do you really think that the banks in the rest of the world wont have the same back doors? Even if they don't, any flaws they do have will be exposed to whomever gets their hands on the source provided to the Chinese (here is a hint, most of those people are probably not going to responsibly report the flaws so this is not a case of many eyes resulting in more secure code, but a few eyes finding ways to compromise code).
I know the article says that these companies can't afford to ignore china, but really, if they all got together and said no, could china really afford that? They could always make their own banking software I suppose. Why don't we let them?
Banks in every country have standard software to run the application, but then a myriad of little extraction programs to provide all kinds of analysis, from trending, use of SWIFT, anomalies in behaviour (large deposits or transfers). There are two users for those reports. One is the bank.
One thing is for representatives to pay lip service to climate change, but the other is to convince them that excessive polluting of the air with CO2 from global burning of coal, oil and gas is the cause. Fossil fuels need to be replaced.
Here is what I have experienced where I live.
1) Winters are colder and summers are hotter. 2) Winter weather is like a yoyo (mild for a few days, and super cold for a few days).
Call it what you will, but our winter snowfall is half of what we had 40 years ago.
I am a Chemical and Biological Engineer and overall I think that GMO food is safe. I would also like us to use more nuclear power. My views on nuclear power are less informed than my knowledge of GMO is. However, my views on nuclear power are still FAR more informed than the average person.
I think that is where the major difference comes in.
Many normal people don't research anything and have very strong opinions. Most scientists and engineers I know do tend to do research before holding a viewpoint.
Most scientists and engineers I know also find other scientists and engineers they trust in other fields and will accept the more qualified persons viewpoint if it seems reasonable. Most mechanical engineers trust my viewpoint more on chemical and biological stuff and I trust theirs more on aerodynamics.
It makes sense to listen to more qualified people.
As we get older, we become more conservative in our views, and more skeptical. We know some GMO food is safe, but is all of it safe? For example, GMO corn was safe for humans, but it nearly destroyed the Bee population, and the honey harvests. We need to see the canary or mammal known to be delicate, consuming the GMO products, before we become partially convinced.
That may differ between laptops and desktops, or between AMT versions. On the desktops I've seen the AMT stuff is active if the PC is plugged in, regardless of its power state. Some of the capabilities of the AMT system cannot be used if the host PC is off; but the system itself runs on a separate processor and only turns off if the PSU is unpowered. Laptops may need to be more conservative, for the sake of retaining battery life while inactive.
On the desktop, when the system is powered off, it is not truly off. The powersupply is on, and other power, however minimal, is obtained from the router or the hub connection. The powersupply is often sustained to keep the RAM alive, and some reboot info.
Want it off, disconnect it from the router. If it has wifi built-in (as some desktops do), use the powerswitch on the back of the computer to fully poweroff the system.
I have DVDs that I've burned as a teenager kept in a nice, high-quality soft "archival" binder for the last 18 years. Nearly all of them, of varying quality/expense, are unreadable due to degradation.
OTOH, I've got old 500MB harddrives that read/work just fine and are just as old. I'd expect sealed HDDs to be as good as it gets - tape is nice, but maintaining a supported/working tape drive was always difficult (used to have one). But, unlike every other type of storage, harddrives are actually capable of warning you of an impending failure. (I've been *saved* by S.M.A.R.T. at least twice, over the years.) Add some rudimentary RAID, and you're probably good. The only way I can think of to go further is to use two/three, and cycle them between your PC(often/all the time), a nearby firesafe(When you are heading in that direction), and a safety-deposit box (seasonally?).
I do a double backup to external hard drives. One is kept on site, the other offsite. When I backup something, I switch drives and redo the backup. Or, in other words, I take the backup to the second site and copy over the backup to the second one.
I expect sata / usb interfaces to be around for the next 10 years.
A very serious security problem has been found and patched in the GNU C Library (Glibc). A heap-based buffer overflow was found in __nss_hostname_digits_dots() function, which is used by the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() function calls.
In all legal ways to use the function, recognizing PATH_MAX == 256, is there a problem? So, it is a potential problem.
So, some library code was found that does not check for potential overrun. By broadcasting the routine name, hackers or ganifs will attempt to break into the system.
Why not just say, a new glibc has been released and fixes some serious bugs.
Google Images search for windows 10 continuum brings up images such as this one from this page. It looks like a small chunk of a Windows 8 Start screen and part of a Windows 7 Start menu put together. I'm assuming that the appearance of the new Continuum start menu didn't change when Microsoft removed the option to use full-screen Start screen.
If I compare that to the Gnome 3.14, I think I would prefer Gnome 3.14. with two supported and freely available tweaks.
The United States is not a democracy, it's a constitutional republic.
