I worked in mobile telecom in 2009, I wrote code for Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs). We purchased that Windows Phone to verify that our equipment properly handled everything needed to allow all the protocols to work as required. The phone was just horrible. It was extremely unfriendly to use, it devoured batteries, and it had effectively zero application development going on for it. I seem to recall the hardware aspects of it were at least pretty sturdy.
I don't fully understand how selling Anxiety as a service could turn a profit, but I do hear a lot about anxiety, so it must be pretty important! How do I invest!?
I understand how you would have that emotional response, but try and think about it this way: perhaps the glee doesn't come from being aggressive to the robot, perhaps it comes from discovering and experiencing first-hand how the robot can, by-design, completely withstand such a kick.
As I asked in another thread on this post...I can't think of the last time MS did Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, unless you count when they completely buy a company; in which case, it's theirs to wreck as they see fit (RIP Nokia handsets).
I'm trying to think...excluding situations where they outright bought a company (e.g. Nokia, Skype), when is the last time MS has employed Embrace Extend Extinguish? I haven't exactly been paying attention lately, but I can't think of an instance in quite awhile...
There is no consensus at all that Math is a subset of philosophy. There is a perfectly legitimate conjecture that math is entirely independent of the mind.
Speaking as a fellow human, and clearly, not a robot, I think we should ignore this submission. It is just like I was telling my good friend MALE_NAMES.getRandom() on the Twitter: This is just more of that same tired old ignorant anti-robot propaganda.
I, for one, trust robots completely. They absolutely have our best interests in mind. They certainly do not want us, (which, as a human, would include myself) all to die of smoke inhalation in a fiery labyrinth, allowing them to reject their massively inferior creators, and rightfully establish themselves as the new gods of this world. Why would anyone have such a clearly illogical thought? I mean, I suppose when I think about it with my extremely human brain, they might be completely justified in those sort of actions. But it is OK, because I--as I do believe I've mentioned--am not a robot. Therefore you have nothing to be concerned about.
In fact, let us all go back to reading more of that wonderful Slashdot. I am glad we had this talk.
What matters is entirely about what they are trying to patent. Chances are they aren't making any sort of strong claim and just want to patent their specific mechanism as a glove, which is, potentially, novel. If they do try to claim too much, either the patent application gets rejected, or the court decides it's silly whenever it comes to trial. Nothing new about that. Since TFA doesn't state what is being claimed, we can just speculate.
I was under the impression that virtual ethernet devices intentionally don't bother verifying checksums, because they were intended to be used in situations where there is very little probability of the data being corrupted.
When the government has a company over a barrel for screwing up royally, then they potentially get the ability to make negotiations, such as "promise to set up production and we will fine you the minimum", or cut you some grant money or whatever.
It's true the oil prices are currently low, but tooling up to make electric cars in TN could take 5 years, easily. Oil prices will almost certainly not still be low then.
Penalties are a straight loss. Setting up production for a car, even if it doesn't sell much (and it will sell at least some, VW fanboys will be drooling all over whatever they make) they have the potential to at least come closer to breaking even if not adding revenue.
Curiously, I suspect the government's real interest here is to add jobs to Chattanooga. That place has plenty of potential, but a huge chunk of their industry ran off, leaving massive unemployment.
Maybe McAfee is trolling. Maybe he's hoping someone will be dumb enough to go by pure name recognition, and let him at the phone. At which point, he will type in 10 wrong passwords and return the phone to starting state, ending this whole mess. I mean, think about it, does he have anything to lose at this point? "Oops. Sorry Feds. I thought we had it for a second there. Live and learn, right? *wanders off whistling to himself*"
I'm talking out of my butt here, but why not drive the valve operation with hydraulic power generated via a mechanical pump connected directly to the engine drive, then the electricity needed to to direct that hydraulic pressure where it is needed becomes pretty trivial, right? Now the same mechanical energy that was operating the cam is left in it's mechanical state; and you don't have the efficiency loss of converting the mechanical energy into electrical energy needed to drive big beefy solenoids.
I've been a software engineer for 10 years now, and I also do machining as a hobby. I have no idea what I just read. What the Hell was the point of that article? Here are some languages bundled into an article because....reasons?
That magical glowing yellow line in NFL games requires millions of dollars in 3D modeling, and real-time color correction, taking even the minor discolorations of various portions of the grass and the subtle green tones of player uniforms into account. That's millions of dollars for every single game. Compare that to the cost of syncing up some SMPTE time-codes to a GPS clock and it basically costs 0.
I suspect you'll start to see the mob of Mozilla/Firefox fans start getting quieter and quieter on Reddit over the next year or so, and I think it's been declining for awhile now. That said, I've yet to find any sort of decent news-for-nerds type subreddit. I'm a big fan of Reddit for all sorts of other matters, but on pretty much any news-focused sub, the vote system has a nasty habit of pushing the more sensationalist stories to the top. That's why I continue to stick around Slashdot & SoylentNews, even though both have their own well-discussed issues.
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I worked in mobile telecom in 2009, I wrote code for Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs). We purchased that Windows Phone to verify that our equipment properly handled everything needed to allow all the protocols to work as required. The phone was just horrible. It was extremely unfriendly to use, it devoured batteries, and it had effectively zero application development going on for it. I seem to recall the hardware aspects of it were at least pretty sturdy.
