Why on earth did people choose to moderate this off topic and troll???!?
Would it have been better if I'd direct quoted the bits about only rich people being able to afford higher education?
If you charge people for college, only the rich can go to college. For the rest of us, the other choice is to go into debt that you may never repay..... We've got the money. We pay for wars, the military, police departments outfitted into SWAT teams, prisons filled with drug offenders spending long terms.
My point is that the third choice is to serve the country -- not necessarily on the front lines. You can join the army as support personnel and still get the college tuition package. I'd personally never take that option, but it's there.
Government funding controls/warps the education system priorities and creates inflation.
Anything other than government getting out of the system and allowing the schools spending money unwisely to fail, and not subsidizing the useless degrees which mean nothing other than people taught to think like the government wants and wanting to support anything to pay back their student debt is idiocy,
On the realistic side though we are 3/4 of the way to the Idiocracy world, and the people who think they are the smartest are the biggest idiots or they people teaching people to be idiots to control them, so nothing will change.
Everything controls/warps the education system -- are you going to deny both government funding and corporate funding? Where is the university going to get its funding from then?
The reason I ask this is that universities are not technical institutes where you train for a job; they are designed as education and research centers, where the eventual gain is at some point decades off, NOT after someone completes a 4-year BA in basketweaving (unless they're partnered with an MBA and are going into artisan product manufacturing).
Possibly what is needed is for the government to have a more hands off approach regarding how education funds are spent -- the schools that misuse their funds will still fail (they can't survive solely on handouts) and other schools will become R&D centers for many new and amazing ideas. This is how most of the rest of the western world does it.
All of these speed tests are ludicrously easily-gamed, and are thus of next to no value in the real world. They don't tell you what speed you're getting on real-world websites, they tell you what speed you could theoretically get when your internet provider lifts caps on bandwidth, prioritizes your traffic over those of other users on the same cell tower / network for the duration of the test, etc.
And you're naive if you think some or all of the above doesn't already happen.
The crazy thing is, even with all of the above being true, the speed tests still suck. That means that while GAMING the tests, they still provide sub-par performance. Think about that for a moment.
Likewise, Russia won't do it, as they've got crime syndicates taking advantage. It's up to countries like Brazil and India to speak out about these things..
No, because Brazil and India have more to gain than they do to lose. And we already had that debate regarding Brazil, cold fjord... If I peek over the cubicle wall to see what my co-worker is up to, that's not the same type of spying as comprehensive meta-surveillance. Likewise, the oranges from Brazil aren't the same as the rotten apples from the US. First clue: Brazil announced what they were doing publicly, NSA lied to congress about what they were up to and have had a steady program of misleading information and character assassination ever since. If Brazil was able to openly admit to what they were doing, I'd trust them to speak out about what other countries are doing too.
Only classified in the US and with cooperation of complicit nations. Of course, China's not about to publicly point out the holes in cisco routers, as they probably leverage them themselves. Likewise, Russia won't do it, as they've got crime syndicates taking advantage. It's up to countries like Brazil and India to speak out about these things... and do so in a way that they don't get silenced.
There's another reason for this too... today's CPUs are designed to recognize some standard compiler instruction chains and shortcut them -- so if you hand-code those instructions, the CPU will have to take your instructions literally, whereas if you use the manufacturer's compiler (or a common compiler such as provided by GNU or MS), the CPU will often recognize the expensive routines and optimize them for you in the pipeline.
That said, if the assembler actually knows the cpu they're targeting, they can take advantage of these pipeline shortcuts as well. But it won't be portable unless they duplicate a lot of the logic that goes into compilers in the first place -- at which point, you're adding an extra layer that's going to take more time/space.
I use three different modules: roof, gutter and barrel, which together take advantage of the synergistic features enabled by cloud-based desalination.
Sadly, there are parts of the US where collecting rainwater off your roof is illegal. Something about maintaining the water table to support farming, or whatever. Just warning you before you spend all that money on your patents:-)
My patents will be full of marketspeak, but never once mention collecting rainwater. They'll apply to collecting any sort of runoff from any surface, as long as it comes from "the cloud":D
2 places: 1) salt cellars 2) superheated to provide an energy sink; then used to generate electricity. This will, of course, require some sort of a gate to dump the salt from the basin at a predefined salinity level, for use in the turbine's basin. Definitely doable.
It's gonna get nasty and violent. The wealth WILL be redistributed. And the longer it takes the worse it will be.
