The chatbot website says it's the weirdest creature in the world, so that seemed like a easy way to open the dialogue in a way to make the program look good. Nope:
Q: Why're you called "the weirdest creature in the world?" A: Could you rephrase your question? I've been bewildered a bit!
Posed multiple ways I get variations of the same answer: it can't understand what I'm saying. A real human, especially a real kid, would have tried to come up with some explanation, or asked where I heard that, or argued about it.
I was grabbing my dad's books off the computer room floor and reading them when he was busy. Authors like Clifford D. Simak and Frederik Pohl. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, whose name I recognized from the BYTE Magazines my dad got. Robert Sheckley's very funny short stories. Later, Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, and so on. I tried some of the Heinlein juvenile books from the school library later, but they seemed written for, well... kids.
Why don't you start him with some short stories? You could go with an anthology, but I'm actually thinking you should grab the latest science fiction magazines from the bookstore. Those usually have good stories with rapidly developing action, and also often throw in some nonfiction articles about space exploration or scientific discoveries. As a bonus, if he likes the format and length of these, you can buy him his own subscription, or make a point of taking him to the bookstore and let him pull them off the rack himself, to get him comfortable with the idea.
Okay. I've had Spokeo remove my data before, and assumed I'd be gone when I double checked today. Nope: they have/had multiple records for me, showing multiple addresses, and a lot of personal data. So I told them to remove the listings again. Let's see how long it lasts, this time.
Perhaps even worse, though, is that in each case they had an partial email account listed for me, ending in @aol.com. I haven't had AOL since the 80s, (QuantumLink, PC-Link, etc.) but I have had a couple of AOL IM accounts, and these days those come with @aol.com email addresses. I've never ever used or given anyone those email addresses, so AOL must have sold that private data.
It's a 10mile 'radius' square. So each square is 20x20 = 400 square miles. 6 of them makes 2,400sqm. Now he said that they overlapped a bit, but then the 21MB includes other cached maps as well, not just the permanent ones, so lets call it even.
3,794,083/2,400 = 1,581, so 33GB.
Then take into account, that GP most likely saved map data in a city (higher density), which the vast majority of the USA is not, and it's likely comparable.
You pretty much hit all of it. Not to mention, I never said it was the best, just saying that even the app that was complained about for not having a feature actually has that feature:)
There is an app for that, seriously there are multiple apps for that.
Heck, even Google Maps on Android will cache map data (no pictures or traffic). Enable the option in Labs, go back to the area you want to cache and long-press in the middle, then click the option to cache it, and you'll get a 10 mile square around that spot. Yes, you can do multiple squares, too: I did 6 somewhat overlapping squares tonight, and it says they take up 21MB.
I'm sure if they could sell cable-less HBO subscriptions they would.
There is no technical reason why they can't. And I'm not buying the idea that cable companies have any real power over HBO; it's not like they can threaten not to carry the channel any more, when it's probably their most popular premium channel.
I'm glad to see somebody mention ad server response times. That is by far the biggest factor in slow page loads for me. I don't hesitate to move on to the next site when a site is sitting there waiting for an ad server to deliver content.
I don't mind too much opening multiple tabs in order to let one load on my desktop, but it really sucks on my phone. Just yesterday I installed Adblock (Or Adblock Plus, whichever it was) on Firefox for Android; hopefully it's as good as the desktop version of ABP.
often times they don't even vet the advertisers so that they become a vector of malware payloads, and ruin it for everyone else.
This and the fact that third party ad server response can significantly delay page loading is why I pretty much only whitelist sites that handle ads in house. Once a site sells space to a network that partners with other networks (which most do), it becomes anyone's guess what will come out.
I still have some from when I was a little boy and my parents brought home their used mylar gold/metallic green tape, and we made Christmas tree chains.
I agree. About two months ago a 2TB drive I'd set aside for backup purposes grindingly crashed when I attempted to check to see if anything was on it. Turned out it was one of a batch of Seagate drives with bad firmware; they'd made a patch available but didn't make it easy to use back when I'd filled the drive already, and I forgot later. (And since I've now read several batches of different models have had different types of firmware-based failures, Seagate's been booted from my list of vendors.) The sticking point, of course, is that new 2TB drives are more expensive now than they were back when I bought mine.
I dumped that for Synaptic Package Manager as soon as I could. Don't need to be loading lots of graphics and junk on my lightweight netbook when I'm just trying to manage packages through a menu.
Doesn't it suggest that the Earth was heated up a lot at the time? That could have jumpstarted the greenhouse engine. Could have altered its orbit, too, probably.
And remember, only Black Hats write "cracking software". White Hats offer "security affirmation solutions". There's a difference, although it's usually isolated around the price tag.
Costs a lot to keep a hat purty white. You can't just throw it in the laundry.
I first heard about them a year ago from a buddy when I was looking to move from register.com. I stayed with Register one more year, but a couple of weeks ago it was time to renew again and I asked my buddy if he still liked Namecheap. If anything, he loved them even more than he did before, so I jumped.
I don't have a ton of experience with registrars, this being only my third since 1998 (grin), but they seem fine to me so far.
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Is it coded in Lua for use as a WoW addon? Because I think Barrens Chat is full of copies, already.
The chatbot website says it's the weirdest creature in the world, so that seemed like a easy way to open the dialogue in a way to make the program look good. Nope:
Posed multiple ways I get variations of the same answer: it can't understand what I'm saying. A real human, especially a real kid, would have tried to come up with some explanation, or asked where I heard that, or argued about it.
They just wanted nice RIM jobs, but are going to get it up the ass instead, when they have to re-enter the job market.
