Surely it's going to work. This is the cheapest way to get a lot of people to just resign without severance pay. Just like they suddenly decided to cancel *all* external hires in Europe about a 18 months ago, killing many profitable projects with that decision, in the end they will come up with a much leaner work force that is way more eager to keep their job than the oversized bureaucratic non-functioning organization they have had for many years. Either that, or they will go belly up. They could alternatively get their shit together and actually start managing, but that would require an effort and look bad towards shareholders because it would mean long term investments and not better quarterly results.
Your story is interesting to read. I have recently bought an AMD 7870 card for my main desktop system. The main cause for me to switch was the openCL support that AMD in their proprietary drivers has. True, I have had trouble with multi monitor support and stability that was only fixed (for me at least) very recently and I contemplated switching back. However, with the latest drivers, I have had no trouble so far and the openCL performance I get out of the card is way better than a similarly priced NVidia board would give me.
Would I buy another NVidia, or would I go for AMD for my next purchase? I guess it depends on NVidia getting their support for openCL instructions sorted out and fix the performance. I regularly have to do brute force password hashing for my work and NVidia is miles behind AMD in that, because they have a few openCL instructions not properly implemented in their hardware. If their next silicon fixes that, I wouldn't know which I'd choose. If by the time I want another card they are still behind, I would likely go for an AMD card.
There have been quite a lot of countries that actually had a gold (or other similar valuable metals, most notably silver, that could easily be exchanged for gold) storage that would back every single paper money bill in rotation. It called the "gold standard" and money issued when this was in effect could always be exchanged for a predetermined amount of gold, noted on the bills. This was especially true in Europe in the era just after Napoleon, since people distrusted "paper money" after the French government refused to exchange the money Napoleon introduced when he conquered their countries and took all their gold and silver. In the USA, history went another way and there have only been short periods when the government had a gold or silver standard. Gold standards have existed far into the 20th century and only when people trusted their government enough (or when they got greedy enough) governments have been abandoning this.
Scanners for containers already exist. Rotterdam Harbour in the Netherlands employs these on a very large scale. They are in fact not turntable scanners, but you drive the whole truck in with the container on it. The driver gets out and the whole rig gets scanned. The turntable doesn't have a function for scanning shipping containers. It's only useful if you need a much higher resolution scan of something that doesn't easily fit through scanners that aren't purpose built to scan just one sort of object.
This is probably news because it's bigger and/or faster than what was available until now. I don't really see anyone putting an entire wing on a platform and rotate it to do a scan right now. I'm imagining that a wing scanner is probably a "static" device where you slowly slide the wing through and it wouldn't be capable of scanning anything that doesn't fit through the opening in the scanner. By putting the scanners on the side of a platform, you could scale up without too much difficulty, compared to the "pass through the hole" method used now.
It may improve scrolling speed and other compositing functions, compared to unaccelerated graphics drivers. However, Chromium is known to have quite a decent openGL and 2D accelerated X interface already. I think this question should be read as: "Will wayland offer benefits as decreased power usage or better acceleration, compared to using X11?". In that case, I think we will probably have to say it isn't at that point in the foreseeable future.
How many secret arrests are made exactly and how do you know they are extremely uncommon? Every single missing person could be one of those secret arrests for all we know. A secret arrest to prevent an ongoing investigation from revealing "the police are onto them" to the bad guys makes sense, but you should put a limit to the amount of time an arrest can be kept secret.
In the Netherlands, people get wrongly arrested too, but the amount of arrests here is way less than in the USA. I'm not completely up to speed on the exact regulations, but the police doesn't have to give information about an arrested person except to their next of kin here. If a journalist were to come ask who got arrested, they'd only get the age, gender and domicile of the person(s) arrested. If a next of kin were to come and ask if so-and-so got arrested, they'd have to prove their relationship to the person and would get a yes/no answer. Usually, the police would allow you more than your one phone call to get a lawyer and they themselves would take it upon them to find your next of kin and inform them, unless you requested them not to do so yourself. This tends to work fairly well. Privacy is protected a whole lot better, secret arrests aren't possible any more than under the USA system and there's a lot less fuss about the whole deal in general.
