This is easy. You architect around the most complex platform , eg this 2-in-1 in laptop mode which would have a fast Core i5 or Core i7 as cpu running OS/X. When you detach the keyboard and put it into tablet mode, it adopts an iOS skin, with emulator to run iOS apps (which you already do indirectly when you're building iOS apps on an OS/.X system now). You have the ability though, to have OS/X apps / utilities in the background, possibly providing local cloud services to the tablet layer.
Ugh. The worst of both worlds.
It doesn't need two "modes". You can already use an external keyboard with iOS devices, just fine... just as you can with Android.
It isn't Apple that was behind in this field, it was Microsoft. THEY had to add touch. Other OSes already worked both ways.
Just add your photo to your SSN card, put it on a credit card like plastic with either a magnetic strip, a QR code or smart card interface, and viola! You have yourself a national ID card. This can even substitute a passport, with entries made every time you leave or enter the country.
Just no.
When Social Security was being debated, and presented to the American public, they were promised -- PROMISED -- that it would never be used as a national ID card.
Because the people back then understood what a bad idea national ID cards are in the United States.
Many years later, they made an exception. For what? Finance companies.
You might be interested to know that other than for credit, it is still illegal for companies to use your SSN as identification in your files, if you ask them not to.
To do this, Apple would need a new OS, or do some sort of horrible blend between OS X and iOS. That's not happening. I think there will be a bigger iPad at some point, but it will just run iOS. It won't be a convertible.
I agree. It doesn't need to be a convertible. Apple already makes perfectly serviceable, compatibly-sized Bluetooth keyboards, as well as mice and touchpads. Hell, I use them sometimes with Android devices. Why make a "convertible" at all, when you already have everything you need?
I think a better summery is "blogger creates click-bait post by sowing acute ancetodes about mechanical turk, etc. and a few technical looking graphs together to form a article that appears interesting, but really is just a bunch of waffle."
True, the researchers didn't use an immersion calorimeter, but they gave excellent reasons for not (so far) having done so. Further, someone right here on Slashdot was good enough to look them up, and it turns out they are about as reputable as it gets.
OP also fails to acknowledge that the same basic technology (i.e., LENR using nickel as the primary fuel) has been under active study by both NASA and the U.S. Navy for many years. Suggesting that it's probably not as "crackpot" as it sounds.
There are actually some pretty good physical theories about how this could work. No violations of thermodynamics needed.
Agile is for lameasses who can't scope a project or develop adequate specs, although it's really good for keeping a client on a payment treadmill using the creeping feature creature.
You can find bad business practioners in every area. This is hardly a feature of Agile. Plenty of waterfall companies are guilty of exactly the same things.
You, as the stakeholder, are in charge of features. If you don't have them under control, you're doing it wrong.
That shit might fly for a webapp (or not, in the case of healthcare.gov), but for real projects it's totally unacceptable. Real as in missile guidance systems, F-16 firmware, HDTV software, etc.
Hahahaha. Seems to me the news has been full of stories for many years about how things like military software contracts have CONSTANTLY been full of abuses, bugs, and cost overruns. I've been reading about them in the news since I was a child.
So if you were trying to come up with good examples, you failed rather miserably.
So, of course, it is better for the consumer to have NO company in their area.
Actually, yes, that is correct. Better no company than an abusive monopoly.
Communities that have built their OWN cable infrastructure run by their municipality, rather than giant cable corporations, have been very satisfied with the results. They have tended to have better service for lower prices.
No, it is not.
Yes, it is. It's fucking illegal. Look it up.
It is not bragging to state a simple fact, which arose not because of some conspiracy but because of simple business economics.
ILLEGAL "business economics", according to Federal antitrust law. Since you won't bother to look it up, I looked it up for you. Dividing up geographic areas this way is illegal according to the Sherman Antrtrust Act. Which has been around for a very long time. And they're blatantly violating it. Where is the Obama administration's response to this ILLEGAL behavior?
Your city council is an ass, and it is your responsibility to get them voted out if you don't like them.
Not really; words have specific meanings. Either something is capitalism or it isn't, and we have to call things what they actually are. What we have now is increasing Corporatocracy, which by definition is a decrease in Capitalism. Many people confuse the former for the latter, but this is no accident, as there are ongoing deliberate attempts to confuse the public about the origin of the problem
It's still AI, just not leading edge anymore (unless you're doing something completely novel, like doing it on a quantum computer). Intelligence *is* pattern recognition, of which image recognition is one type.
No, you have it backward. The truth is that NONE of it is "AI".
We have no idea how to do AI, and labeling things "AI" when they just aren't waters down the whole concept.
I think the point of TFA was that it does work. And on average, better.
That might be "the point" but that doesn't make it true.
