It's like going to buy a TV, but you get home to find that the seller didn't sell you a television, but the letters T and V printed on a bit of paper in a box. Sure, technically they described what it was correctly, but they're still ripping you off.
That's because it's very early in the process - there's only a few out there, and they're in the hands of people who are interested specifically in the basic technology of the machine. Once that's sufficiently complete, the self-replication aspect will get enough of them out "in the wild" that people who are only interested in what they can make with the machine will get access to them, and the "other stuff" will skyrocket.
It's much like the internet - the original designers certainly weren't designing Facebook, and the Facebook guys (many years on) don't care about the specifics of ethernet or fiber.
The next idea will be a method to deal with all those terrorists with laser pointers who shine them at aircraft - just have the plane fire a missile at them! Remember, if you don't do it, the terrorists win.
I think you've discovered a whole new class of bug here - I'll be bold and suggest we name the new class of bug an "off-by-one" bug. If we go back through our old code who knows how many of these bugs we'll be able to detect now that we know they exist...;)
Atime is critical for systems that use hierarchical storage management; without atime an HSM can't know which files can be safely moved off to a slower/cheaper tier. Of course, that's not normally something used on your personal pc.
I coded a windows tool to emulate the half-keyboard behaviour... and it's completely unreleaseable because Matias defend their patents for it.:( It's fun to play with however. Just have to finish sawing a keyboard in half and I can fit kb and mouse next to each other on the ridiculously narrow keyboard tray of my desk.:D
It isn't as if the goblin tricked Harry into making the agreement under false pretenses.
Well, the goblin did assume that Harry would act in bad faith, and so made the deal planning to steal the sword and strand them in Gringotts. That sounds exactly like "false pretenses" to me.
There's an inherent fallacy in such a proposed experiment. Where is the case in which the experiment actually performs the action? As stated, the action can never be performed. If the action is never going to be performed, then the result is never going to be observed.
An equivalent experiment with normal causality would be something like "wait until the stone turns red before painting the stone red" - if the only thing which could turn the stone red is you painting it, then you'll sit there watching a non-red stone forever (or until you get fed up.):D
Since when have any of Apple's portable products had user replaceable batteries? The ipods never have - subsequent third-party techniques notwithstanding - why on earth would the average user expect this Apple product to be any different just because they stuck ExtraFunctionX (i.e. a phone) in there as well?
The problem isn't that you're making assumptions, it's that you're choosing the wrong ones.
Actually, the touch technology is identical, FTIR (frustrated total internal reflection). You edgelight a perspex sheet with IR leds so the light bounces inside the sheet (total internal reflection, like an optical fibre), then wherever something touches the perspex the IR light is scattered from the touch point instead of continuing to be reflected (i.e. "frustrated"). Cameras watching the back of the screen then see light wherever the perspex is being touched.
The technology does not detect "varying degrees of force". It's actually a cheat that requires assuming you're using a finger - more of your fingertip squashes against the surface as you press harder, and that means the spot of light detected by the cameras gets larger. Measure the size of the spot and you can roughly map that to pressure.
Microsoft's table does seem to add an extra twist - "dominos" which have a detectable pattern of dots on the bottom, to identify objects placed on the table. That wouldn't be using FTIR, but it is still a well known technique.
Maybe that would have been valid a few years ago, but now? May as well complain about that annoying requirement for electricity too. "If I can't play by candlelight, I won't play period!":D
And the rest of your argument seems to concern the charging for extra content... when this whole story is about Valve promising NOT to charge for any of it. Hmm.
No. The guy is australian, broke australian law whilst in australia - why the F**K is he being tried in America again?
If you break a law in a country you get tried IN THAT COUNTRY. Extradition works to preserve that - if you break the law then leave the country, you can be extradited BACK to that country to stand trial.
How the sun sends the massive amounts of radiant energy towards us is not very important to a climatologist. What happens when that energy reaches us and how our environment reacts to it *is*.
By your logic, how can we *possibly* justify doing anything ever unless we are omniscient?
