Looking at some "failed" entries to the mobile phone world: Amazon, Ubuntu, Mozilla, Microsoft: if they don't sell a bazillion phones then the plug is pulled. With that kind of track record, who wants to take a chance on a new phone OS?
I think so, too. Once you've done all this processing on the phone and identified people, places, things,... all that needs to be transferred to the mothership is the metadata.
I used a cereal box with a hole poked in it. I saw a little crescent - I think - or maybe my hole wasn't perfectly round. Honestly, I was underwhelmed with the experience. Thankfully some people with better gear shared pretty amazing photos.
Think about it - if you were running a very large company, would you rather:
a) have a catch-all email that runs the gamut of issues, feedback, etc.
b) have a way to submit categorized feedback via web forms?
I'd much rather have the latter. It can be easily routed to the proper department by issue type, enforce that certain fields are filled in, etc.
My suggestion is make sure an email contains clear links on how to provide feedback, not necessarily allow direct replies.
You're being tracked in detail across the Internet. Your personal data is being sold at every turn. I'm not sure what part of what I said is hard to believe _could_ happen. Especially since our electronics are already being infiltrated with spy chips.
And yet Mozilla criticizes other organizations for their privacy. I guess Mozilla is just behind the curve and finally realizing the "goodies" that can be had simply by compromising their values like everyone else.
Soon Mozilla will not have anything to differentiate them from everybody else.
I guess you can tell a company's true character by their actions when hard times come.
That would be wonderful information to share with customers in an easy to find place on the website. I used to be a BackBlaze customer but left specifically because they don't support Linux. I even left that as my reason for leaving and talked to Support about it! Please fix this situation.
I was dabbling with some deep learning and a single simulation I ran took almost 6 weeks to complete without a GPU.
I was reading that one nice thing about TensorFlow's "pictures of flowers" dataset is that almost all the "layers" in the neural net are already trained so you can play with it. Only the last one or two layers need any additional training. That might be an interesting point to start at (though I couldn't say how long the last 1 or 2 layers would take to train without a GPU as I haven't tried).
I still personally like to differentiate "AI" from "deep learning". AI would be capable of reasoning like we do. Deep learning can recognize patterns like pictures, sounds, or any number of other datasets but it isn't smart.
Since I don't have the compute power at home right now I've been having fun playing with genetic algorithms instead.
My guess is people repeat shop at places like Amazon where they had a good experience. They go directly there, type in what they want, and buy it. No advertising needed (or even seen).
Big difference - Windows XP didn't delete your applications when Windows 10 came out. A user should be able to run their old software for as long as they want. They paid for it and it may be the only way to access their data. If you think you can throw money at any developer and they will magically upgrade the software you're misinformed.
"Do you really believe that all the 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 (326 quintillion) estimated gallons of water upon the earth came from outerspace?"
Yes I do believe it because *everything* is from outer space. What the Sun is made of, the Earth and Moon, the countless galaxies. The the large number you quoted only accounts for 0.022 percent of the total weight (mass is a better term) of the Earth. The Sun weighs something like 1.989 × 10^30 kg. It contains 99.86% of our solar system's total mass. That all came from space, too. So the large, mind boggling number you quoted is really tiny in the grand scheme of things. And we're talking over millions and billions of years so again, not that hard to believe when you think about it.
Really, not harder to believe that an all-powerful god took 7 days to create everything. I mean, why wasn't it just a snap of the proverbial fingers? Who made God? Who made the one who made God? Why did God destroy his first creation - did this perfect being make a mistake? Too many loose ends for me.
Science isn't always right, but if you look at some of the predictions they make it does an impressive job. Computers and the Internet are built based on our understanding of electricity, signal loss, material science, mathematics, and countless other things built up over the years by a lot of people.
Scientists don't have all the answers on how life formed, but what they do know does a pretty good job of explaining the commonalities between creatures and their DNA and other traits, how the separation of a continent of millennia separated a species into two geographic locations which eventually diverged into different creatures with a common lineage, for example. When they find flaws in their theories, they update them. Think of how science has progressed in the past 100 years. At one time the atom was thought to be the smallest thing. Now science knows there are smaller things inside the atom.
