I agree. This "problem" is in the process of solving itself and adding a bunch of statist gobbledygook to the matter won't improve the outcome. Cut the damn cord. Make the cable people deal with a competitive market.
The best contribution The Great and The Good can make is to ensure network neutrality. Leave the rest to the consumer and simple competition will fix the problem. This isn't the water supply or national defense. Just facilitate competition and let consumers work out their tee-vee problems.
At least, that's how Corporate America seems intent on treating male parents.
Until very recently Government America used males (exclusively) for cannon fodder about once a generation. Be thankful the worse you'll ever face is a paid-leave time off disparity.
Or don't. Farming internet karma with 10+ poasts a day (!) when you're supposed to be actually earning your salary is much more fun.
Markup languages are for machine consumption, not human readability
Machines have no trouble with <option checked>foo</option>. The desire to force XML compliant checked="checked" on HTML is not rooted in parsing difficulty or performance or any other machine processing rationale. The only actual problem with <option checked> is that it offends the sensibilities of XML advocates. Writing interpreters capable of handling "unclosed" tags or valueless attributes is a solved problem.
which would not be tolerated in any compiled or interpreted language.
Among the common compiled languages we have C++ which "is ambiguous, context-dependent, and potentially requires infinite lookahead to resolve ambiguities," * and which precludes the use of parsers based on formal grammers. Perl is an example of an interpreted language that can't be parsed. Here is a thousand or so words on the implications of Javascript semicolon insertion.
In short, your appeal to the rigor of compiled or interpreted languages is not credible.
Jaczko isn't credible. He is a head case that drove his colleagues, including his fellow Obama appointees, to publically and unanimously condemn his tenure as NRC chairman while seated right next to him during congressional testimony. They forced him out because they'd had enough of his shit.
So now he is going to be a professional anti-nuke gadfly. Last week good 'ol Senator Harry Reid resurrected the head case and put him on the NNSA board so he can make that group dysfunctional and say scary things about the stockpile. Now that he's out of the shadows he's taking more shots as nuclear energy as well.
If you read the linked story you'll eventually learn what, specifically, his problem is with contemporary operating reactors; they are large and have enough residual heat to damage fuel after shutdown. The notion that our power reactors are too large is not new. It has been well understood since the beginning of nuclear energy production. Jaczko is talking about it because that's his job now; use the credibility of his "Former Chairman of the NRC" moniker to make headlines by saying scary things about nukes.
Incidentally this discussion raises the question; how large can a reactor be without risking fuel damage? The answer is about 60 MW thermal for traditional PWR light water designs. Common power reactors are 2000 MW thermal.
BTW, we aren't going to do anything about any of this. We're not replacing the reactors, or coal or gas or building out green energy or anything else. We're a balkanized welfare state nation occupied with feathering our environmental nest while evacuating our industrial base to Asia. The power system you have now will be approximately the power system running when you die. Maybe a reactor will melt and we'll replace our nukes with more gas consumption. That's about as much as you can expect.
What gives you the right to complain about China if you live in USA or EU
That's right. China's per capita coal consumption is far less than typical Westerners, so until the Chinese have wrecked the environment at least as much as you have, for at least as long as you have, and a good deal worse and longer for good measure, then you need to shut your stupid fat face.
That's a yacht? Looks like a commercial fishing vessel or a coast guard cutter.
I suppose if you need to intercept drug smugglers or rescue someone it might be the thing... but most yacht buyers are looking for a nice place to drape their naked women.
More tools to efficiently create more sites for fewer actual visitors.
Go to the gallery (it doesn't hurt, really.) Sort by "Rank". Note that you've never seen any of these sites. Scroll down, noting that the thumbnails repeat (...) after 6 rows for a total of 24 unique sites.
Which is pretty good, considering how many distinct CMS tools against which all high "Rank" sites must be amortized.
One day something important will happen and the Western world is going to have to stop making so many web sites. And that sucks, because I think every brand and line of lingerie should have a complete site with lots of models, rebuilt from scratch every 18 to 36 days.
Interesting how the concerns of both sides are still in play centuries later
Not really. There is no Human 2.0. Our ancestors weren't incompetent at life. The principles they codified into our constitution are largely valid today, and they left room to correct the parts that weren't because they understood they were fallible.
Half of all state revenue plowed into "education," almost a quarter of the US Federal budget plowed into "healthcare" and we instantly mod up any mope with the brilliance to point out how little money we appear to have for "education" or "healthcare."
