Today, [company], the only one that manufactures [thing], says that in spite of [recent deaths / maulings / spontaneous combustions (strike unneeded)] attributed to [thing], [thing] is still suitable for general use, and the public should feel safe continuing to use [thing], preferably [in / at (strike unneeded)] a greater [quantity / rate (strike unneeded)] than before.
In other news, experts are still baffled as reports of [missing / de-limbed / immolated (strike unneeded)] personnel continue to come in. The [chief of police / head zookeeper / fire marshal] (strike unneeded)] advises the citizenry to remain calm as the reports are investigated by [his / her (strike unneeded)] top people.
One of the persistent comments on this article is that the movie hasn't been released yet. I assume you did see the movie before the release date (4 Mar for the Hollywood premiere), but would you be willing to identify how you saw the movie early? Were you part of a test screening audience, or do you have a friend in the industry, or something more awesome?
Other problems are legal issues if I'm I make an improvement to open-source software on company time. First I need approval from the company to release work that we did for some project. If it's just a patch, getting the approval is not too hard, but it has to be done every time. Then I need legal approval actually release the patch back to the public, since open source means it's going out to everyone.
I was wondering about this as well. It's late, so I'm not going to RTFA. Did they mean video disc players in general, due to the rise of streaming video; or did they literally mean people aren't buying DVD players anymore, and the UK has finally discovered Blu-ray?
I feel sorry for this AI that's its purpose for existing is to run the A/C for a data center. I'm reminded of the Butter Robot from Rick and Morty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs
I would actually be interested to know more. I know I can use Google to try and find out more, but you seem like you're in the know. Do you have a link you consider reputable that describes the changes?
I'm not sure you have the history of isotopic separation quite right. The Manhattan Project used cyclotronic separation (calutrons) and gaseous diffusion separation (uranium hexafluoride). According to Wikipedia, centrifugal separation was tried for the Manhattan Project but wasn't successful at the time. The maraging steels that are used for gas centrifuges weren't developed until the 1950s.
We've encountered the same problem as your Second in my organization as well: senior engineer's time is too valuable to spent teaching the ropes to the very junior employees; so our rationally-acting senior employees don't do it.
Part of it is our management failing to make "mentoring junior employees" part of the senior employees' evaluations (but that's just management acting rationally, and prioritizing "productive" over "non-productive" work). I hypothesize this defect is being revealed, in part, by our lack of mid-level employees who are skilled enough to mentor, and cost-effective enough to do. Our organization went through many years of limited hiring, and as such, most of our employees are relatively senior and working on important productive work, and don't have sufficient time to mentor new employees. It's not good, but we didn't see it coming either (thanks HR).
Ideally we would have a full continuum of employees, from very senior personnel, through various sub-senior and mid-level grades, down to new-hires and interns. And each level would be able to mentor levels below them efficiently, so that we don't have senior engineers helping new-hires do time-cards. This should also help build employees' mentoring and knowledge-transfer skills through practice.
Here are links to the actual HDMI Forum press release on the HDMI 2.1 specification, and high-level presentation discussing the new features in the 2.1 spec.
Or hot dogs... "They'd be so abundant, they'd become our currency! 20 hot dogs would equal roughly a nickel. Depending on the strength of the yen, I'm not quite sure, but...you know what, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's just keep praying that we can clone one of these hot dogs."
Wasn't there a scene in a movie about this, where poorly-behaved robots were tortured with hot irons on the feet and similar? I mean, if the AI messes up, then I can only assume the AI is to blame; don't we just slow down its power cycles or something like that?
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Today, [company], the only one that manufactures [thing], says that in spite of [recent deaths / maulings / spontaneous combustions (strike unneeded)] attributed to [thing], [thing] is still suitable for general use, and the public should feel safe continuing to use [thing], preferably [in / at (strike unneeded)] a greater [quantity / rate (strike unneeded)] than before.
In other news, experts are still baffled as reports of [missing / de-limbed / immolated (strike unneeded)] personnel continue to come in. The [chief of police / head zookeeper / fire marshal] (strike unneeded)] advises the citizenry to remain calm as the reports are investigated by [his / her (strike unneeded)] top people.
