What's the matter with Page and Brin? Do they worship Mammon that devotedly? Don't they care that Google (Alphabet) is rapidly becoming one of the most hated companies ever? Don't they care about reaching the levels of despicability of Microsoft and Apple?
What's your new motto - Be as Obnoxious as Possible?
I'll have to try DuckDuckGo again. I used for a few weeks earlier this year, and I had to revert to Google - the quality of DuckDuckGo lagged, at the time, well behind that of Google's. I dislike Google more and more - in fact, they look like the MIcrosoft of old more and more with every passing day - but until an independent search engine reaches parity with Google's, I'll have to stick with it.
I mean, what can one do with these devices that can't be done with a $300 phone? Oh, you can do things better? How much better? What's the value of these phones, beyond the status one? And not so much either - anyone can get one those devices by paying little amounts each month over the years. On this basis, why would anyone want to buy one these phones? To play?
The "Don't Be Evil" thing became embarrassingly ridiculous a while ago, which is why you had to ditch it. So, please, do not insult the intelligence of people, Google.
Cracking most of the current asymmetric ciphers. When it comes to symmetric ciphers, quantum computing does indeed help, but it is trivial to enhance existing ciphers so that they become resistant to QC. As for asymmetric ciphers there already are QC-resistant schemes. By the time sufficiently capable QC becomes available (if it ever does) it will probably be a matter of little more than throwing a switch to transition to such schemes.
After 40 years of intense research? I don't think so. It is a dud.
Not necessarily. What happens is that all the easy problems have already been solved. In a number of fields, making further progress has become exponentially more difficult for a while now. Theoretical physics has been mostly stagnant for the last 40 years in part because of that. As far as quantum computing is concerned, 90% of the donkey work is already done. The remaining 10% will take 90% of the total time - assuming that it is doable.
Too soon? He was 96 years old, Nobel laureate, and almost a legend in his field. He lived a long, successful life. What else were you expecting from him?
This would be an ideal job for an expert system. Not the silly Google Assistant (or whatever it's called today), Alexa or Siri, which are good for grins and giggles, and little more. An expert system able to go over all those images and automatically discard the immense majority of the filth would be invaluable.
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What's the matter with Page and Brin? Do they worship Mammon that devotedly? Don't they care that Google (Alphabet) is rapidly becoming one of the most hated companies ever? Don't they care about reaching the levels of despicability of Microsoft and Apple?
What's your new motto - Be as Obnoxious as Possible?
I'll have to try DuckDuckGo again. I used for a few weeks earlier this year, and I had to revert to Google - the quality of DuckDuckGo lagged, at the time, well behind that of Google's. I dislike Google more and more - in fact, they look like the MIcrosoft of old more and more with every passing day - but until an independent search engine reaches parity with Google's, I'll have to stick with it.
That would imply that Tesla cars would not be an option for many any more.
Alexa is very, very stupid. Are you going to pu your health in her hands?
I mean, what can one do with these devices that can't be done with a $300 phone? Oh, you can do things better? How much better? What's the value of these phones, beyond the status one? And not so much either - anyone can get one those devices by paying little amounts each month over the years. On this basis, why would anyone want to buy one these phones? To play?
The "Don't Be Evil" thing became embarrassingly ridiculous a while ago, which is why you had to ditch it. So, please, do not insult the intelligence of people, Google.
Cracking most of the current asymmetric ciphers. When it comes to symmetric ciphers, quantum computing does indeed help, but it is trivial to enhance existing ciphers so that they become resistant to QC. As for asymmetric ciphers there already are QC-resistant schemes. By the time sufficiently capable QC becomes available (if it ever does) it will probably be a matter of little more than throwing a switch to transition to such schemes.
Quantum computing is in its infancy.
After 40 years of intense research? I don't think so. It is a dud.
Not necessarily. What happens is that all the easy problems have already been solved. In a number of fields, making further progress has become exponentially more difficult for a while now. Theoretical physics has been mostly stagnant for the last 40 years in part because of that. As far as quantum computing is concerned, 90% of the donkey work is already done. The remaining 10% will take 90% of the total time - assuming that it is doable.
You are paying for a product, and you put up with this nonsense?
After all, when it comes to being hacked, MS are experts.
When you run Windows in your computer you do not own your computer - MS does. Is it a surprise that every so often they will delete files at will?
Has D-Wave been demonstrably able to handle even one problem faster than a classical computer?
MS is doing this in order to delay the descent of Windows into irrelevance.
Atheist, not athiest. And he became an atheist many decades before he developed old age dementia. You are either ignorant or else a damn fool.
Too soon? He was 96 years old, Nobel laureate, and almost a legend in his field. He lived a long, successful life. What else were you expecting from him?
For the most part, the only thing that they do is generate activity so that they will appear to be busy - meetings, notes, diagrams, etc.
You got it backwards. Such as things are, Microsoft has to do this in order to delay Windows' drift toward irrelevance.
Thus guaranteeing that Linux in the desktop will carry on getting nowhere. By default.
And that is a good thing - how? If I wanted for company to control my entire user experience I already have Apple and MS.
This phone's price is XSessive. I guess so are its bugs.
For years now.
I stopped arguing after my first (and only) coding style war. Life's too short for that kind of nonsense.
This is sure to fill out a much-needed gap in the gaming world.
This would be an ideal job for an expert system. Not the silly Google Assistant (or whatever it's called today), Alexa or Siri, which are good for grins and giggles, and little more. An expert system able to go over all those images and automatically discard the immense majority of the filth would be invaluable.
And the beginning of the beginning of a new AI winter?