It isn't legal because it runs afoul of the Interstate Commerce Clause. Internet regulation is a federal concern. States do not have authority.
It isn't hypocritical because Net Neutrality says nothing about content type. It is about content providers. It says you can't treat one porn provider differently from another porn provider. Blocking all porn providers is entirely consistent with the principle of Net Neutrality.
Pretty trivial to dump the screen RAM and then tweak it before taking a photograph. Copying the digits out of another dump isn't hard.
The 2600 doesn't have a screen buffer, which makes screen captures non-trivial. But the graphics aren't very detailed either. He could have just created the image from scratch on an Atari 8-bit computer. C64 wasn't out yet. Apple's and IBM PC's didn't have the color range. TRS80's and PET's were monochrome. VIC20 might have worked.
Easy enough to say when you have enough resources that you won't need to work to support yourself. How does he propose to distribute this bounteous windfall? Does he think the companies run the AI production facilities are going to be handing out their product to the idled (non-)workers?
Yeah, right, Bill. You go first!
Anyone else remember the 1960's, when they were telling us by 2000 everyone would only have to work 20 hours a week? That sure ended well!
It's not that far wrong, *on average*. If the half the workers are working 40 hours per week and the other half are unemployed then *on average*, people work 20 hours per week.
And it cost $6.5bn for a Saturn V rocket / $185m per launch. And those were 1960's dollars.
Trying to do it to win $20m in today's money (which wouldn't even cover 0.3% of the cost of how we did it back then) is a bit more difficult. Hell, just the fuel alone could cost that, or the insurance for if it happens to explode on the launchpad.
But the Lunar X-Prize isn't trying to re-create Apollo. It is more like the far less ambitious and costly Surveyor missions. The bill came in at $469 million for seven landers.
It is even closer to Lunokhod-1 but being a Soviet mission, cost comparisons are tricky (if you can get the data at all).
IMHO, 10/1 is probably "good enough" for "mobile broadband", but only as long as that isn't your ONLY choice. Most people aren't hotspoting multiple devices off a single cell phone.
People in rural areas do. Can't get cable. Can't get DSL. Satellite is awful. My brother's family runs all the computers in the house off of one mobile hotspot.
Don't have to go back that far. Bonnelle and Saltflat (first and second generation) Atoms are strictly in-order. No speculative execution. Just move your server loads to clusters of 2nd generation eeepc's!
It's only a matter of time. Besides sperm, we serve no purpose.
By that logic, women will serve no purpose either, given artificially created eggs (which the article suggests they are just as close to replicating as sperm) and an artificial womb, which is much further along.
And this is related how exactly? There are apps for Android that do not have a desktop equivalent. No web site. No app for any desktop OS. Neither Windows 10 nor desktop* Linux run android apps either without heroic efforts. Being able to run Android apps is a useful addition and completely orthogonal with a desire to run conventional desktop apps.
*Technically, Android is Linux since it runs a Linux kernel.
They didn't need a person to take my order and no one had to wait.
I'm guessing when you say "no one had to wait" you actually mean "I didn't have to wait". From what I've seen, Starbucks prioritizes mobile orders. My personal experience has been that walk-ins now wait longer because the service personnel keep getting interrupted by new mobile orders.
But, in any case, I don't go to Starbucks as much as I used to. There's this other place - Specialty's Cafe and Bakery - that's right next to the Starbucks at Seattle's International District station. The coffee is better, the baked goods are amazing (and mostly made on premises!), and walk-in service is incredibly fast. Hmm, maybe I shouldn't be encouraging more customers...
Ah, yes, Specialty's. They've been doing automated ordering for several years now. And it's awful. Maybe not for the restaurant but placing an order on their Ipad's is painfully awkward and slow. It is a much worse experience than waiting to give an order to a human. Placing the order online from a real computer with login already setup is not as bad and any extra time is offset by overlapping travel time with food prep time. If I arrive at Specialty's without an order already placed, I would rather leave and eat some place else.
Lifespans have plateaued as a result of generalised improvements in nutrition and medicine. We don't know how much improvement is possible when specifically targeting ageing because very little has been done.
