I dunno... it certainly seems that way, especially when you consider that Macs (or rather, OSX-running stuff) represent what, 10-20% of their revenue nowadays, when compared to iPads and etc?
But here's the real imact, I use a Mac Pro for work. Which also led me to buy a MacBook Pro, an iPad and an iPhone.
If I have to switch from the Mac Pro to Linux, I am definitely going to move away from a MacBook.
Suddenly, I will also care a lot less about the iPad and iPhone too, in favor of Android or other options.
For the amount of good that this foundation does for the public, making information and truth more accessible, and policing the content in an open and rigorous way, I say let them collect as much donations as people willingly donate. It's hard enough to get people to donate -- who would refuse if the donations kept coming in.
Sure, be transparent and honest about when you've exceeded the goal for the month (or set the goal higher), but frankly, I don't understand why you would criticize when one of the most valuable services on the internet today attempts to build more of a financial cushion for itself (and not through lying or deception or serving up users / others' content for cash, how refreshing).
Learn to understand who are your friends and who are your enemies in this world, people.
All the criticism is not directed against the core content of Wikipedia, but rather expressing concern that none of the donations are going to support that content.
Preventing parasitic growth within an organization is important to keep it healthy. From the financials, it looks like Wikipedia is experiencing parasitic growth not relevant to their core mission. (I say this as someone who has donated in the past, until I noticed this trend.) One way supporters can affect change is to stop donating and send feedback as to why they stopped.
Also, if you look at the financials listed in the earlier posts, you will see that very little of their donations go to financial cushion. At least 70% are being spent on peripheral activities that, quite frankly, are not clearly disclosed on their donations request popup, which indicates that donations are needed to prevent advertising. This comes across as a bit shady when you dig into it... they don't need donations to prevent advertising, they need it to fund grants, conference travel, and salaries for $32M worth of people who do not manage the content.
And you aren't concerned that a foreign country directly altered the outcome of an election here?
I'm more concerned that a domestic party nearly got away with doing the same thing.
IF you believe the Russian hacker bullshit (and we have seen ZERO evidence of it), all they did was expose truth.
I believe that it was a close election before any outside influences.
But I am also pretty disturbed at the possibility of a Comey-Russia 1-2 punch in the last few weeks of the race even attempting to influence the result.
And regardless of which way you voted or the actual election result, you should be disturbed too if you are an American. Sure, there is no proof shown about Russia. But you saw Comey overtly try to sway the election with your own eyes. And that's not a great road for the US to be heading down.
Pulling the door opener lever on the door of a car overrides the locking mechanisms. This is a fire-safety requirement. The guy was probably just still asleep when the cops found the car.
Sure, that's the stated requirement, but do you really know for sure that there is no backdoor override method that can be engaged at the company's discretion?
As everything goes all electronic, it'll all depend on what's in the code. And that could be changed at a moment's notice.
But I have a hard time understanding how anybody could forget their laptop at a TSA checkpoint.
On the other hand, I can think of one coworker who, if she announced this had happened to her, no one would be surprised in the least. But we're all routinely baffled by what passes for thought process in her head anyway.
It's easy to remember your laptop when you only have to worry about yourself, your shoes, your laptop and your bag at security.
Try traveling on little sleep with a few of your own children (who are scared of the security process), an elderly parent, and pushy TSA agents. Then see if your perspective changes.
I disagree. Companies will do what they need to do to profit.
For example, software companies have moved to monthly fee models where you rent their software instead of buying it. The AI software of the future will likely move in this direction. I expect that the hardware will also evolve in the same way. For example, companies will either be allowed to rent the automation hardware or will be forced to buy "maintenance contracts" that generate the necessary level of income to support the companies that design and sell the hardware. As the software and the hardware will be quite complex, it will keep jobs active for lots of hardware and software engineers.
Automation is supposed to take away the boring and repetitive jobs. This is the goal. We don't have people digging holes with shovels at construction sites anymore... they are using excavators. The problem is that a lot of the replaced workers are not continuing their education to the point that they can get the design jobs. This needs to happen.
I know that in many cases this is a socioeconomic issue, but for others it is simply a personal choice. The US political parties need to stop lying to people and telling them that it is possible to bring these jobs back to the US. The only way this will be possible is if they tax the hell out of imports and no politician will be able to stomach that decision. In reality, the only solutions are to retrain the workers to do more complex tasks, to give them welfare forever, or to ship them off to China/India/Vietnam.