I've said so before and I will say it again. mod me down if you feel you don't agree with me, I don't care. If the people of a nation don't trust their government, they should do something about their government, not come up with silly laws to make sure they can defend themselves against their own government. Don't say you need to bear arms to defend yourself from a corrupt government, or you need everyone's privacy obliterated to make sure the government doesn't secretly arrests people. It's useless, they have better guns and make secret arrests just the same. You need to stop electing the people that aren't representing you, but only themselves and the corporations that sponsored them. Any politician or political party taking campaign funds from any corporation should not get a single vote. Any individual putting more money than regular membership fees into a political party should be prohibited from doing so. It is inconceivable to many Europeans that the USA voters are willing to vote for anyone that allowed themselves to be "bought" that way. It may sound strange to Americans, but by doing this and giving a (humble) governmental subsidy to parties to fund their campaigns, you are making democracy a lot more plausible and believable. Apart from that, you'll rid yourself from a lot of annoying commercials in the process.
A Dutch bank already has this built into their mobile banking application stack. One person foots the bill and the app takes care of splitting things up and billing the individuals that are splitting the bill. It also tracks their payments and helps send out reminders.
People most at risk of tornadoes are the people living in trailer parks, not the ones living in homes. Sure, maybe the homes aren't tornado proof, quite a few of them get blown away every year and every year, people living in them get hurt or die when they get blown away with their homes when they are in them. But, they are a minority when it comes to people that die in their homes compared to when a tornado hits a trailer park. A trailer is about the worst place to be when a tornado hits and casualties are much bigger when it comes to people living there. It's not just the density of a trainer park, way more people per square foot, but also the even weaker construction of the "building". Building a brand new home for not a lot more money that is much better at sustaining a tornado is a good development, but it won't save that much more lives and futures. Come up with an affordable, tornado proof trailer and you have a true life saver and a real novelty.
Yes, it's not as good as it should be. Fortunately, NVidia has opened up a lot more specs so the last missing bits for may features and "irky bugs" in Nouveau can finally be dealt with. It's still not enough to build a fully featured just-as-fast driver, but in the last few months, significant changes were made in how NVidia treats the open source community and so far, Nouveau driver developers have been happy with what they got. It's not finished, but at least it's getting in the right direction.
Seriously, Does MicroSoft need 3rd party vendors to make their "user experience" better than their own operating system? I'm sorry, let me rephrase that: Do hardware drivers make the user experience so much better? That must be one crappy operating system then....
With the current craze about moon jelly fish aquariums, will this robot fit in there? What if my jelly fish decide they want to take over the world, I need some sort of defence against that!
Open access to the internet entails being able to offer services just as much as being able to use them. By prohibiting users to run their own services they are violating net neutrality. When is the class action suit coming?
The accident you are mentioning was most likely caused by the car bottoming out on the intersection just before it drove over a fire hydrant (skid marks and hydrant evident on pictures), lost it's drive line because that hooked on said hydrant and then ended frontally into a big tree (or was it a lamp post?) at an impact speed of over 60 mph. I
Fluoride has several functions when it comes to dentistry.
1) act as a catalyst for rebuilding teeth. It helps calcium and phosphates dissolved in your saliva to be (re)introduced in your teeth and rebuilds them that way. It does this by remaining in the porous surface of a tooth.
2) It acts as an antibacterial agent. Again, any bacteria it encounters will have trouble functioning and reproducing, slowing or killing the damage to your teeth. If your teeth are clean, there are very few bacteria in your saliva and after you flush, the only place where the fluoride will remain is in/on the surface of your teeth.
You don't need more than 6 seconds to apply fluoride to clean teeth using this brush system (or at least that is what they claim), or 120 seconds using a manual brush and it doesn't end when you flush your mouth after you're done brushing.