Should be entertaining at least. Hope i see it in my lifetime.
Yes, the wealth will be redistributed... those with more power will acquire more wealth. When the inequality gets too large, the people currently with a lot of power will discover that they now have none... and a new group will rise to take their place.
A nation with equally distributed wealth is a nation with no power or incentive. Humans abhor a power vacuum.
IIRC, the change occurred in the mid to late 90's, as software and hardware got complex enough that a lot of it started being subcontracted, and storage got large enough that you could store the entire set of plans digitally, making both the plans and the documentation much more mobile. However, the shift really began in the mid 80's, when the increasingly complex manuals started being "available" instead of provided by default.
Some examples include the Apple IIGS being the first Apple-based PC (as opposed to Mac or Lisa) that didn't come with schematics; a few years earlier, the Mac came out with the full manual, but no schematics and a sealed case. By the time the IIGS stopped being sold, all Apple products came with a "getting started" manual, but the detailed information was only available via digital format, or by an "Inside Macintosh" subscription. Then, with the advent of the iMac, Apple stripped it back even further -- by this point, they'd separated information out between what a developer would need and what a "user" would need.
Back in the early days of personal/hobby computers, there was no "user" -- the person behind the keyboard cooperated with those who had made the base hardware and software to create solutions to problems.
So, I guess you could argue that the real fall of the old school access to information started as "applications" replaced "programs" on computers, and ended when most computer brands came in a model where the warranty was void if the case was opened. I'd say the transition range was roughly 1983-1996.
GPL/BSDing old code is a major headache... they'd have to contact all the original developers and get their permission -- whereas the "fine for non-commercial use" agreement probably already works with most of the contracts that were signed. Apple got into this difficulty with Mac OS 7.6+, IIRC -- some portions of it were under copyright by third parties, so they weren't able to give away MacOS system installs anymore, Same issue with System 7.1 (but System 7.5.3 and 7.5.5 had better contracts associated with them).
That said, I'd love if they'd do this with the ROM code for the classic and II-style Macs....
The Color Classic and Colour Classic II (being LC-based) also had PDS and could do this.
As for USB floppy drives: do they still work under 10.9? I ask, because 10.9 dropped support for HFS disk images. We already lost support for MFS images some time ago.
Of course, I guess you could always read from the device at the block level, or use FUSE and your own code to read off of 3.5" and 5.25" disks. I'm not sure it'll work by default anymore though.
It's not like they're posting the sheet music or the guitar chords, let alone any kind of recording. If you don't already know the tune, the lyrics aren't going to help you understand the actual music. And since singers are so mush-mouthed these days, you need the lyrics to avoid accidentally creating new mondegreens.
Does iTunes even include the lyrics when you buy a song?
The issue here is that there are often multiple groups interested in any musical production: 1) the person/people who wrote the music 2) the person/people who wrote the lyrics 3) the person/people who performed the music/lyrics 4) the people who produced the recording (this includes the studio engineers, etc) 5) the organization that distributed the music 6) the organization that made the music avaialable for personal consumption.
Now the way things are currently set up, the money gets filtered down in a reverse order, so those who wrote the music/lyrics don't get much.
#3 is covered by live performance usually, and some of their profits also go back to 2 and 1.
#2 and 1 make most of their money through reselling, as they don't have the same contract limitations as the performers -- they can resell to anyone wanting to cover the song (alternate performance) and to anyone wanting to produce the music in sheet or audio form. They get peanuts for each use, but those peanuts add up, and are their livelihood (unless it's stuff done by studio writers or performers).
So it's not the RIAA (3 and above) (we're not talking recordings here) that's doing this, it's the NMPA, who represents groups 1 and 2. While their "methodology" of generating the warnings is extremely suspect, the concept sounds reasonable -- sites publishing other people's lyrics for profit should be paying into the same system they're (ab)using. I'd like to think that prior to a DMCA notice, they'd send out a "please come to a licensing agreement with us" notice, however.
But any way you look at it, these sites are in direct competition with NMPA members and are using their works, unlike RIAA, who doesn't figure in this story at all.
Now move the fucking battery pack so this shit stops. 1/4" aluminum armor 'a good idea' and all, but only because you mounted the battery in a stupid fucking position. Treat it like the gas tank, since it too is the energy storage medium for the car and its most dangerous components. Gas tanks don't need 1/4" armor... because they don't mount them where shit getting wedge under the car is going to penetrate them, neither should you.