On the comment about "evolution is not science", consider this page which says:
One of the most useful properties of scientific theories is that they can be used to make predictions about natural events or phenomena that have not yet been observed. For example, the theory of gravitation predicted the behavior of objects on the moon and other planets long before the activities of spacecraft and astronauts confirmed them. The evolutionary biologists who discovered Tiktaalik predicted that they would find fossils intermediate between fish and limbed terrestrial animals in sediments that were about 375 million years old. Their discovery confirmed the prediction made on the basis of evolutionary theory. In turn, confirmation of a prediction increases confidence in that theory.
I'll just finish by saying that science isn't always perfect, it bothers me how sometimes things are presented as "fact" before they should be (which could be the individual scientist's or news outlet's fault), how it can be politicized, etc. I don't instantly believe all new theories - I'm not a fool. But still, science is the best framework we have to build upon and increase our understanding of the vast universe we live in. I'm sure much of what we think we know today will be replaced by updated knowledge. That's just the nature of things. Maybe some all-powerful being did set things in motion, who knows, but wouldn't it follow that the universe conforms to an amazing set of rules which makes planet formation, evolution, and other wonders possible? Given the impossibly grand scale of the universe we may never know for sure.
Do you really believe that all the colorful, flavorful, appealing, and amazing fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, spices and meats all
What are end users supposed to do about it? Apple can warn all they like but if there's no replacement app from the developer and no way to migrate data to a different app then there's nothing that can be done but sit and wait for the clock of doom to strike down the apps.
What they should do is go "hey user, there's an iOS upgrade but we won't upgrade your iOS until you remove these offending apps: x, y, z. Would you like us to do it for you? yes/no".
Should be simple and completely under customer control. Apparently this is a very novel way of thinking.
I had no idea Roomba phoned home. I have pondered over the years whether to buy one - well I am definitely not buying one now!
And my next TV isn't going to be a "smart" TV either. Tired of shit being connected to my network, gathering data. Bad enough my browser is tracked extensively.
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Especially as it concerns safety, I wholeheartedly agree.
Maybe because Firefox has such a small marketshare, such an effort isn't attractive?
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Disable WebRTC
Pure URL
Referrer Control
Self-Destructing Cookies
uBlock Origin
I'm running the Waterfox fork.
Unlimited never seems to mean what you think it means.
Looking at some "failed" entries to the mobile phone world: Amazon, Ubuntu, Mozilla, Microsoft: if they don't sell a bazillion phones then the plug is pulled. With that kind of track record, who wants to take a chance on a new phone OS?
I think so, too. Once you've done all this processing on the phone and identified people, places, things, ... all that needs to be transferred to the mothership is the metadata.
Wait till ED-209 exits the car when you walk away without tipping
All farming (not just animal) destroys natural habitat for wild animals so don't be so smug. The only truly green option is don't eat.
I used a cereal box with a hole poked in it. I saw a little crescent - I think - or maybe my hole wasn't perfectly round. Honestly, I was underwhelmed with the experience. Thankfully some people with better gear shared pretty amazing photos.
Think about it - if you were running a very large company, would you rather: a) have a catch-all email that runs the gamut of issues, feedback, etc. b) have a way to submit categorized feedback via web forms? I'd much rather have the latter. It can be easily routed to the proper department by issue type, enforce that certain fields are filled in, etc. My suggestion is make sure an email contains clear links on how to provide feedback, not necessarily allow direct replies.
You're being tracked in detail across the Internet. Your personal data is being sold at every turn. I'm not sure what part of what I said is hard to believe _could_ happen. Especially since our electronics are already being infiltrated with spy chips.
I wouldn't trust a smart TV to not connect to an open wifi. And while your wifi may not be open, doesn't mean your neighbor's aren't.
Soon Mozilla will not have anything to differentiate them from everybody else.
I guess you can tell a company's true character by their actions when hard times come.
That would be wonderful information to share with customers in an easy to find place on the website. I used to be a BackBlaze customer but left specifically because they don't support Linux. I even left that as my reason for leaving and talked to Support about it! Please fix this situation.
