I don't get it. To prevent a free market from growing into a cartel, there has to be an independant agency to (at the very least) verify the truthfulness of the marketing of items. That strives against the idea that the market is free because there is an agent restricting trade by verifying facts. Will someone explain to me how a market can be truely free and not devolve into a conglomeration of companies screwing the populous out of their money through treatury and customer lock-in?
Correct and economically speaking it cannot be that way for intellectual property for a variety of reasons. The biggest factor being that quality delays time to market which means you lose market share which at extremes will kill a product's profitability. Also in regard to that is quality increases cost, are you going to pay for a crashproof OS if it costs more than your car? If so, how about the rest of the world?
While Blizzard throws some new twists on occasion did you expect something far afield from the fantasy trope? So far we have the barbarian, the necromancer, and now the sorceress. Except the last two are a little different from their d2 counterparts. That said as long as the game is as fun to play and as addictive as D2 the next class could be the gold farmer for all I care.
Don't worry. I'm sure its coming. Which will finally lead to the Recording Industry Association of America versus the People of the United States of America, where we are all sued for the music we both have and don't have on our computer...
Having bought some songs from walmart or more correctly having exercised many free offers for songs from Walmart's music store, I recieved one of those emails. They also suggested in the email to burn the songs onto a music cd. Unspoken but probably hoped for is that the customers will be able to go through the simple process of ripping them back off the CD which is a pretty simple operation for most music consumers now: yielding DRM unladen electronic copies. This would further decrease the load on their servers. And of course slightly CTA, because they can say you were warned about how to get an alternative copy.
Maybe not directly to your brain but maybe directly to your player. I'd pay a monthly subscription to get a personalized streaming music feed. I don't however trust the cell-phone companies to provide that service.
Agreed. It isn't the victory that everyone hopes for in AI, but the turing test in and of itself is a very important practical AI problem. If we start talking about high 90th percentile success rates then we are probably at the point where we can replace customer service representitives with AI representatives and save lots of money even given the maintainance costs of the equipment. Actually a 60th precentile success rate would be able to reasonably replace most fast food order takers.
Sort of. It also makes computers more (and less useful). Weak AI allows for developers to offload decisions from the operator to the computer that would normally be tedious but out of the realm of a computer's ability to process. Strong AI is of more scientific use and actually brings up the philosophical quandries. It will bring us to greater understanding of how we think, but don't discount the practical uses of machines that pretend to think.
If we don't have the right to switch off a conscious machine (one that passes the Turing test) does that imply we have the right to switch off a human who fails a Turing test?
Sorry the congressmen from Alabama were busy trying to look out for the average citizen to push in extra funding for the state. Guess that means we have our voting priorities wrong here in Alabama.
Shouldn't they be busy with you know keeping commerce from collapsing right now instead of hunting down copyright infringers...Oh right where are my priorities...
While I agree, sometimes being an engineer or analyst means working with one or two or six hands tied behind your back because of time, money, or IT-imposed user-permissions. If you aren't capable of identifying the sources of error in your data as well as those caused by your tools, then you are probably going to do a poor job even with the best tools. Bad tools should never be an acceptable excuse for delivering faulty analysis.
Depends on your viewing level. Having things on demand is nice but at an average of 6 hours of viewing a day, $2 an episode is hardly cost effective for most people. At an average viewing level you would reach a cable bill in less than a week and a premium package with all the bells and whistles in less than two. The price needs to drift way down before it is main stream.
Great news, but how is this going to help Netflix case of increasing their streaming selection. If we can see the source much less edit it, aren't the content providers going to just say we can't have any of that. You aren't protecting our IP...No soup for you...
This is a big deal with FOSS code in the military sector. Whoever leverages the code (read is familiar with the license) is not the person who "owns" the code, nor is likely even remotely influential about its release. Essentially anything that binds you to contribute modifications back to the community is right out. It isn't the contractor's code to release, it isn't truely the military's code to release (although they have procedures for it), it is the taxpayers' code. Because of that there is a bunch of beauracracy protecting you the taxpayer against misuse of what you paid for by interests that wish to harm you(foreign hostile governments) and those that wish to make undue financial gain on the investment of the taxpayers (commercial or even non-profit entities).
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I don't get it. To prevent a free market from growing into a cartel, there has to be an independant agency to (at the very least) verify the truthfulness of the marketing of items. That strives against the idea that the market is free because there is an agent restricting trade by verifying facts. Will someone explain to me how a market can be truely free and not devolve into a conglomeration of companies screwing the populous out of their money through treatury and customer lock-in?
