It's really uncanny to see it suddenly going from a free fall into a glide that looks to be on par with what we'd expect from a paper airplane. And later in the video they show it actually pulling off a turn as well, which is even more insane to consider. Jumping from a tree in the forest, I could easily see this thing traveling quite a way.
Radical. Who would think such motor technique could be harnessed by that brain? I wonder if they hunt while on the fly, too.
But can a chat bot plus big data really produce anything beyond a creepy, awkward facsimile?"
No, it cannot. Once you're dead, you're dead. Game over.
Well, assume they could make a perfect clone, the original you would still be dead and that's what we fear the most in this, some construct which believes it's me also, doesn't have the continuity.
Besides, I don't think I'd be a happy clone/chatbot going around with a patent number on my arse.
keep in mind windows 8 live tiles are all front ended with internet explorer. so they are anticipating higher ie traffic to sites that windows preloads so they can sound like they are doing something to compete with open source browsers...
Considering the acceptance and use of Windows 8 (or 8.1) it's not something I'd call "reassuring", though Windows 9 will likely fare better.
W3Schools has a very skewed demographic, I wouldn't take their figures to be a true representative across the board.
My companies websites (Insurance) have an IE share of about 40%.
At work I only have 1 website which requires IE, though if I had a Mac I could use Safari. IE is a cow. I dislike using it because it takes too long to do things, even loading it seems to take visible time. It has a pretty bad track record of displaying pages as designed, as well, now there's so much being done in Webkit, CSS3 and so on. At work we encountered a problem with a critical software package which does not run under IE 10, so all users (those who had IE 10) had to revert to IE 9.
On the plus side for IE, they don't come out with bloody stupid things as often as Google Chrome team seem bent on now, but that's largely because IE versions are widely separated by time, unlike Chrome which seems to be a release every month.
PT Cruiser... that's one step up from the Pontiac Aztek at least.
Nope, a step down...
The Aztek was just ugly, much like the Nissan Cube, but was fairly reliable. The PT Cruiser, on the other hand, was the cheapest piece-o-cr4p. Shortly after they first came out, I rented one while in Florida for a day before we went on a cruise. It was like riding in a tin can.
My assessment of the Fiat 500. People think they are 'cute'. They don't like to do 80, so not your best before any state with that limit on the highways. Noisy, too.
PT Cruiser... that's one step up from the Pontiac Aztek at least.
Years back when I blew a heater hose on California 17, heading home from Santa Clara, I chatted with the tow truck driver. "Which cars do you tow the most?" "Oh, PT cruisers, I get a couple every day, they break down a lot." I'm sure they have the issues sorted by now, but tow truck drivers area great people to ask about what not to buy at the present.
They're crowdsourcing the R&D of accessories. Why pay for it when you have hundreds of devoted followers who will do it for you?
And then you buy them out.
Not really a bad idea, for the seller that is. Come up with something really novel and you could be racing yachts with Larry Ellison before you know it.
yet another virtual FAIT currency, just like the dollar was lost. Nothing of real value was lost. News just in.
People's time to build this fleets up was expended. I don't think of that as nothing, particularly after I took a long hard look at how much of my life I spent glued to MMO play, which only gave me a lot of stress and very little to hold onto (nothing, actually, aside some memories) when I left the game.
Similar results without the distraction of all those tedious fake space battles.
Exactly. It was the result of a behind the scenes battle to see who could get the closest to insolvency without flinching, which brought about the end of Lehman Brothers.
And since the government just printed stacks and stacks of money to bail out the whole mess and put a splint on the economy, it's all pretty much the same virtual game.
Someone call the NFL and tell them they are soon to be history, when this is the sort of thing people get excited about, you know a bunch of sweaty, overpaid mugs ain't got a chance.
Facebook didn't get any kind of information from me. Take a wild guess how I accomplished this feat.
Hint: They can't exist without us. We can exist just fine without them.
You disable all sorts of stuff and you also don't install their app?
