Exactly my point. when Apple uses my data, it's to improve my user experience with Apple hardware and software. When Google uses my data, I have no idea where it goes. Most likely to improve "targeted" advertising, but they will literally sell that information to anyone willing to pay.
Why would anyone want a celebrity to give an answer? Do people think that somehow math or history answers are better because some actor or musician gives it?
Idiocracy, I thought you were a joke...
I'd pay money to have Bill Murray respond to your question with "Lighten up, Francis." Because not everything is life or death. Geez, who wouldn't want will Ferrell personally answering "What's the best way to spread Christmas cheer?"
That's a valid reason to complain about energy required to perform transactions, but not mining.
For mining, you can be either for or against pissing away horrific amounts of energy to mine BTC, but its efficiency or inefficiency is an artificial design choice that the system must follow.
So, when the "value" of Bitcoin is assessed, why isn't it automatically devalued by the energy cost associated with creating it?
iPhone is also trying to get me fired for sexual harassment. Yesterday, when attempting to text my (opposite-sex) boss with "Done." I fat-fingered and actually typed "Dome." Siri, in her infinite wisdom, corrected that to "Do me." Just dumb luck that I looked at the screen before hitting send.
There's also something about the reletive position of the batter. That's why switch hitters generally bat left when a lefty is on the mound.
Not just the relative position--the absolute position gives an advantage too. A left-handed batter starts out one step closer to first base. Grounders turn into actual races.
Just to be clear, are you speaking Southern-English-English (aka Cockney, Home Counties/London, RP, Queen's, etc), Midlands-English-English (East or West), or one of those obscure West-Country-English-English or East-Anglian-English-English dialects... Or are you not really a speaker of English-English, but maybe some bastardized non-English-English like Welsh-English, or Scottish-English...
Not sure which one it is, but can we please lose the dialect that doesn't have a th? I'm not normally violent, but it makes me want to punch its speakers in the "mouf."
Regardless of your definition of civilization, if you're in an urban area and 500 people live in the same building, then there is *some* infrastructure already in place to protect your deliveries (manager, concierge, whatever), and no need for Amazon to create something new. This discussion has always centered on the use case of the single-family dwelling.
I'm actually kinda surprised Amazon didn't see this one coming?
I mean, they're not generally stupid.....Do all the people at Amazon working on this "solution" freely admit strangers into their homes when they are away?
Clearly, they're such geniuses that they completely overthought the problem. Simpler solution? The wall-mounted button for EVERY garage door opener is just a momentary switch that closes a circuit. Put some sort of Alexa-enabled device in parallel with that, and hand out two-time keys (one for open, one for close) to the company doing the delivery. Hell, you could even put a camera and recording chip in the device, and customers could watch their deliveries live or recorded for fraud protection. The entry to the house would stay locked. I would be willing to bet that a HUGE number of their total customers have garage doors and would be interested, way more than just 42% of Prime customers. And bookmark this post as prior art in case they try to patent it.
Now show me a modern, HDMI-equipped receiver that sounds anywhere as near as good as my circa 1998 NAD T750.
I see you got burned by being a surround sound early adopter, but I bet you can easily find a modern receiver that's just as good as that one.
Believe me, I've tried to source a replacement for years. I would love to get a system with a microphone to balance the surrounds. Everything that gets good reviews on audio quality (Onkyo, Polk, Yamaha) also has extreme reliability problems (like, people getting repaired 4-5 times under warranty, and then "final" death shortly after the warranty expires).
I know 3.5mm cable isn't the most reliable, but you'll already be on a site that sells RG-6 3.5mm to RCA adapter cables:
https://www.monoprice.com/prod...
Yeah, I've got one of those for my Philips UHD/3D player. I can't even imagine being willing to pay Oppo prices.
As to why they'd remove SPDIF from Apple TV etc. what the fuck was it ever doing there? If I plugged the optical cable from the Apple TV to the amplifier, and then switched the TV to a broadcast channel, the audio would still come from the Apple TV. This is why they put the port on the TV, and its the only place it should ever be.