Bureaucrats hate "Agile" because they perceive they have less control over the process. Which is true, but only in a way. They may have a bit less control over the process, but they still control the product, which is really the whole point.
Micromanagement is bad. Waterfall is micromanagement in action.
Without a middle class, there is no real economy. If our current system guarantees the destruction of the middle class, then our current system guarantees the destruction of the economy (the economic experiment over the last 30 years seems to support this hypothesis). Thus, we must tweak our system so that it does not destroy the middle class.
Amazing that claims such as those in OP persist, given that the historical record is indisputable: as our economy has become less capitalist, income inequality has been increasing at an ever-increasing pace.
We can talk about correlation/causation until the cows come home, but this much is simple: when there is a negative correlation, then capitalism isn't the cause.
No, No No No!!!! It doesn't matter if they are a wolf in wolf's clothing! They have a service to sell, and users should be free to to use it if they so choose. ...
These councils need to get out of the business of "selecting" the internet provider and let the free market run its course. The outcome will always be what the customers choose, which is usually a variety of competitors, and thats a good thing!
Sorry, but just no.
The problem is that the regulators are mis-regulating, and as a result usually consumers have NO choice... they get the one company in their area, and that's it.
It is not reasonable to expect "market forces" to promote competition, when there is no actual market. Comcast and Time Warner Cable have divided up most of the U.S. between themselves, and voluntarily choose not to compete in their respective areas. That's illegal anti-competitive practice, but as I say: the regulators haven't been regulating. Hell, Comcast even practically BRAGGED about it to the FCC, claiming that a merger would not hurt competition because they're not competing anyway.
If you want consumer market choices to choose the winner, the way they normally would, then you must have a genuine competitive market first. End of story. When it doesn't exist -- like today -- Adam Smith's "invisible hand" doesn't work.
In my area, a City committee votes annually on whether to "allow competition" in the cable market. Every year they have voted it down. I am willing to bet there are kickbacks involved, but I don't have proof.
Patented IP belongs to the patent holder. Employment is a different issue altogether. Under normal circumstances, they are legally completely separate issues... so why would you want to mess that up?
If you want employment, make an employment agreement. If you want to sell, lease, rent, or royalty-license your patents, then do that.
Why would you want to confuse these things and mix them up?
The phrase "artificial intelligence" does seem to get thrown around just a bit too freely these days. I don't see anything "artificial intelligence" about this at all. It's just an image recognition algorithm.
The firewire technique is very good against full-disk encryption. If police find the computer turned on and encrypted disk mounted, that means the key must be in RAM. Compromise the RAM, the key will be in there somewhere. It has to be done on site, because the moment you turn the computer off to move it the key will be lost. I still stress that this isn't something that would be available for investigating run-of-the-mill criminals though. Maybe if you're suspected of running Silk Road.
My whole point, from the beginning, was about turning the power off. So they won't find "the encrypted disk mounted".
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES is a value of degree that is sadly becoming more and more vague to cover a large amount of people and I wouldn't be surprised if not now, eventually law enforcement will have enough ways to make that include every single person on this planet with their abusive framing tactics.
No, it isn't. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
It appears twice. Only one is in the preamble. The other is in what you might call "the tax-and-spend authorization" section. Which only stands to reason.
While in general I agree that people should be able to do what they want with their wages, my view on that is tempered somewhat when it comes to public employees.
Look at what happened in Wisconsin: teachers (public employees) were required to join the union. (I.e., all union dues were ultimately paid for by taxpayers.) The union, in turn, required members to get their insurance via WEAC, which was owned by the teacher's union. Union dues and insurance premiums to WEAC were then used to lobby the legislature to perpetuate this lock-in, resulting in increased costs which in turn were again paid by the public.
In effect, the teacher's union was using public money to lobby the state Congress to spend more public money, for the benefit of a select group of public employees.
The public's money was used against the public's own interest. If that's not just damned near the definition of unethical, I don't know what is.
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Projects that are delivered on time and under budget don't make the news.
Of course. But that argument works both ways. You don't often hear about the Agile successes either.
Spinning hard drives for mobile devices have been around for many years.
I used to have a Shark drive, which was basically large-pocket-sized. It used a tiny hard drive with removable platter cartridges.
Then IBM produced a tiny hard drive that fit inside Compact Flash cartridges. At the time, they had higher capacity than regular CF cards.
Of course that capacity advantage didn't last very long. Regardless, I think GP was probably referring to a Flash drive or SSD.
This is easy. You architect around the most complex platform , eg this 2-in-1 in laptop mode which would have a fast Core i5 or Core i7 as cpu running OS/X. When you detach the keyboard and put it into tablet mode, it adopts an iOS skin, with emulator to run iOS apps (which you already do indirectly when you're building iOS apps on an OS/.X system now). You have the ability though, to have OS/X apps / utilities in the background, possibly providing local cloud services to the tablet layer.
