While it may be compelling, a sexy 3D feature won't catapult Amazon into the lead of the cut-throat smartphone category. If this were true, the EVO 3D, introduced two years ago by HTC and the W960, introduced by Samsung four years ago, would have been top sellers rather than niche products.
If that was a logical conclusion from the lacklustre sales four years ago, then nothing new would ever get off the ground.
Praise the Lord in his infinite wisdom for giving us minds with which to appreciate the splendour of his creation. -...is what I think you meant to say.
he proposed a third [version] in 1952. In this version, which Turing discussed in a BBC radio broadcast, a jury asks questions of a computer and the role of the computer is to make a significant proportion of the jury believe that it is really a man.
That sounds like the usual formulation of what get called Turing Tests these days..
One of the people quoted in the article seems a bit confused as well:
“Turing never proposed a test in which a computer pretends to be human,” says Karl MacDorman, an associate professor of human-computer interaction at Indiana University. “Turing proposed an imitation game in which a man and a computer compete in pretending to be a woman."
from which I can only infer that Karl MacDorman doesn't consider women to be human.
The age old Betty and Barney Hill case is still good
The one where the couple described under hypnosis an alien that shared several features in common with an alien that had featured in an episode of The Outer Limits a few days before?
what amazes me is that we are not only the most intelligent life on earth (for some values of intelligence), but as far as we can tell, the most intelligent life to have ever developed on earth.
This seems odd
But it shouldn't, because in the entire history of the planet, there will always have to have been at least one species who was a) the most intelligent at the time and b) the most intelligent to have developed up to that point.
We just happen to be it. If it hadn't been us, the previous most-intelligent-species's O('_')O_Bush would have posted the same thing on their equivalent of Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
internet diagnoses of autism that often include...
FTFY.
behaviors that have nothing to do with autism.
Such as tedious pedantry (see above).
You've won a massive yacht!
Don't play foozball outside. Duh.
Shawn Raymond's Tandem Bike is Shorter Than Yours
How do you know? I could have an even shorter tandem. You don't know me. You don't know what I've got in my garage. Get off my lawn!
That's a terrible suggestion. You should anthropologise to everyone.
put a big ass tax on Fast food places
Is that:
a big ass tax
a big-ass tax
a big ass-tax
?
Pluto's MOON CRACKS must be PROBED for mystery ocean
It's like you don't think I'll UNDERSTAND unless you CAPITALISE the really important WORDS.
Or maybe they just like to capitalise any word that has a vaguely smutty alternative meaning.
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And to samzenpus:
The aim of the mission is to search of evidence of an ancient underground ocean on the moon
One usually searches for evidence.
While it may be compelling, a sexy 3D feature won't catapult Amazon into the lead of the cut-throat smartphone category. If this were true, the EVO 3D, introduced two years ago by HTC and the W960, introduced by Samsung four years ago, would have been top sellers rather than niche products.
If that was a logical conclusion from the lacklustre sales four years ago, then nothing new would ever get off the ground.
It's called "hyperbole."
Also see "anthropomorphism."
Praise the Lord in his infinite wisdom for giving us minds with which to appreciate the splendour of his creation. ...is what I think you meant to say.
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Good thing we use less paper now
Who's we?
As best I can ascertain, paper usage in the US and Europe has reduced over the last few years, but globally it's still increasing.
I meant that's where the saying should stop in general terms, not necessarily in this particular case
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you.
And most of the time that's where it stops, because the idea was ridiculous.
Because...?
...the clunk-a-chunk machine.
I know retro is in, but this is going too far.
Oh, right, because gay men are famously misogynistic and never have female friends.
Nice to know they got that time portal from the 1970s open again, though.
Alan Turing never wrote about the Turing Test
Didn't he? Wikipedia has this to say:
he proposed a third [version] in 1952. In this version, which Turing discussed in a BBC radio broadcast, a jury asks questions of a computer and the role of the computer is to make a significant proportion of the jury believe that it is really a man.
That sounds like the usual formulation of what get called Turing Tests these days..
One of the people quoted in the article seems a bit confused as well:
“Turing never proposed a test in which a computer pretends to be human,” says Karl MacDorman, an associate professor of human-computer interaction at Indiana University. “Turing proposed an imitation game in which a man and a computer compete in pretending to be a woman."
from which I can only infer that Karl MacDorman doesn't consider women to be human.
I bid fifty quatloos on the newcomer.
match colors up to 94% of "nature's true palette"
I assume they actually mean 94% of the colours humans can see - unless this thing can spit out X-rays.
What about this doozy?
the Powermat wireless chargers [plural] they chose to use doesn't support...
And who or what is IHS?
according to IHS
John Hawley and His Dr. Who-Inspired Robot K-9
It's not "Dr. Who".
so maybe Dr. Who and John Hawley have the right idea
His name isn't "Dr. Who" or "Doctor Who." He's just the Doctor.
See sig!
his/her master's hand
master/mistress, surely?
The age old Betty and Barney Hill case is still good
The one where the couple described under hypnosis an alien that shared several features in common with an alien that had featured in an episode of The Outer Limits a few days before?
I'd recognise a crop circle if it was under my nose.
And they're mostly made by guys called Dave.
what amazes me is that we are not only the most intelligent life on earth (for some values of intelligence), but as far as we can tell, the most intelligent life to have ever developed on earth.
This seems odd
But it shouldn't, because in the entire history of the planet, there will always have to have been at least one species who was a) the most intelligent at the time and b) the most intelligent to have developed up to that point.
We just happen to be it. If it hadn't been us, the previous most-intelligent-species's O('_')O_Bush would have posted the same thing on their equivalent of Slashdot.
...blah!