Why not? You can already pay more for leg room if you want to. It's just called first class. Also they already limit the weight of luggage that can be brought on or charge you extra for taking more luggage.
There have already been some airlines considering or implementing ticket prices based on weight since it adds to fuel costs, which are a moderate portion of the flight's expenses. Just give everyone a base rate of weight between their person or luggage and adjust the cost based on the actual total weight.
I believe they already have made one that's more secure. Apparently this particular attack vector only works on older iPhones, which the shooter had in this case. I wouldn't be surprised if the next phone is completely impossible (so much as anything can be at least) for even they themselves to hack. Apple makes all of their money from selling expensive hardware, not customer data, so they don't have much financial motive for needing an access to that data and their inability to do so only makes the hardware more attractive.
Even if the sea level doesn't rise, it doesn't mean that there isn't climate change or that the earth isn't getting warmer. There was already a discrepancy between expected and actual rates of sea level rise that scientists believe is due to continents absorbing more water. We don't fully know what will happen as temperatures continue to rise because we don't have a complete understanding of how the whole system works.
Are you a laboratory mouse? If not, I'd wait for more trials lest something go horribly wrong.
If you go by the news we've been five years away from curing cancer for the last twenty years and twenty years away from cold fusion for the last fifty years.
So why haven't you started an open source hearing aid project then? Just because the listed factors don't prohibit open source doesn't mean that they're not a big factor in explaining why there aren't open source projects. The same reasons you'd probably give for why you haven't started an open source project are likely the same most others would give as well, so can you blame anyone else for not doing what you yourself also wouldn't do?
If a filter in GIMP doens't work quite correctly no one really cares. If a medical device malfunctions there are serious legal ramifications. Typically people or companies aren't willing to assume that kind of liability without the potential for making a tidy profit.
Seriously, this is not anywhere near close to one of the worst disasters in the country's history. Anyone who would make such a claim is either a complete idiot or just looking to be a sensationalist. We've had dozens of hurricanes or earthquakes that have been far worse and if you want to count man-made disasters both the September 11 attacks the the BP Gulf Oil spill are just two within recent memory that are far, far worse in terms of damages and something like the underground coal mine fire (that's still going) in Pennsylvania has probably dumped (or will dump) several orders of magnitudes more greenhouse gasses and other pollutants into the atmosphere than this incident.
Considering that they believe in a magical sky fairy and that their actions are destined to bring about an apocalypse, I don't think critical reasoning is one of their strong suits.
They need to be skinnier in order to support the bigger screens. You can't have a 5.5" screen on something as thick as an old Nokia that fits will in a pocket. Function and form are interconnected so it's not really a matter of function over form, but a matter of alternative forms prohibiting certain functions. More people want a large screen device for media consumption, which means the form will tend towards thinner.
The job position likely doesn't provide enough value to justify paying the kind of wage necessary to live in San Francisco. The company should just move the customer service department to the mid-west or somewhere else where $8.15 per hour is a living wage.
I run Ghostery as well and I paused the blocking to test it out. At least one of the initial networks is responsible for loading other networks which seem to load other crap in turn. It didn't take more than 10 seconds before the count was over 100. At that point, stuff started auto-playing and making noise so I shut the tab, but I wouldn't be surprised if more shit kept getting pulled in. I don't know which is the bad apple, but it's pretty damned clear that it's out of control.
Why is anyone making barely above minimum wage trying to live in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. without even getting a roommate to split the rent? Also, the low temperature doesn't get below freezing so there's no need to ever run a heater. Yes, that means you'll probably want an additional heavy blanket to sleep under, but you're not going to die.
In doing so they'd be creating a piece of software that could be used by anyone to aid in the hacking of phones. The mere existence of that code is a privacy nightmare and it's more likely than not that someone unscrupulous would get their hands on it, and if its existence were known there would certainly be a lot of desire to possess that utility or desire to enrich ones self by selling it.
You're missing one important aspect though. Say only 10 of 1,000 Jobs clones are successful. So what? You ignore that you might be able to start with a different set of genes with outcomes being anywhere from 0 of 1,000 to 100 of 1,000 clones being successful. If you have a sufficiently hostile environment, it doesn't matter how many super genes you pack into something. Super corn isn't going to grow any taller than regular corn if left unwatered and in a dark closet, but under reasonable conditions, it will have a better yield in a lot of cases.
