I can think of multiple movies I wanted to see a second time; the Greatest showman being the latest. Especially when I found out they had sing-a-long version. It is still rare that I would want to see a movie a second time even if it didn't cost me anything. I would wager it's far more common for people to "share" a pass then it is that they deliberately want to watch a movie multiple times.
Figured it out. I had to "Try the new Gmail". They didn't automatically force me to use the new UI, that's how it's done folks. I can't decide if I like the new or old better. I have to try it out for a few weeks to get past the change before I can make a true assessment. My criteria is pretty basic. If I get pissed off for any reason then the new UI sucks and I'll switch back to the old.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Then I saw screenshots of what the new UI looks like and mine doesn't look like that. Maybe I'm still using an older version of it.
Personally, I don't really understand the multi-monitor craze. I'm fine with virtual desktops so I can focus properly on one thing at a time. I think the whole point of computers is that you can handle much more information than what's visible at once, and for that to work you need some abstract thinking. In a sense, I want to free my thoughts instead of filling my entire visual field with data. Kind of the same reason why I don't listen to background music and I don't have art on the walls near the workspace.
People think differently. I had a co-worker who only wanted one screen and he gave a very similar example. For me it's important to have a lot of information available at a glance. Otherwise I spend too much time switching between windows and trying to remember what I just saw. I also work best when I am listening to music because it drowns out all other noise that might distract me. All this means is that our brains process information differently.
I've an uncle who was an appliance repairman. He explained that the manufacturers deliberately build and design the components to be non-standard. Then they'll get a patient on the part so that 3rd parties can't build them. Then they raised the price for the parts to be so high that it's often cheaper to buy a new item then to fix the one you have.
This is why, he explained, that my parents had the refrigerator they bought with their house for 30 years while my brother was on his third in 15 years. When I showed him 3D printers he went to a tech school and is now a machinist.
I'm fine with the manufacturers requiring authorized repairs while the item is still under warranty. But once that warranty is out then it should be repairable by anyone. What I hope will happen is that open communities like https://www.ifixit.com/ will continue to flourish.
Now we need grids on desktops. As a TV 8k is just a pissing contest, you'd have to be within a few feet to notice any difference. But as a computer monitor having an 8k monitor would be like have 8 1080p monitors in a 2x4 grid. I worked for years with my desktop setup with 4 1080p's setup with one center, one left, one right, and one above; like the tetris piece. It worked very well.
The problem is that every window would be free floating and that would be time consuming to manage. I'd be nice to be able to define grids that you can "snap" windows to. I remember a linux distro I was playing with years ago, based on xfce I think, that put everything in a grid like that. XOrg saw my four monitors as one screen because that was the only way I could get it use all four screens, using xinerama. It was useful for splitting things up into the four quadrants but now I can't remember what the distro was? Anyone?
Recently I've found Microsoft much more helpful. For instance I recently had to replace a motherboard on a PC that I had upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7, an OEM licence I bought nearly a decade ago. When I contacted their support to transfer the license they didn't event bother to ask, they just gave me a new key. Technically as an OEM license it should not have transferred. Had they not done that I probably would have just started using Ubuntu with Kodi; it's a media center.
In a system with only commercial advert-driven content, they'd all be free to conspire together to lower production quality to the bare minimum level needed, below which consumers merely turn the TV off in disgust and do something else.
You don't know what you're talking about. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to watch the History channel so that I can catch on my the latest reality TV show. If I don't hurry I'll miss the 3 minute window between advertisements and I'll never know what Kim Kardasian had for breakfast.
The unemployment rate can be somewhat manipulated but only to a point. My observations, of which I give more credit to labor statistics, is that there are plenty of places in the U.S. where there are plenty of jobs for people willing to work and the cost of living is low.
I live in Utah where that is the case, especially outside Salt Lake City. My mom came from a very poor family who had to grow their own food in the back yard. My dad came from a solid middle income family. My mom's side of the family gives me an insight into how little you can live on. I had an uncle who would watch the Red Green show and take notes! While I'm joking he was really like Red Green. (wish I had more time to write down the stories)
So when you say that people, "can't sustain their life with the job(s) they have", my observation is that they need to take their life style down a notch and maybe move somewhere where cost of living is lower. Some might call you redneck but other would call you resourceful. That uncle of mine would go to the dump and find tires that fit his car but would still hold air.
And you are honestly wondering about your crime rate and why you have the biggest per-capita prison population on the planet?
