Every time I've heard someone say it out loud, it's jay-peg. Never once have I heard someone say jay-feg. Yet the P comes from "photograph", which means that, by the logic of the parent post, the P should sound like an F. We all have to pronounce JPEG as jay-feg.
Except that acronyms don't work that way.
You win today. 'Course I've always pronounced it "JIF", so I'm biased.
If these did become popular, it's not too hard to imagine buildings installing a dumbwaiter that could be used by these robots. If it's a building that already has an elevator, there's no reason you could program the robot to use that and develop a way for them to interface with existing systems. Another alternative is that a robot can deliver it to a particular location and a drone can always carry it up to a balcony assuming it's not anything too heavy.
If the bots+packages are not too heavy, cities & private entities could invest in cycleways for bicyclists shared with delivery bots, either side-by-side, or bots suspended and traveling from underneath the bicycle path. I'm guessing that some cabled lowering mechanism could be used for the descent and hand off to a street bot - details, details...
It just occurred to me that some may not know that I was referring to an elevated cycleway, sort of like a monorail for bicycles. Sorry.
So she got her 15 minutes of fame, but does it change anything? Aside from the headline, is there any effect?
Well now, he did let us know - via the attempt to persuade a judge to dismiss a court class-action suit - that such personal information of millions of people exposed was "no harm done"; but if the same information about him was exposed, it would be simply devastating! Glad he cleared that up, and all thanks to our "useless" open congressional investigations process./sarcasm
If these did become popular, it's not too hard to imagine buildings installing a dumbwaiter that could be used by these robots. If it's a building that already has an elevator, there's no reason you could program the robot to use that and develop a way for them to interface with existing systems. Another alternative is that a robot can deliver it to a particular location and a drone can always carry it up to a balcony assuming it's not anything too heavy.
If the bots+packages are not too heavy, cities & private entities could invest in cycleways for bicyclists shared with delivery bots, either side-by-side, or bots suspended and traveling from underneath the bicycle path. I'm guessing that some cabled lowering mechanism could be used for the descent and hand off to a street bot - details, details...
There are also technologies for directing the music into a preferred area, originally meant for directing sounds for ads, i.e. a "fizz" sound when a customer is in proximity to a soft drink vending machine. With "Audio Spotlight", when directed ultrasound sound hits something solid, it becomes audible music. The music ad (nauseum) I think qualifies as advertising. I suspect that there are other, similar solutions.
I am betting it was and I am sure they have other data spills. That is the real fear everyone should have, but remarkably no one realizes the issue here. Governments are using stolen data and obliviously in conjunction with the data they already. Given the telecommunications collision we already know they have that too. It is highly unlikely I am really an anonymous coward.
I consider the same thing whenever I post AC - "what is anonymous?" Hell, just browsing with protection and not posting, I consider this.
What is the strategic use of the moon and planets? Please explain without using scifi or references to any Heinlein novel.
Perception. Like anything else - why do we need computers, appendectomies, cars? Because we have a perceived need for these things. It doesn't matter in principle if the perceptions are ill-conceived or practical, because those too are perception-based opinions, or the political optic of a certain number of humans. Perception. If you disagree with me then, well...perception.
I imagine that, if distilled down to a usable script, it could make for an interesting "faux-writing" hobby where you write a few ideas, let it finish it, edit it a bit and have it continue from there. Could make for some interesting works of fiction.
Ghost writers today already do the whole thing for you! But I see where your approach could be interesting, even if it does seem a bit like cheating - or will it simply be seen as a "smart assistant", at some point in the future?
Just for the individual reader? It seems to me that this would also be exercising the echo chamber/bobble head effect. But I could be misunderstanding what they're saying.
Tell someone "That material can withstand 815 to 871 C!".
I'm in full support of metric units elsewhere, but that doesn't look, nor sound, nearly so exciting... C is just a terrible unit of measurement for expressing temperature. Even more true of weather ranges.
As an American who uses both systems, I agree that Fahrenheit "seems" more intuitive for weather forecasts; but if all that I grew up with was solely Celsius, I would think that a 37 degree day would be a nice hot day (& a good body temperature*).
"This change doesn’t affect any major media player functionality such as playback, navigating collections, media streaming, and so forth. Only secondary features that require downloading of new metadata are potentially affected.
Windows 10 is not affected. This change is effective immediately."
Dear Facebook,
Cut down on fake news. Turn off sharing for the elderly.
Your citizen,
Anonymous Coward (Not older than 65)
Better still, suspend voting rights once the first Social Security check arrives.