If your house is on fire you don't just refuse to get the fire extinguisher or refuse to call the fire brigade or refuse to LEAVE THE HOUSE just because you don't know exactly which appliance in your kitchen started it.
Just because I don't have a deep knowledge of the part neurons play in intelligence, doesn't mean I can't be completely certain when somebody is acting like a complete dickhead.
The thing with skids is that you have to turn in exactly the *wrong* direction in order to regain control. I've only lost control of my car twice in my life. Both times I instinctively did the right thing, which meant *turning into oncoming traffic*, and didn't crash either time. I didn't learn that from driving - I learned that from the thousands of times I've played racing games and spun out there.
Of course he has muscle memory; he got it when he learned to drive the car. He also got a completely separate set of muscle memories from playing the game. They are essentially independent of each other, and muscle memory gained from using a gamepad isn't going to help you with a steering wheel.
But here's the kicker - the game did save him from the skid! Muscle memory is only half of the story.
When I'm playing a racing game (or you, or anyone else), I'm gaining low-level muscle memory on how to move gamepad sticks. That's useless in a real car. But I'm also learning high-level stuff about what cars do when I control them. So if I get my game-car in a skid, my brain learns to say "TURN THE WHEEL LEFT NOW!" and the muscle memory goes "OK, MOVING STICKS THAT WAY". When I'm in a real car, I use the other set of muscle memory I got learning to drive - my brain still says "TURN THE WHEEL LEFT NOW!" and my muscle memory now goes "OK, TURNING WHEEL LEFT NOW". The interface might be different, but my intent is still translated to the appropriate action.
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It's like going to buy a TV, but you get home to find that the seller didn't sell you a television, but the letters T and V printed on a bit of paper in a box. Sure, technically they described what it was correctly, but they're still ripping you off.
That's because it's very early in the process - there's only a few out there, and they're in the hands of people who are interested specifically in the basic technology of the machine. Once that's sufficiently complete, the self-replication aspect will get enough of them out "in the wild" that people who are only interested in what they can make with the machine will get access to them, and the "other stuff" will skyrocket.
It's much like the internet - the original designers certainly weren't designing Facebook, and the Facebook guys (many years on) don't care about the specifics of ethernet or fiber.
I thought Lenovo already had heavy competition for the Air... have you tried to lift a Thinkbook recently? Ouch!
1. Become disgruntled IT manager at large company
2. Install pirated software across the enterprise
3. Quit
4. Call BSA
5. Profit!!
The next idea will be a method to deal with all those terrorists with laser pointers who shine them at aircraft - just have the plane fire a missile at them! Remember, if you don't do it, the terrorists win.
Mass hysteria!
The researchers wouldn't also be attempting to devise a "Turbo Boost" device and a sardonic AI would they?
I think you've discovered a whole new class of bug here - I'll be bold and suggest we name the new class of bug an "off-by-one" bug. If we go back through our old code who knows how many of these bugs we'll be able to detect now that we know they exist... ;)
Atime is critical for systems that use hierarchical storage management; without atime an HSM can't know which files can be safely moved off to a slower/cheaper tier. Of course, that's not normally something used on your personal pc.
I coded a windows tool to emulate the half-keyboard behaviour... and it's completely unreleaseable because Matias defend their patents for it. :( It's fun to play with however. Just have to finish sawing a keyboard in half and I can fit kb and mouse next to each other on the ridiculously narrow keyboard tray of my desk. :D
It isn't as if the goblin tricked Harry into making the agreement under false pretenses.
Well, the goblin did assume that Harry would act in bad faith, and so made the deal planning to steal the sword and strand them in Gringotts. That sounds exactly like "false pretenses" to me.
There's an inherent fallacy in such a proposed experiment. Where is the case in which the experiment actually performs the action? As stated, the action can never be performed. If the action is never going to be performed, then the result is never going to be observed.
:D
An equivalent experiment with normal causality would be something like "wait until the stone turns red before painting the stone red" - if the only thing which could turn the stone red is you painting it, then you'll sit there watching a non-red stone forever (or until you get fed up.)
And THAT's a bloody insult to all *actual* engineers. You know, the ones who work on engines...
