Probably just switching from a poor compression system like MPEG to HVC. They could also use a wavelet system like JP2k to get a lot more out of it than whatever they are using.
Good to have Auto QA though to free humans for what they're good at. Also good to have auto-play-testing with AI agents just running against walls etc. If any AIs get stuck or position.z -100 and have fallen out of the game level then you can replay their game route.
Save your play testers for quality not random breaking of the game.
Amazon's and other hosting providers running millions of machines on Microsoft licenses. They would have been dead in the water.
Azure did fine at largely replicating the capabilities on Windows. Unix predates Windows and we still would have had commercial Unix OSes in a world without Open Source. Who knows, maybe NEXT would actually been released;).
But I'm not confident that without Github the world would be substantially different if we were using Perforce for instance. Much of what Github does is focused on enabling open source workflows. So in an alternate universe without open source, the advantages of a distributed repository are minimized.
The internet would have come along just fine over the last 20 years if it were running on IIS and.NET.
Open source performs best on well established designs. Web hosting, databases, file systems etc are all well understood problems. There isn't a lot of room for innovation in any of these areas so it's perfect for Open Source where tiny incremental changes and maintenance is all you really need. Has Apache substantially changed since 1997? I would argue no and that's fine. IIS hasn't really changed since 1997 either so why spend money on it?
Where closed source seems to shine though is through projects with leadership and vision. It's easy to implement a new db engine on a broadly understood concept like a database. A concept taught in every CS101 class. It's a lot harder to stay organized and communicate when you're treading new ground and creating things that only 5 people on earth really understand.
The hard future I see for open source is entering the areas that only serve a handful of people. Niche markets are hard for open source because if there are only 1,000 customers in the world you won't find very many volunteers among those 1,000. And you need a way to ensure one of those 1,000 customers doesn't pay for all of the dev work and then get driven out of business by competitors using the tool for free and charging less. We've stopped helping some closed source products that we license where we've given a lot of time and testing to the company and then not been given a discount on licensing prices when maintenance comes up.
I feel like there is space for a new quasi-open license where you have to pay for a license, but substantial commits give you a discount. That way companies with no interest in contributing can pay cash and companies with more interest in contributing can pay in code. You could even then have developers who only contribute in code and get paid out in cash in lieu of a license at all. That I feel is the model that could expand open source beyond its current use: Bounty Source software.
[quote] how did the Challenger's H2 and O2 become an explosive mixture? [A jet of hot gas] could cause a breach of the O2 tank or the H2 tank -- not both.[/quote]
The mixture was caused by kinectic force. When the H2 tank breached the rupture rocketed it into the O2 tank.
There was no reason to notify users. I'm an Apple hater but this is one of their rare and sensible actions.
If your choices are: hardware fault that causes an unsafe reset due to low voltage or a simple throttle that maintains system stability, you would have to be an idiot to ever choose to suffer through a random reset instead of a transient performance hit.
The worst slow-down that exists is your phone being off and not doing anything at all. 50-90% performance is better than 0% performance. Why should they have notified users or provided them an option for a setting that is the only rational setting. It would be like providing an option for allowing an over voltage to not pass into a fuse and fry the CPU. That's not a useful "option".
Gold is finite and yet we still saw massive speculative booms and busts in its value. Manipulating markets isn't necessarily a bad thing. China has manipulated its currency with massive positive repercussions for its economy. Greece has arguably been devastated by its inability to dictate the value of its currency.
Sometimes printing money and becoming an inexpensive exporter is what an economy needs.
Neither inflation nor deflation are inherently good or bad, but they will do very different things to your economy. Leaving that up to speculators not people who have the best interest of the citizens and country is not a wise choice IMO for a currency.
Your server sends me the information without doing its homework, then
Sucks to be you.
Two problems with this: 1) that's the argument for DRM. It already is password protected, by requiring users to log their bot in. So they're violating terms of services by logging their bot in. 2) It's like a burglar using the "The door wasn't locked therefore the property owner didn't do their due diligence to keep me out."
I don't think it should be a felony but it should be something. For instance if I sneak into a movie theater I am not a burglar but I'm also not there lawfully and I am taking a valuable resource which wasn't "sufficiently secured".
#2 is a really dodgy precedent. It essentially says that a computer using a default password isn't hacked since the user didn't do their due diligence to secure it. "If they didn't want me logging into their system, they should have used a firewall".
I was just thinking the same thing. Brute forcing the wallet probably is a fraction of mining a single BTC but supposedly you can get hundreds for the same work.
