Not only are Saturn's rings young, but it appears they are going away soon (astronomically speaking), so if you think about it we are all kind of amazingly lucky to be around while they are here to admire the amazing beauty they offer!
It also completely removes any inhibitions to mine them for valuable resources.
The thing about drones though, is they have kind of a small vulnerable profile. The body if it takes a direct hit is way more robust than a clay pigeon, because of the usually fairly tough abs shell. The arms and rotors are somewhat weaker but then not much of the pellets are actually hitting anything due to the small profile... in one of the video links I showed a drone took a direct hit on a propeller with a paintball pellet and it just shredded it, no harm to drone.
A) Produce some really crappy mobile app B) Price said app at $500 C) Enjoy $5k from Chinese cloners purchasing app to replicate. D) Ghost app, move onto some other app category, repeat.
"AI is going to have as big an impact on our society as electricity"
You say that as if you doubt it to be true, but you sound a lot like this guy scoffing at David Bowie about the impact of the internet... back in 1999...
I'm assuming you somehow messed up the syntax for https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences, I thought a direct link was a good idea so I thought I'd provide it...
Some sections seemed alright, but under travel it thought I was interested in the "Entire Rios Province", somewhere in Argentina - bizarre.
There are plenty of examples across the globe where this clearly isn't the case, geography also plays a major part.
Exactly!, I've posted on this before and had Warming Alarmists deny that geography was largely responsible for deserts - sheesh.
From there, you ask if global warming is changing the GEOGRAPHY of Puerto Rico, or anywhere else? Which it is obviously not.
Then WHY do so many people think rainfall will alter substantially? Especially when as I said measured rainfall has not really changed at all over the decades.
People are talking about regions magically going to desert just because of a small average temperature increase which is sheer nonsense, because as you and I both say, geography plays a huge part in this.
it's not impossible that rising temperatures will dry Puerto Rico out somewhat more
Nothing is impossible, but I am not a unicorn yet, the sun did in fact rise this morning, and rainfall in Puerto Rico has not altered despite rising average temperatures.
it's equally possible that Puerto Rico's position as an island with decent sized mountains will increase rainfall around those mountains, whilst, say, drying out it's lower lying areas for example.
I've been to the deserts on the coasts of Peru. And I've been to Puerto Rico. They are very different situations, not the least of which is that Peru is part of a larger continent, where PR is, although large, still just an island that does not have whole mountain ranges scrubbing moisture.
So without the actual geography of PR changing, just how would that actually take place???
So before kicking off and implying people are dumb for not understanding warmer climate means more rainfall, please consider that that's a rather simplistic view,
I'm giving a simplistic view to people holding far more simplistic (really religious, based on faith and dogma alone) views; one step at a time man.
Especially in space, countries should share everything they can and set an example for the rest of humanity of how we can all work together - a great reason for all nations to continue exploring space BTW.
I realize there are very valid military reasons why some things like rocket technology maybe cannot be shared between countries that are at odds. However there's no reason at all we cannot all share data about what we find out there...
once it's too late you can expect all the deniers to go to the ovens and gas chamber
Fine, so what do we get to do to all the alarmists that attempted to kill millions with extreme proposals to address climate change once we determine there was never any reason to panic some 10-20 years hence?
I also find it pretty amusing that even by your own logic sending the deniers to the gas chambers (which, P.S. you do realize puts you right up there directly with Hitler as one of a select group of people to use that.. solution....) would give them the most merciful death compared to the rest of you that slowly die as the Earth turns into Venus.
If you truly believe climate change to be beyond hope at some point, would not the ideal solution be to get rid of yourselves and let all of the "deniers" live to suffer through what you see as the inevitable and horrible end? Why would you seek to give comfort to your mortal enemy?:-)
It's a rainforest, didn't you even read the summary?
Pretty amusing coming from someone who did not even read the PDF he posted...
