Keep in mind that while they might reduce their costs in terms of fuel, the infrastructure they are responsible for maintaining will keep growing. When this topic comes up people often forget about that rather massive recurring cost and most consumers just sorta take it for granted that someone will fix/upgrade things.
For all its failure, you have to admire LMI for putting its money where its mouth was. While it did not catch on in the mainstream it really was an alternative that did things well.
Yeah, one of the things I adore about C is how easy it tends to be to use it from other languages. It is so predictable that it is easy for linker (or equivalent) writers to map symbols and such.
One of the big reasons C will probably not be going away any time soon is there is no replacement and not much work being done on one. The higher level languages, language designers are constantly trying to redo or replace, but there is not much interest in replacing such a low level language... and the people who do use C are not interested either since they tend not to be language fetishists.
I could actually see some targeted NSF or CERTS funding going to something like that. When something becomes critical to infrastructure it starts making sense to put in some public funding since each company benefiting from it has a financial incentive for someone else to foot the bill.
Sadly I am out of mod points, but I think you hit the nail on the head. It is disingenuous to call something a failure when using criteria the people involved never intended or wanted. To use a car analogy, it is like calling a car for gear heads a failure because delivery companies are not using it. Yeah, if the goal was to build a delivery van they might have a point, but it is not the car`s fault they wanted to apply it elsewhere and it was a poor fit.
I suspect there were motivational talks about the vision of the company which focused on examples line VICE and other youth oriented "social media" companies.
I am skeptical that they left over anything involving format or distribution or even use of tech, but something involving changing the target or intellegence level of their reporting.
Pretty much all of them. There is such a fear of being seen as "leftist" that over the years media companies have leaded further and further right. FOX and AM radio are extreme cases, but even places like NYT is pretty right leaning.
*nod* and those maintenance contracts are expensive for the manufacturer too. It means having inventory for outdated parts on hand for years to decades or even keeping manufacturing capabilities in place. Plus additional training, documentation, it really ads up.
Like 'cloud', it is not that people don't get it, it is that many are annoyed about a trendy new term for an existing pattern. It reeks of marketing rather than engineering, designed to play on ignorance and poetic imagery then be descriptive.
It is one thing to do studies (which I am in favor of), it is another thing to try to illegally obtain some because of suggestions on the internet when dealing with something as broad as ASD. PTSD is a very specific neurological thing that can be studied and treated with some level of isolation. ASD, for any individual, tends to get lumped in with any number of one off problems like sensory integration for social anxiety, and it is not unusual for someone to treat one of those and then claim it "helped their autism", which makes it useless or dangerous for someone with ASD but not those other issues.
Given how disconnected humanity's elites are from the rest of the population, for the vast majority of us the question is not one of threatening humanity and more wondering if AI ruling will be any better or worse. Now it will probably be a threat to the world's leaders and wealthy, but I doubt anyone would really morn nor notice their disappearance.
Hrm, if I recall correctly Girl Genius had a character like that, on life support for an extended period and her communication equipment kept going long after she was dead, but in that case neither she nor anyone else realized it.
Meh, as soon as 'Autism Speaks' is in the mix 'exploiting the vulnerable' becomes a very real concern. Autistic individuals, at least one in activism, tend to think rather poorly of the group since they have a pretty anti-autistic track record that focuses on pretty much everyone's needs except the person with autism.
Well, if you can get it. Ketamine is not generally rated for use as a mind altering drug (and even there, it will not impact autism, but might help other issues that combine with autism to cause people problems) so going this route can be tricky unless you have a doctor willing to fudge some paperwork.
Maybe it speaks to having reasonable expectations, but I find that the details of that accomplishment warrant no tempering since that is expletive impressive.
In its sensationalism it also skips over the bigger problem. The larger risk is not some geeky killer who does something fancy with tech rather then, oh, I don`t know, hitting someone with a brick.. instead it is how bugs and untested interactions between all these devices could lead to accidental death.
One of the big problems in the discussion of net neutrality is there are many ways to implement it and individuals usually have one way or another in mind.
For instance, I am a proponent of classifying the physical layers at common carriers while ISPs would not be, so consumers would be locked into their local carrier but then could chose any ISP endpoint they wished. Under this setup data caps would be fine since you could always switch to another ISP. Other solutions however keep the two bundled so data caps become a major issue.
True, but this is why it is important to get some visibility on all the good and bad points since, in theory at least, the law can be crafted to try to minimize the impact of the later.
Which is why I suspect that the tape market will adjust, but is no deader than usual. If nothing else, as I recall, people have been saying the tape market is 'on its way out' for decades now, yet it is still the only media (generally) that you can pull those arguments from decades ago out of storage and laugh at them again.
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I usually physically disconnect the antenna, but that only works on some boxes.
Keep in mind that while they might reduce their costs in terms of fuel, the infrastructure they are responsible for maintaining will keep growing. When this topic comes up people often forget about that rather massive recurring cost and most consumers just sorta take it for granted that someone will fix/upgrade things.