Fluoride has a function and it can help, but it's not what brushing your teeth is about. Cleaning the teeth and gums from debris and bacteria is the main purpose and doing this properly is way more important than applying some fluoride. You can add all the fluoride in the world, but bad cleaning won't be compensated with it. People that brush their teeth without even using tooth paste but do it properly, have way healthier teeth than people that do it badly but use high doses of fluoride. There are large portions of the world where tooth paste and fluoride are "extremely uncommon" to use to prove this.
It's not about the 2 minutes you save, but about the knowledge that you have properly brushed your teeth without missing a single spot every time you use this brush. It's easy to claim that more than half of the people that come into a dentist that need work done, end up there because they haven't brushed their teeth properly at least once a day for their entire life. You may not safe money on toothbrushes this way, but you will possibly break even on total dentistry costs even at the price point this brush is at now. It's not even about the money, having "perfect teeth" is a health and social benefit that has merit on it's own.
Security done right improves profit. How? Because you go over a functional model of your IT systems as well, to find flaws in the logic that can be abused. You find bugs that cost you money and you get those solved. Research has proven that you can actually more than get back the cost of spending money on good security and turn a profit by having less bugs and flaws in your systems. This does not apply to token efforts and buzz ware, but there's a way to do this properly.
Just because they got busted, doesn't mean that a Tor compromise was the cause of it all. If you read the court papers, you'll find out they were on to the guy well before they had access to the server(s) because he used his real name with activities that were related to silk road. They "routinely" found 9 fake IDs in one parcel shipped to him from Canada (there was a recent story where they had a fake-id manufacturer arrested and they took his place, might be related?) so they knew pretty much where he was and that he was related. It wouldn't have been too difficult for them to use that info to actually get wire taps on him and figure out where the actual hardware was without Tor being compromised. It may be correlated, it may even be the cause, but this is in no way proof it is.
Also, to add to the other person already talking about electrostats, magnetic speaker development isn't dead by far. You don't need rare earth magnets for "living room size" speakers and you also don't need cones. In the past, experiments have been done with using flat carbon fiber honey combed round "plates" that were attached with a very light and solid construction to the voice coil of a speaker. Those took out a lot of the distortion and deformation you typically get with a classical cone speaker. Development in what is used as a "membrane" and active feedback control using a DSP to counteract the distortion the speaker itself generates can create extremely good sounding "conventional" speaker systems. Price has so far been prohibitive for this sort of system to reach even the audiophile part of the market, let alone main stream, but science hasn't stopped.
With the DIY manufacturing technology now becoming available to hacker spaces, I think we will see a lot more of this sort of technology out in the field at a price point that will be affordable to anyone that would alternatively spend good money on high quality speaker systems.
A phone doesn't solve this problem. Please try (I know it's hard) to solve this problem and not the silly symptom of not being to able to skype with your kid. I know you miss him, but you really need to deal with this on another level. If your ex is uncomfortable with her kid skyping with his father because she's running around naked, maybe she should limit the times she runs around naked and you and your kid should limit the times that you two skype. It's not as if she can answer the door if she's stark and she is bound to have a solution for that already.
I have a small pocket guide to the *entire* WWW that mattered back then. I can't find it right now, but it's not much younger than this book. It's barely 200 pages and it covers "all the web sites of interest" and it predates web sites like geocities, google and such. It recommends to use a modern browser like Netscape and not Mosaic. It's fun to see that people still lived in a world where they used a paper guide to help them out in a digital world and the paper guide was actually relevant, pretty complete and faster to use than a "manual" search on "the Internet". Back then, internet was still written with a capital I....
How do you make these? You need something that will convert a frequency our eyes can't detect, in your focal plane (it's a contact lens) into something you can detect without changing direction of the light wave. Never mind they cost allegedly $2000 I want to know what the science behind them is.
