I just watched a video benchmarking Linux wine vs windows in VM and the benchmarker couldn't get some of the benchmarks to work and had to do what sounds like a lot of research to get the stuff working that did work.
Unlike my windows games (win7 - updates individually picked) where I download a game and play it 99% of the time without any difficulty. My windows machine doesn't crash any more than a Linux machine, it doesn't force down updates and I haven't allowed the spyware updates.
I'm a gamer, I want to play games, lots of games, mostly indie games, without hassle and without being severely restricted. Linux just isn't ready for that.
I've done enough mucking around trying to get software working for one lifetime, it's not fun it's frustrating and with games+linux often it's just going to be a dead-end which is even worse.
" but most important... It does what you tell it to!! "
My excuse is that I'm a gamer that doesn't want to spend endless hours trying to get games to work rather than simply playing them. Using an OS should not be hard work.
I think they're also immoral because they sell a lifestyle that is an unobtainable fantasy and the attempted attainment of that lifestyle is psychologically and ecologically and sometimes physically destructive. Unfortunately they're successful enough in their brain-washing that the majority of people are affected and can't see the wood for the trees.
This, I'm reading the summary and wondering what the hell century these people are in. And for longer life usages like remote controls etc there are slow drain rechargables, the batteries come pre-charged and only lose a fraction of their charge over a year when not used (JCB is one maker).
Yeah and you know how companies want laws harmonized right - lowest standard and then have it locked in to place by the treaty's profit rule so that no gov't can increase standards. Companies should not be able to sue governments for 'lost profits' in some kangaroo court with the rules written by corporations. And as we learn more about the environment we should be able to legislate to protect it, you can't just say it's ok because there's already rules in the treaty because those can become out of date. Also it's not for corporations to be writing our laws via treaties, that's extremely undemocratic and that's never going to be beneficial to society.
Except that's not what it's for at all, it's for companies to sue gov'ts when they change laws to the detriment of companies, even if those laws are to protect the environment, public rights, public health etc etc and Investor State Disputes have already done this and awarded large payouts to companies who wanted to do shit things, they then got compensated because they couldn't. This has nothing to do with being competitive because it effects all companies equally being that it's typically global corporations that are doing the suing . And these cases are settled in kangaroo courts by people who work for the very same corporations (revolving door etc) so they are extremely biased.
Treaties like TPP do f*** all for citizens, they screw people over completely, treaties like this are literally written by corporation's lawyers to benefit corporations.
When's the last time we had an effective treaty that improved labour conditions or stopped tax avoidance?
I fault the government for not establishing quantifiable and measurable standards to *ensure* a vehicle is safe enough just to get through the testing it needs to do without killing anyone.
In the UK we have the highway code. It'd serve as a good test to test the cars response to every bit of the highway code, it certainly wouldn't be a short test and it'd need to have a detailed test track and multiple participants, but I don't think anything less would suffice.
Such a gross over-simplification, Tesla's autopiliot should not be called autopilot, it's simply a lane assist function. Uber's cars shouldn't be allowed on the roads because of how bad there self-driving systems are. Other car companies have massively superior autonomous systems - like waymo which can go over 400 times further than an uber car on average before the driver has to take over.
When we modify species by hybridization, we keep tossing the dice by mating individuals we hope carry the traits we want. Then we cull the offspring and keep repeating the process, generation after generation. All GM does is get us there faster and with less uncertainty
Except that GM can introduce traits that could never be introduced simply by selective breeding. With traditional breeding you take plants of the same or very similar species and breed them. with GM you can take DNA from completely different species and shove if in, so that's not the same at all.
When you eat selectively bred tomatoes you know exactly what you're getting. With GM it could take decades for deadly side-effects of splicing in weird DNA to become known.
That's a joke, Uber is years behind Waymo, Waymo cars get on average 5600 miles before the human driver has to intervene, Uber cars? 13 miles!!! That's a roughly 400fold difference.
The fact that she was attempting to cross a road isn't in dispute, whether or not the autonomous vehicle could of stopped is in dispute. Although pretty much every expert has said the car should have stopped and I very much agree given the road was well lit and the woman crossed several lanes and was nearly finished crossing the road when the vehicle hit her without braking. And the car also had radar and lidar.
This x100. you should see other news footage it shows that the whole area is really well lit and the police officer who said she jumped out of the shadows is a victim blaming arsehole giving out false information. The road is very well lit and she crossed several lanes before the car hit her. It didn't brake even though it also had Radar and Lidar. It should have been easy to determine that a collision was imminent, the question is why didn't the car calculate this obvious impending collision, if it can't do such a simple thing then it's completely fucking useless. Maybe some of the cars systems silently failed.
Go watch the TV news footage of the scene afterwards, they have proper cameras and you can see the area is very well lit.
The accident video looks like it is from some super-cheap accident cams with very very low dynamic range which can be deceptive as evidenced by the endless comments stating rubbish like "it was pitch black". It wasn't and the car also has Radar and Lidar - weren't these working?
Indeed, Uber have some serious explaining to do. The road WAS well lit (see new footage) and besides, the car has Radar and Lidar. The car should have easily been able to see that it and the woman where on a simple direct collision course, it didn't, complete fail. If the car can't handle something so simple then it shouldn't be on the road ever.
Wrong. The road is well lit, its just a really bad video camera. See the news footage of the area, its show that it is well lit and the police report is pathetic.
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And for every game with native Linux support there are 10 games without including most of the 2000+ games I own.
I just watched a video benchmarking Linux wine vs windows in VM and the benchmarker couldn't get some of the benchmarks to work and had to do what sounds like a lot of research to get the stuff working that did work.
Unlike my windows games (win7 - updates individually picked) where I download a game and play it 99% of the time without any difficulty. My windows machine doesn't crash any more than a Linux machine, it doesn't force down updates and I haven't allowed the spyware updates.
