As fun as it may be to visit, Japanese culture is still "uncomfortable" with foreigners moving to Japan. Japanese youth love American culture but it's more like how people in the US like Anime: it's a sliver of their culture and not really representative of anything. Depending on how they process applications, they may be trying to get expatriated Japanese to return to Japan. Essentially, the Japan majority is like those in the US who want to build a giant border wall but it's all just below the surface like the rampant racism in parts of the US.
Well, American companies already cripple their AI assistants intentionally in the name of feminism
It's not crippled, it just doesn't indulge people in their own reprehensible behavior.
From the article:
In spring of 2017, Alexa’s writers gave her a “disengage mode.” She now responds to sexually explicit questions by saying either “I’m not going to respond to that,” or “I’m not sure what outcome you expected.”
Sorry if you this triggers you but you're being a real snowflake.
Tim Berners-Lee had the chance to set these guiding principles through a little organization called W3C. The problem is that he made the financial underpinning of the organization entirely business dependent and now it's little more than a rubber stamping operation for big business.
TL;DR: He had the opportunity to accomplish this and he blew it big time.
Well that would make reading the news online really difficult because that deal with real people and their real names. Also, with people uploading photographs of others/themselves, names become somewhat of a moot point. You could argue it's their fault but at the same time, so is putting their real name.
I don't own an Apple computer but if I did and I needed tech support (which I wouldn't), I would make it my mission to use all the forbidden language and act confused when they didn't respond using the same language. When they finally quit the linguistic acrobatics I'd start yelling, "HERETIC! HE SPOKE THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN!", pointing and maybe jump on on a table to maximize store-wide attention.
And that's how I plan to get banned from every Apple "town square".;)
A 22-year-old man is DEAD and the asshats on this site are making their usual pathetic jokes?
Hey, lighten up! We have learned to cope using humor but we all know the seriousness of the situation (of which this young man's death is evidence) of being forced to switch from vi to Emacs.
Net Neutrality is an attempt to fix these regulatory monopolies by requiring they behave. It's regulation trying to fix problems caused by other regulation. Which begs the question - why not just fix the original regulation? Don't give out local Internet monopolies.
No monopolies have been given out.
If one ISP intentionally degrades Netflix as a ploy to try to make Netflix pay them, their customers will simply cancel and switch to a different ISP.
Except that takes time, effort and an honest ISP in the area. What if they all behave badly?
And ISPs will strive for network neutrality because that's what their customers want.
In a perfect world with perfect information, this is correct. However, your ideal world doesn't exist and people are really fucking dumb and uninformed.
We can argue about which approach is more effective. But it's erroneous to think the only way to achieve network neutrality is Net Neutrality regulation.
We can go from ISP to ISP and blow the brain of every manager that thinks network neutrality is a bad idea all over their walls. We can reengineer humans to not be greedy. We can beg them to be better every day until they comply. However, all of these ideas are more time consuming and ultimately less effective than simple regulation.
try with minimum regulations first, and IF you notice things are coming apart, then introduce a fix.
Network neutrality is a minimal fix. A lack of network neutrality hasn't been a problem in the past but it began showing up as a problem (e.g. Netflix). Network neutrality keeps everything like it's been in the past, not making any drastic changes.
You don't preemptively go for a stomach reduction surgery when a person has normal weight just because they like to eat and food is readily available.
Network neutrality just takes away the extra food that they are tempted to eat before they become some morbidly obese monster. No surgery needed.
Why people want to take a perfectly good system and tart it up with regulations that can only do harm, I've no idea.
Because we've learned from the past behavior of corporations to predict future behavior of corporations. There is no incentive for them to abide by network neutrality in the same way there is no incentive for corporations to not pollute when they are allowed.
Actually, processors/MCUs themselves aren't much of an issue as far as backdoors goes. The issue isn't hardware, it's always software.
With desktops/servers the problem is that AMD/Intel have an underlying control system that cannot be disabled. AMD PSP is less of a threat but Intel ME is a HUGE threat.
