But that is the point though isn't. It's not a newsworthy story. And even it did deserve a mention, it certainly didn't warrant the outrage displayed. Most of that is because the guy was black, which I'm pretty sure is also just racism.
I'm as white as they come and Google Photos has tagged several monkeys in my pictures as me. Nobody is writing news stories about that (as well they shouldn't!), but because this guy is black the world ended ?
It has nothing to do with the nth crackdown. Prices have been significantly higher in South Korea compared to the rest of the world for many coins, if you take the South Korean Won (KRW) trading pair and then convert that price to its US Dollar (or Euro, or whatever) equivalent. However you should see the crypto/KRW exchange rates as a closed system, as it is not an easily traded coin internationally, which make arbitrage (almost) impossible.
It is correct for CoinMarketCap to filter out the crypto/KRW pairs to arrive at an average price, as you were never actually able to trade your coins for the KRW listed (unless you're Korean, of course), and they had a very significant effect on the price if many coins.
Of course, real traders care only about the specific prices of the exchanges they can actually exchange at.
Even if those two countries are worse, the US is still worse (per capita) than virtually any other nation. Just because you aren't the absolute worst is hardly a justification for doing nothing.
China is working hard and beating the terms of any agreements they made.
A very large part of India is so poor they don't have access to electricity, gas, or clean water. Yes, these people are responsible for a lot of the bad gasses, because they literally cook on dung set on fire. But what do you expect these people to do? Not eat? They have no other option, and we cannot expect them to solve this issue, and you cannot expect India as a country to eradicate poverty in a 5 year time-span. And even including that, India isn't actually doing that bad on improving things.
But it does mean the rest of us, especially those with means (like us westerners), will have to work extra hard to make we're going to be alright.
As for the US' 25% reduction, how can you say it does nothing for the world? Even if you are right and the US is only 16%, that's still a 4% global decrease. If other countries do this as well, it is a lot more. But you're just thinking about yourself: if everybody does it but not us, then the difference is minor. What if everybody thought this way? Do you not think it costs other countries a lot of money to get there? Converting to clean energy and less polluting manufacturing isn't suddenly free outside the US borders.
If anything, Nicaragua is right and the Paris accords don't even go far enough. Even if it were followed, we're still set to reach near-catastrophic temperature increase...
That case generally does not present itself because the person telling you what to pay as salary knows the rules well, applies them with a narrow margin, and is trusted by his superiors. It is rare for these rulings to be overturned - though I assure you it does occasionally happen!
The case with Apple might be different. From what I remember(!) reading last time this was in the news, both the Apple lawyers as well as the Irish tax authority could be expected to know this deal was crossing the line, and proceeded anyway. (Like buying a cheap bike on the street...)
Ireland is well known for these sorts of practices (for example they also double tax dividends against EU regulations). They have been warned to behave before, so yes, they should be punished. As a willing participant, Apple should not go free either, though.
My girlfriend works with kids in the target age group, they love playing around with this. Their web code tools aren't half bad either - my girlfriend now understands the basics of code (so this is what you do all day eh? well, not exactly...)
Except at no point have I stated MS is alright - that's what you are making of it. The point is that none of the big corps have our best interests at heart, and they're all various degrees of evil. While the order they appear in is subjective, Microsoft apparently still gets the bulk of the hate.
At this point, a large part of IT simply will never appreciate Microsoft, no matter what they do.
"We'd trust them if they'd only do X!" No, you wouldn't. You'd figure out some other reason to hate them.
News flash, it's 2016, and Microsoft is no longer the most evil or dangerous bigcorp out there. Apple, Google, and Facebook, have all surpassed Microsoft. Can we get back to some actual issues?
Your point being? All the cities I frequent in Europe are well below the 250th spot, far lower again than Naples.
As for informed statistics, on that same site, selecting Europe only, puts Naples in second place. So in fact, the situation is even worse than my anecdotal evidence.
Fact remains Naples would be one of the very last cities one would expect to be selected for this.