If you're going to order your designer baby are you going to pick the 0 of 1,000 set of genes or the 100 of 1,000 set of genes. You can't guarantee success (you and your designer baby could get hit by a truck on the way home from the hospital or cloning facility) but you can certainly make efforts to improve the odds. The original point still stands that eventually someone will do this and it will likely give them a competitive edge over everyone who doesn't. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
If we've learned anything from the Arab Spring it's that most of the people living there favor these types of religiously oppressive governments, so any overthrow of the existing power structure is more likely than not to end up with something worse taking its place. If Iran were destabilized right now, they'd end up being partially controlled by ISIS. As bad as Hussein or Assad might be, at least they kept a lid on that shit.
I think a good chunk of the Middle East might be sliding towards some hopeless cycle for the foreseeable future because anyone intelligent enough to see why that kind of system is bad is likely to leave for other, less oppressive countries. The people who could be a catalyst for reform aren't there any longer to make improvements and it's no surprise that they don't want to stick around when it's relatively easy to move elsewhere and end up in a country where you won't be killed for your religious beliefs or stoned to death for your sexual preferences.
I don't know either (and I've never used Swift), but in reading through the article, some of the choices seem a little bizarre. the defer keyword seems like a nice idea, but I have to wonder if it won't also end up in some poorly behaving code due to misuse. It's not a bad idea, but you could accomplish the same thing by leaving a comment to yourself as a reminder to cleanup resources or just write that deallocation/cleanup code immediately before going any farther. However, it does make the cleanup code live next to the allocation code, which does make it easier to refactor code without having to jump around a file as much if you've got a large amount of code.
Changing do to repeat and then adding new functionality for the keyword (couldn't the same functionality be produced with a stand alone code block or did the language not have additional scoping inside function?) and showing an example where you use the same identifier seems like a bad idea. I'm guessing that the additional scoping inside of a function must be a new feature, otherwise this doesn't make much sense.
Also, the author claims that the guard keyword somehow cleans up code, but from my reading it's no different than writing an if statement with a negation (basically an unless keyword) but I suppose it is handy as it reads different which marks the code as pre-condition verification (although a comment could do the same) which provides some use.
The error handling stuff seems half-baked as try must be used for any code that throws an error. Seems to make the code slightly longer if I'm just going to pass the error back through the call stack as it now requires some explicit handling in the middle. Some would argue that this is a good thing, but it is a minor nit-pick.
Some of the other stuff seems nice, but makes me think that the first version of Swift was rushed out the door before it was fully ready. While it's unfeasible to expect everything to be done perfectly the first time around, some of the omissions or stuff being added in Swift 2 make it seem like the language lacks polish, especially when they break existing code. I suppose it's better to do some of this stuff now while the language is still in its infancy, but they eventually need to settle into things or at least figure out what still needs to be added so they can make sure that their future additions don't keep breaking existing code.
A university should be preparing the student for a lifetime in a particular field
Then you'd need to ratchet up the difficulty a notch or two and have no qualms about kicking out the people who can't keep up (or just not admitting them to begin with) or just want to party. Given the high and growing cost of a college education, subsidizing something that often turns out to be of no real value to so many individuals (either because they've done nothing with their degree or as you mentioned didn't make good use of their education) is absurd.
That's a lot of money for a UBI as it works out to about a $12 hourly wage, which is more than a lot of people already make. A UBI should be enough that a person can get by without starving. There are plenty of places in the U.S. where you can easily get by on $700 a month. Add in another $700 from having a roommate or a partner and that's plenty of money. If you want to live off of that in a big city, maybe it means you need to have more roommates, but that's the price of living in an area with higher costs.
AMD has a technology they call dual graphics so their APUs could work in conjunction with a discrete GPU, similar to how you can Crossfire two discrete GPUs together already. It's probably more geared towards notebooks where the APU can get by driving the display and the GPU can sit idle. One review found that it could give substantial performance increases for some games, but it depends on driver support as well as where the performance bottleneck is at.
You realize the internet that you're using to complain about government spending on started off as a government project right?
At some point in the future we're going to be acquiring large quantities of resources from off-planet and this is another step in that direction. Really, anything that eventually helps humanity move out among the stars is far more important to us than anything we locally do on Earth. We might make life more comfortable for a few, but eventually something disastrous will happen to our planet (some people are even pretty sure we'll be the ones that do it) and we'll need to have a backup. Colonizing other planets and eventually other solar systems (or just being able to survive out in space for extended periods) is incredibly important.
If colleges limited themselves to football (or ice hockey for some universities) and whichever of men's or women's basketball was more popular, almost every athletics department would make money. However, the more popular sports subsidize the less popular sports (Track & Field, Baseball / Softball, etc.) that don't make much or any revenue and then Title IX requirements mean that they have to offer funding for women's sports which typically make even less revenue.