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Surely it's going to work. This is the cheapest way to get a lot of people to just resign without severance pay. Just like they suddenly decided to cancel *all* external hires in Europe about a 18 months ago, killing many profitable projects with that decision, in the end they will come up with a much leaner work force that is way more eager to keep their job than the oversized bureaucratic non-functioning organization they have had for many years. Either that, or they will go belly up. They could alternatively get their shit together and actually start managing, but that would require an effort and look bad towards shareholders because it would mean long term investments and not better quarterly results.
Your story is interesting to read. I have recently bought an AMD 7870 card for my main desktop system. The main cause for me to switch was the openCL support that AMD in their proprietary drivers has. True, I have had trouble with multi monitor support and stability that was only fixed (for me at least) very recently and I contemplated switching back. However, with the latest drivers, I have had no trouble so far and the openCL performance I get out of the card is way better than a similarly priced NVidia board would give me.
Would I buy another NVidia, or would I go for AMD for my next purchase? I guess it depends on NVidia getting their support for openCL instructions sorted out and fix the performance. I regularly have to do brute force password hashing for my work and NVidia is miles behind AMD in that, because they have a few openCL instructions not properly implemented in their hardware. If their next silicon fixes that, I wouldn't know which I'd choose. If by the time I want another card they are still behind, I would likely go for an AMD card.
There have been quite a lot of countries that actually had a gold (or other similar valuable metals, most notably silver, that could easily be exchanged for gold) storage that would back every single paper money bill in rotation. It called the "gold standard" and money issued when this was in effect could always be exchanged for a predetermined amount of gold, noted on the bills. This was especially true in Europe in the era just after Napoleon, since people distrusted "paper money" after the French government refused to exchange the money Napoleon introduced when he conquered their countries and took all their gold and silver. In the USA, history went another way and there have only been short periods when the government had a gold or silver standard. Gold standards have existed far into the 20th century and only when people trusted their government enough (or when they got greedy enough) governments have been abandoning this.
Scanners for containers already exist. Rotterdam Harbour in the Netherlands employs these on a very large scale. They are in fact not turntable scanners, but you drive the whole truck in with the container on it. The driver gets out and the whole rig gets scanned. The turntable doesn't have a function for scanning shipping containers. It's only useful if you need a much higher resolution scan of something that doesn't easily fit through scanners that aren't purpose built to scan just one sort of object.
This is probably news because it's bigger and/or faster than what was available until now. I don't really see anyone putting an entire wing on a platform and rotate it to do a scan right now. I'm imagining that a wing scanner is probably a "static" device where you slowly slide the wing through and it wouldn't be capable of scanning anything that doesn't fit through the opening in the scanner. By putting the scanners on the side of a platform, you could scale up without too much difficulty, compared to the "pass through the hole" method used now.
It may improve scrolling speed and other compositing functions, compared to unaccelerated graphics drivers. However, Chromium is known to have quite a decent openGL and 2D accelerated X interface already. I think this question should be read as: "Will wayland offer benefits as decreased power usage or better acceleration, compared to using X11?". In that case, I think we will probably have to say it isn't at that point in the foreseeable future.
In the Netherlands, people get wrongly arrested too, but the amount of arrests here is way less than in the USA. I'm not completely up to speed on the exact regulations, but the police doesn't have to give information about an arrested person except to their next of kin here. If a journalist were to come ask who got arrested, they'd only get the age, gender and domicile of the person(s) arrested. If a next of kin were to come and ask if so-and-so got arrested, they'd have to prove their relationship to the person and would get a yes/no answer. Usually, the police would allow you more than your one phone call to get a lawyer and they themselves would take it upon them to find your next of kin and inform them, unless you requested them not to do so yourself. This tends to work fairly well. Privacy is protected a whole lot better, secret arrests aren't possible any more than under the USA system and there's a lot less fuss about the whole deal in general.
