In the hose bib situation, no. you can't just hook up to it. You would be stealing the water from your neighbor as he has to pay to have it go through his water meter. If your neighbor puts his hose bib on your property, you can force him to move it, but you can't just hook up to it without an agreement.
The op has such an agreement with the cable company, but the agreement says he's allowed to use their equipment for internet access. It probably explicitly states he's not allowed to watch any tv signals that leak in. My guess is that his consuming the tv content doesn't use up any resources. The tv signal is there no matter what. Stealing isn't the right word to describe what he's doing. Breach of contract is probably more appropriate.
I know i'm being nitpicky, but I guess i'd like the see the word reserved for machines that exhibit some higher level of autonomous operation. In many people's minds, a robot should display goal setting beyond, "maintain attitude". It should recognize threats and impediments to it's task and make it's own decisions to get around them. I feel like a self driving car is more of a robot than the stuff coming out of Boston Dynamics.
BigDog's ability to maintain balance when kicked is impressive, but I have a hard time applying the term robot to it. To qualify as robot it seems like there should be an AI that's capable of detecting when a person is about to kick it and scurrying away. It would be really impressive if it learned to recognize who has a high probability of kicking it and set goals to avoid those people if possible.
To me, and i think may others, all these Boston Dynamics contraptions are vehicles, and impressive ones at that, which may someday be paired with a more advanced AI to fulfill our romantic notions of a robot.
Because storage space is a precious commodity on a boat. Why waste space with some exercise bike pump that's only helpful in a situation that crops up in the movies far more than real life. Even if you find yourself stranded in a leaky boat, how much is that pedal contraption going to really help you? sooner or later you are going to fall asleep and the boat fills with water anyway.
Think of it like spare tires. It's certainly possible to get 4 flat tires in the same trip, but is it worth always wasting all your storage space to keep 4 spares in the car?
Humans recognize patterns based on accumulated knowledge and experience, while computers make endless calculations to determine the most statistically probable answer.
what's different about that? I've often said, "The more I learn about AI, the more I think it lacks any intelligence at all. The more I learn about psychology, the more I believe that humans think just like an AI."
Humans are also determining the most statistically probable answer. They just have a better algorithm for factoring humor into those statistics.
Maybe this will catch some flack, but what if they just tracked how many people fast forwarded through what content?. Then you can sell that data back to the content providers. That seems a little less punitive and depending on the spin you give it, almost a value to the consumer.
Most of us are in favor of punishment for insider trading, yet there is no harm done in those transactions. Most of the time all that happens is some stock changes hands and everyone continues to have something. Certainly nothing like physical harm is done. The insider doesn't want to destroy the system or anything. They just want to make some money. Chances are the stock may still be worth something later. What's the harm in that?
The problem is we still have to create accounts with passwords all over the place these days. my password database has about 100 different login credentials in it. I make a different password for every site i visit. I even answer those password recovery questions with passwords. It's not feasible to not "write down" passwords anymore.
I was hoping maybe the printer was also tiny. I live in a tiny apartment and a nano scale printer would be awesome. I'd love to have a 3d printer at home, but so far they all seem to be big counter hogs.
And why wouldnt these homeless folk try to immediately cash in, sell or trade the hotspot device for money or a nice bottle?
Every business has to deal with theft. Most of them will try to ascertain if a prospective employee will run off with their equipment by just sitting down and talking with the person. I imagine you can do the same thing with the homeless.
less because you will just be able to scan real world objects without doing any cleanup on the resulting meshes. When it comes to things that don't exist, like alien monsters and battle armor, well, you can model them using techniques that result in more wasted triangles without worry.
i loved my summer computer camp. I would hang out all day in that room full of apple IIs. Times were different back then though. There was only one guy in my class who had one at home. I only owned 2 floppies (that i modded to make double sided with a hole punch).
i don't think google docs existed in 2006. If it did i think people thought it was a crazy idea to implement a whole office suite in javascript. While i don't think the students NEED to use cs6, using google docs is sensible. I'm not surprised if it works like ass on a 6 year old iMac. I have a 4 year old laptop that struggles with it.
