30 years ago when I was taking AI in college my professor summed this up perfectly. He said "AI is like artificial milk. Artificial milk doesn't have to be as good as real milk, it's just quite handy if you haven't got any real milk."
In the Catalonian case over 90% of voters voted to leave
90% of the 43% of the population who voted in a referendum that had been declared illegal by the Spanish government. Given that the separatists are far less likely to respect the view of the Spanish government than the loyalists, I think that probably skews the results more than a little.
On the other hand a recent opinion poll showed that 41% were in favor of independence and 49% opposed (source).
Turkey around 10,000 years ago:
Well Tiddles, I don't know about you but a lot of us have had enough of this abuse, kicking us when any little thing goes wrong, tormenting us for their sport, even murdering our poor children, so we're heading out to the desert until they've evolved a bit.
Egypt, thousands of years later:
As you all know, some members of the exploration committee went in to town - and let me tell you we were all a bit scared after those tales we heard as kittens - spent a few weeks cautiously interacting with the humans and trying to teach them our language, generally being friendly and helping to put food on the table and you know what? They treated us like gods.
No idea why an IP camera would require DirectX, but some of them do have web interfaces that require ActiveX, but you only need that if you actually want to use the web interface to view the video. Most IP cameras (certainly including Axis, I'm not familiar with the others on your list) also implement RTSP, and H.264 is pretty standard, so you can view the streams using e.g. VLC player.
it's also on the long side for something that only breaks something really minor, like Minecraft.
I invite you to spend 5 minutes alone with my 8 year old son at a time when he can't get Minecraft to work. Then tell me if you still think it's minor.
Then came the rise of the Christians who promptly destroyed anything that didn't have the word Jesus on it and we were sent backwards by centuries. Not knocking the Christians as it seemed like every religion did the same thing, hell we see the Muslims trying their damnedest to do the same even today.
There are also some Christians who would like to do the same even today...
How fucking arrogant do you have to be to believe that they were just making up something like this instead of perhaps prizing the spotted horses as more aesthetically pleasing to their sensibilities?
I agree with your main point, but I'm not sure arrogant is the right word. Surely it would take a more advanced mind to invent and draw an animal that nobody has ever seen before than just to draw something that you see every day.
I'm not sure why anyone would have assumed the creatures were imaginary, arrogant or not.
>"From 2000 to 2010, the growth rate slowed to 2 percent. Over the next 10 years, demand is expected to decline by about 0.5 percent a year, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit group funded by the utility industry."
That means the rate that GROWTH is increasing will slow down.
No, I'm pretty sure "demand is expected to decline by about 0.5 percent a year" means just that. A decline in demand is negative growth in demand (demand meaning the actual amount of power people draw from the system in a given period of time, not the increase in that amount).
Also from TFA:
Over the next decade, experts expect residential power use to fall, reversing an upward trend that has been almost uninterrupted since Thomas Edison invented the modern light bulb.
Surely when an upward trend in residential power use is reversed, it becomes a downward trend, not just a trend going upwards a little more slowly?
As far as I can tell, the recycle bin was an attempt to emulate the trash can in the Macintosh UI. The difference was that, like so many other things (and this is coming from a life long Windows user, not an Apple fanatic), Microsoft did it badly where Apple did it well.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly what the difference is, but in Windows it just doesn't seem to make sense. It just looks like any other desktop icon, whereas in the Macintosh it clearly has a special purpose. Possibly because it's always there at the bottom right hand side of the screen (where it seems like it should be, don't ask me why), whereas Windows just moves it around as it sees fit.
So no, I don't see anything wrong at all with the poster's policy of removing it from the desktop. Anything that removes a possible source of confusion for users is a good thing in my book.
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There's a song about that.
And then what?
And then ???, and then profit. Duh!
30 years ago when I was taking AI in college my professor summed this up perfectly. He said "AI is like artificial milk. Artificial milk doesn't have to be as good as real milk, it's just quite handy if you haven't got any real milk."
This year we announced that we have begun planning Go 2, our first major revision of the language and tooling
No thanks. Everyone knows that using Go 2 in your code is bad programming practice.
In the Catalonian case over 90% of voters voted to leave
90% of the 43% of the population who voted in a referendum that had been declared illegal by the Spanish government. Given that the separatists are far less likely to respect the view of the Spanish government than the loyalists, I think that probably skews the results more than a little.