Sadly, the most modern TV sets with OLED have re-introduced screen burn-in. An optical audio cable separate from HDMI lets me turn off the TV when I'm "watching" an audio-only channel with a static image (I'm looking at YOU, PBS!).
Great. Now show me a modern, HDMI-equipped receiver that sounds anywhere as near as good as my circa 1998 NAD T750. As long as I can get a Blu Ray player with 5.1 analog audio output, I'll be set for discs and streaming, but I need that Toslink output (and a decoder box) from my TV for OTA broadcasts.
To those on slashdot who believe that this limited application truly implies Artificial Intelligence: I challenge this software to make a peanut butter sandwich.
From TFA: "People You May Know suggestions are not informed by your smartphone’s Location Services." Which is an interesting set of weasel-words. It may not use the phone's Location Services, but if the app is looking at available Access Points, it could be feeding requests to a *Facebook* Location Service.
However, if you have an $800 phone that you drop in a glass of water, and it is ruined because of water leaking in through a 3.5mm jack, that really sucks. I'll accept bluetooth or a walled garden as the price of water-resistance.
Nice try if they think they have a claim. That "D" stands for Digital, remember? Nintendo only ever released hte material in analog format. There may be other copyright grounds upon which to base takedown notices, but DMCA won't be one of them.
In my case at least, any time I would want to have cellular access via the watch alone (running, biking) would be followed by a period when I could top off the charge level (while I'm in the shower).
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Exactly my point. when Apple uses my data, it's to improve my user experience with Apple hardware and software. When Google uses my data, I have no idea where it goes. Most likely to improve "targeted" advertising, but they will literally sell that information to anyone willing to pay.
...and to whom they are selling the data. At least I know Apple isn't monetizing the information about where I drive.
Why would anyone want a celebrity to give an answer? Do people think that somehow math or history answers are better because some actor or musician gives it?
Idiocracy, I thought you were a joke...
I'd pay money to have Bill Murray respond to your question with "Lighten up, Francis." Because not everything is life or death. Geez, who wouldn't want will Ferrell personally answering "What's the best way to spread Christmas cheer?"
That's a valid reason to complain about energy required to perform transactions, but not mining.
For mining, you can be either for or against pissing away horrific amounts of energy to mine BTC, but its efficiency or inefficiency is an artificial design choice that the system must follow.
So, when the "value" of Bitcoin is assessed, why isn't it automatically devalued by the energy cost associated with creating it?
iPhone is also trying to get me fired for sexual harassment. Yesterday, when attempting to text my (opposite-sex) boss with "Done." I fat-fingered and actually typed "Dome." Siri, in her infinite wisdom, corrected that to "Do me." Just dumb luck that I looked at the screen before hitting send.
There's also something about the reletive position of the batter. That's why switch hitters generally bat left when a lefty is on the mound.
Not just the relative position--the absolute position gives an advantage too. A left-handed batter starts out one step closer to first base. Grounders turn into actual races.
...when you can input a photograph of an airplane and the Navier-Stokes equation, and get a flight simulator as output.
Just to be clear, are you speaking Southern-English-English (aka Cockney, Home Counties/London, RP, Queen's, etc), Midlands-English-English (East or West), or one of those obscure West-Country-English-English or East-Anglian-English-English dialects... Or are you not really a speaker of English-English, but maybe some bastardized non-English-English like Welsh-English, or Scottish-English...
Not sure which one it is, but can we please lose the dialect that doesn't have a th? I'm not normally violent, but it makes me want to punch its speakers in the "mouf."
Regardless of your definition of civilization, if you're in an urban area and 500 people live in the same building, then there is *some* infrastructure already in place to protect your deliveries (manager, concierge, whatever), and no need for Amazon to create something new. This discussion has always centered on the use case of the single-family dwelling.
I'm actually kinda surprised Amazon didn't see this one coming?
I mean, they're not generally stupid.....Do all the people at Amazon working on this "solution" freely admit strangers into their homes when they are away?