I know a bunch of you think V8 is cross-platform enough, but really it isn't. It uses way too much memory for many platforms, there's no non-JIT mode (so can't run on iOS), oh and it is a female dog to compile.
Node.js' use cases are not limited to running a Node.js server. Embedding the core inside a bigger application and using it for some types of cross-platform logic, scripting, etc is a real thing. Maximizing compatibility is a must in that case.
Aside from just having options, various engines offer different features you may want to use, and better compatibility with your target platform.
JXCore has done a great job extending Node.js to support mobile, and they support SpiderMonkey and ChakraCore alongside V8. Compatibility wise they're king of the hill already, though they could still add JavaScriptCore and maybe even Duktape for good measure.
Nothing against Italy or Italians, but my sister worked in science in that area and it was absolutely dreadful. Impossible to get things done as many people have that typical 'Southern European work ethic' - appointments and deadlines are more like suggestions. Which is of course an awful generalisation, but it is definitely a real thing.
Naples is also quite literally mainland mob central.
I considered the X8, but after having used various Netgear stuff in the past with issues, I decided to try another brand for a change: Asus. While my relationship with Asus is also a love/hate one, I had never used their routers before, so I thought it time to give them a chance.
I replaced a 300N Wi-Fi network powered by a Netgear and a 500mbps Powerline network also 'powered' by Netgear with an Asus RT-AC5300 router as main unit, and an RT-AC88U as 'bridge' unit in my home office (Wi-Fi --> 8 port ethernet).
The main difference between the two units is that the AC5300 can power two 5ghz networks and has 4 ethernet ports, while the AC88U only has one 5ghz network and has 8 ethernet ports. Otherwise, they're identical to eachother, and to the X8. 2100mbps per 5ghz AC, and 1000mbps on 2.4ghz N. One of the 5ghz networks on the AC5300 is used exclusively to connect the AC88U in bridge mode, which works rather well.
From the two far corners of my apartment, approximately 50 feet apart, with the main router in a third corner, the network manages over 300mbps actual throughput on AC, and 70mbps actual throughput on N. This up from a previous maximum of about 30mbps.
300mbps is more than enough for my needs. For the first time ever, Wi-Fi has done something other than disappoint me. One for the books!
So I know little about whales, which whales there are a lot of and which aren't, and I'm not going to state any opinion on if they should be hunted or not.
However, I've been on whale spotting trips where we saw Minke whales which the spotters said were very rare to see (next to the Humpbacks that are apparently endangered but seem to be as common as any other fish). At the same time, I've been to several restaurants in Scandinavia that have Minke whale (specifically) on the menu.
Considering that, how much sense does it make to be angry at Japan here, while these animals are hunted and served in Europe as well, perhaps even in larger numbers?
I've used Turbo Pascal and Delphi for years, later followed by FPC and Lazarus. It was an enjoyable time. While I was no stranger to C++ even in those times, I simply preferred Object Pascal (so sue me). We even used it on Windows Mobile up to 6.x.
Unfortunately, when the time came (years ago now) to focus on Android, FPC's RTL had fairly serious issues, that I personally did not have to expertise to fix, and it wasn't a priority for anybody else who did.
While I have no plans to return to FPC, I'm still a fan, and I love to see it progress.
Same here. I get blasted by people regularly for using WinRAR instead of 7-Zip, but I prefer it for the exact same reason you do. It's just more convenient to use. Hell, I even paid for it.
However, to avoid warring about it and for the sake of ease of file exchange, I only create ZIP files. For the same reason, I am thoroughly annoyed by people using the 7-Zip format for archives. The few extra bytes saved is not worth the annoyance, neither for RAR nor 7z files.
It's been known that URLs you visit in incognito mode on Android show up in auto-suggest when typing in an URL manually in normal mode as well. Has nobody else noticed this?
