I was wondering why it had been approved. So far as I know the first detector was built just to prove the theory. It's such a miniscule effect though that I wonder how effective it'll be.
Perhaps kids still are outgoing, energetic, and interested in the world. Just through the portal of their phone, through which they can learn about literally anything and come into contact with billions of people around the planet. As opposed to just being able to learn about things around them and meet only people nearby.
If you're going to go that far just use Tails OS and backup the encrypted volume on some cheap cloud storage. You have backup, you have encryption, and even some theoretical thief doesn't get any of it, short of kidnapping you and hitting you a bunch with a hammer.
Right now a lot of people use Bitcoin as a gold substitute. It's valuable because it's (relatively) secure and rare, exactly why people used gold for so long. But like gold, it's not actually practical for using as an everyday means of exchange.
Currency exchanges take too long to verify (half an hour or more), cost too much to do so (minor transactions can cost more to verify than exchanged hands), and the whole system sucks up a lot of power. While cryptocurrency as a valid backstop against incompetent governments is a great idea, a more technically proficient cryptocurrency, better designed for everyday transactions, would be a huge boon.
Oh no, another terrorist attack and people expect US to do something to stop them! Quick, who can we deflect the blame to? The internet, of course. It's all their fault,terrorists never existed before the internet. Or something. Assistant boy, to the press release!
No shit? This was proven like, a century ago. And astronomers have been using gravitational lensing as a kind of natural telescope for years now. Somehow a direct observation of star to star lensing hasn't been seen before, so uhhh, cool I guess. But this isn't a scientific discovery by any means.
It's also a dominant monopoly as far as mobile OS's are concerned. I mean, obviously.
And the EU loves to stick it to monopolies... that aren't in the EU. I mean, you're perfectly safe if you're based there. Massive government subsidies for Airbus to keep it afloat? Go right aheaaad! Wait your a company from ELSEWHERE, holdup!
I bet if Google paid more European taxes the fines and investigations would conveniently disappear into thin air.
No, ARM's new processors are not "designed" to power AI. They added an INT8 instruction, something useful for AI deploying neural nets (not training them though). And that's it. Otherwise it's a standard evolution of both designs taped out on "10nm" rather 14nm. They just know AI is HOT HOT HOT and so hope to grab some of that PR magic quick.
Just have a headline reading "AI to take over all jobs forever." and renew it every week with a link to which jobs it'll be replacing this time. Honestly, it'll just save everyone time.
Well, fucking duh.
The primary cost of a taxi/uber is the driver. Once you don't have to pay them the cost of just calling a car to you, and using it only when you need it, is a tiny fraction of the cost of buying and owning your own car. Look outside, right now. What do you see? Odds are, cars. Parked cars, just sitting there, being used by no one. There's no logical way you can look at that and think to yourself "this is cost effective, this is efficient". So you'll have to think of some illogical way that the world will remain static forever, you know, like how there's no way these stupid "smart" phone things will ever take over, people will still primarily use a big computer because, they want a big screen right?
And the disappearance of gas is even more transparent. Electricity is source agnostic, has a distribution grid larger than anything else imaginable, and currently costs, as the article states, about a tenth per mile travelled that gas does. Unless oil is about to get down to $5 a barrel you can kiss it goodbye in terms of gas. Oh and electric engines are cheaper to build, easier to maintain, and last longer than gas ones. But don't argue with me, argue with every major car company on the planet. They're all spending hundreds of millions to build electric cars over the next 8 years, save Toyota, who's pumping hundreds of millions into hydrogen instead cause "everyone else is wrong" but not in the way you want to argue.
The article just states the same thing engineers and researchers realized years ago, it's hardly surprising. That is unless you're someone on slashdot standing atop stupid hill yelling about how you know so much more about the industry than everyone on the planet that actually runs it.
I'm convinced the boardroom owners of Zenimax and whatever rabid lawyers they employ just get a hardon from lawsuits. The "victory" against Oculus was actually against Palmer and another Oculus employee personally for breaking NDA's, which they did. The charges against Carmack and for "stolen technology" were all declared as not guilty.
So the "victory" provides them no legal backing nor precedent for this new suit, but they're doing it anyway because Zenimax is run by some crazed bullies that probably wank it to thoughts of bossing poor people around. Or they literally just hire hookers and then boss them around, I dunno.