I've only installed 2 apps since I purchased my Samsung Galaxy S4, 8 months ago. I disable all manner of things, and as if that's not mean enough by me, I turn the power off for extended periods of time to save my battery (which admittedly is a very good battery, but I don't feel like charging it all the time when I'm not using it.) So I'm pretty useless to anyone trying to spy on me. (Not that spying on me is going to tell anyone much "he spends an awful lot of time walking around in little circles, what could be the reason?" hint: may involve tupperware and million dollar satellites.
I can tell you from experience that 'lack of rules' does not prevent bullying.
And that's not what happened here either, from the story. They gave the kids toys, which kept them occupied. That's what happened. Some of the toys were slightly dangerous (like trees for climbing, one example), and that's why they called it 'getting rid of rules.'
Yeah, lack of enforcement is the 100% recipe for abuse. Personal experience there, from good ol' days. Perhaps a key here is saying, you're all on your own, but the first infraction is the last infraction - we place bullies in Special Education, because they often need some special attention anyway.
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it's what democracy is about!
For those with the votes which trump our puny votes.
Yay freedom :-\
Yeah, who wants pictures? Here's a video of the snake in action: http://www.nbcnews.com/science...
It's really uncanny to see it suddenly going from a free fall into a glide that looks to be on par with what we'd expect from a paper airplane. And later in the video they show it actually pulling off a turn as well, which is even more insane to consider. Jumping from a tree in the forest, I could easily see this thing traveling quite a way.
Radical. Who would think such motor technique could be harnessed by that brain? I wonder if they hunt while on the fly, too.
But can a chat bot plus big data really produce anything beyond a creepy, awkward facsimile?"
No, it cannot. Once you're dead, you're dead. Game over.
Well, assume they could make a perfect clone, the original you would still be dead and that's what we fear the most in this, some construct which believes it's me also, doesn't have the continuity.
Besides, I don't think I'd be a happy clone/chatbot going around with a patent number on my arse.
keep in mind windows 8 live tiles are all front ended with internet explorer. so they are anticipating higher ie traffic to sites that windows preloads so they can sound like they are doing something to compete with open source browsers...
Considering the acceptance and use of Windows 8 (or 8.1) it's not something I'd call "reassuring", though Windows 9 will likely fare better.
9.0 + 26.8 + 55.8 + 3.8 + 1.9 = 97.3
0.7 = Lynx :)
The stupidity of this is just breathtaking.
You confuse stupidity with ubiquitous awareness.
W3Schools has a very skewed demographic, I wouldn't take their figures to be a true representative across the board.
My companies websites (Insurance) have an IE share of about 40%.
At work I only have 1 website which requires IE, though if I had a Mac I could use Safari. IE is a cow. I dislike using it because it takes too long to do things, even loading it seems to take visible time. It has a pretty bad track record of displaying pages as designed, as well, now there's so much being done in Webkit, CSS3 and so on. At work we encountered a problem with a critical software package which does not run under IE 10, so all users (those who had IE 10) had to revert to IE 9.
On the plus side for IE, they don't come out with bloody stupid things as often as Google Chrome team seem bent on now, but that's largely because IE versions are widely separated by time, unlike Chrome which seems to be a release every month.
What has /. turned into? Discovery Kids?
All geeks are kids at heart.
Where once we openly drooled at the view through the candy store window, we now drool at the view through the gadget store window (or web site).
We also still like to see what makes things tick.
When seized by hawks or other raptors and a clumsily dropped, one may find a totally pissed off rattlesnake landing on their hat or shoulder.
Not quite the old Death From Above maneouver, but it'll do until we're piloting 'Mechs around.
Just don't mess with Mother Nature. =]
Sure, sure. Southtown got its snow, but on the plus side, Santa gets a day of Spring at the North Pole. That's the deal.
also, they just paid $3b for nest, wonder when they'll sell that off. seems like they're grasping at straws here.
If Nest owners could only be so lucky.
More likely they'll go a couple years, realize its not of any use, and shut it down.
