The appropriate way to get our act together is for the President to set a goal, give money and step the fuck away from NASA. We went to the moon with slide rules. In the era where a smartphone has more computing power than an entire Lunar Module, times 10, we are paying the Russians to send us to Low Earth Orbit.
I'm not a proponent of human mission to Mars. The trip means little other than felling-good-about-my-country and flag planting. Send a robot there and we don't have to worry about a return trip, always harder than departure.
These people don't need computer, they need food. The project founders seem to assume a lot: that there's electricity in the slums, that they can pay for it, that the computers won't be taken apart for the little scrape metal they hold, that the slums won't turn into a new dump for e-waste, that people are literate enough to use a computer or do anything useful with one (reading local news, for e.g.), etc.
$7 is almost 4 days of work for those poor people. I would rather see charities spend it on food than computers and training.
The difference with Apollo 13 is the worst case cost did not involve the loss of a second screw. They worked the heck out of the engineers on Earth to try bringing back that Moon capsule. No one had to claim on a second spaceship and hook a tow line to get it back. For Atlantis, you are risking a second vessel to save the first, with no guarantee that either will return successfully. The stake is much higher.
The difference is Wolfram hasn't sued anybody about that (yet). You can't copyright simple fact like "what's the 2nd derivative of sin(x)". I think they include that claim more to cover their asses than to assert it in the court of law.
One third of us still deny evolution as a fact. A smaller percentage want "Creation Science" to be taught in school (well, there's no creation, nor the subject scientific to begin with). When people can deny 4 billion years worth of evidence for a natural process, what do you think make them better at understanding something with only 100 years of evidence. God bless the stupidity of Americans.
The US and Russia have had nukes for 70 years now. I don't know the exact numbers but IIRC a Tom Clancy's novel says Russia / Soviet Union has 27,000 nukes alone. India and China have possessed them for the better part of the last half-century. North Korea can always go nut, but their nuke is more is a gerrymandering device than a serious global threat. They may hit Seoul... if they aim at Tokyo.
Climate change take years to become a major problem for homo sapiens. The dinosaurs took 100,000 years to go extinct from the impacts of the K-T event. And that's considered a very rapid extinction.
If the 24-hour clock is the age of the Earth, human only existed in the last minute. 5 minutes to catastrophe is plenty of time.
I find it funny that downloading a song mean $22,000 fine. That software are only "licensed", not sold to you so you can't do everything you want to with. That importing books you legally acquired from a different country is a violation of copyright, and needs the Supreme Court to clarify that it's not. Meanwhile, the police can reason that seizing $700K in Bitcoins is just copying a file.
I don't know what Ulbricht's connection to Silk Road is, but the Crown must be prove that this asset is acquired through illegal activities to seize it.
It's the biggest challenge in software design. There are lots of dumb or technically-inept people. 20% of the cars are stolen each year when the drivers left their vehicles ' engines on, with keys still in ignition. If people don't have common sense like that, how do you expect them know that a flash light app doesn't need access to SMS, photos, emails and contacts?
Everyone here chides Apple for putting a deep fryer plug on a laptop and get a patent for it. Truth is, if they don't, someone else will and sue the heck out of them for it. If it was so obvious, why haven't anyone thought about it before Apple?
It's better if they can convince Apple to put up the MagSafe patent as FRAND. It'll be a bad joke if Apple has to include a MagSafe-to-whatever adapter with their MacBooks
The NSA is only targeting the communications, as opposed to metadata, of less than 60 Americans
Note the multiple qualifiers here: communications, of Americans. They capture metadata for every other Americans, and voice data for the rest of the world.
Snowden's activity caught the notice of other System Administrators
And they did nothing about it until Snowden has fled to Hong Kong. Good to see my tax dollars being spent on those government employees with full pensions and top secret clearance.
NSA considered the possibility that Snowden left malicious software behind and removed every computer and cable that Snowden had access to from its classified network, costing tens of millions of dollars
Sometimes when watching their foes (or more likely, their fellow citizens), they forgot to look out for their own kind. Expenses well deserved.
