The FTC has accused Qualcomm of operating a monopoly in wireless chips, forcing customers like Apple to work with it exclusively and charging excessive licensing fees for its technology.
Isn't that the intention of patents? They grant a limited-time monopoly (in exchange for the design details being made public).
Apparently many of the "average Joe" are apparently unable to discern between fact and fiction. As long as Facebook feels a need to do that for us, I reckon we're an intellectually weak society. I'd much rather see an education effort to teach the populace the necessary skills and discernment to know the difference between truth and lies.
I suppose some lies are rather sophisticated, and it takes a concerted effort to dig through the facts to discover the truth. But a significant number of posts I see go by on Facebook are (what I think) obviously transparently wrong, but still shared and passed on as fact. Things like, "12:30 Aug 27th you will see two moons in the sky, but only one will be the moon. The other will be Mars. It won't happen again until 2287. No one alive today has ever witnessed this happening."
A sensible Step 1 would be to scan them and make the scans available to the public. That requires no AI or OCR.
Step 2, involving OCR and AI etcetera, is a separate step. It could be done multiple times, refining the quality of the results as the technology develops, and augmented with human checking, intervention in difficult spots.
People are fucking idiots and the vehicle should not assume they'll act responsibly.
This is a huge philosophical question about blame and responsibility and the foundations of our freedoms. If society assumes I'm an idiot that can't be trusted to act responsibly, then I assume I'll be treated like a child and over time lose access to rights and responsibilities that we enjoy in a free society. I think Western society is made greater when people are given rights and responsibilities, and are expected to be responsible and not be idiots.
Govt tax payer money is to available to any manufacturer of electric vehicles, I assume, and not just Tesla. Or would all the other car companies when they make electric vehicles say, "No thanks, we don't want any of those electric vehicle subsidies"?
The numbers of comments should legally matter, because USA is allegedly a representational democracy. It is supposed to be a "government of the people, by the people, for the people". So if millions of people express their opinion, then that is legally relevant.
Indeed. I hire people, and I am looking for way more than 50 lines. At least 500 lines. It should be a non-trivial complete program that does something interesting
I couldn't have done that. My professional work was in a team environment, where my code was part of a greater whole and a 500-1000 line excerpt might do an awful lot but certainly didn't compile and run standalone.
Shit, even my hobby code has that characteristic. Ask Linus for 500 line of his code and see if you get a complete fucking program back.
It should be possible to write a test harness for your code, to exercise its API and demonstrate it doing something useful. That's what unit testing is, after all.
When charging someone money, the idea is to provide some sort of goods or services in return. So what service is Verizon going to provide for this money?
* FM radio signal with embedded RDS data with CT code
* Digital radio (DAB+)
* Mobile phone tower (would it require a subscription and SIM card for this receive-only operation?)
* NTP server via:
* Ethernet
* WiFi
* ZigBee (with a ZigBee coordinator that gets its time from e.g. Ethernet or GPS)
* Electricity smart meter via ZigBee (I'm interested now that Victoria, Australia has smart meters; I'm not sure if the smart meters broadcast the time info though, and whether it requires authentication)
What do the users want that they aren't supplying? I haven't noticed a problem.
Performance and reliability. Graphics updates are slow and after I resume from suspend I have to restart the browser or it chokes every few seconds. Sadly, I went to Pale Moon and it has the same problem.
It might be possible that you're suffering from an operating system driver problem, e.g. from your graphics driver. It's worth checking if there is a graphics driver update available for your system.
Actually, maybe I'm jumping to conclusions. It's possible they may want to land on land (not a sea platform; maybe an island) downrange, refuel at that location, and then fly back to the launch location. Anyway, the main point being that there's a land-and-refuel step before flying all the way back to the launch location.
They want to land on the sea platform, refuel from fuel tanks on the sea platform, then take off again and fly back to the launch location.
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com...
Why keep referring to "software manufacturers"? Calling what software engineers do "manufacturing" is a broken analogy, because creating software is really about _design_, not manufacturing. Manufacturing is the easy bit at the end where you burn CDs or distribute on the Internet.