1. The article is about Britain, not America. 2. The US is not a direct democracy, but it is still a democracy.
I dispute 2) It is a pseudo democracy. Actually it is a democracy for the 1% super rich. When the Koch brothers can give 1 billion towards the republicans in order to sustain their mining business, they have bought the government. Its no longer governmeny by the people of the people, for the people.
I guess that pretty soon there will be reams and reams of faked encryption messages being mailed amongst a few possibly valid ones.
When a oscillating body in air is given a nudge at resonance, the energy provided the bell's pendulum is only that which was lost with a swing against air pressure. The dry battery can last forever, particularly if fresh air is in contact with some material that provides oxygen or other gas to replenish the battery.
A human adult with average vision can't distinguish anything much above current HD resolutions from normal TV viewing distances at typical physical TV screen dimensions either. This is one of the big problems all the businesses creating flashy new 4K TVs haven't quite worked out how to deal with yet.
Meanwhile, plenty of people still have DVD players rather than Blu-Ray, because even moving to HD doesn't make much difference for a lot of material in practice, and the old "get them to buy Star Wars for the seventeenth time two step" has run out of music.
Then you have to consider the rise of on-line sources and the generally poor experience of the physical disc systems. Most of that poor experience isn't actually because of swapping discs. It's because of all the other silly things that all legally manufactured players are required using tortured legal tricks to implement, preventing otherwise obvious improvements in competing devices such as skipping to the !~%# movie straight away.
So personally, I'm expecting 4K and other very high resolution formats to flop outside of niche markets, like say luxury home cinema systems with a projector and a screen several metres across. Even where they do get adopted, I'm expecting the market to demand less messy distribution, which would make any sort of disc-based successor to Blu-Ray even less likely to succeed.
I suppose that if you use that high definition to drive a side of a building display, composed of multiple panels, that the high definition will make a difference when you are standing at close range.
I can coexist quite well with Catholics who think my being gay is a sin; we can do good works together, have lunch, be friends. I can coexist quite well with Seventh Day Adventists who think alcohol is sinful, too. We can all be friends. Heck, I can coexist with people who have a religion I think is patently absurd (I'm looking at you, Mormons), because when it comes down to it -- everyone has beliefs, and things they think are right and wrong. As long as it goes no farther then their skin, we can all be friends.
Tolerance doesn't mean you beat someone until they agree with you, its that you recognize peoples differences and don't try to force them to change. Now, where a minority of Catholics and I part ways and will have problems being friends is at the point where those Catholics try to enshrine their beliefs into law.
It has nothing really to do with my sin being a choice at all (for the record, it obviously isn't), but at the line between beliefs and mandates.
Hate the sin all you like, I don't care. Teach that the sin is against God's given path all you like, I don't care. If that's what you believe, all power to you to believe whatever it is. I'll argue the other side and we'll see who is more convincing. Try to mandate that the State give you special rights that I don't have, there I start caring. Try to argue for violence or discrimination based on your beliefs, there I care a lot.
Not everyone is as tolerant as you. Good for you.
My personal religious belief (humanism) allows me to respect life and the people who are different in all ways. But then the orthodox extremists would deny your right to be as you are. They cannot believe it is biological (its not genetic, in the sense of being passed from generation to generation). I say fuck the intolerant,
In Quebec, where I live, Gays marry and have adopted children. We have secular beliefs that do not allow religious barriers to the well being of a child. And if you are married, adoption is an easier process than if you are single. And yes, if you insulted my wife, mother, or children in public, expect a strong punch. But if you use satire, I may not like it, but I will winch and do ask to not persist further.
There was an old western movie in which it was asked, "Why did you let that guy yell at you with "Hey you old bastard". The response was, "Acceptance depends on the tone". "Je suis Charlie" was not an angry insulting tone.
As we know, there is quite a bit that the President can do without congress. As well, with the lifting of restrictions that are within the President's power, a "critical mass" for full lifting will build. Don't fool yourself, it will - and should - happen.
As far as I know, its only the USA that has that embargo. The rest of the world enjoys the beached of Cuba in the winter, and the superb education and healthcare system. Yes, the politics there has created poverty, but it would be dreamland to think that the standard of living would jump of the USA suddenly recognized a dying regime. There are always individuals who are being groomed to take over if the Castro brothers die.
Does anyone think the sponsors of this legialation have serioulsly considered the issues of user access and cost? Of course not. As in so many areas of public life, Republicans have adopted the mantra of "free markets". Which is another way of saying on behalf of large corporations, "Let the Wookie win". Let the big strong arm-ripping behemoth have its way. This disregards the needs of the majority of the population and lets corporations take the profits resulting from public investment and tax dollars.
The internet has never been about "free markets". The internet was developed by the government and universities (with public funding). As far as the big ISPs are concerned, most of them, such as Comcast and Time Warner, make use of public right-of-way to carry thier signals to their customers. Most of this right-of-way was obtained either through imminent domain (for the public good) or for other purposes entirely (to carry power lines). This has resulted in a protected monopoly for these ISPs. They have no competition, the exact opposite of a free market.