The NSA's work is driven by requests for information by other parts of the government
How can we know that this is true? There are multiple gag orders preventing companies from disclosing those requests, and the NSA has not been forthcoming in those either. Say what you want, NSA, I'll choose to believe it when I see the evidence of it.
The fact that China holds a large portion of US debt highlight their weakness: if they declare war with the US, what stop Congress from passing a constitutional amendment that nullify this holding? They will find their pocket short 1 trillion coins or so. Militarily, China is no match for US. Nobody has invested as heavily in military technologies as the US since World War 2. The Soviet Union went bankrupt trying to keep up. Their own version of the Vietnam War—the Afghan War, drained their treasury much worse than the Vietnam War on the US.
China sees itself as the center of the world. Their very name translates to "the elite center". If anything, they are becoming the Japan of the early 20th century, invading (in this case, claiming exclusive rights to) nearby resources.
No, he outsources it to India. Look, they are already overtaking the advancing His creations -- North America women don't bear children as much anymore.
Nah, TL; DR; I used to work as a system analyst (I'm a project manager now), and hate complicated diagrams. Other than developers, any diagram that takes me more than 60 seconds to read is too much. They could have made it simple if viewed from a purely SOA architecture: a health exchange module (with potentially 50 interfaces), and plan comparison module (just define a standard and make all insurance companies use it), a self-server portal, etc. It's not simple, but having clear distinct make it less of a mess than the clusterfuck that is HealthCare.gov now.
China is claiming sea waters from southern Japan to northern Philippines, some where 1200 miles south of their southern-most point. China is fast becoming the bully in the Far East, much like, ironically, Japan itself 100 years ago. Both countries were under dictatorships, recently enjoyed massive economic growths, hence more thirst for resources. Left uncheck, China will begin another world war in the Far East.
All the PS Vita needs is one big indie hit, and then it will become a cult device with a loyal following. Sales will never be brisk though, the handheld game market is being eaten alive by the smartphones.
The movie studios will eventually jump on board. They need something new to sell you the old movies again. Jaws on VHS, Jaws on DVD, Jaws on Bluray, Jaws 3D. Jaws 4K--why not?
4K will also be useful for the video editing industry. Cramming 4 x 1080p streams into a monitor is a huge productivity booster, if your computer is able to handle it. Unlike 3D, 4K has some real applications.
Q: What niche does Wayland fill between GNOME, KDE, MATE, Xfce, XLDE, Cinamon, CDE, EDE, Xito, Unity, GEM, etc?
A: it's a garnish in the alphabet-soup that is Linux desktop manager.
Many problems are NP-hard in one direction, but not the other way around. Use a quantum computer to find a solution, then use a classical computer/supercomputer to verify its results. Case in point: brute-forcing a hash function is hard, but computing the hash from a known value is easy; factoring large integers are hard, but multiplying two numbers are easily done.
Like I mentioned, you won't get Cocoa framework on GNUStep anytime soon. If you write a command line app, keep yourself to C or C++, and don't touch any of the Apple's proprietary frameworks, you can port your application to most Linux and BSD distros. If there are apps important enough for you and they are only available on Mac OS X, then get a Mac. Consider that a cost of doing business; charge your client more to cover your costs.
GUI is a different matter, but there are cross platform frameworks available. You don't have to use Cocoa. And I seriously doubt you can get anywhere near the Mac OS X look-and-feel without getting sued by Apple
Why bother duplicating the exact functionality of a commercial software, only for it to be labelled open source? Are they doing this for only open-source sake? Mac OS X is certified UNIX, and with some care, applications cab easily be made to compilable on multiple Linux distros. GUI application is an entirely different matter, but there are cross-platform solutions like Qt, GTK, Java swing, etc. There are lots of technologies that are encumbered by patents in Mac OS X, like Time Machine, Core Image, or QTKit. And how the hell will GNUStep enable integration with iCloud for those applications that use it?