You don't want rogue heating engineers running amok do you? What would happen next, the government blackbagging and extradition department not getting signatures for the people they kidnap! Anarchy I say, anarchy.
No, you've probably never heard of it.
But seriously, if you don't use a ton of data, fuck every other carrier. Ting is an MVNO that's incredibly cheap, allows you to bring your own device, runs on Sprint for CDMA and they won't say for GSM. But get a GSM phone because whether its AT&T or Tmobile the cost is the same and the reception is better. How cheap? You pay only for what you use, no fixed monthly fees beyond lines and the usage rates for anything other than data are great.
If that sounds like your kind of thing go check it out.
The value of it is already eroded since it's messing up their sites intended purpose. They're just trying to correct for a technical problem, this is a technical problem, not some ethical dilemma.
I mean, really it's an odd way to sneak an ad onto/.
I mean, I'm so glad these new computer cases will be compatible with Linux. Really. I accidentally bought a case one time that wasn't, couldn't install Linux Mint or any other distro. Worked with Freebsd, but not Linux. Fortunately this will solve this well known problem.
Yeah this is why you almost never back hardware on kickstarter. I mean software and goods that have a known manufacturing requirement and backing can and do still fail. But at least there the barriers to success are well defined. Once software is done distribution is post scarcity in all practical terms, and already known manufactured goods have no unknown design problems and well defined paths towards manufacturing. But hardware that doesn't exist yet needs to be designed to work, then the manufacturing of this thing that's never been made before has to be worked out, and only then are you on your way towards getting an actual product out.
But my god if you wanted a movie that predicted the future perfectly that was it. Fox News, crazed personalities spinning "news" as entertainment, the fall of communism, right down to the how easily replaceable people in most industries are. There's even a bit where there's filmed terrorism for the sake of broadcast money. It was supposed to be satire, well guess what there's filmed "terrorism" for broadcast money going on all the time in the middle-east. Faked terrorist attacks filmed on high quality cameras and sold as real to the news networks who buy it all up, one wonders how long before ISIS or whatever the next one will be called will realize there's more money in monetizing their youtube terror youtube video and selling their attacks as news stories than there is in trying to hold oil wells.
"My god, they sucked his brains out." - Michael Ironside, in a perfect deadpan voice.
Definitely my favorite satire ever. Perfectly skewers jingoistic nutjobs.
No no no no nooo. To establish the guilt of witches they must burn, but we can't burn the innocent. So we have to establish that they are, in fact, witches before burning them. Now, it is a well established fact that witches are made of wood, which is why they burn. Now you could try to make a bridge out of the alleged witch to establish guilt, but bridges can be made of other things. But wood floats! So if the alleged witch floats you have established guilt and may thus burn the witch. But should a pond or other large body of water not be readily available comparing the weight of the accused to that which also floats, such as a duck, is acceptable. And if the accused does indeed weigh as much as a duck, why then guilt has CLEARLY been established!
I just said it made a billion dollars. Disney don't give a fuuuuuuuuck whether you went. Live action Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Aladdin were probably all greenlit this past week with shouts of "I don't care who the hell the 'director' or whatever it is does it, just get it done!" Hell they're probably already planning live action Tangled, Frozen, Brave, and screw it Pocahontas too cause why not.
This is correct, though really I can't blame them. When a shot for shot remake of Beauty and the Beast makes a billion dollars while a new movie has just as much chance to fail as make half that it's not a hard decision. The mass population wants the same exact thing over and over and over again without the slightest surprise, and if they're willing to fork over the dough for who it who's going to argue?
Planes save a ton of fuel by flying higher in the atmosphere to reduce drag. This claims to save a lot of money by doing things inefficiently. Where some of that "deregulation" the US was promised by the Repub- ohhh they're too busy giving more power to noncompetitive monopolies that pay them off. How silly of me, my mistake.
When I read "Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld ran a UBI program" I thought, ok, this is it. April fools, it's April 1st even in the US, cool cool. Then it links to a fucking real article written long ago.
Is this some ultra elaborate/. April first where all the stories seem like they should be jokes but aren't???
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I was wondering why it had been approved. So far as I know the first detector was built just to prove the theory. It's such a miniscule effect though that I wonder how effective it'll be.