Title II will treat the ISPs as utilities so that their rates will be controlled and their fiber optic cables will be available to all content providers under competitive conditions. This is really a free market in content, rather than the coroporate oligarchy envisioned by this Republican legislation.
Is it time for a second internet, where all the devices that could/would/"need to be" connected could do so. (At a very low priority and very small message size)? The regular internet for users would be neutral. As it is streamers who watch movies, etc pay for their bandwidth by their monthly fee. The networks make money from that fee, and are now also wanting to ding the providers. And with the loss of neutrality, will come the nickel and dime-ing of everyone who is connected. The loss of net neutrality creates an Open Highway Toll road which again shifts the money from the middle class to the super wealthy, but does not provide the needed services as part of a basic fee.
Community colleges are not equipped to train people for high-paying coding jobs. They can teach you the basics, sure, but any kind of advanced programming skill comes from interning, mentorship and/or *gasp* actually sitting home and coding, coding, coding. All night, non-stop, my-brain-is-a-compiler-now coding. Most people aren't fit for that, and it's not a crime to point that out.
The real experts are well aware that a few non-elite college classes aren't going to fill the advanced skill level, high-paying, rock-star-coding-ninja slots, and the President is doing a vast disservice in painting a rosy picture that communicates to people that all you need is a couple of entry-level courses and you too can be a professional coder, when the real problem here is access to the jobs that will get you the experience and the status.
And where are those slots advertised? Hint: not in the community college placement offices.
(Apologies if I sound glib to the parent poster; I mean only to be glib towards the original quote.)
Our colleges require a 16 week stage at an IT shop, where the programmer must work on a project, and write up a report at the conclusion of his internship.
The internship may(not) be a paid one. Result looks great on the CV/Resume
In Quebec, where I live, the things they can take away are weapons and drugs. Or if your carrying three cell phones, then two were most probably stolen. They can also take your bicycle if they thought you stole it if you did not wear a helmet or pants clips.
At age 6, with two working parents, I and my sister (age 5) walked to school and back everyday. I had a key around my neck. I can say that we understood to stay away from strangers. At home, I cooked (fryed my eggs for lunch), listened to the soap opera on the radio, and at 1pm, walked back to school.
I believe in destiny. If you are to befall harm, there is very little you can do if you can't spot it. At 6 years old, I could spot it.
Oh yes, we were a few kids all around the same age, and we walked the same route.
I programmed in Assembly Language. Over small highly repetitive sections of code, I could beat every C compiler around. However, when my assembly code for the entire program was compiled and tested, the C program proved to be faster. The reason is that the C compiler could do global optimization, guided by the user's wishes. Example of optimization for speed was loop elimination, other optimisation -- common code fragment reuse, and more.
I tended to look at the next bottleneck and tackle that delay in assembly, not always standardizing on using specific cpu registers, and I was sometimes guilty of not looking seriously to determine of there was a better way to solve the business problem. (Generous definition of business to mean any processing problem.)
As PC sales increase in volume, should we not expect the prices to come down? I for one recognize the 300% markup from the FOB factory price to the consumer. I am now looking at just buying the essentials, the mother board, memory, and CPU. All the rest I have (I have case, power supply, fans for cooling, keyboard DVD burner/writer, hard disks, SSD, mouse and monitors). From my perspective, what I have is should be more than half the cost of a new AMD or Intel computer. And I really feel that the I-7 computers are at double the price of what they should be sold. Someone is going to oneday take a bunch of qualcom or other small processors and make a PC that will run circles around the existing bus architecture. Give me 8 independent processors doing what each can do best, and junk the single chip multi-processor systems.
Get a desktop with a large inverter (perhaps you should go around with an I7 desktop machine strapped to an APC or Triplet UPS powersupply. I would be careful about APC stuff. i had the 350wh unit and the 550wh unit and each had the same identical model battery. For the same battery, the units should have the same cost to the consumer.
True, although the newspapers don't have control over the political choices that have led to a situation where we don't have any idea which people are actually in the nation.
I would say that ultra-orthodoxy is the cause. When certain individuals can't cope with life, and turn to religion, that belief is their anchor, the thing that cannot be unanchored. If that person, again for self esteem, needs to disallow any discussion that minimizes his belief. The religion feeds on ultra-believers and ultra-believers need the religion to survive.
Destroy one, and you harm or destroy the other. And if you can blame someone for destroying or harming your belief, you will search for revenge.
You want to convince me you are SERIOUS about getting into the driverless car? Then build a Concept Bus - or Concept Garbage Truck.