I do indeed live in Europe, and I pay for something with cash maybe once every few weeks. ATM (maestro, instant bank account transfer) card is used for everything in my country, from groceries to parking meters, to buying a car. Even random tiny vendor at backwater music festival will have a mobile card machine accepting them. Unlike some other countries there's no minimum acceptable amount for carding.
Credit cards are now accepted in most places as well, but certainly far from all, and there may be an extra fee. It depends on the card machine really, most card payment machines these days (fixed as well as mobile), regardless of the venue, will accept credit cards as long as they have both a chip and the PIN functionality. But every once in a while you'll encounter an old machine, or a machine with a slot that doesn't fit the credit card's extra height due to the relief of the numbers on it.
My American friends keep trying to convince me their credit card system is better, with all sorts of benefits if you play it right, insurance, etc. But we have consumer protections laws here that mean you don't really need that insurance, benefits are just costs siphoned somewhere else, the extra % for the charge is just thrown away money, and I like that my checking account immediately reflects spent funds.
What do I still use cash for? The increasingly rare parking meter that only accepts coins, and for leaving tips. Once in a while I'll pay somewhere in big bills just to get little ones and coins back to leave for tips in restaurants and bars. That is one thing the US does infinitely better: you can write the tip amount on the check. I really don't get why that system hasn't been adopted here, as I (and all the other locals) will always pay with our cards, and if no cash is on hand, no tip will be left (adding the tip to the carded amount usually means the money goes to the boss, not your waiters and chefs and whatnot). Of course, our waiters are actually paid real-people-wages unlike the US, but still.
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But that is the point though isn't. It's not a newsworthy story. And even it did deserve a mention, it certainly didn't warrant the outrage displayed. Most of that is because the guy was black, which I'm pretty sure is also just racism.
I'm as white as they come and Google Photos has tagged several monkeys in my pictures as me. Nobody is writing news stories about that (as well they shouldn't!), but because this guy is black the world ended ?
It has nothing to do with the nth crackdown. Prices have been significantly higher in South Korea compared to the rest of the world for many coins, if you take the South Korean Won (KRW) trading pair and then convert that price to its US Dollar (or Euro, or whatever) equivalent. However you should see the crypto/KRW exchange rates as a closed system, as it is not an easily traded coin internationally, which make arbitrage (almost) impossible.
It is correct for CoinMarketCap to filter out the crypto/KRW pairs to arrive at an average price, as you were never actually able to trade your coins for the KRW listed (unless you're Korean, of course), and they had a very significant effect on the price if many coins.
Of course, real traders care only about the specific prices of the exchanges they can actually exchange at.
What a load of self-serving nonsense.
Even if those two countries are worse, the US is still worse (per capita) than virtually any other nation. Just because you aren't the absolute worst is hardly a justification for doing nothing.
China is working hard and beating the terms of any agreements they made.
A very large part of India is so poor they don't have access to electricity, gas, or clean water. Yes, these people are responsible for a lot of the bad gasses, because they literally cook on dung set on fire. But what do you expect these people to do? Not eat? They have no other option, and we cannot expect them to solve this issue, and you cannot expect India as a country to eradicate poverty in a 5 year time-span. And even including that, India isn't actually doing that bad on improving things.
But it does mean the rest of us, especially those with means (like us westerners), will have to work extra hard to make we're going to be alright.
As for the US' 25% reduction, how can you say it does nothing for the world? Even if you are right and the US is only 16%, that's still a 4% global decrease. If other countries do this as well, it is a lot more. But you're just thinking about yourself: if everybody does it but not us, then the difference is minor. What if everybody thought this way? Do you not think it costs other countries a lot of money to get there? Converting to clean energy and less polluting manufacturing isn't suddenly free outside the US borders.
If anything, Nicaragua is right and the Paris accords don't even go far enough. Even if it were followed, we're still set to reach near-catastrophic temperature increase...
Meh, maybe I'm just European...
> The reason we have shitty software is because nobody typically dies when something goes wrong
The reason we have shitty software is because nobody wants to pay for having well tested software. The costs would be factors higher.
