Or maybe someone will just use the given source code and fix the updater so it doesn't do that kind of thing anymore and Google will accept it back. Why the drama?
Just to throw my own experience into the mix. I use the Freerunner as my daily phone and it works well enough.
It takes some time to set up, that's true, but I'm quite happy with the latest SHR release and can finally make phone calls with good quality. There was a major mess before as most of the distros caused the other end of the phone call to hear a constant echo of their own voice. That is sorted out now and Freerunner works as an everyday phone for me, not to mention as a mobile web browser (Midori, dillo), a GPS unit (tangogps), an IM client with wifi (Pidgin) and (what I didn't think was possible in the beginning) as a decent music player using an A2DP headset (pythm). There is some sound criticism among the comments but most of it is just scaremongering - the Freerunner keeps evolving on just fine.
Certainly not a phone for the common Joe, but for a more computer-literate user it can be a more powerful tool then most closed phones on the market.
Wouldn't the air from your surroundings start getting sucked into the portal as moon has almost no atmosphere and thus much lower air pressure then on earth. The portal would turn into a sucking vortex and destroy earth's atmosphere equalizing it with that of the moon. You yourself would be sucked in too fast to stop the process, the wind speed would become huge really fast. You'd destroy all life on earth.
I'm guessing "The Contradictor" is for clicking that little exclamation point on somebody else's tag. Say somebody posted a tag "correlationiscausation" and you clicked the bang to make it "!correlationiscausation".:)
Computer scientist Arthur Boran was ecstatic. A few minutes earlier, he had programmed a basic mathematical problem into his prototypical Akron I computer. His request was simply, "Give me the sum of every odd number between zero and ten." The computer's quick answer, 157, was unexpected, to say the least. With growing excitement, Boran requested an explanation of the computer's reasoning. The printout read as follows: THE TERM "ODD NUMBER" IS AMBIGUOUS. I THEREFORE CHOOSE TO INTERPRET IT AS MEANING "A NUMBER THAT IS FUNNY LOOKING." USING MY AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT, I PICKED THE NUMBERS 3, 8, AND 147, ADDED THEM UP, AND GOT 157.
A few moments later there was an addendum: I GUESS I MEANT 158.
Followed shortly thereafter by: 147 IS MORE THAN 10, ISN'T IT? SORRY.
The presence of only one sex in a language never works. Hence the reason there are no languages that have only one sex.
Really? There's only one sex in the Estonian language and we haven't had any problems yet. We're not the only ones either. If you do a little research you'll find that having sexes expressed in the structure of language is not so common as you think.
I for one, really like the way they decided to proceed when making this robot. It works by a healthy mix of abstracting and trial and error.
Let's take the wooden chair, that is used as an example in TFA. As far as I understand it, learning about it and using this information for the robot goes like this.
They put the robot in front of the chair and let it use it's sonars on it from different angles and distances. I imagine that in the case of a typical wooden chair with a back it sees four points for the legs and a line for the back. At least I believe that it abstracts it as such. For the first time it will be input to it that the thing it sees is a wooden chair and it knows that all things that have four points about so far from each other in a squared manner and have a line above two of the side points can be regarded as a wooden chair. If it sees another chair made of metal without the back for example, it might consider that to be a wooden chair as well because it's similar enough and in that case the makers correct it's assumption and say it's a metal chair. Sure, it will start to think that all the chairs without the back are metal chairs, but if that's the case in their home, so what, it's right. If it understands anything wrong enough that it fails at its task it can always be corrected and its knowledge about the world as it sees it will increase. Now when performing tasks it can treat the chair as an abstract object, now that it can recognize it. It can memorize where it stands, it can learn to avoid it or push it or whatever, as long as humans correct its assumptions and choices. Now these abstractions could be abstracted even further. The idea is to let it do very simple things and then combine them into larger tasks, much like programmers think about and solve programming problems: If you want to solve a large problem and you don't know how to, you break it into smaller pieces until you get a piece, that is simple enough to be solved. You solve it and see the next piece. Then you combine the solutions to a solution to the bigger problem and you finally end up with the first and biggest problem getting solved. This robot 'learns' the exact opposite way.
It seems to me that the biggest concern in this case is abstracting the objects it 'sees' into such a form, that they take minimal memory but can still be used in the recognition process.
That came out as ranting. I have no knowledge in the subject and have no idea what I'm talking about but that should make this a good enough Slashdot comment.