Those are large vehicles that honestly do not need drivers. They are expect to drive slow, not fast and usually travel set routes. Small cities can easily afford to self-insure them, and they won't have to worry quite so much about the stupid technology ignorant laws, as they will be purchased by the people that enforce, if not write the laws. Finally they are already expensive and the cities pay large salaries to people to drive them.
They will in all probability be the very first driverless vehicles we actually see on the road [as soon as we 1) convince the unions to let us and 2) actually get them to work.]
So forget about concept 'cars' and show me a concept bus or concept garbage truck.
Regarding unions. Their raison-d'être is job creation, protection, and union dues. The problem that many municipalities have is union agreements and idiotic outdated rules. For example of such a rule is , "a driver drives, and does not get out of the truck to pick up or deliver". Another example, "The electrician is responsible for the breakers. We had a swimming pool front door attendant plug in a kettle from home, and with it and the other electrical stuff on the circuit, caused the breaker to trip. The attendant unplugged the kettle, but had to call the electrician to reset the breaker. (Job protection). Gosh, we stopped using glass fuses eons ago.
In small communities, with the introduction of vehicle automation, the driver can be outside the vehicle, can be helping the crew, and when the truck has to be displaced a few feet, can use a remote control to advance the vehicle. Nothing wrong for the gardener or plumber or electrician to handle several kinds of jobs.
...and at least some assurance that motherhood wouldn't throw them completely off their career track.
And therein lies the rub. Unless he mandates a hysterectomy before hiring at Intel, that biological clock will be there, ticking. There isn't shit that you (or the Intel Corporation) can do about it, either. I know quite a few women in tech (including Intel employees) - the highly successful ones are childless, and have no inclination of having kids (the only exception is a former manager of mine - and she has an MBA, not a CompSci degree). The reason why? They forewent the child-rearing thing and went all-in when it came to technology - just like the guys do.
When you bear a child, your priorities change - hard. All the sudden, that project/application/datacenter/whatever doesn't seem so damned important anymore, and your life's focus changes. It's not sexist to say that women in general are affected by this a hell of a lot more than men are. Guys are generally used to sucking it up and getting on with the business of focusing back on that whole hunter-gatherer thing - it's how we're wired. There are exceptions in either direction of course, but they're not the general rule. Generally, the business of getting that little snot factory raised, educated, nurtured, and prepared for the world becomes a woman's focus much quicker than it does for a guy.
Even with compromises (day care, schools, etc), it still changes the top priority for most (not all - most) women. This in turn throws the statistics off pretty hard for careers that require constant education and constant renewal.
I don't see it your way. I see it as a rush to maintain 60hour workweeks, and to not balance "home life" with "work life". Why do we need a new car model every year? Why do we need a new cpu chip every few months? Why do we rush on that treadmill, and are still standing still? Why are American technologists living on burn-out street?
Most of Europe, shuts down for a month during the summer. Attribute it to whatever you want, but vacations are part of working -- not skipping the vacation because of artificial deadlines. And the ten days between Christmas and New Years is also a washout for many European corporations. Why are you obsoleted and discarded at age 50, and you are forced to become an independent consultant?
From the age of 5, I had already built a home telegraph. I had bell wire (house wire for doorbells), I got doorbell push buttons, lights, and made a partyline circuit. I learned morse code, at a very few words per minute.
By age 8 or 9, I was fixing tube radios. Usually it was a dead tube, or a bad electrolytic capacitor. By 11, I was building kits from Heath and Eico. My preferred were from the latter. By 15, I was fixing all appliances, changing tap washers, and finding out about watch and clock mechanisms. By 17, I was Mr watch repair for Sears, I was charging bargain prices. And I did all the other stuff too. I was into hi-fi, Vinyl longplay records and the finest of turntables (rec-o-cut, Garrad), I had my vtvm, my sweep generator, and Heath Oscilloscope. By 19, I was a carburator expert. I had all the tools for changing spark plugs, rotating tires, and knew the V8 engine design by heart. We were learning sponges in those days.
Today, kids are whiz kids an smartphone apps. They know not about epicycloidal gearing, "angles and draw" for watch anchors and escape wheels, "watch beating" incabloc, jeweling, carburators, plug-changing, welding, and so much more.
I left that for a masters degree in math, but I have never stopped playing and loving it. My thoughts were always impressed with the watch mechanism engineers who could work with near microscopic sized parts and movements.
Ahh them were the fun days. It was an enjoyment to do all that I did as a hobby. Today, I maintain my home and garden, and look at my grandkids. I am disappointed at how little they know.
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do you really think that the banks in the rest of the world wont have the same back doors? Even if they don't, any flaws they do have will be exposed to whomever gets their hands on the source provided to the Chinese (here is a hint, most of those people are probably not going to responsibly report the flaws so this is not a case of many eyes resulting in more secure code, but a few eyes finding ways to compromise code).