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Isn't that the intention of patents? They grant a limited-time monopoly (in exchange for the design details being made public).
Technically, "225 times the power" isn't correct. "225 times the torque" would be more accurate.
This is sounding like Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How can you say that with a straight face?
I suppose C and Python do have comparable speed—they can be compared. Like the speed of a tractor and an F1 can be compared (the tractor is slower).
I hope we can substitute suitable alternative terms promptly. The obvious choice would be bourgeois and proletariat.
I suppose some lies are rather sophisticated, and it takes a concerted effort to dig through the facts to discover the truth. But a significant number of posts I see go by on Facebook are (what I think) obviously transparently wrong, but still shared and passed on as fact. Things like, "12:30 Aug 27th you will see two moons in the sky, but only one will be the moon. The other will be Mars. It won't happen again until 2287. No one alive today has ever witnessed this happening."
One would hope society is sophisticated enough to tell the difference between (a) capital punishment for a crime after a fair trial, and (b) genocide.
Step 2, involving OCR and AI etcetera, is a separate step. It could be done multiple times, refining the quality of the results as the technology develops, and augmented with human checking, intervention in difficult spots.
This is a huge philosophical question about blame and responsibility and the foundations of our freedoms. If society assumes I'm an idiot that can't be trusted to act responsibly, then I assume I'll be treated like a child and over time lose access to rights and responsibilities that we enjoy in a free society. I think Western society is made greater when people are given rights and responsibilities, and are expected to be responsible and not be idiots.
Govt tax payer money is to available to any manufacturer of electric vehicles, I assume, and not just Tesla. Or would all the other car companies when they make electric vehicles say, "No thanks, we don't want any of those electric vehicle subsidies"?
The numbers of comments should legally matter, because USA is allegedly a representational democracy. It is supposed to be a "government of the people, by the people, for the people". So if millions of people express their opinion, then that is legally relevant.
Indeed. I hire people, and I am looking for way more than 50 lines. At least 500 lines. It should be a non-trivial complete program that does something interesting
I couldn't have done that. My professional work was in a team environment, where my code was part of a greater whole and a 500-1000 line excerpt might do an awful lot but certainly didn't compile and run standalone.
Shit, even my hobby code has that characteristic. Ask Linus for 500 line of his code and see if you get a complete fucking program back.
It should be possible to write a test harness for your code, to exercise its API and demonstrate it doing something useful. That's what unit testing is, after all.
"Blasts" is nice for sensationalism, but I doubt it accurately expresses the facts. "Slams" is another word that news agencies seem to love.
The CTO definitely should have said, "By the way, our backups aren't working, so be REALLY careful."
Thanks for the link. But when I tried to add a comment, it said, "Comment Period Closed Aug 22 2016, at 11:59 PM ET".
When charging someone money, the idea is to provide some sort of goods or services in return. So what service is Verizon going to provide for this money?
Perhaps, if the car was globally available. But if the car was _universally_ available, maybe it could save _gazillions_ of lives!
The title misspells APFS, saying AFPS instead.
What do the users want that they aren't supplying? I haven't noticed a problem.
Performance and reliability. Graphics updates are slow and after I resume from suspend I have to restart the browser or it chokes every few seconds. Sadly, I went to Pale Moon and it has the same problem.
It might be possible that you're suffering from an operating system driver problem, e.g. from your graphics driver. It's worth checking if there is a graphics driver update available for your system.
UTC would be helpful for readers outside the USA who aren't so familiar with USA time zones.
Actually, maybe I'm jumping to conclusions. It's possible they may want to land on land (not a sea platform; maybe an island) downrange, refuel at that location, and then fly back to the launch location. Anyway, the main point being that there's a land-and-refuel step before flying all the way back to the launch location.
They want to land on the sea platform, refuel from fuel tanks on the sea platform, then take off again and fly back to the launch location. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com...
Why keep referring to "software manufacturers"? Calling what software engineers do "manufacturing" is a broken analogy, because creating software is really about _design_, not manufacturing. Manufacturing is the easy bit at the end where you burn CDs or distribute on the Internet.