I've said so before and I will say it again. mod me down if you feel you don't agree with me, I don't care. If the people of a nation don't trust their government, they should do something about their government, not come up with silly laws to make sure they can defend themselves against their own government. Don't say you need to bear arms to defend yourself from a corrupt government, or you need everyone's privacy obliterated to make sure the government doesn't secretly arrests people. It's useless, they have better guns and make secret arrests just the same. You need to stop electing the people that aren't representing you, but only themselves and the corporations that sponsored them. Any politician or political party taking campaign funds from any corporation should not get a single vote. Any individual putting more money than regular membership fees into a political party should be prohibited from doing so. It is inconceivable to many Europeans that the USA voters are willing to vote for anyone that allowed themselves to be "bought" that way. It may sound strange to Americans, but by doing this and giving a (humble) governmental subsidy to parties to fund their campaigns, you are making democracy a lot more plausible and believable. Apart from that, you'll rid yourself from a lot of annoying commercials in the process.
A Dutch bank already has this built into their mobile banking application stack. One person foots the bill and the app takes care of splitting things up and billing the individuals that are splitting the bill. It also tracks their payments and helps send out reminders.
People most at risk of tornadoes are the people living in trailer parks, not the ones living in homes. Sure, maybe the homes aren't tornado proof, quite a few of them get blown away every year and every year, people living in them get hurt or die when they get blown away with their homes when they are in them. But, they are a minority when it comes to people that die in their homes compared to when a tornado hits a trailer park. A trailer is about the worst place to be when a tornado hits and casualties are much bigger when it comes to people living there. It's not just the density of a trainer park, way more people per square foot, but also the even weaker construction of the "building". Building a brand new home for not a lot more money that is much better at sustaining a tornado is a good development, but it won't save that much more lives and futures. Come up with an affordable, tornado proof trailer and you have a true life saver and a real novelty.
Yes, it's not as good as it should be. Fortunately, NVidia has opened up a lot more specs so the last missing bits for may features and "irky bugs" in Nouveau can finally be dealt with. It's still not enough to build a fully featured just-as-fast driver, but in the last few months, significant changes were made in how NVidia treats the open source community and so far, Nouveau driver developers have been happy with what they got. It's not finished, but at least it's getting in the right direction.
Seriously, Does MicroSoft need 3rd party vendors to make their "user experience" better than their own operating system? I'm sorry, let me rephrase that: Do hardware drivers make the user experience so much better? That must be one crappy operating system then....
With the current craze about moon jelly fish aquariums, will this robot fit in there? What if my jelly fish decide they want to take over the world, I need some sort of defence against that!
Open access to the internet entails being able to offer services just as much as being able to use them. By prohibiting users to run their own services they are violating net neutrality. When is the class action suit coming?
The accident you are mentioning was most likely caused by the car bottoming out on the intersection just before it drove over a fire hydrant (skid marks and hydrant evident on pictures), lost it's drive line because that hooked on said hydrant and then ended frontally into a big tree (or was it a lamp post?) at an impact speed of over 60 mph. I
Fluoride has several functions when it comes to dentistry.
1) act as a catalyst for rebuilding teeth. It helps calcium and phosphates dissolved in your saliva to be (re)introduced in your teeth and rebuilds them that way. It does this by remaining in the porous surface of a tooth.
2) It acts as an antibacterial agent. Again, any bacteria it encounters will have trouble functioning and reproducing, slowing or killing the damage to your teeth. If your teeth are clean, there are very few bacteria in your saliva and after you flush, the only place where the fluoride will remain is in/on the surface of your teeth.
You don't need more than 6 seconds to apply fluoride to clean teeth using this brush system (or at least that is what they claim), or 120 seconds using a manual brush and it doesn't end when you flush your mouth after you're done brushing.