Coaches are going to get well paid, but some are probably worth it given how much money the football/basketball program can bring in for the athletics department. A good amount does go into scholarships for the athletes, a few of whom may not be able to otherwise afford to go to college. Some don't make the most of that opportunity, but that's not any less true of the general student population itself.
Which is why some places require you to pay up front before you receive the service or merchandise, in which case there is no debt, so no requirement of accepting cash payments.
Otherwise there are plenty of instances where you don't get a bill until after services rendered (restaurants, auto work, etc.) in which case the business is required to accept cash payment. If they really don't want to, they can always offer a discount for other payment forms, but given that credit cards typically carry a small fee for the merchant and almost no one wants to deal with checks anymore, cash is usually welcome by most businesses and I've shopped at sever that offer a small discount for paying in cash or won't accept anything but cash unless your bill is at least a certain amount.
To some degree yes, but there are still satirical works of literature throughout history such as Swift's A Modest Proposal that would pose a similar problem. The problem in understanding sarcasm or satire without the visual or vocal cues relates to understanding meaning (a difficult problem in its own right) as well as why a particular response is absurd given the context, which means you also have to know what the expected or typical answer should look like.
For example, if people were discussing world hunger online and someone proposed a solution whereby half of the starving ate the other half, which would not only reduce their hunger, but would also effectively cut the problem size in half, most people would pick up on the sarcasm because the proposed solution is utterly absurd. Cannibalism isn't a typical answer to food shortages.
Other techniques involve detecting flawed logic or intentionally faulty reasoning which is often used in sarcasm or satire. For example, if someone posits that eliminating gasoline taxes would lead to flying cars due to a deterioration and lack of upkeep on roads necessitating alternatives for traversing them, most people would again recognize that an illogical leap has been made.
An interesting way of going about this might be to study how people with autism spectrum disorders process information as many of those individuals often lack the ability to detect or fully process sarcasm or satire, even in the presence of visual or auditory cues. Understanding why that happens or by what mechanism other individuals are able to process that information correctly could allow us to understand how to program computers to detect sarcasm. I
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Why not? You can already pay more for leg room if you want to. It's just called first class. Also they already limit the weight of luggage that can be brought on or charge you extra for taking more luggage.
There have already been some airlines considering or implementing ticket prices based on weight since it adds to fuel costs, which are a moderate portion of the flight's expenses. Just give everyone a base rate of weight between their person or luggage and adjust the cost based on the actual total weight.
I don't really see the can of worms here.
I believe they already have made one that's more secure. Apparently this particular attack vector only works on older iPhones, which the shooter had in this case. I wouldn't be surprised if the next phone is completely impossible (so much as anything can be at least) for even they themselves to hack. Apple makes all of their money from selling expensive hardware, not customer data, so they don't have much financial motive for needing an access to that data and their inability to do so only makes the hardware more attractive.
Even if the sea level doesn't rise, it doesn't mean that there isn't climate change or that the earth isn't getting warmer. There was already a discrepancy between expected and actual rates of sea level rise that scientists believe is due to continents absorbing more water. We don't fully know what will happen as temperatures continue to rise because we don't have a complete understanding of how the whole system works.
Are you a laboratory mouse? If not, I'd wait for more trials lest something go horribly wrong.
If you go by the news we've been five years away from curing cancer for the last twenty years and twenty years away from cold fusion for the last fifty years.
So why haven't you started an open source hearing aid project then? Just because the listed factors don't prohibit open source doesn't mean that they're not a big factor in explaining why there aren't open source projects. The same reasons you'd probably give for why you haven't started an open source project are likely the same most others would give as well, so can you blame anyone else for not doing what you yourself also wouldn't do?
If a filter in GIMP doens't work quite correctly no one really cares. If a medical device malfunctions there are serious legal ramifications. Typically people or companies aren't willing to assume that kind of liability without the potential for making a tidy profit.
It seems more and more like what he really said was "Rope and Chains" given the crap we've been shackled with.
I really hope both Sanders and Trump get their party's nominations just to shake things up a bit.
Seriously, this is not anywhere near close to one of the worst disasters in the country's history. Anyone who would make such a claim is either a complete idiot or just looking to be a sensationalist. We've had dozens of hurricanes or earthquakes that have been far worse and if you want to count man-made disasters both the September 11 attacks the the BP Gulf Oil spill are just two within recent memory that are far, far worse in terms of damages and something like the underground coal mine fire (that's still going) in Pennsylvania has probably dumped (or will dump) several orders of magnitudes more greenhouse gasses and other pollutants into the atmosphere than this incident.
