He's talking about a trade war. VAT is only regressive in the short term. Long term (in the course of about two years), you should see employment levels pick up as imports slow. That means, in particular, that our GDP would rise...
Apple owns CUPS... Apple bought out the guy/company who worked on CUPS, and pays him to develop the platform.
While it is nice that Apple contributes development resources for these projects, they also required less development resources by adopting a FLOSS solution to begin with.
Yup. So what? That's what FLOSS is there for. So that anybody who is willing to play by the FLOSS rules can pick up a piece of code and use it...
there is nothing illegal about a service provider handing over their own data - which is exactly what this is. you don't own the phone records, the phone company does.
Breach of contract. They include a privacy policy in their TOS.
You mean like in 1984, where the government was quite explicitly and openly spying on everyone, and sometimes the spook spying on you would speak directly to you if you weren't being a good enough citizen? Yeah that'd be sooo much better.
This happens already. You've seen those people in black or blue uniforms outside, right? Sometimes they wear tan or brown, if they patrol "highways". Sometimes they go "undercover". Sometimes they walk into ATT's international data routing center and install an entire hidden floor in the building.
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It's light... it's a big wave, with its source at your laser.
The real solution to this "problem" is that you can't transmit information from point A to point B faster than light, despite the fact that the beam can change focus between A and B, faster than light. You can use the triangle inequality to show this.
Because Americans don't understand how insurance companies work. Insurance agencies broker risk, and they do that most cheaply with an economy of scale: the larger the pool of risk, the more predictable (cheaper to manage) it becomes. But the insurance market is (rightfully) regulated. An important example is a capitalization requirement, which limits the number of clients an insurance company can take on. In order to "get around" this requirement, insurance companies by and sell risk with other companies, through the use of "swaps". This is perfectly legal, and is in fact a VERY smart move.
But there are two negative consequences for the rest of us: using swaps to settle debts -- instead of itemized bills -- incentivizes fraud, which puts strong upwards pressure on prices. The insurance companies don't care that they're being overcharged, because they're overcharging each other by similarly inflated prices. Secondly, the use of swaps to settle debts is a de facto price fixing mechanism. Honestly, I see this as a benign consequence. The insurance companies are all getting similar actuarial data, and it is based on this actuarial data that they set their prices and negotiate swap contracts. So, in the end, a national-scale insurance company or cooperative would be compiling this same data, and fixing their prices in the same way.
Competition does not enter into the insurance industry, with mathematical force.
You're comparing apples and oranges. A product should not be launched unless you can make between 8-12 times the cost to manufacture. You have to find products like that, and do market research to figure out their demand curves. That costs money. If one in ten products is a success, you just about break even. That's 0% profit, despite selling at 8-12x markup over manufacturing costs.
I agree about the subtitles, but, unless you are watching anime, you will have to find the subtitles yourself, they will be contained in a separate file and you will be able to watch the movie with subtitles no matter what container it is in. (I prefer hard subs though).
No, that's the point. Your dvd rip can include the dvd's subtitle streams, in the MKV container itself. You don't need to search for subtitles matching whatever you just downloaded.;-)
AV-sync is still an issue for modern containers, like MKV, it's just that most GUI front ends automatically handle the parameters when encoding for you - command line pilots still need a calculator
It's not as if human use of "machine learning" algorithms is any faster. It takes about 12 months for our neural networks to figure out that the noises we make elicit a response from our parents. And according to people like Chomsky, our neural networks are designed for language acquisition.
AI "ought" to be an easy problem. But there's one big difference in the psychology of humans, and of computers. Humans have drives, like hunger, the sex drive, and so on. In particular, an infants' drive to eat is a major component in its will to learn language. But this drive to eat has other psychological manifestations.
It is difficult to imagine a programmatic "generalized goal system" that mirrors the role of human drives in learning. The "goals", usually, are to maximize fitness in a particular domain. A real human has to maintain sufficient fitness in multiple domains, in order to survive.