It seems to have faced a 2.5 F degree rise in sea temperature since 1900 with a loss or rainfall
We aren't talking about sea insects, now are we? Your OWN PDF states PR has seen a 1*F* (not even C) increase in land temperatures since mid 20th century... vastly less than seasonal variation.
Furthermore the paper speculated rainfall MIGHT lower, based on... nothing at all.
In reality rainfall has been cyclical but remained fairly steady (click on "MAX" below the chart).
This would be obvious to anyone who understands the effect of heat on large bodies of water, which surround PR.... A warmer climate means MORE RAINFALL which I cannot believe how few people, even now, understand.
Sorry to disturb your manufactured panic with actual real data... carry on.
I'm trying to figure out why the people who want the device but are worried about their privacy don't use the mute button on the top of their Echo.
You'd have to cross the room to un-mute it every time you wanted to use it, completely destroying the hands-free usefulness of the device.
Like if you are in the middle of cutting raw chicken and just want to start up a timer you forgot to set...
So I can see some point to a third party device you know can be enabled or disabled by voice and not overridden by the Echo (until of course the Echo tests out re-activation codewords for your locking device while you sleep to make you think it's not working).
No. That just sets a new standard that if the President refuses to sign a CR then eventually they will get their way.
Note that I did not say "pass the wall" from the standpoint of saying if that is good or bad.
I said that from the standpoint of tactics only - Trump is not going to back down, and is actually helped the longer the shutdown goes on.
So the only way to move forward is to fund the wall to some degree (Trump would be willing to bargain downward somewhat).
How does the sound of the government being shut down for an entire year sound? Because I can easily see that being the case. This with the full support of almost all Trump's base that sees a lot of benefit of the government cracking up and many employees leaving government as the shutdown wears on... that would truly be some fundamental change that many Trump voters were after, done the hard way.
It's not like I don't have some connection to this and these are all just abstract thoughts, my wife works in the federal government and would probably be affected. So believe me when I say, I am just reporting what I think will happen, not what I would prefer happen.
At this point Facebook has a ton of images of people over quite a long timeframe they can just mine on a whim for any changes over time, without people specifically posting comparison shots.
As for other groups training age changing AI, well I'm not sure why I should really be concerned about that anyway???
I guess the larger message is "any image you post publicly can be used by anyone for anything" but isn't that already obvious.
I actually meant to say yards instead of feet... look at this thread for example. Even if you managed to hit a drone, most drone bodies seems like they are flexible or tough enough plastic shells that it wouldn't really see any damage past 40 yards, clay shatters but I could see propeller blades just bending some under the partial hit from birdshot pellets that had spread out by that range (drone blades can take more than you would think as you can see in this video..
Check out this video of people trying to shoot down a drone with specially modified shotgun shells meant to take out drones - 3-5 shots at 70 ft. They work by using netting, more effective than birdshot...
Most drones people would be flying would be spending time a few hundred feet up at least. Maybe you could get it during the landing phase where the operator is trying to land it gently. But then if you are there, why not just shoot the operator if it's bothering you so much...
Ok, I'll grant that strictly static text ads are not user hostile (since in the category of "hostile" I was think trackers and other cookie related nefariousness).
So I'd amend that slightly to say any ad that required any interactive component at all, from Flash to Javascript, to function...
The ads that you mention are so rare in nature though that I hesitate to not say "all" as it encompasses pretty much anything most people would ever encounter.
Just like you could possibly say not all falls from great heights are fatal, but enough are that you may as well just say all so no-one gets the wrong idea.
I would have preferred it if Duckduckgo had worked with Openstreetmap. If would have fitted their general self-declared ethics better methink.
I think it fits in pretty well with general ethics, since Apple goes to great lengths to keep user data private.
If you compare the two on the web, Apple Maps performs somewhat better, and also presents store information better.
It's kind of an odd integration at the moment though, as you have to get to a map through DuckDuckGo, then once open there's no way to re-search the map you are viewing without going back to the DDG search screen.
