One should be careful what they wish for, as it just might come true. Cable channels are moving in a direction of letting you choose to get a bundle of streams (which contain a bunch of stuff you don't want) which is suspiciously similar to a cable TV channel bundle, or stream just their channel but have to make an account and manage an app for just that one channel. Do you really want a separate app with a unique UI, for every channel you care about? And an associated username/password and automatic updates to all of those apps? The iOS HBO Go app is 41MB, and ESPN app is 55MB, so 50 channel apps would be ~2GB.
Some channels let you stream through existing streaming apps (e.g. HBO on Amazon Video, IIRC) as addons, and things will likely move in that direction soon... but do we really want a few web companies like Amazon and Apple to be the new gatekeepers rather than Comcast or Time Warner? Who's to say the new boss will be better than the old boss? A few more rounds of mergers and acquisitions and these companies will have conflicts of interest on the scale of Comcast.
The left blind spot on my Prius is so bad that doing a shoulder check is almost pointless, I do anyway due to habit, use the mirrors and pray nothing is small enough to hide in that blind spot. The right blind spot isn't as bad, though still anxiety-inducing. I swear I read something recently about similar tech being used to make the car's hood 'transparent'.
Outwardly it looks almost identical to poliovirus but -- like the difference between a mannequin and person -- it is empty on the inside. It has all the features needed to train the immune system, but none of the weapons to cause an infection.
That's just what the plants WANT us to think. Today it's a vaccine, tomorrow it's a plant-borne pandemic. The Happening was a warning, people!
Given all the people still wary of eating GMOs or anything 'artificial', there will be a large demand for animal meat even if this becomes cheaper. It'll be like HFCS vs. sugar, or vanillin vs vanilla. Personally I'd try it out of curiosity, but I can't shake that quote from Judge Dredd: "Eat recycled food: good for the environment, ok for you." There's something depressingly dystopian/cyberpunk about eating fake meat, conceptually, that reminds me of how in "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" people only own electronic pets because there aren't the resources to support living ones.
The latest LG OLED TVs support HDR10+, Dolby Vision and Hybrid Log Gamma, which will likely cover all the final HDR standards. Haven't looked at Samsung's stuff though.
Sign a contract for service X, get unwanted service Y in addition slipped into the hundreds of pages of legalese. Who's going to refuse to sign mortgage papers over a $43/month bullshit charge? Especially if it's a contract of adhesion and you can't just cross it out? It's like crapware that comes preinstalled on a name-brand computer, they get a kickback for each install. Remember: it's not fraudulent fees and penalties, it's "innovative financial services."
Positive examples are only required for training a neural net. A strong AI could work from general principles: greater numbers of fighters, good; cutting off enemy supply lines, good; element of surprise, good. Enough of these would be sufficient for it to 'take over the world', although it could also do so via a novel method (e.g. ransomware on the world's financial systems, instead of asking for bitcoin they demand a seat on the UN or whatever, use neocolonial tactics with new tech as bargaining chip, demand restitution for abuse of AI.)
So you're saying the paper is fake news? Maybe it has every data type under the sun because it was written by a bot that didn't consider applicability.
I'm waiting for machine learning to be applied to big data on individuals' browsing habits and message history to figure out what individuals are likely to click on, with machine-written fake news articles custom-made for each click, guaranteed to be conformed to your biases and preconceptions. Once this gets turned from "profit-generating clickbait" to "self-writing custom propaganda" it's going to go from a big problem to a huge one. Sure, people can just read/watch trusted static news, but there will be an increasing sense that this is biased, because it doesn't conform to the viewer's own biases.
In Everquest, there was a brief bug where one bank somewhere in the world, exchanged iirc 10 coins for 1 coin of the next highest denomination, when the official exchange rate is supposed to be 100:1. A programmer forgot the exchange rate, and miscoded that bank. People took advantage of it until the developers figured out their mistake and fixed the bank.
Facebook opened up to everyone around the time the iPhone came out, and increased Facebook/social media usage has been correlated with loneliness and depression. Many people use their smartphone to access social media. It might be that social media usage doesn't cause loneliness and depression, and it's only a correlation, but only a correlation was found between these and smartphone usage as well.