While most will criticize her ego, I see the lawsuit has some merits from an immigration/hiring practice angle.
The biggest source of H1-B visas are from outsourcing companies like InfoSys, who hires almost exclusively from India. She is alleging that they passed over the qualified American applicants (which she may be one), to claim that no one can fill the opening and get an H1-B instead. This also inadvertently causes a racial bias, which favors South Asians over any other ethnic groups.
She may have an inflated sense of self-worth, but the lawsuit is noteworthy as it's (the first time???) I've heard an American worker stands against tech companies in their hiring practices. The are hardly attracting the best minds to the US. They are only getting them cheap. And it must be stopped.
It does impact you. Being obese have been proven to lead to a whole bunch of other health problems and worsening a whole bunch of others. I have yet to find a study that find obesity can prevent any health problem. Think about the impact this gonna play on the society:
- More sick days to take care of health problems, leading to reduced productivity
- Increased health care costs for obese individuals. This will filter to you personally either via workplace health insurance or a public health program like Medicare and Medicaid
- A distortion of supply in health care professionals: since obesity will grow faster than all other health problems, more medical students will choose bariatrics (treatment of obesity) as career
Like smoking, or substance abuse, or street racing, the impacts extend beyond the individual making the decisions. Society eventually pay for them.
Religions were invented to help people coup with fear, to shift the reasons for actions unknown to a supreme being whom no one can see. Correctly applied, religions do help people overcome psychological barriers. The way I see it is like in marriage, if you don't talk to your spouse then eventually a wall develop around you, making the relationship colder and less meaningful. Just by trusting each other, you can feel much relieved. A belief in a supreme being accomplishes the same thing, as He (always a he in most religions) supposedly always loves you.
A before you guys mod me down, I'm a non-believer who find much flaws in religions. But I never deny its benefits in some cases. After all, your body is only as strong as your mind is.
Now you can mod me down.
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The appropriate way to get our act together is for the President to set a goal, give money and step the fuck away from NASA. We went to the moon with slide rules. In the era where a smartphone has more computing power than an entire Lunar Module, times 10, we are paying the Russians to send us to Low Earth Orbit. I'm not a proponent of human mission to Mars. The trip means little other than felling-good-about-my-country and flag planting. Send a robot there and we don't have to worry about a return trip, always harder than departure.
These people don't need computer, they need food. The project founders seem to assume a lot: that there's electricity in the slums, that they can pay for it, that the computers won't be taken apart for the little scrape metal they hold, that the slums won't turn into a new dump for e-waste, that people are literate enough to use a computer or do anything useful with one (reading local news, for e.g.), etc.
$7 is almost 4 days of work for those poor people. I would rather see charities spend it on food than computers and training.
The difference with Apollo 13 is the worst case cost did not involve the loss of a second screw. They worked the heck out of the engineers on Earth to try bringing back that Moon capsule. No one had to claim on a second spaceship and hook a tow line to get it back. For Atlantis, you are risking a second vessel to save the first, with no guarantee that either will return successfully. The stake is much higher.
The difference is Wolfram hasn't sued anybody about that (yet). You can't copyright simple fact like "what's the 2nd derivative of sin(x)". I think they include that claim more to cover their asses than to assert it in the court of law.
"Geography made us neighbours, NSA made you my slave".
One third of us still deny evolution as a fact. A smaller percentage want "Creation Science" to be taught in school (well, there's no creation, nor the subject scientific to begin with). When people can deny 4 billion years worth of evidence for a natural process, what do you think make them better at understanding something with only 100 years of evidence. God bless the stupidity of Americans.
The US and Russia have had nukes for 70 years now. I don't know the exact numbers but IIRC a Tom Clancy's novel says Russia / Soviet Union has 27,000 nukes alone. India and China have possessed them for the better part of the last half-century. North Korea can always go nut, but their nuke is more is a gerrymandering device than a serious global threat. They may hit Seoul... if they aim at Tokyo.