This should not be so surprising. Human evolution has about 300,000 generations of improvements on the brain since we first stood up. Our drives are clearly genetically programmed, and are just as hard wired as a machine learning algorithms' "drive" to maximize. The human drive is just much more nuanced, and informed about the real world. There is a model of the world in our genes. It is unfair to expect that a computer will ever be "smart" without one.
If only that where true. Unfortunately for you it is not. Natural transgenerational horizontal gene transfer from one completely separate species to another does indeed occur though the medium of DNA viruses.
What you describe happens to be relatively rare. And usually does not produce viable offspring. Certainly, the selective breeder is not counting on a viral infection, or gamma rays, or anything in particular to introduce variation. The selective breeder profits from harnessing the millions of years of natural genetic variation, in order to find more fit (for a purpose) combinations of ancient genes.
Monsanto is infecting plants with genetically modified viruses on an industrial scale.
Well, back in 2002, when I got invited to Facebook, by Facebook, it was billed as a gated social network. It had privacy tools to let you share stuff with specific people. It's easy enough to say that you don't share now. But how do you know rapidshare or whatever you use to share isn't going to spill the beans on what you share? You don't, until they do. And then it's too late.
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It's Sunday, and Bruce is evidently not as pathetic as you or me.
You don't yet realize it -- and perhaps never will -- but you were the butt of that joke.
Please mod-bomb this to the stone age, where it belongs.
He's talking about a trade war. VAT is only regressive in the short term. Long term (in the course of about two years), you should see employment levels pick up as imports slow. That means, in particular, that our GDP would rise...
Huh? That means the same thing
No, it doesn't. If you, as an investor, had 10 billion dollars, would you put all your dollars in one company? The sane answer is "no".
Mutual funds have a fiduciary duty to exercise control of their shares in their fund holders interests.
I've had half a dozen jobs over a couple decades or so and never had to work crazy hours for more than a handful of days at a stretch.
WTF? I've never pulled an all-nighter for work. And I never will.
This is like the 10th attempt. The first one, in the 1960s, was successful. Kittenger broke Mach 1.
Relativistic effects in 120,000 feet? Please, he's going around 800m/s at the fastest. He isn't a muon.
What a pointless comment.
There's only a handful of tasks such a machine would be optimal for
Including replacing most of the service industry.
, and just having a human do it will still be the better choice for quite a while.
I think I'd rather live un-optimally, with a Maidbot 4000.
Apple owns CUPS... Apple bought out the guy/company who worked on CUPS, and pays him to develop the platform.
While it is nice that Apple contributes development resources for these projects, they also required less development resources by adopting a FLOSS solution to begin with.
Yup. So what? That's what FLOSS is there for. So that anybody who is willing to play by the FLOSS rules can pick up a piece of code and use it...
there is nothing illegal about a service provider handing over their own data - which is exactly what this is. you don't own the phone records, the phone company does.
Breach of contract. They include a privacy policy in their TOS.
You mean like in 1984, where the government was quite explicitly and openly spying on everyone, and sometimes the spook spying on you would speak directly to you if you weren't being a good enough citizen? Yeah that'd be sooo much better.
This happens already. You've seen those people in black or blue uniforms outside, right? Sometimes they wear tan or brown, if they patrol "highways". Sometimes they go "undercover". Sometimes they walk into ATT's international data routing center and install an entire hidden floor in the building.
I think you just missed the reference...
http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/1113
Google is a KNOWN risk with very substantial assets to lose if they screw up. This guy is an UNKNOWN risk with (presumably) a lot less to lose
Google doesn't own those assets... the shareholders ultimately bear the risk.
It's light... it's a big wave, with its source at your laser.
The real solution to this "problem" is that you can't transmit information from point A to point B faster than light, despite the fact that the beam can change focus between A and B, faster than light. You can use the triangle inequality to show this.
So why? I don't get it.