That is a different problem. I'd say it's mostly related to the harsh punishments for drug usage or possession. But there's also the issue that once someone is convicted of a federal crime then they can no longer vote (mostly, it's complicated). The average citizen also doesn't care about the conditions of jails because "who cares about those filthy criminals." Then the jails themselves have more incentive to not rehabilitate inmates because they make more money if the inmates stay. Once an ex-con's out then it is almost impossible to get a job because nobody will hire an ex-con. In desperation many resort back to crime and end up back in jail.
We do already not have enough jobs for the people looking for one. What exactly should we do?
We do? Somebody should inform the Bureau of Labor Statistics because they seem to think that only 4.1% of people who want to work aren't. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2...
Most economists agree that anything under 5% is considered full employment. Of those that are currently unemployed most are simply in the process of changing jobs or something like that. Of coarse this only represents the U.S. but the U.S. is also one of the biggest users of automation. https://www.themanufacturer.co...
Therefore, while what you say does make for good news headlines it doesn't appear to be true at the moment. Do we have to figure something out? Yes. Will we? No. Our political climate won't solve a problem this big until unemployed people with pitchforks are marching in the streets.
That actually make my analogy more accurate; a ford mustang is only slightly larger then a ford pinto.
According to Websters
: any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed military rifles (such as the AK-47) that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire; also : a rifle that resembles a military assault rifle but is designed to allow only semiautomatic fire
However, I will argue that the exact definition should be far more specific. You are also right that "reasonable" gun regulation means a lot of things to a lot of people. In general I think guns like the AR-15 should not be so easily available but still available to "qualified" people. For an example of qualified, see what it takes to own any gun in Australia. I think it should be that hard to own high power, semi automatic rifles. But that shouldn't apply to shotguns, pistols, or your typical bolt action hunting rifle. In other words, I don't want hunters to be affected. I don't want people who want to protect their family with a pistol to be affected.
People are dying so that other people can collect guns and target shoot. That seems silly to me.
The reason I didn't specifically say AR-15 is because there those other rifles you talk about. Now the exact definition of an "Assault Rifle" is unclear but this is the first time I've ever heard anyone try to argue that it had to be a fully automatic rifle. Even if you had a fully automatic rifle the best thing you can do is switch it to semi-auto to improve your accuracy; however I've never actually shot a fully automatic rifle so I can't speak from personal experience on this one.
This is also the first time I've heard someone try to argue that a 5.56mm is anything like a.22. That's like saying the Ford Mustang is just a glorified Ford Pinto. Now the difference between a.22 and 5.56 might be comparable that to a 5.56 and a.50 but now we're comparing a Ford Mustang to a Fort GT.
Nonetheless, the point that I want to make is that though I am for reasonable gun regulation, that regulation would not have stopped this person.
Guns don't kill people, bat shit crazy people with easy access to guns do. I'm in support of stronger gun regulation but in this case I don't think it would have made a difference. She only managed to wound other people because she used a 9mm pistol. Had she used an assault rifle I'm sure the number of deaths would have been much higher.
This has been my experience as well except I didn't really understand, or think, why. What I did was buy a higher end charger that would condition the batteries as well as charge them. I've gotten a much better life out of them since and only tend to use Alkaline batteries in things like smoke detectors, remotes, or other items that you never change the battery in.
All of my recent debit cards have chips. Merchants don't want to buy new machines and the credit card companies don't care because they pass most the cost of fraud to the merchants. It's seriously sickening how these payment providers make money on both ends without that much liability.
He alluded to a "crazy, complex network of conveyor belts" the company had previously used and said the company eliminated it after it became clear it wasn't working.
He didn't hire the right people. He should track down the top https://www.factorio.com/ players and have them design the conveyor belt system. We do that shit for fun.
"It's been clear in our conversations with the NTSB that they're more concerned with press headlines than actually promoting safety," a spokesperson for the company says.
Tesla has a lot more at risk depending on what those headlines say. I'm not surprised that they wanted to be the first to put out favorable information. I'm a fan of Tesla but when I read things like this I lose respect for them.
It doesn't matter. As a law abiding citizen if I break any laws it's by accident. If I knew with a 100% certainty that I'd get a speeding ticket if I exceeded the speed limit then I'd aim to go 10 under the speed limit instead of 10 over.
I know it sounds draconian but right now there's a gamble with all crimes; there's a chance you'll get away with it. The chance of getting away with speeding is much higher then that of robbing a bank or murder. If facial recognition makes it much harder to get away with any crimes then it should have the effect of decreasing crimes overall. People who commit minor crimes will be more careful not to do so and those that commit major crimes are more likely to be caught and jailed.
At least this is all in theory. A good hoodie makes the technology mostly useless. Plus it's not uncommon for two people to look alike: Case in point: http://www.nydailynews.com/ent...