With "smart" phones the problem is a lack of an open source baseband processor for cellular phones, aka a cellular modem. The software stack to get on a cell network with a minimum of 3G GSM is enormous because it has so many layers. The current way around this is isolating the baseband processor but that comes with negative consequences as power systems are tightly integrated in cell phones for a good reason.
The 10nm delays were hailed as "the end of intel!" and "AMD will destroy them" and other kinds of ridiculous things, over a year ago.
It's funny you say that because that's happening right now. You can claim an Intel core is faster but when you factor in Specter and Meltdown mitigations then it's slower, especially because server hosts disable SMT entirely for Intel CPUs. Gamers may not be interested in tight security but that's exactly what the server world wants and that's where the real money is.
Right now, Intel is hemorrhaging money to try to keep up their PR/anti-competitive game in hopes that they will be able to come out with a core without such flaws before the damage is too much to come back from. This bullshitting is just part of their PR game.
So every Coca Coly employee going on vavation to Euro Disney or Heidelberg should be arrested on spot because Cocoa Coly Company did not report the sale of Coke Mexico to the EU authorities?
Nope, just the decision makers. The CEO is the obvious choice in this case.
Hostage? This guy was arrested for violating the law. It doesn't matter if you are Chinese, American or Lizard Person because your dumb ass is going to get arrested.
Qt allows you to develop native applications with a single codebase for a whole host of platforms, including all the smartphone platforms you can think of and even include video acceleration. Even better is you don't have to learn a some bullshit language that Google will ditch in a few years because it's a C++ framework.
I'm sure the anti-Trumpers will find some negative spin to this
China has some very excellent and stringent environmental protection laws. Why does China have a shitty environmental record? Simple, China only enforces the environmental protection laws on foreign companies as tool to keep them from being competitive.
What you need to realize is that "China First" has always been China's policy and this will do nothing to change that. What will likely happen is that China will simply demand the IP using it's existing laws and then share it as part of the government funding. China is a dictatorship and dictators only pretend to play fair.
What's changed in terms of needs or benefits in the last 40 years that we need to give 4x as much to the federal government?
The federal budget has remained rather consistent to the percentage of the GDP (between 20% and 25% [until recently]). How is the amount being spent more relevant than this percentage?
the government makes way more from a gallon of gas than the gas station, refiner or oil producer does.
I would love to see the numbers on this. Also, stop thinking about it as the government making money because any money they take is used to provide public services.
Also, there is no significant benefit from "government regulation and testing" for tractors. You're just shoring your ignorance, now.
Oh the irony of this statement. Seems obvious you don't know much about tractors.
Hopefully this will start a new space race, and focus the US on kicking ass in space. We're the only ones to successfully land on Mars...
That's not true at all! Plenty of probes sent to Mars by other countries successfully land on Mars. The only difference is that their probes land much faster and in more pieces.;)
Why do we need to spend 4x as much per capita in constant dollars than we did back then? What are we getting out of it?
The simple fact that you don't know where the money is going is proof you are in no position to say that it's being wasted. Only after you discover the excess are you then in the position to say it should be cut.
BTW, the government doesn't do anything which builds tractors for farmers.
How were you planning to run it without your government subsidized fuel? Also, all that government regulation and testing that the tractor makers abide by cost money. If you want to go back how it was in the 1920s then you don't get to keep the things that cost money to maintain and you don't want to pay for.
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As fun as it may be to visit, Japanese culture is still "uncomfortable" with foreigners moving to Japan. Japanese youth love American culture but it's more like how people in the US like Anime: it's a sliver of their culture and not really representative of anything. Depending on how they process applications, they may be trying to get expatriated Japanese to return to Japan. Essentially, the Japan majority is like those in the US who want to build a giant border wall but it's all just below the surface like the rampant racism in parts of the US.
The behavior is reprehensible all on it's own, no second person required, snowflake. Mayhaps you need a dictionary to understand the word?