It can be assumed that 100% of people who would use a smart watch own a smartphone. And people who own a smartphone are rarely (if ever) without it.
Save your money and download a free app if you want a fitness tracker.
Mostly true if your idea of fitness tracking is counting steps. However, more aggressive activities often require stashing the phone away or even not carrying it. No many swim with their phones. When I skate, I keep the phone in my camelback. It is safe and secure there and it can still send notifications to my garmin but I can't see anything on the display and I can't operate the controls. A few weeks back, I arrived on site sans garmin and resorted to using the phone. It seriously sucked. No lap counting. I couldn't reasonably pause the tracking. I couldn't see heart rate or speed stats in real time.
Some fitness watches also support 24hr heart rate monitoring. Even with a Bluetooth HRM, I can't imagine many would want to wear a chest strap all day and night but a watch is not that big of a deal.
Article I Section 8. Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”
Attendance in machine learning and AI courses has skyrocketed in recent years, as has enrollment in online courses, but there is obviously a lag as individuals complete their education.
No direct experience but an acquaintance of mine quit his job in ASIC layout to pursue a career in machine learning. He took a bunch of classes outside of a formal degree program and found that breaking in the field wasn't nearly as easy as he expected. I haven't talked to him in about six months but he was still looking the last I knew.
This might explain the "shortage". If most of the students are in bootstrap style programs but employers deem those programs unsuitable, it is going to be a while before the gap is closed.
Whooosh! That comment just flew over the international date line....
It would be a better joke if the direction were chosen correctly. Going from the US to Japan means losing a day. It is going the other way that it is possible to land on the day prior to when you took off. Going West it is (in principle) possible to land earlier in the day than you took off but it would be earlier in the next day because you crossed the date line.
I was a poor student in Compuserve's heyday. I liked the idea but it was unconscionably expensive so I couldn't really get into it. By the time I had the means to pay for Compu$pend, I had Internet and Usenet so there didn't seem to be a point.
I rarely return anything, pretty much only if it arrives broken. It seems shocking to me that a full third of all purchases get returned online. Even that 9% for in-store seems crazy high. Are there people who just buy stuff and return it all day long?
Surprises me too. For most online purchases, returning is such a PIA, that I try very hard to avoid returning anything. I've kept worthless junk because it wasn't worth my time to return it. And that doesn't even account for the monetary costs. Most of the time you end up paying for return shipping, which is usually more expensive than what the retailer spent to ship it to you. It is especially severe for purchases from overseas vendors. The vendor ships via some sweet bulk deal. Your return goes bog standard post at 3-4x. It might have been a good deal if it worked out but it is an expensive mistake if you have to return.
Especially one where "the writing is done and most of the editing". Are conventional publishers not interested? Or is this just a means of coaxing a better deal out of publishers?
I understand crowd funding for projects to expensive to self fund yet too small for conventional venture capital. But conventional book publishing seems to have this covered. Writers write. Publishers publish and sometimes providers editors and advance payment to writers. Is there reason to believe this book would not be published were it not for the kickstarter campaign?
>"What does a traditional Android phone do that an Android tablet doesn't?
Let's see how:
1) It is not as light as a phone.
2) It is not as thin as a phone.
3) It typically (but not always) costs more than a phone.
4) It isn't typically available as small, like 5", which means even further weight savings, thinness, battery life, and portability.
And when the idea is portability, those matter a lot. Some of us want a phone because tablets are redundant.
For many of us, even 5" is too big for a device that needs to be carried at all times. But it is too small for many of things that tablets are good at. That is why tablets are not redundant.
In the past, you would have had to pick your own straw to make that strawman.
In the 1970s people used to move for jobs all the time. Why do you think people cannot do it today? You don't want to ship your 60" luxury TV? Too afraid to buy a $200 bus ticket to cross the country for a new job?
It IS so much easier to just bitch and moan on the internet, after all...