Fluoride has a function and it can help, but it's not what brushing your teeth is about. Cleaning the teeth and gums from debris and bacteria is the main purpose and doing this properly is way more important than applying some fluoride. You can add all the fluoride in the world, but bad cleaning won't be compensated with it. People that brush their teeth without even using tooth paste but do it properly, have way healthier teeth than people that do it badly but use high doses of fluoride. There are large portions of the world where tooth paste and fluoride are "extremely uncommon" to use to prove this.
It's not about the 2 minutes you save, but about the knowledge that you have properly brushed your teeth without missing a single spot every time you use this brush. It's easy to claim that more than half of the people that come into a dentist that need work done, end up there because they haven't brushed their teeth properly at least once a day for their entire life. You may not safe money on toothbrushes this way, but you will possibly break even on total dentistry costs even at the price point this brush is at now. It's not even about the money, having "perfect teeth" is a health and social benefit that has merit on it's own.
So if Snowden can get at the NSA and the NSA calls companies weak, imagine how bad those companies actually are....
Security done right improves profit. How? Because you go over a functional model of your IT systems as well, to find flaws in the logic that can be abused. You find bugs that cost you money and you get those solved. Research has proven that you can actually more than get back the cost of spending money on good security and turn a profit by having less bugs and flaws in your systems. This does not apply to token efforts and buzz ware, but there's a way to do this properly.
Just because they got busted, doesn't mean that a Tor compromise was the cause of it all. If you read the court papers, you'll find out they were on to the guy well before they had access to the server(s) because he used his real name with activities that were related to silk road. They "routinely" found 9 fake IDs in one parcel shipped to him from Canada (there was a recent story where they had a fake-id manufacturer arrested and they took his place, might be related?) so they knew pretty much where he was and that he was related. It wouldn't have been too difficult for them to use that info to actually get wire taps on him and figure out where the actual hardware was without Tor being compromised. It may be correlated, it may even be the cause, but this is in no way proof it is.
Try and compete with this and open up all your specs too.
Also, to add to the other person already talking about electrostats, magnetic speaker development isn't dead by far. You don't need rare earth magnets for "living room size" speakers and you also don't need cones. In the past, experiments have been done with using flat carbon fiber honey combed round "plates" that were attached with a very light and solid construction to the voice coil of a speaker. Those took out a lot of the distortion and deformation you typically get with a classical cone speaker. Development in what is used as a "membrane" and active feedback control using a DSP to counteract the distortion the speaker itself generates can create extremely good sounding "conventional" speaker systems. Price has so far been prohibitive for this sort of system to reach even the audiophile part of the market, let alone main stream, but science hasn't stopped.
With the DIY manufacturing technology now becoming available to hacker spaces, I think we will see a lot more of this sort of technology out in the field at a price point that will be affordable to anyone that would alternatively spend good money on high quality speaker systems.
If it'd use any power that would be uncomfortable to your ears because of heat, it would eat a phone battery in a few hours, probably less.
A phone doesn't solve this problem. Please try (I know it's hard) to solve this problem and not the silly symptom of not being to able to skype with your kid. I know you miss him, but you really need to deal with this on another level. If your ex is uncomfortable with her kid skyping with his father because she's running around naked, maybe she should limit the times she runs around naked and you and your kid should limit the times that you two skype. It's not as if she can answer the door if she's stark and she is bound to have a solution for that already.
I have a small pocket guide to the *entire* WWW that mattered back then. I can't find it right now, but it's not much younger than this book. It's barely 200 pages and it covers "all the web sites of interest" and it predates web sites like geocities, google and such. It recommends to use a modern browser like Netscape and not Mosaic. It's fun to see that people still lived in a world where they used a paper guide to help them out in a digital world and the paper guide was actually relevant, pretty complete and faster to use than a "manual" search on "the Internet". Back then, internet was still written with a capital I....
Shut up and take my money!
How do you make these? You need something that will convert a frequency our eyes can't detect, in your focal plane (it's a contact lens) into something you can detect without changing direction of the light wave. Never mind they cost allegedly $2000 I want to know what the science behind them is.