Well, American companies already cripple their AI assistants intentionally in the name of feminism
It's not crippled, it just doesn't indulge people in their own reprehensible behavior.
From the article:
In spring of 2017, Alexa’s writers gave her a “disengage mode.” She now responds to sexually explicit questions by saying either “I’m not going to respond to that,” or “I’m not sure what outcome you expected.”
Sorry if you this triggers you but you're being a real snowflake.
Tim Berners-Lee had the chance to set these guiding principles through a little organization called W3C. The problem is that he made the financial underpinning of the organization entirely business dependent and now it's little more than a rubber stamping operation for big business.
TL;DR: He had the opportunity to accomplish this and he blew it big time.
Well that would make reading the news online really difficult because that deal with real people and their real names. Also, with people uploading photographs of others/themselves, names become somewhat of a moot point. You could argue it's their fault but at the same time, so is putting their real name.
Your sense of humor stinks and yet it detects nothing at all!
I don't own an Apple computer but if I did and I needed tech support (which I wouldn't), I would make it my mission to use all the forbidden language and act confused when they didn't respond using the same language. When they finally quit the linguistic acrobatics I'd start yelling, "HERETIC! HE SPOKE THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN!", pointing and maybe jump on on a table to maximize store-wide attention.
And that's how I plan to get banned from every Apple "town square". ;)
A 22-year-old man is DEAD and the asshats on this site are making their usual pathetic jokes?
Hey, lighten up! We have learned to cope using humor but we all know the seriousness of the situation (of which this young man's death is evidence) of being forced to switch from vi to Emacs.
Net Neutrality is an attempt to fix these regulatory monopolies by requiring they behave. It's regulation trying to fix problems caused by other regulation. Which begs the question - why not just fix the original regulation? Don't give out local Internet monopolies.
No monopolies have been given out.
If one ISP intentionally degrades Netflix as a ploy to try to make Netflix pay them, their customers will simply cancel and switch to a different ISP.
Except that takes time, effort and an honest ISP in the area. What if they all behave badly?
And ISPs will strive for network neutrality because that's what their customers want.
In a perfect world with perfect information, this is correct. However, your ideal world doesn't exist and people are really fucking dumb and uninformed.
We can argue about which approach is more effective. But it's erroneous to think the only way to achieve network neutrality is Net Neutrality regulation.
We can go from ISP to ISP and blow the brain of every manager that thinks network neutrality is a bad idea all over their walls. We can reengineer humans to not be greedy. We can beg them to be better every day until they comply. However, all of these ideas are more time consuming and ultimately less effective than simple regulation.
try with minimum regulations first, and IF you notice things are coming apart, then introduce a fix.
Network neutrality is a minimal fix. A lack of network neutrality hasn't been a problem in the past but it began showing up as a problem (e.g. Netflix). Network neutrality keeps everything like it's been in the past, not making any drastic changes.
You don't preemptively go for a stomach reduction surgery when a person has normal weight just because they like to eat and food is readily available.
Network neutrality just takes away the extra food that they are tempted to eat before they become some morbidly obese monster. No surgery needed.
He just opposes using regulation to achieve network neutrality
Network neutrality by definition is regulation. If he opposes regulation for network neutrality then he opposes network neutrality.
worrying it would harm the internet as it is - which is working fine.
Working just fine? Do you not remember what happened with Netflix? Can you tell when they paid off Comcast?
Why people want to take a perfectly good system and tart it up with regulations that can only do harm, I've no idea.
Because we've learned from the past behavior of corporations to predict future behavior of corporations. There is no incentive for them to abide by network neutrality in the same way there is no incentive for corporations to not pollute when they are allowed.
Truth is - we need open source processors...
Actually, processors/MCUs themselves aren't much of an issue as far as backdoors goes. The issue isn't hardware, it's always software.
With desktops/servers the problem is that AMD/Intel have an underlying control system that cannot be disabled. AMD PSP is less of a threat but Intel ME is a HUGE threat.