I knew, that there had been a mistake somewhere the moment I read the RSS description. Microsoft would rather beat all their customers to a bloody pulp with a shovel, then recommend switching from any of their products.
How far is the technology anyway? Can we expect cheap electronic surveillance in every home in countries such as China in what, 5 years? 10? How long until it moves on to U.K. and USA? To rest of the world?
Keeping an eye on the population gives the government quite a lot of power. And there are always innocuous-appearing reasons for doing things like that.
Nah, I'm just being paranoid. It's just an experiment to see how big per cent of people check ads...
Interesting. Does that mean that there are still reasonable people in the world? Even in politics?
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This actually is the truth. I will much rather trust the known scene groups then most of the better-known game companies. There's a lot smaller chance of something going awry. Kind of shows there's something wrong with the system, doesn't it.
I have nothing against minimalism. I prefer it as well. My problem is, I want to be the one to decide what gets in and what gets left out my phone, not let others decide that.
It is. Another thing with integrating everything into the browser is that it rids you of choice. For example I would want to use another RSS feed reader that does it's job better then the one integrated in browser, but then I would have to run an RSS feed reader that I do not use at all every time I want to browse the web.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the embedded player still has youtube logo and in the end of the video it recommends other youtube videos. And still, embedding is a long way from allowing downloads in an unencumbered format.
Seconded. I want a browser that's just working bare-bones. No integrated RSS or mail readers, no super-smart-bookmarks, no pre-installed certificates, no nothing that can't be pushed into an extention. Let me make my browser what I want it to be and stop deciding for me. That's the problem with today's big software projects. The developers think they know already what the users want but they don't and they can't know. Let us do it ourselves, we know what we want. You can always make a special bloated-weknowitall-version.
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then, the few remaining big players get together and agree to simultaneously lobby the government to make their free competition illegal
Fixed that for you.
Or maybe someone will just use the given source code and fix the updater so it doesn't do that kind of thing anymore and Google will accept it back. Why the drama?
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type "imprison the fish"
Just to throw my own experience into the mix. I use the Freerunner as my daily phone and it works well enough.
It takes some time to set up, that's true, but I'm quite happy with the latest SHR release and can finally make phone calls with good quality. There was a major mess before as most of the distros caused the other end of the phone call to hear a constant echo of their own voice. That is sorted out now and Freerunner works as an everyday phone for me, not to mention as a mobile web browser (Midori, dillo), a GPS unit (tangogps), an IM client with wifi (Pidgin) and (what I didn't think was possible in the beginning) as a decent music player using an A2DP headset (pythm). There is some sound criticism among the comments but most of it is just scaremongering - the Freerunner keeps evolving on just fine.
Certainly not a phone for the common Joe, but for a more computer-literate user it can be a more powerful tool then most closed phones on the market.
Actually it seems to support the whole body, especially the back quite well.
Here's a video.
No. Someone at the FBI needs to develop better moral judgment. It's the judge that needs to develop a brain.
Making machines able to survive on human blood. That's ingenious! What could possibly go wrong?
Wouldn't the air from your surroundings start getting sucked into the portal as moon has almost no atmosphere and thus much lower air pressure then on earth. The portal would turn into a sucking vortex and destroy earth's atmosphere equalizing it with that of the moon. You yourself would be sucked in too fast to stop the process, the wind speed would become huge really fast. You'd destroy all life on earth.
Posted to this thread yet did not get it. Guess I got April fooled.
I'm guessing "The Contradictor" is for clicking that little exclamation point on somebody else's tag. Say somebody posted a tag "correlationiscausation" and you clicked the bang to make it "!correlationiscausation". :)
From the FAQ:
The Contradictor -- !tag a story
So yes, you're right.
And of course I'm just posting to get the achievement.
I think it has been posted here before but still:
Computer scientist Arthur Boran was ecstatic. A few minutes earlier, he had programmed a basic mathematical problem into his prototypical Akron I computer. His request was simply, "Give me the sum of every odd number between zero and ten." The computer's quick answer, 157, was unexpected, to say the least. With growing excitement, Boran requested an explanation of the computer's reasoning. The printout read as follows: THE TERM "ODD NUMBER" IS AMBIGUOUS. I THEREFORE CHOOSE TO INTERPRET IT AS MEANING "A NUMBER THAT IS FUNNY LOOKING." USING MY AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT, I PICKED THE NUMBERS 3, 8, AND 147, ADDED THEM UP, AND GOT 157.