I know the article says that these companies can't afford to ignore china, but really, if they all got together and said no, could china really afford that? They could always make their own banking software I suppose. Why don't we let them?
Banks in every country have standard software to run the application, but then a myriad of little extraction programs to provide all kinds of analysis, from trending, use of SWIFT, anomalies in behaviour (large deposits or transfers).
There are two users for those reports. One is the bank.
One thing is for representatives to pay lip service to climate change, but the other is to convince them that excessive polluting of the air with CO2 from global burning of coal, oil and gas is the cause. Fossil fuels need to be replaced.
Here is what I have experienced where I live.
1) Winters are colder and summers are hotter. 2) Winter weather is like a yoyo (mild for a few days, and super cold for a few days).
Call it what you will, but our winter snowfall is half of what we had 40 years ago.
I am a Chemical and Biological Engineer and overall I think that GMO food is safe. I would also like us to use more nuclear power. My views on nuclear power are less informed than my knowledge of GMO is. However, my views on nuclear power are still FAR more informed than the average person.
I think that is where the major difference comes in.
Many normal people don't research anything and have very strong opinions. Most scientists and engineers I know do tend to do research before holding a viewpoint.
Most scientists and engineers I know also find other scientists and engineers they trust in other fields and will accept the more qualified persons viewpoint if it seems reasonable. Most mechanical engineers trust my viewpoint more on chemical and biological stuff and I trust theirs more on aerodynamics.
It makes sense to listen to more qualified people.
As we get older, we become more conservative in our views, and more skeptical. We know some GMO food is safe, but is all of it safe? For example, GMO corn was safe for humans, but it nearly destroyed the Bee population, and the honey harvests. We need to see the canary or mammal known to be delicate, consuming the GMO products, before we become partially convinced.
That may differ between laptops and desktops, or between AMT versions. On the desktops I've seen the AMT stuff is active if the PC is plugged in, regardless of its power state. Some of the capabilities of the AMT system cannot be used if the host PC is off; but the system itself runs on a separate processor and only turns off if the PSU is unpowered. Laptops may need to be more conservative, for the sake of retaining battery life while inactive.
On the desktop, when the system is powered off, it is not truly off. The powersupply is on, and other power, however minimal, is obtained from the router or the hub connection. The powersupply is often sustained to keep the RAM alive, and some reboot info.
Want it off, disconnect it from the router. If it has wifi built-in (as some desktops do), use the powerswitch on the back of the computer to fully poweroff the system.
What are the practical results of this?
The companies now cannot gouge fees from you for ordinary speeds while your billing states Broadband. It also officializes the definition.
Wakeup guys, The Verizons, Comcasts, AT&T, Sprint, etc etc. now have to upgrade their services or reduce their billing charges.
I have DVDs that I've burned as a teenager kept in a nice, high-quality soft "archival" binder for the last 18 years. Nearly all of them, of varying quality/expense, are unreadable due to degradation.
OTOH, I've got old 500MB harddrives that read/work just fine and are just as old. I'd expect sealed HDDs to be as good as it gets - tape is nice, but maintaining a supported/working tape drive was always difficult (used to have one). But, unlike every other type of storage, harddrives are actually capable of warning you of an impending failure. (I've been *saved* by S.M.A.R.T. at least twice, over the years.) Add some rudimentary RAID, and you're probably good. The only way I can think of to go further is to use two/three, and cycle them between your PC(often/all the time), a nearby firesafe(When you are heading in that direction), and a safety-deposit box (seasonally?).
I do a double backup to external hard drives. One is kept on site, the other offsite. When I backup something, I switch drives and redo the backup. Or, in other words, I take the backup to the second site and copy over the backup to the second one.
I expect sata / usb interfaces to be around for the next 10 years.
A very serious security problem has been found and patched in the GNU C Library (Glibc). A heap-based buffer overflow was found in __nss_hostname_digits_dots() function, which is used by the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() function calls.
In all legal ways to use the function, recognizing PATH_MAX == 256, is there a problem? So, it is a potential problem.
So, some library code was found that does not check for potential overrun. By broadcasting the routine name, hackers or ganifs will attempt to break into the system.
Why not just say, a new glibc has been released and fixes some serious bugs.
Is Windows really relevant anymore?
Of course Windows is still relevent, it remains the authoritative source of Windows reboot sounds.
Without Windows, Linux desktop development would stagnate. Yes, MS is development and so will W10, when it is released.
Google Images search for windows 10 continuum brings up images such as this one from this page. It looks like a small chunk of a Windows 8 Start screen and part of a Windows 7 Start menu put together. I'm assuming that the appearance of the new Continuum start menu didn't change when Microsoft removed the option to use full-screen Start screen.
If I compare that to the Gnome 3.14, I think I would prefer Gnome 3.14. with two supported and freely available tweaks.