That case generally does not present itself because the person telling you what to pay as salary knows the rules well, applies them with a narrow margin, and is trusted by his superiors. It is rare for these rulings to be overturned - though I assure you it does occasionally happen!
The case with Apple might be different. From what I remember(!) reading last time this was in the news, both the Apple lawyers as well as the Irish tax authority could be expected to know this deal was crossing the line, and proceeded anyway. (Like buying a cheap bike on the street...)
Ireland is well known for these sorts of practices (for example they also double tax dividends against EU regulations). They have been warned to behave before, so yes, they should be punished. As a willing participant, Apple should not go free either, though.
My girlfriend works with kids in the target age group, they love playing around with this. Their web code tools aren't half bad either - my girlfriend now understands the basics of code (so this is what you do all day eh? well, not exactly...)
Except at no point have I stated MS is alright - that's what you are making of it. The point is that none of the big corps have our best interests at heart, and they're all various degrees of evil. While the order they appear in is subjective, Microsoft apparently still gets the bulk of the hate.
At this point, a large part of IT simply will never appreciate Microsoft, no matter what they do.
"We'd trust them if they'd only do X!" No, you wouldn't. You'd figure out some other reason to hate them.
News flash, it's 2016, and Microsoft is no longer the most evil or dangerous bigcorp out there. Apple, Google, and Facebook, have all surpassed Microsoft. Can we get back to some actual issues?
Your point being? All the cities I frequent in Europe are well below the 250th spot, far lower again than Naples.
As for informed statistics, on that same site, selecting Europe only, puts Naples in second place. So in fact, the situation is even worse than my anecdotal evidence.
Fact remains Naples would be one of the very last cities one would expect to be selected for this.
But hey, naysayers will continue to say nay!
I know a bunch of you think V8 is cross-platform enough, but really it isn't. It uses way too much memory for many platforms, there's no non-JIT mode (so can't run on iOS), oh and it is a female dog to compile.
Node.js' use cases are not limited to running a Node.js server. Embedding the core inside a bigger application and using it for some types of cross-platform logic, scripting, etc is a real thing. Maximizing compatibility is a must in that case.
Aside from just having options, various engines offer different features you may want to use, and better compatibility with your target platform.
JXCore has done a great job extending Node.js to support mobile, and they support SpiderMonkey and ChakraCore alongside V8. Compatibility wise they're king of the hill already, though they could still add JavaScriptCore and maybe even Duktape for good measure.
Nothing against Italy or Italians, but my sister worked in science in that area and it was absolutely dreadful. Impossible to get things done as many people have that typical 'Southern European work ethic' - appointments and deadlines are more like suggestions. Which is of course an awful generalisation, but it is definitely a real thing.
Naples is also quite literally mainland mob central.
I considered the X8, but after having used various Netgear stuff in the past with issues, I decided to try another brand for a change: Asus. While my relationship with Asus is also a love/hate one, I had never used their routers before, so I thought it time to give them a chance.
I replaced a 300N Wi-Fi network powered by a Netgear and a 500mbps Powerline network also 'powered' by Netgear with an Asus RT-AC5300 router as main unit, and an RT-AC88U as 'bridge' unit in my home office (Wi-Fi --> 8 port ethernet).
The main difference between the two units is that the AC5300 can power two 5ghz networks and has 4 ethernet ports, while the AC88U only has one 5ghz network and has 8 ethernet ports. Otherwise, they're identical to eachother, and to the X8. 2100mbps per 5ghz AC, and 1000mbps on 2.4ghz N. One of the 5ghz networks on the AC5300 is used exclusively to connect the AC88U in bridge mode, which works rather well.
From the two far corners of my apartment, approximately 50 feet apart, with the main router in a third corner, the network manages over 300mbps actual throughput on AC, and 70mbps actual throughput on N. This up from a previous maximum of about 30mbps.
300mbps is more than enough for my needs. For the first time ever, Wi-Fi has done something other than disappoint me. One for the books!