With "smart" phones the problem is a lack of an open source baseband processor for cellular phones, aka a cellular modem. The software stack to get on a cell network with a minimum of 3G GSM is enormous because it has so many layers. The current way around this is isolating the baseband processor but that comes with negative consequences as power systems are tightly integrated in cell phones for a good reason.
I need more cores, but I am not throwing this motherboard, chip, and memory out, any time soon.
You must be new to using Intel CPUs. They use a new CPU socket every 18 months, no upgrades for you.
The 10nm delays were hailed as "the end of intel!" and "AMD will destroy them" and other kinds of ridiculous things, over a year ago.
It's funny you say that because that's happening right now. You can claim an Intel core is faster but when you factor in Specter and Meltdown mitigations then it's slower, especially because server hosts disable SMT entirely for Intel CPUs. Gamers may not be interested in tight security but that's exactly what the server world wants and that's where the real money is.
Right now, Intel is hemorrhaging money to try to keep up their PR/anti-competitive game in hopes that they will be able to come out with a core without such flaws before the damage is too much to come back from. This bullshitting is just part of their PR game.
None of the workers are said to have been attacked by bears! ;)
So every Coca Coly employee going on vavation to Euro Disney or Heidelberg should be arrested on spot because Cocoa Coly Company did not report the sale of Coke Mexico to the EU authorities?
Nope, just the decision makers. The CEO is the obvious choice in this case.
If you do business within a country then you are subject to it's laws.
Holding as a hostage for negotiation.
Hostage? This guy was arrested for violating the law. It doesn't matter if you are Chinese, American or Lizard Person because your dumb ass is going to get arrested.
Qt allows you to develop native applications with a single codebase for a whole host of platforms, including all the smartphone platforms you can think of and even include video acceleration. Even better is you don't have to learn a some bullshit language that Google will ditch in a few years because it's a C++ framework.
I'm sure the anti-Trumpers will find some negative spin to this
China has some very excellent and stringent environmental protection laws. Why does China have a shitty environmental record? Simple, China only enforces the environmental protection laws on foreign companies as tool to keep them from being competitive.
What you need to realize is that "China First" has always been China's policy and this will do nothing to change that. What will likely happen is that China will simply demand the IP using it's existing laws and then share it as part of the government funding. China is a dictatorship and dictators only pretend to play fair.
What's changed in terms of needs or benefits in the last 40 years that we need to give 4x as much to the federal government?
The federal budget has remained rather consistent to the percentage of the GDP (between 20% and 25% [until recently]). How is the amount being spent more relevant than this percentage?
the government makes way more from a gallon of gas than the gas station, refiner or oil producer does.
I would love to see the numbers on this. Also, stop thinking about it as the government making money because any money they take is used to provide public services.
Also, there is no significant benefit from "government regulation and testing" for tractors. You're just shoring your ignorance, now.
Oh the irony of this statement. Seems obvious you don't know much about tractors.
Hopefully this will start a new space race, and focus the US on kicking ass in space. We're the only ones to successfully land on Mars...
That's not true at all! Plenty of probes sent to Mars by other countries successfully land on Mars. The only difference is that their probes land much faster and in more pieces. ;)
As a user DirectX just works.
Only for Windows users. On Linux it's unsupported and with WINE it can be temperamental, broken or unsupported based on the version.
On top of that, DirectX is the primary problem binding developers to only releasing Windows only games.
It still doesn't work all that great. Last I tried 6 months ago, only about 20% would even load.
Umm, the project is a year old. You might as well be commenting on how well Windows works since you tried using Windows 95.
Why do we need to spend 4x as much per capita in constant dollars than we did back then? What are we getting out of it?
The simple fact that you don't know where the money is going is proof you are in no position to say that it's being wasted. Only after you discover the excess are you then in the position to say it should be cut.
BTW, the government doesn't do anything which builds tractors for farmers.
How were you planning to run it without your government subsidized fuel? Also, all that government regulation and testing that the tractor makers abide by cost money. If you want to go back how it was in the 1920s then you don't get to keep the things that cost money to maintain and you don't want to pay for.