For all its failure, you have to admire LMI for putting its money where its mouth was. While it did not catch on in the mainstream it really was an alternative that did things well.
Yeah, one of the things I adore about C is how easy it tends to be to use it from other languages. It is so predictable that it is easy for linker (or equivalent) writers to map symbols and such.
Since there is more than one person involved, different individuals can hold different beliefs?
One of the big reasons C will probably not be going away any time soon is there is no replacement and not much work being done on one. The higher level languages, language designers are constantly trying to redo or replace, but there is not much interest in replacing such a low level language... and the people who do use C are not interested either since they tend not to be language fetishists.
I could actually see some targeted NSF or CERTS funding going to something like that. When something becomes critical to infrastructure it starts making sense to put in some public funding since each company benefiting from it has a financial incentive for someone else to foot the bill.
Sadly I am out of mod points, but I think you hit the nail on the head. It is disingenuous to call something a failure when using criteria the people involved never intended or wanted. To use a car analogy, it is like calling a car for gear heads a failure because delivery companies are not using it. Yeah, if the goal was to build a delivery van they might have a point, but it is not the car`s fault they wanted to apply it elsewhere and it was a poor fit.
I suspect there were motivational talks about the vision of the company which focused on examples line VICE and other youth oriented "social media" companies.
I am skeptical that they left over anything involving format or distribution or even use of tech, but something involving changing the target or intellegence level of their reporting.
Pretty much all of them. There is such a fear of being seen as "leftist" that over the years media companies have leaded further and further right. FOX and AM radio are extreme cases, but even places like NYT is pretty right leaning.
I doubt they have forgotten it, in fact it probably puts them in a good position for feeling out if someone is actually saying something.
*nod* and those maintenance contracts are expensive for the manufacturer too. It means having inventory for outdated parts on hand for years to decades or even keeping manufacturing capabilities in place. Plus additional training, documentation, it really ads up.
Like 'cloud', it is not that people don't get it, it is that many are annoyed about a trendy new term for an existing pattern. It reeks of marketing rather than engineering, designed to play on ignorance and poetic imagery then be descriptive.
Yeah, but that would be descriptive, and descriptiveness has never been all that compatible with buzz.
It is one thing to do studies (which I am in favor of), it is another thing to try to illegally obtain some because of suggestions on the internet when dealing with something as broad as ASD. PTSD is a very specific neurological thing that can be studied and treated with some level of isolation. ASD, for any individual, tends to get lumped in with any number of one off problems like sensory integration for social anxiety, and it is not unusual for someone to treat one of those and then claim it "helped their autism", which makes it useless or dangerous for someone with ASD but not those other issues.
Given how disconnected humanity's elites are from the rest of the population, for the vast majority of us the question is not one of threatening humanity and more wondering if AI ruling will be any better or worse. Now it will probably be a threat to the world's leaders and wealthy, but I doubt anyone would really morn nor notice their disappearance.
Hrm, if I recall correctly Girl Genius had a character like that, on life support for an extended period and her communication equipment kept going long after she was dead, but in that case neither she nor anyone else realized it.
Meh, as soon as 'Autism Speaks' is in the mix 'exploiting the vulnerable' becomes a very real concern. Autistic individuals, at least one in activism, tend to think rather poorly of the group since they have a pretty anti-autistic track record that focuses on pretty much everyone's needs except the person with autism.
Well, if you can get it. Ketamine is not generally rated for use as a mind altering drug (and even there, it will not impact autism, but might help other issues that combine with autism to cause people problems) so going this route can be tricky unless you have a doctor willing to fudge some paperwork.
Maybe it speaks to having reasonable expectations, but I find that the details of that accomplishment warrant no tempering since that is expletive impressive.
In its sensationalism it also skips over the bigger problem. The larger risk is not some geeky killer who does something fancy with tech rather then, oh, I don`t know, hitting someone with a brick.. instead it is how bugs and untested interactions between all these devices could lead to accidental death.
One of the big problems in the discussion of net neutrality is there are many ways to implement it and individuals usually have one way or another in mind.
For instance, I am a proponent of classifying the physical layers at common carriers while ISPs would not be, so consumers would be locked into their local carrier but then could chose any ISP endpoint they wished. Under this setup data caps would be fine since you could always switch to another ISP. Other solutions however keep the two bundled so data caps become a major issue.
True, but this is why it is important to get some visibility on all the good and bad points since, in theory at least, the law can be crafted to try to minimize the impact of the later.
I was indeed, but yeah, without tone it is not always obvious.
Which is why I suspect that the tape market will adjust, but is no deader than usual. If nothing else, as I recall, people have been saying the tape market is 'on its way out' for decades now, yet it is still the only media (generally) that you can pull those arguments from decades ago out of storage and laugh at them again.