So the main feature is that the block size is 8x the size of BTC's. So now instead of the entire network being able to only handle 7 transactions/second it can handle only 56? SWIFT handles ~350 transactions/second on a good day, for comparison. Furthermore, the entire blockchain at this point is currently ~126GB. That's enough to fill up most mobile devices by itself. So with 8x the block size, the blockchain will soon be in the terabytes? Storage isn't getting larger/cheaper at that rate any more. Sounds like someone needs to fix the "you need the entire history of the world's financial transactions" problem next.
The manufacturer could put a (difficult to access) update mechanism on the device, release a minor update shortly after each manufacturing run, and then claim the owner is responsible since they didn't update and their device is therefore unsupported and the shrinkwrap fine print made the owner liable anyhow. Alternatively, they'd just increase the retail cost by the cost of liability insurance to cover that unit being hacked, which would almost certainly be cheaper than hiring competent devs and giving them time to actually secure the device.
We're talking about IoT devices, so by definition, they're connected to the internet. Even if the storage is local (rather than everything being uploaded to the cloud), if the device is hacked, there's potentially no difference.
more of them are deciding that there is value in having developers in the same time zone, or at least on the same continent.
Why not fly those Indian outsourced workers to Mexico, or Nunavut? Same time zone. If the workers act up, threaten to maroon them there. Better yet, North/South Pole, they're in EVERY time zone, simultaneously!
If $10 Quintillion worth of asteroid minerals were brought down on Wall Street all at once, it would cause a huge crash in mineral value, an explosion of trading volume, and enough upheaval in the commodities market, one could call it destructive! In fact, it might crater the whole concept of commodities trading! That's why the old dinosaurs that run the finance sector are afraid of asteroid mining, it could spell their doom!
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One should be careful what they wish for, as it just might come true. Cable channels are moving in a direction of letting you choose to get a bundle of streams (which contain a bunch of stuff you don't want) which is suspiciously similar to a cable TV channel bundle, or stream just their channel but have to make an account and manage an app for just that one channel. Do you really want a separate app with a unique UI, for every channel you care about? And an associated username/password and automatic updates to all of those apps? The iOS HBO Go app is 41MB, and ESPN app is 55MB, so 50 channel apps would be ~2GB.
Some channels let you stream through existing streaming apps (e.g. HBO on Amazon Video, IIRC) as addons, and things will likely move in that direction soon... but do we really want a few web companies like Amazon and Apple to be the new gatekeepers rather than Comcast or Time Warner? Who's to say the new boss will be better than the old boss? A few more rounds of mergers and acquisitions and these companies will have conflicts of interest on the scale of Comcast.
Pluses means 'slightly smaller' and/or more mature/stable, generally allowing greater chip yield and higher clock speed.
Absolutely true, it's comparable to geisha or host clubs.
The left blind spot on my Prius is so bad that doing a shoulder check is almost pointless, I do anyway due to habit, use the mirrors and pray nothing is small enough to hide in that blind spot. The right blind spot isn't as bad, though still anxiety-inducing. I swear I read something recently about similar tech being used to make the car's hood 'transparent'.
Outwardly it looks almost identical to poliovirus but -- like the difference between a mannequin and person -- it is empty on the inside. It has all the features needed to train the immune system, but none of the weapons to cause an infection.
That's just what the plants WANT us to think. Today it's a vaccine, tomorrow it's a plant-borne pandemic. The Happening was a warning, people!
Given all the people still wary of eating GMOs or anything 'artificial', there will be a large demand for animal meat even if this becomes cheaper. It'll be like HFCS vs. sugar, or vanillin vs vanilla.
Personally I'd try it out of curiosity, but I can't shake that quote from Judge Dredd: "Eat recycled food: good for the environment, ok for you." There's something depressingly dystopian/cyberpunk about eating fake meat, conceptually, that reminds me of how in "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" people only own electronic pets because there aren't the resources to support living ones.
The latest LG OLED TVs support HDR10+, Dolby Vision and Hybrid Log Gamma, which will likely cover all the final HDR standards. Haven't looked at Samsung's stuff though.
Sign a contract for service X, get unwanted service Y in addition slipped into the hundreds of pages of legalese. Who's going to refuse to sign mortgage papers over a $43/month bullshit charge? Especially if it's a contract of adhesion and you can't just cross it out? It's like crapware that comes preinstalled on a name-brand computer, they get a kickback for each install. Remember: it's not fraudulent fees and penalties, it's "innovative financial services."