The United States is not a democracy, it's a constitutional republic.
1. The article is about Britain, not America.
2. The US is not a direct democracy, but it is still a democracy.
I dispute 2) It is a pseudo democracy. Actually it is a democracy for the 1% super rich. When the Koch brothers can give 1 billion towards the republicans in order to sustain their mining business, they have bought the government. Its no longer governmeny by the people of the people, for the people.
I guess that pretty soon there will be reams and reams of faked encryption messages being mailed amongst a few possibly valid ones.
When a oscillating body in air is given a nudge at resonance, the energy provided the bell's pendulum is only that which was lost with a swing against air pressure. The dry battery can last forever, particularly if fresh air is in contact with some material that provides oxygen or other gas to replenish the battery.
A human adult with average vision can't distinguish anything much above current HD resolutions from normal TV viewing distances at typical physical TV screen dimensions either. This is one of the big problems all the businesses creating flashy new 4K TVs haven't quite worked out how to deal with yet.
Meanwhile, plenty of people still have DVD players rather than Blu-Ray, because even moving to HD doesn't make much difference for a lot of material in practice, and the old "get them to buy Star Wars for the seventeenth time two step" has run out of music.
Then you have to consider the rise of on-line sources and the generally poor experience of the physical disc systems. Most of that poor experience isn't actually because of swapping discs. It's because of all the other silly things that all legally manufactured players are required using tortured legal tricks to implement, preventing otherwise obvious improvements in competing devices such as skipping to the !~%# movie straight away.
So personally, I'm expecting 4K and other very high resolution formats to flop outside of niche markets, like say luxury home cinema systems with a projector and a screen several metres across. Even where they do get adopted, I'm expecting the market to demand less messy distribution, which would make any sort of disc-based successor to Blu-Ray even less likely to succeed.
I suppose that if you use that high definition to drive a side of a building display, composed of multiple panels, that the high definition will make a difference when you are standing at close range.
Its not stupid at all.
I can coexist quite well with Catholics who think my being gay is a sin; we can do good works together, have lunch, be friends. I can coexist quite well with Seventh Day Adventists who think alcohol is sinful, too. We can all be friends. Heck, I can coexist with people who have a religion I think is patently absurd (I'm looking at you, Mormons), because when it comes down to it -- everyone has beliefs, and things they think are right and wrong. As long as it goes no farther then their skin, we can all be friends.
Tolerance doesn't mean you beat someone until they agree with you, its that you recognize peoples differences and don't try to force them to change. Now, where a minority of Catholics and I part ways and will have problems being friends is at the point where those Catholics try to enshrine their beliefs into law.
It has nothing really to do with my sin being a choice at all (for the record, it obviously isn't), but at the line between beliefs and mandates.
Hate the sin all you like, I don't care. Teach that the sin is against God's given path all you like, I don't care. If that's what you believe, all power to you to believe whatever it is. I'll argue the other side and we'll see who is more convincing. Try to mandate that the State give you special rights that I don't have, there I start caring. Try to argue for violence or discrimination based on your beliefs, there I care a lot.
Not everyone is as tolerant as you. Good for you.
My personal religious belief (humanism) allows me to respect life and the people who are different in all ways. But then the orthodox extremists would deny your right to be as you are. They cannot believe it is biological (its not genetic, in the sense of being passed from generation to generation). I say fuck the intolerant,
In Quebec, where I live, Gays marry and have adopted children. We have secular beliefs that do not allow religious barriers to the well being of a child. And if you are married, adoption is an easier process than if you are single. And yes, if you insulted my wife, mother, or children in public, expect a strong punch. But if you use satire, I may not like it, but I will winch and do ask to not persist further.
There was an old western movie in which it was asked, "Why did you let that guy yell at you with "Hey you old bastard". The response was, "Acceptance depends on the tone". "Je suis Charlie" was not an angry insulting tone.
As we know, there is quite a bit that the President can do without congress. As well, with the lifting of restrictions that are within the President's power, a "critical mass" for full lifting will build. Don't fool yourself, it will - and should - happen.
As far as I know, its only the USA that has that embargo. The rest of the world enjoys the beached of Cuba in the winter, and the superb education and healthcare system. Yes, the politics there has created poverty, but it would be dreamland to think that the standard of living would jump of the USA suddenly recognized a dying regime. There are always individuals who are being groomed to take over if the Castro brothers die.
Does anyone think the sponsors of this legialation have serioulsly considered the issues of user access and cost? Of course not. As in so many areas of public life, Republicans have adopted the mantra of "free markets". Which is another way of saying on behalf of large corporations, "Let the Wookie win". Let the big strong arm-ripping behemoth have its way. This disregards the needs of the majority of the population and lets corporations take the profits resulting from public investment and tax dollars.