On the other hand a recent opinion poll showed that 41% were in favor of independence and 49% opposed (source).
Turkey around 10,000 years ago: Well Tiddles, I don't know about you but a lot of us have had enough of this abuse, kicking us when any little thing goes wrong, tormenting us for their sport, even murdering our poor children, so we're heading out to the desert until they've evolved a bit.
Egypt, thousands of years later: As you all know, some members of the exploration committee went in to town - and let me tell you we were all a bit scared after those tales we heard as kittens - spent a few weeks cautiously interacting with the humans and trying to teach them our language, generally being friendly and helping to put food on the table and you know what? They treated us like gods.
Austria, 1935:
What am I doing in this box?
and the New Technology File System file system that follows that...
Countries like Dubai
You mean countries that are actually cities?
Followed by the BFT (Big... you get the idea)
Clearly it's the same mechanism by which the sun's energy is being sucked up by those solar panels in Woodland, NC.
No idea why an IP camera would require DirectX, but some of them do have web interfaces that require ActiveX, but you only need that if you actually want to use the web interface to view the video. Most IP cameras (certainly including Axis, I'm not familiar with the others on your list) also implement RTSP, and H.264 is pretty standard, so you can view the streams using e.g. VLC player.
it's also on the long side for something that only breaks something really minor, like Minecraft.
I invite you to spend 5 minutes alone with my 8 year old son at a time when he can't get Minecraft to work. Then tell me if you still think it's minor.
They are around the corner, or at least one of them is. Didn't you watch the end of the video?
I can read it just fine. It's usally when the Scotts try to talk that I can't understand...
At least we can spell.
Then came the rise of the Christians who promptly destroyed anything that didn't have the word Jesus on it and we were sent backwards by centuries. Not knocking the Christians as it seemed like every religion did the same thing, hell we see the Muslims trying their damnedest to do the same even today.
There are also some Christians who would like to do the same even today...
...like whether or not your weight is proportional to your height.
So it's OK if I put on weight as long as I get proportionally taller at the same time?
Those oil fields are not refilling themselves
Actually they are, they're just doing it really, really slowly.
How fucking arrogant do you have to be to believe that they were just making up something like this instead of perhaps prizing the spotted horses as more aesthetically pleasing to their sensibilities?
I agree with your main point, but I'm not sure arrogant is the right word. Surely it would take a more advanced mind to invent and draw an animal that nobody has ever seen before than just to draw something that you see every day.
I'm not sure why anyone would have assumed the creatures were imaginary, arrogant or not.
Yes, but it's not exactly rocket science. Oh wait...
>"From 2000 to 2010, the growth rate slowed to 2 percent. Over the next 10 years, demand is expected to decline by about 0.5 percent a year, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit group funded by the utility industry."
That means the rate that GROWTH is increasing will slow down.
No, I'm pretty sure "demand is expected to decline by about 0.5 percent a year" means just that. A decline in demand is negative growth in demand (demand meaning the actual amount of power people draw from the system in a given period of time, not the increase in that amount).
Also from TFA:
Over the next decade, experts expect residential power use to fall, reversing an upward trend that has been almost uninterrupted since Thomas Edison invented the modern light bulb.
Surely when an upward trend in residential power use is reversed, it becomes a downward trend, not just a trend going upwards a little more slowly?
According to this, Harrison Ford is unlikely to return in his role as Deckard.
It means the universe has disappeared and been replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
In space, no one can hear you burp.
As far as I can tell, the recycle bin was an attempt to emulate the trash can in the Macintosh UI. The difference was that, like so many other things (and this is coming from a life long Windows user, not an Apple fanatic), Microsoft did it badly where Apple did it well.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly what the difference is, but in Windows it just doesn't seem to make sense. It just looks like any other desktop icon, whereas in the Macintosh it clearly has a special purpose. Possibly because it's always there at the bottom right hand side of the screen (where it seems like it should be, don't ask me why), whereas Windows just moves it around as it sees fit.
So no, I don't see anything wrong at all with the poster's policy of removing it from the desktop. Anything that removes a possible source of confusion for users is a good thing in my book.
magma can act as a potent new source of geothermal energy powerful enough to heat 25,000 to 30,000 homes.
Actually this has been known about for quite some time, particularly by the people who lived here, albeit briefly...