Climate change take years to become a major problem for homo sapiens. The dinosaurs took 100,000 years to go extinct from the impacts of the K-T event. And that's considered a very rapid extinction.
If the 24-hour clock is the age of the Earth, human only existed in the last minute. 5 minutes to catastrophe is plenty of time.
I find it funny that downloading a song mean $22,000 fine. That software are only "licensed", not sold to you so you can't do everything you want to with. That importing books you legally acquired from a different country is a violation of copyright, and needs the Supreme Court to clarify that it's not. Meanwhile, the police can reason that seizing $700K in Bitcoins is just copying a file.
I don't know what Ulbricht's connection to Silk Road is, but the Crown must be prove that this asset is acquired through illegal activities to seize it.
It's the biggest challenge in software design. There are lots of dumb or technically-inept people. 20% of the cars are stolen each year when the drivers left their vehicles ' engines on, with keys still in ignition. If people don't have common sense like that, how do you expect them know that a flash light app doesn't need access to SMS, photos, emails and contacts?
As I recall, Apple is also unwilling to license that patent at all.
You have the right to refuse to rent out your home. You have the right to deny a hitchhiker a ride. Their property, their choice to license it or not.
Someone had to do it first. Unfortunately for us, it was apple.
Fortunately for us, they are the one who dared. The others are too cost-conscious, too cheap to look at the lowly power adapter.
Everyone here chides Apple for putting a deep fryer plug on a laptop and get a patent for it. Truth is, if they don't, someone else will and sue the heck out of them for it. If it was so obvious, why haven't anyone thought about it before Apple?
It's better if they can convince Apple to put up the MagSafe patent as FRAND. It'll be a bad joke if Apple has to include a MagSafe-to-whatever adapter with their MacBooks
The NSA is only targeting the communications, as opposed to metadata, of less than 60 Americans
Note the multiple qualifiers here: communications, of Americans. They capture metadata for every other Americans, and voice data for the rest of the world.
Snowden's activity caught the notice of other System Administrators
And they did nothing about it until Snowden has fled to Hong Kong. Good to see my tax dollars being spent on those government employees with full pensions and top secret clearance.
NSA considered the possibility that Snowden left malicious software behind and removed every computer and cable that Snowden had access to from its classified network, costing tens of millions of dollars
Sometimes when watching their foes (or more likely, their fellow citizens), they forgot to look out for their own kind. Expenses well deserved.
The NSA's work is driven by requests for information by other parts of the government
How can we know that this is true? There are multiple gag orders preventing companies from disclosing those requests, and the NSA has not been forthcoming in those either. Say what you want, NSA, I'll choose to believe it when I see the evidence of it.
The fact that China holds a large portion of US debt highlight their weakness: if they declare war with the US, what stop Congress from passing a constitutional amendment that nullify this holding? They will find their pocket short 1 trillion coins or so. Militarily, China is no match for US. Nobody has invested as heavily in military technologies as the US since World War 2. The Soviet Union went bankrupt trying to keep up. Their own version of the Vietnam War—the Afghan War, drained their treasury much worse than the Vietnam War on the US.
China sees itself as the center of the world. Their very name translates to "the elite center". If anything, they are becoming the Japan of the early 20th century, invading (in this case, claiming exclusive rights to) nearby resources.
No, he outsources it to India. Look, they are already overtaking the advancing His creations -- North America women don't bear children as much anymore.
Nah, TL; DR; I used to work as a system analyst (I'm a project manager now), and hate complicated diagrams. Other than developers, any diagram that takes me more than 60 seconds to read is too much. They could have made it simple if viewed from a purely SOA architecture: a health exchange module (with potentially 50 interfaces), and plan comparison module (just define a standard and make all insurance companies use it), a self-server portal, etc. It's not simple, but having clear distinct make it less of a mess than the clusterfuck that is HealthCare.gov now.