Clearly, they're such geniuses that they completely overthought the problem. Simpler solution? The wall-mounted button for EVERY garage door opener is just a momentary switch that closes a circuit. Put some sort of Alexa-enabled device in parallel with that, and hand out two-time keys (one for open, one for close) to the company doing the delivery. Hell, you could even put a camera and recording chip in the device, and customers could watch their deliveries live or recorded for fraud protection. The entry to the house would stay locked. I would be willing to bet that a HUGE number of their total customers have garage doors and would be interested, way more than just 42% of Prime customers. And bookmark this post as prior art in case they try to patent it.
Now show me a modern, HDMI-equipped receiver that sounds anywhere as near as good as my circa 1998 NAD T750.
I see you got burned by being a surround sound early adopter, but I bet you can easily find a modern receiver that's just as good as that one.
Believe me, I've tried to source a replacement for years. I would love to get a system with a microphone to balance the surrounds. Everything that gets good reviews on audio quality (Onkyo, Polk, Yamaha) also has extreme reliability problems (like, people getting repaired 4-5 times under warranty, and then "final" death shortly after the warranty expires).
I know 3.5mm cable isn't the most reliable, but you'll already be on a site that sells RG-6 3.5mm to RCA adapter cables: https://www.monoprice.com/prod...
Yeah, I've got one of those for my Philips UHD/3D player. I can't even imagine being willing to pay Oppo prices.
As to why they'd remove SPDIF from Apple TV etc. what the fuck was it ever doing there? If I plugged the optical cable from the Apple TV to the amplifier, and then switched the TV to a broadcast channel, the audio would still come from the Apple TV. This is why they put the port on the TV, and its the only place it should ever be.
Sadly, the most modern TV sets with OLED have re-introduced screen burn-in. An optical audio cable separate from HDMI lets me turn off the TV when I'm "watching" an audio-only channel with a static image (I'm looking at YOU, PBS!).
Digital optical is utterly inferior to HDMI Audio. It only supports 2 channels uncompressed, anything other than that. 2.1, 5.1, 7.1 is compressed.
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Great. Now show me a modern, HDMI-equipped receiver that sounds anywhere as near as good as my circa 1998 NAD T750. As long as I can get a Blu Ray player with 5.1 analog audio output, I'll be set for discs and streaming, but I need that Toslink output (and a decoder box) from my TV for OTA broadcasts.
I can't tell if that's just snark, or a suggestion to close them out on meh.com.
To those on slashdot who believe that this limited application truly implies Artificial Intelligence: I challenge this software to make a peanut butter sandwich.
And why would you want to? "Nuclear Winter" is the quickest and easiest solution to global warming.
From TFA: "People You May Know suggestions are not informed by your smartphone’s Location Services." Which is an interesting set of weasel-words. It may not use the phone's Location Services, but if the app is looking at available Access Points, it could be feeding requests to a *Facebook* Location Service.
Agreed. Take, for example, Seveneves. Wonderfully descriptive, but so preposterous my disbelief was not only not suspended, but turned into scorn
Same issues in Snowcrash and Zodiac. I keep promising myself to re-read Interface after the 2016 election.
Opts? Isn't that the only thing he can do?
Well, he did save jazz...
If he wasnt dead, that destroys the perfect ending now does it not?
Nope. It's just the "Shane" ending.
The most burdensome baggage for Villeneuve to carry, sadly, is the Blade Runner story itself.
So, wherever he felt he could break out of the Blade Runner baggage, he instead copied from A Clockwork Orange.
However, if you have an $800 phone that you drop in a glass of water, and it is ruined because of water leaking in through a 3.5mm jack, that really sucks. I'll accept bluetooth or a walled garden as the price of water-resistance.
Nintendo's DMCA Takedown in 3... 2... 1...
Nice try if they think they have a claim. That "D" stands for Digital, remember? Nintendo only ever released hte material in analog format. There may be other copyright grounds upon which to base takedown notices, but DMCA won't be one of them.
In my case at least, any time I would want to have cellular access via the watch alone (running, biking) would be followed by a period when I could top off the charge level (while I'm in the shower).