The Indian government still refuses to provide running water, electricity and sanitation to the more than 600 million Indian citizens who lack such services, choosing instead to devote resources to international pissing contests.
The AI community has been spewing out mostly hype and preposterous forecasts for almost 60 years now. Sure, we have Watson and the Go champ, but translations remain only marginally useful, and chatbots seem to become, if anything, more pathetic with every passing year. As an academic discipline, AI remains tainted, and all this hype is only going to make things worse, in this respect, once it becomes clear that it can not live up (as usual) to expectations.
Once more, politicians showing their complete ignorance of the way Internet works. But, extra points to the UK in its efforts to become a police state.
They were too late to the game. If they had been first they probably would have been the standard.
They were very early to the game. They were there way, way before iOS and Android. They could have owned the market. But, they failed. Ignominiously. Abjectly. As it behooves the despicable company that they have always been. And thank goodness for that.
But it is not. Not yet. And, it has something in common with another failed technology: the need to wear some glasses that are uncomfortable and make you look like a complete dork. I expect that 3D will take off the day that those ridiculous glasses are not necessary any more. As for VR - well, we'll have to wait for a version of the Holodeck, however crude it may be initially.
If this pans out, the Middle East problems will become largely irrelevant, outside the Middle East. And Saudi Arabia will revert to what it always was.
First one would have to come up with scientific proof that telepathy even exists. Such proof is sorely lacking, after 60 years or more of anecdotal, or dubious, or just plain fake claims.
I mean, Microsoft fcuking up something is not news - it's what they are best at. Consider yourself middle-fingered, Microsoft - and, today, it is much more than just me saying so.
The dominance of MS in the desktop is an excellent situation for those of us who like Linux in such an environment: all the security issues will be blamed on Microsoft, and the bad guys will continue focusing on Windows, leaving us mostly alone. We might not get access to the latest and greatest hardware immediately, and we might not have some key applications (none, in my case - YMMV) albeit a Windows VM (or even Wine) fixes that. But we enjoy a fully functional desktop, that does everything that we want, that is secure and (when avoiding the Windows wannabees hogs that are KDE and (especially) Gnome) efficient. Thank you, Microsoft. May things continue this way indefinitely.
Your new Google News format sucks to high heaven on anything that is not a mobile phone or a small tablet. But, even worse, it is stupid. It egregiously fails at detecting one's location correctly on desktop system, thus foisting on many us news about places we couldn't care less about. And you, in your very finite wisdom, have decided not to provide an option to override this. This aside, your news feeds are embarrassingly provincial - it is as though you were striving to cater for those individuals who never leave their village, and are proud of it. Rest assured that my go-to news page will not be Google News any more, not on my desktop, not on my mobile phone. On the positive side, at least you now provide the option to select Fahrenheit or Celsius, rather than forcing one or the other depending on localization - which you get wrong all too often, at least on desktop systems. Finally, thanks for dispelling that preposterous notion that only geniuses work for Google.
Like I have asked before, what am I missing really?
The possibility of logging in to all sorts of sites for making comments, without having to supply any relevant credentials. That's the only thing that I use Facebook for. I don't know what is in my account; probably it is overflowing with trash. That's what Facebook is good for - as a trash sink.
India can (and should) now develop an industry to provide with electricity, running water and sanitation to the more than 600 million Indian citizens who lack such basic facilities - there is more than enough work for everybody when it comes to implementing such a program. Of course, the Indian government will do nothing of the sort, preferring instead to devote resources to me-too international pissing contests, as it has historically done.
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The Indian government still refuses to provide running water, electricity and sanitation to the more than 600 million Indian citizens who lack such services, choosing instead to devote resources to international pissing contests.
The AI community has been spewing out mostly hype and preposterous forecasts for almost 60 years now. Sure, we have Watson and the Go champ, but translations remain only marginally useful, and chatbots seem to become, if anything, more pathetic with every passing year. As an academic discipline, AI remains tainted, and all this hype is only going to make things worse, in this respect, once it becomes clear that it can not live up (as usual) to expectations.