Perhaps kids still are outgoing, energetic, and interested in the world. Just through the portal of their phone, through which they can learn about literally anything and come into contact with billions of people around the planet. As opposed to just being able to learn about things around them and meet only people nearby.
Seriously? Well, sure why not.
If you're going to go that far just use Tails OS and backup the encrypted volume on some cheap cloud storage. You have backup, you have encryption, and even some theoretical thief doesn't get any of it, short of kidnapping you and hitting you a bunch with a hammer.
Right now a lot of people use Bitcoin as a gold substitute. It's valuable because it's (relatively) secure and rare, exactly why people used gold for so long. But like gold, it's not actually practical for using as an everyday means of exchange.
Currency exchanges take too long to verify (half an hour or more), cost too much to do so (minor transactions can cost more to verify than exchanged hands), and the whole system sucks up a lot of power. While cryptocurrency as a valid backstop against incompetent governments is a great idea, a more technically proficient cryptocurrency, better designed for everyday transactions, would be a huge boon.
Oh no, another terrorist attack and people expect US to do something to stop them! Quick, who can we deflect the blame to? The internet, of course. It's all their fault,terrorists never existed before the internet. Or something. Assistant boy, to the press release!
No shit? This was proven like, a century ago. And astronomers have been using gravitational lensing as a kind of natural telescope for years now. Somehow a direct observation of star to star lensing hasn't been seen before, so uhhh, cool I guess. But this isn't a scientific discovery by any means.
It's also a dominant monopoly as far as mobile OS's are concerned. I mean, obviously.
And the EU loves to stick it to monopolies... that aren't in the EU. I mean, you're perfectly safe if you're based there. Massive government subsidies for Airbus to keep it afloat? Go right aheaaad! Wait your a company from ELSEWHERE, holdup!
I bet if Google paid more European taxes the fines and investigations would conveniently disappear into thin air.
No, ARM's new processors are not "designed" to power AI. They added an INT8 instruction, something useful for AI deploying neural nets (not training them though). And that's it. Otherwise it's a standard evolution of both designs taped out on "10nm" rather 14nm. They just know AI is HOT HOT HOT and so hope to grab some of that PR magic quick.
For those really interested Anandtech has the actual computer engineering of the whole thing: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
Just have a headline reading "AI to take over all jobs forever." and renew it every week with a link to which jobs it'll be replacing this time. Honestly, it'll just save everyone time.
Well, fucking duh. The primary cost of a taxi/uber is the driver. Once you don't have to pay them the cost of just calling a car to you, and using it only when you need it, is a tiny fraction of the cost of buying and owning your own car. Look outside, right now. What do you see? Odds are, cars. Parked cars, just sitting there, being used by no one. There's no logical way you can look at that and think to yourself "this is cost effective, this is efficient". So you'll have to think of some illogical way that the world will remain static forever, you know, like how there's no way these stupid "smart" phone things will ever take over, people will still primarily use a big computer because, they want a big screen right?
And the disappearance of gas is even more transparent. Electricity is source agnostic, has a distribution grid larger than anything else imaginable, and currently costs, as the article states, about a tenth per mile travelled that gas does. Unless oil is about to get down to $5 a barrel you can kiss it goodbye in terms of gas. Oh and electric engines are cheaper to build, easier to maintain, and last longer than gas ones. But don't argue with me, argue with every major car company on the planet. They're all spending hundreds of millions to build electric cars over the next 8 years, save Toyota, who's pumping hundreds of millions into hydrogen instead cause "everyone else is wrong" but not in the way you want to argue.
The article just states the same thing engineers and researchers realized years ago, it's hardly surprising. That is unless you're someone on slashdot standing atop stupid hill yelling about how you know so much more about the industry than everyone on the planet that actually runs it.
I'm convinced the boardroom owners of Zenimax and whatever rabid lawyers they employ just get a hardon from lawsuits. The "victory" against Oculus was actually against Palmer and another Oculus employee personally for breaking NDA's, which they did. The charges against Carmack and for "stolen technology" were all declared as not guilty.
So the "victory" provides them no legal backing nor precedent for this new suit, but they're doing it anyway because Zenimax is run by some crazed bullies that probably wank it to thoughts of bossing poor people around. Or they literally just hire hookers and then boss them around, I dunno.