Ugh. The worst of both worlds.
It doesn't need two "modes". You can already use an external keyboard with iOS devices, just fine... just as you can with Android.
It isn't Apple that was behind in this field, it was Microsoft. THEY had to add touch. Other OSes already worked both ways.
Just add your photo to your SSN card, put it on a credit card like plastic with either a magnetic strip, a QR code or smart card interface, and viola! You have yourself a national ID card. This can even substitute a passport, with entries made every time you leave or enter the country.
Just no.
When Social Security was being debated, and presented to the American public, they were promised -- PROMISED -- that it would never be used as a national ID card.
Because the people back then understood what a bad idea national ID cards are in the United States.
Many years later, they made an exception. For what? Finance companies.
You might be interested to know that other than for credit, it is still illegal for companies to use your SSN as identification in your files, if you ask them not to.
To do this, Apple would need a new OS, or do some sort of horrible blend between OS X and iOS. That's not happening. I think there will be a bigger iPad at some point, but it will just run iOS. It won't be a convertible.
I agree. It doesn't need to be a convertible. Apple already makes perfectly serviceable, compatibly-sized Bluetooth keyboards, as well as mice and touchpads. Hell, I use them sometimes with Android devices. Why make a "convertible" at all, when you already have everything you need?
I think a better summery is "blogger creates click-bait post by sowing acute ancetodes about mechanical turk, etc. and a few technical looking graphs together to form a article that appears interesting, but really is just a bunch of waffle."
Pretty much this. Especially considering that OP contradicts the best scientific information we so far have about it.
True, the researchers didn't use an immersion calorimeter, but they gave excellent reasons for not (so far) having done so. Further, someone right here on Slashdot was good enough to look them up, and it turns out they are about as reputable as it gets.
OP also fails to acknowledge that the same basic technology (i.e., LENR using nickel as the primary fuel) has been under active study by both NASA and the U.S. Navy for many years. Suggesting that it's probably not as "crackpot" as it sounds.
There are actually some pretty good physical theories about how this could work. No violations of thermodynamics needed.
We have the same thing here in the US, but good luck getting a new SSN if it gets compromised.
That is a perfect illustration of why any kind of "National" ID system is a bad idea: it's a bill-board-sized, high-value target.
There are other reasons, too, but that one alone is sufficient.
Spacetime is always locally flat ... for varying definitions of locally.
A distinction that makes no difference. It's also always locally curved, for other definitions of "locally".
Here's a bit more about how dividing geographical areas up between companies is a violation of antitrust law. I strongly suggest you read it.
Agile is for lameasses who can't scope a project or develop adequate specs, although it's really good for keeping a client on a payment treadmill using the creeping feature creature.
You can find bad business practioners in every area. This is hardly a feature of Agile. Plenty of waterfall companies are guilty of exactly the same things.
You, as the stakeholder, are in charge of features. If you don't have them under control, you're doing it wrong.
That shit might fly for a webapp (or not, in the case of healthcare.gov), but for real projects it's totally unacceptable. Real as in missile guidance systems, F-16 firmware, HDTV software, etc.
Hahahaha. Seems to me the news has been full of stories for many years about how things like military software contracts have CONSTANTLY been full of abuses, bugs, and cost overruns. I've been reading about them in the news since I was a child.
So if you were trying to come up with good examples, you failed rather miserably.
So, of course, it is better for the consumer to have NO company in their area.
Actually, yes, that is correct. Better no company than an abusive monopoly.
Communities that have built their OWN cable infrastructure run by their municipality, rather than giant cable corporations, have been very satisfied with the results. They have tended to have better service for lower prices.
No, it is not.
Yes, it is. It's fucking illegal. Look it up.
It is not bragging to state a simple fact, which arose not because of some conspiracy but because of simple business economics.
ILLEGAL "business economics", according to Federal antitrust law. Since you won't bother to look it up, I looked it up for you. Dividing up geographic areas this way is illegal according to the Sherman Antrtrust Act. Which has been around for a very long time. And they're blatantly violating it. Where is the Obama administration's response to this ILLEGAL behavior?
Your city council is an ass, and it is your responsibility to get them voted out if you don't like them.
No shit, Sherlock. Figured that out, did you?
I'd like to see them try to keep curved spacetime OUT of a lab.
Not really; words have specific meanings. Either something is capitalism or it isn't, and we have to call things what they actually are. What we have now is increasing Corporatocracy, which by definition is a decrease in Capitalism. Many people confuse the former for the latter, but this is no accident, as there are ongoing deliberate attempts to confuse the public about the origin of the problem
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It's still AI, just not leading edge anymore (unless you're doing something completely novel, like doing it on a quantum computer). Intelligence *is* pattern recognition, of which image recognition is one type.