Because Americans don't understand how insurance companies work. Insurance agencies broker risk, and they do that most cheaply with an economy of scale: the larger the pool of risk, the more predictable (cheaper to manage) it becomes. But the insurance market is (rightfully) regulated. An important example is a capitalization requirement, which limits the number of clients an insurance company can take on. In order to "get around" this requirement, insurance companies by and sell risk with other companies, through the use of "swaps". This is perfectly legal, and is in fact a VERY smart move.
But there are two negative consequences for the rest of us: using swaps to settle debts -- instead of itemized bills -- incentivizes fraud, which puts strong upwards pressure on prices. The insurance companies don't care that they're being overcharged, because they're overcharging each other by similarly inflated prices. Secondly, the use of swaps to settle debts is a de facto price fixing mechanism. Honestly, I see this as a benign consequence. The insurance companies are all getting similar actuarial data, and it is based on this actuarial data that they set their prices and negotiate swap contracts. So, in the end, a national-scale insurance company or cooperative would be compiling this same data, and fixing their prices in the same way.
Competition does not enter into the insurance industry, with mathematical force.
You're comparing apples and oranges. A product should not be launched unless you can make between 8-12 times the cost to manufacture. You have to find products like that, and do market research to figure out their demand curves. That costs money. If one in ten products is a success, you just about break even. That's 0% profit, despite selling at 8-12x markup over manufacturing costs.
I agree about the subtitles, but, unless you are watching anime, you will have to find the subtitles yourself, they will be contained in a separate file and you will be able to watch the movie with subtitles no matter what container it is in. (I prefer hard subs though).
No, that's the point. Your dvd rip can include the dvd's subtitle streams, in the MKV container itself. You don't need to search for subtitles matching whatever you just downloaded. ;-)
AV-sync is still an issue for modern containers, like MKV, it's just that most GUI front ends automatically handle the parameters when encoding for you - command line pilots still need a calculator
It works just fine with the HandBrakeCLI program.
It's not as if human use of "machine learning" algorithms is any faster. It takes about 12 months for our neural networks to figure out that the noises we make elicit a response from our parents. And according to people like Chomsky, our neural networks are designed for language acquisition.
AI "ought" to be an easy problem. But there's one big difference in the psychology of humans, and of computers. Humans have drives, like hunger, the sex drive, and so on. In particular, an infants' drive to eat is a major component in its will to learn language. But this drive to eat has other psychological manifestations.
It is difficult to imagine a programmatic "generalized goal system" that mirrors the role of human drives in learning. The "goals", usually, are to maximize fitness in a particular domain. A real human has to maintain sufficient fitness in multiple domains, in order to survive.
This should not be so surprising. Human evolution has about 300,000 generations of improvements on the brain since we first stood up. Our drives are clearly genetically programmed, and are just as hard wired as a machine learning algorithms' "drive" to maximize. The human drive is just much more nuanced, and informed about the real world. There is a model of the world in our genes. It is unfair to expect that a computer will ever be "smart" without one.
That doesn't hurt the incompetent company. That only hurts the incompetent company's counter-parties.
If only that where true. Unfortunately for you it is not. Natural transgenerational horizontal gene transfer from one completely separate species to another does indeed occur though the medium of DNA viruses.
What you describe happens to be relatively rare. And usually does not produce viable offspring. Certainly, the selective breeder is not counting on a viral infection, or gamma rays, or anything in particular to introduce variation. The selective breeder profits from harnessing the millions of years of natural genetic variation, in order to find more fit (for a purpose) combinations of ancient genes.
Monsanto is infecting plants with genetically modified viruses on an industrial scale.
Well, back in 2002, when I got invited to Facebook, by Facebook, it was billed as a gated social network. It had privacy tools to let you share stuff with specific people. It's easy enough to say that you don't share now. But how do you know rapidshare or whatever you use to share isn't going to spill the beans on what you share? You don't, until they do. And then it's too late.