With Trump in control, I would bet he'd nuke most of the middle east
The same kind of thing was being said when G.W.Bush became president. Still, the 9/11 attacks were the closest thing to an act of war directly against the US since WW2, and he didn't use nukes.
I think the reason they didn't mention compilers, and OSes for that matter is that they limited themselves to things that are actually useful for the end user, not what lie behind it. All examples are the visible part of different kinds of underlying technologies. It is actually a pretty good list as they managed to represent a wide variety of technology with a wide variety of applications.
The choice of World of Warcraft is a particularly good one IMHO. Video games are a major component of the history of computing and it is important to include something to represent this industry. WoW is a very successful game made by a very successful company and so, a good representative. There is also a wide array of technologies behind it. It is a realtime 3D game with all that implies in term of computer imaging and GPU development, it also has a complex network architecture behind it, with game servers, database servers, load balancing, etc... Being a paid game with a subscription, it even dips into eCommerce.
I think we can use Hanlon's razor here "do not attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity". It is not unthinkable at all that undeleted files go unnoticed. It happens all the time where I work. And because storage needs constantly increase anyways, it isn't that noticeable. For example, files may be copied to A, but because of some problem, the get copied to B instead. Later, the problem is fixed and files are copied again to A, where they should be. B is left untouched. Now the users wants to delete its files and they also get deleted from A, as expected, but there are still some left on B, and they aren't deleted because they shouldn't be there in the first place. Maybe later, perhaps after a disk crash, some restoration script goes back to B and starts restoring the files, causing the deleted files to resurface. Sysadmins really want to make sure they don't lose data, as they should. So if they have to chose between risking losing data and improperly deleting files, they will most likely chose the second option.
Walled gardens is a problem that have plagued home automation for decades. I considered it once and quickly dismissed the idea. There is no way you can just buy an AC unit, boiler and an alarm system and expect everything to work together. There are standards like KNX but there is no way the reasonably priced stuff you get from home depot is compatible. And BTW, KNX is not IoT. KNX is local and distributed. You can connect the whole thing to the internet if you want but you don't need to, not even once. You need a computer for configuration though.
Common factors : Heavy usage, battery often at 100%, heat, fast charge, bad luck. And for replacement batteries : poor quality third party, refurbished, in stock for too long and in poor conditions.
Batteries also tend to degrade well before they die. You can live with it, many people don't even notice, but if you barely make it to the end of the day, spending $25 and 30 seconds to get a fresh battery may be worth it. The old battery can be kept as a spare.
At the time of the DK2, in Oculus, they said that they intended the final product to be around $300, $400 top. They said they chose this price point because more than that and people won't buy it, no matter how good it is. They were right : $600 final price and people didn't buy.
With all its billions, I would have thought Facebook would have been more aggressive. Favoring wide adoption over large margins.
I am not sure there really is a point trying to circumvent this limitation. There is no point in showing ads and monitoring background pages, and developers probably don't mind being throttled in this case. In fact, they probably want this behavior but are too lazy to check whether or not the page is actually visible before running their scripts at full speed.
The study was done on Google Play apps. The worst offenders were removed from the Play Store during the study. It isn't explicit what counts as "malware", but for the look of it, beside a couple of apps (from the removed ones), it looks more like obnoxious ads.
Maybe more concerning than malware is the lack of security. Some apps don't even encrypt traffic.
The app store has a policy against duplicating built-in functionality. Many apps have been rejected for this reason. Apparently, it includes future functionality.
Dystopian fiction is not information. It is a literary masterpiece, but it is just that, fiction. It doesn't represent the modern world, not even close. If you want to pick a dystopia, I think that Huxley's "Brave New World", is slightly more fitting.
That 1984 is regarded as somehow prophetic is just the result of good writing. It is based on real-life totalitarian regimes a the time it was written and extrapolations are done convincingly. Of course, some predictions match today's reality if you look hard enough, however, the same can be said of any good work of speculative fiction.
There may be an idea here. Of course, you access the books with your Facebook account. From there, if you want, you can buy a hardcopy really cheap, you just have to register your credit card with Facebook pay and give out your home address for shipping.
Anyone with a thermometer can gather climate data. Some people have internet connected weather stations so if you don't trust the government you can get this information from thousands of independent sources. And if government weather data weren't reliable, you would probably hear a lot from aircraft pilots, sailors, etc... as it is literally a matter of life and death for them. For less direct climate data there are historical records you can check yourself as well as scientific publications from all over the world, not just the US. There is very limited room for government lies here. Climate models can be a point of debate, mostly because of their complexity, but data, not so much.
The government has much more control on economic and demographic data, and thus, can lie much more easily. You can't just go to a company headquarters and ask for a list of employees and a copy of the books. Only the government can do that.
Without blowing an efuse permanently losing you KNOX support and invalidating the device warranty would be nice too.
- KNOX is mainly used so that you can access a corporate network with a phone that you can also use personally. If you are using KNOX, it is most likely using a company issued phone, and one that shouldn't be tampered with. - At least in Europe, you don't invalidate your device warranty by tripping the KNOX flag. Yeah, it would be better if we could reset this flag but it is way way down in my priority list.