I remember when that was what Microsoft did on a regular basis. Must be something which companies do once they hit a certain level of revenue.
we made fifteen billion last quarter, let's go buy the corner donut shop for three billion and then shut it in a couple of years
PT Cruiser... that's one step up from the Pontiac Aztek at least.
Nope, a step down...
The Aztek was just ugly, much like the Nissan Cube, but was fairly reliable. The PT Cruiser, on the other hand, was the cheapest piece-o-cr4p. Shortly after they first came out, I rented one while in Florida for a day before we went on a cruise. It was like riding in a tin can.
My assessment of the Fiat 500. People think they are 'cute'. They don't like to do 80, so not your best before any state with that limit on the highways. Noisy, too.
That 3rd arm I've always needed.
Might as well make it a 3rd and 4th, because with a 3rd I'd be griping about needing a 4th arm...
When will someone kill two birds with one stone. . .and make Soylent Bieber ???
Potentially answering one question with another... Would you eat it?
PT Cruiser... that's one step up from the Pontiac Aztek at least.
Years back when I blew a heater hose on California 17, heading home from Santa Clara, I chatted with the tow truck driver. "Which cars do you tow the most?" "Oh, PT cruisers, I get a couple every day, they break down a lot." I'm sure they have the issues sorted by now, but tow truck drivers area great people to ask about what not to buy at the present.
People killed them. Either by direct means or global warming.
Or, I blame God.
What about Justin Bieber, I'm sure he had something to do with the extinction of the mammoths.
To be on the safe side, sign this petition The species you save may be your own.
They're crowdsourcing the R&D of accessories. Why pay for it when you have hundreds of devoted followers who will do it for you?
And then you buy them out.
Not really a bad idea, for the seller that is. Come up with something really novel and you could be racing yachts with Larry Ellison before you know it.
Always more fun to read about EVE than it was to play it.
Disney does this with movies. Did you see the Lone Ranger?
This just in, vitually NOTHING was lost.
yet another virtual FAIT currency, just like the dollar was lost. Nothing of real value was lost. News just in.
People's time to build this fleets up was expended. I don't think of that as nothing, particularly after I took a long hard look at how much of my life I spent glued to MMO play, which only gave me a lot of stress and very little to hold onto (nothing, actually, aside some memories) when I left the game.
Similar results without the distraction of all those tedious fake space battles.
Exactly. It was the result of a behind the scenes battle to see who could get the closest to insolvency without flinching, which brought about the end of Lehman Brothers.
And since the government just printed stacks and stacks of money to bail out the whole mess and put a splint on the economy, it's all pretty much the same virtual game.
Someone call the NFL and tell them they are soon to be history, when this is the sort of thing people get excited about, you know a bunch of sweaty, overpaid mugs ain't got a chance.
We can't?
Facebook didn't get any kind of information from me. Take a wild guess how I accomplished this feat.
Hint: They can't exist without us. We can exist just fine without them.
You disable all sorts of stuff and you also don't install their app?
I've only installed 2 apps since I purchased my Samsung Galaxy S4, 8 months ago. I disable all manner of things, and as if that's not mean enough by me, I turn the power off for extended periods of time to save my battery (which admittedly is a very good battery, but I don't feel like charging it all the time when I'm not using it.) So I'm pretty useless to anyone trying to spy on me. (Not that spying on me is going to tell anyone much "he spends an awful lot of time walking around in little circles, what could be the reason?" hint: may involve tupperware and million dollar satellites.
What is this "Walled Garden" on Android of which you speak?
I can tell you from experience that 'lack of rules' does not prevent bullying.
And that's not what happened here either, from the story. They gave the kids toys, which kept them occupied. That's what happened. Some of the toys were slightly dangerous (like trees for climbing, one example), and that's why they called it 'getting rid of rules.'
Yeah, lack of enforcement is the 100% recipe for abuse. Personal experience there, from good ol' days. Perhaps a key here is saying, you're all on your own, but the first infraction is the last infraction - we place bullies in Special Education, because they often need some special attention anyway.