A few moments later there was an addendum: I GUESS I MEANT 158.
Followed shortly thereafter by: 147 IS MORE THAN 10, ISN'T IT? SORRY.
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The presence of only one sex in a language never works. Hence the reason there are no languages that have only one sex.
Really? There's only one sex in the Estonian language and we haven't had any problems yet. We're not the only ones either. If you do a little research you'll find that having sexes expressed in the structure of language is not so common as you think.
Is that the gift that keeps on giving?
I for one, really like the way they decided to proceed when making this robot. It works by a healthy mix of abstracting and trial and error.
Let's take the wooden chair, that is used as an example in TFA. As far as I understand it, learning about it and using this information for the robot goes like this.
They put the robot in front of the chair and let it use it's sonars on it from different angles and distances. I imagine that in the case of a typical wooden chair with a back it sees four points for the legs and a line for the back. At least I believe that it abstracts it as such. For the first time it will be input to it that the thing it sees is a wooden chair and it knows that all things that have four points about so far from each other in a squared manner and have a line above two of the side points can be regarded as a wooden chair. If it sees another chair made of metal without the back for example, it might consider that to be a wooden chair as well because it's similar enough and in that case the makers correct it's assumption and say it's a metal chair. Sure, it will start to think that all the chairs without the back are metal chairs, but if that's the case in their home, so what, it's right. If it understands anything wrong enough that it fails at its task it can always be corrected and its knowledge about the world as it sees it will increase. Now when performing tasks it can treat the chair as an abstract object, now that it can recognize it. It can memorize where it stands, it can learn to avoid it or push it or whatever, as long as humans correct its assumptions and choices. Now these abstractions could be abstracted even further. The idea is to let it do very simple things and then combine them into larger tasks, much like programmers think about and solve programming problems: If you want to solve a large problem and you don't know how to, you break it into smaller pieces until you get a piece, that is simple enough to be solved. You solve it and see the next piece. Then you combine the solutions to a solution to the bigger problem and you finally end up with the first and biggest problem getting solved. This robot 'learns' the exact opposite way.
It seems to me that the biggest concern in this case is abstracting the objects it 'sees' into such a form, that they take minimal memory but can still be used in the recognition process.
That came out as ranting. I have no knowledge in the subject and have no idea what I'm talking about but that should make this a good enough Slashdot comment.
I knew, that there had been a mistake somewhere the moment I read the RSS description. Microsoft would rather beat all their customers to a bloody pulp with a shovel, then recommend switching from any of their products.
Sounds like a telescreen, to me....
Exactly what came to mind to me as well.
How far is the technology anyway? Can we expect cheap electronic surveillance in every home in countries such as China in what, 5 years? 10? How long until it moves on to U.K. and USA? To rest of the world?
Keeping an eye on the population gives the government quite a lot of power. And there are always innocuous-appearing reasons for doing things like that.
Nah, I'm just being paranoid. It's just an experiment to see how big per cent of people check ads...
Good Christ, for her sake I hope he's better in bed. Unfortunately, though, I have a feeling that's some fearsome awful sex.
Or fearsome awsome if you're into that kind of thing.
Interesting. Does that mean that there are still reasonable people in the world? Even in politics?
This actually is the truth. I will much rather trust the known scene groups then most of the better-known game companies. There's a lot smaller chance of something going awry. Kind of shows there's something wrong with the system, doesn't it.
I have nothing against minimalism. I prefer it as well. My problem is, I want to be the one to decide what gets in and what gets left out my phone, not let others decide that.
Why is parent rated funny. This is actually possible with this phone. The cad files are freely available and can be changed and produced.
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It is. Another thing with integrating everything into the browser is that it rids you of choice. For example I would want to use another RSS feed reader that does it's job better then the one integrated in browser, but then I would have to run an RSS feed reader that I do not use at all every time I want to browse the web.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the embedded player still has youtube logo and in the end of the video it recommends other youtube videos. And still, embedding is a long way from allowing downloads in an unencumbered format.
Seconded. I want a browser that's just working bare-bones. No integrated RSS or mail readers, no super-smart-bookmarks, no pre-installed certificates, no nothing that can't be pushed into an extention. Let me make my browser what I want it to be and stop deciding for me. That's the problem with today's big software projects. The developers think they know already what the users want but they don't and they can't know. Let us do it ourselves, we know what we want. You can always make a special bloated-weknowitall-version.