China is claiming sea waters from southern Japan to northern Philippines, some where 1200 miles south of their southern-most point. China is fast becoming the bully in the Far East, much like, ironically, Japan itself 100 years ago. Both countries were under dictatorships, recently enjoyed massive economic growths, hence more thirst for resources. Left uncheck, China will begin another world war in the Far East.
All the PS Vita needs is one big indie hit, and then it will become a cult device with a loyal following. Sales will never be brisk though, the handheld game market is being eaten alive by the smartphones.
The movie studios will eventually jump on board. They need something new to sell you the old movies again. Jaws on VHS, Jaws on DVD, Jaws on Bluray, Jaws 3D. Jaws 4K--why not? 4K will also be useful for the video editing industry. Cramming 4 x 1080p streams into a monitor is a huge productivity booster, if your computer is able to handle it. Unlike 3D, 4K has some real applications.
Q: What niche does Wayland fill between GNOME, KDE, MATE, Xfce, XLDE, Cinamon, CDE, EDE, Xito, Unity, GEM, etc?
A: it's a garnish in the alphabet-soup that is Linux desktop manager.
Many problems are NP-hard in one direction, but not the other way around. Use a quantum computer to find a solution, then use a classical computer/supercomputer to verify its results. Case in point: brute-forcing a hash function is hard, but computing the hash from a known value is easy; factoring large integers are hard, but multiplying two numbers are easily done.
Like I mentioned, you won't get Cocoa framework on GNUStep anytime soon. If you write a command line app, keep yourself to C or C++, and don't touch any of the Apple's proprietary frameworks, you can port your application to most Linux and BSD distros. If there are apps important enough for you and they are only available on Mac OS X, then get a Mac. Consider that a cost of doing business; charge your client more to cover your costs.
GUI is a different matter, but there are cross platform frameworks available. You don't have to use Cocoa. And I seriously doubt you can get anywhere near the Mac OS X look-and-feel without getting sued by Apple
Why bother duplicating the exact functionality of a commercial software, only for it to be labelled open source? Are they doing this for only open-source sake? Mac OS X is certified UNIX, and with some care, applications cab easily be made to compilable on multiple Linux distros. GUI application is an entirely different matter, but there are cross-platform solutions like Qt, GTK, Java swing, etc. There are lots of technologies that are encumbered by patents in Mac OS X, like Time Machine, Core Image, or QTKit. And how the hell will GNUStep enable integration with iCloud for those applications that use it?
While most will criticize her ego, I see the lawsuit has some merits from an immigration/hiring practice angle. The biggest source of H1-B visas are from outsourcing companies like InfoSys, who hires almost exclusively from India. She is alleging that they passed over the qualified American applicants (which she may be one), to claim that no one can fill the opening and get an H1-B instead. This also inadvertently causes a racial bias, which favors South Asians over any other ethnic groups. She may have an inflated sense of self-worth, but the lawsuit is noteworthy as it's (the first time???) I've heard an American worker stands against tech companies in their hiring practices. The are hardly attracting the best minds to the US. They are only getting them cheap. And it must be stopped.
It does impact you. Being obese have been proven to lead to a whole bunch of other health problems and worsening a whole bunch of others. I have yet to find a study that find obesity can prevent any health problem. Think about the impact this gonna play on the society:
Like smoking, or substance abuse, or street racing, the impacts extend beyond the individual making the decisions. Society eventually pay for them.
Religions were invented to help people coup with fear, to shift the reasons for actions unknown to a supreme being whom no one can see. Correctly applied, religions do help people overcome psychological barriers. The way I see it is like in marriage, if you don't talk to your spouse then eventually a wall develop around you, making the relationship colder and less meaningful. Just by trusting each other, you can feel much relieved. A belief in a supreme being accomplishes the same thing, as He (always a he in most religions) supposedly always loves you. A before you guys mod me down, I'm a non-believer who find much flaws in religions. But I never deny its benefits in some cases. After all, your body is only as strong as your mind is. Now you can mod me down.