No, you have it backward. The truth is that NONE of it is "AI".
We have no idea how to do AI, and labeling things "AI" when they just aren't waters down the whole concept.
I think the point of TFA was that it does work. And on average, better.
That might be "the point" but that doesn't make it true.
Bureaucrats hate "Agile" because they perceive they have less control over the process. Which is true, but only in a way. They may have a bit less control over the process, but they still control the product, which is really the whole point.
Micromanagement is bad. Waterfall is micromanagement in action.
Without a middle class, there is no real economy. If our current system guarantees the destruction of the middle class, then our current system guarantees the destruction of the economy (the economic experiment over the last 30 years seems to support this hypothesis). Thus, we must tweak our system so that it does not destroy the middle class.
Amazing that claims such as those in OP persist, given that the historical record is indisputable: as our economy has become less capitalist, income inequality has been increasing at an ever-increasing pace.
We can talk about correlation/causation until the cows come home, but this much is simple: when there is a negative correlation, then capitalism isn't the cause.
No, No No No!!!! It doesn't matter if they are a wolf in wolf's clothing! They have a service to sell, and users should be free to to use it if they so choose.
...
These councils need to get out of the business of "selecting" the internet provider and let the free market run its course. The outcome will always be what the customers choose, which is usually a variety of competitors, and thats a good thing!
Sorry, but just no.
The problem is that the regulators are mis-regulating, and as a result usually consumers have NO choice... they get the one company in their area, and that's it.
It is not reasonable to expect "market forces" to promote competition, when there is no actual market. Comcast and Time Warner Cable have divided up most of the U.S. between themselves, and voluntarily choose not to compete in their respective areas. That's illegal anti-competitive practice, but as I say: the regulators haven't been regulating. Hell, Comcast even practically BRAGGED about it to the FCC, claiming that a merger would not hurt competition because they're not competing anyway.
If you want consumer market choices to choose the winner, the way they normally would, then you must have a genuine competitive market first. End of story. When it doesn't exist -- like today -- Adam Smith's "invisible hand" doesn't work.
In my area, a City committee votes annually on whether to "allow competition" in the cable market. Every year they have voted it down. I am willing to bet there are kickbacks involved, but I don't have proof.
For each job it will be different.
No, and no.
Patented IP belongs to the patent holder. Employment is a different issue altogether. Under normal circumstances, they are legally completely separate issues... so why would you want to mess that up?
If you want employment, make an employment agreement. If you want to sell, lease, rent, or royalty-license your patents, then do that.
Why would you want to confuse these things and mix them up?
The phrase "artificial intelligence" does seem to get thrown around just a bit too freely these days. I don't see anything "artificial intelligence" about this at all. It's just an image recognition algorithm.
The firewire technique is very good against full-disk encryption. If police find the computer turned on and encrypted disk mounted, that means the key must be in RAM. Compromise the RAM, the key will be in there somewhere. It has to be done on site, because the moment you turn the computer off to move it the key will be lost. I still stress that this isn't something that would be available for investigating run-of-the-mill criminals though. Maybe if you're suspected of running Silk Road.
My whole point, from the beginning, was about turning the power off. So they won't find "the encrypted disk mounted".
Context.
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES is a value of degree that is sadly becoming more and more vague to cover a large amount of people and I wouldn't be surprised if not now, eventually law enforcement will have enough ways to make that include every single person on this planet with their abusive framing tactics.
No, it isn't. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Primordial elements are those that formed prior to the formation of the earth, and include the heavy elements used in fission reactors.
And "green clouds" have been something to run from, since World War 1.
So no amount of energy in excess of what very conventional wiring and equipment can supply was delivered.
That isn't the point. Sheesh. Not even close. Figure it out.
It appears twice. Only one is in the preamble. The other is in what you might call "the tax-and-spend authorization" section. Which only stands to reason.
No. I was just pointing out a technical detail.
While in general I agree that people should be able to do what they want with their wages, my view on that is tempered somewhat when it comes to public employees.
Look at what happened in Wisconsin: teachers (public employees) were required to join the union. (I.e., all union dues were ultimately paid for by taxpayers.) The union, in turn, required members to get their insurance via WEAC, which was owned by the teacher's union. Union dues and insurance premiums to WEAC were then used to lobby the legislature to perpetuate this lock-in, resulting in increased costs which in turn were again paid by the public.
In effect, the teacher's union was using public money to lobby the state Congress to spend more public money, for the benefit of a select group of public employees.
The public's money was used against the public's own interest. If that's not just damned near the definition of unethical, I don't know what is.