Designing a new car from the ground up without all the old baggage of a 100 years of car building practices may seem like a great idea for efficiency, but its really not considering you're now going to RELEARN a BUNCH of shit that GM, Ford, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota and all the rest learned a long time ago.
Nothing Tesla is doing is new or groundbreaking, theres no reason for throwing the baby out in the bath water, which is what they've done.
Um, this is the tesla that burst into flame under the hood... nowhere near the battery pack. I'm pretty impressed that the sensors detected the fault so far ahead of the failure... now they just need to add some extra circuitry to completely disable electronics in areas that have an electrical fault (after the car is in park of course).
What about iCloud integration? Apple has now made iCloud mandatory for address book and calendar syncing. I'd rather keep this info to myself thank you, based on how it can be even inadvertently abused.
the survey by the online consumer insurance site Car insurance.com also showed that 75% of respondents think they could drive a car better than a computer. Another 64% said computers were not capable of the same quality of decision-making as human drivers.
Emphasis mine.
Uhmmm... *ANOTHER* 64%???? So people above and beyond the 75% that was just mentioned previously? Wouldn't that make... oh... 139%?
Or do you mean 64% of those remaining?
If the latter, one is compelled to wonder what the reason for the remaining 36% not wanting to hand over their driving to a robot was.
Or do you mean 64% of all respondents (which doesn't make sense in context)? But that would mean that nearly half of people who don't even trust a computer to drive would still hand over the driving to a robot that they believe could kill them, just to get lower insurance rates. That's an interesting notion as well.
Well, right now people hand over their keys to a family member they believe could kill them, just to get out of having to be the one doing the shopping. So yeah; I can see people giving up safety for convenience and price; it happens all the time.
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e) it really helps to have everyone in your country related to someone in the military, as far as a) goes.
Why on earth did people choose to moderate this off topic and troll???!?
Would it have been better if I'd direct quoted the bits about only rich people being able to afford higher education?
My point is that the third choice is to serve the country -- not necessarily on the front lines. You can join the army as support personnel and still get the college tuition package. I'd personally never take that option, but it's there.
There's one other route, and many take it: If you join the Army, they pay your tuition.
In some of those European countries, Army service is mandatory.
Take that how you may.
Government funding controls/warps the education system priorities and creates inflation.
Anything other than government getting out of the system and allowing the schools spending money unwisely to fail, and not subsidizing the useless degrees which mean nothing other than people taught to think like the government wants and wanting to support anything to pay back their student debt is idiocy,
On the realistic side though we are 3/4 of the way to the Idiocracy world, and the people who think they are the smartest are the biggest idiots or they people teaching people to be idiots to control them, so nothing will change.
Everything controls/warps the education system -- are you going to deny both government funding and corporate funding? Where is the university going to get its funding from then?
The reason I ask this is that universities are not technical institutes where you train for a job; they are designed as education and research centers, where the eventual gain is at some point decades off, NOT after someone completes a 4-year BA in basketweaving (unless they're partnered with an MBA and are going into artisan product manufacturing).
Possibly what is needed is for the government to have a more hands off approach regarding how education funds are spent -- the schools that misuse their funds will still fail (they can't survive solely on handouts) and other schools will become R&D centers for many new and amazing ideas. This is how most of the rest of the western world does it.
All of these speed tests are ludicrously easily-gamed, and are thus of next to no value in the real world. They don't tell you what speed you're getting on real-world websites, they tell you what speed you could theoretically get when your internet provider lifts caps on bandwidth, prioritizes your traffic over those of other users on the same cell tower / network for the duration of the test, etc.
And you're naive if you think some or all of the above doesn't already happen.
The crazy thing is, even with all of the above being true, the speed tests still suck. That means that while GAMING the tests, they still provide sub-par performance. Think about that for a moment.
Likewise, Russia won't do it, as they've got crime syndicates taking advantage. It's up to countries like Brazil and India to speak out about these things..
Because Brazil is crime free and doesn't spy? I expect that India is similarly virtuous.
No, because Brazil and India have more to gain than they do to lose. And we already had that debate regarding Brazil, cold fjord... If I peek over the cubicle wall to see what my co-worker is up to, that's not the same type of spying as comprehensive meta-surveillance. Likewise, the oranges from Brazil aren't the same as the rotten apples from the US. First clue: Brazil announced what they were doing publicly, NSA lied to congress about what they were up to and have had a steady program of misleading information and character assassination ever since. If Brazil was able to openly admit to what they were doing, I'd trust them to speak out about what other countries are doing too.