Since when have any of Apple's portable products had user replaceable batteries? The ipods never have - subsequent third-party techniques notwithstanding - why on earth would the average user expect this Apple product to be any different just because they stuck ExtraFunctionX (i.e. a phone) in there as well?
The problem isn't that you're making assumptions, it's that you're choosing the wrong ones.
Or, just perhaps, they're cutting out the crap "gotta make this season last the full 24 episodes" filler they obviously had in there this season.
Really? Twenty years ago? Where?
Actually, the touch technology is identical, FTIR (frustrated total internal reflection). You edgelight a perspex sheet with IR leds so the light bounces inside the sheet (total internal reflection, like an optical fibre), then wherever something touches the perspex the IR light is scattered from the touch point instead of continuing to be reflected (i.e. "frustrated"). Cameras watching the back of the screen then see light wherever the perspex is being touched.
The technology does not detect "varying degrees of force". It's actually a cheat that requires assuming you're using a finger - more of your fingertip squashes against the surface as you press harder, and that means the spot of light detected by the cameras gets larger. Measure the size of the spot and you can roughly map that to pressure.
Microsoft's table does seem to add an extra twist - "dominos" which have a detectable pattern of dots on the bottom, to identify objects placed on the table. That wouldn't be using FTIR, but it is still a well known technique.
Oh yeah. I bought a game a couple years ago, but before I installed it I found out it had StarForce on it.
It's still sitting on my shelf, unopened. I never bought another game from that series or that publisher.
What if I don't have an internet connection?
:D
Maybe that would have been valid a few years ago, but now? May as well complain about that annoying requirement for electricity too. "If I can't play by candlelight, I won't play period!"
And the rest of your argument seems to concern the charging for extra content... when this whole story is about Valve promising NOT to charge for any of it. Hmm.
why the F**K do you capitalize America but not "australia" (sic)?
laziness!
No. The guy is australian, broke australian law whilst in australia - why the F**K is he being tried in America again?
If you break a law in a country you get tried IN THAT COUNTRY. Extradition works to preserve that - if you break the law then leave the country, you can be extradited BACK to that country to stand trial.
How the sun sends the massive amounts of radiant energy towards us is not very important to a climatologist. What happens when that energy reaches us and how our environment reacts to it *is*.
By your logic, how can we *possibly* justify doing anything ever unless we are omniscient?
If your house is on fire you don't just refuse to get the fire extinguisher or refuse to call the fire brigade or refuse to LEAVE THE HOUSE just because you don't know exactly which appliance in your kitchen started it.
Just because I don't have a deep knowledge of the part neurons play in intelligence, doesn't mean I can't be completely certain when somebody is acting like a complete dickhead.
Levels of abstraction. Learn about them, friend.
"My screen name? It's andy6634789. Andy. Six. Six. Three. Four. Seven... yes, Seven. Eight? Geez, lemme look it up"
The thing with skids is that you have to turn in exactly the *wrong* direction in order to regain control. I've only lost control of my car twice in my life. Both times I instinctively did the right thing, which meant *turning into oncoming traffic*, and didn't crash either time. I didn't learn that from driving - I learned that from the thousands of times I've played racing games and spun out there.
Of course he has muscle memory; he got it when he learned to drive the car. He also got a completely separate set of muscle memories from playing the game. They are essentially independent of each other, and muscle memory gained from using a gamepad isn't going to help you with a steering wheel.
But here's the kicker - the game did save him from the skid! Muscle memory is only half of the story.
When I'm playing a racing game (or you, or anyone else), I'm gaining low-level muscle memory on how to move gamepad sticks. That's useless in a real car. But I'm also learning high-level stuff about what cars do when I control them. So if I get my game-car in a skid, my brain learns to say "TURN THE WHEEL LEFT NOW!" and the muscle memory goes "OK, MOVING STICKS THAT WAY". When I'm in a real car, I use the other set of muscle memory I got learning to drive - my brain still says "TURN THE WHEEL LEFT NOW!" and my muscle memory now goes "OK, TURNING WHEEL LEFT NOW". The interface might be different, but my intent is still translated to the appropriate action.