I was dabbling with some deep learning and a single simulation I ran took almost 6 weeks to complete without a GPU.
I was reading that one nice thing about TensorFlow's "pictures of flowers" dataset is that almost all the "layers" in the neural net are already trained so you can play with it. Only the last one or two layers need any additional training. That might be an interesting point to start at (though I couldn't say how long the last 1 or 2 layers would take to train without a GPU as I haven't tried).
I still personally like to differentiate "AI" from "deep learning". AI would be capable of reasoning like we do. Deep learning can recognize patterns like pictures, sounds, or any number of other datasets but it isn't smart.
Since I don't have the compute power at home right now I've been having fun playing with genetic algorithms instead.
The button will disappear until FB realizes terrorists can use a small disaster to lure more folks into a bigger disaster.
That IS fucking big. Stop making excuses, fanboi.
Sure, with a big, ugly adapter. Better than nothing but hardly ideal.
My guess is people repeat shop at places like Amazon where they had a good experience. They go directly there, type in what they want, and buy it. No advertising needed (or even seen).
I got out of the expensive razor scene years ago. Try http://dollarshaveclub.com/
True, but there's nothing stopping it from connecting to an open wifi signal. I don't even want the ability to connect to the network.
Big difference - Windows XP didn't delete your applications when Windows 10 came out. A user should be able to run their old software for as long as they want. They paid for it and it may be the only way to access their data. If you think you can throw money at any developer and they will magically upgrade the software you're misinformed.
Yes I do believe it because *everything* is from outer space. What the Sun is made of, the Earth and Moon, the countless galaxies. The the large number you quoted only accounts for 0.022 percent of the total weight (mass is a better term) of the Earth. The Sun weighs something like 1.989 × 10^30 kg. It contains 99.86% of our solar system's total mass. That all came from space, too. So the large, mind boggling number you quoted is really tiny in the grand scheme of things. And we're talking over millions and billions of years so again, not that hard to believe when you think about it.
Really, not harder to believe that an all-powerful god took 7 days to create everything. I mean, why wasn't it just a snap of the proverbial fingers? Who made God? Who made the one who made God? Why did God destroy his first creation - did this perfect being make a mistake? Too many loose ends for me.
Science isn't always right, but if you look at some of the predictions they make it does an impressive job. Computers and the Internet are built based on our understanding of electricity, signal loss, material science, mathematics, and countless other things built up over the years by a lot of people.
Scientists don't have all the answers on how life formed, but what they do know does a pretty good job of explaining the commonalities between creatures and their DNA and other traits, how the separation of a continent of millennia separated a species into two geographic locations which eventually diverged into different creatures with a common lineage, for example. When they find flaws in their theories, they update them. Think of how science has progressed in the past 100 years. At one time the atom was thought to be the smallest thing. Now science knows there are smaller things inside the atom.
On the comment about "evolution is not science", consider this page which says:
I'll just finish by saying that science isn't always perfect, it bothers me how sometimes things are presented as "fact" before they should be (which could be the individual scientist's or news outlet's fault), how it can be politicized, etc. I don't instantly believe all new theories - I'm not a fool. But still, science is the best framework we have to build upon and increase our understanding of the vast universe we live in. I'm sure much of what we think we know today will be replaced by updated knowledge. That's just the nature of things. Maybe some all-powerful being did set things in motion, who knows, but wouldn't it follow that the universe conforms to an amazing set of rules which makes planet formation, evolution, and other wonders possible? Given the impossibly grand scale of the universe we may never know for sure.
What are end users supposed to do about it? Apple can warn all they like but if there's no replacement app from the developer and no way to migrate data to a different app then there's nothing that can be done but sit and wait for the clock of doom to strike down the apps.
What they should do is go "hey user, there's an iOS upgrade but we won't upgrade your iOS until you remove these offending apps: x, y, z. Would you like us to do it for you? yes/no".
Should be simple and completely under customer control. Apparently this is a very novel way of thinking.
I had no idea Roomba phoned home. I have pondered over the years whether to buy one - well I am definitely not buying one now! And my next TV isn't going to be a "smart" TV either. Tired of shit being connected to my network, gathering data. Bad enough my browser is tracked extensively.