It is incredibly disturbing to me that a deployed destroyer's propulsion system can't even survive "minor contact" with the lock walls. It's particularly worrisome that the failure mode was for the propulsion drives to completely lock up, rendering the ship immobile.
I can see losing one drive shaft due to a collision, but both?!
How is the ship going to continue to function after getting hit by an enemy missile?
How is this possibly a robust and combat ready design when one of the two critical functions (propulsion system and the combat system) can't even take a minor hit?
I work with quite a few people who "need" to print things every day.
First of all, the vast majority of things they print don't require printing in the first place. As an almost stereotypical example, we have one lady who:
I think it helps to be cognizant of the fact that many of the older folks have more experience than you do, and that those experiences are probably more diverse.
Maybe you are too young to be aware of this or maybe your work doesn't involve it, but in the 80's and 90's, many businesses required their workers to save all paper invoices going back 10 years for audit, in chronological order. Electronic records were not acceptable because of formatting and technology changes over time (no PDF) and because often information was communicated via fax or physical mail, and it was easier to print than to digitize/OCR. Where I work, we only fully got rid of the fax machine this year, but it can still cause a problem when interfacing with less e-friendly companies, like smaller machine shops.
Regarding trusting computers, it is also much easier for a careless worker to catastrophically delete ALL electronic invoices with a single keystroke (what backups? I needed a spare hard drives for something else!) than to accidentally burn 4 filing cabinets worth of paper.
So make fun of the baby boomers if you like for being more hesitant to shift to contemporary practices, but remember that they probably make fun of millennials for only being able to focus on tasks for 5 minutes at a time, not being able to spell without a spellcheck, having poor reading comprehension, and not being able to work more than 40 hours a week without massive complaints! (Yes, these are all the complaints that I hear.)
How are you supposed to wipe the SSD before you sell it?
Clear the FileVault encryption key.
No, you do it the same way that you should wipe any other hard drive: Hit it with a hammer until it is in small pieces, then put those pieces in a fire.
How much did all of this mission cost? Does anyone realize how much food that money could have provided to those in need ON THIS PLANET?! We have no business looking off-planet until we learn to live in harmony with THIS planet.. and with each other.
Why are you posting on the internet when you could be using your resources to help those in need on this planet.
Wait, i just realized that you never said what planet you were posting from? Are you on Mars?!?!
Hydrazine is a monopropellant, so it will react on its own. No oxidizer needed.
Ideally, it will react in a controlled fashion using a catalyst.
But since it is a monopropellant, it's a molecule that is only in a semi-stable state. So if enough energy is put into it (though say a high impact crash), it will burn or detonate by itself.
From a distance he couldn't tell whether the car was driving itself, or its human operator had made a mistake. Stachelek took out his phone in time to shoot a brief video of Uber's vehicle backing up and driving away, then uploaded it to Facebook. "Driverless car went down a one way the wrong way," he wrote. "Driver had to turn car around."
Well, was it driverless or did it have a driver? If it had a driver, was the driver in control? Which would make it just a funny looking car and a confused human operator?
Verdict: meh.
We don't know at this point, but it is important not to let facts get in the way of clicks or being the first to report the story!
The fact that he makes a case for a pardon shows that he still believes in government. Isn't that contrary to everything he's tried to teach us so far?
Or maybe it just shows that he wants to live in the US instead of Russia, despite all of his concerns about the NSA's domestic spying program!
The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence!
I love how thin and fragile looking those layers are, you rarely see such delicate shapes on Earth. Mars has the advantages of low gravity and winds that exert only tiny forces. No rain, snow or floods either. There's stronger thermal cycling, but that's apparently not a problem for them.
Thermal cycling isn't a problem without the frost associated with the presence of migrating water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also, CO2 cannot be present in a liquid state on Mars due to the low atmospheric pressure, so there can be no frost weathering associated with that material either.
I understand the rush to be a first poster rather than actually reading the article.
I don't!
It exemplifies everything depressing about the internet! It was (1) WRONG, (2) snarky, and (3) got modded up as insightful by others who also didn't read the article! The only thing missing is the fact that the poster wasn't anonymous.
In one case, the cables included the name of a Saudi who was arrested for being gay. In Saudi Arabia, homosexuality is punishable by death.
As the person was already arrested, I assume the govt already knows their name and their punishment is already lined up. Making this info widely public is probably the only way anyone else will ever know what happened to this person.
Uh, what about persecution by his fellow Arab citizens, even if the government "cleared" this individual of being gay?
Losing his job? Losing his family? Losing his life? Are you saying that is it OK for these things to happen because "all information wants to be free?"