I can't believe I didn't see it coming. I wondered out loud last year "Once Trump is the Government how will he justify all of his bat shit government conspiracies?!"...one year later: "I'm being attacked by the DEEP STATE, which is a parallel government where Obama and Hillary are co-presidents. I'm not president of that government, so if it's bad, it's them."
No consumers aren't harmed, because they'll just pick an ecosystem and that ecosystem is Google since Google's services are more important than Amazon's services.
That's what Google did to Windows Phone. They blocked YouTube, Gmail and Google Maps so people who were otherwise interested in Windows Phone just switched back to Android.
Amazon loses in this instance. Very few people care about prime video. Nearly everybody cares about YouTube. The consumers are fine because they won't buy an Echo Show, they'll buy a Google Home device. Consumers are "Fine" because they've been forced into a walled garden.
That's not how technology works. You don't just "invent" something and then it's free everywhere in the universe. The ISS already has water and waste recycling but it is designed to work in LEO not 1G. So already the design is flawed. Then you have to look at cost. If it's $50k per kg for water cargo but $5k per kg for recycling then the recycler is a bargain. But if you try to sell water recycling to people in Mississippi for $5,000/kg your technology will be worthless.
The space industry has already solved quite a few problems with zero earth based applications because the hard technological problem isn't inventing the technology, it's making it cost effective.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably just switching from a poor compression system like MPEG to HVC. They could also use a wavelet system like JP2k to get a lot more out of it than whatever they are using.
It will take a while but it's starting to look like they will get there.
I'm sure everything will have moved on from Win32 to UWP by then.
Why do people even entertain these silly theories.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077...
Yeah... I have no idea why people might think that a spy agency might try to use subterfuge to hide their operations... wild, crazy, silly idea.
Huang's Kind of Matches A Couple Years of Data
Zuck has NOTHING other than squeezing every last bit of privacy out of you until you're dead.
Except they need customers to not abandon the platform. So you can't endlessly harass the people that attract advertisers.
if a human had been driving would they have seen her and been able to stop in time?
No. Because there was a human safety driver overseeing the self driving car and they didn't. Therefore we know the answer already.
It's getting pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It only disengages because eventually the radar ices over. (could be easily correctable with a heated cover)
AI specifically needs a general purpose CPU, so this is just AI running on a computer
No this uses Nvidia Titan xp's dedicated neural net chip and Qualcom 835's dedicated neural net chip.
It also will run on a general purpose GPU or CPU as a fallback.
Good to have Auto QA though to free humans for what they're good at. Also good to have auto-play-testing with AI agents just running against walls etc. If any AIs get stuck or position.z -100 and have fallen out of the game level then you can replay their game route.
Save your play testers for quality not random breaking of the game.
encourage people to choose stupid, generic names, like "queue", rather than something sensible, like FQGHTTPOperationsQueue
Hahahahahahahahahaahahaha... oh man. Thanks for the laugh.
Define "bulky"?
Lumia 950XL : 8.1 mm 3350 user serviceable mah battery
iPhone X : 7.7 mm 2750 permanent battery
I also get to mix up the design of my phone with new backings without adding any bulk like a phone case adds.
0.4mm is 4 sheets of paper.
Thanks that's useful. So headline should read:
3% of bug hunters make what an average software developer makes.
So how did Einstein simply explain his life's work?
Amazon's and other hosting providers running millions of machines on Microsoft licenses. They would have been dead in the water.
Azure did fine at largely replicating the capabilities on Windows. Unix predates Windows and we still would have had commercial Unix OSes in a world without Open Source. Who knows, maybe NEXT would actually been released ;).
But I'm not confident that without Github the world would be substantially different if we were using Perforce for instance. Much of what Github does is focused on enabling open source workflows. So in an alternate universe without open source, the advantages of a distributed repository are minimized.
IIs and .NET were produced as (closed) alternatives to HTTP
Wut? IIS was HTTP an HTTP server in 1996.
The internet would have come along just fine over the last 20 years if it were running on IIS and .NET.
Open source performs best on well established designs. Web hosting, databases, file systems etc are all well understood problems. There isn't a lot of room for innovation in any of these areas so it's perfect for Open Source where tiny incremental changes and maintenance is all you really need. Has Apache substantially changed since 1997? I would argue no and that's fine. IIS hasn't really changed since 1997 either so why spend money on it?
Where closed source seems to shine though is through projects with leadership and vision. It's easy to implement a new db engine on a broadly understood concept like a database. A concept taught in every CS101 class. It's a lot harder to stay organized and communicate when you're treading new ground and creating things that only 5 people on earth really understand.