Pillbox!
One of the persistent comments on this article is that the movie hasn't been released yet. I assume you did see the movie before the release date (4 Mar for the Hollywood premiere), but would you be willing to identify how you saw the movie early? Were you part of a test screening audience, or do you have a friend in the industry, or something more awesome?
Other problems are legal issues if I'm I make an improvement to open-source software on company time. First I need approval from the company to release work that we did for some project. If it's just a patch, getting the approval is not too hard, but it has to be done every time. Then I need legal approval actually release the patch back to the public, since open source means it's going out to everyone.
Citation provided:
https://www.theonion.com/fuck-...
As noted by the late Sam Kinison,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I was wondering about this as well. It's late, so I'm not going to RTFA. Did they mean video disc players in general, due to the rise of streaming video; or did they literally mean people aren't buying DVD players anymore, and the UK has finally discovered Blu-ray?
Nope, uh-uh, no way, no, burn it with fire...
Here are the links to the original RiskIQ and Volexity reports on the breach.
RiskIQ: https://www.riskiq.com/blog/la...
Volexity: https://www.volexity.com/blog/...
They're conclusion is basically to get a new credit card number if you transacted with Newegg from 13 Aug through 18 Sep 2018.
I feel sorry for this AI that's its purpose for existing is to run the A/C for a data center. I'm reminded of the Butter Robot from Rick and Morty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs
Isn't this the four-stage strategy for dealing with foreign issues from "Yes, Prime Minister"?
Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...
What if the bot doesn't know it's not human?
Appearantly this idea has already been examined to a small extent in a 1974 novel, as mentioned on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the emergency line of the San Angeles Police Department. If you'd prefer an automated response, press 1 now."
I would get one of these, if it let switch between other license plates that weren't registered in my name.
I thought one of the advantages of a cashless society was the minimization of street solicitation via restriction of payment opportunities.
Dude awesome. Thanks much.
I would actually be interested to know more. I know I can use Google to try and find out more, but you seem like you're in the know. Do you have a link you consider reputable that describes the changes?
"EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner..."
Armor All and Simoniz are going be very upset about this.
This is a test message.
I'm not sure you have the history of isotopic separation quite right. The Manhattan Project used cyclotronic separation (calutrons) and gaseous diffusion separation (uranium hexafluoride). According to Wikipedia, centrifugal separation was tried for the Manhattan Project but wasn't successful at the time. The maraging steels that are used for gas centrifuges weren't developed until the 1950s.
We've encountered the same problem as your Second in my organization as well: senior engineer's time is too valuable to spent teaching the ropes to the very junior employees; so our rationally-acting senior employees don't do it.
Part of it is our management failing to make "mentoring junior employees" part of the senior employees' evaluations (but that's just management acting rationally, and prioritizing "productive" over "non-productive" work). I hypothesize this defect is being revealed, in part, by our lack of mid-level employees who are skilled enough to mentor, and cost-effective enough to do. Our organization went through many years of limited hiring, and as such, most of our employees are relatively senior and working on important productive work, and don't have sufficient time to mentor new employees. It's not good, but we didn't see it coming either (thanks HR).
Ideally we would have a full continuum of employees, from very senior personnel, through various sub-senior and mid-level grades, down to new-hires and interns. And each level would be able to mentor levels below them efficiently, so that we don't have senior engineers helping new-hires do time-cards. This should also help build employees' mentoring and knowledge-transfer skills through practice.
Excellent... if only we could get the moderation to go to 6.
Here are links to the actual HDMI Forum press release on the HDMI 2.1 specification, and high-level presentation discussing the new features in the 2.1 spec.
Press release: https://www.hdmi.org/press/pre...
High-level presentation: https://www.hdmi.org/download/...>
Or hot dogs... "They'd be so abundant, they'd become our currency! 20 hot dogs would equal roughly a nickel. Depending on the strength of the yen, I'm not quite sure, but...you know what, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's just keep praying that we can clone one of these hot dogs."
Wasn't there a scene in a movie about this, where poorly-behaved robots were tortured with hot irons on the feet and similar? I mean, if the AI messes up, then I can only assume the AI is to blame; don't we just slow down its power cycles or something like that?