obscures the skies, these will be our constellations....interrupted every five minutes or so when the drones re-form themselves into an ad for hemorrhoid cream.
Add SXSW, with its combination of techies, musicians, film people, and general hipsters
I saw this and thought, aw, crap: the hipsters have finally organized into a military hierarchy. I wonder what you have to do to get promoted to Hipster General... does it involve wearing ironically out-of-date plastic frames with zero-prescription lenses while scribbling notes for your YA zombie rom-com novel in a Moleskine notebook using nothing but artisinally-sharpened Blackwing 602 pencils? Or am I just thinking of Hipster Lieutenant Colonel?
"The onboard computer will monitor the temperature of the phone battery. If it sees it is getting too cold, it will trigger a processor intensive program to run on the mobile phone, which will warm it up."
Next time I'm out on a winter day, I'll just turn on my Live Wallpaper with Conway's Life running on an infinite grid. Instant pocket hard-warmer!
I agree. But I think the simple axiom is this: if you use a free service, assume that any information can be sold to anyone for any purpose at any time. If people could be made to understand that, the specifics would almost be uninteresting.
I do agree. Electrolytes are vital to a healthy body, and all it takes to put you in the "too low" category is a 24-hour GI bug accompanied by a half-dozen bouts of screaming into the porcelain microphone.
And did you ever notice that sports drinks with electrolytes (like Gatorade) taste great when you're sweating and salt-deprived, and positively horrible when you're not?
You get as much privacy from Facebook/Gmail/Hotmail/etc as you pay for. Sometimes, you get less. If you're unhappy with those terms, you probably shouldn't use the service.
Going in the other direction, I'm reminded of the robot armies in Stanislaw Lem's "Cyberiad" that were tricked into linking their minds up, soldier-to-soldier. In the end, the two opposing armies coalesced into two mega-minds whose personalities (which had tendencies to intellectual distraction) were completely incapable of carrying out the original task of fighting.
It doesn't matter if we're talking about bouncing between meetings and coding, coding and documentation, or just coding too many unrelated modules -- every time there's a substantial context switch, it takes a little bit for you to get your bearings and get up to speed. Sort of like a vehicle making sharp turns all of the time.
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...by which I mean the hate from Milo Yiannopoulos, of course; not the person posting the article.
'It's an audacious product for a company and no one trusts any company to behave responsibly with our data."
I seriously don't understand the Google hate in the summary. Which company would the OP feel warm and fuzzy about?
You can't take "The Sky" from me!
Oh, come on.... you just have to embiggen your vocabulary a little. And 'ogooglebar' is a perfectly cromulent word.
"WARNING: Do not look into laser beam with remaining eye."
...oh, no remaining eye? Sucks to be you. Or your passengers...
obscures the skies, these will be our constellations. ...interrupted every five minutes or so when the drones re-form themselves into an ad for hemorrhoid cream.
... I feel that this money belongs to mathematics, not to me,' Deligne said, via webcast."
He then went on to demonstrate mathematically that "some" is less than "all" by grabbing the check and running for the hills.
I... don't know where... to click... first...
(keels over)
That's awesome! Why'd you post AC?
(No, wait, I can guess... you're down in Austin RIGHT NOW, aren't you?)
I saw this and thought, aw, crap: the hipsters have finally organized into a military hierarchy. I wonder what you have to do to get promoted to Hipster General... does it involve wearing ironically out-of-date plastic frames with zero-prescription lenses while scribbling notes for your YA zombie rom-com novel in a Moleskine notebook using nothing but artisinally-sharpened Blackwing 602 pencils? Or am I just thinking of Hipster Lieutenant Colonel?
The one that *usually* keeps scientists awake at night is, "how can I get my girlfriend and her cute roommate into bed at the same time?"
There would be plenty of training data. Users of Microsoft systems employ that gesture frequently.
"The onboard computer will monitor the temperature of the phone battery. If it sees it is getting too cold, it will trigger a processor intensive program to run on the mobile phone, which will warm it up."
Next time I'm out on a winter day, I'll just turn on my Live Wallpaper with Conway's Life running on an infinite grid. Instant pocket hard-warmer!
Yup. It's called Hyponatremia: http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/hydrationandfluid/a/Hyponatremia.htm
(Googles "microsoft windows, caffeine, death". )
About 7,950,000 results (0.33 seconds)
Seems legit.
I agree. But I think the simple axiom is this: if you use a free service, assume that any information can be sold to anyone for any purpose at any time.
If people could be made to understand that, the specifics would almost be uninteresting.
I do agree. Electrolytes are vital to a healthy body, and all it takes to put you in the "too low" category is a 24-hour GI bug accompanied by a half-dozen bouts of screaming into the porcelain microphone.
And did you ever notice that sports drinks with electrolytes (like Gatorade) taste great when you're sweating and salt-deprived, and positively horrible when you're not?
You get as much privacy from Facebook/Gmail/Hotmail/etc as you pay for. Sometimes, you get less.
If you're unhappy with those terms, you probably shouldn't use the service.
...is somewhere between 0 and 100kg per day. Now we just need to zero in on the exact number and we'll be all set.
...can someone explain that post using a computer analogy?
Advertising -- especially political advertising -- is about controlling the message.
Social media is about allowing the message to be debated.
If you want the market penetration of social media, fine. But unless you can disable commenting, you have to take the bad with the good.
"First they ignore you..."
Going in the other direction, I'm reminded of the robot armies in Stanislaw Lem's "Cyberiad" that were tricked into linking their minds up, soldier-to-soldier. In the end, the two opposing armies coalesced into two mega-minds whose personalities (which had tendencies to intellectual distraction) were completely incapable of carrying out the original task of fighting.
Clearly we need an RFC for the Brain-To-Brain-Interface Protocol.
Hopefully it'll be built on top of SSL. I don't want someone hacking into my rats.
It doesn't matter if we're talking about bouncing between meetings and coding, coding and documentation, or just coding too many unrelated modules -- every time there's a substantial context switch, it takes a little bit for you to get your bearings and get up to speed. Sort of like a vehicle making sharp turns all of the time.