I own a house that was originally constructed in 1942. I purchased it from the estate of the original owner in 2004. Every single thing I have tried to do in the house has been thwarted by the previous owner's amateur attempts at home improvement. Electrical (four electrical boxes, knob & tube wiring under the attic insulation), carpentry (crooked doors, cheep 70's aluminum frame windows, bathroom floor supported by rusty screws and good intentions), plumbing (copper tubing to the attic furnace, automotive radiator hose for the u-bend on the tub drain). Every single thing has taken twice as long and cost almost twice as much as needed due to poor craftsmanship, kludges, and stubborn refusal to follow code or even basic principles of home construction.
Seriously. I wish he had just hired a professional.
This isn't, unfortunately for you, a 'just fucking google it' sort of project
I wonder why not. All of the data should be publicly available. Getting notified of changes might be difficult; but the problem seems large, complex, and solvable. I.e. right up Google's alley.
Remember back in the day when Apple did not have proper memory protection for co-operative multitasking and errant programs could take the system 8 down?
His steveness was back after his first resignation at this point.
The colossal fuckup that was Copeland/System 8 was originated under Sculley. Spindler and Amelio failed on execution. Jobs was brought in to make it all work. "Making it work" involved chucking large portions out the window and reworking OpenSTEP to do what was needed.
Remember back in the day when Apple did not have pre-emptive multitasking?
His steveness finally saw his OS catch up with the rest of the 20th century in the 21st. That was almost a whole decade wasted from the time that John Sculley, the man who saved Apple, was kicked out.
Again, it was Jobs who brought a "modern" operating system to Apple.
I will not disagree with your basic point that all operating systems have gone through a growth process and have had features added at different rates. However, I do not feel it is fair to imply that Apple leadership went straight from Sculley to Jobs. Nor is it fair to blame Jobs for defects that he was specifically brought on to fix.
...we need to borrow and repay at insignificant interest rates...
FTFY. Long term bond interest rates are near record lows. It would be foolish not to borrow. If we borrow now and invest wisely so that the economy grows by at least 2%, we break even.
Or we can keep cutting. That worked really well for Spain & Ireland.
Follow. But. Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!
Rather than Asimov's more nuanced first rule, we should use The League of People's definition of "dangerous non-sentients". I.e. if you deliberately harm another person, you have effectively abdicated your sentience.
As an engineer, I often find myself wondering if my designs reflect a sufficient level of sentience.
I'm a bit surprised that it is worth it though. The vast majority of autocad drawings are really boring... miscellaneous machine parts etc
Do you have ANY idea how much margin there is in spare parts? I have worked at several companies that lose money on the front end and make it up on scheduled maintenance. Hence our big customers are constantly badgering us for "detailed part drawings" of sub components. They can ask, and they can get politely refused. I.e. "You paid for the machine, you did not pay for the engineering that went into it. Otherwise the price would have been 2-3 orders of magnitude higher." or, somewhat less adroitly "No, we will not give you enough information to go to Ma&Pa machine shop down the street who will undercut us by 40%-60%"
The best measure would be ROI, but I rather doubt that Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft will give us that kind of detail. With the data we do have, I think that units sold is a good measure. It represents market penetration and provides an upper bound on the number of units any game can sell.
Not necessarily true. We are talking about a value well under Avogadro's number. Even if we had enough mice, the inter-particle interactions would be highly non-newtonian. For 22500 mice, I would still model them as solid particles (it can be done, and is not quite as hard as you might think). The effects on individual mice would be quite interesting, in my estimation. Individuals on the leading surface of the bag would be expected to bear the brunt of the impact, while his/her compatriots at the rear would experience a certain level of damping and a correspondingly lower impact velocity.
The question of the melons is slightly different. For low numbers of bags, I would expect little effect with respect to the melon (it may not splatter far, but it would still be heavily traumatized). Once a threshold of bags is reached, the mass of the bags will become considerable and the bag-melon interactions cannot be neglected.
And I haven't even had my second cup of coffee, you bastard.
It should have similar consequences as "+1 Funny" with respect to Karma. In essence: "Bless him. He has no idea what he is talking about. We will hide his embarrassment as quickly as possible."