The whole world is pointing to him as to (1) why democracy doesn't work and isn't the best system, and (2) avoid the American model, they can't even do it right themselves. Hell, China used to look up to America as a teacher - right up until the financial crisis. Now they think we're morons who could have easily avoided that outcome. Whoda thunk that Bill Clinton repealing Glass-Steagal would have ruined the economy in a decade? Everyone, including the Chinese.
I agree except I'm not sure China ever "looked up" to the U.S.
We had an obvious populist against a more qualified candidate
Fixed that for you, you're welcome.
China and the rest of the world noticed, bigtime.
What they might notice is that even President Trump can't ruin this country. It may be embarrassing today but history may tell the story of how Trump showed the world how resilient democracy is.
President Trump is doing an excellent job of testing the U.S. governments "checks and balances" but if you're trying to argue that he's worst then the corruption of Russia or the censorship of China then you're not thinking clearly... or just bashing on Trump. He has plenty of stupid to criticize.
In other words, weaponizing AI is going to happen one way or another. Then the real question is do we want to live in a world where Russia or China has the military dominance in the world? The U.S. definitely has it's problems but of the large countries that can have a large military I can't think of any that I would trust more to have military dominance over the world.
Some Media Lab-developed technologies made it into products or public software packages, such as the Lego Mindstorms, LEGO WeDo and the pointing stick in IBM laptop keyboards[citation needed], the Benton hologram used in most credit cards, the Fisher-Price's Symphony Painter,[22] the Nortel Wireless Mesh Network,[23] the NTT Comware Sensetable,[24] the Taito’s Karaoke-on-Demand Machine.[25] A 1994 device called the Sensor Chair used to control a musical orchestra was adapted by several car manufacturers into capacitive sensors to prevent dangerous airbag deployments.[26][27]
It is a research facility so I actually expect that most of their research won't pan out directly into a product. This may not actually be very useful as a computer input interface but it might help in other ways like being able to better diagnose Autism, ADHD, schizophrenia or other mental disorders in people.
touche' but I'm too honest to be a successful politician, seriously. I wish people would take the time to better understand a topic at a deeper level then what can be explained in the 30 second sound bite. But most people don't.
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I can think of multiple movies I wanted to see a second time; the Greatest showman being the latest. Especially when I found out they had sing-a-long version. It is still rare that I would want to see a movie a second time even if it didn't cost me anything. I would wager it's far more common for people to "share" a pass then it is that they deliberately want to watch a movie multiple times.
Figured it out. I had to "Try the new Gmail". They didn't automatically force me to use the new UI, that's how it's done folks. I can't decide if I like the new or old better. I have to try it out for a few weeks to get past the change before I can make a true assessment. My criteria is pretty basic. If I get pissed off for any reason then the new UI sucks and I'll switch back to the old.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Then I saw screenshots of what the new UI looks like and mine doesn't look like that. Maybe I'm still using an older version of it.
Personally, I don't really understand the multi-monitor craze. I'm fine with virtual desktops so I can focus properly on one thing at a time. I think the whole point of computers is that you can handle much more information than what's visible at once, and for that to work you need some abstract thinking. In a sense, I want to free my thoughts instead of filling my entire visual field with data. Kind of the same reason why I don't listen to background music and I don't have art on the walls near the workspace.
People think differently. I had a co-worker who only wanted one screen and he gave a very similar example. For me it's important to have a lot of information available at a glance. Otherwise I spend too much time switching between windows and trying to remember what I just saw. I also work best when I am listening to music because it drowns out all other noise that might distract me. All this means is that our brains process information differently.
I've an uncle who was an appliance repairman. He explained that the manufacturers deliberately build and design the components to be non-standard. Then they'll get a patient on the part so that 3rd parties can't build them. Then they raised the price for the parts to be so high that it's often cheaper to buy a new item then to fix the one you have.
This is why, he explained, that my parents had the refrigerator they bought with their house for 30 years while my brother was on his third in 15 years. When I showed him 3D printers he went to a tech school and is now a machinist.
I'm fine with the manufacturers requiring authorized repairs while the item is still under warranty. But once that warranty is out then it should be repairable by anyone. What I hope will happen is that open communities like https://www.ifixit.com/ will continue to flourish.
Now we need grids on desktops. As a TV 8k is just a pissing contest, you'd have to be within a few feet to notice any difference. But as a computer monitor having an 8k monitor would be like have 8 1080p monitors in a 2x4 grid. I worked for years with my desktop setup with 4 1080p's setup with one center, one left, one right, and one above; like the tetris piece. It worked very well.
