (perhaps folding displays, or large batteries that don't explode).
The two areas I feel are the most disappointing is computers and space exploration. Those were the advances I was most interested in following. Every CPU (and for a while GPU) generation was a huge leap in performance & abilities, the 80's, 90's and early 00's (until the P4 basically) were exciting times. And you followed the Voyager probes reaching their targets, the space shuttle getting 7 people up at a time (albeit exploding now and then), which was not as exciting as the 60's but still.
Anyway, with SpaceX I have a renewed interest in space, perhaps we'll get back there and continue exploring, so there might be some exciting times ahead in that regard.
As long as we don't blow ourselves up
Interesting series of tweets: https://twitter.com/EricPaulDe...
The median looks like it has fancy, inviting paths, but it also warns you not to use them. And the actual crossing is kind of daunting...
It is a rather bad design, but it does look dangerous in any case, so if I wanted to cross that way I would exercise extreme caution...
Meanwhile Trump & his party promised them good paying jobs.
Eh, not exactly. What I remember is that he was promising them coal mining jobs and not being particular about the pay grade. So all they knew was they were promised jobs that were considered unhealthy/undesirable 100 years ago, and yet they were applauding. Perhaps everybody was thinking "surely the other guys will be going down the mines, I'll be managing from above", or something like that, I don't know, I didn't try to make any sense out of it...
Yeah, right because we know exactly how the mind works so we are a great authority to decide whether it "survived" this crude process. Like the cryonics fad, but at least this time they should charge you less because they are not promising to run a fridge for you for hundreds of years...
Isn't it easy to have more growth when you have much more room for growth?
I wonder if Lyft uses illegal tactics like Uber. The latest I heard about UBER, in Greece they provide fake private contracts to their drivers, since they operate there under the guise of renting vehicles (which has a 6-hour minimum), so the driver has to give a contract to the customer which says they hire the car for 6 hours and have to pay a substantially larger amount than the fare, and if they are stopped by police show that and say the driver & customer are friends/family who rented a car. Quite smart, basically it makes the driver and the customer accomplices to fraud and UBER is whistling at the sidelines, reaping the rewards...
I mean, it seems rather obvious that the Android percentage would be higher, but it does not mean a higher "loyalty", but exactly the opposite.
Specifically, from what I can find, about 86% of phones sold are Android - apart from lower priced devices, there is also a huge selection, compared to the iOS devices being just 3 models, so it would make sense that more Android devices would be sold even if iOS was a better OS overall (it is in many ways, it is not in several others).
So, they say that there is a 91% chance for an android user to stick with Android - so a bit higher than the overall Android market share which is expected from a user who has a bias towards the device they are used to.
However, even though iOS devices have just a 13% market share, an iOS owner has a rather staggering 86% chance of buying another iOS device. That sure is some serious brand loyalty and it is what we've come to expect from Apple users.
Eh, a single malicious vehicle can block "dumb" intersections too if it just stops right there in the middle!