Something interesting I saw also - when I searched fro a local Discount Tire, my iPhone revealed the correct location exactly, as did OpenStreetMaps (which you'd expect). But from Duck Duck Go, it was located on the wrong side of the service street it lies along... it kind of seems like maybe Duck Duck Go is just handing off a GPS location and not leaning on Apple Maps understanding of where businesses are really located.
They would have been lauded if they had only did one very important thing; Told their customers they were doing it and maybe also given the option to opt out.
Apple did both eventually. They didn't do that at first I think because it seemed (from a technical standpoint) to make no sense to even mention it - Apple does a million things to make phone use and life better without telling you about each one. I think they also thought of it as a competitive advantage that the phones would not have the same crashing issue that other Android ponies had, so they didn't want to let on to other phone makers on an approach for how to correct it.
As for the option, like I said Apple added that option in, but I dare you to find more than two people on the earth that have disabled this obviously more useful feature. The switch is basically "CRASH PHONE EARLIER THAN BATTERY LEVEL INDICATES (Y/N)" so what idiot would choose to turn that off? It only affects things if the battery is really old (like older than two years old at least).
The omission is what got them in hot water because it made phones slower with age
It didn't really though, not noticeably anyway - you could only detect it by looking at the clock speed. It didn't have much if any real-world impact. But because of the reporting people reported slowdowns for basically any reason as attributable to this, so it became a lighting rod just for phones being on the old side and some newer software not running as fast on them... that is why the criticism was unfair, because it wasn't actually helping that many people to get a new battery. After replacing the battery in my wife's iPhone 6, all that happened is the battery life was somewhat better again - there was no noticeable performance gain she could detect or comment on.
I mean, did you ACTUALLY HAVE an iPhone 6 that seemed slow where a battery replacement make it seem faster? Do you have any direct experience here at all? Or are you claiming the criticism is fair while having zero direct experience?
Hello man just woken up from cryo storage! Unlike your naive world of 2007, here in the future all ads are in fact user hostile, it's just that you cannot always perceive how visually.
How many batteries did they refuse to replace, pissing off and losing customers?
They didn't have any criteria other than model of phone, and as other comments have noted some models not technically included also had batteries replaced... I had my wife's iPhone 6 battery replaced, and not only was there no question of replacement, but I first went in earlier in the year to have it checked out and the Apple support person said "well it's doing OK, we can replace it now if you like but you should probably wait til near the end of the year to get the most benefit". Any other company would have just said "it's fine, no replacement" or replace it right then so it would wear out sooner...
I know it's hard to believe after decades of pain from other companies supposed "support", but Apple is really excellent at bending support replacements to err on the side of the consumer. I have always had pretty good experiences with AppleCare which is why it's the only company I actually buy extended warranties from.
It's clear the iPhone 6-series has a hardware design defect that caused shutdowns when its CPU hit heavy loads when running on batteries with reduced capacity.
What Apple did was say, hey lets make it so the phone only shuts down when it's truly out of power, by throttling back performance a little bit, rather than just suddenly die at 10 or 20% left just because you played a game or something, or the battery was getting old.
Instead of being lauded for helping phone users get the thing they treasure most above all else - battery life - Apple was pummeled for helping out users, and even though this criticism was utterly unfair, Apple took the high road and said "well how about cheap replacement batteries all around that restore full performance!".
Now you can choose which path you want phone to take battery wise -but of course because people are not utter morons they 99% choose to use the method Apple added that got them in such trouble, and which Android phone makers have added over time hoping you wouldn't notice and also ask for cheap replacement batteries.
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Not only are Saturn's rings young, but it appears they are going away soon (astronomically speaking), so if you think about it we are all kind of amazingly lucky to be around while they are here to admire the amazing beauty they offer!
It also completely removes any inhibitions to mine them for valuable resources.
The thing about drones though, is they have kind of a small vulnerable profile. The body if it takes a direct hit is way more robust than a clay pigeon, because of the usually fairly tough abs shell. The arms and rotors are somewhat weaker but then not much of the pellets are actually hitting anything due to the small profile... in one of the video links I showed a drone took a direct hit on a propeller with a paintball pellet and it just shredded it, no harm to drone.