Complete freedom of information would probably work in an open, fair, and free society. Unfortunately, such a place does not exist. People are persecuted based on their age, color, gender, socioeconomic status, political views, medical history, sexual orientation, parents,... just about everything. These are key concepts that the freedom of information proponents often overlook in their ideological zeal. Additionally, it is disappointing when they try to justify that, while their actions have ruined ruined individuals lives, it was for the greater cause... especially when such proponents keep their identities secret for their own safety. Hypocrites.
I'm not so sure you should dismiss the Chinese as mere copiers. That's a little facile. The Japanese used to be belittled as mere copiers, too, but that was always an unfair generalization. The Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighter was not a copy of anything. It was far superior to anything that any other Navy had. They developed a vastly superior aluminum alloy, 7075, in the middle of World War II. They had the only submarine Aircraft Carriers (I-400 class) in the world, and they were also the largest submarines in the world. They had by far the best torpedoes in the world. The MXY7 Ohka was a devastating rocket-powered, human-guided anti-ship missile.
Yes, China and Japan have in history (up to very recent history in the case of China) copied, and stolen, plenty of stuff from the US. But they also have made great native achievements.
Who already has the world's only anti-ship ballistic[*] missile? Gee... China - the DF-21D. It can't be copied from the US, because we don't have anything like that.
[*] The "ballistic" part is a misnomer, because the missile has terminal maneuvering. But that is always how it is referred to as.
There is nothing new about this missile. It's a nuclear warhead on a missile with a guidance system.
Are you saying that is a new concept? If so, please explain how in detail.
What happened to "she's not fit" for the office? In the time since he said that about her, she's been shown to have been either wildly incompetent or ever more deceitful in her relationship with both her job and her supporters. What's she got on you, Bernie?
It may sting, but you have to consider the possibility that Sanders is just as much of career politician as Clinton. They have, after all, been involved in politics for the same amount of time.
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... courage!
You wont need battery life longer than your AirPods!
I dunno... it certainly seems that way, especially when you consider that Macs (or rather, OSX-running stuff) represent what, 10-20% of their revenue nowadays, when compared to iPads and etc?
But here's the real imact, I use a Mac Pro for work. Which also led me to buy a MacBook Pro, an iPad and an iPhone.
If I have to switch from the Mac Pro to Linux, I am definitely going to move away from a MacBook.
Suddenly, I will also care a lot less about the iPad and iPhone too, in favor of Android or other options.
For the amount of good that this foundation does for the public, making information and truth more accessible, and policing the content in an open and rigorous way, I say let them collect as much donations as people willingly donate. It's hard enough to get people to donate -- who would refuse if the donations kept coming in.
Sure, be transparent and honest about when you've exceeded the goal for the month (or set the goal higher), but frankly, I don't understand why you would criticize when one of the most valuable services on the internet today attempts to build more of a financial cushion for itself (and not through lying or deception or serving up users / others' content for cash, how refreshing).
Learn to understand who are your friends and who are your enemies in this world, people.
All the criticism is not directed against the core content of Wikipedia, but rather expressing concern that none of the donations are going to support that content.
Preventing parasitic growth within an organization is important to keep it healthy. From the financials, it looks like Wikipedia is experiencing parasitic growth not relevant to their core mission. (I say this as someone who has donated in the past, until I noticed this trend.) One way supporters can affect change is to stop donating and send feedback as to why they stopped.
Also, if you look at the financials listed in the earlier posts, you will see that very little of their donations go to financial cushion. At least 70% are being spent on peripheral activities that, quite frankly, are not clearly disclosed on their donations request popup, which indicates that donations are needed to prevent advertising. This comes across as a bit shady when you dig into it... they don't need donations to prevent advertising, they need it to fund grants, conference travel, and salaries for $32M worth of people who do not manage the content.
And you aren't concerned that a foreign country directly altered the outcome of an election here?
I'm more concerned that a domestic party nearly got away with doing the same thing.
IF you believe the Russian hacker bullshit (and we have seen ZERO evidence of it), all they did was expose truth.
I believe that it was a close election before any outside influences.
But I am also pretty disturbed at the possibility of a Comey-Russia 1-2 punch in the last few weeks of the race even attempting to influence the result.
And regardless of which way you voted or the actual election result, you should be disturbed too if you are an American. Sure, there is no proof shown about Russia. But you saw Comey overtly try to sway the election with your own eyes. And that's not a great road for the US to be heading down.
It's his preferred way to communicate with the public, so it would probably hurt.
