Trump repeatedly emphasized that we would build "clean coal". He said the phrase over and over, emphasizing the word "clean" most.
Then he withdrew from the Paris agreement to (I quote) "benefit the coal industry".
Why would he need to withdraw from the agreement if the coal is "clean"? This is a political stunt to make him look like he's got the average American workers' backs.
In May 2015, there were 69,460 jobs in coal mining itself — only 15,900 of which were extraction workers or helpers, mining machine operators or earth drillers. Meanwhile the U.S. Department of Energy said in 2016 that solar power employed 43 percent of the Electric Power Generation sector's workforce.
It's really all just PR gestures - taking as blatant a mainline Republican position as he can to keep his voting base behind him 100%.
So what happens when the planet irreversibly goes to shit? What good is that precious wealth then? Can we just go to Wal Mart and buy a six pack of planets after that?
This isn't about future generations having polar bears or not, it's about them having a habitable planet at all.
Funny Alabama should come up. I lived in Alabama most of last year. The power company was an ISP, and would give you gigabit internet for around $600/month for commercial, upwards of $100 for residential
I've always thought it's bullshit that you get charged for receiving text messages as well as sending. People shouldn't have the ability to force charges arbitrarily on others, but SMS has been doing that since the start.
The wikipedia article on derived works says that things even as derivative as translations are protected under fair use. One could argue that these spoilers are a translation of the work into the author's own terms. Unless there is a substantial amount of information copied from the transcript or some copyrighted, released work this should be a derived work protected under fair use. (I'm not a lawyer, blah)
... or non-fiction. Just because the written/recorded work was based on real-world facts doesn't mean that it isn't copyrightable. It just helps distinguish how ridiculous it is that re-telling a story is somehow copyright infringement. If it isn't infringement with non-fiction it shouldn't be with fiction either (unless it is so extremely similar that it doesn't get fair-use protection for derived works).
You say that as if paid games are somehow better than pirated ones. I've bought plenty of paid games sometimes multiple times each. Each time I end up downloading and playing a cracked version because it wouldn't tell me I couldn't play it if my 'net screwed up or if their DRM scheme somehow screwed up.
The cracked versions are an upgrade, and this coming from a paying customer.
Getting games to work correctly is hard enough without introducing new ways they can fail on purpose that can also fail on accident.
PAE, muthafugga. 32-bit Linux hasn't been limited to 4 gigs of ram for a long time. If you're rocking a processor that's Pentium Pro or newer (I know, pretty hard to find something so powerful nowadays) you're limited to a puny 64 gigs.
Yep! Another fun one: I wasn't happy at all when it decided to update my profile with my phone number, when I'd been making sure to keep my phone number far away from my profile for years. It didn't ask. Thanks, Facebook, for sharing my private information with who knows how many people without asking or warning me.
Fuck that app.
Your post also solves a symptom and not the problem - that most people don't know enough to care about their OS. "Does it facebook?" is the average user's concern.
That's a good thing and a bad thing. It's nice that they usually don't have to care but it does suck that they're oblivious to the fact that they even have options.
A (literally) mom'n'pop shop is concerned about a few thousand, yes. It's a percentage of their income and it matters - a 2 person shop will definitely miss a couple thousand. Additionally, no they can not get dev hardware with an e-mail. If that was true every 14 year old girl that wants the latest phone could whip up an e-mail pretending to be a successful dev. The only companies that get free dev hardware are large ones. Little shops (less than 20 devs) pay for every transistor.
Who except Apple cares about the behavior of little shops? Uhhh... little shops do...
I've worked for a few places that gave me their invention assignment agreements in.doc format. They wanted me to print it, sign it, give it back.
If I'd felt the terms were not reasonable I would have just edited it, signed it, and handed it in without a word. Problem solved.
In my case the terms were reasonable enough so I left them unmodified.
A good point. While it doesn't apply to every problem, scope-level memory management is much more reliable and high-performing than dynamic allocation. In some (very few: unbalanced binary trees, etc) situations it would be silly to use anything but dynamic allocation, but in most cases static is the best for performance and reliability by a long shot.
Likewise, people who see that Amazon can easily weather a moderately aggressive DDoS like that juvenile tantrum thrown by Anonymous now have that much more of a reason to trust Amazon while buying goods or considering where to host cloud-ish stuff.
Juvenile tantrum? They took down Paypal, Mastercard, and Visa. That's not a juvenile tantrum, that is "hulk smash".
I think the point of contention is not what bandwidth most people need, it's the fact that what is being promised doesn't match up to what's delivered.
Taking down visa.com did two important things, in my opinion:
1. It sent the message "We saw what you did."
2. It drew massive attention in the media. NPR (National Public Radio) had covered the wikileaks situation only sparsely before, but I've heard about it at least a few times a day now.
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Trump repeatedly emphasized that we would build "clean coal". He said the phrase over and over, emphasizing the word "clean" most.
Then he withdrew from the Paris agreement to (I quote) "benefit the coal industry".
Why would he need to withdraw from the agreement if the coal is "clean"? This is a political stunt to make him look like he's got the average American workers' backs.