The internet has never been about "free markets". The internet was developed by the government and universities (with public funding). As far as the big ISPs are concerned, most of them, such as Comcast and Time Warner, make use of public right-of-way to carry thier signals to their customers. Most of this right-of-way was obtained either through imminent domain (for the public good) or for other purposes entirely (to carry power lines). This has resulted in a protected monopoly for these ISPs. They have no competition, the exact opposite of a free market.
Title II will treat the ISPs as utilities so that their rates will be controlled and their fiber optic cables will be available to all content providers under competitive conditions. This is really a free market in content, rather than the coroporate oligarchy envisioned by this Republican legislation.
Is it time for a second internet, where all the devices that could/would/"need to be" connected could do so. (At a very low priority and very small message size)?
The regular internet for users would be neutral. As it is streamers who watch movies, etc pay for their bandwidth by their monthly fee. The networks make money from that fee, and are now also wanting to ding the providers. And with the loss of neutrality, will come the nickel and dime-ing of everyone who is connected. The loss of net neutrality creates an Open Highway Toll road which again shifts the money from the middle class to the super wealthy, but does not provide the needed services as part of a basic fee.
Community colleges are not equipped to train people for high-paying coding jobs. They can teach you the basics, sure, but any kind of advanced programming skill comes from interning, mentorship and/or *gasp* actually sitting home and coding, coding, coding. All night, non-stop, my-brain-is-a-compiler-now coding. Most people aren't fit for that, and it's not a crime to point that out.
The real experts are well aware that a few non-elite college classes aren't going to fill the advanced skill level, high-paying, rock-star-coding-ninja slots, and the President is doing a vast disservice in painting a rosy picture that communicates to people that all you need is a couple of entry-level courses and you too can be a professional coder, when the real problem here is access to the jobs that will get you the experience and the status.
And where are those slots advertised? Hint: not in the community college placement offices.
(Apologies if I sound glib to the parent poster; I mean only to be glib towards the original quote.)
Our colleges require a 16 week stage at an IT shop, where the programmer must work on a project, and write up a report at the conclusion of his internship.
The internship may(not) be a paid one. Result looks great on the CV/Resume
In Quebec, where I live, the things they can take away are weapons and drugs. Or if your carrying three cell phones, then two were most probably stolen. They can also take your bicycle if they thought you stole it if you did not wear a helmet or pants clips.
At age 6, with two working parents, I and my sister (age 5) walked to school and back everyday. I had a key around my neck. I can say that we understood to stay away from strangers. At home, I cooked (fryed my eggs for lunch), listened to the soap opera on the radio, and at 1pm, walked back to school.
I believe in destiny. If you are to befall harm, there is very little you can do if you can't spot it. At 6 years old, I could spot it.
Oh yes, we were a few kids all around the same age, and we walked the same route.
I programmed in Assembly Language. Over small highly repetitive sections of code, I could beat every C compiler around. However, when my assembly code for the entire program was compiled and tested, the C program proved to be faster. The reason is that the C compiler could do global optimization, guided by the user's wishes. Example of optimization for speed was loop elimination, other optimisation -- common code fragment reuse, and more.
I tended to look at the next bottleneck and tackle that delay in assembly, not always standardizing on using specific cpu registers, and I was sometimes guilty of not looking seriously to determine of there was a better way to solve the business problem. (Generous definition of business to mean any processing problem.)
As PC sales increase in volume, should we not expect the prices to come down? I for one recognize the 300% markup from the FOB factory price to the consumer. I am now looking at just buying the essentials, the mother board, memory, and CPU. All the rest I have (I have case, power supply, fans for cooling, keyboard DVD burner/writer, hard disks, SSD, mouse and monitors). From my perspective, what I have is should be more than half the cost of a new AMD or Intel computer.
And I really feel that the I-7 computers are at double the price of what they should be sold. Someone is going to oneday take a bunch of qualcom or other small processors and make a PC that will run circles around the existing bus architecture. Give me 8 independent processors doing what each can do best, and junk the single chip multi-processor systems.
Get a desktop with a large inverter (perhaps you should go around with an I7 desktop machine strapped to an APC or Triplet UPS powersupply. I would be careful about APC stuff. i had the 350wh unit and the 550wh unit and each had the same identical model battery. For the same battery, the units should have the same cost to the consumer.
True, although the newspapers don't have control over the political choices that have led to a situation where we don't have any idea which people are actually in the nation.
I would say that ultra-orthodoxy is the cause. When certain individuals can't cope with life, and turn to religion, that belief is their anchor, the thing that cannot be unanchored. If that person, again for self esteem, needs to disallow any discussion that minimizes his belief. The religion feeds on ultra-believers and ultra-believers need the religion to survive.
Destroy one, and you harm or destroy the other. And if you can blame someone for destroying or harming your belief, you will search for revenge.
