> Perhaps it's monitoring the keyboard for input, monitoring the file structure for changes
Um, real operating systems, used by those who wear big boy pants, have APIs to give you a callback when there are changes to a folder you designate for watching.
Emacs is very popular. Popularity seems to correlate highly with the set of users who once started up Emacs, were unable to figure out how to exit from Emacs, then had no choice but to write Emacs Lisp extensions to accomplish all other necessary tasks.
Um, excuse me? There is nothing wrong with using Javascript and a cross platform framework for drawing the cursor.
Just be sure that each time the cursor is redrawn (even if it hasn't changed appearance from the last refresh) that you launch that Javascript environment in a fresh sandboxed VM. For safety. Think of the children.
Mobile phone manufacturers place a high priority on battery safety, as long as they don't have to actually do anything about safety. Especially if it costs any money. Or doesn't allow phones to continue their evolution towards paper thin.
There are people who want to make movies with original ideas. But this involves some amount of risk. So Hollywood won't make it. If you want original ideas, sometimes you find them in independent films. Occasionally one of those makes it big. Sort of like how some musicians can make it without traditional record labels.
While I agree that there should be more intelligent movies and in particular Sci-Fi; the problem is that a large part of the population prefers ignorance. Hence they are only serving what the market wants. Then they complain that the market doesn't want it and movie attendance is down because the ignorant poor slobs can't pay high enough prices for tickets so that movie executives can afford more blow and hookers.
Taste is affected by whether the person smokes or not. That is purely subjective based on experience. It is not based on any objective type of measurements.
This drip and dribble of single techs to extend the smartphone is maddening.
How about Two new peripheral devices for smart phones:
1. device to stimulate production of the sperm sample
2. device to check sperm quality / quantity
If they connect via USB then they could be made to work with laptops as well as smartphones.
The reason Apple removed the headphone jack was because Apple's, and only Apple's customer base were molesting the headphone jack. Other smart phone manufacturers don't have this problem with their customers.
Integrate peripheral support directly into an app such as Grindr. Sperm quality would then be one more selection criteria along with photo, cut/uncut status, size, etc.
But then, why is sperm quality a major selection criteria?
But I don't want to talk to a call center. I want to talk to a human being. Oh, wait. I say that already, even before robots are introduced. Although they seem like robots. Their programming is fairly rigid.
In this scenario, the telecom workers could switch to coal mining which has a big future under the current administration, I hear, according to campaign promises.
Imagine if a foreign power could hack all the Deere equipment right at harvest time. However, that would be as unlikely as hacking a national election.
Trump may support going to Mars. But that does not mean that food or oxygen will be in the budget for such an adventure. After all, personal responsibility. Do the astronauts expect the taxpayers to pay for them while they are floating around doing nothing that helps put coal miners back to work?
There are not enough people to kill in space yet. Or on other planets or planetary bodies. Therefore it doesn't deserve the same budget that we spend to kill people who are not white christian heterosexual rich males born on the right piece of land.
What if there is no negligence? What if the manufacturers of two self crashing cars both exercised due care in their development? Even so, a crash is inevitable sooner or later.
Accidents can be due to the same things that could cause a human to have an accident. Sensors are degraded. (dirty windshield wiper, etc) Road conditions are degraded and couldn't stop before the stop sign. What about a simple mechanical failure that is nobody's fault? (Even in a human driven car, my brakes didn't work!)
Even the best professional certifications and best practices will not prevent accidents. They are inevitable. The question remains. Who is liable? Especially in the more interesting case of a collision of two self crashing cars. What if the developers of both cars were sufficiently careful and not negligent?
The case of a car and pedestrian is less interesting because it is obvious that the liability would probably be assigned to the car manufacturer. But what if the auto maker exercised due care in the development of its statistical classifier that mis-classified that pedestrian? No negligence. Sort of like a person "oh, I didn't see that baby buggy soonfully enough".
Self driving cars are eventually inevitable. And they will be safer than humans -- because they drive like your grandmother. No hustle. No sense of urgency to get you to your destination.
Why blame politicians for allowing the deployment of technology that would be safer than human drivers overall? Even though some accidents will inevitably occur.
The programmer may simply build the software 'machine'. Who may be responsible is actually the group who trains the AI machine with data. It's all a bunch of statistical classifiers. An accident is when a statistical classifier mis-classifies a pedestrian and runs it over. In this case, the liability is probably going to be with the manufacturer. Not with any individuals or developers employed by the manufacturer.
A more interesting case is a collision between two moving self driving vehicles. In this case, one or both vehicles are probably going to have far more data available than any human collision ever had. Cameras, lidar, radar and other sensors. It would probably have to go to court. The fault may be found to be one or both of the manufacturers.
What if neither manufacturer of a two car collision is negligent? This is not like an amusement park ride where the maintenance folks didn't replace a tie bar in a roller coaster because management PHBs said that it cannot be replaced if it has not failed. Maybe both car makers exercised due care in the development of their self crashing cars. Maybe it is nothing more than a terrible tragedy with nobody to blame. Is that a possible outcome? What if a sinkhole ate your car while you were driving down the road? What if lightning struck you?
I have to throw in the obligatory: what if the government removes burdensome safety regulations on poor struggling self driving car manufacturers?
How would Uber feel if the situation were reversed? What if another company raided Uber to poach key employees for their high ethical standards, sense of fair play, and observance of the law?
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> Perhaps it's monitoring the keyboard for input, monitoring the file structure for changes
Um, real operating systems, used by those who wear big boy pants, have APIs to give you a callback when there are changes to a folder you designate for watching.