I live in DC and we have a reasonable metro system. I'm anticipating the day when they finish the station near my office so i can take it to work. However, even at $5 a gallon gas, it's not going to be any cheaper than driving. assuming $5/gal and my 12 mile commute and my 20 mpg car, it would cost me $6 to go to and from work. I don't know what the fare to the new station will be, but the fare to the closest current station from my house is $6. It costs me twice as much to take mass transit as it does to just drive. Even if gas was $8/gal, it would still cost less to drive. I'm pretty sure that if gas were that expensive, it would somehow push metro prices up too.
Things get even worse when i want to go out on the town with my wife. Now we are talking about driving a couple of miles. Assuming we are going someplace that I can park free, it's only going to cost a buck or two to drive the car. Metro in the city for one person is twice that, but we have two people so for us metro becomes 4x as expensive as driving.
I've even spent some time thinking about the money i could save if i had no car (which doesn't really seem to be an option because i like to get away to parks and areas that public transport doesn't get to on the weekends). even considering my parking spot, registration, insurance and maintenence, it's still cheaper for me to have my car than rely on public transportation. Maybe if you factor in the price of the car which i've had for (6 years and don't plan on changing anytime soon) it might be the same.
You might not have noticed, but all the big dinosaurs are long dead. It's probably because they didn't work that well. Only the little ones, like chickens, survived.
No, that would be convicting everyone of drunk driving, then making it your responsibility to clear your name. I honestly think it would be good if people had to pass some kind of sobriety test before operating a car. Unfortunately something like this is way too easy to defeat. Just blow up a couple balloons before you go out, and you are good to go later.
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In the hose bib situation, no. you can't just hook up to it. You would be stealing the water from your neighbor as he has to pay to have it go through his water meter. If your neighbor puts his hose bib on your property, you can force him to move it, but you can't just hook up to it without an agreement.
The op has such an agreement with the cable company, but the agreement says he's allowed to use their equipment for internet access. It probably explicitly states he's not allowed to watch any tv signals that leak in. My guess is that his consuming the tv content doesn't use up any resources. The tv signal is there no matter what. Stealing isn't the right word to describe what he's doing. Breach of contract is probably more appropriate.
I know i'm being nitpicky, but I guess i'd like the see the word reserved for machines that exhibit some higher level of autonomous operation. In many people's minds, a robot should display goal setting beyond, "maintain attitude". It should recognize threats and impediments to it's task and make it's own decisions to get around them. I feel like a self driving car is more of a robot than the stuff coming out of Boston Dynamics.
BigDog's ability to maintain balance when kicked is impressive, but I have a hard time applying the term robot to it. To qualify as robot it seems like there should be an AI that's capable of detecting when a person is about to kick it and scurrying away. It would be really impressive if it learned to recognize who has a high probability of kicking it and set goals to avoid those people if possible.
To me, and i think may others, all these Boston Dynamics contraptions are vehicles, and impressive ones at that, which may someday be paired with a more advanced AI to fulfill our romantic notions of a robot.
In theory, the poor also benefit from a cleaner environment.
Because storage space is a precious commodity on a boat. Why waste space with some exercise bike pump that's only helpful in a situation that crops up in the movies far more than real life. Even if you find yourself stranded in a leaky boat, how much is that pedal contraption going to really help you? sooner or later you are going to fall asleep and the boat fills with water anyway.
Think of it like spare tires. It's certainly possible to get 4 flat tires in the same trip, but is it worth always wasting all your storage space to keep 4 spares in the car?
Humans recognize patterns based on accumulated knowledge and experience, while computers make endless calculations to determine the most statistically probable answer.
what's different about that? I've often said, "The more I learn about AI, the more I think it lacks any intelligence at all. The more I learn about psychology, the more I believe that humans think just like an AI."
Humans are also determining the most statistically probable answer. They just have a better algorithm for factoring humor into those statistics.