So I know little about whales, which whales there are a lot of and which aren't, and I'm not going to state any opinion on if they should be hunted or not.
However, I've been on whale spotting trips where we saw Minke whales which the spotters said were very rare to see (next to the Humpbacks that are apparently endangered but seem to be as common as any other fish). At the same time, I've been to several restaurants in Scandinavia that have Minke whale (specifically) on the menu.
Considering that, how much sense does it make to be angry at Japan here, while these animals are hunted and served in Europe as well, perhaps even in larger numbers?
I've used Turbo Pascal and Delphi for years, later followed by FPC and Lazarus. It was an enjoyable time. While I was no stranger to C++ even in those times, I simply preferred Object Pascal (so sue me). We even used it on Windows Mobile up to 6.x.
Unfortunately, when the time came (years ago now) to focus on Android, FPC's RTL had fairly serious issues, that I personally did not have to expertise to fix, and it wasn't a priority for anybody else who did.
While I have no plans to return to FPC, I'm still a fan, and I love to see it progress.
Same here. I get blasted by people regularly for using WinRAR instead of 7-Zip, but I prefer it for the exact same reason you do. It's just more convenient to use. Hell, I even paid for it.
However, to avoid warring about it and for the sake of ease of file exchange, I only create ZIP files. For the same reason, I am thoroughly annoyed by people using the 7-Zip format for archives. The few extra bytes saved is not worth the annoyance, neither for RAR nor 7z files.
It's been known that URLs you visit in incognito mode on Android show up in auto-suggest when typing in an URL manually in normal mode as well. Has nobody else noticed this?
This guys is who got me hooked on programming. Too bad he works for Facebook now.
Thanks to Valve! Absolutely no game developers involved at all!
From the pictures, it seems the screen still isn't really round, but has a straight section at the bottom just like the old version.
If that ends up to be the release, then it's a no go for me. Looks absolutely terrible.
Then again, I don't wear watches anyway, and if I did, it'd be a classic, not some smart toy. I'm not Hasselhoff, I don't need to talk to my car.
Good job blaming Google for something the Netflix guys hardcoded in their app. What?
... and even patented it.
A very large portion of rooted Androids with SELinux do not "setenforce 0", and I've not seen it recommended for ages.
As for handicapping the Android security model, I am reminded of a quote about safety being a tyrant's tool...
That's not likely to be the real site.
I do indeed live in Europe, and I pay for something with cash maybe once every few weeks. ATM (maestro, instant bank account transfer) card is used for everything in my country, from groceries to parking meters, to buying a car. Even random tiny vendor at backwater music festival will have a mobile card machine accepting them. Unlike some other countries there's no minimum acceptable amount for carding.
Credit cards are now accepted in most places as well, but certainly far from all, and there may be an extra fee. It depends on the card machine really, most card payment machines these days (fixed as well as mobile), regardless of the venue, will accept credit cards as long as they have both a chip and the PIN functionality. But every once in a while you'll encounter an old machine, or a machine with a slot that doesn't fit the credit card's extra height due to the relief of the numbers on it.
My American friends keep trying to convince me their credit card system is better, with all sorts of benefits if you play it right, insurance, etc. But we have consumer protections laws here that mean you don't really need that insurance, benefits are just costs siphoned somewhere else, the extra % for the charge is just thrown away money, and I like that my checking account immediately reflects spent funds.
What do I still use cash for? The increasingly rare parking meter that only accepts coins, and for leaving tips. Once in a while I'll pay somewhere in big bills just to get little ones and coins back to leave for tips in restaurants and bars. That is one thing the US does infinitely better: you can write the tip amount on the check. I really don't get why that system hasn't been adopted here, as I (and all the other locals) will always pay with our cards, and if no cash is on hand, no tip will be left (adding the tip to the carded amount usually means the money goes to the boss, not your waiters and chefs and whatnot). Of course, our waiters are actually paid real-people-wages unlike the US, but still.