In the 1970's people were moved by their employers for growth opportunities. Now if the company is paying the moving bill, it is a lateral move to a location is that is cheaper for the employer but is not necessarily desirable for the employee. The sort of job changes referenced in the article are between companies. The old company lays you off. The new company would rather not pay to interview or move someone from out of the area. Self-moving to a new area in hopes of finding a job there is a risky and expensive idea that few people are willing to try.
How much can states override the FCC's proclamations?
It's funny how lefties have suddenly rediscovered the allure of federalism now that they're temporarily out of power. I'm sure it will go back in the dustbin after the next election cycle or two.
Don't be so sure. Marijuana legalization is a long-running left-wing states-rights effort.
(Not that it matters for the FCC. Internet access is firmly interstate and thus federal.)
For most of the history of television, Americans believed a Russian named Zworykin invented television. RCA poured a lot of money into convincing people of that, while simultaneously using their monopoly power to relegate Farnsworth to obscurity. They were very successful at that.
Would guess this campaign took place in the 50's and did not stick. I wasn't born until the late 60's. Growing up, I never heard of Zworkin or Farnsworth. The story I heard was there was no single inventor, perhaps to avoid giving credit to the Nazi's who demonstrated television at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Basically a really large EF4 tornado, however these speeds are only found in the eyewall so it's not as bad as it sounds. The problem is a lot of these islands are mostly third world shitholes with shoddily built buildings that are going to get blown into kindling. This could wind up being the single most deadly disaster directly attributable to AGW that we have seen yet.
I dunno. Super Typhoon Haiyan killed 6300 in the Philippines alone and had sustained winds of 195mph. That's a pretty hard act to follow.
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Negative on both counts.
It isn't legal because it runs afoul of the Interstate Commerce Clause. Internet regulation is a federal concern. States do not have authority.
It isn't hypocritical because Net Neutrality says nothing about content type. It is about content providers. It says you can't treat one porn provider differently from another porn provider. Blocking all porn providers is entirely consistent with the principle of Net Neutrality.
Pretty trivial to dump the screen RAM and then tweak it before taking a photograph. Copying the digits out of another dump isn't hard.
The 2600 doesn't have a screen buffer, which makes screen captures non-trivial. But the graphics aren't very detailed either. He could have just created the image from scratch on an Atari 8-bit computer. C64 wasn't out yet. Apple's and IBM PC's didn't have the color range. TRS80's and PET's were monochrome. VIC20 might have worked.
Easy enough to say when you have enough resources that you won't need to work to support yourself. How does he propose to distribute this bounteous windfall? Does he think the companies run the AI production facilities are going to be handing out their product to the idled (non-)workers?
Yeah, right, Bill. You go first!
Anyone else remember the 1960's, when they were telling us by 2000 everyone would only have to work 20 hours a week? That sure ended well!
It's not that far wrong, *on average*. If the half the workers are working 40 hours per week and the other half are unemployed then *on average*, people work 20 hours per week.
Yup.
And it cost $6.5bn for a Saturn V rocket / $185m per launch. And those were 1960's dollars.
Trying to do it to win $20m in today's money (which wouldn't even cover 0.3% of the cost of how we did it back then) is a bit more difficult. Hell, just the fuel alone could cost that, or the insurance for if it happens to explode on the launchpad.
But the Lunar X-Prize isn't trying to re-create Apollo. It is more like the far less ambitious and costly Surveyor missions. The bill came in at $469 million for seven landers.
It is even closer to Lunokhod-1 but being a Soviet mission, cost comparisons are tricky (if you can get the data at all).
IMHO, 10/1 is probably "good enough" for "mobile broadband", but only as long as that isn't your ONLY choice. Most people aren't hotspoting multiple devices off a single cell phone.
People in rural areas do. Can't get cable. Can't get DSL. Satellite is awful. My brother's family runs all the computers in the house off of one mobile hotspot.
Time to bust out my 486!
Don't have to go back that far. Bonnelle and Saltflat (first and second generation) Atoms are strictly in-order. No speculative execution. Just move your server loads to clusters of 2nd generation eeepc's!
It's only a matter of time.