Completely kidding here. My first check will be arriving soon.
Heh. This prompted me to recall a thought I had awhile back: I was in my 30's when I first ambled into/., and now I'm 60 (I know - inconceivable!). So... when do I lose my right to have mod points? : )
That's kinda sad - maybe they came in too early? Unrelated to Prodigy, I seem to remember that back in the late 1970's my parents (I think using a touch-tone phone) could dial a number, enter the product & account numbers (or by voice), and the package would be magically shipped! The amount due would be appended to the phone bill, or to the charge account. Sears was my Amazon of the '70's: Cassette players, stereos & K-Tel type records, groovy bell bottom pants & platform shoes - even a beginner's guitar. Frankly I never knew whether Prodigy was ever any good, just something that was on a lot of unsolicited floppy disks. Good bye Sears, RIP.
I for one would like to welcome slashdot to last week or perhaps even the week before, when I first read about this. Welcome!
Of course, it's not like I should be surprised, it happens so often.
Well/. itself will never win the frosty piss award, but that's not necessarily a bad thing: It gives the rest of us a chance to read it somewhere else, possibly the original source(s) and to ruminate well before posting. Oh yeah, and to comment on/. tardiness - hopefully just for fun.
Until I was eight years old, I didn't know there was an A and a B - then I found out about Proxima! imo, the parent was being helpfully informative without being pejorative. Nice GP reference to HHGTTG, though.
I've always though of him as the One-Above-All (the ultimate god of the Marvel multiverse). After all, the most powerful entity in an comic book story is the writer. He has ascended back to his realm.
Jack Kirby took that role when shown in the comics
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Or how about JPEG?
Every time I've heard someone say it out loud, it's jay-peg. Never once have I heard someone say jay-feg. Yet the P comes from "photograph", which means that, by the logic of the parent post, the P should sound like an F. We all have to pronounce JPEG as jay-feg.
Except that acronyms don't work that way.
You win today. 'Course I've always pronounced it "JIF", so I'm biased.
Famous for being famous, like the Kardashians, or Zsa Zsa Gabor, or...a lot of "celebrities"?
If these did become popular, it's not too hard to imagine buildings installing a dumbwaiter that could be used by these robots. If it's a building that already has an elevator, there's no reason you could program the robot to use that and develop a way for them to interface with existing systems. Another alternative is that a robot can deliver it to a particular location and a drone can always carry it up to a balcony assuming it's not anything too heavy.
If the bots+packages are not too heavy, cities & private entities could invest in cycleways for bicyclists shared with delivery bots, either side-by-side, or bots suspended and traveling from underneath the bicycle path. I'm guessing that some cabled lowering mechanism could be used for the descent and hand off to a street bot - details, details...
It just occurred to me that some may not know that I was referring to an elevated cycleway, sort of like a monorail for bicycles. Sorry.
So she got her 15 minutes of fame, but does it change anything? Aside from the headline, is there any effect?
Well now, he did let us know - via the attempt to persuade a judge to dismiss a court class-action suit - that such personal information of millions of people exposed was "no harm done"; but if the same information about him was exposed, it would be simply devastating! Glad he cleared that up, and all thanks to our "useless" open congressional investigations process. /sarcasm
If these did become popular, it's not too hard to imagine buildings installing a dumbwaiter that could be used by these robots. If it's a building that already has an elevator, there's no reason you could program the robot to use that and develop a way for them to interface with existing systems. Another alternative is that a robot can deliver it to a particular location and a drone can always carry it up to a balcony assuming it's not anything too heavy.
If the bots+packages are not too heavy, cities & private entities could invest in cycleways for bicyclists shared with delivery bots, either side-by-side, or bots suspended and traveling from underneath the bicycle path. I'm guessing that some cabled lowering mechanism could be used for the descent and hand off to a street bot - details, details...
There are also technologies for directing the music into a preferred area, originally meant for directing sounds for ads, i.e. a "fizz" sound when a customer is in proximity to a soft drink vending machine. With "Audio Spotlight", when directed ultrasound sound hits something solid, it becomes audible music. The music ad (nauseum) I think qualifies as advertising. I suspect that there are other, similar solutions.
Middle age starts at around 50. Maybe the early gen Xers.
Middle-age starts at 70. Late boomers & Gen X'ers are still young spudlings.
"..fizzy piss water." You're confused, AC; you're actually thinking of Budweiser, or maybe Pabst Blue Ribbon.