Would you really expect anyone who's just come into power to willingly give up territory?
Considering that they believe in a magical sky fairy and that their actions are destined to bring about an apocalypse, I don't think critical reasoning is one of their strong suits.
In a perfect world maybe, but you're not considering the real world where few lives will be saved, but the vulnerability will be abused constantly.
They need to be skinnier in order to support the bigger screens. You can't have a 5.5" screen on something as thick as an old Nokia that fits will in a pocket. Function and form are interconnected so it's not really a matter of function over form, but a matter of alternative forms prohibiting certain functions. More people want a large screen device for media consumption, which means the form will tend towards thinner.
The job position likely doesn't provide enough value to justify paying the kind of wage necessary to live in San Francisco. The company should just move the customer service department to the mid-west or somewhere else where $8.15 per hour is a living wage.
I run Ghostery as well and I paused the blocking to test it out. At least one of the initial networks is responsible for loading other networks which seem to load other crap in turn. It didn't take more than 10 seconds before the count was over 100. At that point, stuff started auto-playing and making noise so I shut the tab, but I wouldn't be surprised if more shit kept getting pulled in. I don't know which is the bad apple, but it's pretty damned clear that it's out of control.
Why is anyone making barely above minimum wage trying to live in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. without even getting a roommate to split the rent? Also, the low temperature doesn't get below freezing so there's no need to ever run a heater. Yes, that means you'll probably want an additional heavy blanket to sleep under, but you're not going to die.
In doing so they'd be creating a piece of software that could be used by anyone to aid in the hacking of phones. The mere existence of that code is a privacy nightmare and it's more likely than not that someone unscrupulous would get their hands on it, and if its existence were known there would certainly be a lot of desire to possess that utility or desire to enrich ones self by selling it.
You're missing one important aspect though. Say only 10 of 1,000 Jobs clones are successful. So what? You ignore that you might be able to start with a different set of genes with outcomes being anywhere from 0 of 1,000 to 100 of 1,000 clones being successful. If you have a sufficiently hostile environment, it doesn't matter how many super genes you pack into something. Super corn isn't going to grow any taller than regular corn if left unwatered and in a dark closet, but under reasonable conditions, it will have a better yield in a lot of cases.
If you're going to order your designer baby are you going to pick the 0 of 1,000 set of genes or the 100 of 1,000 set of genes. You can't guarantee success (you and your designer baby could get hit by a truck on the way home from the hospital or cloning facility) but you can certainly make efforts to improve the odds. The original point still stands that eventually someone will do this and it will likely give them a competitive edge over everyone who doesn't. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
If we've learned anything from the Arab Spring it's that most of the people living there favor these types of religiously oppressive governments, so any overthrow of the existing power structure is more likely than not to end up with something worse taking its place. If Iran were destabilized right now, they'd end up being partially controlled by ISIS. As bad as Hussein or Assad might be, at least they kept a lid on that shit.
I think a good chunk of the Middle East might be sliding towards some hopeless cycle for the foreseeable future because anyone intelligent enough to see why that kind of system is bad is likely to leave for other, less oppressive countries. The people who could be a catalyst for reform aren't there any longer to make improvements and it's no surprise that they don't want to stick around when it's relatively easy to move elsewhere and end up in a country where you won't be killed for your religious beliefs or stoned to death for your sexual preferences.
I don't know either (and I've never used Swift), but in reading through the article, some of the choices seem a little bizarre. the defer keyword seems like a nice idea, but I have to wonder if it won't also end up in some poorly behaving code due to misuse. It's not a bad idea, but you could accomplish the same thing by leaving a comment to yourself as a reminder to cleanup resources or just write that deallocation/cleanup code immediately before going any farther. However, it does make the cleanup code live next to the allocation code, which does make it easier to refactor code without having to jump around a file as much if you've got a large amount of code.
Changing do to repeat and then adding new functionality for the keyword (couldn't the same functionality be produced with a stand alone code block or did the language not have additional scoping inside function?) and showing an example where you use the same identifier seems like a bad idea. I'm guessing that the additional scoping inside of a function must be a new feature, otherwise this doesn't make much sense.
Also, the author claims that the guard keyword somehow cleans up code, but from my reading it's no different than writing an if statement with a negation (basically an unless keyword) but I suppose it is handy as it reads different which marks the code as pre-condition verification (although a comment could do the same) which provides some use.
The error handling stuff seems half-baked as try must be used for any code that throws an error. Seems to make the code slightly longer if I'm just going to pass the error back through the call stack as it now requires some explicit handling in the middle. Some would argue that this is a good thing, but it is a minor nit-pick.