Besides violating over a dozen international treaties
[Citation needed]
I suspect the treaty situation isn't anywhere near as clear cut as that. Those agreements are riddled with exceptions.
Besides, every single one of those treaties, like our Constitution, is not a suicide pact. The President has said "national security" and every one of those documents is trumped. If We The People don't like it we can, through our Representatives, impeach, amend the constitution or march on Washington with pitchforks.
I predict none of those things is going to happen.
And let me be clear: No government or private agency has come forward with conclusive proof
Not relevant. We need not wait until we're exploited by Chinese hardware to justify our actions. We have at least two good reasons to anticipate hostile intent. First, we already know we're dealing with a government that is actively attacking our IT systems. Second, we've done the same to others.
The economic and political rammifications of this are being glossed over -- this action doesn't just affect our relationship with China, but with any country we do business with, because they signed the same treaties, and now they're looking at our unilateral action and thinking: What makes us think the US won't renege on their deal with us?
You have as your premise some deep respect for all these treaties and agreements. I believe most of these documents, particularly the trade agreements, are products of narrow interests creating special conditions for their exclusive benefit. I believe most of them amount to throwing open the ports and hobbling the port authorities to flood the US with stuff from places with no EPA, OSHA, NLRB, IRS, etc. I do not share your reverence for that crap.
As for the economic consequences; we've managed to survive and prosper without running our government on Huawei gear. I predict we can continue to afford to do without it.
I'm not going to RTFA to find out who is responsible for this POS. Having noticed that there is no attribution to any specific politician in the summary I'm just going to assume it's a Democrat. Otherwise there would be a great big (R) next to state senator so-and-so's name.
Assuming I'm right, we can extrapolate; the bastard will claim ignorance; "I had no idea that was in there."
Patterns emerge after you've seen enough of this bullshit.
....
Can't help myself. I have to look.
The bill's sponsor, Democrat Sen. Steve Hobbs of Lake Stevens, said Tuesday that he had not read the amendment, but he was aware of concerns from high-tech industries.
The authors are Kharecha and Hansen. James Hansen is world famous for supplying warmists with NASA stamped ammo since the early 1980's
You can say a lot of things about Hansen but shilling for nukes is just not plausible. But hey, if you want to discredit one of the most credible AGW celebrities in the world go right ahead.
The next time we need to hunt down someone in a cave complex we can use a drone swarm to autonomously explore all the holes. We'll only need the giant thermobaric bombs once the right caves are identified.
We should all just stay at home and not speak to anyone.
That would be a cop-out.
Our expectation is that you participate no less, but that you assiduously maintain the necessary filters between your damaged mind and the external world. We have provided an ample selection of subjects that you may denigrate without risk to your future. Among these are rich people, men, whites, Republicans and Christians. Please confine your need to bash on others to those groups and leave good people alone.
I noted that the story is shaded. A new GPU core with a novel memory solution, GeForce coming to mobile hardware, and some of the baddest visual compute hardware in the world and it's not worthy of at least the same exposure as the previous freetard story or the following YROL story.
Abundant fresh water could mean an increase of vegetation, crops or otherwise. Plants sink carbon from the atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon is supposedly the cause of "global warming" which is supposedly bad.
NVidia's CEO has repeatedly shown himself to be a shrewd man
NVIDIA wants Steambox. They are betting that platform is a winner and they're probably right. NVIDIA can demand a good deal because their GPU isn't fungible; only NVIDIA has decent Linux drivers.
So yeah, walking away from a commodity deal is the right choice. The NVIDIA plan is teaming up with Valve to eat Sony and Microsoft's lunch, not flail away making also-ran GPUs for pennies on the dollar.
A few years from now your Windows PC will be surrounded by Linux set-tops, phones, tablets and consoles. Then you'll get a Chromebook.
Slashdot Mirror
I call the Justice department the ringmaster in violating the civil rights of The Press.
I call the Justice department the ringmaster in agenda driven gunwalking cover-ups.
I call the Justice department the ringmaster in whistleblower persecution.
Price fixing e-books? Yippie disposable income doesn't actually rate at this point; we have bigger problems.
I agree. This "problem" is in the process of solving itself and adding a bunch of statist gobbledygook to the matter won't improve the outcome. Cut the damn cord. Make the cable people deal with a competitive market.
The best contribution The Great and The Good can make is to ensure network neutrality. Leave the rest to the consumer and simple competition will fix the problem. This isn't the water supply or national defense. Just facilitate competition and let consumers work out their tee-vee problems.