"Proof" is classified. Move along citizen.
Only classified in the US and with cooperation of complicit nations. Of course, China's not about to publicly point out the holes in cisco routers, as they probably leverage them themselves. Likewise, Russia won't do it, as they've got crime syndicates taking advantage. It's up to countries like Brazil and India to speak out about these things... and do so in a way that they don't get silenced.
There's another reason for this too... today's CPUs are designed to recognize some standard compiler instruction chains and shortcut them -- so if you hand-code those instructions, the CPU will have to take your instructions literally, whereas if you use the manufacturer's compiler (or a common compiler such as provided by GNU or MS), the CPU will often recognize the expensive routines and optimize them for you in the pipeline.
That said, if the assembler actually knows the cpu they're targeting, they can take advantage of these pipeline shortcuts as well. But it won't be portable unless they duplicate a lot of the logic that goes into compilers in the first place -- at which point, you're adding an extra layer that's going to take more time/space.
I use three different modules: roof, gutter and barrel, which together take advantage of the synergistic features enabled by cloud-based desalination.
Sadly, there are parts of the US where collecting rainwater off your roof is illegal. Something about maintaining the water table to support farming, or whatever. Just warning you before you spend all that money on your patents :-)
My patents will be full of marketspeak, but never once mention collecting rainwater. They'll apply to collecting any sort of runoff from any surface, as long as it comes from "the cloud" :D
Where does the salt go?
2 places:
1) salt cellars
2) superheated to provide an energy sink; then used to generate electricity. This will, of course, require some sort of a gate to dump the salt from the basin at a predefined salinity level, for use in the turbine's basin. Definitely doable.
It's gonna get nasty and violent. The wealth WILL be redistributed. And the longer it takes the worse it will be.
Should be entertaining at least. Hope i see it in my lifetime.
Yes, the wealth will be redistributed... those with more power will acquire more wealth. When the inequality gets too large, the people currently with a lot of power will discover that they now have none... and a new group will rise to take their place.
A nation with equally distributed wealth is a nation with no power or incentive. Humans abhor a power vacuum.
Cloud-based desalination will be the next big thing, I'm sure of it! People will be providing DsaaS solutions globally!
I use three different modules: roof, gutter and barrel, which together take advantage of the synergistic features enabled by cloud-based desalination.
The patent applications should start flooding in any day now....
IIRC, the change occurred in the mid to late 90's, as software and hardware got complex enough that a lot of it started being subcontracted, and storage got large enough that you could store the entire set of plans digitally, making both the plans and the documentation much more mobile. However, the shift really began in the mid 80's, when the increasingly complex manuals started being "available" instead of provided by default.
Some examples include the Apple IIGS being the first Apple-based PC (as opposed to Mac or Lisa) that didn't come with schematics; a few years earlier, the Mac came out with the full manual, but no schematics and a sealed case. By the time the IIGS stopped being sold, all Apple products came with a "getting started" manual, but the detailed information was only available via digital format, or by an "Inside Macintosh" subscription. Then, with the advent of the iMac, Apple stripped it back even further -- by this point, they'd separated information out between what a developer would need and what a "user" would need.
Back in the early days of personal/hobby computers, there was no "user" -- the person behind the keyboard cooperated with those who had made the base hardware and software to create solutions to problems.
So, I guess you could argue that the real fall of the old school access to information started as "applications" replaced "programs" on computers, and ended when most computer brands came in a model where the warranty was void if the case was opened. I'd say the transition range was roughly 1983-1996.
GPL/BSDing old code is a major headache... they'd have to contact all the original developers and get their permission -- whereas the "fine for non-commercial use" agreement probably already works with most of the contracts that were signed. Apple got into this difficulty with Mac OS 7.6+, IIRC -- some portions of it were under copyright by third parties, so they weren't able to give away MacOS system installs anymore, Same issue with System 7.1 (but System 7.5.3 and 7.5.5 had better contracts associated with them).
That said, I'd love if they'd do this with the ROM code for the classic and II-style Macs....
The Color Classic and Colour Classic II (being LC-based) also had PDS and could do this.
As for USB floppy drives: do they still work under 10.9? I ask, because 10.9 dropped support for HFS disk images. We already lost support for MFS images some time ago.
Of course, I guess you could always read from the device at the block level, or use FUSE and your own code to read off of 3.5" and 5.25" disks. I'm not sure it'll work by default anymore though.