Concepts are not really a new feature. More like a way of doing what is already done using templates but without the ugly hacks. The idea is to restrict what kind of types can be used in templates, so that instead of having an error that pops up deep inside the template code, you have a much clearer "this type is not supported" kind of error right off the bat. It also helps making the SFINAE trick a little less tricky.
As for templates producing very bloated code, I suppose you mean binaries. If you use them improperly, sure, but not if you know what you are doing, they work fine. They can do a good job replacing macros which seem to be all too common in embedded code. As for using only a subset of C++, there is nothing wrong about it. C++ is huge, I have more than 10 years of experience being paid doing C++ and I still regularly learn new things. I'd set using only a subset, or just plain C is good practice, but it is nice to know that should you want something more complex, you can do it.
It has been shown countless times that even imperfect self driving cars will be safer than human drivers. So while you may be right to be afraid of rushed-to-market self driving cars, this would be after we get rid of human drivers.
Ruby is 22 years old, and regularly someone will come out and say this language will take over the world. And despite a loyal user base, it never really took off. It had a bit of success with the ruby-on-rails framework but it didn't last. Nim is a bit like that, except that it didn't even have the small success Ruby had.
LG, LG and LG... And following the announcement that the LG G6 will non-modular and waterproof, I am not confident the trend will continue. What you are seeing on this page may be the last mainstream smartphones with a removable battery.
AI means artificial intelligence, artificial is the key here. The goal of AI is not to emulate a human brain down to the cellular level. The point of AI is to perform functions that normally require human intelligence. For example a chess AI performs a function that normally requires human intelligence, and it does it artificially, so it is an artificial intelligence. Because it only does one thing, it is called a weak AI. When an AI is able to reproduce every function of human intelligence, it is called a strong AI. But in neither case we have to know how the brain works.
As for the field of AI in general, what people really do is solve practical problems that traditional programming techniques can't solve, like image classification. Very few actually work on the human brain and strong AIs.
He managed to become president. You can't do that by being a complete retard. You can however look like a retard if it gets you votes from an important part of the population.
GLONASS and Beidou work fine. I suspect that these would be the most likely targets should the CIA want to disable competing systems. Europe is supposedly an ally, Russia and China, not so much.
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In some cases, there are only two grades : the maximum score and less than the maximum. The scale is a decoy.
With Trump in control, I would bet he'd nuke most of the middle east
The same kind of thing was being said when G.W.Bush became president.
Still, the 9/11 attacks were the closest thing to an act of war directly against the US since WW2, and he didn't use nukes.
I think the reason they didn't mention compilers, and OSes for that matter is that they limited themselves to things that are actually useful for the end user, not what lie behind it.
All examples are the visible part of different kinds of underlying technologies. It is actually a pretty good list as they managed to represent a wide variety of technology with a wide variety of applications.
The choice of World of Warcraft is a particularly good one IMHO. Video games are a major component of the history of computing and it is important to include something to represent this industry. WoW is a very successful game made by a very successful company and so, a good representative. There is also a wide array of technologies behind it. It is a realtime 3D game with all that implies in term of computer imaging and GPU development, it also has a complex network architecture behind it, with game servers, database servers, load balancing, etc... Being a paid game with a subscription, it even dips into eCommerce.
I think we can use Hanlon's razor here "do not attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity".
It is not unthinkable at all that undeleted files go unnoticed. It happens all the time where I work. And because storage needs constantly increase anyways, it isn't that noticeable.
For example, files may be copied to A, but because of some problem, the get copied to B instead. Later, the problem is fixed and files are copied again to A, where they should be. B is left untouched. Now the users wants to delete its files and they also get deleted from A, as expected, but there are still some left on B, and they aren't deleted because they shouldn't be there in the first place. Maybe later, perhaps after a disk crash, some restoration script goes back to B and starts restoring the files, causing the deleted files to resurface.
Sysadmins really want to make sure they don't lose data, as they should. So if they have to chose between risking losing data and improperly deleting files, they will most likely chose the second option.
Walled gardens is a problem that have plagued home automation for decades.
I considered it once and quickly dismissed the idea. There is no way you can just buy an AC unit, boiler and an alarm system and expect everything to work together. There are standards like KNX but there is no way the reasonably priced stuff you get from home depot is compatible.
And BTW, KNX is not IoT. KNX is local and distributed. You can connect the whole thing to the internet if you want but you don't need to, not even once. You need a computer for configuration though.
Common factors : Heavy usage, battery often at 100%, heat, fast charge, bad luck.
And for replacement batteries : poor quality third party, refurbished, in stock for too long and in poor conditions.
Batteries also tend to degrade well before they die. You can live with it, many people don't even notice, but if you barely make it to the end of the day, spending $25 and 30 seconds to get a fresh battery may be worth it. The old battery can be kept as a spare.
At the time of the DK2, in Oculus, they said that they intended the final product to be around $300, $400 top. They said they chose this price point because more than that and people won't buy it, no matter how good it is.