Please do not knock Emacs.
Emacs is very popular. Popularity seems to correlate highly with the set of users who once started up Emacs, were unable to figure out how to exit from Emacs, then had no choice but to write Emacs Lisp extensions to accomplish all other necessary tasks.
I don't think VS Code can make that claim.
Um, excuse me? There is nothing wrong with using Javascript and a cross platform framework for drawing the cursor.
Just be sure that each time the cursor is redrawn (even if it hasn't changed appearance from the last refresh) that you launch that Javascript environment in a fresh sandboxed VM. For safety. Think of the children.
Mobile phone manufacturers place a high priority on battery safety, as long as they don't have to actually do anything about safety. Especially if it costs any money. Or doesn't allow phones to continue their evolution towards paper thin.
There are people who want to make movies with original ideas. But this involves some amount of risk. So Hollywood won't make it. If you want original ideas, sometimes you find them in independent films. Occasionally one of those makes it big. Sort of like how some musicians can make it without traditional record labels.
While I agree that there should be more intelligent movies and in particular Sci-Fi; the problem is that a large part of the population prefers ignorance. Hence they are only serving what the market wants. Then they complain that the market doesn't want it and movie attendance is down because the ignorant poor slobs can't pay high enough prices for tickets so that movie executives can afford more blow and hookers.
Very few animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture.
Taste is affected by whether the person smokes or not. That is purely subjective based on experience. It is not based on any objective type of measurements.
How about Two new peripheral devices for smart phones:
1. device to stimulate production of the sperm sample
2. device to check sperm quality / quantity
If they connect via USB then they could be made to work with laptops as well as smartphones.
The reason Apple removed the headphone jack was because Apple's, and only Apple's customer base were molesting the headphone jack. Other smart phone manufacturers don't have this problem with their customers.
Why do you think it would be as low as $500 ?
Or did you mean after insurance pays?
That is definitely a more intuitive measure than microliters.
Integrate peripheral support directly into an app such as Grindr. Sperm quality would then be one more selection criteria along with photo, cut/uncut status, size, etc.
But then, why is sperm quality a major selection criteria?
Strikers replaced by robots.
But I don't want to talk to a call center. I want to talk to a human being. Oh, wait. I say that already, even before robots are introduced. Although they seem like robots. Their programming is fairly rigid.
In this scenario, the telecom workers could switch to coal mining which has a big future under the current administration, I hear, according to campaign promises.
If psychological harm counts as harm, then it would be negligent to sell a machine running Windows 10.
Imagine if a foreign power could hack all the Deere equipment right at harvest time. However, that would be as unlikely as hacking a national election.
Trump may support going to Mars. But that does not mean that food or oxygen will be in the budget for such an adventure. After all, personal responsibility. Do the astronauts expect the taxpayers to pay for them while they are floating around doing nothing that helps put coal miners back to work?
There are not enough people to kill in space yet. Or on other planets or planetary bodies. Therefore it doesn't deserve the same budget that we spend to kill people who are not white christian heterosexual rich males born on the right piece of land.
What if there is no negligence? What if the manufacturers of two self crashing cars both exercised due care in their development? Even so, a crash is inevitable sooner or later.
Accidents can be due to the same things that could cause a human to have an accident. Sensors are degraded. (dirty windshield wiper, etc) Road conditions are degraded and couldn't stop before the stop sign. What about a simple mechanical failure that is nobody's fault? (Even in a human driven car, my brakes didn't work!)
Even the best professional certifications and best practices will not prevent accidents. They are inevitable. The question remains. Who is liable? Especially in the more interesting case of a collision of two self crashing cars. What if the developers of both cars were sufficiently careful and not negligent?
The case of a car and pedestrian is less interesting because it is obvious that the liability would probably be assigned to the car manufacturer. But what if the auto maker exercised due care in the development of its statistical classifier that mis-classified that pedestrian? No negligence. Sort of like a person "oh, I didn't see that baby buggy soonfully enough".
Self driving cars are eventually inevitable. And they will be safer than humans -- because they drive like your grandmother. No hustle. No sense of urgency to get you to your destination.
Why blame politicians for allowing the deployment of technology that would be safer than human drivers overall? Even though some accidents will inevitably occur.
The programmer may simply build the software 'machine'. Who may be responsible is actually the group who trains the AI machine with data. It's all a bunch of statistical classifiers. An accident is when a statistical classifier mis-classifies a pedestrian and runs it over. In this case, the liability is probably going to be with the manufacturer. Not with any individuals or developers employed by the manufacturer.
A more interesting case is a collision between two moving self driving vehicles. In this case, one or both vehicles are probably going to have far more data available than any human collision ever had. Cameras, lidar, radar and other sensors. It would probably have to go to court. The fault may be found to be one or both of the manufacturers.
What if neither manufacturer of a two car collision is negligent? This is not like an amusement park ride where the maintenance folks didn't replace a tie bar in a roller coaster because management PHBs said that it cannot be replaced if it has not failed. Maybe both car makers exercised due care in the development of their self crashing cars. Maybe it is nothing more than a terrible tragedy with nobody to blame. Is that a possible outcome? What if a sinkhole ate your car while you were driving down the road? What if lightning struck you?
I have to throw in the obligatory: what if the government removes burdensome safety regulations on poor struggling self driving car manufacturers?
How would Uber feel if the situation were reversed? What if another company raided Uber to poach key employees for their high ethical standards, sense of fair play, and observance of the law?