Some of the other stuff seems nice, but makes me think that the first version of Swift was rushed out the door before it was fully ready. While it's unfeasible to expect everything to be done perfectly the first time around, some of the omissions or stuff being added in Swift 2 make it seem like the language lacks polish, especially when they break existing code. I suppose it's better to do some of this stuff now while the language is still in its infancy, but they eventually need to settle into things or at least figure out what still needs to be added so they can make sure that their future additions don't keep breaking existing code.
A university should be preparing the student for a lifetime in a particular field
Then you'd need to ratchet up the difficulty a notch or two and have no qualms about kicking out the people who can't keep up (or just not admitting them to begin with) or just want to party. Given the high and growing cost of a college education, subsidizing something that often turns out to be of no real value to so many individuals (either because they've done nothing with their degree or as you mentioned didn't make good use of their education) is absurd.
That's a lot of money for a UBI as it works out to about a $12 hourly wage, which is more than a lot of people already make. A UBI should be enough that a person can get by without starving. There are plenty of places in the U.S. where you can easily get by on $700 a month. Add in another $700 from having a roommate or a partner and that's plenty of money. If you want to live off of that in a big city, maybe it means you need to have more roommates, but that's the price of living in an area with higher costs.
AMD has a technology they call dual graphics so their APUs could work in conjunction with a discrete GPU, similar to how you can Crossfire two discrete GPUs together already. It's probably more geared towards notebooks where the APU can get by driving the display and the GPU can sit idle. One review found that it could give substantial performance increases for some games, but it depends on driver support as well as where the performance bottleneck is at.
You realize the internet that you're using to complain about government spending on started off as a government project right?
At some point in the future we're going to be acquiring large quantities of resources from off-planet and this is another step in that direction. Really, anything that eventually helps humanity move out among the stars is far more important to us than anything we locally do on Earth. We might make life more comfortable for a few, but eventually something disastrous will happen to our planet (some people are even pretty sure we'll be the ones that do it) and we'll need to have a backup. Colonizing other planets and eventually other solar systems (or just being able to survive out in space for extended periods) is incredibly important.
If colleges limited themselves to football (or ice hockey for some universities) and whichever of men's or women's basketball was more popular, almost every athletics department would make money. However, the more popular sports subsidize the less popular sports (Track & Field, Baseball / Softball, etc.) that don't make much or any revenue and then Title IX requirements mean that they have to offer funding for women's sports which typically make even less revenue.
Coaches are going to get well paid, but some are probably worth it given how much money the football/basketball program can bring in for the athletics department. A good amount does go into scholarships for the athletes, a few of whom may not be able to otherwise afford to go to college. Some don't make the most of that opportunity, but that's not any less true of the general student population itself.
Which is why some places require you to pay up front before you receive the service or merchandise, in which case there is no debt, so no requirement of accepting cash payments.
Otherwise there are plenty of instances where you don't get a bill until after services rendered (restaurants, auto work, etc.) in which case the business is required to accept cash payment. If they really don't want to, they can always offer a discount for other payment forms, but given that credit cards typically carry a small fee for the merchant and almost no one wants to deal with checks anymore, cash is usually welcome by most businesses and I've shopped at sever that offer a small discount for paying in cash or won't accept anything but cash unless your bill is at least a certain amount.
To some degree yes, but there are still satirical works of literature throughout history such as Swift's A Modest Proposal that would pose a similar problem. The problem in understanding sarcasm or satire without the visual or vocal cues relates to understanding meaning (a difficult problem in its own right) as well as why a particular response is absurd given the context, which means you also have to know what the expected or typical answer should look like.
For example, if people were discussing world hunger online and someone proposed a solution whereby half of the starving ate the other half, which would not only reduce their hunger, but would also effectively cut the problem size in half, most people would pick up on the sarcasm because the proposed solution is utterly absurd. Cannibalism isn't a typical answer to food shortages.
Other techniques involve detecting flawed logic or intentionally faulty reasoning which is often used in sarcasm or satire. For example, if someone posits that eliminating gasoline taxes would lead to flying cars due to a deterioration and lack of upkeep on roads necessitating alternatives for traversing them, most people would again recognize that an illogical leap has been made.
An interesting way of going about this might be to study how people with autism spectrum disorders process information as many of those individuals often lack the ability to detect or fully process sarcasm or satire, even in the presence of visual or auditory cues. Understanding why that happens or by what mechanism other individuals are able to process that information correctly could allow us to understand how to program computers to detect sarcasm. I