Concepts cars are worthless, most never get made.
You want to convince me you are SERIOUS about getting into the driverless car? Then build a Concept Bus - or Concept Garbage Truck.
Those are large vehicles that honestly do not need drivers. They are expect to drive slow, not fast and usually travel set routes. Small cities can easily afford to self-insure them, and they won't have to worry quite so much about the stupid technology ignorant laws, as they will be purchased by the people that enforce, if not write the laws. Finally they are already expensive and the cities pay large salaries to people to drive them.
They will in all probability be the very first driverless vehicles we actually see on the road [as soon as we 1) convince the unions to let us and 2) actually get them to work.]
So forget about concept 'cars' and show me a concept bus or concept garbage truck.
Regarding unions. Their raison-d'être is job creation, protection, and union dues. The problem that many municipalities have is union agreements and idiotic outdated rules. For example of such a rule is , "a driver drives, and does not get out of the truck to pick up or deliver". Another example, "The electrician is responsible for the breakers. We had a swimming pool front door attendant plug in a kettle from home, and with it and the other electrical stuff on the circuit, caused the breaker to trip. The attendant unplugged the kettle, but had to call the electrician to reset the breaker. (Job protection). Gosh, we stopped using glass fuses eons ago.
In small communities, with the introduction of vehicle automation, the driver can be outside the vehicle, can be helping the crew, and when the truck has to be displaced a few feet, can use a remote control to advance the vehicle. Nothing wrong for the gardener or plumber or electrician to handle several kinds of jobs.
...and at least some assurance that motherhood wouldn't throw them completely off their career track.
And therein lies the rub. Unless he mandates a hysterectomy before hiring at Intel, that biological clock will be there, ticking. There isn't shit that you (or the Intel Corporation) can do about it, either. I know quite a few women in tech (including Intel employees) - the highly successful ones are childless, and have no inclination of having kids (the only exception is a former manager of mine - and she has an MBA, not a CompSci degree). The reason why? They forewent the child-rearing thing and went all-in when it came to technology - just like the guys do.
When you bear a child, your priorities change - hard. All the sudden, that project/application/datacenter/whatever doesn't seem so damned important anymore, and your life's focus changes. It's not sexist to say that women in general are affected by this a hell of a lot more than men are. Guys are generally used to sucking it up and getting on with the business of focusing back on that whole hunter-gatherer thing - it's how we're wired. There are exceptions in either direction of course, but they're not the general rule. Generally, the business of getting that little snot factory raised, educated, nurtured, and prepared for the world becomes a woman's focus much quicker than it does for a guy.
Even with compromises (day care, schools, etc), it still changes the top priority for most (not all - most) women. This in turn throws the statistics off pretty hard for careers that require constant education and constant renewal.
I don't see it your way. I see it as a rush to maintain 60hour workweeks, and to not balance "home life" with "work life". Why do we need a new car model every year? Why do we need a new cpu chip every few months? Why do we rush on that treadmill, and are still standing still? Why are American technologists living on burn-out street?
Most of Europe, shuts down for a month during the summer. Attribute it to whatever you want, but vacations are part of working -- not skipping the vacation because of artificial deadlines. And the ten days between Christmas and New Years is also a washout for many European corporations. Why are you obsoleted and discarded at age 50, and you are forced to become an independent consultant?
Those are my questions, what is the answer?
From the age of 5, I had already built a home telegraph. I had bell wire (house wire for doorbells), I got doorbell push buttons, lights, and made a partyline circuit. I learned morse code, at a very few words per minute.
By age 8 or 9, I was fixing tube radios. Usually it was a dead tube, or a bad electrolytic capacitor.
By 11, I was building kits from Heath and Eico. My preferred were from the latter.
By 15, I was fixing all appliances, changing tap washers, and finding out about watch and clock mechanisms.
By 17, I was Mr watch repair for Sears, I was charging bargain prices. And I did all the other stuff too. I was into hi-fi, Vinyl longplay records and the finest of turntables (rec-o-cut, Garrad), I had my vtvm, my sweep generator, and Heath Oscilloscope.
By 19, I was a carburator expert. I had all the tools for changing spark plugs, rotating tires, and knew the V8 engine design by heart.
We were learning sponges in those days.
Today, kids are whiz kids an smartphone apps. They know not about epicycloidal gearing, "angles and draw" for watch anchors and escape wheels, "watch beating" incabloc, jeweling, carburators, plug-changing, welding, and so much more.
I left that for a masters degree in math, but I have never stopped playing and loving it. My thoughts were always impressed with the watch mechanism engineers who could work with near microscopic sized parts and movements.
Ahh them were the fun days. It was an enjoyment to do all that I did as a hobby. Today, I maintain my home and garden, and look at my grandkids. I am disappointed at how little they know.