Jay Lee is a tech blogger for the Houston Chronicle. He also has a little radio show on a public radio station.
He admits in his article that he was cranking out enough takedown notices to semi-automate the process. He perhaps should have known GoDaddy's policy regarding multiple sites registered to the same person. Though, I think it unreasonable for him to research which third party sites would be affected in the defense of his work. On the gripping hand, all the non-infringing sites were restored at his request once the problem was brought to light.
My own personal suspicion is that Ms. Shwagger was not the author of the websites and may have had little or no idea of the providence of the image in question. This does not excuse her alleged, abusive reactions to Mr. Lee. It may shed some light on why she thinks that she is the agrieved party in this matter.
I have not heard Mr. Lee espouse any political position on his radio show. Extrapolating from his positions on various tech news items addressed on his show, I suspect that he may actually agree with Ms. Shwagger's political views. Which makes her unfounded, partisan attacks all the more ironic.
Sounds like a lot of jobs to me, isn't that what we're supposed to be addressing, all the idle hands?
In principle, I agree with you. However, I cannot help but think that there might be more productive activities than groping four-year-olds or tossing around bits of lead in foreign locales.
There is no air there. The analogies to previous attempts at colonization really break down when you consider that if key infrastructure elements fail, you suffocate in a matter of hours, perhaps days. Worst comes to worst, a failing terrestrial colony can fall back on local food and water, or perhaps swallow their pride and make friends with the people already living there. They never had to worry about where their next breath would come from.
There is no "settling" the moon. Why? Because there is no air there. We may be able to haul machinery to the moon to generate are locally, but those machines will require vigilant maintenance and a constant stream of supplies from mother Earth.
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And how quickly does it kill the battery running 2D rendering through the GPU?
I'm a little confused. Is this a mostly-mobile OS or not?
Sir, the users are revolting!
Yes. Yes they are.
It's impossible to make a good movie from a video game.
The studios aren't interested in good; they're interested in how many people will pay to see it.
Okay: It's impossible to make a movie people will pay to see from a video game.
I own a house that was originally constructed in 1942. I purchased it from the estate of the original owner in 2004. Every single thing I have tried to do in the house has been thwarted by the previous owner's amateur attempts at home improvement. Electrical (four electrical boxes, knob & tube wiring under the attic insulation), carpentry (crooked doors, cheep 70's aluminum frame windows, bathroom floor supported by rusty screws and good intentions), plumbing (copper tubing to the attic furnace, automotive radiator hose for the u-bend on the tub drain). Every single thing has taken twice as long and cost almost twice as much as needed due to poor craftsmanship, kludges, and stubborn refusal to follow code or even basic principles of home construction.
Seriously. I wish he had just hired a professional.
Because more of what got us in this mess is the only logical solution.
This isn't, unfortunately for you, a 'just fucking google it' sort of project
I wonder why not. All of the data should be publicly available. Getting notified of changes might be difficult; but the problem seems large, complex, and solvable. I.e. right up Google's alley.
How on earth do you fit the three car seats on your Harley?
Otherwise they wouldn't be suspect.
"usable GUI" is the operative phrase there, Sparky.
Can I rate this -1 Gross Misrepresentation?
Remember back in the day when Apple did not have proper memory protection for co-operative multitasking and errant programs could take the system 8 down?
His steveness was back after his first resignation at this point.
The colossal fuckup that was Copeland/System 8 was originated under Sculley. Spindler and Amelio failed on execution. Jobs was brought in to make it all work. "Making it work" involved chucking large portions out the window and reworking OpenSTEP to do what was needed.
Remember back in the day when Apple did not have pre-emptive multitasking?
His steveness finally saw his OS catch up with the rest of the 20th century in the 21st. That was almost a whole decade wasted from the time that John Sculley, the man who saved Apple, was kicked out.
Again, it was Jobs who brought a "modern" operating system to Apple.
I will not disagree with your basic point that all operating systems have gone through a growth process and have had features added at different rates. However, I do not feel it is fair to imply that Apple leadership went straight from Sculley to Jobs. Nor is it fair to blame Jobs for defects that he was specifically brought on to fix.
...we need to borrow and repay at insignificant interest rates...