Whether we're *ready* for this is another question; as is whether this is what folks have in mind by "AI."
Since what folks have in mind by "AI" changes to exclude anything within the capability of machines, we're implicitly ready for whatever emerges.
My DSL is up. It's either fixed or didn't involve my part of the system.
CenturyLink (formerly Qwest in my case) has been very reliable during the past year. You get the rate you pay for as well.
At least, that's how Corporate America seems intent on treating male parents.
Until very recently Government America used males (exclusively) for cannon fodder about once a generation. Be thankful the worse you'll ever face is a paid-leave time off disparity.
Or don't. Farming internet karma with 10+ poasts a day (!) when you're supposed to be actually earning your salary is much more fun.
Markup languages are for machine consumption, not human readability
Machines have no trouble with <option checked>foo</option>. The desire to force XML compliant checked="checked" on HTML is not rooted in parsing difficulty or performance or any other machine processing rationale. The only actual problem with <option checked> is that it offends the sensibilities of XML advocates. Writing interpreters capable of handling "unclosed" tags or valueless attributes is a solved problem.
which would not be tolerated in any compiled or interpreted language.
Among the common compiled languages we have C++ which "is ambiguous, context-dependent, and potentially requires infinite lookahead to resolve ambiguities," * and which precludes the use of parsers based on formal grammers. Perl is an example of an interpreted language that can't be parsed. Here is a thousand or so words on the implications of Javascript semicolon insertion.
In short, your appeal to the rigor of compiled or interpreted languages is not credible.
Jaczko isn't credible. He is a head case that drove his colleagues, including his fellow Obama appointees, to publically and unanimously condemn his tenure as NRC chairman while seated right next to him during congressional testimony. They forced him out because they'd had enough of his shit.
So now he is going to be a professional anti-nuke gadfly. Last week good 'ol Senator Harry Reid resurrected the head case and put him on the NNSA board so he can make that group dysfunctional and say scary things about the stockpile. Now that he's out of the shadows he's taking more shots as nuclear energy as well.
If you read the linked story you'll eventually learn what, specifically, his problem is with contemporary operating reactors; they are large and have enough residual heat to damage fuel after shutdown. The notion that our power reactors are too large is not new. It has been well understood since the beginning of nuclear energy production. Jaczko is talking about it because that's his job now; use the credibility of his "Former Chairman of the NRC" moniker to make headlines by saying scary things about nukes.
Incidentally this discussion raises the question; how large can a reactor be without risking fuel damage? The answer is about 60 MW thermal for traditional PWR light water designs. Common power reactors are 2000 MW thermal.
BTW, we aren't going to do anything about any of this. We're not replacing the reactors, or coal or gas or building out green energy or anything else. We're a balkanized welfare state nation occupied with feathering our environmental nest while evacuating our industrial base to Asia. The power system you have now will be approximately the power system running when you die. Maybe a reactor will melt and we'll replace our nukes with more gas consumption. That's about as much as you can expect.
;)
What gives you the right to complain about China if you live in USA or EU
That's right. China's per capita coal consumption is far less than typical Westerners, so until the Chinese have wrecked the environment at least as much as you have, for at least as long as you have, and a good deal worse and longer for good measure, then you need to shut your stupid fat face.
You can dream up all the X replacements you want, but you need to deliver working code.
Good job Wayland.
I have no problem with people who buy expensive yachts if they happen to be insanely rich.
I'll bet the insanely rich are relieved to have had their spending prerogatives blessed by none other than you.
o_O
That's a yacht? Looks like a commercial fishing vessel or a coast guard cutter.
I suppose if you need to intercept drug smugglers or rescue someone it might be the thing... but most yacht buyers are looking for a nice place to drape their naked women.
More tools to efficiently create more sites for fewer actual visitors.
Go to the gallery (it doesn't hurt, really.) Sort by "Rank". Note that you've never seen any of these sites. Scroll down, noting that the thumbnails repeat (...) after 6 rows for a total of 24 unique sites.
Which is pretty good, considering how many distinct CMS tools against which all high "Rank" sites must be amortized.
One day something important will happen and the Western world is going to have to stop making so many web sites. And that sucks, because I think every brand and line of lingerie should have a complete site with lots of models, rebuilt from scratch every 18 to 36 days.
So in the mean time, yay for CMS tools.