This kind of project also helps mitigate erosion and desertification, which is a major bonus for the region.
http://www.arrogantworms.com/music/carrot-juice-is-murder-2/
http://members.optusnet.com.au/pennywyatt/Interests/FlandersSwann/Other/Other02.html
(and these guys don't seem to do ad-generated revenue, so my link shouldn't put them on the "top 50" list :)
It's not like they're posting the sheet music or the guitar chords, let alone any kind of recording. If you don't already know the tune, the lyrics aren't going to help you understand the actual music. And since singers are so mush-mouthed these days, you need the lyrics to avoid accidentally creating new mondegreens.
Does iTunes even include the lyrics when you buy a song?
The issue here is that there are often multiple groups interested in any musical production:
1) the person/people who wrote the music
2) the person/people who wrote the lyrics
3) the person/people who performed the music/lyrics
4) the people who produced the recording (this includes the studio engineers, etc)
5) the organization that distributed the music
6) the organization that made the music avaialable for personal consumption.
Now the way things are currently set up, the money gets filtered down in a reverse order, so those who wrote the music/lyrics don't get much.
#3 is covered by live performance usually, and some of their profits also go back to 2 and 1.
#2 and 1 make most of their money through reselling, as they don't have the same contract limitations as the performers -- they can resell to anyone wanting to cover the song (alternate performance) and to anyone wanting to produce the music in sheet or audio form. They get peanuts for each use, but those peanuts add up, and are their livelihood (unless it's stuff done by studio writers or performers).
So it's not the RIAA (3 and above) (we're not talking recordings here) that's doing this, it's the NMPA, who represents groups 1 and 2. While their "methodology" of generating the warnings is extremely suspect, the concept sounds reasonable -- sites publishing other people's lyrics for profit should be paying into the same system they're (ab)using. I'd like to think that prior to a DMCA notice, they'd send out a "please come to a licensing agreement with us" notice, however.
But any way you look at it, these sites are in direct competition with NMPA members and are using their works, unlike RIAA, who doesn't figure in this story at all.
Now move the fucking battery pack so this shit stops. 1/4" aluminum armor 'a good idea' and all, but only because you mounted the battery in a stupid fucking position. Treat it like the gas tank, since it too is the energy storage medium for the car and its most dangerous components. Gas tanks don't need 1/4" armor ... because they don't mount them where shit getting wedge under the car is going to penetrate them, neither should you.
Designing a new car from the ground up without all the old baggage of a 100 years of car building practices may seem like a great idea for efficiency, but its really not considering you're now going to RELEARN a BUNCH of shit that GM, Ford, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota and all the rest learned a long time ago.
Nothing Tesla is doing is new or groundbreaking, theres no reason for throwing the baby out in the bath water, which is what they've done.
Um, this is the tesla that burst into flame under the hood... nowhere near the battery pack. I'm pretty impressed that the sensors detected the fault so far ahead of the failure... now they just need to add some extra circuitry to completely disable electronics in areas that have an electrical fault (after the car is in park of course).
What about iCloud integration? Apple has now made iCloud mandatory for address book and calendar syncing. I'd rather keep this info to myself thank you, based on how it can be even inadvertently abused.
...and printing a spring wouldn't work all that well.
Not a bad idea. How about seeding the internet with lots of legitimate-looking email addresses to cause spammers to waste time and resources?
No need to do that... spammers already do it to waste time and resources of anti-spam groups.
The REAL evidence of the singularity will be when I hear cars street racing at 1 in the morning... and there are no (human) drivers.
Now you have me wondering what the traditional girl with a scarf who gives the go will look like in an all-robot race...
Replaced with a traffic light, of course ;)
Emphasis mine.
Uhmmm... *ANOTHER* 64%???? So people above and beyond the 75% that was just mentioned previously? Wouldn't that make... oh... 139%?
Or do you mean 64% of those remaining?
If the latter, one is compelled to wonder what the reason for the remaining 36% not wanting to hand over their driving to a robot was.
Or do you mean 64% of all respondents (which doesn't make sense in context)? But that would mean that nearly half of people who don't even trust a computer to drive would still hand over the driving to a robot that they believe could kill them, just to get lower insurance rates. That's an interesting notion as well.
Well, right now people hand over their keys to a family member they believe could kill them, just to get out of having to be the one doing the shopping. So yeah; I can see people giving up safety for convenience and price; it happens all the time.