Maybe this will catch some flack, but what if they just tracked how many people fast forwarded through what content?. Then you can sell that data back to the content providers. That seems a little less punitive and depending on the spin you give it, almost a value to the consumer.
Maybe?
java failed? are you confusing a platform with a language? java seems pretty healthy on servers and mobile.
TFA started responding to me
Did you forget to take your pills today?
I'm pretty sure the response he was referring to was 200.
Well, I think we can all agree that nobody has ever faced the choice of torrent transformers 2 or starve to death.
Most of us are in favor of punishment for insider trading, yet there is no harm done in those transactions. Most of the time all that happens is some stock changes hands and everyone continues to have something. Certainly nothing like physical harm is done. The insider doesn't want to destroy the system or anything. They just want to make some money. Chances are the stock may still be worth something later. What's the harm in that?
The problem is we still have to create accounts with passwords all over the place these days. my password database has about 100 different login credentials in it. I make a different password for every site i visit. I even answer those password recovery questions with passwords. It's not feasible to not "write down" passwords anymore.
I was hoping maybe the printer was also tiny. I live in a tiny apartment and a nano scale printer would be awesome. I'd love to have a 3d printer at home, but so far they all seem to be big counter hogs.
And why wouldnt these homeless folk try to immediately cash in, sell or trade the hotspot device for money or a nice bottle?
Every business has to deal with theft. Most of them will try to ascertain if a prospective employee will run off with their equipment by just sitting down and talking with the person. I imagine you can do the same thing with the homeless.
less because you will just be able to scan real world objects without doing any cleanup on the resulting meshes. When it comes to things that don't exist, like alien monsters and battle armor, well, you can model them using techniques that result in more wasted triangles without worry.
Sure there are dumb people voting, but who's better at manipulating dumb people than smart people?
Representative Republics FTW!
i loved my summer computer camp. I would hang out all day in that room full of apple IIs. Times were different back then though. There was only one guy in my class who had one at home. I only owned 2 floppies (that i modded to make double sided with a hole punch).
I think they still don't hold a candle to the price of a cobol programmer.
I wonder what's stoppiong us from creating bones made of bone with stem cells.
Republicans.
they don't really. you can buy a smart card and get a minimal discount, but you still pay per trip.
i don't think google docs existed in 2006. If it did i think people thought it was a crazy idea to implement a whole office suite in javascript. While i don't think the students NEED to use cs6, using google docs is sensible. I'm not surprised if it works like ass on a 6 year old iMac. I have a 4 year old laptop that struggles with it.
I live in DC and we have a reasonable metro system. I'm anticipating the day when they finish the station near my office so i can take it to work. However, even at $5 a gallon gas, it's not going to be any cheaper than driving. assuming $5/gal and my 12 mile commute and my 20 mpg car, it would cost me $6 to go to and from work. I don't know what the fare to the new station will be, but the fare to the closest current station from my house is $6. It costs me twice as much to take mass transit as it does to just drive. Even if gas was $8/gal, it would still cost less to drive. I'm pretty sure that if gas were that expensive, it would somehow push metro prices up too.
Things get even worse when i want to go out on the town with my wife. Now we are talking about driving a couple of miles. Assuming we are going someplace that I can park free, it's only going to cost a buck or two to drive the car. Metro in the city for one person is twice that, but we have two people so for us metro becomes 4x as expensive as driving.
I've even spent some time thinking about the money i could save if i had no car (which doesn't really seem to be an option because i like to get away to parks and areas that public transport doesn't get to on the weekends). even considering my parking spot, registration, insurance and maintenence, it's still cheaper for me to have my car than rely on public transportation. Maybe if you factor in the price of the car which i've had for (6 years and don't plan on changing anytime soon) it might be the same.
You might not have noticed, but all the big dinosaurs are long dead. It's probably because they didn't work that well. Only the little ones, like chickens, survived.
No, that would be convicting everyone of drunk driving, then making it your responsibility to clear your name. I honestly think it would be good if people had to pass some kind of sobriety test before operating a car. Unfortunately something like this is way too easy to defeat. Just blow up a couple balloons before you go out, and you are good to go later.