And now you've got these nanoparticles in your brain. Better avoid strong magnetic fields. And by the way, probably not a good idea to take any long airline flights anymore either. Yay less invasive therapy!
So it's a good thing that touch interfaces can have modal features like menus that appear when needed instead of every button having to be on the screen all the time...
I hope you mean multiplex. Usually multipath is a bad thing
No, multipath. If one path is down, you want to be able to route around the failure. Multiplexing is the combination of several channels over a single connection, which it sounds like this also supports.
You realize that most electric cars have a substantial battery pack. If it was as simple as opening the hood and removing a simple battery, don't you think somebody would have thought of that before you?
Google's self-driving car only has to identify An Object and avoid it, on top of driving along a set course with GPS assistance. A killbot has to identify what The Object is, find out if it's a threat, then check if it's a friend or foe somehow, hopefully assess the possibilities of collateral damage and what war crimes it may be committing by attacking the target...what Google's self driving car can do is just the first step.
Nope. A killbot just has to identify An Object and kill it. You could make one of Google's self-driving cars into a killbot for pedestrians and bicyclists (and potentially motorcyclists) today, if you were sufficiently evil (or evil's cousin, incompetent). Good thing Google's motto is "don't be evil".
He did. He "hacked in to a protected computer". Also:
"Mitchell is no stranger to computer-related controversy. In high school, he was accused of planting more than 100 viruses on the school's systems, according to a report in the Charleston Gazette newspaper."
Ryan Reed reports that when most Game of Thrones fans imagine George R.R. Martin writing his epic fantasy novels, they probably picture the author working on a futuristic desktop
Why would anyone think that?
Good question. I imagined him at an old Underwood banging away. None of those wussy Selectrics, let alone a PC.
Either that or a pen and paper, considering how long it takes him to write a book.
It's called a printer. Back in the mists of time, there used to be devices you could connect to your computer to make words and images appear on paper. Yes, ordinary sheets of paper!
I seem to remember reading that the Boeing 747 has a glide ratio of 1:17. Meaning it can get 17 feet of forward motion for every foot of altitude. Honestly that kind of amazes me.
That's because of the speed that they'll likely be starting the glide at. Doesn't take long to go 17 feet when you're doing several hundreds of knots.
If you were to slow a 747 down to Cessna 172 speeds, you'd likely already be stalling out and dropping like a rock depending on your weight, flaps, etc.
No, quite the opposite in fact. The owners need to earn more to afford to buy or build replacements, and the producers of the replacement ships need to make more, which requires the production of more raw materials and components, on down the line.
The destruction of ships is one of the major drivers of demand in the Eve economy.
Another (automotive-related, even) example of the "premium" feature effect you describe:
Automatic transmissions. They are mechanically much simpler, and cheaper to manufacture, than old-fashioned manual transmissions. Yet you will pay more for an automatic transmission. Or, pay even more yet for an automatic transmission with a manual shift feature (just a software change in most cases).
The real problem here is that most people view computers as little black boxes that use a lot of elves and magic to keep them working.
There's the problem. We need to inform people that computers are little black boxes that use smoke to keep them working. How do I know? Because every time I've seen the smoke escape from the computer, it stopped working.
The empirical evidence is, indeed, compelling. My results correspond to your own.
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And now you've got these nanoparticles in your brain. Better avoid strong magnetic fields. And by the way, probably not a good idea to take any long airline flights anymore either. Yay less invasive therapy!
So it's a good thing that touch interfaces can have modal features like menus that appear when needed instead of every button having to be on the screen all the time...
Changed? Sure.
Improved? Well, the jury is out.
canada? i knew those bastards were after our women!!
"American Woman! Stay away from meeeee!
American Woman! Momma let me beeee!"
Bones are meat!?!?!
Sure, just ask your dog (or a hyena).
How on Earth can you just imagine numbers and so confidently make assertions based on them?
You must be new here...
So, we should never do anything to improve security because it isn't 100% effective.
Got it.
And 100% as convenient, too, don't forget. Wouldn't want to incur any costs or have to lift a finger for that security.
Physicists hate this loophole. Turn ordinary matter into dark matter without changing your lifestyle!