We used to call Miller's beer "Panther Piss", so maybe that's the one he's thinking of.
Air Force, Space Force. Would you rather call it the Space Navy? The Space Corps? The Space Guard?
Space Fleet, boldly to go.
I am betting it was and I am sure they have other data spills. That is the real fear everyone should have, but remarkably no one realizes the issue here. Governments are using stolen data and obliviously in conjunction with the data they already. Given the telecommunications collision we already know they have that too. It is highly unlikely I am really an anonymous coward.
I consider the same thing whenever I post AC - "what is anonymous?" Hell, just browsing with protection and not posting, I consider this.
What is the strategic use of the moon and planets? Please explain without using scifi or references to any Heinlein novel.
Perception. Like anything else - why do we need computers, appendectomies, cars? Because we have a perceived need for these things. It doesn't matter in principle if the perceptions are ill-conceived or practical, because those too are perception-based opinions, or the political optic of a certain number of humans. Perception. If you disagree with me then, well...perception.
I imagine that, if distilled down to a usable script, it could make for an interesting "faux-writing" hobby where you write a few ideas, let it finish it, edit it a bit and have it continue from there. Could make for some interesting works of fiction.
Ghost writers today already do the whole thing for you! But I see where your approach could be interesting, even if it does seem a bit like cheating - or will it simply be seen as a "smart assistant", at some point in the future?
...and I banged your mom!
I know you jest, but porn often leads the way.
Yeah I refreshed over & over, and got a unique face each time; imo, only one face looked slightly creepy-ish to me.
Just for the individual reader? It seems to me that this would also be exercising the echo chamber/bobble head effect. But I could be misunderstanding what they're saying.
Tell someone "That material can withstand 815 to 871 C!".
I'm in full support of metric units elsewhere, but that doesn't look, nor sound, nearly so exciting... C is just a terrible unit of measurement for expressing temperature. Even more true of weather ranges.
As an American who uses both systems, I agree that Fahrenheit "seems" more intuitive for weather forecasts; but if all that I grew up with was solely Celsius, I would think that a 37 degree day would be a nice hot day (& a good body temperature*).
*check math, never liked doing the conversions...
"This change doesn’t affect any major media player functionality such as playback, navigating collections, media streaming, and so forth. Only secondary features that require downloading of new metadata are potentially affected. Windows 10 is not affected. This change is effective immediately."
I see what you did there.
Wait, wut?
You watch both msnbc and fox?
Don't you know that you can only join one mob?
Keep your enemy close, but keep your other enemy closer.
This is an easy one to solve.
Dear Facebook, Cut down on fake news. Turn off sharing for the elderly.
Your citizen, Anonymous Coward (Not older than 65)
Better still, suspend voting rights once the first Social Security check arrives.
Completely kidding here. My first check will be arriving soon.
Heh. This prompted me to recall a thought I had awhile back: I was in my 30's when I first ambled into /., and now I'm 60 (I know - inconceivable!). So... when do I lose my right to have mod points? : )
They programmed Prodigy
That's kinda sad - maybe they came in too early? Unrelated to Prodigy, I seem to remember that back in the late 1970's my parents (I think using a touch-tone phone) could dial a number, enter the product & account numbers (or by voice), and the package would be magically shipped! The amount due would be appended to the phone bill, or to the charge account. Sears was my Amazon of the '70's: Cassette players, stereos & K-Tel type records, groovy bell bottom pants & platform shoes - even a beginner's guitar. Frankly I never knew whether Prodigy was ever any good, just something that was on a lot of unsolicited floppy disks. Good bye Sears, RIP.
Yeah they can wave hello to Friendster on the way out.
I for one would like to welcome slashdot to last week or perhaps even the week before, when I first read about this. Welcome!
Of course, it's not like I should be surprised, it happens so often.
Well /. itself will never win the frosty piss award, but that's not necessarily a bad thing: It gives the rest of us a chance to read it somewhere else, possibly the original source(s) and to ruminate well before posting. Oh yeah, and to comment on /. tardiness - hopefully just for fun.
Woosh, nice pedantry you did there.
Until I was eight years old, I didn't know there was an A and a B - then I found out about Proxima! imo, the parent was being helpfully informative without being pejorative. Nice GP reference to HHGTTG, though.
I've always though of him as the One-Above-All (the ultimate god of the Marvel multiverse). After all, the most powerful entity in an comic book story is the writer. He has ascended back to his realm.
Jack Kirby took that role when shown in the comics
Both now in the Kirby-Lee nebula.