You don't want rogue heating engineers running amok do you? What would happen next, the government blackbagging and extradition department not getting signatures for the people they kidnap! Anarchy I say, anarchy.
You just create "artificial" stars. Hatsune Miku already works in Japan, it'll work in the rest of the world too.
No, you've probably never heard of it.
But seriously, if you don't use a ton of data, fuck every other carrier. Ting is an MVNO that's incredibly cheap, allows you to bring your own device, runs on Sprint for CDMA and they won't say for GSM. But get a GSM phone because whether its AT&T or Tmobile the cost is the same and the reception is better. How cheap? You pay only for what you use, no fixed monthly fees beyond lines and the usage rates for anything other than data are great.
If that sounds like your kind of thing go check it out.
The value of it is already eroded since it's messing up their sites intended purpose. They're just trying to correct for a technical problem, this is a technical problem, not some ethical dilemma.
I mean, really it's an odd way to sneak an ad onto /.
I mean, I'm so glad these new computer cases will be compatible with Linux. Really. I accidentally bought a case one time that wasn't, couldn't install Linux Mint or any other distro. Worked with Freebsd, but not Linux. Fortunately this will solve this well known problem.
Yeah this is why you almost never back hardware on kickstarter. I mean software and goods that have a known manufacturing requirement and backing can and do still fail. But at least there the barriers to success are well defined. Once software is done distribution is post scarcity in all practical terms, and already known manufactured goods have no unknown design problems and well defined paths towards manufacturing. But hardware that doesn't exist yet needs to be designed to work, then the manufacturing of this thing that's never been made before has to be worked out, and only then are you on your way towards getting an actual product out.
Now, I know, it's not science fiction.
But my god if you wanted a movie that predicted the future perfectly that was it. Fox News, crazed personalities spinning "news" as entertainment, the fall of communism, right down to the how easily replaceable people in most industries are. There's even a bit where there's filmed terrorism for the sake of broadcast money. It was supposed to be satire, well guess what there's filmed "terrorism" for broadcast money going on all the time in the middle-east. Faked terrorist attacks filmed on high quality cameras and sold as real to the news networks who buy it all up, one wonders how long before ISIS or whatever the next one will be called will realize there's more money in monetizing their youtube terror youtube video and selling their attacks as news stories than there is in trying to hold oil wells.
"My god, they sucked his brains out." - Michael Ironside, in a perfect deadpan voice. Definitely my favorite satire ever. Perfectly skewers jingoistic nutjobs.
No no no no nooo. To establish the guilt of witches they must burn, but we can't burn the innocent. So we have to establish that they are, in fact, witches before burning them. Now, it is a well established fact that witches are made of wood, which is why they burn. Now you could try to make a bridge out of the alleged witch to establish guilt, but bridges can be made of other things. But wood floats! So if the alleged witch floats you have established guilt and may thus burn the witch. But should a pond or other large body of water not be readily available comparing the weight of the accused to that which also floats, such as a duck, is acceptable. And if the accused does indeed weigh as much as a duck, why then guilt has CLEARLY been established!
I just said it made a billion dollars. Disney don't give a fuuuuuuuuck whether you went. Live action Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Aladdin were probably all greenlit this past week with shouts of "I don't care who the hell the 'director' or whatever it is does it, just get it done!" Hell they're probably already planning live action Tangled, Frozen, Brave, and screw it Pocahontas too cause why not.
This is correct, though really I can't blame them. When a shot for shot remake of Beauty and the Beast makes a billion dollars while a new movie has just as much chance to fail as make half that it's not a hard decision. The mass population wants the same exact thing over and over and over again without the slightest surprise, and if they're willing to fork over the dough for who it who's going to argue?
Planes save a ton of fuel by flying higher in the atmosphere to reduce drag. This claims to save a lot of money by doing things inefficiently. Where some of that "deregulation" the US was promised by the Repub- ohhh they're too busy giving more power to noncompetitive monopolies that pay them off. How silly of me, my mistake.
When I read "Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld ran a UBI program" I thought, ok, this is it. April fools, it's April 1st even in the US, cool cool. Then it links to a fucking real article written long ago. Is this some ultra elaborate /. April first where all the stories seem like they should be jokes but aren't???
Can't, tell, if, April, fools story yet. Must, not, give in! Must, type, like, Captain Kirk.