I think the problems with airlines is the result of a lack of government intervention when the previous administration allowed a dozen or so airlines to merge into 4 huge monolithic airlines (American, Delta, United and Southwest) three of which all seem to have the same policies, prices, fees and outright contempt for the consumer. The ideal of the free market only works when the consumer has choices available to them and but under these circumstances I honestly feel the airlines have formed into a cartel, and while the DOJ declined to pursue any further investigation into anti-trust behavior there is a class action lawsuit working its way the the courts accusing the major airlines of collusion.
Maybe I'm out of the loop on something but I can't help but feel this review is inherently biased because they're comparing the 16nm 1080 Ti versus the much older 28nm dual-GPU Fury X (and it should be noted most games can only run on a single GPU without serious problems). With that said wouldn't it be more appropriate to measure it against the 16nm Polaris-based RX 480?
Not that I don't agree with the objective of the ADA, but as a developer the ADA is such a pain to conform to sometimes. I especially hate having to make products work with overpriced text-to-speech software, and what is worse I'm not blind so I don't use screen readers that often so I'm not really sure if what I'm building will work in practice for a disabled person so sometimes I almost wonder if I should ask my manager to hire a disabled person just to test ADA compliance.
In theory, Intel and AMD could probably make 64-core CPUs a retail reality within a year or two... but with current programming languages, it would be almost pointless.
I see this sentiment a lot but I see the potential for a circular problem here; software engineers may not see the point in building multi-threaded applications because of the relatively low number of cores in most computers now and as a consequence CPU manufacturers may not see the need for more super multi-core chips because of a lack multithreaded applications, but even otherwise more cores give the operating system's scheduler more room to work with which means you can have more processes running without bogging down the responsiveness of the system.
As it stands right now gaming is probably the most common example I can think of and some Unreal engine games, iirc, can use upward of 15 threads all handling specialized tasks, and you can bet that game developers would love more powerful end user hardware. There are other areas too where multithreading would be practical like data compression (7-zip natively supports up to 4 cores iirc) or video encoding which is more common in today's YouTube generation. I also like to use multithreading for faster building which both MSBuild and GNU Make support.
Interestingly, maybe somewhat related to your point, the director for the 80's film Red Dawn was highly vocal against the Brady bill when it was moving through Congress and he included a scene in the movie where a Soviet officer told his troops to go to every gun store in town and collect all the ATF 4473 forms for the purposes of tracking down all gun owners in the area of occupation thereby nipping opposition in the bud.
The worst is when, in the case of some people I've known, NICS decides to deny even someone with a clean background but make it as difficult as possible to appeal if you even can at all.
Furthermore HFCS and cane [table] sugar are essentially the same thing and both are highly processed. In the case of cane sugar the glucose and fructose molecules are bound together creating a crystalline structure whereas with HFCS the molecules do not share a bond and therefore the substance is much more pliable.
Really eating any excessive amounts of any type of sugar is bad a person's health but there is a huge financial incentive for producers of cane sugar to discredit the much cheaper HFCS even though they're both highly processed, plant based and, practically, have identical chemical composition.
Individual applications don't but open your task manager and look at how many processes are running. The more cores you have the more processing power the operating system has to distribute all those processes, and their threads, across. Furthermore some graphics programs and game engines sometimes use upwards of a dozen worker threads.
CPU power in general hasn't lept by great bounds in the last decade like it did 20 years ago when every new computer would be outdated in a year, so now the best strategy is to add more cores so each individual core isn't as burdened as it would otherwise be, and it will likely be the only strategy when we reach the limits of silicone based CPUs in the near future due to quantum tunneling unless someone comes up with something better. Stacking transistors could also be a possible solution sort of like a CPU skyscraper.
That is because they're an awful anti-consumer organization from a bygone era. Why do you think T-Mobile has been pounding them in the dirt ever since they started this whole "Uncarrier" thing?
If T-Mobile is allowed to be absorbed by some monolithic giant disconnected from its consumer base then I'm cancelling my subscription with T-Mobile. Should this happen it'll be a huge step backward for the cellular market, but heh if you can't beat 'em then just buy 'em out with an offer they can't refuse, right?
IIRC High Fructose Corn Syrup and cane sugar with the only difference being that with cane sugar the glucose and fructose molecules are bonded together, which makes cane sugar crystalline in like manner of table salt, whereas in HFCS the two molecules are not bound to each other giving it a liquid property (hence syrup).