A) Produce some really crappy mobile app
B) Price said app at $500
C) Enjoy $5k from Chinese cloners purchasing app to replicate.
D) Ghost app, move onto some other app category, repeat.
While you are at it, why not also look into not selling sunscreen that is questionable for humans too...
However I fear it may have little effect, since a lot of people bring their own sunscreen from elsewhere. But you may as well try.
Reductio ad Hitlerum is a debate losing logical fallacy.
Good thing I used Exposio ad Hitlerum then.
When I hear the term "Room Doll", there are only two things I think of...
I guess instead of the sexbots it was the second option where they added a creepy animatronic doll whose head follows you as you move around the room.
"AI is going to have as big an impact on our society as electricity"
You say that as if you doubt it to be true, but you sound a lot like this guy scoffing at David Bowie about the impact of the internet... back in 1999...
Oops! Sorry for the repetition, should have checked again before I actually clicked the post button.
This link should take you to your Ad Preferences
I'm assuming you somehow messed up the syntax for https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences, I thought a direct link was a good idea so I thought I'd provide it...
Some sections seemed alright, but under travel it thought I was interested in the "Entire Rios Province", somewhere in Argentina - bizarre.
There are plenty of examples across the globe where this clearly isn't the case, geography also plays a major part.
Exactly!, I've posted on this before and had Warming Alarmists deny that geography was largely responsible for deserts - sheesh.
From there, you ask if global warming is changing the GEOGRAPHY of Puerto Rico, or anywhere else? Which it is obviously not.
Then WHY do so many people think rainfall will alter substantially? Especially when as I said measured rainfall has not really changed at all over the decades.
People are talking about regions magically going to desert just because of a small average temperature increase which is sheer nonsense, because as you and I both say, geography plays a huge part in this.
it's not impossible that rising temperatures will dry Puerto Rico out somewhat more
Nothing is impossible, but I am not a unicorn yet, the sun did in fact rise this morning, and rainfall in Puerto Rico has not altered despite rising average temperatures.
it's equally possible that Puerto Rico's position as an island with decent sized mountains will increase rainfall around those mountains, whilst, say, drying out it's lower lying areas for example.
I've been to the deserts on the coasts of Peru. And I've been to Puerto Rico. They are very different situations, not the least of which is that Peru is part of a larger continent, where PR is, although large, still just an island that does not have whole mountain ranges scrubbing moisture.
So without the actual geography of PR changing, just how would that actually take place???
So before kicking off and implying people are dumb for not understanding warmer climate means more rainfall, please consider that that's a rather simplistic view,
I'm giving a simplistic view to people holding far more simplistic (really religious, based on faith and dogma alone) views; one step at a time man.
Especially in space, countries should share everything they can and set an example for the rest of humanity of how we can all work together - a great reason for all nations to continue exploring space BTW.
I realize there are very valid military reasons why some things like rocket technology maybe cannot be shared between countries that are at odds. However there's no reason at all we cannot all share data about what we find out there...
once it's too late you can expect all the deniers to go to the ovens and gas chamber
Fine, so what do we get to do to all the alarmists that attempted to kill millions with extreme proposals to address climate change once we determine there was never any reason to panic some 10-20 years hence?
I also find it pretty amusing that even by your own logic sending the deniers to the gas chambers (which, P.S. you do realize puts you right up there directly with Hitler as one of a select group of people to use that.. solution....) would give them the most merciful death compared to the rest of you that slowly die as the Earth turns into Venus.
If you truly believe climate change to be beyond hope at some point, would not the ideal solution be to get rid of yourselves and let all of the "deniers" live to suffer through what you see as the inevitable and horrible end? Why would you seek to give comfort to your mortal enemy? :-)
It's a rainforest, didn't you even read the summary?
Pretty amusing coming from someone who did not even read the PDF he posted...