I hope you mean multiplex. Usually multipath is a bad thing
No, multipath. If one path is down, you want to be able to route around the failure. Multiplexing is the combination of several channels over a single connection, which it sounds like this also supports.
M-x doctor
M-x hanoi
M-x tetris
But you knew that already, didn't you?
I wonder if this will make companies like Microsoft and Apple rethink their ties to China.
That's quite an optimistic attitude you've got there.
Are the Chinese officials trying to score some celebrity porn?
It's possibly related to the protests in Hong Kong and the government's desire to identify the leaders/participants.
Or any other type of dissident or protester they can collect dirt on.
Like the NSA or any other spy agency, if they can scoop up any private data, they are going to want it.
... I am not an AI nut, but since I am an old man, I have been aware of the field for some time.
Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Sentience are not the same thing. If an application seems smart to us, it's AI.
Worries about evolution to sentience are premature, at best.
We will recognize it in many ways, and one way will be when the machine weeps when it loses the Internet.
What will it do when it wins the internet?
1. Unlatch side battery door.
2. Slide out weak battery.
3. Slide in fresh battery.
That's 30 seconds tops.
You realize that most electric cars have a substantial battery pack. If it was as simple as opening the hood and removing a simple battery, don't you think somebody would have thought of that before you?
http://www.teslamotors.com/bat...
Somebody did. Granted, it takes 3x that 30 seconds.
No - Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, Doritos, Anchovies
You forgot the funyuns and skittles.
Google's self-driving car only has to identify An Object and avoid it, on top of driving along a set course with GPS assistance. A killbot has to identify what The Object is, find out if it's a threat, then check if it's a friend or foe somehow, hopefully assess the possibilities of collateral damage and what war crimes it may be committing by attacking the target...what Google's self driving car can do is just the first step.
Nope. A killbot just has to identify An Object and kill it. You could make one of Google's self-driving cars into a killbot for pedestrians and bicyclists (and potentially motorcyclists) today, if you were sufficiently evil (or evil's cousin, incompetent). Good thing Google's motto is "don't be evil".
He did. He "hacked in to a protected computer". Also:
"Mitchell is no stranger to computer-related controversy. In high school, he was accused of planting more than 100 viruses on the school's systems, according to a report in the Charleston Gazette newspaper."
Great choice, let's hire him!
Ryan Reed reports that when most Game of Thrones fans imagine George R.R. Martin writing his epic fantasy novels, they probably picture the author working on a futuristic desktop
Why would anyone think that?
Good question. I imagined him at an old Underwood banging away. None of those wussy Selectrics, let alone a PC.
Either that or a pen and paper, considering how long it takes him to write a book.
It's called a printer. Back in the mists of time, there used to be devices you could connect to your computer to make words and images appear on paper. Yes, ordinary sheets of paper!
Oh, plenty of people have been fired for buying Oracle. Their enterprise apps are a bad joke.
The joke's on the poor sap dumb enough to buy them.
I seem to remember reading that the Boeing 747 has a glide ratio of 1:17. Meaning it can get 17 feet of forward motion for every foot of altitude. Honestly that kind of amazes me.
That's because of the speed that they'll likely be starting the glide at. Doesn't take long to go 17 feet when you're doing several hundreds of knots.
If you were to slow a 747 down to Cessna 172 speeds, you'd likely already be stalling out and dropping like a rock depending on your weight, flaps, etc.
Put down the crack pipe. That stuff is bad for your teeth.
No, quite the opposite in fact. The owners need to earn more to afford to buy or build replacements, and the producers of the replacement ships need to make more, which requires the production of more raw materials and components, on down the line.
The destruction of ships is one of the major drivers of demand in the Eve economy.
Another (automotive-related, even) example of the "premium" feature effect you describe:
Automatic transmissions. They are mechanically much simpler, and cheaper to manufacture, than old-fashioned manual transmissions. Yet you will pay more for an automatic transmission. Or, pay even more yet for an automatic transmission with a manual shift feature (just a software change in most cases).
The real problem here is that most people view computers as little black boxes that use a lot of elves and magic to keep them working.
There's the problem. We need to inform people that computers are little black boxes that use smoke to keep them working. How do I know? Because every time I've seen the smoke escape from the computer, it stopped working.
The empirical evidence is, indeed, compelling. My results correspond to your own.