Anyone who knows more about chemistry please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes it is a hipster thing exploited by the marketing of food companies. I've even seen "Gluten free" on packages of meat.
In fact a couple of double-blind studies of gluten versus a placebo found little evidence to suggest the existing of gluten sensitivity outside of celiac's disease. What we're probably seeing here is the nocebo effect perpetuated by mass hysteria.
You mean to tell me that I need to elevate India's standard of living when they are perfectly capable of buying books on Amazon and Alibaba and educating themselves and then spreading said education to their population? That's nonsense.
No, I never once said that nor do I believe that we need, or should, do anything about it. We got our own problems here to deal with enough as it is without importing other nation's problems.
Before you call me a racist, I have high respect for other cultures and enjoy their cuisine a lot. I love Indian food and I think Indian people in general are pretty cool. What I don't like is when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing all the American citizens under a bus by hiring less skilled workers for a much cheaper price at the expense of American citizens so they can turn even bigger profits when the corporations the Chamber is comprised of are already sitting on vast piles of wealth. It's really a slap in the face. They've taken advantage of the Land of Opportunity so much that it is no longer the Land of Opportunity.
I hear you. One of my former colleagues was an Indian and he was a very skilled Java developer, and believe me I have high respect for anyone that can manage to work with Java skillfully and yet remain sane. He was pretty cool too but I guess he was skilled enough that he found better opportunities, so it's not that Indians are inherently bad as may be implied but rather its just poor training and low standards that hold back their potential as individuals.
Buy a plug-in electric car, SUV, or truck (they sell them for $9000 in China today and in First World nations like Canada) and stick it to the man.
And where do you think that electricity comes from? The vast majority of it is from fossil fuel electric generation plants. Until nuclear takes over fossil fuels in power generation any arguments about the merits of electric vehicles is moot, except maybe, from an economic standpoint, electricity generated from coal plants.
As a side note about your comment about imported Russian gasoline, it appears most of the fossil fuels in the United States is actually imported from Canada.
Are you kidding me? 3.5mm is tiny, and an AC audio signal isn't exactly the most complicated thing in the world; even simpler if the phone already has a speaker which I guarantee it does.
On the one hand it is annoying but on the other I think forcing updates on people helps remove vulnerabilities from the wild. The Professional version, iirc, you can disable automatic updates rebooting your PC with the group policy editor, and given the typical casual user of Home edition it's probably a good thing that only the Professional version has that option otherwise you'd end up with angry users complaining that Windows is responsible for their personal information being stolen despite the fact they never bothered to update.
Furthermore I think forced automatic updates are probably why we see more social engineer attacks against clueless users now than in the past (like those Indian guys calling people up and claiming to be Microsoft support and that they detected a virus on your PC) but unfortunately not even software can fix stupid.
Last time I went to edit some Wikipedia articles, putting in actual content, the pages got reverted with little to no explanation why. A few months later, mysteriously, the identical content, word for word, I added (which was yanked) was present, put there by another editor.
Exactly what I was thinking. Wikipedia sells itself as an open encyclopedia anyone can edit but in my experience it is one of the most user hostile environments ever once one tries to contribute. You can even be a PhD on a subject and make an edit complete with references and it will still get reverted because it's some self-proclaimed editor's pet project and you can't be apart of it.
This doesn't seem to be a problem specific to Wikipedia either but to the whole Wiki platform as a whole because I've experienced this at other Wiki type sites, so I no longer ever bother to contribute anything.
I work from home and I get what you're saying but I'll tell you that keeping your workspace clean and professional (Having it in its own dedicated room is even better) and sticking to a morning routine like; getting up, having breakfast and getting dressed as though you're on your way to the office, can go a long way to improve your work-at-home ethic.
Samsung has totally abandoned their core following in favor of chasing after Apple and trying to make themselves into a fashion accessory, as a consequence it appears Samsung now also has the "courage" to remove the 3.5mm mini-stereo headphone jack.
Right now I'm on a Samsung Galaxy Note 4; the last good Samsung phone device IMO along with the S5, but it'll probably be my last Samsung device unless they return to reality which is unlikely.
I'm thinking for my next phone it'll probably be an LG V20, or whatever is equivalent from LG if and when I decide to upgrade. I like being able to have expandable, and swappable, storage and also having a pocket full of spare batteries when traveling or hiking.