Besides sperm, we serve no purpose.
By that logic, women will serve no purpose either, given artificially created eggs (which the article suggests they are just as close to replicating as sperm) and an artificial womb, which is much further along.
I like the part where you don't actually name any apps with no desktop equivalent to reduce the attack surface of that bullshit claim.
Start with dating apps. There are many that have no desktop apps but just among the ones I have used:
Hinge
Happn
Tinder (until very recently and the recently added website is so very buggy that is little point in using it)
Waze went years before it finally added a functional website.
It's not a long list but then, I don't use many mobile apps. If I did I'm sure I could find a lot more.
You could just use a real OS, like Windows 10.
And this is related how exactly? There are apps for Android that do not have a desktop equivalent. No web site. No app for any desktop OS. Neither Windows 10 nor desktop* Linux run android apps either without heroic efforts. Being able to run Android apps is a useful addition and completely orthogonal with a desire to run conventional desktop apps.
*Technically, Android is Linux since it runs a Linux kernel.
Now needs to fork Thunderbird. We could call it Palehorse since it still uses Native American labeling and horses were used for mail delivery.
There was one: FossaMail but it looks like it was discontinued.
When it comes to Thunderbird the need/use for plugins isn't really there, it works pretty well standalone.
If use more than a handful of addresses, Virtual Identity is absolutely essential.
They didn't need a person to take my order and no one had to wait.
I'm guessing when you say "no one had to wait" you actually mean "I didn't have to wait". From what I've seen, Starbucks prioritizes mobile orders. My personal experience has been that walk-ins now wait longer because the service personnel keep getting interrupted by new mobile orders.
But, in any case, I don't go to Starbucks as much as I used to. There's this other place - Specialty's Cafe and Bakery - that's right next to the Starbucks at Seattle's International District station. The coffee is better, the baked goods are amazing (and mostly made on premises!), and walk-in service is incredibly fast. Hmm, maybe I shouldn't be encouraging more customers...
Ah, yes, Specialty's. They've been doing automated ordering for several years now. And it's awful. Maybe not for the restaurant but placing an order on their Ipad's is painfully awkward and slow. It is a much worse experience than waiting to give an order to a human. Placing the order online from a real computer with login already setup is not as bad and any extra time is offset by overlapping travel time with food prep time. If I arrive at Specialty's without an order already placed, I would rather leave and eat some place else.
Lifespans have plateaued as a result of generalised improvements in nutrition and medicine. We don't know how much improvement is possible when specifically targeting ageing because very little has been done.
It can be assumed that 100% of people who would use a smart watch own a smartphone. And people who own a smartphone are rarely (if ever) without it.
Save your money and download a free app if you want a fitness tracker.
Mostly true if your idea of fitness tracking is counting steps. However, more aggressive activities often require stashing the phone away or even not carrying it. No many swim with their phones. When I skate, I keep the phone in my camelback. It is safe and secure there and it can still send notifications to my garmin but I can't see anything on the display and I can't operate the controls. A few weeks back, I arrived on site sans garmin and resorted to using the phone. It seriously sucked. No lap counting. I couldn't reasonably pause the tracking. I couldn't see heart rate or speed stats in real time.
Some fitness watches also support 24hr heart rate monitoring. Even with a Bluetooth HRM, I can't imagine many would want to wear a chest strap all day and night but a watch is not that big of a deal.
It's actually pretty brief and clear:
Article I Section 8. Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”
Attendance in machine learning and AI courses has skyrocketed in recent years, as has enrollment in online courses, but there is obviously a lag as individuals complete their education.
No direct experience but an acquaintance of mine quit his job in ASIC layout to pursue a career in machine learning. He took a bunch of classes outside of a formal degree program and found that breaking in the field wasn't nearly as easy as he expected. I haven't talked to him in about six months but he was still looking the last I knew.
This might explain the "shortage". If most of the students are in bootstrap style programs but employers deem those programs unsuitable, it is going to be a while before the gap is closed.
Whooosh! That comment just flew over the international date line....