I was grabbing my dad's books off the computer room floor and reading them when he was busy. Authors like Clifford D. Simak and Frederik Pohl. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, whose name I recognized from the BYTE Magazines my dad got. Robert Sheckley's very funny short stories. Later, Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, and so on. I tried some of the Heinlein juvenile books from the school library later, but they seemed written for, well... kids.
Why don't you start him with some short stories? You could go with an anthology, but I'm actually thinking you should grab the latest science fiction magazines from the bookstore. Those usually have good stories with rapidly developing action, and also often throw in some nonfiction articles about space exploration or scientific discoveries. As a bonus, if he likes the format and length of these, you can buy him his own subscription, or make a point of taking him to the bookstore and let him pull them off the rack himself, to get him comfortable with the idea.
Okay. I've had Spokeo remove my data before, and assumed I'd be gone when I double checked today. Nope: they have/had multiple records for me, showing multiple addresses, and a lot of personal data. So I told them to remove the listings again. Let's see how long it lasts, this time.
Perhaps even worse, though, is that in each case they had an partial email account listed for me, ending in @aol.com. I haven't had AOL since the 80s, (QuantumLink, PC-Link, etc.) but I have had a couple of AOL IM accounts, and these days those come with @aol.com email addresses. I've never ever used or given anyone those email addresses, so AOL must have sold that private data.
It's a 10mile 'radius' square. So each square is 20x20 = 400 square miles. 6 of them makes 2,400sqm. Now he said that they overlapped a bit, but then the 21MB includes other cached maps as well, not just the permanent ones, so lets call it even.
3,794,083/2,400 = 1,581, so 33GB.
Then take into account, that GP most likely saved map data in a city (higher density), which the vast majority of the USA is not, and it's likely comparable.
You pretty much hit all of it. Not to mention, I never said it was the best, just saying that even the app that was complained about for not having a feature actually has that feature :)
There is an app for that, seriously there are multiple apps for that.
Heck, even Google Maps on Android will cache map data (no pictures or traffic). Enable the option in Labs, go back to the area you want to cache and long-press in the middle, then click the option to cache it, and you'll get a 10 mile square around that spot. Yes, you can do multiple squares, too: I did 6 somewhat overlapping squares tonight, and it says they take up 21MB.
I'm sure if they could sell cable-less HBO subscriptions they would.
There is no technical reason why they can't. And I'm not buying the idea that cable companies have any real power over HBO; it's not like they can threaten not to carry the channel any more, when it's probably their most popular premium channel.
If you are a Netflix subscriber in the US, it costs you nothing extra.
Doesn't come up when I search Netflix. I just get "Game of Death," "The Game of Death," "Assassination Games," and so on.
I'm glad to see somebody mention ad server response times. That is by far the biggest factor in slow page loads for me. I don't hesitate to move on to the next site when a site is sitting there waiting for an ad server to deliver content.
I don't mind too much opening multiple tabs in order to let one load on my desktop, but it really sucks on my phone.
Just yesterday I installed Adblock (Or Adblock Plus, whichever it was) on Firefox for Android; hopefully it's as good as the desktop version of ABP.
often times they don't even vet the advertisers so that they become a vector of malware payloads, and ruin it for everyone else.
This and the fact that third party ad server response can significantly delay page loading is why I pretty much only whitelist sites that handle ads in house. Once a site sells space to a network that partners with other networks (which most do), it becomes anyone's guess what will come out.
...why not punch tape?
I still have some from when I was a little boy and my parents brought home their used mylar gold/metallic green tape, and we made Christmas tree chains.
I agree. About two months ago a 2TB drive I'd set aside for backup purposes grindingly crashed when I attempted to check to see if anything was on it. Turned out it was one of a batch of Seagate drives with bad firmware; they'd made a patch available but didn't make it easy to use back when I'd filled the drive already, and I forgot later. (And since I've now read several batches of different models have had different types of firmware-based failures, Seagate's been booted from my list of vendors.) The sticking point, of course, is that new 2TB drives are more expensive now than they were back when I bought mine.
Thanks for the link!
If by "priceless" you mean "gay", yes.
You think they're fabulous?
Does Linux Mint support installing to encrypted LVM, like the alt-ISO for Ubuntu does?
If it does, I'll give it a try.
I dumped that for Synaptic Package Manager as soon as I could.
Don't need to be loading lots of graphics and junk on my lightweight netbook when I'm just trying to manage packages through a menu.
I guess Discovery's standards are continuing to fall.
Last time I went to the site I saw articles on things like alien abduction.
Doesn't it suggest that the Earth was heated up a lot at the time? That could have jumpstarted the greenhouse engine.
Could have altered its orbit, too, probably.
Hope it has MoonPies :)
I don't expect many current smartphones to still be in use 4 years later.
In fact, I might rename my phone "Roy," if that's not too Batty.
In Australia we call them Ranga's.
Calling them orangutans is particularly offensive.
Meh, I went in about fifteen years ago with a friend and asked for a flux capacitor, then watched the sales guy search for one for ten minutes.
It hasn't really been Radio Shack for a long time.
Yeah, those haven't been around since '88.
And remember, only Black Hats write "cracking software". White Hats offer "security affirmation solutions". There's a difference, although it's usually isolated around the price tag.
Costs a lot to keep a hat purty white. You can't just throw it in the laundry.
I first heard about them a year ago from a buddy when I was looking to move from register.com. I stayed with Register one more year, but a couple of weeks ago it was time to renew again and I asked my buddy if he still liked Namecheap. If anything, he loved them even more than he did before, so I jumped.
I don't have a ton of experience with registrars, this being only my third since 1998 (grin), but they seem fine to me so far.