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I think the problems with airlines is the result of a lack of government intervention when the previous administration allowed a dozen or so airlines to merge into 4 huge monolithic airlines (American, Delta, United and Southwest) three of which all seem to have the same policies, prices, fees and outright contempt for the consumer. The ideal of the free market only works when the consumer has choices available to them and but under these circumstances I honestly feel the airlines have formed into a cartel, and while the DOJ declined to pursue any further investigation into anti-trust behavior there is a class action lawsuit working its way the the courts accusing the major airlines of collusion.
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My mistake. Thanks for pointing that out!
Maybe I'm out of the loop on something but I can't help but feel this review is inherently biased because they're comparing the 16nm 1080 Ti versus the much older 28nm dual-GPU Fury X (and it should be noted most games can only run on a single GPU without serious problems). With that said wouldn't it be more appropriate to measure it against the 16nm Polaris-based RX 480?
Not that I don't agree with the objective of the ADA, but as a developer the ADA is such a pain to conform to sometimes. I especially hate having to make products work with overpriced text-to-speech software, and what is worse I'm not blind so I don't use screen readers that often so I'm not really sure if what I'm building will work in practice for a disabled person so sometimes I almost wonder if I should ask my manager to hire a disabled person just to test ADA compliance.
In theory, Intel and AMD could probably make 64-core CPUs a retail reality within a year or two... but with current programming languages, it would be almost pointless.
I see this sentiment a lot but I see the potential for a circular problem here; software engineers may not see the point in building multi-threaded applications because of the relatively low number of cores in most computers now and as a consequence CPU manufacturers may not see the need for more super multi-core chips because of a lack multithreaded applications, but even otherwise more cores give the operating system's scheduler more room to work with which means you can have more processes running without bogging down the responsiveness of the system.
As it stands right now gaming is probably the most common example I can think of and some Unreal engine games, iirc, can use upward of 15 threads all handling specialized tasks, and you can bet that game developers would love more powerful end user hardware. There are other areas too where multithreading would be practical like data compression (7-zip natively supports up to 4 cores iirc) or video encoding which is more common in today's YouTube generation. I also like to use multithreading for faster building which both MSBuild and GNU Make support.
Interestingly, maybe somewhat related to your point, the director for the 80's film Red Dawn was highly vocal against the Brady bill when it was moving through Congress and he included a scene in the movie where a Soviet officer told his troops to go to every gun store in town and collect all the ATF 4473 forms for the purposes of tracking down all gun owners in the area of occupation thereby nipping opposition in the bud.
The worst is when, in the case of some people I've known, NICS decides to deny even someone with a clean background but make it as difficult as possible to appeal if you even can at all.
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Furthermore HFCS and cane [table] sugar are essentially the same thing and both are highly processed. In the case of cane sugar the glucose and fructose molecules are bound together creating a crystalline structure whereas with HFCS the molecules do not share a bond and therefore the substance is much more pliable.
Really eating any excessive amounts of any type of sugar is bad a person's health but there is a huge financial incentive for producers of cane sugar to discredit the much cheaper HFCS even though they're both highly processed, plant based and, practically, have identical chemical composition.
Individual applications don't but open your task manager and look at how many processes are running. The more cores you have the more processing power the operating system has to distribute all those processes, and their threads, across. Furthermore some graphics programs and game engines sometimes use upwards of a dozen worker threads.
CPU power in general hasn't lept by great bounds in the last decade like it did 20 years ago when every new computer would be outdated in a year, so now the best strategy is to add more cores so each individual core isn't as burdened as it would otherwise be, and it will likely be the only strategy when we reach the limits of silicone based CPUs in the near future due to quantum tunneling unless someone comes up with something better. Stacking transistors could also be a possible solution sort of like a CPU skyscraper.
What they lack is customers.
That is because they're an awful anti-consumer organization from a bygone era. Why do you think T-Mobile has been pounding them in the dirt ever since they started this whole "Uncarrier" thing?
If T-Mobile is allowed to be absorbed by some monolithic giant disconnected from its consumer base then I'm cancelling my subscription with T-Mobile. Should this happen it'll be a huge step backward for the cellular market, but heh if you can't beat 'em then just buy 'em out with an offer they can't refuse, right?
IIRC High Fructose Corn Syrup and cane sugar with the only difference being that with cane sugar the glucose and fructose molecules are bonded together, which makes cane sugar crystalline in like manner of table salt, whereas in HFCS the two molecules are not bound to each other giving it a liquid property (hence syrup).
Anyone who knows more about chemistry please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes it is a hipster thing exploited by the marketing of food companies. I've even seen "Gluten free" on packages of meat.