In May 2015, there were 69,460 jobs in coal mining itself — only 15,900 of which were extraction workers or helpers, mining machine operators or earth drillers. Meanwhile the U.S. Department of Energy said in 2016 that solar power employed 43 percent of the Electric Power Generation sector's workforce.
It's really all just PR gestures - taking as blatant a mainline Republican position as he can to keep his voting base behind him 100%.
So what happens when the planet irreversibly goes to shit? What good is that precious wealth then? Can we just go to Wal Mart and buy a six pack of planets after that?
This isn't about future generations having polar bears or not, it's about them having a habitable planet at all.
Funny Alabama should come up. I lived in Alabama most of last year. The power company was an ISP, and would give you gigabit internet for around $600/month for commercial, upwards of $100 for residential
Mod parent up! This is a very relevant viewpoint.
I've always thought it's bullshit that you get charged for receiving text messages as well as sending. People shouldn't have the ability to force charges arbitrarily on others, but SMS has been doing that since the start.
I'd gladly undo my previous posts in this thread to mod you up. That would be a very funny solution to the problem.
The wikipedia article on derived works says that things even as derivative as translations are protected under fair use. One could argue that these spoilers are a translation of the work into the author's own terms. Unless there is a substantial amount of information copied from the transcript or some copyrighted, released work this should be a derived work protected under fair use. (I'm not a lawyer, blah)
... or non-fiction. Just because the written/recorded work was based on real-world facts doesn't mean that it isn't copyrightable. It just helps distinguish how ridiculous it is that re-telling a story is somehow copyright infringement. If it isn't infringement with non-fiction it shouldn't be with fiction either (unless it is so extremely similar that it doesn't get fair-use protection for derived works).
Not a lawayer, just my opinion, blah blah
Ok guys, I'm here with the asbestos!
We all know Ballmer is quite the whiz with chairs.
You say that as if paid games are somehow better than pirated ones. I've bought plenty of paid games sometimes multiple times each. Each time I end up downloading and playing a cracked version because it wouldn't tell me I couldn't play it if my 'net screwed up or if their DRM scheme somehow screwed up.
The cracked versions are an upgrade, and this coming from a paying customer.
Getting games to work correctly is hard enough without introducing new ways they can fail on purpose that can also fail on accident.
Yes. It can. It supports X as a client. Am I the only person listening?
X11 FOREVER!!! !!! !!!
... he says after suggesting we probably need X12
To be fair it only takes one voice to gather an army. This article alone may do just that. Let's not be pessimistic.
PAE, muthafugga. 32-bit Linux hasn't been limited to 4 gigs of ram for a long time. If you're rocking a processor that's Pentium Pro or newer (I know, pretty hard to find something so powerful nowadays) you're limited to a puny 64 gigs.
Unless you're running Windows: "According to Geoff Chappell, Microsoft limits 32-bit versions of Windows to 4 GB as a matter of its licensing policy" -- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
Yep! Another fun one: I wasn't happy at all when it decided to update my profile with my phone number, when I'd been making sure to keep my phone number far away from my profile for years. It didn't ask. Thanks, Facebook, for sharing my private information with who knows how many people without asking or warning me. Fuck that app.
Your post also solves a symptom and not the problem - that most people don't know enough to care about their OS. "Does it facebook?" is the average user's concern.
That's a good thing and a bad thing. It's nice that they usually don't have to care but it does suck that they're oblivious to the fact that they even have options.
A (literally) mom'n'pop shop is concerned about a few thousand, yes. It's a percentage of their income and it matters - a 2 person shop will definitely miss a couple thousand. Additionally, no they can not get dev hardware with an e-mail. If that was true every 14 year old girl that wants the latest phone could whip up an e-mail pretending to be a successful dev. The only companies that get free dev hardware are large ones. Little shops (less than 20 devs) pay for every transistor.
Who except Apple cares about the behavior of little shops? Uhhh... little shops do...
I've worked for a few places that gave me their invention assignment agreements in .doc format. They wanted me to print it, sign it, give it back.
If I'd felt the terms were not reasonable I would have just edited it, signed it, and handed it in without a word. Problem solved.
In my case the terms were reasonable enough so I left them unmodified.
You still watch TV?
If it'll be used exactly the same as other 4th generation languages, then be threatened: SQL is 4th gen...
A good point. While it doesn't apply to every problem, scope-level memory management is much more reliable and high-performing than dynamic allocation. In some (very few: unbalanced binary trees, etc) situations it would be silly to use anything but dynamic allocation, but in most cases static is the best for performance and reliability by a long shot.
Likewise, people who see that Amazon can easily weather a moderately aggressive DDoS like that juvenile tantrum thrown by Anonymous now have that much more of a reason to trust Amazon while buying goods or considering where to host cloud-ish stuff.
Juvenile tantrum? They took down Paypal, Mastercard, and Visa. That's not a juvenile tantrum, that is "hulk smash".
I think the point of contention is not what bandwidth most people need, it's the fact that what is being promised doesn't match up to what's delivered.
Taking down visa.com did two important things, in my opinion:
1. It sent the message "We saw what you did."
2. It drew massive attention in the media. NPR (National Public Radio) had covered the wikileaks situation only sparsely before, but I've heard about it at least a few times a day now.