Pulling the door opener lever on the door of a car overrides the locking mechanisms. This is a fire-safety requirement. The guy was probably just still asleep when the cops found the car.
Sure, that's the stated requirement, but do you really know for sure that there is no backdoor override method that can be engaged at the company's discretion?
As everything goes all electronic, it'll all depend on what's in the code. And that could be changed at a moment's notice.
But I have a hard time understanding how anybody could forget their laptop at a TSA checkpoint.
On the other hand, I can think of one coworker who, if she announced this had happened to her, no one would be surprised in the least. But we're all routinely baffled by what passes for thought process in her head anyway.
It's easy to remember your laptop when you only have to worry about yourself, your shoes, your laptop and your bag at security.
Try traveling on little sleep with a few of your own children (who are scared of the security process), an elderly parent, and pushy TSA agents. Then see if your perspective changes.
...why not try to educate the public to the point that they can actually recognize it themselves?
I disagree. Companies will do what they need to do to profit.
For example, software companies have moved to monthly fee models where you rent their software instead of buying it. The AI software of the future will likely move in this direction. I expect that the hardware will also evolve in the same way. For example, companies will either be allowed to rent the automation hardware or will be forced to buy "maintenance contracts" that generate the necessary level of income to support the companies that design and sell the hardware. As the software and the hardware will be quite complex, it will keep jobs active for lots of hardware and software engineers.
Automation is supposed to take away the boring and repetitive jobs. This is the goal. We don't have people digging holes with shovels at construction sites anymore... they are using excavators. The problem is that a lot of the replaced workers are not continuing their education to the point that they can get the design jobs. This needs to happen.
I know that in many cases this is a socioeconomic issue, but for others it is simply a personal choice. The US political parties need to stop lying to people and telling them that it is possible to bring these jobs back to the US. The only way this will be possible is if they tax the hell out of imports and no politician will be able to stomach that decision. In reality, the only solutions are to retrain the workers to do more complex tasks, to give them welfare forever, or to ship them off to China/India/Vietnam.
It is incredibly disturbing to me that a deployed destroyer's propulsion system can't even survive "minor contact" with the lock walls. It's particularly worrisome that the failure mode was for the propulsion drives to completely lock up, rendering the ship immobile.
I can see losing one drive shaft due to a collision, but both?!
How is the ship going to continue to function after getting hit by an enemy missile?
How is this possibly a robust and combat ready design when one of the two critical functions (propulsion system and the combat system) can't even take a minor hit?
I work with quite a few people who "need" to print things every day.
First of all, the vast majority of things they print don't require printing in the first place. As an almost stereotypical example, we have one lady who:
I think it helps to be cognizant of the fact that many of the older folks have more experience than you do, and that those experiences are probably more diverse.
Maybe you are too young to be aware of this or maybe your work doesn't involve it, but in the 80's and 90's, many businesses required their workers to save all paper invoices going back 10 years for audit, in chronological order. Electronic records were not acceptable because of formatting and technology changes over time (no PDF) and because often information was communicated via fax or physical mail, and it was easier to print than to digitize/OCR. Where I work, we only fully got rid of the fax machine this year, but it can still cause a problem when interfacing with less e-friendly companies, like smaller machine shops.
Regarding trusting computers, it is also much easier for a careless worker to catastrophically delete ALL electronic invoices with a single keystroke (what backups? I needed a spare hard drives for something else!) than to accidentally burn 4 filing cabinets worth of paper.
So make fun of the baby boomers if you like for being more hesitant to shift to contemporary practices, but remember that they probably make fun of millennials for only being able to focus on tasks for 5 minutes at a time, not being able to spell without a spellcheck, having poor reading comprehension, and not being able to work more than 40 hours a week without massive complaints! (Yes, these are all the complaints that I hear.)
How are you supposed to wipe the SSD before you sell it?
Clear the FileVault encryption key.
No, you do it the same way that you should wipe any other hard drive: Hit it with a hammer until it is in small pieces, then put those pieces in a fire.
How much did all of this mission cost? Does anyone realize how much food that money could have provided to those in need ON THIS PLANET?! We have no business looking off-planet until we learn to live in harmony with THIS planet.. and with each other.
Why are you posting on the internet when you could be using your resources to help those in need on this planet.
Wait, i just realized that you never said what planet you were posting from? Are you on Mars?!?!
The lander used hydrazine as its fuel.
Hydrazine is a monopropellant, so it will react on its own. No oxidizer needed.
Ideally, it will react in a controlled fashion using a catalyst.