The problem is that every window would be free floating and that would be time consuming to manage. I'd be nice to be able to define grids that you can "snap" windows to. I remember a linux distro I was playing with years ago, based on xfce I think, that put everything in a grid like that. XOrg saw my four monitors as one screen because that was the only way I could get it use all four screens, using xinerama. It was useful for splitting things up into the four quadrants but now I can't remember what the distro was? Anyone?
Recently I've found Microsoft much more helpful. For instance I recently had to replace a motherboard on a PC that I had upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7, an OEM licence I bought nearly a decade ago. When I contacted their support to transfer the license they didn't event bother to ask, they just gave me a new key. Technically as an OEM license it should not have transferred. Had they not done that I probably would have just started using Ubuntu with Kodi; it's a media center.
In a system with only commercial advert-driven content, they'd all be free to conspire together to lower production quality to the bare minimum level needed, below which consumers merely turn the TV off in disgust and do something else.
You don't know what you're talking about. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to watch the History channel so that I can catch on my the latest reality TV show. If I don't hurry I'll miss the 3 minute window between advertisements and I'll never know what Kim Kardasian had for breakfast.
The unemployment rate can be somewhat manipulated but only to a point. My observations, of which I give more credit to labor statistics, is that there are plenty of places in the U.S. where there are plenty of jobs for people willing to work and the cost of living is low.
I live in Utah where that is the case, especially outside Salt Lake City. My mom came from a very poor family who had to grow their own food in the back yard. My dad came from a solid middle income family. My mom's side of the family gives me an insight into how little you can live on. I had an uncle who would watch the Red Green show and take notes! While I'm joking he was really like Red Green. (wish I had more time to write down the stories)
So when you say that people, "can't sustain their life with the job(s) they have", my observation is that they need to take their life style down a notch and maybe move somewhere where cost of living is lower. Some might call you redneck but other would call you resourceful. That uncle of mine would go to the dump and find tires that fit his car but would still hold air.
And you are honestly wondering about your crime rate and why you have the biggest per-capita prison population on the planet?
That is a different problem. I'd say it's mostly related to the harsh punishments for drug usage or possession. But there's also the issue that once someone is convicted of a federal crime then they can no longer vote (mostly, it's complicated). The average citizen also doesn't care about the conditions of jails because "who cares about those filthy criminals." Then the jails themselves have more incentive to not rehabilitate inmates because they make more money if the inmates stay. Once an ex-con's out then it is almost impossible to get a job because nobody will hire an ex-con. In desperation many resort back to crime and end up back in jail.
I'd like to see a system more akin to Denmark. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The crime rate and high incarceration rate is a bigger issue then simple unemployment.
We do already not have enough jobs for the people looking for one. What exactly should we do?
We do? Somebody should inform the Bureau of Labor Statistics because they seem to think that only 4.1% of people who want to work aren't. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2...
Most economists agree that anything under 5% is considered full employment. Of those that are currently unemployed most are simply in the process of changing jobs or something like that. Of coarse this only represents the U.S. but the U.S. is also one of the biggest users of automation. https://www.themanufacturer.co...
Therefore, while what you say does make for good news headlines it doesn't appear to be true at the moment. Do we have to figure something out? Yes. Will we? No. Our political climate won't solve a problem this big until unemployed people with pitchforks are marching in the streets.
That actually make my analogy more accurate; a ford mustang is only slightly larger then a ford pinto.
According to Websters
: any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed military rifles (such as the AK-47) that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire; also : a rifle that resembles a military assault rifle but is designed to allow only semiautomatic fire
https://www.merriam-webster.co...
However, I will argue that the exact definition should be far more specific. You are also right that "reasonable" gun regulation means a lot of things to a lot of people. In general I think guns like the AR-15 should not be so easily available but still available to "qualified" people. For an example of qualified, see what it takes to own any gun in Australia. I think it should be that hard to own high power, semi automatic rifles. But that shouldn't apply to shotguns, pistols, or your typical bolt action hunting rifle. In other words, I don't want hunters to be affected. I don't want people who want to protect their family with a pistol to be affected.
People are dying so that other people can collect guns and target shoot. That seems silly to me.
The reason I didn't specifically say AR-15 is because there those other rifles you talk about. Now the exact definition of an "Assault Rifle" is unclear but this is the first time I've ever heard anyone try to argue that it had to be a fully automatic rifle. Even if you had a fully automatic rifle the best thing you can do is switch it to semi-auto to improve your accuracy; however I've never actually shot a fully automatic rifle so I can't speak from personal experience on this one.
This is also the first time I've heard someone try to argue that a 5.56mm is anything like a .22. That's like saying the Ford Mustang is just a glorified Ford Pinto. Now the difference between a .22 and 5.56 might be comparable that to a 5.56 and a .50 but now we're comparing a Ford Mustang to a Fort GT.