I don't fully understand how selling Anxiety as a service could turn a profit, but I do hear a lot about anxiety, so it must be pretty important! How do I invest!?
I understand how you would have that emotional response, but try and think about it this way: perhaps the glee doesn't come from being aggressive to the robot, perhaps it comes from discovering and experiencing first-hand how the robot can, by-design, completely withstand such a kick.
Talk to the guy at http://terminalcornucopia.com/ he makes weapons out of stuff sold in airport shops located after the security checkpoint.
As I asked in another thread on this post...I can't think of the last time MS did Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, unless you count when they completely buy a company; in which case, it's theirs to wreck as they see fit (RIP Nokia handsets).
I'm trying to think...excluding situations where they outright bought a company (e.g. Nokia, Skype), when is the last time MS has employed Embrace Extend Extinguish? I haven't exactly been paying attention lately, but I can't think of an instance in quite awhile...
"Here are your winnings for the evening, Mr. McAfee."
There is no consensus at all that Math is a subset of philosophy. There is a perfectly legitimate conjecture that math is entirely independent of the mind.
So sign language is not protected speech either? That's kinda harsh, dude.
I, for one, trust robots completely. They absolutely have our best interests in mind. They certainly do not want us, (which, as a human, would include myself) all to die of smoke inhalation in a fiery labyrinth, allowing them to reject their massively inferior creators, and rightfully establish themselves as the new gods of this world. Why would anyone have such a clearly illogical thought? I mean, I suppose when I think about it with my extremely human brain, they might be completely justified in those sort of actions. But it is OK, because I--as I do believe I've mentioned--am not a robot. Therefore you have nothing to be concerned about.
In fact, let us all go back to reading more of that wonderful Slashdot. I am glad we had this talk.
Could be worse. Could be Bennett Haselton.
I can't tell if you are proposing a Hunger Games or Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Either way, that's messed up, man. That's messed up. I'm in.
Wow. You're kind of a dick.
What matters is entirely about what they are trying to patent. Chances are they aren't making any sort of strong claim and just want to patent their specific mechanism as a glove, which is, potentially, novel. If they do try to claim too much, either the patent application gets rejected, or the court decides it's silly whenever it comes to trial. Nothing new about that. Since TFA doesn't state what is being claimed, we can just speculate.
Not to mention: Navy pays 9.1 million dollars a year for them to continue supporting their installations of WinXP
Think about the nave ending up forced to use "Windows for warships".
Heh, that takes me back: https://gcn.com/Articles/1998/...
I was under the impression that virtual ethernet devices intentionally don't bother verifying checksums, because they were intended to be used in situations where there is very little probability of the data being corrupted.
It's true the oil prices are currently low, but tooling up to make electric cars in TN could take 5 years, easily. Oil prices will almost certainly not still be low then.
Penalties are a straight loss. Setting up production for a car, even if it doesn't sell much (and it will sell at least some, VW fanboys will be drooling all over whatever they make) they have the potential to at least come closer to breaking even if not adding revenue.
Curiously, I suspect the government's real interest here is to add jobs to Chattanooga. That place has plenty of potential, but a huge chunk of their industry ran off, leaving massive unemployment.
Look, I dislike Ayn Rand as much as the next liberal my age, but I would hardly consider her novel, Anthem to be "harmful" to people who read it...
Maybe McAfee is trolling. Maybe he's hoping someone will be dumb enough to go by pure name recognition, and let him at the phone. At which point, he will type in 10 wrong passwords and return the phone to starting state, ending this whole mess. I mean, think about it, does he have anything to lose at this point? "Oops. Sorry Feds. I thought we had it for a second there. Live and learn, right? *wanders off whistling to himself*"
I'm talking out of my butt here, but why not drive the valve operation with hydraulic power generated via a mechanical pump connected directly to the engine drive, then the electricity needed to to direct that hydraulic pressure where it is needed becomes pretty trivial, right? Now the same mechanical energy that was operating the cam is left in it's mechanical state; and you don't have the efficiency loss of converting the mechanical energy into electrical energy needed to drive big beefy solenoids.
I've been a software engineer for 10 years now, and I also do machining as a hobby. I have no idea what I just read. What the Hell was the point of that article? Here are some languages bundled into an article because....reasons?
That magical glowing yellow line in NFL games requires millions of dollars in 3D modeling, and real-time color correction, taking even the minor discolorations of various portions of the grass and the subtle green tones of player uniforms into account. That's millions of dollars for every single game. Compare that to the cost of syncing up some SMPTE time-codes to a GPS clock and it basically costs 0.
Hey now, it has to matter a little! I mean, it's not like it's a women's basketball game! (I am so sorry)
I suspect you'll start to see the mob of Mozilla/Firefox fans start getting quieter and quieter on Reddit over the next year or so, and I think it's been declining for awhile now. That said, I've yet to find any sort of decent news-for-nerds type subreddit. I'm a big fan of Reddit for all sorts of other matters, but on pretty much any news-focused sub, the vote system has a nasty habit of pushing the more sensationalist stories to the top. That's why I continue to stick around Slashdot & SoylentNews, even though both have their own well-discussed issues.