But since it is a monopropellant, it's a molecule that is only in a semi-stable state. So if enough energy is put into it (though say a high impact crash), it will burn or detonate by itself.
From a distance he couldn't tell whether the car was driving itself, or its human operator had made a mistake. Stachelek took out his phone in time to shoot a brief video of Uber's vehicle backing up and driving away, then uploaded it to Facebook. "Driverless car went down a one way the wrong way," he wrote. "Driver had to turn car around."
Well, was it driverless or did it have a driver? If it had a driver, was the driver in control? Which would make it just a funny looking car and a confused human operator?
Verdict: meh.
We don't know at this point, but it is important not to let facts get in the way of clicks or being the first to report the story!
Apple has decided that the hissing adds to the user experience.
Because, well, courage!
The fact that he makes a case for a pardon shows that he still believes in government. Isn't that contrary to everything he's tried to teach us so far?
Or maybe it just shows that he wants to live in the US instead of Russia, despite all of his concerns about the NSA's domestic spying program!
The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence!
Sort of like how people say "The Ukraine" ;)
I love how thin and fragile looking those layers are, you rarely see such delicate shapes on Earth. Mars has the advantages of low gravity and winds that exert only tiny forces. No rain, snow or floods either. There's stronger thermal cycling, but that's apparently not a problem for them.
Thermal cycling isn't a problem without the frost associated with the presence of migrating water:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also, CO2 cannot be present in a liquid state on Mars due to the low atmospheric pressure, so there can be no frost weathering associated with that material either.
I understand the rush to be a first poster rather than actually reading the article.
I don't!
It exemplifies everything depressing about the internet! It was (1) WRONG, (2) snarky, and (3) got modded up as insightful by others who also didn't read the article! The only thing missing is the fact that the poster wasn't anonymous.
If you want to live in a civilised society, taxes are the price you pay.
Funny, that's the same line the Mafia uses when offering protection!
I've seen absolutely nothing that suggests that more criminals are getting away with crimes now than they did a couple of decades ago.
Clinton ?
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...
As the person was already arrested, I assume the govt already knows their name and their punishment is already lined up. Making this info widely public is probably the only way anyone else will ever know what happened to this person.
Uh, what about persecution by his fellow Arab citizens, even if the government "cleared" this individual of being gay?
Losing his job? Losing his family? Losing his life? Are you saying that is it OK for these things to happen because "all information wants to be free?"
Complete freedom of information would probably work in an open, fair, and free society. Unfortunately, such a place does not exist. People are persecuted based on their age, color, gender, socioeconomic status, political views, medical history, sexual orientation, parents, ... just about everything. These are key concepts that the freedom of information proponents often overlook in their ideological zeal. Additionally, it is disappointing when they try to justify that, while their actions have ruined ruined individuals lives, it was for the greater cause... especially when such proponents keep their identities secret for their own safety. Hypocrites.
I'm not so sure you should dismiss the Chinese as mere copiers. That's a little facile. The Japanese used to be belittled as mere copiers, too, but that was always an unfair generalization. The Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighter was not a copy of anything. It was far superior to anything that any other Navy had. They developed a vastly superior aluminum alloy, 7075, in the middle of World War II. They had the only submarine Aircraft Carriers (I-400 class) in the world, and they were also the largest submarines in the world. They had by far the best torpedoes in the world. The MXY7 Ohka was a devastating rocket-powered, human-guided anti-ship missile.
Yes, China and Japan have in history (up to very recent history in the case of China) copied, and stolen, plenty of stuff from the US. But they also have made great native achievements.
Who already has the world's only anti-ship ballistic[*] missile? Gee ... China - the DF-21D. It can't be copied from the US, because we don't have anything like that.
[*] The "ballistic" part is a misnomer, because the missile has terminal maneuvering. But that is always how it is referred to as.
There is nothing new about this missile. It's a nuclear warhead on a missile with a guidance system.
Are you saying that is a new concept? If so, please explain how in detail.
The article has been up for over 1.5 hours with 40 posts and no one has noticed that the first link isn't actually a link.
How do I submit an application for a Slashdot editor position? I'd love to do nothing all day and get paid for it.
Dude.
This is /.
You're not supposed to read the articles. You're just supposed to post snarky comments about the OP's text!
What happened to "she's not fit" for the office? In the time since he said that about her, she's been shown to have been either wildly incompetent or ever more deceitful in her relationship with both her job and her supporters. What's she got on you, Bernie?
It may sting, but you have to consider the possibility that Sanders is just as much of career politician as Clinton. They have, after all, been involved in politics for the same amount of time.