Correct and economically speaking it cannot be that way for intellectual property for a variety of reasons. The biggest factor being that quality delays time to market which means you lose market share which at extremes will kill a product's profitability. Also in regard to that is quality increases cost, are you going to pay for a crashproof OS if it costs more than your car? If so, how about the rest of the world?
While Blizzard throws some new twists on occasion did you expect something far afield from the fantasy trope? So far we have the barbarian, the necromancer, and now the sorceress. Except the last two are a little different from their d2 counterparts. That said as long as the game is as fun to play and as addictive as D2 the next class could be the gold farmer for all I care.
Don't worry. I'm sure its coming. Which will finally lead to the Recording Industry Association of America versus the People of the United States of America, where we are all sued for the music we both have and don't have on our computer...
Having bought some songs from walmart or more correctly having exercised many free offers for songs from Walmart's music store, I recieved one of those emails. They also suggested in the email to burn the songs onto a music cd. Unspoken but probably hoped for is that the customers will be able to go through the simple process of ripping them back off the CD which is a pretty simple operation for most music consumers now: yielding DRM unladen electronic copies. This would further decrease the load on their servers. And of course slightly CTA, because they can say you were warned about how to get an alternative copy.
Someone set us up the bomb.
So you are the guy driving most every car that was on the road with me this morning?
Maybe not directly to your brain but maybe directly to your player. I'd pay a monthly subscription to get a personalized streaming music feed. I don't however trust the cell-phone companies to provide that service.
Where is your sense of elitism and pride?
I clicked on your post rating to see how you had been modded and due to some "error" all the information was covered by a misplaced banner.
Agreed. It isn't the victory that everyone hopes for in AI, but the turing test in and of itself is a very important practical AI problem. If we start talking about high 90th percentile success rates then we are probably at the point where we can replace customer service representitives with AI representatives and save lots of money even given the maintainance costs of the equipment. Actually a 60th precentile success rate would be able to reasonably replace most fast food order takers.
Sort of. It also makes computers more (and less useful). Weak AI allows for developers to offload decisions from the operator to the computer that would normally be tedious but out of the realm of a computer's ability to process. Strong AI is of more scientific use and actually brings up the philosophical quandries. It will bring us to greater understanding of how we think, but don't discount the practical uses of machines that pretend to think.
If we don't have the right to switch off a conscious machine (one that passes the Turing test) does that imply we have the right to switch off a human who fails a Turing test?
Shhh... Don't you know that Windows stole everything from Macs plus they are boring. Haven't you seen the brainwashing videos, I mean commercials.
Sorry the congressmen from Alabama were busy trying to look out for the average citizen to push in extra funding for the state. Guess that means we have our voting priorities wrong here in Alabama.
Shouldn't they be busy with you know keeping commerce from collapsing right now instead of hunting down copyright infringers...Oh right where are my priorities...
While I agree, sometimes being an engineer or analyst means working with one or two or six hands tied behind your back because of time, money, or IT-imposed user-permissions. If you aren't capable of identifying the sources of error in your data as well as those caused by your tools, then you are probably going to do a poor job even with the best tools. Bad tools should never be an acceptable excuse for delivering faulty analysis.
Not me. That was the last average figure I saw on US viewers. I think it was early spring when I saw it. I agree that is alot of time wasted.
Depends on your viewing level. Having things on demand is nice but at an average of 6 hours of viewing a day, $2 an episode is hardly cost effective for most people. At an average viewing level you would reach a cable bill in less than a week and a premium package with all the bells and whistles in less than two. The price needs to drift way down before it is main stream.
Great news, but how is this going to help Netflix case of increasing their streaming selection. If we can see the source much less edit it, aren't the content providers going to just say we can't have any of that. You aren't protecting our IP...No soup for you...
Don't worry this is the ... step that comes before profit. Or maybe thats the next step.
Easy. Just tape the listing to the front of the bomb.
This is a big deal with FOSS code in the military sector. Whoever leverages the code (read is familiar with the license) is not the person who "owns" the code, nor is likely even remotely influential about its release. Essentially anything that binds you to contribute modifications back to the community is right out. It isn't the contractor's code to release, it isn't truely the military's code to release (although they have procedures for it), it is the taxpayers' code. Because of that there is a bunch of beauracracy protecting you the taxpayer against misuse of what you paid for by interests that wish to harm you(foreign hostile governments) and those that wish to make undue financial gain on the investment of the taxpayers (commercial or even non-profit entities).
Actually we are all patiently waiting for the release date of Duke Nukem Forever to pop up in the game section later today.
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