They were right : $600 final price and people didn't buy.
With all its billions, I would have thought Facebook would have been more aggressive. Favoring wide adoption over large margins.
They need to debug bugs in bug bugs first.
I am not sure there really is a point trying to circumvent this limitation.
There is no point in showing ads and monitoring background pages, and developers probably don't mind being throttled in this case. In fact, they probably want this behavior but are too lazy to check whether or not the page is actually visible before running their scripts at full speed.
It is from the Apple Web Store.
The study was done on Google Play apps. The worst offenders were removed from the Play Store during the study.
It isn't explicit what counts as "malware", but for the look of it, beside a couple of apps (from the removed ones), it looks more like obnoxious ads.
Maybe more concerning than malware is the lack of security. Some apps don't even encrypt traffic.
Me: Alexa, is my data safe?
Alexa: Yes.
See, you don't have to worry.
The app store has a policy against duplicating built-in functionality. Many apps have been rejected for this reason.
Apparently, it includes future functionality.
Dystopian fiction is not information. It is a literary masterpiece, but it is just that, fiction.
It doesn't represent the modern world, not even close. If you want to pick a dystopia, I think that Huxley's "Brave New World", is slightly more fitting.
That 1984 is regarded as somehow prophetic is just the result of good writing. It is based on real-life totalitarian regimes a the time it was written and extrapolations are done convincingly. Of course, some predictions match today's reality if you look hard enough, however, the same can be said of any good work of speculative fiction.
There may be an idea here.
Of course, you access the books with your Facebook account.
From there, if you want, you can buy a hardcopy really cheap, you just have to register your credit card with Facebook pay and give out your home address for shipping.
Anyone with a thermometer can gather climate data. Some people have internet connected weather stations so if you don't trust the government you can get this information from thousands of independent sources. And if government weather data weren't reliable, you would probably hear a lot from aircraft pilots, sailors, etc... as it is literally a matter of life and death for them.
For less direct climate data there are historical records you can check yourself as well as scientific publications from all over the world, not just the US. There is very limited room for government lies here. Climate models can be a point of debate, mostly because of their complexity, but data, not so much.
The government has much more control on economic and demographic data, and thus, can lie much more easily. You can't just go to a company headquarters and ask for a list of employees and a copy of the books. Only the government can do that.
Without blowing an efuse permanently losing you KNOX support and invalidating the device warranty would be nice too.
- KNOX is mainly used so that you can access a corporate network with a phone that you can also use personally. If you are using KNOX, it is most likely using a company issued phone, and one that shouldn't be tampered with.
- At least in Europe, you don't invalidate your device warranty by tripping the KNOX flag.
Yeah, it would be better if we could reset this flag but it is way way down in my priority list.
Concepts are not really a new feature. More like a way of doing what is already done using templates but without the ugly hacks.
The idea is to restrict what kind of types can be used in templates, so that instead of having an error that pops up deep inside the template code, you have a much clearer "this type is not supported" kind of error right off the bat. It also helps making the SFINAE trick a little less tricky.
As for templates producing very bloated code, I suppose you mean binaries. If you use them improperly, sure, but not if you know what you are doing, they work fine. They can do a good job replacing macros which seem to be all too common in embedded code. As for using only a subset of C++, there is nothing wrong about it. C++ is huge, I have more than 10 years of experience being paid doing C++ and I still regularly learn new things. I'd set using only a subset, or just plain C is good practice, but it is nice to know that should you want something more complex, you can do it.
It has been shown countless times that even imperfect self driving cars will be safer than human drivers.
So while you may be right to be afraid of rushed-to-market self driving cars, this would be after we get rid of human drivers.
Ruby is 22 years old, and regularly someone will come out and say this language will take over the world. And despite a loyal user base, it never really took off. It had a bit of success with the ruby-on-rails framework but it didn't last.
Nim is a bit like that, except that it didn't even have the small success Ruby had.
LG, LG and LG...
And following the announcement that the LG G6 will non-modular and waterproof, I am not confident the trend will continue. What you are seeing on this page may be the last mainstream smartphones with a removable battery.
AI means artificial intelligence, artificial is the key here. The goal of AI is not to emulate a human brain down to the cellular level.
The point of AI is to perform functions that normally require human intelligence. For example a chess AI performs a function that normally requires human intelligence, and it does it artificially, so it is an artificial intelligence. Because it only does one thing, it is called a weak AI. When an AI is able to reproduce every function of human intelligence, it is called a strong AI. But in neither case we have to know how the brain works.
As for the field of AI in general, what people really do is solve practical problems that traditional programming techniques can't solve, like image classification. Very few actually work on the human brain and strong AIs.
He managed to become president.
You can't do that by being a complete retard. You can however look like a retard if it gets you votes from an important part of the population.
Kim Jong Un, is that you?
GLONASS and Beidou work fine.
I suspect that these would be the most likely targets should the CIA want to disable competing systems. Europe is supposedly an ally, Russia and China, not so much.