It would be a better joke if the direction were chosen correctly. Going from the US to Japan means losing a day. It is going the other way that it is possible to land on the day prior to when you took off. Going West it is (in principle) possible to land earlier in the day than you took off but it would be earlier in the next day because you crossed the date line.
I was a poor student in Compuserve's heyday. I liked the idea but it was unconscionably expensive so I couldn't really get into it. By the time I had the means to pay for Compu$pend, I had Internet and Usenet so there didn't seem to be a point.
I rarely return anything, pretty much only if it arrives broken. It seems shocking to me that a full third of all purchases get returned online. Even that 9% for in-store seems crazy high. Are there people who just buy stuff and return it all day long?
Surprises me too. For most online purchases, returning is such a PIA, that I try very hard to avoid returning anything. I've kept worthless junk because it wasn't worth my time to return it. And that doesn't even account for the monetary costs. Most of the time you end up paying for return shipping, which is usually more expensive than what the retailer spent to ship it to you. It is especially severe for purchases from overseas vendors.
The vendor ships via some sweet bulk deal. Your return goes bog standard post at 3-4x. It might have been a good deal if it worked out but it is an expensive mistake if you have to return.
Especially one where "the writing is done and most of the editing". Are conventional publishers not interested? Or is this just a means of coaxing a better deal out of publishers?
I understand crowd funding for projects to expensive to self fund yet too small for conventional venture capital. But conventional book publishing seems to have this covered. Writers write. Publishers publish and sometimes providers editors and advance payment to writers. Is there reason to believe this book would not be published were it not for the kickstarter campaign?
>"What does a traditional Android phone do that an Android tablet doesn't?
Let's see how:
1) It is not as light as a phone.
2) It is not as thin as a phone.
3) It typically (but not always) costs more than a phone.
4) It isn't typically available as small, like 5", which means even further weight savings, thinness, battery life, and portability.
And when the idea is portability, those matter a lot. Some of us want a phone because tablets are redundant.
For many of us, even 5" is too big for a device that needs to be carried at all times. But it is too small for many of things that tablets are good at. That is why tablets are not redundant.
In the past, you would have had to pick your own straw to make that strawman.
In the 1970s people used to move for jobs all the time. Why do you think people cannot do it today? You don't want to ship your 60" luxury TV? Too afraid to buy a $200 bus ticket to cross the country for a new job?
It IS so much easier to just bitch and moan on the internet, after all...
In the 1970's people were moved by their employers for growth opportunities. Now if the company is paying the moving bill, it is a lateral move to a location is that is cheaper for the employer but is not necessarily desirable for the employee. The sort of job changes referenced in the article are between companies. The old company lays you off. The new company would rather not pay to interview or move someone from out of the area. Self-moving to a new area in hopes of finding a job there is a risky and expensive idea that few people are willing to try.
How much can states override the FCC's proclamations?
It's funny how lefties have suddenly rediscovered the allure of federalism now that they're temporarily out of power. I'm sure it will go back in the dustbin after the next election cycle or two.
Don't be so sure. Marijuana legalization is a long-running left-wing states-rights effort.
(Not that it matters for the FCC. Internet access is firmly interstate and thus federal.)
For most of the history of television, Americans believed a Russian named Zworykin invented television. RCA poured a lot of money into convincing people of that, while simultaneously using their monopoly power to relegate Farnsworth to obscurity. They were very successful at that.
Would guess this campaign took place in the 50's and did not stick. I wasn't born until the late 60's. Growing up, I never heard of Zworkin or Farnsworth. The story I heard was there was no single inventor, perhaps to avoid giving credit to the Nazi's who demonstrated television at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Basically a really large EF4 tornado, however these speeds are only found in the eyewall so it's not as bad as it sounds. The problem is a lot of these islands are mostly third world shitholes with shoddily built buildings that are going to get blown into kindling. This could wind up being the single most deadly disaster directly attributable to AGW that we have seen yet.
I dunno. Super Typhoon Haiyan killed 6300 in the Philippines alone and had sustained winds of 195mph. That's a pretty hard act to follow.