I'm a gamer, I want to play games, lots of games, mostly indie games, without hassle and without being severely restricted. Linux just isn't ready for that.
I've done enough mucking around trying to get software working for one lifetime, it's not fun it's frustrating and with games+linux often it's just going to be a dead-end which is even worse.
" but most important... It does what you tell it to!! "
So long as that's not "play my games".
My excuse is that I'm a gamer that doesn't want to spend endless hours trying to get games to work rather than simply playing them. Using an OS should not be hard work.
I think they're also immoral because they sell a lifestyle that is an unobtainable fantasy and the attempted attainment of that lifestyle is psychologically and ecologically and sometimes physically destructive. Unfortunately they're successful enough in their brain-washing that the majority of people are affected and can't see the wood for the trees.
I don't block Ads, I don't particularly care if a website shows ads.
What I don't like is
Annoying animated GIFs
Auto-loading videos with audio.
Spyware that attempts to track my every move.
Ghostery blocks the latter and this pretty much results in the former also being blocked because these scumbags can't resist spying on everyone.
IBM helped the Nazi gov't enumerate concentration camp victims so no surprise that their name isn't on the list.
A court order to break the law, riiiight, makes a lot of sense that does.
This, I'm reading the summary and wondering what the hell century these people are in. And for longer life usages like remote controls etc there are slow drain rechargables, the batteries come pre-charged and only lose a fraction of their charge over a year when not used (JCB is one maker).
Yeah it's another one of those terrible flaws that allows you to own your own computer.
Yeah and you know how companies want laws harmonized right - lowest standard and then have it locked in to place by the treaty's profit rule so that no gov't can increase standards. Companies should not be able to sue governments for 'lost profits' in some kangaroo court with the rules written by corporations. And as we learn more about the environment we should be able to legislate to protect it, you can't just say it's ok because there's already rules in the treaty because those can become out of date. Also it's not for corporations to be writing our laws via treaties, that's extremely undemocratic and that's never going to be beneficial to society.
And if any of those laws have loopholes or aren't strong enough then they won't be able to change them once TPP is introduced.
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Except that's not what it's for at all, it's for companies to sue gov'ts when they change laws to the detriment of companies, even if those laws are to protect the environment, public rights, public health etc etc and Investor State Disputes have already done this and awarded large payouts to companies who wanted to do shit things, they then got compensated because they couldn't. This has nothing to do with being competitive because it effects all companies equally being that it's typically global corporations that are doing the suing . And these cases are settled in kangaroo courts by people who work for the very same corporations (revolving door etc) so they are extremely biased.
Treaties like TPP do f*** all for citizens, they screw people over completely, treaties like this are literally written by corporation's lawyers to benefit corporations.
When's the last time we had an effective treaty that improved labour conditions or stopped tax avoidance?
Except the technology is woefully inadequate, so it can't safely 'pull over and stop'. It should not be called autopilot.
In the UK we have the highway code. It'd serve as a good test to test the cars response to every bit of the highway code, it certainly wouldn't be a short test and it'd need to have a detailed test track and multiple participants, but I don't think anything less would suffice.
Such a gross over-simplification, Tesla's autopiliot should not be called autopilot, it's simply a lane assist function. Uber's cars shouldn't be allowed on the roads because of how bad there self-driving systems are. Other car companies have massively superior autonomous systems - like waymo which can go over 400 times further than an uber car on average before the driver has to take over.
Lol, if you're going to put it like that then there's been barely any improvement what-so-ever for gamers at the median price point.
Except that GM can introduce traits that could never be introduced simply by selective breeding. With traditional breeding you take plants of the same or very similar species and breed them. with GM you can take DNA from completely different species and shove if in, so that's not the same at all.
When you eat selectively bred tomatoes you know exactly what you're getting. With GM it could take decades for deadly side-effects of splicing in weird DNA to become known.
What AI disaster? Did I miss it while I snoozed this afternoon?
"Waymo Starts To Eclipse Uber"
That's a joke, Uber is years behind Waymo, Waymo cars get on average 5600 miles before the human driver has to intervene, Uber cars? 13 miles!!! That's a roughly 400fold difference.
The fact that she was attempting to cross a road isn't in dispute, whether or not the autonomous vehicle could of stopped is in dispute. Although pretty much every expert has said the car should have stopped and I very much agree given the road was well lit and the woman crossed several lanes and was nearly finished crossing the road when the vehicle hit her without braking. And the car also had radar and lidar.
The Victim's step daughter is 'retaining' lawyers regarding the death.
This x100. you should see other news footage it shows that the whole area is really well lit and the police officer who said she jumped out of the shadows is a victim blaming arsehole giving out false information. The road is very well lit and she crossed several lanes before the car hit her. It didn't brake even though it also had Radar and Lidar. It should have been easy to determine that a collision was imminent, the question is why didn't the car calculate this obvious impending collision, if it can't do such a simple thing then it's completely fucking useless. Maybe some of the cars systems silently failed.
"from the video"
Go watch the TV news footage of the scene afterwards, they have proper cameras and you can see the area is very well lit.
The accident video looks like it is from some super-cheap accident cams with very very low dynamic range which can be deceptive as evidenced by the endless comments stating rubbish like "it was pitch black". It wasn't and the car also has Radar and Lidar - weren't these working?
Indeed, Uber have some serious explaining to do. The road WAS well lit (see new footage) and besides, the car has Radar and Lidar. The car should have easily been able to see that it and the woman where on a simple direct collision course, it didn't, complete fail. If the car can't handle something so simple then it shouldn't be on the road ever.
Wrong. The road is well lit, its just a really bad video camera. See the news footage of the area, its show that it is well lit and the police report is pathetic.