FTFY. Long term bond interest rates are near record lows. It would be foolish not to borrow. If we borrow now and invest wisely so that the economy grows by at least 2%, we break even.
Or we can keep cutting. That worked really well for Spain & Ireland.
"Just" a rabbit?
Follow. But. Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!
Rather than Asimov's more nuanced first rule, we should use The League of People's definition of "dangerous non-sentients". I.e. if you deliberately harm another person, you have effectively abdicated your sentience.
As an engineer, I often find myself wondering if my designs reflect a sufficient level of sentience.
Still. Is each of those users worth $4,000?
I'm a bit surprised that it is worth it though. The vast majority of autocad drawings are really boring ... miscellaneous machine parts etc
Do you have ANY idea how much margin there is in spare parts? I have worked at several companies that lose money on the front end and make it up on scheduled maintenance. Hence our big customers are constantly badgering us for "detailed part drawings" of sub components. They can ask, and they can get politely refused. I.e. "You paid for the machine, you did not pay for the engineering that went into it. Otherwise the price would have been 2-3 orders of magnitude higher." or, somewhat less adroitly "No, we will not give you enough information to go to Ma&Pa machine shop down the street who will undercut us by 40%-60%"
A sufficiently abstracted algorithm is indistinguishable from a huge framework.
The best measure would be ROI, but I rather doubt that Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft will give us that kind of detail. With the data we do have, I think that units sold is a good measure. It represents market penetration and provides an upper bound on the number of units any game can sell.
Not necessarily true. We are talking about a value well under Avogadro's number. Even if we had enough mice, the inter-particle interactions would be highly non-newtonian. For 22500 mice, I would still model them as solid particles (it can be done, and is not quite as hard as you might think). The effects on individual mice would be quite interesting, in my estimation. Individuals on the leading surface of the bag would be expected to bear the brunt of the impact, while his/her compatriots at the rear would experience a certain level of damping and a correspondingly lower impact velocity.
The question of the melons is slightly different. For low numbers of bags, I would expect little effect with respect to the melon (it may not splatter far, but it would still be heavily traumatized). Once a threshold of bags is reached, the mass of the bags will become considerable and the bag-melon interactions cannot be neglected.
And I haven't even had my second cup of coffee, you bastard.
Well, neither satan nor god exist. So your point is kinda moot.
I propose a new rating "-1 Drunk"
It should have similar consequences as "+1 Funny" with respect to Karma. In essence: "Bless him. He has no idea what he is talking about. We will hide his embarrassment as quickly as possible."
Jay Lee is a tech blogger for the Houston Chronicle. He also has a little radio show on a public radio station.
He admits in his article that he was cranking out enough takedown notices to semi-automate the process. He perhaps should have known GoDaddy's policy regarding multiple sites registered to the same person. Though, I think it unreasonable for him to research which third party sites would be affected in the defense of his work. On the gripping hand, all the non-infringing sites were restored at his request once the problem was brought to light.
My own personal suspicion is that Ms. Shwagger was not the author of the websites and may have had little or no idea of the providence of the image in question. This does not excuse her alleged, abusive reactions to Mr. Lee. It may shed some light on why she thinks that she is the agrieved party in this matter.
I have not heard Mr. Lee espouse any political position on his radio show. Extrapolating from his positions on various tech news items addressed on his show, I suspect that he may actually agree with Ms. Shwagger's political views. Which makes her unfounded, partisan attacks all the more ironic.
All suspects are GUILTY. Otherwise they wouldn't be suspect.
pointless wars and security theatre.
Sounds like a lot of jobs to me, isn't that what we're supposed to be addressing, all the idle hands?
In principle, I agree with you. However, I cannot help but think that there might be more productive activities than groping four-year-olds or tossing around bits of lead in foreign locales.
There is no air there. The analogies to previous attempts at colonization really break down when you consider that if key infrastructure elements fail, you suffocate in a matter of hours, perhaps days. Worst comes to worst, a failing terrestrial colony can fall back on local food and water, or perhaps swallow their pride and make friends with the people already living there. They never had to worry about where their next breath would come from.
There is no "settling" the moon. Why? Because there is no air there. We may be able to haul machinery to the moon to generate are locally, but those machines will require vigilant maintenance and a constant stream of supplies from mother Earth.