The hard future I see for open source is entering the areas that only serve a handful of people. Niche markets are hard for open source because if there are only 1,000 customers in the world you won't find very many volunteers among those 1,000. And you need a way to ensure one of those 1,000 customers doesn't pay for all of the dev work and then get driven out of business by competitors using the tool for free and charging less. We've stopped helping some closed source products that we license where we've given a lot of time and testing to the company and then not been given a discount on licensing prices when maintenance comes up.
I feel like there is space for a new quasi-open license where you have to pay for a license, but substantial commits give you a discount. That way companies with no interest in contributing can pay cash and companies with more interest in contributing can pay in code. You could even then have developers who only contribute in code and get paid out in cash in lieu of a license at all. That I feel is the model that could expand open source beyond its current use: Bounty Source software.
[quote] how did the Challenger's H2 and O2 become an explosive mixture? [A jet of hot gas] could cause a breach of the O2 tank or the H2 tank -- not both.[/quote]
The mixture was caused by kinectic force. When the H2 tank breached the rupture rocketed it into the O2 tank.
They might be able to sue under "anti-dumping" regulation if they start trying to negotiate hardball deals with theaters.
There was no reason to notify users. I'm an Apple hater but this is one of their rare and sensible actions.
If your choices are: hardware fault that causes an unsafe reset due to low voltage or a simple throttle that maintains system stability, you would have to be an idiot to ever choose to suffer through a random reset instead of a transient performance hit.
The worst slow-down that exists is your phone being off and not doing anything at all. 50-90% performance is better than 0% performance. Why should they have notified users or provided them an option for a setting that is the only rational setting. It would be like providing an option for allowing an over voltage to not pass into a fuse and fry the CPU. That's not a useful "option".
Gold is finite and yet we still saw massive speculative booms and busts in its value. Manipulating markets isn't necessarily a bad thing. China has manipulated its currency with massive positive repercussions for its economy. Greece has arguably been devastated by its inability to dictate the value of its currency.
Sometimes printing money and becoming an inexpensive exporter is what an economy needs.
Neither inflation nor deflation are inherently good or bad, but they will do very different things to your economy. Leaving that up to speculators not people who have the best interest of the citizens and country is not a wise choice IMO for a currency.
Your server sends me the information without doing its homework, then
Sucks to be you.
Two problems with this:
1) that's the argument for DRM. It already is password protected, by requiring users to log their bot in. So they're violating terms of services by logging their bot in.
2) It's like a burglar using the "The door wasn't locked therefore the property owner didn't do their due diligence to keep me out."
I don't think it should be a felony but it should be something. For instance if I sneak into a movie theater I am not a burglar but I'm also not there lawfully and I am taking a valuable resource which wasn't "sufficiently secured".
#2 is a really dodgy precedent. It essentially says that a computer using a default password isn't hacked since the user didn't do their due diligence to secure it. "If they didn't want me logging into their system, they should have used a firewall".
I was just thinking the same thing. Brute forcing the wallet probably is a fraction of mining a single BTC but supposedly you can get hundreds for the same work.
I can't believe I didn't see it coming. I wondered out loud last year "Once Trump is the Government how will he justify all of his bat shit government conspiracies?!" ...one year later: "I'm being attacked by the DEEP STATE, which is a parallel government where Obama and Hillary are co-presidents. I'm not president of that government, so if it's bad, it's them."
Fuck me.
No consumers aren't harmed, because they'll just pick an ecosystem and that ecosystem is Google since Google's services are more important than Amazon's services.
That's what Google did to Windows Phone. They blocked YouTube, Gmail and Google Maps so people who were otherwise interested in Windows Phone just switched back to Android.
Amazon loses in this instance. Very few people care about prime video. Nearly everybody cares about YouTube. The consumers are fine because they won't buy an Echo Show, they'll buy a Google Home device. Consumers are "Fine" because they've been forced into a walled garden.
That's not how technology works. You don't just "invent" something and then it's free everywhere in the universe. The ISS already has water and waste recycling but it is designed to work in LEO not 1G. So already the design is flawed. Then you have to look at cost. If it's $50k per kg for water cargo but $5k per kg for recycling then the recycler is a bargain. But if you try to sell water recycling to people in Mississippi for $5,000/kg your technology will be worthless.
The space industry has already solved quite a few problems with zero earth based applications because the hard technological problem isn't inventing the technology, it's making it cost effective.