Interesting how the concerns of both sides are still in play centuries later
Not really. There is no Human 2.0. Our ancestors weren't incompetent at life. The principles they codified into our constitution are largely valid today, and they left room to correct the parts that weren't because they understood they were fallible.
education, health care
Half of all state revenue plowed into "education," almost a quarter of the US Federal budget plowed into "healthcare" and we instantly mod up any mope with the brilliance to point out how little money we appear to have for "education" or "healthcare."
Useful idiots indeed.
Besides violating over a dozen international treaties
[Citation needed]
I suspect the treaty situation isn't anywhere near as clear cut as that. Those agreements are riddled with exceptions.
Besides, every single one of those treaties, like our Constitution, is not a suicide pact. The President has said "national security" and every one of those documents is trumped. If We The People don't like it we can, through our Representatives, impeach, amend the constitution or march on Washington with pitchforks.
I predict none of those things is going to happen.
And let me be clear: No government or private agency has come forward with conclusive proof
Not relevant. We need not wait until we're exploited by Chinese hardware to justify our actions. We have at least two good reasons to anticipate hostile intent. First, we already know we're dealing with a government that is actively attacking our IT systems. Second, we've done the same to others.
The economic and political rammifications of this are being glossed over -- this action doesn't just affect our relationship with China, but with any country we do business with, because they signed the same treaties, and now they're looking at our unilateral action and thinking: What makes us think the US won't renege on their deal with us?
You have as your premise some deep respect for all these treaties and agreements. I believe most of these documents, particularly the trade agreements, are products of narrow interests creating special conditions for their exclusive benefit. I believe most of them amount to throwing open the ports and hobbling the port authorities to flood the US with stuff from places with no EPA, OSHA, NLRB, IRS, etc. I do not share your reverence for that crap.
As for the economic consequences; we've managed to survive and prosper without running our government on Huawei gear. I predict we can continue to afford to do without it.
I'm not going to RTFA to find out who is responsible for this POS. Having noticed that there is no attribution to any specific politician in the summary I'm just going to assume it's a Democrat. Otherwise there would be a great big (R) next to state senator so-and-so's name.
Assuming I'm right, we can extrapolate; the bastard will claim ignorance; "I had no idea that was in there."
Patterns emerge after you've seen enough of this bullshit.
....
Can't help myself. I have to look.
The bill's sponsor, Democrat Sen. Steve Hobbs of Lake Stevens, said Tuesday that he had not read the amendment, but he was aware of concerns from high-tech industries.
Uh huh.
The authors are Kharecha and Hansen. James Hansen is world famous for supplying warmists with NASA stamped ammo since the early 1980's
You can say a lot of things about Hansen but shilling for nukes is just not plausible. But hey, if you want to discredit one of the most credible AGW celebrities in the world go right ahead.
The next time we need to hunt down someone in a cave complex we can use a drone swarm to autonomously explore all the holes. We'll only need the giant thermobaric bombs once the right caves are identified.
Yay drone swarms.
We should all just stay at home and not speak to anyone.
That would be a cop-out.
Our expectation is that you participate no less, but that you assiduously maintain the necessary filters between your damaged mind and the external world. We have provided an ample selection of subjects that you may denigrate without risk to your future. Among these are rich people, men, whites, Republicans and Christians. Please confine your need to bash on others to those groups and leave good people alone.
Thank you.
— The Management
I noted that the story is shaded. A new GPU core with a novel memory solution, GeForce coming to mobile hardware, and some of the baddest visual compute hardware in the world and it's not worthy of at least the same exposure as the previous freetard story or the following YROL story.
Yay for mainstreaming.
Just get out of China.
But keep sending your food.
And keep sending us your industry.
Oh, your tech too. Keep sending that.
Otherwise, just stay the hell out, round-eye.
Abundant fresh water could mean an increase of vegetation, crops or otherwise. Plants sink carbon from the atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon is supposedly the cause of "global warming" which is supposedly bad.
we shouldn't forget the ecological concerns.
Like that's going to happen.
We could flood the planet with the bodily fluids of armchair ecologists bitching about stuff using their Chinese computer hardware.
NVidia's CEO has repeatedly shown himself to be a shrewd man
NVIDIA wants Steambox. They are betting that platform is a winner and they're probably right. NVIDIA can demand a good deal because their GPU isn't fungible; only NVIDIA has decent Linux drivers.
So yeah, walking away from a commodity deal is the right choice. The NVIDIA plan is teaming up with Valve to eat Sony and Microsoft's lunch, not flail away making also-ran GPUs for pennies on the dollar.
A few years from now your Windows PC will be surrounded by Linux set-tops, phones, tablets and consoles. Then you'll get a Chromebook.