In fact a couple of double-blind studies of gluten versus a placebo found little evidence to suggest the existing of gluten sensitivity outside of celiac's disease. What we're probably seeing here is the nocebo effect perpetuated by mass hysteria.
You mean to tell me that I need to elevate India's standard of living when they are perfectly capable of buying books on Amazon and Alibaba and educating themselves and then spreading said education to their population? That's nonsense.
No, I never once said that nor do I believe that we need, or should, do anything about it. We got our own problems here to deal with enough as it is without importing other nation's problems.
Before you call me a racist, I have high respect for other cultures and enjoy their cuisine a lot. I love Indian food and I think Indian people in general are pretty cool. What I don't like is when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing all the American citizens under a bus by hiring less skilled workers for a much cheaper price at the expense of American citizens so they can turn even bigger profits when the corporations the Chamber is comprised of are already sitting on vast piles of wealth. It's really a slap in the face. They've taken advantage of the Land of Opportunity so much that it is no longer the Land of Opportunity.
I hear you. One of my former colleagues was an Indian and he was a very skilled Java developer, and believe me I have high respect for anyone that can manage to work with Java skillfully and yet remain sane. He was pretty cool too but I guess he was skilled enough that he found better opportunities, so it's not that Indians are inherently bad as may be implied but rather its just poor training and low standards that hold back their potential as individuals.
I agree. A short cheap cable with an inline fuse could solve this problem. No reason to turn the function of a fuse into a fancy overpriced gadget.
Buy a plug-in electric car, SUV, or truck (they sell them for $9000 in China today and in First World nations like Canada) and stick it to the man.
And where do you think that electricity comes from? The vast majority of it is from fossil fuel electric generation plants. Until nuclear takes over fossil fuels in power generation any arguments about the merits of electric vehicles is moot, except maybe, from an economic standpoint, electricity generated from coal plants.
As a side note about your comment about imported Russian gasoline, it appears most of the fossil fuels in the United States is actually imported from Canada.
Are you kidding me? 3.5mm is tiny, and an AC audio signal isn't exactly the most complicated thing in the world; even simpler if the phone already has a speaker which I guarantee it does.
I think Hollywood just found its next movie plot
Of course the infamous Gray's Anatomy is published by the "respected" Elsevier company...
But the real question is it any better than the TV show? In regard to adaptions, people usually say the book is better.
On the one hand it is annoying but on the other I think forcing updates on people helps remove vulnerabilities from the wild. The Professional version, iirc, you can disable automatic updates rebooting your PC with the group policy editor, and given the typical casual user of Home edition it's probably a good thing that only the Professional version has that option otherwise you'd end up with angry users complaining that Windows is responsible for their personal information being stolen despite the fact they never bothered to update.
Furthermore I think forced automatic updates are probably why we see more social engineer attacks against clueless users now than in the past (like those Indian guys calling people up and claiming to be Microsoft support and that they detected a virus on your PC) but unfortunately not even software can fix stupid.
Last time I went to edit some Wikipedia articles, putting in actual content, the pages got reverted with little to no explanation why. A few months later, mysteriously, the identical content, word for word, I added (which was yanked) was present, put there by another editor.
Exactly what I was thinking. Wikipedia sells itself as an open encyclopedia anyone can edit but in my experience it is one of the most user hostile environments ever once one tries to contribute. You can even be a PhD on a subject and make an edit complete with references and it will still get reverted because it's some self-proclaimed editor's pet project and you can't be apart of it.
This doesn't seem to be a problem specific to Wikipedia either but to the whole Wiki platform as a whole because I've experienced this at other Wiki type sites, so I no longer ever bother to contribute anything.
I work from home and I get what you're saying but I'll tell you that keeping your workspace clean and professional (Having it in its own dedicated room is even better) and sticking to a morning routine like; getting up, having breakfast and getting dressed as though you're on your way to the office, can go a long way to improve your work-at-home ethic.
Samsung has totally abandoned their core following in favor of chasing after Apple and trying to make themselves into a fashion accessory, as a consequence it appears Samsung now also has the "courage" to remove the 3.5mm mini-stereo headphone jack.
Right now I'm on a Samsung Galaxy Note 4; the last good Samsung phone device IMO along with the S5, but it'll probably be my last Samsung device unless they return to reality which is unlikely.
I'm thinking for my next phone it'll probably be an LG V20, or whatever is equivalent from LG if and when I decide to upgrade. I like being able to have expandable, and swappable, storage and also having a pocket full of spare batteries when traveling or hiking.