It seems to have faced a 2.5 F degree rise in sea temperature since 1900 with a loss or rainfall
We aren't talking about sea insects, now are we? Your OWN PDF states PR has seen a 1*F* (not even C) increase in land temperatures since mid 20th century... vastly less than seasonal variation.
Furthermore the paper speculated rainfall MIGHT lower, based on... nothing at all.
In reality rainfall has been cyclical but remained fairly steady (click on "MAX" below the chart).
This would be obvious to anyone who understands the effect of heat on large bodies of water, which surround PR.... A warmer climate means MORE RAINFALL which I cannot believe how few people, even now, understand.
Sorry to disturb your manufactured panic with actual real data... carry on.
I'm trying to figure out why the people who want the device but are worried about their privacy don't use the mute button on the top of their Echo.
You'd have to cross the room to un-mute it every time you wanted to use it, completely destroying the hands-free usefulness of the device.
Like if you are in the middle of cutting raw chicken and just want to start up a timer you forgot to set...
So I can see some point to a third party device you know can be enabled or disabled by voice and not overridden by the Echo (until of course the Echo tests out re-activation codewords for your locking device while you sleep to make you think it's not working).
No. That just sets a new standard that if the President refuses to sign a CR then eventually they will get their way.
Note that I did not say "pass the wall" from the standpoint of saying if that is good or bad.
I said that from the standpoint of tactics only - Trump is not going to back down, and is actually helped the longer the shutdown goes on.
So the only way to move forward is to fund the wall to some degree (Trump would be willing to bargain downward somewhat).
How does the sound of the government being shut down for an entire year sound? Because I can easily see that being the case. This with the full support of almost all Trump's base that sees a lot of benefit of the government cracking up and many employees leaving government as the shutdown wears on... that would truly be some fundamental change that many Trump voters were after, done the hard way.
It's not like I don't have some connection to this and these are all just abstract thoughts, my wife works in the federal government and would probably be affected. So believe me when I say, I am just reporting what I think will happen, not what I would prefer happen.
Are you trying to claim that a funding bill requires a supermajority in the Senate? That would be news to - well, just about everyone.
No, it would be the facts.
The whole reason the original House bill could not be passed was that it required 60 votes.
At this point Facebook has a ton of images of people over quite a long timeframe they can just mine on a whim for any changes over time, without people specifically posting comparison shots.
As for other groups training age changing AI, well I'm not sure why I should really be concerned about that anyway???
I guess the larger message is "any image you post publicly can be used by anyone for anything" but isn't that already obvious.
I actually meant to say yards instead of feet... look at this thread for example. Even if you managed to hit a drone, most drone bodies seems like they are flexible or tough enough plastic shells that it wouldn't really see any damage past 40 yards, clay shatters but I could see propeller blades just bending some under the partial hit from birdshot pellets that had spread out by that range (drone blades can take more than you would think as you can see in this video..
Check out this video of people trying to shoot down a drone with specially modified shotgun shells meant to take out drones - 3-5 shots at 70 ft. They work by using netting, more effective than birdshot...
Most drones people would be flying would be spending time a few hundred feet up at least. Maybe you could get it during the landing phase where the operator is trying to land it gently. But then if you are there, why not just shoot the operator if it's bothering you so much...
Ok, I'll grant that strictly static text ads are not user hostile (since in the category of "hostile" I was think trackers and other cookie related nefariousness).
So I'd amend that slightly to say any ad that required any interactive component at all, from Flash to Javascript, to function...
The ads that you mention are so rare in nature though that I hesitate to not say "all" as it encompasses pretty much anything most people would ever encounter.
Just like you could possibly say not all falls from great heights are fatal, but enough are that you may as well just say all so no-one gets the wrong idea.
I would have preferred it if Duckduckgo had worked with Openstreetmap. If would have fitted their general self-declared ethics better methink.
I think it fits in pretty well with general ethics, since Apple goes to great lengths to keep user data private.
If you compare the two on the web, Apple Maps performs somewhat better, and also presents store information better.
