... a 3D-printed minibus capable of carrying 12 people. It's powered by IBM's supercomputer platform Watson.
I wonder if Watson will ever end up bored and depressed like Marvin, having a brain the size of a planet, but seldom, if ever, given the chance to use it. Perhaps he too will have a small rat friend.
While the Intel Management Engine is proprietary and Intel does not share the source code, it is very secure.,,, there are mechanisms in place to address vulnerabilities should the need arise.
Perhaps true, but this kind of talk makes my ass twitch.
On the other hand, perhaps the code for this phenomenon, like quantum mechanics, is just inadequately developed in the computer simulation in which we and our universe exist.
Think for a moment what that really means. Let's say I have a small software company with two employees each earning $75,000, that would make for 150k in deductions. Let's say my company only makes 151,000 per year. My income is only $1k per year. Without those deductions I would lose money to taxes and have to close my doors. There are a lot of companies in similar situations.
Cool. So don't do illegal drugs, then get tested and take your deductions. I'm not seeing a problem here.
tax deduction == less of one's own money being taken
Money that was made using infrastructure paid for by taxpayers. Money that was often made by pushing costs onto taxpayers.
And in the case of the aforementioned Wall Street (and other super-rich) folks, money that was made by working with (bribing) Congress to craft laws in your favor and to your benefit.
Their phone was released 6 months before the iPhone. Unless you think that they invented time-travel, the odds are that their design was completed long before the iPhone in question was released.
Yeah, it probably was, but can you say that these two designs really resemble each other?
More to the point is just how different can the exterior of smartphones actually be - especially from a practical standpoint? The devices are only so big, intended to be held in identically-shaped hands and used in the same way. Many internal components, like batteries, are very much alike and limited in shape and size, so components can only be arranged in certain configurations. Buttons, cameras and microphones (etc) are limited in their locations due to usage needs. From a practical standpoint, it would seem that these devices must be more alike than different.
Scientists have long pondered why living things make use of only one version of certain molecules, such as the 'right-handed' form of the sugar ribose, which is the backbone of DNA.
The left-handed version of the sugar ribose (and other things) is used in the mirror universe where the evil versions of ourselves are - Kirk and Dr. McCoy know what I'm talking about.
The gorilla message is particularly telling as people generally fall into the "The gorilla's death was tragic, but no chances should be made with human lives" and "The situation could have been resolved without killing the gorilla".
Particularly since the whole advertised benefit is you don't have to keep up with the distro, mr. app developer. Which means you are explicitly trying to attract folks who are almost certainly *also* too lazy to keep up with CVEs and such. At least with dynamic linking, you have some *hope* of fixing lots of app problems externally without the app maintainers specific attention... here....
I also imagine that I would need to check my system *and* all the snaps for CVE updates, rather than just the system. I look forward to telling my manager and/or customer that the system is mostly up-to-date, except for snaps and having to track down those separate developers to get things fixed. Perhaps fine when it's against an app, but not so much when against libc. (sigh)
No it doesn't. Of the approximately 107 billion humans who have ever lived, 7.4 billion of them are still alive, giving a fatality rate of only about 93.1%.
Your math is too short term.
All those people will eventually die, as will all the new ones born - unless you're implying the discovery of human immortality.
"sh" IS the Bourne shell. "Bash" is the "Bourne Again Shell"
Ya, I actually know that. I had just read a post about Bash and mixed it up in my brain with yours - sorry. Either not enough or too much coffee today.
I've looked for Perl jobs and they rarely come up.
Most often, you don't get a job to use Perl, you use Perl to get your job done.
I've been continuously employed since 1987, at a small private software development company, the NASA Langley Research Center, The New York Times and currently a (very) large defense contractor, as a Software Engineer and Systems Administrator (on everything from PCs to a Cray 2) and have used and still use Perl every day for production work.
You call those flaws, others may call them features. I didn't watch the videos, but you can do really weird things in other languages, like C and, yes, some are problems, but they can often be useful for legitimate code. Perhaps you just haven't run across coding situations that require this type of language "flexibility".
Why did you decide to use prefixes to indicate the type of a variable ($@%)?
I think the answer to that is inheritance from Bourne Shell.
Perl pre-dates Bash by a few years, but certainly Sh or Ksh. But, other than pre-declaring variables to be a specific type, using delimiters serves that purpose, serves as syntactic sugar for the interpreter and allows variable name overloading (though I'm not a big fan of this use). Personally, I've *never* had a problem with the variable-type indicators and cannot really imagine how someone would.
... all Perl's selling points are now available in pretty much every programming language.
Ya, but I don't want to have to use every other programming language just to get the functionality of Perl. (see what I did there?)
More seriously, different tools for different jobs. Yes, many/most/all of Perl's functionality may be available in other languages, but they are often not as easy to use as in Perl or only available on one platform. One of the projects on which I work is cross-platform on Solaris, RHEL and Windows. I use (more than) several languages (scripting and compiled) to get the job done, but my fallback is almost always Perl (sometimes Java) - especially for something that needs to run identically across all our platforms.
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... a 3D-printed minibus capable of carrying 12 people. It's powered by IBM's supercomputer platform Watson.
I wonder if Watson will ever end up bored and depressed like Marvin, having a brain the size of a planet, but seldom, if ever, given the chance to use it. Perhaps he too will have a small rat friend.
While the Intel Management Engine is proprietary and Intel does not share the source code, it is very secure. ,,, there are mechanisms in place to address vulnerabilities should the need arise.
Perhaps true, but this kind of talk makes my ass twitch.
Ah, but this drive is MAGIC, ...
On the other hand, perhaps the code for this phenomenon, like quantum mechanics, is just inadequately developed in the computer simulation in which we and our universe exist.