Don't worry, the superintelligent AI software will be written in Ada.
Positive examples are only required for training a neural net. A strong AI could work from general principles: greater numbers of fighters, good; cutting off enemy supply lines, good; element of surprise, good. Enough of these would be sufficient for it to 'take over the world', although it could also do so via a novel method (e.g. ransomware on the world's financial systems, instead of asking for bitcoin they demand a seat on the UN or whatever, use neocolonial tactics with new tech as bargaining chip, demand restitution for abuse of AI.)
Ovaries also count as gonads.
So you're saying the paper is fake news? Maybe it has every data type under the sun because it was written by a bot that didn't consider applicability.
I'm waiting for machine learning to be applied to big data on individuals' browsing habits and message history to figure out what individuals are likely to click on, with machine-written fake news articles custom-made for each click, guaranteed to be conformed to your biases and preconceptions. Once this gets turned from "profit-generating clickbait" to "self-writing custom propaganda" it's going to go from a big problem to a huge one. Sure, people can just read/watch trusted static news, but there will be an increasing sense that this is biased, because it doesn't conform to the viewer's own biases.
According to this page, a Model 3 with every option costs $59,500.
Blah, knew I was right the first time. I couldn't remember, or find a reference easily which specified.
In Everquest, there was a brief bug where one bank somewhere in the world, exchanged iirc 10 coins for 1 coin of the next highest denomination, when the official exchange rate is supposed to be 100:1. A programmer forgot the exchange rate, and miscoded that bank. People took advantage of it until the developers figured out their mistake and fixed the bank.
Facebook opened up to everyone around the time the iPhone came out, and increased Facebook/social media usage has been correlated with loneliness and depression. Many people use their smartphone to access social media. It might be that social media usage doesn't cause loneliness and depression, and it's only a correlation, but only a correlation was found between these and smartphone usage as well.
Being outside on the south side of Chicago is deadly, too, due to a climate of gang violence. No 80 year wait required.
So the main feature is that the block size is 8x the size of BTC's. So now instead of the entire network being able to only handle 7 transactions/second it can handle only 56? SWIFT handles ~350 transactions/second on a good day, for comparison. Furthermore, the entire blockchain at this point is currently ~126GB. That's enough to fill up most mobile devices by itself. So with 8x the block size, the blockchain will soon be in the terabytes? Storage isn't getting larger/cheaper at that rate any more. Sounds like someone needs to fix the "you need the entire history of the world's financial transactions" problem next.
So this technique could be used to eliminate the problems of inbreeding depression, right?
Asking for a friend.
will have two reactors for the total power output of 2.4GWe
So those nuclear reactors each produce 1.21 Jigawatts? Great Scott!
you can masturbate on your solar panels as much as you can
That would reduce their efficiency.
My universal constructor is UL approved, but the identical copy isn't. Good luck proving which is which!
The manufacturer could put a (difficult to access) update mechanism on the device, release a minor update shortly after each manufacturing run, and then claim the owner is responsible since they didn't update and their device is therefore unsupported and the shrinkwrap fine print made the owner liable anyhow.
Alternatively, they'd just increase the retail cost by the cost of liability insurance to cover that unit being hacked, which would almost certainly be cheaper than hiring competent devs and giving them time to actually secure the device.
We're talking about IoT devices, so by definition, they're connected to the internet. Even if the storage is local (rather than everything being uploaded to the cloud), if the device is hacked, there's potentially no difference.
more of them are deciding that there is value in having developers in the same time zone, or at least on the same continent.
Why not fly those Indian outsourced workers to Mexico, or Nunavut? Same time zone. If the workers act up, threaten to maroon them there. Better yet, North/South Pole, they're in EVERY time zone, simultaneously!
If $10 Quintillion worth of asteroid minerals were brought down on Wall Street all at once, it would cause a huge crash in mineral value, an explosion of trading volume, and enough upheaval in the commodities market, one could call it destructive! In fact, it might crater the whole concept of commodities trading! That's why the old dinosaurs that run the finance sector are afraid of asteroid mining, it could spell their doom!