Once more, politicians showing their complete ignorance of the way Internet works. But, extra points to the UK in its efforts to become a police state.
Having worked as a consultant across many industries. In general I have found they are more Layoffs in Unioned shops then with Non-Unioned shops.
Anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all.
They were too late to the game. If they had been first they probably would have been the standard.
They were very early to the game. They were there way, way before iOS and Android. They could have owned the market. But, they failed. Ignominiously. Abjectly. As it behooves the despicable company that they have always been. And thank goodness for that.
But it is not. Not yet. And, it has something in common with another failed technology: the need to wear some glasses that are uncomfortable and make you look like a complete dork. I expect that 3D will take off the day that those ridiculous glasses are not necessary any more. As for VR - well, we'll have to wait for a version of the Holodeck, however crude it may be initially.
If this pans out, the Middle East problems will become largely irrelevant, outside the Middle East. And Saudi Arabia will revert to what it always was.
Religious zealot and illiterate. Cool.
First one would have to come up with scientific proof that telepathy even exists. Such proof is sorely lacking, after 60 years or more of anecdotal, or dubious, or just plain fake claims.
To do whatever it takes to piss you, the end user. As usual, a big middle finger for you, Microsoft.
I mean, Microsoft fcuking up something is not news - it's what they are best at. Consider yourself middle-fingered, Microsoft - and, today, it is much more than just me saying so.
To me, it is not worth $15/month. It is not worth a dime above $5/month. To me. I imagine many will disagree.
After all, Samsung has a proven track record in that respect.
Maybe those made redundant got an explosive Samsung in compensation.
Which consist of making Linux more and more similar to Windows, including the presence of serious bugs for years.
The dominance of MS in the desktop is an excellent situation for those of us who like Linux in such an environment: all the security issues will be blamed on Microsoft, and the bad guys will continue focusing on Windows, leaving us mostly alone. We might not get access to the latest and greatest hardware immediately, and we might not have some key applications (none, in my case - YMMV) albeit a Windows VM (or even Wine) fixes that. But we enjoy a fully functional desktop, that does everything that we want, that is secure and (when avoiding the Windows wannabees hogs that are KDE and (especially) Gnome) efficient. Thank you, Microsoft. May things continue this way indefinitely.
The vast majority of supporters of the buffoon-in-chief not only do not like science, but they actively despise it.
Your new Google News format sucks to high heaven on anything that is not a mobile phone or a small tablet. But, even worse, it is stupid. It egregiously fails at detecting one's location correctly on desktop system, thus foisting on many us news about places we couldn't care less about. And you, in your very finite wisdom, have decided not to provide an option to override this. This aside, your news feeds are embarrassingly provincial - it is as though you were striving to cater for those individuals who never leave their village, and are proud of it. Rest assured that my go-to news page will not be Google News any more, not on my desktop, not on my mobile phone. On the positive side, at least you now provide the option to select Fahrenheit or Celsius, rather than forcing one or the other depending on localization - which you get wrong all too often, at least on desktop systems. Finally, thanks for dispelling that preposterous notion that only geniuses work for Google.
Like just about everything from Microsoft.
Like I have asked before, what am I missing really?
The possibility of logging in to all sorts of sites for making comments, without having to supply any relevant credentials. That's the only thing that I use Facebook for. I don't know what is in my account; probably it is overflowing with trash. That's what Facebook is good for - as a trash sink.
After all, it is a Samsung device - their explosive capabilities are given.
The upshot is, Microsoft, once again, has been caught lying. Which is, of course, not news. Consider yourself middle-fingered, Microsoft.
India can (and should) now develop an industry to provide with electricity, running water and sanitation to the more than 600 million Indian citizens who lack such basic facilities - there is more than enough work for everybody when it comes to implementing such a program. Of course, the Indian government will do nothing of the sort, preferring instead to devote resources to me-too international pissing contests, as it has historically done.
I do it all the time. The thing is, I can't tell what it is that they are replying, or even if they are replying.
Two words: "priviledge" and "escalation".
One word: "privilege". A comment: Glaring spelling mistakes make one look stupid and ignorant.