Think for a moment what that really means. Let's say I have a small software company with two employees each earning $75,000, that would make for 150k in deductions. Let's say my company only makes 151,000 per year. My income is only $1k per year. Without those deductions I would lose money to taxes and have to close my doors. There are a lot of companies in similar situations.
Cool. So don't do illegal drugs, then get tested and take your deductions. I'm not seeing a problem here.
Money that was made using infrastructure paid for by taxpayers. Money that was often made by pushing costs onto taxpayers.
And in the case of the aforementioned Wall Street (and other super-rich) folks, money that was made by working with (bribing) Congress to craft laws in your favor and to your benefit.
Their phone was released 6 months before the iPhone. Unless you think that they invented time-travel, the odds are that their design was completed long before the iPhone in question was released.
Yeah, it probably was, but can you say that these two designs really resemble each other?
More to the point is just how different can the exterior of smartphones actually be - especially from a practical standpoint? The devices are only so big, intended to be held in identically-shaped hands and used in the same way. Many internal components, like batteries, are very much alike and limited in shape and size, so components can only be arranged in certain configurations. Buttons, cameras and microphones (etc) are limited in their locations due to usage needs. From a practical standpoint, it would seem that these devices must be more alike than different.
The iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus were launched in 2014. What took them so long?
The wheel of (in)justice turns slowly... unless someone grease the wheel.
I've heard that only matters to the people on the rim.
Scientists have long pondered why living things make use of only one version of certain molecules, such as the 'right-handed' form of the sugar ribose, which is the backbone of DNA.
The left-handed version of the sugar ribose (and other things) is used in the mirror universe where the evil versions of ourselves are - Kirk and Dr. McCoy know what I'm talking about.
That money would have been way better spent training a ferret to sit on Donald's head.
The gorilla message is particularly telling as people generally fall into the "The gorilla's death was tragic, but no chances should be made with human lives" and "The situation could have been resolved without killing the gorilla".
One of the messages read "FREE BARRETT BROWN" ...
Just down the road: Free Hat
Particularly since the whole advertised benefit is you don't have to keep up with the distro, mr. app developer. Which means you are explicitly trying to attract folks who are almost certainly *also* too lazy to keep up with CVEs and such. At least with dynamic linking, you have some *hope* of fixing lots of app problems externally without the app maintainers specific attention... here....
I also imagine that I would need to check my system *and* all the snaps for CVE updates, rather than just the system. I look forward to telling my manager and/or customer that the system is mostly up-to-date, except for snaps and having to track down those separate developers to get things fixed. Perhaps fine when it's against an app, but not so much when against libc. (sigh)
My math was a joke. I probably should have added a smiley or a sarcasm tag or something.
Sorry, one never knows here on /. Here's another math/logic joke:
"Breathing is fatal. 100% of all dead people were habitual breathers."
Discourage innovation my ass.
You're confused my friend. They mean it will discourage innovation in their price gouging -- I mean -- strategies and business models.
Quote Trump directly.
No it doesn't. Of the approximately 107 billion humans who have ever lived, 7.4 billion of them are still alive, giving a fatality rate of only about 93.1%.
Your math is too short term. All those people will eventually die, as will all the new ones born - unless you're implying the discovery of human immortality.
... expects that the congress (which will not change hands) will not impeach (house) and convict (senate) with the actual emails/facts on the table?
Can the President be impeached for something that happened prior to taking office?
I predict that every manned mission to mars that we attempt will have a 100% fatality rate.
Living on Earth has a 100% fatality rate.
That really powerful laser guns will finally make a "pew! pew! pew!" noise like they do in movies?
No. It means another concert tour for ELO.
"sh" IS the Bourne shell. "Bash" is the "Bourne Again Shell"
Ya, I actually know that. I had just read a post about Bash and mixed it up in my brain with yours - sorry. Either not enough or too much coffee today.
I've looked for Perl jobs and they rarely come up.
Most often, you don't get a job to use Perl, you use Perl to get your job done.
I've been continuously employed since 1987, at a small private software development company, the NASA Langley Research Center, The New York Times and currently a (very) large defense contractor, as a Software Engineer and Systems Administrator (on everything from PCs to a Cray 2) and have used and still use Perl every day for production work.
You call those flaws, others may call them features. I didn't watch the videos, but you can do really weird things in other languages, like C and, yes, some are problems, but they can often be useful for legitimate code. Perhaps you just haven't run across coding situations that require this type of language "flexibility".
Why did you decide to use prefixes to indicate the type of a variable ($@%)?
I think the answer to that is inheritance from Bourne Shell.
Perl pre-dates Bash by a few years, but certainly Sh or Ksh. But, other than pre-declaring variables to be a specific type, using delimiters serves that purpose, serves as syntactic sugar for the interpreter and allows variable name overloading (though I'm not a big fan of this use). Personally, I've *never* had a problem with the variable-type indicators and cannot really imagine how someone would.
... all Perl's selling points are now available in pretty much every programming language.
Ya, but I don't want to have to use every other programming language just to get the functionality of Perl. (see what I did there?)
More seriously, different tools for different jobs. Yes, many/most/all of Perl's functionality may be available in other languages, but they are often not as easy to use as in Perl or only available on one platform. One of the projects on which I work is cross-platform on Solaris, RHEL and Windows. I use (more than) several languages (scripting and compiled) to get the job done, but my fallback is almost always Perl (sometimes Java) - especially for something that needs to run identically across all our platforms.
>The moment you invent a replicator, money becomes worthless
Not so. Money is at the bottom of all equations and that becomes the fundamental currency evaluation.
Money is simply a common proxy (or abstract) for other things of value -- those things may vary from person to person.