Nonetheless, the point that I want to make is that though I am for reasonable gun regulation, that regulation would not have stopped this person.
Guns don't kill people, bat shit crazy people with easy access to guns do. I'm in support of stronger gun regulation but in this case I don't think it would have made a difference. She only managed to wound other people because she used a 9mm pistol. Had she used an assault rifle I'm sure the number of deaths would have been much higher.
This has been my experience as well except I didn't really understand, or think, why. What I did was buy a higher end charger that would condition the batteries as well as charge them. I've gotten a much better life out of them since and only tend to use Alkaline batteries in things like smoke detectors, remotes, or other items that you never change the battery in.
All of my recent debit cards have chips. Merchants don't want to buy new machines and the credit card companies don't care because they pass most the cost of fraud to the merchants. It's seriously sickening how these payment providers make money on both ends without that much liability.
You're just wrong. We have the best internet, highest quality healthcare (and cheapest), and the best educational system ever.
Some people are so stupid they just don't know it.
He alluded to a "crazy, complex network of conveyor belts" the company had previously used and said the company eliminated it after it became clear it wasn't working.
He didn't hire the right people. He should track down the top https://www.factorio.com/ players and have them design the conveyor belt system. We do that shit for fun.
"It's been clear in our conversations with the NTSB that they're more concerned with press headlines than actually promoting safety," a spokesperson for the company says.
Tesla has a lot more at risk depending on what those headlines say. I'm not surprised that they wanted to be the first to put out favorable information. I'm a fan of Tesla but when I read things like this I lose respect for them.
It doesn't matter. As a law abiding citizen if I break any laws it's by accident. If I knew with a 100% certainty that I'd get a speeding ticket if I exceeded the speed limit then I'd aim to go 10 under the speed limit instead of 10 over.
I know it sounds draconian but right now there's a gamble with all crimes; there's a chance you'll get away with it. The chance of getting away with speeding is much higher then that of robbing a bank or murder. If facial recognition makes it much harder to get away with any crimes then it should have the effect of decreasing crimes overall. People who commit minor crimes will be more careful not to do so and those that commit major crimes are more likely to be caught and jailed.
At least this is all in theory. A good hoodie makes the technology mostly useless. Plus it's not uncommon for two people to look alike: Case in point: http://www.nydailynews.com/ent...
The whole world is pointing to him as to (1) why democracy doesn't work and isn't the best system, and (2) avoid the American model, they can't even do it right themselves. Hell, China used to look up to America as a teacher - right up until the financial crisis. Now they think we're morons who could have easily avoided that outcome. Whoda thunk that Bill Clinton repealing Glass-Steagal would have ruined the economy in a decade? Everyone, including the Chinese.
I agree except I'm not sure China ever "looked up" to the U.S.
We had an obvious populist against a more qualified candidate
Fixed that for you, you're welcome.
China and the rest of the world noticed, bigtime.
What they might notice is that even President Trump can't ruin this country. It may be embarrassing today but history may tell the story of how Trump showed the world how resilient democracy is.
President Trump is doing an excellent job of testing the U.S. governments "checks and balances" but if you're trying to argue that he's worst then the corruption of Russia or the censorship of China then you're not thinking clearly... or just bashing on Trump. He has plenty of stupid to criticize.
In other words, weaponizing AI is going to happen one way or another. Then the real question is do we want to live in a world where Russia or China has the military dominance in the world? The U.S. definitely has it's problems but of the large countries that can have a large military I can't think of any that I would trust more to have military dominance over the world.
Looking at their wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., I see a fair amount of stuff that's gone to market.
Some Media Lab-developed technologies made it into products or public software packages, such as the Lego Mindstorms, LEGO WeDo and the pointing stick in IBM laptop keyboards[citation needed], the Benton hologram used in most credit cards, the Fisher-Price's Symphony Painter,[22] the Nortel Wireless Mesh Network,[23] the NTT Comware Sensetable,[24] the Taito’s Karaoke-on-Demand Machine.[25] A 1994 device called the Sensor Chair used to control a musical orchestra was adapted by several car manufacturers into capacitive sensors to prevent dangerous airbag deployments.[26][27]
It is a research facility so I actually expect that most of their research won't pan out directly into a product. This may not actually be very useful as a computer input interface but it might help in other ways like being able to better diagnose Autism, ADHD, schizophrenia or other mental disorders in people.
touche' but I'm too honest to be a successful politician, seriously. I wish people would take the time to better understand a topic at a deeper level then what can be explained in the 30 second sound bite. But most people don't.