It's kind of an odd integration at the moment though, as you have to get to a map through DuckDuckGo, then once open there's no way to re-search the map you are viewing without going back to the DDG search screen.
Something interesting I saw also - when I searched fro a local Discount Tire, my iPhone revealed the correct location exactly, as did OpenStreetMaps (which you'd expect). But from Duck Duck Go, it was located on the wrong side of the service street it lies along... it kind of seems like maybe Duck Duck Go is just handing off a GPS location and not leaning on Apple Maps understanding of where businesses are really located.
They would have been lauded if they had only did one very important thing; Told their customers they were doing it and maybe also given the option to opt out.
Apple did both eventually. They didn't do that at first I think because it seemed (from a technical standpoint) to make no sense to even mention it - Apple does a million things to make phone use and life better without telling you about each one. I think they also thought of it as a competitive advantage that the phones would not have the same crashing issue that other Android ponies had, so they didn't want to let on to other phone makers on an approach for how to correct it.
As for the option, like I said Apple added that option in, but I dare you to find more than two people on the earth that have disabled this obviously more useful feature. The switch is basically "CRASH PHONE EARLIER THAN BATTERY LEVEL INDICATES (Y/N)" so what idiot would choose to turn that off? It only affects things if the battery is really old (like older than two years old at least).
The omission is what got them in hot water because it made phones slower with age
It didn't really though, not noticeably anyway - you could only detect it by looking at the clock speed. It didn't have much if any real-world impact. But because of the reporting people reported slowdowns for basically any reason as attributable to this, so it became a lighting rod just for phones being on the old side and some newer software not running as fast on them... that is why the criticism was unfair, because it wasn't actually helping that many people to get a new battery. After replacing the battery in my wife's iPhone 6, all that happened is the battery life was somewhat better again - there was no noticeable performance gain she could detect or comment on.
I mean, did you ACTUALLY HAVE an iPhone 6 that seemed slow where a battery replacement make it seem faster? Do you have any direct experience here at all? Or are you claiming the criticism is fair while having zero direct experience?
Not all ads are in fact user-hostile
Hello man just woken up from cryo storage! Unlike your naive world of 2007, here in the future all ads are in fact user hostile, it's just that you cannot always perceive how visually.
Since you are too fucking stupid to use Google, here you go retard.
I guess the "Rox" in your name stands for what is in your head.
How many batteries did they refuse to replace, pissing off and losing customers?
They didn't have any criteria other than model of phone, and as other comments have noted some models not technically included also had batteries replaced... I had my wife's iPhone 6 battery replaced, and not only was there no question of replacement, but I first went in earlier in the year to have it checked out and the Apple support person said "well it's doing OK, we can replace it now if you like but you should probably wait til near the end of the year to get the most benefit". Any other company would have just said "it's fine, no replacement" or replace it right then so it would wear out sooner...
I know it's hard to believe after decades of pain from other companies supposed "support", but Apple is really excellent at bending support replacements to err on the side of the consumer. I have always had pretty good experiences with AppleCare which is why it's the only company I actually buy extended warranties from.
It's clear the iPhone 6-series has a hardware design defect that caused shutdowns when its CPU hit heavy loads when running on batteries with reduced capacity.
Hey buddy - ALL PHONES have this issue. Just try searching for "Android sudden shutdown battery".
What Apple did was say, hey lets make it so the phone only shuts down when it's truly out of power, by throttling back performance a little bit, rather than just suddenly die at 10 or 20% left just because you played a game or something, or the battery was getting old.
Instead of being lauded for helping phone users get the thing they treasure most above all else - battery life - Apple was pummeled for helping out users, and even though this criticism was utterly unfair, Apple took the high road and said "well how about cheap replacement batteries all around that restore full performance!".
Now you can choose which path you want phone to take battery wise -but of course because people are not utter morons they 99% choose to use the method Apple added that got them in such trouble, and which Android phone makers have added over time hoping you wouldn't notice and also ask for cheap replacement batteries.